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A Phoenix woman was sentenced Tuesday on two counts of hindering prosecution after her 13-year-old daughter was assaulted by the woman's boyfriend.
Judge M. Scott McCoy sentenced Kimberly Anne Upshaw to two years of probation and 60 days in jail starting Tuesday.
During a police interview, officers said Upshaw failed to disclose the suspect's location, saying he was homeless.
On March 14, Upshaw and her daughter went out to eat and then went to her boyfriend's cousin's house, according to court documents.
Upshaw drove her boyfriend and two of his cousins to the store to buy alcohol while she left her daughter and 4-month-old baby at the apartment, court paperwork stated.
After they returned, she dropped off her boyfriend and his cousins and then took her two daughters and drove to her parents' home where she was living. Since it was so late, she told police she couldn't get into the house and they went back to the car, where they fell asleep.
The 13-year-old daughter told police she woke up to find her mother's boyfriend assaulting her, court documents stated.
The victim woke up her mother and described the assault. The man fled and the mother took her daughter to the hospital.
The victim was interviewed again by police. The mother continued to deny her boyfriend's involvement until officers conducted a second interview later that day. The court document said Upshaw admitted to sending the suspect messages to "get out." She said she was a bad mother and knew he had done this, court paperwork stated.
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This month, A.A. Milne's beloved bear celebrates a big birthday. Winnie-the-Pooh made his first appearance as "Edward Bear" in a short poem titled "Teddy Bear" which was published in Punch magazine on Feb. 13, 1924.
In honor of Pooh's 90th, we're listening back to a rare, 1929 recording, in which Milne reads from his book, Winnie-the-Pooh.
So find a pot of your favorite "hunny" and click the audio link above to hear Milne's reading.
Ninety years ago this month, Alan Alexander Milne published a short poem called "Teddy Bear" in "Punch," a famous British humor magazine. That teddy bear went on to become perhaps the most famous in the world: Winnie-the-Pooh. Before he was a book of stories for children, Winnie-the-Pooh was a real stuffed bear, beloved by A.A. Milne's young son, Christopher. In 1929, the Dominion Gramophone Co. recorded A.A. Milne reading from his book of children's verse, "When We Were Very Young." [POST-BROADCAST CORRECTION: The reading was actually a story that appeared as the third chapter of Milne's volume of stories called "Winnie-the-Pooh." ]
Here, he reads from the chapter, "In Which Pooh and Piglet Go Hunting and Nearly Catch a Woozle."
ALAN ALEXANDER MILNE: (Reading) One fine winter's day, when Piglet was brushing away the snow in front of his house, he happened to look up and there was Winnie-the-Pooh. Pooh was walking around and round in a circle, thinking of something else. And when Piglet called him, he just went on walking. Hello, said Piglet. What are you doing? Hunting, said Pooh. Hunting what? Tracking something, said Pooh. Tracking what? said Piglet, coming closer. That's just what I asked myself. I asked myself, what?
(Reading) What do you think you will answer? I shall have to wait until I catch up with it, said Pooh. Now, look there. He pointed to the ground in front of him. What do you see there? Tracks, said Piglet. Paw marks. He gave a little squeak of excitement. Oh, Pooh, do you think it's a, a, a woozle? It may be, said Pooh. Sometimes it is and sometimes, it isn't. You never can tell with paw marks.
SIMON: A.A. Milne in 1929, reading from "When We Were Very Young." Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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"I'll just keep in the background because too much talking can spoil the effect." — John Bennett, July 2012
John Bennett tried to let his art do the talking.
In the above quote, the last interview of his life, the orchardist, beekeeper and artist spoke about his accomplishments in a way that can best be described as modestly proud.
Bennett died Jan. 1 at the age of 90. For three decades he grew pears, apples and cherries on his farm on Sunset Road, and for 28 years he drew and painted along with fellow artists in the life drawing group he helped found in 1979.
"It was a healthy group that grew just on its own vitality. That's the part of history I'm most proud of," Bennett said in his apartment at Brookside Manor.
"It started in a small way, of just people who were just dedicated."
John Bennett would have turned 91 on Feb. 7.
A celebration of his life will be at 1 p.m. Sunday at Hood River Valley Adult Center.
He was the son of Ralph and Anne Bennett (owners of the Hood River News before World II).
He graduated from Hood River High School and attended first Oregon State University and then Lewis and Clark College, earning a degree in art. After two years studying math and science at OSU, he followed his muse and changed schools.
Out of high school, "I had a great interest in ship models, and when I came to graduate I had to make some choices so I had to take some tests, and it turned out my talents were either mathematical or artistic, so I started with a course in science for two years because I was supposedly . . . well, you get the picture. I decided after the second year it kind of went dry and I kept thinking that didn't do anything for me."
His daughter, Mary Ellen Bennett, said that when John was a boy he loved to hang out with all the printing equipment and he built a special machine that made the hulls of ship models, "a unique machine that John built and he would make the hulls and do all the fine detail work," she said.
He went back to school at Lewis and Clark and finished up his art degree, and then returned.
The plan was to run the orchard, on Sunset Road near Rockford, for a few years and then sell it.
"Then I got diverted. The big two factors in my life were either mathematics or the art and so I came back and learned the orcharding," Bennett said. He ran it for 25 years, raising a family while growing pears, applies and cherries, and keeping bees.
He maintained an interest in art along the way.
When asked, "Why life drawing as opposed to landscapes or other forms?" Bennett replied, "It's basic art instruction. Composition is what most of us, the more advanced people, are drawn by. Weekend people are thinking about recreation and duplicating what they see, but serious artists are thinking about composition more.
"You're dealing with feelings and communicating feelings, really, when you're painting, and looking at each others' paintings is a kind of coming to life, is really what it's all about.
"There's an element of competing … you criticize in your own mind and see other ways of looking at something.
"You see what gives you a charge and you discover your feelings in the more advanced approach, and mixing it up with other people. It's self-discovery, really, in a group that way."
Bennett and his fellow artists also sponsored public art programs, with visiting artists and speakers of other topics of interest; he remembered an archaeologist who spoke on relics.
Every Saturday morning for 28 years, the group met, first at the former Anderson Funeral Home ("We jokingly called it the embalming room," he said) at State and Sixth streets (now Stoltz Winery and Every Threat Counts).
Later the group met at St. Mark's Episcopal Church, and did so until it disbanded in 2007.
Bennett wrote in a 2010 letter to the editor, "One Saturday in April 1979, Joyce Bryerton hired a nude model and started a weekly life drawing group in a local funeral home.
"The group became a series over the years, managed by John Bennett, until a Saturday in May 2007, when John held the final meeting of the cooperative group in St. Mark's Episcopal Church.
"In the intervening years of operation (continuous except the summers) numerous artists participated in and used the resources of the expanding group.
"Trained artists as well as weekend painters came regularly from as far away as Portland and The Dalles to draw from the figure and share ideas.
"Joyce Bryerton is gone now, but eight large stained glass windows, which she built for the church, survive as a memorial."
In 1984 money had been donated for stained glass windows on the south side of the St. Mark's sanctuary.
Bennett suggested to a committee that stained glass artists be consulted to create a "unifying scheme" for the stained glass, which Bryerton would create.
Bryerton won the contract to design and build eight large stained glass windows. In the lrtter Bennett wrote last year, he said, "the windows are a fitting memorial for Joyce, since her death in 1996.
"The windows came fast, people wanted to be a part of it, it kept her busy. I give myself credit for just being at the right time, a little pressure at the right time so it really presented her with quite an achievement to put in the record book.
"Joyce gave it everything she had."
"I retired from it about five years ago," Bennett said last summer of the life drawing group. "I was just exhausted of it. Up until a couple of years ago, I did drawing in my spare time.
"Since its inception the group has provided an enriched work environment of drawing books, drawings of past participants, a positive atmosphere and friendly associations," Bennett said in a 1996 article.
The life drawing group used artist benches made by several Hood River valley carpenters. "The benches remain a token of the vigor and success of the thing," Bennett wrote in 2010.
In 2007, they were donated by his daughter and her husband, Keith, to Lane Community College art department.
"The legacy lives on," Mary Ellen said.
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Feature:Female Geeks
In following up to the "keep the jerk/lose the jerk" discussion, a few people called for a female writer to address why it is that there are so few female geeks, and who/what/where they are, if there are any. Well, nobody else has one it yet, so here's my take on the matter.
First off: ignore the crap
Everyone's heard that girls aren't encouraged to take technical subjects at school, that all the computer games around are violent and only appeal to boys, that somehow women's brains are built differently and just aren't cut out for logic and technical detail. Well, whether it's true or not, I'm not going to go into it. You can read it in the mainstream press if you want to; it's been done to death. I'm bored with it.
The stuff that I think's interesting is of a slightly different flavour. I want to talk briefly (well, kinda briefly) about some random interesting facts about female geeks.
1. We're hidden
Half the time you probably don't even realise we're here. Lots of us use nicknames or have names that aren't obviously gender-specific. For years I've gone by "Skud" (for the reasons why, see http://w3.cc.monash.edu.au/~krobert/whyskud.html) and had people assume it was male. Even when I use my real name, people have no idea that
"Kirrily" is a feminine name, and many think that my surname (Robert) is my first name, and vice versa. I've had a huge pile of email addressed to "Dear Robert..." or people following up to me in usenet with "I agree/disagree with what he's saying..."
It's not anyone's fault really; the statistics are against us. If you come across a random person on a technical newsgroup or mailing list, chances are something like 20:1 that the person's male. You're fairly safe - statistically speaking - in just assuming that the person's male. And the girls sometimes obfuscate their gender in order to be taken more seriously. God knows there's a lot of ditzy, clueless women out there, and to be honest most geek girls just don't want to be associated with them. Mind you, there's a lot of clueless males too :P
2. We're way up the bell curve
Because it's so hard to be taken seriously as a female geek, you either get really good at it or drop out. On the bell curve of geekiness, the girls are clustered right up the top end, or scattered down the bottom end. There's not many on the upper curve, because that's where most of the guys have their territory staked out.
Female geeks usually aren't just part-time computer enthusiasts; they really work at it. If you can find a female sys admin, network engineer, or anything else really technical, take a look at her skills and interests. Then compare them to the "Portrait of J. Random Hacker" provided at the back of the Jargon File (aka The New Hackers Dictionary; you can find it from http://earthspace.net/jargon/) You'll find that she bears much more in common with the hacker discussed there than any randomly chosen male in the same field.
3. We're mostly apolitical
At least, we tend to get political about things other than gender. Or if we are getting political about gender, it's not by whinging about how there aren't enough women in technical fields. Most hardcore geek girls are sick to death of hearing well-meaning "feminists" make statements like "Computers are inherently male and exclude women" when it's obviously grossly inaccurate.
A year or so ago, a local arts festival had a series of forums hosted at an internet cafe/bar, on topics of an internet/new-media/etc nature. I attended one entitled "women and the web" just to see how awful it was. It was really awful.
Some conversation snippets:
Them: "Women find computers really hard to use."
Me: "I don't, and I think your statement marginalises and degrades women in technical fields."
Them: "Uh, duh..."
Them: "And there's, like, all this pornography and stuff..."
Me: "Yeah, it's great that the technology can be used for all forms of communication, isn't it?"
Them: "Uh, duh..."
OK, so I was being a brat and making life hard for them, but I was really quite disgusted at how removed from reality they were. This is why feminist theories on technology are mostly the domain of humanities types, and us geeks just get on with our coding :-)
4. Recruitment policy?
I don't think the numbers of female geeks are due to rise significantly any time soon. What's likely to grow is the number of women who are competent with technology and who can, say, set up a PC for themselves and use the software on it. Most of the current crop of female university students can at least use a Wintel PC, because they've grown up with it, but this doesn't mean that they're suddenly going to start writing operating systems named after themselves and achieve world domination with a cute avian logo :)
No, I think what will happen is this: People will recognise that basic technological competence isn't anything too special, and the ranks upon ranks of boys who get geek-cred for being able to install Win95 will be matched by ranks upon ranks of girls who just aren't impressed by it any more.
Then, finally, we'll get to see just how the gender ratio of the true geeks/hackers is balanced. My guess, to be honest, is that there'll be more males than females for a long time to come.


