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XIV Storage System Gen3 v11.2
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On February 5, IBM announced new features and improved performance for the XIV Storage System Gen 3. Here is a summary of the announcement: IBM® XIV® Storage Systems, a powerful, innovative enterprise-class storage from IBM , includes the following...
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IBM XIV Gen3 SSD Caching versus EMC VFCache
TonyPearson Tags: aix vfcache ramsan +systems system+x svc emc project+lightning pcie ibm+i fusion-io gen3 vmware xiv ssd pci-x texas+memory+systems power solid+state+drives ibm cache vmotion dram live+partition+mobility 6 Comments 32,213 Views
Have you ever noticed that sometimes two movies come out that seem eerily similar to each other, released by different studios within months or weeks of each other? My sister used to review film scripts for a living, she would read ten of them and have to...
IBM Announcements for February 2012
TonyPearson Tags: sync ltfs-sed elisabeth+stahl ts7720 ssd ts7700 mac+os+x xiv lto5 ltfs gen3 ts1140 ts7740 ibm 19,833 Views
Well, it's Tuesday again, and you know what that means! IBM Announcements! Typically, IBM System Storage has three to five major product launches per year. Making announcements every Tuesday would have been two frequent, and having one big announcement...
XIV Release 3.1 materials - including a really cool video
If you interested in the current state of play with XIV, there are a huge number of new resources that have been created or updated as part of the XIV 3.1 update, so I thought I would give you a list. If you are a customer then please scan down to see if...
XIV Performance Monitoring Tools
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The IBM XIV has some great performance monitoring tools. These include: Realtime IOPS displayed on the front panel of the XIV GUI Realtime performance statistics using XIV Top (as detailed here ) Realtime performance statistics using the XIV Mobile Dashboard...
IBM XIV - the facts
anthonyv Tags: gen3 enterprise xiv storwie v7000 5 Comments 13,571 Views
In you case you hear different, it's time for a few simple facts about XIV: XIV was founded in 2002 and shipped its first product in 2005 . XIV is now up to its third generation in the development process. After over 6 years, XIV is a mature and...
Are you seeing timeouts on XIV management GUI 3.0?
I have had some reports of clients upgrading to XIV GUI 3.0 and seeing occasional timeouts connecting to their XIVs. This is annoying management issue rather than a data access issue. This appears to only occur when the machine is in a remote location to the...
XIV Gen3s are shipping!
Three quick facts for you: 1) XIV Gen3s are now shipping. 2) Orders for XIV Gen3 are flowing in. 3) The XIV Release GUI is available for everyone to download and use. Links for the GUI are here . My personal recommendation is that you uninstall the...
Redbook Diary: Week One
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For the next few weeks I may not blog as frequently. It's not that I am tired of writing, but I will be writing on a different subject: Helping to update the four XIV Redbooks . IBM Redbooks are one of the many ways that IBM differentiates itself from its...
A glimpse at the XIV GUI Release 3.0
With all my blogging about the XIV Gen3, I am sure there are 2nd Generation XIV users out there thinking: Whats in it for me? I already bought an XIV! So for all of you, I have some really cool news: Release 3.0 of the GUI is coming and it will work...
XIV Gen3 Spot the Differences: The Patch Panel
The IBM XIV Gen3 was announced July 12, 2011 with a planned availability date of September 8, 2011. So far I have written blog articles about the changes to the rack , the layout and the disk drives . So it's now time to head around to the back of the...
XIV Gen3 spot the differences part two: Open the door
Last week I talked about the differences between the XIV Generation 2 and XIV Gen3 by just looking at the rack. This week we open the front door to see if we can spot any more differences... First up you notice that it looks almost exactly the same..... ...
Spot the differences
As a child I used to love the spot the difference cartoon in the Sunday paper. You usually had 10 differences to circle... and I could never find the last one. Look carefully at the two machines below. Can you spot the differences? It's an XIV Generation 2...
Did IBM XIV force EMC's hand to announce VMAXe?
TonyPearson Tags: ckd v-max tco dmx-4 ibm sonas vmax gen3 hds xiv n7900 ds8000 emc ficon 3 Comments 19,830 Views
Did IBM XIV force EMC's hand to announce VMAXe? Let's take a stroll down memory lane. In 2008, IBM XIV showed the world that it could ship a Tier-1, high-end, enterprise-class system using commodity parts. Technically, prior to its acquisition by IBM, the...
Nehalem and XIV Gen-3
XIV Gen 3 modules are built on a new generation of Intel microprocessors based on the Nehalem micro-architecture. Nehalem is the most profound architecture change that Intel has introduced in the 21st century. Some of the key changes and their benefits...
A brief history of XIV
Today IBM is announcing a new member of the XIV family, which we are calling XIV Gen3. I thought I would give a brief history of how we got here before I get too carried away with details. What was Generation 1 of the XIV? In 2002 an Israeli startup began...


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Check out the results of our 3Q 2011 Business Service Management Solution Stack integration and upgrade tests.
As part of IBM's commitment to quality and continuous improvement, the Tivoli Project Bedrock testing team was established. The team consists of cross-product test representatives from IBM Software Group,Tivoli software, and IBM Systems and Technology Group hardware divisions. Project Bedrock enhances the way IBM tests by doing scenario-based testing on a solution stack comprised of multiple Tivoli products, middleware, operating systems, and hardware.
Project Bedrock was created to address scenario-based testing to ensure the maintenance levels are installed, configured, and tested together as a solution stack. You follow a well-documented path to move from one level of the solution stack to the next. The Bedrock project name was chosen to portray the end goal of delivering a solid foundation of products working together on which the solutions run. Read more about the product versions used in the stack, procedures followed to implement the stack, issues found, and tips and tricks to learn from.
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text: Prize-winning author-critic William Gass dead at 93 by Hillel Italie, The Associated Press Posted Dec 7, 2017 6:53 am PDT Last Updated Dec 7, 2017 at 9:00 am PDT AddThis Sharing ButtonsShare to TwitterTwitterShare to FacebookFacebookShare to RedditRedditShare to 電子郵件Email NEW YORK, N.Y. – William Gass, a leading experimental writer of the 1960s and '70s who went on to become an award-winning essayist and translator and an influence on many younger writers, died Wednesday at age 93.Gass died at his home in St. Louis, publisher Alfred A. Knopf announced. The cause of death wasn't immediately available."Bill was a master writer, thinker, inspirer and human being," Gass' longtime editor, Vicki Wilson, said in a statement. "His writing was important and daring."Along with John Barth, John Hawkes and others, Gass was among a generation of writers who opened up, and often abandoned, traditional narration. They emphasized wordplay, digression and self-conscious references to storytelling. They were praised as risk-takers who liberated the art form, and chastised for self-indulgence, makers of abstract texts best suited for college seminars.By the 21st century, their techniques, labeled "metafiction" by Gass, were widely used by leading writers such as David Foster Wallace, Dave Eggers and Jonathan Safran Foer. Wallace would call his debut work, "Omensetter's Luck," one of the "direly underappreciated" American novels of the late 20th century, and called Gass' prose "bleak but gorgeous, like light through ice".Gass endured as only an author can — he wrote. He won three National Book Critics Circle prizes for criticism and four Pushcart Prizes for the best work published by small presses or magazines. He published the epic novel "The Tunnel" and the acclaimed "Reading Rilke," a translation and analysis of the German poet he long revered. He was active into his 90s and in 2015 released "Eyes: Novellas and Stories."Knopf will publish an anthology of his work, "The William Gass Reader," on June 8.Voted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1983, Gass never won a Pulitzer, but that, apparently, was for the better. The Pulitzer for fiction, he wrote in a 1985 essay, "takes dead aim at mediocrity and almost never misses; the prize is simply not given to work of the first rank, rarely even to the second; and if you believed yourself to be a writer of that eminence, you are now assured of being over the hill — not a sturdy mountain flower but a little wilted lily of the valley."Gass managed the more secure position of faculty tenure, at Washington University (formerly known as Washington University in St. Louis). He and his second wife, Mary, lived in an ornately furnished Georgian-style house, with a vast personal library. He even earned a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame, where he ranked, alphabetically, between former "Today" show host Dave Garroway and baseball great Bob Gibson.Gass was born in Fargo, North Dakota, in 1924, a Depression baby whose unhappy childhood (an abusive father, an alcoholic mother) scarred him so deeply that he would later say he wrote to "get even." He was also a glutton for books who treated each text as a plate he was required to clean. Studying at Cornell University, he had his first great literary encounter, sitting in on classes taught by the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein."There was absolutely no small talk around. In fact, it annoyed him," Gass told The Associated Press in 1999. "He would take walks with a few other people and he'd whistle Mozart just to keep everybody else out of his head."Influenced by Wittgenstein, Gass was taken by the esthetics of language, how a word looked and sounded as opposed to what it meant. Gass was also a great admirer of Gertrude Stein, who treated plot and grammar as contrivances rather than natural components of literature."My stories are malevolently anti-narrative, and my essays are maliciously anti-expository," Gass once wrote. "I do not pretend to be in the possession of any secrets; I have no cause I espouse; I do not presume to reform my readers, or attempt to flatter their egos either."Gass taught at several colleges in the 1950s and managed to publish some fiction in the literary magazine Accent. Otherwise, his manuscripts were turned down countless times and one was stolen, requiring a complete revision. Only in 1966 did his first book, the novel "Omensetter's Luck," come out."I couldn't even get a letter to the editor published. It was a discouraging time, I must say," he recalled."Omensetter's Luck" and the story collection, "In the Heart of the Heart of the Country," brought Gass widespread attention. It was a great time for mass movements, both in art and in politics, and Gass felt he belonged to an international community of rule-breaking writers."(Italo) Calvino was just starting to discover himself. You had all the Latino writers and Guenter Grass. Everywhere, it was fantastic," Gass said.But the times moved on, faster than did Gass. His next full-length novel, "The Tunnel," would take more than 20 years to complete and sold little despite admiring reviews, a fate similar to shorter works of fiction such as "Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife."Meanwhile, Gass established himself as an essayist and critic. He won book critics circle prizes for "Habitations of the Word," "Finding a Form" and "Tests of Time." He received, most proudly, a PEN/Nabokov award for lifetime achievement, and in 2007 was the winner of the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism."I have always been interested in miracles — not just the one we are presently celebrating, but especially in the secular kinds," he said in his acceptance speech for the Capote award. "A miracle is something that cannot happen, and shouldn't, and won't again, but has occurred all the same, despite laws, odds, expectations."To adorn nature with a new thing: that is the miracle that matters."___Corrects to Washington University from University of Washington.


