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EDMONDS — An Edmonds man was critically injured in a condominium fire Sunday morning.
Neighbors reported around 8:15 a.m. that smoke was coming from the first-floor unit the injured man rents in the 7400 block of 212th Street SW.
"There was light smoke coming from the unit when firefighters arrived and the man was still inside. Police officers and firefighters pulled the victim from the building," said Leslie Hynes, public information officer for Snohomish County Fire District 1, which provides fire and emergency medical services in the city of Edmonds.
The 67-year-old man was transported by paramedics to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. His injuries from smoke inhalation appeared to be life-threatening, Hynes said in a statement.
Other people in the two-story, five-unit building were safely evacuated. Firefighters from Fire District 1 and Lynnwood had the fire under control within 10 minutes. The fire was contained to the kitchen area, but there was heavy smoke damage throughout the unit. No other units were damaged, Hynes said.
Fire investigators could not determine the exact cause of the fire, but could not rule out smoking or combustible items placed too close to the stovetop.
Neighbors told firefighters they did not hear any alarms sounding during the fire. Firefighters located a smoke alarm in the unit, but the battery had been removed and alarm had been disconnected from the electrical system.
"Even with a relatively small fire like this one, smoke can spread quickly and silently. Smoke alarms can give you the warning you need to safely escape. That's why it's so important to make sure the smoke alarms in your home are working properly," Hynes said.
Fire District 1 recommends testing smoke alarms monthly and replacing the batteries twice a year or right away if the alarm chirps to warn of a low battery. Smoke alarms more than 10 years old become unreliable and should be replaced. Fire District 1 is offering free smoke alarms and educational home safety assessments for residents it serves in the communities of unincorporated southwest Snohomish County, Brier, Edmonds, Mountlake Terrace and Woodway. Funding for the program comes from a Vision 20/20 Grant awarded through the federal Assistance to Firefighter Grant program.
Schedule a free home safety assessment and smoke alarm installation online at www.firedistrict1.org.


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I've been an avid iPhone user for years, and still am. But I'll admit, Apple and the iPhone is starting to bore me. If a handset like the Galaxy S4 or the HTC One could run iOS, I'd switch to that device in a heartbeat. Come on, Apple, you're falling way behind as far as innovative phone hardware and design.
For all of you crying about Apple not being innovative and that they're falling behind Samsung, please for the love of all things normal...STOP! WTF do you really expect? Do you really think that the SG4 is all that different from the SG3? If you do you're just being intentionally stupid. How much thinner or wider, or taller, or revolutionary are these companies supposed to make an effing phone? Do we now expect our phones to hold us while we sleep? Are they supposed to babysit the kids, give us the secrets to unlocking DNA? I mean both the SG4 and the iPhone5 both are faster than most internet services that any of us get. They're tiny computers in the palm of our hands but most of you are crying about not being able to watch a feature length movie on the damn things.
I don't want a bigger screen. I have an iPad for that. If I wanted a bigger screen I'd buy a phone with a bigger screen. I wan't a phone that will easily (!) fit in my pocket/my hand. Some of my students have the bigger phones- makes it easier to spot 'em using them in the classroom, but when I take them away they barely fit in MY pocket. Too big for my tastes. I just want the iPhone to work well. If it does that, I'm happy. That means better battery life, better GUI, some customizability, etc. And I can get the last if I can jailbreak. Though each iteration of the iPhone has allowed me to use fewer jailbreak tweaks. I'm down to biteSMS, Infinidock, and some stuff to change the status bar and lock screen. Oh, and custom icons.
I'd like to see 2GB of RAM, which may be possibility, since iOS 7 seems to use a little bit more RAM than it's predecessors, and Apple would like to have their next phone perform well. I'd also like to see 12-13 megapixel rear camera, as well as a better front-facing camera, so as to compete with the GS4. Screen-size of the 5 is fine, so no change there is necessary. Hopefully, Apple will also introduce the A7 chip, which should be quad-core. Also, a slightly better battery could be a possibility, with technology advancing the way it is.

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Hello Etsy at Pratt: Reimagine the Marketplace
Friday, March 22, 2013 at 5:30 PM - Sunday, March 24, 2013 at 5:30 PM (EDT)
Event Details
This year, Etsy is partnering with Pratt Institute to bring Hello Etsy home to Brooklyn. Hello Etsy at Pratt: Reimagine the Marketplace will address the future of consumption, new methods of production, alternative approaches to work, and more purposeful ways of doing business. Together, we will discuss building the creative economy of the future — one that is connected, human-scaled, joyful, and lasting. We hope to prove that business does not have to be brutal to be successful and fulfilling.
The conference will include inspirational speakers as well as workshops that will offer unique experiences in an atmosphere of inspired thinking.
FRIDAY, MARCH 22nd
Opening Reception 5:30-6:30
Welcome and Keynotes: 6:30pm-8:00pm
Chad is the CEO of Etsy. Before joining Etsy, Chad led the Brickhouse and Advanced Products teams at Yahoo!, where he also launched the Hack Day program for Yahoo! worldwide. Chad has served as the CTO for InfoWorld Media Group (IDG) and Salon.com.
Jeremy Rifkin | Keynote Address
President of the Foundation on Economic Trends and the bestselling author of nineteen books, Jeremy Rifkin will kick-off Hello Etsy with a talk on the Third Industrial Revolution. Founded on the merging of internet technology and renewable energy, The Revolution will usher in a fundamental reordering of human relationships, from hierarchical to lateral power, that will impact the way we conduct business, govern society, educate our children, and engage in civic life.
SATURDAY, MARCH 23rd
Reimagining Economy: 9:00am-10:30am
Introduced by Michelle Long, BALLE
Stewart Wallis | Good Jobs, Good Business, & Good Markets
Executive Director of the New Economics Foundation, Stewart Wallace, believes our economies face four interlinked systemic problems: they are unsustainable, unfair, unstable, and they are making many of us unhappy. Wallis will address why we need an economic transformation, the radical changes required to make it happen and how we can bring the transformed economy into fruition.
Laurie Santos | Overcoming Your Monkey Mind
Laurie Santos, Professor of Psychology and Director of Comparative Cognition Laboratory at Yale University, studies why humans repeatedly make the same irrational decisions. Her research has shown that monkeys have some of the same economic decision biases as humans, suggesting that some of our human errors may be evolutionarily linked. But she has also found some biases totally unique to humans. In her talk, Dr. Santos will discuss the human tendency to replicate other people's ideas, why humans alone conform to others, and how we can curb our automatic biases to increase creativity and innovation.
Alex Blumberg | The Fragile Economy
In recent years we have been forced to ask ourselves how secure our economy actually is. How much can we depend on the promise of social security? Are there downsides to free trade that economists have overlooked in the past? And what does the Federal Reserve do anyway? Alex Blumberg, of NPR's Planet Money, has spent his career investigating the myriad of pieces and processes that comprise our economy. In his talk, Blumberg will explore the fragility of the economic systems we take for granted, dispelling some of the mystery, and revealing the human beings behind it all.
Workshop 1: 11:00am-12:30pm
Tools for Sustainable Enthusiasm | Dr. LeeAnn Renninger
Tools for Sustainable Enthusiasm with Dr. LeeAnn Renninger of LifeLabs
Reimagining Work 2:00pm-3:30pm
Introduced by Dana Mauriello, Etsy
Chris Anderson | The New Industrial Revolution
In an age of custom-fabricated and do-it-yourself product design, the collective potential of a million garage tinkerers and enthusiasts is about to be unleashed, driving a resurgence of American manufacturing. Former Wired magazine editor and CEO of 3D Robotics, Chris Anderson, explores the front lines of this, new industrial revolution as today's entrepreneurs, using open source design and 3-D printing, bring manufacturing to the desktop and give us all the power to invent.
Rasnath Dasa | Being Human at Work
Former Wall Street banker and Bhakti monk, Rasnath Dasa, saw that the unspoken expectation at most companies is that you park your emotional life at the door, put on your game face, and keep conversation light and professional. In short, you show only one dimension of yourself at work and try to suppress the rest. But at what cost? The more preoccupied we are with emotions we can't express, the less focus we bring to our work. How do we create a workplace where we integrate and maximize true human potential, rather than divide and reduce it?
Jay Parkinson MD | Reinventing Medicine
Jay Parkinson emerged from medical school into a broken industry. Rather than following the path his peers had taken, he became an entrepreneur with the ambition to fix the system. By reimagining how doctors define health, how they communicate, and how they get paid, he is creating a new system for providing care to patients. Parkinson, founder of Hello Health and Sherpaa, will discuss how we can reinvent our approach to work to reshape our world.
Workshop 2: 4:00pm-5:30pm
Making Fear Your Best Business Partner | Michael Carroll
Mindfulness teacher and author, Michael Carroll, will share his personal experiences with mindfulness as an executive at Shearson Lehman/American Express, Simon & Schuster, and The Walt Disney Company, as he helps you explore embracing your fears and using them to your advantage.
SUNDAY, MARCH 24th
Reimagining Consumption 9:00am-10:30am
Introduced by Deb Johnson, Pratt
Robin Chase |Transforming Consumption
As the founder of Zipcar, Buzzrides, and GoLoco, Robin Chase is an expert on ways in which shared economies are reshaping how we consume. In order to revolutionize our current system for consumption, we must first understand what we consume and how, and then transform ourselves from passive purchasers to co-creators. Robin Chase will take the Hello Etsy audience through a voyage into our own habits, and how we relate to the goods we purchase.
Michelle Long | Why Local Matters
Michelle Long, the Executive director of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies, proves that local, independently owned businesses are the key to solving humanity's toughest challenges, and creating real, lasting prosperity. Through collaboration we can develop and support innovative business models for creating healthier, more sustainable, and prosperous communities. Michelle Long will discuss leveraging the collective voice of the local movement to drive new investment, scale the best solutions, and harness the power of local, independently owned business to transform the communities where we work and live.
Karen Brown | Can Making It Yourself Make a Difference in the World?
Karen Brown, designer and Creative Director of the Center for Ecoliteracy, looks at how our consumption habits have created some of the biggest environmental crises humans have ever faced. Fortunately, some problems that seem maddeningly enormous often have simple, effective solutions. If we observe how nature sustains itself, we can see that living things do not merely consume; each creature also produces in a variety of ways. Karen Brown will discuss how we can restore balance by producing instead of just consuming and what our communities would look like if, like nature, we restored healthy give and take.
Workshop 3: 11:00am-12:30pm
Discovering Your Actual Net Worth | April Rinne
Imagine a way of living in accordance to your ideals in a world seemingly ruled by money. We will explore how to do this -- as change agents and simply as human beings. The Wealth Unlocker, developed by Collaborative Consumption will enable audience members to understand the true value of their many assets and how to leverage them in a holistic way - freeing up time, money, and resources.
Reimagining Community 2:00pm-3:30pm
Moderated by Jamie Stein, Pratt
Charles Eisenstein | A Little Bit Crazy
Teacher, speaker, and author of The Ascent of Humanity and Sacred Economics, Charles Eisenstein shows us that in the normal world, it is always a little bit crazy to be an artist: to do things for beauty instead of money, to be a servant of a vision, to obey the artistic imperative. Yet Etsy, and other maker-businesses, thrive nonetheless. Charles explains a deeper cultural and economic shift underneath the Etsy phenomenon: towards the personal, the connected, the unquantifiable, the unique, and even the sacred.
Majora Carter | Stay Where You Are
Majora Carter, urban revitalization strategist and Peabody Award winning broadcaster, wants to slow down the "brain-drain" in our nation's poor communities to create a society in which people don't have to leave their neighborhoods to find opportunity. In her talk, Majora explores how she is bringing together technical training and development opportunities in underdeveloped areas to create an environment which fosters the creation of new businesses and enables existing businesses to thrive.
Rachael Chong | Linking Communities
Americans volunteer thousands of hours to non-profit causes every year, but are we best leveraging our skills to maximize use of our time and benefit to these organizations? Rachael Chong founded Catchafire to help non-profit and charitable organizations find the specific help most vital to them, and to enable members of every community to volunteer easily and effectively. She will discuss how communities are served through communication, organization, and through innovative platforms like Catchafire.
Creativity Classes with ArtLearningBank 3:30-5:00pm
1. Business in the Gift with Charles Eisenstein
Explore ways to way of living in accordance to your ideals in a world seemingly ruled by money- as change agents and simply as human beings who have grown up in the old world and seek to bring about a new way of life.
2. Get Funded without Selling Your Soul with Amy Cortese and Monika Mitchell
Come to this workshop with your funding questions, and discover new financing options including pre-selling, crowdfunding, and Slow Money, that are aligned with your goals and values.
3. Etsy Shop Critique Workshop with Kim Konen
Learn how to improve and optimize your Etsy shop straight from an Etsy admin.
4. How to Start an Etsy Shop with Julie Schneider
We'll guide you through the process of setting up a shop and landing your first sale.
5. Hands-On: Eco-Prints with The Textile Arts Center
Learn an eco-print technique called bundle dyeing, using a silk handkerchief.
6. One-Off: Xerox Transfer Techniques with Patrick Rower
Create one-of-a-kind print work using non-toxic Xerox transfer techniques.
7. Letting Go with Macklen Mayse
This class will allow you a safe space to create by letting go of self-doubt, judgment, labeling, and expectations.
8. Puppet-making as a tool for social engagement with Johanna Hamm
Learn how to make a simple rod-puppet using paper and plaster, and then engage in short improvised scenes using your puppets.
9. Stretching and Priming Canvases with Christina de Miguel
Learn how to prepare surfaces for painting
10. The Visible Artist with Jesse Gammage
Examine the key themes, ideas, and concepts pertinent to using social media as a tool to expand one's audience in the development of an artistic practice.
When & Where
Pratt Institute
200 Willoughby Ave
Friday, March 22, 2013 at 5:30 PM - Sunday, March 24, 2013 at 5:30 PM (EDT)
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ORRVILLE, OH – J.M. Smucker Co. has partnered with Keurig Green Mountain to bring its Café Bustelo coffee to K-Cups.
The new single-cup packs for Keurig brewers are available in Café Bustelo full-bodied espresso style and 100% Colombian coffee. Café Bustelo's Cuban-style espresso has a rich heritage dating back to 1930.


