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The V4L API in itself does not support any ieee1394 (Firewire) devices. However, in the case of some devices, V4L applications can obtain access to video via ieee1394, using either a loopback or LD_PRELOAD method.
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Every action we take impacts the world around us. When we drive, fly, buy a can of soda, or even just take out the trash we are affecting the Earth. You may have heard the term "carbon footprint" to describe our environmental behavior. Carbon footprints are a way of measuring our individual and collective environmental harm caused everyday. Entire companies have been founded on this idea, such as those that offer carbon offset credits. You can even calculate your own or household's carbon footprint online and see how you match up with the US and rest of the world.
Although we love how informative carbon footprints are, it can be a little overwhelming. The idea of a carbon footprint only looks at the negative ways in which we impact the planet rather than focusing on the positive. That's exactly what Gregory Norris thought when he decided to found Handprinter.org. The site looks at what Norris calls handprints rather than footprints. Handprints include all the positive things we do everyday that make a difference.
Norris, a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, thought of the idea after realizing his students were feeling pessimistic about their effect on the world, even stating that "the planet would be better off if they had not been born." Norris felt his students and others looking at only their footprints were concentrating on detrimental actions. "…Something was missing-that we can also benefit the planet," Norris explained, "I needed to name those benefits to make them as tangible as footprints."
And that he did. He took his handprints and turned them into a website that not only lets you calculate your own handprint, but encourages others to follow suit. The website promotes spreading one's positive impact via social media, which in turn increases your handprint the more you share. He hopes to take this idea one step further where organizations, schools, and maybe even cities will compete among each other for larger handprints.
Norris' handprints are already having the positive effect he was hoping for, as they ended up on Time Magazine's list of "10 Ideas that are Changing Your Life." We love the encouraging message handprints bring, because focusing on the bad news often overwhelms and depresses us, but this idea gives us hope. It introduces a way to look at our actions in a bright light. Next time someone asks about carbon footprints, make sure to tell them about your handprints. Will you be using handprinter?


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I am 7 months into a 2+ year Traditional Chinese course...so...keeping that in mind, these tips come from an Acupuncturist (Clara Cohen of Acuproacademy.com).
1st Month: eat easily digestible foods, include Barley in the diet. Stay calm, don't over exercise....the reason? to allow fetus time to securely latch on. No fear, no grief, no anger. Stay out of hot and cold extremes
2nd Month: Avoid Hot and Spicy foods. Gentle sex okay
3rd Month: Eat more QUALITY proteins, Rest...Meditate...Sleep as much as possible
4th Month: Consume more Brown Rice and Fish. Do not overeat
5th Month: SLEEP. Stay warm, eat Oats, eat sweet and sour foods together
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7th Month: Bone soups and GENTLE Yoga
8th Month: Deep breathing, Stay calm, AVOID stress and anger
9th Month: Stay dry, avoid damp. NO SWEETS
10th Month: AVOID salty foods. MEDITATE
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APATOSAURUS (uh-PAT-oh-SORE-us)
Period: Late Jurassic
Order, Suborder, Family: Saurischia, Sauropodomorpha, Diplodocidae
Location: North America
Length: 70 feet (21 meters)
Apatosaurus moved constantly, feeding day and night. When they walked, the ground, thundered, because each adult weighed as much as five adult elephants. The idea of a thundering walker gave Brontosaurus its name, which means "thunder lizard." The name Apatosaurus was used first for this dinosaur, so it is the correct name. But the literal meaning of its name, "deceitful reptile," is difficult to apply to this giant. With a shoulder height of 12 feet, a length of about 70 feet, and a weight of 30 tons, this peaceful herbivore could neither hide nor disappear into the background.
Like its close relatives Diplodocus, Barosaurus, and Supersaurus, this sauropod had a small bead; a long, slender neck; and a deep, heavy midsection. It also had legs built like pillars and a long heavy tail that ended in a slender whip.
A few years ago, one of the most celebrated mistakes in science was found: the wrong head had been placed on the Apatosaurus skeleton in the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh. A skull of Camarasaurus, which belongs to a different family, was put on the skeleton. The Apatosaurus was nearly complete when if was excavated except that it had no head. The best guess at the time was that its skull was like that of Camarasaurus, with a rounded and blunt profile, large crushing teeth, and powerful jaws. The scientists who discovered the mistake studied the quarry maps where all the bones were found and realized that the skull had slipped a few feet away from the neck before burial and preservation. The actual skull was at the Carnegie Museum. The skull of Apatosaurus turned out to look very much like that of Diplodocus, with a long slender profile and small delicate teeth in the front of the jaws.
The neck of Apatosaurus was small near the head, but the base of the neck near the body was huge, and the neck bones were long and massive. Despite its long neck, Apatosaurus had limited capability for raising its head, which could probably not reach much higher than its shoulders.
The bones of the middle part of the body were huge. Its ribs were long and straight, and its vertebrae (bones of the spine) were huge but had hollow spaces that made them lighter but did not make them less strong. Its legs were straight and massive, like an elephant's, with short stubby toes. The toes of the front feet were blunt, except for the inner toe, which had a claw that pointed inward. The rear feet had three claws that looked a little like a cow's hooves.
Apatosaurus was taller at the hips than the shoulders; the height of a full-grown animal's hips was about 15 feet. Its hips were huge, and the hip sockets had to support the enormous stress of walking with such a heavy body. Its tail bones near the front of its tail were also huge, and all of the tail bones had tall spines where muscles attached for holding it off the ground. The tail probably weighed several tons, and it probably balanced the animal when it walked. The length of the tail, around 30 feet to the tip, helped distribute its weight.
Early paleontologists had many wrong ideas about Apatosaurus. Because of the animals' size, scientists thought they must have lived in water. The animals actually lived in semi-dry places. Their trackways show that they walked on land, and their skeletons show no adaptions for living in water.
For many years, artists and scientists drew Apatosaurus and its relatives with their tails dragging on the ground. But there is no evidence for this; there are no tail marks in sauropod trackways, and there was no wear or damage to the tail bones. Also, a two or three ton tail would have become tangled in plants or caught in cracks in the rocks if it was dragged. Apatosaurus carried its tail high off the ground, with the tail gracefully swaying to help the animal keep its balance.
Another wrong idea came about because the skeleton was mounted wrong. Apatosaurus was put in a sprawling position, which would have meant that it waddled. Trackways prove that sauropods placed their feet almost perfectly under the center of their bodies when they walked. They probably walked as gracefully as elephants, and just as efficiently.
Apatosaurus, like the other sauropods, was a plant-eater. Paleontologists argue about how it could eat enough to keep a 30-ton body alive. The skull and jaws seem too small to keep enough food coming in. Also, the dominant plants of the time, the conifers, were not nutritious enough for these giants. One adaptation that aided their digestion was gastroliths or "stomach stones" that were in their digestive tracts. The dinosaurs swallowed small stones that then helped grind up the plants in their stomachs. Gastroliths are sometimes found in excavations of Apatosaurus and its relatives.
Adult apatosaurs had few enemies, but the younger animals were easy prey for giant predators such as Allosaurus and Ceratosaurus. The young probably stayed close to parents and other adults to protect them from attack. One set of dinosaur tracks in Texas seems to show that in a herd of sauropods traveling together, adults moved on the outside and the younger animals were in the center of the group.
Apatosaurus was one of the most common sauropods. Its remains have been found in Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming, but it may have lived farther south and farther north. Skeletons and restorations of Apatosaurus are among the most common museum exhibits, because only a few other dinosaurs were larger. It is the most studied sauropod.


