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I cross my fingers. This time, I tell myself, maybe we'll get lucky. It will be a quick war. The dictator's army will collapse, his closest advisers will desert him. He'll follow his money to some country with no extradition treaties. His people will be free, and they will exercise that freedom responsibly. This time it will be different.
It has become a familiar feeling.
I watch the cruise missiles fly, the anti-aircraft fire race to meet them, and the dictator bluster that they'll never take him alive.
And I cross my fingers. This time, I tell myself, maybe we'll get lucky. It will be a quick war. The dictator's army will collapse, his closest advisers will desert him. He'll follow his money to some country with no extradition treaties. His people will be free, and they will exercise that freedom responsibly.
This time it will be different. In quick and out quick, leaving a better country behind.
Barack Obama says this time is different, and certainly he wants it to be. But he's catching criticism from both sides. Democrats see another Mideast quagmire ahead. Republicans see another unpopular move they can use to beat up the president.
Obama himself set the bar against which his Libya adventure must be measured: "I'm not opposed to all wars," Obama said in 2002, as George W. Bush was getting ready to launch his war in Iraq. "I'm opposed to dumb wars."
What made Bush's war dumb? Let me count the ways. It was unnecessary; there were no weapons of mass destruction, no Iraqi ties to 9/11, no threat to the United States. It was unwelcome; there was no Iraqi opposition asking the U.S. to invade, no uprising in the streets of Baghdad. It was ill-timed; America had other dangerous business to complete, notably in Afghanistan. There was little international support for American intervention in Iraq, and strident opposition in the Muslim world.
Iraq was Bush's war of choice, launched on his timetable. But Bush had no plan for what would happen after Saddam Hussein was taken out. The result was a quick battlefield victory - "Mission Accomplished," the banner said - followed by an American occupation and an Iraqi civil war. Eight years later, 4,441 U.S. troops are dead, along with more than 100,000 Iraqi civilians. And Iraq still doesn't have a stable government, nor is it a dependable U.S. ally.
Dumb war.
Libya, too, could be called a war of choice. But there, the choice to fight was been made by the Libyans. Inspired by the winds of change blowing through the Arab world, Libyans chose to stand up against one of the world's most brutal dictators. Moammar Gadhafi chose to respond with lethal force, all but promising to make the streets of Benghazi run with blood.
As Gadhafi's forces moved in for the kill, the Libyans chose to plead for help. Allies said the world must answer those pleas, and not stand helplessly by while civilians are slaughtered.
The diplomats assembled a fragile alliance of major nations on five continents in support of intervention. The experts told the president a humanitarian crisis was hours away. Then it became Obama's choice.
Did he choose a smarter war? True, there's more international support this time, including tepid support from Arab countries. Britain and France lobbied hard for intervention, and will carry much of the burden after the U.S.-led first phase. In the context of the "Arab Spring" uprisings, intervention puts America on the side of the people, rather than the dictator - in Libya, at least.
And the humanitarian crisis is no mere justification. We cannot stop every dictator's violent act, but, as columnist Nick Kristof noted in The New York Times, just because you can't feed every starving child doesn't mean you shouldn't feed any of them. The international urge to stop a slaughter is a good thing.
Multilateralism is a good thing too, if we can pull it off. Obama doesn't want to look like a Bush-style cowboy, forcing America's will on the world, demanding other nations choose between being with us or against us. He wants the U.S. to be a junior partner in operations, like the Libya intervention, that aren't central to America's vital interests.
But as in Iraq, the U.S. went into Libya with no plan for what to do after Gadhafi is defeated, and no exit strategy. If this war isn't over quickly, it will drain resources and attention from other pressing areas, again including Afghanistan.
So is this a smart war or a dumb war?
Depends on how it ends. Again, I cross my fingers, hoping Gadhafi's inner circle turns on him, his army defects, and he ends up as helpless and humiliated as Saddam in his spider-hole. I hope the opposition develops smart, strong and humane leaders capable of building a better future for Libya. I hope the casualties are few and the results mostly positive.
It's a familiar feeling, and not a pleasant one.
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The applications total about 8GW of potential generation, more than three times the available transmission connection capacity in the province. They will be evaluated to make sure that shovel-ready projects are first in line for the 2.5GW of contracts available in the first round, says the OPA.
The overwhelming response shows that the Fit has succeeded in putting Ontario on the radar screen of wind energy investors, says Robert Hornung, president of the Canadian Wind Energy Association (Canwea). The programme offers guaranteed tariffs for a range of renewable energy technologies, amounting to C$0.135/kWh for large-scale onshore wind and C$0.19/kWh for offshore projects.
The concern now is how quickly the purchase agreements can be finalised in order for construction to begin. The OPA originally expected to start awarding contracts in December 2009, but the huge response means that it will not happen until March 2010.
"You can tell by the level of interest that there are a lot of people who are ready to get started," says Hornung. "People would like to see this move forward as quickly as possible."
The high degree of investor interest also means there is no need for special side deals, says David Butters, president of the Association of Power Producers of Ontario. The province has come under fire for a proposal that would see it set aside 500MW of transmission for Samsung C&T Corporation if the South Korean industrial giant invests in wind manufacturing in Ontario (Windpower Monthly, December 2009).
"Our members have invested billions of dollars into the Ontario electricity sector," says Butters. "They intend to invest billions more and they all believe strongly in transparent, open procurement processes."
Once the initial round of Fit contracts is awarded, the OPA will look at the projects that are left and use them to help decide where future transmission should be built. But the province has already jump-started the process in some areas where the need is obvious.
Last September it ordered government-owned Hydro One, which operates 97% of Ontario's grid, to begin planning 20 transmission projects to enable connection of renewable energy facilities (Windpower Monthly, November 2009).
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By now, you should have already seen that Informix 11.70 (Panther) has gone eGA.
Here's the link to the official announcement:
Panther is a very significant release containing features in many different areas including:
· Flexible Grid
· Application Development
· Security
· Embeddability
· Warehousing
There is a whole host of other collaterals describing all the features in Panther so I don't want to duplicate the effort here. However, in line with my blog's focus on Warehousing, I will highlight the significant Panther warehousing features in this blog entry.
