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U.S. Home Building Gains, New Permits FallNEW YORK - Home building rose in April, government figures showed on Tuesday, as activity was possibly spurred by an $8,000 government tax credit for new buyers. But the data suggested that builders might also be slowing down their future construction plans. The Commerce Department said work started on 672,000 homes in April, up 5.8 percent from March. It was the ...Published over 8 years ago |
House approves $1.1 trillion spending measureWASHINGTON (AP) - Democrats are muscling through a deficit-swelling spending bill, giving domestic programs their third major boost this year and awarding lawmakers with more than 5,000 home-state projects. The House voted 221-202 Thursday to pass the 1,088-page, $1.1 trillion measure _ combining $447 billion in operating budgets with about $650 billion in payments for federal benefit programs such as Medicare ...Published almost 9 years ago |
At Hearing on Future of Postal Service, No Lack of DespondencyA congressional hearing on the future of the U.S. Postal Service can be one depressing experience. The sky outside the Rayburn House Office Building was bright Thursday morning, but it was all gloom and doom in Room 2154. Members of a Committee on Oversight and Government Reform panel explored novel ways the Postal Service might pull itself from deep debt -- ...Published about 9 years ago |
Tenn. Valley Authority Union Joins Larger Engineers FederationAn independent engineers union at the Tennessee Valley Authority voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to affiliate with the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers. The Engineering Association, which represents scientists, engineers, technicians and other white-collar workers at TVA, voted 856 to 88 in favor of joining IFPTE. The association approached IFPTE after an internal deliberation about whether to join a larger ...Published about 9 years ago |
For Feds, More Get 6-figure SalariesThe number of federal workers earning six-figure salaries has exploded during the recession, according to a USA TODAY analysis of federal salary data. Federal employees making salaries of $100,000 or more jumped from 14% to 19% of civil servants during the recession's first 18 months — and that's before overtime pay and bonuses are counted. Federal workers are enjoying an extraordinary ...Published almost 9 years ago |
Army Post Shooting Rampage Leaves 13 Dead, 30 HurtFORT HOOD, Texas – Soldiers who witnessed the shooting rampage at Fort Hood that left 13 people dead reported that the gunman shouted "Allahu Akbar!" before opening fire, the base commander said Friday. Lt. Gen. Robert Cone said officials had not yet confirmed that the suspected shooter, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, made the comment, which is Arabic for "God is great!" ...Published about 9 years ago |
Pay & Benefits Watch: Benefits BreakthroughsFederal employees are set to receive smaller raises than they've become accustomed to, and lawmakers failed to secure civilians the same pay hike as their military counterparts next year. But despite that setback, 2009 was a big year for federal pay and benefits. Congress passed long-delayed changes to federal benefits policy and rolled back the Pentagon's controversial pay-for-performance system. A new ...Published almost 9 years ago |
Postal Service Eyes Options Beyond Layoffs and BuyoutsThe U.S. Postal Service must look for new ways to generate revenue beyond simply reducing its workforce, said lawmakers and witnesses during a House hearing on Thursday. Employee layoffs are not the only solution to digging the agency out of debt, said Rep. Stephen Lynch, D-Mass., chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform's federal workforce subcommittee. "It would be a ...Published about 9 years ago |
Fed Stimulus Plan Funded over 11.5K MA Jobs in Q1BOSTON - Federal stimulus funds directly funded 11,692 jobs in Massachusetts during the first three months of the year, according to newly released federal data. That's up from 9,474 jobs in the fourth quarter of last year, indicating some additional stimulus projects in Massachusetts have started ramping up hiring. Nationally, the government says 682,779 jobs were directly funded by the awards ...Published over 8 years ago |
Federal Intern Program Blasted as Undermining Open Market HiringWASHINGTON, DC - If you think the word "intern" refers just to the legions of eager young folks who descend on Washington each summer, providing cheap labor by day and guzzling beer at night, think again. When Uncle Sam talks about interns, he might mean the college students who get a few months of valuable on-the-job experience, but he also could ...Published over 8 years ago |
Obama Executive Order Targets Payment ErrorsFederal agencies soon will be required to create dashboards on their Web sites tracking the amount of money they have spent on improper payments, under a new directive from President Obama. The executive order -- which Office of Management and Budget Director Peter R. Orszag previewed last week -- is aimed at increasing the transparency and public scrutiny of payments to ...Published almost 9 years ago |
Officials Pledge to Fix Federal Hiring ProcessApplying for a job with the federal government can be a miserable experience. Announcements of vacancies are often written in arcane, incomprehensible jargon; applications can stretch for dozens of pages; one branch of an agency might not have any idea of the hiring needs of a second branch. This is not the opinion of jilted job-seekers. Instead, it was the frank ...Published about 9 years ago |
Feds, Retailers Flooded With Job ApplicationsWASHINGTON - From federal government clerk positions to grocery store cashiers, the competition for jobs is phenomenal. Applications for all types of positions are flooding in. "We are pretty much overwhelmed with the number of applications that we are receiving for every job posting," says Deputy Associate Director of the Center for Talent and Capacity Policy at the U.S. Office of ...Published about 9 years ago |
Obama is First President to Freeze Locality PayPresident Obama plans to freeze locality pay rates at 2009 levels for civilian federal employees in 2010, a move that has prompted protests from government employee groups. In a letter sent to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Vice President Joe Biden on Monday, Obama said federal employees nationwide would receive a 2 percent increase in their base pay in 2010, ...Published almost 9 years ago |
Democrats Vow to Close Medicare 'Doughnut Hole'WASHINGTON (AP) -- It's an annual ordeal for many seniors living on a budget. Medicare's coverage gap for prescription drugs - $3,610 next year - has steadily gotten bigger since the benefit's inception. But if Democrats have their way on health care overhaul, the dreaded "doughnut hole" will shrink by $500 right away and go away altogether by 2019. With ...Published almost 9 years ago |
Military 'Mentor' Pay a Main Factor in Review of ProgramWASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Robert Gates' decision announced Wednesday to order a review of the Pentagon's payments to retired senior officers for their advice was prompted in part by how much these "mentors" get paid. A USA TODAY review found: • The Navy pays its mentors an average of about $330 per hour, including expenses, according to its budget. • The ...Published almost 9 years ago |
Pay and Benefits: Watch Tax TrapMost people who have earned a paycheck probably have discovered that the federal income tax withholding formula can be complicated. But changes to withholding stemming from the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act are causing even more head-scratching than usual this year, both inside and outside the federal workforce. "When the tables first came out, there was a flurry of questions," ...Published almost 9 years ago |
OMB Will Create New Performance Management Framework for AgenciesThe Office of Management and Budget is developing a new federal performance management framework, the government's chief performance officer told lawmakers on Thursday. The approach will incorporate elements from other initiatives, including the Bush administration's Performance Assessment Rating Tool and the 1993 Government Performance and Results Act, OMB's Jeff Zients told a Senate subcommittee. "Our governmentwide performance measurement framework will be ...Published about 9 years ago |
Withdrawal of TSA nominee raises concern about agency workforceThe lack of permanent leadership at the Transportation Security Administration is delaying action on several agency personnel issues, union leaders and other observers said on Wednesday. "TSA has a number of issues that continue to contribute to its high attrition rate and low workforce morale," said Colleen Kelley, president of the National Treasury Employees Union, in a statement. "Many of these ...Published almost 9 years ago |
States Look to Cheap Credit to Avoid Spending CutsState governments are rushing to borrow money to take advantage of cheap and plentiful credit at a time when tax collections are tumbling. Investors, lured by the safety of taxpayer-guaranteed debt, are lending states money at the lowest interest rates in decades. The borrowing has helped governments increase spending during the recession and avoid some painful spending cuts. Lower interest rates ...Published about 9 years ago |