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The Consumer Consortium on eHealth is designed to serve as a collaborative forum for sharing best practices, initiatives, tools, resources, ideas, and experience related to effective consumer engagement on health IT. Consortium members will work together to identify obstacles to the adoption of eHealth, brainstorm solutions, and develop effective communication strategies to reach a national audience with messages about the benefits of health IT.
80 consumer, patient, and business representatives help to spur a new grassroots movement
WASHINGTON, DC (April 27, 2010) – National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC) yesterday convened 80 representatives of consumer-facing organizations ranging from patient advocates to government agencies for the inaugural meeting of the Consumer Consortium on eHealth. The Consortium is the first effort of its kind to organize a broad cross-section of stakeholders to develop and coordinate a program to actively encourage individuals to become more engaged in their health and healthcare through the use of health information technology (IT).
"Empowering consumer/patients through eHealth is the most obvious thing in the world," said "e-Patient Dave" deBronkart. "The resources and support offered by my online cancer community have saved some patients' lives, and add significantly to patients' and families' ability to participate in their care. It's vital that more of us realize the value IT can have in helping us to take control of our health. I'm honored to be part of the founding of the Consumer Consortium on eHealth – it could spark a widespread movement to make possible the kind of REAL patient-centered care that we all deserve."
The Consumer Consortium on eHealth is designed to serve as a collaborative forum for sharing best practices, initiatives, tools, resources, ideas, and experience related to effective consumer engagement on health IT. Consortium members will work together to identify obstacles to the adoption of eHealth, brainstorm solutions, and develop effective communication strategies to reach a national audience with messages about the benefits of health IT.
"Health IT can be a great tool for consumers to improve their health," said Kate Berry, CEO of NeHC and Consumer Consortium on eHealth Steering Committee Co-Chair. "The NeHC Board and executive leadership are excited to be convening the Consumer Consortium on eHealth as an effort to actively encourage the American public to recognize and incorporate into their daily lives the health IT tools and resources that exist to aid them in proactively engaging in their health."
The Consumer Consortium on eHealth is led by a steering committee of 13 nationally known experts in health IT and consumer and patient advocacy:
Kate Berry, Chief Executive Officer, National eHealth Collaborative (Steering Committee Co-Chair)
Lygeia Riccardi, Senior Policy Advisor for Consumer e-Health, Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (Steering Committee Co-Chair)
Alice Brown, Director, Health Information Technology, National Partnership for Women and Families
Steven Findlay, Senior Health Policy Analyst, Consumers Union
Nancy Davenport-Ennis, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, National Patient Advocate Foundation
Charles Parker, Executive Director, Continua Health Alliance
Michael Lardiere, Director, Health Information Technology and Senior Advisor, Behavioral Health, National Association of Community Health Centers
Joshua Rubin, Executive Director, Kanter Family Foundation
Joyce Dubow, Senior Health Care Reform Director, AARP
Jenifer Simpson, Senior Director for Government Affairs, American Association of People with Disabilities
Marcia Thomas-Brown, Chief Operating Officer, National Health IT Collaborative for the Underserved
Jim Hansen, Vice President & Executive Director, Dossia Consortium
e-Patient Dave DeBronkart, Cancer Survivor and Co-Chair, Society for Participatory Medicine
"This effort aligns exactly with the priorities of ONC as laid out in Goal IV of the new Federal Health IT Strategic Plan," said Lygeia Ricciardi, Senior Policy Advisor for Consumer e-Health at ONC and Steering Committee Co-Chair. "The Consumer Consortium on eHealth will complement and support current efforts to engage consumers in eHealth and I am excited to see the results we can produce by bringing together such a diverse group of stakeholder representatives and organizations in pursuit of this single, important goal."
During the inaugural meeting, Consortium members heard from Steering Committee members and other experts who discussed the critical need to broadly and inclusively engage directly with consumers as we experience a time of great interest, investment, and innovation in the health IT industry. Members also began to discuss steps for message development and methods for reaching key audiences. The Consortium will continue to convene over the coming months in the form of workgroups that will develop recommendations for next steps in messaging, communication, audience engagement, and best practices to be presented at the next full Consortium meeting in July 2011.
For more information or to sign up as a participating organization in the Consumer Consortium on eHealth, visit the NeHC website at http://nationalehealth.org/consumers.aspx.
About National eHealth Collaborative
National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC) is a public-private partnership that enables secure and interoperable nationwide health information exchange to advance health and improve health care. Working in conjunction with its partners, NeHC engages stakeholders in a collaborative and consensus-driven way to realize common goals that lead to transformative change. NeHC reaches broadly into all sectors of healthcare and health IT, employs open and inclusive methods, and makes its outcomes broadly available for continued improvement. This philosophy and approach allows NeHC to offer a uniquely balanced perspective that leverages diverse points of view and provides the essential public-private platform for collaboratively pursuing solutions to universal trusted and effective health information exchange. NeHC is a cooperative agreement partner of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).


