text: An Atlanta-based trio comprising several members of the pop-metal band SouthGang, Marvelous 3 became a critic's darling in 1999 with the smash single "Freak of the Week." The band had formed two years prior, releasing the albums Math and Other Problems and Hey! Album before joining the ranks of Everclear, Foo Fighters, and Buckcherry as another energetic yet rollicking pop band. Marvelous 3 also became MTV mainstays and landed touring spots with groups like Collective Soul and blink-182. Not entirely distracted by quick-winded success, frontman Butch Walker honed his songwriting skills and co-wrote "Right Now" with Maryland's SR-71, a move that foreshadowed his future success as a producer and songwriter for other artists. Slug and Jayce Fincher completed Marvelous 3's lineup, which donned fashion spreads for Calvin Klein and Abercrombie & Fitch before returning to the home front in 2000 with ReadySexGo! The following year, however, the band voluntarily left the roster of Elektra Records and disbanded soon after. Walker went on to pursue a solo career while producing material for such top-tier artists as Avril Lavigne and Katy Perry. ~ MacKenzie Wilson & Andrew Leahey

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The Museum of Bookish Misery is extremely happy to have you here with us on this virtual tour.
Sit back, relax, and feast your eyes on all the low-grade crappy things bookworms have done to land in this museum!
In the collection
1. The first reader to ever dog-ear pages
2. The first person to lose a book they borrowed.
3. The first person to lose a book they borrowed and also have the gall to say "loosen up, yo, it's just a book".
4. The first person to whine "but, but, it's just a book. Why do you care so much?"
5. The first person to break a book's spine.
6. The person who came up with the idea of "Major Motion Picture" covers.
7. The first person who thought it was a good idea to add stickers to books.
8. The first person to change the size/design of books halfway through their series.
9. The first person who thought movie adaptations were a good idea.
Would you like a book on how to deal with miserable humans such as the ones here? Check out our book Punish the Prick: The Book Dragon's Handy Guide in the gift shop on your way out!
Psst. This was inspired by my favourite scene from The Good Place.
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Birthday Flowers in Sedalia
Look no further than Moore's Greenhouses & Flower Shop in Sedalia, MO for birthday flowers and happy birthday gifts! Liven up any birthday party with a festive bouquet of birthday flowers or surprise them with a cheerful "Happy Birthday" bouquet! Or give them a long-lasting plant or romantic roses. Everyone loves flowers for birthdays!
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Why Sociology?
"Philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it."
Karl Marx, Thesis on Feuerbach XI
Sociology is the study of group life. It combines scientific and humanistic perspectives in the study of urban and rural life, family patterns and relationships, social change, inter-group relations, social class, environment, technology and communications, health care and illness, social movements, community responses to disasters, and pressing contemporary social issues.
Sociology at UAS
At the University of Alaska Southeast you can take courses in deviant behavior; in close relationships; in men, women, and change; in medical sociology; in race and ethnic relations; and more. Sociology provides many distinctive ways of looking at the world that generates new ideas and reassesses old ones.
Program Opportunities
Internships and Practical Experiences
Students with an emphasis in sociology have participated in internships working with state legislators, and the State of Alaska Departments of Health and Human Services, Corrections, and Education. Sociology students can also gain practical experience through working in policy research, administration and management, and in clinical and applied settings. Exchange Programs Students may study for a year at another U.S. or Canadian university or in Europe or Latin America.
Within the Bachelor of Arts in Social Science, you pursue a minor field of study. Minors at UAS that complement sociology are:
- Alaska Native Studies
- Business
These programs combine with sociology to create a focus on diversity in society. They also provide you with a strong background to enter careers in various business enterprises and social services with a focus on working with people.
"The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood."
Martin Luther King Jr.
Careers in Sociology
Sociology is a valuable social science major for students planning careers in a variety of fields, including:
- Social Research
- Social Psychology
- Criminology
- Demography
- Gerontology
- Education
- Public Administration
- Social Work
- Market Research
Many students who study sociology as undergraduates later pursue careers in law, business, medicine, community planning, architecture, and government.
" I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed that we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal."
Martin Luther King, Jr.


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Foie-lapalooza: 5 Ways to Eat Foie Gras in Montreal
Despite my gluttonous dietary tendencies, I have an insufficiently thick layer of blubber to combat the cold in Montréal. By my last count, the number of shirts I have on is greater than the temperature outside, and that doesn't even include the wind chill. So I've taken to eating foie gras at every meal. Go ahead, judge me.
It's been quite easy, actually. In Montréal, you don't find foie gras—it finds you. Order a stuffed pig's trotter and you'll find it inside. French fries might very well have it on top. French toast and foie? Sure why not.
I started my tour de foie at Joe Beef. Co-chefs/owners Frédéric Morin and David McMillan are two of the city's most (in)famous protein pushers right now, and the creators of the fiendish Foie Gras Double Down.
My next stop was the celebrated Au Pied de Cochon. The restaurant's emblem depicts a chef getting a piggy-back ride from, well, a pig. I was interested in no such physical maneuvers after a trifecta of triglycerides that included foie gras croquettes, a whole pork trotter stuffed with foie gras, and, yes, foie gras poutine.
To finish, I hit an off-the-radar bistro in the Latin Quarter called Bouillon Bilk. Here liver lovers can get their fix even at dessert. I concluded a very fine meal with an eggy, deeply caramelized slice of pain perdu topped with a seared strip of— what else? —foie gras.
Check out the slideshow for all five dishes in Foie-lapalooza >>
Joe Beef 2491 Rue Notre-Dame Ouest, Montréal, QC H3J 1N6, Canada (map) (514) 935-6504; joebeef.ca
Au Pied de Cochon 536 Avenue Duluth Est Montréal, Québec H2L 1A9, Canada (map) (514) 281-1114; restaurantaupieddecochon.ca
Bouillon Bilk 1595 Boulevard Saint-Laurent, Montréal, H2X 2S9, Canada (map) (514) 845-1595; bouillonbilk.com/
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New London schools scramble to build budget with host of unknowns
New London - In the wake of budget uncertainties, school administrators had less than two weeks to pore over their individual school spending budgets and find ways to cut programs, staff and services totaling 8.2 percent.
On Monday, they delivered lists of cuts that would meet the goal of saving $3.2 million.
Now the district must move ahead with what funding it has and pursue the goal of improving student achievement.
"Now we're getting to the marrow of the district," Interim Assistant Superintendent of Schools Katherine Ericson said last week. "We're no longer talking about fluffy positions, we're talking about staff at all levels. There's really no one who hasn't felt the cuts."
This was the second time in this year's challenging budget season that school administrators had to trim their budgets, although this time it wasn't clear how many teacher layoffs, if any, the district would be rescinding after issuing notices in April.
School officials will not detail the specific programs or positions listed for cuts until the Board of Education gets the list. Superintendent of Schools Nicholas A. Fischer is expected to review the individual budgets and then send the revised district budget to the board for its approval.
At first, school officials hoped that the $809,001 the district received from state Education Cost Sharing funds could be used to reinstate some of the teaching jobs, but state guidelines prohibit using the money to supplant line items in the budget.
New London is one of 30 districts named by the commissioner of education as an Alliance District. They are the 30 lowest-performing districts in the state.
"The Alliance District money is extremely scripted on the permissions we'll have to use that money. We're not allowed to put that into our regular funds money and split it between the schools," Ericson said. "It has to go toward school improvement and it has to be applied to new ideas, so this makes it extremely challenging."
As an Alliance District, the school system must submit a proposal to the State Department of Education detailing how the $809,001 in funding will be spent. State-appointed special master Steven Adamowski is working closely with Fischer to create that plan.
New London's proposal must include objectives and performance targets. The plan may include, but is not limited to, ways that will strengthen reading programs for K-3 students; extended school days or extended learning times; teacher and school leader recruitment and assignment and training on new evaluation models.
The state commissioner of education can approve or deny all or part of the Alliance District application.
Special master's role
The pressure on the district mounted days before the start of the fiscal year on July 1, when the state appointed Adamowski to oversee district operations.
Adamowski demonstrated his authority when he postponed the consolidation of the school and city's finance departments, which both the Board of Education and City Council had approved. He has voiced his opposition to the consolidation and said he was shocked to learn the school board had rushed the approval of the consolidation "without a piece of paper in front of them."
Ericson said the school district believes the consolidation will still happen, but at a much slower pace.
