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January 16, 2014
By ELIZABETH HSING-HUEI CHOU City News Service
Los Angeles is the safest it has been in 65 years, with overall crime rates falling for an 11th straight year, police Chief Charlie Beck said on Monday January 13. Beck was joined by Mayor Eric Garcetti in announcing that there were 251 murders in the city in 2013 — a 16.1 percent drop from the previous year and a 34.6 percent drop from 2008. Part one crimes, which include both property and violent crimes, fell by 5.2 percent to 100,521, which represents the lowest level since 1949 — based on numbers adjusted for population — and is the lowest since 1956 in terms of the raw numbers.
The last year Los Angeles had less than 251 homicides was 1966. Also within the violent crimes category, robberies took a 12.5 percent dive, from 8,983 to 7,863; aggravated assaults dropped by 9.1 percent, from 8,329 to 7,570; and the number of rapes reported dropped 31.7 percent, from 936 to 639. Violent crimes overall dropped 12 percent in 2013, down to 16,323 from 18,547. Property crimes saw a 3.7 percent decline overall, from 87,478 to 84,198. Burglaries went down by 5.6 percent, auto theft by 6.4 percent, and larceny by 2.5 percent.
Gang crime fell by 17.6 percent, with gang-related homicides dropping by 9.4 percent. While he is "proud" of the statistics and the department's work in helping reduce crime rates, Garcetti said this was also an occasion to recognize the "many victims of crime."
"Each one of those 251 murders, homicides, is a person, is a family (member), is a community (member), so our goal must be to try to get as close to zero on all of these crimes as we can," he said.
Garcetti mentioned "even more ambitious plans" to improve the crime rate.
"Together with this chief, we're going to continue to push crime down in every L.A. neighborhood," he said.
Garcetti did not name specific neighborhoods, nor provide statistics on each of them, but said there are still "pockets that are too violent," where there are still "too many gunshots at night for our Angelenos, and too many tragedies we still have to wake up and read about in the morning."
Beck declined to discuss specific neighborhoods, but said that each of the city's four bureaus — Central, South, Valley and West —saw drops in overall crime.
The drop in crime rates is "no accident," Beck said, attributing much of the success to police efforts to work with community members.
"Community policing is not just a phrase in the Los Angeles police department," he said. "Building strong communities, building healthy communities, building community efficacy, building communities who can see themselves as problem solvers, is what makes the difference."
Beck said progress had been made in reducing property crimes — such as burglary, motor vehicle theft and larceny — that also involve violence.
"Property crime, when combined with violent crime, is the most difficult to affect," he said. "It is also the type of crime that is most likely to affect you."
Garcetti announced that Eileen Decker, a public safety deputy in former Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's administration, agreed to stay on to head up public safety and homeland security policy under Garcetti. Decker joined Villaraigosa's staff in 2009 and stayed on with Garcetti to assist in the mayoral transition. The mayor said Decker's "experience in helping to guide these historic drops in crime, as well as her aggressive commitment to fire department reform and emergency preparedness and homeland security, make her the clear choice" for the job.
Garcetti reiterated his concern about the number of police officers dropping to about 9,900 at the end of 2013, falling just under the departments' goal of 10,000 and below "what is acceptable to me." Garcetti dismissed concerns the LAPD was having trouble attracting police candidates because of salaries. He blamed the dip in the number of officers on the pace of background checks, saying that about 200 recruits were waiting to start police academy training.
"There are plenty of candidates," but they are "backlogged right now due to background investigations," he said. "So we have expedited that with the personnel department. We just processed 20 of them, and I think there's another 200 of them that are waiting to move forward so that we can have recruit classes."
A new class of LAPD recruits will start at the end of January, and Garcetti said he talked to Beck about training more officers. In a proposed budget approved by the Police Commission recently, police said the department was unable to attract enough qualified candidates. According to a report, the problems "stem from the fact that the city is competing against other local law enforcement agencies that are now hiring (and) ... offering starting salaries as high as 20 percent greater than the city."
The report said LAPD deployment was 10,001 sworn officers by the end of fiscal 2012-13 but dropped to 9,911 by Nov. 2. The proposed police budget for 2014-15 is $1.4 billion, a 7.9 percent increase from the previous year. Labor negotiations with the police union and other employee unions are expected to begin in the coming months, with contracts set to start expiring in June.


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It is difficult to understand how any aspect of genealogy could be in the least bit controversial. The subject matter yes, the discipline, not so easy. But notwithstanding the non-controversial nature of genealogy as a discipline, the FamilySearch Research Wiki is loaded with controversy. I teach classes many times a week and the classes where we discuss the Wiki are always the most lively. There is a huge amount of skepticism that anything like a "wiki" could possibly work.
All wikis are to a major degree collaborative and despite the huge amount of media emphasis on collaborative interaction on the Internet, I feel that most people do not believe that collaboration works. It may be one thing to accept input on a document from peers or superiors in a commercial work group, but the average computer user is not used to being corrected. In one instance on the FamilySearch Research Wiki, one of my associates made a contribution to the Wiki. Unfortunately, he did not identify himself by entering any information into his User page, so I did not know who he was. The information entered needed to be altered slightly. When I mentioned the change later, he admitted that he had entered the information but since then he has not contributed to the Wiki. No one likes to be told they are wrong and correcting entries is a form of telling people they are wrong.
So if this is the mind set, how can a wiki possibly work? The idea of collaborative documents, including wikis, only work when the individuals involved turn over "ownership" of the document (or wiki page) to the community and stop thinking in terms of personal ownership.
Cooperatives, such as buying co-ops, farm co-ops in some form or another have an extremely long and involved history in our society. Co-ops where people pool their resources to obtain certain communal advantages are very viable and long-living entities. If you think of a wiki as a type of co-op, the idea becomes less foreign and more viable. A wiki is an information co-op.
The fact is that wikis do work. The concern that the information will ultimately be corrupted or inaccurate is not realized in practice. Wikis, for the most part, are self correcting. Where they do not work well is with information dealing with issues with a significant amount of controversy. If the Research Wiki dealt with family and individual information there would be much more difficulty in coming to a consensus. But if the topic is cemeteries in Ohio, there will not be a lot of disagreement over the content. But this non-controversial nature of the content does not diminish the overall controversy of the wiki idea itself.
If you have concerns about the viability of the wiki idea, I suggest you get involved in the wiki community. Try making some changes and see what happens. With the FamilySearch Research Wiki, you just might get a comment or two, but nothing else.
Friday, March 4, 2011
The good, the bad and the wiki
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I've been very involved in the wiki and besides the comments I've received, I've also gained a lot of new friends. As we work together to build and improve the content, we really get to know each other. It's actually very fun!!!ReplyDelete
Great post. I have been edited on the FamilySearch wiki. Everytime it has been a legitimate correction. But I agree there is a pervasive defensive attitude that takes us two steps back.ReplyDelete
Excellent post! I agree completely. Genealogy can be a giant collaboration if done right. Verifying research helps everyone. If someone told me that one of my conclusions were wrong and could provide the information to show me my error, I wouldn't be upset, I'd probably be delighted and dancing around!ReplyDelete
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The 2012 schedule is now on the Library Events calendar. Workshops are 2 days in length, and will take place on 29-30 March, 31 May - 1 June, and 22-23 November. If there is high demand we'll schedule more. Contact the UTS: Graduate Research School to book a place.


