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England boss Stuart Lancaster has no intention of changing his plans for the national side © Getty Images
England coach Stuart Lancaster has refused to re-think his selection policy in the wake of his side's demoralising defeat to Australia on Saturday.
Lancaster's side missed a great opportunity to claim a major southern hemisphere scalp in the form of a Wallabies stripped of a host of leading names with the visitors claiming a narrow 20-14 victory at Twickenham. England's shortcomings and decision making have been the subject of widespread criticism with Sir Clive Woodward quick to question their preparation.
Question marks over their composure led to renewed calls for an injection of experience with the likes of veteran No.8 Nick Easter and France-based flanker Steffon Armitage among those linked with a return but Lancaster has no intention of varying away from his current youth policy with his eyes remaining firmly on the 2015 Rugby World Cup.
"We are developing a squad. We have come very close to winning and we should be confident in the decisions we are making," Lancaster said. "Bringing on Mako Vunipola and Joe Launchbury, two 21-year-olds, in the pack shows where we are and where we want to get to.
"The players in France are not available to play against New Zealand (on December 1 because the match falls outside the international release window). We could maybe pick someone but the reality is we couldn't play them against New Zealand so what do we do then?"
In what proved to be a game-defining gamble, England opted for quick tap penalties and kicks to the corner for lineouts as they chased the game on Saturday in the hope of notching a game-changing try but it did not pay off with No.8 Thomas Waldrom dropping the ball over the line in the most agonising missed chance.
Lancaster refused to criticise the decisions and will only seek better execution not a more reserved approach to the game. "We want performances and execution that can win at the highest level and we didn't quite achieve that," Lancaster said.
"We have to back ourselves to score from those situations. Our driving maul put them under pressure but Australia played a smart game, they pulled us down a few times on the line. There are a few things we feel slightly hard done by.
"We will look at those decisions and the different things we could have done. If we are going to back ourselves (to go for the line-out or take the quick tap penalties) we have to take those opportunities."
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The original Florida National High Adventure Sea Base location, on Lower Matecumbe in Islamorada (mile marker 73.8) on the Overseas Highway began as a fishing camp after the highway opened in 1938. It was located so tourists could stay and fish while avoiding paying the toll to cross the Channel Two Bridge. In the early 1950's the Tollgate Inn was built and it featured 10 deluxe rooms, a honeymoon suite, a convenience store/bait shop, a lounge and first class restaurant. One of the great features of this facility was a marina with a 300 foot long dock that could facilitate even the largest fishing and sailing vessels. By the 1970's the Tollgate Inn had seen better days, but little did anyone know that the best days of this facility were yet to come! The Boy Scouts of America purchased the Tollgate Inn complex in 1979 with a grant from the Fleischmann Foundation and the Florida Gateway to High Adventure had a new home and a new name - the Florida National High Adventure Sea Base. Since 1980, the BSA has added participant dorms housing over 200 Scouts and leaders, scuba pools, conference/staff housing, program facilities and an administration building, making this facility a showplace of Scouting!
The elevated dormitories look out across Florida Bay to one of the many bridges that separate the Gulf of Mexico from the Atlantic Ocean. Our harbor has a 300 foot pier for the sailing yachts, as well as many smaller docks for our fleet of power boats. Scuba instruction is offered in special diving tanks complete with an underwater viewing port. The Ship's Store (Trading Post) sells many items that you may have forgotten and items to take home to help you remember your adventure.
Only a few miles offshore, an extensive underwater living coral garden forms a barrier reef protecting the islands. Here, among pillars of living coral, you come face to face with thousands of multi-hued tropical fish in water so clear that while swimming, you have the sensation of floating in mid air. The area abounds with legends and tales of unequaled adventure. Even though the pirates and wreckers have been gone from this area for a long time, to this day the lure of discovering a buried treasure burns in the hearts of true adventurers.
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"On any Christmas night in the middle of the 19th Century, two figures could be seen leaving the warmth of Valcour Aime's plantation and mounting horses. They were not setting out to visit friends and spread Christmas cheer, however.
Their destination was eight miles away - the red brick St. James Church, situated on the West bank of the Mississippi River across from the little town of Convent, about 75 miles upstream from New Orleans.
The men were Valcour Aime and his faithful Negro body servant. Valcour made the annual pilgrimage for a mournful cause. Each year on Christmas night Aime ordered a special commemorative Mass for his only son, who had died in New Orleans of yellow fever a few years earlier.
Every Christmas, Aime sat through the sad service alone and in silence, while his servant waited outside with their mounts. When the service concluded, Aime left without a word and returned, grief-stricken, to his plantation.
Since his son's death Aime had become a religious recluse. Few persons outside the family saw the wealthy planter of St. James Parish. The special Christmas Mass was his only regular appearance outside the plantation grounds. Although Aime was the man historian Alcee Fortier credited with being the first to refine sugar directly from sugar cane juice, and although he was brother-in-law of Andre Bienvenu Roman, a colorful Louisiana governor of the 1830's and 40's, he cared little for his fortune, his scientific achievements or the outside world after his son's death.
But he did pay tribute to the tiny St. James Church. Aime donated its 14 Stations of the Cross paintings, done in Italy, and also its massive silver candlesticks. Perhaps these items were also to honor his son's memory, for the young man's body had been laid to rest in the family tomb in the churchyard."
[The following article was first published in 1987, and was reprinted in December 2011 on www.ArcadiaParishToday.com]
"Valcour and his faithful servant started their journey to the Saint James Catholic Church, located 10 miles up-river, to attend midnight mass just as they had done for decades. It was a cold, rainy Christmas Eve night, and the six foot three inch Valcour found it difficult to stay warm beneath his black hat and heavy top coat. As the buggy bounced along the River Road, his mind drifted back to the former days when the children were still young. He envisioned his four daughters sitting opposite him, his wife and only son in their large coach on this same occasion. The remaining glow of a bonfire on the levee caught his eye, and prompted deeper memories to the time when he was courting his beloved Josephine Roman.
Francois Gabriel (Valcour) Aime, pronounced "M", was born in 1797 in St. Charles Parish into one of Louisiana's oldest families. He was the fifth generation born here. His father died when he was two years old, and he, his brother Michel and mother moved to New Orleans to live with his wealthy grandfather, Michel Fortier II.
In 1818, Valcour and Michel received their inheritance consisting of a large plantation in St. Charles Parish, 250 slaves, and $100,000 in gold. Valcour sold his share of the plantation and bought several plantations in St. James parish including the one next to Jacques Roman. Jacques was the father of Josephine Roman, soon to be wife of Valcour Aime. One of her brothers, Andre Bienvenu Roman, was twice governor of Louisiana 1831-1835 and 1839-1843. Another brother, Jacques Telesphore Roman, built Oak Alley. On January 4, 1819, the handsome and astute Valcour married Josephine Roman, and then bought the Roman plantation from his widowed mother-in-law. However, he later sold to his brother-in-law, Jaques Telesphore Roman, a portion of the plantation that had this row of 28 live oaks.
Valcour kept a daily journal from 1820 to 1854 documenting temperature, farming techniques, as well as experiments with new varieties of cane and equipment. In 1795, Etienne de Bore' introduced sugar cane to Louisiana, but it was the genius of Valcour Aime that perfected the refining process. He learned to harness steam power and designed and made this equipment by 1829. He traveled to Cuba and other countries to study the latest developments. Some of his experiments cost over $40,000 per year and their success earned him the title of "The father of white sugar." VaIcour's sugar was judged best in the world at the New York Exposition in 1853.
|La Petit Versailles, St. James Parish, LA
By the 1830's Valcour's plantation had grown to 10,000 acres and he was reputed to be the world's leading sugar producer and the richest man in Louisiana. He named his plantation, the St. James Refinery Plantation, and in 1833 he added a railroad to his estate. This railroad stretched from his steamboat dock through the fields and to the remote cypress swamp. He disliked waiting for steamboats since they never were on time, so he bought his own, and named it for his son Gabriel.
