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The Vine - April 2013 - 04-28-2013, 02:17 PM
What's New.
Sorry this edition is so late, I had tons of work shifts then a lot of other stuff to get thru before I could post this. XD I was thinking about having a Dolls & Stories style contest for the summer, if there's any interest; kinda like the one we had for Halloween last year. If anyone's interested, post here and let me know! There'd be loads of time to get entries in and winners would get a doll made for them.
Dolls Of The Month.
Best Handdrawn.
Best handdrawn doll this month just has to be Hayley's awesome Alice Liddell doll. Go see and comment on her thread here.
Best Dollmaker.
Hard to choose but in the end I picked out keewee's Easter doll. How cute! Comment on her thread here.
Happy birthday to softballdoll, LiLreBeL08, PalmettoMoonCEH, Renbox, naruto_fan and MsShino!
Your thought process resembles toilet tissue paper. Pour something moist over it and it will disintegrate. Your string of thoughts can easily dissolve. You need to focus. Recycle your old thoughts if you must, and stay solid. Like a fragile, delicate, shivering strawberry, you will be helplessly looking at another sad situation, but your fragile state of mind and your chronic lack of confidence will hold you back. Ripen up this month, soak in enough information so that you can lie convincingly. You still have time to make your mark on the world.
Have you ever had tabasco hot sauce in your eyes? If so, you know the feeling, something similar may happen this month if you are not careful. Feeling trapped? Again? Kindness is a trap. Tell your friends and relatives not to be so kind to you anymore! Today the words Because I said so will either get you ignored or punched in the face. Don't say we didn't warn you. You will own the remote control in a room full of people and have an uncanny ability to select a programme no one wants to see. Watch your back. Your uncanny ability to irritate and annoy will come back to bite you in the butt this month so be warned.
Just stay still, if you stay still it can't find you. That's sharks, you idiot. Sharks and dinosaurs. This isn't Jurassic Park. If you do not have anything appropriate or pleasant to say to other people, you will please restrict your remarks to the weather. In other words, keep your mouth shut this month. This summer you will take up a hobby that nobody thinks is cool but you. If you have any friends left after what you did last week, they might be making their excuses not to see you this month. Note: Do not use this isolation thing as an excuse not to wash. You still have to leave your place of residence occasionally and you don't want to subject shop assistants to that.
Sooner or later you will be recognised as somewhat of a supernatural horror enthusiast. Be warned; believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear. Dont forget to turn off your lights at night. And for god's sake, don't go down into the basement when you hear noises there. Run out the door and use your mobile to call the cops. This is 2013, not 1913, you know and if you don't want to become a horror movie cliche victim, you'd better remember it. Someone will ask you, What do you like about your job? Your response will be, My chair spins. Perhaps it's time to find another... job or chair, either works. You also might want to consider occasionally wearing a different shirt for once.
Forgetful? Can't remember where you put things? There's an app for that, somewhere... You would be much happier about your test results coming back negative if it wasnt a personality test. You have personality issues, dear friend. It would be great for everyone if you could do something about it. A clothing explosion will happen in your bedroom. Not to worry as those types of explosions can always be 'unexploded' later. Be careful on your road to soul searching though as there will be a whole load of monsters to defeat on the way! Luckily there will be no monsters in your bedroom this month. As for next month... I really cannot say. Be patient and wait for next month's horrorscope.
Youre a powerful force to be reckoned with but this may be a temporary phenomenon. You will gain extra power and strength form some of the most unworldly sources. But there is a source close to you, a dark channel that will fold you back down to the ground. Remember, the devil wears many disguises. When you walk through the valley of death you shall fear no evil, for you are the evillest b*tch in the valley. But do you want to stay evil and forever in the valley? Find someone to turn on your satnav and get you the hell out of there before you're lost forever. Make sure this month that you try and wear other colours, black might be slimming but it's only accentuating your evil aura.
This month you will be suffering from whats known as Brain Freeze. In some cases this is a legitimate issue, in others it is just a zombie treat. Just remember, drinking and drugs will not solve all your problems. That's what chocolate is for. Never compare yourself to anyone or it will cause you agony, it will give you sleepless nights, it will cause you stress, drive you to insanity and ultimately it will lead you to a negative thought process which will stay with you till the day you die. Many things will happen around you this month. You will have sooo much to tell your friends but unfortunately your information bank will start to crash. You may find yourself continuously suffering from a short-term memory loss or the selective-memory-syndrome. Though it is not always a bad thing.
This month an enchanted toad will ask you to kiss it on the lips so that it may transform itself into the most beautiful member of the English royal family. Try not to oblige if you can help it. Theres a warrant out for its arrest in four separate states. Family members will tend to pester you with their sage advice this month. No matter how annoying they get, remember that therapy is expensive but bubble wrap is for free. Youve been through a lot recently and to stand up and try again at something you failed before shows great character and further depths to your soul. If you dont succeed this time then at least youve given it your best effort and there can be no doubt its time to start movin on up like M People never actually managed to do.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life. And you decided to wear that? Even Elton John might wince at that colour combination. Who said Librans are romantic? They are meant to be but you really have lost the plot. You are not flirting, not socialising, and not doing enough about it. Do you even know what the word Romantic means? Go and do some of that romantic stuff. Maybe that way youll accomplish finer partners in life. Youre selfish, awfully short tempered, occasionally too impulsive, impatient, reckless and narrow minded, whilst you, of course, you think best of yourself, so youll believe that none of those are true. Well, guess what cookie, its not just your way or the highway. Its actually one way, or at least one way for you. And that is straight to hell, and no way back! Enjoy the sizzler!
You are pompous and patronising. Your dogmatic attitude is getting boring. You will truly help yourself if you stop bossing around and stop interfering in other peoples business. You think you are the best thing in the universe, but really you are intolerant and no one likes you. Fix up! Please!!! Do something about it! PS: you do have an ok sense of humour on Saturdays, so feel free to express yourself then. Your jealousy and resentfulness is driving a lot of your friends to insanity. You are a compulsive obsessive, which also makes you a maniac. You are revengeful, weird and just plain scary! And you have secretive stalking tendencies. Leave people alone, really, you psycho!
If you dont watch yourself this month youll end up sleeping like a rock, literally. Youll wake up in a flower bed with a house key under your belly. This month you will be very courageous. Do not confuse courage for stupidity. It is time for you to stop daydreaming and get back to reality. Failing to tune into the reality will result in you missing out on all the new and exciting things taking place within the real world. You think that you are the world's best at barbequeing but people only say you are so as not to hurt your feelings. In actual fact, you are the worst cook in the entire world and your friends would prefer it if you stayed away from the outside cooking entirely and quit trying to poison them.
Youll trip over a tree root. When you look up youll see a big mouth with or without teeth. You will keep on staring up at the talking tree in horror. Not to worry though. Talking trees are friendly, its the biting trees you got to watch out for. If you meet those, just sing the "giggle at the ghosty" song; your singing is enough to remove any threat from your path, even biting trees. People say revenge is the most worthless of causes. Well, dont listen to them. After all, what the hell do they know? You are too unpredictable, often unemotional and becoming increasingly detached. You claim to be honest, but that is short lived and your best friend thinks youre a nutjob who needs to be locked away. Apart from all that, everything's cool.
