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Summary Report for:
11-9041.00 - Architectural and Engineering Managers
Plan, direct, or coordinate activities in such fields as architecture and engineering or research and development in these fields.
Sample of reported job titles: Chief Engineer, Civil Engineering Manager, Director of Engineering, Engineering Group Manager, Engineering Manager, Engineering Program Manager, Principal Engineer, Project Engineer, Project Engineering Manager, Project Manager
Also see: Biofuels/Biodiesel Technology and Product Development Managers
Tasks | Technology Skills | Tools Used | Knowledge | Skills | Abilities | Work Activities | Detailed Work Activities | Work Context | Job Zone | Education | Credentials | Interests | Work Styles | Work Values | Related Occupations | Wages & Employment | Job Openings | Additional Information
- Manage the coordination and overall integration of technical activities in architecture or engineering projects.
- Direct, review, or approve project design changes.
- Confer with management, production, or marketing staff to discuss project specifications or procedures.
- Present and explain proposals, reports, or findings to clients.
- Consult or negotiate with clients to prepare project specifications.
- Prepare budgets, bids, or contracts.
- Assess project feasibility by analyzing technology, resource needs, or market demand.
- Direct recruitment, placement, and evaluation of architecture or engineering project staff.
- Review, recommend, or approve contracts or cost estimates.
- Develop or implement policies, standards, or procedures for engineering and technical work.
- Plan or direct the installation, testing, operation, maintenance, or repair of facilities or equipment.
- Perform administrative functions, such as reviewing or writing reports, approving expenditures, enforcing rules, or purchasing of materials or services.
- Establish scientific or technical goals within broad outlines provided by top management.
- Evaluate environmental regulations or social pressures related to environmental issues to inform strategic or operational decision-making.
- Solicit project support by conferring with officials or providing information to the public.
- Develop or implement programs to improve sustainability or reduce the environmental impacts of engineering or architecture activities or operations.
- Evaluate the environmental impacts of engineering, architecture, or research and development activities.
Technology Skills
- Access software — Citrix
- Accounting software — Sage 50 Accounting
- Analytical or scientific software — HEC-1; Minitab ; The MathWorks MATLAB ; Water surface pressure gradient WSPG software (see all 6 examples)
- Application server software — Docker ; GitHub
- Business intelligence and data analysis software — Qlik Tech QlikView
- Calendar and scheduling software — Maintenance scheduling software; Scheduling software
- Computer aided design CAD software — Autodesk AutoCAD ; Bentley MicroStation ; Dassault Systemes CATIA; PTC Creo Parametric (see all 11 examples)
- Computer aided manufacturing CAM software — Delcam PowerMILL; Geometric CAMWorks; Open Mind hyperMILL
- Configuration management software — Chef; Perforce Helix software; Puppet
- Content workflow software — Atlassian JIRA ; Workflow software
- Data base management system software — Apache Hive ; MongoDB ; MySQL ; Teradata Database (see all 11 examples)
- Data base user interface and query software — Amazon Redshift ; Data entry software ; Microsoft Access ; Structured query language SQL (see all 6 examples)
- Development environment software — Apache Kafka ; Microsoft Visual Basic ; Ruby ; Verilog (see all 8 examples)
- Document management software — Adobe Systems Adobe Acrobat Pro Extended; Adobe Systems Adobe LifeCycle ES
- Electronic mail software — IBM Notes ; Microsoft Exchange Server ; Microsoft Outlook
- Enterprise application integration software — Extensible markup language XML
- Enterprise resource planning ERP software — Agile Product Lifecyle Management PLM; Microsoft Dynamics ; Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne ; SAP (see all 6 examples)
- Enterprise system management software — Splunk Enterprise
- Expert system software — Ansible software
- File versioning software — Git
- Graphics or photo imaging software — Microsoft Visio ; Trimble SketchUp Pro
- Industrial control software — RTA Fleet Management; Supervisory control and data acquisition SCADA software
- Internet browser software — Web browser software
- Inventory management software
- Map creation software — ESRI ArcGIS software ; ESRI ArcView; Geographic information system GIS software
- Materials requirements planning logistics and supply chain software — LSA Visual Easy Lean
- Network monitoring software — Nagios ; Wireshark
- Network security and virtual private network VPN equipment software — Virtual private networking VPN software
- Object or component oriented development software — Apache Groovy ; C++ ; Python ; Scala (see all 10 examples)
- Object oriented data base management software — PostgreSQL
- Office suite software — Microsoft Office
- Operating system software — Linux ; Oracle Solaris ; Ubuntu; UNIX (see all 8 examples)
- Presentation software — Microsoft PowerPoint
- Program testing software — Hewlett Packard LoadRunner
- Project management software — Confluence ; Microsoft Project ; Oracle Primavera Enterprise Project Portfolio Management ; The Gordian Group PROGEN Online (see all 5 examples)
- Spreadsheet software — Microsoft Excel
- Time accounting software — Kronos Workforce Timekeeper
- Transaction server software — Customer information control system CICS
- Web platform development software — Backbone.js ; JavaScript ; PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor ; React (see all 9 examples)
- Word processing software — Microsoft Word
Hot Technology — a technology requirement frequently included in employer job postings.
Tools Used
- Engineering and Technology — Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods and services.
- Design — Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.
- Mathematics — Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.
- Administration and Management — Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
- English Language — Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
- Computers and Electronics — Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
- Customer and Personal Service — Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
- Physics — Knowledge and prediction of physical principles, laws, their interrelationships, and applications to understanding fluid, material, and atmospheric dynamics, and mechanical, electrical, atomic and sub- atomic structures and processes.
