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F-ing horse shoes. Classy move Blizz. Yet again lets give people who have no business getting something for free- something for free. How about a free Char customization for someone who has 12mo+ CONTINUOUS effing subscription?? How about a little some some for those people who have 5+ years of continuous subscriptions?? Yeah I get it. They would have to buy all the games to cash in. Well played. Make one customer happy and piss off 100. I wish I was the kind of person that stayed ticked off when I get pissed. Sadly (but good for my sanity. I will have forgotten about it in about 10 min :( Eventually though this kind of stuff will come back and bite them in the ass.


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Attorney General William Sorrell and the Orange County state's attorney announced last month that Senior Trooper David Shaffer was justified using the stun gun on Mason last June because the distraught man failed to comply with orders and made threatening movements toward the trooper.MORE IN This Just InVGS answers state Full StoryPedestrian hurt in Friday crash Full StoryFAIR HAVEN — The town of Fair Haven is planning to convert its streetlights from... Full Story
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|Posted by Cat on September 28, 2012 at 4:50 AM
I'm hopin' that Inviz doesn't mind me speakin' out on this matter. Since she asked me to be a mod, guess this would be a good place to break out the blog post.
"I read the news today, oh boy. About a lucky man who made the grade. . ." Sostarts the Beatles song, 'A Day in the Life'. That thought flew through my mind when I logged onto the computer at work and saw the headline about the young actor Johnny K Lewis – who portrayed Kip 'Half Sack' Epps during the first two seasons of Sons of Anarchy' – had died.
Except Mr. Lewis hadn't quite 'made the grade' in Hollyweird parlance. Indeed, the write up from all the news sources mention his decade long career, with minor roles in one of those 'Alien VS Predator' movies and in another television show before 'SOA'. None of the write ups mentioned his work in 'The Runaways' nor last year's guest starring role in one of the CBS crime shows.
I never had the opportunity to meet Mr. Lewis, but while he was on Twitter, did tweet to him on occasion and got a response back. I don't carry any grandiose ideas that we were best buds because of that. He probably didn't know me from Adam, except as a 'SOA' fan who tried to be polite and supportive. Even so, it hurt my heart to find out that someone so young had gone in such a horrible way.
What hurt even more were some of the more negative things posted about him on Twitter when the initial news came out. We don't know all the facts, and may never know them. Is it awful that he is suspected of beating his elderly landlady to death? Yes, it is. And my heart also hurts for her friends and family. But – and this is a big but that I'm throwin' out here – SUSPECTED doesn't mean he did it.
The latest reports indicate that police suspect that he did so during some kind of episode and aren't really, according to those same reports, persuing any further investigation. Circumstancially, he lived at the house, people reported hearing screams and the sounds of fighting, Mr. Lewis was reported having an altercation with the neighbors and a painter at the neighbor's home. Right now, the chances are that he did do this awful thing, and that makes me mad. It just seems to me that even if there's only a one percent chance that he's innocent of the beating death, no stone should remain unturned to find the truth.
But truth is often hard to come by when things look to be true. Why should the police waste time and money seeking further information when all the pieces of the puzzle fit so well together? Hell, even the press is speculating that Mr. Lewis' irractic behavior and recent 'string' (three known incidents makes a string now!) of anti - social behavior was caused by drugs!
The reason it makes me mad is that his life has been wasted, and from what Mr. Sutter reported earlier today, apparently Mr. Lewis' was on a downslide for some time. For all I know people might be askin' him why he didn't do somethin' if he could see it comin'. I've not been on the interwebs much today.
Havin' seen up close the way addicted persons are, they can't be stopped unless they WANT to stop. Mr. Sutter knows this, I know this, and many who've been unfortunate enough to experience it know this. Oh, you can force a person into interventions and rehab, but if their head isn't in the right place to accept it, it's like a plug in a dyke. Pull the plug and you've got a flood on your hands.
Some people have posted very nasty things about Mr. Lewis, that he deserved to die for beating the old lady. Even if you put alledgedly in front of your rant, it's still a nasty thing to say! It's easy for us to hiss and boo when someone who is supposed to entertain us falls off the pedestal we've placed them upon.
And let's face it, we do put them on a pedestal. We watch their shows, we interact with them on social networks, we yell and scream for their attentionwhenever they're out in public. They have basically no personal/private life and are told 'What are you complainin' about? We MADE you! You OWE us your life's blood!'
