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This morning we began by splitting the kids up into their new bands – not the musical ones, though that might happen eventually – but their miniature society, their extended family and direct support system. The word describes the simplest forms of society, where everyone relies on each other for help, support, and friendship. Though everyone will still work together and always support each other at Brightworks, the bands serve as a smaller support system to check in and travel with.
The kids headed downtown to the Main Library's 6th floor, which houses the San Francisco History Center, and is filled with thousands of pieces of history.
Clementine said, "We looked at pictures of criminals, some of which are creepy, but some of which are cute."
White gloves were a must and a plus.
Photo of the old Best Foods mayonnaise factory, housed in our warehouse. Sanborn Fire Insurance Map, Sheet 553, 1985. Photo courtesy of the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library.
When perusing old restaurant menus, someone exclaimed, "OMG! It's a cheeseburger with ice cream on it!!!"
The goats awaited everyone's return.
A moment of reflection with ink and paper. The kids wrote stories about historical figures they'd learned about at the library and read them aloud to each other.
The rest of the afternoon was filled with caring for the goats, making mayonnaise, constructing a worm bin, and building a bench.
Mackenzie explains the care and keeping of worms and their usefulness in composting.
Chane led the kids in making mayonnaise. They were stunned that it was all edible, especially the raw eggs!
Ben and Henry concentrate on the beginnings of a bench, the first kid construction project at Brightworks.
Instructions for goat care, deftly illustrated by Ben and Bruno.

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Monarchs Kick Off Season with Blue-White Scrimmage
By ODU Athletics
Oct. 25, 2002
NORFOLK, VA. -- The Old Dominion University men's basketball squad will start the 2002-03 season with the annual blue-white scrimmage on Saturday, at 3:30 p.m. in the new Ted Constant Convocation Center.
All 14 member of this year's Monarch squad will be on display. Heading the list of players are the forward tandem of Ricardo Marsh (Mebane, NC.) and Rasheed Wright (Greensboro, NC.). Marsh earned second team All-CAA honors last season as he averaged 15.3 points and 7.2 rebounds. He ranked second in the CAA in field goal percentage. Wright averaged 14.1 points per game last year and ranked fourth in the CAA in free throw perentage at (.815).
Five newcomers will be making their Big Blue debut. Isaiah Hunter (Charlotte, NC.), A 6-2 guard; John Morris (Camp Hill, PA.), a 6-1 guard; Alex Loughton (Perth Australia), a 6-9 forward and Janko Mrksic (Ontario, Canada), a 6-10 center. Also joining the Monarchs is sophomore walk-on Cole Pugh (Philadelphia, PA.), a 6-3 guard.
CAGE NOTES: The second annual Hampton Roads Hoop Summit is scheduled for Saturday morning, Oct. 26 at 10 a.m. in the Athletic Administration Building. Speakers for the day will include: Monarch head coach Blaine Taylor, assistant coach Jim Corrigan, former William and Mary head coach Charlie Woollum and Maury head coach Jack Baker... ...prior to the men's game, the Lady Monarch's will have an open practice from 10:a.m. to 1:00 p.m., in the Constant Center....Members of the ODU Big Blue Club who have purchased men's and women's basketball season tickets may pick up their season ticket and hospitality packages at the Blig Blue/Hospitality room in the Constant Center from 10 a.m. through the men's scrimmage game...Those packages not picked up on Saturday will be mailed to members on Monday, Oct. 28th.


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Thank you for coming to this year's Heritage Celebration: Hats off to Garland!
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Garland Heritage Celebration 2018: Hats Off to Garland!
Downtown Garland's Historic Square Between Main & State Streets & Fifth & Sixth Streets
- Celebrate Garland's rich history on Saturday, April 14 as Downtown Garland hosts the fifth annual Garland Heritage Celebration. This year the celebration will take place on the historic Downtown Square.
- Garland's Play Streets program will be providing entertainment for children including Gaga Ball, giant Jenga and checkers, corn hole and more.
- Live music on the Heritage Stage starts at 5 p.m. with The Dogensteins and continues at 7 p.m. with Mike Rhyner's band Petty Theft. Stick around between bands for a cowboy comedy show.
- Test your bull riding skills on the free mechanical bull, your history knowledge with the scavenger hunt and your throwin' arm with our hat toss.
- Tempt your taste buds with free gourmet cotton candy available in four unique flavors: cherry, piña colada, cake batter and espresso. Intrinsic Brewery will have their creative brews available at an outdoor bar along with several snack vendors and don't forget about the amazing downtown restaurants that surround the square!
- Premiering at this year's Heritage Celebration is the Landmark Museum's newest exhibit titled Garland Hats: Harry, William and John. The exhibit is about the last 100 years of men's hat manufacturing in Garland. It tells the story of the big three Harry, William and John:
- Harry Rolnick Of Byer-Rolnick Hat Company
- John Milano of Milano Hat Company
- William C. Cook of Master Hatters
Live Music Schedule on the Downtown Square
- 5 p.m. - Dogensteins
- 7 p.m. - Petty Theft A Tom Petty Tribute Band
Historic Main Street Tour Schedule
- 5:30 p.m. - Walking Tour
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Photo Challenge: Smooth
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Popular belief has it that Jack Daniel's was originally sold with a green label at a lower age, the black label only launched after Jack's death in 1911 when Lem Motlow brought out an older aged (4 years) whiskey with a black label as a mark of respect. A touching story but this is not the case.Read more
Sampled on 21/07/2012
Golden amber with green tinges.
Buttered corn and nutty, smoky notes (roast chestnuts) with faint notes of wax and shoe polish.
Starts hot with chargrilled buttered corn becoming more spicy (sandalwood and cinnamon) as the palate develops.
Dry finish with peppery spice and red bell pepper notes. The polar opposite to Gentleman Jack.
Introduced in 2017, this Tennessee rye whiskey is made with the first new Jack Daniel's mashbill since 1866 comprising: 70% rye, 18% corn and 12% malted
Introduced 2016, this is the Single Barrel Collection edition of Jack Daniel's Tennessee Rye whiskey, made using the first new Jack Daniel's mashbill
Jack Daniel's is a Tennessee whiskey and was named No.7 by Mr Jack himself in 1887 – no one knows why.
Launched in 2010 and made by blending Jack Daniel's Old No. 7 with honey liqueur developed in Brown-Forman's Louisville plant to have a nutty flavour
As with Old No. 7, the distillate used to make Gentleman Jack is slow-dripped through 10 feet (3m) of densely packed hard sugar maple charcoal over 3 days
Popular belief has it that Jack Daniel's was originally sold with a green label at a lower age, the black label only launched after Jack's death in
Jack Daniel's Single Barrel is made by the same process as Jack Daniel's Old No.7 but tends to be aged for 5½ to 6 years (certainly never less than
The Maxwell House bottling is one in a range of commemorative bottles containing the same whiskey as the standard No.7 Black Label, although the alcoholic
This line Jack extension was developed for the travel-retail (duty-free) market. Silver Select is basically Jack Daniel's Single barrel but with better
Released early in 2007 as a travel retail (duty free) exclusive, Monogram is now longer made so has become something of a collector's piece. Comparable
This black and white can with familiar Jack Daniel's branding and red highlights proclaims its contents to be "A perfect mix of whiskey & cola".
This 2012 limited edition Jack Daniels bottling celebrates the 120 anniversary of the opening of the White Rabbit Saloon in 1892. One of two bars "Mr
Launched December 2012, this special edition Jack Daniel's whiskey honours Frank Sinatra, a devoted fan of the Tennessee Whiskey. It is matured in "Sinatra
Launched in the U.S. April 2014, "Jack Fire" is made with Jack Daniel's Old No. 7 whiskey with a proprietary red hot cinnamon liqueur.


