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(CNN) — President Barack Obama recently discussed an upcoming spring visit to Israel with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney confirmed Tuesday in the daily press briefing.
While overseas, Obama will also visit the West Bank and Jordan "to continue his close work with Palestinian Authority officials and Jordanian officials," Carney added.
The trip to Israel would mark Obama's first visit as president. While Obama traveled to the country in 2008 during his presidential campaign, he did not visit Israel during his first term.
Carney added "additional details, including dates of travel, will be released at a later time."
The president discussed the visit while on the phone with Netanyahu on January 28, shortly after the prime minister was re-elected for the third time in the country's elections last month.
"The start of the president's second term and the formation of a new Israeli government offer the opportunity to reaffirm the deep and enduring bonds between the United States and Israel and to discuss the way forward on a broad range of issues of mutual concern including of course Iran and Syria," Carney said.
Obama campaign aides said last summer that the president would make a trip to Israel should he be re-elected.
Obama's not the first president to go to Israel during his second term. President George W. Bush went to the country in both January and May of 2008. Former President Ronald Reagan did not visit the U.S. ally at all during his two terms.
Meanwhile, former Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, both Democrats, visited the country during their first four years in office.
CNN's Ashley Killough, Gregory Wallace and Kevin Liptak contributed to this report.


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Montero's stock is on the rise at Mets camp
By Anthony DiComo / MLB.com
VIERA, Fla. -- Rafael Montero's unorthodox journey to the Mets began at age 17, when he decided to take baseball more seriously by moving to Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic, several hours from his hometown. As a result, though top Dominican free agents usually choose a big league suitor as soon as they turn 16, the Mets were able to nab Montero at age 20.
"In three years, I worked hard and then I signed with [the Mets]," Montero said through an interpreter.
He spent two more years breezing through New York's farm system, opening eyes with a 2.36 ERA, 110 strikeouts and 19 walks over two levels of Class A ball last summer. That earned Montero a trip to big league camp, where he made his debut Thursday with two innings of one-run ball against the Nationals.
Though Zack Wheeler is the most highly touted young pitcher around Mets camp this spring, team executives have been gushing about Montero. The right-hander considers his four-seam fastball his best pitch, with the ability to spot it to both sides of the plate. His slider also looked sharp on Thursday, generating swings and misses from right-handed hitters Ian Desmond and Anthony Rendon.
"He has a game plan out there and he's got phenomenal stuff," catcher Travis d'Arnaud said. "He's got three great pitches."
Though he should start this season at Double-A Binghamton, Montero does not seem intimidated in a big league clubhouse. In his first group interview with New York reporters, the prospect used an interpreter to answer about a half-dozen questions.
He did not need any help when asked if he was nervous.
"Nawwww," Montero said, smiling.
Mets playing it safe with Wheeler
VIERA, Fla. -- A cautious plan remains in place for Mets prospect Zack Wheeler, who will almost certainly miss his next start with a strained right oblique. But Wheeler felt "better" on Thursday, according to manager Terry Collins, and should return to the mound soon.
Collins said that Wheeler tested the injury with a series of motion exercises on Thursday morning without any pain. The Mets figure they will "have a real good read on where he's at" within three to five days, according to Collins, at which point Wheeler will probably throw a bullpen session.
The right-hander suffered a mild oblique strain during pitchers' batting practice on Wednesday, prompting the Mets to scratch him from his second Grapefruit League start. He is still unofficially slated to start Opening Day for Triple-A Las Vegas.
Collins expects Johan to take ball on Opening Day
VIERA, Fla. -- Mets left-hander Johan Santana remains on target to make his Grapefruit League debut around March 10, according to manager Terry Collins, keeping him on track to pitch Opening Day at Citi Field.
Santana plans to continue throwing at the Mets' Spring Training complex in Port St. Lucie, Fla., with the goal of playing catch at 120 feet. Once he achieves that, he should throw from a mound for the first time since the Mets backed off his throwing program in the early days of spring.
The Mets named Santana their Opening Day starter on the first official day of camp, before his latest issues arose. He officially finished last season on the disabled list with lower back inflammation, but he was also battling an ankle injury and left arm fatigue.
If Santana is not ready to pitch on Opening Day, Collins said there are multiple options -- and multiple opinions within the organization -- on who should assume the vacant spot in the rotation. Jeremy Hefner and Collin McHugh appear to be the leading candidates, with Jon Niese the obvious choice to start in Santana's place on April 1.
Mets' Feliciano to return with heart monitor
VIERA, Fla. -- Doctors have cleared Mets lefty specialist Pedro Feliciano to resume full baseball activities, though Feliciano will wear a heart monitor on the field.
Feliciano has been diagnosed with a rare genetic condition called left ventricular noncompaction, according to a news release distributed by his agency.
"If his condition was serious, where the experts had determined for him not to play baseball anymore, I am sure he would not return to the mound," Feliciano's agent, Melvin Roman, said in a statement.
Feliciano said his condition will "not keep me up at night," while Mets manager Terry Collins said the simple fact that he is cleared to pitch is a great sign. The Mets plan to work Feliciano back into their pitching schedule as soon as he is ready, reestablishing him as a contender for a bullpen role.
The left-hander's absence from the first week of Grapefruit League games should not hurt his ability to make the team, with a full month of exhibitions remaining. But Feliciano still must beat out Robert Carson, Darin Gorski, Scott Rice and Aaron Laffey for what appears to be one open spot behind incumbent lefty reliever Josh Edgin.
A member of the Mets from 2002-04 and 2006-10, Feliciano set the franchise record for appearances with 92 in '10. He signed a two-year deal with the Yankees that offseason but never pitched for them, undergoing left shoulder surgery in early 2011. Feliciano signed a Minor League deal with the Mets this winter worth $1 million if he makes the big league club.
