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A data-sharing agreement signed in August 2011 between the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and three oil companies (Shell, ConocoPhillips, and Statoil) has laid the groundwork for the Alaska Ocean Observing System (AOOS) to provide public access to a wealth of oceanographic and environmental data collected between 2008 and 2012 in the Chukchi Sea.
By: Molly McCammon, Excutive Director, Alaska Ocean Observing System
A data-sharing agreement signed in August 2011 between the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and three oil companies (Shell, ConocoPhillips, and Statoil) has laid the groundwork for the Alaska Ocean Observing System (AOOS) to provide public access to a wealth of oceanographic and environmental data collected between 2008 and 2012 in the Chukchi Sea.
Industry builds external stakeholders' confidence in their research by making data transparent, according to Caryn Rea, Alaska environmental studies lead for ConocoPhillips. She calls the agreement "transformative, from the perspective of the oil and gas industry. This is the first ever agreement that I'm aware of where a private company has been supportive of ensuring full public use of the private investment in oceanographic and environmental studies that support our industry. ConocoPhillips widely shares annual reports prepared by consultants in support of its extensive onshore environmental studies to a variety of stakeholders including regulators, communities, and environmental organizations, but the sharing of a full suite of environmental data is a new endeavor."
When the umbrella agreement was first signed in 2011, Jane Lubchenco, former NOAA administrator and Undersecretary of Commerce for oceans and atmosphere, explained that "Despite the wealth of scientific research conducted on the arctic environment to date, much remains unknown, and no single government agency or entity has the resources or capacity to meet the task alone." She said the partnership "...will significantly expand NOAA's access to important data, enhance our understanding of the region, and improve the United States' ability to manage critical environmental issues efficiently and effectively as climate change continues to impact the Arctic."
The initial umbrella agreement calls for sharing several major datasets in the Chukchi Sea lease sale areas, including: real-time weather and ocean observations, environmental information, and sea ice and sea floor mapping data. Historic weather, oceanographic, and environmental studies data are now freely available through the AOOS Research Workspace , a password protected research collaborative managed by the AOOS data contractor, Axiom Consulting (see box below). Anyone can request access to these datasets by contacting Chris Turner at chris [at] axiomalaska.com. This process allows AOOS to track user access to the data and report on that usage to the three industry signatories and ensure that users are aware of the metadata associated with the data.
Industry Data to be Incorporated into AOOS Arctic Portal
The information now publicly available through AOOS is data collected as part of the ecosystem level study program and monitoring associated with exploration activities in the Chukchi Sea. The Environmental Studies data collection and quality control are estimated to represent about a $75 million research investment. Through the AOOS website, scientists can now access four years of multiple sets of biological, chemical, and physical data collected in the lease sale areas plus two years of monitoring data during seismic and/or shallow hazard surveys. Under the terms of the agreement, another year of data will be added to the collection each year. These data will help government agencies and the broader research community understand and monitor changes in climate, weather, and physical and biological ocean processes and help validate and improve forecast models.
What Kind of Data was Collected?
Details on the industry-collected data are available in annexes to the original agreement:
Annex 1 Met-Ocean Data was the first detailed agreement and provides government and public access to the real-time meteorological and oceanographic data collected by industry-sponsored buoys deployed in the Chukchi Sea during the open water season. During the open water season, real-time data are available through the National Weather Service and the AOOS Sensor Map. Shell also makes its Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images of Chukchi and Beaufort sea ice available to NOAA's National Weather Service ice forecasting desk to use in fine-tuning the sea ice forecasts they provide to the public on a daily basis. All historic data are provided both to the National Ocean Data Center (NODC) and AOOS for archiving.
Annex 2: Environmental Studies Data was signed in December 2012 and includes physical, chemical, and biological data collected by the industry-sponsored Chukchi Sea Environmental Studies Program (CSESP), a multi-year, interdisciplinary ecological study focused on areas in outer continental shelf oil and gas leases in the northern Chukchi Sea. The data runs the gamut from biological and physical data collected during cruises to acoustic recorder data.
Annex 3: Hydrographic Data - This annex is now under development with the goal of providing access to non-proprietary information collected by the three companies, primarily bathymetry and other hydrographic information that would be valuable for modeling and other scientific research projects.
What Industry-Funded Observing Assets are in the Water, and Where?
Industry-funded observing platforms and assets include buoys, research cruises, acoustic recorders, and radars. These are displayed on the AOOS Research Assets Map. Real-time data from industry met-ocean buoys stream live through the AOOS Sensor Map during the open water season and are archived at NODC.
New AOOS Arctic Portal Ultimately to Display Industry Data
AOOS' ultimate goal is to incorporate the industry datasets into the new Arctic Data Integration Portal. This integrated application, developed with funding from NOAA's Regional Ocean Partnership Program as part of the AOOS Spatial Tools for Arctic Mapping and Planning (STAMP) Project, was publicly released in late January. It assimilates a broad variety of arctic data layers for research, planning and management and decision support. Users can combine Geographic Information Systems (GIS) data, real-time sensors, model forecasts, and satellite imagery on a single interface.
The Arctic Data Integration Portal has two components: a data layer catalog and an interactive map. The Data Layer Catalog has a library of data layers that include meteorological models (e.g., wind, waves, and currents), habitat and species information from field-based mapping projects, real-time sensors, and more. Users can browse datasets by category or keyword and search through metadata, or click to access brief project descriptions with links to original source data. Individual datasets can be stacked for viewing in the Arctic Data Integration Portal map display.
The interactive map-based portal integrates various types of arctic data from sensor feeds, operational oceanographic and atmospheric models, satellite observations, and GIS datasets describing the biological and physical characteristics of the arctic region. Users can graphically explore individual datasets such as temperature, currents, or precipitation, and drag and drop a "virtual sensor" to extract a time series at specific map locations. A feedback tab is located on the left side of the portal screen and users are encouraged to provide comments on the utility of this application.
As an example, users can scroll through or graph 34 years of daily sea ice extent and thickness from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). This dataset shows the marked decrease in sea ice between October 1978 (top image, below) and October 2012 (bottom image, below).
Arctic Research Assets Map
This application was initially developed at the request of arctic researchers concerned that research equipment such as buoys and recorders may be hit or snagged by the increasing number of ships plying arctic waters. The map is intended to display the location of these assets, the funding source, and the implementing entity or research investigator. The map is searchable by sensor type, source, or study name. Metadata such as project information, deployment/pick-up dates, and key contacts is also available. Users can monitor plans of others prior to the field season and scroll through time to view instruments from past years. The tool is now widely used for planning purposes and to avoid duplication of efforts.
The AOOS data system employs interoperability systems, allowing data to be accessed and transmitted to geographically distributed research centers. Several tools are available through the AOOS website for data discovery, retrieval, staging, stacking, layering, and analysis. Those interested in submitting data to be included in the AOOS data system should contact AOOS at info [at] aoos.org.
AOOS Research Workspace
The new web-based research collaborative "AOOS Research Workspace" is a prototype, web-based data management solution for assembling, storing, and sharing data among members of the biological and physical oceanography communities. The workspace offers users an intuitive interface to create projects and upload data and descriptive literature. File transfer can be done through an easy "drag and drop" process.
Several groups are already using the workspace, including:
- North Pacific Research Board's Gulf of Alaska Integrated Ecosystem Research Program
- Gulf Watch Alaska, the long term monitoring program of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council
- Herring Research and Monitoring Program, a collaborative effort of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council implemented by the Prince William Sound Science Center
- Russian-American Long Term Census of the Arctic (RUSALCA)
For further information, see the AOOS website, or contact Molly McCammon (mccammon [at] aoos.org).


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With 300,000 copies in print, Breaking Free is one of author Beth Moore's best-selling releases to date. An empowering book for anyone held back by sin or doubt, it shows readers how to make freedom in Christ a daily reality by identifying spiritual strongholds in their lives and overcoming them through the truth of God's Word.
Now, the perennial favorite is available in a convenient day-by-day reading format, helping us find our satisfaction in God, experience His peace, and enjoy His presence with each glorious new sunrise.
