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The Hodeidah Shipping & Transport Co. (S.Y.C)
Ports in and around the Yemen:
Saleef Port:
There are no alongside bunker or fresh water facilities at this port.
Isa Oil Terminal:
Operated by : SAFER Exploration & Production Operating Company (SEPCO)
Situated at position 15.07 N, 42.36 E.
This terminal consists of a 409,000 DWT Floating Storage and Offloading Vessel (FSO) "SAFER" which is permanently moored 4.8 nautical miles offshore Ras Isa. The terminal operates 24 hours throughout the year, weather permitting.
This terminal is used for the export of Marib Light crude from the oil wells in Mareb.
There are no bunker/fresh water or provisioning facilities at this terminal due to its location.
Port Authority : PMAC - Port & maritime Affaires Corporation.
The port of Mokha is situated to the south east of Hodeidah more or less equidistant between Hodeidah and Aden at position 13.20N 43.13E. This port consists of one pier of 175 mtrs in length and 35 mtrs width allowing for vessels to berth either side. The port has a total of 4 sheds and is very limited in any cargo handling equipment therefore vessels calling at this port must have their own gear.
There are no alongside bunker or fresh water facilities at this port although fresh water and diesel oil can be arranged in limited supply via road tankers.
This port has a draft restriction of 26 feet and is limited to day light navigation only. It must also be noted that the port is exposed to the open sea and can therefore be affected by weather conditions delaying berthing or sailing of vessels.
Port restrictions: Draft of 26 feet and LOA of 150 mtrs.
Aden Port:
& Facilities
For further details please refer to the Port of Aden web site:
Port Authority : Yemen Ports Authority (YPA).
Situated east of Aden up the coast towards the Omani border at 14.31N 49.08E and consists of two berths of 160 mtrs each and a maximum draft of 8.5 mtrs. The port is very limited in handling equipment therefore all vessels calling at this port must be self contained with their own cranes/derricks. The port has however two shed for the reception of cargo. Vessels can also be handled in stream subject to weather conditions.
Ash Shihr Oil Terminal:
Operated by : Canadian Nixen Yemen.
This terminal is situated approximately 230 nautical miles east of Aden and consists of a Single Point Mooring Buoy ( SPM ) capable of handling export tankers of maximum 400,000 DWT and minimum 80,000 DWT. The terminal operates 24 hours a day throughout the year. There are no bunkers/fresh water or other services available to the exporting tanker at this terminal due to it's location.
Bal Haf Gas Terminal:
The terminal is being constructed for the sole purpose for handling the exports of LNG ( Liquified Natural Gas) from the gas fields situated in Mareb district. The terminal will consist of a two-tank storage facility ashore and a loading jetty to accommodate the export tankers. The terminal is due for completion mid 2008..
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Margot Silk Forrest has been doing arts and crafts since she was a little kid stealing her mother's linen napkins and blisteringly red nail polish to make baby dolls. Besides painting and embellishing shoes, she sews wearable-art clothing and home decor items, makes quilts (when she has the time!), and beads jewelry for her own pleasure.
Her first pair of luminously painted and beaded sandals were accepted for publication in Altered Couture, a glossy magazine showcasing one-of-a-kind, handmade fashions and wearable-art projects. The publishers also used her Gypsy Sandals in a full-page magazine ad for Altered Couture 2.
Since then she and Destiny have had more than 20 pairs of shoes showcased in Altered Couture as well as in other publications and on blogs and websites.
Margot and Destiny have taught more than 45 classes in painting and embellishing shoes on the West Coast, mostly in California. For their schedule, click here. She and Destiny also create custom-embellished bridal shoes under the label Silk Forrest Bridal. They are based in Morro Bay, CA.
In addition to being an artisan and shoe designer, Margot is an acclaimed freelance book editor, writer, online researcher, and the author of three books, including A Short Course in Kindness: A Little Book on the Importance of Love and the Relative Unimportance of Just About Everything Else.
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Bean Leaves Could Be Key To Eradicating Bedbugs
LEXINGTON, Ky. - An age old remedy for bedbugs is now the subject of a new high tech study being conducted by researchers at the University of Kentucky and the University of California, Irvine. The team's mission involves replicating the action of tiny microscopic plant hairs called trichomes, which are located on the surface of bean leaves.
"They found that they could sprinkle bean leaves on the floors of their dwellings and capture bedbugs. The mechanism by which that occurs is through these little plant hairs called trichomes which is a natural defense that plants have to deter attacks by certain types of plant feeding insects," said UK Entomology Professor, Michael Potter.
Potter, and his colleague Ken Haynes are part of the research team developing materials that geometrically mimic the trichomes on the bean leaves.
"The first step was trying to better determine exactly how the bean leaves were entrapping the bedbugs which we determined to be mainly capturing them, or literally hooking and piercing them on their feet and legs by these little tiny fish-hook hairs on the bean plants and then it was a matter of trying to synthesize or make a synthetic version of this," Potter said.
Bedbugs have made a dramatic comeback in the U-S in recent years as the highly adaptable critters have proven resistant to commercial prevention methods including freezing, extreme heating, vacuuming and pesticides. The bedbug team's findings are published online in the Journal of the Royal Society interface.


