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Suunto was born in Finland more than 80 years ago, when championship-level orienteer and keen outdoor enthusiast Tuomas Vohlonen invented the mass production method for the liquid filled compass.
Since then, Suunto has been at the forefront of innovation, hand crafting premium sports watches, instruments and dive computers that have been tested in the world's harshest conditions. From the beginning of time, man has explored. All that has changed are the tools.
The word "Suunto" comes from the Finnish word meaning "direction". Suunto is pronounced "Soon-toh".
Tuomas Vohlonen had long been bothered by the inaccuracy and lack of steady needle operation of traditional dry compasses. Being an engineer with an inventive turn of mind, he discovers and patents the production method for a liquid-filled compass with a much steadier needle, better readings and a new level of accuracy.
Finnish soldier Lieutenant Norrback is shot by a Russian sniper during the Winter War. The M-311 field compass he carried in his shirt pocket takes the bullet and saves his life. Robustness has since been a hallmark of Suunto!
Suunto introduces a compact liquid sighting compass, the m/40, during World War II for artillery officers and other users needing a precision instrument for measuring an azimuth, the horizontal angle of a bearing.
In the 1950s Suunto starts manufacturing orienteering and marine compasses. The first marine compass, Suunto K-12, is launched in 1953. Its base bowl, made of brass, is a real masterpiece of precision engineering. At this point, the company is exporting compasses to over 50 countries around the world.
Suunto introduces the SK-4, the world's first diving compass after a British sports diver attaches a Suunto compass to his wrist and finds that the device also works underwater. Thanks to his feedback and initiative, Suunto Diving is launched!
In the 1980s Suunto becomes the world leader in the manufacture of diving instruments. Suunto's first dive computer, Suunto SME-ML, is launched in 1987 and completely revolutionizes the sport. Previously divers had to calculate times using diving tables. Thanks to the SME diving computer, the sport becomes an easier, more fun and safer hobby.
Suunto marine compasses become the standard in Swan and Baltic boats and almost all the yachts in the Whitbread Round the World race are equipped with Suunto compasses.
The world's first watch-sized dive computer Suunto Spyder is launched. It combines the performance of a top-of-the-line multi-level dive computer with a high-quality dive watch that also functions as an everyday watch.
Suunto Vector is the first outdoor wrist-top computer to feature the now hallmark 'ABC' functions of altimeter, barometer and compass, as well as a thermometer. Vector's unique functionalities and iconic design have made it one of Suunto's most successful products. It remains hugely popular among mountaineers and has probably seen more of the Himalayas than any other watch.
Suunto D9, the world's first wrist-sized all-in-one dive computer is unveiled. It combines advanced dive features with a digital compass and wireless air integration. D9 is the first product in Suunto's popular Suunto D-Series which now consists of Suunto D4i, D6i, D9tx and DX.
Suunto t6, an advanced training watch is introduced. It provides Olympic-lab level technology to help athletes quantify and qualify their workout with personalized training feedback.
The award winning Suunto Core is unveiled, raising the bar for outdoor sports watches. Combining altimeter, barometer and a compass with weather information, the Core provides the essential features for adventures in the great outdoors.
Suunto HelO2 dive computer is brought onto the market. It is the first dive computer from Suunto with full mixed gas capability. The dive computer is designed specifically for technical divers who need multiple gases such as trimix, nitrox and oxygen to go deeper and for longer to explore wrecks, caves — and their own limits.
Suunto Elementum is unveiled. It is a premium sports watch combing modern design and a heritage in craftsmanship with the functionality of a high-tech watch. With altimeter, barometer and a compass it suits outdoor life as well as everyday use.
The online sports community, training diary and dive log book Movescount.com goes live, allowing sports enthusiasts to upload, rate, track and share their sporting activities. It also allows users to search for routes and follow other members such as Suunto athletes for inspiration.
Suunto Ambit, the ultimate outdoor and training watch that combines unparalleled GPS functionality with body monitoring functions and sleek design receives stellar independent reviews worldwide. Users can customize their Ambit and download GPS navigational aids using Movescount.
Suunto DX, the world's first rebreather compatible wrist-sized dive computer is unveiled. The premium design and materials, combined with the new superior Suunto Fused™ RGBM, make it the must-have instrument for dive missions and everyday adventures.
Suunto Ambit3 is Suunto's first connected collection, introduced together with the new Suunto Movescount App. Movescount App enables customers to sync their Moves and watch settings on the go. The Suunto Ambit3 is accompanied by a new Suunto Smart Sensor, the smallest Bluetooth® Smart compatible heart rate sensor on the market that records heart rate even in swimming.
A new era in Suunto dive computers has begun. Suunto introduces its next generation dive computer, the fully customizable Suunto EON Steel. The intuitive EON Steel combines advanced technology with a bright color screen and customizable features and display to show clearly what divers need.
The Suunto Spartan solution comprises of Suunto Spartan GPS watches and renewed Suunto Movescount service. The Spartan watches showcase an extremely durable & bright color touch screen and robust materials on the outside, and sports expertise and training insights on the inside. Suunto Movescount service supplements the experience with community powered training tools and heatmaps.
Suunto is still based in Finland where most of our products are designed and hand crafted with pride in our flagship factory outside Helsinki. Our aim is to provide adventurers and sports enthusiasts with the best tools to explore and conquer new territory from the highest mountains to the deepest oceans – and anywhere in between.


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text: Greg Olson was arguably the greatest track and field performer in field events for Boston State College. He was the Warriors' Most Valuable Performer in 1969 en-route to being named an All-American. Olsen was a co-captain at Boston State from 1968-69 and was given the Sportsmanship Award as a senior. Olsen dominated the pole vault event, becoming the first competitor to clear 15 feet, six inches. He went on to capture the New England State College pole vault title four times and took the New England Intercollegiate Indoor title with a record try. Olsen made the pole vault his own, winning the NAIA championship, while leading the Warriors to a record 57-point winning margin. He also took the New England AAU Indoor and Outdoor crowns with vaults that broke records that had stood for more than 20 years. The 1969 Boston State graduate set field house records at numerous colleges and mastered other field events for BSC as well, establishing school records in the high jump (six feet, four inches), the long jump (21 feet, 10 ¾ inches), the triple jump (42 feet) and the decathlon (5,980 points). Olsen took first place at the Boston College Relay Invitational and third place in the decathlon. He also took third place in the pole vault in both the indoor and outdoor ICAAAA meets. He proved to be a one-man show, competing in seven events in one meet, while winning three of them and setting a scoring record. Following his graduation from Boston State, he went on to teach science in the Boston Public schools for 34 years and also served as an assistant track coach at both Salem State College and Tufts University. Under his tutelage, one of his athletes broke the MIT field record of 16 feet, eight inches in the pole vault and went on to win the NCAA Division III title.


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The first thing you smell when you drive past the farms and woods, down the winding, hilly road to Tinder Hearth Bakery in Brooksville, is smoke. Wood smoke, to be exact, mixed with the slightest hint of salt air from the ocean less than a mile away.
The smell is coming from inside the old white farmhouse that houses Tinder Hearth, which bakes European-style loaves, buttery croissants and, at least once a week, crispy, all-organic pizza, in a huge, handmade brick oven nicknamed Svetlana.
Owners Tim Semler, 29, and Lydia Moffet, 28, natives of Brooksville and nearby Deer Isle, respectively, started the bakery as a full-time commercial operation in 2007. By then, Semler was already deep into learning the art of making ovens out of brick and clay and baking old-fashioned bread in them. Over the course of several years he built two clay ovens, one tiny, one larger, on Tinder Hearth's property, which has been in his family for several generations.
Moffet was learning right along with him.
"He was baking bread already in this little clay oven, and was driving around just giving it out to people in the area," said Moffet. "In 2009, we were able to get the money to build a real brick oven in the house, and we built it by hand, with the help of the community and all our family and friends. We've been doing it that way since 2010."
Their bread is European-style: tangy and dense, with a chewy crust and a luscious interior. The French batard, their most popular offering, practically screams to be dipped in olive oil. They make several others, including a boule made with all Maine grains, a dark German rye and foccacia. They also make a proper croissant — crispy, not squishy, with enough butter in it already that it certainly doesn't need any more. They make spelt bread, too, which differs greatly from the bland spelt breads found in health food stores; it's got a nutty flavor and a pleasing texture, and is made with or without raisins.
"Our bread is extremely wet when we bake it, because we don't use any instant yeast," said Moffet. "We don't have to knead it, so it comes out very dense. It's got a lot of character. It's a very old-fashioned way of making bread."
The vibe at Tinder Hearth is a combination of laid-back attitude and industrious self-reliance. It's tucked away in the sparsely populated western part of the Blue Hill Peninsula, so those who want to buy from the company must travel a bit, or wait until it's delivered Tuesdays and Fridays to the Blue Hill Wine Shop, the Blue Hill Co-op, the Cave in Brooklin, 44 North Coffee in Deer Isle, Burnt Cove Market in Stonington, John Edwards Market in Ellsworth and The Store Ampersand in Orono.
Tinder Hearth grows greens and raises chickens and several pigs a year for sausage, and locally sources produce and cheese for the brick oven pizza it makes two nights a week during the summer. Until the first week of June, pizza is only available on Tuesdays, after which it will be available on Fridays, as well. It is the humble opinion of this reporter — an opinion that is shared by most pizza aficionados — that there is but one thing that makes a great pizza, and that is a great crust. Considering the way Tinder Hearth approaches bread, it's no surprise that its pizza crust is full of flavor and tasty on its own, and stands up to toppings.
"I wouldn't even want to count the hours we've put in," said Moffet. "But I can pretty definitively say that we aren't in it for the money."
You can follow Tinder Hearth Bakery on its Facebook page for updates and specials, or call them at 326-8381.