For those of you familiar with the Informix product lines of 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x leading up to the current versions of 10.x and 11.x, one knows that the once touted convergence of XPS code line of 8.x with the IDS code line of 9.x (code name: Arrowhead) did not materialize after the IBM acquisition in 2001. I'm happy to report that as of 11.70, the Arrowhead project is now complete.
The significance of this convergence is that the warehousing capabilities of XPS, which have been very popular and well-received over the years, (and for which many key enterprise customers still depend on today), are now largely available in the IDS product. Customers can now expect the combination of key characteristics, i.e. availability, reliability, ease of admin, OLTP performance, to be equally applicable to warehousing workloads. While the XPS product will be maintained and supported indefinitely, customers now have a viable alternative to having a single enterprise RDBMS handle both workloads, either on a single server or in a cluster environment. If migration were to occur from XPS to IDS, it promises to be the easiest transition than any competitive products on the market due to the close proximity in architecture, utilities, administration, and capabilities between XPS and IDS.
There are two significant areas of increased capabilities in Panther for Warehousing. They are:
- Query processing for Warehousing – Star Join, Multi-index scan, Skip Scan and Light Scan
- Time-cyclic Data management – Ability to manage data organized by defined intervals, e.g. months or years, and to perform fragment operations online.
In this entry, I will first discuss advancements in Query Processing.
Multi-Index Scan
Up to now, IDS is not able to take advantage of using multiple indexes on a single table to speed query processing. Take for example that you have a CUSTOMER table containing millions; if not billions of rows (e.g. FACEBOOK's Customer table should have over 500 million rows). Suppose further that you need to look for Male customers having a Masters degree with a HIGH income level that live in a certain zip code.
The SQL query would look like the following:
SELECT count (customer_id)
FROM customer_table
WHERE gender = "m"
AND income_category = "high"
AND education_level = "masters"
AND zip_code = "95032";
IDS would currently process such "low-selectivity" predicates like other higher selectivity predicates by simply choosing the highest selectivity predicate, fetching each record (presumably using an index), then simply matching each record to see if the other predicates qualify. It is not difficult to see that many records will be retrieved and discarded before the resulting rows are returned to the user.
In Panther, the system can drastically reduce the number of rows fetched by deploying bit vector technology. Here, each row of the table is represented by a single bit in a bit vector. For each of the columns mentioned in the query, a separate index is deployed. For each predicate, e.g. zip code = "95032", a number of bits, each representing a row that qualifies in the table is marked. Once the bit vectors are built for each predicate, these bit vectors can be combined using the AND operator where the resulting bit vector represents the intersection of all the conditions specified by the predicates. This single bit vector contains all the rows that need to be retrieved, presumably much fewer than using the previous method. The following diagram shows this method.
The benefit of Multi-index scan goes beyond processing a single large table as you will see with the discussion on Star Join below.
Star Join
Star Join is a join method designed to speed up queries in dimensionally modeled schema, called Star Schema. Dimensional Modeling (and the topic in the book) was invented by Ralph Kimball, also the founder of Red Brick Systems. Red Brick was acquired by Informix in 1998 and is part of the Informix product line. Just like XPS, Red Brick is actively supported and maintained by IBM and still used by hundreds of customers world-wide.
As the diagram below depicts, having multiple dimension tables surrounding a central Fact table gives the impression of a star, and thus its name.
I have already discussed the technologies behind Red Brick so for those interested, please refer to my earlier entries in this blog. Since its inception in the 90's, other competitors have all implemented Star Joins in some way. Instead of materializing the Star Index, all other products have chosen to do Star Joins "on the fly". XPS' method is known as Push-Down Hash Join, which is now implemented in IDS as of the Panther release.
Again, without duplicating a lot of other materials written on this topic, the goal of having a Star Join is to reduce the number of records fetched from the Fact table (similar to the example in the previous example involving the Customer table), but also to minimize the number of records produced as intermediate result during pair-wise joins of multiple dimension tables.
For example, if a query using the Star Schema diagram depicted above involving dimension tables and the Fact table, a Left-Deep Tree involving the Fact table and all the dimensions would result, and would look like the following diagram.
Here F denotes the Fact Table and D1 denotes dimension table 1, D2 is dimension table 2, and so on. For the example, it assumes that the Fact table has 10 million rows with default selectivity of 1/1000, and each of the dimension tables have 10K rows with default selectivity of 1/10. While IDS does have the ability to do Hash Join, for which it is superior to standard Nested-Loop Join for warehousing queries, the intermediate results produced after each join is still prohibitively large as you can see from the example.
In Panther, the Star Join method is now included as part of the IDS' optimizer costing algorithm. If conditions are met based on statistics of the tables and that foreign keys are defined within the Fact table corresponding to primary keys in the dimension tables, then the Star Join method will be chosen.
Instead of the Left Deep tree, a Star Join in IDS becomes a Right Deep Tree, taking advantage of Multi-Index Scan method described earlier to reduce the number rows being fetched from the Fact table, thus significantly reducing the intermediate result set for each of the Hash Joins performed with each dimension table, as shown in the diagram below.
Beta testing by customer/partners have shown significant improvement with such dimensional queries. Depending on the number of rows in each of the tables and the predicates involved, it is easy to see how performance can double, triple or more. The next blog entry will discuss advancements in time-cyclic data management.


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Spectrosynthesis - Asian LGBTQ Issues and Art Now
Employing "spectrum of light" as the theme, this exhibition addresses LGBTQ community's rich history and its appeals for peace, love and diversity with rainbow as its symbol. On the one hand, the spectrum of colors can be seen in a rainbow, a phenomenon caused by the refraction of white light. Rainbow and light are two sides of the same coin, implying that this exhibition is not about the binary opposition between light and darkness, but as diverse and inclusive as the spectrum in terms of its artistic expression and exploration of LGBTQ issues. On the other hand, light is the everlasting source of energy for the creatures on Earth. It treats and nurtures all living organisms fairly and equally, and promises them growth, hope, and kindness. Based on their similar backgrounds in culture, language, geographical location and ethnicity, 22 artists from Taiwan, China, Hong Kong and Singapore are showcased in the exhibition with a total of 51 artworks. The exhibition represents the life stories and related issues of the post-war Chinese LGBTQ community as the artworks on view touch upon a profusion of subject matters such as identity, equality, exploitation by mass media, social predicaments, comments on individuals/groups, human desire, as well as life and death.
