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5 People Who Survived Certain Death (Using Cartoon Physics)
Survival stories are big news ... if being featured on a morning talk show qualifies as "big news." But sometimes the circumstances are seemingly so impossible that they skip right over Good Morning America and launch themselves straight into Looney Tunes territory. Take, for example, the time when ...
#5. A Baby Survived a Six-Story Fall -- Right into a Doctor's Arms
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Babies can barely defend themselves against a cushy blanket during a vigorous game of peek-a-boo, let alone the forces of gravity. So if we told you that an 18-month-old baby survived a six-story fall from the window of his apartment building unscathed, you'd probably be somewhat dubious. And if we then elaborated by telling you that he survived said fall thanks to a well-timed bounce off of the awning of a cafe below, you could be forgiven for thinking that we just sprouted a face-mounted horseshit cannon. And if we further explained that the child also landed smack dab in the arms of a random passerby who just so happened to be a doctor? Well ... we don't know what would happen. People usually walk away from us long before we get to that part.
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Which means they always miss the part where the baby turns out to be a full-grown grizzly bear.
But it's all true: It happened to a particularly rubberlike youngster in Paris who flopped right into the arms of Dr. Philippe Bensignor as he strode past the closed cafe at precisely the right time. And just to put the icing on the ol' bullshit cake, the awning that broke his fall was only open that day because its closing apparatus had broken.
According to witnesses in a neighboring building, the miniature daredevil was playing near the window with his older sister moments before he fell from his apartment. Doctor/Accidental Hero Bensignor was casually strolling by with his wife and child just seconds before the incident and confessed that it was pure luck that he was able to intervene. "I was there at the right time," he said. "My son saw a little boy on a balcony. He had gone right outside the railing ... I said to myself I mustn't miss him."
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We picture this being preceded by a training montage of a Mr. Miyagi character dropping watermelons from 10 stories.
Obviously the bouncing baby boy was a little shaken by the experience mentally, but physically he was good as new after a quick blow on his thumb to reinflate him.
Still, six stories is child's play (God, we're so sorry) compared to this next one ...
#4. A Man Fell Two Miles (and Recorded Every Second of It)
After seven years, countless jumps, and the prestige of being the youngest person in the U.K. to qualify as a skydiving instructor, it's safe to say that Michael Holmes had pretty much nailed this "falling out of a plane" business. But a single 14,000-foot, 100 mph free fall with a gimpy parachute is enough to make even the most seasoned skydiver shit his flapping skypants, same as the rest of us.
It was a routine jump (or at least as "routine" as jumping out of a perfectly good airplane can be) until Holmes released his main chute, only to watch it wrap around itself and become tangled. And even though his experience and training kicked in immediately, the chute had already hit the fan (we're less sorry for that one), and the reserve couldn't deploy. The most amazing part? Holmes captured the entire horrifying incident via his helmet cam:
You can really feel the fear and desperation he was experiencing during his short and inevitable journey to Squishville (Population: Not Your Bones). Knowing that the end was near, Holmes used his few remaining seconds on this Earth (or above it, if you want to get technical) to wax philosophical on the nature of the universe, brilliantly summarizing the hopelessness of the human situation in a heartfelt, five-word requiem: "Oh, fuck! I'm dead. Bye."
Luckily, he resisted the urge to confess all his darkest sexual fantasies.
Astoundingly, Holmes landed with much less of a splatting noise than either he or his jumping partner was expecting. Rather than spreading all over the landscape in a thin layer of Michael jam, Holmes survived the fall with a mere broken ankle and a collapsed lung -- all thanks to a lowly blackberry bush. That's right: He fell two straight miles, landed in a bush, and walked away from it (metaphorically speaking) mostly fine -- save for (presumably) some of those scratch marks that look like pound symbols on his cheeks.
#3. A Man Got Yanked Through a Hole the Size of a CD Case
Depending on your perspective, 5 inches can be a perfectly average and acceptable collection of inches, thank you very much -- or it can be a horribly inadequate source of despair (stop laughing, Becky).
Back in December of 2008, a 25-year-old factory worker from Barnsley, England, discovered the latter firsthand by somehow surviving being pulled through a gap the size of a goddamn CD case.
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While many of us can't fit into our sweatpants without the aid of Crisco and a running start.
Matthew Lowe was processing steel beams with a machine presumably made by ACME when his clothing got snagged on its conveyor belt. Unable to free himself and totally powerless to prevent the inevitable, he stopped resisting and surrendered completely to the situation. "I knew what was going to happen so I just relaxed and hoped for the best," Lowe recalls. His entire body (except for his head, which luckily slipped through a bigger gap) was dragged through the 5-inch opening before the machine unceremoniously spat him out the other side. Unfortunately, humans don't share many attributes with Play-Doh, and after being extruded through the machine like a wad of fleshy clay, Lowe emerged with a broken back, hips, pelvis, and ribs, with a ruptured stomach and bowels just for good measure.
Still in shock, it took several seconds for the pain to set in. Once it did, though, the time it took for Lowe's blood-curdling screams to alert his fellow co-workers can only be measured in Planck units. Miraculously, thanks to six surgeries and Lowe's apparent Wile E. Coyote-like ability to snap back from ridiculously massive injury, the only signs that he was ever hurt at all now are a somewhat weakened right arm ...
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You can't finger bang for that long and not expect some nerve damage.
... and a refurbished metal skeletal frame that basically turned him into a ridiculously fragile version of Wolverine. We suppose that's worth mentioning, too.


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Filmmaker Michèle Stephenson '95 started shooting the documentary American Promise 13 years ago, when her son Idris began attending the prestigious Dalton School on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Stephenson and her husband, Joe Brewster, turned the camera on their own family to explore how perceived stereotypes surrounding African-American boys can affect academic achievement.
"The challenge is to be as true and transparent as possible, because that's where the power of the stories can be found," says Stephenson, a human rights lawyer.
The film documents Idris and another African-American boy as they struggle with issues of race, privilege, and opportunity. It debuted earlier this year and won a U.S. documentary special jury award at the Sundance Film Festival.
Stephenson discovered her passion for filmmaking after her first year of law school. She spent that summer working in Brazil as a Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute intern at a nonprofit organization focused on fighting racial discrimination in that country. During the workday, Stephenson helped draft legislative initiatives. In the evenings and on the weekends, she filmed young progressive artists in the country's inner-city neighborhoods. Her first short film, We Choose to Rap, focused on feminist rap music in Brazil.
Fast-forward two decades, and Idris is now in college. Early next year, Random House will publish a book that further explores the issues raised in American Promise.
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"We're very close to getting the ballpark here in South Central Kentucky and in Bowling Green. In fact, we've had extraordinarily good efforts with a core group of interested community minded people," says Warren County Judge Executive, Mike Buchanon.
So good, in fact, they've sold 1,350 tickets and the deadline has been extended.
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With and extended deadline of June 1 to sell 2000 tickets people are now wondering will it be a success or will they strike out?
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They say there are also far-reaching implications besides just baseball coming to our area.
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Cost to the clinic is $40 per person and advance registration is required.
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I have a ballhead: Markins Q-Ball Q20 with Lever Release which I use for my Nikon D90. I just bought a HF G10 Canon camcorder and would like to mount it on the Markins. What is a cheap and good bracket that I can buy for my hf g10 that will help me operate it with the q-ball?
Cheap and good rarely go together but you have bought into one of the most expensive release systems on the market. That's OK since it gives a firm grip with little play, except that it will be hard to find something genuine and cheap.
What you are looking for is a universal camera plate with a list price of $55 USD. You may find cheap knock-offs on eBay and they will be just that. Mind you, this is not a sophisticated device, so if it is not perfect it may be too loose but it won't damage the rest of your gear unless you do not notice and something drops, so test first if you buy a fake.
I agree with you that plates are much more expensive than they could be, but I also agree with Itai's response that it's just an expense that's best to get over with. On the plus side, if you get a universal plate, you'll have something that should last a lifetime and will be usable with future equipment. One universal plate that I like is the Arcatech universal that's fitted with a cork top. The cork let's me tighten the clap to a point where it won't easily slip without feeling like I'm going to crush a plastic-bodied camera. While it's not cheap, it's quite reasonable compared to some other options.


