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Annual Unity Breakfast at SCC Planned for Friday, January 18
John J. Johnson, executive director for the Kentucky Commission on Human Rights, will be the guest speaker at the annual Somerset Community College Unity Breakfast on Friday, January 18. The breakfast will begin at 8:30 a.m. in the Citizens National Bank Community Room, located in the Harold Rogers Student Commons on the Somerset Campus. The event is held annually to honor the birthday of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The public is invited, however, reservations are requested. Call Elaine Wilson, SCC Director for Cultural Diversity, to make your reservation at (606) 451-6915. The event is free to the public.
Born in Louisville in 1945, Johnson was raised in Franklin, Kentucky. He joined the Franklin-Simpson County NAACP and became the youngest president of any Kentucky chapter. He was later elected president of the Kentucky Conference of NAACP Branches and held that position for fourteen years. During his tenure, he increased the number of local units from four to more than forty in Kentucky. In the mid-1980s, he served in many capacities including the Associate Director of the Louisville and Jefferson County Human Relations Commission and as Executive Director of the Louisville/Jefferson County Community Action Agency.
Johnson has been a dedicated activist for over 40 years and has received hundreds of awards for his civil rights work throughout the nation. As a result of his success, in 1993 a street in his hometown of Franklin was named John J. Johnson Avenue in his honor. He has been an avid supporter of the Kentucky Commission on Human Rights since its inception and assisted with its expansion both as a volunteer and as an employee with the title of Director of Community Services. He worked vigorously helping to form many of the local human rights commissions throughout Kentucky.
In 1986, he joined the national staff of the NAACP in Baltimore, Maryland, where he was ultimately appointed as the Chief of Executive Operations, overseeing the executive office of the President and CEO, until his departure in 2006. Johnson coordinated a wide range of national programs during his years with the NAACP including Armed Services amp; Veterans Affairs, Economic Development, Financial Empowerment and Initiative, Labor, Rural Development Outreach, Voter Empowerment and Youth Entrepreneurial.
As Chief Programs Officer, he orchestrated the largest ever NAACP nationwide voter empowerment campaign, which resulted in registering over 455,000 new voters, the largest increase in African American voter registration in the nations history. Many credit this voter empowerment program with helping to lay the foundation for the election of the first African American president.
He also worked internationally, including organizing a trip to East Germany in 1992 where he led the NAACP delegation to witness hearings on alleged discrimination against African American military workers. In 1999, Johnson returned to Germany at the United States Army's behest to be a part of the ceremony for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s 70th birthday. As part of the Freedom House Citizens Exchange Program, Johnson visited East Africa to help promote global democracy. In 2002, during Zimbabwe's Presidential Election, Johnson's NAACP delegation was the only American organization invited to work as independent observers.
In 2005, Johnson was inducted into the Kentucky Civil Rights Hall of Fame. He was appointed into his current position as Executive Director of the Kentucky Commission on Human Rights on September 1, 2007.
Under Johnsons leadership, the agency has established a successful Mediation Unit, providing opportunities for parties to meet, address their concerns, and ultimately form agreements that often resolve cases promptly, efficiently, and to the satisfaction of the parties involved. Ongoing monthly Advocacy Hearing and Listening Tours have been launched that allow the agencys eleven-member Board of Commissioners to continually assess the status of protected classes statewide.
Johnson and his wife, Courtrina, reside in the Louisville Metropolitan community of Prospect, Kentucky.


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Rubies – now available on your mobile device! You can now play Zynga's Ruby Blast not just on Facebook and Zynga.com but also on mobile, marking another successful game for which Adobe Gaming technologies have been used to deliver explosive graphics, action-packed sound effects and gorgeous particle effects on any device. Ruby Blast was Zynga's first game optimized for hardware acceleration, supported by Flash Player and Adobe AIR, and successfully extended across multiple platforms while preserving the beauty and speed of the original Ruby Blast web game for a seamless experience.
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Springfield Man Fined for Taking Civil War Remains
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A southwest Missouri man has to pay about $5,000 in federal restitution for collecting bones he found while canoeing through a national battlefield site.
The U.S. attorney's office for western Missouri said in a release Wednesday that 31-year-old Coy Matthew Hamilton will pay the National Park Service $5,351 and perform 60 hours of community service to avoid prosecution for removing artifacts.
Prosecutors say Hamilton was canoeing last year down Wilson's Creek, which runs through the Wilson's Creek National Battlefield Site, looking for artifacts after a storm.
Hamilton saw a bone sticking out of an embankment and dug into the embankment, removing more bones. About 10 days later, he turned the bones into the park service, which determined the bones were those of an adult dating back to the Civil War.


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January 13, 2013
Tamilane E. Blaudeau, PhD, exercise physiologist, assistant research professor, director of ES/FL internship & honors programs in the department of Human Studies, and member in the Nutrition Obesity Research Center (NORC), has appeared as the face of Women's Health and Fitness in the B-Metro Magazine: FACES of Birmingham 2013, page 46.
The face of Women's Health and Fitness
"Dr. Tamilane Blaudeau has spent her professional career promoting exercise and fitness for Women. Dr. Blaudeau has a Ph.D. in Exercise Physiology from the University of Alabama and is a nationally recognized expert in exercise in pregnancy. She has served as a consultant for NASA, the United States Navy, the Girl Scouts of America, the New Orleans Saints, and multiple large corporations. As an Assistant Research Professor at UAB in the department of Human Studies, Dr. Blaudeau teaches the fitness and exercise leaders of tomorrow and helped develop the Human Studies Exercise Science/Fitness Leadership Honors Program. She has been committed to community service and has developed and implemented programs with senior citizens and inner city youth focused on exercise through dance. For her many contributions to our community she was awarded the prestigious Odessa Woolfolk Community Service award. A national champion amateur Ballroom Dancer, Tamilane teaches the components of fitness as they relate to Ballroom and Latin Dance at UAB and serves as the Faculty Advisor for the UAB competitive Ballroom Dance Club."


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Greenpeace activists place a banner on the front of a building at Yum! Brands international headquarters in Louisville. The banner exhibited a photo of an endangered Sumatran tiger and a message reading "KFC Stop Trashing My Home." Greenpeace launched an international campaign to get Kentucky Fried Chicken to stop using APP paper made by destroying Indonesian rainforest habitat for packaging. Other Greenpeace activists deployed a balloon banner from boats in a pond near corporate offices while employees arrived for work.05/23/2012
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Catching ghosts who refuse to leave this plane is difficult, often dangerous work. Kane Price, 27, ruggedly handsome (I imagine) uber hip and ironic is the man for the job with his "soul trap "invented by his dead father and Dr. Ned Ross, his smart but candy-assed side-kick. Imagine an LA Confidential for the supernatural set. Backed by a Elfman/ Newman-esque sound track, the able cast takes us through the adventures in Soul Trapper, where we (the player) have to figure out what to do next.
Just enough involvement to keep Soul Trapper from being a pure audio book, and yet, one could easily play this game on a train or, better yet, a 5-hour air flight. The sound design has the great technical acumen of a Hollywood film and with the volume up in your headset you will swear that siren is coming behind you. The graphics are not the drawing card for this came in that they are usually just one drawing of the main focus of each chapter. Occasionally flash is used, but for the most part it is the story and soundtrack that lead the game.
Sometimes, I got stuck in the challenge and had to repeat the sequence so many times I have the dialogue imprinted in my brain. It's also kinda tricky and extremely frustrating to stop the game or hit the wrong button without getting kicked back to the beginning, so I suggest you go to the website to read the faq and the cheat sheet for those times when you need a helping hand. It may be best to play this all at once!
Something I really liked were the references to Hollywood, LA, and the Valley, but then again I live in Hollywood, LA, and the Valley.
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I love my vanity pets! My old main has 100+ and is still collecting. Not having all my furry, scaly, feathered, shelled, gaseous, globulous friends on my new main is quite regrettable.
What can I say, I think the little guys are fun and I love to go quest for something new to bond with. This in mind it won't come as a surprise to your folk that one thing I have not done and will not do is buy the micro-transaction pets.
In all there are eight micro-transaction pets I could purchase at this time. Had I grabbed them all Blizz would be $110 better off and I would have eight new shinies (and two freaky furry toys for the kids). It's better this way though, cause these guys would only made me angry. WoW pet collecting from the outset has always been about venturing into the world to find your new friends. There are guides to read and websites to survey; devotees take the quest for acquisition very seriously indeed.
