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So, what's this wxWidgets stuff?
wxWidgets is a very interesting toolkit, which is compatible with pretty much any operating system! That's right, you can make your software for a whole range of platforms, including:
- Win32
- Mac OS X
- Motif
- WinCE
- and more!
It's compatible with a whole bunch of languages, including C++, Perl and C# ~ but in these tutorials, I'll be covering development in C++
What should I already know?
As with all programming concepts, it's important that you've got a good understanding of as many of the key principals as possible. Loops, functions, etc~ oh, and object oriented programming (OOP) is a must!
OK, OK~ let me get started!
It can be quite tedious to set up wxWidgets. Unfortunately, I can only cover the setup for Windows~ sorry everyone else! You can check out the wxWiki, you should be able to find everything you need there. Also, if you have any questions, let me know and I'll do my best to help.
So let's get started
Wait... what do we need? Well, a compiler. Obviously. You'll also need to download wxWidgets, and preferably an IDE. (My choice: Code::Blocks)
Where can I get all this stuff from?
First off, get your compiler. MinGW is a great compiler for Windows, and that's what I'll be using. The Microsoft installer is available from here.
As I mentioned earlier, my IDE of choice is Code::Blocks. It's cross platform, but since this tutorial covers Windows, you can get the Windows installer directly from here.
Last but certainly not least, you're going to need the wxWidgets toolkit itself! The Microsoft installer is available here, and for you non-Windows users, check out the downloads page here.
OK, so what now? Install your compiler (MinGW) and wxWidgets. Install them to the root of your drive, so on Windows, you should have:
C:/wxWidgets-2.8.9 (or some other version)
Now you're going to need to clean and compile the source code. Fortunately for you Windows user though, I've set up a nice little batch script to do all the work for you. If you want to get it set up automatically, use this batch script.
If you want to do it manually, all you have to do is follow the code in that snippet, typing each command into the command line. (NOT RECOMMENDED!)
(Remember that REM is simply a comment, and not part of the code)
So now it's time to set up Code::Blocks. This bit's pretty easy. Install it (preferably to the default directory in Program Files, but it doesn't matter) and run the exe.
You should now be in front of your new favourite IDE.
Go to File>New>Project, and find wxWidgets Project. (It should be right at the bottom)
Follow the instructions until you reach a dialog asking which version you want to use. This should be self explanatory, but (at the time of writing this tutorial) wxWidgets 2.8.x is the latest, so select that.
Next, it will probably ask you to set up wxWidgets. Open the Global Variable Editor, and paste this into the "base" text box:
C:\wxWidgets-2.8.9 (or wherever you installed it to)
Now click close, and continue on through the setup.
You will now be asked to select the setting which match your installation. Check all three boxes (they should be "driver" "monolithic" and "unicode.") If you read the batch script, this will make sense. If not, don't worry about it, it's not important.
Continue on through the project setup, and you should eventually have a template prepared for you. This bit's important:
This is because we configured wxWidgets for release earlier (again, you'll know if you read the batch script. Don't worry if you didn't)
So, change the Build target to Release, and hit F9 (Compile and run)
That's it! You should now have a window open, built using the example code from the Code::Blocks template!
*Note: I apologise if the end setup (for Code::Blocks) is a little off. I had to do this from memory, since it's only necessary to do it once.
And that's it! It was a long setup, but over the next tutorials in this series, you're going to find out why it was worth it!
Happy coding!
***Please feel free to ask any questions regarding this setup. I know it can be tedious, I had problems myself when setting it up. I'll do my best to answer them.

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Duncan is the Managing Director of Gensler's London office. An architect with some 15 years experience, Duncan's career has seen him concentrate on large-scale developments in the UK, Europe and the Gulf region. With a particular focus and specialism in commercial office building design, Duncan is responsible for establishing the conceptual direction of projects and leading the multidisciplinary team through delivery.
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BRIDGEPORT -- For many, it was a sun-splashed Mother's Day filled with flowers, spring dresses and church services.
But there was a much different scene on the city's upper East Side, where before sunrise Sunday, police found 22-year-old Robert Rivera dead in his car from perhaps a dozen bullet wounds.
Police said the homicide took place on Berkshire Avenue, just one-half block west of Noble Avenue, where Rivera lived. Detectives are still investigating the shooting, and they say there is no known motive as of yet.
Rivera is the city's second homicide victim this year. On May 1, a man who was found dead at the scene of a fire at 1488-90 Park Ave. was later determined to be the victim of a homicide.
Police said Rivera's car had multiple bullet holes in its left front window and door area. Inside, police found Rivera with multiple gunshot wounds. He was pronounced dead at the scene by AMR personnel.
Rivera, known to his friends as "Phil" and "Chino," was revered by his friends, who gathered Sunday near the corner where he was found dead in his silver Ford Fusion.
"Phil was the realist man out here," said Melissa Rivera (no relation). "He was the best. Always there for you. A loving person. The best in the world."
Some of Rivera's friends were openly weeping as they stood by the makeshift shrine assembled around a small tree. They leafed through a photo album of his short life. A cross with flowers was tied to the tree, surrounded by about 30 candles.
Rivera's friends said he had a 1-year-old daughter. The baby and Rivera's girlfriend, the child's mother, were in Florida on Sunday and were trying to make it back to Bridgeport as soon as possible, the victim's friends told Hearst Connecticut Newspapers.
"That's my brother, and he will always be my brother," said Brian Rosa, the victim's friend.
Another friend, Angel Zapata, said that Rivera was a good father.
"He will be my brother to the day that I die. He will always live in my heart," Zapata said.
"Philly was a really good guy -- he was the best," said Wanda Torres.
"Today, there will be no Mother's Day," said a man who identified himself only as Edwin G. "There will be no Mother's Day because today, Phil's mother woke up to find her son dead."
"He was one in a million. No one will ever be like him," agreed Christian Torres. "Chino was a good kid. The good die young here."
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Milan Lucic knows his penalty-minutes total is down.
Through 27 games, Lucic leads the Bruins in goals (15) and points (25) but his PIM total reads just 28. However, the 22-year-old left winger isn't taking his depressed penalty-minute pace as a slight on his manhood.
"For myself, I've just got to work up and down that wall and try to be aggressive on the forecheck," Lucic, whose PIM total was 136 in his most recent full NHL season, told TheBruinsBlog.net recently. "Sometimes it's tough getting that hit when you're first on the puck, so there's no need to make that hit. Whatever it is, if it's getting there late and getting that hit or getting there early and being first man on the puck, you've got to do whatever you can to establish that forecheck. I've got to do whatever I can."
Just because his penalty minutes are down doesn't mean Lucic is any less intimidating. He has engaged in two heavyweight bouts – with New York's Brandon Prust and Washington's John Erskine. He's second to Shawn Thornton on the Bruins' roster with 53 hits. And when you're playing a regular shift on the team's first line, and even earning power-play time, you've got to make some cutbacks to the seconds you spend in the sin bin.
Long gone are the days of Cam Neely personifying the term "power forward" by racking up 42 goals and 175 PIM in 1988 and 37 goals and 190 PIM in 1989. Even the days of Steve Leach accumulating 31 goals and 147 PIM in 1992 – the last Bruins player to reach 30 and 140 – are ancient history. Last season in the NHL, Tampa Bay's Steve Downie was only one of four players with 200 PIM, and he was the only one with 20 goals (exactly 208, 22). Dallas' Steve Ott was the only player to surpass 20 and 150 (22, 153).
While early on in his career the now 6-foot-3, 228-pound native of Vancouver had to roughhouse in order to gain respect and contribute in fewer minutes on the ice, now Lucic is expected to provide the offensive statistics and responsible defensive play expected from a player hitting the Bruins salary cap at a clip of $4.083 million per season for this year two more after this. If Lucic were playing an Ott- or Downie-like role for the Bruins – who have the likes of Brad Marchand and Thornton to take care of most of that stuff – they'd be getting ripped off.
Luckily, Lucic seems to be maturing into a front-line player with the ability to maul mostly just when provoked. And not too many are brave enough to irritate the burly wing. Not only is he meeting the Bruins' expectations of him while fully healthy, after an injury-ravaged 2009-10 campaign, he's also emerging as one of the best modern-day power forwards — both in terms of production, intimidation and bang for the club's buck.
Comparisons between players are never perfect. And I find it odd that the best comparable "power forwards" I could find for Lucic all play in the West. Perhaps the balance of "power" really is shifting to the left of the NHL.
Anyway, maybe the most high-profile power forward out there is Corey Perry of Anaheim, who last season piled up 27 goals and 111 PIM. The 6-foot-3, 210-pound Ducks winger is 25 and scoring at a point-per-game pace this season. But he also averages better than 20 minutes of ice time and kills penalties. In terms of cash, Perry certainly earns his $5.325 cap hit on a nightly basis. That doesn't mean he's a great value, and he lacks the intimidation factor that Lucic carries.
Then there's Vancouver's Alex Burrows, who unfortunately got off to a late start this season because of an injury. Last season, he rewarded the Canucks for the $2 million-per-year contract they gave him by producing 35 goals to go along with 121 PIM. Some were frustrated by his tendency to pick up those PIM at the worst possible times. Nonetheless, the 6-foot-1, 190 forward, who also logs penalty-kill time for the Canucks, was the leading goal-scorer among players with 100 or more PIM in NHL. Burrows has produced just four goals in 16 games this season, so there's no telling which direction his career will go at 29 years old. And, again, Lucic is more apt to make someone flinch in a confrontation than Burrows.
At 28, San Jose's Ryan Clowe is also much older than Lucic, but makes a solid comparable. Last season, the Sharks 6-foot-2, 225-pound winger popped in 19 goals and picked up 131 PIM. That was after signing a contract for $3.625 million a season. This year, he has 26 points in 28 games but just six goals. Clowe's minutes this season are comparable to last, in addition to being on a higher fight pace than last season (he has six this year after scrapping 11 times last season). In terms of money, the Sharks are paying Clowe in his prime and probably expecting a little more than they're getting from him.
Even at 30, Ryan Malone can still carve out the top of the crease as his own territory and drop the gloves now and then. He is in the midst of a seven-year contract that hits Tampa Bay's salary cap at $4.5 million every season. His numbers are solid, but he makes more than Lucic without scoring at such a torrid clip.
I purposely excluded any player that plays exclusively center (St. Louis' David Backes) from this discussion, as well as the ancient Detroit warrior Tomas Holmstrom, whose age precludes him from being counted among such youthful tormentors of goaltenders and opposing antagonizers alike. Jarome Iginla, once the consummate power forward, has mellowed in recent years, and his PIM total has decreased since he turned 30. Injuries have slowed Carolina's Erik Cole's pace, and David Bolland of Chicago might be able to climb into this mix with another big year after he took a while to return from injury last season. And, I'll admit, I probably left out a player or two from this comparison.
Nonetheless, it's hard to make a case for any of the players mentioned above packing a bigger wallop, in more ways than one, than Lucic. The Bruins are benefiting from his development well ahead of his prime. He's getting better each week it seems, and there's no telling how high his ceiling is. If it's anything like his popularity, the Bruins might have a multi-faceted forward to build their team around in the years to come. Those comments from some about him being overpaid have sure quieted down lately.
Even if Lucic doesn't manage to join the 30-goal, 100-PIM club or add many more bloody bouts to his lifetime fight card as he grows into his role with the Bruins, that doesn't make him any less of a force – one that makes the Bruins a difficult team to defend and makes the Boston organization look like it spent its money wisely in retaining one of its own draft picks.


