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Located approximately 20 miles east of Seattle, and about 450 feet above sea level on the Sammamish Plateau, Sammamish is bordered by Lake Sammamish to the west, Redmond to the north, Issaquah to the south, and the Snoqualmie Valley to the east. There are two lakes on the plateau, Pine Lake and Beaver Lake, whose history run deeper than he waters that fill them.
These lands, which would one day be known as the city of Sammamish, were home to Native American tribes long before the first scattered non-Native settlers began making tentative inroads onto the Plateau in the 1870's and 1880's.
In the 1890's, logging was becoming a major industry in this area, and by the 1930's, most of the area was "logged out." The southern half of the Plateau, particularly the area near Pine Lake, developed more quickly than the northern half. By the late 1930s no less than three resorts were operating on Pine Lake and Beaver Lake.
In the 1960's, a small amount of development began, and by 1970, all of the resorts were gone. In the mid-1980's, growth accelerated dramatically as more homes, schools, and shopping centers were built.
On November 3, 1998, local voters approved incorporation. Sammamish officially incorporated at midnight on August 31, 1999.
Modern day Sammamish has its own symphony, three high schools, and has been host to two major PGA golf tournaments at Sahalee (the 1998 PGA Championship, and the 2002 NEC World Golf Championship), with a third coming in June, 2010 (the US Senior Open).
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The Sammamish Heritage Society is a non-profit (501.c.3) organization established to preserve the history, heritage, and integrity of Sammamish, Washington.

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Consensus Report
Environmental Information for Naval Warfare (2003)Ocean Studies Board
Each report is produced by a committee of experts selected by the Academy to address a particular statement of task and is subject to a rigorous, independent peer review; while the reports represent views of the committee, they also are endorsed by the Academy. Learn more on our expert consensus reports.
Accurate and timely environmental information can provide a tactical advantage to U.S. naval forces during warfare. During the last three centuries, the U.S. Navy has placed an emphasis on understanding and characterizing their surroundings. In recent decades, the development and implementation of multifaceted weapons systems have driven the need for accurate environmental information. This report analyzes the current environmental information system used by the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps and recommends ways to address uncertainty and leverage network-centric operating principles to enhance the U.S. Navy's ability to meet its need for timely and accurate environmental information about the battleground.
Key Messages
- New approaches will be needed to provide METOC customers with information and knowledge more rapidly, anywhere, and at any time. This will require new ways to collect the necessary data, new ways to analyze those data to create and present information, and new ways to deliver or make available that information worldwide to advantaged and disadvantaged users alike.
- The intended consumers of this information include decisionmakers facing a variety of complex choices, some of which may be significantly affected by environmental processes operating at a variety of temporal and spatial scales.
- The naval METOC enterprise is a complex system of platforms, personnel, and computer systems designed to support operations carried out by the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps by producing high-quality tailored environmental information products.
- METOC must also examine how it will support the future.


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Bloomberg's legacy under fire for NYPD tactics
A growing chorus of critics has challenged Mayor Michael Bloomberg's approach to fighting crime, pushing back against NYPD policies that he credits for making New York the safest major city in America.
A growing chorus of critics has challenged Mayor Michael Bloomberg's approach to fighting crime, pushing back against policies that he credits for making New York the safest major city in America.
With a few months left in office, Bloomberg can say crime fell 34 percent over a decade during his tenure. For much of his first two terms, he also was heralded as a healer for the city's tense race relations.
But with Bloomberg's third and final four-year term ending on January 1, Democrats seeking to replace him have joined civil rights leaders and the heavily Democratic city council in hammering at a cornerstone of his legacy: The New York Police Department's crime-fighting tactic known as stop-and-frisk.
Critics say police randomly and unfairly stop young African American and Latino men, most of whom are never charged with crimes after being subjected to searches. But polls show that about half of New Yorkers support stop-and-frisk as a strategy that has helped reduce crime.
This week, the city council defied Bloomberg on the police power issue, approving a pair of measures on Thursday that he vigorously opposed. One creates an independent inspector general to monitor the NYPD, and the other expands the definition of racial profiling and allows people who believe they have been profiled to sue police in state court.
Both measures passed with at least the two-thirds majority needed to override his promised veto.
The defeat was unusual for Bloomberg, 71, a politically independent billionaire who rose to national prominence during more than 11 years in office. Through most of his tenure, Bloomberg has been feared and respected, enhancing his stature with a national coalition Mayors Against Illegal Guns and flirting with a presidential run in 2008.
"For two terms, it didn't percolate so hot, this issue," said Eugene O'Donnell, a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He said the public's fatigue with Bloomberg and an overall skepticism about police work helped give an opening to some of the more intense critiques of stop-and-frisk.
"It appears there may have been a shift in opinion about policing," O'Donnell said.
A Bloomberg spokesman noted that polling has showed strong public support for Kelly and the NYPD.
In heavily Democratic New York City, the winner of the September 10 Democratic primary will be heavily favored against the Republican in the November 5 general election.
All five of the major Democratic candidates have called the number of stop-and-frisk incidents excessive. Only City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, a Bloomberg ally, has said she would keep Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, who has described stop-and-frisk as an invaluable crime-fighting tool, though she said she would demand a drop in the number of stop-and-frisk incidents.
One turning point in the perception about Bloomberg may have come last May, when the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) released statistics showing police conducted more stops of black males between the ages of 14 and 24 than the total number of young black males living in New York City.
Police stops surged from 160,851 in 2003 to 685,724 in 2011, when 1.8 percent of searches of minority suspects that year resulted in weapons seizures.
At a news conference this week, Bloomberg invoked the high-crime days of the 1970s in a strong warning to council members not to pass the bill.
Bloomberg and Kelly have also irked advocates and members of the city council by invoking the names of al Qaeda and violent street gangs to make their case.
"What they're doing is preying on people's fears. Everyone wants to live in a safer city," said Donna Lieberman, executive director of the NYCLU.
On Friday, Bloomberg appeared to double down.
"And you know, everybody'll say, 'Oh, you're overstating it.' I don't know if you're overstating it or not, but I'm not willing to find out," Bloomberg told a radio program. "I don't know what you'd say at the eulogy if a cop got killed, and say, 'Well it turned out we weren't overstating it. Sorry."
The public's view of the debate is mixed.
A Marist poll released on Thursday found New Yorkers were happy with Kelly - more than half want him to continue in the next administration - and about half said the practice of stop-and-frisk should continue. But just 6 percent of voters thought crime should top the next mayor's agenda.
"It's been some time since crime has been at the top of minds," said Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist Institute for Public Opinion.
A Marist poll from the high-crime days of 1992 found that 33 percent of New Yorkers saw crime as the top issue.


