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SFX Entertainment Inc. (SFXE) Drops 19.23% on December 28Equities Staff Follow |
SFX Entertainment Inc. (SFXE) was one of the Russell 2000's biggest losers for Monday December 28 as the stock slid 19.23% to $0.24, a loss of $-0.0573 per share. Starting at an opening price of $0.29 a share, the stock traded between $0.22 and $0.31 over the course of the trading day. Volume was 1.98 million shares over 2,144 trades, against an average daily volume of 1.2 million shares and a total float of 98.89 million.
The losses send SFX Entertainment Inc. down to a market cap of $23.8 million. In the last year, SFX Entertainment Inc. has traded between $5.25 and $0.17, and its 50-day SMA is currently $0.58 and 200-day SMA is $2.52.
SFX Entertainment Inc is engaged in the production and promotion of live electronic music culture festivals and events, production of music tours, merchandising and related services in the United States.
SFX Entertainment Inc. is based out of New York, NY and has some 625 employees. Its CEO is Gregory Consiglio / Ritty van Straalen / Robert F.X. Sillerman / Wouter Tavecchio.
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Bionic Learning Network
Inspiration for factory and process automation
Automation technology carries out everyday tasks in factories such as gripping, moving and positioning goods as well as controlling processes. Nature performs all of these tasks instinctively, easily and efficiently. What could be more logical than to examine these natural phenomena and learn from them?
That is why Festo set up the Bionic Learning Network, a research network linking Festo to well-known universities, institutes, development companies and private inventors.
Who are the members of the Bionic Learning Network?
Members of the Bionic Learning Network – interdisciplinary teamwork
We have been dealing intensively with the bionics field since the start of the 1990s. The launch of the Bionic Learning Network in 2006 heralded the start of a dynamic and open exchange of ideas with well-known universities, institutes and development companies.
The core team consists of engineers and designers, biologists and students from Festo. It works closely with specialists from other departments as well as external partners from all over the world. This open, interdisciplinary teamwork offers new perspectives and inspiration for industrial applications and possible future standard products.
- Festo: Bionic Projects core team, Research and Development, Product Management, Testing, Product Development, Product Design, Exhibition Stand Construction, Corporate Design
- Universities and institutes: TU Berlin, Delft University of Technology, TU Ilmenau, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Christian-Albrechts-University in Kiel, University of Arts and Industrial Design Linz, University of Oslo and Akershus, Department of Product Design, University of Applied Sciences Ravensburg-Weingarten, University of Stuttgart, CIN University Tübingen, University of Ulm, Fraunhofer IPA ...
- External companies: aeroix GmbH, Effekt-Technik GmbH, Evologics GmbH, JNTec GbR, Sachs Engineering ...
What does Festo want to achieve with bionics?
Objectives of the Bionic Learning Network – more than just developing new technologies
To motivate, inspire and enthuse and to kick-start innovation – as a technological leader and as a learning company, Festo is pursuing a set of clear objectives with the Bionic Learning Network:
- To establish networks and to motivate people from different sectors to develop their ideas with Festo
- To keep track of current trends in research and development and to test new technologies and manufacturing methods
- To encourage greater creativity in solution processes and to drive preliminary product development through prototyping
- To discuss possible solutions with customers and partners and obtain customer feedback in relation to issues surrounding innovation
- To demonstrate the solution expertise of Festo in a way that will inspire young people to take an interest in technology and help us to discover new talent
How do our customers benefit?
Festo as a development partner – a driving force for customer innovations
The Future Concepts of the Bionic Learning Network serve as development platforms that combine a wide diversity of technologies and components – from manufacturing concepts via series products, up to software and control or regulation technology.
Continuous optimisation of the various technologies provides Festo with complex insights and approaches to developing and optimising new products and applications together with customers and partners. The expertise gained in this process makes Festo the partner of choice for its OEM customers from diverse sectors with various different requirements.
By providing appropriate components and solutions, services and expertise, Festo supports its customers from the outset in the development of their products and accompanies them from market analysis up to functional simulation, from prototyping up to efficient and productive series production.

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LION man Douglas Hamilton is in demand from US TV bosses after they saw online footage of him playing with cubs at a wildlife park.
Douglas melted the hearts of more than 170,000 people, including singing star Taylor Swift, after he posted videos of the encounters in South Africa.
The 28-year-old, whose films including Lion Cubs Hugs and Lion Licking Face were snapped up by an online marketing firm, has since moved to Australia.
Douglas said: "After the Taylor Swift mania, everything faded for a good five months… then out of nowhere my views online more than doubled in one week.
"Apparently, the main guy from Vampire Diaries posted my video on his Facebook or Twitter so it got all these views again – almost 487,000.
"CNN and Fox emailed wanting to use my video worldwide on their shows but I no longer have the rights so couldn't.
"When I explained I no longer had the rights, CNN said if I went back to Africa they would possibly like to do a Christian and the lion type reunion thing to see if the lions remember me."
Douglas, from Glasgow's south side, has also been approached by US broadcasters ABC about reality TV show The Bachelor, which sees a group of women compete for the affections of the main man.
A producer emailed him, saying: "We're looking for outstanding eligible men to be The Bachelor on our new season.
"I was totally enchanted by the video of you with those lion cubs, as well as by your music."
Douglas is now in talks with the channel but he added: "I'm not really sure it's my thing but I would like to get into TV presenting and do more with my music so it could open doors."
The UK series of The Bachelor starred Welsh rugby international Gavin Henson in the lead role.


