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Emil has a unique and highly effective teaching method, as well as a generous nature that moves him to share his many years of experience. As a Push Hands teacher Emile uses his skill and sensitivity to guide you through a process of discovery that dissolves the distractions that get in the way of truly connecting, making it possible to experience the difference between contact and connection. Working with him I have come to better understand the T'ai Chi Classics: 'From familiarity with the c…
Emil is a very gifted Teacher and it feels great to be able to practice under these beautiful trees on top of a hill 🙂 Truly a wonderful experience!
Terrific session this morning.. Good folks.. Great vibe.. Thanks once again, Emil, for the opportunity to connect with restorative activity. Namaste 🙂
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"I have known Emil for a number of years, and consider it a great opportunity to have been able to practice with him. He is one of those rare practitioner/teachers with a varied background and stylistically open mind, who has pursued the art of t'ai ji for its spiritual benefits as well as its practical martial arts and health applications. Highly recommended."
"My special interest is push hands. I have studied with Emil for only a few months, yet he has already opened up a whole new world of the internal arts to me. His martial technique is outstanding, and he has an unusual ability to articulate abstract concepts so they are understandable."
Thank you Emil! This was a wonderful experience. For a beginner like me I was afraid not to be able to follow, but it was not bad at all! The warm-up helped a lot to get some understanding of the movement. The park is wonderful with plenty of parking.
I had the opportunity to join Emil last month for a very insightful push hands class. Emil is the real deal! He knows Chi and more importantly, knows how to teach others this very subtle yet powerful aspect of traditional Tai Chi Chuan push hands.
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Our annual general meeting (AGM) is held in the spring each year. This annual meeting is the largest business meeting of the association, and is normally held in Toronto. The official and 'required' business of the association is conducted during the first half of a one-day meeting, normally held on a Friday. Required business includes, but is not limited to:
- President's Report
- CEO's Report
- Financial Statements / Audited Report
- Selection of Auditors for coming year
- Election or removal of Directors
The second half of the meeting is a consultation session regarding the proposed resolutions brought forward by members. At this consultation, members at the meeting have the opportunity to indicate whether they endorse the proposed resolutions or not. All RNAO members are invited to attend both the morning and afternoon sessions, and there is no charge to attend this day-long meeting. During Friday's AGM, a Leadership Luncheon is offered. This luncheon is hosted by the Nursing Students of Ontario (NSO) executive. On Friday evening a celebratory President's Reception and Banquet is held, and this popular event is normally attended by close to 400 people. RNAO Recognition Awards and Media Awards are presented at this event.
The Friday AGM is preceded by a reception and opening ceremonies the evening before. The reception and opening ceremonies are open to all members, and stakeholders, including the Minister of Health, Provincial Chief Nursing Officer, Political leaders, other MPPs, CEOs, CNOs, etc. The high-profile ceremonies are usually attended by an audience of 400-450 people.
On Saturday morning, RNAO Interest Groups are invited to host individual meetings of their own members at the AGM venue. Afterwards, members are invited to the closing hour-long keynote presentation. Individual speakers or a panel of speakers are selected to address a popular or controversial health-care related topic. Registration to the AGM and related events is available online, during the second week of January. The deadline for the submission of nominations for candidacy to the board of directors and board committees, and for submission of proposed resolutions, is in December.

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Local 6 Theme World: New future for historic Silver Springs
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Welcome to Local 6 Theme World
January 24, 2013
New Future For Silver Springs
Here's a place I haven't been to in ages, but must get to soon. Just to say farewell to one of Florida's original tourist attractions: Silver Springs in the Ocala area.
Governor Rick Scott & the Cabinet have approved a state takeover for the struggling attraction. That will lead to a bright future -- but a big change in direction for a park that has been drawing crowds since before the Civil War.
But the real start came in the 1870s when the first glass bottom boat set sail on the crystal clear waters.
The good news -- those cruises will continue at Silver Springs as it becomes a state park. The park really came into its own in the 1930s when a colony of rhesus monkeys were introduced. Unfortunately -- they quickly multiplied and are now wild all over that part of the state.
Silver Springs became famous as a backdrop in movies like the old Johnny Weismuller Tarzan movies starting in 1932.
The six Tarzan films are among dozens of films that have filmed all or in part at the park since 1916.
Others include "Rebel Without a Cause" & such cinematic classics as "Smokey and the Bandit 3" and "The Creature From the Black Lagoon"
Despite entering the public consciousness -- and really taking off in a serious of gorgeous post cards in the 40s....
the park started struggling in the early 1970s when a certain Mouse roared into Lake Buena Vista -- and almost overnight reshaped the patterns of tourists who suddenly seemed to forget places like the old Silver Springs.
After changing hands several times, and trying everything from a water park to a jeep safari, the state of Florida bought the land in 1993 as a way of preserving it from development, then leased it back to private companies to run. That is very similar to the deal that saved Cypress Gardens from demolition in 2003. And that is why even today, those gardens remain the heart of LegoLand Florida, and cannot be touched.
And preservation is what the state takeover is all about. Current operator Palace Entertainment will spend the next six months tearing down asbestos-laden buildings from the 50s, and finding new homes for its exotic animal attractions and rides. It will spend $4 million in exchange for being let out of its lease. Silver Springs will say goodbye to life as a tourist attraction
And hello to its future as the newest state park on October first. One of the reasons it has struggled, is that runoff from the attraction has clouded the once-famous crystal clear waters and white sand bottom. Environmentalists hope the change to state park -- and the demolition of most of the attraction - will help return it to its pristine condition.
A piece of Florida history. If you want one last chance to see it as a tourist attraction, the current Silver Springs is offering half-price admission to Florida residents.
Here's a link to previous Theme World entries.
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When your pond starts to smell like old socks, there's a very good chance that (a) it's not well aerated; and (b) it's full of decaying debris. The third alternative – that your pond is filled with dirty socks – is a long shot, so we won't even bother to address it. But stagnant, debris filled ponds? We've got the answers you need.
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BOSTON, July 16 (UPI) -- Mitt Romney charged U.S. President Obama is running a campaign "based on falsehood and dishonesty" as Romney passed on suggestions he release more tax returns.
"A campaign based on falsehood and dishonesty does not have long legs," Romney told "Fox and Friends."
Romney, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, called Obama's attack "dishonest" and "misdirected."
"And I think the American people recognize that kind of politics as something of the past," Romney said. "It may work in Chicago, but it's not going to work across America."
Romney also waved off calls by some in the Republican Party to make public more of his tax returns, arguing it would give the Obama campaign more fodder, then tried to flip the transparency onus back on the president, Politico reported.
"If we want to talk about transparency, the real issue is, why has this president used his presidential power and executive privilege to keep the information about the Fast and Furious program from being explained to the American people?" Romney said, referring to Obama's use of executive privilege over documents related to the failed "gun-walking" operation.
The Romney camp also hit Obama on what what it called cronyism, trying to change up the discussion about when Romney's tenure at private equity firm Bain Capital ended. The Republican presidential hopeful has been under fire from Democrats as questions were raised about when exactly he left Bain Capital, where he built his fortune. A Boston Globe report last week cited Security and Exchange Commission documents showing Romney remained Bain's chief executive officer, president and sole owner through 2002, not 1999 as he has said.
