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- Population: 919
- Size: 5 sq miles (12.95 km2)
- Established: 1921
- Distance from NYC: 40
- Distance from Philadelphia: 70
- Distance from Newark: 25
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Far Hills encompasses five square miles in Somerset County, bordered by Bedminster Township, Peapack-Gladstone, Bernards Township and Bernardsville. It shares a public library, a community pool, athletic programs, civic organizations and a school system with Bernardsville. It also shares a fire department and a first aid squad with neighboring Bedminster Township.Back to top
The story behind Far Hills' name comes from an observation made by one of the town's early visitors. One day in 1887, area land developer and town founder Evander H. Schley's brother, Grant, and his wife, Elizabeth, arrived by horse-drawn carriage to see Evander's farms. Elizabeth is said to have remarked on the beautiful vista of the "far hills," thus giving a name to the place, even before a village was built.
Elizabeth Schley's assessment over 100 years ago remains an accurate one, as today's residents still appreciate the dramatic countryside views and open, rolling landscapes within Far Hills. The municipality maintains its rural character with ten-acre minimum residential zoning laws for new construction.Back to top
Far Hills students in kindergarten through high school attend schools in the Somerset Hills Regional School District, which also serves students from Bernardsville, Far Hills and Peapack-Gladstone. Three schools in the district, all located in Bernardsville, are Bedwell Elementary School (kindergarten to grade four), Bernardsville Middle School (grades five to eight) and Bernards High School.
Far Hills Country Day School is a private, non-sectarian coeducational day school located in Far Hills, serving students in nursery through eighth grade on a fifty-five acre campus.Back to top
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, New Jersey Transit's Far Hills train station is part of the Gladstone Branch of the Morristown Line. The station is located along Route 202 near the intersection of Far Hills Road. It offers service to New York's Penn Station or Hoboken Terminal. A quaint shopping area adjacent to the train station offers residents a variety of shops and services, including the Far Hills Office of Turpin Real Estate.Back to top
Real Estate
In the village are striking examples of Victorian homes with welcoming front porches and well-tended gardens. Further into the borough are majestic country estates, antique farmhouses, traditional center hall Colonials, modest mid-century homes and newly constructed luxury homes. A full range of housing styles and price ranges can be found in Far Hills.Back to top
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The Leonard J. Buck Garden is a 33-acre public botanical garden operated by the Somerset County Park Commission.
Natirar ("Raritan" spelled backward) is an estate spanning 491 acres within Far Hills, Peapack-Gladstone and Bedminster. It was recently transferred from the estate of His Majesty, Hassan II, late King of Morocco, to a private, non-profit Natirar Association. The initial sale to King Hassan in 1983 for $7.5 million set a record sales price for a home purchase in New Jersey, a transaction brokered by Turpin Real Estate. The mansion, two cottages, carriage house and greenhouse stand on 88 acres that Somerset County leases to Sir Richard Branson, owner of Virgin Airlines. The main house has been transformed into The Club, a retreat facility with a full-service spa, dining and conference center. Ninety Acres Culinary Center offers a wine and cooking school. The remaining 403 acres will be retained as open space for area residents to use for outdoor activities including cross country skiing, hiking, jogging and fishing.
The Far Hills Race Meeting at Moorland Farms is one of the most prestigious steeplechase horse races in the country, and is a long-standing tradition for nearly 50,000 spectators every October. Benefiting the Somerset Medical Center Foundation, the race has raised nearly $18 million for the facility since the mid-1950s. Considered one of the premier social events of the year in the tri-state area, it is often celebrated with elaborate tailgate parties where paper plates and plastic forks are often substituted with fine china and silver tea services.
The United States Golf Association is headquartered in Far Hills. It houses the world's most extensive collections of golf memorabilia and literature, promoting a greater understanding of the game's cultural significance.
Fun Fact: Volunteers from the Visiting Nurse Association of Somerset Hills organize New Jersey's oldest and largest rummage sale, a three-day event held each fall and spring under multiple tents. It's estimated that thousands attend this bargain-shopping benefit at the Far Hills Fairgrounds on Route 202 each year.Back to top
Far Hills Info
Size: Five square miles
Established: 1921, seceded from Bernards Township
2002 Population: 859
Location: Somerset County, north-central New Jersey
Distance from New York City: About 40 miles
Distance from Newark: About 25 miles
Parks: Far Hills Fairgrounds, Moorland Farms, Naritar
Local Sites/Attractions: Leonard J. Buck Gardens and The US Golf Association Museum and Library.
Major Roads: Local highways include Routes 202, 206; short distance to Interstates 287 and 78.
Mass Transportation: New Jersey Transit service to Manhattan or Hoboken from Far Hills Station, local bus service to New York's Port Authority
Housing: Antique farmhouses, Colonials, manor homes, luxury dwellings, Victorians, estate properties, equestrian farms, and a variety of other architectural styles.Back to top
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The following article from the SHHH Journal is posted with permission. The SHHH Journal is published bimonthly by SHHH (Self Help for Hard of Hearing People, Inc.), an international nonprofit volunteer organization devoted to the welfare and interests of those who cannot hear well. For membership and other information, contact: SHHH 7910 Woodmont Ave, Suite 1200 Bethesda, MD 20814 301-657-2248 Voice 301-657-2249 TTY Email: shhh.nancy at genie.com (Nancy Macklin) =========================================== Hearing Aids and the Consumer: An Overview of Current Hearing Aid Wisdom by Matthew H. Bakke SHHH Journal 5/95 There are as many kinds of hearing loss as there are people with hearing loss. This is why there is not one "best" hearing aid. Here is some valuable information for both those who wear hearing aids and for those who may be at the point of considering them. You will probably read and learn many things about hearing, hearing aids, and assistive devices. Nevertheless, you should evaluate your own special hearing health care needs before coming to any conclusions about your hearing. Your physician, audiologist, and hearing aid specialist are the best people to help you do this. This is one case in which what's good for the goose is not necessarily good for the gander! Despite the tremendous individual differences among people who are hard of hearing, we can nevertheless categorize hearing loss along two dimensions: cause (conductive, sensorineural, mixed); and severity (mild, moderate, severe, profound). Conductive hearing loss results from a blockage of sound as it passes through the outer and middle ears. Sensorineural hearing loss (often inaccurately called "nerve deafness" in colloquial language) most often results from problems in the inner ear, or cochlea. Mixed hearing loss is, of course, a combination of conductive and sensorineural hearing loss. Medical treatment is often the best solution for conductive hearing loss, while sensorineural hearing loss is largely medically untreatable. The best technological solution for sensorineural hearing loss is usually the use of hearing aids and other assistive devices. The most commonly understood feature of hearing loss is that sensitivity to sound is reduced: sounds need to be louder for them to be heard. Sensitivity to sound is called hearing acuity. Hearing acuity can vary with the frequency or pitch of the sound. (Frequency refers to the number of cycles per second in a sound wave and is a physical quantity. Pitch is the perceptual effect of frequency, and is a psychological quantity. A tone of 100 Hz sounds low in pitch, while a tone of 8,000 Hz sounds high in pitch.) For example, one may be able to hear very soft bass sounds, yet be able to hear treble sounds only when they are made quite loud. Hearing aids can address this problem by making some sound frequencies louder than others based upon information about the hearing loss of the user. Sensorineural hearing loss has other important features, however, which are not as commonly understood. People with hearing loss often have reduced