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Andy Dedeke is the sheriff of Leavenworth County. He answered five questions for the Leavenworth Times.
Andy Dedeke is the sheriff of Leavenworth County. He answered five questions for the Leavenworth Times.
1 What are some of the challenges facing the Leavenworth County Sheriff's Office?
Law enforcement is a dynamic and fluid profession. Keeping abreast of changes in the law, police procedure and advances in technology can prove to be challenging. One such technology has been cellular phones equipped with cameras. These devices, when left to the curious, developing minds, will for differing reasons photograph certain anatomical parts and then share them with their friends. This has proven to be problematic as these young people do not realize they may be violating the law and are inadvertently "exposing" themselves to the audience offered on the World Wide Web. Other challenging aspects of law enforcement today include striking a balance between budgets and the expectations of the community, providing a competitive salary and reducing the negative impact of illegal drug usage in our community.
2 What are some of the duties of the Sheriff's Office that people may not know about?
Kansas state law requires the sheriff to provide and maintain a jail for the county's inmates and serve civil process. In addition to these duties, we provide police services primarily to the unincorporated areas, however our jurisdiction extends anywhere in Leavenworth County. These duties include patrol, response to citizen's requests and complaints, investigations, traffic enforcement, communications, offender registration and records. Specialized units include a tactical team, countywide bomb team and honor guard. These duties may fluctuate depending on the needs of the community and this office. At times, deputies are required "to wear many hats." We assist citizens with a wide variety of assistance such as vehicle breakdowns, provide limited animal control, herd cattle back into fields, provide first aid and other lifesaving measures and try to resolve conflict in various circumstances. Having jurisdiction throughout the county affords us an opportunity to assist not only all citizens, but agencies as well. This assistance may include response to calls in cities, backing an officer or assisting with an investigation within Leavenworth County. The Sheriff's Office strives to remain transparent with the public in all our endeavors.
3 How has the Sheriff's Office and law enforcement changed since you became an officer?
Just prior to the demolition of the "old jail," I took an opportunity and toured the building. Although vacant for nearly 13 years and in poor condition, I couldn't help but reminisce about the sights and sounds of the old building and the beginnings of my career. There was no air-conditioning; so it was hot, loud, smelly and often overcrowded. Today, the present jail is climate controlled, spacious and technology driven. Other significant changes I've experienced in my career include the collection of DNA. Once a relatively new tool for law enforcement, DNA was often reserved for major crimes only. Today, we routinely collect DNA during the processing of inmates, with search warrants and from property involved in criminal activity. I would submit though, the biggest change law enforcement has encountered is the new threat of terrorism. Terrorism always existed "over there;" however since September 11, 2001 our profession has forever changed and has brought about the need for hyper-vigilance and interoperability with other responders and agencies at all levels of government.
4 What are some of the misconceptions people may have about law enforcement and the Sheriff's Office?
We are not cold, callous or uncaring. Our profession is comprised of a group of people who care deeply about the community; we have families and want a safe environment to raise them in. Law enforcement is a professional career requiring one to have integrity, loyalty, respect, enthusiasm and courage. We work as a team and persevere through tribulations for the betterment of society. We consider ourselves a family with a mission of dedication and service to our community.
5 What can people do to protect themselves from being the victims of crime?
There are several things people in the community can do to protect themselves against criminal activity. We often suggest that people get to know their neighbors and report suspicious activity. Law enforcement is in a partnership with the community we serve, nothing is too minor to report. Get involved, be aware and keep yourself abreast of activities in your community or join a neighborhood watch program. Maintain your property in such a manner that vegetation is trimmed and opportunities of concealment for a criminal are reduced. If an offer sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Ask questions, don't make rash decisions and in the words of President Reagan, "Trust, but verify."


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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The official qualifiers for the 2013 NAIA Men's and Women's Indoor Track & Field National Championships have been announced by the national office on Friday. The 48th annual men's and 33rd annual women's events will take place Feb. 28 - March 2 in Geneva, Ohio.
For the third-straight year, the SPIRE Institute will serve as the host venue. There are over 130 men's and women's teams that will make the trip to Geneva. The championships begin on Feb. 28 with the men's heptathlon at 1 p.m. EST and the women's pentathlon at 1:30 p.m.
For the first time ever, the entire national championships will be video-streamed live and free. For more information, click here.
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text: Dale Bautista of Brandon, Fla., celebrates his completion of the 31st annual Jacksonville Bank Marathon -- his first -- on Dec. 29 at the Bolles School on San Jose Boulevard. Bautista finished 466th out of some 900 participants, a scant 2 hours, 32 minutes and 57 seconds behind overall men's winner (and Orange Park native) Nicholas Maedel. The rain that began falling an hour after the race started turned into a downpour so torrential that race director Doug Alred described it as the heaviest in the marathon's history.


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They are twins who were born on different days, but now their first born children share the same birthday.
On Monday, sisters Kayla Dutton and Kortney Dutton delivered their babies within 90 minutes of each at Menorah Medical Center in Overland Park. Kayla gave birth to son Jax at 9:19 p.m. while Kortney gave birth to daughter Nevaeha at 10:37 p.m.
The sisters said they are beside themselves with motherly joy and the experience of a lifetime.
They grew up doing similar things as most siblings, particularly twins, do. So when Kayla found out she was pregnant, her sister kept describing similar feelings.
"I was like, 'Kortney, you're pregnant,'" she recalled. "Then she took a pregnancy test and found out she was."
They admit that they were relieved that they became pregnant at the same time. They admit they would have been disappointed if it hadn't worked out that way.
"It helps a lot that the person you've done everything with your whole life being in a situation the same as you, something that life-changing," Kayla said.
The two have a tight bond and often finish each other sentences. They enjoy always having someone around, but admit at times it got tough as kids always having to share.
The two say they can often look at each other and tell what the other is thinking, but they don't have "telepathic" abilities that some twins say they have.
Twenty years ago, the sisters were born an hour and 40 minutes apart, which resulted in them having different calendar days for their birthdays. Kortney thought she would give birth first.
"I wanted to be first because I've been first at everything," she explained.
Initially, the two had expected to give birth up to five days apart. Kayla's delivery was delayed by her doctor because her baby wasn't in position.
And thus they wound up having C-sections induced on the same day.
"That it happened the same day is pretty wild," Kayla said. "I think it's God's plan. Obviously someone wanted us to do this together, we might not find out for a while, but there's a reason obviously."
Both are thrilled to have a beautiful and healthy babies.
"They're perfect," Kayla said.
Jax weighed 8 pounds and 6 ounces while Nevaeha weighed 7 pounds and 7 ounces.
Jax and Nevaeha will grow up extra close like their moms.
"They'll be around each other as much as we are," Kortney said. "We just got a house together so they'll be growing up pretty much like brother and sister."
And both mothers expect a hard work being a mom. Their mother is eagerly looking forward to babysitting her grandchildren.
"I think the first time she might rip her hair out," Kayla said.
"It will certainly take her back," Kortney replied.
"I don't want them to grow up," Kayla said.
"Me neither," Kortney replied.
Twins run in the family but often skips a generation, so only time will tell if the family has more birthday stories to tell.
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The Gillett community has pledged $86,700 as of Monday to contribute to the school's operation and maintenance costs if the school remains open.
Gillett Elementary is to remain open.
Still, a divided Arkansas Board of Education signaled it wanted school districts to be as creative and put as much energy as possible into keeping rural isolated schools open.
It was one of the main messages Monday as the board reconsidered the DeWitt School District's petition to close the elementary school. The failure to pass a motion keeps the board's original decision in place.
The board's recommendation came just two months after the board first voted 5-2 to keep the school open. In November, board member Sam Ledbetter of Little Rock asked that it be placed back on the agenda for December to go through new issues that had since come up.
The DeWitt School Board originally approved to close the elementary school in June, and it had to go before the state since it did not receive a unanimous vote. DeWitt Superintendent Gary Wayman said the move would allow the district to provide students with better technological choices as well as a better education in the six-year-old DeWitt building. Gillett Elementary was built in 1956.
Wayman said the cost per student in Gillett is $10,909 compared to $5,485 in DeWitt, and the district loses $241,000 annually by keeping Gillett Elementary open.
In July, Wayman said the decision was based on revenue and expenditures. The school district has revenue listed as $557,232 based on the estimated enrollment of 78 students, foundation money and extra isolated funds.
In expenses, the campus spends $591,221.77 in salaries for 16 employees, matching retirement and social security as well as an additional $87,772.82 for a year's average of basic utilities.
"Eventually, we'll end up in fiscal distress," Wayman said Monday. "We can't continue to loss $241,000 a year continually."
He added that they have already cut a lot to balance the district's budget already including cutting off 19 extended day contracts in DeWitt.
The Gillett community has pledged $86,700 as of Monday to contribute to the school's operation and maintenance costs if the school remains open. The funds, which are not set, would be placed in a 501c to be used after the school certified that every dollar generated by a Gillett student went to the Gillett school.
Gillett Mayor Jared Holzhauer said the community has not been able to get accurate financial figures and that the numbers still did not add up. He argued that the school's savings wouldn't be much since the school would lose isolated school funding while retaining the cost of salaries since jobs would not be cut.
Previously, both Wayman and Holzhauer said the Gillett students score higher on state and national tests — scoring at the 95th percentile or higher statewide on benchmark tests in the past two years, ranking fifth statewide in 2011 and 21 in 2012. DeWitt elementary students score higher than average, and Wayman said combining operations would benefit students and the district's bottom line.
If approved, the 74 Gillett elementary students from Kindergarten through fifth grade, along with teachers and staff, would have been transferred to the 480-student DeWitt Elementary School after the 2012-2013 school year.
The DeWitt School District has 1,270 students. It includes students from the surrounding communities of St. Charles, Humphrey and Gillett through consolidation of Arkansas County's southern district public schools. The St. Charles School District was consolidated with the DeWitt School District effective July 1, 1985, while Gillett and Humphrey Schools were both consolidated on July 1, 2004, after the districts fell below the state required 350 student population.


