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Florida is one of 18 states whose high foreclosure rates qualified them for the Hardest Hit program, the Treasury Department's $7.6 billion effort to stabilize the housing market.
While thousands of responsible Floridians struggle to keep their homes, a federal mortgage assistance program is making loan payments for felons, tax scofflaws and people with histories of running up debts they can't repay.
Among the recipients of taxpayer-funded aid: A St. Petersburg woman with a long record of fraud. A Largo man who owes the IRS more than $150,000 in back taxes. And a sex offender who couldn't live in federally assisted housing yet qualified for up to $42,000 in federal mortgage relief.
Those homeowners got help while many others were turned down or forced to wait so long they may lose their homes anyway. Today, almost three years after creation of the federal Hardest Hit Fund, less than 10 percent of the $1 billion set aside for Florida homeowners has been spent.
A Tampa Bay Times investigation found that state officials overseeing Florida's Hardest Hit program made a series of missteps and questionable decisions that may have cost families their homes. In reviewing government emails and other public records, the Times found:
• The office of Gov. Rick Scott — a sharp critic of federal stimulus programs — restricted efforts to publicize the Hardest Hit Fund and was instrumental in cutting aid amounts when the program went statewide in 2011.
• The vast majority of Florida's 557,000 condo owners were ineligible for Hardest Hit aid for more than a year because of an arbitrary policy that was later reversed.
• The state agency running the program ignored its own guidelines and approved aid to dozens of homeowners with histories of financial mismanagement including previous foreclosures, IRS liens and bankruptcies predating the housing bust.
• At least 15 people in Tampa Bay alone got Hardest Hit assistance despite felony records for fraud, grand theft, drug possession and other serious offenses.
Officials at Florida Housing Finance Corp., the public agency administering the Hardest Hit program, defended their record on using the federal money.
"Given the fact we have never done anything like this before, I think we are doing the best job we can possibly do,'' said Cecka Rose Green, the agency's spokesperson. "There are people out there that, but for this help, their homes would have been foreclosed on.''
Florida is one of 18 states whose high foreclosure rates qualified them for the Hardest Hit program, the Treasury Department's $7.6 billion effort to stabilize the housing market by providing mortgage assistance to homeowners who lose their jobs or take pay cuts. States primarily use the money to make monthly mortgage payments or make up late payments.
Nationwide, the Hardest Hit program has been knocked for poor cooperation from banks, fuzzy goals and slowness in spending the money. And though Florida has the nation's highest foreclosure rate, it has lagged behind other states in helping desperate homeowners.
As of Dec. 31, 7,314 Florida homeowners had received Hardest Hit assistance — fewer than in Michigan, Ohio and North Carolina, states with much smaller populations.
"I think it's been pretty much mismanaged from the beginning and very slow in getting help out,'' said Laura Johns, whose non-profit Home Defenders League is pressing the state to speed up aid.
"I think Florida Housing (Corp.) has good intentions but we can't afford to wait any longer and homeowners can't afford to wait. They're getting foreclosed on with all this money sitting there.''
Delays and cuts
Florida's problems began with a critical decision at the start of the Hardest Hit program.
Instead of opening the doors to all homeowners like other states, Florida launched a pilot project in Lee County in October 2010.
For three months, only Lee County residents could apply for help.
"When trying out anything new it's prudent to test it,'' Green said.
But three months came and went, and still no relief was offered to desperate homeowners in the rest of Florida.
"Every day the state waits, people are losing their homes,'' U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, a Democrat, said in a statement in March 2011, four months after the Lee County kick-off. Nelson accused Scott of "stalling'' Hardest Hit assistance.
The Times obtained emails showing that Scott's office kept close tabs on the program. It got weekly updates and required the housing agency to clear "talking points.''
Scott aides also nixed requests from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor, a Tampa Democrat, for agency staff to attend foreclosure prevention forums to speak about the Hardest Hit Fund.
"These public appearances are not consistent with our communications goals for HHF,'' Brian Hughes, then Scott's deputy communications director, emailed the housing agency in April 2011. "So, do not move forward.''
Hughes, who has since started his own business, did not respond to calls for comment.
A spokesman for Scott said there was no effort to downplay the Hardest Hit Fund and noted that housing officials attended other events.
By the time the program was rolled out statewide in April 2011, six months had passed and officials had decided to slash benefits.
Instead of 18 months of mortgage payments, as in the Lee County pilot, there would be only six — a decision made in consultation with Scott's office.
Homeowners also had to pay part of the mortgage themselves.
"The less amount of money you spend per borrower, the more folks we can help with this program,'' Stephen Augur, Florida Housing's executive director, said at the time.
It was too little help for homeowners like Sheila Ellison.
In 2008, while working for a drug treatment center, Ellison injured her back when a resident attacked her and she had to take a lower-paying job.
For six months, the Hardest Hit program made partial payments on her St. Petersburg home as Ellison tried to negotiate a loan modification. When the aid stopped, the bank filed to foreclose.
"I'd like to (have seen) it go longer than six months,'' Ellison said of the Hardest Hit help. "I'm still fighting Wells Fargo. Many nights I sit up and cry.''
Eventually Florida Housing Finance Corp. officials realized their mistake.
By last spring, only 12 percent of homeowners receiving Hardest Hit aid were able to resume their payments. So housing agency officials doubled the aid to 12 months and increased the amount that could be used to make up late payments.
"I think the program is going to be really productive, at this point in time'' board chairman Len Tylka said in April as the changes were announced.
But as of Dec. 31, just 18 percent of Floridians who applied for monthly Hardest Hit assistance had received it — the lowest percentage of any state.
Criminal offenses
Like other states, Florida bans Hardest Hit aid to people convicted of a mortgage-related felony. But in reviewing public records on more than 500 Tampa Bay homeowners approved for help, the Times found dozens with other offenses, including felonies. Among them:
• Andrea Destowet, 51, of St. Petersburg pleaded guilty in 2006 to fraud after her ex-husband said his signature had been forged on a $100,000 life insurance policy Destowet took out with herself as beneficiary. Destowet, who had previously pleaded no contest to unemployment compensation fraud, said a criminal record shouldn't disqualify someone from receiving Hardest Hit aid — in her case, up to $42,000.
• Crystal Eva, 45, of St. Petersburg pleaded guilty in 2005 to unemployment compensation fraud after claiming to be jobless for several months although she had been paid $2,427 working for a data processing company. She told the Times she received six months of Hardest Hit assistance.
• James Billings, 53, of Hillsborough County, pleaded guilty in 2010 to possession of child pornography and was sentenced to probation. He qualified for as much as $42,000 in federal Hardest Hit help.
Taxpayers also made mortgage payments for Tiffany Flournoy, whose record dates to the 1990s when she pleaded guilty to driver's license fraud and no contest to welfare fraud.
At least seven times since then, St. Petersburg police have investigated fraud allegations against Flournoy. Twice, charges were filed.
In 2006, while working in a dental office, Flournoy was arrested for using a patient's credit card information to book hotel rooms for a youth basketball team. She pleaded no contest and was put on probation.
Two years ago, Flournoy was working for a home health service when she used a client's credit cards to pay a storage bill, repair a TV and buy jewelry. She pleaded guilty in December 2011, four months before she was approved for Hardest Hit aid.
Flournoy, 41, is now in jail for violating her probation.
Green, of the housing agency, said the federal government requires only that Hardest Hit applicants certify they do not have a mortgage-related felony conviction. There is no requirement for criminal background checks.
"The purpose of the program is not to make a moral judgment on (homeowners) or say that because of something they may have done in the past they don't deserve help,'' Green said. "The purpose of the program is to try to keep people in their home.''
Mountains of debt
Felons are eligible for Hardest Hit assistance because there are no rules against most criminal offenses. But even when there are rules and guidelines, Florida's program doesn't always follow them.
Although homeowners are not supposed to have more than one property besides their residence, the Times found several Tampa Bay residents with multiple properties.
Among them is Thomas Lopez of Tampa, who listed two investment properties on his 2011 bankruptcy petition. Public records still list Lopez as owner of all three houses. He did not respond to requests for comment.
The Times also found a woman who bought a second house while getting Hardest Hit help on her home.
In 2011, Darlene Bell-Babineaux of Brandon was fired from her job as a state juvenile detention officer. She bought a house for $88,000 last April, four months after taxpayers began making mortgage payments on her primary residence.
