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CRYSTAL LAKE – Replacements for two District 155 principals moving to new positions next fall have been approved by the Board of Education.
Scott Shepard and Steven Koch will take over as principals at Crystal Lake South and Prairie Ridge high schools, respectively, on July 1. They will replace Marsha Potthoff and Paul Humpa, who will remain in the district in different roles.
"Our national search yielded nearly 80 well-qualified applicants for these positions," Board President Ted Wagner said in a news release. "Through an extensive interview process that includes employees, parents and students, these two differentiated themselves because of the visionary work they have championed in their current roles."
Shepard has served as the principal at Marengo High School since 2008. During his tenure, he has overseen curricular enhancements, implemented a one-to-one digital learning environment, created student improvement programs and focused on enhancing a culture of inclusion.
He recently was named the Illinois Principals Association's Kishwaukee Region Principal of the Year.
"The culture and expectations Scott fostered at Marengo High School matches closely with those held by Crystal Lake South's employees, students and parents," Wagner said. "He will continue the culture of inclusion and help the school move closer to our student goals."
Koch began his career at Prairie Ridge in 2001 as an English teacher and served as the English department chairman from 2005 to 2008. During his time at District 155, he co-designed the district's Framework for Quality Instruction and redesigned the mentoring and faculty induction program.
He currently is an adjunct professor at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb and has been published in several education industry conferences and publications.
"Steve has shown a great talent for empowering teachers, faculty and staff to help each student reach his or her full potential," Wagner said. "The programs he has developed have had a profound, positive effect on how we educate and serve our community's students."
Potthoff will serve as coordinator of grant management and educational services, and Humpa will return to the classroom to teach math.
"We are confident that their enthusiasm and passion for our students will continue to have a positive impact on our schools," Superintendent Johnnie Thomas said in a news release.
District 155 includes Cary-Grove, Prairie Ridge and Crystal Lake South and Central high schools.
New principals announced at Crystal Lake South, Prairie Ridge
CRYSTAL LAKE – Replacements for two District 155 principals moving to new positions next fall have been approved by the Board of Education.


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ICantFindADecentNick writes "The Register carries a report on the defeat of Section 220 of the reform bill (the grassroots provision). In an all-too-familiar scene, bloggers, Slashdot readers and several news outlets were taken in by the hype surrounding a provision in the Senate ethics reform bill that would have required grassroots lobbying firms to register with the US Congress. To be fair, some commenters did see through the deception but the campaign, organized by Richard Viguerie, still succeeded. From the article: 'Viguerie, for those not familiar with the tarnished panoply of backroom players in American politics, pioneered the use of direct mail techniques for conservative causes, and has been called the "funding father" of the modern conservative movement. His ad agency currently handles direct mail campaigns for non-profits seeking to stimulate grassroots activity or raise funds from the general public.'" This is, of course, The Register. Still interesting to look back at the news from another point of view.

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University of Redlands women's basketball senior guard Mariah Barbetti-Cort earned a spot on the 2012 D3hoops.com Preseason All-America Honorable Mention list.
Barbetti-Cort was the lone representative from the SCIAC and joins George Fox University's Hannah Munger and Keisha Gordon, as well as Lewis and Clark College's Kristina Williams, as members from the West Coast.
Last season, Barbetti-Cort put up a team-high 13.6 points per game while shooting 51.8% from the field. She grabbed a team-leading 220 rebounds for 8.8 per game and dished out the most assists with 102. In addition, this well-rounded contributor nabbed 37 steals to lead the team and denied 21 opponent shots.
During the 2010-11 campaign, Barbetti-Cort registered eight double-doubles and sat one assist shy of a triple-double on Jan. 11 when she scored 14 points, pulled in 11 rebounds and distributed nine assists against Chapman University.
The heart and soul of the Bulldogs, she led the squad to a second-place finish in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC).
Barbetti-Cort's most recent honor complements her previous accolades of All-America Honorable Mention from Women's DIII News, the Monthly Newsletter of Division III Women's Basketball, D3hoops.com Second-Team All-Region, and First-Team All-Conference honors as the SCIAC Player of the Year.
The D3hoops.com Preseason All-America team is chosen from previous year's All-America and All-Region nominations and is voted upon by a panel of coaches, sports information directors and media members from across the country.


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Tired minds crave junk food
Is new study's info really new?
A new study came out this week that said if you're tired you are more likely to crave junk food than when you're well rested. The researchers, from St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center and Columbia University in New York, found that tired brains associate junk food with reward and pleasure, making sleep-deprived people more likely to grab a burger or slice of pizza.
The research has made a splash across many news organizations, including Time magazine, but is it really all that newsworthy? Sure, it's a catchy headline, but is anyone surprised by what this study found? Did we really need research to tell us that when we're tired, we want to eat junk food?
Isn't food-as-pleasure one of the main psychological issues behind obesity? When we're tired, or stressed out or upset, we crave that food that is going to provide the comfort we're currently missing.
Take the staff at FSD for example. During our deadline week, we routinely purchase candy to eat during those high-stress times. It's a known fact in the office that either myself or my co-worker Lindsey Ramsey will have some kind of candy to help take the edge of those days when our brains are overloading—and often tired.
Now, thanks to this research I can justify my junk-food cravings and feel a little less guilty about that chocolate I eat during deadline. And just in case you were wondering, M&Ms and Starbursts are our candies of choice if you feel so inclined to send us some of the goodies our brains crave while we feverishly put together the magazine for you.


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I started with some confidence but I'm not sure now whether these are genuine round-trippers or just blidioms…
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He chimed his way into whatever conversation the other students were having.
It didn't take long before she chimed her way into the Ready Room.
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I had a feeling that there would be simblings in the wings. I wouldn't swear by any of these, but who knows. The first is not to toll in, but related in a way to chiming clocks: feel free to time in. Choose the right time to speak, or spend the time to contribute. There was a scant handful of these.
Military blog
If there are any HQ types out there that are aware of this newsletter and it current fate feel free to time in.
Testosterone nation
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Commoner and for that reason maybe more precarious was the idea of coming out from under that bushel and shining in. Makes sense, but it occurs to me that it may be a cupertino for the easy typo chine in.
Bike trip planning
Since this is our first trip, I am not even sure which questions to ask, so feel free to shine in with your comments and ideas.
Stock tips
They are projected to earn 3.50-4 a share next year and trading at 16 or so a share that is your money back in 4 to 6 years. Good luck. Anybody have any negative comments feel free to shine in.
NBA dream team
We'll do/vote for the best player of each teams in alphabetical order to determine who moves on to the NEXT round, If I leave any player out PLEASE feel free to shine in.
Gun lust
Feel free to shine in on what to expect. If I get another problem after sending this gun back, I might just sell it and get an EMP. My head hurts, do the happy dance :bananadance:
Hooker lust
Feel free to shine in since I have only been hobbying for a year.
Finally, one I like for its nostalgic estimation of the cost of a phone call: please dime in. Or maybe it's inflation on your two cents worth.
Aquatic plant forum
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Pugilist forum
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A second member of the military has been arrested for severely assaulting a Marine last month at a beach bar.
Surf City police say Lance Corporal Daniel Oczkowski was charged Tuesday with accessory after the fact to the assault of Elliot Stamschror.
Oczkowski is a Marine stationed at Camp Lejeune.
Police say Stamschror's jaw was fractured and numerous teeth were knocked out during the May 11th assault at the Sandbar Saloon. A woman was also assaulted in the attack, according to police.
Last week, police charged PFC Joseph Henry from Fort Bragg with the actual assault.
The 21-year-old Oczkowski was released on a $10,000 secured bond.
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A Fort Bragg soldier is in jail, accused of severely assaulting a Camp Lejeune Marine earlier this month in an Onslow County bar.
Surf City police say PFC Joseph Henry has been charged with assault inflicting serious bodily injury and assault on a female.
Police say the assault happened on May 11th at the Sandbar Saloon. Henry is accused of fracturing Elliot Stamschror's jaw and knocking out numerous teeth. The Marine required surgery, while police say Henry also assaulted Brittany Marlow.
A couple of weeks ago police released surveillance video of the two suspects with hopes someone would recognize them.
The second man has been identified, and police are awaiting his return from deployment before officially charging that soldier.
The 20 year old Henry was jailed on a $30,000 bond.
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A fight at a local bar left one person injured and now police are looking for the people responsible for the attack.
Surf City Police said Sunday morning around 1:30, two men assaulted another inside The Sandbar Saloon.
Officers released some video from inside of the bar, and we have added a couple still shots from that video to our story so you can get a closer look at the suspects.
Police said the pair left the bar in a black or dark colored sedan, possibly with New Jersey license plates.
If you can identify the two, you are asked to call police or even leave an anonymous tip at (910) 328-7711.


