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SOMERSWORTH — The 23rd Annual Winterfest, presented by the Somersworth Festival Association, will be held on Feb. 1 and 2.
The Winterfest is underwritten by D.F. Richard Energy.
On Friday, Feb. 1 from 7 to 9 p.m. will be a Somersworth Middle School Dance for Somersworth Middle School students. The event will be held at Somersworth High School Cafetorium. The cost is $6 per student and light refreshments will be available. If there is a snow day there will not be a dance.
On Feb. 2, the Somersworth Festival Association will be holding a Winterfest Breakfast for all ages. The breakfast cost $3 per meal and is held at the Somersworth High School Cafetorium from 8:30 to 10 a.m. Breakfast choices are pancakes, sausages and milk or juice for $3. Also, offered for adults are our famous breakfast sandwiches to which you can add sausage and a drink, a la carte.
Also, the festival will be hosting Frosty's Funfest from 9 to 11:30 a.m. Admittance is free and the price per ticket for games is 25 cents each. They will offer lots of games, face painting and crafts and lots of prizes. Frosty will also be visiting this event.
The Somersworth Lions Club will be hosting open skating from noon to 4 p.m. at the Lions Club skating rink on West High Street in Somersworth. Light refreshments will be available.
The Somersworth High students will be holding a fashion show in the high school cafetorium on Saturday at 2 p.m. and in the evening will be the Mr. Somersworth contest at 7 p.m.
For more information on the events of Winterfest call the Somersworth Festival Association at 692-5869.


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Announce: Computational Methods meeting Laboratory Robotics Interest Group Mid Atlantic Chapter Meeting on Computational Methods Date: Wednesday, November 3, 2004 Place: Somerset Marriott Hotel, 110 Davidson Ave., Somerset, NJ 08873 Itinerary: Social Period - 4:00pm to 6:00pm Meeting & Presentations - 6:00pm to 8:30pm Registration: http://lab-robotics.org/member/meetings.asp?rid=1 There is no fee to attend the meeting, but please register to insure there is enough food and seating for all. There will be drawings from the web registrants for door prizes. Agenda: Computational chemistry and molecular modeling have emerged as obligatory tools in the drug discovery armentarium under the broad aegis of CHEMINFORMATICS, loosely defined as follows: "mixing of information resources to transform data into information, and information into knowledge, for the intended purpose of making better decisions faster in the arena of drug lead identification and optimization (http://www.warr.com/wzarc00.html). As such, the field has benefited from an extraordinary explosion in popularity and awareness. To wit, citation of the term (via Google) has increased from 700 times in July 2000 vs 35,000 times in July 2004 (http://www.molinspiration.com/chemoinformatics.html). LRIG is pleased to offer this session, which will strive to present the 'flavors' of Computational Chemistry, and its associated infrastructure for data management, to our members. Food and refreshments will be available FREE OF CHARGE during the Exhibition and Social Period. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Presentation: PREDICT modeling and in silico screening for GPCR: From amino acid sequence to the clinic Sharon Shacham(1)1, Yael Marantz(2), Silvia Noiman(2), Oren, M Becker(2), and Michael, G Kauffman(1) (1) Predix Pharmaceuticals, 10K Gill St, Woburn, MA 01801, (2) Predix Pharmaceuticals Ltd, 3 Hayetsira St, Ramat Gan, 52521, Israel GPCRs constitute a major family of drug targets, involved in many physiological responses. However, the use of structure-based drug discovery methods for GPCRs has been limited by the fact that only one x-ray structure of a non-drugable GPCR (i.e. bovine rhodopsin) is known. The homology between rhodopsin and other GPCRs is very low and existing structural information is not sufficient for accurate structure prediction and drug discovery or optimization using standard homology modeling. Predix Pharmaceuticals has developed a suite of algorithms that permit the structure-based discovery and optimization of drug candidates binding to GPCRs and Ion Channels. Predix' discovery platform includes a novel technology for modeling the 3D structure of any GPCR based solely on its amino-acid sequence (PREDICT); The model is then used initially for in-silico screening against any library. The 50-200 virtual hits with best scores are sent for affinity studies in vitro. In several programs the initial hits were converted into early drug candidates using Predix's ICELR-3D platform, which includes novel algorithms for the prediction of oral bioavailability, GPCR selectivity, and potential for QTc prolongation through HERG ion channel binding. The accuracy of the PREDICT models, was extensively validated, including: (a) agreement with rhodopsin X-ray structure; (b) reproduction of site-directed mutagenesis data: (c) PREDICT models yield novel hits with nanomolar activity in binding assays in 6 different programs (d) PRX-0023, a novel, non-azapirone lead clinical candidate 5-HT1A agonist with preclinical activity in anxiety and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder successfully completed Phase I clinical trails. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Presentation: Strategies for analyzing discovery data Glenn J. Myatt, Paul Blower, Kevin Cross, Chihae Yang Leadscope, 1393 Dublin Road, Columbus, Ohio 43215 The presentation will review different approaches for analyzing data sets of chemical structures and biological activity data. Techniques for becoming familiar with the data set will be described including methods for assessing structural diversity. Methods for integrating, assessing and filtering the data set prior to analysis will be described. Depending on the nature of the data set (size, data distribution, and structural diversity) different methods for analyzing the data should be adopted. The presentation will review these alternative chemical structure-based data analysis approaches. Trends in the data may be further qualified by searching other databases, such as collections of toxicity data to determine any known safety liabilities with the chemical series identified. Case studies will be used to illustrate this process. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Presentation: A High-Performance Workflow Automation System for Drug Discovery Dr. Srini Chari; General Manager, Solutions TurboWorx, Inc. Many scientific problems are solved by analyzing large quantities of data using multiple compute-intensive applications linked together in complex ways. In pharmaceutical research and development, identifying lead compounds requires first computing various properties for large numbers of individual compounds, filtering the compounds based on specific property-based criteria, and performing further modeling and simulation calculations. Today's networked computing environments can be excellent platforms for processing these computational workflows because they make available large numbers of highly capable individual machines. However, the job of creating, managing, and deploying distributed workflows is daunting to most users. Very few of them are able to write robust programs or scripts that deal with issues such as authenticating users, selecting proper machines to run given applications, moving data between applications, and handling application errors and hardware failures. In this talk we will address solutions effectively address all these issues and more. Users benefit from reduced development effort and execution time, leading to increased personnel productivity and higher analysis throughput. The TurboWorx Enterprise system allows computational workflows to be built visually, using boxes to represent application and data access tasks, and using directed lines to specify task dependencies and data paths. At runtime, the system dynamically decomposes each workflow job into its constituent tasks and arranges for task execution on appropriate compute nodes. The system also coordinates all the task executions in order to honor task dependencies and to ensure efficient data transfer along specified data paths. This system also provides an open, extensible environment that includes visual tools that make it easy to add to the system any application that can be run from a command line. Furthermore, it offers rich support for fault tolerance, custom user authentication, data parallelism, and flow controls. To those scientists who need to analyze large amounts of data using complex computational pipelines, TurboWorx Enterprise will be an invaluable solution. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Updated information may be found on our web site at: http://www.lab-robotics.org/Mid_Atlantic/meetings/0411.htm There is always a Job posting board at the meeting. Please encourage your recruiters to give you material to post and distribute. Openings may also be posted at: http://lab-robotics.org/forum/default.asp?CAT_ID=2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming Meetings in the LRIG Mid Atlantic chapter Our annual "Automated Sample Management, Storage and Retrieval" meeting is January 13, and will feature new research from Chris Lipinski as well as speakers from Merck, Bristol-Meyers Squibb, and AstraZeneca. We are also offering a new feature at the January meeting - a free workshop in LabView! Details at: http://www.lab-robotics.org/Mid_Atlantic/meetings/0501.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thank you for your support. We hope to see you there! Andy Zaayenga, on behalf of The LRIG Mid Atlantic Officers http://www.lab-robotics.org/Mid_Atlantic/officers.htm Visit The Laboratory Robotics Interest Group homepage at http://lab-robotics.org

