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1. Ordering from the lamnia.com online store (hereinafter referred to as Lamnia)
1.1. It is not necessary for customers to register to make an order. However, customers can register, using the registration form, if they want to. Customer will be automatically subscribed to Lamnia newsletter during the ordering process. Customer can use unsubscribe link provided in each newsletter or e-mail Lamnia customer service lamnia(at)lamnia.com to unsubscribe from the newsletter.
When registering, customers shall:
- Register as a customer in Lamnia's customer register by giving their name and other required information
- Give their consent for Lamnia to store their personal details in its customer database
- Declare that the information given is correct
Registration is necessary if a customer wants to receive any member reductions.
1.2. Customers shall pay due care and attention when using the online store.
2. The validity of the order
2.1. Communication between the parties shall occur either by e-mail, letter or telephone (tel. ). After completing an order, customers pledge to check their e-mail for order confirmation and any other notices.
2.2. A binding sales contract will take effect after Lamnia has sent an order confirmation by e-mail.
2.3. Before the order has been delivered, the customer has the right to cancel the whole order, or parts of it, by e-mail, letter or phone. The delivery is considered to have taken place when the buyer has received a part of the order, or the whole order, or a notification that the order has been handed over to a transit company for delivery.
2.4. After the customer has made an order, Lamnia does not have the right to change the terms of contract, with the exception of clear errors.
3. Prices
3.1. The valid price is the price that is given in Lamnia's price list at https://www.lamnia.com. The valid price is given in euros (EUR). Lamnia reserves the right to make price changes.
3.2. Any applicable processing and/or handling charges will be added to the order.
4. Delivery
4.1. If Lamnia has the product in store the estimated time of dispatch shall be between one and three (1-3) working days.
4.2. If the customer wants a product strictly by a certain date this must be mentioned separately; for example, in the field "Additional information" in the order form when making the order.
4.3. If the customer buys several products for which different delivery dates are given, the order will be delivered according to the latest given delivery date.
4.4. Deliveries will mainly be made through finnish mail Posti or the transit company GLS, unless separately agreed otherwise.
4.5. All the customs fees and taxes are solely the buyers' responsibilities. Lamnia always declares the real value and contents of the parcel.
4.6. It is buyers' responsibility to find out if the intended purchase can be legally imported in buyers' country and to obtain all the necessary permits and lisences.
5. Terms of payment
5.1. Payments will be made with the following payment methods:
- Advance payment via a bank transfer. The buyer will receive payment details for a bank transfer with their order confirmation. After the payment is registered in our account, we will send the order as soon as possible. The amount to be paid is stated in the order confirmation sent by us. The order will be cancelled if payment is not received within 3 days from the date of order.
- Cash on delivery (orders to Finland only). The payment will be made at the post office when picking up the delivery. The delivery will be handed over to the buyer against payment.
- PayPal. Buyer can use the PayPal payment operator to pay for the order. In such cases, the customer is directed to the PayPal website to pay for their order when ordering.
- Debit and credit cards. Orders can also be paid for with the most common debit and credit cards. The card will be charged with a separate PayEx form when making the order. In connection with making a credit card payment, the payer will be identified electronically with the help of the Verified by Visa or MasterCard SecureCode verification service, if such a service is linked to the payer's credit card.
- Online banking services. Orders can also be paid for via online banking services. Banks currently supported in Finland for electronic payments include Aktia, Danske Bank, Handelsbanken, Nordea, Osuuspankki, Ålandsbanken and in Sweden Handelsbanken, Nordea, SEB and Swedbank. The buyer will be directed to the bank's service page to make a payment.
- Invoicing (orders to Finland only). If the buyer represents a company, municipality, state organisation or another community, the order can be billed by invoice. The terms of payment for an invoice are 7 days net. Payments by invoice must be agreed upon beforehand with our customer service department. We reserve the right to verify the credit rating of the party to be invoiced.
- Some products require that a customer below the age of 18 has permission from their guardian to buy the product. Where necessary, this will be stated.
- 15–18-year-old buyers require their guardian's permission when buying a product with funds that they have not acquired through their own work.
6. Returns
6.1. Private customers have the right to return unused products within fourteen (14) days of receiving the product(s), starting the day after the receipt date. The returned product(s) and product packaging shall be in the same condition as when received. This means that the product packaging shall be unbroken and the product shall have no signs of use. Address labels or other labels and stickers shall not be stuck directly on the sales package. Customers have to pay the return shipping cost. If the product to be returned is no longer flawless, i.e. the product can no longer be sold with the normal price given in the Lamnia price list, Lamnia has the right to deduct the amount that the product's value has dropped from the sum to be returned to the customer. The payment will be refunded usually within a couple of days after receiving the returned product, but no later than within 30 days.
6.2. Companies' and communities' right to return is more limited. The possibility for companies to return products must be agreed upon in advance with Lamnia's customer service staff. If a company returns a product or products, they will be charged postage.
7. Deliveries that have broken in transit
7.1. A package may be damaged in transit. That is why we recommend that you check that the product is in good order as soon as you have received it. If the package or the products ordered have been damaged in transit, a damage report should be filed immediately. After this, an agreement can be made about delivering a replacement product.
8. Complaints
8.1. If an incorrect or damaged product is delivered to the customer, the customer shall inform Lamnia of this within a reasonable time either by e-mail at info(at)lamnia.com, by phone at +358 053 5847 or by post at PRM-Trade Oy, Myllymäenkatu 12, 53550 Lappeenranta, Finland. An incorrect delivery shall be returned without postal charges according to the instructions given by Lamnia in section 6.1. The return shall be made after notification of defect. After receiving the returned product, Lamnia will refund the paid purchase price to the customer without delay, if it has already been paid.
9. Force majeure
9.1. Lamnia will not be held responsible for a delivery of an order that is prevented, delayed or made difficult due to circumstances that are beyond Lamnia's control, such as war, natural catastrophe, export or import ban, a decision by an authority, a disturbance of general traffic or any other corresponding event beyond Lamnia's control.
10. Solving disputes
10.1. Finnish law will be applied to any disputes or disagreements resulting from this Distance Sale Contract.
10.2. Any unarbitrated disputes shall be solved in the Lappeenranta District Court.
Data protection
Ordering does not require registration. However, customers can register, using the registration form, if they want to. When registering, a customer shall:
1. Register as a customer in Lamnia's customer register by giving their name and other required information
2. Give their consent for Lamnia to store their personal details in its customer database
3. Declare that the information given is correct
Registration is necessary also if a customer wants to receive any member reductions.
Privacy and data protection
Lamnia's customer data is confidential. Lamnia pledges not to divulge customer information to any other party than the company's internal partners.
4. Customers shall pay due care and attention when using the online store; Lamnia will not ask for, or record, the following information about customers: 1. Bank information 2. Credit card information
5. Cookies
A cookie is a small text file that is stored in the user's computer after the user has visited an Internet page. The text file contains a small amount of information that only the Internet server can read when you visit the same web page next time. Some cookies are necessary for browsing the website. Other cookies are useful for the user, because they make using the website easier, for example, by remembering your user name or the language settings you have chosen. Using cookies means that you will not have to fill in the same information several times when you visit a certain Internet site.
We use cookies to ensure that our website is as user-friendly as possible and to offer our customers information and services that meet their individual needs. Our use of cookies ensures that users do not have to enter the same information over again when visiting our online store several times. Cookies also improve the usability of our online store – for example, they speed up the order process and help customers find certain kinds of products more easily.
Cookies do not harm users' computers or files. We follow the valid data protection regulations and operate using appropriate technical measures to protect our customers' information security in our online store.
Description of file
The description of file as referred to in the Personal Data Act (24.4.1999/523), section 10.