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Wednesday, 06 February 2013 10:28 AM
The number of women taking the role of chief financial officer increased 35 percent at big U.S. companies in the past year, putting more female executives in the top ranks of management after decades of slow gains.
There were 54 women serving as CFO among Standard & Poor 500 Index companies as of last month, up from 40 a year earlier, according to data compiled by Bloomberg Rankings. While men still account for almost 90 percent of CFOs in the index, the growth marks progress for female managers at a time when there's been little change at the chief executive officer level.
Women are now overseeing the finances at such high-profile companies as JPMorgan Chase & Co., the largest U.S. bank by assets; the newspaper chain Gannett Co.; and Time Warner Cable Inc., the second-biggest U.S. cable company. The trend comes at a time when the CFO job itself is becoming more critical. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, which required companies to be more transparent about their finances, thrust CFOs into the limelight and forced them to work more closely with chief executives.
"It isn't the old green-eyeshade accountant's job it used to be," said Matt McGreal, head of the corporate-governance practice at the executive-search firm Crist/Kolder Associates in Hinsdale, Illinois. "The CFO is one of the few officers of corporations who has a view of the entire organization."
'True Meritocracies'
CFOs typically have experience in accounting, risk management and treasury — roles where performance can be measured in numbers, said Ann Marie Petach, who holds the position at New York-based BlackRock Inc., the world's biggest money manager. That has worked in women's favor, helping them gain promotions by objectively showing competence, she said.
"I believe that women do succeed the best in true meritocracies," she said in an interview.
Still, making the jump to CEO can be difficult. Just 21 of the CEOs at S&P 500 companies are women, or 4 percent — a figure that's barely budged in the past five years. Taking the top job usually requires experience running a previous business or at least a large division. That's a hurdle for some women, though CFOs are increasingly arriving at the position with more operational experience.
Chevron Corp.'s finance chief, Patricia Yarrington, was president of Chevron Canada earlier in her career. She also served as a treasurer and vice president of policy and government for San Ramon, California-based Chevron, the second-largest U.S. energy company.
Pepsi's Nooyi
Currently about 15 percent of CEOs at companies in the index were CFOs at some point in their careers, said Joshua Wimberley, who runs Korn/Ferry International's search business focused on financial officers. PepsiCo Inc. CEO Indra Nooyi, one of the highest-profile female leaders, took the job after more than six years as CFO. She previously oversaw strategy for PepsiCo, ASEA Brown Boveri and Motorola Inc.
Gannett's CEO, Gracia Martore, also climbed the corporate ladder through the CFO job. Victoria Harker serves as the McLean, Virginia-based company's current finance chief.
"It's not uncommon these days to see CFOs who've had experience running a business or who get it after they've been CFO," Wimberley said. "That's essential for moving from the CFO to the CEO spot."
In taking more CFO positions, women are stretching beyond their longtime strongholds in less analytical fields — a move that bodes well for advancing to the CEO job, said Ilene Lang, president of Catalyst Inc., a New York nonprofit that tracks women in leadership.
"This is not human resources or communications — it isn't one of your traditional women's roles," Lang said. "In the last decade, the CFO role has become a stepping stone to the CEO's office."
Slow Progress
Even so, the slow pace of advancement frustrates some female CFOs. Irene Esteves, CFO of New York-based Time Warner Cable, said she's disappointed there aren't more women with her job title.
When she graduated from college in 1981, the contemporary women's rights movement was already more than a decade old.
"I thought by the time I was CFO of a public company, there'd be so many more than 10 percent," she said.
In all, women held 14 percent of all senior-executive jobs last year, according to Catalyst. It found that 28 percent of Fortune 500 companies in 2012 didn't have any women in C-suite positions at all — a list that includes Apple Inc., Exxon Mobil Corp. and Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
Karen McLoughlin, CFO at Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp., mentors female employees through the company's "women in power" program.
"The question for me is: Why does it take so long?" she said. "And is there something at the organization getting in the way?"
Negotiating Strength?
Time Warner Cable's Esteves worked as CFO at several smaller companies before taking her current position in 2011. In one former job, she had to overcome her bosses' reluctance to send her overseas, where she'd be working with companies unaccustomed to female executives. Esteves successfully argued that being a woman could be an advantage.
"I said, 'If I'm going to be negotiating for the company, wouldn't it be great if the person on the other side didn't know how to handle me?'" she said. "They agreed with me."
At Time Warner Cable, the CEO and chief operating officer both previously held CFO jobs, signaling that there's a path for advancement. There also are several female executives on her team.
"It was nice to walk into an organization where there's already plenty of women in the senior leadership team," she said. "There's a good amount of diversity here, and that tends to beget more diversity."
She credits some of her success to her son, who's now in his 30s. When he was 10 years old, she was working long hours and traveling around the world. She came home one night and overheard a conversation he was having with a friend.
"The kid said, 'Don't you think it's terrible that your mom's gone all the time?'" she said. "He was really quiet and thoughtful and said, 'Well, I don't want to be poor.' It's the way he would have answered if it were his father."
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On Tuesday,January 29 over 150 students and alumni came together at Smith Memorial Student Union Ballroom to enjoy a four-course meal while etiquette expert Simi Ranajee explained the art of balancing proper dining etiquette with great networking skills. It was a great turnout for the first annual Student Etiquette Dinner hosted by the Portland State University Alumni Association.
PSU Alumni from various backgrounds were invited to be table hosts to create a more legitimate networking atmosphere. Since many interviews for internships and jobs involve some form of eating, learning how to combine mealtime manners with effective networking is vital.
Ranajee's presentation was peppered with the fascinating background of various etiquette practices. At the beginning of each course, she went over the specific techniques involved in that portion of the meal. Then the attendees would test their new etiquette knowledge while getting to know one another.
The evening was light-hearted and entertaining, yet also educational and informative. After finishing the entrée, the diners enjoyed dessert and the chance to network with people from other tables. Many diners mingled well after the event was officially over, exchanged contact information, and came away from the Etiquette Banquet with exciting new connections.
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Tom and Donna from Parks & Recreations aren't the only ones who know it's good to treat yo' self (Watch here!). This week, 1st Look is doing the same and spoiling you with some of the best desserts around town. Here's a list of more snacks to satiate that sweet tooth until Saturday night's show. Today is definitely turning around to be the "best day of the yeaaar!"
EE Cookies
After our office tried about 50 of these cookies, we came to the conclusion that they're incredible. Ok, it really only took biting into one to realize that, but trust us, these are not your ordinary cookies. Our top picks: Dark Chocolate Chunks with Dried Cherries, Triple Chocolate Chip with Pecans, and the one that ran out first: Peanut Butter (made with Reese's Pieces and Peanut Butter Cups).
A whole store dedicated to the creation and customization of popsicles? Yes, it's true. The first ever storefront to serve deliciously sweet handcrafted gelato on a stick is located in the West Village off of 6th Avenue. Stop by and choose from a wide variety of flavors, toppings, and dips to make your pop, well, POP! Our go-to combo: Lemon sorbet popsicle dipped in milk chocolate and coated in pistachios. Trust us, we're popaholics.
This bakery's Black 'N' White cookies should be condemned--they're that good. The cookie part is soft with a nice crumby bite, and as far as the B&W goes, it takes a spin from tradition with its chocolate and vanilla creamy frosting, instead of that hard shell normally found on this New York staple of a cookie.
Sweet Freida
It's a little early for holiday cheer, but with Sweet Freida candy, that cheer comes year round. Craque candy is bite-sized, gluten-free, Rice Chex covered in chocolate, peanut butter and powedered sugar, offered in all combinations and customizable gifts. Our favorites for the upcoming season: "Lump of Coal," "Hanukkah Guilt," "Rocks for your Socks," and "Eggnog." We've definitely started on a bad addiction.


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Hong Kong's powerful property developers are locked in a price war as measures to cool one of the world's most expensive real estate markets force them to impose steep discounts to hit sales targets, with many turning to mainland China to fill the gap.
Developers such as Cheung Kong, controlled by Asia's richest man Li Ka-shing, are even throwing in free car park spaces - which can be worth $100,000 or more in densely populated Hong Kong - to lure buyers at a time when quarterly transactions are at their lowest level since 1996.
Real estate agents have also taken to the streets to urge the government to relax cooling measures that they say could cost them their jobs, although market watchers say the government is unlikely to budge any time soon.
(Read more: Chinese property immune to tapering: China's richest man)
"The Hong Kong government has made it clear that it can't afford the risks of removing the measures," said Thomas Lam, head of research for greater China at real estate firm Knight Frank.
He added the government was not expected to revoke the measures, which include higher stamp duties for buyers and home loan curbs, in the next 12 to 24 months.
Combined contracted property sales of Hong Kong's four major developers - Sun Hung Kai Properties, Cheung Kong, Henderson Land Development and New World Development - dropped 39 percent year-on-year in the first half of 2013, according to Phillips Securities.