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Singapore O&G Firms Set for Growth amid Continued Offshore Interest
Singapore oil and gas companies can expect this year to be another season of ample offshore contract wins as higher oil prices will sustain exploration and production investments.
The Brent benchmark will average around $105 per barrel in 2013 and $99 per barrel in 2014, according to a Jan. 8 report published by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). In line with these healthy oil price forecasts, oil and gas exploration and production spending is also projected to increase.
Global exploration and production spending is set to increase by at least 7 percent this year, marking a fourth year of consecutive growth for the sector, Maybank Kim Eng's analyst Yeak Chee Keong noted in a Jan.10 offshore sector report. Areas of prolific offshore activities include regions such as the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, offshore Brazil, West Africa, India, China and Australia. These regions – home to new offshore plays – appear somewhat immune to the global economic slump; they have attracted billions in investment dollars last year and appear poised to receive continued investments in the months ahead.
Meanwhile, mature oil producers Malaysia and Indonesia have drawn up ambitious plans for this year, costing tens of billions of dollars. Both of the countries, each with separate long-term goals, are looking beyond onshore oil and gas plays and moving deep into unexplored basins.
Rig Builders to See Healthy Order Books in 2013
The offshore boom, being carried over from last year, means that rig builders will continue to secure a healthy stream of contracts.
Analysts have spotlighted Singapore-based rig builders Keppel Corporation and Sembcorp Marine as the primary beneficiaries of the increased offshore activity this year. Both companies are forecasted to achieve another year of robust contract wins.
In the case of Keppel Corporation, the company ended last year with a full order haul of $8 billion, just shy of its 2011 record of $8.1 billion. Yeak predicts Keppel Offshore & Marine (Keppel O&M) will realize around $4.4 billion in 2013 contract wins, the bulk of its revenue coming from delivering jackups - its traditional area of strength.
Keppel O&M is moving into new areas such as taking on floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) conversion works and constructing semisubmersibles, Yeak added.
As part of its long-term diversification strategy, Keppel O&M is also looking at constructing ice-class and harsh environment rigs. Its design and engineering arm, Keppel O&M Technology Center (KOMtech), started a partnership with ConocoPhillips to design a first-of-its-kind jackup to operate in the Arctic seas, Keppel O&M announced in February of last year.
"This would open up opportunities [for the company] and [help maintain] its competitiveness against established Korean yards and upcoming Chinese yards," Yeak commented on Keppel O&M's growth strategy.
Meanwhile, rival Singapore-based rig builder Sembcorp Marine is also set to start 2013 on a strong footing, analysts said last week. The optimism remains unchanged despite a Dec. 3 accident that took place at the Jurong Shipyard when a brake failure caused the jackup Noble Regina Allen (400' ILC) to tilt.
In a research note issued mid-December last year, CIMB analyst Lim Siew Khee noted:
"We think that recent rig incidents are timely reminders of the risks involved in rig-building … However, we believe construction progress insurance could defray part of the damages, if any. We keep our earnings estimates unchanged … and expect $3.6 billion [worth] of new orders for 2013."
SembMarine's recent contract win for two jackup units from Oro Negro – at $217 million each – demonstrates pricing power, said Yeak in his sector report, sharing similar views with Lim.
"In Oro Negro's [case], the company requires the rigs fast, with assurances of quality and timely delivery. This could be a case in which the customer is dependent on the rigs to secure a charter contract from oil majors … While there is competition from Chinese yards, we believe that drillers may still prefer established Singapore and Korean yards," Yeak said.
But it is not just strong demand and an established reputation that is propping up the rig builders. A near-term shortage of rigs – in particular harsh-environment jackups – is also expected to add to this year's bullish sentiment.
"In our view, 2013 will witness pent-up demand for semi-subs being released, given that semi-sub orders have lagged drillship orders for three years now and there is limited new capacity joining the fleet in 2013/14," Singapore daily The Business Times quoted Nomura Holdings last week.
"Rig utilization and day rates for deepwater operations are seen to be strengthening and new-build rigs are readily absorbed into the market without a significant effect on utilization or day rates," Yeak commented.
In addition, Transocean revealed in a Dec. 18 fleet status report that the Discoverer Seven Seas (UDW drillship) was awarded a three-well contract by Inpex for work offshore Indonesia between May and December of next year. Inpex will pay a day rate of $500,000 per day for its use of the rig, up $10,000 from the rig's prior contract. On the same day, oil major ExxonMobil exercised a six-month option on the jackup GSF Magellan (350' ILC) for work offshore Nigeria. Under the exercised option, ExxonMobil will have to pay a day rate of $160,000 per day, an increase of $17,000 prior to exercising its extension option.
Offshore Services Providers Ride the Offshore Wave
Besides the rig builders, offshore vessel builders are well-placed to ride the offshore wave this year.
Nam Cheong – the largest offshore support vessel (OSV) builder in Malaysia – reported at the end of December last year that it clocked a record sales volume of 21 vessels. The company sold its OSVs to clients based in regions such as Brazil, Norway, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. Moving head into the year, Nam Cheong aims to expand its fleet, a signal that the company is gearing up for an increase in momentum.
OSK Research analyst Lee Yue Jer expects the company to increase its fleet capacity by 20 percent to 24 vessels this year, in a Jan. 11 statement.
The positive outlook is also shared by Singapore-listed Ezion Holdings, an offshore support service firm. Like Nam Cheong, Ezion has had a very successful run last year. The company was clocking in at least one new contract win each month for the first 11 months of 2012.
Ezion's successful performance last year can be replicated this year, backed by charter contracts from international oil majors, Yeak commented. Ezion will start this year on a high note with renewed optimism in the broader market, OCBC Investment Research analyst Low Pei Han echoed in a Jan. 9 report.
However, the optimistic outlook for oil and gas companies will come with challenges moving ahead into this year.
"The [oil and gas] sector is still pretty much driven by macroeconomic events in the near-term. March has become the new December, and cautiousness may start to emerge in February as political brinkmanship in the U.S. intensifies before the March fiscal cliff deadline," Low warned.
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- Bumi Armada's LNG FSU Leaving Singapore Soon to Work for EletroGas Malta (Aug 11)
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African Sahel Projects to Get $8 Billion From World Bank and EU
The World Bank and the European Union plan to invest as much as $8 billion in hydro power, agriculture and health projects in Africa's Sahel.
World Bank President Jim Yong Kim pledged $1.5 billion over the next two years to expand renewable-energy sources and health services in the area below the Sahara desert that covers parts of Mali, Mauritania, Senegal, Niger, Chad and Burkina Faso, according to an e-mailed statement. The investment includes $585 million in guarantees for a gas project in Mauritania.
"The people of the Sahel region desperately need more secure living standards and our hope is this funding helps build a new path for economic growth in the region," Kim said.
Kim arrives in Senegal today with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and will visit and meet with the presidents of Mali, Burkina Faso and Chad later this week. European Union Development Commissioner Andris Piebalgs is also attending.
Funds from the EU are meant to strengthen security and stability as well as governance and rule of law in the countries in the area, according to the statement.
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Dodgers place Rubby De La Rosa on DL with sprained elbow [Update]
Well, there is a certain consistency to the Dodgers' crumbling season.
One day after their would-be pitching wunderkind, Rubby De La Rosa, was roughed up in an 103-pitch, four-inning effort Sunday against Arizona, the Dodgers placed him on the 15-day disabled list with right elbow inflammation.
[Update: The results of an MRI exam showed a sprained right elbow ligament. The Times' Dylan Hernandez reports De La Rosa could be done for the season, and surgery is a possibility.]
In a mostly frustrating season for the bankrupt Dodgers, they had gambled and called up De La Rosa from double-A Chattanooga at the end of May.
And their 2010 Minor League Pitcher of the Year mostly delivered.
De La Rosa, 22, was 4-4 with a 3.49 ERA going into Sunday's game. He was hitting up to 100 mph on the radar gun and had a competitive demeanor on the mound that belied his youth.
But little went right for him Sunday, and at his age and with his future all ahead of him, the Dodgers did the right thing by placing him on the DL when his elbow became sore.
Counting his innings at Chattanooga, De La Rosa has thrown 100 2/3 innings this season, just shy of his career-high of 110 1/3 innings set last season.
To take his place on the roster, and presumably the rotation, the Dodgers called up right-hander John Ely on Monday. He is with the team in San Diego. De La Rosa did not make the trip.
Ely, who had an up-and-down season for the Dodgers last year (4-10, 5.49 ERA), was 6-4 with a 5.43 ERA at triple-A Albuquerque. He was called up over Dana Eveland (11-5, 3.26 ERA).
-- Steve Dilbeck
Photo: Los Angeles Dodgers starter Rubby De La Rosa. Credit: Kirby Lee / US Presswire


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While India's Krishna Kalyan ate an iPhone 4 cake to celebrate the New Year, Apple's four retail stores in China have something else in mind to celebrate the Chinese New Year. According to ifoAppleStore, Apple has emailed an invitation to their customers in China to visit the retail stores between January 26 and February 13 for select events such as workshops, One to One training and shopping specials on Apple and third-party products.
Apple currently has stores both in Beijing and Shanghai, but we here at TUAW are partial to the first one to land in Shanghai back in July of last year. With the four stores already under its belt and a growing online presence in China, it seems that Apple heard Lenovo loud and clear when it was declared that Apple hadn't stepped up efforts in the Far East.


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Happy Hour at Fresh, by Karlanne
March 13, Wednesday, 5:30p.m.-8p.m.
Nothing says "happy" quite like a bit of haute couture.
Bring your girlfriends, AND bring your boyfriends for happy hour at Fresh, by Karlanne's, a women's AND NOW a men's clothing boutique in the heart of Medford, NJ.
Aside from connecting with local business owners and NAWBO-SJ members, feel free to bring all those pressing fashion questions you've been dying to ask. Can I wear pink in winter? Are pinstripes still in? What's the hottest trend for business wear? Enjoy a cocktail, hors d'oeuvres, friends and plenty of shopping!
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By Scott T. Sterling
Sam Smith fans wondering what the GRAMMY-winning singer has been up to lately won't have to wonder much longer.
Related: Sam Smith and Timbaland Hit the Studio
Smith has posted a personal letter to his followers on social media promising that new music is coming in the very near future.
"To my beautiful fans, First of all, I want to say thank you," he writes. "Thank you for being so patient and letting me have the past year to really escape into my mind & write music so freely. I feel so rejuvenated and have so many stories I can't wait to tell you."
Smith goes on to say that "The wait is nearly over. Something is coming very very very very soon. I am scared and excited at the same time. I've poured my heart and soul into this record."
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Nathan Der Weise : Ein Dramatisches Gedicht in Funf Aufzugen - Primary Source Edition
William Dwight Whitney,Gotthold Ephraim Lessing,Hermann Carl George Brandt
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ENNIS, Texas -- NHRA Pro Stock drag racing is one of the most competitive forms of motorsports in the world. Qualifying fields of 16 cars are sometimes separated by less than four hundredths of a second. To win in Pro Stock you need good, reliable horsepower. So this year, when George Marnell was looking for a winning engine combination on his black Pontiac Grand Am, his search began and ended at Reher-Morrison.
"We started the season with a new car. By having to adapt new power to it, that gave us another variable we had to work through before we finally got a handle on the car. As we started getting things sorted out, the car started performing better and better to the point where we now feel we have a racecar that can compete with anybody."
After a disappointing DNQ at his hometown event in Las Vegas, Marnell's season began to steadily improve. He's qualified in the top half of the field at seven races including his first career No. 1 at the Pontiac Excitement Nationals in Columbus, Ohio.
"There hasn't been any one particular race where things turned around," said Marnell. "It's not like all of a sudden we reached a point where we decided to start trying hard. We put everything we have into this program and it hurt me personally when we didn't qualify at Las Vegas. Through hard work and perseverance we found a setup that we could be competitive with."
Driving skill, coupled with a well-tuned racecar took Marnell to his first career national event victory at Memphis on September 23. And at the series' last race in Reading, Pa., the 51-year-old Pro Stock veteran drove to a career-best elapsed time of 6.817 seconds and a career-best speed of 202.06 mph.
The relationship between Marnell and Reher-Morrison has been mutually beneficial. After qualifying their new Pontiac Grand Am No. 1 at the season opener in Pomona, Reher-Morrison was facing the very real possibility of having to park their car due to the lack of sponsorship and financial support.
"Financially, we were struggling to generate enough money to run the car," said Bruce Allen. "We had some potential sponsor interest and we thought we'd at least keep going until we either landed a sponsor or it went away. Then we started running good, put ourselves in a position to win races and that really made it difficult to walk away.
"The lease program we have with George has allowed us to continue to race and form the transfer of information that's available to all of us. We can see how they run and gauge where we need to be, and they can see where we are and gauge likewise."
The Reher-Morrison Grand Am driver won at Brainerd, posted top qualifying honors at four events, has been in the top half of the field at 13 races and won 23 rounds of eliminations.
"At this particular point, we're right about where I thought we should be," said Allen. "I thought we could finish in the top five, and even though there're still three races to go, we're there now. I thought we'd win a couple of races and we won at Brainerd. We still have some chances left, but we lost some good opportunities too. Nonetheless, from being in a position financially where we didn't know if we could even race all year to where we are now, we're right on target for what I thought we could do."
In addition to the success achieved by Allen in '01, Reher-Morrison powered racecars, and that includes Marnell's Grand Am and Mike Edwards' Cavalier, have qualified No. 1 six times and scored two wins in four final rounds.
"At Memphis, George beat us in the semifinals," said Allen. "At Chicago, we lost first round to Mike Edwards. Our customers get just as good equipment as what we're using ourselves. Not only does that give us credibility but we can feel good about what we're doing.
"Sometimes, maybe we don't have as good a race as they do, but the upside is that if your customer runs good, then it's good for the shop and it's good for the business. In this situation where we're unsponsored and we're using that revenue to run the team, it's a win-win situation - but only if they run good."
Both Marnell and Allen will battle at the remaining three races to solidify strong points finishes. Allen is just seven points behind fourth-place Jeg Coughlin Jr. and 15 points behind third-place Edwards. Marnell is in 12th place, 54 points behind 10th-place Brad Jeter.
"You can never be overconfident," said Marnell, "but I feel pretty good about our ability to run strong the rest of the season. We're on a good roll, we have a good program and everybody's doing their job.
"Reher-Morrison power has made us look good and we've made them look
good. It's been a good relationship for both sides. We couldn't have had
the success we've had without their horsepower, and I'd like to think we've
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How gorgeous and adorable are these! Hand blown borosilicate glass bottles, made from the same sort of glass as Pyrex and your everyday run-of-the-mill scientific glassware. Amazing!
We have a weakness for miniature things anyhow, so we really have a shine on these. Love green glass!
Lordy! A wine bottle and a teeny Erlenmeyer flask! The maker is a pro and has a degree in scientific glass blowing, but the work is surprisingly affordable. The etsy shop is called Kivaford. Imagine our surprise! Wouldn't these be fab as wedding favors, for wee bud vases?


