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Title: Cloud solutions for Earth Observation in the era of Fat Data
Yonah Bromberg Gaber
Platform Developer Community Associate
Radiant Earth Foundation
Radiant Earth Foundation is a non-profit organization seeking to address the massive problem of EO data. We are actively working to aggregate the world's open Earth imagery and provide access and education on its use to the global development community. At the center of Radiant Earth Foundation is an open technology platform that will help people discover and analyze the vast resources of Earth imagery, accelerating improved decision-making and fueling new solutions, discoveries and innovations. In support of this user-driven platform, Radiant Earth Foundation offers an integrated and robust community development program to guide people in the use of imagery, geospatial data sets and tools. This includes insights into the commercial marketplace and related policies.
With so many EO satellites in orbit today, we have far more data than users can look at with their eyes. Spaceborne imagery is a prime example of "big data" and has traditionally been processed locally on machines operated by specialists. However, the cost of cloud storage and computing has fallen dramatically in recent years. This has initiated an explosion in the use of EO data by companies and a growth in startups innovating to deliver new insights about the world around us. These large volumes of EO data and the ability to process it quickly, is changing our world. The open Radiant Earth platform allows the development of EO-based applications for users without any expertise in remote sensing or geospatial technologies.
This seminar will address cloud-based EO, the technologies being developed, and practical options for doing cloud-based remote sensing.
ASPRS Mason is hosting a drone clinic for anyone interested in learning about and how to fly drones. The clinic is free and no experience is necessary!
ASPRS will be showcasing and demonstrating a Mavic 2 Pro and a Phantom 4. They will be going over take-off/landing, maneuver/flight, and some advanced settings.
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"Innovations on Power Grid Resilience at the Eversource Energy Center"
The Eversource Energy Center at the University of Connecticut is conducting research that address technological and societal challenges related to the modernization and resilience of electric grid. In this talk we will review projects pursued by Center researchers in predictive analytics for infrastructure and vegetation mapping and outage forecasting, and innovative solutions for electric reliability, forest sustainability, grid hardening and grid security including potential physical and cyber-attacks. We will discuss possible solutions considering the complex interdependencies of technology, economics and regulation. Also considered will be the relationship between natural gas and the electric grid. Included will be a discussion of Outage Forecasting, Vegetation Management, Remote Sensing, and Virtual Power Plants (VPPs) for synchronizing multiple DER technologies such as renewable power generation sources (PV, hydropower and wind), Combined Heat and Electricity (CHE) devices, pump-hydro, and battery storage. The talk will also discuss implications of the above technological solutions under alternate futures and extreme weather and security based outage events.
About Dr. Anagnostou:
Dr. Anagnostou is the Alumni Association Distinguished Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Eversource Energy Endowed Chair in Environmental Engineering at the University of Connecticut. He is the founding Director of the Eversource Energy Center (eversource.uconn.edu) and Applied Research Director of the Connecticut Institute for Resilience and Climate Adaptation (circa.uconn.edu). He holds Ph.D. and MSc degrees in Hydrometeorology from the University of Iowa (1997 and 1995, respectively) and a diploma in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (1990).
His research expertise is on remote sensing applications in water resources with focus on hydro-meteorological extremes and the synthesis of sociological and engineering methods to create people-centered solutions to the nexus problem of water, food and energy insecurities and risks. His research uses a systems-based approach that integrates earth observations, models and analytical methods across climate, hydrology, the environment and recently social sciences to reduce climate risks and promote sustainability of water and energy resources. In his capacity as Eversource Energy Center director he leads critical power grid resilience and grid modernization initiatives and through CIRCA he is leading efforts to develop a flood early warning system and improve flood risk estimates across Connecticut. He has been science team member of NASA's Precipitation Science Mission since 2000. He was leader of a Marie Curie Excellence Team (2007-2010) funded by the European Commission to investigate application of Earth Observations in water resources, and currently coordinates a National Science Foundation multi-institutional food security project in Ethiopia (pire.engr.uconn.edu). He has supervised 17 PhD and 12 MS (thesis) students and 8 post-doctoral research associates. He is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Hydrology.
"U.S. Domestic Policies For Our Forest Resources"
About Mike Kaczor:
Mike Kaczor has worked with the Soil Conservation Service (NRCS), U.S. Forest Service, and the Department of Agriculture since 1983. He received his B.A. from Rutgers University and his Master's Degree from Texas Tech University. His expertise in geosciences have given him unique experiences in land use policy for natural and cultural resources.
We Are All in It Together: Training the Next Generation of Model Thinkers
We need to train the next generation of scientists, modelers and analysts to be technically competent and socially aware multidisciplinary collaborators. Model thinking and Modeling and Simulation can play an even more significant role in society if we expand our horizons beyond socio-technical problems and tackle broader challenges impacting the human condition. In this talk, we discuss multidisciplinary collaboration, inclusion and social awareness as three pillars that can form the basis for maintaining and increasing the relevance of our field in a world where technological change is outpacing our ability to manage and predict its impact on key aspects of life and society. We present tools, models and practical examples to illustrate the importance of each pillar and provide a framework for what we hope will become an intense and fruitful debate within the scientific community.
About Dr. Saiko Diallo
Chief Scientist, Research Associate Professor, Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center (VMASC), Old Dominion University
Dr. Diallo has studied the concepts of interoperability of simulations and composability of models for over fifteen years. He is VMASC's lead researcher in Human Simulation and Simulated Empathy where he focuses on applying Modeling and Simulation to study how people connect with one another and artificial beings, and how they experience their environment and creations. He currently has a grant to conduct research into modeling religion, culture and civilizations. He is also involved in developing cloud based simulation engines and User Interfaces in order to promote the use of simulation outside of the traditional engineering fields.
Dr. Diallo graduated with a M.S. in Engineering in 2006 and a Ph.D. in Modeling and Simulation in 2010 both from Old Dominion University. He is the President-Elect and a member of the Board of Directors for the Society for Modeling and Simulation International (SCS). Dr. Diallo has over one hundred publications in peer-reviewed conferences, journals and books.
"How to Translate GIS into a Career"
Madeline Lother, a GGS alumna, and her supervisor Sid Pandey from Dewberry will give a talk on transitioning from your GIS education to the working world. They will discuss different options for which Dewberry currently has openings. Dewberry has a close connection with GMU and GGS and we highly encourage students to attend this event.
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Prairie Protectors
Kids learn to steward the earth through Healthy Habitat grants
By Kathryn McGranahan
It's a windy, clear-eyed Saturday in Aledo. The town exudes peace and quiet, but the scene changes as you pass a flurry of youthful industry at Aledo Middle School.