Mets announce Concert Series lineup
VIERA, Fla. -- Foreigner (June 14), Nas (July 19), O.A.R. (Aug. 2) and Third Eye Blind (Aug. 23) will headline the 2013 Mets Concert Series at Citi Field, the team announced on Thursday.
The Friday night performances will begin approximately 20 minutes after the conclusion of each game from an outfield stage behind second base. Admission to each concert is included in the price of the game tickets, which go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. on Mets.com.
The Mets launched their Concert Series last summer with performances by REO Speedwagon, Daughtry and MercyMe.
Anthony DiComo is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @AnthonyDicomo. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.

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Arrow is an elegant, powerful, graphical interface to electronic mail. This is not just another single window mail reader. Instead, it displays each mailbox and message in a separate window, thereby allowing one to simultaneously open as many mailboxes and view and compose as many messages as one wishes. This paradigm also allows one to drag-and-drop text between messages and organize ones mail by dragging messages between mailboxes.
as-gps contains a basic support library for accessing the inexpensive ($20) Aisin-Seiki GPS Module previously available at mavin.com. The package also includes several simple console utilities for dumping satellite status, location, and time and for synchronizing the system clock.
asapm is an AfterStep look & feel Advanced Power Management (APM) monitor for laptop and notebook PCs running Linux or FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD and X Windows. It displays charge left in the battery, the time left to the total discharge of the battery, computer is connected to the mains or is working on a battery and the battery status high/low/critical.
asmutils is a set of miscellaneous utilities written in assembly language, targeted on embedded systems and small distributions (e.g. installation or rescue disks). It also contains a small libc and a crypto library. It is optimized for size, memory usage, and speed, and offers fairly good functionality. The project supports Linux and the BSD family. Unixware, Solaris, and AtheOS support is in beta stage. This package also aims to provide a portable development framework, and to encourage assembly programmers to write for Linux/Unix.
Astaro Portscan Detection is a netfilter target which will attempt to detect TCP and UDP port scans and log them to syslog. This target is based upon Solar Designer's scanlogd. It suppports mutliple levels of logging, custom prefixes for entries, weighted total port scan detection, and port scan temporal spread detection.
Astaro Security Gateway (formerly Astaro Security Linux) is an all-in-one network security gateway that includes a firewall, intrusion protection, antivirus, spam protection, URL filtering, and a VPN gateway. Features include a modern packet filter, intrusion detection and prevention, portscan detection, application control, content filtering, virus detection for email and Web traffic, profile handling, L2TP, IPSec, SSL, and PPTP VPN tunneling, spam blocking, proxies for HTTPS, HTTP, FTP, POP3, SMTP, DNS, VoIP, SOCKS, and Ident, logging, and reporting. It supports Ethernet, VLAN, PPP, PPPoE, PPPoA, Cable Modem, IPv6, QoS, Link Aggregation, and WAN-Uplink-Load balancing in routing, and bridge mode. The WebAdmin GUI, Install Wizard, Change Tracking, Printable Configuration, and Up2Date service make it easy to install, manage, and maintain.
A GUI to ease the process of producing a multipage PDF from a scan.
A small, powerful, and really fast Web server for Linux.


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A Book Burndown Chart
You might have noticed that things have been a bit quiet around here lately ... that's because I'm writing a book and doing a lot of editing at the moment. I love doing both of these as part of my work, but it turns out that when you're already writing/editing 3k words a day, it's hard to find more words to blog with (well, and I usually blog whatever code I'm writing which isn't a whole lot right now). I did however want to share with you the news that I'm working on a book (about PHP, for the lovely Sitepoint).
I'm completely new to book-writing and it felt like a mountain to climb. I have five chapters of around 8 thousand words each to write for the book (I have co-authors, who are also lovely), and the general advice I got was to just take it all one step at a time. This sounds a lot like the way I teach project management and time management to developers, so I used those same skills and created a burndown chart (I blogged about creating these before):
As you can see, there have been some great days, and some quieter days. The flat lines are mostly weekends or days where I was out of the office with other clients. Although I feel slightly overwhelmed (and this doesn't show the edits that come back after I submit each chapter), the graph is at least going in the right direction!


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SYDNEY & HOBART, Australia - After making the perfect start to the season with a title run in Auckland, Agnieszka Radwanska makes the three-hour trip across the Tasman Sea to finalize her preparations for the Australian Open at the Apia International Sydney next week.
In Auckland, Radwanska betrayed no signs of early season rustiness, not dropping a set all week and outfoxing an in-form Yanina Wickmayer in the final. As No.1 seed, the Pole has been granted a first round bye at the New South Wales Tennis Centre, with either a qualifier or wildcard Casey Dellacqua meeting her in the last 16.
In a strong top half of the draw, Radwanska is joined by seeds Li Na, Samantha Stosur and Nadia Petrova, as well as fellow Top 20 members Roberta Vinci and Lucie Safarova.
Stosur has often struggled to sparkle on home turf, and her first round defeat to Sofia Arvidsson in Brisbane last week was the latest disappointment to befall her in front of her adoring fans.
The draw has not been kind to her either, meeting former Australian Open semifinalist Zheng Jie in the opening round, with Safarova likely to be lying in wait should she prevail.
No less intriguing is the bottom half of the draw; No.2 seed Angelique Kerber faces a likely second round meeting against Wickmayer, while Sara Errani, Petra Kvitova and Caroline Wozniacki are the remaining seeds.
The other tune-up event prior to Melbourne takes place in the Tasmanian capital, Hobart.
Like Sydney, there is no shortage of quality at the Moorilla Hobart International, with four of the Top 30 in attendance. Hsieh Su-Wei is top seed and kicks off her campaign with a tricky encounter against Peng Shuai, a semifinalist in the opening week of the season in Shenzhen.
