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GLENWOOD VILLAGE - This large and spacious END unit features a LARGE SOUTH-facing deck with an open concept family room, eating area and kitchen with GRANITE countertops and laminate floors within this area. This unit has North, East, and South exposure with plenty of natural light and two decks. This home has a GAS FIREPLACE in the living room and dining room. The spacious 17'x11' master bedroom has an ensuite with a SKYLIGHT. Complex features a Clubhouse with guest suite, recreational room, RV parking, green space and the roof has been updated as well. Age restricted to 45+ years, one cat or one dog (14" at shoulder). Private complex yet close to shopping, public transit, and amenities. Come see for yourself.
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A state pilot program aims to get more computers into the hands of Illinois school children. The state is turning over old government computers to the non-profit group, Computer Banc in Springfield, which refurbishes them for use by students. Governor Bruce Rauner says all kids deserve to have access to technology.
142 computers have already gone out to a few school districts and the YMCA in Springfield. The next round will include more than 2,000 computers for schools and groups for a small fee.

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Using advanced organic therapies to aid in healing, giving the skin the ability to strengthen it's immunity and cope with environmental waste and exposure. A Silent Moment Organic Spa believes that improving the way you feel about your skin's complexion we can uplift and renew your sense of well being. A positive connection between one's appearance and attitude can contribute significantly to a better quality of life and energy flow.
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"I was very surprised with how simple EZ Street was to use - we are delighted with the results!"
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The EZ Street Pothole Repair Kit is not only simple to use, but also gives you a permanent solution thanks to the polymer design. It's economical compared to the cost of tarmac repairs done by professionals, giving you the exactly same result. It can be used in all weather, and if the pothole is full of water simple pour the pothole repair kit over it as it will displace the water. Only one person is needed for the pothole repair, all you need to do is pour the tarmac into the hole and flatten it with the tamper compression tool or any other flattening device.
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BreyerFest Live Auction Countdown - Sunday 6/15/14
The next installment of the BreyerFest Live Auction Countdown is here! Lot #20 is the Raven Black Lacy Pinto on the Bluegrass Bandit mold (#585) with blue eyes!
Bid on this amazing model at BreyerFest 2014 at the Live Auction, which takes place Friday, July 11 at 6:00pm!
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This horse is so pretty!! I love the blue eyes!!!
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Ahh! This one is so soft, and gentle looking. The eyes are so perfect, again I wish I could be at the bidding...
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LOVE the lacy markings!
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Syrian refugees "are less of a threat to thecountry," a Department of State official told a congressionalsubcommittee Thursday, but then admittedthey aren't tracked after threemonths.
Rep. Lamar Smith asked State Department Assistant Secretary ofthe Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration AnneC. Richard if Syrian refugees are a threat to the UnitedStates' safety.
"Syrians are less of a threat to the country," thanother refugees, Richard told the House Judiciary Subcommittee onImmigration and Border Security, chaired by South CarolinaRepublican Trey Gowdy . "I'm very worried aboutterrorists. I think we should prevent terrorists coming from theUnited States. I think the odds of a refugee being aterrorist is very very small."
But the Texas Republican disputed her claim.
"You don't have the data to make thatdetermination," Smith said.
He reminded Richard that FBI Director James Comeytold Congress Oct. 21 there isn't enough data toproperly screen Syrian refugees.
"If someone has never madea ripple in the pond in Syria in away that would get their identity or their interest reflected inour database, we can query our database until the cows come home,but there will be nothing showing up because we have no record ofthem,†Comey told the House Committee on HomelandSecurity on Oct. 21.
Richard said the refugee vetting process uses databases that arenot used by the FBI.
"We're happy to … go into the point that theFBI holding could only tell you a limited amount ofinformation," she said. "That's whywe have to use many more databases, many more techniques to get thewhole story."
Refugees are also subject to a series ofinterviews.
Even with that series of interviews, the vetting process is far from flawless, TheDaily Caller News Foundation previously reported.
But, Richard admitted refugees aren't tracked afterthey've been in the U.S. for three months.
Refugees "are pretty much treated like ordinary Americansand they are not tracked," she said. "As far as I know,none of the refugees have been arrested."
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Looking for a tasty burger in Georgia? You won't have to look any further since Fundreds just found the best burger places to make a trip to when you're craving an epic meal. Hungry yet?
Bocado Burger
No pretense at this Atlanta burger joint, just great food and drink. Known for their "stack" burgers and unique ingredients, especially when you want to build your own burger, Bocado also works with some the area's finest local purveyors of meat, cheese, and ice cream to provide the very best that Georgia has to offer. And, though getting a seat can sometimes be tough, the outdoor patio is always a great place to eat.
Ann's Snack Bar
This classic Atlanta burger joint doesn't even have a website, and while there is a Facebook, don't expect to find anything new on it. This is a restaurant that doesn't need the internet to keep seats filled with eager customers. Famous for burgers so big you just might need help to finish them, and especially the "Ghetto Burger" that might be one of the best burgers you can find anywhere in the South, Ann's truly is one of a kind.
Illegal Food
Food so good it should be, well, illegal, you'll find more than just your everyday cheeseburgers at this Atlanta restaurant. Try the Banh Mi-style burger for a touch of East Asia, or add a little spice to your life with the chili-rubbed Nasty Nate. The drinks as well are worth a try, and this might be one of the few places where a cocktail might be a better choice than a beer for your burger.
Farm Burger
As the name implies, the ingredients for these burgers come straight from the farm. A chain that puts the fertile lands of the South on full display, the grass-fed, dry-aged, hormone-free beef that goes into these burgers is great no matter which location you choose to dine at. With three of them, in Decatur, Buckhead, and Dunwoody, a fantstic burger is never too far away.
Locos Grill & Pub
All across Georgia you can find these top notch burgers, apps, and even vegetarian options perfect for when you're dining out with a larger group. 10 locations across the state make it easy to find, but if that isn't enough you can just order online for delivery as well. These burgers are big, gooey, and delicious, especially the Southern Deluxe, made with American cheese on a butter-toased kaiser roll, and the Bayou Burger which comes with a Cajun Bistro sauce as flavorful as it sounds.
Crystal Beer Parlor
Many memories have been made at this historic Savannah mainstay. Open since 1933, it seems every local has a story to tell about nights spent drinking and dining here. But just as important as the past are the memories still to be made here trying out the Bison Burger, Meatloaf Burger, or their Classic Crystal Burger that comes with a griddled ground chuck patty so delicious it deserves its place in history.
