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Restoration in progress in Company D at Park Avenue Armory. Photo: James Ewing, 2011.
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today unveiled the designs by Herzog & de Meuron for the renovation, restoration, and transformation of one of the countrys most important landmarks into a new kind of cultural facility and institution. The multi-year project reinvigorates the original design of the historic building, which includes the 55,000-square-foot Wade Thompson Drill Hall and an array of period rooms by some of the most innovative designers of the 19th century, while advancing the Armorys mission, dedicated to the creation and presentation of visual and performing art that cannot be realized within the limitations of traditional performance halls and white-wall museums.
The Herzog & de Meuron design has been guided by the understanding that the Armorys rich history and the patina of time are essential to its character and must be respected and built upon. Encompassing the Armorys entire five-story building, the project will create new resources and a diversity of spaces for the Armorys artistic, educational, and public programming, as well as Artist-in-Residence studios and rehearsal rooms, offering unique environments and amenities for artists and audiences alike. The program includes: the Wade Thompson Drill Hall and the former rifle range below it; eighteen period rooms on the first and second floors in the adjacent Head House; all public circulation spaces, including the grand hallways, staircase, and new elevators; new relocated office space on the third floor; a transformed fifth floor for rehearsal space; and back-of-house facilities on the lower level.
In conjunction with the announcement, Park Avenue Armory unveiled two restored period rooms on the second floor that illustrate Herzog & de Meurons approach to the Armory renovation, encompassing restoration work as well as the addition of new lighting elements, furniture, and surface treatments that complement the buildings original detailing and that enable these spaces to support the Armorys artistic program and mission.
Since taking over the building in December 2006, Park Avenue Armory has invested $73 million to upgrade and restore the structurewhich had been previously named by the World Monuments Fund among the 100 Most Endangered Historic Sites in Worldstabilizing the masonry, upgrading the infrastructure, and making the drill hall ready for arts productions, all in accordance with Herzog & de Meurons design plans. During the same period, Park Avenue Armory developed its artistic program and launched itself as a new arts institution that presents epic and immersive performing and visual art that cannot be mounted elsewhere in New York City.
We turned to Herzog & de Meuron to help us create a distinct model for cultural buildings. Unlike single purpose concert halls or theaters, the Armory serves many art forms. In addition, it does not prescribe a fixed spatial relation between the art and the audience as traditional halls do: with audience members assigned to seats; artists on the stage removed from them; and a theater interior that disappears. Also, unlike conventional galleries or museum spaces, the rich history-laden Drill Hall and period rooms of the Armory do not provide a neutral or passive backdrop to the art. The strong context becomes a part of experiencing the work, said Rebecca Robertson, President and Executive Producer of Park Avenue Armory. We have found that the appetite for this kind of artistic freedom is enormous. Thus, we needed a design that would not to destroy the soul of the building, would respect the buildings historical substance and unique design assets, and yet would achieve the same level of design brilliance in this century as had been achieved in the original. We also needed a plan that would encourage artistic license and be cost-efficient. With subtlety and incredible attention to detail, and a deep understanding of how to make this new model function, Herzog & de Meuron have produced a design that will make the Armory one of the most breathtaking and innovative cultural buildings in the country.
Park Avenue Armory is a richly layered building of outstanding historical significance that is transforming into a contemporary cultural center for New York City, said said architect Jacques Herzog, Founding Partner of Herzog & de Meuron. We are treating the Armory like a living monument, preserving it for the future and above all reinventing it. Our method is not preservation in the traditional sense, where the original state of a building is reconstructed to simulate the historical original. Instead, we are revealing the physical traces the building has produced over time and developing highly specific responses to each space.
There are plenty of perfect stages and perfect white cubes for artistic productions. Part of what makes the Armory so unusual is that each room has its own identity and own history. Different designers, companies, colonels, and donors made decisions over a period of 130 years that define the singular character of a given room and space, said Ascan Mergenthaler, Senior Partner of Herzog & de Meuron. Our design vision embraces these differences. Instead of adapting each historic room for a specific purpose, we have left them as found spaces, encouraging artistic freedom and flexibility. We have also found discrete ways to insert all the functional spaces and the infrastructure necessary for the range of arts served here into the Armory. These modern interventions have their own language that relates to those in more delicate materials.
Designed Herzog & de Meuron, with Platt, Byard, Dovell, White Architects, LLP, serving as Executive Architect, the current $200-million renovation and restoration project enables Park Avenue Armory to support a range of visual and performing arts programming in advancement of its mission. The design plan embraces the history, craftsmanship, and the inherent contrast of the Armorys spaces, from the exuberance of its period room interiors to the strength and confidence of its soaring drill hall.
Wade Thompson Drill Hall
The adaptation of the Armory into a cultural facility starts with the Wade Thompson Drill Hall, which has been reinvented as a vast stage-house that can support productions anywhere within its cavernous space. The industrial aesthetic of this room stands in sharp contrast to the finely detailed period rooms in the Head House. When first built, the Armorys drill hall showcased a muscular procession of iron trusses that bowed out from the ceiling to the floor. The Herzog & de Meuron design will reveal the full arc of the original truss-work by removing the existing lower walls, which were added in the mid-20th century, and by replacing the mezzanine levels on the north and south walls with wafer-thin 15-foot wide balconies. Under these balconies, a system of heavy curtains will allow the area to serve back-of-house functions for performances and productions, and provide acoustic absorption when required. Along the north and south walls at grade level, ten emergency fire exits in darkened copper will be added, recalling the long windows that were original to the building.
The new balcony on the west will be 24-feet wide to accommodate viewing, exhibition, and performance areas. The west wall of the drill hall that joins with the Head House will be cleaned and stabilized, and its porous pattern of long windows and balconies restored. On the east end of the drill hall, the existing raked balcony will be reconfigured and the seating replaced.
The cleaning and stabilization of the drill hall ceiling, completed in 2010, revealed traces of the original 1879 painted design by landscape painter Jasper Cropsey, which are now visible from below. The windows in the upper part of the hall have been improved thermally and acoustically, to provide an environment within the drill hall that is on a par with leading recital halls in the City. Interlaced into the 19th-century truss-work is a state-of-the-art production grid for lighting, sound, and power that allows programmatic flexibility in the hall.
In the basement of the drill hall, the former rifle range space will be converted and expanded to provide performer and artist support spaces, including dressing rooms, artist workshops, instrument storage and other essential backof-house functions. A conductors suite, green room, dressing rooms, wardrobe rooms, and production staff offices will also be created. A new entrance of 66th Street and Park Avenue will provide performances with a stage entrance and ADA access to the building.
The Head House
The plan for the five-story Head House that faces Park Avenue will rearrange the space to allow for public and artistic functions on the lower level, first, and second floors, and new rehearsal space on the fifth floor. The Armory offices will be relocated to the third floor, and an upgraded City shelter for women to the fourth floor.
The eighteen historic rooms on the first and second floors will be dedicated to artistic programming. In each room, the walls, ceilings, floors, and woodwork will be meticulously de-layered by conservators to remove the additions and dirt built up from over the years. The wood will be restored to its original finish, where possible. Missing elements in the painted surfaces patterns on the walls and ceilings will be filled in and, when appropriate, traceries applied to unify the space without perfecting it. These traceries are applied in metallic paints that recall those that were used heavily throughout the building in its original design.