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LAKE PLACID - A heating unit on the Conference Center at Lake Placid's roof malfunctioned this morning, prompting a brief evacuation of the Main Street building.
The Lake Placid Volunteer Fire Department was called to the Conference Center, which is operated by the state Olympic Regional Development Authority, following reports of fumes at the Regional Office of Sustainable Tourism and Lake Placid Convention and Visitors Bureau.
ORDA spokesman Jon Lundin told the News that firefighters traced the source of the fumes to a heating unit on the Main Street side of the Conference Center's roof.
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Dude, this is one awesome thread on how to build an eSlayer...I'm liking a lot. I have looked at your other build threads; very cool indeed.
I like threads like this...A lot of detailed info, part numbers, references and pics...the videos speak for themselves. NICE!!
Ah, hello please. Very nice information. Very like when videos and pictures to back up all the talk. Keep up going the good work
Are those plastic chassis you dyed? any tips for aluminum parts and changing thier color
Thanks mate...I am running MOD1 20/38 at the moment. Its a beast on 2/2s, I might dial it back to 19/40 but motor and ESC temps are fine with this gearing. When running on grass the max has been around 70°C and on dirt around 63°C.
I have been using VDP's in my eRevo for the past year...I just naturally put them in here too when I built this truck. I like them; it has made a noticeable difference to me and the way my truck handles...this and a combination of the sway bars.
On grass the truck still rolls easily without throttle control but on dirt it stays planted on the ground...I LIKE it a lot .
Weight doesn't really seem to be an issue, I was surprised at how well the eSlayer runs and handles....
Rock n Rolla !
Here's a video I made recently, the shots you see with the 3 humps in it, I am still running the Silver F/Blue R combo...In all the other shots I am running Green F/Gold R. I still have VDP #3 F/ VDP #2 R.
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Council kindly bulldozed the old track down and built this instead. Its a clay track; no particular course outlaid but still fun...not cool when you don't land your jumps as the ground is as hard as rock .
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this is kinda tame compared to your other runs on ur erbe...why is it that?...is it the shorter a-arms?...why does it look as if it's not as powerful and as fast...ur other erbe can clear that jump from a stand still...is it just the gearing?...
it's still performing real well...just doesn't act like ur erbe that's all...but of course...i know nothing...so...please don't take any offense to my questions...
It's a short course truck running 2/2s...that all the ESC is rated for, 4s.
Its no where near as powerful as the eRevo...but still has a lot of grunt. What I like about this truck is that it has huge amount of torque through the whole throttle range at any given time. It is a lot of fun to bash around.
Its probably hitting the low to mid 40s...which is perfect for where I am using it. I find having one hectic crazy truck that is a beast is enough for me .
I built this truck so I could have a variety of options for the mood that I'm in on that given day
My trucks:
1x?? next one on the go...still deciding.
It gives me a lot options for different uses which is great .
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That's all i run mine on too, 4s is plenty for my Eslayer. I can run 6 if i want, but dont really feel the need.
Looking forward to reading through the build then :-)
learn't a great deal from you builds.
I have a question. When shimming the diff I noticed you shim on the side pushing the ring gear away from the pinion (creating more play)and no shims on the ring gear side that would decrease clearances
In my experience I find that every time I build a diff and shim it, it often turns out different.
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I am shimming my losi diff right now and just like yours wont take a shim on the diff side but so far. 3 on the other side and wants more
So far my Losi diffs are holding up well...I haven't inspected since putting the new ring and pinion in the front diff a couple months back. I will tear the truck down in the next few months for inspection and service.
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This is me launch ramp bashing my truck...I was trying to jump from one ramp and land on the other...I wasn't quite successful...
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I thought you meant as in hitting head first into the other ramp!
looks good Craig, where do you get all of the patience for these cars when they break? At least no more diff issues for the e-revo
I reject your reality and substitute my own!
I will try it again sometime to see if I can get it right .
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At least the eRevo diffs are going strong...it's awesome not having to rebuild diffs all the time just to get your truck up and running again for the next bash session.
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When you said wasnt quite successful -i pictured it hitting the front of the ramp!
This limiter mod seems to be holding up OK at limiting the shock, its probably lost a few mm from the blue bumper spacer been squashed. Original pic of the mod.
Last night I decided to take the limiters out and try the eSlayer without limiters to see what the difference is in performance and handling of my truck would be.
What I noticed when I opened up my shocks is that the blue bumper had been slightly squashed and deformed out of shape. It had also swopped positions with the pushrod spacer, it had done so with all 4 shocks. The spacer remained behind inside the shock when the shaft was removed.
The pushrod spacer was now pushing against the inside of the shock; it hadn't really caused any damage when I inspected. When I emptied the shock oil I was surprised how clean my oil was as this truck has been used in a lot of loose dirt conditions.
As seen above you can see all the bits of the blue bumper that had been eaten away by the pushrod spacer. I honestly didn't expect this when when I did the mod. This had also blocked some of the holes on the VDP.
I am going to revisit this mod as I have some different ideas on how to limit the shocks.
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I had a bearing go in my rear diff...this is the damage it caused to the diff cup. There was no sign that the bearing had gone and I just happened to pick this up because I was inspecting my drive shafts.
While I was at it I opened up the diff cup for inspection...as you can there is some where on the side wall from the spider gears.
I was surprised to see that the gears looked virtually as good as new.
I might in the future look at going back to the stock diff cup and aluminium diff case only. I still have a few spare of these hot racing diff cups.
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Here is my latest eSlayer pro 4x4 bashing vid.
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Still impressed by the out-in copeing jump you landed. We have been trying to perfect that one for awhile now.
Always get a 2nd Opinion!
^^ Cheers mate...we finally caught it on camera.
Here is a sequence shot of me airing out of a 1/4 pipe about 4ft high and landing about 10ft further back in the ramp. To see the eSlayer in action doing this move it is the last shot from the video in post #111.
My eSlayer is so much fun to bash around.
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Hey Craig, I'd love to build an E-Slayer, but don't know how to go about it. Did you just start with a E-Revo base then install the slayer arms, driveshafts, linkages? Also how much did it cost? I probably wouldn't go with the aluminium diff parts and everything would probably be the stock stuff.
Slugs are just naturally aspirated snails
You could probably run the eSlayer on a single stock servo and stock eRevo diffs should be fine if you running 4s...if you running 17mm hubs then look at 1/8 buggy tyres.
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Slugs are just naturally aspirated snails
Hey Mitch I'm contemplating tutting a rubber stopper inside my erevo shock to try stop the suspension drooping too much when car is in the air as this is what pops the losi axles out of the diff cups
Do u think it will affect my bashing and jumping as I'm worried that I will loose too much suspension travel
Maybe ill just remove a spacer on one side of the shock rods or even move the rod to the outer hole on the a arms
And hopefully I won't loose to much travel when doing big air jumps
Hey mate...I think shock limiter mod wont do so well for bashing and jumping as it will limit your shock travel to much. It will probably make you eRevo fell to bumpy and will loose that plush feel it has. Have a look here...this is what I did on my Rally to limit shock travel...post #140
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One of the prettiest sights in the night sky is Cygnus, the swan. Its brightest stars really do look like a long-necked bird soaring gracefully through the Milky Way. The swan is high in the east at nightfall. Its brightest star, Deneb, marks its tail, with its body stretching to the right.
That region of the sky is also a pretty sight to the astronomers who work on NASA's Kepler mission. The orbiting telescope is keeping a steady eye on 150,000 stars in Cygnus and the adjoining constellation Lyra. Its goal is to find Earth-like worlds in Earth-like orbits around the stars.
Kepler measures the brightness of its target stars. If a planet passes directly in front of a star, the star's light will dip a tiny bit for a few hours. If the dip repeats itself, scientists can measure the planet's size and its distance from the star.
Kepler has already discovered several large planets in close orbits around their stars. But planets like Earth take longer, in part because it's roughly a year or so between passages in front of their stars. Kepler hasn't been in orbit long enough to confirm those types of planets. But there's no hurry: Kepler is only about a third of the way through its mission of discovery.
Look for Kepler's search area between the bright stars Deneb, the swan's tail, and Vega, which is well to its upper right this evening. Binoculars will reveal scores of Kepler's target stars. We'll have more about Deneb tomorrow.
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WINTER HEATS UP ON CBS's "LATE SHOW with DAVID LETTERMAN" WHEN THE 2013 SPORTS ILLUSTRATED SWIMSUIT COVER IS REVEALED, MONDAY, FEB. 11
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After the cover unveiling on Monday's LATE SHOW, this year's Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover model will visit the broadcast Tuesday, Feb. 12 for an interview with Letterman.
A staple of American popular culture, Sports Illustrated Swimsuit (www.si.com/swimsuit) has a total audience of more than 70 million adults. The 2013 cover model will join an exclusive sorority of fashion icons, including previous Swimsuit cover models Heidi Klum, Cheryl Tiegs, Kathy Ireland, Christie Brinkley and Tyra Banks, among others. Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2013 will be available on Feb. 12 with magazine tablet and mobile editions.
Also featured on the LATE SHOW the week of Feb. 11 are talk show host Bill O'Reilly and musical guests The Avett Brothers (Monday, Feb. 11); actor Bruce Willis and musical guests Little Big Town; Medal of Honor recipient Staff Sgt. Clinton Romesha, who will be awarded the prestigious honor by President Obama earlier that week, Academy Award nominee Quvenzhané Wallis and musical guest Robert DeLong (Wednesday, Feb. 13); comedian Jerry Seinfeld, musician Dave Grohl and performance by Dave Grohl & The Sound City Players with rock legend Stevie Nicks (Thursday, Feb. 14); and Academy Award nominee Helen Hunt, stand-up comedian Jeff Caldwell and musical guests The Macabees (Friday, Feb. 15).
The LATE SHOW with DAVID LETTERMAN is a production of Worldwide Pants Incorporated. Barbara Gaines, Matt Roberts, Jude Brennan, Maria Pope, Eric Stangel, Justin Stangel and Rob Burnett are the executive producers.
RATING: TV-PG (Rating may change on day of broadcast due to specific subject matter.)


