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1939 Alexandria Library Sit-In Anniversary
America's earliest known civil rights sit-in at a library—the 1939 sit-in on Alexandria's own Queen Street—will be celebrated by Alexandria Library throughout 2014, as it hosts events honoring the 75th anniversary of the peaceful protest. One of the nation's most little-known historical events involved leadership from native Alexandrian, attorney Samuel W. Tucker, and five young African American men who demonstrated an act of civil disobedience at the Barrett Branch after being denied library cards. The commemorative events at Alexandria Library locations will center around civil rights, human rights and the African American diaspora. Honoring the sit-in gives the institution the opportunity to shed light on a civil rights act that took place more than 15 years before the Civil Rights Movement.
"The boldness and orchestration of the sit-in was unparalleled by anything else at the time," said Anniversary co-chair, Alexandria civil rights legend Ferdinand Day, who played a pivotal role in Alexandria's school integration during the 1960s. "Its place in history is not just an achievement for African Americans—it paved the way for providing free access of the Library to the entire public."
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75th Alexandria Library Sit-In of 1939 Anniversary Event
Alexandria, VA August 21, 2014 – In honor of the 75th Anniversary of the Alexandria Library Sit-In, the Alexandria Library commemorates this little known historic civil rights event at the Kate Waller Barrett Branch, where the sit-in originally took place. On August 21, 1939, five African American men individually entered the segregated building and requested library cards. When denied, each man calmly took a book off of a shelf to read. After two hours, library authorities had the men arrested for their act of "civil disobedience".
"Due to the bravery of these men, 75 years later our library is a community hub that supports all individuals by providing equal access to books, technology, culture, and so much more", says Director of Libraries, Rose T. Dawson. Dawson also happens to be Alexandria's first African American Library Director.
The Alexandria Library was founded first as a subscription library in 1794 and became Alexandria's public library in 1937. Two years later, Attorney Samuel Tucker organized and defended sit-in protesters, William (Buddy) Evans, Otto L. Tucker, Edward Gaddis, Morris Murray, and Clarence Strange. Though the men were charged with disorderly conduct, the city delayed the case and no ruling was ever issued.
The public is invited to join Alexandria Library in recognizing this significant local event. The program will feature keynote speakers Frank Smith, Ph.D., Director, African American Civil War Museum and Patricia Timmons-Goodson, North Carolina Supreme Court Justice (Ret.) and who is a newly appointed Commissioner, United States Commission on Civil Rights. Visitors can also enjoy music, children's activities, food and refreshments, gift bags, and more on Thursday, August 21, 2014, from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. at the Kate Waller Barrett Branch Library, 717 Queen Street, Alexandria, Virginia, 22314!
Alexandria Library also welcomes the public to share their experiences during the event @AlexLibraryVA and #LibrarySitIn.
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Mayor William D. Euille
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GNU Art - Digital Restrictions Management
This wonderful image about the dangers of Digital Restrictions Management comes from Chris Hayes, aka cbhworld.
As well as the PNG version, Chris also makes the Inkscape SVG sources available, plus an amusing alternative to the GNU Head., of Stuart Langridge, free software developer and host of the GNU/Linux radio show, Lugradio.
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I've seen a few web comics with this on their site and I'd like to add it to mine. ...Rather pointless at the moment seeing as how at this point only page 1 is showing but down the line it will be helpful. Some sites have little calendars on them showing when the comic has been updated with click-able link dates. I like this way of searching archives better than clicking through tons of pages to find what I want. Ok, I could list each update on the page but I'd rather not. My comic has an on going plot that doesn't title well most of the time.
Where do I find the code for these calendars and are there any special instructions to install it into the web site?
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Bringing 'Once,' the new musical based on the 2007 Irish Oscar winning film of the same name, to Broadway was always going to be a huge gamble.
After all, it's a low-key, intimate show a million miles from the flashier big budget draws it's competing with. From the start the fear was that the homespun charm of 'Onc'e simply wouldn't stand a chance against them.
There was good reason to be concerned. 'Once' originally opened off-Broadway (downtown, at the New York Theatre Workshop actually) to generally lukewarm reviews. Critics thought it amiable but slight.
But from the beginning the producers were unusually determined to work the show and take it to Broadway. They persisted through all the negative headlines, certain that the show would find its feet.
And with last week's Tony Awards validation, 'Once' has proven them right.
Opening to rave reviews in March, 'Once' defied all the early naysayers by coming away with the largest haul of Tony nominations this year, a remarkable achievement for the little show that has sent the tightly-knitted ensemble behind the show into orbit. Sometimes it pays to make a wild bet.
The show's impressive lineup of Tony nominations includes Best Musical, Best Director (John Tiffany), Best Lead Actor (Steve Kazee), Best Lead Actress (Cristin Milioti), Best Featured Actress (Elizabeth A. Davis), Best Book (Enda Walsh), Best Choreography (Steven Hoggett) and Best Orchestrations (Martin Lowe) as well as nominations for the show's design elements.
For actor and musician David Patrick Kelly, 61 (best known for his cult roles in 'Twin Peaks' and 'The Warriors'), and for twenty-something actress and musician Erikka Walsh it's a surreal development.
Kelly, whose grandparents on both sides hail from County Cork, finds his role in 'Once' allows him to finally access the traditional music that connects him to his Irish ancestry.
Onstage Kelly opens the show with a blistering, raise the rafters version of the Irish traditional classic "Raglan Road" that sets the tone for the whole night.
"Both my grandfathers came from Cork. One of them, Daniel Murphy, came here when he was 18 through Canada to Detroit where I grew up in a place known as Cork Town. His daughter Margaret Murphy gave me my mandolin when I was 12 years old," Kelly told the Irish Voice.
"I first learned 'Raglan Road' off a Van Morrison record, and when I told Glen Hansard (the original male lead in the film version of 'Once') about this he approved it for the stage version of the show."
Let's just say it -- the musical 'Once' may be one of the most affectingly beautiful shows ever seen on the Broadway stage. It's a simple and disarmingly moving tale about a boy and a girl who meet in the wrong place, at the wrong time, with unforgettable results.
It's also a play about being a young mother and an artist at the same time. It's about immigration and emigration, too, long standing Irish themes.