It's that being in the public eye at all times, and having hundreds of thousands of people comment on your every word, every move, every action – positively or negatively – that wears on even the strongest person. Magazines and so –called'entertainment information' programs report on every belch, every fart, every blemish, and every mistake the celebrity makes. Cameras are pointed in their faces and blind them; obsessed fans stalk them; their lives change because they're recognized.
It's obvious from the reports of recent arrests that Mr. Lewis was in a tailspin this year. And if he was supposed to be serving a 306 day sentence THIS YEAR, WTF was he doin' out and about? Somebody messed up big time there. If he was supposed to be in rehab as opposed to jail, how in the Hell did he get away from it?
Being in jail, however, would not have cured him of whatever bothered him. If he was addicted to something that made him act out the way he did, the jail time would've only delayed it a few weeks/months. Unless at some time during the incarceration, he would've been able to get his head/mind/spirit in a place that would allow him to seek the help he needed, and therefore prevent this awful event from occurring.
The might have been is what makes me angry. The waste of two lives makes me angry. And the uncaring, unkind behavior of a relative few makes me angry. Mr. Lewis had friends, and so did his landlady. He had a family. So did his landlady. Those people are going through the most incredible pain a person can possibly go through.
Fortunately, there are a great number of people who have posted kind and caring things, despite the horror of the situation. The actors, actresses, and crew that worked so closely with him on 'Sons of Anarchy' can't help but feel affected by this. Some have shared their pain with us on the social networks. Some have kept their thoughts private, and that's their right to do so. To those who I had the chance to meet and really get to know last November, especially those I'm honored to be able to refer to as 'my friend', please know that my thoughts and prayers are with you for the loss, and with Mr. Lewis' friends and family and the landlady's friends and family. I know the pain, have felt it very intimately these last few months.
May both the victims rest in peace and find that their God truly has them in his hands and has brought them Home at last.
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Rain says...
Just wanted to thank you for talking about your personal lifes like that. I really love that everybody here is so open and that everyone cares.
I think it's good to talk about problems, illnesses and stuff. I have a condition,people around here call it skin-picking, but that's not the official term, I lack the control of the impilse to scratch myself. There were times when I had about 40 wounds on my body - all small, but nor very pretty. i'm down to about 5 now, all without help, bcause it's almost impossible to find a psych-doc who knows what he's doing and who has open appointments.
You can see me here http://www.skin-picking.de/%C3%BCber-skin-picking/fotos/ (I'm Rain on that page too).
That was a couple of years ago. I'm a lot better now.
well, what i wanted to say actually is, that people just don't care. They don't want to know the truth and stuff, they don't want to gt involved. And when nobody cares, it#s easy to get lost. So people don't get the help they need and bad things happen. So much violence could be prevented, if people would just care about each pther...


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Economic Trends
Taking Stock of the Labor Market Recovery
A number of factors are putting the pace of labor market improvements on center stage for many financial market observers. At its September 2012 meeting the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) decided to provide further policy accommodation using large-scale asset purchases, and citing anemic growth in the economy and no substantial reduction in the unemployment rate, declared that it would continue to buy agency mortgage-backed securities until the outlook for the labor market had improved substantially. At the time of that meeting, the unemployment rate stood at 8.1 percent, having been above 8 percent for an exceptionally long period—43 consecutive months. Moreover, in December 2012 the FOMC announced that the low level for the federal funds rate would be appropriate at least as long as the unemployment rate remains above 6-1/2 percent.
Whether improvement is viewed as substantial is inherently a judgment call that the FOMC will make. In this article, we provide a broad summary of the changes in the major labor market measures for the US economy over the last year. (Note that due to the lapse in federal funding, the BLS did not release the employment report for September on October 4, as originally scheduled.)
Employment as reported by business establishments (payroll survey) expanded on average by 184,000 workers every month in the last year. The most recent data we have (for the month of August) suggests slightly lower growth, at 169,000. Monthly payroll changes are always volatile, but even the smoother 6-month moving averages have stayed above 160,000 this year so far. Employment growth has been very broad based across different industries. All major sectors, with the exception of government, increased payrolls on average each month. Professional and business services added 51,000 jobs per month, leading the pack, followed by trade, transportation, and utilities (43,000), leisure and hospitality (35,000) and education and health (31,000). Even though the strong performance in manufacturing and construction in the early part of 2013 declined somewhat, these sectors have added 2,000 and 14,000 jobs, respectively, per month over the past 12 months on average. One point to note, however, is that the 3-month average suggests the pace of the increase has lost some momentum over the last several months, with the last three months registering fewer than 150,000 new jobs every month on average.
