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The City National Bank Building, built in the 1880s, is a six-story masonry Richardsonian Romanesque Revival style building. The rusticated ashlar block façade with its heavy decorative elements, such as engaged grouped columns, sawtooth stone frieze, dentil rows, molded cornices and heavy projecting window arches, creates a highly sculptural wall surface that is a characteristic of the architectural style. Alternating rows and groupings of arched and flat head windows, the slightly projecting piers and variously sized and textured stringcourses add to the façade's visual richness. The entry level consists of smooth-faced stone, a stepped-down basement entry, side entry door with large columns and balustrade parapet. Adjacent to the entrance three large display windows separate squared columns with scrolled corner brackets. Above the windows is a frieze panel displaying the block name "City National Bank." The late 19th century saw many new banks in Canton. Before these new banks many financial institutions catered to specific immigrant populations, this "second wave" of banks served the broader public.This building is the only bank building of its era still standing in Canton's 19-block commercial center.
By 1916, City National ranked fourth among Canton's major banks with assets of $2.8 million. In 1923 the City National Bank was absorbed by another bank. The building has recently been rehabilitated; it currently houses the National First Ladies' Library Education Resource Center and is open to the public for scheduled tours. The City National Bank Building is located at 205 S. Market Ave., in Canton. The building is now the Education Resource Center for the National First Ladies' Library. Tours are available Tuesday-Saturday, at 9:30am, 10:30am, 12:30pm, 1:30pm and 2:30pm, and in the summer on Sundays as well at 12:30pm, 1:30pm and 2:30pm; there is a fee. For further information call 330-452-0876 or visit the National First Ladies' Library website. |
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Julie Goucher's Book of Me has
its taxing moments in the memory and feelings departments. Now, to be
truthful here ― and
that's what we're aiming for, right ―
I am not putting myself out in public naked and cringing because I
told three lies in my lifetime or peed my pants in Mrs. Jacobs' grade
one class. On the other hand,
mustn't cater to some kind of ancestor popularity contest among
descendants not-yet-born. Attempting a balance, I have to do
Julie's challenge my way.©
Paul Anka
And I'd like to say at this point that
when you have genealogy fatigue or family-history-writer's-block,
Book of Me is a great way to distract and/or refresh yourself.
It also reminds you to scan some of those fuzzy old photos before
they fade entirely, so the whole exercise is mucho win-win.
My thoughts on Prompt Three:
Physical Self (15 September) began and almost ended with:
Once a dancer, always a dancer. That
says everything about my physical self. Except for forty years my
hair was unmistakeably, vividly, Celtic RED and of course that says
everything else.
Not exactly as pictured |
That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
But I noticed in the Prompt
3 responses a lot of autobiographers got hung up with one of
Julie's suggestions: size. Struggling with weight is only one
kind of lifelong pain. Lest you think I'm cheating I will say I was
always the tallest. Tallest often makes you the shyest. Tallest makes
you stand out ~yerm~ as an easy target of fun from creepy little
grade seven boys. Tallest makes you ineligible for the ballet company
because you can't partner with short creepy men. Tallest makes creepy
people call you big even if you're skinny. Combine that with
red hair and don't think it was easy growing up. My teenage friend
from Stuttgart confidently told me that Europeans innately,
consistently regard redheads as evolutionary defectives.
Nevertheless, I successfully portrayed
a (tall) mouse in the skating carnival and moved on to dance recital
levels to be a butterfly and a singin'-in-the-rain hoofer and a
thunderbird and years of fabulous costumes our mothers made, when
mothers used to sew, reaching
solo status as Snowflake, assistant to George the Porter who was
a quasi-Santa fixture (a Thunder Bay thing, don't ask) in the
annual Christmas extravaganza.
it morphed into serious classes in days when we had to darn our
fragile pointe shoes so they'd last more than one performance and our
examination tutus were made by the company's wardrobe mistress who
was so kind to me because surprisingly she was a good friend of my
ancient "aunt" Agnes B. Dougall in touch with my father who
was terrified I'd become a theatre person (well, I did for a while;
the musical stage is where the tall
girls go unless you get a Vegas showgirl contract like my friend
Ginny —
thankfully she
survived that and a
bad marriage) so had to keep up the piano lessons that somehow
pacified him even though Mrs. Bancroft (about grade ten that was) was
so sick of listening to the same opening bars of the same
Rachmaninoff concerto every week for a year coming from incredibly
clumsy fingers for someone who could dance.
Bless your patience, Mrs. B.
So. Not limiting myself to classical
training, fast forward a bit to a life of domesticity and
child-raising. Luckily some of it coincided with a trend in balls (but not enough of them) entailing long dresses and social dancing.
BTW a man who knows how to waltz is worth his weight in gold; I only
ever met two and unfortunately did not have affairs with either one,
more's the pity (honestly, I would tell you if I had). The occasional
military ball spiced it up with what I call Scottish cross-country
that I've taken up all this space which seems awfully self-indulgent
to me, you may well ask —
if you are not snoring by now —
isn't that all ancient
history, how dare I imply the dance, or more to the point, the dancer
goes on? Self-delusion?
the fact is most do. Right into the golden years when we need to keep
creaky limbs from rusting up like a junked car, no matter how the
body has changed ... hiding middle-aged spread under flowing tops;
giving up the awesome three-inch heels and beloved (non-orthotic)
boots; pretending the arthritic joints or dimming vision or hip
replacements are temporary blips to overcome. Try shuffling with the
latest offerings like zumba, clogging, salsa, belly dancing,
meringue, you name it (it's okay to draw the line at break-dancing or
whatever they call it now). Hey, even karaoke invites creative moves.
It's all of a
piece. An overheard phrase of music only has to start and the body's
twitching in recall. You know what I'm talking about. Betcha
some of you never thought of yourselves as dancers.
Things have a way
of evening out somehow. I'm no longer the tallest kid in the chorus
line and the hair has faded. Meanwhile, as Sonny and Cher said, the
beat goes on.
Now I'm thinking,
should I start Prompt Three all over again? ...
... Once a writer, always a
writer ...
2013 Brenda Dougall Merriman

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I just installed Windows 7 RC1 and want to move c:\users to d:\users.
What's the best way to do this?
Due to the fact that Windows 7 creates a reserved partition that is mounted as C: in the recovery console, I had to use the following commands
robocopy /mir /xj D:\Users E:\Users
mklink D:\Users D:\Users /j
Both D's in the mklink command are correct. When the system reboots, the drive that was D in the recovery console becomes the C drive.


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The stench of bat feces has forced a New Hampshire elementary school to close eight classrooms and work on repairs.
Nashua's The Telegraph newspaper reports a teacher first noticed the odor around Nov. 21 at the James Mastricola Upper Elementary School in Merrimack.
Maintenance crews thought it was a dead mouse and called in a company that found bat feces in a cavity between an exterior brick wall and an inside block. Crews have tented off the outside wall, removed bricks and sealed off affected areas.
Matt Shevenell, the Merrimack School District's assistant superintendent for business, says classrooms are being cleaned and the air tested to make sure there are no spores from bat poop. Students are expected back in the classrooms by February.
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Sunday, December 16, 2012
Babes December Tray Bake
When you read British food blogs, I think they refer to today's recipe as a tray bake...a treat baked in a rectangular pan (or even a square one) and served as slices or slabs. It doesn't sound all that appealing, but tray bakes are usually my favorite dessert recipes. In Germany they are kuchen. The Bread Baking Babes are gathering around the table of our December Kitchen of the Month, Gretchen of Provecho Peru, to make Apple Kuchen.