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All the President's Tweets: News junkies would do well to take in the Discovery Channel's "All the President's Men Revisited" on Sunday. In addition to interviews with some of the key players in the Watergate story and President Richard Nixon's fall, the documentary also examines how the news media landscape has changed and how, in the age of 24-hour news cycles and Twitter, Watergate might have been covered today.
Our guess: Deep Throat would have had his own Twitter account and CNN would have announced the arrest of a "dark-skinned" Nixon.
Don't you kids have homework? A Philadelphia skyscraper was set to become the world's largest Pong game on Friday night. The building was outfitted with hundreds of LED lights that would mimic the ball and paddles of the pioneering video game.
The game was postponed, however, when Dad came home and demanded to know "what's this crap and why isn't the news on?"
Can we still get the Bikini Inspector Cards? Gov. Jay Inslee says he may continue to allow the Central Intelligence Agency to use fake state ID cards, even though lawmakers say their intention was to limit such IDs to law enforcement agencies.
Inslee, D-Decoder Ring, said he had assurances from CIA officials that their agents wouldn't use the cards to go across the border and buy beer in Idaho.


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|New River Community College faculty and staff embrace NRCC's tradition of excellence and are especially proud of the successful students who become leaders on campus and in their communities.
This page is dedicated to NRCC's honor students. The students are highlighted by posting the Dean's and President's Lists each term; listing names of Phi Theta Kappa honor society members; listing students who are named Outstanding Students in a Curriculum during the annual President's Awards Ceremony each spring; and announcing the names of students who are nominated for the national publication Who's Who Among Students in America's Junior Colleges .
The lists are provided in pdf format and can be opened with Adobe Acrobat Reader. A link is provided to download this free software if it is not currently on your computer.
NRCC student Danny Hazelwood, left, is pictured with Dr. Jack Lewis, NRCC president. Out of the more than 400,000 people Virginia's Community Colleges serve across the commonwealth, only ten were selected for the Valley Proteins Fellows Program. Each student receives $10,000. In addition to covering the student's full tuition and fees, the fellows participate in a unique leadership curriculum – including leadership programs and a community service project – and they receive individualized assistance in obtaining financial aid and transferring to four-year universities
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POMONA - More than 100 people living near the 71 Freeway attended a meeting Monday to hear possible options for the freeway's widening.
The meeting, at Westmont Community Center, also provided a forum to discuss concerns about the project.
"At the end of the day, it's going to bring more tax revenue and more police, more fire (service) and more business," one man said.
Representatives of the city, Caltrans and the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority are working to update plans and studies with the goal of including the 71 widening in a package that could compete for state funding.
If the agencies are successful, the 71 could go from a four-lane expressway to an eight-lane freeway several years ahead of schedule.
Plans call for widening the 71 between the 10 and 60 freeways by 2030, but under the program the three agencies are pursuing, the project could be completed as early as 2017.
The project would be completed in two sections. One section would involve widening the 71 from the 10 to Mission Boulevard and the other section from Mission to the 60.
Yolanda Rivas, who lives on Phillips Drive in the city's Westmont neighborhood, dealt with inconveniences associated with the construction of the Mission bridge and continues to live near the 71.
"We deal with the noise and the disruptions," Rivas said after the meeting.
But if the 71 is improved, "it's going to beautify everything," she said. "I'm pretty sure the project will go through."
Abel Gamboa lives in the Phillips Ranch neighborhood a short distance from the 71.
"I want to be impacted as minimally as possible" by the project, Gamboa said after the meeting.
Among his concerns is that widening the 71 will bring additional traffic that will damage air quality and hurt his health.
"They're giving us eight lanes. I'm going to be breathing that," Gamboa said.
Gamboa doesn't want to live near a freeway and said if the 71 is widened, he'll either sell his house or rent it out.
As part of the meeting, a presentation detailing five design options for the widening were presented.
Option 1 calls for doing nothing.
Option 2 involves building a semi-depressed 71 Freeway, a concept approved some time ago but which comes with a a high price tag and requires acquiring about 140 properties, City Engineer Ati Eskandari said.
Under options 3, 4, and 4A, less than 40 properties would acquired in whole, in part or temporarily, she said.
Option 3 would widen the 71 into a freeway, add a frontage road connecting Phillips Drive and North Ranch Road and add a pedestrian bridge near Ninth Street to replace a bridge at Grier Street.
Option 4 includes widening, construction of a frontage road between Phillips Road and Old Pomona Road, building an overpass at Old Pomona Road that will connect with Lexington Avenue and adding the pedestrian bridge.
Option 4A includes everything in Option 4 except the overpass.
"There is not one project that is going to satisfy everyone," Eskandari said Tuesday.
Widening the 71 will play a significant role in improving safety and traffic circulation in the region while reducing traffic congestion on Pomona streets.
"City streets are currently inundated" with traffic, she said. "White (Avenue) or even Rio Rancho Road are inundated depending on the time."
Part of the congestion on city streets results from drivers leaving the 71 bottleneck during rush hour and trying to maneuver on surface streets, she said.
City Council members are expected to review the options and select one at the Jan. 7 council meeting.
Such a decision is needed in order to begin calculating the costs of the project and to determine if it is financially feasible to use the state program, city and authority representatives said.
Contact Monica via email, by phone at 909-483-9336 or on Twitter @PomonaNow.