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In this video, This Old House general contractor Tom Silva and plumbing and heating contractor Richard Trethewey replace a small kitchen.
1. Unplug and remove stove from kitchen. Remove old range hood, too.
2. Disconnect the water-supply lines and drainpipe from sink.
3. Unhook the water, drain and electrical connections from dishwasher; carry dishwasher from kitchen.
4. Pry free the old countertop and remove it from kitchen.
5. Make a template of the countertops and fabricate new solid-surface countertops.
6. Use silicone adhesive to secure countertops to cabinets.
7. Apply epoxy the joint between two countertop sections; clamp the joint closed and wait for the epoxy to cure.
8. Use a belt sander to sand the epoxy joint flush with the counter.
9. Install the backsplash using silicone adhesive.
10. Seal the seam between the backsplash and counter with silicone adhesive.
11. Use a drill/driver and hole saw to bore faucet holes in the counter.
12. Install the faucet to the countertop.
13. Connect the sink's hot- and cold-water supply lines, drainpipe, and the garbage disposer.
14. Install the range hood to the underside of the cabinet above the range alcove.
15. Set the new dishwasher into place, then connect the copper water-supply tubing to the appliance with a compression fitting.
Also connect the electrical cable and the rubber drain hose.
16. Level dishwasher by rotating its adjustable feet, then secure it by screwing into the wood mounting blocks on the underside of the counter.
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Yvonne Ann Wilson, born March 4, 1923 in Dunbar to Benjamin and Marguerite Moeller, died Oct. 3, 2012 at the Autumn House in Lincoln.
Yvonne attended Peru State Teachers College. After teaching she worked for many years at Mary Moppet's in Lincoln.
She is survived by her husband of 68 years, Neal E. Wilson; children Vicki of Tucson, Ariz., Gail of Salt Lake City, Utah, and Steven (Terri) of Grand Island; five grandchildren; nine great grandchildren and one great great grandchild; brothers Robert and Jerry of California and many nieces and nephews.
She was preceded by brother Ralph.
Her family most fondly remembers the many family reunions she planned as well as their love of her chocolate chip cookies.
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I'm writing a book report and I'm mot sure which tense should I use to describe the story in it. The story in the book is set in the past time. So I wonder whether I might use the simple past tense or just the simple present tense?
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This is a long-standing case were the present historic is often used. It is though also a case were the past historic has long use.
You may freely use either. The same incidentally applies to descriptions of the writer's approach and technique, etc. (Slightly more controversially; a recent increase in use of the present historical for non-fictional elements has brought a backlash from some, though they'd mostly say it was a valid choice they disliked rather than wrong).
Some use the past historic generally, but highlight some parts by switching to present historic. Done well this can be very effective, but that gets into stuff probably more on-topic on the writers' site than here.
The present tense is usually better.
English has two so-called narrative tenses. The past tense:
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I'm vastly oversimplifying matters here but, when you want to give the impression that something really happened you use the past tense. If you don't want to give that impression (e.g. in a joke) you use the present tense.
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11 Movies Saved by Historical Inaccuracy
Every year, Hollywood pumps out "historical" epics so distorted, propagandistic and self-serving, you have to wonder just how stupid they think we are. But, try "fixing" some of those historical inaccuracies and you'll quickly realize what Hollywood screenwriters have known for years: History is lame. Here are 11 movies that make us glad no one gives a damn about trivial things like "what actually happened."
#11. Gladiator (2000)
The Flick: Russell Crowe and Ridley Scott present the epic tale of Maximus, a Roman general who became a slave, a slave who became a gladiator, a gladiator who defied an emperor and an actor/director team who threw all the audience goodwill they'd earned on this away by releasing A Good Year six years later.
The Inaccuracies: Commodus, the hare-lipped Roman Emperor who lusted after his sister in the film, was in real life held in high esteem by the senate and ruled for a successful 13 years (rather than the ineffectual few months depicted in the film). Also, though the Emperor did, in fact, have an enthusiasm for gladiatorial combat (he did so incognito), he didn't get his ticket punched in the arena. He was killed in the bath by a wrestler named Narcissus to prevent him taking office as consul.
Why It Would Have Sucked Otherwise: No one wants to watch Russell Crowe take 13 years to murder an emperor, who is basically a decent guy, only to get beaten to the kill by a wrestler. We like our villains like we like our Books of Genesis: with implied incestuous relationships. Also, since any Roman unit that broke ranks when in combat against barbarians would have been mercilessly slaughtered, the movie would have ended within about 15 minutes.
#10. Braveheart (1995)
The Flick: Mel Gibson's earliest example of "loose" historical reenactment, Braveheart marks a promising start to a career later spent boiling complex political issues down to "Mel Gibson kills Englishmen with an axe" (The Patriot) and curiously drawn-out torture scenes involving his heroes (The Passion of the Christ).
The Inaccuracies: Far from a scrappy commoner who clawed his way up from the mud to defend his homeland, William Wallace was actually a knight from a noble family, and his father Malcolm wasn't killed by the English, but fought on the English side in exchange for political favor. Also, instead of kilts, the Wallace and his army wore saffron shirts.
Why It Would Have Sucked Otherwise: We have to imagine that if Mel Gibson were forced to play a role any more layered than that of the just and righteous warrior-king-redeemer, his face would melt off from the challenge, revealing the circuitry within. And as entertaining as that would be, it's not as entertaining as the actual movie, or the years of mileage we've gotten out of screaming "They may take our things-but they'll never take our FREEEEEEDOM!" when we have our nail clippers taken away from us at airport security.
#9. The Patriot (1998)
The Flick: An American whose home gets attacked by foreigners goes ape shit and kills everybody of the same race as those who attacked him, even people who weren't actually involved. Yay, prescience!
The Inaccuracies: Benjamin Martin, the vaguely-named Mel Gibson character in the film, is actually based on a real guy in the Revolutionary War, Francis "Swamp Fox" Marion. Aside from having a more memorable name, there were some notable differences between Mel and Marion. Marion, for example, never single-handedly killed an entire British infantry unit. He did, however, slaughter dozens of unarmed Cherokee Indians and repeatedly raped his female slaves. So, there's that.
Why It Would Have Sucked Otherwise: True, it would have given us an earlier tip-off that something is dreadfully wrong with Mel Gibson, but we're not sure anyone wants to watch a movie where the bad guys burn churches full of innocent prisoners and the good guy sexually assaults slaves and hunts Indians for sport. You kind of don't know who to root for anymore, other than maybe the French-and who wants that?


