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Mick Jagger has sung the words "This could be the last time" hundreds of times – yet the line had a special resonance tonight. The Rolling Stones' December 15th show in Newark, New Jersey, was the final gig of their 50th anniversary tour, their first live performances in five years. And with no shows scheduled for 2013, many fans had to be wondering if tonight meant it's all over now.
But whatever the future holds for the World's Greatest Rock & Roll Band, they blew it out tonight, rampaging from classic to classic in true Stones fashion – through the past, darkly. The Stones treated this show as a lavish celebration loaded with special guests, from Lady Gaga torching up "Gimme Shelter" to Bruce Springsteen strapping on a guitar for "Tumbling Dice."
Yet all eyes were on Jagger, a cosmic blur of hips and ribs and lips, attacking each song with an unbelievably ruthless rocks-off energy, whether he was shimmying through "Honky Tonk Women" or strumming his guitar for "Dead Flowers," in its first appearance of the tour. (It was a fan selection, as voted via the band's new smartphone app.) For most of the show, he wiggled in the same skintight outfit he wore on the Stones' 1969 tour: black drainpipe trousers, clingy long-sleeve T-shirt, Cuban-heel boots. In his case, actually, it might have been the *exact* same outfit – no doubt the old one still fits. (How does this man do it? Zumba? Tantric Pilates? Or just generally getting his ya-ya's out?)
Inside the Rolling Stones' Reunion
Keith Richards played heroic amounts of guitar all night, especially in "Gimme Shelter" and "It's Only Rock & Roll," and though he mostly glowered over his guitar at the back of the stage, he took the mike to rasp through a Mick-free interlude of "Before They Make Me Run" and "Happy." Ron Wood looked gratifyingly hale, dancing around and resuming his mischievous-schoolboy role, while Charlie Watts drummed with his unflappable gravitas.
The brisk pace of the show didn't leave much room for ballads or idle chit-chat. Mick whisked the guests on and off the stage so fast that at one point he joked that he felt like David Letterman. Lady Gaga did a spectacularly soulful duet on "Gimme Shelter," teetering in a striped jumpsuit and platform heels that could have come straight from the inner sleeve of Tattoo You. The Black Keys sat in for Bo Diddley's "Who Do You Love," while the Freddie King tribute "Going Down" became a metallic blues jam featuring Gary Clark Jr. and John Mayer, who played extended solos with Wood and Richards. (The Stones resisted the urge to follow up the Mayer cameo by bringing on Taylor Swift to sing "Wild Horses." Now that would have been a moment.)
Jagger told the crowd that some of the Stones' guests had flown thousands of miles to be there in New Jersey: "They've flown from Moscow and Los Angeles and Saskatoon and God knows where else." Then he added, "Our next guest, he just had to walk here." And with that, Bruce Springsteen came on for "Tumbling Dice," the undisputed highlight of the night. Springsteen traded verses with Jagger while playing guitar, grinning broadly, busting out his Otis Redding moves as he grunted "You got-ta roll me!" over and over.
For guitar freaks, another highlight had to be the showcase for Mick Taylor, who played with the Stones in the Sticky Fingers/Exile on Main Street years between Brian Jones and Ron Wood. All three guitarists jammed on "Midnight Rambler," as Jagger honked along on harmonica. Even as the Stones stretched the song way past the ten-minute mark, luxuriating in all the sex-and-doom longeurs, there was still a restless twitch in the music. Like the rest of the show, it was a moment that seemed to encapsulate the band's whole history.
But even on a momentous occasion like this, it wouldn't be the Rolling Stones' style to get sentimental. And true to form, they stuck to their hardass sense of menace. Five of the first six songs they played touched explicitly on the theme of death, and the one that didn't – the show-opening "Get Off Of My Cloud" – was the ultimate Stones ode to flipping off the human race and zoning out into your own private dream-world. As always, the Stones didn't offer any easy comfort tonight – just mean guitars, high energy, and plenty of satanic majesty.
The show remains available here for on-demand viewing for 30 days after the concert.
Set List:
"Get Off Of My Cloud"
"The Last Time"
"It's Only Rock & Roll (But I Like It)"
"Paint It Black"
"Gimme Shelter" (with Lady Gaga)
"Wild Horses"
"Going Down" (with John Mayer & Gary Clark Jr.)
"Dead Flowers"
"Who Do You Love" (with the Black Keys)
"Doom and Gloom"
"One More Shot"
"Miss You"
"Honky Tonk Women"
"Before They Make Me Run"
"Midnight Rambler" (with Mick Taylor)
"Tumbling Dice" (with Bruce Springsteen)
"Start Me Up"
"Brown Sugar"
"Sympathy for the Devil"
"You Can't Always Get What You Want" (with the Trinity Wall Street Choir)
"Jumpin' Jack Flash"


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Adapted from a recent online discussion.
Trying to live with a partner who overthinks everything
Q: My husband insists that meticulous plans are necessary before embarking on anything — but he hates to plan himself. Here's how it plays out:
Me: How about we go to Annapolis this weekend? I'll find a B&B, ask some friends for restaurant recommendations and get a dog-sitter.
Husband: What else will we do there? What are the hours of the museums? The admission costs? Is the dog-sitter insured? Are you sure we should drive our car? How would the cost of public transportation compare? Have you read all of the TripAdvisor reviews for this B&B? What if it rains?
Husband feels I should be willing to do the extra research to make him comfortable enough to participate. I believe that if he needs more, he should put on his big boy underwear and do it himself. I feel like I'm married to someone who has never boiled water, but who criticizes the chef if the souffle is slightly flat. He thinks I'm flighty, and I think he's critical and neurotic. Advice?
The Best-Laid Plans
Carolyn: The only fair response to his grilling is: "I've planned it to my satisfaction. If you want more assurances, then you're welcome to do the research." Unfortunately, it sounds as if you've tried this, so your option list is short and unpleasant: Fight to stay reasonable under constant pressure; take this to couples counseling — and also to the office of a mental health professional who is qualified to screen him for OCD, anxiety, ADHD and the other usual suspects that produce such an unquiet mind; or talk to an attorney.
In other words: His position is completely untenable, and easily turned around to, "Unless he's physically or mentally incapable, he has no right to make such demands." People have no right to ask their partners to do what they're unwilling to do for themselves.
Anonymous: It sounds like the problem here is that it cannot be planned to his liking because he doesn't want to go. It also sounds like a very one-way relationship. She is to please him, and he will decide whether he is pleased. The therapy, if they go, should be to ask: What is his role in and commitment to this relationship?
Carolyn: "He will decide whether he is pleased." Well said, thanks. This is, however, beyond the typical I-don't-wanna behavior. The dog-sitter has to be insured?
Best-Laid Plans, again: If this were just a matter of vacation-planning, then I'd say, "Here's the deal, come or don't." But it happens with everything: Last night we got in a ridiculously long argument because I suggested having the neighbors over for a cookout, and he freaked out about not having planned for contingencies A to Z, each contingency being more ridiculous. I do think he might have some sort of anxiety disorder, but he refuses to see a therapist. Knowing I can't make him, I'm trying to figure out how to live my life without getting sucked into his panics.
Carolyn: Oh my. If you scrapped the cookout, then you're good and sucked in. Talk to a therapist without him, learn some coping strategies. And stop engaging in these arguments: You can't reason with someone too ill or stubborn to budge.

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LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) — Shares of Alcoa Inc. gained Tuesday evening after the aluminum maker offered an upbeat demand outlook, and Clearwire Corp. shares climbed after the wireless broadband operator received a buyout bid.
Meanwhile, a higher sales forecast spurred a rise in shares of Seagate Technology.
Alcoa AA, +1.19% gained 0.9% to $9.18 in heavy volume as the company projected growth of 7% in global demand for aluminum this year.
For its fourth quarter, Alcoa's adjusted earnings were 6 cents a share, meeting a consensus estimate of analysts polled by FactSet. Revenue fell 2% at $5.90 billion from $5.99 billion a year ago, but the result from the most recent period was stronger than Wall Street's forecast of $5.58 billion.
The company swung to a profit of $242 million, or 21 cents a share, with the most recent results reflecting Alcoa's cost-cutting efforts. See: Alcoa swings to profit on lower expenses.
A year ago, Alcoa lost $193 million.
Alcoa is the first component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.30% to release results for the fourth-quarter earnings season.
Shares of Alcoa closed the regular session unchanged at $9.10. They finished 2012 with a gain of 1.7%.
Stock in Clearwire US:CLWR was pushed 7.9% higher to $3.15 after coming off a trading halt. Dish Network Corp. DISH, -1.58% offered to buy Clearwire for $5.15 billion. The unsolicited offer tops Sprint Nextel Corp.'s S, +0.39% bid valued at $2.2 billion to buy the half of Clearwire it doesn't already own. See: Dish offers to buy Clearwire for $5.5 billion.
Sprint shares fell 2.9% to $5.80 in late trading. Dish shares were unchanged at $35.97.
