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Tamper Resistant Security Fence Brackets
The Tamper Resistant Security Fence Brackets, also known as the Sign Guardian S, are brackets designed for use on 1" security type fencing. Brackets are made from Zamak-3 Zinc Alloy to give them a long lifespan, and feature little feet that wrap around the fence and lock them into place.
Each package includes the two brackets, 5/16" 1-way R bolts, and hardware needed to install one sign on your fencing. These brackets are only compatible with signs that have 3/8" mounting holes.
¾ x 1″ Bracket For 1″ Chain Link Fencing
|Zamak-3 Zinc Alloy
|Sold in Packages of 2 - Includes 2 brackets, 2 One-way "R" bolts 5/16" x 1/2"
Phone: 800-274-6271
Fax: 800-279-6897
SignGuardian™ Security Fence Brackets
These SignGuardian™ fence brackets are the ideal mounting method for displaying signs on 1″ security type chain link fencing. Their unique design allows each bracket to brace itself around the fence links and the included 1-way R bolt keeps your sign secure by helping to prevent theft.
Tools required for installation:
- Our Y4965 screwdriver for one-way bolts
Installation instructions:
- Remove the bolt from the bracket if necessary.
- Take the bracket and hold it on the inside of the chain link fence.
- Grab your sign and place it so the mounting hole is lined up with the hole of the bracket.
- Holding both the sign and bracket in place, hand tighten the 1-way R bolt into the bracket.
- Use our Y4965 screwdriver with the 1-way R bit to finish tightening the bolt.
- Repeat steps for the bottom mounting hole of the sign.


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|"This is just so unfair"
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Dusty's Annoyed
22 comments:
A grazing muzzle beats those other options, hands down. Maybe a pair of stylish sunglasses so you don't see her stinkeye?ReplyDelete
Tell her she is not alone. Two of mine have been in muzzles for a couple of weeks. We put a cookie or carrot in the muzzle so they get a treat when we put it on. They sure can pull the pathetic look. We steel ourselves like you said with the thought that better safe than sorry.ReplyDelete
Can't blame her when you think about it. It certainly can't be any fun not to be able to chow down at will.ReplyDelete
Wish we could find a better way to tell our horses that everything we do is out of love and concern for their well being.
I'm having muzzle issues here too. The two a$$ clowns out back have figured out every way in the world of removing theirs (and throwing them over the fence to prove a point). Hickory is finally wearing his...but not happily. And he's been so bossy to Handy (the only horse not wearing a muzzle) that Handy won't take it off him ;-).ReplyDelete
I hate seeing ours in grazing muzzles (thus far only two of them ever have to wear them) - but the alternative is so much worse.ReplyDelete
The hard part for me is that the pony doesn't have to wear one if he is in full work but with no 8-year old around who is like my daughter was at 8 (and on through 12 or so) it is hard to maintain that kind of exercise. I was thinking the other day we could offer to deliver mail from our local post office. There's a trail from here to there that's completely off the roads and even if all we did was just pick up our little neighborhood's mail, it would keep him fit. :) Pony express!!
Oh, and Rafer Johnson could pony along and help with packages if we got him a proper pack.ReplyDelete
And forgot to say: hugs to Dusty.
I have a horse who needs one, too. I haven't done it for him yet, because I feel so bad for him, but in the end, it's more caring. :/ I have immunizations scheduled for today and that scares me about laminitis. I try to keep down the amount of immunizations, but she's heading to another barn and needs everything. Wish me luck.ReplyDelete
Sorry Dusty, but your human is right about this.ReplyDelete
I worry every year about vaccinating my horses. It's clear that they never feel well afterward. I've started changing the way I vaccinate my cats, too.ReplyDelete
Probably all things that are for one's own good are things one would like to avoid if possible :-)ReplyDelete
I'm glad she's doing really good! What vaccinations does a horse need every two weeks? Ours get vaccinated only once a year, twice at the most. Are we missing something here? Or did you mean to say 'every two years'?
Poor Dusty. Perhaps she's annoyed because her muzzle is in basic black and not a flashy colour that really enhances her beauty. :-) Seriously though, better safe than sorry.ReplyDelete
Never thought of the sunglasses, they might help!
Dusty does get a treat while being strapped into her torture mask but she's still highly insulted.
Hopefully, she'll thank me for it someday.
Our Blue totally destroyed his last muzzle on the water spigot. I actually did a post with pictures last year. Amazing how inventive they can be.
Great idea about delivering the mail. That would be good exercise for everyone. I'll give Dusty a hug from the November Hill gang.
Good luck with your girls immunizations. I don't like them either but I guess they're necessary for prevention of some diseases.
I used to hate it when my mother told me "it's for your own good", but I realized later on she was usually right.
I've had some bad luck after vaccinations so I dread them. We're trying to do everything different to ease the reactions.
Ours only get vaccinated twice a year too. What we are doing is breaking down the vaccinations into a few different shots spaced two weeks apart. They used to get vaccinations that included multiple immunizations all in one dose and had very bad reactions. So we decided to give one single vaccination per visit and in the following visits they'll get the others every few weeks until they get what vaccinations they need without the big reactions the multiple dose caused. We're hoping it keeps down the swelling, colics, laminitis etc.
I'm thinking she'd look good in a faux cheetah style but as long as she can't chow down on the grass she's not going to be a happy camper.
Heh, I requested that Dee be pulled off the grass since it's really starting to get green out here. The barn owner said that my girl would be so unhappy if we did that. Wait 'til I show up with the grazing muzzle! Then we'll see unhappy!ReplyDelete
My sister's boy wears a muzzle pretty much year round (he founders on air, I swear). He no longer grumps about it.
I think I might have to get my horse a grazing muzzle soon. I'm sure he'll be joining the stinkeye club.ReplyDelete
Poor Dusty; that "for your own good" stuff never does go over too well, does it? This might be a silly question, but is there a way to put a small treat inside the muzzle before you slip it on? It looks like mesh at the bottom. Maybe that moment of "yum" would take some of the sting out of wearing it, and make the muzzle a happier thought for her.ReplyDelete
Actually, the base of the muzzle is rubber with a hole in it. And yes, she does get a treat but it doesn't help.
Welcome to the stink eye club!
I hope Dusty becomes like your sisters horse soon and no longer grumps about all the good I am doing for her.
Poor Dusty. Portion control is never enjoyable.ReplyDelete
I leased a horse who, as he got older, developed thyroid problems and heightened tendency to founder. The vet & the horse's owner also realized that vaccinations became a trigger, especially as the horse became more sensitive. Since he was in a closed-herd situation (private farm, nobody tends to trailer in or out), the decision was made just to give him the rabies vaccination (required in Maryland) but none of the others. The other horses were fully vaccinated to keep risks minimal.ReplyDelete
You may want to rethink your vaccination needs for Dusty. If they do more harm then good, is it worth the intended prevention? (But then I haven't paid too much attention on your trailering habits, so a closed-herd situation might not be available.)
Good Luck & *hugs*
Oh, and one of the vaccinations that was a BIG founder trigger for my leased horse was the flu combo.ReplyDelete
Dusty, you are not alone. I've had my girls in lock up with only a very limited amount of pasture time. And we're shopping for grazing muzzles. What is your favorite these days? As for vaccines, I'm debating what kind to give them this year. It's interesting how the horse owners all notice the reactions, but most vets claim that they aren't happening. Very hard to know what is the best thing to do.ReplyDelete
Hi Victoria,ReplyDelete
We use Best Friend muzzles. They are bulky and uncomfortable but they are the least likely for them to be able to get out of.
As far as the vaccines, I'm not sure offhand. I think we're doing e/w tetanus, rabies and maybe potomac? in addition to the west nile. And we're doing mostly Merial brand because they use a different, safer adjuvant than Fort Dodge. We're not doing any combo vaccs - we're doing all singles, 2 weeks apart.