Green Truck Pub
It's not uncommon to find restaurants dedicated to sourcing local ingredients and supporting local businesses, but no one does it quite like Green Truck Pub in Savannah. Everything, from the tables, chairs and menus, to the coffee, to the grass-fed, hormone-free beef for their burgers, comes from in and around the city. While that wouldn't be enough by itself to get them on this list (it's really about the awesome burgers), it's certainly an added bonus.


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Delhi's Grandmaster Sahaj Grover came up with a splendid effort to bag the South African open, blitz and rapid championship held at Durban in South Africa. Sahaj did not lose a single game in any of the events and was a clear winner in all three. In the blitz section, Sahaj conceded a lone draw and scored 6.5/7 and in the rapid he scored 6/7 to be a clear winner. The real form of the champion came to fore in the open section where he scored a massive 10/11 conceding just two draws and winning the remaining nine games.
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Utrecht Summer School 2017
Eve Smith (PReS), Maya Breitman, Theresa Wampler-Muskardin
With sponsorship from CARRA and the Arthritis Foundation, Maya Breitman and Theresa Wampler-Muskardin attended the Utrecht University Summer School course "Why Translational Medicine Fails-And What to do About it" this past July in the Netherlands. This course was created and is directed by the EUREKA Institute of Translational Medicine (http://eurekainstitute.org). EUREKA is a not-for-profit organization established in 2008 by leaders in the field of translational medicine (including pediatric rheumatologist Berent Prakken).
"The birth of Eureka arises from the realization that the itinerary from molecular to clinical medicine requires a seamless trajectory to insure that talent, ideas, and potential cures are captured. An important resource and one that is a fundamental unmet need is human capital: a person who is a builder of bridges, who has the knowledge, the skill and the desire to navigate the challenges and components of this complex field. System-wide networks which can inspire, catalyze and sustain Translational Medicine on an international scale simply do not exist. These unmet needs are perceived as the main hurdle to the integration between Molecular and Clinical Medicine into a seamless gradient leading to a patient-centered approach to healing (Precision Medicine)." (http://eurekainstitute.org/about-us/)
As part of their education and community building effort, EUREKA (jointly with the Science in Transition team from UMC Utrecht) offers the summer school course, which focuses on translational medicine issues in rare and orphan diseases. Designed with insights gleaned through EUREKA's experience, the summer school course masterfully tackles the intrinsic difficulties of effective translational medicine in rare and orphan diseases. Whereas EUREKA's Certificate course is intended for more established investigators, the Utrecht Summer School course is meant for early stage researchers. The days are full but high-yield, interactive, and truly engaging.
During the course they heard from Dr. Frank Miedema, UMC Utrecht dean and initiator of Science in Transition (http://scienceintransition.nl/english). Science in Transition is a Dutch initiative in which four distinguished scientists gave a piercing analysis of the current state of Dutch universities. The "current state" is really the same in the U.S.: "Current incentives combined with hyper competition for limited funds have severe negative effects: many publications of poor quality and limited societal impact; risk aversion and avoiding complex, multidisciplinary problems; systematic under-appreciation of education and other academic duties; very poor career perspectives for young scientists." Science in Transition received a lot of attention from public, policy makers and scientists, and started a tide of change in the Netherlands. As early stage clinician-scientists in the U.S., learning about Science in Transition was inspiring and empowering. Through the remainder of the course we were able to gain insight into how modern science works and were able to reflect upon their own role, expectations and potential actions we may want to make to achieve our goals as scientists.
Working with their classmates and experienced translational researchers in rare disease, we got to know the road from bench to bedside guided by a real-life case. We learned about their personal communication styles and had practice collaborating across disciplines and cultures. They learned to appreciate and align different interests of different stakeholders. The course emphasized the importance of collaboration across disciplines and institutes to benefit patients and the importance of patient/parent involvement in all stages of research. We learned why protecting intellectual property is crucial to successful innovation and translational medicine, and gained insights from others in navigating innovation between academia and industry. The fact that science is team work was reinforced and we learned about leadership development in translational medicine.
During the course, we had time directed toward personal reflection. This allowed us to create our own "personal manifesto" and start our own leadership and innovation toolkit within the context of translational medicine. We had personal mentoring by experienced senior mentors, and were able to have inspirational speed counseling with several established and successful junior clinical scientists.
The focus on rare diseases was perfect for translational researchers who focus on pediatric inflammatory and rheumatic diseases. It was an outstanding opportunity to learn from leaders in translational medicine in rare diseases and to connect with others who desire to do the same. The course exceeded their expectations. Not only were we able to learn about the latest developments in the field of translational medicine but we were also given excellent opportunity to better understand the interconnection between the basic science to the clinical aspects of translational medicine. For translational scientists involved mostly in basic research, the course also delivered new insights, tools and competence to navigate the difficult track from the bench to the bedside. This course is a wonderful opportunity to make new connections with other translational medicine researchers from around the globe and actually build a foundation for future collaboration. We both highly recommend this course to anyone who has a desire to pursue a career in translational medicine, and are tremendously grateful to CARRA and the Arthritis Foundation for the support to be able to attend!
Maya Breitman, Ph.D., and Theresa Wampler-Muskardin, M.D.
The 2018 course will take place July 9-13, 2018. Be on the lookout for the call for applications which will be distributed in February 2018. Meeting organizers promise that "you will not only obtain insight in how science really works, but more importantly, you will acquire knowledge on how to be a successful translational researcher yourself. This course is specifically not about learning how to 'play the game', but about understanding that there is a game going on, what the rules of the game are and to be able to transcend it." http://eurekainstitute.org/summer-school/summer-school-2018/.


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In this podcast we cover Value, Value and some my other thoughts on developing the Pricing Power of your business. Comprehending, communicating and then capturing value is the essence of business. To understand value we must have an excellent understanding of what is going on the lives of your customers and their businesses. During this podcast I cover some of the issues, comments and questions that customers have asked of me recently.
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Both Mark's are college graduates, graduates of real estate school, members of the National Association of Realtors, The Ohio Association of Realtors and the Lake Geauga Association of Realtors. Both complete 30+ hours of continuing education every 3 years to be very well versed in new laws and changes that come about in the industry.