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Mac shipments dropped 22 percent during the December 2012 quarter, marking their biggest decline in about 10 years, Dan Frommer of SplatF reports.
Apple shipped 778,000 fewer Macs in 2012 than it did in 2011, while it had 43 million more iPhones and 25 million more iPads, respectively.
CEO Tim Cook attributes the slowdown of Mac shipments to the release of the new iMacs late in the quarter and low inventory, but the drop could also be explained by the overall decline of the PC market and the rise of tablets.
Despite the low Mac sales, Apple's "computer" business has never been stronger. Check out the chart by Frommer showing combined Mac and iPad sales.


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Steve Fish needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 66 designs submitted by 27 freelance designers.
Starting up a new recruitment company and need corporate logo designed please. The logo can consist of the full company name or abbrieviated to NDRS
New Direction Recruitment Solutions
Desired Color Scheme:
Blue as the main colour
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Highly professional
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This logo is for a new recruitment company start up. The general idea is that this company is going to have a highly polished reputation in the industry and needs a strong visual brand. So the obvious are no cartoons, gimmicky pictures, grafitti writing etc
Dark blue needs to be the main colour, the others are up to you.
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The Savannah College of Art and Design libraries are focal points for information, learning, inspiration and research. The libraries contribute to every aspect of academic and intellectual life at SCAD by providing a broad range of services to students, faculty and staff.
SCAD's libraries contain nearly 300,000 physical and electronic publications accessible by all students at all locations. Collections include volumes for research and reference, as well as thousands of literary and creative works and periodicals.
A collection of artists' books includes 2,100 works in book form by artists active from the 1960s through the contemporary era, comprising one of the most significant collections of artists' books in the United States. The Don Bluth Collection of Animation consists of animation drawings, storyboards, and other materials from some of the artist's most admired work in film, including The Secret of NIMH, An American Tail, The Land Before Time, Anastasia and Titan AE.
The special collections of SCAD's libraries also include pop-up books, local history materials, comic books, graphic novels, graphic nonfiction, and other rare books on artists, architects and art movements.
As well, students have a broad range of collections and services available to them at every location, including access to digital images, online databases, media, course reserves, archival materials and personalized research instruction.
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Research, technology, interlibrary loan requests and more.
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Learning assistance is designated by subject or class and is provided to students free of charge. On-site peer tutors are available in Atlanta, Hong Kong and Savannah. Numerous academic and skill-based workshops take place to supplement in-class instruction. Multiple online resources, including full access to Lynda.com and online peer tutoring through SCAD Connect, are available to SCAD eLearning students.


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The Network UPS Tools is a collection of programs which provide a common
interface for monitoring and administering UPS hardware. It uses a
layered apporoach to connect all the components. Drivers are provided
for a wide assortment of equipment. The primary goal of the NUT project
is to provide reliable monitoring of UPS hardware and ensure safe
shutdowns of the systems which are connected.
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The exact course Jets owner Woody Johnson will send his franchise in the coming days isn't known yet.
But one thing has become clear, there will be coaching changes.
ESPN's Adam Schefter reports that offensive coordinator Tony Sparano won't be back next year, which isn't much of a surprise to anyone.
The Jets are 30th in the league in offense, with their alleged attempts to use Tim Tebow a fantastic flop.
But Sparano might not be the extent of the changes.
Special teams coach Mike Westhoff is retiring and defensive coordinator Mike Pettine's contract is up, setting the stage for significant changes regardless what Johnson decides to do with head coach Rex Ryan or general manager Mike Tannenbaum.


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MUSKEGON, Mich. — Oceangoing freighters that claim to be empty of ballast water before entering the Great Lakes routinely carry organisms that endanger the water bodies, a new report shows.
The ships often have saltwater algae, invertebrates, deadly bacteria and other organisms in muddy water at the bottoms of their ballast tanks, according to the study conducted by the University of Michigan and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows.
Ballast water is stored below deck to keep ships stable. It is added or dumped based on cargo load and organisms can escape from the ballast tanks when ships in harbor take in or unload water.
"Many invasive species act like a computer virus. Once they get into the Great Lakes ecosystem they can clean it out," said Cameron Davis, executive director of the Chicago-based Alliance for the Great Lakes. "In the Great Lakes, we are operating without a virus protection program."
Authors of the study, reported in Tuesday's editions of The Muskegon Chronicle, called for immediate action to stem the flow of exotic organisms and pathogens into the lakes.
Alien invadersResearchers found that two-thirds of 42 ships sampled for the five-year study carried potentially deadly organisms in ballast tanks that were supposedly empty and clean, including cholera and cryptosporidium, the newspaper reported. In 1993, cryptosporidium from an unknown source contaminated Milwaukee's drinking water system, killing more than 100 people and making 400,000 others ill.
Zebra mussels and 181 other species imported to the lakes threaten to drive out some native species at the base of the Great Lakes food web, endangering a multibillion dollar fishery.
Despite the potential threat and their calls for action, however, researchers cautioned that contaminated ballast water may not represent an immediate danger.
"We know there are pathogens in these ships, but we don't know of any outbreaks of disease associated with ships' ballasting practices," said co-author Fred Dobbs, an oceanography professor at Old Dominion University.
The authors said one possible remedy would be to require all transcontinental freighters to completely empty and refill ballast tanks with salt water before entering the Great Lakes.
Michigan lawmakers are considering legislation to require shipping companies to obtain a ballast water discharge permit before operating in Great Lakes ports.
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Mind-Body Interventions: Is there Power in Positive Thinking?
Date: 8/9/2010; 58 minutes
How can we stay positive when competing demands and time pressure can impact everything from how our immune system functions, to whether or not we exercise, to the interactions we have with each other, and even to every breath we take? Our improved understanding of the relationship between behavior, physiology and disease development provides the rationale for integrative approaches that empower people for more mindful and effective navigation in today's world. UCSF's Dr. Margaret Chesney presents some of the current research on mind-body interventions and provides strategies to help enhance health and well-being. (#19383)
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Sample: copy data from Azure Blob Storage to Azure SQL Database
In this tutorial, you create a Data Factory pipeline that copies data from Azure Blob Storage to Azure SQL Database. The configuration pattern in this tutorial applies to copying from a file-based data store to a relational data store.
You perform the following steps in this tutorial:
- Create a data factory.
- Create Azure Storage and Azure SQL Database linked services.
- Create Azure BLob and Azure SQL Database datasets.
- Create a pipeline contains a Copy activity.
- Start a pipeline run.
- Monitor the pipeline and activity runs.
- Azure subscription. If you don't have a subscription, you can create a free trial account.
- Azure Storage account. You use the blob storage as source data store. If you don't have an Azure storage account, see the Create a storage account article for steps to create one.
- Azure SQL Database. You use the database as sink data store. If you don't have an Azure SQL Database, see the Create an Azure SQL database article for steps to create one.
- Visual Studio 2013, 2015, or 2017. The walkthrough in this article uses Visual Studio 2017.
- Download and install Azure .NET SDK.
- Create an application in Azure Active Directory following this instruction. Make note of the following values that you use in later steps: application ID, authentication key, and tenant ID. Assign application to "Contributor" role by following instructions in the same article.
Create blob and SQL table
Now, prepare your Azure Blob and Azure SQL Database for the tutorial by performing the following steps:
Create source blob
Launch Notepad. Copy the following text and save it as inputEmp.txt file on your disk.
John|Doe Jane|Doe
Use tools such as Azure Storage Explorer to create the adfv2tutorial container, and to upload the inputEmp.txt file to the container.
Create sink SQL table
Use the following SQL script to create the dbo.emp table in your Azure SQL Database.
CREATE TABLE dbo.emp ( ID int IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL, FirstName varchar(50), LastName varchar(50), ) GO CREATE CLUSTERED INDEX IX_emp_ID ON dbo.emp (ID);
Allow Azure services to access SQL server. Ensure that Allow access to Azure services setting is turned ON for your Azure SQL server so that the Data Factory service can write data to your Azure SQL server. To verify and turn on this setting, do the following steps:
- Click More services hub on the left and click SQL servers.
- Select your server, and click Firewall under SETTINGS.
- In the Firewall settings page, click ON for Allow access to Azure services.
Build and run the sample
- Click Tools -> NuGet Package Manager -> Package Manager Console.
In the Package Manager Console, run the following commands to install packages:
Install-Package Microsoft.Azure.Management.DataFactory Install-Package Microsoft.Azure.Management.ResourceManager Install-Package Microsoft.IdentityModel.Clients.ActiveDirectory
Set values for variables in the Program.cs file:
// Set variables string tenantID = "<tenant ID>"; string applicationId = "<Activity directory application ID>"; string authenticationKey = "<Activity directory application authentication key>"; string subscriptionId = "<subscription ID>"; string resourceGroup = "<resource group name>"; // Note that the data stores (Azure Storage, Azure SQL Database, etc.) and computes (HDInsight, etc.) used by data factory can be in other regions. string region = "East US"; string dataFactoryName = "<name of the data factory>"; //must be globally unique // Specify the source Azure Blob information string storageAccount = "<name of Azure Storage account>"; string storageKey = "<key for your Azure Storage account>"; string inputBlobPath = "adfv2tutorial/"; string inputBlobName = "inputEmp.txt"; // Specify the sink Azure SQL Database information string azureSqlConnString = "Server=tcp:<name of Azure SQL Server>.database.windows.net,1433;Database=spsqldb;User ID=spelluru;Password=Sowmya123;Trusted_Connection=False;Encrypt=True;Connection Timeout=30"; string azureSqlTableName = "dbo.emp";
Build the project and run the program.
See Also
For step-by-steps instructions to create this sample from scratch, see Quickstart: create a data factory and pipeline using .NET SDK.