Thanks - that's what I got for Siete and she just hates it. I was hoping to find something that is a little lighter weight. And I'm going to ask my vet about the Merial vaccines. We don't use Fort Dodge either. Every time I complain about winter, I remind myself that this warm weather/no grass/flies and ticks routine is just as bad.It's always something!ReplyDelete
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Do It Better
Through habit more than anything I have wrote songs for ages, being largely content with playing them live, now and again, here and there. This period of nonchalant activity cumulated in a 7" single on shadazz (Glasgow artist Luke Fowler's bedroom label). Heartened by confused reviews in the local press including The Paisley Gazette, I began to get serious and expanded the outfit to three with local louches Richard Wright on guitar and Will Bradley playing the drums. (Bradley has since bolted but wisps of silver lining came in the form of Paul Thomson pointing out that he is a drummer, and by god he was right.) Later the group was crowned by Patrick of The Royal We fame on bass. The demands of nitty gritty bullshit on this planet acting as a source of endless inspiration and yet an obstacle to negotiate in order to get in the same room for five minutes produced some necessarily direct and unhampered songs which the forthcoming album will demonstrate. (Ok, we are talking Kinks, VU, Eno, Ramones, Creation, Dylan, Smiths, Modern Lovers, PIL, etc here, you know - all the good stuff.)
When it comes to writing songs I've just got to hope something worthwhile pops out my gob while I have a guitar in the ole paws. I find mornings quite productive in terms of spawning a germ for an idea of a song. The hour or so after you wake up, a little rattled perhaps from the wine the night before. It might be a line that strikes me as intriguing or a couple of chords that have some dynamism. 'Joni' is a case in point. I seem to remember writing it before dashing out the door to head off to work, my brain fizzing with 'Substitute' by the Who, guilt, and 'I'm Celebrity Get Me Out Of here' (I would eat a fish eye, to have you by my side). Working within the parameters of pop music makes writing focused, knowing you aren't the chosen one to revolutionise music as we know it (phew, fucking hell, what a relief). It's much more interesting to piss about with fact, fiction, surrealism, the mundane, and all the rest of it. 'Do It Better' is a result of the numbing effects of going about my business on a day to day level, petty grievances with humanity, trying to do the best you can, but never really achieving what you set out to do that particular day. I'm sure everyone else is trying their best too, but there must be some misunderstanding as they just seem to be getting in my bloody way. If art school (yes, another one) taught me anything it was that unlike real life you can do whatever you want, it doesn't have to be "here's my masterpiece". That's why people like Buddy Holly and Johnny Cash are so good. But then you already know that, it just took me ages to realise.
Correcto is often described as a project, in many ways it is. The other folk in the group have their other main preoccupations/occupations: Richard is an accomplished artist who makes terrifyingly detailed paintings, often onto the gallery wall using 'the most direct and simple means possible' - brushes and paint; no matter the scale (sometimes huge). He also makes works on paper which will feature on Correcto record sleeves. Richard has also been involved, over the years, with making music in various incarnations such as traditional Irish music with his brother in the infamous Victoria Bar and has played in bands such as Par Cark alongside David Shrigley. In short he has paid his dues for all of us. Nice one. Newcomer Patrick moved down to Glasgow from up north a couple of years ago, making an impact with the marvellous The Royal We (sadly no longer with us but look out for the LP on Geographic soon). He has formed a new band, Sexy Kids with ex members of the We and other faces you see hanging about with nothing better to do. Paul is in Franz Ferdinand, you may have heard of them. He offered his services in January 07. I hadn't seen much of him since Franz mania took hold so it was great to loaf about with him again when we recorded the initial bones of the LP in London. It was nice that he seemed completely unaffected by it all but with the bonus of recording knowledge, especially fortuitous as I hadn't been in a proper studio, well, for a while. He seemed just as I remembered him in the Yummy Fur days (his old band featuring Alex Kapranos and Jackie McKeown of 1990's) except this time he could get a round in. All these varied askews can only be healthy for making a good pop racket, but, I would love to see more of 'em. With any luck will you too, coming soon, to a forsaken shithole near your hometown playing songs fast and loose, tight and slow from the imaginatively titled debut album Correcto.
-Danny Saunders, Correcto
This band shares a member with The Royal We.


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State Legislative Successes
Seven States Helped by NEA Achievement Gaps Grants
Nine NEA state affiliates secured "public policies and associated funding for closing the achievement gaps" in 2006-07. (From NEA Strategic Goal #1 for 2006-08, which says that "up to twelve states" will have such policy successes by the end of 2008.) Seven of the affiliates listed below received an NEA Grant to Close Achievement Gaps, and they attribute their success in total or in part to their NEA grant. 2006-07 was the third year that NEA made these competitive grants available to interested state affiliates.
State Affiliates That Received NEA Grants
IndianaThe Indiana State Teachers Association attributes two legislative successes in part to its NEA Grant to Close Achievement Gaps. First, the school funding formula factor for allocating funds to school corporations with high concentrations of children who are eligible for the federal free lunch program increased from $1260 to $2250. Indiana's school funding formula now recognizes poverty as a primary determinant of school funding. Second, the 2007 legislature passed a law that addresses gaps in high school graduation and college participation by allowing students who are eligible for the federal free or reduced price lunch program to complete dual high school-college credit courses at a high school or a community college without any additional tuition charges by the college.
In addition, the Indiana General Assembly passed average funding increases for 2008-09 that will fully fund textbooks for free and reduced lunch students, which will relieve pressures on the school general fund and property taxpayers. The state's 2008-09 budget also increased funds for: (a) remediation, which reversed previous declines; (b) the state's full-day kindergarten grant program; and (c) special education reimbursement rates for all exceptionalities, which was the first increase since 2003; (d) gifted and talented programs; and (e)and Indiana's English language learner program, which increased tenfold (i.e., $700,000 to $7 million).
MaineWith the support of the Maine Education Association (MEA) and staff time funded by MEA's NEA Grant to Close Achievement Gaps, Portland negotiated a professional learning salary schedule that will take effect in 2008-09. Under the new schedule all teachers currently employed in the district will be placed on a salary lane or step that is identical to or higher than the salary they would have made on the district's experience-based salary schedule. The experience-based salary schedule will only be used for new hires. To advance one salary lane on the professional learning salary schedule, teachers must accumulate 225 approved salary contact hours, defined as follows: (a) one university or college credit = 15 salary contact hours; (b) one continuing education unit = 10 contact hours; and (c) one approved contact hour = 1 contact hour. Portland's interest in pursuing this line of bargaining began with information MAE provided the district from a 2005 NEA meeting on the closing achievement gaps.
In addition, the legislature unanimously passed Maine Department of Education Regulation 131: The Maine Federal, State and Local Accountability Standards. The law establishes content standards for math, reading, and science and technology provide a clear, coherent, and essential perspective on the knowledge and skills required for students' success in college, careers, and as citizens in the 21st century.
The content standards provide an explicit progression of student knowledge up the grade levels which is a significant change from the previous standards which often left teachers wondering what they needed to teach. Feedback from Maine educators, professional associations and parent groups indicates that these standards will be more useful to Maine's educators, especially entry level professionals, and will serve as an effective tool for curriculum development in the schools.
MissouriMissouri NEA (MNEA) reports it successfully advanced legislation establishing standards that govern the quality the state's local mentoring programs. This policy success relates to MNEA's previous success in 2005-06 that embedded language in Missouri's Professional Development Guidelines which encourages schools to create professional learning communities (PLC) that examine student work to inform teaching. MNEA believes the PLC model is an excellent way for beginning teachers to interact with their mentors.
NebraskaIn November 2007, Nebraska voters passed a constitutional amendment to allow the use of the interest from the school lands trust fund, and triggers private endowment money, to pay for early childhood programs in public schools. This is a major 2006-07 NEA Grant activity. It implements a Nevada State Education Association (NSEA) win from the 2006 legislative session that established an early childhood endowment, which will now be funded.
New MexicoNEA-New Mexico (NEA-NM) reports that its NEA Grant to Close Achievement Gaps helped it advocate successfully for passage of the "K-3 Plus Project" in the 2007 legislative session. This project establishes funding for additional instructional time and student resources to narrow the achievement gap between disadvantaged students and others in high-poverty public schools. The project also funds professional development for participating educators. In addition, NEA-NM secured an average five percent salary increase for all New Mexico school employees, and it convinced legislators that local school districts should be allowed flexibility in applying the salary increases. This effectively empowers local bargaining teams to use state salary allocations to best suit the unique needs and circumstances of local school employees. This salary increase also enables New Mexico to implement its final mandated minimum salary of $50,000 for Level III teachers, which teachers can attain in seven years.
