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Satisfy Weekend Cravings With Bonefish Grill's New Brunch Menu
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Carrabba's Italian Grill Gives Pasta a Purpose by Raising Funds for Cancer Research
June 5, 2018
Bonefish Grill Partners With The Nature Conservancy to Help Restore Coral Reefs
May 31, 2018
Scholarship Endowment Created in Memory of George Minutaglio, Jr.
May 7, 2018
Bonefish Grill Celebrates National Shrimp Day With A Bang on May 10th
March 1, 2018
Dine Rewards™ Sweetens The Meal With A Chance To Dine Free For A Year At Outback Steakhouse, Carrabba's Italian Grill Or Bonefish Grill
February 22, 2018
Bloomin' Brands Announces 2017 Q4
February 21, 2018
Bloomin' Brands Issues Statement in Response to Barington Capital
January 8, 2018
Ramin Eivaz Joins Bloomin' Brands, Inc.
January 1, 2018
South Carolina Takes Outback Bowl Title, Everyone Wins Free* Bloomin' Onion Appetizers on January 2
August 14, 2017
Beth Scott Joins Bloomin' Brands as President of Fleming's Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar
July 26, 2017
Bloomin' Brands Announces 2017 Q2 Diluted EPS of $0.35 and Adjusted Diluted EPS of $0.28;
July 24, 2017
Carrabba's Celebrates National Lasagna Day by offering FREE Lasagne!
May 8, 2017
Fleming's Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar Exclusive Summer Wine Pass
April 19, 2017
Fleming's Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar, Takes Cino de Mayo Celebrations to New Level with $100 Margarita
March 30, 2017
Bonefish Grill Redefines Happy Hour with Polished Casual Sophistication
March 20, 2017
Carrabba's Will Host the World's Largest Wine Dinner on March 21
February 17, 2017
Bloomin' Brands Announces 2016 Q4 Diluted EPS of $(0.04) and Adjusted Diluted EPS of $0.31; Provides 2017 Financial Outlook
February 2, 2017
Fleming's Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar Partners with a World's Premier Luxury Jeweler to Offer the Ultimate Valentine's Day Experience
January 11, 2017
Bloomin' Brands, Inc. Commits to Cage-Free Egg Transition in Brazil Restaurants
January 3, 2017
"CHOMP, CHOMP!" The Florida Gators Score Free* Bloomin' Onion Appetizer for America on January 3
November 10, 2016
Outback Steakhouse Honors Military Mates this Veterans Day
October 18, 2016
Carrabba's Italian Grill is Celebrating National Pasta Day with Pasta Today and more for Tomorrow
July 29, 2016
Bloomin' Brands Announces 2016 Q2 Diluted EPS of $(0.08) and Adjusted Diluted EPS of $0.30
July 19, 2016
DINE REWARDS™ Loyalty Program Launches Nationwide at Four of America's Favorite Restaurants
July 5, 2016
Bloomin' Brands, Inc. Signs Middle East Expansion Agreements
June 21, 2016
Outback Steakhouse Tops Its Iconic Bloomin' Onion
June 1, 2016
Bonefish Grill Turns National Martini Day into a Month-Long Celebration
May 18, 2016
Outback Steakhouse Invites You to an 'Australian Dinner Party'
April 13, 2016
Carrabba's Italian Grill Uses Video Featuring Actual Guest Comments to Announce The Return of Two Favorite Appetizers
April 12, 2016
Bonefish Grill Debuts a New Excursion into TV Advertising
March 10, 2016
Outback Launches New App Allowing Guests To Pay From Their Phone
Febuaray 22, 2016
Bloomin' Brands, Inc. Commits to Transition to Cage-Free Eggs
February 17, 2016
Bloomin' Brands Announces 2015 Fourth Quarter Adjusted Diluted EPS of $0.30 and Diluted EPS of $0.14; Approves $250 Million Share Repurchase Program; Provides 2016 Guidance Including Adjusted Diluted EPS Growth of At Least 10% (13% Constant Currency)
February 16, 2016
Mike Kappitt Appointed President of Carrabba's Italian Grill
February 9, 2016
Outback Steakhouse Beefs Up Its Menu with New Hand-Carved Roasted Sirloin
January 7, 2016
The #1 Italian Restaurant Just Got Better: Carrabba's Italian Grill® Gives 1 Million Reasons to Try Its New Menu
January 1, 2016
Tennessee Volunteers Take Outback Bowl Trophy, but Everyone Wins with a Free* Bloomin' Onion On January 2!
November 3, 2015
Bloomin' Brands Announces 2015 Third Quarter Adjusted Diluted EPS of $0.15 and Diluted EPS of $0.13
October 8, 2015
Bloomin' Brands, Inc. to Host Fiscal Third Quarter Earnings Conference Call at 9:00 AM ET on November 3, 2015
August 4, 2015
Bloomin' Brands, Inc. Announces 2015 Second Quarter Adjusted Diluted EPS of $0.28 and Diluted EPS of $0.26
July 7, 2015
Bloomin' Brands, Inc. to Host Fiscal 2015 Second Quarter Earnings Conference Call at 9:00 AM ET on August 4, 2015
June 29, 2015
Outback Steakhouse Donates $250,000 to Folds of Honor to Help Families of Fallen and Disabled Military Heroes
May 27, 2015
Outback Steakhouse Launches New Brand Campaign So Bold, It Lets the Food Speak for Itself
May 19, 2015
Carrabba's New Summer-Inspired Entrées are Full of Flavor and Deliciously Priced
May 5, 2015
Bloomin' Brands Announces 2015 First Quarter Adjusted Diluted EPS of $0.54 and Diluted EPS of $0.47
April 27, 2015
Outback Steakhouse boldy raises the "Steaks" with national daily lunch rollout
April 22, 2015
Fleming's Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar's Passion for Wine Leads to a Win at VIBE VISTA Awards
April 7, 2015
Bloomin' Brands, Inc. to Host Fiscal 2015 First Quarter Earnings Conference Call at 9:00 AM ET on May 5, 2015
March 25, 2015
Bonefish Grill receives MenuMasters Award from Nation's Restaurant News
March 18, 2015
Carrabba's Italian-Inspired Surf & Turf – A New Twist on a Popular Pairing
March 12, 2015
Bloomin' Brands, Inc. Announces Appointment of Gregg Scarlett as President of Bonefish Gril
February 26, 2015
Bloomin' Brands Announces Secondary Public Offering and Repurchase of Common Stock
February 19, 2015
Bloomin' Brands Announces 2014 Fourth Quarter Adjusted Diluted EPS of $0.28 and Diluted EPS of $0.17
February 9, 2015
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Groundspeak's Lost & Found Celebration – Geocaching.com's Lost & Found Video
Geocachers from around the world celebrated ten years of geocaching at Groundspeak Headquarters in Seattle, Washington on July 4th, 2010. The Lost & Found Celebration brought together thousands of geocachers, dozens of Lackeys, Groundspeak's mascot Signal the Frog, the Bubbleman, a dunk tank and The Founders of Geocaching.com.
Geocachers were also able to explore the Fremont neighborhood and earn a trackable HQ tag by completing a scavenger hunt.
There's more celebrating to come. Stay tuned for additional plans to commemorate ten years of geocaching.
