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Martha's Vineyard Coastal Observatory
What is the Martha's Vineyard Coastal Observatory (MVCO)?The MVCO is a multi-part research observatory located at South Beach on Martha's Vineyard, and in the ocean a mile off the Vineyard's south shore.
It's a place that keeps careful track of the North Atlantic, day and night, every day of the year. "Researchers have staked out a parcel of ocean and are observing it with 24/7 vigilance, with the potential to do so for years," wrote science writer Mike Carlowicz of MVCO. "They can continuously measure what is happening on the sandy ocean bottom, in the water column from the seafloor to the surface, and in the air above it. And they can do it while sitting at their desks. Thanks to the cables, data from the sea are freely available on the Internet in real time to an unlimited number of scientists."
What components comprise MVCO?The National Science Foundation (NSF) and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution shared the costs to build a small, inland lab, a 10-meter mast with meteorological instruments at the ocean's edge, and a seafloor node 12 meters below the sea surface and 1.5 kilometers from the shore. Cables connect the sensors at the mast and sea node to computers and communications devices in the shore lab.
In 2002, the Office of Naval Research (ONR) provided support for the design, construction, and deployment of an Air-Sea Interaction Tower (ASIT) about 3 kilometers from Martha's Vineyard. The tower stands in 15 meters of water and extends 22 meters above the water line into the atmosphere. It is connected through its own fiber-optic cable to the shore lab.
How are data from the observatory used?Data are used for studying avariety of topics, from coastal erosion to global warming. For example, oceanographer Wade McGillis at WHOI studies the exchange of carbon dioxide between the atmosphere and the ocean, a process at the heart of global warming.
Scientists also use MVCO to quantify how much ozone pollution is being removed from the atmosphere and deposited into the ocean; to examine the effect of ocean waves on air turbulence and eddies; to investigate the processes and factorsincluding winds, waves, currents, tides, and seafloor topographythat move sand and shape the seafloor around MVCO; to study plankton; and to learn about the dynamic interaction between winds, waves, and ocean-mixing processes as they exchange heat, water, energy, and gases (such as carbon dioxide) between the ocean and atmosphere
How often are data downloaded from the observatory?Data from the observatory are downloaded from the shore lab every twenty minutes: 5, 25, and 45 minutes after the hour. They are processed to provide burst averaged statistics, with the most current data presented on the MVCO home page.
Who can access and/or use the data provided by MVCO?Just about anyone interested in oceanography. MVCO provides real time and archived coastal oceanographic and meteorological data for researchers, students, and the general public.
SourcesMartha's Vineyard Coastal Observatory Web site
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The St. Peter's girls' midget basketball team was worried about its move to Rhode Island Catholic Athletic League Division I, but those worries have disappeared in the team's 5-0 start. The squad has overpowered its opponents with tenacious defense and aggressive gameplans, and has allowed less than eight points per game.
"This is a group of hard working girls, they live for the game and their teammates, and want to be the hardest working team around," said coach Frank Brown.
Offensively, St Peter's is getting contributions from the entire roster.
"Every girl on this team can put the ball in the hoop, Brown said. "We are capable of scoring 30-40 points a game. Not too bad for 4th, 5th and 6th graders."
St.Peter's now has a break and resumes the season after the New Year and prepares for a match-up with undefeated St. Phillip of Greenville.

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text: Sexy coed Candace Marie fuels her late night cramming sessions with Redbull and copious amounts of coffee! With a full-time dancing gig and a heavy course load in school, Candace needs every pick-me-up she can get. Jet over to the members area now to see the latest sultry student body to grace Playboy.


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How many stories can a family remember and pass down? Some of the great family stories from the past were not recorded and have been forgotten. Time after time genealogists have found amazing stories in their ancestry research that they never knew about their family.
Look at what we learn from the obituary of Joseph Babington (1837-1922), an early Idaho pioneer.
In the spring of 1862 Babington crossed the Great Plains by ox train in a caravan of 80 wagons. The trip included many Indian fights, and he had his horse shot out from under him multiple times. One time the American Indians stole the pioneers' oxen "and he tracked the animals and while the enemy slept brought them back again."
Babington's story reads like so many of my favorite Westerns!
"Crossing the Snake River in Idaho, the wagons had to be taken apart three times and rafted over the treacherous stream."
Think about that: three times the pioneers had to take apart the wagons just to get them across the river. Now—look at this detail about their journey across America provided in the old newspaper: "Cattle accompanied the train and in the morning after milking a certain quantity was suspended in strong holders over the rear wheels, the jolting of which manufactured all the butter required."
Funny. What great family stories. We need to find these stories, document them and make sure they get preserved in the family so that they are not lost.
Babington's obituary has all of the usual genealogical facts—but the details it provides about the tough life of an American pioneer give us the rest of his story, and will be treasured by the family forever. We might think we're living in tough times today—but look at what our ancestors had to do just to survive!


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Sure of Two Things
It's 3:30am and I'm up for the day. Forty-eight hours back in Dallas, my body is still living on Shanghai time. "Just stay up," is what everybody keeps telling is the home remedy for how to fix jet lag. These people don't know how jet lag works. Trying to blog my experiences from the SMU Cox Global Leadership Program is tough as I think that all my efforts to stay "in the moment" during my travels is clouding my recollections. But this I know for sure, 1) with that many Cox MBAs running around, Korea hadn't seen that many "y'alls" since the armistice signing. And 2) the time I spent in Seoul and Shanghai with my fellow classmates was a special, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that I will never forget.
Now that it's is over, reflection seems appropriate considering that this trip has been the electron energy moving most of the 2015 Cox MBAs to the end of this first year of grad school. Even during orientation week, after all the initial pleasantries, the conversations quickly moved to "Where do you want to go for GLP?" The idea of a paid-for class trip abroad, visiting top international companies and experiencing foreign cultures was a quite a selling point for us all. Soon into the first semester, "Where do you want to go?" turned into, "Where are you going?" as us students were placed in one of four global locations. As a matter of fact, get any more than three Cox MBAs in the same room for any longer than an hour twenty and GLP would inevitably come up. And as the first year of my MBA marched along, bogged down with classwork, extra-curriculars, company info sessions, internship hunting (and not getting), study groups, and, ahem, the wife and kids back home, the idea of a 10-day vacation with my fellow classmates, broken up by a few company visits, of course, seemed like exactly what I needed. Even more, I was especially excited to see Korea and Shanghai as an option on the ballot this year. Seoul was my going to my number one choice. Having taken a few semesters of Korean lessons and having been to the bottom of a few bottles of soju in my time, I was ready to finally experience the real deal.
