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View from the Borderland: A light in the darkness
I have just finished putting out my rows of milk cartons with 24-hour votives lit inside them. It is the evening of Dec. 21, the winter solstice, the shortest day and longest night of the year. For those of us who migrated to the North Country, winter solstice is a bit of a non-event in terms of marking the official beginning of winter. Most of us have had our snow tires on since mid-November, and the first snows — and snow days — have usually already arrived, along with a few sub-zero mornings of warming up the car before bundling the kids in for the drive to school, despite the fact that modern cars do not actually need warming up, despite the fact that idling the engine contributes to global warming and our own family's carbon footprint. Yet because the sun has been setting so early and rising so late, winter solstice is also an occasion to celebrate here in Vermont. My kindergartener marvels — as do I — that it can be before dinnertime, much less bedtime, and still have been dark as midnight for over an hour. I am a firm believer in living as close to our circadian and seasonal rhythms as modern life will allow, so I try not to wake up the kids until there is at least some light in the sky (though putting them to bed at 5 pm hasn't quite worked out). I allow myself the luxury of putting on a layer of brown subcutaneous fat to help protect against the cold. When I do wake up before sunrise, on goes my faithful light box to ward off Seasonal Affective Disorder (depression caused by lack of natural sunlight). Winter Solstice is a way to celebrate the tendencies toward sloth and gluttony that are part of the season, and to mark the increasing light, a minute more each day, through the rest of the winter. Before I had children, my husband and I would light candles and dance around the evening of solstice. When we moved to Park Street in Brandon several years ago, however, we found a tradition already in place: the lighting of luminaries on Christmas Eve up and down the sidewalk. A neighbor had started the project to celebrate the message of peace that Jesus preached, and it had spread not only all along Park Street, but along other streets in town with sidewalks. We inherited a set of luminaries from the previous owners: white gallon jug milk cartons with a hole cut in one side and sand in the bottom to hold the votive candles in place. Every year, we get a reminder in the mailbox to put out our luminaries on Christmas Eve, and the local florist and gift shop in town stocks 24-hour votives in bulk to handle demand. Our first year in Brandon, I truly agonized over the request to put out the luminaries. My family celebrates Hanukah, not Christmas, so we already have a tradition of putting lights up in our window for eight days. I was also a little taken aback at being asked to observe someone else's religious holiday on my own property. It's like my relationship with keeping kosher: in my house, there is no pork, shrimp or lobster. But when we summer on Cape Cod, I do enjoy my clam chowder. I love Christmas and celebrate it with my in-laws every year, but I don't buy my own children Christmas presents or put up a tree in my own house. So what to do about this request to light up the dark with candles that represent world peace — something I can definitely support — in honor of a day and a person that I do not believe to be the son of God?The first few years, I simply took the default position of asking my Christian neighbors to do it for us while we were out of town for the actual event. But over the last few years, I decided to take the message and make it more consistent with my own beliefs and traditions. First, I got out my black sharpies and spelled out the letters for peace, shalom and salaam, one on each milk carton. Second, I started putting my luminaries out on the Winter Solstice, lining my front walkway instead of the sidewalk. Thus, my luminaries became a plea to humanity and to the Maker of Peace, Hu Ya'osey Shalom, in Hebrew, Arabic and English, to bring peace to the Holy Land and to the world, and on a day that every human being everywhere in the world experiences, at least as a scientific celestial event if not a religious or spiritual one. Now when I go to my in-laws to celebrate Christmas, I ask my neighbors to light my luminaries every night that I am gone — including Christmas Eve. On another secular date, Jan. 1, I put them back in the barn until next year. Up until now, no one has commented one way or the other about my twist on the Park Street-Brandon luminaries tradition, but last night, as I brought my kids out into the cold to light the last votives and explained to them what the milk cartons spelled out and why, a passerby walking his dog said, "That's a nice idea." Rebecca Reimers is a native of the New York City suburb of Teaneck, N.J., and a refugee of Westchester, N.Y. She has been living in Vermont for more than 13 years, in New Haven, Burlington, Middlebury and now in Brandon. She is a retired high school social studies teacher raising her three young sons with her husband, a native of the Boston area. Her thoughts on her community, and the surrounding towns of Leicester, Goshen and Forestdale, appear in "View from the Borderland," an online feature at the Addison Independent Web site.


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This three-hour offering will provide you with an overview of the critical first steps associated with starting a business. It is designed specifically for those who are thinking about a new business venture. Participants will assess their strengths and weaknesses in terms of business ownership, learn about the importance of planning, discuss legal and regulatory requirements and identify sources of funding. Enroll in both this class and The Basics of Writing a Business Plan and receive a $10 discount.More information about this event
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Quote:Skeleton/Undead Peasant as level 1 (my old possessed peasant ).
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Quote:Skeleton Dragon/Ghost Dragon as level 7 (remade).
Minotaur/Cave Minotaur as level 5 (wild minotaur frames).
Quote:Black Dragon/Deep Drake as level 7.
Wolf Raider/Wolf as level 2 (Wolf have bigger population, but is weaker)
Gnoll/Native Centaur as level 1.
Quote:Wyvern (Wyvern Monarch frames)/Pit Wyvern as level 6.
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Quote:4: Pegasus with pike instead of sword?
Quote:6: Black unicorn?
Quote:7: Some kind of Bark Dragon? Brown dragon
Quote:5: Djinn?
Quote:6: Werewolf/Werebeast? Werewolves are kinda undead ... or?
Quote:1: Gnome?
Quote:2: Mwellret? Some kind of lizard I from a fantasy-book
Quote:7: Ancient Serpent?
Quote:1: Hobbit?
Quote:7: Stone Dragon?
Quote:4: Pegasus with pike instead of sword?
That'd be great.
Quote: 6: Black unicorn?
Would probably be a little unfitting. Perhaps brown or gold?
Quote:1: Gnome?
I dunno... what do they have to do with a swamp?
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I just typed "Mwrellet" into Google and the first image I came across was a gang of enormous Lizards in capes... Would probably be cool.
Quote:7: Ancient Serpent?
We could use the Gorynynynych thing (less work for you), but the serpent would be even better.
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UFV Centre for Education and Research on Aging (CERA)The Centre for Education and Research on Aging (CERA) was launched at UFV in 2006 with the goal of facilitating a collaborative process between educators, researchers, practitioners, students, elders and caregivers in the Fraser Valley to learn more about the issues of the aging process. The centre promotes gerontological research and educational programs within UFV and the communities in the Fraser Valley. It serves as a source of information about aging for the UFV and broader community.
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The Mission of CERA is to promote collaboration within UFV and the Fraser Valley community around issues of the ageing process.
