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Margaret Hargrave Fuller, 83, of Fuller Street, departed this life Monday, March 11, 2013, at Lexington Health Care.
Margaret Hargrave Fuller, 83, of Fuller Street, departed this life Monday, March 11, 2013, at Lexington Health Care.
Her funeral will be at 6:30 p.m. Monday at First Baptist Church, Southmont. Burial will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday in Salisbury National Cemetery.
Visitation will be a half hour before the service.
A public viewing will be 1 to 7 p.m. Sunday at Roberts Funeral Service.
She was born in Davidson County on April 17, 1929, to Charlie and Ora Hargrave. She was a faithful member of First Baptist Church, Southmont. Margaret was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, James "Bob" Fuller; a grandson, Kelvin E. Bell; six brothers, Gilmer Hargrave, Taft Hargrave, Charlie "Bill" Hargrave Jr., Ervin "Wess" Hargrave, Roy N. Hargrave and Lester Hargrave; and two sisters, Mary "Pudding" Smith and Edna Giles.
She leaves to cherish her memory three sons, James Fuller and Kenneth Fuller, both of the home, and Bobby Fuller of Lexington; four daughters, Dorothy Fuller Martin, Victoria "Vickie" Bell and Betsy Fuller, all of Lexington, and Carlon (James) Baldwin of Southmont; 11 grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; one great-great-grandchild; a sister, Ruby Jean (Gerald) Williams of Southmont; a sister-in-law, Dorthula Hargrave of Bishop, W.Va.; and a host of nieces, nephews, other family and friends.
Online condolences can be expressed to the Fuller family at www.robertsfuneral.com.


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1. How do you think Edward and Bella both did in trying to behave naturally around each other on the "morning after?" Was Bella too nervous or shy? Did Edward seem more open?
bella seem shy but intriged with edward and edward was becoming more open knowing that he can trust her
2. How do you think Edward really felt about Bella's conversation with Jessica?
mxed feelings happy that she does like him back and alsoangry that that she does since it would put her in danger
3. Bella took a bite of pizza after Edward. Stephenie has told us that in that moment, Bella consumed a very small amount of venom. Does it surprise you that Edward didn't stop her from taking a bite or that he didn't react to it in any way?
i didnt know that now knowing that yes it does surprise me btu maybe he didnt know. what happens when the kiss does she have venom in her mouth?
4. They argue about who cares for whom more all throughout lunch. In your opinion, which one really does care for the other more?
5. Emmett prefers bears, Edward prefers mountain lions. Based on their personality, what do you suppose the other Cullens prefer to hunt?
thats tuff...
emse - elephant because elephants care for their children
alice - swan becuase she is graceful
jasper - dog becuase dogs seem to know how your feeling
roseline - panther because she is fisty feline
chalise - lion - he is the leader of the pack

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Police activity reports
Compiled from selected police activity reports.
Buckeye Lake
• June 9: A driver was cited for going 50 in a 35 miles per hour zone on Ohio 79.
• June 10: A driver was cited for running a Highland Avenue stop sign.
• June 11: A Walnut Road woman said someone walked unannounced into her home without knocking. She filed trespass charges.
• June 12: A driver was cited for going 53 in a 35 miles per hour zone on Walnut Road.
• June 12: A driver was cited for going 50 in a 35 miles per hour zone on Mill Dam Road.
• June 12: A driver was warned for speeding, but cited for not wearing a seat belt.
• June 13: A driver was cited for going 50 in a 35 miles per hour zone on Mill Dam Road.
• June 14: A Newark man called in a $48 false pizza order in Buckeye Lake to be sent to his ex-girlfriend in Millersport. The pizza shop only made one of the pizzas ordered.
• June 15: A Duke service station employee reported a customer left without paying for $51.52 in gas.
• June 15: A Duke service station employee reported a customer left without paying for $24.97 in gas.
• May 27: Police on patrol at 1:36 a.m. were stopped by a South 7th Street resident who reported a suspicious man in a white van at Canal Park who appeared to be watching a home for hours at a time. He wanted police to know about it. He was told to call police if he saw the van or man again.
• May 27: A driver was cited for travelling 66 mph in a 50 mph zone on Ohio 79 at US 40.
• May 27: A Raspberry Circle resident told police that her son used her credit card without her authorization. Police took a report.
• May 27: A South High Street resident complained that an across the street neighbor finally mowed their tall grass and now it was blowing onto her property. Police went to the talk to the neighbor, but no one came to the door.
• May 28: A Lake Forest Drive resident called after two Rent-ACenter employees showed up to repossess a couch set and table that they claimed payments were 190 days past due. The resident said she had paid for the items in full and that the receipt was at her mother's home. She said the rental center employees had her blocked in and wouldn't let her leave. Police asked the employees if they had any paperwork documenting the past due payments or repossession. They didn't have any paperwork. Police then spoke with their manager at the Lancaster store who said a court had declared the item stolen. Police told him it was a civil matter until they could produce a court order or other paperwork.
• May 28: Police were called about a disturbance at East North and Benley streets. Police found a couple there. They were having relationship problems and arguing. They agreed to calm down and head home.
• May 28: Drivers were issued citations for going 64 mph in a 50 mph zone on Ohio 79 and 39 mph in a 25 mph zone on North High Street.


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On PHPMaster.com today there's a new tutorial showing you how to create a simple RESTful API with the help of the Slim PHP microframework.
Through a series of articles here at PHPMaster you've learned about what is REST and how it works. In this article, I'd like to show you how to create a RESTful web service using Slim, a PHP micro-framework inspired by Sinatra, a Ruby framework. It's well-suited for creating simple RESTful web services and comes with some minimal components like Router, Request, Response, and View. It's very simple, and is easy to understand and use.
He walks you through the basics of getting the framework downloaded and set up as well as showing you how to make some basic routes ("Hello World" style). He then uses the NotORM library to work with his database and, via a RESTful interface, give information about books, edit their information and add new ones.


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Federal MP Craig Thomson has been arrested at his electoral office.
Members of the NSW fraud squad today executed an arrest warrant on behalf of the Victorian Fraud and extortion squad.
Victorian detectives flew to Sydney this morning where they accompanied NSW police to Mr Thomson's Central Coast electoral office.
The Victorian police have spent almost 18 months investigating claims that Mr Thomson improperly used Health Services Union funds to spend on prostitutes, air travel, entertainment and cash withdrawals in excess of $100,000.
In October last year police raided Mr Thomson's Bateau Bay home as well as his electoral office.
They took away large boxes of material.
Mr Thomson was national secretary of the HSU from 2002 until 2007 when he was elected to Parliament. Earlier last year he was suspended from the ALP and has been sitting as an independent in parliament since that time.
Mr Thomson will be taken to the local police station where he will be charged with a multitude of fraud-related offences.
His expected to appear in Tuggerah court later today in order to apply for bail. Mr Thomson has continued to maintain his innocence. He is also facing civil proceedings in the Federal Court of Australia relating to allegations that he improperly used union funds for his own benefit,
Earlier, Mr Thomson said speculation he may be arrested on fraud charges ''could be right''.
''Let's wait and see,'' he told AAP.
''(The media report) could be right.''He said he did not intend to make any public comments at this point but ''if something develops today we'll certainly be making some comments''.
Mr Thomson has strenuously denied allegations he misused union funds to pay for prostitutes, air travel, entertainment and cash withdrawals when he was the HSU national secretary from 2002 to 2007.
Victorian police have not contacted him since they raided his home and electorate office on the NSW Central Coast in October last year.
His lawyer, Chris McArdle, told AAP he had not been contacted about any forthcoming charges.Mr Thomson said if charges were laid, he didn't expect to be arrested and extradited to face a Victorian court.
Rather, he believes, he would be served a notice to attend court on a future date.
Asked how he was coping with the stress of the investigation, he replied, ''We're getting on with doing the job.''
Mr Thomson has been suspended from the Labor party but it would be damaging for the federal government if charges are laid against him.


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If you are interested in new technologies to make family history easier, RootsTech is for you! Don't miss this brand-new conference February 10-12, 2011 in Salt Lake City, Utah. The early bird registration price of $99 is valid through Saturday, January 15.
At RootsTech, family historians of all skill levels will learn technology-based solutions to accelerate their research. Here is a sampling of what you will experience at this unique conference:
ü Discover how new and emerging technologies can simplify your research
ü Learn from world leaders in genealogy and technology, including Curt Witcher, Shane Robison, Brewster Kahle, and Jay Verkler
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ü Get a sneak peek at new products and services
ü Participate in hands-on workshops
ü Contribute to interactive presentations and panels
ü Take part in unconferencing (impromptu discussions driven by attendees)
ü Enjoy an out-of-this world event at the Clark Planetarium
RootsTech will be held at the Salt Palace Convention Center, just a short walk from the world-famous Family History Library. Take advantage of extended Library hours on Friday, especially for RootsTech attendees.
Whether you are new to genealogy or an experienced researcher, RootsTech is the ideal place to discover the latest tools for climbing your family tree. Please visit rootstech.org to see the full list of topics and sessions.
$99 through January 15, 2011
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RootsTech is sponsored by Microsoft, Dell, FamilySearch, the National Genealogical Society, brightsolid, Ancestry.com, the Federation of Genealogical Societies, the New England Historic Genealogical Society, and Brigham Young University.