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Christmas trees are highly flammable after they have been in your home during the holidays. That is why it is important to recycle them properly. Remove the tinsel and any bag you've wrapped it in and take your tree to these locations:
Christmas trees are highly flammable after they have been in your home during the holidays. That is why it is important to recycle them properly. Remove the tinsel and any bag you've wrapped it in and take your tree to these locations:
Barrett Township: Maintenance Department at 194 Sand Spring Road.
Chestnuthill Township: Transfer station located on Hillside Drive. Workers grind them into mulch, which is available for all residents.
Coolbaugh Township: Recycling/drop-off depot on Laurel Drive from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Coolbuagh has an inter-municipal agreement with Tobyhanna Township and Tunkhannock Township's for use of their recycling facility.
Delaware Water Gap Borough: Curbside for pickup on trash day.
Eldred Township: Maintenance building behind the township municipal building from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.
East Stroudsburg Borough: Curbside recycling for three weeks immediately following Christmas. Additionally, the Department of Public Works crew will pick up and chip trees placed at the curb from 7:30 to 3 p.m. on Jan. 4, and Jan. 11.
Hamilton Township: Gaunt Road in Stroud Township off Route 611 Monday through Friday, daylight hours only.
Middle Smithfield Township: Township's parking lot through January.
Paradise Township: Maintenance building at 5912 Paradise Valley Road for the two weeks following Christmas.
Pocono Township: Municipal building. Workers will also chip them up and give away the mulch.
Polk Township: Township office between 8 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday.
Smithfield Township: "Old" municipal center at the intersection of Buttermilk Falls and Seven Bridge Road.
Stroud Township: Until the first Friday in February at the township center, 1211 N. Fifth St., in the rear parking lot; PennDot maintenance yard, Route 447 in Analomink; Poplar Valley Firehouse, Poplar Valley Road, and the township maintenance year on Gaunt Road off Route 611, just north of the Stroud Mall.
Stroudsburg Borough: Curbside pickup on Jan. 3, 4, 5, 11, 12 and 13.
If your municipality does not have a Christmas tree recycling program, you may bring your tree to Scott Farms, Middle Smithfield Materials or Pocono Mulch.
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They are the very best kind of friends. Easy to like and easy to get along with. Our kids and theirs are all BFFs and we manage to have a remarkably stress-free time with them, despite the seven kids, seven and under between us.
So when they called and said they were in the neighbourhood and it was 5:15pm, it never occurred to me to be fussed about what to feed them. We were just rummaging up something for dinner for us, so I just threw in a few extra veggies and a couple of chicken breasts and away we went.
Our kids were having a 'movie night' anyway, so theirs just mucked in.
We were then bathing our children, so we just decided to bath them all together.
You can imagine my horror when I went into the bathroom to rescue my friend who was wrangling a one, two and three year old in there on his own when I discovered that he was washing his daughter's face with the very cloth I had used to clean the toilet that afternoon! Egad! (Why it was still there I have no idea except that I am pretty easily distracted)
I quickly grabbed him a more suitable aka clean flannel from the linen press and held my tongue. What does one say???
So, if you know me and have bathed your children at our place, this has NEVER happened before. I promise. I have been feeling terrible ever since. Dreadful in fact. Should I have spilled the beans? or is it best we just don't go there?


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Obama, Romney both topped $1B
Obama: $1.123 billion vs. Romney: $1.019 billion.
That's the final fundraising tally in the most expensive presidential election ever, according to reports filed Thursday with the Federal Election Commission by the rival campaigns and party committees.
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And that doesn't include an explosion of late advertising funded by last -minute checks from mega-donors like Las Vegas casino owner Sheldon Adelson and Chicago media mogul Fred Eychaner, whose emergence as political forces may be the enduring legacy of 2012.
( Also on POLITICO: Adelson gave another $10M to Romney super PAC)
Adelson and his wife gave $39.7 million to GOP-allied super PACs in the campaign's final weeks to bring their total disclosed contributions to almost $90 million, while Eychaner gave $2 million, bringing his total to $14 million.
Thursday's filings lay bare those donations and other jaw-dropping financial details of the first modern presidential campaign in which donors could give unlimited contributions for political ads and in which both major party candidates declined to participate in a Watergate-era public financing system designed to limit fundraising. The reports also show how the two candidates and their allies navigated the new big-money system using divergent strategies until the bitter end.
President Barack Obama's campaign relied on smaller donors to fuel a robust ground game and summer advertising seeking to define Republican rival Mitt Romney, and then widened its fundraising advantage as the campaign reached its apex. But it was actually outspent by Romney and the big-donor-funded outside groups that supported him. They banked on larger donations to flood the airwaves in the final weeks to turn late-deciding voters against the incumbent in a backloaded strategy that left them with money in the bank at the end – typically a no-no in presidential politics.
Between Oct. 18 and Nov. 26, the period covered by Thursday's filings, Obama's campaign, combined with a trio of Democratic Party committees devoted to it (the Democratic National Committee and the joint DNC-Obama campaign committees called Obama Victory Fund 2012 and Swing State Victory Fund), raised $111 million, compared to $100 million raised by Romney's campaign, the Republican National Committee and the joint RNC-Romney campaign Romney Victory.
POLITICO's overall fundraising comparison is derived from the totals raised by those committees since the start of 2011.
( Also on POLITICO: Liberal donors gave at 11th hour)
But in the final weeks, Romney's committees outspent Obama's $292 million to $258 million, according to the reports. And Romney's spending advantage widened to $337 million to $279 million when taking into consideration the super PACs devoted to the rivals, the pro-Obama Priorities USA Action and the pro-Romney Restore Our Future. Overall, Restore Our Future outraised Priorities $154 million to $79 million.
Super PACs like those, as well as secretive nonprofit groups – both spurred by the 2010 Citizens United decision and other federal court rulings – allowed extremely wealthy activists to play in presidential and congressional politics like never before.
And, while liberals rallied late in the cycle to super PACs supporting Obama and his Democratic congressional allies, conservatives led the way with this new type of campaign cash.


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Dear all,
can you help me paraphrase the line "the market is like a rich man's gambling casino"...I've found this line in articles (for exapmle "Wall Street is just a rich man's gambling casino"), but I can't seem to grasp the meaning and paraphrase it in an adequate way...
Welcome to Using English.
The stock market is where rich man can gamble.
Do you understand what it means to gamble? They place bets. If you don't understand the stock market at all, then this won't make sense to you.
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Robert and I have tried various ways of getting around this expense, with incredibly mixed results. While it can be fun rolling the dice with your sleeping arrangements, it can also lead to sleepless nights, burglary, and vain attempts to reach the bathroom in an unfamiliar, darkened hotel room. For years, we've been trying to find the solution. This past year, our investigations came to fruition when we were graciously invited to join a good friend at one those fantastical houses across the street from Lambeau Field. You know the ones. The Party Houses. The houses that are used for eight weekends a year, not including a home playoff game every now and again. The houses that are outfitted for one purpose: enjoy a weekend of revelry in Green Bay with easy access to Lambeau Field. This seems like an easy solution, why didn't we think of it earlier? Again, it comes back to funding. These places also cost a pretty penny to rent and have the same old mandatory minimum stays, which leaves us right back where we were.
Here's the difference. We're going to buy one, WE, as in Robert, me, and you. All of you. We're going to buy a house and make it a Green Bay Fan Commune (GBFC). I don't believe in elitism, and neither should you. Every one of us is entitled to sleep in view of the bright lights of Historic Lambeau Field, and we're going to do it. Why should fancy-pants sauerkraut commodities traders and snobbish Zubaz brokers get to live the good life, while we're stuck fighting for cabs at 2:00 a.m. to take us to the Motel 6? (Even if they do leave the light on for us). We should be able to take a short stroll from Stadium View to our premium lodging, like the creator of this.
Each owner of the GBFC will be an equal member of the household, with equal responsibilities and equal opportunities for enjoyment of the property. The sleeping arrangements will be dormitory-style, numerous bunkbeds will be installed in an open layout, with maybe a couple hammocks here and there. Outside, tents will be pitched (weather permitting). The house will have separate men's and women's lockerrooms for showering and pre-game Packers gear preparing purposes. This will include large mirrors for those inclined to painting faces, bodies, etc. Food preparation will be done as a team, with various groups tasked with different meals and snacks over the course of the weekend. Grills will be used at all times, and each member will be required to undergo a Grill Safety and Competence Training. Refrigerators will line walls of the garage and will be filled with libations that each household member will contribute to and share. All libations, as with the food, are communal. If one member has the gift for crafting martinis or Old Fashioneds, they may be asked to do so, but are not required to if they would prefer to just pound PBR tall boys. Post-weekend cleanup will be done as a GROUP. No exceptions. Also, as part of household membership, you will be given priority placement in the GBFC Fantasy Football League and one day fantasy sports, the winner of which will be given premium sleeping options for the one calendar year.
The house will not be a permanent domicile for any one member of the household. It will be a temporary lodging solution for Packers' fans in Green Bay. It will be available to all members for Packers' games, training camp, concerts, and other events, but following these occasions, it will be cleaned (BY EVERYONE) and left in order for the next event.
We will open the application process for the GBFC in the coming weeks. We will ask that you please provide your personal information, an itemized list of Packers' paraphernalia, a chili recipe, favorite beer or cocktail, and permission to run a credit check.
Robert and I have already begun the house hunt. We are angling to get on "House Hunters: Cheeseheads", but the producers have not accepted our application video at this time. Our first prospect can be found here. The price is $119,000, but by utilizing Robert's legendary negotiating skills, fine-tuned during binge card trading marathons, we'll likely negotiate that down to $110,000. As of today, the rate for a 5-year arm is 3.38%, and with excellent credit, my great aunt Ruby can secure this rate for us, as soon as we want. This comes to a group payment of only $600/month. If we get just 10 others to join us, that's only $50/month – or $600/year – per person to permanently secure this house for our personal use. How much did you spend last year for a hotel on game weekend?
|I'd pay $50/month for this view. Wouldn't you?
With 8 home games, training camp, special events, concerts and playoff games (yes), we estimate about 15-20 party weekends per year, with almost limitless off-season availability as well (depending on schedules of all Party House members, of course.) If you stay just two times a year, it's more than paid for itself.