So along with sparkle ponies and disco lions, no pretend pets for me…
In direct contradiction to the above then here's an idea. One thing I might buy from Blizz as a microtransaction, one purchase I'd strongly consider making would be a bulk pet xfer. All my pets from my old main xferred to my new main so that I could enjoy them. Those old buddies that ventured with me in the past could now gain a new lease on life accompanying another member of my crew.
That would be cool!
But what do you think? Would you pay to xfer your pets en masse to a new toon, or would depriving your old main of all those pets they worked so hard for seem somehow unfair?
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Jerusalem has been blessed by a week of hard, pounding rain. On the downpour's second day, I was looking around the apartment for my father's charcoal grey scarf, that I'd found in his closet after his death 20 years ago and which I've been using this winter, when I noticed through the living room's sliding glass door that the flowers out on the porch hadn't been destroyed yet in the icy deluge.
It then occurred to me that maybe the scarf was in my scarf drawer. I hurriedly began rummaging around in there – I had to catch a bus in a few minutes – when a swatch of purple down at the bottom met my eyes, and my heart rose to my throat.
My mother's long purple scarf! It must have resurfaced – like some long-lost object thrown up onto shore by the tides – because we'd moved from our old apartment.
The long flannel scarf, that in a flash she'd taken off from around her neck and wrapped around mine as my father was being buried, to keep me warm. I must have been shivering as we all stood around the grave weeping. Though the gesture was totally in character – she was one of those people who never, ever stopped giving – it was precisely its normalness that shocked me. So life would go on? The world had come to an end. We were so scared, my sisters and I, that she'd be so totally shattered that we'd lose her, too. She'd disintegrate. They'd been one person forever.
If Mommy could still think of wrapping her purple scarf around her daughter, to keep her warm...if Mommy was still Mommy, then we could go on. She would go on.
The night after his funeral, my mother and I couldn't sleep. I wish I had a recording of what we were talking about for hours and hours as we lay on her bed. One day years later, the two of us tried to remember, but we had no idea. We talked and talked nonstop, on and on, all night long.
At some point in the wee hours, suddenly my mother sat up in bed.
"What was that?" she said.
I said nothing.
"Is someone else in the house?"
A shiver ran right through me. This reminded me of something I'd once read. In James Agee's autobiographical novel about his 1930s childhood, A Death in the Family, the family in mourning for Agee's young father, who has just died in a car accident, is sitting in their living room the night after the funeral when suddenly, all of them –
including the stone-deaf, somewhat senile grandmother – sense someone's entrance, a presence that then flitters fast as light through the house, upstairs, downstairs, and in a few seconds…is gone.
"No, Mommy," I said. "We're alone."
"Are you sure?"
I didn't answer.
She lay back down, we resumed talking, and then again, she sat up and listened. She was looking at the door.
One day years later, I asked her about it.
My practical, down-to-earth mother, not inclined to believe in anything you can't see with your own two eyes, said: "It was Daddy. He was outside the door, in the hallway. He was worrying about me."
I dared not make a peep. I held my breath.
"It was him, all right," she said. "I've never felt anything that real in my life."
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At our mother's burial ten years ago in the same New Jersey cemetery, my sisters and I stood looking down at her freshly dug grave, clinging to one another. She was in the ground. It was incomprehensible.
And our father.
They were finally together again, side by side.
Later that day, we sisters discovered in conversation that during those minutes standing together at our parents' graves – his with its covering of rain-fed green grass and hers, of gray, packed dirt – all three of us had been crushed and flattened, as if by a Mack truck, by one and the same thought: our history as a family, which for us was the history of the world, ancient and modern, an immense reality in time and space…thousands upon countless thousands of fragments of sights and sounds…an immense empire of emotion – was gone…evaporated into nothingness. We were children, all by ourselves now in the big, empty house. A vanished empire, with only three impoverished orphans to serve as witnesses that it had ever been.
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First, that we die
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That generations come and go and
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the same dirt
the same sun
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TREMEZZO, Italy – Hello from Lake Como where George Clooney's mansion stands out like a headlight on a fishing trawler and the views of the Alps put anything in the Rocky Mountains to shame.
There's not a lot to do here, well, unless you count swimming in a crystal clear lake, sipping Lombardia wine on a vine-covered terrace and exploring little villages that dot this area. So I spend my mornings at my sidewalk café and read my favorite national sports papers, La Gazetta dello Sport and Corriere dello Sport.
They've written about some local athletes recently and I thought I'd pass along their thoughts. One is real local. Missy Franklin of Centennial has made headlines around the world ever since she won three gold medals at last summer's World Championships. With her first race in the Olympics approaching July 28, the Italian press has hopped on the Missy Bandwagon.


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Kaymer and Mcdowell joint golfers of year
Martin Kaymer and Graeme McDowell spent most of the 2010 season making golfing history and, fittingly, they ended the year in a similar vein when, for the first time since the award was initiated in 1985, they were voted as joint winners of The Race to Dubai European Tour Golfer of the Year.
A respected judging panel featuring all sectors of the golfing media – newspapers, magazines, radio and television – debated the many merits of both men but when it came to the vote the result was split right down the middle, leading to the historic decision.
It was an appropriate conclusion to a groundbreaking season for European Tour Members in tournaments across the globe; a year which saw three – Louis Oosthuizen, Kaymer and McDowell – win Major Championships for the first time; a further trio – Ernie Els, Francesco Molinari and Ian Poulter – lift World Golf Championships; and the 2009 Golfer of the Year Lee Westwood displace Tiger Woods as World Number One before ensuring he would begin 2011 in that position following his success in the Nedbank Golf Challenge.
On The European Tour International Schedule, Miguel Angel Jiménez became, at the age of 46 years and 243 days, the oldest player to win three times in one season while at a mere 17 years and 188 days, Matteo Manassero became the youngest Tour winner in history.
Furthermore Bernhard Langer, the winner of the inaugural Golfer of the Year award in 1985, claimed two Senior Major titles in consecutive weeks on his way to winning the US Champions Tour Player of the Year and Money List for the third consecutive season, while on the regular US PGA Tour, European Tour Members dominated the mid-season with seven victories in 11 weeks.
All of the above players were commended by the panel for their achievements but, in terms of the Golfer of the Year, it was the respective feats of Kaymer and McDowell which stood out.
Kaymer, 25, won four times on The European Tour International Schedule, capturing the Abu Dhabi Golf Championship at the start of the season and three tournaments in a row during a sensational autumn spell, a run which began with his first Major Championship victory when he came from behind in a three-hole play-off at Whistling Straits to beat American Bubba Watson to the US PGA Championship title.
He then followed that with a win on his return to competitive stroke play action in the KLM Open in the Netherlands before triumphing in the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship in Scotland. It was a run which provided the platform for him to also finish Number One on The Race to Dubai with record season earnings of €4,461,011.
In the midst of his triumphant autumn, he also made his Ryder Cup debut at The Celtic Manor Resort in Wales, returning two and a half points from his four matches including a vital fourball victory in the first match of the entire contest, in partnership with Lee Westwood, against Dustin Johnson and Phil Mickelson.
Kaymer said: "This has been a truly great year for me and winning this award is the perfect ending. It is recognition for my performances in 2010 and to be voted for by the golfing media, the people who watch and report on our sport throughout the year, makes me feel very proud.
"I am always trying to follow in Bernhard Langer's footsteps and to see that I have now won an award that he was the first to win back in 1985 is very satisfying indeed. I followed in his footsteps earlier this season by winning a Major Championship, playing in a winning Ryder Cup Team and being given Honorary Membership of The European Tour and now I have taken another step by winning the Golfer of the Year Award. But he is still many steps ahead of me!
"Graeme and I had pretty much the same level of success this season in terms of the Majors and on The European Tour and he deserves this recognition as much as I do. His winning match in The Ryder Cup was huge for all of Europe and for both of us to now make history in terms of sharing this award for the first time, represents a very proud moment for both our families and also shows how strong European golf is right now."
McDowell, 31, won three times on The European Tour International Schedule, beginning with victory in The Celtic Manor Wales Open in June on The Twenty Ten Course where he would play such a pivotal role in Europe's Ryder Cup triumph a mere four months later.
Like Kaymer, he then went on to pick up his first Major Championship victory in the United States, an emotional success in the US Open Championship at Pebble Beach where his dad Kenny was on hand, on Fathers' Day, to see his son become the first European golfer to win the US Open in 40 years, since Tony Jacklin triumphed at Hazeltine National in 1970.
His third victory came in the Andalucia Valderrama Masters at the end of October, a win which helped reignite The Race to Dubai and he chased Kaymer all the way to the final event – the Dubai World Championship presented by DP World on the Earth Course at Jumeirah Golf Estates – eventually having to settle for a career high of second place with season earnings of €3,896,995.