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Former area resident Margaret Koniski-Demko recently was named the Vinton County Mental Health Advocate of the Year for 2012 by the Athens, Hocking, Vinton 317 Board.
Koniski-Demko's work in Vinton County is as the Family & Children First Coordinator and program manager of a federally funded home visiting program for children from birth to age 5. The program is funded by the Maternal Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program from the Ohio Department of Health.
Vinton County was the only county in the state - eight received the grant - to have the program run to capacity, according to Koniski-Demko. "I have also written for more funding for next year, and if the grant is awarded, Vinton County will have the largest home visiting grant in the state through ODH. I also manage 14 other funds at the Vinton County health department and have some case management duties when youth over the age of 5 are in need of community supports," she explained.
Koniski-Demko serves on the Athens County Board of Developmental Disabilities, the Ohio Developmental Disabilities Council and the Ohio Help Me Grow Advisory Council, the latter two being governor-appointed positions.
The daughter of John and Rosemary Koniski Sr. of Steubenville, she is a 1993 graduate of Catholic Central High School and a 1996 graduate of Ohio University. She resides in Athens with her husband, Tom, and daughter Emily, 7, who has Down syndrome.
"I have always said that the birth of my daughter seven years ago changed my life - not just the way the birth of any child can change you, but in a much more profound way," she said. "I learned what it was like to have to find services and supports to help me. I learned what it was like to not know where to turn, and to see that 'the system' is extremely difficult to navigate. I want to help families who need it most in Appalachia when they need it. I want to help them know where to turn and to not ever have to doubt that there is support out there," she said.
"She is my inspiration for the work that I do and the reason that I have found my calling in life. I was proud to receive the award on behalf of the children and families in Vinton County, but it is because of her and because of all the children and families out there who need a little helping hand that I do what I do," Koniski-Demko said.

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28 Jun 2012 5:30 AM #1
Optimizing Map Performance
I've done some looking around and have found a few good articles on dropping google maps into a mobile app. I haven't yet found a definitive "silver bullet" list of things to do to make sure that your map is optimized and as near native as possible.
While I know there may never be a true silver bullet list, I would like to see what other sencha developers have found in regards to providing a great maps experience to their users.
I replaced all of my KML overlays with JSON data that I parse into google.maps.Polygon objects. Along with all of the google maps api docs, this article was a great help in dealing with polygons: http://groups.google.com/group/googl...d4da9a057900ad. Some of the data I pull has thousands of LatLng points so I have plans to save the created Polygon objects to the device for re-use. I found that parsing and creating the Polygon object has shown some slower than desired performance...especially for large data sets while the actual drawing has been snappy...even for large data sets.
This article has a lot of great info/suggestions on how to ensure a good user experience (most of which can apply to sencha apps despite it being written for mobile apps in general): http://blogs.missouristate.edu/web/2...obile-devices/. I especially found the caching and map delay suggestions worth a read.
Something I would be very interested in improving is the pinch-zoom step distance in a google map. Native maps allow users to zoom to any level w/out re-rendering the map allowing for a really nice seamless experience for the users. It can be frustrating when you pinch to zoom in for example, and have to wait (even if it's just for a second) before interacting with the map again.
My development pattern went something like get everything I want working, then go back and optimize. For better or worse my map is functional...and now I need it faster. I intend to keep working to implement some of these optimizations and will post back with results or new ideas, and hopefully this can serve as a place for some other sencha specific great ideas.
Thanks for the read, and in advance for any replies,
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There are several 'layers' that I offer to the user, each is retrieved only when the user selects them.
The layers are json files with sets of points. I map those json files back into a model which is capable of creating the google.maps object. One thing that might help a little, I store each point (lat/lon) in a single string, ie. 'lat,lon'. Then each of the points in a double array, ie. "polygon" : [['latlon', 'latlon'....],['latlon','latlon']....]. In my model I have a convert function set to the point field that parses the point apart and creates the google.maps.LatLng object. If I were to re-hash the json files and store the lat and lon as seperate fields I might save time on the device parsing.
As it stands I can bring a few thousand points (sorry...I haven't ever actually counted how many. I will Monday) down and get them onto the map within 5 seconds. In fact, often, especially after the points have been parsed and I have the polygon objects in memory, my layers will render before the map tiles have a chance to.
Also, as a side note, I started doing quite a bit of research on similar map applications and my maps are at least as responsive as any google map I have found. I guess I would just really like to see google maps get closer to a native feel. That is especially true for pinch zooming. Native mas will let you zoom to any step size seamlessly and google maps just cant compete...for now. I know that is not something sencha can really improve (unless you want to provide an api for a native map ).
Sorry...back to your question, I only render the points that the user has selected. But once those layers are selected then yes, they all render at the same time.
9 Jul 2012 10:59 AM #4bwags,
Do you have your maps somewhere that can be viewed? I'd love to see what you have done.


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WPHS Gas Well Permit Is Pulled
Chesapeake Energy has withdrawn its permit application to drill a natural gas well adjacent to Wheeling Park High School.
West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection spokes-man Thomas Aluise on Friday said that DEP Office of Oil and Gas officials learned of the matter late Thursday.
What this means – at least for the time being – is that the company will not be sinking a natural gas well a quarter-mile from the high school, a proposal that drew criticism from some community members and school officials over safety concerns.
"Chesapeake chose to withdraw the applications for the Parks System Trust Fund site as it seeks alternative drilling locations," said Stacey Brodak, Chesapeake's senior director of corporate development. "Any plans for new well locations will be submitted to the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection for review as a permit application, and will be subject to public comment."
The land on which Chesapeake had sought to drill the well is owned by the Parks System Trust Fund of Wheeling. Wheeling attorney James Gardill, who serves as the attorney for the Wheeling Park Commission, did not return a call seeking comment.
The proposed well's 1,300-foot distance from the school was more than twice the legal limit for wells to be located from an "occupied dwelling," as required by the Legislature. However, its proximity to the high school – along with access issues in that area – led officials with Ohio County Schools, the Ohio County Commission and Wheeling City Council to object to the location.
Dianna Vargo, superintendent of Ohio County Schools, said that the district's legal counsel "has informed us that the issue with Chesapeake has been resolved. We have no other information at this time."


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Kaskaskia River State Fish and Widlife Area
One of the largest state-owned and managed sites in Illinois, located 35 miles southeast of St. Louis. The land and water area total more than 20,000 acres of river and bottomland. It contains 36 miles of river.
Peabody River King State Fish Wildlife Area
Boat docks and fishing areas are easily accessed for all skill levels - even special docks for kids.
Located within the Kaskaskia River State Fish & Wildlife Area, Baldwin Lake boasts excellent fishing and migratory bird watching for outdoor enthusiasts. A two-lane boat ramp, camping, and picnic facilities are nearby.
