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I have never been to Europe but always wanted to go. Maybe now that I've retired I'll get the chance. Thanks for the post.
You mean what if a car driver posted an article about driving a car or something car related? The message was a PSA and well received.
Georgia being a Southern state has very little organized labor, certainly not within the public sector.
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Tarell Brown's 5th annual football and cheer camp is scheduled for Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon at E.H. Hanby Stadium.
Brown, a North Mesquite graduate, was a member of The University of Texas' national championship team in 2005 and currently is a starting cornerback for the San Francisco 49ers.
Brown started the free camp five years ago and it has taken hold in his hometown, helping hundreds of local athletes.
The Brown's Kids Foundation is dedicated to bettering the livelihood and health of local families.
In past years, Brown has been joined by former Texas teammates and current NFL players Aaron Ross, Michael Huff and Jamaal Charles, as well as San Francisco teammates such as Dashon Goldson.
This year, 10 professional players are expected to be on hand, joining current former and North Mesquite coaches, as well as other North Mesquite alumni, to conduct the camp.
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Cheerleader participants will be instructed by current Stallion coaches and the North Mesquite cheerleaders.
At the conclusion of the three-hour camp, Brown and the other players make themselves available for pictures and autographs.
"Tarell and all these guys have busy lives, but they stay and sign every last item for the kids, which is a special deal for all of them," Bragg said. "Tarell stresses that this is more than just about football. All the NFL players give speeches after every session and it isn't just about the game, it is about leadership, community, academics and being a better person.
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November 9 – Happy Birthday Jerry Priddy
Robinson Cano is the latest in a long and illustrious line of great New York Yankee second basemen. The first was Hall of Famer Tony Lazzeri and then Joe Gordon. Later on, both Billy Martin and Bobby Richardson became All Stars for New York at that position, as did the great Willie Randolph. One name not on that list is Jerry Priddy and the late, great Phil Rizzuto was always astonished by that omission. Why? Because Scooter was Priddy's teammate and double-play partner during their climb through the Yankee's Minor League organization. During his days in the broadcast booth, Rizzuto would often tell listeners that Priddy had been a much better all-around player than he was and that he could not believe his Los Angeles-born former teammate did not make it big in pinstripes.
Priddy and Rizzuto were so good that when they joined the Yankees in 1941, Manager Joe McCarthy moved Gordon from second base to first so that the two rookies could take over the middle of New York's infield. Rizzuto held his own at short but Priddy struggled to hit big league pitching. The Yankees might have been more patient with a less cocky rookie, but Priddy was anything but. He told Gordon in spring training that he was a better second baseman than the future Hall of Famer so when he got off to a slow start, his veteran teammates offered no assistance, shed no tears and spared no criticism of the outspoken rookie.
Priddy hit just .213 in 56 games during that rookie season. He did better the following year, hitting .280 as Gordon's backup but when he complained about a lack of playing time, the Yankees decided to give up on their loud-mouthed prospect and traded him to Washington. He had a good year there and then spent the next three seasons in military service. When he returned, Jerry did evolve into one of the league's better second baseman, playing eleven seasons in all and averaging .265 lifetime. In the mean time, Scooter played himself into the Hall of Fame and was left wondering why his old teammate wasn't in there with him.
This outfielder put together a surprising .332 batting average for the Yankees during the strike-shortened 1994 season and was also born on November 9.
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This page is an open list for ideas related to Pardus for the 2009 edition of Google Summer of Code.
March 18-23: Would-be student participants discuss application ideas with mentoring organizations.
March 23: ~12 noon PDT / 19:00 UTC Student application period opens. [at Google]
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KDM Face Recognition Support
Description: Most modern laptops have webcams now. Face recognition authentication support could be integrated into KDE4. A pam plugin called pam-face-authentication is developed for GSoC 2008 as OpenSuse project. A trainer module needs to be written for KDE4 system-manager. Also face recognition support has to be integrated into KDM.
Requirements: C, Python, KDE, OpenCV, PAM knowledge
Mentors: Gökmen Göksel, Onur Küçük
- http://code.google.com/p/pam-face-authentication/
- http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/
OpenOffice.org Turkish Grammar Support
Description: Pardus integrated zemberek for Turkish spell checking wherever possible but there is no project to support grammar checking for Turkish language. This is also very needed for an Office Suite. There is a project called LanguageTool that can be used for this purpose.
Requirements: XML, Java
Mentors: Gökçen Eraslan
KDM Fingerprint support
Description: Most of the modern notebooks come with a fingerprint detection peripheral attached. These devices can be used for authentication in KDM and other areas of KDE. A program for identification to store user ids and and some patches to KDE to support this authentication system will be needed.