Grantees: Wang Jun-Jieh, Hsi Shih-Pin, Su Hui Yu
Arcadia Curiosities: Pan Hsinhua Solo Exhibition
PAN Hsinhua was born in Taimili of Taitung County in 1966. He graduated from the Department of Fine Arts at the National Institute of the Arts (currently known as Taipei National University of the Arts) in 1991 and held a teaching position at Taipei National University of the Arts as an assistant professor between 2011 and 2015. The exhibition "Arcadia Curiosities – Pan Hsinhua Solo Exhibition" at Asia Art Center is Pan Hsinhua's third exhibition in 2017; Pan Hsinhua was invited to exhibit in "Crisscrossing East and West: The Remaking of Ink Art in Contemporary East Asia" curated by Chia-Chi Wang at Yinchuan Museum of Contemporary Art, as well as "Memories Interwoven and Overlapped: Post-Martial Law Era Ink Painting in Taiwan", the grand exhibition at National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts curated by Chao-Jen Wu.
As far as contemporary ink art in Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, Japan and Korea, or even considering the art development in the period since the lifting of martial law in Taiwan, Pan Hsinhua has become an irreplaceable force for his uniquely brilliant artistic language.
Grantee: Pan Hsin-Hua
2017 Mipaliw Wetland Art Festival
Mipaliw, to practice the intention of beauty out of mutual assistance.
9 local and 2 international artists, after a month long residency in Fengbin Township and with the help from each other as well as from local habitants , completed their artworks in Shitiping and Fuxing, creating 11 eye-catching installations that bring a whole new scenery to the East Coast
Grantee: Dungi Sumi
2017 Jodori Khiang - Community Artfest
Jodori Khiang is a community-engaged project that aims at revitalizing the Jodori District in Taipei City through art. Facilitating cultural activities in everyday living spaces is a way in which social responsibility of the arts can be practiced.
Grantees: Chen Ching-Yao, Yu Wen-Fu, Shih Tung-Ling
"SUZU 2017: Oku-Noto Triennale" aims to be an unprecedented festival in which participating artists can rediscover the charm of the place, its patterns of life and its people, while engaging locals and supporters from elsewhere, jointly create an art festival where traditional culture resonates with contemporary art.
Grantees: Wu Chi-Tsung, Chen Shu-Chiang
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As a comic table: a child in order to study overwork, with a head of black hair in exchange for 100 points and was parents kiss, but because of a mistake had 98 points and parents slap wait. In the eyes of their parents, the efforts have been put into the slightest sympathy Bo.
While the other children may usually delicious tastes, 55 points were parents beaten, and later because of 61 points and was praised by parents kiss. Compared to the two children, only a few hair in exchange for high scores, but because of a mistake was sentenced to "death" to a child although the results are not good, but progress can be rewarded. Parents always try to score, but do not know behind the score, their children in the end to pay much. They never stand in a comprehensive perspective to think about the problem, but the one-sided and objective pressure, which will give children a huge psychological shadow.
Obviously, after that, the children who have tested 100 points may be getting worse, and that failed children may be getting better and better, until it reaches 100.
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Flawlessness, thy name is Lupita Nyong'o. The Academy Award-winning actress is featured in a brilliant cover editorial for the July 2014 VOGUE that was lensed by Mikael Jansson. The editorial was short on location in Marrakech, Morocco.
The Mexican-born and Kenyan-raised actress makes history as one of the the very few Black women to cover the iconic fashion magazine, notes IndieWire. "Since 1989, only eight [Black] women have made the cut: Models Naomi Campbell and Liya Kebede, actors Halle Berry and Jennifer Hudson, singers Beyonce and Rihanna, plus Oprah Winfrey and Michelle Obama. ... Lupita Nyong'o is the first of African origin since Ethiopian Kebede." Beverly Johnson was the first Black model to appear on the cover of American Vogue in August 1974.
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According to Quantcast we've had about 6,000 visitors from China this month. (We're apparently not blocked. Yet.) We need every one of you to help us get to the bottom of this Kim Jong-Un rumor.
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Final Thoughts on JFK
I'm off this week but wanted to join in on some last JFK thoughts. I write just a few minutes before the 50th anniversary of that moment the shots rang out.
The television coverage has been excessive, and some have found it grating. Fair enough, but we'll never do it like this again. There won't be any such attention paid to the 60th and 70th; those who were there will be gone, as will be many of those who were not there but remember.
People keep doing "Where I was when I heard." It is obnoxious, but it's an understandably human impulse to want to locate yourself in time and space and tell someone where you were when you heard big news. Our parents did it with Dec. 7, 1941. "I was at a football game and the announcer came on and asked all military personnel to return to their bases . . ."
I was in seventh grade at John P. McKenna junior high school in Massapequa Park, Long Island. We were in the halls on our way to seventh period. My friend Karen Strazzeri walked up to me wide-eyed. "Did you hear? The president was shot." That was too strange to be true. I told her it was probably a rumor but if it was true we'd find out soon. A few minutes later, in what I remember as social studies class, the teacher said the president had been shot. Then the principal came on the public address system and said the president was dead. We were all very quiet. Thn one boy, out of nervousness or idiocy, laughed. The teacher yelled at him, harshly: How could you so insensitive? That poor boy is probably still in therapy.
I remember that night or the next sitting on the lawn and looking up and thinking, "Isn't it funny JFK is dead and the moon is still there and everything looks the same?"
I watched it all on TV, like everyone else. Later I worked in the CBS Newsroom on West 57th Street in Manhattan, and wound up working with the men and women who'd covered the assassination 15 years before. One of them, Marion Glick, told me what it was like. They all worked double shifts. The writers and producers and technicians, the secretaries and on-air talent, all of them felt they were performing a public service. They had a heightened sense of responsibility, like soldiers. Others felt this too. The second day, local restaurants and diners started sending over full dinners and lunches for the CBS staff, all on the house.