dynamic range. (Dynamic range is the difference between the level of sound that is just detectible and the level of sound that is uncomfortably loud.) For hard of hearing people, sounds may need to be quite loud before they can be detected. Yet, sounds that are too loud for normally hearing people are also too loud for the hard of hearing person. Thus, there is a smaller range of useful sound intensity for many hard of hearing listeners. Hearing aids can address this problem by limiting their output in some way. People with hearing loss also may have difficulty discriminating one frequency from another or have more difficulty processing timing information in sound. These difficulties can interfere with the understanding of speech even when it is loud enough to be heard, especially when noise is present. Hearing aids have a difficult time dealing with these problems. No acceptable hearing aid solutions, other than reducing interfering noise with FM transmission or other remote means, have been found. Hearing aids are designed to address the problem of reduced hearing acuity by making sounds louder. The essential hearing aid is nothing more than an amplifier with a microphone and a loudspeaker that fits in the ear. The fact that sensitivity of hearing can change with the frequency of sound is addressed by selective amplification. That is, sounds of different frequency are amplified differently by hearing aids. We would prefer to amplify only those sounds that are too soft for the listener, thus restoring a complete speech signal while maintaining normal loudness. The problem of reduced dynamic range can be addressed by hearing aids in two ways. The less complex way is to set a simple limit on the output of the hearing aid. Any sound that exceeds the limit set by the circuitry of the aid is peak clipped. This word is used because the peaks of the sound wave are literally clipped off. As you might expect, peak clipping creates distortion and makes loud sounds unpleasant to hear even when they are not too loud. The second way to limit the output is to use compression limiting. Compression requires more complex circuitry, but is easy to implement in hearing aids. It works by limiting further amplification after a threshold level of output has been reached. This system has the virtue of limiting the output of the hearing aid without clipping the sound wave. The result is far less distortion of the hearing aid output while maintaining control over the maximum loudness that the aid can produce. Besides limiting output, compression circuitry can also control the loudness of the sounds coming from the hearing aid. This process is called automatic volume control (AVC), or automatic gain control (AGC). The goal of AGC or AVC is to limit the necessity for the user to adjust the volume wheel as environmental conditions change, and to ensure user comfort. Wide dynamic range compression involves the use of a compression circuit to ensure that both loud and soft speech sounds can be heard at comfortable levels. It reduces the differences between loud and soft sounds, bringing more speech information into the dynamic range of the hearing aid user. Perhaps the primary limitation of hearing aids is that they do not restore hearing. If someone does not have hearing at 2,600 Hz, for example, then he or she will not hear a tone at this frequency no matter how loud it is made by a hearing aid. For someone with no hearing at any frequency, other options than hearing aids must be considered. Another limitation is that selective amplification never seems to work as well as the example illustrated above might indicate. One problem is that speech sounds are slippery little things that vary in frequency content and loudness level from person to person and word to word. The other is that speech and noise typically are composed of the same frequencies. For this reason, hearing aids typically do not work well in noise. While we wish the hearing aid could amplify only speech, most often background noise is amplified along with speech. I remember the first time I understood this. My brother, who is deaf, had a hearing aid when we were children. One day, I "borrowed" it with the intention of giving myself super hearing so I could overhear my friends talk in the next house. To my disappointment, instead of juicy bits of secret information, I got a heavy dose of the hum of life: automobile engines, airplanes, rustling leaves, wildlife noises and wind. Because of the noise factor, hearing aids work optimally when used in conjunction with assistive devices (audio loops, FM, etc.) when the person with the hearing loss is at a distance from the speaker or in a large room. The hearing aid may couple with the assistive device by two means: direct input or by means of a telecoil (T-switch). Direct audio input is accomplished by connecting your behind-the-ear hearing aid to the assistive device by a wire that is supplied by the hearing aid company. The hearing aid dispenser should request this option when your hearing aid is ordered. More commonly, the telecoil of your hearing aid will serve as the means of coupling. Many of the assistive devices that are available can be used with neck loops. These are wires that hang around the neck and stimulate the telecoil in your hearing aid. This is a good reason to be sure that your hearing aid comes with a telecoil, even if you do not prefer to use it with the telephone. It is also important to consider whether you prefer having a behind-the-ear (BTE) or in-the-ear (ITE) hearing aid versus an in-the-canal (ITC) hearing aid. Telecoils are available in BTE and ITE cases, but not yet readily available in ITC cases. There are other difficulties with hearing aids. For one thing, we modern humans tend to live in rooms, rather than out on the high plains like our ancestors. Rooms have walls that reflect sound resulting in reverberation. This can be considered a form of noise, since it interferes with our understanding of speech. Anyone who has tried to understand a sermon in a vast cathedral or spacious synagogue can appreciate the terrible effect that reverberation can have on speech. Hearing aid amplification can actually worsen the effects of reverberation, especially when only one hearing aid is being worn. (The use of both ears at the same time, or binaural hearing, is one way that we can compensate for the effects of reverberation.) Hearing aids can also create their own kinds of noises. For example, a particularly annoying attribute of hearing aids is their tendency to produce feedback, or to whistle. This problem occurs when the seal of the earmold or in-the-ear hearing aid case is not tight, and the volume wheel of the aid is turned up high. It can also happen when an obstruction is placed in front of the hearing aid microphone, such as when trying to use the telephone without using a telecoil. This can happen at the most inopportune times. A friend of mine became a bit nervous one day when his hearing aid whistled as an attractive young woman walked by arm-in-arm with her very young, very strong boy friend. Another kind of hearing aid noise is called distortion. Distortion occurs when you get something out of a system that you did not put in. For example, when you play your CD of "Swan Lake" on a $1,000 stereo system, you hear the music much as it was recorded in the studio. If you play the same CD on a $50 player with $3 headphones purchased at the drug store, you hear things never intended by the artist. These things can also be considered noise, because they interfere with the intended signal. Hearing aids are not inexpensive, but they are imperfect and they can create distortion. This is not because of poor quality in design or construction but because distortion may be the cost of doing some other important things, such as signal processing and miniaturization, which can improve the performance of the hearing aid. Finally, hearing aids also have what is called internal noise. This is the noise introduced by the amplifiers, switches, filters, and other internal components of the aid. This noise is usually very low and cannot be heard by most users. Even when it is loud enough to be audible in a sound-treated room, the environmental noises of normal environments mask it so that it is not usually heard. There are several hearing aid types and styles to choose from these days. The terminology can be confusing, especially for consumers who may not have backgrounds in technology. Conventional hearing aids use ordinary analog electronic components to achieve their function. Most hearing aids on the market today are analog systems. The audiologist or hearing aid dealer can adjust their functions with a screwdriver. Programmable systems, on the other hand, use computer circuits (logic) to perform their functions. This gives them greater flexibility. Instead of screwdriver adjustments, the fitting of