Requirements: C, Python, KDE, PAM knowledge, Fingerprint backend
Mentors: Gökçen Eraslan
Pulseaudio Manager for KDE4
Description: Fully KDE4 integrated Pulseaudio controlling system that can replace paprefs and pavucontrol applications.
Mentors: Ozan Çağlayan, Onur Küçük, Gökçen Eraslan
Bugzilla Applet for KDE4
Description: Bugzilla is a bug tracking system widely used by Pardus and several open source project like Mozilla, RedHat, KDE, etc. It would be nice if we have a simple KDE4 application which will popup after an application crashed and provide a way to send bug reports with needed tracing informations attached.
Mentors: Ozan Çağlayan, Gökçen Eraslan, Gökmen Göksel
- http://bugs.pardus.org.tr
- http://bugzilla.org
- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Apport
- https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/CrashCatcher
Web based image creation tool for Pardus
Description: The aim of this project is to create a web based application for building customized CDs and ready-to-run images for VMs. Web based UI and services can be built with Python. For image building backend, Pardusman - Pardus' own CD image creator which uses PiSi and COMAR frameworks - can be used as a starting point. Virtual machine (may be Parallels, VMware, Xen, Microsoft Virtual PC, QEMU, Usermode Linux, CoLinux, Virtual Iron, VirtualBox or other virtualization technology) image building parts are to be developed from scratch, while most of the installation or live media creation features are complete in Pardusman.
Requirements: Python, web based application development knowledge, general package management and virtualization knowledge
Mentors: Ekin Meroğlu, Ozan Çağlayan
- http://svn.pardus.org.tr/uludag/trunk/pardusman/
- http://www.nongnu.org/qemu/qemu-doc.html#SEC15 (QEMU image creation)
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The annual Lighting of Langley took place early Saturday evening at Langley Park, drawing hundreds of holiday-loving adults and children to enjoy singing Christmas songs and meeting Santa with two of his reindeer being impersonated by alpacas.
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- Saturday, December 15, 2012 at 7:30 p.m.
Sexy. Subversive. The ultimate femme fatale. Like an earthy spirit of decadence, her song blows the civilised sensibilities of the world apart.
Richard Strauss's Salome caused a sensation when it premiered in Europe in 1905. It has been shocking and enthralling audiences ever since. Now Gale Edwards, who thrilled audiences with her edgy and brilliant La bohème in 2011, directs a new production of Richard Strauss's explosive one-act opera, with sets by Brian Thomson and Simon Hewett conducting.
And who will play Salome?
Who else, but one of the world's leading interpreters of the great Strauss heroines, Cheryl Barker, recreating a role she first sang to great acclaim at London's English National Opera. With her is Thomas Hall as Jokanaan and a grand ensemble cast to people the court of Herod.
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Lapping up Briatore's Babes
DISGRACED Formula One boss Flavio Briatore may be licking his wounds right now.
But things can't be all bad when you have wife and Wonderbra model Elisabetta Gregoraci to turn to for comfort.
Elisabetta is a mere 30 years younger than her grey-haired hubby, 59.
In fact it turns out that Flabio sorry Flavio has been quite a hit with the ladies over the years and the former Renault chief has crossed the finishing line with a bevvy of international beauties.
Below we reveal the identity of his supermodel squeezes in his own very special starting grid.
Mariah Carey
The American songstress was treated to a private weekend on Mr B's yacht in Monaco for her 35th birthday in 2005.
Whatever floats your boat I guess.
Adriana Volpe
Italian model and TV regular Adriana Volpe is a mere 23 years younger than our F1 giant.
Rather unkindly she seems to be referred to in most celeb magazines as "best known as a former girlfriend" of you know who.
Linda Santaguida
Another Italian model and TV personality, who at 31 is nearly half the age of FB.
It was a briefs encounter.
Vanessa Kelly
This 35-year-old Australian fashion model tested Flavio's circuit in 2004.
Keeping up the Italian theme, she lived in Milan, became a TV personality on a show called Ciao Darwin" and also practised some woman to man marking with Italy striker Christian Vieri.
Valentina Micchetti
You get the picture by now. She's Italian, did a bit on TV, hangs around with famous celeb pals and enjoyed a few pitstops with our Italian stallion in 2005.
Elle MacPherson
One Elle of a catch for our podgy playboy.
Australian supermodel Elle 'The Body' Macpherson was seen accompanying Flavio 'The Gut' Briatore on several dinner dates.