"The great Woody Guthrie had carved on his guitar the phrase 'This Machine Kills Fascists,'" says Kelly. "I think that 'Once' is a machine that defeats cynicism."
It's a major surprise to see Irish playwright Enda Walsh's name attached to the show as the author of the book. Walsh, 45, has made his reputation writing plays about massively dysfunctional Irish families, and 'Once' represents an important creative departure for him.
It's often harder to write with sincerity about love and affection, but Walsh manages it with real grace.
"Enda has written these beautiful, aching words," says Kelly. "He's such a wonderful playwright that his script remains fresh. I think it even surprised him.
"His work is generally very, very dark and so to create something about the power of love, music and art. It's harder to do something like that and not make it sentimental. It's very tricky."
It's fair to say that the staged musical as it now stands uses the music and plotline of the original film, but it's very much its own beast, having long since expanded on the outline that was provided by the film.
"It's such an honor for me to finally do an Irish play, and I feel like I'm starting at the top," says Kelly. "My whole life I have never worked on an Irish play so it's really a homecoming for me and a great honor."
That honor was compounded last week when Ireland's first citizen paid a visit to the show.
"Last week we had the Irish President Michael D. Higgins and his wife come to see us, and I could really hear my own Irish grandparents cheering," says Kelly, who was clearly thrilled by the experience.
Meanwhile for Erikka Walsh, who is a classically trained violinist, performing in 'Once' is an opportunity to come into contact with the complexity and emotional range of Irish traditional music for the first time in her career. Both performers clearly revel in the results on stage each night.
Walsh, who is making her Broadway debut, still admits she finds it hard to believe she's even on the stage, never mind starring in a show that has walked away with the most Tony nominations this year.
Does she dare to imagine, as I confidently do, that 'Once' will carry off the Best Musical award this year?
"From your mouth to God's ears," she laughs. "Tuesday night's performance, just after the nominations were announced, was like opening night all over again.
"The enthusiasm, the energy and the audience were just amazing. We raised the roof that night. We know that we're creating something great on that stage every evening and we hope it translates to the audience."
Walsh plays the ex-girlfriend of the hero Guy, and she's also on stage playing music throughout most of the show. It's a perspective that allows her to see how much the public responds to the story.
"Before the nominations I could see the audiences and I felt sure we would get something from the Tony judges. I wasn't sure what, or how many, but I felt sure something good would come of all that energy and joy," she said.
On the day the awards were announced she actually fell asleep, she confesses. But then a friend phoned and told her quite casually that she needed to check the Tony announcements.
"I couldn't believe it. It was a jaw dropping moment," she said.
Steve Kazee, the gifted 36-year-old actor and singer from Kentucky who has found himself playing the Dublin busker Guy each night on Broadway, has had a tumultuous year in tandem with the show. Kazee's mother passed away as the show was set to open.
"As long as we've known him it was an issue for him," says Walsh. "He was always calling her during rehearsals and the early run. As an ensemble we have all had moments of joy and sadness.
"When he came back from the funeral and he just went out there and did that show, I don't think there's anywhere he'd rather be."
On Monday, the show's producers announced that 'Once' will hit the road for a U.S. tour in the summer of next year, so all of America will soon get to see what all the fuss is about.
'Once' is playing at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre on West 45th Street. Visit www.oncemusical.com.


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PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Jane Lynch's hosting duties on "Hollywood Game Night" are an extension of the bashes she tosses at home.
The "Glee" star says she likes creating and hosting a space for her friends to have fun.
"When I have a party, I usually spend it in the kitchen cleaning up and making sure people have a good time," she said Sunday. "This job is perfect for that skill-set."
Sean Hayes, her friend and the show's co-creator, added, "She has a very caretaking personality."
Lynch returns for the NBC game show's second season on Monday night, with back-to-back episodes that include celebrities Rosie O'Donnell, Alyssa Milano and Mario Lopez. Fifteen new party games will be played, along with some holdovers from last season.
Hayes ("Will and Grace") came up with the show's premise based on the game nights he hosts at home.
He told the Television Critics Association meeting that celebs are now calling up the producers asking to be on the show, which features two contestants on teams with celebrities playing games for the chance to win $25,000.
Among the games is one in which a contestant uses as few words as possible to describe a topic, like the Oscars, that their teammates try to guess.
Lynch and Hayes said Jason Sudeikis of "Saturday Night Live" fame was among the most competitive celebrities who've been on the show.
Contestants and celebs who get eliminated can take solace in the functioning, on-set bar. Without naming names, Lynch said a few guests have overindulged.
Hayes said NBC recently ordered 10 additional episodes. Variations on the teams, including pitting casts from different shows or spouses against each other, are being discussed.
The show's success has spawned board and card games that will released this year.


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LaDainian Tomlinson stepped out of the tunnel and onto the grass and all at once it was 2006 again.
Ever conscious of his color scheme, the expatriate running back returned to Qualcomm Stadium Friday night in a powder blue sweater, gold slacks and a coordinating checked blazer. The ensemble fairly screamed "Chargers," and the fans chanted Tomlinson's initials as if the prodigal son had returned and hit pay dirt.
The evening was dedicated to the memory of Junior Seau, but the closure was more comprehensive. Two years, two months, two weeks and five days since the Chargers released him, LT again set foot on the field where he became famous and again evoked unambiguous cheers.
There had been friction in Tomlinson's 2010 exit, and there was more of it when he reflected on the breakup upon joining the New York Jets. The man is without malice or guile, but he should have known that some of his statements would be read as criticism of his Chargers coaches and his offensive linemen. Candor works best when blended with accountability, and LT sometimes looked like the last to know that the Chargers' change in emphasis was in large part a product of his own decline.
"The things that happened in San Diego, everything was taken away from me," he said then. "There wasn't an emphasis on running the football anymore. My best fullback (Lorenzo Neal) was gone, the linemen were pass blocking and it was a passing quarterback (Philip Rivers) and a passing coach (Norv Turner). So, the situation's kind of misleading when you look on film."
This was not a scorched-earth statement by any reasonable standard — and, at least in outline, it was reasonably accurate — but it was certainly short on diplomacy and long on alibis. Lead balloons are more uplifting.
