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E-Mail Scam - New Phishing Attack Reported On Banking Customers
E-mail con artists have frequently masqueraded as banks in an effort to collect personal information such as account numbers. One of the latest such scams, first reported last month, takes a slightly different approach. These e-mail messages are being sent to customers of Bank of America and various other financial institutions, but claim to be promoting a new security program called SFN (Stop Fraud Now). That's right - they're committing fraud by pretending to be an organization that fights fraud.
The bogus SFN program offers to provide you with protection against cloning of credit cards and asks recipients to register by supplying their Social Security Number, credit card number, and ATM Personal Identification Number (PIN). Keep your eyes out for an e-mail resembling this one:
Remember, you should always be suspicious of an e-mail requesting personal financial information, even if it appears to be from a financial institution with which you have a relationship. Legitimate banks will never send you an e-mail asking you to disclose your credit card number or online banking password. Do not reply to this type of e-mail or click on any link included in the message. Just hit "Delete."
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Ask The Help Desk - What Is A Buffer?
Question: I've heard someone mention a "buffer" when referring to listening to music online. What is a buffer?
Answer: When you download an audio or video file from the Internet, your media player software, such as Windows Media Player, saves portions of the file in temporary memory during the process. This is called buffering.
The media player uses buffering technology to begin playing the clip before the entire file is downloaded. This means the clip will be played much sooner than if the entire file had to be completely downloaded before playback.
A buffer is also used to speed up a computer's performance by holding information in temporary memory (random-access memory [RAM]) until it's committed to a permanent location or task.
When you use a word processor, for example, your changes are held in temporary buffer memory until you save the document to your hard drive. Buffers also are used to transmit data between hardware devices, such as a computer and a printer. This buffer is needed when one device can transmit data much quicker than another can receive it.
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Great Sites To Check Out
This Month
Survival Stories from the World Trade Center
http://wtcmovie.com - Opening this month is World Trade Center, the poignant and powerful 9-11 movie from Oliver Stone. It tells the true story of two officers with the Port Authority Police Department, Will Jimeno and John McLoughlin, who were buried under 20 feet of rubble inside the WTC but were rescued 12 hours later. Their incredible tale of survival is brought to life by a cast including Nicolas Cage, Michael Peña, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Mario Bello. A highlight of this movie site is the "In Their Own Words" section featuring video interviews with Jimeno and McLouglin themselves. Rated PG-13.
The Key to Free Typing Lessons
http://learn2type.com - Do the e-mail messages you write contain a few too many typos? Or do your kids need better typing skills to master the homework ahead? This site offers free interactive typing exercises (including new Learn2Type for Kids) that automatically adjust to your skill level. Start by taking the short typing test to instantly assess your speed and accuracy. Then login whenever you like and complete the lessons at your own pace. Free, convenient, and effective - that's our type of typing tutor.
Home Business How-To's
http://entrepreneur.com - August is officially "Home Business Month." If you'd like to start a home-based business or expand the one you already have, this site from Entrepreneur magazine is an excellent resource. It covers all the basics, from marketing and sales to money and finance. You'll also find low-cost startup ideas, stories from successful "mompreneurs," and guides to starting the most popular businesses around.
Listen to Your Elders
http://elderwisdomcircle.org - When you need advice, there's nothing more valuable than the insights of someone older and wiser. This site provides free advice from volunteer "cyber grandparents" between the ages of 60 and 103. Elder Wisdom Circle is one of the largest providers of personal advice anywhere, and visitors to the site can get help with most any issue ranging from parenting problems to dating dilemmas. Read the responses to questions submitted by others, or send in one of your own for a fast, personalized reply.
News on the Net - US Open Tennis Championships
http://www.usopen.org/home/default.sps - The 2006 US Open is August 28 to September 10 in New York. If you've always dreamed of going, get on the ball and visit this site for tickets and visitor information. Last year's US Open set an all-time attendance record of 659,538 fans - evidence of the sport's growing popularity. Never played tennis but want to take a swing at it? You'll also find tips on getting started and information about tennis instruction including free Tennis Block Parties held across the U.S.
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Short Tutorial - Downloading Mozilla's Firefox Browser
Web analysis firm OneStat.com reports that global usage of the free Mozilla Firefox browser is growing. As of July 2006, total worldwide market share for Firefox is 12.93 percent, U.S. usage is 15.82 percent, and Canadian usage is 14.58 percent. Firefox is becoming a popular browser because it blocks viruses, spyware, and pop-up ads and isn't as vulnerable to attacks as Microsoft Internet Explorer. It also offers advanced features like tabbed browsing, which lets you open multiple web pages in a single window and quickly flip back and forth between them. To download Mozilla's free Firefox browser onto your computer, simply follow the steps below.
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Bob C. Clark
Bob C. Clark, 71, of Hot Springs, Arkansas, went home to be with his Lord Wednesday, February 13, 2013.
He was born October 4, 1941 in Hope, Arkansas to the late Aaron Clyde and Ercille (Yeager) Clark. Bob was a Sanitarian for the Health Department for twenty-six years working in Garland, Hot Spring and Clark counties. He was a minister who enjoyed working with young people and in the prison ministry. Bob was involved with the animal shelter, the Humane Society and Lake Hamilton Volunteer Fire Department. He loved hunting, fishing and family.
Bob is preceded in death by his parents and infant sister Donna Jeanette Clark. He is survived by his wife of forty-seven years, Melodee Clark; sons Robert Carl Clark and Thomas Aaron Clark and wife Kristi all of Hot Springs; sister Linda Hale of West Memphis; and two grandchildren, Kristian and Aaron.
Visitation was from 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. Friday at Caruth- Hale Funeral Home. Service will be at 10:00 a.m. Saturday February 16, 2013 at First United Methodist Church with Reggie Russell officiating. Burial will follow in Morning Star Cemetery.
Pallbearers include Billy Wilson, Dennis Larson, Calvin Redding, John Wiley, Guy Sims, Troy Cates, Jeff Ladd and Warren Stiles.
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NEW HAVEN, Conn.- The icy waters and cold conditions of the Housatonic remain an afterthought as the Yale heavyweight crew team focuses in on the most important part of its year; the spring racing season, which will begin a week from Saturday. After hundreds of hours of high-performance training over the course of the past seven months, the crew will finally be able to show its worth on a 2,000-meter course. This spring the Bulldogs have the usual lineup of four dual races, followed by the Eastern Sprints, then the IRA National Championships, and finally, the Yale-Harvard Regatta.
This year's crew will be led by a class of seven seniors: Oliver Fletcher, captain Zachary Johnson, Lawrence Lopez-Menzies, Robert Michel, Grant Olscamp, Emery Schoenly and Owen Symington. These seniors have brought leadership and experience to the squad, establishing a standard of excellence for every workout while also creating an environment most conducive to the success of every member of the team.
Competing with the upperclassmen for spots in the top boats will be the large number of freshman and sophomores on the squad. After the 2012 season, the IRA Stewards voted to allow first-year students to race in varsity boats. As a result, some current sophomores have experienced the quality and competition of the fastest college boats in the country. Along with their experience comes the hunger and youth of nine freshman oarsmen, all looking to compete with the older members of the squad in order to form the fastest boats possible.
This past fall the Bulldogs made two appearances on the fall racing circuit, one at the Head of the Charles Regatta in Boston and the other at the Head of the Housatonic on their own course. At the Head of the Charles, the Bulldogs competed in the Championship Four and Eight events, as well as the Club Eight event in which they finished 10th in a field of 47. At the local regatta on the Housatonic, the squad took first with the fastest time of the day.
In addition to a fall filled with training outdoors and a winter of indoor workouts, the team also prepared for the spring season by taking its annual winter training trip to Florida. There they were able to take advantage of the unfrozen waters of the St. Lucie Lock, and the team was able to log 18 training sessions over the course of its 10-day trip. The trip provided invaluable time for the team to refine its technique and has only gained importance in retrospect as less-than-ideal conditions have prevented the team from training outside every day in the past weeks.
Despite these conditions, the heavyweights have been logging two-a-days over their spring break from classes. In the next week they will prepare their starts and finalize a race plan for their season opener against Brown. It is important to note that the Bulldogs will be returning all the members of their varsity eight from last year. These rowers have the experience of a season's worth of competition at the highest level in the country under their belts, and are now looking to use the gains they have made over the course of a year's worth of training in order to end up on top of the podium.
