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By Karen Billing
The Torrey Hills Community Planning Board is “frustrated and tired of waiting” for the city to get moving on a proposed greenbelt project that for several years has already been designed and paid for. The simple greenbelt project improves a 200-foot SDG&E easement under a power pole and lines at the crest of East Ocean Air Drive — it has been designed for three years and $425,000 in funds were contributed to the city six years ago.
The board members voted at its meeting on July 16 to send letters to the mayor and District 1 City Council President Pro-tem Sherri Lightner to request they take back control of the project and pursue it as a private matter, hiring their own engineers and processing it through the city like any developer would.
“I’d really like to get this accomplished for the people of Torrey Hills, especially the people who live next to a dust bowl of scorched earth,” said Brad Fagan, a member of the Torrey Hills Community Planning Board.
The Torrey Hills Master Association hired a consultant four months ago and Fagan said they believe they can expedite the project by months if not years.
The proposed greenbelt faces a row of houses and is edged by the Los Penasquitos Canyon Preserve.
Torrey Hills was very limited about what could go into the property, as space has to be reserved for SDG&E and part of the land is considered environmentally sensitive and protected by the city’s Multi-Habitat Planning Area (MHPA).
The open space will be refreshed with native plants, stacked native boulders and a decomposed granite trail will wind through the property and link users to canyon trails across the street.
In one area that is out of the MHPA, a trellis area is planned where people can sit and look out over the canyon.
Maintenance of the property will be handled by the Torrey Hills Maintenance Assessment District (MAD), which residents pay into to be able to receive special benefits above what the city provides.
As the Torrey Hills Master Association owns the land, it would likely have to enter into a park development agreement, reimbursement agreement or some form of contract with the city to allow it to regain the lead and to access private donations the city holds for the project. According to its letters, the association is prepared to enter such a contract with the city.
“We all feel this path is much better for everyone and we hope to shake off a year, maybe two,” Fagan said. “We wish (council president) Lightner was as passionate about this project as we are…I really think with her support we can make this thing work.”
Mo Kantner, a representative for Lightner, said she understood the board’s frustration but was unsure whether taking the project back to the city would in fact expedite the process.
She said, according to city staff, it could take less than 24 months to get the project done if it continues moving on its current path. If the planning board takes over it could take about 18 months.
The “if” in the city’s timeline is no longer acceptable to the board, Fagan said.
“If we take it back we’ll have the momentum and we’ll have the people to push this through,” Fagan said. “We want to take it back as a private project and be in control. It’s just to get it done. No offense to anybody but we just want to get it done.” | <urn:uuid:f5895bf6-b52b-4376-8fca-61c5e216558f> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://www.delmartimes.net/news/2013/jul/17/torrey-hills-planning-board-taking-steps-to-help/ | 2015-07-07T22:03:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375102712.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031822-00230-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96952 | 754 | [
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Financial services GC indicates that firms without an LPO offering will be excluded from its litigation panel. I found it equally interesting that the company has “appointed three new specialist firms to the panel of four which provide services in a particular area of law, mainly on fixed fee arrangements.” (emphasis added)
Are alternative business structures (ABS) in the U.K. “off to a quiet start“? On this side of the Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal has a good summary on the current state of the debate amongst the ABA, state bar associations, academia, trade groups and others regarding non-lawyer ownership and multidisciplinary practices.
AFA’s require open communication – no surprise there – as well as new ways of thinking about BigLaw partner compensation.
More evidence that it’s really, really expensive to be bankrupt: the lawyers’ tab for American Airlines’ parent company starts at $21 million, and counting.
Law firm mergers “gallop” along – law department leaders, do these events affect your sourcing strategies (outside of garden variety conflicts issues)?
Conflicts checking – another function that BigLaw can source in lower-cost geographies.
GC’s, do you assess your law firms’ IT security capabilities on an ongoing basis? Are “they prepared to defend sensitive client data from a host of extremely sophisticated and stealthy rootkit attacks launched by hackers, cybercriminals, rogue hacktivists and even foreign governments?” | <urn:uuid:5d2b8a79-d1cc-4063-b973-938aeaa2fa65> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://www.right-tasking.com/blog/?p=1921 | 2015-07-07T21:53:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375102712.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031822-00230-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935743 | 315 | [
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In El Paso's House District 76 race, newcomer Cesar Blanco, who’s looking to knock off incumbent state Rep. Naomi R. Gonzalez in the Democratic primary, shows his campaign raised about $70,100 for the filing period that began in July and ended in December. It shows about $33,900 left on hand after spending about $15,800.
That’s compared with the $67,900 raised by Gonzalez. She reports spending about $41,100 and having about $7,000 left. Former state Rep. Norma Chávez was a distant third, hauling in about $5,100 in contributions. She reports about $60,700 on hand and has an outstanding loan balance of $75,000, according to her filing.
Blanco, a former chief of staff to U.S. Rep. Pete Gallego, D-Alpine, is a Navy veteran and has worked as an aide to former U.S. Reps. Silvestre Reyes, D-El Paso, and Ciro Rodriguez, D-San Antonio. Gonzalez defeated Chávez in the 2010 primary runoff election and was unopposed in 2012. Chávez served 14 years in the Texas House and was first elected in 1996. | <urn:uuid:111a5f77-195e-4b5a-9b56-da8342c19a2e> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://www.texastribune.org/2014/01/16/blanco-edges-incumbent-fundraising-hd76-campaign/ | 2015-07-07T22:15:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375102712.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031822-00230-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979624 | 260 | [
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The Geode Kickstarter project billed itself as the first secure, digital wallet for the iPhone 4 or 4S. I first wrote about it in March 2012, and later in July 2012 (verdict: Cool, but half baked). What made Geode different from software-only solutions (like and CardStar) was its combination of software, hardware, and security.
Geode consists of an iPhone 4/4S case with a programmable GeoCard, an E Ink barcode screen that can emulate the bar code or mag stripe on any card, and a biometric fingerprint scanner to keep your data secure.
I had good luck with the E Ink display (it scanned at every retailer I tested it with), but the GeoCard failed due to an issue with the adhesive that holds its metallic chip. My card was replaced with a working unit in relatively short order. Then I kind of forgot about it.
I got an email recently that the Geode website was down and that its last tweet was on October 16, 2012, so I decided to look into it. The Post and Courier of Charleston, South Carolina, tracked down former iCache CEO Jon Ramaci — and got some answers.
It turns out that manufacturing problems gave way to a pair of lawsuits (one involving a former iCache consultant and the other a former employee), then in September 2012, Apple released the iPhone 5 with a new form factor (that didn't fit in the Geode case), a new kind of connector and Passbook, an app that offered affinity card storage, like Geode did. And things seemed to spiral downward from there.
The Post and Courier's Brendan Kearney interviewed Ramaci and he revealed that he and many of his top deputies had left the company in November 2012 amid mounting customer dissatisfaction. Many backers left acerbic comments on the company's Kickstarter page, lacking anywhere else to vent their frustrations.
According to Kearney, Ramaci, Ross, and several other members of the original iCache team left in November 2012. Although Ramaci denied that he was fired, he refused to elaborate on the circumstances surrounding his departure, saying only that after six years, "it was time".
The iCache board of directors and advisers eventually shrunk to one person each, and in March 2013, the corporate website went offline altogether. Ramaci claimed that the iCache board asked him step down as CEO to focus on the iPhone 5 product while Erik Ross, iCache’s chief strategy officer, was installed as the new CEO.
"I felt my deliverable was to get the product to the next phase, and we had accomplished quite a great deal in a short amount of time and a very short budget as far as development of the card and the product itself." — former iCache CEO Jon Ramaci
In the article in The Post and Courier Ramaci claimed that 90 percent of the Kickstarter backers got their Geodes, and that the remaining 10 percent opted for the iPhone 5 version. I received both my original Geode and a replacement GeoCard with a handwritten letter.
Although Ramaci tried to remain optimistic about iCache in the article, the company has all but vanished. Chairman Richard Scott did not respond to Kearney's requests for an interview, and former board member Arthur Pingolt Jr. declined to comment on iCache.
Clearly, Geode wasn't a total ruse; the company manufactured and shipped (at least to me) a working, viable, and exciting product. What happened to iCache is more likely a lesson in the hazards of tying your business model to a company with billions of dollars, a world-class global supply chain, and a rigorous 12-month product life cycle. Just as Geode began shipping, Apple pivoted (with the iPhone 5), and it was time to start over again.
Hardware manufacturing at any kind of scale is a difficult proposition, but trying to keep pace with a company with over $150 billion in annual revenue and an assembly line of new products that never seems to stop is pretty close to impossible. | <urn:uuid:71151114-470f-4041-ac19-ac3563f0e6a5> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://www.zdnet.com/article/icache-geodes-spectacular-crash-and-burn/ | 2015-07-07T23:21:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375102712.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031822-00230-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978985 | 822 | [
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If the San Diego Chargers' loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers taught us anything, it's that Norv Turner doesn't like that word.
His feelings aside, however, that is exactly what the Chargers' performance was, and you have to think it's just another nail in the coffin of Turner's time in San Diego.
Quarterback Philip Rivers practically gift-wrapped that game for the Bucs and has little time to dwell on that fact. Now he faces a Denver Broncos defense that feasted on him in the second half of their last showdown.
For the Broncos, this is their chance to take control of the AFC West and to not look back. Peyton Manning and Co. rolled over the Carolina Panthers, but divisional games are nearly always tough. As we saw in the first half of their last matchup with the Broncos, the Chargers are more than capable of hanging with Denver.
The trouble, as has often been the case in San Diego the last few years, is the drop-off in Rivers' play. Yes, the talent around him is not what it was when he was playing at a high level, but his bad decision-making is simply killing his team.
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He will begin new post day after he retires from state police
By Kathleen Brady Shea, Managing Editor, The Times
Buoyed by “unilateral support” of the entire City Council, Coatesville’s new police chief says he doesn’t want to waste any time in getting started.
State Police Major John “Jack” W. Laufer, who was approved 7-0 by City Council at its Monday afternoon reorganization meeting, said he plans to begin working on Jan. 19, the day after he retires from the state police.
“The city and the Police Department have been without a chief long enough; it is time to move forward,” he said.
The unanimous vote to hire Laufer came after a vote to accept the resignation of Stephen T. Johnson, a former deputy commissioner of the Philadelphia Police Department who was hired less than two months ago but was unable to perform the job for health reasons.
The vote marked a dramatic difference from the contentious meeting in September when Laufer was presented to City Council as the top candidate. He withdrew his name after a divisive, 3 ½-hour meeting that resulted in a 3-1 tally, which failed to approve him because it did not represent a majority of the seven-member group.
A search committee reconvened and identified Johnson as another well-qualified candidate. He was approved by City Council in November and sworn in Dec. 10 but has not been on the job.
City Manager Kirby Hudson said Tuesday that Laufer will be sworn in at the Jan. 14 City Council meeting, will complete his last week with the state police, and will report to Coatesville on Jan. 19, a Saturday, to set up his office and begin getting acclimated.
Hudson said Laufer’s readiness “to roll up his sleeves” bodes well for returning pride and professionalism to the department, which has been plagued by litigation and understaffing. “It’s a great attitude,” said Hudson. “I have all the confidence that he’s going to be a perfect fit for that job.”
Hudson said several area municipalities had expressed interest in hiring Laufer. He said when it appeared that Johnson would not be able to keep the job, Hudson reached out to Laufer over the holidays. “I’m glad my instincts led me down the right path,” Hudson said. “We are very fortunate to get someone of his calibre … very fortunate.”
Laufer, who has had a distinguished career with the station police, headed the Lancaster state police barracks the day that Charles Roberts bound 10 young girls at the West Nichol Mines School and then opened fire, killing five.Laufer was widely praised for his handling of the tragedy. Most recently, he has directed the state police Bureau of Training and Education, overseeing new recruits. | <urn:uuid:5df5f47d-fa32-462f-bac4-3b5cde1ecb05> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://coatesvilletimes.com/?p=3580 | 2015-07-01T16:55:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375095183.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031815-00170-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979772 | 607 | [
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December 21 2013
By Sean Cochran, Special to PGATOUR.COM
Why it is Important: In order to create separation, rotate around an imaginary axis, and execute a proper backswing requires mobility from the upper body. The thoracic spine (area of spine located between the shoulder blades) and shoulder are the primary joints requiring large ranges of motion in order to execute the aforementioned requirements of the golf swing.
The Common Problem: Typically a golfer will be limited in terms of mobility in the thoracic spine and potentially the shoulder complex. Both of which will inhibit the ability of the golfer to perform the rotary components of the swing in an efficient manner. Such a situation will typically alter the mechanics of the swing and lead to compensatory patterns. The compensatory patterns resulting from physical dysfunctions will lead to the development of swing faults. Swing faults associated with limited upper body mobility are an over the top move in the downswing, a loss of posture, early extension, and a reverse spine angle.
The Solution: A golfer with upper body mobility limitations in the thoracic spine and shoulder should look to add a series of flexibility and range of motion exercises to improve soft tissue extensibility and joint mobility. The utilization of these types of exercises over time will improve flexibility and joint range of motion thus increasing one’s upper body mobility.
1. Openers – Thoracic Spine Mobility
• Position left hip in contact with the floor, knees bent at 90 degrees, left arm extended straight
• Place the right arm in contact with the left arm at shoulder height
• Slowly raise the right arm off the left and begin to rotate your right shoulder
• Continue to raise and rotate the right arm until it is on the right side of your body
• Rotate as far as possible with right arm, pause for 5 seconds, return to the starting position and repeat for 10 repetitions
• Repeat the exercise in the opposite direction
2. Posterior Shoulder Capsule Stretch – Shoulder Mobility
• Position the right hip in contact with the floor, legs straight, and the right upper arm perpendicular to the shoulder capsule
• Bend the right elbow to 90 degrees allowing the right upper arm to rest on the floor
• Grasp the right wrist with your left hand and slowly press the right forearm toward the floor
• Continue very slowly to press the forearm down until a stretch is felt in the right shoulder
• Hold this position for 30 seconds
• Discontinue the stretch if a pinch is felt in the top portion of the shoulder and do not allow the right shoulder to elevate or roll forward during the exercise
• Repeat the exercise with the opposite arm
About Sean Cochran, Golf Fitness Trainer: Sean Cochran, one of the most recognized golf fitness instructors in the world today. He travels the Tour regularly working with PGA Professionals, most notably three-time Masters, PGA, and British Open Champion Phil Mickelson. He has been involved in the production of numerous golf fitness videos and authored books including; Performance Golf Fitness, Golf Fitness Over Fifty, and Junior Golf Fitness. He has been a presenter of educational seminars for numerous organizations including the Titleist Performance Institute. To learn more about Sean Cochran Golf Fitness go to seancochran.com | <urn:uuid:04b11453-8cb1-4292-ae49-9de1a74ba923> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://www.pgatour.com/tourreport/2013/12/21/fitness--upper-body-mobilty-in-the-swing.html | 2015-07-01T18:25:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375095183.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031815-00170-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.894933 | 674 | [
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Children in Finland spend fewer hours in school than any other country in the developed world so how do they consistently turn in top international scores in reading, science and math? A BBC report focuses on the relaxed atmosphere of the nation’s schools, lack of political interference, as well as the country’s approach to schooling.
“The Finnish philosophy with education is that everyone has something to contribute and those who struggle in certain subjects should not be left behind. A tactic used in virtually every lesson is the provision of an additional teacher who helps those who struggle in a particular subject. But the pupils are all kept in the same classroom, regardless of their ability in that particular subject.”
The report makes much of the contributions of Finnish home life to student achievement. “There is a culture of reading with the kids at home and families have regular contact with their children’s teachers,” notes the BBC’s Tom Burridge, who also points out that teaching is a prestigious career in Finland. “Teachers are highly valued and teaching standards are high,” he says.
Education Minister Henna Virkkunen is now looking to boost the performance of Finland’s brightest pupils. ”The Finnish system supports very much those pupils who have learning difficulties but we have to pay more attention also to those pupils who are very talented. Now we have started a pilot project about how to support those pupils who are very gifted in certain areas,” she says. | <urn:uuid:57936730-1bad-4aa2-8111-bd88e10e53cc> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2010/04/09/less-school-higher-scores-in-finland/ | 2015-07-04T02:35:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375096293.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031816-00110-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976032 | 305 | [
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Well, it's not really a thing. It's a lightbulb. It's about the size of a bicycle bell and flat on the side that the light shines out and pointed on the other side. WHat can I do? I was totally thinking of a belt buckle, but if you have any other ideas I'd be glad to hear them! | <urn:uuid:66799d33-5e0f-4ba1-8913-ed1d74830fb7> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=17574;sa=showTopics | 2015-07-04T02:15:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375096293.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031816-00110-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98151 | 72 | [
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So What Exactly is The NBA “Summer League?”
NBA News: Time to check out the Summer League
If you have never heard of the NBA “Summer League” chances are you are not alone! So what exactly is this action on the hardwood during the dog days of summer? Since 2004, the NBA has held a Summer League, with just six teams competing in the inaugural campaign in Las Vegas.
But now every NBA team competes, along with a squad from the NBA D-League. Currently there are two Summer Leagues: one in Orlando (July 5-11th), and one in Las Vegas (July 11-21st). Ten teams will be competing in Orlando, while 24 teams will play in the Las Vegas league (some teams play in both leagues). For the most part, team’s rosters mainly consist of rookies and other undrafted players who are hoping to get noticed and eventually get signed by a team. This is also a great chance for fans and the media to get a better look at some of the new faces in the NBA.
Up until the 2013-2014 season, the games were considered exhibition and it really didn’t matter who won. But for the second year in a row, there will be a champion and MVP crowned for both leagues.
Now there are a few differences between regular season games and the NBA Summer League:
Quarters are shorter at just 10 minutes
Halftime is reduced to 10 minutes
Each team gets 3 full timeouts in the 4th quarter
Overtime is just 3 minutes long
There are no foul outs…after a 6th foul the other team will automatically shoot two free throws
While you won’t see any regular season MVP candidates participating in the NBA Summer League, it has certainly helped jump start the careers of Nate Robinson, John Wall, and Damian Lillard, who are all former Summer League MVP’s.
So if you are in need of some NBA action this summer, be sure to set your DVR’s to record all the action from both the Orlando and Las Vegas summer leagues. You can catch the games on either NBA TV or NBA.com. There are also tickets available for the Las Vegas Summer League, but unfortunately the Orlando league is not open to the public. | <urn:uuid:8abfa9e2-c76d-4700-ae81-349b7f4fbbcd> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://www.sportstalkflorida.com/nba-summer-league/ | 2015-07-04T01:42:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375096293.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031816-00110-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96219 | 472 | [
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University of Chicago Medicine invests $254.1M in community
October 21, 2013
The University of Chicago Medicine contributed more than 21 percent, or $254.1 million, of its operating expenses in fiscal 2012 to improve the health of the South Side and the broader Chicago area, according to its recently published second annual Community Benefit Report.
For the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2012, the amount of uncompensated care, unrecoverable patient debt, and charity care, among other community investments, rose 7 percent over the year-ago level of $237.1 million. The report outlines ways the institution has provided services, programs, medical education, research and other support to the community.
This increase in the university's commitment to the community came amid expenditures to complete the new $700 million Center for Care and Discovery and an extremely competitive period in health care, ushered in by implementation of the federal Affordable Care Act (ACA) and consolidation in the Chicago market.
"This report highlights our dedication to the community in which we work and live, and it is as much a point of pride for the institution as are our medical and scientific breakthroughs and our commitment to patient care and safety," said Sharon O'Keefe, president of the University of Chicago Medical Center. "I thank faculty, nurses, students and the rest of the staff for their ongoing commitment to our community."
Uncompensated care totaled $122.5 million, reflecting $90.2 million in losses under Medicare and Medicaid, government-sponsored insurance plans that reimburse health care providers at lower rates than the actual cost of care. That figure included $20.3 million in charity care and $12 million in forgiveness of patient debt. In addition, the University of Chicago Medicine contributed $81.7 million toward medical education not covered by tuition or grants and $48 million for medical research to help advance patient care.
The report also cited the Center for Care and Discovery, which opened in February 2013, for the economic impact it had on the South Side and beyond over the four-year construction project. The $700 million new hospital pumped more than $570 million into the South Side and beyond, according to the annual publication, Of the total available construction contracts open for bid, 48 percent, or almost $210 million, went to women- and minority-owned enterprises.
In all, 2,755 workers helped to build the new 10-story, 1.2 million-square-foot hospital, providing $124 million in wages and other benefits into the pockets of workers, 25 percent of whom lived on the South Side. After construction was completed, about 300 new employees were hired to work in the new hospital.
The Community Benefit Report also introduced the University of Chicago Medicine's Community Health Needs Assessment, an initiative to identify unmet health needs of residents in surrounding neighborhoods as part of requirements of the ACA. The study, a collaboration with the Metropolitan Chicago Healthcare Council, examined health status, demographics, socioeconomic factors and barriers to care in a dozen ZIP codes from 35th Street to 119th Street and east of Western Avenue. The report identified access to health care, diabetes, obesity, asthma, and colorectal and breast cancers as health care priorities for adults and children. A plan is under way to address these health needs, including leveraging current programs and services.
"This exercise provided evidence-based insight into what's needed to help improve the health of our neighbors," said Brenda Battle, RN, vice president for care delivery innovation and assistant dean for diversity and inclusion. "While we are encouraged that much of what we already do at the community level is on target, we also know there's still work to do."
The Community Benefit Report was mailed to about 50,000 people, including residents in the 60615, 60637 and 60653 ZIP codes, UChicago Medicine employees and staff, government workers and community leaders. To view the report and the Community Health Needs Assessment online, visit uchospitals.edu/community-needs. To get a copy of the Community Benefit Report mailed to you, please call 773-702-0025.
The University of Chicago Medicine
950 E. 61st Street, Third Floor
Chicago, IL 60637
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The Mayor had a chance to correct some of this when he was going to look at the enormous amount of Strategic Advisors and all of these special made positions. It is the so called little people that get the work done ( maintenance laborer, gardeners, front desk, administrative assistants, and coordinators). How many Managers, Strategic Advisors and Supervisors will be left when the shoe falls? These are the people in charge of giving input and/or writing the budget, and I have yet to see one of them write themselves out of the budget or their buddies.
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by bvernia | November 30th, 2009
Justice Scalia is almost always talkative during oral argument, but he frequently speaks for a minority (or a slim majority) of justices. Today, however, he seems to have captured the prevailing mood well when he described the public disclosure bar of the False Claims Act as a “terrible test,” and asked the attorney for the relator, Mark Hurt, what ruling the Court could provide in the case that would most encourage the US to amend what he characterized as a “random” public disclosure bar.
The provision at issue, 31 USC 3730(e)(4)(A), reads:
(4)(A) No court shall have jurisdiction over an action under this section based upon the public disclosure of allegations or transactions in a criminal, civil, or administrative hearing, in a congressional, administrative, or Government Accounting Office report, hearing, audit, or investigation, or from the news media, unless the action is brought by the Attorney General or the person bringing the action is an original source of the information.
As is typical before the Supreme Court, no one escapes the hard questions, but the Court quickly becomes stuck in the quagmire of the public disclosure bar. NC’s SG, Christopher Browning, barely gets out his theme – that there will be a deluge of parasitic qui tam suits and damage to federal/state cooperation if state administrative reports don’t trigger the public disclosure bar – before a question from Justice Scalia prompts Browning to say that a deposition in a civil case could trigger the public disclosure bar. Scalia’s response is – incredulity. What?! A deposition is a “hearing?! He concludes: “That’s an argument that doesn’t go very far with me.”
