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KAANAPALI: Most of us don't have the warmth to touch many people in our life's journey. Carol Coe, a good friend and fan of this column, attracted people like bees to a hive.
One of her hangout places was Leilani's on the Beach, where Carol and her husband, Bob, could be found most Friday and Saturday afternoons listening to music and watching the passing scene. Friends from Capitola, California, who she encouraged to come, and visitors the couple met over the years sometimes filled three huge tables.
Carol became enamored with the "Savor the Sunset" benefit that takes place again July 19. Last year, she brought a treasure chest she had used at other fundraisers to sell 200 keys, only one of which would open the chest.
The prize was a sizable cash reward. Amazingly, to the surprise of a large number of people who lined up to try their luck - and to Carol - the seventh key opened the chest.
Less than two weeks later, back on the Mainland, Carol suddenly passed away
The talented lady had played a huge role the last few years in designing the couple's new home high above Kaanapali (it later won a major architectural award). Using photos taken showing the couple touring friends through the home under construction and hosting a housewarming were put into a YouTube celebratory video called "Remembering Carol."
The video has had more views (382 and counting) than any video I've ever done. This month, on the anniversary of her passing, her friends returned to Facebook to remember Carol again. And so the power of a beautiful lady with a good heart. Rest in Peace, Carol.
READERS RESPOND: The very busy Liz Bell of the Royal Lahaina Resort writes in this week's letters that the new speed sign on Kaanapali Parkway is absolutely necessary. Her response is compelling.
Ron Brown, another reader, wrote the column that the first time he saw the sign: "I said, 'Wow, that's great!' I wish it wasn't needed, but unfortunately, today's drivers show little concern for the safety of others... hopefully, the speed sign will remind them to slow down. If you want to get rid of the sign, try and find a way to get drivers to mellow out."
The clear choice is between keeping the parkway safer or keeping it prettier. The best course is to keep it safer. Some readers say the sign encourages them to slow down. Others say it is still full speed ahead.
Clocking 70 cars recently produced mixed results. Average speed: 27 mph, two miles above the 25 mph goal. Of 11 speeders going over 30, however, 11 were headed into the resort. One hit 41 mph.
Perhaps an old fashioned approach would have been better. One longtime resident remembers Chester, the security man, parking his vehicle along the parkway and sitting there reading his paper. Spotting him, drivers invariably slowed down.
There is one thing everyone can agree on. There is more traffic - visitors and workers - now flowing into Kaanapali Parkway than ever before
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42 U.S. Code § 12833 - Audits by Comptroller General
The Comptroller General, when the Comptroller General deems it to be appropriate or when requested by the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate or the Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs of the House of Representatives, shall conduct a full financial audit of the records of the HOME Investment Partnerships program for any fiscal year. The report of the Comptroller General shall be submitted promptly to the Secretary and the Congress and shall be published.
The financial transactions of participating jurisdictions and of other recipients of funds provided under this subchapter may, insofar as they relate to funds provided under this subchapter, be audited by the Government Accountability Office under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Comptroller General of the United States. The representatives of the Government Accountability Office shall have access to all books, accounts, records, reports, files, and other papers, things, or property belonging to or in use by such recipients pertaining to such financial transactions and necessary to facilitate the audit.
2004—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 108–271 substituted "Government Accountability Office" for "General Accounting Office" in two places.
1994—Pub. L. 103–233, § 205(1), substituted "Audits by Comptroller General" for "Annual audits and accountability" in section catchline.
Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 103–233, § 205(4), struck out after first sentence "The initiation of an audit for a fiscal year under the previous sentence shall obviate the requirement for an audit by an independent accounting firm under paragraph (a) for that fiscal year."
Pub. L. 103–233, § 205(3)(B), (C), redesignated subsec. (b)(1) as (a) and realigned margins.
Pub. L. 103–233, § 205(2), struck out heading and text of subsec. (a). Text read as follows: "The Secretary, except as provided in paragraph (b)(1), shall contract annually with an independent accounting firm to provide for a full financial audit of the records of the HOME Investment Partnerships program for each fiscal year. Funds available for departmental administration may be used to provide for such audits. Each audit shall be performed as soon as practicable after the close of the fiscal year and in accordance with generally accepted Government auditing standards approved by the Comptroller General of the United States (hereinafter referred to as the 'Comptroller General'), and shall be consistent with the requirements of sections 9105 and 9106 of title 31. The Secretary shall promptly submit the report of the independent accounting firm to the Congress, consistent with the requirements of section 9106 of title 31, and such report shall be published. The requirement for an audit under this section shall be in lieu of the requirement for an audit by the Comptroller General under section 9105(a) of title 31."
Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 103–233, § 205(3), struck out heading "Audits by the Comptroller General.—", redesignated subsec. (b)(2) as (b), and realigned margins.
Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs of House of Representatives treated as referring to Committee on Banking and Financial Services of House of Representatives by section 1(a) of Pub. L. 104–14, set out as a note preceding section 21 of Title 2, The Congress. Committee on Banking and Financial Services of House of Representatives abolished and replaced by Committee on Financial Services of House of Representatives, and jurisdiction over matters relating to securities and exchanges and insurance generally transferred from Committee on Energy and Commerce of House of Representatives by House Resolution No. 5, One Hundred Seventh Congress, Jan. 3, 2001.
Amendment by Pub. L. 103–233 applicable with respect to any amounts made available to carry out this subchapter after Apr. 11, 1994, and any amounts made available to carry out this subchapter before that date that remain uncommitted on that date, with Secretary to issue any regulations necessary to carry out such amendment not later than end of 45-day period beginning on that date, see section 209 of Pub. L. 103–233, set out as a note under section 5301 of this title.
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CHESTER, Pa. (AP) — Police are investigating the death of a man found lying face-down in the backyard of a Philadelphia-area home with gunshot wounds.
WCAU-TV says officers in Chester were called to the home at about 9:30 a.m. Sunday.
They said they found a 22-year-old man lying face-down with gunshot wounds to the back and buttocks. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Investigators said officers had previously responded to the area around 2:15 a.m. Sunday for a report of shots fired but found nothing at the time.
The victim's name has not been released pending notification of relatives. Police have not announced any arrests.


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I feel old. Not that old. I am not even 50 yet. But when people talk about social media like Facebook and Twitter I start to twitter. And not online.
How people get information has changed so much over the past 20 years that you really need a score card.
Don't misunderstand my confusion. But I came up through the ranks the old-school way. We didn't have email when I was a reporter in the mid-80s and fax machines were relatively new. Now who uses a fax machine? They should be outlawed.
Back in the day — or in the 1980s — we did our reporting the only way we knew how. We called people and talked to them or we had face-to-face meetings with our sources.
I used to be amused when a reporter would tell me they emailed questions and were waiting for a response. I know people like to have things in writing so they can ensure they are not misquoted or their comments are "taken out of context" in their mind. But part of the fun of being a journalist is asking questions and not really knowing what you will get as an answer.
These days we have reporters who sometimes ask to use comments off Facebook or Twitter in stories. Again, I am old school and I would rather have the person say it and not post it online.
In my defense I have had a Facebook page for at least five years. I created it about the same time I created a My Space page. The reason five years ago was to keep an eye on my then 15-year-old nephew/Godson and what he was up to.
I never thought about using Facebook as a reporting tool. But I can embrace it and the changes that social media have brought to our profession.
Some newspapers are moving to ridding their websites of anonymous comments by using a comment model that attaches a Facebook account to the poster. It's helped keep the vile and completely uncalled for online comments to a minimum.
We require letter to the editor writers to identify themselves and I think that it's the best policy.
Newspapers like engaged readers — online or in print. It's why we write news stories, editorials, columns and publish news. But we also like civil discussion and for people to feel like they can interact without then becoming the subject of personal attacks.
We live in a digital world. People have BlackBerries, iPhones, iPads and all those gadgets so they can be in the loop 24/7 if they so desire.
Information is powerful. Not having information is a helpless feeling.
Being able to check Facebook to see how my family and friends are doing and see photos of my five nieces and nephews is great. Seeing status updates about life-changing events is sometimes disconcerting. I just am not convinced that learning about someone's death or horrible injury on Facebook is the way to go. But I am willing to listen to the pros and cons.
For better or worse, social media is here to stay. It's no fad. How you use it and how it is moderated is up to you. But in the end, social media has changed us and how we communicate.
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Nick Copeland is an ad man. Correction: was an ad man. He's been living the pretty-good life, but somewhere under the mountain of bills is buried whatever happiness he had. Desperate, Nick looks for work at a job fair, but instead reconnects with an old college friend who's in it even deeper.
Rob Johnson has already lost his wife and a high-paying position in a Manhattan law firm. He's the rock bottom Nick could be, and now with Nick as his mirror, Rob realizes how low he's sunk. To dig themselves out of this hole, they must also dig up two airtight jars of high-grade heroin long buried under their old college football field and figure out how to make a quick sale. Tarantino meets Mamet in this white-knuckle modern-day morality tale.