OklahomaThe Oklahoma Education Association (OEA) reports two successes in the 2007 legislative session that it attributes to its NEA Grant to Close Achievement Gaps. The first requires that 25 percent of the candidates who are seeking National Board certification must be recruited from high-need schools in which at least half of the students receive free and reduced lunch. The second authorizes the Oklahoma Commission for Teacher Preparation to provide professional development for "residency committees" for beginning teachers. Established in 1982, the residency committee is composed of the building administrator, the mentor, and a higher education representative from the university where the beginning teacher graduated. The committee is required to meet three times a year, conduct three formal evaluations of the new teacher, and decide whether the beginning teacher receives his/her certification. While the law that created the residency committee also requires the mentor and beginning to meet for at least 72 hours during the school year, it did not provide guidance about how this time might be spent. The Oklahoma Commission Teacher Preparation now has the authorization to train the residency committee on how to best work with beginning teachers, a key step for OEA, which has developed a professional development model that would be appropriate for training committee members.
South DakotaThe South Dakota Education Association (SDEA) dedicated its NEA Grant to Close Achievement Gaps to the successful passage of the Indian Education Act of 2007. SDEA was part of an advisory committee that helped draft the law, which codifies several existing programs and assures that they can only be modified by action of the governor. More specifically, the Indian Education Act includes provisions for an Office of Indian Education; an Indian Education Advisory Council comprised of tribal-council nominees from the state's nine tribes; a pilot South Dakota American Indian language revitalization program; a requirement that teachers who are new to the state, or were certified after 1993, take a three-hour course in South Dakota Indian Studies; and development of curriculum and coursework related to South Dakota American Indian history and culture.
More State Affiliate Successes
IowaThe 2007 Iowa legislature approved nearly all of the Iowa State Education Association's legislative priorities for the last several years, including enacting an historic pay raise for educators. SF 277 provides an average salary increase of $3,600 per teacher in 2007-08 and $1,800 in 2008-09 for a total average increase of $5,400. This, along with competitive salary increases negotiated at the local level, should bring Iowa teaching salaries up to 25th in the nation. The law also increases the minimum salaries by $1,000. This brings the salary for beginning teachers to $26,500; career teachers (third year) to $27,500; and all other career teachers to $28,500. In addition, it makes area education agency professionals, and school nurses who hold a teaching license or statement of professional recognition, eligible to receive the salary increases.
The law also improves the current accountability system by ensuring that teacher evaluations are conducted in a fair and consistent manner that is focused on improvement and by eliminating unnecessary paperwork. As significant, it calls for the development of an administrator improvement and accountability system similar to the one already in place for teachers.
In the area of professional development, SF 277 calls for the creation of local teacher quality committees, made up of an equal number of teachers and administrators, to determine the use and distribution of professional development funds, monitor the teacher evaluation process, and recommend the use of the market factor incentives to recruit teachers in shortage areas. The law also provides funding for quality professional development opportunities determined at the local level. The funds can be used for additional time, substitute teachers, materials, speakers, content, and costs associated with implementing individual professional development plans.
The law also calls for the creation of pilot projects that will study pay-for-performance and career ladders; expands the use of "market factor pay" to include a wide variety of teacher recruitment incentives; and ensures that teachers who register for National Board Certification by the end of 2007, will be eligible for registration reimbursement and a $2,500 stipend each year for ten years if they are certified by the Board.
Finally, SF 277 reinstates the requirement that school districts employ at least one teacher librarian, guidance counselor, and school nurse. School districts can request a two-year waiver but they will be required to fill these positions after this period. School districts also must work toward a goal of having one guidance counselor for every 350 students and one school nurse for every 750 students.
WashingtonIn the two-year state budget passed in the 2007 legislative session, the Washington Education Association (WEA) was able to guarantee $5,000 annual bonuses for national board-certified teachers, with an additional $5,000 if they teach in high-poverty schools. Codified in law, the base annual bonus of $5,000 will increase each year to keep up with inflation. The state budget also will allocate funds to pilot smaller class sizes in grades K-3 and all-day kindergarten (10 percent of kindergarten enrollment in the state's highest poverty schools).
In addition, K-12 educators will receive a voter-mandated 3.7 percent cost-of-living adjustment, and the final FY 07 state budget provides significant new funding for community and technical college faculty salary increases and salary equity for part-time instructors. In addition, increases in per-student funding required by voter-approved Initiative 728, which passed in 2000 with WEA support, can be used for a variety of purposes including professional development and smaller class sizes.
WEA also placed $4.2 million for the "Closing the Achievement Gap – Flight Program" ($2.136 for 2007-08 and $2.136 for 2008-09) in the Washington state Department of Community, Trade and Economic Development budget. The funds will support collaboration between the Seattle Public Schools and the community. The primary intent is to close achievement gaps for students of color and student in poverty by promoting parent and family involvement and enhancing socio-emotional and academic support for students. By June 30, 2009, the Seattle Public Schools must provide an evaluation of the effect of these activities on class size, graduation rates, student attendance, student achievement, and the closing of the gaps.
Source: NEA report on State Affiliate 2007-08 Public Policy Successes, dated June 20, 2007.


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LONGMONT, CO – Colorado-based Oskar Blues Brewery and Indiana-based Sun King Brewery have created "The Deuce", their second CANlaboration project to unite the brewer's friendship and passion for pushing the boundaries of craft beer in a can. The Deuce is a limited-release Hopped-Up Brown Ale and the second craft beer (following the pair's CHAKA Belgian-Style Ale release) to be packaged in the Alumi-Tek┬« re-sealable pint bottle from Ball Corporation. Limited quantities of the Hopped-Up Brown Ale will be available at Oskar Blues locations (Tasty Weasel Taproom, Home Made Liquids & Solids, Grill & Brew) and in Sun King's home market during the 2012 Great American Beer Festival week while supplies last.
Similar to the CHAKA CANlaboration the breweries incorporated a blend of ingredients from each brewery's home state. As made popular by Sun King's GABF medal winning "Popcorn Pilsner" Riehle's Select Gourmet Popcorn from Indiana was used in tandem with Colorado Malting Company's Belgian Pale Malt in the mash. The end result is a 7 percent A.B.V., 69 I.B.U, Hopped Up Brown AleÔǪthink and smell India Brown Ale. The assertive hop aroma is roused from 100% Galaxy hops; three additions in the kettle, one in the whirlpool and dry hopped with one-pound per barrel. The Australian hop known for aromas of citrus and passion fruit contribute to the German chocolate malt presence creating a dry and smooth bitterness not often found in a brown ale.
The connection between these two breweries is deeper than the fact that they both can their beer and collaborated on the first ever craft beer in the Alumi-Tek bottle (CHAKA). Oskar Blues head brewer, Dave Chichura, began his professional brewing career in Indianapolis fifteen years ago where he became friends with Dave Colt and Clay Robinson, the two brewers who created Sun King. The three friends have been talking for years about working together on a collaborative beer, so when the opportunity came to continue to push the boundaries of the craft can package it was an easy yes.
Join Oskar Blues Brewery at the "It's All about the Package" release party following the Great American Beer Festival at the Blake Street Tavern for a NEW can package release and live music by Halden Wofford and the Hi-Beams.
Check out all the details of Oskar Blues' GABF week here: http://www.oskarblues.com/
About Oskar Blues Brewery
Founded by Dale Katechis in 1997 as a brewpub and grill, Oskar Blues Brewery launched their craft-brewed hand canning operations in 2002 in Lyons, Colo. They were the first American craft brewery to can their beer. Today more than 180 craft breweries are canning their beers. The original crew used a hand-canning line on a tabletop machine that sealed one can at a time. Oskar Blues Brewery in Longmont packaged 41,000 barrels in 2010, grew to 59,000 in 2011 and is on pace for 90,000 in 2012. While celebrating 10 years of Dale's Pale Ale the brewery has announced it will begin brewing beer in their new Brevard, NC brewery in December 2012. Visit www.oskarblues.com/ for more information.