"We run our own payroll. To do that (consolidate) on July 1 with zero planning ... how does a district or any type of fiscal entity run without a plan?" Ericson said. "We don't have any argument about the consolidation happening, but the bottom line is we have a budget to run and we can't do it without a business office."
Fischer has estimated the school district would save about $500,000 from consolidation. The City Council offered to absorb the cost of running the finance department so the district could put that amount toward educating students.
The consolidation postponement came at the same time Adamowski announced that the school system would find ways to balance its $39.8 million budget after the city voted not to increase the school budget.
The district is still without a definite number of teachers who will return for this school year. On Thursday, the school district announced that all 68 nontenured teachers whose jobs were on the line would be reinstated, but the central office does not know yet how many have taken jobs elsewhere.
The district was able to retain the nontenured teachers because of retirements, resignations and staff who already have notified the district that they've taken other jobs. The reinstated teachers might not remain in the same schools or teaching the same subjects. Depending on their areas of certification, some might be moved to other open positions.
"This is such an unusual year because we really didn't understand our budget situation. It's ridiculous how late this is. We couldn't even build our budget because we didn't even know what the cuts were going to be," Ericson said.
During the budget process with the City Council, the school board sought a 6 percent increase in its current $39.8 million budget. That amount would have met increasing contractual costs and retained nearly all of the services and staff.
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State presses ahead with plans for $20 million pedestrian bridge in New London
The National Coast Guard Museum Association has submitted an application to the city for construction of a 400-foot, glass-walled pedestrian bridge to span Water Street and connect the downtown with the waterfront and future Coast Guard museum.
Hygienic hosting weekly arts and music events on Fridays in New London
The Hygienic Art Park has been hosting weekly Dine-In Friday events that feature performances by a variety of local artists and various local artisans selling their wares.
Bozrah Farmers Market takes on a flair of the old fashioned and fanciful
This Friday was steampunk night at the market.
Town and city clerks shift schedules to account for election
Clerks' offices in the region are moving hours around, offering services by appointment and sometimes closing in expectation of an increased workload ahead of this year's general election.


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In the mood to stay in and watch a movie? May we suggest From The Back Of The Room, a documentary about the trailblazing ladies of punk who were doing their thing before you even first heard the words "Riot Grrrl" uttered out of your super-cool "alternative" friend's mouth.
The documentary interviews many of the influential women from that era, from Kathleen Hanna from Bikini Kill and Le Tigre to Tribe 8's Slade, as well as members of Kylesa, Bratmobile, The Soviettes, Naked Aggression, Blatz, Optimus Crime, and many others. The film's website describes the doc like so:
Many people have the impression that the Riot Grrrl movement in the mid-90s was the end-all, be-all of female involvement in DIY punk. This is definitely not the case! Plenty of amazing ladies prior to this era paved the way for it, and plenty of amazing ladies continue to help keep DIY together today. This documentary chronicles the past 30 years of female involvement in DIY punk, and has interviews with over 30 women from across the country, ages 17 to 40. Race, gender, sexuality, motherhood, class, and activism are all addressed in this film, giving a more complete picture of how these women participate in the DIY community, and how it affects their daily lives.
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Where Did the Term 86 Come From?
We've all heard someone used the term "86" in reference to doing away with something. There are a few schools of thought behind where the saying came from. Some have more legs than others, such as those of the restaurant industry but to this day, there is still no official etymology. Here are a few possibilities.
Restaurant Lingo
Regardless of whether it was the first to coin the phrase, the restaurant business in the 1930s was one of the main incubators for its usage and development. Believed to be slang for the word "nix," it was initially used as a way of saying that the kitchen was out of something, as revealed in Walter Winchell's 1933 newspaper column that featured a "glossary of soda-fountain lingo" used in restaurants during that time, according to Snopes. It later evolved into a code that restaurants and bars used when they wanted to cut someone off, because they were either rude, broke, or drunk, as in "86 that chump at the end of the bar."
Prohibition Era Raids
This possible origin stems from the Prohibition era at a bar called Chumley's located at 86 Bedford Street in New York City. To survive, many speakeasies had the police on somewhat of a payroll so that they might be warned of a raid. In the case of Chumley's, it is said that police would call and tell the bartender to 86 his customers, which meant that 1) a raid was about to happen and 2) that they should all exit via the 86 Bedford door while the police would approach at the entrance on Pamela Court.
Take Out the Trash, U.S. Navy Style
Another plausible explanation for the saying is brought to you by the U.S. Navy's Allowance Type (AT) coding system that was used to identify and classify the status of inventory. The code AT-6 was assigned to inventory that was designated for disposal, specifically after World War II as the Navy decommissioned many of its warships and went through the process of cleaning out its storerooms where they kept spare parts. During this process, any parts that were labeled AT-6 were considered trash and thrown out. It is easy to see phonetically how this could result in the term "86" and the idea of throwing something away to become synonymous.
Calm Down, Cowboy
Up until the 1980s, whiskey came in 100 or 86 proof. When a bartender noticed that a patron had drank too much of the 100 proof, they would scale back and serve them the 86 proof. According to some theories, in bar lingo, that person would have been "86'd."
Eight Feet Long, Six Feet Under
Perhaps the birth of this phrase occurred in death? The last time you can be "86'd" might be when they put you under the ground, as most standard graves are eight feet long and six feet deep.


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shop update
I'm excited to share that I have a brand new necklace style just listed in the shop. Each necklace is longer, on 24" chains rather than 18" as with most of my necklaces. They have 1 simple, half moon shaped bead that is a great necklace to wear layered or by itself over a nice tee. I also updated the store with some new one of a kind bracelets as well, check them out here.
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Oooh! I just jumped to your shop and ordered one of these! I love them - perfect for summertime tees and sundresses! Keep up the beautiful work... excited to see what you'll have in store next. Thanks!ReplyDelete
These are BEAUTIFUL. I included them in my Love List today :)ReplyDelete
Classy and elegant! Totally my style and will be taking a peek in the shop!ReplyDelete
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They are really nice! Wonderful work again :)ReplyDelete
Sorry for not having reply to your mail yet, I will do so before leaving to France on Tuesday.
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Beautiful, perfect for summer:)ReplyDelete
- LindaJune 04, 2012
Love it! So curious of how you make these...what kind of material is it? And how do you carve the beads? Very impressed by you work!ReplyDelete
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Beginning with receipt dates after July 31, 2012, the following change in eligibility will take effect for all competing applications:
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Higher electric bills on horizon to pay for solar
The government's plan to develop solar energy as an integral part of Japan's electric power system is starting with power companies buying surplus energy from people who have installed solar collection systems in their homes. To promote solar energy, the companies are required to pay a certain price for the power, and they pass this added cost on to all their customers as a surcharge. On your bill it is designated as taiyoko sokushin fukakin (solar energy promotion supplement) and varies in amount depending on where you live. In regions where solar energy collectors are more prevalent, the surcharge will be larger, since the utilities in those areas pay more money for solar energy. As can be expected, sunnier regions tend to have more solar collectors.
Right now 3.3 percent of homes in Japan have solar systems, which means Japan has a long way to go before it reaches former Prime Minister Naoto Kan's target of 10 million homes with solar systems, which would mean about 40 percent. In Kyushu, which tends to have more days of sunshine than other regions, the portion is 6.4 percent. In Hokkaido, it's only 0.8 percent, which means the average surcharge for Kyushu residents is much higher than it is for Hokkaido residents.
Another factor that determines how widespread solar systems are in a given area is the amount of subsidies local governments offer to residents who install them. In 2010, Aichi Prefecture was No. 1, with 16,000 applications for subsidies, followed by Saitama and Tokyo. Home ownership rates in Aichi and Saitama are very high.
The Nihon Keizai Shimbun has reported that on Jan. 24 Japan's 10 regional power companies announced that the surcharge would increase in 2012. Currently, the surcharge ranges from ¥2 to ¥21 per month. It will increase, depending on the place, by ¥3 to ¥24 per month. (For Tokyoites, it will average about ¥17 a month.) These 10 companies bought 2.15 billion kilowatt/hours worth of energy from home solar systems in 2011, which is equivalent to 30-40 percent of the output of a nuclear reactor during the course of a single year. For this, they paid ¥95.6 billion, a 53 percent increase over what they paid for solar energy in 2010.
In July, the power companies will start another phase of the energy scheme when they begin buying electricity from wind power generators and other renewable energy sources, though it isn't clear right now what sort of surcharge will be added to energy bills as a result.


