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Judge stops bid for special prosecutor in Aurora theater shooting leak

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At least one officer investigating the Aurora movie theater shooting may have lied under oath during a hearing about a crucial piece of evidence, but a special prosecutor is not needed to Reported by Denver Post 3 days ago.

First Japanese flight kicks off aurora season

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First Japanese flight kicks off aurora season FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — The first aurora borealis seekers from Japan have arrived in Alaska's interior to launch the unofficial beginning of the northern lights viewing season. The Fairbanks market has earned a reputation as one of the best places in the world to view northern lights, given the area's favorable geographic location and clear nights. Reported by SeattlePI.com 3 days ago.

Researchers Use NASA And Other Data To Look Into The Heart Of A Solar Storm

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*Karen C. Fox, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center*

A space weather storm from the sun engulfed our planet on Jan. 21, 2005. The event got its start on Jan. 20, when a cloud of solar material, a coronal mass ejection or CME, burst off the sun and headed toward Earth. When it arrived at our planet, the ring current and radiation belts surrounding Earth swelled with extra particles, while the aurora persisted for six hours. Both of these are usually signs of a very large storm – indeed, this was one of the largest outpouring of solar protons ever monitored from the sun. But the storm barely affected the magnetic fields around Earth – disturbances in these fields can affect power grids on the ground, a potential space weather effect keenly watched for by a society so dependent on electricity.

Janet Kozyra, a space scientist at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, thought this intriguing combination of a simultaneously weak and strong solar storm deserved further scrutiny. In an effort to better understand -- and some day forecast -- such storms and their potential effects on human technology, an unusual event like this can help researchers understand just what aspects of a CME lead to what effects near Earth.

"There were features appearing that we generally only see during extreme space weather events, when by other measures the storm was moderate," said Kozyra. "We wanted to look at it holistically, much like terrestrial weather researchers do with extreme weather. We took every single piece of data that we could find on the solar storm and put it together to see what was going on."

With observations collected from ground-based networks and 20 different satellites, Kozyra and a group of colleagues, each an expert in different aspects of the data or models, found that the CME contained a rare piece of dense solar filament material. This filament coupled with an unusually fast speed led to the large amount of solar material observed. A fortuitous magnetic geometry, however, softened the blow, leading to reduced magnetic effects. These results were published in the Aug. 14, 2014, issue of Journal of Geophysical Research, Space Physics.

The researchers gathered data from spacecraft orbiting in Earth's ionosphere, which extends up to 600 miles above the planet’s surface, and satellites above that, orbiting through the heart of Earth's magnetic environment, the magnetosphere. The massive amount of data was then incorporated into a variety of models developed at the University of Michigan’s Center for Space Environment Modeling, which are housed at the Community Coordinated Modeling Center at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, a facility dedicated to providing comprehensive access to space weather models.

With the models in hand, the team could put together the story of this particular solar storm. It began with the CME on Jan. 20, 2005. The European Space Agency and NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or SOHO, captured images of the CME. At their simplest, CMEs look like a magnetic bubble with material around the outside. In this case, there was an additional line of colder, denser solar material – an electrically charged gas called plasma – inside called a solar filament. Solar filaments are ribbons of dense plasma supported in the sun’s outer atmosphere – the corona -- by strong magnetic fields. Filament material is 100 times denser and 100 times cooler than the surrounding atmosphere. When the supporting magnetic fields erupt, the filaments are caught up in the explosive release that forms the CME. Despite observations that the majority of eruptions like this involve solar filaments, the filaments are rarely identified in disturbances that reach Earth. Why this might be, is a mystery – but it means that the presence of the solar filament in this particular event is a rare sighting.

Subsequent observations of the CME showed it to be particularly fast, with a velocity that peaked at around 1800 miles per second before slowing to 600 miles per second as it approached Earth. Just how many CMEs have filaments or how the geometry of such filaments change as they move toward Earth is not precisely known. In this case, however, it seems that the dense filament sped forward, past the leading edge of the CME, so as it slammed into the magnetosphere, it delivered an extra big dose of energetic particles into near-Earth space.

