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Valley of Flowers is a vibrant and splendid national park reposing in West Himalayas. Nestled in Uttarakhand, this alluring place is famous for its charming meadows of alpine flowers. Endowed with a diverse range of endemic flora, it is picturesque in its beauty. This lush region is also home to some rare and endangered animal species. You may spot animals like Asiatic black deer, snow leopard, musk deer, red fox, brown bear and blue sheep. High in the lofty Himalayas of the Garhwal region sprawls this enchanting valley. Legends believe it to be the place from where Hanuman had collected the Sanjeevani buti for curing Lakshmana. This place has floral pastures, running streams and beautiful backdrop of the mountains.
It's a core zone of Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve. A colossal expanse of 87.5 sq kms and myriad alpine flowers makes this place a colorful paradise. Perched at an altitude of 3658 mts above sea level, Bhyundar Valley is the home to this surreal place. Historically, the beauty of the place was unknown to world until in 1931, three British mountaineers came here. They lost their way and happened to discover this alluring valley and named it Valley of Flowers. Later in the year 1939, Joan Margaret Legge, a botanist arrived here to study flowers. She was deputed by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Krew but she lost her life by slipping from the rocky terrain. Her sister later came here and erected a memorial near the spot.
Location of Valley of Flowers
Valley of Flowers is located 300 Kms North of Rishikesh, near Badrinath. You need to Travel by Road till Govindghat and from there the trek to Valley of Flowers starts. Govindghat is 20 Kms before Badrinath. Till Govidghat there is a motor-able Road. Rishiksh is 6 Hours Drive from New Delhi, India.
Emerald mountain ranges, green meadows and white clouds fuse to create a dreamlike locale called Valley of Flowers. Cascading waterfalls are abundant while you're traversing towards the valley. Declared as the National Park in 1982, the vibrant valley is a world heritage site as well. The pristine beauty, mystical surroundings lures nature lovers, photographers and botanists.
Valley of Flowers remains covered with a thick blanket of snow during the winter season. It is in full bloom during July, August and September. This is the best time to explore the splendor of this magnificent place. The aqua waters of Pushpawati River bifurcates the valley into two parts. Dew drops of flowers, the rhythmic sound of flowing water and the romantic breeze can be enjoyed by the visitors during the period of July to September. As per the local beliefs, this valley was inhabited by fairies. No wonder, it's a fairy land.
Ghangaria is the base camp for the trek to Valley of Flowers. It has private lodges and hotels for accommodation. One cannot stay at Valley of Flowers, therefore Ghangaria remains an ideal place to relax and sleep. It is managed and administered by the Uttarakhand State Forestry Department and Ministry of Environment and Forests. Settlement in this park is not allowed and grazing is also banned since 1983.
A beautiful world awaits here at the endearing spot. We offer attractive trekking packages and arrangements for all budgets. You could book online and avail great prices. It's a wonderland of natural beauty that shouldn't be missed.
Location of Valley of Flowers
Valley of Flowers is located in Chamoli district in the state of Uttarakhand India. This is remotely located and it takes minimum 3 days to reach Valley of Flowers from Haridwar. The last motor-able point is Govindghat. You can check our trek itinerary page for more day wise information. It is around 500 km from New Delhi and 300 km from Haridwar. You can check our page on how to reach Valley of Flowers, we have given distances between important points and time required between them, different modes of transportation available to reach Valley of Flowers.
Opening and Closing dates of Valley of Flowers.
Valley of Flowers opens on 1st June every year and closes on 4th October, but the valley remained closed for public in 2013 after the floods in June 2013 till 4th October, 2014 as the trek between Ghangaria and Valley of Flowers was damaged. It was reconstructed by September, 2014 and valley was opened for public for 6 days from 4th October to 9th October, 2014. You can visit out best time to visit Valley of Flowers page to know what will be best time among these four months of accessibility of the valley.
Valley of Flowers timings (Opening and closing timings of the valley)
Valley of Flowers opens at 7.00 am every day and last entry is allowed till 2.00 pm. You need to get out of the valley by 5 pm. You should be at the entry gate at 6.45 so as to take your entry ticket sooner and enter by 7.00 am. You should start back by 1.30pm so as to reach back by 5.00 pm.
Best time to visit Valley of Flowers
The best time to visit Valley of Flowers depends upon what you like to see and how rough and tough you are. You will find maximum number of flowers in July and August. Please read out full page on Best time to visit Valley of Flowers for detailed information.
Valley of Flowers in June
Please see the following link for gallery of flowers found in June
Valley of Flowers in July
Valley of Flowers in August
Valley of Flowers in September
Valley of Flowers in October.
Valley of Flowers entry fee.
Like entry fee for most of other tourist places in India the entry fee is separate for Indian nationals and foreigners. Entry fee for Valley of Flowers is Rs. 150 for Indian Nationals and Rs. 600 (US$ 10 Approx) for foreigners. This entry ticket is valid for 3 days for any extra day Indians need to pay Rs. 50 whereas foreigners need to pay Rs. 250. To take a professional video camera inside the valley Indians need to pay Rs. 500 and for foreigners it is Rs. 1500 for a day.
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Valley of Flowers Pictures
Following are some of the pictures of Valley of Flowers taken in Various seasons. For more photos of Valley of Flowers please visit our Valley of Flowers Photo Gallery page. There are many pictures of the valley given there, including pictures of flowers, landscapes and earlier groups taken by us to the valley.
Best Time To Visit Valley of Flowers
The best time to visit Valley of Flowers depends upon your liking as the valley is always beautiful. If you want to see maximum number of flowers July and August is a good time, if you want to see lot of glaciers you should visit in June, to see Brahamkamal flowers at Hemkud August and September is a good time.
Valley of Flowers trek itinerary
Detailed itinerary for Valley of Flowers trek explaining the day wise altitude gain, distance travelled, mode of transportation available and time required to travel between different destinations. Guidance on various options available to skip trekking between Govindghat and Ghangaria.
Valley of Flowers Tour Packages
We also provide packages for trek to Valley of Flowers. If you wish to come with us you can visit this page to see our offers and departures to the valley in upcoming season.
Valley of Flowers Photo Gallery
We have been going to valley for many years and have lot of pictures of the Valley of Flowers and our groups, they are classified in various galleries like flowers gallery, birds' gallery, earlier groups gallery, landscapes and many more, just surf through our galleries to have a virtual tour to Valley of Flowers.
Things to carry for trek to Valley of Flowers
When you are on a trekking tour you should know what are the things to carry for the trek. We have many years of experience and based on that experience we have made a list of things to carry for trek to Valley of Flowers.
How to Reach Valley of Flowers
It is important to know before starting the trip that how to reach Valley of Flowers? How many days are required for the trip to the valley? Distances between various points and time required to travel between them.
Frequently asked questions About the Valley
Can senior citizens visit Valley of Flowers?
Senior citizens also want to come to this heaven on earth but they are confused about whether they can do it or not. We have been taking senior citizens to the Valley of Flowers. There are options of helicopter and ponies to skip trekking.
What type of shoes is appropriate for Valley of Flowers ?
When you go for trek you should wear appropriate type of shoes so that your main concentration is on trekking and enjoying nature. We have seen that shoes of many people breaks while trekking and sometimes people develop blisters.
Minimum age to visit Valley of Flowers
Whether kids can do the trek to Valley of Flowers or not? What is the minimum age requirement to visit the Valley of Flowers? Please read this full page to get the answer to this question. Couples with young children willing to visit Valley of Flowers can go through this page.
Number of Days required in seeing Valley of Flowers
Minimum number of days recommended going for trek to Valley of Flowers. Why we need an extra day for the trip. Read full report with pictures of the valley.
