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Newland Archer, a handsome and eligible young attorney engaged to lovely May Welland, learns that the engagement will be announced at a party to welcome his fiancé's cousin, Countess Ellen Olenska. This reception for Ellen constitutes a heroic sacrifice on the part of the many Welland connections, for her marriage to a ne'er-do-well Polish count did not improve her position so far as rigorous and straitlaced New York society is concerned. The fact that she contemplates a divorce action also makes her suspect, and, to cap it all, her rather bohemian way of living does not conform to what her family expects of a woman who made an unsuccessful marriage.
Archer's engagement to May is announced. At the same party, Archer is greatly attracted to Ellen. Before long, with the excuse that he is making the cousin of his betrothed feel at home, he sends her flowers and calls on her. To him she seems a woman who offers sensitivity, beauty, and the promise of a life quite different from the one that he expects after his marriage to May. He finds himself defending Ellen when the rest of society is attacking her contemplated divorce action. He does not, however, consider breaking his engagement to May but constantly seeks reasons to justify what is to the rest of his group an excellent union. With Ellen often in his thoughts, May's cool beauty and correct but unexciting personality begin to suffer in Archer's estimation.
Although the clan defends her against all outsiders, Ellen is often treated as a pariah. Her family keeps check on her, trying to prevent her from indulging in too many bohemian acts, such as her strange desire to rent a house in a socially unacceptable part of town. The women of the clan also recognize her as a dangerous rival, and ruthless Julius Beaufort, whose secret dissipations are known by all, including his wife, pays her marked attention. Archer finds himself hating Beaufort very much.
Convincing himself that he was seeing too much of Ellen, Archer goes to St. Augustine to visit May, who is vacationing there with her mother and her hypochondriac father. In spite of her cool and conventional welcome and her gentle rebuffs to his wooing, her beauty reawakens in him a kind of affection, and he pleads with her to advance the date of their wedding. May and her parents refuse because their elaborate preparations cannot be completed in time. Archer returns to New York. There, with the aid of the family matriarch, Mrs. Manson Mingott, he achieves his purpose, and the wedding date is advanced. This news comes to him in a telegram sent by May...


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Thursday, March 08, 2007
Escape From Youngstown TV
If CBS affiliate WKBN-TV/27 begins producting news content for WYTV in that FCC-tipped "shared services agreement" filed by new WYTV owner Parkin Broadcasting, you won't be seeing "27 First News" mainstays Robb Schmidt and Sarah Eisler on 33.
You won't even see them on WKBN or sister FOX outlet WYFX, either, because the anchors are both on their way out the door, period.
The Youngstown Business Journal's Andrea Wood reports that Schmidt announced his resignation late Wednesday, and will anchor his final newscasts on April 6th. Eisler put in her own resignation earlier, and will leave the "First News" main anchor team on March 30th.
One almost pictures the two anchors running out the door with their hair on fire.
We're talking two unusual operators here, after all.
New Vision Television, the new owners of WKBN-TV and sister FOX outlet WYFX "FOX 17/62", has owned stations in other markets, and our impression is that they didn't exactly spend money. And Parkin will not likely be running its own newsroom when it takes over WYTV.
If you're expecting a large newsroom with "the best of WKBN and WYTV" when all this is done, you're probably an optimist.
Careful...if you walk by either WKBN/WYFX or WYTV, you're likely to be hit by dozens of flying resumes and videotapes...
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Based on the new events, could it be WYTV the one who will be producing the news for WKBN/WYFX? Unless they go out and spend money, WYTV has people who could fill the job and based on the track record of gocom and new vision in how they hire younger on-air talent because they are cheaper, it could be WKBN/WYFX that will get the ax not WYTV/MY-YTV.
you guys are so lost.....OMW you are over reacting to this......
sara has made no secret that she wants to spend more time with her kids...
Rob is a sports guy through and through and this fits him like a glove....
OMW and others....quit putting drama whhere there is simply a coincidence of timing.....
Don't shoot the messenger. (OMW)
The timing of three key people leaving their respective stations IS a little more than suspect.
If the New Vision - Parkin deal hadn't happened, I wonder if 'KBN's anchor team and 'YTV's ND would have bolted so quickly.
To an "industry outsider" these moves certainly appear more than co-incidental.
So who was the new weather guy on WKBN Sunday?
the new weather guy is a fill in...
when wetzel and guthrie are off he fills...as did nikki weirich on one or two of the weekend casts...
as i have written before....the ND at wytv is "going home"....back to work for the folks who were the operations people for the old BENEDEK group before they sold YTV to its soon to be..X OWNERS....
nothing fishy here......just change..which i know people hate...but that's what it is...
What will Schmidt do now? Will he still do anything with the YSU Football game of the week on Fox 17/62? Still curious why Schmidt is leaving...
Poster above who said WYTV may produce the news for WKBN has to be one of the WYTV suck ups doing the general managers bidding. There is no way a third rate news operation is going to dominate this deal. What? Move everyone into that rat trap on Shady Run? Yeah right.
Let's see, WKBN or other producing the news for another owned facility? Sounds kind of like WTAM supplying news to WGAR. What's been done in radio is also being done in TV.
Let's get real here.
This is the Youngstown TV market we are talking about here.
If Channel 3 starts supplying Channel 5 with their news, then it's worthwhile discussing.
True, but you have to understand that this one of the last few things Youngstown has left. Having three TV newsrooms is kind of big considering the crime,and the people leaving town by the thousands in addition to having no money to fund any services. Add to the fact Youngstown has a total living people count of 77,000 (that's smallar than Canton), and no new car dealerships saying we have a NBC,CBS, and ABC station producing their own news looks good and makes the town look a little better than what it really is.
Take away one independent voice what do you have left? It is better to have more voices to cover who got shot over a drug deal gone bad as compaired to just having one voice telling the story.
