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If you ever visit the Wild Turkey distillery, do yourself a favor and arrive from the east. As you approach the distillery, U.S. Route 62 descends a hill through lush green woods, passes over a quarry on the banks of the Kentucky River, and takes a sharp left before riding the Blackburn Bridge over the river. As you approach the bridge, you can see buildings on a ridge in the near distance. These are warehouses and distillery buildings at Wild Turkey. Just beyond the highway bridge stands the remains of a railroad bridge, 283 feet above the river. The rail bridge is now out of service, but it formerly carried freight and passengers on what became the Norfolk Southern Railway, connecting all the Southern states. Passenger traffic ended in the 1930s, and freight stopped traversing the bridge about 50 years later, but for a time, the bridge carried grain into the Wild Turkey plant and finished bourbon back out.
I visited a couple of weeks ago. The purpose was twofold. Wild Turkey is opening a beautiful new visitors' center, with stunning views of the river and its bluffs. The center itself is made of wood and glass, as you'd probably expect from a bourbon distillery. I failed to get a good exterior shot of the building, but it's described as a cathedral to bourbon, and as you view the soaring ceilings, you'd probably agree.
In the tasting room is a large copper still that spans both floors of the visitors center, pulled out of production when the old distillery was torn down.
As impressive as all that is, though, the other reason for the visit is even better. 2014 marks master distiller Jimmy Russell's 60th year at Wild Turkey. Can you imagine spending 60 years in one place? Jimmy can, and even after 60, he has no plans to retire.
Our visit ended with a cocktail reception, to launch the visitors center and pay homage to Jimmy. Among the VIPs were Kentucky governor Steve Beshear and brand reps and master distillers from other bourbon plants, including Four Roses, Heaven Hill, and Woodford. The bourbon industry is pretty tight, and less personally competitive than you'd expect, so a guy like Jimmy has fans at rival distilleries. Jimmy's family were there. His son Eddie is his right hand at Wild Turkey, even though Eddie only has 33 years tenure there and is still a relative novice compared to Dad. Jimmy's other offspring were there, along with his grandkids and a few great-grandkids.
I felt honored being among his family and friends on such a great occasion. I've always loved Wild Turkey 101; it might be my favorite American whiskey. Being there for this celebration was a real treat.
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Break out your brains, cinephiles! Every Tuesday at 8 Videology Bar & Cinema presents Movie Trivia, hosted by Wendy Mays and Kevin Cecil! Our Tuesday night trivia is our original and signature trivia event, as featured in The New York Times, Time Out, Brooklyn Magazine, and more!
Each week we bring you 6 rounds of incredibly tough movie trivia. We've got clips rounds, general knowledge rounds, picture rounds, theme rounds including famous movie quotes, not so famous movie quotes, our trademarked DVD Chapter Round™, taglines, Nicolas Cage quotes, dramatic scene recreations, and more!
Every week our winning team gets a free round of drinks. Plus, we've got free drink bonus questions in between every round. So bring your thinking caps, and your friends, and your friends' thinking caps, and join us for a night of fun!
Doors open at 7PM.
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I asked him once if he was looking for enemy planes so that they could be avoided. He indicated quite the contrary. They were spotting planes using radar screens and driving the U.S. forces toward the enemy planes to engage them. The goal of their plane (EC-121 Warning Star) was to stay clear of the fight that would ensue.
Looking back on that conversation with my father, I realized that I never really asked much more. Fighting and war are a tough subject. That brief description always made me wonder how they all survived. War is far from my favorite topic and yet it is a reality.
I had hoped the box that I was looking through at my mom's house would tell me more. While there was not much written down, there were plenty of military patches, pins, and other uniform bits and pieces.
I did go look up "College Eye" and do know now that my father was in the 965th AEWCS. My mom thinks he might have started in the 963th AEWCS at a Lt. but was moved shortly after that. Maybe because he made captain or maybe because they needed more people. I'm just not sure. There were three squadrons out of McClellan AFB at the time.
Now, my father would go on TDY to Korat RTAFB, Thailand. He was stationed in Sacramento at McClellan but was also assigned to Korat. Now that I know more, I could ask so many questions of someone "in the know". I do know that he was part of the College Eye Task Force of the 552d Airborne Early Warning and Control Wing. The USAF used the Royal Thai Air Force Base in Korat as their overseas base. My father indicated that he was sent there on a number of occasions. My mom said that right after they were married he was gone for 6 months to Korat.
It would be interesting to have contact with someone who was involved in this particular air command during Vietnam. My father is no longer around to answer questions.
I've done my best to honor his service in this post. There is so much more information that I could share about my father, including photos. For now, this is what I feel comfortable sharing.
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IP: We settled! Or did we.
When the America Invents Act (AIA) was enacted, many commentators praised a provision of the AIA that allows parties to settle a post-grant review, typically an inter partes review (IPR) or a covered business method review (CBM), by moving to terminate the proceeding. As an IPR often proceeds alongside district court litigation, this provision was expected to encourage parties to negotiate to settle both the litigation and the administrative proceeding.
The prior inter partes reexamination framework did not allow for voluntary termination. Once a reexamination proceeding was instituted, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office would proceed without the petitioner, even if it filed no additional papers. This process deprived patent owners of the opportunity to eliminate the risk of an invalidity finding by settling. IPRs were partially designed to encourage settlement by giving the parties the opportunity to negotiate a meaningful compromise.
In spite of this optimism, the AIA states that a joint motion to terminate only may end the proceeding. Even if the parties settle, and "no petitioner remains in the post-grant review, the [Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB)] may proceed to a final written decision." (Emphasis added.) This statutory language left open the question of what circumstances would cause the PTAB to move forward with a proceeding already settled by the parties.
The decision of Interthinx, Inc. v. CoreLogic Solutions LLC partially answered the question: The PTAB is willing to proceed to a final decision -- possibly cancelling the relevant claims -- even after the parties jointly moved to terminate.
Going forward, parties to any post-grant review must consider the Interthinx decision when evaluating whether to settle a dispute. This decision confirms that a patent owner is still at risk of having its patent cancelled, even if it settles a co-pending litigation or other dispute with the petitioner. If the proceeding has already been fully briefed, or if the patent owner asserted the patent against other parties, the patent owner must weigh the benefits and drawbacks of settling before the patent is possibly affirmed -- or cancelled -- during the proceeding.
If nothing else, parties must understand the potentially limited window during which post-grant review is a piece in play on the settlement board. A petitioner must know that by allowing a proceeding to reach an advanced stage, it may forfeit a valuable offering in future settlement negotiations as the petitioner. And after a certain point, the petitioner risks losing the ability to terminate the proceeding.
The Interthinx decision has provided at least some clarity to parties that are considering settling a lawsuit that has a co-pending PTAB proceeding, but this is one decision of one panel. In two IPRs involving BlackBerry Corp. and Mobilemedia Ideas LLC, the PTAB likewise denied the parties' joint request to terminate the proceedings, and instead proceeded without the petitioner. This situation will arise in many other proceedings over the coming year, providing more guidance.