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The Iowa Lakes Community College head women's basketball coach Nicole Bullock is honored to announce the signing of Macy Dahl. She will be joining the Laker basketball program this fall.
Dahl, a 5-foot-8-inch guard from Estherville Lincoln Central High School, was selected second team All-Conference as a sophomore, junior and senior. She was a member of the ELC girls' basketball teams that were state runner-up in 2011; state tournament participant in 2012; and state runner-up in 2013.
Over the last two seasons, Dahl has averaged 3 points per game, 3 assists per game, 4 steals per game, and 4 rebounds per game. She led the team her senior year in steals with a total of 71 on the season.
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ELC senior Macy Dahl, center, signed to play basketball for coach Nicole Bullock, left, and the Iowa Lakes Women's Basketball Team in 2013-14. Macy's mother Kay witnesses the signing.
EDN photo by David Swartz
"We are extremely thrilled to have Macy become a part of the program," said head coach Nicole Bullock. "She brings an instant defensive presence which we have been missing and the experience of playing on a championship team."
Dahl also lettered in volleyball, cross country, track and softball. She was named first team All-Conference for cross country as a junior and a senior. During the track season she was a member of the 4x400 team earning a district championship and was a three-time state qualifier. For softball she earned second team All-Conference as a junior and their team has been to state the past two seasons.
Macy is the daughter of Jeff and Kay Dahl. She is planning to major in Graphic Design at Iowa Lakes.


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VOLO – Most special service areas in Volo have backups and the Village Board added another one Tuesday evening.
The taxing area, known as an SSA, covers only the Thorton's at 205 S. Route 12 in Volo, and will kick in only if the owners don't maintain the property and the village needs to step in, village Assistant Administrator Eric Tison said.
With the SSA, the village will be able to recoup through property taxes any expenses related to stormwater management, open space and landscaping.
The village has not needed to use any such backups, Tison said.
– Emily K. Coleman


text: Born in 1921 in Kilbrittain, Co Cork, Patrick Scott passed away on 14 February 2014. From 1945 he spent 15 years working with Michael Scott in the architectural practice of what became Scott Tallon Walker, where his innate talent as an artist and designer developed in unison. He became a leading graphic designer with the Signa Design Consultancy (set up in 1953 by Michael Scott and Louis le Brocquy), all the while continuing to test various ideas in his painting. On winning a National Prize at the Guggenheim International Award in 1960 and representing Ireland at the XXX Venice Biennale in the same year, Scott became a full-time artist.


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International News
Médecins Sans Frontières Launches Online "Patent Opposition Database"
October 9, 2012
"The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has launched an online resource to help civil society and patient groups in developing countries challenge unwarranted drug patents," an MSF press release reports. "MSF's Patent Opposition Database comes as many developing countries are facing dramatically high drug prices because patents are blocking the production of lower-cost generic versions of medicines," the press release states, adding the database "will allow organizations to forge new alliances and share vital specialist knowledge, as a patent application can often be challenged in different countries on the same basis" (10/5).
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Anyone finding any sheds yet!? I'm going out tomorrow to try! I'm so excited I feel like I cant breathe! I LOVE this time of year!!
Anyone finding any sheds yet!? I'm going out tomorrow to try! I'm so excited I feel like I cant breathe! I LOVE this time of year!!
Funny. I was just thinking that it might be good to go out and give it a try. It was 68 in Reno today and I'm thnking this hot weather my get the horns dropping sooner then later
That's what I was thinking! It was 70 here today! Good luck when you go out!!
We've been finding quite a few while bird hunting. Nothing fresh, but seen some dandies still holding
I have been working in Evanston the last few weeks, and there are alot of bucks around. All of the bucks, big or small seem to still be packing. The smaller bucks antlers are weathered pretty good, but the older bucks still have alot of dark color to them. Good luck to you all.
Shoot STR8
Ive seen a lot of bucks still packing also but ive also seen a few dropped bucks. I figure it beats laying around the house feeling sorry for myself
I was told a guy in Norhern Nv shot a buck about a week ago and when he go to it both were laying on the ground beside the buck.
That would freakin' suck!
my friends have been finding whitetails, a nice 180 incher set, and i found a little fork horn right in the middle of the road when i was going to look at elk last week (elk hunting never seems to end with me). Time to go beat the bush


