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Latest homeowner association alleged embezzlement: Mill Creek's longtime treasurer, Kevin O'Connor, is charged with swiping $10,000, according to the Daily Progress. Earlier this year, Glenmore's treasurer Mike Comer disappeared after $666,000 was missing from that association's account.
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Windiest: Albemarle Planning Commission okays backyard wind turbines November 17, and the green machines go to the Board of Supervisors December 9 for approval.
Biggest pile-up: A Lexus driven by Jerry Dean Martin Jr. plows into a minivan, causes a Mitsubishi to overturn and the strikes a tractor trailer on U.S. 29 north near the National Ground Intelligence Center on Boulders Road November 18. Martin flees on foot and is apprehended with the assistance of the Department of Defense police, according to a release.
Best top-security clearance job ops: The Defense Intelligence Agency brings 800 employees and a $64 million payroll to its new digs at Rivanna Station when it joins fellow spies at NGIC, Bryan McKenzie reports in the DP.
Best gift: John and Tussi Kluge donate $3 million to UVA Health System to support compassionate end-of-life care.
Biggest bomb scare: A briefcase found November 19 at the 11th Street parking garage near UVA Medical Center closes the garage for two hours. Albemarle police's bomb-sniffing canine Drak indicates, but an X-ray of the revealing it's a toolbox.
Best blow-up: UVA engineering PhDs Adam Malcom and Scott Kasen pull in $20,000 in start-up capital for an inflatable life-preserving belt when they win the first UVA Entrepreneurship Cup.
Most eye-catching hold-up accessories: Richmonder Garland Thomas Carr, 27, is arrested four days after allegedly robbing the East High Street Wachovia November 17 while sporting a red-and-black tasseled cap. The suspect in the Pantops BB&T heist the next day, Joseph Carroll Breeden, 32, of Gordonsville, allegedly sports a surgical-style mask.

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UPDATE: We posted a related article recently on the uses of a worker system titled Top 10 Uses of IronWorker (although the uses can apply to any worker system/task queue). They often work in concert with message queues and are used for background processing, schedule jobs, event processing, as a mobile compute cloud, and for many other uses.


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(2008)Our project hinged on the ability of the undergraduate advanced Chinese and Japanese students at the UIUC to describe, during short interviews, the value of their respective languages in economic terms. We found that the ...
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(2008)For this project we aimed to discover what was mobilizing Chinese International graduate students to return to China after obtaining their PhD at UIUC. We decided to focus on students studying in the science and engineering ...
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Crossing the Invisible Line: An International Student's Experience Trying to Engage at the American University (2013-04)Our podcast was developed from a life history interview we conducted with a Korean international student at the U of I. In our podcast, we focused on the parts of the interview where our interviewee talked about her ...
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(2008)The main purpose of this project is to interview CY students and their families in order to find out the condition for the life of CY students and the relationship with their families along with their CY life. It is very ...
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The Differences between International Students and Korean-American Students in their University Experience and Future Plans after Graduation (2012-05)It is important to note that international students are not the only Koreans who are currently attending universities in the U.S. In many cases, some Koreans are 'Korean-Americans', or 2nd generation children from parents ...
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(2012)The audio research project we conducted was the creation of an audio podcast in an area of interest. our specific choice was concerned with detailing information surrounding the (lack of) competition for disabled athletes ...
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(2012)The audio research project we conducted was the creation of an audio podcast in an area of interest. our specific choice was concerned with detailing information surrounding the (lack of) competition for disabled athletes ...
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(2008)This project is about East Asian students from Korea, Japan, and Taiwan studying at the Intensive English Institute of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. We conducted face-to-face individual interviews with ...
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Family, Food, Nation, and Economy: Attachment to China and the Return (or Not) of Chinese Graduate Students in the Sciences and Engineering (2008)For our project we sought to identify the meanings that male graduate students in the sciences and engineering mobilize when making plans for after they graduate. We conducted eight interviews and found that these students ...
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This article is cross posted from A&U Magazine's Destination: Cure.
Several months ago a media frenzy reported Danish researchers as being months away from curing AIDS. During this time, countless individuals discontinued their HIV medication, believing the cure would soon be available.
With the recent flurry of HIV "cure" reports, it's becoming increasingly more difficult to sort out who's actually been cured and what stories are media hype, wishful thinking, or premature reports of success.
Most people recognize headlines depicting cures in the form of herbal remedies or drugs yet to be tested in a single human being as either media hype or outright rubbish aimed at selling newspapers, stock or a product.
But what about the cases we hear announced at respected scientific conferences that sound completely realistic? How many of the cases of "functional cures" we've celebrated over the past three years are really actual cures?
Several of these cases come complete with a wake of conflicting reports and opinions creating confusion as to their merit.
In my black-and-white way of thinking it seems an obvious enough question to ask who, by scientific standards, is actually cured?
I posed this question to several HIV researchers and cure activists and received many different answers. This is really not surprising as the in-depth parameters of exactly what defines a cure are not all that clearly outlined.
Currently there are two types of HIV cures. They're defined by the International AIDS Society (IAS) as follows:
- Sterilizing/eradication cure: Complete eradication of HIV-infected cells from the body.
- Functional cure: Undetectable viremia without ART; no disease progression; no CD4 loss; lack of HIV transmission.
One aspect that creates confusion is there is no specifically defined time frame for when a person is deemed functionally cured. How long should an undetectable viral load and a normal CD4 count in the absence of ARVs be present before it's considered a functional cure?
There's also no clear identification of what significance circulating HIV fragments in the body retain. What does having a "very low level" of HIV fragments as found in Timothy Ray Brown (the Berlin Patient) and the Mississippi baby, who was treated early with ARVs, actually mean? What importance do they have? How can eradication be determined if single cell assays used to measure very low levels of virus can't differentiate between HIV competent of replicating and HIV "debris."
Shouldn't the development and standardization of assays specifically designed to identify replication-competent HIV, as well as to detect HIV in certain difficult to reach places, be a main priority? These are issues that are being looked at but maybe we should hold back on the "c" word until they are better understood.
It's also becoming more and more apparent that the current definition of a "cure" really could do with a broader sub-classification to include all the different types of "cures" based on how the cure was obtained, i.e., bone marrow transplant, early use of ARVs, or a new therapeutic agent.
As of right now, there is no one who has achieved a sterilizing cure -- at least no one upon whom everyone can agree.
The terms "HIV remission" and "post-treatment controllers" are being used by some in the scientific arena. Hopefully they will be adopted by the media to further separate and define cases currently referred to as simply "functional cures."
The courses each "cure" took to obtain this state are quite different. The types of ways each cure was reached further define the cures themselves and it may be helpful to break them down even more.
These are the main cases that some are calling cured of HIV, and, from my best understanding, this is how they are currently defined:
Stem-cell transplants:
- Timothy Ray Brown: Some believe Timothy to be a case of a sterilizing cure but other experts feel more comfortable calling this a functional cure.