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Muhammad Tirmazi
Undergraduate – Computer Science, LUMS
Email: 18100248 at lums dot edu dot pk
Click here for my CV.
(I am on google scholar too [link] but my h-index is 0 so it is kind of embarassing)
Research: My primary research interest is internet architecture. If you want to share exciting papers in the field with me, feel free to send me an email. I would be very grateful as I have noticed a lot of the time reading good papers helps one understand how to do good research and can help me progress in research projects I am working on. I particularly welcome people sending me research papers related to the following:
- Cloud-based ISP, reducing the latency of page loads on the internet via a content "gathering" network.
- Internet at the speed of light, speculative execution in online games, reducing latency in web applications.
- Load-balancing in datacenters, optimizing throughput in datacenters and datacenters in general.
- Large scale internet measurements and their analysis, especially ones for developing regions.
Exciting Updates:
- Finished spring semester with a perfect 4.0 GPA. A+s and As in all CS courses. 🙂 – June, 2017
- Work on Content Gathering Networks with Dr. Ankit Singla and Debopam Bhattacherjee got accepted to Usenix HotCloud '17. – April, 2017
- Got accepted as a summer research intern at EPFL. I will be working in the lab of Prof. Jean Yves Le Boudec. – February, 2017
- My work on load-balancing in datacenters got accepted by NSDI 2017 as a poster. Read it here. – February, 2017
- Submitted first paper to ACM Sigcomm! The paper includes some work I did under the mentorship of Dr. Ankit on the Internet at the Speed of Light project. Co-authored with Ankit Singla, P. Brighten Godfrey, Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi, Ilker Nadi Bozkurt, Anthony Aguirre, Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran, Gregory Laughlin and Bruce Maggs. 🙂 🙂 🙂 – January, 2017
- Finished another Fall semester with a perfect gpa of 4.0. A+ in all CS courses. As in all other courses. Once again, eyes on the merit scholarship. 🙂 – January, 2017
- Dr. Ankit gave me another project on reducing latency on the internet with one of his PhD students, Debopam Bhattacherjee. – November, 2016
- Our load-balancing project was rejected by HotNets '16. 😦 No matter, we're working more on it. Onwards to SIGCOMM! – October, 2016
- Didn't flunk the GRE! 168 in quant, 166 in verbal, 5.0 in Writing. 🙂 – September, 2016
- I will be taking my GRE on August 31. Will post update on score. Will retake in senior year if score bad. – August, 2016
- I have gotten a unique opportunity of being allowed to assist with an incredibly interesting and exciting project called "Online Gaming at the Speed of Light" by Dr. Ankit Singla of ETH Zürich. Keep checking my blog for posts related to all the fun stuff I learn during it. – August, 2016
- The research project I worked on during the summers in my research internship with Dr. Ihsan got submitted to HotNets 16. Looking forward to see whether it gets published or not on September 17. – August, 2016
- Dr. Ihsan Ayyub Qazi allowed me to continue working on the awesome project he assigned me during the coming Fall semester with him as a 2 credit hour Directed Research Project. – July, 2016
- Dr. Ihsan Ayyub Qazi assigned me an awesome project to work on as part of the research internship. It is focused on using Backpressure (of wireless and radio network fame) as a load-balancing algorithm for Datacenters. Very awesome concept. – June, 2016
- Finished Spring semester with a gpa of 3.91. Got a B+ in Pakistan Studies, which ruined my chances of getting the merit scholarship for this year. The money could have helped out a lot. Pakistan Studies sucks. 😦 – June, 2016
- I have been selected by Dr. Ihsan Ayyub Qazi for a summer research internship on Computer Networks. Very big opportunity to groom myself as a researcher, looking forward to making the most of it. – May, 2016
- Finished Fall semester with a perfect gpa of 4.0. A+ in all CS courses. As in all other courses. Eyes on the merit scholarship. 🙂 – January, 2016
- Finished Spring semester with a gpa of 3.79. Really messed up academically this semester. Need to improve and choose courses more wisely. – June, 2015
- Selected Computer Science as my major. Ironic since I came to LUMS to study Physics but now I like Computer Science more. – May, 2015


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Please do exactly what I asked you to do in my last post. The only thing that you do not need to do again is the submission to Jotti/VirusTotal. If you have done the Add/Remove you can skip that as well. However if you did not do it the last time it is important that you do it now.


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Love never fails (1 Corinthians 13)
A beautiful hand lettered print with the words "Love never fails" in black in the foreground and the words of part of 1 Corinthians 13 in grey in the background. It is a beautiful wedding or anniversary gift and would make a striking addition to any home.
- The print is approximately 30x30cm (slightly smaller than A3)
- Printed on 300gsm card stock
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One of the major human impacts on grassland ecosystems, is the application of fertilisers and the alteration of grazer-plant interactions.
Nash's Field Experiment, situated in Silwood Park, manipulates grassland to investigate how nutrient availability and grazing alters plant species composition and productivity.
Experimental design
The experiment is a factorial split-plot design, replicated in two blocks of 22 x 44 m plots. The experimental plots receive a combination of treatments: the application of nutrients (N, K, P, Mg) in different combinations, the exclusion of herbivores including rabbits and molluscs, the manipulation of soil pH through periodic applications of lime, and the application of selective herbicides.
Initiated by Professor Mick Crawley, treatments have been applied to all plots continuously since 1992. Data has been collected relating to the standing biomass or percentage coverage of each plant species present in all plots .
This experiment has been supported by the Department of Life Sciences at Imperial College London and more recently by NERC grants to Dr Thomas Bell.


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This is not so much a craft lecture as an exercise on scene. Mel from Stirrup Queens was nice enough to ask me to teach a class on scene for her online MFA series. This is what I contributed:
Now seemed to be a time — the first one in my life — when I neeed to know exactly waht to do, and out of all the choices I had I wanted to choose the right thing, and start in that direction. So as I walked out the busy street past the air base strip joints and the car dealerships and the motels with their winter rates already on display, I began to arrange my thinking. My mother was going to marry Warren Miller soon; we would live in another house in Great Falls, and my father would probably move away to some other town, back to Lewiston, maybe. I understood why she liked Warren: because he knew things. He knew more things than my father did, and he was older. I wondered if there had been other men in my mother's life before, or other women in my father's, people I didn't know about. But I decided that there hadn't been because I would've known it — being there as I was all the time, with them. And then I wondered what would happen if my father had an accident where he was, or lost his memory, or never came back home. How would that be? Or if my mother didn't come home today and I never saw her again. Would anyone understand anything then?