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MONTREAL - Parti Quebecois Leader Pauline Marois put on a brave face Friday as she tried to reverse her party's fortunes entering the final weekend of the election campaign.
With opinion polls suggesting the PQ trails the Liberals heading into Monday's vote, Marois told reporters that she's received mostly warm receptions on the campaign trail in recent days.
"We were in a shopping centre yesterday, I didn't see very many people who were not ready to support us," Marois said Friday in response to a query about the PQ's disappointing poll results.
"I am working to win on April 7 and I have a great team ... I won't comment on polls in the media nor on my own."
Marois made the election call last month when polls suggested her party had enough support to put the PQ within reach of a majority.
But the PQ's momentum hit a wall after its splashy introduction of media baron Pierre Karl Peladeau as a star candidate. In announcing his candidacy, Peladeau raised a clenched fist and proclaimed his support for Quebec independence, an idea that most Quebecers oppose.
Marois was asked during a campaign stop Friday in Laval whether she would like another week to turn things around.
"As you know, it's a campaign that lasts what, 33 days?" she said.
"I like campaigning, I could keep doing more."
On Thursday, Marois made a sudden, 11th-hour attempt to woo middle-class voters by promising to cut income taxes, a pledge one opponent called desperate.
After the announcement, she said she hadn't mentioned the tax cuts earlier in the campaign because, "Not a lot of people asked me."
Marois acknowledged Friday that the future cuts received no mention in the budget her government tabled two weeks before the election call.
"I said this just like that because this is how we've been thinking since the start," she said.
"We don't think that it's magical thinking."
She said the PQ can promise the cuts because the province is now positioned to achieve a bigger budgetary surplus than expected thanks to economic growth and her party's job-creation policies.
"With our economic policy, I think we are able to increase (government) revenue," Marois said.
"If that is the case, I will split this new revenue between the citizens and the services which we have the obligation to offer to the population of Quebec."
The tax cuts, she added, would kick in only after the province balances its books, which the PQ has forecast for 2015-16.
However, Quebec's interim auditor general has indicated the government's goal of tabling a balanced budget within a few years is very optimistic.
As Marois campaigned in Laval and in the Eastern Townships, Liberal Leader Philippe Couillard visited the Montreal region and central Quebec.
Couillard was asked whether Quebec voters might hear more corruption allegations directed at his party if he forms a government.
The province's anti-corruption police unit seized boxes full of documents last summer in a raid on his party's headquarters.
Meanwhile, Quebec's ongoing public inquiry into corruption has yet to examine the issue of political financing.
"The whole political scene in Quebec, I think, has to answer — not only one party," Couillard said Friday.
"When events will come to my knowledge, I will act in consequence and I will have (zero) tolerance once the events ... are confirmed."
Couillard promised Friday, if elected, to release legal opinions by the Justice Department involving the PQ's controversial charter of values.
"In all transparency, once we're in government, if Quebecers put their trust in us, we will publish those legal opinions," he said, while campaigning in Saint-Jerome, where PQ star candidate Pierre Karl Peladeau is seeking a seat.
"But this is a moot question because we are not going to adopt the discriminatory option of the PQ proposal. We're going to legislate on the other portions on which everybody agrees."
Later in the day, two topless female protesters came within a few metres of Couillard at a campaign stop at a Montreal park.
The women, from the group Femen, had slogans painted on their bare skin denouncing a strict law adopted by the Charest Liberals a couple of years ago to crack down on the student protests.
The protesters were quickly taken into custody by police.
"Freedom of expression sometimes has unexpected consequences," Couillard said with a smile shortly after the incident.
As the Liberals have remained strong in the polls, the opinion surveys have also suggested that the Coalition Party has attracted more support in the later stages of the campaign.
Even though the party was shown to be trailing the Liberals and the PQ, Coalition Leader Francois Legault said Friday that he believes he will win a majority.
Legault said that he has already started thinking about who will sit in his cabinet.
"An athlete who never aims for the gold medal will never win the gold medal," he said.
"You must aim for this objective. Yes, I am visualizing, but the trend and what I see on the ground show me that it's possible."
— With files from Patrice Bergeron, Martin Ouellet and Alexandre Robillard
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JACKSONVILLE � As veterans with honorable discharges pass away, many surviving families are unaware of benefits they are entitled to through the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense.
JACKSONVILLE � As veterans with honorable discharges pass away, many surviving families are unaware of benefits they are entitled to through the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense.
�It is important for veterans� families to know about survivor benefits because these are benefits the veteran has earned through his or her service to our country,� said Wayne Peedin, the interim director with the N.C. Division of Veterans Affairs in Raleigh.
For the surviving families of deceased veterans, there are many benefits available to commemorate and honor a service member�s military career. By applying to the Department of Veterans Affairs, family members may be eligible for a burial flag, headstones, presidential certificates and others.
�Providing survivor benefits is an obligation, and I would hope the VA would feel privileged to live up to that obligation,� Peedin said.
At no cost to the family, a United States flag is provided to drape the casket or accompany the urn of a deceased veteran who served honorably in the U.S. armed forces. The furnishing of a burial flag is meant to memorialize the veteran�s military service to his or her country.
The flag is generally given to the next of kin after its use during the funeral service. If there is no next of kin, a friend requesting the flag may have it presented to them. For VA national cemeteries with an Avenue of Flags, families may donate the burial flags to be flown on patriotic holidays.
Burial flags cannot be replaced by the Department of Veterans Affairs if lost, destroyed or stolen. In order to obtain a flag, the applicant must fill out VA Form 27-2008. Flags may be picked up at a VA regional office or the U.S. Post Office.
Under a program called �Honoring Those Who Served,� the Department of Defense is responsible for providing military funeral honors at the family�s request. The ceremony includes folding and presenting the United States burial flag and the playing of Taps.
Military funeral honors consists of two or more uniformed persons, with at least one being a member of the veteran�s parent service. The local funeral home handling arrangements also can arrange the military honors.
Headstones or grave markers for the deceased veteran can be applied for through the VA by filling out VA Form 40-1330 if the veteran is being buried at a private cemetery. The headstone or marker must be applied for by the next of kin or an authorized representative. The veteran�s military discharge documents must be provided.
When a burial or memorial is at a national, post or state veterans� cemetery, a headstone or marker will be ordered by cemetery officials.
By request, the VA also provides a medallion that can be affixed to an existing privately purchased headstone or marker. The medallion is inscribed with the word �Veteran� across the top and the branch of service at the bottom. In order to apply for the medallion, next of kin should file VA Form 40-1330M. Veterans are not entitled to both the headstone or marker and the medallion.
All veterans� surviving family members are entitled to a Presidential Memorial Certificate. More than one certificate may be provided to the next of kin and loved ones. The certificate is meant to express the country�s grateful recognition of the veterans� service. Those interested must file VA Form 40-0247.
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I had dinner on Saturday at Poon's Chinese Restaurant in Barkly Street, Footscray. It was the worst Cantonese meal that I've eaten in Melbourne. The service was gracious and friendly considering that they were packed and it was dirt cheap. The meal was a mistake but not an expensive one and it filled me with regret but not salmonella. The food was uniformly tasteless like some non-toxic, starchy glue.
Poon's however, is popular enough to be ranked a local institution much of which seems to revolve around the ritual of regular dining in the same place over a period of decades. The result of a family decision where Friday night is fish and chips, Saturday night is Poon's. Single sex groupings dining together, having the Boy's Night Out with a table filled with Crownies; women on other tables sharing a bottle of Jacob's Creek Chardonnay and splitting Poon's gigantic (and suspiciously Chiko Roll-like) spring rolls. There were no chopsticks on offer, anywhere.
At a guess, it has been doing the same food in the same place for half a century and the punters love it. Here's a review from Menulog:
i have been a 'patron' of 'Poons' for at least 40 years, and would not go anywhere else. The food is fresh, nutritional and very easy to eat. The variations on the Menu are wonderful.
The staff and Management have ALWAYS been good to me and i feel part of their family after all these years, at being treated as part of their family.
i only wish they could deliver to Carlton to where i live, but at least i get a chance to mix with some of the 'cream of the crop people in our Society when i visit them regularly.
Thank you for allowing me to tell you this wonderful news about 'Poons'. ( i tell everyone i go there and love it and the staff too )
Who in Australia cares about "Asian food" in a world where Poon's is rating as well as Flower Drum or Lau's on user-generated review sites?
When it comes to food from Asia, most Australians are happy with average food. "Chinese food" means a regionless choice of meat stir fried in your choice of bland starchy sauce. Most Australians are content with the local Thai joint doing the traffic light curries (red, green, yellow) straight from the bucket of Mae Ploy. Vietnamese means pho alone. Japanese is aseasonal and what rich people eat (except for sushi, which is no longer associated with Japan). The rest of Asia is a vague unknown, summarised in the thinner chapters of cookbooks with the word Oriental in the title. Above all, the food must be "very easy to eat". No bones, no heads, no need to even chew.
So Necia Wilden's article in The Australian newspaper regarding her inability to find or discern premium Asian ingredients was no great surprise to me. Boneless and free from the shackles of mastication. I'm only bringing it up because of the interesting discussion it has spawned over at Progressive Dinner Party. Like Zoe, I read it in the physical newspaper. I paid good money for it in the hope that food journalism in The Australian (and coverage of food from Asia) would be better in 2009 under Lethlean and Wilden's gaze. I haven't bought an edition of The Australian since. If it's been a bumper year for food writing in The Australian, apologies for not supporting it.
I'm not going to tackle the racism behind grouping food from Asia together into an undifferentiated and monolithic bloc, skipping between cuisines as if there was no need for specialist knowledge in any of them. Provincial food for The Australian, it seems, only comes from refined palates in Europe.
It's the Chicken Tonight approach to food that also concerns me: if only I had the right stir-through sauce recommended to me as authentic, the curry would taste the same as at my hotel in Phuket. So how to come by this knowledge? Getting a recommendation from the person that owns the store is just not good enough, as Wilden puts it:
"How do I know this soy sauce is organic?" I ask the young woman in the Japanese grocery store near my home. "Because it says so on the label," she says, pointing to the Japanese characters on the bottle's posh paper wrapping. Ah, right.
The key, according to the article, is to get a chef to tell you what is good, preferably one with an Asian last name or a cookbook the size of a family sedan. Actually going out, buying a few things and then tasting them is not mentioned. You only learn to cook through your own experiences and your sense of taste is subtly different to everyone else and above all, should be trusted. If David Thompson recommends Megachef brand fish sauce but you enjoy $3 a bottle Tiparos, go with your own tastes. At most, experimenting with different brands will be less than $5 a hit.
Buying ingredients is no minefield as Tony Tan mentions in the article, at least in comparison to the minefields that I've seen built for Cambodians and by Cambodians. Ask the shopkeeper. Try different things. You won't step on anything that will turn you, your children or your livestock into a fine pink mist. So who is this article meant to service? What is to gain from making cooking certain cuisines at home look more difficult and less satisfying?
Just to put on a particularly Bolshie hat, newspapers have so little to gain from pimping out fresh food – it is the Simon Johnson's of the world that buy ads in the food sections of newspapers and not your local Vietnamese grocer. There is a need for newspapers to prop up a system that recommends branded goods over raw ingredients. If word got out that fresh ingredients make much more of a difference in cooking than processed ones, all hell would break loose. People would be smashing in the Lean Cuisine fridges in your local duopolist supermarket in a fit of rage.
Just to bring things back to the world of Poon's rather than some parallel universe where people care about what they eat, The Australian's food section is aimed squarely at the Poon's market and not at me. It's aimed at people who buy the best fish sauce as a display to others that they buy the best fish sauce rather than as a pungent condiment whose value is in its consumption. This is the food journalism for the people who have been eating the same Chinese food for decades and are unwilling or unable to try somewhere new without someone else validating and translating the experience for them.


