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352 South Church Street - Thomas Blow House
Built circ. 1800
352 South Church Street - Thomas
Blow House (circa 1800)
Believed to be built in the
1790s, this federal style house is named after one of its early
inhabitants, Thomas Blow, who owned the property from
1798-1800. In 1770, Mr. Andrew Mackie purchased a vacant lot 52
(now 352 S. Church Street) for £5 or roughly $17-20 by using
18th Century Virginia exchange rates. In 1800, a deed of trust
listed the assessed property value at $400, thus clearly
indicating the construction of a house since Mr. Mackie's
purchase. From this we can undoubtedly deduce the house was
built no earlier than 1770 and no later than 1800—most likely
Mr. Mackie built the house in the 1790s. Given the unequivocal
evidence of an existing house from the 1800 deed of trust, the
house has conservatively carried the name "Thomas Blow" and the
year 1800.
The original 1790s
house consisted of two parlors and a staircase on the first floor
and one chamber on the second floor; below was a standing-height
cellar that is believed to have sheltered two house slaves. A
detached kitchen sat behind the house, though no discernable
foundation may be found today. Key features include heart pine
floors of planks 22' long and over 1" thick, fireplaces in all rooms
(including the cellar), wood-pinned mortise-tenon ceiling and floor
joists, and 12" square hand-hewn beams supporting the house over a
three-wide brick foundation. Although wainscoting adorns the front
parlor and chair railing stretches throughout the house, there is no
cornice molding on the 10' ceilings. From 1822 to 1827, Mrs. Fannie
Boykin, the widow of Revolutionary War notable Major Francis M.
Boykin (who served with General Washington and Patrick Henry and
from whom Fort Boykin is named), owned the residence.
Although the
house's size was respectable for the 1790s, in 1827-1837 the Widow
Boykin's daughter, Ann Marshall, and her husband, Mr. Watson P.
Jordan, nearly doubled its size by adding a first-floor
hall/staircase, upstairs chamber, and likely a back porch on the
west side of the house. Inside the addition, the builders carefully
crafted the foyer and staircase wainscoting to match the original
parlor wainscoting, while outside they kept the key Federal elements
of the house but updated it to the then-popular Greek Revival by
adding a columned portico.
Late 1800s and
early 1900s alterations and additions include transforming the back
porch into a bedroom chamber and adding an indoor bathroom and
attached kitchen. Between 1910-1919, an indoor columned archway was
built to separate the front parlor from the foyer. Finally in 2005,
a sensitively designed addition was added to the west side,
providing a first-floor master bedroom chamber and bathroom and an
upstairs bedroom chamber. Its current gray cladding resembles an
earlier color scheme, but past colors include yellow, white, and
olive clapboards with white, forest green and even black trim!
Recent discoveries
include early 19th Century children's clay marbles in the original
upstairs chamber floor and outdoor excavations unearthed Federal
period pottery shards, 19th Century Majolica fragments, and
Victorian glass bottles and octagonal ink well.
Chronological Tour
20 of 44
Stop-By-Stop Tour
17 of 44
Large Map
A Brief History of
Adapted from the
original hard copy walking tour designed by the Smithfield
& Isle of Wight Convention & Visitors Bureau.
For additional information about the walking tour, contact the
Visitors Bureau at: 757-357-5182 or 800-365-9339.
Unless otherwise noted, the homes shown on this site are private
residences and are not open to the public.
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My job takes most of my time. I am available on the weekends, and in the evenings for a phone conversation. If you are interested in knowing me, write something that would intrigue me to contact you , and give me a way TO CONTACT YOU.
I'm looking forward to sharing adventures with you and becoming your friend for life and hoping it may develop into something more. I want to spend quality time with you and get to know you. I want us to share trust, tender kisses,hugs and a genuine caring.
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I only started to use this I wasn't that impressed with it but it does the job.
This cell phone holder is too bulky. It doesn't work if the covers in your car's AC swivel around. It would just fall with any minor movement of my car.
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SparkFun Donates to Fundi Bots
We're excited to announce of first electronics kit donation/sponsorship, courtsey of the the really cool girls and guys at SparkFun.
I buy almost all my electronics kit from SparkFun and a few weeks back, I reached out them asking if they could subsidize prices for us or if they had a philanthropic arm. It turns out they do have an Education Outreach Department that caters to projects and initiatives like Fundi Bots.
They graciously accepted to send us three SparkFun Inventor's Kits (Arduino based), plus two CDs of software, well written and documented teacher's guides and assorted learning material. Actual monetary value is north of $450 dollars (computed cost of purchase and shipping). Fundi Bots value: Priceless. Read more >>
Midnight Experiments – 8 by 8 LED Matrix
LEDs are light emitting diodes, and they are those little red, green, blue, green, etc lights that you see blinking from almost every electronic device these days. Phones, DVD players, TVs, clocks, etc.
An 8×8 LED Matrix looks like this.
An 8×8 LED Matrix. Each white dot contains a red LED.
It's basically a little square electronic device that has 8 rows of LEDs with 8 LEDs per row, making for a total of 64 LEDs. They are used mostly to as a visual component of a project or application. basically to display low resolution graphics, numbers, letters and so on. Read more >>
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- The Rogue King Founder's blog. Rants and raves about everything and nothing.
- Arduino Open-source electronics hardware and software platform.
