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On the heels of an announcement by Rhode Island Governor Lincoln D. Chaffee that General Dynamic's Electric Boat has signed a 25-year lease agreement with Quonset Development Corporation, ABC6 news stopped by the New England Tech campus to see how we're preparing students for careers in the shipbuilding/marine trades.
While here, Rhode Island's ABC6 reporter Nicole Gerber spoke with Steven Kitchin, the Vice President of Corporate Education and Training. Steven spoke with Nicole about the Shipbuilding/Marine Trades and Advanced Manufacturing Institute (SAMI) that New England Tech is running, which prepares unemployed Rhode Island residents with the skills assessments and training needed to land jobs in the shipbuilding industry at no cost to the program participant.
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The 3 toss-up gov races
Governor's races in three states — Washington, Montana and New Hampshire — are genuine tossups heading into the fall homestretch as the national parties harness resources for their most prime pickup opportunities.
While the GOP looks best positioned for a takeover in North Carolina, Democrats remain bullish about holding their seats in Missouri and West Virginia, according to POLITICO's August review of the most competitive races.
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That means the pressure is on Democrats to preserve the three open seats in their hands that top our list. Polling indicates that only a few percentage points stand between Republicans and a net gain of four governorships this cycle.
July's rankings are here.
1. Washington
Republican Governors Association Chairman Bob McDonnell didn't get the memo. In April, Republican Rob McKenna was captured on tape telling a local union he's "not Scott Walker."
Yet the Wisconsin governor is exactly whom McDonnell chose to compare McKenna with at a meeting of Washington state delegates at the Republican National Convention. Even before that off-key message, the primary results placing former Rep. Jay Inslee ahead of McKenna by 4 points were worrisome enough for the Republican standard-bearer, who has also seen his polling lead evaporate. That may be why McKenna was seen as the aggressor in their first general election debate this week.
Who won August: Inslee
Latest poll: Inslee 48%, McKenna 45% (SurveyUSA, 524 likely voters, Aug. 1-2)
2. New Hampshire (up 1 spot)
Its Sept. 11 primary is the last on the calendar, but this under-the-radar open-seat race is shaping up to be one of the most competitive gubernatorial fights in the country. With less than two weeks until voters select the nominees, the majority of the electorate doesn't know three of the four candidates running — and doesn't appear to be that interested. Former gubernatorial and U.S. Senate candidate Ovide Lamontagne is expected to withstand a spunky challenge by former lawmaker Kevin Smith for the GOP nod. The Democratic fight is a bit trickier to handicap, with former state Senate Majority Leader Maggie Hassan clinging to a 6-point advantage over former lawmaker Jackie Cilley in an August Public Policy Polling survey that showed a whopping 46 percent undecided.
Who won August: Lamontagne
Latest poll: Hassan 45%, Lamontagne 43% (Public Policy Polling, 1,055 likely voters, Aug. 9-12)
3. Montana (down 1 spot)
The battle has been joined in the race between Democratic Attorney General Steve Bullock and Republican Rick Hill, with both national parties taking to the airwaves in a sprint to define the opposition. Democrats are slapping the "lobbyist" label on Hill and touting his time in Washington as a congressman. The GOP is reminding voters Bullock refused to join the lawsuit against President Obama's health care law, flashing pictures of Sen. Harry Reid and Rep. Nancy Pelosi in their own spot. While Hill outraised Bullock during the most recent fundraising period, the Democrat still heads into the fall with a more than 2-to-1 cash on hand advantage.
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Digital Publishing: Windows 8 Offers Fresh Platform for Newspaper Apps
Windows 8 presents another avenue for newspaper publishers to distribute content; the question is whether it can be profitable
For publishers and editors looking to broaden their newspaper's digital offerings, the emergence of tablets has been both a boon and a curse. Widely heralded as a path to new revenue streams and a way to reach a younger, more diverse audience, tablet publishing also presents an often overwhelming checklist of new skills to learn, strategies to brainstorm, and updates to be made.
Now, Microsoft has entered the fray with Windows 8, the most radical overhaul of the company's venerable operating system since 1995. The new platform gives publishers one more potentially game-changing option to attract new readers to their products. Using the same interface for both desktop and mobile devices, Microsoft is pushing the tablet experience onto home computer users, creating an opportunity for newspapers to market and monetize their content to a new set of users.
Windows should be an important leg in any newsrooms' digital media strategy. In its first month alone, about 40 million licenses to Windows 8 were sold on the market, making it a huge opportunity for newsrooms to engage a large audience of readers in a new and innovative way.
In addition, Windows 7 and Windows XP continue to dominate the marketplace for desktop operating systems, accounting for 44.71 percent and 39.82 percent of the market, respectively, according to market research firm Net Applications. By comparison, Apple's OS X accounts for only 7.13 percent.
Both The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal have offered free news apps in the Windows Store since the launch of Windows 8 in October 2012. In both cases, users free have access to a top news section within the app, and are able to purchase digital subscriptions for full access to all content. Other newspapers, such as USA Today, Los Angeles Times, and the Chicago Tribune, also have free apps available in the Windows Store.
When developing the New York Times' app, mobile project manager Kamal Grey said the paper chose to take advantage of several bells and whistles that Windows 8 offers to developers, including snap mode, which allows users to have two different applications open at the same time, and live tiles, which allow users to pin any Times section or blog to the start page of their device in order to see the latest headline at a glance.
"We had to think carefully through all of the design decisions during the development process," Grey said. "We knew we couldn't predict what device the user was going to be on, so it had to be responsive to their screen and had to be touch-friendly."
In addition to its own app, the Times is also a featured content provider in the Bing News app, which comes preinstalled on every device running Windows 8, exposing Times reporting to a significant number of users. According to Grey, this "presents an opportunity to drive users to our standalone New York Times Windows 8 app and experience our content that way. Both products offer in-app authentication for existing Times subscribers."
Driving traffic on all platforms
The Financial Times is another paper that released a Windows 8 app in October, shortly after the launch of the new operating system and Windows Store.
"Mobile is an increasingly important channel for the Financial Times, driving 25 percent of traffic and 15 percent of subscriptions to FT.com," said Rob Grimshaw, managing director of FT.com. "(The Windows 8 app) extends the Financial Times mobile footprint across all three major tablet platforms, Windows, Apple, and Android, and ensures we offer readers the choice of reading Financial Times content anytime, anywhere, and on whichever device they choose."
One key advantage to selling apps in the Windows 8 Store is the ability for newspapers to use their own commerce engine to manage subscriptions. This means newspapers that already have an e-commerce system in place to handle subscriptions can retain customer information from Windows users just as they would any other subscriber, as well as retain 100 percent of the revenue.
For newspapers that don't have their own commerce engine but still want to develop a Windows 8 app, Microsoft takes the same 30 percent cut of revenue generated that has become an industry-wide standard since Apple launched its Newsstand feature in October 2011. The major difference between Windows and Apple is that once total revenue from app sales reaches $25,000, the revenue split shifts to 80/20, meaning newspapers will keep more of their revenue.
Not just for the major metros
Microsoft seems to have put in a lot of work to make it easy for newspapers lacking the resources of the New York Times to easily develop and market their own app. The company provides a bevy of tools to help newspapers create their app, such as templates and an entire tutorial devoted to walking through the options available to designers.