How difficult is Valley of Flowers trek.
Trek difficulty of the Valley of Flowers trek. Vital statistics are given here. How much altitude is to be gained every day while trekking? How much distance is to be covered every day? What is Fitness level required for the trek?
Valley of Flowers after floods.
Valley of Flowers has witnessed a massive flood in 2013. We were the first to report that the flowering area of the valley is totally intact. Now the Valley of Flowers has become again accessible and all the treks and bridges have been reconstructed.


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What You Should Know About . . . PEP! (The "Morning After" Pill)
February 2001
A couple of months ago, my co-worker took a phone call from a person who was desperate to find a place to get the "morning after" pill for free after having unprotected sex 72 hours ago. It took several questions to figure out that the caller was not interested in the birth control version of the "morning after" pill, but what is referred to as PEP -- post exposure prophylaxis.
PEP is the standard of care for a health care worker who has been exposed to an HIV risk situation such as being stuck by a needle used on an HIV-positive patient. The medicine given seeks to attack the virus after it attaches to a lymph cell but before it has a chance to burrow into the nucleus and begin reproducing. Although historically used for health care workers, many cities are now offering this intervention to persons who may have been exposed to HIV through sex or drug use. The data shows that there was a 79% reduction in the odds of infection in health care workers who received PEP. Because of this, many HIV activists are beginning to ask if PEP should be offered to the general population as a prevention effort.
Okay, back to the story. My co-worker did the best he could to figure out what to do to help this caller, but unfortunately Atlanta does not offer PEP in a clinic-like setting for free. The caller quickly called back (and got me) to voice his anger at why Atlanta did not offer this service. I could not explain why Atlanta did not offer this, but felt the caller just needed someone to listen. As the caller spoke, I remember thinking, "What the hell were you thinking 72 hours ago?" I mean, even if we had free PEP available, I was afraid that the referral would be too late. I did call a private doctor's office who said that they would see the caller; however, he would need to come in that very second! The office worker also explained that there would be a charge, as well as the necessity for the person to completely adhere to the medication regimen. The cost could range anywhere from $600 - $2500 (with few insurance carriers willing to pay), as well as the possibility that side effects may be experienced (nausea, headaches, etc.).
I am glad that the caller called us because up until recently, I only thought about PEP in reference to nurses who get needle sticks in hospitals. They get a needle stick, call employee health for assessment, and if appropriate, start the protocol for antiretrovirals. A recent U.S. Centers for Disease Control statement on the management of nonoccupational exposures to HIV concluded that since no data exist regarding the efficacy of nonoccupational exposure, recommendations for or against its use cannot yet be made. To collect needed information, the National Nonoccupational HIV Postexposure Prophylaxis Registry has been created. In the meantime, however, some clinics and physician offices have started offering PEP for non-occupational exposures. Some charge and some do not.
Before we get into details, I want to talk about what really happens when someone wants to start taking PEP after a sexual or drug using exposure. First of all, it is not a "morning after" pill! You do not just take one pill the morning after! (Okay, I feel better.) This is what happens: First, you must call the doctor or clinic, between 24 to 72 hours after the exposure (the earlier the better). Then the following will most likely occur.
These are the guidelines for PEP after sexual and drug exposures to HIV developed at San Francisco Department of Public Health/ San Francisco General Hospital:
If a decision is made to treat the patient, treat for 28 days with a two-drug antiretroviral regimen. The following are treatment regimens that may be offered:
Standard Treatment Regimen
Alternate Regimen 1
Alternate Regimen 2
With any of the above regimens the physician may:
The source partner (if the partner information is available) evaluation will ask questions regarding the following topics:
HIV risk reduction counseling for all patients:
Follow-up evaluation:
Clearly this is not a "morning after" pill. Again, there is no research to show that PEP works for non-occupational exposure; however, "they" are currently gathering data. PEP can be quite expensive if you are not in a city that offers this service for free -- it can cost anywhere from $600.00 to $2,500.00. A package of condoms costs less.
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John Cena's a busy man. On Sunday, he'll step into the ring to face the 7-foot-tall, 500-pound Big Show for the WWE U.S. Championship at Wrestlemania XX. But his biggest challenge may lie even further down the road, as Cena prepares to enter the rap game. The rising WWE star has proven that he can move arenas with his mic skills as easily as he does with his in-ring skills, and his debut album is expected to arrive later this year. Through the power of his weekly appearances on the WWE's Smackdown, the self-proclaimed "Doctor of Thuganomics" has already tried out his rhymes on millions of ears, but is he ready to go toe-to-toe with hip-hop's big dogs? Who better than Method Man to find out? The hip-hop icon (and wrestling fan) sat down with Cena recently to talk about their shared loves: wrestling and hip-hop.
Method Man: When did you fall in love with hip-hop?
John Cena: In 1985, my dad bought me a CD player for Christmas. This is when CDs first came out. I wanted the boom box with the TV in it. I got the CD instead. I didn't even know what CDs were. I was rocking tapes like everybody else. One of the first CDs he ever got me was the Fat Boys' Crushin': "The Fat Boys are back/ And you know they can never be wack!" Right after that, everything just kind of fell into place. I wore that CD out, then everything else hit after that. I must have been 10.
Method Man: Are all your rhymes you say when you come out the ring written, or off the head?
Cena: A lot of stuff is off the top of the head, but because they let me go off the top of the head so much, sometimes I say things that make Vince [McMahon] go, "It's a little too raw for TV." Now I burnt my bridges too much, so I gotta run everything by everybody to make sure, but once in a while I'll try to slip my stuff in.
Method Man: You are officially a rapper, 'cause they hit us with that every day, all day. "Can we have a chart of the lyrics so we can know everything you're going to say? No, that's not acceptable!" Last year at Wrestlemania, you issued an open challenge for a rapper to come battle you, and no one answered the call. How surprising is that?
Cena: That was something I could understand. I've been doing this rap thing not for a while, only two or three months. I'm a small-time white kid trying to represent hip-hop. If a hip-hop artist comes up and beats me in a battle, who did they beat? A small-town white kid who ain't never been an MC, who ain't never done nothing. Now if an MC comes to battle and they get beat by a small-town white boy, that's MC suicide. So there wasn't a positive aspect for the rapper, nothing positive that the rapper could gain out of it. There is no exposure they can possibly have, so I can understand why it didn't pan out. We had a little fun with that anyway. We had cardboard cutouts, just poking fun at people. It's all fun. We keep it on wax. There's no worries ... nothing's going wrong.
Method Man: And plus, a lot of y'all rap dudes can't fight anyway, so all you'd have to do is just sit on it and be easy.
Cena: Nah, we had some fun instead. Hopefully, at the end of the year, or the years to come, you'll see some hip-hop people like Meth up on WWE!
Method Man: If you had a choice of rappers, what MC would you choose as your tag-team partner — present company excluded?
Cena: Man, Bone Crusher's a big dude, and he ain't never scared! I ain't forgetting about him. He's a big dude.
Method Man: And he don't look like he stinks. That's the biggest thing to me. Most fat dudes look like they funky. He don't look like he stink. He look like a rather clean brother.
Cena: I could ride with him, too. I'd be like, "All right. We got to travel, but you ain't gonna stink up the car. You're a big dude, so you're gonna hold it down." Bone Crusher, if you need me and you want to slam some bodies down, I ain't never scared!
Method Man How daunting will it be to make people believe you're a legitimate MC?
Cena: Well, the thing is, I'm doing an album. I'm rapping every week. If you watch wrestling, you now know the hip-hop culture is being represented with wrestling. For the longest time, the cultures have almost been parallel. They're very similar, but there's never been that joint, there's never been that bridge. I don't care if they recognize John as an MC or as a rapper. I want people to look at WWE and know that hip-hop is accepted in that circle.