Several eighth-grade students are hoisting shovels with passion, while others tenderly sculpt small piles of mulch around stalks of native prairie grass. Boys and girls cheerfully slog around in mudboots, toting giant, sloshing buckets between the water faucets and their prairie grass demonstration, pouring the water in careful circles around each waving cluster. They barely notice me as they weave past, calling out directions to their classmates.
These are the Prairie Protectors, and they exhibit the confidence of construction managers on their small piece of landscape — after all, these teens are the ones who have made it happen.
In a landscape previously dominated by Bermuda grass, dandelions and clover, Terry Snow's eighth-grade science class has built a blackland prairie refuge in this town west of Fort Worth. Teacher and students replaced these modern-day squatters with native plants such as big muhly, pink muhly, bluestem and Indian feathergrass to replicate the prairie's native diversity.
This demonstration is part of their ambitious goal to educate themselves and their community about the blackland prairie, one of the most diverse — and most depleted — ecoregions in Texas. For the past two years, Snow and her science students have restored native prairie and developed a trail at a nearby ranch to teach elementary students about native wildlife. Now, they are spending the weekend creating a 1,200-square-foot representation of their trail at their school to strengthen community involvement.
Best of all, it's the kids, not the teacher, who have designed, built and organized each step in the process.
"It's gone from them learning what makes a healthy ecosystem to total ownership of this huge project," says Snow.
The project was made possible by the Healthy Habitat grants, a partnership between the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation, Service Learning Texas and the natural gas company Encana to combine service learning with environmental policy. To Nancy Herron, director of education and outreach for TPWD, it was a natural fit.
"Encana wanted to work with schools and with us; we wanted to get kids connected to their local habitat," Herron says. "This was an opportunity for students to help solve real problems laid out in the Texas Conservation Action Plan and work alongside local resource professionals. So we called on our partner, Service Learning Texas, to create the Texas Healthy Habitat grants."
The program is in its second year, and this year 18 Texas schools and nonprofit youth organizations received more than $170,000 in grants. Each school can receive as much as $10,000 to take on a local environmental problem. When Flour Bluff Intermediate School received a grant to tackle invasive species in Corpus Christi wetlands, students joined forces with local botanical groups to restore native plants, helping migrating birds in the process. In The Woodlands, the Extraordinary Education Family Learning Center attracts butterflies and home school students with its natural habitat refuge for native plants and wildlife.
Healthy Habitat grants work toward two main goals. First, the grants endeavor to get the students, and the community, to become aware of their habitat and its issues. Then, as students work with members of their community to actively address these issues, they learn that they can make a difference. Students may also consider possible careers in natural resources.
These goals line up with service learning, where curriculum and service are integrated. Students reach out to community partners and identify a need in a community, and teachers skillfully include lessons related to the project in the curriculum. But this real-life learning goes far beyond the classroom.
"The first step in lifelong stewardship is believing that you can make a difference. Healthy Habitat helps students know they have a place at the table as their community tackles local issues," says Herron. "Service learning facilitates awareness, problem-solving, partnerships and real-life learning of math, science, language arts … most subject areas, in a way that students are motivated and taking the lead."
It's education in action, bringing school curriculum and learning objectives to civic engagement and responsibility. The idea is to allow students to lead the process, with teachers and professionals providing support.
"It gives kids room to ask, to probe, to experiment. They learn why things will or won't work," says Herron.
Studies show that good service learning leads to a rise in career exploration, problem-solving skills, complex reasoning, ethical reasoning, self-confidence, test scores, graduation rates and social involvement. Through their heightened knowledge and involvement, they become empowered in their role in the world and can better translate school curriculum to their life.
"Seventy-seven percent of students in service learning programs say service learning had a big effect on motivating them to work hard," says one recent report.
If that motivation doesn't explain the success of the Prairie Protectors program at Aledo Middle School, nothing will. These eighth-grade students have won awards for their labors, receiving recognition from the Texas Land Conservancy, and have spoken at conferences throughout Texas — teaching teachers. Aledo's partners include Texas A&M University's AgriLife Extension Service and the Tarrant Regional Water District.
Each of the 80 students helping that day is focused and involved — no cellphones can be seen or heard. When I ask about their work, they reply with the newfound authority of budding TPWD biologists. Valentino utilizes his love of math for this project by collecting water quality and average rainfall data. Alex confidently explains how the grasses in a tallgrass prairie save water in local watersheds.
The Aledo project started when pipeline was laid at Bear Creek Ranch, a cattle and educational ranch teeming with native wildlife. The Natural Resources Conservation Service uses the ranch for demonstration for landowners and range management specialists.
"Students can get a glimpse of what the area looked like when it was being settled by Europeans and how grazing animals maintained the prairie," says Robert Potts, president of the Dixon Water Foundation, which supports sustainable watershed management.
For the Aledo Healthy Habitat grant, 1,200 elementary and middle school students reseeded 25 acres of the ranch and learned about tributaries and the filtering effects of native prairie grasses. Some students even mimicked bison to try to plant seeds in a natural way, as if the seeds were clinging to the bison hide, then dropping off to reseed.
To further spread their knowledge and engage the community, Aledo students then turned an old cattle trail in a riparian zone into a trail of learning stations at Bear Creek Ranch. Eighth-graders use it to teach fifth-grade students about their roles in local ecosystems in a hands-on, holistic way. They even assembled a teepee (made by the same company that worked on the Dances With Wolves sets), incorporating history in their web of hands-on education.
For Snow, it was a great way to show students how to apply the classroom concepts of their science lessons.
"What's relevant to them is what's now," Snow explains. "This project engages them, shows them why it's important now."
Test scores and student attitudes testify to the success of the program.
"I'm going to remember this more than anything we'd be doing just sitting in class," one student remarks.
When they compared biodiversity of the ranch to that of their school, students found a plethora of rocky soil and Bermuda grass at the school. Snow saw an opportunity to demonstrate to her students the impact of conservation through water use and surface area formulas. Snow, spelling out the lower water needs of the prairie plot, tells the students,
"In the first year, this site takes 6,300 gallons of water. After that, nothing." The Bermuda grass uses 12,000 gallons every year.
Students planned their project with the help of landscapers and the Tarrant Regional Water District to ensure success. They dug up invasive species, tested soil for sediment filters and researched native grasses — all correlated with Snow's weekly lesson plan.
For many, the reach extends beyond the project. Students' individual skills combine to shape projects.
