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So we can choose between the findings of a massive corporation intent on re-establishing its cashflow as soon as possible or a military entity performing a post-mortem on its equipment which sustained damage just prior to flight restrictions.
You decide!
Ash is abrasive. Any idiot who has washed their hands with LAVA soap can attest to that.
Q:So then, what happens when you put abrasives into parts manufactured to close tolerances?
A: Tolerances are widened.
Q: What happens when tolerances are widened on machinery that spins at high RPM?
A: Centers are lost and jitter occurs speeding disappearing tolerances and adding heavy vibration.
Q: What will that heavy vibration do Cap'n fly?
A: Titaniums can shatter, Waspalloy and Hastalloy parts will tear away from Titaniums and Aluminums, H60 coated bearings will fly as though fired from a gun.
Q: What are you really saying, fly?
A: Assume the crash position, put your chin on your taint and kiss your @ss goodbye!
Ash is abrasive. Any idiot who has washed their hands with LAVA soap can attest to that.
LAVA soap isn't made of ash, dumbass, it's made of pumice. Pumice is a product of volcanoes, but not one that goes floating in the air (it does go hurtling through the air, but that's different). It is also thousands of times more coarse than ash - ash is finer than the finest sands you can find. The individual grains are extremely hard and jagged, and thus very abrasive, but they will also move largely with the air - i.e. as the jet engine creates a flow through it, most of the ash is going to pass righ
Wow, you have no concept of the effects of volcanic ash.
Volcanic Ash is essentially magma mist. when you get down to the quick and dirty of it, it's almost like having pulverized pumice. It's very glassy in texture, and very VERY abrasive, unless it's been weathered down over a few thousand years.
This fresh stuff can make your eyes and nose itch, it can and will stick to all sorts of parts, it gets EVERYWHERE. Having walked through an area where an ash cloud immediately settled, I can attest to the fact it can and will stick to you, you have to brush it off well to even begin to get it out of all sorts of small places.
Imagine what it will do to a jet engine, it will collect, and slowly clog the engines.
To me, it sounds like a bunch of airlines willing to risk the lives of their crews and their passengers to resume making money, even though they face multi-billion dollar class action lawsuits when something happens at a later date due to damage to the engine internals.
oh not to mention engine repair.
These are the same airline companies that still fly poorly maintained planes that were built in the late 70's and early 80's.
I'd trust the finnish on this. This "Ash" is not the same as the ash you get from a fire. It's much more coarse and grainier. go rub some fresh volcanic ash against your skin and then tell me you wont be itchy and a red mark will be left behind.
Well, as fresh as it will be once cooled down from being thousands of degrees in temperature.. in the middle of the air.
Two things will happen:
1. Windshields will get sandblasted. Maybe not during one flight, but give it a week or two and they'll be
replacing their windshields. $100k is the order of magnitude I believe.
2. Every part of the engine that runs at high temperature will get ash caked on it. Does wonders to
high pressure turbine efficiency. I don't know if APUs on modern airlines power hydraulics, but they better
did, and you better hoped that the APU will survive the ash treatment as well.
3. Seals that are airtight usually are not dust tight -- I know, it's counter-intuitive, but that's how it is,
especially with seals over rotating shafts. The oil in those engines will make sure that the ash is redistributed
to the bearing surfaces running at highest temperatures -- where it can do most damage.
When you get crap caked on inside of the engine, you don't "replace things earlier". You're talking about
replacing the engine, and doing a full overhaul on the one you took out. Figure $1M o.m. for two high bypass
turbofans maybe?
Actually the problem, as I understand it, is that the silica particles in the ash cloud (similar to very fine grains of sand, or glass) are melted by the heat of the engine, then then collide with the leading edge of the turbine blades and condense. This is bad for a number of reasons, firstly it expands that surface and significantly reduces the efficiency of the engine. More importantly however, it has a different coefficient of thermal expansion to the titanium blade, and very quickly it will start to crack and break away. In this process it takes small chunks of the blade with it. The process causes a lot of pitting in the leading edge of the blade.
The thermal spraying department at my work do a lot of research into repairing blades that have suffered from this problem. Most often it has been caused by planes flying through sand storms in a desert, but the effect is just the same. One of the methods of repairing the blade is to remove enough of the titanium so that you can plasma spray a ceramic in its place to make the blade the right size again.
Indeed, Sixty Symbols (the University of Nottingham's physics dept) did a nice YouTube video on the effect of volcanic ash on jet engines [youtube.com].
The problem is that nobody's measured the actual concentration of the ash cloud yet. The satellite images show SO2, not the solid particles. No airline would willingly or even just carelessly fly their planes through ash: The repair costs for a whole fleet would be astronomical. The question they're trying to get answered is this: Is the simulation, which is the current source of information, accurate or is there airspace which is usable without damage to the machines and risk to the crews and passengers? F
...a massive corporation intent on re-establishing its cashflow
I don't know if you know this, but big corporations don't get to be big corporations by spending more money in repairs than they receive in receipts. In other words, if the big corporations are clamoring to get back in the skies in the middle of a volcano after verifying the safety of the passengers, you know damage to equipment is going to be less than the receipts they'll get from flights.
In other words, as long as the safety of the passengers is maintained, who the hell cares if they fly? If you're concerned about flying through an ash cloud and don't want to "risk it" (even though there is likely little or no actual risk to you), then don't buy the damn ticket and don't get on the damn plane.
Isn't it just amazing how that works?
If you're concerned about flying through an ash cloud and don't want to "risk it" (even though there is likely little or no actual risk to you), then don't buy the damn ticket and don't get on the damn plane.
Where have you been for the last 50 years of ever increasing liability lawsuits? Even if you could get all of the people on board to make a statement about acceptable risk then in the off chance of a crash the survivors would sue that the risks weren't actually made clear to them and the families of the dead would sue that they weren't willing to take the risk of losing that person. Personal responsibility = dream on. In light of this trend, I think if the airlines are willing to start the flights again then it's probably OK. KLM, BA, etc, These aren't some disount airlines in third world countries. They manage risk quite well.
Even if you could get all of the people on board to make a statement about acceptable risk then in the off chance of a crash the survivors would sue
Screw the survivers. The plane crashes into an apartment block. The obvious conclusion from the NTSB is that the crash caused by the volcanic ash breaking the engine, plugging the pitot tubes [wikipedia.org], taking out all electrical systems and making the cockpit windows opaque.
I'm sure the jury in any kind of lawsuit resulting from this crash will agree that the fact that th
I'll be staying home, thanks.
...of the tests because the conditions these tests will have to deal with vary from amount of dust, to concentration,composition (chemically) and type of equipment to be used.
To make matters even more interesting, the impact of this dust on an aircraft engine also depends on what the load is on the particular engine, not to mention type and condition.
To me, I see the results as those that will be of no consequence.
The issues here also have to do with melting, heat of crystallization, size of openings where the fuel injectors are concerned, durability of the turbofans etc etc. I can easily imagine the characteristics of one engine making it suffer much less harm than another of even slightly different design. What I can't imagine is figuring out which ones would fall into which category based on the information we have.
no no they both leave.
Two planes enter flying, One plane leaves still flying.
I could just see something like that happening. A plane going down with no power and no controls, passengers going to the nearest exits. People getting stomped on trying to make their way to the exits. Some people jumping out the front doors, just to get hit by the wing or engines. Oh and of course those people who panic at the last second and can't step off the ledge. How many people can they get from a plane from under 10k feet before it hits the ground? I think most peoples chances
I think that 'Better safe than sorry' is a good way to handle this... however straight after closing the airspace there should have been real tests going on how much ash there actually is. The warnings given by the Volcanic observation center are just based on simulations and there is no middle way between 'ash' and 'no ash' currently.
I totally understand that the airlines are starting to complain - even more when they have to _prove_ themselves that there is no problem with low concentrations.
There hasn't been any weatherballoons or similar testing by the governments right after closing the airspace.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MQ-1_Predator [wikipedia.org]
You send disposable aircraft with a prop (not a turbine engine) that can take samples at (relatively) low speeds.
That may be valid for low values of 'disposable' but I don't think the DOD wants to send their fleet out there. Those puppies are fairly expensive. They also are single engine so if anything happens, the platform goes splat (hopefully not into something important).
Right now it seems we're relying on satellite information (note to idiots who don't think space flight is important -- think ag
Sigh... cancelling my first vacation in over 2 years. Travel insurance doesn't cover it, because they exclude natural disasters. Ah well, better luck in 2 years.
Write and complain to your local consumer watchdog - here in the EU, even under force majure, the aviation companies are required to compensate travellers.
On top of that, here in Denmark, insurance companies have told customers who are currently stuck abroad that their insurance will be extended for the duration of their plight at no extra charge.
For those who haven't left yet, travel agencies have told their customers that they can have a full refund or bumped a few days untill this blows over.