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"In the same way, no amount of determination will bring us freedom. We learn to be victorious by surrendering our lives completely to the Spirit of God, not by gritting our teeth and trying harder." (source)
"Truly, the most effective means the enemy has to keep believers from being full of the Spirit is to keep us full of ourselves." (source)
"So even though you may be afraid about many things, don't be afraid to allow God to do His work in you, looking into the deepest part of your heart and releasing freedom in your life, teaching you how to live in victory." (source)
"A crucial part of fleshing out our liberation in Christ means allowing Him to fill the empty places in our lives. Satisfaction in Christ can be a reality. He can make us feel complete. I'm not talking about a life full of activity. I'm talking about a soul full of Jesus." (source)
"But Christ came to set the captive free no matter what kind of yoke binds them. He came to bind up the brokenhearted no matter what broke the heart. He came to open the eyes of the blind no matter what veiled the vision." (source)
Beth Moore was born on an Army base in Green Bay, Wisconsin, during what her father describes as the worst thunderstorm the city had seen in five years. He affectionately says the Lord brought her into the world with a drum roll. The fourth child of a retired Army major and a homemaker, Beth was raised in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. Her father managed the local cinema where each of her four siblings had a role to play. Beth's job was to hand out samples of popcorn and soda. Growing up in the theater had its perks. Sometimes Beth would be allowed to slip into a movie and take with her a pickle bag full of popcorn and a Dixie cup of Coke.
There in a theater chair, wide-eyed and filled to the brim with Coca-Cola, Beth began a lifelong love for stories. She loved to tell them, write them, and be told them. The story that captured her heart and consumed her life, however, was not told in a movie theater. It was the story told in Sunday School of Jesus, a Savior who loved children and who thought she was special. A seed was planted in her young heart that would grow to mark her life with a passionate love for Christ.
At the age of 18, Beth sensed God calling her to work for Him. Although she couldn't imagine what that would mean, she made it her goal to say yes to whatever He asked. Beth graduated from Southwest Texas State University with a degree in political science. She would later receive an honorary doctorate in humanities from Howard Payne University. She married Keith in 1978 and soon after the Lord added Amanda and Melissa to the family. As a young wife and mother, Beth served the Lord by speaking at luncheons and retreats, working at Mother's Day Out, and teaching Christian aerobics.
A love for the Word of God was embedded in Beth's life when she took a Bible doctrine class at her church. Her teacher was Buddy Walters, a former college football player who taught the Scriptures with tears streaming down his cheeks. She fervently prayed for such a passion for God's Word. It was Buddy who first taught Beth, along with Keith, how to study the Bible.
Beth founded Living Proof Ministries in 1994 with the purpose of teaching women how to love and live on God's Word. She has written numerous books and Bible studies, including Breaking Free, Believing God, and When Godly People Do Ungodly Things, that have been read by women of all ages, races, and denominations. Through the years, American missionaries and expatriates have taken the Bible studies overseas, resulting in Beth Moore Bible study groups popping up all over the world. Beth's Living Proof Live conferences have taken her to thirty-nine states since 1994 and have been attended by more than 421,000 women. God has graciously given her the opportunity to speak to the body of Christ in many different countries, including Ireland, England, Singapore, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and India. With great joy, she began a radio ministry in 2004 called Living Proof with Beth Moore.
Ever the storyteller, Beth is known to pepper her teaching with stories and poems written from the perspective of pertinent characters. She communicates with great energy, passion, humor, warmth, and grace.
Beth attends Houston's First Baptist Church, where she hosts an interdenominational Tuesday-night Bible study for women in her city. Because of her burden for unity in the body of Christ, Beth counts serving women of all denominations as one of her greatest privileges in life.
Beth and Keith praise God for 28 years of marriage. They enjoy traveling, hiking, drinking coffee on the back porch, eating Mexican food, making each other laugh, walking their dogs, Beanie and Sunny, and being grandparents. Amanda and her husband, Curtis, serve at a church in the Dallas area and have a one-year-old son named Jackson. Melissa, who shares her mother's appreciation for the Greek language, is completing her Master's degree in Biblical exegesis.

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Chipmaker TSMC gets tablet, smartphone boost in 1Q
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the world's largest contract chip manufacturer, reported an 18 percent jump in first quarter profit as increased global sales of smartphones and tablet computers boosted demand for sophisticated processors.
The company said in a statement Thursday that January-March profit totaled NT$39.6 billion ($1.3 billion) on revenue of NT$132 billion.
It said more than half of its shipments were application processors and other chips for use in mobile devices. Growth in this area more than made up for stagnant sales of chips used in computers and other consumer electronics.
TSMC said it expects revenue to grow to between NT$154-156 billion in the second quarter.
Chairman and CEO Morris Chang said revenue growth for 2013 could exceed 10 percent, up from 7 percent growth predicted earlier, partly because wafer production using new cutting-edge technology is set to grow.
He said trial production using the advanced 20 nanometer technology began in the first quarter, while the company plans to advance further with 16 nanometer technology in a year from now.
The company's move into the 20 and 16 nanometer technologies, which allow for production of smaller chips that run faster at lower power, is being propelled by more intense competition in the industry.
TSMC is planning a record $9 billion of capital investment in 2013 to fend off competition, mainly from South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. as well as Intel Corp., which has been speeding up its expansion into contract manufacturing following slow PC chip sales.
News reports say TSMC has been working with Apple Inc. to supply the Cupertino, Calif.-based company with the new processor to power the next generation of iPhones and iPads. Apple currently gets such processors from Samsung.
Samsung is Apple's main competitor in smartphones and tablet computers, as well as its principal supplier of processors. This has fueled speculation that Apple is looking for a new processor source.
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text: DISCOVERY EDUCATION AND 3M ANNOUNCE 2012 SCIENCE COMPETITION WINNER FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contacts:Melissa Todisco, Hunter Public Relations for 3M 212-679-6600 email@example.com Christina Scripps, Discovery firstname.lastname@example.com – Deepika Kurup Awarded $25,000 and Named America`s Top Young Scientist for Her Innovative New Water-Purification System – – Panel of Judges Included Danny Forster of SCIENCE`s Build it Bigger – ST. PAUL, Minn., Oct. 17, 2012 — Discovery Education and 3M have named 14-year-old Deepika Kurup from Nashua, N.H., winner of the 2012 Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge for her innovative, cost effective and sustainable water-purification system. Her prototype, which harnesses solar energy to disinfect contaminated water, can help improve the lives of the 1.1 billion people around the world who lack access to clean drinking water[i]. Kurup, a ninth grader at Nashua High School, competed alongside nine other finalists yesterday during a live competition at the 3M Innovation Center in St. Paul, Minn. She was awarded the title of "America`s Top Young Scientist," $25,000 and a trip from Discovery Student Adventures. During the past three months, Kurup and the other finalists had the exclusive opportunity to work directly with a 3M Scientist as they created their personal innovations as part of a summer mentorship program. The 3M Scientists provided guidance to the finalists as they developed their ideas from a theoretical concept into an actual prototype that would help solve a problem in everyday life. At the final competition, the finalists shared their completed innovations with a panel of judges, including Danny Forster of SCIENCE`s Build it Bigger. In addition to presenting their prototypes, the ten finalists competed in two additional challenges in which they were asked to: 1) combine multiple 3M technologies to yield new solutions; and 2) build a machine designed to turn on a light bulb using science and engineering principles. Finalists were evaluated on their scientific knowledge, creativity and use of 3M technology. "The Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge is a perfect example of the importance for companies to join forces to ignite students` natural curiosity in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) subjects and encourage them to pursue STEM careers in the future," said Bill Goodwyn , CEO, Discovery Education. "Kurup and the rest of this year`s finalists have shown incredibly innovative thinking, and I am certain that they will be prepared to compete in today`s global economy and create a bright future for our country." "The opportunity to encourage and celebrate science achievement among our nation`s top students carries great meaning for the future of our society, and we`re proud to have hosted these young scientists at the 3M Innovation Center today," added Ian Hardgrove , President, 3M Foundation. "Innovation is a way of life at 3M and we never stop inventing. We look to the talented minds of the next generation like those students represented in this competition to lead us to new frontiers of discovery in the years to come. We at 3M congratulate them all." The remaining nine finalists also received a variety of prizes from Discovery Education and 3M. The second, third and fourth place winners each received a $1,000 cash prize and a trip from Discovery Student Adventures to Costa Rica. These extraordinary students are: Carolyn Jons , from Eden Prairie High School in Eden Prairie, Minn., received second place for her innovative packaging method that inhibits mold growth and helps keep food fresh longer. Anin Sayana from Bellarmine College Preparatory in Cupertino, Calif., received third place for his innovation that selectively targets chemotherapy-resistant cancer stem cells. Anishaa Sivakumar from Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville, Pa., received fourth place for her innovation that would help treat patients suffering from macular degeneration. The fifth through tenth place winners each received a $1,000 cash prize and a $500 gift card from Discovery Experiences, which offers first-hand, memorable adventures they see and learn about on Discovery`s networks. These finalists, in alphabetical order, are: Aidan Dwyer , from Northport High School in Northport, N.Y. Naren Gaurav , from Meadow Park Summa Middle School in Beaverton, Ore. Brandon Gong , from Garden City Middle School in Garden City, N.Y. Chase Lewis , homeschooled in Chapel Hill, N.C. Gabriel Mesa , from Canton Intermediate School in Canton, Conn. Patrick Shea , from Routt Catholic High School in Jacksonville, Ill. For more information on the 2012 Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge and to learn more about this year`s finalists, go to www.youngscientistchallenge.com. About the Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist ChallengeThe Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge targets students in the years when research indicates their interest in science begins to wane and encourages them to explore scientific concepts and creatively communicate their findings. In January, students nationwide were asked to create a short video describing a new innovation or solution that could solve or impact an everyday problem related to the way we move, keep ourselves healthy or make a difference. In addition to the 10 finalists, 42 students were selected as state merit winners in this year`s competition and will each receive a 3M Innovation Prize Package. For more information go to www.youngscientistchallenge.com. About 3M3M captures the spark of new ideas and transforms them into thousands of ingenious products. Our culture of creative collaboration inspires a never-ending stream of powerful technologies that make life better. 