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VHDL-AMS Black Belt
I like martial arts films, from the old black and white movies dubbed in English or even subtitled, to the modern blockbusters with their almost endless array of special effects. I admit that I can't really tell the different martial art styles apart, but frankly I don't need to. Being able to distinguish styles wouldn't add to my enjoyment of the films. What I do enjoy is watching a skilled expert (even minus the special effects) practice his art — it's easy to appreciate the skills of a martial arts black belt master. I think the same can be said for engineering design – if you enjoy technology at all, it's usually a treat to watch a well-versed engineer with basic communication skills (I know you're smiling here) talk about systems engineering. As luck would have it, I've enjoyed two such opportunities in the last couple of weeks while teaching users about SystemVision and VHDL-AMS.
The more I work with the VHDL-AMS modeling language, the more I'm impressed with its capabilities. It truly is a multi-purpose modeling language well suited for describing complex mechatronic system behavior across a broad range of engineering disciplines and at multiple levels of functional abstraction. One of my responsibilities on the SystemVision team is teaching an occasional user training course. Training class instruction gets me out of my office for a few days and gives me a valuable opportunity to visit face-to-face with users to learn about what they do, and hopefully help them understand how using VHDL-AMS and SystemVision can help them improve their system designs.
When I teach a modeling or simulation training course, I am usually the sole instructor. But during the most recent two classes during the two weeks I mentioned above, an engineer from the SystemVision group tagged along to help out. I taught our standard SystemVision and VHDL-AMS courses while he added some great technical content with demonstrations tailored to the user's applications. Gave students the chance to see practical applications for the things they were learning. My co-instructor is a long-time simulation model developer with more than 2 decades of experience, and he's been using the VHDL-AMS language pretty much since it became a standard. Along with being a skilled modeler, he has a truly impressive collection of models and system examples covering a broad range of applications. In fact, his fingerprints are on many of the models now available in the SystemVision VHDL-AMS model library.
The majority of students in our two training classes work mostly in board level design and use at least one flavor of SPICE to simulate their designs. But when it comes to testing their board in the end system, often their only option is to build a prototype; their understanding and experience with modeling and simulation typically stop at board level. Many students were pleasantly surprised when my co-instructor turned on his laptop and started talking about modeling and simulation beyond the printed circuit board. He regularly puts both the SystemVision environment and the VHDL-AMS modeling language through their paces, much to the delight of users and fellow workers alike. By the end of both training classes, the students were noticeably impressed with the potential of both the language and the simulator – the benefits of watching a true master at work.
But it doesn't take a black belt in VHDL-AMS to use the language and reap its benefits in system design. Armed with a basic understanding of the language, users can do some pretty impressive things with VHDL-AMS. An understanding of design technology mixed with a basic foundation in VHDL-AMS can go a long way in systems modeling. If you're at all interested in modeling and simulation beyond SPICE, and you really should be if your board level design is part of a larger system, you owe it to yourself to investigate the capabilities of the VHDL-AMS modeling language and give it a try. No black belt required.
If you need a simulator that supports VHDL-AMS, you can download a demonstration version of SystemVision here.
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How Alabama and Nebraska Met in the 1967 Sugar Bowl
As an artistic endeavor, the 1966 Sugar Bowl was a smashing success. But by other measures it served only to show how far behind the other major bowls the Sugar had fallen. It attracted 67,421 fans, only a couple of thousand more than the dismal attendance of the 1965 game. And with the Associated Press balloting coming after the bowls, the Sugar Bowl was the only New Year's Day game that had no direct bearing on the national championship. LSU defeated No. 2 Arkansas in the Cotton, UCLA upset No. 1 Michigan State in the Rose, leaving Alabama to outslug Nebraska 38-28 in the Orange and take it long-shot national crown. The almost unbelievable domino effect made for excellent reading the following week in Sports Illustrated, the foremost sports magazine in the country. No one would read about Missouri-Florida, though. It wasn't covered.
The Sugar Bowl appeared to be on a merry-go round it couldn't control. As good as its luck was in earlier days, the reverse seemed to be true in the mid 1960s. LSU-Syracuse was a good match for the 1965 game - until both lost their last games. Florida-Missouri was blemished by a late Gator loss.
States-Item columnist Peter Finney correctly wrote, "Check these Sugar figures (national rankings) for the last 10 games and you'll probably come to the same conclusion I did. You can't beat national ratings or a match between Southern teams when it comes to putting people in the ball park." Among other problems the Sugar Bowl now confronted was the growing feeling that its membership was too restrictive. When no one else stepped forward in 1934 to help launch the project, the Mid-Winter Sports Association limited the organization to the founders, their offspring, close relatives, and special, sponsored individuals. Thirty-three years later, the founders were getting old and many of their sons simply weren't as interested - or as capable - as the fathers. The image of the Sugar Bowl had become one of a snobbish exclusive fraternity, which didn't matter much as long as its product remained one of quality. But it was plain the product had slipped.
The Sugar Bowl's Executive Committee began mulling over possible candidates to join the Association. They wanted people who were hardworking and upstanding, had made a positive mark on the community, and had the ability to get things done.
New associate members selected were John U. Barr, Aruns Callery, Henry Zac Carter, William J. Childress, Harry M. England, Robert J. Fabacher, Charles C. Glueck, Richard L. Hindermann, and Richard H. Nelson.
In other business the Sugar finally saw the wisdom in an Orange Bowl move - a local television blackout should the attraction not sell out.
Nineteen sixty-six was a wondrous year for college football. Three exceptional teams dominated the sports pages: Notre Dame, Michigan State, and Alabama. All had legitimate claims to the national championship, but the Irish were proclaimed No. 1 even after a 10-10 tie with the Spartans. Undefeated, untied Alabama was insulted, and Coach Paul Bryant maintained for years afterward that this was the best team he'd ever coached.
Notre Dame did not compete in bowl games then, and Michigan State could not go to the Rose Bowl because of the no-repeat rule, leaving Alabama the highest-ranked team in postseason competition.
Bryan and Bob Devaney, coach of the fourth-ranked, undefeated Nebraska Cornhuskers, had decided to try to play each other in an "open" bowl. This would be the Sugar, because Alabama had played in Miami two consecutive years and Bryant liked to have his team enjoy all the postseason sites. Both coaches also knew a victory over the other would give either of them a slight chance to win the MacArthur Bowl, the National Football Foundation's version of the national championship.
Alabama and Nebraska signed for the Sugar Bowl; then the Cornhuskers, in what was becoming a Sugar Bowl tradition, lost its last game to Oklahoma. Alabama upheld its end, coming in unblemished in a 10-game schedule and providing a rare glimpse of the soul of the man who would rule the Southeastern Conference with a crimson-colored fist. "This is the only time I feel like a success," Bear Bryant said of the undefeated season.
Devaney's team was formidable, built along the lines of the other Midwest giants, Notre Dame and Michigan State. It was very big but also slow. Alabama, which would be outweighed by 35 pounds a man, was a remarkable team - one known for its defense but which featured notables like quarterback Ken Stabler and receivers Ray Perkins and Dennis Homan.
Perkins, however, had pulled a hamstring and wasn't expected to play. "Nothing was going to keep me out," said Perkins. "That game meant everything to us. We felt we had to win, and win convincingly. Coach Bryant felt sure we'd win the MacArthur Bowl with a big win. I even told Stabler I was going to beat him out of the MVP trophy."
Devaney said he wouldn't be surprised if Stabler didn't throw to Perkins on the first play of the game. Then Devaney, noting 'Bama's eight-point favoritism and the huge weight advantage his team enjoyed, said he was going to pray for rain.
Recap excerpted from the book "Sugar Bowl Classic: A History" by Marty Mulé, who covered the game and the organization for decades for the New Orleans Times-Picayune.


