NASA satellites capture Hurricane Sandy's massive size

Public release date: 30-Oct-2012
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NASA's Aqua satellite captured a visible image Sandy's massive circulation. Sandy covers 1.8 million square miles, from the Mid-Atlantic to the Ohio Valley, into Canada and New England.

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite captured a visible image Sandy's massive circulation on October 29 at 18:20 UTC (2:20 p.m. EDT). Sandy covered 1.8 million square miles, from the Mid-Atlantic to the Ohio Valley, into Canada and New England. Sandy made landfall hours after the MODIS image was taken.

Sandy was still a hurricane after landfall

On October 29, 2012 at 11 p.m. EDT, the center of Hurricane Sandy was just 10 miles (15 km) southwest of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, near 39.8 North and 75.4 West. Sandy was still a hurricane with maximum sustained winds near 75 mph (120 kph) and moving northwest at 18 mph (30 kph). Sandy's minimum central pressure had risen to 952 millibars. The hurricane-force-winds extended 90 miles (150 km) east of the center of circulation. Tropical-storm-force winds, however, went much further, as far as 485 miles (780 km).

NASA's GOES Project created a "full-disk view" of NOAA's GOES satellite data, that captured a global view of Hurricane Sandy's birth to landfall. The animation of NOAA's GOES-13 and GOES-15 satellite observations were combined from October 21-30, 2012 and showed the birth of Tropical Storm Sandy in the Caribbean Sea, the intensification and movement of Sandy in the Atlantic Ocean along the U.S. East Coast, and Hurricane Sandy make landfall in New Jersey on October 29 and move inland to Pennsylvania

Sandy's inland movement on October 29

At 2 a.m. EDT, on October 29, Sandy's center was located just south of Lancaster, Pennsylvania At 5 a.m. EDT, Sandy continued moving to the west-northwest at 15 knots (24 kph) and was located just 15 miles (24 km) east of York, Pennsylvania, and 90 miles (145 km) west of Philadelphia. Sandy was centered near 40.5 North and 77.0 West. Sandy's minimum central pressure continues to rise and was 960 millibars.

Sandy's sustained winds were near 65 mph. Tropical-storm-force winds extend almost 1,000 miles. According to Weather Channel, the winds are going to continue being a problem from the northeast into the Ohio Valley today. The strongest winds are being experienced now in the Great Lakes Region.

Widespread damages

Hurricane Sandy has caused significant damage in New York City and along the Mid-Atlantic coast. Flooding has been reported from Maine to Virginia During the morning hours on October 29 (Eastern Daylight Time), nearly eight million people were without power this morning up and down the East coast. The Appalachian Mountains received some heavy snow from western Maryland down to Tennessee and North Carolina As much as 26 inches of snow had fallen in Garrett County, Maryland by the morning of October 30. According to Reuters news, flooding along the U.S. East Coast was extensive.

Watches and warnings in effect on October 29

According to the NOAA's Hydrometeorological Prediction Center (NOAA/HPC), there are high-wind warnings in effect including gale force winds over the coastal waters of the Mid-Atlantic States, New York and New England. Storm warnings are in effect for portions of the Mid-Atlantic coastal waters. Flood and flash flood watches and warnings are in effect over portions of the Mid-Atlantic and northeastern states.

NOAA's HPC forecast on October 29 calls for Sandy to move in a "west-northwest motion with reduced forward speed is expected today into western Pennsylvania with a turn north into western New York tonight, October 30. The cyclone will move into Canada on Wed., October 31. Steady weakening is forecast during the next 48 hours."

NOAA/HPC warns that gale-force winds will continue over parts of the Mid-Atlantic through New England on October 29 and storm surge and tides can still cause normally dry areas along or near the coast to be flooded, especially during high tide.

Rain and snowfall forecasts from NOAA

NOAA/HPC forecasts large rainfall totals for many areas in Sandy's reach. Far northeastern North Carolina could expect 3 to 6 inches, while 4 to 8 inches more are possible over the Mid-Atlantic States on October 30. Both areas can see isolated higher totals. Between 1 and 3 inches are possible with up to 5 inches in the southern tier of New York state and northeastward through New England.

Snowfall between 2 and 3 feet are expected in the West Virginia mountains with higher totals through October 30. Snowfall of 1 to 2 feet in the southwestern Virginia and Kentucky Mountains are expected, and between 12 and 18 inches along the North Carolina and Tennessee border and in western Maryland.

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Public release date: 30-Oct-2012
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Contact: Rob Gutro
robert.j.gutro@nasa.gov
443-858-1779
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA's Aqua satellite captured a visible image Sandy's massive circulation. Sandy covers 1.8 million square miles, from the Mid-Atlantic to the Ohio Valley, into Canada and New England.

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite captured a visible image Sandy's massive circulation on October 29 at 18:20 UTC (2:20 p.m. EDT). Sandy covered 1.8 million square miles, from the Mid-Atlantic to the Ohio Valley, into Canada and New England. Sandy made landfall hours after the MODIS image was taken.

Sandy was still a hurricane after landfall

On October 29, 2012 at 11 p.m. EDT, the center of Hurricane Sandy was just 10 miles (15 km) southwest of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, near 39.8 North and 75.4 West. Sandy was still a hurricane with maximum sustained winds near 75 mph (120 kph) and moving northwest at 18 mph (30 kph). Sandy's minimum central pressure had risen to 952 millibars. The hurricane-force-winds extended 90 miles (150 km) east of the center of circulation. Tropical-storm-force winds, however, went much further, as far as 485 miles (780 km).

NASA's GOES Project created a "full-disk view" of NOAA's GOES satellite data, that captured a global view of Hurricane Sandy's birth to landfall. The animation of NOAA's GOES-13 and GOES-15 satellite observations were combined from October 21-30, 2012 and showed the birth of Tropical Storm Sandy in the Caribbean Sea, the intensification and movement of Sandy in the Atlantic Ocean along the U.S. East Coast, and Hurricane Sandy make landfall in New Jersey on October 29 and move inland to Pennsylvania

Sandy's inland movement on October 29

At 2 a.m. EDT, on October 29, Sandy's center was located just south of Lancaster, Pennsylvania At 5 a.m. EDT, Sandy continued moving to the west-northwest at 15 knots (24 kph) and was located just 15 miles (24 km) east of York, Pennsylvania, and 90 miles (145 km) west of Philadelphia. Sandy was centered near 40.5 North and 77.0 West. Sandy's minimum central pressure continues to rise and was 960 millibars.