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Losing only one player to graduation after compiling a 22-13 record, the Marion County Lady Knights softball team has high expectations for the 2011 season. After winning the 20th district title last year, the Lady Knights beat Washington County 10-0 in the first round of the regional softball tournament before losing to Green County 2-1 in the second round of region.
Head Coach Trent Milby hopes that this year's squad will win the district crown for the second year in a row, and take their chances in the 5th region tournament once again.
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Pilot Whale Washes Up On Long Beach Rockport Photos
Hey, Joe. Poser lobsterman here. Thought you might be interested in these pictures I took this morning – a pilot whale washed up on long beach.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 19th Nov 2009 20:01 UTC
Google has just unveiled its Chrome OS operating system during a press event at the company's headquarters, and it's pretty much exactly what we expected it to be: a streamlined Linux kernel booting straight into the Chrome web browser. The code is available starting today.
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Hackers break into servers too
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but most exploits involve getting people to follow links in emails or install software. Widespread system exploits became rare after XP got a decent firewall. Conficker would have been killed off quickly if it wasn't for all the pirated XP installs that have auto-update turned off.
Google's security plan may be good for grammy but I'd rather encrypt and backup my own data. What happens when Google's servers go down and you need an old document? Wait while playing some online flash games? No thanks.


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Just before tip-off of the Marion County Lady Knights varsity basketball game against Washington County Friday night at the Roby Dome, Head Coach Trent Milby presented game balls to junior Bre Elder and sophomore Kyvin Goodin-Rogers.
The two received this honor for scoring 1,000 points in their career at Marion County High School.
Elder's 1,000th point came on Feb. 26, 2010, during the Adair County game.
On March 6, 2010, Goodin-Rogers accomplished the same feat during the game against E'town.
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The Will County Low Income Tax Assistance Coalition (LITAC) is teaming with Silver Cross Hospital to provide free federal and state income tax preparation services this February.
This service is open to individuals and families earning up to $51,000 in 2012. Qualified participants will be able to have their federal and state income tax returns filed electronically at no cost.
Services will be provided from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 9, and is open to the public. No appointment is necessary.
Silver Cross Hospital is located 1890 Silver Cross Blvd, in New Lenox, Ill. Patrons should enter through Pavilion A and proceed to the conference center. For questions regarding the sessions at Silver Cross Hospital, please contact the Spanish Community Center at (815) 727-3683. Do not contact the hospital directly.
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Those who cannot attend the session at Silver Cross Hospital are invited to schedule an appointment with any of LITAC's three VITA sites:
• Child Care Resource & Referral, located at 801 N. Larkin Ave #202, Joliet, IL (call 815.741.1163 x 253 to make an appointment).
• Spanish Community Center, 309 N. Eastern Ave., Joliet, IL 815.727.3683 (call 815.727.3683 to make an appointment).
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CAIRO — Twice in the past seven days, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates have secretly teamed to launch airstrikes against Islamist-allied militias battling for control of Tripoli, Libya, four senior US officials said, in a major escalation between the supporters and opponents of political Islam.
The United States, the officials said, was caught by surprise: Egypt and the Emirates, both close allies and military partners, acted without informing Washington or seeking its consent, leaving the Obama administration on the sidelines.
Egyptian officials explicitly denied the operation to US diplomats, the officials said.
The strikes are another high-risk and destabilizing salvo unleashed in a struggle for power that has broken out across the region in the aftermath of the Arab Spring revolts, pitting old-line Arab autocrats against Islamists.
Since the military ouster of the Islamist president in Egypt one year ago, the new Egyptian government, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates have formed a bloc exerting influence in countries around the region to roll back what they see as a competing threat from Islamists.
Arrayed against them are the Islamist movements, including the Muslim Brotherhood, backed by friendly governments in Turkey and Qatar. These movements accelerated amid the Arab Spring revolts.
Libya is the latest, and hottest, battleground. Several officials said US diplomats were fuming about the airstrikes, believing they could further inflame the Libyan conflict at a time when the United Nations and Western powers are seeking a peaceful resolution.
"We don't see this as constructive at all," one senior US official said.
Officials said the government of Qatar has already provided weapons and support to the Islamist-aligned forces inside Libya, so the new strikes represent a shift from proxy wars — where regional powers play out their agendas through local allies — to direct involvement.
The strikes have also proved to be counterproductive so far: The Islamist militias fighting for control of Tripoli successfully seized its airport the night after they were hit with the second round of strikes.
US officials said Egypt had provided bases for the launch of the strikes. President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi of Egypt and other officials have issued vigorous but carefully worded public statements denying any direct involvement inside Libya by Egyptian forces. In private, officials said, their denials had been more thorough.
The officials said that the United Arab Emirates — believed to have one of the most effective air forces in the region, thanks to US aid and training — provided the pilots, warplanes, and aerial refueling planes necessary for the fighters to bomb Tripoli out of bases in Egypt.
The first strikes occurred before dawn a week ago, hitting positions in Tripoli controlled by Islamist-friendly militias, blowing up a small weapons depot and killing six people.
A second set of airstrikes took place south of the city early Saturday, hitting rocket launchers, military vehicles, and a warehouse controlled by Islamist-allied militia.
The second strike might have been motivated by a desire to prevent an imminent capture of the Tripoli airport by Islamist-aligned militia, many of which are based in the coastal city of Misurata and are more tribal than Islamist in orientation.