The Orchards offers an 18-hole golf course.
Designed by golf legends Pete Dye and Bob Goalby, Yorktown offers an 18-hole lit par 3 golf course.
Belle-Clair Fairgrounds & Exposition Center
Home to the annual St. Clair County Fair, several craft shows and monthly flea markets, the complex also includes the Belle-Clair Speedway, with stock car races and demolition derbies.
National Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows
The Shrine has 200 beautifully landscaped acres of gardens and devotional areas, including the Outdoor Amphitheatre, Shrine Church, Lourdes Grotto, Stations of the Cross, Millennium Spire, the Visitors Center with a restaurant and gift shop, and the Shrine Hotel.
This monument honors Elzie Seager, Chester native and creator of beloved cartoon character Popeye the Sailor Man. The Popeye statue stands proudly next to the Chester Bridge.
Randolph County Conservation Area
Amid rolling hills and abundant game cover, this area is a hunter's paradise offering quail, deer (archery only), squirrel, dove, and rabbit hunting. Bass and channel catfish are found in its 69-acre lake. Equestrian trails, picnicking, and camping.
Turkey Bluffs State Fish and Wildlife Area
Hiking, picnicking, horseback riding and wildlife viewing. Hunting for upland game, fur-bearers and deer is encouraged on its 2,265 scenic acres that overlook the Mississippi River.
Randolph County State Recreational Area
96 sites, electricity available, dump station.
Golf the par 9 course at this country club.
Tour this farm where the elk roam on 55 acres of the 600-acre spread.
Julius J. Knobeloch State Nature Preserve
Beautiful. untouched nature preserve which way originally purchased by the Knobeloch family in 1874. After a family disagreement, the land was auctioned off to the nature conservancy and then sold to the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.
40 sites, lake swimming and fishing, tent camping, handicap access.
Stop in or make a reservation to ride the trails. Lessons are also available.
This nine-hole golf course opened in 1954.
Two lakes, a nine-hole golf course, a camping area, a cottage/residence area, as well as picnic shelters, are features of this great park.
This nine-hole golf course was designed by Darryl Stein.
This expansive park features picnic areas, baseball and softball fields, playgrounds, tennis courts, horseshoe pits, and sand volleyball courts. The centerpiece of the park is an old train depot, a full-size caboose, and a train car that can be reserved for groups.
This 18-hole golf course opened in 1962.
Ride the ferry across the Mighty Mississippi the next time you visit historic St. Genevieve and Randolph County. The ferry travels between St. Genevieve, Missouri and Modoc Illinois, and holds approximately nine vehicles.
The marina on the Kaskaskia River is the site of drag boat races in September. Next to the marina, enjoy batting cages, ball fields, and roller hockey in the park.
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Kaskaskia River Marina Campground
100 sites, recreation building, cable TV, swimming, fishing, tent camping, handicap access.
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I'm running Server 2008 64-bit on my laptop. I have installed SharePoint (MOSS SP2). Whenever I launch Central Admin, it always opens up in a Firefox browser instead of IE, even though IE is my default browser. Any ideas on how I can change this?
Somehow IE can't be the default browser, or at least not completely. When you click on the SharePoint Central Administration link, it executes this command:
This starts what is supposed to be the default browser.
Have you tried setting Firefox as the default browser, then closing it and restarting IE to set that as the default browser? Perhaps you need to uninstall Firefox, reset IE as the default browser again, and check the Central Admin shortcut works. Or any combination of these things...
At worse case you may need to choose the Reset button from the Advanced tab of IE (assuming you are running a recent version that has this).
Why have you got FF on a server? I hope you're not browsing the web from it...
Anyway, that aside, how about just popping a shortcut to central admin into your IE favo**u**rites? OK, one extra step, but it'll get you there.
But I really wouldn't do management directly from the server at all. In my environment the only time anyone ever logs on to a server is when they specifically need to do something like installing drivers or Windows Updates. All other work is done remotely if at all possible.
I had the same problem with Opera and IE. After some searching in the registry I found the following key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\http\shell\open\command After I changed the key to: (Default) = "C:\Program Files (x86)\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" "%1" The Central Admin link opened in IE againg.
I'm not really sure what the logic is behind this, but it seems that this key contains the path to the exe-file that must be used to open a http-protocol, where no file extension is present. IE does not seem to overwrite this key when it is set as default, whereas other browsers do overwrite it. This key also has a https-variant.
Apparently (and after some searching after seeing the answer above), Firefox writes it's keys into
Uninstalling Firefox and then Reinstalling allowed me to have both Firefox and a working Central Admin link.
Make sure not to select "Make Default Browser" which is checked by default even in the custom install.
I had this problem and this fix worked for me.
Alex's answer and the comment from OP may be enough, but I was still curious enough to look for more detail beacause I want Firefox for comparison.
I posted the same on Technet: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointadmin/thread/33cc6eb0-ba74-4556-aa60-ee52c9af2bfc
Under certain circumstances, a similar situation can occur when you have installed Chrome, although IE is the default browser. When Chrome is uninstalled, Central Admin is launched in IE. However, unlike with Firefox, when Chrome is installed again Central Admin is again launched in Chrome even though you did not make Chrome the default browser.
The correct steps to resolve this situation are:
Then Central Admin will keep being launched in the default browser, i.e. in IE.


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TRINITY Accredited:The laboratory at Trinity Medical Center West in Steubenville has won accreditation from the Accreditation Committee of the College of American Pathologists, officials have announced.
The facility's medical director, Dr. Himanshu M. Doshi, and administrative director, Don Niess, were congratulated for the excellence of the services being provided. The federal government recognizes the CAP Laboratory Accreditation as being equivalent or more stringent than the government's own program.
During the CAP accreditation process, inspectors examine the laboratory's records and quality control of procedures for the preceding two years. CAP inspectors also examine laboratory staff qualifications, equipment, facilities, safety program and overall management.
The Trinity West laboratory department was also accredited by the American Association of Blood Banks. The accreditation establishes that the level of technical and administrative performance within the facility meets or exceeds the standards set by AABB. This includes the quality and safety of collecting, processing, testing, distributing and administering blood and cellular therapy products.
"The CAP and AABB accreditation procedures are voluntary," Doshi explained. "Trinity Health System has sought these accreditations because the programs assist facilities around the world in achieving excellence by promoting a level of professional and technical expertise that contributes to quality performance and patient safety."
SUPPORT GIVEN: Neighborhood Hospitality Inc., an Applebee's franchise group that owns the restaurant in Steubenville, delivered a $46,000 check in support of the Muscular Dystrophy Association's annual Shamrocks Against Dystrophy campaign. The two-year total for NHI's 23 Applebee's locations is more than $92,000.
"It's an honor to support an organization dedicated to improving the lives of children," said Mike Baldwin, vice president of operations for Neighborhood Hospitality Inc. "This program has made a meaningful impact two years in a row, and we couldn't be more proud of our dedicated staff and generous guests."
