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The Zombies are coming...to Moose Lake
Looking for locals interested in being Zombies.
Nathan Johnson and Kirk Eckstine of The Kettle River Project are looking for locals interested in being Zombies.
Kettle River resident Kirk Eckstine has lived in and around this area for most of his life. He is a self-described hard core science fiction and horror fan.
Nathan Johnson moved to the area in 2007 from Minneapolis.
In early 2012, the Kettle River Project was founded by Nathan Johnson and Kirk Eckstine.
"We are self professed Zombie film fanatics," said Johnson. "We were both interested in furthering in our artistic abilities.
"We gathered a small group of volunteers and began to meet in my small apartment to review scripts."
Meeting lead to action within a short time.
"Waiting To Scream" is our second film," said Johnson. "It is written as two separate stories and blended together to form a whole. "
Johnson went on to describe the plot of the movie.
"The first tale takes place outside of an abandoned home and focuses on four people assigned to patrol the area for the undead," said Johnson.
"My focus was on a more action oriented style that will focus on special effects, make-up arts and dynamic filming.
The second portion of the film is a more cerebral study of characters and motivations, and takes place is the basement of the abandoned house.
"Three amateur filmmakers are trapped by the undead and rather than focus on survival and the needs of the moments they bicker and argue instead.
"The idea behind the characters really revolved around the growing zombie fan club that has developed over the last few years."
While involved in the process of writing, Eckstine continually asked, what happens when you strand zombie fanatics in a basement surrounded by zombies?
The entire project is funded by a strictly out of pocket budget and is fueled by the enthusiasm of the volunteers that act and use their own personal expertise in every area from lighting to make-up to make the films a success.
"The enthusiasm the volunteers bring is amazing," said Johnson. "Their passion really comes across on the set and on film."
Johnson and Eckstine are inviting locals interested in joining the mayhem and fun to look them up on Facebook (the Kettle River Project) for meeting times and updates.
Their new film, "Waiting To Scream" is set to film on September 14, 2013 in Moose Lake.
As they continue in the film making business, their technology has improved.
"For this second film, we are using a JVC GC-PX100 video camera," said Johnson. "That is a definite improvement over our first film.
An extremely important part of filming is public relations within the community.
"We have been given permission by the Moose Lake Police Department to film at Kirk's private residence," said Johnson. "That day's shoot involves several hours of "blank" weapons firing and pyrotechnics."
Simply getting permission from local authorities was not enough for the filmmakers.
"Notifications will be sent to neighbors to foster good communication," said Johnson, "and to thwart any surprise the film might cause."
"Gun Shot" pyrotechnics are furnished by Starlight.com.
Johnson is a published poet, and some of his works can be found in "ARS Interpres," an International Journal of Poetry, Translation and Art Volume 3, "Blessing of the Beasts."
Eckstine works full time for the State of Minnesota but dreams of becoming a full time writer in the future.
The Kettle River Project seeks to continue its film-making.
"Our goal is to grow and to improve in all aspects with each endeavor," said Johnson.
Eckstine and Johnson are also out to have a whole lot of fun in the process.
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U.S. Advisor Praises Progress of Afghan Army's 205th Corps
By Navy Seaman William Selby
|WASHINGTON, Dec. 3, 2008 – With the help of mentors from several countries and every branch of service, the 205th Corps of the Afghan National Army now can plan and execute operations, a senior advisor said yesterday."These are Afghan pilots flying Afghan missions in support of the Afghan people," Army Col. Paul Somersall, commander of Regional Corps Advisory Command in southern Afghanistan, said to bloggers and online journalists during a teleconference.
Three of the 205th Corps' four infantry brigades have been assessed as capable of conducting independent operations with minimal support from their combat advisors.
"One of the brigades recently planned, executed and sustained themselves during a seven-day operation where they drove deep into what is called an enemy sanctuary or enemy safe haven to destroy identified enemy forces," Somersall said.
"They were successful leading the operation, with less than 30 mentors and 20 other coalition soldiers, in addition to their 300 ANA ground force," he said. "That was a great example of ANA's capability to lead and conduct their own operations."
To train and develop the 205th Corps, Somersall said, the trainers had to earn trust from the Afghan soldiers.
"How we do this mission is by establishing strong, trusted relationship with the ANA counterparts, and that is done by living, eating and fighting side by side in combat with our Afghan brethren," he said. "Depending on the location and the circumstances, mentors are expected to spend between two and 12 hours a day with their counterpart."
Somersall explained that for the mentors to be effective, they must learn how to see the challenges and opportunities through the perspective of the Afghan people.
While the mentors and the 205th Corps have concentrated on combat capabilities, they've also been meeting with village leaders to find out the needs and concerns of the citizens. The 205th Corps has responded by providing food, water wells, power generation, schools, as well as medical and dental outreach events, Somersall said.
One of the challenges the ANA has faced in the past has been logistics support, but that has been resolved and the Afghans are operating on their own, Somersall said.
"We've moved 90,000 tons of supplies since August using the MI-17 [helicopters], and these are all by the Afghans," he said.
Overall, Somersall said, the Afghan soldiers in the southern region of Afghanistan are tough, experienced fighters who are focused on fighting for their country and supporting the Afghan constitution.
"The 205th Corps is committed to winning in southern Afghanistan and doing what needs to be done to grow larger and stronger every day, he said. "I'm convinced that with increased numbers of well-trained mentors and advisors, as well as additional combat enablers of aviation and intelligence assets, we move a bit closer every day to being able to transfer and leave security responsibility to the government of Afghanistan."
(Navy Seaman William Selby works for the New Media directorate of the Defense Media Activity.)
To listen to Col. Somersall's interview, click here. The transcript is available here.