Within the UFV community, the Centre brings together educators and researchers from various disciplines to address issues of concern about aging. The Centre plays an important role in linking individuals and groups with similar educational and research interests and needs.
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* To promote collaboration within the UFV community and among communities in the Fraser Valley region to provide education and research which enhance practice related to aging.
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* To facilitate the ongoing exchange of information on the aging process among UFV and communities in the region.
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Today, I'm going to go over a quick tutorial of some basic AJAX functions. Rails has a great implementation with AJAX right out of the box, with the Prototype library. It also includes the Scriptaculous library with some special effects. We are just going to do some basic writing text into the site without page reloading. Lets get started.
Set up the application:
rails ajaxtest -d mysql
cd ajaxtest
./script/generate model Foobar foo:string bar:string
./script/generate Controller Foobars
This is our first project that doesn't use scaffolding - I decided against it because scaffolding would have generated all kinds of views we aren't going to need for this. Notice that when you created the model, it automatically generated your DB migration file. Now, lets open up app/controllers/foobars_controller.rb and do this:
class FoobarsController < ApplicationController
def index
@foobars = Foobar.find(:all)
respond_to do |format|
format.html # index.html.erb
Next, create app/views/foobars/index.html.erb:
<% for foobar in @foobars do %>
<%= foobar.foo %>
<%= foobar.bar %>
<% end %>
Now lets add our routing. In config/routes.rb add:
map.resources :foobars
In your console, lets get our db created and foobars table setup:
rake db:create
rake db:migrate
And one last thing. We need to populate our table with a few foobars. This is a good time to show you the rails interactive console:
From here, we can give commands directly to our project. Lets try one:
>> Foobar.find(:all)
=> []
So it returned an empty array. The interactive console is great for playing around with bits of code to see what they do or even testing out bits of code. Lets try another command:
>> myfoobar = Foobar.new
=> #<Foobar id: nil, foo: nil, bar: nil, created_at: nil, updated_at: nil>
Creates a new foobar object...
>> myfoobar.foo = "This is a test."
=> "This is a test."
>> myfoobar.bar = "This is only a test."
=> "This is only a test."
We can set the values of foo and bar for our new foobar, and...
>> myfoobar.save
=> true
We can save it to the database. Lets try looking it up with find...
>> Foobar.find(:all)
=> [#<Foobar id: 1, foo: "This is a test.", bar: "This is only a test.", created_at: "2008-03-21 18:24:46", updated_at: "2008-03-21 18:24:46">]
Great - so far so good. Now lets create a few more foobars:
myfoobar = Foobar.new
myfoobar.foo = "Foo of foobar #2"
myfoobar.bar = "Bar of foobar #2"
myfoobar = Foobar.new
myfoobar.foo = "Foo of foobar #3"
myfoobar.bar = "Bar of foobar #3"
myfoobar = Foobar.new
myfoobar.foo = "Foo of foobar #4"
myfoobar.bar = "Bar of foobar #4"
And done. You can type exit to leave the interactive console. Start the server, browse to localhost:PORT/foobars
Tablespoon of AJAX
First thing, I'm going to tell you that if you don't have Firebug yet, go ahead and get it. It is a plugin for Firefox(you are using firefox, right? nothing against you Safari/Opera lovers..if you are using IE you have no excuses, get Firefox and get Firebug...now). Firebug is a great tool for design as well as for AJAX. The inspect mode will highlight divs under your mouse and show the corresponding html/css code in the panel below. You can also take a look at Javascript AJAX responses and more quickly debug your code. Lets create app/views/layouts/application.html.erb:
<%= javascript_include_tag :defaults %>
<%= yield :layout %>
The include tag will include (among other things) the prototype library that you need to make the AJAX calls. Now, lets head back to app/views/foobars/index.html.erb and set it up for our AJAX. Change it to this:
<% for foobar in @foobars do %>
<% idstring = "foobar-" + foobar.id.to_s %>
<%= foobar.foo %>
<%= foobar.bar %>
<td id="<%= idstring %>">
<%= link_to_remote "Foo", :url =>{ :action => :set, :updatewith => foobar.foo },
:update => idstring %>
<%= link_to_remote "Bar", :url =>{ :action => :set, :updatewith => foobar.bar },
:update => idstring %>
<% end %>
We have 2 more columns in our table now - Which? will be updated by AJAX with either the foo or the bar of our current Foobar depending on the link clicked from the Links column. In the Links column, we have 2 link_to_remote 's. link_to_remote generates all the javascript calls to send an AJAX request back to our controller on the server. The first argument is what will be displayed for the link. In :url, we define the action to send the request to (:set), as well as the string we want to pass into the function (:updatewith). Last, :update will be the name of the div we will be updating. You can also add another parameter, :position. For example, :position => :before would insert whatever you are sending before the td tag, :after would be after it, :top would insert it inside the td, above anything else, and :bottom inserts it inside the td, at the bottom. If you do not specify a position(like we are doing), it will simply over-write what is inside the div. One more thing to do; lets open up app/controllers/foobars_controller.rb and add in our :set action:
def set
render :text => params[:updatewith]
Go back to the page and try clicking the links
Update: I found this link to be very helpful with different ways of using render with AJAX.
And we are done! Thanks for visiting, and see you next time.


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BEST WESTERN Bestwood Lodge Hotel3
Bestwood Country Park, Nottingham, NG5 8NE
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- 214 guest reviews
"A stunning hotel ... in a beautiful location. My only criticism is the Huntingdon Room is a Smoking Room and you are hit by the smell of sta..."
"Very beautiful building that is surprisingly close to the city centre. It is set in beautiful grounds with good country walks nearby. The bu..."
"the negatives were: that you couldn't use the bathroom basin to wash your face or clean your teeth as there was a shelf above the basin.The..."
"Had two superb weeks at Bestwood Lodge, I stayed up here for work and found staff to be extremely welcoming and accommodating of all needs f..."
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From merry men to maids with a wonderful attention to detail, BEST WESTERN Bestwood Lodge Hotel's staff will make your comfort their top priority here in the heart of Robin Hood's Nottingham! Whether you're here to work hard or play hard, our former royal hunting lodge is ideal for conferences, weddings or short breaks, with excellent bar and restaurant facilities making any occasion a special one.
You'll enjoy 24 hour porterage, room service, free parking and complimentary Wi-Fi while you're here, so be our guest and take full advantage of relaxing nights in Nottingham!
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Native New Yorker Eva Zuckerman infuses her fine jewelry line, Eva Fehren, with the shapes and spirit of her city. The industrial and architectural elements of Manhattan's iconic skyscrapers and urban landscapes appear recast in rose gold, blackened gold, and diamonds. X-shaped rings, dagger stud earrings, and minimalist pendant necklaces bring sharply elegant forms into a luxurious context, giving Eva Fehren's designs a bold and unconventionally feminine cool.
