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Planner apps:
- EverNote: Let's start with what will help us to organize our study. There is little consensus on best college planner app. We choose Evernote. It is a simplest digital version of the notebook, where you can create handwritten to-do lists and notes, leave a voice memo or photograph note, tag, comment, and search them. It is helpful to stick to the schedule tracking and creating a checklist of tasks. It is free, but without paid plans, you don't have offline access to it and some other options.
- AnyDo: It is another time-management app, which has an ability to prioritize your tasks and to divide a big project into sub tasks. It has special Moment function – a kind of reminder that urges you to review and sort your tasks. A free version is available.
- Schoold: It will help you to plan your future in a wider sense. It helps searching schools, universities, and scholarships, offers advice on free college applications, and relevant careers.
Best educational apps for college students:
- Scribd: What students do even more than write assignments? Right, they read. So, install this online library app and find all the books you need to study at your best. Also, it can be great for Music students for its music sheets. You'll find there also comics and audio books. You can organize selected documents according to the topic and share them with friends. Costs $8.99 per month. There is a free test-drive available.
- EasyBib: It is a Citation Generator. It is one of free apps for college students that remembers all these MLA, APA, Chicago and many other formatting styles. After you log in with your account, you can create bibliography citations using search or scanning book bar-codes, and add them to project on the mobile device or export them to email.
- Study Blue: It is one of the apps that help you study anywhere. It is an application of an educational platform. You can create your own flashcards with pictures and text and share them with your mates as well as with the other students all over the world.
For Homework:
- Writing Pal: It is one of the most helpful apps for college students. It is an iOS app of the website EduBrite that provides the help with assignments. You can proofread your paper or order needed information arranged in convenient custom manner. CliffsNotes are study guide apps in series that help to understand literature and other works, giving explanations and summaries, which makes writing essays much easier. It also has an audio version.
- Mathway: It is also a study guide, but for math problems solving. It provides help with Algebra, Statistics, Graphing, Chemistry and other homework. You can enter the task by typing or by taking the picture. It works offline and is free.
The little things:
- Dropbox: You can keep there all the necessary information, homework, and coursework, your drafts and materials, copies of your applications to the universities, and reach them online anywhere. Also, you can share the links with friends and teachers.
- Scanner Pro: It helps to scan documents and to add them to cloud storage or Camera roll. You can change the documents you once photographed into editable PDFs. It costs $2.99
- Snap2PDF: It allows to take pictures and convert them into PDFs with recognized text. Translations for foreign words may be provided. Costs $2.99
- Chegg: When you get all your textbooks digital, or maybe, when your semester is over – you will be ready to sell or rent your old-fashioned paper books. Or, if you still need them – you can rent them with the help of this free app.
Sure, you can find other useful college apps that are not so closely connected to study. The mind is sound in a sound body – so try the apps that track your sleep, help you with workout/fitness and remind to hydrate. There are also alarm, spending tracking and drinking tracking applications.
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I am looking to buy a Bathmate goliath hydropump. i have had a regular hercules for probly about 5 or 6 months. I am wanting one cause i cant pump to my maximum which is about 170mm without having rings around my penis at the base. so if anyone has one they want to sell or trade for hercules just message me and we can work somethin out through paypal.
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Those rings around the base are perfectly normal. It's just the way the pump is designed. A Goliath isn't necessarily going to be the answer.
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yea the goliath wont be able to help you until youre longer.
I had concerns the hercules would be too small for my girth (about 5.7 at the time) so i bought the goliath first but it just didnt have much pressure. bought the herc and although the rings happen i feel it more along the whole shaft. ( an intermediate model would rock but i doubt they have plans for one)
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A favorite of mine. In 1913 a child arrives from Europe on a ship with no one to claim her. The dock master takes her home to his childless wife and they raise her but don't tell her about her past until she is 21. At this stage a long journey to discover her true identity begins and followed up... Read More »
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Loved this book. Bouncing around between 1913, 1975 and 2005 was no problem as each section was labeled and each had its main character. A tale about tales and about families, love and redemption. Hated to see it end. — Laura P., Information & Online Services
Three generations of women suffer the loss of their mothers while still children. The story focuses on the love that exists between mother and child, identity, and birthright. The magic of childhood runs through this story. The fairy tales written by "the authoress" are charming touches. They epitomize the grief and loneliness the characters experience and provide clues to the mystery, if you have your wits about you. The story is beautifully told, but a bit too long in my opinion. I even incurred a rare fine because I couldn't finish the story in time and I couldn't renew due to holds. Oh well. It was an entertaining read.