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A dozen Mater Dei athletes ready for Wednesday
February 2, 2010 | 11:40 am
There's a reason Santa Ana Mater Dei is known as a sports powerhouse. The Monarchs have top athletes in a variety of sports, and 12 will be featured during Wednesday's letter of intent day.
Among the athletes participating in a morning signing ceremony: football players Matthew Billeci (Brown), Fred Eggert (Georgetown), Chris Ward (UCLA); gymnast Natasha Katzaroff (Oregon); girls' soccer players Nicole DePuy (Santa Barbara), Danielle Mabie (Barry) and Lainey Prioleau (Columbia); track and field athletes Brooke Arthur (California) and Michael Woepse (UCLA) and water polo players David Guibord (Santa Clara), Alex Wherry (UCLA) and Neal O'Hara (Harvard).
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By Barrington Salmon of the Washington Informer
In 1969, Angela Davis was every white man's worst nightmare: Educated, possessor of a formidable intellect, black, assertive, an activist, a woman, and a communist.
Davis' political opinions, social activism and her outspoken criticism of racism, segregation and the way African Americans and other non-whites were treated in a country sharply divided along racial and class lines, brought the full weight of the government upon her head.
The fallout is outlined in great detail in Free Angela and All Political Prisoners, a documentary film by director Shola Lynch. The story surrounds Davis' removal from her teaching post at UCLA, Los Angeles; the charges brought against her for murder, kidnapping and conspiracy; the nationwide manhunt; her inclusion on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted List; and her arrest, trial and eventual acquittal. Viewers listen to narratives from Davis, friends, family and associates and witness their comments weaved around documents, videotapes and sometimes grainy historical footage.
Today, Davis, 69, is an acclaimed political activist, scholar, and author. She remains unapologetic about her views on race, community building, and social justice and she works tirelessly in the struggle for gender equality, economic and racial justice. Of equal importance is her work to dismantle a prison-industrial complex in the United States in which 2.3 million people, primarily black and brown, are ensnared.
Back then, she was a 26-year-old Sorbonne-educated professor, who was immersed in activities she hoped would bring social, economic and political freedom for blacks.
The 102-minute documentary, shot in cinema vérité style, unfolds with snapshots of 17-year-old Jonathan Jackson and three other men leaving the Marin County Courthouse in San Rafael, Calif., with weapons trained on a judge, prosecutor and jurors. As the group gets into a yellow van, police snipers and guards from San Quentin Prison open fire leaving Superior Court Judge Harold Haley and three of the four hostage takers – including Jonathan – dead.
One detective walks from the crime scene with a weapon wrapped in plastic and viewers are told that Davis had purchased two of the guns.
In a straight-forward, vulnerable but poignant manner, Davis recaptures the heady, complex, scary days of the emergence of the Black Power Movement, black nationalism, the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, and an all-too-brief period of time when blacks around the country – like a sleeping giant shook off fear, lethargy and the past, and demanded an end to America's homegrown apartheid system.
The Black Panther Party came to the attention of the authorities when in 1967, a small group of members, all bearing arms and led by Chairman Bobby Seale, marched into the California legislature to protest a pending gun-¬control bill and to illustrate that blacks had a constitutional right to bear arms. The group called for armed revolutionary struggle against the oppression and slavery-type conditions perpetuated by the ruling elite and their functionaries in the United States. They also strove to create a society of justice, freedom and equality for the masses of black and brown people. They developed breakfast programs and educated children, while advocating for a 10-point program which sought, among other things, employment, housing and an end to police brutality.
So concerned was FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover about the Panthers, he described them as "the single greatest threat to the internal security of the United States." Hoover was determined to prevent the formation of a cohesive Black movement in the United States and used murder, coercion, extortion, disinformation and other tactics to undermine and destroy black leaders who exhibited leadership, organizational skills and the ability to communicate well. The FBI and police from Oakland, Chicago and elsewhere began targeting and assassinating members of the Panther organization.
The documentary reminds viewers of the raw anger, deep distrust and animus between the black community and police. Footage of an hours-long shootout between police and the Black Panthers illustrates the full-pitched gun battles that often ensued between law enforcement and the organization.
"It was as if we were living in a state of war, a state of siege," said Davis. "We had to do all we could to usher in the Revolution. There was a conspiracy to kill every Black Panther in America and all black people."
Quenesha McNair, 30, was left visibly moved by the film.
"I feel grateful for this information," she said. "My generation knows the criticism directed at her approach to politics but not the level of determination to eradicate her. I'm surprised I'm just learning about her in the film. This wasn't in the textbooks. I never knew how raw it was. The raid on the Black Panther headquarters was like genocide. I never, ever thought this could happen."
Davis was also on the frontline as a spokesperson for the Soledad Brothers, three men in California's Soledad Prison accused of killing a guard and persecuted for their political beliefs. George Jackson, John Clutchette and Fleeta Drumgo were each incarcerated for petty property crimes, we're told, and jailed for years because of their attempts to bring about change in the prison system.
"I saw him at a hearing and I was drawn by the tenderness I didn't expect to see in a prisoner," said Davis of the man she loved, George Jackson. "He was a beautiful, powerful, passionate writer."
Following the botched kidnapping and hostage deaths, the white establishment called Jonathan and his accomplices thugs, hoodlums and criminals. However, he was seen as a hero by many in the black community. At his funeral, thousands of mourners crowded the streets around the church, standing solemnly with fists raised in the Black Power salute as the coffin was carried into and out of the church.
As word about the shootout spread, Davis knew the feds would try to apprehend her.
"It was clear that this was not the time to make myself available for arrest," she said soberly.
With a fugitive's warrant of $100,000 on her head, Davis went underground, moving around for two months through Las Vegas and Miami, ending up in New York with local law enforcement and the FBI not far behind. As she evaded them, police descended on black communities around the country accosting black women with big afros and gaps between their front teeth. The FBI had agents conducting surveillance on anyone who knew Davis, and also began to wrangle information from her friends, family and associates.
"I knew there were countries that would accept me, but I decided I didn't want to flee the country because I knew I'd be in exile for the rest of my life," she said. "… I was pretty scared, always thought I'd be on the verge of being caught. I thought about the family I left behind, worried about mom and my siblings …"
Davis was traveling with a wealthy friend, David Poindexter, and the pair left Miami when the FBI questioned his mother.
"We were rapidly running out of money and I had a palpable sense that the FBI was closing in," she said.
FBI agents had been searching parking lots in New York City looking for Poindexter's car and found Davis at a Howard Johnson's motel.
Davis, exhausted, pale and gaunt, said she was placed in a ward for women with psychiatric disorders.
"I hadn't thought about what it meant to be a woman in prison," she said.
Her sister Fania agreed.
"Angela's education is now being put into practice," she said during an interview in the documentary.
Davis' capture ignited a firestorm of criticism of the Nixon administration and strident calls for her release. The Free Angela! Movement hopscotched from the U.S. abroad, with hundreds of defense committees calling for Davis' release as well as the release of all political prisoners. Demonstrations, marches and fundraisers kept Davis' case in the public eye even as Nixon called her "a dangerous terrorist."
"It was lonely, very lonely. I read a lot and wrote a lot," she recalled. "I followed the example of others like George and created a kind of freedom within that experience. They wanted to break me, wanted me to feel the burden of solitude."
Davis was spirited from New York on a military aircraft, in the middle of the night and against her wishes, to be tried in California. In all, she spent 18 months behind bars. The prosecutor built an elaborate case around Davis' all-encompassing love and passion for George Jackson which drove her to try to free him. But through the efforts of lawyers Howard Moore Jr., Leo Branton, Jr., and Doris Walker, Davis was granted bail and later freed after an all-white jury found her not guilty of all three charges, which initially carried the death penalty.
Her exoneration touched off exuberant and emotional celebrations inside the courtroom, around the courthouse complex and across the world.
"This is the happiest day of my life," Davis later said at a press conference.
At the conclusion of the film, Davis crystallized the arc of her life since her release.
"I wanted to keep the structure and energy in place and to bring about more victories to the people. That became the theme of my life and here I am today …"
The documentary is being shown in select theaters around the country, including Oakland and Los Angeles, Calif., New York and Philadelphia. In the Washington metropolitan area, the movie can be seen at the AMC Hoffman Center 22 in Alexandria, Va., and the AMC Magic Johnson Capital Center 12 in Largo, Md.