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With one day left to qualify to run for office, the ballot for the Cape Coral City Council is shaping up to be a fat one.
As of late Wednesday afternoon six candidates - Dan Ashby, Vincent Cummings, Gordon Ultsch, former District 1 and 3 councilman A.J. Boyd, David Carr, and incumbent John Sullivan had qualified for mayor. A seventh candidate, Marni Sawicki, was "98 percent qualified," city clerk Rebecca van Deutekom said.
"I say the cliche, I'm crazy enough to make a difference," Sawicki said. "My business background, education, what I can bring to the table, I think can make for positive changes for Cape Coral."
The candidates had myriad reasons to run for the four seats up for grabs. Some felt it was an obligation to the city.
"I wanted to give back to the community that gave so much to us after what happened to my son Corey Kent," said Ashby, whose soldier son was severely injured in Afghanistan. "I believe I have the business background to move this city forward instead of always looking back."
"It's a lifetime calling for me. I'm a native son and have been raised in the community," Cummings said. "Having a thorough background in public management, I feel I'm the most qualified candidate."
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"I've been involved in politics here. I have the time and the interest. It was either this or run in District 6, so I decided to run for mayor," Ultsch said.
"It's easier to get things done on the inside than the outside," said Carr, who qualified Wednesday. "I'm a CPA so I can read the city financials and do a good job of being mayor."
As for the incumbent, he said he still has much work to do for the taxpayers.
"I think I can still do a lot of good for the people and businesses of Cape Coral," Sullivan said. "I ran because I think I can help the taxpayers."
Rick Williams qualified in District 6, while Richard Leon qualified in District 4.
"I grew up in Cape Coral and wanted to give back to my city. I've been in the political game for three years and I think it's time we had a good direction in District 4," Leon said.
Williams could not be immediately reached for comment.
Chris Chulakes-Leetz and Kevin McGrail, incumbents in districts 4 and 6, respectively, qualified on Wednesday.
"My business card says 'Paving the way to a better Cape Coral.' I plan on seeing our infrastructure improve as we go into the future," McGrail said. "I'm putting my asphalt where my mouth is."
"I love the work and the challenge it provides and because I've been urged to by so many residents and citizens of Cape Coral," Chulakes-Leetz said as to why he will seek re-election.
Steven Golub and David R. Headd qualified Wednesday for the District 1 council seat while Jim Burch, former mayor and a former District 1 councilman, qualified Wednesday.
The incumbent, Marty McClain, has said he will not seek a second term.
"We need leadership and experience on the council and that's why we're running," said Burch, who rode with Boyd to fill out the qualifying paperwork Wednesday morning.
Boyd served on council from 1998-2007. After being term-limited out of his council seat, he made an unsuccessful bid for the mayor's seat in 1993. Burch was a councilman in 2007 before being appointed mayor in 2008.
Golub and Headd touted new ideas.
"This city is run by good ol' boys, and it's ruined the city," Golub said. "We have not been represented. The city has been run as a thing, not as you or I or as neighbors."
"I want to bring new blood to the council and continue with the fiscal integrity that was developed over the last few years," Headd said.
Additional candidates are expected to qualify Friday.
Van Deutekom said she has given out many qualifying packets to either prospective candidates or members of their team.
"It's not required that they give information before the period. Some have others pick up the packets for them. Some want to download the forms," Van Deutekom said. "But they all have to be done by 1 p.m. on Friday."
Early voting for the primaries will take place from Aug. 31 to Sept. 7, with the primary election on Sept. 10. Early voting for general elections will run from Oct. 28 to Nov. 2, with Election Day on Nov. 5.
City elections are non-partisan and city wide meaning voters can cast a ballot in each race regardless of party affiliation or the district in which they live,
For more information about qualifying, contact the city clerk's office at 574-0417.