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$115 Million Spent Last Year to Expand and Strengthen Electric System and Meet Growing Electric Demand in Region
Jan 14, 2014, 02:30 ET
GREENSBURG, Pa., Jan. 14, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- West Penn Power, a subsidiary of FirstEnergy Corp. (NYSE: FE), has completed scheduled reliability projects for 2013 designed to further enhance the electrical system and reliability in its 24-county service area. Major projects included transmission improvements, completion of new distribution circuits, replacement of underground cables, inspection and replacement of utility poles and ongoing vegetation management programs.
West Penn Power's 2013 enhancements have both localized and widespread system benefits to customers throughout the service area. Upgrades to the distribution system included installation of new wire, cable, fuses, crossarms and lightning arrestors to enhance service reliability. The company also completed transmission expansions and enhancements intended to increase the capacity and robustness of its high-voltage transmission system. The work is part of West Penn Power's overall $115 million investment in 2013 designed to help enhance service reliability.
Additionally, West Penn Power completed multiple reliability inspection programs, including inspecting all 2,600 miles of its subtransmission network, as well as overhead facilities on 130 distribution circuits and underground facilities on 132 distribution circuits. The inspections help identify equipment for replacement to help minimize unplanned service interruptions.
"These infrastructure investments, vegetation management programs and annual inspections are designed to help maintain our system on a day-to-day basis to benefit West Penn Power customers now while helping to prepare our system for future load growth," said David W. McDonald, president of West Penn Power. "We are committed to delivering the quality service our customers expect and deserve."
Highlights of the West Penn Power reliability work completed in 2013 include:
- Completing vegetation management along about 5,000 miles of distribution and transmission lines at a cost of approximately $30 million.
- Completion of a $5 million project to install a 500-kilovolt (kV) transformer at a substation near Mt. Morris in Greene County to reinforce the regional transmission system.
- Construction of the final 8.5 miles of a new transmission line and adding breakers to the Whiteley Substation in Greene County, a $13 million project to enhance the transmission network in southwestern Pennsylvania.
- Upgrading equipment on 18 distribution circuits to enhance reliability for 20,000 West Penn Power customers in communities including Butler, Westmoreland City, North Irwin, Ligonier, and Uniontown.
- Spending more than $25 million to expand the company's distribution system throughout the service area.
- Replacing underground distribution cables in several communities including Greensburg at a cost of about $240,000 to enhance service.
- Inspection of about 52,000 utility poles and replacement of about 125 poles.
West Penn Power serves about 720,000 customers in 24 Pennsylvania counties. Visit FirstEnergy on the web at www.firstenergycorp.com, and follow West Penn Power on Twitter @W_Penn_Power.
Forward-Looking Statements: This news release includes forward-looking statements based on information currently available to management. Such statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties. These statements include declarations regarding management's intents, beliefs and current expectations. These statements typically contain, but are not limited to, the terms "anticipate," "potential," "expect," "will," "intend," "believe," "estimate" and similar words. Forward-looking statements involve estimates, assumptions, known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Actual results may differ materially due to the speed and nature of increased competition in the electric utility industry, in general, and the retail sales market in particular; the impact of the regulatory process on the pending matters before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and in the various states in which we do business including, but not limited to, matters related to rates and pending rate cases; the uncertainties of various cost recovery and cost allocation issues resulting from American Transmission Systems, Incorporated's realignment into PJM Interconnection LLC; economic or weather conditions affecting future sales and margins; regulatory outcomes associated with storm restoration, including but not limited to Hurricane Sandy, Hurricane Irene and the October snowstorm of 2011; changing energy, capacity and commodity market prices including, but not limited to, coal, natural gas and oil, and availability and their impact on retail margins; the continued ability of our regulated utilities to recover their costs; costs being higher than anticipated and the success of our policies to control costs and to mitigate low energy, capacity and market prices; other legislative and regulatory changes, and revised environmental requirements, including possible greenhouse gas emission, water discharge, water intake and coal combustion residual regulations, the potential impacts of Cross-State Air Pollution Rule, Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR), and/or any laws, rules or regulations that ultimately replace CAIR, and the effects of the United States Environmental Protection Agency's Mercury and Air Toxics Standards rules including our estimated costs of compliance; the uncertainty of the timing and amounts of the capital expenditures that may arise in connection with any litigation, including New Source Review litigation or potential regulatory initiatives or rulemakings (including that such expenditures could result in our decision to deactivate or idle certain generating units); the uncertainties associated with the deactivation of certain older regulated and competitive fossil units including the impact on vendor commitments, and the timing thereof as they relate to, among other things, Reliability Must-Run arrangements and the reliability of the transmission grid; adverse regulatory or legal decisions and outcomes with respect to our nuclear operations (including, but not limited to the revocation or non-renewal of necessary licenses, approvals or operating permits by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission or as a result of the incident at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant); issues arising from the indications of cracking in the shield building at Davis-Besse; the impact of future changes to the operational status or availability of our generating units; the risks and uncertainties associated with litigation, arbitration, mediation and like proceedings, including, but not limited to, any such proceedings related to vendor commitments; replacement power costs being higher than anticipated or not fully hedged; the ability to comply with applicable state and federal reliability standards and energy efficiency and peak demand reduction mandates; changes in customers' demand for power, including but not limited to, changes resulting from the implementation of state and federal energy efficiency and peak demand reduction mandates; the ability to accomplish or realize anticipated benefits from strategic and financial goals including, but not limited to, the ability to reduce costs and to successfully complete our announced financial plans designed to improve our credit metrics and strengthen our balance sheet, including but not limited to, proposed capital raising and debt reduction initiatives, and the proposed sale of non-core hydro assets; our ability to improve electric commodity margins and the impact of, among other factors, the increased cost of fuel and fuel transportation on such margins; the ability to experience growth in the Regulated Distribution and Regulated Transmission segments and to continue to successfully implement our direct retail sales strategy in the Competitive Energy Services segment; changing market conditions that could affect the measurement of liabilities and the value of assets held in our Nuclear Decommissioning Trusts, pension trusts and other trust funds, and cause us and our subsidiaries to make additional contributions sooner, or in amounts that are larger than currently anticipated; the impact of changes to material accounting policies; the ability to access the public securities and other capital and credit markets in accordance with our announced financial plan, the cost of such capital and overall condition of the capital and credit markets affecting us and our subsidiaries; actions that may be taken by credit rating agencies that could negatively affect us and our subsidiaries' access to financing, increase the costs thereof, and increase requirements to post additional collateral to support outstanding commodity positions, letters of credit and other financial guarantees; changes in national and regional economic conditions affecting us, our subsidiaries and our major industrial and commercial customers, and other counterparties including fuel suppliers, with which we do business; issues concerning the stability of domestic and foreign financial institutions and counterparties with which we do business; the risks and other factors discussed from time to time in our United States Securities and Exchange Commission filings, and other similar factors. The foregoing review of factors should not be construed as exhaustive. New factors emerge from time to time, and it is not possible for management to predict all such factors, nor assess the impact of any such factor on FirstEnergy's business or the extent to which any factor, or combination of factors, may cause results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statements. FirstEnergy expressly disclaims any current intention to update, except as required by law, any forward-looking statements contained herein as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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I think Pearl had her hands full with her boys. [Snort.] If that ain't trouble, I don't know what is.