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Groton, CT—With retro chic on the minds of everyone from designer Miuccia Prada to Banana Republic's "Mad Men" collection, even to actress Mischa Barton who is launching her own retro ready-to-wear line, it sure seems like an opportune time to introduce a retro-inspired sunglass collection.
That's exactly what Alue Optics has done with the premiere of its first high performance sunglass collection, "combining superior optical properties and neo-retro design principles."
The line, which retails between $175 to $275, in
cludes nine unisex models each available in a different color stories. Alue's acetate and wire frames are all individually handmade, containing features such as spring hinges and silicone nose pads.
"The inspiration for the Alue Optics collection was to fill the gap in the marketplace with a lens performance line—an enduring classic look that can keep your eyes functioning stress-free through your daily activities," said Case Watson, partner, Alue Optics. "We transform classic sunglass styles using simple but distinctive design elements to provide timeless looks to complement the functionality of our Alue AQ-P lens."
Alue (which means "sphere/realm" in Finnish) emphasizes visual comfort and acuity for the eyes, Watson adds.
All Alue AQ-P lenses provide 100% UV-A and UV-B protection and 100% blue light protection to 410nm and 93% blue light protection to 480nm. The additional protection from short wave visible light can help contribute to eye health as it blocks damaging blue light.
The Alue AQ-P lens is constructed with the finest grade 1, optical mineral glass, promoting optimal visual clarity. The glass is chemically hardened and thermally toughened to enhance resistance to impact, scratches, heat and chemical attack. All lenses have five micro thin layers: an ultra thin polarizing film is encapsulated between glass wafers, front and back hydrophobic coatings to resist smudges and dirt, and an anti-reflective coating to reduce reflective glares.
Alue AQ-P lenses are brown-based, excellent for true color, object contrast and depth perception in sunny and varied light conditions. The Alue AQ-P Brown lens also comes as Alue AQ-P Gold and Alue AQ-P Titanium. These proprietary subtle mirror coatings can further increase eye comfort in highly reflective environments, the company says.
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Enjoy the experience of a lifetime while connecting with nature at Albion Hills Field Centre! Whether you are a school, Scouts, Guides or adults, we offer two- or five-day residential programs both on weekdays and weekends in clean and comfortable facilities, with delicious, well-balanced meals.
Programming is flexible enough to meet the needs of all learners and can be as active or relaxed as required. The diversity of activities and programs available allows you to develop the daily timetable that works best for you. Then, let us do the rest: fun times, active learning, stronger teams and a sense of community for your group.
Access Peel's Schoolground Greening Guide, Digging It! here!
The Environmental Leaders of Tomorrow program is managed by Toronto and Region Conservation through The Living City Foundation.
Through the generous contributions of our founding supporter, The W. Garfield Weston Foundation, we are fostering the next generation of environmental leaders.
We also wish to thank a number of other organizations for their generous support, including:
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Tine 2.0 is a Web-based groupware solution that focuses on usability and correctness. To achieve these goals, the project uses usability experts and covers most of the code by unit tests. It contains support for contacts, tasks, calendar, email, CRM, VoIP integration, a time tracker, ActiveSync, and a flexible rights management system.
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Release Notes: The software can now be implemented in Active Directory structures. Users can generate and administer new user accounts and groups directly from within the groupware. The Open Source groupware can now work as server for ownCloud clients. This version supports the CardDAV eM client. In addition, new tasks can be generated and administered via CalDAV. Attachments can be added to all kinds of data inside the groupware.
Release Notes: This second release candidate brings some new features, including Tasks support for CalDAV, file attachments for all records (like events, contacts, etc.), and more security and authentication possibilities. This is the last version before the upcoming major release.
Release Notes: This first beta release of the upcoming major release "Collin" brings some new features, including Tasks support for CalDAV, file attachments for all records (like events, contacts, etc.), and more security and authentication possibilities.
Release Notes: Calendar usability has been improved. Events can be copied in an easier way than before. Exceptions and attendee are easier to choose. The history is more transparent now. It also shows when attendee has declined or accepted the event. The integrated module HumanResources now allows you to define vacation and sickness days. The ActiveSync implementation needs less memory and CPU; phones do not need to work so hard. A new Inventory application has been added as a separate module.
Release Notes: An initial release candidate of the upcoming version Kristina (2013.03) has been released. It contains some new features, a new application (Inventory), and many minor improvements.
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Data aggregation framework.
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Logic helps you to define relationships between different data sources and combine it into the one solid responce. It knows nothing about how this data sources work.
There are two types of logics:
Provider must decide if it will process logic with a given name, params and options or not. If so it should return function, or anything else otherwice (undefined or null is better). You can add as many providers, as you want, but only first match will be executed.
logic knows nothing about how provider works, it can be HTTP request, DB query, memory cache, etc. The only rule: provider function should return A+ promise.
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On the verge of collapse
Crippling budget cuts to Arizona State Parks have forced the agency to close parks or seek a temporary patchwork of funding to keep others open. But it's unclear how long that will last. A bipartisan report concluded the entire system is crumbling before our eyes and is on the verge of collapse.


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|Operational status: Closed 31 Dec 1958
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With the aim of encouraging the writing of case materials, EFMD has been organising its annual Case Writing Competition for over 40 years. The category "Corporate Social Responsibility" looks for innovative ways companies are managing the demands for socially and environmentally responsible business practice. This category is sponsored by Kedge Business School and the 2014 winner is:
"WWF's Living Planet @ Work: Championed by HP", written by Oana Branzei, Richard Ivey School of Business and Haiying Lin, University of Waterloo.
Leading up to the completion of a successful partnership between Hewlett-Packard Canada and World Wildlife Fund Canada, the two individuals who championed the program contemplate their separate and joint next steps: should their organizations renew or exit the partnership?
Together, they had designed and delivered a world-first program, Living Planet @ Work, which had enrolled more than 500 companies, large and small, whose employees had already raised more than $1 million in charitable donations through workplace giving. The program was helping corporate Canada harness the collective desire and power of their employees for the good of business and the future of the planet. The two champions had a short window to go global and scale up the positive impact of the program.
Also the winning cases from the previous years in the "Corporate Social Responsibility" category may be of interest to you:
In 2013, it was Accenture Development Partnership, by INSEAD France. Accenture Development Partnerships is a "not-for-loss" business unit established inside Accenture in 2003 to serve NGO and development sector clients.
The case provides an example of the effective development of a sponsorship network for securing buy-in for a new venture and illustrates the challenges of deciding how far a new venture should be separated from or integrated with the main business of the firm.
In 2012, it was Novo Nordisk: Managing Sustainability at Home and Abroad, by EM Lyon Business School in France.
This case was written to help students develop skills in analyzing the potential strategic purposes of sustainability when applied to a global business context. The case focuses both on internal organization issues in a multinational organization, as well as on how to develop a sustainability strategy in a highly competitive business context in China.
You can consult the full list of winners for all 14 categories is on the EFMD website, as well as details for the EFMD Case Writing Competition in general.