Newspapers can also promote their Windows apps from their own website with built-in promotion available through Internet Explorer 10. With a basic amount of coding, easy for most webmasters, the newspaper's website will promote the app through an app button within the browser itself, visible to anyone running IE 10 on Windows 8.
Microsoft developers have focused their attention on making it easy for readers to find your app and overcome the issue of overcrowding that plagues so many app stores. "When we set out to build the Windows Store, we wanted to do the best job of connecting people to as many great apps as possible," said Ted Dworkin, a program manager for the Windows Store.
So is a Windows 8 app right for your newspaper? It's difficult to say, but considering the reach of the Windows operating system, and the limited barriers to entry, it's definitely something worth considering.
Rob Tornoe is a cartoonist and columnist for Editor & Publisher and can be reached at email@example.com.
Editor's note: Digital Publishing is a new column by Rob Tornoe focusing on the latest digital trends and technology. It will appear regularly in each issue of E&P.


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Microsoft hopes third time is lucky with XP SP3 update
Sets server release dates despite MIA SQL server
Microsoft yesterday got out its big red felt pen and marked a few release dates on the calendar.
Small Business Server 2008 and Windows Essential Business Server 2008 will both land in November this year. Meanwhile, Windows XP service pack three (SP3) will finally be pushed out "shortly".
The software giant has been forced to delay the automatic web release of XP SP3 twice, so presumably it will be hoping the third time's the charm with the service pack's auto-release.
Microsoft senior technical account manager Nick MacKechnie offered up some classic (i.e. vague) Redmond speak on his blog yesterday: "Microsoft is committed to providing quality products to customers. As part of this commitment, we would like to remind you that Windows XP service pack three will be released to Automatic Updates shortly," he said.
The company originally released XP SP3 as an automatic download in late April. However, it was pulled at the eleventh hour with Microsoft blaming a "compatibility issue" with Dynamics RMS for the embarrassing blunder.
Microsoft admitted it had no choice but to suspend the mass distribution via its Windows Update site for XP SP3 and Vista SP1 while it attempted to fix the glitch in its specialist point-of-sale (PoS) app – Dynamics RMS – which is used to manage about 38,000 different small to medium-sized retail businesses worldwide.
A week later, the service pack leapt into the tubes only for Vista-shy customers to discover yet another major snafu that once again forced Microsoft to halt distribution.
It said that the endless reboot cock-up experienced by so many frustrated customers related, in part, to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), including Hewlett-Packard and Dell, loading the wrong "Sysprepped" XP image on to machines with non-Intel chipsets.
The firm also admitted that the XP SP3 problem was not a new issue. In fact, Microsoft first identified the glitch when Windows XP SP2 was released some four years ago.
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Athletes are set off in a continuous flow for the swim start. It will take approximately 15 - 20 minutes to get the entire field across the swim start line. This creates a type of time trial dynamic for racing – each athlete's race time starts when he or she crosses the timing mat at the swim start arch. This means each person will have a unique starting time as and when they cross the mat. The individual swim time then ends once the athlete crosses the timing mat at the swim exit point.Back to top
The (on-shore) pre-swim start area will be divided into starting zones based on an athlete's predicted swim time for the 3.8km course. Age Group athletes will self-seed into one of five possible swim zones based on how long they think they will take to finish the swim. The choices are:• 60 minutes
The 60-minute swim group will set off into the water first. The zone itself becomes a first-come, first-served affair. If you are in the seeding zone early, you get to line up at the front of that particular zone. Keep in mind that athletes will be setting off in very small batches every few seconds, so the earlier you are there, the more likely you are to have a shorter waiting period once the rolling starts begin. Not that it impacts your overall time – your swim time will only start once you reach the timing mat to enter the water, so waiting will just affect your nerves, not your overall time.Back to top
Seeding for a rolling swim start like this is not a precise art, but the object is to estimate how long you would take to do a 3.8km ocean swim. One very rough way to do it is by going to the pool and timing your 1km swim in minutes. Multiply by 3.8 and add another 10 minutes to get a pretty reasonable estimate of your swim time. If you are borderline between two swim start zones, seed yourself towards the back of the group or in the slower group.Back to top
There is absolutely no benefit in seeding yourself higher than your actual ability. Instead, you are going to get swum over which will make your swim experience very unpleasant. Generally speaking, if you enter the water with people who have a faster swim ability than you, you are going to get dropped pretty quickly. This means no drafting in the water (the only time you actually CAN draft in an IRONMAN!) and a tougher time sighting your line.
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Up for election: two competing visions of 'change'
ST. PAUL — Now the country has a clearer picture of its choices.
The first back-to-back political conventions in half a century gave Americans a blur of late-summer political activity that nominated the two major-party presidential candidates, unveiled the vice-presidential running mates, and laid out their visions for the future.
This all set the stage for a two-month sprint to Election Day that will give voters a choice between two competing stories of who can best change the country's unpopular course — and how they would change it.
"The essential question of this campaign is who's got a better plan, a better agenda to move this country forward and fundamentally change it from the economic and foreign policy failures that we've seen over the last eight years," Obama told reporters on his campaign plane this week.
"We need to change the way government does almost everything," McCain said in his convention speech. "I will reach out my hand to anyone to help me get this country moving again. My friends, I have that record and the scars to prove it. Sen. Obama does not."
No one doubts the country wants to change course. Americans are sour on the war in Iraq, anxious about an economy with rising prices and unemployment, disappointed in President Bush and scornful of Congress. Four out of five Americans say the country's on the wrong track, and nearly as many disapprove of the way Bush and Congress are doing their jobs.
The country has voted only once in the past 60 years to keep a party in the White House three elections in a row. The 1988 election of Vice President George H.W. Bush came when incumbent Ronald Reagan was popular, the country had peace and prosperity, and people wanted, in effect, a third Reagan term.
There is no such sentiment today.
"It's a tough, uphill fight for Republicans," said Vin Weber, a former congressman from Minnesota and a top Republican strategist.
"Our only hope is that John McCain can convince voters he will change things. The more he can rebrand the party, from a Bush party to a John McCain party, the better the Republicans will do."
McCain may have had some success at the convention, first with his surprise pick of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate.
Palin, a newcomer to the national stage and a Washington outsider who rose in Alaska politics by challenging the ethics and records of fellow Republicans, may help McCain reinforce the notion that he would shake things up in the federal government.
"Change is coming," McCain said in his acceptance speech in a none-too-subtle attempt to say he doesn't want to be tied either to Bush or the Congress where he's served.
Palin also helps McCain shore up the party's conservative base, which doesn't like him very much; she generated newfound enthusiasm among volunteers needed to knock on doors in battleground states such as Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia. Her presence should give McCain extra maneuvering room to court suburban independents without alienating the party's base.
On core issues, McCain and Obama will joust over who can best end the war in Iraq and who can best boost the economy.
In Iraq, McCain vows to withdraw U.S. troops, but only when assured by commanders that the Iraqis can secure the country themselves. Obama wants to set a firmer deadline to withdraw most of the troops.
On the economy, McCain promises to make permanent the Bush tax cuts he once opposed. Obama vows tax cuts for those making less than $200,000, but would let the Bush tax cuts expire, and taxes increase, for those making more than that.
On energy, McCain stresses a do-it-all approach to energy, including allowing offshore oil drilling, nuclear power, cleaner coal technology, and wind and solar power. Obama stresses conservation and alternative fuels, but says he'd accept some offshore drilling if necessary to reach agreement with Congress and nuclear power if safety were improved.