I totally understand that the airlines are starting to complain - even more when they have to _prove_ themselves that there is no problem with low concentrations.
I understand too and don't care. I don't care if they're losing $1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000... a day or more, it just doesn't matter. Volcanic ash is highly abrasive, has high concentrations of glass rich particles and will cause significant wear on machinery parts, like jet engines You cannot make one test flight through the stuff and safe all is safe for normal airline operations. Fly through it a hundred times and see what happens. Greed is never a reason to find a way around safety.
Yes, it sucks. To the tune of hundreds of millions of $$ per day. But this stuff can and will kill an engine. I wouldn't want to depend on a lucky restart.
You're wrong, I watched 2012 and ash doesn't harm the engine only it only makes it harder for the pilot to see.
It will only kill an engine when sufficient amounts have built up to cause enough airflow disruption. Such an amount is easily observable after each flight. The engines can have maintenance done at the appropriate time. Presently large amounts of European airspace have very small concentrations of ash between certain latitudes. Jetliners can fly below this layer as well as above it at 38,000 feet. They can take off and if deemed necessary, fly several hundred miles under the layer to a thinner area, ascend
This links leads to a page with a video of an ambulance helicopter that was coated in a fine layer of ash in Norway today. It flew during a small windows of opportunity where the air cleared to pick up a patient in Sweden. The link is in Norwegian, but the video is, obviously, visual.
The interesting part is at ~00:30 where he shows of the ash (requires Flash): http://www.dagbladet.no/2010/04/18/nyheter/innenriks/aske/vulkan/flyforbud/11335687/ [dagbladet.no]
Makes me think that a large passenger jet flying long routes and sucking in a whole load of air on the trip might be at risk of engine failure as they say.
I am waiting for the impatient to risk their lives to prove to the rest of us why better safe than sorry is much safer than being dead.
Take a boat.
The president-director of the KLM was on-board of one of the first test flights. So he put his money where his mouth is.
If - then what? New routes? Limit cross-atlantic flights endpoints to southern Spain or something?
Yes. The alternative is pretty grim.
Invest in cruise ship stocks?
The question here is - how long will the eruption and the ash cloud last? Judging from historical records, it's not uncommon for eruptions to last decades. If - then what? New routes? Limit cross-atlantic flights endpoints to southern Spain or something?
According to this article [sciencedaily.com], it may last for another month, and possibly a year or longer. It will be interesting, if somewhat uneasy, to see how people will react to this (boats to the US? fly above/below the ash clouds?). Clearly this cannot go on for long, given the damage that it is doing in terms of lost revenue for businesses, mail not being delivered (so i hear) and thousands of stranded customers.
I wonder if something that makes this volcano different than all other volcanoes is that it's erupting at a time when almost all translatlantic flying is done on two-engine planes. To get long-range over-water certification (ETOPS), the manufacturers and maintenance organizations go to great lengths to ensure that there is no common threat to the two engines. The engines are serviced separately by independent crews, fueled separately, and so on. Flying into an ash cloud, though, even if the threat is small, it is certainly a common threat to both engines at the same time.
I was looking for flights to Europe recently, and couldn't find a single 747 or A340 -- it was all 767, 777, or A330. I know 747s fly those routes, but they are a small minority now.
ETOPS = Engines Turn or Passengers Swim.
Four engines vs. two engines doesn't really matter. Some of the most dramatic incidents of airplanes ingesting volcanic ash are 747s. Invariably, every single engine shuts down after several minutes of sucking up ash and melting it into glass. All four engines have to be restarted to recover, once the airplane descends out of the cloud and the glass has time to cool off.
I think that a 747 can operate on 1 engine alone as well, in that case go through the ash cloud with only one engine running and as soon as you cross the cloud start the other 3, or do it with 2 engines running initially, if 1 fails in the ash cloud then start a 3rd engine, hopefully by the time you are out of the cloud atleast 1 engine will be working.
Then when the conditions are right, all 4 engines can be started back up..
I wonder if something that makes this volcano different than all other volcanoes is that it's erupting at a time when almost all translatlantic flying is done on two-engine planes.
Probably not. Ash has caused all engines to go out on a 747. As you say, the threat is common to all engines, whether 2,3, or 4.
The airlines have it right. All the talk has been about flights being canceled for a few days or weeks, but as far as I can tell there's no real reason the eruption couldn't continue for months, and plenty of precedent for eruptions which have. And talk about the wind shifting seems pretty much wishful thinking as well; the upper air westerlies aren't going to stop blowing eastward, nor are they likely to lose all their southward components. So a very conservative approach (no flying until the ash has dissipated) could result in most of northern Europe being a no-fly zone for months. It's probably worth the risk to find out more precisely where the conditions really are too dangerous.
One thing no one seems to have brought up in response to this article so far regarding the length of the eruption is that it's not simply the fact the volcano is erupting, and it's not simply the fact that it's erupting in a location where ash is carried by the jet stream.
The issue is the strength of the eruptions. The initial eruptions were of course quite powerful, and these were forcing up sizeable chunks of silica and such into the air which really were quite dangerous, however as the eruption continues
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_9 [wikipedia.org]
Well, consider this: Icelandic Air flies 757s between North America and Europe, with KEF as their base.
The ash allegedly contains shards of glass, and I can see how this would cause serious problems for turbines... but I think it's obvious that just like any other phenomena of weather, the ash will be non-uniform. It makes perfect sense that one test would have completely different results from another. Thus, broadly-based testing would be necessary to derive any useful result...
Indeed. In fact the height the ash plume reached has changed from Wednesday to Saturday from 8 miles down to 3:
In Iceland, the volcano continued to erupt, but volcanologists said was it less explosive than at the beginning of the eruption on Wednesday, which blasted glassy abrasive ash, destructive to jet engines, eight miles into the sky. The plume was now rising to a height of just three miles, and the volcanologists said this would deposit ash only in Iceland and in the surrounding waters. It was not hi
I don't know enough about the extent of the ash cloud to make a decision about this. In fact, I suspect no one knows much about it and that's the crux of the dilemma. I do know that when Mt. St. Helens erupted the area where I live was seriously impacted by the ash and many vehicles were severely damaged. Of course, this area was only 150 miles east of the volcano and the ash cloud was dense enough to block out the sun. The ash cloud over Europe is likely to be much less dense. I have been an airplane and glider pilot since 1970 and I, personally, would not want to risk flying until I understood more about the risk.
British Airways Flight 9 [wikipedia.org].
According to a report in a major German newspaper (FAZ [www.faz.de]), there will be launches from at least Berlin and Frankfurt and some other German airports, but not in all directions.
and it is interesting how the skies are clear of contrails, and also the lack of periodic flights from the local airport, the landing path for which is *directly* overhead at an altitude of a few hundred metres. This includes turboprop aircraft like the Dash jobbies being grounded.
Of course everyone is talking about stranded passengers, nobody is talking about stranded air mail and stranded cargo.
It is interesting to me just how dependent we (and we in Europe are a lot less dependent on flights than USAians) have become on the jet aircraft, and how useless people have become, they just sit in the airports expecting some one else to get them to their destination...
ferries, channel tunnel, trains, automobiles, nope, just won't do... I have driven from London to Athens in less time than many of these people have been sat in airports wringing their hands... I also suspect that it may be CHEAPER to hire a car and drive back home, than to attempt to live in an airport for a week.
interestingly, lots of travel insurance companies are simply shrugging their shoulders when people try to make claims over this, sorry, act of god, not covered by insurance.
BTW, back in the day, we used to hear the sonic boom from Concorde, I have heard some talk that while a 747 cruises at 39,000 feet, Concorde's ceiling of 60,000 feet meant that it could have flown OVER these dust clouds...
ferries, channel tunnel, trains, automobiles, nope, just won't do... I have driven from London to Athens in less time than many of these people have been sat in airports wringing their hands... I also suspect that it may be CHEAPER to hire a car and drive back home, than to attempt to live in an airport for a week.
I know a few people that are stuck across the Atlantic from their homes, that really has to stink. A bunch of them had to go on business trips (separate locations) and are now stuck.
I guess there's always the ship / cruise option but I imagine those tend to be a tad more expensive than a company would want to pay for. Especially when they can go to another work-site and use their network to do some of their tasks.
I've taken the train around, even though co-workers prefer to fly. They claim "well the flight's only an hour..." Yeh, but between security and delays you're only really saving an hour over the train. Heck, splurge on 1st class and it's about the same price and quite a pleasant experience to ride the rails for a few hours.
I have heard some talk that while a 747 cruises at 39,000 feet, Concorde's ceiling of 60,000 feet meant that it could have flown OVER these dust clouds...
They still have to take off and land; as far ask I know, that would take the aircraft through the ash cloud.
Even if Virgin Galactic has suborbital transatlantic flights, they'd still need a way to get to up there.
