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The Baker Corn Maze is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays and 1-5 p.m. Sundays Oct. 6 through Nov. 4. Admission is $7 per person. Take U.S. Highway 90 to Milligan, onto Old River Road, then left onto Buck Ward Road and follow the signs to the Baker Corn Maze.
BAKER � Leading a group of his fellow Rotarians through the Crestview Rotary Club�s corn maze, organizer Mike Carroll said, �I�ve been through here two times and I can tell you, it�s very corn-fusing.�
Corny jokes aside, there is a kernel of truth in Carroll�s comment. The 5-acre maze is bewildering, but it�s all in good fun.
�There�s going to be something for everybody out here,� Crestview Rotary Club President Pat Dingess said. �This really caters to families.�
Rotary member Bill Barnhill donated the use of his cornfield off Buck Ward Road in Baker for the maze. He also contributed use of an adjacent pasture for parking and another for the 25-minute hayride, pony rides and a petting zoo. Visitors can play �The A-maze-ing Game� in which they get punches on their admission tickets, used for prizes, by visiting different spots inside the maze.
Sharpshooters can take their three shots with the compressed-air-powered corn cannon, shooting ears of corn toward target buckets to win prizes. Carroll said the armament is comparable to his T-shirt cannon that shoots souvenir shirts from the roof of his portable barbecue smokehouse.
A $7 individual admission fee covers everything except for the pony rides and concessions, which feature Carroll�s Hub City Smokehouse Triple-B-winning barbecue. Admissions and a portion of concession profits benefit Rotary community projects.
�We�re going to use the profits for the many projects the Rotary supports,� Dingess said. �Our signature project for Rotary Clubs everywhere is polio eradication.�
Among the local projects, Dingess said, is the club�s annual dictionary giveaway to third-graders and U.S. Constitution copies presented to seventh-graders in north county schools.
Four marshals with walkie-talkies will be in the maze at all times, not just to temper any high-spirited mischief and deter cheaters who might be tempted to cut through corn rows, but also to direct lost visitors, including anyone lost as twilight approaches.
Organizers said that unlike some comparable events, the Baker Corn Maze does not have a Halloween or nighttime component, which makes it more amenable to church groups that oppose Halloween-themed activities.
�This is a fall festival event,� Dingess said. �Don�t come expecting ghosts or goblins. We�re focusing on families and are open only during daylight hours.�
Without giving away any secrets, a feature of the maze is the central pattern of the Rotary International �wheel� logo, forming a broad, circular avenue from which various paths through the maze radiate and connect.
Barnhill said the local Rotary Club directed Precision Mazes, a Missouri-based firm, to design the maze layout. The business came to Baker and cut the maze through Barnhill�s cornfield in one day using GPS-guided equipment.
�Put on your tennis shoes and come ready for fun,� Dingess said. �Flip-flops are not recommended.�
Proper footwear is important, Carroll agreed, noting, �You wouldn�t want to get corns.�
The Baker Corn Maze is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays and 1-5 p.m. Sundays Oct. 6 through Nov. 4. Admission is $7 per person. Take U.S. Highway 90 to Milligan, onto Old River Road, then left onto Buck Ward Road and follow the signs to the Baker Corn Maze.
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He has been closely involved in all of the firms important projects including the award winning Manchester Civil Justice Centre, Stratford regeneration projects with Lend Lease, the new British Embassy in Manila, as well as with projects for English Heritage at the Stonehenge World Heritage site.
Prior to joining Denton Corker Marshall Stephen was head of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office's multidisciplinary Major Project Group.


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Texas RV Park Owner Challenges Water Bill Fee
January 11, 2012 by RVBusiness · Comments Off on Texas RV Park Owner Challenges Water Bill Fee
Charles Nunn said he will refuse to pay a new water charge because it is against the law, even though the city of San Benito, Texas, is threatening to shut off water to his RV park.
"They've got to be trespassing to get to my meter," Nunn said, pointing to the master water meter at First Colony Mobile and RV Park .
According to a report in The Monitor, Nunn said his park hasn't paid $5,300 that has been charged since October when the city passed an ordinance setting a monthly $10 base water fee to individual RV sites, whether the sites are occupied or not.
"I said, 'I'm not paying,'" he said. "I never paid for anything I didn't owe."
Nunn cited a state law that he argues prohibits cities from charging water fees to unmetered sites at RV parks.
The law in question was filed in 2005 by state Sen. Mike Jackson, R-La Porte, and State Rep. Lois Kolkhorst, R-Brenham, authored Senate Bill 569 and House Bill 841, respectively.
"The bill was brought to us by campground owners who were concerned about aggressive billing," Chris Steinbach, Kolkhorst's chief of staff, said. "So the bill was to keep the billing as accurate as possible."
State Rep. Larry Taylor, R-Friendswood, last year authored revised legislation known as House Bill 1210, which prohibits cities from charging all unmetered RV sites, whether they're occupied or unoccupied, said Brian Schaeffer, executive director of the Texas Association of Campground Owners (TACO).
The law exempts mobile homes and permanently tied-down park models from water meter charges, Schaeffer said.
Barbara North, who manages Nunn's park, said she doesn't want to take a chance that the city won't refund the money if it stops charging the fee.
"They're going to have to back off and when they back off, the city won't refund it," North said.
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LEWISBURG, Pa. — Professor John Rickard shows students in his English 326 class a 1917 issue of The Little Review that includes the earliest printed version of William Butler Yeats' poem "The Wild Swans at Coole," as it was written before the poet made a critical revision.
He compares the original poem with a later edition in which Yeats swapped the final melancholy stanza with the more upbeat third passage, significantly changing the meaning.
"By moving what was the third stanza to its final position at the end of the poem, Yeats changes the focus from presence to absence, from swans to the speaker, and ends the poem with a question rather than a statement, stressing the speaker's sense of uncertainty and loss of balance," Rickard said. "Of course, students get the idea if you just tell them about it, but seeing the poem in the June 1917 issue of The Little Review in the flesh, so to speak, is more interesting for them."
The literary magazine, in the Special Collections and University Archives at Bucknell University, is part of an extensive collection of Irish Renaissance material. The special collections, which include fine facsimiles of manuscripts, including the Bedford Book of Hours, The Book of Kells, the Ellesmere Chaucer rare books, and artists' books, are used in courses on subjects ranging from the study of medieval art to the study of how propaganda played a role in World War II, said Isabella O'Neill, curator of Special Collections and University Archives.
Part of the equipment
Just as a laser-scanning microscope assists biologists examining cell structure or a flume helps geologists measure characteristics of sediment flow, items in the special collections are part of the academic equipment to support teaching and classroom work and to enhance the learning experience at Bucknell, O'Neill noted.
Janice Mann, the Samuel H. Kress Professor of Art History, incorporates items in the special collections into her art history, medieval art and Islamic architecture classes. Facsimiles of medieval manuscripts such as The Book of Kells allow students to examine and interact with materials on a real scale and to get a sense of what the books are like - without traveling to Trinity College in Dublin, where the original manuscript is kept. Pages from medieval manuscripts give students a feel for the way the books were constructed and illustrated.
"Students can pick up an actual page of a medieval manuscript and see how gold leaf is applied," Mann said. "They get to see the erasures and corrections and this brings a sense of authenticity to the dialogue about art of the past. There are things you can see by looking at the actual manuscript pages that you could never see in a digital image, for instance the difference between the hair side of a piece of sheep skin parchment and the smooth interior side."