Without that extra voice you will have the vindi/WFMJ/WBCB, and the WKBN/WYFX/WYTV/MY-YTV who also produces news for the clear channel stations in town telling the stories and helping in slanting the local coverage of events since the two newsrooms will be the only "real" voice in town.
Saying the buckeye review,business journal, or even the Warren Tribune are additional voices is only half right since they really cover portions of the area or segments within the area and WFMJ,WKBN,and WYTV cover the whole area and attempt to cover all of the various segments.
With Delphi in the process of shutting down, GM looking for a way to skip town, and fourm health about to close down northside hospital, layoffs in the local TV stations just adds a little more dirt on the grave which in the end will cause this maffia,crime ridden cesspool to just dry up and go away.
In Cleveland, Channels 19 and 43 have the same newsroom.
In Columbus, Channels 6 and 28 share the same news team.
In Cincinnati, Channel 12 produces a newscast for Channel 64.
In Pittsburgh, Channels 2 and 19 have the same news staff, and Channel 11 produces a newscast for Channel 53.
It is happening all around Y-Town, so why is everyone in Y-Town freaking out over this?
It has been this way for years.
In each one of those examples their is at least 3 different stations with a newsrooom. If this happens, you will have 2 seperate newsrooms and if you count the vindicator you will have 2 major seperate voices for the area.
Fewer voices means fewer choices and with one dominant player in local news, means the people around here will get only what the stations will want them to hear. With WYTV, they at least tried to ask questions that WFMJ and WKBN/WYFX would or did not want to ask. Just look at 21 and 27/62's final product to see my point.
Number of TV newsrooms:
In Clkeveland: 3=NBC
68=IND (Mansfield)
Pittsburgh: 2/19=CBS/CW
Erie: 12/35=NBC/CBS
Columbus: 10/53=CBS/CW
Dayton: 2=NBC
Cincinnati: 5=NBC
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3.)WNCD/WMXY/WBBG/WKBN-AM/WNIO does some news but has partnership with WKBN-TV/WYFX to get news/weather.
4.)WHOT/WYFM/WWIZ/WQXK/WLLF/WPIC/WBBW no local news gets news/weather from ether WFMJ or WYTV
5.)WRBP/WASN/WGFT No local news
WWGY,WKST-AM,WJST-AM,and WKPL does little coverage of Youngstown and they are unoffically not rated as a Youngstown stations anymore.
Business journal covers business news, Warren paper covers Trumbull county,Sharon paper covers Mercer county. Lisbon/Salem paper covers Columbiana County, and the buckeye review is geared towards the urban population in the city.
WYTV asked questions others would not? Yeah, right. Like how do you want that worded Mr. Chamber of Commerce?
considering the economy in youngstown ...the area is lucky they have as many news rooms as they do....
the wkbn radio/wkbn tv sharing benefits everybody..more stories covered.
IF wkbn/wytv merge newsrooms did anybody think it would be BETTER...it could!!!!!
instead of having two reporters covering the same story..two reporters could cover two stories..
more sports could get covered. instead of two sports crews at YSU....more high school sports could get covered on a YSU game night...and the list goes on...
instead of the b****ing that goes on...have a broadr g*d d**n view...
change is not a communist plot..it is the current flow of the business..
(industry insider)
Robb Schmidt is the new Assistant Athletic Director of Marketing and Promotions at YSU
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OK, some thoughts.
Maybe we did jump a little into the drama here.
Maybe Robb, Sara and Pat are truly leaving for "better things". We don't doubt it at all.
But we still don't believe it's all a bed of roses.
We're pretty sure that rumors about the pending changes at both WKBN/WYFX and WYTV have been circling for at least a while longer than announced.
And for that matter, even if that's not the case, current ownership at both operations could well have been signaling the changes by changes in their own operation of the stations. (Don't believe us? Ask folks working for Clear Channel stations about to be sold...or just about any station about to be sold to "money people", really.)
So, while Robb Schmidt may well have ended up getting his "dream job", and Sara Eisler may well be spending more time with her kids - we have no reason to doubt either - they are not insulated from reality, be it the continuing economics of operating small market TV stations, pending sales or other factors.
'Nuff said on that, at least on our part.
As far as the composition of the combined newsroom of 27/FOX17-62/33, our gut tells us that the more popular "27 First News" brand and most of the people move forward, whoever stays...as does the presumably much more advanced operation at WKBN/WYFX.
If the 33 folks are willing to work cheap, and fit under the numbers, some may well stay.
Probably the best indication will be what happens with Stan Boney, one of the only real "names" in the market, who happens to be employed by WYTV.
If NVT keeps him aboard for the combined newsroom - and we're guessing NVT does the heavy lifting here, as it has local TV news history and Parkin didn't even exist until a few months ago, it may say something.
But in the whole, the new combined operation, whether it be based at WKBN or WYFX (again, we guess the former), will be ruled by economics, and as noted here by us and others, the Youngstown market's economics pretty much stink.
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Good points OMW. Since Radio 570 and FM 98.9 moved out of TV 27's Sunset
Blvd. digs years ago, there is plenty of room for the folks at Shady Run Road to move west down Midlothian Boulevard. There are indications locally that it is already a done deal.
"With Delphi in the process of shutting down, GM looking for a way to skip town, and fourm health about to close down northside hospital, layoffs in the local TV stations just adds a little more dirt on the grave which in the end will cause this maffia,crime ridden cesspool to just dry up and go away."
-If you truly believe all this is going to happen, why are you still here? I don't believe Delphi and
GM are going to leave, because if they were they would have done it by now. I've been living in the Youngstown area for close to 20 years, and the number one problem I can see that holds the area down is its negative attitude. I'm assuming you live here. If you do, why not make the best of what you have? I know it sounds cliche, but a positive attitude goes a long way. If you think the area is "just going to dry up and go away", why stay here?
For Delphi and GM to leave it takes time. Lordstown bit the bullet twice in the last 10 years and like Buick city in Flint, Terrytown NY, and Oklahoma City it is only a matter of time.