The spring season will officially start next Saturday when Yale hosts Brown at home. The two teams will be racing on Mar. 22 on the Housatonic River. The race will provide great competition for the varsity as the contest in the past two years has been decided by no more than a second and a half.
After two weekends off the next race on the schedule is against Dartmouth at home for the Olympic Axe on Apr. 12. The heavyweights have not lost this matchup since the two teams started racing for the trophy in 2004, and last year was no exception.
The following weekend Yale will defend the Blackwell Cup at home, on Saturday, Apr. 19. Last year the squad travelled to the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia to retain the prize. This cup has been in Yale's possession each year that the Class of 2014 has been on the crew and so the seniors will seek to defend this trophy.
The Bulldogs will then travel to Princeton, N.J., to chase the Carnegie Cup against Cornell and Princeton on Apr. 26. The last time the Bulldogs won the cup was four years ago on their home course. In 2012, Cornell was able to defend its home course for the win, and last year Princeton was able to win it on the Housatonic. The Bulldogs will want to end their dual-racing season strongly as this race will be the final one to determine seedings for the Eastern Sprints.
After final exams end at the end of the first week in May, the team members will move to their historical home at Gale's Ferry in New London, Conn., where they will spend the rest of their season. The Bulldogs will have three weeks to train after the Carnegie Cup before travelling to Lake Quinsigamond in Worcester, Mass., to compete in the Eastern Sprints. The Sprints, which will be raced for the 68th year this spring, will draw the top teams from the eastern half of the country. The varsity finished eighth at Sprints two years ago and fifth last year, and hope to continue the trend of improvement this year. The Sprints will be held on May 18.
The team will then travel to the world-class course on Mercer Lake in Mercer, N.J., for this year's IRA National Championships. Last year the varsity won the petite final, finishing seventh overall. The regatta will take place over three days from May 30 – June 1.
The season will conclude with the 149th Yale-Harvard Regatta. This race is the oldest intercollegiate sporting event in the country, and it will be held on Saturday, June 7 in New London, Conn.
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2013 Capital Spending Outlook: Processors Invest in the Tools of Production, Not Brick and Mortar
Balance sheets look strong, but food companies are holding the line on capital projects, projecting only a 5.4 percent increase this year.
"Cash rich and shovel shy" may best characterize food and beverage companies' current approach to capital projects. Macroeconomic factors and market uncertainty continue to argue for a take-it-slow approach to plant expansions and improvements.
The financial implosion of 2008 dragged down all sectors of the economy. Despite economic hardship, people stubbornly refused to starve, however, and food companies have been able to repair their balance sheets and pay down debt. Signs of life for capital spending appeared last year, but it's premature to proclaim, Laissez les bon temps roulez!
Instead, our survey of 37 of the largest publicly held food and beverage companies turns up only a 5.4 percent budgeted increase for capital outlays this year. We emphasize the word "budgeted." Last year this report predicted a 4.1 percent increase, but if you look at the table on the following page, these companies tightened the purse strings during the course of 2012 and underspent their budgets by 8 percent.
The early months of the year are when processors secure funding for capital projects, but lenders report an eerie quiet in 2013. "We're hungry to finance projects, but nobody is coming," notes Elizabeth Hund, head of the food industries division at US Bank in Denver. "I have never seen the industry in such good shape financially, but capital investments haven't rebooted."
At publicly trade firms, capital expenditures compete for available cash with acquisitions and the care and feeding of stockholders. Stockholders are the big winners in recent years, with aggressive stock buybacks augmenting investor returns. Campbell Soup and ConAgra each repurchased 17 percent of outstanding shares in 2012, and ConAgra also was on an MandA bender.
After warming up with four small acquisitions, ConAgra's long courtship of Ralcorp Holdings ended with a resounding "I do" when Ralcorp accepted a $4.5 billion rock. Capital expenditures, on the other hand, dropped 28 percent, totaling $337 million. But, it's worth noting, ConAgra has a fiscal year that ends May 29, so the suddenly bigger Omaha, Neb., company probably will pump up its capital budget for its fiscal 2014, which starts in just two months.
Architectural and engineering companies rely on major expansions and greenfield projects to pay their bills, and the 2009-2011 period was bleak. Last year saw a revival, although 2013 is merely sustaining the rebound. "I wouldn't call it bullish," says Mark Shambaugh, CEO of Fort Wayne, Ind.-based Shambaugh and Son. "There are still a lot of on-the-fence projects," with economic uncertainty resulting in restrained spending by both public and privately held food companies.
His company was the design/build firm for the magilla of all greenfields: Chobani's Twin Falls, Idaho, yogurt plant, which came on line early this year. Fully equipped, the facility represents a $450 million investment, dwarfing other new-plant projects.
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SPRINGFIELD — The Illinois Legislature adjourned its fall veto session Thursday with numerous issues unresolved.
House Speaker Michael Madigan said this week he's prepared to pass a "meaningful" pension reform bill, and he hopes it will happen before the end of the year.
The Chicago Democrat says legislative leaders are waiting for actuaries to crunch numbers on some proposals they're considering. Once they have the information he hopes lawmakers can return to Springfield and approve a bill.
The House Personnel and Pensions Committee on Wednesday approved a measure that lawmakers could amend with a pension deal. The procedural move sets the General Assembly up to more quickly approve any pension legislation if a proposal emerges from the leaders' discussions.
Illinois has a $100 billion unfunded pension liability. Lawmakers have been working for years to pass legislation addressing it, but have been unable to agree on a fix.
Here's what area lawmakers had to say about a potential return to Springfield.
Rep. John Cabello, R-Machesney Park, said he's eager to return to the capitol to address pension reform "that's fair to everyone."
"I'm hearing we'll be called back sometime between the first and second week of December to address it, but I never hold my breath on that," Cabello said.
Lawmakers should examine letting state employees control their own pension plans, he said.
"Look at the local trade unions," Cabello said. "They have control of their pensions and a lot of them are funded at 100 percent or even 120 percent. Let them have control of their own destiny. It will save the state money. It will save taxpayers money and employees will manage it much better themselves."
Sen. Steve Stadelman, D-Rockford: "I'll support any plan that helps stabilize the state's finances and ensures benefits will be available for employees when they retire. I still believe we'll be able to find a solution in the next month or two, if not sooner."
Rep. Brian Stewart, R-Freeport: "You're obviously willing to go back to Springfield if called," Stewart said. "The pension issue is the No. 1 problem in Illinois and we have to address it. I'm prepared to go back if and when I'm called."
Sen. Tim Bivins, R-Dixon: "When we left Thursday, we were told it was a real possibility that we would be called back," Bivins said. "That's fine with me. I used to work shift work in law enforcement. It doesn't matter to me, it's part of the job. (The pension issue) been around for a long time. The state hasn't been making full payments for decades and you just can't do that. This has been created by numerous assemblies over many decades."
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Chris Christie's announcement Tuesday that he is not running for president should have come as no surprise.
The New Jersey governor has been saying as much for months. He argued he wasn't ready and his heart wasn't in it. And as time marched on, many analysts said, it was just too late to mount a credible campaign. But when push came to shove, and ardent supporters and donors got Governor Christie to step back and reconsider, the final decision centered on his home state.
"Now is not my time," Christie said at a news conference in the New Jersey capital, Trenton. "I have a commitment to New Jersey that I simply will not abandon."
Christie has been governor for only 20 months, but many political analysts argue that Christie could have been a formidable competitor – both as a challenger to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Texas Gov. Rick Perry for the GOP nomination, and to President Obama in the general election.
His blunt, no-nonsense style captured national attention soon after he won office in 2009. As a Republican governor in a Democratic state, Christie has engineered big budget cuts while working across the partisan aisle and winning concessions from labor unions.
Christie also demonstrates a passion, even anger, about the state of the country that Governor Perry and Mr. Romney have failed to match. And with the public's trust in government at historically low levels, Christie could have pitched himself as a fighter who would get the nation back on track.
