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Driving across the Utah desert on I-70, James hit a butterfly with his car. Then another. Then a shower of them, tapping the windshield like hail, wings trapped in the wipers, orange and black. The noise of them, muted but steady, woke Molly from her trance, and she looked out the windshield, at broken wings and yellow smears.
"Oh, God," she said. "We have to stop."
"We can't stop."
"We have to," Molly said. "Look at them."
She was about to cry. He could hear it in her voice. He eased the car onto the shoulder and got out. It was afternoon and hot in the sun. Butterflies were everywhere, big monarchs heading north out of Mexico. It was insect weather, the air alive with fluttering wings, a cloud of color as far as he could see.
"Let's wait," Molly said. "Maybe they'll all pass by."
"Maybe," James said. He didn't think so. He looked at the tangle of wings and bodies in the grille of the car. Some of them were still moving, or maybe it was just the wind. Butterflies landed on his arm, his face, his hair, creeping him out. But Molly's eyes were wet. Let her sort it out, he thought. Let Molly figure it out for herself.
Tractor-trailer rigs roared by on the freeway, trailing wakes of wind and bugs. The highway was open, empty, each car and truck separated by a minute or two. Between cars, the valley lay huge and silent, surrounded by mountains, gray in the distance. Plants he didn't know the names of clung to the ground, low and gray and spiky-looking.
"Maybe we should just go back," Molly said. She lit a cigarette.
"We can't go back."
"Well, I mean, we could."
"We'll never make it all the way home," James said. "We'll end up in a motel in Salt Lake City. Look, if we just keep going we'll get there by dark. It'll be fine."
"We can't drive through this."
We could, he thought. I would, probably. A few butterflies more or less on the hood of the car wouldn't make such a big difference. . . .
"I can go slow for a while," he said. "Maybe we can drive out of it."
"Do we have a choice?"
"No. Not really. We can't stay here."
"Then do what you have to."
She stubbed the cigarette out and tucked the butt carefully into the pack. James got back behind the wheel, feeling the distance between them, the sharp angle. This was, somehow, his fault: bugs pinging off the windshield, even at fifty-five. Molly bundled into herself, knees up, arms wrapped around them, forming an obstinate lump of Molly. She wasn't being dramatic, or faking anything. She hated this. To be honest, it was part of what he loved about her, just not now. They had got into this and now they had to get out. And he was the one driving, the one to take the blame.
They drove out of it in a mile.
They had planned this trip in better times. Then Molly had lost her job. It wasn't all that much of a job, but it was hard for James to imagine her getting another. It felt to him that she had taken this little setback as permission to surrender. Not that she didn't care—she cared passionately about everything there was to care about. She worried endlessly; she woke at four to jumbled, urgent thoughts and couldn't get back to sleep. But James didn't see how someone would hire her, with her smudgy eyes, her so-so record.
They got to Sam and Jenny's place an hour after dark, an hour of trying to follow vague directions, their headlights illuminating tiny pitch-black roads. James wasn't sure they had it right until they pulled into the driveway and there was Sam's old Land Cruiser rusting away. He shut the lights off and dense pine-scented dark rushed in all around them.
"Hello?" he called.
"Hey," Sam said. He was above them, leaning over the railing of a deck, the coal of a cigar glowing in his hand. He said, "I thought you were coming tomorrow."
"No," James said. "Today. It was always today."
"Well, hell," Sam said. "Come on up. You eat yet?"
Just at that moment the downstairs flooded with light and the door opened, and Jenny was in the doorway with a baby in her arms. "Come in," she said. "Jeez, you guys. I should never have trusted Sam. Come on in!"
Hugs and kisses, children, beer for James, a natural soda for Molly. She had decided the previous fall that her father was an alcoholic and she was therefore at risk. The baby was Sam, Jr., the girls named Iris and Olive. Iris was the only one not yet in p.j.'s, maybe five or six? James could never tell. Jenny gave them sandwiches, which added another round of confusion, for when Molly said vegan Jenny heard vegetarian and made them cheese-and-avocado sandwiches. Sam yelled commands and suggestions from the porch, and when they were done eating they went to join him, leaving Jenny to put the young ones down. Iris lingered at the edge of the light.
"The happy couple," Sam said. "When's the blessed event?"
"Sent you an invitation," James said. "September, down in California. Santa Rosa."
"It's where my mom lives," Molly said. "She can't travel."
"Man, I hate California," Sam said. "Every time I go there, some kind of shit happens. Last time it was a six-hundred-dollar traffic ticket."
"What were you doing?"
"Oh," Sam said. "A few things."
In the light of the kerosene lantern, his face was wider, rounder, his hairline heading north. He looked older, of course. In their mid-thirties, they all looked older except for Molly. All this sobriety and veganism had given her skin a translucent glow, and she kept getting new tattoos. But Sam looked like his father now, tobacco-cured. Sam and James had shared a house in college, and once a month or so Sam's father would drive up from Denver and take them out for steaks. Always ordered the best wine. Sam's father had thought the boys should learn Bordeaux from Burgundy, from Mayacamas and Stags' Leap. He got them tickets to the Rockies' games, and, a couple of times, the Broncos'. He'd been dead three years now.
But that joy, that mastery, seemed to be missing from the current Sam, who looked, in the lamplight, as if something had been taken from him. He said, "I've been skiing again this year."
"I thought you gave it up," James said.
"Well, Iris is on the bunny slope now. Her school, they take them all up there in kindergarten, so, you know, father-daughter. It's a trip. The kids have no center of gravity! They're just, like, zoom zoom down the bunny slope. How about you? Are you getting out?"
"Ah, you know," James said. "Work and all. A couple of times a year."
"We need to find you a new job," Sam said. "How many students did you tell me you had?"
"A hundred and forty," James said.
"Jesus. I couldn't do it."
"Well," James said, "some days are better than others."
"You're a hundred per cent right," Molly said. "This job is killing him."
James started to say something, but sipped his beer instead. The two of them had the same knack for finding a sore spot and then poking it. He wanted nothing more than an escape to graduate school, a few years on the Ph.D. gravy train. He had been assured by his former teachers that he would have no problem getting in, getting funding. But someone had to pay the bills. It wasn't going to be Molly. He thought of his satchel, in the dark of the trunk, resting with a hundred and forty essays about "Hamlet" inside.
Sam said, "I know I screwed up, but I thought you were coming tomorrow night. I have to go down to Denver in the morning; I've got an appointment I shouldn't break. Y'all want to drive down to Denver with me? Make a day of it? I was thinking I'd be home for dinner, but if you want to come—"
"I don't think I'm getting back in the car anytime soon," James said. "I've got my windshield time in for the week. You could go down, though," he said to Molly. "Might be your best chance to see Colette."
"Oh, God," Molly said.
"You said you were going to while we were here."
"Oh, maybe I'll give her a call."
James cast a Parachute Adams on the far bank of the creek and remembered fishing with his father on another stretch of the Fraser, all those tiny breakfast trout. Torturing animals for fun, as Molly would say. She was in Denver for the day, a day in which James could make his own choices.
At this altitude, almost nine thousand feet, the sun was clear and dangerous. It felt like nothing in the cool of the morning, but it would burn you. He wore a cowboy hat, a long-sleeved Western shirt, a bathing suit, and wader boots over neoprene socks: wet wading. His exposed skin was hot from the sun but freezing where the water silked around his legs. It made him feel alive—that sensation of both things at once.