- B.E.A.M Robotics Wiki Repository for information about BEAM robotics.
- Google RISE. We won a grant from these awesome folk!
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- Spark Fun Have given us lots of awesome education dev kits.
- Solarbotics Vendors of some seriously cool electronics and robotics parts.
- SparkFun They sell electronics but they are also passionate tinkerers.


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Topic: General Gaming / Balloon Invasion help?
A trick to beating the first boss:
At the beginning, start off by putting points in Airstrike (max it) and Winged Bombs. As you gain new points defeating Maps 1-5, fill up Winged Bombs and then Balloon Blast Score Gain, after that I picked Tripple Cannon and Start with More Score.
Doing this, you can use Airstrike (and Winged Bombs) to clear up the levels for you without firing a single shot… try and get at least 1 shot in that hits something (gets you 2 medals). You'll probably need to replay a few maps to make sure you achieve the 5star ratings, but you should be able to unlock the extra map by Map 5 and scoring a 5star rating there gets you to L10.
The Boss Map (6) you can do about the same as any other map, use Airstrikes and Winged Bombs mainly. Except where you would otherwise use a Triple Canon (or 3 maybe?) as backup, you should build a lot of them here. The Boss himself appears to have a limited ammo capacity, he nuked 5 of my canons and then stopped dropping, so then he leaked through and came around for a second time but with just 10% HPs left, which was low enough to make mincemeat out of with my Winged Bombs.


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The Microsoft adCenter blog yesterday posted about using dynamic text in adCenter with {keyword}, {param1}, {param2}, and {param3} instead of {KeyWord: Default Text} which the Google AdWords keyword insertion uses.
"There are many possibilities for using keyword insertion and dynamic text (parameters) in adCenter. This post will address the most common use of the different types of dynamic text insertion options.
Keyword Insertion
Keyword insertion helps make ads more relevant by inserting the search query term into the ad title or text.


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"Our prayers may be weak, stammering, and poor in our eyes. But if they come from a right heart, God understands them. Such prayers are His delight."—J.C. Ryle (via community4christ)
I envy those kind of couples
nerds that have school tomorrow:
Hello! :)
i wanna be productive but i also don't wanna move
constantly torn between being a good person or a sarcastic little prick
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AccioCharm63 on Pottermore
708. Muggleborns complaining about having to go to the Apple store and purebloods wondering if muggles have a different store for every fruit.
Harry Potter series minimalist
Harry Potter series minimalist
Favorite Pottermore Artwork so far
Favorite Pottermore Artwork so far
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Hogwarts Houses.
Hogwarts Houses.
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You instantly get a look of '…ew, really?'
People think you're not being serious.
You're suddenly less kick-ass in the eyes of your Slytherin friends.
You get linked to this video. Every. Damn. Time.
Everyone expects you to find their shit.
You also hear "What the HELL is a Hufflepuff" more often than you care to count.
You have to list off any noteworthy Hufflepuffs in order to make your house sound cooler.
No matter what you say, your friends will still think Hufflepuff sucks.
You're always trying to explain how Hufflepuff has the best qualities of every house.
People think you're in the "leftovers" house.
When you tell people that Hufflepuff has an adorable name in French (Poufsouffle), people think it's even more terrible.
You have to constantly remind people that honey badgers don't give a crap.
Yellow and black don't go with ANYTHING.
Whenever you DO where yellow and black people just think you're a sports fan from Pittsburgh.
Every true Hufflepuff you know tries to say that they're really a Hufflepuff/Ravenclaw hybrid. No, HuffleClaw is NOT a thing. Nor is a Gryffinpuff, or a Slytherpuff.
When your Slytherin friends have kids they say things like "Man, I really hope my boys aren't Hufflepuffs"
But in the end, you know that you and your fellow Hufflepuffs will always be unrecognized BAMFs.
World Cup prediction: Ireland will win but krum will catch the snitch
World Cup prediction: Ireland will win but krum will catch the snitch
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All NAND flash-based SSDs use a process called garbage collection (GC) so the flash memory can be rewritten with fresh data, enabling the SSD to function like any other rewritable storage device. The number of rewrites (program/erase cycles) possible with NAND flash memory is finite. That's why it's essential to ensure that each P/E cycle really counts – that is, each is performed with top efficiency – to help preserve optimum SSD performance.
Collecting the garbage takes time
In my 2011 Flash Memory Summit presentation , I went into great detail about how GC – the automatic memory management process of clearing invalid data from memory to give new data a clean slate – works in an SSD. Here's a recap: flash memory is organized in groups of pages where data can be written. Once a page is written, it cannot be rewritten until it is erased. Simple enough. But a page can only be erased within a group of typically 128 pages called a block. But wait. The complexity of writing data really starts to escalate in the case of random writes replacing previously written data. Random writes put the new data in previously erased pages elsewhere, peppering a block of valid data with "patches of invalid data." In order to write new data to these patches, the whole block – all 128 pages – must be erased. But first all surrounding pages with valid data must be read and then rewritten to blank pages. The newly erased block of blank pages is then ready to save new data.
So why's this a problem? This rewriting process shares the same path to the flash memory as new data arriving from the host system. You see the issue – a bottleneck. What you may not know is that this traffic jam can severely degrade overall write performance, sometimes as much as 90%.
Why not collect the garbage when the SSD is idle?