"President Obama has said the economy is 'doing fine,'" senior Romney strategist Ed Gillespie said on a conference call Monday with reporters. "Well that may be true if you are one of his contributors, but if you are a middle-class worker you are not doing fine."
Gillespie said decisions in the Obama administration are "often made based on political calculations, as opposed to what's best for the economy and we are seeing the results of that," the Los Angeles Times reported.
There is "a very close, tight-knit correlation between political activity and government benefit," Gillespie said.
Obama, in an interview taped last week but aired on CBS Monday, defended his campaign's ads, which he said demonstrate the "sharp contrast, probably as sharp a contrast as we've seen philosophically" between himself and Romney.
Obama said his campaign put out "a whole slew" of positive ads about improving education, rebuilding America and promoting U.S. energy.
"[Those] just don't get attention in the news, but we're very much promoting," he said.
Obama said he and Romney have different ideas about how to address the economy.
"[He] has a particular theory of how to grow the economy that has to do with providing tax cuts for folks at the very top, eliminating all regulations, and somehow that is going generate solutions to the challenges we face. I've got a very different approach and I think it is entirely appropriate for the American people to understand those two theories," Obama said. "And the more detailed we get into what he's saying and what I'm saying, I think that serves this democratic process well."
Asked about whether Obama was vulnerable to Romney's campaign targeting "crony capitalism," White House spokesman Jay Carney said, "This president will not concede the industries of the 21st Century to China, India, Europe and elsewhere."
Carney told reporters in a briefing while traveling to Cincinnati the 2009 stimulus plan created "tens of thousands of jobs" and provided "the foundation for competition in vital industries for the 21st Century."
Obama campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the president "set a bar of transparency that Mitt Romney has not met, cannot possibly meet, even on his tippy-toes."
"We have released bundlers, we release people regularly who visit the White House," Psaki said. "We release far more than Mitt Romney has come close to."


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Why We Love Kickboxing
- Burns an average of 500 calories an hour (some estimates reach 810)
- Targets your arms, shoulders, abs, thighs, and butt in one workout
- It's an amazing stress release (how often do you get to pretend you're beating up your archenemy?)
Workout designed by Ilaria Montagnani, creator of Powerstrike kickboxing and a black belt in karate.
Kick-Butt Kickboxing Workout Playlist
Rev Up the Burn: The Drenched Method Workout
Fighting Stance
- Stand with feet staggered, knees slightly bent, rear heel lifted.
- Bring fists to chin, elbows near ribs, palms facing each other.
1. Jab
This is a straight punch; if the right foot is in front, the right hand is jabbing.
Imaginary Target: Nose
- Stand with right foot forward in fighting stance.
- Rotate right hip forward, extending right arm.
- Twist forearm so the fist is parallel to the floor at full extension, arm in line with shoulder.
- Recoil immediately.
Quick Tip: Jabs are fast, surprise punches, so strike as quickly as possible with control.
2. Cross
A straight punch thrown from the rear hand, so if your right foot is in front, your left hand does a cross.
Imaginary Target: Nose
- Stand with right foot forward in fighting stance.
- Turn left foot, knee and hip to the right at the same time, followed by the left shoulder and left arm.
- Twist your forearm so your fist is horizontal at full extension; don't lock your elbow.
- Recoil and return to fighting stance immediately.
Quick Tip: The force of the cross originates from the hips. By using your core, you'll pack a more powerful punch.
3. Hook
Punch in a circular motion, thrown with the lead hand.
Imaginary Targets: Ear, Cheek
- Stand with left foot forward in fighting stance.
- Pivot on the ball of your left foot, turning left knee, hip, shoulder, and arm simultaneously as you punch from left to right.
- Bring left forearm parallel to floor, thumb up; keep right fist by face.
- Recoil immediately and return to fighting stance.
Quick Tip: To get the pivoting motion correct, think of putting out a cigarette under the ball of your foot.
4. Uppercut
Punch in an upward thrust with the fist pointing at the ceiling.
Imaginary Target: Chin
- Stand with your left foot forward in fighting stance.
- Drop your right hand slightly and bend both knees, then twist your hips to the left as you thrust your right fist straight up and slightly forward with knuckles facing the ceiling and palm facing body.
- Keep your left fist by your face.
- Recoil immediately and return to fighting stance.
Quick Tip: To generate more force, drive the punch from your legs up. Don't punch up beyond the tip of your nose.
5. Front Kick
A jab with the heel of the foot; can be done with either leg.
Imaginary Targets: Knee, Groin, Chest
- Stand with left foot forward and fists by face in fighting stance, then shift your weight to right foot.
- Bring left knee up to the chest, foot flexed, heel close to the glutes (not shown).
- Keep fists up and kick straight out from the hip as if you were punching with your heel; retract immediately and return to fighting stance.
Quick Tip: Picture slamming a door open with your foot.
6. Roundhouse Kick
A circular kick (your leg moves in an arc). Montagnani recommends doing it with the front leg because it puts less stress on the opposite knee.
Imaginary Targets: Knee, Obliques, Head
- Stand with right foot forward in fighting stance.
- Bend right knee, bringing heel toward glutes, and pivot on left foot, turning hips to left (not shown).
- Strike from right to left in an arc with right foot, extending kick from knee, toes pointed.
- Retract and return to fighting stance.
Quick Tip: Imagine slapping target with your shoelaces.
7. Side Kick
This kick is the strongest, because the force comes from the glutes. Keep your foot flexed as you kick out.
Imaginary Targets: Torso, Chest
- Stand with your left foot forward in fighting stance.
- Turn hips to the right, and pivot right toes out slightly.
- Lift your left knee toward the chest, keeping your foot flexed (not shown).
- Forcefully extend the left leg out to the left side, pushing through the heel while counterbalancing by leaning your entire upper body toward the right.
- Keep hands in fists near face. Retract the kick and immediately return to fighting stance.
Quick Tip: Think of kicking through target with heel.
10-Minute Fat-Burning Routine
Practice each combination in this 10-minute fat blaster slowly at first, then increase your speed as the routine becomes more familiar. For more of a challenge, vary the height of your kicks and punches. Do it twice and you'll burn about 170 calories.
|Combination Moves:
Jab, cross, hook, uppercut lead with left (30 seconds each)
Jab, cross, hook, uppercut lead with right (30 seconds each)
|Front kick (30 seconds each, left and right)
|Roundhouse kick (30 seconds each, left and right)
|Side kick (30 seconds each, left and right)
Combination (left foot forward): Jab (L), uppercut (R), front kick (L)
Combination (right foot forward): Jab (R), uppercut (L), front kick (R)
Combination (left foot forward): Jab (L), cross (R), roundhouse (L)
Combination (right foot forward): Jab (R), cross (L), roundhouse (R)
More Self-Defense Workouts to Try
If you like kickboxing, you'll love...
Krav Maga: Developed by the Israeli Defense forces. You'll learn such self-defense skills as fending off chokes, grabs, and bear hugs.
Forza: This killer routine, developed by Ilaria Montagnani, blends elements of Kendo and Iaido using wooden swords.
Capoeira: Created by Brazilian slaves, this noncontact discipline is known for its flying kicks, incredible acrobatics, and gravity-defying movements.
Budokon: This unique blend of yoga, martial arts, and meditation, created by Cameron Shayne, is billed as a more holistic form of martial arts.