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March 04, 2013 19:39 ET
AJAX, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - March 4, 2013) - Environmental Waste International Inc. (EWS) (TSX VENTURE:EWS) is pleased to announce that Dr. Daniel Kaute has been appointed its President and CEO effective March 4th, 2013.
Dr. Kaute has extensive experience in Business Development in Clean Tech in North America, Europe and Asia. He was most recently President & CEO of Renewable Energy Management, a waste to energy company.
Dr. Kaute has a Ph.D in Materials & Mechanical Engineering from Cambridge University (UK). Dr. Kaute said, "I am very excited about the market potential for EWS's microwave gasification technology and the immediate opportunity to commercialize it."
A Board member said, "When we announced our search for a new CEO we said we were looking for someone with the skills to commercialize our proprietary technology. We believe we have found that person in Daniel Kaute. His technical knowledge and experience fit EWS's needs extremely well."
As part of Dr. Kaute's compensation, he has been granted options pursuant to the Company's stock option plan to purchase 1,000,000 shares of EWI at an exercise price of $0.20 per EWI share for a period of five years. The options are subject to a vesting schedule whereby 333,333 will vest 6 months from date of grant, 333,333 will vest 12 months from date of grant and 333,334 will vest 18 months from date of grant.
Dr. Stephen Simms, the former President & CEO, remains on the EWS Board. EWS also announced that Michael Abrams, its part time CFO, will retire after a transition period.
EWS has designed systems for the breakdown and recovery of usable by-products from several organic materials, including rubber tires, and for the sterilization of medical, animal, liquid and food waste. EWS continues to explore other applications for its technology. Please visit the EWS website at www.ewmc.com.
WARNING: The Company relies upon litigation protection for "forward-looking" statements.
The TSX Venture Exchange has not reviewed and does not accept responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
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CLEVELAND -- Perhaps it was a parapraxis. Or perhaps it was just a tragically constructed sentence.
Either way, Dolphins quarterback Chad Henne uttered this sentence after the Dolphins 17-16 loss to the Browns on Sunday: "I know one thing about these guys," Henne said, "they're not going to stop quitting."
Look, the Dolphins haven't quit. Players haven't. Coaches haven't. They are not getting results because they're not good enough or smart enough or whatever other reason you might cite. But because they quit?
No way.
Here's someone I fear might have quit on this team to a degree: Owner Stephen Ross.
My column in today Miami Herald discusses the topic.
The column discusses how Ross may be as much at fault for Miami's problems as the players and coaches. Why? The man apparently hasn't been fully invested in player acquisition this year.
In short, the column tells you where the Dolphins rank in player expenditure this year. It is a terrible ranking, perhaps the worst the team has ever had. And that, against the backdrop of Miami being second in the NFL behind only the New York Giants in player salaries in 2009, is stark.
So why the significant change? Simply, the Dolphins have been losing money at an alarming rate this year. So they're trying to trim back in certain areas. Player salaries is apparently one of those.
It is so well-known within the organization that two sources have suggested to me Ross has quit on his team this year and set them up for failure.
As the column tells you, I tried to get answers about this and other matters from Ross. Chased him as he was leaving Cleveland Browns Stadium. He didn't want to answer any questions.
Well, until he does, the questions will linger: Has Ross set up the Dolphins to fail this year because he limited expenditures on player acquisitions?
The evidence is damning.