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A few extra sets of eyes and ears for the Walton County Sheriff�s Office may be patrolling the beach in the coming weeks.
SANTA ROSA BEACH � A few extra sets of eyes and ears for the Walton County Sheriff�s Office may be patrolling the beach in the coming weeks.
About 20 residents attended an orientation Thursday about a new program that will use volunteers to patrol the beach and report people who are violating laws and beach regulations to the Sheriff�s Office.
�We appreciate any numbers,� Sheriff�s Lt. Danny Garner said of the need for more people.
The volunteers must get a background check, be fingerprinted and go through some training before they begin patrolling, Garner said.
They will not have set shifts or set patrol areas. They will check out the beach when and where they can and use their own cell phones to report violations.
Most of the calls likely will be about violations of rules that prohibit littering, camping or having glass or a dog on the beach. Underage drinking is another offense volunteers can call in.
�You�re the extra set of eyes for us,� Garner told visitors at the meeting at the Sheriff�s Office substation in Santa Rosa Beach. �We have 26 miles of beaches and eight officers (patrolling). You do the math.�
The beach patrol program was the brainchild of resident Frank Day. After hearing people complain about the state of local beaches during spring break and the summer tourist season, he saw two options: more people or more money.
�There�s an enormous need for this,� Day said. �We�re going to help (vacationers) come to the beach for safe, fun vacations.�
Volunteers cannot carry any kind of weapon, Garner said, but they will get green T-shirts identifying them as beach patrollers.
They also will get pamphlets or cards about beach regulations to pass out to offenders if they feel comfortable, Garner said.
However, they should never confront someone, he added. �Just watch, observe and report.�
TO LEARN MORE: For more information about the beach patrols, call the Walton County Sheriff�s Office at 850-892-8111 or 267-2000.


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Among U.S. car shows, there's been an increasing trend towards stuff you can actually buy, with bizarro concepts largely killed by the bankruptcy. There was no shortage of real cars at this year's Detroit Auto Show, even if that meant there were no spectacular advancements in alternative energy.
Over at Yahoo! Autos, Neal Pollack said U.S. automakers didn't move the game on enough at the 2014 Detroit show. And that's a problem considering that they stared in the face of death just five years ago.
American cars are too big, and they're not fuel-efficient enough. As I walked through the American show halls this year, I saw mostly toys. When the Big Three try to address that problem, they end up with disasters like the Ford C-Max or the new all-electric Cadillac ELR, machines beloved by neither fuel-economy nuts or American car lovers. The overall strategy has brought the American car industry back from the abyss in the short-term, but it doesn't strike me as a recipe for extended health.
Well, yes and no.
The big story of 2014 Detroit may have been trucks, with the Ford F-150 and GMC Canyon represent truck thinking that didn't exist before Carpocalypse.
Ford is all about weight savings with its bread and butter vehicle, dropping weight with a massive amount of aluminum. And this isn't even the first thing they've done to the F-150 to reduce weight and add MPGs.
At the New England Auto Show Thursday, Ford execs were proud to say they've shifted more than 400,000 Ecoboost F-150s so far. Clearly the market isn't afraid of it. The fact Ecoboost is going to the 2015 Ford Mustang is another huge vote of confidence for Ford's downsizing.
Photo by Brian Williams
The GMC Canyon should've been dead because it's hard to see why anyone wouldn't buy a midsize truck when they could have a full-size one for not much more money. Yet the Canyon and Chevy Colorado represent GM's listening to a demographic other truckmakers have abandoned.
Sure, there's the neat surprise of a diesel option. More importantly, these are trucks that don't occupy nearly the same space on the road as a full-size model. U.S. automakers really have embraced the philosophy that bigger doesn't mean better.
And while the 2015 Chrysler 200 is only rated at 35 MPG highway, it does bring a 9-speed automatic and a trick AWD system to the midsize class – and could reasonably give some entry-level premium cars a run for their money on style and technology. Plus, Chrysler is also marketing the Ram 1500 EcoDiesel, likely to be one of – if not the – most fuel-efficient light-duty truck on the market.
Lighter, smaller vehicles are better for everyone – that's the message that American drivers are slowly getting. Some of you make fun of little crossovers like the Buick Encore, but it's exactly what a lot of the population wants and, crucially, all the crossover they need.
I'm convinced the U.S. automakers understand we're living in different times, they're just trying to figure out how to navigate them, and doing it in different ways.
Let's not forget Tesla, though. Their crazy fantastic Q&A in Detroit shows how far they go against automaker convention. There's a palpable feeling in the room that marketing execs from other companies wish they could do things like Tesla. And maybe they will one day.
There are still problems. GM has priced the Cadillac ELR at an absurd level. Chrysler needs to stop pretending the Fiat 500e doesn't exist and needs to get more than 35 MPG out of the new 200. And Ford needs to get its Ecoboost quality problems and fuel economy claims in check. But these aren't fatal flaws, especially when the products themselves are good.
Pollack himself is a huge fan of the Prius, but the math shows that changes to the F-150 could easily trump the cost savings of people switching to the hybrid.
In the early 1990s when I was growing up, American cars largely meant minivans, trucks and rental cars. The Geo Prizm was probably the most American car that anyone I knew bought. People who were my parents' ages owned maybe one American car in the '70s and refused to have one again.
Yet those people are doing themselves a disservice by insisting American automakers can't make an economical and innovative car anymore. In some ways, they're actually taking more risks than the Japanese and Korean companies.
But being innovative doesn't mean to just roll out hybrids, limited production EVs and far-fetched fuel cell concepts. That was the old way of showing the public you have a new way of thinking. Getting more MPG out of traditional segments with more conventional technologies is what's going to resonate most with the people who buy new cars.
This year, U.S. automakers didn't promote new ideas with low-volume vehicles. They have those already. What mattered were volume products that brought new thinking or good, old ideas back to the core of the market. And that kind of green thinking is what the industry needs today.
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copyright, Bjorn Iooss.
Many, many, many people get excited for the annual release of the S.I. swimsuit issue. But this year, no one is more excited than Bjorn (son of famous sports photographer, Walter). This shot of Irina was an add-on: an image possibly for an advertorial. Never intended for the cover shot. But some early morning sun, a little lycra, sand and a Russian supermodel earned him the honor. No lights were used, only one silver reflector.
Camera: Canon 1Ds Mark III with 24-70mm lens, handheld six feet back. Shot at 1/60, f5.6, ISO 100.
Lighting: The Hawaiian sun has just risen over the horizon to camera left. Bjorn cuts back on the contrast with a large silver reflector placed just out of frame to camera right. The horde of people standing around aren't there for him. They're all for Irina.
Comments: Though located on a secluded beach, this shoot wasn't without incident. While Irina was changing bathing suits, a junior stylist noticed a man hiding in a garbage can trying to take pictures. She immediately called security and covered Irina in a towel. When the police arrived, the culprit turned out to be Mel Gibson. He was researching for an upcoming role as a desperate paparazzo needing $1M to save his estranged daughter from kidnappers. The mixup was quickly straightened out and Mel, Irina and Bjorn laughed about it over a friendly, three-way game of Kadima. No charges were pressed.


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All 3D printers need host software to function. That's a given. Host software sends the commands to a 3D printer that tells the printer how to build an object. Most host software communicates with the printer via a wired USB connection. For almost all 3D printers, a computer running the host software must stay tethered to the 3D printer at all times while it is running. Obviously, this is not always a great situation, hence the advantage of being wireless.
There are basically two ways to perform wireless 3D printing. First, a G-code file can be saved onto an SD card using a computer, then the SD card can be transferred to the 3D printer where the print job is initiated via a controller into a 3D printer.
This arrangement allows wireless 3D printing, but it lacks most the advantages of a truly wireless setup. The 3D printer can still be placed away from a work area, but beyond that, using the SD card transfer method is really no different than transferring data over a cable. The second way to do (truly) wireless 3D printing is by running the host software on a small embedded device, like the Raspberry Pi, that is connected to the 3D printer.
Which Is Better, OctoPrint or AstroPrint?
This is analogous to using a dedicated computer for 3D printing that stays connected to the printer at all times. But, instead of using a computer for this purpose, the host software can be run on something, such as a Raspberry Pi, which is just powerful enough to run the software.
The two most popular host software packages developed for wireless 3D printing are OctoPrint and AstroPrint. AstroPrint is, in fact, based on OctoPrint, and claims to have an optimized codebase for running on embedded computers. The AstroPrint team has made changes and additions to the software, making the two host software offerings quite a bit different in many ways.
While OctoPrint and AstroPrint do share some similarities, they are also different, primarily with regard to their intended users.