a programmable aid requires the use of a programming unit (sometimes facetiously called an electronic screwdriver). The programming unit is purchased by the audiologist or hearing aid dealer, not by the user, and may work with more than one kind of programmable aid. You may also have heard of digital hearing aids. To the extent that a programmable aid has computer components, it may be called digital, but a true digital hearing aid operates much like a compact disk: it changes sound into numbers, operates on the numbers mathematically, and changes the numbers back into sound. One advantage of a digital hearing aid is that it can theoretically be programmed to perform exquisite signal processing. Another advantage is that it can change its characteristics quickly and easily, and be used in the process of hearing aid selection. There are no true digital hearing aids now on the market, probably because they require extra size (they do not fit in the ear) and power consumption. Most of the programmable hearing aids are hybrid systems, having both analog and digital components. These have more limitations than true digital systems, but still provide greater flexibility than conventional hearing aids. By far the greatest advantage of the programmable hearing aid is the ease of fitting and adjustment. Very fine changes in the hearing aid's function can be made quickly and easily by the audiologist. The advantage to the consumer is a better-fit hearing aid. Other features of programmable hearing aids include multiple memories and special signal processing features, such as multiple channels and automatic signal processing (ASP). The down side of programmable hearing aids is their added cost to the consumer. Several programmable hearing aids offer multiple memories. This means that one hearing aid can function in many different ways. The philosophy behind the use of multiple memories is that one hearing aid characteristic cannot be optimum for every hearing situation. Rather, the user should have the option of changing hearing aid characteristics as listening conditions change. It is impractical to carry a pocketful of hearing aids and change from one another when conditions change. Therefore, many people find that the multiple memories option gives them the ability to push a button and find the best "hearing aid" for that particular environment. Hearing aids with multichannel capacity may offer consumers a better hearing aid fit, especially when their hearing loss differs greatly between frequencies. Audiologists find these kinds of hearing loss difficult to fit with conventional hearing aids. Multichannel hearing aids divide the range of frequencies into two or more channels (most often a low frequency channel and a high frequency channel). Each channel can then be independently controlled. This approach allows greater flexibility of fit. Another development that has been helpful with difficult-to- fit hearing losses is the Class D Amplifier. It is helpful for fitting high frequency hearing losses because it can deliver greater power in the higher frequencies with less distortion. Automatic Signal Processing (ASP) is a general term that can mean almost anything. In the hearing aid world, it is generally taken to mean that the hearing aid automatically responds to changes in the level of input sounds. This approach is also called automatic frequency response (AFR). There are two philosophies currently on the market: BILL and TILL. BILL stands for Bass Increase at Low Levels. This strategy is geared toward reducing the effects of noise. In BILL, bass (low frequency) information is filtered out of loud sounds, but allowed to remain for quiet sounds. This is based upon the assumption that most environmental noise is low in pitch. It is expected that removing low frequencies will reduce the negative effects of noise. Quiet sounds, on the other hand, can only be heard in quiet environments, so no filtering is necessary. BILL is offered in most hearing aids that advertise ASP. TILL stands for Treble Increase at Low Levels, and is the opposite of BILL. The philosophy behind TILL is that loud sounds do not need to be amplified at all: the hearing aid should do nothing to loud sounds. Quiet sounds, however, need to be amplified to be heard by the hard of hearing person. Since most hard of hearing people hear better at low than high frequencies, raising the treble, or high frequency, components of speech at low levels will benefit the user. TILL is used in the K-Amp circuits that many hearing aid manufacturers offer. Which works better, BILL or TILL? As I mentioned in the first paragraph of this article, there is not one best hearing aid. Many people find BILL wonderful, others find TILL to be the best for them. This is an issue that must be worked out between every user of hearing aids and his or her audiologist. The problem of feedback in hearing aids, mentioned earlier in this article, can be a significant problem for some users, especially when hearing loss is severe. A recently introduced scheme for suppressing feedback uses computer logic. It permits the hearing aid to detect feedback and cancel it out acoustically. If you have had problems with feedback control, you may want to discuss these options with your audiologist. We have seen that there is a wide range of hearing aid technology that is now available. This is good news because it is likely to result in better hearing aid performance and more user satisfaction. The down side, however, is that we may be subject to information overload. I hope that this brief article has helped you sort out some issues and language about hearing aids that may have confused you in the past. If you have any questions about what you have read, or about any other hearing issues, please contact me at the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center (RERC), (718) 899-8800 Voice/TTY; or you may write to me at RERC, The Lexington Center, Inc., 30th Avenue and 75th Street, Jackson Heights, New York 11360. Acknowledgement The preparation of this article was supported by Grant #H133E30015 from the U.S. Department of Education, NIDRR, to the Lexington Center for a Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center (RERC) on Hearing Enhancement and Assistive Devices. Matthew H. Bakke, M.Ph., is the director of research at The Lexington Center, Inc., Jackson Heights, New York. He is an audiologist and is a former teacher of deaf students. He is preparing a dissertation on auditory localization for the City University of New York, and expects to receive his doctorate degree in audiology within the year. Sidebar: You Are Not Alone One in Ten Americans Has a Hearing Loss "Thousands of us, people of all ages, wear hearing aids. They help us to hear and keep us tuned into life. We vividly remember how difficult it was to make up our minds to get help when we suspected we were losing our hearing. Some of us waited too long and became dependent on our spouses or strained our relationships by constantly asking for sentences to be repeated or by arguing over how loud we turned up the TV." It's easy to be confused about hearing loss -- whether or not you need help. Sometimes, you hear fine. Other times, not so well. Help is available. Write today for the SHHH booklet Hearing Loss: How to Get Help. Send a self-addressed, stamped, business-sized envelope to SHHH National, 7910 Woodmont Avenue, Suite 1200, Bethesda, MD 20814.


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UIS milestones, 2001-06
- Capital Scholars Program is launched forhigh-achieving freshmen (UIS' first four-year baccalaureate program). Fall 2001.
- Dr. Phillip Shaw Paludan, nationally renowned Lincoln scholar, is invested as UIS' first Naomi B. Lynn Distinguished Chair in Lincoln Studies. 2001.
- UIS establishes Outstanding Master's Thesis Award. 2000-01. Tracy DiMezzo (MA Biology), winner of the award in 2003-04, also wins Master's Thesis Award from Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools. 2005.
- First student awarded Doctorate of Public Administration. May 2002.
- UIS experiences influx of bright, highly qualified faculty including 25 in 2001 and 40 more in 2005.
- UIS becomes a national leader in online education after receiving $1.7 million from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to develop more online degree programs (total of ten online degree programs now offered).
- National survey ranks Online Computer Science Program one of the top "best buys" in the nation. 2005
- Former Institute for Public Affairs becomes Center for State Policy and Leadership and creates a new mission. 2003-04.
- UIS develops new general education curriculum in anticipation of expanding freshmen enrollment in fall 2006. 2004-06.
- Existing campusbuilding is renamed Visual and Performing Arts Building with increasing emphasis on music, theatre, forensics, and fine and performing arts.
