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A Miami-Dade judge has struck down Florida's gay marriage ban, becoming the second Florida judge in a week to find it unconstitutional.
Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Sarah Zabel found that the state's ban, approved by a referendum in 2008, "offends basic human dignity" and violates the 14th Amendment's guarantee of equal protection under the law.
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi filed a notice of appeal of the ruling within an hour of the ruling being issued.
"Preventing couples from marrying solely on the basis of their sexual orientation serves no governmental interest," Judge Zabel wrote in her order. "It serves only to hurt, to discriminate, to deprive same-sex couples and their families of equal dignity, to label and treat them as second-class citizens, and to deem them unworthy of participation in one of the fundamental institutions of our society."
Florida originally enshrined a ban on same-sex marriage in the state constitution in 2008. Voters approved an amendment that year banning same-sex marriage. Since then, the Supreme Court has overturned the Defense of Marriage Act at a national level and lower-level courts have repeatedly overturned state laws as appeals over state bans moves towards the U.S. Supreme Court.
"At its heart, this case is about the right to marry the person of one's choice. It is about whether the right to marry can be denied to members of a particular group based upon their sexual orientation, and whether couples and families who have members that fall into that group are entitled to the respect, benefits, and protections which marriage brings," Judge Zabel wrote.
Zabel put an immediate stay on her order pending the outcome of the expected appeals to be filed by the state of Florida.
Judge Zabel's order came in a motion for summary judgment in the case Catherina Pareto, et al vs. Harvey Ruvin, and the State of Florida. The summary judgment was granted, giving the plaintiffs an immediate victory.
Pareto and Karla Arguello were one of five gay couples who sued in Miami to overturn Florida's ban on same-sex marriage. The couples claimed the ban on same-sex marriage violated the equal protection and due process clause, which Judge Zabel agreed with.
Aguello and Pareto didn't know the decision was coming down on Friday.
"We got a text, 'congratulations,' from one of our friends, and we're like, 'congratulations for what? What? What happened? Did we miss something?" Aguello told NBC 6.
"While it was hard to wait for it, it was well worth the wait," Pareto said.
Judge Zabel's ruling also said that Article I, Section 27 of Florida's Constitution is "void and unenforceable." She also declared the Florida Statutes that prohibit the issuance of marriage licenses "unless one party is a male and the other party is a female is similarly void and unenforceable."
The ruling also said that the Clerk of Courts should not be prosecuted for complying with the order and that the Clerk of Courts should modify marriage licenses to conform to the ruling.
"We're just like any other couple out there that wants to protect one another," Karla Aguello said.
The ruling from the Miami-Dade Court would apply only in Miami-Dade County. It comes just a week after Monroe County Circuit Judge Luis Garcia ruled that Florida's same-sex marriage ban was unconstitutional.
Judge Garcia's order was immediately stayed when Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi filed a notice of appeal. Garcia later declined to lift the stay while the case is on appeal.
Stay with NBC6.com for updates on this developing story.

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Holiday Cruises for Foodiesby Janice Wald Henderson, Cruise Culinary Editor | October 29, 2010
The 2010 Holiday Cruise recommendations for food lovers by our Cruise Culinary Editor: Janice Wald Henderson.
|This is a report from our cruise culinary editor Janice Wald Henderson. Janice has been a longtime contributor to many magazines, including Bon Appétit Magazine and Brides. Her articles have appeared in Vogue, Food & Wine, Eating Well, Cooking Light and numerous other publications. Janice is also the Los Angeles editor of the Essential Restaurant Guide at epicurious.com. Janice Wald Henderson Cruise Culinary Editor
Eat, Drink and Be Merry Cruises
Cruising is always a foodfest, but holiday sails hit the proverbial home run. Come December, cruise ship kitchens shift into turbo gear. Chefs go hog-wild, transforming meals into lavish extravaganzas. Pastry chefs bake up a storm so every deck smells like Christmas cookies. And mixologists stir these sparkly cocktails that, well, put the jingle right into the bells. This wow-the-holiday-cruiser philosophy extends to most cruise ships, not just luxury liners. Here's where to celebrate the season at sea in gastronomic style.
This top-rated premium cruise line features fancier fare than most ships in its category. Celebrity's fleet-wide Christmas feast includes specialties like brioche-crusted salmon Wellington (a riff on classic beef); roast turkey with traditional trimmings; English Christmas pudding (steamed with fruit and nuts), and French chocolate Yule log (cake rolled jellyroll-style, with chocolate frosting and garnishes to resemble a log) with candied orange.
On New Year's Eve, the celebration unfolds with champagne oysters and festive fare like sparkling wine-infused strawberry soup, chateaubriand with pink and green peppercorn crust and Mediterranean filet of sole. Delish desserts include dark-and-white chocolate mousse, and five-spiced caramel with diced apples sautéed in cider.
The poolside "countdown" party showcases fun finger foods like sliders (mini-burgers), crepes, hot and cold canapés, fruits and pastries, and a complimentary champagne toast at midnight.
On New Year's Day, Celebrity guests kick off 2011 with a no-holds-barred brunch of made-to-order omelets, smoked fish, miso-glazed halibut, lobster pot pie, roast duck, cornbread stuffing and � oh well, so much for resolutions � a dark and white chocolate fountain with terribly tempting condiments. (celebritycruises.com)Celebrity Cuisine
Holiday sails on Crystal Cruises are foodie fantasies come true. Edible decorations abound, making every public space smell like a spiced cookie. A giant gingerbread house on display outside the Crystal Dining Room makes even grown men swoon. Luckily, plates of assorted Christmas cookies surround the gingerbread house like guards at Buckingham Palace. (Good thing, or passengers would tear the gumdrops and roof "tiles.") Just standing at this table feels good; the buttery, powdered sugar-scent is intoxicating.
Crystal's food is always sophisticated but the holiday menus are amped-up yum. On Christmas Eve, the Crystal Dining Room is serving red king crabmeat salad on pineapple carpaccio, and curry aioli (mayonnaise); cream of pumpkin soup with fresh chestnuts and cr�me fraiche; and entrees like ginger and black pepper-crusted salmon with smoked onion puree, horseradish mashed potatoes and merlot red wine glaze. (Natch, roasted turkey is on the menu. With bourbon-pecan gravy, thank you very much. And did I mention the orange sage stuffing or sweet potato praline?) As for dessert, well, nothing feels more Christmasy than plum pudding with brandy sauce and vanilla ice cream.
Come New Year's Eve, the cuisine may hit the highest note. Poached lobster medallions on truffled green bean and artichoke salad; cappuccino of snow peas with duck confit and pumpernickel croutons; and pink-roasted veal rib eye with creamy morel sauce are menu showstoppers.
If you booked a Crystal cruise just before Christmas, you're still in for a treat. The Crystal Symphony booked impressive guest chefs for the 10-day roundtrip Los Angeles December 12th Mexican Riviera voyage. Culinary stars onboard include Yerika Munoz, a hot Mexico City chef from Astrid y Gaston; and Jeremiah Tower, one of the creators of modern California cuisine, who currently resides on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. (I've worked with Jeremiah Tower, and I promise he is one of the smartest, most articulate chefs you will meet.)
The chefs will lead classes and prepare dishes for passengers. They'll be working with guest Madeleine de Jean (the first female sommelier in the United States) and Julio Bermejo, the U.S. Ambassador of Tequila (hands up if you want that job). Come early; classroom seats will fill quickly for these spirited classes. (crystalcruises.com)Crystal Cuisine
As if sailing he South Pacific wasn't enough for the holidays; Paul Gauguin Cruises has booked star chef Stephan Pyles on The Gauguin for the December 18th sailing to Tahiti, Society Islands and Tuamotus. The peripatetic Pyles has created some 15 restaurants over the past 25 years and was the first person in the Southwest to win the James Beard Award (the foodie equivalent of an Oscar) for "Best Chef."
Pyles was a pioneer of modern southwest cooking; you may remember his first nationally acclaimed restaurants, Routh Street Café and Star Canyon. His current eponymous hotspot dishes up attention-getting courses like pressed pork shoulder with grilled pineapple empanada; and grass-fed Texas beef tenderloin with mole negro, poblano chile relleno and stuffed squash blossoms. (Mole negro is a Mexican sauce, made with chilies and unsweetened chocolate. Chile relleno is made with the bell pepper-shaped, mild poblano chile, stuffed with cheese, battered and fried.)
