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Mike Vidal knows that opportunities to host both a National Championship and an elite group of PGA Professionals doesn't come around often. And to have that happen two years in a row makes it even more special.
"Our team here at Creighton Farms can't wait to host the Senior PGA Professional [National] Championship," said Vidal. "And to have hosted it for back-to-back years is truly an honor and I really am proud."
The 24th edition of the Championship will return to Creighton Farms in Aldie, Va., and River Creek Club in Leesburg, Va., Oct. 11-14, for a second consecutive year. The 264-player field features PGA Professionals at least 50 years of age, as of the Championship, who have qualified through one of the 41 PGA Sections.
Vidal also hopes that the Championship will feature a similar finish to 2011, when Kirk Hanefeld of Acton, Mass., executed the shot he needed for a 72nd-hole birdie, holding off Ken Martin of Wellington, Fla., to win the 2011 Championship.
"To watch the battle between Kirk Hanefeld and Ken Martin was special," said Vidal. "Down the stretch it was really tight and Kirk just had an unbelievable shot on 18. It would be great to have a finish like that again."
Creighton Farms also served as a tough test for the competitors in 2011, with only Hanefeld and Martin finishing under par.
"Last year Creighton Farms proved it was a very worthy host," said Vidal. "We think it will be again this year and we can't wait to watch what happens."
The National Champion will have their name inscribed on the Leo F. Fraser Trophy, while the low 35 finishers will qualify for the 2013 Senior PGA Championship presented by KitchenAid, May 23-26, at Bellerive Country Club in St Louis, Mo.
Defending Champion Kirk Hanefeld of Acton, Mass., will be joined in 2012 by 10 past champions in the national championship field: Bill Britton (2009) of Rumson, N.J.; Jeff Coston (2006) of Blaine, Wash.; Tom Joyce (1990, '91) of Huntington, N.Y.; Bill Loeffler of Castle Rock, Colo.; Ed Sabo (2000, '01) of Tequesta, Fla.; Pete Oakley (1999) of Palm City, Fla.; Mike San Filippo (2002, '05) of Hobe Sound, Fla.; Robert Thompson (2010) of Huntsville, Texas; Jeff Thomsen (2003) of Boise, Idaho; and Jim White (2004) of Lincoln, Neb.
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WASHINGTON — A secret legal review on the use of America's growing arsenal of cyberweapons has concluded that President Obama has the broad power to order a pre-emptive strike if the United States detects credible evidence of a major digital attack looming from abroad, according to officials involved in the review.
That decision is among several reached in recent months as the administration moves, in the next few weeks, to approve the nation's first rules for how the military can defend, or retaliate, against a major cyberattack. New policies will also govern how the intelligence agencies can carry out searches of faraway computer networks for signs of potential attacks on the United States and, if the president approves, attack adversaries by injecting them with destructive code — even if there is no declared war.
The rules will be highly classified, just as those governing drone strikes have been closely held. John O. Brennan, Mr. Obama's chief counterterrorism adviser and his nominee to run the Central Intelligence Agency, played a central role in developing the administration's policies regarding both drones and cyberwarfare, the two newest and most politically sensitive weapons in the American arsenal.
Cyberweaponry is the newest and perhaps most complex arms race under way. The Pentagon has created a new Cyber Command, and computer network warfare is one of the few parts of the military budget that is expected to grow. Officials said that the new cyberpolicies had been guided by a decade of evolution in counterterrorism policy, particularly on the division of authority between the military and the intelligence agencies in deploying cyberweapons. Officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk on the record.
Under current rules, the military can openly carry out counterterrorism missions in nations where the United States operates under the rules of war, like Afghanistan. But the intelligence agencies have the authority to carry out clandestine drone strikes and commando raids in places like Pakistan and Yemen, which are not declared war zones. The results have provoked wide protests.
Mr. Obama is known to have approved the use of cyberweapons only once, early in his presidency, when he ordered an escalating series of cyberattacks against Iran's nuclear enrichment facilities. The operation was code-named Olympic Games, and while it began inside the Pentagon under President George W. Bush, it was quickly taken over by the National Security Agency, the largest of the intelligence agencies, under the president's authority to conduct covert action.
As the process of defining the rules of engagement began more than a year ago, one senior administration official emphasized that the United States had restrained its use of cyberweapons. "There are levels of cyberwarfare that are far more aggressive than anything that has been used or recommended to be done," the official said.
The attacks on Iran illustrated that a nation's infrastructure can be destroyed without bombing it or sending in saboteurs.
While many potential targets are military, a country's power grids, financial systems and communications networks can also be crippled. Even more complex, nonstate actors, like terrorists or criminal groups, can mount attacks, and it is often difficult to tell who is responsible. Some critics have said the cyberthreat is being exaggerated by contractors and consultants who see billions in potential earnings.
One senior American official said that officials quickly determined that the cyberweapons were so powerful that — like nuclear weapons — they should be unleashed only on the direct orders of the commander in chief.
A possible exception would be in cases of narrowly targeted tactical strikes by the military, like turning off an air defense system during a conventional strike against an adversary.
"There are very, very few instances in cyberoperations in which the decision will be made at a level below the president," the official said. That means the administration has ruled out the use of "automatic" retaliation if a cyberattack on America's infrastructure is detected, even if the virus is traveling at network speeds.
While the rules have been in development for more than two years, they are coming out at a time of greatly increased cyberattacks on American companies and critical infrastructure. The Department of Homeland Security recently announced that an American power station, which it did not name, was crippled for weeks by cyberattacks. The New York Times reported last week that it had been struck, for more than four months, by a cyberattack emanating from China. The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post have reported similar attacks on their systems.
"While this is all described in neutral terms — what are we going to do about cyberattacks — the underlying question is, 'What are we going to do about China?' " said Richard Falkenrath, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. "There's a lot of signaling going on between the two countries on this subject."
International law allows any nation to defend itself from threats, and the United States has applied that concept to conduct pre-emptive attacks.
Pre-emption always has been a disputed legal concept. Most recently Mr. Bush made it a central justification for the invasion of Iraq in 2003, based on faulty intelligence about that country's weapons of mass destruction. Pre-emption in the context of cyberwar raises a potentially bigger quandary, because a country hit by a pre-emptive cyberstrike could easily claim that it was innocent, undermining the justification for the attack. "It would be very hard to provide evidence to the world that you hit some deadly dangerous computer code," one senior official said.
The implications of pre-emption in cyberwar were specifically analyzed at length in writing the new rules. One major issue involved in the administration's review, according to one official involved, was defining "what constitutes reasonable and proportionate force" in halting or retaliating against a cyberattack.
During the attacks on Iran's facilities, which the United States never acknowledged, Mr. Obama insisted that cyberweapons be targeted narrowly, so that they did not affect hospitals or power supplies. Mr. Obama frequently voiced concerns that America's use of cyberweapons could be used by others as justification for attacks on the United States. The American effort was exposed when the cyberweapon leaked out of the Iranian enrichment center that was attacked, and the "Stuxnet" code replicated millions of times on the Internet.
Under the new guidelines, the Pentagon would not be involved in defending against ordinary cyberattacks on American companies or individuals, even though it has the largest array of cybertools. Domestically, that responsibility falls to the Department of Homeland Security, and investigations of cyberattacks or theft are carried out by the F.B.I.
But the military, barred from actions within the United States without a presidential order, would become involved in cases of a major cyberattack within the United States. To maintain ambiguity in an adversary's mind, officials have kept secret what that threshold would be; so far, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta has only described the "red line" in the vaguest of terms — as a "cyber 9/11."
The Obama administration has urged stronger firewalls and other systems to provide a first line of defense, and then "resiliency" in the face of cyberattacks. It failed to get Congress to pass cybersecurity legislation that would have allowed the government to mandate standards.