To improve write performance, many SSDs perform idle-time GC or background GC. When the SSD is idle – not performing reads or writes from the host system – the data paths to the flash memory are open. In a perfect world, the SSD controller would move all valid data into a contiguous group of new blocks so that all the free space would be consolidated into a few very large areas. Then, when new data arrived, the controller would send it directly to the fresh blocks and be spared from having to move data around just to free up space on pages of invalid data. But the world is far from perfect.
No free lunch, even from the garbage can
As might be expected, background or idle-time GC has drawbacks. The two main downsides are:
1. For users of Ultrabooks and other mobile systems, battery power is precious. The longer users can work unplugged between battery charges, the better. To make the most of a single charge, these systems use features like DevSleep to drastically reduce power to internal components not in use. At times when no data is being stored to or retrieved from the SSD, the host system gears down the SSD into a low power state (like DevSleep) to reduce power draw. In this state, an SSD with background or idle-time GC has no power to perform GC.
The upshot is that the SSD will be very slow when the system turns it back on and starts sending new data that must be saved in the spaces not yet cleared out by garbage-collected while the SSD was asleep. Alternately, the SSD may temporarily override the low power command from the host in order to perform the background GC, pulling more power from the battery and shortening the time remaining before it needs to be recharged.
2. When the SSD is performing GC, invalid data is ignored and only valid data is moved before the block is erased. Now imagine a large 2GB file on the SSD that the user plans to delete tomorrow. The SSD has no clue this will happen, so it automatically performs background GC around the 2GB file – and all other data – today, consuming one more of the very limited, precious program/erase cycles for all the flash holding that data. Ideally, the SSD would have waited one more day to garbage collect, the user would have already deleted the file, and the SSD wouldn't have had to move all that data to new locations. No unnecessary data movement. No unnecessary use of a precious program/erase cycle.
Many people don't realize that the number of background reads and writes initiated by the operating system, virus checkers, browsers, etc., far outstrip the number initiated by the computer user. Some users rarely delete files, believing they'll extend the life of their SSD. The truth is, user file deletions are a drop in the bucket. It's not their use of the computer storage that causes the most wear and tear. Background action from applications and the operating system is the real culprit.
Is there a better option?
What's an SSD user to do? A super-fast foreground GC engine is the best solution. The key is special hardware and firmware integrated into the flash controller that streamlines garbage collection so it can run in the foreground with incoming data. The engine also enables high-speed writes to the flash memory. By maintaining high write speeds for GC operations, the SSD can afford to leave all valid data mixed with invalid data. That way the blocks are not recycled until absolutely necessary, dramatically reducing wear. Plus, the longer the SSD waits to GC pages, the higher the likelihood other pages of data will have already been made invalid by the operating system or user. The result is lower write amplification, longer flash endurance, and even higher performance.
All LSI® SandForce® Flash Controllers employ foreground GC to provide these invaluable benefits to the user.
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It may sound crazy, but hard disk drives (HDDs) do not have a delete command. Now we all know HDDs have a fixed capacity, so over time the older data must somehow get removed, right? Actually it is not removed, but overwritten. The operating system (OS) uses a reference table to track the locations (addresses) of all data on the HDD. This table tells the OS which spots on the HDD are used and which are free. When the OS or a user deletes a file from the system, the OS simply marks the corresponding spot in the table as free, making it available to store new data.
The HDD is told nothing about this change, and it does not need to know since it would not do anything with that information. When the OS is ready to store new data in that location, it just sends the data to the HDD and tells it to write to that spot, directly overwriting the prior data. It is simple and efficient, and no delete command is required.
Enter SSDs
However, with the advent of NAND flash-based solid state drives (SSDs) a new problem emerged. In my blog, Gassing up your SSD, I explain how NAND flash memory pages cannot be directly overwritten with new data, but must first be erased at the block level through a process called garbage collection (GC). I further describe how the SSD uses non-user space in the flash memory (over provisioning or OP) to improve performance and longevity of the SSD. In addition, any user space not consumed by the user becomes what we call dynamic over provisioning – dynamic because it changes as the amount of stored data changes.
When less data is stored by the user, the amount of dynamic OP increases, further improving performance and endurance. The problem I alluded to earlier is caused by the lack of a delete command. Without a delete command, every SSD will eventually fill up with data, both valid and invalid, eliminating any dynamic OP. The result would be the lowest possible performance at that factory OP level. So unlike HDDs, SSDs need to know what data is invalid in order to provide optimum performance and endurance.
Keeping your SSD TRIM
A number of years ago, the storage industry got together and developed a solution between the OS and the SSD by creating a new SATA command called TRIM. It is not a command that forces the SSD to immediately erase data like some people believe. Actually the TRIM command can be thought of as a message from the OS about what previously used addresses on the SSD are no longer holding valid data. The SSD takes those addresses and updates its own internal map of its flash memory to mark those locations as invalid. With this information, the SSD no longer moves that invalid data during the GC process, eliminating wasted time rewriting invalid data to new flash pages. It also reduces the number of write cycles on the flash, increasing the SSD's endurance. Another benefit of the TRIM command is that more space is available for dynamic OP.
Today, most current operating systems and SSDs support TRIM, and all SandForce Driven™ member SSDs have always supported TRIM. Note that most RAID environments do not support TRIM, although some RAID 0 configurations have claimed to support it. I have presented on this topic in detail previously. You can view the presentation in full here. In my next blog I will explain how there may be an alternate solution using SandForce Driven member SSDs.