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Windows Phone is getting an all-new notification center and personal assistant (codenamed 'Cortana') in its 8.1 update, and a freshly leaked PowerPoint slide offers a glimpse of how it is going to look. First leaked by Winphollowers and verified as genuine by the Verge, the grabs show how notifications and settings will appear.
The "Action Center", as Microsoft is calling it, appears when you swipe down from the top of the screen: here you'll be able to adjust Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and other important system settings. Pull down further to see all of your updates, sorted by app — from here they can be launched or dismissed as required.
"Apps can intelligently manage notifications," says the leaked slide, which presumably means they have the power to delete a notification before you read it if it's no longer relevant. The presentation also reveals that the Windows Phone 8.1 update will be called Windows Phone Blue.
As for the Cortana personal assistant, we know that this will be Microsoft's answer to Siri and Google Now: using data pulled in from Foursquare, Bing and Outlook you'll be able to manage your life from your Windows Phone device. After hitting the mobile platform, it could expand to the Xbox One, Windows computers and even the iPhone.
Will these significant usability upgrades be enough to make a bigger dent in the market share of Android and iOS? Or is Windows Phone 8.1 destined to get the same lukewarm reception as Windows 8.1? We'll have to wait and see: the OS is expected to be unveiled in April.


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When Cale Yarborough dubbed Darrell Waltrip ''Jaws,'' it certainly was not meant as a compliment.
Yarborough, who often battled bumper-to-bumper with Waltrip on the racetrack and jaw-to-jaw off it, liked to say: ''That guy just never shuts up.''
Waltrip, who often refers to himself as ''Old DW,'' chuckles when reminded of those long-ago run-ins with his fellow three-time NASCAR champion, and his reputation as one of the most outspoken drivers in the sport's history.
''It's funny if you think about it,'' Waltrip said. ''Now I make a pretty decent living talking.''
That he does.
Waltrip, who retired from NASCAR's top stock car series following the 2000 season, is a color analyst on Fox Sports TV's coverage of Nextel Cup racing.
Combined with the latest in high-tech electronics and cutting-edge graphics, Fox commentators' ''down home'' style of humor and their relaxed approach in the booth they often sound like race fans sitting and jawing about their favorite sport in a sports bar has reinvented TV race coverage.
Waltrip, who went from a hated villain in his early driving days to a revered elder statesman before he retired, has been a big part of that.
His inventive ''Boogity, boogity, boogity!'' shouted as the field takes the green flag for the start of the race has become a signature line.
''I heard the word boogity a lot as a kid growing up in Kentucky but, a combination of three of them together, I don't think I'd heard that before,'' Waltrip said. ''That 'Green, green, green! Go, go, go!' didn't do it for me.
''I just blurted that out one day and Mike (Joy) and Larry (McReynolds) both looked at me like, 'Where in the world did you get that from?'
''We at Fox are supposed to be provocative, supposed to be cutting edge, a little different,'' Waltrip added. ''There's people who love 'Boogity, boogity, boogity!' and there's people who hate it. You can't make everybody happy. When you're driving a car, you've got people who like you as a driver and you've got people who dislike you as a driver. I'm accustomed to that.''
Waltrip insists he never expected to remain in the spotlight once he stopped racing on a full-time basis he still races a NASCAR truck once or twice a season.
''You don't usually get a chance to go from one successful career to another successful career,'' he said. ''It's kind of unique. It's not an easy transition.
''The thing about when you drive, you can have a lot of fans. I had 10,000 members in my fan club. That's a big fan club. Now, I've probably got millions of members in my fan club, because that's how many people watch the races.
''I'm not saying everybody agrees with what you do. I'm not competing against anyone, so I am one with an audience of millions. Your face is more recognizable because you're not hiding behind a helmet. People see you on TV and they recognize you.''
Waltrip said one thing he gets a big kick from is that more people now recognize his voice than his face.
''I can be walking around in a mall or in a grocery store or airport or anywhere and people will come over and say, 'I thought that was you. I recognized your voice.'
''It's been rather amazing to me,'' Waltrip said. ''I figured that after I retired, I'd be done and people would forget about Old DW for a while. Then, someday, they'd induct me into a Hall of Fame and remember that I had a great driving career. But the TV thing has actually turned out to be bigger and better than my driving career ever was.''
And, as he expected, Waltrip, tied for third on the career victory list with Bobby Allison with 84 wins one more than Yarborough made it into that Hall of Fame. He was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in Talladega, Ala., on April 29 in his first year of eligibility.
Michael Waltrip, Darrell's younger brother and a current Cup driver, presented Old DW for induction.
''He's a wonderful person, a great role model on and off the track,'' Michael said in introducing Darrell. ''He broke the mold on what a race driver was supposed to be about.''
Now, the elder Waltrip is breaking some ground in TV, too.
''The thing that's so neat about it is I'm having more fun now than I've had in my life,'' Old DW said. ''Whenever I start thinking about what's coming next, I just think, 'Boogity, boogity, boogity! Let's do it.'''
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We are situated on an herb farm in Longmont Colorado where we also create the Colorado Aromatics brand of skin care products. We love natural products and think herbs and botanicals have an inherent beauty that is well suited for their use in cosmetic products.


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Preston man arrested after fight
Preston — A Preston man was arrested Tuesday after state police said he was involved in an argument and physical altercation in a local home.
Peter James Contino, 59, of 8 Holdsworth Road was charged with first-degree assault, third-degree assault and first-degree reckless endangerment.
Police said they responded to a Preston home about 1:20 a.m. for a report of a disturbance in which two people sustained minor injuries. Police arrested Contino, who was held in lieu of a $25,000 bond pending his arraignment Tuesday in Norwich Superior Court.