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Chino Cabalteja, a student research at the Master's Level in the Department of Molecular Biosciences and Bioengineering at UH Manoa, was awarded the 2014 UHM Student Excellence in Research Award for his work in mentor Dr. Jon Paul Bingham's lab in the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources.
Cabalteja, who graduated from Kauaʻi High School in Lihu'e, was honored at the 2014 Manoa Awards Ceremony on April 30 at the Orvis Auditorium.
On May 9, along with other CTAHR award winners, he was recognized again at the college's Awards Banquet at the Ala Moana Hotel in Honolulu.
Cabalteja is currently researching the bioengineering of conotoxins, bioactive peptides from the venom of Conus sea snails. Cone snail venom is being investigated for its many possible applications, from the potential design of drugs with specific pharmacological properties to agricultural pesticides. Instead of having to harvest the venom from the snails, which is still being done today, Cabalteja is also able to recreate the conotoxin in the lab, formulating it amino acid by amino acid.
An interesting discovery arising from his research is that human-made conotoxins have different configurations than those that are created naturally by the snails, the discovery that led to his award.
Cabalteja, called the "lab superstar" by a student colleague, was previously awarded the CTAHR Best MS Student Poster Presentation at the 2012 Student Research Symposium jointly held by CTAHR and UHM's College of Engineering. He was also awarded a travel stipend to attend a conference in his field on the Mainland. In this year's Student Research Symposium, Chino was awarded the Molecular Biosciences and Bioengineering Best MS Student Oral Presentation.
Cabalteja will be attending the University of Pittsburgh's prestigious PhD program in Molecular Biophysics and Structural Biology in the Fall. After he has earned his doctorate, he plans to return to Kaua'i, where he moved as a child from the Philippines.
Growing up on Kaua'i, he says there used to be less in the way of science enrichment education, although that situation is now changing thanks to such programs as the Hawaiʻi Regional Science Bowl, which a cousin of his participated in and loved.
Another sign of the changing science-education climate is the Kaua'i "Gene-iuses on a Mission" program, a series of Saturday workshops at the Kaua'i Community College for elementary-aged students to encourage scientific thinking and appreciation for all things science related.
Each session, led by students and faculty from CTAHR's Biotechnology Outreach Program, focuses on a specific theme, including DNA, cells, forensics and agriculture. Cabalteja hopes to be part of that change as well, bringing even more opportunities for science education to his home island.
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Speaking of Networks and Net Work
I've been working (sometimes at full bore, sometimes in the background) on an organizational network analysis project since the spring. I've had the pleasure of working with clients in the nonprofit/NGO sector looking at the changes in networking behavior across countries in Asia Pacific. (I'm just sharing the final report with my clients now, so can't say much about it, but will be sharing a bit about this at KMWorld in November: Session B101, Building Knowledge Networks).
Also this spring, I completed work on a self-paced, online tutorial for people who want to learn the basics of doing a network analysis: Organizational Network Analysis is one of a series of courses offered by my friends at Information Architected, Dan Keldsen and Carl Frappaolo, who have created "IAI University" to showcase pragmatic training on methods, practices, technologies, and strategies from their extended network. The course has four modules:
- An introductory module gives the "soup to nuts" about network analysis and the steps required
- A module focusing on network patterns and metrics — how to interpret maps and data from an analysis
- A tool-focused module that has step-by-step tutorials on using ONASurveys to create a survey and UCINET/NetDraw to analyze the results
- Practical tips on managing ONA projects
I will be giving much the same course, live and in person, also at KMWorld: Workshop W13, Organizational Network Analysis and Tools.
Please pass this bit of shameless self-promotion to anyone in your network who may be interested in getting a pragmatic head start in working with network analysis.


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PRAISE for Christopher Hart:
"Hart is an excellent teacher, and the easy-to-follow, kid-friendly instructions of Young Artists Draw Manga will inspire, not frustrate, a beginning artist, just as previous books of the series have done. In fact, Hart's books have sold more than 3.1 million English-language copies; have been translated into 20 languages; and have been selected by the American Library Association for special notice."—Examiner.com
Introduction 9
The Basics 11
Major Character Types 12
Drawing Heads 21
Powerful Male Goth 22
Victim 24
The Wild One 26
The Seductress 28
Young Teen Goth: Male 30
Young Teen Goth: Female 32
Drawing Bodies 35
Front View Basics: Male 36
Front View Basics: Female 39
Girls from the Dark Side 43
Gothic and Lolita-Style
Female 44
Dark Gothic Girl 48
Possessed Child 52
Girl Witch 56
Zombie Girlfriend 60
Boys with Lost Souls 65
Vampire Boy 66
Hunter of Vampires 70
Sorcerer 74
Fallen Angel 78
Vampires: Rulers of the Underworld 83
The Ever-Popular Victorian-Style Vampires 84
Modern Vampires: The New Stars of Graphic Novels 92
The Bewitching Beauty of Female Vampires 102
Magical Beasts 111
Dragon 112
Werewolf 114
Human-Creature Hybrid 116
Magical White Tiger 118
Elk Monster 120
Flying Snow Fox 122
Unicorn 124
Backgrounds 127
In the Garden of Death 128
The Baron's Castle 130
Church Steeple 132
Lost in the Woods 134
Abandoned Farmhouse 136
Things That Go Bump in the Night 138
Color Theory 145
Color Palettes for
Supernatural Characters 146
Color Backgrounds 152
Interpretive Colors 156
Black-and-White versus Color 158
Combining Genres and Expanding your Art 161
Sports and Supernatural 162
Traditional Japanese Characters and Goth 164
Fantasy (Fairies) and Horror 166
Samurai and Goth 168
Magical Girl and Horror 170
Moe and Goth 172
Taking Your A.R.T. to the Next Level 174
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 75 diseños de 10 diseñadores freelance.
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Adam Saylor tightly twisted wire around bolts securing a propeller on the plane he was reassembling
Adam Saylor tightly twisted wire around bolts securing a propeller on the plane he was reassembling.
"There�s no Triple A in the air," Saylor said. "There�s going to be no one to help you so you better make sure all the bolts are on there."
Saylor, of Havelock, is in his last semester in the Aviation Systems Technology program at the Havelock campus of Craven Community College, where students are learning skills to obtain their airframe and power plant license from the Federal Aviation Administration.
"I want to get a job with whoever takes me, wherever I can get my foot in the door," Saylor said. "It�s a good program. It�s got good teachers. I�ve been here for two years now. I�ve learned a lot. It�s not just with planes. It�s with anything. I�ve learned stuff to help me in every day situations like working on my car and stuff like that. If you need a job and want to learn a trade, this is a great program to come to."
Student Bill Britt, of Morehead City, was helping Saylor refit the propeller in place.
"I�ve always been interested in airplanes and what not," Britt said. "I basically came over here to help me get my foot in the door over at FRC East."
Britt already has a degree from N.C. State but wants to bolster his resume.
Student Candace Guthrie, of Beaufort, was down the long line of airplanes working to remove an alternator from the engine of a Cessna 150.
"I was laid off from the school system and I applied for the program and got accepted and went that following fall," Guthrie said.
She used to be a teacher assistant and school bus driver and wants to use her two-year associates degree to get a job at Fleet Readiness Center East at Cherry Point or at Spirit Aerosystems in Kinston. She has no prior experience with airplanes.
"It�s just exciting to do something completely different. I have my first degree in computers so I was clerical mainly in a lot of offices. I�ve been the one to fix the copier, fix the printer or work on stuff in the office," she said. "I love to do stuff hands on, so this has been amazing. I enjoy coming to school every day and getting my hands dirty."
Student Pat Kirk, of Morehead City, worked in aviation while in the Marine Corps and now wants to use that knowledge to get his FAA certification.
