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One of the great attributes of this Florida basketball team has been how it can survive a sub-par night from one of its starters.
MEMPHIS -- One of the great attributes of this Florida basketball team has been how it can survive a sub-par night from one of its starters.
Remember when Michael Frazier II was shut out at Auburn?
Or Scottie Wilbekin against Albany in the first round of this tournament?
On Thursday night, it was Patric Young's turn.
The senior center had a stat line that tells the story … and yet it does not.
Young had four points, three rebounds and four fouls. He played only 20 minutes because of foul trouble.
But what disappointed UF coach Billy Donovan was the frustration level Young showed in the 79-68 win over UCLA.
"I think I would have liked to see him handle that situation, to be honest with you, a lot better than he did," Donovan said.
Young was especially frustrated with the officials who called him for two fouls in the first half and also nailed him with a traveling call. His frustration wasn't only with the officials, but with his teammates because both fouls in the first half came when he was covering up another Gator's mistake on defense.
"It was frustrating because I do as much as I can to prepare to put myself in position to have a good game," Young said. "I've just got to flush it, move forward, have a good practice (Friday), respond well and go into the next game having amnesia."
His game against UCLA was certainly forgettable, but the Gators will need the Patric Young the fans have seen all season against a deep Dayton team that had 10 offensive rebounds against a much taller Stanford team on Thursday and won the battle in the paint 36-32.
More than anything, Donovan wants to see his center let it go when adversity hits.
"I thought he got way too wrapped up in trying to explain that he didn't travel, explain that he didn't foul," Donovan said. "He needs to move on and play. That, to me, is the greatest sign of maturity, growth is when you can really stay focused and play when you're going through an internally frustrating moment.
"Obviously, Patric wanted to be out there. The two fouls he picked up were not his fault. But we just need him to come and be the defender that he's been for us all year."
Certainly, Florida fans should see a motivated Young on the floor against Dayton. Because another attribute of this team is the resilience the players have shown to bounce back from poor performances.
"It's possibly my last game of my last season," said Young. "I've never been to a Final Four. We've got a chance to be the best team in Florida history. We've got an opportunity to win a national championship. What more motivation do you need to go out and play your best?"


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Common Lisp Sockets APIs - An analysis and proposal
Paper by Dave Roberts, 27 December 2005. It proposes a creation of standardised Common Lisp networking API.
DNS Message Decoding - A Case Study Comparing Java and Common Lisp
A study that compares two implementations of a DNS resolver library, one written in Common Lisp and the other in Java. 30 May 2004.
Software Bits
a lot of random bits of lisp code. (Parsers, plotters, SMTP, and more...)
Understanding Mel-Base Folders
A blog entry explaining the concept of folders of the Mel-Base email library. Mel-Base folders are an abstraction of sinks and sources of messages, on which a number operations, such as copying or mov...

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What was once a rumour is now confirmed. At least some cross-platform games will run at a higher resolution on the Sony PS4 than on Microsoft's
But why is this happening and should it influence your decision over which of the next-gen game boxes to buy?
The confirmation comes in the form Call of Duty: Ghosts. Developer Infinity Ward says it will run at 1080p on the PS4 but only 720p on the Xbox One. For clarity, that's 1,920 by 1,080 pixels versus 1,280 by 720 pixels.
Put another way, that's two million pixels on the PS4, just one million on the Xbox One. Quite literally, the PS4 will offer double the graphical detail.
Does the difference matter?
The first question is whether this actually matters. The answer is yes, it matters. Admittedly, some people are more sensitive to graphical fidelity than others. But double the detail is a substantial difference by any metric.
That said, when there is a difference with a given game, it may not always be 720p vs 1080p. Hold that thought.
What's important to understand up front is that 1080p on an HDTV doesn't outstrip the acuity of the human eye at normal viewing distances. This is what Apple means when it talks of 'retina' displays. It means from normal viewing distances, the human eye doesn't resolve individual pixels.
But if you have decent vision, a 1080p HDTV isn't a 'retina' display. Which is why 4K displays looks miles better than 1080p displays. And in turn 720p doesn't look as sharp as 1080p.
The importance of native resolution
There's a further angle to this resolution problem. It's not just a matter of doubling the pixel count. It's the clarity of each pixel, too. The issue here involves native panel resolutions. Flat panels including LCD and OLED screens have an absolutely fixed number of pixels, unlike old school CRT screens.
That means there's just a single ideal resolution the panel can run at, only one setting at which images are shown pixel for pixel. Before the pedants drop a bomb in the comments below, pixel doubling could be argued to be an exception. But pixel doubling involves factor-of-four jumps in resolution.
'...there's no way round the problems you incur when attempting to spread one pixel over one and a bit pixels. You will always lose some sharpness and clarity'
Put another way, 720p to 1080p is not pixel doubling, so it's irrelevant to the PS4 vs Xbox One debate.
Anyway, most big HDTVs are now 1080p, not 720p. So not only do you lose pixels when dropping down from 1080p to 720p when gaming. You also lose clarity of individual pixels, since at 720p you have to use an algorithm to interpolate larger pixels over a non factorial number of smaller pixels. It's basically a horrible kludge that results in soft, slightly blurry images.
This applies to an extent even if you do the interpolation in the game engine and actually output 1080p to the screen. There's been talk, for instance, of the Xbox One rendering Battlefield 4 at 900p internally and then upscaling the output. But there's no way round the problems you incur when attempting to spread one pixel over one and a bit pixels. You will always lose some sharpness and clarity.
Why is this happening?
So, we now know the difference matters. The next question is why is this happening? Actually, that's easy to answer. It's because the PS4 is more powerful in graphics terms. And that means the PS4 can render higher detail graphics while maintaining smooth, playable frame rates.
Both consoles are based on very similar basic architectures, with CPU and graphics provided by chip specialist AMD. In fact, the two share pretty much identical eight-core CPUs. So we don't have to worry about that.
Where the big differences come in are graphics and memory subsystems. PS4 and Xbox One actually use identical graphics architectures, known as AMD's GCN technology. But here's the thing. The Xbox One has 768 GCN graphics cores. The PS4 has 1,152. The two consoles run at similar clockspeeds, so right from the get go, the PS4 has 50 per cent more raw shader power.