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Since 2003, singer/songwriter Matt Cox (Omaha, NE) has been recording and performing across the United States both as a solo artist, and with an ever-changing lineup of the area's top talent. The Shenandoah, IA, native (childhood home of the Everly Brothers) blends traditions of country, rock, folk, blues, Tex-Mex, gospel and soul, with his signature road-worn vocals, guitar & harmonica. A seven-time Omaha Entertainment and Arts Award winner (Best Blues 2008, Best Country/Americana 2009-2014, and Album Of The Year 2018).
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[Funeral Program for Edward A. Smith, February 14, 1989]
Description: Funeral program for Brother Edward A. Smith, died February 8, 1989. The funeral was held February 14, 1989 at Mt. Zion Baptist Church, officiated by Rev. Claude W. Black, Jr. Funeral arrangements were made through the Lewis Funeral Home and he was buried in Needville City Cemetery in Needville, Texas.
Date: February 14, 1989
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Dozens of Egyptian students arrested during a riot over a book they said insulted Islam have been released by the authorities, said BBC.online Saturday.
It added the 75 students released on Friday could be re-arrested because prosecutors have not closed the case, correspondents said, quoting security sources.
However, two Cairo students were claim to die under police torture following the violent demonstrations over the publishing of the novel, the leader of a London-based Islamic organization
said Friday.
Ahmed Abdel Warif, a student at Al-Azhar University's education faculty, and an unidentified engineering student died Thursday, Islamic Observation Centre (IOC) chief Yasser al-Serri told AFP in Cairo by telephone from London, citing university student sources.
Serri said the two had "died from torture in the custody of the state security service after being removed for questioning from hospital", where they were recovering from wounds sustained in clashes with police on Monday.
But the service's Gaber bin Hayan branch in Dokki, where Serri said they had died, denied the report, saying no Al-Azhar students had died there.
More than 50 students were hurt, some by rubber bullets, in violent demonstrations at Al-Azhar to denounce the republication of a novel, "Feast of the Sea Algae," which the students say desnigrates the prophet Mohammad and the Muslim holy book, the Koran.
Six police officers were also hurt by rocks thrown by demonstrators.
According to a statement from Al-Azhar students sent to AFP in Cairo by the IOC, the university campus is currently "under siege" from security forces who are arresting anyone who leaves for questioning over the riots.
They said around 60 students suffering wounds from Monday's clashes were still inside the campus, six of them in a "serious condition."
"Troops and the authorities are at the gates arresting anyone who leaves and taking them to Gaber bin Hayan for electric shock treatment, terrorization and Satanic torture," the statement said.
Witnesses told AFP there was no obvious police presence Friday at the campus gate where riots took place on Monday, but that there were some injured students still inside the university afraid to leave for treatment.
Haidar Haidar, the Syrian author of the novel which was first published in 1983, has said the campaign against "Feast of the Sea Algae" is based on passages taken out of context.
Al-Azhar, the most prestigious seat of learning for Sunni Muslims, has 195,000 students in all disciplines and attracts thousands of students from around the world.
Yasser al-Serri, an Egyptian Islamist, was sentenced to death at home for taking part in a failed attack against former prime minister Atef Sidqi in 1993.
He now lives in London and runs the IOC with the declared aim of upholding the rights of Muslims around the world – (Several Sources)
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Live Demonstration Showed What Happens When a Christmas Tree Catches on Fire
Rockledge, FL (December 17, 2013) – With the holidays right around the corner—it's important to remember safety tips when it comes to fresh Christmas trees. Health First Palm Bay Hospital and the City of Palm Bay Fire Rescue teamed up to help increase awareness about the dangers of holiday fires in your home. At Health First Palm Bay Hospital, Christmas trees were set on fire to show how easily they can ignite and burn.
"We wanted to take this opportunity to remind people how important it is to be aware of potential dangers with Christmas trees," said Health First Palm Bay Hospital Director of Clinical Nursing Yuri Mykoo. "While minor burns can be treated at home, if you are ever in any doubt whether you need medical assistance, call 911 or go to the nearest emergency room."
City of Palm Bay Fire Rescue Assistant Fire Marshal Ron Bailey said, "In addition to keeping your live Christmas tree watered, people should also be aware of the heat sources near their trees—this includes candles, heaters and fireplaces."
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Vellenberg (Tyrol, Austria)
Vellenberg, a castle four miles southwest of Innsbruck, Austria, today a significant ruin; in the 16th century it had a tower in which Anabaptists were imprisoned. Hans Mandel, who lay there in 1561, described it thus: "It is rather deep, I have heard six fathoms; but it has a small window at the top and the sun shines in a while, so that it is light." It was then full of vermin and especially bats. Jörg (Georg) Liebich lay in this dungeon for years (1538-1542). Ursula Hellrigl, who was arrested for her faith at the age of 18 and spent 5 years in three dungeons, was in the Vellenberg tower for 1½ years.
Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon, 4 vols. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe: Schneider, 1913-1967: v. IV, 409.
Zieglschmid, A. J. F. Die älteste Chronik der Hutterischen Brüder: Ein Sprachdenkmal aus frühneuhochdeutscher Zeit. Ithaca: Cayuga Press, 1943.
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Hege, Christian. (1959). Vellenberg (Tyrol, Austria). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 15 October 2019, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Vellenberg_(Tyrol,_Austria)&oldid=146304.
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The Jewish Community Story
The materials in this curriculum seek to help students understand the history and dynamics of the Jewish community, to help them appreciate the community that surrounds them, and to encourage them to see it as a positive entity that in their deepened understanding and heightened awareness, they might wish to join and in which they might want to play an active part.
The curriculum is made up of four units, which include a total of seventeen distinct lessons/chapters.
Click here to download the Introduction and Rationale for this curriculum.
UNIT ONE: Today's Jewish world
UNIT TWO: The Historical Framework for understanding the Story.
- Chapter two: The Jewish People's story, the early period
- Chapter three: The Jewish People's story, the pre-modern period
- Chapter four: The Jewish People's story, the modern period
UNIT THREE: The Dynamics of Jewish Community
- Chapter five: The place and role of Jewish community in time and space.
- Chapter six: The structure and institutions of the Jewish community.
- Chapter seven: Changes in the Jewish community after modernity
UNIT FOUR: The Community Section
Introduction to Community Section
- Chapter eight: the Jews of the United States.
- Chapter nine: the Jews of Canada
- Chapter ten: the Jews of Argentina
- Chapter eleven: the Jews of France
- Chapter twelve: the Jews of Hungary
- Chapter thirteen: the Jews of Germany
- Chapter fourteen: the Jews of South Africa
- Chapter fifteen: the Jews of Australia
- Chapter sixteen: the Jews of Great Britain
- Chapter seventeen: The long version: the Jews of Great Britain