As far as I know, much of the dust around Europe is below the cruising altitude of ordinary jets. The problem is however getting from the airports to that height (not to mention short-haul that wouldn't go so high in any case).
ferries, channel tunnel, trains, automobiles, nope, just won't do... I have driven from London to Athens in less time than many of these people have been sat in airports wringing their hands... I also suspect that it may be CHEAPER to hire a car and drive back home, than to attempt to live in an airport for a week.
Sure, if you knew ahead of time it would be a whole week before air travel resumed again. The first reports I heard were that travel was only suspended until friday, so I'm sure a lot of people h
ferries, channel tunnel, trains, automobiles, nope, just won't do... I have driven from London to Athens in less time than many of these people have been sat in airports wringing their hands... I also suspect that it may be CHEAPER to hire a car and drive back home, than to attempt to live in an airport for a week.
I guess you haven't been reading the stores about the Eurostar and the ferry companies having their busiest days ever. Or the thousand euro taxi rides many are resorting through. Have you conside
1. No, "staying at the airport" is not more expensive for the travellers, even in force majure sitations like this, aviation companies are required to pay for the customers hotel and give enough money/coupons for travellers to eat.
2. People are scrambling for alternative transportation - only those going across the pond are in a really big mess, everyone else are being put on trains, busses and even taxis to get to their destinations (aviation companies are required to give alternative transportation and in
The main plume of the ash blows right across the Shetland islands pretty close to Iceland. The maps with artificial color show it to be black here, any yet, I see nothing. Blue skies, and starry nights. I have see ash from volcanoes where the sun turns red, so I know the scale, and here it is no ash. I have spoken with friends around Europe, and nobody has seen any ash plume. (except Iceland of course)
If anyone have seen any of this ash plume, please respond.
This is all a ploy by Apple to stop Europeans flying to the USA to buy iPads, after the worldwide launch was delayed!
Its not clear whether Jobs has actually placed iNukes in the Icelandic volcano to cause the eruption or if Apple have teamed up with the CIA, SPECTRE, THRUSH, SkyNet and the Milk Marketing Board to hack computers and exaggerate the threats!! Maybe that's not ash on the computer projections - its the famous Reality Distortion Field!!!
Expect the ban to persist until the end of May!!!!
Now I expect all the Apple fanbois will crawl out of the woodwork and start trying to deny the obvious truth, and I'll be modded down faster than an Airbus with both engines on fire. If Microsoft had done this everybody would be up in arms!!!!!
Flights disruptions caused by the ash cloud is only the *beginning*.
The volcanic ash is now attacking servers! Check the disclaimer here, to convince yourself of the problems we're now facing : http://www.ascii-codes.net/cp861.html [ascii-codes.net]
Nobody seems to be talking about the effect that this volcano will have of the weather. Previous large eruptions have caused mini ice ages.
Nobody seems to be talking about the effect that this volcano will have of the weather. Previous large eruptions have caused mini ice ages.
BoingBoing brought it up [boingboing.net]. They say it's too early to be certain, but so far, the latitude of the eruption seems to be high enough that the ash isn't going to block enough solar radiation to cause any noticeable impact. They point out how eruptions at high latitudes, even huge ones like Mt. St. Helens, have very little impact on climate, whereas smaller ones at low latitudes have a much larger one.
There has long been a theory that the upper atmosphere condensation caused by jets affects the temperature on the ground. If the ash cloud has only a small effect, the lack of contrails may cause a substantial heat increase over the next few weeks.
Some Spanish airports are now open again. Madrid is open The ash cloud has moved north. But the volcano is still erupting, ejecting ash to a height of 4Km. The northwestern part of Europe is going to be grounded for a while.
There are still a few transatlantic liners. If you're stuck in Europe, the Queen Mary 2 sails from Southampton to New York in four days [cunard.com]. There's already a waiting list, but it's quite possible that some people planning to take the trip as a cruise can't get to Southampton, and space may open up.
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Users request that nodes can be cloned, meaning that a copy of node can be placed under a different parent in such a way that the copy is guaranteed to be the same as its origin.
This feature will be contained in FreeMind V1.0.0. There is already a preview available in the unstable section.
There is a third-party implementation of cloning, with imperfections like shallow copying and a failure to copy formatting.
The feature has originally been suggested based on the model application Leo - an outliner.
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- Node Cloning Implementation - Open Discussion forum - 2008-03-19
- Freemind with Node Cloning - Open Discussion forum - 2007-09-26
- Cloning of nodes - Open Discussion forum - 2004-02-15
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ROCHESTER, NY — During the fall 2012 checkout scanning campaign at 45 Wegmans stores in New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland, Eastern Pennsylvania, and the Greater Rochester region of New York, hunger relief donations totaled $1.38 million. Check Out Hunger and Care About Hunger programs allow customers to donate $1, $2 $3, $5 or any other amount at checkout with 100% of the proceeds going to each store's local food bank.
"We're thankful for our customers and employees who step up to give in such a generous way," said Linda Lovejoy, Wegmans' community relations manager. "Their donations at checkout help reduce hunger that exists right in our own neighborhoods and communities."
The food banks that will receive donations are listed below with the amount raised, and in parentheses, the Wegmans stores that raised money for them:
• Food Link - $667,644 (Greater Rochester area, New York)
• Frederick Community Action Agency - $9,213 (Frederick, Maryland)
• Maryland Food Bank - $10,503 (Hunt Valley, Maryland)
• Harford Community Action Agency - $8,540 (Bel Air, Maryland)
• Howard County Community Action Council - $25,136 (Columbia, Maryland)
• ACTS - $29,024 (Potomac Mills, Virginia)
• Food for Others - $52,103 (Fairfax, Virginia)
• Fredericksburg Area Food Bank - $12,643 (Fredericksburg, Virginia)
• Loudoun Interfaith Relief - $33,439 (Sterling and Leesburg, Virginia)
• SERVE - $23,091 (Lake Manassas, Virginia)
• Community Food Bank of New Jersey - $58,756 (Bridgewater and Woodbridge, New Jersey)
• Food Bank of Monmouth & Ocean Counties - $117,756 (Ocean and Manalapan, New Jersey)
• Food Bank of South Jersey - $73,119 (Cherry Hill and Mt. Laurel, New Jersey)
• Mercer Street Friends - $66,977 (Princeton, New Jersey)
• Bucks County Opportunity Council - $24,759 (Warrington, Pennsylvania)
• Chester County Food Bank - $57,367 (Downingtown and Malvern, Pennsylvania)
• Cluster Outreach Center - $34,531 (Collegeville, Pennsylvania)
• Second Harvest Food Bank of Lehigh Valley & SE PA - $58,573 (Allentown, Bethlehem, and Nazareth, Pennsylvania)
• Philabundance - $16,468 (King of Prussia, Pennsylvania)
The fall campaigns ran at various dates from October to December. Timing of the annual checkout scanning campaigns varies by region
During this time, the remaining Wegmans stores, which run annual checkout campaigns in February, held a one-time scanning campaign for Feeding America, which provided resources to food banks in the areas affected by Hurricane Sandy. Stores in Buffalo, Syracuse, the Southern Tier, and parts of Pennsylvania accepted donations November 6 – 25, raising $87,010.
Hunger relief scanning campaigns raised a total of $2.3 million at Wegmans in 2012. Since these programs began in 1993, Wegmans has raised more than $21 million for hunger relief.
In addition to money raised for emergency food services in 2012, Wegmans also donated 16 million pounds of food to local food banks, food pantries, and soup kitchens across all of its market areas.


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Could've sworn Slashdot had zero support for unicode characters.
(I appear to be unable to paste in a 'Trademark' symbol. What is this magic, AC?!)
Slashdot supports the first 256 unicode characters (except some of C0 and C1)
If this spells death to those ridiculous smilies then it's ok with me.
They're reason enough for me to almost believe whoever designed ASCII was a genius.
I routinely substitute Cyrillic letters for Latin on Disqus and other forums to get around their filters (which block for more than mere "profanity").
Slashdot does not allow non-ASCII characters — although it does not attempt to screen out profanity either.
Slashdot does not allow non-ASCII characters...
...unless they're in code page 1252.
Slashdot does not allow non-ASCII characters...
Óh réällý?
Óh réällý?
That's pretty cool. I guess, the entire ISO-8859-15 is Ok? But not Cyrillics
...of the e-mail. Any attempt to block spam or phising on the basis of mixing character sets would have to confront the fact that some people do need to mix character sets. Typically representations of Mari in the Latin alphabet, for example, also make use of the Greek letters beta and eta. In fact, eta is used in Latin representations of several minority languages of Russia. And the Reddit crowd loves making weird smilies in their English-language writing by means of symbols drawn from Indian scripts.