- The Boston Patients: Some are calling this a functional cure while others believe it is too soon to tell.
Very early treatment with ARVs:
- The Mississippi baby: Conservatively called "HIV remission."
- The VISCONTI Study (fourteen individuals): Being called "HIV remission."
- A sixty-seven-year-old German man (treated within ten weeks of exposure to HIV and off ARVs for nine years): Many are calling this a functional cure.
It's time for the formulation of more precise definitions of HIV "cures" to be devised and utilized not only within the HIV scientific community but also to curtail the media from inaccurate "cure" reports.
Hope is a beautiful thing. False hope can be dangerous and cruel to those hoping to be cured. Shouldn't we more accurately define a "cure" before counting the cured?
This blog entry is dedicated to Eric Blue for his bravery and selfless contribution to cure research. The 12-year-old who lived with HIV and leukemia passed on July 5, 2013, three months after receiving an umbilical cord transplant which attempted to cure him of HIV and leukemia. You will be forever remembered little brother.


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Recent events have proven that there is the need for forum moderators beyond just myself. I cannot be on line all of the time and quite frankly, find it impossible to even read every post (we are approaching 200 posts per day). I would like to see a number of moderators so that there is a good chance that there will always be someone online if the need arises to moderate a thread.
I have a two basic criteria for moderators. They must be daily participants on this forum. They should be regarded as even handed and objective by the vast majority of members.
Given that the role of moderator is in many ways thankless, I am going to take the approach of calling for nominations and then try and twist their arms into taking on the role. I'm afraid that a strict call for volunteers may not result in too many takers. To start things off, I have three nominations (in alphabetical order)
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It didn't turn out the way he would have liked, but Matt Chao nonetheless felt the experience at the IFDS World Blind Sailing Championships on Lake Rotorua in New Zealand the past two weeks gave him an opportunity to see a lot of old friends, as well as meet new friends, all sharing the common bond of sailing.
It didn't turn out the way he would have liked, but Matt Chao nonetheless felt the experience at the IFDS World Blind Sailing Championships on Lake Rotorua in New Zealand the past two weeks gave him an opportunity to see a lot of old friends, as well as meet new friends, all sharing the common bond of sailing.
Even the 11-hour plane ride back to Los Angeles, and a short stay at the airport while waiting for the connecting flight to Boston on Monday couldn't hide those lasting feelings.
For the record, Chao's team finished eighth in the B1 group (totally blind), which included Peter Frisch of Swampscott and Tom Winston of Charlestown (sighted guides), Debbie Keating of Woburn (blind crew) and Chao (blind helmsman).
Arthur O'Neill of Swampscott, who established the sailing program at the Carroll School for the Blind in Newton, was on hand as team manager for Chao's group, plus another Carroll School squad, as both represented the U.S. in the championship event. O'Neill is also the chairman of Blind Sailing International.
The Carroll School team of Bill Rapp of Rockport (sighted guide), Mark Bos of Gloucester (blind crew), Jason Wallenstein of Sharon (blind helmsman) and Lisa O'Connor of Hull (sighted guide) earned a bronze in the B3 group (20 percent blind) for the U.S.
O'Neill predicted great things for Chao's team before they left for New Zealand, and O'Neill knows he had to deal with circumstances beyond their control.
"It was tough for [Chao] to feel the light winds as a blind sailor," O'Neill said. "But all things being equal, he did very well. Matt's a very good sailor, but the competition got better," O'Neill said.
Chao usually sails the J-22 series with a non-retractable keel. But this race employed the Noelex 25 boats that have a retractable centerboard that tends to sideslip a bit more.
"The Noelex 25 is a 25-foot cruiser. It's a heavier boat than the J-series, and they're not responsive. It's tough to get it up to speed, and one or two mistakes in a world championship event like this you're toast," added O'Neill.
O'Neill was impressed with the camaraderie of the blind sailors, who also used the event as a social network.
"There were 10 countries and 19 teams represented, and I saw all 38 blind sailors learn from each other over coffee. It broke down any barriers that might have existed between countries," he said. "They'd also exchange shirts, jackets and ties at the awards ceremony. It was a wonderful show, and it went beyond winning medals. [The blind sailors] sent a message of hope and optimism to others sitting around struggling with their vision loss."Few regrets
"[The regatta] was a lot fun, and we all had a great time," Chao said. "But the boats and the conditions were challenging. There were some interesting light, shifty winds that only got up to 7 to 12 knots, and the boat was a Noelex 25 instead of the J-series that we were used to. The Noelex series are long 25-foot boats with a centerboard, not a keel. It's heavier, and it definitely affects how a boat steers. It tends not to steer predictably, and as a cruiser/racing boat it definitely behaves in different ways.
"It was a learning curve for all of us, and some mastered it better than others down there," added Chao. "It just didn't happen for us this year, and there's no real reason why it didn't happen. We ultimately had trouble adapting to the environment."
Chao has been sailing competitively for over two decades, and has had experience with all sorts of boats, including the one-design MRX series. And as a blind sailor, Chao had to overcome the obvious obstacles to become proficient at his craft.
"The first thing a blind sailor has to do is to get a good idea how a boat sails. It's a timing and feel issue," Chao said. "You have to learn how to trim or release the main sail to determine how fast or not so fast to steer the boat. But for blind sailors, it really comes down to communications with the guides, and to work hard to make it go fast.
"I like to call it 'contrived stress,' whether you know a boat or not or you're blind or not it's the environment that you want to be in, because you like to race," added Chao. "I like to be the helmsman in order to steer a boat. If I'm sailing downwind, I'm facing backwards to the air currents. Otherwise, I sit sideways on a boat just like everybody else. Everybody adapts to it differently; it's whatever you feel comfortable at, as long as it works."
In four years, Chao hopes to do it again, when the World Blind Sailing Championships are held in Japan in 2013.


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For your convenience a classic style elevator is ready to lift you and your belongings up to your room, and for elderly and disabled guests, there are 2 rooms that are designed for easy wheelchair access. Take a visit to Piman Plearn Wan to bring back the good old day and experience Hua Hin Classic Yesterday. On the second floor are hotel rooms for tourists on vacation. There are 20 rooms designed in traditional style.
20 Rooms include:
Classic Room / Deluxe Room
PleanWan Classic taste Coffee
When you move further inside you will see the PleanWan Classic taste Coffee. Linger scent of fresh brew beans.
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How to get to Plearnwan :
Plearnwan is located on Petchkasem Road, between Soi HuaHin 38 and 40. It is near Klai Kung Vol Palace, Hua Hin District, Prachuabkirikan Province.
It is open daily 11.00am - midnight (No entrance fee)
Transportation to Hua Hin
By Car
1. Drive along Highway No. 35 (Thon Buri-Pak Tho) passing Samut Sakhon and Samut Songkhram Provinces and then take Highway No. 4 to Hua Hin. Total distance is 123 kilometers. It takes 2.30 Hrs.