Georgia's specialty is math, so she calculated and drew several maps of the demonstration to scale. "This makes [retention] easier because I have to figure everything out — no one hands me a formula."
Many students believe they better understand classroom lessons, while others enjoy working with classmates without cliques. Abby loves the unorthodox assignments Snow usually prepares, but this project is special.
"It's not something we did in science class," Abby says. "It's something we'll see for years. We'll remember it."
Others, like Alex, want their efforts to inspire the elementary kids they've worked with. "We can actually do something for the planet, and it's not just for us. It's for the elementary kids, who see what we did. I speak for all of us when I say we feel very proud and honored to be a part of this."
Snow thinks more teachers should be exposed to the tools that can unlock so much potential in students. There are numerous benefits for Aledo Middle School: The campus looks more welcoming, money savings are achieved, and the students are growing academically and socially. Even Snow's quietest students become leaders at Bear Creek Ranch, creating Prairie
Protector chants for the fifth-graders experiencing their trail.
Many teachers have not been taught how to incorporate community partners and could be intimidated by the scale of Healthy Habitat projects, Snow says. But help is now available to overcome that obstacle.
"Teachers need exposure to what kind of projects they can do, what their community resources are and how to approach them," Snow says. "Service Learning Texas provides the model for that."
Grants are available every year, with some former winners competing with newcomers. Snow's class was able to build a learning trail one year and the prairie grass refuge the next.
It's easy to see the benefits for students, schools and communities from the Healthy Habitat grants. Students discover a real, tangible connection to the world around them — a deeper understanding that comes with the territory of engagement.
"We're digging in the dirt," laughs Snow. "They get to be a part of something, so they're giving up their Saturday. Once they realize no one's going to tell them no, it's theirs.
That's amazing."
Service Learning Texas provides Healthy Habitat grant applications on its website, www.servicelearningtexas.org; applications are due by June 20, and pre-proposals are due May 31. Open to fifth- through 12th-grade students, grants are available for state and nonprofit organizations, as well as public, nonprofit private or open charter schools. In the application, applicants must explain a local issue as outlined by the Texas Conservation Action Plan, their plan of action and their engagement with community and TPWD partners.


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Global Infrastructure Investing: A Different Spin on Emerging-Market Growth
When it comes to infrastructure investing, operators should get as much love as builders.
Investors looking to capitalize on developing markets might dig deeper than the heavy-equipment and construction giants that break ground and erect the bridges, stadiums, apartment buildings, and hospitals that a growing middle class will use.
In fact, it's the next tier of infrastructure support—the operators of these projects—that may hold the best long-term opportunities for investors. Think toll road managers, gas pipelines, and utilities.
"It's a play on the same theme—urbanization and rising standards of living—but it's not just about providing the bulldozer, it's about collecting 20, 30, 100 years of toll concessions," says Bob Becker, co-manager of the Cohen & Steers Global Infrastructure Fund.
In addition to benefiting from new projects in emerging markets, this category is positioned to capitalize on infrastructure upgrades in North America and Western Europe, plus Japan and other developed areas of Asia. As developed nations work to whittle down debt and many are tightening spending with aggressive austerity policies, the typically government-funded airport upgrades and bridge repairs will fall to the private sector, says Becker.
As for the developing world, emerging markets throughout Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and South America are overwhelmingly the ones pulling out their checkbooks, officials at GE said at the conglomerate's March investor conference. GE and rivals are looking to take advantage of global infrastructure, with GE's spending plans totaling $4 trillion over the next two to 20 years (a figure provided by the company). A number of projects are expected in Brazil, including the PAC 2 investment program totaling $872 billion, the Petrobras Oil & Gas project of $225 billion, and infrastructure spending for the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics estimated at $668 billion, GE management said at the meeting, according to a company release.
Frank Holmes, CEO and chief investment officer for U.S. Global Investors, cites BCA Research Inc. data that shows the growth rate of China's infrastructure investments is expected to pick up in the second half of the year, as the government is accelerating approvals for railways, highways, and water systems projects.
"This move, to a certain extent, will offset the slowdown in property investments. As a result, it should positively impact materials and commodity and bank lending," said Holmes, in a blog entry on his firm's website.
That backdrop is favorable to the goals of the Cohen & Steers Global Infrastructure Fund and similar funds in its category. Becker's fund has the bulk of its assets in the United States, France, and Japan and includes Brazil projects. The toll road, port and pipeline operators, cell tower owners, railroads, and utilities in the fund tend to have limited competition given high barriers to entry, says Becker. These companies boast solid cash flow, and their shares come with low beta. That means less volatility (on the downside and the upside) than the broader "infrastructure" category and the broader stock market. Many holdings include capital growth potential and pay a dividend.
It's true that companies like heavy-machinery maker Caterpillar (ticker: CAT) and Fluor Corp. (FLR), whose business extends from chemicals, construction, and mining to alternative energy, stand to benefit in the long term from emerging-market growth as well, Becker says. The difference? They're cyclical stocks and carry higher betas.
For potential stability, individual investors need only look at where some of the institutional money (think pension and insurance funds) is flowing.
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) announced in April that it was taking significant minority stakes in five Chilean toll roads.
Andre Bourbonnais, senior vice president of private investments for CPPIB, said in a company statement: "The addition of these five major urban toll roads in Chile is an excellent opportunity to expand our infrastructure portfolio in a developing market. Chile's strong economic growth prospects and its stable legal and regulatory framework make it an attractive country for investors like CPPIB. As a long-term investor, we seek infrastructure assets that will deliver stable returns over a prolonged period."
Investors considering the infrastructure play might also think about the technology behind such growth. For instance, Itron (ITRI) helps utilities with meters and other services and is expanding in the smart-grid arena.
The bottom line for investors: When looking around the emerging globe for ideas, think beyond the development stage to the resources, technology, and manpower necessary to sustain such projects for years to come.
Source: http://money.usnews.com/money/personal-finance/mutual-funds/articles/2012/05/03/global-infrastructure-investing-a-different-spin-on-emerging-market-growth


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K9 Bed Bug Inspection NJ, PA, DE & MD
Do you want peace of mind in knowing there are no bedbugs in your home, hotel, Bed & Breakfast, etcetera? Viking Pest Control has many options for bed bug detection. Our inspection tools and methods include K9 detection. Our resident canine bed bug detection experts will happily come to your home and sniff out any bedbugs. We'll either give you the 'all clear' or help by suggesting treatment options. Call Viking Pest Control today or fill out our form to schedule a visit. We serve New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware and Pennsylvania.