|L-R: Glen (standing), Wayne, Donald, Lester (in back), Forrest, and Harold Pointer.
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Oh my...6 boys. Sounds like a handful. Donald and Forrest really have impish smiles. ; )ReplyDelete
Looks like trouble to me! ;-)ReplyDelete
Forrest looks cute, but I guess they were all as cute at some point. Boys will be boys :-) but girls can be worse! :-D (I suspect I was one of the worst sort)ReplyDelete
What a cute picture! It looks like a couple of those boys are just waiting until the picture is snapped to rush off and get in (more) trouble ;-)ReplyDelete
Love the photo!! There are some things to be thankful for in life, like NOT having six boys! Being on of the six boys, however, would have been a blast...ReplyDelete
T-R-O-U-B-L-E is right. My father-in-law was one of 5 boys (7 kids total) and oh the stories those men tell today about growing up...Yep, T-R-O-U-B-L-E is right!ReplyDelete


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Note: "Treasure Chest Thursday" is a theme used by some genealogy bloggers. It's sort of a fun weekly "Show and Tell" for grownups. You can read more "TCT" posts at Geneabloggers.
Etta Orisca Cotter Pate's spinning wheel, owned by M. Hall, Louisiana, Nov. 2007. Digital photo by Liz Hall Morgan.
Today's treasure is a maternal great-grandmother's spinning wheel, which I hung on my mom's living room wall a couple of years ago while we were tidying and wondering where to put things. Why not hang it on the wall? It's a great piece of family history, and we didn't have the rest of it to display.
The wheel belonged to Etta Orisca Cotter Pate (1859-1937), the third wife of Newton King Brady Pate (1852-1932). They lived near Heflin in Webster Parish, Louisiana, then moved just south of Ringgold in Bienville Parish. Together they had eight children, including my grandmother, Edna Maud Pate Stevenson.
But those weren't all the children they raised. When they married, on Aug. 26, 1886, in Bienville Parish, "Newt" came with a ready-made family: six children from his previous marriages, ranging in age from one to 11, who became Etta's children as well. He must have been awfully charming or well off, or Etta must have been dreading becoming an old maid [she was 27] to take on such responsibility. But then, more women died in childbirth or from disease then, so I suppose there were more widowers with children then, as well. But back to the spinning wheel--the Pates had a farm and raised sheep, and Etta spun her own wool yarn for knitting. That wheel must have been spinning a lot, with 14 children to clothe! No wonder she looks so sober in the photo below--the woman needs a nap!
Etta Orisca Cotter Pate, c. 1890-1900?, La., scan of photograph made from original tintype owned by M. Hall, digitally edited (somewhat; this still needs work) by Liz Hall Morgan for spots, scratches and fading.
Etta's middle name, "Orisca," is, according to family lore, after a grandma who was "part Indian." As many "Indian in the family" stories go, however, we can't verify any Native American heritage. That does leave me to wonder where her parents--William Hadden Cotter and Elizabeth Ann Fariss (Farris, Faress)--came up with "Orisca." Elizabeth, or "Lizzie," was also known as "Queen Ann Elizabeth," so maybe her line has a penchant for unusual names.
Any "Indian" names in your family? Ever heard of the name "Orisca"? Leave me a comment!
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PRAGUE — Europe's top cinematography fest, Plus Camerimage, has announced its competish line-up, topped by Ben Affleck's "Argo," lensed by Rodrigo Prieto, and Paul Thomas Anderson's "The Master," shot by Mihai Malaimare Jr., and Benh Zeitlin's "Beasts of the Southern Wild," with dream-like imagery filmed by Ben Richardson.
The Bydgoszcz, Poland-based fest, this year in its 20th incarnation, considers 14 pics in the race for Golden Frog, and honors directors of photography repping a range of budgets, nations and scope.
Iran's "Hatred," shot by Touraj Aslani, South Korea's "Jesus Hospital," lensed by Sun-young Lee, Turkey/Kurdistan pic "Rhino Season," shot by Touraj Aslani and Argentina's "The Wild Ones," filmed by Julian Apezteguia, go up against work from the U.K., France, Canada and Poland.
Organizers also announced they will fete Alan Heim, who won an Oscar for "All That Jazz," and also edited "American History X," with a lifetime achievement editing kudo, and Steven Okazaki ("Day of Waiting," "The Mushroom Club") for outstanding work in docus.