Sandy's sustained winds were near 65 mph. Tropical-storm-force winds extend almost 1,000 miles. According to Weather Channel, the winds are going to continue being a problem from the northeast into the Ohio Valley today. The strongest winds are being experienced now in the Great Lakes Region.

Widespread damages

Hurricane Sandy has caused significant damage in New York City and along the Mid-Atlantic coast. Flooding has been reported from Maine to Virginia During the morning hours on October 29 (Eastern Daylight Time), nearly eight million people were without power this morning up and down the East coast. The Appalachian Mountains received some heavy snow from western Maryland down to Tennessee and North Carolina As much as 26 inches of snow had fallen in Garrett County, Maryland by the morning of October 30. According to Reuters news, flooding along the U.S. East Coast was extensive.

Watches and warnings in effect on October 29

According to the NOAA's Hydrometeorological Prediction Center (NOAA/HPC), there are high-wind warnings in effect including gale force winds over the coastal waters of the Mid-Atlantic States, New York and New England. Storm warnings are in effect for portions of the Mid-Atlantic coastal waters. Flood and flash flood watches and warnings are in effect over portions of the Mid-Atlantic and northeastern states.

NOAA's HPC forecast on October 29 calls for Sandy to move in a "west-northwest motion with reduced forward speed is expected today into western Pennsylvania with a turn north into western New York tonight, October 30. The cyclone will move into Canada on Wed., October 31. Steady weakening is forecast during the next 48 hours."

NOAA/HPC warns that gale-force winds will continue over parts of the Mid-Atlantic through New England on October 29 and storm surge and tides can still cause normally dry areas along or near the coast to be flooded, especially during high tide.

Rain and snowfall forecasts from NOAA

NOAA/HPC forecasts large rainfall totals for many areas in Sandy's reach. Far northeastern North Carolina could expect 3 to 6 inches, while 4 to 8 inches more are possible over the Mid-Atlantic States on October 30. Both areas can see isolated higher totals. Between 1 and 3 inches are possible with up to 5 inches in the southern tier of New York state and northeastward through New England.

Snowfall between 2 and 3 feet are expected in the West Virginia mountains with higher totals through October 30. Snowfall of 1 to 2 feet in the southwestern Virginia and Kentucky Mountains are expected, and between 12 and 18 inches along the North Carolina and Tennessee border and in western Maryland.

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Technology - Flashing lights: Flash Flex for E-Commerce Portal

Internet is a wonder that made marketing and selling easy. Thanks to it that we now have e-commerce to enable these things. Today any product you name, you will find it online. The greatest advantage of online marketplace is the wide array of choices that you have. It allows you to compare prices, choose from a wide range of products and make the best buy. Even as a business prospect, running an e-commerce website can be very lucrative. Technologies like Flash Flex development can help you start an e-commerce website with minimum investment.

With Flex Flash technology, you can add every kind of interactive elements to your website ranging from videos to audio to graphics. Flex basically is open source software that runs on Adobe Flash. Flex makes it possible to develop lighter codes that can be accessed in all major browsers and reduces development cost. With the increasing demand Flash Flex developers are having their hands full of challenging projects.

Flash and Flex helps you make a page attractive and glossy while retaining all the information too. With increasing bandwidth, adding videos on a site has become easier and necessary. For an e-commerce website, you can upload few videos on products and customer experience. Rich Internet Applications (RIA) have become the USP of any website today and Flash Flex is the appropriate technology which facilitates this. Like any other type of portal, e-commerce portals too need special web development procedure. Custom flash flex development is very important if you want to make your site different from the others.

Advantages of Flash Flex for e-commerce portal

• An essential component of an e-commerce portal is the extensive information that needs to be provided to the prospective buyer. Building a Rich Internet Application thus becomes very important. Flex development involves extensive libraries for various components. This makes it extremely beneficial for an e-commerce portal.
• Flex allows data synchronization that is unmatched. This becomes relevant in the context of an e-commerce portal as we are talking about extensive data storage.
• Since Flex runs on Flash, creating picture galleries becomes easy. Flash flex also helps in developing video apps and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tools.
• Another advantage of coding with Flex is that the users are no longer required to install additional software to run the RIA. The coding platform is already integrated with Flash.
• For any website, bringing in traffic is essential. For e-commerce portals, the need for new customers is more as the entire system is based on selling products. Flash Flex is build with light codes thus becoming easy for search engine optimization (SEO).

So hire a flex flash for e-commerce Development Company now and get your business started online!

Source: http://flashinglightwillblindus.blogspot.com/2012/10/flash-flex-for-e-commerce-portal.html

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Emergency Closing Notification Procedures | OSU Libraries ...

The approach of winter weather makes this a good time to review the Libraries? notification procedures in the event inclement weather, power outages or other situations result in the closing of some or all library locations. ??Key points to keep in mind:

• There is a distinction between ?classes being cancelled? and the ?university being closed.?? An announcement that classes have been cancelled does NOT automatically mean that the Libraries are closed.

• Sometimes decisions regarding delays or closings may change, especially if there is an overnight storm in progress (a midnight decision to delay opening may change at 4 a.m. to a decision not to open at all). It is a good idea to check the sources listed below before heading out the door, in case a last-minute change might alter your plans for the day.

It is suggested that you keep a printed copy of this information at home, so you have it available in the event of severe weather or other issues that occur overnight.

Faculty and staff are responsible for keeping themselves informed regarding a closing, using the following tools:

? Listening to local television and radio reports. Local TV and radio stations will run information on any circumstances resulting in the closing of the university; there will not be specific separate announcements regarding the Libraries. In addition, you are encouraged to tune into WOSU 89.7 FM or check Ohio State?s web page (http://www.osu.edu) for information on emergency university closings.

