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DataNucleus supports by default a large number of Java types. DataNucleus Spatial supports the storage and query of a number of different spatial data types, like points, polygons or lines. Spatial types like these are used to store geographic information like locations, rivers, cities, roads, etc. The datanucleus-spatial plugin allows using spatial and traditional types simultaneously in persistent objects making DataNucleus a single interface to read and manipulate any business data.
The table below shows the currently supported Spatial SCO Java types in DataNucleus
The implementation of these spatial types follows the OGC Simple Feature specification, but adds further types where the datastores support them.
DataNucleus supports different combinations of geometry libraries and spatially enabled databases. These combinations are called mapping scenarios . Each of these scenarios has a different set of advantages (and drawbacks), some have restrictions that apply. The table below tries to give as much information as possible about the different scenarios.
One such mapping scenario, is to use the Java geometry types from JTS (Java Topology Suite) and PostGIS as datastore. The short name for this mapping scenario is jts2postgis . The following table lists all supported mapping scenarios.
This table lists all the spatial Java types that are currently supported. The JDBC type is the
same for every Java type in a given database. It's
DataNucleus-Spatial has defined some metadata extensions that can be used to give additional information about the geometry types in use. The position of these tags in the meta-data determines their scope. If you use them inside a <field>-tag the values are only used for that field specifically, if you use them inside the <package>-tag the values are in effect for all (geometry) fields of all classes inside that package, etc.
<package name="org.datanucleus.samples.jtsgeometry"> <extension vendor-name="datanucleus" key="spatial-dimension" value="2"/> [1] <extension vendor-name="datanucleus" key="spatial-srid" value="4326"/> [1] <class name="SampleGeometry" detachable="true"> <field name="id"/> <field name="name"/> <field name="geom" persistence-modifier="persistent"> <extension vendor-name="datanucleus" key="mapping" value="no-userdata"/> [2] </field> </class> <class name="SampleGeometryCollectionM" table="samplejtsgeometrycollectionm" detachable="true"> <extension vendor-name="datanucleus" key="postgis-hasMeasure" value="true"/> [3] <field name="id"/> <field name="name"/> <field name="geom" persistence-modifier="persistent"/> </class> <class name="SampleGeometryCollection3D" table="samplejtsgeometrycollection3d" detachable="true"> <extension vendor-name="datanucleus" key="spatial-srid" value="-1"/> [1] <extension vendor-name="datanucleus" key="spatial-dimension" value="3"/> [1] <field name="id"/> <field name="name"/> <field name="geom" persistence-modifier="persistent"/> </class> </package>
DataNucleus-Spatial defines a set of functions that can be applied to spatial types in JDOQL queries. These functions follow the definitions in the OGC Simple Feature specification and are translated into appropriate SQL statements, provided the underlying database system implements the functions and the geometry object model accordingly. There are also some additional functions that are not defined OGC SF, most of them are database specific.
This set of more than eighty functions contains:
For a compelete list of all supported functions and usage examples, please see JDOQL : Spatial Methods.
Depending on the mapping scenario you want to use, there is a different set of JARs that need to be in your classpath.


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By Ed Harris
The Southington Education Foundation (SEF) listened to several past grant recipients talk about how their projects were successful and how they were received by students during a recent meeting.
Seven teachers, encompassing five different grants, told the foundation how the grants impacted the classroom, whether it met the desired objectives and outcomes and if the project was self sustainable.
"I have always been impressed with the variety of programs," said SEF Vice Chair Jan Galati. Galati said she had visited classrooms and had seen many of these programs in action.
Thalberg teachers Chanel Curtin and Mandy Hubeny talked about their program, Classroom Planetarium, which was funded through a $1,000 grant. The grant money allowed the teachers to purchase two iPads, and the program, utilizing an app, is intended to allow students to view astronomy in a realistic, hands on approach.
Curtin said the program has helped change the student's attitude toward science. "This changes their whole perspective," Curtin told the foundation.
Hubeny agreed, noting that the students are finding new apps or letting the teachers know how to improve on the current app they are using.
"It's getting them to go out and do their own research," Hubeny said.
Flanders School teachers Joyce McAloon, Dan Murdzek and Krista Tibbetts talked about their project Give a Little-Get A.L.O.T. The acronym stands for Aspiring Leaders Of Tomorrow. The teachers received a grant of $3,200 from the SEF.
Their project challenges fourth and fifth graders at Flanders to develop a business concept. The students compete for a chance to make the idea a reality, with the idea with the most potential chosen and financed. The product is then sold at a local fair with management provided by the students.
"It was amazing to watch," said Murdzek, detailing how the students came before a group of 13 teachers to pitch their proposal, interviewed for help and then manufacture the product.
This past year, the first for the program, the winning product was cupcakes, which were sold at a festival in Meriden. The students, with the help of Paul Gregory, produced 3,000 cupcakes.
Ultimately the program did not turn a profit, though the program, with a new product chosen, will be returning this year with a lower budget. The students decided to donate 150 of the remaining cupcakes to the Meriden Homeless Shelter.
To date, the SEF has helped fund more than $75,000 worth of projects in town. The bulk of the money given out in the grants comes from the group's annual Fan of the Foundation fundraiser.
"It was wonderful to hear from our past grant recipients and learn how our students have benefitted from the programs and projects the SEF has funded," said SEF Chair Dawn Miceli. "It's one thing to read about the various ideas teachers have for their classrooms, but to hear first-hand just how effective and impactful each has been truly solidifies the SEF's mission to instill a love of learning in our students. So many of the grants have been utilized across the curriculum and have a real project-based learning element to them."