Once a review reaches an advanced stage, it is beyond the control of the parties. This lack of control should motivate parties to settle a lawsuit with a co-pending IPR/CBM proceeding, or to litigate the dispute to a final conclusion -- whether a final judgment or a settlement not driven by the release of the co-pending IPR/CBM proceeding.
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10 Nov 2011, 1:53 PM
The previous thread was closed... could a mod clarify why?
11 Nov 2011, 11:36 AM
Its probably because you are distributing the full ST library which is probably against the licensing agreement. I believe Mitchell said something similar in your previous post.
You should instead publish your changes Patches, Diffs, or Overrides. Modifying the core source of any library is generally bad practice as it makes staying up to date, applying, or unapplying the changes cumbersome as the core library team releases updates and fixes.
I for one would not consider using your changes just because it directly modifies the source.
11 Nov 2011, 12:14 PM
Under the open source license: http://www.sencha.com/legal/open-source-faq/
S (http://www.sencha.com/legal/open-source-faq/)encha actually states that they encourage posting patches to the Sencha forums, so I'm confused.
As far as distributing the entire source instead of just the diffs.. All the diffs are listed in the Github commits section: https://github.com/mgcrea/sencha-touch/commits/master
A (https://github.com/mgcrea/sencha-touch/commits/master)nd the library is freely available for anyone to download from sencha.com, so what's wrong with making it available at different places around the Internet? Surely the Sencha team isn't able to keep track of all the places their javascript library is on the web.
11 Nov 2011, 12:20 PM
Distributing the entire library is entirely different from distributing patches that you have written.
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I'm not saying the patches you have written are not beneficial, I'm just guessing why the admins closed your thread and suggesting an alternate, much more accommodating way you could have posted your beneficial changes.
Jamie Avins
11 Nov 2011, 2:53 PM
I've re-opened the thread. I don't think it's the best way to go, but we'll leave it to you.
14 Nov 2011, 4:31 AM
Again, this repo only aims at helping early adopters with blocking bugs preventing them to move to ST2.0, i guess the more people start using ST2.0 today, the more this (amazing) product gets a strong footprint on the web.
I would rather publish plugins & extensions, but for now we are quite stuck with blocking bugs.
I understand that this conflicts somehow with the global/commercial policy your company has, and i'm thankful i've not been asked to take it down yet, as I really think it is good for everyone at the moment.
It is not aimed to last beyond beta, and it will be taken down if you want it to (your product / business -> your call).
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We are a content marketing company that has built a software called Zerys that connects content buyers and writers. Clients can use our software to set up content projects, name their own price, and submit their project to writers.
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One way i can envision doing this is to show the word "Zerys" in the middle of a gold star or circle, and then say "Certified Agency" at the bottom. However, im sure you can come up with other good ideas.
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Plenty of massively multiplayer online role-playing games attempt to fulfil the promise of easy-in, easy-out gameplay to appease folks that don't have a great deal of time on their hands and just want a quick fighting fix. Rift might be the first MMORPG to deliver.
If it works as advertised, that is. From the look of it, this new Instant Action feature is a large ongoing battle for character levels 45 to 60 that scales as players enter or leave, allowing them to pop in and out of the action with the click of a button.
Other games have features somewhat similar to what Rift is adding, but those normally involve getting in a queue and waiting or dealing with party balance issues once you get there. Instant Action, on the other hand, is just that. Click, click, boom. Well played, Trion!


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You may believe that a second home can be a great place to vacation and retire, that you can earn some equity over time and that it's a good deal because property is a physical asset that can't go away. While those statements may be true, it's unlikely that buying a second home will be a very good financial move.
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Here's the unbiased reality: You may be able to earn some long-term wealth from a second home, but you probably would have earned a lot more wealth keeping your money in a well-diversified pool of financial assets or buying rental properties.
Cash out, no cash in
You see second homes, and land, have one very unappealing quality when you are looking to earn wealth: They don't pay interest, dividends or net rental income. In fact, all they do is take money from your bank account for property taxes, insurance, maintenance, renovations, and, oh, that mortgage payment — all money going out the door, with no money coming in the door. So you are 100% speculating that the property will go up in value over time to compensate for all the negative cash flows that accumulate each year. And how are you covering those negative cash flows? You are taking money out your financial assets — stocks, bonds, mutual funds — to pay the bills that cause those negative cash flows.
And by the way, weren't you earning interest and dividends on those financial assets? So you would have been earning 5-7% annual returns on a well-diversified pool of financial assets, but instead you are earning nothing — that's termed the lost opportunity cost of capital.
Long-term impact
Over the long term, all those negative cash flows and the lost opportunity to earn a rate of return on financial assets are really going to add up. If on a $100,000 property you spend $10,000 per year (inflated by CPI 3% per year) to carry that second home, with cumulative lost opportunity cost of capital, that could be $450,000 to $500,000 after 20 years that you would have had in financial assets. Of course if the value of the property goes up 8-9% per year for those two decades, so it's worth $500,000, then you might just break even. Note: Housing appreciates about 3% per year over long periods of time.
So if you are buying a second home in hopes of earning wealth, you might earn it. But keep in mind that there probably are much better investments out there, and you should really think it through if you are simply hoping the value of the property will increase enough to provide a fair rate of return.
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After ealier openings of Kilimanjaro Hotel Kempinski in Dar Es Salaam and Zamani Zanzibar Kempinski, the owner, UAE national Mr. Ali Albwardy, will open in the heart of Tanzania's world famous Serengeti National Park the Bilila Lodge Kempinski at the 1st of June, 2009. A dream hideaway in the Central Serengeti, destined to be the most unique lodge in the world.
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Today Mr. Ali Albwardy was for lunch at Onsea House and reveiled us his plans of the construction of a Kempinski in Arusha on the grounds of the former Saba Saba Hotel.
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The Top 10 Superfoods for Gorgeous Skin and Hair
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This low-profile berry was ranked number one in antioxidant activity by the U.S. Department of Agriculture compared to 40 common fruits and vegetables. The antioxidants in blueberries protect you from premature aging, so add half a cup to your yogurt or cereal every day.
Start your day with a healthy breakfast of blueberries and whole grain waffles. Get the recipe here!
Wild Salmon
Wild salmon — not farm-raised — is one of the best food sources for omega-3 fatty acids, which helps keep your skin supple and moisturized. Salmon also has selenium, a mineral that protects the skin from sun exposure. The vitamin D in salmon keeps your bones and teeth strong and healthy, too. You won't have a problem adding salmon to your diet since there are hundreds of ways to enjoy this beauty superfood. Try it grilled, baked, in your pasta, with a salad, in sushi, or just with a side of asparagus.