What happened next was observed by a flotilla of Earth-orbiting scientific satellites, including NASA's IMAGE, FAST and TIMED missions, the joint European Space Agency, or ESA, and NASA's Cluster, the NASA and ESA's Geotail, the Chinese and ESA's Double Star-1; other spacecraft 1 million miles closer to the sun including SOHO and NASA's Advanced Composition Explorer, Wind various other spacecraft; as well as the National Science Foundation-supported ground-based SuperDARN radar network. At the time Cluster was in the solar wind directly upstream of Earth. Meanwhile, Double Star-1 was passing from the outer region of the planet’s magnetic field and entering the magnetosphere. This enabled it to observe the entry of the solar filament material as it crossed into near-Earth space.

“Within one hour of the impact, a cold, dense plasma sheet formed out of the filament material," said Kozyra. "High density material continued to move through the magnetosphere for the entire six hours of the filament’s passage."

Despite the intense amount of plasma carried by the CME, it still lacked a key component of a super storm. The magnetic fields embedded in this CME generally pointed toward Earth's north pole, just as Earth's own magnetic fields do. This configuration causes far fewer disruptions to our planet's system than when the CME's fields point southward. When pointing south, the CME's fields clash with Earth's, peeling them back and setting off magnetic perturbations that cascade through the magnetosphere.

The magnetic field orientation is what kept this solar storm to low levels. On the other hand, the extra solar material from the filament catalyzed long-term aurora over the poles and enhanced the particle filled radiation belts around Earth, characteristic of a larger storm.

"This event, with its unusual combination of space weather effects really demonstrates why it's important to look at the entire system, not just individual elements," said Kozyra. "Only by using all of this data, by watching the event from the beginning to the end, can we begin to understand all the different facets of an extreme storm like this."

Understanding what created the facets of this particular 2005 storm adds to a much larger body of knowledge about how different kinds of CMEs can affect us here at Earth. By knowing what factors lead to the total strength of a storm, we can better learn to predict what the sun is sending our way.

This work was supported by NASA’s Heliophysics Division, in combination with the National Science Foundation’s Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences.

*> Explore Further...* Reported by redOrbit 2 days ago.

Aurora issues first licenses for retail pot shops

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The city of Aurora has issued the first 21 licenses to open retail pot shops, choosing from a pool of 58 applicants. CBS4 reports Aurora still has three available licenses for the sale of retail marijuana. Applications are begin accepted until Sept. 2. Aurora, which expects to collect $2.8 million in tax revenue from the retail sales, won't allow the shops to open until Oct. 1. One of the things the city will be looking at once the stores open is the smell of marijuana. Robin Peterson, who manages… Reported by bizjournals 3 days ago.

Moorhead Recreation Center in Aurora looking to receive $9 million renovation

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Aurora could break ground on a 30,000 square foot renovation of Moorhead Recreation Center in northwest Aurora as early as fall 2016 if city council approves a $9 million funding request proposed for the 2015 budget in October. Reported by Denver Post 2 days ago.

Smart Guns, Guts, and the NRA: Shoot-Out at the Massachusetts Corral

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America doesn't have a gun control issue. It has an impulse control issue.

Gun control advocates came to realize that if they couldn't push legislation through Congress in the wake of Newtown and Aurora, it wasn't going to happen anytime soon.

And yet, mass killings continue to haunt the headlines with no apparent way to curtail them. Except, possibly, for one approach: so-called Smart Guns.

Smart Guns are guns that are biometrically tied to the legitimate owner, so that no one else can accidentally fire them or steal them to commit mayhem. The technology takes guns out of the wrong hands, stopping accidental shootings in the home, criminals stealing guns to commit crime, and many other forms of preventable gun violence.

The NRA sees Smart Guns as a threat to Second Amendment rights and triggered (pun intended) a boycott of Smith & Wesson, after they worked to develop a Smart Gun in conjunction with the Clinton administration. The boycott nearly destroyed the fabled gunmaker in 2000.