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3. The Craigie Bridge by the Museum of Science will not be open until 12:01 AM, MIDNIGHT, July 5th – after the fireworks display. Only vessels requiring less than 12 feet vertical clearance will be allowed to proceed under the closed bridge and transit east of the Longfellow Bridge until this time. Vessels over 12 feet in height cannot clear Drawbridge.
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It seems Montreal fans aren't content with the game misconduct Zdeno Chara received Tuesday night, or the lack of a suspension for the Bruins captain.
In the aftermath of the hit on Canadiens forward Max Pacioretty, who suffered a fractured vertebrae and a severe concussion, Habs rooters have inundated their local police stations demanding Chara's head.
The Canadian Press writes:
Police say their emergency call center started getting flooded around 4 p.m. — after the NHL announced its decision.
A spokesman said police suspected the calls were inspired by a local media outlet that suggested the idea.
The police spokesman described the gesture as "irresponsible" — and he urged Montrealers to keep the emergency line free for actual life-and-death matters.
There's a precedent for players getting criminally charged for on-ice actions, including incidents involving Dino Ciccarelli, Todd Bertuzzi and one-time Bruins tough guy Marty McSorley. But those incidents all involved an intent to injure outside of an actual hockey action.
Chara's hit might've been vicious, but as the league defined it, it was a hockey play. If they put this case on Law & Order: Montreal, they'd never be able to prove intent.


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Fiscal Mayhem Ahead in 2019 — and 5 Other Takes on the Election Results
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Kansas or California as a Model for America's Future Growth?
McConnell: Entitlement Cuts Probably Won't Happen Under Trump
Republicans Ignore the Obvious Effect of Their Tax Cuts
Amazing Facts and Figures from the Pentagon's Failed AuditBy Michael Rainey
To the surprise of no one, the Department of Defense announced this week that it has failed its first-ever comprehensive audit. Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH), the outgoing chair of the House Subcommittee...
Congressional Panel Considers Budget Reforms
A bipartisan congressional panel tasked with revamping the federal budgeting process on Thursday marked up its proposed legislation ahead of a November 30 deadline. The panel, created as part of...
Pentagon Fails Its First-Ever Audit
The Defense Department has failed its first-ever comprehensive audit, Deputy Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan said Thursday, according to multiple reports. "We failed the audit, but we never...
The Economy's Coming Wile E. Coyote MomentBy Michael Rainey
Most economists think that the "sugar high" in the economy produced by simultaneous tax cuts and federal spending increases this year will fizzle at some in the next few quarters, at which point GDP...
States Spent $2 Trillion in 2018. Here's Where It Went.
The 50 states spent more than $2 trillion for the first time in fiscal 2018, according to a report released Thursday by the National Association of State Budget Officers. At the same time, as the...
Securing America's Future Requires Political Courage NowBy Russ Latino
My son is five. He plays with Legos and digs old-school video games. My daughter is three. She likes dolls and is prone to uncontrollable giggling with no apparent provocation. Neither have much...
US Military Faces a Crisis and Needs More Money, Report to Congress Warns
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The Cost of Post-9/11 Wars Nears $6 Trillion
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The U.S. government spent $353 billion in October while revenues came in at $253 billion, producing a deficit of $100 billion. Receipts were 7 percent higher than a year ago, but spending was up 18...
The Pentagon's $21 Billion Rust ProblemBy The Fiscal Times Staff
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President Donald Trump reportedly wants to stop providing federal relief funds to Puerto Rico for recovery efforts related to Hurricane Maria. Axios' Jonathan Swan reports that Trump is convinced – "...
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A new analysis of the distribution of household income by the Congressional Budget Office shows how taxes and means-tested transfers such as Medicaid and food stamps affect US incomes. "The combined...
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And another popular Linux distribution pushes a new release out the door. This time around, it's openSUSE, as they just released version 12.1. Other than the usual latest and greatest version of all the open source desktops and associated tools, there's a few other interesting tidbits in this release as well.
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by Dave_K on Sun 20th Nov 2011 16:01 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: how many of you donate"
You can't blame Linux if manufacturers won't write drivers or provide documentation for FOSS drivers.
It's a shame that some hardware manufacturers don't even offer documentation to Linux developers, but I don't think it's reasonable to expect them to produce drivers for a tiny market like desktop Linux. Things would probably change if Linux ever reached a 5-10% desktop market share.
I don't think anyone here has disputed the reasons behind Windows' superior hardware support. Unfortunately, allocating blame for Linux's issues doesn't change the user experience of installing and configuring it. As a user what matters to me is which OS works best on the hardware I use, regardless of the reasons for that.