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Microsoft has done a great job with Windows 7 and it is by far the most polished operating system I have ever seen. There are no broken graphics, no glitches and no failures hiding to annoy you during your work. The best thing about Windows 7 is that it is an operating system for everyone. If you are a tech-savvy user, you can have as much fun with Windows 7 as any basic home user would have.
Today, I will tell you about a feature in Windows 7 that can be very helpful. This feature is available for both power-users and normal users. It allows us to create a new process for any folder or disk drive we want to open in Windows, that will considerably improve performance.
A process is a single program that can manage a specific amount of work or a particular job. For example, when we open Microsoft Word, we are actually creating a process that runs in the memory. Our operating system, Windows, also runs with the help of processes. Many of them are system processes started by Windows. We users can also create new processes known as user processes.
Now that you have an idea of what a process is, we will see how to open a folder in a new process. Whenever we open a folder or a disk drive in Windows, it opens within the same process of explorer. However, we often see that folders with a huge number of images or videos lag at times and even become non-responding. This causes the explorer process to crash and we lose any other work we were doing, like a copy-paste job or a file being saved to disk. This can be a serious problem, but it can be avoided by opening a folder in a new explorer process in Windows 7. Here is how.
Step 1
Go to the Start menu and click on My Computer in the right hand column. This will open a window with all the disk drives listed in it.
Step 2
To open any drive or folder in a new process, you need to press the Shift key on your keyboard and then right click on the disk or the folder icon, keeping the Shift key pressed. However, make sure that you don't press the Shift key longer than five seconds, or it enables another feature. This being done, release the shift key once you get a right click menu as shown.
In the menu, you will see an option called Open in new process. Click on this, and you will see a new window with the folder (in my case C: drive) open in it.
Step 3
Now, that you have opened the folder or disk drive (again, in my case the C: drive) in a new process. How do you check if this method works?
For this, right click on an empty area of the taskbar. The taskbar is the thick bar on which your start menu and the opened windows lie. You will a menu like the one shown. Click on Start Task Manager.
Step 4
In Windows Task Manager, click on the Processes tab. Along with Processes, we can see Applications, Services, Performance, Networking and Users tabs here. Upon clicking the Processes tab, you will see quite a different window than mine. Don't worry. This is a list of all the processes running on your computer currently, and they will be different from mine.
Step 5
Now, we sort these processes to arrange them in order of their names. We will have to click on the Image Name heading as shown and make sure the arrow over Name points upwards. This sorts the processes by name in ascending order.
Step 6
Now, we can scroll down to see that we have two explorer processes running on our computer. One of them has a higher Memory size. User "Chinmoy" has started both these processes and they are both explorer.exe processes.
This can come in handy when viewing folders with a huge number of files that need thumbnails like images. Thumbnails take extra time to load and slow down the operations of the computer. Since many of my folders contain images, this method has been a lifesaver for me.
Using your computer like a pro is not that hard. There is a simple list of tips and tricks you need to know, and once you are comfortable with them, others come to you as freely as breathing.
In my opinion, we all should shed our fear of using new features and try to make the most of features like these. This divide of power users and basic users is but a facade. We all are human beings and it is in our instincts to learn.
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By Diana Hefley Herald Writer
EVERETT — Prosecutors say a month after taking part in a violent home invasion robbery in Marysville, Clark Johnson broke into an Everett house and terrorized the homeowner.
Johnson, 48, has been in jail for more than a year, awaiting trial on a bunch of charges stemming from a December 2011 heist that left one man dead. Prosecutors recently charged him with first-degree burglary for a different break-in that happened in January 2012.
Johnson has pleaded not guilty to the new charge.
He is scheduled to go to trial in June for his alleged part in the 2011 home invasion robbery. A group of heavily armed men busted into a Marysville home in search of two men who ripped off a drug dealer. A couple was held hostage and threatened while the crew attempted to draw the two men back to the house.
The robbery came to a violent end when someone in the crew mistook one of his own for a rival and shot him in the face.
Patrick "Bucky" Buckmaster was buried in a shallow grave in east Snohomish County.
Prosecutors allege that Johnson was part of the crew that broke into the house. Several other men already have pleaded guilty or been convicted at trial.
The shooter, Johnathan Frohs, is scheduled to go to trial in June.
Johnson is accused of carrying out another frightening heist, according to court papers recently filed in Snohomish Superior Court.
An Everett man was sleeping when he awoke to strange noises and saw light from a flashlight in his house. Two men came into his bedroom, threw a blanket over him and punched him, prosecutors wrote. They later wrapped duct tape around the blanket, trapping the man inside.
They ransacked the house. The suspects grilled the man about where he was hiding $25,000. The man said he didn't have any money. He estimated that they were in his home for about an hour. When he didn't hear them any longer, he attempted to call 911. The phone lines had been cut and his cellphone was missing. He set off his house alarm to alert police.
His wallet, credit cards, computer monitor and some important paperwork were missing.
Police believe the suspects kicked in the back door to get inside.
One of the man's credit cards was used at the Lynnwood Walmart about three hours after the burglary. Police were able to identify Johnson on surveillance video taken from the store, court papers said.
Police also located one of the stolen credit cards during a traffic stop. A woman told investigators she had driven Clark and Kenneth Rehak to a house in Everett. She said they were gone for about an hour and returned carrying a box of paperwork and a computer monitor. Rehak also was part of the home invasion robbery in Marysville.
He and Clark were arrested about a week later after a 13-hour standoff with police.
Rehak last year pleaded guilty to the Everett burglary and was sentenced to nearly 10 years.
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Here's a chance to find out what's on tap for that empty lot down the street—and find a market for your concrete—before any signs are erected.
Emporis, a Web-based information service in Darmstadt, Germany, tracks buildings over 10 stories tall in more than 50,000 cities worldwide from the planning stages through approval, construction, and completion. Through e-mail alerts or by checking the data online, producers can follow the building construction markets in their areas and learn about trends.
With a focus on bigger commercial or public properties, the company says its database now lists 160,000 buildings on 100,000 streets. It tracks up to 100 pieces of data for each building, including location, type, structural material, usage, and construction status. Photographs, many taken during construction, contribute to the depth of information.
The company offers a variety of products, some of which are free and quite interesting. Pointing your browser to www.emporis.com/en/bu allows you type in a city name and a building name if you know it to see the status of a particular project.
If you look for Wells Street in Chicago, you find 26 buildings. Select Vetro as an example of one under construction and you'll get basic information (324 feet high, 31 floors above ground, scheduled for completion in 2008, with participation of Concrete Structures of the Midwest, PERI Formwork Systems, and others) and have the option of viewing construction photos.
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And here's where it gets interesting: Much more information, such as materials, usage, and drawings, is available if you subscribe to Emporis Research. Seven hundred editors from around the world continuously update the information. The company has established hundreds of internal standards to ensure the data is comparable. This reliable, in-depth information can be useful in finding business opportunities in your market.
The company offers three subscription levels. The "regular" subscription allows one user to view company data, query building data and export data, typically in an Excel spreadsheet. It costs $1855 for one year.
A $190 "express" subscription permits one user to view data for a 24-hour period, but without any data export capabilities. This is ideal for those who are looking for only limited information and do not need constant updates. An "IP" option is offered to entire companies with access for all employees as well as to schools and universities for students on campus. Pricing for this option is customized.
The endeavor's prototype was launched in 1996. In 2004 the name was changed from Skyscraper.com to Emporis, reflecting a change in the long-term focus of the organization away from skyscrapers and toward buildings in general.
Emporis is relaunching its Web site in stages to accommodate growth. The self-contained Emporis Research platform has already rolled out at http://research.emporis.com.
Emporis.com now leads to the corporate Web site. This is where you can access the older Emporis Buildings. Meanwhile, I look forward to the rollout of the revamped Emporis Buildings platform.
If you decide to browse a bit before signing up for the in-depth data, make sure to set yourself a time limit. It's easy to spend hours visiting jobsites around the globe.
I learned that the one high-rise in my town, finished in 1972, wasn't meant to be a stand-alone. Three others just like it were proposed for the site but were never built.