Perhaps the most surprising thing about their relationship was that Elle is just 13 years younger than FB, the closest that any of the hot bods has got to being born in the same decade as the sprightly senior citizen
Naomi Campbell
Fab has a 20-year advantage over this English supermodel but actually did well to match the aptly nicknamed 'Black Panther' lap for lap for two years.
They eventually split in 2002 after rumours of a physical dust up, with the Streatham strutter announcing: "I'm not going to be a trophy!"
He may not have been able to tame her, but FB must know which part of her elegant tummy to tickle as he and Campbell, 39, remain friends to this day.
Heidi Klum
Here's the jaw dropper for those not in the know.
Not only did the German supermodel, 36, slip into all the right gear for our tubby womaniser in 2003, she gave birth to his daughter Helene in May 2004 in New York.
The couple split before Helene arrived after pictures were made public of fickle Flavio kissing jewellery heiress Fiona Swarovski.
Brit singer Seal stepped in to whisk Heidi away.
Elisabetta Gregoraci
This stunning Italian model replaced Eza Herzigova as the, er, 'face' of the Wonderbra campaign.
Elisabetta began her career as a dancer on Italian TV and was caught up in a scandal where it was alleged she offered sex to land a plum job.
On June 14, 2008 she managed something that none of Flavio's former squeezes had, by getting him to tie the knot in Rome. Their driver for the day was a certain Fernando Alonso.
Enjoy life in the fast lane Elisabetta.


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Many New Berlin School District employees will receive a one-time payment outside of the collective bargaining process, the New Berlin School Board decided Monday.
The board approved a 1.64 percent increase for the 2011-12 school year and a 1.86 percent increase for the current 2012-13 school year. Those who will receive the payment are current teachers, specialists, librarians, psychologists, counselors, therapists and special education paraprofessionals who worked for the district before this year. Payments are expected to be made early in 2013.
Board member Art Marquardt called the one-time payment an important way-station as the district works on a full compensation redesign. The compensation plan will be designed to recruit, retain and reward employees, and will form the basis of future compensation decisions.
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The staff works hard and the board wants to recognize that, said board member Tom David, who also noted that it will help them keep up with the cost of living.
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Thanks for the curse WW.....Sidneys Penguins go down and we don't have to see those pink lips the rest of the Spring.... Would be nice for the 8th seed to win the whole thing.
5-2 final! Montreal's goalie, Jaroslav Halak, has been UNBELIEVABLE! The Habs knock off the top seed in the East in game 7 for the second series in a row.
He's a Restricted Free Agent after this year, but I can't see Montreal letting him go. Carey Price is on the market though...
This is getting HABitual. It's a bad HABit. It's time to kick the HABit. Having Jammer post everytime the Habs win is bothersome. Particularly when he seldom posts on our Fantasy Hockey Forum.
I wouldn't say that. The western teams sure have a lot of stars but most of them are soft guys with a losers mentality or very young while on the other hand Philly got the Kevin Garnett of hockey - Prongs. This guy takes team after team to the SC final (even as lousy as Edmonton) and Philly really got their old Broad Street Bullies style back with him, Carcillo, Carter, Richards, Betts, Hartnell etc. It's not fun to play those guys night after night. Pretty funny with a 7th seed having home field advantage in the conference finals btw.
- Wings whipped Prong's azz so many times when he was with the Blues. Thats why he got run out of St.Louis, he just couldn't get it done. I'll take the Sharks....in 6 against a 7 or 8.
Not the smartest move by the Blues GM considering where St Louis been since they ran Pronger out because he couldn't get it done. (in a franchise were McInnis, Gretz and Hull couldn't get it done) The guy who couldn't get it done somehow went straight to the SC finals with the Oilers and after that won the cup with the Ducks and now has taken the eternal play off chokers Philly with the worst set of goalies I've seen to a lead in the conference finals. Ofcourse the western champs will be the favourite since they are the number one and two seeds but I would never discount the Flyers.
I'd like to see Philly win a title, they have come close so many times. I think Laviolette is a decent coach, I like guys like Gagne and Mike Richards.
Philly or Montreal works for me. I loved the tough Dave Scultz, Fred Shero, Bobby (Clark?) Flyers as a kid. Dont know why I picked Tampa as my other team a couple years ago. I guess because of Lecavalier. I should have picked another Philly team.
I'd like all of them to win. Philly for being Philly again, Habs since they would go crazy in Montreal, Sharks since I'd like one of my favourite players Jumbo Joe to lift a cup finally and Blackhaws because Hjalmarsson is from the same small town (Eksjö with 10k people) and team as me and they probably play the most entertaining hockey. The teams I didn't want to win are already out of it like Pens, Caps, Coyotes etc. Hard to pick one but if I have to cut it down I'd say Blackhawks - Flyers with Blackhawks winning the 7th game in OT with Hjalmars gamewinner.