People debate whether JFK was a liberal or a conservative. He was a politician operating within a party that was starting to go left. He wasn't that interested in ideology. He was propelled by a belief that of all the available leaders around, he'd be as good as any and better than most. He wanted to win, triumph and rise, and these are not bad things, and he thought that he, along with the best and the brightest he brought into the White House, could handle, with practicality and pragmatism, what came over the transom.
He was curiously passive about his legislative agenda. You always get a sense when you read the histories that he thought he'd always have trouble with those old Neanderthals in the Senate. It took Lyndon Johnson, the least appreciated president of modern times, who had the bad luck to follow Jack Kennedy's act, to bully JFK's agenda through. He knew those senators, knew what they needed, as opposed to desired and liked to pose about. He made deals, bent them to his will. Thus came the civil rights laws and Medicare. It is amazing that he gets so little public credit for these things. But he didn't have dash and he wasn't a glamorous or romantic figure.
You can't ignore the sheer glamour in the Kennedy story. Yes it was the first fully televised White House, and yes his friends in the press splashed pictures of the family all over their magazines, but people wanted to look at them—there was a market for them—because they were beautiful and young and sun-splashed. They were like movie stars. The Nixons were not, Hubert Humphrey was not. They were at a disadvantage.
Anyway it's foolish not to remember that glamour was part of the story.
Two small points. It is interesting that JFK was celebrated as the first modern president, the first truly hip president, and yet the parts of him we celebrate most are actually the old virtues. He lied to get into the military, not to get out of it. He was sick, claimed to be well, and served as a naval officer in the war. In the postwar years he was in fairly constant physical pain, but he got up every day and did his demanding jobs. He played hurt. He was from a big, seemingly close family and seemed very much the family man himself. What we liked most about him wasn't hip.
And he was contained. He operated within his own physical space and was not florid or mawkish or creepily domineering in his physical aspect.
For generations after him politicians imitated him—his mannerisms, his look, his hair. Before JFK hair was not a political virtue. After him it was. I remember a candidate for the U.S. Senate in New York who was the first candidate to blow-dry his hair. He had a big swoop of it. That guy ran on his hair. It was his platform. I remember a local New York City political figure who wore a kind of JFK wig, a big strange shock of hair that looked twice as big as his head. And he went pretty far.
If they had to imitate anything I wish it was how distanced, ironic and modest JFK was in the physical sphere. He didn't hug the other pols on the platform, he didn't give a big man-hug to the others on the dais, he didn't kiss everyone and point at the audience and give them a thumbs-up. He didn't act, he just was. Like a grownup. Like a person with dignity. Like a person with public boundaries who is an actor but not a phony.


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Our staffing includes one (1) Fire Chief, one (1) Assistant Chief, one (1) Fire Marshal, 24 full-time personnel, 27 part-time (POC) personnel, one (1) Administrative Assistant and one (1) Mechanic.
A separate organization among the membership called the North Aurora Firefighters Association raises funds for several community programs and events. Our annual Turkey Raffle provides funding for public education materials, college scholarships, youth sports, Operation Christmas, Lions Club, North Aurora Mothers Club and Buddas Brotherhood Organization. These are just some of the many programs we contribute to.
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Serverless Computing - The Latest "as a Service" Offering
By Joe Michalowski
We'd all like to fulfill that "find a job you love and you'll never work a day in your life" cliché. But in reality, every job (even if it's our dream job) comes with its downsides.
For you, the constant fight against shadow IT might get on your last nerves. For your developer co-workers, infrastructure management is the roadblock that stands in the way of focusing on coding.
As you watch more and more applications and processes move to the cloud, technology is coming to developers' rescue - most recently, in the form of serverless computing.
What Is Serverless Computing?
We recently talked about how containers are making life easier for application developers. However, serverless computing (also known as Function as a Service) is poised to take development simplification to another level.
Typically when developers are tasked with moving an application to the cloud via an Infrastructure as a Service provider, there's much more to do than just write code. Once the application code is ready, developers run tests on a local computer, provision an IaaS server and (continuously) ensure it is properly patched. They plan for ongoing operation from financial and cloud contract perspectives.
These additional hardware and maintenance concerns cut into valuable developer resources that could be spent migrating more apps to the cloud for greater business efficiency. Serverless computing promises to remove these processes.
Serverless computing solutions don't make developers allocate virtual machines in the cloud. Instead, developers simply upload functions to their IaaS provider, which then deploys, operates, and scales those functions as a service. This way, developers spend less time worrying about hardware management and more time working on event-driven programming.
While this is great for your developers, you might be wondering - how does this affect my own job?
How Serverless Computing Impacts IT Managers
If developers can eliminate the need for hardware maintenance through serverless computing and business leaders can enjoy widespread cost savings at the same time, where does your IT department fit into the picture?
Just because serverless computing promises that developers won't have to worry about hardware maintenance doesn't mean FaaS is entirely hands-off. When your business uses a FaaS solution like AWS Lambda, you give up any ownership of the operational details that you would manage with a standard IaaS approach.
This is why it's so important for you to become a cloud broker for your business. You know that "hands-off" cloud computing doesn't mean all will run smoothly and users will be happy. Leaving your business application performance entirely in the hands of a public cloud provider means you're just one misstep in the SLA away from a costly disruption.
When you're trusted as the internal cloud broker, you can stress the need to safeguard serverless computing solutions by implementing a continuous monitoring solution. This way, developers can offload hardware maintenance, business leaders still see widespread cost savings, and you can keep an eye on the growing volume of cloud applications that support your business.
It all comes down to becoming an expert in all things cloud brokerage - learning the necessary financial and business skills to be part of a relevant, modern IT department.
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TOWSON, Md. – Senior forward Courtney Hurt led three VCU players in double-figure scoring with a game-high 23 points, including 13 of 16 from the free throw line, and the Rams snapped a two-game road losing skid with a 66-59 victory at Towson Thursday night.