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Olivia asks Spinelli for help, Matt turns himself in, and McBain hurts for Sam.
At home, Alexis wakes up to a film crew in her face, but Kristina refuses to have them back off. They get total access or she leaves forever. Molly interrupts - Jason has texted. Alexis steps outside and calls Jason. Kristina is being a brat about who Jason killed this time. Alexis comes in and tells them the baby is dead. Kristina gets upset with the camera crew for filming, but that is part of the deal.
At the hotel, Matt takes off his wedding ring and leaves it on the pillow next to Maxie. She wakes up a while later and sees the ring, then the note. She quickly sees he has gone to turn himself in.
Heather visits Dante at the station and asks to see Luke. She wonders how they could arrest him without a dead body. Dante wonders how she knows so much. Matt arrives and wants to talk to Dante. Heather tells him to wait his turn but it can't wait. Dante urges Heather to go home since Luke can't see her anyway. She leaves and Matt tells Dante that he is turning himself in for Lisa's murder. Maxie shows up and begs him to put the ring on, leave with her and live his life. She is not going to change his mind though, and he tells Dante he is ready to give a statement.
At The Floating Rib, Olivia sees Spinelli passed out in a booth and wakes him up. She realizes he was there all night and asks him if he saw Heather. He is not sure because he was so drunk. Olivia thinks Heather is hiding something and maybe Spinelli can help her figure out what it is. Heather shows up and wonders what they are talking about. She thinks the bartender likes her and Olivia thinks that's weird because he doesn't remember her. Heather is miffed Olivia is checking up on her, then checks her watch and leaves to meet Steven Lars. Spinelli sees what Olivia is talking about and agrees to help her.
In his motel room, McBain finds out from the hospital that Sam's baby didn't make it. Anna shows up and comes in. She wonders how he feels and he tells her about Sam losing the baby. Anna is worried he is feeling guilty. He is confused because the baby was healthy. He went to get the car, but was jumped. When he came back Sam was gone. She guesses the thugs were from Jason. McBain thinks if it weren't for him, maybe Sam would not have been there and could have gotten to the hospital in time. Now they will never know. Anna insists on taking him to the hospital.
In her room, Téa asks to see her baby. Todd tells her the baby is dead. She accuses him of killing her baby. Todd wakes up – it was a dream. Téa is holding the baby and is so happy right now. Steve comes in and tells them they can be discharged today. However, the baby has a potentially serious blood disorder, common with people of Italian or Greek ancestry. She is confused because she is 100 percent Puerto Rican. If she stays one more day in Port Charles, they can order the tests so she can know right away. Todd tells her he has a plane at PC airport and they can do the tests in Llanview. She agrees and he leaves to get a car.
Sam is in her room holding her son, but then wakes up and her arms are empty. Jason tells her it is going to be okay, but how can it be when her baby is dead? She just doesn't understand why John did not come back. Jason tries to explain something to her about the baby, but she is too upset to let him go on. As they are arguing, Alexis, Kristina and Molly show up. Sam tells them what happened while Jason leaves the room. He listens outside while she tells them about John not returning. He walks off and then Todd walks up and listens in on Sam. She must have passed out and when she woke up, Jason was there and the baby was dead. Alexis leaves to get Dr. Lee and runs into Todd outside. She warns him to stay away. She finds Jason and he tells her he is sorry about the baby. She wonders if he really is. She blames Jason for not being there for Sam. Inside, the girls say goodbye. Sam leaves the room and sees Téa in the hallway with her baby.
Todd comes back to Téa's room and Heather soon enter. She wants to have a chat. Outside, Jason and John run into each other.
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Sam has a realization.
Anna takes the job.
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PRINCETON — Kevin Baggett isn't making any excuses. Neither is Anthony Myles.
Simply put, Rider wasn't anywhere near good enough to beat Princeton Thursday night at Jadwin Gym.
"They made us look like a bad team today," said Baggett after the Broncs turned in a woeful performance in a 62-45 loss.
Rider's 45 points was a season low. It also scored 46 in a loss to Stony Brook on Nov. 13.
The Broncs, who were coming off an 11-day layoff, struggled from the field, connecting on just 36.4 percent (16 of 44, 3 of 10 from behind the arc) of their shots.
"If anything, I thought it helped us out," said junior guard Anthony Myles, who finished with a team-high 18 points. "We had more than enough time to prepare for this game. It's kind of disappointing when we don't execute the things we rehearsed."
The problem right now: Myles pointed it out in the locker room after the game.
"We're struggling to find out what our identity is," Baggett said. "That's pretty much why we're 6-6. We've been inconsistent. Aside from this game, we've been in every game and had an opportunity to win. We've gone backward the last two games."
In a 13-point loss to Fairfield, Rider turned it over 30 times. Thursday night, it couldn't generate any points.
So what gives with the offensive woes?
Too much one-on-one?
"No question," Baggett said.
Said Myles: "We made it difficult on ourselves. We were stagnant on offense and we have that problem a lot. We have to get out of that."
Once again, the Broncs got very little from Nurideen Lindsey. The junior guard — he missed the last two days of practice with strep throat — finished with four points on 2 of 9 shooting.
Danny Stewart was invisible against the Tigers' big front line, getting shut out.
"We have to execute the principles we practice," Myles said. "We have to do the things coach tells us to do. Sometimes we try to go off and do our own thing and that's what gets us in trouble."
The defense wasn't good enough either.
Princeton outscored Rider in the paint, 44-22, and got nine second-chance points to the Broncs' three.
"They got easy layups, back door layups — really anything they wanted for the most part," Baggett said. "They made us struggle to score and everything that we shot or drove to the basket was contested and everything they shot was uncontested."
The Broncs aren't back in action until Dec. 28 when they travel to Rutgers.
Time to straighten things out?
"We're just not good right now," said Baggett, who hinted that changes could be coming as he looks for any kind of spark for his sputtering squad.
NOTES: Princeton's Ian Hummer passed Geoff Petrie for eighth place on the school's all-time scoring list. Petrie had 1,321 points. … Will Barrett left the game in the second half after banging his right thigh. He did not return, but coach Mitch Henderson said he expects him to be OK. … Rider freshman Myles Melville, who spent time at the Hun School, scored his first career points.


