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Joined: 10 Jun 2008
Posts: 12
Posted: Thu 12 Jun 2008, 16:55
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Acer Aspire 5315 no sound etc.
Subject description: all is there, but no sound
I just got a puppy! I have fallen in love with the sheer potential i see here! gr8 work Barry! i applaud you on your litter of pups!
now is the part where i excuse myself for my lack of knowledge and experience.
and on to the facts:
I have an Acer Aspire 5315 notebook that i bought in Moscow, Russia. the only USEFUL references i have found on this particular computer are on Russian sites. (still don't get the technical stuff, I got the conversation part but computer tech is too much)
the notebook specs are:
Acer Aspire 5315-051G08Mi
Celeron - 1730 MHz - 1GB RAM - Chipset: Intel® GM965 Express
Intel® High Definition Audio - Codec: AC97
my puppy, "sabaka" is the one made from puppy-4.00-k126.96.36.199-seamonkey.iso
after many hours of intense sleep deprivation i think its time to ask for help.
I took a Rovermate Alumess 4GB stick and reformatted it to ext3 with a boot flag. i then ran the grub bootloader utility after which i downloaded and copied the pertinent files: two .sfs files, vlinuz, initrid.gz and a save file.
after that i ran an application called pup2usb and restarted.
It all worked fine and quickly, no problem with the wizardry. no error messages on the apps that i needed.
my delimma came when i tried to play media of any kind. don't get me wrong it played and i even was able to stream, youtube and all. just no sound at all either through the headphones output nor the notebook speakers, after many restarts and wizard visits.
I also noticed that the connect wizard needed to be run after every restart. (which is rather an inconvenience than a problem)
my next issue will probably be the microphone input, i read that there were problems but i only glanced at the entry. I do skype a lot so that will also be important, after i get some sound going.
so, I throw myself at the mercy of the forum! can anyone help me get my pup house trained? any help would be gr8ly appreciated!
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Posted: Fri 13 Jun 2008, 22:50
Post subject: dead thread
wow! way to post a dead topic! this topic is the least viewed there is on the list!
oh well, on the bright side, total disregard is better than and cruel ridicule.
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Joined: 01 Feb 2006
Posts: 70
Location: Sydney, Australia
Posted: Sat 14 Jun 2008, 01:00
Post subject:
Hi, don't worry, I looked at your post!
And, here's something that might fix some of your sound problems.
(I replied to someone else's similar query just recently at http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=30213)
My Acer's close, it's an Acer Aspire 5310. To get sound working I use the "acpi=ht" parameter. To test that works on yours, try entering at the boot prompt (I only always boot from the LiveCD, 2.17 in this case):
puppy acpi=ht
Now, that gets the laptop producing sound out of the built-in speakers, but I still can't get sound to come out of any external speakers I might attach; the audio-out doesn't work. Same problem with the microphone jack, I'm afraid. I'm still looking around for some kind of fix for those, too.
I'd be interested to know if you manage to get (some) sound out of your 5315.
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Location: BC Canada
Posted: Sat 14 Jun 2008, 01:50
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Open a terminal and tyoe in alsaconf to run the alsa configuration wizard. See what happens...
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John Doe
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Location: Michigan, US
Posted: Sat 14 Jun 2008, 03:14
Post subject:
Trobin wrote:
Open a terminal and tyoe in alsaconf to run the alsa configuration wizard. See what happens...
modinfo: could not find module snd
modinfo: could not find module snd
modinfo: could not find module snd
I think they might be any of these:
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Posts: 12
Posted: Sat 14 Jun 2008, 04:53
Post subject: !!!
thank you guys for responding!
hi Trobin, and thank you for the tip! i tried that and it came out the same. no error messages, for all intents and purposes i should be getting sound.
i checked all 3 of the mixers and i noticed something curious, both the alsamixer and the sgmixer shows the wrong audio card. i have Intel HDA AC97 and sgmixer shows Realtek ALC268. also in alsamixer the headphones channel is red highlighted. ??? in addition to that, all of the volume faders on the zmixer stay at 0 and won't budge, with the exception of the pcm fader which syncs with the others just no change in volume.
Indy, many thanx! I use the usb not the cd, because on my computer the settings are dropped each time i restart. even with save. so i don't really know how that is done. where would i type 'puppy acpi=ht' if booting from a usb flash?
John Doe, thank you as well! I found the snd files but unfortunately i don't know what to edit about them or how.
I have browsed all of the pertinent forum threads but nothing i saw worked. as soon as i find out what to do, i will post the results in detail!
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John Lewis
Joined: 03 Dec 2007
Posts: 148
Location: Albany West Australia
Posted: Mon 07 Jul 2008, 04:25
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Hello stefec,
I've just at last got sound working on my wifes ACER Aspire 5315
We have pupeee B4 on a usb stick. Used pupeee because it recognised the wireless card.
Anyway after looking through the forums I found some information and when I put it all together it it worked.
This is what I did.
1) Run the Alsa wizard. (Won't get sound but it will set things up.)
2) go to the etc directory and click the file modprobe config. when it comes up in the editor, at the bottom you will see something like "alias snd-hda intel" and so forth . under the last entry add
options snd-hda-intel model=acer
Save this and exit
3) Bring up a terminal and type alsamixer. Use the arrow keys and bring each of the first three columns to maximum .
4) bring up puppy mixer from the menu and bring its columns up to max as well.
You should now have sound. My first test was to go to the audio folder in Puppy-Reference Directory and make the puppy bark.
You may have to carry out steps 4 and 5 each time you start puppy.
Hope this helps.
John Lewis
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Posted: Mon 07 Jul 2008, 07:39
Post subject: mega thanx!
Subject description: not quite
Hey there John Lewis! man i'm glad and thankful that you took the time to help me out!
so i did what you suggested, however my machine remains mute.
i'm not sure why, but it won't play wav files either. other files .pls, .mp3 play without sound.
Is there some other mixer that i'm not aware of? i have the alsa mixer and sgmixer, both are turned all the way up.
maybe i should try some heritage drivers?
one last thing, what was the Puppy version again? i have a sneaking suspicion that the version i have (see original post) is missing something. i would like to try the version you have, maybe there's a patch for this problem now.
thank you again for responding to my post, its people like you that make it worth bothering with such a forum! cheerz!
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John Lewis
Joined: 03 Dec 2007
Posts: 148
Location: Albany West Australia
Posted: Mon 07 Jul 2008, 08:45
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Hi stefek,
Sorry that didn't work.
This is the version I used.
I think also available on www.puppylinux.ca
If you boot puppy from the disk you could also try at the boot prompt
puppy acpi=ht That also worked for me.
Tomorrow I'll put the puppy on another thumbdrive and replicate what I did to make sure I've not left out any steps.
John Lewis
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Posted: Mon 07 Jul 2008, 10:00
Post subject: Its alive!!!! hahahahaaaaa!!!
Subject description: Got it on!
Big correction!
the modprobe edit worked!!!
thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!
John Lewis you are the man!
