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Thank you, Vice President Conley. It is my honor and privilege to formally accept the Class of 2016 into Bucknell University.
To each new student, on behalf of my faculty colleagues, administrators, and staff members in academic programs and student affairs, welcome to Bucknell. We are delighted you have joined us.
Tonight I want to talk with you about a simple topic. I call it Preparing for the Whitewater of Life: Bucknell & You.
My mother-in-law is almost 95 years old. When she was turning 75, we asked what she wanted for her birthday. "I want to go whitewater rafting," she quickly answered. And that's how I started whitewater rafting.
If you've ever gone kayaking or whitewater rafting, you know there are several steps to success. You don't just hop in and go. First, you get a dry bag- a bag to keep the things that are essential dry while you go through rapids and streams. Secondly, you decide who will be in your boat, and what roles they will play. Some might be really well suited for power paddling up front; others will excel at reading the rapids and the streams; others might prefer to follow directions. Finally, you practice basic skills - getting in and out of the kayak or canoe; how to turn; how to stop; what to do when (not if!) you fall in. After all of this preparation, you are ready for both the calm and the rapids of the river.
In many ways, coming to college is like preparing for whitewater rafting - only here you are preparing for the whitewater of life. Over the next four years, you will be deciding what is essential to you, what belongs in your dry bag for life: What are your core beliefs and what are your personal, non-negotiable priorities?
You will also be deciding whom you want in your boat for the journey. In this chapel tonight are people who will become some of your best friends in your life; for some, your future spouse is among that group! You may not have met them yet, but get ready to make life-long friends.
You are also entering a community that will help you practice the skills you will need for the journey of life: thinking critically; learning how to express yourself in writing and orally; learning to work in teams and get the best out of each member; learning from failures and getting back in the boat when (not if) you make mistakes.
YOU: You are at a unique time in your lives in a unique setting. Why unique time? As I thought about this evening's session, I was reminded of that familiar quote from Mark Twain: "When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years." It turns out that Twain's instincts were right on the mark: You are in the midst of a period of great growth and development. For example, recent research in neuroscience has documented that the phrase young adults really is appropriate: The adolescent brain is still undergoing significant development until the mid 20s. That's the good news. The bad news is that the development is uneven: The areas related to risk taking are well developed by age 17 or 18, while the areas related to control and problem solving develop more slowly.
What this means is that the context you're in over the next few years matters a lot.
Here's where the unique setting - a liberal arts university - matters. This is a place where faculty, staff, administrators, alumni and parents are dedicated to single purpose: educating you! In Bertrand library, there is a quote from John Zeller, a beloved alumnus and administrator at Bucknell: "We are all teachers here." What John meant was that our entire community is here to help you learn and prepare for the whitewater of life.
We have put in place everything you will need to succeed at Bucknell: from small classes (like your Foundation seminars or Engineering 100 sections) and close contact with your faculty to great RAs, Orientation Leaders and Assistants, to clubs, sports and other co-curricular activities.
We know that one of the best predictors of success in college is getting involved—in the classroom and on the broader campus, and we know that you will take advantage of the great opportunities available. In short, we know that you will come to be important members of the Bucknell community.
Before you know it, we will have finished four years and we will be meeting again at commencement! But instead of worrying about how to meet people and how to find your way, you will be leaving with a network of Bucknell friends of all ages, ready for the smooth water and the whitewater of life.
So, class of 2016, Congratulations and welcome to Bucknell.
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Apologies to my eighth-grade arithmetic teacher, whom I incorrectly told, "I'm never going to use this math in the real world!"
Apologies to my eighth-grade arithmetic teacher, whom I incorrectly told, "I'm never going to use this math in the real world!"
Here are some random statistics for number crunchers to count on, from around Pike County.
165 feet — Raymondskill Falls is the tallest waterfall in Pennsylvania. Dingmans Falls, at 130 feet, is the second tallest waterfall in the state. Both are located in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area.
330 feet — The closest you can get to an eagle's nest, according to federal guidelines, says Alex Stout, park operations manager at Promised Land State Park. A pair of bald eagles has been nesting on Lower Lake in the park since 1999. The pair produces an average of one eaglet a year. A buoy line in water and postings in trees behind the nest keep visitors away. The nest can be seen with a spotting scope from an observation station on Bear Wallow Road. The young eaglets have already started to fly, but the parents are still feeding them. The eagles can be seen fishing on the lake.
2,000 seats — They ordered extra chairs at Malibu Dude Ranch in Milford for Vetstock, a fundraiser rodeo starting at 7 p.m. today. Proceeds go to provide an accessible home for wounded Marine Cpl. David Noblit of Selinsgrove, his wife and their young son.
5,000-plus — Customers this week, as of Friday, at Keystone Fireworks in Matamoras, according to owner Brian Shaub. Fireworks sales are expected to remain strong through the weekend Shaub said.
56,899 — Estimated 2012 population in Pike County, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
1,679,616 — Combinations of ways to spend the day at Woodloch Pines Resort, if you had the time to combine all the activities, such as the scavenger hunt or Amazing Race, with amenities like go carts, zip line, pool and arts and crafts room.
300-gazillion — How many times my dog has barked at firecrackers this week.


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Q: I don't know whether to invest my Roth IRA with a load fund company or with a no-load option. What are the pros and cons?
Lenexa, KS
A: A "load" is simply a commission you pay to a broker or financial advisor for helping you buy a mutual fund.
The most common type of load is a front-end load—it's called that because you pay it up front. It often ranges from about 3% to 6% of contributions. So if you invest, say, $5,000 into a fund with a 5% front-end load, $4,750 would go into the fund, and $250 would be paid to the broker.
You typically pay the load every time you buy shares in the fund.
No-load funds don't charge this fee. Here, there's either no advisor involved—or the advisor is getting paid another way, maybe by a fee that you've arranged separately.
All mutual funds, regardless of load, also charge an expense ratio: a yearly fee you pay the mutual fund company for running the fund.
Should you pay a load? Great funds (and lousy ones) exist in both categories. If you value the advice you're receiving, then paying a load may be worth it. Otherwise, you should probably stick with no-load funds, for the simple reason that any fee eats into your overall returns.


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'''Hi All.'''
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I currently manage an email list with over participants who have shown some interest in '''Information Advocacy'''.
See the email list on the Web here: [http://listsrv.ntronline.org/mailman/listinfo/infoadvocates InfoAdvocates Email List]
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=== The Notebook ===
=== The Notebook ===
Revision as of 07:03, 21 February 2012
- 1 Invitation
- 2 The Notebook
- 3 Information Advocates Byline
- 4 Definitions
- 5 Background
- 6 Network Theory
- 7 Alternative Currencies
- 8 Resources Exchanges
- 9 Qualities of An Information Advocate
- 10 Bibliography
Hi All.
I am looking for people who would like to join me in studying the role that Information Advocates might play in neighborhoods, community centers and churches. This role might include ordinary neighborhood news, but in addition, it might also work on a personal, one-on-one "real needs" counseling and "match making" level to help people find the social supports and material connections needed to make their everyday living work more smoothly. Please write back if you'd like to learn more...
I currently manage an email list with over 60 participants who have shown some interest in Information Advocacy.
See the email list on the Web here: InfoAdvocates Email List
Stan <email@example.com>
The Notebook
This page and the associated links and materials are available as a method for collecting resources that Information Advocates might use in the course of their work. This notebook can also serve as an outline for the further study towards the design and implementation of a network of Information Advocates. The network will need communication tools of its own to compliment existing information resources on the Internet and in existing institutions around the city. Interested people can help by considering how we can assemble a white paper on the effect a network of Information Advocates might have on the social and economic life of the city.
Information Advocates Byline
A network of dedicated matchmakers intelligently connecting resources to requests.
Information Advocate
A person who helps their neighbors, community members, or any other group of people learn about the resources, skills and needs of other members of the community and the world. They provide access to social supports and help the community to build social capital by listening to their constituents and converting what they learn into information that can be shared in ways that are appropriate to each person's needs. They help people to conduct research and teach people how to use information and communication tools. Their importance lies in the fact that they are a person who is available to be helpful in using modern technology and knowing who does what in the community.
Social Support is defined as "help in difficult life situations"
Social support is a concept that is generally understood in an intuitive sense, as the help from other people in a difficult life situation. One of the first definitions was put forward by Cobb (Cobb, 1976). He defined social support as 'the individual belief that one is cared for and loved, esteemed and valued, and belongs to a network of communication and mutual obligations'. In the MINDFUL project social support is defined as 'the perceived availability of people whom the individual trusts and who make one feel cared for and valued as a person' (MINDFUL, 2008).
The above definition is continued here: http://www.euphix.org/object_document/o5479n27411.html
Social Capital
... the central thesis of social capital theory is that 'relationships matter'. The central idea is that 'social networks are a valuable asset'. Interaction enables people to build communities, to commit themselves to each other, and to knit the social fabric. A sense of belonging and the concrete experience of social networks (and the relationships of trust and tolerance that can be involved) can, it is argued, bring great benefits to people.
Trust between individuals thus becomes trust between strangers and trust of a broad fabric of social institutions; ultimately, it becomes a shared set of values, virtues, and expectations within society as a whole. Without this interaction, on the other hand, trust decays; at a certain point, this decay begins to manifest itself in serious social problems… The concept of social capital contends that building or rebuilding community and trust requires face-to-face encounters. (Beem 1999: 20)
The above discussion is taken from this page: http://www.infed.org/biblio/social_capital.htm
Everything for Everybody
The blog post about the Temple U meeting last Spring.
I met Jack Scully in 1970. I ran the Everything for Everybody shop on South Street in Philly from June of 1970 to June of 1971. The following year we called ourselves the "Information Store Collective." Alec Claton's experience as revealed in the essay below, happened between three and six years later. Stan 19:06, 19 August 2011 (EDT)
Alec Claton's article about his experience with Everything for Everybody in New York.
Civic Consciousness: Increasing Self-Sufficiency in the Complex Adaptive City
Jennifer Pahlka believes that the value of a city reaches far beyond its borders. (video)
- Augmented social complexity
- Consciously increasing the complexity of social consciousness.
- Increasing self-sufficiency in the complex adaptive city
Network Theory
- Mark Granovetter's "Strength of Weak Ties" paper (1973)
- The International Network for Social Network Analysis (website)
Alternative Currencies
Timebanks are systems that allow people to obtain & offer services without using cash. Learn more about them at the links below. These services offer the ability to keep track of the value of the services that are exchanged.
Hometown Money: How to Enrich Your Community with Local Currency
Jem Bendell - The Money Myth (video)
overview of information on local currencies
Philadelphia area timebanks are listed here: Is-Timebank
Resources Exchanges
Resource Exchanges provide ways for people to exchange goods or services, but without providing a method for keeping track of the value of the exchange.
See Is-Resource Exchange Network
Qualities of An Information Advocate
Community members may wish to nominate Information Advocates to be their representative in a regional (city wide) advocate network. Nominations might take the form of a nominating survey style document that will ask the nominators to rate the nominee's virtues. The virtues that an advocate should possess might include:
- Honesty
- Reliability
- Clarity
- Sincerity
- Discression
- Graciousness
- Knowledgeable
- Values
- The Challenge of the Resource Exchange Network - Seymour B. Sarason & Elizabeth Lorentz (Jossey-Bass, 1979)
- The Future of Money - Creating New Wealth, Work and a Wiser World - Bernard Lietaer (Random House, 1988)
- Complexity - The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos - M. Mitchell Waldrop (Simon & Schuster, 1992)
- Arcicle: Vision of a Neighborhood Office