The holiday run-up is in full swing! Worked on the annual Christmas letter, but made sure to keep it to one page, including photos. Took in a holiday party or two, visits with friends where I admired their superior Christmas decorating skills. We do have our tree decorated and a wreath on the door and one string of lights up the banister but I am in awe of friends who do little groupings of trees or Santas or snowmen and make them look just right, something I don't feel I know how to do very well.
One thing I do know how to do is bake, especially breads and cakes. On Saturday I pretended I was in Gretchen's kitchen baking kuchen with her. The recipe she gave is for an apple kuchen with a yeasted dough on the bottom of the pan and an apple topping (although I used apricots as you can see below) with a yummy, rich crumble on top.
Gretchen gave us a description of the different kuchens:
"Kuchen is said to be the German word for cake. Maybe someone more German than I can confirm that? There are several "types" of kuchen that can be prepared:
Rolled - filled dough in a long spiral, baked & sliced to serve
Custard - thick cake-y crust with sweet custard filling
Cheesecake - yeasted crust with fruit and a cream cheese filling
Coffeecake - cinnamon sugar streaks in a butter cake
Pie - thick cake-y crust with apple-pie filling and sweet white icing
We are making something (that I think) is closest to the 'Pie Kuchen'."
I'm convinced that nothing succeeds like excess, so I changed a few things (as I often do) to make the treat even more luxurious. I used white whole wheat flour, browned the butter, then added the sugar and did a bit of stirring to let the sugar begin to dissolve. I also added a tiny bit of almond extract to the liquid mixture. I love nutmeg, so added some to both the dry mixture and to the crumble. On Gretchen's suggestion I doubled the crumble mixture but, because I decided to go all-out on the almond flavors, I used 1/2 cup almond flour and 1/2 cup flour. Still being excessive, I added thin sliced almonds to the bottom and sides of the pan after greasing it. They toasted while the kuchen baked and added a nice crunch to each bite. Last, but not least, I substituted canned apricots for the apples. I've always loved almonds and apricots together.
This was a wonderful, flavorful, almost extravagant kuchen! I skipped any creamy topping because with all that crumble it was rich enough 'plain'.
The dough was easy to work with, although I did used 2 1/2 cups flour to make the dough stiff. Mine didn't rise a lot but that was probably due to the house being cold and damp. We had a raw day Saturday. Of course that made this treat all the more welcome. It was great with a cup of coffee for an afternoon snack.
Thank you Gretchen for choosing such a great December recipe! Do check out the other Bread Baking Babes sites for their take on this festive treat.
I'm sending this over to Susan at Wild Yeast for her Yeastspotting event. I've been remiss in not joining that round up lately, but I recommend it to you as a marvelous place to be inspired to bake with yeast! Lots of great recipes every week.
The recipe can be found at Gretchen's blog, HERE.
Happy kuchen baking!
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Is that right? Nothing succeeds like excess! No wonder I like you.
White whole wheat flour - check
added sugar - check
spices - check
double the crumble - check
slivered almonds - um, only to the topping, must remember to line the pan with them next time
browned butter - um, will do that next time
almond extract & flour - next time
apricots - um, well I do love apricots but I'm presently having an affair with apples ;-)
Beautiful Kuchen Pat.yes to the embellshments! I really think this is one that's good as it is but also will dress up like a teenager on a Friday night.
I really like the apricots!
and agree on the christmas decoration. Not a talent of mine either. There are people around who make over the top look just right and meant to be. Envy!


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If you wonder where he finds all these gems here some info about the pictures of Velobanjogent:
"I often feature items from older Motorcycle magazines, including photographs and other drawings, cartoons etc in my Blog. Where possible I acknowledge their source. These items are often from "MotorCycle" and "MotorCycling", and the current copyright holders are Mortons Motor Cycle Media. I thank them for their use.
Where other sources are used such as Fox Photos, Keystone Press and other now defunct press agencies from the UK and elsewhere I attempt to acknowledge their source."
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ELIZA: Free Compu-Therapy...Sort Of
Computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum died earlier this month, reminding us that his most famous creation, the computer program ELIZA, lives on. Weizenbaum created ELIZA in the mid 1960's as a model of "natural language" interaction between a human subject and a computer. ELIZA mimics a talk therapist, rephrasing statements made by the user as open-ended questions, encouraging further discussion. Weizenbaum named his program after Eliza Doolittle, the famous subject of Henry Higgins's tutelage in the play Pygmalion (more popularly known for its musical adaptation, My Fair Lady).
Of course, this human-computer interaction only works to a point, as ELIZA has no real understanding of what the user is saying -- it's just parsing the user's responses into a series of canned responses. Depending on how you respond to ELIZA's questions, you may have a reasonable conversation for several lines, but at some point it will make a strange misstep, tipping you off that there's no intelligence on the other end. For example, here's a conversation I had with an online version of ELIZA:
> Hello, I am Eliza. * Hello. > How are you today.. What would you like to discuss? * My coffee is really bitter this morning. > I'm not sure I understand you fully. * Well, okay -- so I made some coffee and I think I did it wrong. It tastes bad. > Do you really think so? * Yes. > Are you Sure? * Yes, I'm certain. > Do you believe it is normal to be certain? * Um...yes? > Are you Sure? * Yes, I'm sure. > Do you enjoy being sure?
ELIZA elicited interesting responses from users in the 1960's. From the Wikipedia article on ELIZA:
In the article "theNewMediaReader" ... he references how quickly and deeply people became emotionally involved with the computer program, taking offence when he asked to view the transcripts, saying it was an invasion of their privacy, even asking him to leave the room while they were working with ELIZA. ... Lay responses to ELIZA were disturbing to Weizenbaum and motivated him to write his book Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation, in which he explains the limits of computers, as he wants to make clear in people's minds his opinion that the anthropomorphic views of computers are just a reduction of the human being and any life form for that matter.
You can try ELIZA yourself -- see how far you can take a decent conversation! I like this online version (which, amusingly, offers me ads for psychotherapy in my hometown), or check out this list of other implementations. Computer science students should check out Weizenbaum's original paper on ELIZA.


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By Mike Parkinson
There are three critical errors to which most presentations fall prey. Here are the culprits and some proven ways to fix them to create more impactful presentations:
1. Razzle Dazzle. A presentation that relies too much on "razzle dazzle" techniques fails to positively connect with its audience, because the slides are too complex to understand and remember. The presentation lacks clear explanation.
"Razzle-dazzle" presentations confuse the audience with fancy pictures, mountains of data, and overly technical slides. By using so many elements, the presenter hopes that something influences the audience. Presenters often use this trick to "dazzle" the audience into believing their solution is complex; therefore, it must be better than other simpler solutions. Fortunately, this approach often backfires, as the slide below demonstrates.
2. The "Me" Disease. The story, slides, and presentation are not customer-focused. The presenter explains why his information, company, and solution are wonderful but fails to show his audience how it will benefit. Presentations fall flat if it is not clear how the audience will benefit.
3. Fact-itis. The presenter assumes sharing facts alone is the best approach. The slides are word and data heavy with few, if any, stories and graphics. Humans are not robots. We cannot sift through and disseminate columns of data in seconds.
We make decisions based on cognitive and emotional factors. Data has the greatest impact on a cognitive level. Slides of numbers and text are rarely emotionally stimulating—and every decision humans make is guided by an emotional response (according to countless studies—Google it). If you don't tell a story with your data or display it in a compelling, memorable way, then you will experience low win rates. Empathize with your audience. In turn, they will empathize with your solution.
So how can you avoid these three pitfalls? The following are three steps that eliminate Razzle Dazzle, the "Me" Disease, and Fact-itis.