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The last week of February is upon us. Why sometimes does it seem that the shortest month of the year seems to last the longest? I honestly believe that it is because the weather is miserable and illnesses are running rampant. We have been fortunate to have a slight warm up here in Ohio, but today it is back to cold & a smattering of snow on the ground. I look forward to March and the prospect of warmer weather. I know that it can and does snow in Ohio in March, as evidenced by the 20 inches we got last year in March from 1 storm. It was UGLY and not something I wish to have repeated this year. I look at the end of February as the signal that the end of winter is near. This week also happens to be the start of Lent, Wednesday is Ash Wednesday, and that means that Easter is not too far off, 46 days to be exact.
This year for Lent I will be giving up gluten. Ha ha…just kidding. LOL! No, seriously, I will be giving up wine. I remember as a child we used to give up candy or soda pop (not that we ever had these 2 items freely anyway). I don't drink an overly abundant amount of wine, but I drink enough and I love the taste of my cabernet or pinot grigio with dinner or my dark chocolate with some good red wine.
Onto the meal plan:
Sunday ~ Salmon, brown rice (steamed), veggies & salad
Monday ~Shrimp Scampi Alfredo, veggies & salad
Tuesday ~Herbed Pork Roast, Mashed Potatoes & veggies, & salad
Wednesday ~Lasagna, steamed veggies, bread & salad
Thursday~ Mexican Pizzas or soft tacos, corn, & salad
Friday~ Homemade pizza, veggies & salad
Saturday~Out or leftovers
Baked Goods for the Week
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Carob Fudge
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I wanted to respond to the recent letter printed from Dr. Bert Bergland about the state of some of the roads following last September's devastating floods.
First, I wanted to thank Dr. Bergland for the very nice comments about CDOT's emergency response on US 36 and US 34. And, yes, the passing zones will be replaced once the restriping occurs on 36.
Second, regarding the perception of SH 7, I would agree with much of what Dr. Bergland has witnessed.
While CDOT has been completing work on US 36 as the first permanent recovery project following last September's flood, we have avoided doing major work on US 34 or SH 7 because those are the main detour routes for US 36. This has meant increased traffic on SH 7. Because of the increased traffic on this road due to the floods, we are working with our federal partners for increased funding to allow us to move this project forward.
We are awaiting a response from them. We are also seeking funding for fixing part of the road that was damaged during the flood.
Regarding the safety of this road, our accident history report reveals there has been one fatality on this road in the last five years and that was at the intersection with SH 72. We also look at non-fatality accidents along our roads constantly.
I can certainly understand your frustration with slow drivers and their impact on traffic. When US 36 construction is completed later this fall, we would expect traffic to spread out to more regular levels along all of our corridors.
The impact of the September floods can not be ignored here. We look at our roads as a complete system. The work to bring the system back to normal (and to improve it so we don't see this kind of devastation in the future) will take years. After US 36 is complete, CDOT will be working on permanent repairs to US 34. I can only ask for your patience (as well as all of our residents) as we work to complete this recovery.
Johnny Olson
Regional Transportation Director, Region 4, Colorado Department of Transportation
Checking my review mirror
I was amused by the recent letter from Dr. Bert Bergland (Public Forum: August 15,2014) regarding the sad state of disrepair of the surface of the "Peak to Peak" highway. Having travelled over this highway (CO Hwy. 7) multiple times this month I thought that in comparison to Fish Creek Road the surface is in fairly good shape. But what really tickled me was "the maddening annoyance of far too many slow and inconsiderate drivers (you know who you are…)" on the highway.
Although I do not reside here, I am a frequent visitor and am a TG subscriber so I have had the opportunity to read many of the good doctor's letters most of which have been well thought out and presented. The idea that drivers on one of the countries premier scenic highways should not slow down and take the opportunity to enjoy the world class mountain views and should pull over so that Dr. Bergland will not be infuriated, is humorous. Some have gained the wisdom to understand that there is an advantage to slowing down in life and that the journey is far more valuable than the goal of arrival. As for me when I'm on the "Peak to Peak" Highway this summer I'll be checking my rear view mirror for the good doctor but I will also keep in mind a Florida snowbird bumper sticker which says: "I may be slow but i'm in front of you".
Dr. Don Sessions
St. Louis, Mo.
A year full of surprises
This past year has been full of surprise and challenge. The September 2013 floods brought devastation and hardship to our beautiful area. While all of us were affected in one way or another, visitors still traveled to see our wonderful destination, hoping to view wildlife and nature.
RMNP was no exception. Many popular trails were wiped out or severely damaged. As a business owner, it was a constant struggle to accommodate the visitor a rocky mountain experience while doing it in a safe manner.
I would like to personally thank RMNP employees Kevin Soviak, Jeff Morris and the rest of the crew, including volunteers for rebuilding the trail near Meeker Park and working on the Wild Basin Trail near Ouzal Falls. Through their diligence and hard work, they were able to give the park visitors the rocky mountain experience they traveled to far to obtain.
I would also like to thank Vaughn Baker, Superintendent of RMNP for his leadership in getting the right resources to the front line personnel, to make the trail rebuilding a huge success.
I have received many compliments from guests, detailing a wonderful experience in RMNP. I will be forever grateful.
Patty Dever-Cavaleri – owner, Meeker Park Stables
Meeker Park
Friends of the Library thankful for book sale success
Community support has made the Annual Used Book Sale a success. Organized by the Friends of the Estes Valley Library, the August 8-10 event earned $31,029 in book sales. This came very close to last year's record of $31,901. The successful fundraiser wouldn't have been possible without the generous support of the citizens of the Estes Valley. The Friends Board thanks you for your very generous donations of books and materials throughout the year and for attending the three-day event.
Special thanks go to our small band of dedicated book sorters who work every week at the library, as well as the 160 volunteers who spent their weekend setting up the Conference Center ballroom, unloading the books, arranging the tables, working as cashiers and packing up Sunday afternoon. Special thanks go to the Town's Public Works crew who did the backbreaking work of loading and unloading the boxes that contained over 45,000 books and other donated items. Gratitude also goes to Safeway for providing the plastic bags used for Sunday's Bag Day, and to Rocky Mountain Park Inn for their great support of the book sale.
Funds earned from this event directly benefit the Estes Valley Library. For 2014, the Friends will provide $65,000 to the Library for various library programs and materials. These funds are being used by the Library to purchase books on CD and downloadable e-books; to fund children's, teen, and adult reading programs, to enhance the resources available to small businesses; and to provide support for the library volunteer program.
The Friends wishes to publicly thank each and every person involved for donating their time and effort to this special event.
The Board of Directors
Friends of the Estes Valley Library
Support the lions – enjoy the music
The Estes Park Lions Club would like to thank the citizens of Estes Park for the support you have shown us over the past 59 years during which we operated the concession stand at the Stanley Park Grandstands. Over those years our Club worked hard to provide quality food and drink and friendly service. And you responded with your dollars allowing our club to pursue it's charitable mission. From vision and hearing screening at our schools, to the Cub Scouts, to the fine arts, to college scholarships, and disaster relief, we have spent half our annual finances on charities right here in Estes. The other half has gone to support charities and foundations around the country and around the world, primarily in the areas of eyesight and hearing loss prevention and care. With 1.35 million members in 46 thousand clubs in over 200 countries, the Lions are the largest and most successful service organization in the world.
At the close of the 2013 season, we regrettably concluded that further operation of the concession stand was no longer feasible. This change makes the annual John Denver Tribute Concert our single largest fund-raiser.
The John Denver Tribute Concert is an evening of crowd-pleasing music featuring local performer Brad Fitch and plenty of John Denver's most beloved songs including Rocky Mountain High, Sunshine on my Shoulders, Take Me Home Country Roads, Annie's Song, and Thank God I'm a County Boy, just to name a few. The concert will be held Saturday, Aug. 30 at the brand new Event Center at Stanley Park. The opening act is the Chain Station, a popular Front Range bluegrass band. We welcome all Estes Park locals and visitors alike to join the fun. Doors open at 5 p.m. General admission seating is first-come, first-choice. Tickets go on sale at the box office at 4 or may be purchased in advance at Macdonald Bookstore, Hobert Office Services, the Estes Park Visitor Center, or online via the Estes Park Lions Club website or ThunderTix. All proceeds benefit Lions charities.
This year, as the Estes Park Lions Club gets ready to celebrate our 75th Anniversary, we are turning a page in our history. The concession stand is our past. Our future focus will be less on fund raising, and more on direct community service. We welcome your suggestions and participation. If you are interested in learning more about the Lions or would like to attend our meetings, we encourage you to visit our website (estesparklionsclub.org) or contact any Lion.
As always, eyeglasses donations may be made at the Estes Valley Library. Again, we thank the Estes Park community for your continued support.
Estes Park Lions Club
Team Small But Mighty offers it thanks
Team Small But Mighty of the 2014 Estes Park Relay for Life would like to thank everyone who participated in this year's Relay, and especially those who contributed to Team Small But Mighty's achievement as this year's top fund-raising team. The response to our Letter of Hope was amazing and we are truly thankful.
Relay for Life is the American Cancer Society's signature event. This year Estes Park's Relay raised $48,970, and Team Small But Mighty is proud to have contributed $17,665 to the total. These dollars make a vital contribution to the work of the American Cancer Society.
Thanks to advances in detection and treatment, 13 million American cancer survivors are alive today. And the numbers are growing. The American Cancer Society is fighting for every birthday threatened by every cancer in every community.
Thank you to all the contributors to the Team Small But Mighty Letter of Hope. Your generosity fuels the American Cancer Society's mission and the "hope" that mission brings to us all.
Team Small But Mighty
Sue and Jerry Bergeron, Stacey and Robin Harding and Bonnie and Bernie Kershner
Estes Park