Clearly the issue was more the Blues, than Prongs. remember that time we stopped his heart with a puck to his heart. face plant I'll take the Sharks in 6 only cause they'll take a game off.
Happiest Hockey player in the USA??? Marion Hossa!! No game 7 for him to sweat out this year after being on the losing end of game 7 the past two seasons with two different teams....


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SG - Hubert Davis, Tracy McGrady, Vinny del Negro
Scoring Options:
1.Hubert Davis
2. Lorenzen Wright
3. Shandon Anderson
Heat same
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TJ Ford - Allen Iverson - - Stromile Swift - Andrew Bynum
Bench: CJ Miles - Keith Bogans - Troy Murphy - Jamaal Tinsley
Seattle Supersonics
C - Antonio Davis - Scott Pollard - Felton Spencer
PF - Ruben Patterson - Antonio Davis - Tony Massenburg
SF - Shareef AbdurRahim - Ruben Patterson - Shareef AbdurRahim
SG - Ray Allen - Vonteego Cummings - Eric Snow
PG - Greg Anthony - Eric Snow - Vonteego Cummings
2. John Amaechi
3. Mark Karcher
Scoring Options:
1. Ray Allen
2. Shareef AbdurRahim
3. Ruben Patterson
Pace: Normal
Trap Frequency: Normal
Press Frequency: Normal
Offensive Focus: Balanced
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HR SIM LEAGUE SEATTLE SUPERSONICS 2005-2006Eye ******* depth charts since year 2000
Pg: Chris Paul Sg: Brandon Roy Sf: ??????? Pf: Dirk Nowitzki C: Alonzo Mourning
Pg: Steve Nash Sg: Manu Ginobili Sf: Nicolas Batum Pf: Paul Millsap C: Tim Duncan
C - Kelvin Cato, Brad Miller, Lawrence Funderburke
PF - Rasheed Wallace, Lawrence Funderburke, Laphonso Ellis
SF - George Lynch, Ryan Bowen, Laphonso Ellis
SG - Brent Barry, Cuttino Mobley, Eric Piatkowski
PG - Eric Murdock, Cuttino Mobley, Bobby Sura
Injured Reserve:
1. Sam Cassell
2. Antonio Harvey
3. Zan Tabak
Scoring Options:
1. Rasheed Wallace
2. Brent Barry
3. Kelvin Cato
Pace: Fast
Trap Frequency: Never
Press Frequency: Never
Offensive Focus: Inside
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Emeka Okafor - Al Jefferson - Carmelo Anthony - Manu Ginobili - Aaron McKie
Joe Smith - James Posey - Mateen Cleaves
76ers same
HR Sim League - Philadelphia 76er's (0-0)
Chauncey Billups | Jerry Stackhouse| Danny Granger| Kenyon Martin | Marcus Camby
C - -Oliver Miller- Duane Causwell- Dale Davis
PF - Aaron Williams- Duane Causwell- Duane Causwell
SF - Dan Majerle- Brian Cardinal- Rodney Rogers
SG -Lindsey Hunter- Dan Majerle- Doug Christie
PG - Anthony Johnson- Ron Harper- Anthony Johnson
1. Grant Hill
2. Stephon Marbury
3. Lamar Odom
Scoring Options:
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2. Lindesy Hunter
3. Oliver Miller
Pace: Very Slow
Trap Frequency: Normal
Press Frequency: Normal
Offensive Focus: Inside
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C - Vladimir Stephania - Vladimir Stephania - Matt Geiger
PF - Terry Mills - Jerome Williams - Terry Mills
SF - Tariq Abdul-Wahad - Terry Mills - Tariq Abdul-Wahad
SG - Drew Barry - Lucious Harris - Drew Barry
PG - Jason Hart -Matt Maloney - Jason Hart
1. John Stockton
2. Michael Finley
3. Bo Outlaw
Scoring Options:
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2. Drew Barry
3. Terry Mills
Pace: Normal
Trap Frequency: Often
Press Frequency: Often
Offensive Focus: Balanced
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2006-07 Season Record: 0-0
C Tyson Chandler | PF Antoine Walker | SF Shareef Abdur-Rahim | SG Tony Allen | PG Gilbert Arenas
Key Reserves: Channing Frye | Corliss Williamson
Just need to change my scoring options.