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The interdisciplinary performance "3 Singers Opera" explores the female body's relationship with machinery, particularly with the labor, production and policies of the textile industry. I came up with the idea for the piece while conducting research on the historic Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of 1911 where 146 young seamstresses died. Many were locked in the factory. While I was researching these historical events, the tragic collapse of Rana Plaza knitwear factory in Bangladesh occurred, killing 1,129 workers. The collapse was attributed to owner negligence, the pressures of high market demand for cheap commodies, and substandard safety regulations. I was struck by this migratory oppression and the many repetitive cycles we see unfold in history. What must shift from within society to impact the course of such patterns, and how is the female voice a vital part of that? I contacted my long time music composer/collaborator, Ryan Ingebritsen, and began forming ideas. The "3 Singers Opera" was born.
In three movements, a series of intersections are drawn between labor practices in pre-Civil War agricultural production, the Industrial Revolution, and the contemporary "sweat shop." The choreography of "3 Singers Opera" is a collage inspired by culturally identifiable folk dances, the organic movement of traditional (i.e., non-mechanized) labor and industrial labor actions in relationship to machinery. "3 Singers" refers to the three vocal performers as well as their three sewing machines. Through a design residency at Northwestern University's school of engineering, Ryan worked with a crew of students, modifying each sewing machine with Arduino technology—a physical computing technology used to develop interactive objects—to interrupt the performers' voices, as well as control sampled sound and video in an immersive audio/visual installation. The rhythms and pulses of the needles of the sewing machines create restraints on the freedom of the performers, essentially making their full expression an extension of the machine to which they are attached.
For the past five years, Ryan and I have actively worked to develop strategies of interdependency between our media of sound, movement and objects. For "3 Singers," Xbox Kinnect cameras and LEAP motion sensors are employed to translate the performer's movement into sound and image, furthering the interdependence of choreography and music.
As the interdisciplinary performance develops, we are hoping to include a single silent, fourth performer who will occupy the center of the performance installation. She will keep time with her needle while steadily sewing screens made of interfacing, the reinforcing fabric used to make garments keep their shape. This will envelop both audience and performer, eventually acting as projection surfaces. I am now beginning to design an enclosing structure that will situate the audience within the performance. This intimate space will encourage empathy with the performers through the immersive transformation of movement, sound and image into a high stimulating cacophony of visual information, sound and light, all of which is finished with a moment of total darkness and silence.
Ryan Ingebritsen is a composer, sound designer and live electronic musician whose music focuses on the multi-dimensional aspects of sound incorporating space, time, and site specific acoustics as structural musical elements while using familiar materials to permeate and reveal these mystical structures. He has collaborated with and been commissioned by artists such as Todd Reynolds (bang on a can), International Contemporary Ensemble, Third Coast Percussion, Beta Collide, Firewire, Till by Turring, Gold Sparkle and Stars Like Fleas. As a sound designer and engineer, he works with Grammy award winning ensemble eighth blackbird, International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) and premiered works by Steve Reich (Pulitzer Prize willing Double Sextet), David Lang, Julia Wolf, Michael Gordon, Steve Mackey and Rinde Eckert (Slide). Ryan recently designed sound for the Tune In Festival and the Park Avenue Armory including the New York premier of John Luther Adams' Iniksuit for which he created a multi channel soundscape from street noise outside the armory itself. He created surround sound mixes of all three of Steve Riech's seminal tape works for presentation on the state of the art Jay Pritzker Pavilion sound system as well as mixing three live works (Double Sextet, Mallet Quartet, and Music for 18 Musicians) for the 2011 Reich 75th birthday celebration in Millennium Park.
Erica Mott is a choreographer, sculptural object designer and cultural organizer who utilizes body-based sculptural forms and transforms discarded materials and disregarded spaces. Using the tools of humor and surprise, she captures and heightens the magic and mystery of the mundane. She invites communities to re-view and re-envision shared spaces and practices. Erica has lectured at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Amnesty International, The Memphis Theological Seminary, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, and the Universities of Witwatersrand and Kwazulu-Natal in South Africa. Erica is a recipient of several awards including Amnesty International's Patrick Stewart Human Rights Fellowship (to teach arts in community in South Africa), The Santa Fe Art Institute Residency, Ragdale Foundation Residency, NES Artist, the Chicago Dancemakers Forum Fellowship, the City of Chicago CAAP program and the Neighborhood Arts Program (NAP). She is a core troupe member of the seminal performance art troupe, La Pocha Nostra.
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John Boesche, video design
Fides Krucker, opera singer, vocal coach
Ginger Farley, dramaturge
Jenna Lyle, vocals
Maggie Mascal, vocals
Lara Oppenheimer, vocals
"3 Singers Opera" will premiere at the Cleveland Public Theater as part of Ingenuity Fest in October 2014, at CRICOTEKA in Krakow, Poland in November 2014, and in Chicago along with an exhibition featuring the dramaturgical research for the project through a special partnership with the National Museum of Health and Medicine in January 2015.
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Our friend Linda from Ohio just returned from a big family trip to China, her first with us. We try to call everyone when they get home, but we didn't have a chance – her email came in almost immediately:
"You were right. It was a great trip for a family. We LOVED it. Tom and I have taken many trips but this one for us will always be the very special one. It exceeded any expectations that I had.
To see the eyes of our children as we traveled each day was incredible. They were filled with such excitement. I know that I was very nervous about taking the children to China and realize I could not have been more wrong. It was a trip of a lifetime for our family. All ages loved it and we loved learning about the Chinese culture and most of all we loved our new Chinese friends. Chuck and Ping were exceptional. They did everything possible to make our trip special for our family. They became part of our family almost immediately. They took very good care of us all. Chuck was the "magician" of the trip, making good things happen constantly and Ping was "Pied Piper and "Mary Poppins" all rolled into one. The children ( and adults) adored her. She had an endless bag of goodies and always kept the children amused.
The trip was a perfect blend for all ages (8-73) . China will always be a very special place for our family. We have so many wonderful memories and over 2000 pictures to share. It was a well documented trip! Many thanks to all of you for making this trip possible for our family!"


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Hi everyone,
My first post here so apologies if it's in the wrong section,
Just a quick question, with the impending floating out of L.E James Joyce and the upcoming unnamed vessel will the naval service be recruiting soon? Or are they operating from a panel to exhaust first ,similar to the Army?.
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This band formed by singer/songwriter Campino (real name: Andreas Frege) are one of Germany's most successful punk rock bands. Their social satire sometimes has traits of cabaret (Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder, Kein Alkohol ist auch keine Lösung).
Die Toten Hosen were founded in Düsseldorf in 1982 and released their first album the following year. Soon their tours took them to France, Spain, the UK, and in the 90s even to Argentina, Canada and the USA, and there were some songs in these countries' languages. In 1990 the band had its first number one in the German album charts with Auf dem Kreuzweg ins Glück, which was followed by seven more number one albums. Die Toten Hosen's greatest hit came in 1996 with the single Zehn kleine Jägermeister.
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I've recently downloaded PCHelpWare and installed it onto my PC.
I was originally looking for a free solution to help computer users remotely so that I could view their computer screens without going down into their offices and having to install Ultra VNC (I'm an IT techy).
I've managed to get the program working, I've created a website with the download of the server package for the user to download, this part works great.
The problem comes on the administrators side. I've created a second website which allows the administrator to open the viewer package. Whenever the .exe file is downloaded an error saying "This application has failed to start because 1SCVDLL.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem." appears?
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"Hits all the right notes - and some you don't expect. A great account of the music game story so far!"Mike Snider, Entertainment Reporter, USA Today
"An exhaustive compendia. Chocked full of fascinating detail..."Alex Pham, Technology Reporter, Los Angeles Times
"It'll make you want to celebrate by trashing a gaming unit the way Pete Townshend destroys a guitar."Jason Pettigrew, Editor-in-Chief, ALTERNATIVE PRESS
"I've never seen such a well-collected reference... it serves an important role in letting readers consider all sides of the music and rhythm game debate."Masaya Matsuura, Creator, PaRappa the Rapper
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Welcome to the weird, wild and whacked-out world of music video games - every bit as glorious and gonzo as the legendary bands and songs which have inspired its hard-partying ways.
Rocking its way to the top of the video game charts faster than any genre before, music and rhythm gaming had become a $1.7 billion industry and certified breakout hit by 2008. But despite heavyweight co-signs by acts like The Beatles and Metallica, inspiring millions of everyday fans and transforming the very face of pop culture, the genre had all but single-handedly sunk the game industry's fortunes just a year later.
