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Watch a movie on eExtra every Saturday night at 8PM. Here's what's on the menu for January 2018.
Find eExtra on OpenView HD channel 105 and on DStv channel 195.
We're ringing in the New Year with laugh-out-loud comedy flicks every Saturday:
Damsels In Distress
Saturday, 6 January at 8PM
A trio of girls set out to change the male-dominated environment of the Seven Oaks college campus, and to rescue their fellow students from depression, grunge and low standards of every kind.
Starring Greta Gerwig, Adam Brody, and Analeigh Tipton.
Morning Glory
Saturday, 13 January at 8PM
An upstart television producer accepts the challenge of reviving a struggling morning show program with warring co-hosts.
Starring Rachel McAdams, Harrison Ford and Diane Keaton.
Scary Movie 4
Saturday, 20 January at 8PM
Cindy finds out the house she lives in is haunted by a little boy and goes on a quest to find out who killed him and why. Also, Alien "Tr-iPods" are invading the world and she has to uncover the secret in order to stop them.
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Saturday, 27 January at 8PM
As inventor Andy Brewster is about to embark on the road trip of a lifetime, a quick stop at his mom's house turns into an unexpected cross-country voyage with her along for the ride.
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The retiring chief of the Fairfax County Water Authority will receive almost twice the pension he would have been entitled to, thanks to a new policy that also guarantees his successor a similarly generous retirement package.
The unprecedented bonuses were approved Sept. 15 on a 7 to 3 vote by the board of Virginia's largest water utility, which serves 1.3 million residents in Fairfax and parts of Loudoun and Prince William counties. Opponents said they disapprove of spending public money to sweeten benefits for top managers for doing their jobs.
Supporters said extra compensation would help attract top-quality general managers who had private-sector careers or retired from other local governments.
"I am confident that fair-minded people who take the time to examine what we have done will agree that it is in the best interests of Fairfax Water," Board Chairman Harry F. Day said in statement. General Manager Charlie C. Crowder Jr. will receive $80,000 a year when he retires in December, up from the $45,265 he otherwise would be entitled to based on his length of service.
Crowder "has had a reasonable expectation that we would correct the problem with our retirement plan prior to his retirement," Day wrote. Crowder, who will be credited for 22 years of service instead of the 12 he has worked, receives a pension from Newport News, Va., his former employer.
The board received about 30 phone calls, e-mails and letters this summer urging a "no" vote on the extra compensation, spokesman Jeannie Bailey said.
The board discussed the policy in a closed session before a public vote. But member Burton J. Rubin said the public was given no notice of the vote and was denied a chance to address the board.
"It was done amazingly slickly. A shell game" to avoid public scrutiny, Rubin said.
Crowder, through Bailey, declined to comment.
The board has named Charles Murray, the utility's second in command, to succeed Crowder. Murray was hired as executive officer two years ago from the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission. Under the new policy, if Murray, who is in his fifties, retires from the authority, his pension will be calculated based on one extra year -- up to a maximum of 10 -- for each year he serves. The Fairfax board has not negotiated Murray's new salary, Bailey said. Crowder, 65, receives $177,020 as general manager.
Del. Robert D. Hull (R-Fairfax) said yesterday that he will go ahead with his plan to introduce legislation in the General Assembly this winter that would change the state code to limit public authorities from rewarding top executives with credit on their pensions. He said he cannot stop the authority's action, though.
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Farrar breaks through at Giro!
Sunday, May 9, 2010
The Netherlands
Tyler Farrar
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"It's fantastic to have won," Farrar said after outsprinting Australian Matthew Goss and Italian Fabio Sabatini at the end of the 209km stage in Utrecht, The Netherlands. "It's certainly one of the special ones."
Stage 2 was the second of three days' racing in The Netherlands, before the race moves to Italy for the remaining two-and-a-half weeks. The flat but twisty route from Amsterdam to Utrecht challenged riders with narrow roads and obstacles.
There were a handful of big crashes in the final 50km, including one that took down Farrar. His teammates dropped back and paced Farrar back to the main field, keeping him out of trouble until the finish.
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The crashes split the field into groups, and race leader Bradley Wiggins was caught out, losing 37 seconds to Farrar's lead group. The American now sits second overall, just 1 second behind race leader Cadel Evans of Australia. His teammate Millar is now fifth overall, 4 seconds back.
Monday's stage 4 travels from Amsterdam to Middleburg and is expected to come down to another sprint.
May 8-30
Stage 2, Amsterdam-Utrecht. 209km
1. Tyler Farrar (USA), Garmin-Transitions, 4:56:46
2. Matthew Goss (Aus), HTC-Columbia, same time
3. Fabio Sabatini (Ita), Liquigas-Doimo, same time
4. Andre Greipel (Ger), HTC-Columbia, same time
5. Alessandro Petacchi (Ita), Lampre-Farnese Vini, same time
Overall (after Stage 2)
1. Cadel Evans (Aus), 5:07:09
2. Tyler Farrar (USA), Garmin-Transitions, at 0:01
3. Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz), Astana, at 0:03
4. Richie Porte (Aus), Saxo Bank, same time
5. David Millar (GB), Garmin-Transitions, at 0:04
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TV: The Kid From 'Iron Eagle' To Own A Gentleman's Club On "Dexter"
The Seventh Season of "Dexter" starts airing on September 30th at 9pm ET/PT, and we're starting to get a glimpse of the shape it might take. Now that his sister, Deb (Jennifer Carpenter), knows he's a killer – and is in love with him – Season Seven was already promising to deviate from the formula a bit.