"It�s a good jumping off point for a really fun career," he said. "There�s a lot of good careers in aviation. Not every person is going to be a pilot. I kind of pattern it after the military where there are seven people that support each combat person. The same thing kind of applies in the aircraft business. You have mechanics, you have air traffic controllers, you have all sorts of other careers, this being one of them."
Kirk, who was a Marine in the 1960s, said the program was good for veterans looking to build on their military experience, and it has also helped him with his hobby of flying.
"I have my own airplane and look to this also to make me a better pilot," he said. "Now that I understand more of the mechanical aspects of the airplane, it gives me a little better comfort level when I see the detail that goes in the maintenance of these airplanes."
Greg Purvis, AST program director, said the majority of his graduates land jobs in the aviation industry after graduation, including nine of 14 2012 graduates.
"We want students to stay in the neighborhood and be at the base, but we also want them to have the opportunity to go anywhere in North Carolina and maybe outside North Carolina," Purvis said.
He said the program recently became affiliated with NA Aviation, an aircraft repair station with 155 workers. The Winston-Salem company has offered graduates of the AST program a direct line to employment.
The most recent entry class has 23 students in a possible 25 spots.
Also added to the program recently is a test prep program geared toward helping former military personnel find jobs. With 30 months of work as an aviation mechanic, qualifiers can enroll in test prep, giving them a fast track toward FAA certification.
"That test prep is prepping them to get their airframe and power plant license so they�re not having to sit through a two-year program," Purvis said.
Purvis said the students could take their FAA exams and also use those 30 work hours to get 64 credit hours at CCC. With just an additional 24 hours of class time, they can receive their associate degree and move on to a four-year college.
The Havelock campus includes propeller planes, a private jet, and military and civilian helicopters on which students work to complete their tasks for class.
Last month, the school received a donation of a 2005 Rotorway Exec 162 F helicopter on which students can learn. Purvis said the small kit-built chopper will also be shown around at area events in hopes of promoting the opportunities at the program.
"There�s a lot of opportunity here that most people that live here don�t know about and is continuing to grow," said Robin Matthews, director of Workforce Development at the college.
For information on enrollment or the aviation program, call Craven Community College at 444-6005.


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When Intel unleashed the six-cored Core i7-980 Extreme a while back, a few motherboard manufacturers took the opportunity to go away and refresh some of their X58-based motherboards, adding in the latest technologies, such as SATA 6Gbps and USB 3.0 in the process.
MSI did that and a whole lot more, and launched the mighty MSI Big Bang XPower, a board with a spec sheet that lives up to the billing its name gives it.
The feature list for the Big Bang XPower makes for impressive reading; high end components in the power delivery (something MSI call 'Military Class') system, six DIMM slots supporting up to 24GB of triple-channel DDR3 memory, dual Gigabit Ethernet, six PCI-E slots (two x16, two x8, two x4 speeds), advanced Quantum Wave audio and more overclocking features than you can wave a stick at, including MSI's OC Dashboard, an external device for monitoring and tweaking settings on the Big Bang XPower.


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Chestnut Hill's Woodmere Art Museum brought the spring season of its Sunday afternoon series of classical concerts to a close May 12, Mother's Day, with a recital featuring pianist Michelle Cann and four of her musical friends. In works by Ralph Vaughan Williams, J.S. Bach and Franz Schubert, Cann displayed an impeccable technique fully at the service of the music, capturing not just the immediately accessible characteristics of each composer's style but also the more profound intention of his essential personality.
Although Vaughan Williams' "Piano Quintet in C minor" and Schubert's '"Trout' Piano Quintet in A major" received sterling renditions by Cann, the pianist was heard at her best in Bach's "Partita No. 1 in B-flat major." Cann, who graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music only the day before, gave a performance of such tonal beauty, stylistic integrity and digital perfection that I'm not sure I'll ever want to hear it again on a harpsichord, the instrument for which it was originally written.
Cann played the opening Praeludium with a seamless legato that not only didn't blur Bach's complex counterpoint but which enhanced it because of its singing tone. The Allemande was played with a light touch, an effortless raising and lowering of the dynamic level, and sensitive pedaling.
Schubert's "Trout" Quintet remains as popular as ever since it was composed two centuries ago. Its challenges are many, yet they're far outweighed by its rewards. Cann and her colleagues gave it a reading that was emotionally intense yet effervescent in mood, expertly balanced and lyrically voiced.
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Chestnut Hill, hosted one of the most encouraging choral concerts of the season Sunday, May 5. The principal performers were members of the 120-strong Gleeksman-Kohn Children's Choir of Settlement Music School, whose director Rae Ann Anderson led a program of music that spanned the ages from the 18th to the 21st century with a commissioned world premiere. Equally as encouraging as the fine singing and playing heard in St. Paul's Church was the presence of an audience that numbered nearly 500.
The world premiere performance was given to the commissioned "Time Machine," written by local composer Roberto Pace. Scored for chorus, piano (Pace himself), synthesizer (Vanyah Harrigan) and percussion (Kris Rudzinski), "Time Machine" maps the local journey through the historical ages in a musical idiom that incorporates older traditions with contemporary modes, including a short excursion into rap. Despite its broadly varied styles, the work held together Sunday afternoon, due in large part to Anderson's firm hand and the choir's fine singing.
Even in the euphoria surrounding Yannick Nezet-Seguin's first season as music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra, admiration for Sir Simon Rattle is still a powerful current with the orchestra's audiences. For many, the Englishman remains the maestro who got away when, in 2002, he accepted the post of chief conductor and artistic director of the legendary Berlin Philharmonic, considered by many to be the greatest orchestra in the world.
That affection was apparent Saturday night when Rattle led the Philadelphians in profound readings of Sibelius' Sixth and Seventh Symphonies and joined Curtis alumnus Lang Lang in Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto in the Kimmel Center's Verizon Hall. And it was returned by Rattle when he paired with Lang Lang for a four-hand piano duet as an encore to the concerto. To say that the house erupted in adoration would be an understatement.
Rattle's collaboration with Lang Lang in the performance of Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto prior to intermission was memorable. He set the sonic stage for the pianist to offer one of the most scintillatingly clear yet endlessly varied tones I've heard in years of concertgoing. Even more impressive than Lang Lang's digital prowess was his complete command over the music's structure and the delineation of classical style with virtuosic flair. While some may quibble with his physical mannerisms, I remain awed by his transcendent pianism.


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It has been well over a month since Hurricane Sandy, and we still hear the buzzing roars of chain-saws in backyards, along streets and utility right-of-ways.
It has been well over a month since Hurricane Sandy, and we still hear the buzzing roars of chain-saws in backyards, along streets and utility right-of-ways.
Massive uprooted trees, heavy fallen limbs and behemoth tree trunks snapped in half like fragile toothpicks remain as visual reminders of the power and destruction of hurricanes.
Hurricane Sandy repainted the Pocono landscape. However, along her broad path of destruction she opened a door to an environmental classroom. If you want to learn about tree biology, now is an opportune time.
There are many questions to be asked and answers to be found.
You notice that the large white pine that had snapped in half and fallen in your back yard was hollow inside. You ask, "If it was hollow on the inside, why did it look so healthy on the outside?"
The bright yellow-orange of a freshly cut oak limb catches your eye as you walk your dog along your favorite country road. You notice that the tree was cut because it obstructed a utility right-of-way. Closer inspection of the limb reveals circular rings and various shades of color extending into the thick, furrowed bark. You already know that the tree rings signify annual years of growth, but ponder: "Why are there different shades of color?"
During a hike in a wooded park, you see a large eastern hemlock toppled over in a soggy wetland. You admire its large root base but question: "Why are the roots so wide and close to the surface and not deep into the ground?"
These are all intriguing questions and many may know the answers, but some of us do not. Here, I will share information about tree biology and why that healthy hollowed tree fooled you, circle in some facts on colorful trees rings and dig more deeply into tree roots.