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Actor Jared Leto sits down with WSJ's Jason Bellini to discuss awards buzz around "Dallas Buyers Club," which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.
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There is one word that can sum up this season of Bad Girls Club thus far, and no it is not drama, the word you are looking for is "Fight."
This 3rd season of the Bad Girls Club has been the highest rated for a reason. With each week brings a new fight between the roomates. The latest fight being between Flo and Amber.
Tonight's episode was a bit confusing for me and I'm sure some of you readers as well. We had Amber push Flo into the pool during an argument, that push/shove cost Flo to fracture/twist her ankle. Flo, in a rage (deservedly so), then proceeded to hit and drag Amber on the ground.
A drunk Flo also proceeded to make some deadly threats against Amber, threatening to kill her and harm her in her sleep. Flo ended up spending the night at the hospital, and for some strange reason Amber became the victim though Flo was the one left in crutches with a fractured ankle.
The roomates got behind Amber, who for some reason was then given the power to send Flo home. She decided to but ultimately had a change of heart after Flo cried and pleaded for a second chance. Yes Flo cried. Kendra and Natalie also pleaded to Amber on Flo's behalf.
Now I'm not the biggest fan of Flo but I thought it was ridiculous that Amber became the "victim" in this situation. Hello? She pushed the girl in the pool and fractured her ankle. Why was she the victim? Why did she get the chance to send her home? Yes I understand Flo said some things and made some awful threats but she was drunk and did anyone really think Flo would kill Amber? I might be in the minority but Amber should have been the one sent home for physically harming someone. And slightly off topic, but Kendra's boy toy Angel should have definitely paid the $20 bill for the wings he ate out of.


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The city and county of Sacramento are not planning to open special cooling centers.
Roger Ince is the county Office of Emergency Services coordinator. He says it's not the high temperature that causes the centers to be opened.
"We look at the nighttime temperature isn't 75 degrees or above. We're only hitting 72 on Tuesday and Wednesday nights. The nighttime temperatures cooling down into the 60's and that's really the big number we look at because above 75 degrees your body doesn't have the chance to refresh itself overnight."
Ince says the city and county typically see only one or two people when they do open cooling centers.
He recommends community centers, public pools, libraries and malls for anyone who has no air conditioning and would like to cool down.


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Lind, Davis set to platoon at DH
TORONTO -- The Blue Jays appear set to go with a platoon of Adam Lind and Rajai Davis at designated hitter during the early stages of the season.
Lind will continue to receive all of the at-bats at either DH or first base when there's a right-handed pitcher on the mound. Davis will get the start when it's a lefty, as was the case Friday night, when Felix Doubront started for Boston.
The decision to go with a platoon doesn't mean Lind will be lifted for a pinch-hitter every time a left-handed reliever is brought into the game, but it will apply to all starts for now.
"If Lindy's in the lineup, and they're bringing a left-hander in, he may face them, depending on what's happening with the game, the score, his history against that particular guy," manager John Gibbons said. "But for right now, that gives us a chance to get Rajai in there, get him some at-bats."
Lind has notoriously struggled against left-handers during his career. He is a .220 hitter with a .607 OPS against lefties, compared to a .280 average and .832 OPS versus right-handers.


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DALLAS (Reuters) - A paramedic accused of possessing pipe bomb components will plead not guilty to that charge and denies any involvement in causing the deadly explosion at a Texas fertilizer plant that he was among the first to respond to, his lawyer said on Saturday.
Bryce Reed, 31, appeared in federal court in Waco, Texas, on Friday to face one count of unlawfully possessing an unregistered destructive device.
Authorities, who separately announced on Friday a criminal probe into the blast, said no evidence linked Reed's arrest to the April 17 fertilizer plant disaster that killed 14 people and injured about 200 in the town of West - a point Reed's attorney echoed in his first comments about the charge.
"Let me be very clear, Mr. Reed had no involvement whatsoever in the explosion at the West, Texas fertilizer plant," his attorney, Jonathan Sibley, said in a statement.
"Mr. Reed was one of the first responders and lost friends, family, and neighbors in that disaster," Sibley said. "Mr. Reed is heartbroken for the friends he lost and remains resolute in his desire to assist in the rebuilding of his community."
Reed was a volunteer emergency medical technician who became one of the better-known faces of the tiny Texas town in the aftermath of the blast. Last month he told Reuters that he helped people evacuate the area when a fire broke out at the plant and went on to assist at the disaster scene after the explosion until he learned a close friend was among the dead.
Federal prosecutors said in court papers on Friday that authorities had found a section of pipe 3-1/2 inches long and 1-1/2 inches in diameter, end caps, fuses and explosive powder this month at a home in Abbott, Texas, a town near West.
The resident of that home, whom they did not identify, told police the components came from Reed, who was arrested on Thursday.
"Mr. Reed vigorously denies those allegations and will be entering a plea of not guilty during his court appearance Wednesday, May 15, 2013," his attorney said.
Texas officials said on Friday they were launching a criminal investigation into the explosion at West Fertilizer Co, a privately held plant that had supplied fertilizers to area farmers for decades. Authorities previously said they suspected the disaster was an industrial accident but had not ruled out other possibilities.
The state fire marshal's office has said ammonium nitrate stored at the plant detonated in the explosion but the cause of the fire and blast have not been determined.
State officials ordered the Texas Rangers to join McLennan County Sheriff Parnell McNamara in conducting the criminal probe.
The sheriff's office said nothing had been found so far to link the charge against Reed to the explosion, and federal authorities said they would not speculate on any possible connection.
According to an email sent to the Texas Department of State Health Services on Friday, an administrator for West's emergency medical service said Reed was relieved of his volunteer role on April 19. No reason was given in the email for his dismissal.
Dr George N. Smith, medical director for West EMS, declined to comment about Reed's arrest or volunteer status.
Carrie Williams, a spokeswoman for the health services department, said Reed had no history of complaints or disciplinary action filed against him with the state.
Reed is employed as a paramedic at Children's Medical Center of Dallas but has been on leave since April 3, before the plant fire and explosion, hospital spokeswoman Kay Jackson said on Friday. She declined to say why he has been on leave.
Reed's wife, Brittany Reed, asked for privacy for herself and the couple's 2-year-old daughter. Their home was among many destroyed by the blast.
"I am doing my best to maintain safety for myself and my daughter," she told Reuters in a text message. "I am cooperating fully with law enforcement and have been cleared in any wrongdoing."
Bryce Reed's attorney asked that his family, friends and community not rush to judgment before all the facts of the case were known. Reed is being held without bail ahead of his next court hearing and faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted.
"Mr. Reed has been through significant hardship in the wake of the disaster in West and he has responded and served his community with honor and strength," Sibley said.
Additional reporting and writing by Colleen Jenkins; Editing by Mohammad Zargham