A closer look
One of Mann's medieval art students, Haley Clark, Class of '10, said she especially enjoyed leafing through the facsimiles of The Canterbury Tales.
"There is so much narrative that goes into it," said Clark, an art and art history and economics double major from Greenwich, Conn. "There is so much symbolism behind each small character and drawing. We learned about how the illustrations were important for explaining the story."
Russell Dennis, an assistant professor of education, uses the University archives collections for his capstone course: "Bucknell of Yesteryear and Today." Students view old movies and examine primary and original documents and artifacts that tell the story of the University's history, including detailed minutes from Board of Trustees meetings, documents from former Bucknell President David Jayne Hill (1879-1888), as well as physical remnants of the time such as the stakes used to lay out the foundation for the former West College, built in 1899.
"It's very useful in terms of relating past to present," Dennis said.
War posters inspire class
Three years ago, Assistant Professor David Del Testa developed a history course partially around dozens of World War II propaganda posters, which former archives and collections curator Doris Dysinger told him about. Students complete a six- to eight-week project in the library. This year, students focused on the oral history of World War II-era alumni.
"They looked at not just the posters but copies of alumni magazines and yearbooks from the time," Del Testa said. "One of the goals is to learn how to handle original materials. They learn about preservation, too. Students say they use the knowledge directly or indirectly in future courses, and it gives them a sense of satisfaction. They've had the chance to put their hands on the actual materials. It gives the students a sense of responsibility and the ability to handle the material world."
After discussing Samuel Johnson with students in his "Sense and Sensibility" course, English Professor Greg Clingham shows his students a first edition of A Dictionary of the English Language.
"It's a way of establishing a physical relationship with the actual book," which weighs about 25 pounds, Clingham said. "The students on the whole tend to be quite astounded by the physicality and the smell. The course is called 'Sense and Sensibility,' so of course we concentrate in part on sight and smell. The way in which we smell plays a part in our memories of the past."
Words on the page
In Yeats' swan poem, the order of the words on the page made all the difference, a distinction Rickard was able to show in The Little Review. The earlier version ends with a focus on the symbolic swans:
Unwearied still, lover by lover,
They paddle in the cold
Companionable streams or climb the air;
Their hearts have not grown old,
Passion or conquest wander where they will,
Attend upon them still.
Yeats' final version contrasts the speaker of the poem with the seemingly eternal swans in the ending stanza, Rickard noted:
But now they drift on the still water,
Mysterious, beautiful;
Among what rushes will they build
By what lake's edge or pool
Delight men's eyes when I awake some day
To find they have flown away?
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Fossils of human ancestors are rare. You could pile all the ones that scientists have found in the back of a pickup truck.But a remarkable site in Georgia, in the former Soviet Union, has produced a rich group of bones dating back almost 2 million years — and the discovery is shaking the family tree of human evolution.
..... the team found as much variation among modern humans and among chimps and among the Dmanisi Five as there is among those ancient African fossils that have long been thought to be different species.
This is the excellent thing about science, it always pushes on to find truth no matter in which direction it leads.
Dato Lortkipanidze thought he recognised Homo habilis, a hominid with a close resemblance to an ape.But what was he doing in Georgia? The theory had always been that the migration out of Africa had only happened with the evolution of big brains and the development of the tools and hunting skills to make the exodus possible. [...] Another unusual aspect of the Dmanisi find is that it was discovered in the same layer of sediment as other hominids with substantially larger brains - Homo erectus.Mr Lortkipanidze suggests the variation may force us to rethink the definition Homo.
Chris Stringer at the Natural History Museum in London said that the team had made an excellent case "that this remarkable new skull, with its huge jawbone", was part of the natural variation of the Dmanisi population.But he said he was doubtful that all of the early Homo fossils can be "lumped into an evolving H.erectus lineage"."Only H.Erectus survives and becomes successful but at the origin nature was experimenting with how to evolve humans in terms of increasing brain size," Prof Stringer told BBC News."Creatures were starting to use tools and eat meat, and this drove evolution, but I think it also drove diversity. The Dmanisi group is an example of the successful species that came out of that and then carried on to spread around the old world."
I feel sorry for the people who got an A on their evolution papers in high School or college. Looks like they didn't have this knowledge. Better start rewriting those textbooks once again with the New Truth.


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Together, the Governor's Council on Prevention and the Office for Prevention track and monitor changes in the incidence of developmental disabilities. Their most recent findings can be found in the report, "Changes and Challenges: Securing Our Children's Future."
The Governor's Council administers two standing committees:
More information about and resources for the prevention of lead poisoning can be found at our Get the Lead Out Resource page. The Lead Task Force also serves as the advisory board to the New Jersey Childhood Lead Poisoning Elimination Plan.
Members of the Task Force include representatives from the State Departments of Human Services and Health and Senior Services, Rutgers University, the Perinatal Addictions System, the Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Diagnostic (FASD) Centers, community agencies and family members.
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Anthony J. Benedetti's career has been dedicated to the proposition that everyone, no matter how poor or how horrendous the accusation against them, has the right to due process and a fair shot at receiving justice.
That mind-set prompted Benedetti, a 1993 graduate of Suffolk University Law School, to work for the Massachusetts Committee for Public Counsel Services -- the state agency that provides legal services to the indigent -- while still in law school. He started out in the newly formed Audit and Oversight Department, then, after he earned his juris doctor, joined the Committee's Brockton office as a staff attorney representing criminal defendants in cases of all kinds, "from attempted murder on down."
Now Benedetti is chief counsel for the Committee for Public Counsel Services. He participated in a panel discussion convened by the Law School's Rappaport Center for Law and Public Service, the American Constitution Society, and the Committee for Public Counsel Services to mark the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court's unanimous ruling in Gideon v. Wainwright, which gave poor people accused of crimes the right to counsel, regardless of ability to pay.
Reflecting on his experiences, Benedetti says: "Once you get into the system, you realize how much unfairness there is and how stacked in favor of the government it is in individual cases."
As Committee for Public Counsel Services general counsel, from 1998-2010, he worked to redress that balance. In his role as liaison to the state executive, legislative and judicial branches on budget and policy proposals, he helped secure an hourly pay increase for private attorneys working for the committee and advanced legislation to establish a process providing compensation for the wrongfully convicted.
And as Committee for Public Counsel Services chief counsel since August 2010, Benedetti has presided over a period of rapid expansion, seeing 62 percent growth in staff over the past two years. With a $195 million budget, a team of around 520 staff attorneys and support personnel based in 28 offices across Massachusetts, and about 3,000 assigned private lawyers, the agency now provides legal representation to around 285,000 indigent clients annually.
"I don't know what it would be like to work at a place where it was just a job," says Benedetti, who has always treated his clients with respect and dignity and worked to unearth the human story behind their alleged crimes.
A card with the message: "Keep Calm and Carry On" stands on the corner of Benedetti's desk. Yet there are plenty of issues that could disturb the desired calm. The Committee, like every other segment of the Massachusetts criminal justice system, is dealing with the fallout from the alleged misconduct of chemist Annie Dookhan and systemic oversight lapses at the Hinton State Laboratory Institute in Jamaica Plain from 2003-2012.