Let's first start off with basic tree anatomy — the trunk, limbs and roots. The growth of a tree begins with its root system. Tree roots are like underground branches; they have large roots including the tap root and many small, fibrous roots. Tree roots serve several functions such as absorption, storage and transportation of water and minerals to the entire tree. The larger roots provide stabilization and anchoring to support and keep upright the trunk, limbs and branches. The tiny, fine roots aid in nutrient and water absorption.
Remarkably, trees roots grow wide and close to the surface, such as on that toppled eastern hemlock you asked about. There is a misconception that trees have a tap root that grows as deep as the height of the tree. Certain trees such as oaks develop a tap root; however, most trees have a root system that grows inches from the surface to a only few feet deep. Tree root systems, for the most part, grow wider than the crown of the tree — especially in wetlands.
Now let's study the multi-colored growth rings on the freshly cut oak limb you found along the road. Each individual annual growth ring consists of two shades — a light color which grows in the spring and a dark color which grows in late summer. The entire series of rings on the oak tree is surrounded by a thick layer of dark-colored bark. Also, the tiny center ring of the tree is dark colored. This is called the heartwood, which is the hardest and strongest part of the tree. The outer rings extending toward the bark are called the sapwood. Ironically, each inner growth ring starting from the heartwood was once living tissue but is now dead. Each year a ring of new wood grows and last year's wood dies and becomes harder, which provides support to the tree. The only living layer of wood occurs near the bark. Sometimes those inner multi-colored rings of dead wood rot and decompose due to various reasons such as fungus, moisture, disease and insects, which might cause the tree to become hollow.
This brings us to the question: "Why did the white pine that toppled into the backyard look healthy on the outside, even though it was hollow on the inside?"
On a typical tree, the hard series of growth rings were once layers of living tissue. However, between the dead inner wood and the outer bark are the growth cells called the cambium layer. The cambium is composed of two tissues, the xylem and phloem. These are important cells which supply and transport nutrients throughout the tree.
The phloem layer occurs along the outermost side of the tree, next to the bark. Its main function is to transport sugars made by green leaves and other nutrients collected by the tree down into the roots.
The xylem, the innermost cells of the cambium, transport water, minerals and nutrients from the root system up to the tallest branches and leaves on the tree.
Each year, the xylem layer dies and forms hardwood, while the phloem is always alive and provides the wide new growth of the trunk and other parts of the tree. If the cambium layer is disrupted — for example, a woodpecker drills a hole into the tree — nutrients can still be transported along the unobstructed areas of the cambium layer. However, if a hungry beaver girdles entirely around the tree and its cambium layer — the nutrient pipeline — is cut off, the tree will eventually die.
So, in spite of all of that dead inner wood on the white pine, which became hollowed-out for whatever reason, the cambium layer still allowed the tree to live and appear healthy on the outside. Unfortunately, its structurally supportive center core was hollow and easily snapped in half during Hurricane Sandy.
I hope this analogy helps broaden your understanding of trees and what makes them grow and remain strong and spectacular. Sometimes natural events, such as hurricanes, are not in our best interest — nor for the trees that stand in its way. Whatever the outcome, there's always an opportunity to learn a little bit more about nature.
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Saturday, June 28, 2008
Raspberries Season / La Saison des Framboises
Hi there. Anybody here?
My mother told me the other day that she's had enough of nibbling and spreading every time she takes a look at my blog. I am sure she isn't the only one. I know I've had enough of it.
I didn't mean to be away this long, but knowing how summer in Michigan can be fleeting we are spending most of our days outside with my family and my husband's adorable nieces who came to spend the month of June with us. Our days are spent strolling around town, playing cards, which I must say I am now quite addicted to, watching soccer games, which I must admit we are all addicted to in the family, doing a lot of cooking, chasing fire flies, rolling in the grass and picking raspberries in my own backyard. Let me say it again because I still can't believe it: Picking raspberries in my own backyard. Ah! It's like music to my ears… and my senses.
I'll be back very, very soon with recipes, a basket of berries and more summertime stories.
Happy weekend, my friends!
23 comments:
- Jen said...
That's wonderful that they're ready! I've seen some raspberries at the Farmers Market but very few so far.
Enjoy the weather and your nieces!
- June 28, 2008 at 6:21 PM
- Anonymous said...
Looking forward to it.
- June 28, 2008 at 7:28 PM
- Shayne said...
What do you play? to tell teh truth I have thought of having you over for card games but was not sure if you played...now I know lets hope it a game that I know how to play.
- June 28, 2008 at 9:15 PM
- Anonymous said...
A reader from Massachusetts is here -- I continue to check in since I discovered your blog this past spring. Great writing, wonderful recipes and photos -- you have quickly become one of my very top food blog favorites and I just wanted to leave this note to say thanks!
Nan from MA.
- June 28, 2008 at 10:26 PM
- Anonymous said...
I worried a little, I must confess, and waned to email you to know if everything was ok :)
Now I know it's shiny in your heart and your ears, I can go back to my kitchen, and wait :)
Have a nice summer Warda !
- June 29, 2008 at 3:03 AM
- enza said...
have a nice we and holidays looking forward your amazing recipes!
Here in italy is hot and I'm looking forward my holidays in sicily with my parents.
just 12 days in final countdown but it's still a long time
- June 29, 2008 at 3:38 AM
- Lydia (The Perfect Pantry) said...
Enjoy your time outside this summer -- save your blogging for a rainy day!
- June 29, 2008 at 5:06 PM
- Amanda said...
Oh, the way you're spending your time sounds absolutely wonderful! Enjoy it--we'll be here when you are ready, Warda.
- June 29, 2008 at 8:51 PM
- Giorgia said...
waiting for you, waza! but enjoy your holidays until you can...
- June 30, 2008 at 4:12 AM
- Amanda said...
There is an award for you on my blog!
- June 30, 2008 at 11:19 AM
- Anonymous said...
Il y a un peu de français et d'anglais, alors j'écris en français..et bravo pour ton blog
- June 30, 2008 at 3:51 PM
- Anonymous said...
Warda - What an incredible find - raspberries in your back yard. I'm so jealous...we have nothing but weeds and more weeds.
If you see someone with a too big basket absconding with all your berries, well, it's me ;)
- June 30, 2008 at 6:09 PM
- browniegirl said...
Ahhh Summertime,sweet summertime, you stole my friend away for awhile!! So glad you are enjoying your time outside with family Warda-Rose. And how lucky to have your own raspberries growing and ready for picking. Can't wait to see what you have for us. Hugs from Colleen xx
- June 30, 2008 at 6:12 PM
- Anonymous said...
Your raspberries look absolutely delicious... nice to pick up berries in your own garden.
- July 1, 2008 at 8:47 AM
- Susan from Food Blogga said...
It's sounds like you've been embracing life. Enjoy! :)
- July 1, 2008 at 7:54 PM
- Warda said...
- Jen, we've been very lucky to find these raspberries. We didn't even know we had them.
- LJ, thank you! Soon, hopefully!
- Shayne, I'll teach you if you don't know them. They are quite easy. I am sure cards go very well with couscous pudding ;)
- Nan, Thank You for such a sweet message! It made my day :)
- Marion, I wanted to send you an e-mail as well to say hi, since it's been a while since we talked. Thank you for your note ma chere et tendre Marion. Have a great week. Bisous.
- Enza, hang on there; just a few more days, sweetie. Enjoy your holidays in Sicily! :)
- Lydia, we actually had some rainy days and they were spent baking and cooking and taking naps and playing cards ;)
- Amanda, you are so sweet. Thank you. And thank you for the award as well! Very touched :)
- Giorgia, thank you very much!
- Eleonora, merci beaucoup pour ton passage et pour ce petit mot :)
- Christine, we actually had a lady recently being way too close with my raspberries without our permission. I was shocked!