Towson (12-9, 3-7 CAA) tried to rally late, pulling within five with 55.5 seconds left, but Hurt came up with a huge block with less than 30 seconds to play and gave VCU a seven-point advantage on a layup with 12 seconds showing. She then sealed the win with a pair of clutch free throws with 4.4 seconds to go.
Senior Andrea Barbour added 18 points and nine rebounds, while junior Robyn Hobson (pictured), who made her first career start, chipped in a career-high 14 points. Sophomore Zakia Williams dished out a career-best four assists off the bench.
A jumper from Krystal Parnell pulled Towson within 10-8 seven minutes into the contest before VCU (13-8, 6-4 CAA) answered with six quick points during a 1:30 stretch to push its lead to 16-8 with 11:56 showing. Junior Carleeda Green found a wide open Barbour under the basket with a cross court pass before freshman Aprill McRae converted a fast break layup to give the Rams the eight-point advantage midway through the opening stanza
VCU later pushed its lead to 22-12 after Williams, who dished out all four of her assists in the first half, came up with a steal and fed Hurt for another fast break layup with 7:29 to go, which capped off a 12-4 spurt.
The Rams finished the half strong, holding Towson to just one field goal during the final 5:21. Williams later snuck a pass to Barbour, who then drilled a pull-up jumper to extend VCU's lead to 32-21, its largest of the half, with 20 seconds left before the break
Hurt led the Black & Gold with 13 first-half points, seven of which came from the free throw line.
VCU, which shot 50-percent from the field in the second stanza, extended its lead to 40-25 on a Barbour jumper with 16:22 to go before Towson began to climb back. The Tigers responded with a 16-6 run and eventually trimmed the deficit to 46-41 on a layup by Deree Fooks with 9:25 remaining.
Towson continued to keep it close, trailing by just six with 4:38 to go before VCU built a 58-47 lead on a traditional 3-point play by senior Chelsea Snyder with 3:15 left.
Trailing by 10 with 2:44 to go, Towson scratched back and eventually pulled within 62-57 on a free throw from Parnell with less than a minute remaining. It was as close as the Tigers would get the rest of the way.
Solid defense has been a key to VCU's success in recent years. The Rams have now won 105 of their last 122 games when holding an opponent to 60 points or less, including an 8-2 mark this year.
VCU concludes its two-game road swing at #12 Delaware on Sunday, Feb. 5. Tipoff is set for 2 p.m. The Rams return to the Verizon Wireless Arena for three straight home games, beginning with Hofstra on Feb. 9.


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Hello! How are you today? For this post I paired a black belted blazer, pencil sheer skirt and black bag. Of course these leopard heels are the highlight of the look! They add a sophisticated tone to this total black outfit and make it more interesting. I believe this outfit shows that any woman can be feminin and strong willed in the same time. What do you think?
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Hi everyone! Let's kick off the week with a clean marine look! Today I paired a white cropped shirt with a high waisted shorts and classic black heels. I chose a sleek hair look and I added a pale blue bag. I wanted to keep the look simple, so I didn't add any accessories or jewelry. Hope you like it!
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Fall // Winter 2014-15 Essentials
Happy Sunday everyone! How did you spend your weekend? Today, we decided to show you the most complete shopping list, with everything you are about to need this winter. We collected shoes (mules are a must this season) , accessories (metallic jewellery, leather goodies) and of course apparel- stunning evening dresses, leather bodies, fur and cozy sweaters. We tried to combine the basic and most essential trends of the season, like mules, fur and hats, along with some more extravagant pieces, like leather bodies, lace tops and checkers. Hope you like our selection!
Hello! For this post I chose my favourite color-combo: black/ white/red. I think that these three shades can create a complete, chic outfit. I paired black crop top, white blazer, red clutch and my new obsession, this edgy check shorts! Of course I couldn't be ready without these gorgeous gladiator heels from Choies. Hope you like my classic//edgy style!
Defining Elegance
Hello! How are you today? This time, I chose a white sleek look, with a white jumpsuit and nude details. I think this background, white stones and columns, empasizes the elegance and class of todays' outfit. I think black, white and their combination are able to make any outfit chic in an instant. What about you, which is your definition of elegance?
Cinderella Prom Inspiration
Hi everyone! I think that most of us, as little girls ,we were inspired by cinderella and her beautiful transformation... So, growing up, we are eager to attend events, proms and balls, wearing breathtaking gowns and waiting for true love to come! So today's inpiration is about the ideal outfits for a prom or another special event!
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Waves and Fringes
Hi everyone! I know it's been a while since our last post, but we were working on so many different things...we are so eager to show you! This time, I chose a beautiful coast as the backround for this boho yet chic outfit. I paired a fringed kimono and these gorgeous gladiators from Choies and I added a hint of white in this dark outfit...Of course sunnies are always a must. Hope you like it!
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Power products supplier Furrion has introduced new power conversion kits for RVs. According to a press release, the kits convert hard-wired RV cord sets into "easy-to-use and store" detachable electrical setups using existing the cord sets.
Available for 30- and 50-amp systems, the easy to install Furrion kits include a Furrion Powersmart LED square non-metallic inlet, male plug, titanium color weatherproof cover, electrical box, exterior inlet mounting ring and gaskets.
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These are all the Logan History Blog posted in July, 2011.
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Library Directors - Past, Present and Future
With the forthcoming retirement of Mr. Ronald Jenkins at the end of July, I have been asked to collect photographs of all the directors past and present. It has been an interesting project that has connected me with people everywhere from Ohio to California in search of photographs. There have been six directors of the library in the past 94 years since the library was established in July 1917.
Soon Mr. Robert Shupe will become the seventh director when he takes his new position on August 15th.
~ Jason, Special Collections Librarian
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RAMONA, CA (KUSI/CNN) – Last week, a giant cow in Australia named Knickers captured hearts around the world.
It didn't impress Lindsey Krause of Southern California so much, though. She already had her own big cow.
Krause rescued Cowboy, who stands 6-4 and weighs 3,000 pounds, about two years ago.
"Somebody called me, they're like, 'Hey Lindsey, there's this steer down the road and, you know, he's hungry, he's been mooing for days,'" she said. "So I drove over there with some friends, and we had a trailer and two trucks full of people. Once they finally decided, 'OK, we're going to relinquish him to you,' then we got him in about two hours later and drove off. And he's been with us ever since."