It’s as if the state of public disclosure bar caselaw comes as a complete (and unpleasant) surprise to the justices, even though they dealt with it just two years ago in Rockwell Int’l. Corp. v. US. The state tries to make some points by relying on caselaw that state criminal and civil hearings can trigger the bar, so why not administrative ones. This basically just evokes speculation from justices that maybe there’s no basis for that caselaw.
The justices’ speculation, in turn, evokes gasps from the False Claims Act bar attending the argument. For those of us attending, the argument was much more interesting than we had any reason to expect. The Court seems willing to question – hard – the sense of nearly a quarter-century of caselaw interpreting the public disclosure bar. It’s not exactly a “emperor has no clothes” moment, but close.
Everyone goes round and round the mulberry bush of the False Claims Act’s actual text: the inclusion of “administrative” as a type of case in the first phrase vs. the sandwiching of it between “congressional” and “Government Accounting Office” in the second phrase; the weird redundancies in the text; and the juxtaposition of governmental functions with “news media,” which, in a rare consensus, is typically privately-run.
Neither the relator’s attorney, Hurt, nor the Asst. to the SG arguing for the US, Douglas Hallward-Dreimeier, fare much better. Hurt tries to set up a three-category structure for the bar: adjudicative (i.e., “civil” and “criminal”) matters, non-adjudicative (administrative, congressional) ones, and the news media. Since his client used only state-based “non-adjudicative” information in her qui tam, she’s nor barred. The justices are having none of this three-category model, however, asking what reason there is for extending the adjudicative category to states, but not the non-adjudicative one; Hurt is forced to concede that he doesn’t really agree that adjudicative should be extended, either (he’s just been completely bound by lower court caselaw that, today at least, is looking somewhat less binding). As they pepper him with questions about how to interpret the Act, Scalia comments that the statute’s text “just shows that Congress wasn’t thinking clearly.” One gets the idea that the False Claims Act’s public disclosure bar is, for Scalia, Exhibit A of Congressional ineptitude. (He might be right.)
Justice Breyer struggles to find a way through the mess, asking why they shouldn’t defer to the position of the US (who, today at least, sees “administrative” as federal-only), since it’s that party that stands to lose by parasitic lawsuits. (Something similar to this nearly found its way into the False Claims Act amendments: a provision which would have given standing only to the US to allege a violation of the public disclosure bar.)
In the end, the Court seems united in being fed up with an unworkable statute – a “terrible test,” in Scalia’s words. The interesting question is whether they will duck the issue, attempt to fix it themselves (e.g., interpret it consistently in the US’s interest, as Breyer suggests) or break it so thoroughly that the Administration and Congress have to amend it (as Scalia proposes). | <urn:uuid:18308ead-27b5-48ab-a01a-45d7ad63ca42> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://falseclaimscounsel.com/wordpress/?p=338 | 2015-07-08T04:39:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435376073161.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627033433-00300-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944418 | 1,142 | [
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Lilee has to leave in like...a week.
Category: Panic! At The Disco - Rating: PG-13 - Genres: Drama, Humor, Romance - Published: 2006-12-13 - Updated: 2006-12-13 - 525 words
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Jose Lima’s ex-wife Melissa engaged to Roberto Clemente Jr.
In case you don’t remember Melissa Lima, allow us to refresh your memory. Melissa is the young woman seen above with whom the Internet first became acquainted several years ago. At the time, Melissa was big news. I’m sure you can’t figure out why.
Melissa was the second wife of the late Jose Lima, and the two were married from 1996-2005. They have a child together, Jose Jr., who was born in 1999. They were divorced in 2005, and Jose later died in 2010, leaving behind six children by six women.
The photo you see above that went viral on the ‘net back in the early days of blogs was taken in 2004 when Jose, then with the Dodgers, sang the national anthem before a May game. I was working for the Dodgers that season and can tell you from personal experience that both Jose and Melissa were extremely nice and friendly. Very friendly.
The reason we bring up Melissa Lima’s name now is because she reportedly is engaged to be married to Roberto Clemente Jr. Dejan Kovacevic of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported that the two were together at PNC Park on Sunday and that they’re set to be married in Houston soon. Congratulations to the two.
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Trying to decide which of this weekend's new releases you want to see? Don't stand around at the box office waiting to decide -- al.com producer Ben Flanagan breaks down this weekend's newest offerings in this week's edition of al.com's Flick Fix.
TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION (PG-13)
Reckon we'll get one of these Michael Bay "Transformer" movies every two or three years if they keep making outrageous bank. At least Shia LaBeouf is out, and Mark Wahlberg stars as a mechanic who makes a discovery that jump starts the top Autobot and another intergalactic war back into business. Ehren Kruger, the screenwriter on the previous two brilliant "Transformers" movies, returns, so other than losing Labeouf, what has really changed here? Bay, Kruger, the busily designed robots are all back. We're three movies into this thing, so why should we hop back on board? Arguing this is futile. It'll make $1 billion worldwide. Good for Michael Bay. Bring on "Tran5formers." It co-stars Nicola Peltz, Stanley Tucci, Kelsey Grammer, TJ Miller and, of course, Peter Cullen as Optimus Prime. Alabama football players caught a sneak preview and seemed to like it, so that might help renew your optimism. But this thing also clocks in at two hours and 45 minutes. They get longer every movie. Why? We're at the "fool me three times" stage and not willing to get duped again. But watch us. SKIP IT. Rotten Tomatoes: 20% (Ha, more like Age of ExSTINKtion, right? Sorry.)
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APIn a shocking one-month swing, Mitt Romney stormed into the lead over President Barack Obama in a new Pew Research poll conducted after Romney's consensus victory in the first presidential debate.
The poll finds a 12-point swing among likely voters. In Pew's last poll, conducted in the middle of September, Obama led Romney 51-43 among likely voters. Now, Romney leads 49-45.
The shift is due to Romney shoring up key areas of strength among likely voters and improving his overall image, much of which can be attributed to his strong debate performance. Sixty-six percent of voters thought Romney won the debate, compared with just 20 percent who said Obama won. Among Independents, Romney won by an astounding 78-14 margin.
Romney's overall favorability rating climbed 5 points from September and hit 50 percent for the first time ever in Pew's survey. Notably, he bests Obama, whose favorability rating has dropped from 55 percent to 49 percent.
He also has boosted his standing with voters on the economy and jobs. He now leads Obama by 8 points on which candidate would best "improve the job situation." Last month, Obama led Romney by a point in that category.
Romney also saw significant gains among women. Last month, women preferred Obama by an astounding 18 points. Now, they are equally split between both candidates at 47 percent apiece.
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some of the party girl's favorites...
High School Musical Party
High School Musical Invitations
The fun starts as soon as the invitations arrive. Make it an easy costume party and suggest your guests dress as Gabriella, Sharpay, Troy or another one of their favorite cheerleaders or basketball players. Whatever you decide, be sure to use a bright red pen on the invitation since red is an East High color!
Want something a little more special? Photo ticket invitations are perfect for the hottest event in town! Add a picture and choose your wording for a great personalized (and unique) party invitation.
Get the kids involved: You can have them help with the invitations. Cut out musical notes in gold or silver and write the party information on the back. Include gold star confetti for extra fun. Be sure to mail out your invitations 4-6 weeks in advance so people have plenty of time to RSVP.
High School Musical Theme Decorations
A High School Musical party is more of an indoor than outdoor event. But you can still create some excitement as your guests are coming in. Decorate the front of your house with red and white twinkle lights (remember the East High colors?) Snap a photo as your guests are walking in just like the real paparazzi, have them stand next to stand ups of Troy, Gabriella, Sharpay, and Chad. Take the pictures at the party and then send the picture with the thank you card!
Hang a High School Musical banner on your front door and everyone will be smiling as they walk in. Then hand out High School Musical Etch-it® labels so your guests can have a fun nametag. Or they can use the labels for glasses or cups at the party so they don't get mixed up.
This is a great party for kids and you can do a lot without spending tons of money. Balloons are a colorful and economical way to decorate. Use bunches of latex balloons or even a Mylar basketball balloon mixed in the bouquets. Don't forget the helium tank to inflate the balloons.
This party is all about music and fun. Be sure to have the soundtrack from High School Musical playing. Make a CD of your own favorite songs and add it to the music mix.
High School Musical Table Decorations
Whatever you’re serving, be sure to use the great High School Musical tableware that’s available. We think the High School Musical paper goods are fabulous and will all look great on a red tablecover with plates and cups in East High colors of red and white.!
The balloons can be used as centerpieces on the tables as well. Or have the whole High School Musical gang on the table and use the High School Musical centerpiece. Pom poms also make great table decorations – although they won’t stay on the table long!
Set out star microphone cups at each place or have them on a table with drinks for the kids. They are too fun and make a great favor. You should take a black Sharpie marker and add a name to each cup so they don't get mixed up during the party.
After singing and dancing, your guests will be ready for a break. If your party is for birthday, have your local bakery make a special High School Musical cake. Want a more substantial menu? Serve concession stand food like hot dogs, nachos, French fries, popcorn and ice cream bars. Your crowd will love it!
high school musical Party Activities
It’s time to dance and sing the night away! Help your guests dress for the occasion with lots of glitter and sparkle. Bling is the theme with glitter bracelets and body crystals. Pass out fun hats and sunglasses to add to the party!
When they’re ready to sing, give your guests magic microphones that are both very cool. Create a stage area where your little stars can shine. An impromptu talent show will have everyone cheering and makes another great photo op!
For extra fun, have your crowd play some party games. Traditional favorites like musical chairs, charades (use movie or song themes) or a piñata filled with piñata candy and toys are always a hit. And don’t forget, you can always show your guests the High School Musical movie – they’ll love watching it (again!)
high school musical Party Favors
Unfortunately, at some point every party has to end. But there are wonderful party favors that you can give your guests to help them remember what a great time they had. A delicious milk or dark chocolate candy bar wrapped in a personalized candy bar wrapper (you can even use the same theme you used on your invitation) is a delicious treat. It’s a sweet and unique reminder of your party.
Send your guests home with special party favors. The High School Musical: Friends 4 Ever party favor box come complete with a sticker sheet, a High School Musical Friends Forever assorted button, play microphone and an assorted lipstick pen.
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Much of the Rays' shortcomings this year has been placed on the defensive errors and injuries up and down the lineup, but the biggest reason for the month plus of subpar baseball has been the (lack of) offense. The above chart shows how each player has fared this year through the lens of wRAA. This stat is great because it shows how each player has outhit the average batter based on wOBA and plate appearances. In this instance I have compared each player's wOBA at each position compared to the position's American League average wOBA to better reflect how each batter has performed relative to their peers at each positions. Here's the league average numbers:
We can look at Pena as an example of this, as his .332 wOBA over 347 PAs works out to a -2.4 wRAA compared to the AL average 1B wOBA of .340. You can look at these across the board, but you'll quickly notice that Zobrist, Joyce, and Longoria are the only players that have been better than their positional peers across the board. Elliot Johnson has been a nice surprise as well, but guys that we've counted on like Upton, Jennings, Rodriguez, and all of the catchers have not hit as well as their leaguemates. Some may find it easier just to look at the numbers instead of the chart:
Again, we see that 2B and SS have been slightly better than league average and RF has been a monster position for the Rays, but that's it. Every other position has contributed A LOT to be desired with the sticks and their gloves haven't exactly made up the difference. Injuries are certainly to blame as some of these guys on the right would have never seen the roster, but the bigger impact is from players that needed to step their game up in the absence of the big guns and that just hasn't happened. | <urn:uuid:4a98e9fc-a300-45c0-806a-d662bff8dce5> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://theraysway.com/articles/quantifying-the-rays-offensive-offense--2 | 2015-07-01T23:08:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375095273.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031815-00240-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984993 | 391 | [
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MSU Announces Valley Weeknight Ticket Special
Dec. 31, 2013
SPRINGFIELD -- Missouri State Athletics announced today (Dec. 31) that it is making upper-level men's basketball seats available for half price for all remaining weekday games. The "Valley Weeknights" ticket special will make upper-level tickets available for as little as $5 when purchased on game days.
Starting with Thursday's MVC opener against Illinois State (7:05 p.m.), upper-bowl tickets will be available from $5 to $13.50, based on section preference and availability.
The MSU Athletics Box Office and call center will re-open Thursday at 10 a.m., at JQH Arena. Tickets for the Bears' MVC opener may be purchased in person or by phone at (417) 836-7678.
The Valley Weeknights special is also good for upcoming games against Evansville (Jan. 21), Drake (Feb. 12) and Loyola (Feb. 25).
The Bears are off to a 10-2 start and enter conference play with the 33rd-best win-loss percentage in Division I basketball.
MVC 6 Pack ticket packages are also still available. The mini-ticket plan gives fans a chance to purchase upper-level tickets for any six of the nine Missouri Valley Conference home games for just $54 per seat. Fans may cater their MVC 6 Pack to fit their needs by hand picking the six conference games they want to attend. MVC 6 Packs are available by phone at (417) 836-8899 or 836-8934 or in person at the MSU Athletics Box Office during regular office hours.
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Red-eared sliders are generally most active during the daytime, so they should be fed during this time. Many turtle owners stick to an every-other-day feeding schedule. Captive-bred turtles generally exist happily on commercial aquatic turtle foods. Some owners prefer to feed live foods or to supplement a packaged-food diet with some additional choices. Probably the most common live food offered is crickets. Crickets are fairly inexpensive, easy to keep without too much trouble, and an excellent meal choice for turtles. Other owners feed their turtles earthworms, mealworms, and raw fish.
In the wild, turtles are mainly herbivorous. In captivity, red-eared sliders will appreciate a few pieces of vegetable matter, in addition to their regular diet. These can include carrots, lettuce, cabbage, beets, cucumbers, and many other vegetable varieties.
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Hello fellow MAGIRTERS!
KEY INFO: Activities will occur on Friday, January 24, 2014.
Following is a detailed announcement about the two MAGIRT social events that will occur in Philadelphia at the forthcoming (2+ weeks!!!) ALA Midwinter Meeting. Yes, its lengthy, and pretty detailed, so if I confuse anyone I apologize AND feel free to contact me with questions! The key thing is I have set up not one, but two, dutch-treat dinnner locations because of the time and distance involved in getting to and from the Philadelphia Print Shop tour in the afternoon. So, for those of you who have afternoon-arriving flights, never fear!, you might miss out on the tour but still have a chance to join colleagues and socialize over a nice meal. (and yes, I AM praying that the weather is NOT a factor in your travel plans -- or even my own drive over from the middle of PA). Again, if you have questions, don't hesitate to ask!
Secondly, I DO wish to receive RSVPs from attendees, please respond as follows, either:
I will attend BOTH the Philly Print Shop Tour and dinner
I will only attend the dinner event
Thank you and see many of you soon!
FOR THOSE ABLE TO GO ON THE TOUR:
iday the 24th:
Tour and visit of the Philadephia Print Shop http://www.philaprintshop.com/ up in Chestnut Hill (northwest of downtown). We're catching the #833 train at the Market East Station at 2:30 p.m., be there no later than this time, and will arrive at the Chestnut Hill West station at 3:15 p.m. (about 2 blocks from the store). Starting at 3:30 p.m., founder and long-time owner Don Criswell (or his son) will conduct a tour of the store and then folks are free to browse and shop on their own. The Print Shop is located in a nice neighborhood shopping area (http://www.mapquest.com/#e2741754d825f70f873725bd) so if you lose interest in browsing feel free to check out other nearby shops. However...
We have 5:30 reservations for the Iron Hill Brewery, which is at http://www.ironhillbrewery.com/chestnuthill/ and literally across the street and two blocks from the Philly Print Shop. Those who wish to stay and dine as a group here may do so (reservations for 15) BUT you DO have an alternative so if you would rather dine close to your hotel and the Pennsylvania Convention Center be sure to...
...catch the #850 train at 5:20 p.m. at the Chestnut Hill West station and arrive at Market East Station at 6:00 p.m.
Dutch-treat dinner at the Banana Leaf Restaurant, reservations for 6:30 p.m., and it is about 2 blocks east of the Convention Center at 1009 Arch Street http://bananaleafphilly.com/ and is a 2 1/2 block north of the Market East Station.
FOR THOSE NOT ABLE TO GO ON THE TOUR BUT STILL WANT SOME FUN:
For those of you arriving at the Philadelphia Airport and then the trip from there into downtown to your hotels that will not allow you to make the tour of the Philly Print Shop, please meet your colleagues at the Banana Leaf Restaurant at 6:30 p.m. I have reservations for 12-15 people there.
I am very much looking forward to seeing many fellow MAGIRT folk in Philadelphia in just about 2 weeks from today! If you have any questions please don't hesitate to email me ([email protected]) or even call me at: 814-867-0786.
I will be sending out a followup announcement with a few more details as a reminder about a week in advance of the conference.
Maps Cataloging Librarian (rank of Librarian), Penn State University
Vice-Chair, Map and Geospatial Information Round Table (MAGIRT), and
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Welcome to the Dill Pickle
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Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things is widely acknowledged as one of the most important environmental manifestos of our time.
Join us as we collectively read and gather to discuss this work on Wednesday, March 12th at 6:30pm around the fireplace at City Lit Books, 2523 N. Kedzie.
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Women’s Hair Loss
Clinical features of pattern baldness in women usually occur during early teens and late middle age. This is shown by the gradual thinning of hair over the frontal area. Usually, pattern baldness in women is not accompanied by increased shedding of hair, but unlike telogen effluvium, hair loss may be seen from the start. The scalp becomes more and more visible as the disease progresses.
Female pattern baldness a.k.a. alopecia in women is the most common form of hair problem that women come across. It involves a typical hair loss pattern, resulting from hormones, aging and genetic predisposition.
Hair loss pattern resulting from alopecia in women
Unlike in men, female pattern baldness does not cause hair loss in a well-defined pattern. The hair starts thinning all over the head though there is no hair line receding. It is rare for alopecia in women to result in total baldness.
In the case of females, the scalp hair loss may begin at any age though usually after 40.
The patterns of female pattern baldness can vary considerably in appearance and may include:
• Diffuse thinning all over the scalp often with more noticeable thinning toward the back of the scalp.
• Diffuse thinning all over the scalp with more noticeable thinning toward the front of the scalp but not involving the frontal hair line.
• Diffuse thinning all over the scalp with more noticeable thinning toward the front of the scalp, involving and sometimes breaching the frontal hairline.
In normal condition a woman tends to lose around 100-125 hairs per day. Losing more hair than that indicates that the condition is not normal.
The following two conditions indicate alopecia in women –
• Hair thinning over the entire head
• Hair loss at the crown or hair line, from mild to moderate
Causes of female pattern baldness
The disease is triggered by the presence of a male hormone called testosterone in female body. Testosterone is produced by androgen hormone.
Certain women are decidedly more sensitive to testosterone than others. This sensitivity results in hair thinning on their scalp. Testosterone interacts with the enzyme 5 alpha reductase produced by the body. The interaction causes the production of DHT within the hair follicle.
DHT causes production of shorter and finer hairs. When DHT is not received well by hair follicles, it causes reduced blood supply and it causes hair thinning on the scalp.
Diagnosis of female pattern baldness
Women tend to have less obvious hair loss patterns than men and they face non-pattern hair loss more frequently than men. Diagnosis of female hair loss should be conducted by a trained and experienced physician.
The physician diagnoses this hair disease on the basis of hair loss appearance and pattern. He also checks whether other possible hair loss causes can be ruled out. He may also go for a skin biopsy or other procedures to diagnose the medical disorders.
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I have always found that looking at a list of words that made their first appearance in a particular year gives an intriguing verbal picture of the year in question, so here is a selection of words from years that ended in -14.
1914 brought 468 new words into the language. Some, such as ‘air raid’ and ‘anti-aircraft’, were clearly influenced by the war, while another expression ‘atomic bomb’ (first used by HG Wells) looked forward with dread to future wars. ‘Time travel’ was another expression from science fiction that was first seen this year.
On a more cheerful note, 1914 also brought us ‘ailurophile’ (a cat-lover) and ‘crossword’ to keep us amused, but my favourites were ‘doohickey’ (an alternative for ‘thingummybob’) and ‘odditorium’ (a good word for what I try to make this column).
1814 had an even more warlike tone to its 447 new words, with ‘berserk’, ‘belligerence’ and ‘bloodbath’ all appearing for the first time, but on a quieter note, we also had ‘Trappist’.
This was clearly a good year for foodies with ‘gastronomy’, ‘homebrew’ and ‘grapefruit’ as well as the first appearance of ‘engastration’, which is what you do when you stuff a chicken inside a duck and then stuff the result into a turkey, or something similar. And talking of animals, 1814 also brought us the first daddy-long legs.
1714 was the first time a gnome could face disqualification for throwing a titillating tantrum, for gnome, disqualification, titillating and tantrum all appeared that year, along with peckish and insignificance, among the 212 new words of that year.
1614 was responsible for adding an astonishing 525 words to the dictionary including the introduction of ‘trigonometry’ and ‘big-headed’. Interestingly, 1614 also brought us the first recorded use of ‘woman hating’ though it took another 200 years until the word ‘divorcee’ was first seen in 1814.
Curiously, 1614 was the first time the word ‘moose’ was applied to an animal. Before then, ‘moose’ meant a dish of stewed vegetables.
1914 brought 468 new words into the language
1514 gave us only 24 new words, of which ‘interview’ was the most useful, while 1414 brought us 32 words including the first use of ‘pronoun’.
1314 brought 28 words, including several animals such as ‘mallard’.
The search also revealed some words from those years that deserve reviving. Here are a few of my favourites:
gastrophilanthropist (1814): a person who cares for the appetites of others and likes to give them food.
misguggle (1814): to handle roughly.
devitation (1614): the opposite of invitation; an exhortation to shun or avoid someone.
nimble-chops (1614): a talkative person.
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This list is encouraging but I have been informed we don't need all this info just who is willing to send me their best print or scan.
Just to let you know, I will take them and log them in so that only I will know who's is who's. I'll number the prints and send them onto Michael who will evaluate them and determine which ones would go into the book. The greater the number of entries the lower the cost to the artist who are picked because those numbers will also determine how big the book will be.
Cost has always been a factor. If the cost is to high we will work on ways to bring it down without sacrificing quality that is were having more folks involved will be beneficial. If after everything thar can be done has been done and the cost is still to high then we can start looking to less expensive avenues but until then let's exhaust all options with this plan first.
My goal from the beginning has been to create a book that is as much art as the art that fills it and Sean has given Michael high praise by directing me to Lodima press for this project. | <urn:uuid:2efc4af9-8bc9-4c2c-a92b-33d8d2fbbea5> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://www.apug.org/forums/viewpost.php?p=1212888 | 2015-07-06T06:09:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375098059.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031818-00120-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981032 | 227 | [
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Operations at Bronglais Hospital postponed over staff shortages
- 15 October 2013
- From the section Mid Wales
Some operations at the only district general hospital in mid Wales are being postponed for up to a month because of major staff shortages.
Hywel Dda Health Board said it was also cutting six beds on a general surgery ward at Bronglais Hospital in Aberystwyth because of the shortages.
The board said the patients affected had been contacted but all cancer surgery would continue as a priority.
The decision had been taken on safety grounds, it said.
Hywel Dda Health Board has had persistent recruitment problems at Bronglais Hospital.
'Will not compromise'
Last November it said it was launching a recruitment drive for a mental health ward after it shut because of staff shortages.
In April fears were also raised that beds could be lost in the hospital's intensive care unit and on a cancer ward.
A year ago the health board stopped all planned surgery for a month because there were not enough beds to cope with demand.