The remaining seeds are Sorana Cirstea, Klara Zakopalova, Yaroslava Shvedova, Carla Suárez Navarro, Francesca Schiavone, Sloane Stephens and defending champion Mona Barthel.


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For three and half quarters last night the Raptors played their most exciting/inspired ball of the season and as a result were up 20 for most of the game.
They ran hard on both ends of the floor, matched up athletically to an athletic team, took it to the rim, ooped from everywhere, ran the fast break, defended well in transition and were able to hide the slowness of Bargs on defensive rotations. Oh and the ball didn't stick anywhere.
That was the most fun i've had watching a raps game in a long time.
I believe this was mostly a result of Hedo not playing.
Now I'm not saying Hedo isn't an exceptionally talented offensive player. He very well could be the difference maker on a middle seeded play off team. He is just not our difference maker. We already have two many players with Hedo's weaknesses that get exposed when he is on the floor. We become too slow, too methodical, too stagnant.
We didn't miss Hedo for three and a half quarters as Weems and Wright
took up the slack, but we did severely miss his skill set in the 6 minutes of the game when our offense stalled and no one could create a shot.
Is the last six minutes more important than the rest of the game? Who knows, it's a chicken or the egg kind of question.
What I do know is that the deadline is coming up and there are bound to be takers for Hedo. Portland wanted him at the onset of the year, why not give em what they want?
I'm thinking a three way Portland, Toronto, Wash: We give Hedo to Port, Butler to Tdot, an expiring package of Outlaw/Blake to Wash.


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BELLEVUE, WA -- Snacks account for more than half of all eating occasions among American consumers, according to research from The Hartman Group.
Based on data mined from its Eating Occasions Database and a recent consumer survey, the research firm found that 52% of all eating occasions among U.S. consumers in 2012 were snacking occasions -- up from 49% in 2010.
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Marlins 'aggressively negotiating' with Cespedes
By Joe Frisaro / MLB.com
Marlins president David Samson said on Thursday that he isn't sure if Cespedes will visit Miami.
"If it can be arranged, and he wants to come to Miami and see our ballpark, it would be great," Samson said. "From our standpoint, we are aggressively negotiating a contract, but there is no way of knowing if we will be a high bidder."
Last week, Cespedes obtained temporary residency in the Dominican Republic, and he was cleared by Major League Baseball to negotiate with teams. The White Sox, Cubs, Marlins, Orioles and Tigers reportedly have been linked to the Cuban-born outfielder.
Although Cespedes is talking with various clubs, Samson said a team can't officially sign him at this point.
"He has not been officially 'unblocked' by governmental entities that need to allow him to be employed in the United States," Samson said. "MLB has given the right to negotiate."
Cespedes could reach agreement with a team, but the signing couldn't be official until he is legally cleared.
Samson added that there is nothing new on the status of reliever Juan Carlos Oviedo, formerly Leo Nunez. Oviedo avoided arbitration by signing a one-year, $6 million contract. But he remains on MLB's restricted list.
"He's in the Dominican," Samson said. "I hope things get cleared up. We'd love to have him in camp and getting ready for the season."
Oviedo returned to the Dominican Republic last September to deal with legal issues stemming from his identity. His visa is still pending. Chances are Oviedo won't be eligible to play on the Opening Day roster, although he could join the team sometime in Spring Training.
Once Oviedo is cleared legally to return, he will likely face disciplinary action from Major League Baseball. It could be in the form of a fine or suspension or both.
"That's up to Major League Baseball," Samson said. "There was an acknowledged violation of the law. To the extent that would result in disciplinary action by MLB, that would certainly make sense to me."
Joe Frisaro is a reporter for MLB.com. He writes a blog, called The Fish Pond. Follow him on Twitter @JoeFrisaro. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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When the LA Galaxy Academy coaching list was finalized several weeks ago, one name stood out above all. Current LA Galaxy defender and long-time New Zealand International Andrew Boyens would take up an assistant position coaching the LA Galaxy Under-15 side alongside head coach Alex Yi.
Despite taking the assistant coaching job with the Galaxy Academy, Boyens shows no signs of slowing down in his professional career as evidenced by a strong performance during his strong showing in LA's 4-0 CONCACAF Champions League victory over the Puerto Rico Islanders.
Recently, I caught up with Boyens to discuss his new venture...
BOYENS: "Coaching is something that I've always been interested in. I got the opportunity to work alongside Alex Yi who is a good man and I get there as many days a week with our schedule. I'm really enjoying it."
(On whether he approached the Galaxy for the chance to coach...)
BOYENS: "I definitely approached them. I went and saw Chris Klein and said that it was something that I was interested in and we kind of went from there. I went along a few times just to check it out and they needed to take that role and it just so worked out that I could do it."
(On whether he plans to pursue coaching after his playing career...)
BOYENS: "I've always really enjoyed coaching and I've done it for a long time ever since I was 16 and it's something that I really enjoy. Whether I pursue it or not is a question up in the air, but it's definitely good to get some experience especially with some quality young kids."


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I would like to know how to create an editable text-widget in c++ win32. I have the basic code for a window (with _tWinMain) but I just can't figure out a none MFC way to place a text field in the window.
A full example would be nice, but not neccesary. Links are also ok.
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I'm starting a bit of a tradition here. Whenever Ray Comfort posts about atheists (he's rather obsessed with us, some might claim it's to the point of protesting too much), I write a response and as he's not always keen about posting dissenting views, I copy it over here to our blog.
Ray's latest post is partially correct and partially incorrect – but it's worth offering some commentary. Give it a read and enjoy the response below…
I care very little about whether or not any of these individuals were atheists or not. The truth of a concept is not at all influenced by the number of people who accept it, nor their popularity, nor the strength of their conviction.