Trying not to give the story away I can only say that I was very surprised that the little girl's companion would leave her unsupervised on the ship after all the grief she went to in order for them to be together.
A tiny girl is on a ship that docks in Australia. She is alone, and doesn't know her name or why she left England.
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I thoroughly enjoyed this book by Kate Morton. Found it so mesmerizing and could not put it down. The characters quite literally come alive and follow their own pathway. I could read it again and it reminded me of my growing up years when I enjoyed Little Women so very much. I would highly recommend it.
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My favorite Kate Morton novel. I loved the history, the mystery, the family drama, the gothic overtones, and I was especially enchanted by her writing.
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Fun, sudsy-soapy family mystery. Elements of classic 'romance' novels abound: the Big Stately Home owned by the Monied Family with Secrets, the troubled daughter(s) of the house, the might-be-a-bad-guy son of the house, the beautiful orphan, mysterious pregnancies and births, close-mouthed villagers. The book jumps around, a bit too often for me, between the late 1800s and early 1900s, the mid-1970s and the early 2000s. It's an enjoyable light read. I did have the Big Mystery figured out about halfway through and it was not totally plausible that Cassandra didn't cop on as well.
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Washington, DC – Rep. Ron DeSantis (FL-06) voted today in favor of H.J. Res. 72, the Honoring our Promise to America's Veterans Act. This legislation would have immediately appropriated funds to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to ensure that funding to vital veteran programs would continue during the shutdown. However, Democrats rejected this opportunity to guarantee that our nation's veterans were taken care of, and the legislation failed under a suspension of the rules. DeSantis issued the following statement:
"I was pleased to vote for funding for the Department of Veterans Affairs. Through their courage and sacrifice, our veterans have earned the support of a grateful nation. I am appalled at the dishonorable conduct of my Democratic colleagues who voted to punish veterans and deny them support."


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Bailey House
Posted on February 23rd 2007 under Uncategorized
This is one of the prettiest Victorians that you'll ever see. The
Bailey House used to be a bed and breakfast but is now a private residence. If you look closely at the porch, you'll see Victorian era carousel horses. At Christmas time, the owners play carousel music through speakers on the porch. Naturally, the horses all wear pretty red bows.


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In my last commentary ( http://www.windowswebsolutions.com/articles/index.cfm?articleid=38138 ), I covered Slammer or Sapphire, a worm that targets systems running either Microsoft SQL Server 2000 or Microsoft SQL Server Desktop Engine (MSDE). Slammer crippled the Web for a long time and affected all Internet users in some way. I also focused on what happened behind the scenes at Microsoft after the worm appeared and the black eye that Slammer gave to the already battered Microsoft security effort. I boldly predicted that as a result of Slammer, every Microsoft product will become a part of Windows Update within the next 6 months. Time will tell how that prediction shakes out, but since my commentary, I've talked to numerous Microsoft employees who have validated my prediction as a good idea--and one that Microsoft is discussing.
I asked you to email me your comments, and I received many interesting and intelligent responses. I stated that many administrators don't install patches and, because of that, IIS 6.0 in Windows Server 2003 is shipping completely locked down with automatic patching enabled. The patch that eliminated the security vulnerability that Slammer exploited was available 6 months before the worm appeared.
I also stated some reasons why administrators don't patch, but I was remiss because I failed to identify one major reason why they don't: the lack of resources to be able to effectively set up a patch-testing environment. Many administrators are afraid of the side effects they often suffer after blindly installing patches without first testing the patches in the proper environment. But testing requires much time and effort--too much, for many overworked administrators. Some administrators have also had a service pack or a patch break something and wreak havoc on their servers and applications. Another factor that causes some administrators not to patch as often as they should is the economy: Downsized support staffs mean that many tasks aren't handled, leaving networks vulnerable to attacks.