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HILLSBORO, ORE., May 3, 2012 –American Public University System (APUS), an online higher-education provider focused on the military and public service communities, has christened the largest solar array in West Virginia. The 407-kilowatt system is comprised of 1,671 high-performance solar panels from SolarWorld, the largest U.S. solar manufacturer for more than 35 years. The installation is mounted on a carport structure at APUS' headquarters in Charles Town, W.V., deep in West Virginia's panhandle.
Designed and constructed by SolarWorld Authorized Installer Mountain View Solar (MTVSolar) of Berkeley Springs, W.V., the installation at APUS is the solar contractor's latest use of SolarWorld solar panels to blaze a solar trail in the Mountain State.
U.S. Rep. Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia joined APUS executives and local government officials in late April to celebrate completion of the project, which will supply about half of the energy requirements for APUS' 100,000-square-foot Financial Center and power 15 charging stations for electrical and hybrid vehicles.
"Through this project, APUS sets a powerful example of institutional sustainability for its more than 100,000 students and for the community here in West Virginia," said Mike McKechnie, president of MTVSolar. "This installation is an example of what education and renewable energy have in common – both are critical investments in our future."
SolarWorld and MTVSolar have worked at the vanguard of solar development in West Virginia, a state known for coal mining, in projects that bring new sources of energy and jobs. Between 2010 and 2011, MTVSolar installed SolarWorld solar panels at the Morgan County Courthouse in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia's first municipal solar project; at Berkeley Springs High School, the state's first solar-equipped school; and at the wastewater treatment plant in Hurricane, the state's largest solar-powered infrastructure project. MTVSolar also collaborated with Appalachian nonprofit The Jobs Project to install SolarWorld solar panels atop a downtown building while offering installation training in Williamson, known as the "heart of the billion dollar coalfield."
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VIDEO: LeBron James is making the race for the KIA MVP trophy more interesting by the day
HANG TIME HEADQUARTERS — His fingerprints are all over the trophies from the past two years, just the way LeBron James planned it all those years ago in Akron, Ohio when he was dreaming of being the global superstar he has become.
His connection to Northeast Ohio, damaged after "The Decision," is stronger than ever (hence the "Come Home LeBron" campaign). For the folks who have watched LeBron's evolution from the start, it makes perfect sense even if it doesn't for the rest of us.
They are the same people who can't make sense of his placement anywhere other than the very top of the KIA Race to the MVP Ladder, never mind that we're just a month into the marathon.
Chris Paul still owns the No. 1 spot this week but there isn't much separation between the Los Angeles Clippers' point guard and the pack of Kevin Durant, James, Paul George, and Tony Parker in the top five.
Dive in here for more of this week's KIA Race To The MVP Ladder!


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I have always called myself a graphic designer because I like the idea that I can design in many mediums, not only the web. I realize this can seem elitist (and she agreed) to not embrace the moniker of "web designer", but I've never been able to identify with it. That's not to say I haven't tried. Every time I've told someone I'm a "web designer", the word "web" stuck while "designer" soared clear over their head. The outlander's perception seemed to be that web design was more about building than designing. This belies the skill and experience that a good designer contributes, instead making them out to be some sort of worker drone.
So, perhaps I am a bit elitist in this regard. Web design does employ images, words, and ideas in the same way traditional graphic design does. The real distinction lies in the use. Visitors aren't merely taking in the design and information as they would a poster or periodical, they are interacting with it, and more critically, reshaping it by that interaction. This is the important difference, because as we all know, it's not always how it looks, but how it works. Is that really so different from the design goals of a book or a sign? The success lies within the effectiveness of the function, not the aesthetics.
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|Four years in the works, IBM's supercomputer "Watson" will compete against Jeopardy champions from February 14th to 16th. To win, the computer will have to process often-ambiguous natural language, including irony and wordplay. Stephen Baker, author of "Final Jeopardy," talks about Watson's chances. If you're planning a viewing party, check out this Final Jeopardy party kit, complete with cutout Trebek mustaches.


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05.26.09 Fast BreaksPosted by rtmsf on May 26th, 2009
It's been a while since we updated things (Wall to Kentucky), so let's get caught up this evening…
- RIP Wayman. You've undoubtedly heard the sad news about 44-year old Wayman Tisdale's passing on May 15. Obviously, we never met Tisdale, but everyone agrees that he was a person who touched the lives of many through his athletic and musical career. ESPN takes a look back here, and CNNSI reflected on his legacy in the state of Oklahoma here. Jeff Goodman tells a story about Tisdale following through on a promise to a budding jouralist (him). Tisdale's public memorial service was last Wednesday.
- Smoke, then Fire. We mentioned previously that it's unfathomable to us that USC wouldn't take Renardo Sidney, given their astonishing and proven ability to look the other way. Maybe they knew that Rodney Guillory's associate, Louis Johnson, was chirping like a parrot to anyone who will listen that he witnessed Tim Floyd handing Guillory a cool grand in return for the delivery of OJ Mayo. Now Mayo's talking to the feds about Guillory, and at least one writer thinks the whole darned ship is going up in flames. The million-dollar question is whether the NCAA investigators have the sack to do it. (our response: yes, but half-assed). Update: Noel Johnson, a 2009 signee, left the program today, leaving Dwight Lewis, and um, Lil Romeo?
- Transfers. Iowa's Jeff Peterson (11 ppg) will transfer to Arkansas for the 2010-11 season; Indiana's Nick Williams (9/5) will return to the South to play for Ole Miss (he was the Alabama POY in 2008); and, Clark Kellogg's kid, Alex, will leave Providence for Ohio University (Bobcats, not Buckeyes) to play his senior season. In corollary news, Oklahoma's Juan Pattillo was shown the door by Jeff Capel for undisclosed team violations.