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Airport destined for ballot
The airport relocation project loomed over the goings-on at Colville City Council last week and Monday evening as council members debated whether or not to authorize an advisory vote for the Nov. 8 general election. The advisory vote revolves around whether or not the City of Colville should proceed with the process to relocate and expand the municipal airport. At the July 12 meeting, council had voted four to three to give Colville residents their say on whether or not the city should proceed with plans for a relocated airport. But at the August 9 meeting, with the filing deadline for the Stevens County Auditor's Office drawing nearer (Aug.16), several council members balked at possibly spending $3,000 to $4,000 on a resolution that would serve as a recommendation only. "I don't think this is good judgment," said council member Pearl Mance at last Tuesday's meeting, citing the funding that had been pulled from Federal Aviation Administration. "We don't know if the FAA will be back in action like it was before the cuts from Congress. If we spend time on this vote instead of acting now on securing funding, it may be too late."Last Tuesday's meeting ended with that four to three vote in favor of overturning the motion to place the airport relocation on the advisory ballot. The motion caused concern among council members. Was this a legal maneuver after a motion in favor of the advisory vote had already been passed? 'In-house' business An emergency meeting was called by council and Mayor Dick Nichols for last Thursday at 7 p.m. so that city attorney Charles Schuerman could review the legalities of overturning a motion that has already been passed. According to Schuerman, who referenced Robert's Rule of Order, a motion may be discussed and deliberated as "in-house" business among city council until it is submitted to a third party. "For example, if you had already filed the resolution at the Stevens County Courthouse Elections Department, then a third party would be involved and it would no longer be considered just a city council matter," explained Schuerman. Since it was an emergency meeting, where only the purpose for calling said meeting may be discussed, Mayor Nichols scheduled another emergency meeting for Monday, Aug. 15 at 7 p.m. to discuss and take possible action on whether or not the advisory vote would indeed go on the ballot. Monday's meeting lasted all of 30 minutes, with council member Lou Janke participating via telephone since his work schedule required him to be out of town and he could not attend the meeting in person. Council members once again made their argument for and against the resolution. Mance pointed out that an advisory vote is not binding for the city council and that such a resolution is not included in the FAA's "master plans." 'It's like closing the barn door after the horse is out…' "If people want to comment on whether or not they think the airport is a good idea, we have two meetings a month at 7 p.m. at City Hall where there is a public comment period for people to bring their concerns and comments to the city council," said Mance. "But most people don't spend the time or expend the effort to do so. And we're going to pay to give them a ballot that they can fill out while sitting around in their PJ's? "If they want this vote so bad, why don't they collect donations to fund it like some of our area businesses did to contribute to the airport's site selection process? I feel there is no reason for this advisory vote other than some council members want to get a fuzzy, do-good feeling from it." Council member Doug Kyle countered that while he felt Mance's strong opinion is good, the issue of the airport is a divisive one and it is not about whether or not the idea of a relocated airport is good or bad. "It's about how many people in Colville want to support that process," Kyle questioned. "That's what this resolution would be about. There's a line from one of my favorite Bob Seger songs that says no one gets to walk between the rain. Well, it's getting close to raining time." Janke agreed with earlier commentary by FAA officials who said public support is crucial to the project, along with support from an outside source, such as Stevens County. Janke said an advisory vote on the ballot would, "honor the voice of the people." "It's like closing the barn door after the horse is out," argued council member Terry Foster, who voted against the resolution. "It would have been a wise decision two years ago, when this project was just beginning to start up again; now I think it's a foolish one." After several more minutes of commentary, Colville City Clerk Holly Pannell conducted a roll call vote on the resolution. Council voted as follows: Terry Foster-no Doug Kyle-yes Lou Janke-yes Pearl Mance-no Betty White-no Dorothy Bergin-yes Nancy Foll-yes


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HUBBARD (January 23, 2013)--Next month will mark the first anniversary of a wall that was built to honor veterans
Vietnam Veteran Donald Rogers built the wall last February in front of his home in Hubbard.
He got the idea to build the wall after spending more than 40 years trying to return name patches he took from men who died in Vietnam to their family members.
"Just before the aircraft was about to take off, I had another flight engineer hit me on the shoulder and say the commanding officer wanted to talk to me so he took my place," Rogers said.
The Chinook aircraft he was suppose to be on crashed after taking off.
Since that day, Rogers has done his best to contact family members of the seven men who died on that Chinook aircraft.
Last year his mission grew to building a wall where veterans and service men and women could be honored.
"I just don't want the guys to be forgot about," Rogers said.
The wall cost nearly $30,000 dollars, most of which came out of Rogers own pocket.
"I know memorials can be expensive so I wanted to provide an inexpensive way for families to honor them.," Rogers said.
It cost's $50 to put someone's name on the Veterans Honor Wall.
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And I am long dead in the ship, nobody became surprised.
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Columbia College's Bob Burchard to help select team
Colorado Springs, Colorado - Led by 2004-05 All-Americans Shelden Williams (Duke / Forest Park, Okla.) and Craig Smith (Boston College / Los Angeles, Calif.), and featuring six first team all-conference selections from the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), Big East, Big Ten, Pacific 10 and the Southern Conference, 13 of the country's top collegiate players have accepted invitations to attend the July 28-Aug. 4 USA Basketball men's trials and training camp in Colorado Springs. The Trials and training camp will be utilized to select the USA squad that will compete in the World University Games that are being held Aug. 11-22 in Izmir, turkey. Athlete selections were made by the USA Basketball Men's Collegiate Committee, chaired by Syracuse University (N.Y.) head coach Jim Boeheim.
In addition to Smith and Williams, athletes confirmed to compete for spots on the 2005 USA World University Games Team include: Greg Brunner (Iowa / Charles City, Iowa); Randy Foye (Villanova / Newark, N.J.); Mike Gansey (West Virginia / Olmsted Falls, Ohio); Vincent Grier (Minnesota / Charlotte, N.C.); Matt Haryasz (Stanford / Page, Ariz.); Chris Hernandez (Stanford / Fresno, Calif.); Eric Hicks (Cincinnati / Greensboro, N.C.); Jeff Horner (Iowa / Mason City, Iowa); Gerry McNamara (Syracuse / Scranton, Pa.); Patrick Sparks (Kentucky / Central City, Ky.); and Brendan Winters (Davidson / Denver, Colo.).
In addition to the 13 above-listed athletes, players competing in the 2005 USA Basketball U21 World Championship Team Trials (July 21-23) who are not selected for the team are eligible to participate in the 2005 USA World University Games Team Trials.
The 2005 USA Basketball Men's National Team Trials, which will be used to select the final 12-member team, will be held July 28-31 at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo. Athletes eligible for this competition must be a U.S. citizen who is currently working toward an accredited university degree or has recently graduated.
The USA coaches and players who will participate in the 2005 USA World University Games Trials were selected by the 10-member USA Basketball Men's Collegiate Committee which is chaired by Boeheim and also includes National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) appointee Bill Self (University of Kansas); NAIA appointee Bob Burchard (Columbia College, Mo.); NCAA appointees Fran Dunphy (University of Pennsylvania), Tom Izzo (Michigan State University), Ernie Kent (University of Oregon), and Tubby Smith (University of Kentucky); NJCAA appointee Scott Schumacher (Kilgore College, Texas); and serving on the committee as the athlete representatives are Steve Wojciechowski (Duke University, N.C.) and a member of the 1995 USA Junior World Championship Team, and A.J. Wynder, the current head men's coach at Nassau Community College (N.Y.) and a member of the 1995 USA Pan American Games silver medalist squad.