Windows Web Solutions UPDATE reader Tariq Hamirani pointed out that another reason administrators don't patch is for fear of Microsoft taking on the role of Big Brother. Hamirani told me about administors' fear of automatic updates sending information to vendors about the machines being updated and their configuration. Hamirani said, "Microsoft may collect information on installed software that might simply have a common key or is flat-out illegal." I don't believe in this particular fear--Microsoft is forthright about what information it collects and when it's collected. Further, I think that companies that run unlicensed software don't have any right to complain about that software.
Anthony Paulina, a network systems architect for CherryRoad Technologies, said, "If your prediction turns out to be true that 6 months from now, all Microsoft products can be updated via Windows Update, my humble opinion is this: It is about bloody time! Currently, Microsoft is underutilizing a really good method of providing fixes for their software. If they provided checks for the other product lines that would be great. Ideally I'd like to see it as a one-stop Web site, unlike today, where you have to go to Office Update for Office and Windows Update for Windows." Richard Rosenheim, CEO of Intelligence Research Systems, agrees: "The idea of having Windows Update handle all the Microsoft updates and patches sounds good to me. In the same vein, I would also like to see SUS \[Software Update Services\] handle everything (not just critical updates)."
Of course, the Windows Update route might not be as easy as it sounds. Andrew Brust, president and founder of Progressive Systems Consulting, wrote, "One issue with Windows Update is that using it from servers may be tough. Microsoft may need to create a remote console that allows monitoring of pending updates on a collection of servers and applying them via some RPC \[remote procedure call\]. Otherwise, you have to Terminal Service into each box, log in as an administrator, and click Update. This will just result in more patches not getting applied."
Clearly, Microsoft intends to fix the process problem. Mike Nash, who is vice president of the security business unit at Microsoft and has responsibility for the security component of Trustworthy Computing, said, "The key lesson of Slammer--maybe it's a re-lesson of Slammer--is our work is not done when the patch is available. Our work is done when the patch is installed on the majority of customers' systems." We can glean from his statement that Microsoft acknowledges it's just not there yet. One can only hope it gets there soon.


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Grace, Sutton won't be broadcasting Dbacks games next seasonPosted: Updated:
PHOENIX -- Things will sound a little different when the Arizona Diamondbacks return to the field for the 2013 season.
The team announced on Thursday that Daron Sutton and Mark Grace won't be returning to the broadcast booth next year.
The Diamondbacks also said that Greg Schulte, who replaced Sutton for the second part of this year, will return to his role as the radio play-by-play voice in 2013.
Jeff Munn, who took over on the radio for Schulte, will resume his role on the pregame and postgame shows next year.
Sutton was suspended by the team in late June and didn't return the rest of the season. In August, Grace was arrested for his second DUI in 15 months.
Diamondbacks team President and CEO Derrick Hall said Grace knew a second DUI arrest would cost him his job.
"We feel terrible for Mark and what he's going through. We hope everything works out well for him and we're here for him. But he knew this was going to be a consequence and it just so happens his contract was up after this year as well," Hall told MLB.com.
The team has not specifically said why Sutton left, but Hall did tell MLB.com this week that it was a matter of "philosophical differences in broadcasting with the organization and him."


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Honey bees are good pollinators for many reasons. Their hairy bodies trap pollen and carry it between flowers. The bees require large quantities of nectar and pollen to rear their young, and they visit flowers regularly in large numbers to obtain these foods. In doing so, they concentrate on one species of plant at a time and serve as good pollinators for this reason. Their body size enables them to pollinate flowers of many different shapes and sizes. The pollination potential of the bees is increased because they can be managed to develop high populations. The number of colonies can also be increased as needed and the colonies can be moved to the most desirable location for pollination purposes.
Honey bees are most active at temperatures between 60 degrees F. (16 degrees C.) and 105 degrees F. (41 degrees C.). Winds above 15 miles per hour reduce their activity and stop it completely at about 25 miles per hour. When conditions for flight are not ideal, honey bees work close to their colonies. Although they may fly as far as 5 miles in search of food, they usually go no farther than 1 to 1-1/2 miles in good weather. In unfavorable weather, bees may visit only those plants nearest the hive. They also tend to work closer to the hive in areas where there are large numbers of attractive plants in bloom.