- NBA Draft News. Duke's Gerald Henderson made it official and signed with an agent, forgoing his final year in Durham. Xavier's Derrick Brown, a borderline first-rounder, is highly unlikely to return to XU next season. Meanwhile, word last week was that Florida's Nick Calathes signed a contract for $1.1M/year (+ a home, car and tax credits) to play in Greece (where he holds dual citizenship), and Clemson's Terrence Oglesby is leaving school after his sophomore year to pursue a pro career in Europe (he's also a dual citizen with Norway). Southern Miss's Jeremy Wise will not return either. BYU's Jonathan Tavernari decided to wise up and will return to the Cougs for his senior season, as will Arkansas leading scorer Michael Washington. FYI, now that the draft lottery is set (Clips win!), the new mocks are coming out. Here's NBADraft.net's Top 14.
- Obligatory Kentucky News. It's out with the old and in with the new, as three scholarship at Kentucky are given the pink slip to make room for Calipari's motherlode of talent. The buzz is already loud for Kentucky as the preseason #1 next year, but we're a little surprised Jodie Meeks hasn't made his decision yet (he's unlikely to move up to the first round).
- Coaching News. Illinois top man Bruce Weber got a $500k raise and a three-year extension based on his stellar work in Champaign last season. Villanova's Jay Wright talked to and then withdrew from the search for a new Philadelphia 76ers head man. Wazzu's new man Ken Bone signed with the school for seven years and $650k per year, according to school records. Michigan's John Beilein will chair the NCAA's Ethics Comittee, featuring Johnny Dawkins, Jeff Capel and the omnipresent Dave Odom… does anyone else find it odd that Beilein's charge here is to clarify the rules as written, even though he used legal loopholes to get out of his stated buyout with WVU when he left for greener pastures? Finally, here's a rather-suspect list of the top ten coaches in America today – it omits Bill Self and John Calipari, which leads us to believe that the author did not watch the 2008 national championship game.
- Other Errata. CJ Henry is officially enrolled at Kansas and will get to play with his brother, super-wing Xavier Henry, next season in Lawrence.
- Former Tennessee guard Ramar Smith (whom Coach Bruce Pearl kicked off the team in 2008) was arrested for robbery (the holy trinity: money, guns and marijuana) last week, and he's currently awaiting trial.
- Luke Winn gives us a glimpse at what Mississippi St. will look like next year (with John Riek and Renardo Sidney in the fold).
- Please tell us that some irate Kentucky fan with rivers of money will buy these and burn them.
- What WILL we do with those nefarious message board posters!?!?
- Campbell University will rejoin the Big South (its former home until 1994), leaving the Atlantic Sun after the 2010-11 academic year.
- The Big Sky is moving to a Friday/Saturday conference weekend model to save costs beginning next season.
- This is a sad story, but we're glad that the authorities found this Olympic champion safe and sound.


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Sarah of The Delicious Life is hosting the 21st edition of Sugar High Friday. This month's theme is "Ice Ice Baby", here are Sarah's instructions: How you interpret Ice Ice Baby is up to you – churn your own ice cream, freeze a fruit ice, build a sundae, hug two cookies around a snowball and call it a sandwich, or create some other de-luscious thang that'll help us cool down in the high heat of summer. Anyone who has been reading my blog this last month should know that this theme shouldn't be a problem for me.
The other night my friend received a large quantity of blueberries from a friend of his who went blueberry picking. He had so many blueberries he almost didn't know what to do with them, but then he decided he wanted to make a blueberry sorbet. He called me up and asked me if I wanted to help. Since I have never made blueberry sorbet before I was curious and agreed to help him. I invited him over and we searched for some blueberry sorbet recipes. We decided to use a simple blueberry sorbet recipe which we found on epicurious. We did however alter the recipe by adding 5 medium-sized leaves of basil and 2 tablespoons of vodka to the original recipe. We added the basil and the vodka during the blending process. It was a simple and refreshing sorbet, which definitely tasted of blueberries with a small hint of basil.
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text: The CPU is verified as a P4. The problem does NOT move with the CPU but stays with the motherboard. I will attempt to upgrade the BIOS to a more recent version than 1.04 in the next week, as soon as I can locate an external USB drive, to see if thgis doesn't correct the situation. Again, according to the initial BIOS screen, it sees the chip as a P4. But maybe something is corrupt in the firmware telling the Linux kernel otherwise when queried. Also, I see no indication of any slowness until sometime after reboot, so I have no way of accessing BIOS to test and change. Bill John Hearns wrote: > On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 09:48 -0400, Bill Wichser wrote: > > >>By accident I discovered that of these 128 nodes, 50 of them show some >>strange value in /proc/cpuinfo for model name. On a good node these >>reveal themselves as "Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz" while on a >>"bad" node they call themselves "00/02" yet when checking the BIOS, and >>all the nodes have the same configuration I believe although I neglected >>to gather the level this last go round, they reveal themselves correctly >>as Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz. >> > > Jumping in with both feet, > could you try running Dave Jones' x86info on good/bad nodes? > http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/projects/x86info/ > Also does the bogomips rating differ (that's a real stupid question, I > know) > > _______________________________________________ > 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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Editor's note: CIDRAP's Promising Practices: Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Tools (www.publichealthpractices.org) online database showcases peer-reviewed practices, including useful tools to help others with their planning. This article is one of a series exploring the development of these practices. We hope that describing the process and context of these practices enhances pandemic planning.
Jun 26, 2009 (CIDRAP News) – A couple of years ago, the system for reporting and evaluating influenza-like illness (ILI) outbreaks in Fort Worth, Tex., schools—a key part of Tarrant County's disease surveillance program—didn't exactly yield fine-grained information in real time.
School districts gathered up attendance information from their schools once a week and sent it by fax, or in some cases e-mail, to Tarrant County Public Health (TCPH). At TCPH, officials analyzed the data manually. In case of outbreaks, they issued fact sheets and reports to the school districts on an as-needed basis.
That somewhat creaky system began to change about 2 school years back, when TCPH developed a Web-based system that permits school nurses to submit daily reports on absenteeism and ILI directly to the health department. The same system allows TCPH to analyze the data in a more automated fashion and to provide abundant information to school nurses via the Web.