? Calling 247-6509. This phone number will have a recorded message for Libraries staff with instructions on reporting for work. If the building you work in is closed, you have the option of reporting to another library facility that is open that day. The message will indicate which libraries are open.

? Checking the Libraries? web site and staff intranet. If circumstances permit, the Libraries Internet and intranet sites will be updated with information for the staff on reporting for work. Both are accessible through the Libraries? web site, at library.osu.edu

? Checking your OSU email. If circumstances permit, check your OSU email account for ?liball? messages pertaining to any closing.

? Contacting your supervisor. Be sure you have contact information for your supervisor.

Source: http://library.osu.edu/blogs/communication/2012/10/29/emergency-closing-notification-procedures/

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Nurses, Addicted to Helping People - NYTimes.com

When a book is heavy with glossy photographs, you seldom expect too much from its words. In ?The American Nurse,? though, it?s the narrative that hits you in the solar plexus.

Take the comments of Jason Short, a hospice nurse in rural Kentucky. Mr. Short started out as an auto mechanic, then became a commercial trucker. ?When the economy went under,? he says, ?I thought it would be a good idea to get into health care.? But a purely pragmatic decision became a mission: Mr. Short found his calling among the desperately ill of Appalachia and will not be changing careers again.

?Once you get a taste for helping people, it?s kind of addictive,? he says, dodging the inspirational verbiage that often smothers the healing professions in favor of a single incontrovertible point.

Some of the 75 nurses who tell their stories in this coffee-table book headed into the work with adolescent passion; others backed in reluctantly just to pay the bills. But all of them speak of their difficult, exhilarating job with the same surprised gratitude: ?It?s a privilege and honor to do what I do,? says one. ?I walk on sacred ground every day.?

They hail from a few dozen health care settings around the country, ranging from large academic institutions like Johns Hopkins in Baltimore to tiny facilities like the Villa Loretto Nursing Home in Mount Calvary, Wis., home to 50 patients and a collection of goats, sheep and other animals on a therapeutic farm. Some nurses are administrators, some staff wards or emergency rooms, some visit patients at home. Many are deeply religious, a few are members of the military, and a handful of immigrants were doctors in their home countries.

All describe unique professional paths in short first-person essays culled from video interviews conducted by the photographer Carolyn Jones. Their faces beam out from the book in Ms. Jones?s black-and-white headshots, a few posing with a favorite patient or with their work tools ? a medevac helicopter, a stack of prosthetic limbs or a couple of goats.

But even the best photographs are too static to capture people who never stop moving once they get to work. For a real idea of what goes on in their lives, you have to listen to them talk.

Here is Mary Helen Barletti, an intensive care nurse in the Bronx: ?My whole life I?ve marched to a the beat of a different drummer. I used to have purple hair, which I?d blow-dry straight up. I wore tight jeans, high heels and ? God forgive me ? fur (now I am an animal rights activist). My patients loved it. They said I was like sunshine coming into their room.?

Says Judy Ramsay, a pediatric nurse in Chicago: ?For twelve years I took care of children who would never get better. People ask how I could do it, but it was the most fulfilling job of my life. We couldn?t cure these kids, but we could give them a better hour or even a better minute of life. All we wanted to do was make their day a little brighter.?

Says Brad Henderson, a nursing student in Wyoming: ?I decided to be a nurse because taking care of patients interested me. Once I started, nursing just grabbed me and made me grow up.?

Says Amanda Owen, a wound care nurse at Johns Hopkins: ?My nickname here is ?Pus Princess.? I don?t talk about my work at cocktail parties.?

John Barbe, a hospice nurse in Florida, sums it up: ?When I am out in the community and get asked what I do for a living, I say that I work at Tidewell Hospice, and there?s complete silence. You can hear the crickets chirping. It doesn?t matter because I love what I do; I can?t stay away from this place.?

The volume is not entirely about selfless service: It was underwritten by Fresenius-Kabi, a German health care corporation and leading supplier of intravenous drugs in the United States. Presumably, crass public relations motives lurk somewhere in the background. But that?s no real reason to be meanspirited about the result, a compelling advertisement for an honorable profession.

Young people with kind hearts and uncertain futures might just sit themselves down with the book, or wander through the Web site featuring its video interviews, www.americannurseproject.com, and see what happens.

Source: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/29/nurses-addicted-to-helping-people/

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Stina Auer: Almost one month

So time flies, we've already made that clear. Almost one month has gone since I came here and the most common question I get is; "are you happy"?
But you know what, I hardly have time to think about my own happiness with a small toddler around having as much energy, curiosity and serenity as life itself. I mean, of course I'm happy most of the times, something else would obviously occupy my time enormous. There's nothing more time consuming than being unhappy and depressed about whatever it is in life. I've learned to be very active in my own happiness and to changes myself, my life, my mind and thoughts or whatever the reason is when feeling so. No one will turn a bad feeling around, unless yourself. Perhaps that's also why I seldom regret things, because at the time, it was probably exactly what I wanted.

I see this as an adventure, one wonderful opportunity to live in two different countries and explore and use the best of both worlds. Sweden has so many things I love. My family and dear friends most of all, but also my career and my work over there which I gave a good couple of long years to develop, indulge and love. Sweden is so much more family friendly and so far beyond when it comes to fathers combining a well going career with fatherhood and mothers are being allowed to stay home for a proper amount of time with the child and still have her job waiting for her when she decides to return. ?That's something Switzerland should be very ashamed over, both concerning men and women. It's absurd to see how three month babies are put to some kind of "kindergarden" just because of the fact that mothers, in best cases, have about 6w-3month of motherhood and the fathers non. A lot of the mothers I meet here are stay at home wives/mothers for the simple fact that It was impossible to combine motherhood and job.