Add strawberries and fettuccine to salmon for a delicious dinner
Get the benefits of two superfoods in our easy-to-make Salmon and Spinach Salad
This leafy green vegetable is rich in nutrients and antioxidants. Spinach is loaded with lutein, which keeps your eyes healthy and sparkling. Spinach is also a good source of vitamins B, C, and E, potassium, calcium, iron, magnesium, and omega-3 fatty acids. Trade your lettuce for spinach, or saute spinach for a quick, healthy side.
Try this Spinach Pizza for a quick, easy, and super-healthy meal
Make this creative Spinach Salad
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The jury's still out on whether oysters are really aphrodisiacs, but they are a good source of zinc, which aids in skin cell renewal and repair. Zinc also keeps your nails, hair, and eyes healthy. Who needs an aphrodisiac when you look and feel beautiful?
Tomatoes are the best source of the anti-aging antioxidant lycopene. Surprisingly, lycopene in tomatoes is more easily absorbed by your body when it is cooked or processed, so make sure to stock up on canned tomato sauce, tomato juice, and ketchup.
Try our 5-Factor Lasagna recipe!
Make this quick and easy Tomato and Turkey Soup
You don't need to eat cupfuls of walnuts to enjoy their many benefits: smoother skin, healthy hair, brighter eyes, and strong bones. Get your daily dose of nutrients like omega-3 fatty acids and vitamin E by eating a handful by themselves or throwing some in your salad, pasta, or dessert.
Make this Banana, Fig & Walnut Bread ahead of time for a ready-to-eat healthy treat
Add toasted walnuts to your salad for nutritious lunch. Try this recipe!
This small, brown, fuzzy fruit is loaded with vitamin C and antioxidants, which keep skin firm, help prevent wrinkles, and are great for healthy bones and teeth. The antioxidants in kiwis also protect you from cancer and heart disease.
Load up on vitamin C and antioxidants with our Banana and Kiwi Smoothie
Dark Chocolate
We won't judge you if you keep a secret stash of chocolate in your purse or desk (or both). In fact, we recommend you do — especially if you're willing to share. Dark chocolate helps skin stay hydrated and protects skin from sun damage, and contrary to popular belief, chocolate does not cause acne. Before you make a mad dash to Godiva or Ghirardelli, however, keep in mind that the best kind of chocolate has a high flavanol content and should be at least 60 percent cacao.
Try this foolproof Low-Cal Chocolate Mousse recipe
One cup of low-fat yogurt has more calcium than a cup of fat-free milk, which is great for your posture, nails, and teeth. Mix it with fruit or granola for a healthy breakfast or that essential midafternoon snack.
Make this super-easy parfait for breakfast
Add yogurt to your dessert with this yummy recipe
Sweet Potatoes
You should be eating this superfood more often than just at Thanksgiving. Sweet potatoes are packed with beta-carotene, an antioxidant that fights aging.
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We appreciate your patience and look forward to serving you.
Thank you for being a Nicor Gas customer.
On December 9th, 2011, the Nicor companies became part of AGL Resources. As a result, some websites have been updated and web addresses have changed. Please use this site to locate the appropriate company and continue to your destination.
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For State Project coordinators, the following procedures are particularly applicable: 1, 2, 3, 5e, 6b, 6c, 8a & 8d.
1. Each NCGenWeb, Inc. member (herein referred to as Member) will be subscribed to the NCGenWeb mailing list by the State Coordinator. This is a closed "announce only" list, and is used for internal communication between the State Coordinator (SC) and all other current NCGenWeb Members. It is essential for communication between the SC and the CCs for all CCs to remain subscribed to this list. There is an optional NCGENWEB-DISCUSS mailing list which is also open to NCGenWeb and is used for more casual NCGenWeb discussions. Neither list is to be used for genealogy queries.
2. Approved NCGenWeb logos and USGenWeb logos should be prominently displayed on all county home pages. Each logo should be linked back to the NCGenWeb (http://www.ncgenweb.us) and USGenWeb (http://www.usgenweb.org) home pages. Foreign logos or logos requesting money are not approved for the project. You may not include logos or links to similarly county-based online genealogy projects. Foreign logos or links and/or logos or links requesting money are not approved for the project. You may not include logos or links to similarly county-based online genealogy projects.
a. Only NCGenWeb logos that were approved in Sept. 2009 may be used. NCGenWeb sites that were using older logos prior to that day may continue to do so. If and when those counties become adoptable they are then subject to the use of approved logos only.
b. Any county site that is not on the NCGenWeb server, once made adoptable and established on the NCGenWeb server will remain archived there upon any subsequent adoptions.
3. The name and email address of the NCGenWeb Member(s) should be easily seen and accessible on the county home page as well as appropriate places throughout the site. This can include index pages such as wills, deeds, cemeteries, etc., so that researchers can easily contact the Member to submit materials or to ask questions about information posted. If there is a contact info page, the Member's name must still be plainly visible on the home page, and the Member should place a hyperlink to either an email address or to the contact info page.
The Member should respond to any and all emails from researchers, submitters, contributors, and Project managers in a timely manner. Even if the Member cannot help them, a timely and appropriate response is and will be greatly appreciated by all (see the Tech Tips page for information on how to add your email address without exposing it to SPAM).
4. Each county site shall have relevant links and information to assist visitors in submitting their own queries.
a. The Member should provide a way to post queries, or provide links to the GenForum and Rootsweb/Ancestry query boards.
b. The Member should provide a page on how to write and post a good query and/or link to the national USGenWeb "How To" page at <http://www.usgenweb.org/research/queries.shtml>.
c. The Member may provide a link to the state's "Contacting the North Carolina State Archives".
5. A detailed research information page or pages should be included on each county site.
a. Links or telephone numbers as well as addresses are helpful for the county courthouse, Register of Deeds, local libraries, genealogical and historical societies, etc. If you can, specify who to contact for specific records, e.g., the county recorder, the corresponding secretary.
b. Link to the Consolidated List of North Carolina Resources or you may list and link these resources individually. (Assistance: Resource ideas for your county page).
c. A link to the county mailing list, and/or information about how to join the county mailing list.
d. Names and email addresses of other researchers willing to do research or lookups for others in books, microfilm, libraries, cemeteries, etc. (Assistance: Research-Lookup ideas if you do not have volunteer lookups for your county.)
e. Solicitation of funds for personal gain is not permitted. However, you can provide a list of book titles and magazine articles about your county or North Carolina in general and/or you can link to web sites, stores, and societies that sell books about North Carolina or genealogy in general. Researchers for hire should be listed separately from those volunteering to do lookups and it should be clearly stated that these researchers are "for hire". Note from the USGenWeb Bylaws Article IX. Section 2.: It may be appropriate to include a disclaimer that the coordinator and The USGenWeb Project do not guarantee the contents of such research materials and/or the expertise of any professional researchers.
6. All county home webpages must have:
a. A "last updated" date on the home page.
b. A copyright notice on the home page. The copyright can be as simple as © 2010 <your name>. (See the Tech Tips page for ideas for copyright.)
c. A search engine available on the home page or linked from the home page of the county site. The search engine is chosen at the discretion of the Member (e.g. FreeFind, Google, etc.)