Korea responds to ferry tragedy in a uniquely Korean way
As far as the Korean people themselves went, I wasn't sure what to expect. Hanging over our trip was Korea's national tragedy. Two weeks before we departed for Seoul, the Sewol ferry, carrying 476 people, most of whom were students, capsized off the southern coast of Korea. Nearly 300 people drowned. When we landed at Incheon airport, diving crews were still pulling bodies up from the sunken ship on the other side of the country. I was uncertain about how such an event would affect our visit. It felt inappropriate to be there at that moment in time, with all the excesses our group was certain to indulge in. Some cultures are intrigued by Americans, other cultures flat out do not like us. I've experienced both in my time, but I was not at all prepared for the reaction I received in Seoul. Indifference. In regards to the tragedy itself, I saw that Koreans were a very insulated people, and this insulation was, I believe, the reason I didn't see any of the effects that the national tragedy was having. It wasn't because Koreans weren't hurting, but more likely because the Sewol was distinctly a Korean tragedy and they aren't interested in sharing these types of emotions with visitors. Separately, in regards foreigners, ourselves included, sometimes it was as if we didn't exist. In five days in Seoul, I rarely would make eye contact with a Korean, and very few seemed to even notice we were there. It wasn't because they didn't like us, I don't think, I just think that Koreans really like Koreans and the prospect of meeting foreigners doesn't do anything for them. For example, lost one evening, trying to find a particular bar, I went into various stores asking employees for help without receiving very much. They either didn't speak English or abruptly told me they didn't know. In contrast, my last time in England, the shopkeepers were more likely to close their store altogether and walk me to my destination before letting me leave with uncertainty. The Koreans I came across were never rude, nor were they particularly nice. I just felt that during my time in Seoul, to any local I talked to, that I was just another notification on their cell phone that needed to be attended to before they could go back to whatever it was they were doing.
Seoul Food
When describing to people what Seoul is like, I immediately tell of the food alleys. The city can be defined by them, and I think that would be sufficient. I've never seen anything quite like it, intricate networks of alleyways tucked between and around the buildings that line most streets. Each alley is lined with restaurants, bars, clubs, barbecues, chicken shacks, coffee shops, convenience stores, and any other joint specializing in consumables – and these alleyways went on for blocks. Often you can see the opening to these alleys from the street, but, if you can't, take even the slightest detour and you're likely to find yourself immersed in one of these mini hubs of commerce, being tempted by whatever's cooking. My first night in Seoul, we were in Jonggak district in search of the annual Seoul Lantern Festival when we got hungry. We walked towards what looked like a single restaurant, only to walk into our first food alley. Wow! How lucky we were to have stumbled into what could only be a very unique and very cool area of town – restaurants, shops and bars everywhere – all filled with locals! Starving, we went into pretty much the first place we came across, a barbecue, and ordered meat, beer and soju – aka the "number one" of Korean fare. Afterwards, we walked the alley, took copious pictures and scouted out other places for our surely subsequent visits. By day two, however, after seeing a little more of the city, I found out that not only was our little Jonggak alleyway not unique at all, but it wasn't even that impressive in comparison to the hundreds of other food alleys across Seoul. The food alley across the street from our hotel was bigger and better than this one! The rest of my personal time in Seoul, was me walking, or cabbing, or subway-ing to different food alleys across the city. As a matter of fact, I was probably never more than fifty paces away from a barbecue joint, forty from a chicken shack, and if we're counting street food tents, never more than a kegs-throw away from something consumable. This was nice, of course, because if I got too drunk and passed out, I'd probably pass out right through the front door of a chicken shack where I'd be able to order a basket and the next round of Cass.
Koreans Get in Line
Dostoyevsky said the degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons. I say it can be judged by how its people queue themselves. Seoul is as modern a city as you will find. It's clean, safe and easy to navigate, technology is everywhere, and, my favorite, Seoul is fully wired for wifi. But what I really took notice to is how such a mass of people can so effectively queue themselves while waiting for buses and taxis and clubs and, well, anything that needed a line. I've been a part of some real cattle calls across this world, Dallas notwithstanding, but, even in Gagnam, the busiest of busy areas, it was orderly and cordial, and that's with 99.9% of the queued people staring at their phones. If they've done anything right since 1953, queuing has to be at the top of the list.
Hongdae Style
My trip to Seoul would have been better had I discovered Hongdae on my first night instead of my third. That would have been two more days I could have been a part of the best scene in the city. Hongdae district is the area of town associated with Hongik University and, in turn, the "college" scene of Seoul. The whole area wasn't so much a food alley, as much as a food freeway. It was massive, with block and blocks of young and well-dressed Koreans (and quite a few foreigners, for that matter) out for the night. Once we all got there, most of our group splintered off into a karaoke bar, but I went lone wolf and sought out a specific club I'd had on my radar for months. Club FF is an indie club somewhere in Hongdae and specializes in live music and open bar (after 11pm) and I was determined to find it. Now, I've always been good with directions, acutely aware of my surroundings, but I just flat got lost in Hongdae's cram-packed maze of alleys and people. I walked and walked, but no Club FF. I got on Wifi and googled away, and nothing came up. I walked in to various shops and asked various Korean dudes if they'd heard of it. Nothing. Two hours later, I gave up and headed back to the karaoke parlor to find the group. Needless to say, I had missed out on all the fun. For a moment even, as I observed our room full of Cox MBAs belting out a classic Britney song, I really saw how we were gelling as a group. Individuals and groups unlikely to spend much of their free time together during the school year were cheering, taking pictures, laughing and singing with each other. It was clear this trip was really bringing us closer together as a class.
Getting Down to Business
Despite all fun and games our group was having, there were no greater takeaways from Seoul than our company visits. Linda Kao and the GLP office hit Korea out of the park with the companies we visited and the people we had access to. First up, on our second full day in Seoul, we traveled to Hyundai Motor Company's Asian manufacturing plant. I never foresaw the level of manufacturing automation that was on display at Hyundai. Perhaps this is an American preconceived notion, but I expected an automobile plant being long lines of mustachioed union workers drilling while a shower of sparks bounced off their helmets. At Hyundai, I saw that this wasn't even close to what modern car companies are doing today. The robots created and deployed by Hyundai were amazing. A building the size of ten football fields was manned by a mere 40 workers, all of whom were only watching the massive machines in case something happened. When we first walked in, we were shown large rolls of steel, and as we walked through the plant on our guided tour, we were able to see each stop that the raw material steel went through as it was pressed, twisted, welded and pieced together into the final body of the cars. The next building toured was where the bodies became completed cars. This building had quite a bit more workers, but the assembly line was still at such a level of automation, that the workers seemed casual in their efforts of piecing the cars together. As we exited the plant, newly completed cars were driving out alongside us, both of us passing under a sign tracking the plant's efficiency – a new car completed every 54 seconds. The same day we went to GM Korea for a direct comparison of competing car brands. Although GM Korea was not at Hyundai's level of automation, they were still very advanced. The emphasis at GM, however, wasn't on the sophisticated machines and processes, as was Hyundai, but on the trench warfare they're in with Hyundai/Kia as a foreign competitor to chaebol-dominated car market. GM has been leveraging their "Find New Roads" campaign in Korea and is branding themselves as a young and fresh alternative for Korean car buyers. Both trips together made me overhaul me vision of how modern car manufacturing works.