- UIS campus becomes completely wireless. 2001-02.
- I-Card (Multifunction Vending and Access Card System) is implemented. 2001-02.
- Commencement is web-streamed for first time. May 2002.
- Campus-wide network infrastructure is completely upgraded. 2004.
- More than 95% of the campus' classrooms and teaching labs become "smart" following opening of University Hall. 2004
- Registration for classes becomes completely electronic. 2004.
- New position is created– Associate Provost for Information Technology — to oversee all campus technology initiatives. 2005.
Physical campus
- Lincoln Residence Hall opens. Fall 2001.
- New Food Emporium opens. 2001-02.
- Students approve fee for construction of recreation and fitness center. 2003. UIS receives $1 million gift for the center. 2005. Groundbreaking set: Spring 2006. Completion expected: Summer 2007.
- University Hall, UIS' most technologically-sophisticated building, opens. Fall 2004.
- New townhouses open. August 2003 and2004.
- A permanent front entrance to UIS is officiallyestablished at 11th Street and Ernest Hemingway Drive. Entrance marker completed. 2005.
- Formation of quad continues. 2004. Colonnade is installed. Summer 2005.
- Overall enrollment grows steadily to more than 4,500 students.
- Percentage of UIS students taking courses online grows significantly (42% currently taking at least one online course).
- Enrollment of freshmen in the Capital Scholars Honors Program reaches high of 138. Fall 2005.
Student Affairs
- More students than ever (nearly 900) live on campus in apartments, townhouses, and Lincoln Residence Hall. Fall 2005.
- Student organizations mushroom by 250%, from about 20 to 70, and student life activities/events grow significantly in number and variety.
- UIS establishes Office of Student Volunteers and Service Learning. 2003.
- Global Experience Program expands study abroad opportunities to the current total of eight international institutions with which UIS has formal affiliations.
- Career Services Center expands and enhances services. 2005-06.
- Prairie Stars Men's Basketball team is established. 2003.
- Prairie Stars Women's Softball team is established. 2004.
- Prairie Stars join American Midwest Conference, consisting of eight institutions from Illinois, Missouri and Arkansas. 2003.
- Prairie Stars women's tennis team advances to NAIA National Tournament. 2003.
- Prairie Stars men's soccer team advances to NAIA National Tournament. 2003
- Prairie Stars Men's Basketball team wins American Midwest Conference Tournament championship and advances to NAIA National Tournament. 2006.
- National Commission on Future of UIS releases "A Vision for All Seasons" preceding strategic planning process. 2003.
- UIS completes first comprehensive strategic plan since 1992, including new mission and vision statements. 2006.
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The Elder's cosmic soldiers known as the Four-Who-Are-One are reunited just in time to face off against the Destroyer's evil proxy, General Black Diamond, who has unleashed his secret weapon! Will the combined might of the Demon, Starchild, Catman, and Celestial be enough to defeat the world's first dragon in 100,000 years?
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Work began recently on the Historical Society of Pennsylvania's new Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories (HCI-PSAR). Commonly referred to around HSP as the "small repositories project," its goal is to make better known and more accessible the important but often hidden archival collections held by the many small, primarily volunteer-run historical organizations in the Philadelphia area, including local historical societies, museums, historic sites, and other institutions. The project will achieve this goal by creating an online directory of these institutions and a searchable database of their archival collections. The project is funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Project staff include Project Director Jack McCarthy, Project Coordinator Andree Mey Miller, and Project Surveyors Celia Caust-Ellenbogen and Michael Gubicza. HSP Director of Archives and Collections Management Matthew Lyons serves as Project Supervisor.
The first phase of the project is the current fourteen-month pilot project, which will run through September 2012. In the pilot project, we are focusing on two counties – Philadelphia and Montgomery – creating a directory of all the small archival repositories in those two counties and surveying the collections of certain institutions as a representative sample. We hope in this pilot phase to test and refine data gathering and collections survey methodologies in preparation for the larger follow-up project, which will encompass the entire five-county Philadelphia area. Following that, we will explore the possibility of implementing the project on a state-wide basis, in cooperation with other state and regional archival organizations.
Project Coordinator Andre Mey Miller has been busy identifying and contacting repositories and scheduling site visits by Project Director Jack McCarthy and Project Surveyors Celia Caust-Ellenbogen and Michael Gubicza. Celia and Michael have been out "in the field" since mid September, surveying the archival collections of various repositories. To date, they have surveyed the collections of some seven institutions, uncovering a number of important but heretofore hidden collections, from those in small historical libraries to those at grand estates that are now historic house museums. Descriptive information on these collections will be made available on a project website which is currently in development and will be accessed through HSP's website.
Check out our project Facebook page as well as our photo gallery. You can also follow our progress on Twitter (@hcipsar).


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The most recent in a series of short documentaries by filmmaker Dustin Cohen, The Shoemaker is a film about Frank Catalfumo: a 91-year-old shoemaker and repairer who's lived in Brooklyn his entire life. Catalfumo opened his shoe shop upon return from World War II in 1945, and despite his age still works there five days a week.
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Olympic Roundup - Thursday, Aug. 14, 2008
Aug. 14, 2008
Bruin alum and volunteer swim coach Kim Vandenberg became the first medal-winner for UCLA at the Beijing Olympic Games, as she and the U.S. 4x200m relay team took third (7:46.33) in the final. Vandenberg swam in the preliminary round, helping the U.S. squad to the No. 2 time heading into the final. She did not swim in the medal round but receives a bronze as a member of the relay squad. It is her first Olympic medal and first Olympic competition.
Rain delayed the United States' game against Canada on Thursday. Prior to the rain delay, Canada was winning 1-0 in the fourth inning. Play will resume on Friday after the United States-Japan game, which begins at noon Beijing time (9 pm PT Thursday).
Men's Volleyball
The U.S. team won its third match at the Olympics, defeating Bulgaria, 3-1 (27-29, 25-21, 25-14, 26-24). John Speraw is the assistant coach of the U.S. team.
Men's Water Polo
The U.S. men's water polo team absorbed its first defeat at the 2008 Olympics, losing to Serbia, 4-2, on Thursday. Peter Varellas led the Americans, scoring both goals, and goalkeeper Merrill Moses totaled 11 stops in the cage. Former UCLA standout Adam Wright did not score on two shot attempts, and former Bruin goalkeeper Brandon Brooks did not play.
The U.S. men's water polo team continues preliminary-round play against Croatia on Friday, Aug. 15 at 9:10 p.m. (PT). The Americans have compiled a 2-1 record in preliminary matches, and Croatia has logged a 3-0 mark in the first week of action. The USA-Croatia match can be viewed live online (www.nbcolympics.com) and watched on NBC-4 on Saturday, Aug. 16, between 1 p.m. and 4 p.m.
Men's Tennis
Marcin Matkowski and Mariusz Fyrstenberg lost in the quarterfinals to Simon Aspelin and Thomas Johansson, 7-6(5), 6-4.
Rain postponed rowing action until Friday. Mark Hunter is competing in the semifinals of the lightweight double sculls, while Mike Altman and the U.S. crew competes in the semifinals of the lightweight fours.