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Jamaal Charles Causes Stir Around NFL by ASking for Peyton Manning's Autograph
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Chiefs running back Jamaal Charles has caused a stir after asking for Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning's autograph following Sunday's game in Kansas City.
Local television station KCTV aired footage of Charles waiting for Manning's signature after the Chiefs' 17-9 loss. Charles told the TV station he was getting the autograph for his mom.
The story was picked up by several national media outlets, some of whom argued it was in poor taste to ask for an opponent's autograph after a loss, even though it's common for professional athletes in most sports to exchange jerseys and autographs.
Texans running back Arian Foster tweeted that he got Charles' autograph at the 2010 Pro Bowl, and that he exchanges with players "damn near every game."
Charles tweeted Tuesday: "Thank for the support and relax on the P Manning story, just two warriors showing each other respect."


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A rare breed proves it's still Best in Show
Whiskey was the first wire fox terrier to enter our home. He chased children and adults, pilfered food from the table and ripped the shingles off a hand-built doghouse — even after application of sour apple anti-chew spray. He could open coffee cans and drag leaded food dishes up flights of stairs. This miscreant pup was a terror on four legs.
He barked, he dug and he obeyed only when convenient.
After Whiskey, we couldn't imagine owning another breed.
Brilliant, insubordinate and hilarious, fox terriers were bred for fox hunting in 17th century England. Smooth and wire-haired terriers (considered the same breed until 1984) rode in pouches on the hunters' horses until the prey was driven to ground. The terriers were then sent into the fox dens and yanked out by their tails, doomed fox clenched in their teeth.
By the 1930s, wire fox terriers' square heads, keen eyes and compact build earned them popularity with the glamorous set, in movies and on the arms of the rich and famous. Actors and heiresses weren't the only ones smitten. Wire fox terriers have won 14 Best in Show titles at Westminster, more than any other breed. The breed got its latest win this year when five-year-old GCH Afterall Painting the Sky, aka Sky, took the Best in Show prize.
Now that Sky has showed you that foxies are beautiful, loyal and full of personality, be warned that they aren't the dog for the faint of heart. These usually bouncy and friendly terriers are too smart for lazy owners. Leave them alone for too long, they'll empty your trash cans all over the floor. Yell at them, they'll bark right back. Ignore them, and they'll force your attention by leaping in your lap or snatching whatever you're focused on. Mental stimulation and regular exercise are the barrier between you and a household of destroyed items.
If, however, you can't resist a dog that believes it's intellectually superior to you, wire fox terriers are a great addition to your family. With a fox terrier in your house, you'll have good bad dog stories enough for years.


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As some have posted there is a update rolling out. This is not the train wreck of the search and on-demand. It appears that this update has changes that include -
Tips on the OK splash screen
Fewer clicks to reach the CC toggle.
Multiple Favorites guides
Improved picture
View next episode on recording stop menu
Please help. If anyone notices any other changes please post.
The good - The picture is great. It rivals FIOS. The CC access is improved, but, still not one button.
The bad - The favorites changes broke the ENTER button access to the favorites guide. It used to be that pressing ENTER- Down Arrow- OK displayed the favorites guide. With the new update - Pressing enter still produces a similar side menu. The menu is improved - Favorites is at the top & CC farther down. If pressing OK produced the Favorites guide, all would be well. But, it does not. It produces another menu that starts with the full guide - which there is no need for - The full guide has it's own button. And, a favorites guide button with the possiblity of additional favorites guides, Pressing OK on either the full guide or the Favorites highlights and checks the button & returns to the program that is playing. NO guide - Broken!
I have reported this to attcustomercare & working with them to resolve. The first they said I had a bad load & they reloaded. This did not help. They think it is just me. But, others have reported this behavior, earlier.
Please help - If you click the enter button & see CC in the side menu, you have the new update. If you have it, please try the favorites guide & post whether or not you get the guide displayed. If you do not have a favorites list, it is easy to build one with one channel.
The ugly - The tips on the OK splash screen. Not so much the meaningless drivel in the tips. That is easily ignored. Except for that poster that thought they were being reminded to pay their bill. The ugly part is that at&t would spend resources on it instead of something that can improve the system - Such as testing to make sure it works - Such as - under the Main Menu swapping GUIDE at the top with Favorites (third) to make Favorites quicker to access (GUIDE already has its own button. It does not need to be first. - Such as - checking usablity for more efficiencies. Such as listening to posters on what they need. OR, rather responding - Listening is of no value if it does not result in improvements.
View next episode on recording stop menu is only good if you want to erase later. If you erase first, the View next episode goes away. So, it needs a way to erase then view. Another button? or a set-up option. Also, it needs to be moved below erase on the menu.
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I'm a bit confused. Is the picture quality better because of new firmware or new hardware?
I've noticed improved PQ, especially how it was a few years ago. I still see issues when there is a large amount of detail and movement.
I personally have not noticed any picture quality improvements associated with this new rollout. IMO, the picture quality has been relatively constant for several months.
If there has been picture quality improvements, it can only be attributable to a few things:
1. Upgrades in firmware or hardware at the encoders in the VHOs.
2. The 2nd-generation STBs, due to their different processor, may have additional capabilities associated with H.264 decoding that the 1st-generation units do not have, and therefore may be able to derive a better picture from the same encoded H.264 stream.
3. The 2nd-generation STBs, due to their different processor, may post-process the H.264 picture in a different way after it has been decoded. This may include improvements in deblocking, filtering, deinterlacing, and/or resizing.
This is only speculation, I have no concrete information regarding any of these possibilities, nor have I been able to compare a 1st-generation STB and a 2nd-generation STB side-by-side.
STB firmware cannot improve the decoding, as the decoding is done in hardware on all units. However, it could conceivably improve things that happen after the decoding process (see #3 above), although most of that is done in hardware also.
When I saw I had gotten this update and read may be better picture quality I was ecstatic. I have been an AT&T Wireless customer since when it was Bellsouth Mobility. When I moved a few months back I decided to try Uverse since I could get a bundle deal and cost wasn't bad. I love the quick menu and DVR service. One thing even after this update and may be a last straw for me is this. I have read all the threads here about HD Quality and it was getting better. I am close to the VRAD and have U300 with HD and HSI 24/3.. Internet not bad. I have read all the posts from Somejoe on this subject as I was lurking and since he is on this one he might help me.
Even after this update I am seeing way too much cluttered noise on moving from spanned viewing on football games and other fast movement. I have a 82" Mitsubishi DLP 120hz and a 67" Samung LED DLP 120hz. I an not stealing your thread and god knows you all don't need another "Sat TV VRS Uverse" thread. Close up the picture is fine but when the movement gets fast its driving me crazy. I hoped this update would help.,
I have to be honest when I had my 67" Sammy on Dish it didn't matter what was thrown at, my picture rivaled and/surpassed" many of my friends flat panels whether LCD or Plasma. I wanna like uverse. This last update was my last straw. is there anything I can look at or is the compression more noticeable because I have such a large screen to fill? All tvs hooked with 1.4 HDMI and high end AV receivers I even went direct to TV as well and still bad motion artifacts.
Football season is coming so either this is fixable or not.
The update did make the boxes more responsive though.
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I have to be honest when I had my 67" Sammy on Dish it didn't matter what was thrown at, my picture rivaled and/surpassed" many of my friends flat panels whether LCD or Plasma. I wanna like uverse. This last update was my last straw. is there anything I can look at or is the compression more noticeable because I have such a large screen to fill? All tvs hooked with 1.4 HDMI and high end AV receivers I even went direct to TV as well and still bad motion artifacts.
Football season is coming so either this is fixable or not.
The update did make the boxes more responsive though.
It's just my opinion, but even in stores, I have yet to see a 70"+ TV that has great PQ. Maybe if you are solely viewing Blu-ray discs the PQ might be great, but I'm willing to bet at that size and above you are going to see the flaws in the compression technology regardless of your provider.
I gave it a try but still seeing artifacts. Maybe I'll call AT&T and see about a change out to DTV
Thanks for the suggestion though. It did clear it up somewhat though.
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For fast moving panning such as sports, or racing recommend changing setting to 720p....menu...options....aspect ratios....720p...OK...
Changing the output resolution will not help anything. The user does not control how many lines the signal has nor how it was filmed. The output resolution you set in the U-Verse STB should match the native display resolution of your TV. This minimizes the number of resizes of the signal content that are required.
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720p represents 720 lines of resolution scanned sequentially. In other words, all lines are scanned in progressively, providing a more detailed high definition video image compared to interlaced display technology of the same resolution. Progressive scanning reduces the need to prevent flicker by filtering out fine details, so spatial (sharpness) resolution is much closer to 1080i than the number of scan lines would suggest.
This is not correct. 1080i has a full 1920x1080 pixels (2.1 Mpixels) of spatial resolution. Each 540-line field is taken from different lines on the camera's imaging sensor, so tiny details will still appear, but may not appear in both fields. However, this is rendered much less important than it would seem due to modern deinterlacing techniques present in nearly all TVs.
720p has 1280x720 pixels (0.9 Mpixels) of spatial resolution, less than half the pixels that 1080i carries.
Then the newer hardware must be playing a role in making the picture quality better.
So let's do some math...
This is the current setup with a 32,200 Kbps (31.4 Mbps) profile.
4 HDTV Streams * 6 Mbps (roughly) = 24 Mbps
31.4 Mbps - 24 Mbps = 7.4 Mbps (Reserved for Internet and Phone)
So, in order for six HDTV streams with an added Megabit, it would be the following math.
6 HDTV Streams * 7 Mbps = 42 Mbps
42 Mbps + 8 Mbps (Reserved bandwidth for Internet and Phone) = 50 Mbps (or 51,200 Kbps Profile)
I have a feeling that one of the new profiles is probably going to be at the very least a 50 Mbps profile capable of carrying 6 HDTV streams in total.
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Some people were saying that we may see these upgrades as early as the end of the year, possibly within the next two months. Do I believe that last part (the two months part)? Not really.
All I do know is that AT&T needs to do something here. With the likes of TWC and Charter actively advertising 30 and 50 Mbps Internet plans on TV, uVerse needs to do something very quickly.
I'm about 500 feet (the VRAD is practically my neighbor, six houses down the street) from the VRAD with a 3801HGV and my max downstream speed is 57,931. The new profile should fit into this nicely and if it doesn't, I'll be requesting that they either get me one of those NVG589 gateways and see what it does with a single pair and if it doesn't meet the needs, pair-bond me.
Are there any plans on increasing the amount of HD streams that will be able to be sent to the home? If so, are they going to allow for more HDTV streams to be recorded? I'd like to have six HDTV streams to be sent to the home and able to record five at the same time.
As for the higher speed Internet tiers, I'll probably get an upgrade from the current 24 Mbps package that I have now. I used to have TWC for the triple-play but for whatever reason I was having more and more glitches with TV where the TV would pause, drop audio, etc. and none of the techs knew what was going on. So I switched to uVerse and have been happy ever since, no picture or audio issues. But, I did have 50 Mbps on TWC so getting an Internet tier from AT&T that would put me closer to 50 Mbps would be very nice.
So, with all of what you just said... I have a feeling that I'm going to have an NVG589 some time in the future.