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With all the injuries to the Canucks D, they're finding replacements in the oddest places. (AP Photo)
Game Day Recon #58 – Canucks @ Wild
The Canucks lost a special teams battle last night and it cost them the game. They didnt force enough turnovers and they let the Blues basically have the offensive zone. And Luongo giftwrapped a goal for Alex Steen with an absolutely bone-headed decision. All around it was a disappointing effort.
So how do they get back on track? They go to the Twin Cities to take on the Wild. Yikes.
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The Intel
The Canucks are having a lof of trouble winning in Minnesota lately. And when they lose, they lose big. The Canucks have lost 4 in a row at Xcel Energy Center, and have been outscored 21-6. Interestingly though, before those 4 games, the Canucks had one four games in a row. But the key was that 3 of those 4 wins were by one goal.
So the key to tonight is to stay tied or hold on to a lead well into the second period. In all four of these losses, the Canucks losing at the midway point of the game.
The problem for the Canucks tonight is that the Wild don't have one key goal scorer. They score by committee with 8 players scoring 10 or more goals, led by Cal Clutterbuck (what?!) with 17. So why do the Canucks have such a hard time stopping the Wild. Minnesota is 26th in goals scored at home with only 66, yet 10 of those 66 have been scored against the Canucks in only 2 games. That's 15.2% of their total. The biggest problem for the Canucks has been their PK against the Wild, allowing 4 PPG in two games (plus one shorthanded). So the special teams have been an Achilles heel for the Canucks at the Xcel Energy Center.
They also might want to do something about Andrew Brunette, a career Canuck killer. In 63GP, Brunette has 18G 37A for 55 Pts and a +12 . And as always, many of his goals were assisted by Blonde and Redhead. Brunette has made a habit of scoring timely goals against the Canucks, with 2 goals in 3 games this year.
Finally, after Andrew Alberts broke his wrist in last night's game in St. Louis (yes, another Canucks D is out again), Yann Sauve was called up today and will play against the Wild. Sauve becomes the 14th player to make his Canucks debut this season (h/t to Joey Kenward for that). Don't believe him? Here is the lst:
Torres, Malhotra, Hamhuis, Ballard, Tambellini, Volpatti, Tanev, Perrault, Hodgson, Andersson, Parent, Sweatt, Oreskovich and Sauve.
Wow. And the Canucks are in 1st place in the league.
The Three Keys
Here are the three keys for the Vancouver Canucks tonight:
1. Keep this game close for as long as possible. The Canucks key to success is to keep the game tied until at least halfway through the game. Or better yet, get a lead early and hold it.
2. Get your special teams back on track. And cause penalties by skating and forechecking. The Canucks were far too soft on the puck too often last night in St. Louis. They need to keep the puck penned in the Wild zone far more often and hopefully force the Wild to take penalties. And my god, stop the Wild on the PK.
3. For Christ's sake, hit somebody! The Canucks were playing flag hockey last night in St. Louis, allowing the Blues to gain entry into their zone at will. The Canucks have to be more physical with the Wild, especially when the goals come from a lot of different players. Since they can't key in on one particular player (well, Martin Havlat would be a good start), they need to play the body
The Links
Here are your top 5 links for today's game:
1. Tale of the Tape: Canucks @ Wild (canucks.com)
2. Canucks say Alberts' broken wrist won't be back-breaker (Vancouver Sun)
3. Here we go again, another injury and Sauve gets call (The Province)
4. Wild may find Canucks' D ripe for picking (CBC Sports)
5. Game #56: Minnesota Wild vs Vancouver Canucks (State of Hockey News) << SEE WHAT THE ENEMY HAS TO SAY


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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The Arkansas Senate has voted to ban abortions if a fetal heartbeat is detected, a move that would prohibit the procedure as early as six weeks into a pregnancy.
By a 26-8 vote, the Senate approved legislation that would require a test to detect a fetal heartbeat before an abortion is performed. If one is detected, a woman could not have an abortion, except in cases of rape, incest and if a mother's life is in danger.
Similar legislation is also being considered in North Dakota and Mississippi.
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May 16. 2013 12:10PM
Small fire at Claremont school investigated by police
By MEGHAN PIERCE
Union Leader Correspondent
– A small fire at Claremont Middle School Wednesday is being investigated by police, Fire Chief Richard Bergeron said.
"The fire is suspicious in nature and continues to be investigated," Bergeron said.
Firefighters responded to the school at 11:30 a.m. when the sprinkler system was activated.
The fire occurred in the boy's bathroom off the boy's locker room. It caused minimal damage and was controlled by the sprinkler system, Bergeron said.
"What is noteworthy here is that up until two years ago that building had not been sprinklered so it would have been a different story if they had not been in place," Bergeron said.
The state Fire Marshal's Office has been notified, but the fire is being investigated by local police and firefighters, he said. "Claremont police are working with school and fire investigators. The incident is considered suspicious and is under investigation."
Firefighters stayed on scene for two hours clearing smoke and checking the building, he said. There were some smoke conditions in the gym area, Bergeron said.
Students were evacuated and spent time outside and in the cafeteria until they were released early at 1 p.m.
"Fortunately the weather was decent, they were outside," Bergeron said.
Students were able to come inside to eat lunch, he said. "We were able to isolate the cafeteria, and the teachers were allowed to channel their children in and out of the cafeteria through external doors."
April Woodman, assistant to the superintendent of SAU 6, said no one was injured.
"There was nobody in the area at that time and it was more like a fire drill for them. … It was essentially like a fire drill for them and they were sent home," she said. "Obviously it was a disruption to learning time."
Students do not have to make up the hour of school lost because it was lost under emergency circumstances, she said.


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LEWISBURG, Pa. — Bucknell University is launching a new program to help students from under-resourced high schools succeed in the College of Engineering, Bucknell University President John Bravman announced today.
Created in partnership with Parsons Brinckerhoff, an international engineering firm, the Engineering Success Alliance (ESA) will begin by assisting 14 members of the Class of 2014. The program provides targeted tutoring to engineering students who did not have access to a strong education in mathematics before enrolling at Bucknell.
"The ESA makes a powerful statement to students from under-resourced schools who want to get an engineering education," said President Bravman. "It says, 'You are not alone.' We recognize that they have not necessarily had the traditional background that leads to an engineering career. But we know that they have the intellect, drive, and creativity to be successful engineers. We're going to open the world of engineering to them."
A business imperative
George Pierson, president and CEO of Parsons Brinckerhoff, has committed $250,000 in start-up funding. Parsons Brinckerhoff and Bucknell are seeking to raise an additional $1 million in private funding to fully endow the program so that it is self-sustaining.
"It's the right thing to do, but it's also a business imperative," said Pierson, who is a 1984 graduate of the College of Engineering. "The United States is simply not graduating enough engineers, and students from under-resourced areas, including minorities, are under-represented in the profession. To remain competitive as a company and as a country, we must draw students of all backgrounds into engineering fields."
A foundation for success
Students in Bucknell's College of Engineering, which is widely regarded as one of the top undergraduate engineering schools in the country, face a rigorous and demanding course load. The foundation for success is math, according to Laura Beninati, associate professor of mechanical engineering.
"The first two years are crucial in establishing a fundamental basis for engineering," she said. "If students arrive with a weak math basis from high school, it will ultimately catch up with them in their junior and senior years."
Through the ESA, Bucknell engineering faculty identify incoming students from groups that are historically under-represented in the field and whose math and science experience may not be consistent with that of traditional engineering students. Students who accept the invitation to join the ESA work one-on-one with a professional math mentor hired expressly for this purpose. Funding from Parsons Brinckerhoff pays for the mentor's salary, program materials and training for two or three peer tutors. The mentor and ESA tutors focus on identifying and correcting specific math deficiencies.
The University and Parsons Brinckerhoff envision the Engineering Success Alliance as the beginning of a national effort to increase diversity in the engineering workforce.
A resource for faculty
ESA is a great opportunity, said one participant, who plans to study computer engineering. "It's a rigorous program, and I like the option of having a study group to help support me — and help us support each other," he said.
Program participants will also benefit from valuable networking and internship opportunities — another way of helping them achieve the same advantages as typical engineering students at Bucknell.
"This program is going to change the way a lot of our instructors view students who struggle with math," said Beninati. "We have traditional students who struggle with current academic requirements, let alone with material that high schools typically would cover. The Engineering Success Alliance is definitely going to be a valuable resource for students and faculty alike."
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From a Fountain, 'Spit, Sprinkle, Spray' – Exclusive Song Premiere
After spending six years in Philadelphia working with his previous band, National Eye, and collaborating with other bands from the region, like Dr. Dog, Douglas Kirby — who now performs under the moniker From a Fountain — returned to his hometown of Sioux Falls, S.D. There, he rented a warehouse to record songs that were a culmination of his experience in the Philly music scene and drew inspiration from his childhood in South Dakota.
What resulted were two albums worth of material. The first, 'Milky Mile,' landed in mid-August, and its counterpart, 'Milky Mile Two,' will drop on Oct. 22. Diffuser.fm is excited to premiere 'Spit, Sprinkle, Spray,' the lead single from the second volume (stream below).
The track is filled with joyous piano, but as it progresses, it moves into more psychedelic territory. However, the singer-songwriter admits the pair of 'Milky Mile' releases focus on the lyrics, which are delivered by Kirby's clinical-sounding vocals on 'Spit, Sprinkle, Spray.'
"'Spit, Sprinkle, Spray'" came in a flash on an old, booming piano, in a little house on 1st Ave in Sioux Falls, South Dakota," Kirby tells Diffuser.fm. "The bass strings were so bouyant that the thing wanted to bounce right out the door. Outside the door was a quiet, residential street, where, in the summer, the city would sometimes drive a truck in the evening, spraying poison to kill the mosquitoes."
"If ['Shale and Sandstone,' From a Fountain's 2005 debut album] was about instruments, parts and arrangements, the 'Milky Miles' are about words. All of it is extremely wordy," Kirby says. "I found solace in this, allowing phrases to blurt out next to each other."