We already know that Ray Stevenson booked a multiepisode arc playing Isaac, the leader of a Russian organized crime syndicate. Now Deadline is reporting, "Jason Gedrick is joining Season 7 of Dexter in a multi-episode arc. He will play the manager of a Miami-area gentlemen's club that becomes linked to a high-profile murder case in the Showtime drama. Production on Season 7 begins in May in Los Angeles."
Jason Gedrick was most recently seen in HBO's "Luck", so it's not like he hasn't been working. But to me, he'll always be Doug Masters – the scrappy underage fighter pilot ho straps a cassette deck to his thigh while flying jets, hanging out with Chappy Sinclair and rescuing his dad from evil despots. Tragically – his character was killed in the opening moments of Iron Eagle 2.
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Saturday's massive anti-income tax rally is history.
Not all of the placards and banners that were hoisted so energetically above the 40,000-plus protesters remained on the trash heap afterwards. They were scavenged by the energetic staff of the state Museum of Connecticut History -- security guards included -- and are being painstakingly preserved for some future exhibit on recent Connecticut political history.


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The Consolidated server stack has been one of the big items over the last year using converged network adapters, blades, and integrated storage that is designed around providing an a single SKU to order and that provides enough resources for a set number of VMs. Currently the VCE coalition has the VBlock which combines VMware, Cisco, and EMC products into a single stack. HP has its Matrix stack. But where is IBM's and Dell's stacks. Could the acquisition of 3Par be the beginning of a integrated stack play from Dell?
3Par provides several features that are missing from Dell's current storage line-up:
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Both of these are required to make a stack play. Easy to use and configure storage as well as easy to manage for multiple-tenants is a requirement going forward. Combined with Dell's Blades and other storage combinations, we could see the emergence of the Dell Stack.
Dell combines many components already, including some from EMC, however, if Dell is to produce a stack it should not include EMC as that is part of another stack and could impact both. Perhaps EMC would sell to either (VCE or Dell) customers like they do now. But having a Stack that does not use EMC storage would be a fairly interesting win.
It would also be interesting if Dell built a lower end stack, one that usable by small business with the growth to meet the medium and large enterprises. Dell could use 3Par to easily grow the storage along those lines by combining other arrays within a single 3Par virtual storage device.
If this is a stack play, will they aim for VMware, Hyper-V, or Xen/KVM as the virtualization player or remain vendor neutral? They do state that they are acquiring 3Par for Virtualization optimized storage, which really makes me think this is a stack play as well as an investment.
Visit http://content.dell.com/us/en/corp/d/secure/2010-08-16-ir-release.aspx for the full announcement.


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Last weekend I planned a "just us girls" outing with my sister, Katy. I've been in Georgia almost two weeks and we really haven't had any time to just talk. There is always family visiting, noise from kids, grandkids, and dogs, lots of hubbub going on. Add to all that she has been working full-time and you'll understand why there's been so little time. We needed time to just be sisters and friends again. A day trip to Thomasville, GA (a little over an hour's drive from Valdosta) was just what we needed. I found lots of ideas on activities to do on our day trip but the Taste of Thomasville Food Tour seemed to be the perfect activity. We're big foodies and a tour with great food, lots of history and architecture was just what we needed.
We arrived in town about an hour before our tour and took the opportunity to look around. Thomasville is a quaint pre-Civil War town with a charming restored downtown historic area and a vibrant food scene.
The tour met in the courtyard of The Gift Shop which is right in the heart of the downtown area. It was a busy Saturday for The Taste of Thomasville. They like to keep the group small and intimate so they added a second tour to accommodate all those wanting to take the tour. One group would leave at 10:45 and our tour would start at 11:00.
We had two lovely women greet us at the beginning of our tour, Debra Smith, the owner of Taste of Thomasville, and Pat Baxter, one of her tour guide and retired teacher. Both were genuinely friendly and passionate about Thomasville. We got a chance to get to know them while they were sorting out the groups. Both were so gracious and seemed so knowledgeable enthusiastic that I knew either tour group would be a fun experience. We couldn't wait to hear, see and taste more of Thomasville on our tour.
Debra led the 11:00 group which was our group. She shared with us what her inspiration was for starting Taste of Thomasville 4 years ago and shared that she was retired from teaching. She did a wonderful job highlighting the history of this quaint town as well as explaining the food offerings in such tantalizing details that we all eagerly anticipated each new offering.
Our first stop was Jonah's Fish and Grits just steps away from our starting point. When I heard our sampling would be Shrimp and Cheesy Grits, my heart sank. I've tasted grits in Texas, Louisiana, Florida, and Georgia and they were definitely not to my liking. (As a California girl I don't have much experience with the tastes of the South so my past impressions of grits were, well, they're gritty and tasteless.) The Shrimp and Grits from Jonah's were to die for. The dish had lots of cooked fresh sautéed vegetables and big, plump shrimp in rich, creamy, cheesy grits. It was a WOW moments when I tasted the combination of different textures and tastes from grits, shrimp, and vegetables in my mouth. I didn't want to disgrace myself by licking the bowl but it took tons of self-restraint. The dish was also served with a lovely plump hushpuppy. This cornmeal hushpuppy was crispy on the outside and light and moist on the inside, reminiscent of a just-fried donut hole.