Pyles will lead cooking demonstrations and the signature restaurant L'Etoile will feature some of Chef Pyles' signature dishes throughout the sailing. (www.pgcruises.com)Paul Gauguin Cruises cuisine
Princess dives deep into the Christmas spirit, from strolling carolers to wreaths, mistletoe and multiple Christmas trees. Even the ships' masts are decorated. Waiters wear Santa hats, serving Christmas dinner beyond bountiful, with roast turkey and goose, gingerbread mousse, mincemeat pie and Christmas cookies.
As on most cruise lines, Hanukkah gets its own special celebration with a rabbi onboard. (Hanukkah begins at sundown, December 1, and lasts for eight days.) Ships display menorahs and fresh flower arrangements in the Hanukkah colors of silver, white and blue. Kosher meals are available with advance request, and dining rooms will feature all the Jewish favorites, such as matzo ball soup, potato latkes (pancakes) and gefilte fish (ground, deboned fish, such as pike or whitefish, shaped into ovals and gently simmered in broth).
On New Year's Day, traditional bowl games will be shown in a lounge or on a giant "Movies under the Stars" screen on deck � popcorn, chips, mini-hot dogs and burgers are among the full buffet of munchies. (princess.com)Princess Cruises cuisine
Silversea guests are already spoiled. The fleet of six small, all-suite luxury ships provides passengers with many complimentary amenities, including gratuities and alcohol. There isn't much the company can add to its already-lavish frill-based sails.
Still, they try. "We go all out to create gourmet holiday menus," says Christian Sauleau, the company's executive vice-president of vessel operations. "Our menus are rich in tradition but also offer twists on seasonal favorites."
I see what he means. My sneak peek at the Christmas Day menu, featured fleet-wide, had me salivating. Dinner begins with foie gras (duck or goose liver) parfait, with truffle shavings and truffle oil. It's followed by lobster fricassee with pink peppercorns and seafood. Truffle consommé is next.
Mulled wine Christmas sorbet cleanses the palate before entrées like roasted turkey with cranberry dressing, or carved beef tenderloin with caramelized shallots. Fresh sea bream (small fish with flavorful white meat) with caviar veloute (silken cream sauce) should please nonconformists. Christmas pudding and Yule log with brandied cream are among the desserts.
New Year's Eve's menu gilds the lily. Guests will be treated to an amuse-bouche ("amuse the mouth" tidbit by the chef), followed by cold-poached lobster tail with truffled leek and cucumber salad. Quail consommé with shiitake mushrooms is next, before a refreshing pink champagne and raspberry sorbet.
Passengers choose between fresh filet of sea bass with "melted" leeks and champagne sauce; grilled center cut of beef tenderloin with oxtail ragout; and trilogy of duck with the breast, escalope of foie gras and confit of duck leg (cooked in its own fat) with orange sauce.
Should anyone have room for dessert, an intensely chocolate "indulgence" is the piece de resistance. Macaroons (French meringue cookies) and coffee should revive everyone for a wee-hour celebration. (silversea.com)
The six exclusive Seabourn ships face a serious challenge. The cruise line already includes all meals (including specialty restaurants), alcohol and gratuities in their price tag. This line spends megabucks on food, including the company jewel, malossol caviar (whenever, wherever, and as much as guests want). So just how does Seabourn raise their considerable stakes come Christmastime?
Turns out, in a low-key fashion, suiting Seabourn's subtly elegant style. Guests enjoying Christmas dinner will sup on starters like malossol caviar with potato-shallot cake and herb salad. Or sunchoke (Jerusalem artichoke) soup, with preserved lemon and potato croutons. Whole roast tom turkey with chestnut stuffing and giblet gravy, or whole-roasted goose with braised cabbage, should be the most popular entree. At dessert time, warm Christmas pudding with brandy cream sauce might make guests loosen the buckle on their Gucci belt a notch or two.
On New Year's Eve, the Chef's Gala Dinner is designed to dazzle. Here's the sort of menu Seabourn serves fleet-wide: The tasting menu begins with flamed cream of foie gras, with mango chutney, aged balsamic and brioche. Next comes white plum tomato soup with vanilla foam and basil croutons. Fresh Canadian lobster with lobster risotto follows. Green apple sorbet with fresh strawberries and champagne is the palate refresher. Atlantic turbot (beautiful, white-meat fish) accompanied by leek and mussels and vermouth sauce; or tournedo Rossini (beef filet on crouton, topped with seared foie gras) with truffle Madeira sauce are entrée choices. Pastries and liqueur-flavored truffles just sweeten the welcoming of 2011. (seabourn.com).Seabourn cuisine


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Jane Alexander recorded five hits in two games against Princeton Saturday (Harvard Athletic Communications).
PRINCETON, N.J. – The Harvard softball team put up 14 runs between two games, sweeping Ivy rival Princeton in a doubleheader Saturday afternoon. The Crimson took Game 1, 6-5, and blanked Princeton, 8-0, in Game 2 behind a five-hit shutout from sophomore Laura Ricciardone.
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Lange plated Alexander, this time on a sacrifice fly, in the top of the seventh for Harvard's sixth run of the game. The Tigers made it interesting in their last at bat as Cara Worden ripped a two-run single to close the gap to one, but Rachel Brown got the final out on a strikeout to seal the victory. Brown finished with 12 strikeouts in the game, registering her ninth win of the season. Alexander finished 3 for 4 from the plate with three runs scored and a pair of steals, while Shaw (four RBI) and Lange (two RBI) were responsible for driving in all the Harvard runs.
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And then someone opened fire.
The first shot sailed over the top of the ship. Another buzzed the pilot house, and a third barely missed the smokestack. Finally, one shot found its mark. The ball hit the ship aft of the foremast and crashed through the deck.
The crew scrambled, some startled by the hit, others running to assess the damage. In the confusion, Capt. John McGowan glanced over at Morris Island -- obviously the origin of the attack. There he noticed a large banner flying above the dunes. It was a red flag with a white palmetto on it.
It was Jan. 9, 1861, and the Star of the West had just sailed into a war zone.
No surprise attack
The sentries on Morris Island had spotted the ship just after reveille.
The guards had not been overly surprised -- they had, in fact, been expecting the ship. Rumors of the Star of the West's mission had been circulating through Charleston for days, which was hardly a ringing endorsement of U.S. military secrecy. The federal government had hired the ship to deliver supplies and, Southerners thought, reinforcements to Fort Sumter.
The men on Morris Island would not allow that to happen.
There were nearly 300 troops on the island that morning. Most of them were from local rifle regiments, although 40 were cadets from The Citadel. Just after 7 a.m., Maj. P.F. Stephens ordered the cadets to fire a shot across the ship's bow, a warning that it should turn around.
The cadet who pulled the lanyard was G.E. Haynsworth, and he would go down in local history as the man who fired the first shot of the Civil War.
The troops waited minutes for a reaction from the Star of the West. They were patient, realizing it could take several minutes to turn a ship of its size. But the Star of the West never deviated from its course. Instead, it kept trudging forward.
Stephens watched for any sign of retreat but spotted an entirely unexpected reaction: He noticed men on the ship's foremast hoisting a United States flag. Given the circumstances, it was not the reaction Stephens had expected.
Nor did it have the intended effect.
Stephens ordered his cadets to open fire.
Southern hospitality
McGowan had little working in his favor: he was outgunned, outflanked and quickly running out of water.
When the firing began, the Star of the West continued to chug through the channel because McGowan felt he didn't have any other choice. If he stopped, the ship could drift and run aground in the outgoing tide. And getting stuck within firing range of Morris Island would have been a death sentence.
The captain gave no thought of fighting. The ship was unarmed and, even if McGowan had had guns, he was not about to start a war by returning fire. Still, he would not give up easily. He meant to reach Fort Sumter. But soon, he realized he had more problems than a Morris Island battery -- and he was headed straight for them. Ahead, McGowan spotted "a steamer approaching us with an armed schooner in tow." He assumed the ships meant to intercept him.
And while he was distracted by the warship off his bow, Fort Moultrie opened fire.
The Charleston Mercury would gush for more than a week about the "Heroism at Fort Moultrie." The firing from Morris Island had alerted the troops at Moultrie that something was amiss, and they quickly sprang into action. They, too, had heard the rumors and understood the consequences of allowing the Star of the West to reach Sumter.