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Norwegian mass-murderer Anders Breivik could wind up doing time at Halden Fengsel, multiple news outlets claim, which calls itself a maximum-security prison, but looks more like a cross between an IKEA and college dorm. Take a tour of its Banksy-like wall murals, climbing walls, and recording studios in this video. [via atlanticwire.com]


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The Kinetix 5500 servo drive joins the Kinetix 350 and Kinetix 6500 drives to provide users with more options to match motion control needs. Integrated motion control on EtherNet/IP eliminates the need for a dedicated motion network, reducing cabling by up to 60% and removing the need to create gateways to get information to or from secluded networks. Additionally, the Kinetix VPL motors new winding technology and DSL encoder, connected with the smart-cable technology, allows power transmission and feedback communication to and from the Kinetix 5500 drive to take place on one cable. This further simplifies application design and limits points-of-failure for improved reliability and uncomplicated maintenance.
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Reading 1: The Siege of Corinth
At the end of April, 1862, a Union Army group of almost 125,000 men, led by Maj. Gen. Henry Halleck, set out from Pittsburg and Hamburg landings towards Corinth. A Confederate force of about half that size, under the command of Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard, waited for them, behind five miles of newly-constructed earthworks. Both commanders knew the importance of the coming battle. Halleck claimed that the railroad centers in Richmond, Virginia, and Corinth were "the greatest strategic points of the war, and our success at these points should be insured at all hazards." Beauregard told his superiors: "If defeated here we will lose the Mississippi Valley and probably our cause . . . [and] our independence." 1
It took Halleck a month to travel the 22 miles to Corinth. The route crossed a series of low ridges covered with dense forests and cut by stream valleys and ravines. Moving his army through rugged country while keeping it aligned along a 10-mile front was slow and difficult work. The weather was bad and there was little good water. Dysentery and typhoid were common.
By May 4, the Union army was within 10 miles of Corinth and the railroads. The Confederates began a series of small scale attacks, keeping up a nearly constant harassment. Halleck, cautious by nature, established an elaborate procedure to protect his army as they advanced. As the troops moved up to a new position, they worked day and night digging trenches. These "were made to conform with the nature of the ground, following the crest of the ridges. . . . They consisted of a single ditch and a parapet . . . only designed to cover our infantry against the projectiles of the enemy."2 As each line of earthworks was finished, the men advanced about a mile and then started digging a new line of trenches. Eventually there were seven progressive lines and about 40 miles of trenches.
The Confederates waiting in Corinth were well aware of Halleck's slow, but constant, advance. In May, a Confederate soldier wrote his wife:
I can sit now in my tent and hear the drums & voices in the enemy lines, which cannot be more than two miles distant. We have . . . killed and wounded every day. . . . The Yanks are evidently making heavy preparation for the attack which cannot, I think, be postponed many days longer. . . . Everything betokens an early engagement so make it be, for I am more than anxious that it shall come without further delay.3
On May 21, Beauregard planned a counterattack, an attempt to "draw the enemy out of his entrenched positions and separate his closed masses for a battle."4 The gamble came to naught because of delays in getting the troops in position to attack.
By May 25, the long Union line was entrenched on high ground within a few thousand yards of the Confederate fortifications. From that range, Union guns shelled the Confederate defensive earthworks, and the supply base and railroad facilities in Corinth. Beauregard was outnumbered two to one. The water was bad. Typhoid and dysentery had felled thousands of his men. At a council of war, the Confederate officers concluded that they could not hold the railroad crossover.
Beauregard saved his army by a hoax. Some of the men were given three days' rations and ordered to prepare for an attack. As expected, one or two went over to the Union with that news. During the night of May 29, the Confederate army moved out. They used the Mobile and Ohio Railroad to carry the sick and wounded, the heavy artillery, and tons of supplies. When a train arrived, the troops cheered as though reinforcements were arriving. They set up dummy ("Quaker") guns along the defensive earthworks. Camp fires were kept burning, and buglers and drummers played. The rest of the men slipped away undetected. When Union patrols entered Corinth on the morning of May 30, they found the Confederates gone.
Most historians believe that the Union seizure of the strategic railroad crossover at Corinth led directly to the fall of Fort Pillow on the Mississippi, the loss of much of Middle and West Tennessee, the surrender of Memphis, and the opening of the lower Mississippi River to Federal gunboats as far south as Vicksburg. And no Confederate train ever again carried men and supplies from Chattanooga to Memphis.
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1. Why did it take so long for Gen. Halleck to move his Union troops to Corinth?
2. Why do you think Gen. Beauregard thought it was important to draw the Union forces "out of their entrenched positions"?
3. How did Beauregard and his generals deceive the Union army?
4. How did he make use of the railroads?
5. What were the consequences of the Confederate loss of Corinth?
Reading 1 was excerpted from Paul Hawke, Cecil McKithan, Tom Hensley, Jack Elliott, and Edwin C. Bearss, "Siege and Battle of Corinth" (Alcorn County Mississippi, and Hardeman County, Tennessee), National Historic Landmark documentation, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1991; and from Ray S. Price and Ellsworth R. Swift, "Civil War Corinth, Interpretive Concept Plan" (prepared for the Siege and Battle of Corinth Commission, 1995), 3-5.
1Halleck to Stanton, May 25, 1862, War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1880-1901), Series I, Vol. X, Part 1, 667; Beauregard to Samuel Cooper, April 9, 1862, O.R., I, X, 2, 403. (Subsequent citations will be identified as O.R., followed by series, volume, part, and page numbers).


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"Monday Night and All that Jazz" with MVY Radio's Dave Kish
Monday, September 16 at 7:00pm, the West Tisbury Library and WMVY present our monthly jazz film screening with Dave Kish. This month will feature the jazz short "Jamming The Blues" from the 1940's, as well as the Miles Davis TV special, "The Sound Of Miles Davis" from 1959.
Refreshments will be served. Free and open to the public.
Dave has hosted the WMVY radio show "Sunday Morning & All That Jazz" since the spring of 1997, and has always been a champion of all types of jazz, old and new, from all parts of the globe. Always willing to take chances, Dave has greatly expanded his range to include extensive features on jazz vocalists, Bossa Nova, African funk, vintage soul, Latin and European jazz, among many other types of improvised music. A summer resident of the Vineyard since the late sixties, Dave settled here in 1989. He wrote music reviews for the Martha's Vineyard Times for many years, and hosted a weekly Sunday afternoon jazz jam at the Wintertide Coffeehouse in Vineyard Haven, acting as an emcee for many talented musicians, and spinning many gems from his collection in between sets.