Valcour built two huge green-houses which contained rare plants, trees and shrubs from all over the world. Valcour's plantation was so self-sufficient that he wagered $10,000 ($1 million by today's standards) that he could produce from his plantation alone, a meal complete with wine, coffee and cigars that would surpass any. He won the bet.
He read all the industry related literature available and he employed only the most competent personnel to oversee each segment of his operation. However, the keys to Valcour's success were his abilities to delegate responsibility, to document all orders and experiments and to follow-up on each.
Valcour and Josephine had five children; four girls and one boy. Edwige Aime born in 1819, married her cousin Florent Fortier. Josephine Aime born in 1821, married Alexis Ferry. Fellicite Emma Aime born in 1823 married her cousin Alexander Septime Fortier, brother of Florent. Felicie Aime, born in 1825, married her cousin Alfred Roman, son of Governor Roman. Francois Gabriel (Gabi) Aime was born in 1826 and never married.
The Aime's spacious mansion had 22 columns on three sides and in the rear-center was a courtyard. This Creole family's reputation was known extensively throughout the Mississippi Valley, not just for their wealth, but for their genuine hospitality. It was customary before each meal for the servants to check the wharf and River Road for travelers and invite them to eat.
Tragically, nothing remains of the mansion. It burned in 1920.
In March 1842, Josephine's desire to cover the marshy land in front of the house, spurred Valcour to begin construction of an English park. He used 120 slaves to dig the lake and rivulets that circled within the 20 acre park. In 1844, he hauled in 1,200 wagon loads of river sand and 1,400 wagon loads of manure to complete the construction phase. He then planted trees, flowers and plants never before seen on this continent.
When completed, the English Park-Garden consisted of: a mountain that contained a brick lined "grotto" and a brick lined cave entrance used to store ice from up north, a Chinese pagoda on top of the mountain, a fort for the children to play in, several bridges and several small buildings. There were also exotic birds and animals such as kangaroos, deer, peacocks, ostriches, parrots and wild ducks that were on the lake and rivulets. A steam pump supplied the water and pressure for the cascading waterfalls and fountains throughout the garden. Valcour later hired a Japanese gardener to work with the Oriental plants and a French gardener. Joseph Muller to oversee the entire garden with thirty slaves.
This magnificent park and horticultural conglomeration was considered the finest in North America and dubbed La Petite Versailles
Recently, a concerned preservationist purchased the garden ruins, and secured it in an effort to stop the vandalism. Perhaps, one day this treasure will be restored.
Valcour was a very devout and kind person. He gave to the St. James Catholic Church and helped to build Jefferson College. When Jefferson College experienced financial difficulties and was on the verge of total collapse, Valcour rescued the complex by purchasing it. Later, he gave the entire college to the Jesuits. Today this facility, called Manresa, is a spiritual retreat home.
Valcour donated to the St. James Catholic Church priceless treasures such as two solid silver candle holders four feet tall, an organ, statues of the apostles and a communion rail. His most valuable gifts were the twelve paintings of the stations of the cross and the two large paintings which hang over the side altars. He commissioned a famous Italian artist to paint these. Today, tourists make a point of visiting this historic church just to see these fabulous paintings.
The educational requirements of the aristocratic Creoles of this era consisted of a college degree and concluded with a grand tour of Europe. Gabi graduated from Jefferson College in 1847, and started his "grand tour" with instruction from Valcour to visit sugar beet refineries and report their procedures. Gabi meant everything to Valcour; he adored his honest, articulate and brilliant young son. Like his father he kept a very descriptive daily journal of his trip that reads like a novel.
Gabi became Valcour's ambassador to the world and he sent him to all parts of the globe. On returning home from a European trip, he stopped briefly in New Orleans on September 17, 1854, the height of the yellow fever season. He arrived at the plantation that evening not feeling well and asked to be excused from dinner. The next morning a servant found Gabi dead. He was only 28 years of age.
Valcour was devastated. He wrote the final entry in his journal, "Continue who would wish. My time is finished. He died on September 18. I kissed him at five o'clock and again the next day." Then he sealed his journal with wax. Valcour gave his son-in-law, Florent Fortier, complete authority and he stepped away from the day to day operations of the business.
Valcour and Josephine could not fill the void of their beloved Gabi. Josephine died of a broken heart in 1856. In 1858, daughter Felicie died in Paris while on a trip with her husband.
|Valcour Aime Family Tomb at St. James Catholic Church
[reinterred at St. Louis Cemetery #2]
Valcour, so affected by these events, spent most of his days and nights in the "grotto" on his knees praying and reading his Bible and Gabi's journals. His self-imposed penance didn't make him bitter but further humbled him. Valcour would date and write the comment, "A tear to you" on certain pages of Gabi's journal as he read it day after day and year after year.
When Valcour and his servant arrived at the church for midnight mass, all his remaining children and grandchildren were there. His granddaughter sang a solo that night and this so pleased Valcour that he gave her a gold piece.
On the trip home, the rains came down in sheets and soaked Valcour. A "hawk" blew in that week (a strong arctic cold front), and the temperature plummeted to record lows. Valcour's condition advanced to pneumonia, and on January 1, 1867, he died."His obituary was published in the New Orleans Times and Daily Picayune newspapers on January 3, 1867. It contained just one line. For a man who had reached the pinnacle of success - once the wealthiest man in the state, considered by some as the father of white sugar, host to innumerable people of power and wealth at his plantation known as "the small Versailles", a scientist, and renowned businessman - when he died his obituary contained only one line.
|Notice of Death New Orleans Times, page 8; 3 Jan 1867


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"A wise man climbs Mt Fuji once; only a fool does it twice"
So here are the pictures of our climb. We made it to the top, in time to see the sunrise and what a sight; though it was short lived. The sun popped through a layer of clouds at about 10,000 feet (We were at 12,388 ft.) and then disappeared about 20 minutes later into another higher layer of clouds. But it was worth it.
The journey began late on Friday, July 2nd. It was just the second day the mountain was officially opened to hikers. We set off separately. My husband and daughter weren't sure how long it would take them, so they went ahead starting at 5 p.m.. My son and I followed about an hour later, and caught up with them at the 6th station. The hike begins at what's called the 5th station, which is not much more than a giant bus stop with lots of restaurants and stores selling
The path to the summit takes you up a series of switchback trails to the sixth station and then a rocky trail to the seventh and eighth stations and then the summit. By 8 p.m. it was dark and headlamps and a flashlight guided us up the path. At this point we were scrambling over rocks. We planned to sleep at a hut at the 8th station and arrived there at 9:30 pretty pooped.
Sleeping in a hut is like going to a "not so nice" sleep-away camp. Everyone sleeps communally under quilts in bi-level bunks. The huts are privately owned and some have been in the same family for generations. It appears to be lucrative business. For just a few hours sleep we paid 6500 yen…that's about 65-70 dollars per person.
We were in a room with about 20 other people, and managed to get a few hours sleep. My husband left at 1am to get a head start, the rest of us took off at about 2:30. We shuffled our way to the top with dozens of others along the path-headlamps twinkling. And by 4:30 we reached the top….just in time to see the sunrise…cheering at the sight along with about 200 other hikers. Take a look at the photos. Glad we did it…but as the saying goes, once is enough.


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Tickets: Sold out
Colyn Cameron may have just earned a nomination for Breakthrough Artist of the Year for the 2014 Juno Awards, but really, whether he wins or loses, the main creative force behind Vancouver folk outfit Wake Owl is already looking ahead.
For Cameron, the Juno nod is a tip of the hat to his past work on his breakthrough mini-album Wild Country, an EP that quite literally came out of nowhere as a pay-what-you-want release in late 2012 before being re-released by Vagrant Records and landing Cameron prime spots at major events like the Vancouver Folk Music Festival in 2012 and opening for Neko Case at the Orpheum last year.
Those two live appearances could not have been at more opposite ends of the spectrum.
One was an acoustic "inbetweener" played on sun-splashed main stage in the afternoon in front of a crowd of thousands.
