Masonic Order In Gloucester, Virginia, Looking Inside The Order

Freemasons Monitor from Chuck Thompson

Continuing our exploration of the inside secrets of the Masonic Order, above is the Freemasons Monitor.  The book is 232 pages and shows some of the principles of Freemasonry.  You can download a free copy fro our slideshare site.  To read it online in full screen mode, just left click the icon at the far bottom right hand side of the container.  To exit full screen mode, hit the escape key on your keyboard.  We have more to share along these lines and will be posting more books soon.  We are allowing each person to take a trip inside and make their own determinations of what they think of the order.

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Professor Kliq, The Teragraph - Free Mp3 Music

Professor Kliq with their new EP The Teragraph.  We just played Depart and it was pretty awesome.  Instrumental industrial laid back tune with a touch of classical added in to create an interesting flavor.  Check the tracks out.  Download what you like.  Best of all, each track is free.  Share with your friends.  The little round blue icons next to the time for each track is where you download each song.  Enjoy.

Extended Play (Gin Wigmore EP) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Governor McDonnell Announces 2013 Governor’s Technology Award Winners

English: The state seal of Virginia. Српски / Srpski: Застава америчке савезне државе Вирџиније. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

RICHMOND – The annual Governor’s Technology Awards were presented to honorees in 10 categories at a special ceremony today at the Commonwealth of Virginia Innovative Technology Symposium (COVITS) in Richmond. On behalf of Governor Bob McDonnell, Secretary of Technology Jim Duffey, and CIO, Sam Nixon, presented the awards to a distinguished group of Virginia government entrants, including state and local government and universities. 

            Winners were determined by a distinguished panel of government information technology (IT) experts. For 16 years, the Governor’s Technology Awards program has recognized public sector IT projects that have improved government service delivery and efficiency.

Multiple awards were presented in several categories due to extremely close scores between projects. Executive summaries of each winner and finalist’s entries are posted on the COVITS website, www.covits.org, to provide inspiration and best practice examples to peers and partners.

            The 2013 winners and finalists, by category:

Cross-boundary Collaboration on IT Initiatives

·         WINNER: The Virginia Longitudinal Data System; Virginia Department of Education, State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, Virginia Community College System, Virginia Employment Commission

·         FINALIST: Electronic Certification of Birth Records; Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), Department of Health

·         FINALIST: Enterprise Active Directory; Virginia Community College System, Virginia Western Community College

IT as Efficiency Driver—Government to Citizen

·         WINNER: Online Voter Registration; State Board of Elections

·         WINNER: Centralized Application and Management System; Department of Housing and Community Development

·         WINNER: CommonHelp; Department of Social Services

·         WINNER: Judicial Electric Filing System; Supreme Court of Virginia

·         FINALIST: Online Marriage License Pre-Application; Fairfax Circuit Court

·         FINALIST: Property QuickSearch v2.0; City of Chesapeake

IT as Efficiency Driver—Government to Business

·         WINNER: Automated Secure Alarm Protocol Message Broker Service; City of Richmond

·         FINALIST: GIS Real Estate Website Redesign; City of Roanoke

·         FINALIST: Transcript Data Exchange; DMV

·         FINALIST: Community Development Information System Zoning Application; Chesterfield County

IT as Efficiency Driver—Government to Government

·         WINNER: VirginiaCORIS Local Inmate Data System; Department of Corrections, State Compensation Board

·         WINNER: Elevated Review Workflow; DMV

·         WINNER: State Police Record IT Exchange (SPRITE); Supreme Court of Virginia, Virginia State Police

·         FINALIST: Mobile Technologies to Increase Productivity and Workflow; Department of Environmental Quality

Innovative Use of Technology in Economic Development

·         WINNER: Regional Education and Training Database; Shenandoah Valley Partnership

·         FINALIST: Online Commercial Property Search; City of Fredericksburg

Innovative Use of Technology in Local Government

·         WINNER: Storm Water Information Tracker (SWIFT); Chesterfield County

·         WINNER: Enhanced Mobility with VDI; Roanoke County

·         WINNER: Rapid Mobilization of Emergency Operations Center; Washington County