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Multi-storey car park
A multi-storey car park (also called a parking garage, parking structure, parking ramp, parkade, parking building, parking deck or indoor parking) is a building designed for car parking and where there are a number of floors or levels on which parking takes place. It is essentially a stacked car park.
The term multistorey car park is used in the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, and many Commonwealth of Nations countries and commonly misspelled[citation needed] with a hyphen. In the western United States, the term parking structure is used,[citation needed] especially when it is necessary to distinguish such a structure from the "garage" in a house. In some places in North America, "parking garage" refers only to an indoor, often underground, structure. Outdoor, multi-level parking facilities are referred to by a number of regional terms:
- Parking garage is used, to varying degrees, throughout the U.S.; and rarely, in Canada as well, and professionally by civil engineers;
- Parking deck is used in the Michigan, Youngstown and most parts of the country. It is the preferred nomenclature when referencing parking structures of any sort.
- Parking ramp is used in the upper Midwest, especially Minnesota and Wisconsin, and has been observed as far east as Rochester, New York.[citation needed]
- Parkade is widely used in Canada and South Africa
- Parking building is used in New Zealand.
Architects and civil engineers in the USA are likely to call it a parking structure, since their work is all about structures, and that term is the vernacular in some of the western United States. When attached to a high-rise of another use, it is sometimes called a parking podium.[citation needed] United States building codes use the term open parking garage to refer to a structure designed for car storage that has openings along at least 40% of the perimeter, as opposed to an enclosed parking garage that requires mechanical ventilation.[1] Natural or mechanical ventilation provides fresh air flow to disperse car exhaust in normal conditions, or hot gas and smoke in case of fire.
The earliest known multi-storey car park was built in 1918 for the Hotel La Salle at 215 West Washington Street in the West Loop area of downtown Chicago, Illinois. It was designed by Holabird and Roche.[2] The Hotel La Salle was demolished in 1976, but the parking structure remained because it had been designated as preliminary landmark status[3] and the structure was several blocks from the hotel. It was demolished in 2005 after failing to receive landmark status from the city of Chicago.[4] A 49-storey apartment tower, 215 West, has taken its place, also featuring a multi-tiered parking garage.[5]
An alternative claim has emerged from Glasgow, Scotland, for a building that was built between 1906 and 1912.[6]
In the 1920s an English cartoonist imagined a hotel for cars; he drew a multi-storey car park.[7]
The movement of vehicles between floors can be affected by:
- interior ramps - the most common type
- exterior ramps - which may take the form of a circular ramp (colloquially known as a 'whirley-gig' in America)
- vehicle lifts - the least common
- automated robot systems - combination of ramp and elevator
Where the car park is built on sloping land, it may be split-level or have sloped parking.
Many car parks are independent buildings dedicated exclusively to that use. The design loads for car parks are often less than the office building they serve (50 psf versus 80 psf), leading to long floor spans of 55–60 feet that permit cars to park in rows without supporting columns in between. The most common structural systems in the United States for these structures are either prestressed concrete concrete double-tee floor systems or post-tensioned cast-in-place concrete floor systems.
In recent times, car parks built to serve residential and some business properties have been built as part of a larger building, often underground as part of the basement, such as at the Atlantic Station redevelopment in Atlanta. This saves land for other uses (as opposed to a parking lot), is cheaper and more practical in most cases than a separate structure, and is hidden from view. It protects customers and their cars from weather such as rain, snow, or hot summer sunshine that raises a vehicle's interior temperature to extremely high levels. Underground parking of only two levels was considered an innovative concept in 1964, when developer Louis Lesser developed a two-level underground parking structure under six 10-storey high-rise residential halls at California State University, Los Angeles, which lacked space for horizontal expansion in the Script error: No such module "convert". university. The simple two-level parking structure was considered unusual enough in 1964 that a separate newspaper section entitled "Parking Underground" described the garage as an innovative "concept" and as "subterranean spaces".[8][9] In Toronto, a 2,400 space parking lot below Nathan Phillips Square is one of the world's largest.
Car parks which serve shopping centres can be built adjacent to the centre for easier access at each floor between shops and parking. One example is Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, USA, which has two large car parks attached to the building, at the eastern and western ends. A common position for car parks within shopping centres in the UK is on the roof, around the various utility systems, enabling customers to take lifts straight down into the centre. Examples of such are The Oracle in Reading and Festival Place in Basingstoke.
These garages often have low ceiling clearances, which restrict access by full-size vans and other large vehicles. On 15 December 2013, a man was killed during a robbery in the garage at The Mall at Short Hills in Millburn, New Jersey. The ambulance responding to the shooting was delayed because it was too large to enter the garage.[10]
Structural integrity
Parking structures are subjected to the heavy and shifting loads of moving vehicles, and must bear the associated physical stresses. Expansion joints are used between sections not only for thermal expansion but to accommodate the flexing of the structure's sections due to vehicle traffic. Seismic retrofits can be applied where earthquakes are an issue.
Some parking structures have partly collapsed, either during construction or years later. In July 2009 a fourth-floor section failed at the Centergy building in midtown Atlanta, pancaking down and destroying more than 30 vehicles but injuring no-one. In December 2007, a car crashed into the wall of the deck at the SouthPark Mall in Charlotte, North Carolina, weakening it and causing a small collapse which destroyed two cars below. On the same day, one under construction in Jacksonville, Florida collapsed as concrete was being poured on the sixth floor.[11] In November 2008, the sudden collapse of the middle level of a deck in Montreal was preceded by warning signs some weeks before, including cracks and water leaks.[12] Parking structures are generally not subject to building inspections after being checked for their initial occupancy permit.
In October 2012 four people were killed and nine more injured when a parking structure under construction at a campus of Miami-Dade College in Florida collapsed,[13] purportedly due to an unfinished column.[14]
Precast parking structures
With the growth of multi-storey car parks since the middle of the twentieth century, many constructions of such structures have been using precast concrete to reduce the construction time. The design involves putting parking structure parts together. The parts of precast concrete include multi-storey structural wall panels, interior and exterior columns, structural floors, girders, wall panels, stairs and slabs. The precast concrete parts are transported using flatbed semi-trailers to the sites. The structural floor modules may need to be laid tilted during the transportation in order to cover as large floor area as possible while they can be easily transported on the roadways. The modules are lifted using precast concrete lifting anchor systems at the sites for assembly. Decorations may include using of covers to close the holes in the precast concrete that contains the lifting anchors, and installing facades to the exterior of the structures.
In modern construction of the precast modules, there are other features to improve the strength of the structure. An example is to use prestressed strands on post-tensioned concrete for the construction of the shear walls. Another example is the use of carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer to replace steel wire mesh to lighten the load and yield more corrosion resistant especially for the cold-climate areas which use salt for melting snow.[15]
Architectural value
These structures are not usually known for their architectural value. As Architectural Record has noted, "In the Pantheon of Building Types, the parking garage lurks somewhere in the vicinity of prisons and toll plazas."[16] The New York Times has labeled parking structures as "the grim afterthought of American design".[17]
A handful of parking garages have received considerable praise for their design, including
- 1111 Lincoln Road, in the South Beach section of Miami Beach, Florida and designed by the internationally known Swiss architectural firm of Herzog & de Meuron.[16][17]
- Santa Monica Place Public Parking Structures at Frank Gehry's Santa Monica Place Mall, by the architectural firm Brooks + Scarpa.
- The Brutalist Preston bus station in the United Kingdom, which incorporates a multi-storey car park
Automated parking
|It has been suggested that this section be merged with Automated parking system. (Discuss) Proposed since January 2015.
The earliest use of an automated parking system (APS) was in Paris in 1905 at the Garage Rue de Ponthieu.[18] The APS consisted of a groundbreaking[18] multi-story concrete structure with an internal elevator to transport cars to upper levels where attendants parked the cars.[19] A 1931 Popular Mechanics article speculated an underground garage where the car was taken to a parking area by a conveyor then an elevator to shuttles mounted on rails.[20]
Automatic multi-storey car parks provide lower building cost per parking slot, as they typically require less building volume and less ground area than a conventional facility with the same capacity. However, the cost of the mechanical equipment needed to transport the cars needs to be added to the building cost to determine the total cost. Other costs are usually lower too, for example there is no need for an energy-intensive ventilating system, since cars are not driven inside and human cashiers or security personnel may not be needed.
Automated car parks rely on similar technology to that used for mechanical handling and document retrieval. The driver leaves the car in an entrance module, and it is then transported to a parking slot by a robotic trolley. For the driver, the process of parking is reduced to leaving the car inside an entrance module.
At peak periods a wait may occur before entering or leaving, because loading passengers and luggage occurs at the entrance and exit rather than at the parking stall. This loading blocks the entrance or exit from being available to others. Whether the retrieval of vehicles is faster in an automatic car park or a conventional car park depends on the layout and number of exits.
Modular car park
Parking demand often grows quickly, significantly and unexpectedly. Modular steel car parks could be the proper solution if the surface area available is not sufficient and can be expanded upwards, or whenever it is not feasible to build up a multi-storey parking. The development concept of traditional build modular car parks is made by the modular assembling method of vertical and horizontal elements (such as columns and beams) with a ceiling made of concrete and tarmac: more modular units can build a parking in different sizes and shape. The solution makes possible to develop a parking structure even in case of particular conditions or constraints, such as archaeological sites or city centres, because it allows:
- To virtually double the parking surface without leaving any footprint on the ground, as no settlement for excavations or traditional foundations is needed;
- To double the parking surface by means of a light steel single-deck car park system.
- Prefab modular components of the system make each project versatile and suitable both to large and small sized areas.
These parking structures are generally demountable and can be relocated so to avoid to make the choice of converting a surface to parking area irrevocably. They are conceived as temporary parking facilities for temporary parking demand needs, whenever the parking demand can be managed dynamically and easily integrated into the planning of urban infrastructures. A number of parking decks have been demounted after a few years, to make room to the development of permanent, multi-storey parking structures, and relocated to respond to local parking demand.
Other technology
Modern parking lots utilize a variety of technologies to help motorists find unoccupied parking spaces, car location when returning to the vehicle and improve their experience. This includes adaptive lighting, sensors and parking space LED indicators (red for occupied, green for available and blue is reserved for the disabled; above every parking space), indoor positioning system (IPS), including QR code, and mobile payment options. The Santa .Monica Place shopping mall in California has cameras on each stall that can help count the lot occupancy and find lost cars.[22]
Online booking technology service providers have been created to helped drivers find long-term parking in an automated manner, while also providing significant savings for those who book parking spaces ahead of time. They use real-time inventory management checking technology to display parking lots with availability, sorted by price and distance from the airport.
Education & research
In October 2009, the National Building Museum opened an exhibition solely devoted to the study of parking garages (multi-storey car parks) and their impact on the built environment. This exhibition, titled House of Cars: Innovation and the Parking Garage,[23] was on view until 11 July 2010.
See also
- Autostadt
- Auto Stacker
- Automated parking system
- Automatic parking
- Automatic vehicle location
- Car parking system
- Car condo
- Parking guidance and information
- Parking lot
- Trinity Square, Gateshead
- ^ International Code Council. International Building Code 2012 (Second Printing)
- ^ A Brief History of Parking: The Life and After-life of Paving the Planet
- ^ Preservation Online: Storey of the Week Archives: Car Culture
- ^ Preservation Chicago
- ^ "The Guide to Parking Lots". Discount Park & Ride. 9 January 2015. Retrieved 27 March 2015.
- ^ "Consultation over historic garage". BBC News. 17 June 2008. Retrieved 13 May 2010.
- ^ Daniele Luttazzi Lepidezze postribolari (2007, Feltrinelli, p.275) Invalid language code.
- ^ Los Angeles Times, 25 June 1963, "High Rise Developer Defends Loss of View to Convenience"
- ^ Los Angeles Times, 15 March 1964, Tom Cameron, "$118 Million Going Into Expansion at L.A. State"
- ^ Queally, James (14 January 2014). "'Where is it?' Panicked 911 calls from wife of lawyer killed in mall carjacking beg for ambulance". The Star-Ledger. Retrieved 15 January 2014.
- ^ "North Carolina Parking Deck Collapse Kills 1". Fox News. 6 December 2007.
- ^ "Man dies after Montreal parking garage roof collapses". CBC News. 26 November 2008.
- ^ Castillo, Gregory (30 October 2012). "Four Dead, Several Injured After Parking Garage Collapses At West Campus". Miami-Dade College. Retrieved 26 August 2014.
- ^ "Miami Dade College Parking Garage Collapsed Due To Unfinished Column: Lawyer". Huffington Post. 29 March 2013. Retrieved 26 August 2014.
- ^ "High Precast Parking Systems" (PDF). High Concrete Group. Retrieved 3 June 2014.
- ^ a b Beth Broome (June 2010). "1111 Lincoln Road". Architectural Record.
- ^ a b Michael Barbaro (24 January 2011). "A Miami Beach Event Space. Parking Space, Too.". The New York Times. p. A1.
- ^ a b Sanders McDonald, Shannon."Cars, Parking and Sustainability", The Transportation Research Forum http://www.trforum.org/.Retrieved on 16 October 2012.
- ^ Hamelink, Ir. Leon J. (2011), The Mechanical Parking Guide 2011, ISBN 1-466-43786-3
- ^ "Underground Garage to End Parking Problem", February 1931, Popular Mechanics
- ^ Parking space led indicator
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In general, progress has been steady and a number of important milestones have been met. These include:
The Sleeve Machine is operating and produces usable assemblies. The system still needs to be calibrated, mounted on a rigid base, and the feed system needs to be built. One problem is the motor control which is too coarse so we will have to replace the servo with a stepper. Another problem are the tape guides which are too wide and need to be redesigned. None of these problems require discovery.
The Receiver Sheet design has progressed considerably but is not near completion. A new reduced-step formula has been experimented with by Ted McLelland and Jake Kellett, and a number of test impressions have yielded fair Dmax and image formation, with some evidence of color control. We discovered that the neutralization scheme used by Polaroid to stabilize their receiver sheet is not very aggressive. We also saw using scanning electron microscopy the original receiver sheet which has lower porosity than imagined from the literature. This is a puzzle. An intensive discovery experiment plan will remain underway for this important component. The versatility of silver and its many forms astounds us! I like the Ag2S the best, personally.
Test Samples of paper bases from an important vendor have arrived in small quantities. This is just the first step in what looks like a circuitous chain of events including laminating, rerolling, converting, coating, and further converting, in at least three location widely separated by geography. Still, it all seems possible.
Our first film supplier agreement was finalized by Sam and there is now a production, shipping and payment schedule in place which will - if all goes right - result in about a third of our first production order arriving at our dock in August. The hot weather at that time makes us worry about heat damage so some heat sensors will travel along with the first shipment. Sam will be visiting this vendor along with our importer/agent to assure that there is a proper understanding and commitment in place as we progress to production quantities.
The infamous clip tooling has finally been ordered. There was a lot of back and forth on this deceptively complex part regarding dimensions and tolerances, surface finish, base material, and edge radii. The clip is still about 7 weeks out due to a delay in the tooling order, but that is now in place and the vendor appears to be getting to it this week.
The air conditioning in the upstairs lab now works well, which means we can operate in the safer environment with a good fume hood and not melt. I can't imagine what the electric bill will be like this Summer.
I am also still running after acquiring our own scanning electron microscope. There are dozens of these surplus for under 10K, so one would think we could get one in here and operating for 25K or less. It is not clear we can, but I am still trying.
In general, much progress has been made but there are many things yet to be done, and some discovery in the form of coatings technology that still will require attention, possibly up to product release - and perhaps beyond.