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Wolfsburg, founded on 1 July 1938 and one of Germany's few new cities established in the 20th century, has had a short but eventful history. Many a trend in the revival of West Germany can be traced back to the city. It is a typical and successful example of a planned urban development, and its history is closely bound with Volkswagen AG.
Because Wolfsburg's cityscape was conceived on the drawing board to a far greater extent than any other German town or city, urban development and architecture have always followed specific parameters here. Both are therefore crucial to Wolfsburg's identity and self-image – you could say that the city lives through them and thrives on them. In 2001 Wolfsburg became one of the first municipalities in Germany to set up its own department for architectural communication and architecture in the public eye – the Architecture Forum – and can thus be seen as a museum of 20th-century urban development ideas. But the city has also made space for a series of extraordinary standalone pieces: since the mid-1950s, it has seen the construction of Alvar Aalto's cultural centre, Hans Scharoun's theatre, the planetarium and art museum, Autostadt and, most recently, the phæno science centre. Situated opposite the heritage-listed train station, the phæno looks more like a spaceship than a building and is often referred to as Germany's biggest walk-in sculpture. It was designed by the award-winning Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid, who has created a one-of-a-kind work of breathtaking audacity. The building's construction pushed the boundaries of what was feasible, involving pioneering structural analysis and use of materials. Inside, you will find 350 interactive experimentation hubs on exciting technical and scientific phenomena – the centre's slogan "you'll be amazed" is an understatement to say the least.
Wolfsburg's other major attraction is Autostadt, the automotive exhibition complex and visitor centre opened by Volkswagen AG to coincide with EXPO 2000. But the emphasis here is not just on cars; visitors can also look forward to exciting films, thrilling simulators and awe-inspiring architecture set among 25 hectares of parkland and lakes. Autostadt also offers plenty of opportunity to relax and sample culinary delights in the numerous restaurants. Another place for relaxation that is popular with Wolfsburg's residents is Allerpark, a sprawling park with a lake and white sandy beach. Those preferring an urban rather than a leafy setting should head for Shopping Outlets Wolfsburg, which is located in the city centre and is Germany's top destination for bargain hunters. The culturally-minded will like Wolfsburg Theatre, which opened in 1973 as a touring venue, although it now mounts two inhouse productions every year. Since opening in 1994, Wolfsburg's art museum has held a large number of important exhibitions and events, most notably in the fields of contemporary and modern painting, sculpture, photography, fashion and design. Its collections have always shared a common theme: 'The pursuit of Modernism in the 21st century'. This focus is trained on exploring the aesthetic ideas of Modernism in the world of today and presenting these in a visceral and intellectual form. But to think that Wolfsburg is totally brand new would not be right at all. Indeed the original Wolfsburg was a 13th-century Renaissance castle. This has belonged to the local authority since 1961 and its attractions include the municipal museum and municipal gallery. Then there is Neuhaus Castle, a 14th-century moated castle, and Fallersleben Palace from 1551, which has accommodated the Hoffmann von Fallersleben Museum since 1991. It's also nice to note that the old Fallersleben brewery is still standing, offering tradition and cheer in delightful, rustic surroundings on all but one day of the year. That gives you 364 opportunities to visit Wolfsburg and ponder the city's many facets over a traditional German beer.
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"The key to security for farmers is a I mechanism thai provides them with a greater control over their own destiny." E.K. Turner, President of Sas-katchewan Wheat Pool, thus sums up why he thinks his cooperative has grown to become a major force in Canadian agriculture. How does a cooperative achieve such a position of significance? How does it arrive at more than $12 billion in annual product sales, nearly $500 million in gross assets, and a staff of 4,000 employees? The story of Sas-katchewan Wheat Pool, Canada's largest agricultural cooperative, offers a prime example. As one of its nation's major busi-nesses, Saskatchewan Wheat Pool provides service to about 70,000 farmer-owners annually and Is actively engaged on behalf of members in promotion and the development of agricultural policy. Speaking out on the needs of agricul-ture has been its prominent activity since its formation in 1924. Indeed, the lack of proper agricul-tural policies was what led to the cre-ation of the organization. It was formed, along with the Alberta and Manitoba pools, in response to frus-trations with the grain handling and marketing systems of the day. The pools provided members with orderly marketing and a measure of slability in the marketplace. Today their main role, in addition to offering services members want, is to convince gov-ernment and other decision centers of the need to assist the successful functioning of the industry. Commercially, the pool's growth has been spectacular, with grain han-dlings of 155 million bushels in the 1950's, doubling to 300 million in the 1970's. Livestock handlings tripled over that period. The value of assets in the 1950's was J105 million. That grew in the 1970's to about $500 mil- SASKATCHEWAN WHEAT POOL a profile of one Canadian grain cooperative by IAN BICKLE/Direcfor Information Division Saskatchewan Wheat Pool lion, more than a fourfold increase. And net earnings, which averaged $5 million in the 1950's, were $23 million in the 1970's, or almost five times as large. (A record $54 million was recorded in 1979-1980.) Saskatchewan Pool is the number one grain handler in Canada, with about 1,100 elevators in Saskatchewan and with terminal elevators at Van-couver and Thunder Bay. Through elevators and service centers, its farm service division sells fertilizer, chemi-cals, seed, livestock supplies, twine, steel bins, and light equipment. Saskatchewan Pool's livestock divi-sion traditionally handles about half the cattle and calves marketed in Sas-katchewan, in addition to a quarter of the hogs and 40 percent of the sheep and lambs. Working with other cooperatives, the pool has extended producer con-trol into food processing, manufac-luring, and distribution through CSP Poods Ltd.; into international grain marketing through XCAN Grain Ltd.; and into fertilizer manufacturing through Western Co-operative Fertil-izers Ltd. (which owns a phosphate rock supply in Conda, Idaho). Though its commercial operations are significant, the pool's "agricul-tural policy" role is of equal impor-tance. Using a province-wide system of elected representation, the organi-zation's farmer-owners advance ideas and identify concerns and needs. The pool's board of directors, made up of farmer-businessmen, translates ideas into programs. Delegates in each district elect one of their number as director. The 16-man board makes the company's farm policy and com-mercial operation decisions at week-long meetings each month. Indeed, Saskatchewan Pool feels it has recorded measurable achieve-ments as a common voice for members. "There is a continuing need for farmer involvement in pol-icy development and promotion," says J.O. Wright, corporate secretary. "Such activity is as necessary as member ownership and control of elevators and other facilities and services," Chief executive officer Ira K. Mum-ford is confident about the future, "because pool members wilt con-tinue to elect delegates and directors who see the broad picture and can relate their own farm business growth to the pool's decision-making process." 38
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Saskatchewan wheat pool: A profile of one Canadian grain cooperative
Bickle, Ian
Agriculture, cooperative -- Saskatchewan
Wheat trade -- Canada
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CHARLESTON, Ill. (AP) Morris Woods had 15 points and 11 rebounds, and Sherman Blanford also scored 15 points to lift Eastern Illinois to a 69-56 win over Tennessee-Martin Thursday night.
Malcolm Herron scored 13 points and Josh Piper added 10 points for the Panthers (5-16, 2-6 Ohio Valley), who have won two in a row following a 12-game losing streak.
Myles Taylor led the Skyhawks (4-16, 1-7) with 21 points. Terence Smith had 13 points and seven assists for Tennessee-Martin.
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Jodi G. Krausman, CPA, PMP, is an Assistant Adjunct Professor in the Accounting Department and teaches graduate and undergraduate classes in the areas of financial accounting, managerial accounting, and accounting information systems.