Tags: controller, delete, flash, flash controller, flash memory, garbage collection, hard disk drive, HDD, NAND, over-provisioning, SandForce, solid state drive, SSD, TRIM
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Have you ever run out of gas in your car? Do you often risk running your gas tank dry? Hopefully you are more cautious than that and you start searching for a gas station when you get down to a ¼ tank. You do this because you want plenty of cushion in case something comes up that prevents you from getting to a station before it is too late.
The reason most people stretch their tank is to maximize travel between station visits. The downside to pushing the envelope to "E" is you can end up stranded with a dead vehicle waiting for AAA to bring you some gas.
Now most people know you don't put gas in a solid state drive (SSD), but the pros and cons associated with how much you leave in the "tank" is very relevant to SSDs.
To understand how these two seemingly unrelated technologies are similar, we first need to drill into some technical SSD details. To start, SSDs act, and often look, like traditional hard disk drives (HDDs), but they do not record data in the same way. SSDs today typically use NAND flash memory to store data and a flash controller to connect the memory with the host computer. The flash controller can write a page of data (often 4,096 bytes) directly to the flash memory, but cannot overwrite the same page of data without first erasing it. The erase cycle cannot expunge only a single page. Instead, it erases a whole block of data (usually 128 pages). Because the stored data is sometimes updated randomly across the flash, the erase cycle for NAND flash requires a process called garbage collection.
Garbage collection is just dumping the trash
Garbage collection starts when a flash block is full of data, usually a mix of valid (good) and invalid (older, replaced) data. The invalid data must be tossed out to make room for new data, so the flash controller copies the valid data of a flash block to a previously erased block, and skips copying the invalid data of that block. The final step is to erase the original whole block, preparing it for new data to be written.
Before and during garbage collection, some data – valid data copied during garbage collection and the (typically) multiple copies of the invalid data – is in two or more locations at once, a phenomenon known as write amplification. To store this extra data not counted by the operating system, the flash controller needs some spare capacity beyond what the operating system knows. This is called over-provisioning (OP), and it is a critical part of every NAND flash-based SSD.
Over-provisioning is like the gas that remains in your tank
While every SSD has some amount of OP, some will have more or less than others. The amount of OP varies depending on trade-offs made between total storage capacity and benefits in performance and endurance. The less OP allocated in an SSD, the more information a user can store. This is like the driver who will take their tank of gas clear down to near-empty just to maximize the total number of miles between station visits.
What many SSD users don't realize is there are major benefits to NOT stretching this OP area too thin. When you allocate more space for OP, you achieve a lower write amplification, which translates to a higher performance during writes and longer endurance of the flash memory. This is like the driver who is more cautious and visits the gas station more often to enable greater flexibility in selecting a more cost-effective station, and allows for last-minute deviations in travel plans that end up burning more fuel than originally anticipated.
The choice is yours
Most SSD users do not realize they have full control of how much OP is configured in their SSD. So even if you buy an SSD with "0%" OP, you can dedicate some of the user space back to OP for the SSD.
A more detailed presentation of how OP works and what 0% OP really means was presented at the Flash Memory Summit 2012 and can be viewed with this link for your convenience: http://www.lsi.com/downloads/Public/noindex/LSIPRS_FMS2012_TE21_Smith.pdf
It pays to be the cautious driver who fills the gas tank long before you get to empty. When it comes to both performance and endurance, your SSD will cover a lot more ground if you treat the over-provisioning space the same way – keeping more in reserve.
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Chile Earthquake Shifts the Earth's Axis, Shortens the Days
Examiner: NASA scientists have determined that the massive magnitude 8.8 earthquake that struck Chile on Saturday has shortened our days and shifted the Earth's axis. Officials said that the effects of the event while not unusual are a testament to the power of the temblor.
Richard Gross, a research scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), said his team had determined the Chile earthquake shorted the length of an Earth day by 1.26 microseconds. A microsecond is one millionth of a second.
The 2004 earthquake in Sumatra which triggered a tsunami that killed 230,000 people was a magnitude 9.1 temblor. That event shortened the days by 6.8 microseconds according to the same computer models.
Most interesting is the effect the quakes had on the earth's axis. Saturday's earthquake shifted the earth's axis by 2.7 milliarcseconds (about 8 centimeters, or 3 inches). The Sumatran quake shifted the planet's axis by 2.32 milliarcseconds (about 7 centimeters, or 2.76 inches).
The scientists said the 2010 Chile quake had a greater effect on the Earth's axis than the 2004 temblor because it occurred in the planet's mid-latitudes. By contrast, the Sumatran quake was near the equator.
Researchers have said that all earthquakes affect the Earth's axis. Dr. Benjamin Fong Chao, of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, said "Any worldly event that involves the movement of mass affects the Earth's rotation, from seasonal weather down to driving a car."
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Even if he succeeds.of which there is not much chance, because unless you have an inner urge, an instinct for money, the chances of your success are rare. You will be a failure, and your life will become a long, drawn-out misery. But if by chance you succeed and you become rich, still your misery will not be dropped, because you never wanted to be rich in the first place. This was not your destiny. You are living somebody else's life - how can you be happy? You are trying to fulfill somebody else's ambition and you are not in a position to fulfill your own nature.
