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From queens and knights to horsemen and squires, the performers of Medieval Times dinner theatre castle in Buena Park, California, voted to unionize Thursday after months of back and forth with the company.
Low wages, dangerous working conditions, and a lack of respect from company management incited performers to fight for more job security and join theAmerican Guild of Variety Artists, which represents some performers at Disneyland and Universal Studios Hollywood, said Erin Zapcic, a union organizer.
Medieval Times puts on two-hour performances inspired by 11th century Spain of jousting, sword fighting, and hand-to-hand combat as guests eat a four-course meal. The cast includes knights, squires, stablehands who handle the horses, show cast with speaking roles, and trumpeters.
How the vote manifested
The vote, 27-18, was a decisive one to the surprise of some performers, including Zapcic, who plays a queen at Buena Park.
The vote marks the end to a nearly four-month journey for performers at Buena Park to unionize due to delays caused by company management, she said.
"The company really used the time to sow the seeds of discord, create a divide within the bargaining unit, and so based off the way things were going and the people we were talking to, even though we started with a super majority of the bargaining unit, there was considerable attrition or at least so it seemed throughout the process," Zapcic said.
Buena Park performers petitioned for a union election on July 22 following the vote at the New Jersey location in July, she said. The Medieval Times has 10 locations across North America, including Atlanta, Ga, Chicago, Il, and Toronto, Ontario.
Medieval Times delayed the union election date by contesting that only Knights and Squires should be allowed in the union, excluding the show cast and stables department, according to Medieval Times Performers United Californiaon Aug. 18. Medieval Times argued that knights and squires do not share a "community of interest" with the show cast and stablehands.
Medieval Times did not respond to a request for comment.
"Medieval Times tried to separate and divide its California workers after it agreed to a single bargaining unit in New Jersey and then lost the election by a lopsided margin," Spivak Lipton LLP attorney Nicholas Johnson said in a statement. "The Regional Director saw through the employer's meritless arguments and correctly found that a single bargaining unit is appropriate."
Medieval Times did not contest the petitioned-for bargaining unit in New Jersey, according to Medieval Times Performers United.
The votes at Buena Park and New Jersey castles have created a domino effect company-wide, as more castles have expressed their interest to unionize, Zapcic said.
A call for higher wages to reflect the danger of the job
Knights perform dangerous stunts that require them to fight with real titanium weapons and throw themselves off horses at 25 mph for the performance, Zapcic said.
These dangerous duties have led to ankle, knee, and head injuries, according to performers in New Jersey, and knights do them all for about $19 to $29 an hour.
"The job will always be dangerous for the guys, but they should be compensated accordingly," she said. "There should be a correlation between how dangerous their job is and how they're compensated."
Those who want to become knights and aspire to go into athletics or become a stunt performer typically start off as squires, who make "essentially minimum wage," Zapcic told the LA Times. A knight who previously worked as a squire at the New Jersey castle made $12 an hour.
The horses and falcon that the show rely on also add an element of uncertainty for workers' safety, particularly for stablehands who can make $16 an hour.
Zapcic compared Medieval Times shows to Broadway shows, seating about the same number of people and putting on more shows a week. They put up to 10 to 16 shows during a normal week compared to most Broadway shows' eight, but the number can go up to 21 between Christmas and New Year's Day. Many knights and squires will have to perform in nearly every show during this busy season.
Upon hearing Zapcic's comparison to Broadway shows, she said Medieval Times management responded, "You're not Broadway. It's dinner theatre."
Zapcic said, "There was a dismissiveness and feeling that the company views us as replaceable and having a union really sets us apart and shows that... we take our jobs seriously and we want to be treated with the same respect."
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Three Kinds of Awesome
After finishing up Durarara!, in the process of roughing out a proper review I had one of those moments where I found neat, oversimplified boxes into which to artificially categorize the world, which is a personal hobby of mine. In this case, my tidy categorization is one prefaced by "There are three kinds of awesome things in anime:"
Note here that I'm talking about the colloquial kind of awesome, as in "Dude, that was awesome." Whether you talk like that or not, you probably know the feeling I'm talking about here.