Krause said when Knickers went viral, she started getting tagged in posts from people who knew about Cowboy.
He's about 4-5 years old, and could keep growing. Krause said he's already one of the largest cows in the world.
"He's just under a hair, and when I mean hair, a hair, under the Guinness World Record for largest steer," she said. "His head alone weighs about 300 pounds."
Naturally, Cowboy consumes a lot of food. Krause said it "does feel like he's always eating."
He even likes whole pumpkins, she said.
"He likes pumpkins when he's in the mood for it, and he'll eat the whole entire pumpkin in one bite," she said.
The thing that stands out most about Cowboy is not his size, though, according to Krause. It's his personality.
"He loves people. He's curious and he's really playful, he gets really excited and jumps around, and bucks, and it's really, really funny to watch," she said. "He's like a giant dog."
Krause said his "companionship" is one of her favorite things about Cowboy.
"He just brings a lot of joy to everybody," she said. "The children engage with him and, you know, he's just kind of been a little light for peoples' lives."


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that is a super sweet picture of maruschka. she looks like such the little snuggle bunny. how nice that must be to come home too :)ReplyDelete
AWWW--she looks so pretty!! She's got that "come pet me" look on her face. I wish I could snuggle with her. Hugs maruschka!ReplyDelete
Awww, so cute! I want to give her a tummy rub too.ReplyDelete
Awww, that is the cutest! I want to give her a tummy rub too.ReplyDelete
She's a very pretty black cat!ReplyDelete
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I agree - Maruschka is so lovable. She does have a beautiful face and looks so snug laying on her bed. Thanks for posting. I do look forward to WCB and Maruschka-That pretty name sounds Russian. Is it?
She looks like one content cat! So pretty.ReplyDelete
It's moments like this that I call my cats their sappiest nicknames!ReplyDelete
she looks so sweet, I love her eyes :-)ReplyDelete
the book will "take off" tomorrow night by the Paris plane....compte une semaine !!!
Après un week end super fatigant ,je ferai bien comme ce chat....bonne semaineReplyDelete
Aria: Thanks! I love this term: "snuggle bunny"; it's so sweet and it's appropriate when speaking of our lovely Muschki! It is always nice to see them when coming back home...ReplyDelete
SHER: Thanks, Sher! Maruschka send you her regards ;-)...
BOO_LICIOUS: Thanks! She's waiting for you, then...
JELLY: Thanks ;-)!
BONNIE LOVES CATS: Thanks, Bonnie! I'm so happy that you like Maruschka. She is a sweet little darling... Maruschka is a Russian name, but that's the German version of this name.
D: She is very content, well I do hope so ;-)! Thanks!
SHANNON: We too and they both have a multitude of "stupid" nicknames we love to use!!!..........
BRIGITTE: Thanks, Brigitte ;-)!!!
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When it comes to making horsepower, if you throw enough money at an engine, it's going to produce the numbers you want. If you look at any form of professional drag racing, the big-money teams are the consistent winners, but if you really pay attention, it isn't just about making power. Putting that power to the ground is an equally important part of the equation, and it's traditionally been a challenge for high-horsepower street cars. Jeff Cleary wanted a car that proved its performance on the racetrack, instead of a dyno sheet. And with 600 hp at the rear wheels and elapsed times in the 10.70s on regular street tires, it's apparent he succeeded.
Cleary bought the car as a bare hull, so before the purists gripe about heavily modifying a '67 Sting Ray convertible, understand that he started with a mere skeleton and built it into the machine shown on these pages. He received lots of help along the way, but his vision was carried through the entire process, and it resulted in a wickedly fast midyear that retains excellent street manners. First on the list of contributors is Mike Stockdale, owner and operator of SRIII Motorsports, a shop dedicated to making old Corvettes handle as well as (or better than) new ones. SRIII built the chassis-and-suspension setup for Cleary's car, using a round-tube frame that features double main rails and lots of additional supports and bracing.
For suspension, Cleary's car uses C5 Z06 front equipment, with the stock cast-aluminum control arms working in conjunction with a pair of adjustable QA1 coilover shocks. Braking power comes in the form of Baer Extreme binders, featuring massive slotted and drilled rotors along with a set of forged six-piston calipers. Bolted to those rotors are C6 Z06 wheels, measuring 18x9.5 inches at each corner and sporting Nitto 555 rubber, sized at 275/35R18 up front and 285/35R18 out back. The stance is just right, and the tire-and-wheel combination nicely complements the car's style.
Putting horsepower to the ground is left to the rear suspension, which features C4-spec equipment, including a stock-style Dana 44 center section that's been prepped for serious abuse by Mark Williams. Cryo'd C4 axle stubs send power to the aluminum halfshafts, while a host of tubular goodies from Vette Brakes and Products provide rigidity and adjustability. The short rearend ratio of 3.90:1 works well in combination with the highly modified T56 six-speed manual transmission. Inside the gearbox are a Viper-spec main shaft, carbon synchronizers and steel shifting forks, all assembled by Rockland Standard Gear in Sloatsburg, New York.
Neatly tucked under the '67 big-block hood is a very potent LS7 engine, built by John Walsh of J2 Race Engines in Chesapeake, Virginia. Cleary retained the stock rotating assembly and dry-sump oiling system, while adding a custom Peterson Fluid Systems tank. The LS7 heads are mostly original, but J2 updated the valvetrain with a set of PSI springs and Katech titanium retainers. A Katech Torquer camshaft moves the valves in an efficient manner, thanks to its 220- and 244-degree duration at 0.050-inch lift, and 0.615- and 0.648-inch lift. Up top is a custom Marcella sheetmetal intake manifold, which added a considerable amount of power over the stock composite piece. A steady flow of 93-octane pump gas comes from a Rock Valley stainless-steel tank, which features an in-tank Walbro pump.