The following midwestern crops must be pollinated by bees to produce
fruit or seed:
Sweetclovers, white and yellowCranberry
Muskmelon, cantaloupe
Persimmon, native
Plum, prune
The following crops set fruit or seed without insect visits but yields
and quality may be improved by honey bees:
Lima bean
Honey bees visit several important crops but do not improve their yields
of fruit or seed. These include the following:
|Field bean
| String or snap bean
Sweet corn
The provision of bees for pollination of crop plants is a specialized practice, not just a sideline of honey production. Beekeepers who supply bees for pollination must learn the skills of management that are necessary for success in this phase of beekeeping. Such skills include the development and selection of strong colonies that are able to provide the large force of field bees needed to do the job of transferring pollen. This task of the beekeeper is hardest to accomplish for fruit pollination early in the year. Each beekeeper or organization of beekeepers should set minimum standards for colony strength and size to use as a basis for establishing prices and for providing the best possible service. The number of bees, and not the number of hives, is the true unit of measure, and growers need to be told and shown what standards are being used to measure the honey bee colonies for pollination. For example, colonies for apple pollination should be housed in a two-story hive with a laying queen. There should be four or more frames with brood and sufficient bees to cover them. There should also be a reserve food supply of 10 pounds of honey or more. Colonies rented to pollinate crops that bloom later in the year should be proportionately stronger, with five or six frames with brood, approximately 600 to 800 square inches. In the field, the colonies must be supered and examined at intervals to keep them in suitable condition for pollination.
The number of standard colonies that are needed per acre of crop plants varies in relation to the attractiveness of the crop, the competition from surrounding sources of nectar and pollen, and the percentage of flowers that must produce fruit or seed to provide an economic return. Most crops are adequately pollinated by one strong hive of bees per acre. However, red clover grown for seed should have two or more colonies per acre moved to the field as soon as it begins to bloom (Fig. 76). Alfalfa requires three to five colonies per acre. Hybrid cumumbers grown at plant populations of 40,000 to 70,000 or more plants per acre for machine harvest may require up to four hives per acre. The higher number of hives may be needed where other cultivated plants or weeds compete strongly for the attention of the bees.
Honey bee hives placed in groupls in an apple orchard in southern Illinois. (Fig. 77)
Bees for pollination should be placed within or beside the crop to be pollinated. For apples, place groups of 5 to 15 hives at intervals of 200 to 300 yards (Fig. 77). They should be moved into the orchard at 10 to 25 percent bloom. For cucumbers and other cucurbits, bees should be moved to the field when the first female flowers appear, not before. Place the bees in a single group for small fields. For fields larger than 30 acres, place the bees in two or more groups at the edges of the field but leave no more than %0 mile between groups. Bees seem to work better upwind from their hives than downwind, so it is probably worthwhile to locate more colonies on the downwind side of the field or orchard than on the side from which the wind blows.
Bees need a nearby source of water such as a farm pond or a stock tank with cork or wooden floats on which they can land. Water is important in the early spring for brood rearing and later for cooling the hives. In fruit pollination the bees benefit from full sun and shelter from the wind. Later in the year, some afternoon shade is helpful.
Contracts for honey bee pollination services should be a regular part of the business when more than a few hives are involved. Contracts prevent problems that may arise from misunderstanding, and they serve to emphasize the obligations and rights of both grower and beekeeper. Contracts should include provisions relating to pesticide usage, colony standards and the rights of the grower to examine the colonies, rights of access by the beekeeper, pollination fees and time of payment, and a statement about the timing of movements of bees to and from the crop.
Colony rental fees vary in relation to the expenses involved and the length of time the colonies are needed. The potential or actual honey production of the rented colonies is also a factor in establishing prices for summer-blooming crops, with higher prices for less productive plant species. Additional moves and the movement of colonies by grow- ers may increase or lower the price. The Honey Market News publishes typical prices being charged for pollination services.