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BERWICK, Pa., Nov. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Operators at PPL's Susquehanna nuclear power plant reconnected Unit 2 to the regional power grid Thursday (11/29) after repairing a hydraulic system associated with the unit's main turbine.
The hydraulic system operates valves that enable steam to bypass the turbine during startup and certain operating conditions.
"We made repairs and, as part of our normal process for resolving plant issues, we also inspected the soundness of other related equipment," said Timothy S. Rausch, PPL Susquehanna senior vice president and chief nuclear officer.
Plant operators detected the leaks as part of routine inspections during startup procedures while at very low power levels. Operators then followed established procedures and safely shut down Unit 2 to allow for repairs.
The oil leaks did not affect employee or public safety. Employees quickly cleaned up the leaks and properly disposed of the oil.
Unit 1 continues operating safely at full power.
The Susquehanna plant, located in Luzerne County about seven miles north of Berwick, is owned jointly by PPL Susquehanna LLC and Allegheny Electric Cooperative Inc. and is operated by PPL Susquehanna LLC.
PPL Susquehanna LLC is one of PPL Corporation's generating affiliates. Headquartered in Allentown, Pa., PPL Corporation (NYSE: PPL) owns or controls through its subsidiaries about 19,000 megawatts of generating capacity in the United States, sells energy in key U.S. markets, and delivers electricity and natural gas to about 10 million customers in the United States and the United Kingdom. More information is available at www.pplweb.com.
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Whether or not you agree with the views of Chelsea Police Chief Brian Kyes about medical marijuana, it's hard to dispute one point he makes in today's Globe: "It's a complicated issue."
Nearly two-thirds of Massachusetts voters supported the ballot question that authorizes patients with a "debilitating" medical condition and certification from their doctor to buy marijuana from up to 35 dispensaries set to be opened next year. Now comes the hard work of implementing the law.
There are zoning ordinances to change to account for the siting of the centers and police policies to adjust. The Department of Public Health is charged with writing the state rules to guide the program. I write in today's story that the department has been troubled lately by budget cuts and two major crises. It will play a big role in implementation, including determining just how much drug a patient can possess and setting operating procedures for the dispensaries.
One point not mentioned in today's story is that the law allows for limited home-growing of the drug. Here's what the ballot measure says:
The Department shall issue a cultivation registration to a qualifying patient whose access to a medical treatment center is limited by verified financial hardship, a physical incapacity to access reasonable transportation, or the lack of a treatment center within a reasonable distance of the patient's residence. The Department may deny a registration based on the provision of false information by the applicant. Such registration shall allow the patient or the patient's personal caregiver to cultivate a limited number of plants, sufficient to maintain a 60-day supply of marijuana, and shall require cultivation and storage only in an enclosed, locked facility.
The department shall issue regulations consistent with this section within 120 days of the effective date of this law. Until the department issues such final regulations, the written recommendation of a qualifying patient's physician shall constitute a limited cultivation registration.
That's worrying to the Small Property Owners Association, which represents people who own small rental properties in Massachusetts. The group sent a flier to lawmakers expressing various concerns -- "rental properties are not greenhouses," it said -- including whether landlords could run afoul of federal law if people grow the drug in their apartments.
The federal government has moved in other states to seize properties that are home to dispensaries, and it historically has used civil asset forfeiture laws in drug cases. In Montana, where medical marijuana is legal, a property owner pleaded guilty in federal court in May to "maintaining drug-involved premises."
The group asked for an amendment to the law allowing property owners to "opt out" of renting to people who grow marijuana. "Alternatively, the Legislature could prohibit marijuana growing entirely in residential properties," it said.
Earlier this week, Matt Allen, director of the Massachusetts Patient Advocacy Alliance, a group that pushed for the law, said "the people of Massachusetts have spoken."
"We look forward to working closely with patients and the state to ensure an implementation process that will make the Massachusetts medical marijuana program the safest and most secure medical treatment program in the country," he said.Chelsea Conaboy can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow her on Twitter @cconaboy.


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A woman carefully navigates a torrential downpour as she pulls into the kind of hardware store in a kind of town where everyone has known everyone for most of their lives. It's also the kind of hardware store that specializes in game meat processing for extra flavor. She procures a flashlight, a length of rope, a metal pipe and other materials that would perhaps raise a few eyebrows should this kindly appearing woman be a grizzly transient. But the woman doesn't appear well. Her hands shake and raspy, blood-splattering coughs rattle from her throat.
Doomsday Book is a South Korean anthology film from directors and co-writers Kim Ji-woon and Yim Pil-sung. Through the course of three, forty-five minute segments we are pulled through the final moments leading to possible apocalyptic events. Literally translated to English the title reads "Report on the Destruction of Mankind". Though the subject matter may call to mind a host of grimly violent, depressive, and stomach churning cannibalistic fare (see what I did there?) the segments are nicely balanced with a healthy dose of humor and hope.
Mainstream apocalypse fiction is an interesting contradiction. We see in these films, tv shows, and pieces of literature the representation of our own mass destruction and the uncanny entertainment that comes with witnessing the ultimate in violent spectacle. Though occupying unique tiers of fun and the sublime, the pervasiveness of current apocalypse narratives hints at a spreading anxiety concerning government and financial institutions as well as the relationship of humanity to the natural world.
On a scale of potential carnage, putting a substitute teacher in front of a class of 6th graders ranks just below taking Stephen Hawking shopping at the Monroeville Mall. There are few things more exciting for a 12 year old than the prospect of blowing a whole class period goofing off, lying about names and pushing boundaries.


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Have you noticed any trends that would help in promoting our group's website? What are other people using to promote their site?
Trends that have been noticed are (1 feb 2012) (* our recommendations are noted in each section):
- Website -- groups/associations
- the vast majority of sites have a website, however, a small, but growing number of groups/associations are using Facebook as their only "web presence vehicle". The vast amount of websites are mostly static (very few changes to the sites) other than updating of upcoming concert dates or their discography. Most will now have a button leading to secondary interactive vehicles such as Facebook, YouTube, MySpace etc.
- * A website is highly recommended even if you have a Facebook account. Caveat: Facebook reaches 800 million users, HOWEVER, the vast majority of people are NOT on Facebook. Groups using Facebook as their main website will NOT reach those without a Facebook account. At the very least, groups/associations should have a website with corresponding domain name.
- Domain Name
- the vast majority of websites have a domain name corresponding to their own group/association name. For example: "EarlyMusicNew.org" (our official name) is found by surfing by browsing to the "http://www.EarlyMusicNews.org" site; our parent company name is "parEntreprise" and may be found on the web at "http://www.parEntreprise.com". However, a small segment of performance group have not as yet acquired a corresponding domain name, but these are in the minority.
- * A corresponding domain name is highly recommended. It is also suggested that groups/organizations acquire the country code name instead of the .com/.org/.net unless you are anticipating bases in other countries. For example "NotaBeneBaroque", based in Waterloo Ontario Canada, has acquired its corresponding Canadian country domain name and may be found at "http://www.NotaBeneBaroque.ca". Using a corresponding country code domain name give the group additional branding and the general public will associate the site with the originating country base for the group. Should you wish to protect your group/association brand name, you may consider then acquiring the international .com/.net/org version of your domain name.
- Website sound files
- some websites make use of a music player offering excerpts of recorded music -- the music player offers visitors to "stop/pause/play the music. A growing segment is leaving full sound clips of complete movements. It seems the average number of sound files numbers around 5 clips, although, there seems to be growth in sites offering a larger variety of sound files making a visit to their site a better "auditory" experience. Some sites are offering website visitors mp3 sound clips without a player.
- * Highly recommended especially for a group engaged in performance, the mp3 format is still the most preferred format, "vogg orbis" format is available to those who are worried about mp3 licensing issues.
- Facebook site (or alternatives to Facebook)
- the vast majority of groups have a Facebook site. The groups make serious use of Facebook's ease at "feeding" visitor's attention/curiosity with updates. It seems that most groups/organizations will have specific individuals associated with the group/organization maintaining the sites on a regular weekly basis as well as monitoring the comments
- *Highly recommended. Caveat: Facebook reaches 800 million users, HOWEVER, the vast majority of people are NOT on Facebook. Groups using Facebook as their main website will NOT reach those without a Facebook account.
- Photo album site
- the vast majority are posting photos on their site, a growing segment are using their Facebook sites as a photo repository, some are using photo upload sites for ease of use such a Google Picasa Web or FlickR etc.
- * Highly recommended, especially if posted on a website. Visitors seem to appreciate photos greatly! Photos will also add face recognition to the group. Caveat: a Facebook album/photos reaches 800 million users, HOWEVER, the vast majority of people are NOT on Facebook. Groups using Facebook as their main photo repository will NOT reach those without a Facebook account.
- YouTube site (or alternatives to YouTube)
- a fast growing segment of performance groups are using YouTube to promote their group by posting videos of some performances or "pre-performance" events such as rehearsals or individual performances.
- A very small segment are posting complete concerts on their site, however, this is highly unusual as such streams may ultimately slow the site down for other users or, may in fact use up the amount of allocated bandwidth to the site's contracted download/upload agreement. In such cases, hosting services may close the site down temporarily until the site owner agrees to the purchase of further bandwidth.
- * Recommended -- YouTube (or similar) account, especially if you are a performance group OR if you are not offering sound files on your website. NOT RECOMMENDED if the video is of poor quality as the visual message may affect the group negatively.
- a fast growing segment of performance groups are using YouTube to promote their group by posting videos of some performances or "pre-performance" events such as rehearsals or individual performances.
- Electronic Newsletter (E-News)
- larger groups are making effective use of their newsletter mailouts by targeting their ticket/audience user base. Unfortunately, the newsletter option is NOT used by the vast majority of performance groups. In order to use the newsletter option, a group must start collecting email addresses from audience members as well as advertise the newsletter on their website with an option of signing up to the newsletter is also necessary.
- * Highly recommended for ALL groups. Targeted mailouts such as newsletters are very efficient marketing and promotion tools.
- Twitter
- some active groups are using Twitter, whereas the vast majority of sites are NOT making use of the"Twitter" option. (* The Twitter option seems a little excessive for smaller groups where there is not enough interest from group members to "twitter" pertinent information to listeners)
- * NOT RECOMMENDED unless groups are prepared to devote the time spent updating OFTEN.
- Funding Strategies
- most performance groups/associations are making use of some form of funding strategies. Most of these groups have a "Donate" button strategically placed on their websites.
- * Highly recommended. Generally speaking, most of these groups have gained "non-profit" status, making use of tax exemption options.
- most performance groups/associations are making use of some form of funding strategies. Most of these groups have a "Donate" button strategically placed on their websites.
- Corporate Sponsoship
- Most larger associations and some performance groups have garnered some form of corporate sponsorship to help with certain projects.
- * Highly recommended if running a festival/workshop or for associations without corporate sponsorship. In most cases, corporate sponsorship will depend on the group achieving "non-profit" status.


