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MultiMac Draft Web Page
DJ Greaves, S Suh, D Gordon, N Khan, R Leiser.
The HanLan is sponsored by Virata .
MultiMac is a project to investigate media access control and baseband communication link technology from the point of view of a set of loadable modules. The MultiMac environment will allow both rapid prototyping of communications systems and implementation of flexible and reconfigurable communication systems.
MultiMac will start with a set of modules implemented in C++ and Verilog, where the Verilog has often been synthesised from C++. The modules represent all the common functions found in communications systems. The modules will be assembled to form working systems, both in simulation and on FPGAs.
AimOur aim is to answer the following questions:
TargetsWe would aim to encode the following communications systems as real examples in our system. We would also aim to to operate several at once, or parts of several at once, to evaluate tradeoffs.
Note that we have deliberately chosen a mixture of LAN and advanced point-to-point link technologies, together with the ATM switch and Firewire, which has active nodes.
Components Needed
The following list has some of the data processing modules needed in our system:
The meta-blocks that do not sit in the data path but which control it include the followings. As stated above, an aim is to automatically generate these blocks as a result of our decisions (dynamic decisions even) regarding the data path components.
Physical Media
In the simulation, a media simulator interconnects the media access ports. We have a lumped element simulator and an analytical simulator that can be used to model various wiring topologies and types of wire. In the implementations, we can fit various types of wire between the terminals of our FPGA boards.
Data Sources
Data sources will be PRBS generators, real network traces and connection to real networks of the real implementations.
System Architecture
The system architecture is a methodology for communication system design and is seen as one of the main reseach results of the project.
Each block will normally be written in C++. A block will have an input port, an output port, a management port and a description vector.
The C++ description includes details of the local state and the algorithm to be performed to move data from the input port to the output port.
The management port includes the ability to start and stop the block, to recover it from a known error, to flag an error and to context swap the block when it is about to handle a different logical stream.
The description vector enables the system to know what types of data may flow through the input and output ports. The C++ type system is not sufficient. The type information must include the maximum and minimum rates of data, whether it is in analog or digital form, whether it is continuous, gapped or framed and noise information.
Many of our communications blocks are concerned with overcomming noise. A combination of blocks can be checked for consistency using a predicate function on the port vectors, which includes their noise performance. The definition of this predicate function is seen as a significant research result. We model the following forms of noise in our architecture:
Experiment 1: Automatic MAC synthesis
Given a set of communications blocks which we wish to use in a multi-access LAN modulation system, can we generate the MAC semi-automatically ?
Evaluation criteria: line throughput, latency, granularity of sharing.
Experiment 2: Random MAC evaluation
We will randomly generate a large number of communications systems and see if any work better than those designed by hand (or committee).
Final Remarks
This is an ambitious project based on a starting idea from Mr Suh. We shall have to think on it for a week or two now.
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Ten years after waking from coma, Army veteran on road to recovery
By JEREMY THOMAS | Contra Costa Times | Published: May 5, 2014
LIVERMORE, Calif. — Lying on her back across a row of padded chairs, Mariela Meylan grimaces, struggling to stretch her arms skyward.
Through a gentle form of yoga, she's training her damaged brain to more effectively communicate with her limbs.
"My body is not in so much in pain as it was before," the former soldier says slowly, but intelligibly. "Everything is moving in the right direction."
It is a miracle, combined with sheer will and a mother's determination, that Meylan is moving at all — or even alive.
She was a heartbeat from death a decade ago, her body left mangled in the dust after being struck by a hit-and-run driver. She was in a coma for eight months; left partially paralyzed, unable to speak or eat. Doctors told her mother she'd never recover, and if she awoke, she'd be a "vegetable" for the rest of her life.
Yet after a decade of hospital and in-home nursing care, physical rehabilitation and various alternative therapies, Meylan, 34, can speak and walk with the help of a cane. She's learning to sew, she swims, plays piano and rides horses. She was given a wheelchair to practice playing basketball and recently drove a go-cart by herself around a Livermore track, her face beaming.
"I felt like a kid again," Meylan said.
It's been a slow but startling recovery for Meylan since her brush with death in 2004. Fresh off a second tour of duty in Iraq, the Army specialist was in a convoy in Kuwait when one of the trucks got a flat. Mariela got out to help when a car slammed into her and three other soldiers. Two of the soldiers died; Mariela hung on.
She doesn't remember anything about the crash or its aftermath. The Army, according to her adoptive mother, Lisette Meylan, was vague about the circumstances. Meylan — whose daughter, Jaela, was just a year old at the time — had suffered a severe traumatic brain injury, a dislocated hip, collapsed lung, severed liver and a stroke caused by an emergency medical procedure, leaving her partially paralyzed. She had slipped into a coma, and doctors told Lisette Meylan her daughter would never recover.
"The doctors wanted to take her off life support," she said. "One day at Walter Reed (National Military Medical Center), a psychologist made sure we knew she would never wake up. I cried that day. Then I thought, what the hell does he know?"
According to the U.S. Department of Defense, nearly 300,000 cases of traumatic brain injury were diagnosed in the armed forces from 2000-2013. Of those, about 2,900 were classified as severe, with another 4,400 reported as penetrating or open-head injuries. More than 80 percent resulted from vehicular crashes, falls, recreational activities or training. Of the female soldiers deployed since 2001, the department said, 5 percent have suffered some form of traumatic brain injury.
Doug Miller, a member of Alameda County's Veterans Affairs Commission, met Mariela through the Army's Wounded Warrior Program, a mentorship assisting severely injured soldiers. Miller said he has seen many veterans with traumatic brain injuries improve within the first five years of their injuries, and many of those recoveries, like Meylan's, have been "significant."
"Her determination has never wavered," Miller said. "She considers it her job to improve her physical condition. … She's someone to be admired."
Meylan awoke from her coma unable to walk or talk and dependent on feeding and breathing tubes. She spent three years recuperating in veterans' hospitals from Washington, D.C., to Palo Alto and Livermore. It took a year for her to regain her speech, and she was wheelchair-bound for five years.
"(The injury) made moving difficult," Meylan said. "My mind wanted to go but my legs did not want to get me there. It was very tough."
Unsatisfied with the prognoses she was hearing from the Department of Veterans Affairs, Lisette Meylan pursued alternative treatments for her daughter, such as craniosacral therapy — a light-touch bodywork for the head, neck and spine — acupuncture and a spiritual healer.
Though Meylan still struggles with short-term memory loss — she's unable to remember events from one minute to the next — Lisette Meylan said her daughter's cognitive abilities are better now than even a few months ago. With the help of a psychologist, Meylan is memorizing poetry to improve her recall.
Where she once needed constant care, Meylan is on a steady path to independence.
"(Besides driving), I'm not doing anything for her now," Lisette Meylan said.
Every day, she takes Meylan to her many appointments: to a Livermore ranch for horse therapy, to San Jose for sessions on a state-of-the-art Vasper elliptical machine, and to Pleasanton for workouts with the AlterG, a special treadmill that allows her to walk in an airtight, weightless environment. The combined therapies, paid for out of Meylan's VA benefits, have done wonders for her daughter's strength, balance and muscle control, she said.
Kate Mackinnon, a craniosacral therapist who has treated Meylan since she was fully reliant on nursing care, devoted part of her book, "From My Hands and Heart," to her client's progress.
"It's miraculous," Mackinnon said. "She's just a huge inspiration because of her perseverance. All these limits were put on her and she just keeps busting through them."
Kate Coughlin, owner of Downtown Yoga in Pleasanton, provides Meylan with one-on-one instruction on a weekly basis.
"In terms of her recovery, it's not a small thing," Coughlin said. "She's a strong soul, brave, and never gives up. There's a lot to be said for her attitude."
Meylan is upbeat about her progress and has her sights set on learning to cook and care for her 10-year-old daughter, who lives with her father in another state. She's also looking forward to her first yoga retreat. The practice, she said, makes her feel stronger and more flexible.
"It's motivation to (say), 'I'm not as weak as you think I am,' " Meylan said.


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A tip and a steal and Tennessee's Ariel Massengale was locked like a heat-seeking missile on an easy fast-break basket.
As she slowed to gather herself in the lane, though, LSU's Jeanne Kenney came flying in from behind, on a wobbly left knee, no less, cutting Massengale off to draw a bone-crunching charge.
As Kenney pulled herself off the court, Tennessee coach Holly Warlick doubled over, clutching the front of her pants legs in frustration.
Warlick and her staff should have known what to expect from Kenney by now, and they probably did. But perhaps it defies logic, or expectation, to predict the way Kenney plays, the way she hurls her body around the court like some female version of Rocky Balboa.