Or pe
Heuristics could pretty easily determine if someone communicate only in English in their e-mails, and as such, any legitimate e-mails that contain large amounts of non-English words or characters should be viewed with greater suspicion. For those that routinely communicate in more than one language and use non-ascii sets, the heuristic should be able to account for that fact.
These sorts of rules are always fuzzy by nature. Obviously, whether an e-mail is determined to be legitimate or not is due to many d
Good that this applies to from: and not the body of the e-mail.
That's not at all good and filtering the body exactly what I want.
Spammers already spoof the from: domain and then link you out to exactly the type of domain that Gmail is now filtering.
There's no reason Gmail can't flag [body] links to domains that use mixed character sets.
OK, good. Now if ICANN applied that tougher standard to domain name registrars, we'd make progress. But no, ICANN still allows registrars to register domain names without forcing them to comply with the most restrictive profile.
This looks like fun, I probably wouldn't catch that bank example and family certainly wouldn't. Looks like pretty much any word could substitute one letter.
No idea exactly what these "combinations" are. The example used one letter substitution. Using this example and the little display of new letters there would appear to be billions of potentially misleading combinations.
The "restrictive profile" that Google is using for the filtering is defined in Unicode as any combination of the Latin character set with another set or sets, with the exception of very specific combinations (selected legitimate combinations of Asian sets that contain radically different letter forms and thus are unlikely to cause confusion).
I'd like to see the precise rules (but too lazy to RTFA now). There are many non-english words that can be highly confusing. In french "telephone" is "téléphone" which could be though as a way to trick users. Also turkish have a dotless i, I would not be surprised it appears in words with similar spelling in english.
ITYM téléphone.
If I start a business with a unicode domain, and if later a scammer registers an ascii domain that is similar looking, then Gmail will blackhole my business, not the scammer, because I'm the one using unicode.
And the latest round of whack-a-mole begins...
Damn, now i see it's just domains, i tought they killed all my german and french spammers.
90% of the population would be better off with a white listed email account, i.e. if you are not on their list the email does not get through. END OF STORY.
I would seem to be more efficient to filter mail IN than to filter it out. Most people would have 20 or so people they actually want mail from.
I have mail accounts strictly for family and my local email rules enforce this
I have mail accounts for "sign up" sessions for competitions that I know are going to get spammed to hell
I have mail account for work, another for my business , etc etc all with differing contacts.
White listing would pretty much kill off spam, if there is zero chance of it getting though, what is the point. Currently spammers get through because of out dated spam lists, new tricks to get around baynesian filters, etc etc etc. White lists would negate the need.
Google, if you set up a white listed email system, my friends and family will happily sign up.
most filters are now "very good". And, I make new acquaintenances, connections and friends. They have new email addresses that aren't in the whitelist. But, the filters pretty much just work.
One way you could make whitelists work is to have a "secret handshake", a word that you require in the subject of mail from addresses that aren't whitelisted yet. You would regularly change that word and give it to new acquaintances along with your email address.
The problem with the whitelist approach is something else: A lot of spam already pretends to be from someone you know. Spammers don't just collect individual email addresses anymore. They collect email address pairs: Who knows who.
E-mail authentication seems like a better solution than whitelisting in the long term. Whitelisting can kill off spam, but that's sort of like saying you can fix a broken arm by amputation. It's technically true, but removes a lot of useful functionality.
The big problem with e-mail spam is that the e-mail sender can be trivially forged. If we employed ubiquitous authentication systems that proved a specific domain was used, and blocked non-authenticated users (or at the very least, flag them with a big w
Google, if you set up a white listed email system, my friends and family will happily sign up.
They already happily sign up. Gmail is the largest email provider in the world.
BTW the Gmail spam filter, like any good one, does have per-user whitelists. If you reply to mail or mark mail from a sender as not spam, the filter will leave mail from those senders alone (modulo caveats like the sender properly authenticating). Thus the filter spends almost all of its effort on email from senders you haven't interacte
A whitelist would break site sign-up and password reset emails. You could never whitelist every legit site as hundreds are launched every day. Users will never figure out how to add sites to their whitelists before signing up, and can barely cope with such emails ending up in their spam folders.
Having said that, gmail filters 99.9% of spam for me, and I can tolerate hitting delete for the 1 in 1000 that gets though.
Google, if you set up a white listed email system, my friends and family will happily sign up.
They did, it's called Google+. Nobody seems to like it.
If you use Unicode for domains, addresses, certificates and whatnot you are begging for an endless cascade of support problems and glitches, not to mention security vulnerabilities. Let others exercise all these broken codes paths for you while you avoid the fail. Eventually, after most of the broken code gets cycled out of use, many years from now, you may then safely allow this stuff into real systems.
Unicode breaks all sorts of stuff in subtle and unfixed ways. A fine example from a widely used Micros
But why would anyone waste resources properly fixing a bug that doesn't affect anyone? The only way these things will get fixed properly, is if they start causing a lot of problems. And the only way they'll cause problems is if people start using them.
Meanwhile, why should most of the world's population have to deal with an internet incapable of handling addresses in their language? How would you like it if you woke up tomorrow to discover that all web addresses could only be written in Arabic? The Web m
As much as I can appreciate the intent and the fact that this will solve 99.999% of people's problems for this type of spamming and create 00.0000000001% of problems for legitimate users, it still feels a little like Google is trying to be the thought police on this one; you know free speech and all.
IME, Gmail is rejecting a lot of legitimate mail nowadays.
Their filters used to be good, but they completely fucked it up lately.
As an interesting background fact, I heard that Google has an advanced Al doing all this stuff completely autonomously.
His real name is Albert, by the way.
GMail doesn't accept all comers. Get too many complaints and they'll reject you... this is just new ideas to add to that filter. There's a list of words you can't say on GMail without it getting read, they don't publish those lists because that'll never be said to them.
They're called "code points" actually. A particular code point can be encoded in different ways (for example, the encoding of 'ß' in UTF-8 is different from the encoding in UTF-16, but they both represent the same code point.) Yeah, something like that ought to be used for network addresses...
They are right doing so. There are letters in different alphabets whose typing is very very similar -- or in fact they are written exactly the same, depending on the font used.
This can be exploited for interesting uses. For example, "E" and "ÃZ"** are respectively the latin "e" and the greek "epsilon" vowels, but they are indistinguishable in caps, at least in Arial font. The second one is the UTF 395 code. My name has an "E" on it, and for my email signature I spell my name using the traditional latin
It allows combinations of Latin + Han + Hiragana + Katakana; Latin + Han + Bopomofo; or Latin + Han + Hangul.
There are a lot of equally safe combinations - what about Latin + Devanagari + Tamil? There would be no look-alike characters and it would allow a lot of people to put their name in multiple scripts that are likely to be meaningful to certain audiences (e.g. someone from Tamil Nadu sending an email to people throughout India and internationally). I'm sure that there are many other combinations that wouldn't have "look alike" issues but which would be useful
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Wanda Zemler-Cizewski (Ph.D. 1983, University of Toronto, Medieval Studies; historical area) specializes in the history of medieval scholastic theology and interpretation of scripture, with a particular interest in the twelfth century. She recently published a translation of Peter Abelard's Expositio in hexaemeron or interpretation of Genesis 1 to 3, and is currently working on translations of exegetical and cosmological texts by Rupert of Deutz and Honorius Augustodunensis.
She has also published a lengthy article on Thomas Aquinas' use of Philippians 2: 5-11, and a series of articles on his doctrines of ius and lex. Other areas of interest include language theory in the Augustinian tradition, the use of Jewish sources by Christian exegetes in the twelfth century, and the creation and purpose of woman according to the medieval Jewish and Christian exegetical traditions.


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"If you're as busy as I am, you don't have time to spend all day finding content, and managing your Twitter account. Steven Hughes wrote a great post a few weeks ago about how to manage Twitter efficiently, and spoke about Twitter tools. I'll expand more on that topic in this post. There are plenty of Twitter tools out there that make it a lot easier for you to do your daily Twitter work. Here are some of my favourite Twitter tools for content and account management that I could not live without:"
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 20th May 2013 21:50 UTC
PocketNow interviews Marc Dillon, and there's an interesting note about why Jolla is keeping the display properties under wraps: "We're leaving some of those details out because we do understand that there are a lot of really big players in the market and they tend to take certain components in the market and dominate them. We created the ability to actually be able to run Sailfish on multiple hardware displays and be able to swap components, so this is part of the demand and supply planning phase. We are committed to this industrial design which is a 4.5-inch display, an 8 megapixel camera on the back and a front-facing camera at the front, and the exact specs of the display we'll provide when we're close to delivery." Something you rarely hear anything about.
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No, I think Android is Linux's, best option.
I naturally didn't mean Android since while it uses Linux kernel, it's not glibc based. So read my statement above as talking about glibc Linux. And as a mobile option Android is for sure not the best. Its only advantage over normal Linux is in the fact that it came early, but not in its technical superiority. Android bionic is worse than glibc and incompatibility with glibc makes it a completely separate beast, where effort can't shared.