The ship was an easy mark for Moultrie. To reach Fort Sumter, the Star of the West had to sail within a mile of the fort. But it wasn't that simple; there were other considerations. If Sumter decided to defend the ship, Fort Moultrie would be facing the full might of a superior fort. It was a dangerous predicament.
Ultimately, the state troops at Moultrie decided to open fire, no matter what the ramifications. It turned out to be a short engagement. Based on later reports, two shots from Fort Moultrie quickly hit the Star of the West, prompting McGowan to give the order to turn around.
Between the crossfire and the outgoing tide, it took more than an hour to get the ship clear of the bar. Even after the Star of the West reached open water, McGowan watched nervously as a steamer from Charleston followed behind for nearly three hours. It broke off when the Star of the West rendezvoused with its military escort ship, which was waiting far offshore. McGowan immediately sailed north for New York.
The firing on an unarmed ship had been an overt act of war, the Northern papers opined, but the Star of the West crew could joke about it by the time they reached New York.
"The people of Charleston pride themselves upon their hospitality," one of the officers told the New York Evening Post, "but it exceeds my expectations. They gave us several balls before we landed."
A city on edge
The Star of the West had the misfortune of arriving in Charleston at a time when locals were spoiling for a fight.
Since the new year began, the city had been on edge in part because of the news out of Washington. The Mercury reported that U.S. Secretary of War John B. Floyd recommended the federal government abandon Sumter to "prevent civil war." But President James Buchanan -- Abraham Lincoln had been elected but not yet inaugurated -- appeared disinclined to even consider such a notion.
Nor did the president show any interest in negotiating with Robert Barnwell Rhett, who had been sent to Washington to secure title to all U.S. property in the state, including lighthouses and forts. The Mercury kept the city informed of Rhett's progress, or the lack thereof, and suggested Buchanan's refusal to surrender Sumter constituted a "cause of war."
This sentiment echoed editorials from the Richmond Dispatch, which the Mercury often ran in its pages. Virginia, too, predicted the federal government would bring the country to war.
"What can be gained by attempting the recapture of Fort Moultrie, Castle Pinckney and the Charleston Arsenal?" the Dispatch asked. "Will their successful recapture bring back South Carolina into the Union, or prevent Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia from going out?"
By Monday, Jan. 7, the growing tension finally led to bloodshed. Around 10 p.m., a sentinel at Castle Pinckney was doing his rounds when he was approached by an unidentified man. The soldier hoisted his musket to warn that man off, but he fumbled the gun, dropping it.
When the musket hit the ground it went off, and the anonymous man fell.
The sentinel soon discovered that the man was Pvt. R.L. Holmes of the Carolina Light Infantry. The ball had hit Holmes just below the left shoulder and somehow managed to puncture both his lungs. He died within 20 minutes.
There was no war yet, but South Carolina already had suffered its first casualty.
Lines in the sand
Little more than an hour after the Star of the West made its getaway, a small boat flying a white flag sailed from Sumter toward downtown Charleston.
The man in the boat carried a letter from Maj. Robert Anderson that was addressed to the South Carolina governor. The Fort Sumter commander wanted clarification about the morning's events.
"Two of your batteries fired this morning upon an unarmed vessel bearing the flag of my Government," Anderson wrote. "As I have not been notified that war has been declared by South Carolina against the Government of the United States, I cannot think but that this hostile act was committed without your sanction or authority. Under that hope, and that alone, did I refrain from opening fire upon your batteries."
Gov. Francis Pickens, no doubt discouraged by Rhett's lack of success in Washington, was condescending in his reply. His letter, reprinted in the Mercury, suggested that Anderson had not been "fully informed by your government of the precise relations between it and the State of South Carolina."
Pickens said Buchanan had received a copy of the Ordinance of Secession and should understand that "sending any reinforcement of troops of the United States in the harbor of Charleston, would be regarded by the constitutional authorities of the State of South Carolina, as an act of hostility."
Anderson had made it clear he would not hesitate to fire on South Carolina if provoked, and Pickens had assured him that the state was no friend of the United States government.
Both sides had drawn their lines in the sand.
A new confederacy
On Jan. 12, a Mercury headline reported "Alabama is out of the Union." Two days later, word reached Charleston that Florida had also seceded.
In fact, Mississippi had been the second state to secede, doing so on Jan. 9 -- just hours after the Star of the West incident. By the end of the month, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas had followed suit, bringing the number of states that had seceded to seven.
The political leaders of those states agreed to meet Feb. 4 in Montgomery, Ala., with the "grave mission," as the Mercury reported, of "constructing a Confederate Government for those States which have seceded from the Union of the late United States."
Rhett, who had failed in his mission to Washington, traveled by train to the convention. From there, he sent telegraph dispatches to his son, who relayed them to the people of Charleston through the Mercury.
The convention dragged on for more than a month. The delegates immediately dismissed suggestions that they should rejoin the Union and set about building what they considered a more perfect Union.
A week into the convention, the delegates had adopted a provisional constitution, most of which had been copied word-for-word from the U.S. Constitution. There were additional provisions added that addressed states' rights and declared the constitutional legality of slavery. The delegates also determined that this new government could not spend tax money from one state on projects in another. It was a common complaint among Southern states that the U.S. Congress had spent a disproportionate amount of its revenue on northern states. Some, in fact, cited it as a mitigating factor for secession.
Although these delegates contended their states had every legal right to secede, this new government would not be recognized diplomatically by the United States or any foreign nation (although many would trade with the South). It did little to abate the enthusiasm of the men in Montgomery.
The convention continued well into March, even though most of the larger issues were addressed in the first weeks. The Mississippi politician Jefferson Davis was elected temporary president. Rhett, despite his ambitions, would not be appointed to the administration and had to settle for a seat in the lower house of the Confederate Congress.
For the next several years, Rhett would often differ with Davis and the Confederate Congress. Things had not worked out exactly as he had planned, and Rhett -- as well as his Mercury -- would become a frequent critic of the Confederacy he long had dreamed of creating.
His disappointment was registered subtly at first. On Feb. 23, 1861, the Charleston Daily Courier published its first edition under a new banner which read, "Charleston, S.C., Confederate States of America."
The Charleston Mercury, however, would never add "Confederate States" to its title.


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The summer of rock
Concerts and festivals from central Illinois to St. Louis to Chicago
We know you audiophiles are mourning. Ameren's Summer Serenades fizzled out and the Washington Street Jazz Festival is no more, but fear not. There's still a hundred ways to rock your eardrums this summer, and Illinois Times is here to help you sort through the options.
This year's SOHO Music Festival packs 24 bands in two evenings at the Old State Capitol. June 4 has performances by Gypsy Collabo, The Waves, Tom Irwin and The Hayburners, Micah Walk Band, and The Station. The fest returns June 5 with the Ramblin' Blues Band, Deep Lunar Blue, Luke Turasky Project, Telegraph 3am, Dan Hubbard and The Humidores, Wabash Run and Cabin Fever. Admission is $5. More information is at www.myspace.com/sohomusicfest.
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit will join other acts on the Taste of Downtown Festival stage, July 10. The Capital City Celebration (July 3-4) and the Old Capitol Blues & BBQ (Aug. 28) also promise live performances.
All's fair in rock 'n roll
The Illinois State Fair amped up its grandstand offerings this summer, offering live music on the track almost every night of the fair. Lady Antebellum (Aug. 13), Kiss Army (Aug. 14), Shinedown and Chevelle (Aug. 15) Illinois Symphony Orchestra (Aug. 16), MercyMe and Tenth Avenue North (Aug. 17), Blake Sheldon and Candy Coburn (Aug. 17), Cheap Trick and Blondie (Aug. 20), Selena Gomez and Mitchel Musso (Aug. 21), Darius Rucker and Eric Church (Aug. 22) are all on this year's calendar. Ticketmaster has tickets now, but if you nab them at the Grandstand ticket office when it opens June 5, you won't be hit up for any pesky fees.
This year's Sangamon County Fair in New Berlin hosts Bombshell and Adam James (June 16), Jake Owen and David Nail (June 17), Cross Canadian Ragweed and Randy Houser (June 18) and Rodney Atkins and Chris Young (June 19). Access to each of these acts is complimentary with $15 admission to the fair, while a special $20 pass lets you in to concerts 15 minutes before the rest of the crowd.