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New software update for EDIROL R-09HR
EDIROL releases a software update for the incredible R-09HR field recorder…
The EDIROL R-09HR is making as much of a splash in the field recording world as its award-winning predecessor, the R-09. A new software update (v1.04) improves the Signal to Noise ratio for 88.2kHz and 96kHz recording/playback, and also provides support for SDHC cards up to 32GB. The free update is downloadable from:
The EDIROL R-09HR costs £239 and has a list of optional accessories.
More about the EDIROL R-09HR
The EDIROL R-09HR field recorder is the complete recording package and the follow up to the hugely successful R-09 (which has sold a staggering 100,000 units). The R-09HR features a host of features plus an amazing performance that offers recording up to 24-bit/96kHz, a low noise floor, and a great battery life. The unit also features quality microphones for superior recording quality plus a large OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) display with an ultra-wide wide viewing angle.
Usefully the unit also has a small speaker fitted to the back to enable personal monitoring of what you have recorded, so headphones are no longer required for monitoring purposes. The design of the R-09HR has also been improved with a rubber-coated body for extra grip, improved battery housing, wireless control and a separate desktop stand.
Key Features of the R-09HR
Superior sound quality – up to 24-bit/96kHz with lower noise
New, high quality microphones
Ultra wide view-ability on large OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) display
Preview monitor (small speaker) on the rear panel
Improved design with firm battery housing and rubber-coated body for better grip
32GB card compatibility and manual file split
Wireless Remote Controller included
Small desktop stand included
Cakewalk Pyro Audio Creator LE software included – the ideal software for WAV/MP3 editing
Wide variety of optional accessories provided at launch.


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The Collegio Carlo Alberto
The Collegio Carlo Alberto is a foundation created in 2004 at the joint initiative of the Compagnia di San Paolo and the University of Torino. Its mission is to foster research and education in the social sciences, in accordance with the values and practices of the international academic community. English is the official operating language of the Collegio.
DETAILED description
As the Collegio's mission makes clear, we deem research and education as equally important, since at a high level they cannot exist without each other. The Collegio undertakes both with a distinctly outward perspective, adhering to the standards of the international academic community. Our educational objective is to prepare undergraduate and Master's students who can either enter the professional world with recognized and prized skills and adapt quickly to an ever-changing economic environment, or pursue a career in research in the world's best PhD programs. Our research objective is to contribute to policy design for the economy and for other areas of public policy with research at a level comparable to the world's top departments and research centers.
Our emphasis on excellence in research motivated the institution of the Carlo Alberto Medal, a recognition awarded to an Italian economist under the age of 40 (resident in Italy or abroad) for outstanding research contributions to the field of Economics (broadly defined).
The Collegio's diverse and interdisciplinary research activities are presented in detail in the RESEARCH pages. The PEOPLE pages present the scholars engaged in the Collegio's activities either as full-time employees, as fellows and affiliates (faculty of Italian universities who spend part of their time at the Collegio), or as visiting scholars. The Collegio is associated with a number of Research Networks which focus on some topics within the scope of the Collegio's research areas.
The Collegio's educational activities are detailed in the EDUCATION pages. At the undergraduate level, we organize the "Allievi" Honors Program, open to students of the University and the Politecnico of Torino, which aims to greatly deepen their knowledge and understanding of Economics and its investigative tools. At the graduate level, we organize four Master's degree programs: in Economics, in Data Science for Complex Economic Systems, in Finance, Insurance and Risk Management and the program in Public Policy and Social Change (the latter two in collaboration with the University of Torino). The Collegio also hosts and supports two Doctoral Programs of the University of Torino.
Straddling the research and education endeavors are the Collegio's scientific communication activities detailed in the EVENTS pages. Some events, particularly the Collegio Aperto lectures, are addressed to the general public. Other, like our Distinguished Scientific Lectures, are addressed to a broad audience of social scientists, students and practitioners. Finally, our seminars and conferences are geared toward an audience of academics and students in specific disciplines. Since 2006 the Collegio has hosted hundreds of prominent speakers, including Nobel laureates, leaders of financial institutions, authors and entrepreneurs.


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Students and staff alike at Bridgewater State University are planning how best to support those affected by the marathon bombings, especially as two of their own alum grieve the loss of their 8-year-old son, Martin Richard.
Students and staff alike at Bridgewater State University are planning how best to support those affected by the marathon bombings, especially as two of their own alum grieve the loss of their 8-year-old son, Martin Richard.
Bill and Denise (O'Brien) Richard, both 1993 BSU graduates, now Dorchester residents, lost their son when the second bomb exploded at the Boston Marathon Monday. The bright-eyed, wide-grinned boy who has become the picture of peace following the event, had reportedly just run to his father to hug him after Bill finished the race, when the bombs blew.
Denise Richard and the couple's 6-year-old daughter, Jane, were also seriously injured in the blast.
The tragedy has their family at Bridgewater State in mourning.
"(The Richards) met here, they were staples of the community. It's a nightmare," Bryan Baldwin, spokesman for the university, said Wednesday.
"To the fact that this is a tragedy for one family is just unthinkable," he added. "Our hearts go out to them."
Baldwin said student organizations are in the planning stages of what they can do to help, and university officials plan to meet first thing this morning to also discuss a "coordinated response."
The topic of discussion across social media Monday night was "what will be the university's response, and more importantly, what can we do as students," said Natasha Silva.
Silva is a 21-year-old Westport senior who is acting president of BSU's student government association, which met Tuesday to throw out initial ideas, which ranged from writing letters, to sending floral arrangements to those who lost loved ones in the blast.
Those plans hit even closer to home, said Silva, when the student body learned Wednesday morning that the Richards are family.
University President Dana Mohler-Faria issued a statement to the student body reporting that the tragic event "was nothing short of a nightmare for one of our alumni families," he wrote. "Words cannot adequately express the sorrow and profound sense of grief we feel for our friends."
Mohler-Faria, in his note, urged everyone to "take the time" to both pray and respond in some way to those in need.
"We're working on what we can do to help the family out in any means necessary," added Silva, of the Richards.
Today, Bridgewater State students plan to host "Boston Day," in which students and staff are encouraged to wear marathon or Boston gear to show solidarity and pride.
"Like many other communities around Boston, we all know someone who was there for the tragic event, so it's kind of close to home," Silva said, adding that talks are in place to also host a charity event before the end of school.
While at the university, both Bill and Denise were involved in Greek life; Bill was a founding father of the Delta Chi Chapter, according to a statement Sigma Tau Gamma put out Tuesday, inviting his brothers to leave thoughts and prayers on their Facebook page.
A fund has also been set up specifically for the Richards through the Salem Five Charitable Foundation.
Donations to the fund can be made to any Salem Five branch location, or by mail to: Salem Five, Attention: Richard Family Fund, 210 Essex St., Salem, MA 01970.
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Car Review
2012 Kia Optima Hybrid: Wrap-Up
We've spent the last six months and more than 10,000 miles behind the wheel of the 2012 Kia Optima Hybrid, and now it's time to send it off. But before we do, we think it's important to offer a few parting sentiments on how this car has performed.
At its core, the Kia Optima is one heck of a bargain. It's a lot of car for only $21,000 in its base trim. Load it up with options and you get Lexus-like luxury for Honda Accord money. Our hybrid model came with all of the optional equipment: leather heated and cooled seats, heated steering wheel, bi-Xenon automatic headlights, panoramic sunroof, LED taillights and keyless entry and start. Navigation, voice controls and heated rear seats are part of our testers options as well. At only $32,000, we have a hard time understanding why shoppers would consider buying a Lexus ES or Acura TL for $10,000 more. We were extremely impressed with the quality of materials and the sheer number of options available on the Optima. For a few thousand dollars less than a comparable Nissan Altima, Toyota Camry or Honda Accord, the price-per-amenities equation definitely tilts in Kia's favor.
When it comes to fuel economy, however, the Optima Hybrid isn't really the superstar we expected. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ratings claimed 35 mpg in the city and 40 mpg on the highway, but we weren't always able to match those estimates. Frankly, it really depends on how you used the Optima Hybrid. Site Editor Brian Moody was able to get 52.1 mpg on one 200-mile stretch of I-85 just outside Charlotte, N.C. Senior Manager of Content Strategy Scott Markle took the Optima on a trip to Florida and had this to say: "We averaged just 32 mpg on the highway for our Florida road trip, significantly less than the EPA's 40-mpg rating. Once we unpacked and relaxed, we averaged closer to 37 mpg around town, a little better than the EPA's 35 mpg."
For all the premium features available in the Optima Hybrid, we found the hybrid drivetrain to be less than refined. Frequently, we could feel the car switching between gas and electric power, and some drivers felt the car could use a little more power. (But brisk starts from a dead stop make the Optima Hybrid feel downright quick.) None of this is an indictment of the Optima Hybrid itself but rather a fair assessment of all hybrids. Even better known hybrids like the Toyota Prius have a different driving demeanor--especially for those used to gasoline-only cars. Is the resulting fuel economy worth the trade off in comfort? For some it is, but not for others.
In the end, we fell in love with the 2012 Kia Optima's styling, high-quality interior and luxurious features. It's simply wonderful. The base 200-horsepower, 2.4-liter 4-cylinder engine offers most of the features we love at an even more attractive price, with a more refined powertrain and solid fuel economy of 24-mpg city/35-mpg highway. If you want more power, the 274-hp 2.0-liter turbocharged 4-cylinder is satisfyingly quick, with a marginal impact on fuel economy at 22/34. For these reasons, the Optima should remain high on your list.
In fact, our Kia Optima hybrid made such an impression on our staff that two people who drove or rode in the car decided to buy one for themselves. We've had plenty of cars in the AutoTrader garage and never has a test car resulted in that many purchases. Remember, these are people whose job it is to be objective about cars. Sr. Product Manager Ryan Dickerson drove the Kia Optima Hybrid and purchased an Optima EX the following week. Sr. Content Strategy Manager Scott Markle drove our long-term Optima to visit his mom and she was so impressed that she bought an Optima SXL. Content Producer Davis Adams had a similar experience. He drove our long-term Optima to visit his mom, and she said, "This is probably my next car." High praise for sure!
Here's the bottom line: We're not sold on hybrids as the only way to get great fuel economy. The Volkswagen Passat TDI gets an EPA-estimate of 43-mpg highway, and many owners have done even better. Kia's own Forte Eco model is rated at 37 mpg on the highway and 30 mpg in combined city and highway driving. The new 2013 Nissan Altima earns an EPA estimate of 38 mpg on the highway. Lined up against these strong competitors, we still think the Kia Optima is a compelling choice in today's mid-size sedan segment.