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"Santiago's storytelling is thrilling. . . . Conquistadora is a triumph." —The Washington Post
"An author in full command. . . . In Santiago's hands, Ana is a woman to remember and Puerto Rico a country to cherish." —The Miami Herald
"A splendid expedition into colonial history complete with enrapturing suspense to the very end." —O, The Oprah Magazine
"Ana [is] an unconventional, ambitious woman whose attitudes toward children, slaves and lovers perplex and engross. . . . A guided tour of the history of sugar and empire." —The New York Times Book Review
"An enthralling family saga. . . . Four stars." —People
"If, as the proverb goes, history is written by the hunters, then Esmeralda Santiago has imagined history as written from the point of view of the lions. A remarkable story for its detail, imagination, meticulous research, and wisdom, this is history written by a lion at the height of her powers." —Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street
"Conquistadora is an expertly researched novel that fuses Antillean/Puerto Rican history and a spellbinding and action-packed storyline that will surprise and dazzle its readers. . . . A crown jewel of Puerto Rican literature." —Being Latino
"Lusty, ambitious women are staples of epic fiction, and in these pages Santiago has created a ferociously seductive character. . . . Read this absorbing, impeccably researched novel for its lush history and for the way Santiago's narrative constantly surprises—just as its protagonist does, confronting the gender limitations of her day." —More
"Conquistadora is a wonderful and richly drawn novel. . . . A grand achievement from one of our finest writers." —Oscar Hijuelos, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love and Beautiful Maria of My Soul
"Part romance, part portrait of a woman struggling against the constraints of her time and class. Santiago's writing often surprises with its sly humor." —The Dallas Morning News
"Extraordinary. . . . . An outstanding story, full of pathos, tropical sensuality, and violence—but it also poses uncomfortable moral questions readers are forced to consider . . . Storytelling genius . . . Conquistadora is a book-group must." —Booklist (starred review)
"Ana will inevitably bring to mind thoughts of that other imperious plantation dweller, Scarlett O'Hara. . . . Conquistadora can be enjoyed as a grand romantic adventure tale, complete with plenty of sex and violence. But author Esmerelda Santiago . . . doesn't ignore the political and economic realities of Ana's life." —The Columbus Dispatch
"Readers may not sympathize with Ana . . . but her unflinching devotion to her dream of living with the valor and beauty of her conqueror ancestors is compelling." —BookPage
"An epic beach read." —Marie Claire
"Santiago brings passion, color, and historical detail to this Puerto Rican Gone with the Wind, featuring a hard-as-nails heroine more devoted to her plantation than to any of the men in her life. . . . The richness of [Santiago's] imagination and the lushness of her language will serve saga enthusiasts well." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"An enthralling epic that not only illuminates the life of one extraordinary woman, but of the great sweep of Puerto Rican history. . . . Conquistadora will seduce readers heart and soul." —Cristina García, author of Dreaming in Cuban
"The multitalented author of When I Was Puerto Rican offers a big, bold novel about life on a Caribbean sugar plantation in the mid-19th century. . . . With drama, adventure, and even a bit of magical realism, Conquistadora may remind readers of Isabel Allende's novels of Latin America." —Library Journal
"Impressive . . . . Conquistadora is a story of epic dimensions, one which demands to be taken seriously—and at the same time is just a tremendous amount of fun. Hats off to Esmeralda Santiago, for a delicious novel that instructs as easily as it pleases." —Madison Smartt Bell, author of All Souls' Rising
"A powerful new novel that is colorful, sexy, and shimmering with magical writing as lush as the tropical island on which it takes place. Alive with all their passions and flaws, here are characters so boldly imagined they feel real, and in a story so transporting you can almost smell the sugar cane." —Terry McMillan, author of Getting to Happy and Waiting to Exhale
"I loved this novel from the first sentence, and wept with emotion by the end. . . . Esmeralda Santiago has given voice to a history that has eluded me. Here is a haunting, visceral epic that satisfies on every level and yet leaves you hungry for more. Bravo, Conquistadora!" —Daisy Martinez, host of Viva Daisy! and author of Daisy's Holiday Cooking