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Race as biology has largely been discredited, yet beliefs about one race being biologically superior to another still seem to pervade one social arena: sports. Claims that different races have genetic advantages to play particular sports persists both because individual athletic ability obviously has some basis in biology (even though that does not mean it is racial biology at play) and athletics appears to be one social arena where racial minorities succeed over whites in certain sports.
For example, according to the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports' 2011 Racial and Gender Report Card on The National Football League (http://www.tidesport.org), over 2/3rds of players in the NFL are African American — far higher than the proportion of Blacks in the general population of the United States. This report also shows that all other racial groups are under-represented in the NFL relative to their proportion in the general population, including Asians who make up only 2% of the players in the league.
These statistics compel many to assume that racial biology plays a large part in athletic success. However, the 60 Minutes investigation Football Island debunks this assumption during a trip to the place where most of the Asian players in the NFL come from: American Samoa. This small island is a U.S. Territory in the Pacific and has a population small enough to seat comfortably in most professional football stadiums. Yet the average Samoan child "is 56 times more likely to get into the NFL than any other kid in America."
60 Minutes finds Samoans succeed at football only in small part because of their size and strength. Rather, their success grows mostly out of a "warrior culture" that instills a strong work ethic in young men. Also, on the island the daily chores that are a necessary part of survival provide a lifetime of athletic conditioning. In short, many of the Asian players in the NFL are successful because of their nurturing, and not their nature.
Samoans are also driven to succeed at football because they come from a place plagued by poverty and often their only chance at a better life is through athletics (that, or follow another Samoan tradition and join the Armed Forces). In the video, the most famous Samoan player, Troy Palamalu of the Pittsburgh Steelers, explains "football is a 'meal ticket.' Just like any marginalized ethnic group, you know, if you don't make it to the NFL, what do you have to go back to?"
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New EU support for job creation and vocational training for young people in Egypt
The European Commission has approved new programmes for Egypt, to support job creation for unskilled workers, and to enhance the efficiency of the Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET) system to better respond to the demands of the labour market and to the country's new socio-economic needs.
The new support for job creation will provide immediate short term employment opportunities to 82,000 workers in small infrastructure projects located in the poorest areas of Egypt. Projects will include construction work and the provision of community services. In addition the EU support will aim to improve living conditions of the most vulnerable population segments.
The support to the TVET system will enhance the skills of young people to meet the labour market's demands, with particular attention to the tourism sector. Two million pupils in the secondary technical education are expected to benefit from this EU support.
EU Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy, Štefan Füle, said: "Our new support is responding directly to the crucial demands expressed by young people in Egypt during the Arab Spring last year and we are committed to helping to provide Egyptian citizens with new job opportunities, which is one of the top priorities of the new Egyptian leadership".
The total value of both programmes is €120 million, where €70 million is marked for programme to create jobs and €50 million for vocational training.
These programmes are part of the overall financial assistance package that the EU is mobilising in support to Egypt's transition and which is being unveiled at the EU Egypt task force on 14 November.
Job creation programme
The €70 million programme on job creation, which aims to contribute to stronger economic and social cohesion, has three main components: (a) Employment-Intensive small scale infrastructure subprojects to include: reduction and cleaning of canal weeds, Nile river bank protection, upgrading rural housing conditions, pavement of rural roads, school rehabilitation, (b) Employment intensive community service subprojects such as solid waste management and collection and early childhood education (nursery) and, nutrition services and (c) Improving workers' employability, with an emphasis on youth employment activities in urban and rural areas.
Technical Education and Vocational Training programme
The €50 million programme on Technical and Vocational Education Training builds on the first phase of EU support to the TVET system in Egypt. The new support will be organised around the following three components: (a) Improving the Governance of the Egyptian TVET system, (b) Enhancing the relevance and quality of TVET: in particular of Technical Secondary Schools and the Vocational Training Centres in various economic areas such as Tourism and Agriculture and (c) Promoting the transition to employment through the development of relevant programmes to match the labour market demand, therefore improving the employability of youth and workers.
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Missouri Republican Party Executive Director Matt Wills denounced voter registration efforts amid continued protests in Ferguson, calling it "disgusting."
"If that's not fanning the political flames, I don't know what is," Wills told Breitbart News, a conservative website, Monday.
He also called the actions "completely inappropriate."
These blah people clearly don't know their place, right Patriot Matt? How dare they legally and rationally try to use their voices in more ways than one!
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A plan to open an Edgemere residential program for homeless women is stirring concern among some residents in southeastern Baltimore County, highlighting a struggle that advocates for the homeless say they face in finding space for hundreds of people in need.
Catholic Charities wants to open a facility called Hosanna House for 14 women, age 50 and older, at a former assisted-living facility and convent next to St. Luke's Roman Catholic Church. A county administrative law judge approved that plan earlier this year, but the North Point Peninsula Council and some residents filed an appeal.
"We don't have any homeless on the peninsula," community council president Harry Wujek Jr. told members of the county Board of Appeals on Thursday. "So why do we want to bring 14 homeless into our community, when we don't have any?"
The board is expected to decide on the case within the next few weeks.
Catholic Charities and county officials say homelessness is more pervasive than many think, and the program and others like it are badly needed. Baltimore County has four emergency shelters — in Rosedale, Catonsville, Woodlawn and Reisterstown.
Hosanna House would provide "permanent supportive housing" with assistance such as transportation, case management, and help finding employment.
"We do not have enough of that housing in the county," said Sue Bull, the county's homeless services coordinator.
Rev. Kristofer Lindh-Payne, co-rector of Epiphany Episcopal Church in Timonium and a board member of Baltimore County Communities for the Homeless, said at the hearing that the county now has fewer than 100 permanent supportive housing units for the homeless — and needs about 350 more.
The Hosanna House plan sparked worries about safety for some residents, especially because the St. Luke pre-school is less than 20 feet from the property.
Both St. Luke's parish council and the Our Lady of Hope/St. Luke School board voted to oppose Hosanna House, said Robert Zacherl, who is president of both. Now the preschool is moving to another location because of parents' concerns, he said.
The program would accommodate women with disabilities, which could include a mental illness or substance abuse, said Mary Anne O'Donnell, director of the community services division at Catholic Charities. The women would be randomly drug-tested and wouldn't be allowed to stay at the house if they're using drugs or alcohol.
O'Donnell said she understands community concerns, but said the program would help the women find employment and volunteer opportunities, she said. They would pay a percentage of their income for rent.
"We're really just trying to get people back to being productive members of the community," she said.
Supporters pointed to the success of Holden Hall, a similar program for men in Baltimore.
Hosanna House — to be funded with federal grant money —- initially was meant to serve men, but Catholic Charities switched that to women, believing it would ease some of the residents' concern, O'Donnell said. The county plans to keep seeking opportunities to provide supportive housing for homeless men, Bull said.
"That will not stop," she said.
Francis Taylor of the North Point Peninsula Council told members of the appeals board his group debated whether to get involved, but ultimately decided to. He said the peninsula lacks public transportation and employment opportunities for the homeless people who would be in the program.
Sherrie Watts, who is part of a supportive housing program at the YWCA in Arbutus, said community opposition is hurtful.
"I'm not a drug addict, I'm not an alcoholic," she said. "I'm just a person that fell on hard times."
Wujek told the Board of Appeals that "perception plays a great big role in this." When he thinks of a homeless person, he said, "I see a guy standing on a corner, disheveled, dirty, filthy, with a cardboard sign."
Not all neighbors oppose the plan.
Gary Quatmann, treasurer of the resident association at St. Luke's Place, a Catholic Charities senior-housing complex near the church, said he didn't understand why some people have a problem with the proposal.
"If I didn't have a nice Social Security check, I'd be homeless," he said.


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It Starts with an Island: An Empty Terrain in the Danshui River, Taipei and Orz Boyz
For Slavoj Zizek the empty place or void stands for 'Drive/Death Drive': "a drive is not a primordial, positive force but a purely geometrical, topological phenomenon, the name for the curvature of the space of desire." (Zizek 2005: 361) This paper examines this 'empty space' in two recent cultural texts relating to Taiwan: one a multi-media presentation at the Taipei Biennial and the other the movie, Orz Boyz. The connecting topology belongs to the topography of islands found in the rivers of Taipei. Both the film and the multi-media project make explicit use of the islands in ways which this paper relates to the psychoanalytic project of Zizek/Lacan. The possible discourses, besides psychoanalysis emerging from these two cultural objects are outlined, but in particular the notion of childhood and underdevelopment/overdevelopment are discussed. From this vantage point, childhood/drive and the symbolic order this paper examines the current predicament of Taiwan from a psychoanalytic point of view.