3M is the innovation company that never stops inventing. With $30 billion in sales, 3M employs 84,000 people worldwide and has operations in more than 65 countries. For more information, visit www.3M.com or follow @3MNews on Twitter. About Discovery EducationDiscovery Education transforms classrooms, empowers teachers and captivates students by providing high quality, dynamic, digital content for grades K-12 and community colleges. Powered by Discovery Communications (NASDAQ: DISCA, DISCB, DISCK), the number one nonfiction media company in the world, Discovery Education is the global leader in standards-based digital media, professional development, assessment tools and a passionate educator network to support districts in accelerating student achievement. Discovery Education services like Discovery Education streaming, Discovery Education Techbook and Discovery Education Higher Ed, are in more than half of all US schools and 35 countries around the world. Explore the future of education at www.discoveryeducation.com. *All finalists were in grades 5-8 at time of competition entry. [i] "Health through safe drinking water and basic sanitation" World Health Organization: http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/mdg1/en/index.html ###


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Originally appeared at: http://health.usnews.com/health-news/family-health/cancer/articles/2010/09/07/magic-mushroom-hallucinogen-might-help-cancer-patients.html?PageNr=1 TUESDAY, Sept. 7 (HealthDay News) — A controlled dose of the main ingredient in hallucinogenic mushrooms appears to reduce anxiety and lift spirits in people battling advanced cancer, researchers report. In a small pilot study, the compound psilocybin appeared to be safe, with no participants reporting a "bad trip," said study author Dr. Charles Grob. His research was published online Sept. 6 and will appear in the January 2011 print issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry. In fact, the trips tended to be good, with patients and their families reporting improvements up to six months after their single-dose experience with the substance. But it took four years to get the funding and necessary approvals for the trial, even though it only involved a dozen patients (all with advanced cancer). And it's been 35 years since a similar study was conducted, in the heyday of medical research into hallucinogens in the 1950s and 1960s, before cultural and political forces moved to shut the field down. This raises the question of if and when psilocybin and other hallucinogens will reach patients who might benefit from it. "It's slow going justifying this particular application and the data are not overwhelming," said Keith A. Young, vice chair for research in the department of psychiatry and behavioral science at Texas A&M Health Science Center and core leader at the VA Center of Excellence for Research on Returning War Veterans. "This just indicates that there might be room for additional study… It seems to be that other approaches might be just as good, for instance a spiritual retreat. These particular results probably warrant more study, but are not overpowering." Added Dr. Amy Abernethy, director of the Duke University Cancer Care Research Program in Durham, N.C., "We're judicious and, if anything, a bit timid in getting the work done." The participants in the study acted as their own "controls" and in two separate sessions received either a placebo or a "moderate" dose of psilocybin (0.2 milligrams per kilogram of body weight), both in capsule form. In addition to feeling calmer and happier, the men and women in the trial said they felt a closer connection to friends and family members, and were better able to address end-of-life issues. Unlike previous trials, these participants did not report any decrease in pain, although the researchers pointed out that a second dose might result in improvements. "They suggested in the paper that it might be better to have more than one treatment and I would concur," Young said. "I would think it might take a couple of treatments to get any lasting psychological or spiritual-type good out of this." Abernethy said: "We know that with some people with advanced life-threatening illness, there is very truly a substantial existential component and importance and need for meaning-making in life, and that until people start making that transition they can be very, very distressed. It can be hard to get back to the business-of-life closures and other things you need to do at the end of life. This kind of intervention [may] allow people time and space and extended cognitive ability to reflect on life and see it in a different way, make that transition and then get back into a more relaxed space and get back to the business of living. "Being in the business of living is about doing what is important and meaningful to you every day even if you don't have many days left, focusing on things like saying goodbye to loved ones, which can be hard to do if you're distressed," she added. Psilocybin has already been shown to be safe in individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder, and Grob, who is professor of psychiatry at Harbor UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, Calif., would like to extend this protocol to a larger group of patients using higher doses and perhaps adding a second treatment. He'd also like to do studies in chronic alcoholics and in people with Asperger's syndrome. "We'd be looking at social anxiety to see if individuals had an improved capacity to engage in normative socialization, an improved capacity for empathic experience," Grob said. "That's an entirely different kind of study than we did with this one but I think there might be potential." Grob and another study author serve on the board of directors of the Heffter Research Institute in Santa Fe, N.M., which provided funding for the study.
An insightful article about the results of the pilot study out of Harbor-UCLA examining the potential of pslocybin in reducing depression and anxiety associated with advanced-stage cancer. It discusses some of the benefits and challenges that lie ahead for this kind of research.


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A few people I know have asked me what I think about Google's Chrome browser.
Technically, it looks good on paper. There are some interesting architectural problems they haven't solved yet, especially with the process separation model, especially with regard to windowless plugins, and also Mac. These are problems that will be encountered by anyone doing process separation so it will be interesting to see how that goes. V8 seems overhyped when you take into account the JS work being done by other browser vendors.
I'm not sure how the competitive landscape is going to play out. Mozilla's in a strong position now and the immediate future looks great. We just need to stay focused, keep making smart decisions, and keep shipping great software.
Overall, I'm actually really excited. No matter who gains and who loses, there's no doubt that this innovation and investment and energy is great for the Web (especially when it's delivered in free software).
(Admittedly, there are moments when I half-wish for a nice quiet job where I'm not competing against the world's biggest tech companies and I don't have to worry about the future of the Internet. But that would be so boring. Having a job I'm passionate about is worth the stress.)


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Franz Maria Ulrich Theodosius Aepinus
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Rostock, Mecklenberg-Schwerin (now Germany)
Dorpat, Russia
BiographyFranz Aepinus was born in Rostock where his father was the Professor of Theology at the University. He came from a famous family of theologians who were originally named Hoeck or Hoch but Franz's great-grandfather had changed the family name to its Greek form.
Aepinus studied medicine and mathematics at the universities of Jena and Rostock. He was awarded an MA from Rostock for a dissertation on the paths of falling bodies in 1747. He remained at Rostock, teaching mathematics there until 1755. During this period he undertook research in several different areas of mathematics including algebraic equations, solving partial differential equations, and on negative numbers.
Franz was not the only member of the family to be teaching at Rostock during this period, for his elder brother also taught oratory at the University. One of his brother's students, J C Wilcke, took courses given by Franz during 1751-52 and was attracted to a career in mathematics and physics instead of the clerical career that he had been intending to pursue when he entered the university. If Franz had a major effect on Wilcke's career, then the reverse was true a few years later when Wilcke was to suggest problems which led to the most important work of Aepinus's career.
In 1755 Aepinus became director of the Observatory in Berlin and he was elected to the Berlin Academy. Director of a major observatory may seem a strange appointment given that Aepinus's mathematical interests seemed far removed from astronomy. However, Heilbron writes in [1]:-
These appointments were apparently merely a device for establishing Aepinus, who had begun to acquire a reputation, in Frederick's capital: he was neither especially interested nor experienced in astronomy, and his closest published approach to the subject during his Berlin sojourn was a mathematical analysis of a micrometer adapted to a quadrant circle.Euler was working at the Berlin Academy during the time that Aepinus worked there, and in fact Aepinus lived in Euler's house for the two years that he was in Berlin.
Although Aepinus did not make contributions to astronomy while in Berlin, he did his most important work there. Wilcke had moved to Berlin with Aepinus and was writing a dissertation on electricity. Wilcke showed Aepinus the mineral tourmaline, a borosilicate mineral often used as a gem. Tourmaline has piezoelectric properties which means that it can generate electric charge when mechanical stress is applied and can change its shape when voltage is applied to it. Aepinus studied the state of electrical polarisation produced in tourmaline and various other crystals by a change of temperature. The electrical properties of the tourmaline seemed to Aepinus to be similar to those of a magnet and he began to believe that electricity and magnetism were analogous.