Yet for all his effort, McCain will not easily escape being tied to Bush, particularly with his Senate record of voting to support Bush's policies.
"They have a hard time making the argument for change," said Obama adviser Robert Gibbs.
He added that McCain could fall into the same trap that Hillary Clinton did in the Democratic primaries if he thinks his experience will trump Obama's. "We learned in the primaries, if you're the experience candidate in a change election, you bet on the wrong horse."
There's no doubt that, as the candidate from the out party, Obama offers more changes in policy.
And as an African American and the vanguard of a new generation, he looks like change.
But he still has to convince Americans that he offers the changes they want — and that he can implement them.
Heading out of the conventions, it appeared to be a close contest over which side was selling itself as the more compelling and convincing voice of change.
Gallup's daily tracking poll showed McCain starting to get the traditional "bounce" of support that a convention usually generates. The poll, taken over three evenings, showed Obama leading McCain by 48 percent to 44 percent, a margin half as big as the 8-point lead Obama had opened up after the Democratic National Convention.
"It now appears the Republican National Convention may be helping McCain to recoup some of his losses, though with Obama's current 4-point lead, the entire convention period to this point has still been a net plus for Obama," Gallup's analysis said Friday.
But Gallup cautioned that the three-night survey included only one night of polling after Palin's much-watched convention speech — and none after McCain's. The first full sample taken after the convention speeches will be released Monday.
Ultimately both camps expect the post-convention bounces to fade, as they usually do, and the race to return to a neck-and-neck competition, one that will be fought out in battlegrounds such as Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania in the Rust Belt; Virginia in the mid-Atlantic; North Carolina and Florida in the South; and Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico in the Mountain West.
Alaska, once on Obama's target list for a possible steal from the Republicans, is now out of reach with Palin on the Republican ticket.
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How to Use FaceTime on Your iPod Touch
Making and receiving video calls with Apple's truly innovative FaceTime technology is truly simple. No matter how you communicate, it helps sometimes to have a little face time. Apple has engineered a solution that lets you make video calls over Wi-Fi to an iPad 2 or later, iPhone 4, another iPod touch (fourth-generation or later), or a Mac running Mountain Lion or a newer operating system.
You can use either the front or back camera with FaceTime — the front camera has just the right field of view and focal length to focus on your face at arm's length, but you can switch to the back camera to show what's happening around you. And FaceTime can use the cameras in either portrait or landscape orientation.
FaceTime calls are not any more intrusive than phone calls — your iPod touch rings (you can sync ringtones to your iPod touch), and an invitation pops up on your screen asking if you want to accept the call. Tap Accept, and the video call begins.
To use FaceTime on an iPod touch, you need a fourth-generation or newer iPod touch and to be connected to the Internet over Wi-Fi. The person you're calling also needs to be connected to the Internet over Wi-Fi or cellular and using a device that can run FaceTime.
You also need to sign into FaceTime using the FaceTime app and an Apple ID. Once you've signed in, you don't need to do it again for every call.
How to set up your FaceTime calling address
To sign in, tap the FaceTime icon on the Home screen, tap the Email Address and Password fields to enter your Apple ID and password, and then tap Sign In. If you don't already have an Apple account, tap Create New Account to set one up. You can then enter your account information on the New Account screen.
You can then select an e-mail address that you use on your iPod touch, which is the address that others will use to call you in FaceTime.
If you use more than one e-mail address on your iPod touch, you can add the others to FaceTime so that people can use them to call you. Choose Settings→FaceTime, and then tap Add Another Email. Now others can call you using any of the e-mail addresses you provided.
While you are in the FaceTime settings screen, you can also set a Reply With Message option to reply automatically when you can't answer a call (such as "I'll call you later"). You can also set the e-mail address to use as a caller ID in the Caller ID section of the settings screen.
How to make a video call with FaceTime
You can start a FaceTime video call by tapping the FaceTime icon on the Home screen. You can then tap the following icons along the bottom of the screen:
Favorites: Tap one of your favorites. (To add a contact to your favorites list, open the contact and tap the Add to Favorites button on the contact information screen.)
Recents: If you've previously had a FaceTime video call with someone, you can make another video call with that person by tapping the Recents icon, and then tapping an entry in the Recents list that appears.
Contacts: Tap to see your contacts, which appear just like they do in the Contacts app. You can then choose a contact, scroll the contact information screen to the bottom, and tap the FaceTime button.
FaceTime places the call and sends an invitation to the contact. If your contact taps the Accept button in this invitation, you then see the screen with your contact's face on the other end (or in this case, his fingers, as he hadn't truly woken up yet). If you are receiving a call, you can tap Decline to decline it, Accept to accept it, or the no-video icon to accept it without a picture (just voice).
On the Notifications screen in Settings you can also tap Allow Calls From to specify which FaceTime calls you will accept.
While communicating with your contact in FaceTime, a picture-in-picture window shows the image from your iPod touch that the other person sees. You can drag the picture-in-picture window to any corner. You can use FaceTime in portrait or landscape orientation — when you rotate the iPod touch, the image your contact sees changes to match.
To avoid unwanted orientation changes as you move the camera around, lock the iPod touch in portrait orientation.
To switch from the front camera to the back camera, tap the switch camera button once; tap it again to switch back. You can also tap the mute button to mute your iPod touch microphone so that your contact can't hear you, although your contact can still see you, and you can still see and hear your contact. To end the video call, tap the End button.
Don't be shy about using another app during a FaceTime call, if you want to. Just press the Home button and choose any app. You can still talk with your contact over FaceTime, but you can't see each other. To return to the video portion of the call from another app, tap the green bar that appears at the top of the app's screen.
You can turn FaceTime off if you don't want to receive any calls — choose Settings→FaceTime, and then tap On at the top of the FaceTime settings screen to turn FaceTime off.


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Obituary: Russell 'Griz' Kemmit
Sept. 29, 1945, to April 17, 2013
It is with great sadness that we announce that Russ Kemmit, President and Founder of Golf Tournaments Inc. (GTI), passed away at Hospice of the Valley in Goodyear, AZ on April 17, 2013, after a long, hard- fought battle with cancer. He was born September 29, 1945, in Harvey, ND, to Albert and Lenora (Adam) Kemmit. Russ founded GTI in 1987 as a small golf car company doing sales and rentals in Colorado in the early years, and became an EZ-GO Distributor in 1996 which he has maintained since that time. Russ had many long standing friendships and working relationship with prestigious annual events to include Barrett Jackson Auto Auctions and Scottsdale Arabian Horse Show to mention a few. Russ (known as Griz by his friends) was an avid car enthusiast, starting with racing his #90 Sportsman stock car at Colorado National Speedway in the 1960s and 1970s with son Lee carrying on the tradition over the years in Sportsman #98. Along with his family Russ's true passion was his love for his collection of antique cars and restoring them to their original condition.
Russ is survived by his wife Zuniga Rae Kemmit, mother Lenora Kemmit, children Laura (Larry) Lewark and Lee (Misty) Kemmit; step son Gary Hardy, 6 grandchildren Ashlee Kemmit, Alyssa Lewark, Casey Lewark, Dallas Hardy, Zuniga Hardy and Allona Novakovick, great grandchild Callee Rodriguez, and sisters Janice Noehre and Marcella Paulus.