- Personnel and Human Resources — Knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labor relations and negotiation, and personnel information systems.
- Production and Processing — Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.
- Mechanical — Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.
- Law and Government — Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process.
- Public Safety and Security — Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions.
- Reading Comprehension — Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
- Critical Thinking — Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
- Active Listening — Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
- Complex Problem Solving — Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
- Coordination — Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
- Judgment and Decision Making — Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
- Speaking — Talking to others to convey information effectively.
- Time Management — Managing one's own time and the time of others.
- Mathematics — Using mathematics to solve problems.
- Monitoring — Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
- Writing — Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
- Active Learning — Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
- Social Perceptiveness — Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
- Negotiation — Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.
- Persuasion — Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.
- Instructing — Teaching others how to do something.
- Systems Analysis — Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
- Systems Evaluation — Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.
- Learning Strategies — Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.
- Management of Personnel Resources — Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.
- Management of Financial Resources — Determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures.
- Management of Material Resources — Obtaining and seeing to the appropriate use of equipment, facilities, and materials needed to do certain work.
- Service Orientation — Actively looking for ways to help people.
- Written Comprehension — The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
- Oral Comprehension — The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- Oral Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
- Deductive Reasoning — The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
- Inductive Reasoning — The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
- Problem Sensitivity — The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
- Written Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
- Speech Clarity — The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
- Fluency of Ideas — The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).
- Information Ordering — The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
- Mathematical Reasoning — The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.
- Originality — The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.
- Speech Recognition — The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
- Near Vision — The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
- Visualization — The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.
- Category Flexibility — The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
- Far Vision — The ability to see details at a distance.
- Number Facility — The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.
- Selective Attention — The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
- Flexibility of Closure — The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.
- Speed of Closure — The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns.
Work Activities
- Getting Information — Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
- Making Decisions and Solving Problems — Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
- Interacting With Computers — Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
- Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates — Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
- Analyzing Data or Information — Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
- Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events — Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
- Communicating with Persons Outside Organization — Communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail.
- Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge — Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
- Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work — Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
- Scheduling Work and Activities — Scheduling events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others.
- Thinking Creatively — Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions.
- Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships — Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
- Processing Information — Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.
- Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others — Handling complaints, settling disputes, and resolving grievances and conflicts, or otherwise negotiating with others.
- Drafting, Laying Out, and Specifying Technical Devices, Parts, and Equipment — Providing documentation, detailed instructions, drawings, or specifications to tell others about how devices, parts, equipment, or structures are to be fabricated, constructed, assembled, modified, maintained, or used.
- Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others — Getting members of a group to work together to accomplish tasks.
- Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others — Translating or explaining what information means and how it can be used.
- Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards — Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
- Developing Objectives and Strategies — Establishing long-range objectives and specifying the strategies and actions to achieve them.
- Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information — Estimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity.
- Judging the Qualities of Things, Services, or People — Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.
- Documenting/Recording Information — Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form.
- Developing and Building Teams — Encouraging and building mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among team members.
- Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates — Providing guidance and direction to subordinates, including setting performance standards and monitoring performance.
- Monitor Processes, Materials, or Surroundings — Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.
- Coaching and Developing Others — Identifying the developmental needs of others and coaching, mentoring, or otherwise helping others to improve their knowledge or skills.
- Provide Consultation and Advice to Others — Providing guidance and expert advice to management or other groups on technical, systems-, or process-related topics.
- Training and Teaching Others — Identifying the educational needs of others, developing formal educational or training programs or classes, and teaching or instructing others.
Detailed Work Activities
- Manage construction activities.
- Analyze data to determine project feasibility.
- Manage operations, research, or logistics projects.
- Confer with organizational members to accomplish work activities.
- Communicate organizational information to customers or other stakeholders.
- Negotiate project specifications.
- Prepare financial documents, reports, or budgets.
- Prepare operational budgets.
- Analyze market research data.
- Estimate demand for products or services.
- Approve expenditures.
- Develop operating strategies, plans, or procedures.
- Implement organizational process or policy changes.
- Develop organizational policies or programs.
- Manage human resources activities.
- Analyze impact of legal or regulatory changes.
- Develop organizational goals or objectives.
- Direct facility maintenance or repair activities.
- Communicate with government agencies.
- Present information to the public.
- Promote products, services, or programs.
- Purchase materials, equipment, or other resources.
- Develop sustainable organizational policies or practices.
- Evaluate environmental impact of operational or development activities.
- Identify environmental concerns.
Find occupations related to multiple detailed work activities
Work Context
- Electronic Mail — 100% responded "Every day."
- Telephone — 99% responded "Every day."
- Face-to-Face Discussions — 91% responded "Every day."
- Indoors, Environmentally Controlled — 88% responded "Every day."
- Freedom to Make Decisions — 59% responded "A lot of freedom."
- Structured versus Unstructured Work — 51% responded "A lot of freedom."
- Duration of Typical Work Week — 80% responded "More than 40 hours."
- Work With Work Group or Team — 54% responded "Extremely important."
- Responsibility for Outcomes and Results — 51% responded "Very high responsibility."
- Time Pressure — 48% responded "Once a week or more but not every day."
- Contact With Others — 52% responded "Contact with others most of the time."
- Importance of Being Exact or Accurate — 46% responded "Extremely important."
- Spend Time Sitting — 56% responded "More than half the time."
- Coordinate or Lead Others — 69% responded "Very important."
- Frequency of Decision Making — 36% responded "Every day."
- Letters and Memos — 55% responded "Once a week or more but not every day."
- Impact of Decisions on Co-workers or Company Results — 39% responded "Important results."
- Deal With External Customers — 45% responded "Extremely important."