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The state Senate on Monday approved a bill that would raise the minimum wage in California from $9 to $11 an hour on Jan. 1 and boost it again to $13 in 2017, with supporters saying it is necessary to lift millions of workers out of poverty.
Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) introduced the measure out of concern that a quarter of the state's 38 million residents live in poverty, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
"It is time that we make it illegal to pay sub-poverty wages in California," Leno told his colleagues during the heated floor debate.
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Anchorage, Alaska, Dec 2, 2012 / 01:11 pm (CNA).- Geologists Katharine Bull and Robert Gillis only planned to work for a couple hours in the mountains around Portage Glacier on Alaska's Prince William Sound. The weather was clear, but that changes on a dime in Alaska.
Shortly after a helicopter dropped them off in separate locations, the weather turned, making it too dangerous to return. Bull and Gillis spent the night alone in the cold, whipping rain and murky fog.
The next day, as bad weather continued, the volunteer Alaska Mountain Rescue Group (AMRG) was asked to help. Upon receiving the call, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church parishioner and expert mountain-climber Greg Bragiel suited up and headed into the wilderness.
Bragiel's team — assigned to locate Gillis — took a helicopter as far up the mountain as possible. Flying into wild weather can be the most dangerous part of a rescue mission, Bragiel told the Catholic Anchor in a recent interview.
"You could barely see anything" that day, he said. On the choppy flight, "I was saying my prayers…and making the Sign of the Cross both for myself and for the people I was with and for the helicopter pilot and that the person that we were going to look for up by Portage was still alive and safe."
When the helicopter could go no farther, the rescuers were dropped off to hike in the rest of the way. They climbed about 2,000 feet, into the night. The next day they found Gillis, cold but uninjured. The rescuers fortified him with dry clothes and food and fluids, and then they led him down the mountain to the helicopter pick-up point – and to safety.
Mountaineering for God
For Bragiel climbing high-angle cliffs and sifting through avalanche-covered mountainsides to find those "'lost sheep' and bring them back to their families," as he put it, is spiritual work.
"I know I'm here on earth to know, love and serve my creator, and secondarily to help other people. I'm just using the things that I know and my skills to do that," he observed.
Bragiel is demure about his death-defying works of mercy. He acknowledges only that he has "some skills" which some others don't have — namely, specialized mountaineering skills honed across years climbing the cliffs and crags of Alaska's mountain ranges.
In 2005 he joined the Anchorage Mountain Rescue Group, a non-profit volunteer search and rescue organization. Its members search for people who are lost, injured or stranded in Alaska's backcountry – and if necessary they retrieve the bodies of the deceased. Their missions involve lost hikers, hunters and children, those fallen on mountainside cliffs, buried in avalanches and trapped in crashed planes.
This summer Bragiel and his fellow rescuers took part in the effort to find the missing Michael LeMaitre, a runner in the Mount Marathon race, bushwhacking through the woods and brush on the famous mountain in Seward.
As with his teammates Bragiel is on-call 24 hours a day. Additionally he is the group's equipment manager and board member. "I'm just a little part of it," Bragiel insisted.
Physical and spiritual discipline
Although the job is unpaid, Bragiel takes it to heart. In each mission the lives of the stranded as well as fellow rescuers are on the line, he said. So the dentist-by-day regularly trains in the gym and on the mountain, making Bragiel leaner than most 20-year-olds. His close-cropped hair is graying but looks prematurely so. It doesn't seem possible that he has just turned 60.
In addition to physical training, Bragiel reviews notes on rescue techniques while at home. It's about minimizing risk, he explained.
"We don't risk lives and put our rescuers at great risk if we know there's going to be a bad outcome," he said, adding, "We don't want to have more people dead."
There isn't an ounce of bravado in the soft-spoken Bragiel.
"I've been in the mountains enough to know what my limits are," he said.
A Higher Power
When on missions, Bragiel prays "plenty of Our Fathers" and "lots of Hail Marys" for those he's searching for and for the rescuers.
Entrusting her husband to God, Bragiel's wife Mary Beth prays too.
"I don't fear for him. When it's his time to go, it's his time to go…but I do certainly pray and ask God to protect him and to protect the others," she said. "I believe that prayers are extremely beneficial and that God listens to all of us, even if things don't turn out the way we might like them to."
Physical and spiritual disciplines help Bragiel do what seems impossible to many — rescue people deep in the wilderness and in sometimes dangerous, sub-freezing temperatures.
Such was the case on a frigid day in late February four years ago when three skiers veered off Indian Trail near Girdwood. They had been out for hours. As the light waned and their strength and water supply disappeared, the group was far from home. By the time they called 911, the clouds and wind prevented the state troopers' helicopter from coming.
During a late evening dinner, Bragiel received the page. He and his teammates snowshoed into the dark night searching for the group. Between 2 and 3 o'clock in the morning, the rescuers arrived. They accompanied the desperate skiers down the trail to snowmachines, which then carried them the rest of the way to safety.
"I was really happy to bring people back to their family," Bragiel recalled. "It's pretty easy to lose faith and just give up, and that's unfortunately what happens with people sometimes. When they're just exhausted and they're out of resources and in over their head, they just kind of give up and look for help, and that's where we are – to give them that help and that hope."
Bringing the Dead 'Home'
But sometimes rescues turn into recoveries of the dead. That is an equally necessary job, Bragiel believes. These people need to come "home" too, he explained.
Three years ago Bragiel and his teammates were called to Seattle Creek, near Turnagain Pass, to search for snowmachiners lost in an avalanche. There was too much risk for another avalanche so the rescuers waited more than a week to begin searching. Finally they were able to head in and dig out the deceased from the snowslide.
And two years ago Bragiel took part in the well-publicized search for the president of Conoco Philips and his friend killed in an avalanche in Grandview Valley.
"It took us three full days of probing and searching and poking holes in the snow," Bragiel said.
God First
These are missions Bragiel thinks "a lot about," he said, hinting at the spiritual and emotional weight of the work. But Bragiel strives to keep his priorities – God, family and others – in order.
"Ever since I've known him, he has talked about the balance of life," Mary Beth said of her husband.
Bragiel believes helping others is just one part of his mission on earth. "The other part of my faith walk is you go to church and you do Bible study and you spend time with your wife and family," he explained.
That it all starts with God is evident at the 7 a.m. daily Mass that the Bragiels attend at Holy Family Cathedral in Anchorage.
"We just get up early and go visit Jesus first and then go do our work," Bragiel said.
Serving others is his way of saying "'Thank you' to God," Mary Beth observed.
In addition to mountain rescues Bragiel volunteers at the Brother Francis Shelter for the homeless, teaches mountain safety and, together with his wife, volunteers for Special Olympics and Marriage Encounter – a marriage enrichment program.
Why add dangerous alpine rescues to an already busy schedule? "I'm trying to make God smile," Bragiel said.
Posted with permission from Catholic Anchor, official newspaper of the Archdiocese of Anchorage, Alaska.
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The devastation wreaked on the Philippines by Typhoon Haiyan, though tragic and perhaps the deadliest natural disaster in the nation's history, will not deter the Filipino community from pulling together and moving forward.
That sentiment was reflected Sunday by Inland Empire residents and members of the Filipino faith-based community.
"Filipinos, by and large, are a close-knit family, and especially the Seventh-day Adventist Church because of the educational and the medical institutions that we're all a part of," said Daniel Belonio, associate pastor of Loma Linda Filipino Church of Seventh-day Adventists, the oldest and largest Filipino Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Inland Empire.
He said his church, composed of 1,008 members, will be sending donations to the Philippines National Red Cross and Adventist Development and Relief Agency International, the Seventh-day Adventist Church's disaster relief program.
Typhoon Haiyan hit the eastern seaboard of the Philippines on Friday and quickly barreled across its central islands, packing winds of 147 mph that gusted to 175 mph. As many as 10,000 people died in the provincial capital of Tacloban alone, the Associated Press reported.
Jet Role, a member of the Loma Linda church whose parents live in the Philippines, became frantic when he couldn't reach his loved ones, Belonio said.
"Apparently they had been keeping in touch by phone and by Skype," Belonio said.
He said that when Role lost contact with his parents, his brother was preparing to book the first available flight to the Philippines to track their parents down.
"But before they left they found from reliable sources that their parents were found and were fine," Belonio said.
Annie Wett, 50, of Riverside is making plans to fly home to the Philippines this week to help in any way she can.
Wett, a member of the Claremont International Seventh-day Adventist Church, which she said is attended by many Filipinos, came to the United States from the islands in 1986. But many family members remain in the Philippines.
"In my town, there were 30 deaths alone — including the death of a 2-month-old baby," Wett said Sunday. "When the winds struck the house, it blew the whole roof off."
From what she has heard, most of the houses in the province are gone completely.
"I can't imagine the amount of homeless people from this," she said.
Wett said she hopes to fly home to Dacuton on Thursday or Friday to bring money to help feed people and rebuild homes, and is also taking funds to give to relatives of people in her church.
She is limited in the amount of boxes she can bring there, so Wett plans to buy supplies — like food and water — when she arrives in the Philippines.
"I'm hoping to buy 50 sacks of rice to distribute through the town, by means of a main city," she said.
When a large flood hit the island in January, Wett did the same thing. But she said this storm was even worse.
Wett said anyone wishing to contact her about donations can do so by calling her directly at 909-981-4065.
Such benevolence is symptomatic of the Filipino community, said Belonio.
"We are a strong, resilient people," he said. "Not even a typhoon can knock us down. We will recover from this and move forward."