About Sun King Brewing Company
Sun King Brewing Company is the brainchild of Dave Colt and Clay Robinson. With the help of family and friends — Omar Robinson, Andy Fagg and Steve Koers — the first keg of Sun King beer rolled out the door for delivery in July 2009. Sun King is the first full-scale production brewery in Indianapolis since Indianapolis Brewing Company closed its doors in 1948. Now available on tap and in cans at hundreds of locations around central Indiana, Sun King has grown into the third-largest beer brewer in the state of Indiana. The company's commitment to handcrafted seasonal and specialty beers has been rewarded with multiple medals at the Indiana Brewers Cup, Great American Beer Festival and World Beer Cup competitions. Visit www.sunkingbrewing.com for more information.


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ROCHESTER — The Rochester Museum of Fine Arts and the Rochester Opera House join together to present Everyone's Going to Die, a debut film by British Collective Jones. The event, at the Rochester Opera House on Saturday, June 7, begins with a cocktail hour at 7 p.m. with entertainment by the folk band Badfellows. The screening is set up as an informal forum to enjoy a film and to engage in lively discussion at film end. Your host is Matt Wyatt, President of the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts.
Everyone's Going To Die is a modern British story about two lost souls and one last chance. Melanie's life in a seaside town is going nowhere until she meets Ray, back in town with a shady job to do. A moment's escape becomes a chance to save themselves, and each other, coming home, getting by and the redemptive power of feeling you're not alone. A story where the past is laid to rest, two lives are changed and nobody, finally, is going to die.
Hollywood Reporter Steven Neish describes Everyone's Going To Die as a "film packed to the brim with new and emerging talent. Funny, poignant and brilliantly offbeat, this is the sort of pleasant surprise that film festivals thrive on, and a film that perhaps paradoxically deserves both mainstream success and a long life as a cherished cult classic."
The film presentation at 8 p.m. begins with a short film The Time Machine by Mark Kendall, who won the Student Academy Award for Best Documentary in 2011. In this film, a watchmaker from Honduras quietly muses on the nature of time, amidst the din of Grand Central Station
Purchase tickets ($8) at the ROH box office (603) 335-1992, M/W/F from 10-5 and two hours before the event. Cash bar. Age 17 and under must be accompanied by an adult. Visit RochesterOperaHouse.com or RochesterMFA.org for more event information. The Rochester Opera House is located in City Hall, 31 Wakefield St.


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Bacon Agonistes
Francis Bacon: A Centenary Exhibition
Tate/Metropolitan Museum of Art, 288 pp., $60.00; $40.00 (paper)
To celebrate Francis Bacon's centenary in 2009, Tate Britain mounted a retrospective exhibition that was subsequently shown at the Prado in Madrid and the Metropolitan Museum in New York. Bacon's theater of cruelty was an enormous popular success at all of its venues, but especially in New York, where he was hailed by fans as the greatest painter of the twentieth century. However, such clouds of hyperbole were already a touch toxic following the sale in 2008 of a flashy triptych for $86 million, and serious reviews of the Met show were anything but favorable. Also, those of us who care about the integrity of an artist's work were worried by the appearance on the market of paintings that, if indeed they are entirely by him, Bacon would never have allowed out of the studio.
As a longtime fan of Bacon, I have strong feelings about these matters. My admiration dates back to World War II, when, like many another art student, I was captivated by an illustration of a 1933 painting entitled Crucifixion in a popular book called Art Now, by Britain's token modernist, Herbert Read (first published in 1933, and frequently reprinted). Read's text was dim and theoretical, but his ragbag of black-and-white illustrations—by the giants of modernism, as well as the chauvinistic author's pets—was the only corpus of plates then available. This Crucifixion—a cruciform gush of sperm against a night sky, prescient of searchlights in the blitz—was irresistibly eye-catching. But who Bacon was, nobody seemed to know.
And then (circa 1946), craning my neck to get a look at a large canvas carried by a youngish man with dyed hair on the doorsteps of a neighbor's house, I realized that this had to be the mysterious Bacon. The neighbor turned out to be the artist's cousin and patron. I arranged for a mutual friend to take me to see him. Bacon struck me as being exhilaratingly funny—very camp in his disdain for masculine pronouns. Everything about his vast, vaulted studio was over the top: martinis served in huge Waterford tumblers; a paint-stained garter belt kicked under a sofa. The place had famously belonged to the pre-Raphaelite Sir John Everett Millais, but a later owner had left more of a mark on it: Emil Otto Hoppé, the foremost "court" photographer of his time. Hoppé's grungy hangings had survived the blitz, and so had the great dais where, crouched under a black, umbrella-like cloth (a feature of Bacon's earlier paintings), he had photographed society beauties in aigrettes and pearls. The ramshackle theatricality that permeated the studio also permeated the three iconic mastershockers—scrotum-bellied humanoids screaming out at us from the base of a crucifixion—that were about to make the artist famous.
Francis's blind old nanny, Jessie Lightfoot, knitting away at the back of the studio, came as a surprise. Besides helping Francis cook—she slept on the kitchen table—Nanny provided cover for Francis's shoplifting sprees (groceries, cosmetics, and Kiwi shoe polish for his hair). Nanny also helped him organize the illicit…
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Anonymous on 01/13/2016
Stayed there 3 nights. From Dec 25, 2015 to Dec 28, 2015. I got bitten by bed bugs all over my left hand, right arm and left leg.After I left the hotel, I called them, they got the room inspected by third party and found bugs. I got full refund. Never gonna stay there ever again. They ruined what was supposed to be my long awaited wonderful vacations.
Amy on 02/25/2015
I just stayed at the Marriott Chicago Downtown. I stayed there last weekend February 19 and February 20, 2015 Both nights I stayed there I had trouble sleeping because I was so itchy. I thought maybe I was allergic to the sheets or something. After I got home on Sunday I started noticing all of these bites all over the backs of my legs and on my hands and some on my face. After looking up the bites on line, I now know that I have bed bug bites. I think I must be allergic to them because th
e areas where I have the bites are hard, swollen, Itching like crazy, and some are blistery. My hands are swollen and painful and the backs of thighs are all bitten up and swollen and painful and just so itchy. I wish I would have checked this site before staying there because I would have gone somewhere else. This is awful !!! I stayed in room 2527
ENEW on 11/24/2014
I stayed here on 9/14/14. I woke up on 9/15 to find bugs crawling on my pillow. Security came and took pix of the bugs crawling. We killed at least 3 of them. 3 days later I had bites and a terrible rash all over my body and had to go to urgent care. It was the worse experience ever!
Anonymous on 04/10/2013
My wife and I stayed at the Marriot Chicago in early April, 2013
When my wife awoke in the morning, she was covered with insect bites I took pictures.
We stayed in room 2325
Security came up and did a cursory exam of the room
We were moved to a different floor.
Our clothes were cleaned.
They gave us a free breakfast. All of this went well, until we were contacted by a person from the hotel named Kyle. Mostly, he seemed to want to know if we were going to take legal action.
I notice, fr
om this website, that the room adjacent to our room also had a bedbug problem. Kyle never mentioned any of this to us.
The initial reaction of the Marriot hotel systems was good, but their follow up has been terrible. Mostly, Kyle seems to to avoid my phone calls. I believe that the hotel has problems with bedbugs, but their lack of good follow up information has been indicative of
"hiding information"
Steve at ASB on 03/09/2013
I spent 4 nights in room 2326 and came home with bite marks on my arm and back off legs. I had them on my neck the first night but thought is was just a nick from shaving. I can show you pictures on my leg since it is the worse if you need proof. The cleaning ladies were great but I did not request clean sheets everyday. Lesson learned!!
Anonymous on 01/17/2013
I stayed for 3 nights - checked in November 16, 2012 and woke up that Monday morning to 5 bug bites on my legs that were extremely itchy. I had never experienced anything like this before and was kind of scared and didn't know why it would only be present on the last morning of my stay. I was in denial that they were bed bugs, but after investigating online the bites were consistant with bed bugs. I never acutally saw a bed bug - as I was thinking to blame it on my dry skin, but after a day o
r two it did not look like dry skin, but very much like bug bites and the iching got worse. On January 17, 2013 I can still see the scars on my leg from the bed bugs - totally not just dry skin. I am still really scared that I may have brought them home. Scared that I may have to stay at this hotel again for another conference in the future.