Participating restaurants included Applebee's in Bluefield, Va.; Athens, Ohio; New Boston, Ohio; Marietta, Ohio; St. Clairsville, Ohio; Steubenville; Zanesville, Ohio; Ashland, Ky.; Pikeville, Ky.; Hazard, Ky.; Beckley, W.Va.; Princeton, W.Va.; Barboursville, W.Va.; Huntington, W.Va.; Summersville, W.Va.; Hurricane, W.Va.; Elkins, W.Va.; Clarksburg, W.Va.; Vienna, W.Va.; Lewisburg, W.Va.; Tridelphia, W.Va.; and locations in Charleston, W.Va. at Kanawha Mall and Dudley Farms Lane.
ALUMNA NAMED: Elizabeth Sweeney Athol, a 1982 Bethany College graduate and Pittsburgh attorney, has been named the college's Alumna of the Year, announced Scott D. Miller, college president.
Athol will be honored at the Alumni Weekend Awards Dinner in Commencement Hall on Saturday.
Athol, who holds a bachelor's degree in English from Bethany and a law degree from Duquesne University, practices law at the firm Lovett Bookman Harmon Marks, where she specializes in estate and transfer tax planning.
Previously she was vice president of the trust legal department at PNC Bank.
Athol serves on the college's board of trustees and its executive committee, chairs the advancement committee and the $52 million "Transformation Now!" capital campaign and is a former member of the alumni council.
Four generations of her family have attended Bethany, and she is the third member of her family to serve as a trustee. Her mother, sister and three aunts all graduated from Bethany.
Cochran Hall, a 104-year-old residence hall, is named for her ancestor, Percy B. Cochran.
The alumna of the year award is given to those who have demonstrated loyalty to the college and exceptional achievement throughout their lives, professionally and in service to the community. Nominees for the award are screened by the director of alumni and parent relations and the president's cabinet, and recipients are chosen by the president.


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A friend of mine recently bought a new laptop and passed me his old Macbook Pro 6,2. I think he had Lion on it, but the installation CD has been long lost.
I put in a new disk (he kept the original one), but how do I install OS X now?
Command+R gets me into Internet Recovery, but asks for an Apple ID (well, I registered for one). Then it complained the Apple ID was not used on iTunes (well, I loaded iTunes on my Windows laptop and set up the account, added the credit card details, etcetera, I even registered the serial number to my Apple ID on the website).
Now it tells me that my Apple ID has not purchased Mountain Lion, but will not let me buy it from there, nor can I do it from iTunes. According to this Apple support question, you have to use
one of your personal authorized Macs
Well, I don't have another Mac! How am I supposed to do this?


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Christmas day turned tragic for a local family of four brothers and sisters when their house caught fire.
One family member who says his brothers and sisters have lost everything they own but things are beginning to look up.
"Get here quick as I could to make sure no one was burnt up in it,"says Richard Watt, family member.
Richard Watt explains the moment he got the terrifying phone call saying his family's house was on fire.
"Either in the heater of the wall the house caught fire. My brother tried to put it out and got burnt seriously,"says Richard.
"He said I just can't get my hand to stop burning. Mr. Watt being hard headed said I can't my house is burning I got to save it,"says Mary Jo Cote, Volunteer Firefighter with Smiths Grove Fire Department.
Albert watt would be unable to save their house, and with no insurance they would lose everything but each other.
"He looked at me and said everything I have and I don't have much is gone,"says Cote.
"No insurance on the house so from there we try to take it up instead of down,"says Richard.
The Watts have now moved into their cousins rental property, but the house still needs a lot of work.
"The house they have is old its very old and they're thinking no one has lived there for about 10 to 15 years,"says Cote.
With the help of the community Mary Jo has made it her mission to give back.
"I've got plenty of time and effort and if this is all I do while I'm on vacation than I'm doing it,"says Cote.
"God bless them,"says Richard.
"People need to hear the good things and have faith in humanity,"says Kenneth Marr, of the Smiths Grove Fire Department.
The Watt family says the donations have been a blessing.
"All we can hope for is that they get a home....that's all I hope for,"says Richard."
If you would like to donate items to the Watt family you can call Mary Jo Cote at 2-70-9-4-3-1-3-0-2.


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Did you know that contributing as little as $2 on your state income tax return can help Georgia's rare animals and plants?
Conservation of nongame wildlife in this state – from loggerhead sea turtles to golden-winged warblers – as well as native plants and natural habitats is supported largely by the Georgia Wildlife Conservation Fund. In turn, that fund depends on public contributions.
One main source of contributions is the Wildlife Conservation Fund state income tax checkoff, also called the Give Wildlife a Chance checkoff.
Until last year, giving through the checkoff had declined sharply since 2005. Even with the uptick in 2011, contributions still ranked second-least in more than a decade.
But, if more Georgians gave as little as $2 each, the impact on wildlife could be significant.
The checkoff and the Wildlife Conservation Fund have been part of Georgia's wildest success stories, including the rebound of bald eagles and the acquisition of thousands of acres of natural habitat along the Altamaha River. Also, by using the Wildlife Conservation Fund to attract and match grants, the Georgia Department of Natural Resources' Nongame Conservation Section gains about $1 for every 25 cents spent from the fund.
Nongame Conservation Section Assistant Chief Jon Ambrose said the state income tax checkoff is critical in "providing the match we need to get additional funding from other sources."
The Nongame Section receives no state appropriations for its mission to conserve nongame wildlife – native animals not legally hunted or fished for – and native plants and habitats.
More than 1,000 Georgia plant and animal species are species of conservation concern. This tax season, and even during these tight times, consider giving 2 wildlife. Fill in $2 or more on line 26 of the state's long tax form (Form 500) or line 10 of the short form (Form 500EZ). The amount will be deducted from refunds or added to payments.
You can also give if you file electronically or through a tax preparer. Tax preparers are aware of checkoff options but you will need to instruct them to include the contribution, according to Checkoff Georgia, which represents charitable organizations with checkoffs. Download a request letter to provide preparers at www.checkoffgeorgia.com/downloads.html.
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Another Catholic anti-Semite?
Uh Oh! Now Im in trouble. I have been declared an anti-Semite in the tradition of Father Charles Coughlin.Joseph Tobin, senior online editor of Commentary, finds my posts on Israel's influence on U.S. foreign policy and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's lobbying our Congress and our president for a U.S. war on Iran to be smack dab in the tradition of Catholic anti-Semitism going back toI dont know, Paul of Tarsus? His analysis of my comments on dotCommonweal is inaccurate and unfair. I plan to address these in a future post.In the meantime, two points:First, Commentary may be of one mind on most matters, but Commonweal is not. Therefore, my views are my own and not necessarily (or unnecessarily) those of the editors, or Father Coughlin, or Paul of Tarsus.Second, read my current column on Netanyahu's demand for red lines and consider whether support for the sanctions and opposition to bombing Iran is anti-Semitic. Or just opposed to another U.S. war in the Middle East.