Being fired can keep people out of Florida's Hardest Hit program, which is supposed to favor home�owners in financial hardship through "no fault'' of their own, according to program guidelines.
"Money mismanagement'' is also potentially disqualifying, although the Times found dozens of people getting mortgage help despite a bankruptcy or foreclosure well before the housing bust.
And Hardest Hit help is going to at least 10 Tampa Bay home�owners with large federal tax liens. Among them is Charles Jindracek of Largo, who owes the IRS $154,359 in back taxes.
"It's a wonderful program, without it I would have lost my house,'' said Jindracek, who said his income plunged after his wife left him and his new marine repair business struggled.
Georgia denies Hardest Hit aid to people with IRS liens on the premise that if they haven't paid their taxes they shouldn't get tax-funded mortgage assistance.
"I can't speak to what they did in Georgia,'' Green said. "We modeled our program after the federal mortgage assistance programs and none had that requirement.''
Condo owners denied
While helping felons and tax delinquents, Florida's Hardest Hit program denied mortgage aid for a year and a half to most of the 557,000 Floridians whose homestead is a condominium.
The reason: a policy unique to Florida that made people like Dale Bairstow ineligible if they lived in condo projects not approved by the Federal Housing Administration.
In 2005, Bairstow, a Canadian who is a legal U.S. resident, inherited a condo on Clearwater's Sand Key. He moved to Florida and worked for a mortgage company until he was laid off in 2010.
Unable to find another job, Bairstow, 65, fell behind on his payments but was denied Hardest Hit aid because his condo complex didn't qualify. He discovered that fewer than 300 of Florida's 25,000 condo projects have FHA approval, which requires associations to set aside enough money for maintenance of common areas.
Bairstow won an appeal, and in December 2011, the agency began making payments that eventually totaled $7,000.
By then, he had moved back to Canada.
It wasn't until April — more than a year after the Hardest Hit program began — that the agency decided owners of non-FHA approved condos could get help if their associations were financially sound. But the agency did little to get the word out.
Green told the Times she had issued a press release about the change. Asked for a copy, she acknowledged there was no release.
Green then said rejected condo owners were notified they could reapply. But the notifications were vague, referring only to "revised eligibility requirements'' that also affected people in other types of housing.
How many condo owners have received help since the change? Florida Housing Finance Corp. said it doesn't know. One housing agency report showed that at least 870 condo owners were rejected because of the old policy.
In December, Bairstow sold his condo in a short sale for $250,000. Because he sold so soon after receiving aid, he could have been required to pay back the full $7,000. But the housing agency wanted just $800.
Bairstow suspects that's because he agreed not to sue after first being rejected.
"I had all the facts,'' he said. "It was a discriminatory policy.''
Band-Aid on a tumor
In November, Florida's auditor general rapped the housing agency for its administration of the Hardest Hit program.
It cited numerous problems, including lax verification of home�owners' incomes. Auditors were unable to verify incomes in seven out of 20 files they reviewed.
Florida Housing said it is addressing the concerns.
The Treasury Department also has drawn flak, with federal auditors saying it failed to set measurable goals for assessing the $7.6 billion Hardest Hit program. Estimates of the number of home�owners to be helped were left to the states, which have frequently changed their estimates — Florida originally said it would help 20,000, then 40,000, now 52,000.
"Most states' goals are high-level expectations with no measurable target, such as Florida's 'preserving home ownership,' " auditors said.
Critics of Hardest Hit predict that the program will simply delay the inevitable.
"It's like a Band-aid on a tumor. They don't cut out the tumor, they just prolong the agony of the patient,'' said Anthony Sanders, professor of finance at George Mason University. "The best thing they could have done is speed through foreclosures, get all these people into apartments or even houses they rent and get out from under the burden of mortgage payments.''
But others say Hardest Hit could be an excellent program if Florida followed Arizona, California and Ohio and used some of the money to reduce the loan amount on severely underwater homes.
"There's still not enough of the kind of assistance truly going to what matters, which is principal reduction,'' said Johns of the Home Defenders League. "Unless (homeowners) can see their mortgage payments building equity, there isn't incentive there for them to continue to maintain the mortgage.''
Cynthia Bryant agrees.
Bryant's husband, who owned a St. Petersburg limousine service, was killed in a 2007 robbery and Bryant lost her job as an Albertson's store manager in 2008 when Publix bought the chain. Because of a sharp drop in income, Bryant, 53, qualified for Hardest Hit aid for her home of 24 years, but has struggled to get a loan modification since the help ended more than a year ago.
Retrained as a nursing assistant, Bryant said she could afford a $700 payment, not the current $1,093.
"What needs to be reduced is either the rate or principal. I went back to school and did everything I was supposed to. But I need help.''
[ Times researchers Natalie Watson, Caryn Baird and Carolyn Edds contributed to this report. Susan Taylor Martin can be contacted at email@example.com. ]


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Copying and Renaming Visual Studio VB.NET Projects
It's actually easy, but at first it can appear confounding. Here (IMHO) is a good checklist, to make it easy and to make sure no step is missed.
Disclaimer: This list is for a VB.NET 2010 projects. My apologies, but I can't verify if the same list applies to C# or C++, or earlier versions of VB.NET.
Revision 2:
As suggested, I have revised this post based on comments submitted, and have moved the complete checklist into the attached PDF File.
Thanks to submissions by
(1) WCCRoberts correction for item 21.
(2) OCD Dan regarding app root folder.
(3) RosarioM regarding <Global.System.ComponentModel> and this link.
(4) Bellhop regarding databases.
Download the attached file, and print it out for your checklist.
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PHOENIX (AP) -- With coach Alvin Gentry's pronouncement, "They're gone and they're not going to come back," the Phoenix Suns prepared to open their first training camp of the post-Steve Nash and Grant Hill era.
The Suns have six new players, not counting the five they added this week to pad the roster for the camp's opening in San Diego on Tuesday. The latter group includes former Arizona State standout forward Ike Diogu.
One newcomer isn't really new at all. Point guard Goran Dragic is in his second stint with the team. He was traded to the Houston Rockets in the 2010-11 season.
Others among the incoming are forward Luis Scola, forward Michael Beasley, guard Wesley Johnson, center Jermaine O'Neal, and rookie point guard Kendall Marshall, the team's first-round draft pick.
Now Gentry's job is to put this group together to compete in the West. Expectations from the outside are decidedly modest.
"We're not trying to chase the Lakers right now," Gentry acknowledged at the team's media day on Monday. "We're trying to re-establish what we're going to be and the culture of our team for years to come, and it will start on Tuesday."
He was asked if he believed this is a playoff team.
"I believe that we're going to compete every night and play hard, and I believe we're going to play unselfishly," Gentry said. "Whatever that brings, that's what we'll accept."
Dragic, self-effacing but full of confidence after taking over and playing well last season in Houston, return to the Suns to replace one of the best playmakers in the game's history.
"It's tough but still I'm not like Steve, nobody is like Steve," Dragic said. "He's one of a kind. I just want to be Goran Dragic. I know we have a different game, so I'll just try to be me, play hard as possible every night and give my team 100 percent."
Dragic will benefit from the presence of a teammate from Houston, Scola, the 6-foot-9 Argentine who looks forward to providing leadership on this exceedingly young team.
"Hopefully what I do on the court and off the court will help this team grow," he said. "I don't know if that's so, but I will try to make that the case."
This is the first training camp without Nash since he signed with Phoenix in 2004 and transformed the team into an ultra-up-tempo squad, entertaining all who watched and advancing twice to the Western Conference finals, but never any farther. Hill, one of the most respected men in professional sports, joined in 2007 and resuscitated a career that had been devastated by injury.
But after the departure of Amar'e Stoudemire to the New York Knicks, the Suns descended into mediocrity and after last season, Nash and Hill left for the greener pastures of Los Angeles, Nash to the Lakers and Hill to the Clippers.
Another absence on Monday had not been planned. Forward Channing Frye, who during a routine exam two weeks ago was diagnosed with an enlarged heart. He is expected to miss the season.
"It's a lot bigger deal than basketball," Gentry said. "I'm happy that he's OK right now. He's got a great family, two wonderful kids."
Gentry said he believes the Suns are "still going to be a pretty deep thing, have the ability to play nine or 10 guys. We will really miss Channing. He's still going to be a part of our team. Anytime he wants to be here, he wants to be around, he will be here with us."