No state has passed a law mandating the sale of Smart Guns, even though proponents claim that the technology exists to make them work right and save innocent lives. Which brings us to the fabled Commonwealth of Massachusetts, engine of social change, as evidenced by then-Governor Romney's embrace of government healthcare.

Now entering the Smart Gun battle: Warren Tolman, a Democratic candidate for State Attorney General, locked in a tight primary campaign to be decided Tuesday, September 9. In Democrat-heavy Massachusetts, the primary winner inevitably wins the prize in the November general election.

Tolman has taken the unique position that the Massachusetts Attorney General can use the authority granted by the state's consumer protection law, Chapter 93A, to promulgate regulations that mandate Smart Gun technology on all new guns sold in the Commonwealth.

His opponents beg to differ. Tolman's Democratic challenger, Maura Healey, a Harvard grad and a former assistant attorney general, has said, "I don't see the authority for that within the office. I do think it's something that the legislature could consider." She later told a debate audience: "It is safer to do by legislation than by regulation. It makes it less vulnerable to legal challenge in court."

If Tolman wins on Tuesday, he'll face Republican John Miller in November. Miller also believes that Tolman is overreaching. "The role of the attorney general," Miller told the State House News Service, "is to enforce the state's constitution and the laws passed and enacted by the legislature and governor. It is not the role of the Attorney General to bypass either."

Tolman's stand places him in the line of fire of the NRA, which claims not to oppose Smart Gun technology but disseminates its concerns about the constitutionality and safety of such weapons in gun owner discussion forums online. The primary election -- and perhaps even the general election -- may turn on Tolman's intent to make every gun in Massachusetts a Smart Gun.

If Tolman were to succeed, and if his approach passed the inevitable legal challenges, Massachusetts could be sounding the starting gun for Smart Gun legislation across the United States. New Jersey, for example, has already passed legislation declaring that as soon as some other state takes the lead and mandates Smart Guns, the Garden State will require Smart Gun sales three years later.

John Rosenthal, a gun owner and the founder of the gun control advocacy group Stop Handgun Violence, believes Tolman's effort to mandate Smart Gun technology is crucial to saving lives.

"Smart personalized guns are the single most effective way to stop preventable gun homicides, suicides and accidents without any inconvenience to law abiding gun owners," Rosenthal said. "Gun manufacturers could make them today and we simply need leaders like Warren Tolman to require and incentive them to do so."

It's a gutsy position for Tolman to take. He has far better name recognition than Healey and a six-point lead in the polls going into Labor Day weekend. Tolman is no stranger to controversy, though, once earning the sobriquet "anti-smoking Nazi" from Rush Limbaugh for his role in passing anti-Big Tobacco legislation in the Massachusetts State House. Tolman is also the author and guiding hand behind the last major campaign finance and ethics reform law to pass in Massachusetts, all the way back in 1994.

Tolman's opponents, seizing on the Smart Gun issue, are locked and loaded. But the former state legislator doesn't seem to mind the fight.

"There were more than 11,000 gun violence deaths in this country in 2010," Tolman told me. "And an additional 20,000 gun deaths came from accidents and suicides. If we wait for the legislature to do something, we'll be waiting a long time. How many more innocent people have to die because politicians are afraid of the gun lobby? My attitude is, let's make the change right now." Reported by Huffington Post 2 days ago.

Two Men Attempted to Lure 12-Year-Old Girl in Aurora: Police

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Patch Geneva, IL -- Two men in a red "beater"-type car approached the girl as she walked to school. Reported by Patch 2 days ago.

Aurora police arrest man suspected of five bank robberies

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Aurora police Thursday evening arrested a man they say is the suspect in five bank robberies in the city. Reported by Denver Post 2 days ago.