Seagate shares STX, +0.00% advanced 2.7% to $32.25 as the company raised its sales forecast for the second quarter. Seagate said it now expects to report sales of at least $3.6 billion. The hard-disk maker had previously forecast revenue of $3.5 billion. Analysts surveyed are looking for $3.52 billion in sales.
The hard-disk maker also expects to report gross margins of more than 27%, and shipments of about 58 million drive units. The company had earlier expected gross margins at the low end of a range of 27% to 32%.
Ahead of the evening session, U.S. stocks extended losses into a second session. The Dow industrials fell 55 points, or 0.4%, at 13,328.85. The S&P 500 Index SPX, -0.20% lost 0.3% at 1,457.15 and the Nasdaq Composite Index COMP, -0.02% declined 0.2% at 3,091.81. See more about Tuesday's action in U.S. stocks.


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Moon and Jupiter II [1]
This is the coldest, darkest time of year for the northern hemisphere. The days are shortest, and the Sun scoots lowest across the sky. In ages gone by, many cultures tried to lure the Sun back with lights of their own — big bonfires outdoors, or big hearthfires indoors.
Some of this tradition of light has carried over into the modern celebration of Christmas, with Yule logs, candles, and in today's world, twinkling electric lights as well.
And on this Christmas night, the Sun compensates a bit for its daytime absence by lighting up two brilliant night lights: the Moon and the planet Jupiter. Both shine not by producing their own light, but by reflecting sunlight.
The Moon is the same distance from the Sun as Earth is, so each square foot of the lunar surface receives the same amount of sunlight as the same area on Earth.
Jupiter is five times farther from the Sun, though, so the same area of its surface receives much less sunlight. Not one-fifth as much, as you might expect, but one twenty-fifth. That's because at Jupiter's distance, the sunlight has spread out. So the same amount of sunlight that falls on one square foot of Earth or the Moon spreads out to cover 25 square feet on Jupiter. And the light that Jupiter reflects also spreads out as it heads toward us.
Even so, there's plenty of light to make Jupiter the third-brightest object in the night sky — and a beautiful decoration for Christmas night.
Script by Damond Benningfield, Copyright 2012
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UPDATE: Man, they have so many nominees for Best Picture now that they're forced to include movies that aren't even good! I say that with confidence even though I've seen none of the nominated films.
UPDATE2: The list of nominees is at the link. Just scroll down. Now, if I were going to go see a few of these movies — partly so watching the Oscars might be fun and partly to actually see a good movie — what would I see? I'll make a list:
- True Grit
- The Social Network
- The Fighter
- The King's Speech
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Seat Swap...direct bolt in?
Posted 20 July 2008 - 01:46 PM
Posted 20 July 2008 - 03:14 PM
...my question is.....will the front and rear seats and seatbacks(in the rear)out of a 1997 Legacy GT sedan bolt right in to the stock bolt holes for my 1996 Legacy L sedan?.....
yes, bolt right in. but you will have to swap the front seat belt receivers from the 96 seats onto the 97 seats.
Posted 20 July 2008 - 03:18 PM
Posted 20 July 2008 - 03:30 PM
really..seat belt recievers have to be swapped?..i already bought the seat belts out of the donor car (97 GT) and they buckle in fine with the 96 recievers.........thanks though...in all luck i will get it done tomarrow......
maybe the change took place a year or 2 later, just don't discard the old receivers until you are sure they work. the leather seats i put in my 97 gt need the be swapped. but i don't remember the year, may have been 99.
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Things are starting to improve in the manufacturing industry, especially for a Thomasville company that supplies products for housing and renovations.
Things are starting to improve in the manufacturing industry, especially for a Thomasville company that supplies products for housing and renovations.
Unilin Flooring has begun construction on a $5 million expansion at its plant at 550 Cloniger Drive. The company, which produces laminate flooring, is adding 78,000 square feet as it expands its existing location.
Attempts to reach company officials for comment were unsuccessful.
Chuck George, planning and zoning administrator for the City of Thomasville, confirmed that Unilin has already begun construction on the project. George said building plans for the project were recently approved, and Myrick Construction, which is based in Biscoe and has a Greensboro office, is the contractor for the expansion.
"They haven't really given us much information about what exactly the expansion will encompass, but it is an addition to their current building," George said.
He believed the new construction would be a combination of expanding the manufacturing floor as well as for distribution. An additional loading dock and bay doors are included in the construction plans. There is no indication on how long the project will take to be completed.
Unilin Flooring, which employs about 250 in Davidson County, opened in the Thomasville region in 2004. The Thomasville City Council gave a tax incentive in exchange for the company creating 400 new jobs. By 2009 the company was unable to meet these requirements due to a recession in the housing industry, which resulted in decreased profit for the flooring manufacturer. Company officials requested the job creation requirement be dropped by the Thomasville City Council since it did not have the ability to create 400 new jobs in such a weak market and closed its Denton Road facility at that time.
Unilin reopened its Denton Road facility in April. At that time, officials stated the company invested approximately $1 million as part of its effort to get the facility back up and running. In August, they announced they would be adding at least 14 new jobs and expanding to a 24/7 operation at that facility.
Unilin is the largest supplier of laminate flooring in the U.S., selling under the Quick-Step and Pergo brands through specialty stores, distributors and home centers. The company was acquired by Mohawk Industries in 2005.
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It's only 30k lines of code. This is no problem.
First, take ownership. This is your project. Identify your resources, name the gates you must get through to succeed. If you have help make sure they understand their changes must hit the corner cases or it's junk, then give them ownership of their piece explicitly. Create a safe environment for testing changes, with forward and backward versioning.
Define success. So many projects skip this essential step. If you cannot identify the destination you cannot tell when you've won.
Skip the 50,000 foot view and proceed directly to "what does this do and how can it be done better"? Believe it or not flowcharts and Venn diagrams are not obsolete. Create tree views of function calls. Identify processes that should be libraried. Create policies like "maximum function call depth", "Maximum process share", etc.
If you're the lead, look at issues like memory allocation and process management. Do your profiler due diligence.
If you're the lone ranger on this just absorb the whole thing and integrate it. Force feed your brain huge quantities of what-ifs until it gives you the right answer in self defense - and then have somebody else check the result.
30 days development and 60 days testing. Remember to give a nice presentation at the end and sell it!
Good luck.
Skip the 50,000 foot view and proceed directly to "what does this do and how can it be done better"?
While your post has many good and clearly expressed ideas, I'm not quite sure where you're driving at right here. The question "how can this be done better" can be asked at each node in the call graph, and the question is very broad.
To ask this question near the root, for architectural purposes, I think what you want is exactly the 50 kilofoot view. There's of course utility in asking the same question closer to the leaves, but I think it's a mistake to overlook the big perspective in favour of going low
10 Never throw old code away.
20 If code is broken, GOTO 10.
But the screen resolution of fanfold paper hanging on the wall cannot be beaten by the best modern monitors.
Sometimes just printing the stuff out, papering the floor with it and literally crawling over it yields answers that otherwise escape.
If the line width won't fit on the paper at a reasonable pitch, there's a clue right there.
I'm agreeing with you. 30k lines is 500 pages. That's roughly 8' high by 50' wide. Definitely doable.
Not about the scaring though -- just about it being useful. Anxiety isn't something I'd want to deliberately introduce to a working programmer. Most of the ones I've known had enough performance anxiety issues of their own without adding any.
Hanging the code makes some errors more visible. Not all errors are bugs. Some are structural. Structural fixes sometimes repair "pernicious" bugs.
Also, here is the obligatory link to the Martin Fowler Refactoring catalog.
http://www.refactoring.com/catalog/index.html [refactoring.com]
My code is not ugly. It's battle-scarred
Sounds like something out of the Klingon rules of software development.
What is this talk of 'release'? Klingons do not make software 'releases' Our software 'escapes' leaving a bloody trail of designers and quality assurance people in its wake.
Interesting additions: adding colour to each class and method based on how memory they allocate (or how many objects they construct); or colouring functions relating to their position in the call graph, or their in-degree.
Careful, down that path lies dragons. Adding too much detail not only raises the temptation to waste time by fiddling with the presentation, it also risks turning your 'visible display' from simple line art into a pointillist [wikipedia.org] painting, where you can not only no longer see the broad detai
If its too big to fit in the address space of a 6502, then you are doing it all wrong. (or maybe it should have been done in SNOBOL in the first place.)
What's wrong with reading until you get to the end of the file? That's how the idiom seems to be done in every other language I've used. Why is that an exception in Java?
It's not. The typical Java idiom for reading lines from a file looks like this [exampledepot.com]. (Actually, in production, you would actually handle the errors in that exception block rather than swallowing them. I would personally put the close() call in a finally block, not the main try block, as you still want to close even if a read fails. But you get the idea.)
As you can see, you read until it comes back empty, and then you're done. No exceptions will be used except when things are exceptional.
That's still slightly ug
I really really hate this pattern that Java (and perhaps from elsewhere) has foisted upon us where we get frickin exceptions because we reached the end of the file. That is technically an error condition in the reader function, but it is not exceptional and it shouldn't require me to write the "wild mess of try/catch blocks" just to read in data from a file.
