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at Hopewell
The Hopewell United Methodist Church, located on Jefferson County Road 16, Rayland, will present the South Bellaire United Methodist Choir singing "Let There Be Light," a Christmas cantata, on Sunday beginning at 6 p.m.
Following the cantata, there will be a time of fellowship with refreshments.
It is open to the public.
For information, contact Pastor Jim Hoff at either (740) 633-2686 or (740) 310-6949.
Kum Joyne Us
holds party
The Kum Joyne Us Class of Kolmont Church held its annual Christmas party Dec. 7 in the fellowship hall. There were 38 adults and two children present.
The theme was "Jesus Is The Gift." Maureen Black, chairperson, gave the welcome, and read a poem entitled "Christmas Giving" and offered the blessing for the dinner catered by Michelle and Dave Trikonas.
Ruby Grimes read a poem entitled "The Stableboy's Story."
Participating in a skit entitled "Change Is Good" were Shirley McCartney, Nancy Tucker, Marie Little, Sharlene Wade, Sara Peeler, Angel Nixon, Lyda Grimes, Ashley Worwa, Lora Grimes, Crissie Moran, Lorna Flesher and Tanya Flesher.
Some of those attending shared stories of their favorite gift.
Black presented Sunday school teachers with a gift from the class. A gift exchange was held. McCartney closed the evening with a prayer.
McCartney and Tucker will be the hostesses at the Jan. 4 meeting in the fellowship hall, beginning at 7 p.m.
Free spaghetti
dinner at church
As part of the First Baptist Church of Steubenville's efforts for community outreach, it will host a free spaghetti dinner from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Jan. 6 at the church.
It is open to anyone.
The church is located at 334 Cedar Ave., Steubenville, and plans to have free monthly dinners the first Sunday of every month at 1 p.m.
For information, call the church office at (740) 282-2693 or visit the website at www.firstbaptiststeubenville.com.
Men of Destiny
to meet Jan. 12
Men of Destiny of the House of Faith located at 1913 Estelle Ave., Steubenville, will meet there at 9 a.m. Jan. 12.
The nondenominational group is open to all men.
"Come and see how we can better our relationship with Christ, witness to others, help our neighbors, improve our community and build bonds of friendship with men inside and outside of our church with Christian fellowship," said Ron Boyuk, president. For information, call the church at (740) 264-5070.
Knights to host New Year's event
The Weirton Knights of Columbus will host a New Year's Eve party, beginning at 7 p.m. Monday.
The event will include a variety of hot and cold hor d'oeuvres as well as pork, kielbasa and sauerkraut.
Disc jockey Mark Kaczmarek will provide entertainment throughout the evening. A cash bar will be available, and dress is casual. Admission is $25 per person.
For information or to make a reservation, contact Jim Gerlando at (304) 723-1492.