2.Dan Langhi
3.Desmond Mason
Washington Wizards: Depression Countdown : 4 days
C - Jelani McCoy - Bill Wennington - Christian Laettner
PF - Christian Laettner - Malik Rose - Mirsad Turkcan
SF - Scott Burrell - Isaiah Rider - Kobe Bryant
SG - Isaiah Rider - Greg Buckner - Kobe Bryant
PG - Jeff McInnis - Rafer Alston - Darrell Armstrong
1. Haywoode Workman
2. Ervin Johnson
3. Brian Grant
Scoring Options:
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2. Christian laettner
3. Jelani McCoy
Pace: Slow
Trap Frequency: Often
Press Frequency: Normal
Offensive Focus: Balanced
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HR Sim League - Washington Wizards
Season 1 - Eastern Conference Finals
Season 2 - NBA Champions
Season 3 - 1st Round
Season 4 - Eastern Conference Semifinals
Season 5 - Eastern Conference Semifinals
Orlando Magic
C - Will Purdue - Joel Pryzbilla - Rasho Nesterovich
PF - Hanno Mottola - Mark Madsen - Shawn Kemp - Jerome Moiso
SF - Hedo Turkoglu - Toni Kukoc
SG - Derek Anderson - Jim Jackson - Mike Smith
PG - Jacque Vaughn - Mike Bibby
Scoring Options:
1. Hanno Mottola
2. Jacque Vaughn
3. Hedo Turkoglu
Pace: Normal
Trap Frequency: Often
Press Frequency: Never
Offensive Focus: Outside
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C: Luc Longley - Jim McIlvaine - illgauskas
Pf: Anthony miller - chris strong - webber
Sf: Chris porter - Tyrone Corbin - Marshall
Sg: tony Delk - Chris Carr - Eddie house
Pg: Eddie house - Strickland - Williams
Scoring options
1. Delk
2. House
3. Miller
I'm out of town and may not be able to post dc tomorrow after sim. So can I either revert to weeks 21 and 22 dc after this one if I can't use my same dc for this sim and next
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HR Sim League Boston Celtics - 2002 World Champions
C: Shaquille O'Neal / Josh Boone
PF: Chris Webber / Jamie Feick
SF: Grant Hill / Josh Childress
SG: J.J. Reddick / David Wesley
PG: Sam Cassell / Steve Blake
C - Theo Ratliff - Andrew Lang - Calvin Booth
PF - Charles Oakley - Alan Henderson - Alan Henderson
SF - Walt Williams - Sean Elliot - Walt Williams
SG - Steve Smith - Jason Terry - Jason Terry
PG - Steve Francis - Earl Boykins - Marko Jaric
1.Popeye Jones
2.Johnny Newman
3. Fred Vinson
Scoring Options:
1.Steve Francis
2.Steve Smith
3.Theo Ratliff
Trap Frequency:Never
Press Frequency:Normal
Offensive Focus: Outside
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"I want ONLY 9 eyebrows in the starting lineup for the Hornets next year." I typed this before the draft lottery
*Updated my Depth Chart* I wish I was in the playoffs...*sigh* lol
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SIM! not more excuses like work. I kid I kid.
Lol I'm off today, just giving people a little more time. Don't want to hear anyone complain because I simmed without their dc.
gonna change my scoring options again. I wanna see how well Shaq does if he isn't my # 1 option.
1. Dan Langhi
2. Shaq
3. Dan Langhi
What time will it be? I'm always anxious on sim days. Especially this week is important for seeding purposes.
I actually am fighting for seeding, but i rested my starters. Not scared of anyone really, but I think my guys are not playing well due to being tired. We shall see! 4th of July playoffs oh yeah oh yeah
I thought about resting my startes, especially since Cassell got blurred vision in the last sim, but I'm tied for the 2nd seed right now and my team is only 15-25 on the road while going 30-9 at home so far. Big difference. I did put Cassell on IR this week, but that's about it. I hope I don't regret leaving Rasheed and Cato on the court, but I think home court through the 1st two rounds is important. Plus, I want to see how my gameplan works.
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Chris Beattie/Staff Photo -- Emerson Process Management officials and McKinney city representatives break ground at a ceremony Tuesday afternoon marking the start of construction of Emerson's Regulator Technologies global headquarters at the Gateway site in McKinney.
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McKinney took a more imprinting step Tuesday, right on the heels of the first step in several years toward continuing the long-awaited Gateway development.
Emerson Process Management's Regulator Technologies broke ground on its $25 million global headquarters on the north end of the Gateway site, at the U.S. Highway 75 and Sam Rayburn Tollway interchange.