"Thousands of individuals' rights have been affected by this drug lab fiasco, and the entire system is in crisis," says Benedetti, referring to Dookhan's alleged mishandling of drug evidence and overall conditions at the lab. He estimates the scandal might affect a staggering 190,000 cases, many handled by the Committee for Public Counsel Services.
In light of the current pressure on his agency and staff, negative media stereotypes of public defenders are particularly galling, says Benedetti.
"We recruit people who are passionate about public service and representing those who are less fortunate" he says. The starting salary for a CPCS staff attorney is $40,000, and many of his defenders "could have gone to a big firm and made a lot of money" instead of choosing a service-centered career path.
"People don't hear enough about the good things government workers do and the sacrifices they make for not a lot of money," says Benedetti. He credits his "great staff and great management team" with inspiring him every day to pursue their shared mission: "that every single client, whether criminal or civil, whether represented by staff attorney or private attorney, receives the best possible representation that he or she is entitled to."


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Hello, basically I need a system for showing any SMS / Caller ID to a user mobile number I think a network guy would know how this would be done Thanks
...will get 5 credits weekly for content download from www.xxxxx.com. For your points send BALANCE to xxx; To opt-out send STOP; For assistance send HELP; T&Cs Apply" "This Sunday might be your lucky day! You can win RM10,000! Send YES to xxx to join "Score & Win" content service & join also our SMS contest. RM5/week. The SMS contest ...
Bulk sms Account that is going to connect via api
I need an Android app. I would like it designed and built. I need sms gateway and payment gateway for my app .
I'm seeking for someone that has already build a system you text a certain word to a number and it will automatically hop you on and add you on the database.
We need a quick script/solution made for receiving an incoming SMS for Twilio numbers. Don't need a fancy admin panel or anything. Just a quick way to receive incoming SMS. Please put the word QUICK in your bid so we know you've read this.
need bulks SMS website, API, SMPP GATEWAY
I'm looking for call/sms service for account verification. Simple thing! It should work with any social media / website in general.
I need sample code to read incomming SMS in Android Studio 3 and save it in a variable.
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text: And now for something completely different..! I'm pleased to announce the launch of Dungeon Defenders Nexus which I hope will be a helpful resource for Dungeon Defenders players and mod authors.It might come as a surprise to be launching this site so close to the launch of Skyrim but I have Dungeon Defenders to thank for helping me retain my sanity while we all wait for Skyrim to come out and I've clocked countless hours already levelling up all my characters. If you haven't heard of Dungeon Defenders it's a highly addictive new game that mixes elements of tower defense maps with action RPGs for an extremely fun experience either solo or co-op with up to 4 players online. The idea is to place towers in strategic positions across a map to defend your core against continually spawning waves of monsters. You control a hero who brings his own talents and skills to the fray, who can gain experience that will help him to level up (in typical action RPG fashion) and aquire bigger and better items. If you like tower defense maps or action RPGs like Diablo then you'll want to give this game a try.I absolutely love tower defense maps and spent a lot of my gaming time at university playing Warcraft 3 TD maps (Zoator, anyone?), so when I heard the Dungeon Defenders devs were planning to make the game open source to modders, and that the modding potential was practically limitless, I couldn't help but want to make a Nexus site for this great game.The game is supposed to be going open source for mod authors to bite their teeth in to some time this week. At which point the Unreal Development Kit (UDK) will become useful and mod authors will be able to add and change practically anything and everything within the game. The modding potential for this game is huge and I look forward to seeing what the community can come up with.A word on open vs. ranked play for Dungeon Defenders players. Ranked play is supposed to be free of user modifications and cheating and, as such, we will not be supporting any sort of modding or cheating that affects ranked play until Trendy Entertainment tell us otherwise. Similarly, Trendy have made their position on cheating very clear on their forums and we will not support any methods for cheating that are not recognised by Trendy. This means you can use the UDK (when released) to cheat as much as you want, but if you use third-party tools that are not supported or approved by Trendy you risk losing your account. You have been warned!In brighter news, Trendy have expressed an interest in getting some of the best mods patched in to the full release of the game as supported game modes (which might well enable your mods to be VAC-enabled/cheat protected), which I think is a great gesture. I look forward to seeing how that develops.If you need any help feel free to use our Dungeon Defenders forums. Happy modding!


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Lakers 101 - Warriors 77 (final)
The Lakers (2-4) got their most impressive, and second, win of the season Friday night over the Warriors (3-3). The Lakers shot just 40% from the field but did a tremendous job defensively.
Golden State struggled inside without Andrew Bogut (ankle) and defensively on the perimeter with no Brandon Rush (ACL) to check Kobe Bryant. The Lakers were once again without Steve Nash (leg).
Bryant led all scorers with 27 points on 10-18 shooting from the field. He nearly notched a triple-double with seven assists and nine boards.


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Chuuuuck wrote:Yes, jp, I will clarify about home teams being joined first. I also will try to have the power rankings up ASAP. Just haven't had time to combine them as of late.
Those power rankings are really old Chuck. I submitted mine over 4 months ago. A lot has happened since then. Do you think it is possible to have all clan leaders who are participating in the Cup submit power rankings (only for those involved) when sign-ups close. If we could get a one or two day turn around I think it would be possible.


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Asik, Rockets down Magic
Houston, TX – Omer Asik scored 22 points and pulled down 18 rebounds to lead the Houston Rockets to a 111-103 win over the Orlando Magic on Monday.
Jeremy Lin added 19 points and 11 assists and Francisco Garcia scored 14 points and dished out five assists for the Rockets, who were without James Harden for the second straight game because of a sore foot.
"We've all got to play with pace and movement all the time as a team. I thought that the two games where we really struggled against Indiana and Memphis we're slowed down, we had no pace, no space and no thrust," Rockets coach Kevin McHale said. "We just didn't play our style but we've done that periodically throughout the year. It���s not like a revelation for anybody that's watching us."
Maurice Harkless poured in a game-high 28 points and Beno Udrih added 17 points and 10 assists for the Magic, who got double-doubles from both Tobias Harris and Nikola Vucevic.
Harris finished with 18 points and 11 boards and Vucevic netted 12 to go with 12 rebounds in the setback.
Houston shot 57.7 percent (15-for-26), while holding Orlando to just 5-for-19 shooting in the first quarter to take a 32-14 lead after the first 12 minutes. Asik and Greg Smith scored 10 points apiece in the first and Garcia chipped in with five points.
The Rockets' lead grew as large as 24 in the second, and held a 65-43 lead at the break.
The Magic pulled within 12 near the midway point of the third, but Houston used 13-6 run to go up 87-68. Orlando closed the frame with a 6-3 swing to make it 90-74 entering the fourth.
Houston was in control for most of the fourth, leading by as much as 20, but the Magic rallied with a 20-6 run to make it a five-point game, 106-101, with 2:05 to go.
"These guys don't quit. No one on this team quits. We've been in a lot of games this year but we always fight back. I love playing with these guys," Harkless said.
The Rockets, however, held the Magic to just two points the rest of the way to lock up their seventh win in 10 games.
Game Notes
Carlos Delfino and Smith finished with 12 points apiece and Dontas Motiejunas added 11 in the victory ... Vucevic recorded his 38th double-double of the season ... The Magic went 19-for-21 from the free throw line ... Magic guard Jameer Nelson missed his second-straight game with a sprained ankle.