Anonymous on 10/28/2012
I posted a very similiar story to the ones above and it was removed. I stayed over night 2 years ago and woke up with trio of bites on my leg. After one night we left-- The hotel sent me a letter reporting after looking "nothing was found." I think it is so interesting that in all these cases "nothing is found." Their denial makes me think that the problem is covered up. The hotel goes through the right motions.They heard about my case and sent me a letter back. I think it should be up to the co
nsumer to decide where to stay. This is one of my favorite cities in the world. The next time I go it will be at a friend's house.
Anonymous on 06/26/2012
June 22-June 26th 2012 wife had bites all over legs on 4th night at hotel. Woke up itching at 2am. Reported at 8am and Hotel security put us in another room and had company come to investigate. They Dry cleaned our clothes for us. Bought us two samsonite luggage bags and bought us lunch. They said no bugs were found but wife's legs tell another story. I felt they did help as much as possible.
Management denied bed bugs on 12/13/2011
I submitted a report to this location back in August 2011 & noticed it missing. Of course the hotel staff want it removed since it will upset people to see any complaints of bed bugs. To repeat my story-- I woke up with a trio of bites on my leg after staying here and did report it to management. I did get a written report back 1 month later that stated they "found nothing." I think it is so interesting that the staff found nothing- how do you explain the classic trio of bites on my leg? It seem
s that the only way to get any hotel to admit bed bugs is to actually capture one. Regardless I won't stay at this hotel again-- because in my opinion the trio of bites-- in a line-- on my leg came from someplace. When I looked on the web the bites are classic for bed bugs. I think it is only fair that the consumer gets to make the choice on staying at this hotel or not. The next time I return to one of my favorite cities I will stay with a friend.
Mike on 11/21/2011
If you want to get rid of your bed bug problems, call Allied Services, Inc in Posen, IL. We "specialize" in ridding apartments, condos and hotels of bed bugs! We service a ton of properties in your area with much success!
Call (708) 396-0200 ext 9028 ask for Mike Perkins.
Anonymous on 11/11/2011
Stayed at Marriott Chicago Downtown Magnificent Mile
between Oct25-Oct28 2011. I couldnt sleep in the night due to itching in my legs and next day i noticed red spots and looked up images in internet that match that of a bedbug bite.
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- I think I'm going to show this to my students during tomorrow's class (aka, the two-weeks-before-the-paper-is-due smackdown on grammar, usage, and plagarism issues).
- This ad is awesome.
- Here's a photo essay on one of the only mental health clinics in the eastern Congo. Mental health services are probably the top health need in the region at this moment. The population there is incredibly traumatized and there's virtually no tradition of psychological or counseling services.
- Here's an interesting thought on what the pope should've said regarding the spread of HIV/AIDS in Africa.
- The polling experts don't think there was a bias in the polls that incorrectly predicted an Obama win in the New Hampshire primaries of 2008.
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Early Years
John Brown was born on May 9, 1800, in Torrington, Connecticut, the son of an antislavery tanner. He grew up in Ohio and at age sixteen moved to Massachusetts. After failing to complete training for the ministry, he returned to Ohio and married in 1820. With his first wife, Dianthe Lusk, who died in 1832, and his second wife, Mary Day, Brown became the father of twenty children. He moved often, hoping to find financial success in Pennsylvania and Ohio before settling in New Elba, New York. As often as Brown tried a new business venture he failed, and he spent much of his time fighting off creditors.
Eventually, a quest for Christian moral purity came to consume Brown. As a young man in Ohio, he had an on-again, off-again relationship with various Congregational churches. From 1840 on he was unaffiliated with any church, although his views always remained rooted in the black-and-white theology of Calvinism. In Brown's view, sin abounded and, in the spirit of the Second Great Awakening, it needed to be eliminated immediately. Convinced that slavery was the nation's greatest sin, Brown therefore dedicated himself to abolitionism.
Fighting Slavery
Just two months before the raid, Brown met with the famous anti-slavery activist and former slave Frederick Douglass in an abandoned quarry near Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, to discuss his plans. In the end, Douglass refused to accompany Brown into Virginia, predicting accurately that the plan would end in disaster.
News of John Brown's raid sent white Southerners into a full-scale panic. Sensitized for decades by rumors of slave insurrections (from Gabriel to Nat Turner) and abolitionist conspiracies, many white Southerners now became even more convinced that a peaceful solution to the problem of slavery was impossible. Those who had already been advocating for secession seized on Brown's raid to meld abolitionism, slave insurrection, and the Republican Party into one unified threat. The repeated assurances of Northerners like Abraham Lincoln that, while they disapproved of slavery they also condemned John Brown's actions, fell on deaf ears among white Southerners. Meanwhile, Northern supporters of Brown, such as American essayist, poet, and philosopher Henry David Thoreau, quickly turned him into a symbol of antislavery courage and righteousness; the marching song "John Brown's Body" would be a favorite among Union soldiers once war had begun. When Lincoln won the presidential election of 1860 and the Southern states began to secede, many writers pointed to Brown's raid as the moment when the bonds of union began to snap.
John Brown's Legacy
John Brown became a subject of intense interest again in the 1960s when some African American historians and allied white historians championed Brown as the ultimate civil rights fighter. As the movement mourned martyrs such as Medgar Evers and Martin Luther King Jr., Brown came to represent an earlier example of paying the ultimate price in the ongoing freedom struggle. Brown's volatile mixture of religious conviction and violence came back into the public consciousness again at the beginning of the twenty-first century as Americans witnessed homegrown terrorists such as Timothy McVeigh, as well as those religious extremists who bombed the World Trade Center in 1993 and who perpetrated the attacks of September 11, 2001.
Time Line
May 9, 1800 - John Brown is born in Torrington, Connecticut.
May 1856 - After a series of attacks on antislavery settlers in Lawrence, Kansas, John Brown and his sons retaliate by slaughtering five local pro-slavery farmers near Pottawattomie Creek in Franklin County, Kansas. "Bloody Pottawattomie," as the incident will become known, signals a new level of violence in the growing crisis over slavery.
1857 - John Brown begins to hatch his plan to raid the arsenal at Harpers Ferry, spark a slave rebellion, and establish a new free state governed by a constitution of his own devising.
July 3, 1859 - Abolitionist John Brown arrives in Harpers Ferry.
August 1859 - John Brown meets with the famous antislavery activist and former slave Frederick Douglass in an abandoned quarry near Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, to discuss Brown's plans to raid the arsenal at Harpers Ferry. Douglass refuses to accompany Brown into Virginia, predicting accurately that the plan will end in disaster.
October 16–18, 1859 - John Brown and twenty-one raiders attack Harpers Ferry and capture the U.S. Arsenal there in an attempt to start a slave rebellion. Five men are killed (four white and one black). Ninety United States Marines, under the command of Colonel Robert E. Lee, capture Brown, who is
October 17, 1859 - A contingent of ninety U.S. Marines, under the command of Colonel Robert E. Lee, arrives in Harpers Ferry at 11 p.m. to put an end to John Brown's raid.
October 18, 1859 - U.S. Marines, under Lieutenant Israel Greene, break through the door to "John Brown's Fort" and capture Brown and his raiders. Brown is wounded in the struggle.
December 2, 1859 - After a gripping trial held in Charles Town in which John Brown is found guilty of conspiracy, of inciting servile insurrection, and of treason against the state, he is hanged.
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Lawsuits must hit Nintendo with all the regularity, and fanfare, of the morning newspaper arriving on the lawn. Now the insurance-mans is suing them, saying a DS power supply burnted a Kentucky residence.
Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance Company paid a claim to a homeowner whose place got roasty-toasty because of an overheating Nintendo DS AC adapter. Not sure what they paid out, but the insurance company is seeking $236,000, plus interest, court costs, dinner at Ruby Tuesday's, etc.
Just so you know, not all product liability lawsuits are filed by shiftless chislers represented by two-bit ambulance chasers. Sometimes big corporations get in on the act, too. And naturally, it's an insurance company, which probably figured it couldn't get out of paying this claim and then went looking for some way to make someone else pay. And bingo, they saw that Ninty previously conducted a product recall because of overheating issues.
The [DS] was defective in design, manufacture and/or because it failed to warn consumers as to dangers associated with it... due to defects existing within the Product which caused a risk of overheating and fire, the Product was recalled by Nintendo.