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- The streak, as bright as a full moon, was a meteor 1 yard in diameter, NASA says
- It entered the atmosphere over Pennsylvania, heading toward the Atlantic
- The FAA says it fielded calls about meteor sightings from Virginia to Maine
- The night light show spurs a flurry of activity on social media
The streaking ball of fire Friday night above the East Coast did not, alas, signal the end to civilization as we know it.
Though you might get that sense from social media.
The sky lit up along the U.S. Eastern Seaboard with reports of "a thin streak of blue-greenish-white" from people like Chip Guy, who was driving in eastern Maryland when he and his family he spotted it.
"It didn't last more than eight or nine seconds, then it disappeared," said Guy, a spokesman for Sussex County, Delaware. "Frankly, I didn't think too much of it."
But his tune changed once he posted something about the presumed meteor on a local social media web page, which triggered a quick and hearty response.
That was just the tip of the online iceberg. Through Friday night, new reports of meteor sightings appeared every few seconds on Twitter, some of them from the metropolises of New York City and Washington.
"OMG I saw a real meteor in the Brooklyn's sky," wrote one person on Twitter, with the handle Curious Sergey. "It's all over the news now! I thought it is some kind of firework..."
The Federal Aviation Administration fielded calls about a meteor from Virginia to Maine, said agency spokeswoman Arlene Salac.
So what exactly was it?
Michael Kucharek, a spokesman for NORAD, said his agency heard about the sightings, too, and can confirm it was not from anything man-made, such as a plane or falling satellite.
On Saturday, Bill Cooke from NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office explained that the bright, fast-flying object was, in fact, a meteor.
The space agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory defines a meteor as "light phenomena" from a meteoroid -- which is itself a comet or asteroid orbiting the sun -- that "enters the Earth's atmosphere and vaporizes."
It made for quite a show, producing a fireball as bright as a full moon and spurring more than 630 visual reports to be submitted to the American Meteor Society, as it soared southwest into the Atlantic Ocean.
But just because it was bright doesn't mean it was big. The meteor was one yard in diameter, about the size of an exercise ball, when it entered the atmosphere over eastern Pennsylvania, said Cooke.
That's still big enough potentially to produce meteorites -- which are meteoroids, or fragments thereof, that do manage to hit the Earth -- before burning completely. If it did, though, they fell harmlessly into the Atlantic, according to Cooke.
As anyone who has seen a shooting star can attest, it's hardly unprecedented for otherworldly objects to enter the Earth's atmosphere. And some of them do strike our planet, though they tend to be small when they do and strike unpopulated areas on land or plunge into the world's oceans.
There are exceptions, like the massive asteroid that many experts believe killed off dinosaurs. More recently, a meteor exploded over the steppes of southwestern Russia on February 15, a blast that scientists at Canada's University of Western Ontario estimated had the energy of about 30 early nuclear bombs.
The related flash and boom shattered glass in buildings and left about 1,000 people hurt, authorities said.
There were no confirmed reports Friday night that the greenish streak spotted by so many actually impacted anywhere.
Even if it didn't, the mere possibility was enough to send chills down some stargazers' spines.
"Seriously, after that massive meteor in california a few weeks ago, the one that hit russia, and now this hugee one tonight," wrote a Twitter user by the name of Olivia, referring to the Russia incident and a mass shooting star sighting on the West Coast last night. "Little scaryy."


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The Olympic Gear You Need for Winter Sporting
- Najib Benouar
One of the best things that happens every Olympics is the trickle-down of all the new performance-enhancing gear that hits the market.
And after spending the past four years in the lab with the world's greatest athletes, most of it ends up becoming available to the public. Which is great, should you be planning on any recreational alpinism in the near future—or looking for a little competitive edge at the annual company ski retreat. (This year, you're going to crush the three-legged biathlon.)
So we've assembled the skis, parkas, precision rifles and other new gear designed to give mere mortals an Olympian edge...»


text: Carver planning officials are considering a new town program to to fix up foreclosed houses and sell them to first-time home buyers. The town has suffered from the foreclosure crisis of the last five years. It ranks 10th per capita in the state in foreclosures, with a total of 89 housing properties foreclosed on, according to Town Planner Jack Hunter. The plan would involve combining a small initial grant from the town's Community Preservation Act with state money, available from the federal Housing and Urban Development program, to return foreclosed houses to the market, with a nonprofit agency buying and selling them. The idea originated from a statement by chairman Michael O'Donnell that the town should fix up its abandoned houses and sell them to new owners.


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You know that day when you plan your life. You will get married, have some children, travel, and grow old together. He laughs about it that he will be chasing you around with his cane in the nursing home. Then one day you wake up and the doctor is telling you that the one you love has Alzheimer. To start making plans with how and when life is going to end. He is young by the standard of what people call old age...only 60 years young.
I was the primary caregiver for my mother, Mama Hawk, for 5 years. She lost her battle with Alzheimer's in June 2012. After her death, I decided to share what I learned and documented it at mamahawksjourney.com in hopes that it may help others on the same journey.
Last July, my wife Esther started acting strangely. I had noticed that her memory had been spotty for about 3 years prior to this incident, but I was finally forced to have her admitted to a nursing facility for dementia. After downsizing and selling our home where we had lived for about 40 years, I was unable to sleep one night and the opening lines of the following poem came to me, so I got up and jotted them down:
Where is the girl I used to know?
I thought I saw her a minute ago,
With her long brown hair, falling free,