Day 2 – Company Visits
The next day of company visits brought us to the Korean law firm Kim and Chang. Admittedly not particularly looking forward to touring a law firm, Kim and Chang surprised us all and became one of our top experiences on GLP as a whole. At Kim and Chang, we were all filed into a conference room, which happened to overlook the Blue House, and greeted by one Dr. Jang Nam Oh. Dr. Oh, as we came to know him, before taking his senior advisory role at Kim and Chang, was the Korean Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund, the Economic Secretary for two Korean presidential administrations, Korea's Commissioner of Statistics, author of many books, board member of Samsung Securities, UNICEF Korea, GM Korea, Scranton Women's Leadership Center, and, oh yeah, he's a Cox MBA alum. Dr. Oh started by discussing the economic divide between the North and the South. He noted the optimism that the South still has towards the north in regards to unification. By that point during the trip, it was clear that the South just isn't that concerned that much with the North – they're too busy producing and growing and competing on the global stage. But it was refreshing to hear that the South still longs for unification, but that it requires equal proven commitment from the North. Dr. Oh moved to Korea's history of economic development: what worked, what didn't, current successes and challenges, and what the future holds for them – especially as it relates to demographics and politics. Additionally, his insight on innovation in Korea was of interest. He suggested that Korea's attitude towards failure needs to change before real entrepreneurial spirit can grow. Embracing failure as a positive (because of its valuable learning experience) is something that must be fostered. A culture of entrepreneurship doesn't happens overnight. Dr. Oh was a wealth of knowledge, articulate, kind, warm and funny. It was, most likely to a tee, what Dean Niemi envisioned Cox students being able to experience from the GLP program.
Day 3!
Next up was Shanghai, and it was a beast. Right away I felt like I was in America, New York maybe, like an urban jungle, tattooed with skyscrapers, where only the strong could survive. I loved it. The streets were bustling with commerce, foreign brands as numerous as Chinese brands, and the people were aggressive, each knowing what they wanted and exactly how to get it. Our hotel was right on the famous Nanjing Road, so we were right in the middle of all the action, the busiest and most robust area of the city. We've all heard that the pollution is bad in China, Shanghai specifically, and it was. Stepping off the shuttle in front of our hotel, I was hit by a waft of something that burnt straight down to my lungs. I'm the allergenic type as is, so, throughout the trip, the city smog had me coughing, gagging, and my eyes watering terribly – and I used to live in L.A.! But all the smog aside, Shanghai is a massive and impressive city with an exquisite mix of the historic and modern world.
Getting around in Shanghai was a little bit more difficult than it was in Seoul. The subway was fine and easy to use, but, while walking, more often than not, the street signs were only in Mandarin. And outside of our tour guide and the hotel concierge, there was almost no English to be heard in Shanghai. The one clear exception to this rule was when I went shopping at the knock-off markets. In the fake markets you'll practically hear the Queen's English from all the hawkers while you try and negotiate fair prices for headphones and handbags.
Shanghai vs. Seoul
The company visits we went on while in Shanghai were quite a bit different than in Seoul. In Seoul, companies focused on showcasing their products and processes and discussing the various degrees of success they've had in globalization. China was a different story. The premise of most of the companies we visited was the challenges of doing business in China today, and how each firm deals with the government and various regulations. At Subway China, for example, we were told that Subway intentionally tries to stay out of the top tier of profitable franchise brands as a way to stay under the government's radar. If they were to become too successful, it might make the government more closely examine their operations – something that nobody wanted. Yum! Brands, for example, was the number one QSR brand in China and was growing at double-digit rates before a suspiciously timed national media campaign attacked their food sourcing integrity, which resulted in significantly reduced growth for the company.
While in Shanghai, two company visits stood out. The first was Bank of China. Bank of China is the third largest bank in China and we were getting a presentation from a fairly high up executive. And since the government runs Bank of China (more or less), than we were pretty much talking to a fairly high up member of the Communist party. The entire presentation was in Mandarin and was translated to English for us by a translator who was also an employee of the bank. When it came time for questions, it was never quite clear if the speaker was answering the questions we asked due to the back and forth with the translator. Additionally, our more pointed questions, particularly as they related to government regulations, were not answered at all. The speaker would, I assume, generalize some sort of answer and, out of nowhere, the translator's English would suddenly become a bit more broken. It was a very interesting experience all around. The second company visit that stood out was our visit to AmCham, or, the American Chamber of Commerce in China. Bob Theleen heads it and is an expat that's been living in China for nearly 35 years. He arrived shortly after Mao's death, so he's seen the full transformation of China's economy over the decades since opening up. An important moment came for us up front when Mr. Theleen described to us, quite candidly, that China is not a communist state at all, but an authoritarian dictatorship that has adopted a market economy. It made sense. I had fully expected to see pictures of Mao hung from buildings while in China, but I only saw his image twice – twice! – the entire trip. One was a decades old statute on the Bund, and the other was at the airport gift shop. I was beginning to put it together that America's fear of a communist takeover has been greatly exaggerated. Mr. Theleen also discussed the sheer power of the Chinese consumer today and how the staggering purchasing power among China's growing middle class is something that foreign companies are aiming for. However, the real news to me, was that no less than 27 U.S. State governments and even more city governments have set up offices in Shanghai as a way to promote Chinese investment in their states or districts back in the States. So, despite what we hear in the news about Huawei and spying and whatnot, governments across the U.S. are actively recruiting Chinese companies to bring business, infrastructure, and jobs back home.
Now that back home (and not sleeping), it's a pleasure to scroll through all the pictures I took while I write this piece. I kept all my notes from the company visits and they are worth rereading. Indeed, at times it felt like the trip was too long, but mostly it felt like it was just the start of something great, both from a career-broadening perspective and personally among us friends.


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The Huntington County Community Foundation announces that 2013 Charles and Wilma Sanger Shuman Family Scholarships have been awarded to Doug Baker, Erica Carroll, Rachel Decker, Steven Freck, Jenna Heaston, Jaclyn Hiner, Alex Hoffman, Sara Hoffman, Sarah Johnson, Mariah Meadows, Kayleigh Mower, Alex Overby, Alan Poon, Landon Poulson, Jeremy Rice, Drew Schnitz, Zach Shearer, Josanna Stern, Mark Wiley and Aaron Wolf.