When I got to Thirty-eight Street, I crossed over to the south sie and walked along the bar fronts there. Cars were parking in front of the bars, and men and women were getting out to go in and drink. Behind the bars were sheds and then rows of small new houses built on new streets and beyond that an empty drive-in movie and a railroad spur and then the town stopped and the fields of winter wheat began. – From Richard Ford's Wildlife
I believe it was Alice Walker who once talked about how crafting her novels and characters wasn't so much about placing these created personas in a deliberately crafted scene so much as it was listening to the characters as they came to her — and follow their voices into the lives they were to lead. This seems to dovetail with the great fiction teacher John Gardner's urging in his book The Art of Fiction that the creation of fiction is that of a vivid and continuous dream — and it is our work as writers to enter that dream — and continue to build a believable world and a believable set of characters so that our readers are swept up in the current of events that unfold — and in their being swept up in that narrative arc it's our hope that they witness this transformation of our protagonist — and by witnessing that change — following that journey — become emotionally moved by it — so that when they leave our work, put it down, the world and the characters linger like a dream that they can't shake upon waking.
In class so far you've asked yourself some questions about your own writerly voice, your characters — and now of course that you have these characters in hand the question becomes how to place them in a world — a setting, scenes … the bones of the fictional world so to speak. I'm going to be addressing the short-story here in particular, only because it was my focus for a number of years — and because I believe if you can write a short story you have every tool you need to move on to a novel.
The two short stories that I wrote for admission into my MFA program were stories that were loosely veiled pieces of non-fiction. At the time, it was easiest for me to follow the bones of an event that had actually happened to me (for in those days I took the Hemingway quote of write what you know far too seriously) but what I can see in looking back on those pieces is that they were first drafts that were never allowed to develop fully — they did not have all of the essential components a piece of fiction needs: plot, character, tone, and form "plot is what happens in a narrative; character is who it happens to (or who makes it happen); and tone is what it sounds like. Form is the pattern of its assembly, its arrangement, structure and design" (Bell 25). … I had done the first part — which is I had sat with the characters and I had removed my inner critic and just allowed myself to enter the dream of what would happen if these characters were sitting with one another, and I imagine, for some of you — that's where you are now.
The next step is to understand the importance of setting/scene in a piece of fiction (which is that matter of form/assembly)– and to begin to put them to work in your own piece. I like how Madison Smartt Bell puts it in his book Narrative Design — he says that the first part of the process of writing is imagination (which is where we are) — and the next, he suggests, is rendering — which is where we're heading.
And while we're at it — I can't think of a better book to recommend in terms of structure than Bell's book Narrative Design — which I still use. In it he revisits the triangle — do you recall this from any English Literature class? Imagine we're beginning at the base of the triangle's slope — this is the character's beginning. As we follow the narrative, events happen, characters arrive and depart until we arrive at the critical moment of the story/novel — and then we have the falling action and resolution.
The bones of a story, the skeleton is comprised of scenes. Scenes are what determine the pace — dialogue notoriously speeds things up, exposition (and detailed descriptions of event) slow things down. Take a look at the excerpt from the Ford novel Wildlife that I included above. It seems deceptively simple at first because we have only a single character — and their interior monologue in the first person — but notice the vivid descriptions of Joe's world in the last few sentences– what they reveal about his mindset, what he notices, what tone it sets — how it grounds us in a particular emotional place for what might come next in the novel.
Whether you happen to already have scenes in hand or are just working with characters this is a terrific exercise that allows you to see how detail anchors us in scene/ and allows for our readers to continual suspend their disbelief (that vivid and continuous dream idea again.)
I love the exercise from David Ray in What If? Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers — The Five-Highlighter exercise. Using five different colored highlighters, mark a text (first a piece of fiction that you admire and consider successful, and then your own) with different colors for each sense impression, for example blue for visual, red for auditory, green for taste etc. Find passages that use all five senses — and then see how your own scenes match up.


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ARNOLD - This is the first Christmas that Marine Lance Cpl. Gavin Brummund hasn't come back to his mother's home. While his loss leaves a hole in the heart of family and friends, his memory is a source of light - literally.
ARNOLD - This is the first Christmas that Marine Lance Cpl. Gavin Brummund hasn't come back to his mother's home. While his loss leaves a hole in the heart of family and friends, his memory is a source of light - literally.
A 60-foot-tall tree on the corner of Ruth Lane and Elizabeth Drive has become a shining beacon, thanks to the inspiration of Brummund's mother, Debra Morris, and the help of others.
"Everyone loves it," Morris said. "They drive by, and my neighbors can see the star from their decks. It makes what is already bad maybe a little better. Gavin was always here for Christmas, and he loved when I decorated the house with lights."
Brummund died June 10 in Helmand province, Afghanistan, from injuries caused by an improvised explosive device.
Morris said that although her son had served deployments in both Iraq and Afghanistan, the timing had always allowed him to come home for Christmas.
This year, his family is honoring his memory and sorting out unfinished business. Part of that involves the wind chime hanging outside Morris' front door.
A few years ago, when Brummund was about to be deployed, he was baptized. At the church service, a man approached Morris and gave her the wind chime.
Morris and her son decided to hang it together each time he left. While he was gone, the chiming comforted Morris. When he returned, they took it down.
"So it sits there in that tree," Morris said.
Morris said she and her widowed daughter-in-law, Michaela, remain close. "We see each other all the time. Almost daily."
Morris said Michaela and Gavin Brummund had planned to settle in Arnold, where he grew up. Since his death, Michaela has purchased a home in the community, staying true to that hope.
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"There's over 950 lights on the tree, not counting another 250 on the star," Kris Morris said. That pulled far more current than a regular household outlet could supply, so Richard Sohm of Arnold Electric contributed heavy-duty electric cords and installed a construction-grade temporary power box.
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Recently on my original post about crowdsourcing, I got a detailed response from Shopsanity, who caught a lot of very public flak for crowdsourcing their logo, only to find that the design had been stolen.
Even after that, they still seemed to think that CS was okay for start-ups because they think branding costs $200K (I wish). Shopsanity contends that start-ups should wait until they scale before worrying about branding and other design collateral. They make some interesting assumptions about design and its purpose that I think may be of use from a marketing standpoint, because it shows what we're up against in selling creative services.