- Frequency of Conflict Situations — 45% responded "Once a month or more but not every week."
- Level of Competition — 53% responded "Moderately competitive."
- Responsible for Others' Health and Safety — 32% responded "High responsibility."
- Wear Common Protective or Safety Equipment such as Safety Shoes, Glasses, Gloves, Hearing Protection, Hard Hats, or Life Jackets — 37% responded "Once a year or more but not every month."
Job Zone
|Job Zone Five: Extensive Preparation Needed
|Most of these occupations require graduate school. For example, they may require a master's degree, and some require a Ph.D., M.D., or J.D. (law degree).
|Related Experience
|Extensive skill, knowledge, and experience are needed for these occupations. Many require more than five years of experience. For example, surgeons must complete four years of college and an additional five to seven years of specialized medical training to be able to do their job.
|Job Training
|Employees may need some on-the-job training, but most of these occupations assume that the person will already have the required skills, knowledge, work-related experience, and/or training.
|Job Zone Examples
|These occupations often involve coordinating, training, supervising, or managing the activities of others to accomplish goals. Very advanced communication and organizational skills are required. Examples include pharmacists, lawyers, astronomers, biologists, clergy, neurologists, and veterinarians.
|SVP Range
|(8.0 and above)
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- Enterprising — Enterprising occupations frequently involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business.
- Realistic — Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.
- Investigative — Investigative occupations frequently involve working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. These occupations can involve searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally.
- Conventional — Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear line of authority to follow.
Work Styles
- Attention to Detail — Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.
- Integrity — Job requires being honest and ethical.
- Adaptability/Flexibility — Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace.
- Analytical Thinking — Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems.
- Dependability — Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.
- Stress Tolerance — Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high stress situations.
- Cooperation — Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude.
- Initiative — Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.
- Leadership — Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction.
- Persistence — Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles.
- Independence — Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done.
- Self Control — Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations.
- Achievement/Effort — Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks.
- Concern for Others — Job requires being sensitive to others' needs and feelings and being understanding and helpful on the job.
- Social Orientation — Job requires preferring to work with others rather than alone, and being personally connected with others on the job.
- Innovation — Job requires creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems.
Work Values
- Achievement — Occupations that satisfy this work value are results oriented and allow employees to use their strongest abilities, giving them a feeling of accomplishment. Corresponding needs are Ability Utilization and Achievement.
- Independence — Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to work on their own and make decisions. Corresponding needs are Creativity, Responsibility and Autonomy.
- Working Conditions — Occupations that satisfy this work value offer job security and good working conditions. Corresponding needs are Activity, Compensation, Independence, Security, Variety and Working Conditions.
Related Occupations
Wages & Employment Trends
|Median wages (2018)
|$67.67 hourly, $140,760 annual
|State wages
|Employment (2018)
|193,000 employees
|Projected growth (2018-2028)
|Slower than average (2% to 3%)
|Projected job openings (2018-2028)
|State trends
|Top industries (2018)
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics 2018 wage data and 2018-2028 employment projections . "Projected growth" represents the estimated change in total employment over the projections period (2018-2028). "Projected job openings" represent openings due to growth and replacement.
Job Openings on the Web
Sources of Additional Information
Disclaimer: Sources are listed to provide additional information on related jobs, specialties, and/or industries. Links to non-DOL Internet sites are provided for your convenience and do not constitute an endorsement.
- Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology
- American Chemical Society
- American Institute of Chemical Engineers
- American Institute of Engineers
- American Society for Engineering Education
- American Society for Engineering Management
- American Society of Civil Engineers
- National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying
- National Society of Professional Engineers
- Occupational Outlook Handbook: Architectural and engineering managers
- Project Management Institute
- SAE International
- Society of American Military Engineers
- Society of Petroleum Engineers
- Society of Women Engineers
- The American Institute of Architects
- The American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- U.S. Green Building Council


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1. win - noun
· a victory (as in a race or other competition); "he was happy to get the win"
2. win - noun
· something won (especially money)
Hypernym(s): financial_gain
Antonym(s): losings
3. win - verb
· be the winner in a contest or competition; be victorious; "He won the Gold Medal in skating"; "Our home team won"; "Win the game"
Antonym(s): lose
4. win - verb
· win something through one's efforts; "I acquired a passing knowledge of Chinese"; "Gain an understanding of international finance"; "win someone's confidence and friendship"
Antonym(s): lose
5. win - verb
· obtain advantages, such as points, etc.; "The home team was gaining ground"; "After defeating the Knicks, the Blazers pulled ahead of the Lakers in the battle for the number-one playoff berth in the Western Conference"; "win points"
Synonym(s): gain, advance, pull_ahead, make_headway, get_ahead, gain_ground
6. win - verb
· attain success or reach a desired goal; "The enterprise succeeded"; "We succeeded in getting tickets to the show"; "she struggled to overcome her handicap and won"
Synonym(s): succeed, come_through, bring_home_the_bacon, deliver_the_goods
7. win - verb
· acquire or deserve by one's efforts or actions; "its beauty won Paris the name 'City of Lights'"
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One World, One Heartby Susan Polis Schutz
In response to the tragic events of September 11, 2001, writer Susan Polis Schutz and illustrator Stephen Schutz created this comforting and inspiring poetry collection.
Everyone has the same basic needs and emotions. This book encourages people everywhere to put aside their differences and come together as one in peace, understanding, and tolerance.
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Mistrial in NV ex-prostitute's hammer attack after juror sends text messages to lawyer
ELKO, Nev. – An ex-prostitute accused of attacking a co-worker with a claw hammer in a dispute over missing beer at a rural Nevada brothel will be retried on an attempted murder charge after a judge declared a mistrial because a juror sent text messages to a public defender about the jury, prosecutors said Friday.