Gentry, entering his fourth full season as Suns coach, promises to maintain the fast-paced style with improved half-court play and, as is always promised, an improved defense.
"Hey, we like being the underdog," he said. "It should give you the incentive to play harder, work harder, do everything that's necessary because, basically, what they're saying is they don't believe in us. We believe in us. The coaches believe in us, the players believe in us. At the end of the day, that's the only thing that matters."
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PEAK APPLE: Mystery upstart to hurl iLord from its throne 'by 2020'
Silicon Valley sugar daddy says the $AAPL cart will be well and truly upset
Venture capitalist Fred Wilson reckons Apple will no longer be the top dog of tech by 2020.
He says the iPhone giant will be dethroned by a triumvirate of Google, Facebook and "one that we've never heard of".
Speaking at a tech conference in New York on Monday, the Union Square Ventures moneybags said the Cupertino corp is "just too rooted in the hardware, they don't have anything in the cloud".
He continued his broadside with the claim that Apple's top bods "don't think about data".
So is he right? Well, at the moment Apple is looking pretty ripe. Its stock price just nudged up to $600 for the first time since October 2012 and analyst Amit Daryanani suggested the fruity stock could soar to $645.
CEO Tim Cook also handed his new retail boss Angela Ahrendts 113,334 stocks worth a whopping $68m (£40m).
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Catholic newspapers in their editorial pages have strongly and consistently criticized the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services since its Jan. 20 announcement that there will be no change to a narrowly drawn religious exemption to a new federal mandate that all private employers provide no-cost contraception and sterilization in their health care plans.
The HHS said churches and other religious organizations have exactly one year to get on board with this policy.
"The administration wants to make Americans co-conspirators in its efforts to institutionalize these unacceptable immoral practices. We cannot support this effort," wrote Stephen Trosley, editor of The Catholic Telegraph in Cincinnati.
The St. Louis Review called the decision, announced by HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, "grossly counter to our fundamental right to free exercise of religion."
It is, quite simply, moral dictatorship. It is an imperious decision made by bureaucrats who have no respect for the sanctity of human life or for the fundamental right of free people in a free society to act according to their consciences."
The Jan. 26 unsigned editorial added: "We detest the Obama administration's blatant disregard for life and liberty. If this mandate remains unchanged, many schools, hospitals, social service agencies and other faith-based organizations that serve diverse, frequently poor and vulnerable segments of our society may be forced to stop providing health care to their employees rather than include coverage of morally unacceptable 'preventive services' — a phrase properly applied to disease, not the miracle of pregnancy as Sibelius does."
Our Sunday Visitor pointed out that the president unequivocally pledged respect for conscience rights, religious liberty and diversity of belief during his commencement address at the University of Notre Dame in May 2009 and a round-table interview with Catholic journalists a few weeks later.
"And now the Catholic Church finds itself in the odd position of being the primary defender of tolerance, pluralism and the principles of liberal democracy against a government that seeks to coerce citizens into behavior that violates their consciences," said the Catholic weekly newspaper's editorial board in its Feb. 5 edition.
Michael Sean Winters, columnist for National Catholic Reporter, wrote that President Barack Obama lost his vote "when he declined to expand the exceedingly narrow conscience exemptions proposed by the Department of Health and Human Services. The issue of conscience protections is so foundational, I do not see how I ever could, in good conscience, vote for this man again."
He said the president's decision "essentially told us, as Catholics, that there is no room in this great country of ours for the institutions our church has built over the years to be Catholic in ways that are important to us." He also said it "shamefully" treats "those Catholics who went out on a limb" to support him.
Across the ocean, the British Catholic weekly newspaper, The Tablet, also weighed in, saying President Obama "made a serious mistake."
The editorial pointed out that Obama "appears to have been taken in by the fact that most American Catholics do not have personal moral objections to contraception. He has failed to understand that what they mean by this is that contraception should be a matter for individual consciences. That is not compatible with imposing access to contraception by government regulation."
The point secular opinion fails to grasp is that there are some things that should – must – be beyond the reach of state power, such as the freedom to make available contraception to employees of Catholic hospitals or not, or the freedom of Catholic childcare agencies to decide whether to accept gay couples as possible parents in adoption cases. Similarly, marriage, which stands at the core of civil society, is not something the state is free to tinker with."
Catholic newspapers were not the only ones with something to say on this issue either.
A Jan. 23 Washington Post editorial said the Obama administration "came down on the wrong side of a tough call."
It said the best approach would have been for HHS to offer an exemption for religiously affiliated employers. Since it had already recognized the principle of a religious exemption, it "should have expanded it."
Instead, the Post said the "administration's feint at a compromise — giving such employers another year to figure out how to comply with the requirement — is unproductive can-kicking that fails to address the fundamental problem of requiring religiously affiliated entities to spend their own money in a way that contradicts the tenets of their faith."
A Jan. 24 column in The Wall St. Journal examined how the decision is affecting Catholics across the board. The piece was headlined: "Obama offends the Catholic left: A contraceptive mandate provokes an unnecessary war."
William McGurn, writes that the Obama administration's decision predictably drew fire from Catholic bishops but "less predictable — and far more interesting," he wrote, "has been the heat from the Catholic left, including many who have in the past given the president vital cover."
Catholic liberals, he said, understand that if this ruling is left to stand, it "threatens the religious institutions closest to their hearts — those serving Americans in need, such as hospitals, soup kitchens and immigrant services."


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Another cleanup, Pura Taman Saraswati temple in the Ubud, Bali.
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Rudolph J. "Rudy" Pretak
Rudolph J. "Rudy" Pretak, 88, of 621 Horner Rd., Wilcox, died Friday morning, Feb. 28, 2014 at Penn Highlands Elk in St. Marys following a brief illness.He was born Aug. 16, 1925 in Wilcox, son of the late Stephen and Mary Bursuda Pretak.He married Mae E. Maiers on Feb. 18, 1950 in Holy Rosary Church, Johnsonburg. She preceded him in death on Jan. 8, 2000. He resided in Wilcox all his life, attended Wilcox High School, and was a member of St. Anne's Church and the Wilcox Sportsmen's Club.He was a WWII Navy veteran having served in the Pacific as a carpenter's mate with the 134th Naval Construction Battalion where he received the Pacific Theater Ribbon with one star, the American Theater Ribbon, the WWII Victory Medal and the Philippine Liberation Ribbon with One Star.He had been employed by the B&O Railroad, Holgate Toy Company and the Allegheny National Forest. He retired from Penntech Papers of Johnsonburg in 1982 after 41 years of service. He is survived by two sons, John Pretak and his wife Anita of Wilcox, and Roger Pretak and his wife Tracie of Wilcox; six grandchildren, John J. Pretak, Stacy R. Cozad, Buffy, Justin and Caitlyn Pretak, and Bailey Pretak; six great-grandchildren, Dayanna Pretak, Vladimyr Pretak, Rykki, Lexi and Karli Tucker, and Janessa Pretak; two step-great-grandchildren, Nathan Cozad and Sebastian McKown; one sister, Agnes Whipple of Erie; and several nieces and nephews.In addition to his parents and wife, he was preceded in death by one brother, Joseph Pretak; and sisters Josephine Shultz, Mary Graham, Helen Pretak, and siblings Ann Pretak and Stephen Pretak, both in infancy.A Mass of Christian Burial for Rudolph J. Pretak will be conducted at St. Anne's Church, Wilcox on Tuesday, March 4 at 10 a.m. Officiating will be Rev. David J. Wilson, Pastor.Interment will be in Holy Cross Cemetery, Rasselas.Friends will be received at the Anthony F. Ferragine Funeral Home, 401 Chestnut St., Johnsonburg, Pa. on Monday evening, March 3, from 6 to 8 p.m.Military honors will be accorded by the Wilcox-Johnsonburg Servicemen's Detail. Detail Members are asked to assemble at the funeral home Tuesday morning at 9 a.m.Share your condolences at www.ferraginefuneralhome.com.


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I did not think that my project was very complicated but it has turned out so big that Logicator will not simulate it, telling me that it is far to big. I'm not really sure why this is, the datasheet on the 40X2 said that it can handle up to 3000 lines of code over 4 slots (this I do not get) but my code only goes up to 1100.