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get diskusage of files (in this case logfiles in /var/log) modified during the last n days:
sudo find /var/log/ -mtime -n -type f | xargs du -ch
n -> last modified n*24 hours ago
Numeric arguments can be specified as
+n for greater than n,
-n for less than n,
n for exactly n.
=> so 7*24 hours (about 7 days) is -7
sudo find /var/log/ -mtime -7 -type f | xargs du -ch | tail -n1
Show Sample Output
1. find file greater than 10 MB 2. direct it to xargs 3. xargs pass them as argument to ls Show Sample Output
this command works with one gziped file per table, and restore 4 tables in parallel. Show Sample Output
This command changes all filename and directories within a directory tree to unaccented ones. I had to do this to 'sanitize' some samba-exported trees. The reason it works might seem a little difficult to see at first - it first reverses-sort by pathname length, then it renames only the basename of the path. This way it'll always go in the right order to rename everything. Some notes: 1. You'll have to have the 'unaccent' command. On Ubuntu, just aptitude install unaccent. 2. In this case, the encoding of the tree was UTF-8 - but you might be using another one, just adjust the command to your encoding. 3. The program might spit a few harmless errors saying the files are the same - not to fear.
Sqlite database keeps collecting cruft as time passes, which can be cleaned by the 'vacuum;' command. This command cleans up the cruft in all sqlite files relating to the user you have logged in as. This command has to be run when firefox is not running, or it will exit displaying the pid of the firefox running.
List files and sizes
You can also use, $ find . -depth -type d -exec rmdir {} \; 2>/dev/null
Alter "AddHandler php5-cgi .php" and "AddHandler php4-cgi .php" entries to new "AddHandler x-httpd-php5 .php" respective php4 entries in all .htaccess files under /var/www Show Sample Output
The `-q' arg forces tail to not output the name of the current file
Character: "?" is the Byte Order Mark (BOM) of the Unicode Standard. Specifically it is the hex bytes EF BB BF, which form the UTF-8 representation of the BOM, misinterpreted as ISO 8859/1 text instead of UTF-8. Show Sample Output
I used this to copy all PDFs recursively to a selected dir
Using a GUI file managers you can merge directories (cut and paste). This command roughly does the same (it doesn't ask for confirmation (no problem for me) and it doesn't clean up the empty SRC directories (no problem, trivial).
probably does the same:
cp -l SRC TARGET; rm -rf SRC
diff is designed to compare two files. You can also compare directories. In this form, bash uses 'process substitution' in place of a file as an input to diff. Each input to diff can be filtered as you choose. I use find and egrep to select the files to compare.
Best to put it in a file somewhere in your path. (I call the file spath) #!/bin/bash IFS=:; find $PATH | grep $1 Usage: $ spath php Show Sample Output
This command will find the biggest files recursively under a certain directory, no matter if they are too many. If you try the regular commands ("find -type f -exec ls -laSr {} +" or "find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 ls -laSr") the sorting won't be correct because of command line arguments limit. This command won't use command line arguments to sort the files and will display the sorted list correctly. Show Sample Output
-exec works better and faster then using a pipe
Simple command to convert a large number of images into jpeg-format. Will delete originals after conversion.
commandlinefu.com is the place to record those command-line gems that you return to again and again. That way others can gain from your CLI wisdom and you from theirs too. All commands can be commented on, discussed and voted up or down.
Automatic ssh Session Logger
flatcap 3
Every Nth line position # (SED)
oshazard 1
backup and remove files with access time older than 5 days.
angleto 7
Top 10 requestors by IP address from Apache/NCSA Logs
flip387 3
Mount a windows partition in a dual boot linux installation with write permission...[Read and Write]
RonaldConco 1
online MAC address lookup
bandie91 2
calulate established tcp connection of local machine
twfcc 1
get you public ip address
VxJasonxV 4
Every new command is wrapped in a tweet and posted to Twitter. Following the stream is a great way of staying abreast of the latest commands. For the more discerning, there are Twitter accounts for commands that get a minimum of 3 and 10 votes - that way only the great commands get tweeted.
» http://twitter.com/commandlinefu
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Use your favourite RSS aggregator to stay in touch with the latest commands. There are feeds mirroring the 3 Twitter streams as well as for virtually every other subset (users, tags, functions,…):
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Capillary nail refill test
The capillary nail refill test is a quick test done on the nail beds. It is used to monitor dehydration and the amount of blood flow to tissue.
How is the Test Performed?
Pressure is applied to the nail bed until it turns white. This indicates that the blood has been forced from the tissue. It is called blanching. Once the tissue has blanched, pressure is removed.
While the patient holds their hand above their heart, the health care provider measures the time it takes for blood to return to the tissue. Return of blood is indicated by the nail turning back to a pink color.
Preparation for the Test
Remove colored nail polish before this test.
How will the Test Feel?
There will be minor pressure to the bed of your nail. This should not cause discomfort.
Why is the Test Performed?
Tissues need oxygen to survive. Oxygen is carried to various parts of the body by the blood (vascular) system.
This test measures how well the vascular system works in your hands and feet -- the parts of your body that are farthest from the heart.
Normal Results for Capillary nail refill test
If there is good blood flow to the nail bed, a pink color should return in less than 2 seconds after pressure is removed.
What Abnormal Results Mean
Blanch times that are greater than 2 seconds may indicate:
- Dehydration
- Shock
- Peripheral vascular disease (PVD)
- Hypothermia
White CJ. Atherosclerotic peripheral arterial diseases. In: Goldman L, Schafer AI, eds. Cecil Medicine. 24th ed. Philadelphia, Pa.: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 79.
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Reviewed By: David C. Dugdale, III, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine. Also reviewed by A.D.A.M. Health Solutions, Ebix, Inc., Editorial Team: David Zieve, MD, MHA, Bethanne Black, Stephanie Slon, and Nissi Wang.
Further information
Always consult your healthcare provider to ensure the information displayed on this page applies to your personal circumstances.
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Multipurpose Meeting Rooms
Multipurpose Meeting Rooms are designed to support a broad array of community interests and needs by providing businesses, nonprofit organizations, and community groups with access to semiprivate open format meeting space.
Applications for the use of a Multipurpose Meeting Room may be made online through the Library District's website or by contacting the branch where the requested meeting room is located. The Library District requires a seventy-two (72) hour lead time for the processing of online applications. Library customers applying the use of a meeting room within seventy-two (72) hours or less of the meeting time should contact library staff directly. Early notification of cancellations is encouraged.
In addition to Library Policy C250, Library District staff shall manage the Multipurpose Meeting Room reservations in accordance with the following regulations:
When conflicts arise between the proposed use of the Library District's Meeting Rooms and regulations presented in this policy, the Board of Trustees of the St. Charles City-County Library District shall have the final authority in granting or refusing permission for use of the rooms.
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Why NSA's Betrayal Of Internet Security Is Akin To A Massive Public Health Disaster
from the infectious-ideas dept
I think there's a good case to be made for security as an exercise in public health. It sounds weird at first, but the parallels are fascinating and deep and instructive.Here's the basic insight:
If you discovered that your government was hoarding information about water-borne parasites instead of trying to eradicate them; if you discovered that they were more interested in weaponising typhus than they were in curing it, you would demand that your government treat your water-supply with the gravitas and seriousness that it is due.Because that is precisely what the spying agencies are doing: they are intentionally withholding vital information about threats to your digital health -- the fact that programs you use are vulnerable to infections with malware, or that key security technologies you depend upon have backdoors -- regardless of the serious consequences this might have for you. If you try to imagine doctors doing the same in the case of equivalent threats to your health, you begin to get an idea of the depth of betrayal felt by computer professionals here. Doctorow goes on to point out that this is not just a matter of personal harm; the NSA and GCHQ are degrading the basic digital infrastructure of modern life:
This is the most alarming part of the Snowden revelations: not just that spies are spying on all of us -- that they are actively sabotaging all of our technical infrastructure to ensure that they can continue to spy on us.Doctorow is right on both counts: we can't allow the NSA and GCHQ to withhold vital information that endangers the digital fabric of society, and the way to stop them is to use this public health metaphor to get that message across to politicians and the general public.
There is no way to weaken security in a way that makes it possible to spy on "bad guys" without making all of us vulnerable to bad guys, too. The goal of national security is totally incompatible with the tactic of weakening the nation's information security.
"Virus" has been a term of art in the security world for decades, and with good reason. It's a term that resonates with people, even people with only a cursory grasp of technology. As we strive to make the public and our elected representatives understand what's at stake, let's expand that pathogen/epidemiology metaphor. We'd never allow MI5 to suppress information on curing typhus so they could attack terrorists by infecting them with it. We need to stop allowing the NSA and GCHQ to suppress information on fixing bugs in our computers, phones, cars, houses, planes, and bodies.
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Card games at the Cullens
It is game night at the Cullen's and when Bella is thrown in the mix, we find out if she's really part of the family. It's a comedy for everyone.
This is my first one! I hope you like it
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This is perfect. Just Edward and I sitting in his room, listening to music and him holding me in his arms. We sat like this for what seemed like forever. We both hummed to the beat of the music while we both laid there and closed our eyes. I was wearing a pair of his comfortable pajama pants and his over sized T-shirt. It was really cold and wet outside. The best part of staying at the Cullen's was the yummy smell of freshly baked cookies. Esme started to watch Emeril on food network and learned how to make these cookies just for me. I'm pretty sure that I ate at least five of them in a matter of ten minutes, they were so good. I wanted to stay like this forever; being in my boyfriend's arms, relaxing, and having a belly full of chocolate chip cookies. I suddenly heard this beautiful sound, like bells ringing in my ear. I knew this sound; I could identify it if I was a mile away. As I kept hearing the sound of laughter, I opened my eyes and gave Edward an agitated look.
"Um…excuse me but you just ruined the moment here." But as I said that, he just kept laughing. Annoyed, I sat up and crossed my arms over my chest thinking he was laughing at me or something. It took him a minute to calm down but when he came to his senses he realized that he hurt my feelings. He grabbed my face and looked into my eyes with such intensity.
"Bella…I'm not laughing at you I promise." Even though at first I didn't believe him, what he did next changed my mind. He leaned in and kissed me softly which made me forget everything. Of course, he pulled away too soon and I knew if I protested he'd get mad and then I would definitely ruin the moment. I definitely didn't want that.
"Then why were you laughing?" I asked, adding a sad puppy face for added impact.
"I'm sorry love, but I couldn't help myself. I just heard Emmett saying to Alice and Jasper how he wants to play a game B.S,"
"B.S? What the heck is that?"
"It's a card game. You deal everyone the cards and the person with the ace of spades goes first. That person takes all their aces and places them on the table face down and says the number of aces they have. The next person does the same thing but they go to the next number which would be two's. It keeps circling around the table, and every person is on a different number card."
"But what if you don't have the cards that you need?"
"Well that's when B.S comes into play. Let's say your number is nine but you don't have any nine's. Well you would lie, so you'd take any card from your hand, put it face down, and say one nine. If no one catches you, the next person can take their turn and put down their cards. But if someone looks at their hand and they have four nine's, then they know you're lying and can say B.S! If they're wrong, they have to take all the cards in the discard pile. But if not, you have to take all the cards in the discard pile. Whoever runs out of cards, wins!"
"Okay. But I still don't understand, why is that so amusing?"
"Because, out of all the B.S games that this family has played, how many times do you think Emmett has won?" asked Edward, staring into my eyes as if he was challenging me.
"Um…I don't know. I'm guessing not many?"
"Exactly. And you and I both know my family has been around for a long time. He has always lost and I think it's killing him. I just don't understand why he keeps trying. I can read minds and Alice can see the future. That alone should make him not want to play us. But no, Emmett has to try and win everything. And besides, even if we didn't have powers, Emmett is horrible at B.S."
"Why do you think he's so bad?" I asked, wondering how any of the Cullen's could be bad at anything. It just seemed impossible to me.
"You wouldn't believe it, but Emmett has a terrible poker face," said Edward, who got up, pulled me off the bed and led me out of his room laughing.
"This will be interesting."
"Oh darling, it will. I hope you have a good poker face," said Edward, as he kissed my cheek. I could tell right off the bat that this would be interesting indeed.
We walked down the stairs to find the whole family gathered at the kitchen table. You could tell that Emmett was the dealer because he wore one of those poker visors and a T-shirt with a picture of dogs playing poker. To sum it up, he looked ridiculous. They obviously knew we were coming down to play. There were two chairs pulled out for Edward and I, we each had our hand dealt out to us and my favorite cup filled with ice water was waiting for me at my seat. We sat down and I noticed that Esme and Carlisle weren't playing. I wasn't really surprised because I know that Esme and Carlisle usually like to stay out of these types of things.
"Bella, Edward, Alice, Jasper, and Rose…are you ready?" asked Emmett slowly, as if we were about to go into some type of war or something. Edward, Jasper, Carlisle, Esme and I all started laughing while Rosalie and Alice just rolled their eyes.
"C'mon you guys." Emmett said to Alice and Rosalie. "Get your head in the game because your about to witness something great! Okay…look at your hands. Who has the ace of spades?" We all shuffled through the cards and lucky me, I had it.
"I have it." I put my cards in order from Ace to Kings and took all my aces, put them face down and said, "Two Aces." It continued clockwise so it was Edwards turn.
"One Two"
The game was going good until it was Emmett's turn. He had sixes and he kept shuffling through his cards as if he lost something. He looked up at us with an unsure expression on his face.
"Uh…two sixes." There's no way he was telling the truth, he just kept darting his eyes back and forth, trying to ignore the stares.
"B.S.?" I said, not really sure of what I was doing. Edward reached for the stack of cards, flipped the top two cards over and they were both sixes.
"Ha! I tricked you Bella. I knew you'd be easy. You see ladies, gentlemen… (pauses to look at Edward)...boys. I have been practicing since our last game and now I'm better than before. I am going to win if it's the last thing I do!" said Emmett as he pumped a fist in the air. We all just sat there staring at Emmett and looking confused. There was this long awkward silence.
"…….Three sevens." Rosalie placed her card down on the table where the discarded pile used to be until I took all the cards. The women started giggling out loud while the men couldn't help them selves and laughed loudly but played it off as a bad cough. Once everyone calmed down, the game continued. After it went around the table, it ended back at Emmett again. This time he was Queens and before he even had time to register what he had in his hand, Edward cried, "B.S!"
"Wait what??? I didn't even put down any cards yet!" whined Emmett, like he was in first grade. But all Edward did was just smile and point to his head. Well that did it.
"What!!! You cheater! You know the rules. No super powers during the game. Technically, you should be thrown out!" yelled Emmett, standing at his feet.
"Doesn't matter Emmett, you're going to lose anyway," said Alice as if she's seen this somewhere before.
"No way. Not this time. Not this day. I will triumph. You've been wrong before when it comes to visions Alice, and this will be one of them. Mark my words. Now, what do you have to say to that?" Emmett said with a hint of danger in his voice.
"…Pick up the cards, Emmett." A little embarrassed, he picked up the medium sized pile while we all choked back our laughs. But it was really hard to do that when he could barely hold his overflowing cards in his hands without dropping them. As the game continued on, our hands got smaller and smaller. Even Emmett, who had successfully gotten rid of most of his cards and he was being very smug about it.
"B.S." said a voice near to me. I turned to see that Edward was calling B.S on Rosalie. This was obviously the first time this game someone called her out and I could tell she didn't like it one bit…and neither did Emmett.
"Oh C'mon, what are you doing?" yelled Emmett, once again at his feet.
"Um…I called B.S. on Rose. You know, dear brother of mine that is what you're supposed to do. You'd think that you'd know this by now, considering how many times someone has said it to you," replied Edward, with his smooth and velvet voice. I didn't know what I wanted to do, laugh at his comment or kiss him.
"Emmett, it's just a game. You don't have to be all noble. Get over it already," Rosalie said while she rolled her eyes. I could have called B.S on Rosalie a couple times during the game but I was honestly too scared. Next thing I know, Alice was sitting across from me bouncing up and down in her seat with such excitement.
"Alice, what is it?" asked jasper with a serious look in his face. I wish I knew Jasper better, but I think ever since the birthday incident he's been trying to avoid me.
"Nothing, nothing, nothing!!!" sung Alice. She must have noticed all our confused faces and just responded with, "You'll see." We all left it at that and continued the game. A little later it was my turn and I was Kings. I didn't have any of those cards, which meant I would have to lie for the first time in the game. I was kind of nervous because I wasn't sure about my poker face skills. I picked up a two and a five, laid them face down on the table and said, "Two Kings."
I didn't know who said it, I looked around and saw Alice with her mouth opened shaped like a perfect "O" and looking to the person next to me. I turned and I saw Edward with a very big grin on his face.
"Excuse me? Are you sure about that?" I asked, giving him a sly, innocent smile.
"I'm sorry, did you not understand me? B.S!" Jasper leaned over, picked up the two cards and they showed the two and the five. They caught me and I couldn't believe Edward, we were a team.
"Don't get mad, Bella. It's just a game." Said Edward, while he was trying to dazzle me with his penetrating eyes and his wide smile. I stared at him with the most fearful eyes I could render and leaned over and picked up the not so small pile of cards. The game continued and didn't have to lie again because I pretty much had all the cards. I had to keep saying B.S. to the ones who were lying which made their piles go up and mine go down. I had only seven cards left. I had four four's and three Queens. I had just laid down two three's and then it was Edwards turn. He went through his pile and picked out two cards and said, "Two Fours." Knowing that I had all the fours in the deck, I immediately yelled out B.S. He looked very surprised because up until that point I haven't called him out on anything. We just sat there and locked our eyes on each other's. Emmett reached over at the pile revealing a three and a seven. Ha! I finally got him. I looked into Edward's eyes, leaned in really close and said,
"Don't get mad, Edward. It's just a game." And I tried to do the same dazzling smile that he did on me before, hopefully it was as convincing. All of a sudden the whole room erupted with laughter while Edward just sat there looking at me. Even I knew that Edward wasn't used to losing at anything. Pretty soon he and I started to laugh with the rest of the group and let me tell you, it felt good. Edward reached for the discard pile which was enormous. The game continued and when it came to me, my last two cards were Queens, the same card I was on. I laid them down, said two Queens, and not even Edward or Emmett called B.S. on me. Before I even knew what was happening, Alice had jumped out of the chair and pretty much had me in a headlock, which she probably considered a hug.
"Ha! I knew it, Bella!! I had a vision it was you! That was why I was so excited! You won your first B.S game and well Emmett…" Alice turned around and saw Emmett starring at her with this horrible expression. Geez, if looks could kill. "…Congratulations!!!" continued Alice.
"Bella! I didn't know you had that competitiveness in you! You know, I really wanted to win badly but if I had to lose to anyone, it'd be you. High five!" yelled Emmett, standing up so our hands could meet.
"Congratulations Bella. We play a game every week, looks like I have a new competitor." Said Edward as he kissed my cheek.
"Now you're definitely part of the family" laughed Carlisle as he patted my shoulder and as Esme hugged me.
"Oh don't get me wrong Bella. This will be the last time you experience this victory. I was just being easy on you, you know…" Emmett was interrupted by the loud snorts of laughter of Edward, Alice and Jasper. They even make snorting sound beautiful. "No, I'm serious. I couldn't just bring out the big guns on her first game!" he shouted as he flexed his arms which were bigger than a tree trunk.
"But seriously, it's not over young human. I will dominate you in everything."
"You know what you're right, you've beat me in losing AND at wearing the most ridiculous shirt! Congratulations!" I yelled as I put up my hand in the air and said, "High Five!" And that was when the whole family lost it. Even Emmett and Rosalie were laughing.
I survived and won my first card game at the Cullen's. I wonder how next week's going to go.
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MOUND CITY, Ill. -- A prosecutor said Wednesday he will not pursue marijuana possession charges against Chicago Bears offensive lineman J'Marcus Webb, who was charged after a traffic stop in southern Illinois over the weekend.
Pulaski County State's Attorney Grayson Gile said the pot charges related to Webb's arrest Sunday night have been dropped, the (Carbondale) Southern Illinoisan reported. Gile told the newspaper the case lends itself to a "fair and equitable" resolution.
Authorities said a deputy stopped the 24-year-old Webb for speeding on Interstate 57 in Pulaski County, in far southern Illinois along the Ohio River. Webb was freed Monday on bond.
Bears spokesman Mike Corbo said the franchise was aware of the matter and was seeking specifics about it. NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said the league would look into it.
A seventh-round draft pick out of West Texas A&M in 2010, the 6-foot-7, 330-pound Webb has started at left tackle each of the past two seasons after playing right tackle as a rookie.
He's entering the final year of his rookie contract, and the Bears have a new head coach in Marc Trestman, whose main task is to get the most out of quarterback Jay Cutler. A big part of that is fixing the offensive line, which has ranked among the league's worst in recent seasons and has offered little protection to Cutler.
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'Caustic' discharge sparks calls for better plant upkeepBy William Rollo
The Australian Workers Union (AWU) is urging Rio Tinto to spend more on maintaining its aluminium plants in the wake of the Queensland Alumina Limited (QAL) refinery in Gladstone discharging the toxic by-product 'red mud' into a residential area.
Earlier this week, the company said a gasket at the refinery failed.
The Department of Environment and Heritage Protection says "caustic fumes" may cause skin and respiratory irritation but Queensland Alumina says the release was concentrated below safe exposure levels.
AWU spokesman Tony Beers says the incident is a wake-up call.
"It's no different to the late '90s when there were budgetary cuts, workforce reductions," he said.
"We saw a number of incidents on plants like the one at QAL which caused major concerns not only for the safety and welfare of the workers on site but the broader community."
He says the company needs to spend more on upkeep.
"It is important in high-risk plants such as QAL and the Yarwun alumina refinery that they ensure that capital expenditure is there to maintain these plants in good working order to ensure safety of not only their employees but the broader community," he said.