I've never liked the Swedish weather very much and I'm allergic to rain. In fact, weather and nature wise I am more attractive to everything not Swedish, like lushy green nature with palm trees, never ending sun and long beaches. Not even Switzerland can offer me that unfortunately, but Switzerland has somewhat milder temperatures which I appreciate.
I like the more present international feeling I have here and how the city is build more pretty and thought through in a architectural way which looks more residential. People is less "over-the-top" trendy here and not everyone wants to be seen and noticed as in Stockholm - it's very refreshing. What I do notice here it some sort of segregation between absolute "no sense of fashion what-so-ever" and a much more high end, elegance which I love to adore. Classy has got a new term since I came here. It's very appealing and very inspiring to see the real fashion, the more classical and timeless way of dressing walking the streets.
Not to talk about the shopping! I mean we have almost all the important brands here in Zurich and although I can't walk around shopping all day, it's fun to know that I can if I want. Just window shopping is fun here and also for the fact that I always find a new store, restaurant, art gallery, flower shop etc I'd like to visit.

The hard things is the language though, you would think that everyone is as fluent in English as in Sweden, but as soon as you come to a less international store, like the supermarket, people has extremely little knowledge in English and making myself understood is sometimes very hard and in the end very frustrating. I was trying to find coconut milk the other day and tried with body language and English make them understand, but absolute no response. They took me to baby milk and by then, I just gave up. The Schweizer-dutsch is also quite far from German which normally would be easier to understand for ?a Swedish person.
It's also a lot of rules here which drives me a bit insane sometimes, the country itself is more "square" if you know what I mean, but in the same way, Sweden also has its personality, both good and bad.

But as an conclusion so far, I like it. It makes me grow as a person to do this journey and you need to dare more in all aspects of life to melt in, see all the positive things and live in a different country. I've made some new friends which is of large importance and finding myself around pretty good I have to say, both with car but mostly by walking or with the excellent tram system.
As soon as we're more settled in with the new apartment and so, I hope we will find time to go up more in the mountains, renting a nice Chalet and have some time for some wonderful skiing in the magnificent nature. I would also love for M and me to be able to take mini weekends to Milano, Paris, Como and other places that are as close as some hours in car. Another great thing with living in the smack middle of Europe.

And when we now found a very kind Nanny for Alexis a couple of hours per week, I'm sure that M and me will also explore more of the evening and night life in Zurich that both haven't had the time to enjoy due to the fact that he is working so much and I'm with Alexis.

So, a little "so-far" conclusion in the end of October.

Have a great weekend!

(at hotel Baur Au Lac)

Source: http://awomanalifeablog.blogspot.com/2012/10/almost-one-month.html

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, resident Kimberly Smith couldn't believe her eyes when she saw how much she was saving on her mortgage under a loan modification with Bank of America. That's not to say that it was a generous amount: Her monthly payments went down by a grand total of $1.61.

"It has to be a Halloween joke," Smith told 11 Alive in Atlanta. "They have got to be kidding. ... I mean, they wasted more on postage and FedEx [sending the notification] than what I am getting as a reduction."

Smith was trying to reduce her mortgage's interest rate through the federal government's Making Home Affordable program, which determines reductions based on a fixed percentage of income. But while her modification was being processed, her income took a steep dive.

"My job was on the line, and I had to either take a pay cut or probably would not have a job," she said.

Bank of America told 11 Alive that Smith's drop in pay was factored into determining her reduction, which is why it ended up so low. But after the television story aired, the bank said it would look into a way to get Smith a more substantial reduction.

A little more than a week later, the bank came through. Smith's new loan modification dropped her interest rate from 7.87 percent to 4 percent ?- a much heftier savings of $262 a month.

"I cried. I was excited," Smith told 11 Alive after the new modification came through. "I was just happy. It was a blessing because without you all, I would not be able to get what I have now."

While this story had a happy ending, there have been a number of others involving Georgia homeowners tangling with banks that haven't come to such an amicable end. Two cases in Atlanta were particularly heart-wrenching: In one case, a woman lost her home after Bank of America foreclosed on the property, claiming she wasn't paying her mortgage. But it turned out that another institution owned the woman's loan -- which she had been current on -- and BofA falsely believed it should have been receiving her payments because of a paperwork foul-up. And another homeowner nearly lost her home after county officials placed a lien on her property and sold it to recover the debt on a tax bill that wasn't even hers.

If you're looking for help getting a loan modification, find out how to qualify, and learn how a loan mod can help you avoid foreclosure and why you should be seeking help now. For more information on loan mods, visit AOL Real Estate's Refinance Mortgage Center, and check out the federal Making Home Affordable program and the Home Affordable Modification Program.

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Kent St forces 7 TOs, upsets No. 18 Rutgers 35-23

PISCATAWAY, N.J. (AP) ? The dream of an undefeated season and a hopeful shot to play for a national title is over for No. 18 Rutgers after an upset loss at home to Kent State.

Everything else is still in place.

The non-conference loss won't deny the Scarlet Knights a chance at the Big East Conference regular-season title and a BCS bowl bid. That is what their sights are set on now, following the stunning 35-23 defeat by the Golden Flashes on Saturday.

"This is a lump in the road," Rutgers linebacker Khaseem Greene said. "We control our own destiny and we can still do what we set out to do since the beginning of the year. This is all about how we respond. To the young guys, this class is different and I know they will follow the leaders, and it's on us to set the example how to react after losing the game in the way that we did.

"I'm just ready to let this soak in a little bit, keep this taste in my mouth and get back on the practice field."

Rutgers (7-1, 4-0 Big East) will have a bye week and then face Army. The conference title hopes will be determined in the final three games against Cincinnati (5-2, 1-1), Pittsburgh (4-4, 1-3) and No. 16 Louisville (8-0, 3-0). The last game will be played at Rutgers on Nov. 29.

"There's a goal that is in front of us that's never been done at Rutgers, the Big East championship," Kyle Flood said after his first lost as the Scarlet Knights coach. "We have an opportunity sitting in conference play to be able to do that over the last three games of our season. That will be conference games. I think we'll be very motivated, there's no doubt about that. But I'm always up front and honest with the team.