A celebration of Russ's life will be held on Sunday, May 5, 2013 at 2 pm at the Summit County Elks Lodge No. 2561, 1321 Blue River Pkwy., Silverthorne, CO. In lieu of flowers remembrances in Russ's name can be made to the Melanoma Research Foundation, P.O. Box 759329, Baltimore, MD 21275-9329. Condolences can be sent to the family by visiting http://www.heritagefuneralchapels.com.
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See that guy over there? That's James "Deacon" White. He played mostly third base and catcher, and had a .740 career OPS. His best years came in the Ulysses S. Grant administration. He's the only baseball player entering the Hall of Fame this year.
Despite the BBWAA electing a grand total of zero eligible players, Cooperstown still has an induction ceremony to hold in July. The Veterans Committee picked three figures, but honoring White, along with dead owner Jacob Ruppert and dead umpire Hank O'Day, isn't going to be much of a draw—who wants to schlep to Upstate New York to see the great-granddaughters of some people who died during the Great Depression? The Baseball Hall of Fame, perhaps at the urging of the Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce, will try to spice up induction weekend with some people you might actually have heard of.
As part of the Induction Weekend ceremony...the Hall of Fame will recognize 12 individuals previously counted among its roster of members who never had a formal induction due to wartime restrictions. They are BBWAA electees Lou Gehrig (1939) and Rogers Hornsby (1942), along with the entire class of 1945 selected by the Committee on Old Timers: Roger Bresnahan, Dan Brouthers, Fred Clarke, Jimmy Collins, Ed Delahanty, Hugh Duffy, Hughie Jennings, King Kelly, Jim O'Rourke and Wilbert Robinson.
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Windows 8 Touch and Mouse Commands
Windows 8 brings users into a new era of touchscreens, whether they're built into tablets, laptops, or even desktop monitors. When faced with a touchscreen device, these commands will help you maneuver through Windows 8. (The term swipe simply means to slide your finger along the screen.)
Swipe from the right edge to see system commands: Swiping from the right side of the screen reveals the Charms bar. The Charms bar contains five icons that let you choose how to deal with you're seeing onscreen. You can Search its material, Share it with others, return to the Start screen, send it to a Device (a second monitor or a printer), or see Settings for that particular item.
Mouse equivalent: Place the mouse pointer in the upper- or lower-right corner of the screen to summon the Charms bar and then click the desired icon: Search, Share, Start, Device, or Settings.
Swipe from the left edge: Swiping from the left brings up your last used app. Also, swipe in from the left and then slide your finger back slightly to the edge; your previously used apps cling to the left edge as a strip, letting you tap the one you wish to revisit.
Mouse equivalent: Place mouse pointer in upper-left corner to see last used program or app; slide the mouse down the left edge to see other recently used programs. Click the app or program to bring it to the forefront.
Press and hold: You can see detailed information without having to commit to an action. In some cases, pressing and holding opens a menu with more options.
Mouse equivalent: Hover over an item to see more options; if that doesn't work, click the mouse's right button.
Tap to perform an action: Tapping something causes an action, such as launching an app, following a link, or performing a command.
Mouse equivalent: Click an item to perform an action.
Slide to drag: This is mostly used to pan or scroll through lists and pages, but you can use it for other interactions, too, such as moving an object or for drawing and writing.
Mouse equivalent: Click, hold, and drag the item. A scroll bar often appears at a screen's edge, letting you shift your view by dragging the box embedded in the scroll bar.
Pinch or stretch: Place two fingers on the screen and then move them as if you were pinching or stretching a sheet of paper. The onscreen image expands or shrinks accordingly.
Mouse and keyboard equivalent: Hold down the control key on the keyboard while using the mouse wheel to grow or shrink an item on the screen.
Rotate to turn: Hold down two fingers onscreen and rotate them, just as if you were moving a sheet of paper on your desktop. As your fingers move, so does the onscreen object.
Mouse equivalent: None.
Swipe from the bottom or top edge for app commands: App commands are revealed by swiping inward about an inch from the bottom or top edge. Swiping from the very top to the very bottom of the screen lets you close the current app.
Mouse equivalent: Right-click a blank portion of the app to see the apps commands.


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The new MacBooks are here, with blazing fast processors and monster GPUs. But one spec seemingly went backwards: the battery life shrunk from 10 hours on previous models to seven hours on the new ones. What gives?
It's acutally no cause for concern. Starting with the most recent MacBook Airs, Apple adopted a new method for battery testing that more accurately reflects real world usage. "Wireless Web protocol testing", as they call it, involves setting the display to about 50 per cent brightness and surfing the web's 25 most popular sites. There, they repeat whatever they deem to be the site's main function, sometimes involving the playback of Flash video.
Your battery life will still depend on how you use your computer, of course, but I'll take seven hours of real world-tested battery life over 10 hours of display-all-the-way-dimmed-and-typing-in-Text Edit any day. [Tech Crunch]


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Game #33: Red Sox at Blue Jays
Getting interactive: I may be setting a dangerous precedent here in the sense that I won't be able to do this that often, but what the heck. I'm at the Boston-Toronto game tonight at the Rogers Centre, but have the day off from writing. So, to pass the time here in the pressbox, I'll agree to field some in-game questions from Blue Jays Nation. Just post a question in the comment field below this post, and I'll try to get to it during the game. I may not get to all of them, so the better your inquiries, the more likely I'll be to single it out. These can be questions about the game in progress, or about the team in general. Talk to you soon…
Boston (21-10) at Toronto (13-19)
at 7:07 p.m. ET at the Rogers Centre
Today's lineups:
Julio Lugo, SS
Coco Crisp, CF
David Ortiz, DH
Manny Ramirez, LF
J.D. Drew, RF
Mike Lowell, 3B
Jason Varitek, C
Eric Hinske, 1B
Dustin Pedroia, 2B
PITCHING: RHP Daisuke Matsuzaka of Tokyo, Japan
Alex Rios, RF
Adam Lind, LF
Vernon Wells, CF
Frank Thomas, DH
Troy Glaus, 3B
Lyle Overbay, 1B
Aaron Hill, 2B
Sal Fasano, C
John McDonald, SS
PITCHING: RHP Tomo Ohka of Kyoto, Japan
NOTES: It looks like RHP Victor Zambrano won't be making another start for the Blue Jays, but Toronto GM J.P. Ricciardi wouldn't clarify who might start on Sunday, saying only, "We'll have something on that later in the week." One option could be RHP Casey Janssen, who is currently in the bullpen. … Ricciardi said LHP Gustavo Chacin (sore shoulder) is feeling better and he's scheduled to play catch again on Saturday. Chacin, who will need a few Minor League rehab starts, is eligible to be activated from the DL on May 14, but it's more likely he's out until closer to the end of the month. … RHP John Thomson has a blister on a finger on his throwing hand, according to Ricciardi, and that will delay his rehab with Triple-A Syracuse by 10 days. That means Toronto won't have to make a decision on Thomson until around the first week of June.
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I don't know if you'd even know this but what the heck, Is there any indication JP will change his draft philosophy and draft lots of high-schoolers this year?
What do you think are the major reasons the Blue Jays have been unable to sting together even a moderate number of wins. How do you think J.P. can fix this problem. Who on the Jays is expendable.
ROBERTLEE13: With the Jays having so many early-round picks this year, I think it's very likely you'll see more high schoolers selected than in the past. This should also be the case given the fact that Toronto has had so many of their college picks fly through the system. The top tiers of the Minors are filled with JP draft selections, and the Jays can now afford to take more HS players to add more depth to the lower tiers.