It depends on what you're doing. Quite often, getting EOF while reading a file of some known format is an exceptional situation - it means that file is
What I need is the extra RAM that the GNU libstdc++ implementation of the string class takes up. I develop for a handheld device, and its 4 MB of RAM is a lot smaller than the 1 GB of RAM that you're probably used to working with.
Absolutely. I should have qualified my post by excepting cases like yours where RAM is super-tight (embedded/handheld/etc. . . ) and cases where performance is at a huge premium (tight loops/bottlenecks/mission-critical/real-time). That said, in the vast majority of cases the performance gain from using char* are vastly outweighed by the simplicity, clarity and power of std::string. Heck, automatic destruction when the string goes out of scope is, IMHO, worth the cost of admission alone.
If you pass something in by reference, you need to know it goes in there by reference, it's not visible in the calling code. If something's not visible - well, that's a bug just waiting to crawl in there. If you pass something by pointer, the calling code shows it clearly and you know that whatever was passed is likely to be changed by the called function. That's the rationale used by Trolltech and it is quite convincing to me.
I agree that output should always be passed by pointers, as that makes things e
12. Anything that looks like it was written by drunk lemurs or the French, to be deleted on principle and replaced by something sane.
I'm sorry but I find all this French bashing racist. Unless, of course, you have some information on the coding tendencies of the French that I do not. But having worked with a handful French people and I can say nothing bad about them. I know French "jokes" may be acceptable in the U.S. but this is the Internet and try to behave yourselves. As a rule of thumb: r
... only if your "refactoring" doesn't include a comprehensive, fully-passing, and regularly run test suite.
Any error handling through error return codes, probably to be replaced by exceptions, unless it turns the calling code into a wild mass of try/catch blocks.
Sometimes instead of return codes, there are other good options. For example, you can spin a state machine out into an object, which in effect keeps the return codes safely in one place until you want to check them. In some cases, I love the Null Object Pattern [oberlin.edu]. And sometimes it makes sense to have a request object and a response object,
3. Anything that belongs together should be in one file (even if that files becomes 5000 lines long). Anything that *doesn't* belong together should be split into separate files (but don't make a file for just a single function - instead create a file with "leftov
12. Anything that looks like it was written by drunk lemurs or the French, to be deleted on principle and replaced by something sane.
Monsieur, je suis outré par votre comparaison de mes glorieux compatriotes avec des nobles lémuriens sous influence!
Les lémuriens ne boivent pas de vin, c'est evident: la convoyage de bons crus vers Madagascar pour consommation lemurienne n'est pas economiquement viable!
Sir, I am shocked by your comparison of my glorious compatriots with noble lemurs under the
``The Code of the Woosters''
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Code-Woosters-Penguin-Modern-Classics/dp/014118597X/ [amazon.co.uk]
What ho! Spiffing!
Elegant as it may be, that version of quicksort is so slow that (IIRC) even the Haskell documentation suggests against using it in "real" code.
Personally, I think the C++ way is even easier to read, and it has the benefit of being really fast:
sort(xs.begin(), xs.end());
"The problem is that warty old code isn't always just warty - it's battle-scarred. It has years of tweaks and bug-fixes in there to deal with all sorts of edge conditions and obscure environments. Throw that out and replace it with pristine new code, and you'll often find that a load of very old issues suddenly come back to haunt you. So, a total rewrite is out. This means working with the old code, and finding ways to wrestle it into shape."
... A better solution would be to print a class per page. At the start of the project, the application had about 150 classes, and the refactoring effort is focussed on about 80 of those. Initially, gigantic classes would be an incomprehensible smudge of grey, but as the refactoring process starts tidying the code and factoring out into other classes, the weekly printout would start to literally come into focus, hopefully ending up with many pages actually containing readable code (which happens roughly when the class is small enough to fit on no more than 3 pages at normal size).
Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant! "Smell test?" Yah, right. But then I got to thinking, "Why are code formatting standards such a hot topic?" The computer doesn't care if indentation is expressed with 2 spaces, 3 spaces, or a tab. But, I do! Over time, I've learned how to see coding errors just from the slight aberrations in the LOOK of code. Couldn't tell you WHAT it was, at first, it just felt (or smelled) wrong. So call it what you will, but I could now see how "smell test" has some basis behind it. Then, I got to thinking of an age-old question:
How do you find a needle in a haystack?
The technique in the article accomplishes BOTH of these. I'd suggest running the code through a pretty printer [wikipedia.org] to get consistent layout throughout the whole project. The more the semantics of the project can be represented by syntax, the more visible the troublesome code becomes.
I'd suggest running the code through a pretty printer to get consistent layout throughout the whole project.
I'd suggest running the code through a pretty printer to get consistent layout throughout the whole project.
Umm... running it through a pretty printer wipes out the very details that printing out is supposed to bring out. After pretty printing, you are no longer seeing the 'native' code - but rather you are seeing the patterns hard coded into the pretty printer.
I respectfully disagree. Consider a piece of code that has 8 levels of nesting. With a judicious use of short variable names, parentheses, an
I love the way the article uses the complete rewrite of Netscape as an example of why you shouldn't rewrite from scratch. Cause we all know how big a failure Firefox is </sarcasm>
Firefox is not Netscape.
The Netscape browser, like the company that made it, indeed ended up a failure. And my pals who were there at the time tell me that the poor code quality was a major factor in the inability to get anywhere. How long did it take between the last decent release of Netscape and the 1.0 release of Firefox? Four years? Six? I guess it depends on what you consider the last decent release. No matter how you count it, though, there were years of thrashing trying to get something based on th
Last Monday, nobody knew that anything unusual was about to happen. On Tuesday, the Perl 6 project started. On Wednesday, Larry announced it at his "State of the Onion" address at the Perl conference.
Today is a good day for information-gathering. Read someone else's mail file.


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Beau Lebens
I really like this list, and as a developer I know my life would be a heck of a lot easier if all the designers I'd ever worked with followed even half of these tips.
I particularly like your analogy at the end about comfort zones and areas of expertise.
Another couple notes I'd like to add would be:
- Actively point out/annotate how the content should sit on the page (fixed width/resizable, left/right/center, etc)
- Make sure that if your background image isn't a tile, then you take into account that some people have really large screens (e.g. don't give us a background image cropped at 1024 or something, just because that's the size you were working at).
- It can be really handy to have a list of the fonts that you used, and also "back up" font preferences, especially for system text/content.
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Martha Goes to School - TD thinks it would be funny to put Martha's name on the list for substitute teachers. What started out as a joke, turns into a nightmare for Helen, Alice, and TD, when Martha gets the job and takes it very seriously. TD and the Light Bulb of Doom - TD swears he'll start working on his report just as soon as he watches the "Harry Blotter, Boy Wizard" movie marathon, all nine parts! As Helen predicted, TD winds up in a panic until he has a moment of inspiration. Can he pull off his project in time?
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Da Vinci, which rolled through its first season in the New York Middle School Baseball League, completed its perfect season with an 11-1 mercy rule victory over IS 235 New Americans Academy Monday afternoon in Sunnyside.
The co-ed baseball league, in its second season, expanded from 12 schools in Manhattan in 2008 to 19 schools this season, including 10 in Brooklyn and five in Queens.
Da Vinci wasted no time grabbing the inaugural crown. Led by the incredible pitching performance of Albert Ramirez, Da Vinci throttled the Astoria based New Americans.
New Americans struck first, as Felix Reynoso led off with a single, and then, in an impressive show of speed, stole second and third. Reynoso came around to score on a single by Leider Coronel, giving New Americans a 1-0 lead.
However, Ramirez settled down after that, and while Da Vinci's bats were cold in the bottom of the first inning, Ramirez kept them close, retiring New Americans in order in the second.
Da Vinci broke through in the bottom of the second, scoring six runs on the inexperienced New Americans team, a team composed of recent immigrants (hence the name).
From there, Da Vinci was in control, adding one run in the third.
In the top of the fourth, New Americans threatened, loading the bases with two outs, but Ramirez calmly struck out Carlos Correia to end the threat, prompting coach Joseph Didomenico to exclaim: "he's our ace. He's been doing that all year for us."
In total, Ramirez finished with an impressive seven strikeouts.
For New Americans, the team was in good spirits despite the loss. Coach Jeff Cohen said after the game: "We did our best. I'm proud of the kids." And most of the players, like Sajib Salam, who were used to playing cricket rather than baseball, were just happy to step on the baseball diamond."
"I like baseball," Salam said. "It was a lot of fun."
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Pizza Popcorn Recipe
Looking for something different-and not sweet-for a bake sale? Whip up this fun popcorn snack from Sheri Warner of Louisville, Nebraska. It's lightly spiced with pizza seasonings and very munchable.
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- Place popcorn in an ungreased 13-in. x 9-in. baking pan. Melt butter in a small saucepan; add the remaining ingredients. Pour over popcorn and mix well. Bake, uncovered, at 350° for 15 minutes. Yield: 2-1/2 quarts.