So here's how it went, i followed your instructions exactly then restarted the JWM and the X server and nothing happened... disappointment ensued... some 30 min later it suddenly my computer cut off, as in from one second to the next off.. i thought it was all over and would never start again after two attempts to boot up were unsuccessful. then on the third attempt it started. nothing seemed different until i continued my flash game. voila, sound!
so to anyone who has been following this post, follow the instructions given in John Lewis' post in this thread and restart a couple of times, you should get sound.
Thank you again for your valued input! without you i would be now sitting in silence unable to hear my wonderful hard dance stream! unless you love electronic music as much as i do, you couldn't understand how happy i am that i can surf and hear my EDM streams!!
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John Lewis
Joined: 03 Dec 2007
Posts: 148
Location: Albany West Australia
Posted: Tue 08 Jul 2008, 00:35
Post subject:
Hi stefek,
I'm pleased it worked out for you.
I downloaded and installed puppy 4.00-k2-6.21.7 on a stick, set up ALSA , and added the line to modprobe.conf, then found it didn't work until I rebooted. Anyway you found that out before I got around to telling you.
I had much trouble with the Atheros wireless. I sorted that out so if you need to know what to do for that let me know.
You know, all I did was make use of the information I found on this site. So it's not just me you have to thank but all the fantastic people on this forum who are so willing to share their knowledge.
(Edit) The information I used came from Tempestuous's post in the How To forum under ALSA configuration for Intel HD Audio. So he's the one to thank.
That's one of the things that makes Puppy and this forum so terrific .
All the best,
John Lewis
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Posts: 12
Posted: Tue 08 Jul 2008, 20:22
Post subject: recordings?
Subject description: how 2
Hi John!
thanks to tempestuous and you, everything is now fully functional on my computer as it is, with no pnp stuff. well that is with the exception of the sound input and the internal sound bus. i'm not sure how to configure it to record streams or external audio. i'm sure its just as simple as the soundcard config. however my lack of knowledge still limits me.
i'm a musician and i want to record myself and my friends playing together, though i'm not very hopeful that i can even find software of sufficient quality to go to the trouble to set it up. would you happen to know if there is studio quality recording software for puppy or some way to adapt some to it?
I'm lost on that part.
as always your help is greatly appreciated! I'll buy you a beer sometime, or whatever you drink!
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John Lewis
Joined: 03 Dec 2007
Posts: 148
Location: Albany West Australia
Posted: Wed 09 Jul 2008, 01:25
Post subject:
Hi Stefek,
I'll have a play with sound input and see what I can find.
As to the software. Perhaps have a look at Audacity I think it is available as a pet package in the repositories. You will have to search. I can't say how professional it might be but good to try.
By the way. It is useful to make a copy of your save file somewhere so if you mess up you can copy it back and not have to do everything all over again. That has saved me often.
John Lewis
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Posted: Wed 09 Jul 2008, 20:40
Post subject: Oh yeah, back that baby up
thanx for the tip! yeah i have it on various different flash drives, i had to do it like that since they otherwise all come up in a list and stall the start up. audacity i am familiar with, i'll try that! thank you again!
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The European Commission has decided to propose a fundamentally new approach to tackling the very high prices paid by consumers and businesses when they use mobile networks in another EU country.
We are proposing a long-term structural solution to get to the root cause of roaming rip-offs, namely the lack of competition. By giving mobile users more choice, and by making it easier for alternative operators to gain access to the roaming market. For voice, for text, and for data.
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This week on 'Dancing with the Stars,' one of the leaders fell on the scoreboard and Carson Kressley stayed on the bottom — but I don't want him to get the boot!
What a whirlwind! It was '80s week on Dancing with the Stars Oct. 17 and host Tom Bergeron told us we're already halfway through season 13 — how the time flies! Since the very first week, I've been pulling for Ricki Lake to take home the Mirror Ball Trophy, but after tonight's performance, I think J.R. Martinez might be more deserving. He actually looked like more of a pro dancer than a contestant!
Hope Solo: Hope and Maks' tango to "Livin' On A Prayer" could have been amazing, but there was something too intense about Hope's performance that made it odd. "You're so strong that sometimes you have to realize less is more," Carrie Ann Inaba said. I agree completely. At the end, Hope did some crazy moves with the microphone that made me uncomfortable. 24/30
Carson Kressley: Carson and Anna's dances continue to get more and more ridiculous with each passing week and their jive tonight was no exception. Carrie Ann complained that his technique was terrible for week five, but Bruno raved, "That was loopier than a Looney Tune." Len sadly told them it wasn't enough for them to come back next week, but Carson indignantly said, "We'll let America decide." VOTE, AMERICA, VOTE! 19/30
Nancy Grace: Last week, Nancy's dance was emotionless and a little awkward, but tonight I felt like she and Tristan redeemed themselves with their rumba. Carrie Ann felt like it was disconnected, but I actually thought it was entertaining and fun. Bruno said, "For me, it was one of your best performances" and I'm on his level. Keep Nancy around for another week! 22/30
J.R. Martinez: Holy genius samba! Where did that come from?! We all knew J.R. has great natural ability, but he hit it out the ball park tonight with the sexiest samba I've ever seen. "You're like a…sex machine," Bruno raved. "I'm telling you! You had so much fire down below it was like a volcano! Brilliant!" Couldn't have said it better myself…I think he's my favorite to win at this point. 28/30
Rob Kardashian: Rob and Cheryl killed their rumba to "Hello" by Lionel Richie. Thus far in the competition, Rob's seemed unsure of himself on the dance floor, but tonight he finally took control and had a commanding performance. "I said from the beginning I saw potential in you," Carrie Ann said. "That was strong and sexy!" 25/30
Chaz Bono: Chaz's samba with Lacey to "Get Down on It" by Kool & the Gang was entertaining, but he struggles compared to his competition. "That was the most dancing I've seen you do!" Carrie Ann said. As far as dancing ability is concerned, Chaz is on Carson's level, but I think he's less fun to watch. He made a valiant effort, but it's time for his ship to sail… 21/30
David Arquette: It was weird seeing David telling Kym how the dance should be choreographed — he was so scared the moves wouldn't follow the rules! I thought the dance to "Tainted Love" was David's best yet. "We're at the beginning of the end," Len said. "You have to show up or shut up…and you have shown up and it was fantastic!" 25/30
Ricki Lake: Ricki and Derek Hough have probably been the two most consistent dancers in the entire competition, but tonight she flubbed majorly on her foxtrot. To be honest with you, I hardly noticed their timing was off, but the judges ripped them a new one. Last week when Chynna Phillips screwed up once, she got booted the next day. I don't think will happen to Ricki, but it's scary nonetheless! 24/30
Overall, J.R. impressed me the most tonight and I think he's going to take the Mirror Ball Trophy. In my opinion, Chaz should get the boot this week. He's objectively the least skilled dancer in the competition! What do YOU think? Who's getting eliminated tomorrow?
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What if aliens really do exist?
The thought itself is too much for BBC bosses to handle.