GM makes no money on the G5 or the Cobalt and with the consumer tastes going away from the Hummers and Silverados due to rising fuel prices, what will Loardstown make? GM wants to outsourse the small car even more than they have with the Daweoo built Chevy Aveo. Keep in mind a new GM gets a $1700.00 legacy charge on every new model they sell and that hurts the bottom line. Besides if the rumor is true about GM mergering with Chrysler,you can be assured that Lordstown will suffer due to access capactivy.
As for Delphi, they just cannot compete when they are paying high wages when everyone else can offer the same product at a lower price. The future of Delphi in part depends on the contracts they are able to keep. Sure right know they have Volkswagen, Kia, Ford, and Chrysler among others but if Chrysler or Fords falls or Kia can get a better deal elsewhere, the Warren plants are in for some serious issues.
The fact is both GM and Delphi have been looking for a way out. Over the past 10 plus years look at how the then packard electric shut down plants in the valley and began it coporate downsizing even before the spin off from GM.
As for GM, they too have slowly began to creep out of the area. First it was the shutting down the van plant, then year after year not hiring as many replacements for the retired workers, and so on.
I am still here because I get the opportunity to have a good job in Cleveland and are able to commute back to the Mahoning valley where the cost of living is lower so this is why I am here.
You are correct when you say "and the number one problem I can see that holds the area down is its negative attitude". The fact that this community as a whole has never changed their attiude or perspective on what it takes to get the job done. Just whine,whine,whine and expect everyone else to clean up their mess. This is sad because I was born and raised here.
When someone asks where I am from I am ashamed to say I come from Youngstown in part because my fellow neighbors just don't give a damn about this community rotting away and yet they choose to do nothing about it because they think that change is bad.
If look around you will see nobody wants change or progress they just want it like it used to be. From the jobs in the mill and the mob run mayor's office they think it is so great and perfect but in reality it really was not so great and perfect and many believe one day the valley will rise from the grave and be mighty and great but in reality Youngstown is on a one way ticket to hell.
There is only so much one can do but when you are doing all you can do yet it gets whiped out as a result of 5 negative things that occured, it gets to the point where you just don't care. A postive attitude does goes a long way but when you are in the minority does it really matter and if so how much difference will it make in the first place?
I have watched this community go on its down hill slide from the very start and I know of all the broken promises that were made, the con artists that came to town to make a fast buck and all the while mayors,trustees, and county commissioners thought all they needed to do was just sit there and evey major company will come.
But what they failed to get was their attitude and ignorance is what caused their down fall.
I am sorry for going off topic but I just wanted to clafiry what I had meant in my 3:40 PM post. I hope I did not upset anyone.
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In 2006, Gina and Stuart Peterson purchased a 3.5-acre Tiburon home from retired tennis star Andre Agassi for $20 million, then razed it and began building a completely new home.
The move might sound extreme, but the practice is not unusual in Marin. When there is nowhere to build or a renovation is impractical, it may lead homebuyers to purchase a property, then destroy it and start anew.
"We have aging properties, homes that were cutting-edge when they were built, but now the systems are outdated," said Patricia Navone, an agent with Pacific Union.
A tricky renovation was what led the Petersons to rebuild.
"We really loved the design of the house and intended to update it, but it turned out to be more practical to demolish and rebuild," Gina Peterson said. Outmoded systems, including a water-wasting irrigation system, frustrated the family's dream of a green home, she said.
"Now we are installing a green roof, solar panels and water-conserving irrigation. We are also using recycled building materials," said Peterson. She expects construction on the new home to be finished in September.
Million-dollar teardowns also occur when a homebuyer likes an area but can't find land upon which to build, experts said.
"There aren't a lot of buildable lots. We recently built a home on one of the last buildable lots in Tiburon," said Jeff Jungsten, president of Mill Valley's Caletti Jungsten Construction. As just one measure, 185,400 acres, or 55.6 percent of county land, is under permanent protection in Marin, according to Greenbelt Alliance.
"It's definitely not uncommon, especially in places that are completely built out, Belvedere, Ross, the spaces that don't have big open lots any more," Jungsten said.
"What people are doing is essentially buying the land," Navone said.
"The opportunity is to be able to build exactly what the buyer wants and needs to their specifications and take down a house that in its time was great but its systems — the sewer system, the pipes, sometimes even the foundation — are aging," Navone said.
This was the case with the Petersons' rebuild, in addition to their dream of creating an environmentally friendly, sustainable home. Gina Peterson and her husband, an early investor in YouTube, are living at a separate residence they own in Tiburon while construction is underway.
Teardowns are especially prevalent in Southern Marin cities such as Tiburon. Fewer teardowns occur in Central Marin cities like Fairfax and even fewer take place in Northern Marin, agents and officials said.
"We issued zero demolition permits in 2013," said Paul Jensen, community development director for the city of San Rafael. "You will find this probably more in south county, not here."
In contrast, in Mill Valley, the majority of what goes before the Planning Commission as a new house includes the demolition of the existing house, planning officials said.
The commission received 17 new design review applications between March 2013 and February 2014, its calendar year, and all the applications involved demolition, according to the city. Applications that received permits do not necessarily represent the number of new houses built, officials said.
Elsewhere in Southern Marin, "We issued eight demolition permits in 2013," said Scott Anderson, director of community development for Tiburon. "These all look like they are in older subdivisions, some from the 1960s, some from the 1950s and some even older than that."
"Earlier this year, just last week, our design review board approved tearing down a home that is no more than 12 years old. They are going to be replacing it with a home the same size. They didn't like the existing home," Anderson said. "They liked the location, but not the house."
Two demolition permits were issued in Ross in 2013; in Belvedere, three permits were issued in 2013.
While the bulk of the teardowns are concentrated in Southern Marin, "I had clients who had a house and tore it down in San Anselmo, also one in Fairfax," said Marti Grossman, an agent with Alain Pinel Realtors in the Central Marin office.