Yet to hear Tomlinson speak about Seau on Friday night was to be reminded that friction can be fleeting and that the enduring LT is a man worth emulating — a scandal-free superstar who is also decent, generous and genuine.
Even before his poignant closing remarks to Seau's parents — "Mama Seau, Papa Seau, it's time for you to take a bow … " — Tomlinson captivated the crowd with his memories of the late linebacker. He cited Seau as both an example and a guide, as the veteran who told him where to propose to his wife and taught him to bring junk food to training camp.
He recounted learning to block Seau by first being flattened by him and then by running at him with his eyes closed. As the laughter resounded and the cheers intensified, a pedant in the crowd heard an echo from Antony's speech at Caesar's funeral:
"You all did love him once, not without cause."
LaDainian Tomlinson felt the love Friday night. If the circumstances were different than anyone would have wished, the occasion afforded ample opportunities for healing. If some fans had not yet forgiven Tomlinson for his exit interviews or the body language he conveyed as an injured spectator during the 2007 season's AFC Championship Game, their tongues fell silent as he spoke.
When he was finished, most of those in attendance stood to applaud him.
"This was unbelievable, to be honest with you — the reception that the fans gave me," Tomlinson said upon descending the platform. "I didn't know what to expect coming in."
There was no cause for apprehension. When Bill Buckner returned to Fenway Park in 2008, he received a standing ovation that lasted for five minutes. When the heat of the moment subsides, most fans respect an honest effort, forgive frailty and revere greatness.
"That was the emotional side of things when changes were happening," Tomlinson said of the harsher tone of earlier times. "Now, we're all in a better place. We all have moved on from that time. Change is hard. And so this is not only closure (for) Junior, but it's kind of like bringing me back here."
From all appearances, it was more of a cameo than a homecoming. Though Tomlinson still owns a palatial home in Poway, it sits empty awaiting a buyer. Though the Chargers might have use for a third-down back with LT's receiving skills, General Manager A.J. Smith says he "moved on years ago."
For his part, Tomlinson is almost resigned to retirement. Though he says he's "as healthy as I was when I was here," he hastens to add: "It would have to take unbelievable circumstances (to play again)."
If he is finished with pro football, Tomlinson will retire with 13,684 yards — fifth best in NFL history — and his 162 career touchdowns rank third behind Jerry Rice and Emmitt Smith.
"He was one of the greatest players in the history of our franchise, as Junior was," Chargers President Dean Spanos said. "They carried our franchise during their period of time. How do you forget that?"
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Linda Greenhouse, the New York Times former Supreme Court reporter, now writes a
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"Breathing While Undocumented."
Greenhouse, who caused controversy while still a Times reporter when she made her hard-left views on abortion and Guantanamo Bay public at a Harvard commencement address in the summer of 2006, really let it out on Tuesday, with visions of police states and a seemingly inevitable comparison to Nazism.
I'm glad I've already seen the Grand Canyon.
Because I'm not going back to Arizona as long as it remains a police state, which is what the appalling anti-immigrant bill that Gov. Jan Brewer signed into law last week has turned it into.
What would Arizona's revered libertarian icon, Barry Goldwater, say about a law that requires the police to demand proof of legal residency from any person with whom they have made "any lawful contact" and about whom they have "reasonable suspicion" that "the person is an alien who is unlawfully present in the United States?" Wasn't the system of internal passports one of the most distasteful features of life in the Soviet Union and apartheid-era South Africa?
Greenhouse summarized the recent history of "anti-immigrant spasms" and recommended the federal government get involved in Arizona:
Indeed, federal pre-emption would appear to be the most promising route for attacking the Arizona law. Supreme Court precedents make clear that immigration is a federal matter and that the Constitution does not authorize the states to conduct their own foreign policies.
My confidence about the law's fate in the court's hands is not boundless, however. In 1982, hours after the court decided the Texas case, a young assistant to Attorney General William French Smith analyzed the decision and complained in a memo: "This is a case in which our supposed litigation program to encourage judicial restraint did not get off the ground, and should have." That memo's author was John G. Roberts Jr.
After introducing the "police state" idea at the beginning, Greenhouse fires that weapon in the third act of her column, bringing up the Nazis:
So what to do in the meantime? Here's a modest proposal. Everyone remembers the wartime Danish king who drove through Copenhagen wearing a Star of David in support of his Jewish subjects. It's an apocryphal story, actually, but an inspiring one. Let the good people of Arizona - and anyone passing through - walk the streets of Tucson and Phoenix wearing buttons that say: I Could Be Illegal.
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by john lewis hawk » Tue Jul 01, 2008 4:58 pm
I haven't watched wrestling in years but I think JBL would work best as a manager/ bodyguard type character where he's doing dirty things behind the referees' backs but the wrestlers can't do much because he's capable of kicking their asses.
by NedPepper » Tue Jul 01, 2008 5:05 pm
Yep. That's exactly what I'd like to see from him. Speaking of Ted, his son could use him right now. I believe Jr. is a star in the making, but The Million Dollar Man would give them a little bit more credibility.
The problem with JBL is that I don't think he wants to be in that position. He wants to wrestle, and I'm pretty damn sure he wants another title reign.
by NedPepper » Tue Jul 01, 2008 5:06 pm
I think it was. Wow. That was his pre Jesus days. Still a pain in the ass backstage. He didn't last long.
by misac » Tue Jul 01, 2008 5:13 pm
I wanted him to form a new APA with Deuce and Domino but they broke them up.
by Jonathan » Tue Jul 01, 2008 6:22 pm
Which is a damn shame (I say this sarcastically) because apparently his back is still hurting him.
by Lord Simian » Tue Jul 01, 2008 6:27 pm
However, he is VERY good friends backstage with Vince, perhaps only to HHH in influence, so.....
by Mojo Ichiruto » Tue Jul 01, 2008 7:45 pm
That is very true. JBL probably has the most stroke backstage besides the other McMahons and HHH, and maybe HBK. I think that they should stick with the "Martial Law" style right now and have JBL and all the other heels just causing havoc each week. If JBL were to become GM it wouldn't be much different than what Regal was doing before he was fired or what Vickie is doing on Smackdown. I am tired of those types of GM's and what they have going on RAW right now is very exciting, so they don't need to fuck that up.