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The Newcastle Knights have sacked Russell Packer after the NRL player was sentenced to two years' jail for a drunken assault.
The club issued a statement on Monday saying Packer had been formally advised his contract had been terminated, effective immediately.
The former Warriors forward was last week handed a two-year jail sentence, which he is appealing, after being found guilty of assaulting a man in Sydney last November.
"There was never any doubt we would terminate Russell's employment following Monday's sentence however we had a process," Knights chief executive Matt Gidley said.
"As we stated from the beginning and when we stood Russell down, first and foremost it was a legal process.
"At our first opportunity to meet with Russell, we advised him in person of our decision."
According to the statement the Knights "will continue its duty of care to ensure the welfare of Russell's partner and two young children, who relocated to Newcastle last month".
Newcastle coach Wayne Bennett said it was a difficult time for all parties involved.
"As a club, we knew this was a no-win situation and we accepted that," said Bennett.
"We had a responsibility to handle this situation in a manner mindful of his young family, the club, its sponsors, members and the community as a whole.
"Until Sunday, no person including family members, had been allowed access to Russell.
"To reiterate, Russell acted independently on the night of the incident and was stood down as soon as the facts were established.
"We are all extremely disappointed and have never condoned Russell's actions, however he still had a right to be informed of our decision first.
"Sponsors, corporate partners, members and fans who have supported the administration throughout this process knew we were doing what was right, despite criticism."
The NRL had earlier refused to register Packer's three-year contract with the Knights after the Integrity Unit investigated the incident.
A petition calling on Packer to be sacked had gained more than 10,000 signatures by Monday morning.
Knights supporter Terry Powick, whose best friend Scott Snodgrass was killed by a "coward's punch" in Coffs Harbour last year, said he launched the petition to take a stand against alcohol-fuelled violence.
"Scott was just 34 years old and had four young kids," Mr Powick said. "It seems every day we pick up a newspaper or watch the news and we hear about another case of alcohol-fuelled violence that has seriously injured or taken someone's life."
"The Knights are my team. I love following them every season -- but hearing Wayne Bennett defending Packer made me ashamed to be a fan."
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This is the beginning of a blog which might make it easier for me to communicate with the many branches of my fur trade family -- the Scottish Anderson-Setons who had four brothers and one cousin in the fur trade of the Hudson's Bay Company, and the Scottish and French-Canadian Birnie-Beaulieus who had (at least) three generations in the fur trade of the North West Company. The Anderson-Setons are spread around the world; for the most part the descendents of James Birnie and Charlot Beaulieu (and Charlot's sister, Josephine, who married Joseph Rondeau and ended up in St. Paul) have remained in North America.
For those of you who are Anderson-Setons: you might look for the book, "The Unfortunate Ship; the Story of the H.M. Troopship Birkenhead," (George C. Harrop & Co. Ltd), which has lots of information about Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Seton of the 74th Highlanders, who drowned when the Birkenhead struck a rock off South Africa in 1852. (Note: not everything on this blog will be about the fur trade, but it will be about families who had members in the fur trade.) I found photocopied pages of this book in the Annie M. Angus files (PABC), but they were waterdamaged and I could not order copies. Also in her files I found another A.C. Anderson manuscript, apparently published in the 1871 Geological Magazine, and titled: "On changes of climate and Extinction of mammalia," sent to Prof. Rupert Jones in a letter dated Dec. 10th 1870. I also discovered that Annie Angus learned that James (A) gave A.C. of Cathlamet power of attorney in matters connected with the firm of Allen, Lowe & Co. of San Francisco, to assume a share of their business. In a November 1855 letter to Governor Simpson James (A) said that A.C. could invest money in the company with an 18-20% annual interest (3% per month).
My manuscript (the biography of A.C. Anderson) is almost completed and ready for submission to publisher -- again. Every time I complete this project the book is better. My sister and I are planning a quick trip through the interior of British Columbia, following the brigade trails around the province. I should get some excellent photos, and we'll have fun, too. This summer I'll also find out if the Royal B.C. Museum has more A. C. Anderson artifacts and will get photos of them too. Next week I am travelling to Vancouver to view a black & white copy of A.C. Anderson's 1867 map which was owned by R.C. Harris -- a fur trade historian/geographer. Harris wrote notes all over the map and I will discover if he learned anything important that I do not already know. I hope so. I look forward to learning something new.
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Symposium will be held Sept. 7 to 10 in Dallas
Congresswoman Kay Granger (R-Texas) will deliver the keynote address during the 23rd Annual WateReuse Symposium to be held Sept. 7 to 10 at the Hilton Anatole in Dallas. Granger, who represents the Forth Worth area in the Congress, is a member of the House Appropriations Committee and is well informed on water issues.
Granger will be joined in the opening session by Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert, WateReuse Association President Richard Atwater, Water Environment Federation (WEF) President-Elect Rebecca West and American Water Works Association (AWWA) Vice-President Jerald W. Stevens. Texas Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst has been invited to deliver a second keynote address.
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RTC Interview: Seth Davis On College Basketball, His New Show, & FannovationPosted by nvr1983 on January 29th, 2010
Last week, RTC spoke with Seth Davis of Sports Illustrated and CBS to talk about a variety of topics on college basketball and a new promotion for Coke Zero. This is not the first time we have spoken with Seth as we interviewed him last March for the launch of his book "When March Went Mad" about the 1979 championship game between Magic Johnson and Larry Bird. Before the interview officially began, Seth expressed his displeasure about not getting linked every day in the Morning Five. We would give you the transcript of that discussion, but Chinese government regulations prohibit us from doing so.
Ed. Note: This interview took place last week, but due to some transcribing issues we are just putting it up now.
RTC: I guess we will start with your alma mater. Duke is looking strong again this year, but is different than they usually look as they are not relying on the outside shooting as much as a complete game. A lot of people have been talking up Duke. Do you think this is the year they can make it back to the Final Four?