My response was pretty long so I made it into a full post. They have since replied again at length and we have a pretty robust conversation going on. You can read the whole thing here.
Hope this isn't beating a dead horse…here is the initial post on crowdsourcing.
And what about this new technology that allows computers to write articles instead of humans? Is that another form of crowdsourcing?


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We love creative writing in our homeschool, but I know that's not the case for everyone. Struggling with writing is one of the most common issues I hear from other homeschool moms. Sometimes kids just need a little freedom to use their imaginations and do some free writing. On the other hand, some kids are just plain intimidated by that blank sheet of paper or computer screen. They need a bit of a jumpstart to get their creative writing ideas flowing.
Encourage Creative Writing in your Homeschool
I'm sharing some ideas to encourage creative writing over at the iHomeschool Network blog today. Here is an excerpt from my article:
Creative writing is a skill that can be a bit challenging to teach. However, it is also one that is pretty critical since writing is a major component in college. The process of learning creative writing will also instill in your child a variety of transferable skills, such as thinking outside of the box, resourcefulness, problem-solving, enhanced vocabulary, persuasive skills, communication skills, organizing ideas, and (of course) imagination.
In the article, I share five ways you can bring out the creative writing skills in your kids and help them embrace the writing process as something fun, rather than something to dread.
I hope you'll take a few minutes and head over to read it!
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"I made the best dinner on Sunday," my friend, Jen, exclaimed at work on Monday morning.
"What was it," I demanded, determined to find out so I could make it myself.
"Um…these ball things….with ground meat…." she stammered.
I think she was trying to keep the recipe a secret.
When I finally pried it out of her, it sounded a lot like these, from the Certified Angus Beef board.
Angus beef is from an Angus cow and evaluated using the brand's 10 specifications for marbling, size and uniformity. Angus ground chuck is on sale at Brookshire's this week, so take advantage of the sale on this premium grade of beef to go ahead and stock up.
Jen said she stuffed her meat mixture INTO jalapeno peppers, but this sounds a lot easier (and faster).
The honey lime crème fraiche sounds delicious, but you could dip them in almost anything – ranch, honey mustard, buffalo, barbecue or hot mustard sauces.
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2 lbs angus beef ground chuck
12 oz shredded cheddar cheese
6 jalapeños, seeded and minced
1 Tbsp salt
1 Tbsp fresh ground black pepper
1 tsp whole mustard seeds
12 eggs
1 cup plain bread crumbs
1 cup Panko bread crumbs
Frying oil as needed
Dipping sauce — see Honey Lime Crème Fraiche
Combine ground beef, cheese, jalapeños, salt, pepper and mustard seeds in a large mixing bowl. Portion by hand into 42 "popper" shape balls, approximately 1-ounce each.
Crack and whisk eggs; put in a shallow dish. Combine bread crumbs and put in a second shallow dish.
Prepare a pot with frying oil; heat to 325° F. Roll poppers in egg mix, 6-8 at a time, roll in bread crumbs; repeat. Deep fry 4 minutes in batches. Allow to dry on paper towels; serve warm with Honey Lime Crème Fraiche for dipping.
Honey Lime Crème Fraiche
8 oz sour cream
Juice and zest of 1 lime
2 Tbsp honey
2 Tbsp minced cilantro
Combine all ingredients and mix well. Serve with Jalapeño Beef Poppers.
Yields 42
Nutritional Information: Calories Per Serving: 128, Calories from Fat: 76, Fat: 9 g, Trans Fat: 0 g (4 g Saturated Fat), Cholesterol: 71 mg, Sodium: 287 mg, Potassium: 37 mg, Carbohydrates: 4 g, Sugar: 0.6 g, Protein: 8 g
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Lovely Grub: Our on-site caterer will again be providing coffee, meals and snacks throughout the festival. The cafe will be open from 08.30am to at least 9.30pm and after evening concerts if there is demand.
During the day the following snack menu will be available:
Espresso coffees, tea, hot chocolate, milk, orange juice, soft drink, beer and wine, biscuits, pies, cakes, toasted sandwiches, muffins, hot chips, fish, sausages, sandwiches, rolls, croissants, pizza, rice balls, soup, filled baked potatoes, burgers, nachos
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Breakfast: Croissants or bacon & egg sandwiches
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Apple or apricot short cake and ice cream $6.00
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Under-age DrinkingThe caterer also has a licence to sell beer and wine but, if you want anything stronger, you'll have to bring it with you. The nearest bottle store is in Wainuiomata, about 10 minutes drive away, and the nearest dairy and fish 'n chip shop isn't much closer.
We have had some issues with teens under 18 getting access to alcohol and causing problems – for themselves and for others. This is one of the reasons why anyone registering as a teen must nominate a "responsible adult" who will also be at the Festival and who the Committee can ask to sort out any problems.
Please make certain that you do not supply underaged kids with alcohol.
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Above are some photos from the 2nd edition of the French MarkLogic User Group, held last Tuesday in Paris. Thirty-five people gathered to discuss MarkLogic implementation examples as part of a series of four presentations. The first presentation was done by Ron Avnur, MarkLogic VP of Engineering, who was attending his first MarkLogic User Group. Ron presented a sample of MarkLogic customer use cases as well as some of the latest MarkLogic Server features.
The second presentation was done by Vincent MAS from Lagardere Active. He presented the Digital Factory project, a highly interesting MarkLogic implementation. We had the chance to view and hear some unique archives such as Appollo 11 landing on the Moon.
The third presentation was done by Gregory CORONA and Yoann BLOT from 4Dconcept. They presented GeoLab, a prototype that implements MarkLogic's geospatial functionnality. GeoLab prooves by A+B that geospatial query are easy and powerful to perform with MarkLogic, even with a fully custom-made search area such as a polygone. The use-case is based on the well-known Tour de France.
Finally, Mathieu Parisot, MarkLogic technical leader at 4Dconcept presented the different resources available for MarkLogic developers.
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My co-author and awesome friend, Paige Turner, is guest blogging today about our erotic horror short, and collaboration in general. I can also really recommend her debut novella, Temporary Trouble, because I've read it and it's amazing!
Over to Paige:
Thank you to the lovely Amy Valenti for inviting me to guest blog with her to promote my new release, Temporary Trouble. It's available for pre-order here.
If contemporary ménage with a dollop of funny and a smidgen of kinky isn't your cup of tea, Amy and I are collaborating on a creepy story for submission to Total-E-Bound's Scared Stiff collection. It's a learning experience.