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Trans-Species Transformation[1] was a sub-branch of transformation magic in which one organism is transformed into something of a different species.
Trans-Species Transfiguration is one of the most difficult sub-branches of Transfiguration, the only noted sub-branch to be more difficult is human Transfiguration.
It is probable that Cross-Species Switches are an example of Trans-Species Transformation, due to the similarity in their names. If this is so, then Transforming Spells must be adapted to perform Trans-Species Transformation[2].
The periodical Transfiguration Today provided some information on this branch of magic, as Albus Dumbledore submitted a paper on it to the periodical[1].
- First year students of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry transform things and animals into birds.
- Third year students turn things and animals into rabbits.
- Fourth year students transform guinea fowl into guinea pigs.
- Duellists transform opponents into ducks, fish, geese and worms frequently.
See also
- 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game)'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game) (Appears on a Famous Wizard Card)
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film) (As Cross-Species Switches)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (As Cross-Species Switches)
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (First identified as Trans-Species Transformation)
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Chapter 18 (The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 20 (The First Task)
|Professors: Albus Dumbledore · Minerva McGonagall
|Textbooks: A Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration · Intermediate Transfiguration · A Guide to Advanced Transfiguration
|Known practitioners: Emeric Switch · Circe · Falco Aesalon · Mirabella Plunkett · Thaddeus Thurkell ·
|Transfiguration spells studied at Hogwarts: Chair to cat · Match to needle · Snail to Teapot · Teacup to Rat · Switching Spell · Transforming Spell · Avifors Spell · Felifors Spell · Mice to Snuffboxes · Beetle Buttons · Rabbit Slippers · Vera Verto · Teapot to tortoise · Draconifors Spell · Lapifors Spell · Vanishing Spell · Owl to opera glasses · Guinea fowl to guinea pig · Hedgehog to pincushion · Porcupine to Pin Cushion · Small Child to Rat · Meddling Man to Monkey · Crinus Muto
|Branches of Transfiguration: Transformation · Vanishment · Conjuration · Untransfiguration


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Bank of America
Bank of America's shares have had a flat return so far this year, trailing the KBW Bank Index's increase of 7%. But during 2012, Bank of America's stock returned 110%, while the index was up 30%. Bank of America's shares still haven't fully recovered from their epic drop of 58% during 2011. The shares are now down 11% since the end of 2010. The stock trades for 0.9 times their reported Dec. 31 tangible book value of $13.36, and for 9.2 times the consensus 2014 earnings estimate of $1.28 a share, among analysts polled by Thomson Reuters. The consensus 2013 EPS estimate is 97 cents. Bank of America was one of the "disappointments" this earnings season, reporting a fourth-quarter profit of just $700 million, or three cents a share. The company had pre-announced a large mortgage putback settlement with Fannie Mae ( FNMA) and a major contribution to the $8.5 billion foreclosure settlement between federal regulators and the nation's largest loan servicers. Then again, Friday's action for the shares reflects how much is at stake for the company in an improving economy. Investors' mortgage repurchase claims against the company rose to $28.3 billion as of Dec. 31 from $25.5 billion the previous quarter. Bank of Americas fourth-quarter presentation implied that the Fannie Mae settlement would reduce the putback claims by roughly $12.2 billion, leaving about $16.1 billion in putback claims. That is still quite a sum, and every new report showing continued improvement in home prices makes investors more comfortable about the company's ability to absorb the punishment.
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The JW Salon
The JW Salon, a full service salon, opened at 84 Theatre Drive, Suite 600, in the Epic Theatre plaza off State Road 207.
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Healing Massage & Energy Therapies
Healing Massage & Energy Therapies, providing massage, energy work, body treatments, and ear candling, opened in the Southgate Plaza, 2730 U.S. 1 South, Suite F, #1.
Marla Taylor, nationally certified, licensed massage therapist, offers deep tissue, neuromuscular therapy, Swedish, lipossage (body contouring massage), prenatal massage, la stone therapy (hot and cold stone massage), craniosacral therapy, reiki, healing touch and couples massage. Chair massage is available onsite, for events or at your office.
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The owner Parinal Mitra has completely renovated the interior and serves appetizers, salads, Mediterranean seafood and other entrees.
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Sunday Morning Ice Cream: flavours worth staying home for
I hate to be a roaring cliche but sometimes when life hands you a giant sack of lemons, it makes sense to make a bucket of delicious lemonade. That's what I tried to do in April. Flattened by an injury I had to stay at home for the whole month, lying on my back, my foot propped up high, icing it every couple of hours. Blee. So after a weekend having a good cry and feeling sorry for myself I decided that this was the perfect time to try the Sunday Morning Ice Cream service – after all – when else could I be certain I'd be home every Sunday morning to receive it?
It's a great idea. You sign up to a month's delivery. You have no idea what flavour you'll get – only that it will have been home-made by gelato super-gal, Genevieve and that it will come – freshly-churned – to your door. Each Sunday morning you get an email with the flavour profile, appropriately, that first week it was Meyer Lemon and Buttermilk – lemons into lemon ice cream then.
The pots are small – sorry – there's no way I'd share and yes, for the first week there was a lingering snarky feeling of "Ouch, I just paid $40 for a small pot of heaven…" The next week that $40 faded into the ether and all was left was the best freaking ice cream I'd ever had. So for the next three weeks there was an overwhelmingly joyful feeling that a lovely lady was, for no reason, bringing me a treat each Sunday morning.
I tried to eke each pot out to make it last longer than Sunday. But that never happened. It was a bonus if it made it past Sunday lunch to be truthful. If you've no plans to leave the house each Sunday morning – sign up. For a gift, I'd say it's one of the best you could get for someone living in Vancouver. Four mornings of the perfect treat, a whole month of something special.
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The idea of a utility district for fire and ambulance services in unincorporated Shelby County and several of the suburban towns and cities was voted down Monday, Aug. 19, by the Shelby County Commission.
But it probably will be back with attempts to bridge issues of local control as the county administration looks for solutions to a shrinking pool of fire fees.
County Commissioner Wyatt Bunker sponsored the resolution asking the Tennessee legislature to consider giving the county the option to form a utility district.
(Daily News File/Lance Murphey)
All seven Democratic commissioners abstained Monday in the party line vote on the resolution asking the Tennessee legislature to consider giving the county the option to form such a services district. That left the six Republican commissioners one vote short of the seven votes needed for passage and a formal lobbying effort for a bill in Nashville next year.
Commissioner Wyatt Bunker, sponsor of the resolution, said the idea not only faced hesitancy from Democratic commissioners representing Memphis districts, it also faced a lot of questions from suburban leaders.
"Their issue is local control all together. If they do something like this, they aren't opposed to efficiencies and better ways to provide fire services," Bunker said after the vote. "Most of them are concerned with who is going to have control at the end of the day. Are they going to have to go to the county to get approval for setting the fire fee? How many appointees are going to be from the municipal mayors versus the county mayor? If those are adjusted in such a way to slant the power towards the county, then you are just not going to get buy-in from them. If you don't get buy-in from them, what's the point?"
Before the resolution was voted down, Bunker amended it to include a 10-member utility board, with the mayor of each participating municipality and the Shelby County mayor each getting two appointees to the board. The original version had a seven-member board, with each participating mayor getting one appointee and the county mayor getting two appointees.
Some Democratic commissioners said they abstained because they had too many questions about it, not because they necessarily oppose it at this juncture.
"Some of us just simply don't understand what you are trying to accomplish," Commissioner Sidney Chism said to Bunker.
Bunker said if he returns with the resolution, it likely will have some major changes. He also said the suburban towns and cities could go it alone, although he has some concerns about a patchwork of "gerrymandered boundaries that have affected response times."
"There's a very high likelihood that from this point it will just be the municipalities involved and not the county at all. We're just going to have to learn here at the county to make some concessions on behalf of the suburbs," Bunker said. "I'm not going to beat around the bush and run around in circles to get it done here. We can do what we want to do in the suburbs without the county and just let the county deal with whatever the result is. I hate that, because the intent of this is to create some stability for the employees in the county."
Although the city of Memphis could join such a utility board, Bunker and other commissioners think that is unlikely, as is Bartlett, Germantown and Collierville joining, because they also have their own fire departments. Millington and Arlington do too, but there are complications that might make a utility district attractive to them.
"Millington, Lakeland and Arlington are all dispatched by Shelby County Fire," said county Public Works Director Tom Needham.
Lakeland is the only one of the seven towns and cities in Shelby County without a fire department. Bunker is running for mayor of Lakeland in the September elections.
The city of Millington provides fire services to some of unincorporated Shelby County near its borders under a contract agreement.
For county government, the issue is a shrinking pool of fire fees going back to the city of Memphis' annexation of Cordova.
"We lost fire fees associated with that annexation," Needham said, adding that county government would lose more fire fees with the coming annexation of the Bridgewater and Southwind areas.