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McLaren Health Care Corp. is the latest health system to take an ownership stake in SharedClarity, a joint venture that pairs UnitedHealthcare's claims data with clinical data, medical studies and physician input to improve purchasing decisions for high-priced medical devices.
McLaren, a Flint-based health system that operates 10 hospitals, joins Advocate Health Care, Baylor Scott & White Health, and Dignity Health as owners of SharedClarity. The Phoenix-based venture, which Dignity Health and UnitedHealthcare formed in 2012, launched in April of last year.
Amid declining reimbursement and a proliferation of new payment models that incentivize providers to reduce costs, hospitals are evaluating what they spend on medical and surgical supplies, which usually make up a hospital's largest expense after labor.
High-priced devices, such as hip implants and drug-eluting stents, make up a significant portion of supply spending, but little data exists that allows hospitals to compare the costs and outcomes of these devices. Factors such as gag clauses that limit what pricing information hospitals can share about devices they purchase and physicians' longstanding relationships with manufacturers and particular products are additional barriers for hospitals seeking to reduce costs of pricey physician preference items.
SharedClarity plans to evaluate the clinical outcomes of 30 devices and then use that information to develop contracts with better pricing for top-performing devices. Teams have completed clinical reviews of two products so far.
The venture still expects to add up to six additional health systems, said Mark West, SharedClarity's president. Now that SharedClarity is producing tangible results, it may be easier to persuade more hospitals to join, he said.
"We were selling a concept and model. It's vapor," West said. "Over the last year we have gone into practice."
Some hospitals purchase physician preference items through group purchasing organizations, while others contract directly with manufacturers. SharedClarity isn't the only new venture to target the costs of pricey medical devices. The Cleveland Clinic and VHA in 2013 formed a similar business that aims to reduce the costs of these devices, and traditional GPOs also market their expertise in helping hospitals reduce the costs of physician preference items.
McLaren Health Care, which recently acquired the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute and Port Huron Hospital in Detroit, expects to spend between $400 million and $500 million on supplies in 2014.
"If you could affect change on that base, it's a significant amount of money," said Dave Mazurkiewicz, senior vice president and CFO for McLaren Health Care.
Reducing the costs of physician preference items isn't the only target for the organization. McLaren aims to cut at least $20 million out of its supply spend this year. Like many other hospital systems, it is evaluating all aspects of its supply chain, such as moving to a centralized warehouse model rather than keeping medical and surgical supplies at each individual facility.
"We're constantly fine-tuning and we're trying to make ourselves as efficient as possible," Mazurkiewicz said.


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This page shows the timetable and route of buses Grodno - Lida. In order to clarify the availability and cost go to the booking form by clicking the "purchase" button. The schedule below is used for advertisement. Transport operatos have the right to change it without notice on their part. Only thee fully paid ticket
Travel from the city (of) Grodno into the city (of) Lida (Belarus) or back is quite easy. Bus timetable is indicated below.


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Posts Tagged paid
Event Espresso custom attendee list paid and unpaid
Posted by randomyggdrasil in Uncategorized on May 7, 2013
NOTE: This is for "Version 3.1.32.P" I imagine it won't be to different in coming versions.
Here is a post in the works about editing Event Espresso's attendee list.
Showing Paid and non paid attendees
Normal Line for a single event is as follows posted into a page or post creating a page/post for your list of attendees
[LISTATTENDEES category_identifier="your_category_identifier"]
Now you want to include paid_only="true" at the end of the line like follows
[LISTATTENDEES category_identifier="your_category_identifier" paid_only="true"]
Now that all simple but for my event I wanted to list paid and unpaid attendees so any attendees can look and double check we have their payment and all is confirmed or not.
For that you need to open "attendee_list.php" located in "yoursite\wp-content\plugins\event-espresso\templates" and find the following, I found it on line 71
$a_sql .= $paid_only == 'true'? " AND (payment_status='Completed' OR payment_status='Pending' OR payment_status='Refund') ":'';
Now this line just sets the guides for what is displayed when paid_only="true" is used, you can see payment_status='Completed' OR payment_status='Pending' OR payment_status='Refund in the line you can remove or edit any of these to what you like including "Incompleted".
Now we need to separate the paid and unpaid attendees we can do this by copying the code we found and pasting it on a line below. Now we just need to edit a few parts, I chose to remove Pending and refund from the above code as they both are forms of no payment.
In the second line I used Incompleted and Pending, we also need to change the first part of the second line to $paid_only == 'false' instead of true, Mine is as below.
$a_sql .= $paid_only == 'true'? " AND (payment_status='Completed') ":''; $a_sql .= $paid_only == 'false'? " AND (payment_status='Incompleted' OR payment_status='Pending' OR payment_status='Refund') ":'';
Now that is done go back to your wordpress page with your attendee list on it we can add a second shortcode the same as above but change the paid to false for unpaid attendees as shown below.
Paid Attendee's [LISTATTENDEES event_identifier="avalanche-ii-3-517d28664a013" paid_only="true"] Unpaid Attendee's [LISTATTENDEES event_identifier="avalanche-ii-3-517d28664a013" paid_only="false"]
Any issues leave me a reply.


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LOS ANGELES—Ithaca College alumni are participating in the Academy Awards from all angles this year with a nominee, contest winner, intern and performer all slated to take part.
One woman paying extra close attention to the Documentary Short category will be Susannah Ludwig, a 1993 graduate of Ithaca College's Roy H. Park School of Communication, and a producer of the nominated film "King's Point." The film tells the stories of five seniors living in a typical American retirement resort — men and women who came to Florida decades ago with their spouses by their sides and their health intact, who now find themselves grappling with love, loss and the universal desire for human connection. It has already earned numerous awards on the documentary film festival circuit.
While Ludwig doesn't know if she'll get to hold an Oscar, Tatenda Mbudzi '10 is guaranteed to. Mbudzi is one of six winners in a contest sponsored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and MTVu, and will be on stage during the proceedings to hand the statues to presenters. Mbudzi's 35-second video posted to YouTube explaining how he plans to contribute to the future of film won him the honor. He fell in love with Hollywood while attending Ithaca College's Los Angeles program, and he is currently studying for a master's degree at UCLA.
The LA program is also the reason Jen Segal will be involved in the Academy Awards. Segal, a junior communication management & design major in the Park School, is spending her spring semester in the City of Angels interning at the Academy. She plans to document her experience after the Oscars for Fuse Magazine, the Ithaca College publication for prospective students.
Finally, be on the lookout as Aaron Tveit '12 takes the stage as part of a medley honoring musicals in film past and present. Tveit played the role of Enjolras as part of the critically acclaimed ensemble cast of "Les Miserables" and is expected to make an appearance to sing a piece from the film.