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- Laker legend 'Magic' Johnson, who was singled out by Sterling in some of the audio, took to Twitter to express his support to Silver. Shaquille O'Neal, Lebron James and others expressed similar support.
- Former and current NBA players are very happy and satisfied with Commissioner Silver's ruling.
//twitter.com/MagicJohnson/status/461211589463769088— Earvin Magic Johnson (@MagicJohnson)Tue, Apr 29 2014 18:33:06
- Current and former NBA players now know that in Commissioner Adam Silver we have a great leader leading our league.
//twitter.com/MagicJohnson/status/461213250903105536— Earvin Magic Johnson (@MagicJohnson)Tue, Apr 29 2014 18:39:42
//twitter.com/SHAQ/status/461213199539638272— SHAQ (@SHAQ)Tue, Apr 29 2014 18:39:30
- Commissioner Silver thank you for protecting our beautiful and powerful league!! Great leader!! #BiggerThanBasketball #StriveForGreatness
//twitter.com/KingJames/status/461214230545715200— LeBron James (@KingJames)Tue, Apr 29 2014 18:43:36
- 'Standing ovation' for Commissioner Silver. Big time decision standing up for the league and it's players. Now, Gotta see it through
//twitter.com/StephenCurry30/status/461213767880028161— Stephen Curry (@StephenCurry30)Tue, Apr 29 2014 18:41:45
- Strong leadership from Commissioner Silver! He has my full support.
//twitter.com/DavidtheAdmiral/status/461213828802289664— David Robinson (@DavidtheAdmiral)Tue, Apr 29 2014 18:42:00
- Commissioner Silver, FANTASTIC!!! New Sheriff lays down the law, kudos... Honest n precise.. #BANNEDForLife
//twitter.com/ReggieMillerTNT/status/461213019653955584— Reggie Miller (@ReggieMillerTNT)Tue, Apr 29 2014 18:38:47
- Very proud of commissioner Silver for his leadership. Well done Adam!
//twitter.com/realgranthill33/status/461211632916770816— grant hill (@realgranthill33)Tue, Apr 29 2014 18:33:16
- Watching Adam Silver's Press Conference! Appreciate you man! #LAfamilia #greatjob #support
//twitter.com/Jmeeks20/status/461208361619718144— Jodie Meeks (@Jmeeks20)Tue, Apr 29 2014 18:20:16
- For life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
//twitter.com/Jarrettjack03/status/461209427883081729— JARRETT JACK (@Jarrettjack03)Tue, Apr 29 2014 18:24:31
- Standing for Something. Everyone is United. No One Man can Destroy the Legacy of the @NBA #Salute #AdamSilver #DecisionMaker
//twitter.com/GotGomes/status/461213199187324928— Ryan Gomes (@GotGomes)Tue, Apr 29 2014 18:39:30
- Thank You Mr. Silver!!!
//twitter.com/T_HardJR/status/461213501227565056— Tim Hardaway Jr (@T_HardJR)Tue, Apr 29 2014 18:40:42
- There was no other solution! Adam Silver & the owners have made the right decision. #nba
//twitter.com/James_Worthy42/status/461218317231853568— James Worthy (@James_Worthy42)Tue, Apr 29 2014 18:59:50
- Excellent leadership by Adam Silver today! Thank you for taking these steps to force the sale of clippers ! #NBA
//twitter.com/madsen_mark/status/461212727151558656— Mark Madsen (@madsen_mark)Tue, Apr 29 2014 18:37:37
- So proud to be a part of a business that stands up for what is right. Big day for the NBA. Thanks Commissioner Silver!
//twitter.com/ryananderson33/status/461217275735863296— Ryan Anderson (@ryananderson33)Tue, Apr 29 2014 18:55:42
http://twitter.com/josemcalderon8/status/461218471930368002— jose manuel calderon (@josemcalderon8)Tue, Apr 29 2014 19:00:27
Current, former NBA players react to Donald Sterling's lifetime ban
'Magic' Johnson, Shaq and other current and former NBA players watched the press conference by commissioner Adam Silver where he announced Clippers' owner Donald Sterling was banned for life from the NBA following the release of audio tapes where Sterling allegedly made racist comments.
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New eBook - Lasting Health & Fitness, Made Simple This is Laguna Health's latest eBook: "How to achieve lasting health & fitness, made simple! In this no-nonsense guide to getting fit, I will cut through some of the confusing contradictions found in the media, dispel some common misconceptions about weight loss and lay down the top 3 changes you need to make to get fit and stay fit. I understand that everyday life is unpredictable and that those with young children or demanding careers may always struggle to find adequate time to focus on proper health and fitness. However, whatever your life challenges may be, this simple guide will get you moving in the right direction and improve your overall attitude towards getting fit and staying fit.
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I'm working on a simple website for a friend. Its based on Twenty Ten theme and I've bought the Custom CSS upgrade and did some minor tweaks (I'm very new to CSS).
I have set a custom header size in the Custom CSS (to 940x400px) and when I set a featured image on one of the pages the image gets the wrong proportions. I have all the images in the right size to start with (940x400px).
I've tried to change the default image width in the Custom CSS page to 940px instead of the default 640px but it does not solve the issue
Is there a way to fix this with only the Custom CSS upgrade? In that case how?
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Historical Document 8
National Register of Historic Places
Nomination Documents
Listing Date: July 28, 1998
The Embassy Theatre, built in 1927, is significant under criterion "A" for entertainment/recreational significance to the history of Mifflin County and under criterion "C'" as an outstanding surviving example of a Georgian Revival motion picture vaudeville theatre of the "golden era" of movie palaces of the 1920's. The Embassy's design was inspired by contemporary theatres in New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Chicago. This theatre constitutes an example of metropolitan theatres architecture in a small town setting. The Embassy was one of three theatres operating in Lewistown during its period of significance from 1927 to 1946, and in comparison was high in both its architecture and entertainment significance. The Embassy was the cultural center of the community for many years, bringing the finest in films, stage acts, film stars, bands, and local talent to the residents Of Mifflin County. The theatre was built for Harold and Hyman Cohen, and operated by them through its period of significance. It was designed by Albert Douglas Hill, a partner in the successful firm of Hodgens and Hill of Philadelphia. Hill was a noted theatre architect, but not famous like so many others. In the 2-volume reference "American Theatres of Today", (Sexton, R. W.ed. 1927, 1930), in volume 2, there is a lengthy article on proper theatre design and a checklist of theatre construction, both authored by Hill. The Embassy is a strong surviving example of his work. The architect incorporated many eclectic elements in a design that was at once fantastic and romantic, yet maintained a feeling of intimacy within the confines of the auditorium. During the 1920's, entertainment venues began to change, as movies were becoming the dominant form of mass entertainment. Whereas the two other theaters operated in this time began life as nickelodeon/vaudeville houses, the Embassy was the first theatre in the county designed primarily for the showing of motion pictures. It was also the first local theatre to install permanent equipment for showing sound films.


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Shin Se Kyung feels betrayed by Yoo Ah In?: "Have fun with SNSD's Yuri"
Recently, Yoo Ah In and Shin Se Kyung, main cast members of SBS's ongoing drama series Fashion King (written by Lee Sun Mi and Kim Gi Ho, directed by Lee Myung Woo) proved their close relationship.
The two actors are currently spending busy days shooting the series, but despite that, they seem to be having fun working in a harmonious atmosphere judging from something that happened recently.
The picture bears Shin's autograph for Yoo. It all began during an interview of SBS's Bae Gi Wan, Choi Young Ah, Jo Hyung Ki's Good Morning. When the cast of the series was asked whom they wanted to go on a spring picnic with, Shin answered, "I want to go with Ah In oppa because he seems honest and warm," but Yoo wittily answered Yuri.
On hearing this, Shin felt betrayed and left an autograph for him. In the picture above, you can see that Shin has written a short message to Yoo along with her autograph. She wrote, "Have fun on the spring picnic with Yuri unnie."
When Yoo received the letter, he wrote her back right away. He teased, "Hey Se Kyung! Aren't you nervous about your upcoming kissing scene?"
Yoo's agency, Star K Entertainment, says, "Because of hectic schedule, the cast are having a hard time, but they have built strong relationships with each other. They are shooting in a friendly atmosphere. Hope you guys stay tuned till the end of the series.
Awwn…witty couple! I love them!
source: Korea.com and TVreport


text: Where did the rest of this discussion come from? I can't find it here on debian-devel, but I assume it has something to the patch that I posted to debian-devel, and later to debian-dpkg at http://lists.debian.org/debian-dpkg/2006/01/msg00045.html Nathanael Nerode wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote: > >>>Which would be totally pointless until dpkg itself is fixed to give >>>packagers an alternative to ${Source-Version}. >> > Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > >>I thought we had a fix-strategy in place for addressing these cases. >>I'm sorry if we don't; then of course this strategy doesn't work. :( > > > I *wrote* one, but then they went and changed the binNMU version numbering. > > This *cannot* be done without a consistent numbering scheme for binNMUs which > we can rely on. Given that the numbering scheme was changed silently at a > random time for no apparent reason, I don't know if I can rely on this > numbering scheme being retained. You put way too much premium on the idea that some detail this small should be permenant. It's a very simple patch that can easily be changed if necessary, and a dpkg-dev change can easily be synchronized with a bin-NMU change. > It appears that nothing prohibits a "b????" suffix in a regular source NMU, or > indeed in a regular maintainer upload, for native packages or non-native > packages, so I believe binNMUs can be automatically detected any more. What prohibited -3.0.1 numbers from occurring in such uploads before? It was just a matter of convention (codified in documentation), no? If your package is using +bN numbers for something else, you can continue to use the old Source-Version variable which has not changed, and things will work no worse than they did before. > There's also no documentation of this numbering scheme: does it differ when > applied to a {native, non-native} package? A {maintainer upload, NMU}? > So actually I can't write a fix, period. How did bin-NMU numbers work for the old numbering scheme on native packages? > Furthermore (sigh) the developer's reference still advises the old numbering > scheme for binNMUs, so we can expect to see it for manual binNMUs for a good > while yet. So any routine will have to handle *both*. Let's patch that and solve that problem. (I'll try to do that within the next couple days, although I should probably be overruled by someone who knows a little bit more about it than I do.) > So the silent and unmotivated changes made to binNMU version numbering have > *prevented* this from being fixed. Good example of how not to do things. After pursuing some of the previous posts on the issue before posting my patch, I discovered that there was concern that it would be more difficult to write the proper patch for the old binNMU format, specifically knowing to convert -3.0.1 to -3 but -3.1.1 to -3.1, and other things like -3.sarge1.1 or somesuch. It was my impression that this change to +b1 numbers was designed to make this patch easier to implement. Of course, I wasn't involved in any of the discussions, so I don't know for sure. > I await advice on how to fix this problem now that we are stuck with this > random, unmotivated, undocumented, likely-to-break-things change. Oh, and > I'd like the head of whoever changed it while I'm at it. :-) Yes, it would have been nice to have been told. Actually, we were told on debain-devel-announce. Writing patches is not hard. I'm not complaining. If a change comes along, we'll write a new patch. What's to worry about? --Ken Bloom -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures.


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Nirvana Frontman Kurt Cobain Would Have Been 50 Years Old Today
In April of 1994, Nirvana frontman and grunge pioneer Kurt Cobain died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was 27 at his time of death. And though few things are as inexorable as time's passing, it's remarkable to think that today he would have celebrated his 50th birthday.


