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California Department of Transportation
Date: November 25, 2013
District: 6 – Fresno, Kings, Tulare, Madera and Kern
Contact: Jose Camarena
Phone: (559) 488-4067
Central Valley project will save 12 million gallons of water annually
FRESNO - As part of its effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and save taxpayer money, Caltrans today announced that the Philip S. Raine Roadside Rest Area on SR 99 in Tulare County has received Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Platinum certification—the highest possible environmental rating—by the United State Green Building Council (USGBC).
"This platinum certification represents the deep commitment of Caltrans to delivering not only safety and mobility, but also sustainability in California's transportation system," said California State Transportation Agency Secretary Brian Kelly. "Caltrans is embracing innovation and new design to operate more efficiently and help combat climate change."
The Raine facility, one of 233 buildings in California to achieve this milestone, is one hour south of Fresno near Tipton and serves more than four million visitors annually. Caltrans has previously earned LEED Gold certification for its Los Angeles office and LEED Silver certification for the district office in Marysville.
"Caltrans is proud of this wonderful green construction project that promotes sustainability and is a good investment for California travelers," said Caltrans Director Malcolm Dougherty. "From building more bike and pedestrian paths, to adding carpool lanes and innovative designs, Caltrans is committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions."
Caltrans replaced the rest area's landscaping with drought tolerant and native plants, which, along with improved irrigation, will save an estimated 12 million gallons of water annually that can be put to good use by Central Valley farmers. During construction, Caltrans sent all construction waste to recyclers instead of the landfill and incorporated regional materials from within 500 miles of the project.
The following upgrades have transformed the Raine facility into an energy-efficient rest area that will save taxpayer money and better serve travelers:
- High efficiency lighting, heating, ventilation, and air conditioning units;
- Natural day lighting of interior spaces;
- A shade canopy with photovoltaic panels;
- Healthy indoor air quality by eliminating dust, moisture, and contaminants from interior spaces
USGBC is recognized as the country's leading authority on green building standards.
"Caltrans' LEED certification demonstrates tremendous green building leadership," said Rick Fedrizzi, President, CEO & Founding Chair, USGBC. "The urgency of USGBC's mission has challenged the industry to move faster and reach further than ever before, and Caltrans serves as a prime example with just how much we can accomplish."
The Raine rest area was originally constructed in 1965, with upgrades added in 1984. The improved facility reopened in November 2012 after completing an $8.5 million rehabilitation that included environmental upgrades and compliance with the American Disabilities Act.
Through innovation and a focus on efficiency, Caltrans is working to build a more sustainable transportation system in California. Below are some other examples of efforts by Caltrans to reduce emissions and improve sustainability:
- Eliminating 160,000 tons of CO2 equivalent annually—the equivalent of removing 31,000 cars off the road—by reducing traffic congestion, embracing new standards for construction materials, alternative fuels, efficient lighting, and renewable energy;
- Using thousands of tons of rubberized asphalt concrete made from recycled tires to repave highways in California and reduce the impact on landfills;
- Purchasing more efficient vehicle engines and retrofitting its fleet of vehicles with the best available emissions control technology;
- Funding millions of dollars annually in rail and transit construction projects that improve quality of life and reduce traffic congestion and greenhouse gas emissions.
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AMES, Iowa (AP) Will Clyburn notched his sixth double-double of the season with 28 points and 10 rebounds as Iowa State beat Baylor 79-71 on Saturday night in a tense Big 12 Conference game.
Clyburn, a senior, sank three 3-pointers on an uncharacteristically icy night from beyond the arc for the Cyclones (15-6, 5-3), who pulled into a four-way tie for third place in the conference standings.
Iowa State won its league-leading 19th straight game at home and extended its conference home win streak to 11.
The Bears (14-7, 5-3) lost their second consecutive game and fell to 0-11 all-time in Ames. Pierre Jackson led Baylor with 23 points.
Georges Niang added 17 points for the Cyclones, who missed their first 13 3-point attempts.