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A Premier League footballer once targeted by Manchester United fans for his "bling" image is to tell of how he found God.
Sunderland star Kieran Richardson, whose attitude to fans while at Manchester United saw him dubbed Lord Snooty, says Christianity changed his life.
Richardson stunned football in December when he went public with his faith, celebrating a goal at Wolverhampton Wanderers by revealing a vest which read "I belong to Jesus".
The 27-year-old full back, whose Marks and Spencer lingerie model girlfriend Natalie Suliman is also a Christian, joined Good Word Ministries, near Durham City, last year.
He is gearing up to tell his life story at a church event next month.
He told the Northern Echo: "I've been a born-again Christian for four years. I was saved in Sunderland. It's changed my life for the better - through Jesus's death.
"People need to know if they feel they can't talk to anyone, the church is here for them. The main thing is having a relationship with God."
The London-born, privately-educated England international has never spoken publically of his faith.
Didi Dolopei, pastor of Good Word Ministries, Durham, said he hoped Richardson's story would inspire other young people.
The West Ham trainee was snapped up by Manchester United as a youngster.
He then signed for Sunderland in a £5.5 million deal struck by former boss Roy Keane.
He has since made more than 130 appearances for the Black Cats and is now the club's longest serving player.
Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson has spoken of how hostility to the player from some Manchester United fans forced the sale.
He told the Sunday Express in 2007: "I let him go mainly because some fans were getting on his back and I don't like that.
"Kieran has great ability but he isn't going to flourish if he hasn't got everyone behind him.
"So when Sunderland made a good offer, I decided to accept and send him on his way with our best wishes."
Richardson will speak at A Life-Changing Event, at Good Word Ministries, Durham Business Centre, Langley Moor, County Durham, on May 4.


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February 19, 2013 By
Presidential medals of X, Y and Z tend not to matter very much. They're awards that governments give out at photo ops.
That's not even the case with the Israeli Presidential Medal of Distinction which is chosen by an advisory committee to the President of Israel. The President of Israel, unlike the President of the United States, occupies a primarily ceremonial position. He's the equivalent of Joe Biden and Shimon Peres who currently holds that position makes Joe Biden look like a genius. Peres is a brain-dead leftist running on his last brain cell and blathering endlessly about nanotechnology.
The Presidential Medal of Distinction is supposed to be given to a honoree who
1. Made a distinctive contribution to the world
2. Contributed uniquely to society
3. Is a model for entrepreneurship, creativity, innovation and vision
The award, which looks like the patch for the Israeli space program or some grape juice soda being spilled on a menorah, was established last year to give Peres something to do with his time.
Since 2012, it has already been awarded six times, which tells you how selective it is. Awardees include Henry Kissinger, a man who hated Israel more than Obama, Hagel and Hamas put together, and got more Israelis killed, which also tells you something about the selectivity.
The actual choice comes from a committee which cited Obama for his "constant practice to promote equality regardless of religion, race, gender and sexual orientation, to strengthen the poor in the U.S. and the empowerment of democratic values, unity and peace in the world." That should tell you something about whoever put that ridiculous collection of words together.
The award committee is co-headed by Yitzhak Navon, another former Israeli president who leans well to the left. The committee also includes, Muhammad Essawi, head of the Al-Qasemi College, which was founded to teach a "moderate" Sufi version of Islamic Sharia law, and a few others.
Obama gave Peres the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Now Peres is giving Obama the Israeli Presidential Medal of Distinction.
About Daniel Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam. He is completing a book on the international challenges America faces in the 21st century.


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The last Full Moon of 2012 gave the Sheridan area a brief glimpse as it rose at 4:30 pm Thursday and then disappeared. Perhaps if the cloud cover permits it will reappear later in the evening. The last full moon of 2012 actually occurs at 3:21 am (our time) Friday morning - when the moon is exactly opposite the sun but it will look full for a couple of days on either side of that time. This full moon is also called Winter Moon and Oak Moon.


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This afternoon in Philly, it was hot. Hotter than a firecracker, and the Phillies team was hot too. They pulled off a feat that is actually rarer than being able to see Haley's Comet from Earth. Halley's Comet is seen at least once every 75-76 years. Today with the 1-0 win for the Phillies, the team done something that hasn't been done since 1913. According to the Elias Sports Bureau that keeps track of all these things, not only did they win the first three games against the Reds with game ending extra inning hits, they won back to back games by the score of 1-0 and that hasn't been done since April 18-19, 1913 for the Phillies. It is hard to believe the Phillies hadn't won two games together by a score of 1-0 since 1913, but it's rare that the Phillies win games 1-0 at all let alone back to back.
The Phillies now go to the All Star Break for 2010. For most of the Phillies players, it means having some time off. Just a couple days to relax, and unwind and be at home with family and friends. For some other Phillies, namely the whole coaching staff, and manager, Charlie Manuel, Roy Halladay, and Ryan Howard, will all be flying tonight to Anaheim along with the Cincinnati Reds representatives to the All Star Game.
The players going to the All Star Game and coaches were all given their jerseys today at the game just prior to the start of the ballgame. It was great to see Ruben Amaro handing the dark blue National League team jerseys out to those who were going. Chase Utley would have been on the field and playing for the National League hadn't he had his injury, but he is still known as an All Star for winning the vote by a large margin for second base. Placido Polanco was beaten out by David Wright of the NY Mets in the fan voting in the last few days of voting. If Polanco had been healthy, I am sure Phillies fans would have been furiously voting for him.
Sign at the stadium todayThere was a funny sign at the stadium today, it said. "Please Win Today" in large letters and just below in smaller letters, "In 9 innings or less please". This after the Phillies have been running into extra innings the first three games of the Cincinnati series, and winning so dramatically. The Phils only scored 1 run today for Cole Hamels, on a 3rd inning rbi single by Jimmy Rollins scoring Carlos Ruiz, but it was enough to sweep the Reds and bring the Phillies into the All Star Break still in third place but better than expected at 47-40, just below the Mets who are 48-40, and the Atlanta Braves who are 52-36 and in first place.
So the Phillies will pick it back up after the All Star Break in the great town of Chicago. They'll play the Cubs for 4 games:
- Thursday, July 15th at Chicago Cubs 8:05 PM
- Friday, July 16th at Chicago Cubs 2:20 PM
- Saturday, July 17th at Chicago Cubs 1:05 PM
- Sunday, July 18th at Chicago Cubs 8:05 PM ESPN
- Monday, July 19th at St. Louis Cards 7:05 PM
- Tuesday, July 20th at St. Louis Cards 8:15 PM
- Wednesday, July 21st at St. Louis Cards 8:15 PM
- Thursday, July 22nd at St Louis Cards 2:15 PM
Heard at citizens bank Park todayCarlos Ruiz now has Phil Collins famous drum roll, from "In The Air Tonight" as his music as he comes up to bat! Sounds really good, and energizing!
Boos rang out of the stands at Brad Lidge when he came out to close this one out. After the game, he said it didn't bother him and he hopes the team does better in the second half after the All Star Break. Don't forget perfection in 2008 also, it's hard to boo someone like Lidge who had such as awesome season in '08 but the fan's point of view is they want consistency and dependability for this season too.