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The Kansas Department of Transportation expects a resurfacing project on U.S. 56 through Stevens, Seward and Haskell counties to begin by Wednesday, August 28, weather permitting. The project runs from the end of the full width paved shoulders on U.S. 56, northeast of Hugoton, to the Haskell-Gray county line, a distance of 41 miles.
During construction, traffic will be limited to one lane through the work zone, guided by a pilot car. Drivers can expect delays of 15 minutes or less. The Kansas DOT urges drivers to be alert, pay attention to all work zone warning signs, slow down when approaching a work zone and be prepared to stop.
The contractor, J & R Sand Co., Inc., of Liberal, plans to begin at the east city limits of Sublette, work eastward to the Haskell-Gray County line and then work back to the west. KDOT expects work on this project to be completed by early November, depending on weather. This project has a contract cost of about $5.8 million.
If you have questions on this project, you can call Greg Adams, Construction Engineer, at 620-624-4451 or Kirk Hutchinson, KDOT Southwest Public Affairs Manager, at 1-877-550-5368 (toll free).
You can stay aware of all road construction projects across Kansas at www.kandrive.org or by calling 5-1-1. To learn more about this and other T-WORKS projects, visit www.ksdot.org/tworks.
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Let's say I have a set $S$, $(s_1, ..., s_i, ..., s_P) \in S$, of $P$ identical strings over a $k$-letter alphabet, each of length $|s_i| = L$. With uniform random probability across all strings in $S$ (and all string positions in any $s_i$), I randomly substitute one character for another. And I do so $N$ times.
For $N >> 1$, all $s_i$ will approximate random sequences. But what is the average Hamming distance between any two strings as a function of $N$?


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Can we say "strong song" or should we say "powerful song" ? I want to imply that that it's vocal performance is powerful but then I thought "strong" is for describing something physical not a song maybe.
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I would only use "strong" when comparing it to other songs, or talking about the actor's performance, otherwise I would use moving or powerful instead.
There's nothing inherently wrong with describing a song as strong. Although it's less common than powerful, the usage isn't particularly unusual...
I tend to think of a "strong song" as one where the song itself has a clear, memorable musical structure, independent of any particular singer's delivery on any particular performance.
A "powerful song", on the other hand, seems more suggestive of a specific performance - or at least, it's as much about the singer's vocal power and delivery as it is about the song.


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Can I add a 12oz or 24oz of honey to a cooled 5 gallon wort without boiling it or does it have to be boiled. Does 12oz or 24 oz sound like the right addition to the wort, I was going to add 4oz of watermelon extract at bottling.
You are probably best suited to add the honey at the last half or last third of primary fermentation. This way, the yeast will have already metabolized/fermented many of the more complex sugars, such as maltose and maltriose. I would suggest boiling a few cups of water, letting it cool a bit, mix in your honey, cool the rest of the way down to your fermentation temperature, then add right into the fermenter.
Another benefit of doing it this way is since the yeast have already gone through the growth phase, bacterial contamination is unlikely, since that beer is the 'yeast gang's territory' at that point!
If you add the honey when you first pitch, they will go to work on the simple stuff first and you might be left with a sweeter beer than you would like.
Mead is often made without boiling the honey at all, so I would assume you'd be OK. I've added honey to beer with good effect twice now, but I did it after the primary malt fermentation was done. Adding the honey before you pitch will be fine, but you will loose some honey aromatics due to the vigorous primary fermentation.
I generally try to use unpasteurized honey whenever possible. Since I am shelling out for the good stuff, I don't want to apply heat because it cooks off many of the flavors. I usually mix the honey with water and then add crushed campden tablets(Potassium Metabisulphite). Just do it the night before you plan to brew.
Though the flavor nuances you gain using this technique may be hard to detect with the watermelon extract.
edit - I forgot to mention that honey itself is antibacterial. If you are using pasteurized honey you should be good to go as long as you just opened it.


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Why do we use pay top dollar and not pay top dollars? Dollar is countable, so dollars look more correct.
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I think the idiom started with advice by the State Board of Agriculture in New Hampshire, 1901...
Originally it didn't mean "obtain the top price" so much as "look to the 'margin' over fixed costs". Advice repeated in 1907 with similar wording by the equivalent Board in Massachusetts...
...and Vermont (but probably meaning, or at least implying, "top price" already)...
...then by 1911 in trade publication The Poultry Item (definitely "top price" by now)...
It's not until 1931 that I find the first instance of "pay top dollar" (with the article "the" discarded), and even then we're still in the farming context, with American cattle producer: Volume 49
Thus we see the dollar was perforce single when it started, and as the meaning gradually shifted, there was never a convenient point where it could be pluralised.
The phrase is often used in Britain too, but our own nearest "native equivalent" is pay top whack.
Imagine a stack of money. If you pay top dollar, you pay with that top dollar and every dollar bill under it in the stack. In other words, you pay a lot. It is an American idiom.
This idiom is also related to bet your bottom dollar. Same stack of money, but now you're so sure of something, you would bet it all from the top dollar down to the bottom dollar.