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CHRISTMAS!: Now that we've dispatched Halloween, there's nothing standing between here and Christmas but a gaggle of free-range tofurkeys and a can of cranberry sauce.
Responsible readers will start their holiday shopping this weekend, just to get it out of the way. Reckless readers, on the other hand, will dodge the issue and escape into one of the following diversions.
COMICON!: Long Beach's own Horror & Comic Con(vention), unlike the world-famous San Diego Comic-Con, is more hard-core and old-school, cleaving more to the integrity and principles that our founding fathers had in mind when they invented comic-cons. No unveiling of the new cast of "Glee" at this one. It's about comics; it's about horror; it's about costumes.
This year's con comes Saturday and Sunday to the Long Beach Convention Center, bringing hundreds of artists, from George Acevedo to Zen, to its vaunted Artists Alley. It's a gathering of fans, peddlers, celebrities, screenings, panels, artists, writers and actors turning the convention center into a weird, horrifying and comical scene.
There's too much to even capsulize in this expensive and limited space, so head to www.longbeachcomiccon.com for the entire slate.
Hours are 9:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m Sunday. Admission is $25 on Saturday; $20 on Sunday. Rather pointlessly, a weekend pass is $45. Kids 10 and under get in free with a paying adult; limit is two kids per adult, because, yes, this is China.
HOMEGROWN: A couple of years ago when we wrote about the Indoor Gardening & Hydrolife Expo, we got a lot of heat from readers for managing to write an entire item on the subject without mentioning marijuana.
Why would we write about marijuana? The Indoor Gardening people use tomatoes as their symbol of what an indoor cropper is likely to grow. You can't tell by driving around town, but you have no idea how many people have equipped the crawl spaces and spare bedrooms in their homes with grow-lights and hydroponic systems with which they grow delicious and potent tomatoes.
If you're the type of person interested in growing tomatoes and other delightful vegetables and plants indoors, the show is open to industry pros only on Saturday, and the public on Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. at the Long Beach Convention Center. For all the info, and to score a free ticket (A VIP one at that!) go to www.indoorgardeningexpo.com.
ANOTHER FIRST FRIDAY: The monthly (though it seems weekly, is how fast time goes by) funfest in uptown Long Beach, First Friday in Bixby Knolls, turns 6 years old with tonight's celebration from 6:30 to 10-ish on Atlantic Avenue between Bixby Road and San Antonio Drive.
Virtually every business along the stretch of road does something to celebrate the day. People who are already missing Halloween can drag the celebration out with tonight's Day of the Dead theme.
Some highlights this time: Day of the Dead arts & crafts at Paper Crew, 3920 Atlantic Ave.; the Norwalk Youth Mariachi with a side of churros at Oh Very Young, 4378 Atlantic Ave.; a Jimi Hendrix sing-along at 7:30 p.m. at Jammin' Music & Arts, 4228 Atlantic Ave.; a Red Cross Youth disaster safety puppet show at First Bank, 4040 Atlantic Ave.; and mariachi and Day of the Dead altar at BKBIA Office, 4313 Atlantic Ave.
FRIDAY PLAYLIST: Comic-Conners know that those who can leap tall buildings in a single bound do, while those who can't, listen to songs about it. These are those songs about the superheroes.
4. "Sgt. Rock (Is Going to Help Me)," XTC
7. "Captain America, We Love You," Jimmy Buffett
8. "Batman and Robin," Snoop Dogg
9. "Sunshine Superman," Donovan
10. "The Supreme Being Teaches Spider-Man How to Be in Love," Flaming Lips
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There's 2 reasons why outside and landscape enhancements are vital. Initially, your residence's exterior appearance unavoidably establishes a possible customer's assumptions concerning general degree of maintenance your residence obtains. When they view your property, they cannot evaluate everything so they make a presumption about your home's general problem based on look. You can influence these assumptions, and improve your probability of obtaining a competitive deal, by making a good impression from the minute prospects pull in the garage.
Second, certain exterior and landscaping improvements additionally produce continually favorable returns on investment. In this information we will steer you towards tasks that are proven champions instead compared to those that are a lot more risky. Examples of risky jobs are diving pools, medical spas and water functions. That's not to say they're not delightful services, we're only pointing out that they are more economically speculative and their worth could not be identified out there. As previously gone over, preparing and cost command are crucial to rewarding house improvement jobs. Effort is constantly the largest line product of any kind of job, yet, if you're planning to diy, just perform jobs that you are certain you could complete. It's stronger not to do something than to leave it half-done.
Gown the primary entry door up with a metal kick-plate and brass door knocker. A brass kick-plate looks excellent and aids secure the paint below the door; a brass door knocker adds sophistication. You could likewise intend to consider an ornate metal mail slot machine– a lot more eye-catching compared to regular mail slots and mail boxes.
Obtain a new front door or refinish the existing door.The front door is essential since it is the first thing people see up close. An eye-catching door is more welcoming. If the door is aged or in inadequate disorder, get a new one. If it's in fairly great shape, paint it to either match your trim or a free shade. For instance, if your house is light gray with white trim, take into consideration painting your front door burgundy or blue-green. Other great colors for doors besides conventional white or timber grains are red and dark green.
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Tidy home windows.As easy as it appears, keeping home windows clean and sparkling is something several house owners forget when readying to market their residence. Unclean home windows make a residence appearance neglected, both inside and out, lessening the opportunities of a positive reaction from possible customers.
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Remove old, faded, or cracked patio furnishings.Repair work (preferably) or replace.
Offer your old BBQ grill a makeover.Degrease it first then wash well. Repeat if needed. As soon as totally clean and dry, redecorate it utilizing a bright fireproof/high-temperature paint. Select a shade that matches home trim or shutters. You might attempt something enjoyable that will really stand out such as yellow or orange. Or simply throw it out and buy a new one.
Additional a fireplace to your deck or patio.A significantly popular function for outdoor amusing. Ensure it's allowed under community zoning rules.
Additional crushed rock to a dirt garage. If you have actually never ever seen the difference this makes, you 'd marvel the amount of stronger a gravel garage looks. Remember, there are various grades and colors of gravel, so since your selection some thought. Try to imagine just how each kind will view your residential property as you choose.
Pave a crushed rock driveway.Clearly paved driveways are simpler to maintain and far a lot more attractive compared to crushed rock garages. In order of raising cost, your choices are asphalt, solid and brick pavers. Look around your area and see just what's the standard. Then go one much better if you can. If the norm is asphalt, put in concrete or block. Everyone will certainly discover the difference when they attract your driveway.
Driveway resurfacing and repair.If your garage is already paved however is fractured or in bad condition, repair it and/or utilize a driveway sealer.
Change the shape of your garage.An easy way to enhance the aesthetic look of your house, especially if your driveway is presently gravel. Consider additionaling a welcoming curve and additional parking for guests (consisting of prospective purchasers).
Take out weeds from between concrete pieces and walkways.A sure sign of home disregard and a cause of issue for prospective purchasers. A 20 % bleach remedy works well.
Install an automatic garage door opener.Select a model with a multi-code garage door opener remote that routinely alters the code for extra safety.
Build a brand-new garage(and make it a huge one).Every property owner knows the benefits of a sizable garage. The space never ever goes extra. Considering that you're literally increasing the square video clips of your residence, you could be certain you're additionally increasing its market value, though not by as long as if it were living room. If possible, make it a connected garage.
Remodel an aged garage.If you already have a garage, think about remodeling its inside. Repair work and repaint the walls. Seal and repaint the floorings. Include storage area or a workshop total with workbench, power sites, and shelving. Extremely couple of individuals renovate their garages however it has a huge influence on prospective buyers and offers you a competitive edge versus various other available houses in your area.
Reduce or eliminate and any plants that hides your home.This features trees, hedges and anything else that blocks the view of the front doorway from the road. Over growing hints of disregard and interferes with the visual charm of the home. It also develops a safety issue by supplying cover for trespassers.
Weed your yardsand transform over dirt with fresh mulch. Makes gardens look fresh and well-tended.
Keep yard well cut.A height of 2-inches produces a well-manicured, consistent appearance. If summertimes are specifically warm, approximately 3-inches is appropriate. The added height will help origins expand deeper into the soil where dampness is a lot more available.
Side your grass.The positive visual allure of an eco-friendly, lavish, well-groomed lawn that is properly bordered could not more than focused on. If you do not have time for the needed maintenance, utilize a landscape design solution.
Clear particles from backyard.That features litter, playthings, leaves and sticks.
Spread grass seed.If lawn is thin or undesirable, spread grass seed. Very high traffic areas may require special attention.
Lay lawn.This consists of both replacing the entire lawn with lawn grass or simply spot procedure for persistent baldheaded areas.
Do away with unattractive weeds.Pull them out (make certain you get the entire root) or utilize a weed-remover item.
Usage fluid grass plant food for the greenest lawn possible. Utilizing a dispenser that matches into the hose will certainly assist guarantee also circulation. Keep the lawn well sprinkled.
Set up a grass sprinkler system.Helps keep the lawn looking great while decreasing time invested on landscape maintenance. An automated sprinkler system is a powerful selling factor for people that don't such as lawn work. If you have substantial garden areas, think about putting in a yard sprinkler system.
Keep plants and shrubs properly pruned.Vital for visual appeal. Cut back overgrown trees and looming plants. Tame your lawn to make sure that it doesn't look tough to maintain.
Get rid of any type of badly harmed, dead or perishing plants and trees.Turf over openings or plant healthy and balanced, brand-new replacements.
Additional shade.Simply, color helps draw attention to stunning landscape and makes your residence look a lot more welcoming. Plant multicolored annuals along the pathway and near the front entrance. Plant ground cover around the foundation of plants or shaded locations. Study reveals that color, particularly yellow and pink, rouses a purchasing state of mind.
Landscape your driveway.Landscaping your garage makes it much more welcoming and accentuates the pathway to your front door.
Arbor yards and potted bushes.These could be artistic methods to conceal unappealing spots and attract attention away from much less attractive areas of the lawn.
Produce a stone garden.This is a valuable alternative for slim lawns that do not rather fulfill the curb or driveway. Before you start, see some instances and make a strategy. Typically you'll wish a theme that matches the style of your residence. You'll discover a bunch of info online. Go to a residence and yard facility to discover materials offered in your location.
Add a trellis.These can be fascinating if you intend to include elevation and color to a landscape plan. Most individuals cover the trellis with flowering trailing plants.
Garden lighting.Makes your residence appearance much more welcoming in the evening. Garden light– whether solar, exterior keep track of lights, or developer Malibu garden lights– provides a friendly atmosphere that highlights your house outside.
Protection lights.Normally flood lights or motion-sensitive lights. Select typical or attractive styles such as sconces. Protection lights enhance security both by preventing trespassers and by lighting up pathways to lower the threat of mishaps. Could likewise make property look additional enticing.
Include an outside water attributesuch as a fountain, garden pond falls, and even just a birdbath. Water includes bring in butterflies, birds, and various other wildlife which makes the lawn more fascinating. Such components likewise include visual look and the sounds made by water are relaxing and healing. Not usually high-return projects, but satisfying nonetheless.
Work with a landscape designer or garden designer if your residential property requires comprehensive job. They could make a landscape plan full with comprehensive diagrams and plant checklists. You could save money by doing the work yourself. Having a professional prepare the strategies will make certain a professional-looking result. Assuming you keep the brand-new landscaping, your realty worth will certainly raise.
That's our full listing of ONE HUNDRED advantageous home improvement suggestions. We call them "advantageous" since they're all jobs that accurately produce higher returns in market value based on your investment of time and cash. At times it's tough to understand where to begin. Don't forget that all residence renovation projects (and all building) are labor-intensive. Labor will likely be the solitary biggest line product in any of these projects, also if that labor is yours. However considering that you don't have to pay yourself, the jobs you could do on your own will certainly produce the greatest returns. You can additional significant market value to your home with a series of managable jobs that you can do yourself or with your partner. Keep it to one at a time. You don't intend to tackle tasks that you can't complete, especially if you're preparing on selling your house.