Tracy Lawrence hits the Logan County Fair Grandstand in Lincoln Aug. 6, while Craig Morgan plays the Morgan County Fair in Jacksonville July 10.
Dancing in Decatur, Insane in Champaign
The Charlie Daniels band, Lou Gramm of Foreigner, rappers Tone Loc and Young MC, Expose, Francesca Battistelli and Ryan Cabrera hit the stage at the Decatur Celebration Aug. 6-8 in Downtown Decatur. Admission is free, but participants are encouraged to purchase wristbands for $3 for one day or $5 for the entire festival, which are required to purchase food or drink.
"The sickest fest in the Midwest," commonly known as the Central Illinois Metal Fest, brings together local and far-flung practitioners of black metal, some from Germany and Mexico, to the Canopy Club in Champaign July 23-24.
A variety of genres highlight the Taste of Champaign-Urbana stage in West Side Park, from rock and blues act Delta Kings (June 11), to indie rock groups Elsinore (June 12) and Bottle of Justus (June 13), and even Cajun outfit Hurricane Gumbo (June 12).
Loudly St. Louis
The U.S. Cellular Rib America Festival boasts a combination of rock and "the world's best ribs" to Soldier's Memorial in downtown St. Louis over Memorial Day weekend. Bret Michaels is slated for May 29, playing after Jackyl, L.A. Guns and Dokken. It will be Michael's second show since a brain hemorrhage hospitalized the former Poison front man in April. May 30, 90s alt-rock heroes Collective Soul and Everclear perform, while classic rock staples Blue Oyster Cult and Foghat follow with a performance May 31. Admission to the festival is free before 5 p.m. Friday and 1 p.m. Saturday, and $5 thereafter. Tickets for front-stage reserved seating range from $25-$50, depending on the day and seating section. Tickets and more information are available at www.ribamerica.com.
A revived Lilith Fair, one of the biggest tours of the 90s and a testament to women's contributions to music, visits Verizon Wireless Amphitheater July 16. The St. Louis visit brings Kelly Clarkson, Emmylou Harris, Mary J. Blige, Canadian indie rock act Metric, Kansas City pop/rock quartet Vedera, Jennifer Knapp, Kina Grannis, Meaghan Smith, Ingrid Michaelson and Lilith Fair cofounder Sarah McLachlan. The fair makes another stop July 17 at Chicago's First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre, with a slightly tweaked lineup including folk minimalist Cat Power, Brittish synthpop duo La Roux, along with Heart, Vita Chambers and Kate Nash. Tickets for Lilith Fair are available through Ticketmaster from $47.50-$258.
Live on the Levee brings out Common (July 9), Slightly Stoopid (July 10), Clint Black (July 17), Sara Bareilles (July 23) and Silversun Pickups with Against Me! (July 24) to rock the base of the St. Louis Arch. John Legend, B-52s, and a bevy of local talent play Fair St. Louis July 3 and 4. Information on both events can be retrieved at www.celebratestlouis.org.
Three Day's Grace, Seether, Papa Roach, Coheed & Cambria, Motion City Soundtrack and others will hit the Verizon Wireless amphitheater for the 26th installment of Pointfest. For $29, a total of 29 acts can be heard at the one-day event, slated for June 6. Reserved tickets are sold out, but lawn seats are still being sold at www.kpnt.com and www.livenation.com.
Letting go in Chicago
Three-day passes for the Pitchfork Music Festival sold out in February, but single-day passes for this Mecca of avant-garde musicians and hipsterdom can still be had for $40 each. Pitchfork lasts from July 16 to 18 and brings St. Vincent, Modest Mouse, Surfer Blood, Local Natives, Free Energy and Lightning Bolt, along with other indie and underground acts, to Union Park in Chicago. The official lineup and tickets are available at www.pitchforkmusicfestival.com.
After a 12-year hiatus, seminal Seattle grunge outfit Soundgarden is reunited and touring, stopping at Lollapalooza along the way. A bizarre cross-pollination of pop, indie, alternative and punk music, this year's festival runs Aug. 6-8 in Grant Park and includes performances by Green Day, Lady GaGa, The Strokes, Arcade Fire, Phoenix, Devo, Wolfmother, Grizzly Bear and more.
No list of summer music in Chicago would be complete without the Chicago Blues Festival, June 11-13, the largest of its kind in the world. This year's Taste of Chicago hosts Los Lonely Boys, Rob Thomas, the Steve Miller Band, Passion Pit and more from June 25 to July 4. The Chicago Jazz Festival will be Sept. 4 and 5 in Grant Park.
The Ravinia Festival continues its reign as the oldest outdoor music fest in the United States, bringing a variety of sounds to Highland Park from June 5 to Sept. 4. Among the artists slated are the Temptations, Steve Martin, the B-52s, Crosby, Stills and Nash, and Carrie Underwood. The full calendar and tickets are available through www.ravinia.org.
Those who don't mind traveling farther north can take advantage of Illinois' largest street festival, Rockford's On the Waterfront. More than 80 performers are scheduled, including Hinder (Sept. 3), American Idol's Adam Lambert (Sept. 4) and Billy Idol (Sept. 5). Festival passes are $12 until May 31 and can be purchased at www.onthewaterfront.com.
Finally, if old-school music is your thing, really old-school music, there's the Woodstock Mozart Festival in Woodstock July 31- Aug. 1, Aug. 7-8 and Aug. 14-15. This festival brings out internationally-recognized musicians to play classical tuneage such as Mozart's Jupiter, Vivaldi's Four Seasons and selections from Chopin. Head banging is not encouraged, but don't let us stop you.
Matthew Schroyer is an independent journalist based in Springfield, where he grew up. He enjoys blogging about political events, natural disasters, music and journalism. He can be reached at email@example.com.


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I am an independent writer and producer based in London UK.
I am fascinated by the alchemy of music and images and the way that they make something new and powerful. I strive to create tracks that will work responsively with your films.
My Audio Jungle portfolio is growing into a diverse collection, I hope you can find something useful here..


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Alec Baldwin Apologizes After Calling Reporter a 'Toxic Little Queen'
(NEW YORK) -- Alec Baldwin issued an apology in a statement to GLAAD after calling a reporter a "toxic little queen" and "little bitch" in a Twitter rant after his wife was accused of tweeting while the couple attended James Gandolfini's funeral in New York City Thursday.
In a statement posted on GLAAD's website Friday, Baldwin apologized about his comments, which were directed at Daily Mail reporter George Stark.
"My ill-advised attack on George Stark of the Daily Mail had absolutely nothing to do with issues of anyone's sexual orientation. My anger was directed at Mr. Stark for blatantly lying and disseminating libelous information about my wife and her conduct at our friend's funeral service. As someone who fights against homophobia, I apologize," he said.
Stark had accused Hilaria Baldwin of tweeting "upbeat posts" about her upcoming wedding anniversary and her Thursday morning appearance on the "Rachael Ray" show during the funeral.
Known for his outbursts, Baldwin took to Twitter Thursday with some colorful language to deny that his wife had tweeted during the funeral.
"My wife and I attend a funeral to pay our respects to an old friend, and some toxic Brit writes this (expletive) trash," Baldwin, 55, tweeted.
In another tweet, Baldwin threatened Stark.
"I'm gonna find you, George Stark … and I'm gonna (expletive) …you…up."
The 30 Rock star rattled off three more tweets about Stark before his account was disabled.
A spokesman for the Baldwins said in a statement to ABC News earlier today, "It is disgraceful that this reporter manufactured a story and never called for comment or explanation — especially when it needlessly diverted attention away from a day to honor the memory of a beloved figure like Mr. Gandolfini."
Hilaria Baldwin defended herself on Twitter to her more than 14,000 followers.
"FYI I don't believe in bringing phones into a funeral and I never did and I never would," she tweeted.
"Here is some info… When someone tweets something at a certain time, and you retweet it later, it posts the TIME the first person tweeted," she added.
Baldwin's confrontations and blowups have become instant headlines over the years. Baldwin allegedly punched a New York Daily News photographer in the face last June after the actor obtained a license to wed Hilaria.