Method Man: Who are some of the people that you're working with on your album?
Cena: I'm looking forward to working with my boy Freddie Fox. Maybe we can get some members of the Wu, maybe Meth, Red. Anybody over there from Def Jam, I'm feeling Joe Budden. Joey's one of my guys. Eminem, obviously I'm a fan of his. Pretty much my feel toward MCs is, if you really got heart, you got passion, let's get on and do something. I like doing stuff with people that's real.
Method Man: So, there's not a collaboration that's about to go down with 'NSYNC or Christina Aguilera?
Cena: I won't be doing that.
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A few nights ago, I watched a PBS special called "Anatomy of an Avalanche." It described in detail how a 1999 snow slide demolished most of a thought-to-be-safe Austrian ski village. It also investigated the causes of avalanches, including how and when they happen. I highly recommend this program to anyone who, like me, is either a big-mountain skier or a high-country climber — or is in any way involved in the fitness business.
The current health club industry is a lot like an avalanche in formation. With my apologies ahead of time to experts, here's how an avalanche forms. A fixed amount of snow at the bottom is covered by another layer that melts over time, causing a somewhat irregular structure as it re-freezes. Then, further precipitation and wind create a top layer that sits on the unstable middle layer. It is only a matter of time — and mass — until the top layer slides off the weaker mid-layer, and a catastrophe has begun. In other words, an avalanche is caused by elemental weakness at the center.
Regular readers of this column will note that I have, for some time, been saying that there is an overabundance of clubs in most marketplaces today. There's too much growth in supply for too little growth in demand.
Likening an avalanche-in-waiting to our business, the base is those clubs that have been around mostly since the modern inception of the industry in the mid-1970s. They are solid operators that are well capitalized, have established their market presence and will likely ride out most storms. I estimate that this sector represents 10 percent of the facilities in the United States or about 3,000 clubs. The top layer consists of all those players that have come into the market within the last half-dozen years. They take many forms, physical-space sizes and types of membership offerings. Many of them are undercapitalized, weak in management structure, poorly marketed and seem to have little understanding of the industry in general. They are very rapidly "heavying" the entire superstructure of this snow mass. They probably represent 40 percent of the facility count or about 12,000 clubs.
The center is the independent, mostly small-in-size (usually less than 20,000 square feet), often designated as "ma-and-pa" operators who came into the business in the mid-1980s through the mid-late 1990s. While they benefited from the surge in both exercise interest and membership inquiries in the 1990s, in general they did not put a lot back into their clubs in terms of re-investment, training of staff and/or re-programming to meet the new needs of varying customer bases. Over the last five years, they have tried to adapt to change (they have "thawed" and "re-frozen"), but they have not successfully done so in the bigger picture. They are a weak center and are in the process of crumbling. They represent roughly half the industry or some 15,000 facilities.
When an avalanche begins, the top layer slides, exposing and pulling with it the less secure middle layer, and then the entire load pulls a piece of the bottom layer with it. In seconds, a hundred thousand tons of snow is hurtling down a mountainside at speeds in excess of 150 miles per hour. It wipes out everything in its path in very rapid fashion. Usually, within less than 3 minutes, the entire event is over, leaving in its wake a heap of destruction, extremely heavily packed snow and a "dust cloud" of finely grained powder that suffocates everything in the air around it.
Following a disaster such as the one described above, the village usually rebuilds, though many who have been there leave and never come back. Some stay and go about business as usual. Often, new money comes in and occupies the spaces left by those who exited. Frequently, a stronger and more avalanche-resistant new town emerges in place of the old.
While I do not believe that a health club industry avalanche would or will occur this rapidly, in relative time the slide is about to begin. The movement of the mass will likely take about two years, the settling out a bit longer than that. But it is clear to me that the conditions are ripe, because the center of our industry is weak.
We can't avoid this blow, and it's much too late to simply fix it. In the rebuilding, I envision new money coming in from outside and building a better, stronger platform for success (it's already happening in some measure). And our great experiment will go on — it just won't be what it used to be.
Michael Scott Scudder is a 30-year veteran of the fitness industry. He is a personal business trainer operating Fitness Focus, a consulting company that offers private workshops on pertinent fitness business matters. Questions and comments are welcomed by Michael at 505-690-5974 or email@example.com.


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Kanye West Unveils 'Cruel Summer' Film + Album
Kanye West revealed on Friday (May 18) the title of his highly-anticipated G.O.O.D. Music compilation album. The collection is titled 'Cruel Summer' and it boasts contributions from labelmates Big Sean, Pusha T, Q-Tip, Kid Cudi and newly-signed member Teyana Taylor.
In addition to the album, Yeezy will also present his self-directed short film of the same name on May 23 at the Cannes Film Festival as an out-of-competition film. According to NBC Chicago, West promises "a fusion of short film and art installation" and an "immersive seven-screen experience." Fans can cop tickets at kanyewest.com/cruelsummer for a limited time.
As we previously reported, West filmed the movie last month in the Middle East nation state of Qatar. The hush-hush movie project is 30-minutes long and reportedly will star rapper-actor Kid Cudi and funnyman Aziz Ansari.
"Kanye conceived the story, which is set in the Gulf," said an insider about the film. "It's supposed to showcase the beauty of the region, a piece that's culturally sensitive and embraces the customs and traditions of the region."
As for the G.O.O.D. Music compilation, no release date has been set for the LP, but judging by the title, it's definitely coming in the summer. The set's first single is 'Mercy,' which features Big Sean, Pusha T and (maybe, possibly G.O.O.D. Music artist) 2 Chainz.
This isn't the first time West has sat in the director's chair. In 2010, he directed a 35-minute video for his song 'Runaway,' which appears on his Grammy-winning rap album 'My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.'
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Rece Steele From Vh1's Miss Rap Supreme Shows WSHH Love & Freestyles! (Compilation)
Back in 07, we told ya Rece Steele was gonna be a problem. Now shes a contestant on VH1's Miss Rap Supreme show. We made a Compilation video of some of Rece's freestyles. Since Rece show'd us some love, we had to hold her down and had to bring it back. You can tune in every monday at 10PM /9C On Vh1, to watch Rece, Khia, & more girls try to be crowned the new queen of female rap. We def got our money on Rece as one of the final contestants. Check out Rece's myspace at www.myspace.com/recesteele
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Office Party Tips
The holiday season is here again – and so is the email invitation to the official office holiday party.
While this annual event can be a fun way to socialize with colleagues and maybe blow off a little steam, remember that it's still your company holiday party – and not a football game tailgate with your college buds.
1. Don't forget it's a work function
The holiday party is bound to be more casual than a board meeting or conference call, but it's still a work event. Act that way.
2. Don't drink too much alcohol
You're sure to see your bosses and subordinates with glasses of wine in hand, but don't take that as your cue to throw back a few. Arrive sober, only drink what you can handle, and leave before you're woozy. You don't want alcohol-induced inhibition to suddenly inspire you to do or say something you'll regret later.
3. Don't do something gossipy office-mates could misconstrue later
You don't want to find yourself cozying up all evening with your adorable, 22-year-old assistant. Just as suspicious: cornering the corporate owner to promote all the successful initiatives you've been working on. The attendees will vividly recall what went down – and they'll talk about it later.
4. Dress appropriately
You may read the words 'holiday party' and envision an opportunity to get some use out of a sparkly top or Santa suit, but you're going to be mingling with your manager and subordinates. Don't let what you intend to be festive attire convey something illicit or unbusinesslike about you.