text: Sijun Forums :: View topic - help! Getting my ass kicked... Log in to check your private messages Sijun Forums Forum Index >> Work in Progress View previous topic :: View next topic Author Topic : "help! Getting my ass kicked..." Chad WeatherfordmemberMember #Joined: 03 May 2006Posts: 52Location: New Zealand Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 7:27 am Well, with a deadline pretty much on top of me, I have a mess on my hands with this illustration for the back of a CD digipac. I've looked at this and tweaked it so many ways and my eyes are crossed. something really really bothers me and i can't tell if it's structural, color, values, a combination, too much blur, not enough blur...edges or what. Any feedback/suggestions would be much much appreciated, because I trust the instincts of the people here and i basically i have no time to work it out on my own.  Back to top faeklonememberMember #Joined: 03 Apr 2002Posts: 215Location: Calgary Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 1:55 am My two cents is that the background of the buildings and such is drawing your eye away from the subject matter, the person being chased. I do like how you have the face in the center of several lines to draw your eye to it. My guess as to why it's not working is that the figure is competing for attention with the buildings in the background. Since it would be a bit foolharty to tone down the buildings, the next step is to look at the face. I think it's not working due to the car and the face being a bit too small. If you take the vehicle and make it even 1/3 bigger, placing the face in the same spot, the attention should be drawn more to the foreground and not to the beautiful buildings in the background. It may or may not work, but that's what I'm thinking will do it._________________"It's not the tools you use but how you use them that counts." Back to top Chad WeatherfordmemberMember #Joined: 03 May 2006Posts: 52Location: New Zealand Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 2:13 am Thanks for the suggestion faeklone! ...appreciate the insight. I'll give it a shot. I do think that you are correct in the competing aspect. Back to top TinuschmemberMember #Joined: 25 Dec 1999Posts: 2757Location: Rhode Island, USA Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 2:28 pm I was going to give the exact same diagnosis - my eye is constantly pulled to the top right corner. I was thinking of maybe just toning down the contrast up there to give it a sort of hazy remoteness. Back to top Chad WeatherfordmemberMember #Joined: 03 May 2006Posts: 52Location: New Zealand Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 4:41 pm thankyou so much for the prognosis guys! You're both legends! I'll post an update soon. Anybody else wanna chime in? Back to top watmoughmemberMember #Joined: 22 Sep 2003Posts: 779Location: Rockland, ME Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 2:16 pm yup,im with them ,eye needs to be directed abit more,heres 2 minute paint over. Back to top Capt. FredmemberMember #Joined: 21 Dec 2002Posts: 1425Location: South England Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 3:35 am I have some ideas, I hope some part of it will help, Good luck. Back to top MaLoRuMmemberMember #Joined: 05 Aug 2000Posts: 208Location: Okazaki, Japan Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 11:09 pm The bottom left of the picture is mostly black and filled with dark colors so your eye immediately is drawn to the only place WITH color which are the buildings in the background. What Capt. Fred did was balance the colors out and draw your eye back down to the focus of the picture. I was wondering why you had giant headlights on the front of your little spaceships but no lighting going on at the bottom of your picture. It was instead all black. Sweet pic, cant wait to see how you improve it_________________Sumimasen?!?! Nanpa anyone? Back to top FreddioAdministratorMember #Joined: 29 Dec 1999Posts: 2078Location: Australia Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 6:44 am hmm, sorry, I think all I did was mutilate your image! _________________Design portfolio Back to top Petri.JmemberMember #Joined: 04 Dec 2003Posts: 437Location: Helsinki, Finland Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 6:56 am You have too much contrast in your painting. Concentrate your contrast to the focus point and that will fix the problem that the buildings seem to be too close from the camera. Back to top Mikko KmemberMember #Joined: 29 Apr 2003Posts: 639 Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 3:34 pm I like what you got going on there, so I just tried to mess with it a bit. Take this stuff with a grain of salt, I'm pretty tired now Back to top GotnospoonsmemberMember #Joined: 09 Aug 2007Posts: 124 Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 7:50 am I think Watmough and Mikko did a great job. Desaturate the back ground more so our eye is focused on the main character and the action. Good job_________________Truth is the essence of life, if that truth flows freely from you then why do so many choose to ignore it? --me Back to top neffmemberMember #Joined: 11 May 2002Posts: 1444Location: Germany Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 3:50 pm I've quite another Problem with the Picture... i think the head of the Kid is placed wrong. IMO you have to see his shoulder on the same high than his head and i dont know why he turns his head to the left? I think the street is his own horizont to look at._________________* Back to top Telekonjunior memberMember #Joined: 02 Nov 2004Posts: 44 Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 1:25 am Also the facial expression seems dazed or blanked out. If he's being chased and the vehicle requires concentration to drive, it would show on his face. A look of determination and focus would help this image. 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I'll bake and cook more this week to let myself stress-free...haha! Maybe a spa will be nice..;p
Well, about the post today, it's a bread post again. I've baked this buns last week, and I think I'm now addicted to bread baking..haha! Love the kneading and punching dough process..;p Okay, this recipe was adapted from my favourite book "麵包教室 5'C 冰種的美味". This was the 2nd recipe I tried and I just simply love it!
Made it with some red bean paste fillings (as always requested by my daughter) and some with butter. My hubby and I just love the butter ones, and we took 4 right after baked!


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EDITOR'S NOTE: Boris Epshteyn formerly served as a Senior Advisor to the Trump Campaign and served in the White House as Special Assistant to The President and Assistant Communications Director for Surrogate Operations.
WASHINGTON (Sinclair Broadcast Group) - While Congress is working on tax reform, the U.S. economy continues to grow.
In the 3rd quarter of 2017, ending in September, our economy grew at a pace of 3.3 percent, which is the fastest rate in three years. In the 2nd quarter the economy grew at 3.1 percent.
These numbers represent gross domestic product (GDP) growth. GDP growing fast means our economy is expanding. That, in turn, translates into more, higher paying jobs.
The president ran on a platform of getting to consistent 3 percent growth. It looks like that is currently being achieved.
Why is that growth happening? Deregulation has a lot to do with it. The Trump administration's goal was to get rid of two regulations for every new one, but in reality, it's been closer to eight cancelled regulations for each new one.
Business investment went up by an annual pace of 7.3 percent in the 3rd quarter. That signals that American companies are putting their money to work, which means more Americans are being employed.
Speaking of jobs - unemployment is currently at 4.1 percent. That is a 17-year low, and employment continues to go down.
Consumer confidence continues to rise. It is now at 129.5, up over 3 points in just one month. Consumer confidence keeps hitting 17-year highs.
Here is the bottom line: these are not just numbers on a page, the encouraging economic indicators mean more jobs and more money in your pockets. If Congress does its job and gets tax reform done, expect for these positive trends to not just continue but to accelerate.


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The Network for Computational Nanotechnology seeks to bring a new perspective to engineering education in materials, devices, circuits, and systems. We are inspired by the Semiconductor Electronics Education Committee (SEEC), a group of 30 leaders in the field from both industry and ACADEMIA who recognized in the early 1960s that the age of vacuum tubes was ending, and that engineers would have to be educated differently if they were to realize the opportunities that the new field of microelectronics presented. SEEC eventually produced seven undergraduate textbooks and four films, and reshaped the teaching of electronics. We are now at the dawn of what could be a new era in technology, but to exploit the opportunities that nanoscience is giving us, engineers will need to learn how to think about materials, devices, circuits, and systems in a new way to complement traditional understanding with a new perspective emerging from research on nanoscience and technology. "Electronics from the Bottom-up" is a series of online modules and supporting materials including course notes, homework assignments, and online simulation exercises. It is designed to be a resource for educators and self-learners AND A MODEL for a new way OF teaching electronic devices. The SEEC had great impact on engineering education and on the development of microelectronics; we hope to inspire students and prepare them to contribute the development of nanoelectronic technology for the 21st Century.
This project, launched in fall, 2006, will produce a series of four modules over the next four years. The modules and their supporting materials will be disseminated on the nanoHUB and on the Intel higher education web page. This page provides some background information on the initiative and a few preliminary contributions to it.
The Concept
- Presentation: An Introduction to Electronics from the Bottom Up, Mark Lundstrum, Supriyo Datta, Ashraf Alam
Online Video – Voiced Powerpoint
- Companion Presentation: Bottom-up view of conductance, Supriyo Datta
Online Video – Voiced Powerpoint
- Companion Presentation: Top-down/Bottom-up Views of Length, Ashraf Alam
Online Video – Voiced Powerpoint
- Whitepaper
Concepts of Quantum Transport by Supriyo Datta
The Nano-MOSFET: A brief introduction by Mark Lundstrom
Related Resources on the nanoHUB
Online Courses
- Fundamentals of Nanoelectronics (Fall 2004), Supryo Datta
- Quantum Transport: Atom to Transistor (Spring 2004), Supryo Datta
- ECE 612 Nanoscale Transistors (Fall 2006), Mark Lundstrom
- Curriculum on Nanotechnology
Online Tutorials
- On the Reliability of Micro-Electronic Devices: An Introductory Lecture on Negative Bias Temperature Instability, Ashraf Alam
- The Long and Short of Pick-up Stick Transistors: A Promising Technology for Nano- and Macro-Electronics, Ashraf Alam
- Geometry of Diffusion and the Performance Limits of Nanobiosensors, Ashraf Alam, Pradeep Nair
- Nanotechnology 501 Lecture Series
Nanoelectronics Simulation Tools
- FETToy
- NanoMOS
- Schred
- Band Structure Lab
- PN Junction Lab
- Modeling Interface-defect Generation (MIG)
- Other simulation tools ›
Those with comments or questions or who are interested in participating in this initiative should contact Mark Lundstrom.