The approach will also reinvigorate a holistic plan for each room through the integration of surfaces, lighting, and furniture. In each room, new elements designed by Herzog & de Meuron are added to achieve unity and functionality, including copper chainmail curtains that filter sunlight, copper furniture, and new copper or bronze lighting fixtures. New audio/visual, information technology, and other related production equipment will be discretely interwoven within the rooms to facilitate their flexible use for a range of purposes, from performances, art installations, artist studios, and educational activities, to concession areas and temporary cafés.
A defining component of the design process in the period rooms is the close collaboration between architect and artisan on the conservation, restoration, and renovation of each space. Highly skilled craftspeople working in wood, paint, plaster, and metals were employed in the creation of the buildings original interiors. The current plan draws upon the expertiseand handof similar artisans. The architects, in consultation with the master craftsmen, will weigh every aesthetic decision to find the expression inherent in each room, noted Robertson. Each room has a unique design and history, and each has a different story to tell. When finished, the variety in the rooms in both original work and contemporary treatment will be astonishing.
In the public areas, Herzog & de Meuron will reinforce the original quiet design. They will return the oak wainscoting in the corridors and the massive oak central stair to their original light honey color. They will reilluminate the main stair with lighting that will recall the buildings original skylight at the third floor and will add an undulating copper railing to make the staircase safe and subtly update its form. The large windows in the staircase that once borrowed light from the skylight will be sheathed in reflective copper and supplemental light will be provided to complement the refurbished torchieres and other original fixtures. The corridor walls and ceilings, in contrast to the very exuberant period rooms to which they connect, will be light-filled but restrained, with a dot pattern surface treatment that blends with the original neutral colors of the space.
The circulation in the building will also be improved through the introduction of a 455-square-foot copper clad elevator (the approximate size of one of the period rooms) that will connect the lower level, first, and second floors, and the balcony level at the drill hall. The elevator will be able to transport freight and art work as well as up to 96 visitors, and will also be able to function as a presentation space. In addition, it will serve as an additional entryway into the drill hall from the first floor.
The fifth floor of the building will be repurposed to accommodate a new 1,100-square-foot rehearsal space and a new mechanical plant servicing the Head House. The rehearsal space will be designed to accommodate artists of all genres and will serve to support disciplines that need more traditional rehearsal space proportions to prepare for work in the drill hall, than are available in the historic period rooms.
The basement of the Head House will be renovated to include a handicapped access and stage door directly off 66th Street, a reception area, an orientation room for tours and school children, public restrooms, coat check, catering storage, and back-of-house spaces for the facility crew. The entrance to the womens shelter, which is currently housed on the third and fifth floors and will be relocated to an upgraded space on the buildings fourth floor, will be via a private elevator and stair core entered at grade off 67th Street.
Exterior Program
The design proposes no major changes to the exterior of the building short of rehabilitation and cleaning. The brickwork will be stabilized, missing bricks replaced, the parapets repaired and all masonry will be cleaned. Former fire escapes and bars from the first floor windows will be removed. The existing, degrading mansard roof will be replaced in copper. The original wrought- and cast-iron fence will be restored and a bed of crushed stones will be installed in the existing garden beds. The fifth-floor brick structure, added in 1929, will be enveloped in vines to highlight the profile of the central tower. The architects have also designed a green roof at this level that will help to achieve the Armorys sustainability goals and also serve as a patio for the rehearsal space.
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2012 was a pretty awesome year for comics and we predict 2013 will be too. Here are a few items to slot in your memorybrain for the new year...
Razarhawk will finally e-x-p-l-o-d-e onto the scene courtesy of Ian Matthews and Dani Abram. Eyes left for an exclusive (probably) peek at the cover art!
From Improper Books we have a trio of terrific titles: Porcelain, Butterfly Gate and Night Post. I finally got to read the preview issue of Porcelain just before Christmas and I was absolutely blown away! I honestly can't wait til February to read the whole thing!
Out almost-before-you-know (ie January) is the long and eagerly awaited Babble from Lee Robson, Bryan Coyle and Com.X. I've got my copy pre-ordered already.
The 3rd and final issue of Jennifer Wilde as well as new issues of Roisin Dubh and The League Of Volunteers from Atomic Diner.
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From Darrin O'Toole's DOT comics Lady Babylon: An Occult Romance is launching in Spring, then Earthruler is a 60 pg tpb in late summer.
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From Craig Daley's CD Comics we have Robin Hood 2020, Carnacki & Hannay and War Nurse to keep an eye out for.
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Sunday afternoon at Mile One Centre the Bridgeport Sound Tigers and the St. John's IceCaps played the second game of their back to back series (IceCaps took Saturday night's game by a score of 5-4).
Michael McCarron tied the game 2-2 with 1.1 second left on the clock but the Caps lost 3-2 to the Tigers in a shootout that lasted for 9 rounds.
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So, here we are once again, the day after opening night of a new NHL Season.
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Last night, I watched the Blackhawks raise (another) Banner, Stanley Cup Style, saw new leafs coach Mike Babcock win the first ever NHL coach's challenge, and in a later game, watched my 2nd favorite team, the get embarrassed at home by a 5-1
Hello HockeyWorld, I am ScottQ32 with my 1st blog on SDHF! I just wanted to start with something I've had a lot of time to think about since my Sabres didn't make the playoffs. Anyway hope you enjoy my ideas for Sabres offseason plans!
June 26, 2015: With the 2nd and 21st we draft Eichel + Travis Konecny. You have probably heard enough about Eichel and here is some info about Konecny. A talented scoring forward that can play either as a center or on the wing; plays with the bite and
It was a rocky road, but the Penguins would pull off a victory. After the Penguins scored three in the first period and another one a minute into the second, Edmonton, helped by the replacement of goaltender Ben Scrivens with Richard Bachman, roared back in the third period with four straight to knot the game up. The Pens would score twice in 66 seconds to take a 6-4 lead, which they would keep for the rest of the game.
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ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — An Air Algerie jetliner carrying 116 people vanished Thursday in a rainstorm over restive northern Mali, and French officials say it has probably crashed — the third major international aviation disaster in a week.
French fighter jets, U.N. peacekeepers and others hunted for signs of wreckage of the MD-83 plane in the remote region, where scattered separatist violence may hamper the search and any eventual investigation into what happened.
Families from France to Canada and beyond waited anxiously for signs of Flight 5017 and their loved ones aboard. Nearly half of the passengers were French, many en route home from Africa.
The plane, owned by Spanish company Swiftair and leased by Air Algerie, disappeared from radar screens less than an hour after takeoff, en route from Burkina Faso's capital of Ouagadougou to Algiers.
"Everything allows us to believe this plane crashed in Mali," French President Francois Hollande said after an emergency meeting in Paris. He said the crew changed its flight path because of "particularly difficult weather conditions."
Earlier, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told reporters the plane "probably crashed" and no "trace of the aircraft has been found."
His face drawn and voice somber, Fabius added, "If this catastrophe is confirmed, it would be a major tragedy that hits our entire nation, and many others."
Conflicting reports emerged about wreckage spotted in two different sites, several hundred kilometers (miles) away from each other in the sparse, vast region where the Sahara Desert meets the rest of Africa.
Malian Communiciations Minister Mahamadou Camara told The Associated Press on Thursday night that the plane hadn't yet been found and "the search is underway." French military and diplomatic officials also said no wreckage had been found.