Baldwin was escorted off an American Airlines flight in December 2011 after he refused to stop playing "Words with Friends" on his phone
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Once again, the name-calling and minimization of President Obama continues from the right. Right wing site Infowars compared President Obama to a "tyrant" who joins the ranks of Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, China's Mao Zedong and Korea's Kim Il-sung, of using kids as props. This latest round of vitriol comes as polls find that most Americans favor universal background checks on all gun purchases.
Let me be clear, very clear — I don't like the idea of any president using children as props. Their kids are off-limits, so too should be the rest of our kids, but it's ridiculous to compare President Obama to the likes of Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin and other dictators. The right wing propaganda machine is out in force and appealing to the fringe-elements only too happy to engage in will only foment someone like a Jared Loughner or an Adam Lanza or even another James Holmes into action. Until you and I can walk in the shoes of a parent who has lost a child to gun violence, we shouldn't sit here with a smug expression on our faces content on calling the shots.
The Hartford Courant ran a column from President Obama reiterating that he isn't trying to take away the rights of Americans to bear arms, but rather to curb gun violence. Now is the time to act to get guns out of the hands of domestic terrorists.
In case Alex Jones, Matt Drudge, Sean Hannity and others haven't noticed, Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez are still around. When George W. Bush surrounded himself with kids, that was A-okay. The rightwing disrespect of President Obama continues. The White House sent this tweet from an eight year old child about gun control:
This is one of the letters I received after Newtown. When it comes to protecting our kids, #nowisthetime to act. -bo twitter.com/whitehouse/sta…
— The White House (@whitehouse) January 16, 2013
Here are the photographs from Infowars that Matt Drudge is running with today. I added the two of former President George W. Bush:


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Here's the final chunk of reader Tim's HTC Wildfire review. Previous parts here – one, two and three. Should we have stuck them all together in one MEGA-REVIEW? Probably, but it's too late now. What's uploaded is uploaded.
TIM'S WILDFIRE REVIEW PART FOUR: Extras, Navigation & Verdict
HTC has packed all of its new bells and whistles into the Wildfire, including the standard Sense widgets, plus extras like an FM Radio, a nifty LED flash-light, Peep for Twitter, and Footprints (for whatever that does). When somebody calls you it shows you their Facebook status and their birthday, so if you've forgotten it you have a few seconds to come up with an excuse before your friend gets diverted to your voicemail.
The Wildfire also fully supports Google Navigation, with voice input for destinations, and some rather robotic speech directions. While still in beta, this is a fantastic development from Google, and certainly not a feature you'll find on a lot of similarly priced phones. It's also very handy if you want to irritate a friend who has just bought a standalone sat-nav.
HTC has indicated that the Wildfire will receive the Android 2.2 (FroYo) update which (insofar as you can believe what anyone promises regarding updates) will mean support for Flash 10.1 and finally the BBC iPlayer, although I am not convinced that this little phone will be up to rendering it.
Overall, the Wildfire is undeniably feature packed, let down slightly by its screen and processor – necessary evils to make it a cheap phone. Oddly it seems to have been priced on contract at around the same level as the superior HTC Legend, but if you're buying one outright, it could be the budget purchase for you.


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University of Nebraska announces e-mail migration agreement with MicrosoftUniversity of Nebraska announces e-mail migration agreement with Microsoft University of Nebraska President James B. Milliken announced today that the university has entered into an agreement with the Microsoft Corp. to migrate its e-mail and calendaring system to a new cloud-based system that will better meet the needs of its faculty, staff and administrators and reduce annual costs by as much as 50 percent.
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· Questions and Answers
· President Milliken's Message to Employees
· Submit Your Question
Campus Specific Information
Milliken said the agreement with Microsoft is a very positive development for the university that is supported by all of the campus chancellors, chief information officers and others. Many leading universities, including the majority of institutions in the Big Ten, have implemented Microsoft e-mail systems.
"A robust, reliable, effective and secure e-mail system is critical to the operation of the modern university," Milliken said. "On a daily basis, our e-mail system facilitates the conduct of official business with the Board of Regents, students, faculty, staff and administrators as well as various outside agencies, research facilities and countless stakeholder groups and citizens. It is vital that we have an e-mail system in place that allows us to perform these duties in the most efficient, cost-effective way possible. The Microsoft system will help us accomplish this goal."
The current Lotus Notes system was implemented in 1997. Milliken said he had been receiving an increasing number of requests in recent years to consider whether Lotus Notes was the best choice for the university. Last year, he appointed a university-wide task force to examine, among other issues, whether the Lotus Notes system met the needs and requirements of faculty, staff and administrators and, if not, to recommend appropriate changes. The task force was chaired by Dr. John Ballard, professor emeritus in the College of Engineering at UNL.
The task force recommended that the university assess migrating to a less costly and more advanced e-mail environment. Milliken reviewed the task force's recommendation with the chancellors, who unanimously endorsed the recommended strategy. A formal Request for Proposals process was initiated, and after careful consideration by system and campus leadership, the university determined that Microsoft's proposal best fit the university's overall requirements relating to functionality and cost.
"The Microsoft system will provide our faculty and staff with a superior web-based interface and better capabilities," said Walter Weir, chief information officer for the NU system. "We believe that moving to the cloud environment is the best way to leverage current technology and achieve greater cost savings and better security for our system."
Campus technical teams will work together to build the required back-end infrastructure to support the e-mail migration and deployment. A new page on the university's website, www.nebraska.edu/email, is available and will be updated frequently with status updates, common questions and answers, tutorials and other information. In addition, employee updates and forums will be held on each campus.


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We've been impatiently waiting for a serious color e-reader for a long, long time. Monochrome e-readers have been out for a while now, and a few color e-readers have even popped up recently, but none of these recent color e-readers have had enough polish to really be desirable. When Barnes & Noble announced the Nook Color last month it seemed like this new e-reader could potentially be the color ebook reader that we've all been waiting for. The new Nook Color features a 7″ touchscreen color display that is complimented by WiFi, 8gb of on-board memory plus a microSD slot, and a U.I. that is running on Android 2.1.
Design & Display
Before we get into the Nook's physical design and display, we must to give a shout out to its easy-to-open packaging. The top of the box literally flips open and the Nook slides out so nicely. God bless them for creating such an easy to open, neat and tidy packaging system.
Now, onto to the design of the Nook Color. The Nook Color's hardware is solid and well made with a minimalist look going for it. With its rounded edges, complimented by a soft touch finish on its backside, it's also comfortable to hold in your hand. Unfortunately, weighing in at 15.8 ounces, it's also on the heavy side. It's not as heavy as the iPad's 21 ounces, but it's also significantly heavier than most monochrome e-readers, which means it's not quite as comfortable to hold in your hand for prolonged periods of time. That said, its 7″ display really is the ideal size for a color e-reader in terms of portability and reading comfort. It should easily slip into most medium sized purses without weighing down your bag too much.
The display on the Nook Color is a VividView display which features 26 millions colors and a 1024×600 IPS resolution with 169 pixels per inch. This special display uses a full lamination screen film on top of the LCD which manages to help reduce glare from the backlight. Colors on the Nook Color's display are vivid, crisp and sharp. Reading magazines are a pleasure, as is browsing the web and watching movies too. This superb display really enables the Nook Color to excel at showing off magazines and kid's books. This display is also able to get very bright. However when reading text for extended periods of time, you'll probably want to turn down the brightness a bit. Speaking of text, text looks very sharp too, even sharper than on the iPad. This is most likely because the Nook Color resolution is packed into a smaller display size and because of its high 169 pixel per inch count. Our only significant gripe with the Nook Color's display is that similarly to the iPad's display, it is very fingerprint prone, so you'll want to keep a cloth handy.
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User Interface
The Nook Color's interface is simple to get the hang of and is pretty intuitive. While it still has some minor ironing out to do in terms of some lags here and there, it is quite polished and overall impressive for a first run.
A dedicated "n" button at the bottom of the Nook Color's display serves as the home button. The n button takes you to the Homescreen. Running along the bottom of the homescreen the Nook shows off thumbnails of your latest downloaded content. Above that is an area where you can drag and drop your latest titles to rearrange however you'd like. This homescreen extends to up-to three screens and you can use your own photos as wallpaper for the homescreen too.