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St. Marys GA Real Estate
St. Marys has been described at different times over
the centuries as a bustling seaport, a sleepy tourist resting place, or a strategic military location. Shrimp Boats close to the Georgia-Florida state line (on Route 40, off Interstate 95), it is located on the St. Marys River, within six miles of the Atlantic Ocean. It served as Camden County's seat from 1869 until 1923. Today many of its residents earn their livelihood by catering to the tourists who visit the St. Marys National Historic District, which includes beautiful nineteenth-century buildings, offices, and shops and the Oak Grove Cemetery. According to the 2000 U.S. census, the population is 13,761.
Established on the site of an abandoned Timucuan Indian village, Tlathlothlaguphta, St. Marys sits on land confiscated from two brothers of royal governor James Wright. Their Royalist sympathies resulted in their banishment after the American Revolution (1775-83) and the loss of their huge estates. First Presbyterian ChurchThe history of the town's name is not clear. Accounts differ regarding the origin of the name itself—some say it is named after the St. Marys River, while others say it comes from a seventeenth-century Spanish mission, Santa Maria, on nearby Amelia Island, Florida. After the departure of its royalist owners, the land belonged to Jacob Weed, an early planter and state legislator. Weed sold 1,672 acres along the St. Marys River to nineteen other men, and the twenty laid out the new town together in 1788. Early maps show the streets were 100 feet wide, interspersed with two 16-acre public squares.
St. Marys was established by an act of the state legislature on December 5, 1792. Wartime Involvement The strategic location of St. Marys on the Atlantic Coast just above Florida led to its involvement in several of the major military conflicts in U.S. history. Troops were sent from New York to the area during the American Revolution. It was captured by the British during the War of 1812 (1812-15), and Union gunboats shelled its waterfront buildings during the Civil War (1861-65).
Its military connections have continued with the establishment of Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base. Shipbuilding, important in the town's earliest days, again gained importance in the twentieth century. The opening of Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base in 1979 brought with it a healthy infusion of new residents to complement the hospitality industry-based population. As of 2002 the Kings Bay workforce included more than 9,000 military and civilian personnel.
As a growing retirement and bedroom community, St. Marys developed its current tourist economy. Calling itself "The Gateway to Cumberland Island," the town is the departure point for those taking the ferry (the only transportation) to the Cumberland Island National Seashore. St. Marys is now well known as an ecotourism center, with a reputation for being friendly to newcomers, whether they are settling or just visiting.
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Awesome news for all of you Santa Claw addicts…The Santa Claw is coming back!
Gizmodo invited The Santa Claw to be part of this year's Gizmodo Gallery in NYC, which features some of the wildest devices they've blogged about on their site. In case you aren't familiar with Gizmodo, it is THE gadget blog, covering nearly everything in the gadget and technology world. So, you can see why we're super excited and honored to be a part of their gallery.
As you might remember, last year we built (yep—from scratch) the world's largest remote-controlled claw game and then invited people from all over to log on and play. The response was overwhelming; over 330,000 people visited, and some waited in line for eight hours for their turn to play. And, in the end, we shipped out over 4,000 prizes to our winners. It was amazing and so much fun for us.
So in case you missed it the first time around or have missed playing for the last 6 months, you can log on December 5–10 and play The Santa Claw.
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How about this for a challenge?
Four over 70's in two Suzuki Jimnys are about to embark on one hellava drive – a circumnavigation of the world in four months. As if that's not enough of a challenge, there will be no luxury and no frills, just four old guys, one a BIG tent and doubtless … a lot of snoring!
Entitled "The Ultimate Challenge" they will be raising funds for a new charity – "Heaven Can Wait I'm Busy" – supporting local and national organisations. As they themselves say, "the idea is to prove that age is no barrier when it comes to getting up and getting on with living life and giving something back to society".
Departing at the end of this month (March) they will of course also gratefully accept any donation of whatever size towards their sizeable fuel/ferry costs.
They've got a sponsorship idea going whereby, for the princely sum of £5, you can have your name (or company name) "displayed on a vehicle that will travel around the world".
See http://www.heavencanwaitimbusy.com/roll-of-honour.html
Departing at the end of this month (March) they will of course also gratefully accept any donation of whatever size towards their sizeable fuel/ferry costs.
After the event they will be auctioning off the Jimnys. To this end, I have offered them a free promotional pitch at ADVENTURE OVERLAND … The 4x4, Bike & Trekking Travel Show at Stratford Racecourse 28-29 September 2013 where hopefully they can raise a goodly amount for the vehicles (TBC).
Personally, I think they're barking mad as 26,000+ miles in a Suzuki Jimny would test the patience of a fit 25-year old, so fair play to them for setting the bar so high. Hence this appeal on their behalf, as I reckon they are going to need all the help they can get – and what better then raising a stack of cash for their charity? Now that's a great incentive!


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NBC debuted their new fantasy-adventure series, Merlin, last night. Did many people tune in to watch this new take on an old tale? Will it be allowed to run its course or has the magic tale failed to excite viewers?
Merlin stars Colin Morgan as a young sorcerer who arrives in Camelot, a city where magic has been outlawed by King Uther Pendragon (Anthony Head). While there, Merlin learns that he has an important part to play in the future of Camelot and residents like Prince Arthur (Bradley James), maid Guinevere (Angel Coulby), and seer Morgana (Katie McGrath). Others in the cast include Bionic Woman's Michelle Ryan, Richard Wilson, and John Hurt as the voice of The Great Dragon. Read more
This BBC series shows the dramatic outcomes of living in a land of myth and a time of magic, putting a new spin on the story of the famous sorcerer Merlin (Colin Morgan). Set in the Kingdom of Camelot, the story follows young Merlin's dangerous journey as he, a young prince Arthur (Bradley James) and other characters come face to face with legendary and fantastical foes and forces. Merlin originally aired on BBC-1.moreless


text: Greetings! Well , a year and a half on I finally get round to doing this thread ! As the 'other bounty hunters' section seemed to have disappeared when I came to post I first did this mammoth build thread on my usual hangout GALACTICKNIGHTS.CO.UK ...now its time to post it where I always wanted to ....here goes... As some of you may know ,IG was born on the dark and stormy night of 27th feb 2011,.. .ok it wasnt that stormy ...just dark ... It was a late finish as Crewe militaire was on the next day and this was his first gig in deployable form. It was something like 1am when I finished the weathering the night before the show ...So ,I'll attempt to explain how I had another large droid shaped 'accident'...may take a while .....here goes...are you sitting comfortably? - - - Updated - - - this is pretty much all the printed reference for the Igster ...basically there aint much about less than 5 usable shots in total . As some will know , there are no shots of his back and the only shots of the droid as we know him are on the stardestroyer set . The appearance of the white IG in the scrap room on Bespin had bothered me so I dug out my copy of 'the making of the E.S.B.' Its a few years since I read up on it but I think it stated the Bespin scene was shot at the start of April and the stardestroyer scene shot in the 20's of the month . Also the IG in Bespin is NOT complete , non of the familiar greeblies are on the head . Also the entire thing is sprayed white ...even the bandolier .Could this be related to Fetts white incarnation? This also proved that the IG we know and love is painted and not a bare metal finish , also when I did get to play with a real DERWENT combustion chamber it was a very dull ,flat ,oxidized grey . For those that dont know , a few years back IG's head part was identified as a combustion chamber /can annular burn chamber from the engine of a glouscester meteor , a british jet from the 40's/50's...not to ramble on into to much aviation history detail here . I first found out about it when , during a troop at MAGNA science centre years ago a trooper I knew showed me what him and the group had noticed that day ,a derwent engine on display there as a cutaway !...I said 'so'...then he said 'turn your head sideways '.....I dropped my lunch! ..it was full of IG heads! , 9 to be exact . Deciding that they were to well fixed to pinch one of , I left the project for a while . Thing was though , NOW we have the size ! Next , a trip to pester me old mate Arnie , blackmailed him into scanning a large ,front on image of IG from the back of an ESB poster mag. This is then printed in colour on A3 and tiled and printed in black and white on a small pile of A4 paper ,the size having been determined by knowing the height of the derwent (IG head). Stick these together and we have a **** good idea what everything else measures While I was researching IG ,I went to see a contact at an aircraft salvage company and asked if they could identify any of IG's bits .... The only real thing they said was that his 'limbs looked like aircraft jacks' They did however rattle off LOADS of stuff they'd seen in places like the Falcon internal sets ...I wish I'd taped it ! 2 conclusions I came to about the IG prop at this time ...1 ,it was made from predominantly available aircraft scrap/salvage parts and weighed a load ...and 2nd ...I believe it had been dismantled /disposed of after filming . There has been no sign of anything IG related in any archive pictures I have seen so this is probably the case . Basically Star Wars is the ultimate recycling film (whole original trilogy), things were rented for filming and returned to prop stores after , this is true for most of the weapons . I needed a cheap, lightweight droid which like Roger would dismantle for storage and transport to gigs in a car so using original parts got kinda ruled out . The only piece I would have had trouble building from scratch was the derwent and once I'd acquired a fibreglass cast from an actual one I was rolling on the project! - - - Updated - - - At the same time I started fiddling with the head I started at the other end as well with the feet . As with Roger this was to be a free standing prop ,also I was short of room to build so being able to build him as he stood was appealing , ...so I needed feet . These I make as heavy as possible , the shell is MDF ... Then I started the 'justified ' joint for the ankle ..A compromise that looked like what is familiar but looked as though it would actually ,mechanically work .This was partly because I'm picky but also because I have an idea ...more later on that.. BTW the size for the foot was determined from the new hasbro IG88,..as you may know , like 2IB ,IG88 has no actual feet , the feet we know are devised by the toy co. I measured them and multiplied by 6 (1/6th figure) Like I say ,to lower the centre of gravity and keep the figure stable I keep all the weight I can in the feet and from the knees up strip out as much weight as possible .So the feet get the side cavitys filled with plaster of paris mixed with a bit of external grade PVA glue ... goes hard as a bullet . these were filled in stages to aid drying and avoid expansion damage.... these then got left till later on in the build when I finalised the design of the full fake ankle joint . With this done the feet needed modification .. this made it look like a viable joint again . Then ,topped up with plaster , it was time to contour the inside of the foot ..