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Focus on the Business
Information security has become an increasingly important aspect of the job of CIO as concerns about corporate governance, regulatory compliance and risk assessment multiply in the enterprise. To give you the tools you need to get your company's business leaders on board with a rigorous information-security plan, the ISACA, the Information Security Forum (ISF) and (ISC)2 have worked together to assemble this list ofinformation security principles. Their recommendations are a how-to guide for security management in an era in which rapidly evolving threats require you to stay steps ahead of the bad guys. In addition, coordinated efforts between IT and business teams are necessary to make sure that regulatory compliance is in line and data remains secure. These principles can help you promote a culture of security in your enterprise. Making security a part of daily operations throughout the business can lead to smart behavior on the part of your end users and an increased awareness of the threats and risks that you and your team face every day. Leveraging these principles, you can add value to your organization while helping protect its vital information.
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The Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature in the Department of Special Collections at the University of Florida's George A. Smathers Libraries contains more than 130,000 books and periodicals published in the United States and Great Britain from the mid-1600s to present day. The Library also has manuscript collections, original artwork, and assorted ephemera such as board games, puzzles, and toys. The Baldwin Library is known for comparative editions of books, with special emphasis on Robinson Crusoe, Pilgrim's Progress, Aesop's Fables, and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The Library also has the largest collection of Early American Juvenile Imprints of any academic institution in the United States.
Other strengths and distinctions of the Baldwin Library include: marginalia and inscriptions, the Hans Christian Andersen Awards Collection, Little Golden Books, religious tracts, and illustrated editions from the Golden Age of Children's Literature. Scholars worldwide use the Baldwin Library for research in fables, fairy tales, alphabet books, morality tales and religious tracts, conduct of life, gender roles, comparison of editions, adventure stories, and boys'/girls' series books.
For more information on the collection, please contact Suzan Alteri, Curator, at email@example.com.
See all of the books in the library catalog for the Baldwin Library (over 87,000 catalogued books) and see only the digitized books. See also, annotated list of selected genre terms for children's literature.
Funding for digitization of most of these volumes was provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature is a contributor to the International Children's Digital Library and a founding partner of The Center for Children's Literature and Culture at the University of Florida.


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Why The Right Is Wrong About Saving Detroit
Research ››› ››› KEVIN ZIEBER
An emerging myth being pushed by the right contends that federal spending to rescue GM and Chrysler was unnecessary, and that the companies instead should have gone through a "traditional" bankruptcy. In fact, economists at the time explained that frozen credit markets made private financing for a "traditional" bankruptcy impossible.
MYTH: GM And Chrysler Could Have Gone Through "Traditional" Bankruptcy
National Review's Rich Lowry: "Certainly GM Would Have Survived Just An Ordinary Bankruptcy Process." National Review editor Rich Lowry claimed:
LOWRY: These companies, they needed to go bankrupt. They needed to go through that process. And they would have survived coming out on the other end without the taxpayer losing money on them. And they'd probably be even leaner and meaner than they are today. Certainly GM would have survived just an ordinary bankruptcy process. [Fox News, America Live, 2/7/12]
Fox's Eric Bolling: "GM And Chrysler Could Have Operated In Bankruptcy, Come Out, And Then We Wouldn't Have Spent Billions Of Dollars." Fox News host Eric Bolling claimed:
BOLLING: Just like Continental Airlines operated in bankruptcy for 10 years, GM and Chrysler could have operated in bankruptcy, come out, and then we wouldn't have spent billions of dollars, and the investors, the bondholders and the stockholders, wouldn't have been destroyed in the market. [Fox News, The Five, 2/7/12]
Fox's Charles Payne: "We Bailed Them Out Instead Of Them Going Through A Traditional Bankruptcy." Fox News contributor Charles Payne claimed:
PAYNE: In some ways, GM reminds me of America's own little version of Greece. They had a major problem, we bailed them out instead of them going through a traditional bankruptcy. And it would still, in my mind, probably be the same company but with private owners. [Fox News, Your World with Neil Cavuto, 2/15/12]
FACT: Economic Experts At The Time Said Private Financing For Auto Bankruptcies Was Impossible
Moody's Chief Economist Mark Zandi: Because Of "Credit Crunch," Private Bankruptcy Financing "Would Be All But Impossible To Get." In 2008, Moody's economist Mark Zandi explained why the federal government needed to provide financial help to prevent liquidation of U.S. automakers:
The U.S. auto industry desperately needs financial help, and the federal government should provide it. Without aid, the industry seems headed toward a quick liquidation, which would mean hundreds of thousands of layoffs at just the wrong time for the sliding U.S. economy.
Without government help, the Big Three will almost surely enter the kind of bankruptcy from which there is no exit. They could file for a Chapter 11 restructuring, but would most likely end up in a Chapter 7 liquidation. Their plants and other operations would be shut and their assets sold to pay creditors. Given the collapse in the financial system and resulting credit crunch, so-called "debtor in possession" or DIP financing would be all but impossible to get. Bankrupt firms need DIP financing to operate--to pay suppliers, finance inventories and meet payroll--while they restructure. It is risky for DIP creditors even in good times, but they do get first dibs on the bankrupt firms' assets and can earn high rates and fees. But in a credit crunch such as we are experiencing now, nothing will convince creditors to take the risk. [Moody's Analytics, 11/21/08]
Paul Krugman: Chapter 11 "Would Mean Wiping Out Probably Well Over A Million Jobs." In 2008, Nobel laureate and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman wrote:
If the economy as a whole were in reasonably good shape and the credit markets were functioning, Chapter 11 would be the way to go. Under current circumstances, however, a default by GM would probably mean loss of ability to pay suppliers, which would mean liquidation -- and that, in turn, would mean wiping out probably well over a million jobs at the worst possible moment. [New York Times, 11/16/08]
Dean Baker: "No One Would Have Stepped Forward To Provide Credit To Operate Through Bankruptcy Without A Government Guarantee." Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, wrote:
Had General Motors and Chrysler been allowed to go into bankruptcy last fall, it would have quickly led to a chain of bankruptcies by a whole set of parts suppliers, all of whom are owed large amounts of money by these two companies. It is virtually certain that these companies and their suppliers would be forced to shut down, because no one would have stepped forward to provide credit to operate through bankruptcy without a government guarantee. Because Ford shares many of these suppliers with GM and Chrysler, the disruption to the supply chain almost certainly would have been enough to push Ford over the line as well.
This would have meant almost a complete shutdown of the auto industry in the states of Michigan, Indiana and Ohio. In these states, the auto industry and its suppliers account for close to 6% of total employment. Imagine if the country suddenly lost 8.4 million jobs (more than twice the actual job loss over the last five months). Such is the impact these three states would face were the Big Three to cascade into bankruptcy. [Center for Economic and Policy Research, 4/3/09]
Jonathan Cohn: "The Same Wall Street Meltdown That Has Dragged Down The Economy And GM Sales Has Also Dried Up The ... Money GM Would Need To Operate." Jonathan Cohn, senior editor at The New Republic, reported:
One reason for the casual support for letting GM fail is the assumption that bankruptcy would be no big deal: As USA Today editorialized recently, "Bankruptcy need not mean that the company disappears." But, while it's worked out that way for the airlines, among others, it's unlikely a GM business failure would play out in the same fashion. In order to seek so-called Chapter 11 status, a distressed company must find some way to operate while the bankruptcy court keeps creditors at bay. But GM can't build cars without parts, and it can't get parts without credit. Chapter 11 companies typically get that sort of credit from something called Debtor-in-Possession (DIP) loans. But the same Wall Street meltdown that has dragged down the economy and GM sales has also dried up the DIP money GM would need to operate.