Hence the immense misery in the world: the person who could have been a great musician has become just a pigmy industrialist. A person who could have been a great mystic has been forced to become a mathematician. Almost everybody is in the wrong place. And to be in the wrong place is very painful. You yourself are not aware of why you are suffering, because you yourself are not aware that you have missed your target. You are following somebody else's idea of what you should be.
So the first thing, according to me, begins with genetic engineering. There lies the secret of all education. Up to now what we have been calling education is a chaos.
People have been consulting astrologers about what their children should be. Now stars are not interested in your children - I don't see any possibility that stars are even aware of your children. That the congregation of stars in a certain position is going to give your child a certain potential is an unproved hypothesis. Millions of children are born in the world almost at the same moment, but those millions of children cannot have the same destiny although the stars were the same.
It is such a far-fetched idea that stars can decide your life. And if stars are deciding, then they are deciding in an insane way. Life on the earth shows that the decisions made about man are made wrongly, whosoever is making them.
People consult palmists, who decide by reading the lines of the hand. It is all sheer nonsense! Birth-charts cannot say anything about you, but all marriages are made by consulting birth-charts.and you can see what those birth-charts are doing! I used to live in a city for a few years, and just opposite me lived a very famous astrologer who was deciding people's marriages by reading their birth-charts. As we were living opposite each other, it did not take long to get introduced to him.
I told him, "Do you really believe that what you are doing is sane?"
He said, "What do you mean? I am the best astrologer around this area. People come to me from hundreds of miles away."
I said, "That I can see myself. But I also see that your wife beats you. Did you look at your birth-charts when you got married to this woman? And if you could not decide even for yourself, don't you feel ashamed that what you are doing is simply stupid - and not only stupid, inhuman?"
He was at a loss. I said, "Remember, I am a strange man. I will spread this news to everybody, and I will sit in the front of my garden to prevent people coming to you. I will tell them what is happening in your life."


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RICHLAND, Wash. - It's that time of year again...back to school
shopping! It's new, fun and exciting, but it can also be stressful for
families who struggle to make ends meet.
That's not the case this year for 25 students in the Tri-Cities, ranging from kindergarten to 12th grade, who were given a back to school shopping spree Wednesday morning at the Target in Richland.
kids are incredible young people and they are very appreciative and you
get to know somebody--it's just a lot of fun," said Gail Middleton, a
shopping spree volunteer.
Students selected for the shopping
spree were paired with volunteers from The Salvation Army, the Richland
Kiwanis Club and the Columbia Center Rotary Club. They were each given
$80 on a Target gift card and from there it was up to the student to
decide how they wanted to spend itBen Patrick's 5th grade
daughter, Caitlin, was one of the lucky shoppers. The father of three
says back to school shopping is always a big concern for his family. "We're
a one income, low-income family," said Patrick. "I'm on disability so
any help I can get is just tremendous so this here is actually a
blessing," he continued.
Patrick lost his job almost two years
ago and has undergone multiple spine surgeries. He says this much-needed
gift shows just how much the community cares for one another. "There is help out there for people who struggle and I didn't see it before, but I start to see it now," added Patrick. This
is the fifth year the Salvation Army and Target have partnered together
to provide students in need with back to school supplies shopping.


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Builders Optimistic About Improving Home Sales
Eileen is a member of The Motley Fool Blog Network -- entries represent the personal opinion of the blogger and are not formally edited.
U.S. home sales are rising -- the month of April saw the second highest level of sales in three and half years. Improvements in the job market and a reduction in borrowing costs are believed to have encouraged home buying. According to Bloomberg, the U.S. Existing Home Sales Index rose 2.3% to 454,000 units in April, up from 444,000 in March.
The pace of home sales has also been faster than anticipated -- in a survey of 76 economists, conducted by Bloomberg, their average estimate of April home sales was 425,000. The data reflects sales of more expensive homes, which rose the median selling price to a record high.
The shares of home builders such as PulteGroup (NYSE: PHM), Lennar (NYSE: LEN), and Toll Brothers (NYSE: TOL) should benefit from an improving real estate market still trying to find its footing after home values crashed in 2007.
Confidence up among home builders
Bloomberg reports that residential construction is receiving support from increasing demand for new and existing homes and fueling the current economic expansion. As property values begin to rise while mortgage rates remain at historically low levels, home builders will benefit from an increase in the number of households.
The median selling price in April increased by 14.9% from a year ago to $271,600 and reflects higher sales of homes costing $400,000 or more. The National Association of Homebuilders/Wells Fargo index of builder confidence rose to 44 from a revised 41 in the month of April. The index noted improvements in all three of its components -- sales conditions, sales expectations, and number of prospective buyers.
Lennar sees market conditions improving
Lennar reported for the first quarter ending February 28, 2013 net earnings of $57.5 million and diluted EPS of $.26 a share, compared to 2012 first-quarter earnings of $15 million or diluted EPS of $.08 per share. According to the company's press release, revenues increased due to a 28% rise in the number of home deliveries and a 9% rise in the average sales price of those homes to $269,000.
CEO Stuart Miller stated that he continues to see improvement in the market driven by low interest rates and low home prices. The company's operating margin on home sales was 10%, an improvement of 410 basis points versus last year. As the housing market recovers, Lennar has also been an active purchaser of new land, about $500 million in the first-quarter, positioning itself for future building in 2015 and beyond.