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Cuba's Updated Migration Policy Totally Confounds the United States and the Micro-Republic of Miami – español aquí
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On Monday, January 14, Cuba's updated migration policy went into force and one of the listeners of my radio program, La Tarde se Mueve (Afternoon Moves) called in to say that it was as though the floor had been yanked right out from under the Miami critics of the Cuban revolution. They can't figure out where to stand; they're completely adrift in the comments they're making on the radio, TV, and other regular press outlets. Continue reading


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Per ACTION-493, I was to propose specific text for integrating EXI into XML Encryption 1.1. The relevant changes would have to occur in section 4 of the XML Encryption specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlenc-core1/#sec-Processing-Encryption It turns out that this processing model chapter mixes a number of things that we might be better off separating. In particular, both section 4.1 and 4.2 (encryption and decryption processing models) mix requirements on the encrypted document, the processors, the interface between the processor and the application, and the application. (E.g., "the application MUST provide XML data in [NFC]" -- this seems to actually be an assumption that's made of XML cleartext.) In 4.3, we have a lot of implementation advice with funny conformance clauses such as "special care SHOULD be taken" -- but also with some rather important material about name space processing in 4.3.3 that probably should be normative (but currently doesn't seem to be). It seems like the normative content of that section is actually limited to the "MUST IMPLEMENT" for 'element' and 'content' type cleartext. I'd prefer to move that particular paragraph out of 4.3, and make the entirety of that section non-normative. Also note that the specification text is confused about the value space of the Type parameter -- that's anyURI, not string; therefore, 'element' and 'content' are really shorthand for the requisite URI references. Back to 4.1 and 4.2: I believe that the normative content of 4.1 can be summarized as follows (some of the language is still a bit rough): >>> If a key is encrypted, it MUST be encapsulated in an EncryptedKey element. That element may be transported along with the message as a child of a ds:KeyInfo, or otherwise. If a key is derived from a master key, an appropriate DerivedKey element must be constructed. That element may be transported along with the message as a child of a ds:KeyInfo element, or otherwise. If the cleartext is an XML element or content, then it MUST be serialized as an octet-stream using UTF-8 in normal form C. The Type attribute of an eventual EncryptedData element SHOULD be present. If present, it MUST be 'http://...#content' or 'http://...#element'. [[ If the cleartext is an EXI fragment, then it MUST be serialized as an octet sequence that represents an EXI stream. ]] Otherwise, the cleartext MUST be an octet stream. The ciphertext is obtained by encrypting this cleartext; no further preprocessing of the cleartext in this document. The ciphertext can be stored externally, or (in base64 encoded form) in the CipherValue element. <<< It's probably useful to point out that the *intended* style of processing is to use EncryptedData, and replace an encrypted element with it, but that the details of that process are out of scope for this specification. Note that the schema type of CipherValue is base64binary, therefore it would seem superfluous to normatively mention a separate base64 encoding step in the processing model; in fact, having an explicit base64 encoding step could be read to indicate *double* encoding. For 4.2, the normative context of the decryption step seems to boil down to: >>> Retrieve the ciphertext octet-stream from a CipherData element, either by using the value of CipherValue, or by processing a CipherReference element. The ciphertext is decrypted. The cleartext octet-stream is, according to the value of the Type parameter, interpreted as: 1. an UTF-8 encoded XML element or content; or [[ 2. an EXI stream; or ]] 3. an octet-stream. Handling of the MimeType and Encoding parameters is up to the application, and out of scope for this specification. <<< We should again say, additionally, that the intended processing model is to replace an EncryptedData element that holds "element" or "content" cleartext with that cleartext; I wonder whether we need to say anything special about EXI. -- Thomas Roessler, W3C <firstname.lastname@example.com>Received on Monday, 7 December 2009 13:51:52 UTC
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BlackBerry Unveils BBM Protected to, Ahem, Protect Market Share
Jun 18, 2014 12:45 PM PT
BlackBerry, whose share of the mobile phone market has been on a downward spiral, this week launched BBM Protected, the first in its planned eBBM Suite of secure enterprise-class messaging products.
BBM Protected targets regulated industries.
It's claimed to be the only secure mobile instant messaging app that uses a FIPS 140-2 validated cryptographic library.
Users can securely message colleagues, people in other companies, and friends and family -- so long as the others also are using BBM Protected.
Given BlackBerry's dismal market share, does anyone care? In 2012, BlackBerry had 6 percent of the worldwide market, Vodafone calculated. It's expected to fall to 5.9 percent by 2016.
Nevertheless, "most large enterprises care," Carl Howe, a vice president at the Yankee Group, told the E-Commerce Times.
"Few other mobile platforms have the long and trusted time in service that the BlackBerry platform does," Howe explained. "Do you want your corporate data running through a network that has been handling encrypted enterprise data for the last decade, or would you rather it were routed through a South Korean consumer electronics company?
More About BBM Protected
Messages between users of BBM Protected are encrypted using a PGP-like model, with both the sender and recipient having unique public and private encryption and signing keys.
Messages are encrypted on the sender's smartphone by a Triple DES 168-bit BBM scrambling key, which also is used to authenticate and decrypt messages on the recipient's phone.
These keys are generated on the smartphone by the FIPS 140-2 crypto library. They are controlled by the enterprise.
Each message uses a new random symmetric key for encryption.
All this happens in the background, without involving the users.
The current version of BBM Protected runs on BlackBerry smartphones running BBOS 6.0 or later, or BlackBerry 10 in Regulated mode. Versions for BlackBerry 10 smartphones using BlackBerry Balance, and for iOS and Android devices, will be available later this year.
"With BBM Protected, BlackBerry is going back to its roots -- the enterprise," Ramon Llamas, a research manager at IDC, told the E --Commerce Times.
"Because BBM is available on iOS and Android, BlackBerry's extending BBM Protected to those OSes to make the feature more useful for enterprise customers," Llamas continued. "Congratulations. Good job."
Reaching Out and Touching Someone
BBM Protected offers secure intercompany messaging -- it automatically encrypts messages between users, even if those users work in different companies.
The companies involved don't have to share a BES server or federate their servers.
Managing BBM Protected
BBM Protected is added as an IT policy through an enterprise's existing BES console, without the need to purchase new hardware, install new servers or update the BlackBerry OS.
It works with BES servers' existing logging and auditing capabilities, so user enterprises can meet regulatory and compliance requirements.
The feature enables chats, group discussions and file-sharing.
Users get delivery and read notifications for messages sent.
No Secret Agents, Man!
Another feature of BBM 10 is that key exchanges are not stored on BlackBerry servers, because neither BBM nor BlackBerry brokers the crypto key exchanges.
By doing this, BlackBerry, in essence, is ensuring that demands for data on its servers will not compromise customers.
While the NSA's PRISM program comes immediately to mind, BlackBerry also has had run-ins with governments in India, Russia, China and the Middle East.