That's why many analysts and scholars believe GM would likely end up in Chapter 7 bankruptcy, which would entail total liquidation. The company would close its doors, immediately throwing more than 100,000 people out of work. And, according to experts, the damage would spread quickly. Automobile parts suppliers in the United States rely disproportionately on GM's business to stay afloat. If GM shut down, many if not all of the suppliers would soon follow. Without parts, Chrysler, Ford, and eventually foreign-owned factories in the United States would have to cease operations. From Toledo to Tuscaloosa, the nation's assembly lines could go silent, sending a chill through their local economies as the idled workers stopped spending money. [The New Republic, 12/3/08]
Looking Back, Experts Agree That Private Financing Was Unavailable For A "Traditional" Bankruptcy
Center For Automotive Research Chief Economist: "Private Bankruptcy For Automakers Would Not Have Been Possible ... Because Credit Markets Were Frozen." Reuters reported that supporters of GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney "point out that airlines and other large businesses have been able to reorganize in bankruptcy without government help." Reuters continued:
"There were two ways to do it - either use crony capitalism, where government picks the winners and losers, or you go through the traditional reorganization process," said Saul Anuzis, a Romney supporter and former head of the Michigan Republican Party.
Sean McAlinden, chief economist at the Center for Automotive Research, or CAR, said there was one problem with that argument: a private bankruptcy for automakers would not have been possible during the 2008-2009 financial crisis because credit markets were frozen and GM and Chrysler were unable to get private financing to keep operating through bankruptcy.
Without federal help, the companies could have been forced to shut down, which would have devastated parts suppliers and threatened solvent carmakers such as Ford and Toyota, McAlinden said.
The intervention saved 1.3 million jobs in 2009, CAR estimates.
"It was the most successful peacetime industrial intervention in U.S. history," McAlinden said. [Reuters, 2/10/12]
The Economist: "The Credit Markets Were Bone-Dry, Making The Privately Financed Bankruptcy ... Improbable." Robert McShane, The Economist online U.S. editor, wrote:
Following the bail-outs, the president eventually forced Chrysler and GM into bankruptcy, a step Mr Romney thought should occur naturally. And the government oversaw painful restructurings at both companies, which were largely in line with Mr Romney's broad suggestions. But the course Mr Romney recommended in 2008 began with the government stepping back, and it is unlikely things would've turned out so well had this happened.
Free-marketeers that we are, The Economist agreed with Mr Romney at the time. But we later apologised for that position. "Had the government not stepped in, GM might have restructured under normal bankruptcy procedures, without putting public money at risk", we said. But "given the panic that gripped private purse-strings...it is more likely that GM would have been liquidated, sending a cascade of destruction through the supply chain on which its rivals, too, depended." Even Ford, which avoided bankruptcy, feared the industry would collapse if GM went down. At the time that seemed like a real possibility. The credit markets were bone-dry, making the privately financed bankruptcy that Mr Romney favoured improbable. He conveniently ignores this bit of history in claiming to have been right all along. [The Economist, 2/14/12]
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Review: D-Link DCS-1130 Wireless N Network Camera
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D-Link DCS-1130 Wireless N Network Camera
Price: $219.99
Pros: Good signal strength; program lets you view multiple streams or use motion detection.
Cons: Poor image quality; no controls with Web interface; online stream doesn't work with Apple iPhone.
Imagine an 802.11n wireless camera that streams gorgeous video to the Web even when your computers are offline. It's small enough to go unnoticed and you can easily view the results, and even control the camera, from any cell phone.
Well, if you pick up the D-Link DCS-1130 Wireless N Network camera, all you can do is imagine it. This camera, frankly, sounded a lot better in the planning stages. We've been following its delayed development for a while now, and the final result is a letdown.
Installation wasn't exactly the plug-and-play process we'd been led to believe. We needed to run an install wizard that only works on Windows computers. We don't understand why D-Link has chosen to leave Mac users out, when all the software does is a simple router configuration. To use the camera, you'll need a router that supports Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS). We tested it with a D-Link router that has a WPS button, so installation didn't take long.
Once we had the camera set up, however, the disappointment really began. The image quality is poor. It's much worse than you'd get from a Logitech Webcam costing much less. The top resolution is 640x480 pixels with 30 frames per second, and the image is always grainy. If you videochatted with a Webcam that produced an image like this, your friends would complain.
The install process created an account for us on mydlink.com, and it was easy to log in from either a Windows or Macintosh computer to view the streaming video. It wasn't so easy from a cell phone, however. Our iPhone couldnt connect; so much for monitoring while away from home. The packaging makes it sound like the DCS-1130 works with any 3G phone, but the fine prints says it needs Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) support and a 3G video player.
As for the online camera interface no surprise thereanother disappointment. We were shocked to find that we couldn't control the camera through the Web site. There are no controls for zooming in our out. The camera doesn't include a motor, so we couldn't pan left or right, something that the Logitech QuickCam Orbit AF can do. Instead, this camera is fixed in one direction. Despite the box saying the DCS-1130 performs well in low-light conditions (it promises 1.0 lux sensitivity for low-light recording), we found low-light video extra grainy. When we pointed the camera out the window on a sunny day, on the other hand, we got a totally white, blown-out image. The camera only creates a decent image in moderate lighting. We were especially disappointed that there's no autofocus. That's been standard issue on moderate-to-high end Webcams for years now. The DCS-1130 includes a manual focus dial. If the camera isn't near your computer, that means making several trips between your computer and camera until you get the focus ideal. Why wasn't autofocus built-in? And why aren't there focus controls on the Web interface?
To gain advanced controls over the camera, we needed to install D-Link's D-ViewCam 2.0 software, which only works on Windows computers. The instructions didn't specify which program to install or where to find it, so it took us a while to find the correct software on the installation CD. This software lets you view multiple video streams, set up motion detection, record still images, and record video. You can even record video to an external hard drive, so the computer doesn't need to be on. The program also offers 16x digital zoom. The interface, however, was complex, and we were left wondering why many of the advanced controls couldn't have been worked into the Web interface. The camera's packaging mentions the D-ViewCam software, but says it's for multi-camera monitoring and advanced management. What it doesn't say is that nearly all the controls are considered "advanced management."
While this is an 802.11n camera and it requires an 802.11n router, the type of Wi-Fi connectivity it uses isn't all that important when the rest of the camera is so lacking. Yes, it includes two antennas and we found the signal strength to be strong in our testing, no matter where we located the camera. The image the camera transmitted, however, still looked terrible. A strong signal of a weak image isn't that much of a help. The stream never dropped out in our testing, but the image was always grainy. Don't mistakenly pick this up thinking that the "Wireless N" on the box is in some way a measure of the product's quality.
Wireless monitoring holds a lot of promise, but this camera, unfortunately, only lets you imagine what might have been.
In addition to Wi-Fi Planet, Troy is a regular contributor to Computer Shopper, Intranet Journal, GearLog, and Laptop Magazine. He also writes a weekly consumer technology column which is published in the Jersey Journal newspaper. We follow him on Twitter @TDreier.


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Computerized Combination Weighers Eliminate Product Give-Away
Computerized combination weighers remain a mainstay, piecing together profits by eliminating product give-away
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The changing fortunes of food manufacturing
A production machine or system sitting on the plant floor can seem so reliable, so second nature, that it can be taken for granted. It's easy to overlook how it actually solves a problem, or how it might be improved upon to solve future problems. Computerized combination weighers represent such an example. They may seem to be black boxes, calculating massive amounts of product weights and popping out perfect packages.
Simply defined, a combination weigher is a machine with several hoppers (or buckets or heads) that hold a known portion of the finished product. They discharged their contents into a final package in just the right combination to provide a desired net weight.