The 85th Academy Awards ceremony will be broadcast on ABC on
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Gilbert Wilson's Controversial Mural
Inspiration for this installment comes from the second Tuesday in November: Election Day. While the nation voted for President of the United States and Ohio decided on State Issues 1 and 2, Antioch College held its first elections in years to regenerate Community Government. The College held this election in the East Gym, which holds the very coolest thing Antioch College owns: the Gilbert Wilson Mural. A long article in the May 1937 issue of Scribner's magazine about the Indiana muralist likely placed him on the radar of the Antioch College Class of 1938 at a time when they were considering a class gift to their school. Perhaps they saw something Antiochian in an artist described as "impatient and peremptory in his attitude toward people, but [with] the straightforward and simple purposefulness and direction of a man who knows where he's going and doesn't understand why obstacles should stand in his way." Wilson was further quoted in the piece as being especially interested in plying his trade at colleges, saying, "My intentions as a mural painter are to identify my work closely with education." Seemingly to help the seniors make their decision, the article also included several photographs of the impressive murals he'd done for Woodrow Wilson Junior High in his native Terre Haute.
Gilbert Wilson's East Gym mural as a whole; the three sections are titled, left to right, "Collapse," "Man Emerges," and "Order." (Click to enlarge.)
Here, reprinted from the Antioch Alumni Bulletin, Gilbert explains his intentions for his mural and what it all means. Given that he never worked from preliminary sketches (according to the Scribner's piece "he must face the wall directly before he can visualize his ideas"), and bristled at the possibility of his drafts being used for approval of his work or otherwise, he was probably none too happy to explain his unfinished art in print. At the time of publication, the mural was still a year away from dedication. Gilbert's is the outlook of the social realist, a school of artistic thought very much in vogue in the 1930s, and best exemplified by the Mexican masters Diego Rivera, David Siqueiros, and Jose Orozco, though a whole host of American artists made their reputations as social realists, among them Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, and Edwin Hopper, not to mention Wilson's mentor, Eugene Savage. Where he differs from many of his contemporaries is his nearly apocalyptic vision of the world in which he lived, while the most popular of the social realists generally celebrated themes of progress already in progress.
Gilbert hangs much of his description on what he calls an "ancient proverb," though "foolish is the man" does not appear in any of the abundant quotation resources held at Olive Kettering Library; stumbling across sayings called "old" that Mr. Bartlett found unfamiliar is probably not an infrequent occurrence. It is nonetheless a useful analogy for the relevance of his art. He certainly had a variety of reasons to think that humanity's days on Earth were numbered in the late 1930s, that there was no time for us to be boasting of our beautiful bracelets, and he cites the rise of fascism in Europe as his primary evidence.
A full-color (but lower quality) photograph of the mural, with a streak of light obscuring part of the left panel. (Click to enlarge.)
Science was always key to his art, both for its capacity to create and destroy, and he lays out how the mural expresses simultaneously the fears and hopes he pins on science for the future. Perhaps the reference Gilbert makes to the Kettering Foundation comes from the initial plan to have the mural in the Science Building. The original Kettering Foundation was located in the Science Building and dedicated to research in photosynthesis. The location of the mural was changed to the East Gym over the head of the artist, largely due to protests lodged by a member of the science faculty who feared that a constant reminder of the social responsibility of scientists might offend the College's most generous donor, Chair of the Board of Trustees Charles F. Kettering, who had built that building with over half a million of his own dollars. A campus controversy ensued, which must have gotten pretty heated given the reproving letter from Professor M. N. Chatterjee, an adherent to the nonviolent social action of Gandhi, that appeared in the June 1938 issue of The Antiochian saying that "active participants in the squabble should hang their heads for the petty, vicious bickering indulged in equally by both factions; passive and apathetic onlookers are to be condemned for their disinterest in an issue of such grave consequence to the community." Kettering was later heard to remark that he had no trouble with the themes exhibited in the finished product.
Gilbert closes with a series of rhetorical questions indicative of his ultimate hope for the human race. He concludes with a poem that expresses that hope by Walt Whitman—incidentally, the inspiration for the bearded figure in the center panel. (The poem is actually entitled "Song of the Universal," not Universe.)
From the Antioch Alumni Bulletin, May 1939:
Muralist Gilbert Brown Wilson (1907–1991)
The Murals in the Gym
Gilbert Wilson Gives the Philosophy which Guides his Painting
I have been asked to express here something of my philosophy of art, and to make some remarks relative to the mural. It so happens that I am one who believes that no kind of art—no painting, no literature, no play, no work of a creative nature—in our day can have validity except as it relates vitally to the social scene. And so, upon the premise that all art must relate vitally to the social scene, I have approached the painting of the mural in the Gymnasium here at Antioch.
I believe that the intense instability of the social condition of the world prohibits me from painting as artists before my time have painted, both as to technique and to subject matter. I cannot see the virtue of painting murals in a lasting medium on what is, figuratively speaking, a crumbling wall. I believe that we who find ourselves impelled to create in this present day are committed by the very nature of the times in which we live to employ our talents, not toward the creation of beauty, but rather toward a preparation—I might even go so far as to say—a preservation of the chance for beauty.
There is an ancient proverb that runs like this: "Foolish is the man who boasts of his beautiful bracelets, having lost both of his arms in war." It is simply that this is a day when the primary concern is arms, not the bracelets we wear on them. I am taking the bracelets, of course, as a symbol of all culture, all human refinement, all the accomplishment which the human race can lay claim to, above and beyond a purely physical or animal existence.
What is culture;—what is refinement;—what is human intelligence in the face of a thing like Fascism? Its tendency is not only to destroy these aspects of man's life but literally to destroy life itself. Fascism is to the social state what insanity is to individual personality. Its only expression is violence. Its ultimate end is annihilation. To identify Fascism with destructiveness we have but to look at its inextricable relationship to the war approaching in Europe. Without seeming to be too much of a "calamity howler," may I ask, if it is preposterous to assume that our civilization may possibly be on the verge of destroying itself? Never in all history, before 1914, did we have a World war. Another World war is following only two decades later. Doesn't the very implication of the word "World," as a descriptive term for these wars, have possibly some significance as to the ominous seriousness in which present civilization finds itself?
Returning to the analogy of the "bracelets," we might even say that it is a more serious question than the mere preservation of a man's arms. It is virtually a question of saving the whole man.
That the world problem becomes infinitely complex when considered in its manifold ramifications, I grant you. It seems horribly impossible of solution. But this vast and staggering complexity does not alter the fundamental simplicity of the world problem when looked at in terms of Man and Nature.