The other was a cavernous, synth- and loop-heavy display that left Wild Country — a disarming little nugget of folk — far behind. Opening for Case, Cameron and his band were debuting new material that will eventually appear on Wake Owl's new album The Private World of Paradise (out March 4).
"We had just come out of the studio and got thrown into this pretty high profile gig in a big theatre," Cameron said in a recent interview from Portland, Ore., where he now lives for half of the year. "It was such a different experience, sound-wise. We definitely had too much reverb and it was a little bit washed out.
"The new album lands somewhere between the folk fest and the intensity of what you saw with Neko."
The Private World of Paradise takes Wake Owl down rockier, more synth-heavy territory.
At the core, Cameron and main acolyte Aiden Briscall still dwell in My Morning Jacket and M. Ward, California-style AM radio gold, but this time the two have added a new wave/cabaret twist to the equation that makes songs like Candy and Vacation leap out of your speakers with an otherworldly twist.
The space in the bass-thumping Buffalo owes a lot to producer Richard Swift, a member of The Shins that previously worked with bands like Foxygen and Tennis.
"It was quite a process to get the album made," Cameron said. "I think where we stand now, everybody is really excited that it's coming out and we're really excited to get out on the road to perform it.
"I'm trying to let go of expectations because it can go any which way. The EP exceeded everything. I had no idea dropping a little five-song thing would bring me where I am now. The new music is very exciting to perform, and there's a lot of space to perform in it."
The Private World of Paradise, much like Wild Country, is an album rooted in life experience, mainly the intensity of relationships and finding yourself living life in many places.
Cameron, a dual citizen who was born and raised in California, wrote Wild Country following a series of travels made when he decided to abandon a farming life for music. (Cameron studied agriculture in the UK.)
Of his recent move to Portland, Cameron said, "Down here I rent a full house and I have a lot of space to rehearse. It's something I wasn't able to achieve in Vancouver. Hopefully one day I can come back and do the same thing there because all my family and friends are there."
The Winterruption festival takes place Feb. 14-16 on Granville Island.
Other notable performances include a ticketed concert by We Are The City (Feb. 14) and free jazz concerts by Jillian Lebeck Trio and Gord Grdina's Qalandar, a tribute concert to Thelonious Monk and more.
The 10th edition of the festival will also feature arts and crafts, activities for the whole family, French films, as well as comedy, theatre and more.
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The Office of Research and Economic Development at Mississippi State again is investing in innovative mini-grants for faculty at the land-grant institution.
Now in its third year, the cross-college grant program brings together researchers from around campus and across disciplines to foster collaboration, according to the university administrator overseeing the initiative.
"We have been very pleased with the results so far, and are excited about the possibilities of year three," said Ray Vaughn, associate vice president for research and Giles Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Engineering.
"Last year's efforts have yielded funded research proposals of approximately $13 million, with $11.6 million pending from external sources that make the initial cost well worth our investment," he added.
A $2,000 grant to each of the 40 teams will support the initiation of new proposals, as well as help enhance multi-disciplinary collaboration of existing projects, and also provide a second year of funding to 12 grant recipients.
"Providing faculty members additional opportunities to share ideas and work together to move their research forward is a priority for us," said David Shaw, MSU's vice president for research and economic development.
Participating teams, listed alphabetically by principal investigator, include:
--Michele Anderson, Sustainable Energy Research Center, "Year 2: Energy Institute Working Group";
--Kenneth Anthony; curriculum, instruction and special education department, "Cross College Collaboration to Increase Elementary Educators' Economic Efficacy";
--Grigoris Argeros, sociology department, "Examine the Neighborhood Effects of Socioeconomic Mobility, Health and Disability Outcomes Among Latinos in the Southern United States";
--Cindy Bethel, computer science and engineering department, "Robotic Systems Working Group and Psychosocial Robotics Working Group";
--Shanti Bhushan, Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems, "Wildfire Decision Support System";
--Daniel Carruth, Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems, "Year 2: Driver Behavior and Performance Working Group";
--Jan Chambers, College of Veterinary Medicine, "Survey of Biomarkers Related to Health Disparities in the Mississippi Delta Population";
--Renee Clary, geosciences department, "Utilization of Visualization Techniques to Draw Interdisciplinary Departments Together";
--Donna Clevinger, communication department, "Year 2: Shakespeare: From Page to Stage";
--Walter Diehl, biological sciences department, "Enhancing the Repertorium Chronicarum, a Bibliography of Medieval Latin Chronicles";
--Islam El-Adaway, civil and environmental engineering department, "Year 2: 2013 Working Group for Construction Ecology";
--Lyn Fogle, English department, "Language Teacher Identities and Ideologies: Addressing Teachers' Needs in Mississippi";
--James Giesen, history department, "Digitizing Historically Significant Materials in Science and Agriculture";
--Robert Grala, Forest and Wildlife Research Center/forestry department, "Improving Economic Resilience and Long-Term Competitiveness of Mississippi's Forest Products Sector";
--Alexis Gregory, School of Architecture, "Year 2: Service Learning for Architecture Students -- Designing a Habitat for Humanity House Prototype";
--Megan Elizabeth Holmes, kinesiology department, "Exercise is Medicine on Campus Program and Program Evaluation";
--Attila Karsi, College of Veterinary Medicine, "Catfish Health";
--Andreas Kavazis, kinesiology department, "Year 2: Doxorubicin and Cardiotoxicity";
--Tommy Leathem, building construction science department, "Engineering Theory and Practical Application: Bridging the Gap";
--Xiaopeng Li, civil and environmental engineering department, "Infrastructure and Livable Community";
--Jun Liao, agricultural and biomedical engineering department, "Year 2: Structural and Biomechanical Characterizations of Infarcted Heart Tissues";
--Shengfa Liao, animal and dairy science department, "Potential Collaborative Research on Dietary Modulation of Gut Microbial Population in Pigs";
--Job Lopez, biological sciences department, "Year 2: Animal Models and Ecology of Relapsing Fever Spirochetes";
--Karen McNeal, geosciences department, "Earth Systems, Education and Society;"
--Erdogan Memili, animal and dairy science department, "Enhancing Animal Biotechnology Using Computational Biology";
--Barton Moffatt, philosophy and religion department, "Year 2: Empirical Approaches to Research Ethics Working Group";
--Giselle Munn, Institute for Imaging and Analytical Technologies, "NeuroImaging for Real-World Task Performance";
--John Nicholson, communication department, "Examining STEM and non-STEM Differences in Communication Apprehension and Cortisol Levels";
--Julie Parker, human sciences department, "An Experimental Learning Garden: A Collaborative Approach to Child, Family and Community Well-Being";
--Kathleen Ragsdale, Social Science Research Center, "eBaby Research Group: Enhanced Early Infant Feeding and Care Among Teen/Young Mothers" and "Year 2: eHealth Risk Group: Risk Behavior Prevention Among Rural and Minority Youth";
--Donna Reese, computer science and engineering department, "Poising MSU for ADVANCE Funding";
--Rebecca Robichaux, curriculum and instruction department, "Addressing the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics through Wildlife Science and Conservation";
--Scott Rush, Forest and Wildlife Research Center/wildlife, fisheries and aquaculture department, "A Framework for Prioritizing Tidal Marsh Conservation for the Northern Gulf of Mexico";
--Rebecca Schewe, sociology department, "Food Insecurity and Obesity Prevention Research Team";
--Bethany Smith; curriculum, instruction and special education department, "Using a Historically Significant Curriculum to Address Current Challenges in Science Education";
--Chih-Hsuan Wang, counseling and educational psychology department, "Enhancing Teaching and Learning in Mathematics and Statistics Through Mobile Devices";
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WEST virginia legislature
2018 regular session
Committee Substitute
House Bill 2983
By Mr. Speaker (Mr. Armstead)
[Passed March 3, 2018; in effect ninety days from passage.]
AN ACT to amend and reenact §17-2A-8 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to requiring the Commissioner of the Division of Highways to implement reasonable design techniques intended to minimize damage that may result from recurring floods within the purpose and need of the state road system, and relating to updating certain statutory references.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
ARTICLE 17. Roads and highways.