The media behemoth shut down a TV presenter's plan to point a radio telescope at a newly-discovered planet over fears aliens might answer back.
Professor Brian Cox said the BBC was concerned the experiment, to be staged live on air during his show Stargazing Life, broke the corporation's health and safety rules.
"We decided that we'd point the Jodrell Bank telescope at the planet (Threapleton Holmes B) that had been discovered by these two viewers (in January) and listen because no one had ever pointed a radio telescope at it and you never know,'' Mr Cox said on BBC radio.
"The BBC actually said, 'But you can't do that because we need to go through the regulations and health and safety and everything in case we discover a signal from an alien civilisation'."
"(I said), 'You mean we would discover the first hint that there is other intelligent life in the universe beyond Earth, live on air, and you're worried about the health and safety of it?'
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February 27, 2010 Ephemera Society
Ephemera Journal
The Ephemera Journal, until now appearing every two years, will be published three times a year, each issue 32 pages in color. There will be more pages of articles and less of time-sensitive material that you will be receiving in the eNews, although important reviews and other member information will be included.
Call for Articles
The unifying theme for this first issue (of three) of volume 14 of the Ephemera Journal might be called "family business." Harley Spiller's passion for newsstand paperweights grew out of both his father's collection and the family business; John Harris collected Ferris wheel material to help document his grandfather's salvage operation that specialized in world's fairs; John Sayers began collecting ocean liner memorabilia in 1954 when he went with his parents to England on the Cunard Line RMS Franconia and returned on the Queen Elizabeth. All three collections document social ephemerality as well: newsstands, once vital to the urban experience, are gradually disappearing (along with the paperweights and even printed newspapers); world's fairs lost their luster; passenger liners have been overshadowed by cruise ships. As with so much else, a way to recapture the vitality of these past experiences is through ephemera.
Themes for future articles include: American Myths (think Paul Bunyan, Davy Crockett and the Alamo); and Memory & Mourning. If you have an article, a collection, or know of someone researching these or other topics of interest to ephemerists, please let us know!
--Diane DeBlois, editor
Ephemera News
The Ephemera News is no longer being printed in its previous format but has now become an expanded monthly electronic publication, the eNews. If you are a member and are not receiving the eNews, please contact the society to have your email address included on our distriubtion list.
The Ephemera Society began issuing Ephemera News in 1981 to stay in touch with members, to offer news of current events, to publicize new publications, to feature member profiles, and to publish articles on topics that were of interest to members. Read more >>
Early issues of Ephemera News are out of print, but are available in photocopy form for $3.50 plus $2.00 postage. More recent issues are available for purchase for $4.00 plus $2.00 for postage. Contact the Society for more information.
Index of Ephemera News
This complete online Index of Ephemera News lists more than 1,100 entries, some of them containing dozens of individual references. Two separate reference listings follow the Index on this page—a bibliography of Book Reviews that have appeared in Ephemera Newsand a complete listing of Advertisers.
A photocopy of all three sections—Index, Book Reviews, and Advertisers—may be purchased for $20 including postage. Make check payable to Ephemera Society and mail to ESA, PO Box 95, Cazenovia, NY 13035 or visit the online store >>. You can also access a PDF version of the Index here >>
The Ephemera Journal - Special Editions
|Janus, the Roman god of doorways, is reported to have had the power to look both outwardly and inwardly at the same time. The fact is that most of us are not blessed with such omni-directional vision. The contributors to this issue of The Ephemera Journal, however, seem to share this Janus-like ability to focus on one aspect of their world and see something else at the same time.
They share with the rest of us the ability to accept the ordinary surface view, but then, unsatisfied, they're always looking under the carpet searching for more.
Like Richard McKinstry, many of us have marveled at the robust output of the mid-19th-century printer Charles Magnus. Rich McKinstry had seen hundreds of the lettersheets, patriotic envelopes, broadsides, city views, maps, rewards of merit, sheet music, even valentines that the German-born Magnus produced during his 50-year career in the U.S. What he hadn't seen was the kind of scholarship that such a prolific job printer like Magnus should have generated. So, instead of being satisfied with the superficial, he dug more deeply into Magnus's background to see what else a fresh eye might see.
The same kind of questioning fuels Gretchen Sorin's scholarship, but her quest to search below the surface was, this time, very personal. Unknown to her as a child, her family had taken advantage of the guiding hand that steered many African Americans through rejection and even the very real threat of danger as they traveled through the Jim Crow era -- The Negro Motorist Green-Book. Little known now, even to African Americans, Sorin has taken a fresh look at the publication that lasted for decades and helped Negro travelers maintain their dignity and sense of well being in a still hostile nation.
Somewhat like the others, Erika Piola embarked on one journey and found herself compelled to follow one of the side roads she had discovered along the way. While cataloging a collection of Civil War ephemera for The Library Company of Philadelphia, she was fascinated by the scope and variety of stationery sundries that focused on women and children. The ephemera she was cataloging became primary sources that allowed her to examine the ways in which women and children became involved in the war being fought by their fathers, brothers, and uncles.
When Richard Sheaff gets his teeth into a solitary, obscure piece of ephemera he is likely to toy with it like an English bulldog, for years if need be, pulling, chewing, growling, and feinting until he's teased more context out of it than anyone thought possible. That's what he did with a singular piece of paper that had been printed by Boston's first wood engraver, Abel Bowen. From that singular scrap he has gathered other amazing pieces that flesh out the successful business relationship between Bowen and Boston' first hat maker, Thomas Stearns.
We can be thankful that people like these exist who are willing to look beyond the obvious to coax little-known realities from printed ephemera.
--Eric Johnson, Editor
Other Publications
The Encyclopedia of Ephemera: A Guide to the Fragmentary Documents of Everyday Life for the Collector, Curator, and Historian by Maurice Rickards, edited by Michael Twyman
Cameo Cards & Bella C. Landauer: A Monograph of the Ephemera Society of America, 1992
The Before and After Trade Card by Ben Crane
An Atlantic Telegraph by Robert Dalton Harris & Diane DeBlois
Rewards Of Merit by Patricia Fenn & Alfred P. Malpa
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King's X guitarist Ty Tabor was born on September 17, 1961, in Jackson, MS. As a youngster, he began playing guitar and formed a bluegrass band with his brother on banjo and his father on washtub bass; they played festivals around Mississippi and opened for country legends Louis Marshall "Grandpa" Jones and Minnie Pearl. But as a teenager, Tabor discovered the wonders of hard rock. Influenced by KISS, Rush, the Beatles, Queen, and Aerosmith, Tabor would spend hours on end practicing and playing along to the latest hits by these legendary acts. This led to a decision to make music his life, as he soon began forming rock bands around the South in the late '70s/early '80s (one being the Christian rock outfit Matthew). Around this time, Tabor became enthralled with the guitar playing of Phil Keaggy and formed a group with ex-members of Keaggy's band: bassist/vocalist Doug Pinnick and drummer Jerry Gaskill.