Commenting on the latest problems, a health board spokeswoman said: "Due to significant staff shortages and in the interests of patient safety, Bronglais Hospital is reducing the number of planned operations over the next month and will only have the number of beds open for which we can provide the appropriate levels of nursing and medical cover.
"The health board will not compromise on safety and will not permit potentially unsafe staffing levels.
'Ones to suffer'
"This decision has not been made lightly and this action is required to ensure wards are staffed safely. Affected patients have been contacted and all cancer work will continue as a priority."
The health board said the six beds on Ceredig ward which normally holds up to 30 patients were not being used.
Plaid Cymru Ceredigion AM Elin Jones said: "Either the health board is running short of money or it is particularly inefficient in planning its workforce.
"Either way the patients of Ceredigion should not be the ones to suffer.
"I will expect the health board to resurrect the full complement of beds and services on Ceredig ward within the month. The Welsh government provided additional funding to health boards for this financial year only last week."
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monk191 (1272) - California, USA - NOV 12, 2014
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
A great Doppelbock, very well balanced. Pours a deep black with a tan head. Smell is raisins and caramel. Taste is very well balanced with a nice amount of hops. Well done. Tasted at the BevMo Holiday Beer Fest.
slowrunner77 (6925) - Reno, Nevada, USA - OCT 5, 2014
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
"not a bad beer, but sub par for one of my favorite styles. slighlty lacking in the big body. the malt character is there as well, but not robust enough. it didn’t help that it was served too cold, but i got the idea as it warmed up a little. pleasing, if a little lite for the style. 1/11 - had it again in the bottle at proper temp, and raised the score 0.1
BOSSbrewer (2685) - Arkansas, USA - MAR 26, 2014
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 15/20
UPDATED: JUL 19, 2014 Pours a clear amber with three fingers of frothy off white head. Aroma is sweet malt and caramel. Some spicyness in the nose also. Flavor is caramel but is also very tart and tangy. Very odd. Doesn’t seem to style at least not what I was expecting. Almost berlinerweiss in character but with some maltiness. Overall drinkable but a bit odd.
BucannonXC5 (1062) - San Diego, California, USA - FEB 28, 2014
3.4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Type: 12-oz. bottle
Glass: Firestone restaurant pint glass
From: Bine & Vine Bottle Shop in Normal Heights (San Diego), Calif.
Purchased: Feb. 22, 2014
Consumed: Feb. 28, 2014
Poured a dark mahogany color with two fingers of bubbly tan head. Minimal foggy lacing along the sides of the glass. Below average retention.
Smelled roasted nuts, sweet caramel sauce, toffee, chocolate, wintry spices, cocoa nibs, slight bitter coffee beans and peppery spices.
Tasted cocoa nubs, chocolate, caramel, toffee, wintery spices, roasted nuts, slight crayon and faint bitter aftertaste,
Medium body. Oily-to-creamy texture. Average-to-soft carbonation. Long, smooth, warming finish.
A pretty decent beer overall. Great for the winter months. Would definitely have it again.
Fatehunter (1644) - Corbett, Oregon, USA - FEB 4, 2014
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Pours a half finger of head on a black body.
The aroma is mild caramel malt and a touch of lemon.
The taste is pretty mild for a doppelbock. Mild caramel sweetness with balanced bitterness.
The texture is crisp with moderate carbonation.
An easier drinking doppelbock. Enjoyable.
Earlier Rating: 2/1/2013 Total Score: 3.7
A half finger of head on a dark brown colored body.
The smell is faint overall: roasted malt and candy.
The taste is good: roasted malt, bread, malt sweetness and a tiny lemon bitterness at the end.
The texture is crisp with moderate carbonation and medium body.
A nice, solid doppelbock.
VinegarStroke (339) - Napa, California, USA - FEB 2, 2014
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Tap (sampler): Clear, deep copper brown, thick head and moderate lace. Closed nose. Poached fruit and tropical. Creamy. Malt driven. Caramel. Off dry, not sour medium bitterness. Dense and long. Very fruit palate. Loads of flavor. Dried figs and raisin starting to show.
beertholomeus (1160) - California, USA - FEB 1, 2014
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Pours a deep caramel brown with an off white head. Caramel, malt and slight chocolate. Caramel, malt, toffee, biscuit and slight chocolate flavors. Medium body and moderate carbonation. Slightly sweet taste and a malty finish.
joeneugs (4143) - Livermore, California, USA - JAN 17, 2014
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 15/20
12 oz. bottle. It pours a very deep brown color with a khaki head. The aroma is very dry and toasted with lots of melanoidins, a little cocoa and some earthy hops. The flavor is a bit harsh with a heavy, out of place bitterness that stands out above the rich malt background. The alcohol is also pretty noticeable and makes this a bit of a chore to drink. If they had dialed the bitterness down a bit this would have been pretty good.
Oscbert (1130) - Sacramento, California, USA - JAN 6, 2014
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
~Strong melanoidin malt character with toasty bread, light caramel and earthy hop
~Pours very dark brown color almost black with small creamy off white head.
~Lots of roast in flavor with sweetness to balance it out. Melanoidal and toasty with caramel like sweetness
~medium full bodied, medium CO2, sweet yet roasty lingering finish.
~ I quite like this beer. Intriguing. A bit on the roasty side. Enjoyable sipper.
Earlier Rating: 5/25/2008 Total Score: 3.3
~Pours a very dark red with diminishing head.
~Scent of sweet chocolate raisin and caramel
~Taste is sweet, but not overbearing. A bit of chocolate and some fruits.
~Medium bodied. Nice finish.
~ I don’t care too much for the aroma. Smells too sweet. Luckily, for me, the flavor is real mild. I like this brew. Would be great on a winter’s night.
bhensonb (12310) - Woodland, California, USA - DEC 27, 2013
3.2 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Pours dark brown with a transient light tan head. Aroma is dark, slightly roasty, malt with maybe some grassy hop hints. Med body. Flavor is malty, perhaps with some earthy hop. It finishes far from bitter. Decent.
Earlier Rating: 12/10/2007 Total Score: 3.4
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Dan Gilmore points out the big Forbes article that paints bloggers as "lynch mobs". Daniel Lyons is the author.
On Monday I will be posting a podcast on PodTech.net with Forbes president Steve Forbes where Steve talks about the benefits of social media (blogging and podcasting). It will be interesting to see how the writer response when his boss basically says the opposite of his story. Look for the podcast on PodTech.net Monday morning. | <urn:uuid:886c0f8e-b8fe-4b39-85f9-a917cb2095e1> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://furrier.typepad.com/john_furrier/2005/10/forbes_gaffe.html | 2016-10-20T21:16:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988717954.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183837-00113-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941698 | 91 | [
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Church and institute, 1924-5 by Edward Brantwood Maufe for the Royal Association in aid of the Deaf and Dumb.
St Saviour's church and institute, of 1924-5 by Edward Brantwood Maufe, are listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* Architectural interest: a key early work by this major C20 church architect, showing his refined, Scandinavian-inspired modern Gothic idiom to good effect in its dramatic composition and cool, harmonious interior;
* Expression of function: Maufe's design incorporates sundry features geared towards the specific needs of a deaf congregation, including the sloping floor, twin pulpits and use of indirect lighting;
* Historic interest: built by and for what is now the Royal Association for Deaf People, a pioneering disability group in existence since the 1850s, St Saviour’s has been a mainstay of deaf religious and social life in the capital for nearly a century;
* Intactness: notwithstanding the changes to the institute hall, St Saviour's as a whole remains very much as built, the church interior being almost completely unaltered.
Reason for ListingSt Saviour's church and institute, of 1924-5 by Edward Brantwood Maufe, are listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:* Architectural interest: a key early work by this major C20 church architect, showing his refined, Scandinavian-inspired modern Gothic idiom to good effect in its dramatic composition and cool, harmonious interior;* Expression of function: Maufe's design incorporates sundry features geared towards the specific needs of a deaf congregation, including the sloping floor, twin pulpits and use of indirect lighting;* Historic interest: built by and for what is now the Royal Association for Deaf People, a pioneering disability group in existence since the 1850s, St Saviour’s has been a mainstay of deaf religious and social life in the capital for nearly a century;* Intactness: notwithstanding the changes to the institute hall, St Saviour's as a whole remains very much as built, the church interior being almost completely unaltered.
HistorySt Saviour’s Church for the Deaf was built in 1924-5, but its origins are inextricably linked to the much longer history of the Royal Association in aid of the Deaf and Dumb (RADD, now the Royal Association for Deaf People). This organisation was founded in 1854 to continue the work begun in 1841 by the Institution for the Employment, Relief and Religious Instruction of the Adult Deaf and Dumb. The Association’s spiritual work, under the chaplaincy of the Revd Samuel Smith, proved extremely successful, and in 1870-3 a purpose-built deaf church was erected at the junction of Oxford Street and Lumley Street to designs by AW Blomfield. This first St Saviour's Church fell victim to redevelopment plans by the Grosvenor Estate and was demolished in 1923. The RADD, having received £15,000 compensation for the early surrender of the lease, acquired two replacement sites at Acton and Clapham - in the western and southern suburbs respectively - and obtained two very similar sets of designs from the architect Edward Maufe, in each case comprising a hall and social facilities at ground level and a worship space above. Acton was the senior foundation, inheriting the dedication and a number of fittings from the Oxford Street church. The foundation stone was laid by Edward, Prince of Wales on 22 April 1924, and construction work, undertaken by Holloway Brothers at a cost of £16,500, was completed within the year. The opening ceremony was performed on 5 May 1925 by Princess Mary, with various dignitaries in attendance. Edward Brantwood Maufe (1882-1974) was an important late practitioner in the Arts and Crafts tradition and one of the leading church architects of the C20. He served his pupillage with the London architect William Alfred Pite, and also studied at Oxford and the Architectural Association. His two buildings for the RADD made his reputation. They show the influence of early-C20 Swedish architecture with its delicate balance of tradition and modernity – an influence likewise felt in his other churches, including St Thomas the Apostle, Ealing (1933-4), All Saints at Esher in Surrey (1938-9), and above all in his masterpiece, the new cathedral at Guildford (1932-61). Although best known as an ecclesiastical architect, Maufe also designed various houses, banks, theatres and collegiate buildings at Oxford and Cambridge, and was responsible for much of the post-war rebuilding of London’s bomb-damaged Inns of Court. From 1943 he served as architect to the Imperial War Graves Commission, for which service he was knighted in 1954.
DetailsMATERIALS: brown Crowborough brick with stone dressingsPLAN: the building occupies a corner site at the junction of Old Oak Road and Armstrong Road. The institute is on the ground floor, with the worship space above. The main entrance from Old Oak Road opens into a small entrance hall, from which twin stairs (with WCs beneath) lead up to the church. This is reverse-oriented, being entered from the east and having its high altar at the western end. It comprises a broad aisleless nave and a narrower raised chancel with a short sanctuary. To the north is a Lady chapel, and to the south a vestry. The space beneath the nave forms the institute’s main hall, which has a raised stage with dressing rooms and offices to the west, a kitchen and a side entrance lobby to the north and a billiard room to the south.EXTERIOR: this displays Maufe’s characteristic pared-down Gothic manner, influenced by contemporary Scandinavian church design (e.g. Ivar Tengbom’s Högalidskyrkan in Stockholm), and having strong affinities with contemporary British work by Charles Holden, Giles Gilbert Scott and others. The institute building forms a low podium, with simple mullion-and-transom windows, flat roofs and stepped, ziggurat-like massing – particularly emphatic around the main east doorway on Old Oak Road. This, like the side entrance on Armstrong Road to the north, is a segmental brick arch with splayed sides and sturdy oak doors. To one side is the foundation stone, dated April 22 1924; the building's rainwater-heads bear the completion date of 1925 along with the RADD monogram. Rising from the podium is the sheer rectangular mass of the church. Its east front, behind and above the main entrance, has a tall four-light window with reticulated Gothic tracery of stylised form, framed by shallow pilaster-buttresses and a low-pitched gable. The flank walls are of sheer brick, with slender two-light windows. Transept-like projections, taller than the institute but lower than the church, contain the Lady chapel and vestry. Canted walls mark the transition to the narrower chancel, whose blind end wall features a simple cross in relief. INTERIORS: the main doorway from Old Oak Road leads into an ENTRANCE HALL, with the foundation stone from the Oxford Street church re-set above. A corresponding archway with decorative half-height metal gates leads through to the main hall; small octagonal windows on either side provide light to the WCs. Above these, twin flights of stone stairs ascend, via several small landings and switch-backs, to the entrance to the church. Over the lintel here is inscribed VENITE EXULTEMUS DOMINO (from Psalm 95: ‘O come, let us sing unto the Lord’); the doors themselves are covered with studded blue leather and have little cross-in-oval windows. The CHURCH interior is a single tall volume about 60 feet long. Its design reflects an order of service whose principal medium was visual rather than auditory; the recurrent solar and stellar symbolism refers to the same fact. The internal walls are of whitewashed brick, with tall, deeply recessed windows and a wood-block floor slightly raked from east to west to give the clearest view for the entire congregation. The north and south windows are of translucent white glass to minimise glare. Above is a polygonal wagon roof, painted deep blue with wave motifs picked out in gold on the trusses, from which hang reflective light-fittings in the form of IHS-monogrammed golden sunbursts. Above the entrance is a gallery for overflow accommodation and projection apparatus, its plaster front bearing a triple wave motif. The west window contains glass by an unknown artist, given in memory of Dame Frances Maxwell-Lyte (d.1925): figures of saints with angels above and scenes of the Crucifixion, Annunciation and Resurrection below. Beneath the gallery is a polychromatic marble font, brought from the Oxford Street church and inscribed in memory of Henry George Ginner Ayshford (d.1893), secretary of the National Deaf and Dumb Teetotal Society. A double archway to the right of the chancel steps opens into the Lady chapel, which has a low rib-vaulted ceiling and small mullioned windows containing Flemish-style glass by Martin Travers: Annunciation, Nativity and Pietà, the latter paired with the arms of Henry de Pereira, Bishop of Croydon and one-time chairman of the RADD. The altar is set in a shallow pointed recess containing a Della Robbia-style roundel of the Virgin and Child. A corresponding doorway to the left leads to the vestry, which retains its oak cupboards and doors and a trefoil-shaped stone sink.The transition from broad nave to narrower chancel is formed by canted sections of wall, and is marked at ground level by a flight of four steps rising between twin polygonal ambones (pulpits) with oak balustrades – one for the preacher, and one for use where necessary (e.g. in the case of a visiting speaker) by a sign-language interpreter. These can be illuminated by spot-lights concealed in the walls. In front are the blue-and-gold communion rails (originally in the sanctuary) and on either side are oak clergy stalls, moveable but clearly made for the church, including two double seats with high shaped backs that match the form of the reredos. The ceiling over the short sanctuary is painted with golden stars; behind, in place of a window, is a shallow arched recess containing a very tall reredos in blue and gold, bearing a large crucifix against a drapery background, and crowned with three stars and a shaped gable containing a sunburst.(At the time of inspection in 2014 there were also a number of moveable works of art by Deaf artists, mostly brought from the Oxford Street church, including: a plaster statue of the Good Shepherd and busts of the Prince of Wales and the Revd Samuel Smith, all by Joseph Gawen; a pre-Raphaelitesque painting of the Last Supper by Frank Ross Maguire; a bronzed plaster roundel showing Jesus healing a deaf-mute; and a set of bronze Stations of the Cross. Notwithstanding their historic and artistic interest, these are not fixed and do not form part of the listing).The INSTITUTE hall occupies the space immediately beneath the church. The interiors were altered in the 1980s and 90s with the addition of wood-veneer panelling, a bar enclosure and various other modern fittings (none of these is of special interest*). The hall has a sloping ceiling corresponding to the church's raked floor. At the far end is a raised proscenium-arch stage, with a dressing room (an office in 2014) to the left; in the corridor wall here are two stone heads from the Oxford Street church. Other spaces include a kitchen, communicating with the hall via a serving hatch, an office and a top-lit billiard room.SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: immediately to the south is the former chaplain's house, a two-storey building a central arched doorway and heavily remodelled fenestration. This building, though part of the original build, is too altered to be of special interest and is excluded from the listing. Likewise excluded is the modern yellow-brick Syrian Orthodox church on Armstrong Road, built on part of the rear yard to St Saviour's.* Pursuant to s.1 (5A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 ('The Act') it is declared that these aforementioned features are not of special architectural or historic interest.
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Nominees for the 31st Annual Sports EMMY® Awards announced at IMG World Congress of Sports
In 2010 the SIVision production team is heading to eight raceing events
For the third consecutive year the Red Bull Air Race World Championship coverage is nominated in the category "Outstanding Technical Team Work". The other nominees this year are "ESPN Monday Night Football", NASCAR on ESPN" and "NBC Sunday Night Football".
After winning the Emmy last year it will be a real challenge for the Air Race production team to win again. Looking back to last years six races in Abu Dhabi, San Diego, Windsor, Budapest, Porto and Barcelona, the air race production team already has won the first challenge: Now eight Races arroung the world are on the 2010 race calender and for the first time ever New York is included. After the race opener in Abu Dhabi this weekend the SIVision production team will cover the races in
• Perth, Australia (17/18 April)
• Rio de Janeiro, Brasil (8/9 May)
• Windsor, Canada (5/6 June)
• New York, USA (19/20 June)
• Lausitz Germany (7/8 August)
• Budapest, Hungary (19/20 August)
• Lisbon Portugal (4/5 September)
About The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) is a professional service organization dedicated to the advancement of the arts and sciences of television and the promotion of creative leadership for artistic, educational and technical achievements within the television industry. It recognizes excellence in television with the coveted Emmy Award for News & Documentary, Sports, Daytime Entertainment, Daytime Creative Arts & Entertainment, Public & Community Service, Technology & Engineering, and Business & Financial Reporting. Excellence in Primetime programming and international programming is recognized by its affiliate, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Regional Emmys are given in 19 regions across the United States. Beyond awards, NATAS has extensive educational programs including National Student Television and its Student Award for Excellence for outstanding journalistic work by high school students, as well as scholarships, publications, and major activities for both industry professionals and the viewing public. | <urn:uuid:db76154d-0784-490f-8fcf-4e1c2570fe2b> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.live-production.tv/news/sports/nominees-31st-annual-sports-emmy%C2%AE-awards-announced-img-world-congress-sports.html | 2016-10-20T21:47:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988717954.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183837-00113-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.910914 | 456 | [
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OTHER SIMPLE MODES.
1. Other simple Modes of simple Ideas of sensation.
Though I have, in the foregoing chapters, shown how from simple ideas taken in by sensation, the mind comes to extend itself even to infinity; which, however it may of all others seem most remote from any sensible perception, yet at last hath nothing in it but what is made out of simple ideas: received into the mind by the senses, and afterwards there put together, by the faculty the mind has to repeat its own ideas; — Though, I say, these might be instances enough of simple modes of the simple ideas of sensation, and suffice to show how the mind comes by them, yet I shall, for method's sake, though briefly, give an account of some few more, and then proceed to more complex ideas.
2. Simple modes of motion.
To slide, roll, tumble, walk, creep, run, dance, leap, skip, and abundance of others that might be named, are words which are no sooner heard but every one who understands English has presently in his mind distinct ideas, which are all but the different modifications of motion. Modes of motion answer those of extension; swift and slow are two different ideas of motion, the measures whereof are made of the distances of time and space put together; so they are complex ideas, comprehending time and space with motion.
3. Modes of Sounds.
The like variety have we in sounds. Every articulate word is a different modification of sound; by which we see that, from the sense of hearing, by such modifications, the mind may be furnished with distinct ideas, to almost an infinite number. Sounds also, besides the distinct cries of birds and beasts, are modified by diversity of notes of different length put together, which make that complex idea called a tune, which a musician may have in his mind when he hears or makes no sound at all, by reflecting on the ideas of those sounds, so put together silently in his own fancy.
4. Modes of Colours.
Those of colours are also very various: some we take notice of as the different degrees, or as they were termed shades, of the same colour. But since we very seldom make assemblages of colours, either for use or delight, but figure is taken in also, and has its part in it, as in painting, weaving, needleworks, &c.; — those which are taken notice of do most commonly belong to MIXED MODES, as being made up of ideas of divers kinds, viz. figure and colour, such as beauty, rainbow, &c.
5. Modes of Tastes.
All compounded tastes and smells are also modes, made up of the simple ideas of those senses. But they, being such as generally we have no names for, are less taken notice of, and cannot be set down in writing; and therefore must be left without enumeration to the thoughts and experience of my reader.
6. Some simple Modes have no Names.
In general it may be observed, that those simple modes which are considered but as different DEGREES of the same simple idea, though they are in themselves many of them very distinct ideas, yet have ordinarily no distinct names, nor are much taken notice of, as distinct ideas, where the difference is but very small between them. Whether men have neglected these modes, and given no names to them, as wanting measures nicely to distinguish them; or because, when they were so distinguished, that knowledge would not be of general or necessary use, I leave it to the thoughts of others. It is sufficient to my purpose to show, that all our simple ideas come to our minds only by sensation and reflection; and that when the mood has them, it can variously repeat and compound them, and so make new complex ideas. But, though white, red, or sweet, &c. have not been modified, or made into complex ideas, by several combinations, so as to be named, and thereby ranked into species; yet some others of the simple ideas, viz. those of unity, duration, and motion, &c., above instanced in, as also power and thinking, have been thus modified to a great variety of complex ideas, with names belonging to them.
7. Why some Modes have, and others have not, Names.
The reason whereof, I suppose, has been this, — That the great concernment of men being with men one amongst another, the knowledge of men, and their actions, and the signifying of them to one another, was most necessary; and therefore they made ideas of ACTIONS very nicely modified, and gave those complex ideas names, that they might the more easily record and discourse of those things they were daily conversant in, without long ambages and circumlocutions; and that the things they were continually to give and receive information about might be the easier and quicker understood. That this is so, and that men in framing different complex ideas, and giving them names, have been much governed by the end of speech in general, (which is a very short and expedite way of conveying their thoughts one to another), is evident in the names which in several arts have been found out, and applied to several complex ideas of modified actions, belonging to their several trades, for dispatch sake, in their direction or discourses about them. Which ideas are not generally framed in the minds of men not conversant about these operations. And thence the words that stand for them, by the greatest part of men of the same language, are not understood: v. g. COLTSHIRE, DRILLING, FILTRATION, COHOBATION, are words standing for certain complex ideas, which being seldom in the minds of any but those few whose particular employments do at every turn suggest them to their thoughts, those names of them are not generally understood but by smiths and chymists; who, having framed the complex ideas which these words stand for, and having given names to them, or received them from others, upon hearing of these names in communication, readily conceive those ideas in their minds;-as by COHOBATION all the simple ideas of distilling, and the pouring the liquor distilled from anything back upon the remaining matter, and distilling it again. Thus we see that there are great varieties of simple ideas, as of tastes and smells, which have no names; and of modes many more; which either not having been generally enough observed, or else not being of any great use to be taken notice of in the affairs and converse of men, they have not had names given to them, and so pass not for species. This we shall have occasion hereafter to consider more at large, when we come to speak of WORDS. | <urn:uuid:7e9a4134-938e-4f36-ba2a-9504242b6ad8> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/e/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/summary-and-analysis/book-ii-of-ideas-chapters-1233/book-ii-of-ideas-chapters-1233-22 | 2016-10-20T21:37:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988717954.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183837-00113-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974167 | 1,389 | [
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Endeavour replica sails into Port Adelaide for week-long visit
- Photo: Crew and supporters on board the replica Endeavour as it sails into Port Adelaide. (ABC: Ashley Walsh)
- Photo: HMB Endeavour fired its cannon as it sailed into Encounter Bay at Victor Harbor, south of Adelaide. (Supplied: Sue Pender)
- Photo: HMB Endeavour sails near the South Australian coast on its journey from Geelong to Adelaide. (Supplied: Sue Pender)
- Photo: The Endeavour at sea off Victor Harbor, before it headed north to Port Adelaide. (Supplied: Sue Pender)
- Photo: An aerial view of the replica of Captain James Cook's Endeavour at sea. (Supplied: Australian National Maritime Museum)
Just days after one of the world's most modern ocean liners, the Queen Elizabeth, sailed into Adelaide for the first time, a replica of the centuries-old vessel James Cook captained is heading into Port Adelaide for a week-long stay.