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source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64707/info Command School Student Management System is prone to the following security vulnerabilities: 1. Multiple SQL-injection vulnerabilities 2. A cross-site request forgery vulnerability 3. A cross-site scripting vulnerability 4. An HTML injection vulnerability 5. A security-bypass vulnerability Exploiting these issues could allow an attacker to run malicious HTML and script codes, steal cookie-based authentication credentials, compromise the application, access or modify data, exploit latent vulnerabilities in the underlying database, or bypass certain security restrictions to perform unauthorized actions. Command School Student Management System 1.06.01 is vulnerable; other versions may also be affected. http://www.example.com/sw/admin_subjects.php?action=edit&id=null+and+1=2+union+select+version()
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Bill Maher ripped into the Tea Party, gun-nuts, and even the Senate on Real Time last night.
"The Constitution, contrary to the beliefs of so many Teabaggers, was not brought to us directly by Jesus."
"And actually, the founding fathers understood that we need to amend it. They wanted us to do that. Yes, so much of it does need a page one rewrite, including that B.S. about the Senate and the Second Amendment. Both of them should go. And a lot of other sh*t in there."
Maher's beef with the Senate stems from the Republican's unprecedented use of the filibuster, which along with the tireless work of psychopathic gun-nuts and the cowardice of Harry Reid and the betrayal of 4 Democrats resulted in the voting down of increased background checks for gun sales with 90% of Americans support.
Maher said, "The Founding Fathers could not have foreseen AK-47s, they also could not have foreseen Wyoming, and Montana. They could not have foreseen 50 states where we have this horrible situation where there are two senators representing like a thousand people — there's more than that in the mall here in California."
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RBS and NatWest cut back on paper account statements
RBS and NatWest current account customers will no longer receive monthly paper bank account statements, unless they opt back into the system.
The banking group has been writing to customers to inform them that statements will only be sent in the post every three months.
Those who want letters delivered will need to contact the bank.
The policy marks the latest element in the shift towards information being provided online.
Most major banks still provide monthly paper statements, but there have been changes for some new account holders and students.
'Not compulsory'
In one of the most significant shifts in the move from mail correspondence to online, the RBS Group has been writing to seven million customers informing them of the shift to quarterly statements.
A spokesman for the group said this was in response to customer feedback and requests. There will also be a cost-saving element to the move.
"The change is not compulsory and we will continue to send monthly statements to customers who ask us to," the banking group said.
"They can request that by going into their nearest branch, calling us, or completing an online form. For our customers who go on to receive quarterly statements, they can easily keep track of their money by requesting free mobile text and email alerts.
"A list of account transactions covering up to the last seven years is also available at anytime by going online or calling into a branch."
Letters will be sent to customers of Ulster Bank, part of the RBS Group, from January that explains the change.
Restrictions elsewhere
Some other High Street banks have also cut back on delivery of paper statements.
Anyone opening a Barclays current account will be asked whether they want statements provided online or through the post, although the internet option is the default position.
A survey for Barclays, published earlier this week, claimed that a third of those who received paper statements did not open them, partly because they did not want to be reminded of the state of their finances.
Those who have a basic bank account - a no-frills account often used by those with a chequered credit history - or a student account with Lloyds Banking Group receive paper statements at least once every three months.
However, regular current account holders at the banking group, as well as HSBC customers, receive paper statements every month.


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I own this old sewing machine. I don't know exactly, how old she is. I call Husqvarna Viking co. and they say that it's probably a 1876 who as been converted for the electricity. The serial number is 37392 and on the front C.WP.Co Model 128, Precision-Built De Luxe. I don't know if someone can help me to date my machine.
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DOVER – The Children's Museum of NH is now taking registrations for new preschool and homeschool science classes that begin on January 10. Each 6-week session includes hands-on experiments, lessons and creative projects under the instruction of a museum educator.
The Junior Science Explorers Class is for children ages 3-1/2 to 5 years old and will meet on Thursdays, January 10 – February 15 at 10 am. Budding scientists will be introduced to a variety of science topics with themed activities and experiments during each 45-minute class. The cost is $60 for museum members and $70 for non-members, and the price includes all materials.
Science Explorers for Homeschoolers has been created for children ages 5-1/2 – 9 years old and will meet on Thursdays, January 10 – February 14 at 11:30 am. The theme for this first session is "Winter Wonders." Students will explore the three states of matter and learn how matter changes from one state to another. The class will also discover how insulators work and participate in challenges like designing contraptions that keep an ice cube from melting. Making ice cream is also on the list of hands-on activities! The cost for this 6-week class is $60 for members and $70 for non-members. Additional siblings in a family pay just $36 each to participate.
The next Science Explorers for Homeschoolers class will be Making Things Move with Physics and that class will run from March 7 – April 11.
To register for any of the science classes at the Children's Museum of NH, please call 603-742-2002. Each class is limited to just 12 students for personalized instruction. More information can be found at www.childrens-museum.org
The not-for-profit Children's Museum of New Hampshire is located at 6 Washington Street in Dover and offers two levels of hands-on, custom-created exhibits for children ages 1-12. Children can explore a wide range of subjects, from dinosaurs, music and aeronautics to world cultures, art and natural history. Open year-round, the museum specializes in creating family learning experiences and works closely with schools, social service agencies and educators. The museum also hosts a variety of live performances, workshops, classes and special events for families. For more information, please call the museum at (603) 742-2002 or visit www.childrens-museum.org.
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Once again, the month of October is upon us…. a time for hauntings, Halloween - and all things spooky. This month, A Grave Interest will travel around the Midwest, taking ghost tours and getting a look at some 'lively' places, and, maybe, the spirits who make them so…
I decided early on that it would be smart to get some guides for these haunted jaunts. And who better to seek out than the local experts on all things paranormal in their towns.
On this warm and breezy October night there are about 20 of us that are ready to travel the brick streets of St Charles with Michael Henry, owner of St Charles Ghost Tours in St Charles, Missouri.
|Michael Henry
|St Charles Ghost Tour
The first permanent pioneer settlements here were built in the early 1700s. The original town was founded in 1765 and called Les Petites Côtes, "The Little Hills. The town of St Charles was founded here 1812.
|Lewis & Clark
|Former City Hall
|Former I.O.O.F. Building
|Green Room at Left
Regardless, restless spirits still walk the boards, opening and closing doors, and taking the time to make sure that they latch! There are also nights, around 9 p.m., when a ghostly figure peeks out from the stage wings, checking to see how big the evening's audience is just before the show begins - again…
|3-Story Restaurant
|Haunted Stairway
|The Bar
|Where Sheriff Curtis Died
|Dark Alley
|EMF Detectors Go Off
|Blood Under UV Light
|Borromeo Church
|French Vertical Style
|Inside Church
|Bodies Still Buried Here
|Walkway Where She's Seen
|Former Location of Eckert's Tavern
|Lived Down This Walk
|Where She Died
|EMF Reading
|St Charles Ghost Tour Group
For reservations phone (314) 374-6102 or visit the web page at http://www.stcharlesghosts.com Tours begin at the corner of Jefferson and South Main Streets.
I have lots of spectral things coming up next week. On Monday, I'll be a guest on The Shadows Radio http://theshadowsradio.com, talking about the different ghost tours I've covered, and spirits I've encountered in cemeteries. Show starts at 9 p.m. Eastern time.
|Haunted Winery
And next Friday, we'll take a walk on the spooky side of Westfield, Indiana where I photographed "snow" on a balmy September night...