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By Jerry Cornfield Herald Columnist
Next week, she says goodbye, and he says hello.
"She" is Chris Gregoire who will become the former two-term governor of Washington next week. (Hold those Bronx cheers.)
"He" is Jay Inslee, the voters' choice to succeed her. (Hey, no blowing raspberries either.) His first — and potentially only — term begins around lunch time Wednesday following a public fawning session where he'll take the oath of office.
Once they've exchanged the reins of power, historians will begin drafting the first chapter of his legacy and putting the finishing touches on the epilogue of hers.
As regards Inslee, there's not much to scrawl about yet. He's hired a chief of staff and a chief spokesman. And, in between, on Jan. 2, he took action to seek a second term by filing paperwork to keep his campaign committee alive.
No one's quite sure when Inslee will fill several key cabinet positions — he did announce the hiring of a budget director Wednesday — or reveal specific legislative policies he'll pursue.
This uncertainty is a source of mild consternation for some of the Democratic and Republican lawmakers from Snohomish County I spoke with this week.
One described Inslee's pace as "congressional speed" a reference to the glacial pace of activity at the governor-elect's last job as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
In the meantime, interpretive dissections of Gregoire's eight years as chief executive abound as she packs up to move out of the governor's mansion.
The controversy of the 2004 election bookmarks her place in history and signing the gay marriage law assures an epitaph of her political accomplishments.
Most reviews tend to focus on the method and manner in which she piloted the state as its economy soared to new heights then crashed to historic lows.
The splendor of excess revenue early on fueled an unmatched spree of spending on her part on schools, health care and pet progressive causes. The later crush of budget deficits forced her to slice, dice and sometimes discard those very same investments.
Not much is made of whether gender factored into the shaping of her legacy probably because Gregoire isn't the first woman to hold the job. Dixy Lee Ray, a conservative Democrat, cracked the glass ceiling with her election in 1976.
However, Gregoire is the first woman to serve two terms as governor. And she operated in an environment rippling with sexism.
It wasn't just detractors sheltered by the Internet lashing out her as "Queen Christine."
In one of my last conversations with the governor, she didn't hesitate to confirm she'd encountered sexist behavior on the part of lawmakers.
"Sure. I'm probably not willing to talk about some of it," she said. "Some of it is absolutely innocent. They don't even see it, understand it, know it, appreciate it and it's not intended."
Without naming names, she recalled having to point it out to male lawmakers on more than occasion. It never reached the level where she could not work with any of them, she said.
"I'd say, 'Do you know how people could take what you're doing' and they would always be like, 'Really?' They weren't self-aware," she said.
There is one unfinished chapter for the Gregoire legacy as the lifelong public servant is likely to get a job offer in the near future from President Barack Obama.
If it happens, she'll be the one saying hello as someone in the other Washington says goodbye.
(Gov. Gregoire is scheduled to deliver her final State of the State address at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday. Inslee is slated to give his inaugural speech at noon Wednesday. Both will be televised live on TVW and webcast at www.tvw.org.)
Political reporter Jerry Cornfield's blog, The Petri Dish, is at www.heraldnet.com. Contact him at 360-352-8623 or email@example.com.