For example, I have learned that I should not write horror stories after dark, unless I want to spend the next few hours in a state of terrified sleeplessness, convinced that something ghastly is going to leap out and eat me.
But I've also learned about collaboration. It's a slightly strange process. I'm so used to having complete control of my stories, knowing in advance, more or less, where the story is going. While Amy and I did thrash out the plot before we started writing, she still manages to take the characters in directions I would never have anticipated.
It's awesome. It challenges me out of my comfort zone and makes me really stretch my imagination and experiment with scenarios I would never have come up with by myself.
German composer Klaus Schulze said, "As always in a musical collaboration: You have to like each other. As simple as that." Tom Clancy, on the other hand, holds that, "Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act."
And there you have Amy and me in a nutshell – we like each other, and we're interested in unnatural acts. The first makes for a successful collaboration. The second, hopefully, will make for a thoroughly creepy and very hot read.
Do you like to collaborate, or do you prefer to keep complete control over your characters? Let us know in the comments!


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I am a total movie buff and I watch pretty much all genres of films. So, I've decided to start off writing about my own useless take on movies...be it Hindi, English, Kannada, Tamil or Telugu (Well, thats pretty much the languages I know / understand).
Selecting the first movie review I wanted to write about wasnt all that tough. But then, you cannot consider it totally a review as such as its an old one and one of my favourites. "Forrest Gump..."
So guys, watch space to savour the different chocos that life..err..movies have to offer....!
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Today was day one of our marathon training. The temperature at the start of our run was 16 degrees with a wind chill of 7 degrees. Needless to say, the six miles wasn't too much fun, but at least we did it. One day down, 74 to go. Here's what we looked like before our run:
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As the old adage goes, and bears repeating once again: An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. The best way to assist most students who are re-integrating into a traditional school setting – after a long term suspension, expulsion or out-of-home placement – would have been to keep them in school in the first place.
Unfortunately, in today's educational climate, that is often not an option, particularly for counties and school districts presented with the much more difficult task of assisting juvenile offenders, who have been absent from school due to out-of-home placement or incarceration, re-integrate back into their communities and schools.
Too often schools are left out of the process until the ex-offender shows up on their doorstep after incarceration. Then, school officials can actually resist having the offender attend their school out of concerns for safety or disciplinary reasons. But, by involving schools from the beginning, we can ensure a smooth enrollment into that school upon the offender's re-entry into the community.
Education is a key component to the success of any individual, doubly so for people with barriers to employment such as a criminal record. At 180 Degrees, where we serve both adults and juveniles, too often we see adult men leaving prison after multiple year terms in a facility without a high school diploma or a GED.
These men know from their experience that getting a job and a safe place to live is one hundred times more difficult due in part to their failure to achieve a high school education. We should make sure that the juvenile system assists those who would like to achieve an education rather than making it more difficult, which will most likely happen when one is severed from his/her school because of an out-of-home placement or long term detention.
In 2010, Los Angeles County embarked on an effort to improve their re-entry system for returning youth, and together with the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) developed a broad framework of best practices for juvenile re-integration. Reviewing the highlights of this program will remind us of how important schools are to a juvenile offender re-integration process.
The following five concepts are highlights of that framework:
1) Conduct assessments that can be helpful in planning re-entry. An initial assessment should be made during incarceration and then periodically thereafter and continuing for a prescribed period after release. These assessments should be focused on discovering physical and mental health needs, instances of substance abuse, family supports, educational level, experience, and peer networks.
Plans made with the youth and their families are more effective than those made with-out. This is both because helping to create the plan gives the youth ownership of it, and additionally because all parties involved will be enlisted to help keep the plan on track. Thus it?will be more likely that the plan will be individualized to each youth's specific situation and thereby greatly increases their chance of success.
2) Focus on the transition process. Returning youth should be placed in an environment that will cause them as little stress as possible, particularly in the initial period which can last for several months in some cases. Stress is a critical factor and unchecked it will lead to recidivism. Returning to their home and to the school which, in most cases, is the same school that expelled them would be stressful for anyone. But starting over in a totally different and strange place may be much worse. For this reason it is important to work in concert with both school and community resources in order to ease the transition as much as possible and to begin the re-integration process while the youth is still incarcerated. 180 Degrees, Inc has found the use of furloughs from the out of home placement is helpful in this process. Releasing the young offender for a few hours, then a day, perhaps a weekend, and so on allows the youth to stay connected their community and their school. These visits can help to keep school administrators stay involved in the young offender's life and to plan to receive this youth back in their school at some point.
3) Individualized aftercare for youth development programming. Probation officers in particular can play a key role here by helping to remove barriers to re-enrollment in school and helping youths get jobs or join after-school activities such as sports and clubs. Equally important is making sure that each youth continues their individualized treatment for mental and physical disabilities and substance abuse treatment.
A clear system of graduated sanctions and rewards can go a long way to mediate poor behavior that may crop up during the transition period. Poor behavior should not immediately result in a return to incarceration nor should it result in the young person being expelled from school. The longer the individual can be kept in the community and in school the better their overall chance of success.
4) Collaboration. Having clear roles for ongoing programs in federal, state and local governments avoids confusion and ensures that the individual youth will not slip through the cracks. Collaboration via multiple branches helps to ensure access to critical resources and each re-entry plan should envision a holistic approach in dealing with school and with mental and physical well-being components such as family life, community ties, work places and various mentor and support programs in which a youth may be engaged.
5) Implementation and evaluation. Many programs have excellent ideas on paper but poor implementation in actuality due to lack of resources, staff training, personnel or leadership. It may be unclear which agency is responsible for a specific program component resulting from inter-agency cooperation. The clear assignment of roles among agency partners is extremely important.
This is just one example of many successful programs across the country where probation, courts, and schools work together from the moment the juvenile is arrested in order to keep them connected to the educational opportunities they so desperately need. Remember, those students who successfully complete high school have a much better chance of succeeding in life.
We need to reform how we discipline students. We need to emphasize opportunities to complete an education and mitigate those practices which make it almost impossible for a juvenile offender to return to a high school and complete the curriculum. We must ensure that we do not spend more time on the student's failure than we do on their success.