"This Emerson project is a perfect example of how we are growing the community in a positive way," Mayor Brian Loughmiller said to a crowd of city staff, board members and Emerson employees gathered at the site. "We've been waiting a long time to do something with this site...and this site is primed for premier development activity as we work towards the vision for the city of McKinney."
Last month, the city approved a new plan to finish the hotel-conference center at the front of the site, marked by a partly finished structure for about four years now. City staff and developers are finalizing agreements before construction continues on that project.
The Regulator Technologies facility will include offices, a customer-training center and a fitness center for about 130 employees in engineering, research and development, marketing, sales, finance and procurement.
Emerson Process Management, which currently operates in a 55-year-old former manufacturing plant about six miles north of Gateway, delivers automation and process-control technologies and services to oil and gas, power, refining, chemical and other industries around the world.
Its Regulator Technologies business offers more pressure regulator and relief-valve solutions than any other manufacturer, according to a company release.
The new headquarters will feature test and evaluation labs, including those for new metals/materials-testing and vibration-testing, and a "flow lab" that showcases its products.
The flow lab will consist of large, rechargeable tanks -- their capacity equal to that of two Olympic-size swimming pools -- that will run 14 flow-line pipes ranging from two to 16 inches in diameter.
"Imagine putting air equal to the exhaust of a 737 jet engine," said Randy Page, business unit president for Regulator Technologies. "That's the kind of velocity we're going to have going through those flow lines -- some pretty impressive stuff."
As the Gateway site's northern anchor, the facility is expected to bring in more than $16 million in tax revenue over the next decade, according to a recent economic analysis by Duff & Phelps.
It's the latest installment for a company that has economically and socially partnered with McKinney for 50 years. Emerson last year made close to $200,000 in donations to education, community welfare and arts institutions, such as the McKinney Education Foundation, The Samaritan Inn, McKinney Performing Arts Center, McKinney Food Pantry and Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of Collin County.
"They have stepped up every time they have been asked to step up in this community and to be a partner in philanthropic projects," Loughmiller said Tuesday.
Before city and company representatives, donning hard hats and shovels, ceremonially broke ground, they emphasized why Emerson chose the Gateway site for its new headquarters.
"It's extremely fitting that we have Emerson as part of this," Keith Clifton, McKinney Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) chair, said of Gateway. "Here you have a college that anchors us on one corner, then you have a 50-year corporate citizen that's anchoring (another) corner."
Larry Flatt, group vice president for Regulator Technologies, said the facility represents a long-term commitment to drive Emerson's global expansion out of McKinney, where the company recognized skilled workers, access to auto and aero transportation, strong education and health care systems, and proximity to the D-FW Metroplex.
"McKinney has created an overall environment that is conducive both to a community that can grow and thrive, but also one that is supportive of business," he said.
Likely to grow hand-in-hand with the rest of the site, for which the city has high expectations, Emerson shares such a vision for its newest development: to be "the undisputed global leader" in its industry, Page said.
Its most entrenched step yet toward that vision has again broken the ground at Gateway.
"As I tell people every time they come into McKinney," Loughmiller said, "if you haven't been here in the last six months, and you come in the next six months, it's going to look completely different."
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0 Grapevine Volume 3, Issue 4 " a paper for the people" April 1996 Renda Townsend, Assistant Directorof theGreentown Public Library, was presented with roses by the cast of " Murder of the Loaded Librarian" on March 9, 1996. The gift was in appreciation for her hard work as Director of the production'. Photo by R. Jenkins More pictures on pages 10 & 11. Shelter from the Storm Over a year ago the First Baptist Church, 224 E. Main St., Greentown,- offered their basement as a shelter if needed. The facility was utilized the evening of March 20 following a wide- spread power , outage in much of Howard County. A particularly heavy snow on the evening of March 19 along with high winds " put out the lights" around midnight. Robert Norris of PSI Energy reports that the sub station on Maple Street ( SR 213) was down, causing loss of power to 3,200 customers. A portable sub station was brought in and power was restored to all but about 800 within a few hours. The portable sub station was still being used on March 22 while the facility was being Logo Design Sought To Honor 150 Years - of Greentown History Here is your chance to go down in history while helping with a celebration of Greentown's history. The Greentown SesquicentennhlCommitteek offering a contest that will establish an official logo, seal, or insignia for the Greentown Sesquicentennial, which will be observed June 11- 14,1998. The logo will be used on publicity and on souvenirs, such as coins, plates, clothing, etc. GREENTOWN SESQUICENTENNIAL LCZO CONTEST 1. The contest is open to anyone. 