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Documentary film, laws and regulations, petitions against pokies – and it's not the full list of news highlighted in mass media during the last month. Is the government going to ban pokies?
A new documentary film about addictive influence of real money pokies has been recently released on TV. Ka-Ching: Pokie Nation reveals the mechanism how and why the poker machines were programmed to lure and manipulate the gamblers. They are rigged, they are addictive and they are everywhere. And now you can find lots of active discussions aimed to prohibit pokies.
Liked #KaChing #PokieNation the doco? Show your support & donate at https://t.co/eXbnBnwaz6 to help take the film further #pokies
— LookingGlassPictures (@lgpictures) October 23, 2015
But is it really the best solution to curb the harm caused by pokies? Every year Australians spend about $12 billion playing electronic gambling machines, with 400,000 problem gamblers – 65% of whom are addicted to pokies. But it's not so easy to prohibit pokies as the governments are addicted by money from gambling. For instance, in Victoria about 10% of the entire tax takes goes from poker machines. So, will politicians ban it? The question is how to minimize the harm caused by addiction. In this regard, regulation and laws are far better ways to reduce the misery.
A few years ago an independent Tasmanian MP Andrew Wilkie offered to reduce the amounts that could be bet on poker machines as well as limit the amount an individual could lose in a session of gambling. Such measures can improve the situation if the government legislate them.
.@theage formally weighs in in favour of $1 maximum bets for poker machines.
#KaChing #pokies
— Tom Cummings (@cyenne40) October 23, 2015
Another solution can be found in free online gambling. Now there are so many online pokies which are absolutely free, so they can replace poker machines in clubs and pubs. The big advantage of these pokies is that they offer a great variety of slots with amazing bonuses that the punters can hardly find offline. So, why going somewhere if you can try your luck at home?
Can you find the reasons why online pokies are worse than their brothers in clubs and clubs? Share your ideas!


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The Gallery of Lost Art is an online exhibition that tells the stories of artworks that have disappeared. Destroyed, stolen, discarded, rejected, erased, ephemeral—some of the most significant artworks of the last 100 years have been lost and can no longer be seen.
This virtual year-long exhibition explores the sometimes extraordinary and sometimes banal circumstances behind the loss of major works of art. Archival images, films, interviews, blogs and essays are laid out for visitors to examine, relating to the loss of works by over 40 artists across the twentieth century, including such figures as Marcel Duchamp, Joan Miro, Willem de Kooning, Rachel Whiteread and Tracey Emin.
Jennifer Mundy, curator of The Gallery of Lost Art, says: "Art history tends to be the history of what has survived. But loss has shaped our sense of art's history in ways that we are often not aware of. Museums normally tell stories through the objects they have in their collections. But this exhibition focuses on significant works that cannot be seen."
The virtual exhibition launched on July 2, 2012, and will be available online for only one year before it too is "lost." A new artwork will be added each week for 6 months.


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Vanessa Hudgens Joins Instagram!
Vanessa Hudgens has continued her social media presence to the world of Instagram!
Just days after the internet went into an uproar over the website's new user policy, the 24-year-old actress has created an official account to connect with her fans via her photos.
"Oh. Hello. Officially on Instagram," Vanessa captioned her first photo. Make sure to follow her at @VanessaHudgens!
"Oh hey hey. I'm officially on Instagram. Where you at?!" Vanessa wrote on Facebook along with a screencap of her account.
Vanessa also posted a couple photos of herself on Facebook with the caption, "Ravi Shankar, incense, meditating." Check them out below!
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posted by Thom Holwerda on Fri 21st Mar 2008 21:49 UTC
"I used KDE as my primary desktop from 1996 through 2006, when I installed the GNOME version of Ubuntu and found that I liked it better than the KDE desktop I'd faced every morning for so many years. Last January, I got a new Dell Latitude D630 laptop and decided to install Kubuntu on it, but within a few weeks, I went back to GNOME. Does this mean GNOME is now a better desktop than KDE, or just that I have become so accustomed to GNOME that it's hard for me to give it up?"


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At age 63, Linda Scaife said she's lived a long, full life raising two children,"I found out about it in a roundabout way," Kirkus said. working as a geophysical analyst and, later, as an elementary school teacher.
Forty years after receiving a degree in elementary education, Scaife has gotten her second wind and is about to embark on another career — this time as a lawyer.
One remarkable thing about her law degree is that she got it for free. The Southern University Law Center has a policy of waiving tuition for students age 55 and older.
That policy saved Scaife roughly $30,000.
"At my age, it would've been difficult to spend that money on another piece of paper," she said. "But I'm going to do some good with it."
Southern Law school Chancellor Freddie Pitcher described the tuition waiver as part of an effort to increase "access and opportunity."
"And we're just trying to follow the dictates of the Legislature," he said.
The dictate Pitcher is referring to is a state law passed in the 1990s that mandates public colleges and universities grant students older than 55 a free ride and cut the price of their textbooks in half.
The one caveat is that the law applies only if the Legislature appropriates money to reimburse the schools. But, according to the Louisiana Board of Regents, the state panel that sets higher education policy, that funding has never materialized.
Without the funding, the decision to grant age-specific tuition waivers has been left solely up to the management boards that oversee Louisiana's four public college systems.
The result is that schools across the state grant some type of tuition waiver to their older students. Some schools waive tuition altogether, while others offer discounted courses or one free class per semester.
Last year, Louisiana's public colleges reported missing out on almost $2 million in tuition through discounts and waivers for students who'd reached a certain age.
At a time when the price tag for college is becoming increasingly steeper as state government continues to slash funding for higher education, some legislators are calling on schools to re-evaluate whether they should be offering tuition waivers at all.
Others see the discount as a gift schools offer to older students out of a sense of community spirit.
Larry Bankston, then a state senator, sponsored the tuition waiver law in 1990. He said recently that it was his way of including older people at a time when other groups including military veterans and the disabled were getting similar benefits.
"I wasn't on the Appropriations Committee, so I had limited ability to get it funded, but I think this is something that's even more appropriate now when a lot of people are looking to re-tool and start new careers," Bankston said.
House Education Committee Chairman Steve Carter, R-Baton Rouge, said he is "concerned these institutions are taking it upon themselves to do this and then they turn around and ask for money. I applaud them for trying to help, but I am concerned."
Public colleges and universities have lobbied for relief as Gov. Bobby Jindal and the Legislature have cut more than $426 million from higher education since 2008 to balance state budgets.
Senate Education Committee Chairman Conrad Appel, R-Metairie, said schools need to revisit their policies.
"The amount of money available for higher education is shrinking, and there is no short-term expectation of it growing," Appel said. "This seems like a luxury to me."
It's unclear whether concerns from the Legislature will be enough to sway members of the state's higher education management boards who have expressed support for the age-specific tuition waivers.
Board members representing the LSU system, the Southern University system and the University of Louisiana system all said they would be reluctant to take away a program that generally is viewed as a positive thing on campus.
Pamela Ford, the dean of enrollment management at Louisiana Tech University, defended the school's "Tech After 55" program, which knocks the price of a $700 course down to $54.
"We're promoters of lifelong learning; we really believe in it," she said.
Adam Norris, a spokesman for the University of New Orleans, said the school's "Golden Ager" program where tuition is waived for students age 65 and older is "public goodwill."
"Part of our goal is to serve the community," Norris said. "We also take lots of pride in having a diverse student body. Our younger students benefit from having older people with significant life experiences in class with them."
Amanda Doyle, an administrator with the University of Louisiana at Lafayette said many of the people who participate in such programs are alumni or people who just want to take a course or two.
"We don't feel that it's a financial burden because we're not enrolling hundreds of students in this," she said. "These people are filling empty seats in a classroom. They are not taking a seat from our degree-seeking students."
But similar programs have proven more of a burden at other schools. Southern University's Baton Rouge campus, like the law school, has the most far-reaching, age-specific tuition waiver policy in the state — giving anyone older than 55 a free ride.
Southern's Baton Rouge campus also lost the most money last year because of it. One hundred thirty seven students were granted waivers last year, costing the school more than $490,000 in tuition.
Southern Chancellor James Llorens said it's time the campus revisited the policy considering the university had to declare a financial emergency, called exigency in October 2011. It followed years of declining enrollment coupled with state budget cuts. Exigency removed restrictions from downsizing staff and consolidating programs.
Llorens said the school may have to raise the age requirement in order to save money.
"We don't want to take away opportunities now when people are working longer and trying to retrain themselves and become more marketable," Llorens said. "But we'll probably have to do a complete analysis and make a decision based on that. I'd really hate to get rid of it completely, especially because some people use it for personal enrichment."
One of those people is Sherry Kirkus, 71, who received one tuition-free year at LSU at Shreveport five years ago while working on a master's degree in counseling psychology. "I had to pay the fees, but no tuition, and I just thought that was scrumptious."
Six years later, she's taking advantage of the University of Louisiana at Monroe policy to discount one course per semester for older students on her way to earning a doctorate in marriage and family therapy.
"I just like going to school," she said. "And I intend to live way past 100, so this is all perfectly practical."