by Lord Simian » Tue Jul 01, 2008 7:50 pm
Considering they mentioned TWICE on RAW that Raw has no GM, and that's two times more than they have since Regal went away.... someone is coming.
by Lord Simian » Tue Jul 01, 2008 9:00 pm
And the Lord of the Monkeys agrees with you!
by rdrsfn82 » Tue Jul 01, 2008 11:40 pm
As a long time fan of Ted I would back this all the way.
by Mojo Ichiruto » Wed Jul 02, 2008 12:06 am
Thats is something I could really get bhind but honestly I see them going with a face GM on RAW seeing as how they have a heel GM on Smackdown. I really wish that they would get rid of Vickie as GM on Smackdown that is getting really old and I don't think she will be able to cut it when the show moves over to MyNetworkTV. They seem to be pushing that as the show with the "MEGASTARS" now and she does not fit that bill at all.
Anyone think Flair might comeback as a GM?
by rdrsfn82 » Wed Jul 02, 2008 12:49 am
Remember what happened last time they did that? It worked fine for a while but then he got the itch and got back in the ring for another few years. I think he needs to stay away from an on screen role for a while and let himself get to the point where he won't want to wrestle anymore. Then in three or four years I'd like to see him in a role like that.
by zombiemichaeljackson » Wed Jul 02, 2008 1:06 am
I disagree, say what you will about Vicki Guerrero, but she gets some INSANE heel heat. She's probably the most over heel in the freakin' company right now, and she's not even a wrestler.
by rdrsfn82 » Wed Jul 02, 2008 1:09 am
That's X-Pac heat, not HHH heat. There's a huge difference. Folks just hate her and think she's terrible, not that she's doing a great job as a heel. She's not doing as bad as some people think that she is, but she's far from doing the best heel job in the company.
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Havelock Mayor Jimmy Sanders sees similarities between himself and mayoral challenger Will Lewis. But he said the main thing that separates them is his 30 extra years of life experiences.
Havelock Mayor Jimmy Sanders sees similarities between himself and mayoral challenger Will Lewis. But he said the main thing that separates them is his 30 extra years of life experiences.
�I think maybe Will is probably where I was when I was 40 years old � a little more fire in his guts, if you know what I mean,� Sanders said.
The 36-year-old Lewis, a two-term city commissioner, is mounting a challenge for the position held by the 66-year-old Sanders since 2005.
�A lot of the stuff I learned, I learned through screwing up,� Sanders said. �I�ve been there and I have learned through screwing up, and Will hasn�t learned through screwing up yet. That�s life, and life experiences are going to make you who you are, and failure is part of it.
�I have 40 years of experience. I have relationships and friendships in Washington, D.C., in Raleigh, in New Bern. I truly believe that those relationships and being known is helpful.�
Sanders said he has relationships with N.C. Secretary of Commerce Sharon Decker, and her predecessor, Keith Crisco, and U.S. Reps. Walter Jones and G.K. Butterfield.
�I think that over the years that I have learned a great deal about how to bring people together and form coalitions,� Sanders said. �Often, if not always, confrontation is not successful.�
Lewis said he is offering a fresh approach and would be more aggressive if elected mayor.
�I think that my leadership style is different than the current mayor,� he said. �I think that I will be a little more proactive in dealing with things, in issues that arise. I like to do things a little more based on goals and benchmarks. I like to set benchmarks and priorities and achieve those priorities, which I think is a more proactive method to get things done.�
Lewis used the need for more development in the city as an example.
�You make a plan on what you want and how to get it and then you activate that plan, as opposed to accepting all comers, so I think I�m a little more straight forward about how we�re going to achieve a goal, which is different about my leadership style,� Lewis said. �I also think that while I have grown up here, I don�t really have any ties to a lot of things like the current mayor does. That sometimes does affect the way we can get things done, like old relationships. I don�t mean to say that Jimmy clings to them, but old wounds can take a long time to heal. I don�t really have those.
�I don�t think Jimmy and I have a lot of differences in terms of where Havelock needs to be. I think that I tend to be a little more progressive about things I�d like to see change in Havelock and about how fast I�d like to see change.�
Lewis said he is a big advocate of the use of online social media to reach a section of the city population that would otherwise be left out.
�They want things fast. They don�t want it slow. And they don�t want to come to meetings. They want to get it on Twitter,� Lewis said.
Sanders said his biggest concern about Havelock is instability in Washington and Congress� inability to fund the military and repairs of equipment.
�Those things are frustrating but they are opportunities,� Sanders said. �We just need to remember that in 2005, when we had the last BRAC, Havelock was in no position to accept people to do a new mission at Cherry Point. We had hundreds of gallons of sewerage and we needed hundreds of thousands of gallons. We dodged that bullet, and Cherry Point came away with only minimal damage, but today is a new day. We�re ready. We�ve got the sewer capacity. We�re got the water capacity. We�ve got the infrastructure that would be needed to accept new missions at Cherry Point. I believe that ultimately Cherry Point is going to be a winner. Cherry Point is the crown jewel of the Navy and the Marine Corps on the East Coast, period.�
Sanders said the need for military spousal employment �is something that has dogged us for some time,� but said the board was working on plans for a new business park on the city�s west end that would have access to the railroad, U.S. 70 and the port at Morehead City.
�I believe that you are going to see some great things happen in Havelock in a relatively short period of time,� Sanders said. �You�ve got to work as hard as you can to protect Cherry Point and FRC while you diversify. You can�t take your eye off the goose that�s laying the golden egg. You cannot slack up on that for one second.�
Lewis said the base is his first and foremost concern.
�We are all very cognizant of the reality of what that is as an economic incentive and asset for us as well as for defense, so one of my huge concerns is the future of that base with the extreme unrest at the federal level and with an ensuing BRAC over the next year or two that we know will happen at some point, sequestration, which has already affected us with furloughs and then we have no idea how they are going to handle furloughs next year,� he said. �We can�t get a budget passed. That list goes on and on.