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The Patriot News: Area teens struggle with U.S. citizenship test
If American teens had to pass the same test to remain in the United States that immigrants must pass, many would face finding another country to call home.
Based on the results of The Patriot-News' unscientific sampling of 10 high school-age youths, it appears our world would be a far different place.
I have to admit that I missed one question, the 13 original states. I added Vermont and Maine and realized 15 just wasn't right.
I do take issue with the social studies teacher quoted here, though:
That's why Mark Zeigler, who teaches social studies at Camp Hill High School, was not surprised to hear how local teens struggled with the test. It was not something they had been cramming for.
Zeigler agreed that the questions used in the test are very reasonable and the type of things kids ought to know, but he isn't certain they measure knowledge that would be of real value to them as adults, or to a new citizen.
"The way we taught history in the past really doesn't do democracy any good. If we just teach facts, that does not equate to more voters, more participation," Zeigler said.
Today, the educational approach emphasizes more concepts and broad strokes of knowledge. The idea is to give students an understanding of the whole democratic process, not just a collection of facts.
I agree with the teach that concepts and broad strokes are important, but the facts in this test are part of understanding the concepts. How can you understand how government functions if you don't know the three branches of government? It's no wonder The Hostiles get away with attacking the judiciary. How can you understand elections if you don't know about the Electoral College? How can you understand modern day foreign relations if you don't know our three enemies in WWII? (I started college with the intent of being a history teacher and ended up with a minor in history, so this is near and dear to my heart.)
This has a serious impact on the way public dialogue is carried out in this country. Besides the attacks on the judiciary, this lack of knowledge also comes into play when people try to claim "majority rules." Actually, the Founders recognized that majorities could be tyrannical, which is why they set up the system the way it is. It's why Christianity is not the official religion of the country and English is not the official language. If young people (and plenty of older folks, too, sadly) don't get this, we are heading down a dark path.
Andy in H-burg


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More than 20 years after the O.J. Simpson trial, lawyer Christopher Darden is breaking his silence about his relationship with fellow prosecutor Marcia Clark, the "Today" show reported.
The pair were "more than friends" during the 1994 case, Darden told Entertainment Tonight on Monday, saying they were inseparable at the time.
While he didn't go into much detail, Darden, now 60, described their relationship as passionate "fire."
The trial and its prosecutors have recently returned to the headlines, thanks to the FX show "The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story" and its multiple Emmy wins Sunday. Back in March, Clark also briefly touched on her relationship with her "trenchmate" Darden on "Ellen."


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Danny Granger has been the opposition of some of the Clippers teams that have struggled over the years, but he knows a good (current) thing when he sees one.
The Clippers' most recent acquisition, who was signed Friday, said he saw his new team as his best fit and is ready to help them challenge for supremacy in the Western Conference.
"It's a winning culture here," Granger said before Saturday's game against New Orleans at Staples Center. "Playing in the Western Conference is such a challenge because you have so many teams that are so good. In the East you really only have Indiana and Miami. Out here, you're two games away from the seventh seed and three away from the first seed. It's exciting basketball."
Granger was not activated for the game and was not on the Clippers' bench only an hour or so after all indications were he would be in uniform.
He was hardly needed. Chris Paul had 21 points and eight assists, Blake Griffin had 20 points and the Clippers had no problem putting New Orleans away, 108-76.
And while the Clippers (41-20) were rolling to their fourth consecutive win, Coach Doc Rivers could sort things out on where Granger, a 6-foot-9 forward, would fit in best.
Granger is coming off a knee injury that forced him to miss virtually all of last season and has battled a strained calf this season.
But Rivers liked what he saw with the former all-star.
"I thought right before the trade he was starting to round into shape and make shots," Rivers said. "What I see in him is length. He's a long small forward who has the ability to add a different dimension to us.
"I don't know this yet because I haven't coached him yet, but the way I look at him is that we can have a post game at the three spot as well now. It gives you another dimension, he can stretch the floor, he comes from a defensive organization that runs a lot of the same stuff we run. Defensively I thought he would be the easier fit of the guys out there.
"The whole key is how quickly we can get him acclimated, how quickly we can figure out what he does well. He's still coming back from the injury. He just needs more time and minutes so we're going to try and do that."
The Clippers, looking for their fourth consecutive win, were having few problems with the Pelicans even without Granger, Jamal Crawford (strained calf) and J.J. Redick (bulging disc).
Griffin and Paul each had 14 points as the Clippers took a 15-point halftime lead and they kicked that advantage to 35 points in the fourth quarter.
Making it easier is New Orleans is playing without forward Ryan Anderson (bulging disc) and guard Jrue Holiday, who had knee surgery and is out for the season.
Meanwhile, leading scorer Anthony Davis picked up two fouls in the first two minutes trying to guard Griffin. He picked up his fourth foul early in the third quarter and finished with only eight points.
Guard Eric Gordon, who entered the game averaging 15.9 points, made only 1 of 13 shots and scored two points. Tyreke Evans scored 22 and Austin Rivers, Doc's son, recorded his season high with 19 points to lead New Orleans (23-36).