Controller of the register
PRM-Trade Oy / Lamnia
Myllymäenkatu 12
Purpose of the register
The information will be used to deliver products and offers and to monitor customers' buying behaviour.
Information in the register
For identification purposes, the customer's IP address, name, address, phone number, e-mail address and order history will be recorded in the register.
Regular destinations of disclosed data:
- to the user themselves
- in the form of a possible offer from Lamnia
- no data will be divulged by the controller to any outside parties without the express consent of the registered customer
- no data will be divulged outside the European Union or the European Economic Area
The principles of how the register is secured:
- registered users have a personal password
- the data is protected with a password that is required several times during a session
- no manual copy is kept of the register


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Check out old websites that have been archived atThe Wayback Machine
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So f*** him/her, it's Friday, the peoples day comrades, so go ahead waste away those hours while being paid by the man/woman and find some of those classic sites you recall.
who the f*** doesn't know about this
wayback machine is older than google
It was around even before the spice girls.
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geez cranky girls for a Friday aren't we.
tough week ladies?
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The following activity occurred Monday, Sept. 17, to Sunday, Sept. 23, as reported by the Lewiston Police Department. LPD logged a total of 93 response calls during this period.
Monday, Sept. 17
•5300 block of Military Road, Mount St. Mary's Hospital and Health Center, recovered property. Patrol reported taking possession of three syringes containing a brownish liquid. Syringes/content was sent to an unspecified lab for identification and quantity of contents. Report filed.
•Ridge/Dickersonville roads, MVA with injuries. Driver No. 1, a female, 22, taken to Mount St. Mary's Hospital and Health Center for an evaluation. Both vehicles secured; MV forms issued. Report filed.
•Lutts Road, attempt to locate/mental health response. LPD assisted Niagara County Sheriff's Office. One male in custody.
•North Ninth Street, reckless driver. Gold sedan listed; vehicle gone on arrival.
•Ridge/Porter Center roads, reckless driver. Plate number logged; all OK.
Tuesday, Sept. 18
•800 block of Foxwood Drive, aggravated harassment. Statement taken from a female, 32. Male, 37, listed as a suspect. Report only at this time.
•Military Road/Elsa Place, suspicious person. LPD assisted Town of Niagara Police on a call of a male with guns.
•6500 block of Niagara Falls Boulevard, fight at a bar/restaurant. Twenty people reported fighting; all OK.
•LPD office, violation of a court order. Statement taken from a female complainant, 20, regarding a female, 19, listed as person involved. No charges at this time.
•400 block of Onondaga Street, officer requested. Male, 64, reports unknown party trimmed his hedges. Investigation to continue.
•800 block of Foxwood Drive, aggravated harassment. Female, 32, listed as a complainant and a male, 37, listed as the suspect. Investigation ongoing.
Wednesday, Sept. 19
•100 block of North Sixth Street, larceny. Patrol observed a male removing material from a site; the individual thought it was scrap. Material replaced.
•Locations on the 300 block of Dansworth Road, the 4300 block of Autumn Lane and the 700 block of Cayuga Street, separate alarm responses. Locations secure; State Police at one address and homeowner on location at another.
•1800 block of Mount Hope Road, possible underage drinking. Call unfounded.
•2000 block of Upper Mountain Road, field on fire. Pekin Volunteer Fire Co. responded.
•4000 block of Ransomville Road, officer requested, possible menacing. Statement taken from a male, 27. Call unfounded.
Thursday, Sept. 20
•Niagara Falls Boulevard, Niagara Falls, assist. LPD on location with Niagara Falls Police Department for a robbery at a convenience store. Suspect, listed as a black male, age 19 to 22 years old, 5 foot, 8 inches and 145 pounds, wearing a black jacket and blue jeans reportedly fled into Cayuga Village. K-9 track of suspect conducted.
•4300 block of Creek Road, warrant execution. LPD and NCSO issued a warrant on a male, 20. Patrol transported to NCSO.
•5400 block of Walmore Road, shooter complaint. Patrol reported no one found in area and all secure.
•5900 block of Kline Road, juvenile problem. Handled by patrol.
•600 block of Oneida Street, suspicious person. Patrol reported balloons on a front porch were casting a shadow.
Friday, Sept. 21
•400 block of Dickersonville Road, alarm response. Patrol reported an unlocked front door. Call avoidable and cleared. Report filed.
•Walmore Road, suspicious person. Two female juveniles returned to Niagara-Wheatfield High School.
•1500 block of Saunders Settlement Road, lock out. Patrol reported a 1-year-old who had locked the grandmother out of the house. Patrol gained entry.
•2200 block of Mount Hope Road, mental health response/attempt to locate. Patrol reported a female, 33, left three juvenile children unattended in a residence. Female was found unresponsive from a pill overdose at Bond Lake Park and taken to Mount St. Mary's Hospital for evaluation/treatment. Female, 37, also listed in the call. Child Protective Services notified.
•700 block of Center Street, criminal mischief complaint. Male, 56, reported finding graffiti on a wall. Investigation to continue.
•4500 block of Washington Drive, larceny. Statement taken from a female, 24, regarding a male suspect, 36. Incident reportedly occurred within the past 30 days. Report filed.
•5000 block of Susies Lane, domestic. Statement taken from a female, 23, regarding two male suspects, ages 55 and 35, who were both placed under arrest. Male, 55, charged with harassment, second-degree; and male, 35, charged with assault, third-degree. Arraignment at Lewiston Town Court, bail set at $500/$1,000 for each suspect and both remanded to custody of NCSO. Report filed.
Saturday, Sept. 22
•800 block of Center Street, EMS response. Intoxicated male at a bar/restaurant. Lewiston No. Volunteer Fire Co. on location.
•2200 block of Mount Hope Road, unwanted party. Male left prior to patrol's arrival.
•600 block of Oxbow Lane, EMS response. Male became alert and signed off with Lewiston No. 1 EMS.
•1200 block of Saunders Settlement Road, vehicle/traffic stop. Female, 17, arrested for aggravated unlicensed operation. Suspect issued uniform traffic tickets to Lewiston Town Court and remanded to custody of State Police on outstanding warrants. Vehicle secured; report filed.
•Hyde Park and Lewiston roads, two-car accident-arrest. Patrol reported the arrest of a male, 23, listed as driver No. 1 for driving while intoxicated. Suspect taken for State Police substation Niagara; blood alcohol content testing refused. Arraignment at Lewiston Town Court, bail of $500 assigned and suspect remanded to Niagara County Jail. LPD K-9 unit on location for narcotics search of vehicle. No information on driver No. 2. Report filed.
•North Fourth and Onondaga streets, hit-run accident. Statement taken from driver No. 1; driver No. 2 left scene. Report filed.
•5800 block of Pearl Street, Sanborn, domestic. Report taken by State Police.
Sunday, Sept. 23
•Niagara University, Seton hall, intoxicated female. Upper Mountain Volunteer Fire Co. EMS on scene.
•900 block of Hillside Drive, suspicious person. Caller reported intoxicated juveniles, lost, going door to door. Subjects GOA.
•4600 block of Curtis Court, follow-up. Patrol reported the arrest of a male, 30, from a previous incident. Appearance ticket issued for Lewiston Town Court. Report filed.
•LPD office, follow-up. Investigation continuing from a previous unspecified incident.
•1100 block of Saunders Settlement Road, vehicle/traffic stop. Female, 58, arrested for aggravated unlicensed operation, third. Driver released on appearance tickets to Lewiston Town Court; vehicle towed. Report filed.
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Are Frozen Foods On Thin Ice?
While the hand-held breakfast niche is hot, the rest of the frozen food category mounts an ad campaign to reverse the slide.