This tasting set the tone for the best food tour I have ever taken. The other stops on our tour included Moonspin Pizza, Sweet Grass Dairy Cheese Shop, George & Louie's Restaurant, and Grassroots Coffee Co.
Debra gave us a lot of info about Thomasville. She had researched historical details and collected entertaining stories about the history of Thomasville, its historical buildings, its inhabitants, and visitors. After the Civil War, Thomasville became the winter resort of the wealthy and a favorite destination for several presidents. She is a retired schoolteacher and presented the details in a fun, entertaining way, not like a dull history lesson.
Debra not only told stories of how the restaurants' owners started their businesses but also shared tantalizing stories about the food samples we would soon be eating. We eagerly anticipate each upcoming stop. The food at each stop was excellent and Katy and I agreed we would go back to each of the restaurants for the full experience. In fact, we're already planning our next outing to Thomasville highlighting one of the restaurants on our tour.
Debra is a great goodwill ambassador for Thomasville. Not only does she showcase wonderful eateries, history, and architecture, but she was able to point us to fabulous boutique shopping and eclectic little shops in historic downtown Thomasville. Her recommendations were spot on.
Getting to know your fellow tour members is another fun element of the food tour. At each stop, we conversed with them, shared our insights, and get to know your companions a little more. It's fun to find you're sharing your tour with people who love food and history as you much as you do.
My sister and I found The Taste of Thomasville Food Tour is a great value. We enjoyed being able to try out 5 different restaurants while learning the stories behind the beautiful buildings in Thomasville. The quantity and variety offered by the restaurants exceeded our expectations. The walk was about 1 ¼ miles over 3 hours with 5 food stops, interesting bits of history, old architecture, and a group picture at the Big Oak (tree). Considering the exceptional quality of food the cost of the tour was very reasonable. We were excited to learn The Taste of Thomasville offers a second tour at night. It showcases different restaurants with different stories and historical details.
Our tour was a very unique and an exciting way to experience this quaint little town. The food was wonderful and the history was interesting as well. Don't miss the Taste of Thomasville Food Tour!


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Encrypted Fake Partition
The goal of this how-to is to create a container on your hard drive that you can encrypt and mount as a new drive. This equates roughly to making a fake partition inside an existing one. It's a great and sneaky way to protect your sensitive data without having to encrypt your whole drive or repartition to make a dedicated storage partition. The size of the article may seem daunting. Don't worry, it's as big as it is because I took the time to explain a few things along the way. For the most part its a cookie cutter procedure.
This whole operation will be done as root, so you might as well do that now.
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Step One: Make the container
For this we will use dd to create a one gig blank file, or in this case what we will be using for our container.
# dd if=/dev/urandom of=/path/to/file bs=1024k count=1024
This makes dd read (if=) from a random number generator, take that and output it (of=) to a file that you define the name and location of in 1024 kilobyte chunks. The count=1024 make it write 1024 blocks of 1024k, in other words 1 gigabyte. This can take a minute or two, maybe long enough to go grab a cup of coffee.
Step Two: Mount the file as a loopback device
Next up is to make the computer think that the file is actually a device. This is a simple one liner.
# losetup /dev/loop1 /path/to/file
Now the computer see's the file you made pretty much just as it see's your hard drives, if with a different name.
Step Three: Encrypt the new device
Now we will encrypt the device. During the process it will ask you to set a password. Make sure it is something you can remember, if you forget or loose the password then the container is a brick. You cant hack or crack into it, which is why we are encrypting it anyways.
# cryptsetup -y -s 256 luksFormat /dev/loop1
Step Four: Create a file system
We have to give the system access to the device now and tell it that it is block device.
# cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/loop1 somename
Finally we are going to make a file system for the container. Without that we cant put things in there. For the example I will be using ext3, you can use whatever you like.
# mkfs.ext3 /dev/mapper/somename (somename is the one you used above)
Step Five: Make a mountpoint
This will be used later, but it's simple and easy to make a dedicated mount point for it now. You can name it whatever you like, and out of habit I make all my mountpoints in /mnt you can make it where ever you like.
# mkdir /mnt/container
Step Six: Cleaning up
Everything is done, you have an encrypted container. Lets shut everything down. In the next section I will show you how to bring it up for normal use.
# cryptsetup luksClose somename (somename is the one you used above) # losetup -d /dev/loop1
Now your system is back in the condition it was before we started, with the exception that we have our fake partition (or container) all ready to mount up and use.
Using The Container
This section can be easily scripted, I'll leave that up to you. For this we will be doing it manually step by step.
Step One: Mounting it all up
You have seen most of this already. But this time we will just be setting it up for use.
# losetup /dev/loop1 /path/to/file # cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/loop1 somename # mount /dev/mapper/somename /mnt/container
Where you see `somename` you can make that whatever you want. However it has to be the same name in both commands.
Some notes on use
At this point the device is ready to use, but right now only root has access to it. Since the device is encrypted, takes a password that only you will use to unlock it, and has to be manually mounted, I just give it full read/write access to make life easier. This can be done with one simple command.