"We are also seeing buyers who purchase a home and totally gut the home, where they are removing all the walls and starting from scratch, taking everything out even to the point where they move the bedroom and other rooms," Grossman said.
According to Jungsten, "It's (teardowns) probably 10 to 20 percent of the jobs we work on. Most people buy a home and renovate it."
Jungsten, who heads up his firm's sustainability planning efforts, promotes deconstruction to clients who want to tear down and rebuild.
"We try to suggest responsible ways of doing it (demolition) where we deconstruct and reuse or donate and get a tax credit for removal," Jungsten said.
"With deconstruction, an appraiser would look at the house and say the windows, doors, cabinets, even the studs in the walls and the roof framing and beams, all that material can be taken apart, the siding, finished wood, bathroom fixtures, decorative light fixtures, those types of things can be removed safely and donated," Jungsten said.
Another environmentally friendly approach would be using an unwanted pool to collect rainwater for household use, the builder said.
"If somebody buys a house with a pool, instead of filling in the pool with dirt we try to suggest voluntary water catchment because the hole is already dug," Jungsten said.
Most sources said individual homebuyers, rather than investors and developers, are the ones engaging in the practice in Marin.
"I've been working with developers for eight years and from my experience, if a developer is purchasing a property, more often than not they will try to keep some of the existing structure and not tear it down to the dirt," said Barr Haney, a real estate agent.
"Typically it's easier to get approval for a project that might be considered a remodel or expansion than a project that is considered brand new construction," Haney said.
While the process is involved, requiring approvals from entities such as design review and planning commissions, as well as endless permits and construction, it's well worth it, Peterson said.
"This property is a very special, unique piece of property. I think that's why Andre Agassi and (wife) Steffi Graf loved it," Peterson said. "It's tucked into the side of the mountain, it has beautiful views and lots of sun. That's why we chose to build our family a home here for the rest of our lives."
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Concerts: High Rock Outfitters offers concerts weekly at its 13 S. Main St. venue. Upcoming concerts include: Songcraft Live featuring Cruz Contreras of the Black Lillies and Blake Christiana of Yarn, 8 p.m., April 24; Big Daddy Love, 9 p.m., April 26; Bob Margolin with The Deluge, 8 p.m., April 27; Appalachian Soul Project, 9 p.m., May 7; Sol Driven Train, 10 p.m., May 10; and Woody Wood and Jason Kreckel, 9 p.m., May 11; The Broadcast with Anna Haas, May 17, $10; Blues Order and The South Wing Band, May 18, $10; Songcraft Live featuring Aaron Burndett and Dave Willis, May 30; The Jeff Sipe Trio, May 31, $10; Underhill Rose, June 1. Call 248-4444 or visit www.highrockoutfitters.com for tickets.
Music in the vineyards: Childress Vineyards will host Music in the Vineyards from noon to 3 p.m. each Saturday and Sunday from May 4 to Oct. 26 with no concerts in July and August. Performing May 4 will be The Sins Country and May 11 The King Bees. The winery is at 1000 Childress Vineyards Road.
Music and wine: Lee Hatling and guest will perform from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. Saturday at Junius Lindsay Vineyard, 385 Doctor Zimmerman Road, Arcadia.
Comedy play: The Hot Flash Players of Lexington will present "The Untimely Demise of Big Earl Jessup," an original comedy written by Martha Shore. Hilarity ensues when the women in Earl's life gather one hour before his funeral to pay their respects to the man they have all loved and lost. Shows will be performed Thursday, Friday and Saturday at Tricia's Catering, 408 Piedmont Drive. Tickets for this dinner theater production are $25 each and can be purchased by calling 236-8007. Dinner is at 6:30 and the play begins at 7:30.
BBQ Capital Cook-Off: The annual BBQ Capital Cook-Off will take place 6 to 9 p.m. Friday and 9:30 to 5 p.m. Saturday in Uptown Lexington. Competitive teams will cook for cash prizes, barbecue will be sold by vendors, wineries will sell their goods, craft beers will be sold, a kids activity area will be available, love music and more.
Concert: Experience the power that music has in your life with the Lexington Choral Society's "Spring Sing" concert at 3 p.m. Sunday at First United Methodist Church, 310 S. Main St.. The chorus is under the direction of Phil Rector and his wife, Melonie, assistant director, and is accompanied by Jennifer Klim on piano. The program includes "Singing in the Rain," "Sing Me to Heaven," "If Music Be the Food of Love," "I Hear America Singing," "The Music of the Night," "Music Down in My Soul" and a medley from "The Sound of Music." Admission is free and open to the public. A goodwill offering will be accepted to benefit future concerts and the society's vocal scholarships.
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A Brief History of Robotics
Tedmed curator Jay Walker shows Alan Murray some of the world's oldest books on inventions and explains what they can tell us about the future of robotics.