Ms. Krausman is a Project Management Manager for a large national Bank. As a Project Management Manager she has primary responsibility for finances, communication and management of a Project Coordinator team and Staffing Team for a Technical Project Management Office. Prior to this position she spent most of her career as a Chief of Staff, Controller or Project Manager working primarily in the insurance industry.
Ms. Krausman has a Master Degree from Walsh College which she earned in 1996 and a BA in Computer Based Information Systems from Walsh College in 1990. Ms. Krausman holds a CPA license in the State of Michigan, which she earned in 1997. She also holds a PMP certification (Project Management Professional) which she earned in 2008.
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Wow, I submit so many lessons I sometimes feel like I'm running out of words to say. That is why I'm about to make this tutorial description as short as possible because to be honest with ya'll, I don't know how many times I can write about sharks without finding myself in a loss for words. Today you will show yourself how to draw sharks for kids, step by step using this tutorial that I am providing for you. There is so many sharks in existence so trying to pin point any one to include in a lesson was kind of difficult to do. I had to ask my little sister what kinds of sharks she liked best, and I went by her favorites. She chose a regular hammerhead shark, and a tiger shark. The tutorial is going to be very easy to tackle, and when you're done you can let me know if you liked drawing sharks in a for kids manner, or if you hated. Although, I hope none of you hate it because than I wouldn't be doing what I love properly. Have fun guys and like I said before; don't forget to rate, comment or fav. Peace!
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Ames Laboratory Profile
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Ames Laboratory Research Projects:
Ph.D. Condensed Matter Physics, Intl. School for Adv. Studies (SISSA), Trieste, Italy, 1986
B.S. Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, 1982
Professional Appointments:
Senior Scientist, Ames Laboratory, 2008 - present
Physicist, Ames Laboratory, 1996 - 2008
Associate Physicist, Ames Laboratory, 1992 - 1996
Postdoctoral Fellow, Ames Laboratory and Microelectronics Research Center, ISU, 1987 - 1992
Postdoctoral Fellow, International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italy, 1987
Areas of Expertise:
Condensed matter physics and computational materials science
Develop tight-binding potentials and tight-binding molecular dynamics method for materials simulations
Atomistic modeling and simulation study of structural, dynamical and electronic properties as well as phase transformation of condensed matter systems and molecules
Develop genetic algorithm for global structure optimization and Gutzwiller density functional theory and computational code for studying ground state energy and properties of strongly correlated electron systems
Ab initio calculation and tight-binding molecular dynamics simulation studies of formations, structures, and stabilities of surface-based nanostructures
Honors & Awards:
U.S. D.O.E. Materials Science award for Sustained Outstanding Research in Solid State Physics, 1996


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Team Foundation Version Control Scripts and Command Files
You can assemble and perform multiple Team Foundation version control commands at the command prompt by redirecting a command to a command file or by including them in a batch file or script.
Command Files: Creating Command Groups
A command file enables you to perform multiple commands more quickly than a series of individual commands because a command file reuses a single connection to the application-tier server and creates only one instance of tf.
The command file switch is the at sign character (@). To call a command file using tf, use the following syntax:
tf @commandfilename.tfc argument1 argument2 …
The following example instructs Team Foundation to look in the file buildcommands.tfc for additional instructions. Supplied with the following input, this example gets the latest version of 314.cs from the Team Foundation version control server, checks it out in the workspace, branches it to c:\newbranch\, and commits the changes to the Team Foundation version control server.
c:\projects>tf @buildcommands.tfc 314.cs c:\newbranch\
Contents of buildcommands.tfc:
get %1
checkout %1
branch %1 %2
When the command file switch is specified, you can include as many arguments as you want. Arguments provide values to the commands in your command file. Standard arguments include file names, paths, login names, comments, and versionspecs.
Suppressing and Restoring Command Prompt Interactivity
By default, command files are non-interactive. Many commands, such as undo, use the interactive mode as a default when performed using the command line application, tf. When you are performing individual Team Foundation commands, you can include the /noprompt flag to bypass warning messages and perform such commands in a non-interactive manner. In command files, /noprompt is implicitly included.
Sample Command File
When you perform the following command, Team Foundation parses BuildProject.tfc and creates the workspace HumongousInsurance 2.3, gets the latest version of the HumongousInsurance project, branches off the new version in Humongous Insurance V2.3, and labels the new version. For each new build, she just runs the command file with the project name, and the new build's version number and local directory.
c:\>tf @BuildProject.tfc HumongousInsurance 2.3 c:\projects
Contents of BuildProject.tfc:
cd %3
rem Change the current directory from whatever it is to the project folder.
workspace /new /s:TeamServer2 /user:UNO\juan %1BuildWS%2
rem Create a new workspace on the TeamServer2 server as user UNO\juan.
rem Assign a name to the workspace that concatenates the first command line argument (%1) + "BuildWS" + the second command line argument (%2)
get %1 /recursive
rem retrieve the latest version of the first command line argument.
branch %1 %1V%2
checkin /comment:"This is build v%2 of %1"
label %1Build%2 /category:builds /comment:"%1 Build %2" %1V%2
workspace /delete %1BuildWorkspace%2
See Also
Command-Line Syntax (Team System)


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Get to know Chatham.
Offering the combination of highly professional preparation in the fields of health sciences, sustainability, business & communication, and the arts & sciences, and the liberal arts skill-building that proves successful throughout life, Chatham University's more than 40 undergraduate degree programs deliver to the needs of tomorrow's economy and creates the professionals for it.
Through the School of Health Sciences, Falk School of Sustainability & Environment, and the School of Arts, Science & Business, Chatham students experience a dynamic academic community that empowers students to explore and define their abilities to continue Chatham's 140+ year tradition of developing sought after leaders that leave an impact on the world.
The Chatham Advantage
- A student-to-teacher ratio of 10:1. Faculty – not teaching assistants – teach all classes and advise students.
- Full-time undergraduate students receive a laptop and software through Chatham's One-to-One Program.
- Chatham's Integrated Degree Programs enable students to guarantee admission to competitive Chatham health sciences graduate programs and earn both bachelor's and master's degrees from Chatham or partnering institutions, such as Carnegie Mellon University, in as few as five years.
- Chatham students may register for classes at any of Pittsburgh's nine other colleges and universities including Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh – both of which are within walking distance of the campus.
- The Chatham Abroad program offers international travel and study for every student.
- Mentoring programs link students to more than 350 internships nationwide.
- The Global Focus program brings a region of the world; its politics, geography, cultures, and perceptions – into closer view for the entire campus community through coursework, service learning projects, lectures, movies, and discussions. Recent Global Focus topics include Latin America and the Communities of Islam.
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The bachelor's degrees in mathematics have options for applied mathematics, discrete mathematics/operations research, statistics, or general study. The bachelor of arts degree provides a traditional liberal arts experience through a balanced course of study in the arts, humanities, foreign language, social and natural sciences. The bachelor of science degree is an "expanded major", which provides a more intense experience in mathematics, computing and science.
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14th Annual Environmental Education Symposium
"Our Environment...Our Future"
February 11-12
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Maybe you're forgetful, completely insane or part of a clinical trial - whatever the reason, someone needs to know if and when you're taking your medication. The simples way of keeping track of your swallowing habits? Let the pills tattle.
