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Texas A&M and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services today announced a contract worth close to $2 billion to create a center on campus to research and manufacture vaccines to protect the nation against a health crisis or bio-terrorism attack.
Eric Berger reports on what the contract means for the university, Texas and the nation here.
I asked Chancellor Sharp how a conservative state like Texas (and a university whose most famous alum is Gov. Rick Perry) lands such a prestigious contract with the federal government in an election year.
This is what he said:
Prefer to read his comments? I've transcribed the minute-long interview below.
"I think that we had a lot of people helping from the Democratic side as well as from the Republican side. I think you have to give the Obama Administration credit. They put this on the fence. Its always been long considered in DC, defense is sort of off the red and blue state charts and I think that happened here. This is a war and its going to involve the survival of 80 or 90 million people. They played it right straight down the middle and gave it to the people who were best qualified, even if its from a state and university that's not considered very democratic. They are to be congratulated, you have to hand it to them. This would not have happened without Rick Perry and Barack Obama."
"We certainly hope the President will come down here, I would love for him to see it."

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Analyzing the Deadline Deals so far….
A's outfielder Matt Holliday to the Cardinals for top prospect Brett Wallace, OF Shane Peterson and P Clayton Mortenson: The obvious winners of this deal are the Cardinals. In the past, Billy Beane has been known to get top value in deals such as this, but not so this time. Wallace is a top prospect, and his lit it up in the minor leagues so far. Although, there are concerns about his defense, and his body. Peterson and Mortenson aren't even considered top prospects. So essentially, the Cardinals gave up a bat, and a couple of mid level prospects, to become NL Central favorites.
Grade: A for the Cardinals, F for the Athletics
Indian's Ryan Garko to the Giants for P Scott Barnes: It's been known for months now that the Giants needed a bat. Garko is young, and has the potential to be a decent power hitter. Although he's having a down year this year, Garko will split time with Giant's prospect John Bower at first base, supplying them with some offense they desperately needed. Scott Barnes was at Triple-A for the Giants, and led the league in wins at the time of the trade.
Grade: B for the Giants, B- for the Indians
Indians' reliever Rafael Betancourt to the Rockies for P Connor Graham: The Rockies are somehow, again, in the playoff race. Their starters have been great this whole season, while the bullpen has struggled at times. They needed to add depth before the injury of Manny Corpas, who could be out for the year. The Rockies filled the void with Rafael Betancourt. The Indians got a prospect from Single-A, in Connor Graham, that has the potential to be a power pitcher in the Majors. The Indians got just what they wanted, and are building for the future.
Grade : B for the Rockies, B for the Indians
Red Sox shortstop Julio Lugo to the Cardinals for OF Chris Duncan: Boston had been desperately trying to get rid of Lugo, and designated him for assignment last week. They had ten days to trade him, and completed a deal that got Boston Cardinal's outfielder Chris Duncan, who had struggled the whole season. Boston sent Duncan to Triple-A, and he was acquired strictly for depth. Lugo on the other hand, went on a tear once being acquired by the Cardinals, and has kept it up for nearly a week. He fills the void the Cardinals had all season in the middle infield.
Grade: B for the Red Sox, B+ for the Cardinals
Pirate's first basemen Adam LaRoche to the Red Sox for SS Argenis Dias and P Hunter Strickland: The Red Sox added some more depth in this trade, as well as a needed bat. Adam LaRoche will play first base against right handers, while Youkilis would play third. LaRoche will sit against leftys, and ailing third basemen Mike Lowell would play third, while Youkilis would slide to first. LaRoche's stance and swing is built for Fenway, and that miniscule right field porch. The Pirates got what they wanted out of this deal, which was dumping LaRoche's salary, and got some decent prospects for the future.
Grade: B+ for the Red Sox, C for the Pirates
Just announced and pending physicals: Phillies' P Carlos Carrasco, SS Jason Donald, C Lou Marson, and P Jason Knapp to the Indians for P Cliff Lee and OF Ben Francisco: After talks with the Blue Jays went dead, the Phillies turned their attentions to Cliff Lee. The Indians demands were not quite as high as the Blue Jays, which allowed the Phils to keep top prospect P Kyle Drabek and rookie of the year candidate P J.A. Happ. The Phillies gave up top pitching prospect Carlos Carrasco, who had been inconsistent in Triple-A for parts of the past two years. Shortstop Jason Donald and catcher Lou Marson were members of the Olympic squad last year, and rose quickly through the minor league system. Donald was thought to possibly take 3B Pedro Feliz's spot next year, and Marson could have shared catching duties with Carlos Ruiz. Pitcher Jason Knapp had been struggling at Single-A all year. The Phillies got another top pitcher that they needed in Cliff Lee, and a more effective backup outfielder in Ben Francisco.
Grade : B+ for the Phillies, B for the Indians
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In advance of the Coloradan festival's 40th anniversary edition top brass have added a fifth day of festivities and announced that the 650-seat Werner Herzog Theatre will be ready.
A press release issued by the festival said the upcoming edition "promises to be a grand reunion highlighting all the elements of the last 40 years."
"The 40th celebration is our chance to thank and honour the founders, film-makers and audience who have helped us create such a beloved cultural institution," said Telluride Film Festival executive director Julie Huntsinger.
"We are inspired every day by the cinematic genius that surrounds us and look forward to sharing the best of that on this very special occasion."
Telluride 2013 is scheduled to run from Aug 29-Sept 2 and festival passes go on sale on Friday [Mar 1]. For more information visit the official website.


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Making the 'wonder material'
Graphene is taking the world of physics by storm, with new applications cropping up almost weekly. Daniel Stolyarov describes how he and his wife, Elena Polyakova, turned the graphene boom into a business.
A little less than two years ago, Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov shared the Nobel Prize for Physics for their discovery of a new form of carbon called graphene. This single-layer hexagonal lattice of carbon atoms has attracted a tremendous amount of attention in the scientific world thanks to its fascinating physical properties. For example, the electrons in graphene behave somewhat like photons, with zero effective mass and an ability to move through the material almost without interacting with the carbon atoms of its lattice.
This makes graphene an attractive material for electronics, and scientists have proposed using it – instead of silicon – to make very fast transistors.