It was almost noon, and the pale morning duns were tapering off into a spinner fall that was impossible to fish. The bugs were too small and dead and lay right on the water. This was when his father would break out the Roll-A-Table and the cooler and set them up with sandwiches and beer and they would decide whether to fish out the slow hours of the afternoon or take a siesta or head back into town for supplies. This last sometimes led into the bar, some friendly Western place with wood floors and a pool table and warm afternoon sunlight slanting in.
Orphan, James thought. His father had been dead for two years. His mother had gone a couple of years before that.
Usually, James was the one who wanted to fish out the afternoon, especially toward the end. His father had seemed to lose his appetite for everything. A little fishing, a little supper, ten minutes of a movie, and he was done with it. All but the drinking. James hadn't liked it then, but now he wished that he could have another jukebox afternoon with his father, drinking Budweiser, playing eight ball.
When he got back to the house, it was almost one. Maybe he'd go out again later, feel the swirl of water on his legs.
The house was even bigger in the hard daylight—a wall of glass two stories high, a walk-in fireplace, log decks and trusses and columns. It was vulgar. But who was he to call anything a name? He lived in a little house he'd bought for nothing, a former college-student rental. Bit by bit he was fixing it up. By the time he was ninety, it would be perfect.
Butterflies again, in the mud by the side of the driveway, little blue butterflies by the hundreds. They landed and lit out again, restless. In his hair, on his bare arms.
"Three kids is a lot of kids," Jenny said. "Four is one too many."
The little ones were down for their afternoon naps, and Iris off at preschool. Jenny and James were out on the deck, under a canvas shade that felt like a sail, riffling in the breeze. Out of the sun, it was still cool, climbing toward four o'clock.
"You knew that job was dangerous when you took it," James said.
He expected Jenny to laugh, but she didn't.
"He killed somebody," she said. "Last winter, between Denver and here."
"Jesus. What happened?"
"He was driving somebody. A girl. A girl from here. Anyway, he was driving down on a Saturday afternoon and he hit a patch of ice in that truck he used to have. Went into the guardrail pretty hard. I guess she wasn't wearing her seat belt for some reason."
She shrugged. It occurred to James that they were not going to make it, these two. They were not going to stay married.
"Was he drunk?" James asked.
"Not quite," she said.
"I'm sorry."
"Oh, don't worry," Jenny said. "Nothing's happened yet. Maybe nothing will. But I just wanted to give you a heads-up."
"How long—"
"Always," Jenny said. "There's not, like, a starting point. You know."
"And you've tried."
Jenny laughed. "We went to see a shrink, together. You know what she told us?"
James shook his head.
"First thing out of her mouth," Jenny said. "She tells us that counselling never works. That by the time we've got enough of an emergency going it's too late."
"It's all uphill from here," she said. "He doesn't know, I think. What it's going to be like. If he knew, he'd do things differently. Maybe that's wishful thinking."
"You want me to talk to him?"
"Please don't," Jenny said. "I mean, if he brings it up, fine. You can do whatever makes sense to you. But I just didn't want this to come as a surprise, you know? It's always so busy around here."
"The girl," James said. "The one who died."
"We haven't talked about her," Jenny said.
James was doing the dishes, listening to Jenny rock the baby to sleep. Still no word from Sam and Molly. They weren't answering their cell phones. Maybe they were out of range, in the mountains between the house and Denver.
Jenny had fed the children early and then she and James ate all the leftover mac-and-cheese, dousing it in a grapefruit-habañero hot sauce. Then James held the sleeping baby while Jenny gave the girls a bath, then the baby woke up and James read "Curious George" to the girls on the sofa. The girls were off to bed and the baby almost asleep and James did the dishes, happy in soapy water and dreaming of a life he'd never lived, this one. This little unreal bubble. Waiting for the man in the yellow hat.
And at the edge of this bubble lay the pricks and thorns, his growing sense of panic. Why did it matter so much to him that his friends stay married, that they stay happy? But it did. He wanted everything to stay the same forever. He wanted his parents back. He wanted to think that he and Molly would live happily ever after.
And to have sent the two of them off together—Molly and Sam. Idiocy.
He plunged his hands into the warm water again, to calm himself, and listened to Jenny softly singing to her baby. A gas fire flickered in the grate.
When he was done, he poured a glass of wine for himself and went out to the deck while Jenny put the baby down. At this altitude, in the dry air, the stars shone steady and bright. So many stars! He had forgotten. A small pleasant thought began to take shape inside him. Molly and Sam would not come back. They would run off together, into whatever hazy future they imagined. They were meant for each other, runaway souls.
James let himself rest in the thought for a few minutes. When had Molly become a problem? She was funny and beautiful in an unusual way, and she loved to have sex—the one pleasure she had left herself. She was smart, though inarticulate. And she loved him. James tried to find the place where he loved her, too, but all he could come up with was jealousy, and a feeling of ownership. Sam was trying to steal something that belonged to him. This was all he had, and it seemed like not enough.
"She sleeps under the bed now," Jenny said, spilling light onto the deck as she came through the glass doors. The curtains slid shut behind her and it was dark again.
"Who does?"
"Oh, Iris." Jenny set her wineglass down, then opened a box under the seat of one of the benches and brought out a lighter, a pack of American Spirits, and an ashtray. She lit one for herself, without offering.
"First time she did it, she scared the crap out of me," Jenny said. "I was on my way to bed, went to kiss her good night and her bed was empty. I couldn't believe it, turned on all the lights. I guess I started screaming. Of course, I woke everybody up. And there's this little head—she pops out from under the dust ruffle with this serious look on her face. I don't know what she was doing."
"I always wondered what that was called."
"Dust ruffle."
Jenny laughed. "Also known as a bed skirt," she said. "Anyway, that's where she sleeps now. She's got a sleeping bag and a flashlight and a pile of books and a couple of her animals. I think she's scared, James."
"I'm scared, too. How much room is there under there?"
"What are you scared of?"
I feel like my life is ending, he thought. My life as I have known it.
He said, "Nothing in particular."
Jenny looked at him shrewdly through a film of smoke. Some little fire in her eyes.
"Eggs and omelettes," she said.
At midnight, she came out of the house with a bottle of Russian vodka, straight from the freezer. The night was cold by then—James had on his plaid wool overshirt, and Jenny a fleece—but the bottle was colder, a skin of frost on the glass. She poured them each a shot glass full. Jenny said, "They're his children, too."
"That's right."
"He can get up with them."
"Is that how it works?"
"No," she said, and tossed the shot down her throat, gazing up afterward into the night. The stars were putting on a show, the moon etched sharply into the sky. She had a nice, long neck. She swallowed twice, as if she were holding back tears, then filled her glass again. James could touch her if he wanted to. He was almost sure.
"Here's how it works," she said. "You have your kids and you love them and you take care of them. And what somebody else does or doesn't do, it doesn't matter."
"Still," James said. "It's not fair."
"Fuck fair," she said.
"No, seriously," Jenny said, and lit another cigarette. "Fair is like a children's game—your turn, my turn. It's like what five-year-olds do, and then it goes away. And then you get married and have kids and it all comes back. I changed the diaper last time. Now it's your turn to change the diaper. Fuck that."
"What else is there?"
"You just go," she said. "A thousand per cent. You just give yourself up. Bliss."
"It doesn't sound like bliss."