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Preaching with notes on iPad?
Posted 02 April 2012 - 10:50 PM
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Posted 17 April 2012 - 03:56 PM
Accordance 10.x
Posted 19 August 2012 - 06:57 PM
Posted 19 August 2012 - 10:43 PM
User Tool editing is not available yet in the iOS app.
Has anyone figured out how to edit User Tools on the iPad?
Posted 27 January 2013 - 12:14 AM
Are we not able to open a User Tool in the (I forget the actual name) side panel that we can open? I can have my Bible open and then open that slide out panel where I have the option to open other Texts, or Resource Tools, or My Notes, but I can't open my user tool that I made to preach from.
I can open my user tool from the Library, so I know it's on my iPad. Is this not possible to do at this time?
Posted 27 January 2013 - 03:49 AM
When I do Sunday school, I use my Air mostly... I could use the iPad but I'd still need the Air to take sermon notes with. I have a horrible time trying to figure any of these programs out and so what I ended up doing is just using Evernote. There was some sort of a services menu I was trying to get to work and it did for a day or so. I copy out of Accordance the Bible verses I need into a text editor along with my notes. Computers are good for massive headaches but they do save paper. You can create your lesson on your desktop with some simple text editor. Paste in the verses you will be reading so you don't have to take the time to fumble around typing them in. I just use Text Wrangler or some other text editor for that part as most word processors will just create frustration and derail your train of thought. Once you have it all set then just copy and paste the whole thing into a new note in Evernote. Synch it to your account and you are done. Any device you can put Evernote on will have your document ready and waiting for you.
Posted 27 January 2013 - 08:12 AM
Hey, Rick - OT, but just wanted to tell you that I like your picture.
13" MacBook Pro High Sierra Acc 12
mid-2017 3.5 GHz Intel Core i7 (2 cores)
iPad Pro iOS 11
iAccord 2.6
iPhone 8 iOS 11
iAccord 2.6
Used for backup only:
Mac mini High Sierra Acc 12
late-2012 2.3GHz Intel Core i7 (4 cores)
16 GB RAM; 1.12 TB Fusion Drive
Posted 07 March 2013 - 03:18 PM
For the main service, I don't use notes but prepare the service on data projection so everyone sees the verse or map or whatever resource I am referring to and am prompted by what is on the big screen. It works for me.
My ideal would be to have the presentation on my iPad and move the 'slides' on from it but as we don't have wifi in church to support Remote Desktop, that is a long way off. Until then I will continue with the excellent Kensington zapper ( it gets too complicated changing screen on the iPad and on the data projector).
Edited by ukfraser, 08 March 2013 - 03:45 AM.
Accordance 2x iOS 11x on iPad pro and iOS 9 on iPhone 4s, occasionally accordance 12x on Mountain Lion on a reliable '08 mbp.
Other life enhancing software I use includes: forScore with AirTurn page turner for leading the service including the music from my iPad, HymnQuest for developing my selection of appropriate music, Sibelius for preparing music scores, Lightroom for my photo library.
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Former world figure skating champion Jeffrey Buttle is among six new members inducted into the Skate Canada Hall of Fame.
Buttle and Brian Pockar will be inducted into the athlete category, skate maker John Knebli and 1914 Canadian men's champ Norman Scott will go in as builders and Kerry Leitch and Lori Nichol will be honoured as professionals.
In addition to his world title, Buttle, a Sudbury native, won the Canadian championship on three occasions and was the bronze medallist at the 2006 Olympics in Turin, Italy. Pockar, from Calgary, died in 1992 at age 32 after a career that included three Canadian titles and the 1982 Olympic bronze medal.
Leitch, from Waterloo, coached 23 Canadian champions, including Lloyd Eisler, Katherine Matousek, Christine (Tuffy) Hough, Cindy Landry, and Lyndon Johnson. Nichol, from London, Ont., was a choreographer for Jamie Sale and David Pelletier, Joannie Rochette and Patrick Chan.