# chmod 777 /mnt/container
That command only has to issued once, ever. You wont have to do it again. You can now access it as a normal user. If you like you can symlink it where ever you want to for ease of use the the `ln -s` command. Example as normal user:
$ ln -s /mnt/container ~/
This will create an easy to use link in the users home directory. You can leave the link there or remove it as you like. I personally don't bother with this step.
Step two: Unmounting, Closing, Locking
So your all done, and you want to close everything up so no one can get at what you have stored. Simple enough, remember unmounting requires you to be root.
# umount /mnt/container # cryptsetup luksClose somename # losetup -d /dev/loop1
All in all it's not too difficult a task. I hope you learned something and I hope you see that securing your data, even on an unencrypted machine is not all that difficult.
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"The following hymn of S. Thomas Aquinas to the Holy Eucharist was never in public use in the Mediaeval Church; but it has been appended, as a private devotion, to most Missals. It is worthy of notice how the Angelic Doctor, as if afraid to employ any pomp of words on approaching so tremendous a Mystery, has used the very simplest expressions throughout."Translations in common use:— 1. 0 Godhead hid, devoutly I adore Thee. By E. Caswall, first published in his Lyra Catholica, 1849, p. 247, in 7 stanzas, and with the refrain as in The Domin. Hymn Book. This was repeated in his Hymns and Poems, 1873, p. 161, with alterations. 2. Humbly I adore Thee, hidden Deity. By J. M. Neale, first published in his Mediaeval Hymns, 1851 and 1867, &c, in 7 stanzas of 4 lines. 3. Thee we adore, 0 hidden Saviour, Thee. By Bishop J. R. Woodford, written in 1850, and first published in hisHymns arranged for the Sundays, &c, of the Church of England, 1852, 2nd ed. 1855. 4. Prostrate I adore Thee, Deity unseen. 5. I adore Thee truly, hidden Deity. By W. J. Irons, in his Psalms & Hymns for the Church, 1875. Translations not in common use:— 1. Prostrate I adore Thee. Dr. Pusey. Par. of the Christian Soul, 1847. 2. Devoutly I adore Thee, unseen Deity. J. D. Chambers, 1857. 3. Devoutly I adore Thee, God in figures veil'd. J. W. Hewett, 1859. 4. 0 Dreadful unapproached Deity. Isaac Williams. 5. I adore Thee devoutly, 0 Godhead concealed. John Wallace, 1874, Hymns of the Church, pp. 239-40. 6. Suppliant 1 adore Thee, latent Deity. W. Palmer. 1845. From the Paris Breviary. 7. I adore the truth concealed . C. H. Hoole, in his Poems and Translations, 1875. --Excerpts from John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ========================= Adoro Te Devote, p. 23, ii. Additional translations are:— 1. With all the power [powers] my poor heart hath. By R. Crashaw in his Steps to the Temple, 2nd edition, 1648, p. 74. Repeated in J. Austin's Devotions, 1668, and in the Pennsylvania Lutheran Church Book, 1868, No. 338, 2. Devoutly we adore Thee, Deity unseen. This in the Altar Hymnal, 1884, is Neale's translation, slightly altered. 3. O loving Pelican, O Jesu, my sweet Lord. Anon, in the R. C. Parochial Hymn Book, 1880. 4. Hoole's translation noted on p. 23, ii, 7, should read "Thee I adore, the Truth concealed." 5. O blest memorial of our dying Lord. This in Laudes Domini, N. Y., 1884, begins with stanza ii. of Bp. Woodford's translation. 6. Lord, in thankful love adoring. One stanza only from the "Adoro te," with an original doxology in the Savoy Hymnary, n. d. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
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There's nothing like a chilly, post rain spring day! So, in honor of that occasion we had a picnic in the park. Loose park to be precise. I thought I would post photos of this sculpture of Jacob Loose, by Rudolf Evans, as a way to talk about a sculpture that was done "right". Rudolf Evans designed the Thomas Jefferson sculpture in the Jefferson Memorial in Washington D.C., as well as the Robert E. Lee statue in the Virginia State Capitol and the William Jennings Bryant in Statuary Hall in the Nations Capitol. Read more
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Talk about computer games and you will have thousands of people talking about their favorite ones and excitingly sharing their experiences and winning strategies but only a few are really interested about the backend or the technology that goes into making the games. However, when it is Unreal Engine, things become different. The launch of the 4th version of the Unreal Engine created unprecedented hype in the market highlighting how it would create new frontiers in gaming experience. The investors were certainly lured into investing in platforms that run on this new version of gaming.
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Unreal Engine 4 is simply a set of tools and technologies that is used for developing high-quality games. What makes it so special or popular is its ability to being adapted across different platforms.
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Unreal Engine's first generation saw integration of file system management, networking, scripting, and rendering and collision detection in one engine, thus giving developers a new field to get creative with their ideas.
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UE4 boasts to be a complete technology that is instilled with the rich experience of Epic in developing some of the epic games of the time.
The availability of source code of C++ gives developers complete flexibility and full control over their schedules and destinies. No matter, what you require to put in your game, you will find it in UE4. There is the GitHub community also that can help you with any code also. You can always create something new and share it with others.
UE4 offers an ecosystem to the developers and creative people to chat and share problems, add to the wiki files and also participate in joint development programs. An entire world of gaming challenges is waiting for you to explore at UE4.