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The Stripper Deck has become essential in the magician's arsenal. Join, Eddy Ray for a step by step instructional course using this amazing deck. DVD includes: Intro To Stripper Deck, Basic Handling & Shuffling Techniques, Anatomy Of Stripper Deck, Advanced Cutting Subtlety, Magician's Millennium Move, Fixing The Deck, Reversed Card To Top, The Stripper Deck Force, Hindu Shuffle Control, Pick A Card, Any Card, Gambler's Choice, Gambler's Choice Variation, Covered Vision, The Guarded Deck, Cutting The Deck, Easy Giant Fan, Color Separation, All Mixed Up, Odds And Evens, Dealing A Poker Hand, Ghostly Turnover, Picking Your Pocket, Mind Miracle, The Dream Double, Miracle Separation, Feeling The Cut, Running Gag, Sticky Situation, Rising Card Bit, One Handed Showoff, The Classic Card Reversal, Turnover Card Bet, Card On Forehead
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RANCHO PALOS VERDES - A Rancho Palos Verdes couple faced criminal charges today after deputies conducting a burglary investigation stumbled upon an alleged $1 million marijuana growing operation at their home.
Deputies were investigating a report of a possible residential burglary in the 27800 block of Alaflora Drive around 2:30 p.m. Thursday when they noticed someone matching the description of the burglary suspect sitting in a parked car in the 2000 block of Noble View Drive, said Sgt. Mark Moffett of the Los Angeles County sheriff's Lomita Station.
Deputies surrounded a nearby house, believing a burglary accomplice could be inside, he said.
A man, later identified as 37-year-old Tom Kim, came out of the house and was met by deputies, Moffett said.
"Upon clearing the home, detectives stumbled upon the elaborate marijuana grow operation within the residence," he said.
Numerous plants were found in the backyard and throughout the home, Moffett said.
One room contained a number of marijuana-filled glass jars, as well as packaging and scales, while another contained hundreds of plants drying on a clothesline, he said.
"There was also evidence of manufacturing hashish, concentrated cannabis and packaging for sales. A washing machine in the backyard was located and believed to be used to make hashish from the marijuana plants" Moffett said. "It appeared the suspects were supplying marijuana to dispensaries, but had no documentation indicating they were operating a legitimate business."
Nearly 100 pounds of marijuana was seized along with around $10,000 in cash, he said.
"Based upon detectives' estimation of the quantity (of marijuana) and monies seized, detectives believe this was a $1 million a year operation," Moffett said.
Kim was arrested and his common-law wife, 45-year-old Molly Hwang, later turned herself in at the Lomita Station, he said.
Their child, who was at school during the search, was taken into protective custody, Moffett said.
Both Kim and Hwang were booked on suspicion of possession of marijuana and hashish for sales, felony child endangerment and conducting a business in the city of Rancho Palos Verdes without a license, he said.
They were released on $100,000 bond and both are due for arraignment in Torrance Superior Court, Hwang on June 6 and Kim on June 14, Moffett said.


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Mat Latos, Jay Bruce and the Reds snap Dodgers' six-game winning streak
(Los Angeles, CA) -- Jay Bruce smacked a two-run homer and Xavier Paul added a solo shot, as the Reds cooled off the red-hot Dodgers with a 5-2 win at Chavez Ravine. Cesar Izturis and Shin-Soo Choo also plated a run each for the Reds, who are 6-and-2 since the All-Star break. Mat Latos permitted two runs, just one earned, in seven-and-two-thirds innings as he improved to 10-and-3. Aroldis Chapman closed it out for his 24th save. Adrian Gonzalez drove in both runs for the Dodgers, who had won six straight to open the second half. Zack Greinke gave up four runs in seven frames as he fell to 8-and-3 with the loss.
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FPA Speakers and Meetings - Les Szarka of Szarka Financials
When: Thu, April 25, 2013, 06:30 PM - 09:00 PMWhere: 258,
A FPA meeting is upcoming on Thursday April 25 in CBA 258 at 6:30pm. The speaker is Les Szarka of Szarka Financials, CEO of Szarka Financial in North Olmsted. He holds a CFP and CFA. He has appeared on Channel 3 and often cited in business publications such as The Plain Dealer and The Wall Street Journal. High energy and very entertaining!
Bring friends - everyone is welcome! FREE PIZZA AND POP!
If you have any questions on becoming more involved, learning more about the FPA, or anything else feel free to contact Greg Revak at firstname.lastname@example.com


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I use Neon(SVN), version 1332264824, but the behaviour described below can also be reproduced with the non-bleeding-edge version of the skin. I set some video add-ons (reddit, icefilms,etc.) as favourites and added them as custom home items in the skin settings. When I open the resulting menu item, the add-on displays a waiting dialog box with a progress bar. After the add-on is done scraping, the progress bar disappears and the results are displayed. At this point, the focus seems to be lost and I cannot navigate to the videos. I can only exit this screen using the menu or back button. Did I do anything wrong? I already posted this as a bug over at github, but did not get any feedback yet. Did I do anything wrong or is this indeed a bug? Does anyone have a solution for this?
Any help is appreciated!
Edit: If I access the same menu item for the second time, so the content is already cached and the waiting dialog doesn't show, the focus is fine. So I have to open the menu item two times: one time for loading->back->load again->watch cat videos.
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I have the same problem with any video add-on. If I play, for example, a movie trailer using the Trailer Addict add-on as soon as the trailer is finished I am returned to the trailer list but the highlight bar is not visible, if I use the up or down arrow key I can hear the bubble pop sound as if the menu is navigating but hitting ENTER does nothing and I can't get focus back unless I return all the way back to the main screen and re-enter add-ons to be able to navigate again.
I switched to Confluence to try and reproduce the problem and can't, Confluence works fine using the same series of actions.
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I have the same issue with video add-ons every time. I also intermittently have that issue after a regular TV Show ends. I see it in about 1 in 5 TV Show attempts. This is going back to at least early February.
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UPLAND - The Upland Finance and Economic Development Committee on Monday gave city staff the go ahead to prepare the refunding of two bonds issued by the now- defunct Upland Community Redevelopment Agency.
The city will still have to repay the bonds but at lower interest rates, therefore saving them an estimated $325,000 over the next 10 years starting in 2014.
"Any time you can take advantage of low interest rates to save as much as $300,000 to the general fund is a good idea," said Councilman Brendan Brandt.
The agency in 1998 issued a $25 million Tax Allocation Refunding Bonds, of which $14.235 million is outstanding with a 4.85 percent interest rate.
It issued another $15 million bond in 2003, of which $9.195 million is outstanding with a 4.75 percent interest rate.
Based on redevelopment dissolution laws, the savings amount would be split among taxing entities including San Bernardino County, school districts and the city's general fund.
The bonds will be presented to the city's Successor Agency, which was formed to oversee the dissolution of the city's redevelopment agency, later this month.
The state will then have 60 days to review the request.
Since Gov. Jerry Brown's decision to dismantle redevelopment agencies across the state, the Upland Successor Agency is now responsible for repaying the bonds.
However, the agency is allowed to refund existing bonds with the purpose of generating a debt service savings.
By issuing a refunding bond issue, the city could generate $1.9 million in debt service savings.
The city's financial consulting firm, Orange-based Urban Futures, monitors the financial market and alerts city staff to any possible savings, said City Manager Stephen Dunn.
"When they see if the market turns in our favor, they'll make recommendations and refund bonds if we're allowed to refund them," Dunn said. "Right now we have an opportunity to do that, saving the city some money, actually saving the general fund $300,000 over a 10-year period."