The "Book" icon at the bottom of the interface will bring you back to the most recent page you were reading in your library. At the bottom of the device you can see status indicator icons for WiFi, audio, battery life and the time. Double tap on the time at the bottom right and "Quick Settings" pop up which offer the option to toggle the WiFi on or off, as well as toggle on Mute, Switch off the Automatic Orientation and Adjust the screen Brightness
The Reading Experience
Downloading books is generally very quick and takes just a few seconds. Many books have samples which you can download first before you decide to actually purchase the book. Page turns are also quick when it comes to text based ebooks.
When you're reading an ebook, you can double tap on a page and a menu will pop up with several options:
Content – Lets you quickly access the table of contents, as well as any notes & highlights or bookmarks that you may have.
Search – Lets you search for a word or phrase within the book.
Share – Lets you Recommend, Rate & Review or Post your Reading Status. This lets you recommend what you're reading to one of your contacts, or via Facebook and Twitter. You can also Post/Share your reading Status on Facebook or Twitter, so that your status will say for example "I am through 10% of the Confession by John Grisham."
Text – Lets you change the font type, size, text color and line height of the text you are reading, as well as the background color. So for example, you can make the background color dark gray which can be helpful for reading in a dark environment.
Brightness – gives you quick access to the brightness settings.
Web Browser
The overall, web browsing experience on the Nook Color is very good. The device runs on Android 2.1, so that means it features a lot of of Android's functionality including video playback and a great web browser. As a result, the web browser is hardly an after thought and provides a rich web browsing experience. It's really nice to be able to load up a web site in between reading books, without having to switch to a different device. Browsing over wi-fi is fast. The experience is complimented by the onscreen keyboard is easy to use, and is very iOS like. The browser however, unfortunately lacks the ability to pinch to zoom in and out, instead you'll need to double tap to zoom in.
Nook Kids
Nook Kids features special color kids books which have the option to "Read By Myself" and "Read to Me". Read to me actually reads the sorry out-loud. This is a neat option, but a computerized voice is definitely not a substitute for a parent's voice and spending time reading to their kid.
Magazines & Magazines
The selection of magazines and newspapers available for the Nook Color Magazines and Newspapers is quite healthy – B&N is already already offering everything from the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal to Spin, Redbook, National Geographic, Maxim US Weekly, GQ and more. You can buy current issues of Newspapers or magazines or subscribe to the periodical. Many magazines and newspapers have free 14 day trials too.
Magazines are shown with their original layouts, ads and all. And they quite frankly, look beautiful. You can pinch to zoom in on articles but unfortunately there is somewhat of a lag when doing this. Also, When reading both magazines and Nook Kids books etc, there is slight lag when flipping from page to page. You can also view magazine stories in "Article view", which is is a pop-up version of the article with regular text. On the other hand, Newspapers are broken down into text and images for which you can adjust the text size and colors etc just like you would with a downloaded ebook.
The Library breaks down your media into Books, Magazines, Newspapers. It also has a section for "My Shelves" which is a convenient way to organize your favorite reads. Plus there is also "My Files" where you can access saved documents including videos and pictures etc. The device also has support support for PDF, ePub, and Word files, as well several image and video files, and MP3 files. "Lend Me" shows you which books in your library are available for lending out.
The Nook Color currently comes preloaded with "Extras" which help extend the functionality of the device beyond just an e-reader. Currently the Extras are limited to Chess, Contacts, Crossword, Gallery, LendMe, Music, Pandora and Sudoku. In particular, Gallery lets you view photos and create a slideshow. When it comes to listening to music, you'll need to connect the Nook to your computer over USB to transfer off music files etc. Unfortunately, there is no built-in e-mail app, at-least not yet. So if you want to send or receive an email you'll have to use the web browser to log into your email account. Alas, B&N has not included the Android Marketplace on the device, which is really a shame because that would essentially transform the device into practically a full fledged and very affordable tablet, as opposed to just a versatile e-reader. That said, the Nook Developer program promises to expand these extras with more "apps". Lonely Planet and Dictionary.com are some of the Extras that are supposedly on their way.
Battery Life
The Nook Color advertises a battery life of up-to 8 hours with Wi-Fi turned off, and in use this claim mostly holds true. This is a shorter battery life than most monochrome readers, but totally worth the trade off in exchange for a full color and more versatile device. In any case, battery life should be enough to get through most flights.
The Barnes & Noble Nook Color may not be the first e-reader with a full color touchscreen, but it's definitely the best color e-reader option available on the market today. Its interface is quite polished for a first run, and that combined with B&N's massive library of books and the excellent color touchscreen display, makes the Nook Color a serious desirable e-reading device. The Nook Color can be ideal for parents who read to their kids a lot, it's also idea for the casual reader / serious magazine reader. Personally, I fit into that last category. I love magazines, and I always take a pile with me when I travel, so the Nook Color would make a great travel companion for me.
Furthermore, if Barnes & Noble adds more extras to the device, than the Nook Color has the potential to be a serious stripped down tablet and multimedia device, and not just an e-reader. That said, if you mostly read text heavy books, than the 1st gen Nook will most likely be sufficient for you. The B&N Nook Color retails for a very reasonable $249, which is about $100 more than competing monochrome e-readers, and $100 more than the older Nook. Considering how much more value you get with the Nook Color, the extra $100 is well worth it. All in all, if you've been waiting to finally jump on the e-reader bandwagon, and you were waiting for the next gen of color e-readers, there's no need to wait any longer, the Nook Color is a highly recommended device that is light years ahead of its monochrome e-reader counterparts.
The Good: Excellent display and build quality, 7″ display offers the perfect size for an e-reader in terms of portability and comfort, polished interface, fair price tag, social networking integration, massive library of over 2 million ebooks and periodicals, quick ebook downloads, magazines look brilliant, lots of stylish accessory cases are already available for it, Extras have potential to extend the functionality of the device into tablet territory
The Bad: No 3G option, some lag when turning magazine pages and zooming in and out, battery life isn't as long as on most monochrome e-readers, a bit on the heavy side, very limited amounts of Extras available so far and no access to Android Marketplace yet.


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The accident report shows "Code violation" as the cause again. Your boss needs suggestions. Here are some that will work.
A common complaint about the NEC is "It's unnecessarily complicated." Those who extensively use it agree it's complicated, but often draw the line at the "unnecessary" part. Perhaps, in the case of the NEC, unfamiliarity breeds contempt. These 10 tips should help your organization overcome unfamiliarity with the NEC and enable you to follow its lifesaving requirements.
1. Use trade journals. EC&M Magazine, for example, brings you excellent Code coverage. The NFPA Journal is another source. You can also browse through various industry-specific publications (i.e., the food industry, plastics industry, etc.). Look at the photos and illustrations to see if you find Code violations.
2. Get a Master Electrician's license. This license won't make you a Code guru, but it will bring you a solid working knowledge of the Code. If you are unfamiliar with the Code, having a goal like obtaining the ME license can be just the motivation you need. Several companies provide courses to help you prepare for the exam. You can find some of them in the ads in this very magazine.
3. Use Code calendars and other memory aids. At least one of our advertisers puts out a Code calendar. Every day, you get a little bit of Code knowledge. It may not seem like much, but then $10 doesn't seem like so much today, either. However, if someone put a $10 bill in a container every day and then gave you that container at the end of a year, you'd have $3,650. The same principle applies to saving Code knowledge; a little each day adds up.
4. Have a weekly Code meeting. You can pass quite a bit of Code information along, just by consistently having someone read a Code section to your group once a week. This effort is good for reinforcing previous knowledge, but weak for teaching something new. To go a step further, give one electrician 5 min of glory each week to explain some part of the Code. That person will do the most learning, but the others will benefit, too. This works even better if you tie all Code presentations to a common theme. For example, you could make October the month for grounding.
5. Put Code paragraphs in pay envelopes. The more people see the Code in small chunks, the more they will know those chunks and the Code as a whole. You can best reinforce this with some theme or pattern to the way you present these. For example, you may wish to cover Art. 100 with a different word defined each pay period. A twist on this is to put a "fill in the blank" with some kind of reward for the winner of a drawing held for those with the correct answers. Be creative with the rewards. You could give the winning employee a special hard hat sticker, but sometimes such things come across in a way not intended. For a more positive impact, you could give the employee an extra hour's pay or a gift certificate to your electrical supplier (good toward a meter, toolbelt, etc.). Since you have the contest every payday, give people a chance to save these toward a larger purchase. If you do go with a reward system, see your tax advisor before deciding what to do.