There are a lot on offer in terms of game templates and samples and readymade content. The games like Angels in the Sky and Tappy Chicken that run on iPhone 5s is a fine example of what you can do with UE4. Games built with Unreal Engine 4 usually have great graphics and are fast paced to emulate real world situations. As a gaming platform, UE4 ensures complete flexibility and adaptability to developers. It is easy to use, fast to debug and designing is made simpler with the latest tools. It supports a wide range of OS and hence is highly recommendable. Unreal Engine 4 is the perfect gaming suite that a developer needs to unleash his creativity and bring real time experiences to the game lovers.
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A white man is coming in a rocket to a town on Mars, populated by black people from Earth, who had once fled Earth. Hattie Johnson remembers and tells the children how black people left Earth for Mars years ago, how Earth had a terrible war, and how the people on Earth have only recently rebuilt rockets.
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Regarding moving to Wichita's Delano district
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A $28 million development that will add 222 market-rate apartments and retail space to the effort to rebuild downtown Gladstone is in the works.
The project is to be developed and managed by Flaherty & Collins Properties of Indianapolis. It will include 10,000 square feet of retail space and an interior surface parking lot with 272 spaces, according to Gladstone officials.
"This is a game changer for our community and the central Northland," Mayor Carol Suter said Friday. "These are market-rate apartments targeted at young professionals, a group of people we're losing to downtown and Johnson County for this kind of housing."
The project is planned for the southeast corner of North Locust Street and Northeast 70th Street in a multi-block area that Gladstone officials are calling Linden Square. The mayor said Linden is a community that predated Gladstone, but those older buildings were lost over the years.
Now Gladstone officials are building a new city center in that area, which would include the apartment development, the Gladstone Community Center, the North Kansas City Schools Natatorium and a two-story office building scheduled to open in June.
The new apartment project is called the Heights at Linden Square. The rents will range from $600 to $1,400 a month.
About half the apartments are to be one-bedrooms, 26 percent will be two-bedrooms, 5 percent will be studio units and the rest will be two-level, two-bedroom units with an attached garage.
Ryan Cronk, vice president of development at Flaherty & Collins, said his firm learned about the Gladstone development opportunity about 16 months ago from an advertisement the city placed in a trade publication.
The firm has developed apartment projects at Midwest locations, including Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Minneapolis and the Chicago area.
Construction is expected to begin this summer, and the first apartments are expected to be ready for occupancy in early summer 2014.
A Chapter 100 incentive is being provided to the developer, the mayor said. It will provide a 25-year property tax abatement on the project, and the city will issue bonds to finance the development. The developer will be required to repay the bonds, and the city is not responsible for any shortfalls.
Suter said Gladstone will spend about $3 million to improve streets, sewers and other infrastructure for the apartment project.
A formal announcement of the project is scheduled for Tuesday.


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Student of the Year
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Shaun Hoff graduated with a B.S. in Management from SUNY New Paltz in 2002. He chose to continue his education at SUNY New Paltz and is presently a student in the MBA program with a concentration in Management.
Shaun has become involved in a number of different activities that have been in direct support of the educational mission of the School. Shaun has also served as a member of the Dean's Student Advisory Board, and has participated in a number of School events, including Open House, Alumni Weekend, and Accepted Students' Day.
An active member of the campus community, Shaun is a founding member of the Management Association (MA), the SUNY New Paltz Chapter of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). He worked in the organization since its inception in Spring 2001, taking on roles of increasing responsibility along the way. In 2001, Shaun served as Secretary of MA and was recognized with an Outstanding Student Service Award. Shaun has been MA President since May 2002 and, in that role, has guided MA to being honored as a Superior Merit Award Student Chapter by the Society for Human Resource Management, which is an honor that only 25% of all SHRM student chapters receive.
As President of MA, Shaun developed and implemented the Student Development Day Conference, a full day professional development conference. Student Development Day allows student attendees to develop new skills typically not learned in the classroom and better prepares college students as potential employees. In addition, Shaun has attended numerous events sponsored by the Mid Hudson Human Resource Association. Shaun received high praise from the professional members for being an enthusiastic ambassador of the School of Business, and a good representative of the student body.
Shaun has also organized community events in the School of Business, including food drives, clothing drives and most recently Operation Christmas Child, a holiday gift drive for children from impoverished countries.
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You'll like blogger Jeremy Denk's riff on composer Igor Stravinsky. Revelatory!
More opinions pour in on renaming Eastman Theatre "Kodak Hall" in two separate articles by Democrat and Chronicle writers Matt Daneman and Anna Reguero.
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What does it take to be one of the best? We share stories from top wildlife photographers - along with a selection of their stunning images.
The death of Cecil the lion put the spotlight trophy hunting. Some argue that hunting plays an important role in conserving Africa's big cats: but what is value of hunting vs photographic safaris?
Africa's World Heritages Sites include thundering waterfalls, vast deserts and wildlife-rich reserves. Find out more about these incredible places, and how best to include them in your holiday plans.
Make a meaningful positive impact on the countries that you visit through 'Travel with a Purpose': customised, hands-on projects in volun-tourism, eco-tourism and edu-tourism.
Want to get see the positive change happening across South Africa? These 5 luxury lodges not only offer a phenomenal safari experience, they're also leading the way in innovative social development and conservation projects.