Aepinus's study of electricity and magnetism led to the publication of his book Tentamen theoriae electricitatis et magnetismi Ⓣ in 1759. It was the first work to apply mathematics to the theory of electricity and magnetism and [1]:-
... is one of the most original and important books in the history of electricity.Before this work was published, however, Aepinus had moved to St Petersburg. In October 1756 he was offered a chair at the Academy in St Petersburg and he requested Frederick to release him from his contract in Berlin so that he could accept the post. Euler supported his request to Frederick and by early 1757 Frederick had agreed that Aepinus could end his duties in Berlin and accept the appointment in St Petersburg. Aepinus was to continue working in St Petersburg until he retired in 1798.
Aepinus certainly began his appointment in St Petersburg with the publication of his masterpiece and was held in high esteem by the scientists there [2]:-
Aepinus studied the relation between conductors and nonconductors, extended Benjamin Franklin's one-fluid theory of electricity, and explained virtually all electric induction in terms of the attraction, repulsion, and flow of electricity in conductors.However, in 1760 he became an instructor for the Corps of Imperial Cadets and this left his little time to devote to his researches at the Academy. Despite continuing to publish on electricity and magnetism he was strongly attacked by Lomonosov who had been annoyed by Aepinus's [1]:-
... haughtiness towards Russian scientists and quick preferment at court ...Other achievements of Aepinus include improvements to the microscope, and his demonstration of the effects of parallax in the transit of a planet across the Sun's disk (1764). However, except for his masterpiece on electricity and magnetism, his work was no better than competent. As an example of Aepinus's less good work, the authors of [4] relate that in 1763 Aepinus published in Latin in the Commentaries of the St Petersburg Academy a proof of the binomial theorem for real values of the exponent. The proof given by Aepinus, however, appears not to hold.
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- J L Heilbron, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). See THIS LINK.
- Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica. http://www.britannica.com/biography/Franz-Maria-Ulrich-Theodor-Hoch-Aepinus
- J Dhombres and M Pensivy, Esprit de rigueur et présentation mathématique au XVIIIème siècle : le cas d'une démonstration d'Aepinus, Historia Sci. 34 (1988), 21-42.
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An Election That Defines Who And What We Are
A black man was elected president, and white people lost their minds.
Not all of them, no. Not even most of them. But not a piddling few, either.
That, in a nutshell, is the story of America's hateful and obstructionist politics over the last eight years — and of the nasty, arduous excuse for a presidential campaign that finally ends on Tuesday. Granted, many pundits have chosen to explain those things in terms of "economic anxiety," the fiscal insecurity of the undereducated white working class. But here on election eve can we, for once, be honest with ourselves about ourselves?
Not to say that sluggish economic growth isn't a valid concern. But that world where men like Archie Bunker could, with a high school education or less, find factory work that would allow them to buy a house and raise a family, did not suddenly disappear when the black guy took over at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. It's been gone for quite awhile.
And the white guy who preceded the black guy spent a $128 billion surplus into an over $400 billion deficit, presided over a cratering stock market and anemic job creation. Yet for all the grief he was given, nobody ever called him a "subhuman mongrel."
Lawmakers from the other party did not declare their refusal to work with him on even the most routine matters of governance.
People did not take to showing up at his events carrying rifles. Nobody shouted, "I want my country back!"
So as much as or more than it is a referendum on the economy — or foreign policy, or terrorism — this election is a referendum on demographic change. A nation that elected a black guy president and enshrined the right of same sex marriage into law, a nation where Muslims, transgender people and Spanish speakers are more visible and rising higher than ever before, will now tell us how it feels about all that, whether it is ready to plunge ahead into the unknowable future or whether it will seek refuge in a sepia-toned past that never was.
The Republican Party's preference is no mystery. To succeed the first black president, it put forth a racist enthusiastically supported by the Ku Klux Klan. To oppose the first woman to be a major party candidate, it offered a misogynist trailing accusations of sexual assault. "Make America great again," indeed.
Every four years, pundits solemnly intone the same cliche: "This is an important election." Fact is, they're all important elections. Choosing a leader for the economic and military giant of the planet is by definition consequential.
That said, this country finds itself facing an electoral decision starker and more portentous than any in modern memory. We don't just choose new policies on Tuesday, or even a new vision. No, we choose identity. We decide who and what we are.
Are we a backward-looking nation defined by those who lost their minds because a black guy was elected president? Or are we a forward facing people, challenged by change but never shying from it, never so terrified by it as to betray our fundamental selves?
The thing is, change doesn't care what we decide. It comes regardless, and you can no more question it than you can gravity. The toothpaste won't go back into the tube, the gay people back into the closet, the women back into the kitchen nor the African Americans back to the rear of the bus.
The past will not be restored. So the only question here is how we will respond to the future. With fear or faith? With cowardice or courage?
It's time for us all to take a deep breath.
And decide.
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Facts about Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus Biography
Christopher Columbus sailed from Spain across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492, landing in the "new world" of the Americas and gaining lasting fame.
Using ships and money provided by Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castille, Christopher Columbus sailed west in search of a sea passage to India. He had two goals: open trade routes for Spain and bring the word of Jesus Christ to the non-Christians he expected to meet. He sailed with three ships (the Niña, Pinta and Santa Maria) and on his first trip made landfall somewhere in the Bahamas.
He returned to Europe to spread the word, and was named "Admiral of the Ocean Seas" by Ferdinand and Isabella. He made three more voyages in the following years, always believing that he had reached Asia, and his success opened the door for Spain to conquer the Americas.
Five centuries after his daring voyage, Columbus is still famous but is also the subject of heated discussions about whether he was a good-guy hero who discovered new worlds or a bad-guy exploiter who helped grab the Americas from their native inhabitants. Still, he has long been known as the man who "discovered" America, and the second Monday in October is observed as Columbus Day in the United States.
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Christopher Columbus is also known as Cristobal or Christobal Colon (in Spanish) and Cristoforo Colombo (in his native Italian)… America is named for Amerigo Vespucci, who explored what is now South America a few years after Columbus's initial voyage.
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This is a pretty exciting post. I have pictures from the Lady Gaga concert! I got some great shots of the concert herself including Ms. Gaga, and you know I had to show you the dramatic bright look I wore to the concert.
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First off, I gotta show you my makeup. I was invited to the concert by MAC Cosmetics and interestingly enough I didn't use that many MAC products lol. On my eyes I'm rocking sugarpill cosmetics and NYX. I went for a purple eye with 3d reflects glitter on top and pink in the crease. Dark, smokey and a lot of lash! I was thinking of doing something crazier but since we were invited as bloggers I didn't want to be too unprofessional, lol.
Here's a shot of me and YouTube Guru Tiffany LD...I was so happy that she was going to the concert too!
Full body shot...this is my "Gaga-esque" outfit that I got the weekend before. It's a blue maxi dress with mirrors and a cropped white leather jacket. I took the jacket off during the concert though because I was too hot from dancing around lol.
The concert was so much fun. If you have an opportunity to see Lady Gaga in concert, I definitely recommend it. She is a true performer...no lip singing. She can sing, dance, and she really puts her all into her concert.
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Robin Ashwell, viola player and member of the Sacconi Quartet, shares his experience of teaching our first ever ARSM candidate. After coming to learn with me at the start of his Year 9 (aged 13), Vincent's level of playing seemed to lie in that area frequently occupied by reasonably advanced school-age musicians – past Grade 8, but not so far past as to be preparing for DipABRSM or entry to conservatoire. His parents rightly wanted him to prepare for some kind of exam or qualification, probably knowing that he was the sort of young person who needs a serious goal to incentivise the quality of his work and study. We took the DipABRSM syllabus as a starting point, and then, fortuitously, learned about the forthcoming ARSM, which draws its repertoire from that same DipABRSM list. This seemed just the right level of exam for Vincent to be working towards. Taking the diploma is quite straightforward as it is taken as part of a normal exam session. This was especially helpful as Vincent could take his ARSM at school with a school accompanist in the usual way. The only difference from a graded exam is that the student (or teacher) needs to fill in a special form with their programme details, to hand to the examiner at the start of the exam. Preparing for the ARSM was a great pleasure, because Vincent rose to the occasion so well. In a busy school there are constant competing demands on each student's time and getting even an advanced student to do enough quality practice can be a real challenge. Without a shadow of doubt, Vincent practised for far longer, and with vastly greater focus and commitment, than he would have done without the goal of the ARSM. The standard of his playing really did improve more than I could have possibly dared imagine at the start of the process. This made preparing for the exam worth it in itself, regardless of the mark at the end. The other difference I noticed was in Vincent's new-found pride in his viola playing. He was genuinely proud and excited to be working towards a diploma-style exam which would give him letters after his name, and this fed in to the increased quality of his practice. In preparing Vincent for the exam, I tried to push him to a new, higher level, almost using the ARSM as an 'excuse'. I wanted him to be more than a schoolboy viola player and aspire to greater things. So I made fairly frequent remarks like 'this is a diploma now' or 'you've got to sound professional'. The ARSM gave Vincent the reason he needed to raise his game, and we treated it as something much more important than 'Grade 9'. Probably the most important thing for Vincent was to gain a much greater finesse in his playing, partly through improving his technique, but more through improving his listening and awareness. Again, I was able to use the ARSM as a reason for him to be hyper-aware of his sound, the quality of his phrasing and shaping, and the variety of colours, characters and emotions that he put into his pieces. Playing the notes very well would simply not do anymore. Vincent has done exceptionally well, and I hope he would agree that preparing for the ARSM has been exciting and enjoyable for both of us! More information about Robin's string quartet – the Sacconi Quartet – is available on their website.