There she was, in the first half against Tennessee, just three days removed from a frightening hyperextension of her left knee against Texas A&M, making her own steal and slamming into the scorers' table, a two-car pileup that also collected a referee and sent him away flexing his arm in pain.
It was a play that many players wouldn't have attempted healthy. It's the kind of effort Kenney gives every night, sacrificing her well-being for her team.
"There's no fear about her," team trainer Micki Collins said. "Tough as nails. But she scares the dickens out of me, especially now that I'm not on the bench."
Collins was watching from the LSU locker room with her newborn son during the A&M game Feb. 4 when she looked up to see the Aggies player roll into the unsuspecting Kenney's left knee. Collins handed her child to her sister and ran out onto the court.
Kenney, whose scars on her knees and elbows are like a road map of her career, was for once scared as well. She heard something in her left knee pop, and having a physician for a father she knew that could be bad.
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Moments after, though, Kenney was running in a back hallway of the Pete Maravich Assembly Center. Collins decided it was best she not return.
"I went down there because I didn't know how bad it was," Dr. Robert Kenney said. "She was just fuming."
LSU coach Nikki Caldwell pronounced Kenney out of the starting lineup against Tennessee, but it took all of three minutes to get her into the game.
Kenney played 30 minutes, hyperextended knee and all — all but willing the Lady Tigers to victory against No. 12-ranked Tennessee in a bitter 64-62 loss.
Despite the defeat, Kenney was an inspiration to her team.
"You would never know that the kid is banged up, bruised up and taped up by her competitive spirit," Caldwell said. "That's what she brings to our team: toughness. It has a lot to do with who Jeanne Kenney is. She's that type of player who makes sacrifices, whether it's her body or a shot to give her teammates a look."
Collins has been the Lady Tigers team trainer for a dozen seasons. She said the only player who she puts in Kenney's category in terms of physical toughness is former center DeTrina White.
Like the 5-foot-8 Kenney, the 5-11 White was undersized compared to many of the physical skyscrapers who play in the Southeastern Conference. But like White, Kenney's determination is unmatched.
Kenney's toughest hit? It's a bit hazy, but it would have to be the elbow she took from Tennessee's Glory Johnson in the first minute of a game last season in Knoxville.
The blow gave Kenney a concussion and caused her to miss two games.
"That one hurt," Kenney said. "I had a nice, colorful little eye there."
The hit may have hurt, but it didn't change Kenney's selfless style of play. The only thing that could do that was an admonishment from her 89-year-old grandfather.
"After I took a couple of charges in a game he literally kicked me in the butt," Kenney said with a laugh. "I said, 'You're going to break a hip. I promise I'll be more careful.' "
The 20-year-old Kenney started playing basketball at 4 and honed her toughness in countless pickup games on the driveway with her older and taller brother, Mark.
"He never played past the eighth grade," said Jeanne's mother, Kay Kenney, "but when she was little bitty they would go at it."
"He helped me a lot," Jeanne said. "He would always beat me, but that competitive spirit was instilled in me."
When she got a bit older, Kenney played shortstop on a boys baseball team.
"I loved it," she said. "I loved proving the kids wrong who would pick me last for things. They just saw a girl, and a really skinny one at that.
"And I would beat them at everything. That's my favorite thing to do: proving somebody wrong."
Kenney downplays her natural athletic ability, but when she signed with LSU in 2010 she was rated the nation's No. 31 prospect by ESPN. She credits teammates like KK Babin (now a player at Nicholls State) at St. Michael the Archangel and current LSU teammate Theresa Plaisance (the two played AAU ball together) for making Kenney appealing to coaches who came to scout them.
When her playing days are over, Kenney wants to be a coach.
"Being a former player when I'm coaching you'll really start to think, 'OK, this sprint might kill them,' " Kenney said. " 'I'm pretty sure we'll need a day off after this day.' "
It's pretty much a given Kenney won't be as tough as a coach as she is on herself.


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CINCINNATI (AP) -- Homer Bailey pitched seven solid innings and the Cincinnati Reds came up with just enough offense to squeeze out a 2-1 win over Pittsburgh on Wednesday night for a three-game sweep of the Pirates.
The Reds (87-57) scored both of their runs on outs while moving 30 games over .500 for the first time since they were 96-66 on Oct. 3, 1999. They widened their lead in the NL Central over second-place St. Louis to 11 1/2 games.
Cincinnati's win and the Cardinals' 3-2 loss at San Diego cut to eight the Reds' magic number for clinching the division. Any combination of Reds wins and Cardinals losses adding up to eight clinches the title for Cincinnati.
Bailey (11-9) allowed six hits and one run with two walks and four strikeouts to extend his career high in victories.
Sam LeCure pitched a perfect eighth and rookie J.J. Hoover allowed a two-out hit before striking out pinch-hitter Jose Tabata to complete his first career save.
Pittsburgh starter A.J. Burnett suffered his first loss in four decisions against the Reds this season. Burnett (15-7), 0-3 in five starts since beating Los Angeles on Aug. 16, allowed five hits and two runs with two walks and eight strikeouts.
The score was tied 1-all when Ryan Ludwick led off Cincinnati's sixth with a double down the left-field line. He tagged and went to third on Jay Bruce's fly ball to deep center field then tagged and scored on Scott Rolen's sacrifice fly down the left-field line.
The Reds cashed in a bit of good fortune to take a 1-0 lead in the third inning. Ryan Hanigan led off with a lined single to center field and moved to second one out later on Brandon Phillips' bouncer up the middle. Both runners moved up on Burnett's wild pitch, and Hanigan scored on Wilson Valdez's chopper to second.
The Pirates tied it in the fourth on singles by Andrew McCutchen, Garrett Jones and Gaby Sanchez to lead off the inning before leaving the bases loaded when Bailey struck out Burnett.
They missed another scoring opportunity in the sixth when Alex Presley tripled down the right-field line with one out and was caught stealing home when Clint Barmes couldn't get his bat on a suicide squeeze attempt.
Notes: 3B Pedro Alvarez was scratched from Pittsburgh's original starting lineup less than an hour before the first pitch with what a spokesman called "right wrist discomfort." There was no definitive word before the game on when Alvarez suffered the injury or how long he might be out. ... 2B Neil Walker took batting practice Tuesday, but he still missed his 15th straight game with lower back tightness on Wednesday. He had no baseball-related activities planned for Wednesday or Thursday, manager Clint Hurdle said. "We'll see how he is on Friday," Hurdle said. ... Thursday's day off is the last on Pittsburgh's schedule. The Pirates are scheduled to finish with 20 games in 20 days.


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Trimble County High School has a new Vocational Agriculture teacher and Future Farmers of America Chapter Adviser. Courtney Scott, of Gallatin County, has been hired to fill the vacancy left by the resignation of JoAnn Gripshover.
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Trimble County Middle School Principal Mike Genton delivered a very interesting and thought-provoking talk about future middle school education to the Bedford Rotary Club on August 18. A major theme throughout seemed to be the importance of individualized learning now, and into the future.
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The 2015 Trimble County Apple Festival is just around the corner and all area bakers young and old are encouraged to get ready for the Apple Pie Contest. This year's Apple Festival dates are Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 12 & 13.
Judging for the Apple Pie Contest will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 12, at 11:00 a.m. at the New Life Assembly of God Church, located at 112 Hwy 42E in Bedford.
Rules for the Apple Pie Contest are as follows:
1. One entry per person
Trimble County's semi-annual Animal Swap Meet will be held this Labor Day weekend, Sept. 5-6, at the Milton City Park in downtown Milton.
The swap meet will be held all day both Saturday and Sunday with a flea market, crafts, antiques and animals. There will also be concession vendors on the grounds.
Due to the outbreak of Avian Flu, poultry will not be allowed at the swap meet this year per Kentucky law. No alcoholic beverages are allowed on the premises, nor are handguns or live ammunition.
Larry and Barbara Burkhardt of Milton celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on Thursday, Aug. 28. Bro. K. Joines married them at the Whites Run Baptist Church on Saturday, Aug. 28, 1965.
Mr. Burkhardt is an Excavating Contractor with Burkhardt-Crawford Contracting and Mrs. Burkhardt is retired from the office of the United States Department of Agriculture in Carrollton.
They have a daughter and son-in-law, Tayra and Russell Crawford and two grandchildren, Russ and Savannah Crawford. They will be celebrating with their family and with a trip later this fall.