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Israel seems to be a democracy within Israel, but outside the country one has to uncritically support its nationalist government even if one holds positions held by some Israelis themselves. That's the proof that it is a Party that is using the charge of antisemitism as a political weapon for their own purposes.
And Tobin can't tell you from Pat Buchanan. Ouch.
Catholics all look alike, you know!
Reminds me of Shaw's "put an Irishman on a spit and you can always find another Irishman one to turn him'
Tobin apparently doesn't understand that it is possible to criticize some members of a group without criticizing all of them, and that includes the group called "Israelis".Another thing he seems to do is to conflate "Jews", "Israelis" and "Zionism". They do not all refer to exactly the same people. And not all Jews agree with him. Be has royally misrepresented Ms. S.
My reaction to this story comes in the form of this blog post defending Margaret.http://debatingobama.blogspot.com/2012/09/friends-dont-let-friends-get-c... is interesting as well is that when it comes to people like John Hagee, with deeply troubling history of peddling in anti-Jewish material, Commentary is quite gleeful in their support because he is so strongly in line with their foreign policy vision.http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2010/05/24/why-dont-the-jews-do-this/
Joseph Sobran was demoted and then fired from National Review for anti-semitic views. I'm not saying that Ms. Steinfels' views are the same as Sobran's (a Catholic.) However, I think her views would have come under more scrutiny twenty years ago than they do today.
A Jewish friend of mine was lambasting the Israeli government yesterday -- will someone now drag out the absurd category of "self-hating Jew" or have the good sense to admit that the Israeli government is wide open to criticism?
Oh, if the critic is a neocon, that is just the kind of scurrility expected. They are the real enemies of Judaism, its false friends.
Frank Gibbons: Twenty years ago!! We were all celebrating the Oslo Accords weren't we?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oslo_I_Accord
Margaret, you are in good company. Ray Schroth SJ was put down by a fellow Jesuit a while back because he had the nerve to propose a one-state solution. The critic is a professor of philosophy at Boston College and he was one of more than 90 such comments against our friend Ray. Is there a law against piling among the Jesuits?I have no idea who Tobin is but he probably got a phone call from the bishops' secretary warning him that the NYTimes wants to step up the campaign against sex abuse in the RCC. I understand that most of the bishops will be voting for Romney. By the way how does one become a bishop; I suppose my kissing lots of rings.
Peggy, mazel tov! It seems you have broken another gender barrier in the church as all these other anti-Semites are men...Maybe it's the circumcision thing.
Having written in Commonweal about anti-Semitism, I feel I should say flatly that this charge of anti-Semitism regarding both Peg Steinfels and Commonweal is ridiculous. Such phony charges are counter-productive to Israel's cause.The belief that only peaceful means can solve the Middle East's problems is hardly a fringe one in the Catholic Church. It's long been the position of the Holy See.
The reality is that the Israeli government has been callous in its treatment of Palestinians. There certainly is anti-Semitism. But to hide behind the accusation by cruelty to others is worse.
I agree the charge of anti-Semitism is unwarranted, but the constant drumbeat of "51st state" threads unfortunately plays to stereotype.
In the old days this would have been called "character assassination". Shades of Sen. Joe McCarthy. When someone disagreed with him, he accused the person of being a Communist. Dirty pool then, dirty pool now.
I agree with Mark Proska. I wince every time I see "51st" as a thread title. At the very least a Christian criticizing Israel should be respectful.
MP and JC: 51st is a handy headline conveying the close relationship that exists between the United States and Israel. It is close not only on foreign and military policy, but also on economic assistance. It is certainly closer than with our near neighbors, Canada and Mexico. It may well be closer on the economic front than with some of our own 50 states. I venture to say that it is closer than our historic alliance with Great Britain ever was except perhaps before and during World War II.
Ann is right that Tobin conflates a lot of terms.I understand the "51st state" moniker, and I appreciate Margaret Steinfels' warnings that U.S. politicians are often way too cozy with Israel, particularly those who believe that Israel will play a special role in the imminent coming of the Rapture. (See Jack Chick tracts for the role the Vatican will play in double-crossing the Jews!) That said, it has often occurred to me that, taken cumulatively, these posts seem to be more scrutiny on Israel than on other nations with whom we are nominal allies but have rather vexed relations, e.g., China, Pakistan, Russia, etc. The cumulative message might be that Israeli governmental policies are the chief problem.It's a big leap from there to "anti-Semitism," I think, particularly of the Fr. Coughlin variety. Coughlin, to whom my mother's Irish aunties used to send money, thought Hitler and Mussolini had some good ideas viz a viz the Jews. I see nothing like that here.And it's an even bigger leap to assume that the 51st blog posts necessarily reflect any implicit foreign policy endorsement on the part of Commonweal.
Jean Raber: Do you think that Israel is a "nominal all[y]" with whom we have rather vexed relations? Wouldn't more vexed relations between the U.S. and Israel be to everyone's benefit?
I guess that would depend on what you mean by "more vexed."I don't think I--or most members of the Obama administration--could be much more vexed when Bibi Netanyahu gets on TV and swaggers around demanding that the U.S set deadlines on Iranian nuclear programs. Some administrations (Carter, Clinton) have been able to parley the U.S.'s vexation into peace talks, though many of these have yielded only small or temporary benefits. (It will be interesting to see where the Israel/Egypt accord goes now that there has been a regime change in Egypt.)But these efforts are always heralded with a good deal of fanfare and serve to "de-vex" American foreign policy re Israel.It may be that one of the reasons Usrael doesn't vex us to the point it should is because we like the Israeli style. I'm not sure I entirely buy Andrew Bacevich's claim that the U.S. is undergoing "Israelification" in seeing peace as military domination; rather, I think that Israel went through "Amerification" in weaving it's national myth--a young nation of immigrants surrounded by hostile natives, makes the desert bloom with ingenuity and grit. And, while that might not be much more accurate than "How the West Was Won," well, it certainly sounds a lot like it.(Apologies if you already have covered Bacevich's essay in a previous post that I didn't read: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/how-we-became-israel/)But it might be salubrious to look very dispassionately at *how* it best serves our national interest to unreservedly support the right of Israel to exist as a state. Does supporting Israel at our current levels of monetary and military aid help keep peace in the Middle East? Does supporting Israel improve the cause of human rights around the world? Does supporting Israel enhance the American mission of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?I dunno, though. I'm not an expert.
Sorry, "Israel," not "Usreal." Freudian? Weird!
Jean Raber: "But it might be salubrious to look very dispassionately at *how* it best serves our national interest to unreservedly support the right of Israel to exist as a state. Does supporting Israel at our current levels of monetary and military aid help keep peace in the Middle East? Does supporting Israel improve the cause of human rights around the world? Does supporting Israel enhance the American mission of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?"Our history for support of Israel has served our national interest, and I think it could serve our national interest now and in the future. If "unreserved" support is what we're talking about now and in the future, I think that needs some critical thinking and adjustment. As long as the Palestinian "entities" fester in the West Bank and Gaza and as long as we support, implicitly if not always explicitly, Israeli policies and practices there, the United States and Israel will be at war with many parts of the Arab world, and some parts of the Muslim world. Is that in anyone's national interest? The new Prime Minister of Egypt Muhammed Morsi, has yet to prove himself, even as leader of his country, yet he usefully reminds the United States in an interview: "If Washington is asking Egypt to honor its treaty with Israel, he said, Washington should also live up to its own Camp David commitment to Palestinian self-rule." We committed to that?? Wow! A useful reminder. What else did we commit to in order to bring peace? Interview here: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/world/middleeast/egyptian-leader-moham...