But it was not meant to be, at least not in this cycle. In his announcement Tuesday, Christie spoke repeatedly about the sense of obligation he felt to New Jersey, and to the office he ran for and won. He spoke of the deluge of pleas he had received from Americans, including a Fedex he received from a farmer in Nebraska explaining to Christie's children that the nation needed their father.
Christie said his wife and children supported the idea of his running for president, if that was what he wanted to do. In the end, he said, he wanted to keep his commitment to the Garden State.
"My job here in New Jersey is my passion," he said. "I've always meant it when I've said I feel like the luckiest guy in the world to have this job. I'm doing a job that I love, in the state I grew up in, on behalf of the toughest and greatest people in this country."
Christie would have entered the race as top contender. The latest Washington Post-ABC News poll showed a fair amount of interest in a Christie candidacy among Republicans and Republican-leaning independents. Forty-two percent said they wanted him to run. Among the rest, 34 percent said they did not want him to run, and 24 percent either had no opinion or did not know.
Perhaps 42 percent was not a groundswell, but a lot of Americans are still not focused on the race. As a candidate, Christie would have gotten major media attention and could have built up a constituency quickly. When included in a hypothetical primary matchup with the rest of the GOP field, the Post-ABC poll found Christie got 10 percent, behind Romney (21 percent), businessman Herman Cain (16 percent), and Perry (16 percent).
Without Christie in the race, Romney still polls first – but at only 25 percent. The lack of a consensus among GOP voters and Perry's fading star have left a clear opening for a new, strong candidate. But with Christie's opt-out, the GOP field is likely set.
The only other major Republican who has hinted at a run and not announced either way is former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. But polls of Republican voters show that most would not be willing to vote for her for the Republican nomination.
Christie, on the other hand, had plenty of room to grow. And if he had run, he would likely have taken more votes away from Romney than the more conservative candidates in the field, such as Perry and Mr. Cain. The Post-ABC poll showed that 47 percent of moderate/liberal Republicans wanted Christie to run. Among conservatives, 39 percent wanted him in the race.
Even if Christie had found the fire in the belly to run, time had grown exceedingly short. Late last week, time got even shorter, when Florida announced it was moving its primary to Jan. 31. That maneuver is likely to mean that the four earliest nominating states will all push their contests into January, or even December 2011, in the case of New Hampshire. Filing deadlines for those early primaries are just a few weeks away.
Money may have been the least of Christie's worries. He would have needed to start competing in debates immediately, and could easily have been tripped up on issues that are of lesser concern to an East Coast governor, such as foreign policy. Perry's late entry into the race on Aug. 13 and his subsequent stumbles have shown Christie the perils of running without long advance preparation.


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Startup Weekend Manchester Paves the WayMartyn Davies
Startup Weekend hit Manchester for the first time this weekend as part of the Global Startup Battle – the largest community organised startup event in the world with over 130 cities around the world hosting events over 2 consecutive weekends.
Held at Manchester's soon-to-open TechHub, the event attracted about 60 people from all over the UK. An eager bunch who all turned up ready to pitch, form a team, build something over the 54-ish hours and see if they would emerge victorious on Sunday evening as the winner with the opportunity to carry on developing and competing in London the following week.
Form a team, a company and build your minimum viable product in a weekend? Sounds crazy, right?
If you're wondering how much you can really get done in such a short space of time, think of it like this; On average most teams in Manchester were 4 people, and realistically worked about 30 hours across the weekend – that's 120 hours of development time, product validation, financial model design and testing on one idea!
The effort really showed. Ten newly formed teams – who didn't know each other until they met on Friday night – presented some of the most polished 5 minute pitches I've seen in a long time. The grilling 3 of the coaches put the teams through, and the practise pitch sessions beforehand, had really made a difference.
There were some really solid ideas, here's three that stood out for me:
- Social Timebomb – a Facebook app that allows you to set a goal, pick a Facebook buddy to monitor that goal and if you don't achieve what you said you would then that person can post embarrassing photos of you for all to see.
- Right Crowd – Recruit new staff by setting challenges for them to complete in lieu of sending a CV
- Pre.vu – "Pinterest for Professors", a way to store all your class content in a Pinterest style interface
You can find out more about all the teams and what they made at the Startup Weekend Manchester blog.
The overall winner of the weekend was, GoAnnotate, a simple service for writers (both aspiring and professional) to crowd source feedback on their work.
The panel of judges were particularly impressed with the speed in which they turned their MVP around, releasing it on Saturday night so they could gather real world feedback on it from writing communities (and Reddit!). They go on to compete in London against the other winners from around the world.
Special thanks go to Doug Ward and Shaun Gibson from TechHub and Tech Britain for organising such a solid weekend and for continuing to build such a great environment for aspiring entrepreneurs in the north west of England.
This weekend, and there will be many more, proved that Manchester is ready to become a leader in UK tech and that one of the 'next big things' is certain to come from here.


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TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) -- Ray Miles, the man who broke into WIBW-TV and attacked several employees was formally charged Thursday.
Miles faces the following charges:
Charge 1 Aggravated Battery
Charge 2 Aggravated Battery
Charge 3 Aggravated Burglary
Charge 4 Criminal Threat
Charge 5 Battery
Charge 6 Criminal damage to property
Bond: $100,000
Two employees injured when Miles broke into WIBW-TV, 631 SW Commerce Place, at 9:20 a.m. Wednesday were out of the hospital Wednesday night.
In surveillance video, Miles is seen punching two employees. Those workers and two others tackle him. They appear to have him subdued when sales manager Roger Brokke starts to sit up and other workers join the pile - that's the moment Brokke feels himself being stabbed and sees the man has somehow taken out a knife.
Before the violent outburst, the man was allowed into the front lobby and receptionist Lynda Janes called News Director Jon Janes to talk with him. The man, identified as Ray Miles, told Janes he was upset by the way the VA was handling his case. Janes explained to the man that he needs to discuss the issue with the VA and that WIBW couldn't help him at this time.
Miles left the building, but returned about 10 minutes later and became agitated when Lynda Janes and Rob Peppers refused to let him in. When he saw Peppers pick up the phone to call police, the man pushed aside a sofa in the entryway, unplugged a lamp and smashed the glass front doors with it. He then reached through to open the door.
Lynda and Rob ran ahead of him toward the newsroom to warn other employees. Rob stopped in the master control area with the intent of issuing a page, while Lynda alerted newsroom employees, who evacuated to the rear garage area.
"He told me to hit him," said Dylan Schoonover, an employee who saw the man coming down a hallway near the newsroom edit bays. Schoonover slid out a side door unharmed and convened with other staff outside.
Master Control Operator Joe Garrett saw the man walk down a hallway after Lynda ran by alerting everyone to the situation.
"As I turned and came back into master control to call the 911 operator, I saw an African-American male, roughly 5'8", walk by master control with a black and green backpack slung over his shoulder," Garrett said.
A few moments later, Garrett watched on the security camera -still on the phone with 911- as several employees tackled the man near an east exit of the building.
Miles had made it to the newsroom, then turned around and started back toward the front of the building, encountering news director Jon Janes along the way. Miles shoved Janes into a wall, knocking him down. Brokke witnessed what happened and tried to stop Miles, but Miles punched him in the head. Chief Engineer Cary Lahnum and sales associate Greg Palmer then attempted to tackle Miles, with Brokke and Janes joining in.
The man was heard yelling, "I'm going to f**kin' kill you all!" during the struggle. The foursome appeared to have Miles subdued when Brokke, who had already been bitten three times in the back, felt a pain in his hip. He says he looked down to see a knife going into his leg and alerted his coworkers. Four other employees who had arrived in the hallway then joined in holding Miles down and trying to kick the knife out of his hand.
Brokke and Palmer both suffered cuts and were taken by ambulance to Topeka hospitals. Lahnum suffered a black eye and Janes also had bruises, but they did not seek medical treatment.
The employees held the suspect down until police arrived. Miles was taken to the hospital for treatment and booked in the Shawnee County Jail Wednesday afternoon. He's being held on charges of aggravated assault, simple assault, aggravated criminal threat resulting in terror or evacuation, aggravated burglary, criminal damage and aggravated battery.
Jon Janes says he has spoken with Miles once before, on March 22, when he came to the station to see about having a story done on the VA mistreating him. Janes also sent him away at that time and Miles became angry and left.