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yes tell me any kind of help
I know a young man in my town who is a future racer. He purchased a used sprint roller out of Pa. to run in the entry level class at a local track. He recently graduated from one of the auto trade schools and his racing background is in karting. He is determined to do all the work that he possibly can on the car. However the engine rules are so exact with zero tolerance that he has become gun shy on attempting to do anything in the engine department. I looked at the rules and I thought geez! I had to agree with him that he would be better of having a reputable engine builder do his engine.Take a look at the rules for the engine and tell me what you think. Can there be extra power found with these resrictions? Would they be found in meeting their strict tolerances or by using higher grade of parts or both?
Oh yeh I did find out that the heads are Brodix.
RaceSaver® 305 SPEC ENGINE RULES:
Blocks, GM 305 V-8s w/ approved casting #s: 361979, 460776, 460777, 460778, 14010201,14010202, 14010203 , 14088551, 14016381, 355909.
Max C.I. 315.9 No Tolerance. Stroke 3.480 + - .020. Max. bore 3.801 Do the math!
Flat top pistons with valve reliefs, Cannot protrude from cylinder bore.
Crank, iron or steel, min. weight 48 lbs. 1% tolerance, min. main brg. dia. 2.450-.030.
5.7 steel rods, min. rod journal dia. 2.100 -.030. Oil pan inspection hole to view rods.
Cam drive: Chain only. No gear or belt drives. No device to vary running cam timing.
Steel hub or SFI approved damper. Stock location water pump.
Stock (.842) dia. flat tappets. NO roller, hydraulic, mushroom or radius tappets.
No hard face overlay cams. Original cam configuration & firing order (18436572)
Spring specs: Only straight wound springs w/flat damper. Max dia.1.265, min. dia. 1.200, Installed ht. minimum 1.650, max I.H. 1.825.Absolute max.pressures: @ seat 120#, @ .500 lift 355#, max. wire dia..195, Max. free ht. 2.100, min. free ht. 1.900. Spring must have min. of 5 full coils.
Wet sump, internal pump only, no crankcase vacuum systems.
Roller rockers allowed. 3/8 stud mount rockers only. NO shaft systems.
Absolute max. valve lift: (.510 int., .535 exh.) measured @ zero lash @ valve retainer.
No girdles, rev kits, or valve train stabilizers. Tappet access for inspection required.
No repositioning, boring or bushing of cam or lifter bores. Max cam dia.1.869 + .002
Valves: Int. 1.94, exh. 1.60, Stem 11/32, orig. length & weight, No altered or hollow stems.
Ferrous material only: Valves, Retainers, Keepers, Push rods, Springs, Tappets, Cam and cam drives, Crank, Rods, Wrist pins, Fasteners, Main Caps, No titanium or ceramics in engine.
Point type Magnetos, or Kettering style ignition. Constant flow fuel injection only.
100 lb. wt. penalty for use of any electronic components, incl: ignition, ECUs or driver aids.
RACESAVER® 305 SPEC head: Absolutely NO changes. NO machining, milling, resurfacing, grinding, polishing, welding, acid or caustic work, shot peening, glass beading, coating, or any other process that will alter the machined surfaces or the natural sand cast finish. Must retain all original dimensions & configurations including; Valves, springs, retainers, stems, & guides. The ONLY work allowed is: Reseating the valves. NO top cuts that extend into the aluminum of the chamber. NO, under the seat relief cuts. NO work that enlarges the as delivered throat size, 1.810 Int. & 1.345 Ex. (+ or - .010). NO bowl changes.Every dimension of these heads has a gauge dimension that must be met for them to be certified. Change any one of them and you will be disqualified. The stamped identification marks may not be altered.
Compression Ratio: 10.25 to 1 absolute maximum. C.R. checked w/ Whistle, or by pouring the assembled cylinder. Absolute minimum assembled cylinder volume: 70 cc. Heads may NOT be milled !!! Only exception is pre- approved milling to repair surface. All repairs MUST be pre-approved. Contact RACESAVER® 305 SPEC @ 540-923-4541 before attempting repairs. A repair authorization number will be issued. After repair, heads must be recertified and marked accordingly. Original serial numbers and certification marks must be intact. They may not be altered or obscured. Any & all repairs MUST be pre-approved and heads recertified. If any spec head is found to be modified; it must be REPLACED with a certified spec head.
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Mount Dora FL Real Estate
The City of Mount Dora has a fascinating history. The large, beautiful lake upon which the City grew is named for Ms. Dora Ann Drawdy (1819-1885), who homesteaded in the mid-1800s and befriended federal surveyors with her warm
hospitality. In 1846, the surveyors named Lake Dora for her, and years later, in 1883, the small but growing town was named for the lake.
Three years later, the town's name was officially changed to Mount Dora to reflect the fact that the settlement rests upon a plateau 184 feet above sea level – an unusual feature in Florida.
A popular winter retreat for hunters, fishermen and boaters, The Alexander House opened in 1883 – a two-story hotel with 10 rooms. It was renamed Lakeside
Inn and remains in operation today. Visitors included Presidents Coolidge and Eisenhower, Thomas Edison, and Henry Ford.
In 1910, the town was granted a charter with Capt. John Philip Donnelly as its
first Mayor. With 371 residents, Mount Dora boasted two general stores, a
hardware store, a drugstore, two churches and a Townhall. The Mount Dora Voice
became the town's first newspaper.
The early 1920s marked a significant boom in residential growth and business
development, and Mount Dora began the transformation from a country town into a
The town of Mount Dora was eventually incorporated into a city in 1953 and has
experienced growth since that time. Today, Mount Dora is home to more than
10,000 residents. The City retains the flavor of a small town with many historic
buildings, its large canopy oak trees and is known for its variety of antique
and specialty shops and numerous special events throughout the year.
Eight major annual events including the Mount Dora Arts Festival, an antique
boat show, antique car show, sailing regatta, golf tournament, bicycle festival,
crafts fair and the annual Christmas lighting festival draw thousands of
visitors. Mount Dora evokes that quiet and comfortable "Southern" charm and
hospitality of a lakefront community nestled amongst the gentle hills and orange
groves of Central Florida.
Whether you are looking for a respite from the pressures of life and seek
solitude overlooking our beautiful vistas, or you desire active shopping and
recreation to compliment our many festivals and community events, you can find it all in Mount Dora.
There are many wonderful homes in this area, but you need a local market expert
to help you. Watson Realty Corp is a locally owned company with over 40 years experience selling homes in the area.