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The establishment of Arnold Arboretum in 1872 marked the first time in this country that provisions were made to collect trees from all over the world and plant them in one area. Charles Sargent had many questions to address about the fundamental purpose, layout, and use of an arboretum before he could begin planting his specimens. These questions were answered only through years of collaboration between Sargent and Olmsted. Both men agreed that people should be able to study the trees not just as scientific specimens, but as living works of art. To fulfill its purposes as an arboretum, the trees needed to be grouped by family and genus according to the natural order. To make the arboretum useful as a park, they had to design the roads in a way that suggested relaxation. The route had to curve gently to and fro through the landscape, always leading visitors to new scenery. The trees, therefore, could not be planted in the stiff and formal lines of a conventional botanical garden.
Months went by, then years, as Olmsted attempted to merge the concept of a park and a tree museum into a mutually agreeable plan. He produced drawing after drawing showing in what order the trees could be planted and where roads could be built. Sargent stated, "Olmsted of course will render immense assistance in the way of taste and engineering, but the arrangement of plants so that they will tell as clearly as possible the story they are meant to illustrate I must do."1 Sargent insisted that many species be planted along the roads by type, to allow people to compare their differences and similarities. He wanted visitors to be able to examine side by side a maple from Maine and one from Japan. Olmsted wanted the trees to appear as they would have in nature, in clumps with plenty of curving space between groups. Discussions between the two men seemed endless, but if a design was not decided upon quickly, the trees that Sargent already had collected would be too large to plant.
Six months after Harvard and Boston signed their agreement, the city began constructing the arboretum's drives, a process which took 10 years to complete. In late 1884, Sargent and Olmsted worked on refining the planting plan. Rather than containing every tree and shrub that could grow in the climate of Boston, the arboretum would now feature a selection of North American and foreign trees to show tree growth in the North Temperate Zone. In 1885, Olmsted and Sargent finally agreed on a final planting plan. The installation of the permanent tree collection began in the spring of 1886 as beeches, ashes, elms, and hickories were transferred from the nursery beds where they had been kept. By spring of 1887, 120,000 trees and shrubs were in place.
Sargent realized his dreams as thousands of trees from all over the world passed through the arboretum's gates. He and his staff had traveled in search of woody plants throughout the U.S., Europe, and the Far East. They brought back plants such as Japanese wisteria, Chinese dogwoods, and ginkgoes--trees that form a tall canopy of yellow, fan--shaped leaves. He made sure all were planted just right so they would grow to be healthy examples of their species. He remarked, "Trees have never been planted with better promise of undisturbed old age."2
Olmsted also achieved a dream. For those who walk through Arnold Arboretum's grounds, the undulating design of the roads and the planting areas yields one visual delight after another. The final product was a testament to "Olmsted's artistry and Sargent's good taste."3 Together Olmsted and Sargent created a place of beauty and science. Its form and function were woven together like a fine tapestry.
Certainly, Arnold Arboretum did not erase the urban problems of congestion, epidemics, and unsanitary conditions in Boston. However, it did provide a tranquil diversion from the crowded city. It offered a place for families to take weekend walks among spring flowers or fall foliage, for amateur horticulturists to keep up with the latest developments, and for professional landscape designers and botanists to examine hundreds of trees and shrubs previously unknown in the United States. Reflecting on the first 50 years of the arboretum's existence, Sargent wrote:
...[I]t has been managed not merely as a New England museum but as a national and international institution working to increase knowledge of trees in all parts of the world.... An institution with such ambitions must be equipped to answer any question about any tree growing in any part of the world which may be addressed to it.4
Today, Arnold Arboretum contains more than 6,000 varieties of trees and shrubs, with 1,286 of them grown for the first time in Northeast America. Many of the species Sargent set out at the Arnold Arboretum are now grown in other parts of the nation, enriching private gardens and public parks across the country.
Questions for Reading 3
1. In what ways was the development of Arnold Arboretum an experiment? What kinds of questions did Sargent need to answer before he could begin planting?
2. What considerations did Olmsted and Sargent have to think about when planting trees? How are the concepts of a park and an arboretum potentially at odds with each other?
3. Why was 1886 an important year for both Olmsted and Sargent?
4. What legacy did the collaboration between Olmsted and Sargent leave to those who love trees and quiet, open spaces?
Reading 3 was compiled from Polly M. Rettig, "Arnold Arboretum" (Suffolk County, MA) National Register of Historic Places Registration Form, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1975; and S. B. Sutton, Charles Sprague Sargent and the Arnold Arboretum (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1970).
1Chas. S. Sargent to Joseph Dalton Hooker, April 12, 1878, Library, Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew, Richmond, Surry, England.


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The local community gathered with state officials last week to commemorate and honor an auxiliary trooper who sacrificed his life while in the line of duty.
Lieutenant Governor Nancy Wyman, along with State Representative Al Adinolfi and at least 40 law enforcement officers, unveiled a ceremonial sign in the rest area of exit 28 on the eastbound side of Interstate 84 to honor the former Auxiliary Trooper Edward Truelove, who served for 23 years.
"His dedication to duty never swayed," Lieutenant Paul Vance said. "He was a kind man … [and] gave his life to protect others."
In November 1992, Truelove helped a disabled vehicle along I-84 near exit 26 in Cheshire, according to a press release from Adinolfi's website. He returned to his cruiser to call for a tow truck after bringing the driver and passenger to a safe spot, and a tractor trailer crashed into his car, killing the 72-year-old trooper immediately.
Wyman and other officials recognized that Truelove's actions saved the lives of the people he helped out.
"I learned how caring and thoughtful he was," Lieutenant Governor Wyman said. "Ed Truelove was truly a hero."
The rest area now bears a sign in the trooper's name, designated with the title, "Auxiliary Trooper Edward W. Truelove Memorial Rest Area." Truelove's sister, Marjorie Ferry, also received the same sign as a token of gratitude and respect for her brother's actions.
"It is really a shock," Ferry said. "It is something he deserves."
Representative Adinolfi said his legislative efforts to make a ceremonial tribute would not have happened without the suggestion of Cheshire resident and auxiliary trooper Michael Suntava and the help of the Transportation Committee. The proposal became law on July 1.
"Twenty-one years is far too long to formally honor a fallen law enforcement officer," Rep. Adinolfi said. "This piece of legislation, approved in both the House and Senate, and signed into law by the Governor, is simply a small token of our gratitude to Auxiliary Trooper Truelove."
Rep. Adinolfi also recognized other troopers who face the same catastrophes every day.
"Let us also not forget how important each and every one of our state troopers are—and let us not forget Edward W. Truelove," Rep. Adinolfi said. "This rest area—a short distance from where he perished—will live on in state history, in his memory."
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Every year on New Year's Eve, the world is treated to spectacular images of the stunning fireworks display over the Sydney Harbour Bridge. The 'Coathanger' is inextricably associated with the Sydney skyline. Those without a fear of heights may climb to the top of this iconic bridge.
In 1922, a worldwide tender was put out inviting designs for a bridge to connect the city to the northern districts of Sydney. After 6 years of construction, the Sydney Harbour Bridge was inaugurated in 1932. The largest steel arch bridge in the world reaches a height of 134 metres – measured from the surface of the water. The bridge weighs a total of 52,800 tonnes. The enormous weight is supported by steel pillars, hidden under the 4 stone towers on both banks.