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The Longest Day:
A Latitudinal Converter from Johannes Schoner's Copy of the 1482 Ulm Edition Ptolemy
One of the most remarkable features, at least from a cartographic perspective, of the extant manuscripts of the Nuremburg astronomer and globe maker Johannes Schöner (1477-1547) comes from his annotations in the various editions of Ptolemy's Geography that he owned. This literature, which is today owned by the Osterreichisches Nationalbibliothek, in Vienna, is characterized by a great number of handwritten corrections and complex annotations that show his thinking about theoretical cartography and the state of the art in the early sixteenth century.
After Schöner's death the contents of his library passed into the hands of Georg Fugger (d. 1569) and from him it was handed down to his son Philipp Eduard (1546-1618) and then to his great-grandson Albert III (1624-1682). The entire contents of Fugger's library, containing mostly books and manuscripts on mathematics and astronomy, was purchased for the Hofbibliothek in Vienna, by the Emperor Ferdinand III in 1656. Schöner's library contained some of the most important books on cartography and geography that were available to him at the time, including copies of the 1482, 1509 and 1513 editions of Ptolemy's Geography, the Cosmographiae Introductio, and of course the only surviving copies of the 1507 and 1516 World Maps by Martin Waldseemüller.
While we are not certain which one of Schöner's Ptolemaic atlases he may have purchased first, we are sure that his copy of the 1482 Ulm Ptolemy came into his possession in 1507. According to an annotation in the text that is in Schöner's hand he purchased the book on October 16th of that year. The book, which is bound between heavy wooden covers connected with leather-backs that show blind imprinting all in the same manner as the codex containing the 1507 world map, also contains a number of manuscripts in Schöner's hand. The manuscripts found in Schöner's Ulm Ptolemy are the description De locis ac mirabilibus mundi et primo de tribus orbis partibus, together with the Registrum super tractatum de tribus partibus, the Registrum alphabeticum super octo libros Prolomei and the De mutatione nominorum.
The texts of the manuscripts are followed by three drawings that are glued into the atlas on sheets of paper smaller than the other pages of the atlas. Two of the drawings are studies of Ptolemy's first two map projections and are shown in Figures 1 and 2. The third, and most interesting of the three drawings is shown in Figure 3. This diagram, entitled Lineares demonstrations Parallelorum Ptholemei is a type of computational device that allows the continuous conversion of the length of the longest day on most parts of the globe to the latitude of the that location and the corresponding parallel of Ptolemy. The problem of understanding Ptolemy's conception of latitude and operation and uniqueness of this calculator are main the subjects of this brief paper.
The concept of latitude in Ptolemaic astronomical and cartographic theory is a complex one and is quite different from the modern notion of a group of equally spaced parallel lines on the surface of the globe or a map. For Ptolemy, latitude was an angle of inclination, which varied with the location of an observer and determined which stars were capable of being seen in that location. In Ptolemy's writings, especially in the Almagest, he assumes that the observer is at intermediate latitude, somewhere in the northern hemisphere, and therefore, that the stars in the possible universe fall into three groups. The groupings are based on observability and include the stars that never set but are always above the horizon, the stars that both rise and set, and the stars that never rise in that location and are therefore always invisible. Using two parallel lines of equal size Ptolemy separates these three groups of stars on the celestial sphere.
The two circles used to separate the groups of stars were also used by Ptolemy, and all classical geographers, to define what we now know as compass directions. For example, as one proceeds northward from the equator the circle of always-visible stars will be seen to increase until one reaches the North Pole at which time it will coincide with the line of the horizon, while at the same time the circle of invisible stars also increases. Ptolemy demonstrated that a locality X is north of some locality Y just in the cases where some star that is always visible at X, rises and sets at Y, or if some star that cannot be viewed at X, rises and sets in Y. Because of the fact all these phenomena were seen not to change if we move from east to west on the earth's surface they were used to define a parallel of latitude. Hence latitude is in general defined astronomically, rather than terrestrially for Ptolemy.
In Book II of the Almagest Ptolemy explains that there are many types of phenomena that are characteristic of latitude:
"The individual points [concerning the sphaera obliqua] which might be considered most appropriate to study for the subject we have undertaken are the more important phenomena which are particular to each of the northern parallels to the equator and to the region of the earth directly beneath each. These are
- the distance of the poles of the first motion from the horizon, or the distance form the zenith from the equator, measured along the meridianfor those regions where the sun reaches the zenith, when and how this often occurs;
- the ratios of the equinoctial and solstical noon shadows to the gnomon
- the size of the difference of the longest and shortest day from the equinoctial day and all other phenomena which are studied concerning;
- the individual increases and decreases in length of day and night;
- the arcs of the equator which rise or set with arcs of the ecliptic;
- and the particulars and quantities of angles between the more important great circles."
In section 6 of Book II Ptolemy describes particular characteristics of the various parallels and defines their exact locations on the surface of the earth using constant increments of the longest day at various locations. The latitudes corresponding to this regular series of daylight increments are not equally spaced but become more crowded the farther one moves from the equator. This way of defining latitude on a map produces a much different form of graticule than is found on modern maps and it is the attempt to understand this relationship that caused Schöner produce the diagram shown in figure 3. Schöner's diagram reproduces Ptolemy's relationship between length of day and latitude in a unique geometrical way that allows one to quickly convert from one to the other and I shall explain its operation in what follows.
Ptolemy reproduces the values of the length of day and latitude that he gave in the Almagest in Book 1 chapter 23 of the Geography as follows: (I do not produce the entire list, just some examples for use in discussing Schöner's calculator)
"These limiting meridians will enclose twelve hour intervals according to what has been demonstrated above. However we have decided it is appropriate to draw the meridians at intervals of a third of an equinoctial hour, that is, at intervals of five of the chosen units of the equator, and to draw the parallels north of the equator as follows:
- The first parallel differing by ¼ hour, and distant from the equator by 4¼ degrees, as established approximately by geometrical demonstrations.
- The second, differing by ½ hour, and distant 8 5/12 degrees.
- The third, differing by ¾ hour, and distant 12½ degrees.
10. The tenth, differing by 2 ½ hours, and distant 36 degrees, which is drawn through Rhodes
20. The twentieth, differing by 7 hours, and distant 61 degrees
21. The twenty-first, differing by 8 hours, and distant 63 degrees, which is drawn through Thule."
Schöner's calculator reproduces this list graphically, allowing for the conversion of length of day to latitude and of latitude to length of day in a way that would have been very convenient for a map and globe maker of the early sixteenth century. The bottom of figure 3 shows a curved line marked with numbers from 12 to 20 and that continues unmarked for three more divisions making a total of 24 intervals. These divisions represent the hours in a day past the twelve-hour period that makes up the equatorial day. In Ptolemy's list of hours that define the parallels he expresses the duration of the length of the longest day at various latitudes as an additive difference from this twelve-hour day. Schöner displays the difference geometrically, allowing for the relationship of the latitude to the time of the longest day to be calculated in a continuous and not simply discrete way. Above the curved lower line in figure 3 we there is a series of additional numbers marked from 0 through 21 representing the numerical sequence of parallels defined by Ptolemy in the above list. For example, if we observe the number 21 we can see that it corresponds to the number 20 on the curved line below it. The parallel 21 of Ptolemy is the line that runs through Thule and has a difference of 8 hours in the duration of its longest day from the equatorial day. In this case because Schöner's beginning point on the curved line is 12 hours representing the equatorial day, the addition of 8 hours gives the number 20 shown on the curved line. To use the computer to calculate the number of degrees corresponding to any particular length of the longest day one follows the vertical line on the figure, continuing with the twenty-hour line as an example, until it intersects the diagonal line that bisects the center of the drawing. One can then follow the horizontal line at the intersection over to the right to determine the latitude. In the case of the twenty-hour line we find, using Schöner's diagram, the latitude of 63 degrees, corresponding with Ptolemy values.
The construction of the calculator is more complicated than its use. The curvature of the lower line is based on the variation in great circle distances of latitudes and the change in the length of day. One can see this variation by simply looking at the distances between the twelve and thirteen hour points and comparing it to the distance between the nineteen and twenty-hour points. Schöner began the construction of the diagram by laying out the large quarter circle and drawing the various angles for the latitude values from the origin located at the intersection of the diagonal line and the x-y axis of the quarter circle. The angles then provide him with precise measure of the variable spacing between the degree markings that can be seen on the left hand (y-axis) of the diagram. While it is impossible to determine how he actually constructed the figure, he found many sources for the numerical information that it contains in the many Ptolemaic atlases in his possession.
We can only speculate on what Schöner may have used the calculator for but it would have been an extremely useful tool for any globe maker or cartographer in the early sixteenth century. The fact that Ptolemy still held a prominent place in the geographical imagination of the period meant that in order to keep current on the latest information one would have had to go back and forth between new information provided by cartographers like Waldseemüller and the traditional forms of latitude found in the Geography. Schöner's diagram represents just one of many innovations found in the annotations of his Library and shows quite clearly a solution to one of the many conceptual problems that beset early sixteenth century cartographers as they wrestled to use and improve upon the concepts of theoretical cartography and the mathematical techniques bequeathed to them from Ptolemy.


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...anyone try this yet? I am not a huge fan of flavored beer, but with summer coming up this could be just refreshing enough to get me to drink that God-awful piss (Taiwan Beer) again.
"But Deuce, the jingpie is really good." No, it really isn't, it doesn't even stack up well against the generic flavorless foreign lagers on offer here, and compared to a full bodied or robust flavored beer...elle oh elle!
Hopefully they will do the flavoring delicately and not just dump a bunch of flavor crystals into each bottle.
I will be giving both a try.


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Thomas E. Williams Sr.
Thomas E. Williams Sr., 75, of East End went to be with the Lord on Wednesday, May 23. Tom was born on July 10, 1936, in Little Rock to T. A. and Elouise Williams. He was retired from Alcoa of Benton and a consultant of Employers Mutual. He was a member of East End Baptist Church, a 32nd-degree Mason, Iron Springs Lodge 342, and a former member of the Scimitar Shriner. He will be remembered well by family and friends that received gifts from his hobbies of wood carving and cooking. He was very generous and caring of others' needs.
Tom was preceded in death by his parents, his wife Barbara Ettleman Williams, and his brother, Bobby Ray Williams.
He is survived by his son, Ted Williams and wife Marla; a daughter, Robin Garrett and husband Bob; four grandsons, Austin and McKinley Williams and Grant and Dylan Garrett; and one sister, Phana Johnson.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, May 25, at East End Baptist Church, 4701 East End Road, Hensley, AR 72065. Burial will be at Salem Cemetery with the Rev. Ron Sanders and the Rev. Paul Roberts officiating.
Open visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday, May 24, at the family home at 103 Williams Drive. Arrangements are by Memorial Gardens Funeral Home of Sheridan (870)942-1306.
Memorials may be made to Salem Cemetery of East End Community, in care of Richard Wilkerson, 3413 Lorance Drive, Little Rock, AR 72206
Online guestbook: www.memorialgardenssheridan.com