Sapphire Ingot Market (2014-2018) Analysis for China, Global Regions Research Study Available at ReportsnReports.com

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Chapter Five China Sapphire Ingot Key Manufacturers    
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Chapter Seven Sapphire Ingot Industry Research Conclusions
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Women in Business: Q&A with Victoria Livschitz, founder of Qubell

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Victoria Livschitz is a serial entrepreneur, a founder of Grid Dynamics and more recently, a technology start-up Qubell, that has a big audacious goal of making large companies more innovative and agile. Prior to Grid Dynamics, Ms. Livschitz served for 10 years as a Principal Technologist at Sun Microsystems, where she held a number of senior positions including Chief Architect for the General Motors account, Principal Architect for the Financial Services industry, Principal Architect for the Sun Grid division and Senior Scientist at Sun Labs. She pioneered the use of Java in factory automation for General Motors, designed the industry-first real time fraud detection system for Visa and architected the original compute utility product for software developers.

*How has your life experience made you the leader you are today?*
Life is a collection of experiences that shape and define us, as a person and a leader. A part of me is an engineer and technologist that loves building systems - applications, platforms, teams, companies. A part of me is a mother of three kids, who sees deep similarities between team dynamics and family dynamics and "nurtures" rather then "manages" younger colleagues to help them discover the true passion and frame the path to reach their full potential.

And a big part of me is as entrepreneur and adventurer that seeks to understand what future is going to be like, identify inefficiencies and missing pieces that stand in a way of progress, and then go out and build that future with creative new products, services and business models.

*How has your previous employment experience aided your position at Qubell?*
I started my career in IT at Ford on a fast-track management program. I was put on 5 programming assignments in 3 different divisions in the first 4 years. This was a fantastic way for a young professional to learn about the industry. That knowledge of the technology operations of big companies stayed with me and helped on daily basis throughout the rest of my career.

The next 10 years at Sun taught me a lot about the thought leadership and how to bring next-generation technologies to the conservative environments of Fortune-500 companies. It also trained me not to be afraid to take a charge on high-profile projects and deliver on commitments when the stakes are high and powerful people's careers are on the line.

All this helps me to be an effective start-up CEO as we bring our disruptive next-generation technology to Fortune 500 companies - and will continue to guide me through the upcoming growth stage as we scale our business.

*What have the highlights and challenges been during your tenure at Qubell?*
Qubell has an exciting mission - to empower big companies be radically more innovative and do what they've never being able to do before: shorten the cycle time for new applications from quarters to weeks and deliver new features to the customer's hands daily, a few times a year.

When we got started back in 2012, our main challenge was to convince the CIOs that they need to invest in agility. Luckily for us, we timed the market well and now in early 2014 the agility is widely considered as a #1 priority for the CIOs.

Our main achievements to date are classic for an enterprise technology start-up: build the founding team, ship the first minimally viable product (MVP), close the first few enterprise customers, raise the first venture round.

Our next set of challenges is to build a broad market awareness of our solution and scale the sales operations.

*How is your technology changing the market?*
For starters, the Qubell platform gives the developers a self-service "button" to launch lightweight "sandboxes" configured with all the necessary infrastructure, applications, tests, datasets and tools. Developers can now experiment with new ideas and test their code anytime, from anywhere, without filing IT tickets and waiting weeks for the new environment to be set-up by someone.

Next, Qubell technology leverages the cloud to effectively create a "conveyor belt" that carries changes to code, configuration or middleware through all stages of the release pipeline, up to and including production upgrade, continuously and automatically.

The impact to the customers is truly game changing: new projects are delivered faster, new ideas are tried and fine-tined (or rejected) earlier, bugs are found sooner, 80% of issues related to misconfiguration of environments go away, more teams can work in parallel without stepping on each other, and if all that is not enough - people report being happier and more productive.

*What advice can you offer women who want to start their own business?*
If you have family, make sure it is 100% behind you. Be prepared for a tremendous pressure, stress and financial risks associated with entrepreneurship and take the steps to assure you and your family is ready to deal with them.