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Earthquake overview : A very strong earthquake occurred near Iguala Mexico at 07:47 PM local time. Luckily the hypocenter was at a depth of 64.7 km.
"I Felt it" Reports --> see below + Let us know "how you felt this earthquake"
To read the full story as it happened, we advise our readers to start at the lower part of the page (earthquake data).
This article has been written with the collaboration of Carlos Robles, Mexico
Keep this page open or return regularly as we will be back with more details when they become available.
Update 11/12 - 17:23 UTC
- The Civil Defense undersecretary from the Guerrero province has declared that the official death toll is 2 (updated from 3), 4 people have been injured and 50 houses have been damaged.
Update 11/12 - 13:23 UTC
- As could be expected after such a powerful earthquake, a number of aftershocks have been reported so far.
- The picture at right shows the damaged van of the unlucky driver who lost his life during this earthquake. We do not know the exact circumstances but it appears that he was hit by one of the heavy rocks on the ground. 2 women inside the van were more lucky as the far heavier rocks were blocked by the roof of the van. The women were injured.
Update 11/12 - 12:06 UTC
The death toll remains at 3 and will probably and hopefully not increase anymore.
All the fatalities reported have been in the state of Guerrero.
The Mexico City DF (Federal District) reported a SALDO BLANCO, which means that there were NO injuries and/or fatalities.
- At least 13.2 million people must have felt the earthquake
- The deep hypocenter or focal depth is the main reason why this very strong earthquake did not claim more victims.
- Based on what we know right now, we can call it a lucky escape.
- The video below shows the shaking while a TV soap was being recorded. We think that this video was recorded in Mexico City, at least 150 km from the epicenter. The video clearly shows the duration of the shaking (official reports are mentioning 47 seconds, but this might have been the case closer to the epicenter).
Update 09:06 UTC :
A third death has occurred in the northern region of Guerrero, where a rock fell onto a driver.
Thus we have had 1 death via structural failure, and 2 via rockfalls.
In Chilpancingo, several houses and businesses were damaged, and the Cathedral of the Assumption of Mary has a serious crack in one of the towers.
Civil Protection has continued to monitor damage, mainly in Zumpango del Rio, where the epicenter occurred. Helicopters are flying over for more reports, while people are gradually returning inside their buildings in a city that is ready to receive thousands of pilgrims for the annual celebration of the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
Update 08:34 UTC :
The death toll from this earthquake remains at 2. An 11 year old boy was killed when the roof of his house fell on him, and a rock fall caused the death of a motorist. As yet these are the only reports of deaths. Injuries have occurred in many locations from falling structures, objects and landslides.
Update 08:34 UTC :
The epicenter region has been hit by many earthquakes in the past 110 years according to CATDAT - here are just some of the damaging earthquakes within 100km of the epicenter. Chilpancingo has experienced damage on average every 30 years.
Date Magnitude Lat/Long No. of fatalities
1899 7.5Ml 17.1,-100.5 Chilpancingo damage
16/01/1902 7.3Ml 17.6,-99.5 300
6/10/1937 6.5Ml 17.3,-99.3 0
10/01/1944 7Ml 18.1,-100.6 0
11/05/1962 7.3Mw 17.18,-99.642 4
19/05/1962 6.7Ms 17.009,-99.763 30
30/11/1962 5.1Ml 17.6,-99.7 1
6/07/1964 7.2mB 18.193,-100.509 78
2/07/1968 5.7mB 17.519,-100.259 1
7/06/1976 6.4Mw 17.378,-100.691 0
13/04/2007 6Ml 17.302,-100.198 0
Update 08:11 UTC :
The shaking that occurs in the soft soil (clay basin) of Mexico City is often amplified many times from similar earthquakes, and this could be the reason why we have seen damaged buildings in Mexico City despite the expected low ground accelerations due to the distance from the epicenter. Mexico City was originally built on a lake, which accounts for the soft alluvial soils that magnify ground motion.
Update 08:06 UTC : The death toll remains at 2.
The seismological information shows a major difference between where the Mexican Seismological Service thinks the epicenter is, and where the USGS thinks the hypocenter is. Over 30km!
6.5 magnitude from UNAM (SSN), with 58km depth. 17.84N, 99.98W.
6.5 magnitude from USGS, with 64km depth. 18.04N, 99.80W.
This will therefore make a huge difference as to where the destruction in villages may have occurred. Of course we will need to wait for more information.
Now some accelerations from various stations -
Station Acceleration, g
Acapulco 0.0168
Cuernavaca 0.005
Zaragoza, D.F. 0.0103
Tlacotal, D.F. 0.0105
Chapultepec, D.F. 0.0147
Coyoacán, D.F. 0.0105
Unidad Kennedy, D.F. 0.0063
Generally these accelerations do not lead to major damage.
At the epicentre however, the accelerations would have been much higher, which is why we are seeing collapsed roofs, walls and other damage to structures.
Update 05:46 UTC : We will have to wait another 8 to 10 hours to find out whether the current fatality number will remain at 2. The remote villages will be visited by the emergency services early tomorrow morning (local time) as they have not yet been counted in the current statistics.
Update 05:13 UTC : The seismological service said that the shaking lasted 47 seconds.
Update 05:13 UTC : There are NO reports of damage in Pueblo.
Update 04:56 UTC : The epicenter has been located in Zumpango del Río according to the Mexican seismological agency. Zumpagno del Rio is only 15 km from Chilpancingo, the city where the readers are reporting from. Zumpagno del Rio has a population of 4,543 people. Chilpancingo has a population of 166,796 people!
A reader reports from Chilpancingo, Guerrero (severe shaking indicates) : Chilpanccingo, Guerrero reports 3 deaths.
My husband and I took our 6 year old to play at a local Burger King. At first the quake started slowly but kept growing in strength. We ran to the plastic play complex and saw that our daughter was alone at the very top level. We started screaming frantically at her to get down and out. At this point one of the big glass lamps crashed inches away from my husband's foot. The lights went out and we were ecstatic to find our daughter collectedly coming down after having read the instructions for the emergency exits posted inside the play area!
We felt as if we were living through a Japanese horror movie. Not surprised at all that deaths are being reported. Very pleased to see police and ambulances mobilized right away!
ER : Chilpancingo is about 62 km from the epicenter?
Update 04:41 UTC : Mexican authorities have told the press that severe aftershocks are almost excluded.
Update 04:29 UTC : 3 houses have collapsed in Guerrero. It is now 10:29 in Mexico and Civil Defense emergency teams have to work in the dark.
Update 04:02 UTC : Unfortunately a second person has been killed. Summary of both fatalities :
- The earthquake caused the death of a man when his roof collapsed in the small city of Iguala, said the Civil Protection of Guerrero.
- In the highway that connects the state of Guerrero with the capital there were landslides and a rock fall took place over a car killing the occupant.
Update 03:50 UTC : A lot of tourists residing along the Acapulco coast will have felt this earthquake
Important Update 03:43 UTC : Mexican TV has just reported that unfortunately at least 1 person has been killed in Guerrero.
Update : Aftershocks can be expected (some M 5 or plus)
Update : Carlos reports that :
- 3 walls collapsed in Mexico city.
- There were 3 water leaks in Mexico city.
- A building fell onto another in Mexico city. (This is the very damaged building from the update below.)
There isn't any information from the cities near the epicenter at the moment, only from the capital.
Update : There are 2 damaged buildings in Mexico city (One is very damaged).
There are some water and gas leaks reports.
There was a wall collapse.
Update : USGS has revised the magnitude from 6.7 to 6.5. The Mexican seismological service reports 6.8
Update : This is a subduction earthquake where an oceanic plate glides below the North American plate. The depth of 64 km is perfectly normal for this kind of earthquake.
Update 02:59 UTC (1 hour 12 minutes after the earthquake) :
Carlos reports that :
- No damage is reported in Mexico City
- The earthquake has been updated to M 6.8
- Power has been restored in some areas (we had not written yet that power was lost in some areas)
- NO more injured people have been reported (after 1 hour 13 minutes)
Update : Some Cell phone services are no longer working.
Update : Carlos reports that the website of the Mexican Seismological Service is down.
Update : People from Mexico City are reporting in big numbers that they are OK but also that they have felt a serious shaking. Mexico City is located at 166 km from the epicenter.
Update : Our QuakeSOS iPhone application has only received I AM SAFE messages from registered users.
Update : The theoretical models are contradicting each other, but please keep in mind that it normally takes several hours until a good estimate of the damage and injuries can be made.
Update : WAPMERR, the theoretical damage engine, has calculated that fatalities are possible and that several thousand people might have been injured.
Update : People are on the streets out of fear of aftershocks. TV reports that they are calm.
Update : Mexican Civil protection is reporting power failures in some areas.
Update : 1 person has been reported injured, by a roof collapse, in Tuxpan, Guerrero.
Update : According to the "I Felt It" reports close to the epicenter a max. VI MMI has been reported = strong shaking. Normally VI MMI will give at max. slight damage.
Update : All the data below are indicating that this earthquake will have frightened a lot of people but few will have sustained damage or injuries.
Update : EMSC Europe reports a magnitude of 6.7 at a depth of 61 km - The Mexican seismological agency reports a magnitude of 6.8 at a depth of 61 km.
Update : Based on the theoretical damage model from USGS only 424,000 people will have experienced a VI MMI shaking. This is exceptionally good for such a strong earthquake. It also means that there will probably be limited damage
Update : Although the numbers look frightening, the intermediate depth of 64.9 km will greatly weaken the impact.
Update : The earthquake has been felt over hundreds of kilometers.
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"I Felt It" reports as received by Earthquake-Report.com
Estado : very strong shaking what and where was it
Mexico City : Strong shaking indicated
Puebla : Strong shaking indicated
Chilpanccingo : My husband and I took our 6 year old to play at a local Burger King. At first the quake started slowly but kept growing in strength. We ran to the plastic play complex and saw that our daughter was alone at the very top level. We started screaming frantically at her to get down and out. At this point one of the big glass lamps crashed inches away from my husbands foot. The lights went out and we were ecstatic to find our daughter collectedly coming down after having read the instructions for the emergency exits posted inside the play area! We felt as if we were living through a Japanese horror movie. Not surprised at all that deaths are being reported. Very pleased to see police and ambulances mobilized right away!
Most important Earthquake Data:
Magnitude :
6.7 6.5
UTC Time : Sunday, December 11, 2011 at 01:47:26 UTC
Local time at epicenter : Saturday, December 10, 2011 at 07:47:26 PM at epicenter
Depth (Hypocenter) : 64.9 km
Geo-location(s) :
42 km (26 miles) SW of Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico
56 km (34 miles) ESE of Arcelia, Guerrero, Mexico
62 km (38 miles) NNW of Chilpancingo, Guerrero, Mexico
Links to important maps
USGS Did You Feel It Map
Google satellite map showing the epicenter and the surrounding area.
Historic earthquakes map
Seismic hazard map
Shaking map
Focal mechanism report
Human impact map
GDACS earthquake report
GDACS tsunami report
QuakeSOS+ and QuakeSOS free are iPhone applications developed by Armand Vervaeck, the founder of Earthquake Report. The Application simplifies immediate group communication to friends and family members (with your exact GPS location) and is feeding the users with Earthquake Report news. The 0.99 US$ QuakeSOS+ version will support the activities of SOS Earthquakes.
Earthquake-Report.com headlines on twitter
@OnlyQuakeNews : Get all the headlines of our earthquake-report.com articles + regular updates on ongoing events
@QuakeSOS : earthquake-report.com news + automatic earthquake notifications of USGS earthquakes of M 4.0 or higher with emphasis to earthquakes in the America's and the Pacific Ocean sphere (4 and up) and a lot of the rest of the world (5 and up). This account was created for our QuakeSOS and QuakeSOS+ iPhone applications
@ShakingEarth : earthquake-report.com news + automatic earthquake notifications of EMSC earthquakes of M 4.0 or higher with emphasis to earthquakes in European and Asian / Middle East sphere (4 and up) and a lot of the rest of the world (5 and up). This account was originally created to stimulate our Facebook account
@QuakeMaps : earthquake-report.com news with mapping notifications of ALL earthquakes M 3.0 and higher from all over the world via EMSC and USGS. This account was created for our http://www.quake-maps.com website
I did feel it – Ik heb het gevoeld – Το έκανα αισθάνεται –Yo lo he sentido – 我的确感到了 – 私はそれを感じていました- Ich habe es gefühlt – Bunu hissediyorum yaptı – لم أشعر أنه