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Anshan is a city in Liaoning Province, China. Nicknamed "Capital of Chinese Steel Industry", Anshan in central Liaoning is a major iron and steel industrial site.
Get in
Anshan has an exit on the main Shen-Da Expressway between Shenyang and Dalian. The nearest airport is Shenyang to the north. Train service is frequent on the mainline through Anshan with service to Dalian and Shenyang. Overnight train service is available to Beijing. Long-distance bus service is available at the bus station across from the train station with frequent buses to Shenyang (leave as soon as filled, sometimes as quickly as 15 min after previous bus has left).
If you are in desperate hurry to leave the town, night drivers can be contacted through the taxi drivers located outside the main train station. The main night driver route is from Dalian to Shenyang and in reverse (cost averages Y500-800 depending on distance). Negotiate a rate and then expect to cough up a little additional during your trip since your fare might be sold to another driver along the way (like a relay race and you are the baton).
Get around
Buses to just about everty part of town from the area near the train station. Purchase a town map and it should have the bus routes on it. Buses to Qian Shan depart from the street behind the long-distance bus station which is located across from the train station on south side of square.
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DALLAS (AP) – Health experts are turning their attention to learning lessons from one of the deadliest West Nile outbreaks in U.S. history.
Federal authorities are collecting data and examining factors for the mosquito-borne illness that killed more than 240 in the U.S. _ about a third of them in Texas. Meanwhile, Dallas County, the epicenter of the outbreak, has begun year-round mosquito surveillance and testing.
What remains unclear is whether experts will be able to shed light on what caused it, why parts of Texas were so severely affected and if the next major surge can be forecast.
Dr. Lyle Petersen of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention questions whether experts will ever be able to sort it out.
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From NPR News, it's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Audie Cornish.
After plenty of hype, today Microsoft officially released its new operating system, Windows 8. The company calls the software its biggest change in 17 years. For the first time, the system runs on personal computers and on tablet devices, and Microsoft is banking on it as the companies take it to the future, as NPR's Steve Henn reports.
STEVEN SINOFSKY: Welcome, everyone, to Windows 8.
STEVE HENN, BYLINE: When Steven Sinofsky, Microsoft's president of Windows, welcomes everyone, he's not really exaggerating, at least not that much. If you work in a cubicle or an office pretty much anywhere in the world, chances are excellent you spend a lot of your life interacting with Microsoft's products. And the company is determined to make sure that doesn't change.
SINOFSKY: Having surpassed over a billion people using Windows, it is now that we're looking forward to the next billion.
HENN: The precious few of those billion users are likely to describe working in Windows or Microsoft Office as magical or exciting. Safe to say almost no one wakes up hoping to find a better spreadsheet application under their tree on Christmas morning. With Windows 8, Microsoft executives hope they've created software that will power devices consumers actually desire.
They're building a music, games and streaming movies.
STEVE BALLMER: So we're launching the Xbox music service, Xbox video and Xbox games with Windows 8.
HENN: Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer.
BALLMER: With Xbox music, you create your own playlist and you stream from this global catalogue of 30 million songs for free.
HENN: With this new update to Windows, Microsoft is desperately trying charm consumers, delight them.
FRANK GILLETT: This one is huge.
HENN: Frank Gillett covers the personal computer industry for Forrester Research.
GILLETT: Windows 8 is vital to the company. It's the foundation of everything else that they do.
HENN: Windows is the hub Microsoft hopes will connect your work life to your home, and mobile devices are key. So the biggest change in Windows 8 is touch. That enables Windows to work on tablets and phones. But embracing touch means the new Windows looks almost entirely different. The start button is gone. Instead the home screen's dominated by brightly colored boxes for each app.
Microsoft calls them live tiles, and these apps update automatically. Microsoft's also built its own tablet to show off the new operating system. It's called the Surface. And this morning I took it to my favorite coffee shop.
ALEX HERMANN: It's pretty nice. How much is it gonna cost?
HENN: The version I have sells for just under $520, including the bright pink cover that doubles as a keyboard.
HERMANN: That's not bad at all, comparatively.
WILL CULLER-CHASE: The keyboard feels really good. I like the feel.
HENN: After playing with it, Alex Hermann and Will Culler-Chase were impressed, but reviews from professionals have been mixed.
SARAH ROTMAN EPPS: You know, honestly, Microsoft may have bit off more than they can chew with this release.
HENN: Sarah Rotman Epps, who's also with Forrester, says this tablet runs on chips that are designed for mobile devices. And that means a lot of the programs you expect to work on a PC simply don't work, even some websites fails. And she says, if Microsoft is really going to break into mobile in a big way it still has a lot of work left to do.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Seconds after fatally shooting his longtime girlfriend, Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher leaned over her in their master bathroom, said he was sorry and kissed her on the forehead.
His mother, who heard gunfire as she stood in the kitchen, rushed to her son's bedroom and watched his remorseful goodbye.


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Early speculation of whom the New York Mets might consider in the free-agent market could turn out to be pricey as 13 free agents received qualifying offers from their respective teams. Not surprisingly, no Met free agent was given a qualifying offer, but three Yankees – Robinson Cano, Hiroki Kuroda and Curtis Granderson – were given the $14.1 million offer.
That figure was derived at averaging the top 125 salaries from 2013, and each player offered that amount regardless of his salary last season.
The list includes Carlos Beltran, Cano, Shin-Soo Choo, Nelson Cruz, Stephen Drew, Jacoby Ellsbury, Granderson, Ubaldo Jimenez, Kuroda, Brian McCann, Kendrys Morales, Mike Napoli and Ervin Santana.
Numerous media outlets at one time had linked Beltran, Choo, Cruz, Drew, Ellsbury, Granderson and Napoli to the Mets, but only in speculative terms.
The players have until 5 p.m., next Monday to accept the qualifying offer, and if they do will have agreed to a one-year, $14.1 million contract. If the player rejects the offer his former team will be awarded either a first or second-round draft pick as compensation.
The Mets' first-round pick – tenth overall in the draft – is protected and determined on their 2013 record of 74-88, but general manager Sandy Alderson said losing a second-round pick would not be a deterrent.
You'll recall the compensation issue is why the Mets did not go after outfielder Michael Bourn last season. Bourn eventually signed with Cleveland and the Mets eventually settled on minor leaguer Juan Lagares in center fielder.
Of the players on the list, the Mets appear to be the most serious about the 31-year-old Choo, but reportedly won't go beyond four years. The Mets' needs at shortstop and outfield had them thinking about Drew and Ellsbury, but $14.1 million would be too high for Drew, but palatable for Ellsbury.
However, in many cases with qualifying offers, the team signing them does so as a mechanism to buy negotiating time to work out a multi-year deal.
The Mets are expected to swim in the middle depths of the free-agent pool, which is what Boston did last year in building its championship team with the signings of Drew, Napoli and Shane Victorino.
Choo fits into that category, but he's not one to build around. He has averaged 20 homers and 81 RBI during his nine-year career with Seattle, Cleveland and Cincinnati. However, those are hitters parks and he was surrounded by better line-ups than what he'd have with the Mets in Citi Field.
Choo hit .285 last year – 24 points below his career-high of .309 in 2009, but drew 112 walks in compiling a .423 on-base percentage, his most important statistic.
If signed, Choo would slot into center leading to a competition in right between Juan Lagares and Matt den Dekker.
Red flags for Choo are 133 strikeouts and only 54 RBI for his 21 homers (conceding he hit at the top of the order). He averages 146 strikeouts a season during his career, something the Mets have had far too much of those. Frankly, his production doesn't warrant the strikeouts.
Choo made $7.3 million last year from the Reds, and during his career earned a total of $17.5 million, so the qualifying offer represents a huge raise for him. However, the market doesn't work where the Mets can make a take-it-or-leave it offer. Especially, with his agent being Scott Boras, known to not leave money on the table. It is highly likely the qualifying offer will be rejected and Choo will enter the market.
Considering he has played in 150 games only four times during his career, his career .288 average doesn't seem like much to warrant giving four years. If I am giving four years on a player with a qualifying offer, I'd overpay for Ellsbury and know I would be getting a star. I would also rather bring back Beltran for a couple of seasons.
The most I'd give Choo is two years for $28.2 million (two years of the qualifying offer) plus an option. Anything more would be excessive considering the Mets' other needs.


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Bound to be appealed: Google Books Lawsuit Defeated: Book Scanning Deemed 'Fair Use' – see The Authors Guild , et al. v. Google (US District Court, Southern District of New York):
CHIN, Circuit Judge
Since 2004, when it announced agreements with several major research libraries to digitally copy books in their collections, defendant Google Inc. ("Google") has scanned more than twenty million books. It has delivered digital copies to participating libraries, created an electronic database of books, and made text available for online searching through the use of "snippets." Many of the books scanned by Google, however, were under copyright, and Google did not obtain permission from the copyright holders for these usages of their copyrighted works. As a consequence, in 2005, plaintiffs brought this class action charging Google with copyright infringement.
Before the Court are the parties' cross-motions for summary judgment with respect to Google's defense of fair use under § 107 of the Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 107. For the reasons set forth below, Goggle's motion for summary judgment is granted and plaintiffs' motion for partial summary judgment is
denied. Accordingly, judgment will be entered in favor of Google dismissing the case.
See also Judge Sides With Google on Book Scanning Suit
James Grimmelmann, a professor of law at the University of Maryland who has followed the case closely, called the ruling "a win for Google and a big win for libraries and researchers."
The judge "argues that authors didn't lose much because it's not like they were losing sales to Google Books," Mr. Grimmelmann said. "The Authors Guild, on the other hand, loses a lot of face from this."
[…] "By taking eight years from the lawsuit to resolve this, book scanning has gone from an exciting novelty to part of the background of the industry," he said. "This has been going on for so long that it's just part of the business now. And you're seeing how many exciting new uses that can come out of it."