Baker, a 2011 graduate of Huntington North High School, attends Wabash College majoring in psychology with a minor in education. He is the son of Delynn Johnston-Baker, of Huntington, and Matthew Baker. His career goal is to coach cross country and track in order to affect the lives of young athletes. While in college, Baker has volunteered at both the Montgomery County Humane Society and Leadership Council.
Carroll, a graduating senior at HNHS, plans to attend the University of Saint Francis, majoring in nursing.
She is the daughter of Rose and Brian Carroll, of Warren. At HNHS, Carroll was a freshmen mentor and council member and a math tutor. She attended Hoosier Girls State and volunteers at Parkview Huntington Hospital and through 4-H at Heritage Pointe.
Decker, a 2011 graduate of Huntington North High School, is majoring in art and English literature at Manchester University. She is the daughter of Taya and Philip Decker, of Huntington. At Manchester, Decker is employed part time in the art department as a gallery docent and student assistant. She has volunteered through 4-H, Victory Noll, the Honeywell Center, in Wabash, and the Solid Rock United Methodist Church, in Warren.
Freck, a 2012 graduate of Huntington North, is currently attending the University of Indianapolis majoring in social work with the goal of working with the geriatric population in a nursing home setting. He is the son of Melissa and Greg Freck, of Marion. At college, Freck is a student ambassador in the Admissions Office, a member of the United Methodist Student Association and participates in a men's Bible study. He made the dean's list and has been accepted in the university's Honors College.
Heaston, a 2012 graduate of Huntington North, attends Indiana Wesleyan University majoring in marketing with plans to open a bed and breakfast on a working farm. She is the daughter of Julie and Steven Heaston, of Huntington. At college, Heaston has helped raise funds for the Grant County Rescue Mission. At her church ,she teaches Sunday school and is director of Wesleyan Kids for Missions.
Hiner, a graduating senior at HNHS, plans to attend Indiana-Purdue University, Fort Wayne, and is undecided on a major. She is the daughter of Lisa and Robert Hiner, of Roanoke. During her high school career, Hiner has been involved in student and class councils, freshmen mentoring, Leading Leos, DEKA yearbook and is a National Honor Society member. She is involved in 4-H Junior Leaders and recreational softball.
Alex Hoffman, a 2010 Huntington North grad, attends Huntington University majoring in computer science, accounting and philosophy with the options of earning a doctorate of philosophy and teaching, becoming a CPA or trying his hand as a computer programmer. He is the son of Debra and Galen Hoffman, of Huntington. At college, Hoffman is the media and web editor of The Huntingtonian and a philosophy department teaching assistant.
Sara Hoffman, a 2012 graduate of Huntington North, attends the University of Saint Francis studying toward a BSN in nursing. Her career goal, after gaining some nursing experience, is to be a labor and delivery nurse or return to school to earn a doctor of nursing practice degree.
Johnson, a graduating senior at Huntington North, plans to attend Huntington University majoring in nursing and participating on the track team. She is the daughter of Beth and Michael Johnson, of Roanoke. A National Honor Society member, Johnson was a member of the HNHS track team and was involved in the photography and art clubs, freshmen mentoring, tutoring, Student Athletic Board and Fellowship of Christian Athletes. Her volunteer activities included Summer of Service, Serve Saturdays, youth group projects and at the Forks of the Wabash.
Meadows, a 2011 graduate of Huntington North, attends Manchester University majoring in biology and chemistry with the goal of becoming a veterinarian for small exotic animals. She is the daughter of Susanne and Rick Meadows, of Huntington. Her volunteer work has involved the Huntington City-Township Public Library, Huntington Veterinary Hospital and the Huntington County Humane Shelter.
Mower, a 2010 graduate of Huntington North, attends Anderson University majoring in Christian ministries with minors in Spanish, family science and biblical studies. She is the daughter of Lori and Troy Mower. Her career plan involves working with young women to improve their self-identity and self-worth.
Overby, a graduating senior at Huntington North, will be attending University of Southern Indiana majoring in either exercise science or TV production. He is the son of Jennifer Hofmann and Gerald Overby, both of Huntington. Overby ran cross country and track and field at HNHS and volunteered at his church delivering food to disabled individuals.
Poon, a 2012 graduate from Huntington North, attends Purdue University majoring in engineering with plans to become a biomedical engineer working with medical instruments. His dream would be to engineer a device that would improve the health of people that are in less fortunate situations. He is the son of May and Lap Yan Poon of Huntington.
Poulson, a 2012 graduate of Huntington North, currently attends Manchester University majoring in pharmacy with plans to earn a doctorate in pharmacy. He is the son of Marsha and Donald Poulson, of Warren. At Manchester, Poulson is a member of the American Chemistry Society, the Tri Beta Biology Society and the Pre-Pharmacy Club. He was recognized with an Academic Achievement Award, volunteers as a chemistry tutor and collects food for a North Manchester food pantry.
Rice, a 2012 graduate senior of Huntington North, currently attends Indiana Tech majoring in criminal justice with a career goal of working in law enforcement. He is the son of Jill and Steven Rice, of Warren.
Schnitz, a graduating senior at Huntington North, will be attending Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology majoring in engineering with plans to apply that knowledge toward a career in aviation, including obtaining a pilot's license. Schnitz, treasurer of the HNHS National Honor Society, has been involved in 4-H, Student Leaders, DECA, Student Athletic Board, Campus Life and Class Council, all while participating as a four-year member of HNHS football and baseball teams.
Shearer, a graduating senior at Huntington North, will be enrolling at Ivy Tech majoring in business administration and management in order to expand his dog kennel business that he has operated since fifth grade. He is the son of Julie and Gregory Shearer, of Huntington. Shearer has been involved in Huntington County 4-H, the HNHS Variety Show, FFA, class council and freshmen mentoring. He is a graduate of the Huntington County Youth Leadership Academy. His volunteer work includes Love INC, New Life Meal Ministry and mission trips to Kentucky.
Stern, a 2010 graduate of Huntington North, attends IPFW majoring in accounting with the goal of becoming a CPA. She is the daughter of Jeanne and Shawn Stern, of Columbia City. At IPFW, Stern is a member of the Accounting Society and has gained experience through accounting internships at Joseph Decuis, A&B Boring and David Culp and Company.
Wiley, a 2011 graduate of Huntington University begins his third and final year attending the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law in Indianapolis. He is the son of Debbie and Joseph Wiley. During law school, he has been involved in the Dean's Tutorial Society and Indianapolis Bar Association. His volunteer work has included providing after-school homework help at the Shepherd Community Center. Wiley also has interned with the United States Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection Office in Indianapolis.