I have attached a cut down version of my program. The basic idea is:
Open the LCD with a start screen
Set count loop to 1
Check RL1 through RL3 to make sure they are open, if not display error & sound alarm
Turn on RL1 through RL3
Check RL1 through RL3 to make sure they are closed, if not display error & sound alarm
add 1 to the count loop & repeat.
IN this cut down version I am checking 3 inputs for both open & closed states, the full program needs to check 27 inputs.
I would love to know one of two things(or both) ...... am I doing something wrong where I should have space for 1100 lines of code ...... or am I missing a trick while trying to check & display 54 different errors?


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PPCTV (Phnom Penh Municipal Cable TV) is the first and leading provider of Cable TV service and broadband Internet in Cambodia. PPCTV was founded September 1995. For over the past years, PPCTV has been well known for its established Cable Service and Internet Service operations that provide an extensive range of consumer products and services in Phnom Penh, Kampot and Sihanouk Province.
PPCTV has never hesitated to invest its resources into bringing in new technology from overseas as well as new services that could be said to be completely new in Cambodia. For instance, we were the first and only company to operate the MMDS (Multichannel Multipoint Distribution Service) cable TV service which allows people to watch a variety of channels via the use of a special antenna that our company provides and later we have upgraded from MMDS to Wireless Digital TV service.
In 2005, PPCTV was the first to deliver cable TV programs via Fiber Optic cable which promises advanced clear picture and crystal clear sound quality. It was able to provide its customers with more than 80 channels of full entertainment ranging from sports, kids, reality shows to news and documentaries with the installation of a simple Set-top Box. Following the establishment of Fiber Optic system, PPCTV rolled out a range of internet services which included Cable Modem Broadband, ADSL 2, leased line connection and FTTH (Fiber To The Home).
Recently, PPCTV has launched the VOIP Callback Service which is a service to allow all Cambodians to make very affordable international phone calls at prices starting from a few cents. Apart from this, PPCTV has also rolled out another great cable TV services called Wireless Digital TV which is relatively advanced cable TV system to deliver cable TV programs to every home in Phnom Penh and even covers distance that stretches all the way to Kampong Speu, Takeo, Kandal and Kampong Chhang province. We make sure our services is affordable to everyone including not only the more well off but also the poor. We believe we can help to increase the knowledge of the average Cambodians when they are exposed to educational shows.
We have launched another revolutionary service which is called IPTV (Internet Protocol TV) that can provide audiences with a selection of up to a hundred plus of channels, covering full entertainment for each aspect of our life.
In 2013, PPCTV launch free TV station to serve those people in province who support PPCTV service. So we extend our service by launching a Free TV station call CTV 8 HD and going to reach whole Cambodia national wide. CTV8 HD channel is the first and leading Free-To-Air channel using the latest High Definition TV broadcasting and Internet Protocol network technology with information, education and entertainment programs for Cambodian.
Apart from delivering great entertainment to our clients, PPCTV also provides individuals or companies the option to advertise on any of our PPCTV channels.
PPCTV have been involved in serving people with the finest home entertainment and world-class Internet Service. We strive to make life more dynamic, enjoyable and entertaining by addressing the needs of Cambodian communities and keep pace with the changing world. We promise to bridge and keep people up abreast with the most creative and new technology available to Cambodia.
PPCTV continuously caters to the needs of the growing society of Cambodia.
Our mission is to serve and deliver multimedia entertainment through innovative integration of technologies with creativity to all people, home and businesses in Cambodia.
Our vision is to become a leading provider of world class channels and fast, reliable broadband internet in Cambodia.
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PPCTV will empower our own customers to discover their world, broaden their horizons and become active participants in shaping the future. "Bring Colors to Life" is our slogan. Our aim is to make all people`s life more enjoyable, interesting, meaningful and colorful. PPCTV will promise to bring the latest technology into Cambodia community.


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Bumbling crooks open fire in robbery of Houston adult novelty store
Police are searching for three bumbling thieves who opened fire during a robbery earlier this month at an adult novelty store in north Houston along the Interstate 45 frontage road.
The incident happened about 3:10 a.m. April 13 at Katz Boutique at 9820 North Freeway, according to the Houston Police Department.
Police said when the three men entered the store, one of them carried a rifle while another was armed with a revolver. The third suspect appeared to have no weapon.
During the robbery, the armed suspects bumped into each other, causing the pistol-toting man to open fire. Then the man with the rifle sprayed the inside of store with gunshots as well.
The trio frantically dashed from the store. As they left, the armed men fired into the store, blasting a mannequin and shattering the glass front door. In all, police said, eleven shots were fired.
No one was injured in the gunfire. One of two employees in the store at the time of the shooting hid when the suspects came inside. The other worker was in the back of the store. The thieves left empty-handed.
"These are by far the clumsiest crooks I've seen in a long time," said Jeff Brieden, an HPD investigator in the Robbery Division. "They were unpredictable in the robbery. They fired without regard to anyone."
The suspects were described as being Hispanic and between 18 and 25 years old.
The suspect armed with the rifle had black clothes over his head while the suspect carrying the handgun had a black and teal mask and wore a black-and-white, long-sleeved shirt.
No other descriptions of the suspects were released.
Anyone with information about the suspects is urged to contact the HPD Robbery Division at 713-308-0700 or Crime Stoppers at 713-222-TIPS.