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Almost immediately after the onset of the worst floods in Pakistan's history last summer, the U.S. government's response effort leaped into action. In the four months since the floods hit, the United States has contributed $500 million to relief and early recovery efforts. In addition, the U.S. military — in partnership with their Pakistani counterparts — flew helicopter relief missions that rescued more than 40,000 people and delivered more than 26 million pounds of relief supplies.
What is less well known is the U.S. military's efforts to help journalists in Pakistan provide quality coverage of the impact of the floods and ongoing relief operations. Working with the Public Affairs Office at the American Embassy in Islamabad, the U.S. military took 194 international and Pakistani journalists by helicopter to flood-affected areas.
The U.S. military's assistance in transporting journalists to the heart of the flood-affected areas, facilitating eyewitness coverage, was critical for two reasons. First of all, the bird's eye view was by far the best way to grasp the size and scale of the damage. Video images from the helicopter flights were used widely on Pakistani and international television stations. Second, the worst-hit regions were inaccessible by road. U.S. military helicopters were able to ferry journalists to areas isolated by floodwaters, giving them access to the real story and thereby giving a voice to the victims. This coverage has helped Pakistanis and the international community better understand the enormity of the flood's destruction as well as the scale of relief and recovery operations.
Aasif Baloch, Station Manager for FM 97 in Islamabad, expressed appreciation for his "chance to visit different Union Councils at Shared, Peach Bala, Mayra, and Kota Kot in the District Kohistan in the last week of October 2010. I came to know how the government of Pakistan, the Pakistan Army, and American Army were providing food, medicine, shelter, and other basic aid in the remote areas of Kyber Pakhtunkhwa Province through the Chinook helicopters on a daily basis."
According to Shahid Afraz Khan, Producer for Current Affairs at Radio Pakistan, "During my five years of journalistic experience, my visit to remote areas of Kohistan situated in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, arranged by the U.S. Embassy and U.S. Army, was no doubt one of my most informative and memorable experiences."
While the U.S. military flew its last humanitarian airlift mission on November 30, USAID and other U.S. civilian agencies will continue to partner with the government of Pakistan to provide assistance to flood victims, and the Embassy's Public Affairs Office will continue to work with journalists to provide timely and accurate information about flood rehabilitation and reconstruction efforts.
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Dave Boling: Healthy Percy Harvin a one-of-a-kind threat for Seahawks
Prediction: Only one defense in the National Football League will be able to limit Percy Harvin's statistics this season.
It belongs to the Seattle Seahawks.
Through training camp, Harvin has shown the speed and dynamic playmaking ability that make him one of the league's most dangerous and versatile offensive talents.
Catch after catch, on screens and hitches and slants and crossing routes and deep balls, Harvin unleashes stunning displays of his repertoire on a daily basis. The temptation, then, is to project he'll rack up 100 or more receptions.
Remember, this was the guy who had 87 catches in 2011 for the Vikings, with the ball being thrown by scattershot rookie Christian Ponder. And he was on pace to have a 120-catch season in 2012 before injuring his ankle against the Seahawks.
But since the Seahawks, as the league's top scoring defense last season, allowed an average of only 14.4 points a game, the team is never in the kind of scoring shootout that requires the offense to rely on the passing game.
Quarterback Russell Wilson, after all, averaged just 16 completions a game last season. And they can't all go to Harvin.
But in his infrequent action last season while recovering from hip surgery, Harvin provided tantalizing glimpses, particularly in the Super Bowl, with an 87-yard kickoff return touchdown and two rushes for 45 yards.
And that was with almost no practices and a hip that probably wasn't at full strength.
Now his engine is tuned, and he uses an interesting word to describe his mastery of the scheme: Fluent.
At this point, Harvin said, he's finally "fluent." Used as a term to describe the ability to express oneself articulately and with ease, it's the perfect explanation of his mixture of speed and fluid motion.
"I'm feeling comfortable with the offense," Harvin said after Friday's 41-14 preseason win over San Diego. "I was able to be in there through all the (organized team activities), be with (Wilson) the whole time, and I'm starting to feel comfortable putting practices back to back."
The tentative plan was to practice Harvin on alternate days, to nurture his health. But he's gone much harder than that this camp, not only practicing steadily, but revealing a competitive fire that matches that of so many of the Seahawks' most combative players.
One practice he and safety Earl Thomas went after an overthrown pass so hard they nearly ran into Lake Washington.
A question that followed him to Seattle was whether he was one of those finely tuned athletes that gets dinged up and needs time and special treatment to get back onto the field.
But he took spikes to his heel and limped ominously into the training room one practice, only to return at full speed the next day.
One of the most complimentary things that might be said of Harvin, in fact, is that he fits in with the kind of highly motivated players that occupy the core of this team.
An example: After his four catches in limited action on Friday, he was asked if it felt good to be the team's leading receiver.
"I don't care about that," he said. "My thing is our offense moving the ball. We got points on every drive."
Reserve quarterback Tarvaris Jackson, a teammate of Harvin's in Minnesota, has warned people that they'll be stunned when they see him at full health.
"We're definitely going to get the ball in his hands and he'll be a dimension to our offense people won't believe," Jackson said. "They're going to be in for a good show. He goes against our secondary every day, and they're the best in the league, and he sees that as a challenge. It's something we get to witness every day in practice and it's something to see."
Now that Harvin is healthy, Jackson said, his value to the Seahawks is almost immeasurable.