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The 2nd Annual West Coast BBQ Classic Event
A Delicious Day of BBQ and Music at the Queen Mary's Waterfront Events Park
May 11, 2013, 11AM – 6PM at 1126 Queens Highway, Long Beach, California
The Queen Mary's Waterfront Events Park presented The 2nd Annual West Coast BBQ Classic, an official California-State-Certified, KCBS - Sanctioned BBQ Family Friendly Championship sponsored by the infamous gentleman's drink Jack Daniel's. This spirited ONE DAY event had a record turnout last year and certainly did not disappoint in festivities this year.
Held at the Queen Mary Waterfront Events Park, the event featured live bands by local musical favorites like Knyght Ryder, The Record Company and The Shoemaker Brothers. There were plenty of vendors with food and drinks, like the lively Jack Daniel's Back Yard Bar and the Merchant Market.
The kids loved the Kid's Country including an incredible obstacle course that kept them busy all day while the adults had fun with the popular Adult Lawn Games that includes a giant beer pong. Also, a special appearance by the sports illustrated beautiful models of the LA King's Ice Crew made quite a splash. (www.facebook.com/KingsIceCrew).
Can't wait for next year!
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WESTS TIGERS five-eighth Benji Marshall insists he wouldn't stand for illegal drug or supplement use at his club, adamant the Tigers aren't embroiled in the scandal that has rocked Australian sport.
The Tigers are the latest club to pledge their innocence in the Australian Crime Commission's investigations into the use of illicit supplements and organised crime in sport.
Marshall, who said he had never been offered any performance-enhancing drugs throughout his career, guaranteed the Tigers were not in any trouble.
''I can only speak for myself, I can't really speak for other people, I know at Wests Tigers we've never been involved in any of that sort of stuff and we'll never be,'' he said.
''As far as I'm concerned I'd never let that happen anyway.
''I'm a big believer since I've grown up that drugs is a big no and performance-enhancing is a bigger no. We don't want that in our game.''
While most clubs and players want the offenders to be named and shamed before the start of the season, Marshall doesn't see it as a distraction.
''It doesn't really both me, the truth's the truth, it's going to come out eventually, so whether they come out or someone else brings it out, it doesn't bother me,'' Marshall said. ''In my eyes, everyone's innocent at the moment because nothing's been said. Until proven guilty, innocent.''
Marshall has vowed to take on the line a lot more this season in a bid to recapture his old form.
While it was Marshall who put his hand up to play at No. 7 last year to fill a void, he is relishing the move back to the jersey he made famous for the most part of the last decade.
Former Tigers coach Tim Sheens backed Marshall's transition from the team's creator to the organiser last year, but the move didn't pay off with the Tigers missing the semi-finals.
But with new coach Mick Potter set to take a punt on Jacob Miller at halfback, Marshall is excited about his move back to five-eighth.
The Kiwi captain said he will have a different role to play at the Tigers this year. ''I want to run the ball a bit more - last year my running game was down a bit, I was probably trying to ball play a bit too much,'' Marshall said.
''I set up a few tries but I want to score a few this year. [Mick] just wants me to play my game, which is pretty much running the ball and getting me away from being the guy who guides the team around the field and just concentrate on being wider and giving me a bit more space.''
The Tigers were unable to settle on a halves combination last year, with Chris Lawrence, Blake Ayshford, Curtis Sironen, Tim Moltzen, Liam Fulton, Tom Humble and Miller all used in the halves alongside Marshall.
The 27-year-old, who made the move to halfback in round nine last year, admitted he wasn't comfortable playing in the unfamiliar role.
''It's something that's probably not as suited to my game,'' he said.
''If I had to say there was a certain style that suited me, it's playing wider with a bit more space and a bit more room to move.
''Last year we didn't really have another choice at halfback, someone had to put their hand up and that was me. I was still getting the boys over the line, I just couldn't get over the line myself as much.''
The break on the international calendar last season provided most clubs with their most consistent pre-season in recent years.
While it meant Marshall had to return to training in November for the first time in five years, he believes it will benefit his game.
''It's been the first pre-season I've had in five years because there's no tour between [the seasons],'' Marshall said. ''To get that pre-season behind me under a new coach, where we've been training so hard, I'm just looking forward to playing. Mick Potter's brought back that old school mentality of 'run until you collapse' or 'run until you vomit' - that's been the case for us.
At this time last year the Tigers were pre-season premiership favourites. There has been a huge drop in expectation given their disappointing campaign, but Marshall is enjoying being out of the spotlight.
''It's great - you don't have that pressure of expectation and all the media talking about it,'' he said. ''We can just go about our business and worry about playing footy.''


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Near-field communication, appearing on more cellphones every day, has the potential to upgrade business cards -- if you can afford them.
Now this is cool -- here's a way to embed a quick biz story on your business card!
Or for performance storytellers -- share one of your short stories to promote your work.
Technology is amazing. Once the chip is part of your card, you can even reprogram it when you want to share a different story. In fact, you can even go so far as to have different things on different cards. If you don't want to share a story, add some kind of promotion.
This is pretty pricey right now, so you may need to wait. On the other hand, it could be an awesome investment.!
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- INTERVIEW: ATWT's Cady McClain
She's DEAD. If this is an angel, it sucks.
And if she's not dead...that's back-from-the-dead overkill.
ABC isn't saying if she's a ghost or not, but you would have to think she probably still is if this is a limited run.ReplyDelete
Just shoot me now!ReplyDelete
I have to admit that I'd rather have 'back from the dead' overkill than DeathByPancakeDixie. It makes me think that she's coming back as a live person mainly because of the comment that Tad made during the anniversary show.... I guess we'll see. Personally I'd rather they just reboot and make believe the last few years didn't take place but in place of that I'll take back from the dead overkill..ReplyDelete
Sigh, wouldn't it be great if the last three years were just a pancake-induced coma?ReplyDelete


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Bayern Munich just seem to get better and better - after demolishing Hamburg 9-2 last weekend, they then overpowered Italian giants Juventus in the Champions League last night.
They are on course for a historic treble, and with the way their form has been of late, most people's money would be on them to complete it.
After heartbreak in the Champions League final in both 2010 and 2012, Bayern are really looking to make up for it this season. They have lost just once in all competitions since the turn of the year, are 20 points clear of Borussia Dortmund in the Bundesliga and face Wolfsburg in the semi-finals of the DFB Pokal. In what will be Jupp Heynckes last season, a treble victory would be a fitting end to what has been a very successful career.
The sheer strength in depth Bayern possess is undeniable, take for example the past weekend, whilst Claudio Pizzarro has never been a consistent starter this season, he scored four in the 9-2 victory against Hamburg, yet found himself an unused sub against Juventus.
Now for a team that can drop a player who has just smashed in four goals in one game that shows how strong their options are. Mario Mandzukic has kept Germany striker Mario Gomes out of the team for the majority of the season, albeit Gomes has had injury problems.
The summer signing of Dante from Borussia Monchengladbach has paid dividends, as he has been an absolute rock in central defence; shoring up their past defensive frailties. Bayern also have a very strong home grown contingent, whom has all come through their youth academy; players like current captain Phillip Lahm, Bastian Schweinsteiger, Thomas Muller and Toni Kroos, coupled with the signing of perhaps the best goalkeeper in the world Manuel Neuer.
The squad Bayern currently possess is easily the best they have had since they last won the big eared trophy back in 2001 which features the likes of Stefan Effenberg, Olivier Kahn, Giovanne Elber and Memhet Scholl, just to name a few.
The Bundesliga seems to be wrapped up and gives Bayern the opportunity to really concentrate on the Champions League and DFB Pokal, however, if Bayern fail to win either of those competitions then this season then some may look on their season with a hint of disappointment, being they have been so dominant yet only have one trophy to show for it.
This however looks highly unlikely to happen as Bayern are easily the strongest team left in the Pokal, having already knocked holders Dortmund out of the trophy and one would expect them not to have any problems in at the very least reaching the final.
Barring no mistake in the Juventus stadium; expect Bayern to be lining up the Champions League semi-finals with the hope of reaching Wembley to contest a third Champions League final in four years.
If they are successful in these three trophies then Pep Guardiola will have some job trying to repeat that success.
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From NBC/NJ's Mike Memoli
FRANKFORT, Kent. -- Kicking off his first visit to the Bluegrass state, Bill Clinton said the primary contest should focus on issues, not "ya-ya-ing," referring in passing to an Obama supporter's claim that he engaged in McCarthyism last week.
Clinton was talking to the crowd at the Frankfort Convention Center about energy independence, when he stopped mid-thought.
"This is really what this election oughta be about, these kind of things, not a lot of this ya-ya-ing I hear about all the time," he said.
That line drew some applause, prompting the former president to reflect a moment. He then decided then to share one of his "Clinton's law of politics." "The level of sanctimony in the rhetoric is inversely related to the public benefit of the policy," he said, chuckling before adding: "I need to quit this. Somebody will probably figure out how to ... accuse me of being Joe McCarthy again on that."
VIDEO: Bill Clinton jokes about a comparison of him to Joe McCarthy, made by an Obama supporter over the weekend.
It was a passing reference, really. He then continued on to describe how cars could run on lithium batteries to get 100 miles per gallon. But it was the first public acknowledgement of the flap over his remarks in North Carolina last week that some viewed as an unspoken swipe at Obama's patriotism.
The speaker of the Kentucky House of Representatives, Jody Richards, introduced Clinton. The former president thanked the more than 2,000 on hand, which included students from the area and state employees, for supporting him in the 1992 and 1996 contests.
"We're not done yet; you bet we're not," he said, in response to a comment from the crowd that the race was not over.
*** UPDATE *** NBC's Ben Weltman adds this interesting Bill Clinton nugget on Iraq: "Because of they think we are going to stay 100 years, they'll never make these hard decisions. Ninety nine years from now our great great grandkids will be talking about 'Oh I wish they had figured out how to split that oil money.' Do you make hard decisions before you have to? No.
"Think about your nextdoor neighbors. Your nextdoor neighbors house burned down. And your nextdoor neighbor had no place to go. Virtually 100 percent of the people here would take you in. You know you would. And if you had no guest bedroom it would make a flip to you, they could sleep on the couch. You would let them do it. Thirty days. You'd let them stay. Most of you would let them stay 60 days. Because that is who we are. But let me ask you something. If your neighbor is still on your couch after five years,[laughter from crowd] what do you know? What do you know? It is not about the fire anymore. It's about not having to get off the couch, that's where we are in Iraq. It is not about the fire anymore. And we have to get off the couch."