"Oh, it is. You just abandon yourself. The temple of yourself—you know, that big important thing? You just let it go. Standing there with my hands dirty with baby shit, cleaning the floors, it's super-simple. I love them. I do what I can to keep them alive and happy. It's like I'm not even there—there's no person, no history."
She poured herself another shot of vodka, then one for James. She got up and shut off the porch light and the darkness flooded in around them, the immense breathing darkness of the forest. A fairy tale, James thought. The witch's house. Jenny lit a cigarette and her face flared in the lighter flame.
"He keeps an apartment down in Denver," she said. "For when he has to work or has a dinner or something. It's a long drive at night."
At three, James was not asleep. He was lying on his side, looking out the open window, feeling the cold night air, when Jenny came into the room in a long, old-fashioned nightgown and lay down next to him on the bed.
"A night like this," she said.
"I know," James said.
"I don't want to . . . you know," she said.
"No, that's fine."
For a few minutes they lay side by side on their backs, like a king and a queen on the top of an old tomb. James heard her breathing and wondered what it meant. He felt the length and warmth of her thigh, pressed up against his, through the thin cotton of her nightgown. The warmth of her breath. What did he dare? He felt a desire for her that was strictly sexual, centered exactly in his cock. He willed her to touch it.
"This isn't going to work," she said, as if she had heard his thought, and she gathered up her nightgown and left. Alone in the dark—just a sliver of dim light at the edge of the door—he heard her moving in the hallway outside, heard a door close, then heard the toilet flush. He heard the light switch being turned off and then her footsteps, and then she was back in the room and she locked the door behind her and said, "Quiet," and she was naked next to him and they were kissing.
The baby went off like a telephone at seven-thirty in the morning and she was already gone, James awake and wondering if he had ever slept and feeling as if he were still in some dream that wouldn't quit, but then he smelled her sweat and her faint perfume in the pillow and he wondered at himself and at her. Outside the window the sunlight was clear and correct, the lucid light of altitude. Sam's Land Cruiser was still gone from the gravel in front of the house. Sounds of children and morning leaked up from the floor below: a coffee grinder, a cartoon.
James was naked, tangled in bedsheets. The comforter lay in a heap on the floor; a flash of color, peering out from a fold, turned out to be her panties, striped purple and white. Mine, he thought. He tucked the panties into the pocket of a sweatshirt, deep in a dark corner of his suitcase.
He thought that he should feel bad about the night before. He expected that he would, sooner or later.
But James didn't feel at all bad. Instead, he felt energized and alive and full of some strange mystery-of-life juice compounded of come and blood and dazzling morning sunlight. He could have preached the Sermon on the Mount if he had to. Leap tall buildings in a single bound. But first, he thought, breakfast.
He dressed quickly, brushed his teeth, combed his bed-sprung hair with water until it lay nearly flat on his head. He stood and spied outside the kitchen door: Jenny making a sandwich, zipping it into a plastic bag, which went, in turn, into a purple nylon lunch bag. Apple, juice box. She spotted him and smiled. She was happy to see him. Small miracle.
"You're up early!" she said, and poured him a cup of coffee. "I hope we didn't wake you."
"No, no," James said.
She leaned close to him, and for a thrilling moment he thought she was going to kiss him.
"My cigarettes," she whispered. "I forgot to put them away last night."
"O.K.," he said, brightly, loudly. Iris, the schoolgirl, was looking at him curiously. Sam, Jr., sat lordly in his high chair. It was a whole different movie down here in the kitchen, one in which James didn't really have a part. He looked at Jenny, thought of her panties, deep in his bag. But even sex magic didn't seem to be working; she bustled, motherly, feeding the baby, wiping the counters.
James took his coffee and the sports section of the paper out to the deck. He put her cigarettes and lighter away and stowed the vodka bottle under a bench, out of sight. The cup is already broken, he thought. He wasn't sure what he meant by this, but the words ran through his head. He sat in the sun, sipping his coffee, enjoying the heaviness of his limbs. The pale morning duns would be on the water, little white mayflies floating with the current, and again he remembered his father. Maybe that was it, James thought: his mother was dead and his father was dead and there was no one to apologize to. The cup is already broken, and no one cares. He was done taking care of Molly. She'd find a way, or she wouldn't. He was young and his body was a source of pleasure to him, supple and strong. It would carry him to many further adventures.
He was imagining what these adventures might be, counting the possibilities, when the rusty white Land Cruiser appeared at the end of the drive. A little thrill of danger. Something would happen next.
"What?" Molly said as she got out.
Sam slapped him on the back on his way into the kitchen, whistling. James remembered this about him, the way he never seemed to have a hangover, always got up cheerful. It was one of the things that had made him a pain in the ass to live with.
"Where were you last night?" James asked.
"At Colette's," she said, and seemed surprised. "Why?"
"I tried and tried to get ahold of you."
"I didn't have my charger with me," she said. "I didn't think I was going to need it. But then your friend got just totally shitfaced and I didn't want to drive back with him." She leaned in closer to him, so close that he could smell soap and sweat, and whispered, "He's really crazy, James."
"Where did Sam stay, then?"
"In his car," she said. "In the driveway. Crazy."
And she was telling the truth. He knew right away. All the lightness and the ease that he had felt dissipated at once, evaporated like dew in the sun, all the adventures, all the different people he would be. And, afterward, only once in a while did he remember, as on the October morning, months later, when he was grading papers at his desk in the bedroom and Molly came to kiss him, fresh out of the shower, wearing nothing but a white cotton tank top and a pair of purple-and-white striped panties.
"The weird thing," she said. "I don't even remember when I bought these. Do you?"
"No idea," James said.
"Oh, well," she said, and kissed him again, and dressed and got her satchel and went off to the coffee shop to work on her play. ♦


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Many Eastsiders will be asking that question this weekend as the upcoming Fourth of July holiday promises to deliver the annual barrage of fireworks with the occasional burst of gunfire or at least what sounds like gunfire. Police instruct residents to call 911 when they hear gunshots. But that can get confusing when your neighborhood is filled with the sounds of bombs bursting in air during July 4 celebrations (remember to keep pets indoors). How do you know if that popping sound down the block is an M-80 fire cracker, a 9 mm semi-automatic or a 12-gauge shotgun? The Eastsider asked some folks who are familiar with the sounds of the season to help tell the difference.
Capt. Bill Murphy, LAPD Northeast Division:
Some fireworks are more rapid – think of firecrackers, very fast and random – as opposed to gun fire, which can be a consistent sound. Firing a 9 MM will give off the same sound for each shot. Also, some fireworks can be very loud and a one-time explosion (think big rocket). They also have a sound associated with the launch before the explosion (sizzling sound from the wick/fuse lighting). Hopefully, this helps a little.
Sally Fernandez, spokeswoman with Safety Dynamics, a maker of gun shot recognition systems:
Let me just say in general that firecracker and small arms fire – like a 9 mm or a 22 – sound signatures are very, very similar. That being said, it is very difficult to distinguish between the two with the normal ear. Gunshot systems use a variety of technologies to reduce this confusion. Police departments, if they get a gunshot alert, are able to see video of what caused the gunshot (i.e.; the person or vehicle that it came from) or hear the gunshot. This helps them to reduce the confusion between the two events. Unfortunately, the average person is left with their ears only.