- Endeavour has sailed from Geelong to Adelaide, visiting Kangaroo Island and Victor Harbor
- The cannon was fired off Victor Harbor as hundreds of people watched from shore
- Three tall ships, Endeavour, the Falie and the One And All, will be in Port Adelaide
Her Majesty's Bark Endeavour has spent more than a week sailing from Geelong in Victoria to South Australia via places including Kangaroo Island and Victor Harbor, south of Adelaide and probably sailed past the Queen Elizabeth after it left Adelaide on Tuesday night.
The cannon on the replica Endeavour was fired when the ship arrived in Encounter Bay at Victor Harbor, to the delight of hundreds of locals who watched the spectacle from the shoreline.
The replica was built more than two decades ago, but with modern amenities below deck, along with twin engines which can be fired up when the sails are not set.
Steward Bill Ellemor said some of the young crew on the current voyage had plenty of sailing experience, including one making his 13th trip and another her sixth.
Mr Ellemor has been writing an online ship's log during the voyage to Port Adelaide including this entry:
"Last night's conditions were not conducive to restful sleep. With the wind in the wrong quarter, we had to travel under engine power all night, which is usually a rougher ride.
"Add to that, being side-on to a rolling swell from the port beam and the ship jumped around like a cranky horse."
Another experience for the crew off the SA coast was a little more pleasant:
"In the pink and grey early morning light — 'Galah light' according to [crew member] Peter — those on dawn watch had an encounter with a pod of spinner dolphins.
"By the time the rest of the crew woke and came on deck, land was in sight, Fleurieu Peninsula.
"Meanwhile down below, with nasi goreng on the breakfast menu, [crew member] Paula got into costume to serve it.
"As the morning wore on, Kangaroo Island came into view and Backstairs Passage, between Kangaroo Island and the mainland, became clear."
Three tall ships will be in Port Adelaide at the same time, with SA vessels the One And All and the Falie also open to the public in coming days.
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If newspapers were a baseball team, they would be the Mets -- without the hope for "next year."
Veteran media executive Alan Mutter, who is perhaps the business's most perspicacious observer, has been chronicling its demise one depressing statistic at a time. For instance, he informs us that during the past year:
- Newspaper revenue fell to its lowest level since 1984, although adjusted for inflation the income is actually worth half of what papers earned back then.
- Combined ad sales for all the newspapers in America in 2011 equaled barely two-thirds of the sales by Google alone.
- These declines only accelerated in the fourth quarter of 2011, indicating that not only is there no end in sight, but the worst is yet to come.
- Digital revenue, once the industry's hope for economic revival, grew only 6.8 percent during 2011, which is not remotely fast enough to make up for advertising losses.
To retain what's left of their rapidly disappearing profitability, the industrywide response has been to shed staff, to reduce the size of the paper itself (as well as its "news hole," or the amount of space left in the paper for news after advertising ) and, in some cases, to not publish on certain days. America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago. The Los Angeles Times, which has already been ravaged by staff cuts, announced yet another round of involuntary retirements just this week.
As a result of such moves, Mutter notes, newspapers are not investing in developing the products and services that would enable them to compete with the growing number of digital competitors lusting after local advertising dollars. The result is further deterioration in the value of these properties even beyond the absolutely alarming deterioration we have already seen. The drop last year in publicly traded newspaper shares was an amazing 27 percent.
(And even worse news -- if that's possible -- is Rupert Murdoch's News Corp actually increased in value in 2011 by a full 10.7 percent despite the criminal activity already uncovered in News of the World, among other properties. It was the only publicly traded newspaper-owning organization to do so, though it is deeply unlikely that it was the newspaper division that accounted for any of the rise. Alas the rest of the newspaper numbers would be even worse without News Corp -- a more than 30 percent drop -- all compared with a 5.5 percent increase in the Dow Jones average during this period.)
To add insult to injury, perhaps the most significant investments these same corporations made were to line the pockets of their failed executives. The Tribune Company -- which is in bankruptcy, having destroyed much of the value of not only its hometown Chicago papers but also the Los Angeles Times, among others -- treated its executives to nearly $100 million in performance bonuses (court-approval pending) for their awful performances. Gannett's CEO, Craig Dubow, resigned recently, having cut more than 20,000 workers since 2005 and a stock price dropping 86 percent, from $72 per share to just more than $10. That turns out to somehow justify a severance package for Dubow worth $32 million.
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Irish American filmmaker Michael Moore has asked the Irish public to use their world famous sense of humor to “take the piss out” of United States presidential hopeful Donald Trump and also said that Britain deciding to leave the EU would be like a soccer team leaving the Premier League.
The Oscar-winning documentary maker is currently visiting Ireland to promote his new movie, “Where to Invade Next.” A lifetime Democrat Party supporter, Moore told RTE, Ireland’s national broadcaster, that he believes humor and satire are the best weapons at the disposal of those who object to the Republican nominee’s views.
Moore told RTE TEN, “I would ask the Irish in the weeks leading up to his visit to really think about how to use the great Irish sense of humor, satire, ridicule to take the piss out of him while he's here. You would do all of us a great service.”
Donald Trump, who owns Trump International Golf Links & Hotel Ireland, in, Doonbeg, County Clare, plans to visit Ireland later this month. His trip will conicide with that of Vice President Joe Biden's.
His new movie, “Where to Invade Next,” examines how the USA can learn from other countries, such as Finland as Finland (no homework for kids), Italy (eight weeks paid holidays), Slovenia (free third level education) and France (freshly cooked school dinners and forthright sex education).
He said he did not visit Ireland when filming because it would have been too obvious due to his Irish heritage.
“I didn't come to Ireland because Americans know me as an Irish-American and they would just think 'Oh, of course he's going to Ireland' you know? So not to be so, um, parochial about it, if that's the right word,” Moore said.
He also told RTE that his ancestry had impacted his character and he appreciates of the sense of humor he inherited.
"First of all, growing up as an Irish-American, you have a sense of humor that is a bit dark and sometimes a little warped, but very necessary in order to deal with all the darkness in the world, I think," he told TEN.
"So I think having a sense of humor comes very much from the Irish in our family and I'm appreciative of that."
Moore’s most famous works include the Oscar-winning movie “Bowling for Columbine” and “Fahrenheit 9/11.”
While in Britain, earlier this week he appeared on Pier’s Morgan’s, ITV show “Good Morning Britain”, where he compared the British people voting to leave the EU during the referendum on June 23 to being regulated to the minor leagues in soccer.
He said “Why would you want to leave Europe? You are Europe. You saved Europe. For the average American it’s like the idea we could have a vote to remove ourselves from North America or that Texas could vote to leave the US.
“Maybe the best analogy I could draw right now with the upcoming election here and your wonderful game of football is that why would you go to the polls and vote to remove yourself from the Premier League?”
He went on, once more, to slam Donald Trump as “the definition of 21st century fascism” but admitted “he may win”.
Moore said: “He’s a great manipulator of the media. Americans like to hear over and over again ‘We’re number one’, ‘We’re the greatest’, ‘I’m going to make America great again’, ‘You’re great out there’. He just keeps saying that.
“He is the definition of 21st century fascism, but he’s also saying some other things and the way he’s going to win – and he may win – is all he’s got to do is win the traditional red states from Idaho to Georgia.”
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AVP’s Donald Sun sets up the 2014 season and the future of volleyball
After going bankrupt in the middle of the 2010 season, the AVP Tour is now is now under the watchful eye of owner Donald Sun, who bought the famed tour two years ago, and is now readying for the 31st year of its existence. The company operated seven tournaments in 2013 and this season it will hold the same number of events, this time with recently-announced sales/operations partner IMG in tow, starting May 30 in St. Petersburg on CBS Sports Network. All seven tournaments will be shown on TV, topping the five from 2013, with both the men’s and women’s championship matches shown live. In addition, AVP will live stream all of the other matches throughout the year at AVP.com.
Cynopsis Sports spoke with Sun, AVP Managing Partner, about taking on the tour, connecting with fans and his plans for keep the momentum moving forward.
Sun on his decision to buy the company: Early on, the AVP definitely looked great on TV and on site, but the motivation of the ownership was to sell it off. They got to a certain level where there was some equity value to the AVP, it was just that they couldn’t flip the company over. So they had to go and get a private investor to help fund the rest of the year. Then they changed ownership, forced the old owners out, and the new owners came in and tried to cut costs and change some things but after the middle of 2010, they decided to pull the plug. That was the big challenge that I unfortunately inherited, with all the bad feelings from the tour being stopped abruptly in 2010. The challenge for me has been to overcome the issues that happened previously.
On version 3.0: I’m not here to flip the house. I followed the AVP when I was younger and even had my own aspirations of being on the AVP Tour. But I always thought the brand resonated still with brands, media partners and fans. So now we are trying to have more organic growth. We’re not trying to overstretch. There’s no point of saying this year we are going to do seven events, and next year ten and the year after, we’ll have 12. That exhausts people. So we are trying to make sure that this is a real, sustainable business. We don’t need to expand and outreach so quickly. It doesn’t make sense. Going to locations that we can establish ourselves and making tent pole events will help create a following on both the local and national side. We won’t overpromise and under deliver. Because of that, people are coming around and we are very positive moving forward.
On media: This season you will see more live steaming, as we will be doing all day Friday and all day Saturday leading up to the finals. Last year, out of the seven events, we televised five of them. This year, it will be all seven of them with two of them being taped delay due to programming conflicts, but it will all be on CBS Sports. I think from a programming standpoint we are trying to provide more hours of content for our fans. In addition, from a content standpoint, we are making a push on the social media side. We are creating a YouTube Channel and are partnering with someone, who we haven’t announced yet, but they will help drive traffic and help us create content strategy. We are also exploring other programming that the casual person would want to tune in and watch.
On the future of the sport: Our initiative starting this year and going forward is to build that pipeline. I think that’s what’s been lacking. There’s not a clear path to being a professional AVP athlete, other than the Olympics. So, what is that? That’s why we are partnering with the Southern California Volleyball Association to create programming for kids and youth. Those are the things that we are building so kids can have an easy guide to know that first they need to do this, then they can go do that and become a professional player. I see that its growing and we would like to be a part of the sport’s trajectory.
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Oceaneering has reported earnings for the third quarter ended September 30, 2009. On revenue of $484 million, Oceaneering generated net income of $49.8 million, or $0.90 per share. For the third quarter of 2008, Oceaneering reported revenue of $516 million and net income of $55.0 million, or $0.98 per share. For the second quarter of 2009, Oceaneering reported revenue of $451 million and net income of $48.1 million, or $0.87 per share.
Sequentially, quarterly earnings improved on solid growth in ROV operating income. Year-over-year, quarterly earnings declined primarily due to lower Subsea Products operating income on a decrease in umbilical plant throughput and higher BOP Control System development and manufacturing costs.
T. Jay Collins, President and Chief Executive Officer, stated, "Our third quarter performance was highlighted by record ROV operating income. Earnings per share were at the top end of our guidance range. All of our business segments had operating income performances in line with or better than what we had expected, with the exception of Subsea Products. In Subsea Products, we incurred $5.5 million of unanticipated costs on two BOP control systems that are in the final stages of manufacturing.
"Our all-time high quarterly ROV profit performance was attributable to achieving a record number of days on hire. During the quarter, we put 11 ROVs into service and retired three. At the end of September, we had 243 vehicles in our fleet, compared to 223 a year ago.
"During the quarter our capital expenditures were $55 million, of which $47 million was in support of growing and upgrading our ROV fleet. We also repaid the remaining $20 million of our 2009 debt maturities. As of September 30, 2009, we had $120 million of debt, over $80 million of cash, and $200 million available under our revolving credit facility. With $1.2 billion of equity on our balance sheet, our debt-to-capitalization percentage was 9%, down from 24% a year ago.
"Despite reductions in exploration and production spending by our customers, overall demand in the first three quarters of 2009 for our deepwater services and products has held up remarkably well. During the quarter, our Subsea Products backlog declined slightly and was $328 million at September 30, 2009. We have taken proactive steps to align our cost structure with lower activity levels where appropriate. As a result, our year-to-date EPS is only 3% below that of the corresponding period in 2008. We now expect that our annual 2009 EPS performance will be the second best in Oceaneering's history and are narrowing our annual guidance range to $3.32 to $3.38. For the fourth quarter of 2009, we are forecasting EPS of $0.75 to $0.81.
"According to the International Energy Agency, there is a surplus supply of oil due to a reduction in demand stemming from the 2009 global economic recession. Heading into 2010, we believe deepwater drilling activity will continue to grow as new floating rigs currently under construction are added to the worldwide fleet. However, we do not expect deepwater construction activity to increase next year, as we anticipate project deferrals to continue until there is a recovery in hydrocarbon demand. Consequently, we are forecasting 2010 EPS to be relatively flat with 2009, in the range of $3.25 to $3.55. Our 2010 forecast assumptions include unit volume growth and increased operating profits from ROVs, improved operating efficiencies and results in Subsea Products, declines in Subsea Projects activity levels and operating income, and a lower contribution from MOPS due primarily to the expected retirement of the FPSO Ocean Producer.
"For 2010, we anticipate generating in excess of $300 million of cash flow, simply defined as net income plus depreciation and amortization. This projected cash flow would provide ample resources to invest in Oceaneering’s growth, either organically or through acquisitions.
"Looking longer term, our belief remains unchanged that the oil and gas industry will continue to invest in deepwater to counteract high existing reservoir depletion rates. Deepwater is one of the best frontiers for adding large hydrocarbon reserves with high production flow rates at relatively low per barrel finding and development costs. Therefore, we anticipate demand for our deepwater services and products will remain promising."
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Actual Existence, Identity and Ontological Priority
The paper first distinguishes ontological priority from epistemological priority and unilateral ontic dependence. Then explications of ontological priority are offered in terms of the reducibility of the actual existence or identity of entities in one ontological category to the actual existence or identity of entities in another. These explications lead to incompatible orders of ontological priority for individuals, properties of individuals and states of affairs. Common to those orders is, however, that the primacy of the category of individuals is abandoned. This primacy is challenged in the paper also by epistemological arguments, and an onto-anthropological explanation is offered for the very common but false idea that individuals are ontological prior to all other kinds of entities. Finally ontological priority is discussed with respect to a fully specified system of ontological categories. | <urn:uuid:55af916f-baa9-402b-8336-45870f37ad55> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023%2FA%3A1005319517117 | 2016-10-24T14:38:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719638.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00299-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.886386 | 173 | [
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A Sacramento County sheriff's deputy has pleaded no contest to felony drug possession and identity theft charges after she befriended an elderly victim and refilled his prescription drugs without his knowledge, according to authorities.
Kelly Curran Smith, 43, entered the plea today as part of an agreement with the Sacramento County District Attorney's office that will send her to jail for 120 days and to a drug diversion program, according to a news release from the DA's office. She also will be placed on probation after she has served her time.
Smith and her attorney, Jeffrey M. Schaff, declined comment.
Smith is a 23-year veteran deputy assigned to the Rancho Cordova Police Department. Smith was placed on paid administrative leave when the investigation began in March, and she remains employed by the department, said sheriff's Deputy Jason Ramos.
Smith befriended a 90-year-old man and then began to refill his prescription painkillers without his knowledge. She then picked up the pills and kept them for her own use. She was arrested in May.
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You Texans go ahead and succeed where the Greeks failed with Darkfall.
Your concept for this game will be successful. There were TENS OF THOUSANDS of people lined up to buy Darkfall on day one because THERE IS A MARKET for a FPS FULL LOOT PVP MMO (as long as it is GOOD).
Darkfall generated so much interest BECAUSE it promised all of the features and content you are promising. It failed because it did not deliver.
IF you pull this off, you will SUCCEED. There are so many of us out here that want this game, but most don't believe it is possible after so many disappointments.
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In March 1996, the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 just happened to be pointed at the faraway galaxy cluster MS1054-0321 when it captured the light from an exploding star, called supernova 1996cl. The cluster is 8 billion light-years from Earth.
The Hubble telescope can clearly distinguish the supernova light from the glow of its parent galaxy. The larger image on the left shows the entire cluster of galaxies. The galaxy where the supernova was discovered is located in the boxed area. The bright knot of light from the supernova and the fainter glow from the parent galaxy are shown in the inset image on the right. The arrow points to the light from the supernova explosion.
The supernova was discovered by members of the Supernova Cosmology Project, led by Saul Perlmutter of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in California. Perlmutter and his team made this discovery using images from the Hubble telescope and ground-based observatories. The Hubble data were furnished by Megan Donahue of the Space Telescope Science Institute. Donahue was using the Hubble telescope to study galaxy cluster MS1054-0321.
Members of the Supernova Project use ground-based telescopes to search for distant supernovae, such as 1996cl, by comparing multiple, wide-field images of galaxies and clusters of galaxies taken at different times. Supernovae are named for the year and the order in which they are found.
Supernova 1996cl is a Type Ia supernova. Exploding stars of this type are particularly useful for cosmology because they share a standard maximum brightness. By measuring this brightness, astronomers can determine a Type Ia's distance from Earth. Astronomers use this information to measure the expansion rate of the universe.
Object Names: MS1054-0321, SN 1996cl
Image Type: Astronomical/Illustration
HST Credits: Megan Donahue (STSCI)
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SEATTLE - Multiple people were hurt Friday morning in a collision in North Seattle.
The Seattle Fire Department responded to a report of a multicar and multiinjury collision at about 8 a.m. on First Avenue Northeast and Northeast Northgate Way.
Fire officials said the patients had non-life-threatening injuries.
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Muharraq coastline facelift on track
Manama, March 23, 2014
A cut-price revamp of the Muharraq coastline could go ahead, after private investors pulled out of a BD25 million ($65.9 million) project earlier this month.
New plans for a BD5 million government development have been put forward by the Muharraq Municipality, which is keen to push ahead with regeneration of the area, said a report in the Gulf Daily News (GDN), our sister publication.
The Al Ghous Corniche, which is located between two bridges linking Muharraq and Manama, has long been earmarked for a major new leisure, tourism and shopping development.
However, private investors who planned to pump in BD25 million withdrew after waiting years for the land to be made available.
"It has taken a long time for development to go ahead and we have decided to step in with our own plans," said municipality director-general Saleh Al Fadhala.
The original investors - a consortium of Turkish, Saudi and local businessmen - pulled out because government-owned land, which had been earmarked for the project, was never signed over.
That is despite the project being approved in 2012 by Municipalities and Urban Planning Affairs Minister Dr Juma Al Ka'abi, who said the land belonged to a public sector company and needed to be signed over to his ministry.
Work should have started early last year, but stalled due to delays in transferring the deeds.
Officials now plan to use land already designated for municipal use to go ahead with development, although on a smaller scale than originally planned.
"We work with what we have and that's municipal plots of land registered under the municipality's name," added Al Fadhala. "It will cost around BD5 million to develop the place.
"General artist impressions are being drawn up and it will be soon tendered to the highest bidder."
The new development will include restaurants, a theme park, shops selling fishing equipment and other businesses.
However, it will be a more modest development than that envisaged by private investors - who wanted to build a resort, shopping mall, indoor and outdoor theme parks, a jetty for fishermen, an open beach, an office tower, commercial and residential buildings, a fish market and a marina.
The Al Ghous Corniche has already undergone a facelift and the first phase of redevelopment was completed eight years ago, with the introduction of children's rides and other facilities at a cost of BD700,000.
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Season 37, Episode 3 Vienna Philharmonic Summer Concert 2009
First Aired: September 16, 2009
The Vienna Philharmonic, under the baton of Daniel Barenboim, perform at an open-air concert at Austria's Imperial Schönbrunn Palace. Selections include Mozart's "A Little Night Music," Manuel de Falla's "Nights in the Gardens of Spain" and Johann Strauss' "1001 Nights Waltz."
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Recent discoveries of genes, hormonal imbalances and even viruses apparently have some impact in the ever rising plague of obesity. Exercising and cutting calories may not be all that helpful.
Can you change your metabolism?
Recent research shows that gaining as little as 11 pounds can slow metabolism, making it more difficult to burn fat. So the more you gain, the harder it is to loose weight and keep it off.
More fat cells than who?
Fat cells remain a constant number in your body. Sometime around adolescence your body stops producing new ones. Although you won’t have any more after adolescence your fat cells can and do increase in size. Obese people seem to hold more fat in their cells, but the count varies widely from person to person. When you loose weight the fat cells shrink but their numbers remain constant and are ready and waiting to become stuffed again!
FTO a gene termed ‘fatso’ because it is an obesity promoting gene. Recent discovering there could be lots of these fat genes but they may not have the effect that the FTO has. Also of note over 50 percent of the population has two copies of the FTO gene making them 16 percent more likely to be obese. This genetic predisposition however, doesn’t mean you will be obese but it maybe why it is more difficult to maintain a healthy weight! But don’t blame it all on the genes!!!
Loose weight while you sleep
Researchers out of Chicago report that lack of sleep can upset hormonal balances and trigger a decrease in leptin and increase ghrelin. Ghrelin has been shown to trigger your appetite and make you hungry. It is also known that when you sleep, under normal conditions fat burning mode takes over, but doesn’t even exist if your hormones are out of balance.
My job is making me fat!
When under stressful conditions your stress hormones increase and produce cravings for carbohydrates. But here is the catch, it also triggers rapid-storage of those carbs into fat cells, putting you in fat making mode.
A Virus can make me fat
Recent studies have revealed an adenovirus-36 which appears to actually increase the number of fat cells in your body and obese people are more likely to harbor this virus in their fat cells than their counter parts, major disadvantage.
Sweets aren’t really addictive…are they?
It may have something to do with dopamine, the sweet hormone linked to pleasure. When participants of an experiment were shown names of foods they really liked their brains got excited in the same parts as associated with drug addicts.
What about those antioxidants?
Free radicals have now been shown to damage those cells that tell us when were full, plus a whole lot more creating an environment of ill health.
4 basic rules to healthy eating…
Consume a limited amount of carbs in the form of whole grains and fiber
No trans fats and easy on the saturated, butter is way better than margarine
Lean protein only please
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The Seminar has taken place at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, since 1990 and it has become a tradition, starting in 1992, that the Seminar be held during July at IHES in Bures-sur-Yvette, France. This is the second Gelfand Seminar volume published by Birkhauser, the first having covered the years 1990-1992. Most of the papers in this volume result from Seminar talks at Rutgers, and some from talks at IHES. In the case of a few of the papers the authors did not attend, but the papers are in the spirit of the Seminar. This is true in particular of V. Arnold's paper. He has been connected with the Seminar for so many years that his paper is very natural in this volume, and we are happy to have it included here. We hope that many people will find something of interest to them in the special diversity of topics and the uniqueness of spirit represented here. The publication of this volume would be impossible without the devoted attention of Ann Kostant. We are extremely grateful to her. I. Gelfand J. Lepowsky M. Smirnov Questions and Answers About Geometric Evolution Processes and Crystal Growth Fred Almgren We discuss evolutions of solids driven by boundary curvatures and crystal growth with Gibbs-Thomson curvature effects. Geometric measure theo retic techniques apply both to smooth elliptic surface energies and to non differentiable crystalline surface energies. | <urn:uuid:65402e35-149d-4969-b09d-183aae5d72a0> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.buchhandel.de/buch/The-Gelfand-Mathematical-Seminars-1993-1995-9781461286431 | 2016-10-27T21:20:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721392.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00485-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957789 | 305 | [
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While Corning keeps pumping-out Gorilla Glass to help us protect our phones from well, from ourselves, mainly other companies are looking into other kinds of glass that can be specially manufactured to gain unique abilities of their own. One promising new technology from Nippon Electric Glass hopes to substantially reduce the effects of glare on device screens.