Chronicling the meteoric rise and fall (and rise again) of music video games, Music Games Rock: Rhythm Gaming's Greatest Hits of All Time is the first book to explore the field's history, origins and most spectacular hits and flops. Offering an inside look at rhythm gaming's hottest headliners and oddest one-hit wonders - including exclusive tour stories from the creators of Guitar Hero and Rock Band - it's your backstage pass behind the scenes of the games industry's hottest act.


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MOTÖRHEAD frontman Lemmy Kilmister was the featured guest on this past Monday's (October 28) edition of the nationally syndicated radio show "Rockline" with host Bob Coburn. You can now listen to the program at RocklineRadio.com.
MOTÖRHEAD was forced to postpone its previously announced fall 2013 European tour until early next year. Lemmy explained in a statement: "We have made the decision because I am not quite ready to hit the road yet, and am working my way back to full fitness and rude health. Don't worry — I'm not about to start promoting veganism and alcohol-free beverages, but it is fair to say that I personally have been reconfiguring areas of my life to make sure I can come back fitter and stronger than ever.
"It disappointed me tremendously to have to say I wasn't quite ready to hit the road yet, but not nearly as much as it would've disappointed me to go out, play some average shows and watch my health give way long before the tour was over! When people come to see a MOTÖRHEAD tour, they expect a MOTÖRHEAD show, and that is exactly what you will get as soon as I am fit and ready to rumble."
Lemmy recently spoke to U.K.'s Classic Rock magazine about his health issues that have caused the band to cancel a number of European festival appearances this past summer — including shows in France, Germany and Russia. The dates were called off when doctors discovered an unspecified haematoma, a pool of leaked blood gathered in Lemmy's muscles. The legendary rocker is also suffering from Type 2 diabetes, diagnosed more than a decade ago, and has had a defibrillator fitted earlier this year to iron out the uneven bumps in his heart.
Lemmy takes two pills every day for his diabetes, which has affected the circulation in his legs. As a result, his legs stiffen and ache if he walks too far and his back hurts if he stands for too long. "But I can still stand at that mic every night and play my songs," he said. "I wouldn't know about the defibrillator if it wasn't for that fucking lump in my chest," he said. "I'm getting better."
Lemmy, who turns 68 years old in December, told Classic Rock he didn't expect to still be here at 30,
"I don't do regrets," he said. "Regrets are pointless. It's too late for regrets. You've already
done it, haven't you? You've lived your life. No point wishing you could change it.
"There are a couple of things I might have done differently, but nothing major; nothing that would have made that much of a difference.
"I'm pretty happy with the way things have turned out. I like to think I've brought a lot
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Asked if his illness this year has made him more aware of his own mortality, Lemmy said: "Death is an inevitability, isn't it? You become more aware of that when you get to my age. I don't worry about it. I'm ready for it. When I go, I want to go doing what I do best. If I died tomorrow, I couldn't complain. It's been good."


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Saint on Death Row Book Review
Book Review by Ann Jonas, Tradebook Buyer - CSB/SJU Bookstores
this review was published in the St. Cloud Visitor
A Saint on Death Row: The Story of Dominique Green by Thomas Cahill
Thomas Cahill has written a number of books on history, including How the Irish Saved Civilization, Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter, and Mystery of the Middle Ages. His newest book A Saint on Death Row: The Story of Dominique Green is definitely his most heart wrenching book. Cahill met Dominique Green in 2003, when Dominique was an inmate living in solitary confinement on Death Row in Huntsville, Texas. Cahill was on a book tour when he met Sheila Murphy, a retired judge from Chicago, who convinced Cahill to visit Dominique while he was touring in the Houston area. Reluctantly, Cahill agreed to do so. Cahill's encounter with Dominique compelled him to join Murphy's fierce fight for Dominique's life, even enlisting Archbishop Desmond Tutu in the battle.
Dominique Green was born in Houston, Texas to a poor, dysfunctional family. At age 18, Dominique was arrested and charged with capital murder for the fatal shooting of a man during a robbery. Green may have taken part in the robbery, but he always insisted that he did not pull the trigger. He refused, however, to implicate anyone else in the murder, although it is unclear if he knew who may have committed it. What Cahill makes clear, however, is that Green had such poor legal representation and his case was filled with so many legal errors that he should not have been convicted, much less put to death.
A Saint on Death Row is the story of these injustices, but it is also the story of a young man who made such an impact on Cahill that he felt driven to tell his story. In Dominique, Cahill found a remarkable human being with a level of goodness, peace, and enlightenment that few human beings ever attain. During the twelve years he spent on Texas Death Row, Dominique attempted to have his conviction and sentence overturned. According to Cahill, he also grew from a neglected and abused boy to a man of stature, a man of learning and wisdom. He read many books including Tutu's No Future Without Forgiveness. That book made a big impression on Dominique and he subsequently realized that forgiveness was the path he and his fellow inmates needed to take. Under his leadership, many of the inmates on Texas Death Row forgave anyone who had harmed them and, as much as they could, sought forgiveness from those they had harmed.
A visit from Archbishop Tutu in March, 2004 brought some media attention to the cause to have his conviction and sentence overturned. After meeting Dominique, Tutu was quoted that he "is a remarkable advertisement for God." Despite obvious errors in the legal procedures, protests of the victim's family, and media attention, the attempts to appeal Dominique's sentence failed. On October 26, 2004, Dominique Green, age 30, was executed by lethal injection.
Cahill admits that he was once in favor of the death penalty, though he had never thought deeply about it or really studied the issues surrounding it. He had already changed his opinion prior to meeting Dominique, after reading stories of the fallibility of the system. He states that after coming to know Dominique he is left with no doubt that the death penalty is unjust and immoral.
A Saint on Death Row is a deeply moving account of a tragedy that should not have happened. This tragic tale of racism, poverty and the death penalty is told from a personal encounter that changed the author and will also change the reader.


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If you have obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), your obsessive and compulsive behaviors are extreme enough to interfere with your everyday life. This is not the same as the "compulsive" behavior many people normally display, such as high standards of performance, perfectionism, and organization in work and recreational activities. Normal "compulsiveness" often serves a valuable purpose, contributing to a person's self-esteem and success on the job. OCD, on the other hand, involves obsessions and rituals that are very distressing and interfere with daily functioning.
Diagnosis of OCD is usually based on the following:
Initial Assessment
Your doctor will ask you about your symptoms and medical history. This may be done with a structured interview and/or questionnaire. You may also be given a psychological assessment. OCD may be diagnosed if the specified symptoms consume at least one hour each day and/or result in both emotional distress and disturbed functioning. When you have OCD, the symptoms are disruptive enough to cause problems at school, work, and/or in family and peer relationships.
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Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Anxiety Disorders Association of America website. Available at: http://www.adaa.org/GettingHelp/AnxietyDisorders/OCD.asp . Accessed September 9, 2008.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). National Institute of Mental Health website. Available at: http://www.nimh.nih.gov/ . Updated April 2008. Accessed September 9, 2008.
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Fall Hors D'oeuvres!
I'm planning a small apartment warming party for the beginning of October. I want to serve some delicious, omni-friendly appetizers and hors d'oeuvres. I really want it to be fall themed with yummy fall foods like apples, pumpkin, sweet potatoes etc.
I'm hoping to find things that are easy to make, and also some things that can be made ahead. I have a small oven.
All suggestions (and party suggestions, woo!) are SO appreciated!
Ow, it works again, somehow I couldn't post, so I was just testing ;)
Anyway, I think these mini quiches would be perfect: http://blog.fatfreevegan.com/2006/12/mini-crustless-tofu-quiches.html maybe with roasted pumkin and walnuts for the filling.
Or stuffed mushrooms, or something else with mushrooms.
Crostini with different toppings could be nice too, and maybe some sort of vegan paté (this one would fit the theme perfectly: http://ediblebiology.blogspot.nl/2011/12/vegan-mushroom-chestnut-pate-and-vegan.html)


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SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.- As part of its ever-expanding Academic Alliances program, NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) is launching a new NetApp Certified Storage Associate (NCSA) certification, underscoring its commitment to providing educational opportunities for students of information technology and computer information systems-related programs. In the two years since the launch of NetApp's innovative industry-academic partnership program, students have logged thousands of online training hours reinforcing the fundamental role that storage and data management have in virtual shared infrastructures. Given the increasing demand for storage-savvy college graduates, NetApp is providing students with an entry-level industry credential that will document their expertise and give them additional credibility when entering the job market.