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The first half of the 2016-17 was very positive for the Philadelphia Flyers. Playing out of the Metropolitan Division, the Flyers played some great hockey against some of the league's top teams. At one point during November-December, Philly went on a 10-game winning streak and looked like a club that could crack the top three in the division. However, inconsistencies on both ends of the ice plagued the club during the second half of the season and the Flyers ended up with just 88 points and a 6th place finish in the Metro. Coached by Dave Hakstol, Philadelphia was not able to head back to the Stanley Cup Playoffs as it did during his first season behind the bench. At home in Wells Fargo Center, the Flyers were successful, winning 25 of 41 contests. On the road, however, the team was able to muster up just 14 wins, which ultimately led to its poor finish.
One of the most exciting aspects of the upcoming 2017-18 season for Philadelphia is this year's number two overall draft pick Nolan Patrick. Patrick has signed his entry level contract with the Flyers and should see NHL ice time at some point during the year. The 18-year-old center should help out an offense that finished 20th in goals scored a year ago. He'll be mentored by some of the Flyer veterans including captain Claude Giroux, who finished last season with 14 goals and 44 assists. Center Brayden Schenn was another solid offensive weapon last year, tallying 25 goals and 30 assists for the Flyers. Wayne Simmonds led the team in goals, putting up 31 as well as 23 assists.
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International Fashion Retailers Commit to Go Fur Free
Washington, D.C. - This year was the biggest year for the International Fur Free Retailer Program since its launch in 2006, with over 50 retailers signing on in 2012 and a record number (20) of countries served by the program, reports Born Free USA, Founding Partner and Organizer of the program.
Co-founded by Born Free USA, The Fur Free Retailer Program is an international effort to give consumers accurate information about a retailer's fur policy, allowing consumers to make an informed choice when shopping. The program aims to further the spirit of ethical consumerism and provide shoppers with information about the most compassionate retailers in the world.
The program recognizes and supports retailers who have committed, in writing, to a no-fur policy. Without that written commitment, the Fur Free Retail Program will not endorse any company regardless of its current inventory.
According to Adam Roberts, Executive Vice President, Born Free USA, "Little by little, retailers are stepping up worldwide to take a stand against the use of fur in fashion. We are proud that the program is attracting an increase in participants and hope this trend continues with great strength. Another year cannot go by when animals are brutally killed for their fur. We need consumers to take a stand to respect wildlife, and encourage and support those retailers willing to go fur-free."
Born Free USA is a nationally recognized leader in animal welfare and wildlife conservation. Through litigation, legislation and public education, Born Free USA leads vital campaigns against animals in entertainment, exotic "pets," trapping and fur, and the destructive international wildlife trade.
The year not only set a record for how many retailers joined the program, but it also was a year that featured the widest variety of retailers from around the globe including maternity wear, sportswear, eco-friendly, faux fur focused, ballroom, consignment and more.
Monica Engebretson, Senior Program Associate for Born Free USA, adds, "Fashion designers, retailers and consumers must realize that fur garments are bad for the animals and bad for the environment, and have no place in the future of fashion."
Some of the largest and most notable retailers around the world to join this year include:
• ASOS, the UK's largest online-only fashion and beauty store shipping to over 190 countries.
• COS (Collection of Style), an H&M concept store with 40 storefronts across Europe, Asia and the Middle East. COS has been fur free since its inception and signed onto the program to further support the concept.
• Elisabetta Franchi, a top Italian fashion brand with stores in Italy and 35 other locations
• ZERO, a European fashion company headquartered in Bremen, Germany.
• Noppies, a retailer specializing in maternity wear available in the Netherlands, Germany, and Belgium.
• ORMAR, a Croatian online retailer.
• Sage and Ivy, based in The Netherlands, is an eco-friendly fashion line committed to using materials produced in ethical circumstances.
• Encore Ballroom Couture in the U.S. features ballroom, specialty, cocktail, and evening dresses, and is the leading consignment and rental company in the industry. Their dresses are seen on the ABC television show Dancing with the Stars.
• Brunotti, distributed in over 20 countries including throughout Europe, South Africa and Turkey.
• Designer Dutchess specializes in faux fur and is the first Australian retailer to join.
Engebretson adds, "Consumers can help by only spending their fashion dollars at fur free retailers and designers; never purchasing clothing from designers and retailers who sell or use real fur; and supporting retailers and designers who have signed on to the international fur free retailer program and put their fur free commitment in writing."
Taking an ethical and public stand against fur fashion offers a company a chance to promote a public policy against violence and cruelty, and to lend its support to the international efforts to end this unnecessary and cruel fashion choice.
Born Free USA brings to the United States the message of "compassionate conservation" - the vision of the United Kingdom-based Born Free Foundation, established in 1984 by Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna, stars of the iconic film "Born Free," along with their son Will Travers, now chief executive officer of both organizations. Born Free's mission is to end suffering of wild animals in captivity, conserve threatened and endangered species, and encourage compassionate conservation globally.
The program is also supported by the Fur Free Alliance (FFA), an international coalition of leading animal and environmental protection organizations worldwide. These organizations facilitate the Fur Free Retailer program in their country.
See the full list at www.furfreeretailer.com and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/furfreeretailer
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Fullbridge Acquires College Portfolio
Expands Its Leadership Position Ensuring College Students Career Success
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Dec. 13, 2012 11:37 AM
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Dec. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Fullbridge Program today announced an expansion of its support for college students in their transition to successful careers through its acquisition of College Portfolio. The Fullbridge Program, which utilizes coach-led courses in an intensive, month-long program designed to help students launch their careers, further announced that College Portfolio Founder and CEO Rick O'Donnell will join The Fullbridge Program's senior management team. Mr. O'Donnell is the former Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Higher Education, where he oversaw 29 colleges and universities and regulated private and technical colleges.
The acquisition will strengthen Fullbridge's leadership position in the emerging college-to-workforce transition space. The combined company will serve more students at a greater range of universities in career readiness training, coaching and credentialing.
Mr. O'Donnell will lead partnership efforts with universities and colleges and pioneer ongoing coaching, training and credentialing services for Fullbridge graduates.
"We are thrilled that Fullbridge acquired College Portfolio," said Mr. O'Donnell. "By working together, we will be able to offer students a comprehensive set of tools starting early in their college years, extending through internships and into the first critical years of post-graduation employment."
"College Portfolio was built on a few core principles," continued Mr. O'Donnell. "Like Fullbridge, we believe that students should not settle for 'second-best' jobs. We believe that students can and should master core skills that will make them real contributors in business, non-profits, the sciences and the arts, and that they learn best from the combination of accelerated experience, aspirational coaches and motivated peers. We are proud to be joining forces with The Fullbridge Program because they share these core beliefs."
The Fullbridge Program is designed to help students develop critical skills and a clear sense of direction. Its participants are freshmen through graduate students at Ivy League universities and top liberal arts colleges. The Fullbridge Program is offered throughout the year and now partners with select liberal arts colleges to offer the program on-campus as part of their commitment to helping students launch successful careers.
College Portfolio provides early career support, skills-development and a network of career guides and alumni mentors through its online courses.
"We are impressed with Rick's insights, background and passion for working effectively with colleges and universities to help their students find careers that make them excited to go to work," said Fullbridge co-Founder and Co-CEO Candice Olson.
"Rick understands the challenges facing higher education from extensive experience – but just as importantly, he is a thought leader in this new space," continued Mrs. Olson. "College Portfolio brings more than $3 million of investments in thoughtful intellectual property that will help Fullbridge offer high-quality, hands-on career preparation for thousands of students."
Prior to founding College Portfolio, Mr. O'Donnell was President of the Acton Foundation for Entrepreneurial Excellence, which pioneered the top-ranked and innovative Acton MBA in Entrepreneurship. He also spent nearly a decade in the Cabinet of Colorado's Governor, including serving as Deputy Chief of Staff & Director of Policy and head of both the Department of Regulatory Agencies and Department of Higher Education. From establishing the nation's first state-funded voucher for college students to leading public policy reforms of the K-16 system and founding social enterprises aimed at boosting student achievement, Mr. O'Donnell has been at the forefront of education innovation for more than a decade.
"There is a huge infrastructure helping students get into the right college," Mr. O'Donnell continued, "but very little supporting the more critical transition into successful and meaningful careers, a much more difficult transition than for previous generations. We're here to change that."
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mrnick writes: "Eric Simons, 19 years old, was working at incubator, Imagine K2, in Silicon Valley and when his grant money ran out he moved into the office. He slept on a couch, took showers and washed clothes in the office gym, and ate for free in the cafeteria all the while working on his new start-up. He was able to get away with this for two months before being discovered by security guard."


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Josephine Hall Ingram, 82, of Lexington, died Monday, Feb. 4, 2013, at her home.
Josephine Hall Ingram, 82, of Lexington, died Monday, Feb. 4, 2013, at her home.
The funeral will be at 1 p.m. Thursday at Davidson Funeral Home Chapel by the Revs. Billy Pearson and Bill Hicks. Burial will follow in Crestview Memorial Cemetery.
The family will receive friends from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home prior to the service and other times at the home.