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Google Reports Better-Than-Seen Revenue Growth
Google Inc.'s second-quarter revenue jumped 22% to $16 billion, beating expectations. Investors sent shares higher in after-hours trading Thursday despite rising expenses and the departure of a top executive. WSJ's Rolfe Winkler reports. (Photo: AP)
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... I ... the accelerating revenue growth in the second quarter these goals investors is that its shares higher in after hours trading Thursday despite rising expenses ... and the departure of a top executive ... Rolfe Winkler reporting for The Wall Street Journal ... revenue jumped twenty two percent to sixteen billion dollars beating analysts' forecast of fifteen point six billion ... overall however the quarter was mixed for who will in the company's shares rose only slightly as result ... there are signs of rising costs of the road future profitability ... will continue to hire rapidly adding over two thousand new employees in the quarter ... meanwhile capital expenditures to build data centers by real estate also jumped sixty percent from last year's second quarter to nearly three billion dollars ... the company also announced that its Chief Business Officer Nikesh Aurora will be leaving to join Japan's SoftBank ... Missouri was known to have an aggressive style that often clashed with engineers the company ... but investors may miss him or as aggressive as he was Mr was also well known to be a very effective leader pool's sales organization ...


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That's exactly what the brains behind the YouTube channel periodicvideo did, and the result is not only a blast (ha!) to watch, but a pleasure to listen to as well. Your mileage may vary as to whether or not this is "dubstep" as the title of the video describes, though that weird tube-y blue fire explosion does sound a bit like wobble bass. But have no fear if you're not into Skrillex, it's still an explosive good time. [periodicvideos]


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In Awe of God's Glory: An Interview with Joel Beeke
Tabletalk: At what age did you first hear God's call to ministry, and how did you receive confirmation of this call? Joel Beeke: God began to strive with my soul when I was age fourteen. I was brought to …Read More
The Puritans on Prayer
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The title of this essay is borrowed from a sermon bearing the heading by the esteemed American Puritan, Jonathan Edwards (1703-58).1 We borrow the title as a tribute to the scholar, teacher, and friend for whom this essay is …Read More
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New Windows Phones, Ultrabooks, Tablets & Slates
So much has happened in the last couple months and so much is about to happen. There have been a lot of blog articles written about Windows Phone and Windows 8, and the new upcoming hardware, but I just wanted to jump in and give some views while I have a moment to catch my breath.
Windows Phone
Let me first say that I picked up the Nokia Lumia 900 the day it was released, and it is an amazing phone. When I was waiting for the store to open, there were about 20 people waiting after me. I have never stood in line for a phone before, but it was worth the wait. My AT&T store was super helpful and I was in and out in less than 15 minutes. With the Reinstaller app, I had my new phone up and running in under 20 minutes.
I use the Windows Alarm feature a lot when I travel. One thing I have noticed, is that when the Bluetooth is on and connected, the alarm plays over the Bluetooth instead of on the phone. I didn't have that issue on the HTC Trophy, HTC Surround or LG Optimus 7 E900. I have to remember to turn the Bluetooth off before setting the alarm or I won't wake up. Minor issue I know, it hasn't caught me yet. The phone did have a data connection bug that was patched the first week, and has offered $100 credit for those who bought the phone before April 21st, like me.
Ultrabooks & Tablets
There are quite a few systems being labeled as "Ultrabook" to compete with the Macbook Air. For power and thin, I think Asus Zenbook is nearly perfect. My only complaint with the Zenbook, and nearly every other Ultrabook, is that the screen resolution is too low. The i7 Zenbook has a resolution of 1,600×900 pixels, while most of the others have a resolution of 1,366×768 pixels. I realize that 1,366×768 is equal to 720p HD for video or Windows 8 Snap, but people will want to do more than just watching movies. If you want to do real work, you need a high resolution screen. 1,600×900 is good, but if you want to do documentation or research, you need 1,920×1080. It sounds like ASUS is at least listening, Engaget has some evidence that a new UX31E model is coming with a 1920 x 1080 IPS panel and based on the new Intel Ivy Bridge chipset for better battery life. The ASUS comes in under 3lbs which seems to be the target weight for Ultrabooks although it isnt official a target specification. The Macbook Air 1440×900 model is 2.96 lbs and the Asus Zenbook is 2.90lbs for the 1,600×900 model.