*How do you maintain a work/life balance?*
A true balance is illusive, and it changes over the years. When my three kids were young, the balance meant working for a big corporation so that I bring home a steady paycheck and "switch off" in the evenings and weekends to be with my husband and kids.

Then I started my first company, Grid Dynamics, the entrepreneurial drive coupled with a constant fight for survival shattered any notion of a balance. I slept 3 hours a day, and worked the other 21. It took me a few years to understand that this lifestyle was not sustainable and adjust the priorities.

These days I am much better at balancing the intense workload of a CEO with meaningful time, attention and affection for my children, social connection with friends and downtime for rest and hobbies.

*What do you think is the biggest issue for women in the workplace?*
Women have gone a long way to become accepted in the upper echelons of management and corporate boardrooms. Incredibly, women are running corporations like GM, Lockheed Martin, HP, Yahoo, IBM and Xerox. While we still have too few founding CEOs, I am confident that is going to change, too.

My experience tells me that the main challenges women face in building their professional careers are domestic rather than industrial. While successful men are getting more comfortable with high-power female peers and bosses, they are largely not ready to accept these qualities in their wives.

A highly successful and ambitious woman needs a family and support at home no less than a man, but she is much less likely to find a spouse who can provide that. When my daughters talk about their dreams for the future, they don't want to choose between a professional success and a normal family - husband, children. They want both. I want that for them, too - and for all other movers and shakers in skirts and high hills. Yet I fear that the modern society doesn't have a blueprint for that yet.

*How has mentorship made a difference in your professional and personal life?*
I had been lucky to have a few mentors early in my career at Sun who helped me become a good engineer and build a technical career. I am particularly grateful to Doug Willoughby for instilling a livelong passion for the design of complex distributed systems.

Since I've become an entrepreneur, the record had been mixed. Many wonderful people from the venture community and fellow entrepreneurs were willing to share advice and help learn the ropes. I am particularly grateful to Alexandra Johnson from DFJ who had been a supporter, a board member and a friend for almost a decade.

Unfortunately, I've also made a mistake of associating with one person whom I've come to regard as a mentor, to discover later that he was a crook. That association along with a misplaced trust caused pain to many innocent people, wasted millions of dollars and very nearly destroyed my company.

The important lesson is to surround yourself with people who achieved their successes with integrity and perform careful due diligence on those you trust most.

*Which other female leaders do you admire and why?*
I have been lucky to work with and learn from many incredible women who have the vision, execution and leadership qualities I admire. They are my customers, board members, advisors and employees. Amongst those who influenced me most are:
- Bella Allaire, EVP Technology and Operations, Raymond James
- Kira Makagon, EVP of Innovation, Ring Central
- Elissa Murthy, CTO of GoDaddy
- Alexandra Johnson, Managing Partner at DFJ VTB Capital Aurora fund and board member of Grid Dynamics
- Chris Munson, CFO at Grid Dynamics

*What do you want Qubell to accomplish in the next five years?*
We have a big audacious goal to become an integral part of the enterprise fabrics for collaborative application deployment, environment provisioning and configuration management in support of the agile on-demand release management.

That means winning the mindshare of the CIOs and CTOs of the digital enterprises and out-innovating the competition that's increasingly coming from the traditional enterprise players like IBM and vmware, along with other technology startups. Reported by Huffington Post 17 hours ago.

Police search for suspect who crashed car into Aurora home, fled

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Police in Aurora are searching for a suspect who crashed a car into a home and fled Monday night. Reported by Denver Post 1 day ago.

Police seek suspect who crashed car into Aurora home, fled

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Police in Aurora are searching for a suspect who crashed a car into a home and fled Monday night. Reported by Denver Post 1 day ago.

Digitimes Research: Kickstarter wearables expand presence in sleep tracking industry

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Several companies, and their related new wearable device concepts, have finished fund raising using the Kickstarter platform, with these devices being split into two major categories: devices that can help users sleep - such as NeuroOn, Aurora and Sense; and devices that can alert users to fatigue - such as Spark and Vigo. Digitimes Research believes these wearable devices will gradually replace existing bulky and expensive sleep-based medical devices and trigger more sleep-related application ideas in the future. Reported by DigiTimes 1 day ago.