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... we're gonna talk about the history of ... robotics in our bodies so what are we start ... well ... you know ... you can talk about machines Allen ... without talk about the greatest imagine year of all times ... Leonardo de Vinci ... good so ... in the Leonardo is mine we're thirteen thousand pages of manuscripts in which he imagines ... endless machines my goodness this is a perfect copy of the road a perfect ... being unoriginal of a Leonardo Kodak's ... and in this copy here ... you can see enlist drawings of machines that Leonardo has made including in this copy ... is famous machines of the human flying machine hear somebody ... pedaling away here ... the ... R and is building a helicopter so ... Leonardo is probably the most diverse Lee talented human that has ever lived east of how MF who wrote backward slack in mirror writing ... because he could ... so this is the source if you will of some of the greatest imagination in him and his outing to actually make any ... the did make some prototypes he was a military engineer ... Andy made quite a few years across protein aid though this is a flying machine here so he did build machines as well as drop so where to start with that ... and then we're going to go ... to the military machines ... in the big issues here and and this is a book from fifteen fifty three beautiful copy here ... it's filled with illustrations of the spectacular ... military machines are these men ... summaries hurling rocks down on these guys while they are raising them up ... and you can also see value and were these may derivatives amenities are real machine so this is a book of real military machines not imagine doing more when the age of real machines ... here on this table you can see ... a larger examples of some of the pages here ... including probably the first in image of a robot ... this was a machine designed for the military with spikes coming out of its head here ... from the big issues ... and so when you talk about robots ... you know you look at these are ancient Roman machines ... so we're going to go from this machine their most serious ... thing in this book of machines ... I ... which is ... up the artificial machine book here ... know ... what's gonna powered machines have taken some pages here from the room Ellie ... this is the most beautiful book of the seventeen century ... and cares was powering machines ... he gets from people walking on treadmills ... so for those of you that workout everyday ... know your falling on a very long tradition of walking on machines only in this case they're doing real work ... also the machines were dressed up ... here there's a machine with a woman ... essentially a certain type of woman here ... with water coming out of progress in this man turning the machine I'm wondering exactly what's going on in this picture ... the board to share with it ... but ... here's another set of machines from a clockwork machine that was ultimately used ... on in various German Clorox ... and gears and again you think all these actually says all these machines existed in this whole book with these are machines that actually existed here's a ... way to raise water out of the well by walking on a circle ... and here is a very famous image from the Rovelli ... this is a reading machine ... if you look here ... this man is is this is before Facebook of the four of the Internet he said all of his books on in China rotary device ... and he circular returns the machining you can see the cogs driven here and here says library right here ... and he's this is your your home reading a year I'm sorry what is the point of this to hold several books open for those of you that want to read five or six books to be multitasking is multitasking in the Renaissance ... that's in the Renaissance his multi this ... soap ... you have to sell your machines in the way you do that is to produce beautiful catalog so over across the hall at the exhibit is to regional OBISPO customer move it here ... this is the cover page of a outfit your own army book ... okay so this is the book of machines ... military machines in the front or the price lists of all the costs of the various things ... and here you can see they're making gunpowder in this image and here's more making of gunpowder ... use of gunpowder comes from China to be you know to the west ... and then of course they sell it and monotone doesn't ... end here they're making more gunpowder so this is a book filled with these are our Romick looking machines ... bombs and ... in all kinds of weaponry so when you go cross you can see your weapons catalog here ... and then ... talk about robots may know we have ... a guest from Moscow ... this is the first robot to crash into the surface of another planet in nineteen fifty nine the Soviets launched an interplanetary probes ... and they crashed this robot into the surface of the moon ... so Sputnik this nineteen fifty seven ... two years later the Russians hit the moon ... Andrew and sent back pictures and this is a technical report that looks like a soccer ball here ... but that is what explodes on the surface of the moon essentially in their measuring as much as they can here's the ... storing of exactly what's going on so this is the ... Russian technical report ... and there is your ... robotic probe ... in the middle of what looks like the upper stage of a ... rock ... write ... speak eMachines going to other planets ... I brought this is the result of the machine ... so the Mariner four procure was launched in nineteen sixty five ... and it was the first time digital pictures of another world are sent back since nineteen sixty five ... the entire pro overturned a twenty two pictures the entire mission ... which was our ten year ... six hundred and thirty kilo bytes of data that's it ... and nineteen of those twenty two pictures are on this mag take ... now nineteen and twenty beaches are six hundred and thirty still abide so for those of you to take pictures on your phone when measure those in megabytes ... this is less than one percent the cost ... fifty five million dollars to send back twenty two pictures ... and bought a rate ... was ... thirty one C thirty three bits of second ... in nineteen sixty five ... so you wanna see one of the world look like ... you ran this tape which was to let Mason ... were killing of more than one or two things were done their bit as though lamps or robotic think this is a little piece of a robot so most people don't know this but the Russians built the most amazing robot probably in history ... in nineteen seventy six wounded twenty four ... was a robotic probe the Russians couldn't Landmann um so this of robots ... they sent three robot probes that landed on the moon ... scooped up some soil with a with a big scoop and then blasted off with the soil and came back to the ER ... literally they brought back about six ounces of soil in each mission ... in fact ... if you think about it the Americans bring back all these rocks these humans the Russians say you know what we just on the robot ... and this is a little piece ... of the soil that brought back from the surface of them ... last but not least is your glove compartment manual ... for Saturn five rocket ... probably the most complex machine ever built in history ... is the Saturn five rocket ... standing about three hundred sixty feet tall ... but every vehicle has to have a glove compartment manual ... and so you're an astronaut this is your glove compartment manual for your Saturn five rocket out of the things that I had a chance ... there is what's going on with the power systems ... literally your entire DVD TV guide for your Saturn Fabros fascinating reading bass and know what we're gonna be targeted here just a moment is robotics and humanoids ... um and and one thing that's been talked about more recently is the moment which people in and human noise machines began a murder ... 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Valentinus Smalcius (Schmalz) (died 1622), was a preacher of the Polish Brethren (Socinians) at Rakov, Poland. In 1610 Smalcius and the Socinian elder Moscorovius had a conversation at Lublin with three Mennonite leaders of Danzig and the surrounding congregations. Thereupon Smalcius drew up a confession of faith, which was widely spread among the Mennonites of Poland. The Socinians wished to have closer contacts and even a merger with the Mennonites, since they held that there were only slight differences between their doctrines; but the Mennonites opposed this union. Smalcius and other leaders of the Brethren, including Ulrich Pius Herwarth, a preacher of the Brethren at Danzig, insisted that Jan Gerrits van Emden, a Mennonite preacher at Danzig, and other Mennonite leaders in Poland have a debate with them in order to prepare the merger. Jan Gerrits wrote a number of letters to Hans de Ries, Leenaert Clock, Reiner Wybrands, and other Mennonite leaders in Holland, urgently asking them to come to Danzig to dispute with the Brethren leaders, because they felt unequal to the theologically well-trained polemical Smalcius and other Socinian leaders. The Dutch elders, however, declined, de Ries writing a letter to Jan Gerrits. The union of Mennonites and the Brethren did not come about; in 1628 the Polish Brethren church was dissolved by order of the Polish government.