Elko County Deputy District Attorney Mark Mills told The Associated Press on Friday that "numerous jurors" disregarded the court's warning to not discuss the trial while the case was ongoing.
One juror texted a public defender Wednesday night about two other jurors talking about — among other things — the ethnicity of the victim, Sang Fowler, who suffered severe injuries to her head and hand in the beating at Sharon's Bar and Brothel in Carlin about 25 miles west of Elko last August.
Elko County District Judge Al Kacin acknowledged the case is full of "salacious details" before declaring the mistrial on Thursday and ordering Lisa Wong, 50, back to the county jail, according to the Elko Daily Free Press (http://tinyurl.com/mqp37mn ).
"It's the type of case that gets the tongue wagging," Kacin said.
Kacin applauded the honesty of the juror who came forward, but said she too had disregarded his instructions to report any concerns to the bailiff.
The judge dismissed all three jurors from the 12-member panel for misconduct and, with only two alternates remaining, was forced to declare the mistrial. He said he would wait until after the defense submits new motions in writing to rule on a request to release Wong on her own recognizance of have her bail reduced.
Deputy Public Defender Kriston Hill told the judge at the opening of Thursday's hearing she had received a series of text messages Wednesday night from one of the jurors.
Kacin ordered a brief hearing to determine if the communication constituted jury misconduct and after Hill was sworn in, she read the messages from her phone.
"How important is it that a few of us jurors heard two jurors talking about the case in the jury room?" Hill read. She said another message read: "They formed an opinion on Tuesday, from what I heard."
One juror reportedly wondered aloud about Fowler's ethnicity, saying she had a difficult time understanding the witness as she testified. The second juror reportedly said he thought the reason Fowler was difficult to understand was because she suffered brain damage as a result of the hammer attack.
Hill did not indicate how the juror obtained her phone number.
Mills said during opening arguments earlier this week that Wong screamed she was going to kill Fowler while she was beating her with the hammer at the brothel. He said the trouble began days earlier when Wong overheard Fowler tell Fowler's mother, brothel owner Patricia Kendrick, 79, that two beers were missing from the bar.
Wong took that as an accusation against her, Mills said, and tempers brewed for a few days until Wong followed Fowler into a bedroom and attacked her.
Wong's lead public defender, Roger Stewart, said during his opening argument that evidence would show Fowler instigated the fight.
Information from: Elko Daily Free Press, http://www.elkodaily.com


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The Master in Arts (MA) in Social Justice and Community Engagement (SJCE) program is now accepting applications for September 2013. Students in SJCE investigate and understand the root causes of social and environmental injustices and find resolutions at the community level. The program is interdisciplinary and engages such topics as social inequality, inclusion/exclusion, marginalization, political ecology, resilience, environmental injustice, feminism, globalization, and democracy.
During the 12-month program, students engage a diverse suite of courses offerings as well as complete both a major research project (MRP) and a mandatory community placement. Situated in the Department of Contemporary Studies, the SJCE program will benefit from the strong community-oriented culture at Laurier Brantford and is the first social justice program in Canada to offer a mandatory community placement. "Working with a community group or public organization will allow students to fully engage with, and apply the classroom lessons in a 'real world' situation," said Dr. Brenda Murphy, Associate Professor, Contemporary Studies and SJCE program coordinator. "The community placement will develop autonomy and professional capacity, effective communication skills and will ground the theories and skills that are central to the program."
For more information on the program, including information on the admission process, please click http://www.wlu.ca/page.php?grp_id=1725&p=22918.


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Think all the poison ivy disappeared along with your shorts and flip flops? Think again.
Doctors say you can get poison ivy in the winter, and if it's lurking on your wood pile or yard brush, accidentally tossing it on the fire could send your entire family to the hospital.
The "Leaves of three, let it be" rule won't help you in the winter. According to experts, the most commonly spotted poison ivy plants during the winter are hairy-looking vines attached to trees. Even though the plants don't have leaves in the winter, the oil that causes that itchy rash is still active in the vines and the rest of the plant.
The biggest risk isn't from touching the plant — it's from burning it.
Todd Taylor learned that lesson the hard way, after burning some brush on his property to tidy things up for the holidays.
"We started raking up pine straw, and we threw the pine straw onto the fire," said Taylor.
Todd kept a close eye on the fire, inhaling some of the smoke. The next day, his eyelids turned blood red.
"I start throwing up, I have chills, I'm running fever."
Taylor thought it might be a virus, until painful, itchy rashes started popping up all over his body.
"Okay, I know this is poison ivy. I've been down this road before, but my eyes are still kind of reddish," said Taylor.
He decided to go to see a doctor. The diagnosis? Systemic poison ivy.
"Systemic poison ivy is an extreme allergic reaction to the oils from the poison ivy plant," said Dr. Bridget Loehn, an ear, nose, and throat specialist.
It wasn't touching the poison ivy plant that sickened Taylor. It was breathing in the oils of the plant as it burned, traveling from the lungs to the blood stream.
Taylor was actually lucky. Inhaling or being exposed to the smoke from burning poison ivy can cause a severe reaction in the nasal passages, lungs, and throat. It can even be fatal.
"Symptoms of nausea, vomiting, fever, they can have swollen lymph nodes and even develop respiratory difficulties," said Loehn.
Fortunately, Taylor's case cleared up with steroids, allergy medicine and antihistamines.