Beasley & Henley Interior Design to Design Luxury Condo at Casa Bahia Yachting Community

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Award-winning firm Beasley & Henley Interior Design will design and furnish the luxury condominium residence model at Westshore Yacht Club’s new Casa Bahia development, located on the water in south Tampa, FL. Casa Bahia's penthouse-inspired residences will start at $690,000.

Tampa, FL (PRWEB) September 02, 2014

Beasley & Henley Interior Design is proud to continue their long alliance with WCI Communities. WCI has selected the award-winning firm to design and furnish the luxury condominium residences at Westshore Yacht Club’s new Casa Bahia development, located on the water in south Tampa, FL. Casa Bahia’s penthouse-inspired residences will start at $690,000.

The Casa Bahia model is a luxurious 2930 sqft, 3-bedroom condo, showcasing the easy living of the community. Beasley & Henley’s design will juxtapose silver, gold and glass accents with textural and natural pieces and a blend of modern art, photography and whimsical landscapes, according to Stephanie Henley, principal in the award-winning design firm. It’s an upscale but casual design that will emulate the lifestyle of Casa Bahia homes, which offer luxury features and maintenance-free living.

“The interior design is elegant, fresh and comfortable and really resonates with the lifestyle of the area’s homebuyers,” said Henley. “Window treatments will be light and airy so as not to interfere with the beautiful views and the bay breezes.”

The model will feature transitional-style furnishings with light wood, silver- and gold-finished accent pieces and touches of dark wood to add contrast. It will have medium-toned wood, carpeted bedrooms and light 12-by-24-inch ceramic tile flooring in main living areas. Fabrics will be light in color and texture, with strategic accents of vibrant color.

Cream-hued granite has been selected to complement the medium-toned wood cabinetry in the kitchen, which offers in-room dining at an island breakfast bar.

The bathroom in the owner’s suite will feature a light marble vanity countertop, a door-less walk-in shower, separate tub and private water closet. Owner’s suites also offer oversized walk-in closets and bedrooms with sliding glass doors opening onto secluded areas of the main loggia.

Additional design features in the model will include a glass tear-drop chandelier, upholstered headboards with nailhead trim and tufted accents, and slip-covered bed-like lounge chairs for the loggia.

The model is expected to be completed summer 2015.

As always, the talented Beasley & Henley Interior Design provided WCI Communities with all the interior design including the floor plan analysis, interior detailing, interior specification, ID drawings, outdoor living spaces and luxury furnishings.

Beasley & Henley, with offices in Winter Park and in Naples, FL., has luxury condos and single family home models open for viewing throughout Florida.

Beasley & Henley Interior Design is a boutique interior design firm creating luxury model homes and private residences across the US. Their services include interior detailing, specifications, drawings, interior design and furnishings. For more information on Beasley & Henley Interior Design or any of their award winning interiors, including Aurora Awards, please call 239-774-1005 or 407-629-7756, or reach us at Stephanie(at)BeasleyandHenley(dot)com http://www.BeasleyandHenley.com Reported by PRWeb 1 day ago.

Aftermath Services’ Raffle Will Help Winning Police Department Purchase a K-9

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Police departments across the country can now enter the Aftermath Services, LLC K-9 drawing, which will give away a $5,000 prize that the winning department can apply toward the purchase or training of a police K-9. Aftermath holds this annual drawing to show support for law enforcement authorities and help one police department improve its operations and efficiency.

Aurora, IL (PRWEB) September 02, 2014

Crime scene cleanup and biohazard remediation company Aftermath Services, LLC is giving back to first responders by holding a Fall 2014 K-9 drawing, which gives police departments the opportunity to win a $5,000 prize that one lucky department can use toward the purchase and training of its own police K-9. The annual raffle for first responders aims to honor the efforts of the law enforcement authorities that Aftermath works with every day by helping a police department overcome the significant investment of buying and training a police K-9.