Coinciding with the growing storage-related IT needs among enterprises, greater demand will be placed on IT/CIS professionals who can benefit from a practical data management curriculum. To that end, NetApp recently initiated a range of academic collaborative projects with schools and universities located domestically and abroad, from Germany to Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore. Notably, NetApp engaged with Wake Technical Community College, a two-year accredited technical training school in the Research Triangle region of North Carolina, to develop a new storage-focused curriculum that will prepare students for entry-level customer support roles.
"With the increasing importance for IT workers to understand storage and data management technologies, we wanted to extend our courses and coverage of these topics," said Matthew D. Zullo, Computer Information Technology Department Head, Wake Technical Community College. "Wake Tech has been working with NetApp to develop several exciting new courses on storage and virtualization that will leverage the Academic Alliances curriculum materials and provide our students with broader IT skills and career opportunities."
Internationally, NetApp is working with Singapore Polytechnic, the first polytechnic established in Singapore, to integrate a virtual NetApp® Data ONTAP® storage simulator (VSIM) into its Center for Cloud Computing and Embedded Systems curriculum. This will provide Singapore Polytechnic students with experience working with industry-leading storage management tools.
"Our goal in the Center is to develop a next generation of technologists who are trained in the latest trends and technologies in cloud computing and data center management," said Steven Chew, senior lecturer, technology cluster leader for Cloud Computing & Embedded Systems, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Singapore Polytechnic. "Incorporating NetApp's storage solutions and materials into our courses gives our students exposure to the industry-leading storage management systems that provide the foundation of today's cloud and data center infrastructures."
While growing its academic partnerships, NetApp has also continued to build on its long-standing technical collaboration with industry leaders such as Teradata. NetApp recently joined the Teradata University Network (TUN) as the newest technology partner to provide TUN's 3,000 faculty members with teaching materials and resources on storage, high-performance computing, big data, and analytic solutions such as Hadoop. Capitalizing on the success of the NetApp FlexPod® solution, which delivers prevalidated architectures and solutions for cloud infrastructures and data center consolidation, NetApp has started expanding its curriculum offerings to include networking and virtualization resources as well.
"With the growth of information, we believe the future of computing will be data centric. To support this, IT communities are going to require an experienced and skilled workforce that understands storage and its important role in data infrastructure," said Regina Kunkle, vice president of State and Local Government and Education, NetApp Public Sector. "We are building programs and alliances within academia and industry to ensure students and graduates entering the job market are fluent in the enabling technologies propelling data-centric organizations."
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text: If you're trapped in a mall at the end of the world, at least you can still get an Orange Julius - until all of the lights go out and people start to go all Lord of the Flies. The new Japanese natural disaster flick 252 takes place after the world's largest typhoon crashes through Tokyo. Buried beneath the rubble and muddy water are 252 survivors all trapped inside a mall. Now it's up to the rescue workers to get them out before they all start to lose air, and their minds. Click through for the trailer.


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I just released a game you may be interested in.
Heres some info about the game:
Extreme Onslaught is a homebrew multi-directional shooter for the Nintendo DS. It currently has 7 distinct enemy types.
Use either the dpad or the ABXY buttons to control movement.
Use the shoulder buttons to launch a bomb.
Drag your stylus or finger on the touch screen to control the direction of your weapon fire.
After a short period of game play, your weapon will start to spread out. For wider weapon fire, move the stylus far from the center of your touch screen. For more tight fire, keep the stylus centered.
For more information on this genre of game, check out the SHMUPS entry in wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHMUPS
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Wednesday, December 24, 2008
What's For Christmas Eve Dinner?
How about this? Oh yeah, baby. THIS is it.
Seriously, this is all we really want for dinner. This is the Red Velvet Cake that has been in my family for about 50 years. It's the original Red Velvet Cake - none of that cream cheese frosting crap or buttercream nonsense. This is the real thing. The first time I made it for Tony, he pretty much asked me to marry him all over again; it really is that powerful. You could harness the universe with the power of this thing, I venture. Here is my original post about this utterly ridiculous cake. And Abe, if you're reading this? Again, YES, it really IS that good. We aren't pulling your finger on this one.
Okay, so really - what else are we having for tonight's dinner? We are feasting on Lemon Pepper Popovers with a Gruyere bomb in the middle, Smoked Salmon Bisque, and King Crab (yes, again!).
And for dessert? The motherload of all cakes.
Happy Holidays to all! What are you having/did you have for the feast? Do tell!
Go ahead, lick the screen.
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What a beautiful cake! And the rest of your Christmas Eve dinner sounds just as marvelous. We had a melty cheese and seafood thing going on here, too. Baked brie with lingonberries and Spanish Saffron-Spiced Seafood Stew (a little alliteration there). Do we think alike or what? A joyous holiday to you, Tony, and the boys!
- December 24, 2008 at 6:45 PM
- MonkeyGirl said...
Oh why didn't I look at this earlier? Now I am craving cake and I'm not sure k-mart sells buttermilk! Merry, merry!
- December 24, 2008 at 9:28 PM
- vanillasugarblog said...
oh yeah baby! I'm so totally into this for dinner. I hear that! amen
- December 25, 2008 at 10:40 AM
- AmyAnne said...
That original post is what found me your site! We have the utterly ridiculous conversation all the time, lol. That cake isn't just amazing. It is like out of this world, coma inducing, extraordinary.
For Christmas the last few years we have joined our Brazilian friends for dinner on Christmas Eve for a wonderful salted codfish and vegetable dinner with beans and rice and of course I bring the desserts! This year I brought sticky buns and quadruple chocolate cake (another one courtesy of you and another utterly ridiculous cake).
Happy Holidays to you!!
- December 25, 2008 at 2:30 PM
- Lisa said...
Hi Anne - Merry Christmas - we are having champagne, crab cakes, duck, and a buche de noel that I am going to post right now!
Love the cake - am surprised you didn't just start with that and forget the rest!
- December 25, 2008 at 5:15 PM
- Jennifer S said...
Will you marry me?
Hope your holidays are wonderful!
- December 26, 2008 at 5:03 PM
- Nic said...
Thank you, my screen is now clean! Tasted awesome!!!
Merry Christmas Ann, hope you had a great one!
- December 26, 2008 at 5:19 PM
Rest assured... this glowing screen got a tongue bath after that gorgeous cake picture loaded and what to my wondering eyes should appear but a saintly (yet oh-so-devilish) red velvet cake. Oh me... oh my.
I've missed you, my confectionery friend.
God bless your site for its hip enhancing qualities. You make me want to be a better housewife.
- December 26, 2008 at 9:10 PM
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- December 26, 2008 at 10:13 PM
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- December 26, 2008 at 10:14 PM
- dharmamama said...
In my dreams, we had a luscious crab soup that I tasted for the first time last year, with warm sourdough baguette slathered with roasted garlic, and a lovely chardonnay. We started with goat cheese and candied walnuts in endive boats, and ended with - what else? This lovely red velvet cake.
In reality, it was grilled cheese and ramen, with Peppermint Joe Joes from Trader Joe's for dessert. Which - considering I was with my sons, whom I love more than life? Just as good, my friend, just as good.
- December 26, 2008 at 10:19 PM
- dharmamama said...
Did you get my previous comment, that I deleted? LOL! If not, I'll let you know what I wrote - but you have to keep it a secret!
- December 26, 2008 at 10:20 PM
- grace said...
i always happily accept the side effects of ingesting copious amounts of red food coloring (and cake) when red velvet cake is served. yours looks lovely.
hope your christmas was as wonderful as your christmas eve dinner! :)
- December 27, 2008 at 7:56 AM
- Clumbsy Cookie said...
Merry Christmas! I do believe it was merry allright with that magnificent cake!
- December 27, 2008 at 4:49 PM
- Ingrid_3Bs said...
Yum! That cake sounds divine!
Happy 2009!
- December 28, 2008 at 12:31 PM
screen has been licked! and well deserved! hope you had a great Christmas!
- December 29, 2008 at 12:14 PM
- John D. said...
Dat cake looks like DA BOMB!
: )
- December 30, 2008 at 11:18 AM
So, okay, we've never met and all that, but can I please PLEASE come to your house next year for Christmas? Please?????? I'll bring the vino!
- December 30, 2008 at 4:38 PM
Can you move in with me until my pregnancy is over? These temptations are KILLING me? Crab legs and now THIS? *sheesh*
Sounds like you had a wonderful Christmas. Glad to hear it my friend!