After fighting long and hard not to do so, it has given various governments -- including those of Russia, China, various Middle Eastern countries and India -- access to communications over BlackBerry devices by users living in those countries.
"BBM Protected is BlackBerry's offering to assuage current CIO concerns about government and foreign snooping on their business," Howe suggested.


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What is Gainful Employment?
Final regulations published in the Federal Register on October 29, 2010, require institutions to report certain information about students who enrolled in Title IV eligible educational programs that lead to gainful employment in a recognized occupation (GE programs). Those regulations also provide that institutions must disclose to prospective students certain information about the institution's GE Programs. Finally, the new regulations require institutions to notify the Department if they wish to add an additional GE Program to its list of Title IV eligible programs. All of these requirements are effective July 1, 2011.
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text: Mark Richens Sundra Tate finds the most joy in playing with her grandchildren.Living with Type 2 diabetes and knowing her family's history of heart disease, she decided to change her ways. "I just wanted to do better. I wanted to be here for my grandkids and for my family," said Tate, a home health care nurse who turned 47 on Monday. In July of last year, Tate began to change the way she eats. She cut back on sweets, breads and pastas, and began to incorporate more fruits, vegetables and water into her diet. "I substituted carrots for chips, and just started eating more fruits for snacks," she said. "And I didn't eat anything after 7 at night." Her love affair with Butterfinger candy bars proved to be a little more problematic. "At first I thought I would just buy the little ones, but then I would end up eating a whole bag of them," Tate said. "Now I don't even go down the candy aisle." These days, a spoonful of peanut butter curbs her addiction. And she opts for sprouted-grain Ezekiel bread. A month into her dietary changes, Tate began to include exercise in her weekly routine, attending classes at the Church Health Center Wellness facility twice a week and using the exercise equipment two days a week. "At first, I couldn't stay longer than a minute on the treadmill," she said. "Now I can go a good 45 minutes on the elliptical." Her workouts include cardio kickboxing classes on Tuesdays, step class on Thursdays, and working out on the elliptical or treadmill for 30 to 45 minutes as well as the stationary bike or walking for 30 minutes on Mondays and Fridays. "Sometimes I'm here until they start telling us to leave," she said. In one year, Tate has lost close to 40 pounds and substituted size 16 clothes for her former size 20 wardrobe. "I have had a total knee replacement, and I had a lot of muscle issues, joint issues, and a lot of pain. Now I don't hurt like that anymore," she said. "I get around better. I stretch better. I bend better. I do a lot of things I couldn't do before." She's seen other improvements as well. "My overall everything is better. I'm more cheerful and happy. My attitude is just beautiful," she said. "I feel like I'm accomplishing something I want to do, which is to keep myself around and keep myself healthy. I have five grandchildren. I have got to be here for them." Sundra Tate Age: 47 on Monday. Home: Memphis. What she did: She changed her eating habits, cutting down on sweets, breads and pastas and including more fruits, vegetables and water in her diet, and she began exercising four days a week. Gym info: Church Health Center Wellness, 1115 Union, 901-259-4673, churchhealthcenter.org/wellness. Advice: "Eat to live, don't live to eat." (c)2012 The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tenn.) Visit The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tenn.) at www.commercialappeal.com Distributed by MCT Information Services


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Fra Filippo Lippi, (born c. 1406, Florence [Italy]—died October 8/10, 1469, Spoleto, Papal States), Florentine painter in the second generation of Renaissance artists. While exhibiting the strong influence of Masaccio (e.g., in Madonna and Child, 1437) and Fra Angelico (e.g., in Coronation of the Virgin, c. 1445), his work achieved a distinctive clarity of expression. Legend and tradition surround his unconventional life.
Life and works
Filippo Lippi was born into a very large and poor family in Florence. After the death of both his father and mother, the young Filippo was raised by an aunt for some years; later she placed him with his brother in the convent of Carmelite monks at Santa Maria del Carmine. The Brancacci chapel of the monastery was at that time being decorated with frescoes by Masaccio. These frescoes, which were to be among the most glorious and influential paintings of the Renaissance, were Lippi's first important contact with art.
In 1432 Lippi left the monastery after having painted some frescoes in the church and in the cloister. According to the Renaissance biographer Giorgio Vasari, who wrote a lively and fanciful profile of the painter, Lippi was abducted with some companions by the Moors on the Adriatic, held as a slave for 18 months, and then freed after he painted a portrait of his owner. It is known that in 1434 the artist was at Padua. None of the works executed while he was at Padua are known, but the effect of his presence may be recognized in the paintings of others there, such as Andrea Mantegna.
In 1437 Lippi returned to Florence, protected by the powerful Medici family, and was commissioned to execute several works for convents and churches. The qualities he acquired during his years of travel are affirmed with clarity in two works of 1437, immediately after he returned from Padua: The Virgin and Child Between SS. Frediano and Augustin and the Madonna and Child. In both of these altarpieces, the influence of Masaccio is still evident, but it is absorbed into a different style, having the pictorial effect of bas-relief, rendered more evident by lines, so that it resembles the reliefs of the sculptors Donatello and Jacopo della Quercia. In these works, the colour is warm, toned down with shadings, approaching the limpid chromatics of his great contemporary Fra Angelico. Still further testimony to Lippi's development is the Annunciation, once believed to be a late work but now dated between 1441 and 1443. It is composed in a new way, using the newly discovered effects of perspective and skillful contrasts between colour and form; the suggested movement of the light garments of the two frightened girls at the door is rendered with such sensitivity as to anticipate Sandro Botticelli.
A famous altarpiece of the same time, Lippi's well-known Coronation of the Virgin, is a complex work crowded with figures. The celebrated altarpiece is exquisitely sumptuous in appearance and marks a historic point in Florentine painting in its success in uniting as one scene the various panels of a polyptych.
The altarpieces are characterized by a solemnity of composition that is absent from the paintings in which he developed a typical motif of 15th-century Florentine art: the Madonna with the Child at her breast. The masterpiece of these is Madonna with Child and Scenes from the Life of Mary, a circular painting now in the Pitti Palace in Florence; it is a clear and realistic mirror of life, transfigured in a most intimate way, and it had a great effect on Renaissance art.
A second Coronation of the Virgin, executed about 1445, displays a marked change in the style of Lippi—from the plastic values suggested by his study of Masaccio to the serene chromatics of Angelico.