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People tend to think of heart disease as a scourge of modern life, brought on by vices such as greasy fast food, smoking and the tendency to be a couch potato.
But 21st century CT scans of 137 antique mummies gathered from three continents show that hardened arteries have probably plagued mankind for thousands of years — even in places like the Aleutian Islands, where hunter-gatherers subsisted on a heart-healthy marine diet and occasional snacks of berries.
Fully a third of the mummies examined — who lived in the American Southwest and Alaska as well as Egypt and Peru as much as 5,000 years ago — appeared to have the same vascular blockages that cause heart attacks and strokes in Americans today.
PHOTOS: Scanning ancient mummies, in search of heart disease
The findings suggest that humans may have a basic predisposition to developing cardiovascular disease as they age, said Dr. Gregory Thomas, medical director of the MemorialCare Heart and Vascular Institute at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center and senior author of a study detailing the findings that was published online Sunday by the journal Lancet.


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Passenger Ferries 2012S/S Birger Jarl and M/S Sally Albatross
The next two passenger ferries in turn to be presented on Åland stamps are S/S Birger Jarl and M/S Sally Albatross. These are ferries number seven and eight in a series of twelve ferry stamps.
S/S Birger Jarl was delivered by Finnboda shipyard to Swedish shipping company Stockholms Rederi AB Svea as S/S Birger Jarl in 1953.
After her maiden voyage on 6 June 1953 to Helsinki with invited guests, she was put in traffic for the collaborating shipping companies Bore, FÅA and Svea between Stockholm and Helsinki and Stockholm and Turku, calling at Mariehamn. In 1973, the ship was sold to Finnish shipping company Jakob Lines, and from 1976 to 1977, the ship berthed in Stavanger as a supply and receiving ship. In the autumn of 1978, she changed name to S/S Baltic Star. The steam engine was replaced by a diesel engine in 1982 and, five years later, a new section was added on the foredeck. With Ånedin-linjen as new owner in 2002, she was once again under Swedish flag and under her old name Birger Jarl, operating as cruising ship between Mariehamn and Stockholm.
M/S Sally Albatross came to be a ship dogged by bad luck. Ordered by Finnish shipping company Rederi Ab Sally in Mariehamn to operate for Viking Line between Helsinki and Stockholm, the ship was built by Wärtsilä Shipyard, Turku, as M/S Viking Saga in 1980. In 1986, the ship was remodelled for cruising and renamed Sally Albatross. While docked at a shipyard in Stockholm in 1990, the ship was completely wrecked by a fire. Only the engines were left intact after the 3-day fire, so the owners decided to cut off everything above the engine room to build an entirely new superstructure. Completely reconstructed in March 1992, the ship recommenced her cruising operations between Helsinki and various ports in the Baltic. Two years later, a new accident occurred. Delayed en route from Tallinn to Helsinki, she slant across the reef off Porkkala at 19 knots and began to take in water. The ship had to be set aground not to sink. The ship made her last cruise in the Baltic in 2006 and was sold to Cyprus in 2007. Today, the ship operates in Greek waters under the name M/S Louis Cristal.
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Huntington Advertiser
Oldest Methodist Church In West Virginia
May 25, 1924
Oldest Methodist Church In West Virginia
Rehoboth church, the oldest Methodist house of worship west of the Shenandoah Valley, occupies an unconspicuous place, is in decrepit condition, and is anything but imposing in size. The history attached to it, however, is of great interest.
Methodism was introduced into America only eighteen years before the building of Rehoboth church, and into Virginia, only fourteen years previously. It had been an independent church only two years previous to its establishment in this country. Until 1784 it merely constituted a society within the Church of England, but after that time was formed into a wholly independent church. Francis Asbury, their first bishop was sent over here from England, by John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, where he spent the rest of his life.
The meetings first held in this country were often at a school house near where their church was afterwards built. The numbers attending, many of them coming on foot from a long distance, made it necessary to have a regular preacher. In response to a call sent to Bishop Asbury, a young man named William Phoebus was sent.
The actual deed for the land on which the church was built calls for five acres.
The church building was completed in June, 1786. Only logs of medium size were used, and it could have taken only a few days to fell the trees and put the timbers into place. Samuel Clark, a veteran of the Revolution, was one of the men who helped place the wall-logs in position. This little building, with a floor space not quite twenty-one by twenty-nine feet, was set up near the bottom of a circular depression in the limestone tableland. For this reason it can scarcely been seen from a distance of one hundred feet or more, in any direction. The ground was doubtlessly chosen because of the danger of Indian outbreaks, which were not entirely over at that time, as they could not have come within rifle- shot unseen.
There is a tradition that Bishop Asbury preached the sermon of dedication while standing in the doorway, to a large crowd gathered on the outside, because of the smallness of the church. This ceremony took place in July, 1788.
Here at Rehoboth were held sessions of the Greenbrier conference in May 1972, and 96. Among other early settlers whose voices were heard at this old church, were Jesse Lee, William McKendree, Freeburn Garretson, John Tunnell, and Francis Poythress. It was Jesse Lee who introduced Methodism into New England. His first sermon was preached in Boston under an elm tree, none of the churches of the city being hospitable enough to offer their pulpits for his use.
The building is of hewn logs, with a gallery around the interior, save over the pulpit. It is broad as enough to seat nearly as many as the room below, and strong enough to bear the weight of twenty times the people that could have squeezed into it. It may be that the builders were more concerned with the thought of keeping out Indian bullets, than with that of letting in air. The pulpit still remains, but the old book-board is gone, a rousing preacher having split it with his fist. At present services are held in the new church which stands in the old enclosure, and no services are held in the old edifice. The communion table from the old building is used in the new church. In the tasteful chancel, it looks odd indeed, but carved mahogany could not replace this battered, clumsy, poplar stand. The forest giants who had built the old church had knelt beside it, the sacred communion, consecrated by Asbury had been served from it.
In 1866 the gallery posts, forty-one inches in circumference, and in perfect condition, were still in place, but they have since been removed. The pulpit of poplar and walnut was two and a half feet above the floor and unusually large. The sounding board, a feature of the early churches is also gone.
The centennial of the old church was observed July 20, 1884, when morning and afternoon sermons were preached by Collis Denny and Davis Bush, to a gathering of fifteen hundred people.
The roof of the historic church at last fell in and the floors decayed, but through the exertions of W. L. Lynch and others, a restoration was effected about ten years ago. A shingle roof was put on, the floor was replaced, and the building made level. In its renovated form the building may perhaps witness a second centennial.
There are indications of hasty work in the original construction. Not one of the logs is a foot in diameter. The larger ones are placed nearest the ground. There was no hewing of the logs except on the inner side of the wall. They are diamonded at the ends for a distance of eighteen inches, and then cut into to receive the logs above. Thus the logs project at the corners of the building. The door, which is near the center of the south side, is broad, but only five and a half feet high. In the east end above the pulpit is a window two by two and a half feet and high up on the north side is one more window, three feet square. A man of six feet could have scarcely stood erect under the gallery, and the preacher could have observed his auditors above quite as well as those below. There was no provision for warming the room. The interments in the churchyard are numerous, and a few of the older graves are marked. Among them are those of Edward Keenan and his wife. The road from Union to Gap Mills passed within a few moments walk but neither building is in sight.
Among the many revivals at Rehoboth, perhaps the most memorable was that of 1842 when there were more than one hundred people converted.
There are probably many in this country and in distant parts who can trace back their spiritual pedigrees to a revival at Rehoboth.