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I will be performing some songs on acoustic guitar at Kane Brewing Company this Saturday, May 18, from 12pm to 5pm. 100% of all donations received will go to the Dean Randazzo Cancer Foundation. Kane Brewing Company is located at 1750 Bloomsbury Avenue, Ocean Township, NJ http://www.kanebrewing.com/
About the Dean Randazzo Cancer Foundation: The DRCF's mission is to promote and encourage awareness about the risks of cancer and to provide assistance to victims of cancer battling the disease
They are a New Jersey Non-Profit 501(c)(3) charitable organization. All donations are tax deductible. More than 90% of their funds raised go directly to the purposes for which they were formed. They are 100% volunteer – there are NO paid DRCF Board Members or employees
About the 6th Annual Paddle for a Cause:
My Cause: http://deanrandazzo.dojiggy.com/ng/i...DDLE4MICHELLE/
The surf looks to be at it's smallest on Saturday over the next few days; A perfect opportunity to enjoy a fresh, local pint while supporting a great local cause.
Thanks for your support. Hope to see you Saturday, or at the paddle June 22. It's only a few miles; piece of cake
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Hand-painted pendant made by Henrietta Barclay Paist between 1920 and 1929.
Handicraft Guild, 89 South Tenth, Minneapolis, c.1909. Photographer: Elgin R. Shepard.
Black and white photograph of Hanford L. Gordon, c.1867.
Hanover Creamery Association building, ca. 1880–1900. Used courtesy of the Hanover Historical Society.
Hans Mattson. Photograph by Joel Emmons Whitney c.1864.
Hans Mattson, Daguerreotype c.1863.
Hans Mattson. Cabinet photograph c.1885 by William R. Miller.
Harold Stassen and his wife, Esther Glewwe Stassen, c.1939.
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Harold E. Stassen, John Foster Dulles, and Dwight D. Eisenhower, c.1953.
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Celebrating a quarter century in Ohio City
(Cleveland) - In Ohio City, the 25th anniversary celebration for the Great Lakes Brewery is underway across from the West Side Market.
A block party for the whole family started at 11am, and continues until 9 tonight. It's free and open to the public.
Brewery spokeswoman Marissa DeSantis says there's live local music by a diverse lineup of entertainers, a free photo booth from 4pm to 8pm and free face painting.
She tells Newsradio WTAM 1100, merchandise and fresh food from local vendors and restaurants, and GLBC's award-winning lagers and ales are also available for purchase.
A special 80s-themed set by Cleveland's The Spazmatics will cap off a whole day of fun and entertainment for all ages.
Market Avenue and Market Square Park are shut down for the day. Visitors began arriving early.
Many tell WTAM that they remember the area before great lakes arrived in 1988. They say it was a run down neighborhood mostly populated by homeless men, but today, it is vibrant and alive with shops and trendy restaurants. Certainly a good reason for a celebration.
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Luce Foundation Center for American Art
Sculpture: 20th century: Abraham Lincoln the Hoosier Youth
Paul Manship
(born St. Paul, MN 1885 -- died New York City 1966)
"The magnitude of artistic inspiration in the forms and moods of nature is infinite. The possibility of realizing it in sculpture has endless approaches." Paul Manship, 1966
Paul Manship turned his attention from painting to sculpture after discovering that he was color-blind. As a teenager, he devoted so much time to sculpting that he neglected his studies and dropped out of school. Manship's early work was influenced by Rodin's expressive style, but when the younger artist was awarded a three-year internship at the American Academy in Rome, he had the opportunity to study Greek and Roman art firsthand. He fell in love with archaic Greek sculpture, and also studied Egyptian, Asian, and Assyrian art. The sculptures that Manship created from this point were unusual because they were very stylized but still representational. The artist's work was hugely popular upon his return from Rome, and he sold all ninety-six pieces from his first show in New York. Manship worked on a number of monumental projects, and became an influential sculptor in America. Artists openly borrowed and applied his style in many media, especially in illustration. By the end of his career, Manship had produced more than seven hundred works and won many prestigious medals. One of his most famous pieces is the fountain sculpture Prometheus at Rockefeller Center in New York City.
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Report: CBS news bosses bothered by correspondents Benghazi reporting
The biggest Benghazi-related story that took place outside of the House Oversight Committee's hearing room today is this item in Politico, regarding CBS News correspondent Sharyl Attkisson. She's the reporter who famously drew White House officials' profane ire over her unapologetic pursuit of the Fast & Furious scandal story; now she's apparently facing searing criticism from another source: Her own bosses. Why? Because she's been covering the Benghazi story too aggressively. Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you media bias:
"Attkisson, who holds a third-degree black belt in taekwondo, takes a fighting stance when she feels she's being stonewalled. Which is exactly what she thinks the White House has done to her on Benghazi," Farhi writes. But from where Attkisson is sitting, there are actually two Goliaths, one of which is almost entirely absent from the Post profile. The second Goliath is CBS News, which has grown increasingly frustrated with Attkisson's Benghazi campaign. CBS News executives see Attkisson wading dangerously close to advocacy on the issue, network sources have told POLITICO. Attkisson can't get some of her stories on the air, and is thus left feeling marginalized and underutilized. That, in part, is why Attkisson is in talks to leave CBS ahead of contract, as POLITICO reported in April. Farhi mentions "internal conflicts" in the final paragraph, though he seems to dismiss them. The "internal conflicts" are indeed real -- Attkisson is still eyeing an exit, according to sources -- and provide important context for today's piece. Today, CBS News is celebrating Attkisson's commitment to the Benghazi story. It's good press. But that support is an aberration.


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back from Cotonou
March 29th 2007
This trip was the most successful one so far. By now I have a well established net of buyers in Cotonou who scout the region from there to the north of Benin as well as to the capitals of neighboring countries Nigeria, Togo and Ghana.
Most days were spent cruising around Cotonou on the back of Abel's scooter:
One of the highlights was meeting Gilles, the son of Gnonnas Pedro who you can see below with a friend, holding two of his fathers records
I also met Gustave Bentho, the bass player from Poly Rythmo but I didn't bring my camera that day... next time!
Here are some of the LPs I found:
Some of the 45s, I'm only posting the ones with picture sleeves:
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USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Courses in engineering were first offered at USC in the 1905-06 academic year in the basement of one of the oldest buildings on campus. Today, 170 full-time faculty serve about 1,800 undergraduates and 3,300 graduate students, utilizing state-of-the-art laboratories, classrooms, and live interactive high-speed Internet broadcast systems. The USC Andrew and Erna Viterbi School of Engineering's research program of over $157 million per year is funded through strong ties with government and industry.
The USC Viterbi School is an innovative, elite, internationally recognized engineering school that creates new models of education, research and commercialization firmly rooted in real world needs. It seeks to extend the frontiers of engineering knowledge by encouraging and assisting faculty in the pursuit and publication of research; to stimulate and encourage in its students those qualities of scholarship, leadership and character that mark the true academic and professional engineer; to serve California and the nation in providing for the continuing education of engineering and scientific personnel; and to provide professional engineering leadership in the solution of community, regional, national and global problems.
The USC Viterbi School offers various programs leading to the Bachelor of Science, Master of Science and Engineer degrees; and, through the USC Graduate School, the Doctor of Philosophy degree.
AdministrationYannis C. Yortsos, Ph.D., Dean
Margaret Dufford, M.B.A., Senior Associate Dean
Steven Nutt, Ph.D., Senior Associate Dean
Cauligi Raghavendra, Ph.D., Senior Associate Dean
Herbert Schorr, Ph.D., Senior Associate Dean
Margery Berti, A.B., Associate Dean
Louise A. Yates, B.A., M.S., Associate Dean
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At Work
Different Ways of Lying: An Interview with Jesse BallBy Rebecca Bates
Jesse Ball writes novels and stories in the vein of Kafka or Daniil Kharms—surreal, often hyperpolitical constructions from contemporary life. His 2011 novel, The Curfew, whirls around an absurd dystopia, an uncanny avatar of our own. It's home, but not quite. The Way Through Doors (2009) and Samedi the Deafness (2007) are set in neighborhoods at once eerily similar to and foreign from our own. To read Ball, who won The Paris Review's Plimpton Prize in 2008, is to step into a kind of liminal space. And his new novel, Silence Once Begun, contains his most beguiling sleight of hand yet.
Silence Once Begun begins in a Japanese fishing town where eight people have recently disappeared from their homes. At a bar, Oda Sotatsu, an unassuming, lonely young man, wagers on a card game and loses to the mesmeric Jito Joo—Sotatsu signs a document that says he's responsible for the recent disappearances. Jito Joo takes this confession to the police, and soon rumormongering and hearsay consume the town. Throughout his trial and imprisonment, Sotatsu remains almost completely silent, refusing to testify on his own behalf in court and barely engaging with the relatives who appeal to him. At the center of the novel, framing its various narratives, is a divorced investigative journalist named Jesse Ball.
Our conversations found the real Jesse Ball by turns serious and coy. We discussed the political value of plain speech, his near ascetic desire for isolation, and the necessity of lying.
Silence Once Begun demonstrates the failure of this town's justice system, a failure to do right by one of their own. Another of your novels, The Curfew, also engages with unjust and inescapable social systems. Do you see your work as political?
Saying almost anything as well as you can say it, or doing anything properly and with your whole being, is a political act. And so I think almost any text that strives to have its own focus, without bowing to contemporary modes of humor or a little commercialism or whatever else—I think that's very political. As long as everyone decides to hold and contain their own state, things improve.
My books, some of them appear to verge on the political. This one certainly seems to be an indictment of a justice system. In the course of time, many things that appear certain within an epoch or an era seem ludicrous and silly to those in another time. However, plain clear speech, or questions stated within the power of the heart, don't really become silly. They retain a certain power. In terms of attempts to write clearly, I think that's the most political act. Read More


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A GOLD medal-winning Olympian has told school children in North Yorkshire that "as long as you believe and have a dream, you can achieve anything".
Record-setting boxer Nicola Adams officially opened Drax Power Station's Skylark Centre and Nature Reserve yesterday, and stopped to answer questions and sign autographs for pupils from Drax Primary School.
The Leeds-born winner punched her way through a gold medal-shaped screen, and told the children how winning her medal felt.
She told them: "If you can imagine all your Christmasses rolled into one, that's what it was like."
The new facility replaces the original structure, built in 1995, and Peter Emery, production director at Drax, told the crowd nature was as impressive as Olympic feats, with peregrine falcons able to swoop faster than Chris Hoy can cycle, and encouraged them to visit the site.
Mr Emery said: "Our ambition 17 years ago was to create a space for children to learn and understand more about their discoveries on educational visits and tours of the nature reserve. We are confident that this new centre will continue to enrich the knowledge and enjoyment of generations to come."
Nicola said she was finally getting used to life after the Olympics, but was still amazed at how much her life had changed. She said: "The whole time has been fantastic, and I've been getting the opportunities to go places I never would have had chance to go, like the MOBO Awards, flying to Rio with the Prime Minister, and meeting the Queen. Kate Middleton said she had a sore throat from screaming at my fights. It's nice to know I had that much support.
"It's fantastic the kids can take inspiration from me and go out and do sport or be inspired to go out and try something new. This is great, I wish I had something like this when I was younger, getting out, learning about different animals, it makes learning fun."
When asked whether she felt she had a good chance at winning Sports Personality Of The Year this year, Nicola said just the nomination would be enough.
She said: "It's a really tough pick this year. I'd be over the moon if I was nominated. I think if I even got nominated for that, I would be blown away."