Speaking of Ivy Bridge, there have been a lot of tech stories in the media about waiting until Ivy Bridge devices are available for purchase before buying your next PC. Listen, this is the same story different day. There is always going to be something newer, better, right around the corner. I say, don't wait. Jump in buy something already. Do your research, find the best price, buy it and be happy. You will wait forever if you keep waiting for the next thing, and whatever you buy will be replaced by a newer model in 6 months anyway. If you feel you must wait and see, you have my permission to wait until June. I have a Sony video camera we bought when my son was born 5 years ago. There are newer models available now with more storage and higher resolution. It works, it does what I need it to do and I am happy with the videos it has made in the last 5 years. If I had waited until the next big thing, who knows how many wonderful moments I wouldn't have been able to capture. Do it already, but dont wait until November as the market will really shift then and you might just regret it.
Sony does it, expensively…
Sometimes you just have to spend a little more up front to get the features you want instead of waiting for the lower cost vendors to provide similar products. Case in point here goes with the ultrabooks. I do a lot of documentation and research, so screen resolution is important to me. The ONLY ultrabook on the market TODAY that meets all of my criteria, an i7 processor and 1,920×1080 screen resolution is the Sony Vaio Z2. The problem is, this system retails for $3,000. You can find versions of it at the Amazon, Microsoft Store, Frys or online on sale for $2500.
The Sony Vaio Z2 is just breathtaking. It has a carbon fiber frame, and real ports including 1x USB 2.0, 1x USB 3.0, full size HDMI, VGA, and a pop out Ethernet port. I have been using this system for 2 weeks now, and I am just in love with it. So much so that it has taken the primary machine status away from my beloved Samsung Series Slate. (Sorry Samsung!) I moved my AT&T broadband sim into the Sony and now it is the only machine I need, although I still take the Samsung Slate to demo Windows 8. Did I mention that the Sony Vaio Z2 is only 2.4lbs?
New Devices of all types
The only way the Sony machine could have possibly been better is if it had a hybrid touch screen. That is exactly what several vendors have been working on with Intel, according to CNET, and we are starting to see some interesting looking devices being announced. Like I said, you probably don't want to wait to make a purchase, because some of these devices never get released like the Samsung Slider.
Things are really going to heat up as we get closer to the release of Windows 8. We will see new devices besides Windows 8 Slates with new form factors.
A lot of these devices will get away from the "one device fits all" mentality that Apple has with the iPad, and focus on devices that do one thing well. I have mentioned this before, but people don't seem to believe me. Just watch.
I just found this article on the Asus Zenbook UX31A AKA Zenbook Prime on The Verge. If these specs on the UX31A are real, I am so glad I didn't wait and got the Sony Vaio Z2 instead.
The folks at GSM Arena have some images of the first Acer Windows 8 Devices.


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This past July, Pokémon GO, a mobile game steeped in augmented reality (AR) technology, exploded onto the scene, making AR accessible to the masses. Within a few days of its availability, the video game reboot grew incredibly — quickly drawing millions of users across the globe and hitting its daily active users peak at 25 million. This phenomenon, fueled by a new, more accessible AR user experience, is driving people — even those with no prior interest in Pokémon — to explore ways they can harness the game's inherent AR technology into everyday use, especially within the enterprise.
Previously a mystery, the consumerization of AR — made possible by Pokémon GO — has catapulted the conversation in the workplace, and now it appears that the technology is finally within arm's reach for those savvy enterprises willing to reach out and grab it. Like any new technology, however, challenges around adoption are to be expected, but if the organization is amenable to change and is willing to dedicate the resources necessary to properly roll it out to employees (i.e., with education and insight into its benefits), the possibilities are endless.
Field service presents a strong use case for AR, as the advanced technology offered provides benefits for both workers and organizations, helping to achieve high-level business goals by maximizing field force productivity and making a direct impact on revenue opportunities. In this slideshow, Danny Korach, chief technology officer, ClickSoftware, outlines ways organizations — in field service and beyond — can apply augmented reality to increase productivity and affect the bottom line.
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***This thread is for people who don't like King Grayskull. Not for debating for or against. - JVS3***
Don't get me wrong. It is an awesome figure and everything, but I just don't care for the character. He is not one of the characters that I know and love and feel the need to have as one of these figures (best figures ever made by the way! Thank you Mattel finally complete perfection!).