Miles is described as a homeless veteran. He was convicted in 2007 of obstruction and received a suspended jail sentence in 2010 for assault on a law enforcement officer.


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- Teaching Assistantships: A number of Teaching Assistantship positions will be available for MSW students. This requires students to work with a professor for which they are compensated for each academic semester.
- Out-of-state tuition remission: One award is given annually to an out-of-state applicant who is also working as a teaching assistant; this will allow the individual to pay in-state tuition rates.
- New Scholar Award: A scholarship of $1,000 per year is awarded to an outstanding applicant.
- Graduate Tuition Scholarships: The School of Social Work has a limited number of scholarships to award to our students each year. The award is for $1,000 for the academic year to offset tuition and fees, and is awarded to seven students whose financial need is the greatest. In order to apply for this assistance, you must submit a FAFSA form to the Financial Aid office.


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Directed by Fred SearsGenres - Science Fiction | Sub-Genres - Alien Film | Release Date - Jul 1, 1956 (USA - Unknown) | Run Time - 83 min. | Countries - USA | MPAA Rating - NR
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Anyone who's seen the 1996 science-fiction lampoon Mars Attacks may have trouble watching Earth vs. the Flying Saucers with a straight face. Hugh Marlowe plays scientist Russell Marvin, who is on-hand when an alien spacecraft lands on earth. The saucermen at first insist that they've come in peace, but Marvin suspects otherwise. Sure enough, the visitors eventually declare their intention to take over the earth within the next 60 days, adding that the military's weapons are useless against them. The two-month window gives Marvin and his cohorts plenty of time to build-up superweapon, and thus stave off the seven-saucer invasion force. Special effects maestro Ray Harryhausen does a nice job laying waste to Washington DC in the film's memorable finale. The supporting cast of Earth vs. the Flying Saucers includes those two sci-fi flick stalwarts of the 1950s, Morris Ankrum and Thomas Browne Henry.
alien [not human], UFO (Unidentified Flying Object), attack, invasion, man-vs-aliens, takeover, battle [war]


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Malaysia will hold general elections on May 5, the government said on Wednesday, in what could be the toughest test of the ruling coalition's 56-year grip on power in Southeast Asia's third-largest economy.
Opinion polls suggest a narrow victory for the National Front led by Prime MinisterNajib Razak, who is under pressure to restore the two-thirds majority the coalition lost for the first time in 2008.
Najib ended months of speculation when he called for the poll last week, less than a month before the end of the parliamentary term.
He says he needed time to show the impact of his economic transformation programme, but critics say the delay was a sign of indecision that kept financial markets on edge.
He told reporters after meeting coalition leaders in Kuala Lumpur that he wanted to form a "strong and viable" government at the national and state level.
Najib faces a confident opposition led by former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim, whose Peoples' Alliance won five of Malaysia's 13 states in 2008 and has the best chance of toppling the coalition in Malaysia's post-colonial history.
"Najib has to perform better than 2008; if the result is worse, there could be internal challenges against his rule," said Oh Ei Sun, senior fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in neighbouring Singapore.
"For Anwar, its another old battle. If he doesn't make it this time, his age will catch up with him and he won't be a viable opposition for the next general election," he said.
The May 5 poll could be 65-year-old Anwar's last chance to lead a fractious alliance that includes Muslim conservatives and ethnic Chinese minorities. His alliance wants to tap into a growing desire for faster political and economic reform.
The ringgit currency rose to its highest level since January 21 after the New Straits Times leaked the polling dates earlier on Wednesday. It appreciated 0.4 percent to 3.0245 to the dollar, also due to continuous bond inflows. Financial markets were otherwise mostly unchanged, with the Kuala Lumpur Stock index up 0.2 percent at the midday break.
Elections Commission Chairman Abdul Aziz Yusof said candidates will be nominated on April 20, meaning roughly a two-week campaigning period. That falls short of the 21-day campaigning period sought by the electoral reform group, Bersih.
"I disagree that it will be a dirty election," Abdul Aziz told reporters in Malaysia's administrative capital, Putrajaya.
Bersih wants electoral rolls cleaned up and equal media access to all parties. Recent Bersih protests often ended in clashes with riot police, prompting the government to meet some demands for change such as allowing overseas voting.
"The Election Commission has made a lot of positive steps towards meeting the demands placed by civil society and also pro-democracy voices here in Malaysia," said Ibrahim Suffian, head of respected pollster the Merdeka Centre.
"But there remains fundamental concerns about the reliability of our voters' list," he said.
Defying electoral rules, parties from both sides have already been campaigning, courting voters across Malaysia with party banners and rallies and setting out populist manifestos.
The National Front and the opposition are both targeting the 2.4 million first-time voters, nearly a fifth of Malaysia's eligible voters, with promises of reform and handouts.
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Monday, August 17, 2009
I am rested, back to work, and more importantly: back to knitting baby! My wrist pains appear to have subsided. (knock wood)
And in honour of that small miracle I hunkered down and finally finished off the BEHEMOTH that is Laura Irwin's Alpaca Silk Bow scarf.
not sure what this expression is saying...
Yarn: Blue Sky Alpacas Alpaca Silk (50% silk/50% Alpaca). About 5.5 balls of the "Chestnut" brown, and less than one of the "Mandarin".
needles: 3.75 mm
This is even the yarn that the pattern calls for so it was a real splurge for me. It is seriously beautiful and gorgeously soft and silky.
Scarf-y here also marks the fourth item that I've knit from this book --the others being the Raglan Wrap sweater; and both the sideways grande and side slip cloches. ALL fabulous, well-written and "sure-are-purty" patterns from Laura Irwin.
So, even though this is the yarn the pattern called for, I'm not sure if it was necessarily the best choice. It is just SO drapey that it really makes weaving in the ends a pain in the butt (though possibly I am seriously bad at this task and it's just me...), the silkyness equals ends-that-pop-out-just-when-you-think-they're-woven-in-perfectly.
For a normal scarf the prospect of a couple of yarn ends sticking out here and there might be all well and good, but this was intarsia. My FIRST attempt at intarsia. Sure-- intarsia, as it turns out, is easy. But it is also totally maddening. Every six inches look like this:
My one consolation here is that I was smart enough to weave the ends in as I went. Had I left them all until the end, this scarf would still be incomplete. Permanently.
And indeed so floppy that any hopes of a bow like this...
...are immediately dashed.
See!? It's a BOW.
Oh, who am I kidding, I am literally never going to wear it that way anyway. I will likely just wear it in the usual "drape-it-around-my-neck-way" that most of us just wear our scarves anyway.
Though, knowing this NOW does not really help me.
(And might I add I kind of feel like this particular project was what was really keeping me from knitting anything else --I didn't really want to be working on it, but at the same time didn't really want to stray too far from it either--which essentially amounts to: hardly ever knitting it OR anything else). Had I known months ago when I started this scarf that I wouldn't wear it in "bow-format" I would have made the following changes:
a) ALL ribbing. There are two sections of it that are knit in stockinette, you can kind of see those changes in this photo:
The stockinette is the flat part that allows the bow to be more, uh "bow-tastic". Again, it's also so drapey that I don't think it matters that much. Plus if you did it all in ribbing it wouldn't look quite so odd when you did just decide to wear it a more "normal" way.
b) Sweet Jesus I would have made it shorter. A LOT shorter. Not sure if the photos really divulge how many times this thing is wrapped around my neck (while still having ends that hang below my hips). I think even about three feet shorter would still mean substantial length and a decent bow. But again, perhaps this is just down to my own gauge (which I know is loose, even though I repeatedly check it). Plus there are just so many ends that tearing it out to salvage the yarn for other things is just pointless.
Perhaps you need some empirical evidence of it's length...some perspective maybe?
(N.B---this was before I blocked it even...I tried to block it out a bit wider/shorter, but it's still groooooowwwwiiiing)
It's meant to be 9 feet, it's definitely longer than that and by the time I get home it may have eaten my cat and anyone I ever cared about.
But all ribbing aside (yeah, pun intended), it really is a beautiful thing to behold. It felt like a major undertaking for me, and the fact that only one other person on ravelry appears to have knit it should have been my first clue. People often say to me "how can you knit so many scarves?" --I know they are virtually like knitting a sweater sometimes, but this is really the first time I was feeling like "yeah this scarf is taking forever, I may need to take a take a break from these".