Kent State (7-1) had been 0-22 against ranked teams, and this certainly was its biggest win since it started playing football in 1920. The six-game winning streak is its longest since 1940.

"This is a great win for our program," said Kent State coach Darrell Hazell, a Rutgers assistant from 2001-03. "We came on the road against a very tough opponent. We knew they were going to be tough, and they did a great job prior to playing us. I thought our kids prepared like crazy this week. We made enough plays early in the game to keep those guys off balance. Rutgers kept fighting back, and our guys kept fighting them off."

The biggest play of the game was made by Golden Flashes defensive end Mark Fackler, a one-handed, 25-yard interception return for a touchdown early in the second quarter that gave Kent State a 14-3 lead and the belief it could win.

It was his second interception of the game and one of six picks by the Golden Flashes, who forced a season-high seven turnovers.

"(We were) dropping some of the inside guys, and I just saw his eyes, followed his eyes and was right there on the first one," Fackler said after his first two-interception game since high school. "The second one was a play call. We were going that way, and I saw what he did. That was a play that was going to happen. It was there."

Flood said it was a remarkable play by Fackler.

" I thought it was an excellent reaction," Flood said. "Really one of those plays, I don't know if you'll see it again. You don't see it very often. The last time I can remember something like that, I'm sure it's happened since, I remember Julius Peppers doing it when he was playing at North Carolina. As an offensive line coach you tend to remember those type of things because they're so unique."

Kent State intercepted Gary Nova six times and recovered a fumble to give the Mid-American Conference its second straight win over an undefeated Big East team. Toledo knocked off Cincinnati last week.

"It's a terrible feeling," said Nova, who was 25 of 46 for 313 yards. "You never want to feel like this, especially with all of the hard work you've put in. You've just got to take the punches and keep going."

Spencer Keith threw touchdown passes of 1 yard to Zack Hitchens and 15 yards to Josh Boyle, the latter giving the Golden Flashes a 35-17 lead with 11:30 to play. Dri Archer, the nation's leader in touchdowns coming into this week, scored on a 7-yard run, and Trayion Durham tallied from 3-yards out.

Nova, the Big East's top offensive player last week, threw touchdowns of 19 yards to Tim Wright and 24 to Brandon Coleman. Jawan Jamison scored on a 2-yard run to cut Rutgers' deficit to 12 with 10:35 to play, but the Scarlet Knights never got closer.

At the final gun, Kent State players bumped chests, high-fived, and ran to the corner of the stadium to share the celebration with their few followers from Ohio who came to New Jersey.

Nova was intercepted four times in the first half, resulting in 14 points and a 21-3 Kent State lead.

"It always builds momentum when you get turnovers," said linebacker Luke Batton, who had 13 tackles, a sack and an interception. "It gets your whole team up, especially the defense. Everyone is trying to get a little piece of the pie. I guess you can say it snowballs."

Kent State never trailed after Keith hit Hitchens with a 1-yard TD pass for a 7-3 lead. Fackler's TD stretched the lead to 14-3, and Archer pushed it to 21-3 after an interception by Leon Green set up a 45-yard drive.

The Golden Flashes allowed Rutgers to get back in the game in the final 59 seconds with a five-play, 83-yard drive that started with a 45-yard run by Jamison and ended with a 19-yard TD pass to Wright with :04 left in the half.

However, Rutgers never got any closer in the second half.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/kent-st-forces-7-tos-upsets-no-18-225318255--spt.html

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NFL Litigation - New Jersey/Pennsylvania Personal Injury Attorneys ...

Of all personal injuries that serve as basis for litigation, perhaps the most devastating are brain injuries. Brain injuries can severely impair victims in terms of both cognitive and physical abilities, dramatically compromising their quality of life. The New Jersey and Pennsylvania personal injury attorneys of the Locks Law Firm have extensive experience in representing brain injury victims, helping them and their families to obtain the compensation to which they are legally entitled from the parties responsible for their suffering.

Most recently, the expertise of the Locks Law Firm in brain injury litigation has placed them at the forefront of the much-publicized lawsuits filed against the National Football League (NFL). NFL litigation has taken the form of multiple class-action lawsuits on behalf of NFL players who suffered concussions during their careers. Locks Law Firm filed one of the first of these lawsuits, in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The lawsuit sought to compel the NFL to provide medical monitoring for repetitive concussion and cumulative head trauma for former players who either are or could in the future suffer from repetitive traumatic brain injury (TBI) due to trauma sustained during their professional careers. The firm has also filed multiple separate lawsuits on behalf of former NFL players.

To date, hundreds of former NFL players, as well as hundreds more wives of former players, have joined lawsuits filed by the Locks Law Firm. The United States Panel on Multi-District Litigation (JPMDL) ordered that all of these lawsuits be consolidated and assigned to the Honorable Anita B. Brody in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. With its primary office in Philadelphia, the Locks Law Firm will continue to play an integral role in litigation against the NFL.

Judge Brody will hear the NFL?s motion to dismiss the consolidated lawsuit on August 9, 2012, with a ruling not expected until 2013. The Locks Law Firm remains steadfast in its commitment to pursue justice on behalf of former NFL players and their families.

The position of the New Jersey and Pennsylvania wrongful death attorneys and personal injury lawyers of the Locks Law Firm is that the NFL has been negligent in its responsibility to address the pervasive problem of repetitive traumatic brain injuries suffered by its former players, going to great lengths not only to dispute the connection between latent brain disease and repetitive traumatic brain injury, but also to hide information they have regarding this connection. The firm believes that the NFL should take responsibility for players who now suffer from dementia, Alzheimer?s disease, and other permanent brain injuries that are the result of head trauma sustained while playing professional football.

Thankfully, due in large part to the efforts of the Locks Law Firm, the plight of former NFL players has become public knowledge. Thousands of former NFL players, as well as families who have lost loved ones due to NFL-related brain injuries, may currently be entitled to compensation for losses and expenses resulting from the NFL?s negligence.

If you or someone you love once played for the NFL and is now the victim of a brain injury as a result, please contact the Locks Law Firm today for an explanation of your legal rights and options.