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Cruising southbound on I-84 and pumping the Jurassic Park soundtrack from a weathered stereo system, Trevor Powers doesn't have much but freeway on his mind. How could you expect him to? Up until now, on his debut tour around the country as Youth Lagoon, everything he has ever experienced – for better or worse – has been right at home in Boise, Idaho. And if home is where the heart is, then Powers fucking needs this vacation.
With a cherub-like face bordered by nocturnal curls, the 22-year-old frontman is remarkably approachable: he makes a concerted effort to learn your name in conversation and asks again if he forgets. During his show at the Empty Bottle, a beloved dive bar in Chicago, he goes so far as to dedicate a song to "those of you in the crowd that haven't spoken to me yet"–clearly a minority.
But this composed geniality belies a restiveness that prompted his debut album, The Year of Hibernation. Powers suffers from chronic anxiety, and last year it got the better of him. After finally seeking a counselor to allay his overactive mind, he had to quit his sessions due to a lack of funds. "I had to choose between making the record and seeing the counselor, and I chose the record." So Powers spent the rest of the year at his piano instead.
Thus, convalescence was a process that began in earnest with Youth Lagoon. The bulk of Hibernation's emotive force arises from a cathartic purge of his self-scrutiny: songs that deal directly with the isolation he felt little less than year ago are at once disaffected and therapeutic.
"If I just play and sing, for me, it is almost like a form of therapy in the sense that I am getting the past out of my system," Powers explains.
You would have no suspicion of these anxieties save that Powers wears them so starkly on his person. Five tattoos decorate either of Powers' arms, each one a discerning reminder to stay grounded—"Be Still," reads the ink on his left hand.
Most prominent however, is the depiction of the Idaho state lines on Powers' left forearm. "Boy-see" is the epicenter after all, where Powers dropped out, broke up, stowed away, and recorded the consequences on his 35-minute opus, a deceptively quick album that radiates battered wisdom. "I feel like I can say a lot more by saying a lot less."
Recalling the first time he heard the songs from Hibernation, Logan Hyde, Powers' close friend and only touring band mate, says that it was a challenging listening experience.
"He'd play some songs for me, and I instantly knew exactly what he was singing about." Hyde, 21, remembers. Powers was singing about his year–all of it–and it must have been hard to hear at first. However, this is the same material both are growing accustomed to performing on a nightly basis.
Powers admits that sometimes presenting such deeply personal material can be awkward, just as sharing intimate reflections with anonymous audiences should be. But by having such brief dalliances with so many cities, he has learned to summon strength from his roots.
"I need to keep myself in check," Powers says. "To even think about where I was when I wrote certain songs gives them meaning again, and I hope that is evident to other people too."
Youth Lagoon is Trevor Powers, but not the reverse. It is an alias, a deep-seated mode of presentation. Trevor Powers still lives at home in Boise; Youth Lagoon lives with his buddy Logan, somewhere on I-84, in a 2006 Chevy Trail Blazer.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Thursday he had no reason to believe that NATO's security had been compromised by alleged U.S. spying on its European allies.
The German magazine Der Spiegel, citing secret documents, reported last Saturday that the United States had bugged European Union offices in Brussels and gained access to EU internal computer networks.
Der Spiegel quoted from a September 2010 "top secret" U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) document that it said fugitive former NSA contractor Edward Snowden had taken with him.
The magazine mentioned a NATO link, reporting that more than five years ago security officers at the EU had noticed several missed calls and traced them to NSA offices within the NATO compound in Brussels.
Questioned about the Spiegel report at a news conference, Rasmussen said he had no information about possible NSA facilities within the U.S. representation at NATO.
"NATO is not involved in this. I don't consider it a NATO problem. I have no reason to believe that NATO security has been compromised in any way," he said.
The United States and other NATO members have offices at the sprawling NATO headquarters complex in Brussels.
Rasmussen said he had not asked the U.S. government about the spying reports. "I am very much focused on strengthening the transatlantic relationship," he said.
(Reporting by Adrian Croft; Editing by Kevin Liffey)


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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — A 5-year-old Cambodian girl has become the country's fifth bird flu fatality this year.
Cambodia's Health Ministry and the World Health Organization announced Friday that the girl had a history of contact with poultry in her village in southeastern Takeo province, where there was evidence of recent deaths among poultry.
Only one of Cambodia's six victims this year of the virus, also called avian influenza, or H5N1, has survived the disease. The country reported three cases in 2012, all fatal.
WHO statistics issued Feb. 1 show Cambodia as the only country so far reporting human cases of the disease in 2013.
The U.N. agency says bird flu has killed 365 other people worldwide since surfacing in 2003. Most human cases have been linked to contact with infected poultry.


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Alternative Energy/Hybrid Vehicles
With the concern over global warming increasing and the cost of gas rising, many people are turning to alternative energy/hybrid vehicles. Governments throughout the world, including the United States, also are seeking alternative technologies to reduce their reliance on petroleum and decrease emissions.
Internet Resources
U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy's Vehicle Technologies Program
U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy's Alternative Fuels & Advanced Vehicles Data Center
U.S. Department of Energy's Fueleconomy.gov
California Energy Commission's Consumer Energy Center
About.com's Hybrid Cars & Alternative Fuels
About.com's Biodiesel 101
Ethanol/Flex Fuel Vehicles
About.com's What is Ethanol?
National Ethanol Vehicle Coalition
About.com's E85 Compatible Vehicles
Hybrid Vehicles
National Renewable Energy Laboratory's Hybrid & Fuel Cell Vehicles
Electric Drive Transportation Association
Hybrid Car Organization's Hybrid Car
How hybrids work
HybridCenter.org's Hybrids Under the Hood (part 1)
How Stuff Work's How Hybrid Cars Work
Hydrogen/Fuel Cells
Fuel Cells 2000
Union of Concerned Scientists' Clean Vehicles
Transportation Energy: A Student's Guide to Alternative Fuel Vehicles
Natural Gas
International Association for Natural Gas Vehicles
Natural Gas Vehicles for America
Buying an Alternative Energy/Hybrid Vehicle
Hybrid Cars
Automotive.com's Hybrid Car Prices
Motor Trend's New Hybrid Cars
Finding Print Resources
The subject headings below can be used to search public and academic libraries' catalogs for titles of interest on alternative energy/hybrid vehicles. If you need assistance, please visit your local library and ask your librarian for help.
Subject headings: Alternative fuel vehicles; Alternative fuel vehicle industry; Automobile industry and trade; Biodiesel fuels; Compressed natural gas; Fuel cells; Fuel cell industry; Ethanol; Hybrid electric vehicles; Natural gas vehicles.
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Maine residents have approved same-sex marriage, giving the gay rights movement a breakthrough victory.
Gay marriage is legal in six states and Washington, D.C., but those laws were either enacted by lawmakers or through court rulings. In popular votes, more than 30 states had previously held elections on same-sex marriage, with all losing.
Maine, Maryland and Washington state were holding up-or-down votes Tuesday on legalizing gay marriage. Minnesota was voting on a proposal to ban gay marriage in the state constitution.