Graphene is also a transparent conductor and can be used for flexible solar cells and touchscreens. Finally, it is extremely strong and impermeable to liquids and gases.
When Geim and Novoselov isolated graphene for the first time back in 2004, they famously employed a method called "micromechanical cleavage", using sticky tape to peel single layers of graphene off a block of graphite and transfer them to another surface. This method is good for preparing samples of graphene for scientific experiments, but it is absolutely unsuitable for any practical applications. Since then, scientists have developed many other methods for graphene preparation, but these methods are more complicated and require specific machinery and skills.
My wife, Elena Polyakova, and I started our company, Graphene Laboratories, with the idea of providing graphene to scientists who do not have the skills to make it themselves. Based in Long Island, New York, the company manufactures and sells various forms of graphene to researchers and industrial companies around the world. We also provide consulting support to inventors who are finding new uses for this amazing material, we are involved in many collaborative projects with scientific groups in universities, and we have our own research programme on novel 3D graphene structures.
When we started in 2009, the whole company could fit in the second bedroom of our house. Today, we have a well-equipped laboratory with a pilot-scale facility for manufacturing graphene wafers at the Stony Brook Business Incubator near the Brookhaven National Laboratory. We have eight team members, and about half of us work on the scientific side, while the others (including Elena, our chief executive) work on business aspects such as creating marketing materials, supporting customers and managing deliveries of our products. We are already one of the world's largest manufacturers of graphene coatings, and we are actively looking to recruit more people to help expand the business.
Seeking something useful
Graphene research crosses boundaries between physics and chemistry, so it seems appropriate that my own scientific background is a mixture of these. My mother was a high-school chemistry teacher, and chemistry was my first love. As a student, I spent all my free time in the chemistry lab, and between 1988 and 1992 I participated in the chemistry division of Russia's Scientific Olympics. However, I was also interested in physics, so when it came time to choose where I would go to university and what I would study, it was a tough choice. In the end, I decided that studying chemical physics at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology sounded like a perfect match.
As an undergraduate, I did some research in the field of cryogenic chemistry, and I continued this type of work as a PhD student in chemical physics at the University of Southern California in the US. Elena and I worked in the same laboratory, studying small and extremely cold clusters of helium called nanodroplets. It was an interesting project, but I needed to pick a different area for my postdoctoral research. As it happens, the complicated laser system I developed for my PhD work was very similar to the laser system required for electron accelerators. So after I finished my PhD, in 2005 I moved to Long Island to work at Brookhaven's Accelerator Test Facility – first as a postdoc, and then as an assistant scientist.
At around the same time, Elena moved to the nearby University of Columbia, where her postdoc work involved imaging graphene using a scanning-tunnelling microscope. We collaborated on several projects, including the discovery that nanoscale bubbles form in graphene when it is exposed to accelerated protons. But although I enjoyed working at Brookhaven, after a while I found that people in the accelerator community leaned too much towards simulation work for my taste. Fundamental research is challenging and rewarding, but it is not always clear how society can extract value out of the results of such research. I found myself wanting to use my knowledge to create something useful, something that people needed and would be willing to pay for.
From stealth to success
Elena and I had often talked about starting our own business together, but as scientists we lacked experience working in industry. That is why I quit my job at Brookhaven in 2009 and became a research scientist at Energetiq Technology Inc., a small Boston-based firm that makes light sources for a variety of research and industrial applications. Elena left her post at Columbia and we moved to the Boston area together, where we filed the incorporation papers for Graphene Laboratories later that same year.
At this point, our company was in so-called "stealth mode". Elena was its only full-time employee, we were trying to retrieve the patent licence on an invention she had made when she was a postdoc at Columbia University, and we were also looking for venture capital. But after this approach failed, we decided to launch a website, Graphene Supermarket, offering research-grade graphene materials.
The website did well from the start, but after the Nobel prize was awarded to Geim and Novoselov in October 2010, it really took off. Our revenue jumped overnight, and we could barely handle all the orders and requests. By this time we were using research facilities at Brookhaven's Center for Functional Nanomaterials, so every Friday after I finished my duties at Energetiq, I got into my car and drove for almost five hours to Long Island, where I joined Elena in working on our research.
I enjoyed every minute of my two years at Energetiq, and the business skills I learned from being in an industrial environment were very useful. But our company was demanding more and more of my free time, and in 2011 a product that I had helped develop and improve at Energetiq, the Laser-Driven Light Source, won the Prism Award at the SPIE Photonics West conference. With that, I felt like my job at Energetiq was done – it was time to let people from the marketing department take the lead. I left and started working for Graphene Laboratories full time.
In a typical week, I spend a lot of my time communicating with customers. Graphene Supermarket has nearly 3000 customers in over 70 countries, and almost every day we are contacted by a number of people who have invented a new application involving graphene. We use our expertise to help these customers modify graphene into the form most suited to their applications. For example, right now we are collaborating with scientists from Brookhaven's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider who want to use graphene in the form of long ribbons a few microns wide to check the spin alignment of the protons in their beams.
Most of our customers are researchers in universities, national laboratories and the R&D departments of technology-oriented companies. However, we are also contacted from time to time by graphene enthusiasts: ordinary people who read about the material's outstanding properties in the news, and who have their own ideas about potential uses. And some of our most important customers are high schools and science museums – thanks to the special set of affordable educational kits we developed to demonstrate the outstanding properties of graphene to young scientists.
A little bit of everything
When Elena and I started the company, we were both absolutely excited about graphene, and we felt that the company's mission was to help bring this amazing material from scientific laboratories into everyday life. This is a challenging and by no means boring task, and it means that I spend lots of time communicating with smart and creative people. But there are a few down sides. Compared with the previous jobs I have held, there is absolutely no job security; together with freedom comes responsibility. As a result, Elena and I are always thinking about how the field will evolve and trying to predict the next product to interest the graphene community.
One thing that I find helpful is my diverse background. A university professor might be able to focus on a single narrow field, but there is no such luxury in my job because the spectrum of potential graphene applications is very wide, taking in not only physics but also chemistry and biology. Knowing a little bit about everything helps a lot, as it allows me to grasp ideas quickly. And I never dismiss an idea without giving it a thought – no matter how crazy it seems at first glance. After all, a crazy idea can be the beginning of an exciting journey, as it was for us when we started a company to make graphene.