§17-2A-8. Powers, duties and responsibilities of commissioner.
In addition to all other duties, powers and responsibilities given and assigned to the commissioner in this chapter, the commissioner may:
(1) Exercise general supervision over the state road program and the construction, reconstruction, repair and maintenance of state roads and highways: Provided, That the commissioner shall implement reasonable design techniques intended to minimize damage that may result from recurring floods within the purpose and need of the state road system;
(2) Determine the various methods of road construction best adapted to the various sections and areas of the state and establish standards for the construction and maintenance of roads and highways in the various sections and areas of the state;
(3) Conduct investigations and experiments, hold hearings and public meetings and attend and participate in meetings and conferences within and without the state for purposes of acquiring information, making findings and determining courses of action and procedure relative to advancement and improvement of the state road and highway system;
(4) Enter private lands to make inspections and surveys for road and highway purposes;
(5) Acquire, in name of the department, by lease, grant, right of eminent domain or other lawful means all lands and interests and rights in lands necessary and required for roads, rights-of-way, cuts, fills, drains, storage for equipment and materials and road construction and maintenance in general;
(6) Procure photostatic copies of any or all public records on file at the State Capitol of Virginia which may be considered necessary or proper in ascertaining the location and legal status of public road rights-of-way located or established in what is now the State of West Virginia, which when certified by the commissioner, may be admitted in evidence, in lieu of the original, in any of the courts of this state;
(7) Plan for and hold annually a school of good roads, of not less than three or more than six days' duration, for instruction of his or her employees, which is held in conjunction with West Virginia University and may be held at the university or at any other suitable place in the state;
(8) Negotiate and enter in reciprocal contracts and agreements with proper authorities of other states and of the United States relating to and regulating the use of roads and highways with reference to weights and types of vehicles, registration of vehicles and licensing of operators, military and emergency movements of personnel and supplies and all other matters of interstate or national interest;
(9) Classify and reclassify, locate and relocate, expressway, trunkline, feeder and state local service roads and designate by number the routes within the state road system;
(10) Create, extend or establish, upon petition of any interested party or parties or on the commissioner's own initiative, any new road or highway found necessary and proper;
(11) Exercise jurisdiction, control, supervision and authority over local roads, outside the state road system, to the extent determined by him or her to be expedient and practicable;
(12) Discontinue, vacate and close any road or highway, or any part of any road or highway, the continuance and maintenance of which are found unnecessary and improper, upon petition and hearing or upon investigation initiated by the commissioner;
(13) Close any state road while under construction or repair and provide a temporary road during the time of the construction or repair;
(14) Adjust damages occasioned by construction, reconstruction or repair of any state road or the establishment of any temporary road;
(15) Establish and maintain a uniform system of road signs and markers;
(16) Fix standard widths for road rights-of-way, bridges and approaches to bridges and fix and determine grades and elevations therefor;
(17) Test and standardize materials used in road construction and maintenance, either by governmental testing and standardization activities or through contract by private agencies;
(18) Allocate the cost of retaining walls and drainage projects, for the protection of a state road or its right-of-way, to the cost of construction, reconstruction, improvement or maintenance;
(19) Acquire, establish, construct, maintain and operate, in the name of the department, roadside recreational areas along and adjacent to state roads and highways;
(20) Exercise general supervision over the construction and maintenance of airports and landing fields under the jurisdiction of the West Virginia State Aeronautics Commission, of which the commissioner is a member, and make a study and general plan of a statewide system of airports and landing fields;
(21) Provide traffic engineering services to municipalities of the state upon request of the governing body of any municipality and upon terms that are agreeably arranged;
(22) Institute complaints before the Public Service Commission or any other appropriate governmental agency relating to freight rates, car service and movement of road materials and equipment;
(23) Invoke any appropriate legal or equitable remedies, subject to section seven of this article, to enforce his or her orders, to compel compliance with requirements of law and to protect and preserve the state road and highway system or any part of the system;
(24) Make and promulgate rules for the government and conduct of personnel, for the orderly and efficient administration and supervision of the state road program and for the effective and expeditious performance and discharge of the duties and responsibilities placed upon him or her by law;
(25) Delegate powers and duties to his or her appointees and employees who shall act by and under his or her direction and be responsible to him or her for their acts;
(26) Designate and define any construction and maintenance districts within the state road system that is found expedient and practicable;
(27) Contract for the construction, improvement and maintenance of the roads;
(28) Comply with provisions of present and future federal aid statutes and regulations, including execution of contracts or agreements with and cooperation in programs of the United States government and any proper department, bureau or agency of the United States government relating to plans, surveys, construction, reconstruction, improvement and maintenance of state roads and highways;
(29) Prepare budget estimates and requests;
(30) Establish a system of accounting covering and including all fiscal and financial matters of the department;
(31) Establish and advance a right-of-way Acquisition Revolving Fund, a Materials Revolving Fund and an Equipment Revolving Fund;
(32) Enter into contracts and agreements with and cooperate in programs of counties, municipalities and other governmental agencies and subdivisions of the state relating to plans, surveys, construction, reconstruction, improvement, maintenance and supervision of highways, roads, streets and other travel ways when and to the extent determined by the department to be expedient and practical;
(33) Report, as provided by law, to the Governor and the Legislature;
(34) Purchase materials, supplies and equipment required for the state road program and system;
(35) Dispose of all obsolete and unusable and surplus supplies and materials which cannot be used advantageously and beneficially by the department in the state road program by transfer of the supplies and materials to other governmental agencies and institutions by exchange, trade or sale of the supplies and materials;
(36) Investigate road conditions, official conduct of department personnel and fiscal and financial affairs of the department and hold hearings and make findings thereon or on any other matters within the jurisdiction of the department;
(37) Establish road policies and administrative practices;
(38) Fix and revise from time to time tolls for transit over highway projects constructed by the Division of Highways after May 1, 1999, that have been authorized by the provisions of §17-17A-5b of this chapter;
(39) Take actions necessary to alleviate any conditions as the Governor may declare to constitute an emergency, whether or not the emergency condition affects areas normally under the jurisdiction of the Division of Highways; and
(40) Provide family restrooms at all rest areas along interstate highways in this state, all to be constructed in accordance with federal law.


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Another Vassar filmmaking alumnus did a public proposal two weeks ago. Mark Rosenberg '97, the founder of the popular festival Rooftop Films, proposed to his girlfriend in front of an audience of hundreds.
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By Derek Korn
Shops producing small, precision parts are just as concerned about how to effectively deburr their parts as they are about how to machine them. Medical manufacturers, in particular, have zero tolerance for burr-ridden components.
Burrs on such small parts are often removed using labor-intensive hand deburring, as tumbling or vibratory equipment may not be efficient. A magnetic deburring system, available from Earth-Chain USA (Indianapolis, Indiana), provides batch deburring of small parts in as little as 10 minutes. Called the sPINner, it uses magnetism to rotate parts and spin 5-mm-long stainless steel pins in a swirling, soap-based deburring solution. Excited by the magnetism, the tiny, frenzied pins reach part features that traditional tumbling media often can't reach. This system removes light burrs from small parts made of aluminum, brass and beryllium copper, but can also deburr stainless steels and titanium if the burrs aren't too heavy.
So what's a "light burr?" As a general rule, it's any burr that can be removed with one's fingernail. These burrs will typically have a minimal thickness at the burr root, which is the area where the burr attaches to the parent material.
To start a new deburring cycle, the machine's plastic container is filled with enough pins to blanket the bottom. The deburring solution and parts are added next. As the cycle starts, the container holding this deburring soup remains stationary. Below the container, the rotating, alternating-polarity magnetic disk causes the pins to spin as a result of the continuous polarity change. The disk's rotation also imparts a whirlpool effect to the mixture of agitated pins and parts. Light burrs are removed as the pins impact the parts. While the pins contact the parts with sufficient force to remove burrs, the force is not so significant that it damages the parts. After the deburring cycle is completed, a strainer is used to separate parts and pins.