A special called meeting of the Trimble County Extension District Board will be held September 15, 2015 at 10:00 a.m. at the Trimble County Cooperative Extension Service office located at 43 High Country Lane, Bedford. Items to be discussed are Stop Gap Funding, copier quotes, inquiry on property, sealing of parking lot, ebeam technology. All meetings of the Trimble County Extension District Board are open to the general public.
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Take heed of loving mee
Two Voices are there: one is of the Sea
Take heed of loving mee
(J. Donne, Meta)
Take, O take those lips away
(W. Shakespeare, Gold)
Take, O take those lips away
(W. Shakespeare, OBEV)
Tall nettles cover up, as they have done
(E. Thomas, MBP)
Tarye no lenger; toward thyn heritage
(J. Lydgate, OBEV)
Tattered outlaw of the earth
(G.K. Chesterton, MBP)
Tax not the royal Saint with vain expense
(W. Wordsworth, Gold)
Teach me, Father, how to go
(E. Markham, MAP)
Tell me no more how fair she is
(H. King, Meta)
Tell me not, in mournful numbers
(H.W. Longfellow, YBAV)
Tell me not of a face that 's fair
(A. Brome, OBEV)
Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind
(R. Lovelace, Gold)
Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind
(R. Lovelace, OBEV)
Tell me not (Sweet) I am unkinde
(R. Lovelace, Meta)
Tell me not what too well I know
(W.S. Landor, OBEV)
Tell me, O tell, what kind of thing is Wit
(A. Cowley, Meta)
Tell me where is Fancy bred
(W. Shakespeare, Gold)
Tell me where is Fancy bred
(W. Shakespeare, OBEV)
Thames nocturne of blue and gold
(O. Wilde, MBP)
Thank Heaven! the crisis
(E.A. Poe, OBEV)
That time of year thou may'st in me behold
(W. Shakespeare, Gold)
That time of year thou may'st in me behold
(W. Shakespeare, OBEV)
That which her slender waist confined
(E. Waller, Gold)
That which her slender waist confined
(E. Waller, OBEV)
That year? Yes, doubtless I remember still
(E.C. Stedman, YBAV)
That zephyr every year
(W. Drummond, OBEV)
Thee too, modest tressèd maid
(H. Rowe, OBEV)
Then came the cry of "Call all hands on deck!
(J. Masefield, MBP)
Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now
(W. Shakespeare, OBEV)
There ance was a may, and she lo'ed na men
(Lady G. Baillie, OBEV)
There are gains for all our losses
(R.H. Stoddard, YBAV)
There are strange shadows fostered of the moon
(A.D. Ficke, MAP)
There are three ways in which men take
(O.W. Holmes, YBAV)
There are two births; the one when light
(W. Cartwright, OBEV)
There be none of Beauty's daughters
(G. Byron, Gold)
There be none of Beauty's daughters
(G. Byron, OBEV)
There is a city, builded by no hand
(T.W. Parsons, YBAV)
There is a dish to hold the sea
(J. Davidson, MBP)
There is a flower, the lesser celandine
(W. Wordsworth, Gold)
There is a garden in her face
(Anonymous, Gold)
There is a garden in her face
(T. Campion, OBEV)
There is a Lady sweet and kind
(Anonymous, OBEV)
There is a mountain and a wood between us
(W.S. Landor, OBEV)
There is an hour of peaceful rest
(W.B. Tappan, YBAV)
There is a silence where hath been no sound
(T. Hood, OBEV)
There is no escape by the river
(R. Hovey, YBAV)
There is no flock, however watched and tended
(H.W. Longfellow, YBAV)
There is no frigate like a book
(E. Dickinson, MAP)
There is no wrath in the stars
(Lord Dunsany, MBP)
There is something in the autumn that is native to my blood
(B. Carman, MAP)
There is sweet music here that softer falls
(A. Tennyson, OBEV)
There lived a wife at Usher's well
(Anonymous, OBEV)
There's a barrel-organ carolling across a golden street
(A. Noyes, MBP)
There 's a glade in Aghadoe, Aghadoe, Aghadoe
(J. Todhunter, OBEV)
There 's a whisper down the field where the year has shot her yield
(R. Kipling, OBEV)
There 's a woman like a dewdrop, she 's so purer than the purest
(R. Browning, OBEV)
There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away
(G. Byron, Gold)
There's not a nook within this solemn Pass
(W. Wordsworth, OBEV)
There's nothing very beautiful and nothing very gay
(O. Johns, MAP)
There they stand, on their ends, the fifty faggots
(E. Thomas, MBP)
There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream
(W. Wordsworth, Gold)
There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream
(W. Wordsworth, OBEV)
There were three ravens sat on a tree
(Anonymous, OBEV)
There were twa sisters sat in a bour
(Anonymous, OBEV)
These be
(A. Crapsey, MAP)
These be the little verses, rough and uncultured
(P. Macgill, MBP)
They all were looking for a king
(G. MacDonald, OBEV)
They are all gone into the world of light
(H. Vaughan, Meta)
They are all gone into the world of light
(H. Vaughan, OBEV)
They are waiting on the shore
(R.B.W. Noel, OBEV)
They flee from me that sometime did me seek
(Sir T. Wyatt, OBEV)
They left the fury of the fight
(T.P.C. Wilson, MBP)
They may talk of love in a cottage
(N.P. Willis, YBAV)
They sat and comb'd their beautiful hair
(N. Perry, YBAV)
They say that dead men tell no tales
(H. Long, MAP)
They seem'd, to those who saw them meet
(R.M. Milnes, OBEV)
They set the slave free, striking off his chains
(J. Oppenheim, MAP)
They that have power to hurt, and will do none
(W. Shakespeare, Gold)
They that have power to hurt and will do none
(W. Shakespeare, OBEV)
They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead
(W. Cory, OBEV)
Thirsty earth soaks up the rain
(A. Cowley, OBEV)
This ae nighte, this ae nighte
(Anonymous, OBEV)
This ancient silver bowl of mine,it tells of good old times
(O.W. Holmes, YBAV)
This hinder yeir I hard be tald
(R. Henryson, OBEV)
This is a spray the Bird clung to
(R. Browning, OBEV)
This is my playes last scene, here heavens appoint
(J. Donne, Meta)
This is the Arsenal. From floor to ceiling
(H.W. Longfellow, YBAV)
This is the end of him, here he lies
(A. Levy, MBP)
This is the image of my last content
(F.B. Young, MBP)
This is the month, and this the happy morn
(J. Milton, Gold)
This is the Month, and this the happy morn
(J. Milton, Meta)
This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign
(O.W. Holmes, YBAV)
This life, which seems so fair
(W. Drummond, Gold)
This little vault, this narrow room
(T. Carew, OBEV)
This much, O heavenif I should brood or rave
(G.K. Chesterton, MBP)
This winter's weather it waxeth cold
(Anonymous, OBEV)
Those black eyes I once so praised
(W.W. Story, YBAV)
Thou art to all lost love the best
(R. Herrick, OBEV)
Though beauty be the mark of praise
(B. Jonson, OBEV)
Though love repine, and reason chafe
(R.W. Emerson, YBAV)
Though you be absent here, I needs must say
(A. Cowley, Meta)
Thou hast made me, And shall thy worke decay
(J. Donne, Meta)
Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness
(J. Keats, OBEV)
Thou unrelenting Past
(W.C. Bryant, YBAV)
Thou wast all that to me, love
(E.A. Poe, YBAV)
Thou youngest virgin-daughter of the skies
(J. Dryden, OBEV)
Three years ago, to-day
(C.G. Halpine, YBAV)
Three years she grew in sun and shower
(W. Wordsworth, Gold)
Three years she grew in sun and shower
(W. Wordsworth, OBEV)
Through grief and through danger thy smile hath cheer'd my way
(T. Moore, OBEV)
Through that pure Virgin-shrine
(H. Vaughan, Meta)
Through the black, rushing smoke-bursts
(M. Arnold, OBEV)
Through the dim window, I could see
(R. Helton, MAP)
Throw away thy rod
(G. Herbert, Meta)
Throw away Thy rod
(G. Herbert, OBEV)
Thus the Mayne glideth
(R. Browning, OBEV)
Thus when the silent grave becomes
(W. Broome, OBEV)
Thy beauty haunts me heart and soul
(W.H. Davies, MBP)
Thy bosom is endearèd with all hearts
(W. Shakespeare, OBEV)
Thy braes were bonnie, Yarrow stream
(J. Logan, Gold)
Thy hue, dear pledge, is pure and bright
(Sir W. Scott, Gold)
Thy restless feet now cannot go
(R. Crashaw, OBEV)
Thy soul within such silent pomp did keep
(J. Oldham, OBEV)
Tiger, tiger, burning bright
(W. Blake, OBEV)
Time is the feather'd thing
(J. Mayne, OBEV)
Timely blossom, Infant fair
(A. Philips, Gold)
Time, you old gipsy man
(R. Hodgson, MBP)
Time you won your town the race
(A.E. Housman, MBP)
Tingling shafts of light
(A. Brody, MAP)
Tired with all these, for restful death I cry
(W. Shakespeare, Gold)
Tis a dull sight
(E. Fitzgerald, OBEV)
Tis fifteen hundred years, you say
(E.C. Stedman, YBAV)
'Tis not how witty, nor how free
(A. Townshend, Meta)
T is said that the gods, on Olympus of old
(C.F. Hoffman, YBAV)
Tis the yeares midnight, and it is the dayes
(J. Donne, Meta)
To all you ladies now at land
(C. Sackville, OBEV)
To clothe the fiery thought
(R.W. Emerson, YBAV)
To-day, all day, I rode upon the down
(W.S. Blunt, OBEV)
To fair Fidele's grassy tomb
(W. Collins, OBEV)
To him who in the love of Nature holds
(W.C. Bryant, YBAV)
To horse, my dear, and out into the night
(R. Hovey, YBAV)
To live within a caveit is most good