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Say you have a cooler of frozen food and ice to last for several days or weeks of river-trip / car camping. To keep things as a cold as possible for as long as possible, is it better to leave the cold melted ice-water in, or to drain it out on a regular basis?
From a thermodynamics point of view, I'd say you should leave the water in.
Temperature is a measure of the active kinetic energy of the molecules in a substance. Warming up is essentially the surrounding environment imparting some of its kinetic energy into the object being warmed up. Simply thinking about that, the more you have that needs warming, the more energy it requires to warm, and so the slower its temperature will rise (given the same rate of exchange of thermal energy - the water submerges at least some of the other contents, so if anything this is an overestimate). Now consider that water has a relatively high specific heat, meaning that it takes more energy to warm it up. The food inside the cooler won't be warmed up faster than the surrounding water, so since it takes more energy to heat the food and water than just the food, so the food will stay cooler longer.
The Igloo (yes, the cooler company) FAQ supports this view:
I think the key point a lot of people forget is that what matters isn't how long the ice lasts, but how long the contents remain under some temperature.
Assuming convection is fairly significant relative to the rate of energy input from the outside (a good assumption, I think), it doesn't matter how good an insulator air is, the inside temperature will be the same throughout, necessitating that the rate of heat energy coming into the cooler is the same in both cases, so the ice will melt at the same rate, and once the ice is gone, the cooler with water will take much longer to warm. I'm still working on the no-convection theory (which would provide at best an extreme overestimate), but in the meantime if anyone wishes to posit that convection is tiny enough to bridge the enormous gap (assuming I find the upper bound does eclipse water), please explain why you believe so.
Some math/physics to back this up for the quantitatively inclined. (This would be so much easier with the MathML markup from the math and physics sites.)
The cooler will be very near perfect convection, the heat is entering the cooler slowly enough that the contents - air, water, and ice - are at the same temperature (namely 32°F/0°C/273.15K). Heat conduction,
*: We are ignoring the air replacing the ice, which would actually give a (very) slight advantage to retaining water. Draining the water in that cooler requires adding heat - the excess heat of the air that replaces the melted water. Fortunately, that excess heat is fairly easy to calculate:
We (Kent and Deny) did an experiment in order to shed some light on this debate. We found that keeping the water in the cooler along with the ice kept the overall temperature of the cooler below 5 degrees Celsius for approximately 4 hours longer than when the water was removed.
Experiment. We filled a Coleman cooler with 12 341mL bottles of Waterloo Dark beer and 2.7 kg of store-bought ice cubes and sealed the cooler. Beer bottles were kept at 4 degrees Celsius in a refrigerator overnight before both experimental trials. The ice and thermometer were both kept in a freezer, which is at -10 degrees Celsius, before the experiment. Temperature was monitored using an Omega OM-62 temperature logger which recorded temperature every 5 minutes over the course of the experiment. The thermometer was kept in a Tupperware container to avoid water damage.
We setup two separate trials of the experiment. In the first, water was removed from the cooler approximately every 8 hours using a siphon. Excluding the first removal of water at 8 hours into the experiment when there was still little water in the cooler, approximately 450 mL of water was removed from the cooler every 8 hours.
In the second case, where all water was kept in the cooler,we opened the cooler for 2 minutes every 8 hours in order allow the same amount of warm air to enter the cooler, as it would in the case of draining the water.
Results. Temperature data is shown in the figure below.
From the figure, we can see a few points. Excluding the first draining, when there was little water, each time the water is drained, the temperature of the cooler immediately rises. After 24 hours, draining the water from the cooler preceded a linear growth in temperature, which grew in slope at each subsequent draining. Finally, we can clearly see that keeping the water in the cooler keeps the temperature below 5 degrees Celsius for approximately 4 hours longer.
We conclude that this experiment gives support to the argument for keeping the water in the cooler.
Never remove cold water from a cooler so long as the water is cooler than the outside temperature.
You don't need any fancy graphs when you look at the heat flow into the cooler. Keeping cool water in the cooler delays the melting of the remaining ice and once the ice is gone, delays the warming of the food by absorbing it's share of the incoming heat.
Say you have two coolers with one gallon of beer each in a perfect container that absorbs no heat - just keeps the beer together. Also, assume that you have one pound of ice in each cooler and the beer and cooler are chilled to 0°C (32°F). One cooler also has a gallon of 0°C (32°F) water.
So the cooler on the left has heat leaking into the insides - warming everything inside. It warms the air, the beer, the inside of the cooler and the beer's container.
The cooler on the right has the exact same amount of heat leaking inside. It warms the air (but less air due to the extra water), the beer, the inside of the cooler and the beer's container.
The only variable is does water absorb more heat per degree rise in temperature than air. The answer to that is yes - extremely so.
Air's specific heat is 1.007 J/(gK) - Joules is energy, gram is mass and K is degrees Kelvin. Water's specific heat is 4.18 J/(gK) - so for a fixed amount of Joules added, water goes up less than 1/4 a degree in temperature compared to a gram of air. If water and air were equally dense (they are not) then you have a 4 to 1 advantage. Water takes four times as long to warm up as air, so your beer stays cooler longer.
Now - what about your typical 70 quart cooler? It is 66.24 Liters or 66,245 cm^3 in volume.
Air's density is 0.001275 g/cm^3 and water's density is 1.00 g/cm^3. Here's where water really owns the show in terms of cooling capacity since water is 784 times denser than air. That 70 quart cooler could contain either 84.5 grams of air or 66,245 grams of water (or 3 ounces of air versus 146 pounds of water).
Now we have water with a 4 to 1 advantage on heat absorption and a 784 to 1 advantage on packing mass into the same space, so water is over 3000 times better than air for absorbing heat while raising the temperature inside the cooler one degree. Whether you have a thimbleful of water or the cooler is mostly water, you want that amount of cold water staying inside the cooler to absorb its share of the heat leaking in.
Since it's easy to agree that the amount of heat entering the cooler is basically the same whether you drain or don't drain, leaving cool water inside the cooler slows the time it takes to both melt the remaining ice and warm the contents since that water will absorb heat if it is left in the cooler up to the point where the water in the cooler is equal in temperature to the outside air.
You do need formulas to calculate the rates of temperature increase, but the which is better scenario can be decided quite easily by considering where the heat leaking into the cooler goes and whether draining the water also has a side effect of allowing more heat in. Both of these fall on it being better to leave the container closed and with the melt water inside.
EDIT: The more I consider this, the ambient air temperature around the cooler is the largest factor. Replacing water with 95F (35C) degree air will have a much larger impact than replacing water with 40F (4.4C) degree air.
Actually, the answer is very simple because you asked longer, not colder.
If you drain all the water, then when the ice all melts...you're done. Because whether or not the ice is better than the water at keeping your food cold, the water is going to be better than nothing. The ice is going to melt (effectively) at the same rate either way, because you can drain the water, but you can't really dry the ice. So the ice will melt at roughly the same rate regardless of when you drain the water.
Also, when you drain the water, something has to replace it. That something will be air at the temperature of the environment you are in... which will destroy the equilibrium. Basically everything I read online ignores this point. It talks about the coefficients and thermodynamics, etc, and, neglects to even consider that the water is being replaced with something and that something is air which must then be cooled. When you drain the water, you are actively replacing cold with heat.
It should be noted that if you have infinite ice, you should probably drain the water. However if you have infinite ice it doesn't seem like this would matter.
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I sometimes leave melted ice water in my cooler, which then gets into the food, making the food inedible.
If my "food" is a can of beer, fine, leave the water in the cooler. If it's a sandwich, drain the water if it might get the sandwich wet. Or have the cans of beer at the bottom and put the sandwich on top to keep it out of the ice water.
Another "outside the box" answer is if it gets cold enough at night, I'll leave the lid open. Leaving all the melted ice water inside is good thermal mass to keep it cool during the day. You have to remember to open and close the lid at the right time. If critters might get in this doesn't work so good.
The thermal conductivity of air is 0.000057
The thermal conductivity of water is 0.0014
Therefore water is 24.5 times more conductive than air, and has a temperature above 32 degrees Fahrenheit. The reason this is a problem is that bacteria can grow in that water quite quickly (within 6 hours) and start to make your food unhealthy to eat.
Additionally all that warm 32+ degree water will assist in melting the remaining ice.
So do yourself a favor, drain the water that melts out the bottom of the cooler with the spout that is provided. It's safer, and your food will last longer.
See this fine article about cooler packing and draining.