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News Feature
Originally published in Castine Patriot, September 27, 2012
Land use changes rolled back by Castine zoning subcommittee before second public hearing
The zoning subcommittee has used community input to fine-tune revisions that will fulfill the Comprehensive Plan directives—as they are tasked with—and satisfy voter concerns. The revised ordinances will be voted on at the November 6 general election. Above, from left, are subcommittee members Tom Comocciotto and Chairman Bob Friedlander, zoning consultant Rich Rothe, and members Lynn Parsons, Liz Parish and Scott Vogell at a March 26 public hearing.
by Anne Berleant
Members of the Comprehensive Plan Implementation Committee's subcommittee on zoning called an "emergency" meeting on Monday, September 24, to consider input from a public hearing held four days earlier. At that September 20 hearing, a vocal core of mostly off-neck residents expressed strong disapproval of proposed land use changes in the Rural Zone.
A second hearing held by town selectmen, aimed specifically at those proposed changes, will be held on Thursday, September 27.
Questions as to the success of the ordinances, "particularly the zoning ordinance, particularly Article 5, Land Use Table," were behind the last-minute meeting, said Subcommittee Chairman Bob Friedlander.
The CPIC was appointed by selectmen to put into action the recommendations of the Comprehensive Plan approved by voters in 2010. The zoning subcommittee works under the auspices of the CPIC and has spent over a year revising the zoning and subdivision ordinances to simplify building permit processes, spur economic growth, especially off neck, and provide for affordable housing.
While Friedlander said he felt "really strongly we have presented the town with a worthy document that is going to benefit the town," he put forth two suggestions: to have the public vote separately on each article of the zoning ordinance, or hold Article 5, Land Use Table, "in abeyance" for the scheduled November 6 vote and "bring it up for some future vote."
Neither suggestion held sway with the committee members.
"Look at the [articles] that are in issue," said member Scott Vogell. "Ninety percent are spot on, five percent questionable and five percent should be killed. We need to find that five percent."
That "five percent" was allowing auto service stations and repair garages, inns and hotels, and restaurants and takeaway food establishments in zones outside the commercial district and market and retail sales in all village districts, all of which are now rescinded from the proposed ordinance.
In addition, the required buffer zone is now a strict 500 feet, not "up to 500 feet," in the Rural Zone for commercial structures or uses, cluster developments, commercial vessel or marine equipment storage facilities and market and retail sales. Research and development has been specified as a commercial use, and a new farmers' market use in Village I will allow the ongoing Thursday market to continue.
"I feel it would be foolish for everything to go down on a couple of issues," said member Tom Comicciotto, regarding the rescinded use proposals.
The subcommittee left the proposed multi-family dwelling use in all districts, with planning board approval, relying on the definition of "family" to prevent the conversion to apartment housing for MMA students. In addition, the 150-percent lot size requirement for each added dwelling unit limits the potential of multifamily uses in village zones to a few buildings.
In the rural zone, the lot size requirement is 100 percent, or two acres, for each additional unit. Between lot size, setback and buffer requirements and the disallowance of wetlands in lot size calculations, the potential for multifamily structures are also limited, although not as severely.
"We're trying to get this thing passed," said Friedlander. "If this is going to be a nail in the coffin…"
"Clearly explain it," advised CPIC Chairman Sue Macdonald.
The selectmen's hearing on the proposed land use changes will be held on September 27, 5 p.m., at Emerson Hall. Immediately following that meeting, planning board members will vote to recommend to the selectmen, or not, the proposed zoning ordinance. (Selectmen are not required by law to follow a planning board's recommendation.) A draft of the ordinance with the proposed changes noted has been reposted at castine.me.us, along with the final revised version.


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Advocates for and against same-sex marriage will make legal arguments to the Supreme Court this week about whether laws such as the federal Defense of Marriage Act and California's Proposition 8 run afoul of the Constitution.
Meanwhile, in medical literature, doctors, psychologists, sociologists and other researchers have been making the case that allowing gays and lesbians to marry results in tangible health benefits for the couples involved, their children and even taxpayers as a whole.
Plenty of studies have established that marriage is good for the physical and mental well-being of heterosexual couples. So far, the evidence indicates that the same is true for the nation's estimated 646,000 same-sex couples.
FULL COVERAGE: The battle over gay marriage
* Same-sex couples that lived together but were not able to marry were more likely to rate their health as "poor" or "fair" (as opposed to "excellent," "very good" or "good") than married heterosexual couples, according to a study published online last month by the Journal of Health and Social Behavior. They were also less likely to have health insurance. The study was based on data from 12 years' worth of surveys conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics.


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Mary Benke mixes blue paint in a square storage container to touch up the sky in her heart-shaped scene of elk, mountains and aspen branches.
Meanwhile, Merrilee Cleveland notches short metal bars with a round saw and adjusts the position of a stylized bronze-cast figure leaping through the center of the fiberglass heart.
This is heart number 22 and part of Engaging Loveland's City with HeART Art project. It will be unveiled at about 7:15 p.m. Friday, Oct. 12, during Night on the Town
Benke and Cleveland have worked together since January to design the Loveland heart that will be placed in front of Mueller & Associates at 762 W. Eisenhower Blvd.
What: 22nd Heart, "Lover's Leap," will be unveiled
When: About 7:15 Friday during Night on the Town
Where: In front of Jade Windell's temporary studio at 225 E. Fourth St.
More info: Sponsored by Teresa and Paul Mueller, and designed by Mary Benke and Merilee Cleveland. Another heart, "The Heart of Emerald Glen," was recently unveiled and can be viewed at 2553 Glendale Drive. It was created by Ross Lampshire and sponsored by the homeowners of Emerald Glen.
"We thought, there are all these places around that have hearts and there aren't really any on Eisenhower," Teresa Mueller said. She and her husband Paul are sponsoring the heart. Teresa asked Benke and Cleveland if they would be interested in designing it because she knew of both their work.
"Merrilee's type of sculpture is very different and they're both from Loveland," Mueller said. "They were both honored to do it."
Cleveland's small bronze figures she calls "mercurios" are based off the symbolic Hopi Kachina dolls. She wanted to make the stylized dolls her own, so she designed the small figures with shapes and lines. Its head has a representation of the electron diagram, except there are no electrons. A plump heart rests on its chest and its body is encased in a blue suit.
The sculpture for the heart is the largest mercurio she's done yet, and she hopes to do more.
Benke paints a lot of landscapes and wildlife scenes. She participates in shows and exhibits her work in local galleries.
She used professional-grade acrylic paints and an automotive clear coat over the top to protect the paint from the weather.
"We had some conversations and sketches back and forth about design and talked about the color. It fell together pretty nicely," Cleveland said.
Benke changed up where one of her elk would go because one of the sculpture's feet would be in the way.
"Trying to make it work with the more whimsical guy has been good for me," Benke said.
She added stylistic touches to the paint to match the leaping figure.
The two artists named the artistic heart, "Lover's Leap," after the small mercurio that stood as the inspiration for the larger sculpture.
The heart will be unveiled during Night on the Town and then will be displayed at Cleveland's studio during the Loveland Studio Tour.
Another heart, number 21, was unveiled in late September, called "The Heart of Emerald Glen." It is located across the street from 2553 Glendale Drive and was sponsored by the owners of Emerald Glen.
Jessica Benes can be reached at 669-5050, ext. 530, or firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow her on Twitter: @JessicaBenes.