A pending $50 million ad campaign designed to boost sales of frozen foods attracted a great deal of media attention in April. The gist of the message is that frozen equals fresh — that frozen foods can be sold in better condition than their refrigerated or produce-department rivals.
The campaign, which is expected to launch before the end of the year, is funded by the Frozen Food Roundtable, a consortium of major food manufacturers (including ConAgra, Heinz and General Mills) organized through the American Frozen Food Institute.
In reporting the story, the mainstream media maintained a good deal of skepticism about the notion that "frozen equals fresh." This is not the first time the food industry has set out to change perceptions about frozen foods, and yet the challenge remains.
"Refrigerated is considered fresh and better," says Brad Rostowfske, director of innovation and business development with Palermo's Pizza Co., Milwaukee. "But the truth is that both frozen and refrigerated have different advantages."
While advances in frozen foods have come about primarily through better production processes — Palermo's, for instance, uses slabs of marble on a conveyor oven to create a frozen pizza that is more like those from a pizzeria — ingredients play key roles, too.
Also, as consumers warm up to frozen foods, the quality of the ingredients has become a key factor, Rostowfske notes. As with participants in all other food categories, frozen food makers know consumers are reading labels, so they are working with ingredient suppliers to reformulate with multifunctional ingredients that sound wholesome.
While the Frozen Food Roundtable's campaign is making a big splash, it is not a lone voice. The National Frozen and Refrigerated Food Association recently introduced its own Cool Food Panel that is working with a public relations agency to champion frozen foods.
Breakfast any time
Frozen food sales totaled more than $40 billion in the U.S in 2011, but 98 percent of frozen products have flat or declining sales, according to the preliminary work to support the campaign. Mintel Global Market Research, Chicago, however reports sales growth in many of the sub-segments of frozen foods. Some, such as handheld breakfast foods, have experienced considerable growth, thanks in part to the convenience they offer. Mintel says there is a $2.7 billion market for handheld frozen foods.
"Total sales for the market grew 18 percent from 2006-11," states Mintel's June 2012 report Frozen Handheld Food. "Trends toward eating less processed food also have presented a challenge to the market as has the continued economic downturn, but frozen handheld products' convenience and value have helped to keep sales afloat while renewed interest and innovation in breakfast handheld food has helped to grow sales in 2010-11."
Handheld breakfast foods are especially hot, the group says, and they are eaten in the morning, or as a snack, or a convenient dinner.
"While composing just 26 percent of the total market in 2011, U.S. sales of frozen handheld food (breakfast) grew by 40 percent from 2009-11 and helped the total market to grow by 7 percent during that same period even as the larger frozen handheld food (non-breakfast) segment saw sales decline by 1 percent," the report states.
These products include items such as Jimmy Dean Delights, a breakfast sausage and biscuit sandwich marketed by Hillshire Brands, Chicago.
The report also notes that frozen snacks, including pocket snacks and personal-sized ones, plus pretzel and bagel snacks have experienced strong sales growth.
"At least 60 percent of respondents who eat frozen handheld food products look for products that have high protein, high fiber, or contain whole grains," the Mintel report states. A much lower share (49 percent) of the respondents who eat frozen handheld food are looking for low/reduced sodium and even fewer are looking for reduced fat or calories, indicating that consumers are looking to add value to what they are already eating.
While handheld foods and snacks are doing well, the market for frozen meals in the U.S. has declined between 2007 and 2012 for sales of $8.1 billion in 2012. Mintel estimates that sales will drop further into 2017 as buying power returns and many consumers increase their restaurant spending or maintain home cooking regimens.
And a new report by research consultants A.T. Kearney suggests the frozen food category is in a similar position to the category it brushed aside more than 75 years ago: canned good.
"The very attributes that made frozen food a successful alternative to canned foods are now more often perceived in fresh prepared foods," says "Prepared Foods – The Thawing of the Ice Age." "Consumers gravitate to fresh prepared foods because their environment has not been altered through massive temperature and processing changes. Celebrity chefs and reality cooking shows emphasize fresh ingredients and home cooking. Farmers markets have grown explosively in the past 15 years as consumers have become attracted to fresh and locally grown foods due to their health and nutritional benefits. Fresh is considered the ultimate, convenient, ready-to-eat solution.
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Skip to comments.Suppressed EPA scientist breaks silence, speaks on Fox News (Obama fraud exposed)
Posted on 06/30/2009 11:41:04 AM PDT by pissant
Alan Carlin, the senior EPA research analyst who authored a study critical of global warming that was suppressed by agency officials, has broken his silence and spoken on Fox News about his situation. Carlin told "Fox & Friends" Steve Ducy and Gretchen Carlson that his most important conclusion in the study was that the U.S. should not rely upon recommendations of the UN in making policy decisions regarding global warming.
"The most important conclusion, in my view, was that EPA needed to look at the science behind global warming and not depend upon reports issued by the United Nations, which is what they were thinking of doing and in fact have done," Carlin said.
Asked what happened to his study once it was completed, Carlin said "my supervisors decided not to forward it to the group within EPA who had the responsibility for preparing an overall report which would guide EPA on whether to find that the emission of global warming gases would be something that EPA should regulate."
You can watch entire interview with Carlin here.
Carlin has been at EPA for 38 years and until the Fox interview was telling reporters seeking interviews that he was instructed by EPA officials not to speak with them. He almost certainly risks retalitation by EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson and other Obama appointees within the agency.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
They have done everything imaginable to discredit this poor guy...
Here is his page.
They are stealing from us in the hundreds of billions, all of it done "LEGALLY".
People need to wake up and realize Barack Obama knows zip about the environment, medicine, and the American economy.
One Joe the Plumber special, comin' up!
I can't think of a better idea that I've heard in months. Let's push for the closure of the EPA. That would balance the budget.
From the article and comments it sounds like Carlin is an economist, not a scientist. Is his report related to the science or is it an economic analysis of GW hysteria?
Now, that idiot Krugman is also an economist also - a far stretch from being a scientist.
What can we do? We can try to go on strike, but anything we buy (food, gas, silly stuff like that) will have the tax built in. We need to set up an underground economy. Wait, there already is one. Maybe the illegal aliens have been right all along. That's a scary thought.
I don't want to go on the govt dole. But maybe, if everyone does it, it will bring the system down faster and we can start to rebuild. We ALL need to demand our "rights" to others' fruits of their labor. If we all do that, there won't be any producers left, only the looters with nothing to loot. Maybe that is the only way they will learn anything.
Good for him. Good for FOX. Now he must remain courageous and FOX can't let the story drop. It is HUGE and the entire MSM know it.
Accountability is the last thing they want. Power by any means is all that matters.
"Carlin has been at EPA for 38 years..."
Read "Carlin is not scared of his job..."
The video of Carlin's appearance on Fox News Channel is here...
Carlin has an undergraduate degree in physics from CalTech and a PhD in economics from MIT. His Web site lists papers about the environment and public policy dating back to 1964, spanning topics from pollution control to environmentally-responsible energy pricing. http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/06/26/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry5117890.shtml
With the release of his report, he must figure that he's already screwed, and he might as well take the bastards down with him.
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Dividing America
The opening salvo in the American Civil War may have come in big city and back woods polling places around the country on November 6, 1860, one hundred and fifty years ago this week. Four different candidates, three of them Democrats, vied for the highest office in the land. While the three Democrats garnered more than sixty percent of the popular vote, it was the Republican candidate, Abraham Lincoln, who tallied the most votes in the Electoral College. This election was the lighted match thrown into a highly volatile mix of abolitionists, secessionists, Unionists, and quite frankly, many who cared nothing at all about the issue of slavery.