�For me, what we can do to preserve the future of Cherry Point, everything we look at needs to be about the future, not the past. You�re not going to save it with an old mission. All you�re going to do is just prolong the death, basically. If you can keep your eyes open and focus on future missions, like the unmanned aerial systems, that�s the future of a lot of technology within the military.�
Lewis said he would like to preserve the F-35 schedule and work to get the jet squadrons as quickly as possible.
�That�s important. That�s how we�re going to save the base,� he said. �We�re not going to save it by holding on to a legacy airplane.�
Lewis said he is concerned about the possible loss of 3,500 civilian jobs at FRC East.
�I know everybody�s concerned, Carteret County, Craven County, New Bern. They�re all concerned,� he said. �It will affect everybody in the whole region, but it will decimate Havelock. This is our neighbor. We�re attached like Siamese twins to Cherry Point. We� can�t let that base get away.�
Lewis said he also is in support of building a new business park, and he is also in favor of development of a Havelock-centered strategic plan for economic development.
Sanders said the strength of Havelock is its quality people.
�We are unique in Eastern North Carolina,� he said. �There is no other community that is as friendly and welcoming and as diverse. The relationship between us on the civilian side of the fence and the military is an absolute blend. We live together. We go to church together. We play together. We go to school together. For Cherry Point, it is necessary for them to have a visible barrier, but other than that, the rest of the community here is interlocked.
�I think that is our asset. It�s who we are, the talents and diversity that we bring, and we are well on our way to having the infrastructure to support it.�
Lewis said Havelock was moving forward.
�One strength that we have is the staff that we have at city hall and amongst all of the departments,� he said. �I think the city of Havelock is viewed across the state more progressively than we get credit for and a lot of that comes from our board pushing agendas that are outside of what other groups do, but also we have a staff that can make it happen and that is willing to innovate and think in ways that put us on the map.
�I think fiscally we�re strong, which is a strength. We�re building our infrastructure in a way that will be a specific strength for Havelock. I often think that our diversity in Havelock is a strength. That difference in perspective is sometimes why we are a progressive town.�
Early voting begins today and runs through Nov. 2 at the Craven County Board of Elections in New Bern. Election Day is Nov. 5.
For more voter information, call the Craven County Board of Elections at 636-6610 or go online to www.cravencounty.com/departments/elc.cfm.
Meet the Candidates
Jimmy Sanders
Career/personal:Spent 7 1/2 years in Air Force, worked as an aviation electronics technician, worked at Cherry Point
Civic:Past volunteer at Havelock Fire and Rescue, member of Cherry Point United Methodist Church since 1955, former Jaycees member, past Little League and Babe Ruth coach, manager and president, past president of the Craven County Firemen�s Association
Offices/boards:Former city commissioner and current mayor, served on N.C. Tourist Development Authority, served on N.C. Fire Commission, served on Legislative Action Committee for N.C. League of Municipalities, ex-officio officer of N.C. Military Affairs Commission, president of Allies for Cherry Point�s Tomorrow.
Will Lewis
Age: 36
Career/personal:Grew up in Havelock, served as page in office of N.C. Sen. Beverly Perdue in Raleigh, earned B.A. degree in history at North Carolina State University, describes himself as entrepreneur, has contractor�s license.
Civic:Coached youth basketball for five years, member of First United Methodist Church
Offices/boards:Current city commissioner, mayor pro tem, Havelock Library Board, Eastern Carolina Aviation Heritage Foundation. Solid waste ad hoc committee, EPA Brownsfield committee


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With the 1st pick of the 22nd Round (647th overall), the Astros select 6'2" 200lb LHP Sebastian Kessay from Scottsdale Community College.
As a senior in High School, Kessay went 12-0 and struck out 149 batters with a 1.21 ERA in 71 innings. He uses a four pitch combo of fastball (92 mph), split-finger, curve, and changeup.
This season he has a 1.71 ERA with an 8-2 record and 98 strikeouts in 79 innings.
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- fern kessay said...
Congrats, Sebastian. You made history, we are all so proud. Let it begin.
- June 8, 2013 at 3:18 PM
Way to go Bash!!! You did it!!! Congrats!!! We are proud of you!!!
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You have worked so hard for this now go and follow your dream, I love you and and so proud of you
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Way to go bash, always knew u would make it. We r proud of u n keep up your hard work. From b boy n family.
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What are Common Oscar Fish (aka Wild Type Oscar)?
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Common Oscar or Wild Oscar
It is not quite correct to identify Common Oscars as a color variety of Astronotus ocellatus (Oscar Cichlid). They ARE Astronotus ocellatus in that all other color varities of Oscar fish have the "Common Oscar" color type as the bases of their development. All of the reds, oranges, yellows, greens, and golds, found in the various Oscar Fish color varieties, are likely developed from the genetic base of the "Common Oscar".
Being Olive Green in base coloration, with a well defined Ocellatus on the tail, Common Oscars are as close as we get in appearance to Wild Oscars found in most of the Amazon River basin. Hence, there second name, "Wild Type Oscar". Aside from some rarer varities from remote sections of Brazil and Peru, if you had an actual "Wild Oscar" in the same tank with a "Common Oscar", it would be difficult to tell the fish apart.
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Nor are Common Oscar fish "common". With the onslaught of Tiger Oscars, Red Oscars, Red Tiger Oscars, Albino Oscars, and Lutino Oscars, these representatives of their wild brethren are becoming increasingly difficult to find. There is a beauty in the purity of the Common Oscar, as close representatives of their wild heritage, that simply cannot be found in the more colorful variants.
Popularity of the Tiger Oscar has impacted the Common Oscar in more ways than one. With Tiger Oscars being the consumers choice, less effort is made to attempt to retain the original gene pool of the Wild Type Oscar. So some fish you find in the hobby labeled as Common Oscars (or Wild Type Oscars) are likely crosses between the Tiger Oscar and Common Oscar, or just poorer quality Tiger Oscars, leading to borderline fish such as the below.
Common Oscar Photos
Some additional examples of "Common Oscars" (or "Wild Type Oscars") are included below. As you can see, there is wide variety of fish classified as a Common Oscar.
These photos are uploading from photobucket, so it may be slow loading. Each are member photographs of Common Oscars.