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Disaster declared after deadly Samoan cycloneBy NZ correspondent Dominique Schwartz and wires, Friday December 14, 2012 - 18:43 EDT
The Samoan government has declared a state of disaster after Cyclone Evan ravaged the South Pacific nation, destroying buildings and causing flash floods.
Police in Samoa say a number of children are presumed to have drowned after being swept away in a flooded river after the cyclone hit.
Evan made landfall yesterday and caused widespread damage across the country, killing at least two people, cutting power, causing flooding and ripping trees out of the ground.
Locals say it is the worst storm to hit the region in recent years and a state of disaster has been declared.
There are now fears the storm could intensify to a category five cyclone as it tracks across the north of Tonga and then moves onto Fiji.
New Zealand's high commissioner to Samoa, Nick Hurley, says police have told him a number of children went missing near the main river in Samoa's capital Apia.
"This is the biggest one I've been through and I've been through difficult situations in the Pacific (before)," Mr Hurley told Radio New Zealand.
"The unpredictable nature of this one has made it quite different. The forecast winds did not give any indication of how strong the impact was going to be."
Many places in Samoa have only just rebuilt after being devastated by a tsunami in 2009.
"Power is off for the whole country... Tanugamanono power plant is completely destroyed and we might not have power for at least two weeks," the Disaster Management Office (DMO) said in a statement.
It said hospitals and other essential services were using standby generators, with water supplies also out and most roads cut off by fallen trees and power poles as hundreds of people languished in evacuation centres.
In travel advice, Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs said the cyclone had caused "damage to local services and infrastructure, including communications and electricity services and Faleolo International Airport".
"The Australian High Commission in Apia has closed until further notice due to storm damage," it said.
The United Nations says international aid groups are ready to help if needed, with damage from the cyclone worse than expected.
Cyclone track
Evan continues to move north west away from Apia, but its progress has slowed to just under 10 kilometres per hour.
It was around 70 kilometres off the coast and is forecast to reverse its course later this evening, although it is not known if it will again cross Samoa.
The Fiji Meteorological Service has warned the cyclone could threaten northern parts of Tonga on Saturday and reach Fiji by Sunday.
Authorities in Fiji have gone into emergency preparation as the cyclone threatens to head towards the country.
Fiji's weather bureau says the storm could eventually become a category five cyclone - packing winds at its core of 360 kilometres per hour - and on its current path would hit both of the nation's main islands.
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FIVB Volleyball Calendar confirmed for 2013
The Council, chaired by FIVB executive vice-president Aleksandar Boricic, decided to introduce the Under 23 World Championships in order to provide another opportunity for age-group players to participate in an international tournament with the goal of reducing the gap between age-group and senior level volleyball. The details of the number of teams participating will be discussed on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, the 2013 calendar also featured the change of dates of the FIVB Club World Championships, which will move from October to early May with the exact dates and host city still to be confirmed, while the venues and dates of the age-group World Championships were announced as per below.
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The World League and World Grand Prix Councils had earlier confirmed the format and timings of their competitions in their meetings on Saturday and Sunday respectively. A further meeting will take place from January 31 to February 1 in Lausanne, Switzerland to decide a long-term FIVB calendar from 2014-2022 in an effort to streamline all of the FIVB's volleyball properties.
Meanwhile, the Sports Events Council confirmed that the FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship 2014 to take place from September 3-21 in the Polish cities of Gdansk, Wroclaw, Bydgoszcz, Katowice, Lodz and Krakow. The dates of the FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship 2014, which will be held in six out of seven proposed Italian cities - Milan, Verona, Trieste, Modena, Ancona, Rome and Bari - will be announced before the end of the year.
The FIVB Sports Events Council will conclude its two-day meeting in Lausanne on Tuesday.


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Lawyers for Kanye West filed cease-and-desist papers against the seven anonymous coders behind Coinye West, a virtual currency that went from chatroom joke to Internet sensation last week.
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This time, though, I wanted to try cookies. I've never before baked vegan banana cookies and since I didn't have a recipe to follow, I was going out on a limb here. I just mixed up a bunch of recipes I use for cookies to come up with this one. The result was so good, I couldn't wait to share it with you.
As some of you who read my blog regularly know, one rule of thumb I have for most baked goods is that I use whole-wheat pastry flour which takes a lot of the guilt away from eating sweets. While I do use all-purpose flour or cake flour in the most delicate cakes, for cookies, breads and brownies, I always go with the pastry flour which, being made from whole grain, is higher in fiber and protein than refined flour. If you don't want to use it, or cannot find it where they live, you can easily substitute the pastry flour with all-purpose flour in all my recipes.
I also always use turbinado sugar which does not go through the refining process that regular sugar goes through. That refining process uses animal bone meal, incidentally, which makes it a no-no for vegans. Also, unrefined sugars like turbinado, jaggery, maple syrup and brown rice are absorbed more slowly into the body, which makes them healthier, particularly for those with high blood sugar.
This vegan banana pecan cookies recipe made 42 cookies, so there is only about two-thirds of a teaspoon of sugar in each cookie, which (at least in my book) is not earth- or diet-shattering. And I used whipped vegan "butter" which is only about 65 calories in each tablespoon as opposed to regular butter which as almost two times as many calories.
I added some orange liqueur to the cookie recipe, on a lark. A banana liqueur might have been a better idea, but I had none on hand. The orange one, while not discernible at all in the finished product, did actually boost the banana flavor, in my opinion.
So here they are, my vegan banana pecan cookies. Decadent and delicious and wonderful.
This recipe goes out to Sweet Vegan!, the event I'm hosting through the end of this month. Don't forget to send in your recipes before the end of October.