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CORRECTION: The information in our story about Rep. Paul Ryan was based on a HOAX. We apologize for disseminating incorrect information.
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The Madison Capital Times apologized Saturday after posting a story based on a prank press release about Rep. Paul Ryan and other Wisconsin Republicans pressuring the Smithsonian to remove posters from last year's protests at the state Capitol from its archives. The Capital-Times reports:
The story was based on a news release that purportedly came from [Republican Rep. Steve] Nass' office, but was in fact fabricated by Madison labor cartoonist Mike Konopacki. He has drawn editorial cartoons for The Capital Times for many years on a freelance basis and he sent the fake release to a staff member who then forwarded it to Associate Editor John Nichols, who wrote the story.
The Capital Times says Nichols started to have doubts about the story when sources said they hadn't heard about the release. He told editors to hold the piece, but they had already posted it. The story was removed after being online for about 40 minutes.
In the release and Cap Times story, Ryan was quoted saying, "Look, you can't be displaying and archiving art that celebrates protests that were heavily aimed at Republicans, and then expect that Republicans are going to smile nicely and sit down and try and work with the Smithsonian."
Konopacki, who created his news release with Photoshop, "is apologetic about the confusion it created," and that Capital Times "regrets its publication, even for a brief amount of time."
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Alumni Profile: Barry Threw Creates the Beat of a Different Drummer
Barry Threw '04 came to Berklee from Illinois as a jazz saxophone player who wanted to engineer commercial pop albums.
However, as he learned, "wherever it is you think that you're going is probably not where you'll end up," he said.
The music production and engineering (MP&E)/music synthesis major, now 26, took his classes in a distinctly noncommercial direction. Now the "music technologist" is part of San Francisco's thriving electronic music scene-programming new ways to make new music and linking the ethereal to the concrete.
He explained, "I do engineer records occasionally, though that's not a major source of my income. I do a lot of programming for new musical interfaces. I do a lot of work with surround sound. And I make my own music. The overarching thing is using cutting-edge technology to enable really advanced and forward-looking media.
"A lot of what I do is help to build technology that enables new forms of musical expression. The tools have to be developed for people to create."
Threw has started to create these at the BEAM Foundation with founder Keith McMillen. The projects grew out of dissatisfactions with current electronic music performance: it isn't necessarily fun to watch, and musicians don't use the instrumental chops they spent years honing. They wanted to "bring live performance and virtuosity into electronic music."
Enter his solution: the electronic string ensemble TrioMetrik. The three performers' instruments are networked through a new computer system called MACIAS. The software lets musicians change sounds, affect each other's sounds, and control live video on the fly.
"What the violin player plays can affect the sound of the bass. The chord the guitar is playing could transpose the key of the instruments," he explained.
There's no sampling and no prerecorded parts. Since the players use traditional instruments, not laptops, the audience has a real performance to watch.
"We use traditional instruments as a bridge so you don't lose all the years of virtuosity. The interface into the system is really familiar. You have a much greater range of sound from the instruments. It opens the sound world," Threw said.
A longer-term plan-creating a scoring system for electronic music-addresses a longer-term problem. As time passes and technology becomes obsolete, some compositions simply can't be performed. The ideal scoring system would be simple and reproducible, so people didn't have to spend years building new instruments or figuring out old ones (unless, of course, they wanted to).
Threw also engineers in a physical environment for experimental music to flourish: the Recombinant Media Labs surround cinema space. Not unlike an OMNIMAX theater, the main room has 10 screens of video with floor shakers and a 16-channel sound system that goes up the walls. Sound becomes spatial.
The idea is to create "a total experience, total immersion," he said. "Artists come in for residencies and create works for the space. There is no other room like it anywhere."
Threw's own music-soundscapes, often improvised-is in the same vein. He described it as "pretty experimental-it's really about sound, composing with sound. It's pretty non-Western. We're not talking a lot of tonal harmony."
Threw credited Berklee with giving him the foundation that has allowed him to explore and develop unusual projects. "Berklee prepared me for a lot of different things," he said. On the creative side, music synthesis professor Richard Boulanger introduced him to experimental music. "His work, it's not only oriented towards commercial sound production. There's also this other, artistic world," Threw said.
For the nitty-gritty, "MP&E really did a good job of grounding the technology. It's really important for me to know that when I build things, they sound good."
Thinking about Berklee students starting out, Threw advised going with the gut to find the right path. "It's incremental. There's not a light that shines down. You just have to keep following what interests you. It shouldn't be something that's filled with anxiety."
Which matters when your career heads in a direction that doesn't have a roadmap. "We're creating a new format. It's like, 'What's the next step,' always."