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IGNORED BY THE. MAYOR, CLAIMED DIREOOR OF SAFETY, CHIEF OF POLICE AND PARK HEAD CITED AT PROTEST MEETING Complete Coverage lOC~l . STATE · NATIONAL WHY PAY MORE? THREATENING TO RESIGN, CHAIRMAN SAYS VOLUME 32 ========================~~~==========================~~~ PARTY MUST MEND FENCES TO GET SUPPORT By Houston F. Brooks At ... m('[tJnJ:! (r tnt. Third DIL .li, C",load Dt.·n 'l'~-31IC Or· ganlZation at the Brock Builrl,ng. All"n L"e Bndwell Cha:rman oJI"red hlS resignahon as a prote.t 3sainst the atlltude oC the ~:";~:~I~t ~~~hl~O r:~~~i~~,:;doI~~~!~:~~ t~i~~~~~:~~~~~ I failures, short-comings, and lack oC concern Cor Negro Democrats. He made a comparlSon oC how the Colored Republicans had been rewarded by the County Adminisllation. He also let it be known that he was unwilling to vote these people out of their jobs. He said it would be stupid. He said he would like to see as many Negroes recognized WIth jobs at the City HalL regardless of the party that put them there. "My scruples," he saId. "as a Democrat are not o{ such as to jeopardize the welfare o{ my race jw;t to get my party elected. II the Democrats expeet further worthwhile support from Negroes, they WIll have to mend their political fences, as the RepUblican. ha'·e played h~voc with them by the county appointments. Mr. Bridwell summed up the whole situallon by .aying that. "10 Ke"tucky 'egroes were advancing backward und~ the Democral!'-ha'·lng lost an Alderman, Member of the Board o{ Equalization. State Deputy Fire Marshall, and ~ member of the Democratic Organization." Very enthusiastic support was gIven to !IIr. Bridwelrs " Iews from the Hoor with ~ u(;h remarks as "\Vc want you, \Ve want an independent thmker -we do not want a Ycs-l\13n"~ and similar remarks. After lhe tumult, an o\"crwhl'hnmc: ,,"ote of cunfidenc(' was ~I\"cn hUT' • SERVICES FOR JOSEPH S. COTTER HONORED DR. BUNCHE GETS I SUCCUM.S 'EDUCATOR AND SPINGARN MEDAl! POET EULOGIZED Re",",urc>d by he support o[ the Organizati,'n, Mr. Bndwell kpokl' of ht)\\ he and LawYer F. B. Ransom h.-udl"<i OJ mo\·cn-,·nt that brl/usht dd at 0 car.diuz-tcs 10 l ndtanapoli.i fur thllr iadurc to adequately r,,\\ard .'c/:fI.es. Follo\','in~ :llr. BmLnll', .tt"nnl: CITED FG PRICELESS COHlP.iRUHON AN SAYS H, WAS DCEPL'I nUEilESTED IN Sp4.:cch the or~anl7ata)n cI~l'd the fl,Uowing ~r!c\"ancc.s: .'0 1 ' ct!ru r"prL'Slllta IOn at Democrallc Headquarters since the relT'n\al of ENDURI G P. T1fNCE It 10 (OU~,t.4! CHILD EN AND A BELIEVER I GOD J~~c:,-~C~~:~~~C ~a~~~~ ~~:~~~~~a~~s;~~ ~~:..~p~~n~:u~~~~~o~~ 1 I I I I C C 'I 1 h ·1 I New YOI'~. ~l~r<·h Ii-Dr. Bu-'Lhc" III b,' n Jul\' I j "I 1.11 .• ! ~:n~I~~n~~lcera~~ l~hc~~ ;~~c ~:S~i~t.h~~~~I~O i~e~r':~l~n~~~~: R31~h J. BUfI,--i1C, 3c-t inA UOlt~-d ~AACP -lO~h nllnual ~-linl "\':,,',' J{I::pnher~1 ~C~~~~~~ \p\-~;~t_:~l~~i~~ I ~I • 1·-CI('~'~~(.'/' ~~.~, l;~~r~~~cl2,- I ~ allons n_t...q;atllr in thl' M ldule n l,.. .: ... Angt-!·-:::.. Cal r The ""',1 I -~ _____' C _o_n_un_uc-d on page_4_l______ Ea~t h:1, b ..... cn awarded tht. 34th ;;Jete lext or th(' t.ltaUf.n: I "~3t(Jr. poet :ind bC"II)\·\."tl C I on, 1:1 1. l it· ;.-ltl''l:cild the pubJ'c S at the Chun:h ,)r OUf !\~. ·(·.f II 1'1.: uf L 'u!. \ ,11('- but altel' a HUSBAND KILLS \1 plll ~aln I!·\'llkl~ "a, an- 'In a 'ull~I"lll. "aI·.·.,,· Sa\,lour.lIl:! p. m. Th,". !.IY. ",., ,t"",,".tposs;ble forbilll Dr. Ralph BUDcbe ~~~~··~.~:,~~a;~: ~ fo; :h; :~~- ~~~. :o~d~,~~~.;"I~~hn~~~::;, ;:~ ~.,:~~~/~:~,," t~- C)~,~~~,!,~, .. ~ ~:,/~~~n~~ fi~::h~u~,.~s ";:rkU;: See article , -a.:1(·emC!ll of Ct.Iored Peoplp, lor ' . .;r.:ch the peuplLS 01 all ft."l I rec. tor of the church, in h IS b t!au" 'Ill-.le night school He was j ~ nM 1 Dr. Bunche " CIted ·' for hIS lions mav 1:" e abundant UI;."I!.._ ::-l- SP -EL-SINGER I VilkNISH r Mtn\ ' ~;'~::nt ~~:~O:ont~lctl~~ ~I~~~h m;~'~S~kl~~ &t"fkJI;' J"';:.,h ~IC:~- tl~ul eulogy, patd an appro rate in edJock to . the i\11ddle East and hIS endur- ruI negottal'un and medlat.-un I l - I BOnLE; ASKS $20,000 ::;.~ :<a~::c:~~~u=:~~;n::'~~~ ~cI:~a n~):'o~~~le~~d an~e\&I~I,~;: I NAMED AMBASSAD R ha, 109 made a fine cont r:bull" _______ I s Angr-lcs, . larch 17- A suit goal.·· ., \ 11 as for his \\-'o~k c~nflicts. renev.·s_ man~::; f:t_ h u TO LiBERIA- FIRST NEGRO to the advancement or t-riU.f·a overcame many obstacles t.o St. LoUl~ March 17 _ ~1rs. and began arguing With him fnr .20.000 dnma?l"s was filed a~ d_r~t(1r (If the trustp~shJtJ hi;; fellowman, gl\,es r lSC t., III J ., tlon and to the ~~ o f !-:zlla;"\- ff'a('h his .t:oaL }I(I- was an edu~ Lula ~13C 'nurse \\fright. na- about the proc~cdings of theIr 3aglnst thP Carnation Company d1\,--l!--,.n (: lhp Umted Nation!=;. hope for permanent world pt II, r.; -- . ~ .. Jty. ~n appn:t.·la~l\:e ~.t: ' I •.. n r .... (-allJr. mu.-..:ic ('{'nlp(l! ('r. humani .. t ionaUy known gospel ~inger di\'orce acllon. li e ~aid M.. T$ . by ~tr. a!1d Mrs. Harwell here I The: r:.(-dal. l'stabhshcd in 1914 artd confirms the rol o( 111"·_ \\ a:-h.n~t(Jn, Marth 1, - f ~I.~ (If m( mbers uf th~ ("hur t . f.l t. · tar ino. and a'L .n ll.-rnatJon:lity and former W.ife of the late Re\,. WrIght t old hlm that he "wrum't on tht.~ CHmPl3i.nt of placing milk bY.· tht late J. E. Spingarn, Innp:~ I natiollal peacemaker ~:; !ll,Ii&'~ Ivard R .. Dudlt.· y (tf 1.N." I y,)! ~ n·ns-at-Iarg and whit" 'n I '.11 known p<JCt. Ft;r ",vcr tiny J . W. lIurse of Kansas CIty. was going to get away w ith ll." I fnr their two suns. a !)et of tw ins, lime (,~it al or the AACP. i.o.; no; lest profe!'Sion.. was n(lm:nated to be aIT1ba:~sa ()~Cd (.~u~al~'rs and mcm t .... 'OC; of ~·l'3rs he sen 'cd ae.; a h.3ch('r ;0 slam U1 the kitchen of her home I The ar,umcnt contmuC<i in· In a bottle w~lC'h contamed var- gl\'t!ll an nuaUy to the ArncTic-an "For his chstinguishcd ~t':hJl. rior to 71,~rla by Prc~ Irtf" ·l'r~.~ ~h c ~nal ~' Educat:on a··.·Il', I the Lou.svill~ PUlJl:l Schvul early Saturday mornIng, March the kItchen. Wright said. that I OIsh and whIch was con:-.umed I Nel!rt, deenl~c to have made at ~h ' :> in the MYTdnl sturl,:t, til"'. uwn. J ( IS nuw mIntS 1:- :0 tee une ra . Syst In and w prindpal of the 12. by her second husband. his wile advanced on hIm In a by the chIldren. The complaInt ··the hl.bh{~t 'achievement du:-- a id in fashiuning sectIOns ot tilt: j\fncfln rou~lr)" , Mr. Cottcr had been I nrn I S. Coleridge Ta~ tnr Sl."hflHI when Reu n O. Wrinht. 70-year-old ,"threatenIng" manner WIth her alll'l!ed that (,n or about Febrtl- '"I!: the pr.ceeding year or years United . Nations charter at San Tht: PresIdent s aclJ'ln fol- to hIS home for sc\'eraI m" ... lh~. hc- reached the age " f retirer(. l;red postal e~ploye. hand under her apron. FearIng ary 7. 19~9, the CarnatIon Com- In any hnr.('rnble fi eld 0{ human "'ran risco. h .. palll>takln,- r l I··· ... ed an agreement be 'VCCll and became definitely 1:1 ,. , hut mt'nt in 1942. H ",as th" fOWl- Mrs. Wnght, who was 60 . [or his safety, Wright saId, he I pany, th producers and d .s- cndl·"v('r· It L, awarded by iorts as director of the U,,'l ... t Ule State Depart~ents cf the t .... o months ago. He , ue'·'" t". t dtr tlf the st",y I~ILng cont -\,t years old. was shot SIX times in went to hed bedroom and pro- trJbutors of "camalion milk" vot~ of a C'flmmitt e of nInC Nations T rustreshlp DiVi,ot.;I\, ! rcspectl\'e countries .a . r c W Monday. March 14, at 6 :. .1 t J.:. m. (Continued 00 page 4) a quarrel o'·er the coup. Ie's Im- cured his .32 cabber revolver. I producL-d and prepared a bottle F"rmaJ I'resen~alion to Dr (C<lntinued on page 4) weeks a~o. where the ~JOllty or -------------~--- pmd:r:g dIvorce. When he returned to the kit- of mIlk In a grossly negligent -------- - th: Illd"'ldual if.113t;ons was CC PT At a coroner's inquest Mon- chen. he SaId, 1\1rs. WnGht again wann r in that they placed the REPUBlraus AND DIY'URAI' fORn r"lsed, . A E ROAD d:lY morning. the klllmg was ad_anced to ..... ard hIm. He S!lOt ,ame In a bottle containin~ a '-Aft 1\&\,.,. ~ \~ Dudl ~ \\as ~amed to the post t'rmed "justifiable homIcide" her six limes. large quantity rof varnish, paint. (OMPROMISE' CHAR"~ ~.1U6' WHITE IN (I j\! ~"<;l !'Ummer ,.h n m . persons and Wright was {reed. He wid Pohce testIfied at the Inquest and other foreIgn sub..tance>' , VU "-WIt , ~H ~houl:ht that the Pr=dent had the six-man coroner's jury that that they had gone to th Wnght totally d<tnm ntal to human l'ISt a few more monlhs 10 the GANG VER h,· shot Ius wiCe after she had home on three or four occaSIOn;, consumplJ(>n. I w .. , ' ''/(tlln, l\1"n·h 17 - Not I who listen., sympathctical!y to) V/hl'" H,,~<e. DieT ;.