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San Anselmo
With many unique shopping opportunities, a rich history and creek-side location, San Anselmo has made a name for itself as one of the best communities in the area with an ideal climate. Across the Golden Gate Bridge, 20 miles north of San Francisco sits the town of San Anselmo, a total of 2.7 square miles with just three major roads intersecting at the central business district, a small town but loaded with character, charm and home to 12,000 residents. Great weather, access to trails for hiking and biking, and a vibrant downtown area makes San Anselmo a hidden treasure for Marin homebuyers. Small shops, antique boutiques, and restaurants line the main street of San Anselmo, including Insalata's and Cucina Restaurant & Wine Bar, as well as the ever-popular Comfort's and Marin Coffee Roasters. Neighborhoods include Sleepy Hollow, Brookside, Hawthorn e Hills, and Yolanda Park.
Sleepy Hollow
With many large, flat lots, this neighborhood showcases breathtaking homes that look like something out of the storybooks. Most of these homes are one -level ranchers, mixed in with a few grand estates with fabulous views. Surrounded by Marin County Open Space Land, residents of this area have easy access to hiking, biking and running trails. Sleepy Hollow is also the location of San Domenico School, an elite K-12 private school.
The neighborhood bordering Morningside has a variety of Spanish stucco houses mixed with some cozy bungalow styles.
Hawthorne Hills
Comprised of Spanish homes and bungalows, with convenient access to downtown Fairfax, these hom es are generally priced at less than a million dollars. Because of this, they are some of the most sought after homes in San Anselmo. San Francisco Boulevard and Millennium Park are full of 1940s and 1950s homes, some updated with modern touches and others have been left untouched. The close proximity to the Red Hill Shopping Center and Memorial Park make this neighborhood a favorite among locals.
Yolanda Park
Comprised of many large homes, this neighborhood has the perfect location for families with high school children. Although many homes in this neighborhood are close together, the homes in Downtown San Anselmo of Barber/Lincoln Park are vintage, charming and right next to the restaurants and shops of the lively San Anselmo Avenue. The neighborhoods surrounding the Seminary include some of the higher-priced homes in San Anselmo but offer close distance to schools and downtown with beautiful hillside scenery.


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With a half mile of soft white sand, turquoise water and gentle breezes, Kailua Beach Park located on the Windward Coast is a local favorite. A hub for water sports, Kailua Beach welcomes visitors and locals to windsurf, body board, kayak and parasail. Conveniently, kayak rentals, dive shops and beachwear boutiques are located nearby the beach.
Kailua Beach's proximity to several small islands makes it an ideal place for adventuring and kayaking. Closest to the shore is barren Flat Island, and far off to the east are the Mokulua Islands, commonly known as "Moks" or "Twin Islands." To the west of Kailua Beach is Kalama Beach, a family-friendly beach with mild waves great for teaching kids how to surf and body board. To the east is Kailua's sister beach, Lanikai Beach, which is another beautiful stretch of sand, although less accessible since it's nestled between residential housing and parking is limited.
On the way to the beach you'll pass charming Kailua Town. You'll find scattered along Kailua Road a variety of restaurants and shops to satisfy all tastes. Eat like a local and try a shave ice to cool down after the beach. President Obama famously treated his family to some shave ice at the Island Snow in Kailua Town. Or grab a plate lunch and head to Kailua Beach's large grassy areas and picnic benches, perfect for eating lunch near the ocean.
As couples lounge on the sand with their dogs, teenagers play in the water and families throw parties on the picnic tables, you'll learn that Kailua has a laid-back environment different from Waikiki. Consistently rated one of the best beaches in America, Kailua Beach is a great getaway less than 30-minutes away from Honolulu.


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It wasn't a good idea. We knew that at the time, but I guess we thought we would get away with it.On March 23, 2011, my companion, Towns of the Sandia Mountains author and @New_Mexico_News tweeter, Mike Smith and I took the bus down Central through Albuquerque's neon-lit Downtown. We were headed toward the Anasazi building. At nine stories tall, it towered over other buildings on the block, and its pueblo-influenced, multitier design gave its dark, empty windows romantic intrigue. Could we get in? What was inside? What would it be like to be one of the few people who had looked out of those lofty windows? Near the very top of its eastern face, there was a tantalizing sign that entry was possible: A graffiti rainbow coursed from the rooftop down the bare side. If that artist could get in, so could we. We didn't think about what would happen if we got caught; we just wanted to see it from the inside. In our backpacks we carried notebooks and pens, supplies for the writing class we took together, and flashlights. We were nervous but still determined to at least try to get in. If we found it impossible, we agreed, then we would simply call it a night. We stepped off the bus and made our way to the intersection of Sixth Street and Central, where the Anasazi stood waiting for us. Our first plan for getting inside was to use the building's parking ramp, but it had been blocked off. "What do you think? Is this going to happen?" I asked Mike."Come on," he answered. "Let's check out the street side first. I thought I saw something over there." And, indeed, on the Sixth Street side of the building we found a boarded-up doorway with a substantial gap in the ceiling structure above it. Mike started to climb. *** Once, of course, the Anasazi was not an abandoned hulk squatting in the center of Downtown. In 2007, it was still under construction, a bustling hub of activity as its completion date, April of the following year, loomed. Developer Vincent Garcia was riding high on the unprecedented housing and condo boom that had swept much of the country. A photograph from a Nov. 25, 2007 article in New Mexico Business Weekly shows Garcia, his wife, Patsy, and their son, David, all smiling broadly while seated in a spacious model loft showcasing the Anasazi's future interior. The floor is constructed of honey-brown wood, the countertops are carbon steel, the refrigerator and oven are stainless. The article, ironically titled, "Developer puts struggles behind with Anasazi highrise," details the many amenities available to condo purchasers. Each residential unit, it says, has its own balcony. Some come with two. There's a shared rooftop patio "for socializing and cooking out." Penthouse units have 18-foot ceilings. Optional upgrades include "glass-front refrigerators and wine coolers." The building is already 65 percent sold, the Garcias beam, much of it to out-of-state investors. But never fear, they add, affordable units are still available, starting at $230,000 and ranging up to $579,000. The article is a relic of another time, a window into the Albuquerque of 2007. The housing bubble had not yet burst and condominiums sprang up all across the city. It was a time when a land developer who had been sued by his business partners, who had bankrupted several companies, and who had been accused of defrauding the city to the tune of nearly half a million dollars for one of his past projects could be described as "putting his struggles behind him." *** Embarrassingly, I was not able to climb in after Mike. The opening required that my feet be jammed into a shallow alcove in the wall while pulling myself up with my arms, and I didn't have the strength to do it. I tried a few times, then dropped. "I can't do it," I called in to him."Yeah you can!" he said from inside the building. "Give it another try!"I did, and failed again. Not sure what to do, I started to walk away. "Mike, I don't think this is happening," I said, and started off toward Central. I didn't plan to leave him there. I only wanted to stop being so damned obvious about what we were doing. I was painfully aware of the fact that our position was exposed, that the windows of the condominiums across the street looked directly down upon us; that at any moment a policeman could cruise by and wonder why I was loitering in that particular doorway. I got about halfway up the block when a BOOM rang out. Another followed. I jogged back just in time for the next BOOM and for the plywood cover on the lower door frame to buckle outward as Mike kicked it from inside. "Jesus!" I shouted, and grabbed at the plywood. It bent back just enough for me to slip inside and join Mike in the darkness of the interior, where he had been kicking at it from a prone position. We were inside. *** The "struggles" that Garcia hoped to put behind him with the success of the Anasazi were a murky tangle of bad development ventures, bankruptcies and upset former partners. He had dealings with multiple high-profile redevelopment projects in the Downtown area: La Posada Hotel, before it was known as Hotel Andaluz; the First National Bank Building (later rechristened the Banque Lofts); and the Copper Square "office condos." One of the most prominent examples of his business style involves a building only blocks away from the Anasazi site. The city contracted Garcia to build a parking garage on Third Street and Copper, which the city then purchased from him for $6.8 million dollars. Garcia's company, Renaissance Holdings LLC, would be allowed to operate the garage and collect revenue, as long as it paid monthly rental fees. However, Renaissance failed to make the payments it had agreed on. In 2004, the city filed suit alleging that the company owed nearly half a million dollars in back fees. Adding insult to injury, the completed garage was smaller than Garcia had promised by 100 parking spaces, prompting the city to accuse Garcia of fraud. Unable to pay the money he owed, Garcia dissolved Renaissance Holdings. The case never came to court. *** At