Now the Tarrant County School Health Surveillance System (SHSS) program is making headway, TCPH officials say. It has been embraced by about a third of the schools in Tarrant County, and it has overcome a number of glitches. Officials say they are encouraged.
Under the old system, TCPH received only weekly, school-district–wide data, making it hard to quickly pinpoint outbreaks, and if a report wasn't submitted, data for a whole district was missing, said Dean Lampman, regional surveillance coordinator for TCPH.
"So we wanted to fix all those things, and the system we're developing is our attempt to do that. And it's been mostly successful," Lampman said.
Quest for surveillance improvements
Within TCPH is the Southwest Center for Advanced Public Health Practice, a program funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to develop exemplary public health practices that can be readily replicated by others. There are seven such centers around the country, Lampman said.
In line with that program, Lampman said he was looking for ways to improve the whole spectrum of TCPH's disease surveillance tools, including hospital data, over-the-counter drug sales, ambulance calls, emergency medical service data, and school absenteeism reports, among other things.
The idea of developing an Internet-based system for school disease surveillance emerged from discussions Lampman had with Tabatha Powell, MPH, who at the time was a doctoral student in public health, and others, he said.
"I thought if I could develop a system that could collect data electronically and have it flow into the ESSENCE system, we might be on to something," he said. ESSENCE is the computer program Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics, which is widely used in public health to look for statistical anomalies in disease data, he explained.
Electronic reporting and automated analysis were two of the key objectives, said Lampman. Two others were to gather reports more than once a week and obtain them from individual schools, not just whole districts.
Speaking of the novel H1N1 virus, he said, "Let's say this was a deadly pandemic like we had in 1918—if we collected weekly, we wouldn't be happy with that. So we asked for daily collection."
More generally, the program was designed to ease information exchange between TCPH and county schools, support early detection of ILI, focus public health resources in response, and give school nurses one-stop access to information to help them promote disease prevention, according to a report Lampman and colleagues wrote after the program's first year.
Dual development tasks
Developing the system involved the dual tasks of laying the groundwork with school nurses and building the electronic tools.
TCPH held half a dozen meetings with nurses from the county's approximately 300 public schools to enlist their support and gather suggestions on how the system would work, Lampman said.
Getting their support "wasn't as easy as we might've hoped," he said. "However, we didn't get into this with any misconceptions that it was going to be easy. Even with the old program we had less than 100% compliance."
None of the nurses thought the SHSS was a bad idea, but some were concerned about how much time it might take, Lampman said. In the end, "We decided there was enough of a green light to go ahead."
On the electronic side, the system was built on an open-source platform called Dot Net Nuke. The heart of the tool is a daily report form that nurses see after they log in. There, nurses are asked to report total absences, absences due to ILI, the number of students seen by the nurse, and how many of those students had an ILI.
In addition, nurses are asked to report whether the number of students with ILI seems to be increasing, decreasing, or static. Additional fields ask for information on faculty absences, including those related to ILI.
Other pages on the Web portal provide maps of changing disease patterns, access to flu prevention resources, news items, analysis, and action items suggested by TCPH, according to Lampman's report.
With the use of open-source software, the SHSS wasn't very expensive to launch and was supported by TCPH's Advanced Practice Center funds, he said. Later, TCPH applied and received flu surveillance money from the Texas Department of State Health Services.
Slow-motion launch
TCPH launched the system in the fall of 2007. It quickly became clear that broad participation wasn't going to be achieved overnight.
"We rolled it out to everybody all at once, sent all the instructions—and then found that almost nobody started reporting immediately," Lampman said.
Eventually, TCPH officials met with the nurses to promote the program further and get their feedback, Lampman said. "It took the epidemiologist to engage with the school nurse and the lead nurse and have a face-to-face meeting, and then it came around," he said.
Part of the problem was that at the start of the school year, nurses are focusing on dealing with children's vaccination records, said Diana Cervantes, a TCPH epidemiologist. "I think at the beginning of the year the reporting is lower because that's their emphasis," she said.
Lampman's official report says more than 200 school nurses in 7 of the county's 16 school districts were trained to use the system and the online report form, which they could complete in less than 5 minutes. However, the initial data harvest varied in quality and was hard to assess because only about 60% of the nurses in the seven districts actually reported.
A chart of system statistics shows that participation grew over the past 2 school years and peaked late in the flu season each year. The peak for the 2008-09 year came the first week in March, with 104 schools from nine districts reporting. (The chart covered records only through April.) The previous year, the peak came in mid-February, with 84 schools from four districts reporting.
H1N1 experience
When the novel H1N1 virus emerged in April and May, officials saw increased reporting, Lampman reported. He said the epidemic seemed to improve the quality of the reporting, as several nurses took time to call or e-mail corrections to some of their data.
When H1N1 cases broke out in Fort Worth children, the school district there closed at the recommendation of TCPH. The health department advised another district to shut down, but instead the district closed just the one school where a case was found, Lampman said.
Those closure recommendations were not driven specifically by the SHSS, said Cervantes. They were shaped more by traditional "shoe-leather epidemiology," the gathering and testing of specimens from local clinics and hospitals, she said. "The School Health Surveillance System is still kind of in its infancy; it wasn't something that we really used when H1N1 hit to really detect any increase in absenteeism," she added.
One of the key remaining challenges for making the SHSS fully useful is to determine baseline levels of ILI in the schools, Cervantes said. "We still need to work to establish a baseline so we know when there's an increase in ILIs or other illnesses. At this point it's difficult to say if a certain level of ILI or illness is unusual."
Another challenge is to persuade school nurses to report daily. "They were doing it as they had time, which was basically once or twice a week," Cervantes said.
She hopes that when the system becomes more mature, it will be of greater help in making school closure recommendations and other actions.