2. Alternatively, it is possible to travel via Nakhon Pathom and Ratchaburi Provinces, a journey which takes 3 Hrs.
By Bus
Busses from Bangkok's Southern Bus Terminal; 1st class (air-conditioned), 2nd class (air-conditioned) and (ordinary). The trip takes about 3 1/2 to 4 hours.
The bus leaves for Bangkok from a station next to Siripetchkasem Hotel. In addition, there are air-conditioned buses for Chumpon Province (4 hours), Surat Thani Province (7hours), Phuket Province (10 hours) and Krabi Province (9 hours).
By Van
Various agencies on Khao San Road and Victory Monument in Bangkok operate minivans to Hua Hin.
By Train
From Hua-Lum-Pong station, there are many trains to Hua Hin, Pranburi and Prachuap Khiri Kan. The trip takes about 3-3/4 hours from Bangkok.


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Last year around this time, I got upset about the number of GBBD participants who were bemoaning the lack of blooms in January, as though houseplants were never invented. And I still, as far as it goes, don't have much sympathy for those people, 'cause it's not like indoor plants are some big secret or highly technical thing nobody knows about. Why, there are even entire blogs devoted to them! But: on the theory that you catch more flies with honey,1 I have decided to lead by example instead, and try showing the uninitiated masses that flowers in January are not only conceivable, but nigh inevitable, even in cold climates, under certain circumstances.
Will anyone decide to give houseplants a try because of this post? Oh, probably not. But it feels more productive than waving my arms and shouting at people again. And it's less douchey. Better to light a candle than to curse the damn darkness. Also it seems like I have sort of a responsibility, as an intense indoor gardener person, to provide flower photos for all the deprived outdoor-only people at this time of year. So here we are.
The photos were all taken on January 11, not January 15, which I don't know the precise rules of the GBBD but I'm hoping that that won't get me thrown out or put in stocks or anything. If I didn't start a little early, I wouldn't be able to post at all -- photo-heavy posts take a long time to write. (This one took me most of last Wednesday.) Anyway. Here's everything that's blooming at the moment in the Subjunctive Botanical Gardens.
The biggest group of bloomers right now is probably the Anthuriums, partly because they bloom readily for me and partly because the blooms last a ridiculously long time.
The Pileas bloom off and on throughout the year, but especially in the winter. They're not hugely ornamental, but they're still flowers, so they count.
A handful of succulents are flowering at the moment too.
The white NOID Schlumbergera I bought a little while ago dropped almost all of the buds it had left, but one held on and opened last week anyway.
The big peace lily blooms for me at very irregular intervals, though the flowers are usually very short-lived. Feeding tends to bring on blooms, though it's never guaranteed.
The Murraya paniculata had stopped flowering for a month, month and a half recently. I gave it some fertilizer with micronutrients two waterings ago, and it responded with a huge flush of new buds. The micronutrients thing seems to be extremely important for Murraya.
While we're talking about fertilizer producing flowers, I suppose I should tell you that Abutilons will stop flowering if they run out of fertilizer. It's almost like a switch gets thrown; it's weird. But pour some Osmocote on the soil and in a couple weeks you'll never know it had stopped. They're admirably direct that way.
Lastly, the gesneriads are starting to step up. Nematanthus usually gets excited at this time of year:
And although it's technically too early to count as a flower, the developing buds on N. 'Tropicana' are sort of pretty in their own right.
I had thought that the Aeschynanthus speciosus was finished for the year, once it stopped flowering a few months ago, but it surprised me by producing one last batch of flowers.
I don't think my old NOID African violet has been flowerless in more than a year now.
And the just-purchased Saintpaulia 'Shimmer Shake' is pumping out blooms like crazy; it didn't take it that long to do, so I'm puzzled as to why it ever stopped in the greenhouse where I bought it.
And finally, Episcia 'Coco' has almost been in continuous bloom since it arrived. I've gotten two other Episcias that haven't yet, and I'm not sure why not, though they're probably in less light. Maybe that's all the explanation one needs.
I didn't count: the two recently-purchased orchids that still have blooms on them, because I didn't do anything to cause those blooms to happen so I don't feel I should get credit for them.2 I also didn't count the Hoya lacunosa (just buds at the moment) or the H. lacunosa 'Royal Flush' (ditto). The Hoya polyneura seems confused at the moment about whether or not it wants to flower: the buds I talked about a while ago are still present, but they don't seem to be getting any larger. One of the Spathiphyllums technically has a flower, but it didn't get photographed because the flower appeared a long time ago and is all but dead now.
Even so, that's 23 1/2 flowers, in more or less presentable shape, which appeared spontaneously, in mid-January, in Iowa.
1 The full saying is "you catch more flies with honey than vinegar." It's not actually true, of course (additional evidence), but then folk wisdom often isn't. I suggest the revision, "you catch more frat boys with free beer and strippers than with warm flat 7-Up and trigonometry." Though that's longer to say. And begs the question of why anyone would want to catch frat boys in the first place (but then, nobody ever gives a reason for wanting to catch flies, either). At least it's got the advantage of being true.
2 Yes, I counted the Schlumbergera, which already had the buds on it when I bought it, but I think I should get some credit for it, since the overwhelming majority of buds on that plant dropped off.


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Banned Episodes
A Banned Episode is an episode of the Pokémon anime that was removed from the original lineup of episodes. Several episodes of the anime have been banned for different reasons.
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The Legend of Dratini
|This episode is banned due to Kaiser pointing a gun in Ash's face and threatening to shoot him and because of Jessie, James, and Meowth shooting Kaiser to catch the Dratini. The episode also contains profanity (for example, James swears at Kaiser.) Also, there is a mistake when Ash says he found a Rhydon, whereas he actually found a Rhyhorn. Later in the episode Misty mistakenly refers to her Staryu as a Starmie. Also, when intaroggating Kaiser, Meowth has a mustache that people think resembles that of Adolf Hitler (although this was unintentional).
|November 25, 1997
Denno Shenshi Porygon (Electric Soldier Porygon)
|This episode is infamous for causing many seizures when first aired. In the episode, Pikachu, in order to stop some missiles, uses a Thunderbolt attack. This leads to a very large and quick sequence where lights flash very quickly and vividly on screen. Some of these lights were strobe lights being flashed at very high speeds. Many viewers reported dizziness and nausea as a result of this. 685 children were taken to hospital, although only 150 were kept overnight for observation. Also despite rumors there is no evidence to suggest that any of the viewers suffered lasting injury.