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The Lewiston Choraleers will present an Easter cantata, "Come Walk With Me - Through the Passion and Resurrection of Christ," by Pepper Choplin, at four area churches March 23, 24 and 30. The specific dates, times and sites of the performances are as follows:
Saturday, March 23
•2 p.m., St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 400 Ridge St., Lewiston
•7 p.m., Bacon Memorial Church, 166 59th St., Niagara Falls
Sunday, March 24
•2 p.m., Niagara University Alumni Chapel, Niagara University
Saturday, March 30
•2 p.m., Messiah Lutheran Church, 915 Oneida St., Lewiston
The 60-member community chorus will be led by its musical director, Donald Shrimpton, and accompanied by Jane Bristol. The performances are open to the public, with a general admission fee of $5 (children under 12 admitted free).
More information, including a variety of videotaped past performances, is available at www.lewistonchoraleers.com.


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Polaroid is up to something, but we don't know what it is…yet. Today, the camera maker sent out invitations to many media publications that included little more than a cryptic image hinting at a new device it will be showing at the Consumer Electronics Show in January. The image, which only says "Grey Revealed," is below.
Some have speculated that the new product could mark the return of instant-printing cameras from Polaroid. The company unsuccessfully tried to reintroduce printing cameras in 2008-2009 with the Pogo, but ran into money issues and was eventually bought up by PLC Holdings. The Pogo looked much more like a standard compact digital camera, while this image resembles classic Polaroids.
If demand for a good printing camera still exists, Polaroid may make a comeback. Like many camera makers who built a business on selling film, its business has suffered since the takeover of the digital camera.
Engadget brightened the image, which reveals a camera with a slot at the bottom, presumably for printing pictures.
What do you think? Are you ready to buy a digital camera that prints pictures? If the price is right, I might take a look. We'll find out more when Polaroid presents at CES on Jan. 6, 2011.


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"Go green" with eco-friendly, biodegradable small pet bedding. Made from unbleached, recycled newspaper and magazines, this inviting bedding includes baking soda for superior odor control. Nontoxic, color safe, and phenol free to protect your pet's sensitive respiratory system.
Perfect bedding for guinea pigs, mice/rats, gerbils/hamsters, chinchillas and exotics. Use as a litter for Rabbits and ferrets.


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Pakistan erupts in anger as teenage activist fights for life
Latest update : 2012-10-11
Pakistani officials have offered a 10 million rupee reward for information on the gun attack on Malala Yousufzai, a 14-year-old blogger known for her activism against religious extremists. The Taliban has promised to finish the job if she survives.
Pakistanis held protests and public prayers for 14-year-old Malala Yousufzai on Wednesday as doctors scrambled to save the teenage activist who was shot and seriously wounded by Taliban gunmen in the country's northwest.
Yousufzai, a schoolgirl who rose to prominence in 2009 when she spoke out against Islamist extremists who had temporarily closed down her school, was shot in the head and neck by gunmen on Tuesday when she was leaving school in the restive Swat valley.
Doctors succeeded in removing the bullet that had lodged near her spine early on Wednesday, Rezaul Hasan from the Press Trust of India told FRANCE24, adding that the teenager remained in critical condition.
Interior Minister Rehman Malik has ordered military and medical staff to transfer Yousufzai out of the country whenever it is deemed possible, The Pakistan News Service reported. On Thursday, she was flown from Peshawar to a specialist hospital in the army garrison town of Rawalpindi.
Yousufzai was being kept unconscious by medical staff.
A spokesman for the Taliban told the BBC on Tuesday that the 14-year-old would not be spared if she survived Tuesday's attack.
Prayers and protests
Prayers for Yousufzai's recovery and anti-Taliban protests were held in Mingora – the Swat valley's main city and the activist girl's hometown – as well as in the capital, Islamabad, and the eastern city of Lahore.
Pakistan's lower house of parliament on Wednesday suspended normal proceedings to condemn the attack and pray for Yousufzai.
"Malala Yousafzai is a role model for all Pakistan and we should stand united to fight the elements that attacked the 14-year-old girl," said Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar.
Schools closed across Swat in protest over the attack, which also wounded two other girls.
The powerful army chief General Ashfaq Kayani visited Yousufzai on Wednesday and said it was time to "further unite and stand up to fight the propagators of such barbaric mindset and their sympathizers."
"We wish to bring home a simple message: We refuse to bow before terror. We will fight, regardless of the cost, we will prevail God willing," he said.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also condemned the shooting on Wednesday, saying the tragedy should rally support for "brave young women (...) who struggle against tradition and culture and even outright hostility, and sometimes violence."
Uncertain future for Swat
Pakistani officials in Yousufzai's hometown have offered a 10 million rupee ($104,000) reward for information leading to the capture of her attackers, who escaped after the shooting.
Yousufzai won plaudits at home and abroad for speaking out against the Pakistani Taliban at a time when Islamabad seemed to be appeasing the Islamist extremists.
After an initially successful offensive in the Swat valley in 2009, the Taliban closed down many schools for girls, including Yousufzai's, and burned down others.
At that time a documentary team filmed a weeping Yousufzai, who later launched a blog denouncing the Taliban on the BBC's Urdu website.
Pakistan's army eventually retook control of Swat later that year, and Yousufzai went on to receive the country's highest civilian award. She was also nominated for an international children's peace award.
(FRANCE 24 with wires)
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Memories of the Wonderland Ballroom
Memories of the Wonderland Ballroom
Wonderland Ballroom in Revere is headed toward demolition and a likely future as a hotel.
The dance floors were once crowded with waltzing couples in suits and full skirts, like Nathan and Beatrice Ginsburt of Revere, seen in this 1974 image.
Joseph Malino of Milton spun Connie Polito of Dedham around on the floor.
Longtime orchestra leader Tony Bruno Jr. told the Globe in 1986 he once tried to sneak in a fox-trot at the end of a waltz set, an experiment he never tried again due to the negative reaction.
The Bridgettes-Geritol Cuties Tap Dancers performed at a fund-raiser and self-esteem booster for the elderly.
Mary-Jean Distefano with her father Joseph Distefano waltzed on the dance floor. The elder Distefano had bought the facility in 1994.
Current owner Robert Merowitz has tried to keep ballroom dancing alive after he bought the venue in 2002, but attendance dwindled.
The facility was also temporarily converted into an entertainment complex featuring the Latin nightclub Club Lido.
The club reverted back to the name Wonderland Ballroom, hosting Latin, hard-rock, and reggae shows on weekends.
"You got on the dance floor and you just danced, and all there is is you, your partner, and the music," said former Wonderland dancer Rachel Joaquim.
Sometimes, Joaquim twirls around her living room, waiting patiently each time for an imaginary partner to ask her to dance.