Thanks for the link to the Morsi interview. He takes some pains to seem practical and open but firm, making clear distinctions between his own personal views and the Egyptian constitution re women and Christians. (Not sure he hasn't overstated the cultural significance of Hooters in the U.S., though.)To what extent is foreign aid well spent in Egypt? Time will tell. On the other hand, Israel collects something like three times the amount of foreign aid (it's the top foreign aid recipient) that Egypt does and has less than a tenth of Egypt's population.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/30/us-foreign-aid-by-country_n_183... would be interesting to know a) how much Americans know about foreign aid to Israel (or any other country), and b) whether they support it. Certainly politicians (except for Ron Paul) assume that supporting Israel translates into big votes. Does it, though? Here's a poll from 2011 from Pew about foreign affairs by political affiliation, which seems to suggest that Americans expect U.S. foreign policy to favor Israel over other interests in the region. Not sure that what's popular, however, is always the best course in foreign policy ...http://www.people-press.org/2011/10/07/strong-on-defense-and-israel-toug...
Ms. S. --"Unreserved support" is an immoral notion. We should not support any group automatically. To claim that the secular Israel has the right to such support weakens its rightful claims. And to confuse the secular Israel with the spiritual one could be disastrous. When Israel is unjust, it has no right to special help. When Bibi insists the U. S. should support him regardless of his recklessness, he merely proves his incompetence.
Thanks Jean for the link to Pew data. Found this interesting: http://www.people-press.org/2011/10/07/strong-on-defense-and-israel-toug...


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Recently, when I've been starting my computer I'm informed that it is recovering the journal for one of my ext3 partitions.
One might expect this behaviour if the computer shutdown improperly, but, as far as I can tell this is occurring after normal shutdowns.
Additionally, the number of inodes which are found to be orphaned and cleared is only one or two in these cases.
I have performed an fsck, but the situation continues.
Which logs files can I check to try to find out why this is happening? What are some reasons it may have happened? How can I resolve it?
fstab is as follows:
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
# / was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=ead12a48-4a3b-4e3a-b611-d3fc62e8716a / ext4 errors=remount-ro,noatime,nodiratime 0 1
# /home was on /dev/sda6 during installation
UUID=217f1c44-5d04-4c75-9d4a-2a70b1726434 /home ext3 defaults,noatime,nodiratime 0 2
cat /var/log/fsck/{checkfs,checkroot} returns
(Nothing has been logged yet.) twice.


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I installed a ppc port of Ubuntu 10.10 on my rather old eMac (G4, 1.25 GHz). So far i have a good impression so far, but the graphics don't seem to be really supported out of the box although there is a driver preinstalled i guess.
Is there a way i can accelerate my Radeon 9200? When i move a window it has a trace and things get slow when there are other windows running in the background. Besides i can get no fancy but useful effects like dropshadows and transparency. Not very sexy :(
Im not a very experienced Linux User, so if you want me to provide some more information about the output of some commands (...i don't know yet) please let me know.
Hope you can help me, thx in advance.


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5 Villains Who Went Out of Their Way to Screw Their Own Plan
#2. The Fugitive -- The Bad Guy Helps Harrison Ford Figure Out That He's ... Well, the Bad Guy
The Scheme:
In The Fugitive, Dr. Charles Nichols is a high-ranking employee at a pharmaceutical company currently developing a new wonder drug. When Dr. Richard Kimble (Harrison Ford) finds out that the drug causes liver damage, Nichols sends a one-armed killer to murder him, but he winds up killing Kimble's wife instead. This works out for the best, though, since Kimble is wrongly convicted of his wife's murder and sent to death row. All Nichols has to do now is sit back and wait for Kimble to fry.
Or get frozen in carbonite, depending on state law.
How He Tried to Screw It Up:
When Kimble escapes custody and becomes a fugitive, he asks Nichols for help, since he still thinks of him as a friend. Instead of saying, "Yeah, sure thing, buddy, why don't you step into the guest room and have a nap?" and then calling the cops, Nichols ends up serving him the evidence of the conspiracy on a silver platter.
More specifically, Nichols sends Kimble to obtain incriminating tissue samples, even though they contain evidence that he himself was involved in the coverup. This, along with the fact that every lab member turns out to be inexplicably eager to help out a convicted murderer, allows Kimble to clear his name.
Jane Lynch has always had a thing for bad boys.
Kimble finds out that the tissue samples were fudged to cover up the whole "kills your liver" thing, and since half of the samples had been approved by a guy who was recently murdered, it was obvious that his signature had been forged by the only other person who had access. Namely, Dr. Charles Nichols. Both Kimble and the cops reach the same conclusion.
Instead of sending Kimble to the lab to collect the samples, Nichols could have volunteered to get them himself, which would have made sense from Kimble's perspective, since he was a wanted fugitive.
Or how about "Sorry dude, helping fugitives is a crime"?
Also, not to discriminate against people with disabilities or anything, but is a guy with only one arm really the most effective and least conspicuous-looking hired killer he could find? Did Nichols hire him over the phone, and then didn't want to say anything for fear of being rude? Maybe that's what happened with Kimble, too. Nichols didn't want to help him figure out the conspiracy, but just couldn't say no to a pal.
#1. Die Hard With a Vengeance -- Simon Gruber Stages an Elaborate Con, Immediately Tries to Ruin It
The Scheme:
Simon Gruber, the brother of the original Die Hard villain, Hans Gruber, wants revenge on John McClane for dropping Hans' ass out of a 32nd floor window at the end of the first movie. Simon accomplishes this by planting bombs all over New York City, then threatening to set them off if McClane doesn't do exactly what he says. However, this so-called revenge plan actually turns out to be a smokescreen for a clever heist in which Simon rips off the entire gold supply of the New York Federal Reserve Bank.
"Avenge me by stealing lots of gold! Avenge meeeeeee ..."
How He Tried to Screw It Up:
Simon's plan hinges on McClane trying to stop a bomb in a very specific place at a specific time, supposedly as part of the whole revenge trip. However, that's not the first thing Simon forces him to do. Nope, first he sends McClane into Harlem wearing a sign that should get him murdered about 37 times before reaching the first corner.
This is like being dropped in Bel Air with a sign that says "I Hate Golf."
If it wasn't for the unlikely intervention of a local shopkeeper named Zeus (Samuel L. Jackson), McClane would have been killed or seriously injured by a Harlem street gang -- sure, he had a concealed gun strapped to his back for safety, but the first thing the gangsters do is break a bottle on McClane's head and reveal the weapon, which is quickly grabbed by Zeus. Had Zeus not been there, that would have been one of the gang members.