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Elect Her – Campus Women Win, a collaboration between AAUW and Running Start, encourages and trains college women to run for student government on their campuses. Elect Her acknowledges the necessity to build the pipeline of women running for office in order to diminish the long-standing political leadership gender gap. Any students who attend PSU can participate in the training. The training is free & dinner will be provided.center
For more information, go to http://cwpp.pdx.edu/electher or call Mariana Lindsay at 503-725-2895.


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Bishop England gained a 4-1 victory over Woodland today in the first round of the Class AA Lower State Championship Series at Father Kelly Field.
The Bishops upped their record to 20-4 and will host Loris on Monday night. Loris advanced with a 4-3 victory over Dillon. Dillon travels to Woodland Monday night in an elimination game.
Right-hander Tradd Lowman upped his record to 6-0 with a three-hitter as the Bishops continued their quest to win their sixth state title in 11 years.
The Bishops collected six hits off Mike Delee, who lost his first game of the season and had his seven-game winning streak snapped.
The Bishops took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first when Harrison Boals belted an RBI single.
The Wolverines tied the score in the top of the fourth when Seth Patrick led off with a double down the left field line, went to third on Drake Knight's sacrifice bunt and scored on an error.
The Bishops regained the lead in the bottom of the fifth on Zack Madden's RBI single.
The Bishops closed out the scoring with two runs in the sixth. Lowman doubled and scored when Griffin Herbert's sacrifice bunt was misplayed for a three-base error. Herbert scored on Kyle Wicks' sacrifice fly.


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Valve To Demo Prototype VR Headset, "Steam to Support and Promote VR Games" 55
An anonymous reader writes "The itinerary for Steam Dev Days 2014 lists two talks by Valve's internal virtual and augmented reality researchers, Michael Abrash and Joe Ludwig. Abrash's talk, titled 'What VR Could, Should, and Almost Certainly Will Be within Two Years' will feature a demonstration of Valve's secret prototype VR headset that is 'capable of stunning experiences.' Ludwig's talk 'Virtual Reality and Steam' will discuss how Valve will be adapting Steam to VR to 'support and promote Virtual Reality games.' Rift inventor and Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey will also be taking to the stage at Steam Dev Days to speak on best-practice for VR development." There's a hint that they might be showing off a head mounted display featuring a low persistence display, which would be great news for those of us that get the urge to hurl when playing Doom on a conventional display. If you missed it you might want to check out the slides and notes (PDF) from Michael Abrash's GDC2013 talk on VR.


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Thursday evening Sherri Walker of Cedar Valley West gave an update to the Gladbrook-Reinbeck School Board on how career internships and job shadowing has been going the first trimester. She said that G-R has done an exceptional job with scheduling for internships and students have a minimum of 2 hours to spend with their business host. The internships are for 10 weeks while job shadowing is for 1 day. She said there is positive feedback, both from the students and businesses. One hundred and five students participated in job shadowing.
Al Bovy was awarded the snow removal bid for sidewalks at the Reinbeck Campus and the board accepted his 2-year bid of $75/time. Last year Cooley Pumping received the 2-year bid for the parking lot snow removal at the Reinbeck Campus.
Athletic Directors Jeff Charley and John Olsen reviewed the 2011-12 Athletic Report. Charley gave an athletic report summary on the expenditures, they totaled $23,550. Activity ticket receipts brought in $15,090. Charley and Olsen also told of some future athletic projects they would like to pursue for 2012-2015, they include new railings for football bleachers, field tarp for football and soccer, new dugouts/benches for softball, new baseball bleachers, new press box for coaches/filmers/radio and remodel the old press box, an all-weather track and an electronic sign in Reinbeck.
The board approved the Title 1 application for $43,401 as prepared by Principal Brian Williams. Title 1 money will go towards the salaries of Title 1 teachers, Lyn Purvis and Jane Love.
Agreement for G-R students to attend classes at River Hills in Cedar Falls and Bremwood in Waverly-Shell Rock was approved. These schools had previously been AEA 267 schools and are now under the umbrella of the local school districts in which they reside.
In the consent agenda, special education contracts were approved with Storm Lake, GMG, and Marshalltown to allow students to attend at these sites.
Also in the consent agenda, the board accepted the resignation of Todd Rickert as middle school wrestling coach. Contracts were approved for Scott Kiburis to coach middle school baseball and Danielle Clark to be the assistant high school girls' basketball coach.
Kylel Formanek was hired as middle school wrestling coach.
A boys' soccer sharing agreement was approved on a 5-1 vote with Grundy Center, Aplington-Parkersburg and Dike New Hartford for the Spring of 2013 as long as it doesn't bump G-R to 3A. G-R only has 15 players.
Principal Matt Leeman told the board about the Professional Development day held on October 3rd with all the staff 3-12 working on Common Formative Assessments under the guidance of Principal Williams and himself. Leeman said the Student Tech Committee will be doing their Fall PD session with staff and students on Wednesday, December 5th. The students have created a Google Site for students and staff to access. This will have information about the students on the team, merchandise that can be purchased, quick keys for troubleshooting and which students to contact for help depending on the application. Leeman said the Tech Committee has been asked to speak at the Regional 1:1 Conference at AEA on November 30th with Braden Heithoff and Kayli Folkerts as presenters and panelists on that day.
Principal Brian Williams said the K-12 staff has been working hard on aligning their formative assessments with the Iowa Core. Grades 3-8 are looking to realign their science and social studies programs with the Iowa Core. He said students will be taking the Iowa Assessments during the week of November 12th. Students will take the reading comprehension, math data analysis and science tests required by the department of education.
Several board members will be attending the School Board Convention November 14th & 15th in Des Moines. There will not be a work session in November and the November meeting has been rescheduled for Monday, November 19th at 6:30 p.m., in Reinbeck.