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The pressing issue of whether Michael Clarke will be fit to lead Australia in the Boxing Day Test will not be resolved until the morning of the match, despite an encouraging performance from the captain in the team's final training session.
Clarke spent about an hour training at the MCG on Tuesday morning as he sought to prove he had recovered from a hamstring strain he suffered in last week's Test against Sri Lanka in Hobart. Tuesday's session included running drills, about 25 minutes batting in the nets, a short stint running between wickets and also some slips catching. All were done under the supervision of team physiotherapist Alex Kountouris.
After the session, Clarke said he was optimistic of captaining Australia on Boxing Day for the second time but was unable to guarantee he would.
"It's going OK. It's improving every day," Clarke said when asked about the condition of his right hamstring.
"I can't make a decision now . . . I need to wait and see how I pull up tomorrow morning, from the workload yesterday and the training today.
"Like I've said from day one, I'm still pretty positive I'll be right for tomorrow."
Clarke said he was confident he would not let his heart rule his head in deciding whether to take his place in the team ahead of standby batsman Usman Khawaja.
"Having experts around me. Alex (Kountouris) has been around international cricket for such a long time. He's seen me do my hamstrings on plenty of occasions, he's seen plenty of guys go through it," he said.
"We'll try and make the best decision for the team, there's no doubt about that. I certainly won't go into the game tomorrow if I feel it's going to affect my batting. If I feel I can't perform at my best I certainly won't take any part, but if I can I'm really keen to get out there and be a part of it."
Clarke said if he was unable to play he had no reservations about vice-captain Shane Watson's ability to lead the team against Sri Lanka.


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Commission to recover €180 million of CAP expenditure from the Member States
A total of €180 million of EU agricultural policy funds, unduly spent by Member States, is being claimed back by the European Commission today under the so-called clearance of accounts procedure. However, because some of these amounts have already been recovered from the Member States the financial impact of today's decision will be some €169 million. This money returns to the EU budget because of non-compliance with EU rules or inadequate control procedures on agricultural expenditure. Member States are responsible for paying out and checking expenditure under the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), and the Commission is required to ensure that Member States have made correct use of the funds.
Europeans seek ever more mobile bandwidth, but they worry about cost
Europeans are increasingly eager for new technologies as shown by the latest EU-wide survey. While Europeans are open to the opportunities offered by new tools & services, as illustrated by the figures for new internet subscriptions and use of the internet for making voice calls, they still think twice before picking up the phone or going online because of the cost of these services.
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Digital Agenda: Commission questions Italian regulator's method of regulating prices for broadband services
The European Commission has invoked the EU review mechanism in the case of plans by the Italian telecoms regulator (AGCOM) to change current wholesale broadband prices, as such changes would negatively affect operators' ability to plan and decide on their prices in Italy.
More specifically, the Commission has concerns that AGCOM's recent decision to set 2013 prices based on its previous market review contradicts its own announcement of October 2012 that new prices will result from the new market analysis. As access prices should reflect most recent available cost information, the Commission believes that AGCOM should have set the prices on the basis of its more recent and reliable full market analysis. The Commission, in close cooperation with BEREC will, over the next three months, discuss with AGCOM how to amend its proposal.
European Commission Vice President for the Digital Agenda Neelie Kroes said: "In departing from the approach announced last year for setting access prices in the Italian broadband markets, AGCOM undermines the required regulatory certainty for all market players. Regulation must aim at creating a level playing field for all operators."
Telecoms - Commission suspends Portuguese regulator's proposal on remedies in the fixed termination market
The European Commission has suspended a proposal from the Portuguese telecoms regulator (ANACOM) concerning regulatory remedies for the fixed termination market as it has serious concerns on the scope of the proposed access obligation.
The Commission is particularly worried that the lack of a comprehensive access obligation, including for instance interconnection through an IP network - which is standard in most other Member States - would not allow for a swift resolution of access problems and could leave consumers unable to make calls to other networks. ANACOM's proposal could also make it possible for fixed operators to refuse or delay access to a part of their networks in an attempt to eliminate their direct competitors from the market.
Neelie Kroes, European Commission Vice-President for the Digital Agenda, said: "Consumers must be able to make the calls they wish. For this reason, where we have a monopoly situation like in fixed termination markets, we need to guarantee access to the network for all operators and all consumers."
Industrial production up by 0.7% in euro area and up by 0.9% in EU27
In June 2013 compared with May 2013, seasonally adjusted industrial production grew by 0.7% in the euro area (EA17) and by 0.9% in the EU27, according to estimates released by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In May production decreased by 0.2% and 0.4% respectively. In June 2013 compared with June 20124, industrial production increased by 0.3% in the euro area and by 0.4% in the EU27.
Mergers: Commission clears acquisition of Chesapeake Paperboard Business by Carlyle Group
The European Commission has approved under the EU Merger Regulation the acquisition of the Chesapeake Paperboard Business of Luxembourg by The Carlyle Group of the US. The Chesapeake Paperboard Business manufactures and sells paper-based packaging solutions. Carlyle is a global alternative asset manager. The Commission concluded that the proposed acquisition would not raise competition concerns. The transaction was examined under the simplified merger review procedure. More information is available on the Commission's competition website, in the public case register under the case number M.6998 .


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"The symptoms of what?
"MFS? I feel fine."
"Sure, now you do, but when I asked you to vacuum the living room, you said you were too tired. When I asked you to take out the garbage you said, 'Later.' Then you sat at the kitchen table and watched me load the dishwasher as if there was some huge weight on your shoulders preventing you from getting up and helping me. Then Willie calls and says 'Let's play golf,' and you couldn't jump up fast enough.
"It's classic MFS. You whine and moan about having to mow the lawn with your bad back, but it suddenly clears up when you want to go bowling. You make up excuses to get out of little household chores, yet you've got plenty of energy to work on your car, and plenty of get-up-and-go when it's time to go drinking with your friends.
"What has that got to do with MFS? I've never heard of it."
"That's funny, all women know about MFS – Male Fatigue Syndrome. It's a disease that strikes nine out of 10 husbands, and there is only one known cure."
"What is that?"
"Constant and endless nagging."
"How come women have heard of it and men haven't?"
"Because most often, it occurs in men who also suffer from Male Hearing Disorder, or MHD. It seems they can hear some things some of the time, but not all things all of the time. They can hear 'Dinner's ready,' but they can't hear 'Don't throw your clothes in a big heap on the bedroom floor.'
"I'm sorry," I said, "did you say something?"
"A perfect example of MSCC, a dreaded but common disease known as Male Selective Concentration Collapse. No known cure. For some reason, it strikes only men – men in their prime, men who could have lived happily together with their wives till the end of their days, but instead became annoying and boring within weeks of contracting MSCC."
"Does practicing medicine without a license ever bother you? Don't you ever feel like you're taking a job away from a real quack?"
"That's the kind of delusional reaction one expects from someone suffering from WWMC – What? Who, Me? Convulsions."
"Who? Me!?! I'd love to stay and hear more about these fascinating medical non-breakthroughs, but I just remembered I promised Dave I'd help him move. His wife kicked him out of the house last night for no reason at all.
"Honest, the only thing he said to her was, 'I'm sure glad men don't go through menopause.' That's when it hit the fan.
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CLEARFIELD – The Clearfield County Commissioners requested in written correspondence Monday to the state's Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) that it conduct a public meeting regarding the proposed construction of the Camp Hope Run Landfill in Boggs Township, according to Commissioner Joan Robinson-McMillen.
PA Waste LLC has proposed constructing a landfill that would be located on an 845-acre facility boundary along state Route 153. It would be double-lined and able to receive 5,000 tons of waste daily for the next 25 years, according to previous GantDaily.com reports.
In an Aug. 31 letter, the DEP notified the county that it had completed the Environmental Assessment Process for PA Waste's application for a new municipal waste landfill in Boggs Township. The DEP evaluated the information contained in the application and determined the benefits of the proposal had outweighed the known or potential harms, according to Commissioner Chairman John A. Sobel.
During the Sept. 11 board meeting, Sobel said the permit process would proceed with the technical review of the information contained in the application. He said the DEP may perform additional balancing of the benefits and harms during the technical review of the application if additional information not previously considered should come to the DEP's attention.
After Tuesday's regular board meeting, Robinson-McMillen said the commissioners continue to have concerns about the DEP's decision. She said they're even more concerned about how quickly the DEP has recently proceeded with the proposed landfill permit without any acknowledgment of the county's concerns.
The commissioners stated their concerns in a Sept. 12 GantDaily.com report. Robinson-McMillen said the county sits right along Interstate 80 and if constructed, it would generate the additional traffic of 250 trucks, six days per week. She said these trucks would be coming off I-80 at exit 120, traveling down state Route 879, which she noted is a scenic byway.
From there, she said the trucks would travel across the SR 879 bypass off Park Avenue Extension and pass by the Lawrence Park Village Apartment Complex en route to Boggs Township. She said this raises concerns because there would be children who are getting on and off school buses at the apartment complex.
"Lawrence Township is going to be more affected than Boggs Township," she said. "The township and county are going to bear the burden. And, people who are shopping at Lowe's and Wal-Mart are going to be weaving in and out of truck traffic."
Commissioner Mark B. McCracken said this board and the previous board have been steadfast in their opposition and will continue to be. Like Robinson-McMillen, he voiced concerns related to the influx in truck traffic.
According to him, a traffic study hasn't been conducted and if the landfill is constructed, there would be dangers on SR 879 off I-80, where there are new restaurants and hotels in Lawrence Township.
"This is already a congested area," he said.
McCracken also expressed concerns about it creating even more congestion in the areas of the I-80 on and off ramps; the U.S. Route 322 on ramp to SR 879; the trucks climbing the hill along the SR 879 bypass; and the SR 879/Park Avenue Extension off ramp. He said significant upgrades would be required to Park Avenue Extension.
"I think the fact it's a scenic byway should have been considered. It's a total disregard to the Lawrence Township area," he said. He pointed out that the county had recently completed its 10-year update to its municipal solid waste management plan and properly advertised such. He said PA Waste didn't submit a proposal.
"There's no benefit to Clearfield County because they're not in our plan," he said. "There's no trash disposal benefit for the county for at least 10 years."
According to McCracken, PA Waste doesn't have any compliance history, which raises serious concerns about its ability to ever operate a landfill. Plus, he said there isn't any need for additional landfill space in central Pennsylvania.
Robinson-McMillen said if constructed, the proposed landfill isn't going to hold waste from Clearfield County. She said it would be hauled in from New York, New Jersey and Philadelphia.
"You have to ask why they would want to truck four-and-a-half to five hours to Clearfield County to dispose of waste. Why is that? Why are we allowing it? she asked. McCracken replied, "If we had a vote, we wouldn't."
On Tuesday, McCracken said the county presented the DEP with information years ago that outlined their concerns and the potential harms if the Camp Hope Run Landfill would be constructed in Boggs Township. He said these documents have been removed from the package of information that's being reviewed by the DEP.
In addition, he said they were verbally advised that the landfill proposal has been transferred from the DEP's Williamsport office to the main office located in Harrisburg. Robinson-McMillen said this typically isn't standard procedure for the DEP and it appears this permit application is on what she described as "the fast track."
However, when contacted Tuesday morning by GantDaily.com, the DEP issued this statement:
"The department approved the Environmental Assessment (harms vs. benefits) for this proposed landfill on Aug. 31 and is now engaged in our technical review of the municipal waste landfill permit application, which will eventually result in a decision to approve or deny the permit," said Daniel Spadoni, community relations coordinator.
"There was never a transfer of this application review from Harrisburg to Williamsport. The application was originally submitted to the DEP Northcentral Regional Office in Williamsport as required and it has remained here. I cannot be [any] clearer than that."
County Solicitor Kim Kesner said the DEP has not been communicating with the county and providing answers to its direct questions. He said obviously, the commissioners are a stakeholder and in the past, they have engaged in "informal discussions" regarding their concerns with representatives of the DEP office in Williamsport.
Kesner said the commissioners were surprised by the Aug. 31 letter in which DEP advised it had found the benefits had outweighed the harms. McCracken said in Williamsport, the DEP officials had their own concerns so far as where the waste would be coming from to be disposed of in Boggs Township.
Kesner said the DEP originally denied the PA Waste permit application based on "suitability." He said that the DEP had acknowledged that there was already "too much landfill capacity" in Pennsylvania, which resulted in "heightened scrutiny."
"There was so much going to be hurting Pennsylvania," he said. Kesner said PA Waste appealed the DEP's denial to the state's Environmental Hearing Board, where the judge overruled the DEP's decision, as it applied a regulation that had been amended.
"It was dormant after that. We didn't hear anything and then we get this letter. It was a surprise," said Robinson-McMillen. She said at one point, the commissioners had scheduled a meeting with DEP officials to discuss their concerns, which the DEP canceled.
Robinson-McMillen said the DEP hasn't responded to the county's response for a public meeting.