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Disposal facilities and transfer stations must be regulated, but when trying to improve recycling, continuing to focus on those businesses is akin to trying to put toothpaste back in the tube, said Steve Changaris, the New England director of the National Solid Wastes Management Association.
Waste management companies are already doing all they can to promote recycling, and with single stream recycling programs, bottles, cans and other items may be cleaned up and returned to market.
But once you start introducing used diapers, food, latex paint and coffee grounds, the wet materials that often get mixed into trash, he said, it's difficult to pull it apart from the recycling stream.
Mr. Changaris said he is pleased that Massachusetts, which for years has had a recycling rate lingering about the 30 percent range, appears to want to put more of a focus on those who generate waste.
Last week, three state inspectors whose only responsibility is to help prevent banned items from entering the waste stream began working for the state Department of Environmental Protection, spokesman Edmund J. Coletta said.
Their role is to help find the offending generator and hauler of the waste-banned item.
After training, the three state workers are expected to start doing inspections on a full-time basis by October, Mr. Coletta said.
Employing the inspectors was a priority of the agency's commissioner.
The waste bans have been in effect since the early 1990s. While staff cuts in the 2000s greatly reduced its ability to enforce the waste ban, the state never abandoned the program, Mr. Coletta said.
Currently, the DEP gets reports from municipal waste incinerators about "failed" loads, such as the load having too much cardboard. As a result, the DEP has made targeted inspections on the offending source.
By year's end, the DEP also expects to move ahead with a proposed requirement for independent inspections at solid waste facilities, such as landfills, incinerators and transfer stations.
The independent inspector would report to the state agency about shipments containing too many recyclables, and thus possibly legal action, Mr. Coletta said.
Since 2009, the DEP has issued more than 130 notices of non-compliance for violations of the waste bans.
But only three to five of those initial violations resulted in fines for repeat offenders, Mr. Coletta said.
Usually, an initial notice of compliance is enough to bring a violator into compliance.
But Mr. Changaris said the increased enforcement won't improve recycling by much.
A more aggressive, DEP inter-governmental approach to the generators of waste and recycling, to get them on the same page, would be more effective, he said.
Waste-management companies are in a difficult situation with regard to recycling, which reverses the-customer-is-always-right mantra.
If a hauler were to object that a customer didn't appear to be recycling, he didn't see a recycling bin and found recyclables in trash, the annoyed customer could fire him.
"Now the next guy (hauler) comes along and doesn't care," Mr. Changaris asserted.
Without the regulatory agency supporting waste management companies, complaints fall on deaf ears, Mr. Changaris said.
The association director asserted his industry was pro-recycling.
"We build the facilities. We recycle. There are too many people who would want to manage more (recyclables) if they were there," he said.
"The bigger problem," he continued, "is getting the businesses and customers to get to that same place and say, 'We're going to sit down, create space in our building for a recycling program, make one of our employees responsible for it and change the DNA," he said.
At the Southbridge landfill, which is operated by Casella Waste Systems, the new state monitors won't have much of an impact because of the facility's more stringent protocol for identifying banned waste, predicts town landfill monitor Anna Smith.
A town waste spotter, Bob Jones, looks at incoming loads from an observation trailer and identifies those that might have banned material.
If Mr. Jones finds a suspect load, it will be dumped on the landfill face and looked at. The spotter photographs and logs the load, and if there's an issue, a collective decision is made about whether to accept the load, Ms. Smith said.
From there, Casella is required to have two waste spotters who inspect every load and pull out banned material, Ms. Smith said. Casella then assesses a fee and sends the recovered recyclable to a recycler.
Ms. Smith said haulers are getting better: It's been about six months since Southbridge had to reject a load.
Lynne Pledger of Clean Water Action said the new state inspectors will allow the state to look for patterns.
For instance, if a particular company brought a "failed" load every Tuesday, the state inspectors would be able to meet that load, said Ms. Pledger. She and lawyer Staci Rubin from Alternatives for Community & Environment worked with residents and officials in various communities that have regional landfills and incinerators to urge waste-ban enforcement.
"The point is, the company then does something," Ms. Pledger said. "They make a change. It's not just a question of the fine."
Mr. Coletta, the state spokesman, also touted RecyclingWorks in Massachusetts, a new and free recycling assistance program designed to help businesses and institutions improve their recycling, reuse, and composting operations.
The service can help businesses' bottom lines, since they can spend as much as $70 to $80 a ton on getting rid of waste, Mr. Coletta said. Recycling materials involves a much lower per-ton cost, and in some cases the company can make money, depending on whether there's a market for the recyclable material.
In addition, the DEP is presently working on banning food and organic waste from the waste stream from those who generate a ton of food waste per week. The hope is to have the ban in place by July 1, he said.
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Turn this:
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…using the "EZ Perspective" filter, now available at Filters → Distorts → EZ Perspective… – get
ez-perspective.py now!
Particularly well-suited for the needs of photographers seeking to correct perspective, but flexible enough to be used by all those wishing to add perspective to an otherwise flat scene.
Demo video by Mahvin.
Installation :: Usage :: Use cases :: Tricks
Future plans :: Similar tools :: Technical details :: Batch processing :: Closing notes
.py file executable (on Linux and Mac OS X), via
chmod +x ez-perspective.py (can also do by right-clicking and changing "Properties")
If you're having trouble:
Some general tutorials on perspective correction: Perspective correction – PanoTools & Perspective Correction In Photoshop – Keystoning.
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/\ and use left/right to fix horizontal lines not being parallel:
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<. (And use rotate to rotate.) To get a feel for this, take photos of a window when tilting up, tilting down, swinging left, swinging right, and rotating clockwise/counter-clockwise, and then correct them.
(Ctrl-Z, Ctrl-Y) and re-run the filter via
But wait, there's more!
Actually, there isn't. This is a specialized tool for easily correcting or changing perspective, just like it says on the tin, and that's all it does.
Main desiderata is to have previewing, which makes tweaking perspective much easier. This requires building the GUI manually, using the full Python gimpplugin library, rather than using the pre-packaged one from gimpfu; it's do-able, but will take a little time.
Also nice would be to automatically read EFL from Exif, rather than having to key it in. This can't easily be done currently (Exif information is not available to plug-ins, as far as I can tell), though I plan to hack in something (using exiftool, if available).
"Hmm…," you say, "but can't I achieve the same using existing tools, like the (suggestively named) Perspective tool (Tool → Perspective,
Shft-P), or perhaps the 'Map Object – Plane' filter (Filters → Map → Map Object… → Plane)?"
Well, no.
These are both excellent and powerful tools, but they, and everything else I found discussed under "perspective" (search) do not actually do the desired perspective transforms. If these (or other) tools suit your needs, please use them, but they didn't satisfy mine, and, if you read on, you, too, may come to share my cravings, and want a new tool. Fortunately, I've written one.
Simply, correcting perspective is a very common photographic task – like image rotation – and so you want a specialized tool for it. Further, it has hidden subtleties (elaborated below, in "Technical details"), which mean that a general tool is unlikely to provide the desired behavior.
Turning to the specific tools: the term "perspective tool", while suggestive, is a misnomer. It is actually a "projective transformation" tool, and can do perspective transforms, but much else besides, and its transforms are almost always not simply changes of perspective. For minor changes, the error is slight, and not terribly objectionable, and many people advocate using this tool (or corresponding ones in other programs) to correct perspective.
Most often advocated is to fix perspective (say, from a shot that is tilted up) by simply stretching the top (e.g., here). The problem is that when you correct perspective, you also need to stretch vertically (or horizontally for left/right perspective), and if you don't, the result is squat. Here is the result of simply stretching the top, without any vertical stretching (marked as incorrect):
Notice that it is squatter than the correct version; this is most visibly an error as shapes that should be circles are instead ovals.
Further, even if you want to stretch, how much should you stretch? For any angle (and focal length) there's a single correct amount, mathematically determined, which is difficult to eyeball. Fortunately, we have computers that can do the math for us, as EZ Perspective does. It makes it, if you'll pardon, "EZ PZ". Lastly, you may wish a tool where you enter angles, rather than moving corners by mouse, as in the rotation tool. The perspective tool is very powerful and intuitive, but both overkill and a bit fiddly for simply fixing perspective.
"Map Object – Plane" may appear to do the same thing, but it rotates the image, rather than the camera. This filter serves a different purpose – it uses an image as "wallpaper" on some surface. The easiest way to see that it does not do a perspective change is to rotate Y by 30° – the resulting perspective is compressed. In fact, if you rotate by 90°, the plane disappears, while if you actually change perspective by 90° (or, more realistically, by 80–85°), you still have a usable scene, albeit with heavy perspective, corresponding to shooting across (almost parallel to) a surface. More simply, Map Object rotates the image plane so that it is at an angle to the rendering plane, while changing perspective corresponds to projecting an image between parallel planes.
For the mathematically-minded… These are all "as far as I can determine" – if there are any errors or you've thoughts or references, please feel free to contact me.
Formally, what this tool does is a "camera transform" (or perhaps more properly, an inverse camera transform, followed by a camera transform) – it assumes that the center of the scene is some distance z* away, but the camera is aimed at an angle, and then changes that angle, keeping the center of the scene at the same distance. (Formally, this is PSO(3), acting on the plane given by z=z*.) The distance is why the 35 mm Equivalent Focal Length is necessary: the effect of changing angle depends on the distance – it determines both the relative scale of stretching (e.g., if tilting, how much vertical stretching) and the scale of angles. The easiest way to see this is to use a very short EFL on a photo taken with a longer EFL (e.g., use 10 mm for the example picture; actually taken with 89 mm) – the resulting corrected image will be too squat, and the correction angle keyed in will significantly understate the actual correct. Simply, tilting wide-angle lenses doesn't stretch as much, and 1° change is a bigger change with a wide-angle lens than with a telephoto lens. As a detail, the EFL here refers to the diagonal EFL (based on diagonal angle of view), which is the most common convention (some use horizontal).
The rotations are done using the zyx convention for Euler angles (or more properly, Tait–Bryan angles), which can be interpeted as "rotate about the extrinsic axes (axes of the scene) in the order x, y, z (up/down tilt, left/right swing, rotation twist), or about the intrinsic axes (axes of the camera) in the order z, y, x." This seems the most natural order – how would you line up a shot? This is also why applying the filter twice does not simply add angles – it corresponds to z′y′x′zyx (6 rotations in sequence), which is not the same as (z′+z)(y′+y)(x′+x) because the rotation group is not commutative (order of rotations matters).
Note that these camera transforms only have 6 degrees of freedom (it's the Euclidean space group) – 3 rotations, 3 movements (2 dimensions of shifting the image, 1 dimension of scaling the image). Our concern are the 3 rotations, but the shifts and scaling show up subtly. The projective linear group of the plane, PGL(3) (all transforms that preserve lines, possibly going out to infinity), has 3×3–1 = 8 dimensions; note that the perspective tool has 8 degrees of freedom = 4 points × 2 dimensions/point, and hence is (a top-dimensional subset of) the full projective linear group. Examples of projective transforms that are not perspective are:
It's really hard to stay on a 6-dimensional space in 8 dimensions (it's like staying on a 1-dimensional curve in 3 dimensions), which is why output from the perspective tool is almost never an actual perspective transform, and makes formal the fact that it's hard to eyeball the right height fix. (It's slightly subtler – different focal lengths add a 7th dimension, so it's a bit easier to get a transform that's a perspective transform, but likely for the wrong lens.) Further, only 3 of the dimensions correspond to rotations – the other 3 correspond to shifting and scaling, so unless you're careful, the transformed image will be larger or smaller, and shifted: staying on a 3-dimensional space in 8 dimensions is trickier yet. For example, the usual "correct perspective by just stretching the top of an image" (say, by 5%) stretches the image horizontally by an average of 2.5%; to avoid stretching you actually would need to stretch the top by 2.5% and shrink the bottom by 2.5%. EZ Perspective corrects for these, as discussed below.
Finally, two subtleties of projective transforms: shifting and scaling. Projective transforms (the matrices of the rotations) move the center of an image, and change the scale. This tool corrects for these by moving the center back to the center and adjusting scale to minimize distortions. This later is a bit tricky – projective transforms change scale differently in the x and y dimensions (and by a different amount in each row and column), so when changing the up/down tilt, we preserve the width of the center row, and correspondingly for left/right swing (preserve center column height). This is generally what you want; can be further customized by specifying where the "center" is, though I'll add that later.
Further, changing the angle makes the distances that get closer to the camera grow, while those that get further shrink, so the former center of the image is no longer the center of the transformed image (even if it doesn't move, there're still more pixels on one side than on the other). This is inevitable, but changes the effect of the composition, and is a subtlety to be aware of.
You can also use EZ Perspective non-interactively, for batch processing, particularly if you have many files with known perspective, or wish to apply automated distortion. Because non-interactive use of Python-Fu plugins can be a little tricky, I've written a wrapper function to simplify it, and given an example script. See the below
ez-batch-script-SAMPLE.py file for how to do this; this will require some manual fiddling on your part. Please:
Lastly, the photo (corrected by 40% tilt and 0.3% clockwise rotation, at 89 mm EFL, following pincushion correction) is the former logo of Bowl and Board (hence the shape: a bowl on a board), a delightful housewares store in Cambridge, Mass., now sadly closed.
Hope this tool proves useful – enjoy, and happy Gimping!
I have Gimp 2.8.0, and it's "Edit → Preferences → Folders → Plug-Ins" there,
not "File → …"
Hi Espy.
If you have not yet solved your problem (which sounds similar to what I had when I tried to set up Python for Gimp 2.6.10 on Windows XP) you might try the following link that should take you direct to a tutorial that put me on the right track:
I uninstalled everything I had (unsuccessfully) tried to set up and then followed the tutorial step by step before re-installing Gimp and it all came together nicely for me.
Thanks for a great tool. I've still to explore it's full potential but what I've seen so far indicates that this will have many uses for me.
Before going in to my installation troubles, let me describe why I need EZ-perspective, just in case I'm on the wrong track here:
What I need EZ-perspective for so badly is that I need to do some true perspective transformations with correct scaling in *both* directions. I'm photographing a rectangular plane, sometimes at an angle, and I need to alter the images such that the image of the plane becomes truly rectangular, with the horizontal surfaces parallel with each other (as well as the vertical), all while keeping the ratio of the side lengths intact. Like trying to photograph a piece of paper at an angle and trying to determine its aspect ratio from the picture. Is it a4 or letter-sized?
Is EZ perspective even what I'm looking for? If so, please help me install Python-fu:
I'm having trouble installing the GIMP with Python support. I'm running GIMP 2.6.10 i686 on Windows 7 with Python2.6, PyGTK, PyGObject, PyCairo (all the latest releases, to the best of my knowledge). I've tried pretty much everything I can think of as well as the things I've read on various tutorials. I tried including the \bin folder from GTK+ into the PATH, I tried installing 'glade,' I've uninstalled, reinstalled, and rebooted more times that I can remember. Does anyone have any tips?
Thanks in advance
did you try to reinstall gimp ,with the custom option AFTER have installed all the python libraries ?
I think it shoul dbe possible to use python-pyexiv2 (at least on linux) to retrieve the lens data from the image - that would make it easier on enter the correct values.
Otherwise a nice script, i plan to add it to the gimp-plugin-registry package in Debian :)