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FARMINGTON — With incumbent selectman Jim Horgan deciding not to seek re-election, a four-way race to fill his seat on the board has developed, which will be decided when voters go to the polls on Tuesday, March 11. The candidates for the three-year position are Joshua Carlsen, David Connolly, Brian St. Onge and Ann Titus.
David Connolly
Connolly, age 52, is married with two grown children, has lived in Farmington for 13 years, and is a New England native. He owns a home business, Fisherman's Fly 2, and is also employed full-time at Coyote Creek in Rochester.
He has served on Farmington Conservation Commission since 2007, and has chaired that board for the past five years. During his tenure over 500 acres of land has been protected.
This is his second run for selectman, and he says he wants to do his part to help Farmington continue to go in a positive direction.
"I want economic development alongside conservation. A thriving community needs both," he said. "They work hand in hand."
Connolly is happy that the TIF District on Route 11 and the Route 153 corridor is "moving forward" and describes it as an incentive to business.
"Downtown needs help too," he added.
On the topic of a safety building being constructed to replace the existing police and fire stations, Connolly said, "$4.1 million is a lot of money. Can taxpayers afford it? No. But sometimes you have to bite the bullet. The (safety building) committee should not have been disbanded. That was a bad move. They should have put it on hold until after town meeting."
If elected, Connolly said he would also involve the selectmen, the Planning Board and the Economic Development Committee in the safety building committee work.
Brian St. Onge
St. Onge, age 71, is married with three grown children. He has lived in Farmington for 10 years and in New Hampshire for half a century.
He has a bachelor's degree in economics, and had a 30-year career as a US Government contracting officer.
He has served on the town's Budget Committee for seven years and has been chairman in the past. He is also a member of the Economic Development Committee. As an EDC member, he thinks someone in town should have responsibility for economic development.
He also served on the Safety Building Committee.
"A facility is needed, new or rehabbed, but not at four or five million dollars. Other similarly sized communities have put up combined (police and fire) facilities for two or three million," he said.
"Although the past few boards (of selectmen) have done a decent job in keeping the town portion of the tax rate within reasonable bounds, it's been accomplished largely by delaying essential purchases and putting off badly needed infrastructure and facility maintenance and repairs," he said.
To broaden the town's tax base, St. Onge would aggressively market the Sarah Greenfield Business Park and the Route 11 corridor.
He is also calling for a revitalized village district and calls for a variety of business to locate downtown to attract more shoppers and create stability. Storefronts need to be updated and improved, St. Onge said.
"Keeping Farmington affordable" is his election catchphrase.
Ann Titus
Titus, age 53, is married with three grown children. A New Hampshire native, she has lived in Farmington for 30 years. She works as a paraprofessional at Valley View School.
She is a landlord, a member of Farmington PTA, and belongs to Farmington Women's Club. She describes herself as honest, confident, hardworking and dependable.
Titus serves as vice chair of both the Capital Improvement Program Committee and the Downtown and Economic Development Committee. She has been a member of the Budget Committee for 10 years, serving as secretary.
She is running for selectman to serve her community, and to encourage economic development.
"We need business for the tax base and as employers," Titus said, adding that she is in support of the formation of a TIF district and the development of Route 11.
"We need a distribution center and a good restaurant for nighttime dining," she said.
Titus favors a safety building, combining police, fire and ambulance services, but at a more reasonable cost than that proposed, and at a more opportune time.
Regarding the town center, Titus said, "I want to keep downtown quaint with small businesses thriving.
Regarding the cut in the funding that COAST applied for from Farmington, Titus said, "I believe in COAST bus. We need a system of transport, but as a Budget Committee member, I didn't hear concerns expressed in time."
Joshua Carlsen
Carlsen, age 22, is a lifelong resident of Farmington and a graduate of Farmington High School in 2010. From there he attended Great Bay Community College and received a certificate in the hospitality field. He is currently employed in a store in Alton.
He served a year on the Farmington Planning Board and then resigned due to his work schedule. He served a short stint on the Downtown/Economic Development Committee but gave this up because he thought "it was going nowhere." He also served for a brief time on the Conservation Commission.
Carlsen said he is running for selectman because it is "time people realized things need to be accomplished in town. People need to know what is going on."
He thinks the suggested fire station and police station combination building needs more thought, and would treat this project as a priority.
If elected, he will also explore the reason why downtown businesses don't stay.


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Date(s) - 01/03/2020
9:45 am - 11:15 am
St Ann's Hall
Sunday School is for Primary School age(ish) children. Games, activities and fun teaching around Bible themes.
Children can be dropped at St Ann's Hall between 9:45 and 10am. They are brought back over to the service just before Holy Communion.
New children are always welcome.
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Billionaire Khosla Passes Buck in Beach Access Case
Venture capitalist Vinod Khosla said he isn't responsible for blocking access to a Northern California beach favored by surfers, a controversial move that triggered a court fight.
Khosla said Monday that his property manager likely decided to close a gate and install armed guards to prevent people getting to the beach, during testimony in a civil case that focuses on the public's right to access the California coastline.
Khosla, a silver-haired billionaire who co-founded Sun Microsystems and has been an early backer of environmentally friendly startups, appeared in San Mateo County Superior Court wearing a black jacket, dark shirt and pants.
The case involves Martins Beach, a sandy 53-acre stretch of coastline about 35 miles south of San Francisco that had been popular for surfing, fishing and other recreation. Khosla bought property adjacent to the beach in 2008 and blocked the only road to the area, leaving it accessible only by the sea.
In 2013, the nonprofit Surfrider Foundation sued Martins Beach I and II LLCs, the vehicles used by Khosla to buy the property. It alleged they violated the California Coastal Act, which designates the state's coast as public property.
(The venture capitalist had kept his purchase of the beach-front property private through the LLCs. The deal closed in 2008 and access was blocked soon after. However, it was not until 2011 that the Surfrider Foundation tracked down a connection to Khosla,according to the San Jose Mercury News.)
Khosla's attorneys, led by Jeffrey Essner, have argued that the previous owners of the property charged a fee to access the beach, so the public never had a right to access the beach freely.
Joe Cotchett, the lawyer representing Surfrider, peppered Khosla with questions about his intentions for the property, what he knew about access to the beach and whether he told Steven Baugher, the manager of the Martins Beach property companies, to lock the gate and post armed guards there.
"Mr. Baugher is the operating manager of the property and he makes those decisions," Khosla said. "I would assume he makes decisions and when the gate is open he closes it. I'm presuming he made that decision. I did not instruct him to do that."
Cotchett asked if the gate was locked to prevent access to the beach.
"Mr. Baugher makes decisions on the purpose of locking and unlocking the gate. The reason why any gate is locked is to restrict access. That's a general statement about gates," Khosla replied... (To read the entire article, please click HERE)


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And here is my card:
I've used a digi stamp from one of our sponsors, SheepSki Designs, called 'My Music' which you can find here in Andrea's Etsy shop.
Lovely design and just the perfect sentiment its lovely Love and hugs Carole xReplyDelete
Helen ~ Thank you for being a part of this Blog Hop! I love that image of the girl listening to music! That sentiment is perfect with that image!ReplyDelete
Wonderful card, Helen! Loving the musical aspect, as it carries on throughout our lives bringing different enjoyments and memories - just as TS brings about different issues throughout life. It's a fabulous creation! Leaving you with wishes for a wonderful day.
{Creative Smiles - my little crafting world}
what a lovely card for such a great cause, thank you for the inspirationReplyDelete
This is so beautiful!! I love the image you used!! It's so pretty!!
A Mermaid's Crafts
what a sweet card....perfect for this blog hop!!ReplyDelete
An elegant beauty! Love the sentiment and your design! 😍ReplyDelete
A very pretty card and colored beautifully!!
Diane {Nellies Nest}
Beautiful crafted
super image - thanks for sharing:)ReplyDelete
Such a pretty card with beautiful sentiment.ReplyDelete
This is such a pretty card. Love the image you've paired with this sentiment.ReplyDelete
I like your card.ReplyDelete
Aww, what a lovely card! That sentiment is so perfect combined with that lovely image. Gorgeous combo hun. Hope you're well sweetie. Hugs, Wends xoxoReplyDelete
Love your card! So happy to be part of this blog hop with you :)ReplyDelete
Your card is just fabulous Helen!ReplyDelete
Awesome card! Thanks for sharing and for participating in this great blog hop!ReplyDelete
Great coloring and I LOVE the sentiment! Thank you for bringing awareness to this syndrome and being a part of this hop!ReplyDelete
WOW! What a fantastic project!ReplyDelete
Wonderful card Helen and great blog hop.ReplyDelete
lovely card with this girly stamp for this TS-bloghop!