MS: I think the main issue has been consistency. When the Blue Jays are hitting, they aren't pitching, and vice versa. You know what'd fix the problem? Not having so many key guys on the DL. As far as a players being "expendable," the Jays are looking into a replacement for Victor Zambrano. Ricciardi hinted that Jason Frasor could possibly be sent down, but manager John Gibbons has since voiced support for the reliever. Frasor can be very effective, but I don't think he's the best choice for that closer's role. For what it's worth, my vote for that job would go to Jeremy Accardo right now.
Thanks Jordan,
Is there any update on when the injured guys will be returning?
ROBERTLEE13: B.J. Ryan (elbow) and Gregg Zaun (broken right thumb) are out until at least mid-June, possibly longer. Reed Johnson (back) is out until around the All-Star Break in July. Gustavo Chacin (sore left shoulder) will likely be out until the end of this month, and Brandon League? Who knows. His is the most mystifying and confusing of the lot. Ricciardi did say yesterday that League could be back on the mound in the next day or two and possibly in a game soon.
Fourth inning update: Boston 3, Toronto 0
So, the Jays have one pitcher who is almost always good, one pitcher who is good half the time, and three who are good less than half the time?
btw Jordan, just a freindly suggestion.
If you're going to do this again sometime, maybe you should put the post up a little earlier. I think the game had started before the post was up and I suspect some people just haven't seen it, thus the lack of questions.
Very true. I did get the post up slightly before the game, but when I opted to do this it was, well, pretty much a game time decision. It's rare that I'm at the park and I have someone filling in for me writing wise. I'll let people know more in advance when/if I know I can do this again. I'll be hanging around postgame to field some Q's, too.
THIS JUST IN: Lefty Scott Downs is no longer perfect for the season. Downs entered the game with a 0.00 ERA after giving up no runs over 9 1/3 innings. In the sixth tonight, he yielded a two-run homer to Julio Lugo and a solo shot to Manny Ramirez.
Boston 6, Toronto 0
When they say McGowan got a fourth and final option granted for this season, what does this mean, can toronto no longer send him down as they do not have a 5th option to bring him up again this year ? thanks
Why is Casey Janson not starting this year. He played well for the first half of last year, his rookie year (the minor league season is shorter). He has pitched well out of the pen this year. He has demonstrated some guts – the retaliation hit on Youlillis was great.
When a player is first placed on a 40-man roster, he is given three option years — three years in which a team can send him up and down between the Minors and Majors' 25-man roster as many times as they want. Once that third year is up, players become arbitration-eligible. When a player is out of options, a team needs to pass him through waivers before they can send him outright to the Minors. I believe the player can accept or decline such as assignment, too. Declining would make them a Minor League Free Agent. In McGowan's case, the league granted a fourth option because he missed nearly an entire season during his options years due to elbow surgery. So, Toronto can send him up and down as many times as they please this year with no fear of losing McGowan to another team. Next year, though, he'll need to make the team out of Spring Training, or Toronto would have to pass him through waivers to send him to Triple-A once again. … Phew! Got all that?
MS: When spring opened, Janssen ranked roughly 9th in the pecking order for a rotation job. It looked like he was destined for Triple-A's rotation. He pitched so well during the spring, though, that Toronto felt it'd be wrong not to reward him with a job — that meant one in the bullpen. Now, though, with Chacin hurt, Thomson rehabbing, Towers in the 'pen, Zambrano's status up in the air, Marcum in the 'pen, and McGowan in the rotation, Janssen could be on deck for a move into the starting staff. Personally, I would've liked to see him in the rotation at the start of the year, but Ohka was under contract and Towers and Zambrano both made serious cases in the spring for starting gigs. Janssen is a starter in the long-term plans.
Will Lind continue to hit in the 2 slot considering his poor performance so far in May? It seems like we're always getting to the heart of the lineup with 2 outs lately.
TORGEN: First off, thanks for being a frequent visitor to the blog. I recognize your e-mail from your many comments this season.
As for your question, I think the bigger issue has been the leadoff spot, honestly. When Reed Johnson got hurt, I really didn't think the No. 1 spot would be affected as much with Alex Rios as a replacement. He hasn't been as good as Toronto would've hoped in that spot, and experiments with Aaron Hill and Lind have been unsuccessful. I believe the No. 2 spot is a good spot for Lind. He is a solid hitter who is going through a rough patch right now — like most of Toronto's hitters. Maybe Lyle Overbay would be a better fit for the second slot, but with Rios at the top, Overbay is a good presence to add to the heart of the order behind Wells, Thomas, and Glaus. With few lefty bats available, I believe Lind will continue to get most of his ABs in the two hole. His bat should come around. He's hit over .300 at every level until this season.
It's in the books: Boston 9, Toronto 3
The Blue Jays' losing streak reaches a season-worst eight games. I'm heading down to the clubhouse right now, but I'll be back in a few to field any postgame inquiries
Wow, no postgame questions. Well, it's midnight and I'm checking out. I'll be doing this again during tomorrow's game, so come back with more Q's. Goodnight everyone.


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Game 19, UMBC vs. Hartford Game Notes
America East Notes
BALTIMORE – The Retrievers' women's basketball team looks to snap a five-game skid on Saturday, Jan. 25 when they open up a UMBC basketball doubleheader against Hartford at 1 p.m. inside the RAC Arena on Hall of Fame Saturday. The men's team follows with a 3:30 p.m. matchup against the Hawks. All the action can be seen live on UMBCRetrievers.tv, courtesy of the America East digital network, and heard live on Q1370 (www.q1370.com), with Gary Stein and Troy Green on the call.
The UMBC Athletic Hall of Fame will induct seven former student-athletes and one current beloved staff member into the 2014 class. The inductees will be; Justin Bronson, '09 (men's swimming and diving), Cindy Kubiet (Director of Sports Medicine, 1978-present), Kelly Fiorani, '06 (women's lacrosse), Jay Greene, '09 (men's basketball, Ray Ignacio, '87 (men's lacrosse), Alessandra Pedergnana, '06 (women's tennis), Kristie Pickeral, '06 (softball) and Brian Rowland, '03 (men's soccer). The UMBC Athletic Hall of Fame dinner and inductions will take place on Saturday evening at the Southeast Club Level of M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore. The hall of fame inductions, which have been a biennial event for UMBC Athletics for more than a decade, will revert back to becoming an annual event on the athletics' calendar.
SCOUTING THE RETRIEVERS (2-16, 1-5 AEC): UMBC dropped a pair of contests over a tough conference weekend, falling by a combined eight points in the two road games. The Retrievers opened the weekend with a 63-59 loss at Vermont and followed with a 66-62 defeat at Stony Brook. UMBC shot a season-best 55.6 percent from the floor versus the Seawolves and all but eliminated an 18-point second half deficit by coming within three points, 65-62, with 4.8 seconds to go. Freshman forward Sara Tarbert knocked down 10-of-15 attempts to become the first UMBC player to make 10 field goals in a game since Michelle Kurowski did so on Jan. 28, 2012. Tarbert finished with a season-best 26 points in the contest.
Tarbert leads the Retrievers in scoring (12.9) and ranks fourth in the America East, while also ranking sixth in the conference in rebounding (6.9). Sophomore guard Liz McNaughton is coming off a career-best 12 point performance versus Stony Brook. McNaughton is shooting 46.2 percent from the floor during league play and is averaging 8.3 points and 5.5 rebounds during the span.