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A Compilation of Environmental Education News from Across Louisiana
10th ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS STUDENT ART & LANGUAGE ARTS CONTEST
The Louisiana Environmental Education Commission and the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries along with contest sponsor, Alcoa Foundation, invite students to participate in the Tenth Environmental Awareness Art & Language Arts Contest. Louisiana students, ages 5-18, may enter their original work in the art category and/or the language arts category. The theme for the 2012 contest is "Louisiana Waters: Protect, Conserve, Enjoy!" This theme can be used to introduce water sustainability initiatives in classrooms, educating students on how they can incorporate the protection, conservation, and enjoyment of water in their daily lives.
Winning entries will be published in our 2013 calendar and are distributed statewide. Winning artwork is placed on billboards throughout the state and the poems and essays are published in large circulation newspapers. Cash prizes are also awarded! In addition, winning students are honored with a ceremony at the Governor's Mansion. All submissions must be postmarked by Thursday, April 26, 2012. For more information, click here or contact Juliet Raffray at email@example.com or (225) 765-0124. Contest criteria/registration form is attached.
EE Week – April 15-21
EE Week 2012 theme: Greening STEM: The Environment as Inspiration for 20th Century Learning
Participants will receive the following:
• Infographic: STEM & Our Planet
• Greening STEM Educator Planning Toolkits
• EE+STEM Webinars
• Earth Gauge Meteorologist Videos
Also announcing the EE Week 2012 Photo Blog Contest: Submit photos and stories about your environmental education activities for the chance to win prizes! Also be sure to check out Project Noah's new Global Schoolyard Bioblitz mission, created in honor of EE Week's 2012 theme: Greening STEM.
EE Week is partnering with EPA's Office of Environmental Education to host three webinars on environmental education programs and resources during EE Week this year, as part of a new initiative called Environmental Education in Action. Learn more. View some new Success Stories of how schools and organizations are engaging students in STEM learning via the environment. More stories will be posted as they become available. Submit your photo and story to email@example.com today!
Envirothon volunteers needed!
Envirothon is an environmental problem-solving competition that will be held on Saturday April 21, 2012 in Baton Rouge at the LSU AgCenter Burden Center. Volunteers are needed! If you are interested in volunteering for this event, please view the attached flyer and contact Tomeka Prioleau for information at firstname.lastname@example.com or 225-219-0877. For more information about Envirothon please visit the website at www.deq.louisiana.gov/envirothon.
Join the JASON National Argo Team! (Deadline: May 1)
The JASON Project is seeking a diverse, creative, and adventurous group of students and educators to venture into the field with scientists to perform cutting edge science explorations. The Argonauts will embark on an exciting journey, during which they will:
• Work side by side with scientists in the field,
• Serve as a mentor and role model for the JASON Community
• Regularly interact with the entire JASON community through speaking engagements, online posts & more!
National Student and Educator Argonauts will spend up to 10 days in the field during the summer or fall of 2012. JASON will pay for all travel, lodging, food (meals and snacks), and programming/equipment costs related to JASON Argonaut activities. Applications are being accepted now, with a deadline of Tuesday, May 1, 2012. Students should be 14 or 15 years old by June 1, 2012 to apply. Educators need at least five years of experience working with students and continuation as an educator in 2012-2013. All Argonaut candidates should be willing and able to travel to an international location. For more information and to apply click here to visit the Argonaut Information page. Additional questions regarding the JASON National Argonaut program can be sent to firstname.lastname@example.com.
WETSHOP – July 8-13, 2012
LDWF Marine Research Lab, Grand Isle, LA
Application Deadline: May 20, 2011
Number of Participants: 20 teachers
Contact: Angela Capello, (318) 748-6999, email@example.com
Registration fee: $50.00
WETSHOP is:
• A week-long, dynamic teacher workshop that allows teachers to work with educator/scientists to learn about Louisiana coastal wetlands, issues and history. The focus of the summer workshop is to create wetland stewards of teachers in order for them to educate co-workers and students in their home parishes about coastal land loss. Fifty-five professional contact hours will be accrued upon the completion of this wetland institute.
• Implementation of a six hour wetland dissemination workshop in your parish after completion of the summer workshop.
• Teacher stipend available for summer workshop and dissemination workshop during AY.
Workshop Highlights – Experience:
• Fisheries management; research trawling, seining
• Barrier islands and their role in coastal health
• Coastal Botany & Ornithology (visit Brown Pelican rookery)
• Water Quality Testing along fresh to salt water gradient
• Visit transitional Coastal Ecosystems
• Tour one of the largest oil ports in U.S.
• Visit coastal restoration site / Oil Spill impact sites
• Invasive Species (role in coastal land loss)
Receive: Wonders of Wetlands Teacher Guidebook, Numerous Classroom Resources, Networking with Wetland Scientists, Up to 55 Professional Contact Hours
Climate Community of Practice Webinar
An Update on the State of Sea Level Rise Science by Dr. Virginia Burkett
9:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m. central time Wednesday April 11, 2012. Dr. Burkett will be sharing recent updates to global, national, and regional sea level rise data. Her regional examples will focus specifically on the Gulf of Mexico. This is a free event and registration is not required.
To join the webinar: https://masgc.webex.com/masgc/j.php?ED=13174373&UID=39210648&PW=NY2M1MDFmNzQz&RT=MiM3
If requested, enter your name and email address. If a password is required, enter the meeting password: mhanisko1. Click "Join".
To join the audio conference only:
Call-in toll number (US/Canada): +1-408-600-3600
Access code: 857 671 202
To learn more about the Gulf of Mexico Climate Community of Practice, please visit our web page: http://masgc.org/climate/cop/index.html
Louisiana Sea Grant Seeks High School Teachers In Coastal Parishes For Oral History Project On Louisiana's Changing Coastal Environment
Louisiana Sea Grant would like to work with teams of 2-3 high school teachers from coastal parishes to collaborate in creating oral histories conducted by their students during the 2012-2013 school year. The student's oral histories will focus on the challenges of living in coastal communities where sea level rise, wetland loss, and a continuously changing environment affect coastal communities, their people, and their culture. Sea Grant will provide the equipment needed to complete the project, workshops in best practices of conducting oral histories with students, training for students and teachers on the equipment and assistance where needed. This interdisciplinary project will meet several GLEs across the curriculum and will provide a small stipend for teachers. For more information about the project, please contact Darcy Wilkins, Research Associate for the Louisiana Sea Grant Oral History Project at firstname.lastname@example.com or phone 225.578.5932.
EPA Environmental Education Webinars April 17, 18, and 19
EPA's Office of Environmental Education (OEE) will host three webinars for educators during National Environmental Education Week (April 16-20, 2012). The webinars will be part of a kick-off for a new initiative at EPA, called Environmental Education in Action (EE in Action), that will showcase environmental education programs and resources, including grant projects funded by OEE. See http://www.epa.gov/education for more information.
Join us on the following dates to learn about EE resources available to formal and informal educators across the country. All webinars will be recorded for those who cannot join us live. You must pre-register for each webinar using the links provided below.
Webinar #1: Environmental Education for Everyone: EPA's 'K through Grey' Educational Resources
Date: April 17, at 4:00pm EST.
Summary: EPA's Office of Environmental Education (OEE), has a wealth of information on educational resources that educators can use off the shelf in formal school classrooms and informal educational settings, or in development of a larger curriculum. OEE has programs for students of all ages - "K through Grey" - and will walk you through all of these great resources available on the OEE website.
Webinar pre-registration: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/291032976
Dial-In Number on 4/17: (877) 290-8017, Conference ID 69115722
Webinar #2: Creating the Link Between Emerging Urban and Existing Environmental Education Programs
Date: April 18, 2012, at 4:00pm EST.
Summary: Many novel and vibrant EE initiatives are emerging in cities across the United States. However, these programs and more established environmental education (EE) efforts are often disconnected from each other. The webinar will examine how recent urban EE approaches and established EE networks are coming together through the Expanding Capacity in Environmental Education (EECapacity) Project. Cornell University's Civic Ecology Laboratory manages the Project with funding from the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
Webinar pre-registration: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/677103408
Dial-in number on 4/18: (877) 290-8017, Conference ID 691206
Webinar #3: Greening STEM: Environmental Resources and Tools for Inspiring 21st Century Learning
Date: April 19, 2012, at 4:00pm EST.
Summary: Recognizing the environment as a compelling portal for STEM learning, the nonprofit National Environmental Education Foundation is celebrating National Environmental Education Week 2012 (eeweek.org) by providing resources and tools to help educators utilize the environment to engage their students in STEM. Webinar participants will learn about NEEF's wide range of environmental education resources including free educator toolkits focused on incorporating STEM into popular environmental topics, as well as educator webinars, online standards-based curricula, lesson plans and hands-on lab activities.
Webinar pre-registration: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/309392217
Dial-In Number on 4/19: (877) 290-8017, Conference ID 69123562
OneNOAA Science Seminars: May 2012
OneNOAA Science Seminars is the most complete summary of upcoming NOAA science seminars and a joint effort to share science across NOAA and our constituents. All seminars are free and open to anyone. All NOAA offices and CI are welcome to join our effort as OneNOAA seminar partners and share their seminars! For questions, please contact firstname.lastname@example.com or an OneNOAA Science seminar partner. Click on seminar title to access full details.
May 02: Using the New Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard (CMECS); Speaker(s): Mark Finkbeiner (NOAA Coastal Services Center); Location: Seminar available via webinar only; Click here to add this seminar to your google calendar
May 02: Evaluation of CMIP5 Model Experiments; Speaker(s): Jin-Yi Jin (UC Irvine), David Neelin (UCLA), Yolande Serra (University of Arizona), Justin Sheffield (Princeton University), Tao Zhang (NOAA ESRL); Location: NOAA SSMC-3 12th floor Fishbowl (1315 East-West Highway, Silver Spring, MD, 20910). Remote attendance is encouraged; Click here to add this seminar to your google calendar
May 03: Transitioning from FGDC to ISO 101 and ISO Content and Organization: QandA for ISO Creation Methods; Speaker(s): NCDDC; Location:Webinar access only; Click here to add this seminar to your google calendar
May 09: InVEST (in Our Oceans): A Tool to Map, Measure and Value Nature's Benefits; Speaker(s): Gregg Verutes (Natural Capital Project); Location: NOAA SSMC-4, Room 8150 (1305 East-West Hwy, Silver Spring, MD); Click here to add this seminar to your google calendar
May 09: Framing Climate Change: Recent Research Trends on Communication Strategies and Public Opinion; Speaker(s): Erik Nisbet (The Ohio State University); Location: WebEx Event, remote access only; Click here to add this seminar to your google calendar
May 10: Transitioning from FGDC to ISO 101 and ISO Content and Organization: Validation; Speaker(s): Speaker(s): NCDDC; Location:Webinar access only; Click here to add this seminar to your google calendar
May 16: The Assimilation of Surface Sensitive Microwave Observations Over Land: Recent Results and Open Issues; Speaker(s): Fatima Karbou (MeteoFrance); Location: NOAA World Weather Building (5200 Auth Road, Camp Springs, MD 20746); Room 707; Click here to add this seminar to your google calendar
May 17: Transitioning from FGDC to ISO 101 and ISO Content and Organization: QandA for Validation; Speaker(s): Speaker(s): NCDDC; Location:Webinar access only; Click here to add this seminar to your google calendar
May 24: Transitioning from FGDC to ISO 101 and ISO Content and Organization: Advanced ISO Topics; Speaker(s): Speaker(s): NCDDC; Location:Webinar access only; Click here to add this seminar to your google calendar
May 31: Transitioning from FGDC to ISO 101 and ISO Content and Organization: QandA for Advanced ISO Topics; Speaker(s): Speaker(s): NCDDC; Location:Webinar access only; Click here to add this seminar to your google calendar
Summer Coastal Program for Teachers (Deadline: May 11)
The 2012 FAMU Summer Teacher Coastal Stewardship Program will be held June 14, 2012 through June 28, 2012. The program provides teachers with the skills, materials and knowledge to teach watershed conservation and stewardship, and increase K-12 environmental literacy. This program is open to K-12 science teachers within upstream watersheds that drain into the Gulf of Mexico. See the attached flyer for additional information. The application deadline is May 11, 2012.
Become a Citizen Scientist Project BudBurst
Project BudBurst is a network of people across the United States who monitor plants as the seasons change. It's a national field campaign designed to engage the public in the collection of important ecological data based on the timing of leafing, flowering and fruiting of plants. The website includes a collection of resources designed for use by educators in informal and formal learning environments to implement Project BudBurst with their students. Among the resources are Teacher Registration Guides for elementary, middle and high school educators; Classroom Activity Descriptions for each grade level to effectively implement Project BudBurst in the K–12 classroom setting; free, downloadable Classroom Activities, aligned with national education standards, and accompanying teacher implementation guides; and a list of other educational resources and activities that might be of interest. Please visit: http://neoninc.org/budburst
Louisiana Public Broadcasting Digital Media Library
You can register now for LPB LearningMedia, a new digital media library with more than 18,000 resources for all age levels to use in your classroom free of charge. No passcode is needed. Register at http://beta.lpb.org/index.php/education/.
Greening STEM Planning Toolkits
Greening STEM: The Environment as Inspiration for 21st Century Learning, a set of planning toolkits for educators including STEM activities and resources for all grade levels around popular environmental topics has been prepared. These topics include: Gardens & Schoolyards, Energy Efficiency, Geography Connections, Water Resources, and Climate & Weather. The toolkits highlight opportunities for project-based learning, service-learning and citizen science, and we hope they will support you to easily develop activities for EE Week around the Greening STEM theme. http://eeweek.org/greening_stem/toolkits/gardens
Pacific Education Institute (PEI) & Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies STEM Guides
Free downloadable guides that integrate environmental and STEM education processes. PEI website: www.pacificeducationinstitute.org
• Fostering Outdoor Observation Skills
• Schoolyard Biodiversity Investigations Educator Guides
• Landscape Investigation Guidelines