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This workshop will provide Nursing faculty with the information and skills needed to utilize the simulator NOELLE in classroom and clinical instruction
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You can access the Registration System and register for a CTD workshop using the same user name and password that use to login to your computer. Example: Richard Johnson would be rjohnson (You will NOT need to create a separate student myMDC account to register for a CTD workshop)
Make a note of the Reference Number for the workshop then go to Registration Instructions
Once you have registered for a class, you can print your schedule. Please make every effort to attend once you've registered as seats are limited. However, If you need to drop, you can also do this through the Web Registration screen. CTD classes will appear on your transcript as non-credit classes.
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Home Energy Assistance
The Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) helps pay the heating or cooling bills of low-income families or individuals. Roughly 8.9 million low-income families received LIHEAP assistance in 2011. Households are eligible if their incomes are below 150 percent of the federal poverty guidelines or below 60 percent of state median income. The 2011 National Energy Assistance Survey (NEA) found that nearly 40% of LIHEAP households had at least one member aged 60 or older; 72 percent of households had at least one member with a serious medical condition; 41% percent had at least one child aged 18 or younger. 45% reported that their energy bills were more than $2000 that year. While, mean heating benefits were reduced to $429 in FY 2011, compared to $483 in FY 2009.
Unfortunately, funding for LIHEAP has been cut in recent years. It went from $5.1 billion in FY 2009 and 2010 to less than $3.5 billion in FY2013.
For more information on this issue, visit CHN's Public Policy Priorities, 2015-2016.
Advocacy Organizations
Campaign for Home Energy Assistance
Community Action Partnership
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
National Community Action Foundation
National Energy Assistance Directors' Association
Latest News
- January 27, 2017CHEA: The Parallel Paths of LIHEAP (Video)
Policy Analyses and Research
- January 27, 2017CHEA: 2017 LIHEAP White Paper


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Bodies Beautiful: History of Car Styling and Craftsmanship
MGE Shops is the trading name of London's best and only chain of second hand shops. Established in 1967, our signs display BUY SELL TRADE and that's exactly what we do. We trade in a wide range of goods including records, CDs, clothes, homeware, jewellery, books and comics.


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One of the questions that Project Managers always pop up during projects is: "how many days will it take to finish this work?".
This is a very natural and sensible question. You want to know when a project will be finished, so people can have an expectancy of the needed budget, what functionality is in it and when it will be finished.
However, answering the question is more difficult than traditionally is assumed.
An illustration
Imagine you're expecting a friend from a distant city, to come over to your house for a visit. The city is 150 miles away.
He's been traveling for a while and you want to know how long it will take to arrive to your house. You expected him to make the trip in three hours.
You give him a call and pop him the question. "How long will it take for you to get here?".
Imagine him answering "I've been traveling for two hours"
What kind of conclusion can you get from this?
- Maybe it would be:"great, normally it takes three hours to travel, so he should be here in one hour. Everything is going according to my plan".
- Another conclusion could be 'I traveled the same distance last Saturday and it took me three hours an so he should be here in one hour.'
Hopefully however, it is obvious you cannot make any conclusions at all. You have no idea of the progress that has been made and you have no idea of the speed at which your friend is traveling. Any conclusion you'll make based on this answer, will have an assumption in it, and probably a bad one.
It assumes that the situation you're friend is in, is comparable to some hypothetical situation you have in your mind.
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Continuing the story, your friend eventually arrived. It took him five hours to complete the 150 miles, due to a big traffic jam just a few miles of your city. And by the way, your friend has an old car that doesn't travel faster than 62 miles per hour.
So what could your friend have said for you so you could have the best base for a guesstimation of the ETA?
Basically, the only reliable data, is historical data.
Obviously, if your friend has never traveled the course before, there is no historical data.
His most reliable answer would then be:
"I've traveled 90 miles so far and my average speed has been 45 miles per hour. I cannot give any guarantee at what time I will arrive, since there might pop up something unexpected. However based on my current progress and velocity, I expect to arrive in one and a half hours."
Notice that the elapsed time is of no relevance to make a prediction, once you know the speed and progress that has been made so far.
Bringing it home
So back to the project manager's situation. What can we learn from this? "When will we finish?"
- First of all, software development projects tend to be complex and unpredictable. There's is no way you can beforehand guarantee at which point in time, you're going to deliver x functionality for y budget.
- Second, to measure progress, you need to know at which speed the development team is making progress. You'll have to find a way to make that transparent. And here's a clue: time is in no way a measure for progress. The only measure for progress is delivered value.
- Third, you cannot project your hypothetical situation or even your own experience with teams to the situation of other people, let alone a whole different team. Situations differ, because people differ, teams differ and organizations differ. This alone creates a unique and beforehand unpredictable dynamic. In the hypothetical assumptions that are usually the base of ungrounded guesstimations, the team is working without interference, independent of surroundings and with everything available and no unexpected things taken into account.
So how to do it?
- To measure progress, make beforehand a rough estimation of your to be implemented functionality in story points. Story points are an indication of the amount of effort that needs to be performed to finish a piece of functionality. This is comparable to the number of miles to be traveled and has no element of time in it.
- Next, keep track of the finished story points in time during your project. This is an indication of the team's velocity. It doesn't give you any guarantees about the future, but it's the best data you can have, since it's data extracted from the real world.
- Third, as you go through the sprints, regularly do a re-estimation of the backlog that still needs to be done.
This, in combination with the teams velocity, will give an indication of when your team will have finished the work.
- Finally, don't ever do fixed time, fixed budget, fixed functionality. No really, don't do it. My personal preference goes to fixed time, fixed budget, flexible scope. Most of the time, people won't remember if you've missed a piece of functionality. However, you will be remembered for a missed deadline.
Ignore history at your own peril.