The new band went through a few names (the Edge, Sneak Preview) before settling on King's X. By combining Tabor's irresistible Beatlesque melodies, Pinnick's soulful vocals, and heavy rock … la Queen and Rush, the band has become one of rock's most respected groups, releasing such metal classics as Gretchen Goes to Nebraska, Faith Hope Love, and Dogman on Atlantic Records. Although major mainstream success has eluded them thus far, the band has built a large and loyal following due to incessant touring. In 1997 (during a break from touring with King's X), Tabor released his first solo album, Naomi's Solar Pumpkin (available through mail-order only); its follow-up, Moonflower Lane, was waxed a year later on Metal Blade Records. Despite rumors of an impending breakup, King's X released their seventh studio album, Tape Head, in October 1998, following it up with such further releases as 2000's Please Come Home...Mr. Bulbous and 2001's Manic Moonlight.
Tabor has also formed the prog metal supergroup Platypus, joining forces with members of Dream Theater and the Dixie Dregs issuing a pair of releases thus far, 1998's When Pus Comes to Shove and two years later, Ice Cycles. As if his schedule wasn't full already, Tabor has guested on albums by other artists, including Carmine Appice's Guitar Zeus, and Greg Bissonette's self-titled debut, and has either mixed or mastered albums for Geek, Driving West, Poundhound, and Supershine.
Comparable to Brian May and Ace Frehley, Tabor has an identifiable guitar style all his own, and unfortunately remains one of rock's most underrated guitarists (just check out King's X tracks such as "Over My Head" and "Moanjam" for proof).


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The new term has brought with it a workload of such epic proportions that I've just completed 21 full working days without any kind of break. My AST role has finally vanished, so it's back to the rigours of a full teaching timetable, spiced up with five brand new subjects that I haven't taught before. Hopefully this excuse adequately covers the lack of updates on the blog.
I've just finished teaching a short series of lessons on plate tectonics to year 9. We started by looking at the impact of tectonics on human history using the Deep Earth resource I wrote about last year. I used the 2004 SE Asia tsunami to illustrate short and long term aid (I save the Japan tsunami for GCSE) and finished with the classic Montserrat activity. I wanted to devise a differentiated assessment that would recap and reinforce knowledge as well as allowing the students to show what they've learned. I came up with a simple concept map that is easy to modify for any topic. Students are given a list of key words from the topic, an A3 sheet and instructions to find and describe as many links as possible. There is a selection of bonus words to stretch the most able and a mark scheme. It's super simple and brings nothing new at all to the world of assessment.


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I've got an issue with author's template. It works great and displays authors profiles as expected, but the issue is that you can see non-authors profiles also (contributors / subscribers, basically all registered users, including and admin) simply by substituting username in URL (www.mysite.com/author/subscribername).
Is there any simple way to fix it and show 'authors' profiles only and return 'page not found' for others?
In advance of your support, thank you.
Update: Solution I've applied and will use (unless someone will advise how to amend the initial query). This returns proper 'page not found' page, including 'page not found' page title:
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My name is Paul Orleck and I am currently heading into my fourth year at the College of Mount St. Joseph as a graphic design major.
Currently I am doing a co-op for the Marvin Lewis Community Fund. I work as the lead designer of a non-profit organization, who is continually working on brochures, billboard ads, posters, invitations, logos, and a lot more. The kinds of events that I design for consist of: Learning is Cool, Football 101, Tailgating for the Bengals Game, Cincinnati Scurry, Bengals Training Camp, the Pink Out Bengals Game, Marvin Lewis Golf Classic, and a lot more. The job doesn't just consist of designing. I also have a lot of work dealing with marketing and communication as well.
I absolutely love this co-op! It can be a lot of work at times and the deadlines can be crazy too. However there has been a lot, and I mean a lot of benefits, such as meeting Coach Marvin Lewis and having dinner at his house, getting to meet Andy Dalton and taking some swings on the golf course with him, going to Reds games, and also getting to frequently network with companies all over the Greater Cincinnati region.
I plan on graduating from the Mount next spring and attend graduate school for my MBA. My ultimate goal is to run my own design firm. This co-op has allowed me to witness the Marketing and Communications side of a company, even when my main focus is on design.
The Marvin Lewis Community Fund is an amazing place to work. The people here are knowledgeable, helpful and fun. Since just starting this past May, this place really seems like a small family, which is definitely hard to find in a workplace. My advice for anyone that wants to work here is to study and work hard at school because it will benefit in the long run. However, the best advice I could give would be yourself, because anyone that knows me I still joke around and have fun in the workplace.


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National Science Digital Library: Resources for K-12 Teachers
The National Science Digital Library: K-12 Teacher's Resources site is a guide to NSDL resources and information organized especially to fit the interests of teachers, media specialists, and others working with K-12 students. The site includes subject guides or pathways and other resources selected particularly for K-12 audiences.
- Database Provider: National Science Digital Library.
Express Link (bookmark): http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=nstr


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Community Developments Investments (November 2013)
A Look Inside…
Barry Wides, Deputy Comptroller, Community Affairs, OCC
This issue of Community Developments Investments focuses on successful initiatives and programs that have allowed banks to expand their financing for small business development in rural areas across America. We highlight these enterprising examples because rural communities offer opportunities and resources that you will not want to overlook.
Rural areas comprise nearly 75 percent of the land area of the United States, according to a report by the Carsey Institute, but are home to only 51 million people, or about 17 percent of the U.S. population in 2010. Most rural towns have fewer than 2,500 residents. These communities face particular challenges that became even tougher during the recent recession. These challenges include rising unemployment, which has forced a growing number of young people to head to urban areas in search of jobs, as well as tightening credit in the wake of the financial crisis, which has made it more difficult for some small businesses to get financing.
These challenges, however, also present opportunities. Where banks are unable to meet customer needs working alone, community development financial institutions (CDFI), certified by the U.S. Department of the Treasury, can form partnerships with banks or provide technical assistance to small businesses. To stimulate the financing needed to meet community needs and goals, some federal agencies offer guaranteed loan programs and tax incentives that help mitigate risks to lenders. In addition, new trends have emerged in the types of rural businesses that are encouraged by government incentives, including renewable energy production, expanding manufacturing, and growing food for nearby cities.
Working with a combination of these financial tools, rural communities can form alliances that help them to grow their own assets, create businesses and jobs, and take advantage of homegrown talent to retain residents and attract new ones. In this newsletter, we include articles that give examples of how these alliances work.
For example, Peoples National Bank uses the U.S. Small Business Administration's (SBA) new Small/Rural Lender Advantage initiative to make start-up loans to local small businesses. Northern Initiatives is a CDFI that uses the SBA's Community Advantage 7(a) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Intermediary Relending Program to make small loans and to partner on large loans with local banks. Associated Bank helps increase local manufacturing with the Agriculture Department's Rural Development Business and Industry Guaranteed Loans. Wells Fargo, which has expressed a goal of bringing financing to small communities with big needs, has found that the Treasury Department's New Markets Tax Credit Program can be an essential tool for investing in operating businesses and real estate projects in rural communities. And the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC), a federal-state partnership, funds a wide range of initiatives to promote economic development in high-poverty areas of the Appalachian region.