Now that it's done I can laguish in its gorgeous-ness, as the memory of all it's hard work floats away.
And you know, cuz I can never have enough crap around my neck it seems, I've started another cowl.
Perhaps someone would like to buy me this $1300 Nylon "knitting bag" from Dolce & Gabbana to carry it around in?
7 comments:
- littlebirdbigcity said...
Whoa! whoa! That's much longer than I expected. You like to knit long scarves, do you not?
It's beautiful. I love the blue of the cowl. That is going to be gorgeous!
- kgirl said...
great colour combo, and bravo you, all those ends to weave?! would have probably stopped me in my tracks, best intentions or not!!
the little cowl is looking lovely too, so glad your wrist pain has subsided :)
- Team Knit ! said...
I've been looking at that scar fin boutique knits and considering knitting it! Thanks for your tips. Yours is gorgeous! I love the colours you chose, it looks sooo soft.
That blue cowl is looking lovely so far!!
- Julie
- KGLO said...
zoinks. I hereby give you some kind of medal for finishing that thing - you absolutely deserve it, considering you had to 1) weave in all the ends, 2)knit forEVER and 3) put aside all other knitting in order to complete it. And for something that isn't entirely what you wanted? you are a true knitting warrior, madam.
- Ella said...
That's some serious scarfage. I actually like it longer... unless you were planning on wearing it on your head a-la-Gaga?
- e said...
oh i have 3 of those bags, they're to die for.
(jesus christ 1300 for a knitting bag)
- Reckless Glue said...
yeah and I don't think it's even a knitting bag really...


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On the web
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If you go
The following are the regular classes offered by The Birth Center of Boulder. Many classes are open to the public.
The Early Days, Growing, Preparing for Birth, Baby and Breastfeeding: 4-6 p.m. Tuesdays, for birth center families.
Postpartum Doula Tea: 6-7 p.m. once a month on Tuesdays, free. Meet the team over tea.
Milk Cafe: 10 a.m.-noon Thursdays, $10. Breastfeeding support group.
Healthy Mama Community Acupuncture: 9 a.m.-noon Fridays, $25-$40 sliding scale. Affordable acupuncture to help with prenatal and postpartum imbalances.
Ayurveda Yoga Classes: Date/time TBA, $15.
Prenatal Yoga: 12:15-1:30 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays starting Sept. 8, cost TBA.
Prenatal/Postnatal Yoga :5-6:15 p.m. Tuesdays starting Sept. 8, cost TBA.
Nature's Medicine Chest: 1-2:15 p.m. Fridays, $10-$25 sliding scale. How to use herbs, essential oils, homeopathy and supplements for health and ailments.
Mindful Mondays: 6-8 p.m., by donation. Mondays. Monthly meditation classes for parents, practitioners and others.
By the numbers
• Accredited birth centers in the United States have increased from 170 in 2004 to 248 in 2013.
• The number of birth centers increased 14 percent from 2009 to 2010, and 27 percent from 2010 to 2013.
• The cesarean rate in the United States for low-risk women who would likely be eligible for birth center care is 27 percent. The C-section rate of women who had planned their birth at birth centers is 6 percent.
• Women birth on their backs in 68 percent of hospital births.
• Women with midwife care had fewer fetal losses before 24 weeks; less analgesia during labor; fewer episiotomies; increased rates of spontaneous vaginal births; increased feelings of control during birth; and were more likely to initiate breastfeeding.
Sources: The American Association for Birth Centers, HealthypPeople.gov (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services), Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.
Any day now.
Brittney Wilburn is expecting her third child any day. Perhaps her baby was waiting on the health department.
Wilburn will be the first mom to give birth in the new Birth Center of Boulder.
The doors were poised to open, pending the health department's thumbs-up. As Wilburn's due date drew nearer and nearer, she began making peace with the idea of a hospital birth. Finally, the health department gave it a go.
The Birth Center opened Thursday.
The Boulder mom signed up to deliver in Boulder County's first birth center — the third in the state — as soon as she learned about it.
She had her first child in a birth center in Englewood and her second at home. Colorado's other birth center is in Grand Junction.
"We went round and round about whether we wanted to do a home birth again, and ultimately I wanted to be away from the chaos of day-to-day life in the house," Wilburn says.
A birth center is sort of a middle ground between a hospital and a home birth. It's a freestanding facility of independent practitioners and midwives, set up with special birthing tubs and large beds, as well as massage, acupuncture, yoga and various pre- and post-natal support groups.
The small group of certified nurse midwives co-running The Birth Center of Boulder call it a fusion of ancient art and modern science, centered on evidence-based care.
Unlike a hospital, there is no pain medication and moms don't stay here overnight. They're sent home four to eight hours after delivery. That evening, a doula visits their home for a "tuck-in service." The doula prepares an Ayurvedic meal, checks on the baby and family's needs and "tucks" the family in to rest.
Support continues as long as the family needs with a "milk cafe'" (breastfeeding support group), meditation classes, tea gatherings and more.
The center accepts only healthy, low-risk mothers because it does not conduct cesareans and is not set up for emergency treatments, although it is located a few miles from Boulder Community Hospital and has a contract with a medical response team and ambulance, in case things don't go as planned.
About 12 percent of women in labor at birth centers are transferred to a hospital, but fewer than 1 percent of those cases stem from emergencies; most transferred women experience stalled labor or decide they want pain medications, according to Shaunti Meyer, a certified nurse midwife who co-founded the center with two others.
"We're really focused on evidence-based practices, according to the safest practices for mom and baby but in a setting that's comfortable and home-like," Meyer says.
Medical equipment is hidden away, unlike in many hospitals, where the medical table is the focal point of the room.
Boulder's birth center will join nearly 250 others in the nation, a trend that continues to increase, according to the American Association for Birth Centers. The number of birth centers grew 14 percent from 2009 to 2010, and 27 percent from 2010 to 2013.
Still, it's hard to get birth center costs covered by insurance; Meyer says she is currently negotiating with insurance companies to aim for better reimbursement rates for patients.
"But at the same time, it costs less to have a baby here than in a hospital," she says.
The numbers are up front on the website: $7,000 for an all-inclusive package, or you can select specific services. The facility fee (use of the center and staff for office visits, labor, birth and postpartum care, including classes, supplies and more) alone is $3,150.
In the future, Meyers says she hopes to have a nonprofit arm to help low-income moms with the cost.
Space is limited, too. At full capacity, with four midwives, the center will take 32 patients a month.
The three rooms feature full-sized beds and large birthing tubs, which are extra deep to submerge the mother above the abdomen, to help with labor and pain management.
Water birth is a growing demand in Boulder County and beyond, Meyer says, but most commercial tubs aren't deep enough, and Boulder Community Hospital does not allow it.
"I've worked before in a different practice, and almost everybody asked if there was water birth available," Meyer says.
She is part of a national water-birth survey, and water birth is the topic of her current Ph.D. studies.
At Englewood's Mountain Midwifery Center, half of deliveries are done in the water, Meyers says. National numbers are foggier; of the facilities that offer water births, anywhere from 30 and 75 percent of women choose it.
And at Boulder Community Hospital, Meyer says, about 80 percent of women use the tubs for laboring, although they must get out of the tub to deliver.
Wilburn, the Boulder mom, says she delivered her first child in the water and wanted to for her second, but it happened too quickly, before the midwife could set up the tub at her home.
That's one of the major reasons she's drawn to the birth center.
"I felt like the water provided a different level of relief and comfort," she says. "Especially when labor's really intense, the intensity felt different in the water."
But even if her delivery doesn't turn out as planned, Wilburn says she appreciates the options.
"What it boils down to is women and families have the choice to birth where they want to birth," she says. "If you want to birth in the hospital, fantastic. At home, great. And now with nurse midwives at a birth center. They're all great options that serve the different needs of different women."
Contact Camera Staff Writer Aimee Heckel, 303-473-1359 or firstname.lastname@example.com or twitter.com/Aimeemay.