Sandwiched between his victories in the United States and Spain was his second Ryder Cup appearance and one which ended in nail-biting fashion as, in the last singles out on the course, he was handed the task of getting Europe over the winning line which he achieved with a thrilling 3 and 1 victory over Hunter Mahan which saw Colin Montgomerie's Team win 14 ½ - 13 ½. Like Kaymer, he too contributed two and a half points overall to the European cause.
McDowell, who climbed to a career-high seventh on the Official World Golf Ranking following his victory in the Chevron World Challenge, said: "I am truly humbled to accept this coveted award. It is the icing on the cake on what has been a very special year for myself, Martin and everyone involved in European golf. It is an honour to share this award with a player of Martin's calibre. He is one of the best players of our generation and I am sure will enjoy many more successes in the years to come.
"We have both enjoyed superb seasons, winning our first Major Championships and numerous other tournaments across the world. However, to be jointly voted European Tour Golfer of the Year by the members of the media makes me very proud. I would like to thank everyone involved with The European Tour and the wider golf media for their hard work in promoting our sport around the world.
"I achieved many of my dreams this season and feel fortunate to have enjoyed some very special moments. However, the highlight of the year for me was being a part of the winning European Ryder Cup Team at Celtic Manor. There is nothing quite like the atmosphere of The Ryder Cup and the experience of playing for both your team-mates and the European fans under the most extreme pressure. I hope that I am lucky enough to play in many more successful teams in the future."
Iain Carter, Golf Correspondent of BBC Radio Five Live and a member of the judging panel, explained the reason why the historic verdict to give the award jointly had been taken. "Like Colin Montgomerie when he was faced with the decision of who to select for his wild cards for The Ryder Cup, I think the panel faced the most difficult judgement call in the history of this award," he said.
"It is an extraordinary move I know but one which we felt reflected an extraordinarily successful year for The European Tour and one which also properly honoured two men who are not only exceptional golfers, but who are also exceptional people and who both promoted European golf superbly in 2010.
"Both won their first Major Championships in 2010 and were part of a winning European Ryder Cup Team and, wherever you looked during the season they always seemed to be together at the head of affairs. Even their statistics show that while Martin narrowly shaded the Stroke Average Category by 70.04 to 70.07, in the Putts per Greens in Regulation Category, Graeme had the edge by 1.755 to 1.756.
"These margins are too close to differentiate one of these great golfers from another and it was fitting to see that they ended their season tied together in 13th place in the Dubai World Championship. They were side by side in the desert and the panel could not separate them so therefore they will stand side by side in the history books as winners of this prestigious award."


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The boys of Buccos Bruce are competing for my home league championship. It is the fifth year of our league's operation and it's my first championship game. I'm trotting out:
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DST--Green Bay
I decided to leave the Law Firm, who's been good to me the last few weeks, on the bench against the Steelers. My impression of the Bengals is that they can get a little pass-happy in close games (this may be wrong, it's just my feeling having watched a few of their games) and the Steelers are a bad run match-up anyway. Perhaps more controversially, I'm choosing Kaepernick over Eli. Other notables on the bench include Josh Gordon and the Arizona and Chicago defenses. (It's a deep league and I'm set everywhere else, so I've been carrying several defenses most of the year.)
My opponent is running out Tom Brady, Dez Bryant, and Brandon Marshall, which should make him more than dangerous. His roster isn't as impressive as mine (at least this season), but guys like Anquan Boldin, Knowshon Moreno, Pierre Thomas, even Larry Fitzgerald... a touchdown here or there, and this guy will be much tighter than I would like. Oh, and he has the Pats' defense against Jacksonville. So, that's money in the bank, too.
Best of luck to everyone else in a championship.
Good luck 6! I agree with choosing Steve Smith over Lawfirm in the flex. Smith and Newton are on a roll together. I'd probably roll with Chicago's defense over GB's, but both are excellent plays this week. The Kaepernick over Eli decision is interesting, but Kaepernick does feel safer at this point, especially since he can add 30-50 yards on the ground.
Nice start last night with Megatron.


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AD67 - I/O Extension for A12 and A15
6U Extension Card for VME SBCsThis product has been discontinued.
The AD67 is an I/O extension card for the 6U VME SBCs A12 and A15. It is directly connected to the respective single-board computer - without being connected to the VME backplane.
Technical Data
Peripheral Connections
- COM2 to COM4
- TTL signal level
- For easy connection of MEN SA-Adapters
- Connectors at front panel
- PS/2 keyboard
- PS/2 mouse
- IDE connector for onboard 2.5" hard disk
- Reset/abort buttons
- 2 user LEDs
Connection to CPU Board
- Connection to COM2..4, PS/2, USB, buttons and LEDs via 40-pin ribbon cable
- Connection to onboard 2.5" hard disk via 44-pin ribbon cable
Electrical Specifications
MTBF: 195 000 h @ 50°C (without hard disk) (derived from MIL-HDBK-217F)
Mechanical Specifications
- Dimensions: standard double Eurocard, 233.3 mm x 160 mm
- Weight: 204 g
Environmental Specifications
- Temperature range (operation):
- 0..+60°C without hard disk
- +5..+55°C with hard disk
- Industrial temperature range on request
- Airflow: min. 10 m³/h
- Temperature range (storage):
- -40..+85°C without hard disk
- -40..+65°C with hard disk
- Relative humidity (operation): max. 95% non-condensing
- Relative humidity (storage): max. 95% non-condensing
- Altitude: -300 m to +3000 m
- Shock: 15 g, 11 ms
- Bump: 10 g, 16 ms
- Vibration (sinusoidal): 2 g, 10..150 Hz
PCB manufactured with a flammability rating of 94V-0 by UL recognized manufacturers
Tested according to EN 55022 (radio disturbance), IEC 61000-4-2 (ESD) and IEC 61000-4-4 (burst)
Ordering Information
RS232, optically isolated, 0°C to +60°CDetails
RS422/485, full duplex, optically isolated, -40°C to +85°C screenedDetails
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In terms of sheer force, the result of a train hitting a car is about the same as a car hitting an aluminum can: total destruction.
Common sense might tell you to keep away from trains and be cautious around railroad crossings. Unfortunately, common sense isn't all that common. The Federal Railroad Administration reports there were more than 2,000 highway/rail grade crossing incidents in the United States in 2015. The net result? 237 people killed and 991 seriously injured.
Here are a few simple reminders to keep you safe when it comes to trains:
- Obey the signals. Never attempt to drive under a gate as it is closing, or around a closed gate. If the gate begins to close while you're underneath, keep moving ahead until you clear the crossing.
- Even when things seem clear, look both ways at a crossing. If there are no trains in sight, cross the tracks quickly without stopping.
- Stay at least 15 feet away from the tracks when stopping for a train.
- If one train passes, make sure that a second train isn't approaching on another track. They can, and they do!
- If your vehicle stalls on the tracks, get everyone out and far away from the vehicle and tracks. Debris from any collision will tend to fly in the direction the train is traveling. Call local law enforcement for assistance.
Read more safety tips at Operation Lifesaver.


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From Fedora Project Wiki
Mark McLoughlin
Mark McLoughlin is a Red Hat developer working on various parts of Fedora's Cloud and Virtualization stacks.
Way back when, he used to hack on GNOME, but that's all long forgotten now.
Draft OpenStack Status
- apevec looking at VNC console issue
- EPEL plan for webob and sqlalchemy
- bfilippov from Grid Dynamics sponsored and wants to help out
- zaitcev testing swift
- 20 more patches proposed to upstream stable branch
- pbrady updated OpenStack#OpenStack_in_EPEL
- pbrady attempted to have Nova use sqlalchemy 0.5.x by monkey patching in a BigInt implementation
- Lots of excellent help from Toshio
- pbrady identified a missing python-tempita Requires: in python-migrate and Toshio fixed it
- Steve Traylen packaged python-webob 1.0 for EPEL6
- apevec updated keystone in rawhide to latest stable branch snapshot
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Settimio Pisu and Jason Smith
Jason Smith of Hartford, Connecticut, has been with his partner Settimio Pisu for six years. But when Jason attempted to file their tax returns with H&R Block's online service, TaxCut Online, he was told, "We don't support Connecticut civil union returns." Through its website, the company said the couple would have to work with one of their professionals, by phone or at one of their office locations, to file their taxes - services that are not only more time consuming, but substantially more expensive. The ACLU sent a demand letter to H&R Block demanding that it change its online system to accommodate gay couples in Connecticut with civil unions.