The split in the presidential voting in East Central, Georgia became apparent in the 1856 election. Laurens County voters cast 85.3 percent of their votes for the Know-Nothing party candidate, Millard Fillmore. Montgomery voters were even more opposed to the idea of secession in casting 88.57% of their ballots for the former president, who only carried one state, the border state of Maryland. Fillmore carried Jefferson County, the home of Herschel V. Johnson, but barely. The race in Emanuel was very close, with the eventual winner, James Buchanan coming out on top. Buchanan carried the remaining counties in the region by large margins.
The election of 1860 pitted the Republican candidate, Abraham Lincoln of Illinois, against three Democratic factions headed by John C. Breckinridge (Kentucky) of the Southern Democratic party, John Bell (Tennessee) of the Constitutional Union party, and Stephen Douglas (Illinois) of the Northern Democratic Party, which nominated as its vice-presidential candidate, Gov. Herschel V. Johnson of Georgia, and future judge and namesake of Johnson County, Georgia.
Some political historians have concluded that the turnout in the 1860 election was lower than normal because the outcome was never in doubt. It has been said that most voters accepted the fact that another Democrat would be in the White House and that the total electoral votes of the three Democrats would be consolidated into a compromise winner and Abraham Lincoln would go back to practicing law in Illinois.
The heaviest vote for John Bell came in Montgomery County. Ironically the once home county of Gov. George M. Troup, the founder of State Rights, was most supportive of the Unionist Democrats. Montgomery was primarily composed of male voters who were of Scottish ancestry. Eight of nine voters, who owned very few slaves and saw hard work on their part as a part of their heritage, wanted no part of secession. The county's delegates to the Secession Convention and the subsequent sessions of the Georgia Legislature consistently voted against the actions of the state's Confederate government. Nevertheless, the county sent 114 men off to fight the Yankees, all but fourteen were killed, wounded, imprisoned or died of disease. Clearly it was not their war. Washington and Emanuel County supported Bell in large numbers.
In Troup's home county of Laurens, support for Bell soared to more than seventy-two percent, a level slightly higher than in the election of candidates to the convention which was held the following January in the capital at Milledgeville. Breckinridge gathered only 36 of 592 votes, while Douglas only got 21.6 percent of Laurens County voters to mark his name on the ballot.
The highest support for Breckinridge came from voters along the Coastal Plain and in the mountains of Georgia. Locally, voters in Wilcox, Wilkinson Twiggs and Pulaski voted for Breckinridge, though his support waned the closer the counties were to the "Slave Belt." Surprisingly it was in the area where blacks were in the majority, voters overwhelmingly supported Bell and remaining in the Union despite their dependence on slavery.
There appeared no direct relationship between the percentage of slaves among the county populations to their white masters votes for the pro-Union and pro-secession candidates. The highest percentage of a county's slave population was in Twiggs (64.5) and the county's voters (63.1) voted for Breckinridge, the pro-slavery candidate. However, in Jefferson and Washington counties where slaves were more than fifty percent of their populations, white males voted for Bell and Douglas, the more pro-Union parties.
On the other hand, the lowest slave populated counties with less than 1 in 3, (Emanuel, Johnson and Montgomery) were the mostly pro-Union supporters, choosing to stay in the Union to avoid a military and economic war and being content with owning their slaves and uncaring about slaves in the western territories and states.
When the nearly 4.7 million votes were tallied and electoral college delegates appointed, Abraham Lincoln won more than half of the electoral votes and carried more than half of the states in the country, all in the North and the West. Breckinridge carried all of the Southern States, except Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee.
In Georgia, Breckinridge received nearly half of the 107,000 votes. Bell placed second with 40 percent of the vote, while Douglas, despite Jefferson County's native son's spot on the ticket, only tallied one-tenth of the popular vote.
As the news of Lincoln's election spread first throughout Milledgeville and the state's largest cities and then to the small town around the state, enthusiasm for secession began to swell. Another election was held to choose delegates to a Secession Convention in Milledgeville. More than two-thirds of Laurens County voters remained Unionist, but elected Dr. Nathan Tucker and J.W. Yopp to a split delegation of Unionist and Secessionist sentiments respectively. Washington County, who provided the most men per capita to the Confederate Army , were split at the convention. Johnson and Emanuel County's voters were anti-secession. Montgomery Countians remained steadfastly pro-Union, never giving up on their convictions. Georgia Unionists, led by Herschel Johnson and Alexander Stephens, the future Vice President of the Confederate States of America, held their firm position against leaving the Union at first, but eventually succumbed to the fervent secessionists led by Howell Cobb and Robert Toombs, who convinced Georgia's legislature to vote for leaving the Union in January 1861.
The importance of the national election of 1860 can never be understated. However, every election, either on a national, state or local scale is important. By voting, you can change the history of our future. By not voting, someone else will change your future or your children's future. One thing is certain, if you stay home, your voice won't be heard. So vote.


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Historic Districts Code Sections:
- Certificates of Appropriateness process (Section 35.2-13)
- Historic Districts (Section 35.2-58)
- Historic Preservation Commission (HPC) (Section 35.2-100.9)
Lynchburg Historic District Commercial Design Review Guidelines
Lynchburg Historic Districts Residential Design Review Guidelines
Historic Preservation Commission Members
What is the Historic Preservation Commission (HPC)?
The Historic Districts Ordinance is administered by the HPC, which is composed of seven Lynchburg residents who have a knowledge of and interest in the preservation of the historic character of the City. The members, whose service on the HPC is voluntary, are appointed by the City Council for three-year terms. The HPC holds regularly scheduled meetings on the third Monday of each month in City Hall. Holidays in January and February typically fall on the third Monday of those months. Those two meetings are typically held on the fourth Monday of January and February. Staff support for the HPC is provided by the Department of Community Development's Planning Division. Anne Nygaard is the Secretary to the Historic Preservation Commission and can be contacted by phone at 434-455-3900 or email at firstname.lastname@example.com. Tom Martin, the City Planner, is also available to answer questions at 434-455-3900 or by email at firstname.lastname@example.com.
The HPC has an advocacy program in which each member is responsible for providing assistance to citizens of a particular historic district. If you are a property owner or a resident of a historic district, the advocate for your district is available to help you with the application process as needed. To find out who your advocate is, please consult the Historic Preservation Commission roster.
What needs to be reviewed?
The Historic Districts Ordinance requires that the HPC issue a Certificate of Appropriateness (COA) before a building located in a historic district can be erected, reconstructed, restored, demolished, or altered in any way that affects its external appearance. A COA is also required for certain changes made to the grounds and signs. Certain minor actions, which do not permanently affect the character of the property or the historic district, may not have to be reviewed by the HPC, but these actions must be approved through the HPC Secretary. Examples of minor actions include repainting, adding television or radio antennas, adding or changing storm windows or doors and repairs using like materials and like designs. The HPC Secretary may impose certain conditions. You may also need to obtain other City permits such as building or sign permits.
How do I apply for a Certificate of Appropriateness (COA)?
The application is available at the link below or you may pick up an application for a COA at the Department of Community Development, second floor, City Hall, 900 Church Street. The completed form must be submitted to the HPC's Secretary at least fifteen (15) business days prior to a regularly scheduled meeting per Section 35.2-13.4 of the Zoning Ordinance. There are no application fees. It is required for COA applicants or their representatives to be present at the HPC meeting to answer any questions from the HPC members.
What guidelines are used by the HPC?
The HPC has adopted Residential Historic Districts Design Guidelines. Building on the History of Lynchburg, the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation, and the Commercial Historic Districts Design Guidelines for Downtown Lynchburg, which were developed specifically for Lynchburg's historic commercial buildings, these guidelines are designed to ensure that alterations and new construction will be compatible with the buildings in the historic districts. Copies of the guidelines are available for review at the Department of Community Development's Planning Division. The HPC's review and the advocate for your historic district can provide help in understanding the guidelines.