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HealthSpot™, a pioneer in telehealth technology, has teamed up with Nationwide Children's Hospital, one of the largest and most respected children's hospitals in the nation, to expand access to affordable healthcare to more children via four HealthSpot Station units in and around Columbus, Ohio.
The HealthSpot Station is an 8- by 5-foot private, walk-in medical kiosk that features high-definition videoconferencing and interactive digital medical devices. Each is furnished with a desktop touchscreen, audio system, two-way video screen, and is spacious enough to accommodate parent(s) and their kids during a true-to-life "virtual visit" that brings patients face-to-face with medical professionals from Nationwide Children's Hospital.
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Cashman noted that the Nationwide Children's partnership is a "critical step" for HealthSpot's ongoing effort to build a national network of HealthSpot Stations in retail and community locations, with provider services from the nation's top health systems. The 6-month Nationwide Children's HealthSpot pilot will provide the hospital an opportunity to develop infrastructure and test the kiosk technology with the pediatric population. It will expand access to pediatric health care providers in an efficient manner.
"The HealthSpot kiosk technology will enable us to provide access to our pediatric experts in an efficient manner," said Gil Peri, Nationwide Children's vice president for Regional Development. "The HealthSpot kiosk provides a high-definition video interaction along with medical device attachments all in a private setting. We are looking forward to piloting the technology over the next six months. If the initial pilot is successful, we will expand the technology to South and Central Ohio rural communities."
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bfrank2003 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 49 diseños de 21 diseñadores freelance.
I need the logo for 1) a Web site (http://www.TheDoctorZone.com) and 2) business cards and stationary. I'm unsure of the file types, but I gather that I would need AI, psd, vector types (I know I need vector, but the others I'm unsure about--please provide the correct file types).
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Key elements in the design would be 1) physicins (or doctors), and medicine, 2) entrepreneurs, 3) cutting edge, 4) up-beat, 5) fun, 6) professionalism, 7) hope, 8) opportunity, 9) energy, 10) community, 11) high-end, 12) sophisticated, 13) free, 14) creative, 15) powerful....I guess that's enough! Good luck with getting all of that into one design!
I guess the logo for the Web site would be TheDoctorZone.com, but the logo for the stationary would just be TheDoctorZone. (The company name is TheDoctorZone, Inc.) I'm unsure of color(s), but blue is my favorite color; it is associated with males, and by a narrow margin, most doctors are males. I don't know about colors for power, etc.
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Area's Cultural Star continues to rise in The Buffalo News
Friday, December 28, 2012
Area's Cultural Star continues to rise by Colin Dabkowski in The Buffalo News
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Year-In-Review: The departure of Louis Grachos and the announced closing of Mohawk Place marked the end of important eras on the Western New York Arts scene. But at the same time, new eras dawned in Allentown, at Canalside
If 2011 was a year of seismic change on the region's rapidly evolving cultural landscape, each of the past 12 months has carried with it a little aftershock of progress.
In January, the region's cultural organizations were still wide-eyed with astonishment over the unexpected victory of the arts-friendly Mark C. Poloncarz over his less culturally inclined opponent Chris Collins in the race for Erie County executive. Since then, the collective clout of Western New York's countless arts organizations has continued to grow.
This year, many of the plans set in motion by visionary thinkers in previous years and decades began to come visibly to fruition, and financial crises of the distant past finally gave way to new vibrancy.
It's true that 2012 marked the end of some important eras, including that of Louis Grachos at Albright-Knox Art Gallery and the storied Mohawk Place as the headquarters of Buffalo's indie rock scene. But it also ushered in others, such as Anthony Bannon's return as director of the Burchfield Penney Art Center and the rise of a newly healthy music scene in Allentown.
Part of why 2012 looks so good has to do with the fact that 2010 felt so bad. To be sure, the situation for many cultural groups is far from perfect, and the community continues to wage war on the perception that they are mere diversions rather than civic essentials. But, in sum, this has been a year in which Western New York's cultural star has continued its steady and seemingly inexorable rise.
1. Grachos leaves Albright-Knox
Louis Grachos, the director of Albright-Knox Art Gallery since 2003, announced in June that he would end his tenure at the gallery and take a job as the director of the newly formed AMOA-Arthouse in Austin, Texas. Though Grachos' directorship was controversial because of its sale of more than 200 premodern objects from the collection in 2007, he helped to reassert the gallery's international reputation as a smart and contemporary museum interested above all in exploring new territory. At the same time, Grachos helped to foster a new collaborative spirit among all Western New York arts groups that has played a major role in the city's ongoing cultural renaissance.
2. A banner year for the BPO
As orchestras in large and mid-sized cities across the United States contend with dwindling resources, striking musicians and other financial headaches, the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra's outlook, wrote News Classical Music Critic Mary Kunz Goldman in October, "is as bright as a Mozart minuet." Though it still carries debt, the orchestra's endowment is up to about $26 million, and ticket sales and subscriptions are reportedly at an all-time high.
3. Bannon back at Burchfield Penney
At the Burchfield Penney Art Center, currently showing two well-regarded exhibitions on the late Buffalo-born comics artist Spain Rodriguez and the artistic team known as McCallum/Tarry, a new day is dawning. In February, former BPAC director Anthony Bannon, freshly retired from a 16-year stint at the head of Rochester's prestigious George Eastman House, returned to lead the Burchfield Penney once again. The results so far have been promising.
4. Mohawk Place closing but Allen Street music scene grows
Members of Buffalo's music community and casual concertgoers alike were dismayed at the news that Mohawk Place, home to Buffalo's small but active indie rock community, would close its doors in January. But while the closure of the 'Hawk leaves a gaping hole in Buffalo's music scene, News Pop Music Critic Jeff Miers points out, a newly ambitious scene is rising on Allen Street. With old standbys like Nietzsche's being joined by newcomers like DBGB and The Bend, Allen Street's resolutely jam band-centric scene has received a healthy infusion of energy in the past year.
5. Waterfront is concert central
On Thursday afternoons in the summer of 2012, Lafayette Square remained a pretty patch of grass with an unspoiled view of City Hall. The former "Thursday at the Square," along with its throngs of Labatt-swilling habitues, officially decamped for the more expansive (and even more popular) Canalside location. Indeed, Canalside officially came into its own as Buffalo's best and most-buzzed-about outdoor venue not just for major and minor concerts, but for visual art, theater and dance.