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Separatists come first for Pakistani foreign secretary
Arriving for bilateral talks, Pakistan foreign secretary Jalil Abbas Jilani said that he had been given "a mandate to carry forward the dialogue process with India". HT reports. Joining the dots | Jilani vows to cooperate in Jundal casedelhi Updated: Jul 04, 2012 08:21 IST
Arriving for bilateral talks with his Indian counterpart, Ranjan Mathai, Pakistan foreign secretary Jalil Abbas Jilani said that he had been given "a mandate to carry forward the dialogue process with India".
But even before talks - scheduled to be held on July 4 and 5 -- he was reminded that this would require some tightrope walking: As has happened before, eight Kashmiri separatist leaders met Jilani at the Pakistani High Commission.They badgered him over Islamabad's "flip-flop" on the Kashmir issue.
Hardliner Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani complained that bilateral talks were "meaningless until the core issue of Kashmir was resolved".
Indian foreign minister SM Krishna, returning from a visit to Tajikistan, warned that "Pakistan has to do more on the issue of terrorism".
He said Islamabad already had enough evidence against 26/11 terrorist mastermind Hafiz Sayeed.
Jilani, however, struck a constructive note, saying, "Pakistan will support India in its fight against terrorism." Krishna also noted: "The issue of progress on terrorism hasn't held the dialogue process to ransom. We have been talking to Pakistan."
Mathai and Jilani will seek to focus on issues like demilitarisation of the Siachen glacier, easing of visa norms, Sir Creek, Kashmir and other confidence-building measures, including promoting friendly exchanges.
Although the agenda for the foreign secretary-level talks has been fixed well in advance, Pakistan will find it difficult - in the wake of the Abu Jundal arrest - to avoid the focus being on terrorism. Kashmir separatist leaders also seemed concerned their cause would not get the attention required.
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq said, "We expressed our displeasure over lack of forward movement between India and Pakistan on Kashmir issue."
JKLF chairman Yasin Malik demanded the inclusion of Kashmiris into the talks between the two countries.
The generally positive air, however, was noted by the Indian foreign minister who said, "The acrimony of old times is no longer there."
A marked man
Pakistan foreign secretary Jalil Abbas Jilani's stint in India as acting high commissioner ended on February 8, 2003, when he was asked to leave the country for allegedly funding Kashmiri separatists.
Delhi Police named Jilani — a cousin of the former Pakistan PM, Yousuf Raza Gilani — in an FIR against two Hurriyat activists, who said Rs. 3 lakh had been given to them for then Hurriyat chairman Abdul Ghani Bhat.
The Hurriyat denied the charge.
First Published: Jul 03, 2012 16:30 IST


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It has been sometime since we have updated this site and we apologize for our procrastination. Sometimes we feel we put the "pro" in that word but here and now we plan to keep this current as much as possible. 2010 is proving to be an exciting year for us. We have acquired some more land to plant our natural produce and are busy getting the seeds and starts into the ground, as many of our fellow gardeners are. We have joined forces with some new organizations - Well Fed Neighbor Alliance, and Local Harvest. Please check out our Links page.
Our philosophy has remained the same these past 3 years since we have started this journey- Farm Fresh Food for Fine Folks at a Fair Price. We know some of our prices will be a bit higher because of our costs but we insist on making a living not a killing.
Mike and Nancee's Irish-Ozark farm house
Front Door Farm Market is home to M&N Farms near Taneyville, MO. Mike and Nancee Micham are dedicated in raising healthy, natural food pesticide free, and no hormones. People often ask how we keep bugs and critters away, we answer, we just plant more for them!
On our pages here you will find some new information as we move on thru the year, yes we still are performing! Performers and farmers which makes us Perfarmers! Please check our SHOW SCHEDULE
2010! Wow, what a start. Our prayer for you is that it is healthy, fruitful and full of grand surprises
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Employers want to do the right thing when it comes to health benefits for their employees, not only because it is humane, but also because it makes good business sense to take care of their most important assets. As health benefits have become increasingly costly, employers have struggled to find the key to meeting healthcare needs without breaking the bank. Many have pinned their hopes on wellness initiatives, the most popular offerings including newsletters and websites, weight-loss programs and smoking cessation programs.