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The audience at the Mills River Life Enrichment Center loved every minute of the variety show in Mills River one recent spring morning.
MILLS RIVER — An impressive lineup of celebrities took the stage in Mills River one recent spring morning.
Comedians Phyllis Diller, Carol Burnett and Tim Conway performed along with George Burns and Gracie Allen and Lucy and Ricky Ricardo. Singers Roger Miller, Johnny Cash, June Carter, Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn also belted out some of their most famous tunes along with a few lesser known singers and dancers.
Never mind that all of the performers were only impersonators.
The audience at the Mills River Life Enrichment Center loved every minute of the variety show.
"They do this every year. We love it," 60-year-old Libby Johnson of Etowah said as she and her friend, 64-year-old Shirley Tritt of Pisgah Forest, watched the performers.
Johnson and Tritt come to the center at Mills River United Methodist Church nearly every week, along with a few other friends. They say they enjoy visiting together and participating in the center's programs.
"We enjoy everybody," Johnson said.
The church opened the center in its fellowship hall about six years ago as a way to reach senior citizens in Mills River who might need a place to meet friends and have a healthy meal in a Christ-centered environment. The center also provides health screenings and educational programs on healthy aging.
Seniors from Mills River and the surrounding area are welcome to come to the center every Thursday morning for fellowship, fun and a good meal.
About 95 people attend each week, and most are not members of the church, said Ruth Williams, the center's director.
The youngest member of the center is 50, while the oldest is a 93-year-old man who drives himself to the weekly meeting.
Many seniors who come to the center see the time they spend on Thursday mornings as an important part of their lives, Williams said.
"There have been friendships formed and attitudes on life changed," she said. "I have some members who tell the doctor they can't have an appointment on Thursday morning because they have to come to the center."
Alton Allen, a 71-year-old Hendersonville resident, came to the recent variety show at the center with his wife, 71-year-old Carol.
The two sat holding hands while they watched the show.
Allen said he believes visiting with people at the center has been important therapy for his wife, who was recently diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. The center has also given him a place to meet friends he can talk with about his wife's condition.
Allen said it's also nice to have entertainment like the variety show once in a while.
"They put on one at Christmas too that was really something," he said.
Many of the performers in the center's shows are also members of the group. They say they enjoy making their friends smile.
Jerry Poteet, a 68-year-old Mills River resident, sang a few songs in the variety show as Conway Twitty and Roger Miller, among others. He said he performs whenever the center needs help putting on a show because he sees the joy it brings to the audience.
"They are so appreciative of what you are doing," he said. "It's the appreciation of the folks you are singing to and the delight you see on their faces."
Poteet's fellow performer, 66-year-old Lib Owen of Mills River, said she also wants to make her friends in the center happy.
Owen kept the audience in stitches with her Phyllis Diller routine.
"That's what it is all about, the laughter," she said. "We have as much fun as they do, and that is what it is all about. Everybody here is retired. The whole group is a family."
Along with the meals and activities the center provides for seniors, the members also give back to the community and even other countries through a variety of outreach programs.
They collect box tops to help raise money for local schools and collect food for local food pantries and churches. The seniors also provided handmade and collected hats and scarves this year for cancer patients at Duke Medical Center.
They also collected vegetable seeds that will help widows in Romania learn to grow vegetables and have sent candy canes to Romania to help missionaries share the Gospel.
"We try to find things they can embrace that do not cost a lot," Williams said.
The senior center operates on an annual $55,000 Duke Endowment grant, which allows it to provide its activities and weekly meals free to those who come. The center buys the meals from the Cracker Barrel restaurant in town and allows the seniors to make a donation to help offset the cost, if they want.
Paul Thompson, the senior pastor at Mills River United Methodist, said he came up with the idea of a senior center several years ago after noticing that the older members of this church and in the community did not have a place to socialize or have meals together.
He said he wanted the church to organize a center for seniors in the community, whether they attended the Methodist church or not.
"We just wanted to open up in God's love and celebrate what God has done for us," he said.
While he came up with the idea for the senior center, Thompson said its success is due to the hard work of Williams and a team of 26 volunteers who help organize each week's meeting.
"It is very much a Christian atmosphere," he said. "It is very much a Christian loving environment."
The Mills River Life Enrichment Center meets at 9:45 a.m. every Thursday in the fellowship hall at Mills River United Methodist Church on old Turnpike Road.
For more information about the church and the senior center, visit www.millsriverumc.org or call 891-7788 or 808-5581.


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Amend the bill, as and if amended, Part IB, Section 117, GENERAL PROVISIONS, page 530, after line 18, by adding an appropriately numbered new proviso to read:
/ (GP: Aircraft Chartering Services Analysis) The Budget and Control Board is directed to conduct an analysis to determine the costs and benefits of selling the following state-owned aircraft operated by the Division of Aeronautics: Hawker Beechcraft King Air 350 and Hawker Beechcraft King Air C90; and authorizing private chartering services for use by state officials and state agencies to conduct the state's official business. This analysis must be presented to the Governor and General Assembly no later than January 1, 2014. The Governor shall have the authority to sell the state-owned aircraft if the cost-benefit analysis justifies the sale. /
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Original URL: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/23/nikon_price_increase/
Nikon DLSRs to get more expensive - again
Firm announces year's second price increase
Posted in Personal Tech, 23rd February 2009 12:41 GMT
If you're thinking of buying a top-end Nikon camera then you'd be wise to buy before Sunday. The firm has announced it'll put up its UK prices on that day.
The rise – which kicks in on 1 March – will affect the firm's imaging and optics products. Its famous Coolpix compact camera range won't become more expensive this weekend, but only "selected" digital SLRs will be spared the increase.
Nikon said the price rise – which is actually its second such increase this year - is due to "the relative weakness of Sterling and continued strength of the Yen".
A finalised list of prices will be published online on 1 March. ®