Before vanishing, the pilots sent a final message to ask Niger air control to change its route because of heavy rain, Burkina Faso Transport Minister Jean Bertin Ouedraogo said.
A resident who lives in a village in Mali about 80 kilometers (50 miles) southeast of the town of Gossi said he saw a plane coming down early Thursday, according to Gen. Gilbert Diendere, heading the crisis committee set up in Burkina Faso.
"We think that it is a reliable source because it corresponds to the latest radar images of the plane before it lost contact with air controllers," Diendere said.
Radar images show the plane deviated from its route, Diendere said. Gossi is nearly 200 kilometers (175 miles) southwest of Gao.
The French president said "all military means we have in Mali" were being activated for the search, through the night if needed. France has considerable military resources there because of its intervention that began in January 2013 to rout al-Qaida-linked extremists who were controlling the north.
The U.N. peacekeeping mission in Mali, known as MINUSMA, was helping in the search, U.N. deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.
Algerian Transport Minister Omar Ghoul, whose country's planes were also searching for wreckage, described it as a "serious and delicate affair."
The vast deserts and mountains of northern Mali fell under control of ethnic Tuareg separatists and then al-Qaida-linked Islamic extremists after a military coup in 2012.
The French-led intervention scattered the extremists, but the Tuaregs have pushed back against the authority of the Bamako-based government. Meanwhile, the threat from Islamic militants hasn't disappeared, and France is giving its troops a new and larger anti-terrorist mission across the region.
A senior French official said it seems unlikely that fighters in Mali had the kind of weaponry that could shoot down a jetliner at cruising altitude. While al-Qaida's North Africa branch is believed to have an SA-7 surface-to-air missile, also known as MANPADS, most airliners would normally fly out of range of these shoulder-fired weapons. They can hit targets flying up to roughly 12,000-15,000 feet.
The disappearance of the Air Algerie plane comes after a series of aviation disasters.
Fliers around the globe have been on edge ever since Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared in March on its way to Beijing. Searchers have yet to find a single piece of wreckage from the jet with 239 people on board.
Last week, a Malaysia Airlines flight was shot down while flying over a war-torn section of Ukraine, and the U.S. has blamed it on separatists firing a surface-to-air missile.
Earlier this week, U.S. and European airlines started canceling flights to Tel Aviv after a rocket landed near the city's airport. Finally, on Wednesday, a Taiwanese plane crashed during a storm, killing 48 people.
It's easy to see why fliers are jittery, but air travel is relatively safe.
There have been two deaths for every 100 million passengers on commercial flights in the last decade, excluding acts of terrorism. Travelers are much more likely to die driving to the airport than stepping on a plane. There are more than 30,000 motor-vehicle deaths in the U.S. each year, a mortality rate eight times greater than that in planes.
The Air Algerie jet had been missing for hours before the news was made public. It wasn't clear why airline or government officials didn't release information earlier.
Swiftair, a private Spanish airline, said the plane was carrying 110 passengers and six crew, and left Burkina Faso for Algiers at 0117 GMT Thursday (9:17 p.m. EDT Wednesday), but had not arrived at the scheduled time of 0510 GMT (1:10 a.m. EDT Thursday). It said the crew included two pilots and four flight attendants.
The passengers include 51 French, 27 Burkina Faso nationals, eight Lebanese, six Algerians, five Canadians, four Germans, two Luxembourg nationals, one Swiss, one Belgian, one Egyptian, one Ukrainian, one Nigerian, one Cameroonian and one Malian, Ouedraogo said. The six crew members are Spanish, according to the Spanish pilots' union.
Swiftair said the plane was built in 1996 and has two Pratt & Whitney JT8D-219 PW engines.
Swiftair took ownership of the plane on Oct. 24, 2012, after it spent nearly 10 months unused in storage, according to Flightglobal's Ascend Online Fleets, which sells and tracks information about aircraft. It has more than 37,800 hours of flight time and has made more than 32,100 takeoffs and landings.
If confirmed as a crash, this would be the fifth one — and the second with fatalities — for Swiftair since its founding in 1986, according to the Flight Safety Foundation.
The MD-83 is part of a series of jets built since the early 1980s by McDonnell Douglas, a U.S. company now owned by Boeing Co. The MD-80s are single-aisle planes that were a workhorse of the airline industry for short- and medium-range flights for nearly two decades. As jet fuel prices spiked in recent years, airlines have rapidly being replacing the jets with newer, fuel-efficient models such as Boeing 737s and Airbus A320s.
There are 496 other MD-80s being flown, according to Ascend.
Boeing spokesman Wilson Chow said the company was aware of the reports on the plane and was "gathering more information."


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Puccini's most famous opera Tosca will be screened live for free on BP Big Screens across the UK on Thursday 18 July.
It is the final BP Big Screen of 2013 and, with tropical temperatures expected, is the ideal chance to enjoy opera in the sunshine with a picnic.
Read audience reactions to previous BP Big Screen relays of Mayerling and La rondine.
The story
When a young painter agrees to help a political prisoner escape, he sets in motion a chain of events that lead to disaster for him and his lover. Featuring a sadistic police chief and two idealistic lovers, Tosca is a tragic thriller that combines love, loss, jealousy and passion.
Find out more from members of the cast and Director Jonathan Kent:
An instant hit
Tosca was an immediate success when it had its premiere in Rome in 1900, and has since become one of the most performed of all operas. Read more about why it is one of the best-loved operas.
'Tosca is one of opera's undeniable masterpieces,' says ROH Director of Opera Antonio Pappano. 'It is a melodrama that has everything: lust, love, politics, religion, betrayal, murder and execution, set to some of the most ravishing and gut-wrenching music.'
Hear more about the music in an extract from the BBC Two series Pappano's Essential Tosca:
The setting
Jonathan Kent's naturalistic production, now being revived for the fourth time, is set in the turbulence of 19th-century Rome. The play on which the opera is based, La Tosca by French dramatist Sardou, is set in three specific locations in Rome. Find out more Tosca's setting and its significance.
Martina Serafin as Tosca and Aleksandrs Antonenko as Cavaradossi in Tosca © ROH / Tristram Kenton 2013
Aleksandrs Antonenko as Cavaradossi and Alessandro Guerzoni as Angelotti in Tosca © ROH / Tristram Kenton 2013
Martina Serafin as Tosca and Aleksandrs Antonenko as Cavaradossi in Tosca © ROH / Tristram Kenton 2013
Read audience reactions to the opening night.
As part of BP Big Screens we will be running a competition inviting you to send us pictures of your picnics via Twitter or Instagram using the hashtag #BPbigscreens. The winner will be chosen on the night and receive a delicious picnic hamper courtesy of Company of Cooks.
Tosca runs until 20 July. Availability is limited to day tickets and returns. The production will return to the Main Stage in 2014.
The production is generously sponsored by Xstrata and generously supported by Roland and Sophie Rudd and the Royal Opera House Endowment Fund.


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They mean the same thing to me.
Interested in Language
This question is about the difference, if any, between 'how's the weather?' and 'what's the weather like?'
(I have read this thread on these questions )
In a book that I came across, the question
'what's the weather like?' is answered with the following:
It's sunny/hazy/foggy/clear/smoggy/windy/humid/muggy/raining/drizzling/snowing
and the question
'how's the weather?' is answered with the following:
It's warm/cool/cold/freezing
I want to ask if this is correct. I have seen some discussion on another site where someone tried to distinguish between
'how's your boss' and 'what's your boss like', but that does not seem to apply in case of weather.