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If you want to know and haven't seen this short documentary called, "My Boys," please you watch it now.
If you'd like to join me and made a donation now, please follow the link, or you can keep reading. www.marchforbabies.org/amanichannel
It's been almost six years since our first born sons Rico and Jordan were born prematurely at 20 weeks. We think about our little angels every day.
Of course, we have plenty of reasons to celebrate. We've been blessed with an adorable three-year-old boy, Devin. As we watch him grow and learn, we often think what our lives would be like if his two brothers were still with us.
Each year we ask for our friends and family to help us support a cause that is near and and dear to our hearts, and each year you answer by generously giving to Team Rico and Jordan. In fact, we are among one of the top fundraising teams in the Atlanta metro area .
The March of Dimes March for Babies is approaching, and as we've done for the past five years or so, we're asking for your generous help.
This year, my personal goal is to raise $1,500.00 dollars, and with your support, I know that I'll get it.
I want to keep this short, but if you have $5, $10, $25 or even $100 dollars, please take a moment to make a donation.
The March of Dimes is a great nonprofit working diligently to insure that all babies get the chance to live healthy lives, and I thank you in advance for your generosity.
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt will produce an adaptation of DC comics' "Sandman" series, Variety reports, adding he may also direct and star in the film.
"Sandman" became popular in a moody graphic novel series written by sci-fi/fantasy superstar Neil Gaiman.
The character originally was created by writer Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko as an adversary of Spider-Man, who later became an ally to the webbed hero.
"The Sandman," published by DC Comics for 75 issues between 1989 and 1996, follows the character Dream, also known as the Lord of Dreams, Morpheus, Oneiros, the Shaper, the Shaper of Form, Lord of the Dreaming, the Dream King, Dream-Sneak, Dream Cat, Murphy, Kai'ckul, and Lord L'Zoril.
At the start of the series, Morpheus was held prisoner for 70 years before escaping into the modern day and rebuilding his kingdom, which has fallen into disrepair.
Gordon-Levitt has appeared in a pair of Warner Bros. blockbusters, "The Dark Knight Rises" and "Inception" — and will be seen in The Weinstein Co.'s "Sin City: A Dame To Kill For." He made his directorial debut on "Don Jon."
"The Dark Knight" screenwriter David S. Goyer has also come on board to produce "The Sandman," Variety said, and Gaiman will executive produce.
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We've been so caught up in gleefully ribbing our Big 10 Buckeye brethren about the swirling scandal in C-bus that we haven't weighed in yet on the "throwback" jerseys set to be unveiled tonight for this year's Michigan-Notre Dame game. So, without further adieu, here are the jerseys, which were mistakenly leaked on the MDen (pic via MnB)...
...And here's our review:
Those suck ass.
Seriously, we could get all Project Runway* on this crap and tell you why, but we're working under the assumption here at the MZone that our readers have eyeballs and use them when visiting our site. Hence, is there really a need to break it down on an aesthetic level?
In general, I hate throwback jerseys - even when the design isn't as obnoxious as the one above. Because they are nothing - NOTHING - more than a money grab. Period. As Brian said best of all:
Tomorrow we'll enter the ranks of schools that dress up like clowns for a little bit of money from a shoe company.
Plus, I believe such eyesores detract from the game day experience.
Unfortunately, the powers that be at Michigan and the other schools which agree to bastardize their uniforms for a couple extra bucks apparently confuse what keeps fans coming back for the game vs. what keeps folks returning for the game day experience: The game itself is about the unexpected while the game day experience is all about the expected.
So much of college football at programs like Michigan and many others is about the traditions. The conditioned emotional response of the familiar. The chills one feels when the team runs under the giant "Go Blue" sign or when the band plays The Victors
That's not being old fashioned, that's respecting and understating the foundation that keeps 100,000+ people coming each and every football Saturday to The Big House.
Thus, while the term "throwback" is supposed to imply a link to a school's storied past, the term is nothing but trickeration. Such uniforms have nothing to do with honoring the past or instilling new memories. Instead, it's all about lining pockets at the expense of those things. They are not nostalgic, they're gimmicks. The only reason they call them "Throwbacks" is because "Additional Revenue Stream" jerseys would be too off-putting.
If the picture at the top of this post does indeed turn out to be the monstrosity spit forth tonight, how fucking bad were the rejected designs? Because in order to come out as the final product, the maize and blue pigeon dropping above must have been up against some runner-up choices like this...
Actually, neither of these are much worse.
* Don't give me shit about the Project Runway reference. Because if you have a wife or girlfriend, you've had to take one for the team at some point and sit through an episode of this eye-gouger.