"Please, wait! Haven't you guys ever seen that Chris Rock routine?"
The success of Simon's Federal Reserve heist depends entirely on the authorities believing his fake revenge scheme as a distraction. After the Harlem incident, Simon's next game involves sending McClane across town to chase after a bomb on a subway. When the bomb goes off, no one notices that it has disabled the Federal Reserve Bank's alarm system and given Simon an opening to break into their vault.
It's actually a pretty ingenious plan ... except for the part where Simon almost made McClane a casualty of racially motivated gang violence and ruined everything. Couldn't he have just forced McClane to do something less likely to get himself killed, such as streaking naked through Chelsea?
Considering that McClane only survived the Harlem ordeal because of Zeus' intervention, it actually might have been a neat twist if Zeus had been working for Simon all along and was serving as McClane's protector.
He wanted revenge for his brother, Argyle.
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I have tons of videos of my children and they have been moved from drive to drive many times over the years. Is there a way to easily get the date the video was taken? I'm importing them into iTunes currently, but I can find nothing that shows the date the video was taken?
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MediaInfo gives you a way to check the file metadata, including the creation date for the video and audio streams. This is free, cross platform and open source and also provides a GUI for you to check.
If you're up for using the command line, with MediaInfo:
With FFmpeg's
If you have ffmpeg installed you can type
and it will give you a list of information about the file with in the end the creation time.
I'm sure it is possible to automate this with a bash script and maybe even to extract the creation time out of the list of info, but I wouldn't know how exactly.
It entirely depends on what information the camera embedded in the video file. It may or may not have actually stored the date. If the information is in the meta data, then any advanced video player or editing tool should be able to see the meta data and tell you the date associated. Also, it is possible that the file date may be accurate, though there are a lot of things that can cause the file date to change. The meta data, if present is the most accurate and best bet though if it is present.


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Box Score | Game Notes
SAN ANTONIO (April 5, 2013) – The Rampage erased a two-goal deficit in the second period but were unable to pull off the come-from-behind victory, as San Antonio (29-32-2-6) fell to the Hamilton Bulldogs (27-35-1-5), 4-2, on Friday night at AT&T Center in front of 8,515 fans.
Greg Rallo tallied a goal and an assist, while Jon Rheault recorded two helpers for the Rampage in the defeat. In goal, San Antonio netminder Brian Foster turned aside 33-of-37 shots.
Rampage forward Jack Combs also tallied an assist on the night to extend his point-scoring streak to three games (one goal, three assists). Combs has averaged a point per game (six goals, five assists) in his first 11 games for the Rampage since being acquired via trade from Bridgeport on March 14.
Hamilton jumped out to a 2-0 lead after 20 minutes of action. Bulldogs center Louis Leblanc charged in the offensive zone on an odd-man rush and fired a low shot that was turned aside by Foster. However, the rebound went right to Petteri Nokelainen, who fired home the rebound for his first goal of the year, at 4:43 of the opening frame.
The Rampage had a golden opportunity to tie the game at 13:42 of the first period after a Bulldogs defenseman covered the puck with his glove in the crease. Rheault took the penalty shot and executed a forehand-to-backhand deke, but was unable to elevate the puck over the pad of Hamilton goaltender Robert Mayer.
Hamilton extended their lead to 2-0 at 14:54 of the opening frame off an offensive zone faceoff. Patrick Holland found himself open in the bottom of the slot and fired a quick wrist shot past Foster.
It only took San Antonio 3:52 of action in the second period to erase the two-goal deficit. Rallo struck first with his team-leading 23rd goal of the year only 49 seconds into the frame. Rheault and Combs collected assists on the tally.
Defenseman Colby Robak followed suit with a power-play goal at 3:52 of the second period when he fired a wrist shot from the point that found its way through traffic and past Mayer. Rallo and Rheault had assists on the game-tying goal.
Hamilton reclaimed the lead at 11:40 of the middle frame off a perfect deflection from Alex Belzile while charging the net. The Rampage outshot Hamilton, 14-10, in the second period but trailed 3-2 after 40 minutes.
The Rampage recorded 20 penalty minutes in the third period to hinder their comeback opportunities. San Antonio did have a power play with just under three minutes remaining in regulation after Rallo was held-up in the offensive zone.
However, it was Hamilton who was able to light the lamp in the waning moments of the game while shorthanded. Nathan Beaulieu wrapped up the win for the visitors when he took a shot from the point that pinballed in several directions before trickling by Foster at 18:45 of the third period.
San Antonio finished the game 1-for-5 on the power play and has now cashed in on the power play in 14 of their last 21 games, going 18-for-84 with the man advantage in that span. The Rampage won the shots battle, 38-37, and held Hamilton to 0-for-8 on the power play.
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WHEELING - For many children, having their parents read them a bedtime story or play a game of catch with them is something they will be able to treasure for the rest of their lives.
Unfortunately, some local children and teenagers have lost the opportunity to engage in these loving activities. These children may come from single-parent homes, while some may have a parent who is deployed for military service. Others may be orphans or foster children who are just worried about how they are going to get through the day.
Though the organization cannot solve all of these problems, Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Upper Ohio Valley connects generous adults with children in need.
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REVIEWING REPORTS — Shannan Kemp-Watson, chief executive officer of Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Upper Ohio Valley, left, and Case Manager Connie Ball review some reports at the Wheeling office. - Casey Junkins
"Many of these kids simply need someone to show that they care about them," said Shannan Kemp-Watson, chief executive officer of the Wheeling-based nonprofit organization.
Kemp-Watson said the agency now has approximately 50 children across the area who are matched with volunteer adults - with another 120 children on the waiting list to receive a match. The group refers to adult volunteers as "bigs" and the children they serve as "littles."
"We have bigs who provide the only chance these littles have to get out of the house, other than going to school," Kemp-Watson said. "Our bigs give the littles chances to do things they otherwise would not have."
Every mentoring program is unique to the child served, according to Kemp-Watson. These plans could call for helping the children with homework, something she said some educators take for granted.
"Some of these kids don't have the chance to worry about doing their homework. They are just worried about where they are going to spend the night," Kemp-Watson said.
Nevertheless, she said helping the children perform better in school is important, but is only one aspect of the organization's focus.
"Mentoring can happen at the library, at the park, at the movies, or any number of places," Kemp-Watson said.
The organization is holding its annual fundraiser, "Bowl For Kids' Sake," from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. March 1 at St. Clair Lanes in St. Clairsville. The $50 per person cost includes two games of bowling, shoe rental and refreshments.
Call (304) 232-0520 to register for the bowling event or to get information about the organization.
"We appreciate - and our littles appreciate - anything you can do. You don't have to do, or buy, extravagant things," Kemp-Watson said. "Any amount of time you can give these kids will mean a lot to them."


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I'm trying to accomplish this effect for my website. I need to do this to a couple photo's and they need to look exactly like this (see below).