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Accounting Changes Proposed for State, City Retiree-Benefit Plans
States, Cities Would Have to Add Liabilities to Balance Sheets, Many Plans Could Look Weaker
States and cities could be forced to report at least half a trillion dollars of additional costs on their books under proposed rules that would shine a harsher light on the growing expense of retired workers' health insurance and other benefits.
The proposals, unveiled Monday by an accounting-standards group, would require state and local governments to add retiree-benefit promises to their balance sheets, making governments' overall financial position appear worse. In addition, many governments would have to change the way...


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"No gentleman whose clothing or breath is tainted with the fumes of strong drink or tobacco should ever enter the presence of ladies."
And so my education in Gilded Age etiquette begins. That's one of the many pearls of wisdom that accompany the sculptures, Oriental floor vases, French clocks and ornamental furniture on display at the Henry B. Plant Museum, a tribute to Victorian splendor nestled in the former Tampa Bay Hotel at the University of Tampa.
Plant, a steamship and railroad magnate, started construction on the hotel in 1888 as a destination for passengers making connections on his transportation lines. The distinctive steel-plated minarets remain one of the city's most eye-catching images.
It takes about two hours to take a leisurely tour of the long hallway that encompasses the museum. That includes some time allotted for sitting in one of the big chairs on the inviting front porch. There's a good view of the garden on the university campus, which is bustling with students in the fall.
Inside, attractions include a three-room suite equipped with a private entrance to the hotel gardens. The room is furnished with the authentic period pieces that are abundant throughout. Make sure to look up at the ceilings, especially in the original dining hall, still in use as a meeting area by the university.
The dining room is in Plant Hall, next to the formal museum. The entrance to that building is the original hotel lobby, and there are historic photos lining the walls. There also are free tours that leave from the lobby at 1:30 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
The Plant Museum (plantmuseum.com) is convenient to downtown Tampa, on West Kennedy Boulevard. There are a few lunch and dinner options within strolling distance for hearty walkers. On my visit, I opted for a short drive on Kennedy to MacDill Avenue to Pipo's, a reasonable, not-too-fancy Cuban restaurant that has been a fixture since 1979.
From MacDill, it's easy to make a circular loop along Bayshore Boulevard, where the waterfront view competes for attention with an impressive row of old Florida mansions. Just don't try this at rush hour.


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Two natural gas companies called it quits in Wayne County, dealing landowners a major economic blow they say amounts to a loss of $187 million.
In the past few weeks, letters from Newfield Exploration Co. started to unexpectedly trickle into the mailboxes of an estimated 1,300 gas leaseholders with the Northern Wayne Property Owners Alliance, informing them of the termination of their leases.
The group struck a gas exploration and development deal with a joint venture by Newfield and Hess Corp. in 2008.
Peter Wynne, a spokesman for the leaseholders group, blamed a longstanding, controversial moratorium on gas drilling in the Delaware River Basin. However, a Newfield spokesman said the company redirected its attention to developing its oil interests.
"Our decision was a business one ... that just makes good business sense for us and good business sense for our shareholders," said Newfield spokesman Keith Schmidt. The price of natural gas remains close to historic lows.
It still remains unclear if commercially viable shale even exists beneath Wayne County.
The Delaware River Basin Commission, which declared the moratorium, allowed Newfield and Hess to drill a few exploratory wells in Wayne County. Mr. Schmidt declined to comment on what the wells revealed, citing confidentiality, and Mr. Wynne said the property owners alliance has not been informed of the results.
Many landowners want that question answered and Mr. Wynne said they will never know if the Delaware River Basin Commission keeps drilling on hold.
About two years after the gas companies secured more than 100,000 acres for possible development in Wayne County and a portion of Susquehanna County, the commission declared a moratorium on gas drilling until it developed its own environmental regulations.
"We feel it is a de facto (gas drilling) ban and that is what they are attempting to do by avoiding coming to a vote," Mr. Wynne said.
The commission, a somewhat obscure agency that has as its voting members the governors of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and Delaware as well as a federal representative from the Army Corps of Engineers, regulates water resources in the 14,000-square-mile Delaware River basin.
That area includes nearly all of Wayne, parts of Lackawanna and Luzerne, and Monroe and Pike counties.
In a statement made at a commission meeting this month, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's representative on the board said the agency spent "thousands of hours" studying water resource impacts, reviewing regulations and other related matters to move forward on the "natural gas process" since November 2011.
The board strives to "reach consensus on a path forward that provides for the development of a potentially valuable energy source while protecting the vital water resources within the basin," said Gov. Christie's representative, Michele Siekerka, who also heads the commission board.
While Northern Wayne Property Owners Alliance remains open to dealing with another company, they believe the moratorium will just scare them away, Mr. Wynne said.
The group is still considering suing the commission. The recent loss of their leases may fan that flame, Mr. Wynne said. According to him, Hess and Newfield already invested more than $100 million in the venture, which includes initial bonus payments to leaseholders. However, a second round of money, an estimated $187.5 million, for the production phase of the lease is now off the table, he said.
"We're talking about a very substantial amount of money," he said. "That money would have largely been spent in Wayne County. It's a significant financial blow."
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I had all the packages made for Linux Mint Xfce 10 but decided it was late to release.mikhou wrote:merlwiz, feel free to correct me if I am wrong, but from what I have observed in the past, merlwiz worked primarily on the XFCE edition up until LMDE XFCE. Clem actually rolled that one. I believe that merlwiz had some family issues going on with his wife's health and wasn't able to work on LMDE XFCE so Clem picked up the baton. I played with the XFCE CEs in the past and liked them so if anybody could produce a solid E17 edition, I'm sure that merlwiz would do a fine job. I don't know if the Mint Devs even want an E17 edition with Mint's name on it so it's anybody's guess as to how far this could go.
So I was about to start on Linux Mint Xfce 11 when Linux Mint Debian 201104 came out.
I then was told that Linux Mint Xfce (Ubuntu base) wasn't going to be released anymore.
I could have had the test ISO built by now but if it's not going to be released why was the time.
I was never told about the Debian Xfce being made so I never helped with it.
I haven't even been using it since it's so buggy.
I'm not trying to make an E17 Distro.
I'm trying to make E17 svn packages that you can install on Ubuntu 11.04 or Linux Mint 11.
The packages aren't going to be that stable.


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Dr. Burton W. Folsom
Senior Fellow in Economic Education
Dr. Burton Folsom Jr. retired from Hillsdale College after teaching there since 2002. He also previously served as a senior fellow in economic education for the Mackinac Center for Public Policy.
For the Mackinac Center, Folsom has authored dozens of widely reprinted articles about Michigan's rich and varied past as well as a 1997 book, Empire Builders: How Michigan Entrepreneurs Helped Make America Great. His other books include Urban Capitalists: Entrepreneurs and City Growth in Pennsylvania's Lackawanna and Lehigh Regions, 1800-1920 (1981); The Myth of the Robber Barons: A New Look at the Rise of Big Business in America (1991), now in its sixth edition; New Deal or Raw Deal?: How FDR's Economic Legacy Has Damaged America (2008); and FDR Goes to War (2011), which he co-authored with Anita Folsom. He also has edited two volumes, The Spirit of Freedom: Essays in American History and The Industrial Revolution and Free Trade. His work has appeared in major newspapers and magazines including The Detroit News, The American Spectator, and The Wall Street Journal. He blogs at BurtFolsom.com.
Folsom received his Ph.D. in American history from the University of Pittsburgh.
From Dr. Burton W. Folsom
The Importance of Real Equality
Remembering Sojourner Truth
Why Did Free Gas Create a Public Stink? (Viewpoint on Public Issues)
Why Did Free Gas Create a Public Stink? (General Article)
Corn Flakes and Greatness
Is There a Statesman in the House? (Viewpoint on Public Issues)
Is There a Statesman in the House? (General Article)
Schmeling K.O.'d by Louis! Louis K.O.'d by the U.S. Government!
Jobs Tomorrow: Deja Vu
Remembering George Sutherland: Defender of the Constitution
From Hospitals to Tsunami Relief: Lessons of Charles Hackley
Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington and Liberty
Black History Month: Remembering Ralph Bunche
Ford Did Indeed Have A Better Idea
The Crystal Gazer from Crystal Falls
An Anniversary All Michigan Citizens Can Celebrate
Let There Be Lighthouses!
One of the Century's Major Books: Kirk's The Roots of American Order
Are High School Economics Textbooks Reliable?
How Reliable Are Michigan High School Economics Textbooks?
This review of 16 of the most commonly used economics textbooks in Michigan high schools uses 12 criteria-including issues of trade, taxation, and the role of government-to evaluate which texts are and are not effective at presenting students with a balanced and accurate perspective on the modern market economy. Each text is graded, from A to F, on its ability to clearly instruct students in the "economic way of thinking."
An abridged 27-page written copy of the report may be ordered normally, or the full reviews of each textbook may be downloaded at no charge via www.mackinac.org. … more