The episode has never been shown again and has set guidelines for flashing lights in anime. To remove the episode from the public mind, the character Porygon has never appeared again over the course of the series.
|December 16, 1997
Yureru Shima no Tatakai! Dojoach Vs Namazun!!
|This episode revolves around a bunch of Whiscash causing an earthquake. It was removed and never aired anywhere, including Japan, due to similarities to the Chuetsu earthquakes of October 23, 2004.
|Rocket Gang Vs Team Plasma Parts 1 and 2
|This episode was set to air in Japan but was delayed in because of the Great East Japan Earthquake which also caused a tsunami of March 11, 2011. The episode also featured Castelia City being destroyed. It is currently unknown when they will air in Japan and other countries.
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|Beauty and the Beach
|This episode revolves around all the female characters entering a swimsuit competition, including James, who, in order to enter, buys a pair of inflatable breasts. The episode is notable for one scene where James is waving his fake breasts in other's faces for comedic effect. The image has become a quite popular GIF on the internet. The scene that got it banned was later removed from the English dub, but it was badly cut however.
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This edition of A Festival of Postcards is dedicated to LOCOMOTION – hosted by Evelyn at Canadian Family.
My father was a farmer here in Scotland, but Mum's brother lived in Canada. My parents visited every couple of years, and knowing that my Dad was interested in vintage tractors and suchlike, my Uncle introduced him to some "new friends". This resulted in various holidays that my parents took being hi-jacked by Vintage Rallies, visits to museums and lots of "traction engine talk". My mother tolerated this. Just about. Here are the postcards which Dad bought and pinned to his office walls.
I know nothing about these tractors, apart from what is on the rear of the photos:
1 1909 Pioneer 30-60 HP Tractor & 1910 Huber 20-60 HP Steamer
2 1910 Holt 65 HP tractor
3 40-80 Minneapolis made by Minneapolis Threshing Machine Co in 1916 & 30-60 Sawyer-Massey gas tractor
4 A Saskatchewan threshing scene using equipment from the Western Development Museum. This 25-75 J I Case steam engine is operating a large wooden 38-62 Buffalo Pitts threshing machine. Both were originally purchased new in 1911.
5 1920 Canadian 14-28 HP tractor
6 25 HP Traction Engine build by Robert Bell Engine and Thresher Co, Seaforth, Ontario in 1923
7 Manitoba Agricultural Museum – this English gas giant was manufactured at Gainsborough and shipped to the prairies January 1914
8 1912 Hupmobile Touring & 1902 Avery 16 HP Steamer
9 no further info on rear of postcard
10 1897 steam calliope pulled by six belgian horses, owned and operated by Minnie Thomson Memorial, first agricultural museum in Ontario.
11 The man who my mum (affectionately) held responsible for a) Dad finally enjoying holidays abroad and b) Dad buying a Rumely tractor in Canada and having it shipped back to Scotland so that he could restore it to working order in his workshop and take it to Agricultural Shows. The man on the right is Allan Byers, and this photo is of him receiving the Rodgers Trophy for Outstanding Contributions to the Club. I think the man on the left is Dennis who was married to Marge, but I'm not sure – the photo was taken in 1979 at "Steam Era".
Thanks to Allan, Dennis and all the Club members who made my Dad's holidays in Canada fun – he didn't cope with the heat well, and found it difficult being away from the farm overnight, never mind for a fortnight. He loved these postcards and I'm pleased to still have them, although I know nothing of the technicalities. My favourite in his collection was a 3 wheeled John Deere tractor, which featured in my Wedding photos – I didn't realise that my sister would have to spend weeks tinkering with gasket paper and engine parts to get it running for the event. Sorry Nic! 🙂


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Today's PA Primary and the Kagan Confirmation
If Arlen Specter loses his Democratic primary bid to Joe Sestak in Pennsylvania today, Elena Kagan's confirmation hearings may be all the better for it.
Specter is already one of the few members of the Senate Judiciary Committee who takes seriously his duty to ask probing questions rather than offer partisan platitudes. This did not change with his party switch from Republican to Democrat last year and subsequent demotion in SJC rank for the Sotomayor hearings. If Specter loses today, however, don't expect him to be a lame duck on the far end of the table: he may try to use the Kagan hearings as the perfect platform for a public capstone on his career.
This could mean that the Republican who helped sink Bork for saying too much will seek to correct a process that now values nominees who say nothing at all. This could mean that the moderate Senate Republican whose party he stopped recognizing may feel a special duty to speechify over Justice Stevens, who Specter may see as his Supreme Court analog. This could even mean that this time, Specter, with nothing to lose, rather than prod the nominee on her thoughts about cameras in the courtroom, will lead an insurrectionary C-SPAN army over to the Court to install them himself.
Of course, if he loses the primary, he may still run as an Independent, a la Joe Lieberman in 2006. But then again, that may not change anything about what I've already said.
UPDATE: Spector lost. For now, it appears he will not pull a Lieberman. The broken confirmation system better brace itself for an extra special series finale this summer of the Adventures of Snarlin' Arlen.


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The CAER and The University of Akron Sign Master Research Agreement
April 11, 2013
Lynchburg, Virginia – The Center for Advanced Engineering and Research (CAER) this week established a five-year master research agreement with The University of Akron (UA) to work together to sustain and improve the growth of targeted industry clusters in Virginia's Region 2000.
Under the terms of the agreement, UA and the CAER agree to work together in the development of research and educational projects in the targeted area of nuclear energy and in identifying resources needed to implement these plans. The university will provide personnel and expertise to the CAER for administrative, research and educational support services that will benefit the region's high-tech companies. The CAER will provide funding through federal, state and industry sources and assist in managing the research projects with the university.
"With this new agreement we continue to build research capacity and expertise in our target technology sectors," says Bob Bailey, executive director of the CAER. "Having the University of Akron join our team only strengthens our region's assets."
"This partnership will strengthen and expand the College of Engineering's nuclear engineering certificate program by allowing us to offer graduate students new educational and research opportunities using world-class simulators and control rooms," says Dr. Wieslaw K. Binienda, chair of UA's Department of Civil Engineering. "Roughly half of our nuclear engineering students attend part-time while working full-time in the nuclear and power industry, and the benefits of this partnership will directly transfer back to those employers."
The CAER has similar partnerships with the University of Virginia, Virginia Tech, James Madison University and Liberty University's School of Engineering & Computational Sciences (SECS).
As a member of Virginia's Region 2000 Partnership, the CAER is dedicated to building an industry-based research presence in the region, in support of area companies. The CAER creates working relationships between high-tech industries, major R&D centers and universities, and facilitates professional development opportunities for scientists and engineers in the region. Its 30,000 square-foot research and education facility, located in the New London Business and Technology Center in Bedford County, will serve as the region's source for industry innovation in nuclear and wireless technologies. For more information on the CAER visit www.caer.us.
University of Akron
The University of Akron offers more than 300 associate, bachelor's, master's, doctorate and law degree programs – with accreditations by 35 professional agencies. With nearly 30,000 students and $46.7 million in sponsored research awards, UA is among the nation's strongest public universities focused on innovation, entrepreneurship, and investment in community and economic growth. Programs are targeted to diverse groups of learners, including full-time, part-time and on-line students, veterans, and adults returning to the classroom. The distinctive Akron Experience enhances post-graduate success through internships and co-ops, academic research (both undergraduate and graduate), study abroad, on-campus student employment, and service projects.