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A Pastry Chef's Charming Rental Kitchen
We love peeking into food professionals' home kitchens. How do chefs and bakers cook at home? What is their space like? Here's an especially inspiring little kitchen in the West Village of New York City, inhabited with charm and cheer by Mark Wynsma, the pastry chef at Commerce Restaurant.
Mark's kitchen may be little, but it's truly the heart of the home. We love how he has spruced up an otherwise basic rental kitchen with paint and a vintage table which functions as an island.
That island more than doubles his kitchen space, and is so beautifully distressed and colorful that it adds some real heart and soul to the kitchen.
See full house tour
Mark's Delightful (and Delicious!) West Village Home at Apartment Therapy
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Swansea Museum
Swansea Museum is the oldest museum in Wales.
The collections contain all kinds of objects from the past of Swansea, Wales and the rest of the world. We have everything from an Egyptian mummy to a Welsh Kitchen, displayed in six galleries. There are also many changing temporary exhibitions each year. It is a fascinating treasure house of Swansea's past history.
The Museum building was completed in 1841 in the grand style of Neo-Classical architecture. The museum is architecturally significant, and it has been listed as a Grade Two * Building.
The Museum has an extensive local history library that is open to the public by appointment. Please contact the Museum in advance of your visit to ensure that you can use the research facilities.
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New Auditor Appointed. Management Reports On Additional Corporate Changes.
Feb 01, 2013, 07:30 EST
HENDERSON, Nev., Feb. 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Trulan Resources Inc. (OTCPK: TLAN) (the "Company" or "Trulan") is pleased to announce that the Company has appointed L.L. Bradford & Company, LLC. of Las Vegas, NV as its auditor, effective immediately. The Company has also retained the services of Hart & Trinen LLP of Denver, CO to serve as the Company's legal counsel of record, and that Transhare Corporation of Englewood, CO shall act as the Company's Transfer Agent.
These additions were undertaken as part of Trulan's corporate restructuring and change of business to a mining exploration company, as previously announced, and represent a skill-set attuned to the various business practices commonly encountered in the mining and mineral exploration sector. This experience is critical to the success of the Company's ongoing review and evaluation of certain properties that show exceptional potential to host significant deposits of precious and industrial metals.
Trulan Resource's Mission is the exploration and development of mining properties whose economic potential is considered to be extensive, while requiring minimal infrastructure and operational costs, and can be advanced in an environmentally responsible manner.
This news release was prepared on behalf of the Board of Directors, which accepts full responsibility for its contents. For more information please contact Corporate Relations at 702-430-4690 or email@example.com
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This news release contains forward-looking statements as defined by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 - forward-looking statements concerning plans, objectives, goals, strategies, future events of performance and underlying assumptions and other statements which are other than statements of historical facts. These statements are subject to uncertainties and risks including, but not limited to, product and services demand and acceptance, changes in technology and in economic, political and regulatory conditions and to all of the risks generally associated with a company at Budget's stage of development. All such forward looking statements, whether written or oral, and whether made by or on behalf of the company, are expressly qualified by these cautionary statements. In addition, the Company disclaims any obligation to update any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof.
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This is your regular friendly reminder to check the dates on stories before you click "share." On Friday, news of Rue McClanahan's death at age 76 started trending on Facebook and Twitter. And the former Golden Girls star did in fact die... five year… Read more