According to the letter the ACLU sent to H&R Block, failing to provide gay couples with civil unions the option of filing their taxes online as it does for married couples is in violation of a state law that bars discrimination based on sexual orientation and civil union status. The letter demands that the company adapt its website to accommodate couples with civil unions and to reimburse all couples who were forced to pay the additional charges due to H&R Block's discriminatory practices. Although the tax requirements for couples with civil unions in Connecticut are very similar to the requirements for married gay couples in Massachusetts, H&R Block's online tax preparation service seems to accommodate married gay couples there.
Status: On July 15, 2008, H&R Block agreed to give $100 coupons or free TaxCut software to all gay couples who incurred additional costs because they were barred from using the company's online tax service. The company also agreed to direct future tax filers with civil unions to a free online support specialist to help couples complete their taxes.


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The Human Narrative Project----In the Beginning
Well, my friends, it is time to roll back the curtain and reveal the list.
Me and my crack team of fiction-ologists have been working day and night, night and day, to put together the top 100 novels.
The Project: Read and blog through 100 novels
I am proud of this list. It brings together novels with beautiful language and literary quality and explores the nature of our shared human condition. In order to better explore the diversity of our humanness, I have diverged widely from the standard "white guys" top 100 novels list, dominated largely by white male authors. My list includes novels with authors from diverse ethnic backgrounds, authors with different sexual orientations, works by women authors, subject matters of deep historic and spiritual significance, and representation of authors from all continents (with perhaps the exception of the north and south pole!).
Special thanks to you, my readers and friends, for your many ideas and suggestions. I started out with a list of about 110 or 120 and then with the input of all my friends and fellow bloggers I probably had close to 200 quality novels to try to sift through. So, cuts had to be made. There were tears. But I am really happy with this list.
The Plan: The first novel will be.....drumroll please......fumbling with the envelope......where are my glasses???.......ah, here they are........To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. (Thanks to my good friend Nicole!)
And the crowd goes wild.
We will begin discussion of Mockingbird in November. On November 1, I will post my review of the novel. From there, the month of November will be dedicated to Mockingbird, so I will take the liberty of going deeper into certain themes, characters, or ideas of the text that strike me as particularly profound or blogworthy.
I also want to extend these discussions to other blogs, if there is interest. So, if you read Mockingbird and decide to write up a post on your blog, let me know, and I would be happy to link to it from Theos Project. There is so much to say about these novels, that I want to extend the discussion and open up the dialog as much as possible.
As important as it is to develop a list that attempts to diversify, it is equally important to have discussions that explores the legitimacy of our different perspectives.
My general plan is to give advance notice of which novels we will be discussing. In general, I want to try to blog a novel a month. But realistically, when we get to novels like Joyce's Ulysses and Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, a bit more time may be required.
Lastly, I would like to start an email list for those who would like to receive updates in their inbox of the most recent happenings of Project Fiction. You can email me your email address: email@example.com. Or you can leave your email in the comment section.
So, here it is, the official list:
as html doc.:
or as a .pdf:
Thanks again (I can't thank you enough!) to all of you for your excellent insights and help in compiling this list. I am very excited to explore our humanness together.


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The full collection of 5,000 FX and music clips are organized into 70 separate categories. They are all 8-bit 22kHz mono in .mp3 format, making them easy to use with most programs. This collection is license and royalty-free for non-commercial use, and inexpensive for commerical use. Click here for detailed usage rights.
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Brioche used to be my favorite bread once upon a non-vegan time and, I admit, I've never quite gotten over it.There is something magical about a bread with a melt-in-your-mouth texture and a crust that's perfectly flaky and brittle. So much so that you cannot but forgive and forget all those calories crammed inside of it.I hadn't before baked a vegan brioche, and although I had often toyed with the idea of making it with vegan butter, like Earth Balance, I never got around to it.Until last week when I brought home a bag of perfect avocados.I needed to think of a way to use them, fast, and I just wasn't in the mood for guacamole. That's when inspiration hit. Avocado brioche!Avocados are really an excellent substitute for butter because they are high in fat (the good kind, unlike butter) and they have a creamy texture when mashed which is not unlike that of butter.
I googled up some recipes for avocado bread, but all were invariably for sweet breads, which I wasn't looking for. So I decided to improvise on the recipe I'd always used for regular brioche, substituting for the eggs and the butter with two avocados and just two tablespoons of the vegan version of Smart Balance "butter."
Looking back, I wouldn't do anything differently, except, maybe, reduce the baking temperature, because the top fell just a wee bit in the oven. It didn't take away, though, in any way from the beautiful, flaky texture of the brioche, or the amazing flavor. The bread had a lovely golden crust and was an exquisite pale green on the inside.
So here we go with my vegan avocado brioche. It's much healthier than your regular brioche, and tastes just as good. Already it has gone to the top of my list of favorite recipes.
Try these recipes next:
Vegan Olive Oil Brioche with Aquafaba
Avocado Shami Kabab
Strawberry Black Bean Avocado Salad
Chickpea Avocado Salad
Pasta Avocado
Butterless Avocado Brioche
- 1 package active dry yeast (2 1/4 tsp)
- 1/3 cup almond milk (can use soy milk), warm
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 2 1/4 cups bread flour
- 2 ripe avocados , mashed until there are no lumps (I put them through a potato ricer which did a perfect job). Squeeze a few drops of lemon juice into the avocado so it remains bright green.
- 2 tbsp almond or soy milk
- 2 tbsp sugar
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 2 tbsp vegan "butter" like Smart Balance or Earth Balance
- Mix the yeast and almond milk in a large bowl or the bowl of a stand mixer and let stand 5 minutes.
- Add to the bowl the all-purpose flour, mashed avocados, non-dairy milk, sugar, salt, and flour.
- Mix well until ingredients have blended together. Then add the bread flour and knead by hand for about 15 minutes or on low-medium speed in a stand mixer for about 8-10 minutes. The dough will be smooth and elastic and although it will appear sticky, it won't stick to your fingers.
- Add the vegan butter and knead on medium-high speed or by hand until the butter is incorporated into the dough.
- Place the dough in an oil-coated bowl. Cover with plastic wrap and place in a warm place for about 1 1/2 hours or until doubled.
- Punch the dough down, then cover again and let rise for another 2 hours.
- To shape the dough, divide it into four equal portions. Shape each portion into a smooth ball.
- Spray oil on the inside of a standard 9 X 5-inch loaf pan.
- Place the four balls of dough touching each other inside the loaf pan. Brush with some olive oil mixed with salt.
- Cover loosely with oiled plastic wrap and let rise another hour or until the loaf fills the pan and mushrooms over it.
- Brush some more of the olive-oil-salt mixture over the top.
- Bake in a 375-degree oven about 30 minutes.
If you enjoy bread-making, you might also want to try my Vegan Challah or these Soymilk Pompoms.


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Welcome to the Association
The National Association of Preferred Providers (NAPP) is a Texas non-profit Association with a purpose, commitment, and dedication to enhance and improve the quality of life, general well-being and welfare for its members. Since 1983, NAPP has delivered value to its members through service, information, and advocacy; it provides its members a wide range of unique and special services and benefits.
NAPP seeks to attain its purposes and goals by using its 'group buying' power to negotiate the most favorable agreements with service and benefit providers, and passing the significant savings to its members.


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When I was high school there was this girl a couple of years older than me who wore pink every chance she got. We were required to wear school uniforms, but had the choice of adding jewelry and scarves in order to feed the need to be unique and different.
I threw my identity out for others to see by using an antique men's collar bar to pin various handkerchiefs to the lapel of my "required" navy blazer. I alternated between a handkerchief my mother had brought back from a trip to the Caribbean and one that belonged to my great grandmother I had found languishing in a drawer at my grandfather's.
But this acquaintance of mine absolutely adored pink…..she accessorized with all things pink that she could get away with and constantly announced to anyone, much like Shelby Eatenton in the movie Steel Magnolias, that "pink was her signature color."
Unfortunately my friend and even the character of Shelby Eatenton can't exactly corner the market on credit regarding the signature pink line because a former First Lady has that honor.
Mamie Eisenhower.
Find out more about Mamie's signature color and her impact on Christmas at the White House in my post at American Presidents Blog
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
In the Pink.....
Posted by EHT at Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Labels: American Presidents, Christmas, Mamie Eisenhower
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Last year the Bay Area wine crop saw a record harvest thanks in part of a weather pattern that was perfect for the grapes.
This year, some grape growers are concerned that the harvesting season itself is coming to early.
The problem is that the weather has been too nice.
Rain totals are down and so far the winter season has been a mild one.