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Turning Your Stock-Market Lemons into Lemonade
The wise investor doesn't leave tax strategy until the end of the year.
Despite the stock market's strong rally last week, shares are still down almost 7% since April 2, and dozens of financial pundits are calmly telling clients to "stay the course" to avoid selling into a market rout. But a better response may be to sell, says Rande Spiegelman, vice-president of financial planning at Charles Schwab & Co.
SEE ALSO: Brace Yourself for Tax Changes in 2012
Not that you should throw in the towel or change your investment strategy. But recognize that market reversals can present a good opportunity to harvest tax losses that you can use to offset future gains. "The problem is that most people think about tax-loss harvesting at the end of the year," he says. "That's an arbitrary time that limits your flexibility. When the market is down, particularly when it happens fairly quickly, you ought to see if you can recognize some losses."
In the wonderful world of investment tax planning, today's loss is tomorrow's write-off. The more optimistic you are about the long-term prospects in your portfolio, the more you're likely to want to trigger a few losses when opportunities arise. Now may be one of those times.
Before you begin prospecting for potential losses, remember that even if you were badly burned by the market in recent weeks, you might not have a loss as far as the IRS is concerned. For tax purposes, a loss is not measured from peak value. Rather, it is based on your original investment, or tax basis. Consider a block of stock purchased for $10,000 that was worth $25,000 in early April but only $18,000 today. If you sell for $18,000, you might feel $7,000 poorer. But the IRS sees an $8,000 capital gain.
On the other hand, if you were burned by particularly bad timing – you jumped into stocks big in late April, thinking that you were missing the run-up – now could be the time to sell that money-losing holding. You should simultaneously buy back something similar, so you don't lose the chance to profit from the next market rise.
Beware the wash-sale rule. Assuming you have losses to harvest, you have to move carefully to avoid running afoul of the tax man or messing up your portfolio. That's because wash-sale rules bar you from taking a write-off if you repurchase the same or a "substantially identical" security within 30 days of a sale.
Because there's no way to predict when the market – or an individual stock – might recover, it's risky to sell a security that you really want to own. That makes it tricky to harvest losses on individual stocks. But if you own index funds or exchange-traded funds, which typically follow an index, tax loss harvesting is easy because there are many funds that are similar but not "substantially identical." That means you can sell one and repurchase a similar one in the same breath, triggering a valuable tax loss and maybe even leaving your portfolio in a better position to profit going forward.
Consider, for example, someone who bought $100,000 worth of Vanguard 500 Index Fund (symbol VFINX) when it peaked in early April at $130.76. That $100,000 holding is now worth just over $93,000, or nearly $7,000 less than when she purchased it. She could sell that fund and buy Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF (symbol VTI), which would give this investor a more diversified portfolio and a lower expense ratio. VFINX invests in 500 big companies and charges 0.17% of assets each year in fees, while VTI owns shares of 3,200 companies that are representative of the entire U.S. stock market and charges annual fees of just 0.06%. (It's worth noting that VTI fell a bit less than VFINX when the market tanked in May.)
Assuming that both the Total Market and S&P 500 indexes produce equivalent returns, the 0.11 percentage point difference in annual costs would save this investor roughly $12,000 in fees and forgone investment returns over a 20-year investment horizon. (You may not hold the investment for 20 years, of course, but it's important to be aware of these differences in case the IRS ever asks what makes these investments different enough to avoid a wash sale.)
At the same time, triggering the $7,000 investment loss allows her to offset other gains or ordinary income.
Capital losses can be used to offset an unlimited amount of capital gains in the year they are triggered. If you don't have enough gains to use up the loss, up to $3,000 can be used to offset ordinary income each year, too. And excess losses can be carried forward to future years until they're used up.
The bottom line: Triggering that $7,000 capital loss could save this investor $1,050 in tax on a $7,000 long-term capital gain (and up to $2,450 if she held the shares for a year or less) – and she'd likely reap additional savings on her state income tax bill, too.
Sell the right shares. One caution: If you have purchased shares over time and are selling just a portion of your position in a fund, you'll need to specify which shares you're selling before the sale, says Bo Lu, co-founder of FutureAdvisor, a Web-based investment advisory service. Because you bought the shares at different times, you undoubtedly bought at different prices, too, so your tax basis – and the extent of your loss -- will vary depending on which shares you unload.
Unless you stipulate otherwise, the law applies the "first in, first out' (FIFO) method to figure the gain or loss, which is likely to produce the worst tax results for you. For instance, if you had been buying $1,000 worth of the S&P 500 fund through automatic investments since the 1980s, you could have a gain in the shares for tax purposes if you used the FIFO method, even though the more recently purchased shares have declined in price.
But there's a simple solution: As long as you say so in advance, you can choose to sell the shares that you bought at the highest prices to generate the biggest tax loss.
Just make sure you stipulate what shares you're selling before executing the trade and get written confirmation from your broker or mutual fund.
Kathy Kristof is a contributing editor to Kiplinger's Personal Finance and author of the book Investing 101. Follow her on Twitter. Or email her at email@example.com.
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New Toyota Dealer With Toyota Certified Pre-Owned Cars In Lakeland, FL Serving Plant City & Brandon With Financing, Leases, Service, Repairs, And Parts - Lakeland Toyota
If you are looking for a Toyota dealer in Central Florida whose staff is passionate about customer service, you have come to the right place. Lakeland Toyota in Lakeland, FL serves the greater Brandon and Winter Haven, FL areas with new & pre-owned cars, service, repairs, and parts with tons of enthusiasm. In fact, we are so passionate about our customers we have earned the prestigious customer service based Toyota Presidents Award in 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2008, 2013, 2014 and 2015.
New Toyota Cars in Lakeland, Serving Winter Haven, Plant City, and Brandon, FL
With everyday low prices and a huge selection of new Toyota cars, trucks, and SUVs, you'll save time and money by visiting Lakeland Toyota first,located at 2925 Mall Hill Drive, first. We feature all popular Toyota models such as:
- The edgy, rugged and highly practical RAV4
- The always reliable, but always forward moving Toyota Corolla
- The Camry, where beautiful design and high tech engineering come together
- The gas efficient and avant garde, Toyota Prius.
Please view our listing of new inventory vehicles to learn more about our selection.If you require a specific vehicle, use our Toyota vehicle builder to build your Toyota. You can also find up-to-date research on your favorite Toyota vehicle. We also carry a variety of high-quality pre-owned Toyota vehicles, all with a free CARFAX link on the vehicle display pages.
Pre-Owned Cars in Lakeland, FL with Toyota Certified Pre-Owned Vehicles
If you're looking for pre-owned cars, you are in the right place! We offer a full line of Pre-Owned Toyota and Toyota Certified Pre-Owned vehicles including the full-size Toyota Tundra truck, Tacoma, and Top SUVs like the Highlander, RAV4, 4Runner, and more. Our Pre-owned vehicle lineup changes daily, and not only do you get your best price on your pre-owned vehicle! View a free CARFAX history report when you review our vehicle details pages on our website! Even if you have credit issues, we can help. Visit our Buy-Here-Pay-Here Department. You know what you're getting when you shop at Lakeland Toyota. Additionally, if you want a quality pre-owned car in Lakeland, FL, we have a large inventory of pre-owned cars, trucks, SUVs, and mini-vans and a wide selection of other makes. We even have pre-owned cars under $14,000! Let an expert from our sales team go over all of the features of your favorite Toyota with you.
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For a low-interest car loan in Lakeland, Florida, visit the Lakeland Toyota finance department. Our finance team is here to assist you through the entire car loan process, and we work hard to find the finance option that's just right for you! Start the approval process right now by filling out our secure car loan application online! Be sure to ask about our Toyota Military Rebate and our College Grad Rebate first time buyers program.
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Greeley police are asking for the public's help in identifying a group of males seen running from the area of the home that is now the center of a homicide investigation.
Gumercindo Munoz-Vizcaino, known to friends and family as Carlos or Carlito, was found dead Thursday at a home in the 2100 block of 5th Street, according to Greeley police. Investigators say they don't know how Munoz-Vizcaino died, but they're treating his death as a homicide.
Police responded to the home about 6 p.m. after a resident reported seeing a man inside who looked injured, according to a news release. Witnesses have told police they saw a group of men in their late teens to early 20s running from the area on foot around 4 p.m. Thursday, fleeing north and then east, the release states.
Police say they don't believe Munoz-Vizcaino's death to be a random attack, and they don't think the public is in danger.
Investigators are asking anyone with information pertinent to the investigation to contact investigator John Kinne through the Weld County Communications Center at (970) 350-9600.