Rookie guard Taylor McCarley garnered her second consecutive America East Rookie of the Week honors after leading all AEC freshmen in scoring (13.0), while adding 6.0 rebounds, 2.5 assists and 1.5 steals. McCarley tabbed a career-high 18 points to go along with a season-best eight rebounds versus Vermont.
SCOUTING THE HAWKS (6-13, 3-3 AEC): Hartford has won two in a row in conference play, including Thursday night's 66-42 victory versus Binghamton. Freshman Alyssa Reaves and Deanna Mayza each contributed 12 points apiece in the win, with Reaves chipping in eight rebounds.
The Hawks are led offensively by junior forward Cherelle Moore's 9.7 points, 6.2 rebounds and 1.4 steals. Since league play began, Moore has upped her scoring average to 12.7 points and 7.7 rebounds, both ranking in the top-10 in the league. Mayza is chipping in 11.5 points per game, while junior guard Amber Bepko is adding 11.3 points and 4.0 rebounds. Reaves is shooting a team-best 50 percent from the floor during conference action, for 8.5 points per game.
Hartford, who returned three starters and 11 letterwinners from last season's squad that finished third in the conference, was picked to finish second in the league in annual preseason poll. The Hawks have finished third or higher for nine straight seasons and are coming off their seventh 20-win season since 2002.
INSIDE THE SERIES: Hartford swept the Retrievers last season and has won three in a row against the UMBC to hold a 18-5 advantage in the all-time series. Three of the Retrievers' five wins have come on their home court, with their last victory coming on Jan. 16, 2012 at the RAC Arena.
ON THE HORIZON FOR THE RETRIEVERS: UMBC jumps back on the road on Tuesday, Jan. 28 when it travels to Albany for a 7 p.m. matchup, which will close out the first half of the Retrievers' conference slate.


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this weekend i was struck with urge to buy dresses. lots and lots of dresses. well, six, actually. is that a lot? would you feel better if i told you they were only $12 a piece. it sure made andrew feel better when i told him. this is one of my favorites. oh yeah, and that news i was speaking of. i guess i shouldn't have said news, because news seems huge especially in the blog world. it usually means a big move or a baby or a new job. nothing like that here. i just wanted you to be the first to know that jamie and i started a blog for ban.do. it's called i heart ban.do and you can find it here. that's the news. is that anti-climactic? i hope not. we just thought it would be fun to let everyone come along for the ride. it has been really exciting thus far and i feel like if it wasn't for all of my blog friends and family this wouldn't have happened. so thank you, and please check it out and spread the word.
happy monday!
ps. i am taking a vacation from becoming a foodie, so as to prevent my head from exploding. rumor has it, that is a very messy situation.
Sunday, September 21, 2008
my new dress
14 comments:
- Mario at Eugénie's said...
I like this photo, looks like a light cloud
- September 22, 2008 at 1:21 AM
- Lindsay R.T. said...
where did you find $12 dresses?
- September 22, 2008 at 11:51 AM
- Rachel B. Design said...
You rock my face off.
- September 22, 2008 at 12:18 PM
- little ruby and the sea said...
cute dress and only $12!!...well done :)
- September 22, 2008 at 1:45 PM
- Chris said...
If they're $12 dollars a piece, then don't even waste a minute feeling guilty. That's a real bargain! And I bet you're trying to decide which one to wear next :)
- September 22, 2008 at 5:31 PM
- notebook doodles said...
i am going over to the ban.do blog right now!
ps. cute dress!! and for cheap as well =) lucky you.
- September 22, 2008 at 8:41 PM
- D-Ann said...
That is a beautiful dress.
- September 23, 2008 at 8:12 PM
- Koko said...
I absolutely love your blog, the pictures and everything about it! I recently had a similar experience with dresses and made sure to document it :)
- September 24, 2008 at 9:58 AM
- Teal Chic said...
Love that dress!!!!!!
- September 25, 2008 at 3:41 PM
- L'Atelier said...
love that dress- and frankly it doesnt make me feel better to know you only spent 12$-
actually i thought lucky girl 6 dresses- i got this urge to buy dresses this week went out to look for one found two (mind you they are about ten time more expensive- ahm they are floor lengths ;)) and now cant make up my mind which one to buy- i want both!!!
so now im thinking about this you cant away really cheap enjoy them :D
- September 26, 2008 at 12:20 PM
- Tiffany said...
Horray! I'll be sure to add the new blog to my favorites! :)
- October 2, 2008 at 3:11 PM
- midiariointimo said...
so pretty i love this blog!
- October 12, 2008 at 5:14 PM
One thing I greatly miss about USA is the chance of finding incredibly cute 12 dollar dresses, that one of yours is dreamy
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You may have caught a whiff of spring last weekend, a hopeful sign that warm weather (and consequently, an end to all this wretched snow) isn't far away.
The birds are smelling it, too, and soon they'll be returning from their winter haunts in South and Central America.
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Laws and more regulations and more taxes. Just keep calling for more if that's what you want!
Have you seen that cartoon of a big crater in the main street with a ring of policemen standing around it? The caption reads, "........... and the police are looking into it."
We have country of origin labeling laws here in Australia, and the police are looking into them too!
We have jars of Powdered Honey on the shelf here, With an ingredients list like this: 100% Australian Honey, malto-dextrines. That could mean anything, but all I read into it is fraud, or at least misleading advertising. If we assume the text is technically correct and convert the jargon into simple language, powered honey could be 51% honey and 49% malto-dextrine (a technical name for a glucose syrup). It is light and fluffy too, so a jar full of it is cheap, but looks like a jar full of creamed honey at a cursory glance. I guess the police are looking into that jar too!
But what if there was a bit of a leak? What if we ran out of honey too early in the run? Would we change the label to read, Malto-Dextrine, 100% Australian Honey? The components are supposed to be listed in the order of their relative volumes. Or what if we got the lines mixed and some Chinese honey (oh, maybe it was Canadian!) got into the system, would we relabel the jars? Don't tickle me, those labels were printed possibly months before the jar was filled, and the only way they relate in any way to what goes into those jars is by intent. Have you heard what the Road to Hell is paved with? And the best laid plans of mice and men................ uh, how does that one go?
Another packer is marketing HONEY spread, with the word 'spread' not well featured on the label. Over the word HONEY in bold clear text, it reads '100% AUSTRALIAN.' The ingredients list (in 3 or 4 point text), reads, "Honey,water, sugar, pectin." A great product, no doubt, unless one was wanting honey, maybe to rub on his sunburn. Was the product 100%? or the bottle and label? or maybe the company that produced it? We have a policy here of "Truth in Advertising." The Authorities LOOK into it at times.
No doubt the police, industry officials, politicians, and consumer watchdogs are looking into lots of things. What a pity looking doesn't change things. We have what we call 'Royal Commissions" here too. Great talks fests indeed!
I would be studying the statistics there in Canada to verify that the production figures, the consumption figures and the importing figures are in the right columns. I occasionally read about how America is the food basket of the world, and how much honey she exports. No doubt she does export some honey, to the Bahamas, to her troops in Iceland etc., and perhaps, maybe to several small island states around about, but Arthur Anderson style accounting is still alive and well.