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Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca, excitingly directed by Staffan Aspegren, with Lars Östbergh's dramatic staircase design with the famous 58 steps and Annsofi Nyberg's stylised costumes received a great deal of attention with both critics and audience at the 1996 premiere at the Göteborg Opera.
Magnus Haglund from GP considered it an overwhelmingly beautiful production: 'The set design is among the most beautiful I have ever seen in an opera house.' Carl-Gunnar Åhlén from SvD wrote that 'It takes your breath away after only a couple of seconds', while Martin Nyström from DN described it as 'Imagery without parallel in any other Swedish opera house.'
'This is a genuine crime story, not lacking a single ingredient – treachery, murder, escape, torture, suicide, hatred and love.' Thus Staffan Aspegren described the work when directing it, stressing the importance of threes in this opera. It is a thrilling eternal triangle in three acts and with three lead roles – Tosca, the singer, Cavaradossi, the painter, and Scarpia, the chief of police; set and costumes are in three colours – black, red and white – and there are three basic elements in the work: art, love and politics.
Director: Staffan Aspegren
Set Design & Lighting: Lars Östbergh
Costumes: Annsofi Nyberg
Erich Wächter
Floria Tosca
Ann-Marie Backlund 12/4, 17/4, 25/4, 27/4, 8/5
Antje Jansen 29/4, 3/5, 10/5
Mario Cavaradossi
Gustavo Porta 12/4, 27/4, 29/4, 10/5
Tomas Lind 17/4, 25/4, 3/5, 8/5
Baron Scarpia
Krister S:t Hill 12/4, 25/4, 8/5, 10/5
Anders Lorentzson 17/4, 27/4, 29/4, 3/5,
Cesare Angelotti
Torgny Sporsén
Palle Hansen 12/4, 17/4, 25/4, 27/4
Jonas Landström 29/4, 3/5, 8/5, 10/5
Sten Pernmyr
Per-Anders Hedlund
En fångvaktare
Joel Rosenlund
En herdepojke
Edvin Bergström
Eric Hallengren
Charlie T Borg
Carl-Gustav Holmgren
GöteborgsOperans orkester och kör
Göteborgs Gosskör
Med reservation för eventuella ändringar.
Erich Wächter
Staffan Aspegren
Scenografi och ljusdesign
Lars Östbergh
Annsofi Nyberg
Scenisk gestaltning
Micaela von Gegerfelt


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The graceful flourishes of a well-played piano masterpiece are sounds that many people would love to create. From trained professionals to child prodigies, a brilliantly played piano can steal the show. But great lessons are costly and involve scheduling time away from your busy life. So how do you learn how to play the piano or deepen your knowledge of the instrument?
Piano workbooks can provide a solid foundation in theory, an effective practice routine, and piano classics in one package. If you don't have the time or money for lessons, consider buying a few piano workbooks.
The obvious advantages of piano workbooks are the ability to set your own pace and practice at your convenience. Just sit down at the bench after dinner, crack open the book, and hear your playing improve.
The only downside is that you must develop self-motivation to flourish when studying from piano workbooks. Like any great discipline, you must develop some kind of regimen to progress. With a teacher, you'll always have someone keeping track of how well you're doing. By studying from a workbook, you'll have to keep an eye on your own progress.
Piano workbooks range from those that focus on the basics to those that provide a comprehensive explanation of musical theory. The best offer a good amount of theory, exercise and musical notation. Whatever type of study you are seeking, there are certainly several piano workbooks available that suit your needs.
Some piano workbooks may be a look and listen experience. They may come with CDs that let you hear the examples listed in the book. This is great for the unsure learner who may need more than just text to explain a concept. It's also wonderful for hearing how an exercise is supposed to be played or how a particular piece is intended to sound.
Many books give examples of practice methods. Be sure to follow their instructions so that you don't overexert your hand muscles, especially if you are a beginner or trying advanced techniques. Warm-up your hands with simple and light playing for a little while before going into an extended run across the keyboard.
Workbooks also contain essential piano pieces that combine theory and technique into music. The pieces provided range from simple pop songs to classical standards that will put your skills to the test. Piano workbooks often include biographical information on the composers of each piece so that you can learn the history of the instrument.
Besides simply playing, a deep understanding of the piano and pieces composed for it provides an appreciation for musical history.
Piano workbooks can offer an extensive training course to anyone willing to invest the time. Since they're often compiled by a company, they contain more information than any one person can offer. Though a book can't make you practice, they can be a benefit to dedicated students. So when you decide to fancy yourself a pianist and set out to master the works of Franz Liszt, consider the tutelage that piano workbooks can offer.


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Lender ethics on loans to military families is a hot topic that's going to get hotter in 2012.
For example, the upcoming Vehicle Finance Conference and Exposition for the American Financial Services Association has a Feb. 1 panel called "Myths vs. Reality: Financing Military Members and Families."
The background is that some consumer-advocate groups and the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau are zeroing in on horror stories.
One horror scenario was related by Holly Petraeus, director of the bureau's Office of Servicemember Affairs, at a Federal Trade Commission roundtable on auto finance last summer. She said she had heard that a selling "technique" that's "still used occasionally" is for dealership personnel to offer service members rides to the dealership, then threaten to strand them at the distant car lot. The idea is to force them to buy a car so they can get back to the base.
Dealer groups and auto lenders are sticking up for the industry's ethics.
Here are my suggestions for a couple of myths and realities:
It's a myth that all service members are high-risk 18-year-olds. There are a lot of men and women on active duty who are long out of their teens, with responsible spending habits and good credit histories. That's not to mention millions of veterans whose service is behind them.
It's also a myth that every dealer wants to take advantage of service members. Some do. But reputable dealers want to stay that way.


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Set Your DVR: Opening WeekendPosted by bmulvihill on November 9th, 2012
Brendon Mulvihill is the head curator for @SportsGawker and an RTC contributor. You can find him @themulv on Twitter. See bottom of the post for the Official RTC Star System.
The college basketball season is finally here! This season Set Your DVR (ed. note: sadly, nobody has TiVos anymore) will be a twice-weekly column outlining the must-see games for the upcoming week and weekend. This column will lay out the key factors in each game to focus on and how those factors could affect the outcome. It's a military-themed weekend of hoops with three games taking place on aircraft carriers and one game taking place at a military base located across the Atlantic Ocean. Let's get to the breakdowns.
Game of the Weekend
#16 San Diego State vs. #5 Syracuse – 4:00 PM EST, 11/11/12 on FSN HD (*****)
- The USS Midway provides the backdrop for an exciting opener between Syracuse and San Diego State. SDSU returns four starters including Mountain West Conference Player of the Year Jamaal Franklin as well as Chase Tapley, James Rahon, and Xavier Thomas. Keep a close eye on the match-up between the Aztec guards and Syracuse point guard Brandon Triche. Triche is taking over for Scoop Jardine and faces a tough test against this crew. Steve Fisher's squad will have to improve in two areas if they are going to start beating top-tier programs like Syracuse – shooting and offensive rebounding. The Aztecs grabbed only 30.8% of their offensive rebound opportunities last season, so if they are only going to hit 33% of their three-point attempts and 49.8% of their two-point attempts like they did in 2011-12, it's going to be difficult to beat the best teams in the country. Watch to see if transfers Dwayne Polee II and J.J. O'Brien can help the Aztecs grab more of those missed shots.
- After losing four starters to graduation and the NBA Draft, Syracuse is in a much different place than SDSU. Jim Boeheim's ability to fill the talent void will be a key factor in determining if this Orange team can beat an experienced Aztec team. The 'Cuse returns two significant contributors from last year's team – C.J. Fair and Triche. Both players need to improve their sub-50% eFG in order to prevent the team from taking a step backwards. The key to the Orange's success in this game and in the future, however, may be 6'8" senior forward James Southerland. In a somewhat limited role last year, Southerland put up some impressive shooting numbers from inside the arc. Keep a close eye on Southerland's ability to take advantage of his size inside the three-point line. Syracuse will also be able to throw additional size at the Aztecs with 6'9" sophomore Rakeem Christmas, 6'10" junior Baye Keita, and 6'7" 275 lb. wide-body freshman, DaJuan Coleman. Read the rest of this entry »


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The Oregon National Guard Armory in Ashland was built from 1912
to 1913 as headquarters for the town's National Guard Company. It
is one of only four pre-World War I armories extant in western Oregon.