Employment as reported by households (household survey) has increased by more than 160,000 jobs a month on average since August 2012. Monthly changes in the household survey can be much more variable than the payroll survey, as it comes from a smaller sample.
This variability can make it hard to interpret the data. For instance, in the most recent household data we have (August 2013), the labor force shrank by a sizeable 312,000 workers, employment fell by 115,000, and unemployment declined by 198,000. As a result, the 0.1 percentage point decline in the unemployment rate in the month of August could be perceived as being due to a decline in the size of the labor force. However, over the past 12 months, the general picture remains relatively healthy, with the increase in employment (+167,000) accompanied by a decline in the stock of the unemployed (−97,000) and a modest rise in the size of the labor force (+70,000). This combination of changes has resulted in a sizable decline in the unemployment rate over the past 12 months of 0.8 percentage points.
Elsewhere in labor market data, one can find other encouraging signs, such as very stable levels of average workweek hours for production workers as well as other private employees. Current levels are essentially the same as before the recession, suggesting very little potential for improvement on this measure going forward. Employers' demand for more labor most likely will be met with new hiring rather than more hours per worker. Nevertheless, we observe that manufacturing overtime hours have increased by a bit since a year ago, from 4.1 hours to 4.4 hours per week. As a result, data on the labor demand of employers in the near term, such as job openings from JOLTS or the help-wanted online advertising index by the Conference Board, all point to a relatively firm demand for hiring by employers going forward.
Not all labor market indicators are as encouraging. For instance, the monthly average increase of 70,000 workers in the labor force is far below the level needed to keep the labor force participation rate stable with a growing population. As a result, labor force participation has continued to decline gradually over the past year, falling from 63.5 percent to 63.2 percent, one of its lowest points since the late 1970s. As the population active in the labor market shrinks—relative to the total population—observed increases in the employment pool of 167,000 per month do not increase the fraction of the population that is employed. The employment-to-population ratio has been virtually stuck around 58.5 since the beginning of the recovery in mid-2009.
Another reason to be cautious about overstating the extent of improvement in the labor market is the composition of the employed and the unemployed. Two observations stand out. First, a significant fraction of the unemployed consists of the long-term unemployed, workers who have been unemployed for more than six months. These workers will suffer more from the long-term consequences of the recession. Second, a substantial portion of the employed consists of workers who are employed part-time due to economic reasons. The breadth of part-time employment underscores the presence of labor market slack even among the employed.
The fraction of unemployed workers who have been unemployed for more than six months skyrocketed during the course of the recession, almost tripling to 45 percent at one point. This fraction has nudged down a bit but still stands at 37.9 percent as of August 2013. Early in the recovery, one concern was that these unemployed workers are provided with incentives to stay unemployed due to the generous unemployment compensation enacted as part of the Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) legislation and extensions. Early in 2010, there were 5.8 million unemployed workers receiving EUC and extended benefits combined, when the number of long-term unemployed workers was hovering around 6.5 million. As of August 2013, the size of the long-term unemployed pool has shrunk to 4.2 million, along with a much sharper decline in the number of beneficiaries of EUC and extended benefits, to a mere 1.5 million. It is hard to discern whether those unemployed exited the pool because they found jobs or because they just gave up and dropped out of the labor force. However, the sheer size of the smaller pool of beneficiaries suggests that EUC cannot be a major factor in explaining the persistence of long-term unemployment.
Part-time employment due to economic reasons surged during the recession. The sum of the two categories in the BLS report that are used to calculate the number of those employed part-time due to economic reasons—part-time due to slack work and part-time due to lack of full-time job availability—was nearly equal to 6 percent of all employment in the United States at one point. This has declined somewhat but still stands at 4.8 percent as of August 2013.