7. Each county should also include either on the home webpage or a link to:
a. A brief county history.
b. Links to surrounding counties and links to the parent county(ies).
c. A map (or link to the state map) showing where the county is located within the state, and any other information on the county and its formation that will be helpful to researchers working in records for that specific county.
8. All websites, excepting the Historic Counties and Special Projects, should be updated and new material and/or document images posted at least once every six months. (Assistance: Transcribed data or scanned images.)
Quarterly county reviews by the Regional Coordinator will consist of a check for:
a. Logos and logo links
b. Name and email address are to be prominently displayed
c. Copyright notice
d. Surrounding county(ies) links
e. The last updated notice and/or addition of new material.
9. A "What's New" page, and/or *Updated* or *New* images, or a list on the home page of new material added is required, along with the date the additions and/or new material was added; a link to that new material must be included in either option.
10. All Members are required to supply the SC and their RC with their name, a verifiable home address, home phone number and an emergency contact phone number. (Motion for any member failing to provide contact information)
11. If contact cannot be established in the month following the end of roll call, the site will be considered abandoned and will be made adoptable by another coordinator. (Removal timeline).
12. All original materials contributed by researchers are considered their property and should remain on the site to which they were donated. Should the coordinator decide to leave the project, all materials that have been contributed will be turned over to the new coordinator and will remain on the site. They only exception will be if the original submitter requests that their information be removed. (Removal timeline).
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|With a street price of around $1200 as of this writing, Remington's R-15 VTR is a superbly accurate AR.
Remington R-15
I have to admit, with all due embarrassment, that until recently I had never owned an AR. I've had plenty of M1 Carbines and AKs and SKSs in addition to the usual complement of Krags and Trapdoors and 03s and Mausers, but somehow the planets never lined up sufficiently for me to buy an AR.
That oversight has been corrected in the form of a Remington R-15 VTR in .223. As a life-long fan of Remington autoloaders (from the Model 8 of 1906 on up to today's Model 750 Woodsmaster), I'm kind of glad that my first AR had the Remington name on it.
A camo-dipped version of a Bushmaster Predator, my R-15 shoots consistent .75″ groups at 100 yards if I hold my mouth right. Frankly, I remain amazed by its performance.
To anyone who ever questioned whether an AR is a legitimate sporting arm, the R-15 definitely answers in the affirmative. I can't wait to introduce it to some Indiana woodchucks. (See www.remington.com.)
.30 Remington Cartridge
|The new .30 Remington AR
Speaking of Remington, I like the looks of Remington's new .30 Remington AR cartridge. I have a soft spot for the old .30 Remington Autoloading cartridge (sort of a rimless .30-30 Winchester), and the new Remington .30 is a worthy successor.
Based on a cut-down, necked .450 Bushmaster case, the stubby new .30 provides low-end .308 Winchester ballistics with a 125-gr. spitzer.
Make no mistake: the short .30 Remington AR case can't accommodate the longer 150- to 165-gr. bullets like a .308 bolt rifle can, but for someone who wants a real deer-level cartridge in an AR platform, it should prove decisive.
I'm not going out on too much of a limb when I predict that this is one case that will be extensively wildcatted.
Mossberg 464 .30-30
|Younger hunters, and some not-so-young, will find plenty of value in the Mossberg 464 .30-30.
By now you've read all the compliments for Mossberg's 464 .30-30 lever-action, and I'll throw a few more on the pile. We wrung one out pretty thoroughly last year and it performed just as advertised: short lever throw, positive ejection, easy loading, etc.
Externally it resembles a hybrid between a Marlin 336 and a late-model Winchester 94, but there's an impressive amount of steel in its upper receiver.
With a street price hovering around $400, the 464 should find friends among those who believe that a .30-30 is all you really need for woods-range deer hunting. For beginning hunters, it should be an absolute peach. Now: where's that 464 in .22LR? (See www.mossberg.com.)
Superior Concepts 10/22 Laser Stock
I belong to the school that holds that you can't have too many gadgets. And a couple of the more enticing gadgets I've seen lately are the Superior Concepts 10/22 Laser Stock and Accessory Band.
|Superior Concepts Laser Stock (laser visible at end of forend) and barrel-band Accessory Mount.
The Laser Stock first: This is a nifty aftermarket stock for the Ruger .22 autoloader that incorporates an easily-adjustable laser sight.
The switch for the sight is inset into the left side of the stock's forend, where it falls naturally under the thumb. A little pressure on the switch and zing! a brilliant laser dot is projected as far out as you're likely to use one. It's available in a wide variety of stockl styles, from tactical to plain-jane.
The Accessory Band is one of those slap-my-forehead-why-didn't-I-think-of-that things: an accessory mount that replaces the barrel band of the 10/22.
For those such as I who possess only limited gunsmithing skills (okay, very limited), it's a no-brainer. (See www.laserstock.com.)
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Just moments after we posted about a 256 GB Surface Pro showing up on CDW's website for $1,199, we have received word from a Microsoft source that the company is in fact gearing up to launch the new tablet SKU officially.
At this time we have no further information except that Microsoft has been "prepping for this announcement" and the release of the tablet on Microsoft's Store should be right around the corner.
The new capacity for the Microsoft' Surface device would push its maximum SSD size to twice of what Apple's iPad currently supports. With the Redmond tablet aimed to be a replacement for your laptop, this storage increase has been a long time coming. The new increase should really allow those on the go to focus on what they are doing, rather than worrying about how much storage they have left.
Make sure to stay tuned to Windows Phone Central for the latest breaking news.
Do you think Microsoft's Surface Pro storage increase is an edge needed?
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Phrase used to say someone is dead or has deceased. Term is derived from when suicides were common by a person preparing to hang themself, and used a bucket to stand on, and then kicked the bucket when suicide was desired.
Ole' Charlie kicked the bucket today, we better prepare for his funeral.
by izytang November 16, 2003
The actual origin of the term is from England, and began in the later middle ages. A corpse would be laid out, and a bucket of holy water placed at its feet. Visitors could then sprinkle the deceased with Holy Water. Other explanations (suicide, execution) came later to explain an idiom, of which the origin of the term had ceased, mainly as a result of the English reformation.
"To Kick the Bucket" is explained by Bishop Abbot Horne in 1949, in his booklet "Relics of Popery" Catholic Truth Society. He adds "Many other explanations of this saying have been given by persons who are unaquainted with Catholic Custom"
by Dr Michael Foster October 03, 2007
"My grandma died on May 12th of 2000. She was gonna try to hold off until May 17th, which was when my grandpa died, but ultimately she kicked the bucket."
by Dave September 27, 2004
Pigs to be slaughtered are bled, that is the blood is drained from the body. One way this is accomplished is to hang the pig upside down from a bar (by one foot) that used to be known as a "buchet," a French word for it. The pig's throat was cut or opened with a sharp spike, and it would rapidly be bled. In its death throes, it would always kick the buchet.