It's sold out and everyone's going nuts over it and it doesn't even bother me in the least because he's not an original character to me. It's a MOTUC line. Keyword "Classics". What is King Grayskull to MOTU in your opinion? Does anyone feel the same as me? I'm going nuts over all the other characters obviously. But I just think they couldve went with something else to open this line up, especially when it's called "MOTU CLASSICS".
BTW, it's good to be back after like a year or so and I'll try to be around regularly if I have the time. I just had to check out the SDCC news though when I heard about what's coming out.


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Autumn has arrived, and many of the early varieties of satsuma are starting to taste good. October's cool nights induce the rinds to gain color, and rinds are getting easier to peel. Lindcove REC has more than 40 satsuma varieties, and early season favorites include 'Xie Shan', 'Miyagawa', 'China S-9', 'Miho Wase', 'Okitsu Wase', 'China S-1', and 'China S-5'.
Dr. Tracy Kahn (UC Riverside, Dept. of Botany and Plant Sciences), recently published an informative article in Citrograph, entitled "Fruit quality evaluations of introduced Satsuma selections for California" in the March/April 2013 edition. In addition to fruit quality data, the article describes the origin of the satsuma, genesis of nucellar selections, and introduction of satsuma varieties to the US. Click on this link to view the magazine, the article begins on page 34. http://www.citrusresearch.org/citrograph_marapr2013-2
Dr. Kahn will be giving a tour "Evaluation of early citrus varieties" at Lindcove REC on November 12th at 10 am.


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Don't Be Hooked by E-Mail "Phishing" Scams
Each week the news warns of new "phishing" scams. What is "phishing" (pronounced fishing)? These are scams using e-mail and fake websites to get consumers to disclose personal financial information. Here's how the scam works: You receive an e-mail that appears to be from your bank, credit-card company, Internet service provider (ISP), or online membership organization (such as an online auction site). The e-mail asks you to click on a link or go to the URL given in the e-mail to update some information the sender needs (or some other request). You click on the link and go to a website that appears to belong to the institution referenced. Since the site looks okay, you give the requested personal information. Typical requests include Social Security number, account numbers, passwords, and the like. The problem? The site is fake and the con artist has just ripped off information they can use to steal your identity and your money.
Recent scams include e-mails that appear to come from eBay, Paypal, Washington Mutual Bank, Citizens Bank and AOL. Check out the Phishing Archive at Anti-Phishing.org for these and other examples of phishing attacks.
Here are 3 things to note to avoid being hooked by such scams:
- Reputable companies and financial institutions, like your credit union and bank, NEVER, EVER send e-mails asking for personal information and account number information they already have on file. Always be suspicious of any request for information that comes from an unsolicited e-mail. When you initiate the online contact with your bank or a reputable merchant, you may provide information to purchase merchandise or handle your account.
- Report the scam to the company, using the customer service number or website address from a recent statement. You can send the actual spam to the FTC at email@example.com.
- NEVER click on the link in an e-mail of this sort, even if it looks legitimate. The link takes you right to the scammers not the real company.
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Want to see how savvy you are about these scams? Take The SonicWALL Phishing IQ Test. How well did you do? It's not easy to distinguish between a real and a fake message, is it?
Be extra careful with personal information. I recommend that you respond to no unsolicited request for personal information. Instead, call the institution using the number on your statement and ask if the request is legitimate. Don't call any numbers provided in the e-mail or the website it directs you to. Don't email personal and financial information. Before submitting financial information on a web site, make sure that the browser indicates—with a lock icon—that the information is being transmitted securely. Review credit card and bank statements for unauthorized charges as soon as you receive them. Call your credit card company or bank to confirm your mailing address if your statement is late.
For More Information
These articles have more information about these types of scams and how to avoid them.
- How Not to Get Hooked by a 'Phishing' Scam from the FTC
- Phishing Scams Growing Like Crazy in Scambusters.com issue #67
- Fake Credit Report Sites: Cashing in on Your Personal Information from the FTC
- Phishing Scams Continue to Grow from PC World.com
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The Mansfield ISD Board of Trustees unanimously approved the district's budget for the 2018-19 school year.
The balanced budget includes a 1 percent midpoint increase of employee pay grades and a 1 percent raise at that new midpoint for teachers, administrators, professionals, paraprofessionals, technology, police and auxiliary staff.