Part-time employment could serve as a way to adjust the labor force in the wake of a large downturn, and in fact it seems like this is what happened during the last episode. Even though employment was shrinking by large numbers, the pool of part-time workers was increasing to unprecedented levels. For instance, in the first six months of 2009, part-time employment increased by 205,000 per month on average. Meanwhile, total employment was shrinking by 450,000 workers per month over the same period, led by a 650,000 per month decline in full-time employment. It is likely that much of this situation is explained by employers reducing the work hours of their full-time workers.
Since September 2012, we have received a lot of information about the labor market that is encouraging and suggestive of overall improvement. There are, however, still soft spots indicating continued weaknesses. When the FOMC emphasized the importance of labor market improvements last year, Committee members were looking at a very weak labor market outlook. Most members expected the unemployment rate to drop below 8 percent by the end of 2013 and to settle between 6 percent and 6.8 percent by the end of 2015 (as reported in the Summary of Economic Projections). Since then, the unemployment rate has declined to 7.3 percent. The most recent projections, from September 2013, show that most Committee participants now expect the unemployment rate to be somewhere between 7.1 percent and 7.3 percent by the end of this year and somewhere between 5.4 percent and 5.9 percent by the end of the projection period, 2016.


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Share and version Java entities with EMF and EMFStore
Tutorial - EMFStore - A Model Repository - Part 2
The API
In the section "Try it!", we describe the most important use
cases based on an extensible example client. However, EMFStore can
also be used independently of the example client and can be
integrated into existing applications. To show you how we do this,
we'll describe some examples from the EMFStore API. Check out
detailed documentation of the EMFStore
API to find out more about it.
Projects on the client are managed in a Workspace that allows you to access and create projects. A project is managed by a ProjectSpace whose entities contain meta-information, such as the name of a project or tracked changes. The following code example retrieves the current workspace and creates a new local project:
Workspace workspace = WorkspaceManager.getInstance().getCurrentWorkspace(); ProjectSpace projectSpace = workspace.createLocalProject("ProjectName", "Project Description");
The next step is to fill the local project with model entities. In EMF, entities are structured by a containment hierarchy (see earlier tutorial example). The following call adds a new entity into a project:
Regular changes on the entities are made using the getter and setter methods, making EMFStore transparent for the client. If new entities are added to other entities, they are automatically added to the project as well. The following code example changes an entity's attribute and adds a new entity to another one.
myEntity.setName("xxx"); myEntity.getChildren().add(newObject);
The project created is only locally available, but with the following code example, it is shared with the EMFStore server and therefore available for other clients. To manage the connection with the EMFStore server a UserSession is created, containing credentials for access control, the server address and port.
Usersession usersession = EMFStoreClientUtil.createUsersession("super", "super", "localhost", 8080); projectSpace.shareProject(usersession);
Once a project is shared on the EMFStore server, it can be retrieved by other clients via checkout. In this case, the user usually selects from a list of available projects retrieved from the server. The following code example retrieves the list of available projects and selects the first one for check-out.
List<ProjectInfo> projectList = workspace.getRemoteProjectList(usersession); workspace.checkout(usersession, projectList.get(0));
Once projects are shared on multiple clients, changes can be synchronized. The first step is to apply changes to the model entities, e.g. someElement.setName("newName"). These changes are automatically recorded and can be sent to the EMFStore server:
projectSpace.commit(logMessage, null, new ConsoleProgressMonitor());
In turn, changes can be retrieved from the server triggering an update:
Using the features share, checkout, commit and update allows you to create a custom client which synchronizes its data (model entities) through the EMFStore server. The API offers many additional features such as retrieving a list of current changes or resetting the state of a project to a specific version.
The EMFStore model repository is a runtime technology that enables you to collaboratively modify EMF model entities. Using an example client provided by the EMF Client Platform, it assists in testing the most important use cases. In contrast with existing Source Code Management Systems, the EMFStore model repository does not work directly on files, but instead versions entities on a model level. This enables precise conflict detection for EMF model entities as well as interactive merging. All features of the EMFStore can also be triggered via an API. This allows the integration of EMFStore into custom clients, with or without a UI. EMFStore is an open source framework (Eclipse Public License). Source code, releases and documentation are all available online.
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Symbols and SignsSigns and symbol meanings Self-Development, Spiritual Development, Spiritual Quotes, Symbols and Signs
Symbols and Signs
Signs and Symbols Ancient Meanings
Language of the Soul, Language of Dreams
Symbols and signs are the languages of the soul. Symbols and signs are the language of dreams.