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from the good-for-him deptWe recently wrote about how author Douglas Preston made the following comments in the NY Times about ebook pricing:
"The sense of entitlement of the American consumer is absolutely astonishing.... It's the Wal-Mart mentality, which in my view is very unhealthy for our country. It's this notion of not wanting to pay the real price of something.... It gives me pause when I get 50 e-mails saying 'I'm never buying one of your books ever again. I'm moving on, you greedy, greedy author.'"We were among those who took offense at the comments, which suggested not an "entitlement" feeling from the American consumer, but from an author who didn't want to listen to what his fans and potential customers were telling him.
Of course, it looks like the backlash got even stronger following that quote in the NY Times. Robert Ring alerts us to io9's coverage, saying that after the NYT's piece came out, Preston's book started getting one-star reviews on Amazon, with many people mentioning the NY Times quote as a reason not to buy the book.
Preston and his co-author put out a note on their website trying to calm people down, and when he spoke to io9, basically admitted that his original comments were a mistake, saying that his readers have convinced him that ebooks should be cheap. However, given that, he still feels there should be release windows, that put out the more expensive physical book first:
I think my comments were pretty stupid, to be frank. They came after a long month of being attacked by Kindle owners who blamed me personally for the fact that my publisher delayed the Kindle release for four months. I was frustrated and said some things to the New York Times reporter that did not reflect my actual views on the subject. I have been hearing back from many readers, some supporting my comments, many more criticizing them.Kudos to Preston for admitting his mistake, though I'm sure plenty of his fans and potential customers won't like the windowing suggestion either. Hopefully they can convince him that holding back what your fans want is almost never a good business model and has a high likelihood of backfiring. If publishers want to sell more expensive hardcover books, they should focus on making sure that the scarce value people get for the physical book is that much greater than the ebook version. That is, rather than limiting how you can connect with fans, publishers should focus on creating positive reasons why fans would want to buy the physical book.
I think most readers feel strongly that an ebook, which they can't pass along to friends, can't add to their library, and which comes with DRM attached, should be considerably cheaper than a real book. And I would have to agree. The real question is when this cheap ebook should be made available. Studios don't release cheap DVDs the day a feature film is released, publishers don't release the cheap paperback the day a hardcover comes out. I'm not sure why consumers should expect a cheap ebook on the day of publication either.
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There has not been a new Star Fox game, recently. The sci-fi adventure series debuted in 1993 and saw a Nintendo DS title in 2006. It's now 2010, and where's a new Star Fox game?
When game site GamesTM told series creator Shigeru Miyamoto that it would like to see a new Star Fox game, the famed game designer replied, "Me too". That's nice and all, but....
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We would like that, too. Very much so. Nintendo, your move. Your guy, your gun.
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The Adobe Customer Experience solution "Customer Communications – Interactive Statements" (formerly Interactive Statements Solution Accelerator) requires an XA-type JDBC data source. If the RDBMS being used is Oracle 11g, the user that connects to Oracle on behalf of the J2EE appserver JDBC connection pool requires additional "object privileges" to certain SYSTEM tables in Oracle. Essentially, these are as follows:
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Business owners interested in selling their businesses. These are typically males between the ages of 40-60. While they may not be the most serious in there personal or business personas they are VERY serious when it comes to selecting a firm to represent them in the sale of their business.
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Richard North Patterson, novelist, looks at "The Race"...nasty politics are icky. Then, a guys beats the hell out a car thief and he's the one charged with something. How much do illegal immigrants REALLY cost Iowans. Yup, there's a study. David Osterberg and Beth Pearson with the rest of the story.
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CHICAGO – People using mobile devices can better interact and communicate with the Illinois Department of Employment Security following website improvements launched this week, the Department said today.
Automatically sizing to a user's mobile device and the ability to sign-up for news alerts are key improvements that make the website's tools more user-friendly. The enhancements will improve the user's experience no matter their comfort level with the technology.
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Workers can use the website to apply for unemployment insurance, certify for benefits and manage their account. They can apply for 150,000 jobs at Illinoisjoblink.com, the state's help wanted hiring board operated by IDES. Employers can confirm a worker's eligibility for unemployment insurance, research data to evaluate business opportunities and review 75,000 resumes.
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AMERICAN FORK, Utah—Platinum Protection has defaulted on a promissory note of more than $10 million that it agreed to pay when it bought out the company's startup investors in 2011, a recently filed lawsuit charges.
AMERICAN FORK, Utah—The large, dramatic letters emblazoned across the top of the imposing new office building here used to read "Platinum." Now they say "AMP"—because financially beleaguered Platinum Protection has vacated the space and it is now AMP's headquarters.
AMERICAN FORK, Utah--Financially beleaguered Platinum Protection, a summer-model company here that laid off most of its employees in February, is facing another lawsuit, this one filed by the Ohio attorney general, charging that Platinum engaged in "false and misleading"
AMERICAN FORK, Utah—CPI Security Systems, a Charlotte, N.C.-based monitoring company, is suing Platinum Protection, claiming Platinum has defaulted on a $700,000 loan CPI made to the company in January.
Chance Allred, one of the founders of Platinum Protection, has come home to Vivint again—in a way.
Platinum, a summer-model sales company based in American Fork, Utah, in February this year abruptly laid off virtually all its employees and shut down its summer sales program. The company, founded in 2006, hasn't talked publicly about the reasons why, but it appears to be in severe financial distress.
Since then, Vivint, a summer-model giant based in Provo, Utah, has hired about 130 of the unemployed Platinum sales reps, Vivint told me. It's not clear what percentage of Platinum's former sales force that represents, but it's just 4 percent of Vivint's sales force, that company said.
In addition, Allred in March was hired as VP of sales for Vivint Solar, a sister company of Vivint that offers residential customers the opportunity to purchase power generated by Vivint solar panels on their homes.
That's kind of interesting because before helping to found Platinum, Allred used to work for APX Alarm, which is what Vivint was called before it rebranded last year to highlight the fact it offers home automation and other services beyond security.
AMERICAN FORK, Utah—Platinum Protection, a leading summer-sales-model security company based here, reportedly laid off almost all its employees on Feb. 2, including corporate staff, sales representatives and technicians.
I wrote last week about Platinum Protection suddenly laying off most of its employees. I'm still gathering information about what led to that abrupt Feb. 2 action by the summer model sales company based in American Fork, Utah, and want to make sure I have as many facts as possible before publishing a story.
I've yet to hear from anyone at Platinum in response to requests for comment. I'm told by a knowledgeable company insider—an employee who was among some 600 corporate, sales, technical and other staff let go last week—that the company kept on five or six employees to try to figure out what to with about 6,000 accounts that Platinum kept in house.
However, this person said the company at this point doesn't have the finances or personnel to continue with its plans to bring on about 25,000 accounts this summer, as it did last summer. "You lose your sales force, you lose your entire company," the employee told me. Other summer sales companies are busy signing up some of Platinum's former sales reps and technicians, the person said.