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Ethan Hawke Is Not So Keen On Monogamy
"My relationship with my present wife [his children's former nanny, Ryan Shawhughes] is thrilling to me and I'm committed to it. But neither she nor I know what shape the future will come in. Sexual fidelity can't be the whole thing you hang your relationship on. If you really love somebody you want them to grow, but you don't get to define how that happens. They do. People have such a childish view of monogamy and fidelity. 'He's cheated so he's bad, she's cheated so she's bad,' as opposed to a recognition that our species is not monogamous. To act all indignant, that your world has been rocked because your lover wasn't faithful to you, is a little bit like acting rocked that your hair went grey. Human beings are sexual beings."
Ethan Hawke is as well known for all those "Before Sunrise" movies as he is for being the guy who let Uma Thurman get away. But as he broadly hints at the magazine Mr. Porter, he didn't want to be monogamous. That doesn't make any cheating that may have occurred okay, of course, but I commend him, actually, for being this honest about monogamy and fidelity given how harshly our culture judges nontraditional relationships. (Actress Maria Bello has some similar thoughts, which she wrote about this weekend in the New York Times Modern Love column.) It sounds like 42-year-old Hawke has a more clear-eyed view of what kind of relationship he wants with his new wife. He's kidding himself, though, if he thinks that being "indignant" about cheating is abnormal. Non-monogamy isn't about cheating at all. [Mr. Porter via US Weekly] [Image via Getty]


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'"We've made some adjustments, but [Spacek's absence] it's hurt us," said Ruff. "That power-play unit, with him shooting off the right side, was going real well for us. I thought his penalty killing was excellent for us."'
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Swanky Tunes & Hard Rock Sofa appear on 'Fast & Furious 6' soundtrack
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It's hard to believe that this is the SIXTH "Fast & Furious" movie coming out. But this flick is in the fast lane with some awesome music along for the ride. Swanky Tunes announced on their Facebook page that they are included in the movie's soundtrack!
They posted a clip, featuring their song with Hard Rock Sofa "Here We Go," and HRS's song "Quasar," in a "hybrid remix" (as described in the track listing).
They aren't the only dance music producers featured on the soundtrack. The movie's tunes also include Deadmau5's track with Cypress Hill "Failbait," as well as David Guetta, Ludacris, & Usher's "Rest Of My Life."
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Iceland is trying to ban internet pornography, and people all over the world are outraged. Supporters think it's a good idea that will protect children and women; opponents don't like the consequent implications against the freedom of speech and expression. While the US has not started a national campaign to ban internet pornography, many of the hot-button issues on our own political table revolve around the same question: What kinds of freedom (and how much of it) should we support? The debate is equally sticky in Christian circles. Should we vote against same-sex marriage, abortion, or free-reign of internet pornography? Should we force our morality on to others who don't want it?
Some have argued that morality differs significantly from legality—what we desire as Christians is different from how we should vote, because we live in a secular society. Our opposition to same-sex marriage doesn't mean we should ban it for others. We live in a free country, and need to support freedom, even if we don't necessarily agree with what freedom allows. If the majority of US citizens were Muslims, we wouldn't want laws passed which would force us to go to mosque every Friday. In the same way, we shouldn't force our own ideals onto others.
Should we even care about political freedom, when we have freedom in Christ? Absolutely. While we are citizens of Heaven first and foremost, we are also citizens of a nation, and our votes (or lack thereof) impact our daily lives. As a result, we should be very interested in the freedoms our country values. We need to uphold the liberty that so many have given their lives to safeguard. We also have to make sure that we aren't unduly pushy—parading around with "Turn or Burn" signs is not the best method of showing Christ's love.
However, does that really mean that we should vote against our convictions as Christians? I think not. The heart of the subject is really about freedom—is freedom license to act solely based on our own judgments, or should freedom enable us to act well?
When we talk about "freedom," we usually mean that people can do whatever they want without the fear of punishment or consequence. This definition is disastrous in the context of laws and the government. It pits the law against freedom, giving anarchists exclusive right to its claim. John Locke, the British philosopher whose ideas influenced both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, has a different notion of freedom. He claims that a human's ultimate end is happiness, but that no one can be happy without being part of a civil government precisely because of anarchy. The lack of laws enables people to do whatever they want— enslave, steal, murder—without restraint, and everyone is left to defend their lives and property in fear. Only within a system of laws are people safe enough to pursue their ultimate end:
Law, in its true notion, is not so much the limitation as the direction of a free and intelligent agent to his proper interest, and prescribes no further than is for the general good of those under that law. Could they be happier without it, the law, as a useless thing, would of itself vanish…The end of law is not to abolish or restrain but to preserve and enlarge freedom.
Good laws will encourage people to do good things, and they will be happier as a result. If laws do not lead to happiness, we had best abandon them. American freedom, then, does not mean that we can do anything we want, but that we have liberty within a set system of laws. Here, one could argue that because America is a democracy, it will reflect the majority's beliefs, whether that majority believes in God, the Force, or cannibalism. True, yet our founders hoped that the people would have the sense and conviction to vote for just, upright laws.
Here's where it gets tricky. Consider the same-sex marriage debate: proponents argue that same-sex marriage will bring them happiness. Similar reasoning is given for other issues such as abortion, pornography, or the recent legalization of marijuana. If it makes someone happy, why not? As Christians, however, we believe that certain actions are not good for the soul, which was created to worship God. Any action that moves us further from him will inherently makes us less happy, though it may bring us temporary pleasure. One day we will stand before the throne of God, and he will hold us accountable for our actions—including the votes we cast against our Christian convictions, simply because we didn't want to step on someone's toes with our steel-toed morality boots.
How, then, should Christians vote? If freedom means the right to do whatever we want, then inasmuch as we should support freedom, we will certainly vie for anarchy. If, however, freedom facilitates the right kinds of actions, then Christians should vote according to their convictions of God's truth.
Of course, deciphering God's truth is not always black and white. Christians are often divided on issues such as gun control or environmental regulations, and even debate over whether we should vote on issues of which we are unsure. While we may hear differing opinions which sound reasonable, whatever the outcome we must live out our faith to the best of our abilities in our every-day lives and in the voting booth.


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USC wide receiver Robert Woods said Wednesday that USC coach Lane Kiffin asked him to return for his senior season during a meeting to his discuss his future.
"Yes, he did (ask me to come back)," Woods said. "I told him I wasn't sure yet."
Woods picked up paperwork to send to the NFL for a draft evaluation but is waiting for a copy of his transcripts before he sends it to the league.
"I still have to fill everything out," Woods said. "The meeting (with Kiffin) went well."
Woods previously said he would seriously consider turning pro if he knew he would be selected in the first round of the NFL draft.


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Kourtney Kardashian has another baby on the way! It will be her 3rd child with partner Scott Disick. Keep clicking to find out what other stars have three or more little ones...some of them might surprise you!
Photo: Splash News Like mother like daughter, Kourtney's mom Kris Jenner has 6 kids! Including Rob, Kim, and Khloe Kardashian and then her two daughters Kendall and Kylie with ex-husband Bruce Jenner.
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Social Science
The Environmental Quality Division's Social Science Branch carries out a variety of roles for the National Park Service, including:
- Providing leadership and direction to NPS social science activities.
- Coordinating social science activities with other NPS programs.
- Acting as liaison with the United States Geological Survey Biological Resources Discipline and other federal agencies on social science activities.
- Providing technical support to parks, regions, and program offices.
- Supporting a program of applied social science research related to the NPS's national research need.
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CARSON CITY, NV and TRENTON, NJ -- The race is on to be the first U.S. state to launch legalized Internet gaming. Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval signed on Feb. 21 hastily passed online gambling legalization (Assembly Bill 114). In New Jersey on Feb. 26, less than three weeks after he vetoed a previous online casino bill, Gov. Chris Christie signed into law a revised measure to legalize Internet gambling.
Nevada passed online gambling legalization in 2011, but its implementation was conditional upon Congress voting to legalize the activity nationwide. The state's new bill targets the Nevada market only, as required by current federal law, but allows the state to cooperate in some ways with other states that legalize gambling for their citizens.
New Jersey's law mandates a 10-year trial period for online gaming and a 15% tax rate on casino profits from the program; Christie had insisted on both provisions. Supporters said online gambling could generate up to $1 billion a year in revenues and nearly double New Jersey's tax take from its Atlantic City casinos. Under the new law, those casinos are the only entities permitted to operate online gaming, and only New Jersey residents are authorized to play.
Meanwhile, Delaware government officials have invited gaming companies to submit bids designed to get online gambling up and running in their state by Sept. 30.