Are There Any Financial Incentives or Tax Benefits for Rehabilitation?
The City of Lynchburg, and other organizations and agencies offer programs at the city, state and federal levels for renovating and maintaining buildings, both residential and commercial, within the City of Lynchburg. You may find it to your advantage to apply for more than one incentive program. To find out more information about the programs that are available, please contact Tom Martin at 434-455-3900 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
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March 10, 2008
by Caleb Peiffer
The CAA, WCC, and Southern Conference determine their tournament victors, while the Summit League and Sun Belt find out who will play in their championship games.
March 9, 2008
MAAC Player of the Year Jason Thompson led the Broncs into the championship game with a 32-point, 18 rebound performance in Rider's comeback victory.
Kenny Hasbrouck scored 17 second-half points to bring the Saints back from a 17 point deficit and push them into tomorrow night's championship game.
Six conferences play their semifinal matchups today, while Drake and Illinois St. battle for the Missouri Valley tournament title.
March 8, 2008
Basketball Prospectus is in Albany to bring you the tournament action from one of the nation's most highly contested conferences.
Three conferences send a representative to the NCAA Tournament, while the Big East and ACC decide their regular season champions.
March 7, 2008
The Missouri and Ohio Valleys, Horizon League, and Atlantic Sun all progress towards the awarding of automatic berths to the NCAA Tournament.
March 6, 2008
Stanford enters Pauley Pavilion looking for a share of first place, Saint Joe's tries to save its season, and a number of other teams fight for first place.
March 5, 2008
The Big 12 sorts itself out, Tennessee vies for a title, and two former Patriot powers try to pull off upsets.
March 4, 2008
A critical contest in the Mountain West highlights one of the last days of the regular season.
March 3, 2008
Will tonight be the night the ACC sets the 21st-century record for percentage of close games in conference play?
March 2, 2008
The MAAC decides its champion, three different Wildcats play critical contests, and Saint Joseph's attempts to get back on track.
March 1, 2008
Eagles guard Tyrese Rice put up 46 points, the most ever scored against the Tar Heels in ACC play, but a big second-half comeback pulled North Carolina to victory.
Anticipated rematches play out in Kansas and Washington, several top Big East squads clash, and the Patriot League and Big South determine their regular season champions.
February 29, 2008
The MAAC attempts to sort out the turbulent top of its standings, while Cornell can become the first team other than Princeton or Penn to win the Ivy League in 20 years.
February 28, 2008
Notre Dame and Michigan St. face stiff tests on the road, Wake Forest tries to burst the ACC bubble, and teams fight for first in the Northeast and the Big West.
February 27, 2008
Several crucial battles play out on the fringes of the NCAA Tournament field, while the Patriot League could crown its regular-season champion.
February 26, 2008
The Hoosiers return to Assembly Hall for the first time in the post-Sampson era, Tennessee looks to follow up on its big win Saturday night, and the best two teams in the Mountain West hook up.
February 25, 2008
A resurgent young Big East team looks to push its way into the NCAA at-large picture, while two Big 12 titans battle in Manhattan.
February 24, 2008
The Hawks used their outstanding offense to pick up a big conference road win that solidified the team's case for an at-large berth in the NCAA Tournament.


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Stockton, Calif. - Five individuals and one team will be inducted into the University of the Pacific Athletics Hall of Fame in annual induction ceremonies on Saturday, April 21, 2012.
As part of this special evening, the 2011-12 Pacific Tigers Student-Athletes of the Year Awards will also be presented. This evening of celebration and recognition provides a unique opportunity for connecting Pacific's heritage of outstanding athletic alumni and Hall of Famers with the current generation of exceptional student-athletes.
Induction ceremonies and the annual awards banquet will be held on Saturday, April 21, 2012, at the Alex G. Spanos Center on the Pacific campus. A social hour begins at 6:00 p.m., with dinner and the induction program beginning at 7:00 p.m. Tickets are available by contacting the Pacific Department of Intercollegiate Athletics at (209) 946-3945.
All previous inductees to the Pacific Athletics Hall of Fame are encouraged to attend and wear their Hall of Fame medallions to this year's event.
Following are brief biographical sketches of the 2011-12 Pacific Athletics Hall of Fame inductees.
Mimi Eberhardt
Mimi Eberhardt is being honored for her dedication, commitment and generosity to Pacific Athletics over the years. Mimi has been a member of the Pacific Athletic Foundation (PAF) since it was co-founded in 1970 by her late husband Bob Eberhardt '51, the longtime president of the Bank of Stockton. From 2001 to 2008, Mimi was co-chair of the Athletic Department's Fundraising Committee during Pacific's $330 million dollar "Investing in Excellence" campaign, while also serving as honorary chair of the entire campaign.
Lionel Manuel (1982-84)
Lionel earns induction following an exceptional two-year career as a wide receiver at Pacific. He then flourished on the professional level, in a seven year NFL career that culminated in an NFL championship. He finished his Pacific among the top 10 receivers in several categories, capping his senior year with a seventh round selection in the NFL Draft by the New York Giants. He played for the Giants from 1984-90 and was a member of the 1990 Super Bowl Champions in New York. Lionel's NFL career featured 232 receptions for 3,941 yards and 23 touchdowns.
Leigh McNiff-Morrison
Leigh had a superlative field hockey career at Pacific, culminating with McNiff earning the second All-American award in program history. She was named to the All-America team in her senior year of 1986, as she led the Tigers to seven wins overall and five NorPac Conference victories. She earned NorPac Conference Player of the Year honors as well in 1986. One of the best defensive players in school history, McNiff earned team MVP and Defensive Player of the Year awards as well.
Don Shackelford
Don was a standout tackle and guard for the Pacific football team from 1961-63. He earned the "Red" Busher Award as the top lineman at Pacific in 1962 and 1963, helping provide openings for the offense that gained 3,293 yard on the ground in his final two years. In 1963, he became one of just three Tigers in program history to make an appearance in the Senior Bowl. Don was drafted in the fourth round (54th overall) of the 1964 NFL Draft by the Cleveland Browns and by the AFL's Denver Broncos in the sixth round (41st overall).
Elsa Stegemann-Binder
An outstanding volleyball career has earned Elsa induction into the Pacific Athletics Hall of Fame. She earned All-America honors in 1996, 1998 and 1999 and was the Big West Conference Co-Player of the Year after helping lead the Tigers to 32 wins in her senior season. She led the Tigers to the 1999 NCAA Final Four, and a tie for third place nationally. Elsa is still in the top five in four career offensive categories in the Tiger record book.
1999 Women's Volleyball
The 1999 women's volleyball team finished 32-3, with a third place national finish after advancing to the NCAA Final Four for the seventh time in school history. The Tigers finished 15-1 in Big West Conference play to earn the conference championship. Elsa Stegemann, Tracy Chambers and Jennica Smith each earned All-Big West and AVCA All-District honors, with Stegemann and Chambers each being awarded All-America accolades. Pacific head coach John Dunning was named Big West Coach of the Year for the third time. At the time, the Tigers were one of just four teams to qualify for all 19 NCAA Tournaments.


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DSOGaming writes: "Back in November, we informed you about MEHEM, a mod that promises to alter the game's ending to a somehow, better one. The team behind it has been constantly polishing it since then, and have released today its official trailer."
Mass Effect deserved to be an honest interconnecting trilogy. Not just three separate games emptily tied together.
Seriously people, stop crying about the ending to this game. It's so pathetic and guess what, no choice that you have ever made in any game has truly matter. In the end, you always end up where the developer wants you to be.