This does not count, of course, many things I love because of their artistic vision or unbridled imagination and craftsmanship—most works of Miyazaki, for example, or films by Makoto Shinkai. Those are great artistic works that tickle a different part of my brain; I'm talking about the things that  get my fanboy love of anime going, and make me want to buy cels or rant to friends about how much fun they are.
So, my three categories: Things that give me exactly what I want, things that give me what I didn't know I wanted, and things that make me ask for the unlikely (or impossible), then give it to me.
The first group is obvious—anime that give me exactly what I've always wanted to see. For example, I've often mused that it would be awesome to have a story in which the mastermind villain was a good guy. Code Geass: Boom, awesome (leaving aside R2 sawing its own legs off). Or, being an avid paper-and-dice role player, I've long loved the idea of a character with the stats of a barbarian but trained as a mage (a friend of mine actually played one once). Rune Soldier Louie: Boom, awesome.
The second group is sort of the opposite of that—shows that give me something I didn't think I would be interested in, but turns out to be awesome in execution. Spice and Wolf tops this list. Fantasy about a wayward wolf god and a merchant wandering around a mundane fantasy world? Might be interesting, but sounds boring and depressing at worst and melancholy at best. In reality? Awesome.
Daphne in the Brilliant Blue: Oh, great, yet another sci-fi show about a bunch of overarmed, over-violent, over-endowed women doing odd jobs and blowing stuff up. With an amnesiac protagonist for bonus generic anime points. Probably not even worth a shot. In practice, so mercilessly vicious it's awesome.
And then there's that third category, which I hadn't put my finger on until Durarara! Specifically it's when a show—good or bad—introduces some character or concept that causes you to muse "Wouldn't it be awesome if that happened?" while in no way expecting the writer to actually go there, because that's just too wacky or uncommercial or against-cliche or whatever. And then having that be exactly what happens.
Ultimate case in point: Celty. "Okay, there's a headless harbinger of death riding around Tokyo on a possessed motorcycle doing odd jobs, and she's a good guy? That's pretty sweet, but wouldn't it be awesome if she were a main character?" With the implied follow through"…but no show would actually do that." Bam: The closest thing the show has to a main character through the whole first season. Awesome.
Other, less-extreme examples (these are pretty much all big spoilers, by the way):
Mission E. Code E was pretty entertaining, but somewhere in the back of my head was the musing "Wouldn't it be awesome if Chinami went on to become a superhero?" I of course would have expected some sort of transition, but regardless, Mission E: Chinami, badass superspy. Whatever else the series did right or wrong, that's pretty darn awesome.
Full Metal Panic, which had me saying, "Fun, sure, but it would be awesome if they just cut out the drama entirely." Â Fumoffu—bingo, awesome. Ghost Hound—creepiest therapist ever, who seems strangely helpful. "Wouldn't it be awesome if he turned out to be a good guy?" Answer: My favorite character in the show.
Of course, that last category overlaps a little with the other two, but whatever. There are also dozens of examples I can think of of things that have me thinking the same thing that don't follow through on it, but I suppose that's what makes it so satisfying those rare occasions when something does.


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President Obama Protects Arctic Waters
Outgoing President Barack Obama executed a critical order on Tuesday by banning any new gas and oil drilling in federal waters in Arctic and Atlantic Oceans. The move comes as an environmental safeguard prior to the new Republican administration taking office January 20th lead by President elect Donald Trump.
Utilizing a 1950s-era law termed the Outer Continental Shelf Act, Obama used the power of President to limit areas from mineral leasing and drilling. Trump's incoming administration will only be able to challenge and change the edict by fighting it in court according to several environmental groups agreeing with the order.
The Alaskan waters ban affects 115 million acres in the Chukchi Sea and most of the Beaufort Sea as well as 3.8 million acres in the Atlantic Ocean. A main concern of environmental advocates regarding fuel exploration in the region is the devastating affects an oil spill or gas leakage in the oceans would have on the ecosystems. Such a remote and harsh climate would severely limit the capabilities of clean-up crews and emergency response teams. Wildlife such as polar bears, whales, seals and fish would be harmed and populations of the animals could be irreversibly destroyed.
Trump has continually stated that he will seek to expand offshore oil and gas drilling in the waters north of Alaska. Recent releases from his energy transition team predicted increases in production in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas. These forecasts have been dealt a serious blow and are likely "dead in the water" at this time. Trump spokespeople would not comment on the actions.