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Your outfit rocks!!
Love you & Nifesimi :)
Your outfit rocks!!
Love you & Nifesimi :)
your working it! the pop of color is amazing! im loving polka dot blouses this season. love the fact you both took the pictures together :)
please follow me back on twitter! I would appreciate it
Yay for days off! I had to work--boo. Love this polka dot top and the kelly green skirt is perfect with it!
i like the combination....polka with green..it looks really cute and not like what i always imagined it...as i generally dont appreciate polka dots soo much. loving it..
love it so chic!!!
http://imjustmefashionblog.blogspot.com :)
Love these pictures!You both look beautiful!
love love love ♥
Great outfit.Your lipstick is fab!
Beautiful outfit, I have to rush to H&M to find both the blouse and skirt, you and Nife look fabulous, love the pics :)
Love those pics. Polka dots will never go out of style.
Great outfit, I am loving that blouse!!
Carsedra of:
Awesome photos! Love this bright outfit!
xx, Lena
very pretty outfit! i always wondered about you and Nife! at some point i assumed you were sisters! lol..i always see you guys are photographed by the same person. lovely...xxxx
Nice combo...lovely
lovely ...like ! :)
hahhaahahha Stella, it seems like we have the same shirt today,take a look to my blog.
You rocked this shirt lol, nice !!
I'm heading over to H&M today because I'm loving your whole outfit.
U look stunning!
Jadore Jadore... This is nice.
Very nicely styled. Your outfits are always so interesting and have a great mix of bold colors and pattern.
This is very cute - I did the green with polka and it loved it - I love your skirt - super sexy here - these pics came out great.
the whole look amazing and very inspiring
very pretty outfit love the combination of blue and green beautiful post love it
you have very interesting blog
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Oh, those polka dots! PERFECT with the green skirt!! Love both of your style! You play off each other well!
fab fab fab! as always.xx
That blouse is perfection! I absolutely adore this look!
You both look amazing and i'm LOVING the color patterns, just FAB!
You always look amazing in pencil skirts & the outfit FIERCE!!! I've been having a really difficult time trying to leave comments from my phone to your posts, seem like I got lucky :) chev
fabulous outfit:) really love the blouse!
you guys look great!and you have the same shoes.cuteee ;)
i am loving you in the mid-length skirt my dear! i wish i could rock it with out feeling to dressed up
you and your friend are too cute in these photos btw and i love the photo with the spot of color on your hand.
amazing skirt
Love the blue on green. Polka dots are always very classy.
Amazing colors!!!!! You and Nife looks so pretty!
beyond amazing!!!!!
Those accessories are amazing. I never find anything that awesome at Macy's or H&M.
Beautiful! :-) Are those Louboutins? Definitely can't afford those so I'm debating if I should get these:
any suggestions??
You Girls look absolutely divine
gorgeous love the colors and that blouse is beautiful!!!
i really like your blog - I found you through LB.
You mis prints, patterns and colors so well. Such an inspiration!
Maybe if you have some time, you'd like to see my blog. :)
tu est magnifique, et je vous trouve très jolies tous les deux.
de superbes tenues
Green really suits you and your eyes, I love the make-up you have on.
Great color combo. Seems like it was a fun shoot.
Gorgeous photos dear! wanna follow each other on bloglovin? kisses, katefp.blogspot.com
Love the polka dots! Great outfit!
wow! looks great! classic&good taste!!!
maybe, we can follow each other;)
WOW!!!! love it!
Gosh you look really amazing! Love this outfit! xx <3
So perfect Louboutins !
Your Make-UP looks AMAZING!!!! And, the pictures are beautiful...
great look, love your blouse!
Oláaa gostei do blog, vou seguir
Me segue também?
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i really love the blue top! you guys look so beautiful!!
Um, this is seriously too fabulous! You look amazing! Loving the colors, the polka dots, the shapes, all of it! I just started a new link up on my blog called Work It Wednesday featuring work-appropriate looks, would love to have you link up this look (or any of yours!) xoxo
Laura @ A Little Bit of Lacquer
ahh, super super cute. i love what you've done with mixing these bold colors~
really classy combination.. i LOVE this :)
Great pics, you both look gorge!! Nothin' like true friendship, right?!? Love the blouse with skirt..great color combo!
Really like your outfit, Stella. And it's pretty cool how small this blogsville world is. I follow your friend, Nife, blog. It's really good. You didn't put a link to it, though.
Love the colours!
So fresh - Great photos too ;)
you guys are so awesome! two of my favorite fashion bloggers for sure ♥


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Nvidia has introduced its new GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost GPU. Based on the Nvidia Kepler architecture and equipped with 768 CUDA cores, the GTX 650 Ti Boost GPU is available in 2GB and 1GB configurations at an estimated US$169 and US$149, respectively.
With up to 40% more performance over the original GeForce GTX 650 Ti GPU introduced last year, the new GeForce GTX 650 Ti boost features support for Nvidia's GPU Boost technology, which dynamically adjusts GPU performance to meet the graphics processing demands of games, and Nvidia SLI technology, which allows gamers to use multiple GPUs to double performance, the company noted.
With a wider 192-bit memory interface and up to 60% more memory bandwidth than the original, the GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost GPU is able to support resolutions up to 1080p.
- Wireless broadband developments in Southeast Asia markets
As of 2013, the 10 ASEAN nations had a total of over 700 million mobile subscriptions, with the CAGR from 2003-2013 reaching 24%. This Digitimes Research Special Report analyzes the various mobile broadband markets in ASEAN and looks at the respective trends in 4G LTE development for those markets.
- 2015 global tablet demand forecast
This Digitimes Research Special Report provides a 2015 forecast for the global tablet market and analyzes the strategies of key market players such as Google, Apple, Intel, and Microsoft.
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This Digitimes Research Special Report analyzes the strategies of key China-based major panel makers BOE, Tianma and IVO for attacking the different market segments through technology and pricing, and their relationship to local vendors Huawei, Lenovo, ZTE, Xiaomi and Coolpad.


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The Green Bay Packers cut ties with quarterback Vince Young. 2012 sevnth-round QB B.J. Coleman is Green Bay's lone backup quarterback behind QB Aaron Rodgers.
Fantasy Analysis:
Young, the 2006 NFL Draft's third overall pick, finds himself without a team. He failed to make a team in 2012 after being cut in late August by the Buffalo Bills. VY hasn't played a down since 2011, when he appeared in six games with the Philadelphia Eagles.


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|Only 3 ingredients! I used turkey meatballs rather than regular but they both are great!
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Serves: 8
One of my favorite recipes to make when I need a quick dinner or appetizer!
5 minPrep Time
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- 1 (12 oz) jar chili sauce
- 1 (16-18 oz) jar grape jelly
- 1 (2 lb) package frozen meatballs
- Spray slow cooker with non-stick cooking spray.
- Combine jelly and chili sauce in a crock pot and stir until smooth. Heat the mixture if needed to combine.
- Add meatballs or cocktail sausages and set temperature to low. Cook for 2-5 hours on low.
- Serve over rice or with toothpicks.
To make this a quick and easy freezer meal: In a bowl, combine chili sauce and grape jelly until smooth. Place meatballs in a resealable gallon-sized freezer bag. Pour in the chili sauce mixture and mix together in the bag until thoroughly combined. Zip bag closed.
When ready to eat, remove from freezer and thaw in fridge for 24 hours. Spray slow cooker with non-stick cooking spray and place contents of bag inside slow cooker. Cook on HIGH for 1-2 hours or LOW for 3-4 hours. Serve over rice or with toothpicks (makes a great appetizer too!).
Looking for more of our favorite slow cooker recipes? Check out these ones:
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Michael Shermer made a useful distinction between how we came to a belief and how we now defend that belief. Often, we came to a belief without much consideration, but if we're forced to defend it, we won't admit the weak justification. Rather, we'll apply all our intellect to cobble together our best defense and then fool ourselves that that's the reason. [Read more…]
Word of the Day: Shermer's Law
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Brevard, N.C. - With less than a week remaining before the Brevard College Athletic Department opens the 2011-2012 season, the Tornados hosted their annual fall sports kickoff, the Pigskin Pig-out.
Festivities at the Pig-out this year included live music by local band, The Carolina Blue Band, and the food received great reviews as Aramark catered the event, providing barbeque, hot dogs, baked beans, coleslaw and a number of assorted desserts.
Coaches Brenda Skeffington, Paul Hamilton, Juan Mascaro, Shigeyoshi Shinohara and Jack Daniels were special guest speakers at the event as they spoke about their teams and their upcoming seasons. Senior Amanda Metcalf also led the cheerleaders as they gathered support and got the crowd involved as they performed a cheer that will be heard throughout Brevard Memorial Stadium this season.
A multitude of raffle prizes were drawn, with prizes ranging from a two night stay at the Greystone Inn, to Silver Tornado Club Membership, to a brand CharBoil propane grill.
The Brevard College Fall Sports begin with the men's and women's soccer home openers on Thursday, September 1st, as both teams welcome Erskine College to the BC Soccer Field. The women will start the action at 3 p.m., while the men will take on the Flying Fleet at 5 p.m. The BC cross country team opens their season next on September 2nd, traveling to Spartanburg, S.C. to take part in the Eye Opener meet. The Volleyball team also begins playing on the 2nd as they participate in the Johnson C. Smith tournament. The BC Football also is in action next weekend, traveling to Boiling Springs, N.C. to take on Gardner-Webb University. Kickoff in Spangler Stadium is set for 6 p.m.