6. Use Code reminders as a screen saver or wallpaper text. Most shops have computers, and field people often carry laptops. Many people like "screen savers." Though these don't do a thing to save the screen (as they would have in the days of monochrome monitors), many users run them. Why not capitalize on this? Your tech support person can load in a custom screen saver. Or, you can do something similar to the pay envelope idea. Those who run screen savers with the current Code reminder get their names put in a drawing. This means someone will have to go around and check all the computers to see who is eligible. Since screen saver text needs to be short, something like "Art. 250 = Grounding" would be appropriate. Unless everyone has a computer, you'd have to keep any rewards very low key and related to his/her crews. You might, for example, give the winning project manager a small stack of coupons that he/she would use to reward his/her crews for jobs completed with above average quality or delivery time.
7. Teach the Code. Encourage your electricians to study a Code section and give a short presentation to a high school shop class. Keep this useful and restrict it to the "simpler" sections. Without an understanding of Arts. 100 and 110, the rest of the Code is confusing. However, 100/110 are straightforward. As such,they are excellent for electricians to study and teach from. A shop teacher would be delighted for a working electrician to address the class for 15 min.
8. Visit the EC&M website. Code information is on the Internet. EC&M, for example, posts "Code Watch" at www.ecmweb.com. Those who read this know what changes are coming. That's not ecmweb's only Code coverage; not by a long shot. In addition to "Code Tips," you can use the article search function to look for articles as far back as 1990. You can locate Code Quizzes related to a particular topic. You can look up Code Basics. You can find out how the Code Forum experts view a particular topic. We also have advertisers whose websites may be helpful.
9. Hold Code inspections. If yours is a maintenance organization, assign two people to tour the facility and inspect for Code violations. If you are a contractor who provides a maintenance service, this could bring extra business. If you are the manager of the maintenance department, this could save your job; and possibly someone's life.
10. Publish Code problems. When you encounter a Code violation in your facility, what do you do about it? Do you quietly fix it, as though it never existed? A better choice may be to report these violations. Let's say you find 43 violations in one day. Categorize these in severity as moderate, serious, and critical. You fix the critical ones first. Notice the rating system doesn't have a "low priority" category. If you have a Code violation, you have a situation that is defeating the practical safeguarding of persons and property from hazards arising from the use of electricity. That's never a low priority. Prioritizing is a tool for fixing the worst problems first. It in no way hints that some Code violations are unimportant.
Put out a monthly or weekly newsletter to all departments, perhaps in the form of a spreadsheet. Simply list the condition, Code section violated, severity, and who resolved the problem. You can see an example of such a report in the Table (on page 48D). You can develop a table for your data, and/or produce a high-visual-impact graph like that in the Figure (original article). Such visual aids give Code violations a high, but positive, visibility and serve as strong motivators for electricians to learn the Code. The "who" part is normally something the maintenance supervisor assigns when assigning the work order. Make sure you spread this work out so everyone gets some recognition and encouragement to take the Code to heart.


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Major Section: EVENTS
Examples: (verify-guards flatten) (verify-guards flatten :hints (("Goal" :use (:instance assoc-of-app))) :otf-flg t :doc "string")See guard for a general discussion of guards. In the General Form above,
General Form: (verify-guards name :hints hints :otf-flg otf-flg :doc doc-string)
name is the name of a
logic function
(see defun-mode) or of a theorem or axiom. In the most common
name is the name of a function that has not yet had its
guards verified, each
subroutine of which has had its guards verified.
hints and
otf-flg are as described in the corresponding
doc entries;
doc-string, if supplied, is a string not beginning with
:Doc-Section''. The three keyword arguments above are all
Verify-guards will attempt to prove that the guard on
the named function implies the guards of all of the subroutines
called in the body of the function, and that the guards are satisfied for
all function calls in the guard itself (under an implicit guard of
If successful,
name is considered to have had its guards verified.
name is one of several functions in a mutually recursive clique,
verify-guards will attempt to verify the guards of all of the
name is a theorem or axiom name,
verify-guards verifies the
guards of the associated formula. When a theorem has had its guards
verified then you know that the theorem will evaluate to non-
in all Common Lisps, without causing a runtime error (other than possibly
a resource error). In particular, you know that the theorem's validity
does not depend upon ACL2's arbitrary completion of the domains of partial
Common Lisp functions.
For example, if
app is defined as
(defun app (x y) (declare (xargs :guard (true-listp x))) (if (endp x) y (cons (car x) (app (cdr x) y))))then we can verify the guards of
app and we can prove the theorem:
(defthm assoc-of-app (equal (app (app a b) c) (app a (app b c))))However, if you go into almost any Common Lisp in which
app is defined
as shown and evaluate
(equal (app (app 1 2) 3) (app 1 (app 2 3)))we get an error or, perhaps, something worse like
nil! How can
this happen since the formula is an instance of a theorem? It is supposed
to be true!
It happens because the theorem exploits the fact that ACL2 has completed
the domains of the partially defined Common Lisp functions like
cdr, defining them to be
nil on all non-conses. The formula
above violates the guards on
app. It is therefore ``unreasonable''
to expect it to be valid in Common Lisp.
But the following formula is valid in Common Lisp:
(if (and (true-listp a) (true-listp b)) (equal (app (app a b) c) (app a (app b c))) t)That is, no matter what the values of
b and
c the formula
above evaluates to
t in all Common Lisps (unless the Lisp engine runs out
of memory or stack computing it). Furthermore the above formula is a theorem:
(defthm guarded-assoc-of-app (if (and (true-listp a) (true-listp b)) (equal (app (app a b) c) (app a (app b c))) t))This formula,
guarded-assoc-of-app, is very easy to prove from
assoc-of-app. So why prove it? The interesting thing about
guarded-assoc-of-app is that we can verify the guards of the
formula. That is,
(verify-guards guarded-assoc-of-app) succeeds.
Note that it has to prove that if
a and
b are true lists then
so is
(app a b) to establish that the guard on the outermost
on the left is satisfied. By verifying the guards of the theorem we
know it will evaluate to true in all Common Lisps. Put another way,
we know that the validity of the formula does not depend on ACL2's
completion of the partial functions or that the formula is ``well-typed.''
One last complication: The careful reader might have thought we could
guarded-assoc-of-app as
(implies (and (true-listp a) (true-listp b)) (equal (app (app a b) c) (app a (app b c))))rather than using the
if form of the theorem. We cannot! The
reason is technical:
implies is defined as a function in ACL2.
When it is called, both arguments are evaluated and then the obvious truth
table is checked. That is,
implies is not ``lazy.'' Hence, when
we write the guarded theorem in the
implies form we have to prove
the guards on the conclusion without knowing that the hypothesis is true.
It would have been better had we defined
implies as a macro that
expanded to the
if form, making it lazy. But we did not and after
we introduced guards we did not want to make such a basic change.
Recall however that
verify-guards is almost always used to verify
the guards on a function definition rather than a theorem. We now
return to that discussion.
name is not uniquely associated with the
verify-guards event
(it necessarily names a previously defined function) the
documentation string,
doc-string, is not stored in the
documentation data base. Thus, we actually prohibit
from having the form of an ACL2 documentation string;
see doc-string.
If the guard on a function is not
t, then guard verification
requires not only consideration of the body under the assumption
that the guard is true, but also consideration of the guard itself.
Thus, for example, guard verification fails in the following
example, even though there are no proof obligations arising from the
body, because the guard itself can cause a guard violation when
evaluated for an arbitrary value of
(defun foo (x) (declare (xargs :guard (car x))) x)
Verify-guards must often be used when the value of a recursive call
of a defined function is given as an argument to a subroutine that
is guarded. An example of such a situation is given below. Suppose
app (read ``append'') has a guard requiring its first argument to be
true-listp. Consider
(defun rev (x) (declare (xargs :guard (true-listp x))) (cond ((endp x) nil) (t (app (rev (cdr x)) (list (car x))))))Observe that the value of a recursive call of
rev is being passed
into a guarded subroutine,
app. In order to verify the guards of
this definition we must show that
(rev (cdr x)) produces a
true-listp, since that is what the guard of
app requires. How do we
know that
(rev (cdr x)) is a
true-listp? The most elegant argument
is a two-step one, appealing to the following two lemmas: (1) When
is a
(cdr x) is a
true-listp. (2) When
z is a
(rev z) is a
true-listp. But the second lemma is a
generalized property of
rev, the function we are defining. This
property could not be stated before
rev is defined and so is not
known to the theorem prover when
rev is defined.