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I received this long e-mail from Craig Moore at The English Fly Fishing Shop in Morden Surrey, England. It's got some interesting history and a quaint British spin:
Fly of the Month - The Woolly Bugger Story
"I received an e-mail in December from a customer thank me for sending him a range of Woolly Buggers as they had saved the day. He was out fishing with his buddy in Lapland Finland. They had gone through most of the flies in their combined fly boxes and drawn a blank. As a last resort he tied on a woolly bugger. A strike. Then another and then another. His friend wanted to know what he was using. He also started to use a woolly bugger and was soon into fish. Their 8 hour trip was so productive that between them they landed (and released) 43 fish.
The Woolly Bugger has to be one of the most versatile and productive flies around. When tied with an olive body it is a useful damsel fly nymph imitation. The marabou tail and in most cases a palmered body suggest succulent lava, tadpoles or leeches. Drag one across the current in front of some trout and this fly becomes a killer. We have added additional flash to improve there performance. From experience it helps catch the eye of a predatory trout or salmon when the flash in the tail reflects a quick glint of sunlight as the marabou tail moves through the water. It is a great modern streamer pattern and appears in many colors and hook sizes.
You can use it for bass, trout or panfish as well. It's a great fly, and every flybox should contain several. You fish it like a streamer. This fly's colorful name and the gnarly way it looks can be deceiving. This is a big fish fly, perhaps the very best big fish fly in use currently. The Woolly Bugger has a lively marabou feather tail that "breathes" in the water and looks lively to hungry trout.
Dressing a fly by winding the hackle the length of the body is mentioned in fly fishing books of the fifteenth century. It is called the palmer style of dressing. About the time Napoleon was fighting the British in France and Spain, palmer flies were being praised in books as the first fly to be used until a hatch was observed. The palmered hackle helps suggest to the trout that the fly is alive by its movement. A Harrisburg, Pennsylvania fly tier, Russell Blessing, tied the first "Buggers". He added a marabou tail to a woolly worm fly, to help suggest a swimming movement as the fly was retrieved in the water. He found that even if fished dead-drift the fly still had movement.
The woolly worm is a very old fly that can be found in Izaak Walton's 1653 book 'The Compleat Angler'. Russell's original Woolly Bugger had a black marabou tail, and a black hackled olive chenille body, (just like our Viva Woolly Bugger). He had designed it to fish the small mouth bass in the streams near his home. He had been trying to imitate the dobsonfly lava. Back in 1967 on a hot August afternoon flyfishing journalist Barry Beck was having a hard time getting the fish to bite on the Little Lehigh River in Pennsylvania, USA. Other flyfishermen nearby were also having the same problem, that is all except one, Russ Blessing. In a 30 minute period he netted four nice trout. Barry went over and asked what fly he was using. Barry was shocked to find it was a streamer. This type of fly normally was not very productive on the Lehigh River and especially in August. Russ, a true gentleman fly fisherman who was always willing to share his knowledge of fly-fishing and fly-tying gave Barry one of his Woolly Buggers to try. Barry's luck changed and he started to catch trout. Barry was so impressed that when he met Russ in the parking area just as he was going home he asked for more information about the fly. Barry published an article on Russell Blessing's wondrous Woolly Bugger in 1984. The rest is history. It became so popular that it is now an American standby.
Woolly Buggers catch trout, bass, and salmon in both Atlantic and Pacific rivers, steelhead, Arctic char, northern pike, bluegills and even carp. It would not be an exaggeration to say that there is hardly a fish that swims that could not be caught with a Woolly Bugger. This wide-ranging success is due to the fact that these flies can be used to imitate a variety of fish food forms, including baitfish, crustaceans, insect nymphs salamanders and leeches. To achieve this chameleon status, Woolly Buggers are tied in green, red, olive, gray, grizzly, brown, black, yellow, white, and purple and in all combinations of these colors. This fly can be fished near the surface, or with the addition of weight it is often fished deep.
Obviously the Woolly Bugger may not be a glamorous fly, but it deserves to be in everyone's fly box for all kinds of fly fishing, from warmwater to saltwater. Russ Blessing retired in 1996 and when asked what he now did with all his spare time he replied, "I fish." The Woolly Bugger is a very versatile fly to fish. You can cast it upstream and fish it like a nymph, or cast across a stream and let it drift with the current. A great way to fish streamer flies is to cast across stream, let the current carry it down and across and make stripping retrieves, pulling 6-24" in your fly line, imparting subtle and deliberate action to the fly. The hackle will twitch back over the body and the tail will flare and wiggle supply. This drives fish wild and brings surprising hook ups and many big fish!
Most older traditional English fly tying books do not acknowledge the Woolly Bugger by name, but instead they used to call it wrongly the Woolly Worm or tadpole fly. Modern books now give it it's proper name. In the mid 1980's a fly very similar to the Woolly Bugger became popular in the UK. It was called the Dog Nobbler and was designed and promoted by Trevor Housby. It looks exactly like a woolly bugger except that it had a weighted head.
Fishing the Woolly Bugger is a matter of patience and confidence. Because of the soft saddle hackle rib and the marabou tail, it does not require much action on the part of the angler to give this fly a pulsating, undulating look. In a stream or river, slow to very slow is the key because the current will make it look alive. In a lake, a little more action may be required, but not too much and not too fast. Remember that our Woolly Bugger flies are more superior as they have additional 'flash' added to their tails to get them noticed by predatory trout and salmon.
One of my favorite uses of a woolly bugger is for the sport of trying to coax trout that lurk in deep plunge pools to rise up to the surface and take my presentation. They normally will not do so for a dry fly. It has to be a more substantial meal to be worth the effort. I try to imitate a small fish that has been temporarily stunned as it swam over the waterfall and landed in the plunge pool. Cast your fly as near to the waterfall as you can. Give it a few moments to sink and then begin the retrieve to imitate the fish recovering and quickly swimming away from it's vulnerable static location to safety. Using the same idea look for deep slow pools near where a stream is forced to drop suddenly due to a narrow rock channel. Small fish will be forced down with the strength of the current before they can quickly swim off to the relative safety of the bank. Drop your streamer into this current and let it sink. Then start you retrieve. Trout can be teased into chasing your fly. Have a great day, go fly fishing!"
The Woolly Bugger Story
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Fish Friendly - Life's too short not to enjoy every minute on the river.
Good story from the "proper" perspective. Bless their hearts, but I really can imagine an Engligh fly tier refusing to use the term Wooly Bugger.
Had not seen reference to the Tadpole fly since I lived in England and actually tied them. That tadpole was marabou tail, simply dubbed body, and a dubbed head of a bright color (orange, chartreuse, red, or yellow). I figure it was intended to appear as an egg sucking leech. Gee--wonder if I still have some? Might be a decent fly for dead drifting in faster waters.
Had not seen reference to the Tadpole fly since I lived in England and actually tied them. That tadpole was marabou tail, simply dubbed body, and a dubbed head of a bright color (orange, chartreuse, red, or yellow). I figure it was intended to appear as an egg sucking leech. Gee--wonder if I still have some? Might be a decent fly for dead drifting in faster waters.
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An excerpt from John Main OSB, "The Oceans of God" in MONASTERY WITHOUT WALLS (Norwich: Canterbury, 2006), pp. 222-223.
Our life is a unity because what is real in it is centered in the mystery of God. But to know its unity we have to see beyond ourselves with a perspective greater than when self-interest dominates.
Only when we turn from self-interest and self-consciousness does this larger perspective begin to open.
Another way of saying that our vision expands is to say that we come to see beyond mere appearances, into the depth and interconnected meanings of things. Not just the depth and significance in relation to ourselves is involved, but depth in relation to the whole to which we belong. This is the way of self-knowledge and it is why true self-knowledge is identical with true humility. Meditation opens up for us this precious form of knowledge. It is what enables us to pass beyond mere objectivity—merely looking at the mystery of God as observers---and to enter the mystery of itself. Knowledge becomes wisdom when we enter the silence, the "cloud" of the mystery, and when we know, no longer by mental analysis and definition, but by direct participation in the heart in the spirit of Christ.
We learn by the path of meditation what cannot be learned otherwise and what is unknowable as long as we hesitate to become pilgrims of the spirit.
After meditation: "New Year Resolve," May Sarton, COLLECTED POEMS (New York: Norton, 1993), noted in THE WRITER'S ALMANAC FOR DECEMBER 30, 2012.
The time has come
To stop allowing the clutter
To clutter my mind
Like dirty snow,
Shove it off and find
Clear time, clear water.
Time for a change,
Let silence in like a cat
Who has sat at my door
Neither wild nor strange
Hoping for food from my store
And shivering on the mat.
Let silence in.
She will rarely speak or mew,
She will sleep on my bed
And all I have ever been
Either false or true
Will live again in my head.
For it is now or not
As old age silts the stream,
To shove away the clutter,
To untie every knot,
To take the time to dream,
To come back to still water.
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** This post is sponsored by Nuffnang and Treasures Nappies - All opinions belong to me, and all adorable chubby thighs belong to Lincoln**
A couple of weeks back I was asked if I would try Treasures Nappies, a thirty year old, leading New Zealand brand that has just hit the shelves here in Australia. Honestly, my first reaction was to say 'thanks, but no thanks'. I tried out a few brands of nappies when Max was little, found the ones I liked and have stuck with them ever since. I didn't even bother trying anything new when Link came along, I just stayed with what I knew. Then I got to thinking, soon I will have two babies in nappies... Which means double the cost (and double the poo...). I figured now was probably as good a time as any to give it a shot.
As I heard a little more about the nappies I actually started to get excited about giving them a try. My sister told me that she used (and loved them) when she was living back home in good old NZ and I found out they come in at a lower price point than my current brand. A recommendation and the chance to save money, win win!
So here's what happened when Link and I took them for a test run.
First Up - The Acid Test
The nappies arrived just before Link's naptime, so I figured that was as good a time as any to get started. I changed Link's cute little butt into one and put him down for his nap. Two hours later I heard him calling out 'Mum, Mum, Mum, Poo Poo, Poo Poo (as he does!). By the way it kills me that he's dropped the 'Mumma' and switched to 'Mum' so young. I'm sure Max was still calling me 'Mumma' when he was three! Anyway I went in to pick him up and was hit with a wave of poo so I knew it was going to be a bad one. And it was! It was one of those explosive poos that go all the way up the back, and the front of the nappy. Not great, but a perfect chance to see what Treasures could handle. I was seriously surprised (and impressed) when there was no leakage at all. Not one tiny bit. The entire mess was completely contained in the nappy. We were off to a very good start!
Round Two - The Overnighter
Feeling confident that the nappies could handle such a big poo, I decided to put them to the overnight test. Link still isn't a great sleeper and often wakes up in the night wanting a bottle. When he does I don't change him because it gets him too alert, I just feed him and get him back into bed as quickly as possible. Good for my sanity, but it does mean a really wet nappy in the morning. The two things I was hoping for would be that the nappy wouldn't leak (obviously), but also that there wouldn't be a really strong smell. Some of the other brands I tried with Max were terrible for that. When I went in and picked Link up in the morning the Treasures passed both with flying colours, they easily contained everything and there was no nasty all night wee smell. I've used them every night since and am loving them!
Last Up - The Pants Test (aka my baby has a big butt)
Link is a little chunky, in the good way that some babies are. He has deliciously chubby thighs and a big butt to match. Once you add in a bulky nappy some pants can be a bit of a tight squeeze, especially since a lot of his clothes are hand-me-downs and Max always looked best in slim fit clothes. As soon as I put the first Treasures on him I knew they were going to be a perfect fit. I actually found them to be a lot less bulky than our usual ones and I had no problems getting his pants on to his squishy little behind. Three out of three!
So even though I started out quite skeptical and very loyal to another brand I have definitely been won over. Their quality is on-par with the more expensive brands, they're cheaper and I actually like the look and feel of them more than our previous ones. Totally convinced! Plus they're stocked at IGA stores, which is super convenient for me as we have one just down the road from us.
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Now here's the extra exciting part! I have a Treasures Nappies prize pack to give away valued at over $75. All you have to do is leave a comment (and your email address) sharing a personal tip on how to keep children sleeping through the night with the hashtag #sleepingtreasures. The winner will be drawn after 5pm AEST on 9 April 2014, announced on this post and contacted by email. Don't forget to share your experience with Treasures on facebook, twitter, instagram etc using #sleepingtreasures. Let's get the word out about these great little nappies!
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CoveritLive switches to paid-only service
Popular liveblogging platform CoverItLive has announced the end of its free usage tier, becoming an entirely paid for subscription service.
In an email to current subscribers the company wrote:
CoveritLive is introducing new monthly subscription plans based on active usage. These plans provide customers full access to all of CoveritLive's Premium features – previously unavailable to Basic plan customers — including event feeds, event groups and homepages, live webcam and access to the CoveritLive API. Additionally, we have released several new features including a new dashboard with enhanced metrics, simplified Facebook event implementation and improved user management tools.
With the availability of the new plans and features, we will transition all CoveritLive Basic customers (including your current account) to a new Trial plan on July 1st 2012. The Trial plan will still allow you complete access to CoveritLive functionality for free and with no time limit, but it will now place a limit of 25 event "clicks" (active users who click into or engage with an event) per month on your account.
CoveritLive's 'Starter' subscription costs $9.99 per month and allows for 250 viewers per month, their 'Standard' tier costs $149 per month and allows for up to 10,000 viewers. The current Basic plan for the service will end on 1 July.Tags: CoveritLive, demand media, journalism tool, liveblogging, liveblogs, saas, subscription models
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1956 Topps PSA-Graded Complete Set: #11 PSA Set Registry (8.09 GPA)
Starting Bid - $10,000, Sold For - $41,125
The 1956 Topps set has always been one of the most popular sets in the world of card collecting. Presented is one of the finest and most stunning high-grade sets of this classic issue ever assembled. This ultra high-grade set has been assembled one card at a time by an extremely dedicated collector with an uncompromising commitment to condition and eye-appeal over a period of many years, and with all cards being carefully screened for only top-quality examples in all respects. There are no "weak links" in this set! This is a world-class investment-grade set of one of the most important baseball-card issues in the entire world of postwar-card collecting. It is also one of the finest sets of 1956 Topps we have sever seen or offered. All of the 342 cards in this complete set (#1-340 plus two checklists) have been graded and encapsulated by PSA. The set is comprised of 311 NM-MT 8s, one NM-MT+ 8.5, and thirty MINT 9s. This set is listed on the PSA Set Registry under "REA Auction Spring 2010." It is tied for the eleventh-highest graded set ever assembled. As any collector of high-grade early 1950s cards knows, the assembly of any entire 1950s set, let alone a 1956 Topps set, with every card across the board in PSA NM-MT 8 (or better) condition, is extremely challenging and extraordinary. PSA grading composite: Thirty cards are graded MINT 9: #18, 46, 47, 53, 57, 62, 66, 79 Koufax, 83, 86, 102, 103, 114, 118 Fox, 121 Pirates, 122, 129, 138, 167, 176, 180 Roberts, 200 Feller, 226 Giants, 227, 291, 302, 308, 321, 323, and 335. One card is graded NM-MT+ 8.5: #130 Mays. 311 cards are graded NM-MT 8: including #1 Harridge, 5 Williams, 10 Spahn, 15 Banks, 20 Kaline, 30 Robinson, 31 Aaron, 33 Clemente, 101 Campanella, 107 Mathews, 110 Berra, 113 Rizzuto, 120 Ashburn, 135 Mantle, 145 Hodges, 150 Snider, 164 Killebrew, 166 Dodgers, 181 Martin, 240 Ford, 251 Yankees, 260 Reese, 292 Aparicio RC, and numerous other Hall of Famers, team cards, etc. Included with the set are PSA NM-MT 8 examples of both unnumbered checklist cards: #1/3 Checklist and #2/4 Checklist. This set was assembled with a concern for all factors, including special consideration to centering. The concern for centering makes this set even more spectacular than suggested by its extraordinary high grade, and is evident throughout. This is simply an amazing high-grade complete set of this classic early Topps issue, and is easily one of the finest 1956 Topps sets in the world. The total SMR value of $48,950 for the set cannot begin to account for the time, energy, and effort that has been invested in its assembly. The fact that the consignor has elected to keep this set together and offer it as a single unit makes this a particularly extraordinary offering. It is a given that potentially few collectors can seriously consider buying a complete set of this caliber, but for those who can consider such a commitment, this set represents a remarkable and unique opportunity. Total 342 cards. Reserve $10,000. Estimate $20,000/$30,000++. SOLD FOR $41,125
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Media Decor Offers Elegant Solutions for Concealing Large Flatscreen TVs
Designer solutions to hide flatscreen televisions with beautiful framed works of art.
FT. LAUDERDALE, FL -Media Decor LLC (www.mediadecor.com), leading manufacturer of elegant solutions to discreetly conceal flatscreen TVs, believes that the perfect place for fine art is in front of your television!
As TV screens increase in size, the most popular location for placement tends to be a wall -but when the TV is turned off, it becomes a large, black glass object that's difficult to hide. Enter Media Decor with three attractive designer solutions for concealing flatscreen displays behind beautiful framed artwork. Designers and homeowners can choose Moving Art on Canvas, Mirrors, and Art Lift systems, over 500 frame styles ranging from traditional to contemporary, and over 2,500 works of art available on the company's website -or, alternatively, client -supplied artwork. As a free service to installers, architects, and designers, Media Decor also offers AutoCAD drawings with detailed instructions.
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The patented Elite Moving Art is the most elegant solution. When the TV is turned off, it's simply framed artwork. When the TV is turned on, the artwork silently disappears inside the top of the unit, transforming your TV into an elegant framed painting at the touch of a button.
The Moving Art frames require no special cabinetwork, and it can be flush - or surface - mounted to the wall around the object or area to be concealed. The Elite model uses a magnetic furling system for smooth performance and silent operation. Artwork scrolls up and down, and the Elite can accommodate screens of up to 80". Prices range from $7250 to $12,350, depending on frame size.
Two additional options are available in the Moving Art series: Illusion, for screen sizes from 43" to 120", priced from $4,610 to $16,490; and the value -priced Ecco, which starts at $1,495.
The Eclipse Art Lift is the ideal solution for homeowners who desire to showcase personal artwork or photographs. At the touch of a button, the frame moves out of the way for television viewing. The Eclipse Art Lift is the first and only system available that exclusively uses the Lutron™ Q Electronic Drive Unit, which provides silent, precise electronic lifting configurable for up/down or left/right movement -or, in the Dual Eclipse, artwork that splits in the middle and moves left and right. Media Decor Lifts can also be used to conceal wine racks, in -wall safes and more.
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At www.mediadecor.com visitors can view artwork and frame options, watch tutorials that will help guide them through the selection process, read helpful tips, and detailed instruction guides.
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Come to the Dark Side: Houses with Dramatic Exteriors
When it comes to the exterior color of our homes, pale and mid-tones rule the roost. A white cottage with dark trim or a medium grey painted Victorian is a crowd-pleaser, and there's nothing wrong with that. But going against the grain can return results just as beautiful, and personally, I love a dark and dramatic facade.
Maybe it's because I grew up in the snowy North, where dark houses stand out from the snow in the wintertime, and pale ones often look, well, dirty in comparison. Or maybe I just appreciate the drama of these inky hues, who knows? Check out some examples of dark houses, from traditional Victorians to Modernist dwellings.
1. Apartment Therapy
2. Houzz
3. mo+mo living
4. freshome
5. Carolina Eclectic via Door Sixteen
6. casa sugar
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Mount Laurel-based patient studies company CRI Lifetree has been acquired by N.C.-based PRA, the latter company announced today. Financial terms were not disclosed.
According to the announcement, CRI Lifetree has conducted clinical research for more than 20 years and has three clinical pharmacology centers with a capacity of nearly 200 beds, making it one of the largest providers of patient population phase I and confined phase II-III services in the U.S. The acquisition will enable PRA to provide its clients a full range of phase I-II clinical research services in specialized patient populations for both inpatient and outpatient settings.