This newsletter also reviews the expansion in 2005 of the "community development" definition in the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), as well as the newly proposed changes to the "Interagency Questions and Answers Regarding Community Reinvestment" that clarify how banks can earn CRA consideration for serving rural communities even if those communities are beyond the banks' branch-based footprint.
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rappcu necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 74 diseños de 17 diseñadores freelance.
**update 5/17**
A lot of these designs are becoming very similar, I'd like to see something different and new. Come up with something unique.
We are a start up bat company seeking an eye catching logo that will create brand recognition
Our target is men, under 40, who play in adult baseball leagues throughout the North America and Carribean
We need a logo for display in all advertising, such as website, Business Card, Letterhead etc.
World Bats
- Ideal image includes a map or a globe
- Think old world or antique maps
- It needn't be an accurate political map, but should express countries or regions
- the words "World Bats" or "World Bat Company" must be in design.
- Design must include a map or globe
- Think old world or antique map
- It needn't be an accurate political map, but should express countries or regions
- Words "World Bats" ,"World Bat Company", or "WB" must be in design.
- Would like to use "WB" or "World Bat" to be placed on bat at trademark (see the "R" at http://mlb.imageg.net/graphics/prod…2960dt.jpg
- I would like a clean design)
- I do not want a cartoon-ish logo
- I do not want bubbly letters
- I do not want gaudy or "bling bling"
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In conjunction with Darwin2009 Houston, a year-long celebration of Darwin's 200th birthday and 150th anniversary of the publication of "On the Origin of Species," HMNS will host a series of events exploring the contributions of this famous scientist.
Today's guest blogger is Francisco J. Ayala, who shares some his findings here prior to his Feb. 24 lecture at the Museum, on "Darwin's Gift to Science and Religion," a part of HMNS' Distinguished Lecture series.
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Darwin occupies an exalted place in the history of Western thought, deservedly receiving credit for the theory of evolution. In The Origin of Species, he laid out the evidence demonstrating the evolution of organisms. However, Darwin accomplished something much more important than demonstrating evolution. Indeed, accumulating evidence for common descent with diversification may very well have been a subsidiary objective of Darwin's masterpiece. Darwin's Origin of Species is, first and foremost, a sustained argument to solve the problem of how to account scientifically for the design of organisms. Darwin seeks to explain the design of organisms, their complexity, diversity, and marvelous contrivances as the result of natural processes. Darwin brings about the evidence for evolution because evolution is a necessary consequence of his theory of design.
The advances of physical science brought about by the Copernican Revolution had driven mankind's conception of the universe to a split-personality state of affairs, which persisted well into the mid-nineteenth century. Scientific explanations, derived from natural laws, dominated the world of nonliving matter, on the Earth as well as in the heavens. Supernatural explanations, which depended on the unfathomable deeds of the Creator, were accepted as explanations of the origin and configuration of living creatures. Authors, such as William Paley in his Natural Theology of 1802, had developed the "argument from design," the notion that the complex design of organisms could not have come about by chance, or by the mechanical laws of physics, chemistry, and astronomy, but was rather accomplished by an Omnipotent Deity, just as the complexity of a watch, designed to tell time, was accomplished by an intelligent watchmaker.
It was Darwin's genius to resolve this conceptual schizophrenia. Darwin completed the Copernican Revolution by drawing out for biology the notion of nature as a lawful system of matter in motion that human reason can explain without recourse to supernatural agencies. Darwin's greatest accomplishment was to show that the complex organization and functionality of living beings can be explained as the result of a natural process—natural selection—without any need to resort to a Creator or other external agent. The origin and adaptations of organisms in their profusion and wondrous variations were thus brought into the realm of science.
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Evolution can be seen as a two-step process. First, hereditary variation arises by mutation; second, selection occurs by which useful variations increase in frequency and those that are less useful or injurious are eliminated over the generations. "Useful" and "injurious" are terms used by Darwin in his definition of natural selection. The significant point is that individuals having useful variations "would have the best chance of surviving and procreating their kind." As a consequence, useful variations increase in frequency over the generations, at the expense of those that are less useful or injurious.
Natural selection is much more than a "purifying" process, for it is able to generate novelty by increasing the probability of otherwise extremely improbable genetic combinations. Natural selection in combination with mutation becomes, in this respect, a creative process. Moreover, it is a process that has been occurring for many millions of years, in many different evolutionary lineages and a multitude of species, each consisting of a large number of individuals. Evolution by mutation and natural selection has produced the enormous diversity of the living world with its wondrous adaptations.
Francisco J. Ayala is a noted biologist and philosopher at the University of California at Irvine's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Don't miss his lecture on Feb. 24 – or any of the other Darwin2009 events planned at HMNS this year.


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Almost two years ago I published a blog post with a tool that I developed to help debug data merge and layout problems: http://blogs.adobe.com/formfeed/2009/05/debug_merge_and_layout.html
I continue to use this sample pdf on a regular basis. It has a reserved location among my desktop icons for quick access. But occasionally I'd run into PDF forms that cause it to hang. So finally I took the time to find and fix the problem. While I was at it, I took care of a couple other minor issues. The updated form is available for download here. I hope you find it useful.


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Chronic homelessness solution found
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of Washington Post
Meet the outsider who accidentally solved chronic homelessness
Washington Post, May 6, 2015
Posted: 2015-06-29 10:15:41
Meet Sam Tsemberis. He's all but solved chronic homelessness. His research, which commands the support of most scholars, has inspired policies across the nation. The results have been staggering. Late last month, Utah, the latest laboratory for Tsemberis's models, reported it has nearly eradicated chronic homelessness. Phoenix, an earlier test case, eliminated chronic homelessness among veterans. Then New Orleans housed every homeless veteran. Homelessness has long seemed one of the most intractable of social problems. For decades, the number of homeless from New York City to San Francisco surged – and so did the costs. At one point around the turn of the millennium, New York was spending an annual $40,500 on every homeless person with mental issues. Tsemberis ...unfurled a model so simple children could grasp it, so cost-effective fiscal hawks loved it, so socially progressive liberals praised it. Give homes for the homeless, and you will solve chronic homelessness. Success begat success. The federal government tested the model on 734 homeless across 11 cities, finding the model dramatically reduced levels of addiction as well as shrank health related costs by half. "Adults who have experienced chronic homelessness may be successfully housed and can maintain their housing," the report declared. Utah's Gordon Walker, explain[s] how his state succeeded at eliminating homelessness – and saved millions, "It was costing us in state services, health-care costs, jail time, police time, about $20,000 per person. Now, we spend $12,000 per person."