Aside from incremental advances in sanitary quick-disconnects, actuators, stepper motors and microprocessors, these machines' basic technology hasn't changed since the early 1980s, when they bowed in the marketplace. But there are still many smaller plants that use labor-intensive manual operations or even automated volumetric or net-weight systems that the larger food processors have left behind.
"Before combination weighers, volumetric or single-fill type machinery would stop filling when it got up to just under the right weight — that's when you stopped feeding," says Steve Bergholt, chief engineer for Triangle Package Machinery Co., Chicago. "You just had to hope it filled up to the right weight."
For packages consisting of pieces this was a slow and inaccurate solution, and prone to lost profits due to product give-away. Consider how eight 2-oz. drumsticks can complete a 16-oz. tray pack, but if one is a fraction underweight, it will take a whole, ninth drumstick to complete the package.
In contrast, combination weighers combine, for example, heavy and light drumsticks, or any product that's packaged in pieces. While the technology is well established, it still takes some specialized knowledge and expertise to ensure that the product is gently and efficiently guided through infeed, weighting and discharge sections.Versatile configurations
The possibilities for engineering a weighing solution are nearly endless. There's no single solution for a single application, such as filling the multiple sections in a prepared "TV dinner"-type meal.
"This can be done in a few different ways, starting with a multi-product, multi-outlet type of configuration," says Brian Barr, sales manager for Heat and Control Inc.'s packaging systems division, Hayward, Calif., which includes the Ishida combination weigher line. For example, buckets and discharges can be divided into two or three sections, so one machine can fill a separate protein, vegetable and starch into a single tray.
In addition to weighing a single product, combination scales like this Ishida model can blend and weigh multiple products.
Barr says this may or may not be the desired configuration, depending upon a customer's line and speed requirements, because three weighers can also be used in a "single product, single outlet" mode, one for each meal component, for higher throughput. Additionally, he explains, a "multi-product, single outlet" configuration is typically the choice for blending products, where the net package is a mixture, such as mixed nuts. The buckets do the weighing for multiple types of nuts, and the mixing occurs at the discharge.
Multiple discharges are one of food processors' favorite tricks, says Triangle's Bergholt. "You can take four of your 18 buckets that have known weights in them, and use those four to make up a good package. And out of the remaining 14, you have the machine pick another good combination from four different buckets at the same time. That way you can make discharges twice as fast as you have to weigh and refill those buckets."
The combinations are seemingly endless, if not infinite. On a machine with six weigh buckets above combining into 12 chambers below, there are a mere 4,096 possible combinations. Compared that to one with nine weigh buckets above feeding 18 chambers, which has a quarter-million possible combinations, according to Bergholt.
"More combinations usually translate into a better chance of achieving the perfect package weight," he says, regardless of whether the design is radial or in-line. Of course, every application is unique to the food product, plant and business objectives of the company running it.Broad applications
Applications vary as widely as the mathematical combinations behind those buckets. Anything weighed and packaged in pieces seems to be fair game: fruits and vegetables; snack seeds, nuts and chips; candy and candy bars; cereals from bagged rice and grains; and wet, sticky meats and poultry.
"And you'd be surprised how much beef jerky sold every day that comes of our weighers," says Anthony Delviscio, president of CombiScale Inc., Elk Grove Village, Ill. He notes those machines typically run 120 packages a minute using 14-head machines.
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1. The Help, by Kathryn Stockett, Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam
2. The Lacuna, by Barbara Kingsolver, Harper
3. The Girl Who Played With Fire, by Stieg Larsson, Knopf
4. The Swan Thieves, by Elizabeth Kostova, Little Brown
5. Noah's Compass, by Anne Tyler, Knopf
6. Half Broke Horses, by Jeannette Walls, Scribner
7. The First Rule, by Robert Crais, Putnam
8. Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel, Holt
9. Remarkable Creatures, by Tracy Chevalier, Dutton
10. Too Much Happiness, by Alice Munro, Knopf
11. The Lost Symbol, by Dan Brown, Doubleday
12. Where the God of Love Hangs Out, by Amy Bloom, Random House
13. The Last Song, by Nicholas Sparks, Grand Central
14. U Is for Undertow, by Sue Grafton, Putnam
15. Pirate Latitudes, by Michael Crichton, Harper
21. Treasure Hunt, by John Lescroart, Dutton
A new Wyatt Hunt thriller by the bestselling author of A Plague of Secrets.
1. Committed, by Elizabeth Gilbert, Viking
2. Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime, by John Heilemann, Mark Halperin, Harper
3. Stones Into Schools, by Greg Mortenson, Viking
4. Born to Run, by Christopher McDougall, Knopf
5. Have a Little Faith, by Mitch Albom, Hyperion
6. What the Dog Saw, by Malcolm Gladwell, Little Brown
7. Drive, by Daniel H. Pink, Riverhead
8. The Book of Genesis, illustrated by R. Crumb, by Norton,
9. Half the Sky, by Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn, Knopf
10. Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume I, by Julia Child, et al., Knopf
11. The Checklist Manifesto, by Atul Gawande, Metropolitan
12. Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell, Little Brown
13. Going Rogue, by Sarah Palin, Harper
14. Open, by Andre Agassi, Knopf
15. SuperFreakonomics, by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner, Morrow
23. Freefall, by Joseph Stiglitz, Norton
Nobel Prize-winner Stiglitz looks at the current financial crisis.
1. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson, Vintage
2. Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout, Random House
3. Let the Great World Spin, by Colum McCann, Random House
4. The Elegance of the Hedgehog, by Muriel Barbery, Europa Editions
5. The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold, Back Bay
6. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows, Dial
7. The Art of Racing in the Rain, by Garth Stein, Harper
8. A Reliable Wife, by Robert Goolrick, Algonquin
9. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, by Jamie Ford, Ballantine
10. The Piano Teacher, by Janice Y.K. Lee, Penguin
11. Sarah's Key, by Tatiana De Rosnay, St. Martin's Griffin
12. When Will There Be Good News?, by Kate Atkinson, Back Bay
13. The Women, by T.C. Boyle, Penguin
14. Lark and Termite, by Jayne Anne Phillips, Vintage
15. The School of Essential Ingredients, by Erica Bauermeister, Berkley
18. The Unbearable Lightness of Scones, by Alexander McCall Smith, Anchor
Alexander McCall Smith's delightful new novel in the 44 Scotland Street series.