Very limited oil and gas exploration has been happening in recent years as less expensive shale oil production primarily out of Texas and North Dakota has been the priority. Drilling off Arctic shores in Alaska is more expensive and risky in nature. Most notably, Shell Oil pulled out of the waters just last year following a shipping accident and limitation laws discovered by environmental groups limiting exploration.
Proponents for drilling such as the American Petroleum Institute, an oil industry group, stated that Trump would be able to use a presidential memorandum to lift the ban rendering the move by Obama obsolete. "We are hopeful the incoming administration will reverse this decision as the nation continues to need a robust strategy for developing offshore and onshore energy," said Erik Milito, API's upstream director.
Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are in agreement with protecting Arctic waters. The two leaders are initiating joint actions and these actions "reflect the scientific assessment that, even with the high safety standards that both our countries have put in place, the risks of an oil spill in this region are significant and our ability to clean up from a spill in the region's harsh conditions is limited." stated Obama.
In similar action Trudeau and Canada will designate all Arctic Canadian waters off limits indefinitely to any future offshore Arctic gas and oil licensing. These sanctions will be reviewed every five years through a climate and marine science-based life-cycle assessment. Obama's action, unlike the five year review applied to the Canadian law, contains no designated analysis period outlined for the U.S. law.
Under current law, authorization is not granted for reversing a previous presidential order of this kind so efforts by Trump to challenge this move will most likely need to be taken up in court via a lawsuit.
"No president has ever tried to undo a permanent withdrawal of an ocean area from leasing eligibility," said Neil Lawrence, Alaska director and attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council.


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'A dazzling book ... the new Stephen Hawking' Sunday Times The bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics takes us on an enchanting, consoling journey to discover the meaning of time 'We are time. We are this space, this clearing opened by the traces of memory inside the connections between our neurons. We are memory. We are nostalgia. We are longing for a future that will not come.' Time is a mystery that does not cease to puzzle us. Philosophers, artists and poets have long explored its meaning while scientists have found that its structure is different from the simple intuition we have of it. From Boltzmann to quantum theory, from Einstein to loop quantum gravity, our understanding of time has been undergoing radical transformations. Time flows at a different speed in different places, the past and the future differ far less than we might think, and the very notion of the present evaporates in the vast universe. With his extraordinary charm and sense of wonder, bringing together science, philosophy and art, Carlo Rovelli unravels this mystery. Enlightening and consoling, The Order of Time shows that to understand ourselves we need to reflect on time -- and to understand time we need to reflect on ourselves. Translated by Simon Carnell and Erica Segre


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An Update from the UUHA Board President
President of the UUHA...believe it or not, that title opens a lot of doors! I wanted to share a little bit of what it means to serve as President of our organization, and especially to share some of the conversations I get to be part of in this role.
Although we are relatively small, the UUHA is *the* UU group dedicated to humanism, which means we are often invited to represent UU humanism in different settings. The Secular Coalition for America includes the UUHA as one of their member organizations, and I try to make as many member meetings and lobby events as possible (and if YOU want to be involved, please let me know!).
I also serve on the Steering Committee of the Humanist Special Collection at Meadville Lombard--not precisely because I am UUHA President, but I think the role didn't hurt! The Humanist Special Collection "houses archival materials that document the growth and impact of humanism within both Unitarian Universalism and the larger world," and the Steering Committee helps to set direction for the Collection and to work for funding so that the Collection can grow and continue to serve the movement. Read more about An Update from the UUHA Board President »


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Air PBR 106.495: Heat Cleaning Devices
Ovens, furnaces, direct-flame incinerators, and other devices used to thermally remove residual combustible or semi-combustible materials from noncombustible electrical or mechanical parts are permitted by rule if they meet the conditions stated in 30 TAC Sections 106.4 and 106.495. This PBR must be claimed before construction may begin. Recordkeeping requirements are discussed.
Ovens, furnaces, direct-flame incinerators, and other devices used to thermally remove residual combustible or semi-combustible materials from noncombustible electrical or mechanical parts are permitted by rule if they meet the specific conditions stated in Title 30, Texas Administrative Code (30 TAC), Section 106.495 , and the general conditions stated in 30 TAC Section 106.4 .