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The United States' growing dependence on foreign oil is widely recognized as the nation's Achilles heel, a disaster in the works. But sometimes it seems that every solution to that horrendous problem leads into a box canyon.
Alternative energy sources are too expensive, and often not cost effective. Some potential solutions are decades away. The nation has dug a very deep hole for itself, and the situation probably will get much grimmer before it gets better.
As physicist David Goodstein of the California Institute of Technology puts it, we may be heading towards "Oil War III."
Now, researchers at the University of Missouri in Columbia have identified a number of non-technical reasons why we can't seem to dig ourselves out of this grave. Instead of moving forward, we are kicking ourselves in the rear end with tax laws that were established a century ago, corporations that have billions invested in oil reserves and thus no incentive to look for alternatives, and a political system that seems paralyzed.
"What seemed like a good idea 100 years ago is not necessarily a good idea today in our global economy," says chemical engineer Galen Suppes.
Self-Inflicted Dependence
Suppes and Truman Storvick, professor emeritus at Missouri, told a recent meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers that development of alternative fuels is being blocked by national policies and corporate commitments that tip the playing field in favor of foreign oil. In other words, we're doing it to ourselves.
For example, about half the cost of every gallon of synthetic oil produced in this country goes to federal and local taxes, Suppes says.
"But there's no U.S. taxes on foreign oil," he says. "You're taxing domestic production, but you're not taxing imports."
A tax on foreign oil is a tariff, a foul word in these days of free trade, but Suppes argues that all resources will have to be taxed the same if alternatives to foreign oil are to be commercially viable.
The knee-jerk reaction is usually a call for incentives, like those that now encourage the production of ethanol from corn, but that's the wrong solution, Suppes argues.
"You don't pick out technologies and give them incentives," he says. "What you do is you make it a fair playing field."
Incentives frequently lead to bad technology, because there's an economic reason for their development, and some argue that's exactly what has happened with ethanol. David Pimentel of Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences has argued that ethanol is a lousy choice because it takes more energy to produce ethanol from corn than the ethanol ultimately yields.
It also takes a heck of a lot of corn to produce very much ethanol.
11 Acres = One Year' s Fuel
Pimentel, who chaired a U.S. Department of Energy committee that looked into ethanol several years ago, says relying on corn for our future energy needs would devastate the nation's food production.
It takes 11 acres to grow enough corn to fuel one automobile with ethanol for 10,000 miles, or about a year's driving, Pimentel says. That's the amount of land needed to feed seven persons for the same period of time.
And if we decided to power all of our automobiles with ethanol, we would need to cover 97 percent of our land with corn, he adds. That's a lot of corn.
Still, some argue that there's no single solution, and ethanol could play a partial role. But at the moment, Suppes points out, it's economically viable only because the federal government subsidizes its production to the tune of about 50 cents per gallon. And then other governmental agencies tax it, once again tilting the playing field in favor of foreign oil, Suppes says.
In their report to the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Suppes and Storvick pointed out that industry is also a major roadblock to finding alternatives to foreign oil. Alternatives are out there, they believe, but the companies that could bring them to market aren't all that interested.
"When I first got into this, my father-in-law goes, 'Well, if it's such a good idea, why aren't the oil companies doing it?'" Suppes says. "He's an educated man, so I looked into that.
"When an oil company has 10 years of reserves in the ground, it doesn't make any sense at all for them to spend billions of dollars today to produce [synthetic] oil they don't need," he says. "So they would be the last ones to invest in this."
Profit Patience
What is needed, Suppes argues, is the kind of alliance between government and industry that got the development of Canada's huge reserves of tar sands underway. Back in the 1970s, long-term investments were made without the expectation of immediate paybacks, he says.
Today, all these years later, Canada gets about one-third of its oil from the tar sands buried in northern Alberta, much of which comes to the United States. Had investors expected to get their money back quickly, as is the case in today's risky alternative energy market, that never would have happened, Suppes says.
That has led some experts to push for widespread development of the resource, which could make Alberta the Saudi Arabia of tar sands. But that's no painless solution.
Tar sands are essentially just what they sound like. A thick, sticky goo trapped in rock and sand below the ground. It takes strip mines to get at the goo, called bitumen, which must then be heated with steam and hot water, and then processed with caustic chemicals. It can be an environmental nightmare.
And all that takes a lot of energy, leaving the end product very close to being a net loser of energy, not a producer.
Meanwhile, the nation pins its hopes on hydrogen, which could also be a net energy loser, and some miraculous breakthrough that will make our transition simple. There are some technologies on the horizon that could improve the picture, notably a new process for making oil from garbage, but it remains to be seen whether any of them will work on the kind of scale needed to fuel this very hungry nation.
The most likely scenario is very little will be done. A lot of chatter, but not much action.
"I have a feeling the country is going to continue to pay a very high price before we finally figure it out," Suppes says. "I just hope the price isn't extremely high."
Lee Dye's column appears weekly on ABCNEWS.com. A former science writer for the Los Angeles Times, he now lives in Juneau, Alaska.


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Found alone in a vacated guestroom at Tampa Airport Marriott, the snowman was rescued by an attentive housekeeper and from that point the stuffed character could be seen enjoying an exciting Florida vacation filled with sunshine while hotel personnel worked diligently to locate its owner. Belonging to a young child traveling with parents to North Carolina, the snowman was reported as "found" to its "lost" family on October 29 and even after making a whirlwind tour of the sights and enjoying some time basking poolside, the character arrived in North Carolina before its owner.
Capturing the snowman's vacation experiences, Christine Horner, senior manager of rooms operation at the Marriott's Tampa accommodations, put together a book titled "How I Spent My Vacation...Snowman's Vacation in Tampa" to accompany the fluffy character back to its owner. Photos of the crocheted and happy snowman were taken of him working out in the hotel's well-equipped 24-hour fitness center, near the oranges and apples and with a box of Rice Krispies and ice cream in the Marriott's Café Elise restaurant near Tampa Airport and even enjoying some rays of sunshine on the well-manicured deck of the hotel's refreshing outdoor pool.
After a few correspondences with the young traveler's mother and an address was obtained to their next destination, the snowman was prepared for travel, and with memory book in tow, made it safely to North Carolina by November 1 where it waited patiently to be reunited with its owner. The family arrived on November 3 and the mother reported "a very happy" little girl enjoyed viewing the memory book, but more importantly having the snowman back in her possession.
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Leigh Halfpenny is determined to make his mark for the Lions in Australia, and erase the memory of the injury woes which blighted his tour of South Africa four years ago.
The name of the Cardiff Blues and Wales full-back was the first read out when tour manager Andy Irvine announced Warren Gatland's squad on Tuesday.
From the outset the 24-year-old was a shoo-in for selection after a superb series of performances over the past 18 months, culminating in his winning of the RBS 6 Nations Player of the Tournament award.
Four years ago Halfpenny was seen as something of a surprise inclusion in Sir Ian McGeechan's squad, despite an eye-catching first season as a professional.
But his first Lions experience would prove to be one full of frustration.
Halfpenny missed the start of the tour with a quad injury and, when he did eventually join up with the party, he made just a single appearance against Free State Cheetahs before a recurrence of the problem saw him return home.
His disappointment was made all the worse as Halfpenny's arrival back at Heathrow from South Africa coincided with his father making the journey in the opposite direction.
Halfpenny hopes he will have happier memories this time round.
He said: "Going to South Africa was totally unexpected. If somebody had told me at the beginning of the season that I would be on the tour I wouldn't have believed them.
"It was a great experience and something I learnt massively from. I enjoyed my time but I was gutted to have to leave.
"This time round I have a lot of experience at international level and I'm looking to do the best I can for the Lions. I'm sure this Lions squad will be successful Down Under.
"Having experienced it and seen how special it is only makes me hungrier.
"I've done everything possible to go on this tour. A lot of hard work has gone in all year and to hear my name called out first was a huge relief. It was pretty emotional as well."
Taking on the Wallabies will also have particular resonance for Halfpenny, whose first memories of watching the world's most famous touring side was on their last visit Down Under in 2001.
And he believes Australia's resilience in fighting back from losing the first Test to take a 2-1 series win, shows what the Lions can expect this summer.
"My first real Lions experience was watching the 2001 tour of Australia," said Halfpenny.
"There are so many great memories of that tour. There was Jason Robinson going around Chris Latham within two or three yards for the first try in the first Test, and the passion he showed and how the stadium erupted.
"There was also Brian O'Driscoll going through a gap that wasn't even there for his try.
"But that tour showed the Aussies are a quality outfit and they will be a tough team to beat again. It will be a difficult series but we can be confident."
Australians, meanwhile, have welcomed the selection of a large Welsh contingent in Gatland's tour party, pointing to Wales' run of eight straight defeats against the Wallabies h
"For us as Welsh players, we experienced it last summer and we can take confidence from how close we got."


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Guardare l'antica Roma così come appariva nel 320 d.C. e volare giù per vedere edifici famosi in 3D. Seleziona 'Ancient Rome 3D' nella Gallery di Google Earth.
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I recently learned of the proposal to build a slots casino in Leominster. At first, I thought this might be a good idea based on what I'd read about new jobs and some cash for the town.
After a bit of research, however, I've completely changed my mind and now believe that this is an extraordinarily bad idea. I used to think slots were pretty innocent compared to other types of gambling, but I've learned otherwise.
Some of those who study gambling consider slots to be the "crack cocaine" of the gambling industry. Slots are now very sophisticated, high-tech machines designed to encourage you to "play to extinction," which means to play until all your cash is gone. Some researchers consider slots to be the "most addictive form of legalized gambling." They say that slots not only attract gambling addicts, but possibly even create them.
Economically, slots are the most profitable element of the gambling industry. Slots make up 70 to 80 percent of all casino revenue, most of which leaves the region. Instead of bringing more customers to local restaurants and bars, the restaurants and bars inside the casino tend to attract customers away from local establishments. According to some research, slots casinos generally have negative effects on local economies and send most of their profits out of town to the casino company.
To be honest, my wife and I have been surprised at what we've learned about the real effects of slots.
When you consider all the facts, you will see that a slots casino is simply not a good idea for our wonderful Leominster!