2. There is no limit to the number of entries one person can make. 3. The logo must contain the words " Creentown, Indiana" and the years 1848- 1998. It may also include other words such as " sesquicentennial '' and " 150 years ", and graphics. 4. The only colors to be used are green, black and white. 5. All entries mast be submitted in black and white with color placement indicated on a second copy. Size of paper must be 8" x 10" or 9" x 12". 6. AI1 entries become the property of the Creentown Sesquicentennial , Committee once they are submitted. 7. The decision of the judges will be final. 8. The contestants will relinquish all ownership rights whatsoever to their entry once it is submitted for judging. ' 9. There will be no mnetary compensation - just the honor! 10. Entries are to be sent to Creentown Sesquicentennial Committee, PO Box 313, Greentown, IN 46936. Name, address, and phone number of contestant must be included. 11. Deadline for receipt of entlsies is July 1,1996. No entries will be accepted after that date. Recommendations: The design should be simple to allow for reproduction in various sizes. The design might tell a historic story and depict progress. Note: The history of Liberty, Jackson and Union Twps. will be part of the event, as well as the town of Creentown. repaired. Late afternoon of the 20th, when the need was known, the Eastern Howard Emergency Service and the Church decided to open the shelter. The EHES provided cots, blankets, pillows and sheets. The Church provided food ( courtesy of The Pizza Place) and supervisory assistance. The availability of the shelter was made known by means of the radio stations WWK'L 1 Elections to Be and WZWZ. Seven persons took advantage of the shelter. The storm ( which arrived on the first day of Spring) made road travel quite difficult and closed or delayed schools. Strong winds again caused power outages in the area the night of March 24, delaying school two hours. Tuesday May 7 Voters in the Primary Elections in Eastern School District will also have the opportunity to elect three School Board members. Hours and locations of the polls will be listed in the next Grapevine, which will be published April 30.
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Title | The Greentown Grapevine – 1996-04, 03:04 |
Subject | newspapers |
Subject, Local | Greentown, Howard County (Ind.) |
Item Type | newspaper |
Technical Metadata | Digital images captured by Imaging Office Systems 2008 |
Item ID | im-kokomo-news-greentown-1996-04 |
Local Item ID | Greentown History Center – newspaper collection |
Usage Statement | The Greentown Area Residential Association has granted permission to the Kokomo-Howard County Public Library and the Greentown Historical Society to copy any and all issues of the Greentown Grapevine. Permission granted to view and print items from this digital collection for personal use, study, research, or classroom teaching. |
Date Original | 1996-04 |
Date Digital | 2008 |
Publisher | Greentown Area Residential Association, 1993- |
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Local News depicting eastern Howard County in Indiana. Headlines: Logo Design Sought To Honor 150 Years of Greentown History; Shelter from te Storm; Elections to Be Tuesday May 7 |
Language | en |
Contributors | Kokomo-Howard County Public Library; Greentown Historical Society |
Source | Original newspaper: The Greentown Grapevine, April 1996, Volume 03, Issue 04 |
Transcript | [PDFs are fully searchable] |


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Design Article
Efficient amplification for real-world audio
James Lewis, HiWave Technologies
Consumers generally cherish a warm sound from their audio systems but they are becoming less patient with the physical warmth generated by wasted electricity from their power amplifiers and active speakers.
In contrast to the relentless pace of development in digital signal processing for audio enhancement and compression, amplifier design has been much slower in evolving and has not seen the same order of power-efficiency gains. But consumers are demanding more convenience, not just from portable audio devices where battery life is a prime concern, but from home systems too.
Wireless speaker systems are becoming more common as they give home users more flexibility on placement without worrying about the mess caused by thick speakers cables. Yet these still require power cables as the efficiency of existing amplifier circuits gives a very limited battery life.
The shift to digitally stored media on portable devices, such as laptops, phones and tablet PCs, has also led to an increased demand for USB driven and wireless speakers which don't rely on an additional mains power supply. However, the USB port's 5V, 2.5W output – and wireless speakers battery constraints - places a hard limit on the power such speakers can draw, meaning amplifier efficiency has become a prime concern in this audio-system design.
Although the range of amplifier topologies available to designers has expanded in recent years they still largely fall into a few broad classes of architecture. Many of them are based on traditional linear circuit designs rather than more efficient switched topologies.
The traditional amplifier
The simplest amplifier topology, Class A, boasts the greatest theoretical linearity; but this comes at a price. Current always flows through the output devices, and most of the power drawn is wasted, indeed its maximum efficiency is just 20%.
To rectify this the Class B topology is split into two halves, with the output devices of each only conducting for one half of a cycle – one in the positive, the other in the negative region of a cycle. This improves the best-case efficiency to 50% but the switching between positive and negative states tends to introduce distortion.