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Sasha Vujacic's ongoing slump has drawn the ire of Lakers fans — Sunday night he hit his first shot in a game since the conference semi-finals last June against Denver.
But off the court, his game is in top form.
Vujacic and tennis star Maria Sharapova were seen "cuddling" at the recent U2 concert at the Rose Bowl. Apparently the pair are now dating, according to several reports.
Who broke this story? CNBC sports business reporter Darren Rovell. Take that Harvey Levin.
Apparently Vujacic wants a few of those headlines — not to mention paparazzi cameras — that have gone to teammate Lamar Odom since he married Khloe Kardashian. Then there is word Kobe's wife Vanessa may join the cast of The Real Housewives of Orange County. Soon there will be more entertainment reporters than sports reporters in the Lakers locker room.
Lakers coach Phil Jackson deserves some credit for this relationship — he told Vujacic to cut back the shaggy mop haircut look Vujacic had gone with last year. During preseason Jackson quipped, "I think Sasha played with his hair more than he played on the court (last season)." Vujacic showed up to camp with a new look.
Let's hope dating a starlet has the same effect on Vujacic it has on Odom. Known as an inconsistent player, Odom has played with a new level of confidence and comfort this season. His assists are way up, he is initiating the offense for the Lakers in a way he struggled to last year, and his jump shot is much better than it was. Maybe it was winning a ring. Maybe it was a new offseaon training regimen of boxing. Or maybe it was Kardashain that brought Odom around.
Sharapova knows how to win and perform under pressure — she is a former world number one with three grand slam titles under her belt.
The Lakers don't need all that, they just need Sharapova to get Vujacic to be "The Machine" again. Can she teach three-point shooting?
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Mushrooms and Make-believe (part one)
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Here are the first two in a series of seven: Agaricus silvicola (wood mushroom) The true neutral druid, in balance with nature, always steady. Psilocybe semilanceata (liberty cap) The chaotic neutral wild magic sorcerer. (Seems like I got … Continue reading →
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Islanders edge Wild
St. Paul, MN (SportsNetwork.com) - Kyle Okposo scored the go-ahead goal with 5:48 left in the third period to boost the New York Islanders to a 5-4 win over the Minnesota Wild.
Okposo had two goals and an assist, while Thomas Hickey added a goal and a pair of helpers for the Islanders, who received 33 saves from Kevin Poulin.
Nino Niederreiter scored once and added an assist for the Wild. Josh Harding made 26 saves for Minnesota, which lost its fifth in a row.
The Isles scored three times in the final period and rallied from a 3-0 deficit in the second period.
"I think we got going as the game went on," Islanders forward Cal Clutterbuck said. "We started getting some momentum when we started jelling."
Okposo actually scored less than two minutes apart in the third. His first goal came on a slapshot from above the right circle at 12:13 to give the visitors a 4-3 edge.
Justin Fontaine then put home a rebound in front at 13:45, but Okposo was on the doorstep for the go-ahead tally only 27 seconds later after Harding turned aside Thomas Vanek's attempt.
Calvin de Haan was sent off for hooking at 15:02, giving the Wild a golden opportunity to tie the game. Minnesota peppered the New York net, but Poulin, who made 13 saves in the final period, was equal to the task.
Minnesota's Kyle Brodziak took a hooking penalty with 2:31 left to kill any possible momentum for the Wild.
Ryan Suter scored 3:22 into the first period, and the Wild got goals from Jonas Brodin and Niederreiter only 2:20 apart early in the second for the 3-0 cushion.
John Tavares, whose consecutive games played streak ended at 246 games Saturday due to a lower body injury, was credited with New York's first goal 8:45 into the second. The puck deflected off the skate of Wild center Mikko Koivu.
Clutterbuck scored with 62 seconds left in the second and Hickey tied the contest 6:30 into the third off a centering pass from Andrew MacDonald.
"The only way you can win in this league is to play a good 60-minute game and find a way," Koivu said. "It's the only thing you can do."
Game Notes
Minnesota fell to 14-4-2 at home this season ... The Wild fell to 12-3-5 in games decided by one goal ... Koivu had two helpers, giving him 301 for his career. He becomes the first-ever Wild player to register 300 assists all-time ... The Isles have won the last four against the Wild ... It was a return to Minnesota for Clutterbuck, who was traded in the summer for Niederreiter.


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Crawfordsville Mayor John Zumer described the establishment of a new City commerce park as a "leap of faith," and the securing of the first tenant, Polyglot Press, as "a landmark step in the history of Crawfordsville."
Zumer introduced Polyglot Press and its president, Wabash alumnus David Scott '64, to City officials and the media at a press conference on Tuesday. Scott is president of Polyglot, which is in the business of digital publishing and print-on-demand publishing. The firm can take a title from start to finished book in as few as eight hours.
Scott conceived the idea of a publishing company that could quickly produce small quantities of out-of-print and foreign language books about five years ago and got his Philadelphia-based firm up and running a year later. The firm now has over 2,000 titles in various stages of production development and offers via its website approximately 200 titles at any given time.
Mayor Zumer's "leap of faith" in optioning 185 acres of land north of Crawfordsville and getting City Council approval to purchase the first tract of land for a modern commerce park represents a shift in economic development, he said, and brings Crawfordsville into modern times.
"One question lingered," said Zumer. "Who would be our first tenant?"
Scott had shopped around his idea of bringing Polyglot to the state of Indiana for the last year or so. In the process, he met with officials in college and university towns throughout the state. "We hope to be up and in business by the end of this month or early in May," he said.
Polyglot's Crawfordsville office will be temporarily housed on the second floor of National City Bank on Washington Street in downtown Crawfordsville. "We'll start out small and hope to add five to 10 employees per month, most of whom will be involved in editing and proofing, as well as the retouching of graphics of the originally published artwork," Scott said.
While Polyglot's focus is "ultra short-run" printing of out-of-print and foreign language titles, Scott hopes to build the business of data conversion, using optical character recognition software specifically developed for Polyglot's Philadelphia operation. With libraries around the world turning card catalogs into digital files and archiving older titles in digital format, Scott sees a niche his firm can occupy.
Similarly, since Polyglot stores all of its titles digitally, users, primarily college and university professors, can custom build books based on topics, people, or eras. He cited Indiana State University's rapidly expanding Arabic language program as a possible client.
Most recently, Scott worked to publish The Last Judgment and World Religions, a book by Hall Peebles, professor of religion emeritus at Wabash. The book compares "death, judgment, heaven, and hell" from Eastern and Western religious perspectives.