• Field Investigations: Using Outdoor Environments to Foster Student Learning of Scientific Processes
• Sustainable Tomorrow – Applying Systems Thinking to Environmental Education Curricula for Grades 9-12
• The Project-Based Learning Model: Relevant Learning for the 21st Century
NASA Seeks Hosts for Space Station Interactive Education Events (Deadline: June 1)
NASA is seeking formal and informal education organizations to host live in-flight interactive conversations between the next generation of explorers and astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Comprehensive proposals are being accepted for missions scheduled between September 2012 and March 2013. The deadline to submit is Friday, June 1, 2012. NASA crew members will participate in 20-minute question-and-answer sessions with students who will learn what it is like to live and work in space. U.S. education organizations including school districts, museums, science centers, national and regional education organizations and local, state and federal government agencies are eligible to participate. Organizations may apply individually or work together. NASA provides this opportunity at no charge to the host institution and will work with the organization to plan the event.
These unique educational opportunities are made available through Teaching From Space (TFS), a NASA education initiative. TFS will hold several online information sessions about downlinks and the proposal process with interested organizations. To participate in an online session and obtain information about expectations, content, format, audience, proposal guidelines and forms, send an e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.com or call 281-244-7608.
For more information on the initiative, visit: http://go.usa.gov/Xqt
For more information about NASA education, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/education
2012 Draft National Water Program Strategy: Response to Climate Change Open for Public Comment
EPA has released the draft "National Water Program 2012 Strategy: Response to Climate Change," which describes how EPA's water-related programs plan to address the impacts of climate change and provides long-term visions, goals and strategic actions for the management of sustainable water resources for future generations.
The 2012 strategy, which builds upon EPA's first climate change and water strategy released in 2008, focuses on five key areas: infrastructure, watersheds and wetlands, coastal and ocean waters, water quality, and working with Tribes. It also describes geographically-based strategic issues and actions. EPA will accept public comments on the draft strategy until May 17, 2012. To read or submit a comment on the draft "National Water Program 2012 Strategy: Response to Climate Change," visit: http://epa.gov/water/climatechange.
OneNOAA Science Seminars: The most complete summary of upcoming science seminars across NOAA. See the schedule or subscribe http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/seminars/
CSO Weekly Report: Coastal States Organization update on Administration, Congressional and Agency activity in D.C. To subscribe to the CSO Weekly Report, please send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com with the word "subscribe" in the subject line.
Climate Community of Practice in the Gulf of Mexico: brings together extension, outreach and education professionals, and community official in the Gulf to learn how coastal communities can adapt to sea-level rise, precipitation changes and other climate-related issues. To join the group and enter a discussion, go to http://masgc.org/climate/cop/index.html
Gulf Coast Fund Daily Update: A daily listing of upcoming events, resources and funding deadlines. To subscribe: http://lists.gulfcoastfund.org/lists/info/gcfgrantees. See their full calendar: www.gulfcoastfund.org and click on "Upcoming Events"
Information Exchange for Marine Educators: Update is funded by the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation in partnership with NOAA's Ocean Exploration and Research Program, with additional support from the National Marine Protected Areas Center, to share information pertinent to the marine educator community. To subscribe to this distribution list, send a blank message to firstname.lastname@example.com with "subscribe infoexchange" in the subject field. For a pdf copy of the current newsletter and archives of information from past issues of the Information Exchange for Marine Educators, go to http://mpa.gov/resources/education/#exchange.
Louisiana Public Broadcasting e-letter: Monthly news on programs, resources, tools, and useful tidbits. Subscribe by going here: http://groupmailforms.com/form_pages/form4ffce04d92.html
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, email@example.com
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Day one on the KPWT Dunkerque Kitesurf Pro 2009 and the wind just didn't reach the required speed to start the competition. This did not stop anyone from enjoying the activities arranged on the promenade.
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THINGS are not as they seem in the 14th-floor apartment on upper Fifth Avenue. At first blush the family that occupies it looks to be very much of a type. The father, Steven B. Klinsky, 52, runs a private equity company; the mother, Maureen Sherry, 44, left her job as a managing director for Bear Stearns to raise their four young children (two boys and two girls); and the dog, LuLu, is a soulful Lab mix rescued from a pound in Louisiana.
They are living in a typical habitat for the sort of New Yorkers they appear to be: an enormous '20s-era co-op with Central Park views (once part of a triplex built for the philanthropist Marjorie Merriweather Post), gutted to its steel beams and refitted with luxurious flourishes like 16th-century Belgian mantelpieces and custom furniture made from exotic woods with unpronounceable names.
But some of that furniture and some of those walls conceal secrets — messages, games and treasures — that make up a Rube Goldberg maze of systems and contraptions conceived by a young architectural designer named Eric Clough, whose ideas about space and domestic living derive more from Buckminster Fuller than Peter Marino.
The apartment even comes with its own book, part of which is a fictional narrative that recalls "The Da Vinci Code" (without the funky religion or buckets of blood) and "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler," the children's classic by E. L. Konigsburg about a brother and a sister who run away to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and discover — and solve — a mystery surrounding a Renaissance sculpture. It has its own soundtrack, too, with contributions by Kate Fenner, a young Canadian singer and songwriter with a lusty, alternative, Joni Mitchell-ish sound, with whom Mr. Clough fell in love during the project.
It all began simply enough, Ms. Sherry said, when she and her husband bought the 4,200-square-foot apartment for $8.5 million in 2003.Continue reading the main story
"I just didn't want it to be this cookie-cutter, Upper East Side, Fifth Avenue kind of place," she said.
The six-foot-tall Ms. Sherry doesn't fit the mold of Fifth Avenue either: she is a former triathlete and nonfiction writer who is more interested in her children's sneakers than in the offerings of the shoe department at Barneys.
Architects she met with made very cookie-cutterish proposals, until she met Mr. Clough, now 35, who was a friend of a friend, and they got to talking. He had smart ideas, like moving the front door and eliminating the very grand and formal front hall, the kind with marble floors and too many doors "that you'd put a round table in the middle of and flowers on top of that," Ms. Sherry said. "A total waste of space."
What Ms. Sherry didn't realize until much later was that Mr. Clough had a number of other ideas about her apartment that he didn't share with her. It began when Mr. Klinsky threw in his two cents, a vague request that a poem he had written for and about his family be lodged in a wall somewhere, Ms. Sherry said, "put in a bottle and hidden away as if it were a time capsule." (Ms. Sherry said that her husband is both dogged and romantic, a guy singularly focused on the welfare of children, not just his own. Mr. Klinsky runs Victory Schools, a charter school company that seeds schools in neighborhoods around the country, as well as an after-school program in East New York that his own children help out with regularly.)
That got Mr. Clough, who is the sort of person who has a brainstorm on a daily basis, thinking about children and inspiration and how the latter strikes the former. "I'd just read something about Einstein being inspired by a compass he'd been given as a child," he said. The Einstein story set Mr. Clough off, and he began to ponder ways to spark a child's mind. "I was thinking that maybe there could be a game or a scavenger hunt embedded in the apartment — that was the beginning," he said.
Before long, his firm, 212box, was knee-deep in code and cipher books, furnituremakers were devising secret compartments, and Mr. Clough's former colleague, Heather Bensko, an architectural and graphic designer who had been his best friend at the Yale School of Architecture, found herself researching the lives of 40 historical figures, starting with Francis I of France and ending with Mrs. Post.
Ms. Bensko said she began writing chapters for a book, imagining scenes from the childhoods of those inspirational figures and trying to connect them. When that didn't pan out as a narrative technique, she invented two best friends living in New York City who discover a mystery in an apartment and, in the course of unraveling the mystery, a sort of treasure hunt, they "meet" the historical figures.
All of that was tied into gizmos Mr. Clough, Ms. Bensko and others in their office hid in the apartment — without telling the clients — in a way that is almost too complicated to explain.
The renovation took a year and a half, and Mr. Clough, who acted as construction manager, brought it in for $300 a square foot, a rather conservative figure given the neighborhood and the scope of the project. Designing and producing the apartment's hidden features, however, including its book and music, took four years, said Mr. Clough, who absorbed much of the cost in terms of his own billable hours, and relied on the generosity of more than 40 friends and artisans who became captivated by the project. He said he "begged, borrowed and stole" from them "in the collaborative process."
"People were definitely not paid," he said, "and we extend our thanks. It absorbed the minds of many people."
In assembling talents for his project, Mr. Clough aimed high. His first choice for the author of the book, which contains clues to the scavenger hunt in addition to the mystery story, was Jonathan Safran Foer, whose work contains its own sort of coded narrative pyrotechnics. Mr. Clough sent him a little tease, a Rubik's Cube of a sculpture made of anodized aluminum, encased in an acrylic cube that opens into a puzzle stamped with his firm's phone number and the word "Please."
Mr. Foer was intrigued and gave him a call. In an e-mail recently, Mr. Foer recalled that his daughter had just been born, and he was adrift in a fog of new parenthood. "It was a very good piece of mail that came at a very bad time," he wrote. "I was losing and ignoring all kinds of things that I shouldn't have. Did we speak on the phone? The whole thing was so dreamy I can't really remember. In fact, the project was never described to me as simply as you did in your e-mail. Had it been, I would have rushed to do it. I suppose that's the price one pays for being as mysterious as Clough is. Or as skeptical as I am."
The sculptor Tom Otterness was another hoped-for collaborator, but Mr. Clough said Mr. Otterness's acquiescence was conditional on Mr. Foer's, and anyway he would have needed to be paid. "Of course I couldn't have done it for free," Mr. Otterness said this week.
The apartment is quite attractive and perfectly functional in all the typical ways, and its added features remained largely unnoticed by its inhabitants for quite some time after they moved in, in May of 2006. Then one night four months later, Cavan Klinsky, who is now 11, had a friend over. The boy was lying on the floor in Cavan's bedroom, staring at dozens of letters that had been cut into the radiator grille. They seemed random — FDYDQ, for example. But all of a sudden the friend leapt up with a shriek, Ms. Sherry said, having realized that they were actually a cipher (a Caesar Shift cipher, to be precise), and that Cavan's name was the first word.
Another evening, Ms. Sherry and Mr. Klinsky were lying in their custom-made bed when a rod running along its foot snapped off. "I'm thinking, What the heck kind of cheap bed is this?" said Ms. Sherry, who phoned Mr. Clough the next day.
His response, which might have taken a less adventurous person aback, was that she take a wait-and-see attitude, that the bed bit was part of a larger "story" and that all would be revealed in good time. Oh, and he told her to just snap the piece back into the bed. (Ms. Sherry learned later that the piece of wood is meant to be wrapped with a leather strap — part of a decorative molding in another part of the house — which in its coiled shape reveals a message.) That Ms. Sherry gamely complied is another example of how flexible she is as a client. "Most people" — like her friends and her mother, she said — "couldn't believe how hands-off I was about the whole project. But I do think you have to trust people. You can't stand behind them breathing down their neck, particularly if they're creative."
Finally, one day last fall, more than a year after they moved in, Mr. Klinsky received a letter in the mail containing a poem that began:
We've taken liberties with Yeats
to lead you through a tale
that tells of most inspired fates
in hopes to lift the veil.
The letter directed the family to a hidden panel in the front hall that contained a beautifully bound and printed book, Ms. Bensko's opus. The book led them on a scavenger hunt through their own apartment.
But not all at once. The 18 clues were sophisticated and in many cases confounding. The family, Ms. Sherry said, worked in fits and starts over a two-week period, calling Mr. Clough for help when they got bogged down, which happened with increasing frequency as they approached the last of the clues. Indeed, as Ms. Sherry and Mr. Clough told their tale, this reporter had to ask Ms. Sherry if she ever questioned her architect's sanity. "Yes," she replied cheerfully.
In any case, the finale involved, in part, removing decorative door knockers from two hallway panels, which fit together to make a crank, which in turn opened hidden panels in a credenza in the dining room, which displayed multiple keys and keyholes, which, when the correct ones were used, yielded drawers containing acrylic letters and a table-size cloth imprinted with the beginnings of a crossword puzzle, the answers to which led to one of the rectangular panels lining the tiny den, which concealed a chamfered magnetic cube, which could be used to open the 24 remaining panels, revealing, in large type, the poem written by Mr. Klinsky. (There is other stuff in there, too, but a more detailed explanation might drive a reader crazy.)
The Sherry-Klinsky clan remains largely bemused by the extent to which Mr. Clough embellished and embedded their apartment. But Ms. Sherry and Mr. Klinsky are not immune to the romance of objects or messages hidden in walls, or what Ms. Sherry called "winks from one family to another."
"You move into a place and you have your life there, and your memories, and it's all temporary," she said. "Especially with apartments, which have such a fixed footprint. I like the idea of putting something behind a wall to wink at the next inhabitant and to wish them the good life hopefully that you have had there." Two years ago, when Ms. Sherry and Mr. Klinsky left the El Dorado on Central Park West to move into their new apartment, Ms. Sherry tried to create such a wink. She loaded an MP3 player with music they had loved and listened to during their time there — James Taylor singing "Jellyman Kelly," songs by U2 and Jakob Dylan — and tucked it behind a panel filled with electrical equipment.
Six months ago, "someone drops off the MP3 player with our doorman here," she said, "along with a note that read something to the effect of — You cannot believe where we found this thing. Good luck in your new home."Continue reading the main story