Note: All PBR checklists that are made available to the public are optional and are not required forms. These checklists are provided for your convenience only.
To operate under this permit by rule (PBR), you must (1) submit a claim before construction begins and (2) keep records as described below.
Quick Screen
To determine whether your facility qualifies for this PBR, first consider these quick screens:
- The combustible material must not exceed 10 percent by weight of the total load to the device.
- The combustible material must not contain halogenated organic compounds.
Complete our PBR Applicability Checklist, TCEQ Form - 10149, to find out whether your facility meets the general conditions for a PBR.
If your facility cannot comply with these conditions, see Types of New Source Review Authorizations for other options.
Claiming a Permit by Rule
- Registration for a Permit by Rule (TCEQ Form - 10228)
Registration of a facility under a PBR can be performed by completing a Form PI-7 "Registration for Permits by Rule" or a Form PI-7-CERT, "Certification and Registration for Permits by Rule." - PBR Applicability Checklist for Section 106.4 General Requirements (TCEQ Form - 10149)
A checklist has been developed by the TCEQ to assist staff in determining whether a facility or project meets all of the applicable requirements. The use of this checklist is not mandatory; however, it is the responsibility of each applicant to show how a facility being claimed under a PBR meets all of the general and specific requirements. If all PBR requirements cannot be met, a facility will not be allowed to operate under the PBR, and an application for a construction permit may be required under 30 TAC Chapter 116, Section 116.110(a). It is recommended that this checklist be used by applicants and a copy submitted with any registration to expedite review. If the checklist is used, check the most appropriate answer and include any additional information in the spaces provided. If additional space is needed, please include an extra page and reference the question number. - Permits by Rule Registration Fee
Fees of either $100 or $450 are required for any new or updated PBR registration. Please see fact sheet for additional details.
Under 30 TAC Section 106.8 , your records must identify the rules under which your facility is operating and demonstrate compliance for a rolling 12-month period. Be sure you keep at least these records:
- a copy of Section 106.4
- a copy of Section 106.495
- records documenting compliance with the above rules.
These records must be kept on site and readily available on request for inspection by the TCEQ or any air pollution control program that has jurisdiction. If you have questions about the type of records you should keep, contact the Air Program in the TCEQ regional office that serves your county.
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By Mike Householder
Associated Press
OXFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. — A 15-year-old sophomore opened fire at his Michigan high school on Tuesday, killing three students, including a 16-year-old boy who died in a deputy's patrol car on the way to a hospital, authorities said. Eight other people were wounded, some critically.
Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard said late Tuesday that investigators were still trying to determine a motive for the shooting at Oxford High School in Oxford Township, a community of about 22,000 people roughly 30 miles (48 kilometers) north of Detroit.
"The person that's got the most insight and the motive is not talking," Bouchard said at a news conference.
The suspect's father had bought the 9 mm Sig Sauer used in the shooting on Friday, Bouchard said, adding that he did not know why the man bought the gun. Bouchard said the suspect had practiced shooting with the gun and "posted pictures of the target and the weapon."
The three students who were killed were 16-year-old Tate Myre, 14-year-old Hana St. Juliana, and 17-year-old Madisyn Baldwin. Bouchard said Myre died in a patrol car as a deputy tried to get him to a hospital.
Bouchard said authorities were made aware of allegations circulating on social media that there had been threats of a shooting at the roughly 1,700-student school, but he said they didn't know about the rumors until after the attack. Bouchard stressed how crucial it is for tips of the kind to be sent to authorities, while also cautioning against spreading social media rumors about the attack before a full investigation.
Undersheriff Mike McCabe downplayed the significance of an incident in early November when a deer head was thrown off the school roof, which he said was "absolutely unrelated" to the shooting. The vandalism prompted school administrators to post two letters to parents on the school's website earlier in November, saying they were responding to rumors of a threat against the school but had found none.
Authorities didn't immediately release the shooting suspect's name, but Bouchard said deputies arrested him within minutes of arriving at the school in response to a flood of 911 calls about the attack, which happened shortly before 1 p.m. He said the deputies arrested him after he emerged from a bathroom with the gun, which he said had seven rounds of ammunition still in it.
"I believe they literally saved lives having taken down the suspect with a loaded firearm while still in the building," Bouchard said.