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A specialist who is consulted on building design and engineering; restoration and preservation specialists are types of consultants.
An individual or organization engaged by the owner or the architect to render professional consulting services complementing or supplementing the architect's services.
A person who facilitates organisational change and/or provides subject matter expertise on technical, functional and business topics during development or implementation. Consultants perform business requirements analysis, recommends selection of packaged software, develop proposals for consulting services and manage implementation projects at client sites. They provides expert knowledge of products such as SAP R/3, PeopleSoft, HRMS/Financials, and SmartStream.


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Cycling Europe's Other Alps
Slovenia, with its vineyards, mountains, alpine lakes, and Adriatic coastline, prides itself on being Europe in miniature. That would make the 40-mile lake-to-lake cycling loop in the Julian Alps from the alpine resort town of Bled to scenic Lake Bohinj a CliffsNotes version of the epic tour from Geneva to Norways Lysefjord. Given the diverse scenery, adrenaline-boosting grades, and winding byways, the comparison is apt.
The road from Lake Bled, presided over by an island with an almost eerily photogenic Gothic church, a cliffside castle, and precipitous 8,000-foot peaks, winds northward through small towns along Road 634 to Spondnje Gorje, a charming farm community. Bikers stop to hydrate with water and red wine – Slovenia, after all, has a vibrant, millennia-long wine culture – before beginning the exhausting climb up Road 905 into the mountains. After eight miles of lung-heaving through damp forest and past the occasional gostilna (inn-like restaurant), pedalers can drift along a flat stretch that opens into rolling meadows and lush mountain pastures.
Around mile 12, a curvy descent begins as distant peaks poke over the southern horizon. Hairpin turns provide views over the valley town of Jereka and its Eastern Orthodox-influenced onion-domed church. Here begins the Bohinj Valley, where village streets are no wider than a U-Haul, tractors log more kilometers than cars, and sacred Mt. Triglav, the massive symbol of this small country, casts the longest shadows.
The ride's half-way point is the haystack-studded hamlet of Studor. Two miles farther is the glacier-carved cirque around Lake Bohinj, hemmed in by 3,000-foot limestone walls. The medieval Church of St. John the Baptist on the eastern shore is among the most beautiful in a country long on stunning houses of worship.
The flat 17-mile return trip to Bled follows Road 209 eastbound along the Sava Bohinjka River. This is an adventure of a different stripe thanks to the speeding Germans, weaving Italians, and left-lane-favoring Brits buzzing by on the narrow shoulder. Little Europe even packs the hazards of the continent into a smaller space.
More Information: The seven-room, 24-suite Hotel Villa Bled, once the private residence of former Yugoslav leader Josep Broz Tito, reopened in June after an extensive renovation. Waterfront rooms look out onto Bled Island, which can be accessed using gondolas from the property's private beach.
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Canadian lobstermen protest low Maine prices
Lobstermen from Canada say low prices squeezing them out of market
Low lobster prices in Maine have had lobstermen tying up their boats this summer.
Now Canadian lobstermen are upset, too -- and protesting.
The Canadian lobstermen said their catch isn't wanted because they can't compete with Maine lobstermen's prices.
Officials say hundreds of the Canadian fishermen prevented a Maine truck from unloading lobster from Maine at a Shediac processing plant in New Brunswick Thursday.
Scott Johnson is a Canadian lobsterman who said he's fed up with the low prices squeezing him out of the market.
"My livelihood is on the line, everybody's livelihood is on the line," Johnson said. "Look at everybody here, look at them all. They're not happy."
The Canadian minister of fisheries and agriculture said he's willing to meet once the representative groups withdraw their protests.
The fisherman said if a meeting with the minister is not successful, they will protest at other processors across New Brunswick.


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Jim King, PDF Architect, senior principal scientist at Adobe and one of the key drivers behind the PDF format and its adoption and continuing development by ISO as a standard (ISO 32000), recently delivered a keynote presentation to the ISSE (Information Security Solutions Europe) 2009 Conference in The Hague, Netherlands. He discussed the evolution of the PDF format and standard, and spent most of his talk introducing the new PAdES signature standard and what it encompasses.
During that conference, Jim sat down with Roger Dean, executive director of eema UK, for a conversation about PDF, the need for digital signatures, challenges of communicating the benefits of digital signatures, and finally a description of the PAdES standard. This interview is now available below (and here)…enjoy!


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John Doe investigation into death at Mental Health Complex begins
Brandon Johnson, 25, died in October
A John Doe investigation into the death of a man at the Milwaukee County Mental Health Complex got under way Monday.
Brandon Johnson died last fall and his family wants to know why.
Family members went to court wearing T-shirts honoring Brandon Johnson's memory.
"I want people to have the truth, justice to be served for our family," Johnson's brother, Julien Johnson said.
Johnson, 25, died at the Milwaukee County Mental Health Complex in October. Police brought him there after a neighbor said he'd knocked on his door before 6 a.m. acting strangely.
"And Brandon was drooling at the mouth. You could see that clearly," Brian Stribling said.
Johnson died three days later after complaining he'd fallen and was paralyzed. Staff at the mental health complex determined his complaints were psychosomatic, but an autopsy showed he had a broken neck that caused blood clots.
"I'm mad at the mental complex and the way that they handled him while he was there," a relative known only as Izaria told WISN 12 News.
Several staffers at the mental health complex were dismissed after Johnson's death.
The proceeding could go through Thursday and will likely involve lots of testimony from those who treated him there.
After that, a decision will be made whether any criminal charges should be filed.