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Allstate Sugar Bowl High School and PHRF Regattas Wrap Up on Lake Ponchartrain
Monday, December 6, 2010
Brother Martin High School won the 2010 Allstate Sugar Bowl High School Regatta Championship on Saturday and Sunday on Lake Ponchartrain. Forty-five sailors from eight schools participated. Each team has an A and B skipper and crew and the combined results determine the winner.
In addition, 31 boats competed in the Performance Handicap Racing Fleet (PHRF) Regatta over the same weekend. Lesson #1, captained by John Lee, won the Class A Spinnaker title, while Steven L. Attard's Viva Las Vegas won the Class B Spinnaker crown. Gilbert MacLachlan was the skipper of Good Intentions, which won the Class C Spinnaker series. Orion sailed to victory behind the efforts of Stephen Jones in the Class A Non-Spinnaker event.
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Imogene Cunningham
American, 1883-1976
Triangles, 1928
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Museum purchase with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts 73.172
Abstraction was a major path for American artists working in the 1920s, as they followed the examples of avant-garde European art that were increasingly visible in the United States. Among painters and photographers there was a strong emphasis on reducing compositions to simplified, elemental forms. During this period, Cunningham embraced a modernist approach to photography. She explored patterns of light and shadow through sharp-focused, close-up views of plants and figures. This celebrated image, an intricate composition of triangles, was the result of her concentration on pose, framing, and lighting.


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The 40-over match will provide an early opportunity for supporters to watch Sidebottom in action alongside three new signings and free activities have been arranged to entertain families.
Nottinghamshire Director of Cricket Mick Newell has named a 15-man squad and will confirm a final 11 on the day of the game.
Notts are offering free admission to all supporters for the Easter Monday match.
There will be no charge for ground tours, face-painting, bouncy castle, bucking bronco and autograph sessions.
Play begins at 12.30pm.
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Dallas -- Zale Corp. said Thursday that net income for the quarter ended Jan. 31 surged to $27.2 million, compared with $6.7 million a year earlier.
Zale, which has struggled to regain profitability as the economy improves, posted net income of $27.2 million compared with $6.7 million, or 21 cents per share a year ago. Sales rose to $626.4 million for the quarter, from $582.3 million. Same-store sale rose 7.9%, compared with a decrease of 11.2% during the comparable period in the prior year.
The results included interest expenses and a $6 million income tax expense. In the comparable quarter a year ago, Zale posted a $12 million tax benefit.
Zale said the quarter marked a turning point because same-store sales turned positive.
"Our financial performance for the critical second quarter reflects the collaborative efforts of our total organization focusing on one objective -- delivering a successful holiday," CEO Theo Killion said in a statement. "In doing so, we've taken an important step toward our goal of returning to profitability."


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The Comic Voice: An Interview with Christina NicholBy Norman Rush and Marco Roth
Last month, Brooklyn's powerHouse Books hosted Norman Rush, Marco Roth, and Christina Nichol to discuss Nichol's debut novel, Waiting for the Electricity. Set in a post-Soviet Georgia, rife with power shortages, the book stars Slims Achmed Makashvili, a maritime lawyer navigating the perplexing, often hilarious vagaries of life in a corrupt republic. Slims yearns to visit America—he writes letters to Hillary Clinton and applies to a business program she sponsors—where he hopes to discover a land of stupefying efficiency. But when at last he arrives in the U.S., the vision of progress is not what he'd hoped.
Nichol has taught English in India, South Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, and, of course, Georgia; her experiences abroad inform much of Waiting for the Electricity's observant wit. With Rush and Roth, she discussed the direction of the comic novel, fiction's bearing on foreign policy, and a State Department official with a ukulele.
Christina, how did you end up in Georgia? How did you join the great English-teaching enterprise that is this new American century?
As a kid I went to the Soviet Union with my grandfather, who braved a hundred Americans and a hundred Russians on a boat down the Volga River. This was during the eighties, and I sort of fell in love with Russia—I continued to go back to witness the transformation of communism into capitalism, which I saw as an amazing and tragic story of the twentieth century. I'd been to Kyrgyzstan, too, and as an adult I was trying to get back. I applied through this foundation, and they said, Well, we have Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia available. I'd once seen some Georgian folk dancers, and they were really amazing, so I decided on Georgia, knowing nothing about it.
And Norman, you spent some time in the Peace Corps.
Not technically. [Elsa and I] were co-country directors in the Peace Corps in Botswana from '78 to '83. But the formative effect of being outside the country for a long period of time is certainly the same—having that be a catalyst to a kind of uncheckable literary impulse, looking at a different part of the great evolution that's taken place. But Christina, you said something intriguing—that you thought the conversion or the evolution of communism to capitalism was a great tragedy. That's certainly not the State Department opinion. Are you a Bolshevik?
I suppose I'm thinking of how it was done to hold up America as an example. In communist nations, they'd heard all these terrible things about how capitalism works—someone gets money and then doesn't provide the service he's been paid for—and they'd say, Well, that's the free market economy for you! Then, under capitalism, they began to live the kind of ideology of the propaganda they'd been brought up with. It was actually an even worse form of capitalism than ours.
Yours is a glorious comic narrative, and there's something slightly odd in talking about it in the midst of terrible political tragedy, the murder and carnage taking place around the world—a kind of carnage in which, as humans and as Americans, we're all to some degree implicated. But it isn't strange, actually, when you think about it. Comic narrative, especially high comic, in textual form, is very important for two reasons. One, it relaxes us and returns us. It disengages us from the essential tragedy, the base tragedy, and the unnecessary tragedy that we encounter as human beings. And it teaches a kind of distance. It has a way of recharging, of remaking our willingness to be open, to have strength in the world, and to work within it. This novel is a remarkable entry into the world of comic fiction. If you look at the history of what's considered funny in terms of narrative fiction, it's been pretty much a male reserve. Examining, say, English Anglophone writers—novelists, not short-story writers or nonfiction writers—there's Stella Gibbons's Cold Comfort Farm, but suddenly now there's Lydia Davis, Rivka Galchen, and an explosion of the comic subject. Read More


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LONG BEACH - Long Beach has taken a step toward what would be the first city-sponsored gun buyback since 1999.
The City Council voted 8-0 Tuesday to direct staff to look into creating and funding a gun buyback program, an action that follows similar moves in communities nationwide to address gun violence in the wake of a Dec. 14 mass shooting at a Connecticut elementary school where a gunman killed 20 children and six adults.
Results of the gun buyback investigation will reported to the council within 90 days.
Councilman Steve Neal, who authored the legislation to explore a buyback, said such a program would allow residents to take unwanted firearms out of their homes.
"The city of Long Beach should do all it can to help take guns out of the community," Neal said.
Last month, neighboring Los Angeles held a gun buyback, collecting two empty rocket launchers among 2,037 weapons in total. Participants received supermarket gift cards for guns in the "no-questions-asked" exchange.
The prospect of recovering a weapon used in a crime - and not being able to connect it with the party that turned it in - concerns Long Beach Police Department officials.
LBPD Chief Jim McDonnell said a gun buyback amnesty is opposed, but any firearm taken off the street is welcome, even outside of an organized collection.
"We can send a unit out at any time and take a gun away from a resident of the city who wants it held for safekeeping, or to dispose of it," said McDonnell.
While critics may consider gun buybacks a symbolic gesture, Councilman James Johnson, who co-sponsored the legislation along with Councilman Al Austin, said it's important to discuss all tools to reduce shootings.
He also encouraged staff to look at ways to encourage the collection of guns most likely used in violent incidents, such as semi-automatic handguns.
"Let's not do a program just to do a program," Johnson said. "Let's do a program to reduce violence."
Long Beach also operated a gun buyback in May 1994.
Ralphs markets donated 50 certificates for $100 for that buyback, where police collected guns from about 100 people in the first-come, first-served, no-questions-asked event.
Statistics reported last year showed that as of July 24, the city had logged 162 shootings, 72 of them gang related. That was higher than the same point the previous year, when there were 117 shootings, with 64 connected to gangs, according to the LBPD.
Crime figures for 2012 are expected to be released this week, but unofficial numbers indicate that overall violent crime declined last year.
Councilwoman Gerrie Schipske was absent Tuesday.