~ Joy


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The Scholars Portal Project: The USC Perspective
Marianne Afifi is director of electronic resources & special projects development, Information Services Division, University of Southern California (USC). She can be reached at email@example.com.
The Scholars Portal Project was launched in May 2002 as a multiyear collaboration between seven ARL member libraries and Fretwell-Downing. The project seeks to provide software tools for an academic community to have a single point of access on the Web to find high-quality information resources and, to the greatest extent possible, deliver the information and related services directly to the user's desktop. The impetus for the project was an article entitled "The Case for Creating a Scholars Portal to the Web: A White Paper" written by Jerry D. Campbell, dean, university librarian, and CIO at the University of Southern California (USC), and a discussion at an ARL meeting with the subsequent formation of the Scholars Portal Working Group. The project seeks to develop a metasearch technology within the context of a portal in conjunction with the vendor Fretwell-Downing, Inc. (FD). Each institution is to implement this portal within the context of its library website. The project is slated to run until 2005.
As a member of the USC project team and a frequent representative on the Project Managers group, I believe I have a good perspective on the essential aspects of this effort and can summarize USC's experiences in several specific areas of the project.
Project Team
USC formed a project team that underwent some changes mid-stream due to realignment of departments and project groups. The current project team consists of the co-project managers and the technical manager in addition to an electronic acquisitions specialist, an electronic resources librarian, an instruction coordinator, a reference coordinator and an evaluation coordinator. Although the team members have very limited time allocated to the project, the team meetings and email communications have been valuable and have allowed us to move forward with the project and to consider it in context of how it may fit into the digital library environment.
Managed Services Contract
In addition to the project development costs, full participation in the project required the purchase of hardware and at least an FTE of technical staff dedicated to the project. In contrast to the other participants, some of whom had external funding for the project, USC did not have the internal resources to bring the Scholars Portal software in-house. USC performed a cost analysis and concluded that a managed services contract was a more effective solution for hosting the project. Such an arrangement means that the software is housed on FD servers and that there is a test environment and a production environment that USC can manipulate remotely. Initially, the managed services agreement proved to be new ground for FD, but eventually a system was agreed upon that allowed USC to work fairly independently using scripts. There are still some glitches concerning support issues to be worked out, but the managed services agreement has saved USC equipment and staff time in addition to providing flexibility in terms of continuation of the project after the three-year pilot phase.
Each of the participating institutions had different requirements for the portal in the context of their library's technical infrastructure. For example, each site had a different way of authenticating users to their resources and thus a custom implementation had to be found for each institution. USC was interested in developing Shibboleth-based access control as part of a campus-wide effort involving a global directory infrastructure. Shibboleth was not one of the access control mechanisms FD had intended to implement. Also at the beginning of the project, Shibboleth was still in beta and there was a risk involved in developing to this software. However, after Version 1 of Shibboleth was released, FD was more confident about its stability, and USC signed a separate contract with FD to develop Shibboleth access controls for USC's Scholars Portal implementation. While I cannot describe Shibboleth here (see http://shibboleth.Internet2.edu/ for more information), the implementation at USC has been completed and is working.
Several institutions have performed assessment of the project implementation at their sites. USC contracted with an outside vendor, the Arthur Group, Inc., to perform a usability analysis and evaluation of the product in a controlled environment. Users (in this case students) found the concept of a single search very desirable and were willing to try the software again despite the problems they encountered with the functional and systems design, the interface, and how the portal met their expectations. However, the results were more favorable than expected given these difficulties.
The results of the evaluation will play an important role in further improving the implementation at USC, but should also be constructive for FD and the other project participants. While the main focus at USC was on the end-user evaluation, USC staff in its work with the portal back-end concluded that the staff interface is complex, has a steep learning curve and is thus resource-intensive. Further evaluation is planned at the conclusion of the project.
Although the three-year project is in its second year, progress has been very slow at USC. Some problems are common to all participants, such as delays in the establishment of the administrative project structure and the vendor's software development, which is a year behind schedule. USC's reasons for the slow progress are as follows: internal resource allocation; delays due to the time lag inherent in the managed services contract; getting the Shibboleth authentication to work; not releasing the software to the public due to the authentication development time; and wanting to perform a user evaluation study in a controlled environment. USC expects to have a functional version of the software available to the USC community by the beginning of 2005.
More details about the project, including participants, project reports and other documents, are available on the ARL website at www.arl.org/access/scholarsportal/index.html.
I would like to credit all project participants both at USC and at the other institutions for their tireless work, encouragement and direction.
Copyright © 2004, American Society for Information Science and Technology


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This Week's Theme: Dogs Dogs Dogs
Last Week's Winner: Yok Yokker of Perth, Australia for submitting this Moon themed piece.
Next Week's Theme: Blimps and Balloons
Next Week's Prize: Some awesome prizes which will be announced later in the week
Submission Guidelines for next week:
We had some great entires this week that we couldn't run, either because they weren't sized right or had nothing to do with theme.
It makes up feel bad when you send us stuff and we can't post it up so please read the guidlines below.
- The size formatting is max 600 pixels in width OR length- if they
are bigger than this they will not be posted. So if you have a long skinny
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- One submission per person by Thursday at 2pm PST.
- If you have a website (or two or three) please specify which one you would like me to link in the body of your email. Also, let us know where you're from!
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Keeping Topaz's Lesson Alive
Emery County residents and former Japanese-American internees broke ground in August for the Topaz Museum and Education Center on Main Street in Delta.
With a recent $714,000 grant from the National Park Service, the museum board has raised $1.6 million toward the $2.3 million needed to complete the project that will include an art gallery, exhibit space and a library.
Alan Kawasaki, an Oakland, Calif., architect whose family was imprisoned at Topaz, contributed to the design.
Naming opportunities for various Topaz Museum exhibits are available for donors who would like to honor the 11,000 Japanese-Americans imprisoned at Topaz.
For more information or to make a donation visit topazmuseum.org or write to Topaz Museum, P.O. Box 241, Delta, UT 84624
They were there
Amy Ota, 87, and her husband, Kenji, 91, were teenage lovers at Topaz. Amy has said racism in America "is a little better now."
Toru Saito (White Shirt), 75, was 4 years old when he was imprisoned and often returns to Topaz to guide former internees through the ruins.
Willie Ito, 78, practiced animation in Sears catalog margins at 8 years old. He left Topaz and became a Disney animator.
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5. Tamara Taylor
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8. Sarah Hunter
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17. Sasha Acheson
18. Laura Keates
19. Joanne McGilchrist
20. Hannah Gallagher
21. Natasha Hunt
22. Ceri Large
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3. Catrin Edwards
4. Rachel Taylor
5. Shona Powell Hughes Harries
6. Catrina Nicholas
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17. Megan York
18. Caryl Thomas
19. Jenny Hawkins
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Having lost to France in their Six Nations opener, England have now beaten Scotland, Ireland and Wales to keep the pressure on their unbeaten rivals.
Katy Mclean and Scarratt slotted a penalty each as England took a 6-0 lead before Robyn Wilkins halved the deficit with what would be Wales' only points.
In the 23rd minute Amber Reed exploited a gap, ran through it and laid off for Rachael Burford, who fed Scarratt for her first try of the evening.