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1. Re: Mavenization and snapshot dependenciesjim.ma May 10, 2009 11:33 PM (in response to asoldano)
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I see we currently depend on snapshot versions of the maven-site-plugin and cobertura-maven-plugin. Is there a reason for using the snapshots instead of the latest released versions there? I think it would be better to refer to non-snapshot versions before releasing 1.0.1.
It is because there are some issues in the non-snapshot version. The cobertura release plugin can not inject the probe code in the integration module . It is failed to generate code coverage report.
The release site plugin also has some issues. I remembered it can not generate the correct index.html and links to the other module correctly . But the site snapshot plugin fixed some of these issues and not all of them .
2. Re: Mavenization and snapshot dependenciesasoldano May 12, 2009 4:51 AM (in response to asoldano)
OK, thanks.


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The Sacramento Day Trippers is a travel organization that travels all around Northern California to wineries, festivals, local events, theater, and more. There are several sub divisions that include NYC trip and International Trips. The business is hosted through meetup and is owned and operated by Grady O Bryant .
Day Trippin' Meet Sacramento's King of Day Trips: Grady O'Bryant
Grady O'Bryant never flies solo. Part travel junkie, part entrepreneur, part social butterfly, he's helped thousands of people get out of their houses and their shells to explore new places together.
"I just love getting people together for travel. Everything's more fun as a group. Plus, with someone else handling the details, people can just relax and enjoy the journey."
Always on the lookout for new ways to help people enjoy themselves, O'Bryant created Sacramento Day Trippers in 2008 to take advantage of the city's proximity to "the good life". The group's 2,100 members have enjoyed tours of wine country, San Francisco, Lake Tahoe, Half Moon Bay and other locations in Northern California. He recently took over 130 members on a day trip to the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Upcoming trips include festivals such as the Gilroy Garlic Festival and Fillmore Jazz Festival, Oakland A's and Raiders games, plays in San Francisco, a Lake Tahoe Cruise, and more.
Sacramento Wine & Nightlife Tours and Sacramento Day Trippers sacdaytrips.com are wildly popular with people wanting to relax while someone else does the driving, and are an economical way to do so, thanks to great group rates. Trips are adult-only, giving those with or without children some quality downtime with their peers, and tend to attract a nice mix of folks in the 25 to 65 year-old age range.
2012 Calender Upcoming Events
Trip to See "Mamma Mia" in San Francisco Sat, Feb 25 2012 11:00a.m. - 9:00p.m.
A Day in the Bay - S.F. Adventure Trip Sat, Mar 10 2012 7:30a.m. - 9:00p.m.
Trip to the St Patrick's Day Parade & Festival in S.F. Sat, Mar 17 2012 9:30a.m. - 6:00p.m.
Pier 39 and Alcatraz Evening Tour Sat, Mar 24 2012 1:00p.m. - 11:00p.m.
Day Trip to Monterey Bay Aquarium & Cannery Row Sat, Apr 7 2012 7:30a.m. - 8:30p.m.
Day Trip to Safari West & Sonoma Town Square Sat, Apr 14 2012 7:30a.m. - 5:30p.m.
Lake Tahoe Cruise onboard the Dixie Queen Sat, Apr 21 2012 8:00a.m. - 7:00p.m.
Day Trip to Yosemite National Park cohosted by Discover Yosemite Sat, May 12 2012 6:00a.m. - 9:00p.m.
An Intimate Evening with Garrett Perkins in Wine Country Sat, Jul 14 2012 1:30p.m. - 9:00p.m.
Trip to See "LES MISÉRABLES" in San Francisco Sat, Jul 21 2012 11:00a.m. - 9:00p.m.
Trip to Blues & Bones Festival in Angel Camp (from Sacramento) Sat, Jul 21 2012 11:30a.m. - 11:30p.m.
Trip to the Gilroy Garlic Festival Sat, Jul 28 2012 8:00a.m. - 6:30p.m.
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Nineteen students from public and private high schools in Hawaiʻi have been awarded the prestigious Chancellor Scholarship by the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo.
The award, valued in excess of $23,000, covers four years of tuition for students graduating from a Hawaiʻi high school who earn either a GPA of at least 3.5, a combined 1800 SAT (reading, writing, math) or a composite score of 27 on the ACT while demonstrating leadership and/or community service.
All Chancellor Scholars are required to enroll as full-time students, remain enrolled continuously, maintain a cumulative GPA of 3.25 and participate in leadership activities and/or community services with other Chancellor Scholars.
The 2013 Chancellor Scholarship recipients and their respective high schools include:
• David Arakawa, Roosevelt High School
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• Ashley Maldonado, Kamehameha Schools
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• Justin Allagonez, Keaau High School
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I'm making a Hangman program to test my knowledge of GUI's. However my program is not checking letters correctly. This is my code for a Field Listener that checks the user's input with the word. I'm not posting all of the code because it is not all relevant to the issue and is working fine. The field listener is called after the user inputs text and presses the enter key. The object word.letters is a random String from a dictionary file. My problem has two parts: if the user inputs a correct letter the for loop never runs and the letter is instead counted as wrong in the else statement. My second problem is that if the user inputs the correct word it doesn't say it is correct instead it says it is an invalid guess. I hope this is enough.
The listener does handle invalid guesses correctly and wrong letters (but counts right letters as wrong).
class fieldListener implements ActionListener { @Override public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ae) { if (guesses > 0) { String guess = field.getText(); //gets the text from field if (guess.length() == 1 && gc.contains(guess) == false && Arrays.asList(word.letters.toCharArray()).contains(guess)) { //if the guess is one letter long and is not found in the ArrayList gc containing guessed letters and word.letters contains the letter for (int i = 0; i < word.letters.length(); i++) { //for every letter in word.letters String str = ""; //this represents a JLabel that uses underscores for every letter of word.letters if (guess.equals(word.letters.charAt(i) + "")) { //if one letter is equal str += guess + " "; //change the underscore to the letter word.flags[i] = true; //set that letters flag to true meaning it has been found area.setText("You guessed a correct letter."); //print the result gc.addElement(guess); //add the letter to the found list list = new JList(gc); //refresh the JList field.setText(""); //empty the guess field } else if (word.flags[i] == true){ //otherwise if that letters flag is true str += word.letters.charAt(i) + " "; //add the letter to the label } else { str += "_ "; //otherwise add an underscore representing no found letter } t.setText(str); //set the label to the value of str } } else if (guess.equals(word.letters)) { win(); //if the guess equals the random word execute the win function list = new JList(gc); //update the JList field.setText(""); //empty field } else if (guess.length() > 1 && (guess.length() < word.letters.length() || guess.length() > word.letters.length())) { area.setText("Only guess letters or the entire word."); //if the guess is not one letter or the length of the word tell the user he made an invalid guess field.setText(""); //empty } else if (gc.contains(guess)) { //self explanatory area.setText("You already guessed that."); field.setText(""); } else { //if its a wrong letter or wrong word guesses--; //decrement the guesses gc.addElement(guess.toLowerCase()); //add the word/letter to the scroller area.setText("Wrong, guess another letter or the word."); //result list = new JList(gc); //update list f.repaint(); //repaint the frame to add the next body part field.setText(""); } if (!Arrays.asList(word.flags).contains(false)) { win(); //if there are no more false flags left execute win } } if (guesses == 0) { lose(); //if guesses = 0 execute lose } } }