(T.E. Brown, OBEV)
Toll for the brave
(W. Cowper, Gold)
To make a final conquest of all me
(A. Marvell, Meta)
To me, fair Friend, you never can be old
(W. Shakespeare, Gold)
To me, fair friend, you never can be old
(W. Shakespeare, OBEV)
To mute and to material things
(Sir W. Scott, OBEV)
To my true king I offer'd free from stain
(T.B. Macaulay, OBEV)
To-night retired, the queen of heaven
(M. Akenside, OBEV)
Too late for love, too late for joy
(C.G. Rossetti, OBEV)
Too solemn for day, too sweet for night
(W.S. Walker, OBEV)
Tossed on the glittering air they soar and skim
(S. Sassoon, MBP)
Tossing his mane of snows in wildest eddies and tangles
(W.D. Howells, OBEV)
To the Heavens above us
(R. Kipling, MBP)
To the Ocean now I fly
(J. Milton, OBEV)
To these whom death again did wed
(R. Crashaw, OBEV)
To what new fates, my country, far
(R. Hovey, MAP)
To what new fates, my country, far
(R. Hovey, YBAV)
Tread lightly, she is near
(O. Wilde, MBP)
True Thomas lay on Huntlie bank
(Anonymous, OBEV)
Trust thou thy Love: if she be proud, is she not sweet
(J. Ruskin, OBEV)
Twas at the royal feast for Persia won
(J. Dryden, Gold)
Twas on a lofty vase's side
(T. Gray, Gold)
Twas on a lofty vase's side
(T. Gray, OBEV)
'Twas the dream of a God
(D. Sigerson, OBEV)
Twentieth year is well-nigh past
(W. Cowper, Gold)
Twentieth year is wellnigh past
(W. Cowper, OBEV)
Twenty years hence my eyes may grow
(W.S. Landor, OBEV)
Twice or thrice had I loved thee
(J. Donne, Meta)
Twine then the rays
(G. Burgess, MAP)
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
(R. Frost, MAP)
Two Voices are there: one is of the Sea
(W. Wordsworth, Gold)
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Are the Lebanese really innocent?
Is the Lebanese army joining Hezbollah?
As Israeli ground forces cross over into Lebanon in an effort to destroy Hizbullah's capacity to fire rockets and missiles at Israeli civilians, the president of Lebanon Emile Lahoud is taking sides and flexing his nation's muscle for the first time.
He told a German magazine that he "respects Hizbullah" and its terrorist leader Hassan Nasrallah, and he has threatened to turn the Lebanese army against Israel. This would cause a self-inflicted, and perhaps lethal, wound on Lebanon.
Militias associated with several Lebanese political parties -including the party of the speaker of the parliament and of the Lebanese Communist Party - have already joined Hizbullah in attacking Israel.
Up until now, the Lebanese government has claimed that it has no real army, not even one capable of controlling the Hizbullah terrorists who have "occupied" southern Lebanon. It has claimed an inability to enforce UN resolution 1559 which, adopted by the Security Council in 2004, "calls for the disbanding and disarmament of all Lebanese and non-Lebanese militias," meaning Hizbullah. And it has disclaimed any responsibility for Hizbullah atrocities against Israeli civilians and kidnapped soldiers.
NOW, ALL of a sudden, its tune has changed. Suddenly its army is strong enough to take on Israel, and it is willing to collaborate with the terrorist organization from which it previously sought to disassociate itself. Nor can the Lebanese government plausibly argue that this about-face has been caused by the Israeli decision to have its ground troops cross over into Lebanon.
Intelligence sources have confirmed that elements of the Lebanese army have been working with Hizbullah terrorists from the beginning of this conflict, providing the terrorists with electronic, radar and other logistical supports.
The Lebanese government is not as innocent - not as much of a victim - as it has gotten the international community and the media to believe. It is playing a dangerous and two-faced game of both sides against the middle.


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Florida Chief Financial Officer and State Fire Marshal Jeff Atwater today announced the arrest of Bobby Joe Rogers of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, after a joint investigation involving the Division of State Fire Marshal's Bureau of Fire and Arson Investigations (BFAI) and other members of the Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF). The investigation determined that Rogers set fire to a clinic, causing approximately $300,000 in damage.
"We are thankful that no one was injured during this incident and for the collaboration between all of the law enforcement agencies involved in this case," said CFO Atwater, who also serves as State Fire Marshal. "I would like to also thank members of the Pensacola community for providing the critical information needed to promptly resolve this case."
On January 1, 2012, the Pensacola Fire Department responded to a fire at the American Family Planning Clinic located at 6770 N. 9th Avenue in Pensacola, Florida and requested the assistance of the BFAI to investigate the cause of the fire. The investigation determined that the fire was intentionally set.
The details surrounding this fire initiated the response of members of the Joint Terrorism Task Force. The JTTF is composed of federal, state and local law enforcement agencies whose primary work is to identify and disrupt terrorist activity. The following agencies cooperated in this investigation; the Florida State Fire Marshal Bureau of Fire and Arson Investigations, the Pensacola Fire Department, the Pensacola Police Department, Escambia County Sheriff's Office, The Florida Department of Law Enforcement, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and the Internal Revenue Service. "This arrest demonstrates the strategic value of the Joint Terrorism Task Force and the high level of cooperation among the numerous agencies involved," said Julius Halas, Director, Division of State Fire Marshal.
Members of the community came forward with information that led to the arrest of Rogers, who is being held at the Escambia County Jail pending a federal indictment by the U.S. Attorney's Office. The federal charges are a result of violation of federal criminal law concerning use of explosive materials and Rogers could face up to 20 years in prison.
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R5-D4- are we sure this is a new sculpt?
I'm pretty happy with this version... they might just repack this -
The band member would have been a good repack. I think it makes sense to have Luke and Han out there (as many kids ask about them in the SW aisle, they should be out there now) but the band member would practically be a new figure.
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The S&P 500 remains in a strong uptrend, but the index has posted a sizable gains for 2013 thus far so it's only logical that a pullback within this bull market takes place sooner than later.
With May now upon us and historically prices fall more times than not, I feel a 3-4 weeks correction is on the verge of starting. This Friday we just had very strong economic numbers confirming the economy is recovering. This news has sent stocks sharply higher as shorts cover their positions and investors who are not yet long get into position to profit from higher prices. But the herd psychology and their trades are typically incorrect as they invest based on fear and greed. The old saying of 'buy on negative news and sell on positive news' will typically get you on the correct side of the market more times than not if used with price, volume and cycles.
The Technical Traders – S&P 500 Index Weekly Chart
If we look at the price of the S&P 500 we need it to breakdown below the recent pivot low before I become bearish.
Volume, which is not shown on this chart, is below average as price moves higher and this is a bearish sign also.
Looking at a basic cycle using the stochastics indicator we can see that the current cycle is starting to turn down. Cycles tend to lead price during an uptrend so we could still have stocks move higher for another week or so but be aware that when price starts to drop its likely a market top. But until then you must respect the uptrend. Stocks can remain overbought and toppy looking for months… so don't be gambling and trying to pick a top until we see breakdown start.


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Trachemys gaigeae
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Trachemys gaigeae (Hartweg, 1939)
Common Name(s):
Pseudemys scripta ssp. gaigeae Hartweg, 1939
Pseudemys scripta ssp. hartwegi Legler, 1990
|Taxonomic Notes:
|Traditionally considered a subspecies of Trachemys scripta, recognised as full species by several authors, including Seidel (2002). Seidel (2002) placed two taxa as subspecies of T. gaigeae: T. gaigeae gaigeae (Hartweg, 1939), and T. gaigeae hartwegi (Legler, 1990).