first, we walked slowly, shining our flashlights sparingly. As I recall, the bottom floor was mostly empty space, the area where the shops would have been installed if the project had been a success. We found the stairs and climbed upward. It's difficult to remember details of the interior—the whole experience was fraught with the giddy thrill of exploration. The floors have become a blur of memories: winding passages, spiral stair cases, sudden open balconies. We saw places where others had been before. There were graffiti tags, abandoned articles of clothing, cigarette butts. On one floor we found evidence of copper theft. Great gaping holes in the walls, piles of insulation and wire strippings where thieves had ripped into the guts of the building to find copper wires and fixtures. Both Mike and I had explored many abandoned sites in the past. We were both familiar with the heady mixture of feelings that go along with such ventures: a rush of freedom tinged with danger and the knowledge that only a few others were willing to take the kind of risks that visiting off-limits places entailed. We rushed through the upper stories, came to the topmost balcony and stepped out onto it. From there, we looked down at the city sprawling below. Here was the view we had come for, and it felt like an accomplishment. Mike snapped a picture. I pulled out my cell phone and called my wife."Hi Ty," she answered. "Where are you?""I'm out with Mike," I said cagily. "We're going to be out for a little while." "OK," she replied, and I could tell from her voice that she knew something was up. "I'll see you soon, right?""Sure," I said. "Pretty soon." Back inside, we wound our way through a narrow hallway, looking for a way onto the roof. We found only a padlocked door. As we made our way back to the stairs, Mike turned to me and said, "I'm so glad we did this. This sort of thing is necessary."I started to answer him, then paused. "Did you hear that?""What was it?" Mike asked."I thought I heard something. Like radio static." I listened again, then continued, "Probably nothing, though.""Yeah, probably," Mike answered. *** Despite the accusations over the parking garage, Garcia was still a player in the condo scene. Soon he formed a new company that was made up almost entirely of family members. Garcia called it Blue Dot Corp. and served as its CEO. His wife, Patsy, was appointed sales manager, and his son, David, became construction manager. In 2006, Blue Dot Corp. announced an exciting project: a nine-story mixed use retail/condominium building at Sixth Street and Central. It would be the area's most substantial construction project in years. The project soon attracted financing and investors from across the country, who paid little heed to Garcia's dubious past. Garcia took out a $20 million loan from Columbian Bank and Trust in Kansas, and on Oct. 3, 2006, bulldozers started demolishing the old McGilvray's building to make way for the Anasazi Downtown. Garcia himself was buoyed by the early excitement for the project, and he was flush with investors' capital. It was around this time that he began to use funds earmarked for the Anasazi and other projects to help his son make improvements on his home.Even as the first floors of the Anasazi Downtown took shape, Vincent Garcia had cast his eyes toward other investments. Among them was the J&J Casino in Washington state. Eager to expand his empire, he entered negotiations on its purchase, a seemingly minor event that would later have grave ramifications for Garcia, his family and the Anasazi. The problem was that he still had little in the way of actual income, despite the scope of his investments and what's come to light as an increasingly lavish lifestyle. In order to facilitate the purchase of the casino, he called upon Derek Barnhill, a construction contractor who had worked with him since approximately 2004. Garcia asked Barnhill to doctor an old bid sheet into an invoice for sheet rock for the Anasazi Downtown. Garcia would then submit the invoice to the Columbian Bank & Trust, the organization that provided the loan for the Anasazi's completion. When the funds were disbursed, he would transfer the money to close on the J&J Casino. Barnhill, who in 2010 admitted in court that he had done similar things for Garcia in the past (sometimes keeping a portion of the money for himself), agreed. The deed was done. *** It turned out that I had heard something, after all.We had been spotted on our way in. A resident of the condos across the street had seen and heard our admittedly stealthless entry into the building and called the cops.During the half-hour that Mike and I obliviously traversed the Anasazi's unfinished floors, police arrived, surrounded the building and sent in a team of officers to take positions flanking the stairs. Aside from the one stray burst of radio static, they were utterly silent. Having reached the limits of our exploration, I followed Mike down the stairs until we came to one of the lower floors. Suddenly, there were shouts, blinding lights, assault rifles and barking, growling dogs. Our hands flew over our heads. A cop shouted, "DROP YOUR WEAPON!" "It's a flashlight!" I answered."DROP IT!" All too aware of Albuquerque's recent spate of officer-involved shootings, I did. They ordered us to the ground, face first, and cuffed us both. I heard Mike's voice beside me."Ty, I am so sorry. I am so sorry." *** Vincent Garcia's real troubles, like most of the housing and condominium market's, started coming to a head in 2008. On Aug. 22 of that year, as the Anasazi Downtown project faced delay after delay, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation seized the Columbian Bank & Trust. Garcia's major backer was one in a string of bank closures that were a result of 2008's worldwide economic crisis.This was the beginning of the end for the Anasazi Downtown and for Vincent Garcia's career. Without funds, construction on the building sputtered to a halt. By October 2008, the project, with most of the building's exterior finished and many of its units already sold, was fully dormant. Garcia was quick to lay the blame at the feet of the bank. "The only way I can explain it is the banking and financial crisis has hit home. It's an amazing personal experience for us here," the Albuquerque Journal quotes him as saying in an Oct. 18, 2008 article. He immediately began trying to secure other financing for the project, but with the rocky housing climate, investors were suddenly very discriminating. The Anasazi languished and Vincent Garcia fell quiet. Meanwhile, federal investigators were digging through the Columbian Bank and Trust's records, trying to account for the bank's assets. It was only a matter of time before Garcia's name came to their attention. *** Two hours later, Mike and I were chained to metal posts in separate police station rooms. A detective removed us one at a time and discussed the incident with us. Upon hearing our stories, he genially said that we would be charged with three felonies apiece: conspiracy (because we had discussed entering the building prior to actually doing so), breaking and entering (kicking and pulling back the plywood board), and possession of burglary tools (the flashlights). I had assumed that the worst we would face would be misdemeanors for trespassing. As we were placed in a van crowded with other prisoners for transportation to the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Detention Center on the extreme Westside of Albuquerque city limits, a feeling of doom overtook me. We were officially "released" within a few hours of arriving at BCMDC, without needing to post bail. The actual release procedure took another four hours. During that time, Mike and I sat in the bare concrete holding cell, making surprisingly pleasant small talk with drunk drivers and men charged with assault, even though the fear of the three felony charges never left us.The cops finally dropped us off in the middle of Downtown at 4 or 5 a.m. We walked, morose, delirious and fearful, to my house and picked up my car. It was a gloomy drive to Mike's place. If we talked, it was probably confined to mournful expletives. The next few weeks were awful. We both realized that a felony conviction would change our lives irrevocably—I wouldn't be able to vote, for God's sake, and I'd probably never pass a background check for all but the most menial employment again. Though I won't defend what we did, the consequences seemed way out of line for what was essentially the crime of walking around in an abandoned building. Even one of the police officers whose car we sat in agreed. After chatting with us for the half-hour we waited to be taken to the station, we thanked him for being so pleasant. "Well, it's obvious you guys aren't criminals," he said. He confided that he and some of his fellow officers had been talking about going into the building themselves and "checking it out." But we were criminals. And we had three felony charges, not to mention our mug shots on the news the next day, to prove it. *** Sometime in August 2009, nearly a year after the FDIC took over Columbian Bank and Trust, the FBI raided Vincent Garcia's Albuquerque offices. According to an October 2009 article that appeared in the New Mexico Business Weekly , they seized records and interviewed the staff. "We cooperated fully," Garcia says in the article, adding, "We haven't heard back from them." But he must have known that he would. Another year passed with the Anasazi still vacant, still 85 percent complete, and with Garcia still publicly claiming to be on the cusp of securing funding for its completion. And then it finally happened: On July 10, 2010, Vincent J. Garcia, his son, David Garcia, and construction contractor Derek Barnhill were indicted on 19 counts of bank fraud, money laundering and the laundering of monetary instruments. Altogether, the Garcias and Barnhill were accused of defrauding nearly $2.5 million. The defendants pled not guilty at their arraignment on June 25. By December, Derek Barnhill had cracked and accepted a plea agreement. He took responsibility for three of the charges and he agreed to assist the prosecution in making its case against the Garcias.The government eventually offered Vincent Garcia a deal of his own. If he pled guilty to the single charge