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Travis Brown is struggling. A single father at the young age of twenty-two, he loses his mother and home in Carolina Beach, North Carolina to a terrible fire. Beyond the grief of his mother's death, Travis has also lost the only source of free, reliable childcare he has for his four-year-old daughter Bella. Without it, he can't keep his job as a construction worker, and without work, he and Bella are quickly living on the edge of homelessness. Unfortunately, it isn't possible to reach out to Bella's mother Robin, Travis's high school sweetheart– Robin's father forced Travis to sign a contract after Bella was born, swearing that Travis would never again seek to contact her.
Robin Saville is living in Beaufort, North Carolina. Born with a serious heart condition, her teenage pregnancy nearly killed her, but the recent gift of a new heart has given her new hope for life. Lied to by her father and believing Travis to be happily married, Robin puts him and her baby behind her, beginning work at a small bed and breakfast in the coastal town. She doesn't expect to fall in love with Beaufort's wealthiest son, Dale Hendricks, but she does, and they quickly engaged. The Hendricks clan are a central pillar of Beaufort life: politically active and well-connected, they present a perfect facade to the rest of the world. That is, until teenaged Alissa Hendricks, the youngest and proverbial black sheep of the family, gets pregnant. Suddenly Robin can't stop thinking of her baby, and what she gave up. But how could she ever have her daughter back in her life?
Living in a trailer park in Carolina Beach and relying on the kindness of a new neighbor to look after Bella, Travis fruitlessly searches for work. But then the neighbor, a beautiful woman named Savannah, mentions that a friend in Raleigh has sure construction work. All Travis has to do is pick up and go. It seems tenuous, but Travis is desperate, so he and Bella hit the road for the state capital. But when they arrive, the situation is much different, and much more dangerous, than Travis was lead to believe. He's willing to do anything for Bella…but will he do something that means he might lose her forever?
In a style that readers of Diane Chamberlain have come to know and love, the author weaves together three separate voices and lives to create yet another beautiful tale of parents and children in the Old North State.
Check this title's availability in the UNC-Chapel Hill Library catalog.


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A 2-room birthplace was just the beginning for Elvis and it is the very tip of the Elvis product in Tupelo! From full movie poster collections to the church he attended as a child, there are 27 points you can visit just like Elvis did!Get your Elvis on in Tupelo
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The Natchez Trace Parkway, one of America's Top 10 National Parks, is headquartered in Tupelo, Mississippi – where the power of possibility helped turn a primitive trail into a national scenic treasure. Traveled by Native Americans over 8,000 years ago, the Natchez Trace Parkway spans 444 miles and reaches from Natchez, MS, to Nashville, TN. In Tupelo, guests can explore the Natchez Trace Parkway Visitor Center and discover the parkway's history and inhabitants. For visitor information on the Natchez Trace Parkway, visit www.scenictrace.com.Watch Video
Elvis Presley was born in a two-room house in East Tupelo where he grew up dreaming of becoming a superhero with wavy hair, a cape, and a lightning bolt on his chest. For his 10th birthday, his mother bought him a guitar from Tupelo Hardware Company. Ten years later, he made his first gold record. Imagine what you can do here.
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Each serving of this healthy salad equals one and a half veggie servings.
Preparation Time: 10 mins
Cooking Time: 15 mins
SALAD: Steam green beans in a steamer for 5 to 8 minutes. Cook potatoes in boiling water until tender. Cool green beans and potatoes and place in a bowl.
When cooled, add bell pepper and onion to the cooled green beans and potatoes.
DRESSING: As green beans and potatoes are cooling, prepare the dressing by mixing together garlic, dill, vinegar, olive oil, mustard, and black pepper. Top salad with dressing.


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Women's DuluthFlex Fire Hose Relaxed Fit Pants
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These pants are a feat of craftsmanship, ever-worthy of being worn on the legs of strong-willed women. Tough yet flexible 8-oz. fabric is triple stitched at the legs for extra durability and has a FendOff Finish™ fabric treatment to repel stains. Our Curvesetter® waistband keeps your behind covered. And each pair is packed with well-thought-out pockets. Heck, even the pocket bags are made from 5-oz. cotton so they won't bust a hole on you. For these reasons and more, DuluthFlex® Fire Hose® Pants are a one-and-done solution for women who've got important tasks to take on. They're built with the kind of care that simply gets the job done. No matter the day. No matter the occasion. No matter the matter.
- Tough yet flexible 8-oz. Fire Hose® DuluthFlex® fabric — pre-washed for broken-in comfort
- Curvesetter® waistband for above-average coverage
- 8 total pockets, including a hidden zip pocket atop the right rear and an 8" Pokey Things Pocket for stowing sharp tools
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YPSILANTI TOWNSHIP, Mich. – The Washtenaw County Sheriff's Office said someone pried open the drive-through window of a Burger King in Ypsilanti Township overnight and stole from a donation jar that was inside.
The theft was reported Tuesday morning at the fast food restaurant at 823 East Michigan Avenue.
The Sheriff's Office said the thief stole coins from a donation jar and then took off.
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The relevant unions and their progressive Congressional allies have been steadfastly resisting the repeated attempts at substantive reform of the U.S. Postal Service, from both within and without the longstanding institution — never mind that the quasi- agency is has been careening ever-deeper into debt and is approaching a potential insolvency- and/or bailout-scenario with every passing business day. In the latest twist of poor financial news for the quasi-governmental agency is running dangerously low on cash reserves, via WaPo:
The U.S. Postal Service anticipates having only five days of operating cash on hand after making its annual workers' compensation payment in October, leaving the agency with slim reserves in the event of an unforeseen downturn.
"This is a dangerously low level of cash," said USPS Chief Financial Officer Joseph Corbett during a teleconference with reporters on Monday. "We do not have a sufficient cash cushion to run a business the size of the Postal Service."
USPS spokesman David Partenheimer clarified Tuesday that the agency should be able to survive with a five-day reserve until the first quarter, when revenues for the agency typically begin to increase. "But no business should have to operate that way," he added.
Oh, my. I suspect there's some outrage-mongering defense strategery in the near future from some very unhappy unions as the USPS's financial problems are further realized.
One of the Postal Service's underlying problems, of course, is that some of their once ubiquitous services are becoming more and more obsolete, and they aren't too keen on readjusting their workforce. Quasi-governmental and unionized agencies, apparently, are somehow allowed to make those choices not permitted in a freer market — but somewhat encouragingly, the Postal Service has announced that they're immediately implementing some innovations that they hope will actually step up their game and appeal to consumers on par with their other competitors. Gasp. ABC reports:
The United States Postal Service is improving service to take on package rivals like FedEx, generating an additional $500 million annually, as part of longstanding efforts to stabilize their finances.
Effective immediately the mail carrier will be offering free online tracking and free insurance for their Priority Mail shipping, matching the standard services of UPS and FedEx. Priority Mail parcels will be offered a standard $50 insurance, which can be upgraded on request. The USPS will also tell customers the exact day on which to expect a package — up to three days from ship. Previously the carrier would only offer a range of dates.
It will not affect pricing for package delivery, which remains unchanged. The changes also include cosmetic tweaks to its shipping containers and folds the premium Express Mail offering into Priority Mail.
Postal Service officials are calling this "refresh" of their product line one of their most important changes in three decades and expect it to yield an additional $500 million in revenue annually for the troubled agency. Today's announcement comes two days after the carrier admitted it had suffered $3.9 billion in year-to-date losses by the end of the third quarter and would hold just five days worth of cash on hand in October.
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Three Morenci FFA members were part of the state champion agronomy skills "Crop-o-Rama" contest. The Lenawee TECH Center team competed March 10-12 at the state FFA convention at Michigan State University.
Emily Kutzley, David Stutzman and Cortney Lockwood were members of the team, along with Brittany Tirado of Onsted, Morgan Jenkins of Addison, John Wielfaert (home schooled), Ashley Frey of Deerfield and Allison Pope of Madison.
The students were tested on agronomic skills where they had to identify several crop plants and seeds, weed plants and seeds, examine soil monoliths, determine soil textures and types of soil, read soil survey maps, and determine the use of soils in a given area.
A second Lenawee team was state runner-up.
Lockwood was also among eight students who earned the Outstanding Junior Award.
Morenci's Riley Burk was a member of the Parliamentary Procedure team that earned a bronze award in the state semifinals.
He was also a member of the ninth and tenth grade Greenhand Conduct of Meetings team from the LISD TECH Center Natural Sciences evening class. The team won a silver rating.
Team members must demonstrate paliamentary procedure skills in front of a crowd in a lecture hall.
The TECH Center chapter was recognized as a top program in the state for the National FFA/Tractor Supply Company sponsored "Harvest for America" program. Members of the chapter collected more than 1,600 pounds of non-perishable food items with the help of Tractor Supply Company in Adrian. The items were weighed and then donated to Lenawee Daily Bread.
The LISD TECH Center FFA was also recognized as the state winner of the poultry improvement program. Member Ashley Fret was recognized for her individual project using ethanol byproducts as an alternative feed source for poultry.
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Ok, so we all know my house is sweet, but I haven't talked much about my neighborhood. Children still wander the streets unaccompanied by parents here. Like they walk to their friends' houses and ride bikes and go swimming and stuff sans parents. People know their neighbors. They talk to them. It's like freaking Mayberry or that town without dancing in Footloose, only, of course, we can dance here. But so, I'm trapped in my house for the duration of the annual parade in celebration of the Fourth. See, I live on a dead-end street, and the only way out is down Name of Town Avenue, and that is now the land of people throwing candy from slowly moving vehicles, horses that stop every few feet for little children to pet them, and people loudly blaring music from 1984. (R-O-C-K in the USA, which made sense, and then Thriller, which didn't. Oh, and I guess there's also been some Christian Rock and some 1960s Motown, too.) And seriously, this is an affair for all ages of the people who live here, from tiny babies through oldsters. People are transporting their children in wagons. I think my neighbors actually went out to the main street to watch the parade and just left their house open.
It hadn't occurred to me that places like this still existed, really. I know I hadn't paid much attention before buying my little house. But it's really sort of awesome that this place seems to have held off some of the perils of the 21st century. I like living in a place where kids roam free. I like living in a place where the whole community comes out and makes a crappy parade regardless of age or lifestyle or whatever. And I like that I somehow get this even though I live like 10 minutes from a city.
Nevertheless, I do feel a bit like I'm in some sort of bizarro world that you see in a movie and that doesn't really exist.
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Pat White was supposed to work out for the New York Giants on Tuesday, but he never made it out to the team's practice facility. It appears one of the Giants' NFC East division rivals made sure of that.
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White headed to Washington D.C. on Tuesday to visit with the Redskins, a source told NFL.com's Ian Rapoport. USA Today later reported that White will sign a contract with the Redskins on Wednesday after meeting with team officials Tuesday night.
CBSSports.com earlier reported it's "very likely" White will sign with the Redskins because of the scheme fit.
It's a move that makes some sense. The team only has one healthy quarterback on the roster: Kirk Cousins. The Redskins probably need to sign at least two quarterbacks this offseason because of Robert Griffin III's injury. Rex Grossman also is expected to be brought back, but he remains unsigned.
White ran some similar concepts to the Redskins' read-option offense while in college at West Virginia. He's been looking to get back into the NFL after washing out as a second-round pick in the 2009 NFL Draft by Miami Dolphins and trying his hand at minor league baseball. White also worked out for the San Francisco 49ers two weeks ago.