Scott said he hopes that Wabash students and faculty will become involved with Polyglot's Crawfordsville arm, seeing opportunities for students to work on graphics, proofing, editing, and translation. While most texts are electronically scanned with optical character recognition software, much time and effort is spent making sure replication is true to the original form.
Zumer is pleased to have the first tenant of the Crawfordsville Commerce Park, but also sees an added benefit of Scott's connection to Wabash. "Hopefully Wabash students in the future will see Polyglot as an option for employment after their graduation."
Scott studied Spanish as a Wabash undergraduate. It was then that he realized how few foreign language titles are available in this country. He has been working with Gilberto Gomez, a Wabash Spanish professor, to publish a number of Spanish language titles previously unavailable in this country. Gomez has also worked to translate the titles into English.
Scott has also built partnerships with the Lew Wallace Study and Indiana Historical Society. Polyglot is nearing the end of a project in which it has published 13 books written by General Lew and Susan Wallace, complete with original artwork, retouched beyond the quality of the original books.
Scott's seven-year goal is to have published one million titles, a lofty goal as he points out.
Crawfordsville's goal — to fill a modern commerce park with small businesses, start-ups, and high-tech firms — is similarly lofty. But as Zumer pointed out, "We have moved beyond the realm of fantasy to the world of reality" by securing the first business.


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Welcome to the Beta of Visual Studio 11 and .NET Framework 4.5
I'm happy to announce that Visual Studio 11 Beta, Team Foundation Server 11 Beta and .NET Framework 4.5 Beta are now available for download! Please visit the Visual Studio 11 Beta Downloads Page to install the bits today. MSDN Subscribers can access these releases directly from the MSDN Subscriber Download Page.
I've included an overview below of the product enhancements you can expect to see in Visual Studio 11 Beta, and recorded a Channel9 video to demonstrate some of them in action. For a complete list of "What's New", please visit the MSDN Library.
In coordination with the Visual Studio 11 Beta, today Steven Sinofsky announced the Windows 8 Consumer Preview. These bits are now live, and available for download.
Visual Studio 11 Features for Platform Development
Windows 8
Visual Studio 11 Beta improves the developer experience in the IDE through reduction and simplification. You can find more information about the changes on the Visual Studio team blog. Beyond the clean and professional look, the overall environment has been streamlined with simplified toolbars, a lightweight Find dialog, and less tab clutter by previewing files rather than opening them during debugging. It's now easier to manage the environment by rafting tabs on a second monitor, or by searching the IDE for a menu or command. There are a few language-specific additions, such as C++ code snippets and C++/CLI IntelliSense, as well as C++ code quality tools including code coverage, architecture explorer, and layer diagrams. JavaScript tooling support is also vastly improved, providing a first class experience in Visual Studio with breakpoints, brace matching, Go To Definition, and more.
We have heard a lot of great feedback so far on the new user experience for the IDE. I want to thank you for giving us that feedback. With the bits now being live I'd like to ask everyone to install the new version and spend some quality time working on your projects. My personal experience has been that is the best way to get a feeling for the changes. Once you have a chance to use it a few days please do continue to send us feedback based on that hands on experience.
Visual Studio 11 provides first class support for building graphically rich 2D/3D applications. It brings together the ability to debug DirectX graphics, to design and code DirectX shaders (HLSL), and to inspect and manipulate graphics assets (images and models). This is one of the areas I featured in my Developer Preview post, which is available here.
.NET Framework 4.5
In the Common Language Runtime and .NET Framework, there are a number of core improvements around performance, compatibility, garbage collection and other optimizations. There is also significant infrastructure work designed to enable the scenarios described above, such as Metro style app development using C# & VB (which required creating a .NET profile for Metro style apps), and the Async language features for C# & VB (which required creating new Task-returning versions of the .NET asynchronous APIs). TPL Dataflow is a new library in .NET Framework 4.5 for building parallel and concurrent applications. It builds on the Task type that was introduced in .NET 4.0, yet provides solutions for additional problems like agent-based models. Another addition in .NET 4.5 is portable libraries, which is the recommended way to create managed assemblies that can be referenced and run without modification on a variety of target platforms, including Windows 8, Windows Phone, Silverlight, XBOX 360 and .NET. Portable libraries existed previously as an add-in to Visual Studio 2010, and are now included as part of Visual Studio 11. For more information on .NET Framework 4.5 (including MEF, Networking, ASP.NET, EF, WPF, WCF, and WF), please see What's New in the .NET Framework 4.5 Beta. Other good blog resources include: Scott Guthrie, Scott Hanselman, .NET Team, and Base Class Library (BCL) Team.
Business Application Development
LightSwitch development is now available as part of the Visual Studio 11 Beta Professional, Premium and Ultimate installations. There are quite a few LightSwitch enhancements in the Beta release. For one, LightSwitch projects can now access data from any Open Data Protocol (OData) data source, and LightSwitch services are now exposed as OData services that can be used by other applications like PowerPivot. You can also use Active Directory to assign the roles and permissions for different groups using the application. Other LightSwitch improvements in this release include new data types for percent and web address, more control over the formatting for numbers and dates, and the ability to display static text and images. More details are available on the LightSwitch blog.
Visual Studio 11 Features for Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)
Each release since Visual Studio 2005 (when we first introduced ALM tools), we've considered which additional team members we can serve in order to best improve the project results. For example, in the Visual Studio 2010 release we introduced dedicated tooling to help manual testers integrate into the lifecycle alongside their counterparts on the programming team. For the Visual Studio 11 release, we've incorporated the stakeholder and operations roles. We've also provided tools to support agile practices in the team. And finally, we've sought to eliminate waste and improve collaboration across the team, through more frequent and more actionable feedback. Last year, when we disclosed our Visual Studio 11 ALM plans at TechEd, I shared some details regarding our plans in this space.
Lightweight Requirements
One of the first parts of getting a project started correctly is getting the requirements understood. "How many times have you built exactly what a customer asked for but not what they wanted?" When I ask this question I get a lot of smiles and nodding heads; it is a very common problem. We want the stakeholder to be a core part of the development cycle. Just like we want to get constant feedback from PM/development/testing during a scrum process, the feedback from our stakeholder is something we should be able to bring in quickly as well. To help with this we have introduced PowerPoint Storyboarding. PowerPoint Storyboarding is a PowerPoint add-in, and allows the development team to quickly mock up a design. This is a quick and easy way to specify the application requirements, and provides an opportunity for feedback even before the coding begins.
This model makes it very fast and easy to get to the intent of the software you are building and to share it with the customer. Because it is PowerPoint, you can simply view the mock up in slide show mode and even test out screen transitions. If you can get to an agreement quickly on the features and flow, then you can help eliminate wasted time spent actually building what might be the wrong thing.
Agile Development
Agile practices have become mainstream at this point. When I ask an audience who is using a practice like scrum I easily get over 90% of hands. Indeed on our own team we have gotten to that level for the development of Visual Studio and the runtimes. With this release of VS we have added even more support to help your team run the project using scrum.