Therefore, we might break the admission of
rev into three steps:
rev without addressing its guard verification, prove some
general properties about
rev, and then verify the guards. This can
be done as follows:
(defun rev (x) (declare (xargs :guard (true-listp x) :verify-guards nil)) ; Note this additional xarg. (cond ((endp x) nil) (t (app (rev (cdr x)) (list (car x))))))The ACL2 system can actually admit the original definition of
(defthm true-listp-rev (implies (true-listp x2) (true-listp (rev x2))))
(verify-guards rev)
rev, verifying the guards as part of the
defun event. The
reason is that, in this particular case, the system's heuristics
just happen to hit upon the lemma
true-listp-rev. But in many
more complicated functions it is necessary for the user to formulate
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PROVIDENCE, R.I.—Six different Beacons found the back of the net, led by four goals from sophomore Noah Ellis (Hingham, Mass.), to help UMass Boston earn a season-opening 12-3 victory over Johnson & Wales University (R.I.) Saturday afternoon at the Scott Miracle-Gro Athletic Complex.
The victory marked the Beacons' first season-opening win since 2007 and also spoiled the first varsity contest for the Wildcats men's lacrosse program.
Ellis, a first-year player for the Beacons, made a huge impact in his debut, with a team-high four goals and five total points. He scored a goal each in the second and third quarters, before adding a pair of tallies in the fourth quarter.
John Powers (Marshfield, Mass.), Donny Delpha (Walpole, Mass.) and Tommy Petitti (Quincy, Mass.) each added two goals and at least one assist in the victory. Sophomore Nick Weiss (Westfield, Mass.) recorded a goal and an helper, while senior captain Dom Fichera (Scituate, Mass.) accounted for the final goal.
Sophomore netminder Craig Frehill (Norwell, Mass.) earned his second collegiate victory in his second career start, with 13 saves on 16 shots in 48 minutes of action. Frehill held the Wildcats off the board for the opening 20 minutes, and did not allow goals in the first or third quarters. Freshman James Bischoff (East Lyme, Conn.) made his collegiate debut in the fourth quarter, as he stopped all four shots he faced in 11 minutes and 34 seconds of play.
Keegan Donaher, Tyler Thompson and TJ Consiglio each scored for the Wildcats in their program-debut. Goaltenders Jack Pettine and Mike Russo split time in the cage, with the duo combining for 13 saves on 25 shots.
After a slow start to the opening quarter, UMass Boston struck at the 10:37 mark, when Powers found the back of the cage off of a nice feed from Petitti. The Beacons added two more strikes before the end of the period, as Petitti and Delpha each scored to give UMass Boston a 3-0 lead after one.
UMass Boston's defense proved to be too much for the Wildcats the rest of the way, as the Beacons held Johnson & Wales to just six second-half shots on goal and one goal.
The Beacons dominated the third quarter, recording seven of the nine shots on goal and scoring all three goals in the stanza. Ellis struck for his second goal of the game at 12:13 and Petitti and Delpha added markers later in the period to make it 9-2 after three quarters.
Consiglio briefly gave Johnson & Wales life with a goal early in the fourth, but Ellis found the back of the net twice more and Powers added a tally to contribute to the 12-3 final.
Despite the wide margin on the scoreboards, the Beacons only held a narrow 30-27 edge in shots and 20-19 margin in clears. Both teams finished 8-for-16 in the face-off dot and both sides struggled in man-up situations. UMass Boston finished the day 1-for-5, with Delpha accounting for the lone man-up goal, while the host Wildcats ended the day 1-for-8.
The Beacons will look to move to 2-0 Wednesday when they travel to take on Gordon College at 4 p.m.


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Adobe Actionscript 3.0 Poster Viewer
Adobe has published posters like this one before for registered users of their different software packages. Now you can download the ActionScript 3.0 Diagram Viewer, a zoomable version using Adobe AIR. This can keep a stand-alone viewer on your desktop (or 2nd monitor) as a reference when you need it. For some developers, this may be easier than viewing the high-resolution JPG.
With the excellent feature from Zoomify, and the nicely laid out AS 3.0 posters, you are able to zoom and navigate through the entire Flash and Adobe® AIR™ ActionScript 3.0 API.
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davis family.
my dads dad. albert r, davis.born 1901 in birmingham.england. married mary e, edney in aston.1921.
they had 3 children:
mary, 1922
albert wm.1925
mary passed away after williams birth.
since my grandad had. o arms(factory accident.) the children were se.t to an orphanage. don't know which one yet. grandad (silversmithing field.)remarried. don't know her name.
would be wonderful if someone could add info..
fred morris
my grandad.fred was born in walsall,1886.
he married elsie brown in aston,1910.
1911 aston census has them livi.g at 245 farm st.aston. with gladys millicent morris.4months old. first of. 15 children.
I am looking for their parents or other relatives. fred was a baker in aston.
brown,morris,davis,edney surnames.of birmingham.uk
I am pamela ann davis.b,1952 in birmingham.uk. my parents: irene morrus.b.1927.aston. albert wm davis..b.1925. birmingham. married in aston.1950.
seeking info on elsie brown.b.abt.1890.married fred morris.b.1886.aston.
and albert r, davis. married mary e,edney in 1921.birmingham.
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'Vampire Diaries': Kendrick Sampson on Jesse's 'Ulterior Motives,' Romancing Caroline
Is Caroline moving on from Tyler?
On the Oct. 24 episode of The CW's The Vampire Diaries, Caroline (Candice Accola) makes a move to put her Mystic Falls past behind her by closing in on Whitmore College upperclassman Jesse, who's made his attraction to the college freshman quite clear.
"The first thing that attracts him is she's beautiful and he sees that," actor Kendrick Sampson, who plays Jesse, tells The Hollywood Reporter. "She's a real challenge for him. He's used to getting what he wants and this is a good challenge."
It helps that Jesse has a fan in Elena (Nina Dobrev), and she's made her preferences known to Caroline, aggressively pushing for the two to become friends -- and possibly more. As Sampson tells it, Elena has the right intentions in doing so.
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"I think it's a great idea! She's on the right track," says Sampson, who describes his alter ego as "genuine." "Whether something is hidden about Jesse or not, Caroline needs to break away from the funk. She's still caught up in [a relationship] that's not panning out well for her and she's got this new life. We can all relate to that. She isn't able to enjoy it and experience it in its full glory because she's still stuck on this other guy."
He adds with a laugh: "She wants to have new experiences and I think Jesse is the perfect experience."
It's taken a bit of time for Caroline and Jesse to get on the same page, but the intimate moment the two shared following Damon's (Ian Somerhalder) ill-advised knockout at Jesse's expense earlier this season certainly played a role.
"[Jesse] believes she's good, he just has to fight to get it. We'll see a little bit more in this coming episode that his efforts are not in vain," Sampson says, revealing that the two go on a "possible study date that Caroline may or may not have agreed to."
"You'll see some good bonding. A little bit more vulnerability on both sides," he says of the Thursday hour.
But Sampson warns that there may be more to Jesse than meets the eye. Not much is known at the moment about his backstory, but Sampson notes that there may be "ulterior motives" behind why he has "chosen" to help Caroline and Elena on their quest to figure out Professor Maxfield's (Rick Cosnett) "teacher facade" and the events surrounding the mysterious Whitmore College. Sampson hints that Jesse is "instrumental" in their mission, however, "Dr. Maxfield puts a plan into action that changes some things."
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There will be more shades of Jesse that will be unveiled as the season progresses. "You'll see a different side to him," Sampson promises. "I'm not sure if it's anything people will be expecting, but it's definitely different."
Sampson is open to the idea of seeing Jesse make his way to Mystic Falls in the future, though didn't offer any idea whether that would actually happen. "That would be cool," he coyly says.
For the actor, who was on a plane to the Atlanta set a mere 10 hours after getting cast, transitioning to a supernatural show like Vampire Diaries has been an adjustment. But, as Sampson assures, it's of the best kind.
"The craziest thing is getting used to people walking around in their supernatural costume; their wardrobe, fangs. It's a little freaky," he says with a laugh. "And the blood. There's so much blood!"
The Vampire Diaries airs Thursdays at 8 p.m. on The CW.
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