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My biggest seller, reworked, new and improved 12/15/2012!
This is MUCH cleaner, the synth bass has been replaced with a live electric bass played through a mint 1973 Fender Bassman 100 with a 2×15 original cabinet.
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- A calming blue framed with white trim and a touch of natural wood for warmth. The wall color is Watery by Sherwin Williams.
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News from the world of Maths
Would you like to present engaging mathematics sessions to young people? The Royal Institution of Great Britain (Ri) is offering development sessions for new Ri mathematics masterclass speakers as part of the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the programme. The network stretches from Aberdeen to Truro, including Jersey and Northern Ireland, and is ever-expanding.
Here's your chance to venture to the frontiers of physics using your very own computer. This week CERN began public testing of LHC@home 2.0, a project that enlists the computing power of volunteers from around the world to help simulate high-energy collisions of protons in the LHC.
A team of nanoengineers have constructed new materials that don't wrinkle when you stretch them. This makes them similar to tissue found in the human body, so they may in the future be used to repair damaged heart walls, blood vessels and skin.
If you live in or near Cambridge, you've got the chance to see a genuine World War II Enigma machine in action and watch the movie Enigma starring Kate Winslet and Dougray Scott afterwards!
Convex or concave? It's a question we usually answer just by looking at something. It's convex if it bulges outwards, and concave if it bulges inwards. But when it comes to mathematical functions, things aren't that simple. A team of computer scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have recently shown that deciding whether a mathematical function is convex can be very hard indeed.
Whatever you're planning to do tonight, cancel it! Because tonight at 9pm on BBC Two it's the first episode of Marcus du Sautoy's new series The Code. It's a three-part series about maths in the world around us, exploring anything from honeycombs to flocks of birds, nautilus shells to planetary motion.
Did you know slime mould can recreate the Tokyo subway network? Or the special connection between crickets and Kevin Bacon? Samuel Hansen does and he wants to tell you all the weird and unexpected stories from the mathematical world... but he needs your help.