5. Prepare talking points
You'll be rubbing shoulders with people you want to impress. You don't want to find yourself at an inexplicable loss for words when you're conversing with a coworker, especially one who is more senior than you are and doesn't know you that well. Some solid subjects to mine: how you're spending the holidays, upcoming vacations or something cultural you're looking forward to like a current movies or museum exhibit.
6. Avoid topics meant for closed doors
The holiday party is not the time to bring up the raise or promotion you thought you should have gotten, nor is it a chance to make a pitch to increase your bonus. If needed, save conversations like those for a one-on-one meeting with the appropriate manager.
7. Don't eat too much
You don't want it to look this holiday party is the first time you've been invited somewhere or like you're starving for free food. Besides, you don't want to wind up with broccoli stuck in your teeth, or tomato sauce on your white shirt.
8. Recognize the holiday party is a career opportunity
Have you been wanting to meet a senior executive or a peer in a different department because you have a similar career path or passion? Maybe you have a former colleague or hobby in common? The holiday party is the perfect chance to rub elbows with those people you wouldn't ordinarily have a natural way to – and use it to your professional advantage.


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Keith Urban Sports a Speedo by the Pool on His Birthday
Spotted: Keith Urban in his birthday suit. Okay, not exactly in his birthday suit, per se, but the 'For You' singer was snapped in a teeny, tiny speedo on his 45th birthday on Friday (Oct. 26).
Although Urban has been busy filming the upcoming 12th season of 'American Idol,' he squeezed in a short birthday getaway to France to see his wife and daughters, Sunday Rose and Faith Margaret. The country crooner's wife, Nicole Kidman, has been living in France to film 'Grace of Monaco.' Kidman will star as Grace Kelley in the movie.
Urban wasn't at all shy about showing off his cut 45-year-old bod, even with cameras snapping. The new 'Idol' judge relaxed poolside at his hotel in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, keeping it European in his fitted, black bathing suit. E! reported that the award-winning singer relaxed and splashed around with his young daughter, Sunday, while there. Kidman skipped out on pool time to spend some quality time with the couple's other daughter.
Unfortunately for the country star — but fortunately for his fans! — Urban can't rest on his laurels for long. There are more 'American Idol' episodes to film as the series gears up for its premiere on Jan. 16.
But don't think that the 'You Gonna Fly' hitmaker is all about the reality TV these days. Urban has told the press in no uncertain terms that making music is still his No. 1 career priority. Just a few weeks ago, the country singer posted a photo to Twitter of himself working in the studio. Looks like some new Urban tunes could be on the way soon, but for now, the country star deserves a little break from all of his hard work — and we thank him.


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It's a far cry from Hogwarts!
Emma Watson has abandoned her clean-cut Hermione look to play a bad girl in the upcoming movie The Bling Ring, about the five-person Los Angeles gang that burgled the homes of celebrities such as Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan and Orlando Bloom in 2008 and 2009, when most of its members were teenagers.
Watson, who turns 22 Sunday, was photographed on the Los Angeles set filming scenes in a bra, a black leather jacket, and skimpy denim shorts as her character, Nicki. Earlier in the week, she shot scenes for the movie at Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, Calif., where Lohan has served time.
"Filming Bling Ring is going great. As Israel would say 'we are slaying this!'. Thanks for the good luck messages," Watson Tweeted last week, referring to her costar Israel Broussard.
The movie, written and directed by Sofia Coppola, is scheduled to be released next year.


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Beacons & Barriers Level Building Competition has Begun!
Get ready to create all new levels in the Robot Virtual Worlds' Level Builder! Sign up for Beacons and Barriers, the Robotics Summer of Learning level design competition.
Beacons and Barriers is a design competition primarily intended for kids aged 12-18, but open to all, that is focused on creating fun and challenging levels using the Robot Virtual Worlds' (RVW) Level Builder and Model Importer. In addition, the participants will write a succinct and easy to read set of instructions for completing the level. The competition is hosted online at the Computer Science Student Network (CS2N).
This competition offers a unique opportunity for students to create levels and get feedback from their peers. They will also give feedback on their peers' work. Everyone learns not only how to evaluate projects logically, but also how to effectively communicate their assessment.
Entries will be judged based upon their difficulty, uniqueness, length, and fun factor. Their instructions will be judged on their ease of comprehension and grammatical correctness. The project's final score for the competition will be based on the scores given by their peer reviewers.
There will be three divisions for this competition: Middle School, High School, and Open. The top five in each division will win the prizes listed below. Students in Middle School and High School who place in the top five will need to submit verification from their school about the grade they will be entering in for the 2013-2014 school year. The top entries from the competition will also be highlighted in a blog post after the competition, and the 1st place level will be posted on future CS2N Level building competitions as a benchmark for success.
Registration for the Beacons and Barriers level building challenge is available now, and is open to all members of the CS2N community.
Registering is easy:
1. Visit the Beacons and Barriers Main Page
2. Login to your account or register for CS2N.
3. Click on the box under "Step 1: Register."
The final level file and instructions are due by August 31st, 2013. Don't forget to look at the rubric that your level and instructions will be evaluated on. The files must be submitted in a zipped folder containing the .rvl file for your level and either a .pdf, .rtf, or .txt file that contains your instructions.
If you have any questions, whether it is about the RVW level editor, the competition, or how to do things like zip files, create pdfs, and so on, send your question to CS2N through "Contact Us"
We'll do our best to respond to your question as soon as possible.
Remember: The competition does not end with the submission of files. Participants must grade and give feedback on other projects during the first two weeks of September (September 1st until September 14th, 2013). Each participant will have 5 other projects that they must review and give feedback. Participants will not be able to win prizes if they do not complete their evaluations. After the evaluation period ends, participants may choose to give their evaluators feedback on how useful their evaluation was.
The final winners of the competition will be announced on October 1st, 2013


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Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Crank Organ Music
After a week of re-learning music theory I punched out some music for my organ. I built a few tools so I can measure everything to scale. It was fun seeing music made with holes on paper. The paper had to be cut exactly 5 1/2 inches wide, and the length is based on how long the song is. For every second of music, 70mm of paper is needed.
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Wood County, WV Cemeteries Project
Wood County West Virginia Cemeteries Project
Hi, I am Peggy Smith and would like to welcome you to the Wood County, WV Cemeteries Project. If you would like to contribute headstone photos, obituaries or would like to transcribe and take pictures of a cemetery in your area, please
email me
Volunteers Needed!!!
Let's help those who cannot make the trip to these cemeteries and get these headstone photos online to share with everyone! Volunteers are Greatly Needed and Greatly Appreciated!!!
Photo Submission & Cemetery Surveys Guidelines
Tracewell Cemetery
Partial Survey From Photos
Peggy Smith
Misc. Wood County Obits
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This article originally appeared on the Election Law @ Moritz website and is reposted with permission.
As history has shown, almost anything can go wrong in an election. DRE machines can be misprogrammed, memory cards can be lost, ballots can be designed in a confusing manner that leads to over- and undervotes, VVPAT printers can run out of ink, election officials can fail to cooperate with one another, polls can open late or not at all and, if we somehow miraculously avoid all these pitfalls, perhaps a flood will sweep in to disturb what would otherwise have been a smooth election. Any one of these problems could manifest in '08 and cause a repeat of the 2000 Presidential debacle but, after reading a draft of a paper produced by a colleague, I have come to believe that the most likely basis for a Presidential legal fight in 2008 is the counting of provisional ballots right here in my home state of Ohio.