Folks at the University of Florida have devised a capsule which is coated with a "label embossed with silvery lines" and contains an itty-bitty microchip. The lines on the capsule are actually its antenna and allow it to communicate with a "small electronic device carried or worn by the patient". The device sends a signal to a mobile phone, laptop or similar device to notify whoever's keeping track of the patient's medication intake.
The neat thing is that the pill requires no battery as it receives its power from "imperceptible bursts of extremely low-voltage electricity" sent by the little electronic device which acts as a receiver. Oh, and the microchip and such pass through the gastrointestinal track at the end. [UFL via Pop Sci]


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Raven Staplins, Kristine Gillespie and Bindi Patel, students in the Criminal Justice Program at the New England Institute of Technology, won the national gold medal in Crime Scene Investigation at the SkillsUSA National Competition in Kansas City, MO, on June 27th. This is the second year in a row that New England Tech students have won the GOLD medal in Crime Scene Investigation.
The New England Tech students qualified for the national competition by winning first place in the Criminal Justice Crime Scene Investigation competition conducted by the Rhode Island chapter of SkillsUSA earlier this year.
SkillsUSA is national organization serving more than 300,000 high school and college students and professional members enrolled in training programs in technical, skilled, and service occupations, including health occupations.
SkillsUSA programs include local, state and national competitions in which students demonstrate occupational and leadership skills. During the annual national-level SkillsUSA Championships, more than 6,000 students compete in 99 occupational and leadership skill areas. SkillsUSA programs also help to establish industry standards for job skill training in the classroom.
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Brazilians make their mark on Florida and beyond
MIAMI (AP) — As all eyes turn to Brazil for the World Cup, Brazilians in the U.S. are also gaining notice. According to the U.S. Census, more than 325,000 people of Brazilian ancestry now call the United States home, but experts put the numbers higher. Most have come since the late 1980s, first landing in the nation's traditional Portuguese-speaking enclaves around Boston and more recently congregating in central and South Florida. Still others have settled in New York, California and New Jersey. Here are snapshots of the growing Brazilian influence in Florida and beyond.
It's 7 a.m., and Pompano Beach contractor Daniel Pereira waits in the frigid Miami International Airport for a friend flying in from Sao Paulo to scope out Florida properties for possible purchase.
In good times and bad, Brazilians have flocked to Florida over the last decade. Even with their country's recent economic slowdown — or some say because of it — Brazilians are buying most properties in cash, often by the beach or in Kissimmee, an eastern suburb of Orlando, according to the Florida Realtors association. Last year, they tied Venezuelans for international real estate sales in Florida, behind only Canadians.
Pereira loves playing host. Last week, it was a group of Brazilian civil engineering students learning about U.S. construction techniques.
It reminds Pereira how much has changed since the early 1980s, when he left his widowed mother and 10 siblings in the southern Brazilian state of Minas de Gerais, flying to Canada and crossing the U.S. border on foot. He worked as a dishwasher in Massachusetts but sought warmer climates, eventually opening a floor and tiling business in Broward County. These days, so many Brazilians live in Pompano that the local churches advertise in Portuguese, and the neighborhood Brazilian buffet carries five different free Portuguese papers.
Pereira says his friends worry about increasing crime and that Brazil's real estate bubble will burst following the World Cup and 2016 Olympics, which will be held in Rio de Janeiro.
"A lot of people come, always asking us for help," Pereira says. "I feel glad I can."
Carmen Gusmao strides past the crystal chandeliers embellished with faux bluebirds and the gilded, antique chairs painted with delicate trees. She stops in front of a large abstract painting, emblazoned with Latin phrases and rainforest animals.
"It doesn't matter the medium. I don't stop creating except to sleep," she says, gesturing around her studio in Miami's Wynwood Arts District, where she does both.
Gusmao moved to the U.S. 13 years ago, part of a wave of Brazilian artists and designers helping revamp the former Wynwood warehouse district into a thriving arts scene and driving the region's upscale home furnishing industry with brands like Orinare and Artefacto.
Gusmao straddles both worlds with her furniture, jewelry and paintings. Her views these days of the downtown skyline are a far cry from those of the Amazonian ranch where she spent much of her childhood, but Gusmao reaches back to that history for inspiration.
"Art, like life, gives new energy to old things," she says.
"There is never a typical day," says Alexandre Hohagen. The Sao Paulo native and Facebook vice president is responsible for expanding the social media giant's Latin American and U.S. Hispanic footprints. Travel regularly takes him across the globe. Last week: Turkey and Japan. But this week, he plans to be home in Miami, watching the World Cup from afar — on a long-promised date with his two youngest daughters.
Hohagen credits his rise at Google and later at Facebook to his abilities to manage people and spot future trends, but also to his native country, whose tech prowess dominates Latin America.
"For most companies in my industry, 60 percent to 70 percent of their Latin American businesses' advertising market is there (in Brazil)," he says.
Brazil is among the top 10 U.S. trade partners, and Florida's No. 1 merchandise export market, especially for electronic appliances and airplane parts — exchanging $20 billion annually in trade with the Sunshine State, according to Florida trade data.
Most Americans might not know his name, but they'd recognize Romero Britto's bright, bulging sculptures and cartoon-like portraits, landscapes and winged hearts. The Brazilian neo-pop artist and businessman moved to the U.S. in 1988 and got his first crack at fame a year later when Absolut Vodka commissioned him to design one of its labels.
Since then, Britto's work has been used to promote everything from Disney and the World Cup — including a series of paintings for this year's tournament — to postage stamps and children's health care. His office walls are covered with photos of Britto with Pope Francis and the last three U.S. presidents. There's also a thank-you note from Queen Elizabeth for a portrait produced for her Diamond Jubilee.
"It's the spirit of celebration, living life. I think that's what people see in my work," he says.
His latest: a World Cup-inspired Barbie.
The collaboration he's most excited about: a project with Harvard international negotiations Professor Daniel Shapiro to create a series of paintings based on students' concepts of crisis and negotiations.
"It was the first time I ever laugh-cried," Renata Teodoro, 22, says of her December trip to Brazil. The visit was her first since she left Brazil at age 6. It also marked the first time she'd seen her mother since the two held hands last summer through a fence at the U.S.-Mexico border.
When Teodoro was 17, immigration officials knocked on the door of the family's Boston home and subsequently deported her older brother. The family had been living in the country illegally, and Teodoro's mother and younger sister quickly returned to Brazil to avoid deportation. Teodoro, then a senior in high school, opted to stay to finish school. Alone and terrified, she began to attend immigrant advocacy meetings, sitting in the back and hiding behind her thick brown hair until an organizer finally noticed Teodoro and asked her to help out.
Soon, the teen was lobbying politicians in Washington and pushing for in-state tuition for youth living in Massachusetts illegally. Today, she chips away at her undergraduate degree at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, one class at a time.
"I didn't understand anything about how the system really worked," she says of her early days of activism. Now she has a better sense. "It's really difficult, and it's really overwhelming, but it's extremely important, and it needs to be done."
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Fox News chief's failed attempt to enlist Petraeus as presidential candidate — Roger Ailes, the longtime Republican media guru, founder of Fox News and its current chairman, had some advice last year for then-Gen. David H. Petraeus. — So in spring 2011, Ailes asked a Fox News analyst headed …
Robert Partyka / Daily Download: LISTEN: Secret Tape Reveals Fox News Attempt To Recruit Petraeus For President?