"People will see what I mean, what I've been talking about," Jackson said. "He's not just a special player ... he's one of a kind."
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The Paphos International Film Festival (PIFF) is an annual festival held every June in Paphos in the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. PIFF is an independent not-for-profit organization committed to supporting authentically independent films and it aims to research, promote and develop the art of independent filmmaking. We support low (or no) budget films because we strongly …
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Greeley Senior Center news for March 17
March 22, 2013
Events and tours
High Hops Brewery tour, 10 a.m. Tuesday. The brewery strives to create incredible beers by using only the high quality hops grown on the fields they till and the honey from the hives that pollinate their greenhouse flowers. Member fee is $10; nonmember fee is $15. After the tour, lunch cost is on your own at the Asian Pearl.
Charming Echoes, 2 p.m. Wednesday. You are invited to an Irish music performance given by the Charming Echoes from Springfield, Mo. The assisted living centers of Greeley have funded the program. No admission fee. Come and enjoy the performance!
Gabbie Gourmet, 10 a.m. Wednesday. We travel to Foolish Craig's Café, known for its crepes but also offering a variety of omelets and freshly baked breads. Member fee is $10; nonmember fee is $15. Meal cost and gratuity are on your own.
Denver Auto Show, 10:30 a.m. Thursday. Visit one of the most comprehensive automotive sector trade events. Registration fees are $10 for members, $15 for nonmembers. The $10 admission fee and lunch cost are on your own the day of the trip.
Be Careful What You Wish For, 1 p.m. March 27. Eco consultant Hollis Berendt delivers this presentation. Times have been tough, jobs difficult to come by and communities are continually working to find ways to keep services and maintain community image. Is easy money — gas and oil — a quick fix? Don't be so sure. Come, learn about carbon and consider the consequences of our actions and of the get rich quick philosophy. No fee. Reservations are required.
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Health and fitness
9-ball tournament, 9 a.m. Wednesday. There will be plenty of sharks at this tournament. Pool Club member fee is $3; nonmember fee is $8. Winners of the A/B 8-ball singles tourney in January were: first, Dick Lamb; second, Rich Weiss; third, Rick Wilhoit. Winners of the B/C 8-ball singles tourney in January were: first, Dave Valencia; second, Joe Ryden; third, Dan Bauer. Winners of the 8-ball mixed doubles tourney in January were: first, Dan Bauer and Linda Cangemi; second, Alvina Bailey and Bob Edwards; third, Lou McCormick & John Austin.
Pickleball, through-May 31. Registration is required for each group that you attend. Guests must pay $3 daily drop-in fee at the Senior Center each day they play. The following groups are offered: Beginner/Leisure 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Mondays/Wednesdays, $7 members, $12 nonmembers; Weekday Experienced 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Tuesdays/Thursdays, $11 members, $16 nonmembers; Weekend Experienced 1-4 p.m. Saturdays, $6 members, $11 nonmembers; Women's Day Leisure 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Fridays, $5 members, $10 nonmembers; Evening Leisure 4:30-7:30 p.m. Fridays, $6 members, $11 nonmembers. The 2:30-4:30 p.m. Tuesdays/Thursdays group will begin playing in April, $7 members, $12 nonmembers.
SilverSneakers MSROM (Muscular Strength & Range of Movement), 10-10:45 a.m. Mondays, Wednesday and Fridays running March 18-April 26. A total body conditioning class designed to increase strength, range of movement and activities for daily living, the class uses a chair for seated and standing support. No charge for SilverSneakers participants. NonSilverSneakers participants see front desk for pricing.
SilverSneakers Cardio Circuit, 9-9:45 a.m. Fridays running March 22-April 26. The class is for participants who desire more cardiovascular and muscular endurance conditioning and who have demonstrated above baseline proficiency in agility, balance and coordination. No charge for SilverSneakers participants. NonSilverSneakers participants see front desk for pricing.
Circuit training, 9:35-10:35 a.m. Mondays and Wednesdays, March 18-April 17 at the Family FunPlex. Start your year off on the right foot. The five-week class is designed with low-impact exercises that use various fitness equipment. Member fee is $28; nonmember fee is $33. Register by Wednesday.
The Syncopation Station Performance Group, 10-11 a.m. Tuesdays and 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Thursdays through March 28. Fee is $40. A minimum of five participants with the desire to learn tap dancing is needed for the Syncopation Station Beginner Class on 11:15 a.m.-noon Tuesdays through March 28. Fee is $34.
Rocks to Gems to Jewelry, 9 a.m. Monday beginning March 25. 6 p.m.; Wednesday beginning March 27. Learn basic lapidary. Member fee is $18; nonmember fee is $23. A $4 lab fee is due and payable at each class.
GRASP (Greeley Retiree Academic Study Program), 1:30 p.m. Mondays, March 18 and 25. You can join GRASP for $20 per year, with a Senior Center membership. Monthly topic is "What In the World Is Going On?" which features: "Hackers & Frackers," "China Changes Direction," "Russia Re-active," and "India."
Ceramics, 1-3 p.m. each Wednesday. The monthly fee is $7 for members, $12 for nonmembers.
Legal assistance, 10 a.m.-noon March 26. Deb from Weld County Area Agency on Aging will provide legal assistance. Appointments required. No fee.
Low Vision Support Group meeting, noon-3 p.m. Saturday. No fee.
Bunco, 1 p.m. on the fourth Friday of the month. Do you love to play Bunco or want to learn how? Join our Bunco group led by Shirley Hatfield. No fee.
AARP tax assistance, offered at Trinity Lutheran Church, 3000 35th Ave. To make an appointment, call (970) 584-0144.
Greeley Senior Activity Center Hours of Operation, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday and noon-3 p.m. Saturday (unless evening activities are scheduled). Check our monthly calendar for special events and evening activities. You only need to be 50 years young to join the Greeley Senior Activity Center. Annual memberships cost $22 for Greeley residents and $24 for nonresidents. Memberships include a parking permit, allow you to participate in daily drop-in activities and to receive a discount on most classes, trips and programs. For more information, call (970) 350-9440. If you need special accommodations for one of the trips, call the Senior Center at least 30 days before the start of the event.