Youth, just like adults, need a holistic approach to re-entry. Plans to assist them with re-integration back into their families, schools and communities should begin as soon as their incarceration starts. Getting specialized agency support coupled with personal involvement from their communities and families will give them the foundation and direction to keep themselves focused on the straight and narrow path which will ultimately bring them to success.
Richard Gardell is CEO of 180 Degrees in Minneapolis, a provider of prevention and intervention services for juveniles and adults. Gardell was a police officer for 31 years, including five years as assistant chief with the St. Paul Police Department.


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A Sgt. Rock comic without the artistic presence of Joe Kubert is likely doomed to failure — or at least doomed to constant comparisons — and Billy Tucci is smart enough to deal with the Kubert situation in the first panel of page one. He gives us a character drawing a picture of Kubert's Rock, immediately signaling to the reader that Kubert's version may be the "fictional" one, and Tucci's is the "real" story of the World War II hero, complete with digital painting and plenty of photo-reference.
That Kubert-looking Sgt. Rock is the best thing in the comic, sadly.
Tucci, who apparently wrote and illustrated this series as a tribute to the real men and women who fought in World War II, gives us an achingly sincere story here, about the burden of leadership and the sacrifice of war, but his digitally-colored pencil drawings make the whole first issue appear far too light and ephemeral. While Kubert's Rock may be the fictional version within the reality of "The Lost Battalion," Tucci's Rock is the one who seems insubstantial and ill-defined. He pales next to the stark humanity and vibrant brush-strokes of Kubert's best work, and though part of the charm of this series is that we're seeing a very different take on a classic character, it's not an interesting take at all. Tucci's Rock is a limp, Hollywood movie version of a tough military guy, spouting cliches and taking us on a tour of Omaha beach as if we were on a middle school field trip. Sure, there's bloodshed and violence, but even that is sanitized and reminiscent of an earlier John Wayne era of wartime media representations.
Well, all except for the panel on page six that recalls the famous cover image of Oliver Stone's "Platoon," an iconic pose that was mocked repeatedly in this summer's "Tropic Thunder." Such connotations do little to help Tucci's cause here, since all it does is call attention to his own penchant for photo-reference and reminds us that the whole comic is little more than a collection of retread war scenes. A bit of "Saving Private Ryan" here, a bit of "Band of Brothers" there.
And throughout the issue, Tucci insists on text-heavy narration from the point of view of correspondent Joseph Kilroy. Kilroy's not much of a writer, with phrases like "the most holocaustic piece of earth that brought me face to face with death" and "the grizzled sergeant's transmission was lost to me amid the deafening roar of battle." His inability to write less-than-turgid prose doesn't prevent him from writing a lot of it, and the comic suffers under the weight of the poor narration. Maybe Kilroy's writing is supposed to be terrible, but if so, why include so damn much of it?
If there's a bright spot here it's that Tucci has set up this series to be as much about Sgt. Rock's struggle with the systems of war — the commanding officers and their petty narrow-mindedness seem to be the primary antagonist, even in the aftermath of a German-led slaughter. That's not an uncharacteristic approach for a war story, but it's the only interesting thing going on here, and such conflict might allow Tucci to provide new shades to the Sgt. Rock character. But that's pure speculation, as there's little in issue #1 to indicate that the remaining issues will be worth your time.


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Having an imagination is a virtue. Imagining an entirely new way to communicate and interact with others through a machine is amazing in itself. Bill Gates is not only the richest man in the world, but some consider him as the most ingenious too. Others see him as a monopolizing, money hungry nerd.
William Gates III was born in Seattle, Washington in 1955. When he was thirteen, he wrote his first software program, which enabled him and his friends to play tic-tac-toe. While Gates was attending Harvard, his best friend Paul Allen showed him the newest electronic hardware system in Popular Electronics magazine. A man named Ed Roberts had invented the first prototype for a personal computer in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It was the Altair 8800.
Gates and Allen had been waiting for this their entire lives, and wanted to be a part of it. Together, they created a computer language they hoped the Altair could understand. Allen went to Albuquerque to see if their hard work had paid off. Gates worried that companies would not take them seriously and question their credibility. On the other hand, MITS, the company who produced the Altair, was astonished and gave them their own Altair 8800.
At the age of nineteen, Gates dropped out of Harvard and co-founded Microsoft with Paul Allen. Microsoft started in a hotel room in Albuquerque with Gates and Allen as co-founders. They hired a few others, who helped perfect their binary system and get it out on the market. After a year or two of working with this language, they were not making a big profit. They felt that Microsoft needed a change. Gates and Allen moved to Seattle in 1980 and teamed up with Harvard roommate Steve Ballmer.
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22 children in India die after eating free lunch in school.
July 18 , 2013
Children became violently ill after eating free food in school for Lunch. This meal was tainted with insecticide and caused the death of 22 students. Officials report that dozens of others have been hospitalized. An official suggested the reason for the food containing chemicals and said that it must have not been washed thoroughly before being cooked.
This incident happened in Gandamal village in Masrakh block and the school authorities are said to have immediately stopped serving after the children began to vomit.
The meal had been cooked in the school kitchen and the official in charge of the free meal scheme in the school was suspended by the authorities. India's midday meal scheme is one of the world's biggest nutrition programs. It has also been replicated across the country covering about 120 million school children.
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STEM Education Today Ensures a Skilled Workforce Tomorrow
Many people working in today's science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields, including those pushing the boundaries of energy research at NETL, can recall an event from their childhood when a love of science began. Whether it was watching the moon landing on a grainy black and white television, succeeding under the guidance of a particularly insightful educator, or enjoying the rush of discovery after a first-time scientific exercise, childhood experiences played a prominent role in setting many of our most accomplished energy innovators on the path to successful STEM careers.
Because NETL recognizes the importance of STEM education for increasing scientific literacy, creating critical thinkers, and providing the tools for new problem solvers to take their place in the world, we engage in a variety of educational outreach programs that inspire students and help area teachers secure the supplies and knowledge they need to elevate their students' understanding of STEM subjects and inspire another generation of innovation.
Those next-generation scientists will face tougher and more complex challenges as population increases and energy consumption steadily rises. As a National Laboratory for the U.S. Department of Energy—the only National Laboratory dedicated to fossil energy research—NETL has a responsibility to instill in our nation's youth a sense of curiosity to explore energy issues and underscore the great importance of STEM work. Those goals are an essential part of our mission because the future of energy research depends on the next generation.