The person said a company owner announced to employees last Thursday, "I'm sorry to tell you this, but Platinum is closing its doors and all employees are terminated effective immediately and I'm really sorry this happened."
The employee said: "People were bawling. They had never been through something like this before. They didn't know you could have a job for years and all of a sudden they tell you, 'Sorry, you're done.' … There's no severance, no nothing."
I'm still digging into whether this had anything to do with a recent lawsuit filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission, charging that the two men who provided the start-up capital for Platinum six years ago have been running a $220 million Ponzi scheme.
Platinum has stressed that Utah real estate magnate Wendell Jacobson and his son, Allen Jacobson, are no longer owners of the company, which was founded in 2006.
But what I'm hearing is that negative publicity generated by the lawsuit, filed this past December, did nothing to help Platinum financially.
I'll continue to report on this story. Stay tuned.
Word is that Platinum Protection suddenly laid off almost all its employees yesterday. So, is the summer model sales company based in American Fork, Utah closing, filing for bankruptcy? And does this abrupt action have anything to do with a recent lawsuit filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission, charging that the two men who provided the start-up capital for Platinum six years ago have been running a $220 million Ponzi scheme?
The industry is abuzz with such questions since the massive layoff yesterday. I haven't yet heard directly from anyone at the company about what is going on. But The Salt Lake Tribune reported yesterday evening that a company official confirmed Platinum had dismissed 65 corporate employees and its sales and technical staff, leaving only a small management team to service existing customers. The official wouldn't give the reason for the mass dismissal, the newspaper said.
Regarding the SEC lawsuit filed in December, Platinum has told SSN that it was as surprised as anyone about the accusations against Utah real estate magnate Wendell Jacobson and his son, Allen Jacobson, and said the pair no longer has any ownership in the company. But could some sort of negative fallout from the case have impacted Platinum's financing?
There are many more questions than answers at this point.
As for the layoffs, I talked yesterday to one of the employees just let go.
The person, who didn't want to be identified, told me that employees had had "no warning whatsoever" of what was to come when they were called into a company meeting around 9:30 in the morning on Feb. 2.
The person said they were told company officials had made a decision "overnight" to close the company. Employees were told "we were free to go and they apologized for the inconvenience."
There was "a lot of crying and emotion and shock," the employee told me.
The person said that in addition to corporate staff, perhaps as many as 500 other employees lost their jobs.
The Salt Lake Tribune reported that one employee said company officials said they hoped to pay employees what salary they were owed within a few weeks.
But no severance packages were offered, according to the employee I spoke to. The company told employees they could file for unemployment.
"It's a mess," the employee said.
I'll continue to report on this story. Stay posted.
AMERICAN FORK, Utah—Wendell Jacobson, a Utah real estate magnate who with his son provided the primary startup capital for Platinum Protection, is now facing charges from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that he and his son have been running a $220 million real-estate Ponzi scheme—using their membership in the Mormon church to make connections and win the trust of potential investors.
Wendell and Allen Jacobson no longer have any involvement in Platinum Protection, based here and one of the major summer-sales-model companies, company CEO Jared Hallows told Security Systems News.
AMERICAN FORK, Utah—The four main founders of Platinum Protection, one of the major Utah-based summer-model companies, now own 100 percent of the company after recently buying out an investor, according to CEO Andrew Kindfuller.
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in the courts of the house of our God.
3 Praise the Lord, for the Lord is good;
sing praise to his name, for that is pleasant.
4 For the Lord has chosen Jacob to be his own,
Israel to be his treasured possession.
5 I know that the Lord is great,
that our Lord is greater than all gods.
6 The Lord does whatever pleases him,
in the heavens and on the earth,
in the seas and all their depths.
7 He makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth;
he sends lightning with the rain
and brings out the wind from his storehouses.
8 He struck down the firstborn of Egypt,
the firstborn of people and animals.
9 He sent his signs and wonders into your midst, Egypt,
against Pharaoh and all his servants.
10 He struck down many nations
and killed mighty kings—
11 Sihon king of the Amorites,
Og king of Bashan,
and all the kings of Canaan—
12 and he gave their land as an inheritance,
an inheritance to his people Israel.
13 Your name, Lord, endures forever,
your renown, Lord, through all generations.
14 For the Lord will vindicate his people
and have compassion on his servants.
15 The idols of the nations are silver and gold,
made by human hands.
16 They have mouths, but cannot speak,
eyes, but cannot see.
17 They have ears, but cannot hear,
nor is there breath in their mouths.
18 Those who make them will be like them,
and so will all who trust in them.
19 All you Israelites, praise the Lord;
house of Aaron, praise the Lord;
20 house of Levi, praise the Lord;
you who fear him, praise the Lord.
21 Praise be to the Lord from Zion,
to him who dwells in Jerusalem.
Praise the Lord.
1 Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good.
His love endures forever.
2 Give thanks to the God of gods.
His love endures forever.
3 Give thanks to the Lord of lords:
His love endures forever.
4 to him who alone does great wonders,
His love endures forever.
5 who by his understanding made the heavens,
His love endures forever.
6 who spread out the earth upon the waters,
His love endures forever.
7 who made the great lights—
His love endures forever.
8 the sun to govern the day,
His love endures forever.
9 the moon and stars to govern the night;
His love endures forever.
10 to him who struck down the firstborn of Egypt
His love endures forever.
11 and brought Israel out from among them
His love endures forever.
12 with a mighty hand and outstretched arm;
His love endures forever.
13 to him who divided the Red Sea[b] asunder
His love endures forever.
14 and brought Israel through the midst of it,
His love endures forever.
15 but swept Pharaoh and his army into the Red Sea;
His love endures forever.
16 to him who led his people through the wilderness;
His love endures forever.
17 to him who struck down great kings,
His love endures forever.
18 and killed mighty kings—
His love endures forever.
19 Sihon king of the Amorites
His love endures forever.
20 and Og king of Bashan—
His love endures forever.
21 and gave their land as an inheritance,
His love endures forever.
22 an inheritance to his servant Israel.
His love endures forever.
23 He remembered us in our low estate
His love endures forever.
24 and freed us from our enemies.
His love endures forever.
25 He gives food to every creature.
His love endures forever.
26 Give thanks to the God of heaven.
His love endures forever.
12 Now about the gifts of the Spirit, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be uninformed. 2 You know that when you were pagans, somehow or other you were influenced and led astray to mute idols. 3 Therefore I want you to know that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says, "Jesus be cursed," and no one can say, "Jesus is Lord," except by the Holy Spirit.
4 There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them. 5 There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. 6 There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and in everyone it is the same God at work.
7 Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. 8 To one there is given through the Spirit a message of wisdom, to another a message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit, 9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit, 10 to another miraculous powers, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in different kinds of tongues,[a] and to still another the interpretation of tongues.[b] 11 All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, and he distributes them to each one, just as he determines.
12 Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. 13 For we were all baptized by[c] one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. 14 Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many.
15 Now if the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body," it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. 16 And if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body," it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. 17 If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be? 18 But in fact God has placed the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be. 19 If they were all one part, where would the body be? 20 As it is, there are many parts, but one body.