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Research & Analysis by Olivia S. Mitchell
Social Security Research at the Michigan Retirement Research Center
The Office of Retirement and Disability Policy at the Social Security Administration created the Retirement Research Consortium in 1998 to encourage research on topics related to Social Security and the well-being of older Americans, and to foster communication between the academic and policy communities. The Michigan Retirement Research Center (MRRC) has participated in the Consortium since its inception. This article surveys a selection of the MRRC's output over its first 10 years and highlights several themes in the Center's ongoing research.
A Benefit of One's Own: Older Women's Entitlement to Social Security Retirement
Using data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and linked administrative records, we explore differences in old-age benefits between men and women attributable to differences in length of work life and pay. We find that most women are fully insured for Social Security purposes, but those who are not would have to work substantially more to become eligible. Among those who are eligible, additional work would translate into only slightly higher benefits.


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One of the things I'm most enjoying in Mists of Pandaria, besides the excellent new raid content, is Challenge Modes. CMs solve the problem of dungeons becoming boring. Heroic dungeons start off a bit tough when you're doing them in greens, but put on a few pieces of raid gear and the difficulty becomes laughable. In CMs, all your gear is scaled down to ilvl 463, so the only things that makes them easier are practice and skill.
The Bronze level of Challenge Modes are pretty accessible. I found most of them were easily achievable on the first run through. You can wipe a few times and still be well within the time limit. Silvers are a large step up in difficult as they generally have about half the time requirement as bronzes. This is where you need to step up your game – trash needs to be chain pulled, healers have very little time to drink and while you may be able to recover from one wipe, it'll be tough. Golds are very challenging (as they should be). You basically need to pull as much trash as you can at once, you need to find a way to skip any trash you don't need and your group's dps needs to be as high as possible. Be prepared to run the dungeons over and over, resetting any time something goes wrong.
Generally, the trash packs are the most challenging part of the dungeons. Bosses do hit much harder than in the heroic mode dungeons, but it's the trash that's going to be the thing that kills you more often than not. Cleaves will kill your melee, a wrong step or being a second late on a cooldown will result in your tank being globalled by the 12 mobs attacking them.
My regular Challenge Mode group consists of a Blood DK tank, Rogue, Mage, Ele Shaman and me (Resto Druid). I think Druids are a great asset to any challenge mode team and I love how CMs force me to think critically about my talents and abilities. I get to use many abilities that are often ignored in other situations.
Since the trash is usually the most difficult part of the dungeon, especially when you're pulling multiple packs at a time, the more cc available to your group the better. Once trash is rounded up we try to make sure they are incapacitated for as long as possible. Abilities we chain together include Ring of Frost, Remorseless Winter and Capacitor Totem. Our rogue uses Paralytic Poison to keep things stunned as much as possible. As a resto Druid I can help with cc too. I use Disorienting Roar when the stuns are down – it doesn't work for long since it breaks on damage, but it gives a slight reprieve from damage and interrupts spell casting. I can Typhoon if it will do more good than harm (that's not always the case). I also put Symbiosis on our Shaman, allowing him to use Solar Beam to further incapacitate casting mobs.
Skipping trash is something that needs to be done in a number of the dungeons in order to save time. There are a few options for this. First there's Shroud of Concealment. This will work in most situations, you just need enough room to get around the mobs so you don't aggro them. Sapping the one you'll be moving closest to can be required. You can also use Potions of Invisibility. These are easier to use as once they go into effect you can run right through mobs without them seeing you. The downside is that they trigger a 10 minute cooldown on potions so it limits your group's ability to use dps or mana pots. There are also some trash packs which can be aggroed by one player then reset, allowing the rest of your group to run by them.
There are a few other really useful abilities that resto Druids bring to challenge modes. The first is Stampeding Roar. When speed is of the essence, this is great to help your tank aggro multiple packs, make Invisibility pots take you further, or just get from point a to point b faster. Heart of the Wild is also great. When I first started challenge modes I was hesitant to spend much time doing damage because I felt like people would die if I stopped healing them for even a second. However as I got more comfortable, and my group got better with cc, I found there were a number of opportunities for me to do some damage. On trash packs HotW plus Hurricane can do a lot of damage, though channeling instead of healing can be dangerous. I find HotW most useful on bosses where the healing requirements aren't too high. Just let your tank know to use their own cooldowns, pre-stack Lifebloom, put up Ironbark, pop the ability and go to town. Doing this is especially helpful on fights where phase repeats are based on time, such as the last boss in Temple of the Jade Serpent – if you can prevent seeing phase 2 more than once you can save a lot of time. Soothe can also be very important when you run into trash mobs or bosses who enrage.
Challenge modes are a lot of fun and I recommend everyone give them a try. They'll really make you work hard to use every possible advantage available to your class and spec and allow for some creative puzzle solving. They're also a great source of Valor Points, and much more enjoyable than the alternatives of LFR, random dungeons, or dailies. The rewards for getting all bronzes, silvers or golds are nifty too, and are made even more attractive by the idea that these modes will never be nerfed or outgeared, so they will stay relatively exclusive.
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Judge rules against Donald Sterling, says Clippers can be sold
(CNN) –A deal to sell the Los Angeles Clippers for an NBA record price can move forward, a California probate judge ruled Monday.
Judge Michael Levanas tentatively ruled in favor of Shelly Sterling, saying the estranged wife of Donald Sterling acted properly in removing her husband from the trust that owns the NBA team and in winding up the affairs of the trust.
The sale can go forward regardless of any appeals, Levanas said.
Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has agreed with Shelly Sterling to buy the Clippers for a league record $2 billion.
Shelly Sterling was within her rights to remove her husband from the trust under which each Sterling had owned 50% of the team, the judge agreed. She became sole trustee after two doctors determined Donald Sterling was mentally incapacitated.
In April, Donald Sterling came under fire for making racist remarks against African-Americans in comments to his companion V. Stiviano. The recorded conversation was published online.
In response, the NBA banned Sterling for life, fined him the maximum $2.5 million and moved toward terminating the Sterlings' ownership rights in the franchise.
Donald Sterling, in turn, sued the league for $1 billion for alleged antitrust violations in its handling of the matter.
He also is suing Shelly Sterling, the NBA, and NBA commissioner Adam Silver, seeking monetary damages in civil court. Court documents filed by Sterling's attorneys call the potential deal "unlawful" and "fraudulent," and ask for an injunction to block the sale.
Donald Sterling revoked the family trust in June, and the lawsuit contends that the move reverted the Clippers back to his sole ownership and therefore Shelly Sterling has no power or right to sell the team. All the stock for the franchise was issued in his name, court documents said.
Donald Sterling has said he will never sell the Clippers.
The NBA Board of Governors, a group of the league's 30 owners, will also have to approve the sale for it to go through.
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Evangelist Jamey Ragle encourages students
Evangelist Jamey Ragle spoke and Christian band Austins Bridge performed at Friday's convocation service in the Vines Center.
They were all scheduled to be part of the "Shake the Foundation" concert Friday night at Thomas Road Baptist Church, featuring singer and LU alumnus Marc Ivey.
Austins Bridge is nominated for three Dove Awards this year, including New Artist of the Year, Bluegrass Recorded Song of the Year and Country Album of the Year.
Ragle, who is known for his humorous illustrations and his hard-core lessons from the Word of God, has been preaching for 31 years. His passion is for teens and young adults. He has ministered at church revival meetings, Reach the Planet crusades, corporate meetings, school assemblies and youth camps.
Ragle has visited Liberty University many times. In Friday's message, he used the story of Samson from the Bible and his "step into stupid" to show how God's strength came back when he made a "repentant return."
"It would be sad to be remembered for what you might have been," he told students.
Adding in some humorous tales about marriage, dating, ice cream and tattoos, he talked about confidence coming only from God and not the world.
"I'll tell you what you can always be confident in, my God will supply your needs," he said.
He also shared the personal story of his 22-year-old daughter Holly who is in a nursing home due to massive bleeding in the brain when she was a month old. "She doesn't walk, talk or speak," he said. On one recent visit to see her, he asked himself, "I honestly wonder what do people without Christ do?"
He told students they must make their relationship with God real, because they don't know where life will lead them.
"Some of you have accepted the artificial for so long, you don't know the real thing because you've always known the imitation," he said.
Ragle asked for students who wanted their "Saturday nights to match their Sunday mornings" to "come back home and do the right thing." A flood of students came out of their seats to join him at the front of the stage as he ended the service in prayer for them.
For more on "Shake the Foundation" go to www.marcivey.com


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COCOA, FL - Several local healthcare providers are teaming up to provide FREE prostate cancer screening tests at the 11th Annual Men's Health Summit on Saturday, June 9, from 9 am to noon at the Health Sciences Building, Building 20, on the Brevard Community College (BCC) campus at 1519 Clearlake Road in Cocoa. The event is co-sponsored by Health First, the Central Brevard Branch of the NAACP, Parrish Medical Center, Wuesthoff Health System, and Brevard Community College.
The event includes free PSA blood tests and digital rectal exams, which will be provided along with other health screenings and information.
According to the American Cancer Society, prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in men. Additionally, one in six men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer -though statistics cite a low number of deaths when the disease is detected early. Those at higher risk are recommended to get annual prostate cancer exams, and include:
- Men over age 50 who have never had a PSA blood test and digital rectal exam
- Men age 40 or older who have had a close relative (father, brother, or son) diagnosed with prostate cancer before age 65
- African-American men
*Those currently under the care of a physician for prostate cancer, or who have had surgery to remove the prostate, should not have the PSA blood test or digital rectal exam at this event. Instead, they are encouraged to bring a friend or family member who has not been tested before.
The Men's Health Summit is open to all residents of Brevard County. Screenings are FREE and performed on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, call 321-434-4335.