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DeKALB – Leaders promised Friday to restore the natural area ComEd cleared last week along the prairie path in the city, but the details have yet to be worked out.
Officials from ComEd and the DeKalb Park District said they will discuss which natural species should be planted along the park district's Nature Trail, which runs between Sycamore Road and First Street. What will be planted there and who will pay for it remained unknown Friday afternoon.
The comments came one day after a group of DeKalb residents vented their anger about the tree cutting to park district and ComEd officials at an impromptu public hearing at the DeKalb Park District board meeting.
Despite the varying levels of rhetoric and criticism, a consensus among residents emerged: The vegetation along the affected prairie paths needs to be restored to their natural beauty, the park district needs to be more involved in the future and ComEd needs to pay for the restoration.
Mark Levinsky, a DeKalb resident, said ComEd crews cut more than necessary.
"Don't you think it would have been a more reasonable method to consult with the local people before and not after this?" Levinsky said. "It was very underhanded, and it was very heavy handed."
Residents used words such as "devastation," "slaughter," and "massacre" to describe the tree-clearing done by ComEd and the contractors they hired, Asplundh Tree Expert Co.
Ralph Petersen, a disabled Army veteran, compared ComEd's work to the Taliban. In an interview after the meeting, Petersen said the tree clearing broke his heart.
"It's upsetting to me to see the devastation," Petersen said. "It looks just like a war zone."
Paul Callighan, ComEd's external affairs manager for the DeKalb area, said how much brush they cut is dependent on how much the power line can sag, how fast the vegetation can grow, and how much voltage is running through the line.
Those lines also are high-voltage lines that fall under Federal Energy Regulatory Commission guidelines, which were tightened since the last time trimming was done in the area, Callighan has said.
But Callighan said they also factor in whether the vegetation in the area is the natural species or an invasive one. They entirely remove invasive species, which Callighan noted were growing heavily along the prairie path.
"That's why they opted to do the type of clearing they did," Callighan said.
In the interview and at the hearing, Callighan apologized for miscommunicating with the residents. Callighan said they are mandated by law to inform adjacent properties of any tree-cutting activities.
But he said some people didn't receive a letter because even though they appear to live next to the trail, their property lines weren't actually adjacent.
"We're sorry that did not happen," Callighan said. "In terms of the actual communication, we talk about vegetation techniques, acceptable species that can grow under the power lines...but [the letter] did not mention clearing out the invasive species."
Several people complained about the language of the letter Thursday night, stating that the term "vegetation maintenance" was no way to describe the tree clearing that took place.
"I knew ComEd was going to be trimming. I did not know ComEd was going to be clear-cutting," said Joan Berkes-Hanson, president of the DeKalb Park District Board of Commissioners. "I don't think the property owners knew it was going to be clear cut."
Callighan, Berkes-Hanson, park district executive director Cindy Capek, and other members of the public voiced a willingness to sit down and discuss how it would be best to restore the affected areas.
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Understandably, some people might be having a hard time saying goodbye to Twilight. After the first movie came out in 2008, fans have been anticipating, and perhaps dreading, the final installment that opened this week, Breaking Dawn Part II. But Twihards might not have too long to sit around and mourn the end of their favorite franchise -- Taylor Lautner just gave an interview to MTV saying he'd like to see somebody make a Twilight musical.
My, my, Taylor! What a fabulous idea! Write up some catchy tunes (Debra Messing made it look so easy on the short-lived show of hers where she played a Broadway musical composer), cast some great dancers, hire some guys to work the rigging and harnesses for flying (note: do not hire the people responsible for Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark), get some actors with chemistry to play Bella and Edward, buy as many dry ice machines as legally possible ... then, boom. Broadway smash hit.
I mean, I'd buy a ticket, and I don't even like Twilight that much. I'd wanna see how they musical-ified the story, and yeah, I'd go to see the actors fly about on stage and leap from balcony to balcony. Not because that would necessarily thrill me, but because I'd want to have a chance at suing for damages when Bella comes crashing into Row F. My neck really hurts, Judge, etc.
Taylor goes on to say that perhaps a Twilight reality show might be something that could keep the franchise going, but when pushed further, he had no idea how that might actually work. Neither do I, Taylor, but I'm hoping that if they do decide to make one, it'd be half like Amish in the City and half like the Real World/Road Rules Challenge.
An Edward and Bella rumspringa hosted by TJ Lavin? Sold.
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Barnard College has been a distinguished leader in higher education for women for over 100 years and is today the most sought after private liberal arts college for women in the nation. Founded in 1889, the College was the first in New York City, and one of the few in the nation at the time, where women could receive the same rigorous liberal arts education available to men. Its partnership with a great research university, combined with its setting in an international city and its unwavering dedication to the advancement of women, makes Barnard unique among liberal arts colleges today.
Barnard is both an independently incorporated educational institution and an official college of Columbia University—a position that simultaneously affords it self-determination and a rich, value-enhancing partnership. Barnard students may take classes at Columbia and benefit from the University's academic resources, as Columbia students may do at Barnard.
New York City and its vast cultural and social resources are also an extension of the Barnard campus, literally used by every department to enhance curriculum and learning. The City is an inescapable presence, inviting students with both its challenges and infinite opportunities (from dancing with the American Ballet to working with social-change organizations to interning on Wall Street).
The College draws motivated, talented, curious young women who create a stimulating atmosphere and diverse community. Barnard alumnae include pioneers like anthropologist Margaret Mead and Judith Kaye, the first female Chief Judge of the State of New York, along with prominent cultural figures such as choreographer Twyla Tharp, writers Zora Neale Hurston and Mary Gordon, and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Anna Quindlen and Natalie Angier.
Mission Statement
Barnard College aims to provide the highest quality liberal arts education to promising and high-achieving young women, offering the unparalleled advantages of an outstanding residential college in partnership with a major research university. With a dedicated faculty of scholars distinguished in their respective fields, Barnard is a community of accessible teachers and engaged students who participate together in intellectual risk-taking and discovery. Barnard students develop the intellectual resources to take advantage of opportunities as new fields, new ideas, and new technologies emerge. They graduate prepared to lead lives that are professionally satisfying and successful, personally fulfilling, and enriched by love of learning.
As a college for women, Barnard embraces its responsibility to address issues of gender in all of their complexity and urgency, and to help students achieve the personal strength that will enable them to meet the challenges they will encounter throughout their lives. Located in the cosmopolitan urban environment of New York City, and committed to diversity in its student body, faculty and staff, Barnard prepares its graduates to flourish in different cultural surroundings in an increasingly inter-connected world.
The Barnard community thrives on high expectations. By setting rigorous academic standards and giving students the support they need to meet those standards, Barnard enables them to discover their own capabilities. Living and learning in this unique environment, Barnard students become agile, resilient, responsible, and creative, prepared to lead and serve their society.