Mrs. Ingram was born Sept. 9, 1930, in Wilkes County to Alphonso Vincent Hall and Mary Robena Woody Hall. She retired from Brown and Williamson Tobacco Co. and was a member of Stoner's Grove Baptist Church. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Robert Lee Ingram, who died Dec. 31, 2008.
Surviving are her son, Charles Ingram of Lexington; daughter Debbie Samuels and husband Gary of Winston-Salem; six grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; three great-great-grandchildren; brother Tom Hall and wife Edna of North Wilkesboro; sister Alice Shives of Winston-Salem; and sister-in-law Zeta Beamon of Winston-Salem.
Memorials may be made to Hospice of Davidson County, 200 Hospice Way, Lexington, NC 27292.
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New students who get there UFC training in Maryland are more than likely getting muay thai training. Muay thai is now the common martial arts for people to take if they want to be a professional MMA fighter for the UFC. Martial arts schools in Maryland teach muay thai because it is a proven combat sport that delivers powerful and dangerous attacks to every part of the opponents body. Muay thai uses hands, elbows knees and feet to deliver strikes all possible angles and distances. Throughout this article will be 5 recommended muay thai gear that beginners should purchase to invest in their future Muay thai or MMA career. Gloves: When you are getting started the first thing and maybe the most important thing in the beginning is to buy is boxing gloves. The training classes revolve heaviliy on focus mitt, pad work, and heavy bag strike where the students will be striking with their fist. They need to make sure they pick gloves that won't damage their wrist or knuckles. Cheap … [Read more...]
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Meridian, Miss. Michael Goggans has been Meridian's city attorney since July, a position that pays him $5000 a month, plus a $1000 secretarial allowance each month, for his legal services.
Ward 2 city councilman, Dustin Markham, says that his contract outlines what services are included for that monthly fee.
"There are three prongs in which he can bill," said Markham. "One of the prongs deals with routine legal work. One deals with litigation. And one deals with legal work that's not routine."
It was work Goggans said he did for the city outside of those three areas that led him to present the city council with a bill for $16,120 during last week's council meeting. That's on top of the $6000 paid out each month.
But the council says some of those services he was billing extra for were already part of his contract.
"One of the questions that was raised at the prior council meeting was where the routine legal work stopped, and where the additional billing would go into effect," said Markham. "Some of those (charges) weren't, in my opinion, and some of the other council members' opinions, legitimately placed on that bill and needed to be reviewed."
Mayor Percy Bland says that this bill is part of a learning process for everyone since there are three new council members and Goggans is new to municipal law. He said he believes that the council and attorney should be able to work together more efficiently in the future.
"There were some gray areas and they both communicated what they thought should be outside of the standard billing for the month," said Bland. "And I think they came to terms with that, and going forward I think they'll be on the same page with everything."
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Rutgers' New Athletic Director Quietly Reveals She's Gay
Rutgers' new athletic director, Julie Hermann, came out as gay in such a quiet nonchalant manner that we're surprised it's even making a ripple in the news.
How'd she do it? She just included it at the end of her official university bio!
Hermann's bio reads:
"Hermann and her partner Dr. Leslie Danehy are the proud parents of a seven-year-old son, Aidan."
According to ESPN, this makes Hermann "one of a few known athletic directors in Division I who has publicly acknowledged she is gay. She is one of only three current female ADs at the FBS level."
For her part, Hermann simply says, "I'm really blessed to have a wonderful family, and we're excited to become part of the Rutgers community."
Hermann's hiring comes following the resignation of former Athletic Director Tim Pernetti and the firing of allegedly (??) abusive basketball coach Mike Rice; assistant coach Jimmy Martelli and interim senior vice president and university counsel John Wolf also resigned.
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I would definitely have said something to the staff - about the rap group. No need to pull the man off the stage, but I would definitely have asked to speak to a manager and said something about how it bothered me to see a group that had been invited to perform at the bar treating another person so badly in public. Say something like, "I came to enjoy the show, not to see your performers mocking someone, and we left because of it. We won't be back to see them again."
I sometimes go to karaoke. The location has changed, but the peole running it and the regulars haven't. There's one guy, "Kyle", who always comes. He's a bit mentally slow, but he does his best. Every time he gets up on stage at karaoke, the regulars cheer him on wildly because they're supportive of him, even if he doesn't so as "good" as some of the other performers. I've heard people who weren't regulars downright badmouth him, saying how terrible it was that they let the R-words up on stage. They cheered just as loud when he was done singing, and I was disgusted. But Kyle keeps coming back and singing, and the regulars love him. He even started coming to improv shows (a lot of the regulars are in a group that does them) and whoever's emceeing the show makes sure to get a few ideas from Kyle at every show. They make sure that whoever is badmouthing him or giving him a hard time as drowned out by people who actually do love him so the OP's scenario never happens. All Kyle knows is that he's got the best group of friends ever who love to listen to him sing and think his ideas are really funny.If the situation was different and there weren't such great people around, I don't know what I'd do. I definitely wouldn't blame the bar for one offense, but I'd make sure I knew the name of that rap group and avoid them. And if any of my friends mentioned them, I'd tell them exactly what I'd seen in the hopes of turning them away from that group.
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Sigh, it is relatively amusing.. old medium effectively slashing its throat
Meanwhile the California government increases their rates 400% and nobody bats an eye
....Or are the UCLA academics cutting theirs?
People should understand that the Academic publishers would never have dared try a 400% rise without a strong bargaining position. The sad reality is that publishing in a journal like Nature is a huge feather in the cap/CV of any academic, earning them big kudos, faster tenure track and generally more money overall. Publishers are well aware of this and are effectively trying to call UCLAs bluff here. They're very powerful groups with many "prestigious" journals,
The current average cost for the Nature group's journals is $4,465; under the 2011 pricing scheme, that would rise to more than $17,000 per journal, according to the California Digital Library.
The new price is about four times higher than the old price, a 300% increase, not a 400% increase.
Well, that makes a HUGE difference. I'd run like hell from a 400% price increase, but a 300% price increase seems fair and equitable to me.
Sure. And as long as the conclusion is the same there's no reason to get the facts right, eh?
Sure. And as long as the conclusion is the same there's no reason to get the facts right, eh?
You've got a good point. We need to know, down to the smallest unit of currency, exactly how much indignant rage to express. Can't go miscalculating that, can we? I mean, obviously, we need to be exactly 50% more outraged at a man who murdered 75 people than one who murdered 50, and how angry we're supposed to be is the thing that really matters.
And when an error is repeated enough, it's no longer an error and becomes correct.
Which, for all intensive purposes, begs the question of weather we can take this for granite. Or maybe that's a mute point.
I wish people would stop quoting large percent increases. They get the math wrong more often than not, so it is hard to tell what is intended.
The current average cost for the Nature group's journals is $4,465; under the 2011 pricing scheme, that would rise to more than $17,000 per journal, according to the California Digital Library.
The new price is about four times higher than the old price, a 300% increase, not a 400% increase.
*COUGH* three times higher... or four times the price.... kettle, Meet pot!
It's becoming increasingly anachronistic that a for-profit company should: 1) get their main product (the papers, in this case) produced for free by third parties who are not given any cut of the revenues; 2) have much of the intellectual work of reviewing and editing the papers also done for free by third parties; and then 3) lock up the result behind a paywall to maximize revenues, which go to people who had comparatively minor roles in actually producing the product being sold.
Perhaps if more academics did this sort of thing [infotoday.com] things would change.
I do not think that many of their papers are provided on a "free basis" (well yes mostly they are):
Obviously, there's a tradeoff for faculty, in that many of the NPG journals are recognized for their high quality, and provide a level of prestige that may be essential for advancing a researcher's career. The libraries recommend alternatives, such as the Public Library of Science journals, but those have yet to reach an equivalent level of recognition. The letter also recommends other open access policies, such as following the NIH open access guidelines, but NPG has already taken actions to support these policies.
source [arstechnica.com]
They submitters also get compensated (not highly enough as some would argue). In addition I found this very interesting (from arstechnica):
Nature's take
In response to our query, Nature Publishing group provided us with a public statement in which it voices distress that what it had assumed were ongoing, confidential negotiations have been disclosed to the public. As for the assertions made along with the disclosure, NPG thinks they're misleading. "The implication that NPG is increasing its list prices by massive amounts is entirely untrue," the statement reads. According to Nature, its library subscriptions are currently capped at seven percent annually.
Where did the massive increase mentioned by the UC libraries come from? The statement argues that the price increase seems dramatic simply because UC was operating under a discount that NPG terms "unsustainable." NPG claims that it's providing the UC libraries with a discount from list of close to 90 percent, and that "other subscribers, both in the US and around the world, are subsidizing them." Even with the new pricing in place, NPG estimates that the average download of a paper would only cost UC a bit more than 50.
NPG seems convinced that cooler heads and a detailed analysis of the numbers will see the UC libraries return to the negotiating table. "We are confident that the appointment of Professor Keith Yamamoto and other scientific faculty to lead the proposed boycott," it states, "will mean they will be in a position to assess value with a rigorous and transparent methodology."
same source linked againsource [arstechnica.com]
If those facts are all true, they really should be fair to the other universities...but to be honest I bet both sides are exaggerated as that is how media works.