(han~L'CI on hIm in a threat"n- on . pea c e dlslurbance calls. Th .. complaint W"," filM III ,n:y h:>,,· (·~.arll"" and cou'>ter- the Dixiecrats:' ; I a:::.:.;~1 i': tt~: ~~~or'''':~ ::;:;; In;: mannl'r. He saId he thought T .... lce. they saId. Wnght showed th Supertor Court through the "h~ rJ!'~ tJ':'.1 hurled from ~th Also, McGrath SaId, h, ~I"I ';Quntry. ' ~hl' 'f\.io~ J;OlOg to attack hIm SIt:-:'s of lnJunes about t~e head offlf:<'~ of Attorney Vmel' Min· tht \it JlIot; rallc. Admlm ~t r:l:lnn I Lu"as. Democratic MaJt) rlt:t v. lth .1 knife. wh1(.·~ he. claimed ,\.er mthcted f(l(: T()\\ n~t>nd. Jr., dem:\r.dln~ arid t . ( r<-pubhca!1 camps ~Inre I LPadcr, received a tell ;'r.UI' MOVES HEALTH MEET . - WTll!bt s31d that h" was in the . by h .. WIfe. . dam"I:" for e3th "f Ihe <a I" tl" (,.", tr<on belw ... n an I .... f Wh·te J k · I . ~ N,,\\ York. March 1,-1-1, I t In th" mC<lnhme Norvell Lee a b.1thn. .. m Saturday m rnmg I For 21 . years, :'.lr . WrIght dl· twins I~ the s um uf $10,000 ·~d. tT,I·": " !tl·"uhhl·~-&< ant!. :h" 1t~ ,,:, NeI:~o I~:d ....r .'p~,;:: .:;:, FROM BROWN HnUl Ru,un. graduate of (h··"'.11 m mb,'r of the U. S. O~.' ic wh n h:s wife came to thl.' door Conhnued on pn page 4 DIX I ,_I, ", hlch agreed • ., a acctbed us " f d lsloalt to th __ Statt T('achers Colleg . r. :_a",!! 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Booth, chairman of the and no bUIlding WIthOUt a W\IJl- "has ducked and dodged" n but was prevented because o{ Day Challenges to Marria;; and An a peal to th U. S. S _ , . . . as d terred 'D tion, previouslY had prohibited Civil Service Board said that dation.-Lavington. ciVIl rights and "i a trader. her iUn th Family." pr me tour! was di~CUS!""<I L~t ~:n~'f 1t:~7Jn~!'7~ t~u'f;~"the alst THE LEADER ADVERTISERS 1
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fisticuffs wrote:Lock in the loss.
Small price to pay for all the American jobs that were saved.
You must be an economist because your reasoning is so econometrically based. Save jobs at any cost. Got it. I'm writing this down. You should hear from the Committee in Norway in 2013.
Why don't we just pay people tax revenues to dig ditches too? I mean, a job is a job regardless of how inferior, costly, non-competitively-advantaged the product is. Jobs Jobs Jobs. Better not cut defense spending either. JOBS.


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I think there are entirely too many people in my life these days, and none who seem to understand my words, so I'm not going to be sharing so much so publicly anymore. Maybe once in a while. Comments are welcome, though. Ill try to moderate when I can.
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Re: Goodstein expansion
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It's unclear whether the question is simply to find the base-b expansion of an integer or, instead, to write an algorithm to do it. If the former, several built-in Mathematica functions do this (did you bother to search the documentation for "base" to discover them yourself??): BaseForm[87, 5] (* 322 *) (* 5 *) Head[BaseForm[87, 5]] (* BaseForm *) Note that for BaseForm, the base b must be in Range[2, 36] -- so as to allow use of the ten digits together with the twenty-six letters of the English alphabet for the coefficients. IntegerDigits[87, 5] (* {3, 2, 2} *) Note no upper bound, other than system limits, on the size of the base with IntegerDigits. And probably the output from IntegerDigits is more useful for further calculation than that of BaseForm. IntegerString[87, 5] (* 322 *) Head[IntegerString[87, 5]] (* String *) If, however, your question is to write code implementing an algorithm to do it, then a good way to start would be to look at a proof of what I like to call the "Base Value Theorem", which asserts that for arbitrary integer base b > 1 and arbitrary positive integer n, there exists a unique nonnegative integer k and a unique list c[[0]], c[[1]], . . ., c[[k]] such that: n == Sum[c[[j]] b^j, {j, 0, k}] The essence of the proof is the following, for a given b and n: (1) Find the smallest positive integer t such that b^t > n. Set k = t - 1. (2) Divide n by b^k, getting divisor d and remainder r. Set c[[k]] = d. (3) Repeated apply the preceding steps but with r in place of the original n. To implement this in Mathematica, you'd probably want to use recursion. For Step (2), of course use Quotient and Mod. The trick is undoubtedly how to do Step (1). If you're willing to use logarithms, then there's an obvious way to proceed. But if you want to keep strictly within the domain of integers, then you'd want to form _some_ power of b that's greater than n and then step down from it to obtain t; an extravagant way would be to start with the (possibly too-huge) power b^n. Hope this helps. On Feb 8, 2014, at 4:02 AM, Brambilla Roberto Luigi (RSE) <Roberto.Brambilla at rse-web.it> wrote: > > The Goodstein expansion of integers (see for instance Stillwell," Roads to Infinity", pag.47) > > Given an integer n we can write it as sum of powers of 2 > > 87=2^6+2^4+2^2+1=2^(2^2+2)+2^(2^2)+2^2+2^0 > > More generally assuming an integer b as a base, we can write n as a sum of power of b with coefficients <b > es.: b=5 > > 87=3*5^2+2*5^1+2*5^0. > > I can do it by means of a long and obvious routine with lots of If[] and While[]. > May be someone can do it by means of the recursive properties of Mathematica language? > Many thanks to all the friends of this group! > Roberto > > > > > > RSE SpA ha adottato il Modello Organizzativo ai sensi del D.Lgs.231/2001, in > forza del quale l'assunzione di obbligazioni da parte della Societ=E0 avvieune con firma di un procuratore, munito di idonei poteri. > RSE adopts a Compliance Programme under the Italian Law (D.Lgs.231/2001). Ac> cording to this RSE Compliance Programme, any commitment of RSE is taken by the signature of one Representative granted by a proper Power of Attorney.= > Le informazioni contenute in questo messaggio di posta elettronica = sono ris= > ervate e confidenziali e ne e' vietata la diffusione in qualsiasi modo = o for= > ma. Qualora Lei non fosse la persona destinataria del presente = messaggio, La= > invitiamo a non diffonderlo e ad eliminarlo, dandone gentilmente = comunicazi= > one al mittente. The information included in this e-mail and any = attachments= > are confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the = correct rec= > ipient, you are kindly requested to notify the sender immediately, to = cancel= > it and not to disclose the contents to any other person. > > Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu Mathematics & Statistics Dept. Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 240 246-7240 (H) University of Massachusetts 710 North Pleasant Street Amherst, MA 01003-9305
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Cookie's Week, Another Way to Retell
Lesson 5 of 5
Objective: SWBAT use drawings to retell a story while working in a group. Student Objective: I can work with my friends to retell a story.
Big Idea: Retelling a story builds comprehension. It also reinforces sequencing since it demands remembering information, events, and processes.