In order to avoid causing undue alarm, it is important to emphasize that I do not actually think that the election disaster I am about to describe is going to occur. Rather, there is only a small chance (say, about 1%) that the Presidential result will both depend on Ohio and also be close enough to justify litigation over provisional ballots. Nevertheless, I think that this scenario is more likely to occur than any other potential election disaster. Furthermore, the harm that might come to us if this scenario does occur is serious enough to justify giving the matter some attention.
Here is why a 2008 Presidential candidate might dispute the counting of Ohio's provisional ballots. First, because Ohio is such a swing state, the margin of victory is likely to be small. This in itself increases the likelihood of a dispute, because candidates know that they would only have to gain a tiny percentage of the overall vote to change the result of the election. Second, compared to other states, voters in Ohio cast a huge number of provisional ballots. Provisional ballots, unlike ordinary ballots, come with supporting documentation that in a recount or election contest can be used to prove whether they were eligible to be counted. Thus, provisional ballots are an easy target for litigation attempting to overturn the result of an election.
This combination of a low expected margin of victory and a high number of cast provisional ballots is not present (or at least not as present) in any other state, especially not any state as influential as Ohio (see page 9 of 2004 Election Day Survey—Florida has only a measly .27% of the overall registered population casting provisional ballots, while Ohio has 1.98%). About 2.8 ballots out of every 100 in the 2004 Ohio Presidential race were cast provisionally, and in November of 2006 about 3.1 ballots out of every 100 (see page 22 of Moritz Joyce report). If we assume the same provisional voting rate of 3.1% will remain constant, and assume that turnout figures are exactly the same as they were in 2004, then that means 177,396 provisional ballots will be cast in the 2008 Ohio Presidential election (as opposed to 158,642 that were cast in 2004). This well exceeds the margin of victory of 118,601 that we saw in Ohio in 2004 and, if the stars fall into tragic alignment, in 2008 the number of provisional ballots cast could exceed the margin of victory many times over.
You see where I am going.
If it comes to this point, there will be a number of complicating factors that inject further chaos: Ohio's confusing, labyrinthine provisional ballot statute (see my attempt at explaining it in question #31), alleged failure of elections officials to operate fairly and uniformly (see LOWV v. Blackwell), a series of procedural failures occurring in the state's most populous county (Cuyahoga), an untested chief elections officer managing her first big election and, for extras, the fact that Ohio courts by statute no longer have jurisdiction over Presidential election contests. O.R.C. § 3515.08(A). Furthermore, because election contests are the exclusive remedy for election wrongs, Ohio courts also would not have jurisdiction over any other type of action to try to change the result of the election. State ex rel. Mackey v. Blackwell, 106 Ohio St.3d 261, 264 (Ohio, 2005). And even if Ohio courts did have jurisdiction, one wonders whether Ohio's all-Republican Supreme Court would not be attacked, however fairly or unfairly, for any judgment it issued on the matter.
The one thing that may save us, assuming a squeaker where provisional are in controversy, is Ohio's recount statute. Any candidate can obtain a recount in Ohio, and a recount would give the apparent loser the opportunity to go over the provisional ballots (although this has been an issue in the past) and make an informed decision about whether a lawsuit is really justified. R.C. 3515.01. Where candidates satisfy themselves that there is little chance of victory in an election contest, they may make a strategic decision to forego such a contest in order to avoid being labeled a sore loser. Still, the recount will probably do nothing to stop litigation where the margin of victory is exceedingly close or where the very procedures used to count provisional ballots are themselves in dispute.
I cannot see into the future and, like I said, actually do not think an election disaster is going to occur in the 2008 Presidential year. However, if I was told that a disaster was going to occur and asked to predict its nature, I would describe the scenario alluded to above. And if that happens, let us just say that, for those of us in the election administration community, our lives are going to become very interesting.


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33.6Kbps Laser Fax Machine
33.6Kbps Laser Fax machine
High Speed Super G3 Fax
The high speed 33.6 kbps modem built into the Panasonic KX-FL421 is designed for super fast and efficient document transmissions (up to 4 seconds per page1). The built-in Junk Fax Prohibitor feature helps prevent unwanted faxes from being received and wasting valuable toner and paper.
Convenient Desktop Copier
The built-in ADF on the the KX-FL421, allows the machine to be used as a desktop copier. Great for home office users who need to make an occasional copy. The KX-FL421 has a rated print speed of up to 10 CPM2 (Copies Per Minute)
See Who's Calling at a Glance
The KX-FL421 fax machine is Caller ID3 compatible so you can see who's calling before answering. Utilizing the devices 2 line by 16 character LCD display, you're able to see the name and number of your incoming callers. You can even display and print a list of Caller ID activity. All of this adds up to a great time saving feature for both business and personal use.
1. Transmission speed is based on the ITU-T No. 1 Test Chart
2. Based on letter size paper.
3. Requires subscription to Caller ID, a fee-based phone company service(s).
SpecificationsExpand All
- Print Method Laser
- Print Speed up to 10 PPM
- Paper Tray Capacity 250 sheets
- ADF Capacity 15 sheets
- 2-Line, 16-character LCD Display Yes
- Fax Modem Speed 33.6 Kbps Super G3 Fax
Transmission Speed4 seconds per page
Quick ScanYes
- Data Compression System MH/MR/MMR
Fax memory capacity
Approx. 120 pages of memory transmission
Approx. 170 pages of memory reception
Out of Paper ReceptionYes
- ECM Yes
- Dual Access Yes
- One-Touch Stations 20 x 3 station
- Speed Dial Stations 100
- Delayed Transmission Yes
- Journal Report Yes
- Telephone Handset Yes (Corded)
- TEL/TAD/FAX Switching Yes
- Redial Yes
Caller IDYes
- PC Print No
- Print Resolution 600 x 600 dpi
- Memory Copy Speed 10 CPM
- Resolution (Copier) 600 x 600 dpi
- Multi-Copy up to 99
- Reduction Copy 25% to 400% (1% step)
- Enlargement Copy 25% to 400% (1% step)
- Collate/Sort/Copy Yes
Power Consumption
Standby: Approx. 2 W
Transmission: Approx. 12 W
Reception: Approx. 240 W
Copy: Approx. 240 W
Maximum: Approx. 950 W
- Dimensions (H x W x D) 8.6'' x 14.2'' x 14.1''
- Weight 16 lbs
- PC Scan No
- PC Fax No
- Copy Yes
- Auto Fax Reduction Yes
- Warranty 6 Months Parts & Labor
Toner + Drum Units
How do I remove a document/paper jammed?Note: Unplug the unit from the outlet.
To remove a jammed document/paper, you will need to open the front cover and pull the paper towards you. You may also clean the feed roller with a lint free cloth that is dampened with alcohol.
For specific information please consult your operating manual.
Why is the fax machine not recording the incoming message?If the answering part of the unit wont receive messages, first be sure that the auto answer is set to tam/fax mode and the red light button should be lit up. If it still doesn't work, you may try unplugging the unit from the power for initial reset. If it doesn't work, call Panasonic technical support hotline for further instruction.
Will there be a fax driver software that will work on my latest Mac Operating System?For Mac OS X 10.5 / 10.6 / 10.7
Panasonic supports following functions:
- Printer Driver
- Scanner Driver (Pull Scan)
- Push Scan
- PC fax driver (sending only, fax supported models only)
For Mac OS X 10.3 / 10.4
Panasonic supports following function:
- Printer Driver
More detail, just go to http://panasonic.net/pcc/support/fax/world.htm.
What does it mean by "fax in memory" on the display?If the display shows "FAX MEMORY FULL" it's possible the document received exceeds the fax machine's memory capacity. The memory will need to be cleared and you will lose any received documents in memory. To clear the memory, remove the power cord for five seconds and reconnect it. Receiving large pictures or colored graphics can consume the memory.