The company's average EPS for 2013 is $1.67 and next year is expected to be $2.34. Analysts estimate Lennar's growth in 2014 to be around 40% and that rate drops dramatically over a 5-year period to just 3%. The industry's average 5-year growth rate is about 21%. Lennar stock currently trades at 16 times 2014 earnings, so over the long term the share price may drop to meet decreasing growth and stabilizing home values.
PulteGroup's buyers' 'sense of urgency'
PulteGroup CEO Richard J. Dugas, Jr. saw strong demand in the housing market throughout 2012 that has carried over into 2013. He finds buyers have a greater sense of urgency due to limited inventory and rising prices throughout several markets across the country. The company's first quarter ending March 31, 2013 reported net income of $82 million, or $0.21 per share, versus a net loss of $12 million, or ($0.03) per share, in first-quarter of 2012.
PulteGroup's first quarter home sales revenues were $1.1 billion, a 35% increase compared to $814 million in the same period for 2012. Gross margin was 22.9% and rose 420 basis points over 2012 and 110 basis points over last year's fourth-quarter. New orders were valued at $1.6 billion, 18% higher than last year's orders valued at $1.3 billion.
For 2013 and 2014, the company has increased investments in land and development to $1.4 billion annually. PulteGroup's growth rate for 2014 is expected to be 18% and over the next five years it is estimated at 33%, above the industry average. With its current price trading at 13 times 2014 projected earnings, the company seems like a compelling buy.
Toll Brothers notes good time to build homes
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Full year 2013 EPS is estimated at $.81 and next year it is projected to increase to $1.51. Toll Brothers estimated growth rate for 2014 is an impressive 86% and its 5-year number is 62%, well above the industry average. The stock currently trades at 22 times 2014 earnings, so these shares present another buying opportunity.
As the housing market continues its recovery, investors can expect home sales to continue to improve. The home builders discussed above are already showing results and expectations of better days ahead.
The three companies mentioned have betas that are well over 1, so expect considerable volatility in the share price. Both PulteGroup and Toll Brothers appear to be better choices for an investment term exceeding one year. Lennar's expected low growth after 2014 and its relatively high debt to equity level of 125 is something investors should watch closely before deciding to buy.
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Valentino Rossi admitted he is starting to run out of ideas of how to transform Ducati's fortunes after he slumped to a bitterly disappointing 10th place at the Motorland Aragon track.
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Feb 09
Posts: 119
mattleon says:
maybe if it rains for the next four rounds and every round next year??? surely he could pip a win then!? haha. sad to see this happening - and even sadder to say it, but i dont think it's gonna happen either. Hope im wrong - but assuming next year is the same for him - Im really looking forward to seeing what he'll do for 2013. Will he hang up the leathers altogether? or will he say "f**k this!!!..... im gonna show you lot i aint lost it" and get back on a Yamaha, or dare i say it even a Repsol Honda for one last season? Or maybe a trip to WSB..... now THAT, i would love to see!!!!!!
Sep 11
Posts: 4
LairdShingleton says:
Does someone remeber the Bike Roger Marshal won the Daytona on ?The Headstock bolted to the Motor and the motor to the swing arm -this bike had the same problem -the engine cannot be a stressed member of the Frame ------The Motor needs to be a an isolated member around a frame so changes in steering geomerty take effect
I believe this is what jerrmy has been trying to tell Ducati -the Aluminum is only a small piece at the headstock and really will do nothing i believe-next year will see a big change i would say or there just stupid
Now for a price i know somone to make it go faster to $$$$$$$$$$$$
Oct 08
Posts: 262
LaughingGas says:
Even on the straights that bike seems gutless compared to the Honda's and Yamaha's.
Sep 07
Posts: 43
sparky16 says:
You really are a joke. If you have nothing constructive to say on a topic then don't bother commenting because you really are just pissing off a lot of the regulars on here. If you have such a hatred for rossi then good for you but why do you feel the need to express it at every possible opportunity! All I can say is grow up.
And here's a wee video for you to keep you entertained ;)
Jul 09
Posts: 79
DARMHA900SS says:
Ducati are on record some time ago saying that they didn't think the problem was the material, so why waste money building aluminium parts to the replace the carbon fibre?
The real problem is the concept of an immoveable, stressed engine and no proper frame.
Guess it's too late and too expensive to change that this year.
As I see it, Ducati are between a rock and a hard place.
Change the frame for next year and become competitive while admitting to the world that the frame concept on their new 2012 road bike doesn't work in top class racing or stick with what they have and continue to waste money and time going to GP's that they stand no chance of winning.
Either way, the damage to their image has been done and I don't think such a small company can seriously come out of this on top.
Ducati's image is top flight racing. They need to win to make their road bikes marketable.
On paper, they have the "DREAM TEAM". In reality, it's a "BLOODY NIGHTMARE".
Aug 02
Posts: 15
Fixer says:
It is no good replacing a rigid carbon fibre frame with exactly the same design but in aluminium. That would have zero flex as well. Complete new frame please - which is what I thought Ducati were doing!
Mar 11
Posts: 1386
Yamaha3358 says:
im guessing ? if not my mistake but that's the best you can do ? provide me with a race 3 years ago ? i would post one from this year, but i can't really think where Rossi has even come close to Stoner.