"That's our hope, that when the reporting becomes a little more consistent and we're able to extract the data and use it more in a real-time sense, and we can establish a baseline, that in the future it'll help us make those decisions."
But already the system has strengthened the health department's links with school nurses and their ties with one another, she reported.
"They feel it's a good way to get information from the health department, and keep two-way communication open with us. They feel it's more personalized; they do enjoy that. There's a field [on the report form] where they can add comments and give us information," which was helpful when some Streptococcus infections cropped up.
"It also kind of helps build community with other nurses," she added. "It had them speaking to other school nurses in their area. Whenever I meet with them, that's the feedback."
Next steps
Lampman said the system needs some technical enhancements. One is to make the data transfer and analysis more automated. Right now a technician has to transfer data from the system into ESSENCE, a step that Lampman hopes to eliminate with a change in the database structure.
Other future plans call for developing a "full-blown guidance document" and conducting an exercise simulating a hypothetical disease outbreak. "If H1N1 didn't sufficiently impress or engage some people, presumably a tabletop exercise will," he said.
See also:
SHSS materials on CIDRAP Promising Practices site


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means that a breakpoint is set in a buffer while you have loaded that buffer's underlying file from disk, for example by menu commands File > Load or File > Compile And Load . Loading the file re-evaluates all of its forms, but the IDE does not have a way to reset the breakpoints in these forms automatically. Therefore it asks you what to do.
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text: This isn't the first time anyone's ever used long exposure photography to make compositions with light, but Jasper Geenhuizen (Netherlands) is doing some of the best I've seen. Strong colors, and perfect set up and location. This is how you do it right. There's no gimmick to these either- I would dig these pictures with or without the light work. They emit a damp, nocturnal atmosphere that's not easy to reproduce. In Geenhuizen's words, "Everybody can make light graffiti, but it is truly art to be able to combine the light with the place." Hope to see much more from this guy going forward.


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The United Nations World Charter for Nature (1982) states that "every form of life is unique, warranting respect regardless of it's worth to man, and, to accord other organisms such recognition, man must be guided by a moral code of action." It also states that "…man must acquire the knowledge to maintain and enhance his ability to use natural resources in a manner which ensures the preservation of the species and ecosystems for the benefit of present and future generations." Most will recognize that, in the context of development planning, we now rarely respect nature, and we lack sufficient knowledge of biodiversity to inform decision making processes. This is certainly the case in the Indo-Burma region which is recognized as a global hotspot of biodiversity and has long been noted for the exceptionally high diversity of species within its inland waters.
Our knowledge of species diversity within the inland waters of Indo-Burma is poorly documented and the region remains relatively under-surveyed. Large scale development of water resources is also underway throughout the region with noted current and potential impacts on freshwater species. There is therefore an immediate need to collate, and make freely available, existing knowledge on freshwater species distributions, ecological sensitivities, and habitat requirements for input to the decision making processes. Without such information, development is unlikely to proceed in a sustainable way and the impact on freshwater species will be severe.
In this volume we aim to address this knowledge gap and present the most up-to-date information on the distribution and extinction risk of freshwater species in all inland water ecosystems across the Indo-Burma hotspot, and where appropriate, the reasons behind their declining status. This represents the most comprehensive assessment yet of freshwater biodiversity at the species level for this part of the world. For managers, this information will assist in designing and delivering targeted action to mitigate and minimise impacts to these species. From a policy perspective, the information presented is fundamental to meeting national obligations under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD); the Ramsar Convention; and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Information on species status is particularly important for Targets 11 and 12 of the CBD that state: "By 2020, at least 17 per cent of terrestrial and inland water areas, … especially areas of particular importance for biodiversity and ecosystem services, are conserved…" and "…by 2020 the extinction of known threatened species has been prevented and their conservation status, particularly of those most in decline, has been improved and sustained", respectively.
Biodiversity within Indo-Burma's inland waters is both highly diverse and of great importance to livelihoods and economies. This part of Asia is, however, embarking upon an unprecedented scale of development, in particular within its energy and water sectors. Such development is considered by many to be imperative if the region is to generate revenues and improve the livelihoods of this most densely populated region. Such development activities are, however, not always sustainable or compatible with species conser vation in inland waters which is seldom adequately considered within the development planning process.
As a major contribution towards the provision of information on the region's freshwater species, IUCN's Global Species Programme, in collaboration with its partners, conducted an assessment of the status (according to the IUCN Red List of Threatened SpeciesTM) and distribution of all described species of freshwater fishes, molluscs, odonates, crabs, and selected families of aquatic plants from across the Indo-Burma hotspot. A total of 2,515 species were assessed and documented. Existing additional information for 468 species of freshwater dependant amphibians, birds and mammals was also utilised to present a more comprehensive overview of the status and distribution of freshwater species across the region. With species information compi led for each of 1,082 ind ividua l river or la ke sub-catchments, this volume represents a major advance in knowledge for informing development actions at a scale appropriate for conservation management. The full dataset, including all species distribution files, will be made available through the IUCN Red List website (www.iucnredlist.org).
Thirteen percent of all freshwater species assessed here are globally threatened. This level of threat is similar to that for other taxonomic groups in the region (12% of water birds, and 12% of amphibians are threatened) and is predicted to increase dramatically unless the ecological requirements of freshwater species are provided for in future development planning, in particular for development of the energy and water sectors. Major threats are identified as Pollution (from agriculture and forestry runoff in particular), Biological Resource Use (direct exploitation and/or habitat loss through deforestation), and Natural System Modification (dam construction and other modifications such as river clearance for navigation). The majority of threatened species are found along the mainstream Mekong River and the central and southerly parts of the Chao Phraya River. This distribution largely reflects the overall pattern of recorded species richness and the parts of the region where our knowledge is most complete – other centres of threat may also be detected as further information becomes available.