TS was new for me. Good idea this bloghop to learn something about it!
Hi Helen, you made a great girlie card. Love it... Hugs UteReplyDelete
Cute card...I especially like the sentiment out used. Good one to use for Turner Syndrome. Thanks for helping spread the word.ReplyDelete
What a cute girly creation! Love this girl with her music. Great coloring too.ReplyDelete
A wonderful card and so very appropriate for the hop. Thank you for helping to share about TS!ReplyDelete
Thanks for being part of this TS hop. I have never heard of this syndrome. I love your creation!ReplyDelete
Wonderful card, love the sentiment. Thanks for bring awareness to Turner Syndrome.ReplyDelete
Perfect image to tie with this sentiment. Beauty is so many different things. Thank you for sharing your art for this hop.ReplyDelete
Fantastic card! I love the background paper that you used. Your coloring is beautiful.ReplyDelete
This is a great card for a teen, and I love the way you colored her!ReplyDelete
very pretty card and love the stamp!ReplyDelete
Great card! It so reminds me of my beautiful daughter Madison! Thanks for promoting TS awareness & helping families all over the world ;)ReplyDelete
What an awesome card! I've been to the TS page and have learned so much. I had never heard of Turner Syndrome before. So glad this hop is here!ReplyDelete
This is a great card!! It expresses what a TS teen looks like. Thank you!!ReplyDelete
Such a lovely card! This hop is filled with inspiration and information!ReplyDelete
Cute card and image!!!ReplyDelete
Pretty card! I love the image and the sentiment! Thanks for taking part in the hop to raise awareness of Turner Syndrome!ReplyDelete
Very pretty card. Love the sentiment!ReplyDelete
Lovely card and sentiment! I like the clean lines and design, as well as the pretty image. Reminds me of my girls. Thank you for helping to raise awareness for Turner Syndrome!ReplyDelete
Your lovely card is just perfect for this special hop!ReplyDelete
Sweet card. Thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
Your card is so sweet and I adore that sentiment Helen!! Thank you so much for everything you've done to help with this cause!! BIGGEST HUGSReplyDelete
What a wonderful image and I love the way you colored it. A great sentiment as well.ReplyDelete
What a beautiful card with a fantastic message. Wonderful coloring.ReplyDelete
Wonderful card and image, fun color combo!ReplyDelete
Thanks for raising awareness about this Syndrome!!! This is a great hop!!!
Oh my! How cute!!! Adorable card!!!
Helen what a pretty card. I love the little red rhinestones. What caught my eye first on your card was the little music notes.ReplyDelete
Such a great sentiment and using the music is like working in the marching to the beat of your own drum. Thank you for helping Lori with this endeavorReplyDelete
Wonderful image and fabulous coloring. Love that stream of music!!
Thank you for your part in this important hop.
jwoolbright at gmail dot com
Your card is so cool! Would make a awesome teenage girl card.ReplyDelete
This is a really fun card! I love the girl, who looks awesome! Thanks so much for being a part of this hop today!
Take care!
Fabulous card. I like the digi stamp you used.
slrdowney at hotmail dot com
The image is so pretty and your card is stunning Helen. Such cool creation for a great cause! Hugs xxReplyDelete
amazing card, I love the image and the colours.ReplyDelete
Thank you Helen ! All life is precious, your participation in this Hop is very noble . ☺.ReplyDelete
Dear Helen beautiful card.Thank you for taking part in the Inaugural Turner Syndrome Awareness Blog Hop to make us aware that such a condition exists among girls. Thank you for encouraging these butterflies to fly. May you be blessed with gd health and happiness always. Hugs and loads of love from Sri Lanka.ReplyDelete
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Boro moves forward with street paving, municipal garage
May 25, 2004
Mount Oliver municipal engineer Ruthann Omer presented two options for council to look at for the summer road re-surfacing program, estimated to cost the borough $524,000.
Omer suggested council act as soon as possible on the engineer's proposals because she does not want the re-surfacing program to extend beyond the summer, the traditional time for resurfacing streets in Western Pennsylvania.
"We don't want to be doing this when it's snowing although I have had roads re-surfaced when it was like that [with other municipalities]," Omer quipped.
During its monthly business meeting on May 17, council unanimously approved a resolution authorizing the engineer to advertise for bids to re-surface a number of streets in need of repair.
This tentative list for road re-surfacing includes Quincy Ave., Onyx Ave. (from Hays Ave. to Brownsville Road), Fulton Place (from Onyx to Giffin Ave.), Hays Ave. (from Margaret Street to Brownsville), School Way (from Penn Ave. to Sherman Street), Penn Ave. (from Hays to Ottillia Street), Goldbach Street, Charles Street, Middle Street (from Charles to Arlington Ave.), Bertha Street and Louisa Street (from Margaret to Ormsby Ave.).
Council also authorized borough solicitor James Perich to secure a loan agreement to pay for the road program that will be paid annually over an eight-year period. One millage point within the borough's tax collection budget has already been taken into account to pay for the loan.
None of the streets will require major reconstruction. The work will primarily consist of replacing the existing asphalt surfaces. Minor curb work, drainage and milling is also expected to take place.
During the public hearing part of the meeting, a resident from Anthony Street complained to council that curb work done during a major overhaul of his street less than two years ago is deteriorating already. Omer said she is aware of the problem and is busy working to rectify the situation through the contractor who did the original work.
Another resident also addressed council during the public hearing to express his appreciation for cleaning up the mess that constantly occurred on Locust Street due to the carelessness of a business on Brownsville Road. The dumpsters of the Brownsville Road business, whose backdoor is located on residential Locust Street, are no longer over-flowing with debris with it now being collected twice a week. The Locust Street resident also thanked council for having the borough police take a more active role on the street at night since he complained last month.
The man said due to a stronger police presence, there are no longer suspicious vehicles (with drivers inside) parked on the street at night. The man did not want to say what he suspected was going on in these vehicles, but everyone at the meeting thought he was referring to drug-dealing activities.
In other business, council approved a resolution read by the solicitor to adopt the borough's "Comprehensive Plan."
The first comprehensive plan in was adopted in the borough 32 years ago, but was in need of revision.
At last week's meeting, Planning Commission member Jim Caylor highlighted some of the features of the comprehensive plan that his board has worked on for two years.
The comprehensive plan includes a detailed report on the borough's demographics, economic base, housing and neighborhoods, community facilities and services, parks and recreation, land use and zoning as well as a profile of the business district and transportation.
Debra Grass, an independent consultant for the borough, noted in the comprehensive plan that businesses in the borough are geared more toward service enterprises than retail.
Council president Marty Palma said formally adopting a current plan will assist the borough in its preparation for requesting grant money. Many of these grant applications require documented profile of a municipality before they accept the borough's formal request for grant money.
Grass is in the process of identifying and filling out paperwork for numerous grant applications that may benefit the borough. In recent years, Mount Oliver has had major infrastructure renovations done to its street and sewer system (overseen by the borough engineer) due to federal and state grant programs.
"[Grass] is finding out what grants are out there and what would be applicable to the borough in filling out applications for…our police, fire, administration, public works, recreation, all of them," council president Marty Palma said. "Any funding out there that's available, [Grass] is our liaison between the borough and these grants."
At the meeting, Palma thanked Grass, Roberta Saraff, assistant borough engineer Jean Stadler and the planning commission (consisting of Caylor, Tammy Obeldobel, Gerard Wuenschel and Deana Wuenschel) for completing the comprehensive plan. Caylor reminded Palma to also thank solicitor Perich for the contribution he made.
In other business, Mount Oliver Chamber of Commerce President Ralph Woods informed council that Community Day activities on July 24 would include street vendors on Brownsville Road from 9 a.m. until (the crowd dictates when it breaks up). This is being done instead of having a parade that has been held in conjunction with Community Day activities at Transverse Field.
Council requested a list of the 30 street vendors lined up by Woods. The chamber president said a small fee will be charged to vendors who do not have a business located in the borough.
Also during the meeting, Omer announced the latest news on the proposed public works building. The engineer estimates the cost to be around $250,000, up from her original estimate of $195,000 announced at the April council meeting.
The $40,000 grant for the building is being used to purchase garage doors and architectural fees.
Omer said her initial estimate of the building cost has increased because soil tests found the ground to be unstable on the 100-by-24 foot plot of land next to the borough building. The engineer revealed the lot has quite a bit of landfill.