Here is a link to the image with the effect I'm trying to accomplish:
I know there are a lot of tutorials out there for an old camera effect but I couldn't find any quite like this. How can I accomplish this effect in PhotoShop CS5 Extended? You can refer me to tutorials you may know of or give me hints. Thanks in advance for the help!


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A Carpenter's Tool Vest
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This is a great vest for use in the shop or by a finish carpenter. I'd frame in it but then I only do occasional light framing. A full-time framer would be better served by a traditional belt. That green lettering above the left chest pocket is my company logo – there was space so I had it embroidered there.
A series of deep pockets hangs from the front left side – a full width pocket in back and three tall narrow pockets in front. The vest came with a stretchy belt. I assume it was there so you could transfer some of the weight from shoulders to waist. I don't load the vest up so I got rid of the belt because I never used it.
The loops on the front of the pockets are for storing pliers and snips. You have to match the width of the handles to the width of the loop. If the handles are too narrow the tool will fall through. The narrow loop towards the back is perfect for needle nose pliers. The nice thing about the loops is you can get at tools quickly and the tips won't wear holes through a pocket.
A cool feature for guys who do commercial work and have to carry a name tag is the clear plastic ID sleeve on the back of the right front pocket. It's shown here in the down position but there is Velcro the back so you can fold it under and stick it to the back side of the pocket. I don't need a name tag so I carry business cards in mine.
On the lower left front side are a series of pouches, each slightly deeper and narrower than the next. I'll put fasteners or larger tools in the back one and smaller tools in the middle one. The small front pocket is used for one item only – foam ear plugs. I keep them there because it makes them easy to get at.
I like that there are hammer loops on each side of the vest. I'll carry a hammer in one and clip the hook of my nail gun into the other so my hands are free to climb ladders.
The large hanging pockets on the back of the vest are a good place to store hardware and large items such as a carpenter's square. If you look closely you'll see that the large piece of fabric – between the shoulders and waist – is mesh. There are smaller sections of mesh on the front. The mesh makes the vest noticeably cooler to wear in hot weather. You can't see it here, but the shoulders themselves are padded, which makes the vest more comfortable to wear when heavily loaded with tools.
The Velcro flapped pocket on the right is large enough to hold most smart phones. But a bulky case will make it harder to fit in there. My iPhone 5 will go in but it's too tall so the flap can't be closed. I usually keep a laser distance measurer in this pocket because it fits perfectly and is a tool I need to get at all the time.
I keep my phone in the large chest pocket with the flap that snaps. Notice how the bottoms of the chest pockets are not sewn tight to the vest; this allows them to swing out when you bend over, so the contents are less likely to fall out (the same is true of the chest pockets on the left side of the vest). The loops on the right chest pocket can be used like the ones on the lower pocket – to keep screwdrivers and small pliers at the ready.
Just below the left chest pocket is a wide shallow zippered compartment. It's a great place to store things you don't want to lose. I keep extra foam ear plugs and ear buds for my mp3 player in there. Note the mesh fabric below the shoulders; it's the same material as is on the back and is there to make the vest cooler to wear.
The left chest pocket is full width in back and divided in front. I store an engineer's rule and long pencils in the narrow one. The horizontal slot down from the top allows you to store short pencils without being concerned that they'll disappear into the bottom of a deep pocket.
On my vest there is a large rivet just above the left chest pocket. It resembles the rivets used to secure straps on farmer-style overalls – and serves a similar purpose…
The rivet is designed to secure the sheath for a European-style work knife. The sheath clips on like this…
And slips through a loop directly below to prevent it from flopping around. I've had the vest for a while and am not sure if the current model has this feature – I don't see it in the current catalog. No matter; I often wear European-style work pants and they still have the rivets.
For the last couple of years I've been wearing a Björnkläder Jubilee Carpenter's Tool Vest. I got it because it has better storage options than traditional tool belts.
I dislike wearing tool belts because they're bulky and the tools hang out and scratch finish surfaces, so for most of my career I worked in cargo pants with the pockets stuffed full of tools and supplies. The problem was, they didn't hold everything I needed and I was always searching for tools I had put down somewhere.
The vest has been great; it has a ton of pockets and specialized features that allow me to carry everything I need and still be comfortable. The tools are easy to get at and can be spread all over so they don't stick out from around my waist. If there's a trick to using a vest with so many pockets it's to put the same tools the same place every time; that way, you won't have to think about where they are.
The vest sells for about $100. It's not cheap, but worth it for a piece of equipment you use every day. Björnkläder gear is not widely distributed in the U.S. I order it from Faceline but you can also get it from J&R Distributors.
Click the photo on the left to see the details of the vest and what I carry where. Greg DiBernardo covered Björnkläder pants in an earlier article.
Work Wear and Gear
Jesse Wright
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Why is "Let There Be Range" so expensive ? Is it worth that money?
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n. a German slang term used referring to Americans. Originally used during the world wars when speaking of American soldiers. The term is not often used in offense.
Also- a Japanese name.... Go figure.
Also- a Japanese name.... Go figure.
"Ami-Soldaten!" Literally meaning: Ami Soldiers
41d3n tarafından 6 Ocak 2008, Pazar
someone who loves food eats their own shit when they get really hungry. the creater of earthquakes, and tsunamis. usually fat or obese, the kind that makes little chidren run off crying. something you go as for halloween.
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A girl that is apparently a BAMF in the gang KAOS hosted by 2 other people
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Lexilex tarafından 3 Ağustos 2007, Cuma
ami stands for American Idol. A very popular reality tv show on Fox that has people try out to become the next american idol and then that person gets 1 million dollars and a record deal of some sort.
I just watched AMI last night and Kelly Clarkson is now American Idol
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A type of marijuana short for 'amnesia'. It gets its name from how strong its effects are.
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Food justice - Public Growing
Based on voluntaryism principles of taking neither government nor corporate money, I am trying to build a web application for allowing people to grow food in open, public space for free. And I need help!
We need someone to do the database and object model and Node.js hosting. If you want to get involved, please contact my gmail: dhtmlkitchen.
Guitar Improvisation Class<p>I want to teach a class on Rock Guitar Improvisation.
I want to do this because I believe I will be good at it and because I am angry at the expensive music school that puts money and marketing before education.
Kids who went to Berklee because they were inspired by Steve Vai got govt-paid "financial aid" plus student loans to pay for it, then finished only to have $80,000+ student loan debt, which they slavishly repay over the next 10-20 years, working a job that requires a "bachelor's degree".
There is no good reason why the cost of music school must be so high.
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I like to play and teach. Some of my musical influence include J.S. Bach, Paul Gilbert, and Yngwie Malmsteen.
Currently studying martial arts (not so good at). In the past, strength training (very good at) and parkour (not so good at).
I wrote many articles on former dhtmlkitchen.com, comp.lang.javascript newsgroup, and the c.l.js FAQ.
I've built things for companies where marketing needs weren't necessarily geared towards generating actual value to the world.
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