NETL promotes STEM education that will ensure a skilled workforce in the future by establishing connections and partnerships that provide education resources for teachers, hosting and cohosting Science Bowl® competitions, visiting regional schools, bringing students to the lab to see STEM professionals in action, and offering internships for college students. These efforts don't take a break for the summer months, either—educational outreach is a year-round endeavor at NETL.
Educational Partnerships and Regional Connections
Each year, NETL expands our educational outreach by leveraging strategic partnerships with various organizations to offer unique educational opportunities. Two such groups in Pittsburgh are the Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh (SSP) and the Society for Analytical Chemists of Pittsburgh (SACP), both of whom are involved with teacher's workshops. Each year, SSP and NETL host the Triple E and the Light, Color, and Spectroscopy workshops, which entertain and educate the teachers in attendance and provide them with fun new ways to bring science alive in their own classrooms. NETL and SACP also host a computer workshop each year that provides essential computer training and hardware to give teachers the technological edge when they return to their schools.
Another Pittsburgh connection comes from the Carnegie Science Center, which houses the NETL-developed "Energy Challenge" exhibit. Since 2010, visitors of all ages have enjoyed playing the quiz game, which is designed to educate visitors about the importance of energy in our daily lives, how energy works, and how we can conserve and reduce our energy use.
In addition to these well-established partnerships, the Lab recently partnered with TEKids, a volunteer organization comprised of teachers and professionals, and welcomed area educators to the Morgantown site to take part in a workshop titled, "EnergyMakers." The program equipped educators with an 8-week, STEM-based curriculum that emphasized responsible fossil-fuel use and environmental stewardship—important principals at the heart of the Laboratory's mission.
School Visits
As many teachers can attest, presenting science in an entertaining and informative manner proves challenging, especially to students who have not been exposed to the many opportunities available in STEM career paths. At the same time, these teachers may be the only influence a student has to receive encouragement regarding STEM education.
As such, NETL partners with teachers in their classrooms to provide in-school demonstrations, experiments, and activities that make science fun for the students. NETL's Educational Outreach Team ensures that these activities align with national standards so educators can be certain that their students are receiving the best and most appropriate information to help them develop an interest in STEM subjects.
The My Brother's Keeper Initiative
Students came eager to learn at the inaugural "My Brother's Keeper" event at NETL.
For the last 2 years, NETL has had the honor of being selected for "My Brother's Keeper," a presidential initiative designed to close opportunity gaps for young minority students. Students, elementary through high school, visit NETL to see how researchers use scientific principles and experimentation to create the energy innovations that are helping the United States achieve energy independence, ensure national security, and keep the environment safe.
The goal of the event is to spark the visitors' interest in STEM and help them recognize opportunities for future careers in the field. President Obama launched My Brother's Keeper in 2014 to address opportunity gaps that young minority people face. According to a White House report titled, "The Economic Costs of Youth Disadvantage and High-Return Opportunities for Change," those opportunity gaps "hold back the U.S. economy, lowering aggregate earnings, shrinking the labor market, and slowing economic growth."
Science Bowl®
This is the 25th year for the National Science Bowl.
It's no secret that competition can catalyze advancement in sports, and this is also very true of science and scholarship. The "Space Race" in the 1960s brought about a rapid series of technological advancements because, we as a nation were competing with the Soviet Union for a race to the moon. Competition pushes us as humans and provides the kind of motivation that often brings us to the next level of achievement. The DOE National Science Bowl channels the spirit of competition into STEM learning through its annual tournament that begins at a local level and culminates in a prestigious event to determine a national champion.
The Energy Department created the National Science Bowl in 1991 to encourage students to excel in mathematics and science and to pursue careers in these fields. Approximately 240,000 students have participated in the DOE National Science Bowl over the last 24 years, and it is one of the nation's largest science competitions. This year marked the competition's 25th year, and participation has steadily increased over since inception. In 1991, 18 regional high school tournaments took place; this year, more than 9,500 high school students are expected to compete in 70 regional events across the United States as well as Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
NETL has been hosting regional qualifying competitions since the beginning, and the Lab facilitates four regional Science Bowls: the West Virginia Regional Science Bowl (WVSB) for high school and middle school students and the Southwestern Pennsylvanian Regional Science Bowl (SWPA), which also hosts a competition for high school and middle school students.
Every year brings another crop of graduates who are eager to make their marks on the world outside academics. Internship opportunities give these emerging talents the chance to develop the skills and practical experience that will help guide their career paths. Hands-on experience in laboratory environments offers a real-world understanding of how research and technology development is conducted, as well as an opportunity to experience mentorship under established scientists and engineers.
For young scientists, graduating and leaving academia to take the first steps into research careers or industry can be an exhilarating but turbulent time. NETL works with several organizations to ensure that the promising STEM talents of the next generation are given a place to grow and thrive through a number of popular and successful programs, including the Mickey Leland Fellowship, a summer internship that provides minority and female students pursuing degrees in STEM the opportunity to spend a summer working under the mentorship of researchers at NETL; the Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR), a program designed to prepare graduate students for STEM careers; the NRC Research Associateship Program (RAP), which caters to early career scientists performing graduate level or post-doctoral work; and internships in conjunction with the Oak Ridge Institute for Education and Science (ORISE), which provide opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students, graduate and postdoctoral researchers, and faculty researchers to participate in energy research at NETL.
Many of these interns will go on to work at NETL and mentor other students, thus completing the teacher–student cycle that continues to enrich our communities with a highly skilled, STEM-savvy workforce.
From Grade School to Laboratory
When reviewing all of the efforts NETL makes towards STEM education and training, a paradigm emerges in which students can first find inspiration, then support for their life-long study of STEM subjects. Imagine a child who might not have been otherwise exposed to STEM education, first hearing about NETL through an educational program that their teacher presents after attending an NETL workshop, then possibly visiting the Carnegie Science Center and playing the "Energy Challenge." Maybe that student's scientific curiosity would be further piqued by a visit to their classroom by NETL researchers, causing them to become involved and participate in a science bowl competition. And maybe, ultimately that student would decide to intern at the Lab during their college years.
While it seems unlikely that a single student's life would be impacted by all of NETL's STEM outreach efforts, fortunately, it only takes one strong impression to set a student on the rewarding path of a STEM career, and NETL is there from grade school to post-graduate, encouraging and expanding STEM opportunities at every step. We do this because a STEM-educated workforce is essential to our mission success, and when we succeed, the nation benefits from clean, reliable energy.
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