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Some new faces will be welcoming Herndon's elementary school students when they head back to school on Sept. 3. Karen Siple and Lucinda Rhomberg are taking over the reigns at Floris Elementary and Dranesville Elementary, respectively. And while leadership hasn't changed at Herndon's other elementary schools, there is plenty of change to report. From phones in the classroom (Clearview) to bulldozers digging new soccer fields (Hutchison), Herndon's elementary schools and their staffs haven't taken the summer off. As the area children enjoy their last few weeks of summer sun by the pool, here is a rundown of what they have to look forward to next month.
Clearview Elementary, under the guidance of Principal Sheila Bertrand, is getting a new Early Head Start Program this year. Beginning in October, the federally funded program, the first of its kind in Herndon, will provide child care for eight "income eligible" infants and eight toddlers whose parents are working towards their high school diploma. The Early Head Start program will have two full-time teachers and will provide a parenting course, as well. Clearview is also welcoming Karen Woods, its new special education resource teacher. Also new this year, teachers will be equipped with their own classroom telephone, complete with voicemail. Parents, of the expected 625 students, will have easier access to their children's teachers. As part of their upgrade to the telephone system, Clearview has a new telephone number this year: 703-708-6000. Vastera, a software delivery company, will continue to provide a mentoring program to the school's sixth grade students, said Bertrand, who is starting her 14th year.
Important Dates: Open House will be Thursday, Aug. 29 at 9:30 a.m. Back-to-School-Night is scheduled for Sept. 12 at 6:35. For more information, contact the school at 703-708-6000.
Lucinda Rhomberg takes over for Beverly Morrison, the longtime principal at Dranesville Elementary School this year. Besides the arrival of Rhomberg, Dranesville students will have plenty of new faces greeting them on Sept. 3. According to Assistant Principal Willy Nance, six new teachers are joining the Dranesville family this fall. In addition, Aimee Wood, a former physical education teacher at the school, is coming back this year. Nance said Dranesville will have roughly 800 students enrolled when classes begin next month. The school is capable of handling "at least 1,000 students," she said. The school's hours have not changed.
Important Dates: The Dranesville Open House will be Aug. 29 from 10:30 - 11:30 a.m.. Back-to-School-Night is scheduled for Oct. 3 at 7 p.m.. For more information, contact the school at 703-326-5200.
Over at Herndon Elementary School, administrators are expecting about 700 students this year, just under the school's capacity of 747. While Herndon lost one of its two assistant principals, Bill Vardeman, it is gaining five new teachers, said Lorraine Walker, the school's remaining AP. Herndon will be opening its new Math Lab this fall available to all students. In addition, students in grades one through three will be getting new math books. The goal of the lab is for remediation and extension of existing skills, Walker said. The 2002-3 school year at Herndon will mark the second year for its Gifted and Talented, or GT, lab and for the on-site computer lab. Minerals Management Service will continue its 14th year working with Herndon Elementary. MMS provides mentors and tutors as well as technology support and training to the school's 39 teachers.
Important Dates: Open House is Aug. 29 from 9:30 to 11 a.m. for Kindergarten and from 3 to 4 p.m. for all other grades. Back-to-School-Night is Sept. 18 at 7 p.m. For more information, contact the school at 703-326-3100.
When Oak Hill Elementary opens again this September, Principal Marie Merenda will be on hand to welcome the 651 students as they march into school. Thanks to the school's under-enrollment (it can house up to 850) students, there are no trailers on the campus. Columbia Gas is continuing their partnership with Oak Hill by providing field trips to the plant and donating time and helping with the school's ongoing fund-raising efforts.
Important Dates: Oak Hill's Open House is scheduled for Aug. 29. For Kindergarten the Open House festivities will kick-off at 9:45 a.m. and last until 10:45. For all other grades, the program will run from 2 to 3 p.m. Back-to-School-Night will be Thursday, Sept. 12 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. For more information, contact the school at 703-467-3500.
With two years under his belt as principal of Crossfield Elementary, Dr. Jerry Kovalcik is eager to start his third at the 15-year-old Herndon school. New to Crossfield this year will be the second of two mobile laptop computer labs complete with wireless web technology. With a staff of about 65, including 30 classroom teachers, Kovalcik looks to build on the momentum of last year's "Differentiated Instruction." The goals of the innovative year-old curriculum, according to the principal, are to challenge the best and brightest students and to help those who are struggling. To accomplish these goals, it is important for educators to vary the way in which they teach students, Kovalcik said. Kovalcik is expecting 811 children on Sept. 3; the school can house a total of 876. Crossfield will continue its partnership with Unisys Federal. Unisys workers help with the school's mentoring program, dubbed "lunch time buddies," a program that matches students with mentors from the staff, volunteers or Unisys.
Important Dates: Open House at Crossfield will be held for students and family of first and second graders as well as new students on Aug. 30 at 9 a.m. Back-to-School-Night will be held on Sept. 19 at 7 p.m. for grades K through three and at 7 p.m. on Sept. 26 for grades four through six. For more information, contact Crossfield at 703-295-1100.
The Karen Siple era officially begins at Floris Elementary as the 126-year-old Herndon institution starts its 127th year this September. By the first day of classes, Siple expects to have between 780 and 800 students in grades K through six. While enrollment has exceeded Floris' capacity (760), the three trailers out back won't be used for full-time classrooms, said Siple. Instead they are being used for music classes. The Japanese immersion program will continue this year, as well, Siple added. The first-year principal won't be the only new face around Floris' well-trodden halls, however. She will be joined by seven new teachers, who will help fill out a staff of nearly 80. Beginning this school year, Floris has joined up with BJ's (a wholesale warehouse chain) in the Adopt-a-School Program and their ongoing mentoring program with EDS will also continue.
Important Dates: Open House will be Thursday, Aug. 29 from 10 to 11 (A-M) and 1 to 2 p.m. (N-Z). Back-to-School-Night is scheduled for Sept. 24 and 26. Grades one through three, plus AM Kindergarten, are invited to attend on Sept. 24. Two nights later, grades four through six and PM Kindergarten will convene. On both nights, Back-to-School-Night will run from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. For more information, call Floris Elementary at 703-561-2900.
"It's empty and quiet without the students around here," said Hutchison Elementary Principal Sheila Kearney. "I am just looking forward to standing out on the street corner and welcoming them back in a few weeks." Kearney, in her second year as principal, is in her third tour of duty with the Parcher Avenue elementary school. Kearney started her career as a teacher there and was an assistant principal for four years, as well. "There's a reason people stay here or if they leave, they always come back," Kearney said. "It really is the Hutchison family." This year the family is supposed to be between 680 and 700 students strong. "For the first time in years," according to Kearney, no regular classes will be housed in trailers. With a staff of about 60 and 31 full-time classroom teachers, Hutchison will build on the initiatives it started last year. Students in sixth, and in some cases fifth, grades will continue learning math and language arts using the middle school model of flexible grouping strategies. This approach targets lessons for children who are excelling and for those who are struggling, Kearney said. Hutchison will also mark its 10th year partnership with NIMA, the National Image Mapping Association. NIMA helps with the school's geography bee, provides field trips and assists with speakers during career day. Hutchison's partnership with Herndon's United Floris Methodist Church will also continue this year. In the past, United Floris has donated school supplies, food for needy students and toys during the holidays. The 2002-2003 school year will also mark the second year volunteers from United Floris have taught English classes to 100-150 Spanish speaking parents of Hutchison students.
Important Dates: The Hutchison Open House will be Aug. 29 at 11 a.m.. Back-to-School-Night is scheduled for Sept. 17 at 7 p.m.. For more information, contact the school at 703-925-8300.
Rising sixth graders at Fox Mill Elementary might not recognize their teachers come Sept. 3. That's because Principal Janet Foster is welcoming two new sixth grade instructors into the fold at Fox Mill. Debbie Arnsperger and Tammy Walther (formerly of Herndon Elementary) will help the Viking Drive school's senior statesmen off into middle school. According to Ed Pisano, assistant principal, one-third of Fox Mill's 630 students will take part in the school's Japanese immersion program this coming year. In addition, Fox Mill will continue to partner with DTRA, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. In the past, DTRA has donated computers, provided manpower for the school's Field Day activities and helped with Veteran's Day programs.