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Z Is For Zenith Infotech
One of the early players in the managed services field, Zenith Infotech sold off its remote monitoring and management business to create what is now Continuum. Zenith, meanwhile, continues on with business continuity and cloud solutions. Under the reign of CEO Akash Saraf, the Warrendale, Pa.-based company has spent much of 2012 looking to put behind it court issues in India related to bonds that it failed to repay by certain deadlines. Most recently, it announced TigerCloud, a rent-to-own private cloud service.


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Hi all,
I am very new to programming and VBA so absolutely any help is greatly appreciated. I am trying to fix this code and I cannot find where the error is. Whenever I try to run it, I get a message saying "Compile error: Variable not defined"
Option Explicit
Sub ChipmunkToss()
Dim Dale As Single, Theo as Single
Dale = 11.1
Theo = 31.3
MsgBox Dale1 + Theo1
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Hey man enjoy your holidays ,I can wait till after new years sometime.I'm sure I'll be sending you another or 2 after things slow down.thanks for the info.:-)
Hey man enjoy your holidays ,I can wait till after new years sometime.I'm sure I'll be sending you another or 2 after things slow down.thanks for the info.:-)
Don't worry about the little stuff and finishing mine is what I consider little stuff. Try to enjoy some of your time off, xmas with the family. You keeping us updated on work and situations is the right thing, shows you take time and care about your customers.
I'm in no hurry either, as long as I have it back by March. Spend time with family on Christmas
Wow! This is the first I've really looked through this thread. Great quality work. Cares about his quality. And keeping people notified on what's going on. Can't beet any of that. I can see many uses for you in the future. More with motorcycle work than paintball. There is a difference in a powdercoater and am artist. From what I can tell PC is your art. Do you happen to have a webpage or FB page with more of your work and texture options?
he is on FB, same name as here
Thank you everyone, I have a few minutes on my phone from charging it in my jeep. Power is still out its not exoected back til tomorrow night at the earliest. Almost the whole county is out and a lot of the surrounding ones as well. I have time set aside from my normal scheduled jobs for part of this week and next I will be filling in that time with these as much as I can.
Blackdeath, thank you for the compliments, you can find more pictures here http://facebook.com/precisionpowderme I take great pride in my work and refuse to send out anything not to my standards. I want to keep things interesting in the finish world. I have gotten so bored of see the same things with guns so I am working on developing new things for everyone. Expect to see in the next 2 months: satin to gloss fade, multi finish splash (metallics splashed over satins, candies over metallics, chameleons over glosses etc), swirls, snowball/powder effect just to name a few.
I will update as have information and power to do so.
I'm BLachance75 on MCB and I'm also not in a hurry. We've been getting rain here in MA while you've been getting ice.
Sounds crazy, we lucked out with all the rain. We would have been screwed if it was ice or snow. Luckily you have a stove for heat and don't have to rely on a generator.
You can experiment with mine as well, and I'm ok with flashy.
Newest update while I have a few minutes of service. Power company is expecting power to be back on the 27th.
I am very lucky to have a fireplace keeping temps in the 50s in the house and all the food is staying cold which is good. Driving anywhere would not be a wise idea. It would not be possible to make it down and up my road today. I have cut so many trees down in the last 2 days to prevent future loss of power so I can get back to work quickly
Wanted to let everyone know I am still without power, its not looking good for tomorrow either. I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. I am hoping it will be restored shortly so I can get back to work on everyone's guns. My phone is about to die so I am not sure when I can update everyone again.
No worries and keep warm bud.Merry Christmas .
Power is back on for the moment. I am not sure how long it will last though as the trees are still bent over and touching the ground from the weight of the ice on them. The snow could be the reason the ones that have not broken yet to break which would put us back to square one with outages and clean up.
I will be starting the clean up process this weekend after the snow storm. I have a significant amount of trees that need to be cut and moved right now because they are blocking the shop, blocking the road, etc. It is not possible to drive there right now because of the ice and the fact it is on a hill so I will be working to make that accessible. Thank you to everyone for patience with this.
That was sort lived, it went back out again yesterday with the wind bringing down more tress
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Man just stay warm and be safe,that stuff is dangerous when trees and heavy snow/ice are present.
Good news is I am making ground on the back log of makers this freak weather has left me with. Here are a few pictures of one of the ones I gone done. More pictures tomorrow.
Looks sweet man.:-) good work.
Amazing work as usual Roger. Keep them coming.
Thanks guys
Have the flu, was not able to get any pictures today of the other ones I finished (Dodge yours is done). I do have some pictures I am finally able to release as the marker is now on its way home to its owner.
Last month Dan Holliday of Tampa Bay Damage got a hold of me and wanted to send me his DM14 for the 2014 PSP Pro Season.
This is what we came up with
Sweet:-) :-)
I can't wait:-)
Thanks man
The dm14 looks killer:-)
Love that purple. Need my motorcycle wheels that color.
It actually changes from purple to a fuchsia when it gets hit with direct sunlight.
I can do your wheels no problem in that color. I actually could do the whole bike frame
That's soo sweet looking,I can't wait to lay my hands on it.:-) thanks man you have my future business. :-)
Can you do aurora coating? Possibly some similar?
Pm sent with a few questions, hoping to utalize your services soon.


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New York's Vulture blog claims to have found the bridge from the Red Hot Chili Peppers song "Under the Bridge." Do you imagine it's in MacArthur Park? Most commenters don't.
I love a good romp in mystery-solving, but while Mark Haskell Smith seems to have done most of his legwork with Google Maps, on-the-street residents of Los Angeles offer up some other possibilities. Could it be this opening at W. 1st and N. Figueroa? Could it be near W. 2nd and S. Hill? Could it be where Myra crosses Sunset?


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5:30 p.m. Danny Berger remains in critical condition amid positive reports that the former North Medford basketball player has been awake and is responding the way doctors want him to at Intermountain Medical Center in Murray, Utah.
Berger, a junior forward for Utah State, collapsed and stopped breathing during practice Tuesday and had to be revived with a defibrillator.
In a news conference this afternoon, Berger's older brother John praised the efforts of Utah State trainer Mike Williams and his staff for keeping the 22-year-old alive in the moments after his heart stopped, according to the Salt Lake City Tribune. Hospital spokesman Jess Gomez said by having a defibrillator on hand for when Berger went into cardiac arrest, the ability to restart his heart likely saved his life.
Cause for the collapse has yet to be determined and the main focus continues to be on stabilizing Berger, who is still in intensive care.
Utah State announced earlier in the day that its game with BYU had been postponed indefinitely. Berger has averaged 7.6 points and 3.6 rebounds per game in helping the Aggies open with a 4-1 record.
— Kris Henry
3:45 p.m. A Utah State basketball player who collapsed at practice and had to be revived after he stopped breathing is waking up and responding the way "doctors want him to," his brother said today, although the player remains in critical condition.
"As of right now, things are looking good," John Berger, the older brother of Utah State forward Danny Berger, said in a statement he read to reporters at Intermountain Medical Center in a Salt Lake City suburb.
Hospital spokesman Jess Gomez said Danny Berger remained in critical condition this afternoon.
Doctors still don't know what caused Berger, 22, to collapse on the court during a practice Tuesday in Logan, Gomez said.
A team of doctors — including cardiologists, pulmonologists and trauma specialists — is running tests on Berger in the hospital's intensive care unit. After being taken to a hospital in Logan, Berger was flown by helicopter Tuesday night to the regional trauma center.
Gomez and the Berger family credited Utah State's training staff with saving Berger's life. They performed CPR on Berger and used a defibrillator on him. Berger was in cardiac arrest on the court, Gomez said.
John Berger said the family has received well wishes and prayers from around the country. "I know that you have made a difference in keeping my brother alive," he said.
Some of Berger's teammates made the 90-mile trip to support him at the hospital, but they have not been allowed into his room, Gomez said.
— Associated Press
9:55 a.m. LOGAN, Utah — Athletic officials from Brigham Young and Utah State have decided to postpone tonight's men's basketball game due to the critical medical condition of USU player Danny Berger, a former North Medford High standout.
The announcement was made this morning.
Berger collapsed and stopped breathing during practice Tuesday at the school and had to be revived with a defibrillator. The Associated Press reported that he remained in critical condition this morning at Intermountain Medical Center in Murray, Utah. Tests and evaluations are ongoing.
Berger is a junior starting forward for the 4-1 Aggies. He graduated from North Medford in 2008 as the school's single-season record holder for scoring and 3-pointers.
No reschedule date for tonight's game has been set.
— Tim Trower
UPDATED: Basketball player remains in critical condition, game postponed
5:30 p.m. Danny Berger remains in critical condition amid positive reports that the former North Medford basketball player has been awake and is responding the way doctors want him to at Intermountain Medical Center in Murray, Utah.