Walking with lions puts you within patting distance of Africa's top predators, but does the money raised by this popular Victoria Falls activity play a significant role in big cat conservation? Let's take a closer look.
Read about Dereck and Beverly Joubert: award-winning film makers, conservationists and National Geographic explorers-in-residence who have spent the past 30 years in the wilds of Botswana filming Africa's big cats.
Shamwari Game Reserve has once again been awarded "Africa's leading Conservation Company" at the World Travel Awards. We take a closer look at how this Eastern Cape Reserve is leading the way with its innovative conservation and education projects.
For every person that travels with us, we will make a donation to the Jikeleza Dance Project. We love the work Jikeleza is doing empowering children through dance and music; find out more about the project and watch an inspiring short documentary.
On Friday we spent an inspiring day in Cape Town's Khayelitsha Township with Uthando South Africa, an innovative NGO which raises funds for a wide range of community development projects.
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Most visitors to South Africa hope to catch a view of the 'Big Five' which comprises of the African elephant, the Cape buffalo, the difficult to spot and shy leopard, the endangered rhinoceros and of course the famous African lion.
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We ask the question: Does scifi work without a fast pace, no intense action and no CGI effects?
Man From Earth is said to have been completed by Jerome Bixby on his deathbed. He is probably best know for either of two things: a writer on the original Star Trek series, or the Twilight Zone episode (It's A Good Life), which was adapted by Rod Serling.
This film is a narrative based on a Professor John Oldman (David Less Smith) who unexpectedly resigns from the local university. As is with a close knit community, his friends and colleagues go around to his house to get an explanation of his sudden decision to resign. They are perturbed as to why he didn't let them know sooner and as to why there is no 'leaving get-together'. So, loaded with food and beer, they turn up and start the friendly 'interrogation'.
The film based almost entirely on dialogue, a group of people sitting on sofas, chairs, the hearth and the floor. The film stars Tony Todd (Dan), John Billingsley (Harry), Ellen Crawford (Edith), Annika Peterson (Sandy), William Katt (Art), Alexis Thorpe (Linda Murphy) and Richard Riehle (Dr. Will Gruber).
As the story unfolds, furniture is removed from Oldman's living room, and that's about as much action as you get. The conversation changes to a 'what-if' game, in which Oldman says what if he is a prehistoric man, and that he has lived for many years, he would surely have to move every ten years. People would age around him, whereas he himself would never age. The visitors attempt to pick holes in his story, but it soon becomes futile, in that his tale is as impossible to prove and verify as it is to disprove.
The film depends entirely on dialogue and story. It is a seriously engaging film, argueably a work of art - I was glued to the screen all the way through. Man From Earth is a thinking person's film. So if you fancy a change from million mile an hour paced films, you should put this on your list.
A nod to Richard Shenkman for taking this project on and believing in it.
To pseudo quote: "It brings back dignity to science fiction."


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Virginia Gov. Robert McDonnell to unveil plan for a bar and restaurant tax
RICHMOND -- Gov. Robert F. McDonnell (R) will unveil a proposal Wednesday to impose a 4 percent tax on restaurants and bars as he tries to make up for $260 million the state could lose in taxes and profit if Virginia privatizes its liquor system, according to several sources familiar with the plan.
Included in the 4 percent is a 2.5 percent tax imposed solely on restaurants' annual liquor receipts and a 1.5 percent tax imposed on restaurants and all stores that sell alcohol, including grocery stores. Together, they will bring in about $40 million, sources say.
McDonnell's proposal also includes other fees, including a $17.50-per-gallon excise tax and a 1 percent tax on gross receipts, both charged to wholesalers, said Sen. Mary Margaret Whipple (D-Arlington), who was briefed on the plan late Tuesday.
McDonnell said he expects to make $500 million upfront while retaining about $260 million in taxes and profits to the state each year by doing what no control state has done -- privatizing the wholesale, distribution and retail sale of liquor. About $1.4 million will be spent to hire 22 additional ABC enforcement agents, Whipple and others say.
McDonnell will announce Wednesday that he wants to auction 1,000 licenses to the highest bidders. Licenses will be divided into three categories: big-box stores, such as grocery stores and Wal-Mart (600 licenses), package stores (150 licenses), and convenience stores and drug stores (250 licenses), sources say.
He will base minimum bids for retail stores on profits that ABC stores are earning in localities by each tier. A company would be limited to holding 25 percent of the licenses in any one tier. Some licenses would be set aside for small, women-owned or minority-owned businesses, they say.
McDonnell expects Virginia will collect a one-time windfall from a variety of sources after privatization: $34 million from selling off properties, $160 million from wholesale license fees and several hundred million from auctioning retail licenses.
Industry insiders hope restaurants will conclude that the price benefits of privatization will mean they'd come out ahead, even after paying the new tax, but some restaurant owners have already said they are unconvinced.
"Before we heard any details, the idea of privatization was appealing," said Randy Norton, chairman of Great American Restaurants, about to open its 11th eatery in Northern Virginia. "Our minds only went to what good could come out of it. . . . But if our taxes are going to be raised at all, we're going to fight this thing very hard."
A committee of McDonnell's government reform commission was expected to vote on the proposal Wednesday, but its chairman, Del. G. Glenn Oder (R-Newport News) postponed the vote after members did not get details until hours before the meeting.