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Well, my live "streaming" video here in the hills of Ripton is more like an intermittent stream, so I'll be limited in commenting on the video, although I have the audio going.
He's on – expect the opening statement to stress what the government has done so far.
Here's the expected attack on Big Oil. And here's the expected distancing of his administration of the failure of the Minerals oversight agency (MMS – Minerals Management Service).
And here's the litany of things he's done to react to lax regulation, weak agency, etc….so far, no surprises.
BP must be wondering what they got for targeting Obama as their number one beneficiary of campaign donations…
And here's the understandable "leave the door open" to future off shore drilling. Moratorium does not mean ending off shore drilling.
"We are going to stop it." Who, exactly is the "we"?
He doesn't care about politics? Then why is he giving his first press conference in 10 months! Politics!
Ok, let the fun begin! Questions! (Note that I can't see who is asking the questions, so bear with me).
Question 1: Summary – We have been on top of this (i.e., this is NOT KATRINA! REPEAT AFTER ME!)
Obama talking about "the agencies under his charge" – note that this is one reason presidents are too often assumed to be in charge of the government bureaucracy – they talk as if they are!
The issue, according to critics, is not whether the federal government has the capacity to stop the leak – it's whether it responded quickly enough to contain the spill. That's the question local and state officials are raising. So far he hasn't addressed that…
Ah, now he's addressing it. (note that we are about 10 minutes into this conference and he's taken exactly one question.) (Is it me, or does it sound like he's calling the Coast Guard commandant "Fat" Allen? [It's actually Thad] Ho, ho, ho!)
Question 2. (Jake Tapper – ABC – I think): Good question Jake! To the point, specific, factual. And Obama's response is a reminder of how much presidents are at the mercy of their advisers. Here, he has to rely on the input of the Army Corps of Engineers to determine the tradeoffs in creating barriers to stem the flow of oil into coastland areas. What does Obama know about barriers? About what Bush knew about levees. Obama's struggling a bit here, preferring to deal with generalities rather than respond directly to Tapper's specifics, and you can't blame him.
Question 3: Chuck (I have disdain for you) Todd: Back to the offshore issue and the relative roles of BP and the government. And he slips in a Katrina question! Confident that history will judge that we're "on top of an unprecedented crisis" – is this his own "Heckuva job, Brownie" moment? Get ready for the campaign ads….
Not a great answer to the first part of Todd's question, but there's not much more that Obama can say except his version of Bush's "we're working hard".
Obama has to walk a tightrope here – on the one hand, he wants to show that the federal government is in charge, especially of the cleanup, but also to shift responsiblity for failures to BP. We' re in charge, but not really.
Question 4. Same theme: "Were you really acting from Day 1 on a worst case scenario"….. the press is doing a really good job here of staying on point and following up on questions. Kudos to them…
Obama, "I am very confident the federal government has acted…with a sense of urgency." Local and state officials will disagree. And again, the effort to shift blame to the pre-Obama role of the permitting process, particularly the role of the MMS. And a subtle jab at Congress' role in effectively gutting the environmental waiver requirement. Obama is making good points here, but it's not clear they are very useful politically – people just want the oil to stop reaching the coast.
Question Six (I think – don't hold me to these numbers) – Chip Reid. Do you blame the Bush administration? Obama again accepts responsibility and at the same time blames the previous administration. In effect, I inherited a bad situation and tried to reverse it, but might have done so more effectively.
Again, subtleties that may or may not play politically. Sure didn't help Bush.
Question 7. Easy question – let's point the finger at BP! Everyone hates Big Oil. A nicely worded response by Obama.
Question 8. (I hope I didn't miss a question – had to step out. I think this is Helen Thomas – leave it to her to change topics.)
Question 9. NY Times: Back to oil drilling. Another great question. Does Obama regret calling for expanding offshore drilling if he knew MMS (Minerals Management Service) was corrupt/lax in regulating drilling? Obama admits he was wrong in thinking oil companies could handle this type of accident, but in the same breath admits that it was an unprecedented oil spill.
She persists -follow up on the cleaning up Minerals Management Service, and a question on whether Obama knew about "firing" of Birnbaum (she's an MMS official, but not the highest up).
How likely that Obama doesn't know whether Birnbaum has been fired, or simply resigned? Not likely at all – he's likely obfuscating here and will leave it to Salazar to take the heat.
as for the permitting, let's wait until the study is done.
I must say that the media seems on top of their game at this press conference, and I have to believe that part of that stems from a subtle resentment against Obama for shutting them out so long. There's a real edge to their questions, and they are pushing the follow up much more than they did in previous press conferences. The worm may have turned here in terms of presidential-press relations.
Question 10 – Decision to send national guard to the border. He'll be expecting this and should have the response ready. And he does…. a chance to reaffirm his opposition to the Arizona law while signaling, via the sending of the Guard, that he understands the sentiment that motivated it. And it gives him a chance to plug comprehensive immigration reform…..
Still waiting for the Sestak question!
Final Question – and it turns into four questions! And here's the Sestak question! Obama dodges it – very, very curious response! Why not simply come out with an answer? Probably because they don't want Youtube videos of Obama providing the response – let someone else be the bearer of politically sensitive news.
As for the "boot on the neck" comment – shift the blame there to Salazar. nicely done.
An Amy Carter moment! (Students – ask your parents about how Jimmy Carter brought his daughter into the debate with Reagan regarding nuclear weapons.)
A chance for Obama to finish on key: "I care". The target here is the Gulf Coast voters. The question is whether anything short of actually stopping oil from reaching the coast is going to sell here. I suspect not.
And here he steps up to the plate to take responsibility. I'm actually surprised by this statement, but it is an indication that he realizes at this point in the spill there's no way he can avoid taking some responsibility for the failure at least on the cleanup side.
Summary: I'll be curious how the talking heads play this, but I was impressed with Obama's performance. He was candid, upfront with the failings of his government, and generally avoided missteps. But I was equally impressed with the media. They were on their game – asked pointed questions, didn't let Obama evade answers, and generally showed a vigor I haven't seen from them toward Obama before.
I suspect he'll get some pushback on his claim not to know whether Elizabeth Birnbaum, the MMS official was fired or not, and on whether he did enough to clean up that agency, and on backtracking but not ending offshore drilling. And he totally punted on Sestak – very curious there.
But this is a reminder that press conferences – even under the current format – can be a useful exercise. Let's hope Obama doesn't wait 10 months for the next one.
I realize this is the middle of the day and short notice, but if you have thoughts, send them along….I'll update with the media roundup later tonight…..