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At this special time of year, the National Aquarium is grateful for so many things—for our talented staff, for our dedicated volunteers, the generosity of our loyal supporters. By making a personal commitment to the National Aquarium, you make it possible for us to inspire conservation of the world's aquatic treasures every day.
Please enjoy this video as we look back at our accomplishments in 2012 here at the Aquarium.
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Every year, more than 1.5 million people are inspired to conserve the world's aquatic treasures by participating in conservation and educational programming and enjoying our world-class exhibits in both Washington, DC and Baltimore, MD.
As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit institution, we depend upon the support of individuals, foundations, and corporations to provide engaging experiences that excite young people about aquatic life and habitats; welcome diverse audiences from throughout the community; restore fragile Chesapeake Bay wetlands; and rescue, rehabilitate, and release imperiled marine animals.
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About the Library
Mookini Library is shared by Hawaiʻi Community College and the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo.
The Edwin H. Mookini Library, completed in 1981, is located in the center of the Main Campus. The Edwin H. Mookini Library serves the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo (UH Hilo) and Hawaiʻi Community College (Hawai'i CC). Its primary mission is to support the academic programs of both institutions, under the supervision of the University of Hawai'i at Hilo University Librarian/Director.
Students have access to over 230,000 bound volumes, over 3,000 periodicals in print, over 80,000 e-books, and over 35,000 full-text electronic current periodicals from Hawaiʻi, the U.S. mainland, Asia, and Europe. Reading students can also search the Web to select titles from the library's READ Collection. Special formats collected include DVDs, audio and videocassettes, compact disks, and microforms. In addition, the library is a partial depository for both United States and Hawaiʻi State documents. The Hawaiian Collection houses the library's extensive Hawaiiana holdings. To ensure student proficiency in the use of these collections, the staff offers a comprehensive program of library instruction using a networked electronic library classroom.
The Edwin H. Mookini Library provides other services and facilities that further the academic mission of the College. Students may utilize the audiovisual area with playback equipment.
Students may also confer in the library's group study rooms located throughout the building. PCs located on all three floors provide access to web browsing, word processing, spreadsheets, and web page design software to support coursework.
Computer technology is increasingly used to meet the information needs of the College and facilitate access to library services for distance learners. The library's catalog is available on Hawaiʻi Voyager, a Web-based library management system.
The library offers reference services enhanced with subscriptions to full-text periodical databases and interlibrary loan services to assist students and faculty in obtaining research materials from off-campus sources.
Visit the library's home page: https://hilo.hawaii.edu/library/.


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Echostage is Washington, DC's largest nightlife concert venue. Formerly known as DC Tunnel and DC Star, the building was taken over in September 2012 by a group led by Panorama Productions and Club Glow. Renovations began immediately to equip the 30,000+ sq. ft. space for large-scale, live music events. The main focus of ownership has been on the venue's layout and production. Top tier sound design, advanced LED visual displays and unobstructed sight lines throughout the venue provide an atmosphere unmatched on the east coast. (2) 60 ft. bars run along each side of the dance floor and a photo pit provides close-up views in front of the stage. The back of the room features a raised "front of house" booth where an expert production team controls the show. Stairwells in the back corners of the dance floor lead to VIP. Mezzanines over-looking the dance floor run along each side of the room and host over (30) bottle service areas. Each mezzanine houses (1) bar and each bottle service area comfortably accommodates (8) people. A smoking area exists in front of the venue with access coming from the back corner of the main floor next to the merchandise stand. Men's and women's bathrooms are located on each side of the dance floor through hallways that allow for easy crowd flow. While the bulk of Echostage events involve Glow's massive dance music DJ-events, the venue was renovated to be an all purpose venue made to host live bands, MC's and any other event requiring a large-scale stage production. The Panorama Productions family includes nightclubs, bars, restaurants, lounges and now DC's largest, dedicated concert venue.
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UN Women
- 23 februari 2011
Violence against women must be top priority for UN Women, say women's rights campaigners
More than two-thirds (72%) of activists working on women's projects around the world say ending violence against women must be the top priority for the new UN Women agency, according to a new report published today by Oxfam and VSO at the annual meeting of the Commission on the Status of Women in New York.
Released a day ahead of the official launch of UN Women, the Blueprint for UN Women outlines for the views of the role UN Women should play of 100 civil society organizations working in 75 countries on women's human rights, gender equality and social justice.
Commissioned by Oxfam and VSO UK, the survey findings send a clear message that UN Women must deliver on its promise and work with governments to ensure accountability for delivering rights equality and development for their women.
"UN Women is a great opportunity to change the status quo on women's rights. The message hundreds of activists are telling UN Women is loud and clear: reach out to women and help empower them to change their lives. Without aligning its work with the needs and priorities of women at country level, especially in rural areas, it's unlikely the agency will achieve its mission," said Farah Karimi, Executive Director of Oxfam Novib, a member of the Oxfam Confederation.
"UN Women needs to stand out from the traditional ways of operating to have impact on the ground by leaving the UN's comfort zone of doing business as usual."
Eighty four per cent (84) of respondents said rural women were the group in most need of targeted approach. The report outlines that disabled and uneducated women also need urgent attention.
Women's rights advocate identified other priorities for UN Women, which are closely linked to eradicating all forms of violence against women. These included ensuring women's access to decision making at all levels (42%), deliver reliable justice systems for women (41%) and address the economic empowerment of women (41%).
VSO Chief Executive Officer Marg Mayne said UN Women offered a once in a lifetime opportunity to deliver real change for women everywhere, and especially the world's most disadvantaged and impoverished women.
"The UN so far has largely failed women in the developing world. Seventy per cent of people living in poverty are women, 60% of people living with HIV in sub-Sahara Africa are women and girls, and violence against women continues to be at alarming levels. The Blueprint for UN Women clearly lays out a direction for UN Women from the people that know best and are working on the ground to deliver change for women in developing countries. UN Women needs to act on the report, but it also requires funding at levels not previously seen in order to deliver. As UN Women is officially launched tomorrow, it is still awaiting a funding commitment from both the US and UK governments. Having received just 1% of the UN's budget to date – it is at risk of failing before it has even begun."
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- Data on violence against women is scarce and reporting of incidents of violence very low, especially in developing countries. A WHO study of 200* concluded that between 15 and 76 percent of women are targeted for physical and sexual violence in their lifetime .
- Women who have experienced violence are at a higher risk of HIV infection: a survey among 1,366 South African women showed that women who were beaten by their partners were 48% more likely to be infected with HIV than those who were not .
- It is estimated that more than 200,000 women and children have been raped over more than a decade of conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- There is strong evidence that a one-year increase in schooling for a woman, increases her family's income . Women are more likely than men to spend their money on their children's education and nutrition, continuing the cycle of opportunity .
WHO, WHO multi-country study on women's health and domestic violence against women, 2005
UN Women, original source: Violent male partners put women at greater risk of HIV infection Dunkle, K. L.; Jewkes, R. K.; Brown, H. C; Gray, G. E.; McIntyre, J. A.; Harlow, S. D. / The Lancet (2004)
UN Women. Original source: Statement of Hilde F. Johnson, Co-Chair of UN Action Against Sexual Violence in Conflict, 5 March 2009.
UNIFEM, Gender Equality Now, 2007, p.8
USAID, Family Planning Improves Quality of Life and Opportunities for Women, July 2007
- Download het rapport 'Blueprint for UN Women'
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The state of having colorless chromatophores, which results in the absence of pigmentation in animals that are normally pigmented.
A hereditary, metabolic disorder transmitted as an autosomal recessive and characterized by the inability to form melanin in the skin, hair, and eyes due to tyrosinase deficiency.