A third topology, Class AB, allows both halves to conduct as the signal nears the crossover point. This reduces Class B's non-linearity with comparatively little loss in overall power efficiency.
Class AB remains one of the most commonly used audio system topologies, but recent years have seen it being supplanted by Class D amplifiers. This is particularly true in battery-powered systems as this class of amplifier can, in theory, provide much higher best-case efficiencies.
Class D topologies operate the output transistors as binary switches, delivering either the full output voltage or 0V. Switching occurs at non-audible frequencies – typically 300kHz to 2MHz – and generates a train of electrical pulses, the width of each corresponding to the input audio signal. A low-pass filter after the output stage turns the PWM signal into a smoothed, audio-range output. This switching topology enables Class D amplifiers to reach efficiencies of more than 90%.
However, this apparently high efficiency is only reached in artificial circumstances: with a fully sinusoidal input and when the volume is turned up so high it is practically at the clipping point. Under typical usage conditions Class D amplifiers see single digit efficiencies, with much of the input power still being wasted as heat and little realistic improvement over Class AB.
This wastage can be seen in Figure 1, with efficiency only approaching 90% at the very top of the power output range. Even with the volume turned up to maximum only the very strongest peaks will be created at close to 90% power efficiency, for all other outputs switching losses begin to dominate.
Tony Casey
This article contains an number of errors. The theoretical maximum efficiency of a class A amplifier is 25% for a singled-ended stage, and 50% for a push-pull stage. Similarly, it can be shown that the maximum efficiency of a class B output stage is about 78%.
I believe there are some significant infringement issues here, considering John French's class HD patents.
In fairness to the author, he is rightly pointing out that maximum efficiency is pretty much irrelevant, certainly in audio-type applications.
He's also rightly pointing out that class-D isn't necessarily as efficient in real-world applications as the marketing/hype would suggest.
In the real world, class-G, especially with the inner transistors in class-B, can be surprisingly efficient and vastly lower distortion than any class-D.
FWIW, various combinations of class-D and switched/pumped/tracking supplies have been around for decades in things like loud-audio radio-pagers.


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- Premiere franchise brings its popular Play, Create, Share offering to the PS Vita system with a whole new LittleBigPlanet adventure for Sackboy that can be enjoyed on the go, anytime, anywhere.
- Introducing new ways to Play, including front & rear touch control and much more.
- Share the fun with new multiplayer modes, including pass'n'play, multi-touch, and online gaming.
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Published: 20/12/2012
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- Rich, interesting levels
- Powerful editor
- Creative use of Vita's features
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- Some slowdown during level creation
- Familiar structure
Published: 20/09/2012
Carnival Time
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And much like the gameplay, level creation will be more varied than ever before, as all of the existing tools from LBP 2 will be available with added PS Vita functionality. Users will be able to select and place items on-screen with simple finger taps, and rotate or resize them with pinches.
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Paddock, 58, who won three AHL Calder Cup championships as a head coach and rather successfully served as a head coach with two different NHL teams, has been reassigned from the role of assistant general manager to assistant coach.
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"At bench level, everything happens very fast," said Paddock, who won two Calders as a player and three as a coach, which earned him a spot in the AHL Hall of Fame. "So during the game you have a little different perspective and a better view."
From another angle, however, the view of this situation doesn't seem so clear. Laviolette had Craig Berube, Kevin McCarthy and legendary scorer Joey Mullen as assistants, along with goaltending coach Jeff Reese. That's usually as full as it gets when it comes to a hockey staff.
But Holmgren indicated the compacted schedule might force a little different coaching take, with different units on the ice at different times, perhaps requiring more instruction. Whatever works.
With Paddock and Terry Murray, currently overseeing the Adirondack Phantoms, Laviolette has a wealth of veteran head coaching experience ... well, breathing down his neck.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
"It just made sense to utilize him in that way and in his knowledge and experience as a coach both in that way and in our meetings," Laviolette said of Paddock.
As in many other NHL places, however, Laviolette's situation is rock solid after signing a three-year contract extension in the summer. He maintains a healthy working relationship with general manager Holmgren, and has also had a successful run in Philadelphia, turning around a lackluster team in December 2009 and leading it to the Cup finals in 2010.
Then, well, the past two springs have been less successful, with two straight conference semifinal playoff outsters.
So be it. It's a new ... half a year. The Flyers, with a young team that can boast of plenty of forward talent, have to think they at least have a shot at a Stanley Cup.
So why not pull out all the stops, both on the ice ... and up in the coaches box at press level?
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