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CNN flags this article about a bid by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals to get the British duo Pet Shop Boys to change its name. The animal-rights group believes that pet stores are bad because dogs, cat and other creatures come from breeders.
PETA's suggested name change? Rescue Shelter Boys.
"By agreeing to change your name to the Rescue Shelter Boys, you would help raise awareness about the cruelty involved in the pet trade and encourage your millions of fans to consider giving a home to an abandoned or unwanted animal from an animal shelter," PETA writes in its letter, which the PSB posted on the front page of its site.
Alas, the boys will still be Pet Shop Boys. "The organisation PETA Europe, dedicated to establishing and protecting the rights of all animals, has written to Pet Shop Boys with a request they are unable to agree to but nonetheless think raises an issue worth thinking about."
Nonetheless, PETA is pleased: "As if you needed another reason to love the Pet Shop Boys besides 'West End Girls.'"
(The electronic-dance duo Pet Shop Boys, a.k.a. Chris Lowe, left, and Neil Tennant.)
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Douglas Adams' much-loved comic sci-fi series 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' has gone from radio, to novel, to stage, to television, to video game, to film, over the years, and is now coming back round to, presumably, video game. Hothead Games, maker of DeathSpank and Swarm, announced today--on Towel Day--that it's making some sort of thing based upon The Guide.
Hail people of Earth! Megadodo Publications is pleased to announce that we are working with the interactive entertainment development team Hothead Games to bring The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the standard repository for all knowledge and wisdom, to the farthest uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy. This new edition of The Guide will be available not only on your planet but also on all nearby systems including Alpha Centauri.
You see? We can say it'll be a thing, definitely. A video game, most probably.
The official site helpfully notes that The Guide will be available for "all of the latest primitive digital devices." In a blog post last week, Hothead mentioned that "Our current console plans are under wraps... but we hope to share some exciting news with you soon." Perhaps a console game, then.
"We're super excited to be involved with such a legendary creation as The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, said Hothead co-founder Joel DeYoung in today's announcement. "The quirky and hilarious universe that Douglas Adams created became an instant classic for so many. All the hoopiest froods here at Hothead jumped on the chance to work on the project."
Or maybe Hothead really is making a guide containing all the knowledge an interstellar hitchhicker could need, with the words "Don't Panic" written in large friendly letters on the cover. Only time--or, more likely, E3--will tell.
The most notable video game adaptation of The Hitchhiker's Guide was a notoriously difficult text adventure, which is available to play online, tarted up with graphics. Starship Titanic, which Adams designed, is often thought to be set in the Hitchhiker's world but, really, merely happens to have a few references and in-jokes.


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The Carolina Hurricanes agreed to terms with forward Brett Sutter on a one-year, two-way contract.
The deal, announced Tuesday, will pay the 26-year-old $600,000 in the NHL or $150,000 in the American Hockey League.
Sutter has posted one goal and four assists in 37 NHL appearances with Calgary and Carolina since 2008. He racked up 19 goals and 48 points in 70 games for the Charlotte Checkers in the AHL last season.


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A holiday break refresh is all this concept needed to get things cooking again.
The menu offers many different choices. As a base item, Habanero's offers burritos, tacos, bowls, nachos and salads. Protein options include carne asada, barbacoa, carnitas, chicken, soy chicken, halal chicken, and a pepper and onion veggie mixture. Customers have their choice of refried or black beans and cilantro lime rice or traditional rice. Garner says there is always a choice of one of four different salsas as well as a number of different dressings for items such as a chipotle ranch. Customers can also top their items with things like crispy tortillas strips or chilies.