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The Ferrari GTO produced from 1984 to1986 was designed initially for GT racing. Its 8-cylinder engine has a capacity of 2.8 liters. 'O' stands for 'Omologazione' (to allow for racing). With only 272 GTOs built, it has the smallest production figure of any road-going Ferrari over the last 30 years. When the Ferrari GTO was launched it featured the most powerful engine Ferrari had ever fitted to a road car, developing 400 horsepower. Its debut was so highly anticipated that when the model finally broke cover at Geneva in 1984, it created the 'instant collectible' market for automobiles.
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Verdict Marker BBs (2009-09-02)
Cheating is a common problem on the airsoft field, with some hits even being ricochets sometimes it's tempting to shrug off a hit and keep going. Several years ago there was a brand of BB paintballs that attempted to solve the problem through marking the enemy but this wasn't received well as the BBs were of low quality and thus were inaccurate. Plus they had a tendency to break inside the barrel of hop-enabled guns and the paint would destroy the hop-up internals.
Now however there is a new attempt at making marker BBs They claim to be much higher precision and not cause any permanent damage to your hop-up. In this Bite the Bullet article we will have a first look at these marker BBs.
On the bottle (appropriately named Verdict marker BBs) it says these are solid core BBs with a highly pigmented dry lubricant coating, high precision, seamless BBs, water-soluble marking, temperature and moisture resistant. And doesn't leave residue on your hands.
But the more important question is: Will this have an impact on the performance of your gun and will it leave residue on the inside of your barrel and hop-up unit.
As a preliminary test I was given 300 rounds of these marker BBs and will conduct a simple experiment. Fire them all through an AEG, and then swipe the barrel with a cloth on a cleaning rod. Should there be any contamination the residue should show up on the cleaning cloth.
With the hop-up turned to maximum and the verdict BBs loaded, I unleashed a plastic storm of BBs unto an unsuspecting box. After firing of all 300 rounds of the Verdict marker BBs I took a cleaning rod and swabbed the barrel thoroughly. Then, under a macro lens, took a picture of the swab to see if there was any residue of Verdict's dry-lubricant coating. and indeed there was, however it was very minimal and hardly any compared to the other dirt that the swab picked up and poses absolutely no risk to the gun internals.
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I am very new to Lagrangian dynamics so I am trying to get my head around the practical usage. So far on here all I could find were proofs and they did not make much sense to me, especially when time was involved in a problem.
Let's take a simple example. I have a free particle, and it can be represented in Cartesian coordinates at time $t=0$: \begin{align} \mathbf{r}(0) & = x(0)\mathbf{e_x} + y(0)\mathbf{e_y}, \\ \mathbf{v}(0) & = v_x(0)\mathbf{e_x} + v_y(0)\mathbf{e_y}. \end{align} A standard thing to want to know is the displacement $\mathbf{r}$ at a later time $t$. This is simple enough with Newtonian mechanics.
How does Lagrangian mechanics do this? I know I need to find the kinetic energy at some point - is it just the kinetic energy at time $\small{t=0}$?
How does a formula for energy get me the path of the particle for all times? I am not so much interested in the solution to this particular problem as seeing how Lagrangian mechanics can replace Newtonian mechanics and give me the same concrete results.


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Hollywood Hulk Hogan [Abridged]
The Hollywood Hulk Hogan book on Audio CD.
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Hollywood Hulk Hogan has achieved the unthinkable; icon status in a league full of superstars. Hogan debuted in the World Wrestling Federation in 1978. A little over half a decade later, Hulkamania was born and Hogan became a household name. Now listeners can learn the details behind his early days in wrestling and his triumphant return to the Federation in 2002. The star of the early Wrestlemanias and a seasoned actor featured in such hits as Gremlins II, Hogan has won seven Federation World titles. His return to the ring has sent fans clamoring to hear his story in his own words—and now they can.
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If the career of any single individual could serve as a microcosm of the changes in the "sport" of wrestling over the past 40 years, it would have to be that of Hulk Hogan (Terry Bollea in real life). His autobiography is an honest, albeit incomplete, look at the many phases in Hogan's career that will be fascinating only to Hogan's many fans. Hogan covers all the key moments in his long career: his early incarnation in the late 1970s as "Super Destroyer"; the birth of the good-guy Hulk Hogan persona; joining forces with Vince McMahon Jr. in the hugely popular WrestleMania events of the 1980s; his admission in the early 1990s of his steroid use; and his current reincarnation as a good guy with McMahon's sleeker World Wrestling Entertainment. To their credit, Hogan and co-writer Friedman do provide some glimpses of the often seedy world of "professional" wrestling (fights are staged and scripted; wrestlers often cut themselves to produce bloody wounds), but it isn't anything that everyone doesn't already know. While Hogan has come out against what he calls "Jerry Springer tits-and-ass style wrestling," he never explains why he has spent the last few years reviving his career with the man who invented, and continues to actively promote, that very same style-Vince McMahon Jr. (Nov.) Forecast: This will be an appealing read for Hogan's still-sizable fan base, and sales should be helped by promotion on the publisher's popular cable TV wrestling shows.
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PRINCESS ANNE, MD - (June 10, 2014) - Stephen L. McDaniel, a senior administrator at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, has been re-accredited by Certified Fund Raising Executives International.
McDaniel, who accepted an appointment in October 2013 as UMES' interim vice president for Institutional Advancement, has held the CRFE credential continually since 1996.
"The CFRE credential was created to identify, for the public and employees, those individuals who possess the knowledge, skills and commitment to perform fundraising duties in an effective and ethical manner," said Jim Caldarola, the immediate past chair of CFRE International.
A CFRE credential is good for three years and represents a commitment to continuing education and adherence to professional standards by 5,000-plus fundraisers who hold it.
Prior to joining UMES, McDaniel worked at Norfolk (Va.) State University, where he coordinated that institution's fundraising activities.
In a career spanning three decades, McDaniel has done fundraising and marketing for nine other institutions, including Alabama A&M, Alcorn State, Fayetteville State, North Carolina A&T State, Tuskegee and the University of Maryland at College Park.
He worked 18 years for The United Negro College Fund, which focuses on generating scholarship support for deserving students at the nation's private historically black institutions. He also has been a successful fundraiser on the international level.
McDaniel earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Maryland Baltimore County and a Certificate in Managing Institutional Advancement from the University of Chicago.
UMES has three administrators with the CFRE credential. Earlier this year, McDaniel's colleague, Veronique Diriker, earned her initial certification and Kimberly Dumpson, who previously headed fundraising for UMES, is also a Certified Fund Raising Executive.
Bill Robinson, director, UMES Office of Public Relations,410-621-2355.