Growers said that means things might start to grow earlier than expected.
Thomas Fogerty winemaker Nathan Kandler walked through his newest pinot noir vineyard Friday.
He admitted that while the weather in Los Gatos Friday was beautiful, it might be a little too beautiful for his business.
"As much as it's nice to sit out and enjoy the weather, it's actually a little worrisome," Kandler said.
A normal weather pattern brings cold rainy weather this time of year and that keeps the harvest from growing.
The risk is that there could be a smaller grape harvest or some of the grapes could be lost if there is a late season cold snap.
Fewer grapes means less wine. Less wine means higher prices for consumers.
It is far too early to say that this will definitely happen and there is rain in next week's forecast.
Grape growers said enough rain will get the harvest back on track.
Wine is still considered a hot business. According to Neilsen, vineyards have grown by 12-percent over the last five years.
And there are changes in the forecast, including rain the valley and snow in the valley.
View more videos at: http://nbcbayarea.com.


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Media Element
Media Element
Media Element
Represents an object that renders audio and video to the display. See Remarks.
public : sealed class MediaElement : FrameworkElement
struct winrt::Windows::UI::Xaml::Controls::MediaElement : FrameworkElement
public sealed class MediaElement : FrameworkElement
Public NotInheritable Class MediaElement Inherits FrameworkElement
<MediaElement .../>
- Inheritance
- Attributes
Windows 10 requirements
|Device family
Windows 10 (introduced v10.0.10240.0)
|API contract
Windows.Foundation.UniversalApiContract (introduced v1)
For more info, design guidance, and code examples, see Media playback.
If you have the XAML Controls Gallery app installed, click here to open the app and see the MediaElement in action.
This code creates a MediaElement with the AutoPlay property explicitly set to true and the Source set to the path of a video file that is included in the app.
<MediaElement Source="Media/video1.mp4" AutoPlay="True" />
<MediaElement x:Name="mediaPlayer"
AreTransportControlsEnabled="True" />
<Button Content="Show Popup" Click="ShowPopupClicked"/>
<Popup x:Name="mediaPlayerPopup">
<StackPanel Height="1400" Width="1400" Background="Blue">
<MediaElement x:Name="mediaPlayer"
<TextBlock Text="Simple Popup"/>
<Button Content="Close" Click="ClosePopupClicked"/>
long token;
protected override void OnNavigatedTo(NavigationEventArgs e)
token = mediaPlayer.RegisterPropertyChangedCallback(MediaElement.IsFullWindowProperty, OnMEFullWindowChanged);
protected override void OnNavigatedFrom(NavigationEventArgs e)
mediaPlayer.UnregisterPropertyChangedCallback(MediaElement.IsFullWindowProperty, token);
private void OnMEFullWindowChanged(DependencyObject sender, DependencyProperty dp)
MediaElement me = (MediaElement)sender;
if (me != null && dp == MediaElement.IsFullWindowProperty)
if (me.IsFullWindow == true)
mediaPlayerPopup.Visibility = Visibility.Collapsed;
mediaPlayerPopup.Visibility = Visibility.Visible;
private void ClosePopupClicked(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
// If the Popup is open, then close it.
if (mediaPlayerPopup.IsOpen) { mediaPlayerPopup.IsOpen = false; }
// Handles the Click event on the Button on the page and opens the Popup.
private void ShowPopupClicked(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
// Open the Popup if it isn't open already.
if (!mediaPlayerPopup.IsOpen) { mediaPlayerPopup.IsOpen = true; }
[!IMPORTANT] In Windows 10, build 1607 and on we recommend that you use MediaPlayerElement in place of MediaElement. MediaPlayerElement has the same functionality as MediaElement, while also enabling more advanced media playback scenarios. Additionally, all future improvements in media playback will happen in MediaPlayerElement.
For more info, design guidance, and code examples, see Media playback.
Use a MediaElement control to play audio and video files in your app. Built– in media transport controls let users interact with their media by providing a default playback experience comprised of various buttons including play, pause, closed captions, and others. See MediaTransportControls for more info.
For info about the media formats that MediaElement supports, see Supported codecs.
For info about performance related to MediaElement, see Optimize animations and media.
Set the media source
Set the Source property of the MediaElement object to point to an audio or video file. The property can be set to the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) of a file that is included with the app or the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) of a file on the network. You can use the SetSource method to set the source to a file retrieved from the local system by using a FileOpenPicker object.
By default, the media that is defined by the Source property plays immediately after the MediaElement object has loaded. To suppress the media from starting automatically, set the AutoPlay property to false.
Live media streams report a NaturalDuration of Int64.MaxValue.
Here's how to create a MediaElement in XAML with the Source set to the path of a video file that is included in the app and the AutoPlay property explicitly set to false.
<MediaElement Source="Media/video1.mp4" AutoPlay="false"/>
Here's how to create the MediaElement in code.
MediaElement mediaElement1 = new MediaElement();
mediaElement1.Source = new Uri("ms-appx:///Media/video1.mp4");
mediaElement1.AutoPlay = false;
// Add the MediaElement to the page.
Handle media events
You can respond to common media events such as the MediaOpened, MediaEnded, MediaFailed, and CurrentStateChanged events. It is good practice to always handle the MediaFailed event.
Transport controls
Set the AreTransportControlsEnabled property to programmatically enable and disable the built in transport controls for the MediaElement. The built in transport controls provide UI for playing, stopping, pausing, and seeking the media, as well as UI for volume, mute, full window, track selection, and remaining time.
You can create your own media transport controls by setting AreTransportControlsEnabled to false, and using the Play, Pause, and Stop methods. MediaElement also exposes a rich set of properties you can control like Position, Volume, IsMuted, IsLooping, PlaybackRate, and Balance.
For better performance, avoid data binding to the Position property to reflect frequent position updates (for example with a progress bar). Instead, use the DispatcherTimer to query the Position property.
For more info and examples, see Create custom transport controls.
Open local media files
To open files on the local system or from Microsoft OneDrive, you can use the FileOpenPicker to get the file and SetSource to set the media source, or you can programmatically access the user media folders.
If your app needs access without user interaction to the Music or Video folders, for example if you are enumerating all the music or video files in the user's collection and displaying them in your app, then you need to declare the Music Library and Video Library capabilities. For more info, see Files and folders in the Music, Pictures, and Videos libraries.
The FileOpenPicker does not require special Capabilities to access files on the local file system, such as the user's Music or Video folders, since the user has complete control over which file is being accessed. From a security and privacy standpoint, it is best to minimize the number of capabilities your app uses.
To open local media using FileOpenPicker
- Call FileOpenPicker to let the user pick a media file.
Use the FileOpenPicker class to select a media file. Set the FileTypeFilter to specify which file types the FileOpenPicker will display. Call PickSingleFileAsync to launch the file picker and get the file.
- Call SetSource to set the chosen media file as the MediaElement.Source.
To set the Source of the MediaElement to the StorageFile returned from the FileOpenPicker, you need to open a stream. Call the OpenAsync method on the StorageFile returns a stream that you can pass into the MediaElement.SetSource method. Then call Play on the MediaElement to start the media. This example shows how to use the FileOpenPicker to choose a file and set the file as the Source of a MediaElement.
<MediaElement x:Name="mediaPlayer"/>
<Button Content="Choose file" Click="Button_Click"/>
private async void Button_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
await SetLocalMedia();
async private System.Threading.Tasks.Task SetLocalMedia()
var openPicker = new Windows.Storage.Pickers.FileOpenPicker();
var file = await openPicker.PickSingleFileAsync();
// mediaPlayer is a MediaElement defined in XAML
if (file != null)
var stream = await file.OpenAsync(Windows.Storage.FileAccessMode.Read);
mediaPlayer.SetSource(stream, file.ContentType);
Select audio tracks in different languages
Use the AudioStreamIndex property and the GetAudioStreamLanguage method to change the audio to a different language track on a video. Videos can also contain multiple audio tracks in the same language, such as director commentaries on films. This example specifically shows how to switch between different languages, but you can modify this code to switch between any audio tracks.
To select audio tracks in different languages
- Get the audio tracks.
To search for a track in a specific language, start by iterating through each audio track on the video. Use AudioStreamCount as the max value for a for loop.
- Get the language of the audio track.
Use the GetAudioStreamLanguage method to get the language of the track. The language of the track is identified by a language code, such as "en" for English or "ja" for Japanese.
- Set the active audio track.