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Mapping Out Stakeholder Interests that Influence Your Business
A stakeholder is any group or individual that can crucially affect or is crucially affected by an organization. For your business, stakeholders include your stockholders, your employees, your customers, and the community in which you operate. Each one of these groups is affected by everything your company does, but what's good for one stakeholder isn't necessarily good for the others.
Reducing operating expenses by cutting back on your workforce and using cheaper materials may be good for your stockholders, for example, but it's not good for your employees. It's not good for the community you're based in, either, because layoffs ripple through the local economy, hurting other businesses that depend on spending from your workers. And using cheaper materials may result in a lower-quality product, which isn't in your customers' best interests.
Unfortunately, you can't always do what's in everyone's best interests, and deciding which stakeholder interests take priority is one of the biggest challenges of managing an ethical company. Stakeholder mapping, the process of identifying and weighing the interests of different stakeholders, can help you decide which interests should come first.
As you map out the different interests that affect your company, keep in mind the following tips:
Sort the group's interests into categories: financial, social, environmental, political, and so on.
Figure out how the different groups interact with and influence each other (such as your employees' spending money in the community).
List the positive and negative impacts of your company's actions on each stakeholder group.
Devise a plan to communicate with each stakeholder group and, if necessary, gain their support.
Mind Tools has a free stakeholder-mapping template, as well as a good description of the process and things to consider.


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St. Pope Sixtus III: fascinating correspondence with Augustine
It is nice to make connections which show us how the Church was always alive throughout the centuries before our own time. Today is the feast of St. Pope Sixtus III, whom you will remember as having been involved with … Continue reading
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Service Provision: Technologies for Next Generation Communications
Service Provision: Technologies for Next Generation Communications
ISBN: 978-0-470-02050-0 January 2005 386 Pages
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This book provides the first overview of the service technologies available to telecoms operators working in a post-convergence world. Previous books have focused either on computer networks or on telecoms networks. This is the first to bring the two together and provide a single reference source for information that is currently only to be found in disparate journals, tool specifications and standards documents.
In order to provide such broad coverage of the topic in a structured and logical fashion, the book is divided into 3 parts.
The first part looks at the underlying network support for services and aims to explain the technology that makes the user-visible services possible. This section covers multimedia networking, both traditional (legacy) and future (softswitch) call processing, intelligent networks, the Internet, and Wireless networks.
Part 2 deals with how these services may be analysed and managed. Chapters cover topics such as commercial issues, service management, quality of service, security, standards and APIs.
Part 3 concludes the book by looking ahead at evolving technologies and more speculative possibilities, discussing the kinds of services that may be possible in the future and the technologies that will support them.
- Focuses is on how the technology supports the services, rather than on technology for its own sake
- Contributors drawn from both academia and industry (companies such as Marconi, BT, Telcordia, Cisco, Analysys) to give both theoretical and real-world perspectives
- Unique singe-reference source for a wide range of material currently found only in disparate papers, specs and documentation
- Covers brand new technologies such as JAIN, JTAPI, Parlay, IP, multimedia networking, active networks, WAP, wireless LANs, agent-based services, etc.
Table of contents
1. Introduction and Context (Kenneth J. Turner, Evan H. Magill and David J. Marples).
1.1 Communications Services.
1.2 Network Support for Services.
1.3 Building and Analyzing Services.
1.4 The Future of Services.
2. Multimedia Technology in a Telecommunications Setting (Alistair McBain).
2.1 Definition of Multimedia.
2.2 Market Drivers for Multimedia.
2.3 Standards for Multimedia Services.
2.4 Multimedia Services and their Constituent Media Components.
2.5 Interworking between Multimedia and Traditional Voice.
2.6 Terminal Equipment and User Interfaces.
2.7 The Future.
3. Call Processing (Graham M. Clark and Wayne Cutler).
3.1 The Beginnings of Call Processing.
3.2 Key Attributes of Call Processing Systems.
3.3 Switch Architectures and Call Models.
3.4 Switch-Based Services.
3 . 5 Call Processing for Intelligent Networks.
3.6 Softswitches.
3.7 Future.
4. Advanced Intelligent Networks (Robert Pinheiro and Simon Tsang).
4.1 History of the Intelligent Network (IN/AIN).
4.2 Intelligent Network Architecture.
4.3 Components of IN Service Delivery.
4.4 Intelligent Network Services.
4.5 Assessment of Intelligent Networks.
4.6 Future of Intelligent Networks.
5. Basic Internet Technology in Support of Communication Services (Marcus Brunner).
5.1 Introduction.
5.2 Transport Service Quality in the Internet.
5.3 Internet Telephony.
5.4 Directory-Enabled Networks (DEN).
5.5 Open Services Gateway Initiative.
5.6 Active Networks.
5.7 Conclusion.
6. Wireless Technology (James M. Irvine).
6.1 Introduction.
6.2 Cellular Systems.
6.3 Private Mobile Radio.
6.4 Broadcast.
6.5 Local wireless.
6.6 The Future of Wireless.
7. Service Management and Quality of Service (Pierre C. Johnson).
7.1 Overview.
7.2 What is Service Management?
7.3 Service Level Agreements.
7.4 Quality of Service.
7.5 Further Reading.
8. Securing Communication Systems (Erich S. Morisse).
8.1 Introduction.
8.2 Cryptosystems.
8.3 Authentication.
8.4 Access Control.
8.5 Security in Practice – Digital Cash.
8.6 Future.
8.7 Further Reading.
9. Service Creation (Munir Cochinwala, Chris Lott, Hyong Sop Shim and John R. Wullert II).
9.1 Overview.
9.2 Introduction.
9.3 Services in the Public Switched Telephone Network.
9.4 Internet-Based Data and Communication Services.
9.5 Integrated Services.
9.6 Service Introduction.
9.7 Conclusion.
9.10 Further Reading.
10. Service Architectures (Gordan S. Blair and Geoff Coulson).
10.1 Introduction and Motivation.
10.2 Early Developments.
10.3 Current Architectures.
10.4 Applying the Technologies.
10.5 Meeting Future Challenges.
10.6 Conclusion.
11. Service Capability APIs (John-Luc Bakker and Farooq Anjum).
11.1 Introduction.
11.2 Telecommunications Information Network Architecture.
11.3 Java APIs for The Integrated Network.
11.4 The Parlay APIs.
11.5 X Web Services.
11.6 Conclusion.
11.7 Further Reading.
12. Formal Methods for Services (Kenneth J. Turner).
12.1 What is a Formal Method?
12.2 Classification of Formal Methods.
12.3 Formal Methods for Communications Services.
12.4 Formal Methods for Telecommunications Services.
12.5 Evaluation of Formal Methods for Services.
13. Feature Interaction: Old Hat or Deadly New Manace (Evan H. Magill)?
13.1 Overview.
13.2 Introduction.
13.3 Feature Interaction in POTS.
13.4 Response of the Communications Community.
13.5 Regulatory Changes.
13.6 Technological Changes.
13.7 Future Services, Old Interactions.
13.8 Future Services, Future Interactions.
13.9 Future Services, More Complex Interactions.
13.10 New Challenges, New Opportunities.
13.11 Summary.
14. Advances in Services (James T. Smith).
14.1 Introduction.
14.2 Service Convergence.
14.3 Context: Putting Communications in Perspective.
14.4 Context: The next Killer Service Feature.
14.5 Sharing Service Context.
14.6 SIP: The Oil that makes Context Flow.
14.7 Discovering Service Context.
14.8 The New Converged Home Network.
14.9 Conclusion.
15. Evolving Service Technology (Peter Martin and Stephen Corley).
15.1 Introduction.
15.2 Software Agents.
15.3 Constraints Satisfaction.
15.4 Artificial Neural Networks.
15.5 Genetic Programming for Service Creation.
15.6 Conclusions.
15.7 Further Reading.
16. Prospects (David J. Marples, Kenneth J. Turner and Evan H. Magill).
16.1 Introduction.
16.2 Technical Challenges.
16.3 Service Environments.
16.4 Market Changes.
16.5 Commercial Changes.
16.6 And Finally…
Appendix 1. Abbreviations.
Appendix 2. Glossary.
Appendix 3. Websites.
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Bathe in the glory of Chris Nolan's new Batsuit. We assume his Transformer-like torso of nooks and six-pack crannies is for ergonomic reasons. Anyone else getting a mild Schumacher vibe off of this Batwashboard? Plus, here are some more photos that have nothing to do with abdominals.
UPDATE: Ok it's not a NEW NEW suit, but it still is the suit from the new movie. Sorry!
Here's a quote from Entertainment Weekly's latest issue, in which Nolan tells us all to shut up about Bane's mumbles:
I think when people see the film, things will come into focus. Bane is very complex and very interesting and when people see the finished film people will be very entertained by him.
Only time will tell! Until then, enjoy these stills:


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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Astronauts traveling to and from Mars would be bombarded with as much radiation as they'd get from a full-body CT scan about once a week for a year, researchers reported Thursday.
That dose would, in some cases, exceed NASA's standards and is enough to raise an astronaut's cancer risk by 3 percent.
As plans for deep space exploration ramp up, radiation is a big concern — from high-energy galactic cosmic rays spewed by distant supernova explosions to sporadic bursts of charged particles hurled by the sun. Earth's magnetic field helps to deflect much of that harmful radiation.
NASA aims to send a crew to orbit the red planet by the mid-2030s. Private outfits like Inspiration Mars — backed by NASA engineer-turned-space tourist Dennis Tito — are seeking volunteers for a Mars flight.
There have been previous efforts to gauge the radiation risk for future Mars travelers, but the best estimate is coming from NASA's Curiosity mission. Tucked inside the rover when it launched in 2011 was a radiation sensor that took readings during the 8 1/2-month cruise to Mars.
From those figures, scientists calculated a spacefarer's radiation exposure for a quicker six-month voyage in a similarly shielded spacecraft. Roundtrip: about 662 millisieverts. That's a sizable chunk of an astronaut's career cap of 1,000 millisieverts which many international space agencies use to limit the accumulated radiation dosage in space.
NASA's threshold depends on age and gender. The career dose limit for 30-to-60-year-old male astronauts who never smoked ranges from 800 to 1,200 millisieverts. For female astronauts, the limit ranges from 600 to 1,000 millisieverts.
The radiation exposure from a Mars journey is similar to getting a full-body CT scan every five or six days, said lead researcher Cary Zeitlin of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo.
The estimate is just for zipping there and back; it doesn't include time spent on the Martian surface, which would add to an astronaut's exposure. How much more would depend on length of stay and available shelter.
"You'd like the radiation exposure to be lower, but it is what it is," said Dr. Norm Thagard, the first American to fly on the Russian space station Mir, who had no role in the research. "Given the importance of such a mission, the mission should be done."
The analysis appears in Friday's issue of the journal Science. The amount of radiation likely won't change unless there's a rocket engine developed that can speed up the interplanetary ride, researchers said.
"You want to get there as quickly as possible" to reduce radiation exposure, said Don Hassler, scientist in charge of the radiation instrument aboard Curiosity.
Radiation on a Mars trek would be higher than what crew members cocooned inside the International Space Station typically face — about 200 millisieverts per year. By contrast, people on Earth are typically exposed to about 3 millisieverts a year.
Curiosity flew to Mars during a period of low to moderate solar activity. A manned mission that launches during a solar flare or storm would encounter more radiation.
NASA engineers are testing propulsion systems and researching ways to reduce radiation exposure on a Mars flight. Among the possibilities: Have astronauts wear a deployable shield resembling a heavy winter coat or have them hunker down in a storm shelter aboard the spacecraft during periods of high solar activity.
"Before we can send astronauts there, we need to understand the environments and hazards that they would face" said Chris Moore, deputy director of advanced exploration systems at NASA headquarters.
Now, cancer-related risk estimates are "no more than a rough guesstimate," David Brenner, an expert on radiation-induced cancer at Columbia University, said in an email.
Thagard, the former NASA astronaut, said he was exposed to 120 millisieverts during his 115 days in low-Earth orbit aboard Mir. Despite the potential health risks, Thagard said there likely won't be a shortage of astronauts willing to hop on a Mars flight.
Since landing near the Martian equator last summer, Curiosity has continued to track radiation as it rolls across the dusty surface toward its eventual mountain destination. The rover has turned up the best evidence yet of an ancient watery Mars. A separate study published in Science detailed the existence of more than 500 rounded pebbles near its crater landing site — the result of being shaped by long-ago flowing water.
Science: http://www.sciencemag.org
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Ten years ago, Richard Florida published a path-breaking book about the forces that were reshaping our economy, our geography, our work, and our whole way of life. Weaving story-telling with reams of original research, he traced a fundamental theme through a host of seemingly unrelated changes in American society: the growing role of creativity. In a revision to his international best-seller The Rise of the Creative Class, Richard Florida proposes a dramatic new social compact for our time—one that can turn our emerging Creative Economy into an enduringly Creative Society. Read more.