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– President Barack Obama at Fort Stewart Army Base, Hinesville, Ga., April 27, 2012
Military Mothers Honored at Joining Forces Event
First lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden, wife of Vice President Joe Biden, hosted an afternoon tea at the White House on Thursday, May 10, 2012, to honor military mothers and wives for being "outstanding role models" for their children, communities and country. The tea celebrated both Military Spouse Appreciation Day and Mother's Day. The first lady began her speech by thanking the members of the armed forces present for their service. She also shared with military mothers and wives how, on her long days, she thinks of the women in the military and keeps pressing on. Sgt. Major Jennifer Wicks of the Active Guard Reserve Transportation Corps and Transportation School said of the meeting, "[The first lady] told us our children's behavior was a reflection of our strength and the good decisions we've made raising them. That meant a lot to us all." Mrs. Obama then thanked grandmothers for "filling in whenever needed."
Following the tea, Mrs. Obama and Dr. Biden participated in a community service activity at the U.S. Naval Observatory, on the grounds of which is located the vice president's residence. They were joined by congressional spouses in assembling hundreds of care packages for mothers and wives at the request of deployed troops. Both events were a part of the Joining Forces initiative, launched last year, for which Mrs. Obama and Dr. Biden work to give back to America's military families.
Military Children Share Their Experiences With Secretary Arne Duncan
On April 16, Secretary Arne Duncan held a Student Voices Discussion with 21 high school students in the D.C. area whose parents are service members. With the secretary were Patty Shinseki, wife of U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki, and Marilee Fitzgerald, director of the Department of Defense Education Activity. Also in attendance from the Department of Education were Karen Gross, senior policy advisor in the Office of the Under Secretary (OUS), and Stefan Huh, director of the Charter Schools Program.
The students shared their educational experiences and challenges as military family members. These included frequent relocations from the U.S. to overseas, the effects of deployments on families, the problems in transferring course credits and getting school personnel to meet the needs of military-connected children, of which there are 1.2 million. One student shared that, while she had all the credits she needed to graduate as a senior, she was considered only a junior because she hadn't taken a specific course. She had taken a similar course at her prior school but the district of her new school would not accept it. Incidents like this occur too frequently to military children, who move from state to state and from other countries back to the U.S. Please read more about the event on the blog, http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/05/25/student-voices-military-connected-children-inspire-guidance-secretary-duncan/.
Supporting the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children
In celebration of the Month of the Military Child in April, Secretary Duncan sent a Dear Colleague letter to superintendents of local education agencies' (LEA), members of the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) and 18,000 school superintendents. The Dear Colleague letter provided information about the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children and encouraged the letter's recipients to fully implement the compact. To see the full text of the letter, visit: http://www.ed.gov/veterans-and-military-families.
Military Members and Educators Share Concerns With Department's Senior Policy Advisor
Karen Gross, senior policy advisor in the Office of the Under Secretary at the Department of Education, met with students, faculty and staff at Dover High School in Dover, N.H., on May 8. Those present included President Mark Huddleston of the University of New Hampshire, Base Commander Cpt. Bryant Fuller from Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine, senior administrators, and military personnel and their spouses. During the meeting, participants discussed concerns of military families, two of which were the affordability of college for all students and improving educational experiences for vulnerable students in the pre-K – 16 pipeline. In response to those concerns, Gross shared that the federal government had programs in place, such as the federal loan repayment options, and tools available online that assist students in selecting quality, affordable education. She also discussed the proposed Race to the Top and First in the World initiatives for higher education. In answer to questions about improving educational experiences, Gross spoke of efforts that are already in place. To learn more about the federal loan repayment options, Race to the Top and First in the World initiatives for higher education, and other resources for military children, visit
and http://www2.ed.gov/policy/gen/guid/secletter/120424.html.
Charter Schools Program Director Advises on Starting Charters on Military Bases
On June 20, Stefan Huh, director of the Department's Charter Schools Program, was a panelist for the session "Starting a Charter School on a Military Base"at the 2012 National Charter Schools Conference. Huh spoke of the unique challenges charter operators and others involved in startups on military bases face, and the need for new tools and opportunities to share lessons learned for helping expand charters. Panel members discussed the growing body of knowledge about the successful development and processes of charters, existing tools and resources, concepts for professional networking, new charter projects, the challenges for this unique population of students and the hurdles startups face For more information about the conference, visit http://www.publiccharters.org/Conference/2012/At-the-Conference/Session-Content.aspx.
Education Department Staff Learn About Readiness and Resilience at the Warrior Resilience Conference
Department of Education staff attended the Warrior Resilience Conference IV, Restoring Readiness: Individual, Unit, Community and Family, in Washington, D.C., on March 29–30. The conference provided information, resources and shared experiences for building readiness and enhancing resilience within the individual, the military family and the community. For more information and resources, go to http://www.dcoe.health.mil/Training/WarriorResilienceConferenceIV.aspx/.
DoDEA Launches Summer Learning Website to Keep Military Families Engaged in Learning
Many education experts refer to students' experience of the summer months as the "summer brain drain" because they typically lack academic focus. To protect your children from it this summer, whether they are kindergarteners or rising seniors, DoDEA has gathered resources to help you keep them engaged and challenged. Visit the site at http://www.dodea.edu/summerLearning/
DoDEA Hits a Virtual Milestone
The Department of Defense Education Activity Virtual High School granted its first diplomas at a ceremony held in Peterborough, England, on June 8. Three students residing in Greece, Spain and England received their high school diplomas from the DoDEA Virtual High School (DVHS) at a joint commencement ceremony with the students of DoDEA's Alconbury High School. "We're very proud and excited for our graduating seniors," said Terri Marshall, principal of the DVHS. "These students are a part of a burgeoning 21st century learning community where geographical location is no longer an impediment to attaining an accredited high school diploma."
Eligibility and graduation requirements at the DVHS are the same as those for any DoDEA school.
Officially established in 2010 as a fully accredited supplemental program, DVHS became a comprehensive diploma-granting institution in school year 2011–12, delivering more than 50 courses to meet DoDEA's regular and advanced diploma options. Operating from three Virtual Hubs in Korea, Germany and the U.S., the school allows for synchronous instruction as well as asynchronous learning. All instruction is provided by DoDEA teachers.
"The Virtual High School increases education options for DoDEA-eligible students. Through the DVHS, these students were able to earn a high school diploma that has prepared them to enter the world of work, continuing education and community service,"Marshall said.
DoDEA Schools to Adopt Common Core State Standards
DoDEA is adopting the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) into its curriculum, instruction and assessment programs. The CCSS initiative began more than two years ago as a collaboration between state governors and education leaders to introduce consistency in education systems across the nation. This initiative has garnered the support of 46 states, two territories and the District of Columbia to date. All participants in the CCSS initiative are working together to implement high-quality standards in English language arts, mathematics and science for kindergarten through 12th grade. These curriculum standards are research based, rigorous and relevant to the real world, and reflect the knowledge and skills America's students need for success in college and careers.
To read more about DoDEA implementing the CCSS, visit the DoDEA website at http://www.dodea.edu/pressroom/releasesDisplay.cfm?prId=20120605
Listen and Learn: Military Parents and School Liaison Officers Speak Out
On April 15, military parents and school liaison officers accompanied their children to the U. S. Department of Education (ED). While the students were talking with Secretary Duncan, the parents and liaisons met with other ED officials. Over 40 adults representing all branches of the military discussed their concerns and needs, and gave suggestions and solutions that would assist the parents.
Below are a few of the shared concerns of the parents and school liaison officers.
- Need for assistance with transition;
- Need for a top-down approach for states to understand and work with military families who move from state to state;
- Need for schools to communicate with parents who don't have a permanent home address; and
- Need to standardize the curriculum or at least accept similar core areas of courses.
Parents also spoke of special needs, deployment, understanding rank, educating school faculty on the military and encouraging schools to value military families.
The concerns and needs elicited a discussion of suggestions and solutions to some of the problems, such as the need to
- Provide resources or a kit for families in transition;
- Provide families with webinars and newsletters to keep them up to date with transitions and assistance;
- Utilize guidance counselors to help children acclimate to new surroundings;
- Acknowledge superintendents, teachers and principals who are military friendly
- Recognize military-friendly schools; and
- Support military parents who begin afterschool programs for children in low-income areas.
Military–Connected Students Visit White House for Movie Screening
On April 20, four military-connected students from the D.C. area traveled to the White House to view the movie "Bully,"a recently released documentary on the subject of school bullying. It focuses on five families who experienced bullying. Valerie Jarrett, senior advisor to the president, and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan addressed the audience. At the reception that followed in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, the students had the opportunity to engage with other attendees as well as with the families and students featured in the film.
An Updated Resource Is Now Available for Children With Special Needs
The updated Education Directory for Children with Special Needs is now available. It provides information families can use to help them make informed decisions based on services available for their children when relocating. It consists of two components.
- The NEW Early Intervention Directory focusing on early intervention services for children birth–3 years; and
- The EXPANDED School Age Directory focusing on special education services for children with special needs, ages 3–21.
The 15 states with the highest number of assigned military personnel are included in the directory: Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Texas, and Virginia
Both directories provide practical suggestions, information and resources to help families in all states who have special-needs children with their transition to any new domestic location.
The Early Intervention Directory includes
- A summary of national- and state-level early intervention (EI) trends;
- Descriptions of each state's EI system and related resources;
- Early intervention (EI) service provider profiles and contact information;
- Tools for helping families and their children make smooth transitions to new EI providers; and
- Links to national resource agencies.
The School-Age Directory includes
- A summary of national- and state-level trends for special education for children identified with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), Emotional/Behavior Disorders (E/BD) and Intellectual Disabilities (ID);
- Tools for helping families and their children make transitions to new school districts;
- Descriptions of each state's special education system and related resources;
- School district profiles and contact information about school districts that service domestic military installations; and Links to national resource agencies.
You may link to the directory at http://pre.apps.mhf.dod.mil/pls/psgprod/f?p=EFMP_DIRECTORY:HOME:0::::EKMT:188.8.131.52.0.0.0.0.0. The directory is also posted on MilitaryHomefront under TROOPS&FAMILIES, SPECIAL NEEDS/EFMP, http://www.militaryhomefront.dod.mil/pls/psgprod/f?p=MHF:HOME1:0::::SID:20.40.500.518.104.22.168.0.0, and STATESIDE DIRECTORY, http://apps.mhf.dod.mil/pls/psgprod/f?p=EFMP_DIRECTORY:HOME:0. MilitaryHOMEFRONT is the Department of Defense website for official Military Community and Family Policy (MC&FP) program information, policy and guidance designed to help troops and their families, leaders, and service providers. For questions about the publication, please contact Lorie Sebestyen, MC&FP, Office of Special Needs, at email@example.com/.
Contacts: Massie Ritsch, deputy assistant secretary for external affairs and outreach; Charles Boyer, special advisor for military families; Cynthia Hearn Dorfman, advisor; Carrie Jasper, writer and editor; and Gary Jones, Nick Mammarella, Constance Gillette and Kathleen Facon, contributors.
To subscribe, unsubscribe or comment on this newsletter, please contact email@example.com
Touching Base can be found online at: http://www.ed.gov/news/newsletters/touchingbase/
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text: Don't buy gifts you can't afford. Here are five ways to keep costs under control. By Cameron Huddleston, Former Online Editor June 8, 2012 It's well known that June is the most popular month for weddings. My husband, kids and I actually will be attending one next weekend. And I really need to get on the ball and buy them a gift. I plan on being generous because it's my step-brother who is getting married -- and I'm at a stage in life where buying something nice for him and his fiancé won't put a big dent in my budget. It also helps that I won't be attending any other weddings (and buying more wedding gifts) this year.DOWNLOAD: The Kip Tips iPad App But those of you in your twenties and early thirties might be invited to several ceremonies this year (maybe some engagement parties and wedding showers, too). You're probably wondering how you can afford to get your friends something nice without racking up big credit-card bills or looking like a cheapskate when you give them a present that's actually in your price range. The good news is that you can keep costs to a minimum by shopping smart and using a little creativity. Here are five tips to help: Advertisement Set a budget. Examine your finances to figure out how much you can afford (use our budget worksheet). And avoid the urge to over-give. Your gift doesn't have to match the entrée price if you're invited to a fancy wedding. Get creative. Homemade and heartfelt gifts can have a big impact -- at little cost to you. The key to pulling it off, though, is to personalize the gift. Make a wedding scrapbook filled with pictures and mementos from the wedding -- and events leading up to it. If you're not crafty, consider a DVD photo album. Or pick something for the couple's shared interests, such as a travel magazine subscription and a pair of binoculars for a globe-trotting couple, or a DVD collector's set for film buffs. Monogram an inexpensive item, such as a frame or hand towels, for a personalized touch. Get a group gift. Go in together to get a big-impact item. Group gifts are a common practice among baby-shower guests, and they work just as well for wedding presents. Ask other friends invited to the ceremony to pitch in so you can give the couple one of the more pricey items on their registry. Stick to the registry. If you don't know the couple well, the registry definitely is your best bet. If you try to pick out something on your own but don't know the couple's tastes, your gift might be the butt of jokes for years to come. You can also personalize a registry item to make it more meaningful. Include a couple of your favorite cookie recipes with that mixing bowl set, for example, and toss in a few of the key ingredients. Offer your services. If you play an instrument or sing well, you could offer your musical talents for the ceremony or reception -- and save the couple the cost of hiring a musician. Follow me on Twitter