1. Food Rules, by Michael Pollan, Penguin
2. Three Cups of Tea, by Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin, Penguin
3. The Blind Side, by Michael Lewis, Norton
4. Eat, Pray, Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert, Penguin
5. The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls, Scribner
6. My Life in France, by Julia Child, Anchor
7. The Omnivore's Dilemma, by Michael Pollan, Penguin
8. In Defense of Food, by Michael Pollan, Penguin
9. Animals Make Us Human, by Temple Grandin, Catherine Johnson, Mariner
10. Freakonomics, by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner, Harper Perennial
11. The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2010, by World Almanac
12. Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea, by Chelsea Handler, Simon Spotlight
13. The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy, by Raj Patel, Picador
14. Mountains Beyond Mountains, by Tracy Kidder, Random House
15. Food Matters, by Mark Bittman, Simon & Schuster
1. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson, Vintage
2. The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold, Little Brown
3. Dear John, by Nicholas Sparks, Grand Central
4. The Devil's Punchbowl, by Greg Iles, Pocket Star
5. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, 4th Edition, Merriam-Webster
6. The Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank, Bantam
7. Terminal Freeze, by Lincoln Child, Anchor
8. Dead Until Dark, by Charlaine Harris, Ace
9. The Road, by Cormac McCarthy, Vintage
10. Cross Country, by James Patterson, Vision
1. The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak, Knopf
2. Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Journey to Change the World... One Child at a Time, by Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin, Puffin
3. When You Reach Me, by Rebecca Stead, Wendy Lamb
4. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie, Ellen Forney (Illus.), Little Brown
5. Graceling, by Kristin Cashore, Graphia
6. The Magician's Elephant, by Kate DiCamillo, Yoko Tanaka (Illus.), Candlewick
7. Witch & Wizard, by James Patterson, Gabrielle Charbonnet, Little Brown
8. Fantastic Mr. Fox, by Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake (Illus.), Puffin
9. The Underneath, by Kathi Appelt, David Small (Illus.), Atheneum
10. Listen to the Wind, by Greg Mortenson, Susan L. Roth, Dial
11. The Omnivore's Dilemma, Young Readers Edition, by Michael Pollan, Dial
12. Fallen, by Lauren Kate, Delacorte
13. The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean (Illus.), Harper
14. Nubs: The True Story of a Mutt, a Marine & a Miracle, by Brian Dennis, et al., Little Brown
15. A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L'Engle, Square Fish
1. Goodnight Moon, by Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper
2. Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak, Harper
3. Fancy Nancy: Heart to Heart, by Jane O'Connor, Robin Preiss Glasser (Illus.), HarperFestival
4. Waddle!, by Rufus Butler Seder, Workman
5. Good Night, Gorilla, by Peggy Rathmann, Putnam
6. The Lion & the Mouse, by Jerry Pinkney, Little Brown
7. Pat the Bunny, by Dorothy Kunhardt, Golden
8. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, by Eric Carle, Putnam
9. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?, by Bill Martin, Eric Carle (Illus.), Holt
10. Otis, by Loren Long, Philomel
11. Skippyjon Jones, Lost in Spice, by Judy Schachner, Dutton
12. Love You Forever, by Robert Munsch, Sheila McGraw (Illus.), Firefly
13. Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, by Judi Barrett, Ron Barrett (Illus.), Simon & Schuster
14. Skippyjon Jones, by Judith Schachner, Puffin
15. Make Way for Ducklings, by Robert McCloskey, Puffin
1. Percy Jackson & the Olympians (hardcover and paperback), by Rick Riordan, Miramax
2. Diary of a Wimpy Kid (hardcover and paperback), by Jeff Kinney, Amulet
3. Twilight (hardcover and paperback), by Stephenie Meyer, Little Brown
4. Magic Tree House (hardcover and paperback), by Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House
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5. Hunger Games (hardcover), by Suzanne Collins, Scholastic
6. Harry Potter (hardcover and paperback), by J.K. Rowling, Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine Books
7. Alex Rider Adventures (hardcover and paperback), by Anthony Horowitz, Puffin
8. Ranger's Apprentice (hardcover and paperback), by John Flanagan, Philomel
9. The 39 Clues (hardcover), by Jude Watson, et al., Scholastic
10. Fancy Nancy I Can Read Series (paperback), by Jane O'Connor, Robin Preiss Glasser (Illus.), Harper
* Based on reporting from many hundreds of independent bookstores across the United States for the sales week ended Sunday, January 17, 2010. For information on more titles, please visit www.IndieBound.org.


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By Mike Lehman, TTU Sports Information Coordinator
LEDBETTER, Ky. - Just two days after the start of the 2013-14 season, the women's golf team has already shown that just because they're young, doesn't mean they can't compete. The Golden Eagles tied for fifth place at the Drake Creek Invitational Tuesday afternoon.
The fifth-place finish is the second highest by a women's team at Tech in over a year, with the tournament win at the Bobby Nichols Intercollegiate last spring being the lone result higher. The Golden Eagles put together a total score of 950 for the two-day, 54-hole tournament at the par-72, 6,178-yard Drake Creek Golf Course.
Maddi Everts led the way for the Golden Eagles in the tournament, placing 16th overall after carding rounds of 76, 77, and 79 for a 232 total. The sophomore continued her hot play after finishing third overall in the Ohio Valley Conference tournament last spring.
Freshman Whitney Robertson carded the low round on Tuesday for the Golden Eagles, scoring a 78 to round out a 240 total for the tournament. The score helped her finish tied for 28th and third among the Tech starting five.
Another newbie, Lydia Triplett, finished an impressive career-opening tournament, totaling a 240 overall score after carding rounds of 75, 79, and 82. The freshman finished second on the Golden Eagles and tied for 20th overall.
Sophomores Megan Williamson and Allison Geer rounded out the scoring for the Golden Eagles, finishing with scores of 244 and 245, respectively.
Freshman Haley Davidson made her Golden Eagle debut as an individual, carding 86, 83, and 84 for a total of 253 for the two-day affair. She finished in 47th for the tournament that featured over 60 players from 10 different teams, including five other OVC programs.
The Golden Eagles will return to action on Monday, Sept. 16 when they travel to the Great Smokies Invitational hosted by Western Carolina at the Waynesville Inn Golf Resort and Spa.


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This image was taken on an early summer morning on the west shore of Lake Okoboji in the Iowa Great Lake. The light fog on a calm morning makes for a peaceful morning at the lake.
More roadside flowers that grow wild in Iowa
This creeping Charlie and the dandelions create a great color contrast
In Iowa, even the road ditches provide great beauty to stop and look at.
This ice is just starting to form on the surface and has some snow on it and also shows the rocks and sediment below.
Wind blown sand and snow create this interesting image along Saylorville Lake in central Iowa
Evening in Charles City, Iowa on the pedestrian bridge over the Cedar River
A nice perch to just lounge and eat the great corn
This squirrel is enjoying the great Iowa corn
A blue morpho butterfly sure adds to the photo with the flowers
This photo of the flowers is enhanced with the Blue Morpho and Leopard Lacewing butterflies.
I saw this truck while traveling along the highway in southeast Iowa and thought there was an image there for something. Just the photo doesn't do a lot until you put a name to it. I named this one " Shhh, I haven't told Dad yet."
Kayaking into the sunset on Big Creek State Park in central Iowa. A very calm night, a great sunset and even a bonfire along the shore makes for a great evening on the water
This gaggle of Canadian geese make an interesting shoot on a foggy evening with the sky clearing in the west. It is common for a pair of adult Canadian geese to include other goslings from other families.
A mom, her son and their dog out fishing at Big Creek State Park. The light cloud cover makes a great golden sunset and a great silhouette of the evening.
This photo was taken after sunset on a calm evening and the ripples in the water are created from the pontoon boat going back to the marina
This photo was taken about 20 minutes after sunset. I was waiting for some of the clouds to turn color and just about gave up and then things started to turn and then WOW! The color was not enhanced or changed in any image editing program.
You don't have to go outside the city to get some great water reflections. This was taken in West Des Moines and a close look shows a large offie building in the background.
SW Iowa
THis is an example of photo art. I took a standard photo and did some different effects on it in Photoshop
A great burst of fireworks from the State of Iowa Capitol lawn during the Yankee Doodle Pops. The brown haze was created by the smoke from firing the canons during the 1812 Overture played by the Des Moines Symphony.
This is a great photo along the Neal Smith bike trail near Polk City, IA with fall color and one of the bridges over the deep valleys that lead into Saylorville Lake
This image was taken in the late afternoon and highlighted the small red maple among the larger green trees.