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Oh please. Yes no one can 100% predict the future, but there are things that are easy to assume.
The bullpen is better and Reed should improve are really the same thing. I don't think the bullpen was the problem last year though, and it's debatable how a better bullpen improves us.
I like our #5 options better than Humber. Keppinger is a better stick than Morel and probably Youklis, but he's even more of a defensive black hole than Youk was. And his addition does not compensate for AJ's loss.
John Danks probably won't be 100% this year, but even if he is our big problem is offense, of which we have very little.
Why do you think Beckham will get better at the plate? He's had over 1000 plate appearances and has only regressed.
I'm fairly confident Viciedo will not improve. At least not without more time in the minors and a completely reworked approach. His problem is that he has no batting eye at all, and coupling that with a long swing that doesn't make contact very often, he's a long way from being a piece that can contribute. The league figured him out pretty quickly. Why does it take our fanbase so long? These were things scouts have said about him all along...
If you are confident Viciedo won't improve they might as well start manufacturing his All Star jersey now. You said the same thing about Derrick Rose. Beasley was only going to get better and better. You really seem to be a good sport about your statements, I will give you that, but I am not going to take your personal scouting reports too seriously.
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• Sept. 4: A driver was cited for traveling 50 in a 35 miles per hour zone on Mill Dam Road.
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• Sept. 4: A driver was cited for traveling 52 in a 35 miles per hour zone on Mill Dam Road.
• Sept. 4: A 5th Street woman said she heard a crash in her house. She investigated and witnessed a person exit her home through a window and run north along Ohio 79.
• Sept. 5: A Leroy Street man said he loaned a video game system to a friend, and the system was stolen from the friend's house.
• Sept. 6: Officer heard the Licking County Sheriff's Office dispatch a deputy to a Buckeye Lake trailer park on a suspicious vehicle and person alert. A Newark man claimed he had park manager's permission to enter the trailer park and remove "scrap metal." The items removed were actually steel concrete forms used in pouring concrete. The park manager said she gave no such permission. The man finally admitted he didn't have permission to remove the items. Green Lawn Companies, who owns the steel concrete forms, requested theft charges against the Newark man.
• Sept. 7: A Duke service station employee reported a customer left without paying for $38 in gasoline.
• Aug. 11: Police on patrol warned a resident for not having her dog on a leash.
• Aug. 11: A motorist was cited for going 65 mph in a 50 mph zone on Ohio 79 at US 40.
• Aug. 11: Police took a report after a Buckeye Lake man said his vehicle was struck in the Kroger parking lot.
• Aug. 11: A Thornville woman reported a theft from her vehicle while is was parked at a Canal Road address.
• Aug. 12: Police on patrol at 2:56 a.m. saw two bikes parked along the roadway on Parks Street. Police saw a flashlight shining in the backyard of a South 5th Street home. A 19-year-old man told police he was looking for his dog. Police told him he was trespassing. Police contacted the resident who then checked his garage. He said several items had been moved. The incident is still under investigation.
• Aug. 12: Police were called to South 5th Street home on a report of a theft. A witness said he saw a man steal rims from behind an East Main Street home. He described the suspects vehicle and provided a partial license plate number. Police identified the vehicle as belonging to a Canal Road apartment resident. Police spoke to the vehicle owner and her boyfriend. They both denied stealing anything and said they had been eating breakfast at the boyfriend's mother's home in Buckeye Lake.
• Aug. 12: Police were asked to watch Ohio 79 for a vehicle involved in a Fairfield County burglary. The vehicle was found in Buckeye Lake Village.
• Aug. 12: Police were called about an alarm sounding in the post office. Police discovered that someone had pulled the fire alarm. An employee was dispatched to reset the alarm.
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Last time I laid the groundwork for explaining some of the paperwork involved in bringing my wife's brother here from the Philippines last year. We applied for him back in 1988, when he was a young, single man. When he arrived he had a wife (he hadn't even met her when we applied for him) and three children. The oldest was 21.
Last time I laid the groundwork for explaining some of the paperwork involved in bringing my wife's brother here from the Philippines last year. We applied for him back in 1988, when he was a young, single man. When he arrived he had a wife (he hadn't even met her when we applied for him) and three children. The oldest was 21.
I checked the records and the official date of the application being assigned an immigrant number was June 20, 1988. That means we waited for 23 years, 10 months and nine days for him. I believe our mountain of papers is larger because of the number of years between application and arrival, but most of the requirements have not changed over time, so the same information was needed for them to be allowed to come. There were many government forms, with numbers such as I-130, I-864, I-864A, DS-230 and DS-3032 that had to be filled out. Those forms also required supporting information. We have copies of everything, so we have a life history of Jose and his family.
Here is a short list of the data I have because it was needed for the forms. It isn't complete, but it will give you a distinct impression that we have a treasure chest of genealogical material; the kind to make any genealogist drool, shout for joy, or just plain have a heart attack at finding so much in one place. The only other place so far that I have found this much on one person is in some of my Civil War pension files.
Anyway, here goes. Here is most of what we have from our side (the petitioner):
My wife's birth certificateBaptismal certificateProof that she is his sisterProof of addressPhone numberEmail addressAll addresses since we applied for Jose.We also had to provide proof of our marriage, proof of employment for both of us, federal W-2s and other income tax forms for several years (to show our wages), Social Security numbers and affidavits of support. There were several other things, too, but you get the idea.
Jose (and each member of his family) had to provide birth certificates, marriage licenses, names of parents (including birth dates and places, marriage dates, current addresses, death dates), a list of every place they lived since the age of 16 (with month and year of settling and leaving), a police report from each place saying they didn't have a criminal record, and a report from their country's version of the FBI saying there were no criminal records at that level.
They also had to have passports, information on all education, past jobs, military service, languages spoken, an application for a Social Security card here in our country, a permanent resident card (commonly called a green card) which allows travel and employment here, and a complete health history, including testing done just prior to leaving the Philippines.
Of course, there were photos, signatures, fingerprints (and for all I know, a DNA sample – just kidding – I think). Fortunately, they were all allowed to be on his application. We didn't have to file a new application each time a child was born.
All of this material has a lot of information that can be compared for accuracy (such as birth dates and places). The passport (and the tickets) show the port of arrival (in their case it was Detroit because that was the first place they landed in the United States). I have almost all of this same pile of papers for my wife, too, along with all the papers from her naturalization process, but that is another story.
The mountain of paper is high. If you have immigrant relatives you may find some very useful information in their records. Their records probably won't have exactly the same types of data that we find in ours, but still, we can learn a lot by reading all those documents. Not only can we learn about the immigrant(s) but about their families and the families of those here in this country who sponsored them.
Jim Moses is a genealogy buff living in Lansing. Write to him at the Sentinel-Standard, 114 N. Depot St., Ionia, MI 48846 or email email@example.com.