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The Mark Morris company, who rented the theater, has the right to institute specific policies for their performances, and we were advised that they would allow drinks and food inside the hall during their performances.
That sounds like perhaps the company wanted audience members to be allowed to bring in refreshments bought in the theater. They don't sell candy wrapped in cellophane there . . . do they?? Sorry for your rotten experience, but I'm glad it at least occurred during a performance you weren't excited about. Next time, whack that lady with the baby rattle! ;-)


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Sue Peckham is a Leavenworth resident who sings bass with the Flints Hills Harmony Chorus chapter of the Sweet Adelines, a women's barbershop chorus based in Wamego, Kan. The chorus will be performing at a show scheduled for 2 p.m. July 28 at the Lansing High School auditorium. Tickets are available at the Heritage Center, 109 Delaware St. in Leavenworth, Jones Chiropractic, 413 Cherokee St., The Corner Pharmacy, 429 Delaware St. and at the door for $15 per person
1. How did you get started with singing?
Sixty years ago, when I grew up in Kansas City, my mother wanted to sing. We went for one summer
and then she went to work and I went to high school and it didn't happen. I lived north of Manhattan, in Frankfurt, Kan., and this chorus was in Wamego. I found out about it and I said 'I want to sing,' and I've been singing ever since.
2. How long have you been singing with the Flint Hills Harmony Chorus?
I've been with them about 17 years. And the chorus started in 1981 and it's comprised of a bunch of ladies from Wamego, but now the ladies come from 13 different communities. We've got ladies in there from Junction City all the way to Kansas City. There's 38, right at the moment. We are what is called a mid-size chorus.
3. The chorus has been successful over the years in competition, winning the regional competition and participating in international contests in 2010 and 2012. Is that correct?
We have finished first or second many times. In 2009 and 2011 we won the region, which entitled us to go to the international competition. There were over 30 choruses at each competition
4.The chorus will be performing a concert at 2 p.m. July 28 at the Lansing High School Auditorium. What can people expect to see?
We do an upbeat version of the Lord's Prayer, we do an upbeat version of "Go Tell it on the Mountain." We do a lot of Beatles songs. We do some ballads. Songs that people recognize. We do current popular songs. It's a good mix. You'll be entertained.
5. What has kept you in the chorus for all these years?
You know you have these days that are like blech? You walk in that door and all that baggage stays out the door. You stand there on stage and you sing your heart out for three hours, and when you go back all that baggage has gone away. It's my joy. When my husband passed away, their support was just awesome. They are family, even as we have grown, we are family.
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Pathfinder Society Organized Play allows players to advance either 1XP or 1/2XP per session. There are no advantages offered by taking the slower XP (experience) gain, so why would someone use this option?
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The relevant bit of the Pathfinder Society Field Guide:
Primarily, the "slow" XP gain is so that you can keep playing with a particular character longer. Note that when you gain a level you pick whether you are on the slow or normal track for the next level. There are a couple of reasons you might do this:
Hypothetical 1: I like playing PFS with my friends, but I attend more games than they do
I might decide to do ½ XP for a few levels, so that I'll stay in the same tier with them.
Hypothetical 2: I really love this character, but I'm approaching the level 12 cap too rapidly!
I might then do ½ XP to prolong the life of that character.
Hypothetical 3: I GM a lot of PFS games, and all of my characters are getting XP, but I've not had time to play them
Might choose ½ XP for a level or so, in order to actually get to play the character at that level.
In the end, it's just a way to stretch out the pacing of PFS games, since there's not a lot of end-game content at level 12, and if you play a lot, you'll be leveling up fairly quickly.
Slow advancement also offers the additional benefits:
I've found with newer players that the longer they play a level the better grasp they have on the class and character, as they can spend more time mastering and getting comfortable with the abilities/feats/spells.
The reason I chose to do this when I played is so I can understand the classes better that I never play at a non-organized play setting. This allows me to find the classes quirks and as a DM helped me challenge my players that played the classes I never played before. It also helped me realize that I really enjoy the Witch class.


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[CLOSED]Some observations from grid plugins example page
So just for fun I brought up the grid-plugins example page up for ext-4.0-pr1 and compared it side-by-side with the page for ext 3.
I noticed a couple of things, especially in IE8. I haven't dug too deeply into the code yet, so this is mostly from the perspective of someone just looking at the pages.
On the example at the bottom of the page the tooltips on the buttons look really bad in IE8. They render way too wide for the text they contain. So, instead of seeing 'Add new row', it's like you see 'Add new row' and then a whole bunch of empty space to the right. The same tooltips look much better in FF, though there is a lot of vertical space. Is it possible to style the tooltips like they used to be in 3? I'm just not sure I like the color now compared to the default grid color scheme.
IE8 gets the opacity of the icon on the Remove Something button wrong. The text still looks disabled, but the red circle icon definitely does not. In FF it looks ok.
None of the fields busted out the '...' for the overflow - now they just look cutoff. Is this intentional?
In IE8 there is an egregious amount of vertical space between rows on the first row expander example. The rows are noticeably taller than every other example on the page. Again, in FF it looks much better.
I kind of liked the way the grids in 3 had a different background style for the plugin column. I guess this is a matter of taste. Will this be easily configurable in 4? Sorry if this is obvious; like I said, haven't had much time to look at the code yet.
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Rose is a rose is a rose on Valentine's Day
|Susan Occhino of the Dutch Flower Lady on Grand Street sets up flower bulbs gift boxes for sale in Waterbury. Steven Valenti / Republican-American
"Most of the people who come in just for Valentine's Day buy roses," says John Varanelli, of the Orchid Florist in Waterbury. "The once-a-year flower-buyer? To them, a flower is a rose."
Americans are expected to spend more than $18.6 billion on Valentine's Day this year, reports the National Retail Federation. More than half of gift givers will buy candy, and one-third will give flowers. Men will spend an average of $175.61 on jewelry, flowers, a romantic evening out and more, while women will spend approximately $88.78, according to the retail group.
And local florists say men are the one's buying flowers. In 2010, an estimated 198 million roses were produced for the Valentine's Day holiday, according to the Society of American Florists.
"We do have women picking up things for their friends or their mothers," said Sally Burt of the Pink Petunia in Cheshire.
Men purchase about 75 percent of the 110 million roses sold in the U.S. at this time every year. That makes Valentine's Day the busiest day of the year for florists.
"It's very hectic," says Burt. "The phones are ringing off the hook. There are a lot of people dropping in to pick up something special. It's very stressful but it's fun."
Tanya Dowd of Lily and Vine in Torrington says her workload increases up to 10 times that of a normal day on Valentine's Day. "We definitely have to have extra people delivering," she said. "Thank goodness I have a supportive family."
On an average day, Varanelli says the Orchid Florist will make 40 stops. On Valentine's Day, the number jumps to 500. "It goes absolutely crazy," he said. "It's like no other holiday of the whole year. It doesn't let up. The economy could be good, bad, whatever. It doesn't matter."
Traditionally, says Varanelli, a red rose stands for passionate love. White means purity. Pink connotes innocence and yellow stands for friendship.
Expect to spend between $75 to $90 on a dozen long-stemmed roses from a florist.
And all roses are not created equal. Typically, roses bought in a grocery store will not last as long as those from a florist, nor will the stems be as long, says Susan Occhino of the Dutch Flower Lady in Waterbury.
Varanelli says there are hundreds of varieties of roses and most come from Columbia or Costa Rica. "I have 30 different varieties of red alone," he said. "Each open differently. Some are redder. Some are darker. There are different petal counts. It changes constantly."
The Orchid Florist is now using a rose called Freedom. At Lily and Vine in Torrington, Dowd is partial to Bacarra, a darker red rose. "It looks like velvet," she says. "We pride ourselves on trying to have our roses last a really long time, from one to two weeks. That's the difference between the grocery store and here."
If you haven't ordered roses in quite a long time, the one difference you might notice is in scent. Varanelli says years of concentrating on stem length, thickness of stem and more petals in the flower has bred the scent out of most roses. "Very few have a scent now but (growers are) working to bring the scent back. Now it's a novelty to have a great fragrance."
If you are looking for a more overpowering scent, you might want to try the David Austin English rose. "It's an older rose with a great scent," Varanelli says. The downside is they don't last as long. They might wilt on you earlier."
Good roses should last from one to two weeks, florists say. "The only thing that will kill it is heat and air movement," says Varanelli. Occhino says certain maintenance is key. Always use the food florists supply, she says. Don't use scissors to cut the roses. Instead, use a sharp knife at a 45 degree angle. Replace the water every two days.
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Foraging Food Magazines
Join us this month when we will be sharing food inspired from food magazines. Explore the library's periodical collection, which offers diverse and delicious ideas. Make your favorite dish to share, bring the recipe, and join a small community for a casual potluck dinner and conversation.
Need an inspiring recipe?
Bud Werner Memorial Library's collection of magazines is on the second floor. A special reserve collection will also be available at the Front Desk -- collected for your easy perusal. Of course you can put to use that stack of magazines you were about to send to recycling too.
About Cooks With Books
Cooks with Books is for people who enjoy researching, creating and sharing food. This book discussion group meets once a month and is facilitated by Bud Werner Library's Circulation Services Manager, Michelle Dover. Participants prepare a dish based on the month's theme and share it with the group. The group is open to anyone interested in participating, but is limited to 15 participants per meeting.