Actually, both the questions ('how's the weather' and 'what's the weather like') mean the same to me, and I answer 'it's hot/warm' or 'it's raining' depending upon how it is here. Is this wrong?
Thank you
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They mean the same thing to me.
To me, too.
Note that 'How's the weather like' is not natural English.
@Raymott and @5jj, thank you.
@5jj, sorry, it is my mistake in copying the question. The question is 'How's the weather'.
I will edit my original post and make the correction.
Thank you
For me they mean the same. However, 'How's the weather', being syntactically less demanding, sounds to me like the sort of choice a non-native speaker might make. (Note, it sounds fine: when I hear 'How's the weather?' I don't think 'Uh-oh, we've got a foreigner here' () But if someone says 'Excuse sir, can you tell me some informations' I might expect to hear something like 'How's the weather?')
The weather is here.
I wish you were beautiful.
I'm not a teacher, but I write for a living. Please don't ask me about 2nd conditionals, but I'm a safe bet for what reads well in (American) English.
For me, they're both fine. The only difference I might consider is that my reply to "How's the weather?" would probably be shorter.
How's the weather?
It's good.
What's the weather like?
It's good. It's really sunny and hot but nice and cool at night.
How's the weather?
It's terrible.
What's the weather like?
Awful. It's been raining all day and they're talking about snow tomorrow.
I don't understand Barb_D reply in this context.


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Q Gary, can you tell me how police issuing a ticket to the owner of a car at 3:42 a.m. for not having a front license plate while it's parked in front of his house in Alameda leaves a sour taste in your mouth?
Ken Munson
San Jose
A Don't they have more pressing matters at that time of night?
Q Having been in law enforcement for 32 years, I think the owner, Warren Serkin, should be happy he has a police department doing its job at all hours of the night. Would you and he be happier if the officer issued the ticket at 3:42 p.m.? Did I somehow miss the hours that the California Vehicle Code is exempt? Is it after midnight that police can't enforce the law?
Having had someone steal more than $1,000 in property from my car last year between midnight and 6 a.m., I would feel better knowing police were patrolling residential areas, since this is when auto burglaries occur. What is Mr. Serkin upset about? The fact that he has to comply with the law or wasn't able to whine to the officer about not wanting to mount a license plate on the front because it doesn't look cool?
Ken Munson
A Anything else, Deputy Ken?
Q. If you've ever worked midnights for any length of time, then you know how hard it is to stay awake. This was always a good way for me to stay awake, by getting out of the car, walking around and, yes, issuing a ticket. And it's a good way for an officer to show his supervisor that he was out in the neighborhoods patrolling, which is where he should be at those hours. You were way off in your opinion that this is "Mickey Mouse" and that citations shouldn't be issued at "weird hours."
Ken Munson
A Of the dozens of comments on this issue, only one reader agreed with me. Today, police respond. On another day, motorists have their say.
Q Sometimes good things happen when a cop is out of his car at weird hours of the night patrolling the street in front of your house. As a retired police officer, I can recall several incidents when a beat cop would stumble upon some real crime when citing vehicles for what you consider a Mickey Mouse thing to do. I remember one officer citing a vehicle for expired registration at a weird hour of the night and, upon hanging the citation on the windshield, discovered someone breaking into the vehicle. The subject was arrested for the break-in, and it was found that he had an outstanding warrant for an out-of-state homicide that he had been wanted for. I can go on and on with examples such as this, but I won't.
So would you rather have police patrolling at weird hours looking for violations, no matter how minor they are, or would you prefer that they be sleeping in their cars or hanging out at the bagel shop?
Dennis Hart
A And one more officer weighs in.
Q In my career, when patrolling neighborhoods in the dead of night, I found people committing car burglaries, kids committing vandalism, garage and car doors inadvertently left open and cars illegally parked blocking sidewalks and fire hydrants. Cops are action junkies, and if there was something more exciting and important going on, they would be doing it.
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A Anyone else?
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I can't seem to find any rules in NEC Art. 230 that were complied with at this particular installation. The seal is intact, at least it looks that way, and the entire installation looks like it was done by a person hiding in the bushes!
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CUSTOM built home and it's only 15 miles from downtown Summerville. From the moment you drive up the driveway adorned by flowering crepe myrtles and walk up the lighted front steps to the front porch you will see fine details everywhere. Once inside the grand open foyer you have spacious formal living room and dining room complete with double crown molding, wainscoting and chair rail accent. In this kitchen you will enjoy preparing meals for the family as this room is an integral part of this homes design. The gourmet kitchen is complete with granite counters, pendant lighting over the islands' electric cook top, built in microwave, wall oven, garbage disposal and trash compactor, abundant cabinets and plenty of space for the largest family gathering The adjacent great room showcases custom built in cabinets, open catwalk view, coffered 20' ceiling with 2 upgraded ceiling fans, gas and wood burning fireplace with stone accent to the ceiling, access to upper deck area, plus a million-dollar view of the pool and deep water. Around the corner to the master suite you will step inside a retreat designed just for you. The large master offers tray ceiling, recessed lighting, gas fireplace and his and hers closet. The master bath has marble floors and counters, 2 separate sink areas, jetted tub, separate shower plus a make-up area. Upstairs is complete with 2 very spacious bedrooms each complete with its own full bath, plenty of storage space plus an office area neatly tucked away. Downstairs on the ground level is a very deep 3 car garage with plenty of work area plus an extremely large bedroom with full bath and a walk-in closet. Another separate room downstairs is currently being used as a workout area complete with fitted floor mats. Out back is a large salt water pool with a spray fountain, 2 dedicated ladders and 1 wide step area. Walk down the 400' ramp and you are on deep water, all the time. The cabana has granite counter surface work area. An additional detached 2-car garage is deep with plenty of work space plus an apartment retreat upstairs complete with large living area and full bath. Other features include and are not limited to: whole house generator, Rinnai tankless hot water. Only a few homes in this exclusive community where they have their own private boat landing! Don't miss this once in a lifetime opportunity to own your dream home, your forever home!
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Letson led full life of ministry and service Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary alumna Ann Forrest Anderson Letson died Sunday, August 11, 2013. She was 72.
In addition to serving as a Presbyterian minister in various capacities throughout her life, Letson recently retired as manager of clinical pastoral education for Norton Healthcare in Louisville. Throughout her ministry, she held positions in Spartanburg, S.C.; Winston-Salem, N.C; and Louisville. Letson served as a CPE supervisor and was active on several regional and national committees with the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education.
A Louisville native, Letson attended Atherton High School and Spalding College in addition to Louisville Seminary. Before her ordination, she served as staff associate at Highland Presbyterian Church for five years where she worked in Christian education and led youth on mission trips to Arizona. She and her husband returned to the area 10 years ago and made their home in Corydon where Letson served as parish associate at Corydon Presbyterian Church.
She is survived by her husband of 50 years, Ken; her daughters, Stephanie Letson and Carolyn Letson Boord (Bob); her grandchildren, Isabella and Sophia Letson-Ettin and Samuel and Jackson Boord; sister, Carolyn Lowe; and niece and nephew, Madison Lane and Andy Lowe. Letson was predeceased by her parents, Louis A. (Bill) and Mary Alice Anderson. Ann enjoyed travel, time with grandchildren, family and friends.