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July 25, 2006
Mr. Arne Duncan
Chief Executive Officer
Chicago Public Schools
125 South Clark Street, 5th Floor
Chicago, Illinois 60603
Dear Mr. Duncan:
I am writing to invite Chicago Public Schools (CPS) to continue its participation in the supplemental educational services (SES) pilot for the 2006-07 school year. As you know, this program began in 2005-06 and allowed CPS to provide SES to eligible students although it was a district identified for improvement.
By extending CPS's flexibility agreement, I am using my authority under section 9401 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), as amended, to grant CPS eligibility to be a provider of SES to eligible students in Title I schools even though your district has been identified for improvement. My approval of this flexibility agreement for 2006-07 is also conditioned on CPS's fulfilling the conditions detailed in the enclosure, which have been modified slightly from last year's conditions.
In addition, CPS must submit a report under section 9401(e)(1) of the ESEA to the Illinois State Board of Education at the end of the 2006-07 school year that describes the district's provision of SES in Title I schools; describes how those schools continued to provide Title I services to eligible students; and evaluates the progress of the district and schools in improving the quality of instruction and the academic achievement of students. The Illinois State Board of Education must then submit a report to the Department based on CPS's report.
As part of your continuing participation in the SES pilot, we also ask your assistance with the third-party evaluation that we will be conducting of CPS (as well as Boston Public Schools) throughout the summer and into the fall and winter of 2006, as well as your assistance with the evaluation that will take place during 2007, which will evaluate CPS's participation in the pilot during the 2006-07 school year. We will need CPS to supply our evaluator with student achievement data files and other information necessary to conduct an evaluation of the achievement gains of students participating in SES in CPS.
This flexibility agreement continues to serve several important goals: increasing the numbers of students receiving SES; ensuring early notice about SES through multiple venues and extended enrollment windows; allowing external organizations reasonable access to school facilities; and providing information on the academic achievement of students receiving SES. Making this SES pilot a success for all involved, particularly the children receiving the services, will provide the Department with additional important information that will help to ensure the successful implementation of SES in future years. We hope that CPS will be a model of high-quality implementation of SES and, to that end, the Department would like to continue to work in partnership with CPS throughout this year as it implements SES. We ask CPS to share with the Department examples of those practices and strategies that are effective and information on why. The Department would like to learn from the experiences of CPS and disseminate that information to other districts around the country.
This flexibility agreement applies to the provision of SES in Title I schools in Chicago during the 2006-07 school year and is subject to an annual review at the end of the school year.
SES is an important component of NCLB, and we look forward to working with you to ensure that students are accessing services and succeeding in the classroom.
Margaret Spellings
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Building automation: Can you see the light?
Report from IMS Research forecasts the increasing integration of building automation and lighting control systems.
The IMS Research (recently acquired by IHS Inc.) report titled The EMEA and Americas Markets for Integrating Smart Building Systems – A Quantitative Market Analysis – 2012 Edition, found in 2011, an average of 25% of the installed building automation systems in the Americas and EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) were integrated with lighting control systems. The report forecasts this will increase to an average of 35% in both the Americas and EMEA by 2016.
Regarding building automation installations, solutions almost always start with environmental or HVAC-R (heating, ventilation, air-conditioning and refrigeration) control as the first priority. For many buildings HVAC-R is one of the largest consumers of energy and is often seen as one of the simplest systems to control and automate.
William Rhodes, senior market analyst at IMS Research, commented, "Lighting control and building automation use similar control logic and have similar control system architectures. Both systems can use the same sensors to measure room or building occupancy. The combination of the two systems can often lead to increased energy efficiencies and the benefits of integrating the two systems can be easily explained to customers."
However, not all installers have the knowledge and expertise to install these more complex integrated solutions. Despite the benefits from integrating building automation and lighting control systems; traditionally, integrating more complex systems has only been the remit of 'super integrators.' These integrators have a robust understanding of multiple system types and strong IT networking knowledge. 'Traditional integrators' often have a good understanding of one building system but may lack wider IT knowledge.
Rhodes continued, "As more complex systems gain increasing mainstream appreciation in the industry, some observers argue 'traditional integrators' are starting to lose business to 'super integrators' when a building owner or management company wants to integrate across building systems. It is likely that if interest in integrated and intelligent buildings continuous to grow, 'traditional integrators' will have to overcome their knowledge gaps to remain in business."
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Olympic Level Ridiculousness: You Can't Link To The Olympics Website If You Say Something Mean About Them
from the watch-me dept
Links to the Site. You may create your own link to the Site, provided that your link is in a text-only format. You may not use any link to the Site as a method of creating an unauthorised association between an organisation, business, goods or services and London 2012, and agree that no such link shall portray us or any other official London 2012 organisations (or our or their activities, products or services) in a false, misleading, derogatory or otherwise objectionable manner. The use of our logo or any other Olympic or London 2012 Mark(s) as a link to the Site is not permitted. View our guidelines on Use of the Games' Marks.There are other insane statements in the terms, including that you automatically agree to be "legally bound" by the terms simply by using the site. That's not how a contract works, guys.
Either way, this claim that you can't link to their site in a "derogatory or otherwise objectionable manner" has inspired the creativity of the internet, it appears. Specifically, lots of folks have taken to Twitter to share their own derogatory or otherwise objectionable statements along with links to the website. Asher Wolf and Meredith Patterson have done a really nice job curating some of the insults that are currently raining down on the Olympics for their linking policy. We've included a couple of screenshots (below the fold).
I recognize that there are some other sites who have used this kind of language in the past, and that some overcharging lawyer was probably just trying to set up a "cover their ass" policy for the Olympics, but it's amazing that any competent individual lets those kinds of things out into the world these days without realizing that it's clearly going to create the exact opposite incentives.
And, hell, just for fun, check out this link to an obnoxious organization that loves censorship and doesn't respect free speech. And I say that in a derogatory and objectionable manner.