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Relations between Egypt and Libya have entered a dark tunnel as disputes related to security have escalated, specifically regarding each country's inability to control terrorist operations. However, this did not hamper official attempts to improve relations and restore cooperation between the two countries.
Tensions began to grow after Cairo agreed to host remnants of the former Libyan regime of Muammar Gaddafi, whom the Libyan government accused of plotting to weaken the state and destroy the February 17 revolution. Yet, following a surprise visit to Egypt by Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan two months ago, the two governments launched a series of negotiations to improve government relations.
Egyptian sources informed about the process told Al-Akhbar that Libya presented a new document for reconciliation. The proposed agreement includes a joint defense and border security plan, in addition to a commitment by the two countries to share information through defense ministries.
During the negotiations, the Libyan side encouraged the return of all expatriate Egyptian workers who left during the revolution, in the event that Egypt agrees to Libyan demands. In addition, it made a commitment to provide Egypt with oil, based on the agreement signed with ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi. However, the two countries did not reach an agreement on waiving visas and decided to postpone this step until the situation stabilizes and the flow of travelers across borders is under control.
The sources maintained that the Egyptian government, whose consulate in Libya was targeted by an explosion three months ago, still insists on the need to protect Egyptian diplomatic missions and Egyptian expats.
An Egyptian expert in Libyan affairs, who preferred to remain anonymous for personal safety reasons, told Al-Akhbar that the relationship between Egypt and Libya is subject to the personal moods and narrow interests of politicians.
Diplomatic sources indicated that the issue of Libyan oil exports to Cairo is currently suspended, despite the agreement with the previous Hisham Qandil government to purchase 30,000 barrels daily of Libyan crude oil for one year.
An Egyptian expert in Libyan affairs, who preferred to remain anonymous for personal safety reasons, told Al-Akhbar that the relationship between Egypt and Libya is subject to the personal moods and narrow interests of politicians. He indicated that Libyans perceive the relationship with Egypt as a long-term strategic asset, which is not the case for Egypt.
The expert, who lives in Libya and witnessed the February 17 revolution, said that Gaddafi would purposely strain relations between the two countries in the event of a disagreement with the Egyptian leadership. The current Libyan political establishment is replicating such behavior out of fear that Egyptian-Libyan cooperation would threaten their narrow partisan interests.
In Cairo, Libyan Ambassador Mohammed Jibril told Al-Akhbar that links between Egypt and Libya are not optional. One cannot ignore what geography determined, he explained. Commenting on Egypt's new political administration, he said that rulers come and go – they serve their people's interests, but it is the people who remain.
Jibril maintained that security cooperation between the two countries exists to protect the borders, and that the two countries communicate daily to cooperate on various levels.
Border controls are an Egyptian demand. However, the Libyan ambassador explained that the issue is of primary concern to Libya as well. Jibril stressed his country's international commitments to control the borders, signing security agreements with all neighboring countries with the help of European experts. He attributed lax border control to the lack of trained and experienced security personnel after the revolution.
Jibril added that the issue of Gaddafi regime remnants topped the agenda of recent visits to Cairo by former National Transitional Council chairman Mustafa Abdul-Jalil and Prime Minister Zeidan. He explained that the Libyan leadership is strongly convinced that they posed a threat to Libyan security and relations between the two countries.
Jibril revealed that his government has information "confirming those elements are involved in violent activities in Libya, and they move between Egypt, Uganda, and the United Arab Emirates. They believe they can regain control of the country with their money and that the revolutions in the Arab world will face a setback."
The Libyan ambassador said that the Egyptian government promised to address this issue seriously, within the framework of the law, adding that it promised it will not allow them to disturb relations between the two countries or use Egyptian soil as a base of operations to destabilize Libya.
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We took the classic flavors of Buffalo wings—hot sauce, blue cheese, carrots and celery—and created a finger-licking-good casserole. Serve this dish during football season to a hungry crowd and it's sure to be a hit. We don't typically recommend ingredients by brand name, but in this case we make an exception for Frank's RedHot Sauce. It has the perfect balance of spice and tang for this casserole. Texas Pete and Crystal hot sauces are suitable alternatives if you can't find Frank's.
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Art Deco shadows hail from Germany and are a drugstore brand.
I found a place that sells them in the UK (but will not ship to the US, sorry) and each eyeshadow was £4, and comes with a lid but can be placed into a palette with a solid magnetic base.
The website I bought from does not have swatches just little colour blocks so essentially I bought them blind:
That was my selection.
Actually two colours were swapped for me because they had sold out and I was given "similar" shades…hmm I was too tired to argue but it would have been nice to be given more of a consultation. AND…when I later went back to order two more shades (see below for why) I was told that they didn't know if it was in stock untill I ordered it (fine), and when I did I asked them to please let me know if was not in stock, which they didn't, so I presumed it was winging its way to me, one week later, I email them and they go, "Oh right, its not in stock." Well, duh. Why do you think I specifically asked you if it was in stock or not? Cos the lady needs it for her venture! Anyway…(I still haven't got them by the way).
For a spend of £50 you get some freebies, a lipstick, nail polish and lip gloss:
The lipgloss is very me! A caramel nude.
I had to try their eye base which is very popular on MUA:
This is very good. It looked hard but actually melts and has a creamy light souffleish texture. I lovve UDPP, but I have been using it less as it makes my shadows hard to blend. There are no such problems with this base; it is lovely and light and made my eyeshadow look fabulous.
Here they are in the magnum palette, which fits 10 and costs an extortionante £14.50:
It actually fits 11 if you don't want to put some brushes in it (which I don't). As ususal I've choosen cool colours, so I think I may get a cream for a highlight shade and a brown for some everyday wearabitliy to complete my collection.
I did a look today with the greens and was surpirsed; the colours are gorgeous and the qualiy of the shadows is very very high. Were talkin Shu Uemura high. Sometimes when you have a lot of make up like me, its not very often a shade makes you go "ooh"- because they tend to remind me of something I already own. Not so with Art Deco! I loved the greens, as they were smooth and complemented my brown eyes.
I highly highly recommend Art Deco shadows if you can find them ideally in person so you can test. 🙂 Time for a German penpal?….