\This is the best video iv seen in a while though, it's very ... true.
and this, one of the best highlights ive ever seen.
Aug 11
Posts: 698
Bootlegger says:
With 1000cc around the corner and given their huge season with Capirex in 2006, maybe they should go back to basics. The stressed member (rigid engine) was pretty comfortable in the trellis which provided the flex and feel. They introduced the carbon incrementally and the results have incrementally gone backwards. The SBK bike is heavier, almost as powerfull and the sweetest turning bike on that grid. Fair enough,the Bridgestone vs Pirelli comes into play at this crossover point,but surely old Vito and Franco can troll around Mugello with the CF and Alloy options vs Trellis,let the stopwatch be the judge and the hell with their feelings and observations. Its all about lap times and consistency. They are in such a dark hole right now they have nothing to lose by slapping a D16 L-4 screamer in a trellis frame with alloy swingarm. and Bayliss and Checa to test it against the clock.
Oct 06
Posts: 587
Eddy998 says:
Well no one else is!! It's obvious that, for whatever reason, the Desmo and Rossi don't go together! 9 and a half months of tinkering have in fact made it worse! Heavier crankshaft because Rossi didn't like the fierce power delivery, and it seems Stoner did! Alloy frames now, which have made no difference whatsoever either, or made it worse! Just as well he's not getting paid on results!! It seems like a case of the tail waggging the dog here. Ducati need someone who wants to ride the bike to the limit, as Stoner did, not trying to tame it!! If Rossi continues at Ducati next year, and I hope he doesn't, it is going to be more of the same, unfortunately. He's getting too much money and not earning it. Give someone else the chance, RDP, Maverick Viñales or Marc Marquez if only they could get him! Ciao
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March 12: Collaboration to Improve Care
What's our secret? How does Banner Good Samaritan earn its reputation as the hospital in the Valley that is always available to deliver complex care? One of our key strategies is take the talents of multiple specialists and disciplines and create structures where information can be shared. It is in this environment of learning, challenging each other and asking questions where we create value for our patients. One example is the various Tumor Boards at Banner Good Sam. Let's read the words of Kathy Altergott, director of our Oncology Service line, as she describes the story of how this department works across silos to improve care every day ...
Steve Narang, MD, is the chief executive officer at Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center.
Tumor Boards at BGSMC
By Kathy Altergott
A few years ago we brought our physicians together and asked them, "What does a cancer center look like to you and what do we need to do to get there?" One of their answers was to hold multi-specialty, cancer-specific tumor boards. We had Liver, breast and GYN boards already going. To make this a reality we pulled together a team and developed four new tumor boards.
In the past two years we have started GI/Colorectal, Thoracic, Head and Neck and Malignant Hematology multi-specialty tumor boards. In March we will be starting our Urology tumor boards. This is amazing because it takes highly engaged physicians to make them successful and that is what we have here at BGSMC. Most of our tumor boards start at 7 a.m. and the rooms are full.
Cases are identified by the treating physicians. The cases are pulled together with pathology, labs, history and physical, imaging studies by Allyn LeBlanc, Becca Keller and our oncology data management staff. The multi-specialty teams consist of radiologists, pathologists, surgeons, radiation oncologists, medical oncologists, physician specialists, genetic counselor, nurses, therapists and other interested members.
The referring physician presents the case and provides a brief history of the patient and presenting symptoms. The radiologist will present the diagnostic imaging studies that were performed and the pathologist will review the pathology slides and findings from biopsy or surgery. Then the discussion starts on what are the best treatment options for this patient to provide the best possible outcomes. There is lively conversation by all physicians as a treatment plan is decided and agreed on by the team.
How fortunate for our patients that we have the physician expertise to decide the best possible care for our patients. Recently when I asked the physicians about starting the urology tumor board they all said, "Yes, what day and what time? We will be there."
Once again I am amazed and proud of our outstanding physicians and cancer care providers here at BGSMC!


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Eric Close, who plays Mayor Teddy Conrad on "Nashville," attended the 'La Bella Notte' party for the Nashville Opera.
Close told News 2 he started attending operas as a child and that he was honored to be asked to serve as the celebrity chair for the event.
"What's fun and exciting about this program, it reaches 25,000 students and adults exposing them to the arts, and I'm glad to be supportive of that," said Close.
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Bristol Palin makes many claims against Levi Johnston in her book Not Afraid of Life: My Journey So Far, which comes out on Friday. But one of the saddest came at the moment she told Johnston she was pregnant. "It better be a boy," he told her, and it's one part of her book I have no doubt is probably true.
The fact is, many, many men prefer boys. Whether it's because they're more comfortable with them or they simply aren't evolved enough to realize girls can do anything boys can do is unclear. What is clear is that men -- and some women -- prefer boys.
Most of these reasons hinge on stereotypes. These include:
Personally I have my own bias. I love having a daughter and a son, but I have no shame in saying that if we did go for a third, I would like it to be another girl. Not because of some massive stereotype, but because I enjoy having a child of the same sex. It makes me feel slightly more comfortable from the get-go.
That said, I will take the kid I get and be happy. Preferring a boy is a bit outdated. While we're allowed to have slight gender preferences, that insistence on a boy to avoid certain stereotypes is the mark of someone who isn't ready to parent any child, girl or boy.