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Champ Kart Onboard 12/31/12 - Providence / Heat Race [02:28]
Onboard footage of the Champ Kart Heat Race from the Dunkin' Donuts Center in Rhode Island. Tonight on New Year's Eve is the 5th Annual Coffee Cup and Race #2 of the Fatheadz Eyewear Indoor Karting Series. I qualified outside of the Top 10, which meant that I had to race in one of the two Heat Races. I raced in the first Heat Race. I started 3rd and I had to finish 4th or higher to lock in to the Feature Race. I had a great run going and was hanging around in the Top 4 for most of the race. I fell back to 5th at one point, but was able to get around Nick in the #41 kart and move into 4th. On the last lap, the leaders tangle on the front stretch and I almost would have finished 2nd from all of the leaders being tangled up. In the end, I finished 3rd and got into the Feature Race. DJ Shaw in the #60 kart was declared the winner, even though he was in the wreck.
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Bananas In Pyjamas - The Music Box
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The Bananas explore their town of Cuddlestown with their best friends Rat In A Hat and teddies - Lulu, Morgan and Amy.
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Manchester City snapped a three-match losing streak with a 2-0 win over West Bromwich Albion, delighting manager Roberto Mancini.
City scored twice in the first half through Mario Balorelli, who was later sent off, and the win allowed them to remain fourth and stay in touch with league leaders Chelsea who lost at Liverpool.
"We played a fantastic game - we played football very well, all the team," Mancini said.
"We scored two goals and we could have scored another two. For us, Carlos is very important up front. I am very happy with the result."
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text: Jens Axboe wrote:> On Thu, Jan 27 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote:> >>Doug Maxey wrote:>>>>>On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 13:02:48 +0100, Jens Axboe wrote:>>>>>>>>>>Hi,>>>>>>>>For the longest time, only the old PATA drivers supported barrier writes>>>>with journalled file systems. This patch adds support for the same type>>>>of cache flushing barriers that PATA uses for SCSI, to be utilized with>>>>libata. >>>>>>>>>What, if any mechanism supports changing the underlying write cache? >>>>>>That is, assuming this is common across PATA and SCSI drives, and it is >>>possible to turn the cache off on the IDE drives, would switching the >>>cache underneath require completing the inflight IO?>>>>[ignoring your question, but it made me think...]>>>>>>I am thinking the barrier support should know if the write cache is >>disabled (some datacenters do this), and avoid flushing if so?> > > Ehm it does, read the code :)I did. I see nowhere that handles the case where the user uses a util (hdparm or blktool) to switch off write cache after sd.c has probed the disk. sd only sets its WCE bit at probe time, and doesn't appear to notice state changes.Since nobody snoops the MODE SELECT on the caching page, nobody knows past probe the state of write caching.Thus my comment... I think barrier support should know about that sort of thing :) Jeff-To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" inthe body of a message to firstname.lastname@example.com majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlPlease read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/