The committee is expected to meet again the final week of September. The full government reform commission will vote on the proposal Oct. 4.
McDonnell expects to call legislators back to Richmond in November for a special session on privatization and other cost-cutting ideas.
Wednesday's meeting is expected to include various presentations, including those from Eric Finkbeiner, senior adviser for policy; planning and budget officials on how the fees and taxes will work; and ABC officials and Sean Connaughton, secretary of transportation, on how the upfront money will be spent.
McDonnell has his lobbying work cut out for him, even with fellow Republicans. Del. Thomas D. Gear (R-Hampton) who chairs a key legislative subcommittee that will consider privatization, said he received a call from McDonnell on Monday asking for his support. Gear responded that he remains undecided and was eager to see details of the governor's proposal.
Gear said he fears big-box retailers, like Wal-Mart and Costco, will flood the marketplace and prevent new mom and pop liquor shops from opening. He said he also has concerns about taxing restaurant receipts.
"I'm just not convinced this is the right way to go at the moment. But I might be convinced," he said.


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Every woman and mans dream for that matter are breasts nice and perky.
Upright pair of breast improves self-confident at every woman and attract eyes of the opposite sex.
To get back your previous shape and tighten up the breast tissues you need to strengthen the skin.
Factors that lead to slackness of your breasts are:
-poor nutrition,
-wearing the wrong bra etc.
There are various methods like breast surgery which an be certain unpleasant effects from this method.
But there are also some natural methods for lifting your breasts like:
1.Massage With Almond Oil or Aloe Vera Gel
Aloe Vera will tighten your skin with simple massage with some Aloe Vera gel to tighten up the skin and tone up the breasts. You can also try almond oil, to improve the blood circulation what will widen the blood vessels and help lift up your breasts.
In order to stay tightened the muscles that are holding the breasts need to have appropriate protein requirement and enough nutrients like minerals, vitamins and calcium.
So eat more: cabbage, tomatoes, cauliflower, broccoli, carrot but reduce the caffeine intake and stop smoking if you do.
3.Olive Oil
This oil has ability to enhance skin tightness and if you massage the breasts with it and do it every day you will be impressed with results .
4.Egg Yolk and Cucumber
Egg yolk and cucumber can tighten the skin and nourish the muscles underneath what will lead to instant lift up to your breasts.
All you need to do is to mix egg yolk and blended cucumber and apply it on and around your breasts.
Leave it for half an hour and then wash it off.
Do this every day and be amazed .
Swimming will tightening up the muscles and lift your hanging breasts.


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E-tolls, mining unrest, farm strikes and Mangaung – Cosatu addressed the newsworthy issues in its briefing on Monday's meeting of the union federation's central executive committee, but Zwelinzima Vavi wanted to focus on the ground-level organisational issues that have contributed to a year of unrest. "It can't be business as usual," said the general secretary, in so many ways. By GREG NICOLSON.
"We need new leaders. We need a new shop steward. We need a new organiser. But more importantly we need a new member," Vavi told journalists at a press briefing on the central executive committee's meeting at Cosatu House in Johannesburg on Wednesday. "It can't be business as usual. That's the bottom line… Workers are speaking very loudly about the challenges that we are facing at this particular moment and Cosatu must listen."
In a year that has witnessed some of the most widespread labour unrest in decades, Vavi asked, "Do the Cosatu structures as currently existing allow the federation to make the type of interventions it should make early enough to get the problems and have the cohesion to make the necessary intervention?" Marikana, the subsequent mining strikes and the farmworkers strikes suggest not.
Vavi said there are serious problems with union leadership at a company level. A National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) report has shown that younger, more educated workers articulate in English are being favoured for leadership positions but they don't always represent their peers. At least one-third of Cosatu members are functionally illiterate.
"They are not in the leadership. So what do you expect? Their issues will not be taken up vigorously, including the whole issue about the rock driller operatives. They find themselves sidelined in the union. They are not in the leadership then they express their frustration in any way, including though unprotected strikes. So we are asking ourselves what do we do about education?"
The challenges facing workers, many of whom expect things to be better after 18 years of democracy, will not go away. If Cosatu is to survive, it needs shop stewards who can represent all of the workers with strong understanding of the relevant legislation and members who know they have the power to remove their leadership, said Vavi, who was flanked by Cosatu president Sidumo Dlamini, as he reflected on 2012.
Touching on the ANC leadership race, Vavi warned that if Kgalema Motlanthe is left out of the ANC top six, which is looking more and more likely if ANC president Zuma retains his post, it will have "long-term implications beyond the Mangaung conference".
Vavi said he has been nominated for an ANC national executive committee position along with Dlamini, and second deputy president of Cosatu, Zingiswa Losi. During the Cosatu national conference a decision was made to swell the ranks of the ANC without exception, suggesting the leaders would accept nomination. But Vavi said Cosatu is debating whether having three of its six key leaders on the ANC NEC could be a distraction. They will soon announce whether they accept the nomination.
Before announcing later in the day that Cosatu supports DA leader Helen Zille's call for the army to be deployed in the Western Cape to protect farm workers, Vavi announced the federation of unions' position on the farm strikes. It urgently wants employers to agree to an increased wage deal, particularly R150 a day, before the deadline for a negotiated settlement on 4 December. On Tuesday, the labour minister scuttled hopes the minimum wage could be raised before 2013, but Cosatu wants employers to agree to a wage increase outside of the Employment Conditions Commission's remit.