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CAMBRIDGE, UK – Oct. 28, 2005 - ARM [(LSE:ARM); (Nasdaq:ARMHY)], today announced it has acquired Keil, a leading independent provider of software development tools for the microcontroller (MCU) market. Keil operates jointly through two privately-owned companies, Keil Elektronik GmbH in Munich, Germany, and Keil Software, Inc. in Plano, Texas; and has combined gross assets valued at $4.6 million.
"ARM identified the MCU market as a critical growth area for our future business and with this acquisition, we will be able to accelerate progress in that market by offering a more complete, more compelling solution," said Warren East, CEO, ARM. "As the MCU applications shift from 8/16-bit to 32-bit solutions, the combination of the ARM® Cortex™-M3 processor, which was specifically designed for microcontroller applications, our RealView® high-performance compiler, and Keil's complementary MCU tools for ARM, will enable new generations of ARM MCU solutions."
The 23-person company manufactures and distributes a broad range of development tools including ANSI C compilers, macro assemblers, debuggers, linkers, library managers, firmware and real-time kernels. Currently there are more than 100,000 microcontroller developers using this industry-proven solution
"Keil and ARM have a long-standing relationship through our membership of the ARM Connected Community," said Reinhard Keil, CEO, Keil. "We feel that with this acquisition we are in a better position to deliver complete offerings to the high-growth, 32-bit microcontroller market while continuing to support our 8051 and C16x compilers within the uVision environment."
About ARM
ARM designs the technology that lies at the heart of advanced digital products, from wireless, networking and consumer entertainment solutions to imaging, automotive, security and storage devices. ARM's 16/32-bit RISC microprocessors, data engines, peripherals, software and tools, combined with the company's broad Partner community, provide a total system solution that offers a fast, reliable path to market for leading electronics companies. More information on ARM is available at http://www.arm.com.
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The Random Rantings of a Madman which follow were submitted by a loyal Pappillon reader, with the request that they be published, though anonymously. Whilst we do not normally allow unattributed work here, in this case I am making an exception and I hope you'll support my decision, read on, and challenge yourself to address the issues that "Mr. X" raises in his commentary.
"I feel somewhat guilty that the events that took place in Texas yesterday [5 November 2009] neither surprise nor have much of an emotional effect on me. If anything, the only emption that I've been able to drudge up is surprise as to the number of people that are outraged.
It seems that there is a logical disconnect, in otherwise intelligent people, that I have a hard time understanding. They can see where "we" are at war with "them", and they believe that there is a justification for torture, bombing and killing as means to a greater moral end. But they are absolutely stunned that anyone opposing culture acts in similar ways, under similar rationalization.
Now please don't jump to the easy conclusion that support the murder of the people down in Texas, or that I find it in any way justifiable. Quite the opposite, I find it absolutely morally reprehensible and if I wasn't so emotionally exhausted by the last 8 years of horror I think I'd be devastated by the loss of life.
My purpose in writing this is to try find a better understanding of WHY this happened (happens). You see, I think this is our greatest failure as a country. Worse than "weapons of mass destruction", or worse than fucking up in Iraq, or worse than losing ground to the Taliban in Afghanistan, is that fact that - in our haste, and in the emotional confusion post 9/11, that we failed to discuss "why?" Instead, we permitted rage and thirst for retribution to trump logic and clear thought and, I believe, allowed those who would ultimately benefit from the tragedy to take even greater advantage of us.
We can predict what is going to happen, and what has already started to happen next. During the process of public analysis, a his will be parsed down to its most sensationalist detail. Families, friends, and FaceBook entries will be trotted out and poured over. Catch phrases and images will be drilled into our minds. Dem and GOPs will argue over who's fault it is, and pundits will analyze what this could possibly mean to the next election or piece of legislation. No one, however, will want to talk about why.
Why would someone choose to die? Why would someone choose to kill? What would drive an otherwise seemingly intelligent, capable, and rational person...who trained and worked and dedicated himself to helping other people, to dive off the precipice of so called "sanity" and randomly and summarily execute other living human beings?
Insanity, right? I mean - that's the standard answer, isn't it? I'm sure evidence of insanity will be shown to us by the "authorities" when convenient or necessary to do so. I'm sure that this is just another one of those anomalies. This is like the Unabomber, and Oklahoma City, and the Twin Towers, and the USS Cole, and the African Embassy Bombings, and so no and so on. These are just random anomalies in the system, right? Just crazy fanatics acting suddenly, unpredictably, and without provocation.
But when does that explanation cease to satisfy even the least critical of us?
At what point are we prepared, as a culture, to look beyond the simple and seemingly illogical explanations and search for the root causes of our national troubles (as manifested in attacks on America and "The American Way")?
I look to my Catholic friends and find men of science who believe unequivocally - and will attempt to convince you of the same - that bread and wine turn into actual flesh and blood. I look to my Christian friends who condemn the banking industry for our ills, but who then reach out to third world countries with mirco-financing programs (banking is banking, right?). I look to my atheist liberal friends and see them dismissing the moral authority of government only moments before they lead their troops into the battle for state-sanctioned marriage rights.
I don't even know what I don't know, but I can start with what I do know.
- We are good at selling things. Really good at it. There are people....businesses...corporations and entire industries dedicated to one thing and one thing only...getting YOU to buy their shit [Editor's Note: this opinion is of the author and the author alone - it does not represent the views of this website or any other contributor or commentator.]. This isn't' a secret; at this point its not even an embarrassment. Implausibly, this has become one of the very basic core beliefs of GOOD in our society. The good man, the good American, the successful person that we all admire and strive to be is the guy who can get MORE OF US to buy MORE OF HIS SHIT.
- Those concepts have been extended and integrated into the fabric of our society to the point that one doesn't even really need any shit to sell in order to be "successful." Fame, pride, ego, love, politics, and even religion are all out of the ether. That's perhaps one of the greatest coup's of all. Once we got really good at selling THINGS....once we realized which buttons to push, which emotions to manipulate, which innate desires to play upon....someone realized that sometimes that's just enough. Why bother with pet rocks when you can sell patriotism? You'll sure save a bundle on shipping. And with the age of electronic media and the internet, The Ether became The Ethernet - do you really think that was an accident?
- We also "know" that our success is based on growth. Stagflation, recession, "the worst economy in 50 years!" Right? Sure, we all have heating, houses, indoor plumbing, medicine, flat screen TV's, and The Internet, if you're reading this, while the greater portion of the world is working on clean drinking water. We have PROBLEMS-with-a-capital-"P" because we are not experiencing any GROWTH. Our economy needs to expand, markets need to grow, and our economy...our 401Ks....our safety and security depend on it. This we know. This is why banks can't fail. This is why, regardless of what we know about finance, we're as acutely aware of the Dow as we are the weather forecast. But this is also why war is measured in both the body count and economic cost/dollars spent.
- What else do we know? Well, we know that "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle." WAIT, WTF?!?! Yes, we all know that blessed are the poor, and money is the root of all evil, and whatever other platitude of religious conviction that we know to be true out of a sense of religious indoctrination, but which we also know to be true because it is inherently true to our soul. But where in this world do we see those platitudes acted out. Where do we actually see dedication and obligation to family manifested? Likewise to religion, to community? Well, we do see it in the Amish community, peaceful and contrite [Editor's Note: Floyd Landis snark averted, since he wasn't Amish.]. We see it in the Shakers and Quakers, who have all but disappeared but for whom our laws allow exceptions. But we also saw it in the community in Texas last year who had families broken apart and children taken away based on charges that were never brought and information that was proven false. We saw it at WACO. We saw it at Ruby Ridge. Some would say that we saw it at Jonestown.
And what have we learned. What do we know? We sure as hell know that if you try and withdraw, that if you choose not to participate in corporate America, that if you prefer to choose your family and your faith over fashion and fast food, that you better be really fucking careful.
So we KNOW that we use a pervasive media and culture to indoctrinate ourselves into this ever growing, ever expanding cloud of commerce and success. We know that anything that gets in the way of that growth, whether it be religion, or stagflation, or closed markets, or bank failures, is a threat to our security - collectively and as individuals. And we know we're good at it....damn good at it. So God Bless America.
But despite this cynicism (or these truths that should make us cynics), we delude ourselves into believing that we will all get a fair shake. That somehow, the rich, powerful plutocrats who control the media, the corporations that finance the elections, the elite that fund the junkets and lobbyists and the payoffs and board seats.... that somehow those guys are looking our for US - for You and Me. We believe that they're AMERICANS! That they're on OUR side. We cling to the notion that our government, our companies, OUR banks, OUR elite, OUR politicians - no matter how corrupt and evil that we already assume they are - would NEVER consider trying to sell us a war based on making next months quarterly numbers, using the same tools they deploy to hock us Ipods and Sham-Wows.
That's the stuff that communist Russia did. That's the stuff the Nazi's did. That's the stuff that Hugo Chavez does. You see, OUR elite are immune from the temptation of absolute power. The Founding Fathers were talking about Kings and England's of a different time and a different place that is no longer relevant. And besides, even if the elite tried to pull the wool over our eyes again, we're too smart, too advanced, and have too much technology available to be fooled.
Errr...., I mean, since the Gulf of Tonkin, we've become too smart, too advanced, and have too much technology available to be fooled.
Do I have an answer? Sadly I don't. [Editor's Note: Shit.] Is there even an answer? Boy....I'm not sure. Right now, I drown my troubles in a steady diet of tortilla's and Corona, and I distract myself with sports and online porn. Is that enough? Usually. Now granted, there is often a nagging feeling that it's not, but after the shit I see on some days, even I start to pray that it will be enough to keep me from asking too many questions.
What causes an otherwise a otherwise rational man to shoot-up a waiting room? Maybe its better that I never find out.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
The Random Rantings of a Madman - Why the Blue on Blue at Ft. Hood?
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Officials are predicting some form of frozen precipitation to fall over the Upstate on Friday, but it's still too early to tell what kind or how much.
Officials are predicting some form of frozen precipitation to fall over the Upstate on Friday, but it's still too early to tell what kind or how much.
Local officials are keeping an eye on a weather system that will bring cold air and precipitation to the area at the end of the work week, said Spartanburg County Emergency Management Coordinator Doug Bryson.
"There's a good chance for freezing rain and sleet starting early Friday and continuing throughout the day," Bryson said Wednesday. "We're not expecting a significant ice storm, but there could be some treacherous traveling conditions."
Regardless of how much precipitation falls, expect a cold, raw day, with the wet conditions and cold air. Friday's high temperature will be right around freezing, Bryson said.
According to the National Weather Service, there is an 80 percent chance of rain in Spartanburg County during the day on Friday, and a 30 percent chance during the night. Freezing rain is also forecast for Union County, while a wintry mix is predicted for Cherokee County.
The weather service has issued winter storm watch has been issued for the mountains of South Carolina, western North Carolina and northeast Georgia.
Bryson asks that residents monitor forecasts going into Friday.
The weekend looks more pleasant, with sunny skies and daytime highs in the mid 40s, according to the weather service.


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MONTREAL (AP) — An earthquake rattled the Montreal region early Wednesday, waking up some people but causing no injuries or serious damage.
The magnitude 4.5 earthquake struck shortly after midnight and was centered about 23 miles (37 kilometers) southeast of Montreal, said Natural Resources Canada seismologist Allison Bent in Ottawa.
The quake caused some buildings to rumble for a few seconds, sending people scurrying briefly from their houses. There were no immediate reports of any injuries.
Bent said any serious damage was unlikely.
"Based on the size of the earthquake, I wouldn't expect there would be any," Bent said. "It is possible it's big enough (to) have shaken objects off tables or it's possible there's a little bit of damage."
Bent said there were reports that a few people in the Ottawa area felt the quake as well as residents of the Montreal region.
Dominique Anglade, a member of Montreal's large Haitian community, said on Twitter that she felt the quake and it evoked "very bad memories" of Haiti's devastating 2010 earthquake that killed her parents.
Bent said the quake occurred in an area known as the West Quebec seismic zone and temblors are not uncommon in the region.
"It's just a reminder that this is a seismically active area," Bent said.