Even in the Witcher 2 the 3rd chapter is the same no matter what path you take. In the Walking Dead Game the ending is the same no matter what choices you make. It's not about whether your choices matter, but if you are emotional effected by those choices. Mass Effect 3 succeeding in emotionally attaching you to characters. So get over the shit ending already.
Wow my jaw dropped. To put this much effort into something you feel so passionate about and churn out such an amazing trailer for it deserves a standing ovation. THIS is was the gaming community does right, and honestly... I really want to get the ME PC trilogy now. Just for this. I want my little blue Shepards Bioware!!!
SPOILERS This was amazing, and at the end when I saw SHEPARD being the one to put up Andersons name I was overwhelmed with emotion, then I remembered this was not canon, but someone who went to enormous lengths to make their own ending. And idk but its just not the same, since I know that's not really what happened and all I know of my shdpard is he's possibly dying in rubble somewhere.


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Stand-up comedy is hard. It requires intelligence, speed of thought, memory and the ability to ride a successful tangent. Rare is the comic these days who will make you laugh no matter what. Kevin Hart is that stand-up. Chris Rock isn't doing much of anything on the stand-up stage, and it's tough when you hear Hart not to consider him Rock's heir apparent. Like Rock, Hart considers the entire world. Kids, fear, relationships, family -- nothing is off limits, yet everything is funny. Warning: Hart is blue. Get over it. Why go: That state of laughing so hard you can't breathe is rare. Reconsider: You can't get past the swearing. 8 p.m. Saturday, United Center, 1901 W. Madison St. $55-$125; ticketmaster.com
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If you look at the screenshots below, then you can see just how well this clone has been made. Quite a lot of craft has gone into this - even the login screen looks perfect.
Obviously, Microsoft can do little in the sense of stopping piracy here, since this is not their code. Still, the company could take the other intellectual property route, namely the one of copying copyrighted imagery and GUI elements. Ars spoke to Microsoft, and the Redmond giant has no plans to do anything about Ylmf OS.
"We have not really evaluated the code here, but assuming that this is a Linux implementation, we agree that the existing laws against software piracy are unlikely to apply here," Microsoft told Ars Technica, "So we'd have to look to the protection offered under intellectual property law generally in the relevant jurisdictions. But it would be difficult to talk about the legal options in a general sense as each instance is unique, depending not only on the local IP laws in play (in this case in China) but also the technical implementation itself. We'd need to drill down into the specifics to understand better what Microsoft IP rights may be at stake here."
The company added that it currently has no plans to drill down: "While we can't comment on the future, we have no current litigation efforts in place about this."
For now, you can download and play with Ylmf OS, assuming you can read Chinese.


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Novarro, G., Baeza-Yates, R. & Arcoverde, J.M. (2003). A flexible approximate matching tool for searching proper names, pp. 3-15.
Study and Results: We present the architecture and algorithms behind Matchsimile, an approximate string-matching tool especially designed for extracting person and company names from large texts. Part of a larger information extraction environment, this engine finds all the occurrences of a large set of proper names in a large text collection. Beyond the similarity search capabilities applied at the intraword level, the tool considers a set of specific person name formation rules at the word level, such as combination, abbreviation, duplication detection, ordering, word omission and insertion, among others. This engine is used in a successful commercial application to search for lawyers names in official law publications.
Whats New? At the character level, Matchsimile searches the text for all the names in parallel, triggering the approximate occurrences of words from the different names sought. This technique is appropriate for several other applications in information such as filtering, virus-detection, spelling and natural language processing. At the word level, Matchsimile detects text passages that contain sufficient occurrences of words from a single name and analyzes them one-by-one using several name formation rules specific from the Brazilian culture. The new algorithms developed to compare phrases are likely to be adaptable to other applications where different wordings of the same phrase are to be found.
Limitations: Only whole-word matching is possible. This does not permit recovering from errors where two words are joined or a word is split, nor application of the method to sequences where there are not clearly separated words (e.g. DNA text). The structure to hold the patterns must fit in main memory.
Cole, C. & Leide, J.E. (2003). Using the users mental model to guide the integration of information space into information need, pp. 39-46.
Study and Results: The study examined 38 history undergraduates using two history databases to seek information for a course essay. Half received a high recall search strategy intervention (with visualization) and half received a high precision search strategy intervention (with no visualization). There was no significant difference in mean mark for the essays between the two groups.
Whats New? The study took place in a naturalistic setting with a real information need, compared to the imposed information need in most IR system user studies. The study shows that a high recall search strategy can be given to students without adverse effects if the results of the search are visualized. The study suggests that users definitions of information need may be an additional and key stage in obtaining a focus for their essays, which is Stage 4 of Kuhlthaus six-stage ISP model. This stage may be an important point of entry for creating enabling interactive IR systems. We include a design for a two-part IR interface which links the users mental models of their essay topic spaces with a system representation of the topic spaces.
Limitations: A high recall search strategy (without visualization) intervention group should have been included so that the effects on student performance of a high recall search strategy and visualization could have been separately determined.
Van den Besselaar, P. (2003). Empirical evidence of self-organization? pp. 87-90
Study and Results: Words (title words, abstract words or full text) are often used as data in information science research. Frequency distributions of word (co)occurrences are generally very skewed, and the resulting data matrices are sparsely filled. Consequently these matrices contain many zeros and ones. The latter implies that many co-occurrences are unique observations, and this implies that the statistical methods for analyzing the data have to be selected even more carefully than usually. The paper shows how a lack of methodological scrutiny may result in interpretations that are completely false.
Whats New? Using discriminant analysis (and, more generally, cluster techniques) for analyzing word co-occurrences is very risky, as the data violate the conditions of this technique. Although discriminant analysis is considered to be robust with respect to violation of these conditions, we showed that this is not the case for bibliometric data.
Limitations: As it stands the paper only reanalyzes one study. A more formal proof of the problems may be useful to generalize the results.
From JASIST, v. 54 (2)
Newby, G.B., Greenberg, J. & Jones, P. (2003). Open source software development and Lotkas Law: Bibliometric patterns in programming, pp. 1169-178.
Study and Results: This research applies Lotka's Law to metadata on open source software development. Lotka's Law predicts the proportion of authors at different levels of productivity. Open source software development harnesses the creativity of thousands of programmers worldwide, is important to the progress of the Internet and many other computing environments, and yet has not been widely researched. We examine metadata from the Linux Software Map (LSM), which documents many open source projects, and Sourceforge, one of the largest resources for open source developers. Authoring patterns found are comparable to prior studies of Lotka's Law for scientific and scholarly publishing. Lotka's Law was found to be effective in understanding software development productivity patterns and to offer promise in predicting aggregate behavior of open source developers.
Whats New? Open source software development has seldom been studied. Furthermore, many uses of empirical data for Lotka's Law have had problems. In particular, this research points out a limitation in Pao's method.
Limitations: Open source software changes quickly. Thus, there have been new developments and other studies since this work was completed.
Belefant-Miller, H. & King, D.W. (2003). Profile of faculty reading and information-use behaviors on the cusp of the electronic age, 179-181.
Study and Results: While the majority of a university faculty's work deals with information or knowledge finding, getting, reading and using it, basic data in the literature on these information-use behaviors is often fragmentary, when available. We analyzed the demographic portion of a library use survey given to the faculty and staff of the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in 1993 in order to profile their information-related activities. Journal articles were the predominant type of document that faculty both read and authored. Faculty averaged 4.2 journal subscriptions per person, of which 84% were paid for personally. Twenty-five percent of the faculty had obtained some funds for information products and of those funded the median amount provided was $500. Faculty spent 24 minutes per day using e-mail and 78 minutes per week using the non-e-mail computer network. Faculty reported publishing 3.0 journal articles per year and 31% of the faculty had won an award for professional contributions in the previous two years.