In 1442 Lippi had been made rector of the church of San Quirico at Legnaia. His life, however, became constantly more eventful, and tradition has given him the reputation (borne out in great part by documents) of a man dominated by love affairs and impatient of methodical or tranquil conduct. His adventures culminated in 1456 in his romantic flight from Prato—where he was painting in the convent of the nuns of Santa Margherita—with a young nun of the convent, Lucrezia Buti. From 1456 to 1458 Lippi lived with Lucrezia, her sister, and a few other nuns. Lippi's conduct, together with his apparent inability to fulfill contracts in time, got him in trouble. He was arrested, tried, and tortured. It was only thanks to the intervention of Cosimo de' Medici that Lippi was released and allowed to renounce his vows. The pope later gave permission for the former priest-painter and the nun to marry, and from this union was born a son, Filippo, called Filippino, who was to be one of the most noted Florentine painters of the second half of the 15th century.
The bright and active city of Prato, a short distance from Florence, was the second home of Filippo Lippi. He returned to Prato often, staying there for long periods, painting frescoes and altarpieces. Accompanied by Fra Diamante, who had been his companion and collaborator since he was a young man, Lippi began to redecorate the walls of the choir of the cathedral there in 1452. He returned in 1463 and again in 1464, remaining in the city this time until 1467. At the centre of his activity in Prato stand the frescoes in the chancel of the cathedral, with the four Evangelists and scenes from the lives of St. John the Baptist and St. Stephen. Perhaps the most solemn scene of the life and death of St. Stephen is the burial; at the sides of the funeral bed of the saint stand a crowd of prelates and illustrious persons in mourning, among them Cardinal Carlo de' Medici, Fra Diamante, and the artist himself.
In 1467 Lippi, his son Filippino, and Fra Diamante left for Spoleto, where Lippi had received a commission for another vast undertaking: the decorations and frescoes of the choir of the cathedral, which included the Nativity, the Annunciation, the Death of Mary, and—in the centre of the vault of the apse—the Coronation. These frescoes were Lippi's final work; they were interrupted by his death, for which there are two documented dates—in the monks' necrology of Santa Maria del Carmine in Florence and in the archives of Spoleto. Later the Medici had a splendid sepulchre, designed by Lippi's son, erected for him (1490) in the cathedral of Spoleto.
Posthumous judgments of Filippo Lippi were often coloured by the traditions of his adventurous life. Moreover, his works have been criticized from time to time for their borrowings from other painters; nevertheless, it has also been recognized that his art was not diminished but rather enriched and rendered more balanced by what he took from Masaccio and Fra Angelico. He was constantly seeking the techniques to realize his artistic vision and the new ideas that made him one of the most appreciated artists of his time.
The 20th-century critic Bernard Berenson, who maintained that Lippi's true place as an artist was among the "painters of genius," also described him as "a high-class illustrator," intending by this to underline the importance of expressive content and the presentation of reality in his works. Later critics have recognized in Lippi a "narrative" spirit that reflected the life of his time and translated into everyday terms the ideals of the early Renaissance.Valerio Mariani The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Learn More in these related Britannica articles:
Sandro Botticelli: Early life and career…father then placed him under Filippo Lippi, who was one of the most admired Florentine masters.…
Fra Angelico: Legacy…such an accomplished master as Fra Filippo Lippi. As a friar, Fra Angelico was lauded in writings of the 15th century and later, some of which bestowed a legendary halo on him. As a painter, he was acclaimed as early as 1438 by the contemporary painter Domenico Veneziano. Vasari, in…
mural: Early manifestations and the Early Renaissance…found in the frescoes by Fra Filippo Lippi (the cathedral at Prato) and Benozzo Gozzoli (Medici Palace chapel, Florence). Both Lippi's and Gozzoli's murals reveal an awareness of the artistic problems of Masaccio but also a new interest in nature and its recognizable and realistic representation. Finally, these heterogeneous elements…
Andrea del Verrocchio: Early life…under the early Renaissance master Fra Filippo Lippi in Prato, a city near Florence, where Lippi had been commissioned to execute a series of murals for the cathedral.…
Filippino LippiThe son of Fra Filippo Lippi and his wife, Lucrezia Buti, he was a follower of his father and of Sandro Botticelli. After Fra Filippo Lippi's death, Filippino entered the workshop of Botticelli. By 1473 he had finished his apprenticeship. The style of Filippino's earliest works stems from…
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David Rosenberg of Gluskin Sheff has been bearish on the economy for as long as we can remember.
But in his latest note to clients, he writes that he's starting to see capitulation, which is when everyone basically gives up on the markets and the economy. This is usually the beginning of a major upturn.
Rosenberg and his firm are now on the look out for reasons to build a bullish thesis.
From his latest Breakfast with Dave note:
...we have started the process internally to be on watch for anything that can turn us more positive on the outlook for the economy and the markets. We actually have at least one ball rolling in the right direction, which is some degree of "capitulation", and this is critical in the bottoming process that needs to occur in this phase of heightend economic, fiscal, political and geopolitical uncertainty. People now realize that the Fed and the Federal government are no longer going to ride to the rescue, with the former having already used its bazooka and the latter moving from stimulus to restraint mode and the only question is how much.
We are now in acceptance mode that the government does not always have all the solutions - as if austerity is working in Europe! - so at least the denial phase is over. Just look at the latest AAII survey: bullish sentiment among individual investors plunged 9.7 percentage points in the past week to 28.8% which is 10 points below the long-run norm and bearish sentiment soared 8.9 points to 48.8%. The investor's intelligence poll also showed the bull camp dwindling in the past week from 43.6% to 38.3%, the lowest it has been since mid-June (though they still outnumber the bears who stand at a 28.7% share)...
But Rosenberg's far from all-in.
"The VIX index is also a usefule indicator in times like this. In the eight corrective phases we have seen in the tired four-year old cyclical rally, none bottomed without the VIX index hitting the 27 level at a minimum. On average, the market bottomed with the VIX at 33. The fact that the VIX closed at 18 tells you that there has not yet been enough "fear" to generate a full-fledged panic low to start jumping on. That time will come."
We'll be paying close attention to Rosenberg's upcoming notes.


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by Kathy Hedges
SOCORRO – Think it's hot in Socorro? Try Mercury!