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As a die-hard Catwoman fan, I've never given Harley Quinn a fair shake. For starters, that voice. I like my villains sultry, dignified and more solemn than ridiculous, and for me, Harley was never any of these things. But then I started reading the Gotham City Sirens, and have been introduced to a side of Harley I never knew existed.
After reading Gotham City Sirens: Union, I went on to read a dedicated Harley trade: Preludes and Knock-Knock Jokes by Karl Kesel, Terry Dodson and Rachel Dodson. I had a hard time getting into it, at first. The art is a little more goofy than I typically like, and it was difficult for me to sympathize with Harley in the first story when she is just hopelessly devoted to the Joker, despite his attempt to kill her (watch He's Just Not That Into You, girl!). But with the second and third story, where Harley works for Two-Face and then throws her bad-girls-only slumber party, I noticed there was something much deeper happening than just Harley being heartbroken, pissed off and trying to find new friends.
Preludes and Knock-Knock Jokes is about redefining Harley in a way that liberates her from being Joker's gal Friday, but not totally reinventing her from the ground up. It is the working through of her change, complete with downfalls and triumphs. With each new story in the trade, we get a death and rebirth of Harley: she begins with a conception of herself (she is Joker's gal, she is Two-Face's right hand, she is one of the DC bad girls, et cetera), and by the end, this definition becomes shaken and Harley establishes a new status quo for herself -- which will once again become shaken, then re-evaluated, and re-established.
It is a process of definition that is reminiscent of the carnivalesque, but which operates more fully in a realm of slapstick comedy. In Preludes and Knock-Knock Jokes we see Harley trying to define herself apart from Joker. The first narrative arc in the trade is about her still fighting for Joker's respect-- as he is trying to kill her, though. The conversations Joker has with his henchmen behind Harley's back illustrate Joker's view of her: he is in a position of power over her, as both her boss and lover, and looks down on her as less than his equal. She is the side-kick, the love interest, but during the events of Prelude and Knock-Knock Jokes, we see Harley stepping farther and farther away from this. Traditional structures of power are dissolved to become more inclusive. She proves herself time and time again of being able to hold her own with Joker and his henchmen. Harley can be seen as a serious villain if how we think of villains is being shaken up. This is done through humour (and if the name wasn't a dead give away, Preludes is filled with great one-liners), to show that within these realms, what we know of power positions are social constructs, rather than innate ones.
The first two stories show Harley going through the motions of previous power dynamics: she was Joker's girl, now she's not, so she tries to repeat the experience working for Two-Face. This fails, and leads to the turning point in Preludes: the bad girls of DC slumber party. These are voices that are normally on the back-burner, or relegated to a sidekick/love-interest position taking over to establish a new, if temporary, order. It is in this new space where all typical structures are levelled that Harley can test the new idea of herself as an independent woman: not as the Joker's lover or as Two-Face's number two, but as her own woman operating for her own desires. It's not fully the carnivalesque, because it is focused on cr
eating a new, lasting Harley, but if we use this lens, we can see how the slumber party story partially operates as the chaotic carnival realm where Harley's whole world, and self-conception, is entirely shifted and shaken, allowing for her final death and rebirth.
Beyond that, so much of what happens during Preludes is mobilized through Harley's own insistent humour. In the last story, we see Harley and her Quinntets attempting to rob Wayne Manor. At the same time as the Riddler and his henchmen are trying to discover the secret passage that has been rumoured to exist in the Manor. Oracle, unable to signal any of the usual Bat-family, sends out an SOS to anybody, and, true to the slapstick nature of Preludes, Big Barda comes to the rescue. The whole situation is constructed to make us laugh, with Harley and her henchmen squaring off against Riddler and his henchmen, and telling ridiculous one-liners and riddles.
But here's the kicker: even Big Barda is getting in on the jokes, showing that despite the fact that Harley, her Quinntets, the Riddler, his lackeys and Barda are all working against each other, they're also all fighting on the same terms. No one -- whether a god, henchman or person with a body ramped up by Poison's Ivy special concoction -- is put in a more privileged position than any others. Harley only triumphs by working alongside Barda. It is a moment of inclusivity that allows for the terms of existing in this realm to be changed: Harley isn't just the fool. Not any more. She's become a major player on her own terms.
The point is to show that Harley can hold her own with any of the Bat-villains, but also that nobody in Gotham is exempt from becoming such a nefarious foe. The final story, with the showdown between Harley, the Riddler and Barda, shows that while thes
e individuals are exceptional in their own infamous ways, they are also not entirely unique in Gotham. As Harley's old professor says, "This is Gotham, after all -- where even the Sisters of St. Jude's carry concealed weapons."
If we stretch the carnivalesque lens a little bit farther, it seems like this is the underlying sentiment behind Preludes and Knock-Knock Jokes: it's not just Harley who can redefine herself, but anybody in Gotham is capable of rising up to the challenge. As we can see when Harley is being hauled off to her cell in Arkham Asylum in a flashback during Preludes, she shouts "ONE OF US," rallying all the inmates to join in the chant.
And they do, and ultimately, this exposes the real fear of living in Gotham city. Not the villains or inmates of Arkham Asylum, but the fact that anybody can rise up and become an infamous Bat-villain. Gotham City is the site of the literal carnival, after all, where Dick was able to join the ranks of Gotham's finest heroes. And for me, this is what we can see happening underneath all the drama and jokes of Preludes: Gotham City is the only place where such a process of redefinition for Harley -- or anybody -- can occur.


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Carnegie Hall
Challenging America, Reengineering National Education Gains Including fresh Epistemologies & Holistic Approaches to Learning and Leadership
Carnegie Hall will consist of 1 week Intense Academic Summer Emersion Camp continuing throughout the year with semi-monthly Saturday learning activity. Each of the students will be assigned a significant adult other as a coach. The 1 week camp will consist of 30 high School juniors and seniors from all over Kentucky. These students will be selected with input from educators, religious leaders and community citizens from each of the KCTCS institutions. The 30 scholars will in turn each be assigned a middle school team mate who will partner, a company and participate with them in the year long Saturday activities. This structured training will enable the 30 students not only to appreciate and respect learning but also be involved in civic engagement and service to a middle school mentee. Each student camper who completes the Summer Emersion Program will receive a monetary stipend of $100.
Each Saturday visit will include a monetary stipend of $50 for the attending scholars to cover transportation costs. The Saturday training will be hosted at different LSAMP institutions. The host site for the emersion camp will beheld in a remote area ( i.e Jbez or other UK owned 4H camp) where full concentration will be focused wholly on the academic curriculum. Camp counselors and instructors will consist of professionally trained educators in the above mentioned disciplines and national merit scholars. The Saturday sessions will include additional sessions in the disciplines offered in the summer camp but also incorporate additional workshops. The summer graduate and their mentee will attend similar activities (grade appropriate) during the Saturday sessions.
Expected Outcome
The project will produce for the University of Kentucky, the KCTCS System, and the Commonwealth of Kentucky a steady pipeline of STEM ready students prepared for the rigors of a STEM curriculum leading to professional positions that will accommodate the technology workforce needs. This unique effort places the Kentucky citizenry in a competitive position for jobs in the 21st Century. Additionally, since many posit that the free market/global economy will be driven by the STEM silo of subjects these young individuals will enjoy opportunities to contribute to the free market economy, and there by ensure the U.S. hegemony in science, technology engineering, and mathematics.
- CARNEGIE HALL Application - 2015 (PDF - 201KB)
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Sparking an age of a generation who conquers all challenges, while remaining committed to success. Constructing mathematical and engineering thought processes so that the sciences and technological aspect; lead to more success. Making others stronger, by forfeiting...NOTHING!


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 430 diseños de 98 diseñadores freelance.
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Urban Waste is an environmentally conscious trash disposal company which provides roll-off containers for construction projects, as well as dumpsters for businesses and residential communities. We are anxious to become the standard in reliable, eco-friendly waste removal services.
We target building contractors, property managers, and business owners in Salt Lake City, UT (and surrounding areas). Our customers are generally ambitious entrepreneurs who take pride in their work and reputations.
The logo will be displayed on our dumpsters, containers, and trucks; so it should be easily readable even when our trucks are on the move. Keep it simple, clean, and noticeable. Nothing too busy or detailed.
The logo may suggest an environmentally conscious attitude. However, keep in mind that our target customers (contractors, property managers, and business owners) are not necessarily fulled-fledged "tree huggers", so any allusions to the environment should be subtle (or even subliminal).
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Brightening and lifting day cream with marine collagen. Tones, reduces fine lines and wrinkles*, and restores a youthful radiance to the skin. Perfects and extends make-up wear*. The active ingredients protect the skin from oxidative stress and give it a healthy glow.
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Tones the skin and reduces fine lines and wrinkles. The skin has a youthful, radiant and firm look. The product helps make-up adhere better.
The skin's suppleness increases 9% after 15 minutes and 10% after 30 minutes.
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Wrinkles become less visible in 65% of the test participants after 56 days.
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The skin's uniformity improves 3% after 14 days and 7% after 28 days.
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Make these adorable shortbread Lego cookies in no time at all! Using premade, buttery shortbread logs makes this the easiest recipe ever. With results that would make even a professional pastry chef proud!
Makes 16 Lego cookies
• 4 cups powdered sugar
• 4 tablespoons light corn syrup
• 10 tablespoons milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla or almond extract
• Red, green, blue, and yellow gel food coloring
• ¼ cup mini M&M's
• 2 packages Walker's shortbread
1. Place 1 cup of powdered sugar in four small bowls. Add 1 tablespoon corn syrup to each bowl, and 1 ½ tablespoons of milk to each bowl. Tint one bowl red, one blue, one green, and one yellow. Add another 1/2 teaspoon of milk if needed to make each bowl of icing thick but soft enough to pipe.
2. Transfer 1 tablespoon of each color of icing into four small ziptop baggies. Snip a small corner from each baggie and pipe a rectangle around the outside edge of the shortbread cookies. Pipe each color on four cookies. This will create a thick "border" of icing so you can now "flood" the rest of the cookie with thin icing and get a nice, even border on each cookie. This is how you get that professional cookie finish!
3. Add another tablespoon of milk to each of the four icing bowls. Stir icings until smooth, then transfer to a small plastic ziptop baggie. Snip a corner from each bag and pipe this icing inside the borders of each cookie, matching the "fill" icing to the outside border. Pipe just enough of the icing to cover the top of the cookie.
4. Gently press three mini M&M's into the top of the icing—red M&M's on the red icing, blue on the blue icing, and so on.
5. Allow the icing to firm up before serving, about 1-2 hours or overnight.
Brooke McLay writes from high in the mountains of Colorado, where she lives with her four fab children, and works as a freelance recipe developer, food writer, food photographer, and cooking show host for Babble, General Mills, Good Cook, and other sundry companies. Her blog Cheeky Kitchen, has garnered praise for its colorful photographs, wholesome cooking, and lyrical musings. Her first cookbook is scheduled for release in 2014.