These types of wellness initiatives are baby steps when it comes to moving the needle on employee health issues and costs. To move forward, there needs to be a shift in the way companies think about their most important asset, their employees, and the risks that they pose to the overall financial health of the company. Employers at this stage in the game are leaning in one of two directions; they either want to get out of the benefits business and send employees to the exchange, or they are going to buckle down and approach the health and welfare of their employees with a new way of thinking. With the help of a knowledgeable benefits broker and an experienced partner, employers can start to think like risk managers when it comes to employee health. Only then will their efforts begin to make a difference, both for the health of employees and the bottom line-impact of benefit costs.
Why baby steps are not enough
The earliest wellness initiatives were grounded in the concept that once employees are confronted with information about unhealthy behaviors they will make improvements that will lead to better health.
Information alone, however, is rarely enough to make a difference. Employers are beginning to face the hard truth that giving employees access to wellness support has done little to change the overall health of their workforces. To reach that goal, they have to move beyond providing information to a much more effective level of wellness support: Employee health risk management.
Tying consequences to health risk management
Employee Health Risk Management is an approach that allows employers to actively manage the health risks of their employees. Among the tools are health risk assessments and biometric health screenings to help identify risks that are driving healthcare expenses.
When made mandatory for employees, these tools can be coupled with consequences. Instead of appealing to reason ("if you exercise, you will be healthier"), these advanced wellness initiatives provide both carrots and sticks to link an employee's actions and outcomes to consequences. For example, people who continue to smoke even after having access to cessation support pay higher premiums for their health care. Or people who join a gym and use it three times a week pay lower premiums. Or a person who agrees to regular cholesterol and blood pressure screening earns an annual bonus. Ultimately the goal is to implement value-based plan designs tailor-made for employee populations.
Finding the right partner
When plans are well-designed, the requirements are both attainable and accompanied by support to help employees succeed. For example, a well-designed plan does not ask an employee to reduce Body Mass Index from 40 to 25 in one year. A 10% or 15% reduction goal, supported by free access to plans like Weight Watchers, and supported with rewards and recognition may inspire the behavioral changes that will lead to a lower BMI with little further encouragement.
Wellness initiatives have always had the right idea: a healthy workforce costs less when it comes to health care benefits. But until recently, most have stopped short of the hard work it takes to get people to change their habits and lifestyles. In the era of health care reform, smart employers are stepping up their wellness efforts to make them more effective, and brokers are leading the way with cost-effective solutions. Now is the time to move beyond baby steps and actively manage the health and well-being of employees and their dependents.
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text: Robert B. West, age 83, of Arlington Heights, beloved husband of Marie, nee Farina; loving father of Wayne West, Alan (Jacqueline) West, Barbara Kimball and Diane (Thomas) Pernicone; loved grandfather of Corey, Stacie, Courtney, Dominic and Vincent; dear brother of the late Harvey T. (Jeanne) West Jr. Prayers 8:45 a.m. Saturday at the Glueckert Funeral Home, Ltd., 1520 N. Arlington Heights Rd. (4 blocks south of Palatine Rd.), Arlington Heights to Our Lady of the Wayside Church, 440 S. Mitchell Ave., for a Funeral Service at 9:30 a.m. Visitation Friday from 3 p.m. until 9 p.m. Entombment St. Michael the Archangel Cemetery. Either flowers or memorial contributions to American Lung Assn. of Metropolitan Chicago, 1440 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, 60607, would be appreciated. Information www.GlueckertFH.com 847-253-0168


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Featuring an all-star multi-generational cast with flutist Nicole Mitchell, clarinetist Marty Ehrlich, trombonist Michael Dessen, pianist Joshua White, drummer Jim Black,
and newcomer David Morales Boroff on violin.
Mark Dresser makes music in a vast variety of settings and contexts, but the dauntingly prolific bassist always seeks to create space for the unpredictable play between form and freedom. On his new album Sedimental You, slated for release on Clean Feed on November 10, 2016, he's assembled an astonishingly creative cast that embraces the intuitive and emotionally charged nature of his improvisational imperative. Riveting, playful and often revelatory, his compositions emerge out of a shifting matrix of specific musical personalities and the often dismaying swirl of current events.