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Are you looking for a way to switch up your standard chocolate chip cookies? Look no further than a creamy avocado – a great way to keep your cookies moist while actually making them healthier.
Avocados provide the body with vitamin C, vitamin K, fiber, and about twice the amount of potassium as a banana! Avocados are one of the only fruits that contain the essential eight amino acids that need to come from your diet.
Avocado White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookies
Makes 35 cookies
1 Hass avocado (4 1⁄2 ounces)
1⁄2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, at room
1 1⁄2 cups dark brown sugar
2 large eggs, at room temperature
2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon coarse salt
1⁄2 teaspoon baking powder
1 1⁄2 cups chopped Macadamia nuts
1 1/2 cups white chocolate chips
Cut the avocado in half lengthwise, throw out the pit, and remove the avocado from the skin. Mix the avocado in a large bowl with the butter and brown sugar until they achieve a light, fluffy texture. Add the eggs one at a time, and then the vanilla. Next add the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Add the Macadamia nuts and white chocolate chips.
Preheat the oven to 325°F. Spray a baking sheet to prepare it for the dough. Use your hands or a regular spoon to create small, about two-inch in diameter balls and arrange them on the sheet. When you've used up all of the dough (this could be 2-3 sheets, depending on their size and the size of your cookies), place your baking sheets in the oven and bake for about 20 minutes. When finished, let cool for 5 minutes, and serve!


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It means "Island of Mist" and is the name given to the Isle of Skye in Gaelic.
I wrote recently about meeting up with Donald Black the harmonica player. I mentioned to Donald that my favourite track of the many he has recorded with Malcolm Jones of Runrig, is one entitled "Eilean a Cheo" with Donald evoking a haunting harmonica sound and Malcolm providing a superb slide guitar accompaniment.
Donald said "Oh that's interesting – hardly anyone remarks on that but it is one of my favourites". He then went on to explain how Eilean a Cheo was written by an activist, Mary McPherson, at the time of the 'Crofters War'
Thank you to this site for the following information.
After the Highland Clearances life became almost totally impossible for those who remained. The collection of seaweed from the shore was forbidden and crofters were not permitted to keep dogs. Other impositions included the right of the landlord to demand free labour and crofters were not allowed to remove marauding deer from their land.
By the mid 1870′s crofters were harbouring thoughts of revolt and a new newspaper called The Highlander focused attention on their plight. Public opinion had galvanised against landlordism and crofters began to resist eviction orders. Soon there was chaos and near riot. On Lord MacDonald's estate at Braes, an old grievance was revived when crofters demanded grazings taken over by the landlord's sheep be handed back. They refused to pay rent until their demands were met and a Sheriff's Officer was sent out with summonses of ejection on 7th April 1882. A band of crofters forced him to bum his papers so fifty policemen were sent from Glasgow to Skye to help settle the uprising. One hundred men, women and children with sticks or stones met the policemen and charged at them and, in the scuffle that followed, a number of crofters were taken prisoner. Small fines were imposed but it was clear that law and order had broken down.
An outburst of crofter rebellion then took place at Glendale when crofters who allowed their stock to wander over a neighbouring farm were arrested and imprisoned for two months. Scottish MPs promoted a petition to set up a Royal Commission on Highland distress and the result was a formidable indictment of the Highland land-owning class. However, the Commission did not recommend any official revision of rents and islanders were not content with proposals that did not include security of tenure and fair rents. In 1884 there was again unrest in Glendale and the Government sent in marines with gunboats to intimidate the crofters. This brought the crofters' cause again to the forefront of public attention.
The Highland Land League nominated crofter candidates to stand as independent members of parliament and this Crofters' Party became the first Labour Party in Britain. The four new crofter MPs succeeded in introducing the Crofters' Holdings (Scotland) Act in 1886 which gave security of tenure to the crofter and compensation for improvement. However, landlords continued to ignore the new legislation or made attempts to evict crofters before cases could be heard. Encounters took place later in 1886 when writs were served at bayonet point and it was not until the 1920s that land tribunals were introduced.
You can read about the formation of the Highland Land LeagueHERE
Although Donald and Malcolm's performance is an instrumental, it is very powerful. The original lyrics of the song with the translation is HERE
And without further ado, this is the magnificent rendition of Eilean a Cheo by Donald Black and Malcolm Jones:
You can buy the album Close to Home, from which that track comes, HERE. There is more info about Donald Black HERE
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… If a team parks a player in the minor leagues for at least 20 days to begin the season, it can delay his free agency by one year. Teams looking to save money go a step further and keep players down for about two months, which prevents them from gaining the Super 2 status that gives the top 17 percent of any service class an extra year of salary arbitration…. It's the rare issue unsatisfactory to both players and management. For nearly every team, the rules make it fiscally irresponsible not to bury roster-worthy players. And it's something both MLB labor relations head Rob Manfred and players' association executive director Michael Weiner hope to change, if not eliminate, after the current CBA expires in December 2011.
… In all likelihood, the Super 2 will be negotiated into the ether. Whether something similar replaces it – like making the cutoff day two years, 90 days to force teams that want to engage in service-time chicanery to lose players for more than three months – or they scrap it and emerge with something new, it needs fixing.
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UVM to Honor Endowed Professors and Chairs at First Investiture Ceremony
- 04-15-2014
- By Rick Green
Do you remember the best professor you ever had?
For the first time in its long history, the University of Vermont will stop to honor the best and brightest in a special "Investiture Ceremony" at Ira Allen Chapel. More than 50 endowed professors and chairs will be recognized in a colorful program that begins with a ceremonial procession from Billings Library to Ira Allen Chapel on Wednesday, April 16 at 3:20 p.m.
UVM president Tom Sullivan said the faculty honorees are "some of the finest intellects, the most talented teachers, and most gifted scholars among a faculty who in total make up an extraordinary and outstanding academic community."
The day also recognizes the donors whose generous gifts over the years have created UVM's endowed chairs and professorships. Donations that create a faculty endowment help to pay for a professor's salary, as well as enhancements to the recipient's teaching, research and other scholarly activities using annual earnings on the donation.
Each honored faculty member will also be presented with a medallion signifying the status and distinction of their position. More than a dozen donors will attend, as well as students, faculty colleagues and other members of the university community.


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7 March
Events which occurred on 7 March.
On Earth
- 1940 - Richard O'Callaghan, who would portray Meriadoc Brandybuck in the 1981 radio series of The Lord of the Rings, is born.
- 2004 - The third day of RingCon IV in Seattle.
In Arda
- Faramir takes Frodo and Sam to Henneth Annûn. He learns about Frodo carrying the One Ring but does not try to take it.
- Gandalf travels with Pippin along the White Mountains towards Minas Tirith.
- Aragorn reaches Dunharrow at nightfall.
- Théoden and the éoherë travel towards Dunharrow.