Scarratt slotted a fine conversion and then grabbed her second try after further good work from Reed but failed with the extras from the touchline.
There was no keeping Scarratt down however and she set up Wilson for England's third try before missing with an equally difficult conversion on the other touchline.
England went in at half-time 23-3 ahead and Scarratt was almost toasting a hat-trick after the restart but was stopped after a fine run of half the length of the pitch.
The hosts soon scored their fourth try at Twickenham Stoop though and it was wing Brennan on debut with her first touch.
And Alphonsi completed the scoring with England's fifth and final try as they inflicted a fourth defeat from four onto Wales with the score finishing 35-3.


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Asus My Cinema-PHC3-100/NAQ/FM/AV/RC TV Tuner Review
Television has been around for a long time, much longer than computers. However, it turns out that TV and computers complement each other very nicely. Who hasn't wanted to record a TV show on their computer so they could watch it later, or rewind a program to hear the punch line of a joke or see an instant replay of your favorite football team? Other people just don't have a lot of room available to them and would like to watch TV on their computer. While most computers don't come with the ability to do this, you can get an add-on card to allow you to connect a cable signal or antenna signal to your computer and tune in to any channels you have access to.
One such TV Tuner is the Asus My Cinema-PHC3-100/NAQ/FM/AV/RC (which from now on I'll simply refer to as the Asus My Cinema, even though this refers to an entire product line) which is a PCI card that can tune in FM radio as well as digital and analog TV signals. This is truly an all-in-one package, as it comes with a remote, as well as some software to make your experience complete. The software will let you tune in channels, record television, and watch TV on your Windows Vista sidebar. A final benefit that I will mention here is that the card also serves as a hardware MPEG2 encoder, releasing some of the stress off your CPU and onto the card.
Closer Look:
The packaging that the Asus My Cinema comes in is a pretty simple rectangular cardboard box. On the front it lists several of the features and has a large picture of a man enjoying his TV tuner by watching some football and some other show at the same time, by taking advantage of the fact that the tuner can tune in both a digital and analog signal at the same time. On the back there are six pictures showing how some of the features work and providing some description.
Opening the box reveals the contents that are in the familiar molded plastic casing.
The remote that comes with the Asus My Cinema is pretty standard. On the top is a set of buttons to handle the recording and time shifting of programming. Below that is a Windows button that, by default, launches the Windows Media Center (which is compatible with the My Cinema card). Finally there is a directional pad and numerical pad, as well as a few extra buttons that will take you straight to recorded TV, the TV guide, live TV, or DVD. There is no doubt that this remote is made for use with Windows Media Center. Another included item is an IR receiver, so if your computer doesn't have one already, you won't be in too much trouble. The receiver also has the ability to output IR incase you wish to use a cable box or satellite receiver.


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Marcus ventures back to the penthouse suite to find some answers.
Kicking off where the original [REC] finished this Spanish horror sequel takes us back inside the infected apartment block, but this time we have an armed team escorting an official from the ministry of health. They are going in to find out what's happened in the quarantined area, only Dr Owen (Jonathan Mellor)—the man from the ministry of health—isn't what he seems and when he reveals he's not in there to study the health risks, but has actually been sent by the church because of the religious/demonic nature of the infection, this sequel begins to get messy.
For the record I loved the original [REC]. It was one of those few movies where the hand held cam technique worked wonders for its mood and despite the tried and tested zombie/infected shenanigans it still managed to feel fresh and more importantly scary. For me, the original really came to life in the closing scenes with the reveal of the religious elements in the oh so scary penthouse (totally avoided in the US remake Quarantine by the way) with its tape recordings and newspaper cuttings and of course the creepy as all hell Medeiros girl wandering around in the night vision. So having the sequel barely missing a second and jumping straight into the action with our new team/victims heading straight up to the penthouse was exactly what I was after.
As many have said [REC] 2 to [REC] very much feels like what Aliens is to Alien. We know the threat, we know the lay of the land, and even though we should feel safe with the armed up team and the knowledge of what's out there, it soon goes to shit when the odds are ramped up. Well [REC] 2 doesn't muck about; before you know it we're back in the penthouse, and even more so we are going to go back in the loft space where the uber jump from the first movie occurred. You know what I'm talking about, the "what the fuck is a weird looking little boy doing in there???!!!" jump.
The movie throws the missing details at you at an alarming rate, the infected are as effective as ever, and while the hand held camera technique feels a little more forced in the sequel (especially with the teens that enter the building) it's still used well enough not to ruin the desired effect of having us watch the events unfold in the apartment block that's full of surprises.
Really I can't go into much more as this sequel is full of surprises, answers to the original movies mysteries and its fair share of "what the fuck?" moments (though none as shocking as the falling fireman in the original—man that made me jump!) and of course its own fair share of plot twists. With that said, I have to say I thoroughly enjoyed this sequel, I loved where the story went, I loved the use of the religious elements and more importantly I'm very prepared for where [REC] 3 might go. Though the cynic in me predicts it won't go outside of the apartment buildings walls and we're in for another round of "let's go and see what's in that penthouse" again. We'll see I guess.
From the get go the black levels are solid and the image is generally clean and digitally crisp. In all honesty the lo-fi nature of the project makes the [REC] movies look a lot like a high end TV drama/thriller with it realistic lighting, lived in set and limited camera angles as opposed to all out big budget horror-fest but this is why we love it, right?
To keep the camcorder feel alive there is of course a fair amount of grain, mostly in close ups, but generally the image provides some good colours when it needs to (especially when we're introduced to the teenagers on the roof) and with the bright stark light of the nearby helicopter popping up now and again means everything looks quite detailed and natural against the dark backdrop.
Really [REC] 2 is a hard one to judge. As a plus point the image looks like a good high end HD camcorder image as is the intention, but compare it to a run of the mill movie and you'll begin to see the failings. It's a shame I didn't get the Blu-ray to review, as I would be quite interested to see how much of a difference the HD presentation might make.
The Dolby Digital track is quite effectively used with the cameraman's vocals sitting in the rear speakers as he films and everything else sitting in the front speakers to add to the effect. Honestly it's a little distracting and a little too showy in the opening scenes and with the team preparing to go in. The odd comment from the unseen cameraman feels unconnected to the group's conversation and really I found it a little forced to sell the set-up of a technique that's become quite common anyway.
Thankfully that doesn't last too long and once we're in the apartment block silence is used to full effect. As with the first movie the simple use of dialogue, the shuffling of feet and the calamity outside give you a real sense of tension and is much akin to a computer game experience where we follow the other characters around and wait for the eventual chaos to begin.
When everything does kick off it's generally in short sharp bursts—loud screeches, yells, ominous creaks and bangs and even a bit of bass heavy gunfire. In its design it's there to put the fear of the moment front and centre and [REC] 2's mix manages to be very effective with its intentions especially in a darkened room.
The disc boots up with trailers for The Tortured (which is a contender for the hokiest trailer ever), the first [REC], 7 Days and Unthinkable (a movie with a great cast yet it still looks all kinds of stoopid!).
Beyond that there's only three and a half minutes of extended scenes and just under four minutes of deleted scenes, so features-wise this release is a real let-down.