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North Carolina's population is spreading like wildfire, and firefighters are feeling the heat. The state was ranked second in the nation for the number wildfires in 2013, and the N.C. Forest Service says the statistics reflect an explosion in population.
North Carolina's population is spreading like wildfire, and firefighters are feeling the heat.
The state was ranked second in the nation for the number wildfires reported in 2013, and the North Carolina Forest Service says the statistics reflect an explosion in population and more and more people making the woodlands their home.
"We have a lot of folks in North Carolina live in what we call the Wildland Urban Interface zone," said NCFS District Forester Greg Smith. The danger zone is where the woodlands meet the urban areas — the picturesque parcels away from the city lights where wildfires grow.
North Carolina reported 3,514 wildland fires last year — an average of nearly 10 a day. The count was eclipsed only by California's 9,907 fires.
But the No. 2 ranking makes the state an unlikely rival of states like Arizona, where 19 firefighters were killed and 129 buildings were destroyed in an 8,400-acre wildfire last summer. Arizona was ranked fifth in the nation, reporting 1,756 wildland fires that scorched more than 105,000 acres, according to the National Interagency Fire Center.
In the dry, heat-scorched west, residents face their biggest threat of fires from Mother Nature. Investigators pinned the Arizona fire on a lightning bolt that struck dry vegetation. A stray wind was left to blame for the sudden spread of fire that consumed the firefighters.
But here in North Carolina, the biggest threat is man.
A smoldering campfire near a Table Rock picnic area was suspected to have caused a wildfire that burned about 2,600 acres in the Linville Gorge last year. No fatalities or destroyed structures were reported.
Crews were still working Friday to extinguish and investigate the cause of a wildfire that erupted near the Harmon Den Campground in Pisgah National Forest on Wednesday. The blaze had grown to 60 acres in size as firefighters worked to contain the fire with man-made firebreaks and back-burning operations.
The U.S. Forest Service said in a release Friday that "no structures are threatened and no injuries are reported."
Although the frequency of fires spur more cautions to residents about fire prevention and safety, rescuers say they have been lucky to contain most of the blazes before they grew out of control.
"Our fires are typically smaller, but it doesn't take a large fire to threaten or even destroy homes," said Henderson County Forest Ranger Lee Wicker. "Henderson County alone averages 50 fires a year."
From Jan. 1 to May 4, 328 fires were reported in the eight western counties Smith oversees; 806 acres were burned. The region's typical fire season runs from the end of February through May, he said. In the eastern part of the state, March, April and May are often the biggest months for fires.
"Many think of wildfires as western United States issues, but we do initial attack on many more fires in the southeast due to human-caused fires, as opposed to the lightning strikes in the west," Wicker said. "2013 was a very wet year for North Carolina, and the total number of fires was less than (in) typical years."
Last year marked the state's lowest fire frequency since 2009, when 3,344 wildfires swept through North Carolina and charred 25,142 acres.
North Carolina reported a total of 3,514 wildfires in 2013; 24,547 acres were burned. But Smith says the amount of acres burned in the state was actually the lowest on record since they started keeping track in 1928.
The N.C. Forest Service recorded 3,374 of the state's 3,500 wildfires last year, noting that 9,451 acres were scorched by the fires they battled. The Forest Service statistics are a far cry from the figures in 1981, when 8,746 wildfires were reported, or 1955, when 580,103 acres were charred.
"If you look back in 2013 last year," Smith said, "we had a pretty moist, pretty damp year" that led to a "semi-active fire season."
The leading cause of the fires in Western North Carolina, he said, is burning debris.
"We urge people to burn carefully," Smith said.
Avoid burning on low-humidity, windy days, he added, and make sure to have tools or fire suppression equipment handy. Make sure the burn area is clear of any combustible materials and get a burn permit from the local fire department before setting a fire.
According to a 13-year average of fires and burned acres reported to the NIFC, 67 percent of all human-caused fires are started in the southeastern United States, an area which has exploded in population.
"We are one of the fastest growing states," Smith said. That growth "puts more exposure out there to people being in the woods" and "with more people burning, more fires tend to be started."
The Old North State has been on the fast track for growth since 1990 when 6.63 million people (a 12.8 percent increase in population since 1980) called it their home.
The population jumped to 8,049,313 a decade later (a 21.4 percent increase) and an estimated 9,848,060 in 2013 (a 22.3 percent increase since 2000).
"Nearly 40 percent of all acres burned by human-caused fires are in the southern area," where 962,995 acres have been charred by fires over the past 13 years, according to the NIFC.
A release from State Farm Insurance and the National Fire Protection Association urged citizens to use caution to reduce property loss from wildfires.
"Wildfires are a serious threat to lives and property," according to the release. "The combination of drought, high winds and an excess of dried vegetation in forests and grasslands has made fire seasons progressively worse over the past 50 years. In 2014 alone, more than 16,400 fires have burned 266,000 acres across the United States."
According to the NIFC, more than 47,000 fires burned over 4.3 million acres in 2013, with the State of Hawaii being the only U.S. state to not have a wildfire last year.
The top 10 states for the number of wildfires in 2013, according to NIFC, are:
1. California: 9,907 wildfires
2. North Carolina: 3,514 wildfires
3. Georgia: 2,942 wildfires
4. Oregon: 2,848 wildfires
5. Arizona: 1,756 wildfires
6. Montana: 1,723 wildfires
7. Washington: 1,527 wildfires
8. Idaho: 1,471 wildfires
9. South Carolina: 1,337 wildfires
10. Alabama: 1,284 wildfires
Henderson County has been lucky. "The fire departments in this county do an outstanding job of responding to wildfires with the N.C. Forest Service," Wicker said. "This good working relationship with dedicated, hard-working people has kept the amount of damage to property to a minimum."
Recorded separately, officials throughout the state also conducted 1,355 prescribed burns to rejuvenate about 146,229 acres last year.
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0.6Gazebo is a multi-robot simulator for both indoor and outdoor environments. Like Stage, it is capable of simulating a population of robots, sensors and objects, but does so in a three-dimensional world. It generates realistic sensor feedback, object collisions and dynamics.
Gazebo is normally used in conjunction with the Player device server; Player provides an abstracted, network-centric mechanism (a server) through which robot controllers (clients) can interact with robot hardware. When used with Gazebo, Player provides simulated data in the place of real sensor data. In principle, client programs cannot tell the difference between real devices and the Gazebo simulation of those devices.
Gazebo can also be controlled through a low-level C API (libgazebo). This library is included to allow third-party developers to easily integrate Gazebo into their own (non-Player) servers or architectures.
Installation instructions for Gazebo can be found here.
Quick-start guideThe Gazebo server can be started as follows:
$ wxgazebo [options] <worldfile>
worldfile is an XML file containing the description of the world and everything in it. Sample world files can be found in the
worlds directory of the source distribution, or in the installed version under
/usr/local/share/gazebo/worlds/ (default install). For example:
$ wxgazebo /usr/local/share/gazebo/worlds/example.world
Advanced usageAs of version 0.5, the Gazebo server no longer has a built in GUI (it runs entirely from the command line). Thus, for example, one can use:
$ gazebo /usr/local/share/gazebo/worlds/example.world
$ wxgazebo /usr/local/share/gazebo/worlds/example.world
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While most Americans don't line up for Presidents' Day sales, much less camp outside as some do for Black Friday, shoppers may find deeper discounts on Monday than they do during the holiday season.
Related story: Tiffany Sues Costco Over Alleged Fake Engagement Rings
Charlie Graham, founder and CEO of personalized apparel and accessories shopping site Shop It To Me, said past Presidents' Day online sales have higher average discounts than both Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
"In the case of Presidents' Day, you have a smaller percentage of items on sale, but those items on sale have a much higher discount," Graham said.
The reason is that most retailers are hoping to sell their winter inventory to make room for the spring items, Graham said.
That's good for "opportunistic" shoppers, he said.
"It's a good opportunity to grab some good deals for the end of season and next year," he said.
For the serious bargain hunters who are willing to wait for the perfect price with the risk of missing out on sales on Monday, Shop It To Me offers a free service that updates shoppers on the price of an item of their choice. Called Threads, Shop It To Me also curates lists of suggested items, such as dresses for the spring.
For those eager to take advantage of Presidents' Day Sales today, here's a list of some of the best deals:
Ann Taylor is offering a 30 percent discount on select full-price items online with the code SHOPCHIC plus 40 percent off all sale styles.
Banana Republic offers 30 percent off online with the code BRSHOP30 through Monday, free shipping for online orders over $50 and free returns by mail or in-store.
Best Buy's Presidents' Day sales began on Friday and will continue through Monday, offering 10 to 25 percent off major appliances. Examples include a Toshiba Satellite 15.6" laptop with 4GB memory and 500GB hard drive for $349.99 with free shipping.
The company is also advertising an Insignia 55" Class LCD 1080p 120Hz HDTV for $579.99, for a savings of $220 plus free delivery.
High-end department store Bloomingdales is hosting a "Big Brown Bag Sale" through Monday for 20 to 40 percent off. The company also regularly offers free returns for online orders.
Through Monday, Express is offering 30 percent off all items and up to 50 percent off already-reduced clearance.
Gap is offering up to 40 percent off select styles in-store and 30 percent off your purchase online with the code GAPBRIGHT.
The retailer is offering an extra 40 percent off online final sale items with the code STYLE40 plus free shipping.
Since Tuesday, Feb. 12 through Monday, Macy's has promoted a number of sales, including 30 to 50 percent off sterling silver, 14k gold, cultured pearls, diamonds and precious stones; buy two bras and get one free from Calvin Klein, Warners, Bali and more; 60 percent off designer outerwear for him from Perry Ellis, Kenneth Cole, Calvin Klein and more; and 50 to 75 percent off clearance shoes and boots, among other items.
Through Monday, Old Navy is offering in-stores and online 15 percent off your purchase or 20 percent off with your Old Navy, Gap or Banana credit card. The company is also hosting a "Kidtacular" kid, baby and maternity sale through Wednesday with up to 40 percent discounts.
With promo codes like EXTRAPOINTS (for members) and ABELINCOLN, customers can get 10 to 25 percent off online orders. Through Wednesday, the company is also offering $35 off orders of $300 and more with the code SNOW35; and $20 off orders of $200 and more with the code FEBRUARY20.
Since Friday and through Monday, Toys "R" Us is offering 40 deals on toys, such as buy-one-get-one-40-percent-off on all video games priced up to $19.99; and buy-one-get-one-50-percent-off on all Play-Doh.
Walmart has offered Presidents' Day online specials since Friday and through Monday, including a Vizio 60" Class LED 1080 p 120Hz Smart HDTV for $998, normally $1,299.99.