Designed by Oregon's first State Architect William C. Knighton,
the Armory reflects the influence of two period styles, California
Mission and Gothic Revival. Characteristics of the former include
symmetrical composition, curvilinear lines on the parapet, and casement
windows, while Gothic Revival elements are seen in modified pointed
arched openings, masonry facing on a concrete frame, and battlements.
Ashland's history of loyal military service began during the Civil
War when Captain Abel Helman formed Company A, First Regiment, First
Brigade of the Oregon Militia; it was to be a continuing commitment
into the 20th century. Significantly, when a meeting was held in
January 1911 to discuss possible armory construction, Ashland residents
who attended the meeting were particularly interested in the armory's
potential as a community center. Armory construction in the latter
part of the 19th century and the early decades of the 20th figured
significantly in the military development of Oregon.
Although designed for military use, in November 1912 members of
the First Company Coast Artillery Corps announced plans to hold
public entertainment in order to equip the armory with chairs, lockers,
and stage fittings. The building was the site of the funeral of
the first Ashland soldier to die in World War I and it served as
a contact point for families whose men were overseas. Recently refurbished,
the building now houses offices and a public hall that continues
its community service tradition.
The Ashland Oregon National Guard Armory is located at 208 Oak
St. Public events are frequently held here. Call 541-482-1271 for
further information.
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Database Normalization
Normalization is the process of reducing duplication in a database, with the ultimate goal of eliminating duplicate data entirely. While duplicated data can cause a database to be greedy with disk space, the bigger issue is consistency. Duplication creates the risk of data corruption when information is inserted, updated, or deleted, by having a particular piece of information in more than once place.
Normalization as a formal process has been around since the early 1970s when Edgar Codd proposed the first normal form (1NF). Codd later defined 2NF and 3NF. Since that time, several higher level normal forms have been defined. 4NF and 5NF are often used only in an academic sense because queries against "real world" data in a 4NF or 5NF schema contain excessive number of joins and require extensive use of views. 6NF is fairly new and contains rules specific to temporal data. As one progresses from 1NF on 5NF and even 6NF, the data modeling requirements become more strict and each new form provides a lower degree of duplication than the preceding form.
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First Normal Form (1NF)
First Normal Form states that each attribute in a relation has to be atomic and scalar. It also states that a table must have a primary key to identify any particular row. You cannot store a list of values in a single column and you cannot store a list of columns that emulate a fixed size list – also known as a repeating group. For example, suppose you were to create a table to hold contact information for business contacts:
CREATE TABLE Contacts (
* Data types ellided
This table contains a repeating group – phone1-3. More often than not, several of those columns will be empty, which is a waste. It is also nearly impossible to enforce any uniqueness for this group because a constraint cannot be declared such that any phone1 is unique across phone1, phone2 and phone3.
Consider another set of problems – what if you want to add a company, not a person, to your Contacts table? Or just a phone number and a first name? You would have to leave one or more of the candidate key columns (first_name, last_name, company), which would most certainly violate the only possible primary key constraint. What if you want to delete a fax number from your table? If you simply DELETE WHERE fax=X, you may be deleting people as well.
{mospagebreak title=Second Normal Form (2NF)}
Second Normal Form (2NF)
Second normal form states that there are no non-trivial functional dependencies on a non-key attribute. Let's look at this table:
CREATE TABLE Sales (
The primary key for this table could be defined as (name, store_location, customer_name), giving us a 1NF table. There is a problem though when considering 2NF – what happens if a customer changes their mind at the last minute and changes the product? The product_price column has to change, which means the product_price column has a functional dependency on the product_name column. In order for this table to be 2NF, we would need to have a separate table for products that stored the price – something like this:
CREATE TABLE Sales (
CREATE TABLE Products (
In this case there are no functional dependencies, but it is obvious that there are still some issues to be resolved. Let's have a look at 3NF.
{mospagebreak title=Third Normal Form (3NF) and BCNF}
Third Normal Form (3NF) and Boyce-Codd Normal Form (BCNF)
Third normal form states that a table must have no transitive dependencies. This means that a row could be uniquely identified by each column individually but that no column depends on any other column to identify the row. If columns X, Y and Z exist, deleting any two columns will still leave a set of uniquely identifiable rows. BCNF extends 3NF, stating that no non-trivial functional dependencies can exist on anything other than the superkey – that is, a superset of the candidate keys.
Typically, 3NF means there are no transitive dependencies. A transitive dependency is when two columnar relationships imply another relationship. For example, name -> extension and extension -> store_location, so name -> store_location, which is not a dependency we want to model in our table and could lead to faulty data. In the table we have defined, though, we still have a 3NF table. Also, what happens if an employee changes extension and the old sales records aren't updated? Or if a customer moves? These entry points for error are problematic but acceptable in 3NF because the dependencies are trivial. What we need to look to is BCNF, or Boyce-Codd Normal Form, which requires all transitive dependencies be eliminated in addition to the table being 3NF.
CREATE TABLE Sales (
CREATE TABLE Employees (
CREATE TABLE Customers (
CREATE TABLE Products (
Now information about employees, customers, and products are isolated from the Sales table. There are obvious practical problems with this example, such as product price changes breaking sales records, but that is a matter for another discussion. Each fact is represented in a single row in a table – an employee's extension and manager are listed once in the Employees table, rather than repeatedly (and probably erroneously) in the Sales table.
{mospagebreak title=Fourth Normal Form (4NF) and Fifth Normal Form (5NF)}
Fourth Normal Form (4NF) and Fifth Normal Form (5NF)
Fourth normal form requires that a table be BCNF and contain no multi-valued dependencies. 4NF solves the problem of multivalued dependencies, which we would encounter with our above Sales table when a customer purchased multiple products with a single order – we would have numerous rows that were dependent on one another without any clear definition of that dependency in the table.
Fifth normal form, also known as join-projection normal form (JPNF), states that no non-trivial join dependencies exist. 5NF states that any fact should be able to be reconstructed without any anomalous results in any case, regardless of the number of tables being joined. A 5NF table should have only candidate keys and it's primary key should consist of only a single column.
The problem with these forms is the size of the joins that are required to reconstruct any non-trivial data.We can rely on views and procedures to simplify them but the underlying data still ends up very complex. There are also performance issues to consider – which is why 4NF and 5NF are often academic. In most cases, 3NF (or BCNF) are ideal.
{mospagebreak title=Conclusion}
This is only an introduction to the subject of normalization. The topic is extensive. For those of you who are developing databases on a day to day basis, knowing how to formally normalize a table can save large amounts of time in the long run. Being able to determine what level of normalization a database needs and designing to that level of normalization can be difficult in larger applications and will often have many possible solutions. Education and experience are the tools you will need to design efficient databases with minimal (or, in a dream, no) anomalies. I hope this introduction to normalization is helpful to the readers, and I intend to publish a future article covering denormalization and case studies of some database and the way in which they were normalized.


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The "fixings" for our treat!
It was my birthday (well, the day after) and I had forgone a cake this year. We had gone for a lovely little adventure down island (Vanouver Island, that is) and stayed at a lovely B&B (I'll blog about that next time, after I get the photos together). After returning home, my stepson Sean arrived and I decided to make a treat for the three of us, using the Ricemellow Creme that I had purchased during our trip to Portland recently.
So this is what I made: Banana S'More Panini. I fired up the indoor grill first. I covered one slice of my husband's good white bread (use a variety of white bread with a compact crumb, like Pain de Mie or Pullman loaf [see more about this below]; but you could use a French or Italian bread-- just don't use the "Wonderbread" kind!) with a good smear of Ricemellow Creme (3 Tbs. maybe?). Then I covered that with about 1 oz. of good organic, vegan semisweet chocolate (I used some that I got from Denman Island Chocolate in bulk), which I had shaved into little pieces with a knife. Then I covered the other slice with sliced ripe, but not squishy, organic banana (about half a largish one).
I then put the sandwiches together and "buttered" them lightly with vegan marge (preferably palm oil-free) They went immediately into the hot grill, I closed the cover, and let them cook for about 7 minutes. A little gooey goodness ran out, but not very much. (I would suggest piling the chocolate not-too-close to the bread edges.)