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Common Oscar Profile
Scientific Name:Astronotus ocellatus (invalid/outdated synonyms: Lobotes ocellatus, Cychla rubroocellata, Acara compressus, Acara hyposticta, Astronotus ocellatus zebra, and Astronotus orbiculatus)
Common Name: Common Oscar, Wild Type Oscar
Size: 12" is common, larger have been known to occur in aquariums
Origin:Natively found in South America - Amazon and Orinoco River Basins - Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela, as well as non-native populations becoming established in Florida, various Caribian Islands, Australia, and likely elsewhere in the tropics.
PH:Unless you are keeping wild caught Oscars, pH is virtually irrelevent. What is important is a stable pH. People keep Oscars in a pH from 6 to in excess of 8. I think the idea pH would be neutral to slightly acidic but there is absolutely no need to attempt to adjust pH.
Food Items:In the wild, an Oscars diet consist primarily of insects and crustaceans. In captivity, a commercially available quality pellet should be the primary staple of their diet. For an in-depth review of an Oscar's dietary requirements and suggested feeding practices, please review this article.
Longevity: In captivity, far too many Oscars die within 3-5 years. For a fish that should live a decade or more, this is a shame. A result of poor husbandry and bad diet. Owning a Tiger Oscar is a long term commitment not to be taken lightly. If the idea of weekly water changes does not appeal to you, you don't need to own an Oscar.
Aggression:By large cichlid standards, Oscars are mildly aggressive. People often make the mistake of assuming Oscars are as aggressive as their New World Cichlid brethren, such as Green Terrors, Red Terrors, Jack Dempseys, etc... They are not. When housed with these more aggressive fish they generally are on the lower end of the cichlid pecking order. When it comes to housing a pair of Oscars, your best chance of success would be with two females. When young, you may be able to keep two males or a male + female but when sexual maturity sets in, hang on. Two males, no way. There is going to be a war and one of two, if not both, will be killed. A male and female can coxist provided neither detects a weakness in the other and/or both decide to spawn at the same time.
Minimum Tank Size: 55 gallons, per Oscar.
Common Oscar Care
Common Oscars are simply a variety of the Oscar Cichlid (Astronotus Ocellatus). All information in the article database applies to all Oscars, including the Common Oscar. So feel free to read other articles in the database as well as participate in our forum. A good staring place is the New Oscar Owner Information Packet.


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One weekend afternoon in the fall of 2008, at the back of a drawer in my old wooden desk at home, I came across a folder I had forgotten. "Dorothy Woodruff Letters, Elkhead 1916–17." My mother had given me the file when my children were young, and I had put it away, intending to look through it, but life had intervened. I glanced at the first letter. Dated Friday, July 28, 1916, it was written on the stationery of the Hayden Inn. At the top of the sheet was a photograph of a homely three-story concrete-block house with a few spindly saplings out front. The inn advertised itself as "The Only First-Class Hotel in Hayden." Dorothy wrote: "My dearest family: Can you believe that I am actually far out here in Colorado?"
She and her close friend, Rosamond Underwood, had grown up together in Auburn, New York. They had just arrived after a five-day journey and were preparing to head into a remote mountain range in the Rockies, to teach school in a settlement called Elkhead. Dorothy's letter described their stop overnight in Denver, their train ride across the Continental Divide, and their introductions to the locals of Hayden, whom she described as "all agog" over them "and so funny." One man could barely be restrained "from showing us a bottle of gall stones just removed from his wife!" She closed by saying, "They are all so friendly and kind—and we are thrilled by everything. We start now—four hours drive. Goodbye in haste.…"
Dorothy Woodruff was my grandmother. As I began reading the letters, I recognized her voice immediately, even though they were written by a young woman—twenty-nine years old, unmarried, belatedly setting out on her own. An avid correspondent, she captured the personalities of the people she met; the harsh landscape; her trials with a classroom of unruly young boys; and her devotion to Rosamond, known to my brothers and me as "Aunt Ros." I also was struck by their unusually warm friendship with two men: the young lawyer and rancher who hired them, Farrington Carpenter; and Bob Perry, who was the supervisor of his father's coal mine. They were eighteen hundred miles away from their families, and from decorous notions about relations between the sexes.
The letters revealed the contradictions of Dorothy's upbringing. She was a daughter of the Victorian aristocracy. Her forebears, like Rosamond's, were entrepreneurs and lawyers and bankers who had become wealthy during the Industrial Revolution. In 1906, the young women were sent to Smith, one of the earliest women's colleges, and afterward, they were indulged for a year with a grand tour of Europe, during which they saw their first "aeroplane," learned how to blow the foam off a mug of beer, expressed disdain for the paintings of Matisse, and watched Nijinsky dance. Then, like other girls of their background, they were expected to return home to marry, and marry well.
Yet they had grown up surrounded by the descendants of some of the most prominent reformers in American history, including the suffragists who organized the first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, fifteen miles west of Auburn; and the man who overturned barbaric penal practices at the Auburn state prison, Sing Sing, and penitentiaries across the country. Auburn was a stop on the Underground Railroad, and some of the families they knew had hidden runaway slaves in their basements. Dorothy's grandfather lived next door to William Seward, President Lincoln's secretary of state. One day when she was visiting my family in Weston, Connecticut, she recorded an oral history, speaking with unerring precision about her childhood and about her time in Colorado. Retrieving the transcript of the tape, I was reminded of the breathtaking brevity of America's past.
I remember Dorothy as white-haired, impeccably attired, and sometimes stern. The second youngest of seven children, she grew up in a big hipped-roof clapboard house staffed by servants. Her bedroom and that of her younger sister, Milly, were in the nursery, reached by the back stairs. Raised largely by their nursemaid, they rarely stepped into the kitchen. When Dorothy's four children were growing up, she didn't know how to cook anything except creamed potatoes and hot cocoa. Every night she brushed her hair a hundred strokes with a French boar-bristle brush. She joked to us about her height—four feet eleven and shrinking every year. To reach her high mahogany four-poster bed, inherited from her parents, she had to use a footstool upholstered in needlepoint.