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Friday night football: Mountaineers out of running for state in Region ...

CHATSWORTH ? As king of North Murray?s homecoming festivities Friday night, it would have been fitting if celebrated Mountaineers quarterback Brady Swilling had led his team to a victory against Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe.

Unfortunately for North Murray, that did not happen ? but it was not for lack of trying by Swilling and his teammates who fell 47-35 to the Warriors in a Region 5-3A shootout that took three hours to decide.

?I was flattered to be the king,? Swilling, a senior said of his brief activity at halftime as he helped crown queen Leeann Callihan. ?Homecoming is great, but it was about me playing football. We did play them closer than recent years. That certainly shows improvement for us.?

Any hope that the Mountaineers had of gaining a state playoff spot (4-4, 1-4 Region 5-3A) ended with the loss. The Warriors (6-2, 3-2) are vividly in the picture.

North Murray fell behind 26-7 in the second quarter and spent the night playing catch-up. After that, it twice pulled within six points but no closer.

?We just got off to such a bad start,? Mountaineers coach David Gann said. ?However, our guys battled. They just made several more big plays than we did. Our defense could not stop them, but our offense also helped them by turning the ball over.?

After LFO led following its initial drive, 7-0 on quarterback Trey Silmon?s 18-yard scamper, North Murray knotted the count, 7-7 on Swilling?s 31-yard pass to Hinton McConkey. Aaron Mendez kicked the extra point.

After falling behind by 19 points, the Mountaineers closed to 26-20 at halftime. Christian Bukle raced 42 yards on a run up the middle, and Swilling teamed with Jacob Mays on an 18-yard scoring toss to tighten the gap.

North Murray?s scoring in the second half came from Buckle on a 2-yard run, Mays on an 85-yard kickoff return and a safety relinquished purposely by the LFO offense.

The Warriors? Silmon also accounted for a 4-yard scoring run and a 4-yard touchdown pass to Daniel Parrish in the first half. Jacob Gilbert returned a North Murray fumble 55 yards for a touchdown.

During a fourth quarter scoreathon Silmon connected twice with Jackson Wallin on scores of 54 and 41 yards, with both plays starting in the flats. Pooh Harden scored on a 47-yard run.

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Michigan = Italy = Ohio = France | Michael Ruhlman

Grappa and pear eau de vie made in northern Michigan. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman.

I?ve recently returned from inspiring days at Pigstock, in Traverse City, Michigan, where I and my partner in Salumi, Brian Polcyn, were invited to participate in a celebration of the pig. But we also got to sample wines and spirits made from the abundant fruit that grows in this unique climate.

I have, since I first imbibed the crystal elixir, bowed before eau de vie, the aptly named water of life. My first vision of it was in the 1970s when my Uncle Lars arrived at our house with a gift of Poire Williams?for my father;?astonishingly, there was a pear inside the bottle. I did not get to drink from this as I was 10, and my dad felt that if they could get a pear inside a bottle, it deserved to remain sealed and marveled at for at least a year, and then doled out carefully. I was 16 before I got a sip of the magical fluid. (Now, at 49, I am less careful with the portions; Brian and I made considerable headway into the brandy in Traverse City, with only a little help from dear Kate of Camont, who?d made a special stop on her way to Grrls Meat Camp in Chicago. Kate?s first comment: ?It?s so smooth.? Indeed, with a heady pear aroma.)

Ten years later, Donna and I, boyfriend and girlfriend, ?acquainted? for only eight months but in love forever, traveled to Italy to do our first story together on the marble of Carrara. Here I first tasted lardo (1988, when raw pig fat was considered instant death in America; I write about this in the new book), but also grappa, the spirit made from grape skins?byproducts from the wine-making?further fermented into an inferior wine, but then distilled into a wonderful clear spirit. Raw pig fat! Grappa! What a world, I thought.

Unable to buy the stuff in Ohio for years given our Civil War?era liquor laws and unhappy with the industrial lighter fluids available in Florida where my mom lived, I was at last in heaven again this summer on my 49th?birthday (having taken Donna to Italy to celebrate her 5-0 the day before). We splurged on Splendido (go for the rooms by the harbor, Splendido de Mare, not the posh hillside main resort). I bobbed up and down like a cork in the brine-strength swimming pool; we had a lovely lunch and, after, the best grappa they had.

And then, this past Monday afternoon, having cleaned off after the hog slaughter in upstate Michigan, where I?d eaten raw pig fat, warm back fat from the freshly slaughtered Mangalitsa, we visited a local winery,?Black Star Farms?where owner?Don Coe pointed to his still and said, ?That?s what does it. We should have a taste.?

?It? was grappa. ?It? was pear and oak-aged apple brandy. And ?it? was heaven, made from the fruit of the state my mother was born in, where my grandma was to be buried two days hence. Hemingway camped and fished just to the southwest on Walloon Lake, the setting of some of his first stories. Fruit grown in the sandy sloping soil?on the peninsula of Traverse City is superlative. Apples and pears and grapes raised in a climate made temperate by the largest bodies of fresh water on the planet. Michigan fruit is transformed into not only apple and pear brandy and grappa but also, what they?re known for, white wines in the Riesling style as well as incredibly big reds, such as the Cab Franc Merlot served at the Pigstock fund-raiser dinner. The region is also home to extraordinary local beer. Beer and wine and spirits to be taken seriously, worldwide, as far as I?m concerned.

I didn?t need to love Europe because it made great food, food close to my soul, I just needed to live long enough for America to figure out that we could make it ourselves out of our own ? [intone heavy French accent] ??terroir. The wine sucked at first, what we made here. You can?t just make great things right off the bat. Quality takes time, trial and error, thinking, but we?re doing it, and I know of no better model than Traverse City, which serves as a great example of what?s possible, producing extraordinary products from what grows best in the region. Can we make great wines in Ohio? Remains to be seen. Can we make great beer? You bet. Can we make great cassoulet? Oh yeah.