Dr. Louise Prockter, a scientist on the NASA team that is sending a probe to the planet Mercury, speaks on "The MESSENGER Mission to Mercury (It's not the humidity, it's the heat!)" The talk, which is free and open to the public, takes place on Saturday, July 16 at 7:30 p.m., in Workman 101 on the New Mexico Tech campus. The talk is sponsored by the Summer Science Program.
The MESSENGER spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral on Aug. 3, 2004. After swinging around Earth and Venus for several gravity boosts, it will fly past Mercury three times in 2008 and 2009, finally settling into orbit around the inner planet in March 2011. MESSENGER will map nearly the entire planet in color, image most of the areas unseen by Mariner 10, and measure the composition of the surface, atmosphere and magnetosphere. It will be the first new data from Mercury in more than 30 years.
MESSENGER stands for Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging. More information is available at http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/.
Prockter, who earned her Ph.D. at Brown University, is a planetary geologist with Johns Hopkins University. She has studied the surfaces of Ganymede and Europa (moons of Jupiter) and is currently Deputy Instrument Scientist for Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) aboard the MESSENGER spacecraft. Her other duties include mission concept development and ongoing research into icy satellites and asteroid surface structural features.
The Summer Science Program (SSP) is a six-week-long residential enrichment program in which gifted high school students from around the world study and work to complete a challenging, hands-on astronomical research project involving asteroids.
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Alexandria (Independent City), Virginia Genealogy
|Alexandria, Virginia
|— Independent City —
- 1 County Information
- 2 Courthouse
- 3 History
- 4 Places/Localities
- 5 Resources
- 5.1 Research Guides
- 5.2 African Americans
- 5.3 Cemeteries
- 5.4 Census
- 5.5 Church
- 5.6 Court
- 5.7 Genealogy
- 5.8 Immigration
- 5.9 Maps
- 5.10 Military
- 5.11 Newspapers
- 5.12 Occupations
- 5.13 Petitions
- 5.14 Probate
- 5.15 Taxation
- 5.16 Vital Records
- 6 Societies and Libraries
- 7 Websites
- 8 References
County Information
The City of Alexandria is located in the Northern portion of the Commonwealth of Virginia and is included in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. Alexandria was named for John Alexander to whom it was sold shortly after 1669[1].
For additional records, see Fairfax County, Virginia.
- First settlement established in 1695. Named for Capt. Philip Alexander. Alexandria was not incorporated until 1779.
- In 1755, General Edward Braddock organized his fatal expediation against Fort Duquesne (near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) at Carlyle House.
- April 1755, the governors of Virginia, and the Provinces of Maryland, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and New York met to determine concerted action against the French in America.
- 1791, Alexandria was included in an area chosen by George Washington to become the District of Columbia. Alexandria along with Arlington County were retroceded back to Virginia in 1846.
- City of Alexandria was re-chartered in 1852.
- 1828-1836, Alexandria was home to the Franklin and Armfield slave market.
- During the Civil War, the slave pen owned by Price, Birch & Co. became a jail under Union occupation.
- Alexandria was occupied by the Federal troops at the start of the Civil War and remained occupied until the end of the war.
- 1863 (when West Virginia was divided from Virginia) until end of the Civil War, Alexandria was the seat of the Restored Government of Virginia.
- 1870, the City of Alexandria became independent of Alexandria County. The rest of Alexandria County became Arlington County in 1920, ending years of confusion.
Parent County
1847--Alexandria was created 13 March 1847 from Fairfax County. [2]
Populated Places
Arlandria . Del Rey . Hume. The Landmark . Mount Ida . North Ridge . Old Town . Saint Elmo . Seminary Hill . Seminary West . Town of Potomac (1930) . The Berg . West End . West of Quaker
Research Guides
- "A Guide to the Counties of Virginia: Alexandria County [Arlington County]," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 3, No. 3 (Jul.-Sep. 1959):126-129. Available at New England Ancestors ($).
- Ray, Suzanne Smith. *"Genealogical Research in the Records of Alexandria City and Arlington County," The Virginia Genealogical Society Newsletter, Vol. 10, No. 4 (Jul.-Aug. 1984):1. Available at FHL; digital version at Virginia Genealogical Society website.
African Americans
- Heinegg, Paul. "Alexandria City Personal Property Tax List, 1787-1800," Free African Americans.com, available online. [Heinegg abstracted free blacks listed in these records.]
For a more detailed list, including addresses, phone numbers, and external links, see Alexandria, Virginia Cemeteries
The following is a list of cemeteries in Alexandria:[3]
- Alexandria National Cemetery
- Ivy Hill Cemetery
- Saint Mary's Cemetery
- Shuters Hill Cemetery
- "Alexandria, Virginia, Second Ward, 1799 Census," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 4, No. 3 (Jul-Sep. 1960):117-124; Vol. 4, No. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 1960):163-170. Available at New England Ancestors ($). [Often includes head of households' occupations and names and occupations of boarders.]
- "Alexandria, Virginia, Fourth Ward, 1800 Census," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 4, No. 2 (Apr.-Jun. 1960):51-59. Available at New England Ancestors ($).
1890 Union Veterans
- "Virginia's Union Veterans: Eleventh Census of the United States 1890." Prince William County Virginia, by Ronald Ray Turner. FHL Collection.
- The Truro Parish Colonial Vestry Book (1732-1785) and the proceedings of the Overseers of the Poor (1787-1802). Digitized images available online at Truro Parish Colonial Vestry Minutes.
Chancery Court
- Indexed images of Alexandria, Virginia Chancery Records 1859-1925 are available online through Virginia Memory: Chancery Records Index. These records, often concerned with inheritance disputes, contain a wealth of genealogical information.[4]
- [Page] Rutherford, Dolores Crumrine. Page Family Records in Virginia Counties. 2 vols. Carmichael, Calif.: D.C. Rutherford, 1982-2006. FHL Book 929.273 P141rdc v. 2 [Alexandria appears in Vol. 2 Part 1]
- [Page] Rutherford, Dolores Crumrine. The Page Family in Virginia Personal Property Taxes (1782-1850). 2 vols. Carmichael, Calif.: D.C. Rutherford, 2002. FHL Book 929.273 P141rd v. 1-2 [Alexandria appears in Vol. 2]
- Coldham, Peter Wilson. "Intercepted Letters Relating to America, 1777-1811" The Genealogist, Vol. 14, No. 2 (Fall 2000):184-200. [Overseas contacts of the residents of Alexandria with the following surnames: Hamilton, Taylor.]