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It's been more than two years since TLC viewers have peered into the lives of Kate Gosselin and her sizable Pennsylvania brood, and in June the cable channel that launched the family into reality show superstardom will air a one-hour special catching up viewers on their lives, PEOPLE confirms exclusively.
The special promises to touch on how all eight kids have grown, what their interests are currently and the latest on Kate's life and career. Viewers will also get a look back at some of the Gosselins' favorite memories. The sextuplets – Alexis, Hannah, Aaden, Collin, Leah, and Joel – are nearly 10, while older sisters Mady and Cara are officially teenagers at 13.
The Gosselins took reality TV by storm whenJon & Kate Plus 8 launched in 2007 when the sextuplets were just toddlers. America eagerly watched the couple raise their large family, and the cameras continued rolling when Jon and Kate's marriage famously fell apart two years later. In 2010 the series was renamed Kate Plus Eight and focused on the now-divorced Kate raising her many children, but the show was canceled a year later.
PEOPLE readers got a glimpse of Gosselin life now when Kate and the twins sat down for an interview at the beginning of this year. In it, twins Mady and Cara painted a picture of domestic harmony – despite semi-joking that their mom is 'annoying' – and refuted reports that participating in the reality show had a negative affect on their childhood.
"People think we're supposed to be messed up, like, 'Oooooh, the poor Gosselin kids, they're going to be scarred for life, waaaaah,' Mady told PEOPLE at the time. "Here's the big news: we're not messed up."