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Yale PRs
Mile 4:23.04
3000m 8:30.35
5000m 14:37.71
10,000m 30:35.40
XC 8k 24:37.60
XC 10k 31:54.40
High School PRs
1600m 4:18
3200m 9:14
2012-2013: Sixth on the team and seventh overall at Fordham...Second on the team and fifth overall against Harvard...Second on the team at the Paul Short and Wisconsin Invitationals...Fifth on the team at Regionals...Placed first in the 3,000-meters and fourth in the mile at the Yale Invitational...Finished second in the 5,000-meters at the Giegengack Invitational and set a PR...Set a PR in the 3,000-meters with his third-place showing at the Tribe Invitational...Placed 16th in the 10,000-meters at outdoor Heps...Competed in the 4x800 meter relay and 10,000-meter run at the outdoor IC4As.
2011-2012: Third on the team at both the Fordham Follies and Fiasco Invitational and the Harvard-Yale meet… Set cross country PR at the Harvard-Yale meet.
2010-2011: Competed in 5000m at outdoor Heps … Placed fifth in 5000m at Harvard-Yale … Finished in top five at Heps and NCAA Regional during cross country.
2009-2010: Competed in 5000m at Springtime Invitational in outdoor … Indoors, ran PRs of 14:45.68 in 5000m at BU Terrier Invitational and 8:43.92 in the 3000m at Dartmouth-Columbia … Ran among Yale's top five at first two cross country meets before illness hampered the rest of his season.
High School: Won the New York state indoor two mile as a junior…Finished fourth at the New York State Federations Cross Country Championships.
Personal: Timothy Dwight College.
Q: Recovery drink / meal of choice?
A: Right after i usually go with the Endurox or Recoverite or what have you of the general recover variety type of drinks. Chocolate is always the best flavor. And then it is generally on to whatever else is on hand when i get home. Today, for instance, was poptarts, an egg sandwich, and some zebra cakes.
Q: Favorite song?
A: Mr. Jones, by Counting Crows. Ah thats a great one!
Q: Facebook or Twitter? (list twitter name if applicable)
A: I think Facebook is more practical, but i think that Twitter is way more fun.
Q: Most memorable race?
A: Harvard Yale XC freshman year, Coach I sent me on a suicide mission. He told me to run with the lead pack in order to trick the Harvard guys into thinking that we had more guys that were going to finish up there than we really did, it was meant to psych them out. So I did, and each time I felt like falling off I just thought of going another mile or half mile, cause you know, I didn't have to finish with them, just stay there as long as I could. I made it almost to the 4 mile mark before I lost 'em, and I thought my goose was cooked. Then I saw one of the harvard's drop off the pack as well, and i gunned him down! It was awesome, a real break out race for me.


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Dwight D. Eisenhower, in full Dwight David Eisenhower (see Researcher's Note), (born October 14, 1890, Denison, Texas, U.S.—died March 28, 1969, Washington, D.C.), 34th president of the United States (1953–61), who had been supreme commander of the Allied forces in western Europe during World War II. (For a discussion of the history and nature of the presidency, see presidency of the United States of America.)
Early career
Eisenhower was the third of seven sons of David Jacob and Ida Elizabeth (Stover) Eisenhower. In the spring of 1891 the Eisenhowers left Denison, Texas, and returned to Abilene, Kansas, where their forebears had settled as part of a Mennonite colony. David worked in a creamery; the family was poor; and Dwight and his brothers were introduced to hard work and a strong religious tradition at an early age.
"Ike," as Dwight was called, was a fun-loving youth who enjoyed sports but took only a moderate interest in his studies. The latter was perhaps a sign of one of his later characteristics: a dislike for the company of scholars. Dwight graduated from Abilene High School in 1909, worked for more than a year to support a brother's college education, and then entered the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, a decision that left his mother, a pacifist, in tears. He excelled in gridiron football but injured a knee in his second year at the academy and was forced to stop playing. In the remarkable class of 1915—which was to produce 59 generals—he ranked 61st academically and 125th in discipline out of the total of 164 graduates.
After being commissioned a second lieutenant, he was sent to San Antonio, Texas, where he met Mamie Geneva Doud (Mamie Eisenhower), daughter of a successful Denver meat packer. They were married in 1916 and had two sons: Doud Dwight, born in 1917, who died of scarlet fever in 1921, and John Sheldon Doud, born in 1922.
During World War I Eisenhower commanded a tank training centre, was promoted to captain, and received the Distinguished Service Medal. The war ended just before he was to be sent overseas. From 1922 to 1924 he was assigned to the Panama Canal Zone, and there he came under the inspiring influence of his commander, Brig. Gen. Fox Conner. With Conner's assistance, Eisenhower was selected to attend the army's Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Then a major, he graduated first in a class of 275 in 1926 and two years later graduated from the Army War College. He then served in France (where he wrote a guidebook of World War I battlefields) and in Washington, D.C., before becoming an aide to Army Chief of Staff Gen. Douglas MacArthur in 1933. Two years later he accompanied MacArthur to the Philippines to assist in the reorganization of the commonwealth's army, and while there he was awarded the Distinguished Service Star of the Philippines and promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel. He returned to the United States shortly after Germany's invasion of Poland initiated the European phase of World War II, and in March 1941 he became a full colonel. Three months later he was made chief of staff of the Third Army, and he soon won the attention of Army Chief of Staff Gen. George C. Marshall for his role in planning war games involving almost 500,000 troops.
Supreme commander
When the United States entered World War II in December 1941, Marshall appointed Eisenhower to the army's war plans division in Washington, D.C., where he prepared strategy for an Allied invasion of Europe. Eisenhower had been made a brigadier general in September 1941 and was promoted to major general in March 1942; he was also named head of the operations division of the War Department. In June Marshall selected him over 366 senior officers to be commander of U.S. troops in Europe. Eisenhower's rapid advancement, after a long army career spent in relative obscurity, was due not only to his knowledge of military strategy and talent for organization but also to his ability to persuade, mediate, and get along with others. Men from a wide variety of backgrounds, impressed by his friendliness, humility, and persistent optimism, liked and trusted him. A phrase that later became one of the most famous campaign slogans in American history seemed to reflect the impression of everyone who met him: "I like Ike!"
Eisenhower was promoted to lieutenant general in July 1942 and named to head Operation Torch, the Allied invasion of French North Africa. This first major Allied offensive of the war was launched on November 8, 1942, and successfully completed in May 1943. Eisenhower's decision to work during the campaign with the French admiral François Darlan, who had collaborated with the Germans, aroused a storm of protest from the Allies, but his action was defended by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. A full general since that February, Eisenhower then directed the amphibious assault of Sicily and the Italian mainland, which resulted in the fall of Rome on June 4, 1944.
During the fighting in Italy, Eisenhower participated in plans to cross the English Channel for an invasion of France. On December 24, 1943, he was appointed supreme commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force, and the next month he was in London making preparations for the massive thrust into Europe. On June 6, 1944, he gambled on a break in bad weather and gave the order to launch the Normandy Invasion, the largest amphibious attack in history. On D-Day more than 156,000 troops landed in Normandy. Invading Allied forces eventually numbered 1,000,000 and began to fight their way into the heart of France. On August 25 Paris was liberated. After winning the Battle of the Bulge—a fierce German counterattack in the Ardennes in December—the Allies crossed the Rhine on March 7, 1945. Germany surrendered on May 7, ending the war in Europe. Although Eisenhower was criticized, then and later, for allowing the Russians to capture the enemy capital of Berlin, he and others defended his actions on several grounds (the Russians were closer, had more troops, and had been promised Berlin at the Yalta Conference of February 1945). In the meantime, in December 1944, Eisenhower had been made a five-star general.