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U.S. Military Wanted to Provoke War With Cuba
2001-05-01, ABC News
In the early 1960s, America's top military leaders reportedly drafted plans to kill innocent people and commit acts of terrorism in U.S. cities to create public support for a war against Cuba. Code named Operation Northwoods, the plans reportedly included the possible assassination of Cuban émigrés, sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high seas, hijacking planes, blowing up a U.S. ship, and even orchestrating violent terrorism in U.S. cities. The plans were developed as ways to trick the American public and the international community into supporting a war to oust Cuba's ... Fidel Castro. America's top military brass even contemplated causing U.S. military casualties, writing: "We could blow up a U.S. ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba," and, "casualty lists in U.S. newspapers would cause a helpful wave of national indignation." The plans had the written approval of all of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and were presented to President Kennedy's defense secretary, Robert McNamara, in March 1962. But they apparently were rejected by the civilian leadership and have gone undisclosed for nearly 40 years. The Joint Chiefs even proposed using the potential death of astronaut John Glenn during the first attempt to put an American into orbit as a false pretext for war with Cuba. Should the rocket explode and kill Glenn, they wrote, "the objective is to provide irrevocable proof … that the fault lies with the Communists." The scary thing is none of this stuff comes out until 40 years after.
Note: Why was ABC the only major news source to report on this highly revealing story? Read the shocking declassified documents on Operation Northwoods. Many military and political leaders look at the world as a grand chessboard. Sacrificing pawns (innocent civilians) is sometimes necessary to capture the queen. Explore revealing news articles on military corruption. Then check out eye-opening 9/11 news articles.
Inside the secretive Bilderberg Group
2005-09-29, BBC News
How much influence do private networks of the rich and powerful have on government policies and international relations? One group, the Bilderberg, has often attracted speculation that it forms a shadowy global government. Every year since 1954 [they have brought] together about 120 leading business people and politicians. At this year's meeting in Germany, the audience included the heads of the World Bank and European Central Bank, Chairmen or Chief Executives from Nokia, BP, Unilever, DaimlerChrysler and Pepsi ... editors from five major newspapers, members of parliament, ministers, European commissioners ... and the queen of the Netherlands. The chairman ... is 73-year-old Viscount Etienne Davignon. In an extremely rare interview, he played down the importance of Bilderberg. "I don't think (we are) a global ruling class because I don't think a global ruling class exists." Will Hutton ... who attended a Bilderberg meeting in 1997, says people take part in these networks in order to influence the way the world works, to create what he calls "the international common sense". And that "common sense" is one which supports the interests of Bilderberg's main participants. For Bilderberg's critics the fact that there is almost no publicity about the annual meetings is proof that they are up to no good. Bilderberg meetings often feature future political leaders shortly before they become household names. Bill Clinton went in 1991 while still governor of Arkansas, Tony Blair was there two years later while still an opposition MP. All the recent presidents of the European Commission attended Bilderberg meetings before they were appointed. Informal and private networks like Bilderberg have helped to oil the wheels of global politics and globalisation for the past half a century.
Note: Why is this meeting of top world leaders kept so secret? Why, until a few years ago, was there virtually no reporting on this influential group in the major media? Thankfully, the alternative media has had some good articles. And a Google search can be highly informative. Explore many other revealing major media news articles on powerful secret societies. And for those interested, check out reliable, eye-opening information covering the big picture of how and why these secret societies are using government-sponsored mind control programs to achieve their agenda.
[9/11] Hijack 'suspects' alive and well
2001-09-23, BBC News
Another of the men named by the FBI as a hijacker in the [9/11] suicide attacks on Washington and New York has turned up alive and well. The identities of four of the 19 suspects accused of having carried out the attacks are now in doubt. Saudi Arabian pilot Waleed Al Shehri was one of five men that the FBI said had deliberately crashed American Airlines flight 11 into the World Trade Centre on 11 September. His photograph was released, and has since appeared in newspapers and on television around the world. He told journalists there that he had nothing to do with the attacks. He has contacted both the Saudi and American authorities. He acknowledges that he attended flight training school at Daytona Beach in the United States, and is indeed the same Waleed Al Shehri to whom the FBI has been referring. But, he says, he left the United States in September last year [and] became a pilot with Saudi Arabian airlines. Abdulaziz Al Omari, another of the Flight 11 hijack suspects ... says he is an engineer with Saudi Telecoms, and that he lost his passport while studying in Denver. Meanwhile ... a London-based Arabic daily says it has interviewed Saeed Alghamdi. He was listed by the FBI as a hijacker in the United flight that crashed in Pennsylvania. And there are suggestions that another suspect, Khalid Al Midhar, may also be alive. FBI Director Robert Mueller acknowledged on Thursday that the identity of several of the suicide hijackers is in doubt.
Note: The deceptions in the 9/11 official story are clearly shown in this key story. The FBI never revised its list of alleged hijackers. These four are all listed in the official 9/11 Commission report as the hijackers. Click here and scroll down a little over half way to see their photos in the official report. For more, see this webpage. Explore also concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles with evidence of a 9/11 cover-up from reliable major media sources. Then examine an abundance of reliable information suggesting a major 9/11 cover-up.
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Vaccine no match against flu bug that popped up near end
2019-06-27, ABC News/Associated Press
The flu vaccine turned out to be a big disappointment again. The vaccine didn't work against a flu bug that popped up halfway through the past flu season, dragging down overall effectiveness to 29%, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported. The flu shot was working well early in the season with effectiveness put at 47% in February. But it was virtually worthless during a second wave driven by a tougher strain, at just 9%. There was "no significant protection" against that strain, said the CDC's Brendan Flannery. Flu vaccines are made each year to protect against three or four different kinds of flu virus. The ingredients are based on predictions of what strains will make people sick the following winter. This season's shot turned out to be a mismatch against the bug that showed up late. That pushed down the overall effectiveness to one of the lowest in recent years. Since 2011, the only season with a lower estimate was the winter of 2014-2015, when effectiveness was 19%. A mismatch was also blamed then. Vaccines against some other infectious diseases are not considered successful unless they are at least 90% effective. But flu is particularly challenging, partly because the virus can so quickly change. Overall, flu vaccine has averaged around 40%. Flu shots are recommended for virtually all Americans age 6 months or older.
Note: This article was strangely removed from the website of ABC News. It is still available here. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles on vaccines from reliable major media sources.
Who is Jeffrey Epstein, and why has he been arrested again?
2019-07-11, NBC News
Jeffrey Epstein, the millionaire financier, registered sex offender and acquaintance of presidents of both parties, was expected to appear in federal court in New York on Monday in connection with federal sex trafficking allegations, multiple law enforcement officials said. Epstein, 66, of Palm Beach, Florida, was being held in the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan after he was arrested Saturday in Teterboro, New Jersey, in a joint investigation by the FBI and New York police. The arrest stems from incidents spanning from 2002 to 2005. Epstein has been in the news for more than a decade since he pleaded guilty in 2008 to procuring a person under 18 for prostitution and felony solicitation of prostitution, according to his plea agreement on charges brought in Florida. Epstein is registered as a sex offender in Florida under a non-prosecution agreement he signed with the office of the U.S. attorney for Miami. Epstein's non-prosecution agreement ... limits the scope of the agreement to only the Miami area. If Epstein is alleged to have committed illegal acts in other parts of the country, the agreement would no longer protect him. Federal prosecutors in New York allege that from at least 2002 through 2005, Epstein paid girls as young as 14 hundreds of dollars in cash for sex at either his Manhattan townhouse or his estate in Palm Beach. Epstein is being charged with one count of sex trafficking conspiracy and one count of sex trafficking, and faces up to 45 years in prison if found guilty.