21 The eye cannot say to the hand, "I don't need you!" And the head cannot say to the feet, "I don't need you!" 22 On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, 23 and the parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor. And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty, 24 while our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has put the body together, giving greater honor to the parts that lacked it, 25 so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other. 26 If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.
27 Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it. 28 And God has placed in the church first of all apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, of helping, of guidance, and of different kinds of tongues. 29 Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? 30 Do all have gifts of healing? Do all speak in tongues[d]? Do all interpret? 31 Now eagerly desire the greater gifts.
And yet I will show you the most excellent way.
Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.


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Patent Office, Perhaps Forgetting What Year It Is, Locks Down Mobile App Development Platforms
from the is-anyone-at-the-uspto-awake? deptI'm spending today at a conference at Santa Clara University's Law school on Solutions to the Software Patent Problem. It seems only fitting that as this is happening, I've been alerted to a completely ridiculous new patent: Appsbar has put out a press release gleefully announcing that it's been granted a patent on offering a "create your own mobile app" development platform. Stunningly, the patent in question, 8,261,231, was just applied for in February of this year. I'm at a loss as to how a competent patent examiner could possibly think that a mobile app development platform is somehow new or non-obvious in this day and age.
Hell there are entire lists of similar platforms, and those lists appear to have been created before this patent was applied for. What is the USPTO doing over there?
Patent system defenders will immediately jump in to say that a patent is really all about its claims, but go take a look at those ridiculously broad claims. Claim number 1 is the main claim here, and what it describes is nothing special at all. It's just a simple web-based platform for developing mobile apps that can run on a variety of mobile platforms.
That's not new. Companies, like the now apparently defunct Whoop were doing exactly that years ago. Just the very concept of a simple platform for app development (even cross-platform app development) isn't even close to new. Such things have been around for ages. How can someone honestly think that this is "new" and not "obvious."
And yet Appsbar (which at least does offer a product) now not only holds this patent, but the press release was put out as way of announcing its plans to enforce the patent vigorously:
"We are proud that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office recognizes the innovative and proprietary set of features offered by Appsbar and we plan on strictly enforcing our patent with other companies that currently provide similar types of services," said Scott Hirsch, founder and CEO, Appsbar. "Until Appsbar, novice tech users, small businesses, general consumers and more had to rely on an entire internal design and software team or hire a costly agency for the design, creation and publication of apps."First off, the second half of that quote? Not true. I remember a few years ago we developed a Techdirt app using one of these platforms. It took all of about 10 minutes of playing around on some website. As for the first half, the fact that even they admit that there are a bunch of other companies already in this space basically shows that this patent is covering an old idea that is quite obvious at this point.
So if we're looking at how to fix the patent problem, can we at least start with this simple concept: stop approving completely ridiculous patents like this one.
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Hey, it had to be done.
Let's Build the Worst Professional Tennis Player Possible
The most imperfect player will surely have the following:
First Serve: Schalken [video evidence]
Second Serve: Braasch [video evidence]
Mental Toughness: Safin [video evidence]
Bring on your suggestions and try to provide some video evidence if you can. If you can't, let us know and someone will track down some links.
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too much Caffeine.....or not enough
i know brad gilbert has a bad rap for being a tennis player...aka winning ugly but here is a good example http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T17zqevDMBw&feature=youtu.be of him hitting
@TennisProCoachV i was having a real good night in cincy
Yes, that is the match I watched when I was a kid. Along with Mecir v. Becker, it made me understand hitting upright and out in front is a style to be reckoned with.
That last point was awesome. Brad is the man!
Yeah, Brad could scramble down balls and redirect. Drove Becker nuts, especially that down the line backhand.
the thing is....Becker thinks he was better and it drove him mad.....thats why its so great!
Watching becker self destruct in his own head.
He probably hated Gilbert feeding off his pace and redirecting it. The level of anticipation was uncanny. Kinda like Wilander gritting his teeth against Mecir. lol
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This just in: Google is on a massive acquisition spree!
You've probably noticed, and we've pointed it out before, but here are the hard numbers, from CB Insights. With over three months to go, 2010 is already the biggest year for Google acquisitions ever (by volume).
Google has a huge pile of cash to spend, is having a harder time hiring talent away from newer companies like Facebook, and is constantly expanding into new areas in which it has no existing expertise, most recently and notably social networking, so don't expect this to stop anytime soon.
See also: Google Can't Hire Anyone, So It's Going Crazy Acquiring Companies
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The Azure Code Samples are currently available in English
Azure Storage Service - Photo Uploader Sample using Xamarin for Android, iOS and Windows.
This sample demostrates how to upload photo images from the gallery in Android, iOS and Windows Phone into a Block blob in Azure Storage with Xamarin. It shows a button "Select Image" to select an image from the gallery, a button "Upload Image" to upload it to the Azure Storage, a button "List images" to list all the uploaded images. A Shared Asset Project is used for reusing all the common code for the platform specific projects.
Note: This sample uses the Windows Azure Storage client library for .NET available through a Nuget package.
If you don't have a Microsoft Azure subscription you can get a FREE trial account here.
Running this sample in Windows with Visual Studio
This sample can be run using either the Azure Storage Emulator that installs as part of the Windows Azure SDK - or by updating the StorageConnectionString variable defined at Configuration.cs file in the Shared Native Library Project.
To run the sample using the Storage Emulator (Windows Azure SDK / Only on Windows):
- Download and Install the Azure Storage Emulator here.
- Start the Azure Storage Emulator (once only) by pressing the Start button or the Windows key and searching for it by typing "Azure Storage Emulator". Select it from the list of applications to start it.
- Set breakpoints and run the project using F10.
To run the sample using the Storage Service
- Open the Configuration.cs file in the Shared Native Library Project "XamarinImageUploader". Replace the StorageConnectionString variable (UseDevelopmentStorage=True) with the connection string for the storage service (AccountName=[]...)
- Create a Storage Account through the Azure Portal and provide your [AccountName] and [AccountKey] in the StorageConnectionString variable.
- Set breakpoints and run the project using F10.
WARNING: Only use Shared Key authentication for testing purposes! Your account name and account key, which give full read/write access to the associated Storage account, will be distributed to every person that downloads your app. This is not a good practice as you risk having your key compromised by untrusted clients. Please consult following documents to understand and use Shared Access Signatures instead. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/storageservices/delegating-access-with-a-shared-access-signature and https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/storage-dotnet-shared-access-signature-part-1
Note: You can also run the sample with Xamarin Studio, but only the Android and iOS samples will be available. For the Windows Phone sample, you can only use Visual Studio.


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The home remodeling market couldn't be hotter, as homeowners all over the country are putting their time and effort into improving their existing homes rather than moving into new ones. As a building professional, this opens up a wealth of opportunities, and one of the chief trends that has driven the industry over the past few years has been an interest in sustainability. If you're going over a list of potential projects with your clients, the following green home improvements are extremely popular this year, according to U.S. News and World Report.