Step One: Simplify Your Information
Get to the point. Know what you want to say before you say it. Summarize your story/slide/section in one sentence then walk your audience toward that conclusion.
I recently asked Rick Altman, author of Why Most PowerPoint Presentations Suck and How You Can Make Them Better, about a common mistake presenters make when designing their presentations. He replied simply, "Too much crap."
Altman is right. Many times presenters believe in the adage that more is better. Too much may be good when enjoying a piece of homemade apple pie, but in designing slides, the opposite is true. If your audience is too distracted with your vibrant color scheme, opposing graphic styles, long bulleted lists, and complex graphics, then they will miss your message.
Connie Malamed, author of Visual Language For Designers: Principles For Creating Graphics That People Understand, found research that proved we can only process around four bits of visual information at one time. Clean, clear, and easy-to-understand graphics create a visual hierarchy and allows viewers to focus on the most important information.
Step Two: Affect Emotions
PowerPoint and other presentation tools help distill information into the most salient points, thereby connecting content to our audience's goals—that which they care most about. Great communicators know this leads to a critical second step—affecting emotions. Independent research shows that people care if the information shared can benefit them. Legendary philosopher Harry Overstreet wrote in Influencing Human Behavior, "Action springs out of what we fundamentally desire." When we show how we can help our audience, people become cognitively and emotionally invested in the presentation. Ultimately, it is the emotional element that carries the greatest weight. Emotions are a driver in every decision.
But how exactly can you affect the emotions of your audience and motivate them to choose your solution? There are several ways to affect emotions within a presentation.
a. Reflect your audience. Your words and images should reflect your audience's goals and challenges. Connect your information or solution to your audience's needs.
b. Facts tell and stories sell. Tell a story that clearly shows how your solution will (or has) achieved the customer's goals.
c. People buy people. When we can put a face to a corporation or a product or a solution, then it becomes personal to us. Presentations allow the presenter to speak to and connect with their audience on a personal level—sometimes face-to-face and sometimes via conversations in a webinar. Either way, the audience can interact with the presenter and have its questions answered almost immediately. They are more likely to buy into a solution or an idea if they know the person behind it.
I agree with Altman when he told me, "People come to a room to hear what you have to say." Many presenters forget that they are a major component of the presentation. Their ideas and words are more important than the slides. Slides, when used correctly, aid and empower the presenter. When used the incorrectly, the presenter reduces the benefits the slides offer.
d. Communicate with all visual elements. What we see quickly affects our emotions. Color is the first thing that makes an impression and the rest of what we see soon follows. Carefully consider your template, colors, fonts, styles, and so on. Use graphics to connect benefits to your audience's needs (help them care) and provide them with clean visuals, which causes them to feel positive about you and your solution. That leads directly to the last step …
Step Three: Use Graphics
Presentations are intended to be a visual medium. Using effective visuals helps you better communicate with your audience by simplifying the most complex content and sharing it in a memorable way. For example, what was the first word in step two's explanation? You have to look back, right? But do you remember the first graphic in this article? Good graphics are stored in long-term memory, whereas text and words are decoded linearly and must pass through short-term memory to be stored forever.
Besides making your solution more memorable to your audience, another byproduct of a clear visual—which Malamed uncovered in her research—is that the easier it is for your audience to processes your information, the more positive they feel about it (refer to "d" in step two).
Still wondering how distilling your information into visuals can help you? Consider the following research when creating your next PowerPoint presentation. Using graphics in presentation, educational, and marketing materials:
• Improves learning 200%—University of Wisconsin
• Takes 40% less time to explain complex ideas—Wharton School
• Improves retention 38%—Harvard University
• Increases your likelihood of success by 43%—3M and University of Minnesota School of Management
Sadly, most people shy away from graphics or choose the wrong graphic due to time constraints, lack of resources, or inexperience. Visit my Graphics Cheat Sheet (example below, PDF available in the link) to choose the best graphic for your next presentation and get graphic ideas from websites like BizGraphics On Demand, Google Images, the Graphic Periodic Table, and the Business Graphics Library.
About the Author:
Mike Parkinson is an internationally recognized visual communication expert and multi-published author. Visit Billion Dollar Graphics (http://www.BillionDollarGraphics.com) and BizGraphics On Demand (http://www.BizGraphicsOnDemand.com) for more helpful presentation tools. Contact Mike at firstname.lastname@example.com or call 703-608-9568 for exclusive graphics training. Mike is a partner at 24 Hour Company (http://www.24hrco.com), a premier proposal and presentation graphics firm.


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Open to: All Interested Candidates / All Sources
The "Open To" category listed above refers to candidates who are eligible to apply for this position. The "Open To" category should not be confused with a "hiring preference" which is explained later in this vacancy announcement.
Position: Cultural Affairs Assistant, FSN-9/FP-9, PN# C72-6005-117
Opening Date: Tuesday, May 31, 2016
Closing Date: Monday, June 13, 2016
Work Hours: Full-time, 40 hours/week
Salary: Ordinarily Resident (OR): FSN-9* – R$ 95,288.00
Not-Ordinarily Resident (NOR): FP-9* – US$ 51,560.00
*Final grade/step for NORs will be determined by Washington.
All ordinarily resident (OR) applicants (See Appendix A for definition) must have the required work and/or residency permits to be eligible for consideration.
The U.S. Mission in Sao Paulo, Brazil is seeking eligible and qualified applicants for the position of Cultural Affairs Assistant in the Public Affair Section.
Basic Function of Position
Incumbent manages Mission Brazil's biggest and most complex American Spaces (AS) program in the Sao Paulo district, consisting of 25 binational centers, American Corners, and additional post-funded public diplomacy platforms. Prepares resource planning documents for outreach events in support of Integrated Country Strategic objectives and achieving AS standards.
Qualifications Required
Note: Applicants must address each required qualification listed below with specific and comprehensive information supporting each item. Applicants are required to submit their applications (DS-174 form) in English. Failure to do so may result in a determination that the applicant is not qualified.
- Education: University degree in education, public relations, international relations, or business management is required.
- Experience: Progressively responsible experience in project management, education, youth programs, or international relations, or any other related field is required.
- Language (This will be tested):
- Level IV (Fluent) Speaking/Reading/Writing of Portuguese is required.
- Level IV (Fluent) Speaking/Reading/Writing of English is required.
- Job Knowledge (This will be tested):
- Knowledge and understanding of Integrated Country Strategy (ICS) objectives;
- Knowledge of public diplomacy (PD) and post programming objectives and reporting procedures.
- Skills and Abilities (This will be tested):
- High level of cross-cultural communication skills;
- Ability to develop programs which require both long-term planning and sharp attention to detail.
For further information:
The complete position description listing all of the duties and responsibilities may be obtained by contacting the Human Resources Office – Eliana Branco at (11) 3250-5116.
Hiring Preference Selection Process:
When qualified, applicants in the following hiring preference categories are extended a hiring preference in the order listed below. Therefore, it is essential that these applicants accurately describe their status on the application. Failure to do so may result in a determination that the applicant is not eligible for a hiring preference.
Hiring Preference Order:
(1) AEFM / USEFM who is a preference-eligible U.S. Veteran*
(3) FS on LWOP**
* Important: Applicants who claim status as a preference-eligible U.S. Veteran must submit a copy of the most recent Member Copy Four (4) of the DD-214, Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty, and, if applicable, a letter from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. If claiming conditional eligibility for U.S. Veterans' preference, applicants must submit proof of conditional eligibility. If the written documentation confirming eligibility is not received in the HR office by the closing date of the vacancy announcement, the U.S. Veterans' preference will not be considered in the application process. Mission HR's decision on eligibility for U.S. Veterans' preference after reviewing all required documentation is final.