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Robert Griffin III looked and sounded the part, moving fluidly and speaking eloquently. But as hellbent as Griffin is to start opening night for the Washington Redskins, he realizes that resolve backfired on him and Coach Mike Shanahan last season.
You remember the playoff scene: Griffin, his right knee clearly compromised, a helpless and hobbled target for Seattle's defense. Maybe you yelled at the television, pleading for Shanahan to pull him. Or, perhaps you simply averted your eyes of the inevitable blow that sent Griffin, the dynamic rookie quarterback, to the sideline for the day and further damaged his knee.
"You know, we all make mistakes," Griffin said Wednesday on the eve of training camp in Richmond. "Last season, we all understand that, we've all talked about it. It's time to move on, we're moving forward and hopefully moving up to a Super Bowl."
After winning their final seven regular-season games and claiming their first NFC East title since 1999, the Redskins lost that opening playoff game to the Seahawks. Renowned surgeon James Andrews then repaired Griffin's knee, and if Griffin can return to form, Washington could well return to the playoffs.
The Redskins have not reached postseason in consecutive years since 1990-92.
To further that aim, the team is almost certain to bench Griffin for the four exhibition games that precede the Sept. 9 opener, at home, against Michael Vick and the Philadelphia Eagles. Sage move that.
"Last week I tested for Dr. Andrews," Griffin said. "I felt pretty confident that if I passed those tests, there was no need for me to just sit around and just watch all of practice. It's not that I wanted to jump in and do everything right away — I know the smart thing to do is to ease me back in and that is what we are going to do.
"Once I passed those tests, I was pretty confident. But I had to come back and go through a workout with the coaches (Wednesday) just so they felt comfortable with it. I am going to be doing that for the next four or five weeks, continually trying to prove to everybody that I am ready to go, and I don't shy away from that."
Griffin is the antithesis of shy, from his play to his interaction with teammates, coaches, media and fans. He is animated in every regard and eminently likable.
He's also a franchise quarterback, witness his 2011 Heisman Trophy season at Baylor and 2012 debut in Washington.
"Well, if I was impressed with him before (last) season, how do you think I feel about him now?" veteran linebacker London Fletcher said. "I think he exceeded all expectations, and that's really hard for a guy like him to come in with such high expectations.
"And when you think about it, this franchise has been looking for a franchise quarterback for, I don't know, over 20 years, so to finally get one … And the talent is one thing, but also the way he carries himself and the way he goes about his business is refreshing."
Griffin plans on participating in all practice sessions except 11-on-11, where the pass rush is at game speed.
"In my mind, there's nothing left to prove," he said. "That's the way you have to approach the game when you're coming off of injury. If you pass the test, and in your mind you feel like you're ready, then you're ready to go.
"For me, getting to 100 percent is getting back out there on the field, getting out there with the guys and making football-like movements, because you can't mimic those. You can't mimic instincts. When a guy is pass-rushing you, you can't really mimic what you're going to do. You can say you're going to step up and slide to the right, but sometimes you don't do that. Sometimes you do something different. That's what I've got to get back to doing out there on the football field. I think gradually throughout the training camp and the rest of the preseason I'll get back to that and be ready to go."
Whenever Griffin debuts in 2013, he vows to be more prudent outside the pocket.
"The goal is longevity in the league," Griffin said. "(But) you also want to win. So as a quarterback, I don't like to conform and say you can't win outside the pocket. I think you can win outside the pocket, you've just got to be smart about it. That's what I learned over the past six months about myself.
"It's about what we need to do to win. Maybe that's keeping me in the pocket a little bit more. Maybe that's throwing the ball away a little bit more, sliding, doing all those things that are necessary. Because if it's the second game of the season, you know, I think I proved how tough I am and the heart that I have on the football field and my teammates know that. But if it's the second game of the season, and it's third-and-4 and I've got 2 yards I might just run out of bounds and slide, if I have to. If it's the Super Bowl, I'm going to get those 2 yards. That's just the way you have to think, that's the way I think now."
Griffin declined to estimate a percentage of his recovery but said he feels "healthy."
"I passed all of my tests with Dr. Andrews, with doctors from the Redskins and with the coaching staff," he added. "So they just want to make sure that we aren't doing anything too soon that we don't have to do. So let some of these other guys get ready for preseason.
"If they want me to be patient right now and ramp it up later, then I'm willing to do that, and they know that I'm going to be, I wouldn't say compliant, but that I'm going to follow those rules, follow those guidelines, do as much as I can within that. And when it's time to go full-go, then I'll be ready to go."
Fletcher is the Redskins', if not the NFL's, expert on longevity. He's played in 240 consecutive games over 16 regular season since entering the league in 1998 out of John Carroll University in Ohio.
"There's no more important position on the football team than quarterback," Fletcher said. "So it's a fine line, where you have to realize and understand and listen to your body, trust the coaches, trust the training staff, the medical staff and really be honest with them about how you're feeling and then go from there."
Sounds like a plan, one that will be monitored by fans and media daily, if not hourly.
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Sometimes Dave Eggers' accomplishments off the page can eclipse his literary talent. He has launched an energetic network of tutoring centers for young readers and writers —including Chicago's 826CHI — and established an innovative, socially engaged publishing empire, the San Francisco-based McSweeney's. But Eggers' soon-to-be-released seventh book, "A Hologram for the King," is perhaps some of his most ambitious work yet.
His exhilarating, original memoir, "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius," about taking care of his little brother after the cancer-related deaths of their parents, exploded onto the best-seller list when it was published in 2000. Segueing between his novels like "What is the What," about the Sudanese refugee experience, and his more journalistic "Zeitoun," Eggers has managed to build a career as a great storyteller who is politically engaged and empathic.
At a reading from the novel to support the efforts of 826CHI last year, I was prepared to be emotionally moved by Eggers' story and was astonished to hear the wry — but never ironic — wit, the distinctive voice that had matured since "Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius." Eggers understands the pressures of American downward-mobility, and in the protagonist of his novel, Alan Clay, has created an Everyman, a post-modern Willy Loman.
As the novel opens, Alan Clay wakes up in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, "virtually broke, nearly unemployed, the proprietor of a one-man consulting firm run out of his home office." His solution to stave off poverty and keep his daughter in college is to set up a holographic telephone-conference system for King Abdullah.
The novel operates on a grand and global scale, but it also is intimate. On the eve of the novel's publication, Eggers took time to chat via email.
Q: Can you explain the title?
A: The book's protagonist, Alan Clay, has been sent to Saudi Arabia to help present a new technology, called telepresence, to King Abdullah. Telepresence is basically a holographic version of Skype — a way to hold international meetings where you can seem to be in a room with someone thousands of miles away. The hope is that if the King is impressed enough with the technology, he'll give an enormous IT contract to Alan's company, and Alan's commission will set him up for life. But first the King has to show up.
Q: Two of your most recent books, "What is the What" and "Zeitoun," were nonfiction, and required so much research. "Hologram for the King" seems so authentically set in Saudi Arabia that one would think you had to do much research. So, why did you decide to write it as a novel rather than nonfiction?
A: Well, the book is set in a real Saudi Arabia, but everything that happens to Alan and everyone he meets is fictional. I was really anxious to get back to straight-up fiction, where I could write whatever I wanted. And in this case I'd been thinking of this character, plotting out his life and his current state, a few years before I heard about the King Abdullah Economic City. Because it's mostly an idea right now, the idea of a city, the idea of the future, it became a fitting physical setting for Alan's internal journey. But this could have taken place in any remote or barren place a businessman might have been sent.
Q: How did you decide to set the novel Saudi Arabia? Did you travel there to do research?
A: I had heard of these new developments King Abdullah has been building, including the one that Alan finds himself in. King Abdullah Economic City is supposed to provide for a post-oil Saudi Arabia, but when I was there, a few years ago, the building was at a standstill. The global economic meltdown had affected even Abdullah's plans, and the city that bears his name was not happening. There were just a few buildings rising from the desert ... and that made for a very surreal and darkly existential landscape.
Q: Your protagonist, Alan Clay, seems like he could have walked out of a John Cheever or John Updike novel. He resembles Willy Loman. Did you have literary models for him?
A: Once I knew who I was writing about, I did go back and reread "Death of a Salesman," which is still so electric on the page, and I read other books about similar men in crisis. There are similarities between any salesmen: the veneer of optimism being the first one, and of course that creates an interesting duality when there's very little to be optimistic about.
Q: How did you conceive Alan Clay as a character? He has a very human balance of frustration and optimism.
A: He's got reason to be frustrated. He's been trying to get a business off the ground, making bicycles in the U.S. again, but he gets laughed out of every bank. At every turn, he's considered anachronistic, but he's sure, at least sometimes, that he still has something to offer. It was a long process, creating him, given I've been working on nonfiction and biographies for a while; getting to that point where he felt fully real to me ... was a long road but really satisfying when I got there.
Q: Alan is, in many ways, Everyman — a guy struggling to keep up in a changing world, where he always seems to be losing ground. Is he aware of this?
A: For the most part, he's all too aware of it. He doesn't have a lot of marketable skills in the current world. He knows sales, doing deals over meals and golf, but he's technologically illiterate, and the one thing he knows something about — manufacturing — well, most of that's being done elsewhere. So it's like being an expert at manned moon landings. It's not so useful anymore.
Q: Alan Clay spent years working for the Schwinn Bicycle Co. before it began outsourcing. Why a bicycle company?
A: I always loved the idea that Schwinns were made right there in Chicago. They were built there until the '80s, and to some extent that's been forgotten. I've been asking Chicago-born friends my age about this, and very few of them remember that at all. But it was a very powerful thing, to know you could see them loading the bikes onto trucks right there on the West Side. Schwinn has such a fabled name in the history of American business, and I wanted Alan to have a manufacturing background, so it made sense to have Alan spend time there. I wanted him to have been part of a great company at its heyday and to have been unwittingly complicit in its downfall.
Q: The novel upends many stereotypes about Saudi Arabia, particularly the idea that women, confined by religious and social restrictions, are passive. Could the romance in the novel really happen there today?
A: It absolutely could happen; I was careful to be sure it was possible. Saudi Arabia is oppressive in many ways, but people there will always find ways around any of the onerous restrictions. The many well-educated women of Saudi, in particular, are really adept at finding ways to circumvent the rules. I met a young man who regularly visited his girlfriend by wearing a burqa himself, sneaking in and out of the house by seeming to be a female friend of hers. Examples of that kind of almost comical subterfuge are endless.
Q: I don't want to give too much away, but Alan has some trouble with credit reports. How did you learn about this shady business?
A: Everyone I know has had the experience where you're trying to buy a house or get a business loan, and the one thing standing in your way is a credit score. And the credit score is so often affected by some random and meaningless thing, some late payment on a $12 charge. In Alan's case, a Banana Republic charge card he didn't even know he had has to some extent sealed his fate — which is something that happens every day. To me, this just demonstrates one of the ways we've done ourselves in; we've ceded our lives to these algorithms. And with it, courage has died. There are fewer and fewer people around willing to look beyond this almost entirely arbitrary number, the credit score. It means next to nothing, but in a world that increasingly has handed decision-making to computers, it determines everything. Every day, we ask computers for permission to do things. It's a self-created Orwellian situation that stifles growth and dehumanizes life. But I'm overstating it a little bit, I guess.
Q: How long did you work on the novel?
A: Three years, give or take. Wait, could it have been that long? What's wrong with me?
Q: Can you talk about your writing and revision process?
A: It varies widely book to book, but I'm a constant reviser. I edit and edit and edit. This one was a little different, in that I used to consider myself more of a maximalist: Successive drafts were longer and longer. But this book got shorter, benefiting, I think, from repeated prunings. I found myself removing so much of what was already implied, and there's great satisfaction in that.
Q: Were there any novels that served as inspiration for you as you worked on "A Hologram for the King"?
A: Well, I usually go in reverse, where I outline a book, or do whatever version of outlining I'm able to do, and then a year or so in, when I realize what the book's all about, I go and read or reread books that might share some of its DNA. In this case, I looked at Bowles' "The Sheltering Sky," Bellow's "Dangling Man" and "Herzog," Heller's "Something Happened," Hemingway's "For Whom the Bell Tolls" and, of course, when you're wading into existential waters, you have to reread Sartre and Beckett. Reading Beckett outside of college is a very different experience, I have to say. The man was funnier than I had previously been allowed to believe.