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Media Program Adds Two RED Epic CamerasPublished: Sep 09, 2013
Taylor University's film & media production program is already Emmy award-winning. Now the program's equipment is making an even bigger jump to the Hollywood big leagues. The program has purchased two RED Epic cameras, the same cameras used by Peter Jackson on The Hobbit.
Faculty and staff revealed the new technology at a special event dubbed "The Big Reveal," hosted in the television studio on Sept. 9. The room was full for the unveiling of the new technology, and the event was live-streamed to interested alumni.
"This is a significant investment in our students' futures, and we're very grateful to a supportive administration and to friends of Taylor for making it possible," said John Bruner, director of production for Taylor's media communication department. "While the story is still the most important part of the process, this equipment will help our students prepare for the creative and technical processes they'll encounter in Hollywood and elsewhere on major film and television productions."
Tim Sutherland, an alumnus of Taylor's media communication program, said the purchase is extremely significant. Sutherland works in the cinematography department on the ABC television show Nashville. "For students this is not merely a camera but a window into the world they aspire to enter," said Sutherland. "The methods they will learn will teach them what it takes to make motion pictures at the highest level with any tools available now or in the future."
"We're really excited about the advantages we can offer film and media production students at Taylor," said Kathy Bruner, assistant professor. "We are committed to producing graduates who can tell great stories that can influence culture in a positive way."
"What's most important is the understanding of story and how a camera gets used to impact the audience's emotional response," said Taylor alumnus, Dave Turner ('05). Turner recently completed his MFA at the University of Southern California film school and worked last year on the Sundance-winning film Fruitvale Station. "The purchase of the RED Epics gives students generous access to a level of camera that is used on many feature films and television shows in Hollywood."
The RED Epic is known for ultrahigh "5K" resolution and frame rates ranging from 1 up to 120 per second with an ISO range from 250-12,800. The camera's dynamic range has 13.5 stops in normal operation with up to 18 stops in HDRx mode. The purchase of Red Rocket hardware will allow students to work with RED's very large raw files in editing. According to Josh Taylor, media engineer for the department, "Taylor has also invested in an array of Zeiss lenses using PL mounts. The lenses range from 18mm to 100mm, and several are super speed lenses for low light shooting."
Sundance Film Festival winner and alumna Michelle Steffes ('00) shared her excitement with the department saying, "Congratulations on the two new cameras! Those are amazing, top-level cameras and they'll be a big boon for the department!"


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Posted: Monday, July 9, 2012
The State of Minnesota, State Court Administrator's Office is using a competitive selection process to select a vendor to serve as the Project Manager for a statewide project to move state courts from a framework of paper files to an electronic information environment. The eCourtMN strategic initiative will result in increased productivity for judges and court staff, and ensure convenient, timely, and appropriate access to court information for court users. The engagement for the Project Manager is anticipated to begin on or around August 8, 2012 and end June 30, 2013.
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Time: 4:00 PM
The IceHogs are happy to help Texas Roadhouse on their 2nd Annual Jimmy Newcomer Night from 4-7p.m. on Monday, April 7th. The night is being used to raise money for the Rockford Park District, Junior IceHogs Program. 10% of proceeds from the night's meals will be donated to the Junior IceHogs. Hammy Hog will be at Texas Roadhouse from 6-7 p.m. and four IceHogs players (Pat Mullane, Jared Nightingale, Bobby Shea, Kent Simpson) will be helping serve from 5-7 p.m. Join Hammy and the players at Texas Roadhouse to help raise money in honor of Jimmy Newcomer.
Date: Monday April 07, 2014
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Join Mike Peck and Brian Tosti on another edition of Bud Light Hog Talk as they sit down with IceHogs defenseman Stephen Johns, forward Ryan Hartman, and head coach Ted Dent. Get all the latest on what's going on with the IceHogs both on and off the ice. Watch the show live and in person at District Bar & Grill on Monday or catch it on Tuesday from 6-7 p.m. on WIFR's "Weather Now" channel 23-2.


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Austin may be the unofficial style capital of Texas, so it shouldn't be a surprise when it attracts some of the most style savvy couples on their biggest of big days. Enter these two (adorable) lovebirds and their picture perfect wedding from Cory Ryan Photography. Not a detail was left unturned thanks to Leave The Details To Me nor a bloom forgotten thanks to Flora Fetish, leaving us with a wedding worthy of your top ten list. See it all here.
From Cory Ryan Photography…. Meredith & Reid live in New York City, but have ties to Austin, Texas! So it was a perfect fall escape to have their destination wedding at the Salt Lick's Pecan Grove in Driftwood, Texas. The tall pecan trees lined the shady grove, and guests were greeted with a giant artistic chalkboard wedding program as they approached the ceremony. The opposite side of the board served as the backdrop for the photo booth with their names scrolled across the top. SO CUTE! Meredith & Reid were so clearly in love, and they both absolutely lit up when they got to see each other for the first time at their first look. The ceremony took place at sunset, with beautiful golden light streaming through the trees. A few surprises were in store for their guests – first, an amazing choreographed first dance (word on the street was that Reid was quite the dancer – TRUE!), followed by fruit cobbler a la modes in lieu of wedding cake. As any Texan knows, the Salt Lick BBQ has the BEST desserts! Then the tables got turned and the wedding band, London Calling, surprised the bride and groom instead. The bride sang Pat Benetar's "Heart Breaker" with a live band!!! After Meredith was called to the stage, she was surprised when they were all pointing for her to take the microphone! After momentarily being taken off guard, she turned around and nailed it so fearlessly with all of her girlfriends cheering her on. The groom was in the front row looking like his heart might explode. It was a moment no one at that wedding, including the photographers, will ever forget!!! Reid and the boys took the stage next, and an awesome dance party wrapped up the perfect night! And let me not forget the most awesome spin on the traditional wedding koozie – it read "Eat, Drink and Be Merreid"!
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—The Birmingham-Southern football team was voted to finish third in the SCAC preseason poll, as voted on by the league's head coaches.
The Panthers finished last season at 6-4 overall and 3-4 against SCAC opponents. BSC is a full NCAA Division III member this year, and will finally be able to compete for both SCAC and NCAA championships.
The Panthers led the league in scoring offense last season, averaging 34.6 points per game, and in rushing offense at 254 yards per contest.
BSC opens the season this Saturday on the road against LaGrange, and opens its home slate on Sept. 10 against Huntingdon at 1 p.m.
Millsaps was selected to finish first in the league, followed by Centre and BSC. For the full release at the SCAC web site, click here.


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While there's excitment drilling may finally be coming to Pleasants County, there's also concern.
About the economic impact...
"Drilling only goes on for so long," says resident Floyd Core, "and then you get the well maintenence areas, which, a lot of times, is not much for the labor force."
As well as safety issues...
"We have well water," says Cathy Fisher, Newport, Ohio resident. "I'm very concerned, especially with my health. What are you going to do?
The water line Antero Resources plans to build is to travel through an 80-mile area which includes northern Pleasants County to fracking sites in West Virginia and Ohio.
"My understanding is that they're taking measures to do things right," says Jay Powell, President, Pleasants County Commission, "not only from an EPA standpoint but from an OSHA standpoint."
So far, Pleasants County hasn't been part of the drilling rush its northern neighboring counties have seen. Powell says, however, that property owner records have been researched, and people have been there to see if the land can produce oil and gas.
"We have been told geologists have been looking at the ground," Powell says, "and they suspect there are some great minerals in the northern part of the county, if not all of Pleasants County."
Powell's own belief: if drilling there does happen, it could come as soon as next year.
The water line needs federal approval. Powell says the company has been talking to landowners in the area, about leasing private property for the project.


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Editor's Comment: This study compared different treatments for patients diagnosed with CFS (Fukuda criteria). What is interesting about the patient cohort is that 40% of the male patients and more than half of the female patients presented with fever. (Pain and fever were the two predominant symptoms for the entire group.) Given the fact that all of the patients had contracted CFS after an initial infection, and that they still presented with infection-type symptoms (fever, sore throat, swollen glands), it is not surprising that treatment with antivirals and immunoglobulins were proven effective.
Note: You can read the full text of this study HERE.
BACKGROUND: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) is a distinctive syndrome characterized by specific symptoms cluster. CFS mostly affects women and often results in severe functional limitation. Its prevalence varies from 0.4 to 2.5% in the general population. In our prior studies on the clinical features of 205 CFS patients we founded immunological and brain abnormalities. In this paper we illustrate our caseload on CFS treatment.
PATIENTS AND METHODS: From January 2000 to December 2005, we evaluated all the patients admitted at the CFS Unit of the Aviano National Cancer Institute, for staging procedures and treatments. Patients not meeting the Fukuda diagnostic criteria were excluded.
RESULTS: 250 male and 491 female (median age 35.5 and 39.3 years, respectively) were enrolled and treated for CFS. As expected, CFS resulted from previous infectious disease in all patients. Female patients showed to be more affected by symptoms than male patients. The treatment schedules followed by the patients included nutritional supplements alone, corticosteroids, antidepressant/sedative drugs, and antiviral/immunoglobulin drugs. Antiviral/ immunoglobulin drugs achieved the best response (15.3% positive responses vs. 8.3% negative responses; OR 0.44, CI 0.26-0.74, p = 0.002). The carrying out of 4 or more treatments showed a protective effect (OR 0.46, CI 0.28-0.77, p = 0.003). This finding was confirmed in the multivariate analysis, adjusted by type of drugs (OR 0.49, CI 0.28-0.84, p = 0.009) and number of treatments carried out (OR 0.51, CI 0.30-0.86, p = 0.01); these two variables were independent.
CONCLUSIONS: These findings show that the antiviral/immunoglobulin approach has a longer positive disease free survival in comparison with other approaches. However, CFS still remains a difficult disease to be effectively treated.
Source: Eur Rev Med Pharmacol Sci 2013; 17 (21): 2847-2852. U. Tirelli, A. Lleshi, M. Berretta, M. Spina, R. Talamini, A. Giacalone.