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Where have all the Trotskyists gone?
Angela Merkel's refusal to allow the ECB to act as lender of last resort makes French front pages today - as do the kidnapping of two French citizens in Mali, a debate over whether foreigners should be allowed to vote in local elections, and the mysterious disappearance of the French far left.
La Tribune headlines with "the unlikely menage à trois" of Angela Merkel, Nicolas Sarkozy and Mario Monti - while les Echos isn't happy with the truce they've reached over the European Central Bank.
Le Figaro leads with the shadow of al Qaeda behind the kidnapping of two French citizens in Mali.
And La Croix reports on the debate over voting rights for foreigners - while Liberation asks what happened to France's once powerful far left.


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The ClubCorp family is proud to show off two members who were recently honored by various sections and chapters of the PGA:
John Sikes
Hollytree Country Club's very own Director of Golf John Sikes was recently named 2012 Teacher of the Year by both the Northern Texas PGA Section and the East Texas Chapter.
Sikes started golfing when he was six years old.
"Golf, and all the great character traits it teaches you, has meant so much to me," Sikes said.
Sikes has won chapter awards for several consecutive years and will now be able to add a section award to the lineup.
"People who really love their job dont need awards," Sikes said. "Its enough that you get to do what you love so when you get an award you are really honored."
As far as teaching goes, Sikes said it's something special to instill confidence and help people do something they want to do without being embarrassed.
The Northern Texas PGA Section Awards Banquet is scheduled for February 24, 2013.
Cathy Harbin
Because of her lifetime of dedication to the game of golf and its future, Cathy Harbin, ClubCorp Vice President, Golf Revenue, was inducted into the North Florida PGA Hall of Fame earlier this year.
When Harbin joined ClubCorp in early 2012, she brought more than 20 years of quality experience to the company.
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For what it's worth, and right now its worth about as much as Raiders' first-round playoff tickets, here's a few opinions and second-guesses about what transpired in the Raiders' 28-27 loss to the Detroit Lions and the season through 14 games:
— I didn't have any problem with either of the pass plays that helped cost the Raiders the game against Detroit. You traded a good part of your future for Carson Palmer precisely because he has the ability to make both the fourth-and-1 pass to Denarius Moore in the first half, and the third-and-3 pass to Chaz Schilens in the fourth quarter.
Hit either one and it's the ball game. For a quarterback of Palmer's passing skill, those are nearly layups. Hue Jackson held Schilens responsible in the aftermath of the game, but Palmer took the blame afterward. Yes, Schilens could have caught it, but it wasn't a typical soft Palmer pass. It came in flat and hard, unlike most of his throws.
— Having discussed the situation with a few other non-experts such as myself today, I'm of the belief the Raiders didn't go for the two-point conversion after the Aaron Curry touchdown simply because Jackson and Co. got caught up in the moment and didn't think about it.
When you're on offense, coaches are always looking ahead. What do we do if we score? What's our next move? On Curry's defensive touchdown, there was no such train of thought. Jackson simply sent out the extra-point team as quickly as possible without even pondering the point total. That's where you need a wise old hand somewhere who is always thinking down the road and has access to the head coach in those situations _ the football version of a baseball bench coach.
— Michael Huff has been hurting most of the year and hit and miss in the secondary, but they really missed him against Detroit. There were safety help issues on the 51-yard Matthew Stafford to Calvin Johnson touchdown, the 48-yard sky shot from Stafford to Johnson, and the game-winning 6-yard pass to Johnson. Even if Huff makes just one of three of those plays, it's a different result.
— The Raiders have given up 27 touchdown passes a year after giving up 28. Their pass defense is as much to blame as their run defense for being in the position they're in.
They were playing Cover 2 to hide their weaknesses in the secondary and still couldn't pull it off. Bad idea to have Rolando McClain and Jerome Boyd responsible for Johnson? Absolutely. But that ball was there for the taking. Either man could have been a hero simply by getting a hand on it.
— Darren McFadden, still day to day . . . right. Actually saw McFadden coming into the stadium when I went back out to my car because I'd forgotten my phone. Said hello and asked if we'd be talking soon. He just said hello, shrugged his shoulders and smiled.
If the Raiders knew McFadden was going to be out a good long time immediately after being injured seven games ago, they did him a disservice by stringing along the possibility he'd be able to play, because it makes it appear as if he doesn't want to. No one who runs as hard as McFadden when healthy is a sit-it-out type. Sadly, he simply may not have the body to hold up over a season. He hasn't been able to do it yet.
— Jackson said the reason Marcel Reece didn't touch the ball in the second half was more three wide receiver sets. Considering the Raiders scored 17 points by halftime, and needed a defensive touchdown in the second half to get to 27, perhaps they should have run more sets with Reece in the game.
— The grim reality is this _ if the Raiders lose their last two games and finish 7-9, the Chiefs finish 7-9 and the Chargers and Broncos each have a better record, Oakland, in terms of seeding, would finish in last place. The Bengals would be getting a draft pick better than they ever imagined for Palmer, but at least the pick the following year would be in the second round.