- Edwards, Conley L. "Abstracts of Reports of Aliens, Alexandria County, 1801-1832," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 24, No. 2 (Apr.-Jun. 1979):112-116; Vol. 24, No. 3 (Jul.-Sep. 1980):172-176. Available at New England Ancestors ($).
During the War of 1812, American officials reported finding a total of 1 British alien living in Alexandria.[5]
French and Indian War
- Bockstruck, Lloyd DeWitt. Virginia's Colonial Soldiers. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1988. Available at FHL. [Identifies some Alexandria militia officers, soldier enlistments, and veterans; see place name index.]
War of 1812
- List of Pensioners on the Roll, January 1, 1883; Giving the Name of Each Pensioner, the Cause for Why Pensioned, the Post-Office Address, the Rate of Pension Per Month, and the Date of Original Allowance... Washington, D.C.: Governnment Printing Office, 1883. FHL Collection 973 M2Lp v. 5; digital versions at Google Books and Internet Archive. [See Vol. 5, Virginia, Alexandria County, pp. 59-60]
Civil War
Since Alexandria was created in 1847, the Civil War records for that area will be in the city of Alexandria. During the Civil War men often joined a company (within a regiment) that originated in their area.
Fairfax County Historical Newspaper Index (1785-2000 nonconsecutive) index only - Free; includes:
- Alexandria Gazette (1785-1788; July 25, 1854-December 31, 1855; and May 3, 1860-January 20, 1865)
- Arlington County Record (1932-1933)
- Fairfax City Times (1961-1968)
- Fairfax County Independent (1929-1932)
- Fairfax Herald (1886-1973)
- Fairfax News (1872-1875)
- Fairfax News - Herndon Observer (1925-1943)
- The Local News (1861-1862)
- The Rambler, Washington Star (1912-1928)
- Reston Times (1965-1973; 1975-January 6, 1977; 1978; 1980-1983; 1985; and 2000)
- 1784-1915 - Obituary Notices from the Alexandria Gazette, 1784-1915. Rev. ed. Willow Bend Books.
Scanned Newspapers
Indexed images of the Virginia Gazette (1736-1780) are available online through the Colonial Williamsburg website. In addition, Professor Tom Costa and The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia have created a database of all runaway advertisements for slaves, indentured servants, transported convicts, and ship deserters listed in this source and other Virginia newspapers (1736-1803), see: The Geography of Slavery in Virginia. These newspapers are valuable resources for all regions of Virginia.
- 1784-1789 - Virginia Journal (Alexandria, Va.) at Genealogy Bank ($).
- 1792-1800 - Columbian Mirror (Alexandria, Va.) at Genealogy Bank ($).
- 1797-1802 - Alexandria Times (Alexandria, Va.) at Genealogy Bank ($).
- 1800-1808 - Alexandria Advertiser (Alexandria, Va.) at Genealogy Bank ($).
- 1802 - Columbian Advertiser (Alexandria, Va.) at Genealogy Bank ($).
- 1802-1807 - Alexandria Expositor (Alexandria, Va.) at Genealogy Bank ($).
- 1808-1876 - Alexandria Gazette (Alexandria, Va.) at Genealogy Bank ($).
- 1811-1825 - Alexandria Herald (Alexandria, Va.) at Genealogy Bank ($).
- 1876 - People's Advocate (Alexandria, Va.) at Genealogy Bank ($).
- 1916-1946 - Obituary Index to the Alexandria Gazette, 1916-1946 is available online, courtesy: Alexandria Library, Local History/Special Collections.
- 1927-1928 - Lane, Estelle. "News of Interest to Colored Readers", Alexandria Gazette. 1927-1928 is available online, courtesy: Alexandria Library, Local History/Special Collections.
- 2002-present - Springfield Connection (Springfield, Va.) at Genealogy Bank ($).
- 2002-present - Reston Connection (Reston, Va.) at Genealogy Bank ($).
- Cutten, George Barton. The Silversmiths of Virginia (Together with Watchmakers and Jewelers) from 1694 to 1850. Richmond, Va.: The Dietz Press, Incorporated, 1952. Available at FHL. [Includes a section on Alexandria silversmiths.]
- Eckenrode, H.J. Virginia State Library: A Calendar of Legislative Petitions Arranged by Counties Accomac - Bedford. Richmond, Va.: Davis Bottom, Superintendent of Public Printing, 1908. Digital version at Google Books (full-view). [Alexandria petitions (1778-1861) are described on pp. 61-87.]
- [1800-1804; 1804-1807; 1807-1810] Indexes to Wills, Estates,, Inventories Virginia Pioneers ($)
- [Bk A 1800-1804; Bk B 1804-1807; Bk C 1807-1810; 1810-1815; 1815-1821; 1821-1823] Images of Wills, Inventories, Orphans, Affidavits, Guardianships Virginia Pioneers ($)
How can Virginia tax lists help me?
- [1787] Schreiner-Yantis, Netti and Florene Speakman Love. The 1787 Census of Virginia: An Accounting of the Name of Every White Male Tithable Over 21 Years, the Number of White Males Between 16 & 21 Years, the Number of Slaves over 16 &Those Under 16 Years, Together with a Listing of Their Horses, Cattle & Carriages, and Also the Names of All Persons to Whom Ordinary Licenses and Physician's Licenses Were Issued. 3 vols. Springfield, Va.: Genealogical Books in Print, 1987. Online at FamilySearch - free; FHL. [The source of this publication is the 1787 personal property tax list. Alexandria is included in Vol. 1.]
- [1787-1800] Alexandria Personal Property Tax Lists 1787-1800 (images); digital version in Tax List Club at Binns Genealogy ($).
- [1787-1800] Heinegg, Paul. "Alexandria City Personal Property Tax List, 1787-1800," Free African Americans.com, available online. [Heinegg abstracted free blacks listed in these records.]
- [1790, 1799] Indexed images of the 1790 and 1799 Personal Property Tax Lists of Alexandria, Virginia are available online at Binns Genealogy.