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Zlín zlēn [key], city (1991 pop. 84,522), E central Czech Republic, in Moravia, on the Dřevnice River. From 1949 to 1993 it was called Gottwaldov in honor of Klement Gottwald , Czechoslovakia's first Communist president. One of the world's largest shoe-manufacturing cities, it is the center of the Czech shoe industry, which was founded in 1913 by Thomas Bata. Under the Bata family, the city grew into an almost self-sufficient factory community. Branches of the Bata shoe company opened throughout the world. Nationalized after World War II and then privatized, the former Bata facilities are no longer associated with the Bata company. Tires and other rubber goods, machinery, and animated films are also produced in Zlín.
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(CNN) -- While the nation followed the election numbers for Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, some readers were keeping track of a particular issue: marijuana legalization. Referendums passed in Washington and Colorado, but not in Oregon.
There are still federal hurdles to overcome for the two states where the referendums passed, and plenty of debate is sure to arise in the next few weeks. But some of our readers are hailing the legalization votes as a milestone comparable to ending Prohibition, or suggesting this could be a big boon for state economies. Still other readers are worried about the consequences of legalizing pot or the ways in which laws will be enforced.
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Sound it Out # 43: Junip - "Line of Fire" (MP3)
Junip is a band from Gothenburg, Sweden, comprising members Elias Araya, Tobias Winterkorn, and José González. Though their first EP came out way back in 2005, they are only now releasing their second full-length album, Junip, which arrives on April 23rd. Singer/guitarist González' much-lauded solo career has kept him away from the band for big chunks of time. It's been worth the wait.
Junip's new single "Line of Fire" is an atmospheric gem. Whispery vocals, exotic percussion and an overall ominous tone make for a highly addictive song. Download/listen below.