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Is the corestriction map from a subgroup H to a group G, on the first Tate cohomology group H^1, dependent on the chosen transversal of H is G?
No, because the map on cochains is $f\mapsto \sum_{g\in G/H}gfg^{-1}$ where $f$ is $H$-linear, so that any other coset representative $gh$ would not have any effect.
This shows that $cor^G_H$ is independent of the choice of transversal on the level of cohomology. But in that paper of Eunmi Choi, a $\textit{different}$ map on the level of cochains is given (using the bar resolution), which also induces $cor^G_H$ on cohomology, and this $\textit{is}$ dependent on the choice of transversal, as is shown in that paper. But all such images lie in the same cohomology class.


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Just wondering if guys have any settings for Canon 50D and EF-S 10-22? Or are you just using the 40D settings instead?
Just wondering if guys have any settings for Canon 50D and EF-S 10-22? Or are you just using the 40D settings instead?
50D is same as 40D on the outside. So use the 40D setting.
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Thanks Nick.
I have a 50D, EF-S 10-22 and Nodal Ninja 3 + MKII (which I am in the process of returning) and the setting for the 40D shown below does not seem to work (93mm)
I have found the entrance pupil for the for 50D + EF-S 10-22 @ 10 mm is 104.5mm (top rail Nodal Ninja 3 + MKII) which means camera body hits the lower rail when you try and take a zenith image.
Although it is not possible to achieve the full rotation up for a proper zenith shot with this setup, it is possible to fill the zenith area with a single image taken at maximum angle possible, without changing the entry pupil position.
Another strategy would be to take a zenith shot shifting the camera position on the rail to complete the rotation, and then patch the zenith hole as you were doing if it was the nadir.
Of course, the Nodal Ninja 5 doesn't have the above limitations.
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Thanks for the advice.
I'm going send back the NN3 + D16 and use the refund to get a NN5L.


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January 10, 2011
Visit the SAS Assegaai submarine in Simon's Town
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The SAS Assegaai museum submarine in Simon's Town aims to gives visitors the opportunity to experience life in a submarine with it's perfectly preserved interiors and expertly guided tours.
Decommissioned in 2003, the French-built submarine SAS Assegaai has been lovingly restored by a group of retired and in-service naval staff who, with the blessing of the South African Naval Museum, have opened her up to the general public.
Visiting the museum
As the museum is in the Naval Dockyard, access is only by a scheduled bus service from the station with a pick-up point at Jubilee Square (113 St Georges Street, Simon's Town).
In addition to having some degree of sea legs, it is imperative that visitors are reasonably fit and don't have a fear of small, enclosed spaces: Simon's Town Boat Company's dockyard ferry takes you to the sub, and you enter and exit the vessel on a vertical ladder.
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Booking should be done at the HGTS Tours office at Simon's Town station or the Stadco office on Jubilee Square. For bookings please call +27 (0)21 786 5243 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Guided tours take place daily (weather permitting) between 10h30 and 15h00 (December to June) and 11h30 to 14h30 (July to November). A maximum of three groups of between 10 and 12 persons can visit at any time. The 60-minute tour departs from the Simon's Town harbour and is R40pp for adults and R20 for children under 12 and icludes the bus trip and tour.
The knowledge of the ex-submariners on board is extensive and their passion for this grande dame is quite contagious!
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GATESVILLE (March 6, 2013)—Coryell County won a $15,000 award after finishing second in the annual Texas Hog Out Challenge, state Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples announced Wednesday.
A total of 891 hogs were killed in the county from October to December 2012.
The $20,000 first-place award went to Sutton County, where fewer hogs were killed, but more residents took part in educational programs, which were also factored in.
Altogether 7,150 feral hogs were killed as part of the competition.
Since the challenge began in 2010, 23,684 hogs have been killed.
An estimated 2.6 million hogs cause $550 million in damage annually in Texas.
"The feral hog population has exploded in the last 20 years," Staples said.
"These hogs are destroying front yards, farmers' fields, golf courses and other public and private properties all across Texas, resulting in millions of dollars in damage. This is both an urban and rural problem that directly affects our economy and the future of Texas agriculture."