Editing your project can be done directly in a browser making it easy for all team members to access. With the web access you can groom the product backlog, assign items to sprints, and decompose into user stories and tasks. Each sprint can be planned taking into account the duration and capacity of the team. You can view reports by sprint or by team member capacity to see how the project is tracking, and adjust as necessary. There is also a task board view available, which is ideal for standups, and makes it easy to check in and update on the spot. And of course since everything is backed by TFS, then items can either be retired through the web interface or included as part of a check-in.
There are a few different charts available for reviewing project status, such as the burndown charts and capacity bars, so that you can visualize and evaluate the progress in multiple ways.
As mentioned under Storyboarding, our goal is to include stakeholders (customers) as part of the development cycle. Once we start getting working software, we want to make it possible for stakeholders to provide frequent and actionable feedback. Engineers submit a feedback request through Team Web Access, and the stakeholder receives an email with the request. The email invitation includes a link that launches the new Microsoft Feedback Client, and allows the stakeholder to provide feedback including rich text, images, video and more.
The Feedback Client pins itself to the left side of the screen, making it easy to use the working software and provide notes at the same time. Like the manual testing tools we released with Visual Studio 2010, the Feedback Client will record video and audio as well as the actions the user takes (similar to the one-way mirror user testing we do on the Microsoft campus only easier to get going). The key goal is to get high quality feedback during development rather than having it wait to the very end. This minimizes the amount of re-work helping to bring the project in on time and with better cost.
Testers will enjoy a variety of improvements in this release. Microsoft Test Manager 11 has been enhanced to embrace exploratory testing (sometimes called agile testing). With exploratory testing you can find bugs not often caught with traditional formal test case management. The beauty of Microsoft Test Manager 11 is that even with exploratory testing you still get the same level of rich data capture while you are conducting this type of testing. Therefore, when you do find a bug you can easily file it along with the relevant contextual information to provide developers with insight into what you were doing and the state of the application at the time you discovered the bug. Microsoft Test Manager 11 continues to offer great support for formal test case management as well, and you can blend the two approaches in your test plans.
Lab Management has also been greatly simplified in this release with the consolidation of agents and the introduction of standard environments, which allow you to benefit from build-deploy-test workflows without the dependency on Hyper-V or SCVMM. You can now use VMWare, physical machines, or other virtualization stacks to create your environments in a matter of minutes. Please visit Brian Harry's blog for more information.
Debugging and Quality Tools
With Visual Studio 11, we now provide the ability for you to include additional adapters to support 3rd party unit testing frameworks such as xUnit.net, NUnit, and others. The new Unit Test Explorer will showcase all of the tests across your solution regardless of which testing framework they were written for. Visual Studio 11 will continue to provide support for traditional unit tests written using MSTest, and adds support for writing tests in C++ as well.
IntelliTrace can now be used to collect traces on machines that don't have Visual Studio installed. This means that you can now use IntelliTrace to debug issues that occur on production servers. This was a popular request after Visual Studio 2010, so I'm glad we were able to make it possible in Visual Studio 11.
Another interesting tool that we've added for developers in Visual Studio 11 is code clone analysis, which examines your solution for similar code fragments. After identifying clones, you can make sure to consistently edit them going forward, or better yet, refactor in order to save on future maintenance.
Finally, in Visual Studio 11 we've greatly improved the code review experience. We've included a new Code Review page in Team Explorer to request and manage reviews, as well as an enhanced "Diff" view, which makes it easier to review changes. You can find more information on these in my Developer Preview announcement as well as Brian Harry's blog post on Merge enhancements in TFS 11.
Team Collaboration
Both Team Foundation Server and Team Web Access were significantly revamped in this release. As with the Visual Studio IDE, you'll notice a clean and professional user interface. The first thing you'll see is the redesigned Team Explorer, with a new search box, and with nodes now displayed as distinct pages such as My Work and Pending Changes. Key details from the Build Explorer window also appear more prominently in the new Team Explorer. The My Work page is a useful place to view and manage your "To Do" list. It can also help you suspend and restore the context for specific tasks. The Pending Changes page has been streamlined to remove clutter, and make it easier to work with. Local Workspaces have been added, which make it much easier to work with Team Foundation Server offline. They also make it simpler to work with version-controlled files using 3rd party editors outside of Visual Studio, so that you no longer need to explicitly check out files before editing them elsewhere. For more details on these TFS 11 enhancements, please see Develop Code for a Backlog Item, and Fix a Bug on MSDN, What's New in the VS TFS 11 Dev Preview by the ALM Team, or The New Team Explorer in TFS 11 by Brian Harry.
"Go Live" License
With the Visual Studio 11 Beta milestone here, we are happy to be one step closer to the final release. Visual Studio 11 Beta meets our "Go Live" quality bar for pre-release software. Therefore we are recommending it for use in production, and supporting it as "Go Live" release. For more information on the "Go Live" terms and how to get support if you need it, please visit the Visual Studio 11 Beta website.
Upgrade & Compatibility
We expect that many of you will want to try out your existing Visual Studio 2010 SP1 solutions on Visual Studio 11 Beta. The compatibility improvements in Visual Studio 11 will make it easier to work with your existing Visual Studio assets, without doing any "upgrades" of project files. In the majority of cases, you can use Visual Studio 11 and also continue collaborating on projects with your teammates using Visual Studio 2010 SP1. More details are available in the MSDN Library. (Note: This kind of "roundtripping" is supported between Visual Studio 2010 SP1 and Visual Studio 11. Projects from previous versions like Visual Studio 2008, will need to be upgraded to Visual Studio 11.)
Those of you who would like to start preparing for TFS 11 may want to review the Team Foundation Server Upgrade and Planning guides. You can find these and other Visual Studio 11 readiness materials on the Visual Studio ALM Rangers solutions page.
Start Coding
We've collected a range of resources to help you get up and running with the Beta. Be sure to visit our Dev Centers and related websites for the latest reference materials, blog feeds, and more.
Here are some additional blogs to watch for Beta announcements: Somasegar, Brian Harry, ALM & TFS, Visual Studio, BlendInsider, Building Windows 8, Windows 8 app developer, and Windows Store for developers.
Send Feedback
We can't wait to hear from you, and learn more about your experience using the Beta. Here are some ways to connect with us:
- Ask a question on the Visual Studio or Windows forums
- File a bug on the Visual Studio, LightSwitch, or Blend Connect sites (or with the Visual Studio Feedback Tool)
- Submit a suggestion on UserVoice
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Large-scale real estate development in low-income neighborhoods is a major source of municipal-level conflict in the United States. One way developers and communities have tried to resolve these conflicts is through negotiating Community Benefits Agreements (CBAs). In theory, these agreements are a great idea, but Rebecca Economos (MCP '11) looked at five New York City-based case studies and found troubling results. She claims the ad-hoc nature of the negotiations leads to confusion and wildly different outcomes for different communities. Rebecca presents a new model for benefits negotiations that includes six key components: 1) Community inclusion in the RFP or project visioning process; 2) Establishment of formal exactions; 3) Community representation; 4) Community impact analysis; 5) Fiscal accountability; 6) Structured implementation.