A celebration of life will be held at Highland Presbyterian Church, 1011 Cherokee Road in Louisville on Saturday, August 17, at 11 a.m. A reception and visitation with the family will follow in the fellowship hall. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the James Graham Brown Cancer Center, the American Cancer Society or the memorial of your choice.


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Microsoft's Surface computing is the kind of Buck Rogers' technology that can dazzle consumers and boost a company's "cool" factor. But in an interview last week, Robbie Bach, Microsoft's president of Entertainment & Devices Division, said he came close on multiple occasions to deep-sixing the project.
"I probably thought about killing it every year it was in development," said Bach, the man who forged a reputation as a hit maker by spearheading Microsoft's Xbox game console.
During the interview, at a Microsoft-sponsored dinner attended by a handful of reporters, Bach said that the excitement generated over the technology has taught him more about an interesting metric: "customer delight." I'll get to that later.
Originally code-named Milan, the Surface computer looks like the 1980s sit-down Ms. Pac Man machine. It uses infrared cameras and a projector to create a touch-screen that can respond to multiple users' hand gestures, as well as interact with other objects. Bach said that Surface was in development for about five years in a "pure incubator" environment with 20 Microsoft employees developing the computer.
Surface has wowed audiences everywhere it's been showcased. Nonetheless, serious challenges still lay ahead, such as reducing the price so consumers can afford it as well as shrinking the clunky 22-inch-high table and 30-inch horizontal display.
"We don't want to be in the furniture business," Bach quipped. Microsoft has said it plans to have the consumer version on shelves by 2011.
Right now, the devices are starting to appear in the retail stores of cellular carrier AT&T. Sheraton hotels, Harrah's casinos, and T-Mobile retail locations are also expected to get the machines. At about $10,000, the price is too high to be considered a consumer product. Finding a way to reduce costs, as well as the computer's size, were why Bach was skeptical about Surface as a profit maker.
"I didn't have a clear line of sight on what the business model was," Bach said. "I was always asking myself whether we could afford to keep it."
Surface did have one important cheerleader: Bill Gates.
Gates is a huge proponent of Surface computing. At a gathering last month of CEOs in Redmond, Wash., Gates said he wants to turn everything we touch into a computer: "It will be absolutely pervasive," he said. "When I say everywhere, I mean the individual's office, the home, the living room."
Bach called Gates a "big supporter" of Surface.
Besides generating applause from reviewers, Surface provided another benefit. Bach said he learned about how to gauge "customer delight" better. He cautioned, however, that Microsoft isn't just out to create gee-whiz products--not unless a sound business plan can be found for them.
"The Buck Rogers stuff won't carry the day on its own," Bach said, adding that just because something is cool doesn't mean it's going to make money (See Segway).


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On her website ToriAvey.com, Tori Avey explores the story behind the food – why we eat what we eat, how the recipes of different cultures have evolved, and how yesterday's recipes can inspire us in the kitchen today. Learn more about Tori and The History Kitchen.
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As a resident of Los Angeles, I pass by that famous white Hollywood sign every time I go for a hike or make a run to the grocery store. Living in the middle of Tinseltown can make one feel somewhat jaded, particularly when Oscar season rolls around. In my neck of the woods, the Academy Awards ceremony means helicopters flying overhead day and night, incessant local news coverage and traffic jams. Cynical as I might feel about the fanfare, I always watch the Oscars, and I always get a little flutter inside when the ceremony begins. There is something magical about the movies… a dark theater, the smell of popcorn, the music of a beautiful soundtrack sending shivers through your core. I love the experience of watching a movie. Unfortunately, the majority of films today fail to move or excite me. If I could, I'd travel back in time to the "good old days," when movie stars kept it classy and talent was the name of the game. I'm talking about old Hollywood, the silver screen, and the days of Katharine Hepburn. Katharine is currently the record holder for the most Leading Actress Oscar awards (4 to be exact). She was beautiful. She was smart. She was unafraid to express her opinion. All this, and the woman knew how to make killer chocolate brownies. They broke the mold with Katharine Hepburn.
Born on May 12, 1907 to a freethinking family, Katharine's parents encouraged her to speak her mind and embrace her independence. Her mother, Katharine Marie Houghton, fought for women's rights as a suffragette and her father, Dr. Thomas Norval Hepburn, was one of the first to begin educating the public on sexual health and safety. Thanks to her upbringing, Katharine was very aware of social issues. In fact, one of her first acting performances was given in the spirit of charity. As a child, she and her 5 siblings put on a neighborhood performance. They sent the profits to benefit Navajo children living in New Mexico.
Upon graduating from Bryn Mawr College in 1928, Katherine immediately embarked on her journey into an acting career. She received rave reviews for her role on Broadway as an Amazon queen in The Warrior's Husband, which caught the attention of a scout from RKO Radio Pictures. In 1932, Katharine starred in her first big screen role opposite John Barrymore in A Bill of Divorcement. RKO, pleased with the reviews of her performance, offered her a long-term studio contract. Katharine's career was on an upward trajectory; the following year, she won her first Oscar award for her role in the film Morning Glory. Katharine's upbringing helped to shape some of her most memorable qualities as an actress. In particular, Katharine was admired for her confidence, intelligence, and unwillingness to conform to Hollywood stereotypes. She didn't feel it was necessary to wear makeup; she often wore pants instead of the feminine dresses that were considered more "suitable" at the time. At one point, studio executives became dismayed by Katharine's somewhat masculine attire. They ordered a member of RKO's costume department to remove a pair of pants from her dressing room. Katharine stomped around set in her underwear to protest.
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Katharine's career spanned over 50 years, both on screen and stage. In addition to her 4 Oscar wins, she received 8 additional Academy Award nominations. She also won an Emmy for her role in the television film Love Among the Ruins. Her career was marked by a long-term love affair, both onscreen and off, with actor Spencer Tracey (another Oscar record holder, tied with Laurence Olivier, for most nominations in the Leading Actor category). Katharine and Spencer starred in 9 films together. Though they never wed, their relationship lasted 27 years until his death in 1967. Katharine's last film with Spencer was Guess Who's Coming to Dinner; the role won her a second Oscar. She later won a third and fourth Oscar for The Lion in Winter and On Golden Pond.
At the age of 96, Katherine passed away in the same Connecticut house where she grew up. Though she may no longer be with us, her film legacy will certainly outlive us all. In honor of Katherine, I recently decided to try out her recipe for brownies. You may gasp when you read the ingredients: lots of butter, lots of sugar, and only a tiny bit of flour. This lack of flour was apparently Katharine's secret to great brownies. The recipe comes from a letter to the editor of the New York Times on July 6, 2003. In the letter, Hepburn's New York neighbor Heather Henderson recalled her first memorable meeting with Katharine. At the time, Heather was threatening to quit her studies at Bryn Mawr, Katharine's alma mater. Heather's father, who had noticed that Katharine lived nearby, slipped a letter into her mail slot, begging her to talk some sense into his daughter. Katharine called Heather at 7:30am the next morning and lectured her on the stupidity of her decision. The two arranged to meet for tea. Katharine convinced Heather to stick it out at Bryn Mawr. This began a series of casual meetings between Katharine and the Henderson family.