When you find the track with the desired language, set the AudioStreamIndex to the index of the track. Setting AudioStreamIndex to null selects the default audio track which is defined by the content. Here's some code that attempts to set the audio track to the specified language. It iterates through the audio tracks on a MediaElement object and uses GetAudioStreamLanguage to get the language of each track. If the desired language track exists, the AudioStreamIndex is set to the index of that track.
/// <summary>
/// Attemps to set the audio track of a video to a specific language
/// </summary>
/// <param name="lcid">The id of the language. For example, "en" or "ja"</param>
/// <returns>true if the track was set; otherwise, false.</returns>
private bool SetAudioLanguage(string lcid, MediaElement media)
bool wasLanguageSet = false;
for (int index = 0; index < media.AudioStreamCount; index++)
if (media.GetAudioStreamLanguage(index) == lcid)
media.AudioStreamIndex = index;
wasLanguageSet = true;
return wasLanguageSet;
Full window playback
Use the IsFullWindow property to enable and disable full window rendering. When in full-window mode, input events received on the MediaElement will still route through to the visual tree in the background. For example, if the MediaElement is in a ListBox, turning the scroll wheel could cause the ListBox to scroll in the background. This can cause unexpected behavior. If input events should not be routed when in full-window mode, the MediaElement should handle the events.
We recommend that you not use MediaElement in a Popup control. If a MediaElement hosted in a Popup is switched to full-window mode, the Popup is rendered on top of the MediaElement. If you must use a MediaElement in a Popup, you should collapse the Popup when the MediaElement enters full-window mode, and restore the Popup when the MediaElement exits full-window mode. Use DependencyProperty.RegisterPropertyChangedCallback to be notified when the MediaElement.IsFullWindow property changes. For an example, see the Examples section.
Keep media playing
To prevent the display from being deactivated when user action is no longer detected, such as when an app is playing video, you can call DisplayRequest.RequestActive. To conserve power and battery life, you should call DisplayRequest.RequestRelease to release the display request as soon as it is no longer required.
Here are some situations when you should release the display request:
- Video playback is paused, for example by user action, buffering, or adjustment due to limited bandwidth.
- Playback stops. For example, the video is done playing or the presentation is over.
- A playback error has occurred. For example, network connectivity issues or a corrupted file. Here, you use the CurrentStateChanged event to detect these situations. Then, use the IsAudioOnly property to determine whether an audio or video file is playing, and keep the screen active only if video is playing.
<MediaElement Source="Media/video1.mp4"
// Create this variable at a global scope. Set it to null.
private DisplayRequest appDisplayRequest = null;
private void MediaElement_CurrentStateChanged(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
MediaElement mediaElement = sender as MediaElement;
if (mediaElement != null && mediaElement.IsAudioOnly == false)
if (mediaElement.CurrentState == Windows.UI.Xaml.Media.MediaElementState.Playing)
if (appDisplayRequest == null)
// This call creates an instance of the DisplayRequest object.
appDisplayRequest = new DisplayRequest();
else // CurrentState is Buffering, Closed, Opening, Paused, or Stopped.
if (appDisplayRequest != null)
// Deactivate the display request and set the var to null.
appDisplayRequest = null;
Poster source
You can use the PosterSource property to provide your MediaElement with a visual representation before the media is loaded. A PosterSource is an image, such as a screen shot or movie poster, that is displayed in place of the media. The PosterSource is displayed in the following situations:
- When a valid source is not set. For example, Source is not set, Source was set to Null, or the source is invalid (as is the case when a MediaFailed event fires).
- While media is loading. For example, a valid source is set, but the MediaOpened event has not fired yet.
- When media is streaming to another device.
- When the media is audio only.
Notes for previous versions
Windows 8.1
On Windows Phone, you can only have one MediaElement at a time.
To let audio continue to play when your app is in the background, set the AudioCategory property to BackgroundCapableMedia. This also requires declaring the "Audio" background task capability in the app manifest. These values are deprecated in Windows 10.
Windows 8
Prior to Windows 8.1, the IsFullWindow property in not available. To enable full window video playback you must set the Width and Height of the MediaElement to the Window.Bounds of the current window. Specifically, use Window.Current.Bounds.Width and Window.Current.Bounds.Height. Full window playback will not take advantage of system optimizations if you set the dimensions of a parent element, such as a grid, or a containing element instead of the MediaElement.
Prior to Windows 8.1, the Opacity property is not supported on MediaElement.
Prior to Windows 8.1, the AreTransportControlsEnabled property and built-in transport controls are not available. You must provide your own transport controls. For more info and examples, see Create custom transport controls and scenario 4 of the XAML media playback sample.
Windows Phone 8
Windows Phone 8.x app must use PickSingleFileAndContinue to open local media files.
|MediaElement() MediaElement() MediaElement() MediaElement()
Instantiates a new instance of the MediaElement class.
|AccessKeyDisplayDismissed AccessKeyDisplayDismissed AccessKeyDisplayDismissed AccessKeyDisplayDismissed
Occurs when access keys should no longer be displayed.(Inherited from UIElement)
|AccessKeyDisplayRequested AccessKeyDisplayRequested AccessKeyDisplayRequested AccessKeyDisplayRequested
Occurs when the user requests that access keys be displayed.(Inherited from UIElement)
|AccessKeyInvoked AccessKeyInvoked AccessKeyInvoked AccessKeyInvoked
Occurs when a user completes an access key sequence.(Inherited from UIElement)
|ActualThemeChanged ActualThemeChanged ActualThemeChanged ActualThemeChanged
Occurs when the ActualTheme property value has changed.(Inherited from FrameworkElement)
|BringIntoViewRequested BringIntoViewRequested BringIntoViewRequested BringIntoViewRequested
Occurs when StartBringIntoView is called on this element or one of its descendants.(Inherited from UIElement)
|BufferingProgressChanged BufferingProgressChanged BufferingProgressChanged BufferingProgressChanged
Occurs when the BufferingProgress property changes.
|CharacterReceived CharacterReceived CharacterReceived CharacterReceived
Occurs when a single, composed character is received by the input queue.(Inherited from UIElement)
|ContextCanceled ContextCanceled ContextCanceled ContextCanceled
Occurs when a context input gesture continues into a manipulation gesture, to notify the element that the context flyout should not be opened.(Inherited from UIElement)
|ContextRequested ContextRequested ContextRequested ContextRequested
Occurs when the user has completed a context input gesture, such as a right-click.(Inherited from UIElement)
|CurrentStateChanged CurrentStateChanged CurrentStateChanged CurrentStateChanged
Occurs when the value of the CurrentState property changes.
|DataContextChanged DataContextChanged DataContextChanged DataContextChanged
Occurs when the value of the FrameworkElement.DataContext property changes.(Inherited from FrameworkElement)
|DoubleTapped DoubleTapped DoubleTapped DoubleTapped
Occurs when an otherwise unhandled DoubleTap interaction occurs over the hit test area of this element.(Inherited from UIElement)
|DownloadProgressChanged DownloadProgressChanged DownloadProgressChanged DownloadProgressChanged
Occurs when the DownloadProgress property has changed.