6. Buffalo River corridor booms
Farther down the Buffalo River, in places like the industrial complex known as Silo City and in River Fest Park and Mutual Riverfront Park, hundreds of new cultural events took place during the summer months. In September, Silo City hosted an event called "City of Night" that brought bigger crowds into the complex's grain elevators and other buildings than they had seen in decades. It's mostly thanks to funding from the Erie Canal Harbor Development Corporation, which has dispensed with dreams of drawing a Bass Pro-sized retailer to adopt a more culturally friendly program featuring small-scale events.
7. 710 Main Street opens its doors
In 2008, Buffalo's theater community took a big hit when the 42-year-old Studio Arena closed its doors. This year, the doors finally reopened under a different marquee: the 710 Main Theatre.
The new venture, largely under the auspices of Shea's Performing Arts Center, was sold out for performances by John Lithgow and Seth Rudetsky in September and will continue to serve as venue for touring shows and a showcase for local productions.
8. Arts-led revival in Springville
The tiny Springville Center for the Arts got an early Christmas present this year when New York State announced that it had received more than $800,000 for two projects aimed at revitalizing the economically challenged downtown it inhabits.
The center – and its soon-to-be-renovated satellite art space – has already made strides in renewing the economic fortunes of Springville.
9. The year of the mural
In 2012, street art began to take hold in Buffalo, with murals going up at 515 Main St., on the side of a building on Elmwood Avenue near Bidwell Parkway and a community-centric mural project taking shape on the side of a shop on Grant Street.
The most surprising street art development came last month, when a group of graffiti artists painted an extensive tribute to the Buffalo-born Spain Rodriguez in an old train station near the Central Terminal on the city's East Side shortly after his death.
10. Infringement Fest balloons
Because of its seemingly exponential growth, the massive Buffalo Infringement Festival has managed to be one of the biggest stories for several years running.
This summer's 11-day affair was no exception, with some 800 separate performances that signaled the continued, unabated growth of Buffalo's artistic, musical and theatrical underground.
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Earlier this month, the 325-seat Helium Comedy Club opened, under the management of local comedy impresario Kristen Becker, in the Cobblestone District.
LehrerDance, the Buffalo-based touring company, had a big year with appearances in the University at Buffalo Center for the Arts' prestigious M&T Dance Series and a successful recent tour of Russia.
The Colored Musicians Club opened a new museum celebrating the rich musical and cultural history of the venue and the famous jazz, blues, R&B and gospel musicians who played and sang there since its founding in the 1930s.


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GREENSBORO — When the Chronicle first visited Shaun Hill in 2010, he was brewing beer in a converted garage. It would be a few months before he released his first offerings, but Mr. Hill already had serious ambition.
"My goal is to make the best beer in the world," he said.
He looked forward to expanding his production facility to the size of the barn that once stood on the property where he makes his beer, land that has been in his family for well over 200 years.
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The last lap green-white-checkered victory for Brad Keselowski at the Aaron's 312 in Talladega this weekend proved the old NASCAR adage: All's well that ends in a gigantic fireball.
Keselowski snatched victory in the last lap of the race by passing Kevin Harvick before Jamie McMurray lost control and started a chain reaction that turned Dennis Setzer's Charger-stickered car into a roman candle pointed straight into the Talladega catch-fence. If every NASCAR race ended this way, we'd totally start watching.
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Gregory Grassi was born in Italy in 1833, ordained in 1856 and sent to China five years later. Gregory was later ordained Bishop of North Shanxi. With 14 other European missionaries and 14 Chinese religious, he was martyred during the short but bloody Boxer Uprising of 1900.
Twenty-six of these martyrs were arrested on the orders of Yu Hsien, the governor of Shanxi province. They were hacked to death on July 9, 1900. Five of them were Friars Minor; seven were Franciscan Missionaries of Mary ? the first martyrs of their congregation. Seven were Chinese seminarians and Secular Franciscans; four martyrs were Chinese laymen and Secular Franciscans. The other three Chinese laymen killed in Shanxi simply worked for the Franciscans and were rounded up with all the others. Three Italian Franciscans were martyred that same week in the province of Hunan. All these martyrs were beatified in 1946 and were among teh 120 martyrs canonized in 2000.


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VETCARE PLUS | Here's to a healthy happy holiday for all God's creatures
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TRUCKEE, Calif. – Ho Ho Ho! Happy holidays to one and all. 'Tis the season to be jolly, but let's not let our pets fall prey to human folly! We made it through Thanksgiving without major obstructions or pancreatitis.
As veterinarians, we want our patients to have happy safe holidays, yet we are often busy treating the same problems every year. It is very simple, really. Our pets love bright shiny things, and anything that even suggests food has to be inspected, which of course includes tasting, or better yet, sometimes swallowing whole! The latest fad these last few years has been eating glass Christmas tree ornaments. I don't make these things up. The worst thing I have ever seen was the insides of a dog that ate the net that covers some turkeys. You cannot get the whole thing out through one hole or even two or three.
The other common problem this time of year is toxicity from rat poison and antifreeze. Please use traps instead of poison for rodents, and if you must use poison warn your neighbors and only use the anticoagulant type because there is an antidote. The other type has no antidote at all. It is much the same with antifreeze only faster. It is very difficult to treat at best requiring intensive care for several days. If you leave your house for the holidays, or rent one, please do not use ethylene glycol antifreeze in your toilets or sinks. Check there isn't any present before you let your cats or dogs loose! Antifreeze tastes like sugar water and almost any species will drink it willingly. If you are topping up your radiator clean up any spilled coolant immediately. Cats will crawl under a hood to lick spilled antifreeze and it does not take much. If you have cats I would avoid tinsel on the tree and any decorations of food on strings. My cat loves to leap out of the tree at shoulder height, terrify me and land on my shoulder. He can reach anywhere in and on the tree, and does, and your cat may well too. A big dog will simply knock the tree over and take what he/she wants. Those popcorn balls beckon.
If you are traveling with your pet over the holidays be prepared in advance. Get your vaccines and health certificate as far in advance as possible. Check with your airline for their specific requirements and limitations. See your veterinarian for sedatives or anti-nausea medications well in advance. Take your pet's medications, and if traveling in a car, bring extra food and water for your pet too in case of delay. There are excellent harness-seatbelts available for dogs today and that would be the perfect holiday gift for the traveling canine companion.
Happy holidays and peace on earth for all, please.