So if it's you, just leave me a note or something ;)
- Colleen, I missed you too, my dear friend! I'm having a blast with my family and am very grateful to have them near. Hugs.
- Orchidea, thank you! We've been enjoying them a lot.
- Susan, thank you! I love summer :)
- July 1, 2008 at 9:16 PM
- Lo said...
Quite alright. I've missed you. But, I'll simply work on nibbling on those berries while I await what's next :)
- July 2, 2008 at 9:27 PM
- Anonymous said...
The raspberries look so very luscious. Enjoy your summer. It is quite cold here, and we are very rugged up against the drizzling rain and the cold wind. (Although in comparison to your winters you might find it quite warm here.)
- July 5, 2008 at 7:19 AM
- aforkfulofspaghetti said...
Looking forward to it - berries are in season here, too (well, some, anyway), and I'm toying with how best to use them...
- July 5, 2008 at 7:25 AM
- Pannifer's said...
What a gorgeous photo!
My mother used to grow raspberries. They're a lot of work to pick, but so worth it!
- July 5, 2008 at 12:30 PM
- Anonymous said...
Your blog is utterly charming! I've printed out a few recipes that I must make - I'll let you know how they turn out and thanks! Nan
- July 9, 2008 at 12:39 PM
- Krimo said...
Looks like you're having a very long and enjoyable weekend...
I long for real berries grown without chemicals and tasting like they should taste. I'm sure yours do.
- July 10, 2008 at 6:05 PM
- Anonymous said...
Enjoy your time away. Sometimes every blogger needs a little vacation. We'll be here when you return :)
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City are believed to be the only one among the nine clubs facing action - Paris Saint Germain are among the others - who failed to reach an agreement with UEFA over the sanctions put forward by the European body's club financial control board (CFCB).
The Manchester club's proposed sanction is understood to be for a 60 million euro (?49.3million) fine over three years, as well as having the size of next season's Champions League squad being cut from 25 to 21 - including eight home-grown players, and a wage freeze on that squad
There would also be some restrictions in the number of new players being able to be registered for the European squad.
A week of negotiations in Nyon failed to achieve an agreement between City and the CFCB
That negotiating period is now over and club officials have until Monday to decide whether to take or leave the offer - with the Abu Dhabi owners expected to have the final say.
Rejecting the offer would see City's case go to an adjudicatory panel which would issue a non-negotiable punishment, though it could be challenged in the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
The CFCB is expected to have been open to some minor movement on the initial settlement offer of sanctions, but not to an extent which persuaded City to take the view of the other eight clubs that it was better to accept what was on the table than risk having a stiffer punishment imposed.
Negotiations have now come to an end, so City executives will have to decide over the weekend on their next move.
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The deadline of Monday also clashes with plans for an open-top bus victory parade if the league title is secured.
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Last year, the Vikings replaced the turf at the Metrodome because the old stuff led to too many twisted ankles and torn ligaments. There was a whole to-do, and it went to court, and eventually they were allowed to bring in the new turf. It lasted all of one season.
Because of the spectacular dome collapse in December, the turf has gotten all moldy and gross and needs to be replaced, and apparently they weren't expecting the lockout to ever end, because they're only getting around to this now.
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Stan Musial was the greatest player in Cardinals history and one of the best in the history of the game. Stan "The Man" played his entire 22-year career as an outfielder and first baseman for the Cardinals. He was selected to 24 All-Star games and is the franchise's career leader in virtually every batting category. As good a ballplayer Stan was, he was an even better man.
Born in Donora, Pennsylvania, Musial was originally signed by the Cardinals as a pitcher, but due to inconsistency and injury he was put in the outfield and ultimately slugged his way into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
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Started about 5:15 am yesterday, didn't need headlamps. It started to hail on us at Florian's point -- Engine Joe cried out "Oh Hail No!". Added a rain jacket (I was in shorts and t-shirt) and asked for help with locating my pit zips. Joan noted that our break was indeed "A Pit Stop." I dubbed us "Team Bad Pun."
After Flat Rock, it started snowing. Cameron (at Florian's point) and Joan (Grubbs Notch) took videos which are posted on my FB page:
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Engine Joe hiked up to Grubbs in shorts and t-shirt -- he gets the polar bear award.
Really wonderful to have the juxtaposition of desert/alpine -- a true Cactus to Clouds.
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Wishful thinking on the Olympic clap-o-meter
Lots of activity on social networks tonight about current Chancellor & wannabe PM George Osborne getting booed before presenting a medal at the Paralympics, and ex Chancellor and ex PM Gordon Brown getting cheered.
Brilliant – sounds fantastic. Have a look at the videos and see what you think
Here's George :
And here's Gordon :
So what we're seeing here, is (according to the twittersphere) George Osborne getting the most humiliating reception any politician anywhere has ever had. And Gordon Brown basking in the warm glow of the love that the nation has remembered that they have for him really and they want to have his babies.
Putting aside tribal loyalties though, Gordon's applause is actually pretty much the polite Olympic/Paralympic cheer. Just about EVERYBODY gets one. If you want to know what a truly rapturous reception for a medal presenter (sorry flower presenter) is like, then the one that Sebastian Coe got before presenting Jessica Ennis's Gold Medal bouquet took some beating (can't find a decent Youtube video – guess you had to be there ! (I was !) )
Note that the guy who presents the flowers with Gordon Brown who no one has ever heard of, gets a cheer just as big as GB
Of course George Osborne did get booed. That in itself says something – no one else has been booed that I know of. But does it say much though ?
Booing the chancellor is a little bit like booing Mr Punch – it's a tradition – you could almost hear the giggles coming from the crowd.
I remember hearing bingo callers saying "Number 10 – Maggie's Den" – and everyone in the room shouted back "Not for long !"
A few years later it was "Number 10 – Tony's Den" – and guess what the response from the crowd was ?
This seems a lot like that to me – sure he's unpopular – but most of the people booing there were just having a giggle.
This wasn't a big deal. Not at all.
I sort of wish it had been though.
Meanwhile here's Jessica Ennis getting her medal – I must have been so close to where this was filmed from, it's surprising I'm not in the video. One of the best nights of my life


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Whistlin' Dixie: Fairgoers "appalled" at racist items
Waunema Smith was strolling with her children toward the rides at this year's Albemarle County Fair when some booths to the left caught her eye. Her boyfriend, Colten Noakes, checked them out and came back to warn, "Don't go over there because there's some stickers with heavy racial sentiment."
The booth he referred to was festooned with Confederate paraphernalia: t-shirts and bumper stickers ablaze with the Confederate battle flag.
Some proclaimed "Pride, not hate." Another one advised, "Unless you're naked, don't touch my truck."
"I've seen that kind of stuff at the fair before and thought, hey, it's the county," says Noakes.
But one bumper sticker adorned with the Confederate flag made Noakes cringe: "Work. It's a white thing."
He calls it "downright racist." Smith didn't want her six- and eight-year-old children anywhere near the booth. "I was appalled there was something I had to keep them from at the Fair," she says. "The fair should be for everyone."
Barbara Shifflett, president of the Fair, confirms that Smith and Noakes were not the only ones offended. "We do not allow racial things like those stickers," says Shifflett. "It was in direct violation of our contract."
After complaints on the first day, Shifflett says the vendors were told to put away the offensive items. But by the last day of the Fair, the "white thing" bumper stickers had reappeared, generating more complaints from fairgoers.
Shifflett would not reveal the name of the vendor. She says the question of the vendor's being allowed to participate in future fairs is on the agenda for the Fair's new slate of board members.
This was not the only vendor who wanted to proclaim his Southern heritage a little too loudly. Another was ejected from the Fair before it opened because he refused to take down his Confederate flag while setting up, reports Shifflett.