The deburring pins are available in diameters from 0.2 mm to 1.5 mm. Pin diameter is chosen based on desired deburring aggressiveness. Depending on the material of the parts being deburred, the pins can last between 3 to 5 years. Because the pins do not break down during the deburring process, sludge does not develop in the deburring solution and secondary part washing is unnecessary.
Blind, through- and cross-holes can be deburred as long as the pin diameter is smaller than that of the hole. Pins will not become lodged in blind holes, as the magnetic action that pushes the pins into the holes also pulls them out of the hole. Similarly, threaded features may also be deburred by using a pin diameter smaller than the thread pitch.
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The medication drop box at the Southington Police Department is exceeding the expectations of organizers.
Since Oct. 11, the Southington Police has been the home to the permanent medication drop box. Since the box opened, officials have collected approximately 200 pounds of medication related items.
"It's better than we thought it'd be," said STEPS Coordinator Kelly Leppard. "The police are doing a great job."
The Southington Town Wide Effort to Promote Success (STEPS), along with the Wheeler Clinic of Plainville collaborated on the project. STEPS was concerned about the amount of prescription drug use amongst Southington teens.
However, with the success there have been some problems with this box. As it is emptied police officials have found needles; IVs, powders and other unacceptable items in the box.
"We've gotten a couple hundred pounds (of medical items)," said Sgt. Jeff Dobratz. "We just ask that people mind the rules."
Below is a reminder of the acceptable and unacceptable items, along with the instructions for use.
Accepted items: prescription medications, over-the-counter meds, medication samples, medication for pets, liquid medication in glass or sealed containers, medicated ointments and lotions and inhalers
Items not accepted: personal care products, vitamins, needles, thermometers, IV bags/empty containers, bloody/iInfectious waste, hydrogen containers, aerosol cans and narcotics.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR USE: Gather unwanted medications at home (see above list for accepted & unaccepted items).
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Postgres Conference now lives here https://postgresconf.org/
Update: 01/21/14
The NYC PostgreSQL Conference has published its schedule:
The line of these talks are truly impressive. Three tracks, two days. I believe I can safely say that this is the best line up of talks at any PostgreSQL Conference to date. Of course I am a little biased as I am speaking but truly, take a look. This is going to be an amazing conference!
Update: 12/12/13
It has been a long time since we updated this site. I wanted to take a moment and point all of our visitors to the NYC PostgreSQL Conference happening in 2014! This conference is being organized by the very fine people over at the largest PostgreSQL User Group, NYCPUG on April 3 and 4th 2014. You can learn more here. We hope to see you there!
PostgreSQL Conference Status
PostgreSQL Conference has been the leading conference for the PostgreSQL Community since 2007. We generated over 85,000 USD for the community. We also brought many people to the community as a whole. We are pleased with the results of the conference series. As of the last show in September 2011, we have decided to take a hiatus. At this point the PostgreSQL Community has grown to host many conferences not only throughout the U.S. (many held in local areas via user groups) but also the world.
As the leader of the conference series team, I am not sure what is next for us. We have a couple of strong ideas of how to bring the conferences full circle and more beneficial than ever. However, it is unlikely that we will pursue this in the immediate future. Thank you for all the support through the years.
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Hartford wins Cal Ripken baseball championship
Hartford's Cal Ripken All-Stars won the state championship in baseball for players age 12 and under at Barton Sunday, according to an account from Coach Jethro Hayman of the Lake Region All-Stars.
Mr. Hayman said the Lake Region team gave the Hartford team a great challenge, but it was an uphill battle as the Hartford team was big and intimidating and had a pitcher who could pitch 70 miles an hour. He said the Hartford team has a good chance to win at the New England level.
"We earned their respect," Coach Hayman said. He said the other team's coaches told the local team they were extremely impressed with the level of play from the challengers.
The final score of the championship game was 9-2. Mr. Hayman said some of the other teams were not able to score against the Hartford team. Some games were called off after the stronger team got ten runs ahead, through what is known as a mercy rule. Not so with Lake Region's team, which Mr. Hayman said never gave up.
The runs were earned by Parker Perron and Asom Hayman-Jones, on a bunt by Josh Royer. Mr. Hayman said the other team was not expecting a bunt, and it was well executed and it worked.
He also was proud of his team for throwing against the Hartford runners each time they tried to steal. He said they did not let them get away with anything without an effort, catching them twice in attempted steals.
"They never quit," he said.
Mr. Hayman said the game on Saturday night between Lake Region and North Country was the best game of the series, in his opinion. There were eight lead changes in the game, and Lake Region won it finally, eight to seven. The game didn't end until after 10 p.m., which means the Lake Region players were up late both nights before their state championship game on Sunday.
"It was a great event."
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – An Ohio driver who made an online video confessing to causing a fatal wrong-way crash after drinking heavily has been charged with aggravated vehicular homicide.
In a 3 1/2-minute video posted last week, Matthew Cordle admits he killed a man June 22. He says in the video that he will plead guilty and take full responsibility for what he did to 61-year-old Vincent Canzani, of Gahanna.
Franklin County prosecutor Ron O'Brien says the 22-year-old Powell man faces up to 8 1/2 years in prison if convicted.
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text: At 10:05 AM 11/23/2005, Robert G. Brown wrote: >On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Jim Lux wrote: > > >That's where things get all wanky and scary for MS. One of their major >selling points is that MS is "professionally manageable", but they are >dealing with clients that have BEEN through the Death of the Mainframe, >which happened in spite of IBM telling all its clients about the >wonderful benefits of central management and professional grade >software. They know that computer vendors lie. In actual fact, >Microsoft is not terribly CB advantageous in seats per FTE, seats per >server (and server license), cost per seat, MANAGEMENT cost per seat, >maintenance cost per seat. It is expensive and requires a lot of well >trained people to run it to make it work at the enterprise level, and >when it DOES work it crashes all the time (at least in our labs here). I am aware of at least two large scale (>1000 desktop) Windows environments where the desktops are externally managed, and where they are reasonably stable (as in, reboots are required only when the monthly Patch Tuesday requires a reboot). Neither does "boot from the net", although MS does actually support that these days. > It is still not really ready for unmanaged >desktop use, but MANAGED desktops can cost very, very little per seat >outside of the hardware and a tiny chunk of the OC of the management >staff. Literally hundreds of systems per admin even at the human level, >one admin per thousands of systems at the software level. PXE, yum, and >linux are a very scary combination for Microsoft, and tools like >warewulf threaten to virtualize THE ENTIRE OPERATING SYSTEM. Only if you can standardize your whole shop on one flavor of Linux: Which has been fairly difficult, given the low penetration of Linux overall.. it's usually installed by a Linux convert, who is somewhat of a zealot about their particular favorite distro. >Veeerrry verrry scary to MS. If they OWNED this they'd LOVE it -- they >could sell MS pay-per-use (boot WinXX today, get billed $0.50). In a >competitive environment (boot WinXX today to read your mail and get >billed $0.50, or boot into a Gnome desktop and read your mail and get >billed nothing, hmmm) things aren't quite so attractive for them. >That's why the .NET wars are playing now in a theater near you. You betcha... google scares MS. >SO MS may well be forcing its way into the cluster market as part of a >long term strategy to take any measures necessary, including eating >losses, to keep linux-based nucleation points out of organizations. >Consequently it is no longer viable for Microsoft to say "we don't do >clusters"; they have to be able to provide clusters even if the >economics of clustering forces them to provide the cluster software at >very low (for them) margins or even at a loss. Naturally they'll TRY to >actually make money from clusters, but it might be more about prestige, >marketing, and maintaining exclusivity on current Win-homogeneous >environments than it is about any particular actual clustering market. I hadn't thought about MS clustering as an inoculation against Linux cluster as an organizational virus, but you have a great point. >None of which will (in my opinion) make any difference in the long run. >The current round of linux desktops are getting a lot of kudos for being >very, very usable at the (managed) desktop level. They are still a >nightmare at the unmanaged desktop level, And this is precisely the problem... MS has enough penetration in the home market that the average desktop user is familiar enough to get through the first level diagnosis (is it plugged in, did it boot, is CapsLock off) to reduce the support costs for the corporate MS environment. Nobody calls the help desk asking how to copy a file to floppy anymore. >>But, have to go now.. Next installment for my devil's advocacy: >>"Why windows based clusters make sense for individual users" > >The answers are, I imagine, the same -- device drivers and GUIs. Nope.. interoperability with the rest of the corporate world... Software, file format, security, patch managmeent, etc. >Then there are licensing issues -- WinXX can't just install, it has to >check for the RIGHT to be installed, for licenses and keys and such, and >managing THIS is pretty difficult for a single system install and bound >to be worse for a cluster install. The license management issues for >third party applications. The INCREDIBLE security implications; a >cluster turned to Viral Evil and SPAMming makes me shudder. I would imagine that this is no worse than installing a like number of desktop machines. Desktops are installed these days by "ghosting" an image onto the drive. Mass installs don't have to "phone home" for authorization. The business distribution model for Windows is very, very different from the home installation model.. none of this authentication stuff. After all, it's those evil hackers at home who are making the RIAA and MPAA nervous, right? (or, more realistically, MS sees a potential revenue stream by providing a "secure" distribution channel for entertainment content, and they can best demonstrate this to potential customers by showing a secure distribution channel for their own stuff.) Jim..