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Continuing on this coastal drive allows for an even more impressive view of South Shore beaches with their pink sand, azure blue waters and the imposing barrier reef that encircles the island. Pass by the Botanical Gardens and drive to St. George's, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The town's history is visible with its narrow winding alleys and cobblestone streets. A short stop will be made in Hamilton, the capital of Bermuda so you can shop or see the sights, before your return to the ship.


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WALTHAM, Mass. — The Brandeis University men's basketball team put four players in double figure tonight to defeat the visiting Lasell College Lasers, 78-69, in a non-conference contest. The Judges' attack offset a stat-stuffing performance from Laser senior Brandon Ganesh (West Palm Beach, Fla./American Heritage), who had 30 points, nine rebounds and seven assists.
The game was a tense affair that featured six ties and 18 lead changes. The largest margin of the game was nine, which Brandeis (4-1) established on a Ben Bartoldus (Hillsborough, N.H./Proctor Acad.) lay-up at the 5:49 mark of the first half that made the score 28-19. Lasell (1-3) answered by scoring the next seven points to close within two on a Rob Watts (Lafayette, N.J./High Point) lay-up. The Judges went back ahead by five at 32-27 on a pair of Connor Arnold (Andover, Mass./Deerfield Acad.) foul shots at the 3:09 mark.
Watts sparked another run for the visitors with a lay-up, but the final stretch belonged to Ganesh. In the final two-plus minutes, he had a rebound, two assists and five points, including a long 3-pointer with about two seconds on the clock to give Lasell a 38-37 lead at the break. Ganesh scored 18 of his team's 38 points in the first half, while also dishing out five of their eight assists and pulling down four rebounds. Senior forward Alex Stoyle (Goffstown, N.H./Tilton School) led the Judges with 11 points, five rebounds and three blocked shots.
Ganesh opened the second half with a back-door lay-up to put Lasell ahead, 40-37, but the Judges never let them get any further ahead than that. Brandeis reclaimed the lead with the next six points – four on Gabriel Moton (St. Petersburg, Fla./St. Petersburg) free throws and two on a Bartoldus lay-up – but the Judges were also unable to pull away. They were ahead by four less than five minutes in, but Lasell scored five in a row, taking a 48-47 lead on a Richard O'Brien (Manchester, N.H./Manchester Memorial) trifecta at the 14-minute mark.
From there, the lead changed hands seven times over the next 3:20. Bartoldus hit 1-of-2 from the line at the 10:40 mark to tie the game at 54-54. Senior center Youri Dascy (Fall River, Mass./St. Andrew's School, R.I.) converted a traditional three-point play after a couple of stops, and after rookie guard Robinson Vilmont (Cambridge, Mass./Wilbraham and Monson Acad.) hit two of his next four foul shots, Brandeis owned a 59-54 lead with 7:35 to go.
The hosts were still up five with just over six minutes to go when Lasell made one last push. Sophomore forward Logan Linerty (Duxbury, Vt./Harwood) hit a lay-up and junior guard Angel Ortiz canned a deep 3-pointer, knotting the game once more at 63-all with 5:23 remaining.
The Judges responded when Moton connected from downtown on a feed from Stoyle, and this time they were able to build on their lead. The big hoop sparked a 9-2 run over the next 2:20 and a 15-6 string to close out the game. Brandeis held Lasell to just 1-of-6 shooting over the endgame, while forcing the Lasers into four turnovers. Moton had six points in the final 5:13, while junior forward Ishmael Kalilou (Windsor, Conn./Taft School) had five.
For the game, Moton led the Judges in scoring with 15 points, 10 coming in the second half. Three other players had 13 points, with Bartoldus, Stoyle and Kalilou each reaching the mark. Stoyle had a terrific all-around performance, just missing a double-double with nine rebounds. He also blocked a career-high four shots and tied for team-high honors with four assists. Vilmont also finished just shy of a double-double with a game- and career-high 11 rebounds to go with his four helpers.
Lasell was paced by Ganesh's stat-stuffing night, which included his third 30-point performance this season. He hit 10-of-24 from the field, 2-of-7 from deep and 8-of-11 from the line. He also had team- and season-highs with nine rebounds and seven assists. O'Brien was the only other Lasell player in double figures with 11 points. Sonny Mello (Fall River, Mass./Durfee) added eight rebounds, while Jeremy Daniel (Bridgeport, Conn./Bassick) had four assists.
Brandeis returns to action next Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. against Becker College, while Lasell opens GNAC play the same day at home against Norwich at 7 p.m.


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OTTAWA — Two Conservative senators appointed by Prime Minister Stephen Harper say that despite a ruling by Canada's top court, they won't break their political promise to leave the Senate before their mandatory retirement date.
Those two senators — Linda Frum and Vern White — are among the youngest in the chamber, and face a question others in their position may publicly confront in the coming days: Just because you can stay until age 75, should you?
Two more of the younger members of the chamber — government Senate leader Claude Carignan and deputy leader Yonah Martin — were less clear on the question, with Carignan saying he supports Senate reform "within the limits prescribed by law."
The mandatory retirement age of 75 won't be changing anytime soon. The Supreme Court of Canada last week said that limiting the terms of senators, which Prime Minister Stephen Harper had proposed, required a constitutional amendment. That ruling effectively closed the door on reforms in the near future because the government has no interest in re-opening the Constitution.
That court's decision that Harper can't easily set term limits has interesting implications. For example, Sen. Patrick Brazeau, though currently suspended, could potentially serve until 2049, if the red chamber lifts his suspension in 2015, which it could.
Carignan could have a 30-year term if he stays until his mandatory retirement in 2039 and Martin could serve 31 years if she leaves in 2040 at the age of 75.
However, the high-court decision doesn't prevent senators from enacting self-imposed term limits.
"People should not stay for a period in excess of eight to 12 years," said Frum, who was appointed in 2009 and can legally serve until 2038. "For any organization, that is an appropriate amount of time in which you can make a contribution (and) you can stay relevant."
That doesn't mean Frum won't leave even sooner. "When the circumstances feel right, I'm certainly happy to pass the mantle," she said Monday.
White said he committed to serve nine years in the Senate when he entered the red chamber in 2012, athough he could legally serve 22 years. "I'm not suggesting that Vern White at 60 … is no longer bringing value to the Senate," he said. "I'm suggesting others would bring new ideas."
Sen. Leo Housakos, who was appointed in 2009, argued that agreeing to a finite term is easier for some more than others.
"Most of the things I've done in my (life) have been eight- to 12-year cycles," he said. "As long as I feel I have something to contribute to public discourse and as a senator, I will exercise that right."