McCabe said the suspect's parents visited their son where he's being held and advised him not to talk to investigators, as is his right. Police must seek permission from a juvenile suspect's parents or guardian to speak with them, he added.
Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald issued a statement Tuesday evening saying her office expects to issue charges quickly and that an update would be given Wednesday.
Bouchard said the suspect had no prior run-ins with his department and he wasn't aware of any disciplinary history at school.
"That's part of our investigation to determine what happened prior to this event and if some signs were missed how were they missed and why," he said.
President Joe Biden, before delivering remarks at a community college in Rosemount, Minnesota, said: "As we learn the full details, my heart goes out to the families enduring the unimaginable grief of losing a loved one."
The school was placed on lockdown after the attack, with some children sheltering in locked classrooms while officers searched the premises. They were later taken to a nearby Meijer grocery store to be picked up by their parents.
The district said in a statement that all of its schools would be closed for the rest of the week.
Isabel Flores, a 15-year-old ninth grader, told WJBK-TV that she and other students heard gunshots and saw another student bleeding from the face. They then ran from the area through the rear of the school, she said.
Authorities said they were searching the suspect's cellphone, school video footage and social media posts for any evidence of a possible motive.
School administrators had posted two letters to parents on the school's website in November, saying they were responding to rumors of a threat against the school following a bizarre vandalism incident.
According to a Nov. 4 letter written by Principal Steve Wolf, someone threw a deer head into a courtyard from the school's roof, painted several windows on the roof with red acrylic paint and used the same paint on concrete near the school building during the early morning hours. Without specifically referencing that incident, a second post on Nov. 12 assured "there has been no threat to our building nor our students."
Both the sheriff and undersheriff emphasized that Tuesday's shooting was unrelated to the deer head or any earlier investigation by their office.
"That was a different incident, different student," McCabe said.
A concerned parent, Robin Redding, said her son, Treshan Bryant, is a 12th grader at the school but stayed home Tuesday. Redding said her son had heard threats that there could be a shooting.
"This couldn't be just random," she said.
Bryant said he texted several younger cousins in the morning and they said they didn't want to go to school, and he got a bad feeling. He asked his mom if he could do his assignments online.
Bryant said he had heard vague threats "for a long time now" about plans for a shooting.
At a vigil at Lakepoint Community Church on Tuesday night, Leeann Dersa choked back tears as she hugged friends and neighbors. Dersa has lived nearly all of her 73 years in Oxford and her grandchildren attended the high school.
"Scared us all something terrible. It's awful," Dersa said of the shooting.
Pastor Jesse Holt said news of the shooting flooded in to him and his wife, including texts from some of the 20 to 25 students who are among the 400-member congregation.
"Some were very scared, hiding under their desks and texting us, 'We're safe, we're OK. We heard gunshots, but we're OK.' They were trying to calm us, at least that's how it felt," he said.


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Enterprise Library
patterns & practices Developer Center
April 2013
The Microsoft Enterprise Library is a collection of reusable software components (application blocks) designed to assist software developers with common enterprise development cross-cutting concerns (such as logging, validation, data access, exception handling, and many others). Application blocks are a type of guidance; they are provided as source code, test cases, and documentation that can be used "as is," extended, or modified by developers to use on complex, enterprise-level line-of-business development projects.
Active Releases
Retired Releases
- Enterprise Library 5.0 Integration Pack for Windows Azure - November 2011
- Enterprise Library 5.0 Integration Pack for Silverlight - May 2011
- Enterprise Library 4.1 - October 2008
- Enterprise Library 4.0 - May 2008
- Enterprise Library 3.1 - May 2007
- Enterprise Library 2.0 - January 2006
Benefits of Enterprise Library
The design of application blocks encapsulates the Microsoft recommended and proven practices for .NET application development. These good practices are demonstrated in the overall design of the Enterprise Library, as well in the context-specific guidelines in the design of individual application blocks and QuickStarts. Software developers can add application blocks to .NET applications quickly and easily. For example, the Data Access Application Block provides access to the most frequently used features of ADO.NET, exposing them through easily used classes. In some cases, application blocks also add related functionality not directly supported by the underlying class libraries.
Goals for Enterprise Library
Enterprise Library is a collection of application blocks intended for use by developers who build complex, enterprise-level applications.