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Before we start, we first list what hardware requirements you need to successfully install Gentoo on your box.
|Minimal CD
|Swap space
All Installation CDs allow you to boot, set up networking, initialize your partitions and start installing Gentoo from the Internet. We currently provide two Installation CDs which are equaly suitable to install Gentoo from, as long as you're planning on performing an Internet-based installation using the latest version of the available packages.
The two Installation CDs that we currently provide are:
To help you decide which Installation CD you need, we have written down the major advantages and disadvantages of each Installation CD.
The Minimal Installation CD is called
|Minimal Installation CD
|Pros and Cons
The Installer LiveCD is called
|Installer LiveCD
|Pros and Cons
A stage3 tarball is an archive containing a minimal Gentoo environment, suitable
to continue the Gentoo installation using the instructions in this manual.
Previously, the Gentoo Handbook described the installation using one of three
stage tarballs. While Gentoo still offers stage1 and stage2 tarballs, the
official installation method uses the stage3 tarball. If you are interested in
performing a Gentoo installation using a stage1 or stage2 tarball, please read
the Gentoo FAQ on
Stage3 tarballs can be downloaded from
You have chosen to use a Gentoo Installation CD. We'll first start by downloading and burning the chosen Installation CD. We previously discussed the several available Installation CDs, but where can you find them?
You can download any of the Installation CDs (and, if you want to, a Packages
CD as well) from one of our
Inside that directory you'll find ISO-files. Those are full CD images which you can write on a CD-R.
In case you wonder if your downloaded file is corrupted or not, you can check
its MD5 checksum and compare it with the MD5 checksum we provide (such as
Another way to check the validity of the downloaded file is to use GnuPG to
verify the cryptographic signature that we provide (the file ending with
$ gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 17072058
Now verify the signature:
$ gpg --verify <signature file> <downloaded iso>
To burn the downloaded ISO(s), you have to select raw-burning. How you
do this is highly program-dependent. We will discuss
Once you have burned your installation CD, it is time to boot it. Remove all CDs from your CD drives, reboot your system and enter the BIOS. This is usually done by hitting DEL, F1 or ESC, depending on your BIOS. Inside the BIOS, change the boot order so that the CD-ROM is tried before the hard disk. This is often found under "CMOS Setup". If you don't do this, your system will just reboot from the hard disk, ignoring the CD-ROM.
Now place the installation CD in the CD-ROM drive (duh) and reboot. You should see a boot prompt. At this screen, you can hit Enter to begin the boot process with the default boot options, or boot the Installation CD with custom boot options by specifying a kernel followed by boot options and then hitting Enter.
Specifying a kernel? Yes, we provide several kernels on our Installation CDs.
The default one is
Below you'll find a short overview on the available kernels:
You can also provide kernel options. They represent optional settings you can (de)activate at will. The following list is the same as the one you receive when you press F2 at the bootscreen.
- agpgart loads agpgart (use if you have graphic problems,lockups) - acpi=on loads support for ACPI firmware - ide=nodma force disabling of DMA for malfunctioning IDE devices - doscsi scan for scsi devices (breaks some ethernet cards) - dopcmcia starts pcmcia service for PCMCIA cdroms - nofirewire disables firewire modules in initrd (for firewire cdroms,etc) - nokeymap disables keymap selection for non-us keyboard layouts - docache cache the entire runtime portion of cd in RAM, allows you to umount /mnt/cdrom to mount another cdrom. - nodetect causes hwsetup/kudzu and hotplug not to run - nousb disables usb module load from initrd, disables hotplug - nodhcp dhcp does not automatically start if nic detected - nohotplug disables loading hotplug service - noapic disable apic (try if having hardware problems nics,scsi,etc) - noevms disable loading of EVMS2 modules - nolvm2 disable loading of LVM2 modules - hdx=stroke allows you to partition the whole harddrive even when your BIOS can't handle large harddrives - noload=module1,[module2,[...]] disable loading of specific kernel modules
Now boot your CD, select a kernel (if you are not happy with the default
boot: gentoo dopcmcia
You will then be greeted with a boot screen and progress bar. If you are installing Gentoo on a system with a non-US keyboard, make sure you immediately press Alt-F1 to switch to verbose mode and follow the prompt. If no selection is made in 10 seconds the default (US keyboard) will be accepted and the boot process will continue. Once the boot process completes, you will be automatically logged in to the "Live" Gentoo Linux as "root", the super user. You should have a root ("#") prompt on the current console and can also switch to other consoles by pressing Alt-F2, Alt-F3 and Alt-F4. Get back to the one you started on by pressing Alt-F1.
Now continue with
When the Installation CD boots, it tries to detect all your hardware devices and loads the appropriate kernel modules to support your hardware. In the vast majority of cases, it does a very good job. However, in some cases it may not auto-load the kernel modules you need. If the PCI auto-detection missed some of your system's hardware, you will have to load the appropriate kernel modules manually.
In the next example we try to load the
# modprobe 8139too
If you need PCMCIA support, you should start the
# /etc/init.d/pcmcia start
If you are an advanced user, you might want to tweak the IDE hard disk
performance using
# hdparm -tT /dev/hda
To tweak, you can use any of the following examples (or experiment
yourself) which use
Activate DMA:# hdparm -d 1 /dev/hda Activate Safe Performance Options:# hdparm -d 1 -A 1 -m 16 -u 1 -a 64 /dev/hda
If you plan on giving other people access to your installation
environment or you want to chat using
To change the root password, use the
# passwd New password:
(Enter your new password)Re-enter password: (Re-enter your password)
To create a user account, we first enter their credentials, followed by
its password. We use
# useradd -m -G users john # passwd john New password:
(Enter john's password)Re-enter password: (Re-enter john's password)
You can change your user id from root to the newly created user by using
# su - john
If you want to view the Gentoo Handbook (either from-CD or online) during the
installation, make sure you have created a user account (see
If you want to view the documentation on the CD you can immediately run
# links /mnt/cdrom/docs/html/index.html
However, it is preferred that you use the online Gentoo Handbook as it will be
more recent than the one provided on the CD. You can view it using
# links http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml
You can go back to your original terminal by pressing
If you want to allow other users to access your computer during the
Gentoo installation (perhaps because those users are going to help you
install Gentoo, or even do it for you), you need to create a user
account for them and perhaps even provide them with your root password
To fire up the SSH daemon, execute the following command:
# /etc/init.d/sshd start
To be able to use sshd, you first need to set up your networking. Continue with
the chapter on


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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
Palestinian terrorists operating out of the Gaza Strip fired three missiles at the southern Israel town of Sderot on Sunday morning.
Two of the rockets slammed into local factories, injuries two Israelis and causing extensive damage. One of the factories had been hit in previous attacks from Gaza. The third missile landed in the same area, but caused no damage or injuries.
Security officials commented to Israeli media that they were surprised by the accuracy of Sunday's attacks. The rockets fired from Gaza are usually crude or lacking in sophisticated guidance systems, and must be aimed manually. Either Gaza-based terrorists are getting better at manually aiming their rockets, or have come into possession of better guidance systems. Either way, it doesn't bode well for the residents of southern Israel.
Sunday's attacks ended weeks of quiet in the region, and suggested that the relatively calm summer period was coming to an end. Gaza-based forces regularly increase their attacks on southern Israel at the start of the school year, when Israeli are more typically congregated in public places.
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Tuesday, May 3rd - - Continuing west after my brief stop at the Round Barn near Colchester, Illinois I crossed the mighty Mississippi River into Keokuk, Iowa. It's a pretty little city with some beautiful houses on the bluff overlooking the river. My route briefly took me on into Missouri then north to Fairfield, the county seat of Jefferson County, Iowa.
Shortly after her marriage to William Klingaman in Whitley County, Indiana on October 12, 1865 Anna Eliza Joslin moved to Jefferson County, Iowa where they settled north of Fairfield in Black Hawk Township. Anna Eliza was the daughter of my 3rd great-grandparents, Lysander and Lydia (Robison) Joslin. In October 1866, Lysander sold his land in Whitley County, Indiana and removed to Black Hawk Township settling near his daughter Anna Eliza. Another daughter, Mandella, was born in December 1866 in Indiana so the family probably didn't go to Iowa until the spring of 1867.
On June 4, 1868 Lydia Joslin gave birth to the last of her 15 children. They were twins named Elmer and Elmus. Elmer died on June 30th and is presumably buried somewhere in Black Hawk Township although he is not listed on the cemetery transcriptions. In August of that same year, Lysander reclaimed his land in Whitley County, Indiana due to mortgage foreclosure on the man who had purchased it in 1866. Lysander moved his family back to Indiana – except for Anna Eliza who remained in Iowa with her husband. There they lived for the remainder of their lives, raising their family of three sons (Charles Sherman, Olen Valerus, and Frank Ellsworth) on their farm in Black Hawk Township.
At the Public Library I obtained obituary notices for some of their children and grandchildren but none for Anna Eliza or her husband William Klingaman. Oddly enough, an obituary for Anna Eliza was published in the Columbia City Commercial in Whitley County, Indiana announcing her death on July 28, 1885 at the age of 40 years, 9 months and 20 days after a long and painful illness with Brights disease.
If you have people in Jefferson County, Iowa your first stop should be the library in Fairfield. It is a wonderful resource with a tremendous amount of information gathered over the years by several volunteers. Their cemetery books include maps and directions to each of the cemeteries so I was easily able to locate McDowell Cemetery where Anna Eliza, her husband, and several children are buried.
McDowell Cemetery sits atop a hill on Mahogony Road at the junction of 115th street.
A small cemetery, it was easy to spot the large brown marker designating the Klingaman family plot. I'll have more on this family in later posts – someday!
On my way to the cemetery, I spotted this old barn and couldn't resist the impulse to take pictures. The photos have been manipulated a little to warm up the hues of the barn. Reality was actually a little garish what with the bright green grass, blue sky, and white clouds. The colors didn't look real, so now they have a bit of that "old-timey" feel to them!
The night was spent at a pretty little campground in Jefferson County Park just south of Fairfield. There were several trails meandering through the forest and meadows of the area. I got brave and ventured down one. It was a good walk on a fairly smooth path part of which was gravel and other parts were grass. It did have a few large hills with steep ups and downs but the legs held up just fine. I'm soooo glad they are feeling better!