Whats New? This study provides a baseline for comparisons of behaviors from the paper era and for future studies in the electronic era by being from a time when both paper and electronic resources were accepted and available.
Limitations: The sample is limited to University of Tennessee faculty and staff.
Copyright © 2003, American Society for Information Science and Technology


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Top-ranked Alabama's stunning-if-you-say-so home defeat Saturday narrowed the national-scope scenarios but also raised the gun barrels of anxiety — especially in South Bend.
The idea that Notre Dame could ever be left out of anything seems preposterous given the school's golden-dome history.
Notre Dame, after all, has its own network contract and is guaranteed a BCS berth any year it finishes in the top eight.
Major bowls can't wait to push other applicants out of the way any year the Fighting Irish meet the nine-win and top-14 ranking minimums.
Things, though, have gotten suddenly serious.
Alabama's loss to Texas A&Manziel bumped three undefeated teams up in the order, the problem being only two can play for the title and No. 3 is Notre Dame.


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It was the Sox Bowl Part II as the Red ones took on the White ones. And you know what happens when you put Red Sox in the mix with White Sox (besides all your shit turning pink). You get some pretty good baseball. Big Papi busted his slump with a three-rub double off the wall in Boston's 6-2 win over Chicago and helped topple the White Sox from first place in AL Central division. The unintentional comedy came when Ortiz thought his shot went yard:
"Oh yeah, oh yeah," said Ortiz. "Papi knows when the ball is gone, but I guess Mother Nature doesn't want me to hit it out tonight. The wind was blowing really hard tonight."
White Sox pitcher Contreras fell to the ground in the second inning after attempting to cover first. The official word is that he's out for nine months. Dice-K got his 13th win of the season while Boone Logan took the loss and probably a ticket back to the minors. The series stands split with the rubber match later today.
• Astros' longballer Carlos Lee is out 6-8 weeks after getting hit by a pitch in Houston's 3-1 win over Cincinnati. Lee has 28 home runs this season and leads the league in RBI's with 100. Lee is on the 15 day for now with a broken pinky.
• The Twins have found themselves in first place, following an outstanding outing by Liriano and a late game offensive surge by the Twins. Their 7-3 win over the Royals included a 5 run sixth inning following a two run homer by Delmon Young in the second. The Twins were able to take first place in the division after the White Sox loss to Boston.
• Things turned ugly when Phillies manager Charlie Manuel headed out to the mound to pull Brett Myers from the game. After having words on the field, the two continued to quarrel nose to nose in the dugout. Myers had a stellar game before that, allowing only one run and five hits in just over seven innings. The Phillies went on to win 4-2 and Manuel and Myers kissed and made up after the game.


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Two years after becoming chairman of the Halifax Area Advertising Authority, Daytona Beach attorney Ted Doran has decided not to seek reappointment, saying he accomplished everything he set out to do during his brief, albeit controversial, time on the tourism marketing group's board.
Two years after becoming chairman of the Halifax Area Advertising Authority, Daytona Beach attorney Ted Doran has decided not to seek reappointment, saying he accomplished everything he set out to do during his brief, albeit controversial, time on the tourism marketing group's board.
Doran is one of six directors from Volusia County's three tourism ad authority boards who have not applied to be considered for another two-year term when the County Council makes appointments at its April 4 meeting.
"All the goals I had have been fulfilled," said Doran, who ran unsuccessfully for Volusia County Chair last year. "The (ad authority) has changed dramatically in many ways, from the president of the (Daytona Beach Convention & Visitors Bureau) to the most core, basic functions of how the organization operates."
Doran was chair of the Halifax ad authority board the first year of his two-year term. His tenure as chair was marked by big changes — the most contentious of which squeaked through board votes with razor-thin margins.
Early in Doran's time as chair, the board voted 6-5 to fire Janet Kersey, the longtime visitors bureau staffer who had been promoted to CEO the year before, mainly over differences of opinion regarding marketing efforts.
Also under Doran's watch was the selection of Kersey's successor, Jeffrey Hentz, the veteran tourism marketing official from California.
Doran as chair also advocated the successful local efforts to win the bidding to host the Shriners International 2017 national convention.
Ad authority board member Sean Belgrade, who also works as vice president of marketing at Daytona International Speedway, succeeded Doran as chair in April 2012.
The ad authorities use bed-tax revenues collected by the county from hotels and short-term rental properties in their respective areas to promote the county as a destination for tourism and conventions. The Halifax ad authority oversees the visitors bureau in Daytona Beach.
Doran isn't the only Halifax ad authority board member not seeking reappointment. First-term board member Sophia Huger, who works as director of sales for Perry's Ocean Edge Resort in Daytona Beach, also didn't apply for another term.
However, Pravin Patel, owner of the Heritage Inn in Daytona Beach, whose appointment last year stirred controversy when the city's Police Chief Mike Chitwood called Patel's Ridgewood Avenue hotel an "invariable hive of criminal activity," has applied for another term.
County Councilwoman Joyce Cusack, who nominated Patel last year, said she plans to nominate him again this year.
"He does everything he can to represent his hotel and help the lack of representation on Ridgewood." she said.
The Southeast Volusia Advertising Authority will also lose two sitting board members. Kelley DeSoto and Kathy Standing have not applied to keep their seats on the seven-member board.
"Kathy and Kelley were both really strong members, and I hate to see them leaving," said Tim Hamby, executive director of the Southeast Volusia Ad Authority.
In West Volusia, Thom Giordano, former marketing director for the Volusia County Fair and Expo Center, will not be eligible to serve another term on the seven-member West Volusia Tourism Advertising Authority board because he no longer works in the area.
The County Council will have to appoint a director to fill the seat left empty on the West Volusia ad authority board when then-board member Dena Scroggins resigned to fill a full-time, paid position with the ad authority last November.


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Running Man, The (US - BD RA)
Gabe passes out trying to decide which of Arnold's puns to put in this space...
In the year 2017 the United States has become a police state, censoring all cultural activity. The government pacifies the populace by broadcasting gladiatorial game shows in which convicted criminals fight for their lives against technically enhanced killers. The most popular show in the world (and history) is 'The Running Man', which is hosted by Damon Killian (Richard Dawson), a ruthless and beloved man with power beyond most world leaders. Ben Richards (Arnold Schwarzenegger), a former military helicopter pilot convicted of a massacre he actually tried to prevent, is recaptured by authorities after a brief period on the lam, and is cast by Killian based on public record of his physical prowess. To ensure his contestant plays, Killian throws some of Richards' comrades into the mix and the games begin.