Enterprise Library is used when building applications that are typically to be deployed widely and to interoperate with other applications and systems. In addition, they generally have strict security, reliability, and performance requirements.
The goals of Enterprise Library are the following:
- Consistency. All Enterprise Library application blocks feature consistent design patterns and implementation approaches.
- Extensibility. All application blocks include defined extensibility points that allow developers to customize the behavior of the application blocks by adding their own code.
- Ease of use. Enterprise Library offers numerous usability improvements, including a graphical configuration tool, a simpler installation procedure, and clearer and more complete documentation and samples.
- Integration. Enterprise Library application blocks are designed to work well together or individually.
The Enterprise Library has a thriving online community.
On this community site, you can post questions, provide feedback, or connect with other users for sharing ideas. Community members can also help Microsoft plan future releases of the Enterprise Library and/or related guidance, and download additional content such as extensions and training material. We also accept and encourage community contributions – see the guidelines.


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These London Gifties original design washi rolls are 2 cm wide and 10 metres long each.
The tape has a lovely feel and has been oiled in order for the foil to be protected. Kindly note these tapes are different from the usual luxury washi tapes - as a response to customer feedback I have created a 'thinner' tape that will not bulk up the journal pages as much. I hope you enjoy them! This is also reflected in the price.
I use mine in my Midori TN inserts & Hobonichi, and they make for a great addition to the spreads and it is fun sharing it with happy mails to your pen pals and other stationery enthusiasts.
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Godfather ipsum dolor sit amet. My father is no different than any powerful man, any man with power, like a president or senator. Why did you go to the police? Why didn't you come to me first? Only don't tell me you're innocent. Because it insults my intelligence and makes me very angry. My father's name was Antonio Andolini… and this is for you.
Don't you know that I would use all of my power to prevent something like that from happening? Friends and money – oil and water. Why do you hurt me, Michael? I've always been loyal to you. Sonny, please don't do anything. Please don't do anything.
You talk about vengeance. Is vengeance going to bring your son back to you? Or my boy to me? In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns. Don't ever give an order like that again. Not while I'm alive. Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment. Michael, you never told me you knew Johnny Fontane!
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli. Don Corleone, I am honored and grateful that you have invited me to your home on the wedding day of your daughter. And may their first child be a masculine child. I don't like violence, Tom. I'm a businessman; blood is a big expense. I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse. Very well. You want to do business with me. I will do business with you.
It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes. I want your answer and the money by noon tomorrow. And one more thing. Don't you contact me again, ever. From now on, you deal with Turnbull. I don't feel I have to wipe everybody out, Tom. Just my enemies. Hey, listen, I want somebody good – and I mean very good – to plant that gun. I don't want my brother coming out of that toilet with just his dick in his hands, alright?


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Sandy gives ski season a lift
Superstorm Sandy was a nasty trick for the East Coast, but what it brought to North Carolina's mountains was a treat for the ski industry. Almost a foot of natural snow and cold temperatures, aided by round-the-clock snowmaking, allowed Sugar Mountain Resort, near Banner Elk, to open on Halloween, the earliest start in its 43-year-history, and Cataloochee Ski Area, in Maggie Valley, to open in October for only the second time in 52 years.
Sugar Mountain had one of its best opening-day crowds, marketing manager Kim Jochl says. "This could definitely be a record-breaking season if we can stay open." The resort opened Nov. 12 last season but closed a couple of times that month as mild weather cut the season to 110 days, compared with a more typical 120 to 125. "From a financial standpoint, it was one of the worst seasons ever." With a cooler winter forecasted and a $250,000 investment in eight high-tech snowmaking machines, Sugar Mountain is optimistic about this season.
More than 300 people showed up Oct. 31 to ski at Cataloochee, a record-setting opening. It typically opens a few slopes a week or two before Thanksgiving. Last season was its best ever, and the resort has posted attendance increases the past several years. General Manager Chris Bates attributes the trend to the $3 million the resort invested the last six years in snowmaking equipment. Newer machines can crank out in five minutes what used to take 90.
"The sun comes up every day."