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June is a month which brings out the human race's grander side. It brings out the generosity in the species. It brings out the spirit of giving. It brings out the warmth of which we experience little enough in this cold, fast workaday world.
It brings out the book donors, is what it brings out.
I would understand why so many textbooks come in in June and December, except so many of the ones coming in have obviously been in storage for years. Come on, canoli giblets! You're out in the real world now: you don't need to wait until the end of semester to unload that Economics textbook from 1975. (And there's someplace closer to home you could unload it, too, if you're in a community that recycles.)
I think at least half the sets of encyclopedias people send us come in this month (or early July). My theory about that is that you took them out of the bookcase to make room for your DVDS, and stacked them up in the corner in front of your calendar. So you didn't realize the snow had melted and we were sneaking up on summer.
Technically, of course, it is still spring, so maybe it's all a matter of realizing that spring cleaning should not extend beyond the summer solstice. This explains all the collections from basements and attics. And a few people in the neighborhood seem to be redecorating Victorian bookshelves, those fine old wooden boards which have been holding pretty leatherbound sets since the Columbian Exposition. Painted your ceilings three times since 1893, I see. Dribbles of paint on the red leather spines told the tale.
So the sets of Dickens and sets of Hugo and sets of Dumas have been flooding in, many but not all with their spines still attached. Some of you had great-grandparents who bought the sets in the cheap, thin leather and some of you had ancestors who went for full morocco. All of your ancestors had descendants who regarded these books as just so much furniture, or you'd have packed them better. I expect my death certificate to list the cause of death as "Lungs Filled With Dust From Cheap Leather Spines". They crumble away to nothing if bumped and the covers drop off. Run back and tell your grandparents, next time you rev up the time machine, so I can live to sort a few more copies of The DaVinci Code.
Those of you who packed books bound in full morocco need to be more careful as well. The covers don't fall off nearly as easily, but you can rip little strips of the leather away through careless handling. This lowers the price. (Fortunately, you did NOT do that to the book which prices out at around $6500. I'd have called you personally to ask you if you knew about this little brown morocco treasure, but you dropped the books off anonymously and ran: another sign that you considered them as old furniture.)
Summer is also the time of year when one goes out to play golf, which means one can give away all those books on golf one has been studying all winter. This explains those four boxes of golf books. There was a box of baseball books, too: perhaps another example of not needing the text now that the real thing is again available. This lot included a book Ernie Banks had written his name on. (More celebrities should sign on the outside of the book; this makes it possible to show off the books' finer points without having to dream up ways to prop them open.)
Well, anyhow, it's nice to see people being so generous now, since we shut off donations at July 3, and they won't be bringing anything in after that. (Writing THAT is a sign that I'd better lie down for a quick nap; this spirit of generosity has obviously quite overwhelmed me.)


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Where the hell do you start with this? Here goes my list, right off the top of my head, which means that you could ask the same question tomorrow and get an entirely different answer:
Jack Lambert
Jack Ham
Andy Russell
Mike Webster
Dermontti Dawson
Benny Roethlisberger
Heath Miller
Mark Breuner
Jerome Bettis
Rod Woodson
Needless to say that there are at least a dozen others that could be on this list. These are just the ones I came up with at this point.


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November 01, 2012
All event times are Eastern Time Zone unless otherwise specified.
Chapel Talk: James Brown: Chapel , 11:15AM
This weeks Chapel speaker will be James Brown with his talk entitled "The large and the small of it."
Biology Department Seminar: Hays Science Hall 319, 12:00PM
The Biology Department will welcome Nicholas Sokol from Indiana University to campus to give his talk on "TBA".
Talk by Dr. Jonathan Adler: Baxter Hall 101 (Lovell Lecture Room), 12:10PM - 1:00PM
Dr. Jonathan Adler, Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve University will give a lecture on environmental law.
Poli Sci Candidate Presentation: Baxter Hall 114, 12:10PM
The Political Science Department welcomes: Marybeth Ulrich Professor, Army War College "Balancing American Values and Interests in the Conduct of Strategy: The Case of the Relief of General Stanley McChrystal" Baxter 114 12:10 p.m. November 1 A light lunch will be provided for attendees in Rogge Lounge
Reading by Salgado Maranhao: Detchon Center 209, 4:15PM
Noted Brazilian poet Salgado Maranhão will read from his recent work, and his US translator, Alexis Levitin, will be at hand to offer translations. HIs reading is open to the public.
Film Screening: Market Imaginary: Fine Arts Center , 6:30PM - 8:00PM
Film Screening: "Market Imaginary", by Joanna Grabski, Denison University. About one of Dakar, Senegal's most famous and sprawling markets.
VAS: The Flying Karamazov Brothers: Fine Arts Center Ball Theater, 8:00PM
Wabash College Visiting Artists Series presents the internationally acclaimed quartet, The Flying Karamazov Brothers. The "vaudevillian comedy-and-juggling spectacle," will perform their show, "4 Play," on Thursday, November 1 at 8 p.m. in Ball Theater in the Fine Arts Center.
Expect the unexpected with The Flying Karamazov Brothers in 4 Play. The self-proclaimed eccentric "lunatics" spice things up with a zany showcase filled with the astonishing juggling feats, laugh-out-loud comedy, and wild theatrics that have taken them to Broadway, television, and the big screen.
AMC Classic Cinema 8 Show Schedule: 205 Dry Branch Drive


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Editor's Note: Jesse Friedman is the cofounder and brewmaster of Almanac Beer Co., a San Francisco based brewery specializing in beers brewed in collaboration with local farms. This year was his first trip to the Great American Beer Festival as a brewer, so we asked him to share a bit about his experience. Take it away, Jesse!
We love it. And you've voted. See which is the best American beer city.
Last week Denver hosted the Great American Beer Festival (GABF)—an epic beast of a beer festival, unmatched in size or scope anywhere. I've been to GABF before, but this was my first time attending as a brewer. Stepping from one side of the beer-soaked table to the other provided me with a new perspective on the event. Here are some of the lessons I learned.
GABF is the best beer festival in the world
The size and scope of GABF is breathtaking. 624 breweries pouring over 3,100 beers simultaneously. It's a logistical nightmare that's pulled off with phenomenal grace. If you attended all four sessions for every minute and wanted to try EVERYTHING, you'd need a new 1 ounce sample every 20 seconds. You'd also be very, very drunk. So instead it's a game of tracking down breweries you love and trying new ones you've never heard of before.
Breweries rarely seen outside their home markets come to the fest and pour rare selections—and representatives from the breweries are on hand to talk about what they do. I was thrilled to try beers from beer geek favorite breweries like New Glarus, Three Flyods, Cigar City and Russian River all within minutes of each other.
GABF is a worst beer festival in the world
More beer and more breweries also means bigger crowds. As the festival goes on, these crowds become drunker, rowdier, louder and ruder. Every time a glass is dropped on the cement floor, the 'clink' sound is met with hundred of surrounding revelers shouting in unison. As drunken revelry sets in later into the session, 'friends' knock each other's glasses out of their hands, and get a little demandy for more samples from breweries and volunteers. It's crowded, loud, claustrophobic and frustratingly male-dominated. The food inside the convention hall would make most ballparks look good, and the overflow bathrooms are Porta Potties.
The brewing community really is as nice as you've heard
624 breweries each sending 5 or more representatives means that there are a lot of brewers at this festival. I was completely surprised by just how many brewers (and brewery sales reps, assistant brewers, packing line workers... everyone) came to GABF. At times it seemed like there might be more people wearing yellow brewer's badges than regular attendees.
It turns out most of these industry folks are beer geeks, just like you, only with more facial hair and more technical questions. Working at a brewery and making beer doesn't make these brewers any less excited about the beers being made, and they belly up the samples with the same enthusiasm and excitement to taste new things.
Pouring my beers for brewers (who are now my peers...it's a startling revelation) and having them host me and taste theirs was a highlight of the festival for me. For brewers from Avery—a brewery that I have long admired—to come and try my beers and say such nice things was humbling and exhilarating.
It's a beer festival. Pour festival beers.
The phrase "festival beer" is jargon for a beer that makes a great big impression right away, even though it's only one ounce at a time. With all the beers being poured at GABF, it's hard to stand out and make an impression. Your bourbon barrel dry hopped chili beer? Great festival beer. Your delicate and balanced pale? Not so much.
With that in mind Almanac decided to go big, and poured a 100% barrel aged taplist. We broke out reserve kegs of our Farmer's Reserve No 3 with Strawberries and Nectarines, as well as our Heirloom Pumpkin Barleywine, a 12% bruiser of a beer. Barrel aging is where the excitement is right now in the beer world, and if your goal is build excitement and buzz around your beer, this is the place to do it.
Stay open-minded
One of the biggest surprises of the festival for me were the beers from AC Golden and Sandlot—two brewing projects headed up by Coors. The wild ale that AC Golden poured was in the running for best beer of the festival. It was a phenomenal American sour with that slight bitter lemon kick that makes a traditional Belgian Lambic tick. They may come from established players, but these small outfits are run by passionate technical brewers who really care about their craft, and it shows.
Losing sucks
Besides the festival, the other big part of GABF is the beer judging competition. Special judging samples are sent ahead of time, and judged by an enormous panel of certified beer experts. Beers we were pouring on the floor are automatically entered, and you can also enter up to 5 more (for a total of 10) beers to be judged.
It's a tough competition: 4,809 beer were entered in 84 categories, each vying for one of the 252 medals up for grabs. I'm not going to lie: I really wanted to win one. It's a stamp of validation from a community whose judgement is important to me. Plus, some of our specialty barrel aged beer have been pulling in nods in other competitions. I thought we had a chance.
Sadly, as the categories whizzed by, the reality set in: we were walking away empty handed. We left the award ceremony (quietly sneaking out the back after the last category we entered was called) and headed back up to the festival. We weren't alone in losing, either: breweries large and small, established and unheard of also walked away without bragging rights. I know intellectually that not winning an award doesn't really mean anything. But emotionally, the rejection stings.
Back in the main hall, my favorite session was starting up: the Saturday afternoon session, a slightly smaller session with attendance limited to members of the American Homebrewer's Association. Damian (my business partner and Almanac cofounder) had decided to give our volunteers a break, and for this four hour session, we would pour our beers ourselves. We wanted to be hands-on with the festival, interacting with beer fans directly, one ounce pour at a time.
Quickly a long line formed in front of our table—probably from a combination of us being slightly slower pourers than our speedy volunteers, but also because word had spread that our barrel aged beers were worth trying. The positive feedback was overwhelming, and we noticed that as our line grew, we noticed breweries next to us were moving beer rather slowly. Flanked on either side of us were Gold and Bronze medals (well deserved by great local breweries), but our line, with no medal, continued to grow. The judges of GABF had decided our beer wasn't medal worthy, but the crowd at GABF was spreading the word about our beer and had deemed it worthy of a line. If I had to choose one (a medal or a line), I'd take the line every time. (But deep down inside, I want both. There is always next year.)
Next Year
I left GABF exhausted, pained, sore, and more than a little dehydrated (I'm blaming the high elevation, rather than the amount of beer I drank I night before.) I also left energized. The community, the enthusiasm, the endless creativity, the validation of like-minded brewers from around the country trying our beer—all of it added up feeling like Almanac was stepping out of our small Northern California footprint and joining the national brewing community. I can't wait to go back next year.
About the Author: Jesse Friedman is the cofounder and brewmaster of Almanac Beer Co.