So Australia is Canada's second largest consumer, aye? We must be greedy little honey eaters here. Yet, not one bottle of honey have I see here that is labeled as being or containing, Canadian Honey. Would it be that an Australian company is buying that honey for processing and vending into Europe? Into the USA? What about back into Canada?
In musical chairs, the music always stops and there is never enough chairs to go 'round. Would that be the case if we tried to put gold to all the futures contracts, honey to all the statistics and assets to all the company shares? What about cash to all the Retirement Accounts, or hard assets to all the cyber money? Oh, well, we would have to ask the police to look into that too.
Figures don't lie, but Liars can figure.
Cheers and happy honey consuming!
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Just a sunset, they are always an inspiration! And also a drawing after 9876560 years of being absent here in RMD. Hope everything is fine around here! ;)
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man i luv blue n golden sunsets w/reflections like dis :D its effortless n oh so beautiful-gotta fav
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More than 147 years, after slave Jane Joshua took ownership of her former slave master's house, it still stands atop a slight hill near what is now U.S. Highway 77 South.
Situated on what used to be the Rose Plantation near the Guadalupe River, the modest, cypress wood-planked house is a standing testimony to the tenacity of both the house and the Joshua family.
It is a legacy that Monroe Joshua, one of Jane's great-great-great-grandsons, plans to uphold.
"It's been blood, sweat and tears," said Monroe, as he shared what it has been like to help run the family business and renovate the house that once belonged to his great-great-great-grandmother. "But it's a labor of love."
As the Joshua family oral history goes, Millard Bass was an overseer on the Preston Rose Plantation, which had more than 150 slaves, said Joshua.
Bass lived in a house on the property with his wife and their four children, and like his boss, was also a slave owner.
Jane worked for his family as a house slave.
According to the 1860 Federal Slave Census for Victoria County, Archibald Bass, Millard's father, owned six slaves.
It is not known exactly how many slaves Millard had, or how he came to acquire them, but it is known, Joshua said, that Millard fathered four additional children with slave women, including one with Jane.
Sometime after June 19, 1865, when slavery was abolished in Texas, Bass took his family and moved to a house near Saxet Lake, leaving behind Jane and the child they shared.
Upon their departure from the former plantation, Millard gave Jane and her husband, William A. Joshua, his old house.
It was not until the couple's sons, Thomas and Abner, came of age, though, that the boys began buying up acreage around the family home, eventually amassing about 5,050 acres around the Coleto Creek and Guadalupe River bottom areas, as well as around Fleming Prairie Road.
In 1868, Thomas and Abner, along with 19 other former slaves, formed Palestine Missionary Baptist Church, the first African-American Baptist Church in Victoria County.
The church is at 604 E. Convent St.
The family's goodwill did not stop at the church.
They often utilized their own land to help fellow recently freed slaves.
In the early 1900s, Thomas opened a school for black children in the community.
The school, which operated for several years, served students in grades first through eighth. It was located downhill from the Joshua homestead.
Additionally, in 1911, Thomas opened a general store to serve area blacks.
The general store operated through the mid-1940s, even becoming a Texaco station in the 1920s.
"He did a lot of good with his money when he was alive," Joshua said of Thomas.
At some point, Thomas and his family eventually moved to a house near the general store, leaving the house his parents had purchased vacant.
The house would remain deserted until around 1997, when Joshua, tired of the big city life, began making preparations to move from Denver back home to Victoria.
He also set his sights on making over and moving into Jane's old house.
The nearly five-year process to make the house livable proved to be a challenge.
"It was like opening up a can of worms behind every wall we opened," Joshua said.
The house, which had been used to store hay, had to be cleaned out and all the trash and corn husks in the wall, which had served as insulation in the house's early years, had to be removed.
The mortise and peg jointed house had good bones, though, Joshua said, who recalled the house had withstood a number of storms that had passed through the area in the last century and remained vandalism-free.
Although he spruced up the property with modern amenities and increased the house's square footage with additional wings, Joshua worked hard to maintain the character of the house, keeping many of the house's original fixtures, including a fire place, wood floors, upstairs loft and back porch.
While he has not experienced anything supernatural in the house, Joshua said his sister has reported feeling a friendly presence within the dwelling and his now-deceased nephew used to describe seeing apparitions.
In addition to living on the land, Joshua and Vic Salinas, who were raised as brothers, inherited the family business.
Together, the men changed the business name to Thom Joshua Enterprises, L.L.C., after relative Thomas Joshua.
In past years, the family dealt in rice farming and cattle, but today the family business is solely hay grazing, livestock farming, oil and gas revenues and Aunt Jo's BBQ, located in the old general store.
These days, the family is also seeking to get a historical marker and dedication for an old slave cemetery located near Joshua's house under a grove of anaqua trees.
The graves are those of slaves who died on the Preston Rose Plantation, a section of which has been cordoned off to demarcate the Joshua family graves.
"We're hoping it could be a place where people can come here and pay homage to their ancestors, said Michael Nash, curator of the Texas History Room at the Goliad Public Library.
Nash, a historian, is working with the Joshua family to bring the dedication to fruition.
"Whether or not you had ancestors buried here, you can come here and experience history," said Nash.
Supporters are looking to raise funds to go toward a fallen angel monument for the cemetery, signifying the trials and tribulations of the slaves.
After years of dealing with legal issues and gradually selling of bits of the land, the Joshua family still owns about 2,600 acres.
They plan to keep the Joshua demesne in the family for at least another 147 years.
"I feel incredibly blessed to be a part of this family," Joshua said, noting the land and family business will eventually be passed down to his own 23-year-old son and Vic's daughter. "I think if (Jane Joshua) could wake up for one minute, she would be extremely happy the land was still in the family and not sold or given away."


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Tough Loss For The Twins
CHICAGO (AP) — Leury Garcia reached a bunt single in the 11th inning and came home on a balk and a pair of wild pitches by Samuel Deduno, giving Chicago White Sox a 7-6 win over the Minnesota Twins on Wednesday.
Before a crowd of just 10,625, Chicago trailed 6-4 in the ninth before Garcia's run-scoring single off Glen Perkins and Adam Eaton's RBI grounder forced extra innings.
The speedy Garcia bunted up the third-base line on an 0-2 pitch leading off the 11th and took second when, with Eaton at the plate, Deduno (0-1) never came to a set position and balked.
Eaton struck out, Deduno bounced an outside pitch that hit off Suzuki's glove as Garcia advanced, and Marcus Semien took a called third strike.
After an intentional walk to Jose Abreu, Deduno threw way outside on a 3-2 to pitch to Adam Dunn, and the ball bounced off Suzuki's glove as Garcia came home.
Ronald Belisario (1-0) pitched 1 1-3 hitless innings for the win.


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Results tagged ' merchandise '
I pledge allegiance to my lime green Yankees jacket
By "Mrs. Singy"
Suzanne Molino Singleton
New York Yankees merchandise doesn't consist of only blue and white pinstripes, as shopping fans know. Some creative genius along the design line had fun with color – maybe to appeal to us ladies – and produced hats, T-shirts, and jackets of all hues.
My hat rack holds NYY caps in lime green … shocking pink … pastel pink … yellow … red … and the traditional dark blue. Ken once gave me for Christmas a big puffy Yankees jacket in bright lime green. In the winter, I wear it to the gym and to power walk the neighborhood, and you can bet the neighbors see me coming … no reflectors needed.