— — Bill Johnson on what he learned from being ousted as CEO of Duke Energy Corp. just hours after the Charlotte-based utility merged with Raleigh-based Progress Energy Inc. in July. In November, the former Progress CEO was named chief executive of Tennessee Valley Authority, a federally owned utility that generated $11.8 billion of revenue last year — $58 million from parts of western North Carolina. Source: Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times Free Press
LENOIR — Woodgrain Millwork will open a plant here, investing $8 million and creating 170 jobs within five years. The Fruitland, Idaho-based maker of molding, doors and windows will pay an average annual wage of $29,981, on par with Caldwell County's average of $29,640.
ASHEVILLE — Mission Health named William R. Hathaway chief medical officer at Mission Hospital. He had been its chief of staff and will continue to work part time at Asheville Cardiology Associates.
ETOWAH — Henderson County reached a $6 million settlement with Louisville, Ky.-based Lexon Insurance that will go to build infrastructure at the beleaguered Seven Falls luxury development. Lexon put up the bond to insure the infrastructure's completion. The project's developers declared it bankrupt in 2009.
BREVARD — Transylvania Regional Hospital became a full member of Asheville-based Mission Health. It had been under a management agreement with the system since January 2011.
ASHEVILLE — City Council members approved a business-improvement district downtown that will pay for tasks such as picking up trash, removing graffiti and cleaning sidewalks. Businesses will be levied a 7 cent tax for every $100 of property valuation. It will be in effect three years and would then need to be approved again by council members.


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Amos Dudley wears his skills in his smile.
The digital design major has been straightening his top teeth for the past 16 weeks using clear braces he made himself.
"I'm still wearing the last one," Dudley told CNNMoney on Tuesday.
"The last one" refers to the twelfth and final straightening tray in his self-designed treatment.
Dudley said he had braces when he was in junior high, but he didn't wear his retainer as much as he should have, and his teeth shifted.
Over time, Dudley discovered that he wasn't smiling as much because he wasn't happy with the way his teeth looked.
Name brand options for clear braces can cost up to $8,000, according to companies like Invisalign, Damon, and ClearCorrect. But the 24-year-old wanted to save money, so he found a way to manufacture his own for less than $60.
The total cost is so low because he only had to pay for materials used to make the models of his teeth and the retainers. Even though he built his own 3D printer at home, he opted to use a high-end and more precise 3D printer at his school, New Jersey Institute of Technology.
He used NJIT's equipment to scan and print models of his teeth, and mold non-toxic plastic around them to form the set of 12 clear braces.
Dudley determined out how far he needed to move his teeth to correct the misalignment problems. Then divided it by the maximum recommended distance a tooth should travel to determine the design for each alignment tray. Orthodontists use a similar process.
Researching the materials he needed and figuring out how teeth move was the most difficult part of Dudley's orthodontic adventure.
The most exciting was when he finally put the first aligner in his mouth.
"It was very obvious which tooth [the tray] was putting pressure on," he said. "I was sort of worried about accumulated error, but that wasn't the case so that was a pretty glorious moment."
Industrial and medical use of 3D printers has been widely hailed as the next big thing, but everyday consumers have not found as many ways to use them as manufacturers would like.
Stories like Dudley's, however, do a good job to illustrate how easy it might be in the future for people to make what they need rather than buy what they need.
Dudley has already gotten several requests to print braces for other people. But he doesn't want to, and he doesn't recommend anyone else try what he's done either.
"I think there's too much liability," he said. "I'm not interested in orthodontics. It was more of a hacker project than making a business out of this."


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I was asked a very good question about disclosure of a death in a property. Below is the question and my answer.
I want to list my house for sale. There was a death in the house and I want to know if it is mandatory that this information be devulged to perspective buyers. The death occured 9 years ago and I am wondering how long people have to be reminded of it.
If your response is that it is mandatory, then my questions would be:
1) For how many years?
2) When would it need to be mentioned? (Certainly not to everyone who comes through the doors)
3) To whom, would you have to mention it to.
Please note that I have been advised by my lawyer that there is no such law that it needs to be mentioned but am being told otherwise by realtors. I need to know if it is up to the realtor's discretion.
Thank you J.
Hello J.,
Thank you for your real estate inquiry. This is a very good question and one that people have debated for years.
There is no single correct answer on this issue.
Yes, your lawyer is correct, there is no law in place. The "law" for us realtors is that we must disclose any material facts that affect the market value of the property.