Vegan Banana Pecan Cookies
- 3 cups whole wheat pastry flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 tbsp molasses
- 4 tbsp vegan "butter" like Earth Balance or Smart Balance
- 4 tbsp vegetable oil
- 1 tbsp flax meal (ground flax seeds)
- 2 very ripe bananas , mashed
- 1 cup chopped pecans , lightly toasted
- Mix the flour, baking soda and salt in a bowl and set aside.
- In a big bowl, using a hand mixer or a stand mixer, blend together the sugar, molasses, oil and "butter" until well mixed.
- Add the flax seeds and mashed bananas and beat. Scrape down the sides of the bowl to ensure everything is thoroughly mixed.
- Add the flour mixture to the bowl and mix on a low speed until the ingredients are just combined.
- Add the pecans and mix with a spatula.
- The batter will be quite thick. With greased hands, make 1-inch balls and place on a cookie sheet sprayed with oil, about 1 inch apart.
- Press down each ball until slightly flattened
- Bake in a 300-degree oven for about 25 minutes or until the cookies are set and the bottoms are golden-brown.
- Transfer while still warm to a rack to cool.
- Enjoy!


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You'd be unlikely to see many Amish folks at CES or MWC or any other technology expo—because, for a start, many of them don't use electricity. But don't feel sorry for them, because they have a trade show all of their own.
While Amish people might not use tablets, computers or phones, they still need to do DIY—perhaps more than most of us, in fact. NPR reports that the Buckeye Tool Expo in Dalton, Ohio, is the place where Amish people get to check out the latest power tools that circumvent their self-imposed rules, and let rip with everything from power drills to table saws.
There are over a hundred retailers at the show, all showing off tech suitable for the Amish. That means that compressed air tools are a common feature—which means they needn't collude with the devil and use 120 volts—as well as electricty-free lighting solutions. By which we mean skylights. Ah, sweet progress. [NPR]
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Openly gay, devoutly Roman Catholic, left-wing and an enemy of the mafia, Rosario Crocetta broke the mould when he was elected governor of deeply conservative Sicily last month.
The island has long been better known for its machismo, corruption and homicidal mafia dons than progressive politics, but the chain-smoking former communist says he will bring a "revolution" after winning a regional election.
"I will demonstrate that this region can be the most liberal in Europe. Certainly I will be exposed to opposition from the old political system, to layers of powerful mafia patronage, but I am ready for the battle," he told Reuters in an interview.
Mr. Crocetta, 61, who has escaped at least three mafia assassination plots and was elected to the European parliament in 2009, could not be more of a contrast to his predecessors, under whom Sicily has come close to bankruptcy.
He replaces Raffaele Lombardo, who stepped down in July after being charged with mafia association. The previous regional president, Salvatore Cuffaro, is serving a seven-year jail term after being convicted on similar charges.
Mr. Crocetta said he planned a raft of anti-mob measures as well as boosting gay and other civil rights. He was Italy's first openly gay mayor and is now its second declared homosexual governor after Nichi Vendola in Puglia, seeing no conflict with his strong beliefs as a gospel-quoting Roman Catholic.
He sees his election as part of a general movement by Italian voters against a deeply unpopular and discredited traditional political class.
Mr. Crocetta made his name as leader for six years of the mob-infested city of Gela on Sicily's southwest coast, where he backed an "anti-racket" organization of businessmen who refused to pay "pizzo" or extortion money – a leading source of revenue for a local mob known as the Stidda.
"During my time as mayor, 150 businessmen were reporting extortion attempts and 850 mafiosi and extortionists were arrested, which is an impressive figure," Mr. Crocetta said.
As he spoke in the Rome headquarters of his centre-left Democratic Party (PD), two squad cars and a swarm of police – his constant protection detail – waited outside.
Asked if he is worried for his life, Mr. Crocetta replies with a trade mark belly laugh: "I am very serene. I am a sunny person, I like life, I am happy or ... gay."
He quotes legendary anti-mafia magistrate Giovanni Falcone who was murdered in 1992: "If you are scared you die every day. If you are not scared, you die only once."
Mr. Crocetta says the mafia hates him because as mayor he robbed them of public work contracts, fired mafiosi including the wife of a leading boss and exposed businessmen implicated with the mob. "This attracted great unfriendliness towards me," he says.
A mafia boss who hired a Lithuanian hitman to kill him in 2003 was heard in a wire tap calling him "that queer communist."
As governor of Sicily he plans a "white list" of firms to be given privileged access to public contracts because they are untainted by Cosa Nostra, and says he will create a task force assisting victims of the mob and corruption.
"This is a novelty in Italy. If I make it easy to denounce the mafia and corruption, people will denounce it. I want a series of measures to control contracts, supplies, land sales. It will be a storm of measures," he said.
"When denouncing the mafia is a mass movement it is difficult for it to have (deadly) repercussions. There are repercussions when it is solitary."
Mr. Crocetta also plans to combat homophobia and increase gay rights although he says his election as president of the autonomous region or governor has already had an effect.
"When I became mayor, it had an impact. I remember that in my city many boys and girls who lived clandestinely before began to have the courage to live naturally."
"Now it will influence Sicilian society and customs that people can begin to say freely that they are homosexual. They will think if we have a president who can say it, why can't we say it ourselves ... It will help to liberate many people from anxiety, violence and fear."
Mr. Crocetta says it is less surprising for a gay politician to be elected in the south than "racist and homophobic" northern Italian newspapers suggest.
"We have an ancient history of tolerance. When Oscar Wilde fled puritan England he took refuge in Palermo," he said, adding that Sicily was seen for too long through "a mafia lens".