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Life along the Great Barrier Reef is full of dangers when you are a tiny clown fish. And for Marlin, a single parent determined to protect his only son Nemo, there are constant fears and anxieties. When, on his first day of school, Nemo defies his father and swims off alone to investigate a boat, he is suddenly scooped up by a diver as...
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Life along the Great Barrier Reef is full of dangers when you are a tiny clown fish. And for Marlin, a single parent determined to protect his only son Nemo, there are constant fears and anxieties. When, on his first day of school, Nemo defies his father and swims off alone to investigate a boat, he is suddenly scooped up by a diver as Marlin helplessly watches. Marlin turns desperate as he frantically swims off in search for his son. As he passes a school of fish he bumps into Dory, an agreeable blue tang with severe short-term memory loss, who offers to help. Together this aquatic odd couple set out on an impossible mission, finding themselves in troubled waters and contending with such hazards as sharks, deadly angler fishes and a forest of jellyfish. Meanwhile, in a dentist's office overlooking Sydney Harbor, Nemo has landed in a fish tank that is home to a colorful group of characters who want to initiate him into their gang. When word of Marlin and Dory's ocean adventures gets back to Nemo, he is so thrilled to learn of his father's search for him that he becomes motivated to move forward with a daring escape plan of his own.
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A father fish searches the vast ocean for his lost son--and gets a little help along the way.
No matter how amazing the computer-generated animation looks, the success of any Pixar film has always been due to a great story--and Finding Nemo is one of the best. The film revolves around a clownfish named Marlin (voiced by Albert Brooks) who lives in the sunny Australian Great Barrier reef with his son, Nemo (voiced by Alexander Gould). Marlin is an overprotective dad--stemming from some deep-rooted fears of the big, bad ocean--and the little guy resents him a little for it. When Nemo is fish-napped by some divers, all hell breaks loose as Marlin's paternal instincts take over, and he sets out on a quest to find his son. Along the way he meets many obstacles, as well as a bevy of characters who help his cause. Marlin's staunchest ally (whether she is actually of help or not), is Dory (voiced by Ellen DeGeneres), a brightly colored blue fish with a short-term memory problem. Over on land, Nemo is having an adventure of his own as he's placed in an aquarium in a Sydney dentist's office with a motley crew of wacky fish reminiscent of the gang in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Lead by the scarred-but-tough Gill (voiced by Willem Dafoe), the only agenda in this tank is to escape into the ocean nearby. The key to the story, however, is the fact Marlin and Nemo never give up on each other--and somehow, someway, they will be reunited.
Nemo has quite a lineup of famous voices--almost too many--but it's still fun to pick them all out. Along with the hyperactive Brooks, the wounded Dafoe and the ditzy DeGeneres, there's Allison Janney as the sarcastic starfish Peach who is the aquarium's constant lookout 'cause she's stuck to the side; Brad Garrett as blowhard blowfish Bloat, Geoffrey Rush as the kindly yet clumsy pelican Nigel, who enjoys a brief chat with his aquarium fish friends; Aussie actor Barry Humphries (Dame Edna) as the Great White shark Bruce, a recovering fish-a-holic on a 12-step program; Pixar favorite John Ratzenberger as a collective school of moonfish who love to do impressions; and even writer/director Andrew Stanton gets in the act as the totally bitchin' turtle Crush, who just lives for a smooth ride. They are all wonderful, but DeGeneres stands out as the best of the bunch as the confused Dory, who for the life of her cannot remember who Marlin is after about 30 seconds, let alone the name of his son, Elmo, er, Nemo, but is cheerfully positive anyway. The comedienne nails the part and you can almost see those great Ellen expressions on Dory's face.
It's kind of sad how taken-for-granted computer-generated animation has become. Remember being blown away by how real everything looked (except the humans, of course) in 1995's Toy Story? Finding Nemo's animation is also the highest of quality, but you aren't necessarily wowed by it. The details in the film are almost flawless, down to the way the fish swim, the way the jellyfish sway and how the Sydney harbor looks perfect. Even the look and sound of seagulls are perfectly mimicked, especially by having the birds say only one word: ''Mine!'' Nemo ends up a very entertaining movie without the distraction of wondering how it was created. This is a true testament to the crew of Pixar animators who make it look so easy and most importantly to Stanton's meticulous work. He understands explicitly how to carve out a very simple, heartfelt, albeit hysterical tale while bringing to life a cache of wonderfully vibrant and defined characters. All you have to do is sit back and enjoy the ride.
Bottom Line
Just when you thought they couldn't possibly do it again, especially after the mega-hit Monsters, Inc., the guys at Pixar bat it out of the park with Finding Nemo.
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If you wonder, just as I just did, what the different options in the Advanced section of System Settings: Desktop: Desktop Effects: Advanced Options in KDE4 means, here is the answer:
- OpenGL is the fastest solution as it uses your graphics card's 3d acceleration for rendering.
- Texture from Pixmap is the fastest option, as it stores the texture directly in the graphics card's memory, which is usually faster than the system ram.
- Shared Memory stores the textures in X's shared memory, which resides in the system RAM and is usually much slower than the graphics card's memory.
- Fallback tries Texture from Pixmap first and Shared Memory if that does not work.
- XRender is less fast as it only uses 2d acceleration but much more compatible and works with older graphics cards as well.
The other options:
- Direct rendering passes the commands directly to the graphics card and bypasses the X server. This is much faster as it the commands have to be copied less, but can be more instable and less compatible.
- VSync stands for vertical synchrosation and ensures that the pictures are drawn in sync to the vertical display updates. This can be more soothing to the eyes, but is a little slower and just drawing the frames any time the graphics card is ready to do so.