** This level of preference applies to all Foreign Service employees on LWOP.
Additional Selection Criteria:
- Management may consider the following when determining successful candidacy: nepotism, conflicts of interest, budget, and residency status.
- Current OR employees serving a probationary period are not eligible to apply. Current OR employees with an Overall Summary Rating of Needs Improvement or Unsatisfactory on their most recent Employee Performance Report (EPR) are not eligible to apply.
- Current NOR employees hired on a Family Member Appointment (FMA) or a Personal Service Agreement (PSA) are not eligible to apply within the first 90 calendar days of their employment, unless they have a When Actually Employed (WAE) work schedule.
- The candidate must be able to obtain and hold the following: Public trust security clearance.
- Candidates who are EFMs, USEFMs, AEFMs, or MOHs must have at least one year remaining on their sponsor's tour of duty to be considered eligible to apply for this position.
- Current Ordinarily Resident employees of the Mission may only apply for positions at or above their current grade level.
How to Apply:
Applicants must submit the following documents to be considered:
- Universal Application for Employment (UAE) (Form DS-174), which is available on our website or by contacting Human Resources. (See "For Further Information" above); Plus
- Any additional documentation that supports or addresses the requirements listed above (e.g. transcripts, degrees, etc.)
Where to Apply:
Human Resources Office: Eliana Branco
Submit with vacancy title: Cultural Affairs Assistant
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Item #: SCP-455
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: Object SCP-455 cannot be moved nor contained in any structure. Containment must be made on site. No exploration or testing is to be made on or in SCP-455. No personnel are to remain in close proximity for more than five minutes. All physical contact with SCP-455 is forbidden; any personnel breaking this order are to be quarantined.
Any hallucinations experienced near SCP-455 are to be recorded and logged. Any personnel experiencing hallucinations are to be transferred. Any personnel attempting to enter SCP-455 are to be restrained by any means deemed necessary.
Description: SCP-455 is a large cargo ship currently run aground on the southern coast of Chile. Most of its structure is underwater and badly damaged, with rust coating 85 to 90 percent of all surfaces. Internal structure appears to be significantly larger than external dimensions, and is not flooded despite large holes visible on outer hull.
Internal structure appears to be a random assembly of rooms, halls, and structures. Initial salvage teams reported rooms made of human teeth, an engine with tendon strips for timing belts, a hall extending for 182.88 m (600 ft) beyond where the outer hull should terminate, an open "gym" room with steel walls as pliant as taffy, and numerous audio and visual hallucinations. Team was lost after reporting entry to "central navigation." Rescue team lost after reporting the investigation of "screaming" in a cargo section.
Dr. ███████████████ has suggested the use of robots to map the interior of SCP-455 after the failure of several manned exploration teams.
Experiment Log 455 details the attempts to explore SCP-455 and information established despite their failures overall.
Exploration Log Record 455 3 - Record of last major exploration attempt by MTF Zeta-9.


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1. Josh can you tell us a bit about yourself and what you are doing at Google these days?
As most of our listeners probably know I worked at SUN for a number of years doing Java Libraries architecture best know for doing the collections library, for writing Effective Java and more recently for writing Java Puzzlers. At Google I'm doing Java infrastructure and I'm also our liaison with the Java community, I'm the representative on the Java community process Executive Committee as well as serving on a number of expert groups.
2. Are you still heavily involved with Java's evolution even though you're at Google?
Indeed I am. As I say I'm our EC rep, I'm still on the JSR 166 expert group with Doug Lea, and I'm working on other ongoing efforts the Java platform both language and libraries. I'm as involved as ever.
3. What's going on in Java these days that excites you?
1.6 is a good release, arguably it's not a super-exciting release, it doesn't add a lot of features but on the other hand you don't want to do that every release because you end up with more than people can swallow. From our initial experiments it's a very fast virtual machine, very stable, and there are some nice things that have been added, for example the sorted collection, the sorted mapping were never where they should have been and this is my fault; there are certain asymmetries in those APIs that have bothered me since I wrote them. We've finally fixed that. We have a new Navigable map and Navigable Set which are in essence updated, so those interfaces and the key implementations of them which are the TreeSet and TreeMap have been retrofitted. Similarly Doug Lea and I have added a double-ended queue interface and a concurrent that is a blocking version of it - a deck and blocking deck and a very fast implementation called ArrayIndexer. Basically the collection interfaces continue to grow and to mature and I'm pretty excited about that.
4. Where do you stand on the closures debate?
I like closures. I think they work very well in languages that design them, like Smalltalk and Scheme and so forth. I think closures in java are a good thing. We've basically had them since 1.1 in the form of anonymous class instances and those are a bit clunky so I definitely see a place for improvement support for closures; on the other hand some of the proposals that I've seen floating around are overly complex; they involve massive changes to the type system, things like function types and I'm severely worried about pushing the complexity of the language beyond the point where Joe Java can't use the language anymore. If we add more support for closures I think it has to be in the spirit of the current support, which means that closures should take the form of instances, of types that have a single abstract method, whether they are interface types such as Runnable , or class types such as TimerTask. I think it would be nice if a better syntax in the current anonymous class syntax were adopted and if requirement with regards to Final variables were somehow made more tangible, which doesn't mean necessarily relaxed; I think it's actually good that you can not close over non Final variables, but it's a pain to actually mark them final, so if they automatically marked themselves final which would be nice.
5. So Java itself should not approach more functional programming style?
I love functional programming style. In one sense I think it should. I always advise people to maximize mutability, so functional mutability is good. But on the other hand, I don't think that a structural functional type system embedded within Java's current type system is necessarily a good idea. Java's type system is already very complex and it will be more so by addition of generics to the language in Java 5. I don't know if Java can withstand another blow to the type system of that magnitude.
6. What else do you think Java needs from a language perspective?
I think that one way or another Java needs some automatic resource management blocks, something akin to the using statement in C sharp or to destructors in C++. I think that could evolve out of the closures or more likely could be a purpose built control construct along the lines of the for-each loop which automatically does a before/after type construct; when you exit the the lexical scope of this block, you automatically call the close method on some resource so that people don't have to close their files anymore. I would like to see something like that in the language and infact I sent a proposal to Sun for that. There are few little things which I think should be added which are harmless. One if them is just fixing a flaw in one of my designs; when I did enums, I neglected to have them operate properly with the comparison operators less than or equal to, greater than or greater than or equal to. Given that enums implement Comparable because identity is isomorphic to equality. Those comparison operators should have worked with Comparble as well, and they don't so it's takes just a no-brainer to make them work right now it's illegal. You just make them legal. Also I see no reason why case statements don't work on strings. These are little, harmless things that would make life better for the programmer on the street or at his desk.
7. About the resource management idea: what are the use-cases for this, why do we need it?
Basically there are lots of resources in Java that have to be explicitly closed and people do it with a try/finally Whether is database connections in JDBC or files or even locks in java.util.concurrent.lock which are locked and unlocked and right now there's this little boiler plate code that you always do, where you allocate or you open the object and then you do a try/finally and in the finally you close it. There are about four or five lines of code and they are ugly. It would be much nicer and we could do this in other languages; you just have a block that has the resource at the top of the block somehow and then we exit the scope of the block it gets automatically terminated for you and leaks of this things can be devastating. They can cause the system to crash. Also we can learn from the experience of previous attempts at doing this. For example: the using statement only takes a single resource and I've talked to people who use it and they don't like that. You have to nest these things when you have multiple resources which you often do, so we can define a construct that actually allows you to say that you're using multiple resources with the scope of a given block and the variables are in scope only at the top of the block in that statement and throughout the block. When you exit the lexical scope of the block, not only did the variables go out of scope but they automatically terminated, that is the resources are allocated for you just by invoking a name method and this can done using an interface like Closable except the Closable is tide to IOException which is a little bit unpleasant. There are still some design problems to be solved, but that's what JCP expert groups are for.