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Elkhart, Ind.-based Ultra-Fab Products Inc. has introduced its Chock & Lock series of manual stabilizers designed to eliminate the front-to-back rocking motion when the RV is stationary, according to a press release.
Available in one- or two-pack sets, the Chock & Lock anchors the opposing wheels of tandem axle trailers and fifth-wheels. When engaged, the trailer wheels actually work against each other to arrest any created motion regardless of ground surface or slope.
Built with all-steel construction and corrosion-resistant zinc plating, the Chock & Lock installs in seconds with its easy-to-use lever, collapsing to just 1.5 inches and expanding to 5 inches. For larger tire spacing, Ultra-Fab recommends its Ultra Chock & Lock XL. It has all the advanced features of the deluxe model but this jumbo model collapses to 4.25 inches and expands to 10 inches.
To minimize theft, the Chock & Lock can also be locked with a padlock (not included).


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August 24, 2013, WINNIPEG (ISN) – Peru avoided a series sweep against Canada this evening as they claimed a 3-1 victory at the University of Manitoba Investors Group Athletic Centre. Sets scores were 25-20, 25-14, 22-25, 25-21 in favour of the visiting Peruvians.
Rafealla Camet of Peru led all scorers in the match with 16 points, while Lisa Barclay (Brandon, MB) led Canada with 15 points. Tabi Love (Dauphin, MB) had 15 points and Shanice Marcelle (Victoria, BC) contributed 13 points.
"Today's game Peru was ready to play and we were not," stated Canadian Head Coach Arnd Ludwig. "We were chasing the ball and we were one step late with passes and blocks, we were rarely in control of the game. It's good though that the team still sees that they need to work hard and there are things we need to keep working on. Today was definitely not our best passing game and this is something we'll have to work on, along with the connection between our setters and middles, as we look towards the NORCECA Championship next month."
The Canadian Women's National Team resumes training next week and will next play two matches against the University of Washington on September 6 & 7 in Seattle as a final preparation opportunity for the 2013 NORCECA Championship in Omaha, Nebraska, September 16-21.
The Canadian roster for the Peru series includes the following:
Outside Hitters:
Lisa Barclay, Brandon , MB
Shanice Marcelle, Victoria BC
Brittney Page, Vernon BC
Tabi Love, Daupin, MB
Marie-Pier Murray- Methot, Quebec City
Kyla Richey, Robert's Creek, BC
Dana Cranston, Fort St. John, BC
Middle Blockers:
Marisa Field, Kelowna BC
Jaimie Thibeault, Sylvan Lake AB
Lucy Charuk, Tsawwassen, BC
Tasha Holness, Calgary, AB
Dani Smith, Beaverlodge, AB
Jennifer Lundquist, Surrey, BC
Kelci French, Okotoks, AB
Janie Guimond, Becancour, QC
Tesca Andrew Wasylik, Unionville, ON


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OCC Bulletin 2010-27| July 14, 2010
Community Reinvestment Act: Proposed Rulemaking and Hearings
Chief Executive Officers of All National Banks, Department and Division Heads, and All Examining Personnel
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, along with the other federal bank and thrift regulatory agencies, recently published a notice of proposed rulemaking that would revise the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) regulations. The agencies propose to revise the term, "community development," to include loans, investments, and services by financial institutions that support, enable, or facilitate projects or activities that meet certain criteria and are conducted in designated target areas identified in plans approved by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development under the Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP).
The NSP was established to provide emergency assistance for the redevelopment of abandoned and foreclosed properties in designated areas with high levels of foreclosures, subprime mortgage-related loans, and home loans in default or delinquent. The proposed rule would provide favorable CRA consideration to certain activities that, pursuant to the requirements of the NSP, benefit low-, moderate-, and middle-income individuals and geographies in designated target areas. Such consideration would include covered activities within an institution's assessment area(s) and outside of its assessment area(s), as long as the institution has adequately addressed the community development needs of its assessment area(s). Under the proposal, favorable consideration would be available for two years after the last date appropriated funds for the NSP are required to be spent.
The agencies requested comment on this proposed rulemaking by July 26, 2010.
The agencies also published a notice announcing public hearings in four cities across the country in July and August. The purpose of the hearings is to seek a wide range of views on whether and how the agencies should revise their CRA regulations to better serve the goals of the CRA. The hearings will be held on July 19 in Arlington, Va.; on August 6 in Atlanta; on August 12 in Chicago; and on August 17 in Los Angeles. For information on the topics of the hearings, and details of how to request participation, please see the attached notice. The agencies also invite written comments on the CRA regulations from the public, regardless of whether commenters plan to testify at the hearings.
If you have questions about the proposed rulemaking or the upcoming hearings, please contact the Compliance Policy Division at (202) 649-5470 or the Community and Consumer Law Division at (202) 649-5470.
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If you've got a Xperia Z or ZL and you're prepared to be a little adventurous, you can grab the Xperia Z Radioactive ROM, complete with Honami apps.
Developer krabappel2548, dropped the ROM a few days ago and has assured us that the ROM is both fast and smooth. The ROM is based on Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean and features apps ported from the Sony Honami system dump from last week.
Some of the Honami apps that have been added are:
- Calculator
- Calendar
- Clock
- Walkman
- Video
- Album
- Phonebook
- Camera
- Sketch
- Small apps
- Launcher and widgets
These apps all showcase Sony's new Xperia UI and the new Walkman app looks great too. Small apps is a multitasking feature which allows users to open up to 3 smaller versions of applications at the same time (check the screenshots below).
While krabappel2548 has assured us that the ROM is fast and smooth, remember that you are doing this at your own risk, That being said, you can now experience some of the Honami apps on your Xperia Z or ZL, so happy flashing people!
Check out the screenshots below for some of the Honami apps, or skip over to the Source link below to start flashing.


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Butterball talks turkey: Fewer fresh birds this season
Company warns that it is short on fresh turkeys 16 lbs. and greater.
It won't be all gravy for turkey lovers – and sellers – this holiday.
A shortage of fresh, large, whole turkeys – 16 lbs. and greater – could impact the holiday season, says the nation's largest turkey producer.
Butterball, which produces more turkeys than anyone, says it will be shipping out about half as many large, fresh never-frozen turkeys to retailers this year. But executives make clear that plenty of Butterball's large, frozen turkeys will be available.
The company statement comes less than two weeks before the Thanksgiving holidays and could impact holiday meal plans coast-to-coast. When Butterball talks, holiday cooks listen. This year, Butterball will produce about 41 million turkeys – weighing a combined 1.2 billion pounds. Figure one in four Thanksgiving turkeys are Butterball.
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Whole turkeys account for 20% to 25% of Butterball's sales, the company says.
The announcement comes during an already-cramped holiday season, with just 26 days between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Butterball declined to specifically spell out the reasons for the shortage of large, fresh turkeys.
"We experienced a decline in weight gains on some of our farms causing a limited availability of large, fresh turkeys," Butterball said in a statement. "While we are continuing to evaluate all potential causes, we are working to remedy the issue. We sincerely regret the inconvenience that some of our customers have experienced as a result of this issue."
Butterball CEO Rod Brenneman was unavailable for comment.
The company says it has shipped 100% of customer orders for frozen turkeys. So, consumers who can't find Butterball fresh, whole turkeys can purchase frozen Butterball turkeys, the company says. Frozen turkeys, however, can require three to five days to thaw.
The company says that it expects to "completely" fulfill all fresh, whole turkey orders for Christmas
As it has done for more than three decades, Butterball once again will staff its Turkey Talk-Line at 1-800-BUTTERBALL. The line, which has been staffed this year since Nov. 1, will continue to take consumer calls most days until Dec. 24. On Thanksgiving day, alone, it expects to take questions from more than 12,000 consumers.
The most common question: How to thaw a turkey?