Mankind, the world over, since the primitive ages, has had a common enemy; nature. All in all, the forces of Nature are so savage, so inalterably relentless, so hostile and utterly regardless of Man that it seems sheer suicide for the human species to ignore the fact that that it is only through collective effort that they can ever expect to subdue and order the elemental principles involved in the struggle to live. The very instinctive impulse which impelled primitive man to band together instead of foraging as separate individuals must and will continue to effect a union of the world's peoples. This ultimate union we might well believe to be a natural consequence were it not frustrated by the various forces growing out of the competitive idea of survival. Competition to survive in an age as potentially plentiful as ours is as senseless as grunting compared to speech.
It is widely claimed that there is in Man's nature an inherent disposition to be bad, to be hateful, to be cruel and destructive. I do not believe it! And that is one of the premises upon which I base my philosophy as a painter. I believe all of Man's anti-social traits derive from the age-old attitude of competitive survival, which is nothing more, I suppose, than the "economic determinism" of Karl Marx. Put the economic system right and Man will be right. I believe that.
And this leads me to believe that we must come to some form of society in which world's wealth is owned and shared equally--by all people of the earth. To continue with the belief that it is possible to maintain an individualistic attitude toward the struggle to live is to deny the simple validity of "Together we stand, divided we fall." The world's armaments might be taken as the epitome of the physical abuse of the physical sciences. This towering of armaments is inevitable in an economic system based upon a nationalistic competition for world markets. Nations are but individuals exercising an individualistic attitude toward survival.
In the mural, where I have sought to paint the collapse of modern civilization under capitalism, it is but a picture of what one artist feels is ahead if something is not done.
What to do? The most as I see it is this: It is the artist's task to try to sift the world problem down to the simplest, most cogent terms. Then it is his take to paint something which will seek to remind us of the few basic and fundamental premises upon which a solution of the world's problems rests, namely these: First, absolute equality of the two sexes; second, that all races are equal—that they must and will slowly merge into one greater entity which will be the consummation of them all; and third, that mankind must so order his society that machines will do the labor, leaving him free to expand the spiritual propensities of his nature. The world problem cannot very well be reduced to simpler terms than these; and these simple terms are essentially what the mural at Antioch shall attempt to set forth.
"Collapse," the left panel of the mural.
In essence then, the mural shall endeavor to set forth both a warning and an ideal. In the first panel, I am trying to paint the epitome of COLLAPSE. It will be an effort to express as complete a statement of chaos and destruction as is possible with pigments. A mural, you know, should be something which cannot be expressed in any other way except form and color. In this first panel I am trying as an artist to sound the last note in the scale of human values, the very deepest of doomful depictions, the utter essence of finality so far as a defeated civilization under a machine age can be conceived.
In contrast to this, without sentimentality, or dreamy fanciful imagination, I have tried to state as simply as possible the social idea—the ordered world state. Whereas the COLLAPSE panel is constructed with sharp angles and an absence of horizontal and vertical lines, the panel called ORDER will be built on the geometrical form known as the circle. Around a circular table are grouped the different races of the world eating. Beneath is a machinery comprised chiefly of wheels to express again the circle. The machinery is placed at the bottom of the ORDER panel because we might assume that is where order belongs in the ideal society. (In the COLLAPSE panel the machinery is at the top.) In the upper part of the ORDER panel is a circular symbol embodying Photosynthesis.
"Man Emerges," the central panel of the mural.
While Antioch College is famous for its work in photosynthesis, as carried on by the Kettering Foundation it is not simply for that reason that it has been incorporated into the mural. I have used the idea of photosynthesis primarily because it so significantly ties up with a depiction of THE ORDERED SOCIETY. The implications of photosynthesis are so vast in the beneficent possibilities to be released for the human race, once the secret of chlorophyll is resolved, that it might almost be said to presuppose the socialization of that virtually unlimited source of power. And that is how I have expressed it in the mural.
In the central panel, there shall be an effort to state simply the absolute equality of the two sexes—that neither is superior to the other. And in this same pictorial statement shall be an emphasis (in contradiction to the idiotic ideologies underlying Fascism) of the absolute equality of the races, their eventual and inevitable blending into one color; likewise the ultimate expansion of the spiritual propensities inherent in the generic human being. In essence, the central panel will proclaim the true emergence of Man—something expressing the human being that will be possible once mankind is freed from the tragic insecurity and suffering attending his present state.
It is upon this assumption—idealistic indeed—that some such state of human perfection can be realizable once man has ordered his society.
"Order," the right panel of the mural.
I believe it is the task of art to objectify and set forth these ideals.
An ordered society is undeniably one of the major goals of the human race. To the degree that it is achieved, we might suppose, to the extent that Man be allowed to take the next step in his long evolution up from the mud and slime out of which science tells us he began. When Man has ordered the economics of his physical existence, then—and then only—will he step forward and begin his spiritual evolution—a program as comparably vast, truly, as his physical evolution has been vast, And he will expand into an inconceivably wonderful state of being beyond any past or present estimation.
Would I be though mad if I say I see the people of the future communicating with each by means of what we now rather hoaxingly term mental telepathy? Mad if I see the eventual control of health and physiological functions so perfected and brought within the discipline of the mind that death will be unknown on the face of the earth? If I say I see men visiting the planets wresting them from unlivable temperatures and making them habitable? If I see these planets peopled and reached within the twinkling of an eye? Mad if I say I see the measureless measured? Infinity become finite? If I say I see the universe and eternity encompassed in the palm of a hand! Yes, I suppose it is madness. But in this madness, let me sing Walt Whitman's Song of the Universe:
In this broad earth of ours;
Amid the measureless grossness and the slag,
Enclosed and safe in its central heart,
Nestles the seed perfection.
By every life a share of more or less,
None born but is born,
Conceal'd or unconceal'd
The seed is waiting.
. . . Give me, O God, to sing that thought,
Give me, give him or her I love
This quenchless faith,
In thy ensemble, whatever else withheld
Withhold not from us,
Belief in plan of Thee enclosed in Time and Space,
Health, peace, salvation universal.
Is it a dream?
Nay but the lack of it the dream,
And failing it life's lore and wealth a dream,
And all the world a dream.


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Bryan R. Day Sr., of Friendly is proud to announce his engagement to Nancy McCabe of Wheeling, W.Va.
The couple has planned their wedding for 1 p.m. on Christmas Day, at the Church of Christ in Pursley. Pastor Tom Butterfield will preside over the ceremony and unite the couple in Holy Matrimony.
A reception will follow at 3 p.m. at the Friendly Community Center.