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Yale Bulldogs - Yale University - NCAA Ice Hockey Champions - 2013
When Yale head coach Keith Allain '80 addressed the media at the 2009 NCAA East Regional, he spoke of his team's goal of winning a national championship. At that point, the Bulldogs had only been to the NCAA Tournament twice since 1952, so it's safe to say that not many in attendance that day took Allain's comment seriously.
Four years later, Allain's Bulldogs are Frozen Four champions.
Yale defeated in-state and ECAC Hockey foe Quinnipiac, 4-0, before a crowd of 18,184 at the Consol Energy Center, concluding one of the most improbable runs in post-season history and marking the school's first NCAA team tournament championship -- in any sport -- since 1953.
Junior Clinton Bourbonais' goal with 3.5 seconds remaining in the second period turned out to be the game-winner, and the Bulldogs added three more tallies in the third period to wrap up the title.
"We've been stressing getting pucks and bodies to the net, and we threw it to net there and [Bourbonais] tipped it in," Allain, the Malcolm G. Chace Head Coach of Men's Ice Hockey, said of Yale's first goal. "That gave us momentum going into the third. That forced them to take some chances, and we were patient defensively and counter-attacked pretty well and came out on top."
Senior goaltender Jeff Malcolm made 36 saves to earn the shutout and grab Frozen Four Most Outstanding Goaltender honors. He also backstopped the Bulldogs to four successful penalty kills (10 saves).
Freshman Charles Orzetti scored Yale's second goal, followed by senior captain Andrew Miller(who also added an assist), and junior Jesse Root, whose empty-net goal came in front of his hometown Pittsburgh crowd.
Miller, who had six points (two goals, four assists) in Yale's four-game run to the title, was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player. His assist on Root's goal was the 114th of his career, breaking the Yale record previously held by Bob Brooke.
"We knew they were going to run around a little bit because they were behind, so we took advantage of those opportunities, and I think we shut them down a little bit," Miller said. "They had a flurry at the beginning of the third, and Malcolm sat tall as he has all year."
Quinnipiac goaltender Eric Hartzell, a finalist for the Hobey Baker award, made 27 saves in the loss.
The Bulldogs, who entered the 16-team tournament as the No. 15 overall seed, toppled three No. 1 seeds en route to the title (Minnesota, UMass-Lowell, Quinnipiac), culminating with the championship game win over the Bobcats -- who entered the tournament as the top-ranked team in the nation.
Quinnipiac had previously defeated Yale three times in 2012-13 -- twice in the regular season and in the third-place game of the ECAC Tournament -- outscoring Yale 13-3 in those contests. But Yale defeated its Nutmeg State neighbors when it mattered most, recording the fifth shutout ever in an NCAA championship game and scoring four times on the nation's top-ranked defense.
The shots were close (11-9 QU) in the first period and both sides had great scoring chances. Malcolm and Hartzell, who each faced a pair of power plays, needed three or four top-notch saves to keep it 0-0 at the first intermission.
The teams combined for 29 shots on goal, including a two-man advantage for both, but the netminders were stopping everything that came their way. Yale had the first 5-on-3 penalty kill for just over a minute while Malcolm grabbed two pucks shot at him. Quinnipiac prevented a shot from reaching Hartzell for 1:13. Malcolm also stymied Jordan Samuels-Thomas on a breakaway midway through the second period for his most spectacular save of the night.
So it looked like this would be the first NCAA men's championship game to go to the third period scoreless since 1968… until Hartzell tried to clear the puck along the boards with under 10 seconds left in the second. Yale blueliner Rob O'Gara had put the puck along the boards behind the net and the Bobcat goalie went back to send it out and run out the clock. That's when Yale defenseman Gus Young picked off the puck and sent it hard toward the net. Bourbonais was in the slot with a defender on him but managed to re-direct the shot through Hartzell's legs and inside the far post with 3.5 seconds left.
The Blue made it 2-0 and Bourbonais was in on the scoring play again. This time, with Yale making a line change, he fed the puck to Orzetti heading up the left side. The freshman winger fired from the top of the left circle, picked up the rebound in the circle and blasted a shot back at Hartzell. The puck whizzed under a pad and into the back of the net at 3:35 of the third.
The Bobcats applied the pressure to try to break the bubble, but that also gave Yale opportunities. Kenny Agostino and Miller jumped all over one of those chances midway through the period. Agostino grabbed the puck in his end along the boards and skated up ice before seeing Miller breaking free ahead. The junior forward sent a perfect pass to the captain and Miller went in alone on the goal. Like the night before in overtime, the senior winger deked and then found the five-hole. This time it was a wrist shot from middle of the slot at 9:06 for his 18th of the season.
Root, the hometown hero, added the final goal of the night. Out of desperation, Quinnipiac head coach Rand Pecknold brought Hartzell to the bench for an extra skater -- and Root took advantage, firing the puck from just inside the blue line, above the right circle, into the vacated net with 6:58 left in the third.
Yale defeated the top three overall seeds in the tournament to win the title: Quinnipiac (No. 1), Minnesota (No. 2) and UMass Lowell (No. 3)… Andrew Miller's goal and assist gave him 156 career points, passing Bob Brooke for fifth on the Yale career list… Gus Young (Defense) and Clinton Bourbonais (Forward) joined Miller (Most Outstanding Player) and Jeff Malcolm (Most Outstanding Goaltender) on the All-Tournament Team for Yale… Yale became the third Ivy League school (Cornell in 1967 and 1970, Harvard in 1989) to win the NCAA title and the first No. 4 seed to win the crown since the introduction of the 16-team field in 2003… Yale's title was also the first by an ECAC Hockey team since Harvard's win in 1989… Yale previously participated in the NCAA Championship weekend in 1952 -- when only four teams participated in the post-season event (Yale lost in the semifinals to Colorado College and to St. Lawrence in the consolation game)… 2013 marked Yale's sixth trip to the NCAA Tournament field… The Blue suited up the same lineup from Thursday night.
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Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery; Acquired with the assistance of a repatriation grant from the Government of Canada through the Cultural Property Export and Import Act and with funds from the Dorothy Naylor Fund
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Presentation silver was a customary way of honouring an individual for exceptional service, whether military, civil, or heroic. This monumental salver is indicative of the esteem accorded Edward Boxer (1784–1855) during his service as Captain of the Port of Quebec. Although his naval career was of primary importance, Boxer's presence in Quebec was also marked by his influence in matters of commerce and politics. This work is an impressive example of cast, chased, and engraved silver by the highly regarded London firm of Hunt & Roskell, which specialized in such presentation silver as well as domestic silver and jewelry. Noteworthy decorative features alluding to its Canadian significance include an engraved view of the Quebec Harbour from Pointe Levy, and cast and applied beavers emerging from the borders in high relief.