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Edward left in New Moon and Bella moved on. She lives a happy life with her husband but never forgets him. One day Edward receives a letter from Bella and her husband. What is written in the letter? Review please.
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'Edward! There's a letter for you here.' Carlisle called me.
I ran to the door to get the letter. I didn't get letters very often. The letters usually were addressed to Carlisle and Esme because they were my foster parents and since I was a minor. When they were addressed to me they were college acceptations. I didn't really care about college acceptations. I always got accepted in every college I applied to. My grades were perfect. Life was not fun anymore. I stopped living when I left Bella. My life had completely changed since then. We were currently living Portland, Oregon. Our house was huge. Carlisle was a doctor in the Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital & Medical Center, Esme was the owner of a clothes shop, Emmett and Rosalie were currently traveling around the world, Jasper was writing a novel, Alice was a wedding planner and I….well, I was applying to college once again. I never had a job I was constantly attending to High School and to college. It was monotone, but I hadn't moved on after I left Bella. The only thing that had changed about me was that now, I barely spoke to my family and my appearance.
'Here.' I thanked Carlisle and went back to my room. On my way, I couldn't stop wondering what was the letter about. It couldn't be a college acceptance because I had already gotten all of them. I had no idea what it was, but I didn't look to the envelope. I didn't see the name of the person nor the address. When I got to my bedroom, I sat in my bed.
I looked at the address first. It was from North Carolina. Then, I checked the name. Isabella Marie Martinez. Oh no. I unfolded the letter and started reading it. It had two papers. They were numbered. I started reading the first.
' Mr. Edward Cullen
Hello. My name is John Martinez. I married Bella 7 years ago. I don't really know what to write, but I am hoping you will understand me. I'm going to tell you what happened. 7 years ago, Bella and I met and 3 years later we got married. I love her. With all my heart, I love her. 3 years ago, Bella got pregnant and we had our first child. Her name is Alexia. She is beautiful. She looks like Bella. 3 months ago, our second child was born. Her name's Brittany and she looks like me. Bella found out she had breast cancer a 10 months ago. She was already pregnant and she decided that she wouldn't start chemo until Brittany was born. When Brittany was born it was already too late. She was too weak and the cancer was already in an advanced stage. I was there for her every night and day. I cried for her. I prayed for her. I did everything I could. Unfortunately she did not survive. She died a few days after Brittany's birth. She told me about you when we met. A few hours before she died, she asked me to send you this letter. I did some research and I finally found out your address. I'm going to be honest. I don't hate you, but I don't love you either. I know that Bella loved me. But not as much as she loved you. Even in her last days, I know she was thinking of you a lot. I believe that her last thought was of you. I am not mad for that. She told me that you asked her to move on. She did her best to move on. Mr. Edward Cullen, I would like to meet you someday. With this letter, I am sending you a photo of me, Bella when she was pregnant of Brittany and Alexia.
My best wishes,
John Martinez'
I was speechless. I wanted to die. I want to kill myself. I hated myself. I loved that man for sending me that letter. I was thankful to him.
Without saying a word, I moved on to Bella's letter.
' Dear Edward,
I love you. You are my life. I love you. You are my other half. But I moved on. The first months were terrible. I was really depressed. I tried to commit suicide. I became best friends with Jacob Black. He helped me recovering. He was always there for me. Then I went to college in Alaska. I met John when I was in my first year of college. We started talking to each other more often and then he asked me out. I accepted. After that first date, we started seeing each other more and talking on the phone every day. When I trusted him enough, I told him about you. I told him what you were, I told him about your family, about you. I told him that you used to be my boyfriend and that you left me because you didn't love me anymore. I believed me. I started crying. He hugged me and told me that it was okay to feel like that. I married him when I was 22. Charlie was really happy about me and he liked John. When I was 25, we had our first child. Alexia looks just like me. She's lovely. It was hard at first because we weren't used to have a baby crying all the time, but we got used to it. Now, I am expecting my second child. Her name will be Brittany. I might not last long enough to get to meet her though. I have cancer. Breast cancer. I found out I had cancer when I was 2 months pregnant. I don't want to start chemo before I have Brittany. She is going to live. Even if I have to die for her. Me, John and Alexia are living our lives. Alexia doesn't really understand what's going on with me. She knows she'll have a baby sister soon but she doesn't know more. Me and John talked about telling her about my cancer but we agreed that she wouldn't understand and we decided not to tell her. If I survive Edward, I will send you this. If I don't, John will. He promised me he'd do it for me. I still think about you every single day Edward. And I think that John knows that. He doesn't talk to me about it though. He's been very supportive of me. He doesn't ask for anything. He helps me with everything. I'm getting weaker. I know that. I can feel that. He sees that. He doesn't cry in front of me, but one night I saw him crying. It hurt so bad. It killed me to watch him crying. It wasn't fair. This morning, me, Alexia and John went to take a photo together. I love that picture. I'm crying now Edward. I love you. I love John, I love your family, I love Alexia and I love Brittany. Part of me thinks that you left because you thought it was the best for me. And that you still love me. The other part doesn't want to believe in that. This is my goodbye. With all of my love,
Bella Martinez'
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Trevor Banks Overtime Goals Gives ODU, 2-1 Win Over VCU
By ODU Athletics
Oct. 12, 2007
NORFOLK, VA--Trevor Banks scored with 1:10 left in the second overtime period to give the Monarchs (6-4-1/3-0) a 2-1 Colonial Athletic Association victory over the Rams of Virginia Commonwealth (5-3-2/1-2) Friday evening in front of a crowd 1,006 at the ODU Soccer Stadium. With the win, ODU remains unbeaten in the CAA .
VCU scored first 23 minutes into the match as Sven Meusch got a give-and go from Carlos Herdy and Matthijs Maruanaya after a steal. ODU got the equalizer 16 minutes later on a free kick by Ollie Lutton who headed in a pass with assists from David Horst and A.J. Kulp.
The winning goal again came on a free kick on almost the exact same play with sssists again from seniors Horst and Kulp. Banks leads the Monarchs in scoring with three goals, two assists and eight points.
ODU outshot VCU, 18-8 as VCU keeper Andrew Dykstra had eight saves. The Monarchs host James Madison Sunday at 1 p.m.
23:11 VCU Sven Meusch from Carlos Herdy & Matthijs Maruanaya 39:03 ODU Ollie Lutton from David Horst and A.J. Kulp 108.50 ODU Trevor Banks from David Horst and AJ Kulp
Shots: ODU (18), VCU (8) Corners: ODU (2) VCU (4) Saves: ODU-Evan Newton(1), VCU-Andrew Dykstra (8)


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Join area alumni, students, parents and friends of Albion College at the Chelsea Alehouse Brewery and start your weekend right. Owned by Chris and Aubrey Martinson -- both graduates of the class of 2001 -- the Chelsea Alehouse Brewery opened to rave reviews earlier this year. Come enjoy a beverage -- such as a 402 East Porter, named in honor of the legendary Goodrich Club at Albion College. Spend some time connecting with fellow Brits.
Chelsea Alehouse Brewery
420 N. Main, Suite 100
Chelsea, MI 48118
The $10 cost includes appetizers and a $5 donation to the Albion College Fund. To register, use our secure online form or contact the Office of Alumni Engagement through the email address or phone number above.


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Police activity reports
Compiled from selected police activity reports.
Buckeye Lake
• April 8: A Grove City man said someone stole the license plate from his boat's trailer.
• April 8: A Duke service station employee said a customer left without paying for $30.26 in gasoline.
• April 9: A driver was cited for traveling 46 miles per hour in a 35 zone on Hebron Road.
• April 10: A Walnut Road woman said someone broke into her shed and stole a child's John Deere pull wagon.
• April 10: A Hebron woman left her purse on a table and returned to find a man rummaging through it. She said the man quickly left in a late 1990s blue Dodge Neon and she discovered two blank checks were missing from her purse.
• April 10: A Walnut Road man said someone shoved him during a verbal dispute and he wanted to press charges.
• April 12: A man was permanently barred from the Buckeye Lake Estates for fighting.
• March 27: Police were sent to the Hebron Road trailer park at 11:26 p.m. on a report of a possible disturbance. Police found a man there who said he was scrapping metal which was creating a lot of noise. The man told police that someone had taken his power bayonet saw between 9:30 to 10:30 p.m. Police took a report.
• March 28: Police were dispatched again to the Hebron Road trailer park this time at 1:39 a.m. on a report of several gun shots heard. Police were backed up by three Licking County Sheriff's Office deputies. Police checked the area but didn't find anything.
• March 28: Police made a traffic stop on East Main Street and cited a motorist for driving under suspension.