She gave me tips in etiquette: how to file my nails, how to set a formal table, how to avoid acting "common." When I was a slouching teenager, she showed me how she had been taught to walk across the room with a book balanced on her head. On my eighteenth birthday, she wrote to me: "To be happy it is necessary to be constantly giving to others. I do not mean to give in work alone—but all of your self. That means interest in other people—not only by affection—but by kindness." She didn't like the fashions of the 1970s—curtains of hair, tie-dyed T-shirts, and tight bell-bottoms—and once told me haughtily, "I never wore a pair of trousers in my life."
For all that, she was spirited and funny—not at all the deferential young woman she had been brought up to be. After she and Ros returned from Europe, they attended friends' weddings, along with traditional luncheons and balls, but six years later, they were still uninterested in the suitors who were interested in them. Chafing at the rigid social routines and not getting anywhere with the ineffectual suffrage work they had taken on, they didn't hesitate when they heard about two teaching jobs in Colorado. The nine months my grandmother spent there seemed to have shaped her as much as her entire youth in Auburn. She was full of expansive admiration for the hardworking people of Elkhead, and when she faced great personal difficulties of her own, she called to mind the uncomplaining endurance she had witnessed in the settlers and their children.
She and Ros, like other easterners going west, were time travelers, moving back to the frontier. Although they ventured out after the first settlers, and went by train rather than covered wagon, their destination felt more like 1870 than 1916. They took with them progressive ideas about education, technology, and women—and postcards from their travels abroad. The homesteaders—motley transplants from across the country, Europe, and Russia—lived almost twenty miles north of Hayden. Effectively cut off from modern life by poverty and the Rocky Mountains, the pioneers found the two women as exotic as Dorothy and Ros found them.
Although World War I was looming, such a cataclysm was unimaginable to Americans who knew nothing of combat. Dorothy sometimes talked disparagingly about her grandfather's brother, who had avoided service in the Civil War by paying a substitute to take his place—a common practice among wealthy families in the North. Just weeks before Dorothy and Ros left for Colorado, President Wilson averted war with Mexico. The prevailing spirit among the elites of Auburn, the industrialists of Denver, and the homesteaders of Elkhead was an exhilarating optimism about the future.
These people were swept up in some of the strongest currents of the country's history: the expulsion of native tribes; the mining of gold, silver, and coal; the building of a network of railroads that linked disparate parts of the country and led to the settlement of the West; the development of rural schools; the entry of immigrants, African-Americans, and women into the workforce and the voting booth; even the origins of modern dance. Their lives were integral to the making of America, yet the communities they built, even their idioms, had all but vanished.
As I got to know the children and grandchildren of the people my grandmother told us about, I began to see her story as more than a curious family history. It was an alternative Western. There were strutting cowboys and eruptions of violence, but the records the residents left behind turned out to be full of their own indelible characters and plot twists. Dozens of descendants in Denver, Steamboat Springs, Hayden, Elkhead, and Oak Creek had kept their family memorabilia from that year. Rebecca Wattles, a rancher in Hayden and the granddaughter of the secretary of the Elkhead school board, showed me the 1920 yearbook of the first five graduates of the school, all of whom had been Ros's students. They wrote: "It isn't the easiest thing in the world to buck trail for two or three miles when the trail is drifted and your horse lunges and plunges; nor yet to ski, when the snow is loose and sticky. But, if as we are told, it is these things that develop grit, stick-to-it-ive-ness, and independence—well, the children who have gone to school in Elk Head, ought surely to have a superfluous amount of those qualities."
One Sunday in early October 2009, my husband and I pulled up to an old white Georgian house on a cul-de-sac in Norwalk, Connecticut. We were greeted at the front door by Peter Cosel, one of Ros's grandsons. He appeared to be mildly amused by my mission: a search for the letters that Rosamond had written from Elkhead. For a year I had been pestering him about going through the boxes he had in storage there. Peter called his brother Rob, also a lawyer, who arrived just as we finished a cursory examination of the attic treasures, including a trunk filled with papers dating back to the 1850s from a branch of the Underwood family that had settled in Chicago.
I sat on the floor in front of a sagging box, blackened on the bottom from mildew and eaten away in spots by a squirrel, and began to unpack it, setting aside a stack of five-year diaries—fastidious chronicles by Ros's mother of her family's daily life in Auburn. Peter absently combed through some business documents of his great-grandfather's, a man named Sam Perry, who—I soon learned—was one of Denver's "empire builders," a financier of the railroad that Dorothy and Ros rode over the Continental Divide. Rob sat on the edge of the bed and talked about childhood visits to their grandmother's rustic summer cabin in the hills of Strawberry Park outside Steamboat Springs. Then my husband handed me a two-page typewritten letter. In the upper-right corner, it said, "Saturday Night. Aug. 6." I looked at the closing: "Dotty and I can hardly believe that this school is really ours to command! … Lovingly ROSAMOND."
Ros's entire correspondence was there, each letter typed, folded, and numbered by her mother. The letters had been written to her parents, who, like Dorothy's, had left them for her children and grandchildren. Unwinding the string of a thick legal envelope, I looked inside. It contained dozens of articles and letters from October 1916. They confirmed the most improbable of all the tales my grandmother had told us, about the violent kidnapping of one of their friends. Sensational headlines were spread across the front pages from Denver to Los Angeles: HOW THE MILLIONAIRE'S SON WAS KIDNAPPED AND HELD FOR RANSOM; EXTRA! KIDNAPPER IS SLAIN.
All of these papers and recollections, with their idiosyncratic details about the "settling up" of northwestern Colorado, provided a backstory to America's leap into the twentieth century. And they filled out the saga about two cosseted women from New York who shunned convention to head out to what was still, in many ways, the Wild West.
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I had been meaning to write this post earlier, but in August it's easy to get sidelined by the summer weather. And I was looking for a good example. Luckily, yesterday I was sent a link to the Diversity Statement for PyCon 2012, the largest annual conference for the Python programming language.
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Little known fact about R&B crooner Robin Thicke: He's funny.
It's true. The "Lost Without U" singer frequently makes others around him laugh with his self-deprecating remarks and dirty sense of humor, not to mention his impersonation of his wife and "Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol" star Paula Patton. You just wouldn't know it from his suave persona and sensual music catalog.