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A man who reportedly identified himself as his brother when he was arrested last year has pleaded no contest to obstruction and weapons charges.
A man who reportedly identified himself as his brother when he was arrested last year has pleaded no contest to obstruction and weapons charges.
Lee Siggers entered the plea Friday in Leavenworth County District Court.
He was arrested Sept. 29 after a man matching his description reportedly waived a gun around at a Leavenworth bar. Police stopped Siggers' vehicle. A loaded handgun was found behind his seat, according to County Attorney Todd Thompson.
He was arrested for criminal possession of a firearm. He reportedly told officials at the Leavenworth County Jail that his name was Jemon Brown. He provided a birth date and Social Security number for Brown. And he signed documents as Brown, according to Thompson.
Siggers even identified himself as Brown to a judge.
Thompson said the charade lasted at least two weeks.
Officials at the jail realized Siggers was not Brown after they were contacted by a Missouri parole officer. The parole officer informed jail officials the real Brown was on parole and local authorities most likely had Siggers in custody.
Jail staff retrieved documents and pictures that detailed the differences between the two men, according to Thompson.
Siggers was found to have a felony conviction in Missouri.
Sentencing is scheduled for Feb. 22. As part of a plea agreement, there will be a recommendation that his prison sentence not exceed 19 months.


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Although Austin City Limits: 35 Years in Photographs isn't officially released until September 14th, you may have seen it popping up at various places around Austin (including for sale at recent ACL tapings!). This substantial coffee-table book features hundreds of stunning photographs by long-time ACL photographer Scott Newton. Edited by Newton and Executive Producer Terry Lickona, the photographs have been carefully curated and presented with memories and quotes about ACL from the artists who have performed on the show. The book is currently available for sale through KLRU's website as well as most major booksellers. More information about the book itself:
Austin City Limits is the best of the best: the best moments from some of the most brilliant, mesmerizing, quirky, esoteric, and unforgettable performances on the longest-running popular music series in American television history.
Austin City Limits
Photographs by Scott Newton
Edited by Terry Lickona and Scott Newton
Foreword by John Mayer
September 2010
$40.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-0-292-72311-5
10.5 x 11 inches, 204 pages, 294 color and b&w photos
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Honored as a "historic rock and roll landmark" by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Austin City Limits is the longest-running popular music series in American television history. Austin City Limits began in 1974 by featuring original Texas music that ran the gamut from western swing and Texas blues to Tejano, progressive country, and rock and roll. By the time the show celebrated its thirty-fifth anniversary in 2009, its coverage encompassed unique regional, national, and even international performers in an eclectic, ever-expanding range of genres. Austin City Limits has also broadened its live audience beyond its iconic studio on the University of Texas campus with the annual Austin City Limits Music Festival, a three-day extravaganza that spotlights some 150 bands and attracts more than 200,000 fans.
Austin City Limits captures the excitement and energy of the show in photographs by Austin City Limit's longtime still photographer, Scott Newton. The images span Austin City Limit's first thirty-five years, with special emphasis on legendary artists such as Johnny Cash, Ray Charles, Leonard Cohen, and Willie Nelson, and the most compelling contemporary performers and bands from the past ten to fifteen years, including Coldplay, John Mayer, Elvis Costello, Pearl Jam, David Byrne, The Flaming Lips, Wilco, Lucinda Williams, and Norah Jones. Proving that he has few peers among photographers of live music, Newton's images deliver amazing glimpses into the intimate, revealing, and powerful moments in each artist's performance. They also depict the direct and potent connection between performer and audience that has always been a hallmark of Austin City Limits.
SCOTT NEWTON has been the house photographer for Austin City Limits since 1979. His work has been published on numerous album covers and in many magazines and books, including three books illustrated entirely by his work: two about Austin City Limits (the most recent being Austin City Limits: 25 Years of American Music) and The Improbable Rise of Redneck Rock: New Edition.
TERRY LICKONA has been the producer of Austin City Limits since 1978. He served as chairman of the board of trustees of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences from 2005–2007 and was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Americana Music Association in 2009.
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wasn't the knock on decastro a lack of physicality? Doesn't really sound like winters.
Just said on NFL Network that Brian Winters and Keenan Allen were his favorite 3rd round picks.
Says Winters is nasty as hell and will start Day 1
wasn't the knock on decastro a lack of physicality? Doesn't really sound like winters.
Great. We need some nasty on the lines !!
Decastro was always considered a finesse player that could pull block with the best of em. Winters played LT and is much more physical but the tape just doesn't show him pulling all that much, especially since Decastro was pulling on almost every run play. Not saying he can't do it, but it's just not on tape.
Overall I love the Winters pick, not so high on the Oday pick. Winters will IMO absolutely start on day 1 at LG and that is a good thing. Nothing like learning a new position between Brick and Mangold.
Mayock said Winters was "probably the nastiest player in this draft" the day we drafted him. The next day I watched an interview with Idzik where he called Winters nasty. Watched some videos on this Winters, the guy finishes every single play. Didnt look so great moving backwards (back-pedling i guess you would call it in pass blocking) in my opinion. And played in a defensively weak MAC conference where the guys he was up against looked alot smaller than him most times. In the two tapes I watched of him alot of his standout plays were against against the Buffalo Bulls (one of the MACs weaker teams, similar to Kent State)
I have nothing but great things about winters so far
the Lion in WINTERS will be an instant starter on the OL
great third round pick by Idzik IMO
Winters is not nasty, hes a cancerian, as all of you know, I prefer the term tenacious.
russell wilson, is also a poor mans robert griffin iii, just sayin'
He's got to minimize penalties.


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This Seth Thomas wall clock was given to me in 1996, by a neighbour of mine. It had been in the cafateria of the Wrigley's chewing gum plant on Carlaw Ave., in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Her father started working at this plant in 1921, and it was there then. In the 1940's the cafateria was re -painted, and the clock was given to my neighbours father. He did not remember the clock being used much at the plant, as nobody would take the time to climb on something to get to it to wind it. When I got it, a jewller friend of mine took it apart and confirmed it had little use. I took tripple O steel wool and cleaned the case down to the clean original finish - and we put it back together. I cannot find out when it was made, or the worth of it now.