Flying the Southern Cross is a major no-no at the Fair. Even at the Civil War camp, where it could be considered part of a historical display, "We asked them not to fly the Confederate flag," says Shifflett.
Shifflett stresses that the "white thing" situation will be dealt with, and says that Fair organizers intend to "keep a wholesome family atmosphere."
That's what troubled fairgoer Susan McKibbin. She worried about black families with their kids seeing the same items she and her children were shocked to encounter. "They shouldn't have to be exposed to that," she says.


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Jelena Jankovic, the split-happy, thunder-serving Serbian may have lost the U.S. Open to Serena Williams yesterday, but she won over some new fans. Williams' third U.S. Open title returned her to the number-one ranking player in the WTA, but that news was overshadowed by the bizarre post-match comments from Jankovic:
The second-ranked Jankovic, who was No. 1 for a week last month, might have lost the match but she won over the Arthur Ashe Stadium crowd during the award presentation. She started off by thanking everyone and her drivers. While accepting the runner-up trophy, she said: "I lost my No. 1 ranking. It's not fair." Then, as Williams was being presented with her $1.5 million check, Jankovic asked, "How much did I get?" The answer, as she would soon find out, was $750,000. "So now I have a lot of money to spend," she said, laughing, in her news conference. "Tomorrow is my day to go shopping."
That shopping spree should be interesting. Right now all of the fetish shops in the New York City area are bracing for some big business. Serena Williams Wins U.S. Open, Returns To No. 1 [NY Times]


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Phoenix, AZ (Monday, October 21, 2013) – Attorney General Tom Horne is today announcing the indictment of 21 men and women - 8 officers and 13 enlisted - who served in the 214th Reconnaissance Group (214 RG) of the Arizona Air National Guard (AZ ANG). These indictments come at the conclusion of an 18-month joint effort to include the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the United States Air Force, the Arizona National Guard, and the Air National Guard.
Between November 2007 and September 2010, the Defendants are accused of intentionally falsifying military records and using fake home addresses in order to receive Temporary Duty Disbursements (TDY), money meant for military members who are on short-term orders and traveling outside their home. Over the course of three years, the majority of defendants fraudulently took home more than $100,000 by claiming to live outside of Tucson.
The Guardsmen were in a federal active duty status, not on Arizona state orders during the time of the alleged illegal activity. The funds they received through the alleged false pretenses were federal monies, not Arizona state dollars.
Created in 2007 and based in Tucson, the 214 RG is a unique and high-profile military group tasked with flying the MQ-1B Predator drone over Iraq and Afghanistan via satellite from ground control stations. These missions entail flying 24/7 operations in order to provide vital information to troops on the ground.
Defendant Col. Davies, the former commander of the 214th RG, is alleged to have provided assistance to 20 co-defendants, using his position of authority to circumvent measures that were supposed to prevent unauthorized temporary duty entitlements when military members are neither deployed nor away for training from their home.
"I am committed to the investigation and prosecution of individuals who fraudulently collect taxpayer money and will use the full resources of my office to prosecute to the fullest extent," said Attorney General Horne. "Some of these men and women received benefits in excess of 4 and 5-times their salaries in temporary duty entitlements. Conversely, our brave men and women overseas were making pennies on the dollar compared to what this group was receiving while still going home to their families each night."
"The Arizona Department of Emergency and Military Affairs support the Office of the Arizona State Attorney General and the FBI, said Brigadier General Michael T. McGuire. "I welcome the efforts of these law enforcement partners to ensure that we receive an accurate view of the facts and circumstances that led to these indictments. We fully support the legal process."
FBI Special Agent in Charge Douglas G. Price, Phoenix Division stated, "Our nation takes great pride in our military personnel who serve and protect us each day. When some individuals allegedly defraud the military system for financial gain it tears away at the very fabric of duty and honor. The FBI and the Arizona Sate Attorney General's Office are committed to investigate and prosecute those who intentionally take advantage of the public's trust."
This case is being prosecuted by Assistant Attorney General Mike Jette. All charges are allegations and the Defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.


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"I'm B Weezy and I'm takin' off
Started my career at The Loft
Now I'm around the world, gettin' all the girls
I get the party started, started, started . . . "
Meet B Weezy. He's a rapper from Woodbury with three music videos on YouTube -- two with more than 15,000 views each.
He's 11.
Ben Weiss -- who calls himself B Weezy -- is a sixth-grader whose videos are produced by The Loft Sound Studio in Plainview, a venture launched in 2012 by Matthew LaPorte of Dix Hills and Donnie Klang of Levittown, both 28. The duo opened the professional recording studio to be a home to Long Island kids aspiring to be singers, songwriters or producers; they help with artist development and the quest to be discovered.
The Loft offers voice lessons, tapes kids performing in the vocal booth and does full-fledged videos, like Ben's.
In the video with the above lyrics, Ben falls asleep during detention and dreams about his run for president of the United States. The video was filmed at a mansion in Brookville.
Previously unknown tweens and teens, such as California's Rebecca Black of "Friday" YouTube fame and Dix Hills' own Jenna Rose Swerdlow of "My Jeans" fame, have garnered millions of views of their performances, inspiring wannabes to shoot for the same star. And, of course, there's Justin Bieber, also discovered after he posted on YouTube.
"He's my idol," says Mackenzie Fistel, 12, of Muttontown, who has been taking voice lessons at The Loft for the past year. Her rendition of Demi Lovato's "Give Your Heart a Break" has had more than 80,000 YouTube views. As for a full-fledged music video, "she'll be doing one for her bat mitzvah in June," says mom, Robyn.
The Loft's biggest success thus far is Madison Beer, 13, who recorded a Bruno Mars mashup in The Loft's voice booth in February 2012 that has racked up more than 670,000 views.
Justin Bieber tweeted "Wow" about her to his followers, adding to her fame and resulted in her being featured on "Good Morning America" in July. She and her mother have moved from Jericho to Los Angeles to pursue her career; Madison is working with Island Def Jam Music Group.
"We're not trying to sell a fake dream. We would love it if it happened to everybody who walks in the door, but what happened to her is a one-in-a-billion chance," Klang says.
It's an investment to launch a child -- singing lessons at The Loft start at $100 an hour; Ben's videos cost between $1,000 and $1,500. Ben's two- to three-minute videos are covers of famous performers' music with revamped lyrics. "We help him write, he writes on his own, it's kind of a collaborative effort," Klang says. Klang and LaPorte made a storyboard and hired videographers. Ben posted a video using "Whistle" by Flo Rida in August and videos using "Coming Home" by Diddy and "Suit and Tie" by Justin Timberlake in February. He records the song in the studio, then they record the action on location. "You feel like you are a pop star when you're here," LaPorte says.
Ben's friends are extras; Klang and LaPorte make cameos in the videos. In Ben's Diddy video, which he calls "B Weezy for president," Klang and LaPorte are teachers and then Secret Service agents. Ben has advice for others who want to go the same route: "Delete the bad comments. Those haters are just full of jealousy."
Seeing his completed work fills him with pride. "When I'm seeing it for the first time, I'm flipping out, 'This is so cool, everybody's going to love it,' " he says. "If I get signed by someone big, I'd do it my whole life."
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I found this biography written by Mary Louise Wanner Andra of her parents. I will write a separate history for them in the future, but I thought I would make this one available unadulterated by me (typed completely as written in the book, although I added the photo).
This biography was published in Whitney Centennial 1889-1989: Whitney's First 100 Years. It was published in 1991 by the Whitney Ward, written and edited by the Whitney Ward Centennial Book Committee.
Our father, John George Wanner, Jr., was born in Holzgerlingen, Neckarkreis, Wuerttemberg 29 October, 1870. His parents were John George Wanner and Anna Maria Schmid. He was the oldest in the family of five boys and five girls.
His father had a small farm and some cattle. He was also a road overseer. So dad, his mother and brother and sisters did most of the farm work. They also got wood from the forest for winter fuel.