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Morning Five: 07.30.12 EditionPosted by nvr1983 on July 30th, 2012
- We hate to start out the week's Morning Five on a somber note, but when an incoming recruit or any player is murdered we have to lead with it. On Thursday, Iona recruit Michael Haynes was killed while apparently trying to break up a fight over a stolen necklace near his home in Chicago. Haynes, who was a prep school star in Chicago, had worked his way through the junior college ranks and was just weeks away from realizing his dream of playing Division I basketball. Initial reports indicated that Haynes might be able to make it because he appeared fairly strong immediately after the shooting, but he died in the operating room shortly afterwards. We have not heard anything about funeral arrangements for Haynes, but given some of the players he played against there should be some prominent names present.
- The biggest surprise of the weekend for us came out of Orlando where the Magic announced that former Kansas star Jacque Vaughn would be their next head coach. To be honest, we had lost track of Vaughn's whereabouts over the past few seasons, but apparently he had been serving as an assistant for the San Antonio Spurs. The choice is a curious one in the sense that the Magic could be a playoff team (depending on the whims of Dwight Howard) and Vaughn has no head coaching experience. We like seeing teams hire coaches who are not the same retreads, but we can see how some individuals like Shaquille O'Neal might not be fans of the move. Vaughn's first order of business should be figuring out what to do with Howard who has been holding the franchise hostage for quite sometime. Only after he does that can he think of moving forward.
- Jeff Goodman got the #SCOOP on who Gonzaga's newest coach-in-waiting and while it is interesting at some level we wonder if the title really means anything. Goodman reports that assistant Tommy Lloyd has been given the designation to follow-up Mark Few in Spokane. The issue is that Few has not even turned 50 yet and Lloyd is the third coach-in-waiting at the school after the other two decided they had waited long enough and took head coaching jobs at other schools. The position on the Gonzaga sideline is no doubt among the most coveted in the country especially for coaches who are not established enough to get a position with a blue-blood program, but we don't see any movement coming any time soon there.
- For our part we don't particularly care for the culture associated with the AAU scene, but when we heard that the legendary Sonny Vaccaro had returned to Las Vegas we were intrigued. Vaccaro, the man who has been credited with making the summer basketball scene what it is today (for better or for worse), had not been on the scene since the summer of 2006, but returned to film scenes for his upcoming 30 for 30 documentary. The documentaries in the series that we have seen appear to be fairly balanced so we will be interested to see how they deal with Vaccaro's creation and the effects of the world that he helped create as well as his (hopefully candid) comments on it although we suspect that he will place the blame for the unseemly aspects of it on other people.
- Divorces are rarely amicable and often the people hurt the most by them are the children particularly when issues of child custody are raised. In that vein, when a Syracuse fan was looking through the division of custody based on holidays he felt that it was unequal so he inserted a clause that would allow him to have visitation rights for his kids if the Orange were playing for the national championship on the first Monday night in April. The request might be made fun of in some circles, but compared to some of the other requests we have heard of in these cases it seems fairly benign and sweet even if it is a bit quixotic as it has only happened three times and not since 2003.


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This week, tech podcast host Greg Knieriemen comes to you live from Mobile World Congress in Barcelona with two special guests. They have a really interesting chat about what kind of value data analytics actually has as well as whether the principle of net neutrality can withstand the onslaught of all this super high-def content on the mobile. Is the smartphone the new TV?
Joining Greg are Jeff Greenwald and Shane Archiquette, the Solutions Marketing lead and the chief technology officer at HDS's Communications, Media and Entertainment division.
It's a crisp 30 minutes, and has indexed times to help you get to the meaty bits... Enjoy.
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Sunday, March 11, 2012
Welcome to ForBattle v.2.98
Hopefully comments will appear to everyone no matter how gibbous *such* a good word the moon is and no-one hates the template too much.
No, I have no idea why only comments from 2005 and today appear. Mystery!
Yes yes, all the side-bar links have gone.
If you want any of them back or have any suggestions for new ones, add them in (or let me know and I can)
If you want something changed, go forth and do it!
If you hate it all and want it to go back to the way it was (maybe you were one of the chosen people who the comments would show themselves to), invent a time machine.
Okay, just do that last thing anyway, because it would be cool.
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Having comments that work reliably again is a good thing.
Possibly needs more red but I couldn't be arsed changing anything right now.
Thanks for fixing it.
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Its very... pink.
But hey, I can live with that. Though the red-on-grey in the comments bar is pretty unreadable on my machine. Show up ok for everyone else? Or shall I tweak it?
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Tweak please!
Change the colour scheme too while you're there.
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I like the stripy! Well done whoever did that tweakage!
Primary colours get my vote!!!
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I maded the stripey happen. Found the setting that changed the background on a template and the side-bar colours.
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But really, if anyone wants a different look, go forth and tweak. Just don't forget about the time-machine
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I love the stripey!
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Physical Sciences
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March 2009
Iron Minerals Found in Subsurface Sediment Reduce Contaminant Oxidation, Mobility
Biogeochemistry research reveals potential role of iron-bearing micas in preventing technetium reoxidation and mobilization in the subsurface
Results: New insights into the reactive phases and processes occurring within radioactively contaminated subsurface sediments will pay off for current and future studies of contaminant behavior at U.S. Department of Energy sites. The results from a recent study published in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta by scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will help resolve questions about the movement of subsurface contaminants and develop effective site remediation strategies.
Previous studies at PNNL have demonstrated that the contaminant technetium-99 (see sidebar) can be reduced from its most mobile state, pertechnetate, or Tc(VII), to tetravalent technetium, or Tc(IV), which can form a solid and remain associated with the sediment. This reaction occurs when pertechnetate is reduced either directly by microorganisms or by certain forms of iron that exist naturally in the sediment.
The scientists have also shown that iron from biological reduction processes can be a very efficient reductant of pertechnetate. But this depends on the form of iron in the subsurface, and the form dictates the reaction rates and end products.
What remains uncertain is the fate of technetium in reduced sediments when subject to fluctuating reduction—oxidation (redox) conditions. Also uncertain is if and when aerobic groundwater infiltrates into reduced sediments, causing re-equilibration-which can happen with natural groundwater movement in the subsurface.
To better understand these uncertainties, the researchers investigated the fate of technetium following the reduction process and exposure of reduced sediment slurries to air. They studied two sediments with differing mineralogy and aggregation state: one from the upper Ringold Formation at the Hanford Site in south-central Washington state, and one from the Field Research Center (FRC) site on the Oak Ridge Site in east Tennessee.
Characterization of technetium-containing particle isolated from oxidized FRC sediment: a) backscattered electron micrograph, b) electron microprobe energy dispersive X-ray analysis and c) BSE image with X-ray microprobe, Tc-concentration overlay.
"Previously, we investigated issues pertaining to microbial and geochemical reduction reactions," said lead author and PNNL Laboratory Fellow Jim Fredrickson. "But the long-term question is, if pertechnetate becomes reduced to less-soluble Tc(IV), what happens if the situation is reversed, and the sediments are subsequently exposed to oxygen? That is, if sediments are contacted with aerobic groundwater, will the Tc(IV) be mobilized? So in this study, we examined the re-release of technetium in sediments exposed to air."
Why does it matter? At DOE's Hanford Site, technetium from leaking nuclear waste storage tanks has migrated to significant depths in the vadose zone, which, in the central plateau area of Hanford, is close to 60 meters. Currently, there is little to prevent this mobile technetium from eventually entering Hanford's unconfined aquifer and traveling with groundwater to the Columbia River.
Contamination of the river by technetium is a serious concern, as the river water is used for drinking and agriculture. Understanding how iron—specifically Fe(II)—in the sediments reacts with technetium to reduce it, or change it to a less mobile form, can contribute to understanding whether technetium will indeed reach the Columbia River and could contribute to the development of remediation strategies for safely containing technetium in the subsurface.