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Our holdings include hundreds of glass and film negatives/transparencies that we've scanned ourselves; in addition, many other photos on this site were extracted from reference images (high-resolution tiffs) in the Library of Congress research archive. (To query the database click here.) They are adjusted, restored and reworked by your webmaster in accordance with his aesthetic sensibilities before being downsized and turned into the jpegs you see here. All of these images (including "derivative works") are protected by copyright laws of the United States and other jurisdictions and may not be sold, reproduced or otherwise used for commercial purposes without permission.
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1922. "Surgery #12." Another selection from the "surgery" series of images, this one showing an anesthesiologist administering nitrous oxide prior to the operation. National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.
"Hotel St. George, Brooklyn, circa 1905." Plus a ghost or two in this time exposure of the hotel's Clark Street facades. This Brooklyn Heights landmark, which by the 1930s was New York's largest hotel, with 2,632 rooms in a complex of buildings spread over a block, started with the 10-story dark brick structure, completed in 1885. After more than a century, it was destroyed by fire in 1995. The adjoining white building with the flagpoles, designed by Montrose Morris in the 1890s, still stands. Detroit Publishing Co. glass negative. View full size.
"Brooklyn Bridge and East River. April 1909." At left, the Manhattan Bridge under construction in this view looking east into Brooklyn with Manhattan Terminal at lower left. 8x10 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection. View full size.
March 4, 1913. "Inaugural ceremony, East Front of Capitol." Woodrow Wilson being sworn in as 28th president of the United States. View full size.
Washington, D.C., 1914. "Boy Scouts -- field sports." In the background: The Frazee-Potomac laundry. Harris & Ewing glass negative. View full size.
1914. "U.S. Capitol. Cleaning interior." Harris & Ewing glass neg. View full size.
1914. "White House tent in Rose Garden." A view of the executive mansion from over the West Wing looking east past the Treasury and along Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol. Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative. View full size.
"Boy Scout Training demonstration, 1912." Yes, they're back. I found a few more of these oddly poignant portraits of Scouting first aid to the injured. Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative. View full size.


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Mound City Meeting Focuses on Livestock Breeding
The latest protocols for timed insemination of a beef herd in one day will be explained at a meeting March 25 at Mound City, said Amie Schleicher, University of Missouri Extension livestock specialist.
"Synchronized breeding eliminates the need for heat detection for artificial insemination," said David Patterson, MU Extension beef reproduction specialist. "AI allows use of superior bulls with proven desired traits, such as calving ease and carcass quality."
One of the biggest reasons producers have not adopted AI is the amount of work involved in heat detection, Patterson said. Breeding by appointment eliminates at least three weeks of checking the cow herd three times a day during the breeding season.
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I think the nudity was a token thing in anime in the 90's. It's like with American TV ads that used to have FULL FRONTAL NUDITY with no qualms in the 70's.
It was just something you didn't make anything out of. Unfortunately, American and even Japanese TV nowadays is making a huge fuss over it. Very sad state of affairs IMO. Though it is a great reason for them to uncensor them for the DVD versions.
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I'm just wondering if I remember the last episode correctly and that it ends with Aisha and Suzuka rejoining everyone on the ship when they said they were departing from everyone on the planet.
EDIT: After some extensive searching I found my answer.
Few comments: When I first saw this anime, I thought the caster gun was one of the coolest weapons I've ever seen. I wish we could see the crew fight against the Tendo King and rest of the 108 stars.
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Ah, Outlaw Star. Pretty much my favorite anime. I remember sleeping in the middle of the day when I was eight just so I could watch it at midnight. I didn't remember a whole lot (and I still don't even after rewatching the series ), just the part in ep26 where Gene shot the thingy that would drain half his life or something like that, and Jim yelling Gene's name after he collapsed that one episode. When I was eleven, I spazzed, thinking, 'Oh mai godz I have to watch this anime!' after I finally remembered the title.
Personally, I think it was pretty stupid for Cartoon Network to cut the entire ep23 (Hot Springs, I think) just for some nudity. That episode had important things in there, such as Gene getting those last three castors that had huge effects later on in the series. Couldn't they have just cut some images out (didn't Aisha shove her boobs in someone's face or was that just a close-up? o.o) and maybe done a little more in the commercial break (not that I particularly like commercials -.-)?
And, wasn't there a manga? Does anyone know where to find scans? o.o
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David Hagy and the Salisbury Symphony Orchestra ask you, "Why not play?" when they present the family concert at 4 p.m. April 14 in Varick Auditorium on the Livingstone College campus.
David Hagy and the Salisbury Symphony Orchestra ask you, "Why not play?" when they present the family concert at 4 p.m. April 14 in Varick Auditorium on the Livingstone College campus.
And, in a program that offers music written by and performed by young people, they suggest that there are many reasons to begin early. The Symphony Society is offering reduced ticket prices to encourage families to attend. Ticket information is available at salisburysymphony.org and at (704) 637-4314.
The concert begins with "Video Games Live" with themes from video games such as Halo, Civilization IV, Advent Rising and Kingdom Hearts. Three pieces follow, each written by a young composer: Dmitri Shostakovich at age 13, Edward Elgar at age 10, and David Hagy at age 16. When performing Dr. Hagy's "A Big Brother," the Salisbury Symphony Orchestra will be joined by the Salisbury Super Strings. This group of young musicians range in age from 11 to 17 and most are "graduates" of the Symphony's After-School Strings program.
Four Suzuki selections follow, performed by all of the After-School Strings students, including the Suzuki class of students ages 4-7 — 75 young musicians in all.
Speaking of "young musicians," Dustin Wilkes-Kim returns as the soloist for a performance of Serge Prokofiev's Concerto No. 1 for violin and orchestra in D major. Wilkes-Kim first performed with the Salisbury Symphony four years ago at the age of 12 and was impressive. Now a junior at the UNC School of the Arts, he has raised over $8,100 giving benefit concerts for worthy causes. Wilkes-Kim is sponsored by Gordon and Carolyn Hurley and Patsy Rendleman.
The Rowan County Fifth Grade Honors Chorus is always the highlight of the seasons' family concerts. This year the 150 performers will offer a patriotic salute arranged by nationally-known composer Sally Albrecht, featuring familiar patriotic melodies, kazoos, choreography, and "You Raise Me Up," by Josh Groban, dedicated to the parents and teachers who support young musicians. The energetic and energizing concert ends with a most famous young composer, Mozart, and a movement from his Symphony No. 8 in D major, composed at the age of 12. Lois Pruehsner, concert sponsor, has made this tribute to early arts education possible.
Concert tickets may be purchased in advance at any of the symphony's ticket outlets — Belk, Visitors Center or Sidewalk Deli in Salisbury, Crescent Pharmacy (Rockwell), Green Goat Gallery (Spencer) or Silver Showcase (Landis) –— through PayPal by visiting the symphony's website – www.salisburysymphony.org -- or by calling the symphony office . The box office will open an hour before the performance begins.