Dad's parents were very religious people and belonged to the Lutheran church. They were very hard workers and tried to teach their children correct principles. Dad tried hard to follow in their footsteps.
His parents joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1891. They made sure all their children were baptized as they became of age. His parents could see that it was the only true church on the earth, and they wanted to go to America, where they could worship as they wished. They also felt it would give their children a better opportunity in life.
His parents were the only ones in their respective families who joined the LDS church. Our dad was baptized in July in 1891, and came to America with one of the missionaries – a brother Terrell who was from Providence, Utah. Brother Terrell took good care of him and helped find work for him to do and provide for himself.
Dad got a job working for brother Fred Nuffer in Glendale, Oneida County (now Franklin County), Idaho. In 1893 his father, mother, and his brothers and sisters came to Cache Valley from Germany. Dad and brother Nuffer met them with a wagon and buggy in Franklin, Oneida County, Idaho, June 18, 1893. I am sure he was happy to see his family again, as it had been almost two years since he had seen any of them.
Dad met a lovely girl from Providence, Utah, by the name of Eliza Sterling, and this relationship blossomed into marriage in 1894. They were blessed with two sons, George and Earl Wayne. This marriage was not a very happy one and they were divorced.
On the 31st of August 1898, dad married Regina Nuffer who was a sister of our uncle Charles August Nuffer. [Daughter of the marriage of Eva Katherine Greiner and Johann Christopher Nuffer] On 9 November 1899, they were blessed with twin boys, William and Willard. As time went on they were blessed with more children, a total of five boys and two girls.
Dad went on a mission to Germany in the fall of 1907, leaving a wife and six children. On March 8, 1908, their son Serge was born. Mother and the family were living in a home John Nuffer built for dad. It is a rock house on East Oneida Street in Preston, Idaho. This house is still standing and is in good condition at this writing – June 1979.
When Serge was a few months old, mother took all the children and had a picture taken and sent it to dad so he could see the new baby.
While Dad was in Germany, he met William Andra's mother and family and baptized the eldest daughter Freda.
In 1910, Dad's mother and father sold their home and farm in Whitney to Dad. This is the farm Lawrence Bodily now has. Dad built a red barn that is still in use on the farm. After grandpa and grandma sold their farm to dad, they moved to Logan, Utah.
In 1913 dad's parents, brothers and sisters had a family reunion at their home in Whitney. There was a large crowd and we all had a good time.
We all had to work hard and dad relied on his daughter Mary for many hard farm jobs. However, on Saturday nights he would take us to the picture show and give us each 25¢ to spend on the show and treats.
In 1917, I begged to take the sewing class at the USAC in Logan, as I wanted to learn to sew. However, I was only there a short time when dad brought me home to work on the dry farm. I have always felt bad about this as I wanted to learn to sew.
My brother, William, enlisted in the Army on August 5, 1917. He was with the 145th Light Field Artillery, Battery C. He left Salt Lake City for Camp Kearney on October 11, 1917. He left for France August 2, 1918. William contracted the influenza and died December 1, 1918. His body was brought home November 11, 1920, and interred in the Whitney Idaho Cemetery.
Just a few days before they got the sad news of William's death, their son, Golden, died November 26, 1918 in Salt Lake City from influenza.
On January 8, 1921, dad sent his son Willard on a mission to New Zealand.
Dad and mother were to face still more sorrow when their son Rulon died February 26, 1924, in the Logan hospital.
Dad believed in missionary work with all his heart and soul and on December 15, 1925, he went to Tennessee on a six month mission.
In 1928, Serge went to New Zealand on a mission and died there October 5, 1929. His body was brought home for burial. The funeral was held in the old opera house in Preston, Idaho. These were trying times for our parents. Losing four sons, and all their bodies returned home in a box. This left them with only one son and two daughters.
On April 7, 1930, dad sent Eva on a mission to California. Dad was not a stranger to hard work. He raised crops and took good care of his farm animals. He took pride in having things looking neat and clean around the farm and yard.
When Dad operated his farm in Whitney, he was always up early in the morning and usually was the first to get to the beet dump in the morning. The story is told about some of his neighbors who decided to beat him to the dump. They got up extra early to get a head start. Before they got to the beet dump, they could hear George Wanner going down the rad ahead of them. They could hear him saying to his horses, "Gid up–gid up–gid up."
When dad sold his farm in Whitney, he purchased 40 acres nearer to Preston and built a beautiful home on it. Part of it is where the Oakwood School is now located. When he retired he sold his farm and home to his daughter Mary and her husband William Andra.
Dad was successful in the various undertakings he engaged in. He was one of the first in Preston to have an automobile. When he brought it home he did not know how to stop it. He yelled "whoa" when he got in the garage, but before he got it stopped he had gone through the end of the garage.
Dad built the two little homes on the west side of second east and first south in Preston, Idaho. He also built three homes on first south and the south side of the street in Preston. Dad and mother lived in one of them until she died in 1942. Mother was ill for quite a while before she passed away. Dad cared for her the best he could and would take her for little rides in the car. She was unable to walk and dad would carry her on his back from place to place as they went visiting.
As many of you will remember, there was a humble side to dad. I have seen him cry when bearing his testimony and when he was grieved over the death of a loved one, a relative, or friend. He wanted to leave this world a better place than he found it, and I feel sure he made some contributions and brought this desire to fulfillment.
After mother died, dad remarried and went to live in Salt Lake City, Utah. This marriage was not successful and they were divorced. Later on he remarried again and was living in Florida. He became ill and wanted to get back to Preston. My son William went to Florida to bring him home, but when they got to Chicago, he was too ill to go on. So, William put him in the hospital where he passed away on January 5, 1947.
Regina Nuffer was born January 26, 1869 at Neuffen, Germany, a daughter of Johann Cristoph and Eva Katharina Greiner, she came to Utah with her family after they were converted to the gospel. She married Jacob Scheibel July 15, 1889, in Pleasant Valley, Carbon County, Utah. Her first child, Alma Katherine Scheibel Naef, was born, September 27, 1889. When her child was six months old, she and her husband separated and she moved back to Mapleton, Idaho, where she stayed with her parents on their farm. During this period, she would help people when they were sick, and her mother would take care of her child.
In about 1893, after the death of her mother, she moved to Weber County, Utah, and worked for the Will Taylor family in Farr West and the Bowman family in Ogden. She again returned to her father's farm. On her way home, she stopped in Logan and walked out to Providence to visit a friend. While eating lunch, she happened to think that she had left her new coat on the train. She went back to Logan to the train station and they sent out a tracer. In a few days she got her coat back. After returning to Idaho, she worked for several people in Franklin and Preston. She lived in one room of her brother John's home in Preston. Her brother was on a mission in Germany at the time.
On August 31, 1898, she married John George Wanner in Logan, Utah. That winter she lived on his ranch in Worm Creek or Glendale, Idaho. In April she moved with her husband, daughter, and step son, Wayne, to the Bancroft flat, a little west of where Grace is now.
She was known as a fine, well mannered woman. Her niece, Athene Hampton, said that toward the end of her life her health was not very good and she had a hard time speaking. When Athene and Louisa Nuffer would visit, they would converse by writing notes to each other. She died on March 10, 1942, in Preston, Idaho. Her funeral in Preston was very well attended.


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Ken North is an author, consultant and industry analyst. He teaches seminars and chaired the XML Devcon 200x conference series, Nextware, LinkedData Planet and DataServices World 200x conferences.
Cloud computing is the latest sea change affecting how we develop and deploy services and applications and fulfill the need for persistent information and database solutions. Database technology evolves even as new computing models emerge, inevitably raising questions about selecting the right database technology to match the new requirements.