Daniel Stolyarov is the chief technology officer at Graphene Laboratories, email firstname.lastname@example.com
This article appears in the August 2012 issue of Physics World


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8 May 2014 by Mitty
We're really lucky to be welcoming the MAMA choir to perform at the International Slavery Museum on 10 May. Here are a few words from the group to explain what they stand for;
"We are MAMA, migrant artists mutual aid, an organization that brings together migrants in crisis.We come together in a group of mainly women asylum seekers who feel themselves under threat of removal from the UK. Together we try to explore options of campaigning, i.e. highlighting some of the injustices of the UK asylum system, and we give each other support and solidarity. Read more…


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4 dotted line drawing methods in Photoshop
Here's another notable tutorial from Winbluegod from 4-designer.com. This full Photoshop tutorial covers 4 different drawing methods for creating dotted lines in Photoshop. We know it's easy to generate all kinds of dotted lines in Illustrator, but Photoshop just doesn't have that skill set. So Winbluegod has these alternative methods for dotted lines in Photoshop. July 16, 2013


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The Gates lab is interested in understanding how cells organize themselves into tissues and organs during development. This process often requires extensive changes in cell shape, cell rearrangements and cell migration, all of which are driven by modification of the actin cytoskeleton. Our research focuses on proteins that are responsible for modifying the actin cytoskeleton and how altering the levels, localization or activity of these proteins affects cell behavior during development of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster.
These panels show the localization of actin filaments during the process of dorsal closure in the Drosophila embryo. During dorsal closure the edges of the outer epithelial layer move toward each other (A, arrows) and eventually fuse along the dorsal midline (B, arrows). Images taken by Kate Bowen '12.


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Middle Aged and Sexy?by Kuki, CruiseMates Cruise Director
Enjoying a hot dog and cool beer. Orient Beach - St. Martin, French side
Some of us try to delay the inevitability of aging with massive amounts of exercise thinking it's going to stop this ticking time bomb. Wrong solution. Exercise puts your body at serious risk of injury and I have statistics to prove it -- so, save yourself before it's too late - stay sedentary!
My first suggestion is to relax, take it easy, and enjoy. Don't worry, life comes to us all. Let's face it, at middle age no matter how many hours we spend working out with our "personal" trainer, a finely chiseled granite body is out of the question. Oh sure, maybe you don't appear to be wearing a life vest when you're dressed, but once you take off those clothes that old skin is there staring you in the face, or more descriptively, staring you in the feet. No matter how much exercise we do we'll have some skin hanging there looking like wet clothes on a clothesline.
Now, I do understand that some exercise is recommended and necessary to keep our hearts and bodies healthy. But I for one am tired of hearing my doctor tell me that if it tastes good, spit it out. On my last visit to the doctor he told me if I knew what was best for me, I would give up drinking, and late nights. I said, I don't deserve the best. What's second best?
I am simply here to be the voice of reason.
THE GOAL Everyone, no matter what age, wants to be sexy. No sane person will argue that fact. But, the reality is that we don't have to be perfect to be sexy. We just have to find the place where our imperfections are considered sexy. If there was ever a place for middle aged imperfect bodies a cruise ship is it. All you have to do is look around the embarkation lounge while you're boarding. The place is jammed with old, young, tall, short, wide, narrow, attractive and the odd downright ugly one. (And the funny thing is that downright ugly one has been sailing on all the same ships as me).
TURNING ON THE SWITCH The best first step to attracting attention is to smile. A great smile works in mysterious ways. For members of the opposite sex it can be like handing them the key to your cabin. For members of the same sex, it's an invitation to be their friend. The best thing about it is it hurts less than surgery and it doesn't cost anything, and it's definitely more effective than any opening line I've ever thought of. A smile is an invitation to meet, and most everyone you talk to will be jovial, chatty and above all friendly. So friendly in fact, I sometimes think that they've never had a friend in life. Almost everyone on a cruise, whether it's couples, singles or a group sex therapists convention, are looking for the same thing; the three F's -Food, Fun, and Friendships!
Everything is an attitude. We "sexy boomers" aren't ready to talk about getting lucky only in reference to finding our car in a parking lot. We still want to live, and have every right to do so! Put some life in your step, and on your face, and you are on your way to the conga line of life.
BODY LANGUAGE What does your body say? If it's "Pass the blanket, I'm cold," then it's time for the Kuki treatment. OK, I know there's no way I can walk out to the swimming pool, strip off my t-shirt and immediately attract the eyes of amour.In my case, it's more likely a staff member will see me and lower the water level if he thinks I'm going in. So, besides a smile, how do we get our bodies to say, "Hi there I'm a fun person and VERY sexy?"
There's no need to stuff a salami down our pants or in the case of the ladies, pull the stuffing out of the sofa to fill the bra. All you need is to show the world that you're fun. Whether it's a spouse or a stranger, at least to begin with there is nothing as sexy as fun. At our age a good laugh may be almost as good as sex. And if not, it's usually a pretty good place to start on the way there.
If you are sitting or lying down don't close your eyes. Anyone walking by will think you're asleep, having your nap right there, or worse yet -- dead! A sure invitation to steal your wallet and shoes. Sitting poolside in the day, don't drop your face in a book or read the 47 magazines you've brought. Be outgoing, even if you're not. Offer a big hello to everyone who walks by. Have a conversation with anyone at any opportunity. Standing while carrying on a conversation is always a winner, it shows you're energetic and ready to party, even if you've just woken from your afternoon nap and only have about an hour of life left until your next one.
Above all - relax. Nothing is less sexy than whining. Aside from clearly marking you as a dolt, your face wrinkles up like a SharPei, and that face is only sexy on puppies. Relaxed and smiling and talking to everyone. In a short time the entire ship will be whispering your name.
DRESS I'm a firm believer in appropriate dress. Wear your coveralls to dinner and you may as well spend the rest of your cruise in your cabin. A leper in ancient Rome would get more action. You don't need a Hollywood wardrobe to be sexy. Somewhere within us all there exists our own fashion guru who tells us when we are looking good. The key is to listen. Just wear what you know looks good, even if it doesn't really, and you'll believe you're a knockout. It's the aura of confidence that makes all the difference.
- If you're over 30 leave your thong swim suits at home. When I said smile at everyone, I meant from the front side.