That justification seems slightly strange. They're arguing that it's "entirely untrue" that NPG is increasing its prices by large amounts, and argue that instead, NPG is simply reducing its discount by large amounts. But that ends up producing the same effect, no?
It is like insurance prices.
$75 for a test that costs you $750.
Which is the real price? The price 99% pay ($75) or the 'rack rate' that the public pays?
Rather than have a big national health care plan Obama should have just required that the uninsured could not be required to pay more than 25% over what the least expensive insurance company rate was.
Seriously, one of my gf's had a $5 charge for a "full rate $580" test recently. Just crazy.
Seriously, one of my gf's had a $5 charge for a "full rate $580" test recently. Just crazy.
Sorry to hear your gf fell for that door-to-door breast exam scam.
UC was operating under a discount that NPG terms "unsustainable."
Well, that seems to be rather the heart of the matter, doesn't it?
How much is NPG's overhead, and what are their profit margins? The service they provide is solely the prestige: they are the most exclusive journal, getting the most important papers subject to (presumably) the most stringent reviews.
The price of the journal helps contribute to that prestige: anybody can open a free journal. But nearly all of it goes to profit, as they don't pay either the referees or the authors.
So, if their overhead is so
Interesting vaguely, but mostly that just says NPG is outdated and must die.
Academic publishers do exactly jack shit, seriously like nothing, zero, zilch. Academics prepare their papers in LaTeX which unlike MS Word will easily produce print quality output. I've never once seen even so much as a spelling correction from an editor, merely bitching about uncited referenced that I'd left uncited for a reason. Referees work completely for free.
I sat on a libraries committee at a UC a few years ago while this "deal" with Nature was being negotiated.
This idea that the UC is getting a discount is absolute BS. We paid (and are paying) extra so that UC libraries are allowed to locally store electronic copies of the online articles, something which Nature is now required to allow us to do (for free) for NIH sponsored research. Go ahead and go to the Nature website and look at the institution subscription price. I just checked again and Nature is rig
1) get their main product (the papers, in this case) produced for free by third parties who are not given any cut of the revenues; 2) have much of the intellectual work of reviewing and editing the papers also done for free by third parties; and then 3) lock up the result behind a paywall to maximize revenues, which go to people who had comparatively minor roles in actually producing the product being sold.
Does it strike you that this is a pretty good description of a commercial Linux distribution?
It does.
So, delving deeper into the analogy, the next best thing for scientific publishers is to offer 'support'.
Maybe, in the form of an electronic forum where the author and reviewers of the paper can collaborate and respond to comments and requests for information to its subscribers.
Only up to the moment when the customers get their hands on the distribution. At this point the Open Source licenses guarantee the right to re-distribution, and anyone who feels motivated enough can re-publish the softeware at a price of his choice.
The only thing distributors can do about this is trademark based:
They can place restrictions on using the product name. But the users can still change the name and logo and re-distribute the cosmetically changed product. Examples include
-The Iceweasel browser in
Depends on what area you're in. In machine learning / AI (my area), having a paper in Nature gives you huge cred with some audiences, but will get you extra scrutiny from other audiences, because there's a big trend of people with relatively crappy ML research gussying it up with some sexy applications (usually bio-related) and then publishing it in a general-readership science journal like Nature or Science in order to avoid the kind of scrutiny it'd get if they tried to publish in an actual ML or Statistics journal.
Yeah--- interestingly, I've found that many of the people who themselves have Science or Nature papers have this view too. If their research is genuinely high-quality and novel in their own area, they'll often publish a second journal article specifically on the underlying technical component in a journal in their field, and that's often the one they'll cite when doing a self-cite. Now if you have that: a journal article in a top journal in your field for within-field cred, plus a high-profile article in th
Scientific publishing is worse than car shows. Most car shows, participants pay, and the spectators get in for free. Which always seemed backwards to me. Sports games are the other way around. The audience pays the players. Except for vanity publishing, authors of fiction generally get paid for their efforts. But car shows are weird that way. Participants enter car shows to show off their rides. They want to show off so badly they'll pay to do it.
So it is with scientific publishing. Researchers don't just want to show off, they have to, to keep their jobs. These scumbag publishers take advantage of that situation to take work for nothing, and act like the researchers should be grateful not to be charged a fee. You might think they add some value with editing and reviewing, but no, they farm all that work out to other researchers-- and pay them nothing for that either. And then the publishers turn around and gouge the spectators too.
There's some serious dislocation in values here. Let's kick Nature where it hurts. They very badly need reminding who is really providing the material. Actually, forget that. Just kill Nature. I had already decided long ago to never again publish in a closed journal. PLoS is where I'll be sending my work.
These scumbag publishers... act like the researchers should be grateful not to be charged a fee.....PLoS is where I'll be sending my work.
So, you take issue with the fact that mainstream publishers don't pay scientists (we'll ignore how that would work in a market where space in well known journals is the scarce resource), and would like to thumb your nose at them by... going with a publisher that will charge you [plos.org] >$2000 to publish your own material! There are good arguments for open access publishing, but your complaints contradict one another.
There is still a market for print journals, although maybe it's on the wane. Someone has to pay f
Most car shows, participants pay, and the spectators get in for free. Which always seemed backwards to me.
Interpretation: The spectators are not the customer. They are the product being sold.
Scientific publishing is worse than car shows. Most car shows, participants pay, and the spectators get in for free. Which always seemed backwards to me.
While I'm sure some participants are just there to show off, I think many of them are there to promote their business, which is customizing cars, and that's why they participate and pay for the privilege. While they're there showing up their fancy car with special upholstery, they're passing out business cards to spectators promoting their auto upholstery
big trend of people with relatively crappy ML research gussying it up with some sexy applications (usually bio-related) and then publishing it in a general-readership science journal
Mark Newman! PNAS! The list goes on...generally seem to be people from field X trying to stuff from field Y (where Y is often ML/statistics/algorithms, and X != math or CS).
Having a paper in Nature is the gold standard in research
And why do you suppose it is? Impact factor [wikipedia.org]. And what affects the impact factor? Number of citations. And who generates these citations? Academic researchers.
If this boycott/controversy leads to scientists at UC (and elsewhere) disliking Nature, it'll have an impact on its impact factor which may negate whatever benefit non-UC researchers may got from reduced competition.
In any case, the academic journal publishers charging exorbitant fees are
Having a paper in Nature is the gold standard in research and I don't think this stance will do their researchers any good.
It currently sure is, but interestingly things are happening in the field as well. There is a growing disagreement with the prices one has to pay for journals who nowadays mainly provide an IT platform. Various journals publication systems are open sources and this simply leads to the fact that publishers are competing with free/open source systems.
Take PlosONe, though obviously not as high as Nature, is becoming a more and more cutting edge journal collection. If anything, it shows that the classic peer-re
Having a paper in Nature is the gold standard in research and I don't think this stance will do their researchers any good.
Nature isn't the only journal in the top tier. Within any given field, there are slightly more specific journals with equal 'street cred' -- Cell is seen as just as important among biologists; The New England Journal of Medicine and The Lancet are just as good for clinical researchers; I imagine that other fields have similar 'blockbuster' titles.
And if you're not going for Nature, then Science is their major competitor for the 'general' scientific audience. Similar impact factor, similar value on one'
Step 5. University library shells out nontrivial dead presidents so that scientists can read the papers they and their colleagues wrote.
This also has been bothering me for a while. I never got why exactly my girlfriend, who is an undergrad in Ancient and Medieval History, and has been networking with Prof's all over North America, still insists on buying Archaeology Magazine, when she has heard most of the names in there and could probably get the un-editted articles if she sent an email. It's like 5 Degrees of Seperation max.
It absolutely baffles me.
Then again, how would she know there was a paper written if she didn't purchase the publici
Why don't the Universities just form a non-profit group to take the place of the publisher? This group could then start a website, and organize the participants. All the papers would be published online, on the website, in PDF format. If anyone really wants a dead-tree version of an article, they can print it themselves. The articles would all be free to read for everyone, so that science is accessible to anyone who has interest. The only cost would be nominal: money for web space, perhaps a full-time
Wow, that's bad.
But still, this whole idea that anyone should have to pay to read scientific publications just seems to fly in the face of what science is about, and it only fuels the general public's view that science is a walled garden, an ivory tower of academics jerking each other off, and not producing learning that's genuinely useful for humanity. If this data is so useful, then it should be freely available to everyone, just like Free/open-source software is. You don't see anyone claiming how great
At least it is mostly better than it was. You used to have to pay a per page charge to have your paper published once it was accepted, which was on the order of hundreds of dollars for a scientific paper. If you wanted a color figure, it went up to thousands. Then, if you wanted copies of your paper to send to colleagues, you had to pay for those too. I published a paper in Science, and by the time we paid the page charges and bought 1000 preprints, we had spend most of $10,000. Now that's a business m
You used to have to pay a per page charge to have your paper published once it was accepted.