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How many movies with ski in the title can you name? This list ranks the best movies with ski in the name, whether they're documentaries, dramas, horror movies, or any other genre of film. Do you have a favorite movie with ski in the title? Categorizing movies by words in their titles is kind of uncommon, but that's a big part of why this list is so fun to scroll through. There's probably one movie with ski in the title you think of right away, but you might be shocked to see how many others exist as well.Notable films with ski in the title include Ski Party, Ski School, and Ski School 2, although there are many more examples on this list. This poll is interactive, meaning you can vote the ski movies up or down depending on how much you like them.


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Hell yeah, now that's the attitude I love to see. Let's the critics talk their bullshit and give everybody else props in the league as they crown a SB champion in week 1...we'll just show up and kick some *** every week and go about our business.The Steelers conjure up many images -- an unyielding defense befitting a place called the "Steel City," a punishing ground game, Terrible Towel-waving fans -- but not game-breaking wide receivers.
That is the opinion of none other than Hines Ward
"You look back throughout history," the 10-year veteran said last week. "What receiver do you know other than (Lynn) Swann and (John) Stallworth that anybody outside of this organization really cared about?"
True, the Weegie Thompson Fan Club disbanded long ago. This year's wide receivers will have to make themselves known outside of the organization if the Steelers are to have a successful season, which isn't a repeat of last year's disappointing 8-8 campaign.
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The regular season starts today when the Steelers visit Cleveland, and there are two schools of thought about the team's wideouts.
They are too small, too callow and in the case of Ward, the four-time Pro Bowler who is poised to break Stallworth's team records for career receiving yards and touchdown receptions, maybe even a little too old at the lead spot.
Ward is still one of the better wideouts in the game, Santonio Holmes is a star waiting in the wings, Cedrick Wilson is perfectly fine for a No. 3 receiver and Nate Washington just needs to become more consistent to give the Steelers another big-play threat.
Which scenario comes closer to playing out this season could go a long way toward determining whether the Steelers return to the playoffs.
"I know what they can do and how special they are," quarterback Ben Roethlisberger said.
Such a statement might cause a few eye rolls considering Roethlisberger needs those wideouts to go over the middle and stretch out for tough catches.
But Roethlisberger has been effusive in his praise of the wide receivers since it became clear the Steelers were going to spread the field more this season. Rather than expose the Steelers' wideouts, Roethlisberger has remained steadfast in his belief that the new offense will showcase them.
"They might surprise some people outside this locker room," he said, "but they won't surprise me."
Ward, who was recently voted a captain by his teammates, is the unquestioned leader of the group.
He plays with attitude, an edge and the kind of toughness that personifies the Steelers. Ward, 31, is poised to eclipse 1,000 yards in receiving after just missing the mark last year (he had 975 yards on 74 catches).
"I know Santonio and Wilson have really good speed, which you have to be concerned about," Browns coach Romeo Crennel said, "but Hines Ward totally can do it all."
Opposing coaches might be saying the same thing about Holmes soon enough.
He overcame a slow start to his rookie season in 2006 to catch 49 passes for 824 yards and a pair of touchdowns.
Holmes, the Steelers' first-round pick in 2006, averaged 16.8 yards a catch last season and figures to only get better. As the former Ohio State star said, the more comfortable he has become at this level, the more the game has slowed down for him.
"When you know what's going on, you have no worries, you're getting out there free-minded just doing your job," said Holmes, who will start opposite Ward this season.
The main job for Washington this season is cut down on the drops.
He led the Steelers in yards per catch (17.8) last season, but he has been maddening at times because of his inability to consistently catch the ball.
He is only in his third season, while Holmes and Willie Reid, the team's fifth wide receiver, are in their second season.
If experience is a concern, there is also a question mark about their size - or specifically their lack of a tall, rangy wideout that would make for an attractive target for Roethlisberger when the Steelers are near their opponents' end zone.
"You look the past four years and I'm probably one of the top four guys in the red zone, and I'm not 6-5 or whatever. It's blown out of proportion," said the 6-foot Ward, who has 58 career touchdown receptions. "You throw it up, I like our chances with the receivers we've got."
So does Roethlisberger.
"There are lot guys talking about Hines being over the hill and that other guys are too young," Roethlisberger said. "You know what, that's fine. We'll just shut up and play."


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A hack called Whited00r allows iOS 5 features to be installed on the original iPhone and iPhone 3G devices, as well as the early iPod touch models.
Whited00r will automatically jailbreak your device, and the latest version of Cydia, 1.1.3, will be installed on it. The biggest advantage of the tool, is that you will get true multitasking, and apps will keep in running state in the background.
It's as simple as running a manual IPSW install via iTunes before Whited00r takes over and installs a custom iOS firmware package. Apparently you'll be running a heavily modified iOS 3.1.3 IPSW, which is required on older iOS devices. As such, this version of iOS comes with a custom iCloud setup, and also doesn't include the new Notification Center included in iOS 5.
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Having been a political junkie for several decades, I've learned a few things along the way. Spending that much time reading and watching and talking politics gives you a certain perspective on things. I find it almost amusing when I see or read people who obviously aren't quite the political addict that I am saying things that show their naiveté when it comes to politics. I remember back during the health care summit when President Obama took on a room full of Republicans and eviscerated them. That night on Rachel and Keith's shows on MSNBC, they both were so overcome, saying things like "where has he been" or "we need more of this Obama" and things to that effect. I'm hearing similar comments lately with the President out on the stump working to get Democrats elected. Steve Benen has a great post about this, read it here. A piece of that post that I particularly liked…
As this relates to the Obama White House, "where have these guys been?" Well, they've been knee-deep in prose, doing the ugly, messy, often-thankless work of running the executive branch of government in the midst of multiple domestic and international crises. There's little doubt that the president is one of the great American orators of our time, but he can't invest his time, year round, in these "Moving America Forward" rallies. The president just doesn't have time — he's too busy, you know, moving America forward. Besides, the speeches would lose their punch if they were delivered all the time.
It's ironic, in a way, to appreciate the stark differences between Candidate Obama and President Obama. The concern among many throughout the campaign process was that Obama was overly reliant on charisma, style, charm, and emotion. What would happen when the crowds went home and the guy had to actually run the joint? Well, now we know — what would happen is Affordable Care Act, the Recovery Act, Wall Street reform, student loan reform, Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, new regulation of the credit card industry, new regulation of the tobacco industry, a national service bill, expanded stem-cell research, a nuclear arms deal with Russia, a new global nonproliferation initiative, the Hate Crimes Prevention Act, the most sweeping land-protection act in 15 years, etc. The irony being, the '07 and '08 concerns were arguably backwards — this White House seems far more adept at governing than the political/communications efforts that were supposed to be this team's strength.
So for all those people who said he was all charisma, style and charm….he is also a damn good administrator and gets shit done, even in the face of the most lock-step opposition any president has ever seen. And some would argue and have, that the communication part of this administration is lacking, but I don't see it that way. The media has become a joke, they've "devolved" over the last several years largely because of the impact of Fox News. They have been very successful at getting ratings, bringing in money and changing the news industry, particularly the cable news industry, into a money making venture instead of one based on journalistic principles. Remember the "balloon boy" fiasco.
Consider this my first "Airport Post"…..I'm sitting in Detroit's airport, heading to New York. I doubt I'll get a chance to post tomorrow, busy, busy, busy. But you never know, I'll be sitting in airports tomorrow night too.


