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Technology has connected people all over the globe in ways never anticipated. Now, a Web app may document the disappearing culture in Terrebonne Parish communities for the world to see.
Technology has connected people all over the globe in ways never anticipated. Now, a Web app may document the disappearing culture in Terrebonne Parish communities for the world to see.
Called "Vanishing Points," the app is being developed by Florida International University student Sandra Maina, the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the South Louisiana Wetlands Discovery Center.
The idea is for community members to log memories, interviews and photos of the places in south Louisiana that are disappearing because of coastal erosion.
Maina said she previously worked on projects such as hurricane modelling but wanted to do a more applied project that would benefit society.
"It's not just for the community," Maina said. "It's for others to realize that there are people down here that need our help. They're yelling for help, and no one seems to be listening."
Maina is a prot�g� with the University Cooperation for Atmospheric Research's SOARS program. SOARS, which stands for Significant Opportunities in Atmospheric Research in Science, focuses on taking talented undergraduate science students and mentoring them to ensure they succeed in graduate school.
Wanting to develop science projects that could service community needs, SOARS students came to Terrebonne Parish last year at the invitation of locals to meet with and listen to the community, said Rebecca Haacker-Santos, head of student opportunities at the University Cooperation for Atmospheric Research.
"The idea of science and service is where we want to go," Haacker-Santos said.
She added that the community was amazingly welcoming to the students, and it was a great learning opportunity.
"What (the students) learned early on was they were not the experts," she said. "They were there to learn themselves."
Maina eventually connected with Jonathan Foret, executive director of the South Louisiana Wetlands Discovery Center, who said he came up with the idea of developing the Vanishing Points after talking with Houma engineer Clifford Smith. Smith suggested it would be good to find a way to better inform the community of elevations on the coast's rapidly sinking landscape.
The two presented their idea at a community dinner and got a lot of feedback. Initially, they planned to release Vanishing Points as an iPhone app but realized many residents didn't have iPhones.
They switched to a more-accessible Web-app format.
The idea of the Web app is to allow it to become a tool for communities to document their culture. Initially, Maina envisioned visiting bayou communities and having residents identify geographical points that are important to them. She would interview locals, come up with a narrative of the site, get historic photos of the place and obtain photos of how it looks today.
"It will allow for the transfer of knowledge," Foret said. "It focuses on points of cultural importance identified by community members."
That might include locations like the La Butte mound cemetery in Cocodrie, surrounded by sinking land and open water.
They also acquired land-loss maps from the U.S. Geological Survey and hope to use them to create an animation that can show how fast land is disappearing in the area.
But now Foret hopes to also recruit students from local high schools who have been working with the Wetlands Discovery Center to train them how to work with the app and collect the data. Maina will develop the protocol for their data collection.
That will ensure that there are new generations of students keeping the app updated and will also get students involved in their own personal history, Foret said.
"The real goal of the app is to motivate people to take action on coastal land loss," Foret said. "We're saying, 'We have treasures down here that deserve to be protected, and we're identifying them for you.' "
Maina said she is developing a graduate thesis project around the app. Once it's up and running, she hopes to study how the app affects risk assessment in communities that have used it.
She hopes to have the app finished by May to conduct that research, and it should be available by the end of the summer to the rest of the public.
If the app is successful, it could be adapted for use in other communities facing natural and ecological disasters, Maina said.
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ALGONQUIN – After going undefeated in duals this season and winning the Fox Valley Conference Valley Division title, McHenry was not going to be denied a second conference championship Saturday.
The Warriors won the FVC Meet with 261.5 points and placed all 14 of their wrestlers in the top five. Cary-Grove was second with 210 followed by Crystal Lake South (168), Crystal Lake Central (146) and Huntley (143).
"Our kids really wanted this," McHenry coach Will Gaddy said. "Everybody came ready to wrestle."
It was the third consecutive team championship for the Warriors, who also won the Batavia tournament Jan. 12.
"It's good to keep that hardware coming in," Gaddy said.