Used to? There are still several publishers (especially in the biomed fields) that still require them.
Money talks.
The one thing I don't get is why Nature is gouging their content providers and why UC is PAYING for being content providers in the first place. Peer reviewing, editorial work, actual submissions? Don't people usual GET paid for this?
I'd like to see a chart of NPG's "exorbitant subscription increases" and UC's tuition costs vs. time
5 will get you 10 that UC is much higher.
UC doesn't mind gouging students.....or taxpayers.
Form a cooperative association. Create an on-line journal. Hire staff sufficient to cover the costs of administration. Charge dues sufficient to cover the cost of administration. Let publishers competitively bid for the right to print and sell hard copies (if any want to). Elect a board of governors sufficient to ensure that only top quality stuff gets published.
The current situation is parasitical and symbiotic--but it's becoming less symbiotic.
They should take advantage of the technology and displace the parasite.
It's called PLoS (http://www.plos.org/) and you pay to play there too.
Not all areas have pay-to-play open-access journals. In my area, JAIR [jair.org] and JMLR [mit.edu] are probably the two most prestigious journals (not just most prestigious open-access journals, but most prestigious period), and they're both entirely open access and entirely free of publication fees.
Not really a journal: http://arxiv.org/ [arxiv.org]
At least on the surface it sounds like Nature has far more to loose in this venture in creative pricing than UC does. Loosing editorial staff, reviewers and submissions because you want to charge them more to provide your content just sounds rather backwards.
That's because they didn't tie the rope tight enough.
Just to be clear, what is causing this huge increase? I find it weird that there isn't some more general outcry, why is it limited to UCL? That's a huge jump, completely abnormal for a commercial entity, and TFA is oddly scant on this rather significant bit of context.
Googling around a bit I hit this [sciencemag.org], which follows the old-skool "journalism" thing of finding out what the other side has to say:
The problem, according to NPG, is that CDL has "been on a very large, unsustainable discount for many years," and o
Just to be clear, what is causing this huge increase?
The bigger picture is that for many years now, publishers have claimed that dead tree subscriptions by individuals have been dropping like a rock. It's not just NPG that's doing this, Elsevier has been doing this for a long time with the journals they can get away with. There is some truth to it, many scientists used to have paper subscriptions to their favorite journals. Nowadays though, you just navigate to your library's web-site and enter your id
As much as I hate to use the phrase, it's a paradigm shift.
My father, who had a distinguished career as a professor, explained to me once that journals could never move online because their primary purpose was to fill bookshelves in the offices of professors, as an indication of senority within the tribe - the more shelf feet of journals you had, the more seriously you were to be taken. The least senior professors have little to lose by switching, however, and I suspect that's what has happened - over a ge
I'm no fan of the price gouging publishers are engaging in, but really - Elsevier publishes fake journals by the hundreds [slashdot.org] and there's not a peep from university or faculty. Thomson Reuters sues an open source competitor [slashdot.org] for just having a filter that can read Endnote files and the reaction is zero. But now it's about money and suddenly they're all up in arms with boycotts and protests...
But now it's about money and suddenly they're all up in arms with boycotts and protests...
If you own a business, and know that one of your biggest customers was having financial difficulties, that's probably a bad time to tell them they won't be getting the same discount anymore. That would go double if that same customer somehow was giving you a significant amount of the product you were selling back to them. That's the situation that nature stumbled into: they get a lot of their research from UC, UC is a major customer of their journals, and the UC system has been really hit by the state bud
The irony of this is that I had never heard of zotero until Thomson Reuters sued, and it made it to slashdot. Now I use it, and have a half dozen colleagues using it. Best publicity ever.
What is especially strange about much of academic publishing not changing its traditional subscription model to account for the rise of Internet is that (unlike a lot of other content providers) there is a clear, economically viable alternative.
Instead of charging for subscriptions, journals should get revenue by charging authors to publish (sometimes called "page fees"). Some journals already have page fees that don't cover the cost of publication, in which case they would need to be increased.
Since in bio
Not exactly. The NIH Public Acess Policy [nih.gov] requires that articles based on research funded by NIH be made available to the public no more than a year after publication, by submitting the paper to PubMed. So you don't have to publish your article in both, say, Nature and BMC Biology; you just have to make sure that if the paper is published in Nature, PubMed gets a copy and posts it on their server. Alternately, the PubMed listing may link to the paper at the publisher's site if it's open-access. Wellcome Trust has a similar policy. A number of traditional journal publishers (e.g. Oxford University Press) are automatically making NIH- and/or Wellcome-funded papers available on their sites to ensure compliance -- in fact, most OUP biomedical journals just open everything up after six months to make sure. At a guess, at least three-quarters of the biomedical research published in English depends on NIH, Wellcome, or both, so this is really the easiest way to do it.
I really do believe it's possible for traditional journal publishing, open access, and other methods of disseminating research to peacefully coexist. Just a lot of folks haven't got the message yet.
When an article published in 1927 is behind a paywall, you know that the journal keeping that science hostage, is bad news.
Therefore, screw Nature.
I am in a mid size biotech company.
In our field there are around 15-20 must-have titles. I was in charge of getting quotes for those titles, from 3 publishers.
The bottomline was upwards of 45000 $. Per annum. Electronic access only.
We declined.
We ask authors directly to send us a copy.
I strongly suspect most of the anger at UC is budget-concerned folk in the library system, not the rank-and-file researchers. They probably recognize a Nature boycott is likely bad for them and want this to not happen.
Here's a couple more links, to the ScienceInsider coverage (from Nature's primary competitor) and Nature itself:
http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2010/06/university-of-california-conside.html#more [sciencemag.org]
http://www.nature.com/press_releases/cdl.html [nature.com]
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AYER -- Ayer's newly approved medical marijuana dispensary could rake in about $1.89 million in net revenue within its first year, according to its Phase 2 application submitted to the state's Department of Public Health.
The budget plan assumes a "controlled growth" of patients, servicing 120 the first month and 384 per month by the seventh month. The first-year budget estimates sales for vaporizers and other nonmarijuana products at five percent.
The first year budget estimates a $350 price per ounce, although the price is projected to drop to $320 per ounce in the second and third years of operation.
The three-year business plan still predicts a gradual growth, as Central Ave. Compassionate Care Inc. sells 321 pounds of product in the first year to an estimated 517 pounds in the second, increasing revenue from marijuana and accessories to $2.64 million. In year three, the dispensary is projected to sell 621 pounds with about $3.17 million in revenue.
The dispensary will set aside 20 percent of its net revenues for a community grant program, giving preference to public safety and drug-abuse prevention.
The application details every step of development for Central Ave. Compassionate Care, including job descriptions of its employees.
The four-member board of directors includes Executive Director John Hillier, Shayne Lynn, Bridget Conry and Kenneth A. Frank.
Lynn and Conry come from Champlain Valley Dispensary, another medical marijuana dispensary in Vermont that was awarded a license in 2012.
Lynn founded CVD, which has 250 patients in Burlington. He was awarded the state's last dispensary license last year, and the application claims his "experience in providing marijuana for medical use is unparalleled on the East Coast."
Lynn will serve as cultivation consultant and "provide direct knowledge of cultivating medical marijuana from his experience doing so in the state of Vermont."
Conry, previously the general manager of a Lenox bakery, is CVD's director of wellness programs and marijuana-infused products -- edible items known as MIPs. Conry will serve as the Ayer dispensary's MIP consultant, overseeing the development of the edible products and helping to design the commercial kitchen and menu.
The application outlines an employee team of about nine, including Hillier as the executive director and cultivation director.
The dispensary's security and compliance director will oversee all patient appointments and make sure that the dispensary is in compliance with the state's medical marijuana law. The director will report to Hillier.
The dispensary also calls for a cultivation manager to help track inventory and supervise the part-time trimmers, who record weight. The part-time MIP chef will work under Conry, planning recipes and ensuring edible products are in compliance with state law.
The part-time delivery driver will make deliveries with the security and compliance director, while a full-time receptionist schedules appointments. A patient services director will manage patient intake and inventory, ensuring the facility is compliant with federal privacy guidelines.
Salary for the executive director is set at $90,000, while the cultivation director and patient services director salaries range from $60,000 to $75,000. The security and compliance director would earn between $70,000 and $85,000, while the cultivation manager would earn $40,000 to $50,000.
The hourly positions of receptionist and delivery driver pay $20 to $25 per hour, while the MIP chef could get $25 an hour or $50,000 per year.
"CACCI will open with the minimum number of staff to effectively operate, but as the organization grows, management expects to add new positions to handle an increasing number of patients," the application reads.
All of CACCI's employees, considered "dispensary agents" under Massachusetts law, must be registered with the Department of Public Health before beginning work.
The application outlines a "zero-tolerance drug use policy" in which it drug tests each potential employee. Employees are also subject to random drug tests.
Under law, dispensary agents cannot have a conviction for a felony drug offense. The application highlights a "conservative" estimated opening date of Sept. 3, after CACCI goes through final inspections and obtains an occupancy permit.
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