The so-called “invisible glass” is a composite material made with dozens of layers of a special anti-reflective film coating. The effect of this treatment is that the glass now reflects somewhere in the range of one-half of a percent of transmitted light. For comparison, normal glass is up somewhere around eight percent, meaning that surface reflections off invisible glass should be only one-sixteenth as pronounced as those from regular glass.
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Welcome to the forum.
I am with Hawg on his evaluation of the pistol set. (Maybe as high as 200.00 but I doubt it)
It is not in great cosmetic shape. With some substantial effort which would cost more than the pistol is worth, it could be brought back to new (actually better than new) condition.
The roll engraving done by some of the lesser manufacturers does not really add to the value. I think it would only take about an additional ten minutes or less to do the engraving. Actually some of the engraving (in my opinion) made them look cheap, like lipstick on a pig, although I must hasten to say that of the techniques I have seen, yours appears to be better than average.
Fit and finish appears not to be up to the standards contemporary to those years (roughly 1970 if Hawg is right, and I think he is). Armi San Marco and Armi San Paolo made revolvers in those days which were quite good.
The case is less than perfect and new ones can be purchased at relatively low prices. I bought a used one at a show for ten bucks. I also bought a set very much like yours with the exception that the revolver was nickel plated, made by a very scrupulous manufacturer of about the period yours was made, unfired with no ring around the cylinder, and paid 240.00 for it.
If you are looking to sell, you could list it on Gunbroker.com and start at a high price, say 250.00. It probably won't sell at that price, but you can always back off until it sells or until the price gets so low that you just want to keep it.
The market for this revolver with the case and accessories is relatively small. That is why I recommend starting high and then backing off. You can't really rely upon a large market to take the price up, since on this revolver set, you may only have about four people who are interested. Half of them don't have any money and at least one won't stick with the auction. That means the first bid takes it.
Another option is to sell the individual accessories on eBay and dismantle the revolver and sell the parts.
It is likely that the set has more value to you personally but that value would stem from a sentimental connection rather than true collectability.
I would say that the revolver itself is somewhat rare because I believe few were made. But this alone does not increase the value much unless you could find a collector who is looking for this specific marque. Yugos are relatively rare too.
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Are you struggling with acne while breastfeeding? There are natural products you can use, to take care of acne during breastfeeding!
Some Moms notice acne outbreaks during the
first few months after childbirth. This can include pimples on the face
or all over the body.
This "post pregnancy acne" is completely normal. Acne after giving birth, will most likely disappear once your hormones have settled down a bit.
Acne after childbirth, can take from a few weeks to a few months to
clear. On this page, we will also discuss acne in the breastfed baby.
Acne and Breastfeeding ~ The Cause
What Causes Acne in Mom during Breastfeeding?
It could be hormonal; related to the hormones that are produced
during breastfeeding, but it is mostly due to hormones that are returning
back to normal after giving birth. Most Moms have acne post pregnancy, whether
they are breastfeeding or not. Read more about hormonal changes while breastfeeding.
Stress: Usually when a new baby is introduced into an already busy
lifestyle, it can cause some additional stress. Try to relax as much as
possible, and get as much help around the house or with the kids as
Read more about stress and breastfeeding here.
Dehydration: Many Moms forget that they need to stay extra hydrated
during breastfeeding. When your skin becomes dehydrated, it will start
to retaliate! Drink at least 8 glasses of water per day.
Acne and Breastfeeding ~ Safe MEDs
Acne MEDs and Topical Creams that are Safe during Breastfeeding
Oral medications are not really recommended, as these can put
Mom and Baby at risk for thrush and should only be taken if really necessary.
Most topical acne products that are applied to the skin, are
safe during breastfeeding, because they are found in very small amounts
in the bloodstream and are hardly ever found in breast milk. There are
a few exceptions to this rule; always ask your doctor first.
Medications that are taken orally, like Tetracycline, Erythromycin and
Retin-A are safe while nursing. They are not found in breast milk,
the tiny amounts of Tetracycline found in breast milk will not get absorbed, but will bind with the calcium in milk and finally land up in your baby’s poop, without affecting him/her.
The best topical acne treatments while breastfeeding, are
products that contain Benzoyl peroxide or Salicyclic acid. These are not
absorbed by the skin.
Azelex (azelaic acid) is another topical acne treatment, that is safe while breastfeeding.
Other safe medications: Erythromycin, Proactive.
MEDs that should not be taken: Accutane (Isotretinoin).
Breastfeeding and Pimples ~ Natural Acne Remedies
Alternative Methods to get Rid of Acne
The best and safest way to handle acne during breastfeeding, is to try natural products and methods. Remedies-for-skin is a site with all natural recipes for skin care. There you will find natural cleansers, moisturizers, toners, essential oils for oily skin and much more.
You can also use your own breast milk and apply it twice per day for acne relief. Breast milk is antibacterial and contains healing properties. Breast milk contains Lauric acid, which has acne fighting properties; without producing skin irritation and redness. Read more about other uses of breast milk.
Using a gentle baby wash on your face, can be quite effective, and won’t harm you or your baby.
Natural Acne Treatment for Mom
I've got Pimples on my Nipples!
Some Moms experience an acne outbreak on their breasts and nipples during breastfeeding.
Acne that is due to hormonal changes, can be found anywhere on the body, including the breasts.
Breast acne, that seems like a rash, may be an indication of a yeast infection.
Breastfeeding and Acne in Baby?
Acne neonatum “ breastfeeding acne ", is the acne that is caused
by the mother's excess hormones in the breast milk. The hormones are
transferred to a baby through the milk, and can cause the baby’s sebaceous
glands to overproduce sebum; clogging the pores and causing pimples.
This acne is usually visible from the first few weeks of life, until about three months postpartum.
This acne usually does not require medical treatment, and should disappear on its own.
The occurrence of birth acne, is more common in boys than in girls.
This acne is usually situated on Baby’s cheeks, near the mouth, chin, forehead or on the scalp.
Lotions and oils might worsen the condition, and should be avoided.
You can use a facial cleanser that is specifically made for babies. You can also use your own breast milk as mentioned above.
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By: Richard W. Humphrey
Houston took the lead in this year’s race for the Silver Boot by sweeping Texas in a three game series to start this week. It was just the second sweep for the Astros since the series began; the first since 2003. The Silver Boot is the rotating trophy that stays with the winner of the Lone Star series. Houston has now won five consecutive games between the two teams for the first time ever and leads for the Silver Boot 6-3 with 10 games remaining.
The Houston series is emblematic of the Rangers’ season. A year ago, Texas easily thumped the Astros for the Silver boot with a 17-2 record. A year ago, the Rangers won 91 games and just missed the playoffs when they lost to Tampa Bay in a playoff for the final Wild Card spot. Now, the Rangers are 15 games under .500 and trail first place Oakland in the A. L. West by 19 games. Instead of fighting for a playoff berth, the Rangers are fighting the Astros for fourth place; and with this week’s sweep, Houston is percentage points ahead of Texas. The Rangers woke up Thursday morning with the worst record in baseball.
The first two games of the series were similar in that Houston grabbed an early lead and never gave it up. Miles Mikolas started game one for Texas. He set the Astros down in order in the first inning with two pop outs and a strikeout, and that was the highlight of his day. The first five Astros in the second inning singled followed by a triple from Marwin Gonzalez, who later scored on a ground out. That gave the Astros a 6-0 lead. The Rangers pecked away at the lead with single runs in the second and third innings, but Jon Singleton essentially put the game away for Houston with a three-run home run in the fourth.
12-7 was the final. Mikolas (0-1) took the loss after giving up nine runs on 12 hits in 3-1/3rd innings. Scott Baker gave up the other three runs. Houston’s Jason Cosart (9-6) was the winning pitcher though he got hit hard too. He barely got through the five innings required of a starting pitcher for a win, giving up six runs on nine hits.
The Astros finished with 17 hits, while Texas had 11. Adrian Beltre hit the only Ranger home run.
On Tuesday, the Astros didn’t wait until the second inning to take the lead. They tagged Phil Irwin, making his Ranger debut, for two runs in the first. The Astros maintained that two run lead at 5-3 after seven innings, but put the game away in the eighth with three runs, one of which came on Chris Carter’s 17th home run. They again reached double digits in hits with 12. 8-3 was the final score. Brad Peacock (3-5) was the winning pitcher, and Irwin (0-1) took the loss.
Wednesday night, Yu Darvish was the Rangers’ hope to avoid the sweep. He was staked to four early runs, but it wasn’t good enough. He gave up six runs on 10 hits and took the loss to drop his record to 8-5. He had command issues on his rare off night. One Astro run scored on a wild pitch. Among the 10 hits he allowed was a home run to Robbie Grossman that tied the game at four in the fifth inning.
Carlos Corporan doubled home two runs in the sixth to give Houston a 6-4 lead. They added two more in the seventh inning with a George Springer home run. That made the final score 8-4. Dallas Keuchel (9-5) was the starting and winning pitcher for Houston.
The Astros arrived on a seven game losing streak, but they played with more energy and enthusiasm. After three years in the basement, they have a real chance of climbing over Texas for fourth place in the West. They played sharper, crisper ball than the Rangers. George Springer was especially impressive. He was 4-14 in the series with a home run, three runs scored and three RBIs. He made a catch Wednesday night that finished number one on SportsCenter’s Top 10 plays of the day.
Texas made three errors in the series and misplayed other balls from a lackadaisical effort. The Rangers look lethargic; like they are ready for the All-Star break. Certainly a lot of the difference between the two teams is mental. Scrambling to stay out of the basement is a comedown for Texas. Having a chance to get out of last place after three straight years with the worst record in baseball is an exciting prospect for the Astros.
The Rangers have now lost four straight games and 10 of their last 11. The so-called “first half”, the portion of the season prior to the All-Star game, concludes with four games this weekend at home against the Angels. Barring a rain out, Texas will have played 95 games in the “first half”, which is actually 59% of the season.
Texas has twice played the Angels this year in three game series in Anaheim, but this weekend’s series will be the first in Arlington. The Angels won four of the first six games. The announced starting pitchers for Texas are Colby Lewis (6-5) on Thursday, Nick Tepesch (3-4) on Friday, Miles Mikolas (0-1) on Saturday and Phil Irwin (0-1) on Sunday.
INJURIES AND ROSTER MOVES: On Monday, the Rangers added reliever Roman Mendez and outfielder Jake Smolenski, calling both up from Round Rock. To make room on the active roster, outfielder Michael Choice was optioned to Round Rock, and infielder Donnie Murphy was designated for assignment. Nick Martinez was scratched from his Tuesday start with a back problem caused by taking batting practice in anticipation of pitching last weekend against the Mets in New York. He was placed on the disabled list on Tuesday, and Phil Irwin was called up from Round Rock to start Tuesday’s game. Also, General Manager Jon Daniels said on ESPN radio (103.3 FM) on Monday that Derek Holland was probably a month away from joining the team. He admitted that if the team was in contention, they would likely accelerate the pace of his rehabilitation, but they are being more cautious because the team is out of contention.
* After Mendez, Smolenski and Irwin appeared in the Astros series, the Rangers have used 48 players this year, including 27 pitchers. (Mitch Moreland is included in the pitcher count.) Irwin became the 12th pitcher to start a game for the Rangers this year. 14 of the players used have been rookies. Last year for the entire season, the Rangers used 46 players including 24 pitchers and 13 rookies. The Rangers’ record is 55 players used in a season in 2008.
* Phil Irwin became the 1,000th player in the history of the Washington Senators/Texas Rangers franchise to appear in a game.
* Adrian Beltre had at least one hit in all three games with Houston to extend his hitting streak to 13 games. He is hitting .388 during the hitting streak, his longest of the season, which has lifted his average for the year to .336. He will be making his fourth All-Star appearance next week in Minnesota.
* Jake Smolinskki doubled home a run in the seventh inning on Tuesday night for his first Major League hit and RBI. He became the fifth Ranger batter this season to get his first Major League hit, joining Rougned Odor, Daniel Robertson, Luis Sardinas and Nick Tepesch for the distinction. | <urn:uuid:66cb2103-696f-4dfb-9da0-3e4aedd63f27> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://randhsports.com/astros-boot-rangers-three-game-sweep/ | 2016-10-21T00:30:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988717959.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183837-00546-ip-10-142-188-19.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978515 | 1,606 | [
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How to cost Agile projects is a question that comes up frequently, and a perfect question for a blog post. It’s actually very easy but before I get to the heart of the matter I’d like to spend a few paragraphs setting the context of the question.
Costing software projects
With many software project approaches it’s common to have people with different specializations involved on the project for only very limited times. For example, a Business Analysts would be fully committed at the start of the project but their involvement would gradually decrease until they were no longer involved. This is known as a Resource Allocation Model and best way to fully understand it is with a diagram (below).
Costing this type of project is significantly difficult. You first have to model each disciplines’ likely involvement (as a percentage), and multiply that by a daily rate. The daily rate profile will change from day-to-day. To calculate the total cost of the project we calculate the sum of all the daily rates for the duration of that project. There are, of course, multiple assumptions made along the way … What are individuals availability? How long should each specialization be involved for? And, what happens when things don’t go according to plan?
This type of project costing is often done with a complex spreadsheet with many variables.
Costing Agile projects
Costing Agile projects are trivial in comparison … so trivial it feels like cheating. There are two important facts about Agile projects that I need to make clear before I continue.
- Agile project teams are cross functional. What this means is that Agile teams are comprised of Analysts, Developers, Testers etc.
- Agile teams are dedicated for the duration of the project. At the risk of repeating myself, this means that everyone (Analysts, Developers, Testers etc) are 100% allocated to the project for the entire duration of the project.
Given these two ideas, it should now be obvious how to cost an Agile project. We have static team compositions and the team is dedicated 100% of the time, so there is a fixed cost for the team per day. Which means there is a fixed cost per Sprint. The cost of an Agile project is simple the fixed cost per sprint multiplied by the number of sprints we think the project will take … so easy it can be done on the back of an envelope!
Some interesting implications
There are a couple of interesting implications from this costing model which may not be immediately obvious. Firstly, because all team members are 100% dedicated, Agile software development is not necessarily cheaper although a good Product Owner will make sure that the team delivers business value sooner. Secondly, there’s a more complex question about how to estimate the complete cost of a project.
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One of the most striking changes in the American workforce in recent decades is the increase in foreign-born workers. The United States among large nations has by far the largest percentage of foreign-born workers in its workforce.
Employers have become sensitive to cultural diversity but to a large degree are late in adapting their worker safety and health practices to today’s workforce. Smarter practices will lead to fewer injuries and faster recovery.
In 1990, foreign-born workers accounted for 9.3 percent of the workforce. By 2010, that number rose to 16 percent. These workers tend to have less formal education, limited English proficiency and tend to work in relatively more injury-exposed jobs. Roughly half of the 25 million foreign-born workers come from Mexico and other Latin American countries. Federal occupational injury data suggest that these workers account for 20 percent of work injuries.
Low English proficiency, limited knowledge of health and safety standards, and lack of knowledge about the American health care system among these workers pose a serious challenge. The challenge is most acute in five key sectors: agriculture, construction, hospitality, institutions (buildings and grounds), and transportation. However, these workers have spread out since the late 1990s into many diverse jobs and into most cities in the country.
Language barriers can pose a problem, creating an obvious safety risk. Safety training that relies on reading a lot of English and written tests may be ineffective. Safety trainers recommend more interactive, role-playing training techniques.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), and several states have invested aggressively in research, building awareness and training to help employers communicate with foreign-born workers.
Google a combination of “OSHA,” “Spanish,” and other pertinent words and a host of webpages appear, some entirely in Spanish. Some states, most notably California, have similar initiatives. Sometimes, help comes from unexpected quarters, such as a recently announced alliance between the state of New Mexico and a Mexican consulate to expedite training in Spanish.
However, occupational safety and workers’ compensation laws include few and scattered mandates regarding communication in other than English. OSHA recommends that safety instruction be conducted in the most appropriate language, but there appears to be no instance of the agency finding an employer legally at fault for not training in a language other than English.
But even foreign-born workers who seem fluent in English may be at higher risk. The worker’s country of origin may not inculcate in its workers an expectation that safety is a high priority, and that the worker can legally demand a safe workplace. He or she may be unaware that in the United States employers and safety professionals are required by law to comply with many government safety requirements.
And, if injured, he or she may be baffled by the complexity of health care delivery in the United States. A recent survey of injured workers by the Workers’ Compensation Research Institute revealed that workers who preferred to speak in Spanish found getting medical care exceptionally difficult.
Many employers, frankly, have some catching up to do. Here’s a shortlist of best practices:
Peter Rousmaniere is a journalist in the field of work injuries. He is the author of Work Safe: An Employer’s Guide to Safety and Health in a Diversified Workforce (2013). It is free and available online.
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Thanks for the input. To sum things up for now:
Romney Wins but then again, what were Obama's choices. Short hair does look best on him.
Both wore pants a bit too long. But overall Obama's suit fit him better on the shoulders.
I guess a choice of personal preference. Red means more American? Not sure about this statement but worth quoting... =)
Personally I like Obama's tie better but Romney's tie was more effective in grabbing the audiences attention. Points to Romney.
Clear Points to Obama for the slight dimple and a better job in pairing it to his collar spread.
As expected, things were kept at a minimum. Personally I think Obama's black leather and silver wrist watch was much classier than Romney's stainless steel one. Yes, Romney's flag pin was bigger, and while in no way more stylish, was more effective given the occasion.
Suit was too big and sleeves were to short. Bad choice on the tie. Collar spread of the shirt was also too narrow for his face and neck.
Any other thoughts?
Hpost #19 of 4810/4/12 at 1:20pmThread Starter
Alright. Thanks again for the input. My article was just published:
Let me know if anything should be added or changed.
Hpost #20 of 4810/4/12 at 1:54pmpost #21 of 4810/4/12 at 4:00pmpost #22 of 4810/4/12 at 5:03pmpost #23 of 4810/4/12 at 5:37pmQuote:
Sharpton has been killing it.
I like the Kudlow report (Sharpton is on prior) so I always catch the tail end of his rants. Great suits, wonder if he goes bespoke?post #24 of 4810/4/12 at 11:17pmpost #25 of 4810/6/12 at 10:56amQuote:
The goal is to appeal to Joe Sixpack...so they put him into a not too expensive looking suit, which meets small town America's perception how a suit should look (i.e. boxy with much too long pants - everything would be European or gay), and nail a giant flag pin on his lapel.post #26 of 4810/6/12 at 11:02ampost #27 of 4810/6/12 at 12:44pmQuote:
Mitt Romney’s flag pin: What’s that star on the stripes?
As armies of pundits and fact-checkers inspected every phrase and shrug of Mitt Romney and President Obama in Wednesday’s debate, we got this message from a high-level foreign affairs specialist:
“What is that black spot on Romney’s pin? It’s driving me crazy!”
The dot on Romney’s oversize American flag pin is the Secret Service star logo imposed over the stripes, a custom version created for agents and fans. The pin — for decorative purposes only, not security clearance — was a gift to Romney from his protective detail, but it’s also sold at the Secret Service store in Washington and traded by staffers, just like Olympic pins.
Call us shallow, but we seem to spend waay too much time checking out politicians’ lapels. Not since Madeleine Albright have chest pins been such a big deal — why, now it’s almost politically incorrect for any candidate to show up with a naked suit, as Obama found out in 2007, when the presidential candidate was called out by a reporter for not sporting the flag.
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Hey, everybody’s a critic.post #28 of 4810/6/12 at 2:14pmQuote:Originally Posted by Frankie22Quote:
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Most likely as he's actually a very small man with a big head.
I saw him at Reagan National and was very surprised at how short he really is.post #29 of 4810/6/12 at 2:24pmpost #30 of 4810/6/12 at 2:28pmQuote:
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Robert, who has just completed his GCSEs at Woodlands High School, a secondary modern in Gillingham, Kent, beat four other winners from two independent schools, a grant-maintained school and a church school to become the overall winner of the competition.
He invented a battery-powered, portable, laser plumb bob after noticing that erecting partition walls perpendicular to floors with an old-fashioned plumb bob and line was precarious, tedious and labour-intensive. His plumb bob produces a laser dot on the ceiling above a point marked on the floor.
He plans to take physics and maths A-levels at Chatham grammar school and is saving his Pounds 250 prize money for marketing his invention after he has carried out a full patent search.
He has also won Pounds 1,000 for his school and a trip to the Duracell Worldwide Technology Centre in Needham, Massachusetts with his science teacher, Jim Millar.
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I guess what's left of the Amiga community stands at a really weird crossroads - and by community I mean the 68k, WinUAE and OS4/PPC users - AROS and MorphOS have already gone their 'Amiga-like' way and for whatever reasons many of us have chosen to stick with 3.x/68k/emulation or invest in OS4.
PPC is still a contentious issue since all it brings to the party is an updated, official and recognisable AmigaOS and eye-wateringly expensive hardware - it still (imo) looks and feels like an Amiga but it has extremely limited utility in comparison to Windows/OSX/Linux.
But for a long time now we've had 68k running at speeds that completely humiliate PPC hardware on x86/x64 via UAE and the upcoming FPGA products are just dumping salt on those wounds - some time in the not-too-distant future FPGA 'classic' Amigas will be running 68k software faster than the AmigaOne X1000.
Which leaves Hyperion with a product they've invested a great deal of time and money in having limited usefulness. They don't want the 3.1 source code out there because they need the lock-in to survive. If some enterprising hacker ports OS 3.X to x86 and includes UAE then OS4 and the PPC ecosystem is dead. It's dying anyway but this source code release leaves them incredibly vulnerable.
In my opinion their best option is to work with the WinUAE devs to remove some of the limitations to running OS4 under emulation (addressable RAM, GFX card support) and begin moving OS4 to native x86 (which they must be doing already?).
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// This article relates a study (one of the two previously bookmarked) that shows community college students who take online courses are less likely to complete their academic careers with a certification or degree. Considering how much online learning can lower the cost of education, studies like this are very important. I have previously read studies whowing that students who complete online courses have better recall than classroom learners; which, when combined with the cost savings, gives online learning staying power. Personally, I think students should spend at least a year in the face to face classroom environment, then transition to distance learning and hybrid courses. I struggled and actually withdrew from my first distance course, but I later completed a degree online. I really believe in online learning more than in classroom learning. The problem with online learning is it takes a motivated student, and teenagers generally ain't that.
Quote:"Results indicate that nearly half of Virginia community college students enrolled in an online course across the period of study, with online enrollments increasing dramatically over four years. However, few students enrolled in an entirely online curriculum in a given term, even by the time the study concluded in 2008. In general, students with stronger academic preparation were more likely to enroll in online courses. Regardless of their initial level of preparation, however, students were more likely to fail or withdraw from online courses than from face-to-face courses. In addition, students who took online coursework in early semesters were slightly less likely to return to school in subsequent semesters, and students who took a higher proportion of credits online were slightly less likely to attain an educational award or transfer to a four-year institution.