Wade Lardy won at 152-pounds for the Warriors with a 6-1 decision against Dundee-Crown's Tim Schanmier. Lardy said the individual win was nice but nothing could match taking home the team championship.
"I just really wanted the team to succeed," Lardy said.
Cam Pait at 160 followed Lardy and gave McHenry its second individual championship. Pait decisioned Prairie Ridge's Charley Popp, 9-5, but the match was tied, 3-3, heading into the third period.
Pait got a reversal and two takedowns in the third but had trouble controlling Popp from on top.
"[Popp] was slippery," Pait said. "He moves a lot on the bottom."
Pait said Saturday was all about getting the team win.
"It's a huge deal," Pait said of winning the FVC Meet. "I'd rather have my team win it than me, if I had to pick."
Angel Hernandez won McHenry's third title with a 3-1 decision against Johnsburg's Brandon Boyle at 285. Boyle entered the third period up 1-0 but Hernandez got the escape to tie the score.
Hernandez got the taken with seconds left in the match to get the win.
"I was pretty tired. [Boyle's] a strong kid. I was thinking it might go to overtime," Hernandez said. "I'm glad it didn't."
Cary-Grove put some pressure on McHenry with Mike Cullen winning at 113, Logan Hanselmann at 120 and Michael Underwood at 138.
Hanselmann edged Johnsburg's Branden Peshek, 1-0, with a third period escape with less than 10 seconds left.
"I knew I didn't want to go to overtime," Hanselmann said. "[Peshek's] strong."
The Trojans finished second in the FVC Valley with a 5-1 record, losing only to McHenry. Hanselmann said his team wanted to erase that loss by winning the FVC Meet.
"We wanted to win this," Hanselmann said. "We wanted to come out and make a statement."
Underwood had the longest match of the day, getting an escape in the ultimate tiebreaker to defeat Crystal Lake South's Nick Peters, 3-2.
Freshman Travis Piotrowski won for Prairie Ridge at 106 with a 4-2 decision against Jacobs' Austin Ryan. It was a battle of highly ranked wrestlers, as Ryan is ranked No. 5 and Piotrowski No. 8 by illinoismatmen.com.
Piotrowski got a first-period takedown and was able to ride Ryan out in the second period. Ryan got a takedown in the third period but Piotrowski had two escapes to get the win.
"[Ryan's] a tough kid," Piotrowski said. "It was a lot of scrambling."
Crytstal Lake South had three titles from Nick Gil (126) Eric Barone (132) and Brian Pence (182). Crystal Lake Central got two individual championships from Kyle Fugiel at 145 and Andrew Marsden at 170.
Christian Nugent won at 195 for Johnsburg and Ray Griggel won at 220 for Dundee-Crown.

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Happy 2009, Everyone! May the New Year bring you many genealogical breakthroughs, good health, prosperity and much, much happiness!
In the process of tidying up today, I came across a brochure I had picked up some time ago for the Ontario Heritage Connection. Their tag line is "Connecting to timely information on heritage issues across Ontario" and it's the work of the Ontario Heritage Connection Society. It's one of the places that the announcement about the dissolution of the Friends of the Archives of Ontario was made, in addition to a resource area for finding funding for heritage online. With these types of resources along with new publication notices of heritage books, etc. it's an invaluable reference for all things of Ontario heritage. Now, if they just added an RSS feed, I'd have it made!
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1993: U.S. Rep. Harold Ford Sr. was acquitted of all federal bank fraud charges in the dramatic conclusion to his second trial on the charges in three years. The jury foreman read the not guilty verdicts on 18 counts and on the final count, Ford embraced his oldest son, Harold Ford Jr. Co-defendants Douglas Beaty and Karl Schledwitz were also acquitted of all charges by the jury in a case that began with the collapse of the Butcher bank empire in 1983.
1973: Memphis Mayor Wyeth Chandler presented a city budget proposal to the Memphis City Council totaling $121.7 million, a 14.6 percent increase from the previous budget.