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ReeceTarbert writes "If you wanted to try FreeBSD but didn't have the right hardware, or enough time to make it useful on the desktop, VirtualBSD might fit the bill: it's a VMware appliance based on FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE and features the Xfce 4 Desktop Environment and a few of the most common applications to make it very functional right out of the box. If you're curious you can have a look at the screenshots, or proceed to the download page and grab the torrent file right away. (Note: VirtualBSD also works in VirtualBox 2.x as long as you create a new virtual machine and select the virtual disk from the archive instead of creating a new one)."


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text: late 14c., from Old French comparer (12c., Modern French comparer), from Late Latin comparare "to liken, to compare" (see comparison). Related: Compared; comparing. To compare notes is from 1708. Phrase without compare (attested from 1620s, but similar phrasing dates to 1530s) seems to be altered by folk etymology from compeer "rival."


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News Releases
June 19, 2014
Syniverse Opens New Bangalore Office
BANGALORE, India – June 19, 2014 – Syniverse today inaugurated a new Bangalore office that will consolidate its services in India's technology hub with a focus on delivering centralized support along with strengthened innovation to customers in India and around the world. The opening further demonstrates the company's commitment to the India market.
Bringing together over 500 people from two former offices in Bangalore, the new office unites employees from Syniverse's acquisition of MACH who became a part of Syniverse in 2013. The new office also represents the largest facility in India for Syniverse, which also has offices in Gurgaon and Hyderabad. The consolidated operation will centralize the support of Syniverse's customers and the delivery of Syniverse's solutions.
"As home to the world's second-largest population and also a country in which our company has its second-largest presence, India is a critical area of focus for our business," said Joe DiFonzo, Chief Technology Officer, Syniverse. "As mobile continues to evolve at a lightning-fast pace, our new combined office will work together with our offices in Hyderabad and Gurgaon to more nimbly support our customers and bring to market the advanced solutions today's mobile users demand."
The office will be inaugurated today in an opening ceremony presided by DiFonzo along with Senior Vice President and General Manager Paresh Shah.
"With almost 900 million subscribers and more than 15 million mobile devices sold each month, India is one of the world's largest and most dynamic mobile markets, and our new Bangalore office demonstrates our commitment to providing the highest level of service we can to serve customer needs in this critical region, " Shah said. "Our more than 500 employees based in this facility have a wide range of skills and experience to further help our customers deliver on the promise of mobility – a simple, interoperable, always-on experience."
Syniverse's new office marks another step in the company's increasing presence in India. More than 30 operators and enterprises in India rely on Syniverse for a variety of solutions to make mobile work for their end users. In 2013, Syniverse announced agreements with Knowcross Solutions and Nimbuzz to provide mobile messaging delivery. And in 2012, the company announced its efforts to power Vodafone India's Messaging Hub. Syniverse also continues to support the Government of India's Department of Telecom mobile number portability initiative in Zone 1 across 11 circles, including New Delhi and Mumbai.
About Syniverse
Syniverse is the leading global transaction processor that connects more than 1,500 mobile service providers, enterprises, ISPs and OTTs in nearly 200 countries and territories, enabling seamless mobile communications across disparate and rapidly evolving networks, devices and applications. We deliver innovative cloud-based solutions that facilitate superior end-user experiences through always-on services and real-time engagement. For more than 25 years, Syniverse has been simplifying complexity to deliver the promise of mobility – a simple, interoperable experience, anytime, anywhere. For more information, visit www.syniverse.com, follow Syniverse on Twitter or connect with Syniverse on Facebook.
Bobby Eagle
Syniverse Public Relations
+1 813.766.8592


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"It's a brand. It's like Coke. So, some people in the board room at Coke made some crazy decisions in the past to make Cherry Coke. But then the consumers didn't like it too much. So, they had to go back and bring in some brilliant mind to get this thing back on track."
Now, I think Howard meant New Coke, not Cherry Coke. And I take great umbrage if he didn't, comparing the failed Rich Rod flavor to the highly underrated Cherry Coke (which, if 11 Cherry Coke cans lined up on defense last year, could not possibly have done worse statistically than what Gerg employed).
But that's all behind us now. I'm just happy with have the real thing as Michigan's head coach since -- wait for it -- things go better with Hoke.
ED. NOTE: Yes, this entire post was simply an excuse to Photoshop a Diet Coke can as a Brady Hoke can. But can you blame us? After reading Desmond's quote, it was just the sort of low hanging fruit we can't resist here at the the MZone.


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Ancient Coin/Artifact Restoration Services
Do you need help cleaning/restoring that one "very special" ancient coin or artifact? We can certainly help you with the following catagories.
All coins/artifacts will be professionally restored/cleaned to their best possible appearence. Cleaning out around legends/details is fine, but we WILL NOT "tool" any coin, as that is a no-no, okay?
In most cases, the service charge per coin will be $25 only. The turn around time should only be a week or two, depending on the coin's condition, etc.
For ancient artifacts, it will depend upon upon the condition and we'll quote you a price, once received in hand.
Simply send us an eMail with pix before ordering. Once we see if we can help you out, you can place your order though the shop.
Thanks for all, Kevin and Sheri
Brooch, Silver Brooch Fragments, c. 2nd-3rd Cent AD


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Submission + - Ortiz Had 'JSTOR for Life' While Prosecuting Swarz 1
theodp writes: Two days before Aaron Swarz committed suicide while under fire by the office of U.S. District Attorney Carmen Ortiz for downloading JSTOR PDFs, JSTOR reminded folks that graduates of select universities had been provided with free access to JSTOR PDFs for the past three years under the Access for Alumni program. So, because she's a grad of George Washington University, it would appear that Ms. Ortiz ironically had a very nice perk available to her while prosecuting Mr. Swarz — JSTOR for Life — and wouldn't have to worry about being faced with the threat of '35 years in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, restitution, forfeiture and a fine of up to $1 million,' since she was entitled to freely access JSTOR documents that college dropouts like Aaron Swarz could be prosecuted for downloading. Still, U.S. Attorney Ortiz issued a statement late Wednesday insisting that 'this office's conduct was appropriate in bringing and handling this case.' As the WSJ notes, philanthropic funding of nonprofits (like JSTOR) doesn't have a great track record for eliminating inequity.


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The crisis of leadership at Citigroup Inc was rumored to be close to a climax over the weekend amid widespread speculation that CEO Charles Prince will resign, undermined by widening losses from bad mortgage debts and disgruntled shareholders who have suffered a 31 percent loss in the market capitalization of the largest US bank.
Just a week after New York-based Merrill Lynch & Co ousted Stan O'Neal, Citigroup provided no comment on front-page stories throughout the US that said Prince, 57, will step down.
"This might become a weekly occurrence, getting rid of a Wall Street CEO," said James Ellman, who manages about US$200 million as president of Seacliff Capital in San Francisco.
Citigroup's board was to hold an emergency meeting this weekend, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing unidentified people familiar with the situation.
"We are completely declining to comment," said Leah Johnson, a Citigroup spokeswoman and member of the New York-based firm's management committee.
The biggest US bank by assets reported US$6.5 billion in writedowns and losses in the third quarter, casting doubt on the length of Prince's tenure.
"The board may have simply reached the point where they can't take the pressure from stockholders and they have to remove him," Punk Ziegel & Co analyst Richard Bove said in an interview.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is looking into how Citigroup accounted for certain transactions in a banking-industry rescue plan, the Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Specifically, it's reviewing whether the company properly accounted for US$80 billion in structured investment vehicles, the newspaper said, citing one of those people.
The result of the review, still in early stages, could include no action or a referral to the SEC's enforcement division, the Journal said.
The company's SIV accounting is "in thorough accordance with all applicable rules and regulations," bank spokeswoman Christina Pretto told the newspaper.
Citigroup rose US$1.31, or 3.5 percent, to US$39.04 in extended trading on Friday. Shares have dropped 32 percent this year.
Robert Rubin, the former US Treasury secretary and chairman of Citigroup's executive committee, may be asked to serve temporarily as CEO, Dow Jones reported.
Rubin is "reluctant" to take the job, the news service said.
Other possible replacement candidates, according to the Journal, include Richard Parsons, a Citigroup board member who is expected to step down as CEO of Time Warner Inc later this year, and NYSE Euronext CEO John Thain.
The best way for the company to return value to shareholders is to break into three separate companies, a consumer bank, an investment bank and a wealth-management brokerage, William Smith, president of Smith Asset Management, said in an interview.
"They've got to put a close to this chapter, they've got to put some morale back into the company," he said.
Smith said Citigroup chief financial officer Gary Crittenden is capable of overseeing the dismantling and that Sallie Krawcheck, head of the global wealth management division, could run that company afterward.
Banks, securities firms and insurers have declined on concern that more writedowns and losses lie ahead for their holdings of bonds and securities backed by home mortgages, as well as corporate loans. The worst housing slump in 16 years has led to record US foreclosures and brought trading in some mortgage bonds to a standstill as their value fell.