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Some heartwarming news from Adam Pasick at New York Magazine...
If Hurricane Sandy's storm surge is as big as projected, the fetid Gowanus canal may overflow and flood low-lying areas of Brooklyn with a foul-smelling and poisonous mixture of chemicals and crap:
If Sandy hits with sufficient force, a flood of the human waste quaintly known as combined sewer overflow (CSO) is almost a certainty. What is less certain is how much of the heavier, more dangerous contaminants will be churned up by the storm surge and heavy winds and deposited by the flood waters. There is a worrying precedent in Hurricane Katrina, which inundated several Superfund sites such as the Agriculture Street Landfill. Like the Gowanus Canal, the landfill had accumulated decades worth of various pollutants, and after Katrina the area around the landfill showed "disturbingly high" levels of cancer-causing chemicals from soot and petroleum-based products. Those are known as polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), and EPA testing has confirmed high levels of them in the Gowanus Canal, the result of oil and coal refinery runoff a hundred years ago.
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Sen. John Cornyn said he was given assurances by the Air Force that new policies would be implemented to prevent another Lackland sex scandal and lifted his hold on the Air Force chief of staff nominee.
Cornyn, R-Texas, lifted his hold on Gen. Mark Welsh, nominated by President Barack Obama to chief of staff position, after a closed-door briefing with the nominee.
"Gen. Welsh demonstrated a genuine resolve to improving Air Force-wide policies to prevent a recurrence of the grossly unacceptable conduct that took place at Lackland," Cornyn said in a statement following the briefing.
In the House, Air Force Secretary Michael Donley gave a closed door briefing to members of the House Armed Services Committee about the ongoing investigation into the sex scandal involving numerous trainers at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland.
The growing scandal at Lackland, a major Air Force training base, involves at least 15 instructors and as many as 35 female trainees who have come forward with complaints of assault and abuse.
Rep. Howard "Buck" McKeon, R-Calif., chairman of the committee, and Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., the ranking Democrat on the panel, said in a joint statement they remain concerned about what happened "and what the investigations may yet reveal at Lackland Air Force Base."
Advocacy groups have urged the House committee to hold congressional hearings into the sexual misconduct.
Cornyn, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said he would support congressional hearings, but said he was also mindful of ongoing investigations into the incidents and the need for not to allow that process to continue unabated.
Meanwhile, Cornyn lifted his hold on Welsh, who was nominated by President Barack Obama to be the next Air Force chief of staff.
The Welsh nomination has been approved by the Senate Armed Services Committee and now goes to the full Senate for confirmation.
Cornyn told Texas reporters the hold did not reflect on Welsh or his qualifications, but instead was used as leverage to obtain assurances that the Air Force would deal with the history of misconduct properly and implement measures to insure it would not occur again.
In the closed-door meeting, Cornyn said he asked Welsh to conduct a formal review of the Air Force policy and training on sexual assault training, as well as the structure of training at Lackland, focusing on the ratio of officers to trainees.


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On a shelf at the Center for Marine Science, dozens of clear glass jugs are filled with greenish water, home to a tiny marine algae known as �dinoflagellate Karenia brevis.�
On a shelf at the Center for Marine Science, dozens of clear glass jugs are filled with greenish water, home to a tiny marine algae known as �dinoflagellate Karenia brevis.� The organism is the same type present in the dangerous algal blooms known as �red tides,� which produce toxins that kill fish, make shellfish dangerous to eat and cause respiratory problems for humans, among other things.
But the algae being grown at the University of North Carolina Wilmington facility will be used for a starkly different purpose � improving the lives of people who have had strokes or traumatic brain injuries.
�There is a brevetoxin that�s found in Florida red tides, which in large quantities is toxic to humans,� said Dan Baden, director of the Center for Marine Science. �But any drug in large amounts is toxic. What we are doing is finally determining the concentration at which the brevetoxin can exert positive therapeutic effects rather than the overwhelming toxic effects.
A team of researchers, led by Dr. Thomas Murray of the Creighton University School of Medicine, published its recent findings in the Nov. 12 online edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Other researchers included staff from UNCW and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
Currently, researchers are attempting to discover the level of toxin that can be used to regenerate nerve function in the brain, particularly for patients who have suffered strokes.
Strokes occur when a clot restricts blood flow to a specific area of the brain, damaging nerve function. That disruption can translate into numbness, difficulty walking or speaking and a host of other side effects.
�You can have a disruption of the chemical communication between two nerves,� Baden said. �One end of the nerve, the pre-end, releases chemicals that diffuse across to the post-end, and that�s how nerves communicate. If that�s disrupted, functions cease to work properly, resulting in paralysis, memory loss, and the other things that can happen due to a stroke.�
The resulting dead tissue can�t be brought back to life, but research suggests that with the correct amount of brevetoxin, the brain can be trained to redirect those nerve impulses to other living cells.
�The toxins open little doors called ion channels, which are responsible for nerve transmissions,� Baden said. �They open and close in a specific fashion that allows the nerve to function and fire. What brevetoxins do in high concentration is cause all those little doors to open, and that means all the nerves fire at the same time. It�s lethal.�
But at the correct concentration, the toxin can help the nerves to function normally, he said.
�You back off on the dose of a toxin that you give to a nerve cell, and instead of all the nerve channels opening at the same time, they function a little bit better,� he said. �By responding to the chemical, they open to an extent that they mimic what would normally happen.�
Research is ongoing, and the next step involves focusing on specific molecules to help determine which ones affect individual nerve functions. Ultimately, the goal is to help develop a medication, but that�s probably at least a decade away, Baden said.
�For me, it�s kind of bittersweet. You make the discovery and we�re really excited about it and the first thing that happens is people call and say, �I have a brother who�s had a stroke. Can you help him?�� he said. �All of this basic and applied research that we do actually does benefit mankind ultimately. These are long-term views that we have to have.