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Billiant Pitching
Brilliant pitching and an offense that has gone into off-season hibernation too early. That's the Phillies right now. They have scored three or fewer runs in seven straight games and yet, they are 4-3, because of the pitching.
KK, Cliff and the bullpen did a job on Thursday in taking two from the Marlins. Earlier in the season, Phillies also won a pair against them, the first time they have won two DH from one team in one season since 1983 (Montreal).
Cliff was one pitch away from a 1-0 victory when he hung an 0-2 cutter for a game-tying home run. Ryan Howard doubled in the winning run in the 10th, his first walk-off hit since 7/9/10.
The homer against Cliff broke a scoreless streak of 29 innings at Citizens Bank Park, where he is 11-2 with one more regular-season start. All-time best record at home belongs to Steve Carlton, 17-3, at the Vet in 1974.
DH was created by Irene rainouts in late August. During the first game Thursday, it did rain, prompting LA to quip, "Irene's sister showed up." Game time temp for the first game was 74; after the cold front came through, the temp for the start of the night game had dropped to 57.
Ibanez hit his 30th double, giving him 10 straight seasons reaching that number. Only other player to match him is Albert Pujols . . . Phillies have 51 wins at home, 9th time they have reached or topped 50, all since 1975 . . . Since Hunter joined the Phillies on July 30, they have had their "regular" starting lineup only three games . . . Cardinals start a four-game, four-day series on Friday night. Included is an 8:05 Sunday Night national telecast on ESPN . . . Scoring more than 3 runs, Phils are 68-11; three or less, 30-39.
Down On The Farm
Lehigh Valley's offense was in hibernation too, four singles, in losing 6-2 to Columbus. Clippers lead the best-of-5 series, 2-1, with the next game tonight in Columbus.
Alumni Views
What changes would make in baseball? Question was posed to Phillies Alumni.
Greg Luzinski, (OF, 1970-80)
"Less replays because umpires calls are what make the game special. Keep divisions the same and no more wildcards as the season is long enough. Adding more wildcard teams would give someone you beat during the season a second chance. Play more games in your division and cancel inter-league play. Make the World Series very special by matching two leagues against each other. I guess I'm old school."


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After the London derby thriller between West Ham and Arsenal, here's what happened in the 3pm games…
Aston Villa 1-2 Bournemouth
Steve Cook's classy flick at Brad Guzan's near post gave Bournemouth a half-time lead and Josh King doubled the lead in the second half.
Jordan Ayew scored a late goal for the home team, who only avoided having their relegation confimred because Norwich lost.
Southampton 3-1 Newcastle
It was so easy for the hosts, who were ahead after just four minutes when Shane Long weaved his way through the defence. Graziano Pelle made it 2-0 before half-time where the Newcastle defending was so poor. Victor Wanyama made it 3-0 ten minutes after the break when the midfielder, just like Pelle, found himself with loads of space. Andros Townsend's quality finish pulled one back, but it looks like there is nothing for manager Rafa Benitez to work with at the back.
Crystal Palace 1-0 Norwich
Jason Puncheon scored his first of the season for Crystal Palace to give them the lead and it could have ensured their safety from relegation with the Eagles now on 37 points from 32 games played. It was their first Premier League win since 19 December.
Swansea 1-0 Chelsea
Sigurdsson had acres of space to put them ahead when he volleyed in Montero's cross from 18 yards and the roles reversed when Sigurdsson broke into the six-yard box and crossed for Montero, who somehow headed over. Swansea are now on 40 points and appear to be safe, while Chelsea saw their 15-game unbeaten run come to an end.
Watford 1-1 Everton
Minutes after James McCarthy's opener in first half stoppage time, Jose Holebas equalised and in the closing stages, Ben Watson's fierce shot produced a fantastic save from Joel Robles late on and before the game, travelling Everton supporters held banners displaying support for defender Leighton Baines and calling for manager Roberto Martinez to go.
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Metro hospitals score well on Consumer Reports ratings
Consumer Reports rated more than 1,100 hospitals, using information from government and independent sources.
The study did not measure how successful hospitals are at treating medical conditions, rather the rankings are based on the risk of developing infections after surgery, the risk of complications, re-admissions and communication about medications and release.
Metro hospitals ranked well on the ratings.
Lakeside Hospital earned 68 out of 100, getting high marks for avoiding bloodstream infections. Mercy Hospital in Council Bluffs scored a 62. Bergan Mercy received 59 points and Nebraska Methodist scored a 57.
Creighton University Medical Center and University of Nebraska Medical Center both scored a 54, although patients at UNMC had concerns about coronary angioplasty surgeries. Bellevue Medical Center received a 42.
Overall, patients were happy with their experiences at metro hospitals, although they had concerns about the drug information they received.
Children's Hospital, Midlands Hospital in Papillion and Jennie Edmundson Hospital in Council Bluffs were not included in the report.
To see an entire breakdown of the report, visit the Consumer Reports website. There is a $7 fee.


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Celebs Who Tried Online Dating!
They may be talented, attractive and fawned over by the thousands, but sometimes even celebs have a hard time finding love! When you're busy touring the world, appearing on television and just being the superstar you are, it's hard to meet someone who can see your true self. Throwing caution to the wind, these stars allegedly tried the modern route to romance with *gasp* online dating! -- By Tiffany Lee


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I've just published the draft standard 2.1 at http://abcnotation.com/wiki/abc:standard:v2.1
Changes are up for discussion, but partly this is minor update aiming to restore backwards compatibility - details in section 0.
It's also an opportunity for testing procedures for updating the standard. There was a brief discussion about that here but no resolution so for the moment I'm proposing that changes are discussed on this list and then - when a final version is agreed and the precise wording has been decided - I will incorporate them.
If possible I would like this be a fairly agile process with the draft adopted within say 3 months. Any changes that are not satisfactorily agreed will then be moved into the next draft.
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Saint Theodore the Sykeote, Bishop of Anastasiopolis - Troparion & Kontakion
Troparion — Tone 2
You were known to be sanctified from your earliest infancy. / You were revealed to be filled with grace. / You enlightened the world with miracles / and drove away a multitude of demons, holy hierarch Theodore. / Therefore, pray to the Lord for us.
Kontakion — Tone 3
Mounting upon the virtues as upon a fiery chariot, / you ascended to the heavenly mansions, God-bearing Theodore. / You lived with men like an angel, / and as a man you joined the angelic choir. / Therefore, Venerable Father, you have been shown to be a divine vessel of miracles.


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Report: Toyota Reworking Camry, RAV4, Prius V For IIHS Crash Tests
Toyota improving car safety.
Disappointed by poor crash-test results, Toyota is engineering mid-cycle updates for at least three models to improve their performance in the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's new small-overlap crash test. The Toyota Camry, Prius V, and RAV4 were all rated "Poor" in the new test.
The small-overlap test is a new part of IIHS's testing regimen that simulates a driver hitting a small object like a tree or pole. Only 25 percent of the car impacts the test barrier, which has proven problematic for many cars in IIHS testing -- when the Volkswagen CC was put through the test, its driver's door sheared off its hinges. Only cars that score Good or Acceptable on the small-overlap test receive IIHS' newest top honor, Top Safety Pick+. The 2013 Toyota Camry, 2013 Toyota Prius V, and 2013 Toyota RAV4 are all rated Top Safety Picks, but lack the prestigious "Plus" and scored "Poor" in the small-overlap evaluation.
Toyota says it will soon have new parts to update the RAV4 crossover so it performs better in the small-overlap test, and that those upgrades can also be applied to other models. The company hinted that the changes may involve strengthening structural components.
"We are now implementing some design countermeasures to improve our small overlap results," Toyota's CEO of North American manufacturing Osamu Nagata told Automotive News. "As soon as designs are ready and parts are fixed, we'll have running changes for any vehicle, not only the RAV4."
A total of 21 Toyota, Lexus, and Scion models were named 2013 Toyota Safety Picks by the IIHS. So far, however, the 2014 Scion TC is the automaker's only car to be named a Top Safety Pick+ after it scored Acceptable in the small-overlap test. Many automakers have redesigned their vehicles in order to pass the IIHS' more demanding small-overlap test; the 2014 Honda Odyssey, for instance,received additional bracing and was recently named a Top Safety Pick+.
The IIHS will crash-test the new 2014 Toyota Corolla later this month.
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America mourns the passing of our beloved colleague and friend, Fr. John Kavanaugh, S.J., who died yesterday in Saint Louis, MO following a long illness. Fr. Kavanaugh was a distinguished scholar, prolific author and dedicated Jesuit priest. He was a contributor to our pages for more than forty years and had been a regular America columnist since 1993. One of our most popular writers, America's readers treasured his insightful analysis, his gentle wisdom and his Irish wit. He will be greatly missed. R.I.P.
UPDATE: Here are some of our favorite columns by Father Kavanaugh. We invite you to share your own below.
"Relish the Banquet," December 31, 2010
"A Personalist Lent," February 19, 2007
"Beyond Morality," April 17, 2006
"The Ocean of Life," January 31, 2005
"Last Words," January 21, 2002
If you look at it, you'll see some wonderful photos of Ann taken by her friend, Mev Puleo, whose collaboration with John on the book "Faces of Poverty, Faces of Christ" is mentioned in the comments above by Beth Cioffoletti and Chris and Lauri Pramuk. Three years later, Mev died of cancer, and John preached at her funeral, too. His homily is here:
Finally, for those who, like me, have wanted to read whatever we could find about John these days, here are the links for the obituary posted by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and another homily of his, published in the Malaysia Herald:
in tuo adventu suscipiant te martyres,
et perducant te in civitatem sanctam Ierusalem.
Chorus angelorum te suscipiat,
et cum Lazaro quondam paupere æternam habeas requiem.
I had the privilege of getting to know Father John Kavanaugh. John was a gentle and passionate man who used his intellect for the greater good of all. His regular contributions to America were always welcome, insightful and reassuring. He will be missed.
1. Support the Rev. Jim Wallis's "abortion-reduction agenda," with its economic support for pregnant women and greater access to adoption as part of the Democratic platform.
2. If you are interested in diversity and mutual respect, give a place at the Democratic convention for Democrats for Life to show you are unafraid of difference and debate.
3. Engage the arguments and evidence offered in opposition to second- and third-trimester abortions.
Read more: http://www.americamagazine.org/content/article.cfm?article_id=10973
I just found that old book from Mev on my shelf, and think I will spend some time tonight reading Kavanaugh's words and looking at Mev's photos. RIP to both of them.