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Archipel is a solution to manage and supervise virtual machines. No matter if you have a few locally on your computer or thousands through data centers, Archipel is a central solution to manage them all. You can use all libvirt-supported virtualization engines like KVM, Xen, OpenVZ, or VMWare. You can perform all basic virtualization commands and many other things like live migration, VMCasts, packages, etc. Archipel uses XMPP for all communication. There is no Web service or custom protocol. You just need at least one XMPP server, like eJabberd, to start playing with it. This allows Archipel to work completely in real time. You never have to refresh the user interface. You'll be notified as soon as something happens. You can even use your favorite chat clients to command your infrastructure. You can open a chat conversation with your virtual machine and say things like "How are you today?" or "Hey, please reboot."
Beem is an XMPP (Jabber) client for Android. Beem is compatible with any standard XMPP server or service (including Ejabberd, Openfire, Facebook, or Gmail). It supports SASL, proxying (Socks4, Socks5, HTTP), DNS SRV, and chatting with a specific resource. Beem is available on the Android market and on the software's own Web site.
GOZERBOT is a channel bot that aids conversation in IRC channels and Jabber conference rooms. It's mainly used to serve RSS feeds and to have custom commands made for the channel. More then just a channel bot, GOZERBOT aims to provide a platform for the user to program his own bot and make it into something useful. This is done with a plugin structure that makes it easy to program your own. There are over 100 plugins already written and ready for use.
GZRBOT is a port of GOZERBOT to the Google Application Engine. It is there for its code and reuse of it is highly recommended. A script is available to clone gzrbot and rename it so you can run your own bot off the GZRBOT code. GZRBOT has a plugin system that lets you program your own plugin and provide you a way to add custom functionality to your bot. Both writing commands and reacting on events through callbacks is supported.
Ibid is a multi-protocol, general purpose, instant messaging chat bot written in Python. It aims for a naturalistic interface rather than strict-syntax commands. Ibid understands many protocols, including IRC, Jabber/XMPP/Google Talk, Campfire, NMDC, and SILC. It also interacts over SMTP, HTTP, and various RPC protocols. Ibid aims to make plugins as easy as possible to write. It ships with a large collection of plugins for looking up information, performing conversions, storing factoids, delivering messages, and much more.
JBuddy Messenger is an instant messaging client designed for everyday business use. It supports public instant messaging networks including AIM, ICQ, MSN, and Yahoo. With a paid license, JBuddy Messenger adds support for Google Talk, IBM Lotus Sametime, XMPP/Jabber, Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS 2007) and Live Communications Server (LCS 2005), and the JBuddy Message Server. JBuddy Messenger offers the concept of a Meta-Buddy (Trillian calls them Meta Contacts), which is an aggregation of the presence of multiple screen names under one buddy. Also, buddy groups of the same name across multiple accounts can be visually merged to simplify large buddy lists.
JSONBOT is a remote event-driven framework for building bots that talk JSON to each other over XMPP. This distribution provides bots built on the JSONBOT framework for console, IRC, XMPP for the shell and WWW, and XMPP for the Google App Engine. A plugin infrastructure can be used to write your own functionality.
jabberd is a Jabber/XMPP instant messaging server. It implements XMPP-Core (RFC3920), XMPP-IM (RFC3921), and a range of protocol extensions: XEP-0012, XEP-0016, XEP-0030, XEP-0049, XEP-0054, XEP-0077, XEP-0079, XEP-0092, XEP-0114, XEP-0138, XEP-0153, XEP-0157, XEP-0160, XEP-0191, XEP-0192, XEP-0193, XEP-0198, XEP-0199, XEP-0202, XEP-0203.
A PHP class to authorize and access APIs using OAuth 1.0, 1.0a, and OAuth 2.0.
Complex special functions, numerical linear algebra, and statistics in JavaScript.


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Hi, my name is Brian, and I'm a simpleton when it comes to knives.
I hadn't planned on posting here, or anywhere, about knives but found myself sucked in last night on a different topic. Now, I'm thinking maybe you all (y'all) can help me Shorten the long uphill climb that is the initial learning curve of, well... anything. I know what a knife is, even if I've only ever used crap examples (stamped). But as I've been reading over the past few weeks, trying to educate, I keep running into technical things that I just don't understand. For instance, knives are Biased for right or left handed use? Huh?!? There's only one sharp edge, and so long as that goes down through what you want to cut, all's good, right? I understand about a single bevel vs double, but what difference does it make? Why are some people so fanatical about one bevel over another.. is it a Functional difference, or a placebo/mental difference? I know that a LOT of things are done/bought/promoted on being "different", without being better (and in some cases being much worse) ~ I want to avoid that. How about bevel angle? I think I get that, as thinner will wear faster (but cuts better), and wider can deal with more abuse. Sort of like using a mauling axe for splitting wood vs. a normal axe. But what's the difference in "cutting feel" that I see mentioned? How about hardness? Again, I think I sort of understand this in that "softer" steel will take an edge better and "harder" will take more abuse, but in what scenarios are they each the "best" choice?
I'm sure I'll have more "heavy" questions, but how about a "light" one? What's the best way to store knives? I'm sure that my current method (tossed in a drawer with my oven mitts and hot pads/trivets) isn't the best. I imagine wood blocks aren't ideal either as running the edge along the wood has to wear on it, maybe magnets? I don't have kids to worry about, just a clutsy wife (but I do 99.999% fo the cooking).
Anyway... Hi Everyone. Hope you don't mind helping with an education. Like I said, no need to reinvent the wheel is this info exists somewhere and you post the link. I've been searching, but I don't think I know enough to search effectively yet.. or I need a more basic understanding before I can understand the search results I've found. And if you have More info (if I didn't ask something, it's not because I know it already, it's because I'm Completely unaware), by all means, post it up.
Brian melting in GA (is 70* and rain RIGHT for the first day of Winter?)


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By Teresa Rivas
Shares of Cisco (CSCO) were trading up more than 1% in recent trading, following news this morning that it plans to buy privately held Cariden for $141 million in cash and retention based incentives.
The deal is expected to close during Cisco's fiscal second quarter, with Cariden joining Cisco's Service Provider Networking Group.
Analysts seem positive on the news. Wells Fargo's Jess Lubert maintained an Outperform rating on Cisco, writing that Cariden's portfolio should complement Cisco's existing business well and applauded "Cariden's solid early operating metrics which include 50% CAGR over the past five years, 95%+ renewal rates, and wins with multiple tier1 providers. Separately, we believe Cisco should also benefit from Cariden's MPLS expertise, which is a dominant WAN technology that may help Cisco better compete as the routing and optical layers converge."
Lubert also notes that this is Cisco's ninth purchase of a software- or cloud-centric company this year, "which may benefit Cisco's gross margins over time and offset pressures from the ramp of lower margin offerings (UCS) and pricing within some segments of the portfolio (low end switching). We note Cisco entered the January quarter with roughly $7.5 billion in U.S. cash, which along with strong cash generation appears more than sufficient to support the recent M&A activity as well as the dividend and share repurchase plans."
ISI's Brian Marshall, was also positive on the move: "Our research has consistently highlighted the increasing importance of management/optimization software for networks and we believe the acquisition reflects CSCO's desire to add more software-oriented capabilities. We also believe Cariden's orchestration software can complement CSCO's efforts in software-defined networking (SDN)."
Still, he maintained his Neutral rating, as he is concerned about Cisco's long-term trajectory and a lack of near-term catalysts.