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NEW YORK — Small Business Administration chief Karen Mills is leaving the agency at the end of August although her successor has not yet been nominated.
Mills, who had announced in February that she planned to resign, told staffers of her plans on Wednesday, said Emily Cain, a spokeswoman for the SBA.
Mills lives in Brunswick, Maine.
Mills had pledged to stay in her position until her successor was ready to be sworn in, but President Barack Obama has not nominated someone to head the SBA. It was not known when a nomination might be made; a White House spokesman, Robert Whithorne, said in an email that he had no personnel announcements to make.
It's also not known who will be in charge of the SBA when Mills leaves. The SBA's second highest-ranking official, Deputy Administrator Marie Johns, resigned from the agency earlier this year. No replacement has been named for her.
"The agency is working closely with the White House on transition plans and on the appointment of a successor," Cain said.
Mills will be taking positions at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and its Business School, according to Jim Aisner, a spokesman for the business school. She will be working on the school's U.S. Competitive Project and its entrepreneurship program, Aisner said.
Mills has been SBA administrator since April 2009, and joined Obama's Cabinet in January 2012. She has had support from both political parties and from small business advocacy groups for her holistic approach toward helping small business. She has said the government needed to do more than guarantee loans for companies; it also needed to help struggling companies get the counseling they needed in order to qualify for loans.
Under her direction, the agency streamlined its loan process and shortened the amount of time it takes for companies to be granted loans.
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Sea of Freedom Walkers Crosses Potomac to Pentagon
By Donna Miles and Jim Garamone
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10, 2006 - A sea of walkers in white shirts proudly proclaiming their participation in the America Supports You Freedom Walk walked from Washington to the Pentagon to remember those murdered on Sept. 11, 2001.
Marine Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, spoke as the crowd gathered near the Washington Monument here today.
"You and some 130-plus other gatherings like this across all 50 states today are telling our fellow Americans and the world that we do stand together, and we do stand for freedom and we will walk for freedom and we will fight for freedom," the chairman said.
The walkers, including many family members of those lost in the Sept. 11 attacks, also participated to remember America's veterans past and present.
Pace said Americans must recommit themselves to freedom. As chairman, Pace represents 2.4 million American servicemembers of all components. Those men and women "are here 2.4 million strong to tell those terrorists, 'Not on our watch,'" he said.
Pace said a letter he received from a young man asking how he could serve reminded him of the importance of Americans volunteering to help their fellow citizens. "The fact of the matter is that Americans can serve this nation in so many ways," he said. "(They can serve) in gatherings like this, in our police forces, in our fire departments, volunteering to read to the elderly, volunteering to take care of the sick and the lame. There are so many ways that Americans can volunteer their time to ensure this country produces the types of citizens that we're all proud of and that produces the type of lives that we all aspire to.
"There are so many ways to serve this country," he continued. "I hope that young man does decide to serve in the armed forces." He asked Americans everywhere to think about what they can do for America and to "reach deep inside" to find ways to serve.
Pace told the participants it is a great pleasure for him to walk with them to the Pentagon. "This will be a walk from here to a certain point on the map," he said. "But it will also be a walk from here into the future. I am optimistic; I am excited about the future of our country, and I look forward to taking these steps with you together."
Two of the walkers joined after seeing the stage from the Washington Monument. Von and Alane Kelley are taking part in a cross-country bike ride. The couple, from Oklahoma City, understand firsthand what it's like to experience terrorism at home. Von was in seventh grade when the Murrah Federal Office Building there was bombed. He said he remembers volunteering to help with his parents and that he believes it's important to unite in remembering Sept. 11 and in honoring the troops. "For me, this is about symbolism -- unity and support for our troops," he said.
Allison Barber, deputy assistant secretary of defense for public affairs, said the Freedom Walk is "an opportunity for people to come together and say we won't forget."
Barber noted the significance of the event that brings together not just the thousands of participants in the Washington Freedom Walk, but also the "hundreds of thousands of people across America saying, 'We won't forget.'"
"What you see here is pride," said Marine Sgt. Joshua Tretter, a Pentagon tour guide who is assisting in the Freedom Walk effort. "And the more people we have here to show that, the better."
The event drew scores of volunteers who pitched in to make it a success. Retired Navy Cmdr. Chuck Young drove here from Newport News, Va., to remember friends lost on Sept. 11, 17 former classmates from his Bronx high school who died at the World Trade Center and two former comrades at the Pentagon. As he worked yesterday, handing out credentials at a local mall and today helping set up on the National Mall, Young said he was also honoring those serving in the military, including two sons and a son-in-law. One son, Army Spc. Jared Young, is at Camp Taji, Iraq with the 1st Special Troops Battalion, 4th Infantry Division. "I'm supporting them by being here," he said.
Air Force 1st Lt. Aletha Holland, from the 69th Aerial Port Squadron at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., called volunteering at the Freedom Walk a way to give back for all she has. "I think we take freedom and the freedoms we have for granted," she said. "This Freedom Walk is an expression. It shows that we are united as a people.
"We may experience tragedy, but it doesn't keep us down. A champion gets back up, and that's what we are."
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Marty Goldstein recently wrote an article about his friendship with Kerry Brown.
In it he mentioned that Kerry's first pro match was in Winnipeg, Manitoba in December of 1979. It was December 6th to be exact. How do I know? Because I was there.
Kerry wrestled Greg Gagne in the third match of the night -- see the photo to the right. You wouldn't expect the son of Verne Gagne (owner of the AWA) to wrestle any lower than that, would you? It was a standard match and I don't recall any spectacular moves by either man. But Kerry was only a rookie at the time, and I wouldn't have expected too much of him yet.
This match was preceded by Sandor Szabo (local wrestler, not The Sandor Szabo of earlier days) vs. Buck "Rock �n' Roll" Zumhofe, and Ron Ritchie vs. Rick Hunter.
Following Gagne vs. Brown was Steve Olsonoski & Angelo "King Kong" Mosca vs. The East-West Connection (Jesse Ventura & Adrian Adonis); Dino Bravo vs. Nick Bockwinkel; and finally Mad Dog Vachon vs. Super Destroyer II (Matthew Byrnes was the name he used when he finally was unmasked, but would later become Sgt. Slaughter).
Flash ahead a year and a half.
On July 28, 1981, I was in Regina, Saskatchewan visiting my wife's relatives. There was a fair going on, and lo and behold, there was a wrestling card happening. I was unfamiliar with Stampede Wrestling at the time, so I introduced myself and asked if they would mind me taking a few photos. There were no objections.
He later came out for his match and posed for me on the ring apron with a championship belt. Hey, I thought, this kid's getting up in the wrestling world.
He was a somewhat better wrestler than the last time I saw him.
The next night was another Stampede Wrestling card, so I decided to go to that one too. He was teaming with Duke Myers against Bruce Hart and his partner.
Kerry was beginning to show his style and was able to generate heat from the crowd.
By the way, on these two Stampede cards there were a couple of young skinny British wrestlers facing off. Ah, you probably never heard of them -- they were Davey Boy Smith and The Dynamite Kid. Smith was the babyface and Dynamite was the heel.
This time he did some moves that really impressed me. As has been said before, he was a heavyweight who moved like a cruiserweight. After this match, I had no problem remembering Kerry Brown. And whenever he was on a local card where I was, I took lots of photos of him.
I will always remember Kerry Brown as a very friendly young man who always gave his best for the fans, even when wrestling in a small community centre with only a handful in attendance.
Kerry, you are now among the best wrestlers who I have known who died way too young -- Owen Hart, Adrian Adonis, and Davey Boy Smith ...
Terrance R. Machalek Sr. is a long-time Winnipeg photographer, contributor to countless wrestling magazines, and was the publisher of the Canadian Championship Wrestling newsletter. He will be contributing his "I Remember ..." column to SLAM! Wrestling every two weeks or so, digging into his deep archives to stir own memories -- and his own.


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Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi is to arrive in Burkina Faso on Tuesday for a three-day visit, officials said.
Kadhafi, currently on a visit to Niger, will be welcomed by President Blaise Campaore at the frontier town of Kantchari, 400 kilometers (250 miles) east of Ouagadougou.
The two heads of state will travel by road to Ouagadougou where the Libyan leader is scheduled to make a public address Wednesday at the August 4 stadium.
On Thursday, Kadhafi will visit Campaore's family home at Ziniare, 30 kilometers (20 miles) east of the capital before heading to the border with Benin and the hunting station of Yeryanga, 290 kilometers (180 miles) south east of Ouagadougou.
From there, the Libyan leader will visit Benin.
Libya is an important donor for Burkina Faso and is also the main shareholder in the Commercial Bank of Burkina (BCB), with 50 percent of the holding --OUAGADOUGOU (AFP)
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