(But you know what, I can?t get?Michigan grappa in Cleveland because of our stupid State Liquor Board Control, which must list it before it?s allowed to be shipped in; they let one shitty grappa in, that?s it. Can we ship all government officials, House of Reps first aboard, to Australia and have a Thomas Jefferson do-over?)

Today?s Friday post is a digestif, rather than a cocktail, which is customarily taken after a meal, enhanced with tobacco if you partake.

If you?re looking for a Friday evening pre-meal cocktail,?go here.

Regardless, appreciate and encourage the bounty of this astonishing country. Preferably while you?re enjoying a a good martini or a post-meal eau de vie.

Other links you may like:

• Cherry Capital Foods, an off-shoot of Earthy Delights (which I love), works to distribute locally grown products to restaurants and customers within a 150-mile radius of the farms.
• My recent posts covering these cocktails: The Southside, Between the Sheets, and ?The Bloody Mary.
• How do they get those pears in the bottle? Video one and two from Black Star Farms.
• Check out these other?Michigan Wineries:?Left Foot Charley,?Chateau Chantal,?Chateau Grand Traverse,?L. Mawby, and?Old Mission?Peninsula,?to name a few.
• Be sure to check out my upcoming events in Cleveland at the Fabulous Food Show and the West Side Market Centennial.
• Learn about Peruvian Pisco, a grape-based brandy.

? 2012 Michael Ruhlman. Photo ? 2012 Donna Turner Ruhlman. All rights reserved.

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Lavish lifestyle enmeshes taxpayer in tax ... - Department of Finance

The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) today filed a criminal complaint with the Department of Justice against ELVINARIO A. VALENZUELA (VALENZUELA) for willful attempt to evade or defeat payment of tax and for willful failure to file his Income Tax Returns (ITR) for Taxable Years (TY) 2009 and 2010, in violation of Section 254 and Section 255 of the National Internal Revenue Code of 1997, as amended (Tax Code).

Respondent VALENZUELA, is a registered taxpayer of Revenue District Office No. 33, Ermita-Malate-Port Area with address at No. 1227 Ma. Orosa St., Brgy. 670, Zone 072, Ermita, Manila.

In 2009, investigators of the BIR discovered that VALENZUELA spent?P1.19 million and?P0.41 million for the purchase of a Toyota Hi-Ace Grandia 2007 and a Nissan Patrol 1994, respectively. In 2010, his expenditures included the acquisition of a Hummer H2 2003 and a Toyota Dyna Fire Truck 2010 worth?P3.15 million and?P0.8 million, respectively, purchase of a?P3.2 million Grandview Condominium with Parking Slot, investment in Stocks worth?P62,500.00, capital investment in Elvinario?s Restaurant valued at?P0.5 million and payments of rentals based on a contract of lease amounting to?P0.3 million.

Using the expenditure method of investigation, VALENZUELA?s taxable income for TY 2009 was determined at?P1.6 million and?P8.01 million for 2010. Investigators, however, discovered that VALENZUELA failed to file his ITRs for TY 2009 and 2010 despite receiving income for the said taxable years.

The expenditure method proceeds from the theory that where the amount of money which a taxpayer spends during a given year exceeds his reported income, and the source of such money is otherwise unexplained, it may be inferred that such expenditures represent unreported income. The expenditure method is often used on a taxpayer who spends his income on lavish living and has little, if any, networth.

For his acts and omissions in violation of the Tax Code, VALENZUELA was sued for a total income tax liability for taxable years 2009 and 2010 amounting to?P5.77 million, inclusive of surcharges and interests, broken down as follows: 2009 ??P0.97 million; and 2010 -?P4.8 million.

The case?against ELVINARIO A. VALENZUELA is the 132^nd?filed under the Run After Tax Evaders (RATE) program of the BIR under the leadership of Commissioner Kim S. Jacinto-Henares. (reytdlc)

Source: http://www.dof.gov.ph/?p=4973

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Patience and policy needed on drive toward sustainability | Center ...

I recently responded to a question on the National Journal blog, "What 's holding back electric cars?"

You can read more on the original blog post and other responses at the National Journal.

Here is my response:

We shouldn?t be discouraged about the future of electric vehicles because some early movers are not meeting expectations.

The recent decision by advanced battery maker A123 Systems to seek bankruptcy protection is evidence the company made missteps and perhaps grew faster than it could handle, which is not unusual in high tech. But having a veteran auto industry supplier like Johnson Controls move to acquire A123?s auto battery business sends a strong signal to the market that the technology has long-term viability.

We also shouldn?t lose sight of the transformative opportunity these vehicles present by focusing on the early bumps in the road. The development and introduction of these vehicles will benefit both the economy and the environment by using energy more efficiently. Electric cars also hold great potential to wean us off oil and reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that are causing climate change.

A car is the second most expensive thing many of us will ever purchase, so we won?t move to entirely new propulsion systems such as electric drive powered by fuel cells or batteries overnight.

We must allow more time for the public and private investments we?ve already made to bear fruit. Early investments by Toyota and others in hybrid-electric drivetrains have paid dividends as automakers distribute this technology across their product line. The same will happen with plug-in electric cars.

Ultimately, market forces must drive sales of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs). But for now, public policy plays a critical role.

Washington has already done a lot to support the electric vehicle industry, including tax incentives, loans, and extensive use of the bully pulpit. The new 2025 fuel economy standards are also driving investment in vehicle efficiency technology. But it?s not practical to expect much additional public investment given competing priorities.

To help define the respective roles of government, business and consumers, we convened the PEV Dialogue Group, a group of public and private experts whose recent Action Plan lays out a number of ways to facilitate a real national electric car market. We?re now working with officials in 20 states and the District of Columbia to implement the group?s recommendations.

At the federal level, the group recommends keeping the existing vehicle tax credit, which is essential despite what others have been saying. A vehicle tax credit helped grow sales of hybrid vehicles, such as the Toyota Prius, by nearly 70 percent from 2005 to 2007, and has helped electric cars sell at twice the rate as hybrids when they were at this stage in their history. Policymakers should consider making the credit a direct rebate to encourage government- or nonprofit-operated fleets to switch to electric cars.