When there is a death in the house and depending upon the circumstances of the death, this can be a tricky situation. People pass away in their homes all the time and there is never any mention of it.
The root of the issue is that if there was a death in the house (or some other incident) that would materially affect the market value of the house today. Without knowing the circumstances of your situation, 9 years is a long time and unless it's a famous house for one reason or another or if you think that the death 9 years ago still affects the market value today and if the neighbours would still feel and talk about the death 9 years later and if the death was such that it affects the value of the house, then you may have to disclose it. Otherwise, I would not think that you do not need to disclose the death.
As far as I have been taught and told, you are not required or "obligated by law" to disclose anything about a property that may be a "stigmatized" property where there has been a death, murder or suicide or the house is "haunted". but if you/we are asked about these things, you/I must honestly answer any inquiries.
Another thing for you to think about is this.
- If we sell the house and it closes and a month later the buyer finds out about this death, do you think that the buyer would feel that we should have disclosed the death 9 years ago?
- Do you think that the buyer's decision to purchase the house would have been any different had the buyer known about the death before they submitted their offer?
For example, I had a listing where the woman hung herself in the garage of the house. It was all over the news at the time and we had to disclose the fact that she did this at the time of the listing. The house was listed again about 6 years later and there was no mention of the death in the house. I feel that's a reasonable amount of time where it no longer materially affects the market value and disclosure was not necessary.
Again, there is no law in Ontario that I know of that forces you to disclose a death in a house. If it was a suspicious death and after the closing if the buyer may feel that he or she was deceived then they could initiate a lawsuit. Of course, anyone anytime can initiate a law suit in a real estate purchase if they feel they were deceived by non disclosure.
I also think that you should consult with your lawyer on all issues such as these that you are unsure about.
Please let me know if you have any other questions or if there is anything else I can help you with.
Thank you again for contacting me and I will do my best to help you with your real estate needs,
A. Mark Argentino P. Eng. Broker
Specializing in Residential & Investment Real Estate


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Carl Weathersby....Chicago Blues Master
Carl Weathersby was born in 1953, in Jackson, Mississippi and moved to East Chicago, Indiana with his family when he was eight. When he started playing guitar as a teen he said his father always had musician friends stopping by the house. One that used to come by often was this big guy that Carl only knew as Albert, the mechanic. Albert happened to be watching the young Weathersby practicing some Albert King songs on guitar one day. Carl said he had been practicing this one song called 'Cross Cut Saw,' playing it over and over until he said, 'I think I got it. So I started playing it and this guy said, 'man, that ain't the way that song goes, that ain't the way I played it.' It turned out to be Albert King who proceeded to show an amazed Weathersby just how it was supposed to be played. King offered some welcome encouragement to Carl and took a liking to the young lad. After his tour of duty in Viet Nam, Carl found employment as a steel mill worker, as a prison guard and even a police officer. Weathersby was Albert King's rhythm guitarist between 1979 and 1982, and then spent some 15 years with Billy Branch's Sons of Blues as lead guitarist before striking out on his own. His debut solo album on Evidence Records, 'Don't Lay Your Blues On Me', was nominated for the W.C. Handy 'Blues Album of the Year' award. His latest release 'Hold On' is available online at Cdbaby.com. Mixing Southern charm, soulful vocals, and fierce guitar-playing, Carl plays the blues, from down-and-dirty to scintillating Albert King influenced chops. This is one powerful blues performer that will leave you amazed and thoroughly entertained.
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"Eight Forty-Eight" Show, WBEZ, Chicago, February 21, 2005. Interview with Carl
"Life as an ex-SOB - Carl Weathersby" by Steven Sharp (Blues Music, Now!) Carl Weathersby at Famous Dave's BBQ & Blues, April 16, 1998, by Dave Stiles Jubilee Concert Series - KET TV, Louisville, KY, 2005 Bay City Times, Michigan,Tuesday, February 14, 2006, By Pati LaLonde Carl Weathersby, An Artist Profile, by Joe Lemko" Carl Weathersby Shakes Off the Blues" in Review Magazine, Feb 18, 2006, by Scott Baker If Carl Weathersby Tells You He's Bored...Don't Believe Him" in American Blues Scene Magazine by Don Wilcock on August 16, 2013