I think that the JCP will continue to standardize the JVM itself. So for example there's a JSR that SUN has already launched to add the InvokeDynamice structures into the JVM and support of these various dynamic languages and it think that JCP will continue to do that. It will of course continue to standardize the core Java language. Sun has some challenges in that area as it open-sources Java, as they promised to do. But I suspect that JCP will continue to play a part in its evolution or at least in the evolution of the core Java platform. On the other hand, as more languages start to run on the JVM, clearly those won't all be subject to standardization by the JCP and shouldn't be because the resources of any standards body are limited. I think there will be experiments standardized by no one which I think it's great; there will be universities that will Try new things. I think there will be new standards bodies and new duties for old standards bodies.
I haven't given the matter that much thought and I'm a little bit of a curmudgeon. I care a lot less than my friends about this. Because it think Sun has done a fairly good jobs stewarding the language up to now and there is a research license that allows organizations, in particular universities, to do anything they want to the language for research purposes and when they come up with good ideas, those good ideas get folded back into the mother ship; for example the generics stuff came out from the Pizza language, and after that generic Java GJ. I think that's a reasonable model for the evolution of the language going forward. On the other hand, there are some people who really care about actually open-sourcing it and find more power to them. Yes there still are problems to be solved but I don't actually like thinking about that stuff. I let other people think about it.
First of all, Java should have had an unsighned int type from day one. Second of all, that type should have been used to index Arrays. Right now there's only 31 bits of re-index; we're running out of space. Sometimes you want an array that has more than 2 billion elements. I think the clonable interface should have had a clone method in it. I think the switch statement should have been structured, should not have had a fall through and should have been precisely one statement after each case label or sequence of case labels. Also languages don't just pop-out fully formed; the interaction between a Arrays and Generics is unfortunate and the ones using generics have fallen into this trap; you cannot allocate an array of T's, nor can you even have a vararg involving T's without at least getting a warning from the compiler. That's unfortunate; the fact that array types are covariant and generics aren't is confusing and unfortunate, but on the other hand I think that at the time they probably did the right thing with arrays given that they couldn't have put generics into the language back then. It's very hard to second guess people; when you think about the size of the team that they had and the time pressure under which Java was released, I think they did a spectacular job. They hit a real sweet spot and that's why it took off like a rocket. But there were a few problems and I think I've listed my main gotcha's.
11. What is Google doing with Java?
Google uses Java in many places. We use it a lot in the middle tier obviously on the client, we use Ajax, we use Javascript and typically a lot of the applications that we use everyday like GMail, Google calendar, talk directly to Java and then the data is often stored on a back-end that's written in C++; we also use Java for our ads frontend server which is a very important part of our infrastructure, as you know ads are an important part of the engine that makes Google go. We use them a lot for internal applications. To make all this work we have a fairly large piece of Java infrastructure and that's my job at Google, I maintain that infrastructure.
12. Can you tell us more about this awesome Java infrastructure at Google?
There's a lot of classical google infrastructure. If you were at the Trundheim open house at Oslo last night, but the director discussed three of the main pieces of infrastructure google has: google file system, map reduce and big table and all these things were written in C++. But my team has made them accessible from Java in some cases, by re-implementing parts of them and in some cases by writing Java layers that talk to them through native methods and all that has proven quite successful. So now one can write all this core Google infrastructure in Java and additionally we have a lot of JDK-like stuff of our own invention and some of it we intend to submit for possible inclusion in the JDK. We have already done a little bit of it. Earlier I was referring to a this ArrayDeck class and that came out of some code that I wrote at google. There's a guy Kevin Burley who has written a lot of good stuff that I hope to see in Java 7. For example he wrote a facility called TimeLimiter which is a really cool thing. You take an interface and an implementation of that interface and it returns another implementation that delegates to the written original implementation and it time limits the calls and if they time out an unchecked time-out exception is thrown in the calling thread, so it allows you without the hassle of managing your own executor and your own futures and it works out really nice.
Actually there's only one book so far and in fact there will probably be one book and I'm hoping there won't that many more puzzles in that platform if we keep it from getting too complex. The book has 95 puzzles in it and since it has come out we came up with eight more which have to do with Tiger (in fact I'll be presenting all of those tomorrow at the Java Zone) and Neil and I continued to travel around the world to just spreading the Puzzlers message. It's a lot of fun, an easy way for people to learn the traps and the pitfalls of the platform, so I think that's the message.
14. What's your favorite puzzle?
Perhaps it is the puzzle in which a multithreaded program deadlocks without any visible locks in the program. I don't remember what the puzzle was called (it's in the book; I think it's in the Advanced Library Puzzles chapter). This perfectly innocent looking program that provably deadlocks every time it runs having to do with the JLS definition of class initialization in a multithreading setting. You've heard of a lock free algorithm, this is a lock free deadlock.


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W. Graham Arader is a businessman with a communicable appreciation and love of maps, and watercolors. He admits to have created the modern market for collectible maps and barely acknowledges that others believe they too were there when the star appeared over Bethlehem. What is known is that Graham was selling maps from his dorm room at Yale in the early 1970s and recognized that individual maps were worth more than the books they were in, an idea taken for granted today. In that epiphany he saw he could buy books of maps and hand-colored images and set them free as individual collectibles to an audience that wanted material to frame and display. It was a simple concept, actually an act of genius that would become the basis of his career as the greatest map and images collector and one of the greatest dealers in the works on paper field over the next half century: a simple idea that has come to define a complicated life.
So it is meaningful that he now believes the wheel has turned and the world changed in how buyers and sellers will increasingly establish the prices of collectible materials. He sees the auction model establishing the purchase price, a breathtaking acknowledgement, that doesn't spell the end of how he sells today but does point to market-derived pricing in the future. As he explains it, "the world changes."
So on December 5th Guernsey, the New York auctioneers, will conduct a sale of 282 items for the Arader Galleries and in a further departure from standard practice hold the sale at the Arader Galleries at 1016 Madison in Manhattan. There is nothing predictable about Mr. Arader and little reason he abandon the original thinking that has carried him to the top of the premium images market. It's simply time for a change.
His is an important sale and distinctive in significant ways. It is a large sale; $12.6 million at the low estimate and $16.5 at the high. Lots with high estimates of $10,000 and less are offered without reserve and are marked as unreserved in the lot descriptions or, if all lots on the page are unreserved, on the top of the page. There are 138 lots in this category. For bidders this is assurance they are not bidding against undisclosed house reserves that may create the illusion of multiple bidders pursuing an item. As well Mr. Arader explains that for more valuable material, that is anything with a high estimate of $10,001 up, the estimates are intended to be low to reasonable and points to various examples to make his point:


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Visit Cairo and Alexandria and explore mainland Egypt and the Pyramids.
- 3 nights hotel accommodation in Cairo
- 1 night hotel accommodation in Alexandria
- 7 nights onboard Sonesta Dahabeya
- All tours will be conducted with highly professional guides (English, French, and Italian, Spanish, or German speaking guides).