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Will he shoot or will he pass?
It usually remained an easy answer for Kobe Bryant, who hasn't climbed to fifth place on the NBA's all-time scoring list by accident. But by taking on a new-found facilitating role, Bryant encountered challenges on how he'd ensure team balance without sacrificing his scoring talents.
Not anymore.
The Lakers (28-30) enter tonight's game against the Minnesota Timberwolves (20-24) at Staples Center with Bryant averaging 30.8 points on 54.9 percent shooting and 6.8 assists through four games since the All-Star break.
"I found a balance," Bryant said. "We found a balance in terms of me being able to keep them involved and find my rhythm."
Bryant did so despite nursing a right shoulder injury and sprained right elbow that contributed to 1-of-34 shooting from 3-point range during a 15-game stretch. In the past three contests, Bryant was 5 of 9 from the perimeter.
"The odds are it was coming," Lakers guard Steve Nash said. "He hadn't made his shots for a while. That was very uncharacteristic."
It's also uncharacteristic for Bryant to take on a facilitating role, especially with Nash remaining one of the league's best passers.
But facing a three-game deficit to the Houston Houston Rockets (31-27) for the eighth
playoff spot, the Lakers have embraced the change.
"During the game you have to understand if you want to be aggressive to the hole or be aggressive to pass and try not to blur the two," Lakers coach Mike D'Antoni said. "It's not the easiest thing in the world, but I think he's doing a good job."
The Lakers said they're still finding a balance between running isolation plays for Bryant and pick-and-roll sets for Nash and Dwight Howard.
"Kobe gets in the zone and when he gets in the zone, he's finding the ball and trying to score," Howard said. "That's what he does best. We just have to figure out how to do it together and make it work for everybody."
Injury update
After visiting Dr. Peter Yoon and having an ultrasound on his right foot Tuesday, Lakers forward Pau Gasol received clearance Wednesday to work out on an elliptical machine.
A Lakers spokesman said Gasol's "healing process is coming along."
Gasol went off crutches Tuesday, three weeks after suffering the original injury that involved a tear on the plantar fascia of his right foot. The Lakers have stuck to their original timetable that Gasol will stay sidelined for at least six to eight weeks.
Familiar face
Bryant hardly sounded thrilled that former teammate Derek Fisher signed with the Oklahoma City Thunder, one of the top Western Conference teams.
"That's why I'm not happy about it," Bryant said.
After helping guide the Lakers to five NBA championships, the Lakers traded Fisher last season before the trade deadline to the Houston Rockets, a move to shed cap space and accommodate room for Ramon Sessions as the Lakers' starting point guard. Fisher took a buyout and joined the Thunder, while Sessions left in the offseason via free agency.
Fisher played nine games for the Dallas Mavericks this season before asking for his release and citing undisclosed family issues and a need to heal his injured knee. Fisher also spent time as president of the National Basketball Players Association and overseeing the unanimous ouster of Billy Hunter as the union's executive director.
"He had to deal with all that BS going on with him in the lockout, so it was a very hard summer for him to get in shape," Bryant said. "He's ready to go and has been training the whole time and looks in shape and is ready to play.
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Advanced Neuroimaging Evaluation of the Central Nervous System Biological Changes Associated With Efavirenz Therapy and Switch to an Elvitegravir-based Regimen
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In this study we will use a multi-modal imaging approach of MRS and fMRI to comprehensively assess the biological changes in the brain associated with EFV-based regimen (EFV/FTC/TDF), specifically alterations in the brain circuitry, function and local neurochemistry, and their correlation with neuropsychological function. In a cohort of HIV-infected patients who are clinically stable on the commonly use regimen of EFV/emtricitabine (FTC)/truvada (TDF) or Atripla, we propose to replace the EFV component with a new integrase inhibitor, elvitegravir (EVG) boosted with cobicistat (COBI), given as the EVG/COBI/FTC/TDF Single Tablet Regimen (STR) to evaluate the EFV-related neural alterations. This is a multidisciplinary study which involves a team of infectious disease experts in the field of HIV, neuroradiologists with expertise in fMRI and MRS techniques to study various central nervous system and psychiatric disorders and a psychiatrist with experience and expertise in research on abnormalities of affective and motivational processing in the context of neuropsychiatric disorders. We will utilize the established clinical research platform in the Infectious Disease outpatient clinical practice at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, where there is currently have many ongoing HIV-related studies and a large panel of HIV-infected patients motivated to be involved in clinically relevant research. We propose to use advanced neuroimaging to measure biologically changes in the brain associated with long-term EFV use with the following specific aims:
- Determine changes in neurometabolites measured by MRS in the brain associated with long-term EFV use
- Assess for alterations in neural activity correlated with affective symptoms associated with EFV vs STR use using fMRI, and their associations with changes in neurometabolites assessed by MRS, and with changes in cognition assessed by Trail Making and Digit Substitution Tests.
- Determine changes in emotion, cognition and sleep quality after switching from EFV to STR, and how they correlate with subject treatment preference.
This clinical study will extend our current understanding of EFV neurotoxicity by further defining the nature of these biological changes. Further elucidation of the neurobiological underpinnings of EFV-induced CNS toxicity will have clinical relevance in improving the quality of life and drug adherence of HIV-infected patients on ART, especially among older patients or those with baseline neuropsychiatric disorders, whom at baseline are more vulnerable to neurocognitive decline from long-term HIV infection.
|HIV Disease
|Drug: Stribild (elvitegravir, cobicistat, emtricitabine and tenofovir)
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Basic Science
|Official Title:
|Advanced Neuroimaging Evaluation of the Central Nervous System Biological Changes Associated With Efavirenz Therapy and Switch to an Elvitegravir-based Regimen
- Neurometabolites based on MRS [ Time Frame: 8 weeks ]Assess the changes in levels of neuro-metabolites measured by MRS while on and off the efavirenz-based therapy. Two areas of the brain; 1) posterior cingulate gyrus and 2) anterior cingulate will be assessed for change in levels of brain Cr, GABA and GLU between week 0 and 8 of switch to an elvitegravir-based regimen.
- Neural activation networks using fMRI [ Time Frame: 8 weeks ]Assess changes in neural activation correlated with affective disturbances associated with efavirenz-based therapy using fMRI employing a paradigm that probes affective symptomatologies typical with EFV use, specifically anxiety/dysphoria and affective dysregulation and their association with changes in cognitive function.
- Other neurometabolite changes measured by MRS [ Time Frame: 8 weeks ]Use MRS to evaluate a fuller panel of known neurometabolites (in addition to the primary endpoints) to evaluate for prominent and significant changes associated with EFV use.
- Neurocognitive changes [ Time Frame: 8 weeks ]Assess for changes in cognitive and affective function prior to and after switching off EFV-based regimen.
- Fasting lipid profile [ Time Frame: 8 weeks ]Measure the change in fasting lipid panel prior to and after switching off EFV-based regimen.
- Sleep quality [ Time Frame: 8 weeks ]Assess for changes in sleep pattern and quality prior to and after switching off EFV-based regimen through self-administered questionnaires.
- ART regimen preference [ Time Frame: 8 weeks ]Evaluate patient preference in ART regimen (Atripla, EFV/FTC/TDF versus EVG/COBI/FTC/TDF) through self-administered questionnaires.
- Markers of immune activation [ Time Frame: 8 weeks ]Change in markers of immune activation and inflammation associated with change to RAL (ie, sCD14, IL-6, hsCRP, D-dimer, CRP, LPS, sCD163, EndoCab)
|Study Start Date:
|January 2014
|Study Completion Date:
|October 2015
|Primary Completion Date:
|October 2015 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Drug switching
Single-arm with switch from baseline antiretroviral therapy with Atripla to Stribild for total of 8 weeks.
Drug: Stribild (elvitegravir, cobicistat, emtricitabine and tenofovir)
Switch from Atripla (efavirenz, emtricitabine and tenofovir) to Stribild (elvitegravir, cobicistat, emtricitabine and tenofovir)for total of 8 weeks
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 65 Years (Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Chronic HIV-infected individuals on suppressive regimen with EFV/FTC/TDF, for at least 6 months
- Undetectable HIV-1 RNA virus load for at least 6 months
- No co-infections with active hepatitis B and C
- Presence of at least moderate symptoms on 2 out of 3 subcores on the DASS
- No known active HIV-related and non-HIV related CNS infections
- Estimated glomerular filtration rate (EGFR) >60 ml/min
- Consent to switching to EVG/COBI/FTC/TDF
- Ages 18 - 65
Exclusion Criteria:
- History of CNS opportunistic infections or active CNS infections
- History of severe psychiatric disorder (excluding depression and anxiety)
- History of chronic neurological disorders, such as epilepsy or multiple sclerosis
- History of or current significant substance abuse or dependence and/or heavy alcohol use (>12 oz/wk)
- Any women who may be pregnant (positive urine pregnancy test or unprotected sex in 2 weeks prior to scan) or known to be pregnant
- Contraindications to undergoing fMRI, including metallic implants, claustrophobia, and medical conditions or medications that significantly affect cerebral blood flow or function.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01929759
|United States, Massachusetts
|Brigham and Women's Hospital
|Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02115
|Responsible Party:
|Nina Lin, MD, Instructor in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01929759 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|August 23, 2013
|Last Updated:
|October 26, 2015
Keywords provided by Nina Lin, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital:
neurocognitive symptoms
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
HIV Infections
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Slow Virus Diseases
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Immune System Diseases
Elvitegravir, Cobicistat, Emtricitabine, Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate Drug Combination
Emtricitabine, Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate Drug Combination
Antiviral Agents
Anti-Infective Agents
Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors
Nucleic Acid Synthesis Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Anti-Retroviral Agents
Anti-HIV Agents
Cytochrome P-450 CYP2C9 Inhibitors
Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme Inhibitors
Cytochrome P-450 CYP2C19 Inhibitors
Cytochrome P-450 CYP2B6 Inducers
Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme Inducers
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on July 27, 2017