Quote:"Students who were employed for more hours and students who had demographic characteristics associated with stronger academic preparation were more likely to enroll in online courses; however, students who enrolled in hybrid courses were quite similar to those who enrolled in a purely face-to-face curriculum. After controlling for student characteristics using multilevel regression techniques, results indicated that students were more likely to fail or withdraw from online courses than from face-to-face courses. In addition, students who took online coursework in early terms were slightly but significantly less likely to return to school in subsequent terms, and students who took a higher proportion of credits online were slightly but significantly less likely to attain an educational award or transfer to a four-year institution. In contrast, students were equally likely to complete a hybrid course as to complete a face-to-face course.
Quote:"[Bernie] Marcus: The U.S. government. Having built a small business into a big one, I can tell you that today the impediments that the government imposes are impossible to deal with. Home Depot would never have succeeded if we'd tried to start it today. Every day you see rules and regulations from a group of Washington bureaucrats who know nothing about running a business. And I mean every day. It's become stifling.
If you're a small businessman, the only way to deal with it is to work harder, put in more hours, and let people go. When you consider that something like 70% of the American people work for small businesses, you are talking about a big economic impact.
"Most high-income people in our country do not realize that their incomes are being subsidized by their protection from competition from highly skilled people who are prevented from immigrating to the United States,” Greenspan said. “But we need such skills in order to staff our productive economy, so that the standard of living for Americans as a whole can grow."
Think of that last line for a moment. We need to import labor – intelligent, skilled labor – to guarantee that Americans’ standard of living is maintained.
Have we indeed fallen so far?
// Or further.
// Back up.
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Jakarta Commons Team is happy to announce version 1.0 of the Jakarta Commons-IO library. Jakarta Commons-IO contains utility classes, stream implementations, file filters , and endian classes.
View the Jakarta Commons-IO home pageDownload Commons-IO
Looks useful but... I hope your code is more robust than your doc.
Found this after two minutes of browsing:
The link to the IOUtil class in the main package doc is broken (the class has been renamed "IOUtils").
Most of the doc in IOUtils refers to the copy(...) methods. These are not in IOUtils but in CopyUtils.
Link to UnixReview article goes to empty page.
Doc of HexDump.dump(...) offset parameter:
"offset - its offset, whatever that might mean"
Should I ask how many other commons packages it relies on? I think I'll wait for Hani's review before I look at it. ;)
They've butchered IOUtils from Avalon. It used to be a set of copy(String|byte|Reader|Stream, String|byte|Reader|Stream) methods. There are a lot of permutations, and that was the point of the class -- do it once, get them all in one place. Someone didn't understand that, and split the copy(*, [String|byte) methods into "CopyUtils", not even bothering to update the javadocs.
Hopefully I still have commit karma and can remove my @author tag.
On the project's page we can read :
IO has recently been promoted from the commons sandbox, however there remains no formal release at present.
I don't know why the lack of documentation is considered to be cool with many open source projects ?
Isn't that standard for Jakarta projects, poor code and worse documentation? Why does Sun trust Jakarta with RI's when they consistently churn out the worse code of all the FOSS groups (like codehaus, open symphony etc.)?
Can you help us to write the documentation?
Personally I find it sad that the first thing people choose to do is criticise. Constructive criticism is valid and welcomed - bitching is not.
For the record:
1) The IO javadoc is all correct and up to date - unfortunately the release manager hasn't updated the website. Download the code and its correct.
2) IO does not depend on any other commons library (and changes are happening to other commons libraries on the dependency front too)
3) The code is taken from various sources, including Avalon. Thats part of the point of jakarta-commons - to refactor out common code. Once in commons, the best design for a component is then chosen, and experience has indicated that creating very large utils classes is not helpful. Hence CopyUtils was broken out from IOUtils.
I, for one, am very pleased to see the release of this library.
Committer Jakarta Commons
This is quite a bemusing piece of news, especially in the wording.
Jakarta Commons IO has not been released. The binaries are, as of the weekend, on the mirrors and maven repository, but the website hasn't been updated and no announcements have been made, on the site or by email.
On the one hand, I know I [as person releasing it] am not up to the standards of other releases. My goal is to get it released, even if the process is a week. On the other hand, this obviously shows that people watch the mirrors like a hawk and are happy to treat a binary appearing on a mirror as a full release. So this is my fault for underestimating the interest and attentiveness of the community.
There is one thing I would like to know however, which is where Dion got the announcement that he posted from. I've seen no such announcement going out, and in no way have written such an announcement itself. Is it a forgery?
[Due to this jumping of the gun, I've gone ahead and made the time for a release a little earlier than planned.]
The Jakarta Commons team is pleased to announce the release of
Commons-IO contains utility classes, stream implementations, file filters,
and endian classes.
For more information on Jakarta Commons/IO, see the Commons/IO web site,http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/io/
So now all the problems can be highlighted for real.
Congratulations to the release of Commons IO (even though your release date was forced due to reasons beyond your control)!
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Ex-Chief of State Committee of Entrepreneurship reckons that Ukraine needs to get rid of nonprofessionals and populists of the power. Inna Bogoslovskaya states it during online conference which is going on right now on ForUm.
In response to the question "how can Ukraine overcome a crisis" she named the steps which would benefit the situation in the country: "the first one is to make a revision of new appointees and to get rid of nonprofessionals and populists and then to appoint real professionals to their posts; the second one is to make the power consistence more homogeneous by dismissal of Socialists, neo-Bolsheviks and wild revolutionists; the last one is to retire Timoshenko as PM of Ukraine who betrayed the fundamentals of bourgeois-democratic Orange Revolution and engrained neo-Bolshevism in Ukraine.”
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I was wandering around the Yahoo listings for the dead and the gone, when I found its official Houghton Mifflin Harcourt paperback publication information. Publication is indeed Jan. 18, 2010, but what I didn't know was that its price is anticipated to be $7.99. That's a dollar more than the paperback of Life As We Knew It, which means that every paperback d&g sells will earn me 6 cents more than a LAWKI paperback.
I figured I'd be safe sharing this information with you, since you'd be unlikely to hit me up for a 6 cent loan.
It occurred to me after I decided to make the 6 cent announcement that there are people who read this blog who may not know how writers get paid (not enough and certainly not often enough, but that's a whole other entry). So for those of you who are interested, here are the basics of how it works, using LAWKI as the example.
When I wrote LAWKI, I gave my agent the manuscript to sell. That's called writing a book on spec (short for speculation). Neither my agent nor I knew if any publisher would be interested in buying it (when I wrote the dead and the gone, and This World We Live In, I got a contract before writing the books). My agent gets 15% of every penny I earn from these books, so it's in her best interest to sell them.
Harcourt agreed to buy LAWKI, and offered me a $20,000 advance. For that money, they were given the right to publish the book in hardcover and paperback, and to make some additional money by selling some of the subsidiary rights, which they did, selling to both the Junior Library Guild and Scholastic some reprint rights (HMH gets half that money; I get the other half, after my agent gets her 15%).
An advance is called an advance because it's an advance on future royalties. Once the publisher gives you the advance, they can't get the money back, no matter how hard they beg. So I got the $20,000 minus 15% (that's $17,000; I can multiply anything by 15%), gave Internal Revenue its share, and kept the rest to pay rent and gas and electricity and groceries, etc. Since the book was already written, Harcourt pretty much paid me the whole amount at once; with d&g and TW, I got half on signing the contract and the other half after Harcourt decided the manuscript was ready for publication (I'm currently waiting for the second half of the advance for TW).
I get a 10% royalty on the LAWKI hardcover. That means I get 10% of what the list price ($17) of the book is: $1.70 for every book sold, after I earned back the original $20,000. Because of the sale to the Junior Library Guild, I knew that meant as soon as the hardcover sold 10,000 copies, I would start earning royalties. That happened almost immediately, so I've been earning royalties on LAWKI since shortly after its publication. I have no idea why they're called royalties, since most writers earn less than the average medieval peasant.
Royalties get paid twice a year. The publisher keeps track of how many copies of the book are sold, multiplies the total by the percentage the writer gets (10% for hardcovers, 6% for paperbacks), sends the total amount to the agent, who takes her 15% and sends the rest to the writer, who's been going crazy waiting for the check to arrive. It used to be I never knew how much money (if any) to expect, but nowadays I can ask what the sales numbers are, so I have a far better sense of how big (or small) the check will be. This definitely cuts down on the stress.
Since LAWKI earned out its advance just on the hardcover sales, I started getting royalties on the paperback immediately (the same will be true when d&g comes out in paperback, since its advance has already been earned out). Since LAWKI sells for $6.95 a copy, and I get 6% for each copy sold, I get 42 cents for every copy sold (I get considerably less for each copy Scholastic with its very pink LAWKI cover sells). That, of course, is 42 cents minus 15% (hold on, while I get my calculator), about 36 cents a copy.
It's the agent's job to get as much money for her writers as possible, so when my agent sold the publishing rights to LAWKI to Harcourt, she got Harcourt to agree that some of the rights would be mine alone to sell. I get all the money for the audiobook advance (which has already earned out, so I get some royalties there as well, but audio royalties are so complicated, I just take whatever money I get and smile gratefully) and the foreign advances (United Kingdom, Denmark, Germany and France, so far, paid in pounds, dollars, and euros). If the movie rights are ever optioned (an option is kind of like an advance; they give you a little bit of money for the right to make the movie, and whether or not they make the movie, you get to keep the option money), I get 100% of that money as well, minus, of course, my agent's 15% (which is currently 15% of zero, since no one has optioned the movie rights).
So the basic rule is the more copies LAWKI sells, the more money I make. I would tell you just how much money I've made off of LAWKI so far, but I don't know. I'd have to pull out all the information and add it up and multiply it by .85, and it's not worth the bother (I do admit to being curious though). What I also don't know is how much money LAWKI will continue to earn me. I have a good idea of how much I'll be getting for my next royalty check, since it will reflect the sales from Jan. 1- June 30, 2009, but there's no way of predicting whether LAWKI will continue to sell any copies after July 1, or whether it'll go out of print and I'll never see another penny again.
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Details of the product, HCA000050RGO COVER ASSY - FRONT SEAT CUSHION, a replacement part sold by Britcar.
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In the following video interview, the former director of Israel’s intelligence agency, Mossad, defends the country’s treatment of wounded fighters from al-Nusra Front on the Syrian border.
Al Jazeera reports:
In this web extra, Efraim Halevy tells Mehdi Hasan that he is not concerned that Israel had treated fighters in Syria from al-Nusra Front, which some say is al-Qaeda’s Syrian branch.
“It’s always useful […] to deal with your enemies in a humane way,” Halevy says.
When pressed on whether he believed the assistance was purely humanitarian, Halevy responds, “I didn’t say there’s no tactical [consideration]. I said the main consideration, the immediate consideration is humane.”
Halevy also says he would not support the treatment of wounded Hezbollah fighters because Israel had been targeted by Hezbollah, but “not specifically targeted by al-Qaeda”.
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Creativity, functionality and style come together in KidKraft's Deluxe Wood Easel. With classic lines that will enhance any room or play setting, KidKraft's Deluxe Wood Easel will bring out your child's inner-artist. Whiteboard & Chalkboard! Two patented anti-spill paint cups Paper dispenser with easy refill capability Useful trays for storing chalk, crayons, markers, and other art supplies Birch, MDF, chalkboard, laminate, plastic Product Measures 25.5 in L x 23.625 in W x 48 in H Recommended Age: 3 years & up
Melissa & Doug Self-Correcting Letter Puzzles This is what happens when 26 upper- and lower-case letters and 26 beautifully detailed illustrations meet their matches - an alphabet box filled with twenty-six wooden puzzles. Eye-catching colors and self-correcting puzzle pieces add to the pleasure of practicing this important skill. When it’s time to clean up, this is the most fun game of “52 Pick-Up ever.Product Dimensions: 12.75 x 5.75 x 2.75Recommended Ages: 4 years & Up
DaVinci Highland Toddler Bed- Espresso Built for longevity, the shaker-inspired Highland Toddler Bed is the perfect solution for a seamless transition from the nursery to a toddler room. At a conveniently low height for little ones, toddlers have the delight of exploring early independence with the freedom to carefully climb in and out of bed. Features: Made of durable New Zealand pine wood, the Highland also Featuress a wooden mattress support cross bar and guardrails on both sides to ensure safe and secure sleep.Finished in non-toxic multi-step staining and painting process, lead and phthalate safeMeets ASTM international safety standardsShaker inspired designTapered spindlesWooden mattress support cross barsPairs with Highland CollectionFits standard crib mattressMax weight: 50 lbs1 year warrantyAssembled Dimensions: 54"L x 31.75"W x 34"HAssembled Weight: 22 lbs.
DaVinci Annabelle Convertible Mini Crib - Espresso A first of its kind, the Annabelle Mini Crib is perfect for the smaller nursery. This Mini Crib has that Annabelle charm in a space-saving size. With wooden bed rails, it converts into a twin bed for when baby’s all grown up. Annabelle Mini Crib is sleek and stylish and goes perfectly in any nursery. Mattresss support that can be adjusted to 4 levels to adjust to your growing baby. Includes 1" waterproof pad. Can be converted to twin size bed with conversion rails sold separately (M4799). Lead and phthalate safe. Non-toxic finish. Made of solid New Zealand Pine wood from sustainable forests and engineered wood products. JPMA certified. Assembled: 42.25"L x 26.75"W x 38"HProduct Weight: 41 lbs
Delta Canton 4-in-1 Convertible Crib- Cherry Espresso Delta Canton 4-in-1 Convertible Crib is made from solid wood and wooden components. This high quality crib is durable and can grow with your baby to serve as a full sized bed. This crib design can also be used as a toddler bed, day bed and includes the footboard and headboard for a full sized bed (requires crib conversion rails, sold separately). Convertible Crib features a 3-position metal mattress support that can easily fit standard mattresses (not included). This design meets JPMA Certified Safety Rating. The assembling tools are included. Why You'll Love It: Delta Canton 4-in-1 Convertible Crib has a smooth finish and can add elegance to any nursery while its solid wood construction looks classy too.Age: Newborn and upFeatures Solid wood construction 3-position metal mattress support Smooth finish Easy to assemble
Shure Match 'N Spell - Alphabet & Numbers Match each wooden alphabet letter or number into each card. Set includes 15 double-sided, wooden cards, for a total of 30 panels to learn. Each card and letter or number piece is laminated with glossy artwork. Set is packed in a handy pine storage box. Age: 3 years and up Features Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi; Match each wooden alphabet letter or wooden number into each card Set includes 15 double-sided, wooden cards for a total of 30 panels to learn Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi; Each card and letter or number piece is laminated with glossy artwork Set is packed in a handy pine storage box Recommended for ages 3 and upIncludes: A wooden carry case for secure storage
KidKraft Addison Toddler Bed - EspressoOur Addison Toddler Bed helps make the transition from a crib to a regular bed as easy as possible. This wooden bed has a hip, modern design and would look great in any young child's bedroom. Features include:Features:Low to the ground to allow easy access for kidsSide rails keep kids safe and secureFits most crib mattresses
South Shore Angel Collection Combo Storage Unit - EspressoThis Angel combo storage unit in its rich espresso finish is a practical and stylish addition to your baby's bedroom. A decorative kick plate enhances its traditional style and the drawers are embellished with matching wooden knobs. It features 3 large drawers and 1 small one on top of it and are equipped with plastic slides. The cabinet on the side presents two storage spaces separated by one adjustable shelf to store everyday baby essentials. This practical piece will help keep any baby bedroom both stylish and tidy. It matches the South Shore Espresso Crib and the rest of the Angel items perfecly. The 3 large drawer dimensions are: 30 inch wide by 13-3/4-inch deep by 4-1/4 high and the small drawer is 12-1/2 inch wide by 13-1/4inch deep by 4-1/4-inch high. The unit measures 52 inch wide by 17inch deep by 41-1/4-inch high. It is delivered in a box measuring 63 inch by 17-1/2-inch by 7 inch and weighing 123 pounds. New and improved drawer bottoms made with wood fibers. Accessories not included. Manufactured from certified laminated particle panels. Complete assembly required by 2 adults. Tools are not included. 5 years limited warranty. Made in Canada
Babyletto Storage Unit Base Drawer Looking for an additional drawer unit? Introducing the Babyletto Storage Unit Base Drawer that matches modo cupboards. This additional base drawer is ideal to store things. It comes in a modern style and adds extra storage facility. This wooden drawer with metal drawer glides and stackable units is ideal to use as a bottom base unit. Features Made of sustainable pine and wood composite Nontoxic finish Lead- and phthalate-free Modern and stylish Assembled dimensions: 29 x 21 x 15" Assembled weight: 38.5 lbs
Babyletto Modo 3-in-1 Convertible Crib Babyletto Modo 3-in-1 Convertible Crib will help make your child's room more stylish. This lovely crib is made of pine wood and has an elegant finish. It's easy to convert the crib into a daybed and a toddler bed. The metal mattress support can be adjusted to four levels, making it comfortable to use even as babies grow. Why You'll Love It: With a sleek design and modern look, the convertible crib is a great addition to the nursery.Features Multilevel metal mattress support Sturdy wooden crib Stationary sides Phthalate-free nontoxic finish Made of sustainable woodAge/Height/Weight Limits Crib: Up to 35 in. Toddler bed: Up to 50 lbs.Includes: Toddler guard rail
LeapFrog Fridge Phonics Magnetic Letter Set-Fridge Phonics helps children learn about letters and words-Features 26 interactive letter tiles and tile reader that stick to magnetic surfaces-Teaches the alphabet, phonics and early vocabulary-Sing along to the Alphabet Song and more-Ages 2+ years
Turn shopping for Nursery from a hassle to a pleasure. Visit Diapers.com to browse over 483 of your favorite brands, from Halo to Summer Infant! Our everyday low prices make all the difference! Shop our site and save big, thanks to our competitive prices and great discounts. We love wowing our customers. In fact, our Customer Care agents are expertly trained in the art of WOW. Call us and we will prove it. So what are you waiting for? Visit our site and get your Nursery essentials today. Diapers.com: We deliver everything but the baby. | <urn:uuid:0f826975-27ed-4d07-b67d-c82e81eeccf2> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.diapers.com/html/sg/kidsline-espresso-wooden-letters.html | 2016-10-24T22:18:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719784.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00031-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.863483 | 2,312 | [
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SUMMIT, NJ - The Summit Boys Varsity Lacrosse team opened the game on 5-0 run, and went on to defeat highly-ranked Lincoln-Sudbury, MA, 9-4 at Investors Bank Field.
The first half saw the Hilltoppers offense execute with a pace and proficiency matched perhaps only in their win at Delbarton earlier this season. Goals by John Cordrey, Matt Fischetti, James Strabley, Connor Murphy, and Jarrett Ross gave Summit a 5-0 lead at the end of the first quarter.
After the Warriors scored to make 5-1, Lax Graeb, Murphy, and Strabley gave Lincoln-Sudbury -- literally and numerically -- a "standing eight count", as the 8-1 halftime score was an accurate reflection of just how decisive Summit's hold was on the run of play, and the game overall.
Lincoln-Sudbury, ranked number-three in the latest boston.com Massachusetts state rankings, showed their mettle by scoring three goals in the first three minutes of the third quarter. Penalties and a few missed ground balls gave the Warriors the momentum they were looking for, and Summit Head Coach Jim Davidson called a time-out to steady the ship.
The Hilltoppers regained their equilibrium, and the remainder of the quarter got scrappy, with both teams committing numerous turnovers. Heading into the fourth, Summit held a 8-4 lead.
Chris Zanelli applied the icing on the cake in the final frame, getting Summit's ninth goal, which proved to be the only goal scored in the quarter.
The Hiltoppers' performance, overall, was extremely solid, considering the season is still young, and the level of competition supplied by Lincoln-Sudbury. Sam Bebout was not called on to make a ton of saves but, as has been the norm this season whether the quantity was high or low, he was there when needed.
Andrew Helmer was impressive anchoring the Summit defense, winning key ground balls, and helping to set-up and execute their defensive zone clear. FOGO Brian Hadley was especially strong in the landslide first half, consistently winning face-offs, and giving the Hilltoppers possession.
Head Coach Davidson was, understandably, happy with the performance. "We moved the ball, ran hard, and played at a speed that we haven't played at this season."
On the third quarter Lincoln-Sudbury run and subsequent jumbled play, he said "This was the first relatively warm game day, and I think both teams ran out of gas a bit. We had a two penalties and a few missed ground balls, but I think our endurance is getting better every day, Competing against a top quality opponent is a great way to evaluate where we are at."
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Canola is the subject of a rural economic growth project in Western Oklahoma. USDA ARS image
Regional Rural Development Centers (RRDCs) play a unique role in USDA’s service to rural America. They link the research and educational outreach capacity of the nation’s public universities with communities, local decision makers, entrepreneurs, families, and farmers and ranchers to help address a wide range of development issues. USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) provides core funding for RRDCs and integrated research, education, and extension activities.
By Rachel Welborn, project manager with the Southern Rural Development Center at Mississippi State University
How can rural communities compete in an ever-expanding global market?
Rural counties across the country are finding innovative ways to capitalize on their local strengths. Through a guided process, more than 400 counties in 38 states are discovering new ways to work together to grow their economies. Read more »
The first U.S. dairy cattle shipped to Pakistan in 17 years are loaded onto trucks for their journey to the FAS-supported demonstration farm at the University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences near Lahore.
U.S. dairy cows are back in Pakistan for the first time in 17 years. More than 300 heifers arrived in Punjab Province on March 2, thanks to the efforts of USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS). It’s hoped the shipment will be the first of many from the United States and will provide a better breed of cow for the rapidly growing Pakistani dairy industry.
Most of the dairy cows have been purchased by commercial dairy farms, but 73 Holsteins in the shipment will be delivered to a new model dairy farm that FAS has established to support the rapidly growing Pakistani dairy industry and create new opportunities for U.S. exporters. Read more »
Thanks to funding from NIFA’s Rural Health and Safety Education program, teen mothers are now able to find important, relevant information online to help them raise healthy babies. Photo credit: Stephanie Engle
Mothers want what is best for their children, no matter the age of the mother and child. But what happens when teenage or socially disadvantaged mothers do not have the life experience or access to education to make the most informed decision?
eBaby4U, a digital program run through Mississippi State University (MSU), is designed specifically to inform and support African-American teen mothers through an approach that is second-nature to youth: finding information online. Read more »
Earlier this week, USDA Rural Development Deputy Under Secretary Doug O’Brien met with local and regional officials in Mississippi to discuss ways USDA can help businesses create jobs and stimulate local economies. Mississippi was one of the first states in the nation to be designated a StrikeForce state by USDA and last Tuesday, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture will launch its “StrikeForce” initiative in ten additional states.
The primary goal of the StrikeForce initiative is to increase partnership with rural communities and leverage community resources in targeted, persistent poverty areas. Vilsack noted that through the StrikeForce initiative, USDA will do more to partner with local and state governments and community organizations on projects that promote economic development and job creation. Read more » | <urn:uuid:db29daf0-cd84-436d-98a5-7a6ec1b46680> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://blogs.usda.gov/tag/mississippi-state-university/ | 2016-10-25T22:45:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720468.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00093-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930437 | 672 | [
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I got tag from Demcy today. Thank you Dems for including me again in your tag. This tag actually is for us who are grateful and thankful to God for all the blessings He have showered to us inspite of all the difficulties in life that we have undertaken.
Here are the Rules:
1. Add your Blog to the list. If you’re keeping multiple Blogs, it’ll be fine if you add them all up and just post your answers in one of those Blogs.