Ok, put away your calculators people. Draining the cool water causes the warm air to enter the cooler. Cool water is COOLER than warm air, so leave the cool water in the cooler. If I had a compass, some graph paper a protractor handy I'd draw you a picture.
Here is a different twist on the question of how to best use block ice. Before refrigeration northern states used to saw block ice fron frozen lakes and store for the summer in "ice houses", log houses that used only the thermal inertia of massive amounts of ice stacked together.
As a rafter I have taken part in lots of discussions about this and couldn't resist any longer so have set up an experiment to test this. I hypothesize that the drained cooler will hold ice longer due to the insulating effect of air--as Snitse has described above. Convection will reduce air's effectiveness but, as Snitse points out, it is still far superior to water. I have set this experiment up with identical styrofoam coolers loaded with equal amounts of crushed ice (in the second series of experiments I am going to substitute identical blocks of ice). The drained ice chest has a drain tube in place to allow it to drain continuously. These are placed side by side (with a gap between) at room temperature (in my lab in a large building where temperature is fairly constant). In the first replicate, the drained ice chest did, indeed hold ice longer, but not by much and the undrained ice chest contained water that reached room temperature at nearly the same time the ice melted! I am replicating this experiment and will begin the ice block experiment after replicating this three times.
This is a great topic deserving of some controlled experimentation. In general the system is non-linear, but can be analyzed in a piece-wise linear fashion the same way many other difficult problems are approached. Some thoughts on the matter; 1)conduction not convection, is the main transport mechanism, 2)cold does not exist, only the absence of heat, 3) heat transfer is a function of temperature difference between the inside and outside of the cooler, cooler thickness, thermal conductivity (w/m-k) of the cooler material, and surface area of the cooler. You can use Fourier's law of heat transfer to calculate how much heat in watts enters the cooler through its walls. As ice melts, it takes 3.3x10^5 joules/kg to do so. Remembering that a watt is a joule/second you can then calculate how long a given mass of ice will last. Heat, like electricity, takes the path of least resistance. Water, at 24X the thermal conductivity of air, provides a low thermal impedance path for heat to reach the ice, so if a block of ice is sitting in a water bath it should melt at a faster rate. I would like to propose and experiment where the ice and melt water in one cooler are kept segregated, and one where the ice and melt water are not. At the time that the ice is completely melted, the two systems are the same in mass and phase (all liquid) but perhaps not temperature or even at the same time. Then its a different process, but with different initial conditions (temperature). There are some variables which have to be controlled in order to see the effects of draining vs not draining the water, namely ambient temperature has to be monitored and kept the same for both, admitting outside are into the system has to be eliminated, the coolers must be identical, the mass of the ice has to be measured. Leave the system undisturbed, measure the inside water and air temperature at as many places as possible using thin thermocouples and a digital thermometer. Allow the experiment to run well past the expected lifespan of the ice. Some sort of viewing port capability would be helpful to examine the state of the ice without perturbing the system.
As Dangeranger stated,
The idea is that water will conduct heat energy throughout the cooler much more effectively than air. This means that water will conduct heat energy from the leaks and seams in the cooler to the ice more effectively than air.
Say we have two hypothetical coolers, Cooler A and Cooler B. Both leak heat at the same rate, and both started with a identical large block of ice in it, and equal air temperature occupying the rest of the cooler. Every hour you drain the water from A, and leave it in B. For the first hour they both have the same amount of water and the same amount of ice, and then you drain the water from A. Now, in the second hour because the water left in B conducts heat from the walls to the ice faster than the air in A, more of B's ice will melt than of A's ice.
Clearly, B's ice will be completely melted before A's ice is. Let's call the moment that ice B completely melts 'meltB'. At meltB ice A has x percent of its original mass remaining.
We can all agree that at meltB there is less heat energy in cooler B than in cooler A, since you've been replacing things in cooler A with other things that had more heat energy (replacing cool water with air temperature air).
Where it gets tricky is that after meltB, the heat energy in cooler B will increase faster than the heat energy in cooler A because of all that water conducting heat from the walls.
So from start until meltB, A gains energy faster than B, but after meltB B gains energy faster than A.
What this all comes down to is the exact numbers. If you want to eat your food at time a or b you are better off with cooler B, but if you want to eat your feed at time c or d you are better off with Cooler B.
As for how to calculate meltB, I have no idea. So I guess its somewhat impossible to figure out.
To clarify, the key point here is that different parts of the cooler are different temperatures. The wall is warmer than the area immediately around the ice. However, if the cooler is full of water, the water brings heat energy from the wall to the ice much more effectively than air would.
So the coolers leak at the same rate, meaning the walls gain energy from the outside at the same rate. However, if there is no water, the walls gaining energy does not necessarily mean that the ice will gain that energy and melt immediately. It will take time for that energy to get to the ice, and the time it takes depends on the medium the energy transfers through.
In summary, walls gain energy at same rate, ice in the middle does NOT gain energy at the same rate because of what is between them and the walls.
Removing water from the cooler always means the ice lasts longer - solid (ice) transfers heat slowest, then gas (air inside cooler), then liquid (melted ice). This is explained by the Zeroteh Law of thermodynamics. All three work to achieve equilibrium by becoming the same temperature. Remove the fastest heat-transferring part and your ice lasts longer. The classic experiment is placing an ice cube in a mesh bag and suspending it with string and lever over a clear glass containing cold water. Notice the ice melts faster where it is submerged than in the air. The air insulates the thin layer of melted ice above, but the liquid quickly exchanges heat with the ice to melt it, until all are in equilibrium. Using the drain to remove the melted water means more insulating air and solid ice in the cooler to maintain cold contents, and longer lasting ice.
It's really simple. The universe wants everything to be the same temperature so if we left the cooler in a sufficiently large, constant temperature environment, the cooler and all its contents would eventually end up at the same temperature, that being the ambient temperature of the environment.
Let's first begin by noting that we want to keep something cool rather than make it cooler. In that case, we want to stop it gaining heat energy. The heat energy is coming from the walls of the cooler.
If our food is packed in the cooler such that the ice touches the walls, then the ice is going to be subject to warming before the food. The ice touching the food will not impart any heat energy because it's the same temperature.
However, add some water to the system and there is path of conduction from the wall to the food since the water is at higher temperature than the food.
Air has 1000 times less heat capacity than water, so it's not actually that interesting to take into account replacement of cold air with ambient temperature air.
It is so not true that water mixed ice keeps food cold. Try your own experiment and see that it is true. This is exactly how you make ice cream, but just with some salt. Here is how you do it: 1) Buy your cooler according to size. Dont buy a cooler that it too big. 2) Fill the cooler with pre-chilled items. Try and reduce the air space as much as possible. This will dramatically extend the 'cold' 3) Top off with ice. 4) The Ice Melts. 5) Melted Ice turns to water and carries off heat. 6) Drain the warmer melted water. Heat goes right out the drain tube. Ice remains colder for MUCH longer. Half a day over my 3 day weekends. NOTE...This is a mostly closed system. Neither 'Dried' (Not Dry Ice...but not wet ice) nor water/ice slurry works well when kids are always leaving the lid open and warm air blows in.
Your ice will keep longer if you drain the water. If you want to prove it to yourself, get 2 cups. Fill one with cold fridge water and leave the other empty. Put an ice cube in each and see which one is melted first. Even with the ice cube in the water being surrounded by cold water it still melts much quicker than the other ice cube being surrounded by the hot ambient air.
One test I've done was to fill two cups with partly ice and emptied one cup every 5 minutes. The ice in the cup that was emptied of its water lasted longer than the ice that sat in the melted water. Showed easily the best way to make ice last longer. Seems it could be a different story if your aim is to keep the cooler temperature colder for longer. But if I'm keeping food cool I like to keep it relatively dry.
It depends.
A simple fact: You conduct HEAT. You do not conduct COLD. Wrap your head around that.
2nd Simple Fact: Water conducts HEAT more efficiently than air.
Now, if you're trying to chill warm items, then use water to conduct the heat out of them and transfer it to the frozen water (ice). That will chill them quicker than just air.
However, if you're trying to keep chilled items cold, you want to prevent the transfer of heat from the environment (via the outside skin of the cooler, across the insulation or air gap, through the interior skin) to the items. In this case, air is the best choice; drain the water.
So, you catch a fish. Quench it quickly in one ice chest with ice and water to get it chilled, then put it into an ice chest with the ice kept separate from the contents and with the water drained.