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Vulnerable A2ce+4ce ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|van Dijk, P.P.
|Horne, B.D., Mittermeier, R.A., Philippen, H.-D., Quinn, H.R., Rhodin, A.G.J., Shaffer, H.B. & Vogt, R.C
Both subspecies of Trachemys gaigeae are restricted to relatively limited sections of main river valleys subject to major hydrological management and engineering works, with pollution and hybridisation as additional potential threats; available population data indicate a common to uncommon species declining in abundance, and hartwegi specifically going extinct across substantial areas of occurrence. Subspecies hartwegi qualifies for Endangered A2bc A4bc B2a+b(i,ii,iii,iv,v).
Trachemys gaigeae is currently listed as Vulnerable.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|Trachemys gaigeae gaigeae: Upper Rio Grande and Rio Conchos basin of New Mexico-Texas, USA, and Chihuahua-Coahuila, Mexico.
Trachemys gaigeae hartwegi: Rio Nazas basin of Durango and adjacent Coahuila, Mexico (Iverson 1992, Seidel 2002).
Both gaigeae and hartwegi were hypothesized by Legler (1990) to have evolved in the endorrheic basins of northern Mexico and adjacent USA, before the Conchos and upper Rio Grande were captured by the Pecos-Grande system. The distribution of T. gaigeae gaigeae is parapatric to Pseudemys gorzugi and Trachemys scripta elegans.
|Countries occurrence:
Native:Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango); United States (New Mexico, Texas)
|Additional data:
|Range Map:
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|Very little information is available; based on distribution records it appears that T.g. gaigeae is fragmented into a number of isolated subpopulations along the upper Grande and Conchos; where monitored, most of these subpopulations appear reasonably stable. Price (1997, in Clausen and Hammerson 2005) considered ssp. gaigeae 'common within range but not abundant', and Miller (idem) monitored the species during 20 years of float trips on the Rio Grande, recording three to four turtles per km. Surveys in New Mexico in the 1990s indicated some shrinking populations (NM DGF, in Clausen and Hammerson 2005). Subspecies gaigeae is rated Vulnerable in New Mexico and Imperiled in Texas (Clausen and Hammerson 2005).
Concerning the ssp. hartwegi, Legler (1990) wrote of 'tail waters below the dam' and that the population in the vicinity of San Pedro de las Colonias may be nearing extinction, and elsewhere (ibid, p. 96) that 'Aridity and increased use of water for irrigation may have placed hartwegi populations in danger everywhere except in the immediate region of the Presa El Palmito'. The subspecies became extinct in the Laguna Viesca since 1960 (Legler 1990).
|Current Population Trend:
|Additional data:
|Habitat and Ecology:
|Trachemys gaigeae gaigea inhabits mainly pools and backwaters in the main Rio Grande and Conchos valleys, rarely moving inland away from the main river. It has also been recorded from reservoirs (Ernst et al. 1994). Subspecies hartwegi apparently inhabits the main channel of the Rio Nazas. Wild animals of ssp. gaigeae are apparently nearly exclusively herbivorous (Legler 1960), although captives readily fed on fish (Ernst et al. 1994).
Males of ssp. gaigeae become sexually mature at carapace length (CL) of about 11 cm and reach a maximum CL of 17 cm, while females reach sexual maturity at about 17 cm CL and can reach a maximum size of 22 cm. Females produce clutches of 6-11 eggs (Legler 1960). A dissected large female of ssp. hartwegi would likely have produced three clutches totaling 48 eggs (Legler 1990).
|Terrestrial; Freshwater
|Major Threat(s):
|Pollution, hydrological projects, and other forms of habitat degradation, mortality from shooting target practice ('plinking'), past collection for pet trade and subsistence consumption, and occasional hybridisation with T. scripta elegans, are recorded threats (Clausen and Hammerson 2005).
|Conservation Actions:
Turtles in general are protected from exploitation under Mexican wildlife and natural resource legislation. Trachemys gaigeae gaigeae inhabits a number of protected areas, including being fairly common in the Bosque del Apache NWR (Clausen and Hammerson 2005) and occurring in the Canon de Santa Elena FFPA - Big Bend NP - Maderas del Carmen FFPA - Rio Grande National Scenic River cluster of protected areas. It appears that there are no protected areas located within the range of T. g. hartwegi.
Much more information on population status, natural history and conservation status are urgently needed, particularly for the subspecies hartwegi. Based on study results, the species may warrant specific legal protection in the USA.
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|van Dijk, P.P. 2011. Trachemys gaigeae (errata version published in 2016). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2011: e.T22024A97429519. . Downloaded on 23 September 2018.
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Nice time for a drive, November. Welcome back the breezes and the sweatered weathercasters promising a slight chance of rain. Breathe deep the oak fire from up the block or the fine damp smells we haven't had in six or eight months. After six months of relentless sun, the clouds are a satisfying change. They alter the light in the living room and the gray-green of the olive trees out back.
In Maine, November is hellish Canadian gusts and time to weatherproof the children. In California, November is nuance and seed pods in the driveway, cracking under your car tires as you pull in.
By the way, do we have to be in such a hurry to sweep up the autumn? L.A.'s gardening corps, the world's fourth-largest standing army, attacks a fallen leaf the way I attack a chicken wing (bones and all). In L.A., there is no mercy for the fallen leaf. We prefer our yards as clean and clipped as a German starlet.
I say leave the leaves alone. Ignore them for a week or two, let them form a quilt around the sycamore or blanket the feet of the yellowing birth. Give the kids a chance to rake them into piles and wallow in them.
Hands off the seed pods and the acorns and the pine cones too. Back off and let them flavor the flower beds, let the squirrels make a stew.
Ever see the long, slender acorns dropped by the live oaks, handsome as a glass of dark beer? The little guy collects them to use as money. With enough acorn husks, you could panel a rich man's yacht.
Nice time for a hike, November. The early rains have squeegeed the sky, and you can see all the way to downtown, which looks like Oz -- a place you'd like to walk to. But you resist the urge and walk the trails and horse paths instead, till your hamstrings turn to violin strings -- a good feeling, music to the heart.
Last month, I told the eye doctor, only half-seriously, "Doc, sometimes I see too much," a comment he just ignored, I think because our vision plan doesn't really cover that. There's no deductible, no copayment option for patients who see too much.
But in November, I don't mind seeing everything, the Indian-corn colors of a liquidambar tree or the way the little mountain streams begin to fill again.
Love the liquidambar. Who doesn't? I love them so much that I told my wife I want to plant one in the bedroom.
"Look honey," I'd say, "the tree is turning. Time for our semiannual orgy."
Naturally, she'd like some time to think it over.
In the meantime, I take these long hikes on brisk mornings. A November hike is far superior to a summer hike -- more colorful and cool. No need to slather on the sunscreen. You can wear a sweatshirt and be in no danger of collapsing.
November. I want to bottle it and sell it to tourists. I want to pour it into a glass, like bourbon, and drink it in front of a roaring fire.
Nice time for a little fun, November. Each Sunday, some buddies and I gather for touch football at Mid-Life Memorial Stadium, on the outskirts of time.
Everything about these games is good, except for the caliber of the football itself, which is a distant cousin of the actual game. Somewhere, George Halas, one of football's founding fathers, is doing spin moves in his grave.
"One one-thousand, two one-thousand, three," the nose tackle barks before rushing, and I think, "Hey, is he making fun of my age again?"
We play for free, believe it or not, for the love of the game, for the occasional great pass or catch. We are the dancing hippos in a Pixar movie, all belly fat and smiles.
"One one-thousand, two one-thousand, three . . ."
In our last game, I was traded at halftime -- no doubt one of the worst moves in sports history. Ruth to the Yankees. Broglio for Brock. Erskine to the other team, which needed two touchdowns in a hurry and thought a 51-year-old split end just might be the answer.
Turns out that the team that traded me for T-Bone (we all have nicknames) actually expanded its lead, which made me look like a chump and made T-Bone the day's hero.
"One one-thousand, two one-thousand, ouch . . ."
At Mid-Life Memorial Stadium, November never ends.
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Today I want to share a great andriod game that name is JezzBall Classic 1.9.1 (latest version) Andriod Game.