Note: For lots more, see this Miami Herald article and this one. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles on Jeffrey Epstein from reliable major media sources.
Jeffrey Epstein's arrest shows the power of one newspaper's investigation
2019-07-08, CNN News
In the past year the Jeffrey Epstein case was catapulted onto the national news radar by one newspaper, the Miami Herald, and by one reporter in particular, Julie K. Brown. The paper's "Perversion of Justice" series came out last November, and Brown has stayed on the story ever since. As soon as The Daily Beast broke the news that Epstein had been arrested on Saturday evening, fellow journalists and other observers credited Brown and thanked her for the tenacious investigation. Law enforcement officials are also giving credit to the reporting. "We were assisted" by "some excellent investigative journalism," Manhattan US Attorney Geoffrey Berman said at a Monday morning press conference. William Sweeney, the assistant director-in-charge of the FBI's New York office, added, "We work with facts. When the facts presented themselves, as Mr. Berman hinted at, through investigative journalists' work, we moved on it." While they didn't cite Brown or the newspaper by name, Berman said in response to a question about the Herald, "we are certainly aware of that reporting." Brown was ... actually scheduled to interview another one of Epstein's accusers on Monday. But after he was arrested, she cancelled that flight and booked a ticket to New York. True to form, she sought to shift the spotlight, away from her own work and toward her subjects. "The REAL HEROES HERE were the courageous victims that faced their fears and told their stories," she tweeted Sunday.
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Building MySQL from the source code enables you to customize build parameters, compiler optimizations, and installation location. For a list of systems on which MySQL is known to run, see http://www.mysql.com/support/supportedplatforms/database.html.
Before you proceed with an installation from source, check whether we produce a precompiled binary distribution for your platform and whether it works for you. We put a great deal of effort into ensuring that our binaries are built with the best possible options for optimal performance. Instructions for installing binary distributions are available in Section 2.2, "Installing MySQL on Unix/Linux Using Generic Binaries".
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For information on building from one of our development trees, see Section 2.11.3, "Installing MySQL Using a Development Source Tree".
For information on using the configure command to specify the source build parameters, including links to platform specific parameters that you might need, see Section 2.11.4, "MySQL Source-Configuration Options".
To install MySQL from source, the following system requirements must be satisfied:
gunzip to uncompress the distribution and
a reasonable tar to unpack it (if you use a
.tar.gz distribution), or
WinZip or another tool that can read
.zip files (if you use a
.zip distribution).
GNU tar is known to work. The standard
tar provided with some operating systems is
not able to unpack the long file names in the MySQL
distribution. You should download and install GNU
tar, or if available, use a preinstalled
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gnutar, gtar, or as
tar within a GNU or Free Software directory,
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is available from
A working ANSI C++ compiler. GCC 3.4.6 or later, Sun Studio 10 or later, Visual Studio 2005 or later, and many current vendor-supplied compilers are known to work.
A good make program. Although some platforms come with their own make implementations, it is highly recommended that you use GNU make 3.75 or newer. It may already be available on your system as gmake. GNU make is available from http://www.gnu.org/software/make/.
libtool 1.5, available from http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/. 1.5.24 or later is recommended.
If you run into problems and need to file a bug report, please use the instructions in Section 1.7, "How to Report Bugs or Problems".


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HAYWARD — A nonprofit organization and the family of a Hayward man found dead in an abandoned auto repair shop have doubled a reward to $2,000 for information about his killing.
The family of Luis Ernesto "Neto" Calleros and Citizens for the Lost of Oakland are doing everything they can to keep the case in the public eye, said Amy Rickard, a spokeswoman for the citizens organization.
A second candlelight vigil is planned for the evening of Dec. 22 to mark the two-month anniversary of Calleros's death. The location of the vigil has not yet been set.
Calleros was last seen Oct. 22, leaving a home near Folsom and Pompano avenues in south Hayward, police said. His father reported him missing Nov. 1.
His body was discovered on Nov. 7, in the abandoned Perry and Key Auto Repair Shop on Mission Boulevard in Hayward, police said. Authorities have not released a cause of death but are treating the case as a homicide
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From GENE LOGSDON
One of the bright spots in our fumbling, bumbling economy is the progress of urban and suburban farming, especially in connection with farmers' markets. But there is another aspect of this coming together of city and country that needs more innovative thinking. I was traveling through Shaker Heights and Cleveland Heights in Cleveland, Ohio, recently and was struck by how much of this beautiful, old, well-heeled residential area is really old growth forest with houses in it. And I mean real, old growth forest—lots of huge trees towering over the castle-like residences so densely that the houses are almost hidden from view.
My first thought was how much people love trees because there is considerable risk involved when these trees inevitably die or age enough so that storms drop them on the houses. My next thought was to try to calculate how much wood was growing here in this urban forest which will probably end up in a landfill. Oddly enough, the answer to both potential problems is the same.
Let us take, just for discussion purposes, five square miles of this kind of urban forest. A mile square is 640 acres, so five miles square would be 3200 acres. An acre of established woodland can produce a cord of wood a year without diminishing itself, so the experts agree. With good forestry practices it can do better than that, but let's go with that figure. Let's assume that every acre in this old growth urban forest would produce half a cord a year because the houses and lawns take up some of the room. So this tract in Cleveland could be producing 1600 cords of wood a year. At let's say $200 a cord (more than that as a replacement for heating oil right now), that's $320,000 a year.
Now try to imagine how many wooded urban acres there are in this country. We're talking millions and millions and millions of dollars in wood mostly going to waste due to a lack of planning and management. The main problem is that we don't think in tree time. Humans are lucky to live 80 to 90 years. The life cycle of trees is twice that at least, but it is, nevertheless a cycle. We tend to think of our beloved trees as monuments but they are living things. We should be planting them and harvesting them on a schedule of about eighty to a hundred years to take advantage of their value as lumber or fuel while avoiding most of the possibility of storm damage. The issue is increasingly pertinent, especially now that power companies are again thinking seriously of using wood for some of its electrical generation.
The first management plan should involve the choice of trees used for urban forests. Maples and oaks, for example, are just as pretty as smaller ornamental trees but contain more BTUs for fuel and better wood for lumber. But even small trees can make good firewood, and some of them, dogwood for example, are high in BTUs or for specific wooden products. Persimmon wood used to be used for sidewalk and road pavers almost as durable as brick. It also makes beautiful golf drivers.