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With the November release of Associations in the Greco-Roman World: A Sourcebook (book info), Ascough, Kloppenborg, and I have been busy preparing a companion website that I think you'll find of some interest:
Basically, users of the site can browse through hundreds of inscriptions (450 so far) involving guilds, immigrant groups, and other associations in the ancient Mediterranean. The user can browse by geography or by topics (including gods) using the right side bar. There is also a feature we called "selected exhibits" on (hopefully) interesting topics to a general reader (with about 10 inscriptions in each exhibit). There are many documents with English translations, and the user can choose to view just those (in selected exhibits). One of the selected exhibits is for Judeans (Jews) in the diaspora. The plan is to continue to expand the website with more inscriptions relating to these groups. There are already 100 inscriptions that do not appear in the sourcebook (marked with an asterisk).
The AGRW sourcebook itself goes beyond the inscriptions to include literary excerpts on associations (from, e.g., Philo, Tacitus, Pliny the Younger, Tertullian), descriptions of meeting-place excavations, and an extensive annotated bibliography (table of contents here). The book has been designed to be used as a text in courses as well.
Update: I should also add that I have previously released a podcast series on associations and you can access that all in one place here: Podcast series 6: Associations in the Greco-Roman World.
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Cablevision Increasing Broadband Prices by $5 Per Month
Cablevision today announced that it will increase the price of its high-speed Internet service by $5 per month in 2013.
The price hike is the company's first in a decade, Cablevision said. It will result in a bill that is 3.2 percent higher than what Optimum Online customers are currently charged.
Cable television and phone service prices will not increase. Customers who currently have promotional packages will also not see the $5 increase until that deal expires.
Cablevision did not give a specific reason for the change, but noted that it recently invested $140 million in a "network augmentation" project and deployed 50,000 Wi-Fi hotspots in its service area. It also pointed out that customers are not subject to bandwidth caps or usage-based charges.
"Optimum Online is the gold standard of high-speed Internet service, offering customers blazing fast speeds, free access to the nation's largest Wi-Fi network and unsurpassed reliability and value," Gemma Toner, Cablevision's senior vice president of broadband product management, said in a statement. "Over the last 10 years, we have made significant investments in our broadband product, recently affirmed by the FCC to deliver in excess of 100 percent of the speeds we advertise, along with advanced security, no usage caps, local news and information and other key features."
Cablevision said customers used Optimum Wi-Fi to connect to the Web more than 50 million times in November. The company said its service provides up to 15 Mbps downstream and 4 Mbps upstream.
For more, see PCMag's look at the Fastest ISPs in the U.S. 2012.
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A hernia occurs when a part of the intestine pushes through a
weakness in the belly (abdominal) muscles. A soft bulge shows up under the skin where
the hernia is. A hernia in the groin area is called an inguinal hernia.
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A hernia can develop in the first few months after a baby is born. It happens because of a weakness in the abdomen muscles. Straining and crying don't cause hernias. But the increased pressure in the belly can make a hernia more easily seen.
As a male baby grows during pregnancy, the testicles develop in the abdomen. Then they move down into the scrotum through the inguinal canal. Shortly after the baby is born, the inguinal canal closes. This stops the testicles from moving back into the abdomen. If this area does not fully close, a part of the intestine can move into the canal through the weakened area of the lower belly wall. This causes a hernia.
In some cases, the part of intestine that pushes through a hernia may become stuck. It is no longer reducible. This means it can't be gently pushed back into the belly. When this happens, that part of the intestine may not get enough blood. A good blood supply is needed for the intestine to be healthy and to work the right way.
Although girls don't have testicles, they do have an inguinal canal. So they can also have hernias in the groin.
Hernias happen more often in babies who are born early. They are also more common in children who have:
Inguinal hernias look like a bulge or swelling in the groin or scrotum. You may be able to see the swelling more easily when the baby cries. It may get smaller or go away when the baby relaxes. If your child's healthcare provider gently pushes on this bulge when your child is calm and lying down, it will usually get smaller or go back into the belly.
If the hernia can't be pushed back into the belly, the loop of intestine may be stuck in the weakened part of abdominal muscle. If that happens, symptoms may include:
These symptoms may look like other health problems. Make sure your child sees his or her healthcare provider for a diagnosis.
To diagnose a hernia, your child's healthcare provider will do a physical exam. He or she will check if the hernia can be pushed back into the abdomen (reducible).
Treatment will depend on your
child's symptoms, age, and general health. It will also depend on how severe the
condition is.
Your child will need surgery for an
inguinal hernia. The surgery will happen fairly soon after the hernia is found. That's
because the intestine can become stuck in the inguinal canal. When this happens, the
blood supply to the intestine can be cut off. The intestine can then become damaged.
Surgery is usually done before this damage can occur.
During surgery for a hernia, your
child will be given medicine to put him or her to sleep (anesthesia).The surgeon makes a
small cut (incision) in the area of the hernia. The surgeon puts the loop of intestine
back into the abdominal area. He or she stitches the muscles together. Sometimes, a
piece of meshed material is used to help strengthen the area where the muscles are
Complications of an inguinal hernia include:
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TRENTON – Looking to provide Garden State residents with another way to show their team pride, the Motor Vehicle Commission (MVC) today began the sale of license plates that honor the area's basketball teams – the New Jersey Nets, the Philadelphia 76ers and the New York Knicks.
"With another exciting season of hoops underway, it's the perfect time to roll the plates out to our customers," said MVC Chief Administrator Raymond P. Martinez. "I am confident these plates will be a huge hit with New Jersey motorists."
The MVC is offering the three National Basketball Association (NBA) license plates through the mail with order forms available online at www.njmvc.gov/sports or at any one of the MVC's 42 agencies. Plates are $60 for an initial purchase with an annual renewal fee of $60. Personalized plates are also available for purchase. Revenue generated from the sale of the plates will go to the state's General Fund.
The NBA plates are the latest line of sports license plates available to New Jersey vehicle owners. On Oct. 20, the MVC unveiled its line of NASCAR-themed license plates. There are 10 driver plates to choose from, as well as a NASCAR fan plate and a Hall of Fame plate that honors the late Dale Earnhardt. In the coming weeks, the MVC will begin offering other sports license plates for fans of the NHL, MLB and the NFL.
"The sale of sports plates is a win-win for the state as it allows fans the unique opportunity to show their pride while providing another valuable source of revenue," added Martinez.
The 76ers and Knicks are three- and two-time NBA champs, respectively, and the Nets are two-time American Basketball Association (ABA) champions.
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Nebraska Inspired Arkansas Native; Demoine Adams Recruited the Huskers
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Somehow, Demoine Adams thinks the stars were lined up when he decided to take recruiting into his own hands during the summer of his junior year in high school in Pine Bluff, Arkansas.
He had talent, intelligence and confidence. He just wanted someone to notice, so he told himself to "shoot for the stars" when he checked out summer football camps.
The financial analysis favored Lincoln, so Adams started working extra hours at a local movie house, selling tickets and popcorn to earn a $220 round-trip airfare to Lincoln and pay a $150 camp fee. It was a stretch, but the 6-2, 215-pound defensive end scratched up enough cash to make the trip.
On the flight to Lincoln, reality set in. "I had to admit to myself that I just wanted somebody . . . anybody . . . to get a glimpse of me," he said. "In my head, being in the shadows of a championship stadium was enough. All I really expected was to get the attention of some smaller schools."
Misguided thoughts were tempered quickly. Adams caught the eye of a legendary coach. Before he left Nebraska, Tom Osborne told him that he was "impressed with my performance and impressed with my speed," Adams recalled. "He told me they would keep in touch with me my senior year."