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Olé, Olé,Olé, Olé!!
Elliott: Ring out the Bells Bill Elliott, Golf Monthly Editor at Large and Chairman of the Association of Golf Writers: "There will never be a Ryder Cup like the 39th version at Medinah" Published: Sunday, September 30, 2012 | 9:04 p.m. 87 8 95
RING the bells, sound those trumpet calls, light beacons on the hills. Most of all sing Olé, Olé, Olé, Olé. Loudly. There never again will be a Ryder Cup like this 39th version at Medinah. Why? There simply can't be. Even that most unpredictable of things, big time sport, cannot come up with something as wonderfully fabulous as this final Sunday in the suburbs of Chicago.
Four points behind an apparently rampant US side, few of us gave Europe much hope of victory. There was some defiantly brave talk, most of it in bars late on Saturday night when logic is caressed by a swaying kind of anaesthesia.
But in the cold, clear air of a perfect autumnal morning here those hopes seemed ridiculously misplaced as the thousands of American fans embraced the edges of this terrific course and prepared to roar on Davis Love's men. Wear red, the PGA of America had urged and wear red they did, a long sea of this colour stretching everywhere one cared to look. Sprinkled here and there was the yellow and blue of Europe, the occasional defiant song breaking out now and then.
What José María Olazábal wanted to happen was for his top-loaded players to put blue on the leaderboards around the course early and so subdue the US team's supporters. It was, even on paper, a slim hope but cometh the day cometh the men and Luke Donald, Ian Poulter, Rory McIlroy, Justin Rose plus the strong, reinvented figure of Paul Lawrie did their captain proud.
One by one these players edged ahead of their opponents. One by one they began to paint those leaderboards blue, one by one the rest of us began to believe that something extraordinary was indeed happening in front of our startled eyes on this remarkable day.
Of course, as hope grew vibrantly on one side, so desperation began to infiltrate an apparently impregnable American team. Suddenly the improbable became the possible before turning into the most singular achievement in the history of this competition.
Match after match came to the closing holes and in the majority of these contests it was the European's will that prevailed, the European clutch putts that dropped.
And of course it ended in tears. It was always going to. José María had dedicated this Ryder Cup to his great friend and mentor Severiano Ballesteros. On this Sunday Seve's famous St Andrews silhouette was on every European shirt sleeve.
More importantly, his spirit ran through this team. "Seve taught me one thing above all else," José María had said at the beginning of the week. "Never give in, never quit, anything is possible in this game." On a vibrant day this thought has never been more beautifully exampled. As the climax came José María flicked a glance at the heavens and then began quietly to cry. He was not alone. Olé, Olé, Olé. The perfect end to the perfect summer of sport. We'll never see its like again. Just be thankful we saw it once.
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Volume 5, Number 1 | July 2010
Reasonable Suspicion Based on Flight in High Crime Neighborhoods: Whitaker v. Commonwealth, 687 S.E.2d 733 (Va. Sup. Ct., Jan. 15, 2010)
by Jack E. Call
Professor of Criminal Justice
Radford University
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The authority to stop persons based on reasonable suspicion was created by the landmark Supreme Court decision in Terry v. Ohio.1 In Terry, the Court indicated that reasonable suspicion could not be based on a mere hunch. Reasonable suspicion must be based on "specific, articulable facts."
In Illinois v. Wardlow,2 the United States Supreme Court expanded on what constitute "specific, articulable facts." The Court ruled that police officers had reasonable suspicion to stop Wardlow, who had run from the police when they approached him while he was in a group of young people assembled in a high crime neighborhood. Wardlow was very important because it established that in determining whether they possess reasonable suspicion to stop someone, the police may take into account that the incident in question is occurring in a high crime neighborhood. The Court concluded that "officers are not required to ignore the relevant characteristics of a location in determining whether the circumstances are sufficiently suspicious to warrant further investigation."
Wardlow is also important because it established that presence in a high crime neighborhood, combined with flight from the police (at least "head-long flight"), provides reasonable suspicion to think the person fleeing has committed, was committing, or was about to commit a crime.
Prior to Wardlow, I used to tell my students that in order to possess reasonable suspicion to think a crime had occurred, was occurring, or was about to occur, the police probably needed to be able to identify what the crime was. This would be a practical way of determining when the reasonable suspicion threshold had been crossed. If the police could not say (reasonably) what crime they thought the suspicion person was involved in, then they probably did not have reasonable suspicion.
Arguably, Wardlow suggests that my observation was inaccurate. Since the high crime neighborhood in Wardlow was characterized by substantial illegal drug activity, one could argue that the police had reasonable suspicion to think Wardlow was in possession of illegal drugs, but he could just as easily have been fleeing because he possessed an illegal firearm or had recently committed some other crime.
In Whitaker v. Commonwealth, the Virginia Supreme Court applied the Wardlow decision. Richmond police officers Lindsey, Young, and Gilbert approached Whitaker and three other men who were gathered on a public sidewalk in an area known for high drug activity, in front of a chain link fence with a house behind it. The officers were in plain clothes and in an unmarked police car but were wearing placards that said "Richmond police" on them and had a foot-high badge on the placards. The placards were visible from both the front and back of the officers. The officers approached the group to inquire about trespassing because an occupant of the house behind the fence had lodged complaints with the police about trespassers on the property. Lindsey went to the front door of the house. He returned to the group about 90 seconds later. As Lindsey approached the group, Gilbert asked him where Whitaker was going. Whitaker was proceeding away from the group on a bicycle.
Lindsey ran after Whitaker on foot. Gilbert and Young tried to pursue him in the patrol car, but soon parked it and also pursued on foot. Whitaker quickly abandoned his bicycle and began running. He ran around a couple of houses and a church and jumped over two fences. Two of the officers observed Whitaker holding the right pocket of his jacket as he ran. The officers thought this suggested that there might be a gun in Whitaker's pocket. After running about two blocks, Whitaker slipped on some loose gravel and Lindsey caught up to Whitaker and knelt on him to keep him from getting up. All three officers arrived on the scene shortly thereafter. While they were handcuffing Whitaker, he tried to reach into his jacket pocket. When Lindsey told Gilbert to be careful because Whitaker was trying to get something out of his pocket, Whitaker said. "Sir, I've got a firearm in my pocket."
The officers retrieved the firearm, arrested Whitaker for carrying a concealed weapon, searched him, and found marijuana, cocaine, and $713 in his pants pockets.
The Virginia Supreme Court ruled that Whitaker was not seized until the officers completed handcuffing him. At that time, the officers had reasonable suspicion to think he had committed a crime. The Court could have based this conclusion on the fact that Whitaker ran from the police while in a high crime neighborhood, because that was all the U.S. Supreme Court required for reasonable suspicion in Wardlow. However, the Court did not determine whether this alone was sufficient to establish reasonable suspicion because it pointed out that there were other suspicious circumstances as well – Whitaker's abandonment of his bicycle, his holding onto his jacket pocket as he ran, and his telling the officers while they were handcuffing him that he had a firearm in his pocket.
This part of the Court's opinion is relatively straightforward and unremarkable. There should be no surprise that the Court found reasonable suspicion to justify a brief seizure of Whitaker on these facts. However, the next part of the opinion is a little less straightforward and potentially more noteworthy.
Whitaker argued that the drugs and money found in the officers' search of him after they handcuffed him were inadmissible because they were the products of a search incident to an illegal arrest. The U.S. Supreme Court established in Chimel v. California3 that the police may search a person they have arrested and the area within that person's immediate control without a search warrant. However, in order for the search to be valid, the arrest must be valid. Whitaker argued that "[i]t is not a crime to possess a weapon … and without verification that he did not have a weapons permit the police lacked probable cause to arrest him for violating the concealed weapons statute."
The Court assumed, without actually deciding, that Whitaker was under arrest when he was searched. The Court concluded "that Whitaker's arrest for carrying a concealed weapon was lawful because it was supported by probable cause supplied by his spontaneous statement that he had a firearm in his pocket. This statement justified the search of his person for other weapons, during which the presence of the drugs was disclosed."
If this statement is taken literally at face value, the court appears to be saying that once Whitaker said he had a firearm in his pocket, the officers possessed probable cause to arrest him for carrying a concealed weapon without a permit. Of course, it can be argued that Whitaker's flight from the officers, his attempts to hold onto his jacket pocket, and his effort to get the gun while he was being handcuffed, combined with his statement to them that he had a firearm, support a reasonable inference that Whitaker was trying to keep the officers from finding the gun because he did not have a permit to carry it. That may be what the Court meant, but unfortunately it is not what the Court said. The Court does not refer to any of the other facts in the case to support its conclusion that the officers had probable cause to arrest Whitaker for carrying a concealed weapon.
Does this case establish a presumption that a person carrying a concealed weapon is doing so without a permit? While the opinion in Whitaker could be read to provide an affirmative answer to this question, it seems more likely that the court was simply not as careful in its language as it meant to be. The more reasonable interpretation of the opinion is that a statement from a suspect that he has a weapon in his possession provides probable cause to arrest that person for carrying a concealed weapon without a permit, if the statement occurs in circumstances that provide reasonable suspicion to detain the person temporarily. In the vast majority of situations, the reasonable suspicion to stop the suspect should justify a detention (short of arrest) long enough to permit the police to run a records check. The records check would confirm whether the suspect does or does not have a carry permit. Of course, if the suspect does not have a carry permit, he could then be arrested.


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Watching the grass grow
I have mowed the same lawn for a quarter of a century.
I mowed it before it was even a lawn. I mowed it when it was just gestating, just beginning to form into a lawn-like creature. When it was just an unfinished project the contractor wasn't able to do, when it consisted of weeds, mostly, and lots of rocks.
But grass is amazing. Grass is adaptive and resilient, with deep roots. I scattered some seed a couple of times and leveled it off a bit, and it became a real lawn by the second summer.
It's not a showroom lawn, or anything special. Just grass, mostly in front of the house. And I've mowed it, as I said, for 25 years.
A lot happens in 25 years. And some of it in the front yard.
I remember my daughter, Beth, 4 or 5 years old, running back and forth on the grass while I sat on the front porch, grateful she didn't require me to run with her. She would pretend to be She-Ra, Princess of Power, who was her role model back then. And may still be.
A few years later, T-ball began and so Beth and I would play catch on that front lawn, tossing the ball back and forth until it got too dark to see.
And still I mowed. And the grass grew every year, as things do.
Ten years ago, in early spring, I was mowing the front lawn when my daughter stepped out on the porch, waving at me to turn off the mower. "I got into North Texas!" she said, her mother's alma mater, the largest school of music in the world, where you went if you were a musician and you could, and you had the chops.
I whined all that spring about change, about what it meant to have a child graduating from high school, but at that moment I stood in the middle of cut and uncut grass and knew that change and growth might be harder than I'd thought. Texas was a million miles away.
If parents of young children were foolish enough to ask me to tell them the one thing they won't see coming until it's come and passed, and I were foolish enough to answer honestly, I would tell them this.
There'll plenty of firsts. First tooth, first steps, first days of school, and you will document and remember all of them.
But there will also be last things, and you won't know it. They will come and pass, too, but you won't be aware or understand.
One night when it gets too dark you go inside, and then a few years later you come across a dusty baseball glove in a corner of the basement and you wonder when that last game of catch was, and why you don't remember.
I think about these things when I mow that lawn, sometimes. They just flit past my consciousness, barely scraping my awareness, these memories of balls and gloves and super-heroines.
I was mowing the lawn a few weeks ago when my phone buzzed to let me know I had a text message. It was from Cameron, my son-in-law, and it came with an audio file attached. I turned off the mower and listened.
I knew what he'd done. He was in a clinic in Austin, Texas, and he'd held his phone up to the speaker and recorded, and so there I stood, in the middle of cut and uncut grass, a goofy grin on my face as I listened to the sound of my unborn grandson's heartbeat.
"You can't write about this," Beth said when she told me, months ago, about the pregnancy. She would make the announcement at the time of her choosing, not mine; she was the Princess of Power.
So I've known for a while, and I can finally write it.
And years from now, he'll read it.
So, are you a little curious about what your grandfather was thinking, back before you were born? Or did your mom make you read this? Doesn't matter. I'll tell you anyway.
I already know you.
I don't know your name or the details of your birth, but I already know you.
I know how I feel when I hold you for the first time.
I already know how you laugh when I make funny voices, or tickle your nose.
I know how you run to your mom or dad when you see me, because you're shy. I know how long it will take you to stop being shy, and run to me.
I already know how you laugh, and how you cry, and how you hug me goodbye when I leave.
I already know what it's like to read to you, to sing to you, to feed you and to watch you fall asleep.
I already know what your hair smells like when you get out of the bathtub.
I already know you, and I have already done all these things, in my imagination, as I mow the lawn that reminds me of nothing as much as your mother, when she was about your age.
Your roots are already deep, little not-yet boy. I have already loved you, I have already felt you, I have already held your hand. And I have already listened to the sound of your heart, from a million miles away.