As laid out in our Action Plan, electric utilities, other businesses, all levels of government, and NGOs need to work together to make this happen. Most of the steps recommended by the group can be taken outside Washington, at the state and local level. These include:

• Facilitate regulatory reform, such as rules that encourage drivers to charge when power is cheapest to produce. The existing electrical grid can support millions of electric cars so long as drivers charge when demand is low, which is also when electricity is cheapest to produce.
• Establish and share best practices. Across the country, groups of all kinds have been facilitating the introduction of electric vehicles and charging infrastructure in new markets by establishing codes and standards and educating consumers. ?We should collect and share what is being learned to create a consistent and compatible market for these vehicles in all 50 states.
• Optimize deployment of charging infrastructure. The PEV Action Plan addresses the ?chicken-and-egg problem? of coordinating the expansion of vehicles and charging infrastructure. But this is much less challenging for electric vehicles than, for example, for hydrogen vehicles since charging at home is relatively straightforward. Existing research and experience indicates a dense, publicly funded infrastructure is not needed to spur vehicle sales. However, home charging, including for those who rely on street parking, is essential. The PEV Action plan includes simple measures, such as having dealers notify electric utilities when new electric vehicles are purchased in their service territories.

Electric cars have suffered from hype from all sides. Automakers, government, and the media touted these cars as a panacea for a struggling domestic auto industry. The true role for electric vehicles is to help us move down the road toward a sustainable transportation system.

Source: http://www.c2es.org/blog/claussene/patience-policy-needed-drive-toward-sustainability

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Spoofed Boarding Passes Could Put Terrorists on Planes

Barcodes on airline boarding passes can be read by readily available barcode readers and contain information used to determine which security protocols a traveler will be subject to, security researchers have discovered.

The worry is that travelers, who can print boarding passes at home up to 24 hours before their flight, could alter the barcodes to determine whether they are subjected to a conventional security check or to the less stringent, expedited-security Pre-Check procedure. That's information that could potentially give an advantage to a would-be terrorist.

Chit-chat about the security flaw has been happening in online forums since July, the Washington Post reported, but the issue only gained serious attention last week when aviation blogger John Butler said he'd discovered that the information stored on the barcode was unencrypted.

"I'm publishing this because I am seriously concerned with boarding-pass security in the United States," Butler wrote after decoding his own boarding pass with a tool available on the Web.

The Transportation Security Administration responded to a request for comment from TechNewsDaily with a boilerplate email detailing which airlines and types of passenger qualify for the Pre-Check program.

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Butler published the decoded information and pointed to a digit ? either a 1 or a 3 ? that he said indicated whether he would be expedited or sent through conventional security.

Not only could an individual use this knowledge of the barcode to cause harm, Butler warned, but he could also change it.

Anyone can "use a website to decode the barcode and get the flight information, put it into a text file, change the 1 to a 3, then use another website to re-encode it into a barcode," Butler warned. "Finally, using a commercial photo-editing program or any program that can edit graphics, replace the barcode in their boarding pass with the new one they created."

Publicly available information corroborates Butler's claim, the Washington Post reported.

Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), who has been a vocal critic of the TSA's airport-screening measures, said this latest revelation was another cause for concern.

"This has the potential to be a gaping flaw in the system that would be all too easy to exploit," he told the Post. "At the very least, if someone is flagged for a random screening, that information should be encrypted."

?This story was provided by TechNewsDaily, sister siter site to LiveScience. Follow Ben on Twitter @benkwx.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/spoofed-boarding-passes-could-put-terrorists-planes-231754237.html

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White House downplays emails sent during Benghazi attack

The White House this morning attempted to down-play the significance of emails sent to top national security officials during the attack on the diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11, one of which suggested a known terrorist group claimed credit for the attack in its immediate aftermath.

As obtained by ABC News' John Parkinson and posted last night, the emails seem to be ones sent by the State Department Operations Center to distribution lists and email accounts for the top national security officials at the State Department, Pentagon, the FBI, the White House Situation Room and the office of the Director of National Intelligence.

One of the emails reported that officials that Ansar al-Sharia claimed responsibility for the Benghazi attack on Facebook and Twitter, and had threatened to attack the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli.

In the first couple weeks after the attack, the White House and Obama administration generally blamed the attack on a demonstration an anti-Muslim video that got out of control. On September 14, White House press secretary Jay Carney asserted that " we have no information to suggest that it was a preplanned attack." Only later would the Obama administration say the attack was planned.

White House officials maintained that the emails don't contradict what the White House believed at that point, based on the intelligence community's assessment of the attack. The views of the intelligence community are valued far more than Facebook and twitter claims, officials said, describing that email as an unclassified ops alert email, not a vetted intelligence assessment. It was not definitive, but rather the act of flagging open source reporting referencing a Facebook post, and - officials noted - on September 17, Ansar al-Sharia denied responsibility for the attack.

Carney today told reporters that there were emails about all sorts of information that was coming available in the aftermath of the attack. "There was a variety of information coming in," Carney said. "The whole point of an intelligence community and what they do is to assess strands of information and make judgments about what happened and who was responsible."

Moreover, officials said, the intelligence community still believes there wasn't a tremendous amount of planning before the attack. A terrorist group carrying it out doesn't mean it wasn't an opportunistic attack, officials said.

The first email , with a subject line of "U.S. Diplomatic Mission in Benghazi Under Attack," sent about 25 minutes after the attack began, states: "Regional Security Officer reports the diplomatic mission is under attack. Embassy Tripoli reports approximately 20 armed people fired shots; explosions have been heard as well. Ambassador Stevens, who is currently in Benghazi, and four COM (Chief of Mission) personnel are in the compound safe haven. The 17th of February militia is providing security support."

The next email sent at 4:54 PM states that the shooting has stopped and the compound was cleared, adding that a response team was "onsite attempting to locate COM personnel."

-Jake Tapper and John Parkinson

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/white-house-responds-release-real-time-emails-benghazi-151141456--abc-news-politics.html

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