It's very telling, though, that you do seem to care – as if you're bound and determined to show the 'truth' of Psalm 14:1 (the second, lesser-quoted half of that verse, in particular).
I'm not surprised that you'd want to make veiled appeals to authority, but it seems very dishonest of you to point out reasons why these people weren't atheists when it is clear that they weren't believers in anything remotely resembling the God you believe in…which makes them atheists with respect to your God, just as you're an atheist with respect to Zeus.
That said, there is a slight bit of anachronism and selective quoting going on here. You seem to overlook many things, not the least of which is that a human life can't be summed up in a simple quote. People change. People represent themselves differently, at different times, to different people. People express ideas using the conventions of their contemporaries – and people, for various reasons are not always comfortable publicly expressing their most private thoughts. The common views about gods during the lives of the individuals you cite were very different from those of today and it is a disservice to misrepresent this.
For example, you may be able to find quotes from me from when I was a Christian. You may even be able to find people who knew me during that time, and quote their assessment of my thoughts and beliefs. That doesn't change the fact that I'm an atheist now. Additionally, I find it curiously hypocritical that you might claim that I was never "really" a Christian – as evidenced by my eventual apostasy – and yet you attempt to twist the views of the individuals above in order to make them appear less atheistic.
I have no reason to debate whether or not these individuals were atheists, agnostics, deists, Christians or whatever – because it doesn't matter. We can't know what was in their minds (or hearts, if you prefer), we can only take the information available and make a reasonable guess at what they believed, or disbelieved. By picking and choosing quotes from different eras of their lives, one could easily make a case for any number of beliefs.
I'm curious though, do you think any of these individuals were Christians when they did their greatest works? Do you think they believed in the 'one true God' you believe in? If so, how do you explain their clear contempt for Christianity and the God of the Bible? If not, what Biblical basis do you have for holding them in a significantly different light from atheists?
As far as I can tell, the Bible is pretty clear about which God is real and how Jews and Christians are expected to view the character of those who reject that God in favor of other gods or no gods.
If the individals in question are all, according to your belief, given over to a reprobate mind and destined for hell – why would you bother to attempt to venerate them and reclaim them from the 'atheist' label?
Despite that, here are some quotes and comments on the individuals above, just to stretch the point. I am not claiming these people as atheists, I am simply providing reported quotes that give us more information about what they did or didn't believe. Additionally, these quotes may not be correct as the internet (as evidenced by this blog source) is cluttered with good information and bad:
Thomas Edison:
"My mind is incapable of conceiving such a thing as a soul. I may be in error, and man may have a soul; but I simply do not believe it."
"I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious theories of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God."
"I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul…. No, all this talk of an existence for us, as individuals, beyond the grave is wrong. It is born of our tenacity of life — our desire to go on living — our dread of coming to an end."
About Col. Ingersoll (The Great Agnostic), Thomas Edison wrote:
"I think that Ingersoll had all the attributes of a perfect man, and, in my opinion, no finer personality ever existed. Judging from the past, I cannot help thinking that the intention of the Supreme Intelligence that rules the world is to ultimately make such a type of man universal."
Mark Twain:
"There has been only one Christian. They caught him and crucified him–early."
"If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be–a Christian."
"The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive…but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetic in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve. And every step in astronomy and geology ever taken has been opposed by bigotry and superstition. The Greeks surpassed us in artistic culture and in architecture five hundred years before Christian religion was born."
"I am plenty safe enough in his hands; I am not in any danger from that kind of a Diety. The one that I want to keep out of the reach of, is the caricature of him which one finds in the Bible. We (that one and I) could never respect each other, never get along together. I have met his superior a hundred times– in fact I amount to that myself."
Robert Frost reportedly became more pious in his later years, although…
"Elinor Frost, his wife, thought he was, like her, an atheist. In 1920 (the couple had then been married twenty-five years) Frost confided to Louis Untermeyer:
'Elinor has just come out flat-footed against God conceived either as the fourth person seen with Shadrack, Meshack, and Tobedwego [sic] in the fiery furnace or without help by the Virgin Mary. How about as a Shelleyan principal or spirit coeternal with the rock part of creation, I ask. Nonsense and you know it's nonsense Rob Frost, only you're afraid you'll have bad luck or lose your standing in the community if you speak your mind.'"
With regard to Susan B. Anthony, I have no reason to doubt that she was a deist. Her continual references to Providence and the God of Providence represent the common language of deists in her time.
Finally, it's curious that you acknowledge Hemmingway's atheism only to use it as a tool to imply that this is a testimony to the truth of the words of Jesus and the perils one finds in a life lived without a personal relationship with Jesus – yet, you just finished pointing out that these others were also lacking this personal relationship, yet they didn't suffer the sad fate of Hemmingway.
You go from implying that belief in some sort of deistic god is enough to justify good works, and then spin the final assessment as testimony to the futility of a life without Jesus.
This is the grand lie. This is hypocrisy at its finest. It's this self-righteous, selective thinking that you engage in to malign those who don't share your views. It's transparent and pathetic. And while you ma
y not print this, it doesn't change the fact that while some atheists may have misrepresented these historical figures as atheists (a charge that may or may not be accurate depending on the quotes used and the definitions involved), you've made an accusation of intentional falsehoods – while presenting a convoluted mess of misrepresentations that either represent the grandest lie or an intellectual laziness of staggering proportions.
Which is it?


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NEW YORK Talk about playing hard to get -- the European Space Agency's Rosetta Probe has arrived at a comet following a 10-year chase. The probe was originally launched in March 2004 and a 220-pound landing device will descend on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (C-G) in November.
Named after the Rosetta Stone, the engraved block instrumental in deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphics, scientists are hoping the C-G comet will provide provide answers to the makeup of the universe. Comets are frozen leftovers from the formation of the solar system, scientists say, and thus may contain valuable clues to Earth's origin.