- All transfers as mentioned
- Daily breakfast
- 24 hour assistance phone number
- All taxes
- Travel insurance
- Entrance fees to sites and museums
- International flights
- Personal expenses
- Gratuities
Day 01 Arrival Cairo
Upon arrival at Cairo International Airport, Excel Travel representative welcomes you and assists you through the immigration process. Modern air-conditioned coaches take you to your hotel in Cairo. Your representative will ensure a smooth hotel check-in.
Dinner & overnight at the hotel in Cairo
Day 02 Cairo / full Day Pyramids, Museum, Khan El Khalili
Breakfast at the hotel, transfer to a day of sightseeing includes visiting of the Pyramids of Cheops, Khefren, and Mycerinus, a visit to the Sphinx, and the Valley Temple.
Enjoy lunch at local restaurant (optional), or visit the world-renowned Egyptian Museum, with its treasures of King Tutankhamon and remains dating back some 3,350 years followed by visiting the Khan El Khalili Bazaar
Return to your hotel in Cairo for dinner & overnight.
Day 03 Luxor - Dahabya
Breakfast at the hotel (Check-out after breakfast)
Transfer to Cairo Airport for flying to Luxor
Upon arrival, you will be transferred to your cruise. Embarkation in Luxor for a relaxing week sailing the Nile on a luxuriously appointed dahabiyya.
Day 3 -10 On board the Dahabya for 07 nights / 8 days
Day 1: Lunch on board. After Lunch visit the Luxor & Karnak Temples. Dinner and Overnight on the West bank.
Day 2: Breakfast on board. Visit the West Bank (Valley of the Kings, Hatshepsut temple and the Colossi of Memnon). Lunch on board. Sail to Esna and Tea time on the Sun Deck. Dinner during sailing. Overnight beside an Island.
Day 3: Breakfast while crossing Esna Lock. Sail to Edfu and Lunch during sailing. Visit the Temple of Edfu. Sail to Al Ramady Island. Dinner on board and Overnight beside Al Ramady Island.
Day 4: Early morning sail to Aswan and Breakfast on board. Sail to el Sheikh Fadl Island and Lunch on board during sailing. Tea time and Dinner on el Sheikh Fadl Island. Sail to Aswan after Dinner and Overnight on board.
Day 5: Arrive to Aswan early morning. Breakfast on board. Visit the Philae Temple and the High dam. Lunch on board. Free time at Aswan market and Overnight Aswan.
Day 6: Breakfast on board. Possibility of Visit Abu Simbel Temple early morning (Optional Visit). Lunch on board and Sail to Kom Ombo. Visit the Temple of Kom Ombo. Sail to el Ramady Island. Dinner and Overnight on board.
Day 7: Early morning Sail to Esna. Breakfast on board. Lunch while crossing Esna lock. Sail to Luxor. Dinner and overnight in Luxor West Bank.
Day 8: Breakfast on board. Disembarkation in Luxor.
Day 10 Aswan – Cairo - Alexandria
Breakfast aboard the dahabiyya followed by disembarkation
Transfer to Aswan Airport for flying back to Cairo
Upon arrival, drive to Alexandria, rest of the day at lousier
Overnight at Alexandria
Day 11 Alexandria full day tour/ Cairo
Breakfast at hotel, transfer to visit the Pompey's Pillar, constructed in honor of the Emperor Diocletian. Originally from the temple of the Serapis, Visit the Catacombs of Kom ash-Shuqqafa
Visit to Montazah Gardens & King Farouk's Palace which built by Khedive Abbas II. It was the summer residence of the royal family before the 1952 Revolution and King Farouk's abdication.
Lunch at local restaurant (optional), Pass by the Alexandria landmark - Qait Bay's Fort and Alexandria Library and Return back to Cairo
Enjoy dinner at local restaurant transfer back to the hotel for overnight in Cairo
Day 12 Departure-Cairo
Breakfast at the hotel (Check-out after breakfast)
Transfer to the airport for final departure
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A virtual groundbreaking ceremony was held in 1996 and construction was completed in 2000 for Torgersen Hall.
Torgersen Hall
620 Drillfield DriveCalled the Advanced Communications and Information Technology Center in the building proposal and during construction, Torgersen includes 30 miles of fiber-optic cable and 75 miles of copper cable. It houses offices, laboratory space, classrooms, space for televised distance learning, and two auditoriums. The first floor includes an atrium with computer hookups that serves as an electronic study court. The building joins Newman Library via an enclosed bridge that spans Alumni Mall and provides reading-room space.
Visually, the electronic reading room that occupies the arch spanning Alumni Mall is the most stunning part of the building. Couches, the huge open space, and cherry wood covering the arched ceilings give it the feel of the old library reading room. The rest of the building mostly consists of offices and laboratory space designed specifically for the occupants.
Paul Ernest Torgersen
Torgersen Hall honors Paul Ernest Torgersen, head of industrial engineering (1967-70), dean of engineering (1970-90), president of the Corporate Research Center (1990-94), and university president (1994-2000). Torgersen taught every semester during his years here. As dean, he led engineering to national prominence, and as president, he focused on rebuilding financial resources and technology leadership. He was named to the National Academy of Engineering; received two Sporn teaching excellence awards; and signed, as dean and president, 62,191 diplomas.
Building History
- Originally Built:
- 2000
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Create a Website Account - Manage notification subscriptions, save form progress and more.
Yes, however the dissolution of the district management corporation would be a two-step process under the new ordinance. It will require the Board of Trustees to agree to dissolution, followed by approval from the Township Committee to dissolve the organization.
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Initial bylaws were approved by the SID Board of Trustees at their first meeting on September 10, 2020. They are being reviewed by a sub-committee for potential amendments. Please click here (PDF) to read the initial bylaws.
There is no particular source established, solely the ability to use funds that are received by the corporation. This could include funds from grants, the Township of Millburn or direct donations to the organization.
Yes. The Board of Trustees meetings will require proper notice, public comment and any other provisions under the OPMA.
There are several changes from the original ordinance in 1992, including the establishment of a Board of Trustees, consisting of 7 members appointed by the Township Committee. Previously this was done through bylaws of the district management corporation bylaws. The ordinance also changes the SID district to include the B-2, B-3 and B-4 districts of the Township of Millburn. More information can be found in the linked presentation here.
If there is delinquency of a SID assessment tax, the same procedures for a lack of a property tax payment would be required. This would include delinquency fees, a lien on the property and potentially a tax sale.
The budget process of the SID would remain the same, with the exception that its timing would generally run in conjunction with the Township's budget process on a calendar year. A budget will be required to be submitted by January 15th of each year. Here is an excerpt from the ordinance of the budget process.
"The budget shall be introduced, approved, amended and adopted by resolution passed by not less than a majority of the full membership of the Township Committee of the Township. The procedure shall be as follows:
(i) Introduction and approval;
(ii) Public advertising;
(iii) Public hearing;
(iv) Amendments and public hearings, if required;
(v) Adoption."
All powers and duties enumerated for the District Management Corporation are outlined by Statute and have always been included in the Special Improvement District ordinance. This section has not been edited. That is not to say that it cannot be edited if there is concern over certain permitted powers and abilities of the District Management Corporation.
By discussing the ordinance now it allows the township to put the proposed SID in motion, to be able to operate in 2021. In the draft Special Improvement District ordinance, a tax would not be collected until the budget is formally adopted, which would occur in the 2021 fiscal year.
Meetings are permitted by the Division of Local Government Services to be done remotely through platforms such as ZOOM, Webex, livestreaming or others that allow the public to participate in the public comment portion of a meeting.


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• insouciant •
Pronunciation: in-su-see-ênt • Hear it!
Part of Speech: Adjective
Meaning: Nonchalant, breezy and shallow, carefree, blithe.