This late afternoon photo was taken after two days of wind in the fall which created the golden floor in the forest and leaving some of the golden leaves on the tress.
This photo was taken on the trail from the Murray Hill Scenic Overlook on The Loess Hills Scenic Byway on the Fountainbleu Loop. The clouds and blue sky sure adds to the photo.
This photo of rural Iowa is a great late afternoon photo with some great color contrast
This barn has seen it's better days and a lot of history. The shinny metal towards the peak caught my eye as an interesting focal point and then allows your eye to move to the other ares.
A beautiful country church in NE Iowa with some good fall color and clear blue sky
After the corn is harvest, some corn stalks are raked and then baled into large 1,500 lb. bales to be used as roughage for cattle in the winter. I cropped the top and bottom of the photo to allow more of a focus on what is taking place.
After the corn is harvest, some corn stalks are raked and then baled into large 1,500 lb. bales to be used as roughage for cattle in the winter.
There are always great farm images like this as you travel throughout Iowa. This one was taken in early fall because most of the trees have lost there leaves.
This farm is in eastern Iowa and has the blue Harvestor silos that are quite common in Iowa and just great color on a great Iowa summer day.
A lone corn crib in the middle of an Iowa soybean field seems very remote on a foggy fall morning.
This photo on the Des Moines River just below the Red Rock Reservoir is a great place for the pelican to go fishing. It appears as one caught a fish the other want to come an share in the lunch
This cold winter day in Iowa along the Des Moines River is a great place to take photos of the water fowl. The background was to busy with grass so I used a Topaz filer within Photoshop to take out some of the detail and also to make the colors pop.
A great closeup of a bee on a purple cone flower in our backyard garden
A photo does not need to include the complete subject to make an interesting photo. This photo shows enough to know what you are looking at. As the saying goes "Get in close, closer."
This Des Moines Iowa skyline photo was taken along the Des Moines River southeast of downtown. It was taken about 25 minutes after sundown so the moon could be more predominate in the evening sky.
This image of the downtown Des Moines Iowa skyline has the Nomad sculpture in the original location next to the Des Moines Public Library, that has the copper windows. It was taken about 20 minutes after sunset and the large full moon in the background definitely adds to the image
This image of downtown Des Moines Iowa skyline has the Nomad sculpture in the original location next to the Des Moines Public Library that has copper windows. It was taken in the early afternoon and to show the daylight version of the evening photo
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New York to seek release of sealed Attica riot documents
ALBANY, N.Y. – New York plans to seek the release of sealed court documents pertaining to the bloody retaking of Attica state prison after inmates rioted in 1971, an episode that remains the nation's bloodiest prison rebellion.
Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said he'll ask a state court in Wyoming County to unseal previously secret documents containing details about the four days in September 1971 when inmates took control of the maximum-security prison in rural western New York before state troopers stormed the facility to end the takeover.
Schneiderman said the time has come to bring transparency to what he referred to as one of New York state government's "darkest chapters."
"We are in the process of evaluating what mode, timing and mechanics of release will best balance a number of imperatives: the public's right to a full airing of available, relevant information; our obligation to treat all subjects of the report fairly and to put its findings in their proper context when released; and preservation of the integrity of grand jury proceedings, which is so critical to the effectiveness of law enforcement and public protection," Schneiderman said.
The information in question is contained in sealed parts of a 1975 state report that examined New York's efforts to investigate the riot and its aftermath. Thirty-two inmates and 11 civilian employees died at Attica during the four-day siege, with the majority of the fatalities, including 10 hostages and 29 inmates, occurring when state troopers stormed the prison's D Yard on Sept. 13, 1971.
Known as the Meyer Report for the former state judge who headed the New York commission that investigated the riot and its aftermath, the 570-page document completed in 1975 was divided into three volumes. The first was partially released, but a state judge ordered the second two to be sealed in 1981 because they contain grand jury testimony.
Among those long seeking release of the Meyer Report and other publicly held riot records are members of the Forgotten Victims of Attica, a group of prison employees who survived the riot and relatives of those who died.
"For families that lost their father, son, brother because they were killed in D Yard, they yearn to know the truth of how their loved-one died, and why they died," said Gary Morton, a lawyer representing the group. "Some of that has come out, but certainly there's a lot more that hasn't come out."
Dee Quinn Miller, whose father, William Quinn, was an Attica guard who died two days after being injured in the riot, said unsealing the rest of the Meyer Report could lead to the release of other records, including many kept at the New York State Archives.
"It's information that the families have a right to know," said Miller, who was 5 years old when her father died. "I don't know what information is in there. Isn't that the crux of it all? Many of our family members have been searching for years for information on their loved-one who was killed in the yard," she said. "For the most part, people have the right to know what happened there."


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Truckee youth football rushes past Carson, 28-12
August 30, 2012
Anxiety before the first football game of the year can weigh heavy on a coachand#8217;s mind. The worst thoughts can creep in. Your team can fumble and turn over the ball on your first offensive play. Your team can be flagged for penalties on two of the first four offensive plays and the first play of the game for your defensive squad for something as careless as not wearing a mouth guard.
It can get worse. The other team could score a touchdown on their first play of the game and then recover an onside kick on the ensuing kickoff.
It was definitely the makings of a worst-case scenario as every one of those coachand#8217;s nightmares came true as the Truckee Wolverines took on the Carson City Senators in the Maverick Division of the Sierra Youth Football League in Carson City this past Saturday.
However, the 7- and 8-year-old Wolverines woke up and put those mishaps to rest and backed up the Senators 7 yards on the next three plays following the onside kick and forced a punt. Three plays later, facing a third-and-9 situation, Truckee running back Damon Parisi took the handoff to the right on a sweep and beat everyone to the end zone for a 64-yard touchdown. Running back Jackson Kahl took a handoff around the left and into the end zone for the point-after touchdown and a 7-6 lead in the game that started terribly. The SYFL awards one point for getting into the end zone from four yards out and two points for a point-after touchdown kicked through the uprights due to the difficulty of kicking a ball through the uprights at this age level.
The Senators did respond with two big runs of 26 yards and a 29-yard touchdown in the second quarter to retake the lead 12-7 for a short period of time. Less than two minutes later, Parisi swept around the left side for the longest run of the day, a 70-yard touchdown. Quarterback Tavin Hamilton capped off the touchdown with a sweep to the right for a successful point-after touchdown to give the Wolverines a 14 and#8211; 12 halftime lead.
Truckeeand#8217;s defense then shut down the Senators offense and kept them to just 7 yards on 10 carries in the second half. They went on to win 28-12.
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The Senators were unable to keep the Wolverines offense under budget and allowed a touchdown and extra point in the third and fourth quarters.
Hamilton connected with tight end Sawyer Burley for a 45-yard pass play to set up Parisiand#8217;s third touchdown on the day from 21 yards out. Running back Hutton Johnson made good on the point-after touchdown with his 4-yard run up the middle.
Kahl got into the end zone from 10 yards out in the fourth quarter. Hamilton earned the extra point again with another quarterback keeper to the right that sealed the 28-12 victory for the Wolverines.
Parisi led all rushers with 158 yards on five attempts, with three of those ending in the end zone. Johnson was second on the team with 29 yards on three carries. Kahl finished the day with 19 yards on two carries, including his 10-yard touchdown.
Hamilton had 8 yards on two carries and had one completion on two passing attempts. He led the team with 45 yards passing. Burley led the team with his 45-yard reception.