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We found a hollow tree stump by the side of the road a while back, so we threw it in the back of the car and kept it in the yard. On Halloween night, we stuck a jar candle in the base of it.
Instant photos by Bean.
Friday, November 4, 2011
Day Afters
Posted by Rot at 10:01 AM
8 comments:
- Countess VonRauber (Heidi) said...
The stump fits in perfectly with the JOL's. Great idea!
- November 4, 2011 at 12:17 PM
- wicKED said...
Really love the old school feel of the photos. I like the idea of the tree stump... makes you wonder what could be hiding in there with the light.
- November 4, 2011 at 1:56 PM
- Goneferalinidaho said...
Again, Bean's photos look like Halloween does in my memories from childhood.
- November 4, 2011 at 3:14 PM
- Marrow said...
Great pictures!
- November 4, 2011 at 3:35 PM
- Anonymous said...
I have the day afters blues... but the autumn state of mind persists.
- November 4, 2011 at 3:39 PM
- Marie Roget said...
Oh, very nice.
Thanks for the memories!
- November 4, 2011 at 4:28 PM
- Sara said...
Ok, you need to stop posting so many cool things! Gah! I can't keep up!!! :)
- November 4, 2011 at 7:28 PM
- Jason-v said...
Really digging the stump idea!
- November 5, 2011 at 12:18 AM
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Location: Family Place to Play, Waldorf, MD (now two locations)
Details: Family Place to Play Fun Center is a large indoor playground that can accommodate private parties and also is a great place to bring kids to play. Open Play provides many different ways for kids to be stimulated both physically and mentally.
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Crisis Communication Certified Planner (CCCP)
The Crisis Communication Certified Planner (CCCP) certification is designed to recognize individuals for their efforts to acquire essential and fundamental knowledge and skills in business continuity management. These individuals may be senior and middle management, or business executives, who are required to help their departments or business units (or sub-units) to develop crisis communications processes, procedures and/or plans.
The pre-requisite course are:
To attain your CCCP credential you need to pass the Qualifying CCCP examination.
How to be Certified
To become a CCCP, a candidate must successfully complete two separate processes:
- Formal Education: Attend and complete the CC-200: Crisis Communication Planner course.
- Examination: Attempt and pass the Qualifying CCCP examination.
Formal Education
To attend the CC-200: Crisis Communication Planner (Duration 1 day course with 1 and 1/2 hour examination), a candidate must:
- Sign up for the course date and location
- Submit the Course Fees
- Be assigned with a login credentials for the online final examination
- Sit for the examination at the end of the course
To sit for the examination, a candidate must:
- Prepare and be competent in the Competency Level CL 1CC: Foundation (CC) , including the 7 BCM Body of Knowledge (BCMBoK)
- Attempt the online practice quiz at least once before the actual examination.
To be issued a certificate, a candidate must:
- Pass the CCCP qualifying examination with a required passing score of 75% out of 50-Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ) examination questions.
- There is no prior experience in BCM needed to hold the CCCP certification.
Fee Payment
- Year 1: For the award of the CCCP, there is no requirement for any Application Processing Fee payment for year one upon receiving the CCCP certification.
- Year 2: After holding the CCCP for one year, the member is expected to renew his or her CCCP via the annual Certification Maintenance Feewhich is SGD 50.
How can I be Certified?
|Course Required
|Crisis Communication Certified Planner
|CC-200: Crisis Communication Planner
|Crisis Communication Certified Specialist
|CC-300: Crisis Communication Implementer
|Crisis Communication Certified Expert
|CC-400: Crisis Communication Manager
|CC-5000: Crisis Communication Expert Implementer
How can I learn more about the CC Industry?
BCM Institute offers the CC Certified Planner (CCCP) certification for novices who are keen on entering this profession when they meet the minimum level of CC experience.
BCM Institute courses lead to the internationally recognised CC designations of CC Certified Planner (CCCP), CC Certified Specialist (CCCS) and CC Certified Expert (CCCE) for individuals with appropriate experiences and qualifications.
To qualify for the BCM Institute's certifications, you must have the relevant years of experience in the 7 domain of BCM Body of Knowledge (BoK) after attaining a passing score on the written examination, and receiving approval from the BCMI's Certification Committee. On top of the examination fees, a separate fee is charged for processing the certification application
Please refer to "Certification Programs" for more information.
How to submit Payment for Certification Processing Fees?
- Register as a shopper under BCMI Virtue Mart
- Fill in the required information. Please make sure that the email entered is valid as an activation link would be sent to the email entered
- Click on the activation link given sent by BCMI to activate your shopper account. In the email, you will find a system generated user name and password
- Select Online Store
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- Click "Add to Cart" for certification that you are applying
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- Login with the user name and password furnish in the email
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What are the benefits of Certification?
Individuals: Individuals are benefited by the many facets that the BCMI certification brings, some includes the following:
- The recognition of being certified by an elite institute, dedicated to the evolution of Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery.
- The contentment of being tested & recognized on the Body of Knowledge (BoK) that is at par or better than the International Standards currently available.
- The distinct advantage of being certified in a horde of BCP-DR professionals wanting to make a mark in the industry.
- The value adds to an Individual's skill-set within the current professional endeavors and continual enhancement of the same.
Employers: Amongst others, employers of BCMI recognized professionals benefit from the individual's motivation and dedication to the chosen discipline. At the same time, they seek such certifications for their employees for advantages such as:
- A certification that helps individuals in readily applying the concepts & best practices into the workplace.
- Development of competencies within the organization that are the "best-of-breed".
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- Constant motivation of the individuals that have shown utmost professionalism and dedication in their field of work.
Industry, Peer Groups & Society: The industry & Peer Groups principally benefit from the sheer proficiency & commitment that such a rigorous certification demands from individuals. This in turn translates to a stronger community of professionals that learn and grow together as Individuals, Employees and Committed Professionals, allowing more significant contributions to the society to which they belong.
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Why are there two fees?
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Application Processing Fee is a one-time, non-refundable administrative fee, charged by BCM Institute to process your application for a given Certification. Newly certified professionals will not need to pay the Certification Maintenance Fee during the first year of certification.
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Payment of Annual Maintenance Fees ensures that the institute has the necessary financial resources to maintain member records, ensures that certification continues to meet the needs and requirements of the market and members to continue to enjoy member benefits.
Why should I be certified?
While there are many practitioners who may desire and be qualify for international certifications, there are also many other practitioners who possess some experience and skills; but desire a more "geographically inclined" certification – one that recognizes the practices, and takes into consideration best practices that are more specific to all different regions and cultures, yet remaining consistent with international best practices. BCMI's certifications are designed to meet and exceed the needs of such practitioners.