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February 23, 2012
LinkedIn Acquires Startup Rapportive, Maker Of Social Media Gmail Add-on
Rapportive, a San Francisco-based startup that offers a free, enhanced contact information add-on for Google´s Gmail, has just been acquired by LinkedIn, the two companies confirmed on Wednesday.
"In business, partnership is dating – and we went on a lot of dates with LinkedIn. Slowly, but surely, we fell in love," wrote Rapportive CEO Rahul Vohra in a blog post on Wednesday confirming the acquisition."At LinkedIn, we will support Rapportive, and we will continue to build beautiful products that make you brilliant with people," he wrote.
Rapportive was founded in 2010, and has received funding from Y Combinator and Gmail creator Paul Buchheit. The company´s Gmail add-on displays social media information about a contact when a user sends an email to that person, or hovers their cursor over a contact's name. The display includes the contact´s recent tweets and other relevant information from a Facebook or other social media account, including LinkedIn.
Rapportive says its plugin looks up more than 20 million contacts per month.
Mountain View, CA-based LinkedIn confirmed the purchase in an email from Hani Durzy, the company's director of corporate communications.
"Rapportive does a great job at delivering relevant information in a platform that is universally used by professionals -- email. It's very much in line with LinkedIn's mission to make professionals more productive and successful in their careers," he wrote.
Neither company disclosed the price of the acquisition, but a TechCrunch report earlier this month placed the price at roughly $15 million in cash. A separate report earlier this month from the website All Things D estimated the purchase price in the "low teens" of millions of dollars.
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Associate Chair's Welcome
The Library Science Program has prepared library professionals to serve, lead, and partner in their communities since 1939. Today, our high-tech/high-touch program emphasizes librarianship in combination with new and emerging technologies to provide a Web-based course of study. Our program is especially attuned to the needs of non-traditional students with our all online degree program. The Master of Library Science (MLS) program is a 39-semester hour online degree program designed for students seeking employment as librarians and information professionals in Pre-K-12 schools, universities, community colleges, and public libraries. All students are eligible for North Carolina Public Library Certification upon completion of the MLS degree requirements. The MLS degree program is NCATE/AASL recognized and has achieved candidacy for accreditation by the American Library Association.
Associate Chair
Dr. John Harer
Library Science Associate Chair, July, 2013-present
Dr. John B. Harer joined the faculty of the Department of Library Science at East Carolina University in the Fall of 2004, and earned his tenure and promotion to Associate Professor in the Fall of 2010. His research interests and expertise are in the areas of quality improvement in academic libraries. His PhD is in Educational Administration from Texas A&M University and his dissertation examined Continuous Quality Improvement performance measures for academic libraries using a Delphi panel research method. Dr. Harer has also written extensively on intellectual freedom. He was a member of the American Library Association's Intellectual Freedom Committee and has written three monographs and several articles on intellectual freedom. He also has a passion for storytelling. He created and coordinated the Multicultural Storytelling Project at Texas A&M University while head of education reference at the Sterling C. Evans Library at Texas A&M, College Station. He is an active member of the National Storytelling Network, and presented a program on the Alexander Technique for storytellers at the 2010 National Storytelling Conference. Dr. Harer's teaching focus is in intellectual freedom, storytelling, and research methods, and often teaches the foundations course.
Dr. Harer is a native of Pennsylvania and began his career as a middle school librarian in Williamsport, PA, home of the Little League World series. He earned his Master in Library Science degree at Clarion University of PA (then Clarion State College) in 1978. He also holds a Master in Public Administration from the University of Baltimore. He was a school librarian for the Williamsport Area School district in the late 1970s, and was the librarian for the American International School of Duesseldorf, Germany, from 1979-1980. Once back in the states, Dr. Harer had an extensive career in academic libraries, including positions at Radford University, Towson State University and Texas A&M University. His work experiences have been focused in public services as a reference librarian, circulation and interlibrary loan supervisor, and head of personnel. He was the interim head librarian for the George H. W. Bush School of Government library at Texas A&M University. Dr. Harer came to East Carolina University from Catawba College in Salisbury, NC, where he served as Director of the Library.
Dr. Elaine Yontz
Chair Term January 2010 - April 2012
Dr. Elaine Yontz joined the Department as Professor and Chair in January 2010. She came to ECU from Valdosta State University in Georgia, where she was Professor in the Master of Library and Information Science Program . She has been Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Science, University of South Florida, and prior to that served as Associate Chair for Contributed Cataloging at George Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.
Her experience as an educator includes preparing students for professional positions in all types of libraries and information centers. She holds a PhD in College Teaching from the University of Florida, an ALA-accredited Masters degree from Florida State University, and an MFA in Music History, Literature, and Criticism from the University of Florida.
She has been active in research and scholarly activity since 1990, authoring numerous refereed articles, book chapters, and conference proceedings. Her professional presentations include invited panel appearances at the Library of Congress and on College of DuPage's Soaring to Excellence series. Current projects include an ongoing study that tracks the indexing and abstracting of open-access journals and a monograph in preparation on nineteenth-century children's magazines.
Yontz has held several elected offices and committee appointments in professional organizations at national and state levels; highlights include an appointment to Loriene Roy's ALA Presidential Task Force on Supporting LIS Education Through Practice, and service as chair of the ALISE Research Committee. She also has been active in Florida and Georgia library associations and is a past Chair of the ALCTS-Council of Regional Groups, and past President of the ALA-NMRT.
Dr. Diane Kester – Co-Chair
Co-Chair Term: 2008 – 2009; Chair: 1997 - 2004, August 2009-December 2009
Dr. Diane Davies Kester, a native of Oak Park, Illinois, lived in St. Paul, Minnesota, Devon, Connecticut, and Dallas, Texas, where she graduated from high school. After graduating from Sunset High School, she went on to Texas Woman's University (still TSCW when she enrolled) and majored in library science. Her first position upon graduation in 1959 was as librarian in a junior high school in Big Spring, located in west Texas. It was in Big Spring where she married Dan and began their family of five children.
Dr. Larry Nash White – Co-Chair
Co-Chair Term: 2008-2009 with Dr. Diane Kester
Dr. White is an Assistant Professor, ALA Accreditation Coordinator, and Co-Interim Chair of the Department of Library Science at East Carolina University. Prior to coming to ECU, Dr. White worked as an administrator in retail management and in public, academic and State libraries. He is an internationally invited speaker on library performance, leadership, assessment, and competition for service and consults with libraries and non-profit organizations in the areas of assessment and organizational performance.
Dr. White is widely published in the area of performance assessment, competitive response, intellectual capital assessment, and financial management of libraries. He was named a 2007 "Mover and Shaker" by Library Journal, for his work as an innovator and leader in the library profession. In 2008, Dr. White received three Emerald Illuminati Awards for his research writing exploring organizational assessment and performance. He was a member of the LSIT Podcasting Research Group, which received the 2008 North Carolina Distance Learning Association's Excellence in Distance Learning Teaching Award.
Dr. White's professional interest have led him to be active in international, national and regional professional organizations where he serves in several leadership positions within these organizations. His interest outside of work includes music, genealogy and antiquarian book collecting.
Growing up in the Los Angeles suburbs (actually, Sherman Oaks), William "Bill" Sugar received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Liberal Studies and his Multiple Subjects teaching credential from Sonoma State University. Prior to receiving his Master of Science in Library Science degree from Simmons College, he worked as a film librarian with the American Friends Service Committee in San Francisco. With his library science degree, he has worked in a variety of non-print libraries, such as Simmons College Art library, Polaroid's corporate archives, John F. Kennedy Presidential library, and National Public Radio.
Dr. Plummer Alston "Al" Jones Jr.
Plummer Alston "Al" Jones, Jr. was born in Washington, North Carolina, the son of Plummer Alston Jones, Sr. and Elva Lucille (Pridgen) Wright. In 1970, he received his Bachelor of Music degree in music education from East Carolina University, where he was a member of Phi Kappa Phi, national honor society, and Pi Kappa Lambda, national honor society in music. From 1970 to 1974, he taught strings and string orchestra in the Norfolk (VA) City Schools. He attended Drexel University from 1974 to 1976, receiving his Master of Science degree in library science in 1977, when he was elected to membership in Beta Phi Mu, national honor society in library science.
From 1976 to 1982, he was head librarian at North Carolina Wesleyan College. From 1982 to 1994, he was head librarian at Elon College (now University). While working there, he received his Ph.D. in Information and Library Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1991. In 1993, he received the first biennial Phyllis Dain Library History Dissertation Award from the ALA Library History Round Table for his dissertation, "American Public Library Services to the Immigrant Community, 1876–1948."
From 1994 to 2001, he was head librarian at Catawba College. While at Catawba College, he taught on a part-time basis for the Department of Library and Information Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. His book, Libraries, Immigrants, and the American Experience, was published in 1999 by Greenwood Press.
Since 2001, he has been associate professor of library science in the Department of Library Science and Instructional Technology in the College of Education at East Carolina University. He was awarded permanent tenure as of fall 2004. His book, Still Struggling for Equality: American Public Library Services with Minorities, was published later in 2004 by Libraries Unlimited. He served as Acting Chair of the department during the academic year 2004-05 and was appointed Permanent Chair as of July 2005.
He is an active member of state and national library associations. From 1990 to 2004, he served on the editorial board of North Carolina Libraries, the journal of the North Carolina Library Association (NCLA). From 2002-04, he served as Editor. For his service as North Carolina Library Association (NCLA) President (1999–2001) and on the State Library Commission (1997–2001), he was made a member of the Order of the Long Leaf Pine by N.C. Governor Michael F. Easley in 2002. For the celebration of the NCLA Centennial, he compiled the North Carolina Library Association Centennial Handbook, 1904-2004. From 1999 to 2002, he served on the executive board of the North Carolina Genealogical Society and was editor of its newsletter from 2000 to 2002.
At the national level, he served on the executive boards of the American Library Association (ALA) Library History Round Table and the ALA Ethnic and Multicultural Information Exchange Round Table (EMIERT). He was presented the 2004 David Cohen/EMIERT Multicultural Award for his research and publications on multiculturalism in libraries. In 2005, he was elected EMIERT Chair. He is a member of the Association for Library and Information Science Education.
He is an avid collector of the books of Vita-Sackville West, Victorian Staffordshire figurines, the recorded music of Giacomo Meyerbeer and Camille St. Saens, and autographs of musicians, notably opera singers, and ballet dancers. He is a flutist and oboist and ardent supporter of all of the fine arts.
Dr. Lawrence Auld
Dr. Lawrence Auld is an Associate Professor Emeritus, retired from the School of Communication in the College of Fine Arts and Communication, at East Carolina University. Just before his retirement he served as a full-time advisor, working with students in communication and in elementary and middle-grades education as well as teaching one course per semester. He is also co-director of the Virtual Reality and Education Laboratory and co-editor of the journal VR in the Schools. Dr. Auld's Ph.D. is in Library and Information Studies, with a strong emphasis on visual media. His master's degree is in library service. His publications include numerous journal articles and several books. He eventually taught all of his classes online. Dr. Auld began working with computers in 1962 while he was the Director of Centralized Processing, State Library of Hawaii. He was then involved with library automation projects at Oakland University Library (Rochester, Michigan) and Oregon State University Library. He published two books on library applications of spreadsheets. More recently he has directed his computer interests toward virtual reality. A number of Dr. Auld's publications on the use of virtual reality in education
Emily Stewart Boyce
Growing up on a peanut/cotton farm in Eastern North Carolina, she attended East Carolina University where she received a Bachelor degree in library science and history and a Master's degree in counseling. Later, she received the MLS degree from
After retiring in 1992 and moving to the Asheville area, she started a new career as a community volunteer. Emily volunteered in the Foundation office, Mission Hospitals System, served on the Board of Directors of the Botanical Gardens and served as President of the Board of the Mediation Center. She was elected as President of the Board for the YWCA in 1995. In this position she initiated a successful campaign to prevent the YWCA from closing. Emily also served as President of the Board of the Literacy Council and served on the Board of the Asheville Branch, American Association of University Women. On the state level, she was the Governor's appointee as chair of the State Library Commission and Chaired the Library Services & Technology Act Advisory Committee for the State library from 1997-1999.
During her career, Boyce was honored by a number of organizations. In 1998 the North Carolina Association of School Librarians presented her with the Mary Peacock Douglas Award. This award recognizes outstanding efforts in promoting the development of school libraries. In 1992 the NC Community College Learning Resources Association presented her with an Achievement Award as well as life membership in appreciation of outstanding service. The North Carolina Library Association presented her with life membership in appreciation of notable contributions to librarianship at the local, state and national levels (1993). At ECU, she is in the Educators Hall of Fame and received an Outstanding Educators Award (1994) The Baha'is of Asheville honored Emily in 1997 as they presented her with the 17th annual Human Rights Award for the promotion and practice of social progress and protection of basic human rights.
When Boyce retired from East Carolina in 1992, her former students, colleagues and friends established the Emily S. Boyce Fellowship Award, a scholarship in her name. An award from this fund goes each year to a deserving student who is working towards a Master's degree in Information Studies. At the same time the Department and School voted to grant her the title of Professor Emeritus.
Dr. Gene Lanier
Since 1980 Dr. Gene D. Lanier has made over 75 speeches and presentations on intellectual freedom to civic and professional groups. He has also testified in Senate and House Committees of the North Carolina General Assembly regarding legislation affecting libraries and intellectual freedom.


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Planning Division
Our Mission
The Planning Division provides policy recommendations regarding the long-term growth of the community and guides development and mobility through administration of the City's plans and codes. We are committed to proactive, community-based planning, and to a livable, sustainable community.
Our mission is to provide education, information, recommendation, and leadership to residents, businesses, and decision-makers so that Burbank can sustain a high quality of life characterized by choices in housing and transportation, efficient use of public infrastructure, distinctive community character, and active public participation.
|Click here to learn more about pending Planning permit applications in Burbank
Temporary building and planning permits for Natural Disaster/ Emergency Preparedness
|Request for Proposals (RFP) for Historic Services
|Accessory Dwelling Units (ADU) Interim Ordinance - Ordinance effective on April 25, 2017
|Burbank 2017 Wastewater Change Petition Initial Study/Negative Declaration
|Burbank Neighborhood Design - Ordinance effective on Feb. 23, 2017
|Burbank Airport Replacement Terminal
|Proposed "Avion" Office/Industrial Project
|Burbank Town Center
|Proposed "The Premier on First" Mixed Use Project in downtown Burbank
|Mixed Use Project located at 115 N. Screenland Drive in the Media District
Proposed "First Street Village" Mixed Use Project in downtown Burbank
|Mixed Use Development Standards
|Golden State Specific Plan and High Speed Rail Station Plan
|Proposed Hotel at 550 N. Third Street
|Proposed Airport Hotels at 2500 N. Hollywood Way
|The General Plan: Burbank2035
|California High Speed Rail Project