• March 29: Police were called about three suspicious vehicles in the Duke station parking lot at 3:07 p.m. The tags on the first vehicle were expired. Police waited for the driver to appear. When he showed up, he asked police to let him drive home since it was just down the road. Police told him he had to get a ride or walk. Police asked for his license which he couldn't provide. When he provided other identification, police found an outstanding warrant for him from Fairfield County. The warrant was confirmed and he was turned over to a Fairfield County Sheriff's Office deputy at the Pilot Truck Stop.
• March 29: A Heath man asked police for help in obtaining his vehicle title from a Hebron man. The effort was unsuccessful.
• March 29: Police assisted a Licking County Sheriff's Office deputy investigating a phone harassment incident at a South High Street home.
• March 30: Police responded to an alarm drop at Refugee Canyon Vet Service. The building checked secure.
• March 30: A Canal Road apartment resident came to the police department to file a report on domestic violence. Police took photos of her injuries and a statement.
• March 30: Police were dispatched to a verbal domestic dispute. A 48-year-old man was upset after learning that his sixmonth old son is not his biological child. The mother of the infant returned after phoning police and the dispute resumed. Police separated the two. Police left after the disappointed father calmed down.
• March 30: A Canal Road apartment resident told police that the father of her children was coming to pick them up for visitation. She added that his license was under child support suspension. When police arrived his van was still running. He ac- knowledged that his license was suspended. He was cited for the violation. He made arrangements for a ride to take the children to his home.
• March 31: Police issued two citations for excessive speed in a 25 mph zone on Canal Road. One driver was going 40 mph and the other was doing 44 mph.
• March 31: A 4th Avenue mother said a named adult had been texting obscene messages to her 14-year-old daughter. The man told police he thought he was texting his brother-in-law. He was told to immediately stop texting that number or face charges.
• March 31: Police were called to an Eldridge Place apartment on a Life Alert alarm. The 65-yearold woman was OK. Her system had come unplugged from the wall.
• March 31: A driver was cited for going 68 mph in a 50 mph zone on Ohio 79 at US 40.
• March 31: A Canal Road apartment resident said his upstairs neighbor makes noise all night and keeps him up. Police told the neighbor to keep the noise down.
• April 1: Police on patrol at 12:08 a.m. saw a person in a black hooded sweatshirt walking down Cumberland Street near Parks Street. The 18-year-old said he just wanted to go out for a walk.
• April 1: Police assisted a LCSO deputy with a BAC test.
• April 1: A driver was cited for going 40 mph in a 25 mph zone on Canal Road. The driver was warned for expired tags.


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02-07-2005, 11:05 PM #1bobby_bishopGuestNeed help building first website, have Go Live
I'm trying to learn the basics to creating a website. I have registered for a free webhost (geocities) and I have the Adobe Creative Suite, thus having Go Live. If someone could explain the initial steps to start editing in Go Live, or maybe a referrence, i'd appreciate it.
02-08-2005, 12:41 AM #2steviebGuest
The built in help files will be your best friend for GoLive.
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The help fie is a reference and isn't structured (or designed) to teach you GoLive. You need to have some form of training material to help get you started.
Don't know how good they are, but VTC has online training videos (also cd's).
http://www.vtc.com/ Adobe sells a hands-on training workbook (Classroom in a Book) that would be of aid. There are several books on the market that would help. You need to make sure that it starts at a beginner's level and pay attention to the reviews.
Once you get a basic understanding of the environment, download sites from the web and see how others build their site.
Good luck on your adventure!I don't know what tomorrow holds, but I know who holds tomorrow.
02-08-2005, 09:15 AM #4steviebGuest
I agree with immbd. I was just saying, that use the help whenever you have a small question to see how somthing works (frames, etc..). Also you may want to check out Sitesled (http://www.sitesled.com) I'm not sure about geocities, but with sitesled you can use FTP, so you can upload your site directly through GoLive.
02-08-2005, 03:55 PM #5ZebGuestNeed finetuning?
If you ever want to learn HTML yourself even if just to fine tune your site then I strongly recommend http://www.w3schools.com
I create all my sites by hand and that's where I started learning. I'm now using the same site to learn PHP - they have great tutorials and examples which can be edited so you can see how changes effect the output.
One last site I recommend is http://www.htmlhelp.com
Sincere apologies if I've broken any rules posting links here, this is my first post and hopefully not the last.
I only have a PC myself but there are Macs in the family and this looks like a great source of information and hopefully I'll be able to contribute as much as I learn.
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A great book for Adobe GoLive is Adobe GoLive Classroom in a Book
I was just learning and currently use GoLive. This book was a great help.
About $30 - 40
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I also have another book I got from Amazon. It's a basic html book.
When I get home I will post the name & ISBN#
Great book to learn basic html code as a starting point.
02-08-2005, 11:20 PM #8steviebGuest
Yeah, Learn how HTML works, so then when something is not working properly, you can figure it out by using the code.
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Found that book I mentioned earlier-
10 Minute Guide to HTML by Tim Evans ISBN 0789705419
Good book for beginners just starting. Teaches basic html.
All you need is a computer, any text editor, any browser.
02-12-2005, 02:26 AM #10bobby_bishopGuestthanks
thanks for the replies. i'm using the tutorials on Go Live and it's going smoothly.
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June 12, 2007 > Avoid the Summer Pinch at the Pumps
Drivers nationwide are feeling the pinch at the pumps, and as record high gas prices set in across the country, the pinch isn't likely to lighten up during the peak driving season, according to Mike Sullivan, director of education for Take Charge America, a national non-profit credit counseling agency."Now that $3 a gallon - or more - is the norm in many parts of the nation, consumers are feeling the financial strain whether they're planning a summer getaway or just trying to get to work," he said.According to a recently released survey from AAA, traveling this summer will be more expensive than last - and not just at the gas pumps. Combined, lodging and restaurants are expected to be about 3.7 percent more expensive than last year.If you are one of the millions planning to hit the road this summer, Sullivan offers seven tips to help you save:* Keep vehicle properly maintained - Get regular tune ups and vehicle maintenance checks to improve gas mileage. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, drivers who follow the manufacturer's maintenance recommendations should avoid fuel economy problems due to worn spark plugs, dragging breaks, low transmission fluid or the transmission not going into high gear.* * Check tires - Check your tire pressure regularly to be sure that they are inflated in accordance with the manufacturer's specifications. AAA says properly inflated tires can increase gas mileage as much as 2 percent.* Combine trips - Let your daily or weekly errands accumulate until you can complete them in a single trip. In addition to saving gas, you will reduce wear and tear on your car.* * Lighten the load - Remove heavy objects from your vehicle. They heavier the vehicle, the more gas it expends.* * Drive gently - An easy touch on the accelerator and slower speeds will also save on gas.* * Do your homework - Check around for the cheapest gas in your area. Prices can vary up to 20 cents per gallon from block to block. Web sites like http://gasbuddy.com provide users with a list of the cheapest gas stations by zip code. * Avoid peak driving times - If possible, adjust your work or school hours to avoid peak traffic times at rush hour. This may involve coming into the office an hour later and leaving an hour early, or visa versa. This way, you and can get to your destination sooner with fewer stops and idle time.* * Find alternative modes of transportation - Carpool or use public transportation whenever possible. This can include trips to work, school, sports practice or a night on the town. You should also consider walking or cycling to nearby locations.About Take Charge AmericaFounded in 1987, Take Charge America, Inc. is a non-profit organization headquartered in Phoenix, Ariz. TCA offers a variety of services including financial education, credit counseling, and debt management. To learn more about TCA or its programs please call 1-800-823-7396 or visit www.takechargeamerica.org.


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Discussion in 'The Bar' started by jaw_belize, Nov 5, 2012.
the new photobucket site
please stop making threads
Is this some kind of spinoff thread? What is Photobuck? My Photobucket hasn't changed.
You can choose to use the old site. That's what I am doing.
belizian spelling
o rly?
i'm going to try that
On the right side near the top there's a link to switch back to original photobucket. When you click it it will ask you why and tell them that they suck and should stick with what got them there you fucking cunt nuggets. Then it will switch back to the old mode and remember you every time you sign on.
I dont see that option
Nope, mine still looks like it did before
Why are you taking pictures inside a liquor store?
I went to this humungous liquor store in Delaware and they had a walk in humidor that was bigger than most stores up here. I took a picture of it to show my friend.


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Thursday, October 20, 2011
Deadpool UPDATE!
Anyway, seems like a good time to update the Deadpool. Cast your thoughts back to January 7, 2011, when I first posted this year's Deadpool. Let's see how our contestants are doing.
TK had Zsa Zsa Gabor, Elizabeth Taylor, Tony Bennett, Willie Mays, and Jerry Stiller. I haven't checked on Zsa Zsa lately. Still alive? I think she's still alive. So all I got is Liz. I feel bad for picking Willie Mays, but this is strictly business, nothing personal, Say Hey. 21 points.
(To recap, to determine your points, subtract the person's age at death from 100. That way, you get fewer points for picking the Extremely Old/Close to Death. If you pick over 100, you lose points. That's on you. Blame the playa, not the game.)