"However, we must have very clear ideas about this. Being gay in Sicily is not like being gay in San Francisco."
Mr. Crocetta says he is as revolutionary to politics as comedian Beppe Grillo, whose anti-establishment 5-Star Movement took the most votes for a single party in the Sicily election and which has stormed to second place in national opinion polls.
Mr. Crocetta won in alliance with the centrist UDC party, which he said could be a model for his PD party nationally after elections next spring.
"I have always been a politician of a new type, starting when I was mayor of Gela. I want a revolution and Grillo wants a rebellion ... they are an anti-system movement which won't go far by itself."
Mr. Crocetta is seven votes short of a majority in the regional assembly but he shrugs off suggestions he will find it difficult to make radical change, saying if other parties reject good laws he will go back to the voters and get a bigger vote.
"The (regional) parliamentarians are always absent anyway," he says with a huge laugh. "In many cases we will win just by being present."
He has plenty to do. Sicily is notorious for graft and waste with public sector jobs allegedly long used to buy votes.
Prime Minister Mario Monti expressed fears in July that Sicily could go bankrupt, imposing a compulsory plan to restore financial stability.
Mr. Crocetta said he would cut Sicily's 5.3 billion euros ($6.7-billion) of debt by reducing a huge and wasteful civil service over three years, privatizing regional assets, slashing bureaucracy and boosting solar energy and tourism.


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My name is Joe Fleckenstein, and I'm a Steering Committee Member with the Harford County Campaign for Liberty. This Saturday, May 4 from 4 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in Havre de Grace, the Harford County Campaign for Liberty (www.harfordliberty.org) and Maryland Liberty Political Action Committee (www.marylandliberty.org) will be leading a Pro Second Amendment Protest against Gov. Martin O'Malley, who will be speaking at Havre de Grace's 200-year Commemoration of Maryland's role in the War of 1812.
We are protesting the hypocrisy of Gov. O'Malley's policies toward the Second Amendment, as he commends our citizen militias of 1812-1814. This is the same man who is spearheading the movement to disarm law-abiding citizens of Maryland 200 years later, in 2013.
Hundreds of people are planning to attend and peacefully protest Gov. O'Malley's hypocrisy on Saturday. For more information on the protest, please visit hdggunrally.com. Lovers of the Second Amendment will meet at the Concord Point Light House in Havre de Grace, at 700 Concord Street, Havre de Grace, from 4 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
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In a study by the US-based Reputation Institute last year, Roger Federer was named second on a list of the world's most respected people. Behind him was Bill Gates (third), ahead of him only Nelson Mandela. It is fair to say the Swiss tennis star has a reputation to maintain.
With that in mind, there is a lot riding on the Roger Federer Foundation (RFF), which partners local non-governmental organizations to support education projects for children living in poverty.
Many find it unthinkable that a high-profile sportsman like Federer would pursue such a project for reasons other than PR, or to maximize sponsorship returns. Yet, as the world's fifth highest paid athlete he seems beyond such concerns. If anything, says the foundation's CEO, Janine Handel, Federer's altruism potentially jeopardizes the very thing that puts him in a position to make a difference in the first place — his standing.
"If you do charity and you're a prominent person, it's very important you do it right," she said. "It's a reputational risk you are taking."
Handel, in London for a debate about whether tennis does enough to help society, insisted what the world needs is not more money but better invested money.
"Philanthropy is not just about money, it's about quality, how you invest in social issues, the impact you have in the field," she said.
For 54,000 children in Malawi who will benefit from an early education initiative run by the RFF, that is good news. The project, which began in 2010 in partnership with Credit Suisse and is being implemented in conjunction with ActionAid Malawi, will run for a decade. Its aim is to harness the potential of 80 childcare centers in six districts, where almost 250,000 children aged six to 11 fail to enrol in school.
Personal experience tends to shape the philanthropic activities of tennis players — think Nevada-born Andre Agassi's education foundation in Las Vegas, or the Guga Kuerten Institute, which works with disadvantaged children in the former world No. 1's native Brazil — but a packed year-round schedule leaves few opportunities to visit developing countries. It does not help that so few tournaments are staged in poor countries.
"It comes down to what's viable commercially, what fits in the calendar, and what the appetite for tennis is in a given region," said Justin Gimelstob, a player representative on the ATP World Tour directors' board, who described a visit to the Arthur Ashe Tennis Centre in Soweto as "heartbreaking and inspiring."
"How do you tie the facility in Soweto to the opulence of the US Open? How do you manage those opposite forces?" he asked.
In the absence of easy answers, the ATP is focusing on supporting the efforts of individual players, which only adds to the importance of organizations like the RFF.
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Well said Tim. I can't imagine Roger doing what Lance is accused of doing.
Well, RF is definitely thought of as a world class gentleman. I don't see him getting into an Armstrong/Livestrong scandal where most of the proceeds feed the business, not the needy.
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You've heard a lot from the foes of Obamacare, the landmark health care law enacted in 2012. Today, the White House wants you to hear the other side of the story. Here it is:
Eight new prevention related health measures are now being provided to 47 million women under the Affordable Care Act (the official name of what is more commonly known as Obamacare).
Previously some insurance companies did not cover the eight preventative services, or only offered co-pays or deductibles.
However beginning on August 1, or at the next renewal date, the following services will be completely covered by the insurance companies:
- Well-woman visits.
- Gestational diabetes screening that helps protect pregnant women from one of the most serious pregnancy-related diseases.
- Domestic and interpersonal violence screening and counseling.