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16-year-old Helena Muffly wrote exactly 100 years ago today:
Tuesday, August 22, 1911: Mother was kind of mad this morning. It was her birthday, and I guess she realizes she is getting old and doesn't like the idea. I'm busy watching cows these sunny August days. Wouldn't you like to help me. I surely would appreciate it.
Her middle-aged granddaughter's comments 100 years
Grandma's mother, Phoebe Derr Muffly, was born on August 22, 1862 so it would have been her 49th birthday. It sounds like she was having a bit of a middle-age crisis. Her youngest child, Jimmie, was going to enter first grade in a few weeks–so I suppose that she felt like she was moving into the next stage in her life.
For almost a quarter of a century child-rearing had been the center of Phoebe's life. Her oldest living child Besse was born in 1888. (There may have been an older one who died at an early age—see previous post.) Phoebe probably felt good to finally have her youngest child almost ready to start school—but it probably also was a bit scary and made her feel old.
In 1911 most women did not have jobs outside of the home and it often was even more traumatic for woman as they reached menopause than it is now.
A hundred years ago books and magazines encouraged women to develop new interests and become involved in new activities as their children grew up.
With a variety of valuable and permanent interests, the mind is well safeguarded against attacks of worry. A woman should increase her recreations, leave home for short intervals, travel . . .
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Willie G. Davidson proud of bond with riders around world
While the sound of the Harley-Davidson motorcycles is unique, so are the men and women of the famous name.
WISN 12 News reporter Mike Anderson got a chance to talk to part of the Davidson family.
They are getting recognized everywhere, and they have come to expect that celebrity status. It goes with the territory, but in the end, they're really like beloved family members.
The Davidsons -- Willie G., his son, Bill, and daughter, Karen -- are motorcycle royalty. A brief rock-star-like appearance from a balcony at the Harley-Davidson Museum on Friday confirmed it.
But when you sit down and talk with them for a moment, you come to know they're not royalty in their own minds. They're just faces in the crowd like all the other bikers they and the company connect with so well.
"What's neat about this whole event in my mind, is that our company's uniqueness and our bond with the riders, and I think the emotional bond with the riders from all walks of life and from different geographic areas, is evident by what you're seeing off this deck up here," Willie G. Davidson said.


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Let's hear answers, Dygert
In the November 24 Hook article, "Short tort: One less lawsuit in Greene," George Dygert states that my letter [published in the Greene County Record] accuses his firm of taking money from me and lying to others.
I pose but one question regarding Dygert's firm's acquisition of monies from my escrow account with Crestar. If this disbursal was not improper, why did Crestar settle with me and my attorney for thousands of dollars for release of liability on their part?
The release of these monies was directly related to Dygert's firm's representation of the supposed debt in question. I would like Dygert to explain exactly what it was they told Crestar to induce Crestar to believe either:
A. Their firm was collecting Greene County real estate taxes; or
B. Their assessment came in front of Crestar's deed of trust.
In fact, neither A nor B is true.
Nothing in the aforementioned is meant to cast Crestar in a negative light. They acted quite professionally when the error was pointed out to them.
Grant Colby
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Deep into the shadows of the night, you pull the melody
from my heart, reunite it with my feet. We twirl and
spin on the dance floor, keeping time with the beat. With
your head thrown back, singing at the top of your voice,
I feel as content as I will be. You start the spark that
lights a fierce, joyous fire within me, and I remember
how to love as easily as breathing air. And we dance.
No one sees me but only you, watching even when
twilight fades to a starry black. I build a wall around
to protect myself, but you reach in gently, pull me
out before my tears of loneliness fall. As my world
crumbles into a desolate wasteland, you hold me
and remind me that I am not abandoned. When
I'm finally ready to talk, you listen.
I stand strong in the darkness, encased in an armor of
pretense. I declare to the world my capability to remain
staunch in battle. I fear no one, I am proud and undefeated.
And yet beneath the confidence I wear, a child is crying in
fear. I cannot expect to keep my pose of strength, and
eventually my knees buckle. But somehow you are there,
supporting me. You lift me up almost imperceptibly, so no
one else sees my weakness, no one but you. With your help shake it
off, the trembling ceases, and I stand.
You tell me, "This would be my heartbeat if I ever lost
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would be to lose all the beautiful memories, to erase
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and me lie the ingredients to hope, strength, and family.
I may be fatherless, I may lack a mother, but I have you.
For as long as I can dance in the arms of my sensitive, strong
brother, I will live.


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I can't recall ever having been shocked by touching a wooden material, and wooden combs are used to eliminate static when combing hair.
I picked out a nice, dry untreated 2x6 board and cut a series of slots across it with a 2mm thick saw blade as a temporary card storage rack.
Any educated opinions on whether this is a sane way of holding ISA cards between projects?
Any semi-educated or outright un-educated opinions?
I am going to cut some 30-degree angled slots in another board and see if it would work wall-mounted.


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