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I have been working with live boot disks recently and I know that it gives you access to the computer's processing power, internet, and various other tasks without the hassle of a username/password.
Is it possible to obtain files created in another OS (e.g. Windows XP) that are saved to the "My Documents" or similar folders in that OS's filesystem? If so, how is this done, and is there any way to stop an attacker from doing this?


text: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is by far on the list of all time favorite horror movies and this character or murderer is up there with Jason and Michael. Up next we are going learn "how to draw Leatherface", step by step. Just the concept that some psycho trims the skin off of his victims to wear on his face. The crazy butcher uses all types of gizmos and gadgets to kill his victims but if t hey get away, he will chase after them tenaciously with his chainsaw until he catches them. If he is unsuccessful with the chase, he will lift his arms while his chainsaw is in air and start going mad. Drawing Leatherface easy is going to be perfect for those of you that love the movie series and horror flicks. Enjoy folks and peace out.


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We currently use MozyPro to backup around 20 corporate laptops. MozyPro has proven to be problematic and sometimes unreliable. We have considered switching to Carbonite Pro, but they do not support the use of an internet proxy, and according to their support team have no plans to provide proxy support.
What are some other online backup providers that also provide proxy support?


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I have a website made up of only HTML pages. Instead of copy pasting the Google Analytics code on every
.html file, is there a better way to include the Google code on every page?
I have a website made up of only HTML pages. Instead of copy pasting the Google Analytics code on every
I see everyone recommending a server side solution for this, which is fine, but if you're going to have to go through all of their files and append a server side include into your pages why not just put the Google Analytics code into a separate file and include it using a
Server Side Includes could be your way forward.
They are generally ignored because scripting languages like PHP do a better job, but these will get the job done for you.
using Toby suggestions this is the code to put in ALL your HTML pages just before the
Then you create a file called
With PHP it works in the same way, simply add this PHP code in ALL your HTML pages just before the
I just added the code above the
It's been a really long time since I've used a WYSIWYG editor (probably 10 years) but I seem to recall Dreamweaver (and perhaps others) allowed you to add "template" items which would populate to every page listed in the current site. If you're using an editor such as this I'd look through their documentation or ask in their support forums first.
I think the quickest is to make
The down side to the suggestions so far is that they all require visiting each html page to add code. Sounds to me like the short answer is that you DO have to touch every page.
Ok, maybe I am being overly simplistic, but what about using a find & replace utility? Chances are that whatever software you use has find & replace functionality, and you can add something to every page quickly. For instance, if you want it to be the last thing before the tag, just find that tag and replace it with the code you wish to insert plus the tag.
Placing the GA code in a js file or a ssi file might be a big help down the road for any changes you need to make. That way you would only have to touch one file instead of revisiting all of them.
If it's a Linux server, put the google code in a local js file like the top answer said, then say something like:
I just tried on Ubuntu Server 12.04 and it worked. I'd try it on one file first to be sure before using the wildcard.


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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) _ Just days after the start of the 2013 Kansas budget year, State Board of Education members are preparing to discuss spending needs for 2014.
Staff presented the 10-member board with a list of budget ideas during its June meeting, including increases in base state aid per student, enhanced support systems and funding for teacher development.
Lobbyists for the Kansas Association of School Boards and the Kansas National Education Association sent letters to the board members encouraging them to ask for additional funds. The groups say the money is necessary to be proactive in meeting student needs.
Decisions made at the July 10 board meeting will be forwarded in the fall to Gov. Sam Brownback's administration for inclusion in the 2014 budget request that will be presented to legislators in January.


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Dubreuil, a Parisian expat and cofounder of the Webster boutique in Miami Beach, has a signature style: "A little bourgeois, but edgy," she says. Her must-haves? A beachy caftan, an Eres swimsuit, handmade sandals, and more.
Maybe it's her Basque origins, or the summers pool-hopping in the south of France, but Parisian expat Laure Hériard Dubreuil has taken to Miami's fashion scene like a supermodel to South Beach. Part owner of the Webster, a boutique known for its hard-to-get Gallic labels, Dubreuil uses her own style as a template for her customers. "I'm a little bourgeois, but edgy," she says of the aesthetic she achieves with curvy dresses, bright colors, and high heels. She likes fresh takes on pieces with a history, like the Chanel 2.55 bag in white, and her training as a merchandiser at Balenciaga and Yves Saint Laurent taught her how to edit. "You can't have it all. The crazy fabric, the crazy shape—pick one," she says. Nor is her shop meant to be all things to all people. Those eensie-weensie cutout bikinis bobbing in the local surf? "This is not my thing," says Dubreuil, who takes her daily swim in a one-piece.
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I tried to generate thumbnails from shape file and display them on my website(using jsp).I had been read this and this question .Very similarity questions ,but I know nothing about python... Is there any open source tools or projects to deal with it?Is there any solution or idea to implement it via ArcGIS javascript api or other solutions ?
If this does not need to be automated then, since you are using ArcMap, you could use the built-in Create Thumbnails function for a layer.
Alternatively you could make a simple map showing only your shapefile, save it as a JPEG and down-sample it to thumbnail size with Photoshop or GIMP (you can do this in Arc obviously and set your resolution and page size way down)
If you have ArcMap, you don't need Mapnik or any other open source tools just to create an image of your data and you only need Python or Java etc if you want to automate the process!