Senior Lead Officer Albert Polehonki, LAPD Northeast Division:
Sometimes its hard to tell the difference for us as well. My best explanation is that gunshots are usually heard in a distinct sequence, or a steady pattern, sometimes fast or slow depending on how fast the shooter pulls the trigger. Firecrackers usually don`t have any pattern especially when a whole package is lit.
Darin Williams, owner of Select Patrol*:
In most cases when I hear gunshots, it is most often a volley of multiple shots fired in rapid succession and not tremendously loud.
Lt. Wes Buhrmester, LAPD Rampart Division:
Most fireworks can be classified as sharp and low-volume, as with firecrackers, or booming, as in a small explosion (M80 and such). Also, most fireworks make a flash, if one is watching the skies or horizon. Gunshots are audibly more defined, and on July 4 or New Year's Eve, often happen in succession, since those shots are often done in a "celebratory" manner. Of course, if one has any doubt, call the police and we will check it out.
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Got to create a small presentation on java inheritance, got some basic information about it but need to include example programs and talk about how they work. Iv got a small program below which is supposed to output an oblong but it doesnt for some reason.
public class oblong { private double length; private double height; public oblong(double lengthIn, double heightIn) { length = lengthIn; height = heightIn; } public double getlength() { return length; } public double getheight() { return height; } public void setlength(double lengthIn) { length = lengthIn; } public void setheight(double heightIn) { height = heightIn; } public double calculateArea() { return length * height; } public double calculatePerimeter() { return 2 * (length + height); }
public class ExtendedOblong extends oblong { private char symbol; public ExtendedOblong(double lengthIn, double heightIn, char symbolIn) { super(lengthIn, heightIn); symbol = symbolIn; } public void setSymbol(char symbolIn) { symbol = symbolIn; } public String draw() { String s = new String(); int l, h; l = (int) getlength(); h = (int) getheight(); for (int i = l; i <= h; i++) { for (int j = l; j <= l; j++) { s = s + symbol; } s = s + '\n'; } return s; } public static void main(String[] args) { ExtendedOblong extOblong = new ExtendedOblong(10,5,'*'); System.out.println(extOblong.draw()); extOblong.setSymbol('+'); System.out.println(extOblong.draw()); } }
Does anyone know why this code will not output an oblong, and also if anyone has any example programs of java inheritance or any information about it can you please post it.
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Filter This2011–03–25 | 22 commentsTags: censorship, collection development, filters, internet, libraries, public libraries, technology
In the Library with the Lead Pipe welcomes Audrey Barbakoff, a librarian at the Milwaukee Public Library, and Ahniwa Ferrari, Virtual Experience Manager at the Pierce County Library System in Washington, for a point-counterpoint piece on filtering in libraries. The opinions expressed here are those of the authors, and are not endorsed by their employers….
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Looking at print books from a writer's first-person perspective By Jessamyn West I wrote a book in 2009 and 2010. It's getting published this year (2011) sometime. Let me tell you about what it's like writing a print book for a large trade publisher during the long leisurely sunset of print. It was different from…


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A Compilation of Environmental Education News from Across Louisiana.
Transit of Venus Events and Resources (June 5)
Transit of Venus Events and Resources (June 5)
The Sun-Earth Day and NASA EDGE Teams will bring the Transit of Venus to the world from the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii. During a live webcast, the transit will be shown in high definition video through H-alpha, Calcium-K, and White Light telescopes. Coverage will consist of video of the transit, interviews with scientists and Native Hawaiians, and question and answer sessions. Resources are available on the website for use in museum events and classroom participation, including videos providing cultural and historical information about the transit. Promotional materials include bookmarks, wallpapers, and a flier that can easily be downloaded from the website. A Google map is also available, to see where events are happening, and where you can submit your own event. For more information, visit http://1.usa.gov/H1raix.
GOMA Invites the Public to Learn about Regional Programs at Annual Meeting (June 19-21)
The 7th annual Gulf of Mexico Alliance meeting is scheduled for June 19-21, 2012, in Corpus Christi, Texas. A key topic at the conference this year is an address by the new director of the National Ocean Council, Deerin Babb-Brott, who will provide an update on the implementation of the National Ocean Policy. Also, the Alliance has invited industry leaders from key sectors such as energy, tourism and harbors to join the conference to offer insight on working together effectively, including integration and obstacles when collaborating on ecosystem programs such as National Ocean Policy objectives. Other key topics at the conference include the status of Natural Resource Damage Assessment restoration activities, an update on the Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force and a panel dedicated to discussion regarding resilient communities. Keynote speakers include high-ranking personnel from the Department of Interior, the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency. The two-day plenary meeting will be followed by concurrent sessions on water quality, nutrient impacts, ecosystem integration and assessment, habitat conservation and restoration, coastal community resilience, and environmental education. The meeting is open to the public. Registration and sponsorship information as well as a full schedule of events is available at: http://www.gulfofmexicoalliance.org.
The Great American Backyard Campout (June 23)
A new traveling exhibit at Audubon Aquarium of the Americas
Animal Grossology, the newest exhibit at Audubon Aquarium of the Americas, uses a different view of the animal kingdom to make kids laugh and learn. Experience some of the slimiest, stinkiest and downright yuckiest creatures on earth! Oozing with disgusting science and interactive learning games the new "Animal Grossology" exhibit takes a slightly different view of the animal kingdom. The exhibit follows in the footsteps of the overwhelmingly popular "Grossology, the (Impolite) Science of the Human Body" and is the next generation in the GROSSOLOGY series.Animal Grossology was created and produced by Advanced Exhibits, a division of Advanced Animations LLC, in collaboration with Sylvia Branzei, the author of the popular GROSSOLOGY books.
LPDES General Permits
The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) is sponsoring free training sessions that will give you an understanding of water discharge general applicability, outfall schedules, and how the effluent limits and requirements are derived. This session will also include a basic overview of stormwater general permits and requirements, and a preview of several new general permits. Please register for one of the sessions below:
LAKE CHARLES: June 7, 2012, 10AM-12PM
LSU AgCenter, 7101 Gulf Highway, Lake Charles, LA 70607
NEW ORLEANS AREA: June 14, 2012, 10AM-12PM
Yenni Building, Room 405, 1221 Elmwood Park Blvd., Jefferson, LA 70123
ALEXANDRIA AREA: June 26, 2012, 10AM-12PM
Main Street Community Center, 708 Main Street, Pineville, LA 71360
If you would like to attend any of these workshops please register online at www.deq.louisiana.gov/enviroschool or fax the attached registration form to (225)325-8222. If you would like more information please call (225) 219-0877 or visit the ENVIROSCHOOL website at http://www.deq.louisiana.gov/portal/tabid/2601/Default.aspx. These workshops are free and open to the public, so please forward this to anyone who may be interested.
MarineTech: STEM Preparation for Teachers through Marine Engineering Experiences (July 10-11 & July 12-13)
This two-day summer professional development workshop at UL will prepare teachers to incorporate marine kits into classroom instruction. Participants will receive a $400 stipend while becoming better equipped to incorporate technology such as sea perch robotics into the student experiences providing training aligned to the Science and Engineering Principles of the Next Generation of Science Standards to raise student career awareness and interest. Contact Dr. Suren Dwivedi at firstname.lastname@example.com 337.482.5361.
OneNOAA Science Seminars
All seminars are open to anyone within or outside NOAA. You can view all of the seminars in google calendarformat if you prefer. For questions, please contact email@example.com a OneNOAA Science seminar partner.