Every department across the nation is eligible and encouraged to register. Aftermath will accept drawing entries through September 30, 2014, and the final drawing will be held on October 3, 2014. Only one registration per person is permitted, but Aftermath will accept entries from multiple people who work within the same department. For complete sweepstakes rules, please visit our website at: http://www.aftermath.com/k9drawing.

The addition of a police K-9 can help a police department better protect the community by performing numerous operations more safely and effectively, including detecting illicit drugs, uncovering explosives, and completing search and rescue missions. Unfortunately, although the benefits of working with K-9 units are well-known, many police departments are unable to add one of these animals to their force. Buying and training a police K-9 can cost more than $10,000, according to the law enforcement magazine, Police One. Smaller police departments and departments facing budget cuts may struggle to fund the purchase of even a single K-9.

With Aftermath’s help, past raffle winners have been able to purchase their first K-9, and some departments have even launched their own K-9 training programs. Police department members who are interested in entering this year’s raffle can access the registration form online at http://www.aftermath.com/k9-drawing.

About Aftermath Services, LLC

Aftermath Services, LLC is a crime scene and trauma cleanup company that has specialized in biohazard cleaning for the past 18 years with an emphasis on rapid emergency response and full compliance with health and safety regulations. Aftermath is based in Illinois, but the company offers cleaning and biohazard remediation services across the country, with more than 30 regional and mobile offices and a large team of certified professionals. Aftermath is focused on giving back to the communities it serves by offering scholarships and participating in various charities and local events. Reported by PRWeb 1 day ago.

Castanea Partners Announces Investment in Aurora Brands

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Castanea Partners Announces Investment in Aurora Brands NEWTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Castanea Partners announced today that it has invested in Aurora Brands, the owner of two iconic American luxury home and lifestyle brands: MacKenzie-Childs and Jay Strongwater. Founded in 1983 and headquartered in Aurora, New York, MacKenzie-Childs is a design driven leader in the luxury home furnishings and personal accessories market. MacKenzie-Childs creates exceptional customer loyalty through its commitment to the company’s unique design aesthetic and lifes Reported by Business Wire 1 day ago.

Magnetic substorms may sometimes be driven by different process than generally thought

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Magnetic substorms, the disruptions in geomagnetic activity that cause brightening of aurora, may sometimes be driven by a different process than generally thought, a new study shows. Reported by Science Daily 11 hours ago.

New Marketing Measurement System BlueHorizon™ Predicts Future Customer Equity of Consumer Brands

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Two hundred twenty three members of the Young Marines including registered adult leaders traveled to Window Rock, AZ, to be part of Navajo Code Talkers Day. The Young Marines not only met Code Talkers, they acted as escorts for the very special WWII veterans.

Washington, D.C. (PRWEB) September 02, 2014

Two hundred twenty three members of the Young Marines including registered adult leaders traveled to Window Rock, AZ, to be part of Navajo Code Talkers Day which was Thursday, Aug. 14. Seventeen veteran Navajo Code Talkers attended.

Every year since 2006, Young Marines from across the country gather in Window Rock, AZ, to honor and give praise to the Navajo Code Talkers from WWII. The Young Marines’ theme for 2014 was, “Treasure the Legacy.”

“It was a privilege to educate the Young Marines about the role of the Navajo Code Talkers and give them the opportunity to meet these living heroes,” said Michael Smith, coordinator of Navajo Code Talker Day and son of Samuel Smith, Navajo Code Talker.

The Young Marines not only met Code Talkers, they acted as escorts for the very special veterans. They cleaned up Veteran’s Memorial Park, attended a class about the Code Talkers, set up flags and marched in the Navajo Nation parade, provided gifts for the Navajo Code Talkers and their wives and visited the Navajo Nation Zoo and the Navajo Museum.