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Vivitar Professional Aluminum Camera Hard Case for $12.99 + free shipping
Less than half the price of the one listed a week ago! This is a cool case for travel. The foam is "pick-and-pull" type so you can customize it to fit just about anything. I ordered one! This is sold by 1SaleADay through the Sears marketplace so of course the MSRP is over inflated but it's still a great deal!
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This was $9.99 yesterday and I forgot to buy it! Damn.
I had the window open and everything.. I went to measure my case and bam! My ADD stepped in and said "Sorry, bro.. not today." And here we are..
Hopefully it comes back soon..
@drchops: I think there was a shipping charge when it was $9.99. I could be wrong.
@mayonnaisydaisy: Nope! FREE! (it was a flash deal) That's why I was bummed.. I like these cases quite a bit - I've never used this brand, but I use this style. I'm guessing for $12 they're probably not very big, but I'd still like one.
Hopefully they come back, this is the 2nd or 3rd time at least they've been $9, so they probably will..
$12 is still good though, don't get me wrong.. I might buy one at that price too


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This question was closed a few days ago: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3578775/how-google-and-other-pay-per-click-companies-discover-click-fraud-closed
I'd welcome some discussion on whether questions such as that should be closed. In my mind it's a question regarding a software problem, which has a software solution - and therefore anyone interested in developing a software solution would be entitled to ask a question on SO.
If you think its not a valid question for SO, it might help if you specified where such a question would better belong.
Adding a bounty, because I think this hasn't got a conclusive answer yet. Most of the comments suggest its off-topic, but the question is now open and highly upvoted. Further if SO isnt the most relevant place, then lets have a conclusive answer on where these questions can go.


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Given a group $G$ with $a\in G$ fixed, define $\phi: G \to G$ by $\phi(x) = axa^{-1}, x \in G$, I am wondering when $\phi$ is an isomorphism. I think that it is always an isomorphism because it is one to one, and the order of the domain ($|G|$) and the order of the range are equal. Am I wrong in thinking this?
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That gives you that $\phi$ is bijective if $G$ is finite. Otherwise, you can prove that $\phi$ is bijective by establishing that $\phi^{-1}$ exists.
To prove that it is always an isomorphism: you also need to show that $\phi$ is a homomorphism: that is, that $\phi$ satisfies the following property: $$\phi(xy) = \phi(x)\phi(y), \forall x, y \in G.$$ The proof is fairly straightforward:
Let $x, y$ be any elements in $G$. Then:
$$\phi(x)\phi(y) = (axa^{-1})(aya^{-1}) = ax(a^{-1}a)ya^{-1} = a(xy)a^{-1} = \phi(xy)$$
== $\,\phi\,$ is $\,1-1\,$: $\,\phi(x)=axa^{-1}=1\Longrightarrow x=a^{-1}a=1\Longrightarrow \ker\phi=\{1\}\,$
== $\,\phi\,$ is onto: for all $\,y\in G\,\,,\,\phi(a^{-1}ya)=a(a^{-1}ya)a^{-1}=y\,$


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Your iPhone can capture a detailed photograph, but how well the photo is composed is up to you. One common photo-composition trick is called the Rule of Thirds. With the Rule of Thirds, you imagine lines that divide your photo into thirds both horizontally and vertically. The four "power points" are at the intersections of the lines. Put the subject in your scene at or near a power point of the photo.