- [1800] "Alexandria, Virginia, 1800 Tax List," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Jan.-Mar. 1960):17-26. Available at New England Ancestors ($).
- [1815] Ward, Roger D. 1815 Directory of Virginia Landowners (and Gazetteer). 6 vols. Athens, Georgia: Iberian Pub. Co., 1997-2000. Available at FHL. [This source is based on the 1815 land tax. Alexandria is included in Vol. 4.]
Vital Records
Societies and Libraries
- Alexandria Black History Museum, Alexandria, Virginia
- ↑ https://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h2429.html
- ↑ The Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America,10th ed. (Draper, UT:Everton Publishers, 2002).
- ↑ USGS Map, Topozone.com
- ↑ "Virginia Memory: Chancery Records Index Availability," Library of Virginia (accessed 26 January 2010).
- ↑ Kenneth Scott. British Aliens in the United States During the War of 1812. Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1979, 320-333. FHL Collection 973 W4s; digital version at Ancestry ($).


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A pretty significant birthday present arrived early this year for Mark McMorris. Just a few weeks shy of turning 17, Mark received his Red Bull helmet when he officially became a part of the team this past weekend. At only 16-years-old Mark has already accomplished what many pro snowboarders twice his age can only dream about. Currently sitting in 6th place on the TTR circuit after an incredible 2009/2010 season in which he climbed to the top step at the Quebec stop of the Empire Shakedown, took 3rd place at the 5-Star TTR Billabong Ante Up event in Whistler, and 5th at the infamous Oakley Arctic Challenge, Mark is letting the snowboard world know that he is here to stay.
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On my way to Hillsboro Cove to get pictures of flooded campsites on Monday, I saw water running over 190th Road just west of Nighthawk Road, so I stopped to get some pictures. I was greeted by a pair of dogs, one black, and one white and tan.
While getting pictures, I noticed the black dog swimming in the flooded ditch. Before I knew it — and probably before the dog knew it, too — it was caught by a current pulling it toward the culvert. Before I could react, the dog disappeared underwater. My heart leaped into my throat. There wasn't anything I could do except turn to watch where the culvert came out downhill. I was so relieved when I saw the dog pop out of the water on the other side of the road, apparently none the worse for wear, although thoroughly soaked.
The dog should serve as a safety lesson for anyone who thinks about swimming in flowing floodwaters. If the culvert had been smaller, or if it had been obstructed, that dog would have been doomed to drown.
I'm sure there are people who would say, "So what? It was just a dog, and it turned out OK." If those people want a more chilling example of the risks of floodwaters, they can turn their attention to Wichita, where a 14-year-old boy died Friday when he went swimming in floodwaters. It took two days for emergency workers to find him, and he only went 200 yards before he got caught in brush.
Floodwaters are dangerous, especially floodwaters that are flowing. A foot of moving water is more than enough to knock an unwary person off his or her feet, and murky waters can hide dangerous obstacles. We have swimming pools and swimming beaches in the county. The thrill of swimming in floodwaters isn't worth the risk it entails. Don't risk it.


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From the meeting, common themes emerged from the conversations. MBDA is opening the discussion to include a variety of stakeholders in minority business success- we welcome your comments and suggestions.
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- Federal government should identify new green technology to be used in the future for home and office construction where opportunities can be created for minorities
- Direct MBEs toward ARRA growth industries and encourage teaming.
- Identify top MBE leaders in emerging markets. Use these leaders as mentors/resources to bring in new MBEs into these markets.
- Work with universities to deploy interns with skill sets that can enhance the growth of MBE firms in emerging technologies
- Identify national/state/local, private and public projects focused on helping MBEs.
- Focus on educating high school students on understanding and identifying on Green and emerging business opportunities
- Expand access to SBIR Program. Reserve a percentage of SBIR Grants for MBEs
- Work with local colleges and universities to create incubators/entrepreneurial centers for emerging technology companies.
We would appreciate your comments and suggestions on the topic, to see participants specific comments per topic, please click here.
**This post contains the comments provided by participants at the Minority Business Development Agency Summit held on July 6 – 7, 2009 at the Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill. Participants provided input on strategy, enforcement mechanisms, and legislation that may assist minority entrepreneurs in the future. Note-takers memorialized the comments made at each of the tables. These materials are being provided in raw data format and are for informational purposes only. The views expressed herein are those of the participants and do not necessarily reflect those of MBDA or of the U.S. Department of Commerce.
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There was "chaos and confusion" at the BBC over a shelved report into sexual abuse by Jimmy Savile, but there had been no cover-up, an inquiry has found.
The report dismissed claims the Newsnight probe was dropped to protect tribute shows to the late TV presenter.
Newsnight's editor and deputy are being replaced after another inquiry criticised a report which led to Lord McAlpine facing false claims of abuse.
The BBC's head of news is returning to her job, but her deputy is to resign.
The Pollard Review was set up by the BBC to see if there were management failings over the investigation, dropped by Newsnight in December 2011.
The report, prepared by former head of Sky News Nick Pollard, said: "The decision to drop the original investigation was flawed and the way it was taken was wrong but I believe it was done in good faith.
"It was not done to protect the Savile tribute programmes or for any improper reason."
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- Nick Pollard's review found the BBC's management system had "proved completely incapable of dealing" with the issue and "the level of chaos and confusion was even greater than was apparent at the time". "Leadership and organisation seemed to be in short supply" it adds
- The deputy director of news Stephen Mitchell is criticised for removing the Savile investigation from a list of the BBC's potentially difficult programmes. He has since announced he will leave the BBC next year
- Nick Vaughan-Barratt, former BBC head of events, wrote to then-director of BBC Vision George Entwistle in May 2011 saying he was "queasy" at the thought of an obituary for Savile. He said he had seen "the real truth" about Savile, but the email was never read
- The Trust's report on the Newsnight film that led to Lord McAlpine being wrongly named as a paedophile had resulted largely from a failure by members of the team to follow the BBC's own editorial guidelines
- It led to the resignation of director-general George Entwistle after just 54 days in the job, and three BBC employees have been disciplined
- The report found that Newsnight failed to complete "basic journalistic checks" and there was confusion about who had the ultimate responsibility for "final editorial sign-off"
Police are now aware of alleged abuse of hundreds of children and young people over five decades by Savile, who died in October 2011, aged 84.