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Writing "Learning PHP 5"by David Sklar, author of Learning PHP 5
What are the tools and processes that I used to write Learning PHP 5?
Each chapter (and appendix) is its own file, formatted with the Docbook Lite
XML dialect. I used XEmacs to edit the files. XEmacs's
xml-mode provides
helpful assistance with well-formedness checking and context-sensitive tag
insertion. It also works with XEmacs'
font-lock mode to make tags, attributes,
and other XML goodies appear in pretty colors for easier readability.
One consequence of having the chapter files be XML documents and using an
extremely programmable editor (or is it more accurate to describe Emacs as a
programming environment that just happens to include a pretty good text
editor?) is that even with my rudimentary pidgin
elisp skills, I could write
some simple functions and macros to automate common tasks.
Sample code, in the chapter files, generally appears wrapped in
<programlisting> tags, something like this:
print "You are signed up with address: " .
One downside of using XML for tech writing is the extra work necessary to
use XML's special characters like "&" and "<". For code examples, I avoided
problems by wrapping the entire example in a
if (($age < 17) && ($parental_permission == false)) {
print "Sorry, you can't see the movie.";
To speed the process of inserting these tags, I made two small keyboard macros and assigned them to function keys:
(defalias 'xml-programlisting-start
(read-kbd-macro "<programlisting><![CDATA["))
(defalias 'xml-programlisting-end
(read-kbd-macro "]]></programlisting>"))
(global-set-key [f9] 'xml-programlisting-start)
(global-set-key [f10] 'xml-programlisting-end)
After the O'Reilly production folks took a look at a sample chapter, they
commented that each code example began and ended with extra white space. Having
a newline after the
<![CDATA[ and before the code starts (and
after the code ends but before the
]]>) makes things easier to
read, but not as nice in print. I cobbled together an
elisp function to clean
things up for me:
(defun xml-cdata-cleanup ()
"Removes blank lines from the beginning and end of CDATA blocks"
(setq p (point))
(setq topmatch 0)
(setq botmatch 0)
(goto-char (point-min))
(while (re-search-forward "\C-J+\\]\\]>" nil t)
(replace-match "]]>" nil nil)
(setq botmatch (1+ botmatch)))
(goto-char (point-min))
(while (re-search-forward "\\[CDATA\\[\C-J+" nil t)
(replace-match "[CDATA[" nil nil)
(setq topmatch (1+ topmatch)))
(goto-char p)
(message "Replaced %d top and %d bottom blanks" topmatch botmatch)
That way, I could write with the extra white space and then slice it all out before I submitted a chapter.
To submit chapters (or parts of chapters), I used a CVS repository and a mailing list. When I had new material for the editors and tech reviewers to examine, I committed it to the CVS repository. Commit messages went to the mailing list. Reviewers could read the new material and either commit changes and comments of their own or email me or the list with suggestions and new materials.
Not all reviewers found working with the raw XML as pleasant as I did. To
make things more visually appealing, I used the
db2h utility from
the Docbook Lite distribution to generate HTML versions of each XML file. These
HTML versions had enough markup (section headers, sidebars, code examples) to
let reviewers focus on the content of what I was writing and not on the XML
Another bonus of writing the book as XML is that I could write utilities outside of the editor to manipulate the data in the book. For example, here's the program I wrote to generate the downloadable code archive. It looks through all of the chapter files to find XML bits like this:
<example id="lphp-ch-7-ex-connect">
<title>Connecting with <literal>DB::connect()</literal></title>
<programlisting><![CDATA[require 'DB.php';
$db = DB::connect('mysql://penguin:email@example.com/restaurant');]]>
It writes the code inside of the
<programlisting> tag to its
own file, and keeps track of what's in the
<title> tag for each example so
it can write an index file listing all the examples in each chapter.
// Where do the chapters live?
$inDir = 'C:/Documents and Settings/sklar/My Documents/Learning PHP/chapters';
// Where is the example code going to go?
$outDir = 'C:/Documents and Settings/sklar/My Documents/Learning PHP/code';
// Make sure output directory exists
if (! (is_dir($outDir) || mkdir($outDir))) { die("Can't create $outDir"); }
// It's PHP 5, so let's use an iterator to indicate which files to handle
class ChapterOrAppendixFilter extends FilterIterator {
public function accept() {
return preg_match('/^(ch\d{2}|app[a-z])\.xml$/i', $this->current());
// Loop through each file in $inDir that matches the regex in the filter's
// accept() method
foreach (new ChapterOrAppendixFilter(new DirectoryIterator($inDir)) as $file) {
// Processing an XML file with a well-defined structure in PHP 5?
// It's a job for SimpleXML!
$chapter = simplexml_load_file("$inDir/$file");
// Get all the examples in the chapter with an XPath query
$examples = $chapter->xpath('//example');
// Only process a chapter if there are some examples in it.
if (count($examples) > 0) {
/* Prepare the Chapter name/number */
preg_match('/^(ch|app)(\d{2}|[a-z])\.xml$/', $file, $matches);
if ($matches[1] == 'ch') {
$chapterWord = 'Chapter';
$chapterNum = intval($matches[2]);
} else {
$chapterWord = 'Appendix';
$chapterNum = strtoupper($matches[2]);
// Make a new directory for all the examples in this chapter
$chapterDir = "$outDir/$chapterWord$chapterNum";
if (! (is_dir($chapterDir) || mkdir($chapterDir))) {
die("Can't create $chapterDir");
$exampleNum = 1;
$titles = array();
// Write out the code in each example (inside the <programlisting> tag)
// into its own file. The strval() call is needed to force the SimpleXML
// object into a string.
foreach ($examples as $example) {
// $titles is a list of all the titles of the examples.
// We want the text insidethe <title> tag in the example,
// but need to remove any markup inside the <title> tag
$titles[$exampleNum] = str_replace(array('<![CDATA[', ']]>'), '',
// After writing each example to its own file, write an index file
// that lists the titles of each example
$fh = fopen("$chapterDir/index.txt",'w');
foreach ($titles as $titleNum => $title) {
fprintf($fh, "Example $chapterNum-%02d: $title\n", $titleNum);
When it was time to generate the downloadable code archive, I ran the program and then zipped up the directories that it created. No need for any messy cutting and pasting.
David Sklar is an independent consultant in New York City, the author of O'Reilly's Learning PHP 5, and a coauthor of PHP Cookbook.
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In response to Michael LaBrie's Jan. 20 letter "NRA right in seeing double standard in armed guards for first family": President Obama's kids are no more important or deserving of protection than my kids. However, they have a higher profile, because Obama is a head of state. Heads of state around the world and their families can and do become targets for political assassination. Therefore, they have bodyguards.
Letters | DEBATE STIRRED OVER GUN VIOLENCE


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The case of the Elders arrested in Carter county was taken up on the 13th by the circuit court for that county. After a number of witnesses had been examined, Judge Newton Hacker delivered a fair and impartial charge to the Grand Jury. In it he said the anti-polygamy law was unconstitutional in part, at least; the rest of it he declared of doubtful propriety. He cautioned the jury to beware how they dealt with the privilege of free speech, which the entire genius of the government was to protect. It was most decidedly a just opinion of such an unconstitutional law, a law that ignored the sacred rights of citizens of a government whose groundwork was designed to protect one person as much as another in free speech.
An indictment was found against Elder Christensen, but the charge against Elder Garner was ignored. Attorney J.M. Thornburg [sic] prepared a demurrer to the indictment, which was placed on record, but overruled by the judge. The case was continued over till the November term of court. The brethren returned to their fields of labor.
One of the results of this inhuman and unconstitutional prosecution was to make many friends for the Elders and to extend their acquaintance indefinitely. Mr. William Green, a prominent man of East Tennessee, went fifty miles to attend the proceedings and defend the Elders in their distresses. His influence was felt for good among many of the people of the whole country.
President Morgan visited the Elders of East Tennessee in Union county on the 26th. Much good was done there, a branch being organized and the work being more thoroughly grounded. In other parts of Eastern Tennessee the work was reported as progressing very favorably.
About the first of August Elders Christensen and Garner returned home. Soon after this President Morgan visited Elizabethton and had an examination made of the court records; as a result it was found that the clerk of the court had made a mistake in recording the bond the Elders had been released on, and instead of it being $500 it was only $5. This error, of course, only made Elder Christensen liable to the sum of $5 and practically freed him from the clutches of the unjust law.
September passed by with nothing of importance happening. In October, conference was held with the South Carolina Elders. The meetings on this occasion were held in Spartanburg county, near Paris, at the home of a Lamanite brother named Patterson. Two Catawba brethren, Pinckney Head and Alonzo Canty, were called to go to the Cherokees on a mission, the latter living in Clay and Cherokee counties, North Carolina.
[At least one of Alonzo Canty's descendants seemed to be a member of the church, according to a letter to her from Jeff Johnson of the church historical department (1981), as seen in the link for Alonzo Canty. Here is an interesting missionary journal mentioning some of the people in this area. I've wondered about this mission ever since seeing a mention of it from someone in John Morgan's wikipedia entry. See a mention of the missionary efforts in this article about the Catawba tribe and a note in another article that, "In the 1880s, Mormon missionaries visited the nation, and by the 1920s virtually all the Catawba had converted to Mormonism. They remain largely Mormon today."]
The next event of any importance was the conference of the Elders of East Tennessee near Baird's mill. At this meeting much good was done owing to the number of people present. This was in November. The year closed without anything else of note happening. Although not so many baptisms had been performed for that year, still, considering the odds that were against the Elders, a vast amount of good was done. During the year much literature was printed and circulated among the people, a fact worthy of much consideration, as much prejudice was overthrown by it.
Latter Day Saints Southern Star, Vol. 1, No. 34, Chattanooga, Tenn. Saturday, July 22, 1899, p 265-66. Copyright free image of Thornburgh from wikipedia. Image of the Catawba from wikipedia.