The stock fuel injectors get the job done, as does the original LS7 ignition system, but it was up to Ed Hutchings to tune the engine to its maximum capability on a chassis dyno. The results of his efforts were 596 hp and 522 lb-ft of torque at the rear wheels, meaning Cleary's LS7 is making more than 700 hp at the flywheel--with no power adder! Incredibly, this potent combination is good for as much as 27 mpg on the highway, though Cleary admits the figure is dependent on the amount of throttle input provided. At any speed, the '67 has a surprisingly mellow exhaust note, even though it features a set of stainless-steel headers with equal-length 1-7/8-inch primaries. These lead to a length of 3-inch piping capped with stainless Flowmaster 50 Series mufflers. The LS7 stays cool with a DeWitts custom aluminum radiator fitted with dual Spal electric fans.
Cleary's Corvette definitely makes massive power and handles like a new Vette, but let's not forget about the flawless aesthetics found both inside and out. The car started with very little of the body intact, so K&L Enterprises in Martinsburg, West Virginia, had its hands full. The crew at K&L installed the Sermersheim jig-assembled nose and fabricated a radiator support to make room for the carbon-fiber intake ductwork. They also designed and built a new hood-hinge system, so the hood would lift up and out, instead of down and inside the engine bay. From there, it was a matter of straightening and aligning the body panels in preparation for a coating of black paint with a titanium stinger stripe. After the Dupont basecoat/clearcoat materials were allowed to cure, the guys at K&L sanded and buffed the fresh finish to perfection.
Inside is a stylish interior by David Wells Custom Upholstery, using C5 sport seats and stock-type door panels. The dash is mostly OEM by design, but the original gauges have been tossed in favor of Auto Meter Pro-Comp units, which are the perfect size for the C2 dash insert. Auxiliary gauges and warning lights reside in the center of the dash, where the heater controls and radio once lived. The controls for the Vintage Air A/C and stereo system are hidden from plain sight, but it's still easy for Cleary to adjust the creature comforts to his liking.
Overall, the car doesn't skimp in any aspect; it simply does everything well. It handles corners with ease, it blazes a trail down the quarter-mile, and it offers plenty of comfort. So far, Cleary has been very successful on the dragstrip, posting a best of 10.77 seconds at 132 mph on hard street radials at the 2011 Holley LS Fest, held in Bowling Green, Kentucky. That's where we met Cleary, and that's where he put his flawlessly assembled Corvette to the test in a number of activities. Perhaps not surprisingly, it handled each task with aplomb and lived through all the abuse. Great looks and big-time power with performance to back it up--what more could a Corvette lover ask for?
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Malian soldiers stand by the remains of a motorcycle used by a suicide bomber at the entrance of Gao, northern Mali, Friday Feb. 8, 2013, It was the first known time a suicide bomber operated in Mali. (AP Photo / Jerome Delay)
GAO, Mali -- French forces have surged into another town in north Mali, wresting Tessalit near the Algerian border from control of Islamic insurgents Friday even as the conflict's first suicide bombing increased fears of terror attacks.
Aicha Belco Maiga, president of the government body representing the area of Tessalit, confirmed by telephone from her home in the capital Bamako that her town had been retaken by French forces. She is in contact with a colleague in Tessalit.
"Since 8 a.m. ... French troops are in Tessalit. They control the entrance to the town, as well as the administrative buildings," said Maiga.
The suicide bomber hit a checkpoint in another northern Mali city, Gao, killing only himself. It was the first known suicide bombing since French military forces intervened on Jan. 11 in this chaotic African nation whose northern half was ruled for 10 months by armed Islamic extremists but who now see their hold shrinking.
In the capital Bamako, far to the south, soldiers from a unit allied with the leader of last year's military coup in Mali stormed the camp of the presidential guard Friday morning, and at least one person was killed and five were wounded, witnesses said. The incident underscores that Mali's military is in disarray and in poor shape to confront, without outside help, the well-armed Islamic extremists, many of whom have combat experience.
The red beret-wearing former presidential guard force, based at the Djicoroni camp in Bamako, was disarmed months ago by the green beret-wearing officers loyal to Capt. Amadou Haya Sanogo, the leader of last year's coup. Their camp has been attacked on several occasions by the green berets, who seized the presidential guards' weapons.
When the green berets arrived at the military camp Friday they were confronted by women and children, and fired tear gas and volleys into the air, according to Batoma Dicko, a woman who lives in the camp. The camp includes housing for military families. The attackers succeeded in entering the camp, carried out a search and set fire to the infirmaries, she said.
Dr. Amadou Diallo, who works at the infirmary in the camp, known as Djicoroni Para Camp, said at least one person was killed and five were wounded.
"A young man in his 20s was hit by a bullet in the head and he died on the spot. The bullet pierced his face through his right cheekbone, and came out through his neck," Diallo said. "He was totally disfigured. There are also two women who were wounded, and three children, aged 11, 17 and around 15 years old."
The Red Berets were the elite presidential guard who protected former President Amadou Toumani Toure, who was toppled in the coup last March by junior officers.
Malian military spokesman Modibo Traore confirmed that a suicide bomber attacked a checkpoint at the entrance to Gao around 6 a.m. on Friday. The bomber, who was wearing an explosive belt, was the only casualty. The bomber was on a motorcycle and blew himself up just before a Malian military checkpoint. Officials at a French military base in Gao declined to comment on the attack.
Hours later, a building guarded by Malian soldiers at the scene of the attack was splattered in blood. The mangled, charred remains of the motorcycle lay in a heap nearby. The Malian soldiers said area residents had taken the man's remains away and buried them before sunset, as local Muslim custom dictates.
Residents who heard the blast from their mud-walled homes on the dusty road nearby described the attack.
"It shook so loudly I thought it had hit my house," resident Agali Ouedraogo said.
Fears have been high of such attacks since the discovery of industrial-strength explosives in Gao earlier this week.
France intervened in its former colony after the armed Islamists, who had taken control over northern Mali in April, began pushing south toward the capital. Several African nations have also contributed troops to the intervention force.
France has raised with the UN Security Council the possibility of establishing a UN peacekeeping operation in Mali.
France's UN Ambassador Gerard Araud told reporters that he started discussions on the issue during closed council consultations on Mali on Wednesday. He said a UN force would deploy only when security conditions permit.