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December 11. 2012 9:05PM
Salem officials look for solutions to polling problems
By APRIL GUILMET
Union Leader Correspondent
SALEM - During last month's general election, Salem voters showed up at the polls in record numbers, with some waiting to vote for well over an hour at two of the town's four polling locations - Ingram Senior Center and Fisk Elementary School.
The election and the primary in September were the first for the town's modified polling plan, with town officials opening four polling places instead of six. In 2011, selectmen approved the elimination of Barron Elementary School and Town Hall as polling places, with those voters moved to the senior center during this year's September primary.
On Monday evening, Town Moderator Christopher Goodnow shared a recap of the recent election with selectmen, noting that the new plan may have worked out fine during the September primaries but left a lot to be desired in the November election.
"Presidential elections are always a struggle for us," Goodnow said. "It's kind of like putting 10 tons of weight in a three-pound sack."
Among the issues presented at Fisk School and the senior center last month was the lack of sufficient parking, long polling lines and the fact that the ballots were unable to be processed fast enough. Nearly 15,000 Salem voters turned out for the November elections. Of those, over 34 percent, or nearly 5,000 voters, showed up to cast their ballots at the Ingram Senior Center.
"One of the challenges with elections is we have this huge variance where we have to accommodate 15,000 people," Goodnow said. "We're under much scrutiny and I try my best to make the process consistent election to election, but that's been a challenge."
Goodnow said the process of planning regular elections versus presidential elections "is like designing church for Easter Sunday."
"In September, we put in the exact same processes for the primary and it was smooth as silk. I don't think you can say the same about Nov. 6," he added.
The new voter identification law further slowed the process. "It took much longer to take in voters than we'd anticipated," said Goodnow. "At the end of the day, it just didn't work."
After the November election, Goodnow reached out to town clerks in communities of similar size to Salem, including Hudson, Londonderry and Derry. He concluded that there's currently "a wide disparity on how communities approach the process."
"We have a number of logistical constraints as some of our facilities have better parking than others," Goodnow said. "Fisk School becomes congested pretty fast. I don't have a formal plan yet on how to address this. Logically, our four existing polling places work fine for non-presidential elections, but four doesn't seem to cut it for the presidential elections."
Should another redistricting plan be considered, those plans would need to be finalized sometime in January, in time for the March town elections.
Goodnow further noted that Salem is the only community he knows of in New Hampshire that doesn't pay its ballot clerks, something he feels needs to change next time around. Patrick Hargreaves, chairman of the board of selectmen, noted that the senior center had only three sign-in tables during the recent election. He felt having four tables would have helped speed up the process.
"Right now, we have people going through the entire alphabet to get to your name," he said.
Selectman Everett McBride said he was personally against adding a fifth polling location, but he felt another redistricting was necessary. At Lancaster School, he noted, way fewer voters passed through the polls. Meanwhile, some noted that having the Salem polls close at 7 p.m. is confusing for some voters, since many surrounding towns' polls remain open until 8 p.m.
Goodnow advised against keeping the Salem polls open later. "We've been open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. for decades now, and before that happened, we really didn't see that many voters after 7 p.m.," he said.


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- 2 garlic cloves, chopped
- a 1-inch cube of peeled fresh gingerroot, quartered
- 2 tablespoons soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon cider vinegar
- 2 teaspoons honey
- 1/4 teaspoon aniseed
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 pound chicken thighs
- In a blender purée the garlic and the gingerroot with the soy sauce, the vinegar, the honey, the aniseed, and the salt. In a resealable plastic bag combine the marinade with the chicken thighs and let the chicken marinate at room temperature for 15 minutes. Arrange the chicken on the rack of a foil-lined broiler pan, discarding the marinade, and roast it in the middle of a preheated 425°F. oven for 20 to 25 minutes, or until it is cooked through.
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|Version 14 (modified by 8 years ago) (diff),
Track time spent on tickets
Notice: This plugin is unmaintained and available for adoption.
This is a plugin that adds a Work Log capability to Trac.
Basically, it allows you to register the fact you have started work on a ticket, which effectively allows you to clock on and clock off. It uses javascript to add a button to the ticket page to allow you to start/stop working on a given ticket.
Work can only be started by the user to which the ticket is assigned, which means there is also a limitation that only one user can work on a particular ticket (see #1943).
If the TimingAndEstimationPlugin is installed then when you clock off, the time spent on the ticket will be recorded.
If you visit the Work Log page (a new mainnav entry), you will see a list of people (developers) and which tickets they are currently working on. Work log events are also logged to the Timeline for a historical view.
Several options can be configured from the Admin page.
- XMLRPC Extension point
- Ajax based popup reminders when viewing Trac (this is perhaps not needed as there is a view at the top of all ticket pages.)
- Develop Companion Desktop Application as per #1667
- Add a Developer Work Profile to graphically show how "utilized" a developer is! Root out the lazy! (Perhaps integrate graphs etc. from PSP and TSP development models)
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Existing bugs and feature requests for WorkLogPlugin are here.
If you have any issues, create a new ticket.
You can [download:worklogplugin download zipped source], check out WorkLogPlugin from here using Subversion, or browse the source with Trac.
- Install the plugin, see details here.
- Be sure that the plugin is enabled. Add "worklog.* = enabled" to trac.ini (in the [components] subheading).
- Alternatively, this can be enabled in the Web Admin section of the website as well
- Run
$ trac-admin /path/to/projenv upgrade
- You should get a message like this:
Work Log needs an upgrade Upgrading Database Creating work_log table Upgrading usermanual Done upgrading Work Log Upgrade done.
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easy_install http://svn.edgewall.org/repos/genshi/trunk
- You should get a message like this:
- Reload/restart your HTTPD / other webserver / Tracd. That's it.
In order to enable the automatic updating of your "Total Hours" field when using the TimingAndEstimationPlugin you will need this configuration value:
[worklog] timingandestimation = true
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- autostopstart - bool
- autoreassignaccept - bool
- comment - bool
- timingandestimation - bool
- roundup - int
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STOCKTON - Stockton Councilwoman Kathy Miller in September is expected to take a lead role in the League of California Cities, an educational and advocacy coalition of 481 cities large and small.
STOCKTON - Stockton Councilwoman Kathy Miller in September is expected to take a lead role in the League of California Cities, an educational and advocacy coalition of 481 cities large and small.
At a recent league meeting, Miller, a second-term Stockton City Council member, was ratified as second vice president. Once ratified next year, she'll be first vice president and after that would be in line for the league's presidency.
Miller has said that she will run in June of next year for a seat on the San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors. If she wins, she will leave the City Council midterm and give up her place in the league's rotation.
This role in the league's leadership gives Stockton a seat at the table shaping policy, Miller said.
"We have a really unique perspective on unique issues of the day," she said, mentioning municipal finances, pension reform and water. "There's tremendous value there in sharing that with other cities in California."
The league advocates on policy, favoring control at the local government level. The coalition also puts on training for incoming council members, mayors and city officials.
The league's incoming president is Jose Cisneros, elected treasurer of San Francisco, and the incoming first vice president is Tony Ferrara, mayor of Arroyo Grande.
Miller has been active on the league's board since shortly after taking office on the Stockton council. She has testified several times at the Capitol in Sacramento, most recently on enterprise zones.
"You can't only pay attention to what's going on inside the city limits," she said. "If you do, you're going to end up being locked out of some of the larger issues."
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Haha, you both wear panties.Kevin
You can send those sucky Arc Troopers my way if you'd like.
Traded for one this afternoon. I've yet to open it, but it looks okay for what it is. 5 figures for $25. And they're army builders, too. It's all good.The ARC Trooper figure could definitely use some updating. But it's also not the worst figure going. I'm sure at some point Hasbro will update the ARC Trooper. Just not now.
I got it todayI was disapoited on how flimsy the pauldrons were. I thought they would be like the Rots comnader pauldrons, you know stiff.Oh well.
I found these today, there was 1 case put out on the shelves. The first thing I noticed is that the paint jobs were ultra sloppy. Almost every set was like this. Additionally, I like how the red ARC and the heavy gunner have articulated knees, but the other 3 ARC's knees don't appear to be articulated. The pauldrons look kinda flimsy and not so good. The red ARC appears to have the wrong guns, looks like he has those 2 little pistols from the Clone Commander #33 as opposed to the long barreled revolver types in the cartoons.In all, I put it back on the shelf. The $27 is more valuable to me, and that's saying a lot because I love clones. But these just do not make the grade.
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