Eisenhower was given a hero's welcome upon returning to the United States for a visit in June 1945, but in November his intended retirement was delayed when Pres. Harry S. Truman named him to replace Marshall as chief of staff. For more than two years Eisenhower directed demobilization of the wartime army and worked to unify the armed services under a centralized command. In May 1948 he left active duty as the most popular and respected soldier in the United States and became president of Columbia University in New York City. His book Crusade in Europe, published that fall, made him a wealthy man.
Eisenhower's brief career as an academic administrator was not especially successful. His technical education and military experience prepared him poorly for the post. In the fall of 1950 President Truman asked him to become supreme commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and in early 1951 he flew to Paris to assume his new position. For the next 15 months he devoted himself to the task of creating a united military organization in western Europe to be a defense against the possibility of communist aggression.
First term as president
As early as 1943 Eisenhower was mentioned as a possible presidential candidate. His personal qualities and military reputation prompted both parties to woo him. As the campaign of 1952 neared, Eisenhower let it be known that he was a Republican, and the eastern wing of the party, headed by Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York, made an intensive effort to persuade him to seek the Republican presidential nomination. His name was entered in several state primaries against the more conservative Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio. Although the results were mixed, Eisenhower decided to run. In June 1952 he retired from the army after 37 years of service, returned to the United States, and began to campaign actively. At the party convention in July, after a bitter fight with Taft supporters, Eisenhower won the nomination on the first ballot. His running mate was Sen. Richard M. Nixon of California. The Democrats nominated Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson of Illinois for president and Sen. John Sparkman of Alabama for vice president.
Despite his age (61), Eisenhower campaigned tirelessly, impressing millions with his warmth and sincerity. His wide, friendly grin, wartime heroics, and middle-class pastimes—he was an avid golfer and bridge player and a fan not of highbrow literature but of the American western—endeared him to the public and garnered him vast support. Like her husband, Mamie Eisenhower projected a down-to-earth image. She remained an ardent supporter of him, though their marriage had been strained by rumours of an affair during World War II between Eisenhower and his driver-secretary Kay Summersby.
Eisenhower urged economy and honesty in government and promised to visit Korea to explore the possibilities for ending the Korean War, which had broken out in 1950 between communist North Korea and pro-Western South Korea and soon involved United Nations (mainly U.S.) troops and communist Chinese forces. Many Republicans, including Nixon, spoke of pro-communist disloyalty within the Truman administration and called for stringent antisubversive measures. The Eisenhower-Nixon ticket won handily, carrying 39 states, winning the electoral vote 442 to 89, and collecting more than 33 million popular votes. The Republican Party won control of Congress by a slim margin but lost both houses two years later.
Eisenhower's basically conservative views on domestic affairs were shared by his secretary of the treasury, George M. Humphrey. The administration's domestic program, which came to be labeled "modern Republicanism," called for reduced taxes, balanced budgets, a decrease in government control over the economy, and the return of certain federal responsibilities to the states. Controls over rents, wages, and prices were allowed to expire, and in 1954 there was a slight tax revision. At Eisenhower's insistence Congress transferred the title to valuable tideland oil reserves to the states. But there was no sharp break with policies inherited from previous Democratic administrations. The needs of an expanding population (which grew from 155 million to 179 million during the Eisenhower era) and the country's overseas commitments caused budget deficits during five out of eight years. The minimum wage was increased to $1 per hour; the Social Security System was broadened; and in the spring of 1953 the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare was created.
The right wing of the Republican Party clashed with the president more often than the Democrats did during his first term. For example, Eisenhower expended a great deal of time and energy defeating the Bricker Amendment of 1954, a bill sponsored by Republican Sen. John Bricker of Ohio that would have limited the president's liberty to negotiate international treaties that violated the rights of U.S. states. The bill fell only one vote short; it was a victory for the president's extensive lobbying campaign. But by far the largest challenge came from Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin. In part to preserve party unity, Eisenhower had refused to publicly condemn Senator McCarthy's charges of communist influence within the government. Although privately Eisenhower expressed his distaste for the senator, at times he seemed to encourage the attacks of McCarthyites. Hundreds of federal employees were fired under his expanded loyalty-security program. With his approval Congress passed a law designed to outlaw the American Communist Party. Following the sensational hearings on McCarthy's charges against army and civilian officials, televised nationally for five weeks in the spring of 1954, McCarthy's popularity waned, as did the anticommunist hysteria.
Foreign affairs drew much of Eisenhower's attention. He and his secretary of state, John Foster Dulles, worked hard at achieving peace by constructing collective defense agreements and by threatening the Soviet Union with "massive retaliatory power"; both strategies were designed to check the spread of communism. Another strategy was unknown to the public at the time but was heavily criticized in later years: the use of the Central Intelligence Agency in covert operations to overthrow governments in Iran (1953) and Guatemala (1954).
Eisenhower kept his campaign promise and visited Korea shortly before his inauguration. Partly, perhaps, because of Joseph Stalin's death in March 1953 and partly because Eisenhower hinted at his willingness to use nuclear weapons, the president was able to negotiate a truce for the Korean War in July 1953. In December of that year he proposed to the United Nations that the countries of the world pool atomic information and materials under the auspices of an international agency. This Atoms for Peace speech bore fruit in 1957, when 62 countries formed the International Atomic Energy Agency.
In July 1955 the president met with leaders of Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union at a summit conference in Geneva. His "open skies" proposal, by which the United States and the Soviet Union would permit continuous air inspection of each other's military installations, was welcomed by world opinion but was rejected by the U.S.S.R. In September 1954 Eisenhower and Dulles succeeded in creating the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) to prevent further communist expansion. It was composed of the United States, France, Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Thailand, and Pakistan. NATO was strengthened in 1955 by the inclusion of West Germany.
Critics contended that there were frequent disparities between the administration's words and its deeds in the field of foreign relations. While threatening to "unleash" Nationalist Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek, the United States signed a defense treaty with Nationalist China in December 1954 that inhibited Chiang's ability to attack the communist Chinese. Moreover, Dulles spoke of "liberating" captive peoples in communist countries, but the administration stopped short of this and limited itself to protests when uprisings occurred in East Germany (1953) and Hungary (1956). While the secretary of state promised "massive retaliation" against communist aggression, the president made the decision to limit the American role in the Indochina crisis between France and the guerrillas led by Ho Chi Minh to pushing for a partition of Vietnam into a communist North and a noncommunist South and to providing financial and military aid to the latter.
Second term
A heart attack in September 1955 and an operation for ileitis in June 1956 raised considerable doubt about Eisenhower's ability to serve a second term. But he recovered quickly, and the Republican convention unanimously endorsed the Eisenhower-Nixon ticket on the first ballot. The Democrats again selected Adlai E. Stevenson and named Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee as his running mate, but Eisenhower's great personal popularity turned the election into a landslide victory, the most one-sided race since 1936, as the Republican ticket garnered more than 57 percent of the popular vote and won the electoral vote 457 to 73. Nevertheless, the Democrats once more captured both houses of Congress, a feat they were to duplicate in 1958. Eisenhower was the first president to serve with three Congresses controlled by the opposition party.
The election campaign of 1956, however, had been complicated by a crisis in the Middle East over Egypt's seizure of the Suez Canal. The subsequent attack on Egypt by Great Britain, France, and Israel and the Soviet Union's support of Egypt prompted the president to go before Congress in January 1957 to urge adoption of what came to be called the Eisenhower Doctrine, a pledge to send U.S. armed forces to any Middle Eastern country requesting assistance against communist aggression.