"It amazed me what was found down there in a single lot," said Omer, noting the foundation will need to be 15 to 20 feet below ground level.
"We have to go deeper [than usual] if we want the building to stay up," Omer said.
Council member Jim Cassidy, who voted against the proposal for a new building, voiced his displeasure over the revised $250,000 estimate.
"We could have spent that much on an existing building [also proposed at the council meeting in April] and had a lot more space [for the public works vehicles]," Cassidy said.
"I don't disagree, but now we are in motion, and the key word here is motion," said Omer reminding council they spent a long time before coming to a decision on the public works building.
The $40,000 grant the borough obtained specifically for this project last year was going to expire June 30 if council had not authorized Omer to use the grant for this purpose.
Omer said that through the efforts of the borough consultant, she is confident more grant money will be obtained for the public works building to reduce the cost to the borough.


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The iPhone 3GS Hardware Exposed & Analyzedby Anand Lal Shimpi on June 10, 2009 12:00 AM EST
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The iPhone Becomes a Gaming Platform: Enter the PowerVR SGX
Now that we're familiar with the 3GS' CPU, it's time to talk about the GPU: the PowerVR SGX.
Those familiar with graphics evolution in the PC space may remember Imagination Technologies and its PowerVR brand by their most popular desktop graphics card: STMicro's Kyro and Kyro II. The Kyro series used the PowerVR3 chips and while STMicro ultimately failed to cement itself as a NVIDIA competitor in the desktop, the PowerVR technology lived on in ultra-mobile devices.
The SGX is on Imagination Technologies' fifth generation of its PowerVR architecture, and just like the Kyro cards we loved, the SGX uses a tile based renderer. The idea behind a tile or deferred renderer is to render only what the camera sees, not wasting clocks and memory bandwidth on determining the color of pixels hidden by another object in the scene. Tile based renderers get their name from dividing the screen up into smaller blocks, or tiles, and working on each one independently. The smaller the tile, the easier it is to work on the tile on-chip without going to main memory. This approach is particularly important in the mobile space because there simply isn't much available bandwidth or power. These chips consume milliwatts, efficiency is key.
The MBX-Lite used in the original iPhone was also a tile based architecture, the SGX is just better.
Also built on a 65nm process the PowerVR SGX is a fully programmable core, much like our desktop DX8/DX9 GPUs. While the MBX only supported OpenGL ES 1.0, you get 2.0 support from the SGX. The architecture also looks much more like a modern GPU:
Pixel, vertex and geometry instructions are executed by a programmable shader engine, which Imagination calls its Universal Scalable Shader Engine (USSE). The "coprocessor" hardware at the end of the pipeline is most likely fixed-function or scalar hardware that's aids the engine.
The SGX ranges from the PowerVR SGX 520 which only has one USSE pipe to the high end SGX 543MP16 which has 64 USSE2 pipes (4 USSE2 pipes per core x 16 cores). The iPhone 3GS, I believe, uses the 520 - the lowest end of the new product offering.
A single USSE pipe can execute, in a single clock, a two-component vector operation or a 2 or 4-way SIMD operation for scalars. The USSE2 pipes are upgraded that handle single clock 3 or 4 component vector operations, have wider SIMD and can co-issue vector and scalar ops. The USSE2 pipes are definitely heavier and have some added benefits for OpenCL. For the 3GS, all we have to worry about is the single USSE configuration.
|iPhone 3G (PowerVR MBX-Lite)
|PowerVR SGX @ 100MHz
|PowerVR SGX @ 200MHz
|Manufacturing Process
|Clock Speed
In its lowest end configuration with only one USSE pipe running at 200MHz, the SGX can push through 7M triangles per second and render 250M pixels per second. That's 7x the geometry throughput of the iPhone 3G and 2.5x the fill rate. Even if the SGX ran at half that speed, we'd still be at 3.5x the geometry performance of the iPhone 3G and a 25% increase in fill rate. Given the 65nm manufacturing process, I'd expect higher clock speeds than what was possible on the MBX-Lite. Also note that these fill rates take into account the efficiency of the SGX's tile based rendering engine.
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Anand Lal Shimpi - Wednesday, June 10, 2009 - linkIn addition to the ARM11 core, I believe the GPU side of tegra does use too much power for something like the iPhone. I can't find detailed specs for NVIDIA's low end Tegra, but Wikipedia lists ~4W for the higher end model - that's simply too much. We need to see values in the mW range.
Take care,
Anand Reply
peccavi - Wednesday, June 10, 2009 - linkFrom what I gathered, Apple is increasing support for iPhone peripherals. Could this allow for a controller / docking cradle for the iPhone? Imagine 4 buttons and a couple of directional pads on either end of the phone in landscape mode. Would make for a great little gaming unit. Reply
eburnette - Wednesday, June 10, 2009 - linkOne thing that wasn't clear from the article is how certain are you about the information? Is it just speculation at this point until somebody gets one and tears it down? Reply
Anand Lal Shimpi - Wednesday, June 10, 2009 - linkI'm very certain. The info comes from sources very close to the licensees for both the CPU and GPU. Without hardware in hand it's impossible to be 100% sure, but what Apple has implied lines up well with what I've been told.
The ~2x gains in app performance would only come from a faster processor. Apple's options there are to either use a much higher clocked ARM11 or move to the Cortex A8. You can't get 2x out of a 200MHz speed boost to an ARM11 core, so that leaves the A8.
The graphics side I'm also very sure about, although I can't post why :)
Take care,
Anand Reply
psychobriggsy - Wednesday, June 10, 2009 - linkThanks for confirming the rumours.
I think you should point out that the CPU and GPU are actually on the same die, indeed everything apart from the RAM will be on that die. Some parts of the article imply that the CPU and GPU simply share the package, but could be separate dies.
A little sad that the GPU is the SGX520 - the lowest end, but it's still so much better than the MBX it doesn't matter. Shame you can't snaffle a die shot from Samsung ;) maybe the graphics are by comparison quite large, even considering the A8 with L2 cache.
The crypto co-processor that's been added is certainly being used, as hardware crypto was mentioned in the keynote. That will aid iPhone SSL web browsing speed I'd hope.
Also the A9 is out-of-order, so comparable to a Nano, as the A8 is comparable to Atom and the ARM11 is comparable to a very fast 486. Reply
Simon F - Wednesday, June 10, 2009 - link[quote]Paired with this CPU is a PowerVR MBX-Lite GPU core. This GPU, like the CPU, is built on a 90nm process and is quite simple. The GPU does support hardware transform and lighting but it's fully fixed function, think of it as a DirectX 6/7 class GPU (Riva TNT2/GeForce 256).[/quote]
This is not strictly correct. IIRC the MBX model in the iPhone has a programmable vertex shader that exceeds DX8. The pixel pipeline, though, is fixed function. Having said this, I'm not sure if the programmable aspects of the vertex shader are exposed in the iPhone interface. Reply
faxon - Wednesday, June 10, 2009 - linki have by and large stayed away from apple my entire life, but given their recent innovation on the consumer devices front and their virtual monopoly on the high capacity music players market with the ipod, i have been keeping them on my radar none the less. when a family member picked up an iphone3G when we switched to AT&T for our wireless service, i was actually rather impressed at simply how much better it was than the blackjack 2 i picked up, at just about everything. the only complaint i had was in its texting performance, but with a cloned SIM card i could get around that simply by pulling out my blackjack 2 instead. I have been looking at getting an iphone since i use my phone for mobile browsing excessively, and even using opera the blackjack 2 doesnt come close in ease of use compared to the old iphone on edge. with the new 3Gs also supporting picture texting (a requirement of my GF) i may just look into this if i get the promotion im gaming for by the end of the summer. Reply
sxr7171 - Wednesday, June 10, 2009 - linkI avoided the iPhone for so long and I even bought one to jailbreak and play with, but it wasn't until OS 3.0 that it became my daily phone. The Exchange support on it beats most other smartphones. Reply
strikeback03 - Wednesday, June 10, 2009 - linkI'd say high capacity music players are the only segment of mp3 players where the Ipods are not dominant. The only high capacity models are the classic/video ones, which don't seem to be that popular and don't appear to have been upgraded nearly as recently as the touch and nano. Reply
Dennis Travis - Wednesday, June 10, 2009 - linkAnand, thanks so much for your preview. I can't wait for your review after you get a hold of the phone. I am really interested in battery life. During the keynote I thought they said something about a new battery and that was why more battery life. I guess we will soon know for sure.
Thanks again! Reply