2. IMPORTANT: kindly get back to me so i will be able to visit your sites, read your answers and include you in the Masterlist.
3. Please do copy from Start to End.
4. You may tag as many online friends as you please.
This tag helped me appreciate the graces that I am having right now at present which are a lot better compared to the things that worried me in the past while thinking about the future. Just cherrish and enjoy the beauty of life, be happy and grateful to face the future with smiles.
These are the things that I am grateful for:
1. First and foremost is God, for his undying love and blessings; for giving me trials enough for me to solve by my own which served as a tool to make me a better and stronger person.
2. My parents, for raising me up, for taking care of me when i was young and for all the advices and guidance through adulthood.
3. My husband, for always being there, for loving me so dearly, for his devoted and faithful love, for spoiling me and for not giving up on me though i am such a freak sometimes.
4. My siblings, for the love and friendship. You guys are the best of friends i ever had.
5. My real friends since High School! There are only few of them and i know who they are. Thanks for all the friendship, for counting me in as your friend, for the honesty and loyalty and for entrusting me your secrets and vise versa. Thanks for always being there.
7. To my "not real" friends. Thanks for showing me your plastic smiles and for spending time hanging out with me specially when i give free beers.
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As well as providing a bus service around Exeter from the station, National Express and private/tourist coaches run services to and from Exeter.
National Express Coaches pick up and drop off at the bus and coach station and link Exeter to over 120 towns and cities throughout Britain. This includes 9 journeys per day to Heathrow and London Victoria, 8 journeys per day to Gatwick, and 2 journeys per day to Glasgow and Edinburgh.
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(By CP Cartoonist Rod Anderson)
When it comes to religion and spirituality, there is the Gospel, and then everything else. And everything else cannot hold a candle to the brightness of the Son.
Jesus is life. Jesus gives real forgiveness. Other religions purport to please God, but without Jesus, no one can please the Father. When Christ came to this world, He did not bring "one more good option." He brought the only message that can save man's soul. The other religions make you try to earn it. And even then, none of them can actually deliver eternal salvation. Only Christ can do it, and He gives this free gift to those who believe.
The Gospel is God's message of love and forgiveness for the sake of Christ. When Jesus died on the cross, He died there for you and for your sin. You can be welcomed into God's family today if you will come to the Father through the Son. "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved." (Acts 16:31) Any other approach will fall short. Any other prophet cannot deliver the goods. Only Jesus is worthy. He is "the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world." (John 1:29)
So does your religious group have the Gospel? Or does your group instead tell you what you must do in hopes of making yourself righteous in God's eyes? That is the way the other religions of the world operate. Jesus is the author of Christianity, but of no other religion. His way is completely different than everything else out there.
Of course Judaism in the days of the Old Testament was God's religion for man. It was the religion God established and endorsed. But when Jesus arrived on the scene, He expanded God's religion to go beyond the Law. Jesus delivered the Gospel. And through Christ today, any Jew or Gentile can be forgiven. But apart from Jesus, there is no forgiveness.
If your religious group does not have the Gospel, it is impossible for your group to please the Father. The Holy Spirit came on the Day of Pentecost to empower God's people to spread the Gospel, and to promote no other religion but the religion of Christ. Anything else that gets done in the name of religion is only being done in man's strength and man's wisdom.
Why do you think there are so many religions in the world? It's because man is very creative in coming up with ways to be religious. But man's efforts fall pitifully short of the mark. Jesus hit the bullseye when He died and rose again. You can accept what He did for you, or you can reject it. But if you reject it, you will have no one to blame but yourself.
Man is good at pushing rules upon others. And it is amazing to see hundreds of millions of people who are so quick to fall under that spell. Man's natural impulse is to try to cover himself for his misdeeds. What man doesn't know until he hears and believes the Gospel is that only God can cover our sins. Only God can make us acceptable in His eyes. Our efforts will never get it done. That is why Jesus came here to die on the cross.
But do you see it? Do you get it? Do you believe it? Or are you still trying to earn your way into God's eternal family?
If your religious group does not have the Gospel, how in the world will people in your group be forgiven of their sins? It certainly won't happen by them jumping through a bunch of "religious hoops." Your religious leaders would like you to think that is how it works, but they are blind to the Gospel themselves.
If you are in such a group, why do you think they don't preach the Gospel to you? It's because they don't know it and believe it themselves. They have not accepted it. They are not preaching God's truth, but only man's wisdom and man's religion. Those spiritual leaders are trusting in their own "righteousness" rather than in Christ's righteousness and His cross. Man thinks he can be "religious enough" to be forgiven, but he can't do it. He needs God to give it to him as a gift, which is the only way God grants someone the forgiveness of sins.
In fact, there will not be a single person in heaven who earned his way there. Not one. Stop and think about that for a minute. What does that tell you? It should tell you that your current religious leaders are not doing a thing to help you get to heaven if they are not giving you the Gospel. They are actually leading your soul in the other direction by insisting that you must work your way into God's good graces.
Be honest with yourself. Are your spiritual leaders preaching grace, or works-righteousness? That is, are they preaching forgiveness through faith in Christ, or forgiveness for those who strive enough and do enough?
The only religion that delivers the Gospel is New Testament Christianity. And even some churches that are "Christian" in name don't preach the Gospel. They may be involved in charitable work, but without the Gospel, they are not doing anything charitable for your soul. They may be feeding the hungry, but without the "soul food" of the Gospel, it won't help anyone get to heaven.
So does your religious group have the Gospel? If not, will you accept Christ yourself and then become a "missionary" to your religious group? Somebody has to reach them with the good news of God's grace. It might as well be you.
Amy Carmichael said, "We have all eternity to celebrate the victories but only a few hours before sunset to win them." And D.L. Moody said, "The only happy life is to live for the salvation of souls." So how happy are you in Christ today? And what is your plan going forward to reach others for Christ with the Gospel?
Perhaps you didn't have a lot of say in choosing the religious group of your upbringing. But you do now. You get to choose a church that is faithful to Scripture and faithful to the Gospel. Choose wisely. Just as your physical health requires good health care, your soul requires good spiritual care. And unlike your earthly body, your soul is immortal.
So pray about it, and then be sure to choose a church that is flowing in the grace of God through the truth of the Gospel. Otherwise, you could waste your life (and even lose your soul) being religious while missing out on the real deal. Religion without the Gospel is no better for your soul than atheism, and probably even worse. That's because religion without the Gospel provides a false sense of security.
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The following wiring diagram and electrical system circuit apply for Honda Accord 1994 model year. Here you will find detail information and illustration about the entire electrical system and schematic diagram of the Accord including Air Conditioning System, Anti-Lock Brakes Circuit, Anti-Theft System, Computer Data Lines, Cooling Fan, Cruise Control System, Defoggers, Engine Performance Circuit, Exterior Lights, Ground Distribution, Headlights, Horn. Find more information about Honda Accord Wiring Diagram and Electrical System Circuit here Read more [...] | <urn:uuid:f91eb36a-9f7d-4879-9e55-98d836288e76> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.wiringdiagrams21.com/search/1994+honda+power+door+lock+wiring+diagram | 2016-10-25T22:49:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720468.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00093-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.782027 | 128 | [
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diegocg writes "Linux 3.5 has been released. New features include support for metadata checksums in Ext4, userspace probes for performance profiling with systemtap/perf, a simple sandboxing mechanism that can filter syscalls, a new network queue management algorithm designed to fight bufferbloat, support for checkpointing and restoring TCP connections, support for TCP Early Retransmit (RFC 5827), support for android-style opportunistic suspend, btrfs I/O failure statistics, and SCSI over Firewire and USB. Here's the full changelog."
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New submitter masternerdguy writes with this snippet from Tom's Hardware about yet another tiny, Linux-capable single-board computer: "The manufacturer claims that the Gooseberry is 'roughly 3 x more powerful in processing power,' and twice the RAM (512 MB) [compared to] the Raspberry Pi. The Gooseberry does not come with analog video and lacks a LAN port, but supports Wi-Fi. At this time, the board only supports Android 4 ICS and Ubuntu without graphics acceleration. However, Gooseberry is offering premade images for Ubuntu. Support for Arch Linux is 'expected in the future.'"
An anonymous reader writes "It looks like Valve's Linux team that's still growing has found much interest in open-source graphics drivers. Intel Linux graphics driver developers and Valve's Linux team were meeting for the past week to look at each other's code, work out performance goals, and collaborate on new features. Ian Romanick of Intel blogs, 'The funny thing is Valve guys say the same thing about drivers. There were a couple times where we felt like they were trying to convince us that open source drivers are a good idea. We had to remind them that they were preaching to the choir. :) Their problem with closed drivers (on all platforms) is that it's such a blackbox that they have to play guess-and-check games. There's no way for them to know how changing a particular setting will affect the performance. If performance gets worse, they have no way to know why. If they can see where time is going in the driver, they can make much more educated guesses.' Perhaps the companies are paying attention to Linus Torvalds' memo to NVIDIA?"
hypnosec writes "Google has released the full SDK for its latest edition of Android, Jelly Bean, which was unveiled during Google I/O. Google has already released the source code of Jelly Bean earlier. Google announced through a blog post that developers can develop application against the API level 16 using the new Jelly Bean APIs. Developers would be able to develop apps that will run on Nexus 7 tablets. Jelly Bean is touted as one of the best from Google and it promises a smoother and more responsive UI across the system."
netbuzz writes "Microsoft has apologized and promised to rectify the fact that one of its developers slipped a sexist phrase into Linux kernel code supporting Microsoft's HyperV virtualization environment. In that code, the magic constant passed through to the hypervisor reads '0xB16B00B5,' or a slightly camouflaged 'BIG BOOBS.' After Linux developer/blogger Matthew Garrett criticized Microsoft for the stunt, the predictable debate over sexism in the technology world ensued. Microsoft issued a statement to Network World apologizing and added, 'We have submitted a patch to fix this issue and the change will be published in a future release of the kernel.'"
nk497 writes "Canonical has revealed a system to make web apps behave more like native applications in Ubuntu. The Ubuntu WebApps feature will 'allow applications that normally run in the web browser to have some functionality outside that browser, within the Ubuntu desktop,' product manager Pete Goddall said. Basically, sites can be pinned to the launcher — which sounds a bit like IE9's pinning system, but WebApps can also interact with the OS, displaying notifications for new messages in Gmail, interacting with Last.FM via Ubuntu's sound controls, and when right clicking on photos, including Facebook as an upload option. WebApps will land in 12.10 in October, but there will also be an add-on version for people staying on long-term support version 12.04."
sfcrazy writes "The general tendency within the open source community is to a whole new wheel to push your own cart. A majority of open source projects are suffering from duplication. Luckily, we just noticed a great example of such collaboration (or using resources by different competing projects) within the distro community. Ubuntu's popular Unity shell is being ported to Fedora (the distro which leads the development of Gnome shell and its also the breeding ground of many latest technologies which are used by the rest of the GNU/Linux world). Interestingly developers users openSUSE's build service to create this port. openSUSE leads the development of Gnome and KDE along with LibreOffice." Calling Unity "popular" seems like a stretch, but it's certainly where a lot of Ubuntu work has been lavished; the cooperation that open source code fosters at least lets whoever wants to use or develop it do so.
An anonymous reader writes "TechCrunch reports that Dell will be officially re-entering the Linux laptop market. Beginning this fall, it will sell a 'developer edition' of one of its Ultrabooks that comes pre-loaded with Ubuntu 12.04. Dell first started offering computers with Linux installed in 2007, but they dropped the products in 2010. This spring, a skunkworks effort called Project Sputnik was announced, and now, after the completion of a short beta test, the Ubuntu laptops have been given a green light for commercial sale. Canonical has been working alongside Dell to help make this happen."
sfcrazy writes "The Raspberry Pi foundation has announced the release of the first SD card image based on the Raspbian distribution. The image will make it easier for Raspberry Pi users to switch from 'generic' Debian Squeeze to this 'optimized' image." The new image is based on Wheezy and optimized for ARM with floating point instructions, and supersedes the Squeeze based soft float image. Benchmarks show much improvement in performance, and the updated software in Wheezy generally improves the usability of the Raspberry Pi.
An anonymous reader writes "Despite weaknesses in the Linux-hostile 'secure boot' mechanism, both Fedora and Ubuntu decided to facilitate it, by essentially adopting two different approaches. Richard Stallman has finally spoken out on this subject. He notes that 'if the user doesn't control the keys, then it's a kind of shackle, and that would be true no matter what system it is.' He says, 'Microsoft demands that ARM computers sold for Windows 8 be set up so that the user cannot change the keys; in other words, turn it into restricted boot.' Stallman adds that 'this is not a security feature. This is abuse of the users. I think it ought to be illegal.'"
New submitter oakgrove writes "Valve Software confirmed today in a new blog devoted specifically to Steam on Linux (called Steam'd Penguins) that for more than a year, a Steam client has been in the works for Ubuntu Linux 12.04. 'We've made good progress this year and now have the Steam client running on Ubuntu with all major features available. We're still giving attention and effort to minor features but it's a good experience at the moment. In the near future, we will be setting up an internal beta focusing on the auto-update experience and compatibility testing.' The blog post also says that a working port of Left 4 Dead 2 is currently playable, and that their goal is to bring performance in line with the Windows version."
chill writes "Mobile company Jolla, which is continuing development of Linux-based mobile OS Meego, signed its first sales deal today, with D.Phone, China's largest smartphone retail chain. Jolla has not released details about its first product, which is expected to be revealed later this year. The company has not yet received access to any Nokia patents."
alphadogg writes "A host of small modifications and a large number of system-on-a-chip and PowerPC fixes inflated the size of release candidate No. 7 for Version 3.5 of the Linux kernel, according to curator Linus Torvalds' RC7 announcement, made on Saturday. Torvalds wasn't happy with the extensive changes, most of which he said he received Friday and Saturday, saying 'not cool, guys' in the announcement. However, the occasionally combustible kernel curator didn't appear to view this as a major setback. 'Now, admittedly, most of this is pretty small. The loadavg calculation fix patch is pretty big, but quite a lot of that is added comments,' he wrote, referring to the subroutine that measures system workload."
hypnosec writes "Raspberry Pi, the small $35 ARM-based computer system capable of running Linux that took the world of technology by storm just a few months back, has its order limit shackles removed as it has been revealed that manufacturers are now producing 4000 units per day. The Raspberry Pi Foundation, the non-profit organization behind the tiny computer, has said that RS Components and element14/Premier Farnell have started producing enough units to allow them to scrap the order limit on Raspberry Pi. In a blog post, the foundation made the announcement. Initially the limit of one unit per customer was placed in the light of limited stocks. Despite these limits, there was always a shortage and people had to wait for long time to get their hands on one of these credit card sized computers."
An anonymous reader tips this news from IndieDB: "Alien Arena: Reloaded Edition has been released. This is a major release of this game, with many new features, and a veritable truckload of new high quality content. Every aspect of the game has been improved upon and expanded, from the engine, to the game code, weaponry, and overall gameplay. Some of the new features for this release include: Many new rendering features; Twelve new/rebuilt levels; Two new player characters, the Overlord and Warrior; Brand new 'super' weapon, the Minderaser; Improved antilag code; "Simple" items rendering option; Improved and expanded movement; Improved Bot AI, particularly with CTF; New music, and music 'shifts' in game situations; and a variety of bug fixes and code cleansing. Alien Arena is free to download, free to play, and the code is open sourced, and that will never change." | <urn:uuid:7627c560-2e50-41da-9558-169d5530d41d> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://linux.slashdot.org/index2.pl?section=&color=green&index=1&view=stories&duration=-1&startdate=201229w&index=1 | 2016-10-25T22:45:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720468.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00093-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952777 | 2,207 | [
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Class of 1989
Awarded in 2014
Few people have done as much as Stephanie Klett to champion the charm and beauty of Wisconsin. In shining a spotlight on her home state, she has, in turn, raised the profile of her hometown, Beloit, the city that shares a name and place with this college. These two intertwined entities could have no greater promoter: she has been called “a person that is as Beloitish as you can get.” It’s a title she’s held literally, in fact—first as Miss Beloit, then as Miss Wisconsin.
Before this philosophy and theatre arts major even graduated from Beloit College, her star was well on the rise, but early on she made a habit of using the attention that came with her pageant titles to further important causes. During her tenure as Miss Wisconsin 1993, she raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for AIDS and reached out to teenagers with an educational presentation called Attitude on AIDS, making hundreds of appearances. Her philanthropic work has remained a major part of her life. The AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin, Beloit Regional Hospice, and the Stateline Area Boys & Girls Clubs have all benefited from her talents. In 2013 she was the Honorary Chair for AIDS Walk Wisconsin, which raised more than $340,000.
Her magnetic energy and enthusiasm made her a natural fit for a career in front of a camera, and for two decades she hosted the award-winning Discover Wisconsin television and radio series. Nominated for eight Emmys over the years, she received one in 2010 from the Midwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for Individual Excellence in On-Camera Hosting.
It’s no surprise that Stephanie’s talent landed her on the Wisconsin governor’s radar, and in 2011 she was appointed to his cabinet as head of the Department of Tourism, which has won 35 national and international marketing and public relations awards since she took the helm as secretary of tourism for the state of Wisconsin. Spending by travelers in the state has also increased by several billion dollars in the time that she’s been in this role.
For all her tireless work—usually done with a smile and a joke at the ready—to elevate the state of Wisconsin and the city where her alma mater resides, the Beloit College Alumni Association is proud to count Stephanie Klett among its own, and bestow upon her its highest honor, the Distinguished Service Citation. | <urn:uuid:5a2233ee-298a-4bef-958a-f70933ae409d> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.beloit.edu/alumni/network/awards/dsc/stephanie_klett/ | 2016-10-25T22:47:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720468.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00093-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979748 | 508 | [
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After Earth has debuted a poster.
The artwork shows Jaden Smith surveying the wilds of the long lost homeworld.
The actor stars with his father Will Smith as the only two survivors of a spaceship crash.
With his dad seriously injured, the young man sets out on a journey to find help in a world that has become too deadly for mankind to survive in.
M Night Shyamalan has directed the Columbia Pictures movie from a screenplay he wrote with Gary Whitta.
Samuel L Jackson recently said that Shyamalan has not made a good film since Unbreakable, in which the actor starred.
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Jack Evans Report: Benefits of Soccer
I am excited about the recently announced deal to build a soccer stadium in the District and want to explain why I think this will be good for our city. In case you haven’t seen it in the news, last month the District signed a preliminary agreement to build a “new, state-of-the-art, LEED-certified … 20,000-25,000… seat outdoor soccer stadium” that will also be used as an entertainment venue.
The initial plan is for the District to swap certain government-owned property, including the Reeves Center on U Street, to put together enough property in the larger Capitol Riverfront area for a stadium. I anticipate that this deal will be controversial, as any major economic development project in the city seems to be, so I want to give you a few reasons why I anticipate supporting this project in any action that requires Council approval.
First, it is important to know that the D.C. United club has agreed to pay for the actual stadium construction. At a cost of $150 million, this is a big commitment from a club whose fans have for years endured an increasingly decrepit RFK stadium – paint is peeling off the seats and the loudspeakers echo to the point that the announcers are nearly unintelligible.
Secondly, the site on U Street currently occupied by government offices can be developed into a thriving mixed-use property that generates substantial revenue for the city. This property could help to fill a gap between the quickly developing U Street area and the north Dupont-Adams Morgan area while contributing to the further economic development of the corridor.
Finally, the stadium area itself will be a catalyst for further development in the Capitol Riverfront area. I always tell people that we could have easily gone the way of Detroit and Baltimore in the 1990s, when people were steadily moving out of the city due to crime and government instability. Strategic economic development projects like Gallery Place and the Verizon Center, Nationals Park, and the Convention Center have all been anchors for future development that pay for themselves many times over in new tax revenue. These were 7-6 votes on the Council, and it took courage for many members to support these projects in the face of the opposition. Now, though, it’s hard to find anyone who opposed these projects, since they are all such dramatic success stories.
First the businesses and law firms move into a new area, then restaurants follow, and soon you have mixed-use development including condominiums, grocery stores and retail. This is a formula that I believe will work and I will continue to advocate for these types of projects moving forward. | <urn:uuid:9c9d678a-059e-4701-ad36-b2c36f8315d4> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.georgetowner.com/articles/2013/aug/07/jack-evans-report-benefits-soccer/ | 2016-10-27T01:07:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721027.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00155-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964653 | 545 | [
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Sean Sutton is a fine photographer and an extremely nice guy. He's MAG's Information Manager and has taken stunning images from mine-affected areas around the world.
A selection of photos from his recent trip to MAG programmes in Northern Iraq is below. More of his images can be viewed here.
Iraqi Children Playing With UXO
Deminer At Work
Iraqi Mine Victim (WARNING: Graphic Image)
Iraqi UXO Victim (WARNING: Graphic Image)
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The 16 Secrets Of Guerrilla Local SEO
Some people get so focused on rankings that they forget what great SEO is all about: marketing. Through applying the principles of guerrilla marketing, columnist Marcus Miller shows how great marketing makes for great local SEO.
When it really comes down to it, SEO and local SEO are just forms of marketing. Much like a Yellow Pages listing, they represent a way to get your business in front of interested consumers.
With Yellow Page listings, as in most forms of advertising media, you can simply pay to appear. You choose your slot, pay the piper and you are in — so the marketer’s focus tends to be more on traditional marketing elements, such as the creative and the messaging.
SEO is a little different. You can’t just pay to appear in the local results (yet). There is a whole technical, black-box process to follow in an effort to improve your visibility and to appear in the local or organic search results for your business. This shifts the focus away from the traditional advertising and marketing mindset and more toward unlocking the mystery of strong local rankings.
The purpose of this article is to help local businesses address this mindset switch. The goal is still to achieve local visibility, but more importantly, it’s to put the marketing back into their marketing.
Too Much SEO And Too Little Marketing
If we can all agree that SEO is just a form of marketing, then we can likely agree that endlessly hammering out citations or buying some spammy links is not marketing. Making sure your business really looks the part on those citations (especially those that rank on the first page of results for your key terms) and ensuring that these citations may actually drive business — now that is marketing.
Marketing is every bit of communication you have with the outside world. Marketing is the name of your business, the products and services you sell, your location, branding, website, email signatures and how you answer the phone. Marketing is your page titles, meta descriptions and search engine listings. Marketing is every touch point you have with a customer.
In other words, your brand, website, social profiles, Google My Business, citations and reviews are all part of your marketing — not simply mechanical processes to aid in ranking your website more highly.
A well-placed advertisement will still fail to drive business if the marketing basics are not in place. Likewise, a well-positioned website without a focus on core marketing principles will also fail to generate business. Take the example of meta descriptions. Meta descriptions don’t directly influence rankings, right? True, but they surely can influence how your search listing looks to a potential site visitor, which may determine whether it’s clicked or ignored.
Every single interaction a user has with your business will affect his or her perception of your business, so as marketers (SEO or otherwise), we must learn to pay attention to even the smallest of details.
In practice, better marketing leads to better visibility. Improve your focus on doing the right thing by your customers and lessen your focus on some of the minutiae of the SEO process. Get the big things right first.
Where Are The Guerrillas?
If I were asked to recommend one marketing book out of the millions available to entrepreneurs, small business owners and marketing managers, it would be Guerrilla Marketing by Jay Conrad Levinson. Hands down. I would not even have to think about it.
Levinson’s book is jam-packed with take-no-prisoners marketing ideas that you can use and put to work for your small or local business. The ideas are targeted more to small businesses than to the titans, but the concepts work so well at a local level that even large multi-location businesses can put these strategies to work at a local level. From targeting prospects to generating referral business, Guerrilla Marketing has you covered.