Boys and girls in today's lesson, you will have a chance to work with your friends to retell the story, Cookie's Week. You need to pick your own groups of three, but some of you will have a group of four. If there are children who sit on the fringe, I made groups of four so that everyone had a place for this activity. Huddle up and quietly chat among yourselves as I asked what Cookie did each day. For example, "On Monday, Cookie......" "On Tuesday, Cookie..." This way you will all get to share what you recall.
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Each of your groups will be given a set of picture cards for retelling. Your job is to take the cards and put the story cards in order, as I read the story. It will be a bit noisy, so it is not like a traditional storytelling time. I still want you to use your quiet voices though so that everyone care hear me read. Once the story is read, you will have a turn to retell the story to their groups.
Story retelling is a technique that ties into learning experiences and is an effective way to improve children's reading comprehension. For young children who are just starting to develop their reading skills, this exercise can be extremely helpful. Story recall leads to large improvements in story comprehension, making inferences, and understanding of story structure. Rather than having children answer specific questions about story details, story retelling requires children to focus on the bigger picture of the story and therefore allows the teacher to see how well a child understands the story as a whole. By having children tell the story in their own words, educators can identify children's strengths, and specific areas of difficulty that arise for individual students.
The photos that have been added to the resources section are named after our classroom toy cat named Crackers. Crackers acted out Cookie's Week so that I could use his photos, but there is another great resource here for retelling the story.
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One at a time, each group is called up to show the class in which retelling order that they placed their cards. At the end, the class will give a thumbs-up or thumbs-down on whether they agree or disagree with the order that has been established. Groups will have the opportunity to rearrange their cards, if necessary. You have a done a great job working together to retell the story of Cookie's Week! Now we are going to take what you have learned about the days of the week and we are going to do some work about putting the days in order. Where could you look if you got stuck and could not remember what day comes next? That's right. You could look at our calendar board.
After this activity, the children worked on a Days of the Week:cut, paste, and stamping to practice putting the days of the week in order.


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A top notch TV is one thing but if you ain't got home cinema sound to go with it, then you ain't got squat, or so goes the parlance. It's a fact that audio is a huge part of video. There's a wealth of experiments on the matter that we don't care to tire either yourself or ourselves with just now but take it as read that folks who watch tellies with proper sound rate TVs considerably better than the identical sets with just the in-built speakers.
Naturally, you might not think you have the space nor family support to add an amp and set of large boxes to your nicely decorated living space but we've catered for all in our round-up here of the very best home cinema systems that money can buy. No excuses now. Get yourself sorted.
Mission M-Cube 5.1 home cinema speaker package (£550)
Around for yonks and still one of our faves, British brand Mission's effort is a great choice for anyone after a home cinema that doesn't dominate a small room. A traditional 5.1 array (though expandable to 7.1), the five small 85mm-square cubes that make-up the system use the often derided NXT flatpanel speaker system to achieve the impressive flatness-to-fullness ratio. Small and easy to hide, the M-Cube isn't just about invisible audio. NXT really works here.
Attached directly to an included subwoofer, the cubes spit out decent enough sonics for any small room. Music doesn't amaze but movies are lent a wide, punchy soundstage and from almost no hardware. Very impressive.
You will need a separate AV receiver to take a feed from the subwoofer (which, unusually, all the satellite speakers attach to) but, as a package, the M-Cube leaves little to chance. Inside the box aren't just high quality cut-to-fit cables and wall brackets to hang the cubes, but even a choice of faux suede covers for each speaker. Style rules, but there's enough substance here for a small and splendid home cinema.
Samsung HT-D6750W 3D Blu-ray 5.1 home cinema-in-a-box (£800)
Samsung's latest one-box home cinema system is simplicity itself. Given that you don't have the room for a 7.1 surround sound system - who does? - Samsung has kindly created a fake 7.1 mode that works pretty well at creating an enveloping soundstage. One of the biggest systems here, the HT-D6750W is built around two tallboy speakers for left and right audio, a much smaller centre for dialogue and wireless rear speakers to handle surround duties.
Now, the rears aren't actually cable free but instead connect to a separate wireless transmitter that instantly - and constantly - makes a wireless connection to the Blu-ray hub. It's handy if they're stranded at the back of a living room but do bear in mind that the transmitter needs to be attached to the mains, so in a best case scenario cables will have to be trailed around the back wall of a room instead of along both sides. For owners of projectors, however, the whole design is back-to-front. It's wireless front speakers that would be useful. So, this isn't the set up for you.
More handy for most is the HT-D6750W's top-draw 3D Blu-ray player, built-in amplifier, full suite of Samsung's Smart Hub apps and the wired iPod dock. It's not the best built nor best sounding system around, but its all-in-one 3D and wireless features will make this gloss black set up irresistible to some.
X-Dream Rocker gaming chair (£250)
Although not strictly a home cinema system, we had to include this all-in-one gaming chair for its superlative sonics. It's hefty at 29kg and supremely comfortable for long-term Call of Duty, err, duties, but that's not why we like it. Fitted with a subwoofer and a digital amplifier, the X-Dream Rocker's headrest section has a stereo speaker placed either side of the head position. A promised virtual surround mode never materialises but no matter because the close-up stereo is hugely impressive - and particularly immersive.
A control panel lets you tweak volume, the intensity of the subwoofer's rumble and even the strength of corresponding vibrations. (On full vibrate it can feel like a massage chair). Setting it up is fairly easy, though we're not sure it needs a wireless box. The chair has to be attached to mains anyway, so what's another cable? Still, for those wanting to sit some distance from their console, the AAA battery-powered wireless box attached to a console or AV cinema amp makes that possible.
Monitor Audio Bronze BX Series separates (from £1,215)
We could go into thousands on this category, but the improvements on a reliable all-rounder system like Monitor Audio's Bronze BX Series are negligible. Able to power a serious and seriously impressive, exceptionally loud home cinema, this nicely crafted collection of so-called entry-level speakers are strapped with Monitor Audio's flagship technologies from its pricier Platinum and RX ranges. It's more than enough for a decent-sized living space or dedicated home cinema room, though you will need to add a £500 AV receiver.
Designed with an attractive curved edge and available in four vinyl wood finishes (Natural Oak, Walnut, Rosemah and Black Oak), the matching range comprises the BX1 and BX2 centre channel speakers, BX5 and flagship BX6 floorstanders, BX-LCR and super-compact BX-FX surround speakers, and powerhouse BXW-10 subwoofer. Power, responsiveness and accurate bass are the rewards, but it's the heroic amount of enveloping detail from the rear channels - glorious with music - that will linger longest.
Samsung HT-D7100 Cube 2.1 system (£390)
Another known as the Cube, the Samsung HT-D7100 Cube 2.1 system would suit a small flat or apartment where a top-end Samsung D8000 LED TV already takes pride of place on the wall. Styled to match that particular TV range, though able to work with anything, this 100W device will fill a small room.
Created with puzzle dimensions so as to fit together and almost disappear among books, Blu-rays and DVDs on a shelf under a TV; the Cube is built around a very compact AV receiver-come-3D Blu-ray player that includes Samsung's Smart Hubs apps, too. WiFi is also here for both easier access to those Smart Hub apps, and for streaming AVI, MKV, WMV and AVC HD files across a home network.
The Cube system doesn't so much create a home cinema as lend a super-slim TV a touch more power and finesse for movies but, for occasional use, its flexibility is hugely appealing.