Margaret Hartmann / New York Magazine: Roger Ailes Tried to Draft Petraeus Into Running for President
Alexander C. Kaufman / The Wrap: Roger Ailes Urged David Petraeus to Run Against Obama
Noam Cohen / Media Decoder: The Breakfast Meeting: The Royal Pregnancy, and Ailes's Offer to Petraeus
Dylan Byers / Politico: Petraeus-Ailes a get for WaPo's 'Style'
Howard Kurtz / The Daily Beast: Secret Tape: Ailes Tried to Entice Petraeus to Run
Cara Maresca / msnbc.com: President Petraeus? FOX chairman liked the sound of it
Jeff Sonderman / Poynter: Woodward scoop: Murdoch and Fox News chief Ailes tried to get Petraeus to run for president
Christopher Robbins / Gothamist: Caught On Tape: FOX News Offered To "Bankroll" Petraeus Presidential Campaign
Dylan Byers / Politico:
If Roger Ailes does it, it isn't a scandal — Imagine waking up to this breaking news alert: "In spring 2011, Phil Griffin, president of MSNBC, advised Sec. of State Hillary Clinton to abandon her plans for life outside the public sector and run for president against Barack Obama in 2012."
Erik Wemple:
Five takeaways from the Fox News-David Petraeus conspiracy — The Washington Post's Bob Woodward has dropped a nice little headline for the world's media nerds. "Fox News chief's failed attempt to enlist Petraeus as presidential candidate." Turns out that Roger Ailes, who runs Fox News …
Discussion: The Week and Pressing Issues
Taylor Berman / Gawker:
Roger Ailes Tried to Convince David Petraeus to Run for President in 2011, Said Rupert Murdoch Would "Bankroll" It
Roger Ailes Tried to Convince David Petraeus to Run for President in 2011, Said Rupert Murdoch Would "Bankroll" It
Discussion: The Daily Beast, Chickaboomer and Mediaite
Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast: Ailes and Petraeus — Bob Woodward's scoop today about Roger …
Meenal Vamburkar / Mediaite: Roger Ailes Reportedly Tried To Persuade David Petraeus To Run For President
Neetzan Zimmerman / Gawker:
Photo of Man's Imminent Demise Covers Front Page of the New York Post, Sparks Outrage — A freelance photographer working for the New York Post on an unrelated assignment happened to be standing on the 49th Street station platform when 58-year-old Queens resident Ki Suk Han was suddenly pushed onto …
Alexander C. Kaufman / The Wrap: NY Post Cover Photo of Man Seconds Before Death-by-Train Sparks Outrage
Andy Newman / City Room: Should This Subway Photo Have Been Published?
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York: The Lineup collects the media stories, big and small, that are on our radar each day.
Michael Pearson / CNN: Newspaper takes heat over haunting subway photo
Noah Rothman / Mediaite: NY Post Publishes Images Of Man Pushed Onto Subway Tracks And Fatally Injured By Train
Andrew Pugh / @andrew_pugh1: Wonder if UK papers would get away with this New York Post splash: http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages / hr.asp?fpvname=ny_nyp&ref_pge= lst ...
Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY: New York Post Cover Sparks Outrage
Jeff Roberts / @jeffjohnroberts: Blech. Bad enough Post has cover of guy getting hit with subway. Now "ethics experts" are pitching me about it http://bit.ly/YvCY65
Allyssia Alleyne / @allyssiaalleyne: Today's @nypost cover raises so many important questions about journalism and ethics. http://gawker.com/5965447/photo-of- mans-imminent-demise-covers-front-page- of-the-new-york-post-sparks-outrage ... (cc: @RyersonJourn)
Mandy Stadtmiller / @mandystadt: Journalism problem set. "Do you get the picture or save the life?": http://bit.ly/T5vrSK Here's that sadness in action: http://gaw.kr/SJumCD
Devon Murphy / @devonlmurphy: Exactly what not to put on the front page of your paper. http://gaw.kr/YL5JKZ
Ken Ziegler / @kenisajerk: The New York Post has been searching for rock bottom for a long, long time. Good news! They found it: http://gawker.com/5965447/photo-of- mans-imminent-demise-covers-front-page- of-the-new-york-post-sparks-outrage ...
Joe Coscarelli / New York Magazine: New York Post Cover Shows Seconds Before Subway Death
Neil Thackray / @neilthackray: There's a moral vacuum in US newspapers too, http://gawker.com/5965447
Jordan Paige / @jordanc: Is today's NY Post cover the new starving orphan pic that will be debate in journalism ethics classes for a decade? http://gawker.com/5965447/photo-of- mans-imminent-demise-covers-front-page- of-the-new-york-post-sparks-outrage ...
Amanda Crum / WebProNews: Man Pushed In Front Of Train; Pic Makes Cover Of Post
Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
New York Post's Subway Death Photo: Was It Ethical Photojournalism? — When a news photographer witnesses a tragedy in the making, is his obligation to intervene or to document it? — That question has cropped up anew following the New York Post's publication, on its front page …
Discussion: Gawker and Daily Download
Cord Jefferson / Gawker: Would You Have Taken the Post Subway Photo?: Pulitzer-Winning Photographers Respond
Alexander Abad-Santos / The Atlantic Wire:
Who Let This Man Die on the Subway? — There's one big question about today's intense cover of the New York Post: Why didn't anyone help him? If there's enough time to capture a dying man's last moments before getting hit by an oncoming train that's that worthy of a tabloid cover, couldn't the photographer have lent a hand?
Discussion: Poynter, Capital New York, Digital Spy, Gawker, BBC, The Week, The Huffington Post and HyperVocal
Jeff Sonderman / Poynter: New York Post faces backlash over front-page photo of man 'about to die' on subway track
Dana Rubinstein / Capital New York: What should you do if you're pushed onto the tracks? Don't, says the M.T.A.
Andrew Laughlin / Digital Spy: 'New York Post' criticised over subway death front page
Hamilton Nolan / Gawker: New York Post Commenters Have Some Interesting Racist Thoughts on This Tragic Subway Death
Katherine Fung / The Huffington Post: PHOTO: Outrage Over New York Post Cover
HVmedia / HyperVocal: Creepiest N.Y. Post Cover Ever
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Tabloid photographers defend colleague who snapped 'Post' subway horror shot
Tabloid photographers defend colleague who snapped 'Post' subway horror shot
Discussion: Speakeasy
Charles Ornstein / Speakeasy: New York Post Front Page Photo of Train Victim Stirs Up Twitter
Tom McGeveran / The New Republic: The New York Post Was Tasteless. That's the Point.
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Why 'The Daily' Failed — Jeff Sonderman, writing for Poynter: With the benefit of hindsight, there seem to be at least two other major lessons from The Daily's failure: Audience clarity. It was difficult to grasp who exactly was the intended audience of The Daily.