OneNOAA Science Seminars: June 2012
June 12: Title: Future of International Climate Agreements; Speaker(s): Alexander Thompson (The Ohio State University); Location: WebEx Event, remote access only; Click here to add this seminar to your google calendar
June 13: Title: Climate Links to Florida Extreme Coastal Sea Levels; Speaker(s): Joseph Park (NOS/CO-OPS); Location: Silver Spring, MD; Click here to add this seminar to your google calendar
June 13: Title: Development of an Integrated Benthic Ecosystem Survey; Speaker(s): Dvora Hart (NMFS Northeast Fisheries Science Center); Location: Silver Spring, MD; Click here to add this seminar to your google calendar
June 19: Title: LEO, The Local Environmental Observers: A Growing Network For Monitoring Change In the Arctic Communities; Speaker(s): Michael Brubaker (Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium); Location: Fairbanks, Alaska; Click here to add this seminar to your google calendar
June 20: Title: Assessments of the Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (ATMS) and Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder (SSMIS) for Data Assimilation; Speaker(s): Fuzhong Weng (NOAA/NESDIS/STAR); Location: Camp Springs, MD; Click here to add this seminar to your google calendar
June 21: Title: State of Decadal Prediction; Speaker(s):Lisa Goddard (IRI), Arun Kumar (CPC), Tom Delworth (GFDL); Location: Silver Spring, MD; Click here to add this seminar to your google calendar
July 11: Title: The Social Coast - Social Science, Simply Explained and Applied; Speaker(s): Susan Fox (NOAA Coastal Services Center); Location: Remote access only; Click here to add this seminar to your google calendar
August 02: Title: Toxic Algae and Dead Zones: Resurgence of Old Problems in Lake Erie; Speaker(s): Don Scavia (University of Michigan); Location: NOAA SSMC-4, Silver Spring, MD; Click here to add this seminar to your google calendar
EPA Launches Video Project Asking Americans Why "Water Is Worth It" (Deadline: September 14)
View details at http://water.epa.gov/action/cleanwater40c/video-project.cfm
2012 marks the 40thanniversary of the Clean Water Act, the nation's law for protecting our most irreplaceable resource. Everyone deserves clean water – it is vital for our health, communities, environment and economy. To help commemorate the 40thanniversary of the Clean Water Act, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is asking people to send in a 15-second video clip about the important role that water plays in their life. Each video should include the phrase "Water Is Worth It," but the rest is up to you. EPA will post selected videos on its website and Facebook page. To learn more and register, visit http://water.epa.gov/action/cleanwater40c/video-project.cfm.Fill out a video entry form, and submit your entry as a video response to the promotional video on EPA's YouTube page at www.youtube.com/USEPAgov. Video submissions must be received by September 14, 2012. Grab your friends, family, coworkers, neighbors, classmates, and pets and let us know why "Water is Worth It" to you!
EPA Launches Competition for College Students to Develop Innovative Approaches to Stormwater Management (Deadline: December 14)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is launching a new design competition called the Campus RainWorks Challenge to encourage student teams on college and university campuses across the country to develop innovative approaches to stormwater management. Student teams, working with a faculty advisor, will submit design plans for a proposed green infrastructure project for their campus. Registration for the Campus RainWorks Challenge opens September 4, and entries must be submitted by December 14, 2012 for consideration. Winning entries will be selected by EPA and announced in April 2013. Winning teams will earn a cash prize of $1,500 - $2,500, as well as $8,000 - $11,000 in funds for their faculty advisor to conduct research on green infrastructure. More information on the Campus RainWorks Challenge: http://water.epa.gov/infrastructure/greeninfrastructure/crw_challenge.cfm
Environmental Solutions for Communities Grant Program (Deadline: July 2)
Wells Fargo and the National Fish & Wildlife Foundation seek to promote sustainable communities through Environmental Solutions for Communities by supporting projects that link economic development and community well-being to the stewardship and health of the environment. Eligible applicants include: non-profit 501(c) organizations; state, tribal, provincial and local governments; and educational institutions working in states and communities where Wells Fargo operates. Grant awards will typically range from $25,000 to $250,000. http://bit.ly/LjLJ7Y
I Can Grow Lessons
Burpee Home Gardens and the National Gardening Association recently released the I Can Grow series of 6 lessons targeting grades 1-9: http://www.burpeehomegardens.com/ICanGrow/_ICanGrowCurriculum.aspx. Lessons cover topics like life cycles and identification, photosynthesis, plant classification, weather, sustainability, and soil nutrition. Lesson titles: Bean Beginnings (1-8); Sunshine Power (4-9); 'Shoe' Me How to Classify (1-9); Weather (4-9); From Farm to Fork (5-9); and Soil Symbiosis (3-9).
Renewable Energy Lessons
The University of Idaho's Biodiesel Education Program has created a 7-lesson curriculum to help students understand the concepts of energy and renewable energy. These lessons were originally written for 4-H clubs but are also appropriate for elementary classrooms. Many hands-on lesson activities are featured. Go to http://www.uiweb.uidaho.edu/bioenergy/4-H.shtmlfor the student workbook and instructor's manual.
Critical Facilities Flood Exposure Tool Expanded Nationally (CSC)
The Critical Facilities Flood Exposure Tool, originally developed for Mississippi and Alabama, is now available for coastal areas nationwide. With this tool, coastal communities can "see" the critical facilities and roads that lie within their flood zones. This information is helpful for those who develop and implement risk mitigation strategies. The visual nature of the information also makes the output a strong component of any risk management outreach effort. For more information, contact Billy Brooks.
EarthCaching Resources
EarthCaching combines Global Positioning System technology with outdoor field experiences, allowing students to experience the wonders of Earth in a new way. At http://www.geosociety.org/Earthcache/intro.htm, teachers can learn how to create EarthCaches, direct students to create EarthCaches, or use existing EarthCaches in your classroom.
Why Green Is Your Color: A Woman's Guide to a Sustainable Career
Why Green Is Your Color: A Woman's Guide to a Sustainable Career is a free, downloadable comprehensive manual designed to assist women with job training and career development as they enter into innovative and nontraditional jobs. The guide is a resource to help training providers, educators, counselors, and other workforce development professionals promote the recruitment and retention of women in green career paths. Details: http://www.dol.gov/wb/Green_Jobs_Guide
Break the Grip of the Rip!
Heading to the beach this summer? Prepare you and your family first by reading up on rip currents - narrow channels of fast-moving water that pull swimmers away from the shore. They can occur at any beach with breaking waves and are common along the U.S. coastline even when the skies are clear. Last year, 41 people lost their lives in rip currents in the United States, but on average more than one hundred people die each year from them. NOAA, along with the U.S. Lifesaving Associationand the National Park Service, are working to reduce the death toll by educating people throughout the year, and especially this week during Rip Current Awareness Week, about the danger of rip currents and how to avoid them or survive if caught in one. Go to http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2012/20120604_ripcurrents.htmlto brush up on safety tips and find out how to Break the Grip of the Rip!