Notes: Insouciant folks are not necessarily apathetic. Apathetic implies a deeper, more profound indifference, a lack of emotional response or connectivity. Insouciance (the noun) is a carefree breeziness that does not preclude some interest in political or social issues. We may, of course, approach these issues insouciantly (the adverb).
In Play: Today's Good Word indicates a serious lack of seriousness: "Her coworkers think that Ida Claire is a bit insouciant to work in a nuclear reactor." Remember, the line between carefree and careless is a very soft one, indeed: "The last we saw of Hermione Prize she was insouciantly lighting a cigarette as she filled her tank at the gas station."
Word History: Today's word is the Old French prefix in- "not" + souciant "troubling", the present participle of soucier "to trouble". This French verb came all the way from Latin sollicitare "to disturb, agitate, vex". This verb comes from sollicitus "agitated, upset", an adjective that once was a compound made up of solus "entire" + citus "stirred up", the past participle of ciere "to agitate, stir". We see the root of solus in many words borrowed from Latin, such as solid, solder, and solitary. The root of ciere turned up in Greek kinein "to move" and kinesis "movement", as in telekinesis "moving objects by mental power". (We are happy to announce that insouciance did not prevent Susan Kappel from suggesting today's Good Word.)
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Park Creators
The Jewel of Downtown Greenville
The transformation of Falls Park from a state of neglect to splendor would not have been possible without the involvement of an engaged community. Partnerships between the City of Greenville, Furman University and Carolina Foothills Garden Club paved the way for the birth of the Falls Park Endowment. Generous corporate and individual sponsors provided the seed money that allowed the project to take root. Today Falls Park is a jewel in downtown Greenville.
A unique collaboration of talented individuals and organizations made Falls Park possible:
Bridge Architect Miguel Rosales
: This internationally acclaimed designer created a vision for the park's signature feature, The Liberty Bridge.Carolina Foothills Garden Club:
Led by Anna Kate Hipp and Pedrick Lowery, the Garden Club pushed for a Master Plan and then led the fund raising effort that created the Falls Park Endowment.City Council:
Under the leadership of Mayor Knox White, the City Council voted to remove the Camperdown Bridge; then they crafted a public-private partnership to transform the space.Furman University:
Formerly located next to Falls Park, Furman University donated the 6 acres surrounding the falls to the City.Garden Designer Andrea Mains:
This Washington, D.C.-based landscape architect created the park Master Plan in 1999, focusing on the creation of garden spaces to complement the park's natural features.Paul Ellis:
The City's former Parks and Recreation Department director was one of the park's visionaries and worked to coordinate the design and construction of Falls Park.Tom Keith:
Greenville landscape architect Tom Keith, of Arbor Engineering, served as the lead designer, tasked with coordinating the design team of architects, bridge designers and engineers. He also helped with onsite supervision for all the site components, including walks, boulder and landscaping.


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Welcome to The Groves Golf Course
Get ready for an unforgettable golf experience!
The Groves Golf Course is a challenging 18 hole golf public golf course located in Sarasota Florida. This pristine Executive golf course is located just off I-75 and University Pkwy and is a short drive from Sarasota, Bradenton, Lakewood Ranch and Venice.
Tight fairways and sloping greens reward shot placement and accuracy, making this course feel like a championship par 72 course in spite of its par 63 rating. The Groves provides 18 challenging holes designed by well-known golf course architect, Arthur Hills.
With its nine par 4s, nine par 3s, the Groves feels unlike any other short course you have ever played, and not one you will soon forget. This is not your usual short course, so be prepared for a challenging and enjoyable round of golf that will make you want to come back again and again.
Our 50 plus acres of beautiful scenic Florida landscape provide you with a memorable and highly enjoyable golf experience. Relax amidst our natural but manicured setting. The course opens for tee times at 7am. Tee times are available seven days in advance online, and by calling the pro shop at 941-371-0982.
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For the paladin set, I rather like it. It's been a while since we got a "knight in shining armor" set. Amusingly, if the paladin pops Avenging Wrath, she will seem to have six wings like a seraph.
I'm not sure I'd put it in the very top tier of paladin sets (T2 and T6) but it's definitely above average, and in the next group of sets.
One other nice thing about Transmogrification is that Ret and Prot paladins will be able to change their boots and belt to match the tier set.
The set bonuses have also been revealed:
- Holy, 2P -- After using Divine Favor, the mana cost of your healing spells is reduced by 25% for 15 sec.
- Holy, 4P -- Increases the healing done by your Holy Radiance spell by 20%.
- Protection, 2P -- Your Judgement ability now also grants a physical absorb shield equal to 30% of the damage it dealt.
- Protection, 4P -- Reduces the cooldown of Divine Guardian by 60 sec and increases the radius of its effect by 70 yards.
- Retribution, 2P -- Your Judgement ability has a 50% chance to generate 1 Holy Power.
- Retribution, 4P -- While Zealotry is active your abilities deal 12% more damage.


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Elihu Burritt 1810-1879
Elihu Burritt was born in New Britain, Connecticut in 1810, the youngest son among ten children. After his father's death in 1828, he apprenticed himself to a local blacksmith. With the encouragement of his older brother Elijah, Elihu studied mathematics by practicing mental exercises at the forge. Later, Burritt would develop a lifelong love of linguistics. After the financial panic of 1837 ruined his grocery business, Elihu walked to Boston seeking better economic opportunities. While in Boston, he learned about the library of the American Antiquarian Society. Burritt then walked to Worcester from Boston in order to make use of this famous collection.
Burritt went to work for a local forge where he earned $12 per month. It was during this period when his fame as a linguist developed. He offered his services to William Lincoln of Worcester as a translator of German. Impressed by this young man's ability, Mr. Lincoln passed on his letter to Governor Edward Everett who read it before a teachers' institute. During his presentation, the governor gave Burritt the name, "Learned Blacksmith." Although he was acknowledged as a scholar by many, he preferred, as he told Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, to regard himself as a member of the working class. "I shall covet no higher human reward for any attainment I may make in literature or science, than the satisfaction of having stood in the lot of the working man."
For several years, Burritt lectured throughout New England about the joy of learning. He then turned his attention to humanitarian causes that made him famous: the abolition of slavery, the dignity of the American working man, and the cause of world peace.
In pursuit of peace, Burritt worked closely with leading legislators in the United States and Europe. In one trip he addressed 150 huge meetings in England on behalf of the League of Universal Brotherhood where thousands signed the pledge. Later, as an abolitionist in this country, Burritt traveled 10,000 miles to speak on this issue.
In 1847, Burritt took up two additional causes. He visited Ireland during the winter of the terrible potato famine. Appalled at the conditions he observed, Burritt wrote a pamphlet entitled Four Months in Skibbereen which made Americans aware of the plight of the Irish.
Burritt also joined the fight for ocean penny postage. In the 1840's, ocean postage cost an average of twenty-five cents putting it out of reach of most people. In 1872, this struggle resulted in the reduction of postage charges.
President Abraham Lincoln appointed Burritt United States consul at Birmingham, England where he served ably for several years.
Burritt was the author of over thirty-seven books and articles. In addition, he edited many books and was the editor of several serial publications.
In 1870, he retired to his birthplace where he passed the remaining years of his life. His death occurred in 1879 at the age of sixty-nine.
For additional information about this extraordinary individual, visit the Special Collections Department where a collection of books by and about Burritt as well as his manuscripts, letters, and photographs may be found.


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We saw a crazy market this year. It swung so wildly in both directions, that ending a day a couple of percentage points up or down became the norm.
But after much tumult, Wall Street closed its year today not far from where it started it.