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Star Wars fans will have no trouble recognizing this character crocheted by Alison of Crafty is Cool. Salacious Crumb was Jabba the Hutt's … sidekick? Court Jester? Pet? He's one of those so-ugly-he's-cute characters, and Allison's stitches capture him perfectly. He almost looks life-sized, and he's even posable. Amazing. He's headed off to Florida for the Bear and Bird Gallery's Stitch Wars Strikes Back show — via CRAFT
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xOpen() is called when SQLite opens a cursor on a virtual table and prepares to iterate over it. xOpen() more or less just allocates a cursor object and passes it back. Similarly, when SQLite is done iterating over the table, it uses xClose() to clean up the cursor.
All of this so far is intuitive. The query process, however, is more involved.
SQLite's query process consists of three phases: compilation, execution, and finalization. The virtual table module interface addresses all three.
In compilation (when you call sqlite3_prepare()), SQLite calls xBestIndex(). This is where you can, to a degree, tell SQLite about certain optimizations that can be made to narrow the size of the result set.
In execution, SQLite calls xFilter() to initiate the search, followed by xNext() to iterate over each row of the result set. xNext() is called as a result of calling sqlite3_step(). xColumn() provides the values of each column of the current row. xColumn() is called as a result of calling one of the sqlite3_column_xxx() functions. SQLite uses xRowid() to obtain the primary key value for any given row, and xEof() to tell whether it has reached the end of the result set.
Using Indexes
Without xBestIndex(), the query process is really just a glorified for loop that iterates over the same set of data each time. In this case, it would just be a matter of starting at the root filesystem and recursively descending into each directory until you reach the end.
In this case, however, it would be horrible performance-wise to have to search the entire filesystem every time you did a query. What if you only wanted to search your home directory? It would be a complete waste of time for the virtual table to search every other directory outside of it as part of the search. This is where xBestIndex() comes in.
In some ways, xBestIndex() may be the most important part of the virtual table implementation. It is the only place where you can really dramatically reduce the size of your search path. And it may strongly influence the rest of your implementation, such as the contents of your vtab and cursor structures. Therefore, this is the area where we want to concentrate.
xBestIndex() and xFilter() work together, implementing a specific protocol whereby a set of columns can be identified as indexes. xBestIndex() works at query compile time and identifies the columns to be used as indexes. xFilter() works at runtime and obtains the constraint values for those columns.
To start, the xBestIndex() implementation is given by vt_best_index(), whose declaration is:
static int vt_best_index(sqlite3_vtab *tab, sqlite3_index_info *p_info)
SQLite passes xBestIndex() a reference to a sqlite3_index_info structure (p_info), which contains extensive information on the compiled query. This structure is organized into input and output sections. The input is an array of sqlite3_index_constraint pointers (Listing Five, available online). The output is an array of sqlite3_index_constraint_usage pointers (Listing Six, available online).
The aConstraint and aConstraintUsage contain the same number of elements, and each of their elements corresponds to the other. That is, aConstraintUseage[i] and aConstraint[i] both refer to the same column.
Consider the query:
SELECT * from fs WHERE name= 'foo' AND path='/var/log'
The constraint name='foo' AND path='/var/log' would be represented in xBestIndex() as:
p_info->aConstraint[0].iColumn = 0 p_info->aConstraint[0].op = SQLITE_INDEX_CONSTRAINT_EQ p_info->aConstraint[1].iColumn = 1 p_info->aConstraint[1].op = SQLITE_INDEX_CONSTRAINT_EQ
In this case, the name column is referenced in aConstraint[0]. We know it is the name column because its ordinal is 0 (given by aConstraint[0].iColumn), and according to our table schema, column ordinal 0 corresponds to name. The same follows for path. Furthermore, we are given the relational operator used in the expression as well. These operators are:
#define SQLITE_INDEX_CONSTRAINT_EQ 2 #define SQLITE_INDEX_CONSTRAINT_GT 4 #define SQLITE_INDEX_CONSTRAINT_LE 8 #define SQLITE_INDEX_CONSTRAINT_LT 16 #define SQLITE_INDEX_CONSTRAINT_GE 32 #define SQLITE_INDEX_CONSTRAINT_MATCH 64
Thus, we have the flexibility of choosing not only the column of interest, but the equality conditions under which it is being used.
Here, xBestIndex() reads through the inputs (p_info->aConstraint[]) and specifies which columns it wants to use in the output (p_info->aConstraintUsage[]). To use both columns as indexes in xFilter(), you would do this in xBestIndex():
p_info->aConstraintUsage[0] = 1 p_info->aConstraintUsage[1] = 2
The values assigned to the aConstraintUsage[] elements are significant. They specify the order in which they are passed to xFilter(). In the example, this says "pass xFilter() the name column first, then the path column."
To understand how this works, you need to know a little about xFilter(). The declaration of xFilter() is as follows:
static int vt_filter ( sqlite3_vtab_cursor *p_vtc, int idxNum, const char *idxSint argc, sqlite3_value **argv );
The values from xBestIndex() are passed via the argc and argv arguments. argc contains the size of argv, and argv values themselves. The order of the values in argv follows the order specified in p_info->aConstraintUsage in xBestIndex(). So, in our example above, argc will be 2 and argv will be as follows:
argv[0] = 'foo' argv[1] = '/var/log'
Now that xFilter() has this information, its job is to set up the cursor object so it can iterate through a specific set of data. In this case, we know that since path='/var/log', we will be limiting our search to just that directory (and not searching the whole filesystem). From that point forward, the cursor basically holds the state and iterates through all the files and directories in /var/log. The implementation is straightforwardit's just a standard recursive directory search using the APR library.


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LOWELL -- Sandra Medeiros lifted the wall of her future Rock Street home in the city's Acre neighborhood Tuesday morning with a crew of volunteers and students from Greater Lowell Technical High School.
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"I never thought..." said Medeiros about the prospect of living in her own home, before her voice broke, tears welling up in her eyes.
Four homes, including Medeiros', are being built on Rock Street by Habitat for Humanity of Greater Lowell.
Medeiros applied to be part of the program in October at the urging of her 14-year-old son, Deandre.
"He pushed it and said, 'Just try,' " Medeiros said.
Medeiros, a single mother with five children, said she didn't realize she deserved to have her own home.
"But somebody else believed in me," she said.
Medeiros must complete 225 hours volunteering with Habitat for Humanity. She has been working in the organization's ReStore.
Medeiros said her new home gives her hope that she doesn't have to live in poor conditions.
The apartment where she's living with her children has water dripping from the ceiling and is infested with cockroaches and mice.
She has the Board of Health coming in so that the people who live there after she moves out don't have to live in the same conditions.
"I'm living in conditions I wouldn't even let animals live in," she said.
On Saturday a group of volunteers from Bike & Build, a nonprofit that organizes cross-country cycling trips to benefit affordable housing, built the outside wall that Medeiros and volunteers lifted Tuesday.