The minute Osborne delivered those words, the lights went on in Adams' head and the curtains went up on his career. "That's when I realized I had potential I didn't even know I had," he said. "By the time I landed back in Arkansas, my whole mentality had changed. I told myself the sky was the limit. My goal was to work as hard as I could to prepare myself for improvement every single day."
Others Followed Huskers' Lead
Word travels fast in recruiting circles. Once coaches found out that Adams would visit Nebraska, other offers poured in. After Nebraska, visits were set up for Missouri, Ole Miss and Arkansas. Oklahoma and Texas A&M also made contact.
Adams chose the program that won his heart that summer. He arrived at Nebraska and put so much effort into football that he almost flunked out of school his first semester. "I was below a 2.0," he said. "I had to take 18 hours the second semester. I got a tutor for every class - political science, geography, history and math. My tutors encouraged me and taught me how to study.
"I poured everything I had into my academic performance," Adams said. "By the first semester of my sophomore year, I was achieving a 4.0 for 18 hours in addition to playing football. I had gone from an academic slacker with very little confidence to a serious-minded student who wanted the same kind of perfection in the classroom that I wanted on the field."
Academic performance, Adams decided, is just like athletic performance. You get out of it what you put into it.
Adams accelerated so much academically that he graduated in three years and spent his last two years at Nebraska playing football and attending graduate school.
After college, he played two years with the Edmonton Eskimos in the Canadian Football League, a half season on the practice squad of the Green Bay Packers and a full season on the practice squad of the Tennessee Titans. He also spent a year in Arena Football with Nashville and San Jose teams.
Academics Trumps Strength Feats
Always one to push himself, Adams could bench press 400 pounds in high school and reached 500 pounds as a Lifter of the Year at Nebraska. But he's fondest of the conversion he made academically.
"In college, I was president of a student-athlete group called Your Degree First, and I still advise that group," he said. "I loved being a Blackshirt, and I loved playing on a team that competed for a national championship. But more than anything, I loved what I was able to accomplish academically.
"The practice field, the strength facility and Game Day were important parts of my life, but what I did there didn't determine what I do now. My job is the result of what I did in the classroom. Nebraska pushed me and inspired me, and I'm thankful every day that I decided to come here."
Demoine Adams Profile
Name: Demoine Rishad Adams
Age: 29
Residence: Lincoln, Nebraska
Family: Two dogs (Granddaddy, 7; Scrappy, 2)
Why I chose Nebraska: Nebraska was the No. 1 team in the country when I was finishing high school in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. I paid my own way to summer football camp, and they were the first to recognize my potential and the first to offer me a scholarship. Nebraska differentiated itself in all categories that were important to me, but one sticks out: their reputation for turning ordinary players into extraordinary players.
Why Nebraska was a good decision: It's hard for me to count all the ways, but I know the most important - Nebraska's relentless emphasis on the academic side. It's real. It's genuine. It's consistent, and it's a lot of hard work. Nebraska understands how academic rigor and athletic rigor go hand-in-hand. Once I got here, I increased the level of expectations I set for myself in both areas. Academics gave me a different perspective of my self-potential. Once I embraced it, I understood how it could set me up for the rest of my life.
What I'm doing now: I'm the academic program coordinator in the Office of Undergraduate Studies at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. I support the William H. Thompson Learning Community and work with Susan Buffett scholarship students.
Most memorable moment as a Husker: When I was a redshirt freshman, I returned a fumble 38 yards for a touchdown against Iowa State. My most memorable accomplishment was leading the team in sacks and getting to play for a national championship in the Rose Bowl.
Most memorable moment in life: Earning two degrees - a bachelor's in Political Science and a master's in Counseling and Psychology. It made my grandparents very proud.
Philosophy of sports: Preparation breeds confidence. Once you see where you're going, then everything you do must correspond with where you're going.
Philosophy of life: The atmosphere you create determines the product you produce.


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ruth fae griffin born apr 11 1919 she died may 4 1980 she married robert lenard wiggins apr 17 1935 and they had 5 children ruth was the duarther james ibzain griffin b.1879 and died 1949 james father was james monroe b,1803 in alabama he intered in the civil war feb 2 1862 he was a confederate soldier in the 27 reg comp f infantry of winn parish la he was captured by union soldier and was put in prison and had to singed a paper saying that he would not take up ars agiants the union it reads the following to who it my concern know ye that i james monroe griffin vol c.s.a being in prison of war in the hands of the united states of forces in virtue of the capitulation of the city of vicksburg and it garrison by lieut john c pemhelton c.s.a commanding on the 4 of july 1843later he married mary elizabeth porter and they had 9 children they married in feb 27 1867 and he died feb 24 1894 james monroe griffin father was william reilly grifin b.dec 1 1803 don,t know on death date yet he married sarah? she was born no birthday on her yet they had 11 children they came by ox car in 1850 to the town of winn parish they hard thier was good land in winn parish and left alabama for good . ruth mother was cynthia bruce b.1879 she died in 1955 in lasalle parish la her martha mllwain born 1848 in leake county miss she died 1900 she married robert j bruce. martha father was john theiopiles mcllwain b.1818 in goergia and he married ellender caroline edwards she was b,mar 3 1828 d.oct 19 1882 in leake county miss they had 14th children. john father was james mcllwain b.1780 no death date yet sarah pully
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i am looking for information on robert j bruce born in 1844 in alabama married martha mcllwain she was the duarther of john theophilis mcllwain and ellender caroline edward my e-mail address is [email protected]
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my name is stephanie sims and i was born oct 16 1964 i have three son the first is jan karl klayton hebert born oct 26 1981 and he has a duarther name christy anna marie hebert b.aug 30 2000 my next son is edward eugene justin hebert b.aug 19 1983 and he has a duarther named madison marie hebert b.aug 22 2006 and my babyboy name is christopher joseph dewayne hebert b.nov 18 1984 and he has a duarther name adison lynn renee hebert b.july 28 2003 and it is for them that i started this jurney and for my mother i started 25 years agoe and it has been a great jurney i will starte with mary olivia wiggins born oct 29 1940 in rashall louisiana she married vernon ray sims born 1936 and they had 7 children diane-eugene-stephanie-charlotte-sammy-melisa-angie. my mothers father was robert lenard wiggins born march 19 1905 and died 1955 and he married ruth fae griffin b..apr 11 1919 and they had 5 children robert levell wiggins b.feb 2 1936-jerry leon wiggins aug 12 1938-mary olivia wiggins b.oct 29 1940- sharon gail wiggins b.feb 29 1954-kathrine wiggins. robert lenard wiggins father was moses franklin wiggins born july15 1866 married 1882 to mary olivia gebhart b.1868 her father was charles gebhart dec 22 1853 catahoula parish married josephine major she was born feb 9 1860 and this is all that i have on wigins line what i trying to fined out who was moses madison father was if any one has information on this line please e-mail my at [email protected]
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Mr. Speaker, in fact, today we have capped a price for industry. It is something we have been working with for many, many months to say that the cost would not go beyond $15 a tonne. It is interesting that the Leader of the Opposition just a few minutes ago said that we are now subsidizing the industry, when he stood up every day here saying that we should protect industry and make sure that we deal with the risks and uncertainties. Now he is saying we are subsidizing it. What is it? The members of the opposition should make up their minds.
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I could not remember him; but I knew that he was my own uncle—my mother's brother—that he had taken me when a parentless infant to his house; and that in his last moments he had required a promise of Mrs. Reed that she would rear and maintain me as one of her own children. (Jane Eyre)
Can we use adverb phrase like the highlighted: conjunction plus noun phrase?