The Memphis Hunter-Jumper Classic Horse Show opened at the Shelby County Equestrian Center.
1968: An estimated 20,000 people held a silent march to City Hall four days after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. King's widow and his children joined the march at Main and Beale Streets with several thousand National Guardsmen lining both sides of Main with bayonets fixed. "How many men must die before we can have a free and true and peaceful society?" she asked outside City Hall. "How long will it take?" Source: "Hellhound On His Trail" by Hampton Sides.
1942: "The Courtship of Andy Hardy" starring Mickey Rooney was at Loew's Palace movie theater while "Spooks Run Wild" with Bela Lugosi and the East End Kids played The Strand.
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mikey287 wrote:MRandall25 wrote:I think his play is worthy, but the numbers he puts up don't match the intangibles he provides.
So, fair to say: Brind'Amour plus a peak? Or Kovalev plus defense? Neither of which are HHOFers and never will be I don't think, is the "plus" big enough to push him over? I think he might need another a elite season or two to lengthen that prime, personally.
Funny, when I saw you said Kovalev, I said "There's no way Datsyuk is on Kovalev's level offensively." Then I looked at the #'s, and they were a lot closer than I realized.
I'd say Datsyuk is more on a level of his own that is around the Kovalev and Brindamour levels. He is one of the best defensive forwards in the game, but winning multiple Selke's =/= HOF'er. Otherwise Guy Carbonneau would be a shoo in.
It's a tough call. You can see how there are games where he's just dominant on the puck, but he's just in an awkward position where he doesn't have much else to his resumé besides the Selke's and two 90-point seasons.


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I am looking for advice from you guys. I was selected to be an Officer in the Air Force and am doing that now before law school. With that I get a Top Secret security clearance which involves a heavy background investigation. I have run into a problem with my apartment complex. One of my roommates had a bag of marijuana and a pipe laying out on a table in our living room during a maintenence inspection. They photographed it and now its in everyone who lives in my apartment's files. I talked to them, the manager said I was guilty by association, but he said he, "didnt think it was mine, and has a good idea of whose it is." I had my parents contact him and I wrote a letter to him saying that It wasnt mine. He told me a couple days ago that it was removed from the file, along with another worker in there. One of my roommates works in the leasing office, and just checked our files today. He said the picture of the marijuana is still in there, even after the manager said it was gone. I have tried to get the corporate offices number, they said they cant release it. Is there anything I can do legally to remove it so this doesnt mess up my future as an Air Force officer, or am I at the mercy of the management? Thanks for any advice you can give.


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During the winter, the goldfinch (Spinus tristis) is frequently found at local bird feeders.
While their winter plumage is less showy than the bright yellow sported by males during breeding season, the males are attractive little birds and may migrate through the Panhandle in great numbers.
The American goldfinch is gregarious during the non-breeding season, when it is often found in large flocks, usually with other finches. Flocks generally fly in an undulating pattern, creating a wave-shaped path.
The American goldfinch is not aggressive toward predators within its territory; its only reaction is alarm calling. Predators include snakes, squirrels, and blue jays, which may destroy eggs or kill young. Hawks and cats pose a threat to both young and adults. Goldfinches are occasionally victims of brood parasites, particularly brown-headed cowbirds. One study found that nine percent of nests had cowbird eggs in them.
According to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the species is one of the strictest vegetarians in the bird world. Its main diet consists of the seeds from a wide variety of annual plants, often those of weeds grasses and trees, such as thistle, teasel, dandelion, ragweed, mullein, cosmos, sunflower and coneflower. However, it also consumes tree buds, maple sap, and berries. It will eat at bird feeders provided by humans, particularly in the winter months, preferring Niger seed, sometimes called thistle. It will occasionally eat insects, which are also fed to its young to provide protein.
Unlike some finch species, the American goldfinch uses its feet extensively in feeding. It frequently hangs from seed heads while feeding in order to reach the seeds more easily.