Hoop Scheffer, Jacob Gijsbert de. Inventaris der Archiefstukken berustende bij de Vereenigde Doopsgezinde Gemeente to Amsterdam, 2 vols. Amsterdam: Uitgegeven en ten geschenke aangeboden door den Kerkeraad dier Gemeente, 1883-1884: v. II, Nos. 2928-36.
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Less than two years on the job Sarasota County Administrator Randall Reid finds himself on the political hotseat
Less than two years on the job — and facing his next performance review in just three months — Sarasota County Administrator Randall Reid finds himself on the political hotseat with his bosses.
Two county commissioners are publicly faulting Reid for poor communication with them, highlighted by last week's dust-up over the resignation of a top finance officer he previously worked with in Alachua County, where Reid was administrator before being hired by Sarasota County.
Commissioners also have faulted Reid for what they say are reports of widespread employee morale issues.
But perhaps most significant for Reid politically is his handling of the start of a major land-use debate over land east of Interstate 75 and the future of building what has become known as "Lakewood Ranch South" in Sarasota County.
Even though Commissioner Joe Barbetta said he warned Reid and his staff not to propose bringing in outside academic consultants to help revise a key portion of the county's land-use plan, called 2050, the county administrator put it forward anyway at a public meeting on July 9. Barbetta said waiting for outside academics would only slow the building of Lakewood Ranch South, which developer Rex Jensen has pushed for nearly a decade.
"I told the staff not to bring it forward," Barbetta said. "Don't waste time on this. I told Reid the same thing."
Barbetta said Reid crossed a line from being an administrator into policymaking by forcing commissioners to vote on his plan. They rejected it by a 4-1 vote.
"We don't need an administrator who thinks he is a sixth commissioner," Barbetta said.
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The growing dissatisfaction with Reid stands in stark contrast to his hiring.
In January 2012, commissioners hailed his arrival as a key move to regain the public's trust after a 2011 purchasing scandal that cost 14 employees their jobs, including the former county administrator, Jim Ley.
As recently as last March they gave Reid largely positive reviews for his first year on the job.
But now, three of the four commissioners who hired Reid have expressed concerns. Board members are weighing how to respond to his next annual performance review, set for November.
Barbetta said he knows switching administrators again would be disruptive and wants to avoid that. But he said the commissioners are reaching a pivotal point with Reid heading into this fall.
Reid said he's just trying to do his job. He acknowledged he may have rubbed some people the wrong way because of high-profile public policy issues. He noted the 2050 plan debate that started earlier this summer as one example, but did not elaborate.
Reid's supporters defend him. Attorney Dan Lobeck, a frequent critic of overdevelopment, said Reid has been a "breath of fresh air" who isn't controlled by the development community. Lobeck said he fears commissioners are building a case against Reid because he's not giving in to the development community.
The tensions with the board came to light last week when Commissioner Christine Robinson, an attorney, released the findings of her investigation into the resignation of the top county finance official. Robinson said Reid initially told her that Suzanne L. Gable resigned on July 8 for family reasons and to work on her CPA training. Commissioners thought Gable already was a certified public accountant.
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Like Robinson, Mason said when Reid told her about Gable's departure, he did not mention anything about the CPA licensure — which had been a key factor in her hiring. Days after Gable resigned, Mason demanded copies of Gable's personnel file.
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Reid said he thought Gable still had her CPA license and was misled himself. The issue will be discussed when commissioners next meet in late August.
2050 communication
Communication issues also were a factor in the 2050 land-use discussions.
Reid and his staff proposed bringing in an academic expert from Florida State University to review the county's rules for allowing development east of I-75 to give the public confidence that the county wasn't favoring development groups.
The academic consultant would look at a section of the 2050 land-use plan requiring that growth not overload existing schools, roads and utilities — something government staff calls fiscal neutrality.
After Barbetta publicly blasted the idea during the meeting, Robinson made a motion to change the recommendation to assure the outside expert looking at the rules would have "development project experience" to understand how the county rules affect development.
Only Commissioner Nora Patterson voted against Robinson's motion.
Barbetta said Reid's handling of questions about Gable's firing will go a long way toward determining his future. If there is any hint that commissioners were lied to, he said, it might be time "cut our losses."


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March 2007 Equipment Roundup: Mixing and Blending
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posted on Monday, September 03, 2012 - 8:11 am
I have just carried out a regression analysis using bootstrapping. I need to report the regression statistics for each DV and wonder whether there is a significance test for r2 that can be accessed in MPLUS. If not what would be the alternatvie to determining significance of r2. I managed to get the r2 and confidence intervals by using the following line in OUTPUT:
standardized (all) sampstat cinterval (bcbootstrap)
Thanks in advance for your time in replying to this query.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Monday, September 03, 2012 - 8:26 am
Mplus gives a standard error and significance test for R-square.
Volker Patent
posted on Tuesday, September 04, 2012 - 6:47 am
Hi Linda, I have not been able to find this in the output. How do I obtain this?
Answering the 'what if not' part of my query I determined the F value using the known pearson R2 as follows:
F=(r2/k)/((1-r2)/(N-k-1)), df=k,N-k-1
but does this hold for a bootstrapped regression?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, September 04, 2012 - 7:29 am
It looks like we don't give a standard error for R-square for bootstrap. The formula you give does not take bootstrapping into account.
If you are interested in the siginficance of R-square, I recommend you use ESTIMATOR=BAYES which allows a non-normally distributed R-square. You can look at the 95% credibility interval.
Volker Patent
posted on Wednesday, September 05, 2012 - 3:08 am
Thank you Linda,
This is helpful. Rerunning the analysis with estimator = Bayes is not possible with bootstrap but I suppose a Bayesian non-normally distibuted R-square is an alternative to using bootstrapping in any case. My reason for using bootstrapping was to fix problems arising from violations of the normality assumption that error terms should be normally distibuted. Is it correct to say that using a Bayesian estimators 'corrects' for the violation that would otherwise occur?