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NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) " Christian and Muslim leaders in Cyprus on Wednesday repeated their full support for ongoing talks aimed at reunifying the ethnically-split country, saying their united stand for peace serves as a strong example of cooperation in a region where conflict is often fueled by religion.
LANSING, Mich. (AP) " Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder on Wednesday proposed spending hundreds of millions more dollars to address Flint's water crisis and to update infrastructure, including lead water pipes, in the city and across the state.
YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) " The governor of Cameroon's Far North region says two suicide bombers have killed at least 10 people in an attack on a northern village.
KOLKATA, India (AP) " A wild elephant rampaged through an east Indian town on Wednesday, smashing cars and homes and sending panicked people running before the animal was tranquilized to be returned to the forest.
DETROIT (AP) " Computers that control cars of the future can be considered drivers just like humans, the federal government's highway safety agency has found.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) " Here's the latest on the 2016 presidential race as Republican and Democratic candidates head from New Hampshire to South Carolina and beyond. All times local:
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) " Allies of Hillary Clinton are forming a new $25 million political organization that aims to expand voter protection and drive turnout and registration among Latino and black voters. Those voters will be essential to her...
WASHINGTON (AP) " The U.S. says Russia's counterterrorism campaign in Syria is actually helping the Islamic State.
NEW YORK (AP) " Twitter is tweaking its timeline.
NEW YORK (AP) " Donald Trump's first place finish among the GOP candidates in the New Hampshire primaries was greeted by a mock online documentary of the brash businessman starring a furiously wigged Johnny Depp.
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Dodge City Community College plans to build an agriculture learning center in order to offer additional education programs.
The designs for the learning center have been completed. Currently, the community college and its foundation are in the process of working with local government entities and private donors to raise funds for the project, according to Roger Proffitt, director of the Dodge City Community College Foundation.
The plan to build the Dodge City Community College Agriculture Learning Center is a result of feedback received from members of the agricultural community in southwest Kansas, Proffitt said.
The learning center would give the community college a means by which to provide for the needs of its partners which include the residents of Ford County, the Ford County Commission, the Kansas State University Cooperative Extension, the City of Dodge City, and Unified School District 443, according to the 2013 President's Report, authored by Dr. Don A. Woodburn.
The learning center would be able to host 4-H, Future Farmers of America, and college judging camps and contests. The facilities would also be ideal for rodeo and roping events, and equestrian shows and events, according to a promotional brochure for the center, the president's report states.
Dr. Woodburn believes the best location for the center is at the Western State Bank Expo Center.
The first phase of the project will include a classroom and office building, a student equestrian stable facility, at the Western State Bank Expo Indoor Arena, the report says. Additionally, a breeding stable, a judging pavilion, an outdoor arena, a building for the KSU Farm Management Association, an AI building, a concession and ticket building, a hay barn, an equipment barn, and greenhouses would be built.
The first phase of the project is expected to cost $4.5 million. Before construction can begin, the Ford County Public Building Commission must give its approval. In the meantime, DC3's Board of Trustees is exploring a number of options for funding the center, including industrial revenue bonds, said Dave Wetmore, director of marketing and human resources.
After the construction project is complete, the community college would lease-to-own the facility for 20 years or until the bonds have been repaid, according to Dr. Woodburn's report.
It is not clear when construction would begin or when the project will be completed.
According to Proffitt and the community college's 2013 President's Report, the learning center will attract about 200 additional students to the college. The tuition and fees the students pay are expected to add $5,000 per student to DC3's coffers or about $1 million in total.
"It is going to increase the student population. Those are our customers. We will have to hire more faculty and staff, which will bring more money to town," Proffitt said, in regards to the center and other projects that are planned for the community college.
Page 2 of 2 - High school students who are deciding where to attend college would be more likely to come to Dodge City if the community college has attractive facilities and educational options that meet the needs of the students. "It's a no-brainer," he said.
The tuition and fees that the students will pay are expected to greatly exceed the amount of money that will be needed to repay the bond and add additional faculty and staff, according to the president's report.
In addition, each of the students that enroll in the college due to the new learning options will add approximately $10,000 to the local economy. The local economy will see a $2 million annual economic benefit with the arrival of the new students, according to Proffitt and a Kansas Association of Community College Trustees study that is cited in the president's report.
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Though work on the rebuilding of State St. Baptist Church is near completion, the legal wrangling over payment for the project has just begun.
The church's 100-year-old sanctuary was destroyed by fire on May 4, 2000. Glasgow-based contracting firm Alliance Corporation was hired to rebuild the church at a cost of more than $2 million. The church rededicated their new facility this August, but has been embroiled in heated negotiations with Alliance over whether or not the project is complete, and how much the church owes. Now, Alliance is suing the church, claiming it is owed the full sum of the construction contract.
Church officials say several hundred thousand dollars worth of additional expenses were incurred because of an elevation error made by the contractors. Alliance corporation acknowledged in a written statement that it will not charge the church for any expenses incurred because of the mistake, and says it has upheld that promise. But church officials say they are being asked to pay for items that are directly related to the elevation error, and want such items removed from their bill.
Church officials also say there are more than 100 items on a "punch list" still to be completed by the contractor, while Alliance says they have finished the project. Earlier attempts at mediation have failed, but both sides say they still hope to resolve the dispute before a potential trial reaches a judge and jury.


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The unemployment rate may go down a little more after today's announcement that Kobe Aluminum will be expanding and starting a new production line, creating around 15 more jobs in Bowling Green. Governor Beshear says this is proof that the statistics on job growth are real.
"Last year, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics said Kentucky is the second fastest growing state in the whole country in terms of job growth," said Gov. Steve Beshear.
With the company having Japanese roots, Beshear says Kobe is one of 420 foreign businesses in Kentucky, businesses that believe the state has something no one else does. Kobe says they do.
"This is the only facility in this country that forges this size aluminum components... we have large equipment that is capable of forging aluminum of this size," said Victor Steele, Kobe Aluminum Plant Manager.
They offer an environment Nashville's Consul-general of Japan says is good for business.
"It's a fantastic factory. So much of the latest equipment... so many wonderful people working hard... generating wonderful employment, and at the same time, transferring the technology to other American companies," said Consul-general of Japan Motohiko Kato.
One of the strongest relationships between Japan and the U.S. is in Kentucky. Governor Beshear says the state has the second highest Japanese foreign direct investment in America.
Kobe already has more than 200 employees, but this new $11 million investment will bring those new jobs in by next August.


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Is there evidence or rule in UX against showing tabs within wizard steps for forms? For e.g If there is a 4 step process and it needs to be brought down to 3 steps, we are thinking of combining 2 steps into one to make it so. However it will become a very big step with lots of fields. So is tabbing relevant/advanced but not mandatory information a do-able idea or having a collapsible section better?
If you've got two tabs or an "advanced" section then unless that information is optional it's still really four steps. You haven't really shortened the process but you've made it more likely that people will miss out this "hidden" step.
If you really want it to be three steps rather than four then you must either:
If neither of these approaches work, then you are left with keeping it as a four step wizard.
You are trying to combine two different navigation methods, which is always going to be confusing and problematic. In wizards that have tabs within the steps, these should only be used for some extra, optional, additions, not for the main use. It should be normal to go through the wizard giving minimal information and get a correct and reasonable result out of the far end.
You may, based on other comments, be able to put some of the optional information on a separate tab, if you reorganise your data. But do not make the normal or expected route through the wizard including a second tab.