Rosetta and its lander, Philae, will make observations through 2015 as the comet approaches the sun. C-G will still be 115 million miles from the sun at that time, and outside the orbit of Earth.
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"Evil: Part 2" will be the topic at 6:30 for the next "How You Can Be Part of a Christian Community with Integrity and Not Believe All Those Things You Thought You Had to Believe" conversation held at St. Barnabas Church (corner of North and Elm). Wine and cheese will be served. Information: 565-7865.
Chinese Characters In Art workshop with Bronwyn Strickland will be held at the Mancos Public Library from 5:30-7:30 p.m.
May 2
Tribute to Heroes: "Celebrating America," 6 p.m. at Lewis-Arriola Community Center. Chuckwagon Dinner by Seas'nings, featuring The Bar-D-Wranglers and speaker Andy Carter, an Air Force Veteran of Desert Storm. Reservations required: 560-0395. Tickets at Cortez Flooring, 1211 E. Main, 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m., Mon.-Fri. Cost $25. Cutoff date April 25. Complimentary admission for veterans and first-timers. "A Christian Women's Celebration Event."
May 3
SouthWest Colorado Concerts presents the famous Golden Dragon Acrobats at 7 p.m. at the Cortez Middle School Auditorium. This 26-member company of Chinese acrobats perform astounding acrobatics and traditional dance. Tickets at the door beginning at 6:30 p.m. Information: Lindsay Havran at 565-7676 or Paul Bostrom at 565-9127.
Christian Motorcyclist Association's Run for the Son ride. Open to all motorcycle riders. Staging at the Maverick on N. Broadway in Cortez, at 9 a.m.; ride at 9:30 a.m. to Moab. Benefits go to Christian Outreach. Call Steve Reed at 565-7233.
A Cinco de Mayo celebration in the Parque de Vida pavilion, noon to 6 p.m., 425 Roger Smith Ave., Cortez. Mexican food, a salsa and chile contest, Mexican music, piñatas and more. Hosted by Vida en Victoria and The Cortez Cultural Center.
The Mancos Public Library, 211 W. First St., holds a "Fancy Nancy and Dapper Dan" party from 10-11 a.m. for ages 3-7. There will be crafts, fancy tea and a dainty snack, and dress-up time. Free. To sign up, call MPL at 533-7600
A Green Spring Fling, in honor of Earth Day, will feature the bands Big Money and the Corporate Citizens, The Porch Lights, and Little Brother. The free event will be held from 3- 7 p.m. on the plaza behind Stonefish Sushi and Sol Pizzeria. There will be additional green activities, speakers and events for the kids. Sponsored by Southwest Colorado Greens. Info: 739-1346.
May 4
A free brunch will be held 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Farm Bistro. Come enjoy a meal with your neighbors and meet new people in your community. To volunteer or donate food, e-mail email@example.com or call 970-565-9808.
May 4-9
The Mancos Valley Chorus' Spring 2014 Concert, "Can You Feel the Love Tonight," with songs from "The Lion King," and lead song "Seasons of Love," from the show "Rent." Free. Refreshments. May 4 at 3:30 p.m., Mancos United Methodist Church, 470 W. Grand Ave. May 6, 7 p.m. First United Methodist Church, 515 N. Park St., Cortez. May 7, 7 p.m. Christ the King Lutheran Church, 495 Florida Rd., Durango. May 9, 7 p.m. Mancos United Methodist Church, 470 W. Grand Ave. Information: 970-946-1267.
May 5
The Montelores Early Childhood Council will hold its next monthly luncheon meeting at 11:45 a.m., in downstairs meeting room 110, in the Johnson Building, 525 S. Broadway, in Cortez. The public is invited, especially parents. Lunch provided; please RSVP to Vangi McCoy, 970-749-7017.
May 6
Mesa Verde Back Country Horsemen invites the public to a brats and hot dogs barbecue at 5:45 p.m. at Hobo's Hideout Bed, Breakfast and Barn in Mancos (Hwy 184 to 12744 Rd 38). At 6:30 p.m. Dimitri Schlotter will talk about horse trailer safety and tips. Guests welcome. Information: Susa, 928-600-2993.
The Crow Canyon Archaeological Center's director of archaeology, Susan Ryan, speaks at next meeting of the Hisatsinom Chapter of the Colorado Archaeological Society. At 7 p.m., at First Methodist Church, 515 N. Park, Cortez. Ryan's talk is titled, "New Approaches to Architectural Analyses: Ancestral Pueblo Kiva Production in the Northern Southwest."
Relay for Life Team Captains Meeting at Southwest Physicians Building, 20 S. Market, Cortez, 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Sponsored by American Cancer Society, Cortez chapter. Contact Jessica Blais at email@example.com.
May 8
Local candidates on the "Hot Seat." Bring your questions to the next Meeting of Republican Women of Montezuma County at noon at Shiloh's. A drawing for the recently held Gun-Raffle. (Tickets at the Home & Garden show and at the meeting). Call Rosemarie Beall at 564-1576.
May 9
12th Annual Four Corners Walking Together for Healthier Nations. Registration 6 a.m.; start 7 a.m. Walk 3 miles, get a free T-shirt. Start at one of following three points and walk to the Four Corners Monument. Information: Brian Sandoval, (505) 368-6300 at Ute Mountain Visitor Center; Regina Blueeyes, (928) 656-5388 at Four Corners Regional Health Center; Calandra Hollie, (928) 656-5329 at Montezuma Creek.
May 10
Fourth Annual Dairy Goat Information Day, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 23161 Road G.2 in Cortez. Presented by Four Corners Dairy Goat Breeders. See animals and get advice on care. Multiple breeds; goats, equipment may be for sale. Call Jeanette at 565-9065 and leave a message.