That will likely change beginning May 24 when he appears in the new ABC singing competition (yes, another one) "Duets." The show will give Thicke his first regular role on network TV — coincidentally the same network that aired his father Alan Thicke's sitcom, "Growing Pains" — and will feature artists performing with aspiring singers on a weekly basis. "Duets" joins a growing genre that already includes Fox's "American Idol" and "X Factor" and NBC's "The Voice" and "America's Got Talent."
"I think people like to see dreams come true," Thicke said Thursday before performing at Paris Club's upstairs lounge, Studio Paris, as part of VH1 Save The Music Foundation's Songwriters Music Series. "That's why I watch the Grammys — to see that guy who was playing guitar in his apartment win."
So Thicke agreed to join "Duets" to help make dreams come true?
"No, I did it for the money," Thicke said without missing a beat. "My music doesn't play on pop radio. I'll be able to reach a new audience. I'd be lying if I said I did it because I'm excited to find talent. That didn't happen until I met my two (aspiring singers on 'Duets'). … There's exposure. People are touring better and gaining a bigger fan base. Jennifer Lopez ('American Idol') and Adam Levine ('The Voice') have been more successful."
There was a time when artists like Thicke, Lopez, Levine and rumored "X Factor" judge Britney Spears wouldn't have considered joining these types of shows. (Why do you think "American Idol" originally offered the job to Paula Abdul?) Some probably demanded higher salaries than what the shows were paying, some felt it was ruining music and then some, like Thicke, were turned off by the stigma of reality TV.
"In the beginning, music competitions were corny," Thicke said. "To me, there was nothing real about reality TV. It was fantasy TV. If people want to see reality TV, come to my house at midnight after a drunk night out."
Thicke now sees the genre in a different light. And soon, the public — which Thicke believes only sees him as "The sex guy" or "Mr. Sex" — will view him in a different light as well.
"They've only seen me in music videos and interviews," Thicke said. "I don't know if they will be impressed. The best part of my personality is my music."
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The Department of Defense announced today the deployment of a unit as part of an upcoming rotation of forces supporting Operation New Dawn in Iraq. The scheduled rotation for these replacement forces will begin in late Spring 2011.
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Using supercomputers to respond to a potential national health emergency, scientists have developed a simulation model that makes stark predictions about the possible future course of an avian influenza pandemic, given today's environment of world-wide connectivity. The research, by a team of scientists from Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, the University of Washington and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, is presented in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science online the week of April 3-7, and in the print issue of April 11.
The large-scale, stochastic simulation model examines the nationwide spread of a pandemic influenza virus strain, such as an evolved avian H5N1 virus, should it become transmissible human-to-human. The simulation rolls out a city- and census-tract-level picture of the spread of infection through a synthetic population of 281 million people over the course of 180 days, and examines the impact of interventions, from antiviral therapy to school closures and travel restrictions, as the vaccine industry struggles to catch up with the evolving virus.
"Based on the present work ... we believe that a large stockpile of avian influenza-based vaccine containing potential pandemic influenza antigens, coupled with the capacity to rapidly make a better-matched vaccine based on human strains, would be the best strategy to mitigate pandemic influenza," say the authors, Timothy Germann, Kai Kadau, Ira Longini and Catherine Macken.
Longini is a biostatistician with the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the University of Washington, while the rest of the team is at Los Alamos. Their collaboration is supported by grants from the Department of Homeland Security and the National Institute of General Medical Sciences MIDAS (Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study) program.
"It's probably not going to be practical to contain a potential pandemic by merely trying to limit contact between people (such as by travel restrictions, quarantine or even closing schools), but we find that these measures are useful in buying time to produce and distribute sufficient quantities of vaccine and antiviral drugs," said Germann of Los Alamos' Applied Physics Division.
"Based on our results, combinations of mitigation strategies such as stockpiling vaccines or antiviral agents, along with social distancing measures could be particularly effective in slowing pandemic flu spread in the U.S.," added Longini.
The results show that advance preparation of a modestly effective vaccine in large quantities appears to be preferable to waiting for the development of a well-matched vaccine that may not become available until a pandemic has already reached the United States.
"Because it is currently impossible to predict which of the diverging strains of avian H5N1 influenza virus is most likely to adapt to human transmission, studies of broadly cross-reactive avian-influenza based vaccines with even modest immunogenicity in humans are important," said Macken, an influenza researcher in the Los Alamos Theoretical Division. Ideally, both vaccine strategies would be done in parallel: Stockpile a modestly effective vaccine to use while the better-matched one is being developed, the authors suggest.
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The computer simulation models a synthetic population that matches U.S. census demographics and worker mobility data by randomly assigning the simulated individuals to households, workplaces, schools, and the like. Department of Transportation travel data is used to model long-distance trips during the course of the simulation, realistically capturing the spread of the pandemic virus by airplane and other passenger travel across the United States.
"In the highly mobile U.S. population, travel restrictions alone will not be enough to stop the spread; a mixture of many mitigation strategies is more likely to be effective than a few strictly enforced ones," said Kadau, also of Los Alamos' Theoretical Division.
The model of disease transmission involves probabilities that any two people in a community will meet on any given day in any one of a number of settings, such as home or workplace. Thus, simulated disease transmission is more likely for two people in the same household and less likely for two people who have less in common. "So we are only computing the probability of any person becoming infected on any given day, and a roll of the dice is needed to decide whether they are infected or not," said Germann.
Other elements of randomness modify the simulated disease course. A significant fraction of infected people (33 percent in the present model) never develop clinical symptoms, although they are themselves infectious. In addition, the durations of the incubation and infectious periods can vary and are randomly chosen from distribution functions for each individual, involving more throws of the virtual dice.
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It is fun to think that Wendy is now creating her own crochet patterns! Didn't she do a great job on this pattern? If you have any questions, let me know and I will send them to her. Enjoy! I will also be permanently posting this pattern at my free pattern site, Cute Crochet Chat Patterns.
For Size MEDIUM, ch 29;
For Size LARGE, ch 33;
sc in 2nd ch from and hook and each ch across, ch 1, turn. (S - 24 sc, M- 28 sc, L - 32 sc).
L - 32), sc in ends of rows, sc in ea sc across (24, 28, 32). Fasten off.


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