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Can anyone tell me if it's possible to set a panel behind a 3D Canvas?
Basically, my problem is that when a button is called, a 3dapplet is supposed to run, and a 3d canvas is drawn. I want, however, for that canvas to display over the existing panels that I already have on the screen.
I tried to set the panels to setVisible(false), but once I do that, I for some reason cannot set it back to visible. I tried to remove the panels, but again I cannot restore them when I want the 3D canvas gone and everything reset.
So I was thinking of just having the panels behind the 3d canvas, and when the canvas is destroyed, the panels will still be there behind it.
But I don't know how....when the 3d applet is called, the 3d canvas is displayed over everything except the panels. How can I bring the panels behind it?


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The Official Blog of the Independent Community of Educators, a caucus of the United Federation of Teachers
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
Evening HS Obituary
By James Eterno; UFT Chapter Leader Jamaica HS & HS Executive Bd Rep.
The citywide Evening high school program in NYC for students who were at least sixteen years old and needed to make up classes that they failed or never had the opportunity to take in day school has been eliminated by the Department of Education. Evening schools were set up in a number of the city's high schools to serve a wide variety of students. Many of them attended classes in the day and some did not. Each evening high school in the centrally run program served students from several different day schools.
According to August 11 NY Sun, the Department of Education admitted that the evening high school program was "an abysmal failure." The Sun went on to explain that 28,000 students were referred to night school, while only 14,000 attended and only half of these passed courses. A close look at the evidence will reveal that evening high school did not die of natural causes; it was starved to death by educational neglect from the DOE and their accomplices at the UFT.
For many years teachers in evening high schools had been complaining about abominable working conditions, particularly when it came to overcrowding and lack of access to books and supplies. The DOE chronically under-funded its evening high school program. Evening school teachers spoke about a chronic shortage of supplies and books. They said that they had to use antiquated textbooks and put up with huge class sizes.
Classes were routinely packed with pupils since the contractual guidelines for class size limitations (34 students is the maximum for most high school classes) did not apply to evening school because it was a per session activity covered by Article 15 of the UFT Contract which says nothing about class sizes. Therefore, the DOE could place an unlimited amount of students into evening high school classes and not worry about grievances from the Union. The DOE routinely took advantage of this provision.
The normal procedure was to register 50, 60, 70, 80 or more students per class. It was not uncommon to have over 100 kids in a class. On the first few evenings of each semester, students would enter a mob scene otherwise known as a classroom. The lucky ones would find a seat. The remainder of the crowd was forced to fend. It was not unusual to see students in evening school standing in the back or the aisles or leaning on the window sills in the cramped classrooms. It is hardly the fault of the teachers or the pupils that so many students were not able to pass under these deplorable learning conditions. Most pupils simply gave up and stopped attending. When teachers complained to the administration or the UFT about the conditions, they were often told that they should be happy to have a per session job paying them additional income and they could be easily replaced if they didn't like it. A few fortunate instructors had their classes split but huge class sizes were normal.
Several years ago I raised the issue of evening high school overcrowding at the UFT Executive Board. UFT President Randi Weingarten asked me to provide specific information. Subsequently, a teacher took a great risk by giving me the list of class registers for Jamaica Evening High School. Class sizes were over 50 and 60 in certain classes. I was appalled. I faxed the list to Weingarten. Amazingly, when the UFT investigated they found that there wasn't a class size problem since by the middle of the semester so many students had given up and were chronically absent. Instead of being angry that the DOE was subjecting teachers and students to horrible overcrowding that forced many students to cut class, UFT leaders accused me of making stuff up. The teachers at Jamaica Evening High School knew that going to their union was a waste of time and basically resigned themselves to DOE's abominable evening school conditions.
For those that see the UFT Contract as the cause of virtually all of the problems in NYC education, the end of evening school should serve as a cautionary warning. If the UFT contract which is only moderately enforced now is completely eliminated, then day schools will become like evening high school. There would be nothing to stop administration from packing 60 or 70 students in a classroom, forcing the class to use dilapidated books and telling the teacher that he/she should be grateful to have a position. We need a stronger teacher Contract that is properly adhered to. As for evening high schools, the DOE should mend the program by fully funding it instead of ending it.
P.S. According to the NY Sun, money that would have gone to evening school will be spread to day high schools and principals will be told to offer their own AM, PM or Saturday schools for pupils that are behind so they can make up course credits. The Sun also said that principals should "combine these classes with the additional 37.5 minute classes added to the school day for struggling students under the recent teacher contract." The 37.5 minute sessions were not supposed to be for credit bearing classes. (During the battle over the contract last fall, ICE warned the UFT that the DOE would try to make the 37.5 minute sessions into classes.) Also, many high schools are already overcrowded so they don't offer the 37.5 minute sessions and don't have the space for the huge P.M. schools that would be needed to accommodate the many pupils who need to make up courses. To expect each individual school or a group of schools in the same region to offer the same diversified program that the night schools had (even in their chronically under-funded state) is unrealistic.
The losers: as usual it's the students. They will have fewer opportunities to take the courses they need to graduate.
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By a Retired Veteran Evening School Teacher
1- Inferior paperback books were used to save money. Were expensive texts needed for
at-risk students in the day?
2- Curricular guides were usually unavailable.
3- Teachers were compelled to come an hour early to run off instructional materials.
If teachers complained they were told to use day school machines.
4- Security was extremely laxed. There were no metal detectors. Only program cards identified students from intruders and trespassers.Many intruders would enter the building with weapons to assault students. Assaults in and around the building were common.
Students feared for their lives.
5- Ordinary supplies for the classroom were lacking.(notebook paper, pencils, paper clips,
rubber bands, chalk )
6- Instructional aids were non-existent. (maps,charts,videos,graph paper, etc.)
7- No time was given to prepare lessons, curriculum, instuctional materials or mark tests.
The presumption was that teachers would use day school materials.
8- Competent substitutes were limited in the number of days they could sub.
9- The various high schools were not well coordinated in signing up their students for evening school. Many guidance counselors were ill-informed about the various subjects offered and the nights the subjects were available.
10- Who were the students in evening schools ?
Truants, at-risk troubled students, students with daytime jobs, teenage mothers and fathers who need credits to graduate, who were discharged from day school, students with criminal records and dean referrals, students who were suspended from day school, students who need special instruction to pass a regents.
These are the students who fall through the cracks in the day school. In evening school they are given their last chance to earn a high school diploma.
11- Over-sized classes not only creates a very poor learning atmosphere; but it also creates irreparable classroom management problems. It is extremely difficult to maintain classroom discipline and promote respect within the classroom setting among students and teachers.
- Tuesday, August 15, 2006 10:04:00 PM
- Unitymustgo said...
James, are you running for uft president? If so please begin your campaign upon the start of the new school year. Provide materials for those of us out here who would like to support you or any canidate other than Randi. Post them here so we can print them and start stuffing mailboxes. The upcoming battle is too important to let it slip by. We need to begin building an underground campaign and building support. People are funny and are not easily changed. Randi will use UFT resources to protect her position. Any attempt to oust her will require in my opinion a first blow. Please, Please, PLease. Unity must go!
- Wednesday, August 16, 2006 11:00:00 AM
- jameseterno said...
To Unity Must Go-
I will be involved in the ICE- Teachers for a Just Contract unified opposition slate in next year's UFT election. Hopefully, UTP and other groups will be involved also. I have volunteered to run for reelection to the UFT executive board.
Kit Wainer a long time chapter leader/union activist from Brookyn is our candidate for president. I think you will find that he is very well qualified for the job. We will have some excellent people on our slate when it is announced.
We will hopefully have your support. Any help and ideas you can provide will be more than welcome.
- Wednesday, August 16, 2006 11:49:00 PM
Edwize has a different perspective on this issue.
- Thursday, August 17, 2006 10:11:00 AM
I'm sure they won't print the ICE piece.
- Friday, August 18, 2006 4:26:00 PM
Why isn't stuff like the evening school problems ever reported in the mainstream press?
- Monday, August 21, 2006 1:44:00 PM
Klein and his minions are proponents of the neocon doctrine "starve the beast." And to think that he used to be a democrat ... and maybe still thinks he is!
By the way, has anyone noticed Klein's growing resemblance to Yogi Berra?
- Monday, August 21, 2006 2:16:00 PM
Even so, then where is the so called leftist press like the Village Voice on this issue? Complete silence. Where's the minority press? I hear nothing.
- Monday, August 21, 2006 4:47:00 PM
This story was reported in both the Post and Daily News.
- Tuesday, August 22, 2006 8:39:00 PM
- jameseterno said...
The story that evening school was shut down was reported in the mainstream press; I quoted the Sun. However, many of us have not seen articles over the years on the deplorable working conditions in evening high schools for teachers and students. When I raised the issue with the union leadership, I was attacked. They should have written an article in the NY Teacher on terrible teaching and learning conditions in evening schools years ago. Use the bully pulpit wisely.
- Wednesday, August 23, 2006 2:37:00 PM
Where are the new classes? Nothing yet.
- Wednesday, September 20, 2006 10:27:00 PM