The Young Marines planned and ran a 5K fundraising run which made $3,000. The monies are designated to help pay for Code Talker funerals.

“Navajo Code Talkers Day was an incredibly humbling experience,” said YM/SgtMaj Blake DeWeese, National Young Marine of the Year, 2014-2015. “It provided a vivid depiction of the sacrifice and hardship the Navajo faced. We all had a greater appreciation of people as strong as the Navajo.”

The following Young Marines units were represented by attendees:·     Temecula Valley – Winchester, CA
·     Carroll County - Westminster, MD
·     Southland – Montclair, CA
·     Desert - Glendale, AZ
·     Southeast County - Seal Beach, CA
·     Columbia River – Kennewick, WA
·     Guadalupe Valley - Geronimo, TX
·     Bakersfield - Bakersfield, CA
·     Camp Pendleton - Camp Pendleton, CA
·     Emerald Coast - Crestview, FL
·     Columbus – Columbus, IN
·     Fall River - Fall River, MA
·     Seaford - Seaford, DE
·     Flat Irons – Thornton, CO
·     North Idaho - Hayden, ID
·     Pueblo – Pueblo, CO
·     Pikes Peak – Colorado Springs, CO
·     Hamilton – Nottingham, MD
·     Colfax County – Raton, NM
·     Swansboro - Cedar Point, NC
·     Douglas County – Aurora, CO
·     LCPL Caleb Powers - Fredericksburg, VA
·     Tornado Alley - Wichita, KS
·     Rattlesnake Reservoir - Loveland, CO
·     Poudre River – Greeley, CO
·     Tustin - Costa Mesa, CA
·     Mountain View – Highlands Ranch, CO
·     Colorado Springs - Colorado Springs, CO

“It’s rare to meet people who have had such an impact on our lives,” said Brenda McNulty, registered adult leader, Mountain View unit of the Young Marines and organizer of the event. “These men are more than just WWII heroes. They are dear friends to the Young Marines.”

In fact, McNulty heard a very meaningful compliment: If it weren’t for the Young Marines, the Code Talkers would be forgotten.

“Speaking with some of the Code Talkers was a valuable experience that the Young Marines will cherish for years to come,” DeWeese said. “Everyone came away with a story to tell and an experience upon which to reflect.”

Top secret

Cipher machines, or machines that create coded messages, did not work well in the jungles of the Pacific Islands during World War II. However, the United States military needed coded messages to send secret information from the battle lines to air bases and other locations. Native Americans who spoke the Navajo language helped solve this problem.

The Navajo “Code Talkers,” as they became known, used English code words that they translated into their language to send messages. The Japanese military could hear these coded messages, but they could not understand their meanings. The Navajo language was not well known.

The Navajo Code Talkers served in some of the fiercest battles of the Pacific. They saved many lives and helped the United States and its allies win the war. However, the Code Talkers were never allowed to discuss their work with anyone. Most Americans did not know about the Code Talkers’ role in World War II until much later.

The Navajo Code Talkers’ contributions to the U.S. military during World War II became better known with the release of the 2002 movie, “Windtalkers,” starring Nicolas Cage. Although the movie received mixed reviews, it exposed the public to World War II’s Native American heroes.

For their bravery and service, President Ronald Reagan set aside a special day to honor the Navajo Code Talkers. In 1982, he declared August 14 to be National Navajo Code Talkers Day.

The Young Marines is a national non-profit 501c(3) youth education and service program for boys and girls, age eight through the completion of high school. The Young Marines promotes the mental, moral and physical development of its members. The program focuses on teaching the values of leadership, teamwork and self-discipline so its members can live and promote a healthy, drug-free lifestyle.

Since the Young Marines' humble beginnings in 1959 with one unit and a handful of boys, the organization has grown to over 300 units with 11,000 youth and 3,000 adult volunteers in 46 states, the District of Columbia, Germany, Japan and affiliates in a host of other countries.

For more information, visit http://www.youngmarines.com/. Reported by PRWeb 20 hours ago.
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