Economos claims that, based on her research, if this model were formalized and implemented, it would address the majority of the concerns raised by the stakeholders she studied. Read more in her thesis, "Rethinking Community Benefits Agreements."


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No I'm not being nasty, I really think Peggy was a dog and here's why. A few years ago I bought this uniface medal which is gold clad copper and engraved "Joe Goldman Jewelers Gold Medal Award to "Peggy" in recognition of service to mankind Presented by Wisconsin Humane Society Milwaukee, Wisconsin" This tells us that Goldman sponsored the award and let the Wisconsin Humane Society award it as they saw fit. Goldman died in Jan. 1953 after more than 50 years as a Milwaukee Jeweler and had three stores in Milwaukee including one between 1st and 2nd street on Wisconsin Avenue which meant that he was a high end jeweler. When a medal is named only to a first name one must assume that it was awarded to a CIA agent or more likely a pet animal. Since it was awarded for service to mankind I would assume that it was awarded to a dog rather that a cat for obvious reasons. (Sorry Garfield) Goldman was in business under his own name since 1905 so I would guess this medal to be after that date and before WWII based on looks.


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"Her pain can involve 1 to 4 limbs at a time, but never more than that."
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Is she a cephalopod?
"Her pain can involve 1 to 4 limbs at a time, but never more than that."
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Thanks goodness! I am not sure even YOU have been schooled in that type of pain managaement!
KK in OK
- December 30, 2009 at 7:34 AM
- Ron said...
The fun never stops at Dr Grumpy's Laugh and Limb Emporium. Keep up the good fight.
- December 30, 2009 at 8:30 AM
- Maha said...
Oh well we wouldn't want any more than 4 limbs involved at a time now would we?
Work has been getting in the way of adequate blogging but I've been catching up on some of your old posts and well I'm crying because I've been laughing so hard - especially after reading about your kids being naked on the trampoline!
- December 30, 2009 at 3:09 PM
maybe they think you're a tree surgeon.
- December 31, 2009 at 10:52 AM
- student dr. blaze said...
lmfao! it must be that damn phantom pain rearing its ugly head again! just don't tell the other patients...i can picture a stampede of patients arriving for medications to fix the pain within the realm of their auras....
- December 31, 2009 at 12:41 PM
- Loren Pechtel said...
Perhaps this is a patient with an extra limb? (Admittedly, I've never heard of someone having an extra limb that's more than just a nuisance.)
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National Mar 3, 2011
PIA, Pictometry add flood hazard maps to online aerial images
GLENMONT, N.Y.-The partnership between Pictometry International and Professional Insurance Agents of Connecticut, New Hampshire, New Jersey and New York State has been enhanced by the addition of flood hazard maps to the web-based aerial-photography tool Pictometry Online, which is available to PIA members at a discounted rate.
"This new feature incorporates up-to-date boundaries of flood hazard zones into all the multiple aerial perspectives the service provides," said Diane Fowler, executive director of PIACT, PIANH, PIANJ and PIANY. "It is both extremely accurate and an enormous time-saver for agents."
Pictometry Online is accessible anywhere one has an Internet connection, and provides access to a vast database of high-resolution aerial images and flood maps updated faster than even FEMA itself. Its images and tools allow insurance agents to perform detailed site measurements with ease, before even approaching a prospect. In complex cases, such as a property straddling two or more flood zones, an agent will be able to zoom in and see clearly where the structure lies on the parcel and which zone it occupies. Without ever leaving ones desk, its possible to save an insured the cost of a high-risk flood policy when Pictometrys maps reveal only an unused section of the parcel, far from any structures, is at high risk.
Some key features of Pictometry Online include:
- Up to 20 different property views, with zoom-in capability up to 1,000 percent.
- Accurate measurements of square footage, distances (to water, coastlines, exposures and hazards), height, area, pitch/slope/area of a roof and bearing.
- Ability to add detailed, annotated photos to submissions or reports.
As result, agents can easily collect all external property information necessary for ACORD forms, usually including construction type, obtain information needed to calculate ITV and replacement costs, confirm measurement data to limit errors and omissions exposures and use parcel data to identify the owner of properties for prospecting purposes.
"This is truly an advantageous tool for agents, and we hope PIA members take advantage of the discounted price available to them," said Fowler. "PIA will continue to seek unique, useful benefits like Pictometry Online to make the jobs of independent insurance agents easier and more efficient."
For more information, visit www.pictoinsurance.com or call (866) 643-4261, and make sure to reference PIA.
PIANY, PIANJ, PIACT and PIANH is a partnership of four state trade associations representing independent insurance agencies, brokerages and their employees throughout their respective states.


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The 2007 Road Tour '32 - Part 3
Part 3: Body Prep, Paint, and a Classic Flame Job
As is the norm with the Road Tour buildups, a bunch of chores have been scratched off the to-do list for the '07 car in an amazingly short period of time. Leonard Lopez at Dominator Street Rods finished up the Roadster Shop chassis, then it, and the Brookville three-window body, were shipped off to Rick Valdez at Creative Images for one of his signature ultra-smooth paint jobs.
After the body arrived at Creative Images, the floor underwent some modifications to accommodate the transmission and rearend, various brackets were built, and the hood and grille shell were installed. And while all those jobs were well executed, it's the TLC the sheetmetal received and the fabulous finish that covers it all that wows everyone who sees it; this car proves that the secret to a great paint job is in the preparation-the time spent block sanding really paid off.
Once the primered body was deemed ready for paint, Rick covered it with black PPG basecoat; then, after color sanding, Art Himsl was called in to apply the familiar flames. And when we say familiar, we mean it-any similarity to the flames on the original Tom McMullen roadster is purely intentional. So, how similar can two flame jobs be, you ask? The same paper pattern Art made for the recent restoration of the McMullen highboy was used to lay out the flames on the Road Tour '32. With the flames taped off, Rick shot them with the classic combination of yellow and red, and then the entire car was covered in clear. Color sanding and buffing were the last steps in the superb finish.
With paint and flames now crossed off the to-do list, the Deuce was off to Dominator once more to have the engine installed. But while the goal for the Road Tour program is to build a reliable rod with readily available components, an element of show biz is part of the process as well. The unfinished coupe was scheduled to make its first public appearance at the Grand National Roadster Show in Pomona. The three-window was very well received by the public, and while there was still much to be done, progress on the project didn't come to a complete stop while it was on display. Herb Martinez 'striped the flames with a room full of rodders looking over his shoulder.
Our RT car is well on its way to being on the road, but there's still some cool construction stuff coming your way, so stick around. In the meantime, take a look at how far it's come since last month.


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