Staff exceeding the maximum pay grade range will receive no less than 50 percent of the raise. A stipend adjustment was also passed.
In addition, measures to enhance the district's safety were included in the budget, such as more police officers, video intercoms at campuses and additional security cameras.
"Mansfield ISD thrives to be fiscally responsible with taxpayer dollars, even while operating under a complicated school finance system that decreases state funding as local property taxes increase," said School Board President Karen Marcucci. "We're proud to be able to present a balanced budget for the next school year. We'll continue to make sure that money is going toward the holistic education of our students and find innovative ways to do that."
The 2018-19 general operating budget totals $293.4 million. Debt service is $57.3 million. The budget for student nutrition, which is not funded through local tax dollars, was also approved for $16.8 million with no increase in student meal prices.
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To make the lemon pita chips: Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Brush the pita bread with extra-virgin olive oil and the lemon juice. Sprinkle with sea salt, freshly ground black pepper and piment d'espelette. Bake in the oven for about 5 minutes, until golden and crispy.
To make the lemon dressing: In a jar combine extra-virgin olive oil and fresh lemon juice. Shake to emulsify.
To make the salad: Toast the pumpkin seeds in a dry pan over medium-high heat for a few minutes until they become golden and fragrant. Place the julienned mint leaves in a bowl with the blueberries, pomegranate seeds and mshalale cheese. Crumble the lemon pita over the salad and drizzle with the lemon dressing. Sprinkle with a handful of toasted pumpkin seeds; mix to combine.


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Media Statements & Speeches
Commissioner John R. Norris Statement
October 20, 2011
Docket Nos. RM11-7-000 & AD10-11-000
Item No. E-28
Frequency Regulation Compensation in the Organized Wholesale Power Markets
The final rule makes a finding that the rates for frequency regulation compensation in ISOs and RTOs are unjust, unreasonable, and unduly discriminatory, and requires ISOs and RTOs to remedy this problem. The Commission finds that faster-ramping and more accurate resources that can and do provide more regulation service should be compensated accordingly. The rule recognizes that certain types of resources are better equipped to respond to grid operator dispatch instructions and to continually change their energy output on a second-to-second basis, and that those resources should be compensated for their increased performance.
I see three areas of benefits stemming from the implementation of this rule: reduced costs to consumers, enhanced reliability, and reduced emissions levels.
First, with regard to consumer costs, the final rule serves to remove barriers to the participation of faster-ramping and more accurate resources in the frequency regulation markets. The utilization of these more accurate resources will lead to reductions in the amount of regulation capacity that each balancing authority must procure savings which can then be passed on to consumers. Furthermore, the rule will also allow the mostly thermal generation fleet that currently provides regulation to instead more efficiently operate in the energy markets at their optimum heat rates, where they can submit lower offers to supply energy and thus further lower costs to consumers. Because the energy market is much larger than the regulation market, this is where there may be greater savings.
Second, this final rule should enhance reliability as it incents new resources to come online and provide system operators in the ISOs and RTOs with additional tools and flexibility to manage the grid. As I have repeatedly indicated, we are asking our aging grid infrastructure to do more and more as regional electricity markets expand and we seek to transmit power over long distances from location constrained resources. We need to make sure that the operators of the grid are prepared to deal with these challenges with tools like the enhanced regulation market design we are directing today.
Third, I believe that this final rule will result in an overall reduction in emissions from the generation fleet. Some of the new resource technologies that are faster and more accurate produce no emissions themselves. Further, the mostly thermal generation that traditionally has provided regulation will now be able to bid their capacity into the energy markets at their optimum heat rates. This will enable the thermal generators to maximize their efficiency, which in turn will reduce their emissions.
In closing, I would note that energy storage resources such as batteries and flywheels appear to be particularly well-suited to providing regulation service, given their ability to ramp quickly and to respond accurately to dispatch signals. I believe todays final rule is a positive first step by the Commission in recognizing the unique characteristics and the value that storage resources offer in providing ancillary services such as frequency regulation. As we move forward, I strongly believe that storage will become ever more critical as we look to integrate increasing amounts of variable energy resources.