·         FINALIST: Law Enforcement GIS Mobile App; Hanover County

·         FINALIST: Emergency Data Gathering Repository; Fairfax County

·         FINALIST: Address Information Resource (Norfolk AIR); City of Norfolk

Innovative Use of Technology in Education

·         WINNER: Bring Your Own Device Initiative; Fairfax County Public Schools

·         WINNER: eMediaVA; Department of Education

·         FINALIST: eLearning for Childcare Professionals; Community College Workforce Alliance

·         FINALIST: Educating Tomorrow’s Global Leaders; Longwood University

Innovative Use of Technology in Healthcare

·         WINNER: Veteran’s Broadband Access for Improved Healthcare; Virginia Tech Institute for Policy and Governance

Innovative Use of Technology in Modeling and Simulation

·         WINNER: Extending Virginia’s Broadband Toolkit; Virginia Tech Center for Geospatial IT, Virginia Center for Innovative Technology, Virginia Geographic Information Network

Innovative Commercialization of Technology Research

·         WINNER: Collegiate Strength Innovations; James Madison University

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Canada Gingerbread - Recipe of the day

I got a ginger molasses cookie (my favourite of theirs) and a Chunky Lola (chocolate chip with pecans). Yum! (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

One cupful of butter, two of sugar, one of molasses, five of flour, three eggs, one nutmeg, one teaspoonful of ginger, one of soda, one tea-cupful of cream or rich milk, one table-spoonful of cinnamon, one pound of currants. Beat the butter to a cream. Add the sugar, molasses and spice; next the eggs, well beaten; then the milk, in which the soda has been dissolved, next the flour; and lastly the currants. This will make three sheets, or two very thick ones. Bake in a moderately- quick oven, if in three sheets, twenty five minutes; if in two sheets, ten minutes longer.




Make something extraordinary.

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Liberty's Kids 7- Green Mountain Boys - Battle of the Hook Pre Show

We are once again running the entire series of Liberty's Kids episodes as part of a pre show to the upcoming Battle of the Hook reenactment coming to Gloucester, Virginia in October.  See the video below for more information on dates.

These are the events that led up to the Battle of the Hook that took place just weeks before the surrender at Yorktown, Virginia.

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Federalist Papers No. 11, Commercial Interests

Oil on canvas portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

To the People of the State of New York:

THE importance of the Union, in a commercial light, is one of those points about which there is least room to entertain a difference of opinion, and which has, in fact, commanded the most general assent of men who have any acquaintance with the subject. This applies as well to our intercourse with foreign countries as with each other.

There are appearances to authorize a supposition that the adventurous spirit, which distinguishes the commercial character of America, has already excited uneasy sensations in several of the maritime powers of Europe. They seem to be apprehensive of our too great interference in that carrying trade, which is the support of their navigation and the foundation of their naval strength.

 Those of them which have colonies in America look forward to what this country is capable of becoming, with painful solicitude. They foresee the dangers that may threaten their American dominions from the neighborhood of States, which have all the dispositions, and would possess all the means, requisite to the creation of a powerful marine. Impressions of this kind will naturally indicate the policy of fostering divisions among us, and of depriving us, as far as possible, of an ACTIVE COMMERCE in our own bottoms.

 This would answer the threefold purpose of preventing our interference in their navigation, of monopolizing the profits of our trade, and of clipping the wings by which we might soar to a dangerous greatness. Did not prudence forbid the detail, it would not be difficult to trace, by facts, the workings of this policy to the cabinets of ministers.

Read the rest below.

Federalist Papers No. 11 - Commercial Relations from Chuck Thompson

The Federalist Papers number 11, The Utility of the Union In Respect To Commercial Relations and the Navy.  To read the above in full screen mode, click the icon at the far bottom right hand side of the slideshare container.  To exit full screen mode, hit the escape key on your keyboard.

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Davy Crockett - Indian Fighter

Davy Crockett - Four Colour Comic 631 from Chuck Thompson

From the silver age of comics comes this issue of Davy Crockett, Indian Fighter.  Sponsored by Walt Disney.  Davy Crockett was a very popular historic character in the 1940's through the 1960's.  Tales of Davy Crockett go back to the days just after the American Revolution when people were seeking new frontiers, land and fortunes.   He was a real person and not just some fictional character.  Free downloads of this comic are available from our slideshare site.

 

Davy Crockett (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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