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SOURCE: Reed's, Inc.
February 08, 2013 18:42 ET
LOS ANGELES, CA--(Marketwire - Feb 8, 2013) - Reed's Inc, a Delaware corporation (NYSE MKT: REED) today announced that it will exercise its mandatory conversion right relating to all the outstanding shares of its Series B Convertible Preferred Stock ("Preferred Stock"). The mandatory conversion date will be February 15, 2013 ("Mandatory Conversion Date").
On the Mandatory Conversion Date, holders of Preferred Stock will be entitled to receive seven (7) shares of Reed's common stock, par value $.0001 per share, for each share of Preferred Stock converted. Fractional shares will be rounded up to the nearest whole number. Dividends on the Preferred Stock ceased to accrue on December 31, 2012. An adjustment of 1.05 shares of Reed's common stock for each share of Preferred Stock converted will be made upon conversion of the Preferred Stock for accrued and unpaid dividends with respect to the Preferred Stock. There are currently 45,052 shares of Preferred Stock outstanding.
From and after the Mandatory Conversion Date, the Preferred Stock not previously converted will be deemed to be no longer outstanding and all rights of the holders with respect to such Preferred Stock will terminate, except for the right to receive the number of whole shares of common stock issuable upon conversion of the Preferred Stock, as described above.
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Reed's, Inc. makes the top-selling natural sodas in the natural foods industry sold in over 13,000 natural food markets and supermarkets nationwide. Its six award-winning non-alcoholic Ginger Brews are unique in the beverage industry, being brewed, not manufactured and using fresh ginger, spices and fruits in a brewing process that predates commercial soft drinks. The Company owns the top-selling root beer line in natural foods, the Virgil's Root Beer product line, and a top-selling cola line in natural foods, the China Cola product line. In 2012, the Company launched Reed's Culture Club Kombucha line of organic live beverages. Other product lines include: Reed's Ginger Candies and Reed's Ginger Ice Creams. In 2009, Reed's started producing private label natural beverages for select national chains. Reed's products are sold through specialty gourmet and natural food stores, mainstream supermarket chains, retail stores and restaurants nationwide, and in Canada, as well as through private label relationships with major supermarket chains.
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Shaver explains that h64 is not a suitable codec for Mozilla, because of two main reasons: licensing cost, and the codec's closed nature.
The h264 codec is patented up the wazoo by the MPEG-LA, and while Google, Apple, and Microsoft have paid for a license to include the codecs within their products, the Mozilla foundation has not, and will not do so. Without this license, it is illegal (in many countries) "to use or distribute software that produces or consumes H.264-encoded content. Indeed, even distributing H.264 content over the internet or broadcasting it over the airwaves requires the consent of the MPEG-LA, and the current fee exemption for free-to-the-viewer internet delivery is only in effect until the end of 2010."
Mozilla has a number of clear and well-argued reasons for not buying the license. First, it's very limited. Google, for instance, paid for a license that transfers to users of Chrome, but if you build Chrome from source yourself or extend the browser, the license does not apply. What's even worse is that the license would not carry over towards, for instance, Linux distributors - not acceptable, of course, for Firefox.
"Even if we were to pay the USD 5000000 annual licensing cost for H.264, and we were to not care about the spectre of license fees for internet distribution of encoded content, or about content and tool creators, downstream projects would be no better off," Shaver explains.
The second important reason not to license the h264 codec is a more ideological one. "We want to make sure that the Web experience is good for all users, present and future," Shaver writes, "I want to make sure that when a child in India or Brazil or Kenya discovers the internet, there isn't a big piece of it (video) that they can't afford to participate in. I want to make sure that there are no toll-booth barriers to entry for someone building a whole new browser, or bringing a browser to a whole new device or OS, or making and using tools for creating standard web content."
It is very hard to disagree with Shaver on this one. We have seen what happens when we make the web dependant and proprietary - Flash, Internet Explorer 6 - and yet here we are, ten years down the line, ready to fall into the same trap all over again. I don't care if h264 is better now, what matters is that in the future, we haven't locked ourselves into yet another patent-encumbered format that alternative platforms can't make use of.
The specification writers for HTML5 should have the guts to do what's right. It doesn't matter if Theora is (arguably!) worse than h264 - the standard is open, patent-free, and developing at an incredible pace. I'd rather we bite through the sour apple now, instead of having to deal with the lock-in down the line. Here we are, loaded with bad experiences with lock-in on the web, and yet we seem to be doing it all over again. I'm sure we'll blame Microsoft eventually.
Shaver ends his post with a note about using platform-native frameworks, such as DirectShow in Windows, to handle the video format. This solution has been suggested quite often, but Mozilla doesn't see it as an option, because of a multitude of problems.
"There are issues there related to principle (fragmentation of format under the guise of standardized HTML), to effectiveness (about 60% of our users are on Windows XP, which provides no H.264 codec), to security (exposure of arbitrary codecs to hostile content), and to user experience (mapping the full and growing capabilities of [the video tag] to the system APIs provided)," Shaver explains.