Wolf, a 2011 graduate of Huntington North, is currently attending Trine University majoring in accounting and finance with the goal of earning an MBA and becoming a CPA. He is the son of Emilie and Mark Wolf, of Huntington. At Trine, Wolf is on the president's list and honor roll, plays football and is a member of the Phi Eta Sigma National Honor Society, Student Government Campus Activities Board, American Marketing Association and the National Society of Leadership and Success. He is also a tutor at a local elementary school and has participated in a church-sponsored mission trip to Mexico.
Charles Shuman was a resident of Huntington County and farmed in southern Huntington and Wabash counties. He and his wife, Wilma Sanger Shuman, created this scholarship for graduating Huntington North seniors and non-traditional students.
Complete caption: Earning Charles and Wilma Sanger Shuman Family scholarships recently are (top row from left) Doug Baker, Erica Carroll, Rachel Decker, Steven Freck, Jenna Heaston, (second row from left) Jaclyn Hiner, Alex Hoffman, Sara Hoffman, Sarah Johnson, Mariah Meadows, (third row from left) Kayleigh Mower, Alex Overby, Alan Poon, Landon Poulson and Jeremy Rice and (fourth row from left) Drew Schnitz, Zach Shearer, Josanna Stern, Mark Wiley and Aaron Wolf.
[1] http://www.huntingtoncountytab.com/community/22508/shuman-family-fund-awards-20-local-scholarships


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1. Marcel Reece, RB, Oakland Raiders (65.3 percent):
The potential return of Darren McFadden looms, but Reece needs to be owned in all leagues until the incumbent starter is back. He's been a serious stat sheet stuffer, posting double-digit fantasy points in three consecutive games, including a huge yardage performance against the New Orleans Saints. (Joe Mahoney/Associated Press)
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2. Ronnie Hillman, RB, Denver Broncos (98.9 percent):
With Willis McGahee out six to eight weeks, Hillman is now the top runner on the Broncos depth chart. He won't be a true featured back, as Lance Ball will also see some burn for coach John Fox, but Hillman is the runner to own. He'll have flex-starter value in most leagues moving forward.
3. Cecil Shorts, WR, Jacksonville Jaguars (91.3 percent):
The Jaguars have a pair of wideouts to target off the waiver wire -- Shorts and Justin Blackmon (50 percent). Shorts posted 14.10 fantasy points in Week 11 and has now scored double digits in four of his last five games. Blackmon is coming off a career game with 237 yards and one score in Week 11. (Scott Boehm/Associated Press)
4. Danario Alexander, WR, San Diego Chargers (96.1 percent):
Alexander has now posted two huge stat lines in a row, going for 19-plus fantasy points in games against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Denver Broncos. In fact, he's outscored Antonio Gates and Malcom Floyd in both contests. With the trust of Philip Rivers, Alexander is someone to add. (Nick Lucero/NFL)
5. Bryce Brown, RB, Philadelphia Eagles (99.8 percent):
LeSean McCoy suffered an unfortunate concussion in a loss to the Washington Redskins, so his status for Week 12 is a question mark. That makes Brown, the No. 2 running back on the Eagles' depth chart, a must-add if you have McCoy or need a flex option. The Eagles face the Carolina Panthers next. (Brian Garfinkel/Associated Press)
6. Brandon Myers, TE, Oakland Raiders (88.6 percent):
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Alpha Centauri B b
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I had the good fortune of being asked to sit in as an external commentator for the ESO's media briefing on the Geneva Team's discovery of Alpha Centauri B b. It was startling to see the amount of interest on the line. All of the familiar names from the science journalism community were logged in, and there was a very substantial representation from the mainstream media. The ESO officials remarked that it was the largest audience that they'd ever seen for a press briefing. It was very clear that Alpha Centauri and Earth-mass planet combine for a headline draw. The story was supposed to be held until 17 Oct. 19:00 CET, but the embargo was broken in rather disorderly fashion, and, according to ESO, b, by the end of the afternoon was officially out of the bag.
Paul Gilster, who leads the Centauri Dreams site asked me for a brief perspective for a piece that he'll be writing tomorrow (Lee Billings has a very nice article on Centauri Dreams today). I was eager to oblige — Paul has played a clear, consistent role in getting the community's attention focused squarely on or charismatic next-door neighbor. I wrote back:
I really like the particular way that the narrative is unfolding. The presence of the 3.2-day planet, taken in conjunction with the myriad Kepler candidates and the other results from the HARPS survey, quite clearly points to the possibility, and I would even say the likelihood, of finding additional planets at substantially more clement distances from the star. Alpha Cen A and B, however, are drawing closer together over the next several years, severely metering the rate at which high-precision measurements can be obtained. This builds suspense! It reminds me a bit of a mission like New Horizons, where the long coast to the destination serves to build a groundswell of excitement and momentum for the dramatic close encounter. I think that this is important for a society that is increasingly expectant of immediate interactivity and instant gratification… I hope that this detection of Alpha Cen Bb provides an impetus for the funding of additional radial velocity infrastructure, and also for space-based missions such as TESS, which can find and study the very best planets orbiting the very nearest stars.
With K=0.51 m/s, Alpha Cen B b has a RV half-amplitude that is over a third lower than the previous record-holder, HD10180b. The relative insignificance of an Earth-mass world in comparison to the great bulk of Alpha Cen B is immediately evident with a scale diagram of the star, the orbit and the planet. The planet resolves to ~6/10th of a pixel in this figure, barely visible as a faint gray speck.
As far as the faint gray speck itself goes, the ESO-produced artist's impression (shown as the splash image for this post, and over the past few hours, splashed all over the Internet) is quite good for this genre. Granted, the apparent surface brightness of the Milky Way in the background is about 1,000,000,000 times too high, but the planetary crescent and the lighting geometry make the grade. And thankfully: No lava.
Alpha Cen B has a radius about 90% as large as the Sun. This means that transits, if they occur, would have a maximum photometric depth of ~0.01%, and would last up to three hours. These numbers make for a challenging, but by no means impossible, detection. HST (perhaps using the FGS instrument) should be able to reach a transit of this depth, and given that the phase, the depth, and the period are known in advance, I think that a purpose-engineered ground-based solution can be made to work as well. For example, see this post on orthogonal transfer arrays — Alpha Cen B delivers almost 5 megawatts to the Earth, and Alpha Cen A is a nice comparison star right next door.
During the press briefing, the "habitable zone" came up repeatedly. Put succinctly, Venus at B would be on the A-list.