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Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, formally installed a hometown Davidsonian as its eighth president on October 26. In her new appointment, Ava Clayton Spencer continues a family tradition of leadership in education, since she is the daughter of Davidson's own President Emeritus Samuel R. Spencer '40 and his spouse Ava.
Sam and Ava and other family and friends were in attendance. In her inaugural address, Clayton gave a brief, teary shout-out to her parents, holding up the her cap and explaining that father Sam had worn it both as president of Mary Baldwin and of Davidson colleges.
Sam Spencer was president of Mary Baldwin College from 1957 to 1968, and president of Davidson from 1968- to1984. Clayton lived in Davidson with her family from 1968 until 1972, and attended Alexander Junior High and North Mecklenburg High. She finished high school at Exeter Academy and enrolled as an undergraduate at Williams College.
In 1977 she earned her bachelor's degree from Williams , magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, with highest honors in history and German. She then earned a B.A. in theology from Oxford University in 1979, a M.A. in religion from Harvard University in 1982 and a law degree from Yale Law School in 1985. She was an editor of the Yale Law Journal and winner of the Moot Court competition.
After law school, she clerked for Judge Rya W. Zobel of the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts from 1985 to 1986 and then practiced law at the Boston firm of Ropes & Gray from 1986 to 1989. Clayton Spencer served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Boston from 1989 to 1993 until becoming chief education counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources from 1993 to 1997 under the late U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy's chairmanship.
After leaving government, Spencer served as associate vice president for higher education policy at Harvard and then executive dean of the newly founded Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and as a lecturer at Harvard's Graduate School of Education. In September 2005, she was appointed vice president for policy at Harvard University, serving until her appointment as president of Bates. She officially began work there in July.
For further coverage of the inauguration and the new president, visit the Bates web site.


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Because of the inability to add support for ZFS to the Linux kernel due to the GPL being incompatible with Sun's CDDL license, Oracle started work on Btrfs, a GPL-licensed file system that should bring ZFS-like functionality to Linux. Currently, Btrfs is in the beta stage, but support for it has been added to the mainline Linux kernel - despite its beta status. According to Torvalds, there are two camps when it comes to file systems: the one that wants stability, and the one that wants to release often. "You want filesystems to be stable, but you can't be in beta forever," Torvalds notes, "Btrfs is developmental, but it was merged in the main kernel to help people test it." This obviously indicates that Torvalds and his crew of kernel maintainers acknowledges that Linux needs something to compete with Sun's ZFS, and therefore, they decided it made sense to make it as easy as possible for Linux users to test the new file system and report possible bugs.
While Torvalds is critical of early netbooks, which according to him showed signs of "teething problems", he is hopeful for the future of this new market niche. "I'm hoping the next generation will be more powerful and offer a better user experience," Torvals said, "I was doing kernel development on a netbook and it was not at all horrible. The screen was too small, but we are getting to a stage where you can get a cheap good laptop."
Moving on to Windows 7, Torvalds says that the big problem Microsoft has is the fact that they can't do a yearly upgrade like Linux distributions can. Microsoft has to charge for their releases, and people won't shell out an amount of money each year just to be up-to-date. The consequence is that Microsoft has to ave longer release cycles, which means more breakage between releases, which inevitably leads to customer dissatisfaction. He notes that "the cost of the pain is likely to be higher than the cost of the operating system which is why people are slow to upgrade."
He does have some advice for Microsoft, though. He thinks they should decouple the operating system from the applications, and this is actually what Microsoft is doing right now by moving vital functionality of the operating system, such as photo organising/editing and the email application, to Windows Live, which has its own release cycle separate from Windows itself.
Torvalds also explains why he moved away from KDE. "I thought KDE 4.0 was such a disaster I switched to GNOME," he explains, "I hate the fact that my right button doesn't do what I want it to do. But the whole "break everything" model is painful for users and they can choose to use something else." This is rather curious, seeing Torvalds' advice to "use KDE" - which, coincidentally, was one of the most-commented stories on OSNews.
There's more interesting stuff in the interview, so be sure to give it a read.


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Tyler Kids Flocking to Boys and Girls Club
After reading more about the Boys and Girls Clubs of East Texas, I wish I was a kid again! It sounds like they're learning some valuable life skills — even how to change a flat tire. That means 9-year olds who hang out at the Boys and Girls Club this summer, will come in handier in a pinch than most adults.
And one super cool new attraction for the Boys and Girls Club just opened!
The Splash Park had its public opening last week, but Boys and Girls Club members were the first to use it, and had it all to themselves before the public descended. Four thousand square feet of interactive water features, picnic tables, and fun! It's good to be a kid.
It's not just the skills like changing tires and shopping for groceries that kids learn, but it's shooting hoops, swimming, and hanging out with friends too. Just what the summer ordered. We mentioned in a blog last week the Boys and Girls Club is a great way to get involved and make a difference this summer. The Boys and Girls Club in Tyler is at 504 West 32nd.


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Come and join us for a fun filled session with music, rhymes and stories.
Rock, Rhyme & Storytime is suitable for babies and toddlers with an adult.
Every Wednesday at Bridgewater LINC, including school holidays.
Registration is not required, but it will help us to prepare for larger numbers should the need arise.


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Happy New Years From FRCH!
January 6, 2013
January 6, 2013 by EmilyHamilton
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FRCH | Creative Fuel is an eclectic mix of thoughts, points of view and insights about the things that inspire the employees of FRCH Design Worldwide. Our contributors have a diverse range of interests and backgrounds. They work hard, play hard and are here to share their experiences with you!
Barb Beeghly
Inspired by great visual and merchandise presentation and a passion for travel, Barb will wow us with some of her favorite retail experiences from around the world. Quick to record ideas with her smartphone camera, Barb always brings home great shots of the latest and greatest retail.
Tracy Bender
Tracy's energy level is infectious, her genuine disposition and eternally optimistic personality make her an asset to our team. She'll continually delight us with her insights into graphic, packaging and fashion design.
Emily Hamilton
Looking at experiences through a marketing lens, Emily's background of web design and social media lend itself to all things digital. Following the belief that the best way to learn is hands on, she brings a fresh perspective to the retail industry.
Wondering who tagged the columns in the FRCH lobby? Our resident graffiti artist is also
a talented engineer and band frontman who will share inspiration from the world of music and architecture.
Kelsey Chessey
Exploring the world at large and seeking creative inspiration along the way. Kelsey's background in Brand Strategy drives her interesting in all things innovation as well as how brands bring their personality and values to life in the real world.
Chad Marchese
With his finger on the pulse of design and consumer trends, Chad energizes us with his range of insights into the world of strategic graphic design. His passion for all music genres has found him attending somewhere around three thousand live music events and collecting hundreds of vinyl albums.
Phillip Freer
Phillip's passion for the dramatic is apparent in all areas of his life. An accomplished designer, illustrator and talented craftsman, his eye for detail and creativity come to life through DIY projects and renderings. Phillip will capture the magic of visualization and theme design as it relates to parks, retail and resorts.