Important Dates: Fox Mill's annual Open House will be Aug. 29 from 1 to 2 p.m. for grades one through six and PM Kindergarten. Open House for AM Kindergarten will run from 10-11 a.m. Back-to-School-Night is scheduled for Sept. 24 from 6:30- 7:15 p.m. for grades four through six and PM Kindergarten. The PTA will meet from 7:15- 7:45 p.m.. Following the meeting at 7:45 p.m., Back-to-School-Night will resume for first through third grades, plus AM Kindergarten. PTA meetings, except in September, will be held the first Tuesday of every month. For more information, call 703-262-2700.


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THE SQL Server Blog Spot on the Web
Another quick check I like to do when in 'discovery mode' on a client system is to see what network protocols are enabled. Those of us around in 2003 will remember well the headaches caused by the SQL Slammer virus, and know to shut down Named Pipes unless it's absolutely necessary, just as a precaution.
As part of my investigation on new systems, here's a quick script that returns the protocols on a server, and whether or not they're enabled.
First, we need to load the SMO WMI Managed Computer assembly (in case we're running from native PowerShell.
# Load SMO Wmi.ManagedComputer assembly
[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.SqlServer.SqlWmiManagement") | out-null
Then, it's just a matter of connecting to the server (not the instance), and looking through the ManagedComputer object's ClientProtocols collection.
# Connect to the instance using SMO
$m = New-Object ('Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Wmi.ManagedComputer') 'MyServer'
# Return the protocols and whether or not they're enabled.
$m.ClientProtocols | select DisplayName, IsEnabled
If unnecessary protocols are enabled, I can now disable them, and if ones I need aren't enabled, I can fix that, too.
P.S. Nicholas Cain (blog | twitter) pointed out that he was getting incorrect results from this script, and only got correct results when digging deeper into TCP/IP for an instance. I looked at it and realized I had to go a bit deeper with this script.
The SMO ManagedComputer object has a collection called ServerInstances, and each instance has a collection called ServerProtocols, and for each instance of SQL Server, the true state of the protocol for that instance is reflected there. Here's the last part of the script that'll tell you that:
# Now return for each instance
$inst = $m.ServerInstances
foreach ($i in $inst) {
[string]$nm = $i.Name
$proto = $i.ServerProtocols
foreach ($p in $proto) {
[string]$dispnm = $p.DisplayName
[string]$enabld = $p.IsEnabled
write-output "Instance Name: $nm"
write-output "Protocol Name: $dispnm"
write-output "Is Enabled: $enabld"
write-output ""
Thanks, Nic, for finding that shortcoming.
Hey Allen, I tried to use your script and took me a while to figure out. also, I am still newbie to powershell.
I was getting an error :
The following exception was thrown when trying to enumerate the collection: "SQL Server WMI provider is not available on servername>.".
You will need to load SMO assembly as well
It works fine after that for me :).
Hi Allen, I tried this script and it works on following scenarios
1. Clustered instances
2. Servers running named instances
But when I query a standalone instance (2016, 2014, 2012, etc) I always get this error "The following exception occurred while trying to enumerate the collection: "SQL Server WMI provider is not available on <Server Name>.".
I am using the library "[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo") | Out-Null". Any ideas?


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The Solar Water Lens is a clever way to demonstrate yet another way to collect and focus the sun's power. Many a child has experimented with a holding magnifying glass in sunlight to create a flammable heat source. Unfortunately, while the lens produces high temperatures, it is only projected onto a relatively small area. The limiting factor being the size of the lens. One large enough to produce the required heat for practical cooking would be prohibitively expensive to manufacture. The designers at Green Power Science have experimented with making a water lens, using gravity to give it its parabolic shape.
They admit it is not intended for latitudes very far from the equator. It requires the sun to be primarily overhead, and will produces heat for maybe three hours on a clear day. The focal length for a lens this size, which is about 75-100 cm in diameter, is relatively long. This means the lens must be supported overhead with a structure holding it about 2.5 m above the focus area. So probably not the most practical way employ solar cooking. None the less, the lens impressively produces temperatures of 175°C (350°F) to 345°C (650°F). In a survival situation in the tropics, with some clear plastic sheeting, water, and some creative carpentry, a cooking source would be possible.
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A collection of scholarly works about individual liberty and free markets. A project of Liberty Fund, Inc.
1753 - 1824
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John Taylor, of Caroline County Virginia, was the preeminent theorist of Jeffersonian Old Republicanism. He was a strong advocate of individual and states rights in the face of the growing power of the federal government ("tyranny") and opposed increased tariffs and mercantilist economic policy.


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In addition to Green, performers for Amanda Green & Friends included Brooks Ashmanskas, Andrea Burns, Jenn Colella, Jay Armstrong Johnson, Ryann Redmond, Gregory Haney and Ariana DeBose.
Jenn Colella, Ariana DeBose, Ryann Redmond, Jay Armstrong Johnson and More Join Amanda Green at Birdland
Matt Gallagher led the band.
Amanda Green is an award-winning Broadway composer-lyricist and performer. She has two shows on Broadway this season: Bring It On, for which she co-wrote the lyrics, is currently playing at The St. James Theatre, and Hands On A Hardbody, for which she wrote the lyrics and co-wrote the music, collaborating with Trey Anastasio, bows at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre Feb. 23, 2013.
Also on Broadway, she wrote the lyrics for High Fidelity (music Tom Kitt; 2006). As a performer, Green has won two MAC Awards and a Bistro Award, and performs her songs everywhere from Birdland to Carnegie Hall to the Bluebird Café in Nashville. She is the winner of The Jonathan Larson Award for Excellence in Songwriting, and Songwriter's Hall Of Fame Scholarship Award.


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The TSA has quietly announced that it is constructing a watch list of individuals that it deems to be violators of it's security rules. The agency, under the Department of Homeland Security, notes:
"As part of the effort to identify individuals that are low risk, TSA also is creating and maintaining a watch list of individuals who are disqualified from eligibility from TSA Pre[check]TM, for some period of time or permanently, because they have been involved in violations of security regulations of sufficient severity or frequency."
The announcement came in the November 19 edition of The Federal Register, a daily journal issued by the federal government.
The PreCheck program, introduced earlier this year, encourages frequent fliers to allow TSA access to a host of details and personal information, the idea being that if you qualify, you are spared some of the security theater hell that the rest of the cattle are forced to endure when passing through airport checkpoints.
The announcement continues:
"Disqualifying violations of aviation security regulations may involve violations at the airport or on board aircraft, such as a loaded firearm that is discovered in carry-on baggage at the checkpoint, or a threat to use a destructive device against a transportation conveyance, facilities, or personnel. The TSA Pre[check]TM Disqualification List will be generated by TSA's Performance and Results Information System (PARIS)."
The ultimate irony behind this revelation is the fact that some attempting to sign up to avoid TSA interrogation every time they fly, could ultimately end up on a government watch list and be subjected to even more nightmare police state treatment than if they had not bothered in the first place.
Indeed, it seems that TSA's PreCheck is nothing more than a smokescreen to get people to officially submit to the security theater checkpoints. The agency admits that those signed up to PreCheck will still be "randomly" subjected to the same treatment as everyone else. Accounts from dissatisfied PreCheck "clients" have already confirmedthat there is no such thing as "hassle-free" boarding.
The recent revelation that anyone can print out a boarding-pass and alter one number on it to make it appear they are enrolled in PreCheck goes to show that the program is just another layer of security theater. In addition, there have been accountsof travelers being mistakenly waved through the PreCheck lines, even though they have NEVER registered for the program.
PreCheck is intrinsically flawed and threatens to make flying LESS safe. However, it does enable the government to compile yet another watch list of Americans who are disgruntled with the police state crackdown at airports.
Given that it was recently discoveredthat some TSA procedures, including complaints, are operated and processed in all manner of different ways and at the whim of each individual TSA agent, it is no stretch of the imagination to expect that anyone merely opting out of the body scanners, complaining about pat-downs, or filming at checkpoints could be considered to be in "violation", and therefore added to this latest watch list.
The ACLU has previously contended that huge numbers of Americans are opposed to the measures employed by the DHS and the TSA in the nations airports and train stations, but that many have not registered official complaints for fear of being placed on a watch list.