Mesa Verde Back Country Horsemen sponsors a Poker Ride at Sage Hen Day Use Area (U.S. 184). Start selling hands, 8 a.m.; riders on trail, 10 a.m.; first hand, $20; additional hands, $5. Prizes for 5 highest hands. Lunch available. Call 970-570-5036 or go to mesaverdehorsemen.com.
Summit Ridge Women's Club's annual yard sale, bake sale, original art and photography sale 8 a.m. to noon, Summit Lake Community Church, 36501 Hwy. 184, Mancos. Proceeds benefit scholarships for local youth, Thanksgiving and Christmas donations.
A nondenominational Animal Memorial Service will be held at 4 p.m. at St. Barnabas Church in the. courtyard (weather permitting) and will include a time of remembrance. To have your animal companion's name recorded in the bulletin, call 565-7865.
Reception for "Beyond the Pavement" art show (R. Lillian Siefer) from 4-6 p.m. at Olio 114 West Grand Ave in Mancos.
Live swing, blues and more with WE-4 at Mr. Happy's in downtown Cortez, beginning at 7:30 p.m.
May 11
A May Day Festival will be held at the Mt. Lookout Grange in Mancos at 2 p.m. It will be celebration of spring with facepainting, crafts and a maypole walk.
The Dolores River Anglers Chapter of Trout Unlimited hosts its 5th Annual Spring Fling cookout and fly-casting clinic at 6 p.m. at Denny Lake Park. Free hot dogs and hamburgers; bring side dishes and drinks. Call Brad Waltman at (970) 759-0175 or Marc Meyer at (970) 560-4956.
May 16
Biker pot-luck dinner, 6 p.m., the Calvin Denton Room, Empire Electric, 801 N. Broadway, Cortez. No registration required. Call Sharon, 970-570-1630.
May 17
Hospice of Montezuma 13th Annual Golf Tournament, Conquistador Golf Course, Cortez, Colo., 18-hole scramble, 5-person teams (must have one lady). Entry fee $40 per player (green fees and cart extra.) Registration at 11 a.m. Call Hospice at 970-565-4400.
May 19
The Colorado Small Hydro Association is hosting an agricultural hydropower workshop from 6:30-9 p.m. at Nobel Hall on the Fort Lewis College Campus.
Four Corners 9/12 will be hosting question and answer session with County Sheriff Candidates Dennis Spruell and Steve Nowlin. The group will also host David Cox, a candidate for the congressional seat held by Scott Tipton. The meeting will be held in the Cortez Elks Lodge at 7 p.m. .
Through May
"Fizz! Boom! Read!" is the theme of Raising Readers Storytime at the Cortez Public Library, 202 N. Park St. Held every Thursday at 10:30 a.m. for preschool-age children. Older children may join the craft at 11:15 a.m. "Dragons" is May 1; "Birds" (featuring "Grumpy Bird") on May 8; "National Smile Month" on May 15; "Water a Flower Day" on May 22; and "Rodeo Days" on May 29. On May 29, Storytime starts at 10 a.m., sponsored by the Ute Mountain Roundup Rodeo Committee, featuring stories, songs, crafts, roping, a photo op and more. Call the library at 970-565-8117.
First Monday
Southwest Center for Independence Second Chance Brain Injury group meetings at noon at the Cortez office, 2409 E. Empire. Call Matthew at 570-8001.
Cortez Emblem Club No. 261 meets at 6:30 p.m. the first Monday (except in January and February). Call 565-2197.
First Tuesday
American Legion Ute Mountain Post 75 meets at 7 p.m. at the American Legion Hall, 320 N. Harrison St. Call 565-8151.
Dolores Mountain Quilters meets 10 a.m. at the Dolores Community Center, 400 Riverside Ave, Dolores. The May meeting will include a workshop for the Quilt Show, bring your sewing machine and possibles. Guests and visitors welcome. Information: Visit doloresmountainquilters.org or call Judith Swain at 970-560-4426.
Diabetes support group meets from 3:30 – 5:00 p.m. in the Diabetes Education Room at Southwest Memorial Hospital. Learn how to manage diabetes; share share ideas with others. Sessions are free and open to anyone with Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes. Call Michael Dohn, 564-2352, for details.
First Thursday
Montezuma County Republican Central Committee meets at noon at Shiloh's Steakhouse. Email Nicci Crowley at email@example.com or call 570-9372.
Bariatric surgery weight-loss support group meets from 5-6:30 p.m. in the Kiva room at Southwest Memorial Hospital. Share ideas and exchange information with others who have had weight loss surgery. Free. Call dietitian Laura White, at 564-2276.
The First Thursday Art Walk, downtown Telluride at 5-8 p.m. Listen to Open Art Radio on KOTO noon to 1 p.m. on first Thursdays for interviews with artists. Maps available at participating venues and at the Telluride Arts offices in the Stronghouse Studios + Gallery at 283 S. Fir St. Information: tellurideinside.com.
First Friday
First Friday Leadership at First National Bank in Cortez, 8 to 9 a.m. Free. Coffee and doughnuts at 7:45 a.m. Call Dena, 565-3414.
First and Third Thursdays
Learn signs and nursery rhymes at the Mancos Public Library at 10 a.m. All ages welcome. Call 970-403-9237.
Second Sunday
The Mancos Community Dinners each month at Mt. Lookout Grange in Mancos (680 Grand Ave). Pay-what-you-can dinner, bring a dish if you want. For information, to help out, or to make donations call Gretchen at 509-830-4380.
Second Thursday
The Cortez Area Chamber of Commerce's Business After Hours at various locations from 5 to 7 p.m. Call 565-3414.
Republican Women of Montezuma County invite the public to meet at noon at Shiloh's Steakhouse at 5 Veach St., Cortez. Call Rosemarie Beall at 564-1576.