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I am seeing an error while running apt-get -f install. Can somebody help me out ..
venkat@ubuntu:~/Downloads$ sudo apt-get -f install
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STEUBENVILLE - Area residents who attend the local appearance of Antonio and Jonna Mendez will have the opportunity to have their copies of Mendez's book signed.
The couple, scheduled to speak at 7:30 p.m. April 9 in the auditorium at Steubenville High School, will conduct a book signing after their presentation, which is the next installment in the Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce, Herald-Star Concert and Lecture Series.
Tony Mendez is the CIA agent who orchestrated the rescue of six American diplomats who had escaped when Iranian student-militants overran the U.S. embassy in Tehran on Nov. 4, 1979. Canada provided refuge to the six until late January 1980 when Mendez and another CIA officer disguised them as members of film crew working on a fake science-fiction film - "Argo" - and took them out of Iran.
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LECTURE NEARS — Dianna Brown, a customer service representative at the Herald-Star, said tickets for the April 9 presentation by Antonio and Jonna Mendez and copies of the book "Argo: How Hollywood and the CIA Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History" are selling at a brisk pace. The appearance, which will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Steubenville High School auditorium, is part of the Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce, Herald-Star Concert and Lecture Series.
The rescue was dramatized in the Academy Award-winning film "Argo," in which Ben Affleck portrayed Mendez.
Mendez described the once-classified operation in his book "The Master of Disguise -My Secret Life in the CIA," which was written with Malcolm McConnell and first published in 1999. He tells an expanded version of the story in the book "Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History," which was written with Matt Baglio and published shortly before the movie's October release.
"We're happy to be able to add this component to the April 9 lecture," said Ross Gallabrese, executive editor of the Herald-Star and The Weirton Daily Times. "Those who attend the lecture will have the opportunity to have Mendez sign a copy of one of his books."
Mendez, who earned numerous commendations during his 25-year career, also teamed with his wife, Jonna to write "Spy Dust." That book, which was written with Bruce Henderson, offers a look at how the two masters of disguise helped to win the Cold War. Jonna Mendez served 27 years in the CIA as an officer in the technical services division and as chief of disguise, a post Tony Mendez also held.
Copies of the book "Argo" will be available for purchase at $24.95 (plus tax) prior to and after the presentation at the high school. The book also is available for purchase at the Herald-Star offices, 401 Herald Square, during regular business hours.
Reserved tickets for the presentation cost $20, while general admission tickets cost $15. Tickets are available at the Herald-Star; by calling (740) 283-4711; or by visiting the newspaper's website at www.heraldstaronline.com.
The newspaper is extending a special offer that will make it easier for area residents to obtain a copy of the book "Argo" - the package includes two reserved seat tickets to the April 9 presentation and a copy of the book for $55. That price represents a savings of more than $13 over the cost of the items if purchased separately. The deadline to purchase the package is Friday.
"That's an outstanding deal," said Gallabrese. "You'll get great seats for the presentation and your copy of the book to have signed afterward for a very reasonable price."
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We wanted to highlight and congratulate the first-year class of the Female Lone Parent Breakthrough Program of Kelowna, British Columbia! Ten single-mothers, many of whom missed their own high school graduation years earlier, walked the graduation carpet at the Kelowna Salvation Army Corps location in early September.
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The brand new Breakthrough program is a year-long curriculum of education and mentorship that aims to counsel and influence struggling single mothers. Along with strongly encouraged times of reflection, the classroom education serves as a support system for the women and covers topics such as communication, boundaries, dating, and conflict management. Perhaps more importantly, Christian principles are intertwined in the lessons and conversations with emphasis on self-worth.
The ultimate goal is to help change the hearts of participants; encouraging them to understand themselves better, to hone their strengths, to work on their weaknesses and to develop self-esteem. Upon graduating, two of the mothers reached new employment goals while three participants were fulfilling their dreams of furthering their education.
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I really like playing Demolition on MW3 (or any COD game) but I have problems dealing with the campers that guard the bomb. I understand how they let you blow out a bomb and then they all just migrate over to the other and otherwise completely ruin your chance of planting. I'd like to know if anyone has any tactics or whatever to overcome the campers
Camping is a pretty powerful strategy in CoD multiplayer, and it's not just a problem in Demolition, although it is arguably worse there than in most modes once you've taken out one bomb site.
The problem with breaking a solid camping strategy is that it generally only takes limited cooperation between a couple of players to set up a good camp, but it takes a significant amount of strategy by the other team in order to break it. For this reason, Demolition is a frustrating gametype to play unless you've got a pretty solidly coordinated team.
Campers generally rely on a number of advantages:
To break a solid camp, you're going to have to tilt all of these advantages in your favor.
Here's a point by point "sample" strategy:
There are many ways to break a camp, although the better the people are at camping a given location, and the more coordinated their team is, the harder it will be. Focus on coordination and don't forget to consume your whole loadout - bullets in your primary weapon are most people's only thought when trying to get a kill, but there is significant strategy in secondary weapons and loadout choices.
Generally what I do, is get all explosived up, and wait for one team member. Grab as many explosives as you can, sticky's, crossbow and the like. Once you have a team member going towards the enemies camping site, try to stick as much as you can even if it gets you killed. The enemies will spawn further away and you can get back about when they do. If your team member is any good at all he would have taken advantage of the short hiccup in the enemies camping, and if your lucky another team member will have arrived. Then when you get there, it can be you 3 camping. All you need is a short gap, and if you waited for a team member, and gave them that gap it is possible. (I would suggest changing classes after you pretty much suicide bomb their 'camp'.)
Approach from the least open areas as most of the campers will guard the open areas expecting a couple people to come from there. Camping is a very good strategy, and is often hard to break. Hope my strategy helps :)
My other strategy (takes some pretty good skill, if I haven't played for a while I generally can't do it. Get a sniper. Get a limited view of their 'camp' and have good cover. Pick them off, earning up killstreaks. Get the stealth bombers, the fire bomb thing, mortars, chopper, whatever. Anything with a wide range and explosive power will dominate their 'camp'.
Finally, AND MOST IMPORTANT!!!...... A camper's biggest weakness is his urge to reload after every kill - sometimes using your team mate as bait and catching them on a reload is your only way.
If I know where they may camp (bomb site etc.), and I see them hard camping, I switch to a class with recon and flash nades. I flash them and when they show up on the map, I can see exactly in which direction they are looking (you know they usually look straight in one direction...). Flash nades are better than stuns for recon, as they have a higher "radius of impact" (? don't really know how to say this lol), meaning that you can get flashed at a greater distance from the explosion. Even if the enemy isn't much disturbed by the tactical nade, you will see exactly where he is, and most importantly where he's looking at, so you can flank him.
When I am not using recon, I usually run stuns and a semtex. Throw your stun close enough to the enemy spot and if you get a hit marker, immediately throw your semtex, in the exact same direction as your stun. That's a 95% sure kill, as the enemy won't be able to run away, and because the two nades will end up at the same spot (remember that a flash will explode after a certain time, and the stun will explode when touching the ground).
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I am designing a UI for a support applying system. Currently applications are made manually on paper and users are known to have very little knowledge on electronic services. Plan is to study the traditional paper application process. what kind of data is most relevant for this kind of study?
This sounds like a fairly straight-forward Request -> Approval/Decline workflow.
Whenever I've been asked to come up with a computer version of a manual process, the best approach I've found (which may not always possible) is to sit down on-site with someone who knows the manual process inside-out and let them take me through it.
The important thing is that you establish a contact who knows the manual system well and whom you can call/email with any questions you may have, essentially you want to absorb as much of their domain-specific knowledge as possible.