UN peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous said there is widespread international support for replacing the current military operation with a UN peacekeeping operation, but this would require approval by the Malian government.
Ahmed reported from Timbuktu, Mali


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When hidden microfilm comes into his possession, an innocent man is drawn into espionage.
During World War II in England, inmate Stephen Neale is released from an asylum after having served a two-year sentence for killing his terminally ill wife. Stephen buys a train ticket to London, but before the train departs, he is drawn to a nearby charity fête being held by the Mothers of Free Nations. Stephen buys a ticket for a cake weight-guessing contest, then on the advice of fortune-teller Mrs. Bellane, Stephen buys a second ticket and correctly gives the weight of the cake. Stephen wins the cake, but before he exits the fête, a man in a black coat rushes into Mrs. Bellane's tent, and Stephen is told his guess was wrong after all. As Stephen's first guess was still closest to the true weight, he jubilantly boards the train with his cake. Stephen is joined in his compartment by a blind man, with whom he shares the cake, but does not notice when the man momentarily breaks his glazed look to watch him. When the train comes to a stop due to a bombing raid, Stephen looks out the window, and the blind man hits him over the head with his cane, then runs out of the compartment clutching the cake. The man shoots at Stephen as he chases him across the misty moors, but perishes when a bomb drops on the cottage in which he has taken refuge. Later in London, Stephen hires Mr. Rennit, an alcoholic private detective, to help him investigate the Mothers of Free Nations organization. Austrians Willi Hilfe and his beautiful sister Carla run the charity, and agree to help Stephen after hearing his story. Rennit follows Willi and Stephen to Mrs. Bellane's house, but Stephen is shocked to find that the glamorous woman calling herself Mrs. Bellane is not the same as the fortune-teller at the bazaar. Mrs. Bellane invites them to join a séance, whose other partipants include psychiatrist Dr. Forrester, artist Martha Penteel, and Mr. Cost, whom Stephen recognizes as the black-coated man at the fair. After the room darkens, Mrs. Bellane seems to speak as Stephen's dead wife and accuses him of murdering her. After Stephen becomes hysterical, Cost is shot to death, and Stephen is accused of his murder. Willi helps Stephen escape, and by nightfall, Stephen discovers that Rennit's office has been ransacked and that he has disappeared. Stephen then meets Carla alone during an air raid, and reveals details about his previous crime: Stephen's terminally ill wife begs him to end her misery, but when he is unable to administer the poison he has bought, she takes the poison herself. Stephen is found guilty of mercy killing and is incarcerated in an asylum. Carla is compassionate toward Stephen and the next day takes him to hide at her friend Newland's bookshop. After picking up Forrester's book, The Psychology of Nazism , and learning that Forrester is an advisor to the Ministry for Home Security, Stephen suspects that Carla's organization may be a front for spies. Carla, meanwhile, returns to her office to search the card files for all the names affiliated with the organization, while Stephen learns from Mrs. Bellane that she used published information about his trial for the séance, and admits that it was not she who gave him the cake's correct weight. Carla then identifies several people enrolled in the charity as possible German spies and confides her fears to Willi. Willi urges her to stay away from Stephen, but Carla confesses that she has fallen in love with him. Later, Carla and Stephen become engaged and deliver some books for Newland to Forrester. When they are let into an empty apartment, the suitcase in which they are carrying the books explodes. Stephen awakens alone some time later in a hospital, and is interrogated by Prentice, a Scotland Yard inspector who has been following him. Stephen refuses to reveal Carla's identity in order to protect her. Prentice, who has arrested Stephen for Rennit's murder, doubts Stephen's story of a spy ring, but agrees to search the site where the blind man died. After an exhaustive search of the moors, Stephen finds a small tube of film embedded in a chunk of cake. At the national Ministry for Home Security, the film is revealed to be the new defense plans for the Channel, which had only been taken out of the vault twice before, once while Forrester was present. Defense agents now realize that Travers, a tailor recommended by Forrester, was the only civilian at the Ministry the previous day, and that the apartment where the bomb exploded was leased in his name. Prentice goes to Travers' shop for a suit fitting, and when Stephen arrives five minutes later, he recognizes Travers as "Cost," who he thought was dead. Cost pretends not to recognize him, and after making a phone call, escapes into another room and stabs himself to death with a pair of shears. While a crowd gathers around Cost, Stephen telephones the number of Cost's most recent suit delivery and recognizes Carla's voice at the other end. Stephen goes to their apartment, where Willi takes both him and an innocent Carla hostage, and admits that he has been trying to get rid of them because they know too much about the spy ring. Stephen realizes that the most recent film is sewn into the suit, and attacks Willi. Carla kills her disloyal brother during the struggle and escapes with Stephen onto the roof. After exchanging gunfire with Forrester, he and his entourage of Nazi spies are killed by British police. Some time later, Stephen and Carla plan their church wedding.
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For the last couple of years the guys from the TruTV comedy series 'Impractical Jokers' have been pulling their hidden-camera shenanigans in the big city, but now Joe, Sal, Q and Murr are bringing their awkward comedy to the great state of Texas for an episode appropriately titled 'Bigger in Texas.'
Leaving the streets of New York and on to take over the rodeo and Texas Ranch Life in Chapel Hill, Texas, these four real-life best friends will do anything to embarrass each other while throwing some unsuspecting Texas tourists for a loop as they try to sell their laughable cowboy gear and demonstrate ranchhand skills in the most absurd ways possible.
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Just a quick blog post today on an upcoming conference: the U.S. Department of Energy's ARPA-E (Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy) is hosting an Energy Innovation Summit in Washington D.C. this March 1-3.
Keynotes include Energy Secretary Steven Chu, GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt, author and NY Times columnist Thomas Friedman, and a range of other government and industry leaders.
This sounds like a great opportunity for MEMS companies involved in energy harvesting and generation to showcase their technology as part of the solution to our planet's energy problems. A one-day workshop is also available for anyone wanting to know more about partnering with or applying for funding from ARPA-E. For more information, visit the Energy Innovation Summit website.
If any of you MEMSbloggers attend the summit, be sure to share your experiences with us!