The Nature News and Views commentary by Artie Hatzes draws on the extraordinary claims argument to imbue the detection with a question mark. "The researchers used 23 parameters related to the star's rotation period to model the variation in stellar activity, and then filtered it out from the data, unveiling the planet's signal." Given the skepticism, it's interesting to look in more detail at how the signal was dug out.
In the past, I've used this blog as a platform for urging that Alpha Cen receive the maximum possible allotment of Doppler-based attention. From August 2009:
Now nobody likes backseat drivers. As the saying goes, "theorists know the way, but they can't drive", and theorists have had a particularly dismal record in predicting nearly everything exoplanetary.
But nevertheless, I'm urging a factor-of-four increase to that data rate on Alpha Cen B. I would advocate two fully p-mode averaged velocities per night, 50 nights per year. I know that because Alpha Cen B is so bright, the duty cycle isn't great. I know that there are a whole panoply of other interesting systems calling for time. It is indeed a gamble, but from the big-picture point of view, there's a hugely nonlinear payoff in finding a potentially habitable planet around Alpha Centauri in comparison to any other star.
The current HARPS data set has an impressive 459 individual p-mode averaged velocities, with uncertainties in the range of 1 m/s. In a naive universe governed by featurelessly luminous stars and normal distributions, such a data set would allow planetary orbits with K<0.1 m/s to be probed. It was just such a universe that informed some of my earlier simulated data sets that modeled what one might expect from Alpha Centauri. For instance, here's a plot from June 2009 that shows what I thought the HARPS data set of that time might have looked like.
With 459 points along such lines, Alpha Cen's whole retinue of terrestrial planets would now be visible. Indeed, with just the synthetic data in the above figure, a simulated super-Earth in the habitable zone sticks out like a sore thumb.
With hindsight, it's not surprising that the real data set is more complicated. Although Alpha Cen B is a very quiet star, it does have a magnetic cycle, and it does have starspots, which rotate at the ~37-day spin period of the star, and which come and go on a timescale of months.
The raw radial velocities are completely dominated by the binary orbit. The following figure is from the SI document associated with the Dumusque et al.'s Nature article.
Alpha Centauri B has a velocity component in our direction of more the 50,000 miles per hour, more than twice the speed attained by the Saturn V's just after their trans-lunar injection burns. The AB binary orbit has a period of ~80 years, and is currently drawing toward a close approach on the planet of the sky. (Figure below is from Wikipedia.) The next periastron will be in 2035.
Strictly speaking, one needs five parameters (P, K, e, omega, and MA) to model a binary star's effect on a radial velocity curve. However, because the HARPS data covers only 5% of a full orbit, it's sufficient to model the binary's contribution to the Doppler data with a 3-parameter parabola. When the binary is removed, the data look like this:
There's a clear long-term multi-year excursion in the velocities (traced by the thick gray line), and there are almost 10 meters per second of variation within each observing season. That's not what one would have ideally hoped to see, but it is an all too familiar situation for many stars that have years of accumulated radial velocity data. Browsing through the Keck database shows numerous stars with a vaguely similar pattern, for example, this one:
Many long-term trends of this sort are the product of stellar activity cycles that are analogues of the 11-year sunspot cycle on our own Sun. In the absence of sunspots, the surface of a sun-like star is uniformly covered by granulation — the pattern of upwelling convective cells.
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Most of the surface area of the granules is composed of plasma moving up and away from the Sun's center. The gas gushes upward, disgorges energy at the photosphere, and then spills back into the darker regions that delineate the granule boundaries. On the whole, the majority of the stellar surface is blueshifted by this effect. In the vicinity of sunspots, however, the granulation is strongly suppressed, and so when there are a lot of sunspots on the surface of the star, the net blueshift is reduced.
Sunspot activity is very tightly correlated with the strength of emission in the cores of the Calcium II H and K lines (for an accessible overview, see here). As a consequence, a time series of this so-called H&K emission is a startlingly good proxy for the degree to which the granulation blueshift is suppressed by sunspots. Figure 2 of the Dumusque paper charts the H&K emission. Its variation is seen to do an excellent job of tracking the erratic long-term Doppler RV signal displayed by the star (compare with the plot above). Hence, with a single multiplicative scale parameter, the variations measured by the H&K time series can be pulled out of the Doppler time series.
Can't stop there, however. Starspots, which come and go, and which rotate with the surface of the star at the ~37-day stellar spin period, generate an additional signal, or rather sequence of periodic signals and overtones. Dumusque et al. handle the rotation-induced signals in conceptually the same way that one would handle a set of planets with variable masses, periods of several months: measure the strength of the periodogram peaks, and remove the signals year by year. This involves 19 free parameters, the moral equivalent of successively removing four planets to get down to the final brass (or more precisely iron) tack:


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This picture probably shows one of the first days of that encampment. The soldiers are eating a meal, and evidence of the camp's newness is everywhere: the grass is barely trampled, the tents have been hastily put up, cows graze peacefully just beside them, and an untidy pile of just-split wood litters the foreground. Behind the lean-to, curious women from the town are shyly inspecting the new soldiers. It was probably just a few days later that the camp assumed a more military appearance.
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Like I was in a safe house the other night and they were, every single player the same face #7 with the ballistic/tactical shooters glasses....I felt like i was at the class of '67 clone wars reunion.....
No no and no.... Now I've levelled 4 new chars to change their looks, if you want to change the look of your char, you have to work for it!
Edit: And it's refreshing to level new chars.
Editedit: And it's against the lore of the game!!
Editeditedit: And I like recognizing your ugly look when I gank you in the Dark Zone.
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F-250, F-350, F-450 and F-550 Super Duty trucks from model year 2015 that are equipped with 6.2 liter gasoline or 6.7 liter diesel engines, and 6R140 transmissions are effected according to the company and documents filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
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Jackson's Funeral Home in Newport, Ark., confirmed the death but did not give a cause. The Hall of Fame said he died in his sleep at his home in Swifton. Kell, who was a Detroit Tigers broadcaster for nearly 40years, was severely injured in a car crash in 2004 but was able to walk with a cane about six months later.
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"There's no one who loved and respected the game more than George," Hall of Fame president Jeff Idelson said.
Kell played from 1943 to 1957 with the Philadelphia Athletics, Detroit Tigers, Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox and Orioles. He topped .300 each year from 1946 to 1953.
Kell played parts of two seasons, 1956 and 1957, for the Orioles, with 1957 his last year in the major leagues. In both seasons, he represented the Orioles as the AL starter at third base in the All-Star Game.
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Filmmaker Larher revealed a Claudia Schiffer you've never seen, who daydreams of flirting with her pals King Kong and The Pink Panther.
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Naresh Goyal, the founder Chairman of Jet Airways, India's premier international airline, has over 40 years of experience in the Civil Aviation industry.