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Downgrading iOS 6.0 To 5.1.1 - How To Downgrade iOS 6.0 To 5.1.1 Firmware
With iOS 6 updates notifications in iTunes and alert messages on iPhones and iPads and iPods, most of the iOS users have already updated their devices to the latest iOS 6 firmware that was released earlier this week. For many it was excitement to receive the iOS 6 update but for many users who rely on jailbreak the iOS 6 update was an accident. Although chpwn has confirmed that he was successful in jailbreaking iOS 6 there is no ETA on the public release of the jailbreak.
Wish you could go back to iOS 5.1.1 ? Well there is a way. You can downgrade your iOS device, iPhone, iPad and iPod from iOS 6.0 to 5.1.1 on the condition that you have your device's SHSH blobs saved. The below guide will help you downgrade iOS device firmware from 6.0 to 5.1.1. Its highly recommended for every iPhone, iPad and iPod user to take a back up of shsh blobs if they want to be able to downgrade their device firmware in future. If you havent already taken the backup of your device shsh blobs, follow the steps posted here
Downgrading iOS 6 To 5.1.1 Firmware
IMP : This tutorial will work as long as Apple is signing iOS 5.1.1 firmware. Once Apple stops, this tutorial will not work and a new tutorial will be posted on how to downgrade.
Step 1 : Download iOS 5.1.1 for your device
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Step 2 : Download the latest version of iTunes - Download Link
Step 3 : Put your device into DFU mode
Instructions To Enter DFU mode
- Connect your device to the computer and Switch off your device
- Press Power button for 3 seconds
- Without releasing the power button, press and hold the home button for 10 seconds.
- Now release the power button but continue holding the home button for 20 seconds.
- You are in DFU mode now.
Step 4 : iTunes should pop open with an alert saying that "iTunes has detected a device in recovery mode" - This is supposed to happen.
Step 5 : If you are a windows user, press the shift key and then click on the restore button. If you are a Mac user, you need to hold the option key and then click on the restore button.
Step 6 : iTunes should pop open a window for you to browse the iOS 5.1.1 firmware file. Locate the firmware downloaded in Step 1 and proceed.
Step 7 : Sit back and wait for iTunes to verify the firmware with Apple servers and then restore your device to iOS 5.1.1.
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text: The February 1945 Yalta Conference was the second wartime meeting of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. During the conference, the three leaders agreed to demand Germany's unconditional surrender and began plans for a post-war world. Stalin also agreed to permit free elections in Eastern Europe and to enter the Asian war against Japan, for which he was promised the return of lands lost to Japan in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05. Although most of these agreements were initially kept secret, the revelations of the conference particulars became controversial after Soviet-American wartime cooperation degenerated into the Cold War.


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Fall convocation serves as a marker for the beginning of a new academic year, as well as a day of recognition and celebration for faculty and staff. We set this day aside to welcome faculty and staff who are new to the University of North Florida. We also stop to recognize individuals who have made significant contributions to the university through their teaching, service, scholarship, commitment to international studies, and their commitment to diversity. We will also hear from our Distinguished Professor of the Year, Dr. Judith Rodriquez.
In my brief remarks on these occasions, I try to provide some context and insights on where we have been and where we are going, as an institution. In thinking about setting context, I wondered how to characterize a year that began with some of the largest cuts in state funding that the university has experienced. Then, in the middle of the year, we met and exceeded our goal for the largest capital campaign in the history of northeast Florida. And, at the end of the year, we were able to build a budget for FY 2014 that included a significant infusion of state support that will enable us to fill a portion of the financial hole that grew deeper over each of the last six years. But, we are able to combine state- and university-funded raises and fill a part of the hole that occurred in your personal budgets over those six years.
I am particularly glad that the state's raise includes a $400 kicker for the lowest paid of our staff. While we were all hit by the economic downturn, these members of the UNF family felt it the hardest. I think when we average out the raises we'll be giving out across the board, we should be around 3 percent - 2 percent of which is coming from the university. I wish it was larger, but the fact that we can make an announcement of a raise, following a period in which we were the only public university to not use layoffs to balance our budget, makes me feel good about how we have managed our funds. It also makes me feel like I work with the best team in the State University System, because throughout all of this, we didn't cut our students short during the whole, seemingly never-ending process.
I would like to point out that we have pay raises, we have students who are out pacing their peers in employment and earnings at the point of graduation and the students who walked on the campus this fall are the brightest freshman class ever. The sun is shining on UNF and I appreciate the quality of this team, which really is truly remarkable.
I would like to speak about some of the other accomplishments we had this past year and some of the opportunities we have coming up this year. One of the many things we can brag about here at UNF is the fact that in doing all of this, we are adding value to our students' lives. According to College Data Base, over the past several years, those students who graduated from UNF were among the most likely in Florida to be employed after graduation and they were among the highest paid as they started out their careers. This advantage continued into their mid-careers and, in fact, UNF was distinguished as a Top Florida College for Return on Investment. But not only are UNF students getting employed, they are also making major leaps in their knowledge and skills while they are on our campus.
According to national test scores on the Educational Testing Services' Proficiency Profile, UNF freshmen are coming into college ahead of their national peers in the areas of critical thinking, writing and mathematics, and as seniors, UNF students are scoring higher than their peers in critical thinking and mathematics. They have also made some of the most significant gains in these skill areas. This means we are bringing in bright students and they are learning more while on our campus than they might have at most universities across the country. We are adding value to our students' knowledge in the areas recognized as critical by most employers. The UNF student didn't just enter with a strong academic record; they grew even stronger while they were with us. Mom, Dad and our students were, and are making a good investment.
With 58 percent of these graduates staying right here on the First Coast, contributing to the economic and cultural growth of the region, and another 20 percent living and working in other parts of Florida, the Florida taxpayer is also making a good investment. These are numbers to be proud of, but we face a major challenge that we have faced for several years now. How do we move from being a commuter campus to becoming a university that is built on a Culture of Completion? How do we move away from an institution where most students just drive onto campus, take a class or two and drive off campus on their way to their hectic "real lives?" How do we move toward a school where most students come to school, knowing that most of their peers sitting next to them will be the same peers who will walk across the stage with them when they get their diplomas in four years? Their "real lives" become the lives of college students, immersed in the life of the university.
As is true across the country at most universities, too many UNF students who walk onto campus are leaving our campus without a degree in hand. In fact more than 50 percent of the students who start their college careers at UNF, leave without a UNF degree. I know that doesn't sound good and it's not, but if you put it in perspective, we are graduating a higher percentage than five of our SUS peers. That sounds better, but it's hardly where we want to be. While we want more students to carry a UNF diploma, we take some comfort in knowing that some of the students who leave UNF go on to other schools to get their degrees. In fact, somewhere between 54 to 57 percent of our native freshmen will get their degrees from UNF or some other SUS school. If we make the map larger and count any, or at least most colleges in the U.S., 61 to 65 percent of our native students will graduate with their bachelor's degree within six years of taking their first classes at UNF. That is certainly better, but it's not what you or I want to see. Based on the quality of students we admit, 65 percent or better should be getting their bachelor's degrees from UNF and close to 80 percent should be getting a diploma from some college or university. So what do we do about this? There are numbers of things we are doing to create a Culture of Completion on this campus and as we find the right mix, we will hit our target or better.
Last year, while I was delivering my convocation address, I talked about one of our bolder moves - mandatory freshmen housing. We now have our first year of data on this program and it looks promising. It's not going to be the only thing we have to do, but it is likely to be part of our plan to build that Culture of Completion I talk about, at least for several years.