One day, Heather's father heard that Katharine had been in a car accident and was recovering. He stopped by her place to bring her a batch of brownies. Hepburn tasted them and balked. "Too much flour! And don't overbake them! They should be moist, not cakey!" As always, Katharine was opinionated and brutally honest. She rattled off her own brownie recipe while Heather's father scribbled notes. The recipe appears below, with a few of my own notes in the baking instructions.
Heather took away three pieces of advice from her acquaintance with Katharine Hepburn:
- Never quit.
- Be yourself.
- Don't put too much flour in your brownies.
I made these brownies twice over the weekend, and they are wonderfully rich and gooey. I tried the first batch with cocoa (from the original recipe), and the second with baker's chocolate. I preferred the brownies made with melted chocolate, though both batches were good. In my oven they took about 45 minutes; as Katharine said, you should make sure you don't overbake them, or they'll get dry. I may use a little less sugar next time, and half the nuts, but these are personal preferences.
Enjoy this simple and sweet treat in honor of Katharine Hepburn and her impressive Oscar legacy.
Katharine Hepburn's Brownies
Enjoy this simple and sweet treat in honor of Katharine Hepburn and her impressive Oscar legacy. Get Katherine's essential baking tip in a full post on The History Kitchen blog. The recipe comes from a letter to the editor of the New York Times on July 6, 2003.
- ½ cup cocoa or 2 squares (2 oz.) unsweetened baker's chocolate
- 1 stick (1/2 cup) unsalted butter
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1/4 cup flour
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- Pinch of salt
- 1 cup roughly chopped walnuts or pecans
- Melt butter with the cocoa or chocolate together in a heavy saucepan over medium low, whisking constantly till blended. Remove from heat and stir in the sugar. Whisk in the eggs and vanilla. Stir in flour, salt and walnuts. Mix well. Pour into a well buttered 8-inch square baking pan. Bake at 325 degrees for about 40 minutes till a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool completely and cut into squares. These brownies are very fudgy and may be somewhat difficult to slice cleanly; use a sharp knife and a spatula to help them loosen from the baking dish.
Tips/TechniquesYou will also need a 8x8 inch baking dish.
Research Sources
Bryson, John. The Private World of Katharine Hepburn. Boston: Little, Brown, 1990.
Druesedow, Jean (Author), MacDonell, Nancy (contributor). Katharine Hepburn: Rebel Chic. New York: Skira Rizzoli, 2012.
Henderson, Heather. "Straight Talk from Miss Hepburn, Plus the Actress's Own Brownie Recipe." New York Times, 6 July 2004.
Hepburn, Katharine. Me: Stories of My Life. New York: Knopf, 1971.
Leaming, Barbara. Katharine Hepburn. New York: Crown Publishers, 1995.
You can uncover more fascinating food history on Tori's website: The History Kitchen.
Meet the Author
Tori Avey is a food writer, recipe developer, and the creator of ToriAvey.com. She explores the story behind the food – why we eat what we eat, how the foods of different cultures have evolved, and how yesterday's food can inspire us in the kitchen today. Tori's food writing and photography have appeared on the websites of CNN, Bon Appetit, Zabar's, Williams-Sonoma, Yahoo Shine, LA Weekly and The Huffington Post. Follow Tori on Facebook: Tori Avey, Twitter: @toriavey, or Google+.


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Organophosphorus Chemistry: Volume 26 - Specialist Periodical Reports (Hardback)B. J. Walker (volume editor), David W. Allen (editor), Christopher W. Allen (author of contributions), R. S. Edmundson (author of contributions), O. Dahl (author of contributions), C.Dennis Hall (author of contributions), Jane A. Grasby (author of contributions), David Williams (author of contributions)
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Organophosphorus Chemistry provides a comprehensive annual review of the literature. Coverage includes phosphines and their chalcogenides, phosphonium salts, low coordination number phosphorus compounds, penta- and hexa-coordinated compounds, tervalent phosphorus acids, nucleotides and nucleic acids, ylides and related compounds, and phosphazenes. The series will be of value to research workers in universities, government and industrial research organisations, whose work involves the use of organophosphorus compounds. It provides a concise but comprehensive survey of a vast field of study with a wide variety of applications, enabling the reader to rapidly keep abreast of the latest developments in their specialist areas. Specialist Periodical Reports provide systematic and detailed review coverage of progress in the major areas of chemical research. Written by experts in their specialist fields the series creates a unique service for the active research chemist, supplying regular critical in-depth accounts of progress in particular areas of chemistry. For over 80 years the Royal Society of Chemistry and its predecessor, the Chemical Society, have been publishing reports charting developments in chemistry, which originally took the form of Annual Reports. However, by 1967 the whole spectrum of chemistry could no longer be contained within one volume and the series Specialist Periodical Reports was born. The Annual Reports themselves still existed but were divided into two, and subsequently three, volumes covering Inorganic, Organic and Physical Chemistry. For more general coverage of the highlights in chemistry they remain a 'must'. Since that time the SPR series has altered according to the fluctuating degree of activity in various fields of chemistry. Some titles have remained unchanged, while others have altered their emphasis along with their titles; some have been combined under a new name whereas others have had to be discontinued. The current list of Specialist Periodical Reports can be seen on the inside flap of this volume.
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Python Contoso Ads Application Cloud Service
Flask (Micro-framework for Python) version of the Contoso Ads application in Get started with Azure Cloud Services and ASP.NET.
1. Python 3.4 interpreter for Windows.
Note that only Python 3.4 and 2.7 are natively supported by Azure (Python 3.4 by default). If you prefer 2.7 or other versions, additional configuration for startup task is required.
2. Visual Studio 2013 or 2015
3. Python Tools for Visual Studio (PTVS)
4. Azure SDK Tools for VS 2013 or Azure SDK Tools for VS 2015
5. Azure Storage Account
Follow this guide to create a storage account and obtain the Access Key.
6. Azure Service Bus
Follow this guide to create a service bus and obtain the SAS key.
7. MongoDB
You may use MongoDB on Azure Virtual Machine or mLab.
Run the sample
1. Right click the project in the solution explorer and then choose Reload Project if it shows "unavailable".
2. Modify the connection settings in WebRole1 > app > config.py.
'db': 'your database name',
'host': 'your MongoDB host',
'port': port number,
'username': 'your user name',
'password': 'your password'
STORAGE_ACCOUNT_NAME = 'your storage account name'
STORAGE_ACCOUNT_KEY = 'storage access key'
SERVICEBUS_NAMESPACE = 'your servicebus namespace'
SERVICEBUS_ACCESS_KEYNAME = 'access key name'
SERVICEBUS_ACCESS_KEYVALUE = 'access key value'
3. Modify the connection settings in WorkerRole1 > config.py.
STORAGE_ACCOUNT_NAME = 'storage account name'
STORAGE_ACCOUNT_KEY = 'storage access key'
SERVICEBUS_NAMESPACE = 'servicebus namespace'
SERVICEBUS_ACCESS_KEYNAME = 'access key name'
SERVICEBUS_ACCESS_KEYVALUE = 'access key value'
MONGODB_NAME = 'your database name'
MONGODB_HOST = 'your MongoDB host'
MONGODB_PORT = port number
MONGODB_USERNAME = 'your user name'
MONGODB_PASSWORD = 'your password'
4. Right click the Python Environments section under the solution, remove the old virtual environment setting in WebRole1.