After graduating in Commerce in 1967, Mr. Goyal joined the travel business with the GSA for Lebanese International Airlines. From 1967 to 1974, he underwent extensive training in all facets of the travel business through his association with several foreign airlines. He also travelled overseas extensively on business during this period.
With the experience, expertise and technical know-how thereby acquired, in May 1974, Mr. Naresh Goyal founded Jetair (Private) Limited with the objective of providing Sales and Marketing representation to foreign airlines in India. He was involved in the development of traffic patterns, route structures, operational economics and flight scheduling, all of which has made him an authority in the world of aviation and travel.
In 1991, as part of the ongoing diversification of his business activities, Mr. Goyal took advantage of the opening of the Indian economy and the enunciation of the Open Skies Policy by the Government of India to set up Jet Airways for the operation of scheduled air services on domestic sectors in India. Jet Airways commenced commercial operations on May 05, 1993.
With his vast experience in the field of aviation, Mr. Goyal has been serving on the prestigious International Air Transport Association (IATA) Board of Governors' commencing with his first term between 2004 -2006. He has since been re-elected in 2008 with his tenure extending until 2019.
Taking advantage of the Government of India's recent FDI policy, Naresh Goyal led Jet Airways was able to successfully conclude a strategic partner deal with Etihad Airways. Etihad has a 24% equity stake in Jet Airways. The strategic investment is expected to deliver wide-ranging revenue growth and cost synergy opportunities for both airlines in the areas of operational synergies and cost savings including fleet acquisition, maintenance, product development and training.
Mr. Goyal is the recipient of several national and international awards, which include:


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PM announces extension of work place plan for new parents
Julia Gillard has announced plans to extend Australia's flexible work laws to mums and dads returning from parental leave.
Ahead of her return to Australia from Queenstown, Ms Gillard said her government would also be detailing plans this week to help workers confronted with a roster change.
"[We will] talk about ways in which we can help working people if they're faced with a roster change.
"People make all sorts of arrangements for work, knowing what their roster is, building their child care around it and when rosters change that can be very difficult.
"During the course of the week we will be talking about protection from roster changes."
Details of both plans would be rolled out starting this week and were part of wider reforms following a review.
Ms Gillard said the changes followed on from Labor's overturning of the Liberal Party's Work Choices legislation.
"The focus this week will be on work place relations agenda which is really about work and family life.
"Modern families can find it very difficult to balance the demands of work and the demands of caring for kids and sometimes the demands of caring for older relatives too.
"We want to make sure that our workplace relations system is helping take some of the burden off modern families."
The government would extend the current "right to request" flexible and part-time working hours to mums and dads returning from parental leave, she said.
But it would not be compulsory for employers to meet that request.
"What we found with the current right to request is around 80 per cent of requests are satisfactorily resolved.
"What we wanted to do with the right to request was to change behaviour.
"Formalising the right gives employees the comfort to feel it is OK to ask and it also means employers actually start trying to make it work," Gillard said.
The Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, Bill Shorten, said: "It is also important that family life is not ambushed by sudden, unexpected changes to rostering at work.
''Child care centres and schools won't change their hours just because the boss might want to change your shifts around.
"It's not about being burdensome or telling employers how to manage their workforce. It's simply asking for respectful treatment and good relationships at work.''


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Frozen planet
The Frozen Planet research theme aims to develop predictive tools and low temperature protocols (cryopreservation) that optimise conditions for the successful conservation of tropical and temperate plants, especially threatened species such as cycads, orchids and palms.
Threats to plant species loss demand innovative conservation solutions that accommodate the varying levels of stress tolerance of seeds, from those that are highly tolerant of drying to those that are desiccation-sensitive, the latter being a particular feature of tropical moist forest species.
Our research is:
- studying how complex mixtures of cryoprotectants can enable the cryopreservation of embryos with varying morphologies and nutritional requirements for recovery growth in vitro.
- monitoring a long-term storage experiment designed to reveal the potential interactions between humidity and temperature for a range of species with seeds differing in provenance, mass and oil content.
- considering the mechanistic basis for underperformance of species under dry cold storage conditions, eg international gene bank standards, in relation to limitations of the seed viability equation, complex relaxation properties of seed glasses and the potential interfering effect of seed lipid crystallisation.
- investigating how seeds cope in situ with winter conditions and how stored pollen can be used to enable seed production in threatened plants, thus providing a means of integrating ex situ and in situ conservation approaches.
Our expert knowledge of seed storage and biotechnology is shared with international partners and citizen scientists (amateur growers), particularly to encourage seed conservation of rare species held in living collections.
Recent Publications
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- Chen*, H.Y., Pritchard*, H.W., Seal*, C.E., Nadarajan*, J., Li, W.Q., Yang, S.X. & Kranner*, I. (2012). Post desiccation germination of mature seeds of tea (Camellia sinensis L.) can be enhanced by pro-oxidant treatment, but partial desiccation tolerance does not ensure survival at -20ºC. Plant Science 184: 36-44.
- Hosomi, S.T., Custodio, C.C., Seaton*, P.T., Marks*, T.R. & Machado-Neto, N.B. (2012). Improved assessment of viability and germination of Cattleya (Orchidaceae) seeds following storage. In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology-Plant 48: 127-136.
- Malik, S.K., Chaudhury, R. & Pritchard, H.W. (2012). Long-term, large scale banking of Citrus species: comparison between cryopreservation and other seed banking temperatures. CryoLetters 33:453-464.
- Popova, E.V., Kim, D.H., Han, S.H., Pritchard*, H.W. & Lee, J.C. (2012). Narrowing of the critical hydration window for cryopreservation of Salix caprea seeds following ageing and a reduction in vigour. CryoLetters 33: 220-231.
- Xia, K., Daws*, M.I., Stuppy*, W., Zhou, Z.K. & Pritchard*, H.W. (2012). Rates of water loss and uptake in recalcitrant fruits of Quercus species are determined by pericarp anatomy. PLoS One 7(10), e47368.


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Today in the lab we ran a gel of the restriction digest products from the previous day fig 1. We used a Hyper Ladder as a marker and ran uncut DNA for both the J04450 and AntGP plasmids as controls in lanes 1 and 2 respectively. Upon inspection of the gel, it was not clear which band contained the DNA we needed to extract. We had expected to see two bands for both the J04450 and antGPneo plasmid, but there were three. This meant the incorrect band was chosen to extract the large fragment DNA from the J04450 plasmid digest. After discussion, it was decided that the best option would be to perform the digests again and run the gel for those on the following morning.