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Dream Gala 2009
As guests made their way through the charming "Nationals Arch" into the cocktail reception for Dream Gala 2009, they were greeted by none other than Racing Presidents Teddy and Abe. Fine food and drink as well as an engaging array of silent auction items awaited them. The gala, the annual primary fundraiser for the Washington Nationals Dream Foundation, was presented by the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center. The Gaylord is the event's primary sponsor, and provided a lovely setting on the Potomac River.
The dinner program opened with Washington Youth Choir's stirring performance of the National Anthem, and the Nationals Baseball Club was introduced by Charlie Slowes and Dave Jageler. Masters of Ceremony Bob Carpenter and Rob Dibble kept the guests engaged and entertained throughout the evening. Highlights included remarks by Dream Foundation chair, Marla Tanenbaum; an informative video about Foundation projects; a spirited live auction; and lively music and dancing.
The joyful evening with the Washington Nationals raised over $400,000 for Dream Foundation projects and a good time was had by all!Click the following images to view the photo galleries from this event:
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text: Members of the Brooke County, Weirton and Wheeling lodges of the Fraternal Order of Police will play Brooke County and Weirton firefighters in a football game at 7 p.m. Saturday at Brooke Memorial Stadium to benefit Brooke County Special Olympics. Among area law enforcement officers participating are, front, from left, Larry Palmer, coach; and Michael Hoder, Dennis Davis, Shaun Flanegin and R.J. Faldowski: and back, Bobby McConnell, Josh Sanders, Chad Simpson and Dale and Vern Ridgway. It's the sixth year for the game, which has raised $6,750 for Brooke County Special Olympics over the last two years and $9,515 for Easter Seals in its first three years. It has been renamed the Bill Furioli Memorial Football Classic in honor of the late Brooke County Special Olympics director who died Jan. 23 after leading the program for 26 years. Admission is $5, with children age 10 and under admitted free. There will be a $2 parking fee and concession stand run by volunteers with Special Olympics. -- Warren Scott


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6 Apr 2012 5:59 AM #1
combo-box drop-down to be wide enough to show long values
Would like ComboBox to have the ability for the drop-down list to be as wide as the data in the list, even if the displayed column is not very wide. If users resizes column in grid, would like that not to have negative impact to a combo box in the grid.
Screenshot shows cropping of colors "mother of pearl" and "very, very dark red"...
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Thanks for the report. I've filed this as a bug and will update here with any changes.
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Although we'll register this as a feature to consider in future revisions, we're not interested in incorporating this into the library proper right now. Thanks for your suggestion.


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I'm using KPSS Method to check if the series is stationary, but I would also like to use another test to confirm if the series is stationary or not, what method coudl I use?
I'm using KPSS Method to check if the series is stationary, but I would also like to use another test to confirm if the series is stationary or not, what method coudl I use?
There are many different methods for this. Most people rely on a unit root test. Rmetrics has collected the most common unit root tests into the fUnitRoots package, which primarily provides a wrapper for Bernhard Pfaff's urca package. These include:
If you want to understand these functions in more detail, I recommend Pfaff's book on "Analysis of Integrated and Cointegrated Time Series with R". "Applied Econometrics with R" also provides a nice short introduction.
Chapter 4 of Eric Zivot's book on time series analysis covers unit root tests and is available on his website. He uses S-Plus, but the urca functions are almost identical.
You can use the (Adjusted) Dickey Fuller Test: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dickey%E2%80%93Fuller_test
I'm pretty sure your software package has a library or routine you can use to do it.
Yet another alternative are wavelet based tests. With comparable size, they often have higher power, especially for very near unit root alternatives. An example is here (free pre-print versions of this paper are available, too).
Also, Eric Zivot has good notes on time-series and R.
Divide the time series into two sections (e.g. 1st half and 2nd half) and construct the CDF for each part. The CDFs should be the same if the series is stationary. Since the CDFs will never be exactly the same you can apply Pearson's $\chi^{2}$ test comparing the value of the CDFs through several waypoints. I believe this test was created by the late Cliff Sherry.
To be a stationarity is when the roots of charateristic equation lies outside of the unit circle.