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Why America's long history of protecting religion is at the center of gay marriage debate
Randy Squires, Associated Press
Early American colonist Richard Keene wasn't interested in training for the Maryland militia in 1658, and with good reason — his Quaker faith prohibited him from bearing arms.
But some locals had no sympathy for pacifists like Keene. One sheriff, angered by Keene's resistance, drew his cutlass and made a pass at Keene's chest, declaring, "You dog, I could find in my heart to split your brains," according to an account in the history book "Liberty and Conscience," edited by Peter Brock.
Conscientious objectors eventually won their religious exemption from military service, but not before paying fines, serving jail time and enduring public shame that lasted through World War II.
"The debate over military service got heated at times, and in some ways it's the highest-stakes example of the religious exemption," said Douglas Laycock, a law professor at University of Virginia and a recognized expert on religious freedom. "(During the Revolutionary War) the population wasn't very large, national existence was on the line and there was some resentment of the Quakers."
Defending individual conscience rights has often been divisive, whether the issue has been military service, vaccinations, union dues or school curriculum. Today, the battleground is the legalization of same-sex marriage, which is testing the limits of exemptions to balance personal religious freedom and equal rights for gays and lesbians.
Headlines have highlighted the personal conscience aspects of the controversy, including penalties and lawsuits against innkeepers, bakers, a florist, a photographer, government clerks and therapists who have refused to serve gay couples. But gay activists contend that exempting people who don't want to do business with them for religious reasons would cause more problems than it would solve. In the 15 states where gay marriage has been legalized — Hawaii being the latest just this week, with Illinois expected to follow next week — only one state has an exemption that goes beyond protecting clergy and religious organizations to include individuals.
"People are entitled to their own (religious) views," said Evan Wolfson, president of the gay rights organization Freedom to Marry. "But to go from that to saying we should start issuing licenses to discriminate based on people's views is a recipe for unraveling democracy itself, let alone upending the balance that has worked well to protect religious freedom as well as civil rights."
On the other side are traditional marriage advocates who don't see any way to reconcile their differences with supporters of same-sex marriage. Rather than negotiating a truce, they want to reverse an accelerating trend toward including gays and lesbians under nondiscrimination and marriage laws.
And in the middle is a group of legal scholars, faith leaders and politicians who believe the traditional way of hammering out a compromise through religious exemptions can still work today.
"Both groups have a lot in common in trying to live out their lives as whole people in terms of their religious and sexual identity," said Robin Fretwell Wilson, a family law professor at the University of Illinois and supporter of exemptions. "Both sides can walk away with substantial gains and dignity if the exemptions are calibrated so they never have to bump up against each other in a way that's deeply problematic."
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History backs up Wilson's optimistic outlook. While religious freedom enjoys strong protection in the Constitution, shoring up that First Amendment right to exercise one's faith has almost always been contentious.
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March 25, 2013
EVENT: James J. Kemple, executive director of the Research Alliance for New York City Schools, will present an independent assessment of how the high school landscape changed from 1999 to 2011, a period when the number of high schools nearly doubled - despite the closing of more than 50 underperforming schools - as part of a trend toward much smaller schools of choice. Kemple's presentation will also examine variations in key student outcomes, such as attendance, ongoing enrollment, and graduation- and college- readiness rates. This paper is the first in a series of short reports designed to inform future policy and accelerate progress in areas where gaps remain.
Hosted by the CUNY Institute for Education Policy at Roosevelt House, the event will include a discussion of the Research Alliance's findings with featured guests Shael Polakow-Suransky, Jeffrey Henig, and moderator David M. Steiner of the CUNY Institute for Education Policy. An audience Q&A will follow.
WHEN: Wednesday, March 27,
Reception: 5:30 p.m.
Presentation: 6:15 p.m.
WHERE: Roosevelt House
47-49 E. 65th St.
WHO: James J. Kemple, executive director, Research Alliance for New York City Schools
David M. Steiner, founding director, CUNY Institute for Education Policy, and Klara
and Larry Silverstein Dean at the Hunter College School of Education
Shael Polakow-Suransky, chief academic officer, New York City Department of
Jeffrey R. Henig, professor of political science and education and chair, Department
of Education Policy & Social Analysis at Columbia University's Teachers College
RSVP: Reporters only. To request a copy of the report or to attend the event, please contact Courtney Bowe in the NYU Office of Public Affairs at 212.998.6797, firstname.lastname@example.com to reserve a seat.
About the Research Alliance for New York City Schools
The Research Alliance for New York City Schools is a non-partisan research center housed at the New York University Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. The Research Alliance conducts rigorous studies on topics that matter to the city's public schools. The organization strives to advance equity and excellence in education by providing evidence about policies and practices that promote students' development and academic success. To learn more about the Research Alliance, visit http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/research_alliance/.
About the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
Located in the heart of Greenwich Village, NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development prepares students for careers in the arts, education, health, media, and psychology. Since its founding in 1890, the Steinhardt School's mission has been to explore the human experience through public service, global collaboration, research, scholarship, and practice. To learn more about NYU Steinhardt, visit: http://steinhardt.nyu.edu.
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For the moment, Bennington's two major sources of revenue-tuition and fundraising-remain steady. Our major donors continue to support Bennington. And we have seen no decline in applications to the College. We are particularly focused on financial aid and our first priority is to maintain the current and very high levels of support. Bennington's endowment has suffered the same fate as everyone else's, but for us it provides a relatively small portion of the College's operating revenue. Agonizing as it is to see that precious and hard-earned asset diminish, it has not had a major impact on the operating budget.
This being said, we are fully aware of the magnitude of the crisis and appreciate that the current situation can change significantly and that it is more than likely going to get worse before it gets better. In such an atmosphere of concern and uncertainty, freezes, across-the-board cuts, and a backing off of new projects are especially tempting. The problem is that they are formulaic ways of dealing with an evolving situation and necessarily sideline the role of flexibility, imagination, intelligence, and judgment. Those are Bennington's stock in trade and we are particularly loath to abandon them, most especially in times like these. It is worth remembering that Bennington began in 1932 during the Great Depression and prevailed against unspeakable odds. Given that history we are unlikely to abandon at this moment the remarkable faith of the founders in the power of ideas and the human resourcefulness such ideas unleash.
Moreover in addressing this time of national crisis, a major consideration has been the special responsibility of private educational institutions whenever and however possible to show the kind of confidence now that is absolutely critical to our country's and the world's future.
Hence, while we are asking everyone to keep routine spending at a minimum and to cut back wherever possible, we are not going to initiate freezes or across-the-board cuts at this time and we are continuing our building and renovation projects. The maintenance of our building and renovation projects has, in addition, substantial financial consequences for the surrounding community at a time when that community is under tremendous pressure.
While what has preceded necessarily focuses on Bennington, it is important to point out that our greatest responsibility as an educational institution is to use the resources of this community to understand what actually happened in this stunning collapse, to come as close as we can to understanding why it happened, and, most of all, to think hard about what would be the most compelling responses short and long term to a breakdown of such monumental proportion. I look forward to talking with faculty, staff, and students in the coming weeks to engage in that discussion.
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Fashion Faceoff: Lindsay Lohan vs. Lily Allen
It's never a surprise to see Lindsay Lohan in Chanel — not only is she friends with designer Karl Lagerfeld, but she's a frequent shopper at their stores. But British pop sensation Lily Allen in a conservative tweed-trimmed dress? Now that's something we never thought we'd see! But both young stars hit the party scene this week (in N.Y.C. and London, respectively) in their identical ivory frocks. We want to know what you think! Tell us: Who wears their Chanel dress better? Lindsay Lohan or Lily Allen?
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