The Wife had Roger Ebert, Hal Holbrook, Queen Elizabeth, Tara Reid, and Liza Minelli. I just checked and Hal's still alive, so no luck here. 86 years old and still doing the Mark Twain schtick! We should all be so lucky! 0 points.
The guest anonymously known as Sigmund had Michael Douglas, Dick Clark, Betty White, Margaret Thatcher, and Tracy Morgan. Unless you can die of getting laid too much, Michael Douglas is gonna be fine! HAR HAR HAR. 0 points.
The Sister had Lindsay Lohan, John Cougar Mellencamp, and Fidel Castro. She tried to sneak in later and add Aretha Franklin. I DON'T THINK SO BITCH. Anyway, lotta good it did her. She's still got an outside shot with Castro, I guess. 0 points.
Stoney selected Bret Michaels, Natalie Portman, Jimmy Carter, and David Crosby. I kind of like each one of these picks for different reasons, but I hate to inform Stoney that it's not 1736 and so the chances of Natalie dying in childbirth were slim. 0 points.
Finally, we have Natasha. Fucking Natasha picked: Hugh Hefner, Gaddafi, Kim Jong-Il, Amy Winehouse, and Dick Cheney. Winehouse, obviously, was a points bonanza, and Gaddafi wasn't exactly ancient either. Natasha is fucking walking away with this. DON'T LET NATASHA GET CLOSE TO YOU, FOR THE STENCH OF DEATH IS HEAVY ON THIS ONE. Also, WATCH THE FUCK OUT, KIM JONG-IL. I mean, if you're even still alive. 104 points!!!!!!
So, in other words, even if Zsa Zsa, Tony Bennett, Willie Mays, and Jerry Stiller all get ahold of some bad mussels at a charity auction in Lake Havasu, I STILL CAN'T FUCKING WIN. I need to remember to pick some young people next year.
Watch your back, pretty boy.
6 comments:
- Skance said...
I'm really floored we've had three deaths already this year. We've had a coupple of barren years in the past, and three is unprecendented. Two deaths credited to the same person is dark magic indeed. Ebert just keeps on screwing me.
- October 20, 2011 at 11:33 AM
- Tamagosan said...
Since I missed the WS game last night, this filled my need for sports this morning. Thanks!
- October 20, 2011 at 11:48 AM
- Rocco said...
didn't i win one year? who did i have? do you have notes for this?
- October 20, 2011 at 11:59 AM
- TK said...
Tam -
You "missed" it, like you intended to watch and didn't? I actually couldn't care less. Or is it COULD care less? I can never remember.
Rocco -
Yeah, I think you won with Barry White in 2003.
- October 20, 2011 at 12:56 PM
- Stoney said...
Barry White was 2003?!?!? OMG, I'm fucking OLD.
Damn you and your healthy baby, Natalie Portman. Aleph? Like the Hebrew letter? Um, okay.
- October 20, 2011 at 1:04 PM
- NikkiL said...
Looks like Natasha has a few more points headed her way...
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(July 11, 2011) An orb was seen over Bangkok, Thailand. Watch video HERE.
(July 11, 2001) A fast bright object was recorded in Minneapolis in Minnesota. Watch video HERE.
(July 10, 2011) An unknown light was seen flying in the sky over Montebello in California. Watch video HERE.
Silvi alta (Teramo, Italia) – July 8, 2011
Michigan City, Indiana – July-8-2011
(July 4, 2011) New footage of unidentified flying object flying across the sky over Lake Erie in United States. Watch video HERE.
(July 4, 2011) A big and blue object was seen moving rapidly in California. Watch video HERE.
(July 3, 2011) Huge bright object was recorded hovering stationary in the sky above northern Brazil. Watch video HERE.
(June 30, 2011) A huge bright UFO or orb flying across the sky was recorded in Battipaglia near Salerno in southern Italy. Watch video HERE.
(June 29, 2011) This video seems to show one ufo following another in UK.
(June 27, 2011) UFO activity was seen in the night sky above Buenos Aires, Argentina. Read more HERE.
(June 27, 2011) A bright orb was seen in the sky over Buenos Aires in Argentina. Watch video HERE.
(June 26, 2011) An orb was seen in the dark clouds over Atlanta, Georgia. Watch video HERE.
(June 26, 2011) A bright object over Seattle in Washington State. Watch video HERE.
(June 24, 2011) A bright light was seen in feilds outside of the town of Oakbank in Manitoba, Canada a few times the last few weeks. seen by many people.
(June 20, 2011) A bright object or orb was recorded hovering in the daytime sky above Tijuana in Mexico. Watch video HERE.
(June 10, 2011) An orb or plasma craft was seen and filmed over Fresno in California. Watch video HERE.
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2003-04 Men's Basketball
tu 69, bc 63
Senior Brad Boyles leads team with 18 points
By Chad Hochstetler, SID assistant
February 7, 2004
BLUFFTON , OHIO - The Bluffton College men's basketball team (9-12, 3-7 HCAC) were defeated by Transylvania University (13-6, 7-3 HCAC) 69-63 on Saturday afternoon.
The Pioneers took control of the game very early. Bluffton committed five turnovers in the first six minutes, to fall behind 14-4. The Beavers would battle back and cut the lead to four points with left, but Transylvania answered back with a quick 8-0 run. Bluffton shot 36 percent in the first period which contributed to a halftime score of 33-21 in favor of the Pioneers.
The Beavers shooting dramatically improved in the second period by posting an incredible 68 percent, but it was not enough to close the gap. Bluffton would pull within three points with remaining after a free throw by Sophomore Eric Sweet (Ottawa/Ottawa-Glandorf). Sophomore Scott Bergman (Elmore/Woodmore) made the Beavers only three-point field goal with 24 seconds left to play, but it was not enough as Transylvania was able to make free throws down the stretch for the final score of 69-63. Bluffton has made at least one three-point shot in every game dating back to the 1992-1993 season. This streak now stands at 289 games.
Leading the Beavers on the day was Senior Brad Boyles ( Berne , Ind. /South Adams ) with 18 points. Sweet chipped in 14 points. Bergman rounded off the double figure scoring with 11 points and pulled down a game high nine rebounds. Bluffton out rebounded Transylvania 33-26 and posted 22 points in the paint compared to Transylvania 's 16.
Bluffton will travel to Cincinnati on Wednesday to take on Mount St. Joseph . Tip off is set for .


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Lenovo's mobile push stalls in China
Samsung steamrolls everyone, including Apple and Gartner
Posted in Business, 23rd April 2013 02:34 GMT
Lenovo's emergence as a smartphone player has stalled in China, where Samsung is eating everyone else alive, as indeed it is also doing around the world.
Lenovo last year entered the burgeoning Chinese smartphone market with Android-powered budget models priced at under $US200, the sweet spot for smartphones in the Middle Kingdom. The phones were a hit and Lenovo quickly challenged Samsung as China's dominant smartphone vendor, capturing around three per cent of the global market along the way.
That success led to speculation that Lenovo could bring its smartphones to the rest of the world, perhaps even by acquiring BlackBerry. Analyst firm Gartner even predicted 2013 would see Lenovo would knock Samsung off its perch as China's top mobile vendor.
Rival analyst outfit TrendForce says that's not happening, as Samsung's global market share of 29.6 per cent included 11.7 million Chinese sales for 2013's first quarter (out of 65m in global sales). Lenovo, by contrast, went backwards as it racked up just 7.6m sales, around 15 per cent less than expected.
TrendForce says that slippage also hit other Chinese mobe-makers and can be attributed to the fact that Samsung is now China's "leading brand in terms of both reputation and image". The Korean company's not far off that status in the rest of the mobe-buying world, as TrendForce says it outsold Apple handily in Q1 of 2013 and put a 1.2 per cent dent in Cupertino's global handset market share, in part because "circumstances surrounding the announcement of Apple's new device are unclear, while Samsung, HTC, Sony, and other global corporations are planning product unveilings for the second quarter, which will likely lead to another dip in Apple's shipments."
TrendForce isn't being entirely kind with that point, as post-Christmas sales aren't strong, making a Q1 sales dip entirely excusable.
At this time of year Apple often "freezes the market" by leaking and later announcing details of its latest creations so that punters wait for the new iPhone instead of splashing cash on rival products. With significant smartphone differentiators now hard to spot it's debatable whether that trick will work again if Apple sticks to its release cycle of an "S-model" update in odd-numbered years, as a tweaked iPhone 5 won't startle many buyers.
And Lenovo? It's had a lesson in just how hard the smartphone market can be for all players: TrendForce says BlackBerry had 4.4 per cent global market share in 2012, but now consigns it into the swill of "others" that each own less than 3.5 per cent of the global market, but still account for 23.9 per cent of all sales. ®