Q: Do you have a sense of what you would like readers to take away from the book after they close the last delicious page?
A: That's a tough one. I guess I hope they'll feel like they read a good book.
Elizabeth Taylor isthe Chicago Tribune's literary editor.
'A Hologram for the King'
By Dave Eggers
McSweeney's, 328 pages, $25
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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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RE[7]: Well, it looks nice...
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In windows you just need the installer from the vendor and that's it.
Then start bitching to the Vendors and demand that you want Linux drivers from them too. Why must Linux devs always reverse engineer every damn driver without any help from the vendors. Simply because those Vendors are too damn stuck-up, and closed minded!
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SUPER Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi has promised changes in the team not only in introducing new players but also in their approach as they look for win against defending champions, Zambia tomorrow.
He knows the feelings and reactions of whistle. Still looking unruffled with his charming smile but apparently heavily burdened by the weight of expectations, Keshi promised to turn things around against Zambia with the introduction of Chelsea man, Victor Moses.
Moses, perhaps, may play his biblical role of leading Nigeria out of a looming first round elimination. "Lets see how he gets on before Friday. He had arm-string before we left Faro but has been responding positively in training", the former Togo and Mali coach who is the toast of Journalists because of his cocktail of speaking many languages said.
Foreign journalists who are covering the Nations Cup have been asking questions why Keshi left out a big and good player like Moses when his attackers were frittering chances.
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In my constant search to optimize code and make it better i've stumbled upon this article that explaines how IL code generation can be use in this situation. In .net 2.0 emiting IL was made very simple with the indroduction of a DynamicMethod class.
The speed of this approach is comparable to execution time of compiled code.
Result when sorting 10.000 TestClass objects 10 times was 2±0.2 seconds with DynamicMethod and 50±2 seconds with direct use of reflection on my computer. So...
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What is WebDAV?
WebDAV stands for "Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning".
It's a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol which allows users to collaboratively edit and manage files on remote web servers.
It can also be used to access mail on exchange server. I used it for this.
It great for accessing Exchange because all you need is an XML body sent over HTTP. No installing of anything.
How it works?
WebDAV works with XML. It sends xml requests to the server and gets the responses in return.
It uses MSXML or System.Net.HttpWebRequest in .NET.
WebDAV has some extended keywords besides the standard HTTP ones...
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Crowds flock to see Travis letter's debut at Alamo
Hours before the Alamo opened to visitors Saturday, Rene Nixon stood at the front of the line that had formed outside the Shrine of Texas Liberty.
Nixon, a seventh-grade history teacher, was eager to see the priceless "victory or death" letter temporarily displayed inside, so she could share the experience with her students at Beverly Hills Intermediate School in Houston.
The self-proclaimed history buff and her husband, Terrance, planned for months to see the letter during its homecoming, 177 years after it was written.
Dated Feb. 24, the letter penned by Lt. Col. William Barret Travis has not returned to the Alamo since the desperate plea was dispatched from here in 1836.
The Nixons arrived at 7 a.m. Saturday, well before Alamo Rangers opened the doors to the chapel, ahead of about 250 people who waited.
"I've been up since 3 a.m. just so excited," said Rene Nixon, who's taught Texas history for 13 years. "I feel a sense of pride coming on as we wait to see it."
The Nixons, both native Texans, were among a diverse crowd, representing various cities and nations, including France and Brazil, who gathered on the chilly morning to be first to view the document.
By day's end, thousands were expected to see the letter, which will be on exhibition through March 7 — essentially correlating with the siege at the Alamo.
The yellowing letter has become iconic in Texas and American history for Travis' closing signature: "Victory or Death," which he wrote and underlined three times to underscore his plea as the Mexican army besieged the mission.
"I think it is a letter that shows what patriotism looks like and what the cost of freedom is," said Janice Palmer, visiting from Alice with her husband, Bill. "I worry about a loss of patriotism so it's important to have younger generations see things like this."
Many foreign tourists said they knew the Alamo for various pop culture associations with either Davy Crockett or John Wayne, who played him in a film.
"I first learned of the Alamo was because of John Wayne, but I love history and the story behind the letter is interesting," said Claire Staraci, of the French Riviera, who was on her first trip to Texas and San Antonio with her family.
They joined the line as it began to snake around the Alamo grounds.
Officials hoped the fanfare surrounding the letter's arrival would shine light on Travis and the battle's enduring legacy.
The lieutenant colonel and 188 others died here, including some who answered Travis' call for reinforcements, historians note.
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The Texas State Library and Archives Commission, the Texas General Land Office and the Daughters of the Republic of Texas coordinated the event.
The Land Office, which took over custodianship from the DRT last year, helped raise more than $100,000 in private donations for the event.
Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson lobbied the commission to allow the letter to visit the Alamo despite reservations.
He beamed Saturday as thousands streamed in.
"I think this is what people will most remember about my time in office," he predicted.
The letter's Alamo comeback is arguably one of the most savvy, dramatic displays of pomp and circumstance in recent San Antonio memory.
The letter, carried out of the Alamo by mounted courier Albert Martin, returned home Friday in a specially equipped truck, from which officials carted the letter along a red carpet into the chapel amid a three-camera TV production.
Employees of the Land Office and Alamo covered chapel windows to divert sunlight and installed temporary air conditioning units to protect the fragile document.
It's been placed in a custom-built, $20,000 display case that allows visitors to walk around the document to see both sides of the letter in a darkened section lined with tall black curtains.
For those who couldn't make it to the exhibit, a webcast of the letter's exhibition is streaming live at travisletter.com.
To memorialize the letter's 13-day stay, the Alamo's newly renovated gift shop stocked keepsakes — including an official exhibition guide, Travis letter mugs and T-shirts and a letter replica inscribed on a Belgian chocolate bar, selling for $39.99.
New Mexico native Cassandra Masiel purchased a T-shirt that read: "I saw the letter."
"It's exciting to be a part of this historical moment of Texas history, as we don't have anything like this where I'm from," said Masiel, 22.
This is at least the 11th time the letter has been publicly displayed since 1892, and the fourth time it was exhibited outside Austin.
That's why the event was somewhat of a pilgrimage for Texas history fans like the Nixons.
On their way to the Alamo, the couple stopped to visit family in Gonzales, where the Texas Revolution began Oct. 2, 1835.
Ultimately, 32 men from Gonzales who answered Travis' plea for aid would die at the Alamo, historians have said.
"It's just amazing how well-preserved the letter is and that this is not a duplicate, not a replica, it's the real thing," Rene Nixon said, slightly breathless. "It's such an important document that easily illustrates what they were willing to face — victory or death."
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A while back there was some debate about Hobbitus Ille, to which I contributed. I have some more perspective about it now. I read Hobbitus around Christmastime; since then I have bought (in some cases merely dug out) and read (or in a few cases re-read), Winnie Ille Pu, Alicia in Terra Mirabilis (I have the original edition, not the new one that's been released recently), Regulus vel Pueri Soli Sapiunt, the Lingua Latina volumes Epitome sacrae historiae and Fabulae Syrae (when I bought and was working through the other LL volumes several years ago these had not yet been released), all the available Arcardius Avellanus translations (though I haven't gotten around to Pericla Navarchi Magonis yet), Harrius Potter (I finished et Philosophi Lapis and began but have not finished et Camera Secretorum). I also bought, but have not yet read, Nicholas Gross' translation of "Perfume", Fragrantia, together with his Glossarium Fragrantiae, which I have spent quite a bit of time with but haven't finished - more on that later - and just today Antonio Torres' translation Dominus Quixotus a Manica arrived, of which I haven't yet read much beyond his longish and wholly delightful introduction. Still on the docket is Tuomo Pekkanen's Kalevala Latina, which I've had for some time but have never gotten around to, although it looks great.
In any case, it's been a rewarding and sometimes challenging good time with a kind of text I hadn't spent much time on in the past. The vast majority of the Latin I've read has been mediaeval - especially though far from exclusively scholastic - with the classics as a fairly distant runner-up. Here are a few impressions:
Winnie Ille Pu is mostly good as a curiosity. The Latin is too advanced and idiomatic for beginners or intermediate learners, with a big vocabulary inadequately glossed and endnotes justifying its choices out of classical and postclassical authors. It's useless for students, because the content is too shallow to enjoy at the slow pace of someone struggling through it with difficulty. It's the kind of book that can only be fun if you can read it at a brisk and natural pace.
I found Alicia in Terra Mirabilis, by contrast, much easier and more enjoyable. The Latin is simpler, the content more interesting, and on the whole I found it very well done.
Regulus kind of irritated me. I'm not sure what it was, but while it never felt particularly hard I found myself still having to stop and puzzle about it fairly frequently. It didn't feel smooth and natural.
The Lingua Latina volumes were great, like everything in that peerless series. My only complaint is that I don't like the oversized format of the new volumes; it doesn't match the others and the paper and binding quality is not as high.
The Latin of Harrius Potter is not too hard, aside from some neologisms and workarounds for some sticky areas, but on the whole I found it flat, pedestrian, and uninspiring to read. Since this reflects the original quite well, it's not really a complaint about the translation.
The Arcadius Avellanus books were great. Mysterium Arcae Boule was particularly enjoyable, because unlike most of these books, I was totally unfamiliar with the story and had no original version to compare it to, mentally or otherwise. Avellanus is quite difficult for me to read compared to the rest of these. His Latin is definitely the best and feels most authentic and natural, but for that very reason it's the least suited for students. His vocabulary is huge and I learned a lot of new words, as well as coming across a few I couldn't find in any of my dictionaries. He has footnotes explaining some of his more obscure words, some short, some quite long and learned, and I found these very enjoyable, but scattered at random and not nearly numerous enough for my needs. Of all the above, Arcadius' translations are the ones I think I'm most likely to read again for sheer pleasure as well as profit.
I'm especially excited about Dominus Quixotus, which the translator says he has cast into the simplest Latin he can while remaining accurate and which looks fantastic. And I really can't rave enough about Nicholas Gross' work. As I said, I haven't started Fragrantia yet. The Glossarium Frangrantiae is a separate work. He explains that he began it simply as a glossary of the more obscure words needed to translate "Perfume", which is full of historical, chemical, botanical, and other curiosities; but this glossary blossomed into a kind of encyclopedic dictionary of rare and obscure Latin terms generally. Fragrantia itself is a small volume of only 335 pages; the Glossarium is a far more massive tome, over 500 pages. Many of its entries are only a line or two, but many of them are very long, going on for pages and pages of eclectic and amusing information. For instance, the entry on Austria gives a digest of the Austrian and Austro-Hungarian history before digressing on the careers of Hitler and Arnold Schartzenegger; the entry on ducks has a ludicrous amount of information on everything from mating habits to culinary recipes; that on the Jesuits has a quite detailed history of the Society, and so on. It's a fantastic compilation of entertaining material as well as a dictionary, written entirely in Latin but also frequently giving German and occasionally English and French equivalents for its main entries. I can't recommend it enough.
As for Hobbitus Ille, I stand by what I said in my Amazon review and the earlier thread. Its Latin is not up to the level of any of the books I've mentioned here, and it contains more than its share of outright blunders and poor choices. But a) it's explicitly targeted at a level of proficiency below what is required to read any of these other books, and b) I don't think its Latin is as bad as others have made out. I disagree with claims that it is not Latin or will actively harm learners. It's essentially a close crib of the English rather than a idiomatic translation into good Latin, but unlike most cribs its purpose is to provide an easy entryway into the Latin rather than to make the English more intelligible. Still I think that purpose is legitimate and is accomplished here. No, it doesn't provide students with a model of pure Latinity to emulate. But it does give them an opportunity to improve their confidence in basic vocabulary and syntax with ease and pleasure in a large amount of continuous and entertaining text. I imagine that a student who had more or less mastered Familiar Romana, for instance, but had not gone on to Roma Aeterna, might be able to read Hobbitus Ille happily while all of these other books were still a painful slog. I myself enjoyed it despite my not infrequent irritation at its shortcomings.
I'll be interested to see what people think of these and similar works. I've been thinking of getting Tom Cotton's translations of classic English novels next; if anyone has read them I'd be glad of an opinion.