associated with the casino purchase, the rest would be dropped—including those against his son. Garcia accepted. On Aug. 19, 2011, he pled guilty to creating the fraudulent invoice for $365,677 for the purchase of the casino. He also admitted that his actions had resulted in losses to his victims in the overall amount of $842,237.He was steadfast, however, that although his son had been intimately involved in the company and a portion of the laundered funds had gone to pay for construction to his home, David Garcia had never been privy to the fraudulent actions of his father. "I never told David that any of the invoices for work performed and labor provided at his residence were being submitted to the banks as direct project expenses," Vincent Garcia stated in his plea. *** Over the four years since construction came to a standstill and the Anasazi became fully vacant, the building has been a magnet for crime. News stories, especially between 2008 and 2011, offer a litany of police responses and arrests for copper theft, drug use, vagrancy, vandalism and, naturally, trespassing. It got so bad that on March 22, 2011, Mayor Berry held a press conference at the site, threatening to use public nuisance laws to demolish the building if the FDIC would not come up with a plan to redevelop the structure.The very next day, ignorant of Berry's press conference, Mike Smith and I made our fateful plan to enter the Anasazi. In the end, it turned out OK for us. With the help of a very giving friend who happens to be an attorney, we were able to enter a pre-prosecution diversion program. After a year of good behavior and regular check-ins with a sympathetic probation officer, the charges against us were declared "nolle prosequi"—not pursued—and expunged from our records. Recently, things have started to look up for the Anasazi as well. According to the city's Real Property Division Manager Suzanne Lubar, the FDIC sold the building's promissory note to First Southern National Bank about a year ago. The Kentucky institution plans to take ownership of the property and complete its first floor retail space and parking levels, as well as clean up the exterior of the building. If all goes well, and the economy bounces back, the residential levels of the building may also be completed one day.As for Mike and me, we now have our own complicated history with the building. The No. 1 question that we get asked, outpacing even "What was it like inside?" is: What were we thinking? And here's my answer. We thought that we wouldn't get caught. That we could do this thing and get away with it and no one would come to any harm.Vincent Garcia probably thought the same thing.
As of this writing, neither Vincent Garcia nor Derek Barnhill have been sentenced for their crimes.


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The cash-strapped Chicago Public Schools spends tens of millions annually on a perk that few other employers offer: cash to departing employees for unused time off.
Since 2006, the district paid a total $265 million to employees for unused sick and vacation days, according to an analysis of payroll and benefit data obtained by the Better Government Association under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act.
By far the largest share—$227 million—went to longtime employees for sick days accumulated over two or three decades.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel recently ordered a halt on paying unused sick-time to non-union employees at City Colleges of Chicago after the BGA reported at least $3 million in such payouts to former employees over the last decade. Among the biggest beneficiary was former chancellor Wayne Watson, who left in 2009. Watson has received $300,000 of a promised $500,000 payout for 500 unused sick days.
"This policy is unacceptable to the Mayor and not consistent with the City's sick day policies for its own employees," said Jennifer Hoyle, a spokeswoman for Emanuel, who also directed other city agencies including CPS to halt such payments, review their policies and devise plans to end the practice permanently.
At CPS, more than 300 longtime principals and administrators received payouts exceeding $100,000 during the six-year period from 2006 to 2011, the BGA found. The highest payout topped $250,000.
Beneficiaries included former CEO Arne Duncan, now U.S. Secretary of Education, who received $50,297 for unused vacation time when he left after nine years in January 2009, according to CPS payroll data. Duncan believes the policy should be reevaluated.
"People should take a good hard look at whether or not that policy makes any sense and whether it should be kept in place in these tight budget times," said Duncan through a Washington D.C.-based department spokesman.
The district's policy of paying for accrued sick and vacation time drains an average $44 million annually at a time when CPS is struggling to balance its nearly $6 billion annual budget by hiking property taxes, cutting staff and dipping into reserves. The obligation to pay this accumulating benefit contributes to the district's long-term debt, showing up as a fast-growing liability on CPS' balance sheet.
Moreover, payouts increase the Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund's liabilities because employees are allowed to use sick leave payouts to boost their final average salaries, which in turn increases their annual pensions.
Approximately 19,000 employees received sick and vacation payments during the six-year period, and about 4,200 of them, or 22 percent, participated in the district's "pension enhancement program." (see below for more on PEP)
Most private employers adopt a "use or lose it" policy for sick and vacation days to hold down costs and limit future obligations. Many question the wisdom of rewarding employees when they leave.
"What you're doing is paying someone when they're walking out the door, and that's basically money walking out the door," said Mark Schmit, vice president of research for the Alexandria, Va.-based Society for Human Resource Management, a leading association for HR managers.
Only six percent of employers pay for unused sick leave, while 16 percent pay unused vacation time, according to the association's 2011 employee benefit survey. The survey was based on responses from 600 HR managers, largely at private employers.
Public education is widely known for more generous time-off and pension benefits than the private sector, and accumulating sick leave is not uncommon. But CPS may be alone among Illinois school districts in paying cash for unused sick leave, said Thomas A. Kersten, professor emeritus of educational leadership at Roosevelt University.
"I'm not familiar with any district besides Chicago that pays for sick days," he said.
Members of the Teachers' Retirement System, which includes Downstate and suburban teachers, can accumulate as many as 340 uncompensated sick days for up to two years of credit, allowing them to retire two years early with full pension benefits.
CPS employees get one sick day per month of work, and they can accumulate as many as 325 days. They become eligible for payouts after working at least 20 years or reaching age 65. Depending on their tenure, they receive between 85 percent and 100 percent of their accumulated sick leave value.
Vacation benefits range from 15 to 25 paid days annually for year-round employees. Teachers and others who work fewer than 12 months get 10 days, winter and spring breaks.
Special "reserve" days also are awarded at the discretion of the chief executive officer for employees who work, for instance, when schools are closed for snow days.
Here are the top payouts, according to CPS payroll and benefit data from 2006 through 2011:
- Ascencion Juarez, former chief human resources officer, collected $250,787 after he retired in 2009 after 38 years, including $200,285 in sick pay. His payout exceeded his final salary of $166,904. Reached by phone, Juarez declined to discuss his payout or the district's benefit policy.
- Former Chief Education Officer Barbara Eason-Watkins collected $239,849 after she retired in 2010 after 35 years, including $159,843 in sick pay. Her payout exceeded her final salary of $192,850. She did not return phone calls seeking comment.
- Former Lake View High School Principal Scott Feaman received $211,641 after he retired in 2011 after 36 years, including $171,604 in sick pay. His vacation pay of $40,037 included more than $19,000 in "reserve" days, which are awarded at the CEO's discretion. His total payout exceeded his final salary of $154,921. Feaman did not return phone calls seeking comment.
Eason-Watkins and Feaman each used sick days to sweeten their pensions. As a result, Eason-Watkins collects an additional $7,440 annually in pension payments for the rest of her life, and Feaman collects $4,425 more in annual payments, according to data obtained through the Freedom of Information Act from the Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund.
CPS Sick Time Plan Can 'PEP' Up Worker Pensions
Thousands of former Chicago Public Schools employees collect fatter pension checks because of a program that allows them to boost their final salaries by collecting unused sick time.
More than 4,200 former CPS employees who started drawing pensions during 2006 to 2011 were part of a program that bumped their annual pensions by a collective $9 million annually, according to records obtained by the Better Government Association through the Freedom of Information Act. That's because of a little known CPS-enacted perk that counts unused sick days in pension calculations.
Here's how it works: When eligible employees enroll in a "pension enhancement program" (PEP) by agreeing to retire on a specific schedule, they are paid for some or all of their unused sick time before separation. The payout, to a maximum of 20 percent of their salary, counts as compensation, boosting the final average salary on which their pension is based.
At least fourteen former CPS employees receive an additional $6,000 or more annually in pension payments because of the program.CPS normally contributes 7 percent of compensation to the Chicago Teachers' Fund, and employees contribute 2 percent, to the Chicago Teachers' Pension fund. But PEP participants must pick up the entire 9 percent contribution on the sick-day increment.