Over 0 years ago people could first play the original JezzBall. Since then a lot of different versions of it has been created, and although some have been great none of them were really close to the original. JezzBall Classic changes that; it was created to be just like the original! The graphics, the scoring, the physics, the tempo. they are all the same as they were in the original. Some bugs and issues of the original has also been fixed and measurements have been taken to prevent possible cheating. Many optional new features has been implemented as well and the graphics have been greatly improved (though designed to mimic the original style). But the true JezzBall feeling can still be found in JezzBall Classic, and thats what really is important!
Gameplay: In JezzBall there are a number of Jezz atoms that bounces around. Your task is to build black walls that contain them in as small space as possible. When over 5% of the playarea is black the current level is completed and you move on to the next where another Jezz atom is added into play. Press down to place the origin of the wall, move to determine the orientation of the wall and release to actually start building the wall. It is constructed in two directions from the center, if a wall-half is hit by a Jezz atom before it has reached an already existing black wall it is destroyed and you lose a life.
Features: + The original JezzBall experience! Into the very last detail; if you came looking for the JezzBall you remember you will not be disappointed! + Four profiles (one reserved for guests) with their configurations stored separately. + 0 beautiful background images (real life photos). Go to the General config screen to enable it. Will place a random image into the black walls each level. + Automatic saving of all games in progress. Stop and continue whenever you want to! + Local high score lists. In the Hall of Fame your name will last forever and on the three other lists you will see the daily, weekly and monthly high scores. + Level records. All your best statistics are saved on each and every level you complete. Profile records are comparable. + Smart and very customizable controls will help you build your walls exactly where you want them. + 4 mods that once activated changes how the game is played! Use none or pick one/several at the same time in any order. High scores and level records are stored separately for each combination. Some mods will just change the amount of time/lives you have while other will drastically change gameplay (allow you to use two wallbuilders at the same time for example). There are 9 preset mod-combinations provided. + 0 rooms that will stimulate your intellect as well as your ability to time your deployments! Theres also 7 missions to inspire you to break your personal bests.
Do you wish to try the game before you buy it? There is a lite version available! Good luck containing those Jezz atoms!
(About the Internet permission: JezzBall Classic does not actually use Internet at all right now, the permission is only there because future updates might need it.)
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Jamie Dangler '80, an associate professor of sociology at SUNY Cortland and its United University Professions (UUP) campus chapter president, was elected to her first term as UUP's statewide vice president for academics, effective June 1.
Dangler, who was elected at the union's 2012 Spring Delegate Assembly that took place from April 20 to 21 in Albany, N.Y., will serve a two-year term.
She will represent the union's academics, that is, teaching faculty, under the direction of the UUP president, currently Phil Smith. Dangler's duties will include analyzing the problems and concerns of UUP academics across SUNY campuses.
Dangler is the union's chief negotiator in the current contract negotiations with New York state. She has been a member of the UUP Statewide Executive Board since 2008.
She has presided over the Cortland Chapter since 2009 and previously had served the chapter as vice president for academics since 2005. During her total 18 years of service to UUP, she also was campus executive board member, delegate and chair of various committees.
A 1980 graduate of SUNY Cortland, Dangler has master's and doctoral degrees in sociology from Binghamton University. She lectured at Binghamton University before joining SUNY Cortland in 1985 as a lecturer in the Economics Department. She was promoted to assistant professor in 1991 and to associate professor in 1996.
At Cortland, she has taught courses including Introduction to Sociology, Sociology of the Family, Social Welfare Institutions, Research Methods, American Society, and Environmental Sociology.
Dangler is the author of the 1994 book, Hidden in the Home: the Role of Waged Homework in the Modern World-Economy (SUNY Press).
She has written articles and book chapters on subjects in her field, including a chapter titled "Electronics Sub-Assemblers in Central New York: 'Non-traditional' Homeworkers in a 'Non-traditional' Homework Industry," for the 1989 book edited by Eileen Boris and Cynthia R. Daniels, Homework: Historical and contemporary Perspectives on Paid Labor at Home (University of Illinois Press).
Dangler and her Economics Department colleague, Kathleen Burke, completed the following copyrighted research report for UUP in 2009, "Gender Inequity Study: A Salary Analysis for Seven SUNY Campuses and Members' Perceptions and Experiences."
In 2007, the League of Women Voters in Cortland County awarded Dangler its first ever Alice A. Walker Award, established to commemorate the many volunteer contributions of Walker, the late SUNY Cortland professor of psychology. Dangler had co-chaired the Cortland County Clean Water Committee from 1986 to 1989 and was involved in many other groups related to local environmental concerns.
More than 300 UUP delegates voted in the elections. UUP represents 35,000 academic and professional faculty on 29 New York state-operated campuses, including SUNY's public teaching hospitals and health science centers in Brooklyn, Long Island and Syracuse. It is an affiliate of New York State United Teachers, the American Federation of Teachers, the National Education Association and the AFL-CIO.


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Beaumont/Port Arthur
If your kids are already bouncing off the walls looking for something to do this early summer season, don't fear — the annual Kid Fest returns to the Carl Parker Center on the campus of Lamar State College – Port Arthur on Saturday, June 18, from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Toni Harris, marketing specialist from Constant Contact in Houston, will lead a workshop June 20 at the Small Business Development Center in Port Arthur, focusing on growing business with e-mail and social media.
PORT ARTHUR – After a heartbreaking loss to Navarro College, the Lamar State College-Port Arthur Seahawks return home Wednesday, Jan. 9, to try to break a two-game losing skid as they take on Kilgore College in Region XIV action.
Tipoff for tonight's game is 7 p.m. at the Carl Parker Center on the campus of Lamar State.
CORSICANA – With the game tied and possession of the ball, Lamar State College – Port Arthur men's basketball team held its fate in its own hands … then it disappeared just as quickly. A turnover by the Seahawks with 2.1 seconds left and a buzzer-beating basket by Navarro handed the Bulldogs an 81-79 win in overtime Saturday, Jan. 5.
At the onset of the 2012-13 season, no one knew anything about the Lamar State College – Port Arthur Seahawks.
Now, the word is getting out.
The Seahawks, at 9-0 overall and 3-0 in Region XIV play, have moved into the Division I national poll, landing at 19th after this past week's wins over Trinity Valley Community College and Panola College.
While we harbor no disrespect for the Wall Street Journal who called us "that scrappy little paper from Southeast Texas," we prefer to think of ourselves as simple seekers of the truth. We're of the opinion that headlines and sound bites never tell the whole story. Our readers demand all the facts, facets and flavors of every story or event. And, they expect to be informed, educated and stirred to action.
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I'm having a very bad problem, and this is on one of my boss's work computers. Somehow I managed to get stuck with the Hello4 virus that acts as a 2012 Windows scanner. I've worked with many other viruses before that controlled my computer but this one won't let me do ANYTHING! Not even in safemode!
When I go into the computer with safe mode (both internet and not) I try clicking on firefox, won't load, system restore, won't load. All I get is a quick pop up that ends up being "hello4" or "blank window"
I've looked through several of the threads where people have the same problem, and I'd love to be able to use the solutions, but the question I have, is how in the world can I use any of these virus scanners if I can't even bring up firefox to even get to the programs?
Is there any other way?
Thanks a lot.


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GENEVA – The U.N.'s top human rights officials is condemning Iraq's widespread use of the death penalty, comparing it to a slaughterhouse.
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay says Iraq's justice system is "too seriously flawed to warrant even a limited application of the death penalty," let alone its execution of 33 people in the past month or its plans to put another 150 people to death.
Pillay said in a statement Friday that "executing people in batches like this is obscene. It is like processing animals in a slaughterhouse."
Her office says Iraq executed 129 people in 2012.
At a press briefing her spokesman, Rupert Colville, derided the executions as a "conveyor belt of executions" and said 1,400 people are believed to be on death row in Iraq.


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Democratic elites were clear more than a century ago about the why they wanted runoff elections: to tighten their grip on power and keep black voters out of the political system.
Today, the system has flipped. Now it's Mississippi Republicans who face a runoff June 24, and a scheme crafted to protect the powerful might very well defeat them, just as it has throughout the South in recent years.
Primary election runoffs _ still held in seven states, almost all in the South _ were devised around the turn of the 20th century as a way of making sure that "unsavory" candidates couldn't break through and win. That meant marginalizing dissident voters, notably blacks.
"When the majority of Southern whites were Democrats, the runoff primary promoted white Democratic supremacy, and it was adopted with the intention to do so," said Morgan Kousser, a California Institute of Technology professor of history and social sciences who's written extensively on runoffs.
South Carolina was the first to embrace the runoff, and the idea quickly spread. In 1904, Mississippi state Sen. Edmond Noel, who'd later became governor, explained his view of the state's primary system.