The return to Spain's creepiest apartment block proved to be everything I wanted from a sequel to [REC]. We get answers, we get the threat ramped up, and we get a blossoming horror franchise that I'm actually quite excited about. [REC] 2 takes the closing events of [REC] and runs with it and while it's not quite as sharp as the original it still does more than enough to drive the story forward, offering a great tease at the potential for the third and recently announced fourth instalment.
The disc really lets itself down in regards to features, but with a good A/V presentation that's used effectively for scares the movie itself gets a much better treatment.
Review by Marcus Doidge
Dumb Dealer Member Join Date: October 2008 Location: Indonesia Posts: 227
I watched Quarantine prior to [REC] since that's what available at the time. So, when I was about to watch [REC] 6 month later, I thought that I shouldn't have been too scared and jumpy anymore. But, boy, the original was as scary as hell, especially the medeiros girl in the climax. The same scene in Quarantine is not even half scary as in the original.
So, I'm really looking forward to see this sequel. Glad that this has become a franchise. Here's hoping that [REC] can take down/replace SAW sequels.
So, I'm really looking forward to see this sequel. Glad that this has become a franchise. Here's hoping that [REC] can take down/replace SAW sequels.
Marcus1138 Contributor Join Date: June 2008 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 910
The religious touches made the end of the original so much more effective than Quantantine's fairly straight forward "infection".
Dumb Dealer Member Join Date: October 2008 Location: Indonesia Posts: 227
Yeah, the religious aspect makes it kinda unique and more close to the Dead series and The Exorcist which is a good thing.
J Linc Member Join Date: December 2007 Location: United States Posts: 59
For me, the more scientific/naturalistic angle that "Quarantine" took made the scenario to a degree more realistic, which in many ways for me makes that more unsettling and/or disturbing. Still, that doesn't take away the fact that the supernatural/mystical explanation for everything in "[REC]" is not affective and certainly the final scene in "[REC]" is ultimately somewhat more memorable specifically because the actor and the makeup used on them (you probably know the "character" I am referring to) is more striking and convincing.
In short, I find both to have strengths so to each their own.
In short, I find both to have strengths so to each their own.
Veronica0420 Member Join Date: September 2007 Location: United States Posts: 19
I thought this movie was awful. It was like they tried to hard to make an explanation and just overdid it. Too many head-smacking moments ("What the hell are you doing? You should know better!". The ending was ridiculous too. Honestly, I was very angry that they made this as I feel it insults the original. They should have come up with a better idea.
Suitable only for persons of 18 years and over
Disc Details
Release Date: 20th September 2010
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Single side, dual layer
RCE: No
Video: PAL
Aspect: 1.78:1
Anamorphic: Yes
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 Spanish, Dolby Stereo 2.0 Spanish
Subtitles: English
Extras: Deleted and Extended Scenes
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza
Cast: Óscar Zafra, Jonathan Mellor, Manuela Velasco
Genre: Horror
Length: 80 minutes
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The Moleskine Passions Wine Journal, which makes it easier to record your passion for swigs and swills, has been faithfully reproduced in digital format and is now available to download right from within the Moleskine Journal iPad app.
Easily profile a wine using the keyboard and data fields, or handwrite entries using the Zoom feature. If you photograph labels in restaurants, import the image from your photo library or add it directly from the app with the built-in camera. Categorize, customize and organize your favorite wines by giving each one a star rating, looking up glossary terms, choosing the appropriate glass and adding digital stickers to tag your pages. Then share your notes with your dinner companions and fellow drinkers via email, Facebook and Twitter or sync to Evernote and backup to Dropbox. Let us have a peek too on #moleskinejournal.
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After you install the Directory Server Connector and if you have other configured Connectors to install, the installation program will give you the option of installing the Connectors before you see the Connector Configuration pane.
The component list contains only those Connector components that have not yet been installed. For example, if you already installed the Directory Server Connector (dc=example,dc=com in this case), it will not be listed.
Enable the Connector button and click Next.
The Connector Configuration panel displays.
The Select components to install list contains only those Connector components that have not yet been installed. For example, after you install the Directory Server Connector (dc=example,dc=com in this case), the program will remove the entry from this list pane.
Enable the button next to the Active Directory component and then click Next.
The Ready to Install pane is displayed to provide information about the Connector's installation location and how much disk space is required for the installation.
If you installed Core on the local machine, the Ready to Install pane will indicate that zero space is required to install the Connector. This situation occurs because the Core installation has already installed the Connector binaries. Because there are no additional binaries to install, no additional space is required.
If you are installing the Connector on a machine other than where you installed Core, then the Ready to Install pane will indicate how much space is required to complete the Connector installation on the local machine.
When you are ready, click the Install Now button.
An Installing pane is displayed, with a progress bar, while the program installs the binaries, and then an Installation Summary pane is displayed to confirm the installation is finished.
Click the Details button if you want to review the installation log.
On Solaris: Installation logs are written to /var/sadm/install/logs/
On Linux: Installation logs are written to /var/sadm/install/logs/
On Windows: Installation logs are written to the %TEMP% directory, which is a subdirectory of the Local Settings folder located underC:\Documents and Settings\Administrator
On some Windows systems (such as Windows 2000 Advanced Server), the Local Settings folder is a hidden folder.
To view this folder and the Temp subdirectory, open your Windows Explorer and select Tools -> Folder Options from the menu bar. When the Folder Options dialog box is displayed, select the View tab and enable the Show Hidden Files option.
Click Next to display the "To Do list" panel, which shows the list of successfully completed and pending steps.
When you are done with the panel, click Finished to exit the installation program.
After installing the Active Directory Connector, you can install other Connectors that you configured when you configured resources (Chapter 7, Configuring Core Resources):
Install additional Active Directory Connectors: Restart the installation program (see Running the Installation Program) and then repeat through.
Install a Windows NT Connector: Go to Installing the Windows NT Connector.
Install additional Directory Server Connectors: Restart the installation program (using the instructions in Running the Installation Program) and then repeat Step 1 through Step 6.


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MEXICO CITY — In the six years of outgoing President Felipe Calderon's war against drug gangs, the U.S. became a principal player in Mexico, sending drones and sniffer dogs, police trainers and intelligence agents to a country long suspicious of its powerful neighbor.
Calderon, who steps down Saturday, essentially rewrote the rules under which foreign forces could act here in matters of national security. There has been relatively little public protest, reflecting the severity of a conflict that has killed tens of thousands nationwide and spread violence south into Central America — without significantly reducing the flow of drugs.
Incoming President Enrique Peña Nieto, whose Institutional Revolutionary Party long embodied a vocal Mexican nationalism, has said he wants to maintain cooperation with the United States at a high level, although he is suggesting some policy shifts.
FULL COVERAGE: Mexico Under Siege
U.S. intelligence has led to some of Calderon's biggest successes, the killing or arrest of several key drug capos. At a more modest level, U.S. trainers are teaching Mexico's notoriously corrupt police how to fill out reports and collect evidence. American military officers sit side by side with Mexican navy counterparts planning and monitoring operations from classified centers.


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Coming off a milestone win against Division I powerhouse St. Edward on Saturday, the Mustangs remained focused against a solid Quaker squad, and defeated New Phila 54-12.
It was a battle of rivals on the mat as the nationally ranked Claymont Mustangs and a hearty throng of 922 Nation invaded a crowded New Philadelphia Quaker gymnasium Thursday night.
Coming off a milestone win against Division I powerhouse St. Edward on Saturday, the Mustangs remained focused against a solid Quaker squad, and defeated New Phila 54-12.