The BBC aired tribute programmes to the late DJ and television presenter over Christmas and New Year.
In an email to staff, BBC acting director general Tim Davie said he was "pleased to say that the review found no evidence of any improper pressure" over dropping the programme.
But he accepted that the "report exposed clear failings in some of our systems, the way we work together and make decisions".
Responding to a question from Newsnight's Jeremy Paxman about why no-one had been sacked over the scandal, he said: "Success for me is not necessarily how many people I dismiss. It's about making a fair and proper judgement on the facts in front of me and making sure the BBC is in a position to rebuild trust."
Mr Davie defended the £2m spent on the Pollard Review, saying: "It was right to spend that money because we had an allegation that was very fundamental to trust in the BBC."
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But he said he was not in favour of adding more layers of management. "It's not about that, it's about clarity, simplicity of structure and actually just clear accountability," he told Newsnight.
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He said it was also interesting that the BBC Trust had said the problem was cultural, rather than being about structure or compliance.
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The Pollard Review involved the examination of 10,000 emails and detailed interviews with 19 individuals.
Liz Dux, solicitor for 40 alleged victims of abuse by Savile - who are now seeking compensation from his estate - said the shelving of the report meant their suffering had been prolonged by a year.
"Twelve months is an awful long time. It could have led to absolutely disastrous consequences for the victims, because if Savile's estate had been distributed in that twelve months they would have been left with absolutely no access to justice at all," she said.
Mr Davie apologised on Newsnight for the fact that information gathered by the programme was not handed to police for 10 months.
"We absolutely regret that that information wasn't passed on to the police," he said.
Liz McKean, one of the journalists who worked on the Savile story, said the decision to drop it was "a breach of our duty to the women who trusted us to reveal that Jimmy Savile was a paedophile".
She added: "Many found it difficult to share their experiences as vulnerable girls."
Following the report's publication, the BBC announced a series of staff changes:
- The resignation of deputy director of news Stephen Mitchell has been accepted by the BBC, and he will retire next year
- Editor of Newsnight Peter Rippon will be replaced, and is in talks with the BBC about a possible new role. In a statement, Mr Rippon disputed that the decision to drop the Savile story had been flawed, but said it was right that Newsnight had a "fresh start"
- Newsnight deputy editor Liz Gibbons is also being replaced and will move to a new role
- Head of BBC News Helen Boaden, who had stepped aside during the inquiry, will return to her post on Thursday
- Radio 5 live controller Adrian Van Klaveren will move to a new role
Another review led by Dame Janet Smith, looking at the culture and practices of the BBC during the years in which Savile worked there, is expected next year.


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ODU Wins 2-1 in Double Overtime over #6 Brown University in NCAA Second Round
By ODU Athletics
Nov. 28, 2007
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- In a high-paced, physical game that took over 106 minutes of play, the ODU Monarch soccer team prevailed over the six-seeded Bears of Brown University (15-2-1). Sophomore Ambane Emmanuel (Yaounde, Cameroon) scored his second goal of the tournament for the game-winner with 3:17 remaining in double overtime. It was just the second loss of the season for the Bears, who were ranked fourth in the nation coming into the NCAA Tournament. The Monarchs (14-6-3), who are one of just nine teams to reach the NCAA second round in each of the last six seasons, advance to the Round of 16 with the win for the second consecutive season.
"It was a very difficult game; it was a real battle," said head coach Alan Dawson. "The Monarchs kept their compusure and in difficult circumstances found a way to win."
ODU jumped in front quickly, with a score from senior points leader A.J. Kulp scoring just over 11 minutes into the game. Kulp took a free kick from about 45 yards out and played a ball into the box that never got any higher than the defenders shoulders. The height of the ball led to the Brown keeper getting screened and the ball bounced into the right corner of the goal untouched.
The first half was fairly even from that point on, with Brown taking the advantage in shots. Their best opportunity came from about 30 yards as reserve T.J. Thompson shot a rocket just out of the reach of ODU keeper Evan Newton (Virginia Beach, Va.), but the shot was over the crossbar.
Coming out of the locker room, the Bears got organized quickly. Just over three minutes into the half, the Bears scored the equalizer. Kevin Davies shot a hard shot from inside the box that Newton made an fantastic diving save to his left. The Bears would get a corner kick off the save, setting up the goal. Davies would again collect the loose ball and this time lofted the ball over Newton's outstretched arm to the far post to tie the game.
The two teams played hard through the rest of regulation, forcing both keepers to make three saves in the period, but no one was able to capitalize for a goal. Despite the aggressive attack from the Bears, the trademark of the 2007 Monarchs held as they got another strong effort from the back line. Freshman Adam Roscioli, junior Ollie Lutton and seniors Yomby William and CAA Defender of the Year David Horst consistently denied the Bear defense a clean look at the goal.
In the first overtime, Brown pushed offensively again, taking three shots, two on-goal. Newton continued to shine, with a season-high in saves with eight.
The second overtime felt much the same, as both teams battled through five foul calls and two stellar shots from both sides. Dylan Sheehan for the Bears had a diving header toward the net two and half minutes into the period, but it sailed high and A.J. Kulp had a shot on goal denied by Browns keeper Paul Grandstrand.
With just over three minutes remaining though, the aggressive style Brown was playing backfired. Nane Joseph (Yaounde, Cameroon) corraled a loose ball at midfield and then crushed a pass from midfield over the Bear defense. Ambane Emmanuel used his tremendous speed and ran through the ball, leaving him alone with the keeper. He took one dribble and fired it past the diving netminder for the game winner.
"This was a great victory for the program," said Dawson.
ODU advances to the Round of 16 for the second time in program history, with the first coming a year ago. In 2006, ODU hosted eventual national champions University of California Santa Barbara in the tournament, falling 1-2. ODU will play at Virginia Tech this weekend, either Saturday or Sunday.
11:07 ODU Kulp, A.J. (5) unassisted 48:05 BROWN Davies, Kevin unassisted 106:32 ODU Emmanuel, Ambane (5) from Joseph, Nane
Shots: ODU (10), BROWN (18) Corners: ODU (2), BROWN (13) Fouls: ODU (13), BROWN (18) Saves: ODU: Newton (8) BROWN: Grandstrand (4)