Barnard History
Barnard College was among the pioneers in the late 19th-century crusade to make higher education available to young women.
The College grew out of the idea, first proposed by Columbia University's tenth president, Frederick A.P. Barnard, that women have an opportunity for higher education at Columbia. Initially ignored, the idea led to the creation of a "Collegiate Course for Women." Although highly-qualified women were authorized to follow a prescribed course of study leading ultimately to Columbia University degrees, no provision was made for where and how they were to pursue their studies. It was six years before Columbia's trustees agreed to the establishment of a college for women. A provisional charter was secured, and Barnard College was named in honor of its most persistent advocate.
In October 1889, the first Barnard class met in a rented brownstone at 343 Madison Avenue. Fourteen students enrolled in the School of Arts and twenty-two "specials," lacking the entrance requirements in Greek, enrolled in science. There was a faculty of six.
Nine years later Barnard moved to its present site in Morningside Heights. In 1900, Barnard was included in the educational system of Columbia University with provisions unique among women's colleges: it was governed by its own Trustees, Faculty, and Dean, and was responsible for its own endowment and facilities, while sharing instruction, the library, and the degree of the University.
Barnard Today
From the original 14 students, enrollment has grown to 2,575, with over 40,000 awarded degrees since 1893. The integration of teaching and scholarship occurs at an incomparable level at Barnard. Barnard's faculty of 255 women and men are teacher-scholars whose paramount concern is the education of undergraduate students and whose professional achievements bring added vitality to the classroom. This commitment to personal attention and high achievement provide the ultimate learning environment.
Barnard's liberal arts education is broad in scope and demanding. The curriculum includes a series of general education requirements—a program of courses the faculty believes provides a stimulating and thorough education, while remaining flexible and varied enough to suit a student's own interests, strengths, and talents. Classes vary in size. Those in which student participation is important are small. There are opportunities for independent study and students are often invited to work on research projects with faculty members.
In 2007, Barnard College and Columbia University amended and extended the longstanding agreement for cooperation between the institutions, an agreement which remains unique in higher education. Barnard stands as an independent college for women with its own curriculum, faculty, admissions standards, graduation requirements, trustees, endowment, and physical plant. At the same time, Barnard and Columbia share resources, thereby giving students open access to the courses, facilities, and libraries of both schools. Barnard and Columbia students also share in a wide variety of social and extracurricular activities. Barnard boasts 80 undergraduate clubs, and students have access to an additional 140 at Columbia.
From its inception, Barnard has been committed to advancing the academic, personal, and professional success of women. Students benefit from an atmosphere in which over half of the full-time faculty are women, and women are well represented in the administration. The College is led by Sian Beilock, former Stella M. Rowley Professor of Psychology, Vice Provost for Academic Initiatives, and Executive Vice Provost and Officer of the University of Chicago. At Barnard, women are given the opportunities and the freedom to lead both in and out of the classroom, and to develop the skills that will equip them to lead throughout their lives.
Barnard's unique ties to several of Columbia's graduate schools and to premier New York City institutions, including the Juilliard School, the Manhattan School of Music, the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and Teachers College, give students an unusual range of educational options, including a number of joint degree programs. Academic organizations within and beyond the University also offer vital opportunities for research, study, studio experience, internships, and community service.
Barnard has a high student retention rate, an indication of student satisfaction with the college experience. Barnard students also enjoy leaves for study, travel, and internships. About two-thirds of students graduate having undertaken an internship at sites ranging from investment banks like Goldman Sachs to cultural institutions like the Metropolitan Museum of Art, network news programs including 60 Minutes, medical facilities including New York Presbyterian Medical Center, and a wide range of other venues. Every year Barnard admits about 80 transfer students who come to take advantage of the educational opportunities available to Barnard women.
Every year the Office of Career Development collects and summarizes information about post-baccalaureate study and employment. In the first year after graduation, almost one-third of Barnard graduates enter full-time graduate or professional schools, with the largest proportions opting to study medicine, law, or business. The rest obtain employment in business and industry, the arts, communications, teaching, social services, and many other fields.
Barnard College is accredited by the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, 3624 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, 215-662-5606. The Commission on Higher Education is an institutional accrediting agency recognized by the U.S. Secretary of Education and the Commission on Recognition of Postsecondary Accreditation.
The Barnard College Dance Department is an accredited institutional member of the National Association of Schools of Dance.
The Barnard Education Program is accredited by the Council for the Accreditation of Education Preparation (CAEP) and approved by the New York State Education Department to recommend students who complete the program for Initial Certification in either Childhood Education (Grades 1-6) or Adolescent Education (Grades 7-12). For more information, please visit http://education.barnard.edu/certification.
The Campus
The Barnard campus occupies four acres of urban property along the west side of Broadway between 116th and 120th Streets. At the southern end of the campus, four residence buildings, Brooks Hall (1907), Hewitt Hall (1925), Helen Reid Hall (1961), Iphigene Ochs Sulzberger Hall, formerly Centennial Hall (1988), form an enclosed quadrangle. In 2003, the College's four oldest buildings were added to the National Register of Historic Places.
Barnard Hall, formerly Students Hall, 1917, renamed in 1926, is just north of the "Quad" and contains seminar rooms, classrooms, and faculty offices, and dance studios. The Sulzberger Parlor on the third floor is used for meetings and special events. The Julius S. Held Lecture Hall is also on the third floor.
Adele Lehman Hall, 1959, contains the Wollman Library and two floors of faculty offices and classrooms. The library includes the reserve room on the first floor; the reference area, periodicals, microforms, and open book stacks on the second floor; and on the third floor, audiovisual facilities and more open stacks. Computer facilities for the Economics and Political Science departments are also located in Lehman. The building overlooks a lawn surrounded by trees and shrubs.
Helen Goodhart Altschul Hall, 1969, and the newly opened Diana, 2010 (formally McIntosh, 1969), face each other across an open plaza. The 14 stories of Altschul Hall are devoted to the sciences. Herbert H. Lehman Auditorium is on the first floor.
Milbank Hall, 1897, occupies the northern end of the campus and houses administrative and faculty offices, classrooms, the Arthur Ross Greenhouse, and the Minor Latham Playhouse, a well-equipped modern theater. Substantial renovations took place in Milbank recently, yielding expanded neuroscience research laboratories and animal facilities, the Krueger Lecture Hall, as well as a redesigned and updated Math Help Room/Computer Laboratory.
In the immediate neighborhood, Barnard maintains additional residence halls, including Plimpton Hall, acquired in 1968, and Eleanor Thomas Elliott Hall, formerly 49 Claremont Avenue, acquired in 1982 and renamed in 1992. In addition, three apartment buildings on West 116th Street, 600 (acquired in 1971), 616 (acquired in 1964), and 620 (acquired in 1968) are Barnard residence halls. The College also rents additional spaces at 601 West 110th Street. Cathedral Gardens is the proud new member of the residential options. Located at 110th and Manhattan Ave., students have the opportunity to share this new facility with faculty members and their families, as well as with neighbors in the adjacent luxury high-rise condominium tower.