In all, CPS paid about $295 million to the pension fund in fiscal year 2011.


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Brantley Gilbert Gets a New Tattoo
Brantley Gilbert is no stranger to being inked. The ACM New Artist of the Year nominee already has at least three tattoos, including one on his left arm that has a skull in it, one on his rib cage and one between his shoulder blades.
Now, the 'Kick It In the Sticks' singer is sporting some new ink, and it looks like it might become a sleeve all the way up his left forearm, though we can't see in this photo if it wraps all the way around his arm. The new tat, which reads 'Prodigal Son,' also sports an emblem that's a lower-case b and g mixed into one. Gilbert tweeted a photo of his newest skin art Wednesday afternoon (April 4) saying, "Not finished yet, but here is a glimpse…."
Gilbert's debut album, which he dropped in 2009, was called 'Modern Day Prodigal Son' and featured the title track 'A Modern Day Prodigal Son' about a wayward man reading the story of the prodigal son in the Bible and coming back. The chorus culminates, "Lord I'm a renegade, a rambler / I've squandered all I've owned / a bonified runaway, I'm a gambler / can't count the lies I've told / and I need redemption, how 'bout forgiveness / and I pray for open arms, and be with me lord / 'cause I'm comin' home, like a modern day prodigal son."
Perhaps it's the debut album or the story of the song that has stuck with Gilbert these past three years, but whatever the case, he took the next step and emblazoned the moniker across the inside of his arm, right where he can always see it.


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The Scale Tool is used to scale layers, selections or paths (the Object).
When you click on image with the tool the Scaling Information dialog box is opened, allowing to change separately Width and Height. At the same time a Preview (possibly with a grid or an outline) is superimposed on the object and handles appear on corners and borders that you can click and drag to change dimensions. A small circle appears at center of the Preview allowing to move this preview.
You can access the Scale Tool in different ways:
from the image menu bar→ → ,
by clicking the tool icon: in the Toolbox,
by using the Shift+T key combination.
Normally, tool options are displayed in a window attached under the Toolbox as soon as you activate a tool. If they are not, you can access them from the image menu bar through→ → which opens the option window of the selected tool.
These options are described in Transform tools common options.
The Transform mode works on the active layer only. To work on all layers of the image, use Scale Image.
When you move a corner of the selection frame, this option will constrain the scale such as the Height/Width ratio of the layer will remain constant. Note that this doesn't work with border handles. Note also that it toggles the linking chain in the dialog.
Here, you can set Width and Height you want to give to the object. The default unit of measurement is pixel. You can change it by using the drop-down list. These values are also automatically changed when you drag handles in the image. If the associated linking chain is broken, you can change Width and Height separately.


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Mount Sneffels
A view of Mount Sneffels in Colorado's San Juan Mountain Range in 2012.
Mount Sneffels in Black and White
A view of Mount Sneffels in Colorado's San Juan Mountain Range in 2012.
Processed in 2018 using Lightroom and Silver Efex Pro 2.
The Alps of America: The San Juans
Dallas Divide, Ridgeway Colorado, looking into the mountains that separate Telluride from Ouray.
Snowy Animas
A snowy storm over night in Durango has brought a powder coat over the Animas River.
WARNING! Do NOT Lie in front of a moving train to get a shot like this...
This Photo was taken from between the rails of a disconnected piece of track that the train has no possibility of ending up on. I can't stress it enough, DO NOT take this photo from inside the actual track!
Hanging Lake
Views of Colorado's famed "Hanging Lake" in Glenwood Canyon.
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70600 Ninja Bike Race 19.99 €
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70606 Ninjago Movie Set #1 (GA)
70607 Ninjago Movie Set #"" (TT)
70608 Ninjago Movie Set #3 (SA)
70609 Ninjago Movie Set #4 (MP)
70610 Ninjago Movie Set #5 (JS)
70611 Ninjago Movie Set #6 (SC)
70612 Ninjago Movie Set #7 (LD)
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70617 Ninjago Movie Set #12 (BS)
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For all we know, some of the summer sets might include other dragons. I'd love for Nya to get a dragon now that she's a ninja. And Lloyd also hasn't had a new dragon since 2013 when he was the golden ninja. Now that he's back to being the green ninja it'd be nice for him to get a new one.TheUltimateTFOL said:Funny how they are only making Cole's and Jay's dragon. When I saw how many there were at the end of season 4, I half hoped for some giant dragon collector pack or something.
Yup! :)TheUltimateTFOL said:Wait...is that what the set actually looks like? Awesome!
That figure's got her hair, but I wouldn't be surprised if that's just a placeholder and the hair in the final set might be a different color. The bone in the hair makes me question whether it'd be Toxikita, as it doesn't seem to fit her "style"... unless it's just a part of a pirate-themed makeover.Kevin_Hyatt said:Is that Toxicita on the little flyer?
I know master wu's dragon looks amazing. I was on the fence for it but @Fauch 's review on brickset sold it for meShib said:I've resisted Ninjago for so long...but some of the dragons look so good (Master Wu's dragon in particular has really won me over) Now the chance of an updated classic monkey...dammit LEGO I can't keep buying stuff!
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This is very cool. Fire and ice are not just interesting things to pair in the titles of fantasy books. They can actually go together, with ice acting as a fuel source for fire.
Want to know what to use to light your Song of Ice and Fire themed party? How about some actual flaming ice to light things up! A little chemistry magic and you can use ice as a fuel source for fire. Just grab some calcium carbide, some ice, and some fire-proof dishes that you can put them both into. Layer the calcium carbide on the bottom and then put the ice on top of that. Wait a bit, throw in a match, and you'll see the entire thing go up in flame.
It's not technically the ice that's on fire. The ice is just providing the fuel. Calcium carbide consists of two carbon atoms stuck onto a calcium atom. Add that to liquid water (H2O) and the carbon atoms will grab hold of the two hydrogen atoms and produce C2H2, or acetylene gas. This is the gas that's the fuel in many a welding torch. When you toss in the match the gas will fire up.
Practically speaking, of course, this kind of thing isn't suited to parties. It would take a lot of testing in a lot of configurations to make the fire both steady and safe. But it is an interesting reaction that, once fire is added, sustains itself. The fire melts more ice, which drips more water onto the calcium carbide, which lets off more gas to make more fire.
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Adelphia Business Solutions (ABS) and its consortium of 13 Pennsylvania-based companies are now 90 percent finished constructing the statewide, 5,000-mile fiber optics based Keystone Communications Project in Pennsylvania.
The Keystone Project was designed as a statewide fiber network to bring high-bandwidth voice, data, Internet and video networking to state government facilities, including state agencies and the State System of Higher Education. It led to the creation of the KeyNet Alliance between industrial, educational, community and government sectors.
In addition to being nearly complete, ABS said the project now has 50,000 Lines On Switch (LOS).
All of the transition work—from a previous provider's services to ABS' voice, video, Internet and data services—should be completed on schedule at the end of December, ABS officials say.
The plan also extended the state-based telecommunications infrastructure to communities across the state, with an emphasis on under-served rural and urban areas.
The contract with the Commonwealth has been a cornerstone in the rebuilding plan for ABS. Beyond the transitions, the contract calls for the consortium to provide services through 2006.


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Chia Seed Muffins
- Yield: 12 servings
- 1-- stick butter, softened
- 3/4cup raw or regular sugar
- 2large eggs, lightly beaten
- 3/4cup plain yogurt, at room temperature
- 1 1/2teaspoons vanilla
- 2cups whole wheat pastry flour or unbleached all-purpose four
- 1/3cup chia seeds
- 1/2teaspoon salt
- 1/4teaspoon baking soda
1. Preheat the oven to 375°F. Line a muffin tin with muffin papers or lightly grease a muffin tin.
2. In a large mixing bowl, cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. You can do this by hand, with a hand-held mixer, or in a stand mixer.
3. Blend in the eggs, yogurt, and vanilla.
4. In a separate bowl, combine the flour, chia seeds, salt, and baking soda.
5. Slowly add the dry ingredients to the creamed mixture and blend just until combined. Do not over mix.
6. Fill each muffin cup2⁄3 full of batter.
7. Optional: Sprinkle with cinnamon sugar (2 tablespoons sugar and ¼ teaspoon cinnamon).
8. Bake until golden brown, 15 to 20 minutes. Allow the muffins to cool slightly before removing from the tin.
Reprinted with permission from Chia: The Complete Guide to the Ultimate Superfood © 2012 by Wayne Coates, PhD, Sterling Publishing Co. Photographs by Bill Milne.