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text: Beat Seedling Disease November 15, 2013 09:14 AM Tweet When seedling disease attacks after emergence, symptoms are wilting plants. Dig to see if the wilting was caused by disease, frost or insect damage. © William M. Brown Jr. TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Darrell Smith Farm Journal Conservation and Machinery Editor Email Once inoculum invades a field, blight is always a threat, but management minimizes losses While we have to cope with winter first, it's hard not to get antsy for spring. Just like warm breezes, green grass and baby animals, you can count on seedling blight being a threat if you've ever had it in your field. That's because Pythium, Fusarium, Diplodia, Rhizoctonia and Penicillium root rots are soil-borne diseases. They survive on crop residue—not just corn but also soybean residue. Except for Pythium, they also are seed-borne, providing a second avenue into fields that might not previously have had the disease. You can manage seedling disease if armed with knowledge, says Farm Journal Field Agronomist Ken Ferrie. You need to because seedling blights can easily reduce a corn stand by 20%. As with any pest, whether seedling diseases develop depends on the pest triangle—the presence of a pest, a susceptible host and environmental conditions. "All three must come together for the disease threat to materialize," Ferrie says. "Some years, depending on the weather, seedling diseases won't be much of an issue," Ferrie adds. "But if you take them for granted, when the three factors come together, they will jump up and bite you." That happened to some farmers this past spring. As always, disease inoculum was present on crop residue—one leg of the pest triangle. Then farmers planted corn seed—a susceptible host and the second leg of the triangle. Finally, environmental conditions—the third leg of the triangle—were ideal for seedling disease. "Because of the 2012 drought, there was more undecomposed crop residue than usual in fields," Ferrie says. "Then the spring of 2013 turned cool and wet." Because disease organisms live on old crop residue, seedling blight is a threat in conventional tillage, as well as no-till. Set your planter to avoid placing the seed in contact with residue. "We expect more seedling disease in no-till because there is more crop residue," Ferrie continues. "In 2013, we saw more seedling disease than ever in conventionally tilled corn fields. With less residue decomposing during the fall, winter and early spring, tillage operations buried it right at the level of the seed, below the reach of row cleaners. As I scouted fields after planting and dug around plants, I often found residue tucked right around the seed—fine material we don't usually have to deal with. As a result, we found as much blight in conventional tillage as in no-till this year." Three-pronged attack. Seedling diseases are primarily caused by fungi, Ferrie explains. "They can attack the seed, the seed root (a root established from the seed, as opposed to crown roots that develop later) or the mesocotyl (which grows upward from the seed to the soil surface). So they do their damage early in the season." Fighting seedling diseases requires protecting the seed after planting. "The seed provides the food supply for the young seedling until it reaches the V4 or V5 growth stage," Ferrie says. "This supply of food pushes the mesocotyl to the surface. Seedling diseases can destroy the food reserve in the seed, or they can destroy the mesocotyl, so the tiny plant can't transport food." Your first defense measure is to know where seedling disease is already present. That requires scouting right after emergence, prior to the V4 or V5 growth stage. "One symptom of seedling disease is missing plants, killed before they emerged," Ferrie says. "Dig down in the furrow and find the cause—seedling disease or skips caused by your planter. If it's seedling disease, the seed will be soft and decaying, usually with mold around it. If you find no seed, the planter was skipping." If seedling disease attacks after emergence, the symptom will be wilting plants. Digging will reveal whether the wilting was caused by disease, which killed the seed or the mesocotyl before the crown roots emerged and took over the feeding of the plant, or something else interfered, such as frost or insect damage. If you don't scout until late summer, you won't be able to identify the causes of missing plants, Ferrie emphasizes. Even worse than missing plants are plants that survive seedling disease only to become stunted. "When a plant is missing, you have a hole in the stand," Ferrie says. "Because it lets sunlight penetrate the canopy, adjacent plants may flex their ears, and you will gain some yield from those plants. But if a stunted corn plant doesn't die, it functions as a weed." The ideal environment for seedling blight is wet soil with soil temperatures in the 50°F to 55°F range (except for Rhizoctonia, which prefers slightly warmer soil). Residue in contact with seed increases the risk. That can result from no-tilling without row cleaners, which might hairpin residue in the furrow, or by shallowly incorporating residue at the seed depth. "It's not conditions on the day of planting that determine the amount of seedling disease," Ferrie says. "It's the conditions from planting until the plant can sustain itself with the crown roots, which is usually around the V4 or V5 stage. If you plant in ideal conditions and the weather turns cold and wet, you'll be fighting seedling blight." Survival tips. Here are several steps to help seeds fight off disease: Select vigorous, high-quality seed. "The longer it takes from planting to emergence and for the root system to develop, the greater the risk from seedling blight," Ferrie says. "Quick emergence and early vigor help a seed survive adverse conditions. I witnessed a comparison in which a farmer put two hybrids in his planter: with the less vigorous hybrid, 15% to 20% of the seeds failed to survive. With the more vigorous one, there were no failures." High quality means good cold germination scores and very little pericarp damage. (Damage to the pericarp, or seed coat, allows disease to enter.) "The seed tag usually only gives the warm germination score," Ferrie says. "But cold and saturated cold germination scores and pericarp damage make the difference in disease resistance. "Some seed suppliers will provide cold germination scores if you ask for them. They probably won't know the amount of pericarp damage; to get that, you may have to send a sample to a seed laboratory," he adds. Eliminating standing water reduces the risk of seedling blight. Improve drainage and remove compaction in the spring. Eliminate compaction in your fields. "Horizontal layers put in by spring horizontal tillage will back upwater and create a saturated environment for the seed to sit in," Ferrie says. "Most seedling disease organisms are water molds, so they become very active if soil is saturated for 24 hours." Building good surface structure will prevent soil from sealing after a rain, making it easier for plants to emerge. Avoid working soil wet and creating a rough seedbed. Cloddy conditions cause seed/soil contact problems, resulting in poor germination. Be patient with planting. "Avoid planting into cold, wet soil," Ferrie advises. "If you know a field has a seedling blight problem, plant that field later, when the soil is warmer." Don't depend entirely on the fungicide applied by your seed company. "Most fungicides only provide 10 days of protection," Ferrie says. "If cold, wet weather delays emergence, that's not long enough. In 2013's cool, wet spring, some corn planted on April 9 didn't come up until May 15. So try to wait for the soil to warm up." Do everything you can to reduce stress on the seed because stress slows growth. "Adding an insecticide at planting may help," Ferrie says. "Avoid fertilizer burn and herbicide injury." Apply starter fertilizer. "We tend to have fewer blight problems when we apply starter because it pushes the corn along," Ferrie says. Set your planter for soil conditions present in each field. "Furrow management is a big factor in seedling disease," Ferrie says. "Too much down pressure on the planting unit smears the sidewalls. That causes poor seed-to-soil contact, and the furrow functions like a rain gutter. This happens in conventional tillage as well as no-till." Don't plant any deeper than you have to, especially in fields with a history of seedling blight. "Don't plant so shallow that you get rootless corn syndrome," Ferrie says. "But the deeper you plant, the more disease issues you will have. Early in the planting season, increasing planting depth from 1¼" to 2¼" can delay emergence by three weeks. The deeper you plant, the colder the soil is, creating better conditions for blight and worse conditions for crop growth. You must put the seed in moisture, but over the years, I've seen more corn lost from planting too deep than from planting too shallow, because of seedling blight." Remember, Ferrie concludes, once an area has seedling blight issues, they won't go away. "From that point on, you must manage seedling disease," he says. "If you don't, you'll get bitten every few years, when conditions are right for disease organisms." Learn and Profit from Corn Navigator The Corn Navigator series will focus on various sources of crop stress and how to manage the situation in order to drive corn yields and profits higher. www.FarmJournal.com/corn_navigator You can e-mail Darrell Smith at email@example.com. Back to news


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|Source: Time magazine
Perhaps in the ever-declining world of print media, any publicity really is good publicity. When Time magazine released its "Are You Mom Enough?" cover showing Jamie Lynne Grumet breast-feeding her three-year-old son on May 10, the cover generated an enormous surge of talk on the Web, much of it negative. As the photo became a national trending topic on Twitter on Friday, the din ranged from tweets discussing the shocking, near-pornographic nature of the photo by some, and disgust at the concept from others.
Jarring though the photo may be, the story itself, however, is actually a profile of 70-year old Dr. Bill Sears, an "attachment parenting guru." Rick Stengel, Time's managing editor, explaining the cover, told Forbes magazine, "To me, the whole point of a magazine cover is to get your attention. From the moment that we started talking about this story as a cover possibility, it was like I couldn't get out of the meetings. There was so much opinion and passion about it, and discussion."
Grumet seemed surprised by her sudden fame, reports the Los Angeles Times. "Oh my gosh!" she posted on her Facebook page. "Aram and I are on the cover of @timemagazine."
However, it was clear that Time knew exactly the sensation the cover would cause. On Friday it tweeted from @TIME: "You've seen the cover, but have you read the cover story by @katepickert? | ti.me/KVL4I6."
AdAge reports that Time said it sold more online subscriptions on May 10 than it did all of the week before. With such a bold—and arguably misleading—publicity move to create its own news cycle, Time has proven it's apt at both reporting and creating news.
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A few days ago someone was posting about the show the Dead did in Jamaica. This morning on a mailing list, David Gans happened to mention that he'd just uploaded to his Flickr page some shots he'd taken at that very fest.
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