“Guerrilla marketing” is about more than just your website or online presence. The best local SEO strategies need to merge online, offline and every touch point with your customers and prospects. The front of your brick-and-mortar shop needs to have your Web address, and your website needs to have your physical address. It is in the merging of these two worlds where success lies, and the guerrilla mindset will help get you there.
All of your marketing must pull in the same direction — local SEO, PPC and social, as well as any marketing done in the physical world. This is a strategic, long-term effort, and the synergy created here ensures that every channel contributes and punches above its weight. The goal is to have one strategically aligned marketing strategy across the digital and physical landscapes.
The 16 Monumental Secrets Of Guerrilla Local SEO
Guerrilla marketing is based on 16 core concepts (or “secrets,” if you want to spice it up) that should form the foundation of all marketing activities. Make these concepts part of your marketing mantra, weaving them into your SEO and all other marketing activities, and you will be on the fast track to marketing and SEO success.
The 16 concepts can be summarized as follows:
- You must have commitment to your marketing program.
- You must see your marketing program as an investment.
- Your marketing program must be consistent.
- Your prospects must feel confident in your offering.
- Marketing (and local SEO) requires patience.
- Marketing utilizes an assortment of weapons.
- Profits will generally come subsequent to the initial sale.
- You must make it convenient for your customers to use your company.
- Great marketing has an element of amazement.
- Use measurement to determine success of your marketing weapons.
- Demonstrate your involvement with your customers with regular follow-ups.
- Learn to utilize and become dependent on other businesses.
- Become skilled with the armament of guerrillas (technology).
- Marketing should be used to gain consent from prospects.
- Promote the content of your offering — the steak and the sizzle!
- Work to augment your marketing program and never, ever sit still.
Every single one of these elements will enrich your marketing process and add untold value to your local SEO. Consistently implement them, and your marketing (and business) will move to the next level with relative ease.
The remainder of this post will look at each one of these concepts and how they fit into your local SEO and overall marketing strategy.
Are you married? Have you ever run a marathon? Things that are worth doing require commitment, and your marketing is no different.
Is your local SEO not delivering bucketloads of hot leads after just a couple of months? No surprise there — yet, while business owners often get excited about what local SEO can offer, many give up before they even get off the blocks. Remember, local SEO can be a slow process.
Although it saddens me to say it, mediocre marketing with a strong commitment works far better than seemingly magical marketing without commitment. Marketing works when you have a solid plan and are committed to seeing it through over the long haul. Local SEO is no different.
You must be committed to ensuring your site is perfectly optimized. You must be committed to generating good local exposure and links. You must be committed to building your online reputation. You must be committed to revising and refining your strategy, rain or shine.
The following is a famous overview of the effects of advertising from Thomas Smith’s guide, Successful Advertising:
- The first time people look at any given ad, they don’t even see it.
- The second time, they don’t notice it.
- The third time, they are aware that it is there.
- The fourth time, they have a fleeting sense that they’ve seen it somewhere before.
- The fifth time, they actually read the ad.
- The sixth time, they thumb their nose at it.
- The seventh time, they start to get a little irritated with it.
- The eighth time, they start to think, “Here’s that confounded ad again.”
- The ninth time, they start to wonder if they’re missing out on something.
- The tenth time, they ask their friends and neighbors if they’ve tried it.
- The eleventh time, they wonder how the company is paying for all these ads.
- The twelfth time, they start to think that it must be a good product.
- The thirteenth time, they start to feel the product has value.
- The fourteenth time, they start to remember wanting a product exactly like this.
- The fifteenth time, they start to yearn for it because they can’t afford to buy it.
- The sixteenth time, they accept the fact that they will buy it sometime in the future.
- The seventeenth time, they make a note to buy the product.
- The eighteenth time, they curse their poverty for not allowing them to buy this terrific product.
- The nineteenth time, they count their money very carefully.
- The twentieth time prospects see the ad, they buy what it is offering.
If that seems relevant, then stop for second to consider that it was written in 1885.
Although many things have changed since then, search engine users of today are not so different from the prospects of 1885.
There is a reason commitment is first on this list, as nothing is more important. Design your plan, refine it, tweak it, but most of all commit to it, and local search and marketing success will follow suit. Maybe not today, maybe not even in three months’ time, but give a solid plan 12 months and watch your local SEO efforts bear fruit.
Is your local SEO and marketing campaign an expense — something to budget for? Or is it an investment — something that you are spending on now for the betterment of your business over the long haul?
Marketing and advertising are an investment. They are not a silver bullet, and they will not deliver instant results. At best, SEO, local SEO and marketing in general should deliver slow, steady and often incremental results, but it only will when we commit and invest in our marketing program. With local SEO, you are investing in the visibility of your business. Being highly visible, well presented and having strong reputation signals has certainly never hurt a business!
Most importantly of all, try to change your mindset and consider your marketing an investment in a brighter future, rather than just another expense on your balance sheet.
Consistency is the third key pillar for your marketing. Become visible in local search. Stay visible. Be consistent in building reviews. Be consistent in the other marketing you are putting out there. Be consistent in your branding and messaging. Don’t change your logo or business name. Try not to change your address or phone number. These key factors that underlie local SEO success are the same factors that allow you to connect with a real human prospect — who would have guessed?
If you send out email marketing, be consistent. If you send out flyers to drive store visits, be consistent. Radio commercials, TV, press, PR — whatever activities you undertake that are working, be consistent.
Consistency breeds familiarity and confidence with your target audience.
I am a huge believer in the importance of online credibility as a part of any online marketing campaign. Heck, credibility in general is absolutely critical. Any given search may generate ten paid links, ten organic links and several local links, so how do you stand out from the crowd beyond trying to rank ever more highly (which has diminishing returns)? The answer is really very simple: You make your customers confident in what you have to offer.
Commitment, investment and consistency are all important tools in building confidence. These are supplemented by the local SEO stalwarts of reviews, case studies and testimonials.
If you are consistently visible in paid, organic and local search results, you will build confidence with your target audience.
Commitment, investment and consistency breed confidence, yet these are built upon a foundation of patience. Know that it may take six months or more to generate good local visibility in some cases. Know that it takes time to build up a bedrock of honest reviews. Know that it takes time for users to recognize your brand and build up familiarity from knowing that you are always there.
Understand that it takes patience to wait while a user has perhaps twenty or so interactions with your business — over adverts, local listings, physical adverts, driving past your store and recognizing you, reading a blog post — before finally deciding to do business with you.
Without patience, you will give up before you see the cumulative results from your efforts.
SEO is not a marketing panacea. Certainly, SEO should form part of a successful guerrilla marketing plan for most local businesses, but it is just one regiment in a larger army. A successful marketing campaign may use some geotargeted paid search ads, remarketing, blogging and content marketing, social media, email marketing, follow-up email campaigns and a whole host of offline strategies.
This does not have to be complicated, but there are many, many potential ways to interact with your prospects, and joining the dots with one cohesive physical and digital strategy with an assortment of weapons will only help drive familiarity and confidence.
The old saying is that it costs six times more to sell to a new customer than to an existing one. It naturally follows, then, that a great part of our efforts should involve selling to existing customers. This is where we move beyond a simple seek-and-retrieve local SEO model to utilize additional weapons, with email and other forms of direct marketing leading the charge.
You have been patient and committed, you’ve built a relationship with this customer, and it is in the subsequent sales that the long-term value of the customer is unlocked.
Convenience is critical. I need my car cleaned, and it is way cheaper to take it to the car wash, but I have no spare time. What is convenient for me is the mobile valet who comes and does the whole job for me whilst my car is in the car park at my office.
Convenience should stretch to all levels of your marketing and service — be easy to find, easy to contact, and have all the information a client may need, such as business hours, flexible payment options, directions and a map. Customize this to your business and prospects. Make it more convenient for your customers to do business with you than with the competition.
Note the similarity in aspects of convenience and the local SEO basics: What is good for your customer is good for your local SEO efforts.
Every business has the potential to be amazing. Be it via price (not one I am keen on), service, quality, skills or something else, you must look to amaze your target audience. Be different. Stand out. Have a USP that is actually unique. Awe your audience and inspire confidence and amazement.
In the words of Jay Conrad Levinson, “Marketing is the truth made fascinating.” I think that just about frames what we are trying to do here.
Another old marketing saying is that 50% of your marketing is working — the problem is that you don’t know which 50%. Well, in the digital age, it is easier than ever to measure, qualify and quantify the success of your marketing efforts.
Analytics may be a little boring to most, but insights are never boring. Drop the 50% of your marketing that is not working and double down on the 50% that is, and you have just doubled your profits. There is nothing boring about that!
Can you involve your customers in what you do as a business? Maybe special offers that are only for existing customers? Personalised communications to make sure they are happy and to see if there is anything else you can do. Good old-fashioned customer service that demonstrates that you are willing to go the extra mile will all make your customer feel involved in your business.
But as marketing guerrillas in 2015, we have oh-so-much more at our disposal. We can utilise social media and forum software to build communities and automated emails to keep our customers up-to-date with special offers that only they can see.
This all builds on the subsequent element, and the payoff from this involvement will often be happy customers who will come back time and time again. These happy customers can also be recruited to leave reviews, provide testimonials and generally help us build up the content that will build confidence and credibility.
As a small business owner, you likely see yourself as something of a lone gun. A solitary figure duking it out in your marketplace. Yet true success is always built upon dependencies and teamwork. Everyone from your Web developer to your SEO company, your networking group and involved customers all form part of the dependencies that allow you to do more than you could ever do alone.
Embrace technology and dependencies, and ensure you nurture them as an integral and critical element of your Guerrilla local SEO marketing plan.
Your armament is the technological tools you use to win the marketing battle, and you have more tools than ever at your disposal. At the very least, you should have a well-optimised website, some local-facing PPC adverts, local SEO, remarketing and an array of offline activities.
From a purely local SEO perspective, we want well-optimised and consistent citations, a well-built site with all the local SEO bells and whistles, good general purpose authority, location-specific landing pages, local links, local content and plenty of reviews in all the right places.
Modern marketing is all about consent. We don’t simply move a prospect from a search to search engine listing to landing page to sale. It has never really worked like that, yet that is what many expect.
In fact, the first stage of your marketing for new prospects should be to gain consent to continue marketing to them. Be that via a social follow, an email newsletter on the back of a high-value and free download, remarketed adverts after reading a blog post or some other means, you are looking to “build the list.” As the old saying goes, “The money is in the list!”
Consent allows us to deliver more high-value content and to build familiarity, build trust and ultimately push confidence in our offering over multiple touch points. You look to gain consent and then gradually widen that consent until it leads to a desirable action.
In true Guerrilla Marketing tradition, content relates to the meat of your offer. Remove the sizzle and the marketing spiel and what it is that you really, truly offer your prospects.
Firstly, you need a quality product or service. If you don’t have a high-quality product or service, then good marketing will only hasten your demise.
Secondly, content is one of the primary tools at your disposal to add value to your marketing and put yourself in front of prospects in a non-commercial way. Tie content to consent, and you have the top end of your marketing funnel. Promote this via your website, local search, paid search and paid social (and every other tool in your guerrilla arsenal — think email signatures, t-shirts and more), and then you have a powerful guerrilla weapon at your disposal.
Our final strategy is to keep evaluating and augmenting our marketing plan. Don’t sit still. New opportunities are popping up every day.
I see more chatter regarding paid local listings for service providers, which may be a total game changer. AdWords just added reviews from Google My Business listings via location extensions.
Your competitors are getting smarter every day, and whilst a Guerrilla approach to local SEO will take you beyond the short-sighted, uncommitted and uninspired efforts of most local marketers, you can’t stand still.
Developing Your Guerrilla Marketing Plan
If you can implement these 16 strategies into your marketing and local SEO, you will be positioned for success. It will not be easy, but nothing worth doing ever is. There will be doubters, and there will be challenges. You will need commitment, investment and patience, but your strategy is built on these concepts, so you will prevail.
You will need to develop a structured marketing plan that considers every single channel and marketing strategy. This plan will be the backbone of your approach, so give it the respect and investment it deserves. Don’t sign off on your plan until you are ready and truly believe it represents the best possible avenue of attack. Your plan will evolve as you start to implement the strategies and measure the results, but you still must have a solid strategic overview that ties together your non-digital and digital marketing efforts into one cohesive whole.
Don’t implement the plan until you are ready to commit to it and invest the time, effort and money required to see it to fruition. Don’t be that business that pulls the plug after two months, before the plan has had time to bear fruit. Stick with it.
Guerrilla Marketing provides a mantra born out of these concepts, and we can do the same:
Your goal is to make your customers confident in your offering. You will show utmost commitment to your marketing plan, along with the patience to see results. You will look at an assortment of strategies and armaments to drive results, and you will be completely consistent in the implementation of these. You understand your dependence on key partners to strengthen your offering. You will provide adequate investment in your plan and always follow up subsequent to the sale. You will provide a service that is convenient, amazes and always involves your customers. You will utilise content to gain consent from your customers. You will doggedly measure your efforts to fine-tune your approach. Finally, you will augment your plan over time to stay several steps ahead of the competition.
SEO Is Marketing
Great local SEO is about great marketing. There is more to this picture than just citations and finely tuned on-page SEO. This is not to say these things are not important, as they are, but they should be details, rather than the backbone of your marketing strategy.
The 16 secrets of guerrilla marketing still to this day provide a framework for thinking about your marketing strategy that can take away some of the chaos when chasing the whim of a highly changeable search engine.
Think like a marketer. Better still, think like a guerrilla marketer, weave these concepts into the tapestry of your marketing, and you will soon outgun your opposition every step of the way.
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But, announcing an increase and making it stick are two different things. For one, most of the major buyers of paper lock suppliers into one and two-year contracts. Harry Reiter, head of the 220-store Town & Country buying group said his paper contract goes through next July. No doubt the IPI and PRO groups have long-term deals, as well, that would guarantee the ‘old’ price for some time in the future.
But the equation has changed with the entry of new competition that will no doubt put significant pressure on all parties as they jockey to hold position, as in the case of Kodak, Fuji and Mitsy, or gain position as Lucky and Dai Nippon get into gear. Brand loyalty isn’t the player it used to be as paper users seem willing to switch when someone drops a penny/sq. ft. saving at the negotiating table.
Kodak’s Diane McCue said this about price: “We continue to work with our retail and lab customers to incorporate the price increase into our contract… All paper suppliers are feeling the same cost pressures. Given the pressures of commodities and supplies, we expect to maintain our price structure.”
Bing Liem, said: “Our need for a price increase was driven by cost factors that were beyond our control… [and] made it necessary to pass on as increase.” As for future pricing, Bing said, “We cannot comment on our future pricing strategies…”
Mitsi’s David Bell said that so far his firm hasn’t had any price changes though he expects that longer term, slight increases could be expected due to the same external pressures on other manufacturers. He notes that with Agfa and Konica gone there has been reduced gray market activity which has led to a firming of prices.
What might be expected in terms of pricing from this new lineup? Leaving inside deals aside, it would be expected that Kodak and Fuji will command the high end of the pricing market. After that it’s anyone’s guess.
Royal Marketing’s David Press stated that he will be priced “somewhere below Fuji and Kodak.” How much below? Dai Nippon has been an aggressive pricer for its dye-sub paper line and one might expect that philosophy to carry into silver halide, as well. Both firms are starting new relationships here and pricing might just attract new friends.
Mitsi has long been the U.S. price leader but it might be more difficult to hold that position in the face of two newcomers determined to take a piece of the action. Kodak and Fuji have other cards to play, besides price. How do they plan to fight off the new guys and hold—or grow—market penetration?
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During my first year at Hamilton College, I was in the Bundy West dormitory complex. Bundy West (and its companion building, Bundy East) were part of a started-but-never-completed series of buildings for a Hamilton College-affiliated graduate program. The graduate program was eventually scuttled at around the same time that the all-male Hamilton College merged with the all-women’s college, Kirkland College.
Anyways, the Bundy dormitory complex (or as we derisively branded it, “Bundy-land”), had two types of students – upperclassmen who didn’t want to be disturbed, and freshmen who didn’t know they were going to walk up a hill to class in the dead of winter five times a week to get to class.
And in that, I spent my freshman semester in a “double” dorm room with Bob Brown. Bob was a great guy, he was from Rhode Island and we had some common interests. I should say, however, that music wasn’t one of them. He often played his Squeeze and B-52’s albums on his phonograph, and I would say, “What is that crap you’re listening to, never heard it before.”
Then I would play my Grandmaster Flash and Fat Larry’s Band records on my phonograph, and he would say, “What is that crap you’re listening to, never heard it before.”
Bob and I cultivated a collection of friends in Bundy-land, many of whom I’ve stayed in contact with to this day. Friends like Dave Lawrence and Brad Jones – er, Professor Brad Jones – and Lynda Doyle and Pam Foresman – er, Pam Foresman, M.D. We were all good friends and we all hung in the same circle.
But Bob and I were never destined to remain roommates. We got on each others’ nerves. And it happens. And one thing that I think eventually drove a wedge between us was when he thought I was making up phony-baloney hard-to-believe stories.
See, one night I was watching television – I had a little black-and-white TV in the dorm, it could only pick up the local NBC and ABC affiliates in Utica – and that night, they were showing some sci-fi horror anthology drama called Darkroom. Darkroom was hosted by James Coburn, and was supposed to be a show to remind people of Rod Serling’s Night Gallery or The Twilight Zone or The Outer Limits. Trust me. Darkroom had twist endings that were so obvious, you would think that M. Night Shyamalan was an executive producer.
That night, however, I saw an episode of Darkroom called “Stay Tuned, We’ll Be Right Back.” And what caught my attention was that the main character on the drama was a “Charlie Miller.”
Okay, for all of you who don’t realize this, I am a “Chuck.” Not a “Charles” or a “Charlie” or a “Chaz” or any of those. “Charlie” is a perfume, “Charles” is the Prince of Wales, and I’m not even sure what a “Chaz” is. “Chuck” is just fine for me. But hearing that there was a character named “Charlie Miller” on this anthology series … well … I had to watch this and find out more.
And, as it turns out, the episode wasn’t half bad. It involved some sort of time-travel angle with a crystal radio set. Yeah, there was a twist ending – and if you’ve read enough of the classic EC comics, you could figure out the twist ending – but I wanted to tell Bob about what I just saw.
Yeah, and it probably was the worst time. Bob just came back into the dorm, he was working on midterms or finals, I can’t remember which, and I just wanted to tell him about the episode. I recapped as much as I could, telling him there was a “Charlie Miller” on this TV show I saw, and that the character was involved in trying to direct a boat – I think it was called the Bradley Jones – from doing something…
“Chuck,” Bob said, stopping me in mid-sentence. “Come on now. You’re going to tell me that there was a show with your name on it – and the name of Brad Jones, our friend from down the hall?”
“Yes,” I replied.
“Right,” he groaned. “Sure. This isn’t going to work.”
And within a week, I swapped dorm rooms with Dave Lawrence – Dave moved into Bob’s dorm, and I moved into Dave’s old single.
Thirty years later, I still hadn’t forgotten about that show. I never saw a rerun of the program. I never saw it on any of the cable television channels, or that there were any DVD releases. And I never found a way to actually prove that the show existed. I tried to remember the show – anything about the show – but for some reason, anything I could recall about the broadcast had drifted into the ether.
Until the other day, when – just for a lark – I started digging up information. I looked online at the old TV schedules, trying to remember the program’s name. I originally thought the was on NBC. It was on ABC. I somehow thought the host was Lee Marvin. It was James Coburn. And once I found the show’s title – Darkroom – I had to see if, hoping against hope, there were episodes of it on YouTube or Hulu.
Jackpot. Some enterprising young soul had recorded the show on VHS cassette tapes, and recently put the entire run of Darkroom on YouTube.
Including the episode “Stay Tuned, We’ll Be Right Back.”
And there’s the proof.
Bob and I still remain in touch – I saw him a few years ago when I did a book signing in Washington, D.C. He’s a great guy, I believe he still works in foreign service, and I wish him and his family all the success in the world.
And 30 years after I told my old college roommate about the TV show, now I can prove to Bob that the TV show I was talking about on that cold chilly night did in fact exist.
Not that it will change anything… but it’s nice to know there’s no statute of limitations on backing up a claim. | <urn:uuid:b00e1827-3d7d-4349-84b2-a2dfcc31c099> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://blog.timesunion.com/chuckmiller/30-years-later-i-finally-have-truthful-proof/8303/ | 2016-10-26T01:26:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720471.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00526-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985404 | 1,441 | [
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November 17, 2005
In discussing the impact of the Sony DRM debacle, Paul Resnikoff made
a fairly bizarre assessment: “But just how aware is the average consumer
in all of this? … A worst-case scenario would involve a high level of
awareness, and subsequent drops in CD buying. That is a problem for
everyone, because most buyers are unlikely to
make finer distinctions between various major labels and specific
To the contrary, the best-case scenario is a high level of consumer
awareness. No matter what you think of the DMCA or what DRM’s
role should be in the market, we should all be able to agree on that.
DRM proponents often argue that DRM’s limitations will never be
unacceptably invasive or strict, because consumer desires will never
allow it. If one music supplier uses DRM in a way that is too
restrictive, another supplier will exploit that opportunity, offering
music with less restrictions and drawing consumers away. In sum,
the competitive market solves all.
And what do you need to get a competitive, efficient market? Full information. Perfect
information and perfectly competitive markets don’t exist outside of
textbooks, but we’d like to get as close as possible to those goals.
If consumers come away from the Sony debacle deciding to never buy
another DRMed CD again, that’s the market at work. To the extent
this provokes consumers to be more critical when buying any DRMed
product, and they reject DRMed products on that basis, that’s the
market at work.
Resnikoff’s fear seems to be that this one incident teaches a false
lesson because this is an exceptional instance, and thus consumers will
in some sense be improperly informed. First, this is not completely exceptional. Sony CD DRM certainly is an
extreme example of the harm DRM can do as well as a situation in which
people were buying DRMed content without fully understanding the
restrictions. However, all the major online music
services are misleading in the way they advertise their services,
obscuring how restrictive their DRM actually is.
We should hope that consumers come away from this scandal more critical
about DRM in general; if they decide to purchase music from the online
music services, they should do so knowing what they’re buying.
Second, if this is a false lesson, then the solution is more
information about DRM. The onus is on record labels, online music
services, and DRM proponents to make those “finer distinctions” and
explain to consumers why they should buy DRMed products. If you think
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Parallel and series configurations of flyback converter for pulsed power applications
Davari, Pooya, Zare, Firuz, & Ghosh, Arindam (2012) Parallel and series configurations of flyback converter for pulsed power applications. In 7th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA 2012) , 18 - 20 July 2012, Singapore.
Advances in solid-state switches and power electronics techniques have led to the development of compact, efficient and more reliable pulsed power systems. Although, the power rating and operation speed of the new solid-state switches are considerably increased, their low blocking voltage level puts a limits in the pulsed power operation. This paper proposes the advantage of parallel and series configurations of pulsed power modules in obtaining high voltage levels with fast rise time (dv/dt) using only conventional switches. The proposed configuration is based on two flyback modules. The effectiveness of the proposed approach is verified by numerical simulations, and the advantages of each configuration are indicated in comparison with a single module.
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|Item Type:||Conference Paper|
|Keywords:||Pulsed Power, Flyback Converter, Parallel and Series Connection, High Voltage Pulse|
|Divisions:||Current > Schools > School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Current > QUT Faculties and Divisions > Science & Engineering Faculty
|Deposited On:||21 Mar 2013 23:38|
|Last Modified:||25 Mar 2013 04:18|
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