You get the kid you get, and if that's a boy who loves pink or a girl who loves baseball, you deal and you love them. You don't get to pick.
Did you have a gender preference?
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My first born is a girl. With my second I did want a boy because we were only going to have 2. Another girl. Well fast forward 5 years and we decided we wanted to add to our family. Period. We really didn't care if it were another girl. We weren't trying for a boy. We just wanted another child. I did cry a little when I found out we were having a third girl. I had my heart set on our boy's name. He was going to have my hubby's middle name and the same initials as hubby and his dad. Well when I told my husband we were having a girl, with a little sadness in my voice, he hugged me and said "I love all 4 of my girls." I got over it right then. He is so good with them. They are 9, 7 and 2. They are absolutely daddy's girls and I really believe he could care less about not having a boy. He is the second of 5 boys. No sister's, and I have 2 of each. That's the only reason I get a little sad that we aren't having any more children. We will never have that chance to have a boy, and we're fine with that.
My first was a boy and I was hoping for a girl. Wouldn't change it for the world.
My second was another boy, and I was hoping to even the pair. Again, wouldn't change it for the world.
Not sure if we'll try for a girl or not. I just had my baby last week.
I really wanted a boy with my first, and it was a girl. But she's perfect, wouldn't trade her for the world. Her dad could NOT care less about a gender. When we start trying for #2, I know I'm going to be hoping like crazy for a boy. But if it's another girl, there will be no crushed souls either. I only ever had a sister, so a boy would be SO different for my whole family. My hubby has one brother and THREE sisters. All in a row. Two boys, three girls.
My firstborn is a boy and I'm hoping that this one will be another. Why? Because the girls in my family were the dramatic ones. Why do I want a girl? Because there's more grandsons than granddaughters in hubby's side, and right now my side is 2 boys to 1 girl. I know I'll be happy with either, but darn it, my son just melts my heart so don't blame me for wanting another that looks just like his Daddy.
My husband totally nixes the stereotype about men wanting boys. He wants daughters - and not sons. Although I know he'll love any child we end up having - if he was given the choice, he wants girls.
my dh has a son, so when we got pregnant, i was hoping for a girl. we have a beautiful son, whom i could not love any more. our next child i will be hoping for a girl. if it is a son, i will swear i wanted a boy.
Yes, I had a preference, and got over it. Now, I have one of each, so I have no complaints.
My husband says that everyone has a preference, everyone just does not admit it. I wanted a girl when I got my son and a boy when I got my daughter. I was happy with both of course. My husband wanted a girl very badly, he was thrilled when we found out we were having a daughter and now he is teaching her to play all kinds of sports.


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"To be honest, I sincerely hope Blizzard doesn't try to Sunwell this expansion. Cataclysm must go out on Deathwing's demise. He was the villain all expansion long, and we put him in the ground."
I agree, but I think it may be a question of whether Blizz can deliver an expac as soon as everyone hopes. I see a lot of people clamoring for MoP in Summer 2012, but unless it is a small xpac, I don't see how that can happen... unless the Alpha testing is far more extensive and secret than we know.
If they can't deliver (and I freely admit I don't know if they can or not), WoW may have to create some sort of placeholder patch like Argent Tournament or Sunwell to hold people over.
I'm not sure how I feel about the idea of an additional patch between now and MoP.
On the one hand, I agree with Amaxe, we may be in for a long wait. Which means I'll be able to run my stable of alts through all the content they haven't played through just yet. On the other hand, I'm not sure I want to wait until summer for MoP or new content, so if they could add something, it doesn't have to be a boss, it could just be interesting 5 man dungeons and a quest hub for all I care.
I've been saying this since Blizzcon. Blizzard knows that 4.3 won't hold up as long as they need it to, so they offer up Diablo III for free in exchange for a 12 month commitment to WoW.
Right about the time the average player is "done" with Cataclysm (whatever that means for each player is different, of course) Diablo should be ready for us to play. That will give us a good distraction from WoW (so no Sunwell patch needed) and when the Beta comes out, we can choose to go back and check out Pandaria if we like.
Personally, I'm probably going to avoid the Beta, I'd rather enjoy the content fresh when it goes live.


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"And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him." (Colossians 3:12-13)
It was one of those days. It started when I forgot to set the alarm the night before. I'm sure you can visualize the next few scenes as they unfolded. I jumped out of bed, yelled for everyone to get up and ran to see if my hair needed to be washed or if I could just pull it back. The bus was about to come, and my son couldn't find his other shoe. "By the way," he said, exiting the house, "I need lunch money." My clothes needed ironing, I couldn't find my other sock and the car needed gas. By the time I arrived at work, I felt like I already had worked an eight-hour day.
Then it happened. A coworker, who did not know what my morning had been like, saw me, smiled and said, "You look nice this morning!" That is what I needed. I needed those five words to set the rest of the day in motion. It was a great day after all!
What do you need most today? Do you need a word of hope? That's what we all need. And that's what the Word of God does that nothing and no one else can do. The Word of God says to us that there is no hopeless situation and no hopeless relationship.
My coworker, through her words, turned my day around that day. Do your actions and words build up or tear down? If you allow God's Word to anchor your soul, it will "dwell in you richly." (Colossians 3:16)
Where is your hope? It is confidence in the Word of God.
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