Defensively, the Wolverines were led in tackles by defensive tackle Johnson, defensive tackle Colton Conklin and safety Hunter Hansell. All had five tackles. Parisi at cornerback and defensive tackle Matthew Seline both had four tackles, including a sack by Seline.
Defensive end Ernesto Gomez Cortez recorded two of his three tackles in the first four plays of the game, including a forced fumble that the Senators running back was able to fall on. Defensive tackle Jacob Moule, cornerback Galdino Bravo Karvonen and defensive tackle Peter Reott all had two tackles.
Nose tackle Luis Castaneda, defensive tackle Burley, linebackers Aidan Anderson and Kahl and Hamilton on special teams all chipped in with one tackle each.
The Wolverines were also led in special-teams play by Conklin with a 17-yard punt return.
Truckee will enjoy a bye this Saturday and will return to action against the Fallon Greenwave on Saturday, Sept. 8 in Fallon.
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In the midst of yet another privacy debacle, Facebook wants you to know it truly does care about your feelings (maybe not your privacy, but definitely your feelings). After backlash over its new Photo Memories sidebar dredging up not-so-fond memories of exes, Facebook has set the feature to automatically block photos from users you have been in a relationship with.
A group was created specifically to complain about Facebook's lack of sensitivity after the feature went live back in May. Users complained that the sidebar display lets (really, forces) you to relive past moments captured on Facebook. Of course, this includes any and all photos of you with an ex. And not just your exes, but perhaps your current significant other's ex. The possibilities for being confronted with partners of the past go on and on, especially if you and yours tend to date within the same social circles.
Of course, this still leaves the window open for images of anyone you never declared your romantic status with to pop up. Or, if you were one of those people who found it funny to list yourself as committed to your roommate or best friend, their smiling faces are now eliminated from your sidebar. For the strong opposition to Photo Memories to be satisfied, Facebook might have to create a way for the feature to block exes, stepparents, former best friends – really, anyone to whom we have negative connotations.
So for now, you can look forward to still rehashing plenty of memories better left buried in that album you created freshman year.
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A decade after the Department of Veterans Affairs closed its hospital at Fort Howard, most of the buildings at the sprawling Baltimore County waterfront property are boarded up. A big rusty pole in front of the old facility has no flag.
But there are plans to turn the site into a huge, mixed-use development for veterans and senior citizens. Nearby residents oppose the developer's proposal, but the Department of Veterans Affairs is moving forward with the project, which has the backing of elected officials.
It's not the first time someone's had big ideas for Fort Howard — and many in the community are skeptical after other plans to build homes there fell through, leaving some veterans with nothing to show for the payments they put down.
Their concerns haven't changed since more than 200 people packed an Edgemere fire hall in November to speak out about the project. Some worry about traffic on narrow North Point Road. Others want the site to be set aside exclusively for veterans. A small outpatient clinic still operates there.
"People have legitimate concerns," said developer Tim Munshell of Fort Howard Development LLC, who announced his plans last April. "I understand. It's the process of every development plan."
The housing would be "veteran-preferred." Veterans who sign up would get priority, Munshell said, but people 55 and older could sign up for the units that don't go to veterans. Munshell also wants to build restaurants, a small grocery store and other retail space, as well as office buildings. The project is expected to cost more than $500 million.
The plans are far too big, said Harry Wujek, president of the North Point Peninsula Community Coordinating Council.
"I do not oppose it," Wujek said. "I oppose the size of it. … We don't like the idea of them bringing a city down here and plopping it … in the middle of our community."
The VA's project manager wasn't available for comment last week.
The federal government and developer are now working to finalize a development plan that's part of a 75-year lease for the site, Munshell said.
The VA will ensure that the developer complies with lease agreements, which include providing affordable veteran housing, a facility for single veteran mothers, a VA-operated clinic and other health care facilities, according to a letter the agency recently sent to Sen. Barbara Mikulski and Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger.
Still, Wujek and others are skeptical of the developer's plans to serve veterans. "It's all about bucks," he said, looking out at the water.
Munshell, who wants to build 1,415 housing units, hopes to start the county review process in April or May. The 98-acre site along the Patapsco River and Chesapeake Bay is zoned for about 550 units, so he must apply for Planned Unit Development status, which lets developers build more densely if their project offers some benefit to the community.
His company has agreed to pay back down payments that veterans lost to the previous developer, but it's not clear how many people are still owed money.
Thirty people filed complaints with the state attorney general, and all have gotten their money back, said Karen Straughn, assistant attorney general and director of the mediation unit. More people could still be owed money, but did not notify the state.
Munshell says his project, called the Landing at Fort Howard, will help preserve the history of the site, which is where British troops landed in 1814 in an effort to capture Baltimore. The VA opened the hospital in the 1940s.
"All these buildings are falling apart," Munshell said. "And if something's not done with them soon, they're going to lose whatever historical value's in them."
County Councilman John Olszewski Sr., a Dundalk Democrat who represents the area, said his office has long received complaints about vandalism and copper thefts from the historic buildings at the site.
Olszewski said it is unrealistic to think that the VA will open a new hospital or park at Fort Howard, as some in the community have suggested. "Right now, all levels of government are hard pressed for money," he said.
Munshell's company will invest in community improvements, including upgrades to local parks, he said. "There's a lot of positives in this," Olszewski said.
Ruppersberger said he understands the concerns, especially given what happened with the other developer. But he said he has confidence in the new plans.
"One of my highest priorities is to follow through with the promises that we made to our veterans," he said.
But community opposition hasn't died down, said Alfred Clasing Jr., a World War II veteran who helped lead the November meeting.
"We intend to keep the issue alive," Clasing said.
Clasing wants the property to be reserved "exclusively for veterans." He's worried veterans would not be able to afford the housing units.
Leaders haven't listened to concerns about traffic, the environment and other issues, said Clasing, who said that he is still waiting to be repaid his $750 down payment to the previous developer.
"We are being ignored, and not just by some of the elected officials, but all of them," Clasing said.


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give (someone) the business
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2. To severely scold, punish, or rebuke someone. I know my boss is going to give me the business when she finds out I lost our most lucrative account. Jimmy's parents gave him the business after he broke the living room lamp.


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Maybe Zodd could smack down a Minotaur.
I forgot to mention it in my last post but, wow Rakshas is one dreadfull and scary apostle. I'm trying to imagine Guts fighting him. In some way, I think I'd like to see Silat and the tapasa taking him down, if there's some final battle somehow towards the end.
The downside of predicting almost every beat of this encounter is that I have almost nothing to add to this thread Am I really the first to say RICKERT LAUNCHER! ?I don't think seeing Griffith next to a full moon changes anything about our understanding of the relationship between the child, him, and the moon. The power of the full moon likely gives the boy the chance to seize control, not necessarily that it happens each and every time, for exactly the duration of the full moon. The change could happen later, or not at all. The boy has always appeared when his parents were in a dire situation. Lately that involves Guts and the effects of the armor. Perhaps he doesn't need saving right now. So it's not a visitation weekend this time.That being said, it does raise the question of why muddle the issue by showing a full moon at all? I don't have an answer for that, but this episode's ending didn't change anything for me. I did however wonder if Griffith ever left his perch from when we last saw him
, maybe it is similar to a fission/defusion process, like maybe what occurs is that Moonlight Boy emerges/splits off from Griffith's physical vessel instead?
The downside of predicting almost every beat of this encounter is that I have almost nothing to add to this thread
Am I really the first to say RICKERT LAUNCHER! ?
I don't think seeing Griffith next to a full moon changes anything about our understanding of the relationship between the child, him, and the moon.