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Yahoo! announced on Wednesday they are auctioning off a trove of domain names that the company purchased but never used.
"As we discussed what to do with them, it became obvious that it was time to set them free…back into the wild of the Internet," the company said in a blog post. "Surely, creative people, businesses and entrepreneurs could come up with something great to do with them."
Some of the domain names up for grabs include sandwich.com, crackers.com, AV.com and sled.com. Check out the full list here.
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The auction is one of several initiatives launched under CEO Marissa Mayer's watch since she took the helm over a year ago.
In May, NBC Bay Area reported that the company expanded its company perks, giving parents more time off each time they have a child.
The search engine company launched a user name watchlist in August to alert users when an unused name becomes available. This was followed by the unveiling of a new logo, the first update since the company's founding 18 years ago.


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WHITEWATER, Wis. (Blugolds.com) – In a game that featured seven lead changes and 10 ties, the UW-Eau Claire women's basketball was unable to get by 14th-ranked UW-Whitewater as the Warhawks won 80-72 in Kachel Gymnasium tonight.
The score remained very close in the opening half with neither team leading by more than four points. Eau Claire took the initial lead and the teams went back and forth the rest of the half. The score was tied seven times while Whitewater's largest lead of the half was four points on five occasions, and Eau Claire led by as many as three points once.
Down 38-36 with seconds left in the first half, Cady Roedl (Fr.-Beaver Dam, Wis.) hit a buzzer-beater to give the Blugolds a 39-38 advantage heading into the locker room.
In the second half, after Roedl scored on a layup, Whitewater started a 24-10 scoring run that lasted almost nine minutes. With less than 11 minutes to play, Whitewater found itself up by 11 points (62-51).
But Eau Claire didn't give up and went on an 8-0 scoring run to get back to within three with a little more than eight minutes remaining. Over the following three minutes, the Warhawks found their way to another 12-point lead after using a 12-3 run.
Again, Eau Claire had another 8-0 run to get back to within four points (74-70) but Whitewater outscored the Blugolds 6-2 the rest of the way to win by eight.
Leah Rempert (Sr.-Lake Geneva, Wis./Badger) tied for a team-high 19 points, a career-high, with Courtney Lewis (So.-Prairie Du Chien, Wis.). Shannon Riley (Fr.-Muskego, Wis.) led the Blugolds with eight rebounds.
Eau Claire led the Warhawks in rebounding as the Blugolds pulled down 34 rebounds to 29 for Whitewater. The Blugolds also shot better, 53.8 percent (28-for-52) to 45.9 percent (28-for-61) from the field. But the Blugolds turned the ball over a season-high 28 times, which Whitewater converted into 28 points. The Blugolds scored 16 points off 20 Whitewater turnovers.
The Blugolds are now 4-4 overall and 2-1 in the conference while Whitewater improves to 6-2 on the season and 3-0 in WIAC play.
Eau Claire will be at UW-Superior on Wednesday for a game that will start at 7 p.m.


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RICHMOND, Va. – The tagline for Nike EYBL's Big Man Skills Academy is "Where the Best Get Better," and that's exactly what VCU rising senior Juvonte Reddic will be looking to do this week in Union, N.J.
Reddic is among 13 collegiate big men selected to participate in the three-day event, which features NBA stars Amare Stoudemire and Anthony Davis.
The Winston-Salem , N.C. native is one of just two big men outside the power-six conferences selected to participate, joining UNLV's Khem Birch.
It's a three-day event with four scheduled closed workouts in front of numerous NBA personnel and a fifth workout open to the media on Wednesday, June 26th.
Reddic is coming off an outstanding junior season in which he posted 11 double-doubles en route to 14.6 points per game and a team-leading 8.1 rebounds per game. He ranked in the top-20 nationally with a field-goal percentage of 56.9-percent. He earned a spot on the All-Atlantic 10 Second Team and the VaSID All-State Second Team.
He also became the third junior in the past four years to reach the 1,000-point plateau, finishing the 2012-13 campaign with 1,025 career points. That mark currently ranks 30th on VCU's all-time scoring list.
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New Mexico Governor Susan Martinez is pushing to increase the number of federal military cemeteries in her state from two to ten.
New Mexico is the fifth largest U.S. state in land mass, with 122,000 square miles. Given the long distances most state residents must travel to visit the two existing federal military cemeteries, Governor Martinez wants to create eight more cemeteries dispersed across the state to make it easier for family and friends to visit the gravesites. Read the full story about how Gov. Susana Martinez wants to build small veterans cemeteries throughout state in the Current-Argus (Carlsbad, New Mexico), 17 July 2013.
One of the state's two existing federal military cemeteries is located at Fort Bayard, New Mexico, in the southwestern area of the state. That cemetery has burials from the 1800s to today.
The other federal military cemetery is the Santa Fe National Cemetery located in the city limits of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Burials there began in the mid-1800s.
New Mexico residents in the southern part of the state also use the Fort Bliss National Cemetery located in El Paso, Texas. The earliest grave in that cemetery dates from 1883.
Be sure to use the U.S. Veterans Administration's National Gravesite Locator to search for details about the servicemen & women and their spouses buried in these federal military cemeteries.
These military cemeteries permit the burial of the service member and their spouse. The online index gives you the core information: each person's name; dates of birth and death; name and rank of the person that served in the military; and the name and contact information for the military cemetery. All of this is available 24/7 online. This government cemetery website is updated daily.
For more information about cemetery websites see also the blog post: "Top Genealogy Websites, Pt. 3: Burial & Cemetery Records."


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Below you will find a list of discussions in the Starcraft 2 Coding board at D3Scene.com. This forum is meant for Starcraft 2 coding related topics. This also includes map scripting.
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Note: The Sex Abuse category represents a subset of the most serious sexual abuse cases reported to MPD.
The advanced features on MPD's crime mapping application can provide a substantial amount of information on incidents that have been reported in the District of Columbia, including:
- Advisory Neighborhood Commissions
- Block (specific addresses are not available)
- Census Block Group
- Census Tract
- Criminal Complaint Number
- District
- Method
- Neighborhood Cluster
- Offense
- Report Date
- Shift
- Voting Precinct
- Ward
- Map Coordinates
In an effort to show you what you can get from the crime mapping application, let's go through a step-by-step process of running a basic query and downloading the more detailed information.
Step 1: Run a Query
You can search for information on crimes by address, by police district or PSA, or by many other geographic areas (including schools, places of worship, libraries, and other DC landmarks). As an example, let's go to crimemap.dc.gov and run a report. Select the location you want to search by using the radio button. An address field or a drop down menu will appear depending on what tab you select. We chose to search crimes in PSA 403 for the past 30 days:
Step 2: Download More Information
The basic query (see above) will return a table with the total number of crimes in the designated area for the timeframe indicated. Select the "Download Crime Data" link at the top of the table. This will let you select what information you want to download.
To see a map of the offenses, just click on the "view map" link, which will return a graphic representation of the crime locations. You'll need to download data to get details on specific incidents.
Step 3: Download Crime Data
Click on the "Download Crime Data" link just above the table of data. A page will come up that lets you select the types of information you want. You can get the data in two formats: Microsoft Excel or Text. Check the boxes of the information fields you would like to download and then click "Get Data."
Step 4: Sort Your Data for Analysis
Your Excel file is now available. You'll need Excel in order to manipulate the file.
Step 5: Evaluate Data Using Excel
After you download the file, you can review the data using Excel. A very useful tool in Excel will let you sort the data by any category (the title field). Simply place your cursor in the column that contains the information you want to sort by and then click on the "Sort Ascending" button in the tool bar (if the icon is not on your table, go to Data>Sort). The information will then be organized by that field. Do not highlight a column to sort the data; just place your cursor in one of the boxes.
In the snapshot below, we put the cursor in cell 2B and then clicked on the highlighted icon. The data was then sorted by offense.
We hope these instructions will make the MPD's crime mapping application a helpful tool that is easy to use. If you have any additional questions, please contact the Office of Research and Analytical Services at (202) 727-4174.


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Photometric Calculator
The Photometric Calculator provides lighting designers with a powerful interactive tool to show full details of the light output of ARRI lighting products. Simply select the desired lamphead, lens, lamp and focus position and the Calculator computes all relevant photometric data within seconds. It shows you maximum illuminance levels, half peak angles, beam diameters and a lot more.


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Yesterday, the Obama administration announced that the definition of rape will finally be updated to include shit you already probably thought should've been in there. This is important because crime rates as reported by the FBI are used to determine how much money is allotted to anti-rape initiatives and victims' services.
The old definition of forcible rape, a rusty old antique from 1929, was " the carnal knowledge of a female, forcibly and against her will." This is immediately problematic in that it excludes men and women coerced to have sex by non-forcible means, as well as those too young to legally consent to sex. Sorry, protagonists in every single Lifetime movie about wayward teens. If you were drugged at a bar and woke up the next morning with no recollection of what you did the previous night, you weren't technically "raped."
After a lengthy campaign led by Ms. magazine and change.org, a panel of FBI officials agreed that the old definition would be hilarious if it wasn't so awful and wrote a new definition for "forcible rape" that includes non-women and doesn't require that the victim physically resist the attack.
Even though this is great news, there's still this: about one in five women and one in every seventy-one men are rape victims. There's still a long way to go.
US scraps narrow definition of rape, will now include more people as victims, including men [WaPo]