Major centres of overall species richness include the lowland areas within the lower and middle Chao Phraya River, the main stem of the Mekong River between the Lao PDR border and the confluence of the Mekong and Tonlé Sap rivers in Cambodia.
A number of river and lake basins are identified as a network of potential Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) most important for the protection of threatened and restricted range species. Those sub-catchments with the highest numbers of species meeting the KBA criteria are along the main stem of the Mekong river (in particular the region where Cambodia, Thailand and Lao PDR meet), the central Song Hong river system, the region surrounding Inlé Lake and the central Mae Khlong as it meets the Gulf of Thailand. The IUCN Red List is one of the most authoritative global standards supporting policy and action to conserve species. We hope this analysis, based in large part on an assessment of species Red List status, will provide new information and insights, which will motivate actions to help safeguard the diversity of life within Indo-Burma's inland waters.
Key Messages:
- The inland waters of the Indo-Burma hotspot are confirmed to be one of the world's most species rich areas. For example, there is a higher diversity of species and genera of Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) here than anywhere else in the Oriental Region, and the fish fauna is one of the richest in the world with more than 1,178 species known from the hotspot.
- Current levels of threat for Indo-Burma freshwater species (around 13% of species are threatened) are close to those of similar freshwater assessments in Asia, such as in the Eastern Himalayas (7% threatened), and Western Ghats (16% threatened). However, many areas remain poorly surveyed (for example, the Red River) such that 37% of all species assessed were classified as Data Deficient, meaning their extinction risk could not yet be assessed. As more data become available, undoubtedly a number of these species will be reclassified as threatened, and the overall number of threatened species will increase accordingly.
- Analysis of projected future threats suggests that, should current plans for construction of hydroelectric dams proceed as proposed, over the next decade the proportion of fish species threatened by dams will increase from 19% to 28%, and the proportion of mollusc species impacted by dams will increase from 24% to 39%.
- In this context the planned large-scale development of hydropower schemes, both on the Lower Mekong main stem as well as on its major tributaries, is of major concern – especially as the lower main stem in Lao PDR and Thailand, as far as northern Cambodia was found to be one of the areas with highest species biodiversity, and highest numbers of threatened species.
- Similarly, the Thai Government's recent announcement of a package of almost US$12 billion of (mostly) large scale water infrastructure investments in the Chao Phraya Basin in response to the devastating floods of 2011, gives cause for concern – especially as the middle and lower parts of the Chao Phraya are two of the most biodiverse areas, with one of the highest concentrations of threatened species.
- Pollution (largely from agricultural and residential run-off ) is identified as a major threat affecting many species, that must be addressed through setting of improved standards and regulations together with monitoring and enforcement, application of the polluter pays principle, and through Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) approaches.
- Over-harvesting is also a threat for some species and in certain locations. The recent suspension of 38 commercial fishing lot concessions in the Ton lé Sap (as well as concessions in other parts of Cambodia) for at least three years while stocks are assessed and more appropriate management can be developed, is a sign that governments are starting to recognise this issue and are willing to try to address it. To ensure that commercial concessions are not replaced by potentially even more damaging free-for-all "open-access" fisheries leading to a "tragedy of the commons", more effort must be applied to supporting the development of community-managed fisheries with agreed use rules and restrictions.
- Environmental Impact Assessments, Strategic Environmental Assessments, and Cumulative Impact Assessments should not be viewed as mere procedure and their recommendations must be taken into account. There must be follow-up after assessments are completed and the legal requirements of conducting them must be fulfilled. Such assessments should expressly require reference to the species data now made available through the IUCN Red List of T hreatened Species . I n the ca se of Mekong mainstream hydropower development, assessments must explicitly take into account trans-boundary impacts and, in the case of Thailand's Flood Management Master Plan, impact assessments should not be omitted or overlooked for the sake of political expediency in urgently preventing a recurrence of the 2011 floods.
- The overwhelming majority of protected areas in Indo-Burma have been designed and developed based on conservation needs (and opportunities) of terrestrial habitats and species. That freshwater habitats and species are protected at all is largely a result of their incidental inclusion within a forest protected area – and not as a result of a conservation plan specifically tailored to the protection of freshwater species. The protected areas systems of each country should be reviewed through the lens of freshwater species conservation priorities, gaps in the systems should be identified, and priorities established for extension of existing protected areas or designation of new areas to improve freshwater species conservation.
- Thailand has the most Ramsar sites of any country in the region, but almost all of these are additional designations applied to already existing National Parks or non-hunting areas, and are not currently adding additional value to the conservation of freshwater species. In 2010–11 IUCN assisted the Government of Lao PDR to designate its first two freshwater Ramsar sites in Xe Champone and Beung Kiat Ngong, and assisted the Government of Viet Nam in designating Tram Chim (the most important area remaining in the Plain of Reeds in the Mekong Delta) as a Ramsar site. The process of identifying Key Biodiversity Areas started in this assessment should be built upon to help identify additional Ramsar sites (and other forms of conservation areas) within Indo-Burma.
- Monitoring of environmental conditions in inland waters must include focus on species diversity and not only on recording changes in species biomass and productivity (as is the case for most fisheries). The currency for measuring fish biodiversity is the number of species, not kilograms, dollars or catch per unit of effort. Without employing a species based approach many species will be lost, leaving in place species-poor and potentially unsustainable fisheries.
- Studies of direct interest to the local people should be translated into local languages and distributed freely. The results of too many studies are never made available and are therefore never used to benefit conservation.
- Finally, we must not forget the UN World Charter for Nature's statement that we respect all life regardless of its apparent worth to man. In other words we must still endeavour to protect those species that provide no obvious contribution to ecosystem services – including those smaller species of no apparent commercial value.
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In fact, Burguan said, Garcia's ability to hang on so far is "a miracle," but he sounded hopeful as he told a crowd gathered to call for an end to violence that Garcia's family and the Police Department deeply appreciate the community's support.
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