Find a Local Farmers Market
Spring is a great time to visit your local farmers market and see what's growing near you. The USDA's market search lets you look for farmers markets by location, products available, and payments accepted. http://search.ams.usda.gov/farmersmarkets/
EPA Releases Fact Sheet on the Economic Benefits of Protecting Healthy Watersheds
EPA has released a new fact sheet as part of its Healthy Watersheds initiative describing the economic benefits of protecting healthy watersheds by highlighting examples from existing peer-reviewed literature and studies. EPA's Healthy Watersheds Initiative is intended to protect the Nation's remaining healthy watersheds, prevent them from becoming impaired, and accelerate restoration successes. It encourages interested states to take a strategic, systems approach to protecting healthy watersheds that recognizes the dynamic and interconnected nature of aquatic ecosystems. The fact sheet describes studies that demonstrate protecting healthy watersheds can reduce capital costs for water treatment plants and reduce damages to property and infrastructure due to flooding, thereby avoiding future costs. Additionally, examples in the fact sheet show that protecting healthy watersheds can generate revenue through property value premiums, recreation, and tourism. This fact sheet directs readers to important resources to learn more about the substantial efforts to monetize ecosystem services from across the country. This fact sheet is also a resource for those doing outreach to promote the protection of healthy watersheds. The fact sheet is available at: http://www.epa.gov/healthywatersheds.
Find out about wetland outreach activities including symposiums, conferences, meetings, educational opportunities, volunteer opportunities, and related support material at the Louisiana Unified Coastal Community Calendar at http://lacoast.gov/calendar/
Juliet Raffray, Environmental Education Assistant Coordinator, 225-765-0124, email@example.com
Venise Ortego, Environmental Education Coordinator, 337-948-0255, firstname.lastname@example.com
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Gao Zhisheng is one of the most respected human rights lawyers in China. In the course of defending activists and religious minorities and documenting human rights abuses, he has handled key cases, including those of the Falun Gong and Christians in Xinjiang.
Nabeel Rajab is a prominent human rights activist in Bahrain who has called for and participated in peaceful protests against the government.
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Along with their leadership in support of human rights, they share something: These courageous individuals have been jailed and denied fundamental freedoms enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other internationally recognized human rights standards and law.
They cannot speak for themselves, but today we are speaking for them and others in order to pierce the darkness and shatter their silencing.
Our efforts are part of a new Defending Freedoms Project launched last week by the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission of the U.S. House of Representatives, in conjunction with the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom and Amnesty International USA. Through this effort, members of Congress will stand in solidarity with imprisoned human rights defenders from across the world they have selected to support. Gao Zhisheng and Nabeel Rajab are the first prisoners to be selected and will be followed by others. We want these human rights defenders to know that they are not forgotten. We want to shine a light on the laws and policies that led to their imprisonment. And we want to hold their governments accountable.
China disbarred Gao Zhisheng, tortured him repeatedly since 2006, concealed his whereabouts for nearly 20 months and imprisoned him in Shaya County Prison in northwest China.
Nabeel Rajab languishes in al-Jaw prison in Bahrain. While already serving a three-month sentence in a case relating to a tweet he posted, he recently was given a three-year jail sentence for taking part in anti-government protests. He is awaiting a decision on his appeal.


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Shea Properties Colorado is a diversified real estate company with over 50 years of experience in the Denver market. We are Denver's largest vertical real estate developer. We buy, sell, develop, manage and maintain land and buildings. Today, we are a $2.5 Billion full-service real estate firm responsible for land acquisition, development, construction and management of office, industrial, retail, apartment and mixed-use environments. We have developed over 5 million square feet of office space in metro Denver.
Our signature property, the Denver Technological Center was established in 1962. Founded with only 40 acres, the DTC has matured into a 909 acre, campus-like environment that has become a Denver landmark. The DTC is now home to more than 1,000 companies and employs a workforce of some 35,000 Denver residents.
Another key location for Shea Properties' long track record of success in Colorado is Meridian International Business Center. Meridian is a complete 1,630 acre mixed-use park designed to include visibility and accessibility in a campus atmosphere. Meridian provides unrivaled access to travel, communications and housing for its diverse workforce. Bounded by two major highways, Meridian is home to 4 of 5 Colorado's largest companies.
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We also have many other projects — past, present and future — throughout the metro Denver area. Shea Properties creates spaces where people work and live. We maintain an environment that contributes to the attractiveness and livability of a great city. And, we manage the day-to-day property concerns of several of Denver's largest and most prestigious companies.


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Thorsten von Eicken's RightScale Blog
It looks like pretty soon all computing will be called cloud computing, just because the cloud is "in." Fortunately most computer savvy folks actually have a pretty good idea of what the term "cloud computing" means: outsourced, pay-as-you-go, on-demand, somewhere in the Internet, etc. What is still confusing to many is how the different offerings compare from Amazon Web Services to Google App Engine and Force.com. I recently heard a characterization of three different levels of clouds which really helps put the various offerings into perspective.
Here's my rephrasing:
Applications in the cloud: this is what almost everyone has already used in the form of gmail, yahoo mail, wordpress.com (hosting this blog), the rest of google apps, the various search engines, wikipedia, encyclopedia britannica, etc. Some company hosts an application in the internet that many users sign-up for and use without any concern about where, how, by whom the compute cycles and storage bits are provided. The service being sold (or offered in ad-sponsored form) is a complete end-user application. To me all this is SaaS, Software as a Service, looking to join the 'cloud' craze.
Platforms in the cloud: this is the newest entry where an application platform is offered to developers in the cloud. Developers write their application to a more or less open specification and then upload their code into the cloud where the app is run magically somewhere, typically being able to scale up automagically as usage for the app grows. Examples are Mosso, Google App Engine, and Force.com. The service being sold is the machinery that funnels requests to an application and makes the application tick.
Infrastructure in the cloud: this is the most general offering that Amazon has pioneered and where RightScale offers its management platform. Developers and system administrators obtain general compute, storage, queueing, and other resources and run their applications with the fewest limitations. This is the most powerful type of cloud in that virtually any application and any configuration that is fit for the internet can be mapped to this type of service. Of course it also requires more work on the part of the buyer, which is where RightScale comes in to help with set-up and automation.
Looking at these different types of clouds it's pretty clear that they are geared toward different purposes and that they all have a reason for being. The platforms in the cloud are a very interesting offering in that they promise to take some of the mundane pain away from dealing with the raw infrastructure. But it's not at all clear to me that the vendors can live up to the promise of managing everything seamlessly and that the functional constraints won't cause applications to have to move up to the infrastructure clouds as they mature and gain complexity. It would not be good if toy apps started on the platform clouds and then moved to the infrastructure clouds as they gain adoption. One possible outcome is a hybrid model where the canonical application core remains in the platform cloud and the odd pieces of functionality and/or the parts that need to scale the most drastically move off to infrastructure clouds.
[This appeared originally here and is republished by kind permission of the author, who retains copyright.]
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1. Tirlough still living in 1768 married ? …Their known children:
+2 Hugh
+3 Myles (Miles) married ?
+4 Mary (this woman lived to be 103) married abt. 1760 James Dunlevy and had children
Mary(single) , Alicia (single) **Ellen (marries her cousin Hugh Sweeny), ***Morgan (marries his cousin Margaret Sweeny), Dennis (goes to France, then US), James becomes R.C. Priest in Sligo.
Generation 2.