5. Add a new virtual environment in WebRole1.
6. Uncheck "Download and install packages" because we need to add some wheel files to local disk.
7. Repeat step 2 - 6 for WorkerRole1.
8. Find the .whl files in bin folder under WorkerRole1.
9. Create a bin folder in WorkerRole1 env folder and copy the .whl files to bin.
10. Repeat step 8 - 9 for WebRole1.
11. Run Install from requirements.txt for both virtual env.
12. To debug a particular role, right click on the role name and click "Set as StartUp Project".
Publish to Azure
You may follow this guide to publish the application to Azure Cloud Service.
Additional Information
1. We use wheels to install cffi, cryptograpy and Pillow library, because in Python 3.4 normal pip installation for these libraries may fail and return error "Unable to find vcvarsall.bat". If you can successfully install all references just by defining the name in requirements, you may safely skip above step 8 - 10.
2. Startup and Runtime task logs are located in the C:\Resources\Directory{role}\LogFiles folder in the Cloud Service instance. Check ConfigureCloudService.txt if any library in requirements.txt is not successfully installed. Check LaunchWorker.err.txt for WorkerRole runtime errors.
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Color and Creativity
There is no doubt that first lady Michelle Obama wowed us with her gorgeous outfits throughout the inaugural festivities. But which other notable female attendees hit the right notes?
I was impressed by the complimentary color coordination between Mrs O and Dr Biden. Dressed in a gray silk and wool bow coat by Lela Rose, the steely color picked up the pattern in Mrs O's custom made Thom Browne coat. Dr Biden's soft white shift dress continued the theme with subtle gray floral detailing. The shift was purchased at Neiman Marcus, per the New York Times, and for this outing, was accompanied by gray suede pumps. The classic choice of color perhaps reflects the somber times we are facing, with the oversized bow providing Dr B's outfit with the right amount of 'fun' always required on inauguration day.
Dr Biden's choice of Vera Wang for the inaugural balls certainly lit up the stage, and it was great to see both FLOTUS and SLOTUS wearing patriotic hues. Biden's sleeveless satin purple draped gown, complete with a simple black ribbon belt packed all the right punches, and once again, reaffirmed her status as a stylish woman to watch.
Whilst FLOTUS and SLOTUS veered towards classic shades (with a twist!), others fully embraced the use of color in daywear. Malia and Sasha Obama are perhaps the best examples, wearing jeweled colored J Crew and Kate Spade coats respectively. It was their accessories that made their outfits extra special, and I especially loved Sasha's awesome jeweled necklace!
Similarly, I loved what House Democratic Leader, Nancy Pelosi, wore to the inaugural ceremony. Pelosi's love of bold color is well known throughout Washington, and her selection of a blood-orange coat, dress and matching pumps made her stand out from the crowd. Pelosi accessorized her outfit with one of her signature, oversized bead necklaces in similar complementary tones. Secretary Clinton similarly continued the trend of color, selecting a bright red scarf to provide a burst of color on her classic black coat.
Fashion wise, we will always remember President Obama's second inauguration for the classically stunning outfits of the first lady, but let's give a thought to other attendees too! Who stood out for you in the inaugural festivities?
Laura-Emily Dunn is the founder and editor of Political Style. Follow her on Twitter, here.


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The fifteenth-ranked Gauchos were able to simulataneously snap a four-match losing streak and pick up their first conference win of the season by way of an upset over No. 8 Pepperdine on Friday night at the Firestone Fieldhouse. With the win, UCSB's record improves to 3-6, 1-4. Pepperdine falls to 6-4, 5-3.
The Gauchos were able to claim victory by correcting many of the problems that have ailed them so far this season. For the night, the Gauchos recorded 15.5 team blocks, a season-high, while also maintaining a .267 team hitting percentage, which ranked as their third best attacking performance of the season. UCSB hit .412 as a team during the fourth game.
Many UCSB players had their best statistical match yet on Friday night, which is often a winning formula. Freshman outside hitter Kevin Donohue stood out the most, pacing the Gauchos with career highs in both kills (17) and digs (9). Junior outside hitter Miles Evans had another strong attacking night, picking up 14 kills.
Junior setter Oliver Deutschman showed off some of his versatility against the Waves, setting career highs in digs (8) and blocks (4), while also accruing 42 assists. Sophomore libero Chad Kingi tied Donohue for the team lead in digs with 9.
Seeing their most extended action of the season, freshman outside hitter Weston Nielsen picked up five kills and five blocks, and sophomore middle blocker Ryan Thompson had six blocks.
Finally, junior middle blocker Dylan Davis had seven kills and a match-high seven blocks for one of his better all-around performances of the season.
For Pepperdine, Maurice Torres led all players with 24 kills, and Josh Taylor was not far behind with 16. Mike McMahon paced all players with his 12 digs.
Next week, the Gauchos will return to Santa Barbara, as they will host the UCLA Bruins at Rob Gym on Friday, Feb. 10. Tickets for that match and all other home matches this season can be found here.


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The Central Connecticut women's track and field team traveled to Boston, MA to compete at the Boston University Terrier Invitational Friday. The meet was the fourth of the indoor season for the Blue Devils, who will travel to Kingston, RI on Saturday, Feb. 1 to compete at the URI "Coaches" Coed Invitational.
Reigning NEC Field Athlete of the Week Ronea Saunders claimed the only top-five finish for CCSU. She placed third overall in a deep field of 29 competitors with her height of 1.70m (5' 7").
Also competing in the field events, sophomore Chelse Terry finished 29th in the shot put out of 45 throwers with her distance of 10.87m and 32nd in the weight throw (12.45m).
In the distance events, CCSU posted impressive overall finishes in the one mile run. Out of 125 runners, freshman Brittany Mendelson placed 21st with her time of 5:00.63 as the first NEC representative to cross the finish line. Mendelson was followed by sophomore Ally Gates in 49th, who crossed the line in 5:12.94.
Senior Shelby Tuttle, who has broken her CCSU record in the 60m hurdles already this season, finished the event in 9.12 seconds, just less than a quarter of a second shy of her record. She claimed 18th place overall out of 60 hurdlers and was followed closely by freshman Melissa Wolliston in 19th, who finished in a career-best time of 9.17.
In the 500m dash, junior Taylor LePage was the first Blue Devil to cross the line. She placed 20th out of 55 sprinters with her time of 1:18.82. Junior Jenean McCalla also raced the 500m. She finished in 1:21.77, good for 41st place.
Freshman Alleah Red sprinted to 43rd of 163 overall in the 200m dash with her time of 25.85.
In the 1,000m run, freshman Jazmin Booker finished 26th of 60 in 3:08.38.
The Blue Devils also competed in the 4x400m relay in which LePage, Booker, McCalla and sophomore Alessandra Salmon crossed the finish line in 4:02.74 for 21st of 43.
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The Amazon Kindle Fire HD (review here) is as much an over developed eReader as it is a cut-down, 7in Android tablet. Here's our Kindle Fire HD review.
The Kindle Fire HD has 7 inch 1280 by 800 screen. It has a dual-core processor, dual-band Wi-Fi and a 10-point touchscreen.
The Fire HD runs a customised version of Android 4, but you wouldn't know that if it wasn't for the occasional in-app advert for Android apps on the Google Play store.
Amazon would prefer you to think of the Fire HD as a touchscreen eReader with more capabilities, such as videos, music, games and apps.
Kindle Fire HD: hardware and performance
At just under 400g the Fire HD is pretty heavy. It's feels like a solid slate with no creaking or bending. A micro HDMI output on the bottom means you can hook it up to a big-screen TV. On the right-hand side is a volume rocker, the power button and headphone socket.