Interestingly the Bayesian estimator produces significant results when the F-test I used initally does not, Also there are differences in the model output and size and significance of the weights, which suggests a different interpretation, so not trivial.
It looks like I need to read up on use of bayesian estimators in regression, for my PhD defence. Could you suggest any references for me to check that discusses use of Bayesian estimation in regression?
Many thanks again.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, September 05, 2012 - 8:54 am
Yes to paragraph one.
Look at TECH8 to see how many iterations were used. Use the FBITERATIONS option to use twice as many iterations as were used in the first analysis.
See Bayesian Analysis under Papers on the website in particular:
Muth�n, B. (2010). Bayesian analysis in Mplus: A brief introduction. Technical Report. Version 3.
See also the UCONN 2011 Topic 9 course video and handout on the website.
Volker Patent
posted on Thursday, September 06, 2012 - 4:24 am
Excellent. Many thanks for your advice.
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Crock-Pot Vegetable and Chickpea Stew, Carrot Cake, Greek-Style Green Beans, Whipped Sweet Potatoes, French Squash Casserole Kimchi Rice & More
We are practically bursting at the seams with new recipes for you this week! Fall vegetables were on the menu, starting with this slow cooker stew of curried vegetables and chickpeas, a wonderful meal to come home to. There was a French squash casserole, and whipped sweet potato with coconut milk and vanilla. Biryani, spiced rice with vegetables and nuts, was on the menu, as were braised Greek-style green beans and kimchi rice with handfuls of fresh greens. Not all was savory, too — check out the luxurious carrot cake with tangy orange icing.
And we took a little extra time this week, too, to look at how to cook vegetables. We showed you the easiest way to cook spaghetti squash in the oven, and our favorite ways to cook corn on the cob, eggplant, and mushrooms too.
• Curried Vegetable and Chickpea Stew
• French Butternut Squash Tian with Herbed Bread Crumbs
• Whipped Sweet Potatoes with Coconut Milk & Vanilla Bean
• Greek-Style Braised Green Beans
• Carrot Cake with Tangy Orange Frosting
• Vegetable Biryani Rice
• Kimchi Fried Rice with Extra Greens
• Balsamic Glazed Pearl Onions
• Radicchio Salad with Green Olives & Parmesan
• Mushroom and Leek Risotto
• Cherry Tomatoes, Gin and Sea Salt Bar Snack
• How to Cook Eggplant in the Oven
• How To Cook Corn on the Cob
• How To Cook Mushrooms on the Stovetop
• How to Cook Spaghetti Squash in the Oven
Previous Week's New Recipes: Sausage & Vegetable Breakfast Casserole, Sweet Potato Tacos, Turkey Wraps, Raspberry Bakewell Tarts, Bean Masala, Mushrooms on Toast and More
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North American Juniors Game Night: 4-24-12
(1) Saint John Sea Dogs 4 @ (8) Chicoutimi Sagueneens 5 (OT)
Semifinals – Saint John leads best of 7 series 2-1
C Danick Gauthier, SNB: 1-0-1, -1, 5 SOG, 2 PIM (roughing), 2 Hits
Playoff Totals: 11 GP, 9-4-13, +8, 16 PIM
Season Totals: 67 GP, 47-39-86, +46, 67 PIM
Shocker! Etienne Brodeur (undrafted) scroed at 7:26 of overtime for the Sags, handing Saint John their first loss of the playoffs. Lightning prospect Danick Gauthier scored his ninth goal of the playoffs in the game, a go-ahead score with just over three minutes to play. Chicoutimi tied the game under a minute later to force overtime. Game 4 is Thursday in Chicoutimi. Saint John leads the series, 2-1.
(W3) Kitchener Rangers 2 @ (W1) London Knights 5
Western Conference Finals – London leads best of 7 series 3-0
C Vladislav Namestnikov , LDN: 0-0-0, +1, 0 PIM (
Playoff Totals: 13 GP, 3-8-11, +8, 10 PIM
Season Totals: 63 GP, 22-49-71, +15, 50 PIM
Likely 2012 first round defenseman Olli Maata had two goals for London, leading the Knights to a 5-2 home win and a commanding 3-0 series lead over division-rival Kitchener. Maata could be a target of the Lightning this summer. Lightning prospect Vladislav Namestnikov had his five game point streak come to an end. London chased Ducks second rounder John Gibson from the Kitchener nets by scoring four goals in just over a period of play. London can close out the series at The Aud in Kitchener on Wednesday.
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The Tuttles Make the Most of Student Housing
Name: The Tuttles
Location: Davis, California
We moved into student housing for the price and location last year. Knowing we'll be here three years all together, we want this place to feel like home. Spending a lot of money on things we can't take with us is pointless and we're not allowed to make any major changes anyway. Enter dumpster diving, yard sales, freepiling, and "making do or doing without."
So far we love what we've done with this white walled, wall to wall linoleum-ed, just shy of 650 square foot, two bedroom. I don't think it will ever really be "done" though. Changing things up is like my hobby (gotta love freepiles and thrift stores) and with a little boy growing up and playing here, things have to evolve and shift.
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Ittleman Recognized at 2014 VT Go Red For Women Luncheon
- 01-31-2014
- By Jennifer Nachbur
The American Heart Association's (AHA) seventh annual Vermont Go Red For Women Luncheon attracted more than 450 attendees and featured special recognition for Frank Ittleman, M.D., professor of surgery and cardiothoracic surgeon at the University of Vermont/Fletcher Allen Health Care. The event took place January 30, 2014 at the Sheraton Burlington (Vt.) Hotel & Conference Center.
The UVM College of Medicine and Fletcher Allen served as joint sponsors of the event, which included a morning panel discussion moderated by former Vermont Governor Madeleine Kunin, a silent auction, and luncheon keynote and survivor presentations.