Occultists believe that signs and symbols are given a supernatural power at their creation.
Words, signs and symbols, images, colors, light, are all used for aeons to convey a spiritual meaning.
Sings and Symbols Meanings Animal Totems
Is there a specific animal that fascinates you more than the rest? Is there an animal that you associate yourself with? Is there a quality that you can relate to?
For Shamans, each animal has a lesson to teach us and main qualities of animals are captured within their animal spirits that come into contact with us to heal us and inspire us in our spiritual journey. Their special energies can teach us and guide us in our search. Ask your inner being what your inner animal is, and let its qualities inspire you.
Alchemy Symbols and What is Alchemy?
the secret art of the land of Khem (an ancient name for the land of Egypt), is maybe one of the two oldest sciences known to the world.
According to an old Rabbi legend
an angel gave Adam the mysteries and secrets of Kabbalah and of Alchemy, promising that when the human race understand these inspired arts, the curse of the forbidden fruit would be removed and man will again enter into the Garden of Eden.
To read more about What is Alchemy
Signs and Symbols Meanings Tree of Life
Awakening or alchemical re-birth requires a precise spiritual method.
Hidden among obscure drawings and fascinating art work of ancient cultures is the re-occurring symbolism of the Tree of Life.
The meaning of the 'Tree of Life' is very powerful and it is often seen as the Key to Consciousness, Enlightenment, Bliss.
Read more about Mayan World Tree, Babilonian Axis Mundi, Nordic Ygdrassil...
Signs and Symbols Meanings within Malta Temples
Places of mystery and wonder... Temple of Love? Glimpses of Atlantis? Worship Goddess rituals... 7,000 years ago in Malta... Read more about Sound Rituals used by Priests
Signs and Symbols Meanings Trinity Spiral
It is a symbolic representation of primordial forces that materialize in magical, mysterious fashion
- Unity of body, mind and spirit.
- Interplay of birth, growth, and death
The Tree of Life starts with a triad.
From this primordial triangle proceed all of the other figures, shapes, forms, all other numbers, the magic of manifestation.
Signs and Symbols Meanings AUM
Om or Aum
is a sacred syllable representing Brahman, it is the name of God, the sound of creation, the vibration of the Supreme. Hindus believe that the divine consciousness took the form of the vibration of the sound OM.
Bhagvad Gi:tā says: om tatsatiti nirdesho brahmanstrividhah samratah - OM, tat and sat are the triple terms of Brahman - Truth, Consciousness and Bliss.
Tibetan Buddhists place om at the beginning of their main mantra om mani padme hum
In Advaita philosophy it represents three merged into one, a trinity.
It is made of three letters: A, U and M that, it is believed, contain all other sounds. It is a mantra that if repeated can resonate with the soul.
Many use this symbol as an expression of spiritual perfection.
Signs and Symbol: Magic of Equinox
The seasons change while the Earth continues its journey through the space and time. Rituals at the Autumn Equinox honour balance between light and dark.
Signs and Symbols Meanings - Dove
Picasso's La Colombe (The Dove)
'I stand for life against death; I stand for peace against war.' Picasso quote
Christians use dove as a symbol of the Holy Spirit
Aphrodite, a Roman goddess of love, is often featured with a dove symbolising divine love
Hachiman, a Japanese god of war, claims the dove as a sacred symbol of peace
In Slavic countries the dove symbolises a soul's return to heaven
The Native Americans believed that the appearance of the dove was a sign of rain
Gypsies believe that the dove is a messengers of love from the spirit world
Love Symbols and Signs
Love knows no boundaries.
Symbols of Love remind us of the Force of Love and its Eternal Wisdom.
Doves are considered a symbol of faithful and eternal love because they mate for life. Depictions of two doves together symbolize everlasting love.
Symbols and Signs: Love Symbols
Signs and Symbols Meanins: Holy Tree
This tree will bewitch you offering a sense of mystery and magic, it will take you into the journey of green respect towards this witness of time passing, into the wisdom of its mature being.
Its roots lie deep in the ground. The leaves draw energy from the sunlight. The trunk is strong and wide. And who the tree hiding - goblins, spirits, ferries or just squirrels?