A front-facing HD camera is primarily intended for Skype - there's no rear-facing camera.
In terms of performance, the Fire HD isn't as fast as we'd have liked. It doesn't feel as snappy as an iPad mini or Nexus 7, especially when browsing the web or launching apps. Scrolling around web pages shows a white screen until the content is loaded.
In Geekbench 2 the Fire HD managed 1124 which is slower than the Nexus 7, which scored 1452. Running the SunSpider Javascript test returned a score of 1783 miliseconds, which is again slower than the Nexus 7.
Kindle Fire HD: books & films
The interface on the Fire HD is almost identical to a traditional E-Ink Kindle. Of course, the experience is completely different as this tablet has an LCD screen.
Thanks to the fact that it's an IPS LCD screen, viewing angles are very good and the resolution is high enough to make characters sharp and words easy to read.
Whispersync means you can carry on reading any title from where you left off, even if you pick up on a different device.
You can access Lovefilm's library of on-demand movies. The selection isn't all that impressive, though.
More disappointing is that there's no offline viewing, so you can watch videos only when you're connected to Wi-Fi.
Movie soundtracks sound better than on most tablets thanks to a pair of rear speakers with dual drivers and Dolby virtual surround technology.
Kindle Fire HD: apps and browser
Amazon's Appstore has a lot of popular apps, but it's not packed as Google's Play store.
You won't find Google apps at all, for instance. There's no GPS receiver, but you can use Google Maps via the web browser as normal.
The browser is based on Amazon's Silk technology and looks much like the standard Android browser. However, it doesn't support Flash.
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The Professional Association of Rehabilitation Counselors
PARC is a professional association of clinical substance abuse, mental health, and rehabilitation counselors/ psychotherapists. Membership is open to professionals holding a graduate degree in a mental health discipline. PARC also has a student membership category.
PARC has specialty divisions for substance abuse counselors, clinical mental health counselors, rehabilitation counselors, counselor educators, and general counseling.
PARC also has special interest groups (SIGS) in administration and supervision, counseling theories, group work, holistic (alternative healing therapies), spirituality, marriage & family counseling, multiculturalism, nontraditional roles for rehabilitation counselors (EAP/private counseling & rehabilitation), offender rehabilitation, physical disabilities, rehabilitation policy, sexuality, violence (spouse/child abuse/crime), vocational (DVR/job placement/career counseling/vocational evaluation/forensic/vocational expert testimony), and women's and men's issues.
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$30 for Professional Member $15 for Student Member
PARC Members Receive:
Membership Certificate and Card
Annual Spring Conference with addiction and/or clinical mental health counseling themes.
Workshops offered in fall, spring and summer for continuing education credits in such as areas as Ethics, HIV and Other Infectious Diseases, Evidence-Based practicies (e.g. CBT) and Clinical Supervision.
Inexpensive preapproved CRC, LPC, LCAS, MAC Continuing Education Credits (10 credit hours each conference)
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I find it practically impossible to believe that the majority of this nation can't see the incredibly dark future that is hanging over this country, the austere and strictly regulated lives we are passing on to our children and grandchildren for generations to come.
When I write something like this on my Twitter account, I usually get a tweet or two that tells me just how dumb I am, and that the moves Barack Obama is making are for the benefit of the little man, and that all I care about is rich people and the tweet is usually salted generously with four letter words.
Well let me make a couple of statements. I come from a blue collar background; I have worked in the log woods, bright leaf tobacco fields and a factory, all for minimum wages.
I have worked at something since the summer I was 10 years old. I have never drawn an unemployment check and the only government assistance I've ever had is a social security, which is not assistance at all but money I have paid in and am still paying in.
Everything I have ever accumulated is by the blessings of the God I serve and the sweat of my brow, not to mention sacrifice and the kind of tenacity you have to reach real deep for.
I have employed 30 people for over 30 years, tax-paying citizens who don't collect food stamps or draw an entitlement check.
I believe in treating my employees the best I can, and many of them have been with me for over 30 years.
Now let me ask you a question: who deserves the fruits of their labor, the employees themselves or the federal government?
If your answer is the federal government, then you are a lost cause and may as well stop reading right here.
When you hear President Obama talking about, "paying their fair share" or taxing the rich," don't think Warren Buffet and Bill Gates; think small business.
The president is talking about raising the taxes of everybody making over $250,000 per year. There is hardly a small business in this country that doesn't take in at least that much money in a year's time, so what he's really saying, all his talk about being for the middle class notwithstanding, is the middle class will be the ones to suffer the most.
Let me tell you why. When the federal government takes money from me, they are actually taking it directly out of the American economy because that's the money I use to give my employees their Christmas bonuses, buy new equipment, upgrade farm implements or buy a new bus or truck, money that goes directly into the pockets of my employees or the economy.
I am just one of the millions of small business men who will be affected by Obama's "tax the rich" policies and many of them will be forced out of business, causing a another loss of jobs and more strain on the federal budget which will burst open like a ripe watermelon in the near future.
The insurance I provide for my employees goes up thousands of dollars every year, and with the uncertainty of Obamacare and what it actually contains and the irresponsibility of the spend-crazy government, businesses have put future plans on hold, not hiring and not investing their cash reserves.
Now to President Obama. If he was some poor man who came from the cotton fields of Mississippi or the streets of the South Bronx who had come up through the ranks, struggled to get a college education and spent many years living in meager circumstances, had experience with having to scrape to make the rent and buy groceries or sweated out keeping a fledgling business afloat, I could maybe sympathize with his desire to play Robin Hood.
I still wouldn't agree with it, but I could at least come closer to understanding him.
But, Barack Obama went to the finest universities in the country and has belonged to the elite class practically all his adult life. Barack Obama is a rich man who already has his fortune made and doesn't have to be concerned with trying to make it in the kind of business climate his policies will create.
So, when he talks about raising taxes, it's not going to affect his nest egg or, for that matter, the fortunes of the congressmen who will help him put it in place. They've all got their golden parachutes and AAA healthcare for the rest of their lives. They can pontificate from their ivory towers and look down at all the worker bees sweating it out and trying to make ends meet.
You may disagree with what I'm saying, you may think that Obama's taxing policies will produce prosperity and dig us out of our fiscal hole, but with all due respect, down deep, if you'll be honest with yourself, you know it won't.
One day soon, America will run completely out of money. We won't be able to borrow any more, our dollar will no longer be accepted as the world standard and we will have to buy some foreign currency with devalued dollars to pay for oil and other imports, inflation will run wild.
And, the entitlement checks will immediately cease.
What is going to happen when 46 million Americans suddenly stop receiving food stamps, when Medicare is no longer honored by doctors and hospitals? When drug addicts on the government dole no longer have the means to get their fix?
The streets of America will erupt, making the Rodney King riots look like Sunday school outings.
Tempers in this nation are just below the boiling point right now. Just look at what's been happening in Detroit with the union demonstrations. It's a powder keg and it won't take much of a spark to set it off.
Whether you agree with me or not, at least listen to one thing I say: please don't be naive and put your total trust in any one man, political party, ideology or policy – because, if you do, you will be bitterly disappointed.
Don't get your head stuck in the sand.
What do you think?
Pray for our troops and the peace of Jerusalem.
God Bless America


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