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The shop is having Schwinn replace the wheel.I`m going to be a harsh sob, but there is the problem. Schwinn is now Pacific. The same folks that bring you a bunch of crap Walmart bikes. They slap a Schwinn sticker on a Huffy bike. It pains me because I grew up with Schwinn = quality. I still have my USA made Schwinn Homegrown Mt bike. The last good thing the real Schwinn made. Now you have to go to Waterford or Gunnar to get a real Schwinn
Shimmying is a common problem with light touring bikes. The Salsa Fargo is a light touring bike. They may imply with advertising that you can round trip it to Tierra del Fuego, but don't count on it. That is why some of us have spent the big bucks for a heavy touring bike. They don't shimmy.Being new I was wondering what frame options are considered real fully loaded heavy touring chioces
The specification for a light touring bike is credit card touring. Are you mad yet? We all should be angry.
Most light touring bikes sold never even see panniers, so I have some sympathy for the bike companies. I also think you should not have to invest in a $5000 Co-Motion to get a beefy enough frame.
The only way you can be confident about a light touring bike is to take it for a test ride with panniers that have real stuff in them. You are lucky that you did not buy the bike for a trip that you were going to do in 6 months. But you should be able to read specs that indicate if the frame would flex and shimmy. And be able to work with a LBS that has a clue.


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Washington • The pace of the nation's population growth inched higher this year for the first time since 2006, boosted by a larger number of immigrants.
In its annual state population estimates, the Census Bureau said Thursday that there were 313.9 million people in the United States on July 1. That is up 2.3 million from a year earlier, a growth rate of 0.75 percent.
Although that pace is still very slow by historical standards, it nonetheless is a tiny increase after several years of declines, in which the growth rate had fallen to a level not seen since the 1930s.
And the increase of immigrants is one more indication that the effects of the Great Recession are ebbing because immigration tends to rise when the U.S. job market improves.
California's population rose at a slightly higher rate of 0.95 percent. Even as California lost more residents to other states, it had a net gain of 357,500 people, because of immigration and the natural increase - more births than deaths.
With 38 million residents as of July 1, California remains the most populous state in the nation. It had about 12 million more people than No. 2 Texas, which once again saw the biggest numerical increase in population of all states.
This year's increase in the U.S. population growth rate came entirely from a jump in immigration.
Even as the number of births in the U.S. continued to edge lower, about 885,8å00 immigrants settled in the U.S. in the year ended July 1. That was about 110,000 more than in the previous year, according to the census data.
"We are now attracting more immigrants, a sign that the prospects for jobs are not keeping them away as much as the last few years," said William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution who analyzed the census data.
In California, new arrivals from other nations added about 132,600 to the state's population in the most recent year. The gain represented a 14 percent increase, the same as the nationwide rate of change. The census tally doesn't differentiate between legal and illegal immigrants.
Nationwide, the number of new immigrants during the 1990s averaged about 1 million a year, but that fell to a low of 725,530 in the year that ended in July 2009 when the U.S. economy was weak and growth was faster in developing countries.
The Census Bureau is projecting that the nation's population growth rate will remain around current levels for the next decade, and then fall for many years to come, reflecting the aging of the country's residents.
Among other factors that could push the growth rate down, "people are getting married at a later age, more are going to college, and there may be more women in the workforce as their contribution to family income becomes more important over time," said Mark Mather, a demographer at the Population Reference Bureau, a private research group in Washington.
Still, the latest uptick in population growth is another sign of the rebounding economy.
Previously released census data showed the rate of people moving across county and state lines also turned up this year. More young adults are moving out of their parents' homes, and as the job market has improved slightly and the housing market has begun to recover, more people are migrating to other states.
The recent recession and housing collapse had a particularly powerful effect on the population of Sun Belt states that had attracted flocks of people for some years. But now that those economies are starting to recover, they are beginning to attract more people and their populations are growing more quickly.
From 2008 to 2011, Nevada, for example, saw more people move out of the state than into it each year. But in the most recent year, the state's so-called domestic net migration turned positive once again. Arizona, another state where many Californians had moved during the housing boom, had its domestic net migration number quadruple.
Texas led all states in this category, with about 141,000 more people settling in that state than leaving it in the most recent year.
California, which in the middle of the last decade had a net exodus of more than 250,000 residents, had a negative domestic net migration of about 44,500 in the most recent year, slightly more than a year earlier.
New York saw the biggest net loss of residents to other states almost 116,000. Illinois had the second-largest net outflow of residents, with about 73,500 more people migrating out of the state than moving into it.


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Dear NJ member,
The State of NJ will be providing free ferry service for families of victims of the 9/11/01 terrorist attacks again this year. Anyone wishing to take the ferry should call the number below ASAP to register and obtain a parking pass.
2006 FERRY SERVICE TO GROUND ZERO: For ID, please bring your letter from New York City or your P or T number.Please do not bring food and water or other liquids. Light refreshments will be served at the Terminal prior to the ferry departure. Please plan to arrive by 6:00 A.M. in order to enjoy your coffee before going through the security check point where refreshments interfere with the equipment. Please do not carry large bags with you.
The ferry service from Liberty State Park to NYC is as follows:6:45 A.M.7:15 A.M. The New Jersey State Police will again provide an escort from the ferry to the WTC site.
Returning ferries will depart New York City for Liberty State Park:Immediately after the Ground Zero program ends1:00 P.M.2:00 P.M.
You MUST REGISTER for the ferry service. Please call the Governor's Office of Recovery and Victim Assistance at 609/777-1248 as soon as possible. Be sure to mention any special needs you may have. New York City will not provide seating for those who need it unless it is pre-arranged.


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A Freeze Warning in effect for most of East Texas from Midnight - 8AM, indicating some of those outdoor plants could be damaged if left un-attended overnight.
A cold front moved through late Saturday night, and behind that front a strong northwesterly breeze has been in place, ushering in the colder air-mass. This northwest wind will continue overnight, turning more out of the north Tuesday, keeping the cold air in place. Temperatures overnight tonight are expected to drop into the mid to upper 20s tonight. Temperatures will be cold enough to harm vegetation. It is a good idea to cover your tender vegetation or even bring it indoors for a couple of nights.
Let us not forget the outdoor pets. It is important to remember to bring these guys and gals indoors.
The cold air will continue Wednesday morning, after which winds will be turning more out of the south and that will help overnight lows climb a little bit, back into the middle to upper 30s. Lows will eventually get into the middle 40s by Thursday morning.
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A 13-year-old is hospitalized with gunshot wounds after a shooting early Thursday in Tyler.


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Brevard, N.C. - Brevard College Head Football Coach Paul Hamilton, in conjunction with the BC Sports Information Department, is pleased to release the 2012 BC football schedule.
Brevard will play a full 11 game slate in the 2012 season, featuring six home games in the friendly confines of Brevard Memorial Stadium in Brevard, N.C., while the Tornados will be on the road for five games, including the season opening road trip to take on NCAA Division I Presbyterian College.
Brevard finished the 2011 season with a 3-8 record in their fourth season as full members of the NCAA Division II and the South Atlantic Conference, with victories over Johnson C. Smith, Southern Virginia and Tusculum in the season.
Brevard opens the season on the road, making the trip to Clinton, S.C. and Bailey Memorial Stadium as the Tornados take on Presbyterian College for the first time since the 1940s when the two schools were both junior colleges. The Tornados will take on the Blue Hose at Bailey Memorial Stadium on September 1st.
The Tornados will also take on another newcomer in the 2012 season as Brevard welcomes CIAA member Virginia Union University to Brevard Memorial Stadium for their 2012 home opener. Kickoff between the Tornados and the Panthers is set for September 8th.
Brevard opens South Atlantic Conference play a week later against Mars Hill College as the Tornados travel to Meares Stadium to take on the Lions in their SAC opener. Kickoff between Brevard and Mars Hill is set for September 15th.
Brevard returns home to Brevard Memorial the following weekend, remaining in conference play as the Tornados welcome Wingate University to the field in front of the Brevard faithful on September 22nd.
Tusculum welcomes the Tornados to the Niswonger Sports Complex and Pioneer Field to end the month of September as the Pioneers host Brevard on September 29th, but Brevard returns home for the following two weeks, hosting SAC opponent Lenoir-Rhyne on October 6th and non-conference opponent Southern Virginia on October 13th.
Brevard closes out the month of October with a road contest on October 20th against North Greenville University and a SAC home contest against Carson-Newman College as the Eagles travel to Brevard, N.C. on October 27th.
The Tornados finish their 2012 road schedule in Salisbury, N.C. at Shuford Stadium as Brevard takes on Catawba College on November 3rd. BC closes out the regular season at home with Senior Day at Brevard Memorial Stadium against the Newberry Wolves on November 10th.
For more information on the Brevard College football team, as well as all BC Tornados Athletics, visit our website at www.BCTornados.com.