+2 Hugh married Eleanor Scott ..Their children: (most of these Sweneys/Sweenys relocated to PA)
+5 Hugh (Hugo Smoke)
+6 Doyle
+7 Morgan
+8 John
9 Nial****
+10 Rose
11 Honora
12 Nelly (sometimes Ellen, short form of Eleanor) married ? Fitzgerald..no children
+ 13 Margaret married her cousin ***Morgan Dunlevy
+3 Miles and ? their child:
+14 Daniel married Jane Burns (child of John Burns)
Generation 3.
+ 5 Hugh married 1790 **Ellen Dunlevy…Their children: (most of these Sweneys/Sweenys relocated to PA)
15. Hugh single person, died 1845 U.S. ?
+16 Frederick-Morgan Sweeny b. Sligo 1795 died Phila., PA 1845
17 Charles Sweeny married unknown woman died in India? Children?
18 Mary married Bartholomew Brennan (2 sons, one daughter)
19 Alicia married ? Christy (2 daughters. Mary-Ellen & Alicia)
+6 Doyle married Elizabeth Stuart. Their children:
20. Elizabeth Stuart died s.p.
21. Elinor (Eleanor) married Edwin Myer, daughter Frances Cecilia
+22 Doyle Edward (Cpt. U.S. Army) died 1847 married Catherine Hanlon had one son & two daughters. Names unknown at this time
+7 Morgan married ? had a son George who married Mary Gordon, they had no children.
+8 John married 1804 Sophia Fromberger had three daughters: Sophia, Anna & Alicia died Phil. 1819
9 Nial (Neil and once listed as Noel) moved to Phila but, has become an unknown.
+10 Rose married John Gaelrick, moves to Phila. And dies in VA they have children
+11 Honora married John Ormsby of Ballina, Co. Mayo children ?
+13 Margaret married Morgan Dunlevy..Their children: James, died in France, Denis died in U.S., Owen died in U.S., Nial Morgan died in U.S. & Mary died in infancy.
+14 Daniel married Jane Burns..Their child:
+23 Nicholas Major married Fanny Barclay
Generation 4.
+16 Frederick Morgan married in Phila., Rachel Ormsby (daughter of George, son of John, son of John)..Their children:
+24 Robert Ormsby married 1864 Helen Benezet
25 Emmett died as infant
26 Mary Alicia married William Lowber Banning (of Wilmington) had children
27 Kate (Katherine) married ?
+22 Doyle Edward married Catherine Hanlon had one son & two daughters. Names unknown at this time
+23 Nicholas Major married Fanny Barclay in their children: (this family lived in Northumberland Co., PA)
+28 Alexander Montgomery b. 1783 Letterkenny, Donegal, moved to PA (Phila. To Milton, Northumberland where he married in 1812)
+29 John (Sweney) b. abt 1788 Letterkenny, Donegal, moved to PA (Phila. To Milton, Northumberland {1850 census living in Milton, Northumberland Wife Sarah ?( child Elizabeth 1821,.. 1870 census has a John of this description living in "Upland", PA with a family of McElwees)
Generation 5
+24 Robert Ormsby(Sweeny) married Helen Benezet, moved to Minnesota….Their children:
30 Helen B. died in Infancy
+31 Robert Ormsby b. 1869 married May ? (Ohio) lived in Minnesota
+28 Alexander Montgomery (Sweney) This line maintained Sweney married 1812 in Milton, PA Mary Keher d. in Illinois, Their children:
32 Major Keher b. 1817 (born Milton, Northumberland Co, PA) married in PA Eliz. Tenbrook moved to Illinois where he died in 1898. Their children: Albert B b.1857, d. 1935 & John died in infancy.
+33 William Wilson b.1818 (born Milton, Northumberland Co, PA)in Illinois married Maria Freeborn , he became a doctor moved to Minnesota had son William & daughter Mary.
+34 Charles b. 1820-1899 (born Milton, Northumberland Co, PA)(relocated to Illinois & Kansas..became an attorney had children: one boy, two girls
35 Caroline b. 1823 (born Milton, Northumberland Co, PA)
36 Frances Jane b.1825-1836 (born Milton, Northumberland Co, PA)
37 Sarah Keher b.1827-1828 (born Milton, Northumberland Co, PA)
38 Henry A. b. 1831-1833 (born Milton, Northumberland Co, PA)
39 Emma b. 1836 (born Milton, Northumberland Co, PA)
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ARIES: January 10, 11 is a great time to escape from the harsh realities of life and indulge yourself in the fulfilment of personal needs. There are others who are willing to assist you.
TAURUS: Your dreams inspire new goals during January 10, 11 and are more achievable because you possess the skills and desires to achieve them. This is a very creative time.
GEMINI: Beauty, compassion and humanity will guide you on your life path during January 10, 11, with many incorporating such elements into their career path. Artistic and creative trends assist.
CANCER: Beautiful and dreamy thoughts tend to weave a magical spell in Cancerian lives during January 10, 11. This makes for delightful interactions on a social level.
LEO: Things tend to run smoothly during January 10, 11 for Leonine individuals, ensuring the easy management of personal relations as well as financial interests. Plans run smoothly.
VIRGO: Beautifully romantic trends weave magic into the lives of Virgoans and their partners during January 10, 11. An empathic bond ensures understandings are reached.
LIBRA: Libran individuals are at a creative premium during January 10, 11, ensuring that any work produced is outstanding, particularly if elements of design are important factors.
SCORPIO: There are so many ways in which love can touch your life during January 10, 11, whether romance casts an enchantment over you or idealistic involvement with a child fills your heart with joy.
SAGITTARIUS: Your home is a place that you can truly relax during January 10, 11, with the predominant mood there being compassionate and quiet; an aura of safety envelopes you.
CAPRICORN: Gentleness characterises most of your interactions during January 10, 11, whether you are talking with a neighbour or relative, or sauntering along a boulevard and engaging absolute strangers.
AQUARIUS: You'll particularly enjoy those activities that earn you money during January 10, 11, for you are surrounded by both opportunity and ideal circumstances; you do things with style.
PISCES: Pisceans seem to be at peace with the world around them during January 10, 11 as harmonious influences gently sweep them along in their wake; you are buffered against adversity.
LUCKY NUMBERS: Aries: 1, 3, 4, 9; Taurus: 5, 8; Gemini: 6, 7; Cancer: 3, 4, 7, 9; Leo: 1, 3, 4, 9; Virgo: 6, 8; Libra: 5, 7; Scorpio: 2, 3, 7, 9; Sagittarius: 1, 3, 4, 9; Capricorn: 5, 6; Aquarius: 5, 6; Pisces: 2, 4, 7.
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FOLLY BEACH, S.C. (AP) - Some of South Carolina's coastal utility customers are seeing their first power outages blamed on Hurricane Irene's approach.
South Carolina Electric and Gas said Friday that more than 2,500 customers have lost power as the hurricane's winds and rains began raking the coast and knocked down a utility pole and left power lines across a bridge to Folly Island and Folly beach.
The bridge reopened several hours later. SCE&G spokesman Robert Yanity wasn't sure how long it would take to restore power.
About 1,800 SCE&G customers had lost power on Fripp Island in Beaufort County, but that had been restored.
State-owned utility Santee Cooper serves the northern coastal area and spokeswoman Mollie Gore said there were no outages tied to Hurricane Irene late Friday morning.
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Country Rock
Country rock is sub-genre of popular music, formed from the fusion of rock with country. The term is generally used to refer to the wave of rock musicians who began to record country-flavored records in the late 1960s and early 1970s, beginning with Bob Dylan and The Byrds; reaching its greatest popularity in the 1970s with artists like Emmylou Harris and the Eagles; continuing with cult status and occasional mainstream success to the present day.