Ittleman was named Vermont's 2014 recipient of the Crystal Heart Award, which recognizes an individual who has contributed to the mission of the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association. Mary Cushman, M.D., M.Sc., Vermont AHA board chair and UVM professor of medicine, provided remarks about Ittleman at the event.
"He believes, as many of us in this room do, that the soul is in the heart," said Cushman. "He isn't just an amazingly successful surgeon from the technical perspective; he truly cares for his patients. In turn, he appreciates the gratitude that they bestow upon him."
Cushman added that currently, the AHA is providing $1.2 million in funding support to UVM researchers.
UVM/Fletcher Allen cardiologist Frederike Keating, M.D., delivered a keynote address at the luncheon.
In addition to Ittleman, past Vermont Crystal Heart Award recipients from UVM include Paula Tracy, Ph.D., professor of biochemistry, Mary Cushman, M.D., M.Sc., professor of medicine, and Jennifer Nachbur, senior public relations officer.


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The University of Texas at Dallas, with the goal of doubling the size of its tenure-track faculty in the next 10 to 20 years, is recruiting individuals who understand and support the university's commitment to a multicultural understanding of the demands of a global society.
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When your son/daughter joins us at Stratton, he/she will be supported by an excellent Support and Guidance Team.
At Stratton we value the importance of a close and supportive relationship with all students and their families. We believe that by working together we can make it possible for all our students to achieve their true potential and go on to enjoy positive life choices later in life.
We work hard to make sure that the individual student is placed at the heart of what we do. This includes:
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On Thursday July 8th, I participated in the NASDAQ's opening bell ceremony in Times Square in honor of Juvenile Arthritis Awareness Month. It was an honor for me, as a national spokesperson and Board member for the Arthritis National Research Foundation (ANRF), to join Executive Director Helene Belisle and other youth with juvenile arthritis as well as medical professionals. Among them were Shaun-Marie Robbins (age 30), who lives in Hamilton and was diagnosed at 1 ½ years old, and Carrick Porter, a teenager who has juvenile arthritis and lives in Hopewell.
Photo of Kelly Rouba with Shaun-Marie Robbins (on right) and William Scannon, Rouba's neighbor and the inspiration behind ANRF's Marathon for a Cure program.
At the ceremony, NASDAQ officials and Belisle spoke about The Kelly Award for Juvenile Arthritis Research. Each year, ANRF awards this $75,000 grant to a scientist studying a cure for juvenile arthritis. Interestingly, the researcher who received the grant this year would not have been able to continue her work without the funding.
The general public is still largely unaware that children and even infants can get arthritis, not to mention how damaging it can be. I am very grateful that NASDAQ chose to highlight the Arthritis National Research Foundation's efforts to find a cure and further awareness by inviting us to participate in their opening bell ceremony during Juvenile Arthritis Awareness Month. It was an amazing experience.
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The Pamir mountains, or Pamirs, are in south eastern Tajikistan, near the border with Afghanistan.
Other destinations
English - German - Tajik - Russian Thank you - Danke - Rahmat - Sposibo (speak: Spasiba) Hello - Hallo - Salom - Strastvuite (speak: Strasvite)
Get in
You could take a flight from Dushanbe to Khorog. There is a 20 seater flight every morning to Khorog but its departure depends on weather conditions and the number of passengers. Tickets to the flight are sold a day in advance at the Dushanbe airport.
You could share/ hire a jeep from the jeep stand near the airport in Dushanbe to Khorog.
From Khorog the only way to travel around the Pamirs is - Either hitch on a fuel tanker or truck on its way back to Kyrgyzstan, or hire your own vehicle from Khorog.
Get around
Same as getting in.
Rice, eggs, snacks, yak butter, bread, mutton, Pamiri tea (seer-chai), freshly made warm bread (non).
Tea, surprisingly good coffee, and vodka. Yak milk.
There are a number of homestays in most villages on the Pamir highway. They are usually in homes built in traditional Pamiri style. They are made with wood, with five pillars, a sky light and richly decorated with carpets. You are ensured great hospitality and simple but delicious meals.
Khorog - Pamiri Lodge. $6 per person per night incl breakfast.
Khorog - Hotel Serena Inn. This is a more up-class hotel built by the Aga Khan Foundation in-order to encourage tourism in the region. Built in typical Badakshani style and situated right next to the river, it is very luxurious. £160 per room per night incl breakfast.
Zong Village - Homestay of Mavluda. $12 per person per night incl dinner and breakfast.
Murghab - Homestay of Talay. £12 per person per night incl dinner and breakfast.
Stay safe
A zealous policeman in Murgab may want to register you with the police or complain if you were taking photos. This isn't a problem, registration should be known well enough simply getting to the area.
There is some risk of altitude sickness.
Get out
Same as getting in, either back to Khorog or onto Kyrgyzstan. There is currently no border open with China.


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How to Win the Man vs. Critter Turf War
Evicting wildlife in homes is on the rise. WSJ's Ellen Byron joins Lunch Break with a look at how to keep raccoons, bats, possums, skunks, mice and moles out of your home.
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UNCASVILLE, Conn. (AP) Dylon Cormier's layup and free throw with 1.5 seconds remaining gave Loyola (Md.) a 67-64 victory over Albany on Sunday.
Cormier, who finished with 16 points, took a long inbounds pass from Anthony Winbush and got fouled by D.J. Evans after Albany's Jacob Iati tied the game with a 3-pointer.
Erik Etherly led the Greyhounds (4-1) with 23 points and grabbed seven rebounds and Cormier added 16 points in a consolation bracket final in the Hall of Fame Tip Off.
Loyola led by 18 points in the first half and was ahead 59-47 with 8:34 remaining before the Great Danes (3-2) began to chip away. Iati's tying 3-pointer with 3.1 seconds remaining capped a 17-5 Albany run.
Winbush scored a season-best 12 points for Loyola and had five assists and seven rebounds.
Blake Metcalf led Albany's scorers with 12 points, and Iati and Peter Hooley had 11 apiece.