Druids were priests of an ancient Celtic religious order. They thought that the oak tree is sacred and they carried out their religious rituals in oak forests. They chose the deepest parts of woodlands for their most sacred places.
The Pagans used the Yew tree as the focus of their worship. Apparently, the Yew has a particular quality that inspires a feeling of awe.
The Greeks and Romans decorated their dwellings with ivy, taking evergreen plants into their houses acknowledging their magical qualities.
The Christmas tree is a symbol adopted by Christian tradition, referring to the salvation that Jesus brought to the world by his birth.
The Meaning of Mandala
Mandala is a circle that represents Wholeness, that represents Divine, our relation to the Infinite, the world within our body and mind and the world outside. The mandala is used in many spiritual traditions.
According to Jung, mandala is a magic circle, the symbol of the Self, formed by archetypal forces of the unconscious that the artist is not aware of during the creation of the work. Read More
Signs and Symbols quotes
The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.
CARL JUNG, The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man
Language is originally and essentially nothing but a system of signs or symbols, which denote real occurrences, or their echo in the human soul.
CARL [JUNG, Psychology of the Unconscious
Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.
Charles Baudelaire
SIGNS and SYMBOLS OF PYTHAGORAS
All the Symbols are exhortatory in common to the whole of virtue; but particularly each to some particular virtue. Different symbols also are differently adapted to parts of philosophy and discipline. Thus for instance the first Symbol directly exhorts to piety and divine science.
It also causes us to introduce nothing from human affairs into the worship of Divinity; for all such things are foreign from, and contrary to, religious worship. This Symbol also greatly contributes to science; for in divine science it is necessary to introduce nothing of this kind; such as human conceptions, or those pertaining to the concerns of life. We are exhorted to nothing else, therefore, by these words than this: that we should not mingle sacred discourses and divine actions with the instability of human manners.
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March 13, 2002
PRESENT: J Gross, Chairman; Holly Eddy, Treasurer; Shirley Beaulieu, Vice-Treasurer; Mary Lee Underhill, Secretary; Rich Koeck, Member; Pat Skinner, Member; John Barrett, Director.
EXCUSED: Murray Levin, Vice-Chairman.
J Gross called the meeting to order at 7:07PM.
MINUTES: The minutes of the February 12, 2002 meeting were approved as
CHAIRMAN'S REPORT: J Gross lead a discussion concerning volunteer recognition. J invited trustees and patrons to attend an Internet workshop that he and Reference Librarian Lois Freeston will present at the library on April 3rd at 7PM. J informed the Board that the library will be receiving a $200 a month credit for Internet sharing to town departments.
TREASURER'S REPORT: Holly Eddy reported that with 16.7% of the year passed that 15.3% of the budget had been expended. John Barrett reported that after meeting with David Sullivan he will be requesting year-to-date monthly budget reports the week prior to the monthly Board meeting for incorporation into the meeting. The Treasurer's report was placed on file.
DIRECTOR'S REPORT: John Barrett reported that 10,479 items were in circulation in February. There are 6,694 registered patrons. Volunteers logged 107 hours in February bringing the year-to-date total to 246 volunteer hours. The entryway counter showed that 5,455 patrons visited the library during February. There were 99 Internet uses in February.
John reported that the F.L.O.W. Board had requested a "wish list" of items that they will endeavor to supply to the library in the coming months. John and staff enjoyed preparing their list for presentation to F.L.O.W..
Pat Skinner reported that the library had been awarded a Library Services & Technology Act grant in the amount of $1300 for expanding the foreign language section of the collection. John thanked Assistant Director Marija Sanderling for her preparation of the application which she titled "How do you say cheese in Chinese?".
John reminded trustees and patrons to call the library to sign-up for an evening with author Carol Fronduto to be held at the library on March 25th at 7PM.
OLD BUSINESS: Rich Koeck and Mary Lee Underhill led discussion on issues from the Board Long Range Planning Committee seeking Board input. The Board thanked the committee members for their service and continuing efforts on the committee.
The Board discussed several capital improvement issues including the entranceway sign and a humidifier.
The Board discussed several maintenance issues including lighting and carpet cleaning.
MOTION: Upon motion by Pat Skinner, second by Mary Lee Underhill, the Board voted to adopt the Collection Development Policy as amended.
The Board agreed to accept as a second reading the Public Internet Access & Appropriate Use Policy.