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Members, May 2003
Editor's Note: The purpose of this column, which is published in Perspectives as space permits, is to recognize and honor the accomplishments of AHA members. Submissions are welcome; entries will be published in alphabetical order. To submit an entry, write to David Darlington, Assistant Editor, AHA, 400 A Street, SE, Washington, DC 20003-3889.
Nancy C. Carnevale (independent scholar) has been awarded a 2003–04 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship to revise and publish her dissertation, "Living in Translation: Language and Italian Immigrants in the U.S., 1890–1945."
Mary Gluck (Brown Univ.) and Robert Nemes (Colgate Univ.) were both awarded the 2002 article prize of the American Association for the Study of Hungarian History. Gluck's article "The Modernist as Primitive: The Cultural Role of Endre Ady in Fin-de-Siècle Hungary" appeared in the Austrian History Yearbook, XXXIII (2002). Nemes's article "The Politics of the Dance Floor: Culture and Civil Society in 19th-Century Hungary" appeared in Slavic Review 60:4 (Winter 2001).
Kenneth Gouwens (Univ. of Connecticut) won the 2002–03 Phyllis G. Gordan Rome Prize Fellowship in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies.
Sara Stidstone Gronim (Long Island Univ., C. W. Post) was awarded the 2001 Richard L. Morton Award for the best article in William and Mary Quarterly by an author in graduate studies at the time of submission. Gronim's "Geography and Persuasion: Maps in British Colonial New York" was published in the April 2001 issue (58: 2, 373–402).
Michael P. Johnson (Johns Hopkins Univ.) was presented the prize for best article published in the William and Mary Quarterly in 2001 for his "Denmark Vesey and His Co-Conspirators," published in October 2001 (58: 4, 915–76). The essay "raises large historical issues that transcend the immediate case of the Vesey conspiracy" and "provokes wide-ranging discussion."
H. G. Jones (Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), the Thomas Whitmell Davis Research Historian at Wilson Library, received the 2002 North Carolina Award for Public Service. The award annually recognizes "notable accomplishments by North Carolina citizens in the fields of scholarship, research, the fine arts, and public leadership. It is the highest honor the state can bestow."
Margaret Power (Armour Coll., Illinois Institute of Tech.) recently published two books: Right-Wing Women in Chile: Feminine Power and the Struggle Against Allende, 1964–73 (Penn State Univ. Press) and Right-Wing Women: From Conservatives to Extremists Around the World (Routledge), co-edited with Paola Bacchetta.
Nancy Beck Young (McKendree Coll.) has been selected as the 2002 Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Illinois Professor of the Year. The U.S. Professors of the Year program salutes the most outstanding undergraduate instructors in the country who excel as teachers and influence the lives and careers of their students. There is only one award winner per state. Young is currently completing her third book, Forgotten Feminist: Lou Henry Hoover as First Lady, which is about the wife of President Herbert Hoover, whose accomplishments Young said have been overshadowed by Eleanor Roosevelt. The book will be published in 2004.
The following AHA members received Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Grants in Women's Studies from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. Their names are followed by their affiliation and dissertation title:
Rebecca M. Kluchin (Carnegie Mellon Univ.), "Sterilization and Reproductive Rights in America, 1964–84."
Mireille L. Miller-Young (NYU), "A Taste for Brown Sugar: The History of Black Women in Pornography, 1880–the present."
The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission named the following AHA members to appointments in its Scholars in Residence program for 2002–03. The program is a competitive fellowship program that provides short term support for full-time research in commission research collections on topics broadly related to Pennsylvania history.
Joseph P. McKerns (Ohio State Univ.), "Dirty Faces and Tarnished Images: the American Press and the Anthracite Strike of 1902," in residence at the Pennsylvania Anthracite Heritage Museum.
James Weeks (Penn State Univ., Hazelton), "Civil War Holdings at the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission," commission-wide residency.
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Posted: Wed Jun 21, 06 12:23 pm Post subject: FISHING GREEK STYLE !
I thought that you might find interestinga style of fishing that I saw and tried on the island of Paxos .We took our family holiday in Paxos last September and being the boring sort I took my fishing rod with me .
The locals fished for some of the most gloriously coloured fish that I've ever seen and everything that they caught was destined for the pot .
The method that they used was a new one on me. They used a short nylon trace with about 20 hooks on it spaced out at about one every inch . They then took a biggish lump of the local crusty bread and wrapped the trace around and around it until the crust resembled a prickley hedgehog.