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Across the United States of America, there is no doubt that immigrant entrepreneurs and innovators play an important role. Immigrant entrepreneurs bring in additional revenue, create jobs, and contribute significantly to the economy. Immigrant small business owners contribute in many ways to their local communities. Furthermore, highly skilled immigrants are vital to the country's innovation industries, and to the many metropolitan areas across the nation, helping to boost local economies.
Immigrant entrepreneurs contribute greatly to the United States' economy.
The United States is home to many successful companies with at least one founder who was an immigrant or child of an immigrant. In 2010, more than 40 percent [1] of the Fortune 500 companies were founded by immigrants (90 companies) or children of immigrants (114 companies), according to the Partnership for a New American Economy.
- The Fortune 500 companies that immigrants started employ over 3.6 million [1] people, and the combined employment of the companies started by immigrants or their children is over 10 million people worldwide.
- Fortune 500 companies started by immigrants or their children generated revenue greater than the GDP of nearly every country in the world (except Japan, China, and the United States). $1.7 trillion [1] in revenues is attributable to the companies founded by immigrants, and that figure rises to $4.2 trillion [1] when combined with the revenues of companies founded by the children of immigrants.
- Many recognizable "American" brands [1] were founded by immigrants. These companies include: AT&T, Kraft, Proctor & Gamble, U.S. Steel, DuPont, Goldman Sachs, Kohl's, Honeywell, and Nordstrom. Today, immigrants start many recognizable high-tech firms, including Google, eBay, Yahoo!, and Intel.
A 2013 study [2] from the National Venture Capital Association highlights the impacts of immigrant entrepreneurs on the U.S. economy, and shows that the number of immigrant-founded venture-funded companies is increasing.
- Initial public offerings of venture-funded companies with an immigrant founder jumped from 20 percent prior to 2006 to 33 percent [2] after 2006. The study also found that one-third of the entrepreneurs starting privately-held venture-backed companies were foreign-born.
- Immigrant entrepreneurs come through all immigration channels: 40 percent [2] of the immigrant founders in the survey entered the U.S. as employment-sponsored immigrants, 38 percent as international students, 13 percent as family-sponsored immigrants, and the rest in another category.
- Immigrant-founded venture-backed companies create extraordinary value. As of June 2013, such publicly traded companies have a total market capitalization of $900 billion [2]. If this group of companies were a country, they would be among the top twenty economies in the world.
- Immigrant entrepreneurs' companies create new jobs in the U.S. Immigrant-founded venture-backed public companies employ approximately 600,000 people [2], mostly in the United States.
According to economist Robert Fairlie at the University of California, Santa Cruz, immigrants start businesses at a higher rate than the native-born: the business formation rate per month among immigrants in 2010 is 0.62 percent [3] (or 620 out of 100,000), compared to 0.28 percent for non-immigrants (or 280 out of 100,000).
- In 2010, new immigrant business owners had a total net business income of $121.2 billion [4], which is 15 percent of all net business income in the country.
- In 2012, the Kauffman Foundation's Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity shows that immigrants were nearly twice as likely [5] as the native-born to start businesses each month. Additionally, from 1996 to 2012, the share of entrepreneurs who are immigrants grew from 13.7 percent to 27.1 percent.
Immigrant entrepreneurs play key roles in growing industries [6] such as the transportation and food processing industries, according to the Immigrant Learning Center.
- Immigrant entrepreneurs fulfill transportation [6] needs in urban daily life, including taxi, limousine, and bus services. Immigrant transportation businesses meet a variety of needs, such as transporting disabled persons and sparking spin-off industries related to mobile advertising and transportation support businesses.
- Immigrant business owners are also present throughout the entire spectrum of food production [6]. Not surprisingly, they play a large role in restaurants, groceries, specialty retail markets, and food manufacturing. Immigrant entrepreneurs in food-related industries often lead the response to changing market demands.
Immigrant businesses contribute to local economies in cities and metropolitan areas.
Immigrant business owners represent a sizeable share of all business owners in many metropolitan areas, places that are drivers of regional economies and the economy of the nation as a whole. According to the Fiscal Policy Institute [7], the immigrant business ownership rate in 2010 was higher than the foreign-born share of total population in many metropolitan areas across the country, as the following examples illustrate.
Source: David Dyssegaard Kallick, Immigrant Small Business Owners: A Significant and Growing Part of the Economy (New York, NY: Fiscal Policy Institute, 2012). Note: In 2010, these 25 metro areas made up 41 percent of the U.S. population and 66 percent of the foreign-born population.
Immigration positively influences job growth in metropolitan areas. Through an analysis of 505 metropolitan areas [8] from 2005 to 2011, economist Jack Strauss at the University of Denver finds that an increasing number of immigrants moving to an area leads to significantly higher employment growth and a decline in the unemployment rate. Immigrants' self-employment appears to be the mechanism through which immigration positively impacts job opportunities in a metro area.
Immigrant entrepreneurship can positively impact neighborhood revitalization. According to the Immigrant Learning Center, neighborhood immigrant-owned businesses contribute to reviving commerce [9] and investment in areas that had declined.
- A 2012 report [10] shows that immigrant entrepreneurs create jobs to revive commerce and investment in their neighborhoods. Indeed, immigrant entrepreneurs are expanding their enterprises beyond traditional neighborhood businesses, developing new businesses in additional locations and mentoring other ethnic entrepreneurs. The rise of businesses owned or co-owned by immigrants has greatly improved once-blighted neighborhoods.
Additionally, a 2014 report [11] notes that more places are welcoming immigrants for economic development. As the report observes, "a budding place-based awareness of the important contributions that new and existing immigrants make to neighborhood revitalization is seen in the increasing number of cities pursuing a nexus of immigrant welcoming, integration, and economic development initiatives."
Highly skilled immigrants are vital to the United States' innovation and growth industries.
Immigrants contribute to the United States' economic growth and competitiveness by earning degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields from the country's research universities. In 2009, according to the Partnership for a New American Economy, "non-resident aliens" comprised almost 41 percent [12] of all masters and doctorate degrees in STEM fields. 40 percent of STEM masters degrees and 45 percent of STEM doctorates were awarded to "non-resident aliens".
Immigrants in the United States also contribute to the country's innovation economy by earning patents on new research, products, and ideas. According to the Partnership for a New American Economy, 76 percent [13] of patents awarded to the top ten patent-producing U.S. universities in 2011 had at least one foreign-born inventor.
- For high-tech and cutting-edge fields, the rate of foreign-born patenting at those institutions was even greater [13]: semiconductor device manufacturing (87 percent), information technology (84 percent), pulse or digital communications (83 percent), pharmaceutical drugs or compounds (79 percent), and optics (77 percent).
Beyond Silicon Valley and other high-tech meccas, cities across America show a demand for high-skilled workers. According to the Brookings Institution, there were 106 metropolitan [14] areas across the United States that had at least 250 requests for H-1B workers in 2010-2011.
- Not surprisingly, in the metropolitan areas with the greatest number of H-1B requests, the average wages [15] for STEM occupations with H-1B requests are high, the remaining vacancies are difficult to fill, and wages across those industries are growing.
While the largest metropolitan areas account for the top nine metro areas for H-1B requests overall, H-1B demand is not limited to only the largest cities, according to research [14] by the Brookings Institution.
- 22 metropolitan [14] areas with significant H-1B demand that are not included within the largest metropolitan areas in the country include places such as Columbus, IN; Durham-Chapel Hill, NC; Trenton-Ewing, NJ; Bloomington-Normal, IL; Ann Arbor, MI; Peoria, IL; Boulder, CO; and Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR.
- Although the presence of research universities accounts for H-1B high-skilled demand [14] in some of these places, private industry accounts for the demand and intensity in other areas, including companies such as HTC Global, Wal-Mart, Merrill Lynch, Educational Testing Service, Caterpillar Inc., Credit Suisse, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Bank of America, Wells Fargo Bank, and Mayo Clinic.
Various immigration reform proposals would lead to job and economic growth. According to Regional Economic Models, Inc., an expansion [16] of the high-skilled visa program could create an estimated 1.3 million new jobs in the U.S. by 2045. This expansion could also add [16] around $158 billion to Gross Domestic Product by 2045.
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Orange County residents take to politics to get Arrested Development's fruit stand in Newport.
Orange County residents take to politics to get Arrested Development's fruit stand in Newport.
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Born and raised on Long Island, in a small sleepy town known as Bethpage. Spent majority of his life following his parents up and down the east coast with his two brothers. Moved back to Long Island at the age of 15, became fascinated with Horror inspired fiction and artwork. It was at his grandmothers house he started to be inspired by what he considers the darkside of the world. His imagination running amok, he turned his attention at that time to RPGs (he played since 1980) and found his calling as the gamemaster for Chill and Call of Cthulhu. When not working he can be found working on artwork or on the Temple of Cthulhu website , he can be found taking care of his 3 cats and 2 dogs
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