Regarding the mining industry, Cosatu accused employers of "working with thugs" to promote the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU). It alleges that mining companies are offering employees who want to leave the NUM letters allowing them to both rescind their NUM membership and join Amcu with a single signature. "The union is taking legal steps to enforce its right to see all stop orders before they are processed," said the central executive committee's statement.
As 2012 comes to a close, Cosatu will have another dig at e-tolling as it marches in Johannesburg on Friday. Vavi also warned that "on 6 December we'll give the government a dose of what they must expect in March if they pass that law and try to force implementation of e-tolls. We will go to the highways. We have said we will embark on civil disobedience, which will include occupying the highways and claiming them as ours. These are our highways. They are not new highways built by the R20-billion. They have always been there. They have just been improved now and there must be a way of paying for the improvement… R70-billion, we don't have that money."
"We have an equal determination, as strong as the government or more, to stop this from working. So this action on Friday is just the beginning."
As one of the scheduled meetings of Cosatu's leadership for the year, the central executive committee's report was immersed in the issues arising from what could turn out to have been a pivotal year for South Africa. It acknowledged an undeniable shift in worker sentiment and the exasperated view of citizens towards government spending. With such challenges to continue into 2013, one wonders whether Cosatu will find the enough energy and willpower for its own members to truly make 2013 the year of the shop steward. DM
Photo: Cosatu's Zwelinzima Vavi and Sidumo Dlamini (Greg Nicolson)
Bladerunner (1980s version) is a visual feast due in large part to the Hollywood Actors Strike. This allowed the designers an extra three months to refine the sets and props.


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Mitt Romney energized conservatives by choosing Paul Ryan as his running mate, making the election about big ideas about how to reduce the country's debt and contrasting the Romney-Ryan ticket boldly with the statism represented by Obama-Biden's.
But internal talking points circulated by Romney's team to top GOP surrogates who will go on television to talk about Romney and Ryan suggest Romney will not embrace Ryan's budget — known as the "Roadmap" — which passed the House.
The memo instructs surrogates to say Romney merely "applauds" the Ryan plan, and Romney will come up with his own budget plan.
CNN obtained the memo first, and the relevant part is below:
Questions and Answers About The Romney/Ryan Ticket:
1) Does this mean Mitt Romney is adopting the Paul Ryan plan?
· Gov. Romney applauds Paul Ryan for going in the right direction with his budget, and as president he will be putting together his own plan for cutting the deficit and putting the budget on a path to balance.
· Romney's administration will go through the budget line by line and ask two questions: Can we afford it? And, if not, should we borrow money from China to pay for it?
· Mitt Romney will start with the easiest cut of all: Obamacare, a trillion-dollar entitlement we don't want and can't afford.
· Mitt Romney also laid out commonsense reforms that will make good on our promises to today's seniors and save Social Security and Medicare for future generations.
There are two potential problems here. First, it threatens to dishearten conservatives whose enthusiasm for Ryan is often tied to his budget of fiscal reforms. Second, this gives the mainstream media license to distract from the bigger issues of the campaign by badgering the campaign with process questions about why Romney is not embracing the Ryan plan or what parts of the plan he disagrees with.
By choosing Ryan as his running mate, Romney is tied to the Ryan plan, so this is a curious strategy by his team of advisers, to say the least.


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Right-coiled White Conch: The white conch which coils to the right symbolises the deep, far-reaching and melodious sound of the Dharma teachings, which being appropriate to different natures, predispositions and aspirations of disciples, awakens them from the deep slumber of ignorance and urges them to accomplish their own and others' welfare.
Precious Umbrella: The precious umbrella symbolises the wholesome activity of preserving beings from illness, harmful forces, obstacles and so forth in this life and all kinds of temporary and enduring sufferings of the three lower realms, and the realms of men and gods in future lives. It also represents the enjoyment of a feast of benefit under its cool shade.
Victory Banner: The victory banner symbolises the victory of the activities of one's own and others body, speech and mind over obstacles and negativitities. It also stands for the complete victory of the Buddhist Doctrine over all harmful and pernicious forces.
Golden Fish: The golden fish symbolises the auspiciousness of all living beings in a state of fearlessness, without danger of drowning in the ocean of sufferings, and migrating from place to place freely and spontaneously, just as fish swim freely without fear through water.
Dharma Wheel: The golden wheel symbolises the auspiciousness of the turning of the precious wheel of Buddha's doctrine, both in its teachings and realizations, in all realms and at all times, enabling beings to experience the joy of wholesome deeds and liberation.
Auspicious Drawing: The auspicious drawing symbolises the mutual dependence of religious doctrine and secular affairs. Similarly, it represents the union of wisdom and method, the inseparability of emptiness and dependent arising at the time of path, and finally, at the time of enlightenment, the complete union of wisdom and great compassion.
Lotus Flower: The lotus flower symbolises the complete purification of the defilements of the body, speech and mind, and the full blossoming of wholesome deeds in blissful liberation.
Vase of Treasure: The treasure vase symbolises an endless rain of long life, wealth and prosperity and all the benefits of this world and liberation
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