Rock and roll has often been seen as a combination of rhythm and blues with country music, a fusion particularly evident in 1950s rockabilly, and there has been cross-pollination throughout the history of both genres, however, the term country-rock is generally used to refer to the wave of rock musicians of the late 1960s and early 1970s who began to record rock records using country themes, vocal styles and additional instrumentation, most characteristically pedal steel guitar.
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Broomfield's 2013 budget calls for new hires and building upgrades, but likely will include a future amendment to increase water and sewer rates.
City Council on Tuesday approved the $185 million budget, which includes room to hire new employees and upgrade critical city and county buildings without sales tax increases or new borrowing. Not included in the approved budget is a plan to raise water and sewer rates for the first time since 2008. Those rate increases will likely be approved at a separate meeting on Dec. 11 and amended to the budget.
"We didn't take this budget lightly," Mayor Pat Quinn said after council approved the budget.
Council members had little to say during the approval process because they had had numerous in-depth discussions in weeks past, he said.
The 2013 budget, which shows that Broomfield is further stabilizing after the economic downturn, calls for hiring a handful of employees, beginning plans for a new Health and Human Services building and bringing back merit-based raises for employees who have not received a raise in three years.
The budget includes funding to hire for positions such as an IT systems analyst, an IT business systems engineer and a community development director. The budget also includes pay for certain part-time employees to take on more hours.
It also calls for increased spending in areas that have been cut in the past, but City and County Manager Charles Ozaki said Broomfield is always looking for ways to responsibly save money.
One example is the refunding of several bonds in 2012 that will save Broomfield an estimated $2.69 million each year, he said.
Saving is just part of the picture. Major expenses include $978,000 for the police department's new information management system and about $1.6 million to upgrade the Bay Aquatic Park's tot pool to comply with requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Another $1.5 million is earmarked to design a replacement for Broomfield's crowded Health and Human Services building.
The budget also calls for $3.2 million for a pavement program that will resurface 32 miles of Broomfield streets, according to a staff memo.
Council members said they were satisfied with the budget's overall positive outlook, but knew they must also raise water and sewer rates.
Council expects to amend the 2013 budget to reflect an increase in residents' water and sewer bills. Broomfield is dipping into its savings to cover utilities expenses and hasn't raised rates in four years.
"This is a necessary evil. None of us is excited about raising rates, but we took this very seriously," said Councilman Todd Schumacher.
Average households could see a 7 percent increase in water rates and a 13 percent increase in sewer rates, plus a proposed $2 per month fee to fund the state's new water quality regulations set to go into effect in 2018.
Combined increases could take an average water and sewer bill from $49.86 a month to $55.91, according to a memo from staff.
Finance director Pat Soderberg said the rates were designed to be as gentle on pocketbooks as possible, but there is a possibility rates will have to go up incrementally each year to cover future operating costs and the cost of implementing new state regulations.
Residents can speak about the increases during the Dec. 11 meeting, when council likely will approve the new rates. Residents would see the new rates on their bills starting Feb. 1.
Sewer license fees also will make a big jump. Homebuilders will see a 49 percent jump in sewer fees — an average of $12,559 instead of $8,427, according to the memo. Home builders who pulled and pay for permits by June 30, 2013 likely will not be subject to the rate jump, as long as they apply for the license by Feb.1.


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A case study of an award winning irrigation system capable of saving up to 85 per cent more water than traditional irrigation systems and proven to be twice as productive will be presented to delegates at the Agribusiness Outlook Forum in Dubai.
Developed by UAE based international water management solutions Company, EPIC Green Solutions, the pioneering system uses an Environmental Passive Integrated Chamber technology and won the Most Innovative Use of Technology Award at the H20 Awards in Dubai, November 2011.
The EPIC system was installed in two of the Al Dahra Agricultural Company greenhouses and open field farms in Al Ain, where it was compared to regular drip irrigation systems. Initial tests revealed that not only did the EPIC system save 85 per cent more water, but also produced twice as much growth, using 45 per cent less fertilizer.
Bart Rehbein, Managing Director of EPIC Green Solutions, said that agricultural independence and food security is extremely important to all countries in the Middle East and with a population of 2.4 million in the UAE, it is all about conserving water and using it more efficiently.
"Adopting sustainable agricultural methods and water storage options is the right move for a country to cater to increasing agricultural demands and to be able to produce its own crops effectively," he said in the build up to the Agribusiness Outlook Forum.
"The per capita water availability in the Middle East is expected to halve by 2050 and it is mandatory to educate the region and its residents about the anticipated water shortage."
Along with the Al Ain Farm Project, the EPIC irrigation system was also installed on the Yas Links Golf Course on Yas Island in Abu Dhabi in April 2011 with results similarly impressive. Most recently in January 2012, another demonstration plot was installed on Yas Island to grow salt tolerant plant species.
Added Rehbein: "Results from the Yas Island plot show that average consumption of the various plants has been 2.77 litres per square metre per day, yielding savings of approximately 80 per cent more than typical irrigation systems. The success of this project will be an advantage for irrigation in the region and continue to show the versatility of the EPIC system."
Now in its second year, the Agribusiness Outlook Forum is a feature of AGRA Middle East, the region's only agribusiness trade event to be held from 2-4 April at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre.
Speakers will address crucial topics related to food security and discuss regional governments' approaches towards the improvement of market-led agribusiness and investment decisions.
"The EPIC system has played an important role in the conservation of water and has provided solutions to ensure the efficient use of this limited resource," concluded Rehbein. "EPIC Green Solutions sees agriculture potential in the Middle East and we look forward to sharing our views on the topic with key decision makers at the Agribusiness Outlook Forum."
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Stopping Maine's Fake ID Epidemic...
The United States is facing a serious problem with the rising prevalence and proliferation of fake identification cards across the country. This issue goes far beyond teenagers trying to pass of fake drivers license to get into the local dive bar; we are seeing a growing prevalence of expertly forged documents being utilized to commit white collar crimes like identity theft, mortgage fraud, and credit card scams even after both state and federal law enforcement agencies continue to crack down on these issues. The impact of the phenomenon is evident across the US, even in the state of Maine. As the stories below show, fake identification has been highlighted in several recent events statewide:
- In Waterville, police issued over 20 citations to community college students who were suspected of drinking underage at a local bar, many utilizing fake ID's to gain entry. By the time that police arrived to investigate, they had already confiscated several fake ID's from patrons. The police were surprised that a group that large was all caught at a single location.
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When framed, it would make a beautiful centre piece to any lounge, office or man cave without taking up too much room.
Signed by:
Peter Jackson
Elijah Wood
Dominic Monaghan
Billy Boyd
Christopher Lee
John Rhys Davies
Karl Urban
Andy Serkis
Cate Blanchett
Howard Shore (Composer)
note: Cate Blanchett and Dominic Monaghan have signed in the dark area of the poster.
An awesome signed poster of which will not be obtainable again. Christopher Lee sadly passed away in 2015.
Dimensions are 18" x 30" (approx). In excellent condition with a few minor signs of handing, as expected.
Highly collectable ! (Beware of many fakes on auction websites. Many multisigned LOTR posters are not genuine).
Comes with our own Devon Autographs COA, and Lifetime Authenticity Guarantee.
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