Jennifer Lynne / mediabistro.com: Morning Media Newsfeed 12.04.12
Drew Grant / The New York Observer: Guest Column: South Dakota's Richest Dog Reacts to News of The Daily's Demise
Mg Siegler / TechCrunch: Why Magazine Apps Suck
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish: The Daily Is Dead, Ctd
Eamonn Fitzgerald / Eamonn Fitzgerald's Rainy Day: Despites the tablets, The Daily died
Jordan Kurzweil / GigaOM:
Why I tried to buy The Daily — Closing The Daily was a mistake. It should have been saved. — The move to shutter follows the same battiness with which News Corp has been approaching digital ventures since its first foray into the web with iGuide in 1995: ahead-of-the-curve with a grand …
Discussion: MarketWatch, Guardian and The Week
Peter Kafka / MarketWatch: News Corp. shutters Daily iPad publication
Mark Sweney / Guardian: News Corp to close iPad newspaper The Daily
Hans Nichols / Bloomberg:
Vogue Editor Wintour Said to Be Possible Appointee as U.K. Envoy — President Barack Obama is considering nominating Anna Wintour, editor-in-chief of Vogue, as his next ambassador to either the U.K. or France as he looks to reward his biggest fundraisers with embassies never out of fashion …
Discussion: Mediaite, FishbowlNY, Fashionista, The Daily Beast, The Week, Chickaboomer, New York Magazine, The Daily Caller, msnbc.com, Vanity Fair and The Huffington Post
Andrew Kirell / Mediaite: Megyn Kelly Takes On Anna Wintour Ambassadorship Rumors, By Playing Multiple Clips From Devil Wears Prada
Leah Chernikoff / Fashionista: A Conversation About Why Anna Wintour Would Kill It as an Ambassador
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Posted 01 April 2013 - 06:41 PM
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Posted 27 April 2013 - 08:40 AM
I've made some interesting finds in my research lately, but I haven't had anything 'sensational' enough to report here in a while. Until this morning's hike.
It is sunny, warm and clear, a beautiful spring morning. Early in the hike I heard a very loud and strange noise. It sounded like someone was rubbing 2 trashcan lids together. I was walking in the direction of the sound and I slowed down, not sure if I was going to come upon an injured animal or a rabid coyote. I also pulled out my phone hoping I could get a picture, and just now I realized I could have recorded video and at least captured the sound… Oy.
As I approached the sound, it began quickly moving to my left, into a swamp. There was a small berm between my location and the swamp, but behind that berm I saw two black (things?) moving rapidly over the swamp. The berm blocked part of my view, and the things continued moving to the left, and then moved at a right angle away from me and disappeared.
If they were birds, they were unlike any I've ever seen or heard. It may also have been just one creature, with the berm blocking my view of the rest of it. Maybe I was seeing 2 shoulder blades or humps? I dunno, but it was very odd.
Later in this hike I began thinking of the number "2" and of an elder from this area who went by two names. I spoke his 2 names and bingo – I saw 2 deer bounding through the woods.
Posted 03 May 2013 - 02:53 PM
Even in the time I've been away from Ghost Village I've continued to think on your story.
An interesting tale, herenow. I hope you continue to update it here.
Posted 05 May 2013 - 06:54 AM
I brought a skeptic out to the woods yesterday. I showed him various stone piles and other things which I believe to be ceremonial and pre-colonial.
Then I brought him to the tree which initially started this whole adventure. Again, this is an unremarkable tree in the woods, surrounded by hundreds of other trees. It doesn't stand out at all.
There was the wing of a bird next to the tree. Not sure where the rest of the bird was.
He thought I had placed the wing there, but of course I did not.
Posted 05 May 2013 - 09:30 AM
Good job
SHALOM my friends !
Posted 15 May 2013 - 02:51 PM
Skeptics WANT to not believe. even if the ghost of someone they loved who had passed slapped them in the face, they would swear someone else did it, or it really didnt happen. LOL
Good job
Yes, I agree.
Today's update:
There is a place on the trail in these woods where I often stop and leave an offering, usually tobacco.
This branch is now at that spot. The bottom end of it has cut marks on it. No idea where it came from.
ALSO - Is anyone here an expert, or at least knowledgeable, on the topic of "Land Spirits"?
Posted 28 May 2013 - 06:18 AM
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Posted 15 October 2013 - 02:32 PM
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Posted 18 October 2013 - 04:55 AM
I haven't been good about posting what's been going on. I'll try to do some updates!
Posted 19 November 2013 - 02:26 PM
I'll try to post some updates.
Here's a horned dude I see on an ancient grinding stone in these woods.
Posted 21 October 2014 - 07:04 AM
Posted 18 October 2015 - 03:20 PM
It's been about a year since I posted anything here. So much odd stuff has gone on...
Here's one quick thing, a minute and a half clip of something I found in these woods. Look for the face at the end of the video!
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Michel-Rolph Trouillot, 62, world-renowned anthropologist and historian, died July 5, 2012 following long struggles to recuperate from an aneurism suffered in 2002. Born in Haiti on November 26, 1949, Trouillot came to the U.S. in 1969, during the worst years of the Duvalier dictatorship. He received a B.A. in Caribbean History and Culture from CUNY (1978). Trouillot published Ti difé boulé sou Istoua Ayiti in 1977, the first non-fiction book about the Haitian Revolution written in Haitian Kreyòl. In 1978 he entered graduate school to study anthropology at The Johns Hopkins University, advised by Sidney W. Mintz and Richard Price, contributing to The Program in Atlantic History, Culture and Society.
Following fieldwork in Dominica from 1980-82, Trouillot obtained his PhD in 1985. He was assistant professor at Duke University from 1983-1987, where he transformed his doctoral dissertation into Peasants and Capital: Dominica in the World Economy (1988). As the first scholarly study on Dominica, Peasants and Capital intervened in debates on the rise of peasants in post-slavery, post-colonial Caribbean societies. Trouillot demonstrated how a banana-producing peasantry was intimately connected to transnational capital, linking ethnographic particularity to global histories.
Working through concepts of state, nation, and political economy, Trouillot returned to analyzing Haiti. He published Les Racines historiques de l'état duvaliéren (1986) and Haiti, State against Nation: The Origins and Legacy of Duvalierism (1990), ground-breaking efforts to understand Haitian civil society, progressive politics, and the state in the wake of the Duvalier dictatorship. Trouillot also returned to Johns Hopkins as associate professor in 1987, then as Krieger/Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology. In 1992, Trouillot became director of The Program in Atlantic History, Culture and Society. He subsequently transformed the institute into the Institute for Global Studies in Culture, Power, and History (1993-98), becoming its founding director.
Steeped in history, political economy, and philosophy,Trouillot was skeptical of what was called the postmodern turn in anthropology. Trouillot's "Anthropology and the Savage Slot: The Poetics and Politics of Otherness"—published in Recapturing Anthropology (1991)—became one of his most famous essays. While attentive to discourse and genre, Trouillot would claim that what happened within the "Savage Slot" of anthropology was of less consequence than the slot itself, part of a larger discursive field which pre-dated and shaped anthropology's emergence as an academic discipline.
This continuing attention to history and power would lead to his most influential book, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (1995). Widely cited and used by historians and others far beyond anthropology, Silencing the Past is a beautifully-written reflection on differential access to the means of historical production. Trouillot deftly navigates between a positivist insistence on fact-as-truth and the counter-notion of history as just another story, explaining the complexity with which power enters into the history-making and history-telling processes. Describing the Haitian Revolution as "unthinkable history," Trouillot reveals a much more complex vision than simplistic accounts of winners writing history.