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Why would you even consider blaming that man? You think it is his fault when:
The only thing that could have protected him from that wreck was a tank (and I mean a military tank, not an 81 buick). I suggest you apoligize for your comment.
I'm also PPC-clueless. Can you talk briefly about the current state of PPC hardware? (availability, capability, price, future roadmap)
With OSX, with its Unix-like core, coming out for the Mac soon, will this make things easier for the Linux PowerPC project when it comes to Hardware drivers and generally fitting the OS to the machine? After all, in the future new models of the Mac will be optomised for a *nix-like OS, and I would have thought that this would make things better and easier for you.
(I am only guessing;)
hot flaming grapes [ridiculopathy.com]
That said, however, I don't think that LinuxPPC is very likely to encourage people to by Mac hardware. Rather, it gives new life to old hardware. Got an old PowerMac 8500 lying around? Too slow to do much of anything useful with MacOS? That's where LinuxPPC comes in. Mac hardware is just too expensive to buy for the purpose of running Linux on.
Realistically, OS X will not change this. OS X is seriously processor-intensive stuff. It's clearly workstation-oriented: the GUI is the selling point. LinuxPPC, on the other hand, is great on all kinds of hardware for all kinds of uses.
If you are only doing integer work then probably an Athlon system would be better than PPC for raw number crunching. This is a rough gut feel based on using various friends' Macs and my own Athlon system in general use (doing lots of stuff like compiling etc). My feeling is the surrounding infrastructure such as the CPU bus make it more worthwhile - particularly if you can grab an Athlon with the 266MHz bus
First of all, I'd like to commend you and your wife for your courage and determination through your ordeal! I also hope they throw the book at the jerk who caused the accident!
My question is this: Do you find that your perception of the world and what your interests, passions and abilities are, different than before your accident? Has the accident changed your interests towards the computing industry?
You're old enough for killin'
But not for votin'
-- Barry McGuire (IIRC)
Would it be possible to replace the BSD kernel in OS X with Linux, and have there been any serious discussions regarding this? I imagine you would be the point man in such an investigation.
Linux does seem to be a better choice, as it is more scalable, is about to get a journaled file system, and has a dazzling array of hardware support.
I would almost rather see Apple throw itself behind HURD than cause more fragmentation amongst the BSDs. It seems the deciding factor was the BSD liscense, and not any technical advantage (although I am probably wrong, and I don't have access to POWER equipment of any sort [not even an AS/400], so I am hardly authoritative).
I did follow the progress of your injury, and I hope your recovery is proceeding well and some good has come out of the experience.
I know that MkLinux [mklinux.org] supports them...but if MkLinux can, then theoretically so could LinuxPPC. Is the problem a technical problem or a resource problem (no one wants to do it...) or something else?
During your recovery period, did you find the need to use any accessibility tools to accomplish tasks? If so, what were your impressions? Does Linux have the tools people with alternative interface needs (like text-to-speech) need to access their information?
Congrats on your recovery progress. I'm glad to see the world hasn't lost another good person to a drunk driver's carelessness.
I was just wondering what road the LinuxPPC development team would take with the introduction of Mac OSX. Before it was either choose the Mac interface or the command line (LinuxPPC or BSD) but now people can get the best of both worlds with the introduction of Mac OSX.
Do you see LinuxPPC getting stronger or weaker in both the Mac market and the embedded market as Apple finalizes it's NeXT great OS? Do you see yourself combining efforts with Apple in any way including porting applications such as star office?By the way, great job!
What's your take on MacOS X? As the main point-person on the biggest other Mac-based *nix I'm sure you've been keeping track of it. How do you consider what's coming out of Apple as an OS, specifically as a *nix implementation?
Next, has Apple's open-sourcing Darwin been of any advantage to Linux PPC? Has someone ever popped into their code & looked up how they handled an point or what their solution was to a Mac-specific issue?
Back to your own stuff, where do you see Linux PPC going as regards to the other linuxen? Any stuff you see as being unique strengths of Linux PPC (aside from it's hardware)?
Finally, what issues do you regularly run into being on a non-X86 platform? What could developers do to improve portability for you? What's your "I-wish-they'd" list look like?
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i'm dumb. i didn't set the damn thing to HTML formatted...
There's a lot of questions here regarding the accident itself, or it's psychological/emotional consequences, but i'm curious about the physical consequences, too.
How has the accident changed you, in terms of permanent physical damage, any psychological damage, and just about anything else?
I would imagine that something as drastic as that car accident would change your life radically and permanently in many ways.
I drink alcohol and occasionally smoke both tobacco and marijuana.
Having lost an uncle to a liver failure (he was a heavy drinker) and having a friend with lung emphyzema I have no illusions about what booze and tobacco can do to me. However, it's a risk I'm willing to take to make this shitty life a bit more pleasurable.
With OS X being based on BSD, why even bother continuing development on LinuxPPC? BSD will be many times more stable, and will do nearly everything that LinuxPPC can, only better, more efficiently, and more reliably.
1)How much can a PPC linux distro can benefit from Altivec optimization?
2)Does LinuxPPC enjoy the same degree of improved performance from additional processors that OS-X does?
flame away...
It'd sure be cool to make a low-cost board that could run the real linux, with real memory management (MMU), and a pretty speedy CPU. By low cost, I'm thinking able to sell at $120-$150 for board where you add a SDRAM DIMM and use a network bootstrap or add compact flash card for a local boot. So far, it's looking like the available PPC based off-the-shelf boards are quite expensive. I probably ought to do a bit more homework, but since you're here, my question is....
What are the propects for making a really low cost PPC-based embedded linux computer? Has anyone done it or tried? Is it even possible?
After reading your wife's diary of your recovery (first 8-10 weeks or so) I was amazed at her dedication to reporting your progress. I'm sure you have read those logs as well and I am curious as to your thoughts. Do you remember much if any of those early weeks? Do you have any insights into how helpful the therapists were in prodding you toward your recovery?
Presently, it's either Apple or nobody. There were shining hopes for something better, but it never appeared.
Actually, there are many non-Apple PPC computers that run Linux (though admittedly *new* non-Apple PPC hardware is hard to come by).
For example, there's the RS/6000 IBM boxes, BeBoxes, Amiga APUS, and Motorola and Bull boxes. And, of course, TiVo and other embedded platforms.
Check out http://www.linuxppc.com/about/hardware/ [linuxppc.com] for a complete list of supported hardware.
Still, the OpenPPC.org bit has been a bitter disappointment so far. Ah well, keep your fingers and toes crossed...
Ethelred [macnews.de]
PS: Yes, we drive big trucks now (F-150), and I'd never own a small car, even if it were given to me!
hmm, so you're trying to solve the problem through escalation. Do you believe that your accident was made worse because the other driver was in a SUV? Now you're just placing 2 more large vehicles on the road which increases the chances that people in small cars get killed instead of maimed.
When will Jeep Cherokee owners start switching to something bigger because they're afraid of being hit by a suburban or a semi?
The main tangible advantage you get with a PowerPC over x86 is the lower power use, resulting in less heat and noise. Recent Macs don't even bother with a single fan at all. Going by noise and electric bill, an iMac or one of those new cubes, would make a much better server (or any other 24x7 application) than my Athlon box, which I think has a total of 7 (?!) fans and guzzles electrons like there's no tomorrow.
Another tangible (but very specialized) advantage of PowerPC would be the vector processor in the G4. If you do something that can use this, it might tip the scales in favor of PowerPC.
Then there are the intangible benefits, mainly involving the relative elegance of PowerPC compared to x86. This is probably not a significant factor for non-geeks, though, and the pragmatic and unromantic can safely ignore it.
But I can not view these same quicktime files on my LinuxPPC base G4, and have to reboot into MacOS.
Is there any hope of Apple giving back to the Linux community
In a word: No. They can't ever open Quicktime, because the Sorensen Codec isn't theirs to give out.
If you don't like the Quicktime situation, you should either fight software patents, or boycott the Codec (i.e. stop booting into MacOS to view Quicktime movies, and instead, do without it).
In other respects, there seems little incentive to Apple to ever "give back to the community" because they view their Mac+MacOS bundle as a single product, especially since Jobs came back. From Apple's point of view, there is no reason to aid OSes other than MacOS, because they don't see Mac sales to users-who-don't-want-MacOS as a significantly market. And judging from the lack of appearance of non-Mac PPC personal computers (e.g. POP [openppc.org]) they might be right. Apparently, the market has spoken (although IMHO, POP hasn't really been given a fair chance yet).
If someone other than Apple starts selling non-Mac PPC boxes and makes some decent sales, this would indicate a larger market for PPC-based personal computers, and maybe Apple would change their mind, and then have more incentive to accomodate non-MacOS OSes on Macs, thereby leading to them to "give back to the community."
I've heard that x86 floating point math is sloppy at best, but does it make a real difference? Can a PPC compete despite the clock speed advantage of the x86s? Some real world examples would be nice, thanks.
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This page is maintained by Professor Chai Feldblum. Materials from scholars and professionals in various fields provide the intellectual framework for much of the MVP's work.
The MVP seeks to:
We believe that moral values matter in the governing of our polity. And we believe that Americans can articulate, and live up to, a more progressive set of moral values regarding sexuality, sexual orientation and gender equity. Sexuality can be a positive, important force in our lives. Heterosexuality, homosexuality and bisexuality are all morally neutral. But the love that is expressed by those who are straight, gay or bisexual is morally good – and all equally morally good.
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A sad story was reported in Saturday's New York Post. Actor Nick Santino, who played small roles on GUIDING LIGHT (Father Soto) and ALL MY CHILDREN (Officer Anton), committed suicide on Tuesday, his 47th birthday, after euthanizing his dog, Rocco.
Friends told the Post that Santino was forced to put his beloved dog to sleep under pressure from his Upper West Side condo and became wracked by grief. Rocco couldn't ride in the main elevators and wasn't allowed to be left in the apartment alone for more than nine hours. He was also threatened with a fine by building management because of the dog barking, although neighbors say Rocco wasn't a barker.
The last phone call Santino made was to a former girlfriend at 2 a.m. Wednesday. Later that day, police found his body in his bedroom. He had overdosed on pills.
Santino earned a Masters in Business Administration from St. Peter's College in 1993, and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from NYIT in 1988. He studied for two years at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
The actor made an appearance on GOSSIP GIRL in 2011.
The condo board refuses to accept any responsibility.
"I'm sorry the man is dead," board member Marilyn Fireman told The Post, "But it has nothing to do with the pet policy."
His family is going to bury Santino's remains with Rocco's.
According to IMDB, Santino was part of the first team to lead search & rescue on World Trade Center 9-11-2001. He used his ConEdison Engineering ID & Asbestos Certification to gain access.
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Revealed: Mercedes 'Ener-G-Force'
Not a new Star Wars character, but a police concept car for 2025. Kneel, puny earthling!
Mercedes would have you believe this rather striking new concept car, the Ener-G-Force, is a friendly, cuddly, fluffy patrol vehicle that cares about your health, well-being and general safety.
Except it doesn't. It looks like it belongs in a broken society hell-bent on destruction, akin to 1987's RoboCop. An uncomfortable, apocalyptic future, then. Look closely at those lines: remind you ED-209, RoboCop's arch nemesis?
No surprise then, the Ener-G-Force came from California, where the Hollywood water is rich with imagination. It was built for the upcoming LA Motor Show's annual 'Design Challenge', which this year asks the question of what a 2025 cop car would look like.
Designers have to account for things like emissions, population growth, transport infrastructure and so forth, but it appears Mercedes has focused on the whole 'scaring puny humans to death' thing.
Merc's scribblers have taken the genes of the venerable G-Class and imagined how it would transfer to the year 2025; a future which has determined the Ener-G-Force to have small windows to provide a "safe cocoon for officers", emergency lights "that are impossible to ignore" (read: blindingly painful) and "gigantic wheels that guarantee the right of way even where no way exists". Which basically means - in the words of the clumsy ED-209 - you have five seconds to comply...
So in essence, it's a steroidal G-Class built for riots that can intimidate and off-road. But underneath the bruiser looks lies its cuddly heart, for mounted on the roof are specialised water tanks, which transfer recycled H2O to a "hydro-tech converter" turning it into hydrogen. This hydrogen is used to power the fuel cells, with electricity storage cells hiding in the side skirts. The wheels are fitted with motors, and power is adjusted individually according to the terrain.
Speaking of which, the Ener-G-Force comes equipped with a 'Terra-Scan' that permanently maps the road ahead. And probably, as in RoboCop, identify who is in 'direct violation of Penal Code 1.13, Section 9'. The estimated range is 800km, which is a significant distance in which to mow down an entire battalion of pesky cyborgs.
Gordon Wagener, design director at Mercedes, says the Ener-G-Force "could also be a clue about a new beginning for the off-road design idiom of Mercedes-Benz". Meaning this concept will soon be authorised to use physical force...
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16th October to 6th November 2008: Pre-entry opening
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