Yet comments about the vivid color aren't the only ones flung my way. Because I'm a Baltimore girl wearing a NY team logo (and worse, a rivalry of the Orioles), freedom of speech comes into play as friends have their say about my precious Yankees merchandise.
"Take off that jacket while you're around me," or "I'd like to burn that T-shirt," and other smarty-pants remarks are uttered to me and the kids. They say the NYY cap is hurting their eyes or making them gag. Funny them.
My standard reply is, "Hey you, quiet, the Yankees feed my kids and pay tuition" (and buy me shoes, but I leave out that part).
It's a bit of a quandary, being that I'm a lifelong Baltimorean, once a die-hard Orioles fan. But like baseball players are traded team to team, the kids and I played a little switcharoo in our baseball team allegiance when Ken began to call Yankees games on MSG Network 13 years back, then for the YES Network seven years ago.
Actually we've discovered it's not too tough being Yankees fans – it's rather fun. We love riding the train from Baltimore to the city, and it's quite exciting to watch them make it to the World Series so often. We love the enthusiasm in the stands, and Yankees fans are everywhere! (We do spend more money eating stadium junk food but hey, the tickets are comps, so who can whine?) And we can't wait to feast our eyes on the new stadium, especially now that Oriole Park is old comparatively, as the rest of America builds new ballparks.
At first I thought we could be fans of the Yankees and the Orioles, yet when the O's hosted the Yankees I was traumatized … which team to root for? Whose T-shirt should I wear? And if the Orioles aren't going to hawk colorful merchandise like the Yankees, forget them. A few seasons I sat in the stands quietly, wore street clothes, and rooted for neither team. It was torture.
And if you think his wife gets teased, you should hear Baltimoreans comment to Ken about announcing for the Yankees, the poor dear. O's fans think he should have black and orange running through his veins – and he forever will be an Oriole and extremely proud of his World Series ring. Yet his career now is with the Yankees, which he enjoys immensely.
What many don't realize is that Ken is from Mount Vernon, New York (always his out in that conversation) so technically he's allowed to stand so close to the pinstripes. (Useless piece of trivia – the Singletons lived in a house once owned by the family of former Brooklyn Dodger Ralph Branca.)
Let Baltimore fans tease us all they want … we're wearing our Yankees merchandise and that's that. And I will continue to pledge allegiance to my lime green Yankees jacket … that is, until Ken comes home with a different color.
Suzanne Molino Singleton is a Baltimore-based writer and columnist, and spouse of YES Network announcer Ken Singleton. She is the creator of a weekly women's inspirational e-column, www.SNIPPETSinspiration.com, and a columnist on www.smartwomanonline.com.


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- Fuerteventura Guide
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- Bristol Beach Apartment
Bristol Beach Apartment
This apartment has a living room and a fully equipped kitchen with a toaster and a fridge. A flat-screen TV with cable channels is provided.
Guests can also relax in the garden.
Bristol Beach Apartment is located in Corralejo, Fuerteventura.
The busy tourist town of Corralejo is located on the coast in the north of the island in the municipality of La Oliva. The old town is based around the harbour, which was originally used by local fishermen, and now has a marina, and a ferry terminal. From here you can take the ferry to the nearby island of Lanzarote, passing the island of Los Lobos on the way, which you can also take a ferry to. Apart from the hundreds of bars, restaurants, coffee shops, hotels, villas and apartments some of the island's finest beaches can also be found here. There's eleven kilometres of top quality sand that stretches along the coast south of Corralejo where there are sand dunes.


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"Revolution� Comes To Harlem
Bob Avakian is a revolutionary communist leader from the 60's who fought alongside the Black Panther Party, against the Vietnam War, and came through the Berkeley Free Speech movement and has never sold out, never given up
"REVOLUTION," the film, is coming to Harlem this week. Already, signs
of this event are everywhere: 5 foot high posters up on walls, signs in
store windows, postcards stacked on countertops and being distributed
hand to hand.
Over the airwaves the word is going out through interviews and public
service announcements. On the street and where people gather
anticipation is building for this special evening on Tuesday, June 12th.
Chuck D, Rev. Earl Kooperkamp, Herb Boyd, reg e. gaines, Michael Tarif
Warren Esq., David Zeiger, Christopher McElroen of the Classical
Theater of Harlem, and Rev. Luis Barrios make up the host committee
inviting one and all to an evening of performance, and celebration,
centered around a film of a talk by Bob Avakian entitled "Revolution:
Why It's Necessary; Why It's Possible; What It's All About".
Def Poet Staceyann Chin, actor/comedian Aladdin, jazz artists Reggie
Workman, James Spaulding, Roy Campbell, and Michael Wimberly will be
gracing the evening with their performances, and following the film
will be a reception.
Bob Avakian is a revolutionary communist leader from the 60's who
fought alongside the Black Panther Party, against the Vietnam War, and
came through the Berkeley Free Speech movement and has never sold out,
never given up, and never backed away from the toughest questions and
obstacles confronting the people and the prospects for real
revolutionary transformation. Today he is the leader of a party that is
seriously setting its sights on the seizure of power right within the
U.S. itself, and the revolutionary transformation of society as part of
the world proletarian revolution.
In his talk, Revolution, Avakian takes viewers on a journey that can
change one's whole way of looking at the world and how they choose to
live. As Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader film critic, put it,
Avakian's "communist analysis is graceful, and he lucidly explains
concepts ranging from dialectical materialism to irony without
condescending to his audience."
At a time when dreams of liberation are ruled out of order, when the
onrushing madness of the day seems to foreclose on the future, and when
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analysis and solutions he is bringing forward, and to celebrate and
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done. "
WHAT: Film screening, Performances, Reception.
WHEN: June 12th, Tuesday, 7 - 9:30 pm
WHERE: Schomburg Center for
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since 1972
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Police Blotter Summit County: School receives phony calls
Editor's note: The police blotter is written from incident reports provided by local police departments and the Summit County Sheriff's Office. All individuals named are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
Telephony takeover
Silverthorne Elementary School lost all access to its phone system April 11, when an unidentified entity attacked its phone lines.
School officials called the police after receiving repeated calls from an unidentified individual claiming to be from a debt collection company trying to reach one of the teachers. The teacher had never done business with the company and didn't know why they would be calling, according to a report from the Silverthorne Police Department.
When school officials relayed that information to the caller, the person hung up. Almost immediately all of the school's phone lines lit up with calls from the same company, the report states.
Authorities called the attack a Telephony Denial of Service Attack, having recently been alerted by the FBI that a similar strike had been launched against police departments and safety agencies across the country, according to the report.
Officers tried to speak with the caller to gather information about his or her location, but the person on the other end of the line was uncooperative and return calls to the number revealed it to be fictitious, the report states.
Authorities filed a report and the school was forced to unplug their phones and secure a new temporary phone number.
Son accused of pill pilfering
Authorities arrested the son of a woman who reported her supply of a form of Xanax missing from her bathroom April 10, after he allegedly admitted to stealing the prescription pills and distributing them to a friend.
The son told authorities he took 30 pills from his mother's supply of 60+ pills prior to a party, taking several of them himself and giving several more to a friend to get high, according to a report from the Summit County Sheriff's Office.
But the son said he only removed a portion of the pills in his mother's supply. She reported two full prescription bottles, her entire stock of pills, missing, leaving roughly half the prescription drugs unaccounted for, according to the report.
The mother did not want to press charges for theft, but the son was arrested on the charge of distribution of a schedule IV substance, the report states.
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