Dan Hamel, a carpentry instructor at Greater Lowell Technical High School, and about a dozen of his students were working on the home being built next door to Medeiros.
It is the first collaboration between Greater Lowell Tech and Habitat for Humanity.
Two groups of a dozen students are working on the house and switch off every other week.
On Tuesday, the students were putting studs into the wall frame.
Hamel said it's a great opportunity for the students to be able to build a home in their community and be able to drive down the street and feel proud of what they've done.
"There is no possible way to get a better carpentry education then to get out on the job," said Hamel.
Lucas Silveira, a senior, said most of the students on the project have been working together since sophomore year. His favorite part about the project is working as a team with his fellow students.
"The teamwork is that we all get along together and all work to build this house," he said. As Medeiros stood in the morning chill in what will be her future backyard where her children will play, she marveled at the work going on in front of her.
"It's amazing," she said.
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MACON - A convicted killer who escaped from a Mississippi prison was captured early Tuesday while sleeping in a stolen truck parked near a hotel in Macon.
Members of the U.S. Marshals Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force got a call at about midnight from their counterparts in Mississippi that Michael Dowda, 48, of Harrison County, Miss., might be at the Quality Inn on Arkwright Road.
The task force checked the parking lot for the white Chevrolet Silverado prison work truck Dowda had stolen during his escape Saturday from the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman, authorities said. They also used a photo to find out whether Dowda had rented a room, said Deputy Marshal W.S. Robertson.
There was no sign of Dowda, who was serving a life sentence for the 1996 murder of Lynette Jarrett, of Woolmarket, Miss., when he disappeared from a maintenance detail on prison grounds. Prison officials said he's accused of breaking into a prison worker's home on the grounds, getting into a safe and stealing two guns.
Before leaving the hotel, Robertson spotted a black Chevrolet truck that had backed into a spot in the corner of an adjacent parking lot. "I went over there out of curiosity," he said.
He knelt down to check the tag. "It was the Mississippi plate we were looking for," Robertson said.
The white truck had been spray-painted black.
Looking through a window into the back seat, Robertson saw Dowda sleeping. He called other task force members and made a plan to block the truck with other vehicles. The task force knew Dowda had stolen two handguns while making his escape from the Mississippi prison, authorities said.
Dowda awoke and started to drive off before Robertson could reach his vehicle. Task force members used their vehicles to block Dowda, who then surrendered. Task force members pulled him from the truck and took him to the Bibb County jail, where he is being held awaiting extradition to Mississippi, Robertson told The Telegraph (http://bit.ly/TxLoYc ).
Jarrett, 25, the mother of two young children, was shot in the head. Dowda buried her remains near Gulfport, and those remains were recovered three months later.


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This semester I am studying under the head of the Technical Communications department, and--given my association with EMedia as an editorial intern--she asked me for my input on smart investments to address this issue. Her initial thought was to obtain a desktop DVD recorder, but this meant adding several steps to what had been a much more simple workflow: capturing, converting, authoring, and burning. DVD camcorders suggested another solution, but one with its own problems: cost and scarcity of the miniature DVD media those camcorders use, and the cost of the cameras themselves.
Enter Sony's DVDirect, which recently arrived at EMedia for review. A first-generation product that just began shipping to the consumer market in mid-December, DVDirect combines the capabilities of a standalone and desktop DVD burner and captures, authors, and burns simultaneously and real time. Additionally, the DVDirect (MSRP $299) can be used as a standard external USB 2.0 DVD recorder for PC-based applications when desired.
The next step in the process, naturally, was to test DVDirect in a live classroom setting. Overall, the product performed exactly as expected and described by Sony. Setup was easy, as was recording. With two analog inputs (component/RCA and S-Video), DVDirect supports a variety of camcorder sources; it all depends on what outputs your recorder has available. In the EMedia review, DVDirect was tested using analog output from a MiniDV camera, connected alternately to the Video (component) and S-Video inputs; in the live classroom shoot, we used the TC program's VHS camcorder, connected to the component video jacks.
All options such as recording format, input selection, and control selection were available and operated to their design, via single-button (for each) operation on the front panel of the drive. I selected the SP recording format because it had adequate time for recording (about 2 hrs.). I also selected the Sync function was turned on which puts the DVDirect in sync with the camcorder; and recording starts and stops in parallel with the same function on the camcorder. Both recording format and sync function are selected with a simple toggle button on front panel. And finally, one of the coolest features of the DVDirect: I was allowed to enter chapter breaks any place I chose during recording. For my uses, this meant I could create chapters at topic breaks and before the question and answer session, providing convenience for the students' self-evaluation. The DVDirect breaks recordings into titles and chapters (according to the menu structure defined in the DVD spec). Clicking Pause or Record creates a chapter; stopping and starting creates a title. Menus are built automatically, with title thumbnails (first non-black frame in the title) appearing in the menu along with timecode information. There are no chapter menus, but titles with chapters are navigable by chapter using the next button on a DVD remote.
One limitation of DVDirect for a project like this is media support. First of all, the current version of DVDirect only supports DVD+R/RW media, but not -R/RW media, which means users have to be careful what they buy. Also, because DVDirect records in DVD+VR mode (a necessity for live recording), disc finalization times can be quite long for write-once media, even for short recordings. (Based on our tests, finalization times for a one-minute disc and a 120-minute disc are equally long.) This presents a serious problem for serial recordings—you have to finalize a +R disc for it to be usable, and the interval between presentations, in this case, wasn't long enough to wait for finalization. The only way to avoid the finalization time lag is to use +RW media, which is slightly more expensive and potentially more limited for playback compatibility. But rewritable media has its benefits: students can document multiple presentations throughout the semester on the same disc if the media used is +RW.
In my test, only two troubles arose. The first, simply a matter of equipment surprises, was the single-channel output on the camcorder I used in contrast to the stereo-input on the DVDirect. Able to be resolved with a simple audio converter, or a camcorder with stereo outputs, this problem only produced poor sound on the first DVDs I produced. The second problem was slightly more serious. The DVDs I burned were not recognized by the DVD±R/RW drives in the Dell computers supplied in many university compter labs. Students produce vast quantities of work on these computers, and the lack of compatibility could definitely be an issue, particularly for students without players at home.
After all was said and done, I chose to recommend DVDirect to the department head. Its benefits for the TC application are great: true to its name, currently, it represents the most direct way to move their presentation output to DVD and thus make it more accessible to more students. In completing an equipment update, the DVDirect would be an asset in conveniently producing high-quality authored DVDs.