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Well, I don't know It is the right place to ask such question or not. But as I am facing some problems to understand the concept regarding VB, VC++ & .NET
I have 3-4 months of time and I have to submitt my project for my B.Tech. I have a good knowledge of C++. Which will be easier and can be learned faster VB, VC++.
Plz explain What is difference between VB and VC++ and .NET ? and advantages & Disadvantages of three. Which can be more useful for me. Plz help, I asked this question cause I think this is the only place where I can get expert view regarding my problem
Hope you will reply and will help me in this


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i remember being shocked when my mother announced that she didn't think she would put up a tree one christmas. she felt it was just too much work and wasn't up to the task. that will NEVER happen to me i righteously declared. but, like so many things in life, time provides perspective. more than once in recent years i've toyed with the idea of not putting up a tree; usually in january when i've just taken it down. but let's be honest. i know that as soon as thanksgiving has passed my feet will be planted on a chair stringing lights, hanging ornaments and singing carols. let the merriment begin; for at least one more year!
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Hello !
I have seen the onlinebuilder for extjs.
( http://www.extjs.com/products/extjs/build/ )
But there is not for the version 3.0.
Is there an other onlinebuilder ?
Your sincerly
Hello !
I have seen the onlinebuilder for extjs.
( http://www.extjs.com/products/extjs/build/ )
But there is not for the version 3.0.
Is there an other onlinebuilder ?
Your sincerly
There is no "Build your own Ext 3", but you can build Ext 3 manually using JSBuilder2 and edit the ext.jsb2 file.
Hello !
I have take a look into the jsbuilder.
I have 2 question.
In my test dir are files
* extjs.zip
* JSBuilder.jar
* ext.jsb2
When i now call the command
Is there now build a new extjs - version from extjs.zip ?Code:java -jar JSBuilder2.jar --projectFile J:\htdocs\extjs_builder\ext.jsb2 --homeDir J:\htdocs\extjs_builder\test\
I have take a first look in the ext.jsb2.
I found in the file some areas.
For example:
When i remove this area then the drag and drop functions from the newCode:{ name: 'Drag Drop', file: 'pkgs/ext-dd.js', isDebug: true, pkgDeps: ['pkgs/ext-foundation.js'], fileIncludes: [{ text: 'DDCore.js', path: 'src/dd/' ... },{
extjs version is killed.
Is this correct ?
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1. Extract the Ext 3 SDK file to the project directory.
2. Ext 3.0.0 only: Put the ext.jsb2 file in the project directory (Ext 3.0.1+ already contains the ext.jsb2 file).
3. Optionally: Edit the ext.jsb2 file.
4. Execute:
Regarding editing the ext.jsb2 file:Code:java -jar JSBuilder2.jar --projectFile <project-dir>\ext.jsb2 --homeDir <output-dir>
I normally leave all packages the way they are and add some packages of my own at the bottom (so I don't delete the pkgs/ext-dd.js package, I just don't include it in my own package).
Hello !
Thanks for the information.
I some situation the ext-all.js is to big.
When i only need the extjs-core and extjs-grid, i think a smaller version is better.
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Yes, so you would add your own package 'grid-only.js' at the bottom of ext.jsb2 and specify pkgDeps:
(or a different combination depending on your needs)Code:pkgs/ext-foundation.js pkgs/cmp-foundation.js pkgs/ext-dd.js pkgs/data-foundation.js pkgs/data-json.js pkgs/pkg-grid-foundation.js


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Falcons Comeback to Win 2-1 at St. Jay.
St. JOHNSBURY–The North Country girls soccer team played a strong game against a good sized Hilltopper team and came away with a 2-1 victory, their second win of the season."It was a total team effort," said coach Joe Batisita.In a game dominated early by the Academy, Batista's team had dig deep and find a way to forge through the early barrage of Hilltopper pressure.They did, and came close to opening the scoring when Anna Bingham rung a shot off of the post, but it would be St. Jay winning the race to the scoreboard when two minutes after the Bingham chance, Nellie McQueeny picked up a rebound and put it in the back of the Falcon net."There was a breakdown in the first half," admitted Batista.With the Falcon pride surging through the veins of his players, Batista's crew tied the game before the half was through as Sophia Congdon got the ball to Katie Meunier, who was in action after leaving the previous game with an injury, and Meunier beat Academy keeper Victoria Hutchinson.The second half saw the Falcons come out flying, and it was a little over ten minutes into the second frame when Shelby Maniatty found Noelle Pinard for the game winning score.After the goal North Country was able to hold off the Hilltoppers to earn the two to one win."A lot of the girls had a good a game, and when that happens it makes winning a lot easier," said Batista.The Falcons will try to keep their winning ways when the face MMU in a rematch from last weeks' 2-0 loss to the Cougars. Game time is 4:30.


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text: The new ETMC Quitman will open for patient care at 8 a.m., Monday, July 15. Hospital team members will begin the move-in process immediately following the community open house on Sunday, July 14. The emergency department will move during the early morning hours Monday. No disruption in care is expected during the move. "Everyone on our team is excited about the move to the new facility," said Warren Robicheaux, administrator of ETMC Quitman. "Many hours of planning have gone into the move, so we expect it to be a seamless process. As always, our focus will be our patients. Whether they are inpatients or visiting our emergency department, we will make the transition as smooth as possible." After the new facility opens, demolition will begin on the old facility and adjacent buildings making way for additional parking. To accommodate the demolition, a portion of Parker Street will be closed. The new hospital, including the emergency department, will be accessed via Winnsboro Highway (Highway 37). Patients visiting physicians at the Barber Clinic will still access that facility via Highway 154. Providers at the ETMC First Physicians clinic -- Dr. Beverly Waddleton, Dr. Annelise Ribeiro, Dr. Rick Martinez and Kimberley Lowry, RN, FNP -- will move to the new hospital facility on Monday, July 22. "We are looking forward to having our clinic in the hospital," Robicheaux said. "While the new facilities will be nice for the staff, we believe our patients will benefit most as imaging and lab services will be just steps away." Until completion of the demolition and construction of the new parking lot, parking will be limited. Open lots are located at northwest corner of the new facility, across from the emergency department; adjacent to the facility on the southwest corner (handicapped) and in front of the Barber Clinic. "We ask for the public to have patience with our parking situation as we make this transition," Robicheaux said. "Hopefully by this fall, demolition of the old hospital will be complete and the new parking area will be available."