Trouillot joined the faculty at University of Chicago in 1998, and worked to complete the project he had begun in 1991 with "Anthropology and the Savage Slot." His collected essays eventually became the chapters of Global Transformation: Anthropology and the Modern World (2003), which calls into question what Trouillot termed "North Atlantic Fictions," as well as overly cohesive and unduly novel visions of globalization. From his position in "the savage slot" of the Francophone Black Atlantic, Trouillot challenged cults of novelty around the buzzwords of globalization and culture. He reconnected these to fragmentary processes of the local in the global, exposing how the culture concept, captured in the vectors of power produced by many stakeholders' contestations, failed to take account of anthropological participation in state projects. In his stirring essay "Adieu, Culture: A New Duty Arises," Trouillot recounts how anthropology forced peoples as cultures into holistic representations that could be sandwiched between the front and back covers of authorial-legitimating ethnographies.
With savage slots and cultural authorities multiplying in our post-civil-rights-colorblind-deaf-to-nuance world, Trouillot's Silencing the Past and Global Transformations will long offer us means to move beyond "North Atlantic Fictions." Building on his diligent efforts, out there somewhere, we may yet find the means to get control of, as he put it, "our contemporary arrogance, which overplays the uniqueness of our times," and "may blind us to the dimensions of what happened before we were born" (2003:29).
For his lifetime of engaging these intellectual struggles, the Caribbean Philosophical Association presented Trouillot with the Franz Fanon Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011. (Jason Antrosio, Brakette Williams and Drexel Woodson)


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Updated at 6:54 p.m. Eastern
WASHINGTON A member of the same elite U.S. special operations team that killed Osama bin Laden was himself killed during a weekend rescue mission in Afghanistan to free an American doctor abducted by the Taliban. CBS News National Security correspondent David Martin reports the member of SEAL Team 6 killed in the rescue mission has been identified as 28-year-old Petty Officer First Class Nicolas Checque of Monroeville, Pa. Checque had been a SEAL for eight years and served in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
On Saturday night, SEAL Team 6 conducted a helicopter assault on a mountain hideout 50 miles from the Pakistani border to rescue Dr. Dilip Joseph, who was captured outside Kabul five days ago, Martin reports. In the resulting firefight, Checque was killed by a single gunshot to the head. Seven of the Taliban, who were armed with machine guns, rocket propelled grenade launchers and AK-47s, were also killed.
President Obama praised the special forces on Sunday, saying the mission was characteristic of U.S. troops' "extraordinary courage, skill and patriotism."
A spokesman for U.S. forces in Afghanistan said Dr. Joseph, of Colorado Springs, Colo., was rescued early Sunday, local time, in eastern Afghanistan. Joseph, a medical adviser for Colorado Springs-based Morning Star Development, was rescued after intelligence showed he was in imminent danger of injury or possible death, according to the U.S. military.
U.S. officials told Martin the Taliban demanded a ransom of $100,000, money Morning Star Development didn't have. The Taliban released the two Afghans captured along with the doctor, but kept Joseph and were heading south toward Pakistan.
The two Afghans released apparently told the American military Joseph was being abused by his captors with slaps to the head. The reported mistreatment and the fact that Joseph would soon disappear into Pakistan convinced Gen. John Allen, the commander in Afghanistan, to order the rescue mission.
"He gave his life for his fellow Americans, and he and his teammates remind us once more of the selfless service that allows our nation to stay strong, safe and free," Mr. Obama said of the fallen American service member in a statement.
In a separate statement Sunday, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said, "In this fallen hero, and all of our special operators, Americans see the highest ideals of citizenship, sacrifice and service upheld."
Morning Star, a relief group that helps rebuild communities in Afghanistan, said in a statement that Joseph was uninjured and would probably return home in a few days. The group also said two of his co-workers were freed by their captors about 11 hours before the rescue, after hours of negotiations were conducted over three days.
Morning Star said the three workers were abducted by a group of armed men while returning from a visit to one of the organization's rural medical clinics in eastern Kabul province. The group said the three workers were taken into mountains about 50 miles from the Pakistan border.
The relief group said it would not reveal the identity of the other two men because they live and work in the region. The group said it did not pay ransom to obtain their release.
Morning Star praised those who helped get their workers back unharmed, singling out "courageous members of the U.S. military who successfully rescued Mr. Joseph as they risked their own lives doing so."
The group also offered thanks to local Afghan elders and local leaders "who made visits and appeals to the captors advocating for the release of the hostages."
In September, "60 Minutes" correspondent Lara Logan reported on the increasing danger from "insider" attacks in Afghanistan and a Taliban comeback in some parts of the country. To see her report, click on the video at left.
"This was a combined operation of U.S. and Afghan forces," said 1st Lt. Joseph Alonso, a spokesman for U.S. forces in Afghanistan. "Information was collected through multiple intelligence sources, which allowed Afghan and coalition forces to identify the location of Joseph and the criminals responsible for his captivity."
Gen. John Allen, the top commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, said the joint force planned, rehearsed and successfully conducted the operation.
"Thanks to them, Dr. Joseph will soon be rejoining his family and loved ones," Allen said.


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The Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe (REC) Country Office Slovakia (REC CO Slovakia)
The REC is a non-partisan, non-advocacy, not-for-profit international organisation established in 1990 with a mission to assist in solving environmental problems in Central and Eastern Europe. Through the REC country and field offices in each of its 17 beneficiary countries, it promotes cooperation among non-governmental organisations, governments, businesses, media and other environmental stakeholders, and supports the free exchange of information and public participation in environmental decision-making.Out of the 17 Country Offices in CEE Region, the Romanian one was among the firstly established in 1992.
Since the early beginnings of Romania's transition to democracy, the grants schemes, the support for networking and training programs managed by REC Romania, ensured the emergence and growth of a diverse and active community of environmental NGOs. This NGO support mandate continues to be high on the priorities list of the Country Office, bearing in mind that Romanian government should engage in an open dialogue with the environmental civil society, on matters related to the EU Accession. Strategic partnerships have also been constantly created since 2000, with the Ministry of Environment, and its network of Regional and Local Environmental Agencies, who have benefited from the growing expertise of the office in climate change, waste management, public participation in water management and environmental investment planning - all these topic areas are of high importance for achieving conformity with EU Acquis.
Not at least importance, the technical assistance provided to local authorities in the form of LEAP (Local Environmental Action Plans), as cooperative planning mechanisms to promote sustainability and the know-how transferred to the business sector in areas of Energy Efficiency and Environmental Management Systems have increased the profile of REC Romania among these stakeholders, while in the same time, enabled REC to better understand the challenges and needs on the ground.
Within INTENSE project, REC Romania will operate as country coordinator, covering project activities carried out at national level.
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The City of Ružomberok has about 30,000 inhabitants and is located in Northern Slovakia. The city is well known in Slovakia for industry, which is located in this region. The sector is mainly focused on timber industry, paper mill industry, textile industry and there is also production of construction materials (bricks). The measures of energy efficiency are very important with respect to the cold (mild-cold) climate region.
With regards to energy efficiency, Ružomberok has experience in retrofitting old buildings - of 10 per cent of the existing building stock has been retrofitted. The city is preparing a planning document "City Energy Plan" where main attention is given to energy management and existing infrastructure. The plan will bring information about heating distribution systems and the maintenance of energy supplies.
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The City of Ružomberok is the sample municipality for Slovakia and in close co-operation with the country co-ordinator, the REC Country Office Slovakia, will participate in the project activities and will perform the foreseen tasks. Recently, the Energy Working commission was updated with information about the INTENSE implementation (05/2009).


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