Columbia University is directly across the street on Broadway.
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Need two forms of a company logo for Taranaki Web Design. Logo for the website, invoices, letterheads etc and a "button" that can be placed down the bottom of websites we build.
Whether the logo and button are the same or not is up to you but the button needs to be readable when small. Website will be http://www.taranakiwebdesign.co.nz
I have started a new company called Taranaki Web Design. Taranaki is a province on the west coast of New Zealand. We focus on giving community groups and small to medium businesses a web presence.
For the logo please stick to "Taranaki Web Design" not .co.nz.
For the button if you shorten to TWD then please make the "T" "W" and the "D" stand out in the above logo.
- Company logo that can be used on a dark or light back ground
- A "Button" to be used at the bottom of the websites we build. Taranaki Web Design can be shortened to TWD for this.
- An outline (not a jpg) of Mount Taranaki - subtle or obvious is up to you. An image of the angle I want can be found http://www.porirua.net/opunake/Taranaki.jpg.
- Unsure of what I dont want at this stage but I will know when I see it and comment accordingly.
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CORNWALL — Each month, a growing group of women in Addison County get together for lunch.
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Marion Leonard, a kindergarten teacher at Mary Hogan Elementary School in Middlebury, and Mary Gill, a school nurse there, initiated Addison County's chapter. The group has been meeting monthly since April, and is growing fast.
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CHICAGO (MarketWatch)—Mortgage rates spiked over the past week, causing some to believe the ultralow rates of recent years could be gone for good.
What's more, rising rates could put somewhat of a damper on the improving housing market.
The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 4.46% for the week ending June 27, up from 3.93% last week, according to Freddie Mac's weekly survey of conforming mortgage rates. This week's average is the highest since the week of July 28, 2011.
The spike marks the largest weekly jump for the mortgage rate since the week ending April 17, 1987, Freddie Mac reported.
Daily surveys by HSH.com show mortgage rates improving somewhat since the beginning of the week. HSH data showed the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage at 4.63% on Monday, 4.56% on Tuesday and 4.54% on Wednesday, said Keith Gumbinger, vice president of the consumer loan information firm.
"Early indications are that rates we gather today should be lower than yesterday. However, the market has been so volatile over the last five days that any dip might not be passed along immediately to the retail market," Gumbinger said.
Mortgage rates started rising last week, after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke spoke of the Fed's intention later this year to scale back the stimulus program that kept rates low. Rates jumped again over the weekend, a reflection of the unsettled market.
"Following Fed chief Bernanke's remarks on June 19th about the possible timing of reduced bond purchases, Treasury bond yields jumped over the week and mortgage rates followed. He indicated that the Fed may moderate the pace of its buying later this year and end the purchases around the middle of 2014," said Frank Nothaft, vice president and chief economist of Freddie Mac, in a news release.
Gumbinger said it's likely the market overreacted and that mortgage rates will move downward. But it's probable that very low rates are gone for good. "Do I think we're going back to 3.5%? No. Do I think we should be closer to 4% than 4.5%? Probably," he said.
Even if market did overreact, it doesn't necessarily mean that rates will reverse completely, said Dan Green, loan officer with Waterstone Mortgage in Cincinnati. "Mortgage rates are trading on fear and sentiment, and right now those forces are pulling rates higher."
What it means for housing
The rate spike reduces the number of people who could benefit from a refinance. When people save on their mortgage each month, that extra money in their pockets can be spent elsewhere, also helping the economy.
But the new concern is how much rising rates will affect the housing market recovery.
"Higher mortgage rates may dampen some housing market activity but the effect will be muted by the high level of buyer affordability, and home sales should remain strong," Nothaft said, pointing to home-sales data and price gains.
There's no denying, however, that the rise in rates does strip away some purchasing power for home seekers.
Even assuming a 30-year mortgage with a 4.33% rate, the monthly payment on a median-priced existing home has risen by 11% from the low at the beginning of May, Gumbinger figured. That also assumes a 20% down payment. The median-priced existing home was $208,000 in May, according to the National Association of Realtors.
"Active home buyers, and there are a lot of them, are finding that their purchasing power has decreased," Green said. "It's not enough that there's a race to beat rising home prices, but there's a race to beat rising interest rates." Prospective buyers may now need to make new choices between amenities, or in the size of house that they can afford, he said.
Borrowers on the cusp of affordability to begin with could become priced out of the market in a rising-rate environment, Gumbinger said.
The effect of higher mortgage rates may show up in housing statistics in the months ahead, he added.
Recent housing news has shown a market clearly gaining steam, with existing-home sales and new-home sales on the rise and home prices up, but those statistics reflect what happened a month or more ago, Gumbinger said. The most recent S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, for example, reflect sales from April, when mortgage rates were declining, he said.
Rates still low
Still, those in the market for a mortgage need to keep the recent movement in rates in perspective.
"We haven't seen rates spike like that in a long time," said Rick Allen, chief executive of MortgageMarvel.com, a mortgage shopping website. But it could be much worse. If rates on the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage were to jump to 5% or 6%, the effects on the market would be much more pronounced, he added.
Rates in the mid-4% range aren't at all high by historical standards.
"The lowest average rate the market achieved on its own [without Fed intervention] was 5.24% in June 2003. It was a 37-year low at the time, and it was widely celebrated," Gumbinger said.
"You tell someone [it's] 5% today, and they freak out," he added.


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Before joining The Master's University faculty, Dr. Eickemeyer worked for nearly two decades in academia and in research and development. His contributions have appeared in several contexts, from international conferences to the U.S. Patent Office. A native of Los Angeles, he lived in Singapore for the dozen years preceeding his arrival at TMU, and served for a number of years as Chief Judge for Singapore's National Software Competition. His research interests include computer graphics, multidimensional visualization, computational geometry, and virtual reality. He is also interested in the use of technology in education, particularly with respect to online assessment. He has been actively involved in various music ministries through the years, serving in such capacities as choir conductor, choir member, organist, and worship leader. He has "made a joyful noise" in many settings, from soup kitchens and prisons to international choral concerts and competitions, as well as musical theatre, radio, and television. His other interests include reading, photography, the outdoors, swimming, and bowling. He and his wife Mabel are blessed with two very huggable children.


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HPD shooting under investigation
Houston police are investigating the fatal shooting of an armed suspect by one of their officers early Sunday evening.
The incident happened at 7:10 p.m. Sunday at 9290 Woodfair.
The identity of the slain suspect, 28, is currently being verified by the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences. He died of his injuries at 8:35 a.m. Monday at Ben Taub General Hospital.
According to Houston police, Officer J. Medina and a second officer responded to a disturbance call at an apartment complex where several men informed the officers that the 28-year-old male was armed with a gun.
Upon approaching the man, the officers told him to remove his hands from his pockets, and he then produced a gun from his pants pocket. After telling the man to drop the weapon, the man aimed for the two officers.