- FDA-approved contraceptive methods, and contraceptive education and counseling.
- Breastfeeding support, supplies, and counseling.
- HPV DNA testing, for women 30 or older.
- Sexually transmitted infections counseling for sexually-active women.
- HIV screening and counseling for sexually-active women.
The greater focus on preventative measures will allow women to make health decisions to stay healhty and have a higher likelihood of catching potentially serious conditions earlier, and reduce crushing medical bills.
"President Obama is moving our country forward by giving women control over their health care," Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said. "This law puts women and their doctors, not insurance companies or the government, in charge of health care decisions."
The Institute of Medicine relied on independent physicians, nurses scientists, other experts and evidence-based research to develop their list of recommended services for the program.
A number of organizations have been allowed to opt out of the program.
Group health plans and issuers that have grandfather status are not required to cover the new services. Certain nonprofit religious organization, like churches or schools are also not required to cover the new services.
The Obama administration plans to continue to work with employers to allow the health care law to work in the best way to protect women's health, while accommodating religious liberty and other values.
While Secretary Sebelius is very excited about the health care expansion, conservative leader Brent Bozell, who started ForAmerica, a conservative non-profit, is not so enthused.
"August 1st marks the day when many family owned and operated businesses lose their rights to exercise their faith in their daily lives," he said today.
Bozell says that the government has told businesses "either comply with this mandate in violation of your faith and do what we tell you, or you will pay crippling faith fines to the federal government."
One of the services provided is access to "contraceptive measures and contraceptive education," which goes against the teachings of some faiths, Bozell noted.
"With the stroke of a pen, the Obama administration has shredded the First Amendment and the Constitution right before our eyes," he concluded.


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New Mexico Military Records
This entry was originally written by Karen Stein Daniel, CG and Margaret Windham for Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources.
The New Mexico Records Center and Archives, as well as other repositories, have holdings of the Spanish, Mexican, and Territorial Archives including military records for those respective eras.
Begin by consulting:
- Calendar of the Microfilm Edition of the Spanish Archives of New Mexico, 1621'1821. Reprint. Santa Fe: State of New Mexico Records Center, 1987.
- Jenkins, Myra Ellen. Calendar of the Microfilm Edition of the Mexican Archives of New Mexico, 1821'46. Santa Fe: State of New Mexico Records Center, 1970.
- Jenkins, Myra Ellen, and J. Richard Salazar. Calendar to the Microfilm Edition of the Territorial Archives of New Mexico. Santa Fe: New Mexico Records Center and Archives, 1974.
Territorial records include the Indian Wars of the 1850s, Union militia muster rolls, some Confederate records, and records of the Spanish American War. Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the Territory of New Mexico are found on forty-six rolls of microfilm as NARA'M427; and Index to Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the Territory of New Mexico is found on four rolls of microfilm as NARA'M242. Both collections are located at the Special Collections Library and the Family History Library. New Mexico supplied men for Teddy Roosevelt's famed 'Rough Riders.' For rosters and regimental information, contact the City of Las Vegas and Rough Riders Memorial Museum, P.O. Box 160, Las Vegas, NM 87701.
The New Mexico Records Center and Archives has records of the Grand Army of the Republic, Department of New Mexico for the period 1861'1903, manuscript collection 1960-044. They also have a large collection of New Mexico Adjutant General Records (1847'[ongoing]), as manuscript 1973-019. This collection contains records of the Adjutant General, National Guard, and Office of Military Affairs (1847'1988) and include enlistment and discharge papers, casualty records, muster rolls, annual reports, and other records for the Civil War, Indian wars, Spanish-American War, World Wars I and II, Korean War, and Vietnam War. A finding aid is available online at http://elibrary.unm.edu/oanm/NmAr/nmar%231973-019. The New Mexico State Records Center and Archives also has Civilian Conservation Corps, New Mexico District Records, 1935'1942, as manuscript 1959-030, containing approximately 11,000 names cards for enrollees, with name, birth date, family information, camp assignments, and discharge information. The World WarsiI and II Collection (1910'56), manuscript 1959-233, contains obituaries of New Mexico servicemen, as well as photostats of New Mexico servicemen's discharge records.
The Special Collections Library has microfilm rolls for New Mexico and some Colorado posts in Returns from Military Posts, 1800'1916 (NARA'M617), as well as the New Mexico rolls from Organization Index to Pension Files of Veterans Who Served Between 1861 and 1900 (NARA'T289). They also maintain New Mexico, World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards (1917'1918) on sixteen rolls of microfilm. Consult the 'Online Archive of New Mexico' at http://elibrary.unm.edu/oanm for further military collections in the state.
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JOLIET, Ill. and LAS VEGAS, March 22, 2013 /3BL Media/ -- The Caesars Foundation awarded a $15,000 grant to The Disabled Patriot Fund in Orland Park, IL. The funds will be used to assist in the staggering financial needs of returning veterans providing daily essentials such as housing or medical and financial assistance. A formal check presentation will be held at Harrah's Joliet Casino & Hotel on March 20th on behalf of The Caesars Foundation and The Disabled Patriot Fund.
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Caesars Entertainment and The Caesars Foundation have made a strong commitment to helping employees and the communities in which they operate. Community support is an integral part of the future success of the company.
"We are humbled by such a generous gift and grateful to our friends at the Caesars Foundation and Harrah's Joliet," said Pat McShane , president of The Disabled Patriot Fund. "With economic and fundraising challenges, the Caesars Foundation has come through to help us to continue to provide financial assistance to local veterans. We thank them for honoring America's military members and for supporting our efforts to ensure their sacrifices and stories will always be remembered."
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