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Simply Elegant: Natural Holiday Decor
The natural world offers so many ways to decorate our homes this time of year, from fresh greenery and vibrant fruits to warm spices and rustic pine cones. You don't have to spend a lot of money or time either. Sometimes the best ideas are also the simplest ideas.
This past week I was looking for something festive to make with a bundle of pine cones. I learned there are a lot of crafty ideas out there involving glitter, spray paint, hot glue guns...lots of hot glue. But as I looked at my bundle of pine cones, I realized they are quite beautiful just as they are, so I gathered them into a pretty bowl and voila, a lovely decoration.
Check out this roundup of decoration ideas that do not blink, contain no glitter, and are not inflatable.
Top Row:
1. Miniature live trees in a mix of white containers from Better Homes and Gardens.
2. Clementine and clove pomanders gathered in a bowl from Good Housekeeping.
3. Virbrant winter berries gathered in a glass vase from Inspire Bohemia.
4. Evergreen swag and pine cones are used to create an elegant garland from Martha Stewart.
5. Lovely ornaments made from a bundle of fragrant cinnamon sticks tied together with a soft red ribbon, via Real Simple.
Bottom Row:
6. Natural pomegranate ornaments from Design Sponge.
7. Create elegant and inexpensive napkin rings for a holiday party using raffia and boxwood sprigs or winter berries, via Apartment Therapy.
8. Stunning and vibrant winter citrus wreath tutorial from Real Simple.
9. Boom. Pine cones in a bowl with a splash of winter berries from The Field of Flowers.
10. Dried orange slice garland from Flowerpatch Farm Girl via The Kitchn.
(Images: As linked above)


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Kymbolie on Family Tree Circles
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James McDowall Mayor of Ballaarat in 1868-9 was my Great Grandfather. I have found his burial plot in Ballarat along with his two infant sons. But no one else? His wife was Ann Greig Coutts (m.1856), or his daughter Annabella or son John George Gray
aka John Lloyd (b.1864 and was buried in China in 1923 after living in Shanghi since 1890. MY father with the same name as his father John Lloyd WAS BORN Shanghi IN 1894 AND CAME TO AUSTRALIA IN 1912 or THEREABOUTS. I believe his birth was registered in Scotland.
James McDowall was from Glen Luce Wigtownshire Scotland.
I would very much appreciate any further information about burial plots and on living relatives. I recently found a distant relative, Peter (Lee) McDowall, great grandson of my grandfather's second wife.
Because there was estrangement between my grandfather John and his father James, little is known at all. It appears that my Grandfathers acceptance of the diplomatic posting as Postmaster General in Shanghi was not what his father James had wanted for him.
After all is said and done I would dearly love to know if I could enter Scotland to visit distant relatives with an entitlement to a British passport? My recently contact with relative Peter (Lee) McDowall reveals he grew up in England, but his grand father (my father's half brother) was born same place and lived in the same place as my father in Shanghi.
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"OK, start!" calls the man with the clipboard, nodding toward a portable clock. That's my cue. Compass in hand, I dash out of the starting gate and up a grassy slope to the west of Lake Balboa, on a race toward … well, I'm not sure. Somewhere between here and the lake is an orange-and-white flag that marks my first goal of the course. I'll have to find my way there by map.
I'm one of about 100 local adventure seekers who have gathered at the Encino park on a cloudy mid-April morning to take part in orienteering, a competitive sport based on outdoor navigation. Clutching maps and compasses, we fan out among the hills, trails and trees and hunt for a series of goal markers, called controls, hidden throughout the landscape. As a trio of Boy Scouts leaves me in the dust, I pray that I get my wilderness legs soon.
Here's the first thing you learn about orienteering: Where you're going is only part of the challenge; the crux of the sport is figuring out how to get there. In a typical 5K, runners follow a delineated path. Orienteering, however, leaves the route open-ended. Like a life-scale game of connect-the-dots, you are presented with a field full of controls, numbered in the order you must visit them. But between the controls might be cliffs, boulders, cactus groves and streams. The aim is to get from point A to point B in the speediest fashion, without getting lost.


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great Estonian applied arts and handicraft made with love.
Kihnu`s cultural space an traditions is a part of UNESCO list, a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.
Pärnu beach is famous for it's white sands and various attractions.
You can climb the Kihnu lighthouse and admire the beautiful views of the surrounding area.
The sümbol of Pärnu resort
Pärnu is Estonian summer capital almost 20 years!
Sunset over Pärnu.
Soomaa National Park`s unique fifth season invites You to a kayaking trip.
Many parks right in the centre of the town.
Shining and romantic atmosphare in Pärnu beach
Take a walk along the Pärnu pier directly to the sea.
If you haven't seen your friends during the year, you'll probably meet them all in the summer in the beach of Pärnu
Lottemaa Theme Park. The largest family theme park in Estonia
Kiitos liittymisestä!
Olet jo tilannut


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TASCAM Win TEC Award - 'Best Recording Device 2007'
We have always known that the DVRA1000HD stereo recorder was a truly outstanding unit but now it seems that the rest of the world has discovered this as well.
"TASCAM shattered the price barrier for recording Direct Stream Digital audio (known by audiophiles as the ultimate in audio quality) with the DV-RA1000HD, We're honored to have been chosen by Mix Magazine voters as well as our professional studio and mastering customers around the world. We will continue to innovate and provide high-quality recording products like the DV-RA1000HD for the pro audio market." Says Jeff Laity of TASCAM.
The DV-RA1000HD records to hard disk, DVD or CD media at several high-end recording resolutions:
- Up to 192kHz recording at 24-bit resolution
- Direct Stream Digital (DSD) audio recording, the format developed by Sony for Super Audio CD, records at 2.822MHz/1-bit
- Balanced XLR and unbalanced RCA analog I/O converts at all recording resolutions including DSD
- Internal 80GB hard drive for hours of recording time
- DVD+RW drive for high-res DVD and standard CD recording
- AES/EBU, S/PDIF, SDIFF-3 and DSD-RAW digital I/O
- Standard WAVE and DSDIFF file format recording for compatibility with workstations like Pro Tools, Logic, Nuendo, SONAR, DP and others
- Multi band compression, 3-band EQ and fade in/out mastering effects
- ±6% pitch control
- USB 2.0 connection to PC for use as DVD data drive
- RS-232C serial and wired remote control


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storecare needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 65 designs submitted by 24 freelance designers.
Check out http://www.realsportsnow.com to see the current design. We are looking for the best FRESH design (not based on this site) to encourage people to select a sport or instructor they are interested in.
We are using a NEW logo for the NEW site design. Please pick one of the four star logos (4 unelemenated to choose from) in the upper left of the site - design the site to match the logo you choose.
Pick the logo here: http://99designs.com/contests/12150
Please keep white background behind most or all text. It is hard to read text that does not have white behind it.
Please put the sport menu vertical on the LEFT side similar to active.com or some of the designs that have already been submitted, we like that most. Above sport entry put a search box for zip code OR the drop downs to choose location.
Real Sports Now
We are using a NEW logo for the NEW site design. Design the site to match the logo you choose: http://99designs.com/contests/12150
1. Visit http://www.realsportsnow.com to grasp the page elements and our needs.
2. Design from scratch and make sure to list sports somewhere, have the dropdowns, display some instructors, list some schools, and have menu items as we do in the current page. Please add a footer too. Do not keep the same image - it is just a placeholder.
If you get 4 stars:
3. Polish the design.
Thelist of "what I want" and "what I dont want" is based on designprincipals for building sites with good conversion rates. They are notset in stone, but just a good roadmap to follow for anyone who has notdesigned explicitly around conversion. Feel free to do your own thingif you have solid experience designing around conversion goals.
1. Logo #13 is using a free font called 'meanies thick' (you could download here: http://www.fontyukle.com)
2. Western union fees will be pulled out of prize amount should you want them as a payment option.
- Company logo and home link appear near upper left corner.
- Use sans serif fonts (12-14pt) such as Arial, Helvetica, or Geneva for body text.
- Human face with a short space for testimonial.
- Use underlines in link text, color it blue.
- Do not use serif fonts such as Times Roman, Courier, or Palatino.
- Do not use a wide range of font styles, colors, or sizes.
- Do not justify paragraphs of text to create equal-length lines.
- Do not use underlines in regular text.


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At Carolina Gardens at West Columbia, dining is not just a part of the day - it's an experience. Savory entrées partnered with tasty sauces and seasonings accompanied by fresh fruits and vegetables ending with a delectable dessert...all prepared daily with your palate in mind!
Prepared by our culinary team, our menus reflect traditional and local tastes with an emphasis on seasonal foods and regional favorites, and incorporating recipe and menu suggestions from our residents. From our delicious breakfast to full table service at lunch and dinner, our dining team takes pride in serving you…all you have to do is enjoy!


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I would have thought that sending excrement through the post to anyone in the USA would almost certainly fall foul of terrorism laws in your "Patriot" act as it would constitute a biologic agent. The church could end up seeing you send to a supermax in an orange suite fora very long time !
Just a thought.
Judith vd R.
Judith you're a hoot!
Check out this website: http://www.shitsenders.com/
@Ed: well, today I mother-fucking learned.
Sorry, the employment office computer system blocked my access to the above site...


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$10 for a friend. $10 for you. Nice.
beach spain sunset
love the foot prints and cropping !
great image. love the footprints.
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