The cloud is an elastic computing and data storage engine, a virtual network of servers, storage devices, and other computing resources. It's a major milestone in on-demand or utility computing, the evolutionary progeny of computer timesharing, high-performance networks and grid computing. The computer timesharing industry that emerged four decades ago pioneered the model for on-demand computing and pay-per-use resource sharing of storage and applications. More recently Ian Foster and Carl Kesselman advanced the concept of the grid to make large-scale computing networks accessible via a service model. Like computer timesharing and the grid, cloud computing often requires persistent storage so open source projects and commercial companies have responded with data store and database solutions.
- Public clouds include commercial enterprises that can host applications and databases, offering Software as a Service (Saas), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Database as a Service (DaaS). Infrastructure providers include Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), GoGrid, Rackspace Mosso, and Joyent, whereas Microsoft Azure, Google AppEngine, Force.com, Zoho, and Facebook are platform providers. There are also providers targeting specific classes of cloud users, such as HP CloudPrint and IBM LotusLive for collaboration services and social networking for businesses. Other SaaS providers include Birst and SAS for on-demand business intelligence (BI), Salesforce.com and Zoho for customer relationship management (CRM), Epicor, NetSuite, SAP Business ByDesign and Workday for enterprise resource planning (ERP) suites. The DaaS providers include EnterpriseDB, FathomDB, Longjump, and TrackVia.
- Private clouds, like server consolidation, clusters, and virtualization, are another evolutionary step in data center and grid technology. Gartner Research predicted government will have the largest private clouds but any organization having thousands of servers and massive storage requirements is a likely candidate. Security and reliability are the appeal of private clouds for large enterprises that can afford the infrastructure. Public cloud computing does not provide the 99.99% uptime that enterprise data center managers desire for service level agreements. The fact a private cloud sits behind a firewall mitigates the risk from exposing data to the cloud. The private cloud also alleviates concerns about data protection in multi-tenancy cloud environments. One issue in the private versus public cloud debate is the diversity of APIs used to invoke cloud services. This has caused interest in creating a standard but the Eucalyptus initiative took a different approach. Assuming the Amazon APIs to be a de facto standard, it developed private cloud software that's largely compatible with Amazon EC2 APIs.
When evaluating the suitability of a database solution for cloud computing, there are multiple considerations.
- First, you must consider the class of applications that will be served: business intelligence (BI), e-commerce transactions, knowledge bases, collaboration and so on.
- Second, you must determine suitability for public and/or private clouds.
- Thirdly, you must consider ease of development.
And, of course, budget is not to be overlooked.
Mission: What Will Run In the Cloud?
Selecting a database manager should be a function of the mission and applications it must support, not just budget and whether it will run in the enterprise or a private or public cloud.
Some organizations use a cloud provider as a backup for mission-critical applications or databases, not as the primary option for deploying applications or services. Oracle database users can run Backup software that uses Amazon Simplified Storage System (S3) for Oracle database backups. For an even bigger safety net, organizations can look to cloud computing as a disaster recovery option.
The New York Times project that created the TimesMachine, a web-accessible digital archive, is a prime example of a one-off cloud project requiring massively scalable computing. But factors besides on-demand elasticity come into play when the goal is hosting applications in the cloud on a long-term basis, particularly database applications.
Cloud users are often looking to deploy applications and databases with a highly-scalable, on-demand architecture, often on a pay-per-use basis. Common scenarios for using the cloud include startups and project-based, ad hoc efforts that want to ramp up quickly with minimal investment in infrastructure. But Amazon's public cloud has also been used to support e-business web sites, such as NetFlix.com, eHarmony.com and Target.com. E-mail is a backbone of modern business and companies, such as Boston Celtics, have gone to a cloud computing model for e-mail and collaboration software. Companies can also opt to use a cloud to host ERP or CRM suites that operate with SQL databases, such as open source ERP suites (Compiere, Openbravo, SugarCRM) and BI solutions (Jasper, Pentaho). Because data warehouses use source data from operational systems, organizations using the cloud to host operational databases are likely to do the same for data warehouses and business intelligence.
On a pay-as-you-go basis, the cloud handles provisioning on demand. Machine images, IP addresses, and disk arrays are not permanently assigned, but databases on a public cloud can be assigned to persistent storage. This saves having to bulk load a database each time you fire up machine instances and run your application. But it also puts a premium on database security and the cloud provider having a robust security model for multi-tenancy storage.
The cloud is particularly well-suited for processing large data sets and compute-intensive applications that benefit from parallel processing, such as rendering video and data analysis. The early Amazon EC2 users have included biomedical researchers, pharmaceutical, bioengineering and banking institutions. They were early adopters of grid computing for purposes such as financial modeling, drug discovery and other research. Medical research often requires massive simulations of genetic sequencing and molecular interactions. This has been done by grids, often using Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) programs, and more recently by clouds. Researchers have also used MapReduce software in the cloud for genetic sequence analysis. Eli Lilly uses Amazon EC2 for processing bioinformatics sequence information.
Cloud computing is also used for other purposes, such as integrating SaaS and enterprise systems. Players in the on-demand integration space include Boomi, Cast Iron Systems, Hubspan, Informatica, Jitterbit and Pervasive Software. Business intelligence (BI) activity, such as analytics, data warehousing and data mining, requires horsepower and a capital outlay that might be prohibitive for small and medium businesses. Cloud computing offers an attractive pay-per-use alternative and there appears to be a large potential BI-on-demand market.
The marriage of cloud computing and business intelligence can be accomplished by several means. One option is to have data and applications hosted by a SaaS provider. Another is to create cloud-based applications hosted by an infrastructure provider. A third alternative is to do both and use data replication or a data integration suite.


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mnapuran brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 88 Designs von 23 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
Looking for a corporate brandable logo design which would work well both WITH the name itself, and also possibly the initials. Design should also work in 2-3 color reproductions as well.
http://www.viderivoice.com (haven't really started site yet)
None currently... offer one up if you like
Desired Color Scheme:
No specifics
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Vector Formats (.eps, .pdf or .ai); Layered Formats (.psd or .tiff)
Our business is hosted VoIP PBX phone services for small businesses. We replace the traditional phone system in a business application with a highly feature rich hosted solution for less cost providing more features and support. The system is not location dependent, so phones in the system can be anywhere. Think of it as Vonage on steroids with display phones and more features for businesses.
We are looking for a professional brandable image in this logo. The name itself is "Videri Voice" (parent company is "Videri Technology Group"). You can also get rid of the space if it works well like "VideriVoice". Consider a simplified version using "VV" creatively, perhaps with "Videri Voice" somewhere in the design as well. Be creative though, and don't feel limited to this concept!
We will also be looking for a parent company logo after this project as well.
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Saved from Death
The chances for survival for a victim of another one of those horrific traffic accidents which plague life in Israel appeared to be very slim. The fellow next to him in the vehicle involved in a frightful accident was dead, and he was pinned down up to his neck. It took rescue workers an hour and a half to pull him out of the wrecked vehicle, and when he arrived at the hospital the doctors were skeptical about his chances for survival.
But survive he did, and the secret of his miraculous survival was revealed by the paramedic who was the first to treat him. Only when his grease-covered body was extracted from the wreck did 32-year old Effie Stern, the head of Magen David Adom and Zaka organization in the Orthodox community of Elad, recognize the severely wounded man as a friend from his town.
"I have no doubt as to what saved him," this extraordinary volunteer told Leah Kedem of "Hashavua in Jerusalem". "It was certainly the mitzvah of chesed that he does with all his might. The night before the accident I ran into him at 2 am distributing chickens to needy families in his role as one of the Elad welfare committee. On the night of the accident he left Elad to bring a trailer for food distribution and took his little children with him in the back seat of his car. On the way he met another committee member who offered to take the children into his own car and return them later. It was thus that the children were saved from certain death and their father survived a deadly accident in the merit of his mitzvah.