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Atlanta, GA – Atlanta Braves reliever Jonny Venters won't throw for a period of four weeks after undergoing treatment Tuesday morning for an elbow issue.
Venters, already on the 15-day disabled list, was administered a platelet-rich plasma (PRP) injection from noted sports surgeon Dr. James Andrews. Andrews performed Tommy John surgery on Venters' elbow in 2006.
The left-hander will begin a throwing program after his period of inactivity.
Venters made seven spring training appearances last month and allowed 13 hits with six walks in 6 2/3 innings. He was 5-4 with a 3.22 ERA in 66 games last season.


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"Diablo III"
Score: 3 out of 4
It's difficult not to expect perfection from a game after this long of a wait. A lot has happened for Blizzard since "Diablo II" came out in 2000 (a little thing called "World of Warcraft" comes to mind). It's also easy to forget that the original "Diablo" defined a genre way back in 1996, and that "Diablo III" is as direct as descendents get, even across a decade and half of technology.
Like the two previous entries in the series, "Diablo III" mostly just asks the player to turn on, tune in and click until it becomes physically painful. Comparing gamers to lab rats isn't exactly kind, but after a few consecutive hours with "Diablo III," it's hard not to feel like the rodents in those '50s experiments, simply pressing a button to spark the brain's pleasure center.
Which is not to say that the rewards for the incessant clicking aren't enjoyable. "Diablo III" is as much about building up a character as it is the story of evil incarnate infiltrating the world. With endless possibilities for finding loot and gear, the player cannot help but set secondary goals for themselves, reaching a certain skill level or finding a particularly rare weapon.
The experience is also varied by the number of classes available, allowing the player to make a Chaucerian decision between embarking on the adventure as a Barbarian, a Monk, a Demon Hunter, a Witch Doctor or, of course, a Wizard. Each class provides a unique experience in gameplay, but ultimately the story and big picture remain unchanged.
"Diablo III" is based on a 16-year-old gameplay concept that has, up until now, stood the test of time. There is still something mind-numbingly satisfying about grinding through waves of demons and being awarded prizes. It's also a pretty game, with wonderful music and fantastic scenery that keeps the grind entertaining. A particular standout is the game's physics, with objects reacting to collisions and gravity in a stunningly real manner.
The major concerns with "Diablo III" are largely logistical. The player-vs-player online combat mode did not launch with the game, as well as the real-money auction house for items and weapons. Combine that with server overloads caused by needing an Internet connection to play by yourself, and you have a great game that isn't sure which decade it's in.