When the U.S. Supreme Court, on May 17, 1954, declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional (Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka), controversy and violence broke out, especially in the South. In September 1957 Eisenhower dispatched 1,000 federal troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to halt an attempt by Gov. Orval E. Faubus to obstruct a federal court order integrating a high school. This action was the most serious challenge of his presidency. On several occasions Eisenhower had expressed distaste for racial segregation, though he doubtless believed that the process of integration would take time. Significantly, the Civil Rights Act of 1957 was the first such law passed since 1875.
On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I, the first man-made satellite to orbit the Earth. Americans were stunned by the achievement, and many blamed Eisenhower for the administration's insistence on low military budgets and its failure to develop a space program. Steps were taken to boost space research and to provide funds to increase the study of science, and these would culminate in the creation of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in July 1958. The administration again came under fire in the fall of 1957 for an economic recession that lasted through the following summer. For fear of fueling inflation, Eisenhower refused to lower taxes or increase federal spending to ease the slump.
Following the death of Dulles in the spring of 1959, Eisenhower assumed a more vigorous and personal role in the direction of American foreign policy. He traveled over 300,000 miles (480,000 km) to some 27 countries in his last two years of office, a period historians have termed the era of "the new Eisenhower." His masterly use of the new medium of television—holding regularly televised news conferences and participating in high-profile motorcades in foreign capitals around the world—and his exploitation of the advent of jet travel captivated the public and led some scholars to term Eisenhower the first of the imperial presidents. To improve relations with the Soviet Union, he invited Premier Nikita Khrushchev to visit the United States. Khrushchev toured parts of the country in September 1959 and held private talks with Eisenhower. Another summit meeting was planned, and a new era of personal diplomacy seemed at hand. But when a U-2 reconnaissance plane piloted by Francis Gary Powers of the United States was shot down over the U.S.S.R. in May 1960, Khrushchev scuttled the talks and angrily withdrew his invitation to Eisenhower to visit the Soviet Union. Eisenhower admitted that the flights had gone on for four years and shouldered much of the blame for the ill-timed affair. In January 1961, during the last weeks of the Eisenhower administration, the United States broke diplomatic relations with Cuba, which for two years had been under the control of Fidel Castro.
Although his administrations had a great many critics, Eisenhower remained extraordinarily popular. In his Farewell Address he warned against the rise and power of "the military-industrial complex," but his successors ignored him amid the perceived demands of the Cold War. When he left office, Congress restored his rank as general of the army. He retired to his farm in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and devoted much of his time to his memoirs. In 1963 he published Mandate for Change, which was followed in 1965 by Waging Peace. A lighter work, At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends, appeared in 1967.
Cabinet of Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower
The table provides a list of cabinet members in the administration of Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower.
|January 20, 1953–January 20, 1957 (Term 1)
|*Newly created department.
|John Foster Dulles
|George Magoffin Humphrey
|Charles Erwin Wilson
|Attorney General
|Herbert Brownell
|Douglas McKay
|Frederick Andrew Seaton (from June 8, 1956)
|Ezra Taft Benson
|Sinclair Weeks
|Martin Patrick Durkin
|James Paul Mitchell (from October 9, 1953)
|Health, Education, and Welfare*
|Oveta Culp Hobby (from April 11, 1953)
|Marion Bayard Folson (from August 1, 1955)
|January 20, 1957–January 20, 1961 (Term 2)
|John Foster Dulles
|Christian Archibald Herter (from April 22, 1959)
|George Magoffin Humphrey
|Robert Bernerd Anderson (from July 29, 1957)
|Charles Erwin Wilson
|Neil Hosler McElroy (from October 9, 1957)
|Thomas Sovereign Gates, Jr. (from December 2, 1959)
|Attorney General
|Herbert Brownell, Jr.
|William Pierce Rogers (from January 27, 1958)
|Frederick Andrew Seaton
|Ezra Taft Benson
|Sinclair Weeks
|Frederick Henry Mueller (from August 10, 1959)
|James Paul Mitchell
|Health, Education, and Welfare
|Marion Bayard Folsom
|Arthur Sherwood Flemming (from August 1, 1958)
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text: Here are some thoughts on the value of rack vs. non-rack clusters: Incremental cost of nodes based on the same hardware is roughly $100. This is the incremental cost of the rackmount case and PS (~$150) over a standard (~$50). Packing density for desktop/minitower cases is roughly equal to 4U case configurations. The bulk dimensions are more or less the same. It is easy to fit most any combination of motherboards with one or two cards and interface cards (64-bit, etc) into a desktop, 3U or 4U case. Packing starts to become a real issue with 2U cases (riser cards give either three 32-bit or 64-bit PCI slots or one AGP and two PCI slots.) With 1U cases, you usually only get one expansion slot, so you have to make it count. I don't think I would trust two Athlon/P4 CPUs in a 1U case anyway. Motherboard options in 1U cases become further limited as DIMM/RIMM sockets may need to be angled to fit in the case. (1.75 inches isn't much!) My thoughts right now are that packing density of 2 CPUs / U is questionable. I know that it has been done and is possible. Talk to me after they have been online for 18 months. (How many crashes and fan, hard drive, PS failures?) So, that means 2U cases with dual CPUs might be the logical limit...or maybe 1 CPU in 1U cases, but I can't think that makes economic sense unless you really need the memory bandwidth. My experience with single P4s in 2U cases causes me to hesitate at moving to duals in 2U. There is A LOT of heat generated. So, for me, 1 CPU / U is potentially workable, but maybe not wise. I have been looking at 3U cases as a real possibility. There is no need for riser cards, which is a very good thing IMO. You have full access to all expansion slots, plus there is a bit more case real estate/thermal ballast. That is 2 CPU / 3U. That is only a small improvement over my 1 CPU / 2 U P4-nodes, but makes the nodes much easier to engineer. I think that heroic cooling efforts aside, (2U) 1 CPU / U is a reasonable limit with (3U) 0.66 CPU / U being the more approachable density. I have not yet decided if this is enough of a gain over the desktop (~0.5 CPU / U) to be worth the bother. At Tuesday, 13 August 2002, "David Mathog" <mathog at mendel.bio.caltech. edu> wrote: >Racks sure look nice and there is no question that they >are space efficient, but I'm really starting to wonder if >they are such a great idea for a smallish cluster (<=20 nodes) >in those situations where there is enough space for a >classic pile of PCs. I mean, what other advantages do they >have besides those two to offset their many disadvantages? > >Racks better than piles: > >1. Space efficiency. >2. Aesthetics (racks look cool) > >Piles better than racks (these are not orthogonal): > >1. Internal space constraints >2. CPU/motherboard Cooling. This follows from [1]. >3. Motherboard/CPU options. This follows from [1]. > With a few exceptions most motherboard/CPU combinations > will fit into a standard ATX case - good luck getting > a 2.4 Ghz P4 into a 1U. >4. Initial purchase price for equivalent performance. >5. Maintenance costs (rack parts tend to be nonstandard > and expensive to replace, for instance, 1U power supplies). > >Other factors? > >I estimate that for a small cluster (<1 rack's worth of equipment) with >node guts (mobo,CPU,disk,ram) costing <= $1200 the racked version >will cost at least 20-30% more than the piled version. So if a piled >20 node cluster costs $24000, the equivalent racked version will >be at least $30000. $6000 seems a lot to pay for no extra performance. >If the "guts" were much more expensive the additional rack costs would, >in theory be a lower percentage. In practice, it is my impression that >the ratio is no lower because the vendors charge even more for the >racked versions of high performance nodes. > >Comments? > >Regards, > >David Mathog >mathog at caltech.edu >Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech >_______________________________________________ >Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org >To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http: //www. >beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf >


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