Ninety percent of the students we admitted last fall were required to live on campus. Ten percent were given exemptions for one reason or another and 84.3 percent of the students who lived on campus are back with us, compared to 80 percent of those who lived off campus. Those students who lived on campus also had higher grade point averages and took and completed more credit hours. Now when we look at who had the higher high school grade-point average and SAT score, it wasn't the students living on campus. The students who lived off campus had a slightly higher profile coming in. But the students who lived on campus had more success in their first year.
It is still premature to declare the program a success, but it certainly looks like it's going to be. Institutional Research, Jay Coleman and Tom Serwatka are slicing and dicing the numbers and, as we continue studying the numbers and following the mandatory housing program we'll keep you informed. This is likely to be a part of the resolution to our challenge.
Oh, and for those of you who worried about the cost to students, we have worked hard with Housing, Chartwells, Admissions and Financial Aid, along with Melonie Handerson in my office, to ensure that money wouldn't stop a student from coming to campus. I think when we compare the numbers for last year, we are likely to remain as the SUS campus with the lowest percent of students and the lowest dollar amount of student loans in the system.
Stay tuned for more information. We are combining these efforts with increased campus life, better student tracking and other measures in building that Culture of Completion on this campus, giving our students and our city a better university and a better educated population.
Thank you for joining us this morning and more importantly, thank you for making our collective vision move toward reality. You are an incredible group of people to work with and I count myself a very fortunate person to be part of this family.
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One. He was in the states. He could easily be reached by phone or Skype (most of the time), and he was not deployed. It could have been worse.
Two. So RC met this guy. Why is that important?
Well, that guy just happens to be married to this awesome girl!
And guess where they were headed for BOLC? Ft. Benning!
Sam and RC are eerily similar. They both have this weird obsession with living in Montana, have serious dreams of becoming Doomsday Preppers (although I think Sam is well on his way), and can do some serious damage on a dozen Krispy Kreme donuts.
Meghan is just the sweetest thing. I don't know a more perfect example of that than the going away present they gave us. Every little detail was personalized to RC and I. From the Charleston tin to red velvet cupcakes. Plus she gave us sweet reminders of our time in Georgia with railroad ties from the tracks downtown Columbus and a mixed CD with songs about Georgia.
When someone puts so much thought into a gift it means so much!
Oh, and did I mention she she designs jewelry? She is seriously so talented!
Check out Swallows Heart's Facebook page, Etsy shop, and blog!
I know that saying goodbye is just part of the Army lifestyle that I'm going to have to get used to, but it still sucks. Then again, we never would have met these dear friends if it weren't for the Army! I really hope that someday our paths will cross again and we'll end up at the same duty station! We always have so much fun together. Until then, goodbye our North Carolina friends! ;)


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Shoot, dribble, or pass 1/6/2013
Many many years ago, in a small, reasonably priced apartment in Bellingham, my before-husband told me a story from his childhood about decision making. He played basketball at the church league up the street from his house during his Elementary and Jr. High years. Being a somewhat shy kid, he never had the confidence on the court that could allow him to succeed among other sweaty 10 year olds. The pressure of the ball being tossed at him was sometimes too much and he'd freeze, or just take off running like Forest Gump, forgetting all main facets of the game; namely that you have to bounce the ball whilst running and throw it at a high hoop thingy. I don't know the details of the rules, really. I wasn't there.
His dad used to coach the team and would watch incredulously as his eldest son choked every time the ball was passed to him. "Look, son," he said with a coach tone and fatherly wisdom, "don't think too much. You just gotta shoot, dribble, or pass."
This story was relayed to me a month before I moved back to Texas in 1998 which alternated the course of my life forever. The decision had been a laborious one and on that night I repeated, "You gotta shoot, dribble or pass" to myself a hundred times until I stopped thinking and decided to move.
Fifteen years later, while strolling along the Queen's walk in London this afternoon, I'm listening to Bossypants by Tina Fey (henceforth known as my new BFF "TF" because we're tight like that) and she relays a similar lesson from her past.
"You can't be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute. (And I'm from a generation where a lot of people died on waterslides, so this was an important lesson for me to learn.) You have to let people see what you wrote. It will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated."
The point is, I haven't been letting you see my writing. I've been standing here, frozen, holding the ball and sweating. It's not that I think I need to be perfect, or have the ability to, or even that you need to read it, because I know you don't. The point is that I need to write it and I need it to be seen. Even if it's only seen by the one Russian bot who tends to visit religiously looking for, I'm guessing, potatoes. Whatever. I'm just saying it's time, y'all.
It's time.
So remind me to tell you the one about how my baby turned six and promptly grew a beard and started shaving. Or the one about my band of brothers in the UK who witnessed me clearing a dance-floor at a club and creating an honest-to-god hoedown (as you do). Or the time I sweated through two entire shirts in one day because being in your late thirties is a bitch. No, actually, that last one isn't so much of a story as just fact.
Is there something you're holding too tightly to? A dream you forget to dream? This is it. It's time. You gotta shoot, dribble, or pass.


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Mayor's Office
The Lincoln-Lancaster County Planning Department invites the public to review and comment on the draft LPlan2040, the 10-year update to the Comprehensive Plan and the 2040 Long Range Transportation Plan (LRTP). Together, these plans look ahead 30 years at how Lincoln will grow, where residents will live and work, and how they will travel.
The Lincoln-Lancaster County Planning Commission will hold three public hearings to receive input on the plan before finalizing their recommendations to the City Council and County Board in September. Members of the public can attend one of the following meetings in the Council Chambers, 555 South 10th Street:
Residents also can also review the draft plans and submit feedback in the following ways:
The City Council and County Board are expected to hold hearings and take action to adopt the plans in October.
The LRTP is required for the City and County to receive federal transportation funds, and it must additionally be adopted by the Lincoln Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO), a separate agency with representation from the City, County and State. The MPO Officials Committee is expected to review and adopt the LRTP this year.


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The Surf Lodge made waves at East Hampton Town Justice Court on Monday when Justice Catherine A. Cahill blasted the attorney representing its owners for requesting on Jan. 4 that she recuse herself from the case, claiming she was biased against them.
She declined to do so, and read from a lengthy written decision detailing her reasons and the history of the case against Jamie Mulholland, Robert McKinley, and Edgemere Montauk L.L.C., the Surf Lodge owners, who were charged with 686 violations of town code and 1 fire code violation between May 28 and Sept. 16 of last year.
In her decision, she also reprimanded them and their attorney, Colin Patrick Astarita, for repeatedly failing to appear in court, even after criminal summonses had been issued.
According to Justice Cahill's statement, the charges against the Surf Lodge began with a fire code violation on May 28 and continued throughout the summer. They included charges of having no building permit, no certificate of occupancy, no site plan approval, illegal clearing of wetlands, property maintenance violations, and overcrowding. Between 1 and 13 violations were filed daily until the Surf Lodge closed for the season.
The defendants had a June 27 court date to answer the first fire code violation, but neither they nor their attorney showed. As the violation pertained to public health and safety, a criminal summons was issued for July 5 and personally served, Justice Cahill wrote. Mr. Astarita and his clients did not appear, and a second criminal summons was issued for July 11, also personally served. Yet again, no one for the Surf Lodge came to court. Warrants were then issued for the defendants "in order to secure their appearance before the court and hasten the resolution of any potential health or safety violations (overcrowding)," Justice Cahill said.
Mr. Astarita and his clients responded to the warrants in person and were arraigned on the charges. According to Justice Cahill, when asked to explain why the court dates had been missed, Mr. Astarita "made this court aware of a 'very fruitful' meeting that had taken place with several members of town government. He claimed that 'all parties' (meaning town attorney, police department, fire marshal, and building inspector) were satisfied with the actions being undertaken by the defendants to assuage the town's concerns," Justice Cahill said.