Claymont, ranked No. 20 in the nation according to www.theopen
mat.com and 28th by www.inter
mat.com, started off strong. Dustin Warner pinned Cade Bates in the 126-pound weight class.
Up next in the 132-pound class, New Philadelphia's Maverick Meeks faced off against Kollin Clark.
Tied at 4 apiece in the third period, Meeks had control of Clark on top, however, Clark worked his way back in control and recorded a takedown at the one-minute mark to take a 6-4 lead and win by decision.
"Kollin did a great job winning against a tough Phila kid (Meeks)," said veteran Mustang mentor Eric Toukonen.
The win puts the legendary coachtwo shy of 300 for his career.
Claymont then recorded back-to-back pins, by Chandler Golec (138) over John Riker and Cody Burcher (145) over Brandon Long, to give the Mustangs a commanding 21-0 lead.
"We have 11 wrestlers that are state ranked, so it's hard to just pick out one good performance, but I was impressed with Chandler and Justice (Avery). They really wrestled well tonight," said Toukonen.
After a hard fought 6-4 decision by Claymont's Justice Avery over Edwin Hernandez to increase the Mustangs lead to 24-0, the Quakers got on the board.
In the 160-pound class, New Philadelphia's Casey Swinderman came from behind (4-0) to beat Clayton Paisley 8-5. Swinderman used a nifty escape and a takedown, with the score tied at 5, to capture the win.
In the 170-pound class, the Quaker's Mark Barrow held on to defeat Matt Dennis 8-6. Barrow controlled most of the match with three takedowns, and brought the Quakers to within 24-6.
However, the Mustangs regrouped.
After a Quaker forfeit in the 182-pound class, the Mustangs recorded pins by Nate Gray, Garrett Harding, Tyler Warner and Lane Peters in four of the next five weight classes to put the match away.
New Philadelphia's lone pin came in the 285-pound weight class — Neil Wise over Jaret Aubiel.
Toukonen appreciates the rivalry with New Philadelphia.
"I have to give Phila a lot of credit," said Toukonen. "They put up a lot of fight and had some nice performances from their kids, and we had nice performances from our guys as well."
"I think, anytime we wrestle Phila, Dover, or Indian Valley, we're always going to be ready for them," he added. "The local rivalries are always good because it's the people you live around and work around, so you want to have your best performances against them."
Claymont 54,
New Phila 12
106—Double forfeit. 113—Tyler Warner (C) p. Max Meese. 120—Lane Peters (C) p. Luke Cabbage. 126—Dustin Warner (C) p. Cade Bates. 132—Kollin Clark (C) d. Maverick Meeks. 138—Chandler Golec (C) p. John Riker. 145—Cody Burcher (C) p. Brandon Long. 152—Justice Avery (C) d. Edwin Hernandez. 160—Casey Swinderman (NP) d. Clayton Paisley. 170—Mark Barrow (NP) d. Matt Dennis. 182—Colt Crall (C) by forfeit. 195—Nate Gray (C) p. Xavier Barrow. 220—Garrett Harding (C) p. Kyle Swinderman. 285—Neil Wise (NP) p. Jaret Aubiel.
Records—Claymont 8-2, New Phila 11-2.
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Top 6 Fuel-Efficient Pickups
Although many consumers believe buying a truck for towing or hauling means sacrificing fuel economy, we think good gas mileage and traditional pickup truck capabilities aren't mutually exclusive. To prove it, we've compiled a list of six pickups that achieve great fuel economy and can still handle your chores, whether they include off-roading, heavy-duty towing, hauling materials to a job site or just cruising around town.
Chevrolet Colorado Crew Cab 4WD
Although Chevrolet's base-level four-cylinder single-cab Colorado may seem tempting due to its low price and great gas mileage, we'd skip the midsize truck's two-seat models and go straight for the four-wheel drive Crew Cab. That's because four-wheel drive Crew Cab variants of the Colorado trade the truck's lethargic inline four for a powerful 3.5-liter five-cylinder, which provides a satisfying 242 horsepower - and, despite the power bump, only a slight efficiency penalty versus the 185-horsepower four-cylinder. The five-cylinder is also no stranger to workhorse duty, thanks to a 4,000-pound towing capacity and a robust 242 pound-feet of torque.
Although hybrid versions of Chevrolet's Silverado pickup and its GMC Sierra twin have never sold in huge numbers, there's no denying that the full-size trucks are great on gas. Although the pickups' EPA rating of 20 miles per gallon in the city and 23 mpg on the highway aren't up to the standards set by some hybrid cars, the figures are impressive considering the pickups don't use a tiny four- or six-cylinder but rather a brawny 332-horsepower 6.0-liter V8. That puts the most efficient Silverado and Sierra models among the pickups' best performers - and their 6,000-pound towing capacity means they're no slouch when the discussion turns to heavy-duty use, either.
It's hard to deny the impact Ford's turbocharged EcoBoost engine has on the full-size pickup market. For the first time ever, truck buyers have access to an engine that achieves eight-cylinder power and torque - 365 horsepower and 420 pound-feet at just 2,500 rpm - yet impressive six-cylinder fuel economy of 16 miles per gallon in the city and 22 mpg on the highway. The fact that the muscular powerplant costs less than $1,300 extra in most configurations is icing on the cake - and it leaves us wondering why anyone would opt for the truck's 5.0-liter V8, which offers less power and less torque while consuming more fuel.
Honda's midsize Ridgeline is an easy inclusion on any list of fuel-efficient pickups. Capable of towing an impressive 5,000 pounds, the car-based Ridgeline features a standard 3.5-liter V6 that produces 250 horsepower and achieves fuel economy ratings of up to 21 miles per gallon in highway driving. While the Ridgeline is no heavy-duty machine, it's great for around-town driving - and its innovative, well-designed bed should put it near the top of the list for any city dweller interested in a pickup "just because." With more than eight inches of ground clearance, it's also capable of tackling the occasional off-road trail.
Although heavy-duty pickups like the Ram 3500, Chevrolet Silverado HD and Ford F-Series Super Duty don't have to submit to EPA fuel economy tests due to their size, many truck shoppers believe the Ram's Cummins diesel is among the most robust, fuel-efficient heavy duty truck engines on the market. With a strong 350 horsepower and an eye-popping 650 pound-feet of torque available at just 1,500 rpm, the engine is certainly potent - but it's hard to believe such an enormous engine could also achieve good gas mileage. Nonetheless, in spite of its big numbers, most reviewers report around 15 miles per gallon in mixed city and highway driving - not bad for an engine that motivates the Ram 3500 to tow nearly 23,000 pounds.
Although many pickups boast strong gas mileage figures, no truck offers the all-out fuel efficiency of the four-cylinder Toyota Tacoma. Among the most dependable trucks on the planet, four-cylinder Tacoma models equipped with the pickup's standard manual transmission can achieve an EPA-rated 21 miles per gallon in the city and a whopping 25 mpg on the highway. Sure, the small truck doesn't offer stellar towing capacity - and with just 159 horsepower, it's no stoplight racer. But in the realm of small pickups that offer great mileage and bulletproof reliability, the Tacoma is king of the hill - especially considering its starting price of around $17,000 including destination.
What it means to you: Just because you're buying a truck doesn't mean you need to sacrifice at the pump.