|DragEnter DragEnter DragEnter DragEnter
Occurs when the input system reports an underlying drag event with this element as the target.(Inherited from UIElement)
|DragLeave DragLeave DragLeave DragLeave
Occurs when the input system reports an underlying drag event with this element as the origin.(Inherited from UIElement)
|DragOver DragOver DragOver DragOver
Occurs when the input system reports an underlying drag event with this element as the potential drop target.(Inherited from UIElement)
|DragStarting DragStarting DragStarting DragStarting
Occurs when a drag operation is initiated.(Inherited from UIElement)
|Drop Drop Drop Drop
Occurs when the input system reports an underlying drop event with this element as the drop target.(Inherited from UIElement)
|DropCompleted DropCompleted DropCompleted DropCompleted
Occurs when a drag-and-drop operation with this element as the source is ended.(Inherited from UIElement)
|EffectiveViewportChanged EffectiveViewportChanged EffectiveViewportChanged EffectiveViewportChanged
Occurs when the FrameworkElement 's effective viewport changes.(Inherited from FrameworkElement)
|GettingFocus GettingFocus GettingFocus GettingFocus
Occurs before a UIElement receives focus. This event is raised synchronously to ensure focus isn't moved while the event is bubbling.(Inherited from UIElement)
|GotFocus GotFocus GotFocus GotFocus
Occurs when a UIElement receives focus. This event is raised asynchronously, so focus can move again before bubbling is complete.(Inherited from UIElement)
|Holding Holding Holding Holding
Occurs when an otherwise unhandled Hold interaction occurs over the hit test area of this element.(Inherited from UIElement)
|KeyDown KeyDown KeyDown KeyDown
Occurs when a keyboard key is pressed while the UIElement has focus.(Inherited from UIElement)
|KeyUp KeyUp KeyUp KeyUp
Occurs when a keyboard key is released while the UIElement has focus.(Inherited from UIElement)
|LayoutUpdated LayoutUpdated LayoutUpdated LayoutUpdated
Occurs when the layout of the visual tree changes, due to layout-relevant properties changing value or some other action that refreshes the layout.(Inherited from FrameworkElement)
|Loaded Loaded Loaded Loaded
Occurs when a FrameworkElement has been constructed and added to the object tree, and is ready for interaction.(Inherited from FrameworkElement)
|Loading Loading Loading Loading
Occurs when a FrameworkElement begins to load.(Inherited from FrameworkElement)
|LosingFocus LosingFocus LosingFocus LosingFocus
Occurs before a UIElement loses focus. This event is raised synchronously to ensure focus isn't moved while the event is bubbling.(Inherited from UIElement)
|LostFocus LostFocus LostFocus LostFocus
Occurs when a UIElement loses focus. This event is raised asynchronously, so focus can move again before bubbling is complete.(Inherited from UIElement)
|ManipulationCompleted ManipulationCompleted ManipulationCompleted ManipulationCompleted
Occurs when a manipulation on the UIElement is complete.(Inherited from UIElement)
|ManipulationDelta ManipulationDelta ManipulationDelta ManipulationDelta
Occurs when the input device changes position during a manipulation.(Inherited from UIElement)
|ManipulationInertiaStarting ManipulationInertiaStarting ManipulationInertiaStarting ManipulationInertiaStarting
Occurs when the input device loses contact with the UIElement object during a manipulation and inertia begins.(Inherited from UIElement)
|ManipulationStarted ManipulationStarted ManipulationStarted ManipulationStarted
Occurs when an input device begins a manipulation on the UIElement.(Inherited from UIElement)
|ManipulationStarting ManipulationStarting ManipulationStarting ManipulationStarting
Occurs when the manipulation processor is first created.(Inherited from UIElement)
|MarkerReached MarkerReached MarkerReached MarkerReached
Occurs when a timeline marker is encountered during media playback.
|MediaEnded MediaEnded MediaEnded MediaEnded
Occurs when the MediaElement finishes playing audio or video.
|MediaFailed MediaFailed MediaFailed MediaFailed
Occurs when there is an error associated with the media Source.
|MediaOpened MediaOpened MediaOpened MediaOpened
Occurs when the media stream has been validated and opened, and the file headers have been read.
|NoFocusCandidateFound NoFocusCandidateFound NoFocusCandidateFound NoFocusCandidateFound
Occurs when a user attempts to move focus (via tab or directional arrows), but focus doesn't move because no focus candidate is found in the direction of movement.(Inherited from UIElement)
|PartialMediaFailureDetected PartialMediaFailureDetected PartialMediaFailureDetected PartialMediaFailureDetected
Occurs when one or more streams fails to decode in content containing multiple streams.
|PointerCanceled PointerCanceled PointerCanceled PointerCanceled
Occurs when a pointer that made contact abnormally loses contact.(Inherited from UIElement)
|PointerCaptureLost PointerCaptureLost PointerCaptureLost PointerCaptureLost
Occurs when pointer capture previously held by this element moves to another element or elsewhere.(Inherited from UIElement)
|PointerEntered PointerEntered PointerEntered PointerEntered
Occurs when a pointer enters the hit test area of this element.(Inherited from UIElement)
|PointerExited PointerExited PointerExited PointerExited
Occurs when a pointer leaves the hit test area of this element.(Inherited from UIElement)
|PointerMoved PointerMoved PointerMoved PointerMoved
Occurs when a pointer moves while the pointer remains within the hit test area of this element.(Inherited from UIElement)
|PointerPressed PointerPressed PointerPressed PointerPressed
Occurs when the pointer device initiates a Press action within this element.(Inherited from UIElement)
|PointerReleased PointerReleased PointerReleased PointerReleased
Occurs when the pointer device that previously initiated a Press action is released, while within this element. Note that the end of a Press action is not guaranteed to fire a PointerReleased event; other events may fire instead. For more info, see Remarks.(Inherited from UIElement)
|PointerWheelChanged PointerWheelChanged PointerWheelChanged PointerWheelChanged
Occurs when the delta value of a pointer wheel changes.(Inherited from UIElement)
|PreviewKeyDown PreviewKeyDown PreviewKeyDown PreviewKeyDown
Occurs when a keyboard key is pressed while the UIElement has focus.(Inherited from UIElement)
|PreviewKeyUp PreviewKeyUp PreviewKeyUp PreviewKeyUp
Occurs when a keyboard key is released while the UIElement has focus.(Inherited from UIElement)
|ProcessKeyboardAccelerators ProcessKeyboardAccelerators ProcessKeyboardAccelerators ProcessKeyboardAccelerators
Occurs when a keyboard shortcut (or accelerator) is pressed.(Inherited from UIElement)
|RateChanged RateChanged RateChanged RateChanged
Occurs when PlaybackRate or DefaultPlaybackRate value changes.
|RightTapped RightTapped RightTapped RightTapped
Occurs when a right-tap input stimulus happens while the pointer is over the element.(Inherited from UIElement)
|SeekCompleted SeekCompleted SeekCompleted SeekCompleted
Occurs when the seek point of a requested seek operation is ready for playback.
|SizeChanged SizeChanged SizeChanged SizeChanged
Occurs when either the ActualHeight or the ActualWidth property changes value on a FrameworkElement.(Inherited from FrameworkElement)
|Tapped Tapped Tapped Tapped
Occurs when an otherwise unhandled Tap interaction occurs over the hit test area of this element.(Inherited from UIElement)
|Unloaded Unloaded Unloaded Unloaded
Occurs when this object is no longer connected to the main object tree.(Inherited from FrameworkElement)
|VolumeChanged VolumeChanged VolumeChanged VolumeChanged
Occurs when the value of the Volume property changes.
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When hundreds of African immigrants rioted in the southern Italian city of Rosarno last month, the world got a glimpse of a very different Italy from the one pictured in the tourist brochures. Overturned cars, shattered shop windows and street battles are a far cry from tranquil villages on a Tuscan hillside.
Another contradiction uncovered by the violence is much more fundamental, and it has less to do with how Italy is perceived by outsiders than with how Italians themselves view their nation. As a country, Italy is becoming increasingly multiethnic, as immigrants from Africa, China, Eastern Europe and the Middle East arrive to work jobs locals refuse to take. But as a society, Italians have been slow to acknowledge the change.
Demographically, Italy is transforming faster than almost anywhere else in Europe. Last year, according to the Catholic charity Caritas, the percentage of noncitizen residents in the country 7.2% was greater than Britain's. And that's not counting the country's illegal population, estimated at well over half a million. In a country where the native-born population is aging rapidly, 1 in 6 babies delivered in 2008 was born to a foreign-passport holder. La dolce vita is also becoming more dependent on immigrants and their labor. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) estimates that foreign workers account for 9% of Italy's annual GDP. They pick the fruit in the country's orchards, staff its restaurants and workshops, and look after its young and elderly. "If all the migrants just stopped working now, the Italian economic system would collapse," says IOM spokesman Flavio Di Giacomo.
Yet the country retains an intensely prescriptive streak. Rigid codes of behavior govern everything from how to dress to the proper time of day to drink a cappuccino. Far from being a melting pot, Italy remains a three-course meal, with the pasta carefully segregated from the appetizer and main course and no place for a bowl of hummus or plate of egg rolls. "People now accept that immigrants are here," says Giuseppe Sciortino, a sociology professor at the University of Trento. "But they're still in denial that they are a presence that will change Italy forever."
In some places, the denial is turning to anger. The violence in Rosarno erupted on Jan. 7 after two immigrants were shot by white men with pellet guns. The town's immigrants responded by burning cars and vandalizing shops, prompting retaliatory attacks by residents. "It's racism against blacks," says Yakuba Camara, a 25-year-old immigrant from Guinea, one of the clash's first victims. "I didn't do anything, and they shot me." By the end of the weekend, nearly 70 people most of them migrant workers had been injured. The Pope called for tolerance and the government evacuated about 1,000 immigrants to neighboring cities to ensure their safety.
The region of Calabria, where Rosarno is located, makes up the toe of Italy's boot. Seasonal migrants mostly from Africa and Eastern Europe have long worked in the citrus orchards there. The hours are long and the wages often less than $30 a day. When Fabrizio Gatti, a journalist for Italian news weekly L'Espresso, posed as a migrant worker in 2006, he uncovered a world where beatings and exploitation were common. "You have no contract no rights," Gatti says. "So if they don't pay you, you cannot go to the police."