The AP reports:
"In the final tally, despite big climbs and falls, unexpected blows and surprising triumphs, all the hullabaloo proved for naught. On Friday, the Standard & Poor's 500 index closed at 1,257.60. That's exactly 0.04 point below where it started the year.
"'If you fell asleep January 1 and woke up today, you'd think nothing had happened,' says Jack Ablin, chief investment officer of Harris Private Bank. 'But it's been up and down all year. It's been crazy.'"
The other major indices fared similarly. The Nasdaq lost 1.8 percent for the year, while the Dow ended 5.5 percent higher this year.
The Wall Street Journalreports that a preliminary analysis revealed that 0.04 change in the S&P is "the smallest annual move since at least 1947."
Bloomberg gives usa quick recap of the kind of year the markets had:
"The S&P 500 started the year with a rally, rising as much as 8.4 percent to a three-year high by the end of April and extending its rebound from a March 2009 bear-market low to 102 percent. The index tumbled throughout the summer as Congress and President Barack Obama struggled over U.S. deficit cuts, and sank further amid concern that Europe's debt crisis was threatening the global economic recovery. The S&P 500 fell as much as 19 percent from April to its low for the year on Oct. 3.
"Data signaling that the world's largest economy was weathering Europe's crisis helped the market rebound. The U.S. unemployment rate fell to 8.6 percent in November, the lowest since March 2009, after lingering at 9 percent or above for seven straight months."
All that drama led investors into the safety of the U.S. bond market, which significantly outperformed stocks, reports the Journal. One of the questions for 2012 is will shaky investors pull their money from bonds and reinvest it in the the markets? One analyst the Journal spoke to thinks the answer to that question may well tells us a lot about the future of the world economy:
"'Treasury yields are back at panic levels,' said Michael Gayed, chief investment strategist at Pension Partners. 'The bond market is sensing something very serious is coming in 2012, yet stock investors not so much. The answer of who is right, the bond market or the stock market, probably gets answered in the next three months and a trend will assert itself.'"
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It may not be as well-known as Sonar, and it doesn't have the devout following of Reaper, but Acoustica's Mixcraft has been bothering the low/mid-budget PC DAW market for some years now.
Version 5 was a big one, introducing a host of pro features, so we were intrigued when we heard that v6 was on the way. This time around, though, the changes have been applied with a lighter brush. We're reviewing the Pro Studio edition here, but the 'standard' edition - called simply Mixcraft 6 - can be had for £70.
Acoustica has always included plenty of sample content with Mixcraft, and v6 sees 3000 new loops added, in a broad range of styles, bringing the total to over 6000. There are also a few new instruments onboard, including a pair of transistor organs in the form of Combo-V(ox) and Combo-F(arfisa). They're decent enough, though as with many of Acoustica's bundled plug-ins, they can be found elsewhere for free.
Beat makers, meanwhile, will be thrilled with the new Acoustica Studio Drums Collection - a massive ROMpler full of acoustic and electronic drum sounds. It sounds terrific.
Effects haven't been overlooked either, one standout new addition being the Broadcast Processor, a multiband compressor aimed at "winning the loudness war" or squashing the life out of your songs - whichever you prefer. It does the job and sounds pretty good.
There's also the EZQ equaliser, which is essentially a tone control with a vector pad labelled Dark, Tinny, Bright and Warm. You also get a 31-band EQ, iZotope Mastering Essentials (a basic but sonically impressive mastering suite) and some useful mid-side processors, among many, many others.
Incidentally, the cheaper 'standard' version of Mixcraft doesn't include these or numerous other plug-ins that ship with Pro Studio 6.
World of Mixcraft
It's not all new sounds and effects, though. Mixcraft can now run as a ReWire host, while unlimited outputs are available to VST Instruments and MIDI control surface support is finally in place. Track lanes have also been implemented - particularly useful with that new drum kit - and recordings can now be made in loop mode, with each pass creating a new take.
Punch-ins and punch-outs can also be performed - very useful for the solo recordist - and effects chains can be stored and retrieved. We also want to give Acoustica a big hug for integrating a guitar tuner into every audio track. All DAWs should have this!
Mixcraft started life as a very rudimentary DAW, but it has rapidly grown into a powerful music-making environment with the sorts of features you might expect from an application costing considerably more.
Version 5 represented a particularly major step up, introducing a swathe of advanced features and some exceptional bundled plug-ins. Maybe it's a bit unfair to expect the upgrade from v5 to v6 to be similarly vast, and indeed it isn't.
Nevertheless, Acoustica continues to improve the software with powerful, professional features, and PC users looking for a refreshing change from cluttered, over-the-hill production environments might thrive in Mixcraft's tighter, tidier world.
Acoustica's motto is that "software should be easy to use" and Mixcraft 6 fits that bill without sacrificing power and flexibility.


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Geoff Cox's DVDs: Before I Go To Sleep, Lucy, Night Moves, Rob The Mob
Kidman plays the mentally unstable Christine Lucas, a vulnerable amnesiac who records her memories every day lest she lose further track of her disappeared former life.
Husband Ben (Firth) fiercely protects her, unaware that Dr Nash (Mark Strong) has other ideas about her affliction. But something isn't adding up and Christine isn't sure who to trust – her manly spouse or the honest doctor.
Based on the best-selling thriller by SJ Watson, this is a memorable example of fine British film-making. Director Rowan Joffe conjures superb performances from the perfect cast in a chilling film that knows exactly what it is doing.
> Scarlett Johansson gets a rude awakening in LUCY (15: Universal) as an American everywoman abroad who's forced to act as a drug mule for vicious crime boss Mr Jang.
Trouble is, she accidentally ingests the experimental substance, causing her cerebral capabilities to expand towards the godlike. Morgan Freeman adds his usual gravitas as a scientist who offers both enlightenment and incredulity, as the increasingly super-powered Lucy desperately tries to hang on to her humanity while evading a vengeful Jang and his henchmen.
This crazy collision of Limitless and 2001: A Space Odyssey is directed by Luc Besson and is not a patch on his best work, like Nikita and Leon.
Johansson is more ultra-evolved brainbox than action heroine, unlike her Black Widow character in the Avengers movies. It's barmy, but there are enough enthralling moments in which action clichés – fights, car chases etc – are turned on their head to often breathtaking visual effect.
> NIGHT MOVES (15: Soda Pictures) borrows its title from Arthur Penn's 1975 thriller starring Gene Hackman).
It concerns the attempts of three young eco-activists to blow up a hydroelectric dam. Yet it's as much to do with the paranoid bubble the conspirators find themselves in than their struggle with the outside world.
The lead-in is slow, offering an insight into procedure rather than motive, with an agonising wait to obtain the fertiliser needed for the bomb.
The second half, however, picks up the pace and establishes a dangerously unstable dynamic between the jittery Dena (Dakota Fanning), loose cannon Josh (Jesse Eisenberg) and their unsettlingly unflappable handler Harmon (Peter Sarsgaard).
Things get a little overheated, but the direction by Kelly Reichardt stays cool with a perfect, understated ending.
> Set in New York City in 1991, ROB THE MOB (15) sees small-time crooks Tommy (Michael Pitt) and Rosie (Nina Arianda) have two things in common – a crazy-passionate love for one another and, after they're caught robbing a florist on Valentine's Day, prison records.
Trying to go straight, Rosie lands a job at a debt-collection agency and persuades Tommy to join her. But soon he is skipping shifts to attend the landmark trial of Mafia hitman Sammy 'The Bull' Gravano, whose graphic testimony could finally bring down flamboyant Gambino-family boss John Gotti.