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The Buccaneer Was a Picturesque FellowBy Merle Johnson
The author and illustrator Howard Pyle was born today in 1853. These illustrations are from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates, a 1921 compilation of his famous pirate stories; its preface is reprinted below.
Pirates, Buccaneers, Marooners, those cruel but picturesque sea wolves who once infested the Spanish Main, all live in present-day conceptions in great degree as drawn by the pen and pencil of Howard Pyle.
Pyle, artist-author, living in the latter half of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth, had the fine faculty of transposing himself into any chosen period of history and making its people flesh and blood again—not just historical puppets. His characters were sketched with both words and picture; with both words and picture he ranks as a master, with a rich personality which makes his work individual and attractive in either medium. Read More


text: Case | HBS Case Collection | April 2013 (Revised April 2014) Transitions Asia: Managing Across Cultures Roy Y.J. Chua and Dawn H. Lau The director of an interim executive search firm, Chee Lung Tham, faced a clash of culture and management styles when his mainland Chinese client threatened to fire the American interim manager that Tham had assigned. The client, Wong Lung, ran a family-owned garment manufacturing business along with his younger brother, as well as his two overseas-educated children. While Wong needed the American manager's technology expertise, his own brother and his team of middle managers were showing resistance to the new changes. Meanwhile, the American manager found himself caught in the web of family and company politics, and completing his assignment without the cooperation of the middle management was impossible. How should Tham approach the conflict and bring all sides into a productive working relationship? Keywords: China; family business; Cross-cultural Management; Management Style; Conflict Management; Family Business; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Service Industry; China; Citation:Chua, Roy Y.J., and Dawn H. Lau. "Transitions Asia: Managing Across Cultures." Harvard Business School Case 413-099, April 2013. (Revised April 2014.) View Details CiteView DetailsEducatorsPurchase Related


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VA admits fraud is 'systemic'
Just last week, top leaders including VA Secretary Eric Shinseki and President Obama were wondering aloud whether the VA's problems were limited to a few bad actors. Now, they don't have to wonder. Messing with schedules to hide long wait times for veterans seeking medical care is "systemic" in the VA's healthcare system, according to a new report from the VA's Office of Inspector General. And those "scheduling schemes" are placing veterans at risk.
The new report's official judgment should resolve any doubt about how deep and widespread these issues are. As of Wednesday, when the report was released, the Office of Inspector General's (OIG) investigation had expanded to 42 separate VA facilities.
Increased calls for political action came swiftly in the report's wake and focused on VA Secretary Shinseki.
Rep. Jeff Miller, Chairman of the House Veterans' Affairs Committee responded to the report in a statement that said Secretary Shinseki should "resign immediately."
Less than a week ago Rep. Jeff Miller was calling for Shinseki to stay at his post until the OIG completed its investigation but he changed course after reviewing the interim's report's findings. In his statement Miller called Shinseki a "good man who has served his country honorably," but said that he seemed "completely oblivious to the severity of the health care challenges facing the department" and that it was "time for him to go."
In addition to Miller, four other lawmakers also called on Shinseki to resign. The chorus included two Democratic Senators, suggesting that more members of the president's party are turning against his appointee in the wake of the OIG's findings.
Though the VA's problems have been clear for some time, it has been harder to gauge the full consequences and extent of the widespread delays. In the OIG's report, the impact of the scheduling manipulation can actually be measured in individual veterans affected and days spent waiting for medical treatment.
Wednesday's interim report focuses on the Phoenix VA where the scandal first broke after a whistleblower revealed widespread scheduling fraud in the facility and dangerous treatment delays for veterans.
In Phoenix, 1,700 veterans in line for medical care were kept off of official records and placed on secret waiting lists. On average it took 115 days, over three months, from the time veterans first reported to the VA until they had their first primary care appointment. Of the 226 veteran's reviewed by the OIG for their report, 84% waited more than 14 days—the maximum wait time set by the VA—before they saw a medical provider.
To hide those delays, the employees in Phoenix used the same methods detailed in leaked memos provided by the Central Texas VA whistleblower who spoke with The Daily Beast. And, as the OIG's own report suggests, their motivation for cheating the records was likely the same—to score high marks on performance evaluations and qualify for bonus pay.
According to the OIG, the most common scheduling trick used to hide delays was changing veteran's "desired dates" for medical appointments. On Tuesday, before the OIG's report was released, The Daily Beast gave a detailed account of the "desired date" scheme in an exclusive story based on leaked official documents and testimony from a whistleblower who says that scheduling manipulation remains rampant at the Central Texas VA where they work.
Read The Full Article On The Daily Beast
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Full disclosure, I was an Apple user (still is at work) up till the 4S. I went through a WP7 period with the Lumia 800 and have now settled on an HTC One X. I'll say this, 4S and 5 are the least innovative phones I've seen in years.
P.S I am not an advertiser with lifeproof whatsoever, just like their case
A week later, put an ad on craigslist to trade the iphone away for the Note 2. BEST DECISION I HAVE EVER MADE AFTER 5 YEARS OF IPHONE. Cannot believe I ever had an Apple product for the past 5 years. What is worse was that I have an iPad as well and I want to throw that against the wall after realizing how amazing android is. This is coming from a apple user of 5 years. Never ever going back to apple again. Their products are such a disappointment.
Tim Cook is definitely going to be pulled out as Apple's CEO. QUOTE ME ON THAT! He will be gone in under 6 months.
I kinda don't like having the back of the iPhone exposed too much,the case looks nice though
I am tough on my phone and bumpers don't protect them well. I have used an otterbox defender and a lifeproof case. I like the lifeproof a lot better. It is thinner waterproof and better looking. A little expensive but not too bad, and their customer service has been very good at replacing cases whenever there is an issue with one. Bumpers, be they metal or plastic don't keep the phone from getting scratched or smashed very well, so not for me.
Nice product, but the aluminum and signal impact would also be a concern of mine, especially considering my signal strength is far from perfect as is. Not to steal anyones thunder and I truly do hope that the gentlemen are successful, but there are several other thin bumper options already on the market. I have been searching since day one, and it became even more apparent now that the coating, around the edges of my beautiful iphone 5, has become scuffed and marred. I recently purchase the Caze Thinedge Matte Frame, and couldn't be happier.
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Wiz Khalifa & Amber Rose getting married this weekend
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This weekend, weddig bells will be ringing loud and clear in Pittsburg.
While Wiz Khalifa and Amber Rose are already husband and wife in the law's eyes, having made it "official" earlier this summer, the pair is having the ceremony this weekend, according to reports.
A source exclusively told PopCrush that the crazy in love couple will host their nuptials at a country club in his native Pittsburgh.
Earlier this year, Wiz said that the couple would have the ceremony, party and reception in the fall, after having taken care of the legal paperwork ahead of time. So voila, the time has come.
We're beyond excite for these two and cannot wait to see the pictures. We have no doubt that this will be an over-the-top affair.
Evidence has already shown this, when Amber Instagrammed a picture of her wedding dress being loaded onto a flatbed truck in a "fragile" box with the following caption: "My wedding dress… Yea, it's that serious." Whoa! Reminds us of Carrie's Vivienne Westwood dress in the Sex and the City movie.
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What TV shows do you guys watch? What new seasons are coming out? Discuss.
I watch: It's always sunny in philadelphia, Malcom in the middle, Dexter, south park, scrubs, and Spaced.
I recommend checking out Dexter and Spaced. Dexter stars Michael C. Hall who plays as a forensic serial killer who goes by Boondock Saints code.
Spaced is a british comedy show that Simon Pegg did before he got big from his role as Shaun in Shaun of the dead.
There is some dead "what's ur fav. tv show" board, but i figured we needed a more broad TV show thread.....