The international aid group Doctors Without Borders best known for its work in war zones considers the conditions so bad that it runs a clinic catering to workers who live in abandoned factories with no access to running water or health care. "This is a neglected population, and they are the victims of exploitation and violence," says Sophie Baylac, who coordinates the group's migrant programs in Europe. "The situation ... is a symptom of the ongoing neglect suffered by seasonal migrants."
Despite that neglect, or perhaps because of it, immigration has become a hot-button issue in Italy. A poll last year found that 69% of the country considered immigration a top priority, more than twice the continental average. So far, the discussion has been monopolized by the anti-immigrant Northern League Party, which has ridden to electoral success by focusing on crowded boatloads of illegals and the links between foreigners and criminality. With the left largely silent, many voters see the Northern League's rhetoric as the only serious attempt to tackle the issue. "The fear of immigrants isn't something the League has instilled," says Giancarlo Giorgetti, a Northern League parliamentarian. "We are the mirror of the Italian society. It's the culture of this country that wants to close itself to the outside."
Last summer, the Italian government, in which the Northern League plays a central role, made irregular migration a finable crime and tripled the period to six months that immigrants can be detained before deportation. In January, it announced it would cap the number of foreign students in the country's schools and universities at 30%.


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Mobile Wedding Hairdresser in Johannesburg before I go into the points to help you choose your hairdresser, I should first outline the definition of what is a mobile hairdresser? A Traveling Hair Stylist is a hairdresser who usually works for his or herself visiting clients at their homes or place of work, or any other agreed venue and does not operate from a fixed hair salon or beauty shop.
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1.When to consider using a mobile hairdresser. The services of a mobile hairstylist may often be required to be used at a home for a wedding when it may often be inconvenient for the bride to travel to a hair or beauty salon to have her hair and her make-up done, requiring her then to travel back to her home to put on her wedding gown. Instead, the hairdresser will travel to the bride's home in order to style the bride's hair for her special day. A Hair Stylist Home Service hairstylist is often in demand for Care homes, hospitals, prisons, the armed forces, and in many other situations where individual attention is required.
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4. Always Use a qualified hairdresser. As with Salon hairdressers, your mobile hairdresser should hold formal hairdressing qualifications. The UK national Vocational Qualification in Hairdressing (NVQ) is the only recognized qualification system, and more than 60% of mobile hairstylists are now trained to this standard. They should also hold professional indemnity insurance.
Your mobile hairdresser should be happy and prepared to recommend the perfect hairdos and often make-up to accentuate and compliment the individual looks of the customer, and offer suggestions on what hairstyle or make up should best suit the client.
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It would be impossible to count how many times each summer a professional groomer is asked to shave a client's dog in an attempt to make it cooler. Here in rural Montana where the summers are scorching, I have had requests to shave almost every breed imaginable. It is a common misconception that all dogs would automatically be cooler if they had less hair.
First it is important to consider is what type of hair the dog has. All dogs can basically be divided into two groups. First we have those who need to have their cut on a regular basis, such as poodles, shih tzus, cocker spaniels, lhasa apsos, terriers, etc. Dogs in this group have hair that would continue growing longer and longer until it was cut. These breeds can be shaved with no problem. Taking off excess coat by shaving them down in hot weather will indeed make them more comfortable and cooler, and will not cause damage to the dog's coat. However, this is not the case with the second group.
This group of dogs consists of all the other breeds, longhaired or shorthaired, whose hair grows to one length only and then remains that length. These dogs typically shed much more than dogs in the first group. These include retrievers, pomeranians, great Pyranees, chow chows, pugs, German shepherds, huskies, and the list goes on and on. Their coats act as insulators against the elements, and should never be shaved. After all, do you take the insulation out of your home in the summer to make it cooler? Absolutely not, and the same goes for these dogs as well.
It is important to note that if you have a mixed breed dog, it can be difficult to determine which group the dog falls into. Most groomers can evaluate a dog's coat upon inspection to let you know which group the dog falls into, and what course of action to take, the risks involved, etc.
As a former professional groomer, I strongly feel that it is the groomer's responsibility to fully explain these things to clients wanting to have their dogs shaved. It is important to share knowledge with the clients to make the best decision possible for the pet in need of grooming.
COPYRIGHT 2008 Shannon Heggem
Hairdressing Shears: Do You Know How to Clean and Maintain?
"Should I use this or should I use that?"
"What can I put on my hair?"
"Is it okay to wash my hair often?"
We ask ourselves so many questions when caring for our locks. However, maintaining healthy locked hair can be simple (in fact, foolproof) when you know what to do and what not to do to your hair. This article will give you some basic Do's and Don'ts when it comes to lock maintenance. Before presenting you with what you should and should not do, keep in mind that there is no way to make an exhaustive list, however, this list will get you started. When taking care of your locks, many people are bombarded with what they CANNOT do, that they forget to enjoy what they CAN do. Keep in mind the DON'Ts and embrace the DOs. The new found freedoms that your locks bring also afford you the chance to DO a lot! Here are the "Dreadlock Commandments":
No matter what, do NOT ever put any kind of beeswax on your hair. In the past many have believed that using beeswax was the only why to start locks. However, this ideology couldn't be further from the truth. In fact, using beeswax actually isn't a good thing at all. One of the main reasons that wax is a "no-no" is simply because of the fact that wax doesn't breakdown in water. What does this mean? It means that no matter how much you wash your hair, the beeswax will forever be in your locks. Wax also attracts debris, lint, dirt, pollutants, and other undesired things into you hair that might also be hard to wash out. If you ever meet someone that uses beeswax on their hair, look at their locks and you will see the buildup that using wax has left over the years. There are other products that can be used to lock your hair that are also beneficial to your hair as well. Products such as lanolin, honey, olive oil, avocado butter, shea butter, and similar items can have the same holding power as wax BUT lead to healthier hair.
Lock maintenance is as simple as it comes. Some try to make the process a complicated maze in order to keep others from wanted to take on this commitment. The only thing a lock wearer really needs to do is develop a good hair routine and stick with it. If need be, you can just get up and go without doing anything to your hair. Keeping the process simple makes this commitment even more attractive.
Sometimes we get eager when we get to different stages in the locking process. One big milestone will be when your hair gets long enough to put in a ponytail. Once you reach that stage, you might have the urge to always throw your hair up in a ponytail, EVERYDAY. Please resist this urge. Repeatedly wearing your hair in the same hairstyle day in and day out, will create weak spots in those area that are continuously under stress due to tight hair ties, hair pins, hair bands, and other hair accoutrements. For example, if you like to wear your hair in a ponytail everyday, you might notice down the line that in the same area on every lock you have a spot where your locks look like they might break. This weak spot is from constantly using a hair tie to hold your pigtail. Also, always pulling your hair back may also cause traction alopecia because of the constant tension on your hairline. Just be mindful and try to give your locks time to JUST BE.
Every stage of locking is unique and comes with its own set of happenings. In order to stick with the entire process it is important that you appreciate the fuzzy locks just like you will appreciate the matured locks. Consider your locks your child and just like a child, you have to raise them from a newborn to an adult. Have patience with your hair and know that if you treat your hair right and are grateful for the small occurrence and milestones, your hair will grow into well-mannered adult locks. Just don't get discouraged and give up because your hair won't obey you.
This is probably one of the most important rules to live by. Understanding that the way your locks look in the beginning is NOT how they will look at their matured state. This means that when you start locking you might find that your locks are bigger than you desire. But keep in mind that as your hair locks, they will get tighter. So a pencil sized lock in the beginning will be smaller when matured. Moreover, there will be shrinkage in the beginning, but as your locks grow, you will forget about it. Keep that in mind as you start locking and it will give you something to look forward to as your locks evolve.
Just like you did not know everything about locking in the beginning, when people see you with locks they are bound to ask questions. Do answer people if they have valid questions. Now, you don't have to open yourself up to harassment, but you answering valid questions might help someone else to become comfortable in their skin and take the plunge on the "Lock Side"
Deciding and going through with locking your hair requires that the wearer has a certain level of confidence and swag. Your new style may also lead to changes to your wardrobe. Do what is best for you and your level of comfort. Locking your hair give you a new sense of freedom that will spill over into the other areas of your life. Embrace the changes and have fun with it.
NOTE: You might find out, during your lock exploration, that there are other items that might go on your personal DO/ DO NOT list. Feel free to adapt this list to your personal experience, by adding those other things that also did or did NOT work for you.