"White supremacy could be maintained only by the members of that race remaining together politically," he wrote. "Otherwise comparatively few Negroes who are qualified to vote might wield the balance of power."
Modern runoffs have taken a different twist: They've become battles of insurgents, usually with conservative ideological agendas, fighting an entrenched Republican status quo.
In Mississippi, state Sen. Chris McDaniel is the latest example. The tea party favorite faces Sen. Thad Cochran, the six-term organization man, on June 24 for the Republican Senate nomination.
The next runoff comes July 22 in Georgia's Republican Senate contest, where U.S. Rep. Jack Kingston, the establishment favorite, vies with businessmen David Perdue after neither could muster a majority in their first round.
Modern history suggests the odds favor the challengers.
Recent challengers who didn't reach 50 percent in the first primaries surged in the runoffs as they become better known, while views of incumbents tend to be fixed and unchanging.
Last month, veteran Rep. Ralph Hall, R-Texas, lost the second time around to former U.S. Attorney John Ratcliffe. Hall had outpolled Ratcliffe by 45-29 percent in a March primary. Head to head, Ratcliffe won with 53 percent.
His victory continued a trend. Two years ago, Ted Cruz, then a Houston attorney, came in second to Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst by 9 percentage points in the first primary. Fueled by tea party momentum, Cruz picked up virtually all the anti-Dewhurst voters and easily beat the establishment pick in the runoff.
In 2004, Jim DeMint, then a congressman, at first got 26 percent in his Senate nomination bid, finishing 10 points behind former Gov. David Beasley. DeMint more than doubled that total in the runoff and won in a landslide.
This wasn't the way runoffs were supposed to work.
The system evolved in the late 19th century, when Democrats were starting to dominate the post-Reconstruction South, and it worked for nearly a century. Virtually no Republicans were elected statewide in the former Confederate states for decades.
Direct election of senators became part of the Constitution in 1913, and Southern states tended to send senators to Washington who stayed to become committee chairmen or majority leaders. Those positions not only meant more dollars and federal jobs for their states, they also made it difficult to enact civil rights laws.
"We never liked Washington, but we said we will send power players up there and show them who's boss," said Marty Wiseman, former executive director of the Stennis Institute, a government studies center at Mississippi State University.
Runoffs were also important because they helped do away with fringe candidates or those the bosses couldn't trust, said Merle Black, a co-author of "Politics and Society in the South." The Republican Party was rarely a factor in the South until the 1960s, meaning officeholders were effectively chosen in Democratic primaries.
White supremacy was a convenient unifier. Though few blacks were able to vote in the South in those days, the Democratic bosses thought it was important to suppress that vote anyway. Blacks had majorities in South Carolina, Louisiana and Mississippi in the early 1900s, and even if only a few of them voted, they might otherwise make a difference.
By the 1960s, barriers to black voting were breaking down, and the bosses faced a new kind of trouble. The South was turning Republican, and runoffs began to acquire a new meaning. While most Southern Republicans are white, the split this time was between ideological and mainstream conservatives.
The elites thought the system was tilted in their favor. South Carolina would hold a runoff two weeks after the primary. Mississippi's second Senate round is being held three weeks after the primary _ the thinking being that a challenger would lack the money, name recognition and organizational skill to regroup quickly.
That thinking now often proves wrong. The day after Mississippi's June 3 primary, independent third-party groups began plotting strategy. They already had spent $5 million to boost McDaniel, and they were ready to spend plenty more.
There's an irony to all this: Runoffs in the South tend to help unify the Republican Party, making it hard for Democrats to won. The overwhelming majority of Southern black voters are Democrats.
White supremacy is no longer the issue, said Kousser. Sen. Tim Scott, a Republican who's black, appears headed to an easy re-election in South Carolina.
But, Kousser said, "to the extent that the Republican runoff is considered the election, it undercuts the Democratic Party."
And that, he said, means "It also prevents the now-dominant majority of the Democratic Party in many states, African-Americans and/or Latinos, from gaining ultimate political power."


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Today we are going to celebrate in a grand Rainbow Style! In all colors of happiness and smiles.
What or whom do we celebrate, you ask?
Do you know Meaghan? The Decorated Cookie one. We are celebrating Meaghan and her newly born baby girl Violet Lake.
Michelle from Sugar Swings had a fabulous idea to create a virtual Baby Shower for Meaghan in the Rainbow style. She asked me come along and you know since I was already thinking about Christmas centerpieces... I made a rainbow centerpiece for the joyful occasion.
To make a rainbow centerpiece you need:
Cookies, use sugar cookies, gingerbread cookies, chocolate cookies, what ever you like, here are few of my favorite cookie cut out recipes
Large flower cookie cutter - for the base, I bought mine at a Dollar store years ago, it is about 5inches wide, Country Kitchen carries a nested flower cutter set with a 5 inch flower cutter
Small flower cookie cutter to make the clouds.
One large and one medium round cookie cutter - to create a rainbow shape
Mini rose/tulip cutter and a mini flower cutter - to create daisies, I bought the mini tulip cutter at a local store and I can't seem to locate the same one online, but here is a similar one you can use as well to create mini daisies, from The Cookie Cutter Company
Drinking straw to make 2 holes in the base cookie, for the ribbon
Piping bag fitted with a small leaf metal tip
|Here are all the cookie cutters I used to construct the Rainbow Centerpiece
|Decorate cookies, I used 3 different shade of green to decorate the base large flower cookie
|Make small royal icing leaves using small leaf metal tip and a medium stiff icing, let dry
|Using a royal icing attach dry royal icing leaves onto the base by the daisy flowers.Add a ribbon.
|Using stiff royal icing attach all the cookie pieces onto the base, making sure you support the cookie with some crumbled plastic wrap for at least a few hours until icing/glue dries. Remove supports and enjoy the centerpiece
Welcome Baby Girl Violet Lake.
Wishing you - Meaghan and your family Wonderful Rainbow Christmas.
Interested in more Rainbow Love? Yes, there is more, 16 times more actually. Check out all the rainbow treats created by talented bloggers by visiting links below.
Here is a beautiful collage made by Kathia from Pink Little Cake.
1. Vanilla Bean Baker - Baby's First Christmas
2. Not Your Momma's Cookie - Rainbow Swaddled Baby Cookies
3. Crazy for Crust - Rainbow Peanut Butter Cookie Cups
4. Dollhouse Bake Shoppe - Rainbow Sprinkle Sugar Cookies
5. Creative Food - Rainbow Pancakes
6. Hoosier Homemade - Rainbow Jar Cupcakes
7. Kitchen Fun with My 3 Sons - Rainbow Smores Pops
8. Pink Little Cake - Baby at the End of the Rainbow Cake
9. Love From the Oven - Rainbow Cake Pop Cupcakes
10. Munchkin Munchies - Rainbow Balloon Cookies
11. The Baked Equation - Rainbow Baby Shower Cookies
12. Sweetology - Marshmallow Baby Pops
13. Sugar Swings - Rainbow Madeleines
14. Pint Sized Baker - Rainbow Meringue Tarts
15. Bird on a Cake - Rainbow Petal Cake
16. Haniela's - Rainbow Centerpiece - YOU ARE HERE
17. Miss Candiquik - Marshmallow Baby Bottles
In case you are running short on time and you can't make any of these amazing baby shower creations, you can check out eDiaperCakes.com. Beautifully styled diaper cake makes for a wonderful and really useful gift for a new mom to be.
Linking to Tidy Mom - I'm Lovin' it.


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Mets' Harvey puts Sox bats to sleep
Fortunately for the White Sox, they won't have to see Mets starting pitcher Matt Harvey anymore this season.
Well, there is a slight chance -- incredibly slight -- the Sox and Mets meet up again in the World Series, but we'll give that one some more time to develop.
Harvey has been one of the top starters in baseball over the first quarter of the season, while the White Sox have been one of the worst-hitting teams.
You had a feeling Tuesday was going to be a rough night for the Sox' offense, and the 24-year-old Harvey was working on a perfect game before Alex Rios reached on an infield single with two outs in the seventh inning.
It was the only hit of the game for the White Sox, who wasted a splendid start by Hector Santiago while falling at New York 1-0 in 10 innings.
"I mean, obviously, everything was working," Harvey told reporters after pitching 9 innings and striking out a career-high 12.
If Rios didn't barely beat out a grounder in the hole to shortstop, the Sox could have been victimized by the first perfect game from an opposing pitcher since Oct. 2, 1908.
Yes, the White Sox still have some serious offensive issues, but Harvey (4-0, 1.28 ERA) has shut down plenty of teams in the early stages of his promising career and look for the trend to continue.