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Popis: Joseph Losey's "KING AND COUNTRY" tells an antiwar story from the time of World War I, having as a hero a young deserter who faces execution. Losey loves to deal with the topic of justice, and has done so many times in previous films, fighting obsolete social institutions. We should bear in mind that, chased by McCarthyism himself, he left his hometown and settled in England in 1952, where he has lived for the rest of his life. Although the film features Dirk Bogarde, whose performance in "THE SERVANT" was sublime, Tom Courtney finds himself in one of the best moments of his career. The film was shown in Greek theatres, where it went unnoticed. In the program the rest of the director's filmography is mentioned: "THE SERVANT", "THE BOY WITH GREEN HAIR", "ACCIDENT", "THE GO-BETWEEN" and "THE ASSASSINATION OF TROTSKY".
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Gov. Rick Perry caused a bit of a stir when he visited the House floor Friday, with lawmakers abuzz over the prospect of a special session.
"Is there anybody here in the House today we could ask about a special session?" Rep. Harold Dutton, D-Houston, asked from the back microphone as Perry talked with lawmakers
As Perry left the chamber, trailed by an anxious group of reporters, Perry was asked how he's doing. His response: "I am fabulous."
Having a slightly less fabulous time are budget negotiators who've been trying to figure out how to put a final stamp on the budget deal.
Some have suggested a special session could be needed to tie up the budget, or is almost certainly looming on redistricting or perhaps other subjects.
Asked if we're headed to a special session, Perry said, "We're headed for the end of the session."
Hard to argue with that.
Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst said he has asked Perry to include issues including anti-abortion and pro-gun proposals on a special-session agenda. Many are talking about a special session on redistricting, and Dewhurst raised the idea that the budget deal may have to be finalized in a special session if disagreements can't be worked out.
The latest impediment in budget negotiations is the long-simmering wrangle over giving $630 million in customer discounts on electric bills from the System Benefits Fund, which was originally collected to help needy people.
Senators tied the plan to a bill containing an additional $200 million in education funding sought by Democrats. But Democrats, particularly Rep. Sylvester Turner of Houston, said they won't support that move. Turner said he can't support taking money from poor people to advance a tax-cut agenda.
Republicans have a majority but they must satisfy Democrats, whose support is needed to reach a two-thirds threshold for taking money from the rainy day fund for water infrastructure, as sought by leaders.
Democratic support also was needed for a proposed constitutional amendment to dedicate that money. The dedication, if approved by voters, would keep the spending from counting against the spending cap, sparing Republicans a tough vote to break the cap.
Senate leaders have described the refunds as an important part of lawmakers' effort to meet Perry's demand for tax relief, along with franchise-tax breaks.
Perry, asked whether System Benefits Fund refunds count as tax relief in his view, said, "Hmmm," calling it "an interesting question" and "a good one" and adding, "I'm going to have to give that some thought."
House Speaker Joe Straus, R-San Antonio, asked about Dewhurst's push for a special-session agenda to include conservative causes, said, "I'm focused on the session we're in, not any prospective special sessions."
Straus said he was hopeful of getting the spending bill into a conference committee so negotiators could work on it.


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Retired developer Cynthia Bensch will represent District 7 on the Beaufort County Council after soundly defeating petition candidate Dan Duryea by a 45-point margin, according to unofficial results with 75 of 84 precincts reporting.
Bensch, the official Republican Party choice, ran a campaign on opposition to the just-approved $25 million land preservation bond referendum and a more pro-development tone. Duryea was bounced from the Republican primary in an election paperwork debacle that ousted more than 200 other candidates statewide.
In his campaign, Duryea emphasized support for the land preservation referendum as an historical legacy, his opposition to prioritizing the Bluffton Parkway phase 5B realignment and the need to find solutions to the county's looming solid waste problem. He generally struck a tone as the candidate opposed to "big box" development at great expense to taxpayers on a per job basis and the environment.
Neither Bensch or Duryea could be reached Tuesday night for comment.
Bensch came under fire during the campaign for leaving out key information from media surveys. She omitted two failed County Council bids from the 1990s for the Island Packet and returned her own questionnaire to Bluffton Today in place of the one delivered to both candidates.
At an open forum last week, an audience member questioned her true residency. The District 7 home where Bensch is registered is under her son and daughter-in-law, according to county records.
Bensch says her now-deceased father built a house on the lot owned by her son with her own money, and since his death she and her husband, Gary, have split time between an Eagle's Point home and the property at 29 Martingale West, which lacks the garage Gary uses at the rental in Eagle's Point to store equipment for his contracting business.
Voters couldn't vote a party-line ticket and still select the independent Duryea. About 2,060 voters across five District 6 precincts voted straight Republican tickets. Another precinct had yet to report its results. Bensch drew 2,795 votes to Duryea's 1,057.
Poll workers in the district reported no technological glitches or irregularities. The only problem was the Election Day staple of voter confusion about precinct changes or assigned locations.
"People say, 'Oh, well I've always voted here,' said Judith Blanchard, a poll manager at Bluffton Elementary School. "That's been it."
Duryea, a political newcomer, runs the Belfair residential development as its director of community management. He's lived in Beaufort County for 32 years.
Bensch ran real estate development and construction firm Bensch-Mark Builders with her husband for decades - a background she stressed makes her better able to cultivate a more business-friendly environment with less red tape.
New Council members will take office Jan. 2.
Results won't be certified until Friday.


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Dell Inspiron 6400 Core 2 Duo laptop
An inspired Inspiron?
Review With the advent of Intel's Core 2 Duo processors we're at last beginning to see the kind of power and portability that was being claimed, somewhat optimistically, back in the early days of notebook computing. Not one to miss out, Dell has rolled out its Core 2 Duo based Inspiron 6400...
The 6400, like so much of the Dell range, comes in a variety of user-defined guises so bear this in mind when it comes to the performance numbers and features I'll be making reference to. Indeed, in the time we've had the notebook, a Dell special offer has upped the memory to 2GB from the two 512MB modules of DDR 2 SDRAM featured in our version.
Our particular model also came equipped with Intel's impressive new mobile Core 2 Duo processor, the T7200, which ticks along at 2.0GHz off a 667MHz frontside bus. 4MB of shared L2 cache helps speed things along too. Like the entire mobile range of Core 2 Duo processors it operates at between 1.0375V and 1.3V and runs comparatively cool for its speed.
Furthermore, our test unit arrived with an ATI Mobility Radeon X1400 graphics chip and not the X1300 currently offered on Dell's website as standard for all but the most basic version of the 6400. The X1400 upgrade will set you back around £47 and is probably worth the extra money seeing as the X1300 combined with the 15.4in WSXGA+ screen will not be compatible with Windows Vista. In addition all models - again, except the basic one - now come equipped with an 8x dual-layer DVD°R/RW drive. The hard disk is a Samsung 120GB SATA unit which should fend off obsolescence over the life of the notebook.