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May 11, 2012 — The Alabama House on Tuesday approved a bill that would allow the state to restrict insurance coverage of abortion in certain health plans, sending the measure to Gov. Robert Bentley (R), the AP/Gadsden Times reports (AP/Gadsden Times, 5/8). Under the bill, health plans in the state's health insurance exchange would be prohibited from covering abortion care in most circumstances (Women's Health Policy Report, 5/4).
On Wednesday, the House approved a bill that would require abortion clinics to meet the same standards as outpatient health centers, sending the legislation to the Senate (AP/WTVM, 5/10).
The bill also would mandate that physicians who provide abortion care have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital and take part in before and after care of the patient. In some cases, clinics would have to report the names of minors who seek abortion care and the person suspected to be the father (Women's Health Policy Report, 5/4).


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Merchants & Farmers Bank has bought six parcels containing four warehouses near the intersection of Virginia Run Cove and Summer Avenue at a foreclosure sale for $1.4 million. The substitute trustee who sold the property is Dudley B. Bridgforth.
The properties are part of 5325 Summer Avenue Planned Development, south of the intersection of Summer Avenue and the Wolf River, north of Macon Road, in the 38122 ZIP code.
The warehouses, which are at 826 Virginia Run Cove, 832 Virginia Run Cove, 835 Virginia Run Cove and 836 Virginia Run Cove, were built between 1999 and 2003. They total about 26,300 square feet and together are appraised at $1.4 million.
The sale also includes a 0.5-acre parcel making up the paved surface of the cove itself and a 0.75-acre driveway on Virginia Run Cove.
The package of parcels was sold in foreclosure after former owner 5325 Summer Ave Properties LLC defaulted on loans through Merchants & Farmers Bank. The limited liability company's original loan through M&F, dated March 2003, amounted to $2.4 million. It was modified in July 2004, and again in March, September and December 2005. By the last modification, the loan had increased to three notes totaling about $6.8 million. Another agreement was filed in February 2007, at which point 5325 Summer Ave Properties agreed to sell one parcel to 842 Virginia Run LLC and give the proceeds to M&F.
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– Daily News staff
Shareholders of Temple-Inland Inc. have approved the paper company's merger with Memphis-based International Paper Co.
The approval came in a special meeting of the Austin, Texas-based company's stockholders Wednesday, Dec. 7. Executives at the two companies inked the $4.3 billion deal in September. The merger is awaiting regulatory approval from the U.S. Department of Justice.
IP executives in June made their first offer for the world's third-largest corrugated-packaging maker. The Temple-Inland board rejected it and urged shareholders to reject it as well.
IP CEO John Faraci has likened the acquisition to IP's purchase of the container board, packaging assets and recycling plants of another big name competitor, Weyerhauser, in 2008 for $6 billion.
"The big buckets are going to be logistics, supply chain, purchasing and overhead," Faraci said in a September conference call with analysts.
IP anticipated lowering its freight costs in corrugated packaging with Temple-Inland's acquisition through Temple's set of mills and logistics apparatuses.
More than 98 percent of Temple's shares were voted in favor of the merger.
– Bill Dries
Regions Financial Corp. President and CEO Grayson Hall said Tuesday "we do see a resolution forthcoming" in Regions' more than five-month strategic review and bid process for its Memphis-based investment banking franchise Morgan Keegan & Co. Inc.
Speaking at the Goldman Sachs U.S. Financial Services Conference in New York City, Hall said he was not in position to share major details. Goldman Sachs is the firm Regions tapped to help it figure out what to do with Morgan Keegan.
Hall did share more about Morgan Keegan by way of public comments than any Regions executive has done to this point.
"Market conditions in recent months have been challenging, which has added complexity to this overall process," Hall said.
He added Regions will conclude a transaction to sell Morgan Keegan only if it benefits Regions in terms of capital, liquidity and risk profile.
– Andy Meek
Memphis City Council members approved Tuesday, Dec. 6, a contract between the city and the Overton Park Conservancy for the private, nonprofit group to run and maintain the city park.
The council vote was unanimous.
The council also delayed action on planned development approval for Overton Square that included a parking garage. The body will consider it at the same time it takes up the question of city funding for the garage.
An attempt to repeal the countywide ordinance with the city that bans beer and other alcoholic beverages from strip clubs was pulled Tuesday before it could even be discussed in committee.
All of the strip clubs affected by the ordinance the county plans to enforce with the new year are in Memphis. The ordinance covers Memphis until or unless the city enacts its own ordinance.
The council also approved final reading of an ordinance requiring those using the new skatepark in Tobey Park – as well as those using any future skateparks in Memphis – to wear helmets.
And the body gave the green light to a $268,000 reroofing of the Mallory-Neely House in Victorian Village.
Zach Chandler, vice president and metro market leader for Baptist Memorial Health Care Corp., has received the Young Careerist Award from the American College of Healthcare Executives.
The award is presented to an individual younger than 40 demonstrating outstanding achievements in the field of health care management. He was given the award at the Tennessee Hospital Association's annual meeting
Chandler is a 1994 graduate of Baylor University. He received a master's in health administration from Washington University School of Medicine in 1997.
He began his career at Baptist serving in the administrative fellowship program for one year. He has also served as CEO and administrator of four Baptist Memorial hospitals.
As vice president and metro market leader, Chandler oversees seven metro Memphis hospitals and NEA Baptist Memorial Hospital in Jonesboro, Ark.
ACHE is an international society of more than 35,000 health care executives who lead hospitals, health care systems and other health care organizations.
– Taylor Shoptaw
Arlington-based Wright Medical Group Inc. will participate in the 22nd annual Oppenheimer Healthcare Conference Tuesday, Dec. 13, in New York City.
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Lance Berry will make a presentation. A live audio webcast of the presentation will be available at Wright's website, www.wmt.com and will be archived on the site after that.
–Aisling Maki
The Centro Cultural Latino de Memphis, also known as Latino Cultural Center of Memphis, will showcase theater, drawing, poetry, dance and song Saturday, Dec. 10, at 5 p.m. at Caritas Village, 2509 Harvard Ave., in Binghampton.
The creative work represents some of the artistic production of youth and adult students in Centro's second cycle of workshops, which began in September.
Housed at Caritas Village, Centro opened its doors in June to strengthen the local Latino community through the artistic understanding and practice among both youth and adults. Workshops are taught by accomplished practitioners of each creative discipline.
The free showcase is open to the public. For more information, contact Gio López at firstname.lastname@example.com or Pablo Davis at email@example.com or 288-3018.
– Sarah Baker
Local chef and cookbook author Jennifer Chandler will demonstrate her "Holiday Entertainment Short-Cuts" and culinary techniques at Cheffie's Café, 483 High Point Terrace, on Monday, Dec. 12, at 5:30 p.m. In correlation with Chandler's demonstration, Buster's Liquors and Wines will pair a selection of wines for guests to experience.
The menu will include an array of appetizers using store-bought ingredients from Cheffie's.
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BAYBORO � A light agenda is on tap tonight for the second September meeting of the Pamlico County commissioners.
BAYBORO � A light agenda is on tap Monday for the second September meeting of the Pamlico County commissioners.
Emergency Manager Chris Murray has two of the four requests on the correspondence agenda, along with nine consent agenda items, which are normally voted on as a group.
Murray will ask for the approval of Gately Communications as the low bidder to replace the E911 dispatch console. E911funding is available.
He also will ask to use state contract pricing to buy new radio equipment for the sheriff�s department.
The board also will be asked to send a letter to local legislators and the governor, seeking assistance in extending the deadline for completion on the 2009 and 2010 Community Development Block Grant programs.
Among the consent agenda items, Public Works Director Garry Coopers asks for a budget amendment regarding asbestos removal, noting that funds are available.
After their last meeting, commissioners had hoped to have a third public hearing on a Wind Energy Ordinance Monday, but that has been scheduled for the Oct. 7 meeting.
At a second public hearing two weeks ago, the board added new language offered by Commissioner Chris Mele to add extra layers of protection for the public and military concerns regarding the potential building of 500-foot wind mills in the county.
Upon legal advice, the board was told it needed a third public hearing on the matter.
All commissioner meetings begin at 7 p.m., including a public comment period, and are held on the second floor of the Pamlico County Courthouse.