A free legal self-help clinic for Montezuma County parties without an attorney are 2-5 p.m. at the Mancos Public Library, 211 W. First St. Volunteer attorneys will assist one-on-one, via computer link. First-come, first-served.
Third Saturday
Christian Motorcycle Association, CMA – Cortez Chapter holds its 8 a.m. breakfast, 9 a.m. chapter meeting and 10 a.m. ride (weather permitting). At Beny's restaurant in Cortez. Call Chapter President Steve Reed at 970-565-7233. No motorcycle required.
Third Sunday
Literary Explorations with Jennifer Hope won't meet in April. The next meeting will be May 18 at 6:30 p.m. at Cortez Cultural Center.
Third Wednesday
The Cortez Area Chamber of Commerce Luncheon is held at noon at Shiloh Steakhouse. Call 565-3414.
Third Thursday
Dolores secondary PTO meets the third Thursday of every month at 3:45 p.m. in Mr. Thurston's office. Email Heather Alvarez at halvarez email@example.com or call Tif at 903-8752.
First and Third Thursdays
Planning committee for the 10th Annual Ute Mountain-Mesa Verde Birding Festival meets at 10 a.m. upstairs at the Cortez Cultural Center. Potential volunteers welcome. Call 565-1151.
Fourth Tuesday
4 Corners Republican Women's Club meets at 11:30 a.m. at the Cortez Elk's Lodge. Information: 565-2197.
Last Saturday
Yoga Benefit for the Grange, Mt. Lookout Grange, 680 W. Grand, Mancos. Donation only. Bring towel or mat and water. Refrain from eating an hour before.
Every Sunday
First United Methodist Church has a Native American Worship Service at 2 p.m. Information: 565-3002.
Every Monday
Southwest Singers for fall-season rehearsals. Public invited. Practice at 6:30 p.m. Monday at First United Methodist Church in Cortez. Information: director Ruth Wilson Francisco at 872-3870.
Every Tuesday
The Montezuma Agility Dog Club's Basic Obedience classes for dogs 5 1/2 months and older. Classes are Tuesdays at 7 p.m., last one hour, and begin on April 29 and continue for six weeks. Class size is limited. Registration is first-come, first-served. Information: 970-882-5404.
The Kiwanis Club of Mesa Verde meets at noon at Shiloh's. Information, email email@example.com.
The Dolores Public Library answers technology/software questions about Microsoft Word, email, digital pictures, etc. free at 2-5 p.m. Information: 882-4127.
The Mancos Public Library, offers Little People Storytime on Tuesday's at 10:30 a.m. The program is geared toward children ages 2- 6, but all ages are welcome. Information: 533-7600.
Free medical care, Tuesday from 1 to 1:30 p.m., St. Barnabas Church, 110 W. North St., Cortez. Call 565-4436 to schedule or show up. Limited primary and pediatric care.
Every Wednesday
The Way Christian Church Bible Studies class at 6 p.m.
Wednesday Morning Yoga will be from 9:30 to 11 a.m. at Kaleidoscope, 233 Park St. in Mancos.
Every Monday and Wednesday
Freestyle Defensive Arts is 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. every Monday and Wednesday at the Community Center in Mancos. Kids Freestyle Defensive Arts class, for ages 8 to 15, held 4-5 p.m. every Wednesday. Information: instructor Brian Williams at 903-5576.
Mancos Yoga/Meditation Monday and Wednesdays 5:30 to 6:45 p.m. (except first Monday of the month) Mt. Lookout Grange, 680 W. Grand, Mancos. Bring towel or mat and water. Refrain from eating an hour before.
Every Tuesday and Thursday
Karate "Ryukoku Seidokan" is at 5:30 to 8 p.m. at the Mancos Community Center. Ages 5 to 10 at 5:30-6 p.m. for $5 per class. Ages 11 and older at 6-8 p.m., for $10 per class. Call Victor Pilcher at 533-7471.
Every Thursday
Raising Readers Storytime offers songs, stories, crafts and silliness, using the Early Childhood Literacy Initiative program at the Cortez Public Library, 202 N. Park St. For preschoolers at 10:30 a.m. Older children may attend the craft at 11:15 a.m.
Free Community Dinner at 6 p.m. at the Cortez Family Worship Center Foursquare Church, 500 N. Washington. Donation appreciated. Call 565-3709.
The Mancos Grange's Spanish classes for all levels at 5:30-7 p.m. at 680 W. Grand Ave. Call Jason at 417-437-1747. A $5 donation is suggested.
Every Saturday
The Mancos Valley Historical Society holds meetings at 10 am. at the Mancos Episcopal Church, 479 Bauer St.
The Mancos Indoor Flea Market is open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the old hardware store in Mancos, 192 S. Main St. To become a vendor, call Queenie Barz at 749-9320. The booth fee is $15 per weekend, along with insurance and vendor license charges.
At 10 a.m., the Tree of Life In Jesus Messianic Community (Etz-Chayim B'Yeshua), holds services at 1509 Highway 145. Call 970-562-4217 or email email@example.com.


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having pants that charged your phone automatically, a ski jacket that charged
your MP3 player, or a backpack that charged your laptop. All of these
scenarios sound great, but they all require a power source.
Solar power is one of the most promising solutions for charging low-power electronics on the go, but
current cell designs are either inflexible (making them not conducive for
wearable applications) or have low efficiencies. So that perfect solar
vest of your dreams hasn't become reality quite yet.
But a team of researchers at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and
Technology (EMPA) have, at last, announced [PDF] a new record-efficient
flexible film cell that almost matches silicon cell efficiency, opening the door
to a wealth of commercial opportunities.
I. Record Efficiency Reached
The scientific community's dedication to solar power has yielded a lot of
valuable progress over the past several decades. This progress has tended
to be iterative rather than revolutionary.