Medina then fired his weapon several times, striking the man. Paramedics soon arrived and transported the suspect to Ben Taub.
This incident is being investigated by the HPD Homicide and Internal Affairs divisions, along with the Harris County District Attorney's Office. Medina is on administrative leave.


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Dunkin' taking doughnut bacon sandwich national
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Even as fast-food chains tout their healthy offerings, they're also coming up with fatty new treats to keep customers interested. Case in point: Dunkin' Donuts is adding a doughnut breakfast sandwich to its national menu this week.
The sandwich, which comes with fried eggs and bacon between a split glazed doughnut, will become a part of the permanent menu starting Friday, which the chain claims is "National Donut Day."
Dunkin' Donuts had tested the sandwich in select stores in eastern Massachusetts in April, creating considerable buzz online.
Notably, Dunkin' Donuts says the doughnut sandwich clocks in at 360 calories, less than the 390 calories for the turkey sausage sandwich it recently introduced for people looking to eat better.


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Editor's Note: TheStreet ratings do not represent the views of TheStreet's staff or its contributors. Ratings are established by computer based on metrics for performance (which includes growth, stock performance, efficiency and valuation) and risk (volatility and solvency). Companies with poor cash flow or high debt levels tend to earn lower ratings in our model. NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Affiliated Managers Group (NYSE: AMG) hit a new 52-week high Tuesday as it is currently trading at $156.38, above its previous 52-week high of $156.24 with 252,060 shares traded as of 12:10 p.m. ET. Average volume has been 354,900 shares over the past 30 days. Affiliated Managers Group has a market cap of $7.93 billion and is part of the financial sector and financial services industry. Shares are up 14.8% year to date as of the close of trading on Monday. Affiliated Managers Group, Inc., through its affiliates, operates as an asset management company providing investment management services to mutual funds, institutional clients, and high net worth individuals in the United States. It provides advisory or subadvisory services to mutual funds. The company has a P/E ratio of 46, above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7.
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Former Philadelphia Eagles defensive tackle Cullen Jenkins has a head start on the free-agent market after getting cut last week. He's using his time wisely.
Ian Rapoport of NFL.com reports that the New York Giants will meet with Jenkins on Friday. Mr. Rap Sheet expects more visits by Jenkins to other teams.
Ranked No. 76 on our Top 2013 free-agents list, Jenkins figures to help teams as a rotational lineman. He can play in a 4-3 defense or in a 3-4. The top of the defensive tackle market isn't great after the Miami Dolphins' Randy Starks. Richard Seymour, Desmond Bryant and Jason Jones also should get interest.
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I'm a 2.5 player, hoping to improve. If there is anyone that's willing to hit around around the fairfax county area I would love to play.
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Hi Neeraj, if you're willing to come up to Alexandria I could meet with you. Let me know.
Sure sure, where do you usually play? what days are good for you?
Hey Neeraj, I usually play in Pentagon City. They have the best courts around where I live. Do you want to meet there? I'm available early mornings and evenings any day except Wednesdays.
sure I think I know where that is. You wanna play tommorow or Tuesday, I am available after 5.30 ish.
I can probably make it by 5.45 or 6 ish. I would probably need to know more specific where to go. If possible could you send me a message with the address?
The park is Virginia Highlands and the address is 1600 S. Hayes St, Arlington 22202. Looks like the weather may not cooperate, so let's play it by ear. I sent you a friend request so just shoot me an email.
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LEDs (light emitting diodes) are light sources based on semiconductor devices. LEDs are used for a broad range of applications, such as backlight illumination of mobile phones or displays, traffic signals with low maintenance, car head lamps and rear lights, head-up displays, projectors and general illumination. They offer a number of advantages compared to other light sources, including long lifetime, low total lifecycle costs, compact size, easy implementation into end devices, and particularly, very high efficiency. The use of LEDs for illumination can save up to 85 % in energy consumption compared to standard light sources, offering the potential to reduce about 15 % of the total worldwide energy consumption if all standard light sources were substituted.
Semiconductor materials used for LEDs have a relatively high refraction index compared to air. This is the reason why typically only light beams with a small angle to the surface can exit the device. This effect can be avoided by patterning the surface with feature sizes similar to the wavelength of the LED. The out coupling of the light and therefore the efficiency of the LED is improved significantly. EV Group's imprint lithography technology allows for patterning the surface of the substrate with optical components:
Imprint lithography is a high-throughput wafer-level process. With Imprint Lithography a dedicated UV sensitive liquid material, which is applied on the wafer, is imprinted by mechanical casting of a stamp, and cured with UV-light. Compared to competing, alternative techniques Imprint Lithography is a low cost solution for structuring the wafer surface from the nanometer to the millimeter scale.As wafer level manufacturing processes are anyway favored due to their cost reduction potential, customers in the LED manufacturing market can benefit from an additional feature offered by Imprint Lithography techniques: the integration of beam shaping optics, which are state-of-the-art in CMOS image sensors.Please see our related product IQ Aligner®, EVG®620, EVG®520HE and solution Wafer Level Optics for detailed information.
Standard stamps for Imprint Lithography are not only quite expensive, they are consumables too since they have mechanical contact with the mold. In response EV Group developed a working stamp solution with very low total cost of ownership.With the new approach, the desired structure is transferred from a master stamp to the working stamp in a first, step and repeat Imprint Lithography process step. While the valuable master stamp will usually be the size of one single die, wafer-size the working stamp - which can consist of far less expensive material - can afterwards be used for the imprint lithography process to structure the wafer surface.Please see our related product EVG®770 for detailed information.
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Finding the right case for your smartphone is never an easy task and in fact, there might not be a right one for all occasions, just one right for the moment. Today, we're taking a look at another low-cost shell for the Lumia 1020, the YESOO Ultra Slim Fit Flexible Case.
Found on eBay and Amazon, often under the terms "Ultra Slim Fit Case", this item offers some low-level protection but sometimes, that's all you need. It varies in price from $3.99 to $5.99, but you get the point: it's affordable. Coming in a variety of colors, including green, aqua blue, pink, gray and white, the shell will only protect against minor falls but we're okay with that.
The design of the case is the classic type we've seen for Lumias lately: slide the phone in and snap it on. It leaves the screen area unprotected but the edges of the phone (top and bottom) including the corners are recessed enough to give it some body-protection against a drop. In fact, it's very well designed in that sense with a "lip" locking in the phone at the top and bottom.
The finish is matte and soft-touch, making the Lumia 1020 feel great in the hand. Due to its thinness and tight fitting form-factor, you'll barely notice this cover on your device. While it's far from a rugged case like Speck's, we feel confident that the phone's body and finish will have that just enough added protection to make us feel assured should the phone take a tumble.
Once again, for $4-6 we're quite impressed with this case as clearly some thought went in to it. The case has some local resellers in the US (including one in New York), so if you do order it in the States, you'll have a quick turnaround.
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