- The younger generations may look good in torn jeans and halter tops, but at our age we look like we can't afford slacks. And look in the mirror and face facts, belly buttons get really ugly as you age.
- Dress nice, but dress your age. And I don't mean that you should wear clothes that are as old as you are.
- The effect of a man's hairy chest fluffing out of a shirt open to the navel loses something when it's all gray and sticking straight out. Sexy is not looking like you have Art Garfunkel buried in your chest.
SEXY IS AS SEXY DOES. We're getting to the stage in life where it takes more time to rest than it does to get tired. However, the person that goes to bed at 9 PM at home can become a late night fun and frolic beast while at sea. Put a smile on your face and on every person you come into contact with. Now that's sexy!!


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On Sunday, September 29, Eric Aimsback allegedly beat and attempted to strangle the woman he lives with, Phyllis Kipp, after a night of drinking at a bar and casino.
Aimsback, 26, appeared via video from the Missoula County Detention Center in Missoula Justice Court. The Missoula County Attorney's Office charged Aimsback with felony aggravated assault, misdemeanor partner or family member assault, and misdemeanor unlawful restraint.
Court records indicate that Aimsback and Kipp were arguing after returning back to their apartment on 34th Street from the Gray Wolf Peak Casino, when Kipp attempted to hide in their children's room. Aimsback dragged her off the bed and pushed her to the ground. She tried to hide in the bathroom, but Aimsback kicked in the door and strangled her until she lost consciousness. A neighbor helped Kipp call her son and they left the apartment.
Police responded and arrested Aimsback, and he was transported to the Missoula County Detention Center.
Felony aggravated assault carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and a possible $50,000 fine. Misdemeanor partner or family member assault carries a possible one-year sentence, while misdemeanor unlawful restraint could result in another six months in jail.
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Religion: Bob Hooper must not have pondered the reasons for the Ten Commandments on the walls of the Supreme Court. They are not just graffiti or adornment -- but a consideration for decision-making. If court judges had considered them, the abominable Roe v. Wade decision would not have been rendered, a fetus would not be a blob of flesh when unwanted and a person when wanted and 50 million slaughtered unborn babies would be alive. Talk about holocausts. A prayer each school day and value-laden instruction in lessons, fables and adages have been replaced with neutral value-free instruction, free condoms, advice on obtaining abortions (without parental notification), and instruction on contraceptives and alternative lifestyles. I find the former preferable.
Disarmament. Presently, my position of unrestricted gun possession holds but with one more liberal judge on the Supreme Court, Mr. Hooper's preference for citizens' disarmament will probably become the law of the land. But any limitation on gun possession only will serve to diminish citizen sovereignty.
Abortion/marriage. A generation of parents were guided by a supposed parenting expert, Dr. Spock, whose son eventually committed suicide. Gallop is a reputable firm, and a poll is a useful tool. Nevertheless, the poll Mr. Hooper referenced recently that shows only 18 percent believe that any and all abortions should be illegal, fails to consider the issue of abortion when the mother's life is at stake that the Catholic Church permits, and I was not able to determine that Catholics were fairly represented in the sample. The poll gives a breakdown by trimester that is more meaningful: first trimester, 31 percent illegal/61 percent legal; and third trimester, 80 percent illegal/14 percent legal. Polling is not an exact science; it includes sampling, phrasing, appropriate questions and challenging interpretations, so many subjective variables that even predetermined outcomes can be achieved. In applicable matters, conservatives are not guided by situational ethics or polls but by religious tenets. The stability of my 61 years of marriage remains unaffected by same-sex marriage, which diminishes the sanctity of the institution of marriage and reduces respect for family life with male and female role models wherein values are best taught and where the needs of children as identified by Maslow can best be fulfilled. The Creator gifted individuals with pleasurable sex to ensure procreation from the union of man and woman, not to provide pleasure or amusement, that has given us co-habitation, promiscuity, aberrant lifestyles, abortions and STDs. If bonding is the criterion for defining marriage, then polygamy and bestiality qualify. Maybe Mr. Hooper would just use whim to determine where to draw the line as is done in determining personhood (life or death) for the unborn.
Money/debt. Liberals cannot stop blaming Bush (the blame game) for their failures. Attacking the rich will not enable the poor to create jobs. The trickle-down theory might not be totally effective, but relentless attacks on the wealthy have served to drive many of them elsewhere. Accumulating wealth is not evil. Concluding that wealth gaps cause depressions simply because they were present before the Great Depression is a big leap in conjecture. The cost of "Bush's wars" versus no action is an impossible comparison. I dismiss arguments as Mr. Hooper asserted, but only after judging them to have little or no merit. Example: His claim that attacks on union membership and corporate regulatory favors affect middle-class growth.
Inflation. The Consumer Price Index method for inflation computation is an average of many items, most of which have little effect on average shoppers. Their concern is price increases on major purchases during the past four years for items such as beef nearly doubled. More increases are imminent -- pork up about 50 percent; milk, up about a quarter, sharp increases forecast; gasoline prices almost doubled; etc.
Regulation. With respect to the bailouts, if President Bush's statement they were too big to be allowed to fail has merit, then both parties are guilty of failure to enforce anti-trust laws.
Agenda 21. "Boo" and scoff counters from Mr. Hooper, are not persuasive argument. My overall description of this monstrous United Nations program was quite accurate and the means by which its objectives must be accomplished are more accurately described as alarming not spooky. I support conservation and wise use of resources. We are a wasteful people, but this can be done without Agenda 21 and its threat to our way of life. With so many unknowns, when the population limit will be reached is what anyone wants it to be; it most probably is more than 100 years in the future. Action is justified only after reliable evidence concerning resource depletion indicates the need. Yes, I suspect a hidden agenda; there is much ado about nothing.
There are many who wish us harm. The far left live in "La La Land." I liken Glenn Beck to a modern Paul Revere; Mr. Hooper seems to see him as Henny Penny. We conservatives are wary of anything that poses a threat to our freedoms and citizen sovereignty that make our nation unique and envied.
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The Boston Red Sox' streak of home sellouts finally ended today, when they failed to announce a capacity crowd for the first time since 2003. That really isn't quite as impressive as it sounds, though. [Deadspin]
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June 29, 2010
Floundering in a Sea of Photographs
Out of storage came several tubs (neatly labelled) of photos and he started going through them. I felt discouraged watching him! They were not in any particular order, most were not identified and I realized what a jumbled mess I had on my hands.