Silicon photovoltaic panels slowly crept up to efficiencies where they became
financially feasible for power generation. Now flexible film cells are making a similar
The goal of the EMPA team was two-fold -- first to improve the base efficiency
of flexible films and secondly to improve their manufacturability.
Pairing with FLISOM, a start-up company who is scaling up and
commercializing the technology, the EMPA team were able to milk out 14.1
percent efficiency by 2005.
The EMPA team's designs focused on Copper indium gallium (di)selenide
(CIGS) cells. The CIGS metal film tended to be a promising material for flexible cells.
While the element indium remains expensive, none of the ingredients are
exceedingly rare -- an issue for more novel chemistries.
Since 2005 researchers elsewhere have achieved efficiencies of up to 17.5 using
a CIGS film deposited on a steel film substrate. However these cells
required expensive, hard to manufacture diffusion barriers. They also
required a 550°C growth temperature.
II. Cool Runnings -- New Cells Offer Several Improvements
The EMPA team has been hard at work coming up with a simpler design.
Their most recent work shows efficiencies of 18.7 percent being reached without
a diffusion barrier. Better yet, the awesome results were obtained from a
film grown at a far lower temperature than past designs. States research
lead Ayodhya
N. Tiwari, "Our results clearly show the advantages of the
low-temperature CIGS deposition process for achieving highest efficiency
flexible solar cells on polymer as well as metal foils."
The results could be game changing as they show a thin film that's almost as
efficient as the ~20 percent efficiency of the average traditional silicon
States Professor Tiwari, "The new record value for flexible CIGS solar
cells of 18.7% nearly closes the "efficiency gap" to solar cells
based on polycrystalline silicon (Si) wafers or CIGS thin film cells on glass.
[F]lexible and lightweight CIGS solar cells with efficiencies comparable to the
"best-in-class" will have excellent potential to bring about a
paradigm shift and to enable low-cost solar electricity in the near
While some applications like wearable electronics are obviously of high
interest, the highly efficient thin-film cells could even be eyed as a
replacement for traditional cells in solar windows,solar-shingles, or ground-based solar
A thin film could drastically reduce maintenance costs by reducing the weather
and sediment related wear by replacing the relatively fail glass-like silicon
with hardy plastics or metal films.
III. What's Next?
The EMPA team is looking to continue to bump efficiencies even higher.
But at this point they're also working to commercialize the tech via
FLISOM. The team is currently working to scale up the low temperature
deposition process for mass production.
The work is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), the
Commission for Technology and Innovation (CTI), the Swiss Federal Office of
Energy (SFOE), EU Framework Programmes, and two private firms -- W. Blösch AG
and FLISOM.
Much of the details on the process remain unpublished and proprietary, unlike
traditional university research, in which more information is shared.
Nonetheless, EMPA was quick to release a press release boasting of the
record 18.7 percent efficiency, much as a university research team would.
As the technology becomes more established, more details about the precise process
improvements should be shared.


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The transfer of the Russellville mail processing facility, which is housed in the post office at East Second Street and Boston Avenue, was approved last year to be consolidated to the Little Rock facility.
"It'll be transparent to customers," said Leisa Tolliver-Gay, customer relations coordinator for the USPS in Arkansas. "There's not a separate facility in Russellville. The amount of mail processing that's done there is just done in the post office."
Facilities in Hot Springs, Jonesboro and Harrison will also be consolidated into other offices as part of a plan to reduce the number of mail processing facilities nationwide from 461 to less than 200 by the end of 2013.
Along with the consolidations, the USPS is considering the closure of 172 post offices in Arkansas, including the Tilly office in Pope County; the Gravelly and Bluffton offices in Yell County; and the Oark and Hagarville offices in Johnson County.
"The closings of offices is just part of a larger comprehensive plan we have to do to reduce our costs by $20 billion by 2015," Tolliver-Gay said.
She said the postal service loses about $23 million each day, and with rising gas prices and people using the postal service less and less, cuts are necessary.
Despite recent public outcry to keep some of the offices open, Tolliver-Gay said the offices' status are still pending a decision of what offices will close. That decision will be reached by May 15.
"Post offices are important to the community and we completely understand that, and no one wants their post office to close, but we've got to do things that are going to save us money," she said. "We're looking at every aspect."
Pope County Judge Jim Ed Gibson, who was one of several public figures to attend a meeting in December concerning the possible closure of Tilly's post office, said the office's closure would be detrimental to the community because Superior Forestry depends on the services the office provides.
"They use that post office a tremendous amount, and the people up there rely on that post office," he said.
If the Tilly office is closed, Tolliver-Gay said residents who rely on the office will have to retrieve their mail from Whitt Springs — an office that was removed from the list of potential closures, despite its lower revenue, Gibson said.
Gibson added the costs of delivering mail to residents will install mailboxes will also cost more to the postal service than it would to keep the Tilly office open.
"We could close that post office and it cost us more to get the mail out in that area than it does now," he said. "It's just an unfortunate situation that I hope the postal service looks at and tries to work through."
Yell County Judge Mark Thone said the response to the possible Gravelly and Bluffton closures has also been negative, and similar meetings have been held to try to get the offices off the list.
"You'd like to think that we were able to change their mind, but you don't know," he said.


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- Lorabell
What's a girl have to do to have hotties like Rob and Taylor come through my window? LoL ;)ReplyDelete
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20th of november is soooo close now, yet still to far away! I can't wait!
43!!! EEEE!! Almost in the 30's!! :)ReplyDelete
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Twilight sucks and Edward Cullen is gay.ReplyDelete
Lovvvve Taylor in this pic. I used to be sooo team Edward but the other night I had this dream lol.. so I'm slowly converting to team Jacob against my will..just something about him :-X Still love my Robward thoughReplyDelete
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Can I catch that?