"Harvey was as advertised tonight," Sox manager Robin Ventura told reporters. "He has pretty much dominant stuff, as much as anybody we've seen. Kind of the (Justin) Verlander stuff. It's velocity, it's movement, just presence, everything. He had it all. He was impressive."
Santiago was pretty impressive himself in his second start since taking over for the injured Gavin Floyd, who was scheduled to have season-ending elbow surgery Tuesday.
Santiago scattered 4 hits over 7 scoreless innings before exiting with 111 pitches.
"Hector did a great job just staying with (Harvey)," Ventura said. "But you're going to have to scratch something together to win, even against guys like that have nights like that. You have to grind it out and get something."
The Mets ended the first interleague matchup between the two teams since 2002 in the 10th inning when Ike Davis drew a leadoff walk against White Sox reliever Nate Jones (0-3).
Juan Lagares sacrificed Davis to second base, and pinch-hitter Mike Baxter's single to right field decided the outcome.
Starting pitcher John Danks and left fielder Dayan Viciedo played together for Class AAA Charlotte Tuesday night on rehab assignments.
Danks (shoulder) pitched 5 innings and allowed 2 runs. The left-hander had 4 strikeouts and 5 walks against Columbus.
Viciedo (oblique) played both games of a double-header and was 0-for-6.


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Calumma parsonii
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Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Calumma parsonii (Cuvier, 1824)
Common Name(s):
Chamaeleo parsonii Cuvier, 1824
|Taxonomic Notes:
A subspecies, Calumma parsonii cristifer is recognized from around Analamazaotra and Mantadia. At least three distinct colour morphs from different localities are also known (Brady and Griffiths 1999).
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Near Threatened ver 3.1
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|Date Assessed:
|Jenkins, R.K.B., Andreone, F., Andriamazava, A., Anjeriniaina, M., Brady, L., Glaw, F., Griffiths, R.A., Rabibisoa, N., Rakotomalala, D., Randrianantoandro, J.C., Randrianiriana, J., Randrianizahana , H., Ratsoavina, F. & Robsomanitrandrasana, E.
|Bowles, P. & Tolley, K.
|Rabemananjara , F.
Listed as Near Threatened based on a past population decline greater than 15-20%, and potentially close to 30%, over the past 15-18 years (assuming a generation length of 5-6 years), thus making the species close to qualifying for Vulnerable under Criterion A2bd. This decline is due mainly to habitat loss driven by slash-and-burn agriculture and other threats operating across its large range, however large-scale off-take of wild individuals in the final years of legal trade is likely to have been a localized contributor to declines. Recent population trends in this apparently rare chameleon should be quantified where possible, as the loss of adult individuals through historical over-collection may have impaired the chameleon's ability to withstand the effects of habitat loss, and more detailed population data may reveal that the species should be listed in a more threatened category.
|Range Description:
|This large chameleon species is found in the humid eastern part of Madagascar, from Ranomafana in the south to Anjanaharibe Sud in the north (Rakotomalala and Raselimanana 2003) and the Masoala Peninsula (F. Andreone pers. comm. January 2011). It has also been recorded from Manongarivo in the northwest (Raxworthy 2003). There is also a population on Nosy Boraha (Glaw and Vences 2007). It has been reported from elevations between 45-230 m (Rabearivony et al. 2008), from 1,100 m (Rakotomalala and Raselimanana 2003, D. Rakotomalala pers. comm. January 2011) and from 1,195 m in Masoala (F. Andreone pers. comm. January 2011). This widespread lizard has an estimated extent of occurrence of 39,800 km².
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This large chameleon consistently occurs in lower population densities than other Calumma species (Brady and Griffiths (1999) although this might be because Parson's chameleon roosts in elevated locations in the canopy out of reach of nocturnal surveys by torch light. The species was notably scarce in low elevation forest at Ambodiriana (Rabearivony et al. 2008). Brady and Griffiths (1999) reported densities of between 1.3 ha-1 and 3.9 ha-1 in relatively intact forest at Parc National de Mantadia, with lower densities (0.1-0.4 ha-1) in more disturbed forest in the same area. It is rarely encountered even by workers spending weeks in suitable habitats, and adults appear to be especially scarce (R. Jenkins pers. comm. June 2011).
Although no more recent figures are available, between 1990 and 2000 humid forest cover in Madagascar declined by 0.8% a year (Harper et al. 2007); however this figure may underestimate forest loss within the range of Parson's chameleon, as it does not distinguish the lowland forest preferred by this lizard, and which is under greatest pressure, from humid forest at higher elevations. As rates of forest loss in Madagascar are increasing (Harper et al. 2007), and remaining forest increasingly occurs as fragments which may be too small to sustain viable populations of this large lizard, this species may have experienced a population decline somewhat greater than implied by this figure over the previous three generations (15-18 years), especially when also accounting for the effects of over-collection. The population is presumably still declining due to its observed scarcity in disturbed habitats and the ongoing loss and degradation of forest throughout its range, although the ban on trade in this species might have resulted in local increases in abundance at former collecting localities (F. Rabemananjara pers. comm. June 2011).
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|Additional data:
|Habitat and Ecology:
|Rabearivony et al. (2008) found Parson's chameleon in low abundance in a lowland forest in the northeast. Glaw and Vences (2007) report that Calumma p. cristifer is regularly found on high branches. Glaw and Vences (2007) report that this species is frequently seen along forest streams, although Brady and Griffiths (1999) suggest that only hatchlings are associated with water. It is reportedly difficult to find during the austral winter in northern Madagascar (Andreone et al. 2000). In captivity, 20-30 eggs are buried and hatch after 400-520 days. This species, the world's largest chameleon by weight, might be very long lived for a chameleon, with ages of six years recorded and 10-12 expected. Captive specimens may live somewhat longer, with ages of at least 14 recorded (in one case, an animal of this age died prematurely due to an equipment failure), and a maximum longevity of 20 years has been suggested (R. Jenkins and C.V. Anderson, pers. comms. June 2011). Sexual maturity may be reached as early as 1.5 years (LeBerre 1995), but Brady and Griffiths (1999) noted reports from captive chameleons that three to five is more likely.
The extent to which this species requires intact humid forest remains unresolved; while evidence suggests that it is more abundant in less disturbed forest (Brady and Griffiths 1999, Raxworthy 1988) it is also found in disturbed sites (Brady and Griffiths 1999, Glaw and Vences 2007), including high trees in villages (F. Rabemananjara pers. comm. June 2011).
|Continuing decline in area, extent and/or quality of habitat:
|Generation Length (years):
|Use and Trade:
|This was was the most frequently traded chameleon species from Madagascar before the CITES trade suspension in 1995, with exports peaking in the early 1990s shortly before the ban (Carpenter et al. 2004). Carpenter et al. 2004 report that, at the time of their study, the chameleon had only been traded in very low numbers since 1995. However, a TRAFFIC investigation in Thailand, which focused on the trade in Malagasy chameleons since 2004, found Parson's chameleon to be "widely traded", with 28 specimens (of a total of 115 Calumma individuals) recorded in illegal trade in January 2010 (Todd, 2011)
|Major Threat(s):
|The loss of humid forest, mainly through conversion from slash-and-burn agriculture but also due to logging, is a threat to this species. Much of the habitat of this species is extremely fragmented, and small forest fragments are unlikely to be viable to ensure persistence of this large chameleon that occurs at low densities. A resumption of trade could pose a threat to local populations if collection was not properly managed.
|Conservation Actions:
Parson's Chameleon is found in a number of strict protected areas, from where all wild animal collection in Malagasy national parks is illegal. This species is listed as Category I, Class II protected species in Malagasy law, which prohibits unauthorized collection. This species is listed on Appendix II of CITES but imports from Madagascar were suspended in 1995. There are no formally established captive-breeding programmes for this species. It needs to be established whether illegal collection represents a threat to this species, and any harvest should be monitored. As this species is unlikely to persist in small forest fragments, efforts should be made to manage areas where it occurs to maximize connectivity between forest patches. Research is needed to clarify this species' life history in the wild, and to improve estimates of generation length.
|Jenkins, R.K.B., Andreone, F., Andriamazava, A., Anjeriniaina, M., Brady, L., Glaw, F., Griffiths, R.A., Rabibisoa, N., Rakotomalala, D., Randrianantoandro, J.C., Randrianiriana, J., Randrianizahana , H., Ratsoavina, F. & Robsomanitrandrasana, E. 2011. Calumma parsonii. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2011: e.T172896A6937628. . Downloaded on 24 September 2018.
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