As a genealogist it's important for me that I document our family history and preserve photos and other family treasures. I've scanned most of my older photos (pre 1950) but have been sadly negligent with the recent ones!
But as I watched him, his face alight with memories and the happiness of looking at all these wonderful family pictures, I realized I have to stop procrastinating and do the job. But it's overwhelming. How does one start? I don't think I can face scanning the hundreds if not thousands of photos I have.
Then I realized that when a task seems overwhelming it's best to break it down into smaller chunks - smaller jobs.
So I have a plan. Right now that's all it is - a plan, and a tentative one at that!
My plan is to follow these steps:
1. Sort the photos by event or year (in other words put all of Christmas 1980 together and/or put all of 1980 together)
2. Identify the individuals
3. Pull out duplicates and set aside for now.
4. Pull out the photos I can't live without and set them aside.
That's where I'm stuck.
Do I take the photos I can give up and put them in albums for my children? That would be easiest but then there are no copies.
Do I take the best photos and scan them, then print them off and put the copies into albums for my children and grandchildren? I could store the originals in labelled envelopes or storage boxes or albums.
I'm leaning towards choosing the best photos and scanning them, then either printing them or putting them on CDs for my children and grandchildren.
If anyone has suggestions, I would love to hear them! Maybe you have a great solution for this mountain of work facing me!
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- Saundra said...
Love your writing. The photos are a real dilemma. My solution has been to sort them by year, then by child (we have six adult offspring), THEN the hard part: throwing out all of the pictures that cannot be clearly identified, are out of focus, or are too many of a subject, i.e, seven pix of my son blowing out candles on his sixth birthday, and finally---putting them into one album for each of our kids. Sandy L
- Saundra said...
Love your writing. The photos are a real dilemma. My solution has been to sort them by year, then by child (we have six adult offspring), THEN the hard part: throwing out all of the pictures that cannot be clearly identified, are out of focus, or are too many of a subject, ie, seven pix of my son blowing out candles on his sixth birthday, and finally---putting them into one album for each of our kids. Sandy L
- GeneBugGrams said...
When my Mother passed away and I inherited her MANY boxes of photos, they were in no particular order, but I was lucky to find most of them were identified and enough of them had years on them to make it easier to estimate ages of the rest.
Using a l-o-n-g work space, I sorted the pictures into piles of decades beginning in 1850, 1860 (my 3ggm's brother in his Civil War uniform), etc up to 1990s, when I tackled the project.
After getting everything into a decade, I then took each pile and further refined it into each year of the decade. From there, each year was easy to arrange based on holidays, such as Valentine, Easter, Birthdays, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.
At that time (before scanners in my household) I then put the best pictures in good, archival quality albums with space for notes about each picture, and the duplicates or other pictures I couldn't yet part with in dated envelopes in a storage box -- just in case. LOL
As Sandy commented, I did pull out a number of the duplicate photos of my daughters and started albums for both of them, too.
I have scanned a lot of photos - in short work sessions - to include them in my genealogy program on the computer and a few have ended up on my web pages, but there is always more scanning to do. *grin*
Digital cameras have sure cut down on that middle step, but sadly, I am not getting as many photos into the albums as I used to. I need to print more of the ones I am taking digitally.
Knowing you, you won't be floundering for long and you will choose a method just right for your project.
- Carol said...
I do what Sandy L is suggesting, sorta.! LOL
I scan the gotta haves, the best of the best and attach to that individuals multimedia file in my family data base.
I do agree, I do not need 15 of the blowing candles, but, I might need ohhhhh, 2! LOL
- Brett Payne said...
Hi Lorine.
I agree with your four steps. However, given that the task ahead is so enormous, and that it won't be accomplished in one go, I would suggest that after sorting the photographs into groups, whether this is by date, subject, theme, or whatever, I would scan them (archive quality) before doing anything else, and save all those images onto a DVD. Yes, it will be a long, laborious job, but once it is done, then you can start the more interesting task of identifying, annotating, selecting, etc. Whatever happens afterwards, you will always have the back-up images.
Regards, Brett
- Geniaus said...
My four grown children all enjoy flipping through our family albums and reminiscing.I am preparing a digital album for each of them.
I have combined my parents and inlaws collections with mine - the photos are all in albums arranged chronogically.
Over the Christmas break I borrowed a scanner with a feeder that would scan 20 photos at a time - a great timesaver. Over a couple of weeks I scanned around 5,000 images into folders by year with subfolders of specific dates for occasions like weddings, 21sts with lots of images. I scanned the images as .tif images at a high resolution. These are saved on an external drive and backed up to another.
I already use Picasa to organise my digital photos so I imported all my newly scanned images into that program. So far I have tagged 35 years of photos with names,location and various other labels eg Christmas, Swimming, Family Cars. Initially I applied a year tag to each image (easy to do in big batches).I have 19 more years to tag so I can see that an end is in sight.
Once the tagging is completed I will easily be able to retrieve collections to burn onto CDs notjust for my children but for aunts, cousins and family friends.
My advice is get your images scanned and then organise them with software like Photoshop Elements, the Windows Live product or Picasa. Don't try to scan with a flatbed scanner - it is too time consuming. Get hold of a scanner with a feeder for a more painless process. Scan at a high resolution and edit your images with software. I particularly like the straighten photo facility in Picasa.
Thanks for raising this issue. We all need to think about preserving current family history for future generations.
- Judge Judy's Cooking said...
Hi Lorine,
I am going through the same dilemma you are, I threw away 40 photo albums yes 40. I stored the photos in labelled boxes with about 5 years in each. Now comes the task of scanning them, it is so time consuming but will be worth it in the long run as so many are fading already.
I have a great programme that I can put the photos on to a DVD with music in the background it makes it more interesting to watch than just a straight slide show.
- Apple said...
Knowing that I will never scan all of the family photos that I have, I sent them out to be scanned and received two DVD's back. I did worry a bit about the photos being lost but everything went smoothly and quickly. I can now copy the DVD to pass on to my children. I have another batch of older pictures to send out but it will be well worth the cost to insure that it gets done. I continue to scan myself the old family photos that have been passed down to me.