The supply of this kind of wood is only going to increase tremendously. Newer subdivisions and their trees are in the process of becoming the mature urban forests of tomorrow. Older village and town residential areas are already facing lots of problems because of storm damage and power outages as their trees grow bigger and older. Starting now for a planned, orderly cycle of harvesting old trees and growing new ones, of varieties known for good lumber or fuel wood products, will at the very least alleviate the cost of removal and could eventually become a profitable enterprise. It will also generate jobs. Already there is a big increase in the number of tree removal businesses, increasing use of bucket hoists and other tree handling equipment. You may have noticed, if you live in an urban forest, the appearance of a new job skill. A new brand of tree trimmer has come along who swings from tree to tree on ropes, able to remove huge tree limbs over houses with a chainsaw, piece by piece, in places where no other removal method is feasible.
Since residential home owners almost always prune their trees as they grow, they can start doing it to produce clean-limbed, valuable logs for lumber sales. This kind of urban forest farming is a totally win-win situation because although the rewards of selling the wood may be years and years away, the reward of enjoying the trees as they grow is ongoing and the environmental benefits of those trees taking in carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen are lifesaving. City planners have often proposed the idea. When are we going to start listening?


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Kanye West and Kim Kardashian trade Bel-Air mansion for £12 million estate
Rapper KANYE WEST and his new wife KIM KARDASHIAN are flipping their newly built Bel-Air mansion and have reportedly purchased a £11.9 million estate in Hidden Hills, California.
The newlyweds are ready to put down their roots in a sprawling property that is not far from where Kardashian's manager mum Kris Jenner lives in Calabasas, where the couple has been living since the birth of daughter North last June (13).
The new estate, which previously belonged to Lisa Marie Presley, boasts two swimming pools, two spas, two barbecue centres as well as its own vineyard, according to E! News.
West and Kardashian originally intended to move into the £6.5 million Bel-Air house last year (13), but ongoing construction prevented them from doing so.
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Kathy always provides easy to follow instructions. Her albums are useful and functional. This is a must have for basics on mini album creation that will translate into any type of album-big or small.
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The book is 35 pages packed with intricate instructions on how to make several mini albums. I love all the minis provided each with its' unique style. The albums were easy to create. The techniques used in building these mini's can also be incorporated into your other scrapbooking projects. If you want to get into interactive scrapbooking, this is a must have in your library. Looking forward to more of Kathy Orta's books and DVD's.
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One Care: Profiting Off Patients?
November 18, 2012
By Chris Fleisher
Valley News Staff Writer
Burlington — At a recent health care conference in Burlington, Church Hindes wanted to make something clear to the audience of physicians and hospital administrators in the audience.
There'd been a lot of questions lately over the new accountable care organization that Fletcher Allen Health Care and Dartmouth-Hitchcock were proposing to form. Specifically, around its tax status.
"I assure you, we made OneCare Vermont as non-profit as it could legally be made," said Hindes, Fletcher Allen's vice president of accountable care and Vermont managed care.
Which is to say that it is a for-profit in name only, Hindes said. Due to conflicting state and federal laws, the Twin State's largest health care providers had their hand forced, in essence, to check a box they didn't want to check.
What they are hoping to do is simply provide more efficient, coordinated care to Vermonters, Hindes said.
OneCare's application to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is still pending, but if approved, it would provide a framework for a vast swath of the state's health care providers to work together in treating patients.
The ACO could be up and running by January.
For more on ACOs, see related story, "Taking Accountability: DHMC Explores ACOs"
Although there are some differences from Dartmouth-Hitchcock's Pioneer ACO — namely, that there's less financial risk in OneCare — it would essentially work the same. Any provider that participates would get to share in the savings realized from treatment that cost less, as long as it met standards for high-quality care.
The ACO would include 13 of the state's 14 hospitals — Porter Medical Center in Middlebury was the only one to opt out — as well as a slew of rural health centers and private practices. Mt. Ascutney Hospital and Health Center, Gifford Medical Center and Springfield Hospital have all signed on.
It could include more than a third of the state's Medicare beneficiaries — 40,000 people.
But if Dawn Griffis has anything to say about it, she won't be one of them.
"I am totally opposed to this OneCare," said the 72-year-old Hartford resident.
The reason, she said, is because the corporate structure that will oversee these disparate providers is technically a for-profit. And anytime she hears that word in health care, she fears the results.
A native of England, where there has long been a nationalized system of care, Griffis has practiced as a nurse since 1956. And wherever she's gone, she's been disgusted by what she's seen when care givers are motivated by money.
The consequences include unnecessary tests, physicians abusing the system and people rushed out the door before they were ready, she said.
The kind of coordinated care that OneCare is proposing to deliver could be a good thing, she said. But she can't come to terms with its for-profit status.
"Their idea is good," she said. "But whenever they have for-profit, corruption comes in. It never fails."
The reason OneCare is a for-profit is because it has to be, Hindes said.
Federal regulations governing ACOs require that at least 75 percent of the governing body include providers participating in the network. By contrast, Vermont's non-profit corporation law says that no more than 49 percent of the individuals serving on the board can have a personal financial stake.
And so, they set up OneCare as a for-profit, Hindes said, confident that the two founders — both non-profit entities — as well as the array of non-profit providers who would be participating, would govern it with the public interest in mind.
"This is not some scheme to get into the for-profit business," Hindes said in a recent interview.
Almost all of the "profits," or savings, that Medicare would pass on to the hospitals goes to the providers in the network, with the remaining 10 percent going toward the ACO's infrastructure, according to the application to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
The dustup created by the for-profit question back in September, when the news was made public, has since settled down, Hindes said. But it remains a problem for at least a few people, including Griffis and Ann Raynolds.
Raynolds is a psychologist with practices in Quechee and White River Junction. Like Griffis, Raynolds believes doctors should be working together on patient care. And also like Griffis, her hackles go up when she hears about for-profits in health care.
"I don't get the for-profit motive in health care," she said. "That's what we've been fighting in health care."
Both Griffis and Raynolds are not only health care professionals but also, due to their ages, Medicare beneficiaries. Neither woman knows whether she is part of an ACO, but they could make an educated guess based on where they get the bulk of their primary care.
Patients are usually assigned to ACOs according to their primary care physician, both for Medicare and commercial programs. If a Medicare beneficiary gets most of her primary care at Dartmouth-Hitchcock, for example, there's a good chance she's part of the Pioneer ACO.
Federal rules require ACOs set up under Medicare to notify anyone who's been "attributed" to them, or included among the population of patients for which the ACO has agreed it will be accountable. The letter provides a description of what the ACO is about and gives patients the choice of opting out of having their information shared with the providers.
When Dartmouth-Hitchcock sent out 19,000 of those letters last December for its Pioneer ACO, only around 500 people decided against participating, according to Barbara Walters, executive medical director at Dartmouth-Hitchcock. It was one of the lowest opt-out rates among all of the 32 Pioneer ACOs, she said.
But then, there was no question about Dartmouth-Hitchcock's tax status.
Hindes says that shouldn't matter.
"Tax status does not determine behavior," Hinds said. "Leadership determines behavior."