That being said, it does raise the question of why muddle the issue by showing a full moon at all? I don't have an answer for that, but this episode's ending didnt change anything for me.
sup griffhey nice predictions on this chapt-oops lol dont ban me-episode you guys. it was all pretty obvious foreshadowing but guess I cant fool you! btdubbs let me hear that wereboy theory again...?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bINyQWt4Db4 cheers loserkintaro
I did however wonder if Griffith ever left his perch from when we last saw him
That actually complicates things. The boy isn't an astral projection. He has form and weight. Also, he astrally projects himself to rescue Guts from the sea god. Furthermore if he were a projection, Zodd wouldn't need to be around the rocky cliffs outside Vritannis (the boy also leaves during that time by climbing up a rocky cliff), presumably ferrying him back and forth, before the World Spiral Tree provided a more efficient form of travel.I'm not saying we know 100% how this all works, but I've yet to encounter a more contvincing alternative, given all the wrinkles present.
I agree that this episode doesn't completely negate the possibility that the Moonlight Boy takes control of/transforms Griffith's physical vessel during full moons, like you stated in your reasoning. But it also raises the possibility that maybe the nature of their relationship is slightly different from what readers originally speculated, maybe it is similar to a fission/defusion process, like maybe what occurs is that Moonlight Boy emerges/splits off from Griffith's physical vessel instead?
For all we know, the boy can physically project himself based off Griffith's power, or something else even (he certainly seemed to appear/disappear at will, and don't forget his unique astral presence).
So, again, we should probably let this remind us to still keep our minds open to all the possibilities (like him being tied more to Griffith's spiritual power than his body, and so perhaps the struggle isn't a "seizing control" but the threat of separation and/or independence, which could also explain Zodd trailing the kid... allegedly ).
The actual way in which the boy manifests in regard to Griffith has always been the biggest unknown, and the part we have least speculated about aside from the idea he might just transform. There are numerous ways in which it might occur that would work with the information we already have.
Well we do know he needs to travel to and from the locations he appears at.
It's not like we ever ruled out the idea that the boy could manifest separately from Griffith, so picturing it this way seems unfair and unwarranted to me. The transformation is just the preferred hypothesis for a number of reasons that have held true since they were first exposed in 2006. That includes the fact Zodd was overlooking their first meeting on the beach. That aside, the mental aspect of this for Griffith should not be underestimated. It is still possible that Griffith has to consciously allow the change (relinquishing control), or that he fights it everytime until it overwhelms him, and so on.
I mean, are we sure he was on that balcony because of Rakshas and Rickert? Or was it because it's the full moon and he's preparing himself, and only saw their escape as a coincidence? Going further, maybe the next episode will open with the boy manifesting himself, and then travelling to meet his parents through the World Spiral Tree's branches. I know that's far out, but you've got to admit it'd be cool to see.
Yeah, but we know as much about the nature of that travel as we do the nature of the boy's manifestation.
See, I feel like the second half of this quote betrays the first. It's all good theory, but I still feel like it's assuming so much about the nature of the boy vis-à-vis Griffith that, though not ruling out alternatives, it's rather stifling. It's taking too much we don't know for granted. Perhaps I'm being too conservative, but there's still so much we don't know, that's never even been addressed, some of it is almost like fanfiction on some level rather than a solid default or prospective interpretation.
Episode 342 revealed!
Well we did see him travel through the tree in his night gown. We don't have the details but at least we know he doesn't appear/disappear out of thin air... even though he can somehow move far up in the sky without being spotted.
That's why it is still just a theory and not a collection of hard facts. But while some of the details are still unknown, I'm honestly very confident about the core of it. It's been repeatedly confirmed by the developments we've seen over the years.
You dared to go where I didn't!
Yeah, but it's not like we understand the nature of any of that;
Since we know so few details as you say, it's interesting to speculate how Fantasia might have changed things behind the scenes (though I'm sure we've covered it all before). Obviously, the distinction between the physical and astral world was such before that Femto required a physical vessel to cross over. Logically, the boy, assuming he's some manifestation of Guts/Casca's child's spirit, wouldn't transcend that law and would also require a/the vessel ("I'm taking the car tonight."). That could have very well changed with the new world, much as his mode of transportation.
It's hard to speak authoritatively on the state of the world right now since we haven't had much exposure to astral side of things yet. That being said, things haven't changed for the boy in any visible manner aside from his use of the tree as a means to travel. He's still the same and still has the same powers from what we've seen. We also know that he travels through the branches using a corporeal body (and even wearing clothes), and that he can leave said body in his astral form to go seek Guts whenever needed. An astral form that, in episode 327, was made to closely resemble Griffith...
Putting all of that aside, the physical vessel you mention is actually the boy's own body, so it would make sense for him to still inhabit it. That's a sentiment further reinforced by what we saw in volume 22. The fact that despite what Griffith thought, his forceful takeover of said vessel did not destroy the boy's consciousness, and that the sight of his parents awakened emotions so strong in him that he could actually wring control away from Griffith for a few seconds.
One thing I couldn't immediately explain: When we saw Daiba levitate in Vritannis' bay, it appeared that he was manipulating water, presumably with the aid of the Kundalini. But there's no such creature here to draw that elemental power from. So, then is it just his ability to manipulate the small amount of moisture in the air to achieve that?
Ha ha, but seriously, later in 331, when we see the boy traveling, he appears to be standing in physical form on a spirit tree branch (which Guts can notably see at the time), then as he dips into it he appears to take on an astral form, clothes and all, before moving like a shooting star, so... uh, whatever?
I think Schierke's theory on the boy is interesting as well obviously, though we have some information she doesn't. For one, the muddled physical/astral nature of the boy doesn't confound or seem beyond the pale to her, and her explanation confirming his probable ties to the moon is helpful, but most intriguing is her idea that he could have something to do with the King of the Flower Storm, that he could even be him or a representative. Perhaps the King of the Flower Storm found an ideal representative, and a way to already aid Guts and Casca, by lending some power to the the boy.
So if Griffith can stand in the full moon in his own body then that rules out the possibility of him being the moonlight boy.
No, it doesn't. You should explore the discussion thread.


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asitsur necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 43 diseños de 11 diseñadores freelance.
Hello All,
We are third generation jewelry manufacturer.
In the last few years we make the Name-Necklace jewelry (with material -Gold, Silver, plated gold and etc') to our clients.
We do very professional name necklaces (to compare to other manufactures)
Now we need a new logo and next we would go for design a new web-site
We think that mostly the target audiences are woman, and It could be also a guys that buys the Name NeckLace to a girl,
There is no exact age of the target audiences,
It can be a 16 y/o teenagers that buy the Name NeckLace to her friend or a 60 y/o lady that buy the Name NeckLace to her granddaughter.
We want to have the best looking logo as possible to our new web-site.
It needs to have a prestigious look and unique style.
(Myself, I like bright and clean logo, with unique element or some letter can be sparkling..)
You can look at our competitors web-sites (and logos) :
Our website is going to be named: YourNameNeckLace
We upload some of pictures we have at this moment (the pictures would be placed on the web-site, to show our work), the necklace can be also on a white or bright background as well.
The winning designer might get the budget to make the whole web-site !!
Good luck to all,
Thank you
Asi Tsur
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Tue, 26 January 2010
Nate Wilson has written a trilogy of children's books...the 100 Cupboards series...also finished a documentary for the National Geographic Channel on "Reproducing the Shroud"...of Turin. then, Bob Vander Platts is running for governor. Then, An ethanol mandate for Iowa?
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