Housakos won't reach mandatory retirement until 2043. "I've got 29 years left on my mandate," he said. "I highly doubt I'm going to make my expiration date."
The Conservative government's reluctance to explore constitutional means of reforming the unelected Senate leaves the onus on senators to push their own reforms. The government also has given no indication of the future of the Senate Reform Act, which the top court effectively said was unconstitutional. It is before the House of Commons, and Martin suggested the bill could yet be amended.
- With files from Peter O'Neil, Vancouver Sun
What senators said on self-imposed term limits and Senate reform after the Supreme Court of Canada's decision last week:
"I have always said that I fully support the proposed reform of the Senate. Given the Supreme Court's decision last Friday, I will continue to work within the constitutional framework and endeavour to make the Senate more efficient and transparent within the limits prescribed by law." — Government Senate leader Claude Carignan
"Maybe we can have … informal discussion between the Senate and (our) provinces about how they see this body changing and out of the those discussions, maybe there's a common ground or a spark." — Sen. Leo Housakos
"As long as you have the energy, the will and drive to do the job, that's okay." — Senate Liberal Pierrette Ringuette
"I'm not suggesting that Vern White at 60 … is no longer bringing value to the Senate. I'm suggesting others would bring new ideas." — Sen. Vern White
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Yesterday we said goodbye to our awesome summer intern Lucas Wrench (shown shrouded in mystery in this photoshoot that we just did with one of the amazing blankets woven by Sheila Shanti for our fall show). Lucas was such a good sport about the heat and all of the crazy grunt work that had to go down at AZ West this summer – After wrapping things up here in Joshua Tree he has one more year of undergrad and then fantasizes about moving to Detroit. If anyone in Detroit is reading this let us know so we can put you in touch with Lucas.
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FT Watch: Brown's Brother, the Energy Giant and an Attack on the Tories
First in an occasional series monitoring political stories in the pink paper.
Here's a curious little number. Page 1 of the FT yesterday, and the boss of an energy giant has had a go at Conservative proposals to alter the planning system. The headline declared "Business leaders fear Tory delay to crucial infrastructure projects" and a chap from the CBI said that there was "huge nervousness" among business about a possible change to the planning regime under the Tories. (Given the climate, I am sure there is "huge nervousness" about a lot of things).
But then, after various coulds, we get to the supposed meat of a pretty thin story with the comments of Vincent de Rivaz, chief executive of EDF Energy, the French company that plans to be the first to build new nuclear power stations in the U.K. Any delays caused by a transition to a new government, he said, could be "very, very damaging." He then warns that a change of government might mean that six or 12 months could be lost "which we could not catch up".
I am not sure these comments merited the excitable page 1 and page 3 treatment they were accorded. But it is interesting nonetheless that Mr de Rivaz is choosing to speak out this close to an election. I am certain it has nothing whatsoever to do with the identity of EDF's "brand sustainability and external communications director." He's Andrew Brown, who just happens to also be the brother of the Prime Minister.


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A question I get all the time is some version of, "how is my technique different in a bermed (banked) corner than in a flat corner?"
As I explain in my camps: a bermed corner (banked) is still a corner. That means everything depends on traction, speed and your goal. If I feel I'm going slower than the max speed that berm will allow and I want to gain speed, I'm going to keep my feet level and pump that berm to gain speed.
Depending on the steepness and traction I might even lean with my bike! But, those berms are rare, especially at your favorite local trail or in a downhill race, usually a berm in a downhill race is there to "save" you. You are hauling tail into the corner and just hoping to seek out enough traction that you make the corner without sliding your tires (sliding scrubs your speed). In a berm like this (where you simply want to make it) you are going to use proper, outside foot down and weighted, "flat" cornering technique.
Many riders want to think that ALL berms are magically different than a flat corner but in reality, some berms are massively different than a flat corner (steeply banked, perfectly placed and either tacky or hard-packed, grippy surface) and some are the same as a flat corner (barely banked or really loose).
Many berms are simply "push piles" of dirt that won't hold your tires and some good looking berms are nowhere near the optimal line for that corner. I remember a race in the late '90s at Big Bear where they built these massive, beautiful berms but they taped the inside of the corner about 8-10 feet inside of the berm. Most of the amateur racers were target fixated on those berms and enjoying them while all the pros were cutting way inside of the berms shaving 30-50 feet off the distance around those berms saving time. Those berms were fun but useless if you wanted to do your best in the race.
Recently we were riding some fast trails with a few newly built, but extremely dangerous, berms in Oregon . Many of the berms ended about 60-75% of the way through the corner, right as you really needed the added traction of the berm it either disappeared or flatted out too much to hold you. If you aren't looking through the corner (looking well past the exit at the start of the corner) you might get caught by surprise as the bank decreased in size and steepness while you were relying on it for traction. In short, 60-75% of the way through the corner your traction got cut in half and if you were relying on the berm for traction (leaning into the turn a bit) when you hit the end of the berm you will slide out. If the berm was solid for the length of the corner you would already be standing the bike up straight when the berm stopped.
On a really steep berm with great traction (some of the ones on A-line at Whistler for example), I might even initiate my turn by dropping my shoulder and "throwing myself" into the berm. If I overestimate the traction in the berm this can put me on the ground, if there is enough traction I will rocket through and gain speed.
A great example of this is Greg Minnaar in one of my Bootleg Camps. We use the little BMX/pump track there to work on pumping and pumping corners. When Greg was flying into the first berm at top speed he ALWAYS dropped is outside foot and did what I would call a "perfect" in balance in control corner.
When we were demonstrating pumping corners and Greg hit the same berm going quite a bit slower he kept his feet level so both knees would be bent so he could pump with both legs and gain speed. We (Greg and I) never taught the dip your shoulder technique because berms that allow you to do that are extremely rare and there are zero berms at Bootleg with enough traction to use this technique
LASTLY and more importantly, most riders (including many sub-world cup level pro racers) fail to look through the berm which is Much, Much more important than all of what I just wrote! So there is a hierarchy of skills and most of us need to focus on the more important parts of the corner (looking through #1, finishing cutting speed before the corner is #2). This is the problem with all the "tips" out there, they fill your head with "knowledge" but don't get you doing that "knowledge" on trail because you haven't trained your body to execute that skill tip.
First, learn, practice and master the proper cornering technique. Then use that technique in every corner, especially the first time you hit that corner. If, after riding that corner and/or stopping to scope it out, you decide that the berm will add more traction than necessary at the speed you are going you can try out "bermed cornering techniques" that briefly put you out of balance but when executed correctly will increase your exit speed.