- Karen Webb said...
One thing I've done is to take those group photos, make a simple black and white copy, and use that to write the name of each person on the person's picture itself. Sometimes I mail it off to my MIL to identify some of the people. Then I store it with the original.


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Themed gardens remain a popular way of motivating or inspiring gardeners to design a garden with specific intent. Several years ago, I wrote an article about growing a salsa garden; a cocktail garden is similar. With the end product in mind – in this case, a cocktail – you have a plan for what you can do with your harvest. This can be a fun way to put a "spring" in your step, especially for new gardeners, those looking for creative ways to be inspired, or those who admittedly have no green thumb.>> read "Shaken or Stirred?" #Edibles #Recipes #Themed Gardens
What's not to like about peas? The fresh green pods are the epitome of spring. That sweet burst of flavor that explodes in your mouth gives the nod to enjoy the cool spring days, which precede the warm days ahead. Peas are the perfect accompaniment to the sparkling greens of spring, and a quick stop at early farmers markets should give you all you need for delicious spring dining.>> read "Minding Your Peas" #Recipes #Vegetables #Vines
A cold winter evening is just the right kind of weather to fire up the oven and bake the fruits of fall and winter, savory winter squash (and that includes pumpkins). The aroma that drifts through the house will make even the pickiest eater hungry. Best of all, because they store so well, you can usually purchase all types through the winter months.>> read "Versatile Winter Squash: Stuffed or Gratin" #Recipes #Vegetables #Winter
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Normally I'm the only one in our house who will eat squash. But, there is something about this creamy, slightly spicy, butternut squash soup that makes it pass the test. Paired with a second season greens salad and a loaf of fresh bread – all purchased at the farmers market – it's perfect for a fall lunch or dinner.
Mix 1 cup cake mix, sugar, cinnamon and ¼ cup butter. Sprinkle on top of the pumpkin mixture. Bake at 350° F for 45 to 50 minutes. Cut into squares and serve with whipped cream. Store in the refrigerator. Pumpkin torte may very well become a new favorite at your house! It's delicious served warm from the oven or after it has been refrigerated.>> read "Kylee's Pumpkin Torte Recipe" #Recipes
The flavor of French tarragon (Artemisia dracunculus var. sativa) is highly prized by world-famous chefs and weekend culinary gurus alike. True tarragon can be tricky to grow, but we do have a very suitable alternative, Mexican mint marigold. Though not quite as complex as true French tarragon, Mexican mint marigold does possess the same strong, sharp and sweet anise flavor associated with tarragon and shared, to some extent, by other plants such as anise and fennel. It is easy to grow and loves our hot, dry summers and mostly mild winters.>> read "Get The Taste of Tarragon with Mexican Mint Marigold" #Recipes
This soup is easy, fast, crazy inexpensive and pretty enough to serve to the fussiest dinner party guests. You can make it a few days in advance without the half and half, salt, pepper and chives. Then, just reheat it until it is warmed through, adding the half and half, salt, pepper and chives just before serving. What more could you ask of a soup?>> read "Cream of Cauliflower and Chive Soup" #Recipes
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SEATTLE, Feb. 25 (UPI) -- The University of Washington has terminated its licensing agreement with clothing manufacturer The Russell Corp., school officials say.
The move to pull the school's logos and icons from the clothier came after reports that Russell, owned by Berkshire Hathaway Inc. of Omaha, Neb., closed a factory in Honduras after workers started to unionize, something that violates the university's ethical standards, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported Wednesday.
"Universities have adopted manufacturer codes of conduct to ensure that products bearing the university's marks are produced under humane conditions that respect the rights of workers," said UW President Mark Emmert in a statement.
The university is one of several colleges to recently announce a termination of its agreement with Russell in accordance with ethics codes, the newspaper said.
Company officials have previously asserted the Central American factory was closed because of a change in product demand, not to undermine unionizing.


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UPDATE: Escapee found in Nebraska
UPDATE MARCH 15: According to information from the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office, on Monday, March 14, at about 9:45 p.m. JCSO was notified that prison escapee David Puckett had been arrested by Omaha Police Department in Nebraska.Puckett was arrested in Omaha at about 8:45 p.m. at the apartment of a female friend, who also was taken into custody. In an attempt to flee from police, Puckett jumped from a second-story window, although he was not injured. He was taken into custody by the U.S. Marshalls, who were acting on information gathered in Houston by officers with TDCJ's Office of Inspector General and the Gulf Coast Violent Offenders Task Force. Two OIG investigators are in Omaha assisting the U.S. Marshalls.
Jason Clark, pubic information officer with the TDCJ, said, "It's my understanding that while in the Houston area, he managed to get a bus ticket and took the bus from Houston to Nebraska."
Puckett will be extradited back to Texas at which time he will face felony escape charges.
Law enforcement across the state of Texas is searching for an inmate who escaped the Stiles Unit in Beaumont on Wednesday, March 9.
David Puckett, the 27-year-old prisoner, escaped Wednesday evening from the prison by climbing a fence. Video surveillance shows that he cut his left arm on the razor wire while escaping. Jason Clark, public information officer with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, said it is believed Puckett stole a white Chevrolet truck from a business Wednesday evening.
The missing truck was found at an Extended Stay near the medical district in Houston. "The pick-up was found at about 1:40 this morning, relatively near the medical center. After he escaped, we believe he stole the pick-up, drove to the Houston area, then went into St. Luke's Hospital. Then he noticed law enforcement there, turned around and left. We were able to examine surveillance video and determine it was indeed him."
UPDATE: Around 2:45 p.m. Friday, Houston SWAT surrounded Baylor Clinic after receiving a report that Puckett may have been in the facility. Officers searched the premises and around 4:15 p.m. reported that Puckett was not found in the clinic.
The search for Puckett is spanning the entire state, but the focus is now on the Houston area according to Clark. Puckett is serving a 30-year sentence for aggravated assault of a public servant out of Lavaca County. He was received by TDCJ on Feb. 11, 2002.
Puckett is described as being 5'5'' and weighing approximately 155 pounds. He has brown hair and brown eyes.
Anyone who believes they have seen Puckett should call their local law enforcement authorities, or the TDCJ Office of Inspector General at (936) 437-5148.