It was divine! Not as sweet as I'd expected, but rich-- half of one might be enough, actually!
Here's the Wikipedia definition: "Pain de mie is a type of sliced, packaged white bread. "Pain" in French means "bread" or "loaf of bread" and "mie" means "crumb." In English pain de mie is most identical to pullman loaf or regular sandwich bread. This bread has sugar in it, which makes it sweeter than most French breads, and even with the sugar pain de mie is still not as sweet as most American breads. This bread usually used for making sandwiches or for toasting. It can be baked in a sealed pan, which prevents crust from forming. If not baked in a sealed pan, the crust can be cut off (as done in factories before packaging). Pain de mie is sold in rounded or rectangular shapes." It was served extensively on Pullman railroad cars, hence the name Pullman Bread or Pullman Loaf.
There is a link to one recipe in the text above, and here is one more. You can substitute soymilk for the dairy milk and Earth Balance for the butter in these recipes. Use half as much soymilk powder as milk powder called for.
Below is a picture of the sealed pan :
6 comments:
Happy Birthday! What a nice treat!
- Tue May 29, 02:57:00 PM PDT
Hi Bryanna and Happy Belated Birthday !
I hadn't been by in a while and so I have been reading all you have been up to for the last 10 minutes LOL
The Veg Fest sounds extra !
And that panini !
Samuel' (10) Bread project had great success at the HS Expo. He had also made some seitan which everybody loved and we found out rather quickly that we hadn't printed out enough recipes !
So thanks again for your help with the sourdough! We finally got it right !
Take care !
- Thu May 31, 07:48:00 AM PDT
- Bryanna Clark Grogan said...
Thank you both! And, Gaia, I'm so galdgthe sourdough was successful! Do you have any pictures?
- Thu May 31, 09:12:00 AM PDT
- Spice Island Vegan said...
Happy Belated Birthday, Bryanna! What a treat to B&B at Fanny Bay, BC.
Talking about bread, did Brian made his bread and videotaped at Julie's place?
- Tue Jun 05, 03:30:00 PM PDT
- Bryanna Clark Grogan said...
Thanks, Debbie! No, they didn't videotape that-- Brian's shy!
- Tue Jun 05, 05:22:00 PM PDT
- DaviMack said...
Thanks for the nice pictures of the pullman loaf! I was looking for one of these pans just the other day, because I'm trying to duplicate Westphalian Rye bread, and it's been known to be baked in just such a pan.
A note on the crusts - if you want them to be thin, cook at a lower temperature. Baked at around 250°F, you won't have a crust which is anything other than simply the outside of the bread - there'll be no change in texture. I'd suspect that this is the case with the pullman pan as well; if you cook at a higher temperature, you're going to get a crust, it'll just be square.
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PGA.com's T.J. Auclair recently took a trip to "Manchester Lane," in Acushnet, Mass., better known as the "Titleist Test Facility." While there, Auclair went through a club-fitting with PGA Professional Karen Gray, Titleist Supervisor of Player Research. Titleist Player Research Representatives Alex Stimpson and Bubba Kroeger were there to assist Gray. Following the club fitting, Auclair went through a golf-ball fitting with Gray and Titleist Golf Ball Fitting Manager Mike Gibson. This is the third and final installment of the three-part series on the complete fitting experience.
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ACUSHNET, Mass. -- A golf club fitting, you might be surprised to know, isn't complete without a proper golf ball fitting.
Have you been thinking about getting properly fit for golf clubs by a PGA Professional? There are numerous ways to do so. For the purposes of this story, we detailed the fitting system provided by Titleist. Other big companies have their own fitting facilities and PGA Professionals nationwide can fit players for a wide variety of clubs.
A golf ball fitting is a lot more important than you probably think.
"There is only one piece of equipment that you use on every shot, your golf ball," explained Mike Gibson, Titleist Golf Ball Fitting Manager. "Getting fit for your golf ball, and playing that golf ball exclusively, eliminates the performance variation and will help you hit more greens in regulation and hit the ball closer to the pin to convert more putts."
Karen Gray (PGA Professional and Titleist Supervisor of Player Research), Gibson and I jumped into a golf cart and drove down a path, deeper into the woods to the breathtaking short-game area at Manchester Lane. Just 100 yards in length, the short-game area features a plush, wide fairway to offer an array of shot types, healthy rough and demanding bunkers that protect an undulating green.
Gibson had me start 40 yards from a tucked pin -- a ½ sand-wedge shot for me. Before hitting any shots, Gibson explained how important it is to find a proper ball based on how a ball reacts to your scoring clubs – your wedges. While everyone wants more yardage off the tee, Gibson explained you're only going to hit 14 driver shots max throughout the course of a round. Why then would you get a ball based on your driver?
If you're playing a golf ball that's designed for distance, Gibson explained, that ball may not give you the greenside performance you're looking for. Sure, you'll hit it further, but without feel around the greens that particular ball won't be lowering your scores – the ultimate goal.
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"Short-game shots are where you have the greatest opportunity to lower your score, so it's important to select a golf ball that performs best for your scoring shots. In a fitting, you must get fit for your irons and scoring clubs such as the wedges first, and then fit the driver to that ball for the best results."
As I hit soft wedge shots into the green, Gibson said his focus was listening to the sound the varying golf-ball models made coming off the clubface and then watching to see how they reacted once they landed on the green.
We moved up and went through the same routine from just in front of the green and also from the greenside bunkers.
"Off the tee with the driver, golf balls are more similar than different and most golfers do not notice any noticeable difference in distance, feel, spin and launch," Gibson said. "However, shots played into or around the green are more different than similar. If you're playing a golf ball that doesn't offer you adequate spin to a tight pin placement, then your putting average goes up because you are starting farther away from the hole. You know the adage, 'If you want to be a great putter, hit the ball closer to the hole.' Also, a properly fit golf ball will make you more consistent because you will know exactly how far your golf ball will go on every shot and how your golf ball will react into or around the green."
There's an evaluation Gibson uses to determine the ball that best fits a particular player.
First, he has the player choose two golf ball models they believe to be best suited for their game.
Second, take the two golf balls to the golf course for the on-course evaluation process, executing all shots using both golf ball models.
Finally, there's a chart used to track which golf ball performs best for each type of shot.
There are five things to consider when comparing the golf balls:
- Score
- Proximity to the pin
- Greens hit
- Fairways hit
- Feel preference
"The first thing that we need to know is where the golfer needs the most help.," Gibson said. "Are they looking to improve their greens in regulation averages, or looking for a more controllable scoring-shot performance, or just looking for a golf ball that answers their preference needs? If it is a performance need, then we focus on how the golf ball reacts to their swing. Conditions such as launch, spin and speed are observed and assessed. We find that most golfers lack shot spin and control into the green so a performance golf ball is recommended such as Pro V1 or Pro V1x."
Again, one of the easiest ways to shave strokes off your game is to use the proper tools. You'll be amazed at the process. A day later, with credit card in hand, I placed my order with the specs recommended by Gray and her team. Perhaps the most amazing part of a club fitting that people don't understand is this: Your properly fit clubs will cost you little – if anything – more than what you'd pay off the rack.
See your local PGA Professional to learn what is best for you and why.
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Twelve-year-old Mohammed al-Dura quickly became the poster child of the Palestinian struggle after allegedly being shot dead by Israeli soldiers in Gaza in 2000.
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A commission recently appointed by the Israeli government to investigate al-Dura's death came to the shocking conclusion last week that the boy was not actually killed during the televised gun battle between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian terrorists.
Forensics experts demonstrated that there is no evidence the boy had been, or even could have been, hit by Israeli bullets.
Already in 2002, prominent German journalist Esther Schapira joined others of her international colleagues in openly questioning the France 24 narrative. In her documentary "Three Bullets and a Dead Child - Who Shot Mohammed al-Dura," Schapira came to the conclusion that the boy was actually hit by Palestinian gunmen.
Also casting a cloud of doubt on the topic was a later media appearance by al-Dura's father where he presented scars he claimed were the result of injuries sustained on that fateful day. But the Israeli doctor who had treated Mr. al-Dura immediately came forward and clarified that the man's injuries had been sustained at a different time entirely, and were the result of a beating by Hamas activists.
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