Throughout my short, vastly overlooked and undervalued film criticism career, I've covered many films that I'd considered at least partial conceptual rip-offs of The Running Man. These include Gamer (which acknowledges its reference in the form of visual homage), Paul WS Anderson's Death Race remake (see more below), The Condemned (which also ripped off Battle Royale), and any episode of X-Men the Animated Series featuring the villain Mojo. Unfortunately, I have to admit that this is a mostly unfair criticism, because The Running Man, based on a novel written by one 'Richard Bachman' (Stephen King in disguise), wasn't very original to begin with, and neither were the embellishments made by screenwriters George Linder and Tim Zinnemann. It just happens to be highest profile film to use the trope, which TVtropes.com calls a mix of 'Deadly Game' and 'Reality TV'. There are so many films that utilize the trope I decided to do a little research in search of the original source. Emphasis on the 'little'
It turns out that Stephen King has been accused of ripping-off author Robert Sheckley, whose short story, 'The Prize of Peril' (published in 1958), follows a futuristic TV game show where contestants battle to the death for cash and prizes (kind of like that arcade classic called 'Smash TV'). Sheckley's story was adapted by French filmmaker Yves Boisset as Le Prix Du Danger in 1983. The dystopian future element separates both stories from the trope's original root stories, those of Roman Gladiators, who fought before bloodthirsty audiences to the death for the 'prize' of freedom. One key difference between 'Prize of Peril' and 'The Running Man' is the use of prisoners, which has equally defined the films that followed Glaser and King's lead. Curiously enough, however, Italian splatter maestro Lucio Fulci's The New Gladiators (aka Warriors of the Year 2072) predates The Running Man movie by three years, and adds the innocent convict angle, along with the 'there are no winners' angle. King's story was apparently written a year before Elisa Briganti's script, but it's impossible to know who decided to 'adapt' Sheckley's story first. Of course both films were predated by my personal favourite deadly game show film, Paul Bartel's Deathrace 2000, which shares the dystopian future and satirical slant angles, but not the death row inmate aspects (which was 'corrected' upon the release of a semi-remake).
Though it's clearly the better film, featuring the better budget, Running Man isn't any more high brow than Fulci's New Gladiators, and this sleazy and cheesy streak is one of its greatest strengths. I'm not a huge fan of the '80s for film on the whole, and usually prefer the movies that ignore the fashion and pop culture of the era, but for some reason the sci-fi/action films work better the more they embrace the more hideous aspects of the decade. The two names that define the best of this subset are Arnold Schwarzenegger and Paul Verhoven. Running Man was directed by Miami Vice alumni Paul Michael Glaser, who probably utilized the look with a less ironic intent than Verhoven would with Robocop and Total Recall, but whether for the right or wrong reasons, the look works to date the film in an endearing manner. The thing that keeps me coming back to The Running Man above all the imitators and predecessors is the sense of humour. The film isn't as pointedly satirical as Robocop, which was released a few months earlier than Glaser's film, but has an absurdist streak that pays off with bigger and more enduring laughs than most of the '80s films that called themselves comedies.
Lionsgate's acquired catalogue releases have been spotty at best, and Running Man definitely isn't one of the studio's best. Comparatively speaking this transfer matches most of the strengths and weaknesses of Lionsgate's recent Red Heat Blu-ray, which is a couple steps above their crummy Total Recall disc. I don't know why so much of Arnold's older material doesn't hold up in high definition, but as a fan I've come to accept it. This transfer has some advantages over the Artisan DVD release, specifically in colour quality and brightness. The occasionally goofy, sub- Blade Runner neon look of The Running Man certainly lends itself to the format, even if the lack of high contrast lighting and stylized focus don't. The most obvious problem most folks will have with the transfer is the consistent, chunky grain, which ebbs and flows based on lighting. Dark shots are generally muddy and the blacks, though mostly clear of excess noise, are rarely as purely black as I'd prefer they were, often absorbing the warmer hues. The really over-the-top comic book colour lighting, especially during the somewhat monochromatic scenes, is certainly an improvement on the DVD, but some of the busier shots suffer minor artefacts, and a general lack of sharpness. Detail is a less obvious problem than the grain and occasional noise, but there are very few instances of fine detail that wasn't available already on the DVD release. The big effects scenes, specifically the cityscapes, are pretty low in detail and dark, and the crowd shots follow a similar suit. Overall I'd say this is transfer is only a little better than an up-converted DVD, so fans with sets smaller than forty-six inches might want to stick with those.
Based on the special edition DVD's Dolby Digital 5.1 remix there was no reason to think that this DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 track would be less than adequate. Things are definitely very loud. The remixed surround stuff sounds a bit 'artificial' or canned, and don't always match the tone of the centre and stereo stuff that was clearly part of the original mix. The sound designers keep things active, filling the mix with plenty of incidental audience noise during the game show segments, ambient hum in the bowels of the Running Man game field (or whatever you want to call it), and office buzz while Richard Dawson yells at his underlings. Highlights include the sounds of the 'contestants' sliding into the Zone, and the theme noises of each Stalker, such as Dynamo's electricity, Fireball's flames, and Buzzsaw's chainsaws and motorcycle. The LFE is more effectively and naturally punchy than lesser 5.1 remixes, though it mostly pertains to big booms and the electronic score, which is mixed a little lower than expected.
The extras on this disc are the same that were featured on Lionsgate's special edition DVD, and they start with two commentary tracks. The first track features producer Tim Zinnemann and director Paul Michael Glaser. This track is tonally pretty lethargic, and there's no end to the behind the scenes bummers. Glaser was not the initial director, and he's sure to point out the stuff he didn't do. There isn't an excess of blank space, but the whole of the track is a bit exhausting. The second track features producer turned bad director Rob Cohen, who despite his run of terrible movies, is usually a solid commentator, if one that takes himself a little too seriously. I'd recommend his track over the first track for storytelling reasons. Curiously nobody really mentions the film's sense of humour, or at least no one seems to place much importance on it, though Glaser is sure to call the film ahead of its time.
The extras continue with the delightfully humourless 'Lockdown on Main Street' (24:40, SD), which delves headfirst into post-9/11 politics, comparing the Bush administrations Patriot Act to the Communist witch hunts, and Hoover's FBI civilian spying. There's nothing here to directly compare then modern politics to The Running Man (which isn't super-Orwellian to begin with), and fortunately the whole thing is a little bit (a little bit) outdated, but it's still a pretty ballsy thing for Lionsgate to stick on a popular film release. 'Game Theory' (20:15, SD) sticks more to the subject of The Running Man, comparing it to modern reality television, or rather the reality television of three to five years ago. The film's crew is joined by media experts, and reality show producers in interview vignettes, and the history of the format is pretty well explored, including scenes from the movie. Extras are completed by a trailer, and other Lionsgate trailers.
The Running Man is a pun-filled Schwarzenegger classic, but this Blu-ray release isn't the best temple to its over-the-top '80s glory. Everyone should definitely go out and get a copy of Artisan's special edition DVD release, but those with smaller sets won't find much use for this release, which ports all the DVD's extras, and features a sub-perfect transfer that mostly looks up-converted SD. The DTS-HD 7.1 surround is a pretty big upgrade, but the video really isn't. Buy at your own discretion, though the price appears to be just about right.
*Note: The images on this page are not representative of the Blu-ray release.
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Krishna Jaipersad Member Join Date: October 2003 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 166
Gabe, he directed episodes for both (5 for)Starsky & Hutch and then (3 for) Miami Vice according to his bio at imdb.com
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Krishna Jaipersad wrote: Gabe, he directed episodes for both (5 for)Starsky & Hutch and then (3 for) Miami Vice according to his bio at imdb.com
not to mention he actually played Starsky !!
not to mention he actually played Starsky !!
Matt Contributor Join Date: October 2004 Location: United States Posts: 2,113
Bouncy X wrote: not to mention he actually played Starsky !!
OMG...I never realized these two were one and the same.
OMG...I never realized these two were one and the same.
Gabe Powers Editor Join Date: September 2004 Location: United States Posts: 4,721
I did catch that on the imdb page, but I thought the Miami Vice angle was more pertinent to Running Man, based on all the neon.
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I just picked up the SE DVD yesterday.
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Disc Details
Release Date: 9th February 2010
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 1.78:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 English
Subtitles: English SDH, Spanish
Extras: Director and Producer Commentary, Producer Commentary, Game Theory, Lockdown on Main Street, Trailers
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Paul Michael Glaser
Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Richard Dawson, Maria Conchita Alonso, Yaphet Kotto, Jim Brown, Jesse Ventura
Genre: Action, Comedy and Sci-Fi
Length: 101 minutes
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