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Title VIII National Research Competition
Deadline: December 31st, 2018
The National Council for Eurasian and East European Research (NCEEER) invites proposals for its National Research Competition. This competition provides funds for both collaborative and individual research projects in the humanities and social sciences in or on any country of Eurasia or Eastern Europe. All scholars on collaborative or individual projects must be US citizens and PhD holders. In addition, applicants must have completed any previous NCEEER grants received before they may apply for a new grant.
Research Contracts support collaborative projects involving multiple scholars who are US citizens and PhD holders, with a maximum award of $40,000. Research Grants support research projects conducted by individual US citizens, with a maximum award of $20,000. Contracts provide funding to scholars or researchers via institutional awards, while Grants are awarded directly to the scholar or researcher. Accordingly, Contracts and Grants involve different application forms and guidelines, which can be found in the Apply section of this website.
Countries Eligible for Research
Research Activity
Research activity supported by a Contract or Grant may begin as early as March 1, 2019. Scholars and researchers should schedule their research activities so as to complete and submit all project requirements to NCEEER by September 30, 2020. NCEEER maintains right of first refusal for publication in the journal Problems of Post-Communism for working papers that are produced as part of NCEEER grants.
Summer Salary Support
Funding for summer salary support is ordinarily not fundable by NCEEER. Research support funding is primarily to be devoted to necessary travel and research expenses. While regular salary support will be considered, summer salary support will be considered as the lowest priority for funding. Any exception concerning summer salary support will need to have clear and detailed specification of its necessity for completion of the proposed project.
Administrative Fees
Please note that NCEEER charges a 7% administrative fee for the management of grants negotiated directly between NCEEER and a successful grant applicant. If you wish to have your university administer your grant, please be advised that they are allowed to charge up to 10% of your grant for administrative costs. They could charge less. As such, applicants should check with their universities to see what the indirect charge is likely to be for your application. Applicants engaged in collaborative projects should work only through their universities. Those applicants engaged in individual research have the option of working with NCEEER directly. Please contact the NCEEER staff if you have questions.
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You have three options to submit your proposal (all applications will be given equal weight, regardless of submission method):
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The application forms can be downloaded by visiting the "Apply" section of this website. All applications must include the following items:
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The deadline for applications and all supporting materials is December 31, 2018. Documents sent through the Postal Service must be received by this date.
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I had a great time covering the CRAFT beat this weekend at Maker Faire New York! Here are some of the cool projects and talented makers that caught my eye:
Maker Faire doodling in the Improv Sewing booth.
Gorgeous Rangoli street art from The Rubin Museum of Art.
Fun craft and sewing demos from Kollabora.
Kim Werker and I learned how to spin in the The NeedleArts Zone!
MoMath's Multi-Morphing Megaplex.
The LEGO pancake bot. (!!!)
The inspiring and creative Sonya Philip from 100 Acts of Sewing.
Weaving demonstrations from Loop of the Loom.
I took a little break on Sunday afternoon to jump on the inflatable padding in the Madagascar Institute Dueling Mechanical Bulls area.
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German Christmas Traditions
By Thomas G. Mueller, Jamestown, North Dakota, November 2009
O Tannenbaum! O Tannenbaum!
O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree, thy candles shine so brightly!
O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree, thy leaves are so unchanging!
O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree, how lovely are your branches!
Christmas 2005 introduced to me another old German Christmas tradition. Our daughter, Sara gave me a hand blown glass pickle Christmas tree ornament, about 4 inches long and bright green in color, thinking it was appropriate. I am the self-proclaimed "King of the hot German pickle makers", canning over 100 quarts of them the summer of 2004. The recipe I use was used on my paternal side and goes back to the time pickle spices were introduced in Germany, and then passed down generation after generation. Grandpa Salomon Mueller had Grandma Maria put lots of red peppers, 2 tablespoons, in some of her pickles. My dad made his own hot pepper garlic pickles and taught me how when I was a teenager, and Dad explained that this was Grandpa's recipe.
Sara explained to me that it's an old German custom, the glass pickle is the last ornament hung and is hidden on the Christmas tree and the child that finds it gets an extra present and starts the present opening. Parents prepare for one of the children finding it with an extra present. Another version is that when the children are grown, the gift is one year of good luck.
The custom of Christmas trees and later decorating them started 1200 years ago in Germany. It seems like the Germans started a lot of customs that were used to celebrate Christmas. In 2009, Christmas is being attacked and it has become politically correct to celebrate the Holidays rather than Christmas. In my heart I know that celebrating Christmas will be here for a long time, but this tradition has to be kept alive by families and in churches that want to celebrate Christ's birth.
I know that a lot of the German customs have been forgotten here in North Dakota. As each generation assimilates into the American lifestyle we lose a few more traditions. It's not that it's wrong to assimilate, but if a conscious effort is made to remember our forefather's traditions, we honor their lives and keep their memory.
This year in our house the grandchildren and I are going to look for the hidden glass pickle ornament and after finding it, I will tell the story. They are only 3 and 5 now but each year they celebrate at our house I will repeat this German tradition with them. Letting them know they aren't just Americans.
Here in North Dakota celebrating Christmas this year will include a little bit of our German Christmas traditions. My ancestors left Germany in the 1700's, Grandpa Salomon came to America in 1905 from Russia, a "German from Russia" bringing with him a taste for a good canned hot pepper garlic German pickle.
Christmas comes but once a year bringing lots and lots of cheer.


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Gordon Thomson
Daily Forecast for July 22nd 2019
Gordon Thomson is an Actor.
He was born on Friday March 2nd 1945, in Ottawa, Canada,.
Gordon Thomson wakes up on July 22nd 2019 with renewed energy, dynamic and looking forward to new beginning.
Gordon radiates authority that make it only natural that he takes the lead and others follow.
Thomson may be lacking sensitivity - due to his concentration on the tasks and goals ahead and his no-nonsense and straight-forward attitude.
While studying the color and flavor of the day, it is a good practice to keep in mind the greater meaning of July and the master plan of 2019 in Gordon's life.
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A father and son who acknowledged they were pimps were acquitted Wednesday of sex trafficking charges after several prostitutes testified they were treated well.