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George R.R. Martin Message Board
Talk about the novels, new and used books that Martin has written!
Author Martin's Book Reviews
A Clash Of Kings - A Song of Ice And Fire 2
George R.R. Martin's series continues with an expansion on the war in the Seven Kingdoms and the scenarios taking place in the East and the North. George R.R. Martin's second installment in the �A Song Of Ice And Fire� series picks up where �A Game Of Thrones� left off and turns its focus to the ongoing war taking place in the continent of Westeros. As the heir to Winterfell and the North, Robb Stark tries to secure an alliance with House Greyjoy but the...
A Feast for Crows
A continuation of George R.R. Martin's series A Song of Ice and Fire, A Feast for Crows follows several major and minor characters introduced in previous novels. A Feast for Crows is George R.R. Martin's fourth instalment in his series A Song of Ice and Fire. Due to the intricacies in the story, A Feast for Crows follows only a few major characters from previous instalments, as well as several minor characters. The other major characters' plotlines are c...
A Game of Thrones
The noble houses of the Seven Kingdoms interrupt civility with politics and an urge to claim the Iron Throne. Based in a past realm, "A Game Of Thrones" focuses on the noble houses of the Seven Kingdoms Of Westeros which are enduring a civil war to claim the King's throne. The first installment of George R. R. Martin's "A Song Of Ice And Fire" series retells eight different journeys which hold ties to loyalty, pride, and power, and forge unspeakable sign...
A Storm of Swords
Martin has transport us back to Seven Kingdoms, a beautiful land torn with brutal warfare, sinister intrigues and terrible dark magic. Three kings still struggle for power: King Joffey, a spoil and cruel boy who holds the irone throne, King Robb of the north and King Stannis. All scheming and struggles for power will come to naught because barbaric wildings are planning to overrun the kingdom and most terrifying of all an army of the undead are po...
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Clash of Kings
In this book you have four people competing to be king of a kngdom known as the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros. All feel they are intitled to the throne and are at war over the idea . The book brings into play their lives and the lives that the war touches and gives great narrative of these accounts....
The Armageddon Rag
A journalist investigates the murder of a rock promoter and its connection to a sixties rock band. Sandy Blair is a novelist in his mid-thirties living in New York city in the late eighties. He is reasonably successful and lives with his realtor girlfriend. But once upon a time Sandy was a counterculture reporter for an alternative newspaper called the Hedgehog (known as Da Hog). When a once famous record producer named James Lynch is brutally murdere...
The Sandkings
One of the best sf short stories I have read, ex-college jounalism instructor George R.R. Martin proves with 'The Sandkings' that teachers of writing can do as well as teach. He won the Nebula Best Novelette of 1979 with this work, and it has been anthologised by sf doyen Frank Herbert (Nebula Winners 15). A powerful tale, it has been admired by top writers in the genre for its effectiveness and economical technique. This dark morality play has an unf...


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Studying only one language simply isn't enough for Ashlin Gates, and the traditional high school offerings aren't enough either.
"I like to study really obscure languages," the Riverton High sophomore said.
Ashlin recently won a language scholarship from the National Security Language Initiative for Youth (NSLI-Y). The U.S. State Department-sponsored program will pay travel, room and board of a six-week foreign immersion session for Ashlin to learn Persian in Tajikistan. After a careful selection process of interviews, essays and teacher recommendations, Ashlin was chosen on the basis of academic excellence, language aptitude and maturity.
The NSLI-Y is a U.S. government scholarship dedicated to immersion and exchange programs for American high school students. The program focuses on Middle Eastern and Asian languages.
Bart Pogue of the American Councils, which oversees the NSLI-Y, says the program concentrates on these languages specifically because they are overlooked in high school language classes.
"There are plenty of opportunities for kids to go to France and learn French," Pogue said, "but there are a lot fewer opportunities to go to, say, Turkey or Japan. And these are the places where things are happening."Ashlin first whet her appetite for foreign languages when she took up Spanish to better talk with her Peruvian best friend. Since then, she's been on two humanitarian visits to Peru to hone her Spanish skills, studies Spanish and Chinese at Riverton High, and regularly attends a Riverton community center to learn Tamil, one of 20 official languages in India. The language studies are a pastime for Ashlin, and she plans to use her skills for something more substantial in the future.
"I wanted to learn Tamil because I really like Indian movies," said the budding linguist. "I'd definitely like to use language in my career one day, maybe as a foreign officer."
Pogue says the State Department initiative tries to invigorate interest in less popular languages to boost career choices and cultural understanding. While the high school standards of Spanish and French will always remain important, he says, the government wants to help future leaders connect with places such as China, Korea, Russia and the Middle East, where the need for business contacts and diplomatic relations is rising.
Ashlin stumbled across the scholarship opportunity on the American Field Service (AFS) website while looking for suitable exchange programs to satisfy her passion for language and her parents' desire for safety. Ashlin's humanitarian trips to Peru align with the diplomatic mission of the AFS, which began as a volunteer medical unit during World War I and used leftover funds to stretch the international community's arms.
The AFS partners with programs such as the Washington, D.C.-run NSLI-Y to have boots on the ground familiar with local families and local environments as a safety precaution. Ashlin will be on the trip with 16 other students and federal chaperones. They will spend half their time in a group home and half with their respective host families, jumping between lessons and field trips to bazaars and cultural landmarks.
"The goal was and still is to foster world peace," said Barbara Canley, a volunteer employee of the AFS who supervised Ashlin's scholarship application and interview process. "The hope being that if we lived with and knew people from other places, we'll be less likely to take up arms against them. Students like Ashlin have a great opportunity to do that."
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Spectacular Fire Destroys East Bexar County Home
A spectacular fire destroyed a home in east Bexar County early today, forcing a family out into the street but not causing any injuries, 1200 WOAI news reports.
The flames erupted at the home on Dunlap Fields, which is near Foster Road, about 3:30 this morning.
Eric Jones says he was inside with his brother and sister in law, when all hell broke loose.
"We woke up and heard noises, and heard popping," Jones told 1200 WOAI news. "We didn't know where the smoke was coming from. We looked down the hallway, and the garage was engulfed in flames. We got out and everything just started exploding. Crazy."
Jones says the three people managed to get out with the clothes on their backs and nothing more.
"Everything's gone. It's something I've never been through before. It's scary," he said.
County fire officials and departments from several area communities worked frantically to keep the fire from spreading to other homes.
No word on how the fire started. Jones' home and all its contents are a total loss.