The courtship rituals of the American goldfinch include aerial maneuvers and singing by males, who begin courtship in late July.
The nest is built in late summer by the female in the branches of a deciduous shrub or tree at a height of up to 33 feet. The nest building lasts approximately six days. The male frequently flies with the female as she collects nesting materials, and though he may carry some materials back to the nest, he leaves its construction to her. The outer shell of the nest is built of bark, weeds, vines, and grass. The inside diameter of the finished nest is about three inches. The rim is reinforced with bark bound by spider webs and caterpillar silk, and the cup is lined with plant down from milkweed, thistle, or cattail. The nest is so tightly woven that it can hold water, and it is possible for nestlings to drown following a rainstorm if the parents do not cover the nest.
American goldfinches lay four to six bluish-white eggs, oval in shape. Two or three pairs may group their territories together in a loose colony, perhaps to aid in defense against predators.
The goldfinch is not threatened by human activity, and is widespread throughout its range. The clearing of forests by humans, though harmful to many species, has benefited the goldfinch. Clearing of woodlands causes declines in numbers of long distance migrants, while favoring the American goldfinch both as a short-distance migrant, and because the created open areas are the preferred environment of the bird, where weeds thrive which produce the primary food source of the goldfinch
This handsome little finch is the state bird of New Jersey, Iowa, and Washington.
In art and Christian legend, the goldfinch is symbolic of the resurrection. According to one legend, the bird was a witness to Christ carrying the cross and tried to pluck the crown of thorns from his head.


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Life in Christian County, Kentucky... Life in The Upper South... History and Old Stuff...
I suppose every town in the world seeks a claim to fame -- a famous person or event that has some connection to that place. In Bassett, Nebraska, the nearest town to the place where I grew up, the best they could do was a horse thief, Kid Wade, who was hung by vigilantes on a big hill at the edge of town.
The village of Fairview, Kentucky, can claim a truly famous American in its history. The President of the Confederate States of America (CSA), Jefferson Davis, was born there.
Note: For my readers outside the USA, let me briefly explain that the United States had a civil war from 1860 to 1865, in which the South formed the CSA and attempted to leave the Union, but the North refused to let them go. The great underlying issue and primary cause of the Civil War was slavery and it was abolished after the war, but many people in the South felt they were fighting for states' rights (that is, their state's right to secede from the Union.)
Kentucky was a border state during the Civil War. Though the CSA claimed Kentucky and gave it a star on their flag, Kentucky did not secede from the Union. Some Kentuckians fought for the CSA, but others fought for the USA. That being said, it is certainly true that Christian County had many slaveowners who raised tobacco and other crops with slave labor, and many soldiers from here probably fought for the CSA.
After the war ended and slavery was abolished, a new era began in the South. The thorough defeat left a spirit of defiant resentment that was nurtured and cherished in some hearts. Reconstruction abuses created more ill feelings. Out of the worst, soul-consuming, twisted hatred, the Ku Klux Klan was born.
The Daughters of the Confederacy expressed themselves in non-violent, public ways. They honored the service and sacrifice of their fathers by building many monuments to Confederate soldiers across the South. The monument they built to Jefferson Davis at Fairview, Kentucky, was the largest of these. There's plenty of defiance expressed in it, I think, but in a less malignant way.
I don't really know what other people in Christian County think about Jefferson Davis, but his monument is certainly an element in the landscape here. It can be seen for miles around, towering above the fields, houses and trees.
As for me, I am thankful that I was born in the (Mid)West, not in a state from the Civil War's North or South. My birth state, Nebraska, joined the Union in 1865, the year that the Civil War ended. Some of my ancestors on both sides of the family hadn't even come over from Europe yet, and others were living west of most of the action. If there are any family stories about the Civil War, I don't know them.
Since we live just five miles from the Jefferson Davis park in Fairview, we took the kids there frequently to play on the swings and slides when they were little. The monument and the visitor's center are conveniently-located historic curiosities to show any non-local visitors we have. This is the meaning of the monument to me.
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