A Manhattan judge found George Vincent Sr. and his son, George Vincent Jr., guilty of less-serious charges of promoting prostitution and money laundering. The two hadn't denied they were pimps but insisted they never abused their prostitutes.
Several prostitutes testified on the Vincents' behalf. They said they were one big happy family, enjoying a suburban life as "wife-in-laws" in Allentown, Pa., while commuting to New York by night.
Prosecutors argued at the nonjury trial that the women were too traumatized to admit they'd been abused. They played hours of wiretapped conversations in which the men threatened to assault them if they didn't make enough money.
Defense attorneys called the mixed verdict a victory. They said they would appeal the convictions.
The loving relationship between pimps and prostitutes "was vindicated," David Epstein, the son's attorney, said outside court. "It's a moral victory as well as a legal one."
Prosecutors had no immediate comment.


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Friday, November 7, 2008
finialize coach staff for 2009
Because my professionalism is Film/TV production, I have been work with all kind of different teams since university. You never know how it turns out to be until you start working with each other. Some people just match up well with some specific partners because of personality and all kind of different factors. Hopefully, this is the case.
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- Rad said...
How important are these coaches really? I'm as big a fan as anyone out there, but we make the biggest deal out of the most miniscule signings sometimes. I guess if I actually managed a major league team I could understand better. Hopefully the Yankess answer my calls soon lol
- November 7, 2008 at 11:45 AM
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- November 7, 2008 at 11:46 AM
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Dear rad,
HA! This is funny. I am actually more interested in working front office.
As a Taiwanese, I always want to learn how Yankees do business in order to make Taiwanese professional baseball better.
I actually believe this is chemistry between players, coaches and within team in any area. Of course, I am not baseball player, I can't tell how big impact they bring on the table. But, I can tell you this is big factor when you work in film/tv production.
- November 7, 2008 at 4:17 PM
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By the way, thanks for compliment. Thanks for spending time on reading my not so good English.
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In the coming months, residents of Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes will see completed road projects and several others moving to construction.
In the coming months, residents of Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes will see completed road projects and several others moving to construction.
New bridges will be the improvements first noticed, with some set to open in the next month. Further in the future, parishes and state entities have plans to either widen or resurface several roads.
Lafourche is in the process of approving a bond agreement to borrow $25 million to pay for a long list of street improvements. Per request of the Lafourche Parish Council, the bond will also pave all aggregate — or gravel — streets that are tied specifically to residential areas, Parish President Charlotte Randolph said.
The bond will be repaid through Road Sales Tax District A, which encompasses areas north of Larose where the work will be done. All work financed by the bond will take place in the district as well.
Randolph said a full list of projects isn't ready. She has consulted the councilmen representing the tax district to compile a list of needs. Many of the projects involve repairing long-neglected areas of streets, though there will be some major resurfacing projects involved, she said.
"Hopefully within a year's time we are going to have the projects done," Randolph said.
Money from the bond will also pay for some drainage projects outlined in the parish's drainage master plan.
The council must give final approval to accepting the debt and the individual projects.
The parish also has several street improvements either ongoing or set to begin soon.
Randolph expects work to begin on the paving of Laurel Valley Road, which connects Choctaw Road to La. 308 just outside of Thibodaux.
"It is going to be a tremendous addition for the people that commute from that area," said Public Works Director Kerry Babin.
He said that serves as an ideal route to get from areas north of Thibodaux to the Thibodaux Regional Medical Center and Nicholls State University.
"Highway 20 between Thibodaux and Chackbay (has) no shoulder and always heavy traffic in morning and the afternoon," said Patricia Thibodaux on a Daily Comet Facebook post.
Randolph said this will provide another evacuation route. Work is expected to take six months to complete, she added. The $3 million project is being paid for by a federal grant tied to Hurricanes Gustav and Ike.
The parish is also in the process of resurfacing the streets within the town of Golden Meadow because the council accepted the municipality into the local sales tax district.
At the state level, Lafourche will see the opening of the new lift bridge connecting La. 308 and La. 1 over Bayou Lafourche in November. The $30 million six-lane span will replace an aging pontoon bridge a quarter mile up the bayou.
The Department of Transportation and Development is to begin work this year on resurfacing La. 3235 between the Bourg-Larose Highway and La. 3161. Randolph said such maintenance is needed as the steady stream of the trucks moving heavy supplies to and from Port Fourchon have taken a toll on the road.
Specific details about when the La. 3235 surface work will be done or details on other DOTD projects were not available Thursday.
Workers are putting the final touches on the Prospect Street Bridge, which Terrebonne Parish President Michel Claudet said will open in November.
A two-lane span across Bayou Terrebonne near Houma was removed and will be replaced by the new $26.7 million, six-lane span.
"We can't let that bridge be closed a second longer than it has to," Claudet said.
Work also continues on the extension of Valhi Boulevard. The project extends Valhi from its ending point at Equity Boulevard to Savanne Road. Savanne Road connects to both La. 311 and Martin Luther King Boulevard.
Jeanne Bray, capital projects administrator for Terrebonne Parish, said she expects the first phase of the extension to Savanne to be ready for motorists by the end of the year. The parish is bearing the entire cost of the $10 million project.
Claudet said he hopes both projects will help ease congested streets in the more-traveled areas of the city.
Bray said construction will soon begin on an extension of Bayou Gardens Boulevard from its intersection with Coteau Road to Bayou Blue Road. The parish is also paying for this $10 million project.
The extension will reach about a mile and a half and will include construction of a bridge crossing the St. Louis Bayou.
Bray said the new road will provide a route from La. 182 to the Southland Mall area and businesses on Martin Luther King Boulevard. The project will be completed in two phases, so it will take more than a year and half to complete, Bray said.
The parish is also continuing construction on a new St. Anne Bridge over Bayou Terrebonne in Bourg. It is set to be complete in August 2013.
Parish officials are about to select a contractor to build a new Dularge bridge that will connect Dr. Beatrous Road to La. 315 in Theroit. Bray said current bridges do not provide safe access to heavy vehicles across Bayou Dularge.
The DOTD budget has several projects slated to go into construction for Terrebonne, including the widening of Grand Caillou Road from Industrial Boulevard to Thompson Road. Widening Hollywood Road to four lanes is also in the DOTD budget but not set to go to construction until after July next year. Specific details about DOTD projects in Terrebonne weren't available Thursday.