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Physician Assistant Studies Program Receives Award
July 25, 2011
– The University of Mount Union's Physician Assistant Studies Program Student Society received the Outstanding Novice Student Society Award from the American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA) Student Academy during its annual, national conference in June.
According to the AAPA's website (www.aapa.org), the Outstanding Student Society Award recognizes three student societies for outstanding service to the profession in the areas of public education, public service, promotion of diversity and professional development. Mount Union's students within the Physician Assistant Studies Program submitted a scrapbook for competition that cataloged and detailed their community service projects during the 2009-2010 Academic Year. Some of their community service projects throughout the year included:
Sponsoring a Strong Strides for Kids 5K Walk/Run
Participating in Relay for Life
Collecting items during the holiday season for a domestic violence shelter
Volunteering at a hunger center
Organizing a coat drive
Holding a special donation drive that raised more than $600 to help a single family during the holiday season
The Student Board of Directors of the AAPA evaluated each student society entry at its spring meeting. Each scrapbook had to provide information documenting their work in community and public service, public education, diversity, professional advocacy, fund raising, class unity, work with constituent organizations, student leadership, mentorship and partnering with other physician assistant studies programs and communication. Mount Union was one of the three societies to receive recognition for their outstanding service to the profession. Mount Union's program received the novice level as it is a student society that has been registered within the past three years.
The Physician Assistant Studies Program at Mount Union is the University's first master's level program in nearly a century. The program, which began in May of 2009, offers a curriculum rich in biomedical and clinical preparatory sciences and develops the medical decision-making and problem-solving skills that may be applied to patient situations encountered in clinical practice. Students within the program will earn a master of science degree after successful completion of 27 months of coursework and clinicals.


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Boulder's neighborhood parking permit program, which allows commuters to obtain permits at higher rates than residents, likely will be extended for at least another five years.
The Boulder City Council gave initial approval Thursday night to two ordinances, one which would extend the program indefinitely and one which would extend it for another five years. At a second reading, there will be a public hearing, and the council likely will choose between the options.
The program allows commuters to obtain permits in certain neighborhoods for $312 a year, compared with $17 a year for residents.
Several council members asked for more information about the program before the second reading, including information on where commuters come from -- within Boulder or outside the city -- and the program's effect on driving habits.
The 156 commuter permits generate more than $48,600 a year, 58 percent of the revenue generated by the permit program. The 2,166 residential permits generate $36,800 a year, according to a memo to the City Council on the program. If the commuter permits were discontinued, the residential permits would have to be raised to $42 to generate the same revenue, the memo said.


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The era of multiple recycling bins for cans and paper could soon fade away, replaced by a "zero sort" alternative that appears to be gaining momentum.
And that's exactly how things will play out if John Casella, chairman and chief executive officer of Rutland, Vt.-based waste hauler and processor Casella Waste Systems Inc., has his way. His company runs 38 materials recovery facilities (MRFs), of which six are already equipped to handle "zero sort" recyclables that reach MRFs from curbside pickups. The East Coast trash processor eventually expects to convert another 21 of its 38 facilities to the single-stream approach.
Rolling mills and paper mills don't need to worry about substandard scrap quality, at least if they're buying from his company, Casella said. "The notion that the quality of single stream is not as good as dual stream is not correct. The differentiating factor between a good single-stream facility vs. something that someone is calling single stream is whether they really have invested in technology to create a high-quality product. We're seeing retrofits of anywhere from $3.5 million to $5 million on an existing facility; the higher figure is if you've got to do alterations for the building."
Optical sorting and sophisticated particle screens have advanced greatly over the past few years, Casella said. Instead of three plastic output streams, for instance, there are now eight. Broken glass is the most worrisome contaminant, but even that can be removed.
With no subcategories of recyclables at the home or business generating the material, "you can right size the container. Instead of an 18-gallon bin you put in a 65-gallon or 95-gallon toter. You don't have the recyclables going into the trash by midweek because there's no room in the recycling bin," he said. "You bring up the participation (by households) and you bring up the yield in pounds per home with that program."
One of Casella's MRFs processes recyclables from Cambridge, Mass., which faces a decision on whether to go to single-stream recycling when its current arrangements expire in mid-2010. The minutes of the city's recycling advisory committee meeting, posted on the Web, provide insights into the decision process. One issue is that "revenue payments for recycling will decrease because of higher sorting costs (with single stream). But if trash tons decrease (shifting instead into the recycling stream), the overall program will be a financial success," said one guest from Boston's recycling bureaucracy.
The system might not fit the bill for all applications, but with the right technology a true single-stream operation can make the grade for the vast majority.
Waste Management Inc., the Houston-based giant of the trash industry, began moving its MRFs toward single stream in 2000.
"It doesn't make sense quite yet everywhere, but it's sure making sense in a lot of places," said Lynn Morgan, who represents Waste Management in Wisconsin, where the company recently reconfigured its Milwaukee-area MRF. "The technology has reached the point where the task of sorting, which used to belong to the waste generator, is being transferred to the processing facility. Waste Management has mapped out a plan to triple the tonnage that it recycles. One of the ways to get there is by implementing single stream."
Other parts of the company's strategy include drop-off sites for electronics and providing mail-in envelopes for compact fluorescent light bulbs, which contain mercury.
The actual decision to switch to single stream generally rests with municipalities or counties that carry out, or at least oversee, the collection arrangements. The company's Waste Management Recycle America unit tries to nudge communities in that direction.
"Typically we're seeing gains in household recycling of 20 to 30 percent," Morgan said, adding that it's much easier to get businesses to recycle systematically with single stream, particularly if a company's work force has a high turnover rate. "It's difficult to train and coach people on more-complex sorting systems. Single stream simplifies what employees need to learn and what the janitorial staff needs to segregate. You need just one large container at the loading dock."
Denver phased in single-stream recycling during 2005 and 2006. It was the region's pioneer in such a switch, so to get a sense of how the change might play out it sent officials to San Francisco and to Phoenix.
Charlotte Pitt, Denver's recycling program manager, said there were four main reasons for the switch "Getting our drivers out of the business of lifting recycling bins, operating more efficiently, providing a container that made it easy for us to participate and having the ability to add more materials. We're very confident we made the right choice. We've got more people to recycle more material. We're not seeing injuries on our crews to the extent that we were."
Tonnage is up by 60 percent and the number of participating customers has risen to 85,000 from 60,000 previously. Denver residents don't get visited by recycling trucks unless they solicit the service and request the necessary 64-gallon wheeled cart.
Denver's 10-year MRF contract locks in payments of $33 per short ton, minus an allowance for contamination. When prices are unusually high, incremental revenue is split 50-50 with the processor, calculated at year-end. That occurred in 2007 and probably will again for 2008, thanks to high prices in the first half of the year. But 2009 likely will be a different story, opening with a profound slump in commodity prices.
While single-stream recycling is growing in popularity, some operations require a more-stringent stopgap. At times, middlemen need to be involved, as has been the case with aluminum cans, where traditional scrapyards sometimes play a role between the MRFs and the sheet mills.
"Mills are getting pickier," said a spokesman at Chicago-based Universal Scrap Metals Inc. "The quality issues become more important in economic times like we're in right now."
Some MRFs with adequate equipment run their lines too fast to achieve the results that mills seek, he said. "I'm usually buying bales of finished product from the MRF, breaking the bales and reworking them through our cleaning system to make them mill spec. We pay only for the aluminum that we recover and we don't pay mill prices. But it's a no-hassle option for people on the waste-hauler end." After all the eddy currents and magnets and cleaning, the processing line ends with a human check workers peering at the material to spot anything the machines might have missed. PAUL SCHAFFER
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A Survey of the Seventh International Planning Competition
In this article we review the 2011 International Planning Competition. We give an overview of the history of the competition, discussing how it has developed since its first edition in 1998. The 2011 competition was run in three main separate tracks: the deterministic (classical) track; the learning track; and the uncertainty track. Each track proposed its own distinct set of new challenges and the participants rose to these admirably, the results of each track showing promising progress in each area. The competition attracted a record number of participants this year, showing its continued and strong position as a major central pillar of the international planning research community.
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