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The sign welcoming people to Panama City Beach is a bit misleading. The city limits actually start a couple miles down the road, something Nelson Miner, a member of the West End Stop Annexation Committee, is determined to uphold.
"The main reason is the management or lack of management style of Panama City Beach, and the fact they're allowing, and they think it's a good thing, to have high rise condos, a canyon of condos on the beach," says Miner.
The group has hired a lawyer and sent a letter to County Commissioner George Gainer encouraging the county to deny the city's request for a straw ballot.
Lee Himman, also a member of the committee, says a straw ballot is simply illegal.
"The Florida statute does not say step one is a straw ballot and they should have to adhere to the law," says Himman.
Richard Jackson, the manager for Panama City Beach, says they are adhering to the law. The city has to prepare a report about services already provided on the island and services required before any binding ballot is issued.
"You don't want to go out and spend money putting together a whole report for the entire island out here and then have the people be not interested in it," says Jackson.
However, WESAC is threatening a lawsuit if the county does approve the straw ballot. Lee Himman says all property owners need to be included in the vote, no matter where they live.
"If there's more than 70 percent of the people that live out of the property area, you have to have 50 percent of their approval," says Himman.
The city manager says they're focusing too much attention on something that might ring no interest after the straw ballot anyway, but members of the WESAC say it matters to them.


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Marcus Cinemas
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Originally opened in April 1972 as the twin-screen Marc 1 & 2 Cinemas. Later expanded to 5-screens, the Marcus Cinemas closed in 2000.
In 2003, the building was purchased by the Falls Festival Corporation in anticipation of opening a performing arts center. That did not work out, so the company offered the space to local baseball organizations for indoor training, which continues today.
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This article about the current use of the theater is dated February 13, 2008:
This opened as Marc 2 on April 6th, 1972.
The grand opening is on the upper right of the page at
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It was billed as The Theatre of Tomorrow.
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Today is National Trails Day, a great time to get out and "hit the trail" for health and personal rejuvenation.
We here in Emmet County have been indeed fortunate with a resurgence of interest in trails and trail development.
In Estherville, we have a great three-quarter-mile walking trail in South 14th Street sports complex and the prairie, Whitetail Ridge, Spring Creek and original trails at Fort Defiance State Park.
The Emmet County Conservation Board also offers some great trails in our county parks. And then there's the Emmet County Water Trail which is getting renewed interest and should be seeing a lot of new improvements soon.
One thing we should remember is that trails are not only for 'outdoorsy' types. They're intended for everyone. Fort Defiance has designated equestrian trails, and people come from miles around to use them. And, while hiking trails are seeing some frequent use, we should all remember that they're there and ready to use.
One area where we could use more trails would be for biking. Having designated bike lanes - or at the very least designated bike routes - would make drivers aware that bikes may be in the vicinity.
Another thing that's needed is public education about bicycle rules and safety. For example, it's NOT a good idea for bikes to dart across intersections in pedestrian lanes. But it IS a good idea for other vehicles to make room for bikes. And to say there's a dire need for a bike trail in Estherville would not at all be an understatement.
Hopefully, these are all goals we can work toward. Meanwhile, let's enjoy the trails that we do have.
So let's get out on the trail and get healthy.


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Tuesday, November 5, 2013 from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
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Come experience A Taste of Health in this exciting class that marries nutrition and essential oils, helping you to reach another level of health and wellness, taught by certified GreenSmoothieGirl Health Coach Carol Galanty.
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Judy Kay Bare, 64, of Clemmons, passed away Sunday, Dec. 30, 2012, at Kate B. Reynolds Hospice House in Winston-Salem.
Judy Kay Bare, 64, of Clemmons, passed away Sunday, Dec. 30, 2012, at Kate B. Reynolds Hospice House in Winston-Salem.
A memorial service will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Hayworth-Miller Lewisville Chapel by Pastor Jason Holley.
The family will receive friends after the service at the funeral home.
She was born Oct. 20, 1948, in Ashe County to Willie Corine Phipps Bare and Thomas Russell Bare. Ms. Bare was employed with Forsyth Medical Center/Novant Health for the past 40 years and was of the Christian faith.
Surviving are her mother, Willie Corine Phipps Bare; one son, Jason Pittman of Welcome; one grandson, Caleb Pittman of Kernersville; six siblings, Pat Whiteheart (Gene) of Pfafftown, Diane Goodman (Steve) of Laurel Springs, Chris Bare (Lydia) of Abingdon, Va., Randy Bare (Rita) of Lexington, Cindy Bower (Danny) of Jefferson and Lesia Carter (Eddie) of Crumpler; and numerous nieces and nephews.
Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society, 1900 S. Hawthorne Road Suite 622, Winston-Salem, NC 27103-3901.
Online condolences may be sent to www.hayworth-miller.com.


text: It looks like another innocent man is about to be raked over the coals and possibly spend the rest of his life in prison for defending himself from another black teen thug. George Zimmerman was thankfully let off the hook. But, it looks like this man doesn't stand a chance, since we obviously have to appease the Ngrs this time around so as to avoid a race riot. Why not just aquit the guy, who's obviously innocent, and let the cops clean up the shit after the virdect?


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I got a start on that and this is what I have.
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Cue him saying he couldn't authorize that much and needed to go to the general manager.
They're just playing with you, OP. Look at what they did. They said "only $300" more. You get excited. Not great, but do-able, especially because you tell them they can swallow that small amount. They suddenly the numbers need to be re-checked? And now it's an $1,100 difference? What a liar. The whole dealership is crooked and smarmy. You're wasting your time.
I wonder if you could/should report them to the BBB. You are obviously savvy and tough enough to catch on to what they are doing and to stand up to them. Other customers might be tricked, feel pressured, etc.
OP here w/ update:I've been on the phone w/ the head sales manager all morning. He ran the numbers w/ me and came back with only a $300 difference and I suggested they cover that in the name of good service. He agreed that that would be the honorable thing to do. Then he wanted to run the numbers one more time "just to be sure I figured it correctly", and said he'd call me back. An hour later he calls back and they found the mistake....their internal price sheets were wrong (again, not my problem). After having him take me through the numbers again, they are off by $1,171. And again I said that I still think that since this is totally their problem and since its happened twice now, I think they should deal with that loss and honor the original quote. Cue him saying he couldn't authorize that much and needed to go to the general manager. I said "Great, go ahead with that. I left him a message this morning too. If he needs would like to speak with me I'm happy to have that conversation".And now I'm waiting again.
This deal smacks of the baloney you constantly hear about. See the movie Fargo for a perfect example of upsell malarkey.
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The enormous steel ball you see in the photos (and the incredible video below) is the worlds largest tuned mass damper and sits near the top of the worlds largest completed skyscraper on earth, taipei 101 in taiwan. the idea behind a tuned mass damper is quite simple: as a building sways (resulting from high winds, earthquakes etc), its tuned mass damper, essentially a finely tuned and ridiculously heavy pendulum, will move in opposition to the structures oscillations and minimise any movement. if that makes no sense, watch the crude gif below.
due to both the immense size of taipei 101 and the fact that it sits just over 600ft from a major fault line, engineers had no choice but to install one of this size at a cost of $4m. too heavy to be lifted by crane, the damper was assembled on site and hangs through 4 floors of the skyscraper. it can reduce the buildings movement by up to 40%.
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