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uTech Update [4:55 p.m.]: Zimbra access has been restored for all users. E-mails sent to affected users during the outage will continue arriving over the course of the next few hours. If you have any further problems with your Zimbra email or calendar, please contact our Support Center at (309) 298-2704. Phone support is available until 11 p.m. tonight (Thursday) and opens again at 7:30 a.m. Friday. Thanks to the University community for your patience.
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Manama: A Bahrain policeman was killed in a homemade bomb explosion in the town of Sitra, six kilometres south of the capital Manama. Yasser Dhaib was on duty when the bomb was detonated on Saturday evening at 10:16 pm, Public Security Chief Tariq Al Hassan said.
"The policeman was fatally injured in an explosion caused by a homemade bomb," he said. "The police had to confront a group of individuals who were targeting Sitra Police Station. While they were securing the area, a homemade bomb was detonated in a terror act that led to the death of Yasser Dhaib. The explosion also injured two additional police personnel who were transferred to the hospital for treatment," Al Hassan said.
He added that the police secured the area and examined the crime scene as an investigation was launched to identify and apprehend those responsible.
"Anyone with any information is requested to call the police hotline. All calls are treated as anonymous," he said.
Yasser is the second policeman to be killed on duty this year.
In February, Mohammad Asif Khan, 23, died and other servicemen were injured after they were attacked with Molotov cocktails and steel rods at 10.50pm in Sehla, in the southern outskirts of Manama.
Mohammad "was targeted by rioters in Sehla who shot a projectile that fatally injured him," Al Hassan said then. "He and several other policemen were securing roads and maintaining order in Sehla when a group of rioters attacked them with Molotov cocktails, projectiles, steel rods and stones," he said.
He died on the way to hospital. A witness reportedly said that the steel rod fired at the victim appeared to contain explosive substances.
Sidebar: The interior ministry on Sunday morning said that three policemen were injured when their security patrol came under attack by "a group of terrorists who hurled Molotov cocktails at them."
The patrol was burnt in the incident that occurred in Janabiya, west of Manama.
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That's what she said!
what will we do when these "tubes" become clogged, and we can't get our internets?
Fixed it for you, Convict Stevens.
Great, just another set of tubes to tie. Like I'm made of money.
Call me back when it's available at Costco for 100$ per Terabyte.
Heck call me when a product is availible....at ANY price
Heck call me when a product is availible....at ANY price
Sure. You can order it now for the low low price of $3 billion. Shipping time is estimated at 10 years and 7 days with free standard shipping, or 10 years and 3 days with Express Shipping for $15 extra.
Who do I make the check out to? BTW it is post dated Feb6, 2019.
Make it out to me. I don't mind waiting until I'm 36 to become a billionaire.
I RTFA yesterday, it will be a while. Right now they only have a one bit memory, and TFA says a lot more work will have to be done before they can get millions or billions of them on a chip, let alone mass produce the thing.
You read
I think I can remember a day when system memory was measured in the 100s of nanoseconds.
100s of nanoseconds? Luxury! When I were young you had to store your data as sound pulses in a tube full o' mercury. You had to wait 100s of milliseconds for the pulse to reach the other end. Tell that to kids nowadays, they won't believe you.
... that Ted Stevens is a prophet and the internet WILL be a series of tubes?
Is this like some sort of scaled down version of the internet?
No, it would be 10^-9 LoCs. You're thinking of deci-internets.
That's libraries [angryflower.com].
"The library's open today"
"The libraries are all open"
"The library's books are all open"
"All the libraries' patrons the world over are open"
"The device managed to withstand 18,000 operations, which is a reasonable lifetime for a memory device, she adds."
Is that good for experimental chips or do I not understand how such a low number is reasonable?
18,000 operations should be more than enough to fill this thing full of porn, there's no need to get greedy.
Your average Flash chip does 100k erase/write cycles. 18k is certainly reasonable for new tech, which will certainly improve over time. The number refers to the number of operations per erasable block (or it will in the future), so in practice you get a much larger number of total I/O operations on the entire chip, given a reasonable wear leveling algorithm.
How much latency does that algorithm add? They are only testing one bit. Won't a controller and the wear-reducing slow it down a fair amount?
Still a ways to go:
"The next challenge is to join an array together into a working memory chip, as the team has so far only tested single carbon nanotube elements. And although they have only proved capable of "remembering" data for several days after the power is cut, the team are confident this can be extended."
Several days is a pretty short life for SSD...and longer
Let's say they make this into a thumb drive. Now, let's say that you read/write the entire drive twice a day. That's four operations. 18,000/4/365 gives you twelve years of this. Even if you are filling and then erasing the drive ten times every day it is still two and a half years of use. Less than you can do with current flash memory, but fine as a proof-of-concept.
CD-RW will only last for 100 writes. Have you ever seen a failed CD-RW? I didn't. Even if you had a nanotube drive that you completely overwrote every hour, it would last for 2 years. An USB drive with 100k writes would last for 11 years. In real life scenarios drives are rarely written to more than a few times a day, and certainly not in the same places. This can be further reduced with wear leveling filesystems. The only reason we don't use those widely is that it's extremely hard to write a filesystem dr
CD-RW will only last for 100 writes. Have you ever seen a failed CD-RW? I didn't.
I used packet writing quite a bit for a while and I think I killed a few CDRWs with it over the years when I used it.
However the vendors fucked up on thier software. Adaptec and ahead came up with incompatible packet writing software and even if they had been compatible bundled copies of nero didn't generally come with incd. So as the burner vendors switched to bundling nero packet writing died out at least among those of us to
Jay Garrick isn't as fast as Wally West or Barry Allen...
ENIAC was orders of magnitude faster. These guys do 100 nanoseconds/nanotube -> 100 seconds/tube!
What ever happened to Nantero? Weren't working on this a few years ago?
Say for about 1 million units a year, with continuous production
What, you can't get the loan for a fab plant for this non-production memory?
And it will take 4-5 years to build it?
I'm thinking we better make the plant design fusion powered
(works up an old man's voice)
When you pry them from my cold, dead hands!
All that's left to see is how reliable it ends up being, and what outside forces can cause a data change and how easily.
Flash is only now starting to approach the reliability that it was advertised to have inherently when it was developed, so sorry for being a stick-in-the-mud.
To be totally OT; 0.01 nanobits per nanosecond.
Experience varies directly with equipment ruined.


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The 23rd annual Trick-or-Treat Around the Square is set for Thursday, October 31 from 5 to 7 p.m. in downtown Mount Vernon. The evening of safe fun for area toddlers through pre-teenage children is sponsored by the Franklin County Chamber of Commerce,
area organizations, local businesses, and merchants. There is no cost to enter a business for the window or merchant dress-up contest or as a treat stop. The deadline to have your business judged for the contests this year at Halloween is Monday, Oct. 28. For more information, see the Oct. 24 edition of the Mount Vernon Optic-Herald.