Remember that the government already operates two "watch lists" that we know of with regards to air travel. Also remember that the secret government "no fly list" of suspected "terrorists" who are banned from flying to or within the United States more than doubled in 2011. The figures, earlier this year, highlighted the fact that the list now contains around 21,000 names, close to 11,000 more than it did just one year previously.
The government has refused to reveal details of who is on the list and the reason they have been flagged.
In lawsuit against the government, the ACLU is representing American citizens who believe they have been put on the no fly list without explanation. Currently, those who submit a letter to Homeland Security asking to be removed from the list have no way of knowing if their request has been reviewed without attempting to board another flight, according to the ACLU.
This no-fly list, as well as the airlines' CAPS II system, pales in comparison to the separate government master "terrorist watch list" that reportedly now has over one million names on it.
Reports have confirmed that the watch list contains the names of thousands of innocent Americans, including babies, children, lawyers and even a retired Air National Guard brigadier, now a commercial pilot for a major airline.
In some cases credit reports have been used in calculating the risk score, while the list has also been used to target political activists opposing the death penalty and the Iraq war. Some, including former White House Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel have suggested restricting the constitutional rights of those placed on the list. There have also been calls to apply the watch list to Amtrak trainsas well as checkpoints at subways, malls and sports stadiums.
The chairman of a House technology oversight subcommittee warned in 2008 that the database used to produce the government's terror watch lists is "crippled by technical flaws," and the system that was due to, and now has, replaced it may be even worse.
In a letter to the inspector general at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Rep. Brad Miller (D-NC) warned that the upgrade "if actually deployed will leave our country more vulnerable than the existing yet flawed system in operation today."
We have previously highlighted the fact that a miniscule amount, less than 0.01%of Homeland Security cases are terrorism related.
Once again we are reminded that the terrorist threat to America is vastly over hyped and is being used by a criminally controlled government as an excuse to foment a domestic police state to crush any dissent amongst the American people.
Such watch lists represent a subversion of the first and fourth amendments, are inherently flawed and are MORE harmful to the security of the nation.


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Leading a Law Firm, Balancing a Life
Beth Skillern JD '86
As the story goes, a male senior partner in the Portland- based law firm of Bullivant Houser Bailey invited a number of female employees to dine with him at one of the city's membership clubs—back in the early 1980s, when women were beginning to gain stature in the workplace. The senior partner was able to enter through the front entrance, but the women were required to enter through the back door.
"Our firm was founded in 1938, and things have changed dramatically over the years," says Beth Skillern JD '86, president and general counsel. "Opportunities for women are now diverse and abundant."
Skillern joined Bullivant Houser Bailey in 1987 and practiced primarily in the area of insurance coverage for more than 20 years. "The firm has grown, both in number of lawyers and offices, since I joined," she says. "Our practice areas include business transactions and other complex litigation, in addition to insurance coverage."
Skillern has been the firm's general counsel since 2006. She took over as president three years later when the term of David Ernst JD '85 ended and he returned to full-time practice at the firm.
Skillern's interest in the law took root in high school and continued through college. "I loved history and political science classes, which led to my fascination with legal reasoning and analysis," she says.
But following the advice of a favorite college professor, and at the urging of her parents, she earned her teaching degree at Southern Oregon State University. She taught at the junior high level in Grants Pass and in New Orleans.
Although she liked teaching, Skillern decided to revisit her dream of becoming a lawyer—about the time her youngest child entered kindergarten. She chose Lewis & Clark Law School because of its location, reputation, and flexible class schedule. She was familiar with the college because of her sister, Carolyn Roberts BS '72.
Skillern's skills as an educator translate naturally to the practice of law. "I teach clients the value of a case, what to do and what not to do," she says. "I try to teach the judge and jury the merits of a case. And as a manager, I teach by example and direction."
She advises lawyers, especially women, to find balance and perspective in their careers. She encourages them to examine their priorities and extended family circumstances.
"There are greater opportunities for balancing work and life now than ever before. Our firm has shareholders and practice group leaders with management responsibilities, both men and women, who have chosen to work part time," she says.
Skillern strives for balance in her own life as well. For the past 25 years, she and a group of women friends have walked two miles together every morning. Rarely missing a day, except when rain showers turn into downpours, they talk as fast as they walk and keep things positive. No complaining or gossiping allowed.
She is also a 15-year member of a local book club, where she enjoys the spirited, convivial monthly discussions.
Community service is another of Skillern's passions. She volunteers at the Northeast Emergency Food Program and recently joined the board of directors for Self Enhancement, Inc., a nonprofit dedicated to helping inner-city youth succeed.
Skillern understands the value of support and encouragement, a gift she extends to her two young grandchildren. She says that her own success "can be traced directly to the mentoring and understanding I've received from family, good friends, and colleagues who have encouraged me throughout my life."
–Pattie Pace


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German Navy Sachsen-class frigate Hamburg (F220) Deploys in U.S. Carrier Strike Group
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German Navy Sachsen-class frigate Hamburg (F220) Deploys in U.S. Carrier Strike Group
The German Sachsen-class frigate Hamburg (F220) is the first German ship to fully integrate and deploy with an American carrier strike group, and April 3 marks her second week of operating in the North Arabian Sea with USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) (IKE).
The Hamburg will stay a part of the strike group until the group's completion of operations in the U.S. 5th Fleet Area of Responsibility.
Both Rear Adm. Michael Manazir, commander CSG 8, and Cmdr. Ralf Kuchler, commanding officer of Hamburg, hope this is the start of a long partnership between their two countries.
"It has been a pleasure to work with Hamburg," Manazir said. "She has integrated seamlessly with our strike group and I would feel confident deploying with a German ship in any situation."
ARABIAN SEA (March 23, 2013) The German navy frigate FGS Hamburg (F220) and the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) are underway alongside the Military Sealift Command fast combat support ship USNS Bridge (T-AOE 10) during a replenishment-at-sea. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Hamburg are deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility promoting maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Ryan D. McLearnon/Released)
While this is the first time a German ship has been part of a carrier strike group, it is not the first time one has trained and deployed with American ships. FGS Hessen (F221) completed interoperability exercises and deployed with USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) in 2010, but detached in the Mediterranean Sea. German ships routinely collaborate with American ships in the European Union's Operation Atalanta, an anti-piracy mission around the Horn of Africa, as Hamburg did in 2011.
While integration was slow at first to allow time for the sides to get acquainted with one another, Hamburg now helps IKE by coordinating the air space around the strike group and in defense of its surface assets. This is the role Kuchler said he foresees German Sachsen-class frigates fulfilling in the future.
"Within Carrier Strike Group 8, my mission is to provide the admiral the same service he is used from a U.S. cruiser within the boundaries of my national rules of engagement, which is to safely coordinate the airspace around the carrier and to protect IKE if the situation demands," Kuchler said.
Hamburg is suited to do that, as she has some similar surface-to-air and anti-ship missiles. The Sachsen-class frigate is the only ship in the western world with three types of surface to air missiles: the Standard Missile 2 block IIIA (SM-2), the Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile (ESSM), and the Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM).
Hamburg's Active Phased Array Radar (APAR) and SMART-L air-surveillance radar are both new European developments. APAR, comparable to the U.S. SPY radar, is primarily a fire control radar and it operates well in a wide-range of environments. The SMART-L has a detection range of more than 200 nautical miles for air targets and can track up to 1,000 air tracks automatically. Its 3-D picture helps threat analysis and enables a quick handover of target data to APAR for potential engagements.
Indeed, Hamburg is a frigate in name only.
"These ships are designed for this type of mission," said Cmdr. Christian Wikarczyk, Hamburg's executive officer.
To help the crews of Hamburg and IKE get acquainted with one another, an exchange program has been set up between the two ships during deployment. Each day - whenever the operational environment permits - they cross deck three Sailors for an orientation of about five hours. There is no shortage of volunteers from each side.
While the planning of future carrier strike group missions may be on hold due to budgetary constraints, the leadership of CSG 8 and Hamburg are hopeful this relationship will lead to more cooperation in the years to come.
"My personal goal is that this deployment paves the ground for a rotational 2-year participation of a German 124 (Sachsen class) frigate in a U.S. carrier strike group," Kuchler said. "I am pretty sure that the steps we make here are the best basis to convince both sides that this is the right way ahead for our common future."
By Lt. Timothy Gorman


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