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MUNICH (AP) The International Olympic Committee will contribute $250,000 toward a memorial for the victims of the attack on the Israeli team at the 1972 Munich Games.
The Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper reports the IOC, headed by the German Thomas Bach, pledged the contribution toward the $2.3 million project.
The IOC confirmed the report when contacted by The Associated Press on Thursday.
The German Olympic Sports Confederation has already pledged $27,000 for the project. Taxpayers will fund the rest.
The results of a competition for a memorial will be revealed on Sept. 19. Construction should be completed in the autumn of 2016.
The memorial will commemorate the 11 Israeli athletes and officials who died in the attack by Palestinian militants on the Israeli delegation in the Olympic village and during a failed rescue attempt by German authorities at an airfield near Munich.
The IOC has been criticized for not holding a minute of silence for the Israeli victims at the opening ceremony of recent games.


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Loews hotels and resorts are kicking off a one-day sale with up to 40% off room rates. They're calling it a Cyber Spring Forward sale in honor of Daylight Saving Time (we lose an hour Sunday). Sale rates are good for stays until June.
The deal: You can make reservations online or by phone at 19 properties in the luxury hotel chain in the U.S. and Canada, including California properties in Santa Monica, Hollywood and Coronado. The sale has no required minimum stay and comes with free Internet service too.
When: The sale runs from 9:01 p.m. Pacific time Sunday to 11:59 p.m. Monday. Stays are good through June 30.
Details: I couldn't test this deal because the sale hasn't launched yet. But a Loews spokeswoman told me sale rates are as low as $137 a night at the Hollywood and Coronado sites, depending on what dates are selected. As a comparison, room rates at Loews Coronado Bay Hotel started at $209 a night for the week starting March 17. There's no guarantee you'll get the lowest rates on the dates you want, but the sale might offer a good spring bargain.
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