1. Energy-efficient windows. The cost of heating and cooling a home can be one of the largest expenses for homeowners, so limiting any air leakage can vastly improve their bottom line. There are a wealth of energy-efficient designs that are meant to form a tight seal with the window and effectively insulate a home. These windows can effectively modernize a home with a bevy of new features, and many of them are eligibile for federal tax credits for energy efficiency.
2. Radiant floor heating. If your clients are thinking of making the switch to green flooring options like hardwood or natural linoleum, be sure to extoll the virtues of radiant heat. This form of home heating is placed directly underneath floor coverings and controls the temperature of the room by having air radiate upward. This system dramatically reduces energy usage, as much of the heat won't be lost in duct systems. This can also help to keep the temperature of the room at a steadier level, as air won't have to blow into the room consistently to maintain the temperature.
3. A programmable thermostat. According to TLC, a programmable thermostat can help save clients up to 15 percent on home heating and cooling costs. This can turn off heaters and air conditioners during the day when you're not at home, and can allow you to tailor these devices to your needs. This is a quick and easy investment that can save your clients a bundle and help out the environment in the process.
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Feeling tired and achy? Scratchy throat? Queasy stomach? Suspect you may be coming down with that bug that's going around?
Take action!
A few tried-and-true home remedies:
- Ease the pain of a sore throat. Cheap and effective, a warm saltwater gargle (½ teaspoon salt to a cup of warm water) relieves a sore throat as well as anything. Astonishingly, Japanese researchers found that people who gargled with plain water three times a day during cold and flu season developed 40 percent fewer upper respiratory infections than those who didn't or those who gargled with an iodine mouthwash.
- Relieve congestion. Cheap, effective, and safe, a saltwater nasal rinse is an ancient remedy for treating sinus problems, nasal congestion, or postnasal drip. You may find the practice a bit challenging at first, but give it a try.
- Calm a cough. Although coughing is the body's way to clear mucus from the airways, you may want help soothing a severe cough, especially nighttime cough. For children older than a year and adults, research has confirmed that a spoonful of honey (with or without lemon juice) works better than over-the-counter cough medicines, without any of the undesirable side effects. Researchers suggest that darker honey may be better.
- Quiet a digestive upset. Dried or fresh ginger root in tea or capsules (or even flat ginger ale) helps quell nausea as well as any over-the-counter medicine. (Don't use ginger if you take blood-thinning drugs.) Peppermint and chamomile have been used for centuries to calm queasy stomachs and quiet gurgling guts. I like to grate a little fresh ginger root into a pot of peppermint/chamomile tea, add a touch of ground cinnamon, and sip it warm or cold. This quartet of tasty herbs in tea soothes the stomach, tastes good, and helps keep you hydrated.
- Soothe aches and pains. My own favorite remedy for the aches and chills of winter infections: a long soak in a hot bath, followed immediately by a long nap. The hot water causes sweating, so to replace the fluid you've lost, sip a pot of hot ginger tea while you soak—both to replace lost fluid, and to take advantage of the known anti-inflammatory and antibiotic compounds in the ginger.
About that chicken soup: Yes! Stock up!
Generations of grandmas in cultures around the world have relied on chicken soup to treat the congestion, fever, aches and chills of respiratory infections.
University of Nebraska physician and medical researcher Stephen Rennard took his wife's family recipe into the lab and discovered that chicken soup did indeed have the power to reduce inflammation and congestion in the respiratory tract. (Here's the recipe and a video of the preparation of the robust soup Rennard tested. Later research confirmed that most any recipe for chicken soup should confer the same benefits. But current research suggests you may want to pass up canned soups and stick with homemade.)
Natural health advocates Dr. Andrew Weil and ethnobotanist James Duke recommend studding your soup with plenty of chopped garlic, onions, leeks, peppers (especially hot peppers), parsley, chopped basil, rosemary, black pepper and ginger—herbs and vegetables all known to contain a host of anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and antibiotic compounds.
"Fire cider"
I learned about this potent potion from a friend the day after I'd published this post. I'm making some today. It seems amazingly versatile: I can take it as an immune-boosting tonic or congestion-fighter, use it to flavor winter soups, and apply it topically as a liniment for aching joints and muscles.
One final word
If you (or a sick family member you're caring for) don't get well within a few days on home remedies, or if your symptoms worsen, call your doctor.


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Bob Mould and Richard Morel's Blowoff is a DJ event that has become a premier destination for a wide cross-section of appreciative music fans. Originating in 2003 in Washington, DC's Velvet Lounge, Blowoff started as a musical collaboration between Mould and Morel. The two DJ in tandem, laying down a signature mix of indie rock, electro, and house, accented by a series of artfully eye-popping vignettes projected throughout the club. With the focus firmly on cutting-edge music, dazzling live visuals by Nick Lopata, and stunning poster art by Baltimore-based artist Linas Garsys, the party has grown quickly and is now an established event in New York, San Francisco, Provincetown, Chicago, and San Diego. The Blowoff artist CD was also released in 2006 on Full Frequency Music.
Richard Morel is known for his remixes under the name Pink Noise, including tracks from the Killers, Yoko Ono, and Pet Shop Boys. In addition, he co-wrote and co-produced three songs on Cyndi Lauper's Bring Ya to the Brink album and released his third solo album as Morel, titled The Death of the Paper Boy, in 2008.
Bob Mould, founding member of the seminal punk band Husker Du and alt-rock favorite Sugar, released his ninth solo album, Life And Times (Anti- Records), in 2010. His autobiography, titled See a Little Light: The Trail of Rage and Melody and written with assistance from Michael Azerrad, was published in the summer of 2011.


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Amy's Kitchen is a great company. Amy's makes natural & organic foods and has a large line of gluten-free items. According to their website, there are 77 gluten-free products in their line now. I received a few $1 off coupons to try out some of their products last week. I chose the Rice Macaroni & Cheese (for Jon) and the Teriyaki Bowl.
First up, Rice Macaroni & Cheese.
This dish reminds me of the Stouffer's Macaroni & Cheese that I used to eat as a kid and before I went gluten-free. Jon loves this. We don't do a lot of frozen pre-made meals, but this is great to have on hand for those nights or days when things are super busy. I would absolutely buy this again. You can find Amy's Meals in most grocery stores across the US, which also makes this a good choice if you are traveling – all you need is a microwave, which you can find in most convenience stores and even hotels if you ask the front desk. I have also made this at home and put in a thermos for Jon to take to school.
Teriyaki Bowl
Not only is the Teriyaki Bowl gluten-free, but dairy-free as well! This is also one of very few Amy's Meals without onions. I can assure you that I would eat most of those Mexican bowls & dishes if they were free of onions – they are right up my alley. This dish was a fantastic combination of flavors. I wasn't expecting it to taste as good as it did. I did beef it up with about a half cup of garbanzo beans & a salad, because 290 calories for dinner for me is just not enough. I liked this so much that when I saw they were on sale at Giant Eagle this week (2 for $6), I grabbed another one!
Amy's is now offering many of the dishes in a "lower sodium" version to help keep the dishes as healthy as possible. Make sure to check out Amy's Soups, too, we love the Chunky Tomato Bisque in our house. Perfect with a grilled cheese sammie!
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