The bread was then cast out into the water of the harbour to float on the surface and all hell would break out . It was just like watching a shoal of Pirhanas on a feeding frenzy . The harbour mullet would impail themselves on the hooks as they tried to get the bread. Sometimes the locals would pull two or three fish out at a time.
This method would never work in this country for one good reason !
In the week that we were on holiday I only ever saw one seagull.
In our harbour at home the gulls would be on your bread in a second .A bit tricky fighting a seagull at 50ft and climbing !
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My son once caught a seagul - he was only five and fishing in Pastow. He cast his hook with bread attached and a seagul swooped and took it
It took us ages to catch the damn thing, and get the hook out. Luckily no real damage was done. Son was quite frightened at the time, but enjoyed telling everyone about it afterwards
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I know this is an old thread, but seeing it reminded me of seeing a man fishing on a beach in Rhodes.
He had a washing up bowl, covered with a cloth with a hole about 2" diameter in the middle. In the bowl were lots of small pebbles and a chunk of smelly type of cheese (he used blue cheese). He put it in the water, just paddling distance from the beach, about 6ft-8ft out, then waited.
After about 20 minutes he went and got it out of the water, and inside were loads of tiny fish, like whitebait. He said he was going to shake them in flour then fry them.
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Now there's an idea - I snorkelled through a huge shoal of those on Friday, and was wondering how best to tempt a few into my pan...
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Take bread when you snorkel. Hold a bun or a roll in your hand, clench it in your fist to stop it disintegrating. Feed it out at the end of your fist bit by bit as the shoals will gather for a feeding frenzy. The only thing is how to capture the fish?
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Freddie Mac alerts real estate agents to rising short sale fraud
Freddie Mac recently began reaching out to real estate associations and fielded more calls on a rising rate of fraudulent short sales. With foreclosure delays and procedural problems still weighing on a housing recovery, servicers boosted short sales to 25% of all liquidations by the middle of 2011, up from 8% two years ago. Freddie completed 21,515 short sales in the first half, up 31% from the same period last year, according to its second-quarter financial filing. These transactions accounted for 14% of all completed workouts in 2010, up from 4% in 2000. Shelley Poland, a vice president at Freddie, and Robert Hagberg, the associate director of fraud investigations, said in a blog post Monday the mortgage giant sees short sale fraud on the rise as well — especially when real estate agents fail to disclose other parties involved in the transaction, who will rig sales at a low price and hide better offers from Freddie and the distressed homeowner. "Then, after the house is sold, the fraudster can flip it a few hours later for the better price and walk away with the profitable difference," the Freddie executives said. "By concealing the higher offer, short sale fraud worsens losses to home sellers, Freddie Mac, and taxpayers. It also throws another wrench into the housing recovery by undermining the trust and transparency at the core of any real estate transaction." Short sales fraud is now the top priority for Hagberg's investigation unit. It began working with these real estate agents and law enforcement to detect suspicious activity before a deal closes. The unit also built an exclusionary list of companies and individuals who will can no longer do business with Freddie. The unit soon began seeing trends. Some agents provide false offers on a property to discourage legitimate bids and ensure accomplices get the property for a planned low bid. Others manipulate the listing price to make the house seem more problematic than it is by inflating repair costs and obtaining an artificially low broker price opinion. So-called "flopping" schemes are rising, allowing a fraudster to buy a short sale from Freddie or banks by using falsified title and loan documents, then selling the property to a legitimate buyer for a higher price sometimes in a matter of hours. Others even skew the HUD-1 settlement statement, which itemizes fees, charges and other funds, to skim away proceeds from the short sale. Freddie now requires all parties in a short sale to sign an affidavit, holding them liable if investigators find the transaction wasn't done at arms-length. "There are many conscientious real estate professionals who want to do the right thing. We often receive calls in our servicing, quality control, fraud investigation, outreach, and HomeSteps divisions from real estate agents who know they've seen something inappropriate and won't look the other way," the executives said. "They understand that real estate fraud turns a shortsighted profit at the cost of the public's long-term confidence in homeownership and the housing industry." Write to Jon Prior. Follow him on Twitter @JonAPrior.


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