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I did the Bird and the Sitting Man
Lets get this thread started again dammit.
i just finished this one, used a newspaper as well, i want to start doing prints but i'm terrible at illustrator and vector design and such, if anyone has ideas on how i can directly paint and make wheatpaste copies thatd be great
And one more thing, wherecan I go to enlarge my wheatpaste? Staples? How much does it cost for copys of them??
ive been using 3m spray mount, just because its fast and we have 5 cans in my basement for some reason. But is wheat paste a lot better, will it work on painted surfaces well, and will it clog a spray bottle if it dries in the nossile. And this looks like a poster but i cant tell if its the background or not.
crazy dope
damn, everybodys stuff looks soooooo nice!, i should have one here in the next week, and alot more as soon as schools out!
im working on stencils now, but these were my first stencils
feelin that
omg so deeeep like its totally a satrical attempt on modern day conformity yeaaaaaaaah
haha thanks the matrix ones mine i wanted to highlight the choice between conformisim and non conformity think it worked
^ felling those paste as well, but that blank wall right beside your paste would be filled pretty fast kif that was me
going up tomorrow night
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GSA Selects AT&T for Local Telecommunications in 3 Metro Areas Company to Provide Local Service in New York, Chicago, San Francisco
May 20, 1999
Contact: Bill Bearden (202) 501-1231
Washington, DC -- In announcing the results of the first-ever head-to-head competitions for local services since passage of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, the U.S. General Services Administration's Federal Technology Service today surprised the world of local telecommunications providers.
AT&T is the overall and sole winner in the competition to provide local business telecommunications services to Federal agencies in three metropolitan areas - Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. The total combined value of business under these contracts is expected to exceed $680 million over 8 years - four base years plus four one-year options. All three metropolitan areas were competed simultaneously under the Metropolitan Area Acquisitions program known as MAAs. In each city, the competition included a traditional long-distance carrier, an incumbent local exchange carrier, and a competitive local exchange carrier.
These three competitions have each yielded unprecedented local telephone rates, which were achieved through the first truly comprehensive competition for local telephone and data services. These outstanding rates translate into savings of 70% over standard business rates and 66% over current government rates. This has occurred in markets that, until now, have been considered highly resistant to significant price competition for basic phone services. GSA's competitive strategy has slashed prices for the most popular telephone services by an astonishing 84% over current government rates. The new rates will save the Federal government more than $300 million over standard business rates and more than $250 million over the current government rates in these cities.
Under the MAA contracts, AT&T will provide standard business telephone services, plus data services and services for private circuits. Advanced and emerging services such as high-speed digital access connections and advanced data services will also be available.
These initial MAAs are the beginning of a series of awards planned for new competitions in nine new metropolitan areas. Responsible for designing and conducting these competitions, GSA's Federal Technology Service (FTS) has announced that the next cities to be competed are:
¿ Baltimore, Maryland
¿ Cincinnati, Ohio
¿ Cleveland, Ohio
¿ Dallas, Texas
¿ Denver, Colorado
¿ Los Angeles, California
¿ Miami, Florida
¿ New Orleans, Louisiana
¿ St. Louis, Missouri
FTS expects to quickly have metropolitan areas nationwide under competitive rates for local phone and data services based on the highly successful competitive results achieved in these first three cities.
Planning for the MAA competitions began shortly after passage of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 when little was known about how to compete local services. While long-distance voice and data services became competitive with the breakup of the Bell System in 1984, local services remained largely under the control of the Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOCs), or "Baby Bells," until 1996.
GSA initiated the MAA program under the overall FTS strategy to foster so-called, "ruthless competition" for government telecommunications services. The MAA strategy was designed to lead the charge and take maximum advantage of the 1996 Act's vision of establishing fully competitive local markets for telecommunications services. The MAA program spearheads GSA's strategy to market and deliver competitive and innovative service packages to existing customers as well as to a broader range of potential customers who will soon be able to leverage MAA's multi-tiered, customer-focused services to meet their specific needs.
GSA made history in the long distance arena recently when it awarded the government's long-distance business to both MCI WorldCom and Sprint at unprecedented new low rates that start about 4 cents per minute and drop to less than 1 cent per minute by the end of the contract. That program is known as FTS2001
"Once again, GSA is in the forefront of competition, saving the American taxpayers millions of dollars through the successful implementation of a visionary, aggressive, market-savvy strategy," said GSA Administrator David J. Barram
"We have set the new standard for both industry and government users and we expect to remain at the forefront of competition by maintaining competitive prices and by offering excellent service solutions to our Federal customers," Barram said. "Over the past few years, we have partnered with agency users and industry to ensure, that in large part, agencies telecommunications needs can be met with commercial industry products and services. This outreach and the resulting competitions have yielded contracts featuring a robust set of local telecommunications services that will evolve at the same rapid technology pace as commercial markets and allow the Government to meet the challenges of the new millennium."
The FTS program strategy relies on continuous internal competition among contractors. In the local service arena, where competition is just beginning to take shape, GSA has been especially aggressive. The goal is to provide immediate opportunities for competitive local service providers, both Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers (ILECs) as well as Competitive LECs (CLECs), to compete and be part of the MAA program.
AT&T and the winners of the subsequent nine MAAs will continuously compete against each other and against other future MAA winners for Government business over the 8-year life of the program. To date, six firms have been qualified to compete in the future cities. These are AT&T, Ameritech, Bell Atlantic, Pacific Bell, Southwestern Bell, and WinStar.
"We are excited that these MAA contracts will meet our agency users' telecommunications needs well into the future," said Dennis Fischer, Commissioner of GSA's Federal Technology Service. "In addition to the superior price reductions we have locked in today, we look forward to even more price competition over the life of these MAA contracts."
"I am pleased that the best of American industry has chosen to compete in the MAA process," Fischer said. "They have done a magnificent job and I'm looking forward to more aggressive competition in the next nine MAA cities followed by still more competitions after that. I am also very proud of the excellent work of our staff and the many agency customers who have contributed to this remarkable achievement. We believe in competition; it never fails to bring us to new heights of accomplishment."
The MAAs and FTS2001 efforts are the result of extensive collaborations between the Congress, oversight groups, industry, agency customers, and GSA. The two programs mark the first real steps toward realizing the ultimate goal of establishing end-to-end competitive telecommunications services delivery to the Federal user agencies. The MAA program represents the first significant realization of a key goal of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 under which Congress provided for the development of true competitive markets for local telecommunications services.
GSA is an executive branch agency that provides policy leadership and expertly managed space, products, services and solutions at the best value to enable Federal employees to accomplish their mission. Its information technology and telecommunications services are provided by the Federal Technology Service, which delivers reimbursable local and long-distance telecommunications, information technology, and information security services to Federal agencies.
GSA's Federal Technology Service includes multi-disciplinary teams dedicated to providing leadership within the Federal government in procuring information technology and telecommunications services at the lowest cost to the taxpayer and the greatest value to Federal agencies. To better provide its customers around the world with best value, innovation, integration, and interoperability, FTS services cover procurements under two business lines: network services and information technology solutions. The current emphasis is on positioning the government to take advantage of potential cost savings of the rapid advances in information technology.
For more contract specific information on these and upcoming MAAs, contact Pete Fridman at (703) 610-2855 or Margaret Binns (202) 606-9000.
Metropolitan Area Acquisition (MAA) Program Features
Program Level
¿ Achieves lowest known prices for local business telephone and data services.
¿ First nationwide qualification and competition for commercial local telephone and data services.
¿ Continuous competition throughout the life of the contracts.
¿ Price management mechanisms keep prices at or below the best market prices.
¿ One-stop shopping contract with provisions for offering end-to-end services by adding long distance services.
¿ Technology refreshment and emphasis on commercial services gives government users access to new services at same pace as commercial marketplace.
¿ Four base years plus four one-year options.
¿ Fixed price contract guarantees lowest rates for 8 years.
¿ Competition spreads to nine more cities with more to follow.
Service Level
¿ Comprehensive range of local service offerings
¿ Standard commercial telephone service
¿ Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) capabilities
¿ Circuit-Switched Data Services
¿ Dedicated Transmission Services
¿ Advanced and emerging services in scope
¿ Packet Switched, Internet Protocol (IP)
¿ Frame Relay (FR)
¿ Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM)
¿ Switched Multi-megabit Data Service (SMDS)
¿ Synchronous Optical Network (SONET)
¿ Video Teleconferencing
¿ Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) Services
¿ Feature-rich voice services with many features included at no additional charge.
¿ Free local number portability allows current customers to retain existing telephone numbers regardless of vendor used to provide services.
¿ Eliminates all per-minute usage charge for government-to-government calls on a contractor's network.
¿ Consistent pricing of services regardless of geographical locations
. Provision for National Security/Emergency Preparedness (NS/EP) capabilities.
¿ Local service coverage
¿ Chicago
¿ All sites within the Chicago city limits
¿ New York City
¿ All five city boroughs, lower Westchester County, Nassau County, Western Suffolk County
¿ New Jersey - Southern Bergen County, Hudson County, Eastern Essex County, Eastern Union County, and Eastern Passaic County
¿ San Francisco
¿ All sites within the city and county of San Francisco
¿ All contracts may evolve and expand to include additional locations in close proximity.
¿ New services are compatible with existing equipment so agencies minimize up front costs to transition.
¿ Six flexible service delivery point options allow agencies a wide range of service choices from agency-managed (e.g., agencies with PBXs) to contractor-managed turnkey services.
¿ Flexible solutions for ensuring high quality inside wiring and building-wide connectivity.
¿ Comprehensive support services including ordering, billing, network troubleshooting, repair capabilities, infrastructure inventory, and more.


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3 Stage Super Seat - Girl
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SuperSeat from Summer Infant offers 360 degrees of floor time activity fun and a booster in one. It's a secure and comfortable area for your growing infant to learn to sit up and interact with the environment around them. With the Summer Infant SuperSeat, your baby can experience play while also sitting up. It's the ideal place to keep baby entertained, safe and happy!
- STAGE 1: Infant Support Seat
- Support Seat aids baby when learning to sit up
- STAGE 2: Floortime Activity Seat
- 360 degree rotating tray
- Removable snack tray
- Includes 5 playful toys
- STAGE 3: Booster Seat
- Includes removable soft foam insert for growing child
- All stages have a 3-point crotch restraint for baby's safety
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Thursday, June 2, 2016 - 6:30pm
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History Lessons: Meet Ulysses S. Grant
Just after Memorial Day and on the heels of the 153rd Reenactment of the Battle of Gettysburg, meet Union Commanding General Ulysses S. Grant as he recounts his life, his challenges and achievements. Nationally known Grant Impressionist and historian, Ken Serfass will thrill visitors with his vast knowledge of his personal hero and uncanny resemblance to one of America's greatest military leaders.
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A Green Ramadan is an opportunity to remember and respect our planet which, through the grace of Allah, provides us with the sustenance with which we nourish our bodies and community spirit during a month of fasting. Interacting mindfully with our environment is simply a manifestation of faith. As we refrain from food and drink this blessed Ramadan, let us reaffirm our sense of self-restraint and accountability to the Creator, the Provider of Sustenance.Eat Local & Organic. How much … [Read more...]
10 Ways to Green Your Ramadan
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