At 4pm, there was a team meeting where we produced a general agenda for all following team meetings. The rest of the team were told of lab developments on floor two and we were excited to hear of the sediments samples we were going to recieve from south china sea and the north alantic ocean, after our successful application to a french lab group.
Some concerns were expressed about the possibility of introducing unknown pathogens from global sediment/soil samples into the labs. We are currently seeking some more advice about this from our advisors.
The team thought for the first time about problems of intellectual property, given that our project has a very small but real chance of identifying biological components that could be used to engineer novel anti-biotics. We have currently been sending out soil sampling packs to schools, nature reserves, and other iGEM teams. Yet we have not provided a document that makes clear the ownership of any of the results of these samples.
We are now seeking advice from Georgina Pope of the universities Research and Enterprise department for further guidance on this. Hopefully we can provide a document that makes clear both intellectual property and health and safety considerations.
We have been in contact with a local magazine called 'Triangle'. The monthly magazine is distributed to around 12,500 locals. Considerations about intellectual property of the soil samples, and also the timing of the magazine release date have made us reconsider. We may still use the magazine to advertise the Forum event.


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Jim Hennigan needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 26 designs submitted by 9 freelance designers.
James W. Hennigan Insurance Agency, Inc.
We are a local Insurance Agency that provides personal and commercial insurance lines to local clients. Our Agency was founded in 1926 and is now managed by the founders grandson.
We are acitvely involved in the community and believe in supporting other local companies.
We offer commercial and personal insurance lines, so our audience could be anyone really. Our primary business is personal lines for autos and homes.
We would like to incorporate a slightly more modern look, while retaining our current colors. We have had the current logo for twenty years, so we don't want somone that knows us, not to recognize our new logo.
We would like something that is fairly conservative, but that looks professionally done. We do not have our current logo in electronic format, but it can be seen on our website. http://www.henniganinsurance.com.
The current logo incorporates our name, " James Hennigan Insurance" into the logo by using the j,h, and i in the logo. We would be open to a more modern version of this as well as something completely new.
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Apple Afficionados Rejoice!
Apple lovers will love the following recipe for "Gateau de Pommes" from "The San Francisco Ferry Plaza Farmers' Market Cookbook" (Chronicle Books). Simple and old-fashioned, this recipe allows the apple to take center stage.
Gateau aux Pommes
Serves 6
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
3 tablespoons sugar
4 pounds tart apples
Grated zest and juice of 2 oranges
Preheat oven to 150 F. Select a 6-cup souffle dish. Cut out a round of parchment that fits snugly just inside the dish, to use for covering the apples. Butter the bottom and sides of the dish and one side of the parchment with the butter.
In a food processor, combine the orange zest and sugar and pulse until the zest is completely incorporated into the sugar. Put the orange juice in a large bowl.
Working with one apple at a time, core the whole apple and, using a mandoline or a very sharp knife, thinly slice it crosswise to create rings. Immediately toss the apple slices in the orange juice to prevent browning. Repeat with the remaining apples, adding them to the bowl.
Arrange the apple slices, overlapping them, in the prepare souffle dish and lightly sprinkle each layer with the orange zestsugar mixture. Top with the parchment round, buttered side down. Bake until the apples are meltingly soft, 12 to 14 hours or up to overnight.
Remove from the oven and allow to cool until just warm. Gently press down on the parchment and then pour off any accumulated juices into a small saucepan. Place over medium-high heat and cook until the juices thicken and caramelize slightly, about 10 minutes.
Meanwhile, remove the parchment carefully and invert a flat serving plate larger than the souffle dish over the top. Holding the plate firmly to the dish, flip them together. Lift off the dish, leaving the cake on the plate. Drizzle the caramelized juices over the cake.


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Snapshots from New Orleans: Grilled Oysters from Drago's Seafood Restaurant
Grilled oysters are common outdoor food in Louisiana, where people fire up their grills or build coals in a campfire to cook oysters on the half shell. It is hard to capture in words or pictures the interplay between briny oyster liqueur, juicy oyster meat, and the pats of garlic and butter set into the opened oysters, which are then grilled over a conventional barbecue rack or placed directly into hot coals. The charbroiled taste permeates the oyster meat and makes the buttery, juicy liquids inside even more flavorful; in one or two bites the oyster meat is gone, leaving you wanting more and more.
The grilled oysters I had at Drago's in New Orleans were cooked until the bottoms of the shells were blackened with soot and the oyster meat, still tender and juicy. Parmesan, something you might not think you'd want with seafood, boosted the savory flavor of the oysters as the cheese browned and grew crusty on the rims of the shells. At the table, we gnawed on the edges of our oyster shells once the meat was gone and soaked up the precious buttery liquid with lots of crisped up french bread.
Grilled oysters are straightforward to make for any outdoor party. The compound butter that is added prior to grilling can be as simple or complex as you'd like: garlic and parsley are common additions, but you can also add fillets of anchovy, finely chopped chili, red pepper flakes, or any number of fresh herbs to the mix. (The compound butter, as you can imagine, also makes a fine accompaniment to steak, lobster tails, grilled vegetables, and so forth, just to name a few.) Finally, it would not be a bad idea to add another dollop of butter and garlic to the shells after cooking, in case any of it seeped out during grilling. Sop up with plenty of crusty bread.
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You do, you big lovable kook! Am I right? Look at this great batch of 64 HP Kei cars they rounded up to do track-battle against a Previa, 1st-gen Odyssey, and a two door RAV4 that they somehow call a minivan? It's fun, good clean fun.
Sit back, watch, and try not to smile. Because without painful anti-grin clamps, you can't!


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Driving around today and listening to the radio, I heard several liberals complain about Jim Lehrer, the moderator of last night's debate. The specific grievances against Lehrer were a bit fuzzy. Some seemed unhappy that he occasionally reminded President Obama of the time limits, and pointed out when Obama ignored the limits after being reminded of them. One would think that this is a core function of a debate moderator.
Others seemed unhappy that Lehrer didn't ask tough questions. Why didn't he ask Romney about his 47 percent comment, or about Bain Capital, or about flip-flops?
But it isn't the moderator's jobs to push one side's talking points, although the Democrats might reasonably expect some moderators to push theirs, given past performances. This is the job of the candidates, and Romney was up to it.
Obama could have raised the matter of the 47 percent or Bain Capital, but chose not to. Apparently, he'd rather leave this for attack ads, an approach that has the advantages of (1) not undermining his likeability and (2) not giving Romney a chance to respond in real time.
Lehrer was actually a fine moderator. He brought up key topics and allowed the candidates to have something approaching a true debate about them. It's not Lehrer's fault that Romney won that debate.
The whining about Lehrer reminds me of the following, very old Washington joke: The acoustics in Congress are terrible; you can hear every word those darn congressmen say.