Methods: The scientists investigated the oxidation rates of tetravalent technetium as well as the form and distribution of residual iron after an extended period of exposure of sediment slurries to air. Tetravalent technetium is relatively insoluble and remains associated with sediments, but converts to pertechnetate when it's oxidized. "The process is similar to rusting," said Fredrickson. "Metallic iron can react with oxygen over time, and iron is oxidized to Fe(III)—forming rust (iron oxide) in the process."
In the Ringold Formation sediments, tetravalent technetium oxidized rapidly and completely when contacted with air and was released to solution. In contrast, in the FRC sediments, oxidation was slow and incomplete despite similar molecular-scale speciation of technetium as found in the Ringold sediments. Why? The researchers found that the technetium's reactivity depends on the nature of the material in the sediment.
After the scientists reduced the technetium in the sediments and exposed them to air for nearly a year, they sent the sediments for synchrotron X-ray measurements at the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory. These molecular-level measurements of the FRC material revealed a unique, oxidation-resistant Tc(IV)-Fe(III) molecular species.
"Both sediments contained iron and manganese as redox-active phases," noted Fredrickson, "but the FRC sediment also contained a high proportion of a certain class of minerals called Fe-phyllosilicates, or micas, of different types." They found that the oxidation-resistant molecular species was associated with these iron-containing mica particles. The researchers transferred several of the particles to the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory at PNNL for single-particle, micro-X-ray diffraction analyses, a new capability for determining the structure of individual mineral particles. From these analyses, the researchers identified the mica as celadonite, a common weathering product of basalt—a common rock type in the Columbia Basin.
"If celadonite or related iron-containing micas are found in the subsurface at Hanford, they could impact the migration of technetium in the groundwater before it reaches the Columbia River," speculated Fredrickson.
In summary, the findings indicate that certain forms and/or locations of pertechnetate generated through reduction by sediment-associated iron, especially iron in association with phyllosilicates, may be exceedingly resistant to remobilization by oxidation. This may significantly impact the long-term fate and transport of technetium in the subsurface at sites such as Hanford, but more research is needed to better understand these processes.
What's next? Why is this material resistant to oxidation? Is it because of the chemistry of iron in the mica particles, or the physical structure, or both? Whatever the answer, it has significant implications for long-term migration of technetium at the Hanford Site, particularly from the plume beneath the 200 Area waste tank farms. The researchers are currently investigating the reactivity of technetium with various sediments from the Hanford subsurface. This includes materials obtained during the installation of wells at the Hanford Integrated Field Research Challenge site in the 300 Area north of Richland, Washington.
Acknowledgments: The scientific team includes Jim Fredrickson, John Zachara, Andy Plymale, James McKinley, David Kennedy, Chongxuan Liu, Tom Resch, and Ravi Kukkadapu, PNNL; and Steve Heald, Argonne National Laboratory. This research was supported by the Environmental Remediation Science Program, Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER), DOE. Mössbauer analyses and micro X-ray diffraction were performed using EMSL, a national scientific user facility sponsored by DOE-BER and located at PNNL.
Citation: Fredrickson JK, JM Zachara, AE Plymale, SM Heald, JP McKinley, DW Kennedy, CX Liu, P Nachimuthu. 2009. "Oxidative dissolution potential of biogenic and abiogenic TcO2 in subsurface sediments." Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 73:2299


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I had the chance to drop by the Casba this year for part of the 3rd annual Heavy Gun Beat Battle for the Broad Ripple Music Fest, and I must say the competition was fierce. For those of you that aren't in Indy or didn't get the chance, the boys of Heavy Gun were good enough to catch it all on video.
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Having spent the better part of the weekend in and around the Brown U. campus, what better time to discuss a quaff named for another Ivy League school, Princeton. One or two of you might recall that in my previous post, I lamented that… well, let me just quote myself:
For my part, this became another MxMo post from the Department of Fall-Back-and-Punt.
I just finished mixographer David Wondrich's book, Imbibe!, and I found a great drink idea in there–one that combines ingredients I've never mixed before. I was excited to try it, but I was missing a key ingredient, Plymouth gin….My instinct told me that my gin on hand, Tanqueray, probably wouldn't work well in the cocktail I had in mind, so I came home to consult my cocktail books and find a Plan B.
My Plan A for MxMo was the Princeton cocktail, from page 262 of M. Wondrich's fine book–the unfamiliar mix being gin and port.
Lemme just quote D.W.'s source:
A mixing-glass half-full fine ice, three dashes orange bitters, one an a half pony Tom gin. Mix, strain into cocktail-glass; add half a pony port wine carefully and let it settle in the bottom of the cocktail before serving. [George J. Kappeler, Modern American Drinks, 1895]
Wondrich advises that for the Tom, you should take some Plymouth and add half a teaspoon of gum or simple syrup, "to round the edge off and add texture." That's the interesting part. Plymouth isn't what I'd call an edgy gin. And even if it is edgy, I think we can all agree that it's still smoother than Tanqueray.
So as I said earlier, I had an instinct that Tanq just wouldn't quite work here. And just before hopping the Amtrak to Providence, I had the chance to find out. I picked up some Plymouth and mixed a side-by-side comparison.
And just as I thought, the Tanq really competed with the port. The flavors battled each other in the glass, instead of melding as smoothly as the Plymouth did. I'm glad I didn't mix the Tanq version for MxMo, because it clearly wouldn't have worked.


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Message to vets: Talk to each other
Peer therapy can help those who've served cope with combat trauma.
I usually write a remembrance column for Veterans Day, but this year I want to talk about a simple way to help troops and vets who may be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, abusing drugs and alcohol, or contemplating suicide -- through one veteran talking to another.
I can spin many absurd tales of my Marine Corps service when talking to civilians but when it comes to dealing with the stuff that could lead to any of the above, I only trust those who have been there and done that. Even then, it's taken more than 50 years to finally put The One Bad Vietnam Day to rest.
In clinical terms, this is called peer therapy, an approach woefully ignored by the Military Health System and the Veterans Affairs Department after 11 years of war in Afghanistan and Iraq, with that burden borne by an all-volunteer force, some of whom now suffer from the mental blowback of multiple deployments.
In grunt terms, peer therapy extends the Army's battle buddy pledge to life after combat. And it works. A few years back, an Army buddy of mine who works in the Pentagon received a call from a suicidal Army reservist shortly before Christmas.
This friend -- not a clinician -- asked the reservist to call or email him every day over the holidays, while he worked within and outside his chain of command to get her the help she needed, which meant finding her a bed in a VA hospital shortly after the holidays.
Extending the battle buddy pledge amounts to a life long commitment. It means that I, not the system, am responsible when someone reaches out for help -- without hesitation. Another Pentagon friend called me about three months after he came home from his second Iraq tour and said he needed help.
We talked and, since I am not a clinician, I referred him to an active duty psychiatrist friend who steered him to the kind of counseling he needed without a trace back on his records. Despite what Defense Department leaders say, there's still stigma attached to seeking mental health help, and it's a career killer.
Three years ago I sat down at the Pentagon with some friends and said I needed to talk about The One Bad Vietnam Day and did so for about 30 minutes. They in turn, for the first time, talked about their bad Afghanistan and Iraq days in a meeting that ended in tears from the verbal relief of a crippling burden. I could not have done this with civilians.
I also acknowledged that I needed professional help, and thanks to now retired Army Brig. Gen. Lori Sutton, who ran the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury, found a therapist in Santa Fe who served as a Marine in Vietnam a year after I completed my tour. I immediately trusted him as we shared a common experience.
Survivor guilt is common to combat vets. In my case that stemmed from failing to prevent the suicide of a Marine Vietnam buddy more than a decade ago. I finally managed to lift that weight this year after a long conversation with another veteran who knew and loved both of us, illustrating again the healing power of one vet talking to another.
This August President Obama signed an executive order for improved access to mental health care for veterans and their families, which required the VA to hire 800 peer counselors by the end of the year.
This is a small step towards incorporating a therapy that works into the system, but I think the VA needs to hire thousands of battle buddies. Meanwhile, I am responsible for doing what I can do to help other vets.
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