"Based on that meeting, defense counsel believed his presence in court was somehow not required, despite the numerous charges on the court docket, as well as the two personally served summonses," she said in her written decision, adding that if the meeting was to "resolve or adjudicate" the court charges pending, then the court should have been included, which it was not.
More charges continued throughout the summer. Mr. Astarita and his clients did not appear for a court date on Aug. 1, when an attorney filling in for him requested an adjournment. On Aug. 8, Mr. Astarita was in court and entered a not guilty plea to 40 new charges, and on Aug. 15 another attorney asked for an adjournment on Mr. Astarita's behalf.
On Aug. 22, Mr. Astarita appeared and "was arraigned on 182 new charges, (13 charges, on each of 14 separate days [. . .]) A discussion was held on the record, wherein the assistant town attorney told the court when asked, that the town's goal was compliance by the defendant," Justice Cahill said.
A court date of Aug. 29 was set, but Mr. Astarita and his clients again failed to appear. The case was adjourned to Sept. 6, when the Surf Lodge was arraigned on 65 charges. According to Mr. Astarita at the time, the Surf Lodge was closed for the season. The case was adjourned to Oct. 3, when 108 additional counts covering Aug. 13, 14, and 20, and Sept. 6, 8, 9, 15, and 16 were filed with the court. The defendants were arraigned, and the date was adjourned to Oct. 17.
On Oct. 17, a settlement was discussed and the case was adjourned for Mr. Astarita to make motions. He requested two more adjournments to "obtain the minutes of the court proceedings," said Justice Cahill, and then filed the motion asking Ms. Cahill to recuse herself.
Justice Cahill cited statutes and case law to support her decision to "preside over these trials and deny defendant's application for recusal in all respects."
"It is untenable to require judges to recuse themselves whenever even an unsupported allegation of bias is made," she wrote, citing a case against the City of New York.
In a separate case, a court noted that a "judge must carefully weigh the policy of promoting public confidence in the judiciary against the possibility that those questioning his impartiality might be seeking to avoid the adverse consequences of his expected adverse decision."
At one point while Justice Cahill was reading her decision, she stopped to reprimand Mr. Astarita for using his cellphone while she was speaking.
"Judicial rulings alone almost never constitute a valid basis for a bias or partiality motion," Justice Cahill said, pointing again to the decision in the case against the City of New York, which noted that "expressions of impatience, dissatisfaction, or annoyance or critical disapproving remarks about counsel, a party, or the case, will not support a charge of bias unless they derive from an extra-judicial source or display such a high degree of favoritism or antagonism as to make fair judgment impossible."
In fact, in another case, a court found that "a recusal made where the standard has not been met would provide parties with the opportunity to manipulate the judicial process through 'judge shopping,'" Ms. Cahill wrote.
Mr. Astarita failed to offer proof "or even an allegation that the court has come to an opinion on the merits on some basis other than this court's participation in this case," Ms. Cahill concluded.
Mr. Astarita did not return calls prior to press time. The court date has been adjourned to Feb. 13.
On Sept. 21, in the midst of the Surf Lodge's dealings with the court, Edgemere Montauk L.L.C. submitted site plans to the East Hampton Town Planning Board seeking to legalize a 5-by-8-foot hot dog cart in a parking area, and a 7-by-12-foot seasonal, covered wait service area on a deck. The Surf Lodge is in a residential zone, but has two legal commercial uses that pre-exist zoning — a restaurant and a motel.
The planning board asked the town's senior building inspector, Tom Preiato to make a determination on the project, and in a Dec. 6 memo Mr. Preiato said that both the food cart and the covered wait service area "represent an expansion of a nonconforming use, as they did not exist previously on this residential lot." He said that a natural resources special permit and a variance would be required for both structures "due to their proximity to Fort Pond."
The property also includes a shed and "paver" stones that are within wetlands jurisdiction and were not approved. There is a clothing shop in a former office, Mr. Preiato wrote, and reminded the board that he had determined earlier that only items featuring the Surf Lodge's logo could be sold there. Finally, he said a parking variance would be needed if the hot dog cart were to remain where it is, as "it currently is taking up a parking space on a property that is already under the required parking space."
The Planning Department concluded that the project requires a natural resources permit, a use variance, and four variances for setbacks from freshwater wetlands, as well as the parking variance.
In a unanimous vote on Jan. 25, the planning board referred the Surf Lodge to the town zoning board of appeals to seek the variances and permits.
The applicants were given the option to remove the structures from the site, possibly relocate the food cart and the shed, or request the required variances. The planning board cannot consider the application until the project has received the variances.
"We disagree with the determination of the building inspector with regards to the wait-service area, and whether that's an expansion of pre-existing and non-conforming use," Eric Bregman of Gilmartin and Bregman, an attorney for the Surf Lodge, told the board on Jan. 24. "It's a commercial operation. We are going to appeal that and ask for a variance."
"The Surf Lodge can seat 68 people to eat, and the chef was quoted in The New York Times claiming they serve over 600 meals a night," Bob Stern, president of the Concerned Citizens of Montauk, told the planning board. "It's almost like a college prank to cram even more people in there," he said. "The question of cramming a hot dog cart in this place is kind of humorous. . . . It's an environmentally sensitive area, and we'd like you to consider the context of these decisions."
Richard Kahn, chairman of C.C.O.M.'s legal committee, said he believed the certificate of occupancy for the Surf Lodge was issued in error, and since then it has "become the bane of Montauk's existence." Mr. Kahn recommended a one-week limit be imposed for the establishment to file for the variances. "At least, let's put some controls on them. They are completely beyond any kind of rational approach at this stage."
"I can't say that I'm glad that Mr. Bregman has chosen to appeal the ruling of the building inspector because I think it's exactly right," said Jeremy Samuelson, an environmental advocate with Group for the East End who works closely with C.C.O.M. "This is a pre-existing, nonconforming use. Any rational human being that drives by there on a Friday night and looks at what's going on has to realize that what's happening there is not scale to the property." He pointed out that an additional structure "constitutes expansion."
Mr. Samuelson said he represents "two organizations including 3,500 people, with over 1,000 of them who have a direct connection to Montauk. . . . They're upset and frustrated with what's transpired over years with this property."
"I hope that this board bears in mind the dozens upon dozens of nearby residents who live on that pond, who have lived year after year, watching the intensification of use, and the continued failure to come before this board and other regulatory agencies and seek approval and permissions while thumbing their noses at the town and this county," he said.
"This is a controversial place. I live in Montauk, and it troubles me," said Nancy Keeshan, board member. "It behooves the applicants to heed the building inspector and go through the proper channels. And there needs to be some of kind of time limit."
The rest of the board members, Bob Schaeffer, the vice chairwoman, Diana Weir, Patrick Shutte, J.P. Foster, and Ian Calder-Piedmonte agreed.
"I think of myself as very pro-business," said Reed Jones, the chairman. "It's very easy to say it's just a hot dog cart, everyone likes a hot dog. This place in the summer is crazy. I agree with the building inspector that it is an expansion; you have a lot of issues to sort through before us."


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Jeffois necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 110 diseños de 42 diseñadores freelance.
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A "bright line rule" is a clearly defined rule or standard.
So, the personality of the company is professional, legal, securities and banking industry-related.
Our audience is Investment Adviser Compliance Officers and Legal Staff, and Securities Attorneys.
The two main requirements is that the logo must say Brightline Solutions and must contain a bright line (the line, or lines, however, don't necessarily need to be straight lines).
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