NEW BUSINESS: J Gross read a thank you note from F.L.O.W. for Board support of the Children's Room Enhancement Project which was completed in December.
MOTION: Upon motion by Pat Skinner, second by Holly Eddy, the Board voted to elect Mary Lee Underhill to serve as Board Chairman.
MOTION: Upon motion by Pat Skinner, second by Mary Lee Underhill, the Board voted to elect Shirley Beaulieu to serve as Board Vice-Chairman.
MOTION: Upon motion by Pat Skinner, second by Shirley Beaulieu, the Board voted to elect Holly Eddy to serve as Board Treasurer.
MOTION: Upon motion by Mary Lee Underhill, second by Pat Skinner, the Board voted to elect J Gross to serve as Board Vice-Treasurer.
MOTION: Upon motion by Mary Lee Underhill, second by Shirley Beaulieu, the Board voted to elect Rich Koeck to serve as Board Secretary.
The Board Personnel Committee agreed to set a time to meet as soon as possible for all members.
MOTION: Upon motion by Mary Lee Underhill, second by Shirley Beaulieu, the Board voted to enter nonpublic session to discuss personnel issues in accordance with RSA 91-A:3. J Gross polled the Board: Holly Eddy, yes; Mary Lee Underhill, yes; Shirley Beaulieu, yes; Pat Skinner, yes; Rich Koeck, yes; J Gross, yes.
No action was taken in nonpublic session.
The next Trustees meeting will be held on Tuesday, April 9, 2002 at 7PM at the Nesmith Library.
The meeting adjourned at 10:30Pm.
Respectfully submitted,
Jena Day
Recording Secretary


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Osymetric Chainring Compact 110mm BCD $0.00
More power with less effort.
Surely, you saw some big names running Osymetric chainrings this past summer. And surely, you were scratching your head every time the camera panned to their drivetrains. Not quite an oval, and certainly not an ellipse, the Osymetric Chainring Compact is its own shape -- and we're happy for that. The Oysmetric delivers greater efficiency, increased power, and requires less user effort.
Now, before we get into explaining the Osymetric, we want you to abandon any preconceptions or memory comparisons of failed experiments like Biopace. This isn't to say that those engineers were wrong to pursue these designs, they simply never perfected the technology. We think that this is due to a fear of breaking free from the parameters and presets of what cycling componentry is supposed to look like. However, Osyemtric has realized that the best look for a bike is crossing over the finish line in first place. That's why Osymetric isn't afraid to appear obtuse in its aesthetic.
The concept behind Osymetric is relatively easy to grasp. On a standard chainring, power isn't applied equally throughout a revolution of the crankarm. For simplicity's sake, let's divide a revolution into four quadrants. We'll call twelve and six o'clock Top Dead Center (TDC) and Bottom Dead Center (BDC), respectively. The horizontal position of three o'clock can be called just that. It is within the angle between the horizontal position and BDC, that power is most predominately exerted. However, the acute radii between the horizontal position and TDC and BDC are relative dead spots for power. Osymetric's shape directly reflects this data. It works on the objective of minimizing the time spent in dead spots, while maximizing the time spent within the radii of efficient power exertion -- horizontal. Basically, this means that, as the operator, you can apply more force while spending less energy. In fact, Osymetric's design minimizes torque and effort by creating a nearly constant angular velocity. This means that while your gear inches are maximized and extended in the power position, the ring changes shape at the dead spot to speed you back to the power position.
Osymetric's testing has shown that its Twincam shaped rings provide an average of 10% increase in watts per revolution. Also, with the near elimination of 'rest' in dead spots, Osymetric claims an average of 12% reduction in lactic acid buildup. And despite the Twincam shape, Osymetric does not require a special chain. Osymetric acknowledges that it takes around one hour for 95% of users to 'get used to it.' So, we suggest resigning your final judgement till your muscle memory adjusts.
The Osymetric Chainring Compact 110mm BCD is available in the color Black and in 38, 50, and 52 tooth options. Please note that this is a compact, 110mm BCD chainring. We are also offering the Osymetric in a standard chainring size.
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Kerry M
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On my 25+ year old Vitus I would like to replace my "Biopace" rings (52/42)with an osymetric. Will it fit? I have a new 13-28 Shimano cluster and new chain.
Also are there 2 rings or do I just do the big ring?