Working with a supremely gifted septet, Dresser brings together emerging talent and revered veterans from East and West Coast scenes. In many ways, Sedimental You builds directly on orchestrational concepts he's been exploring in smaller ensembles, and relationships he's honed via telematic connections (which enable musicians in different locations to perform live in real time via high speed/high bandwidth links.)
None of the music is programmatic, but the porous nature of the compositions means that the world's joys and woes seep in. Mocking denunciations and ache-filled reveries flow into open-hearted evocations of beloved colleagues, both departed and still very much with us. Dresser notes that he always writes with specific musicians in mind, "and I really had Marty's clarinet sound in my ear. I've had lots of groups with Michael Dessen, who's a virtuoso trombonist and an invaluable collaborator in my groups and telematic projects. And Jim Black is a force of nature, who I worked with most often in New York and on Japanese tours as the rhythm section for Satoko Fujii."
Dresser started working with Nicole Mitchell after she joined the faculty up the road at UC Irvine, a relationship expanded by collaboration via telematics. He's played several high profile concerts in her ensembles, and she's become an important part of his West Coast quintet. "She's a wonderfully open collaborator, a great soloist, with superb musicianship and a buoyant musical spirit." Dresser says.
San Diego pianist Joshua White is a rapidly rising star who's toured internationally with Rudresh Mahanthappa's Bird Calls project. With a potent array of influences at his fingertips, from gospel and spirituals to free improvisation, he quickly fell in with Dresser after the bassist moved to town and discovered "an amazing talent with incredible ears and intuition," Dresser says. "He's a fearless improviser whose musical instincts I completely trust."
The album's wild card is violinist David Morales Boroff, the youngest player on the project. In a serendipitous connection, he's the son of esteemed folk guitarist Phil Boroff, who happened to give Dresser's mother guitar lessons back in the 1970s. "David's got a freaky ear," Dresser says. "I'd give him one of my tunes and he'd be at the piano reharmonizing it. He has a beautiful violin sound and a soulful lyricism that belies his age "
The album opens with "Hobby Lobby Horse," a tricky tune built from bass line up with a derisive hitch in the groove. The title track slyly refers to the 1932 Tommy Dorsey hit "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You." Drawing on the cadences of the original, he recalibrated the harmony to evoke its sound and mood. The heart of the album is "Will Well (For Roswell Rudd)," a startlingly tender piece that Dresser conceived with the trombone legend (and frequent collaborator) in mind. He first played the tune in a trio with White and drummer Kjell Nordeson, but this extended version brings out everyone's sumptuous lyricism, particularly when Mitchell's throaty alto flute winds around Ehrlich's woody bass clarinet. "It's an incantation of sorts for Roswell," Dresser says.
Dresser's strikingly beautiful tribute "I Can Smell You Listening (for the late Alexandra Montano)" evokes the boundless spirit of the extraordinary mezzo-soprano who contributed memorably on the 2005 Dresser/Denman Maroney album Time Changes (Cryptogramophone). An extended melodic line that rises and falls, fades and reappears, the tune features some of Ehrlich's most ravishing clarinet work. He offers a different kind of lament with "Newtown Char," a piece he created in response to the unfathomable massacres in Connecticut and Charleston, SC. Structurally and emotionally, it's the album's centerpiece, a plaintive unfurling melody keyed to the thick, woody sound of Ehrlich's bass clarinet. The album closes with the brief, elegiac theme "Two Handfuls of Peace (for Daniel Jackson)," a celebration of the revered San Diego tenor saxophonist who died in 2014 at 77.
Amidst a steady flow of recent albums, Sedimental You stands out as Dresser's most ambitious work as a bandleader. April saw the release of The Moscow Improvisations by Jones Jones, a volatile collective trio with Russian percussionist Vladimir Tarasov and ROVA saxophonist Larry Ochs. And in March the talent laden SLM Ensemble released Source (Liminal Music), a large group project co-led and conducted by Sarah Weaver featuring masters such as vocalist Jen Shyu, flutist Robert Dick, percussionist Gerry Hemmingway, and saxophonists Jane Ira Bloom and Marty Ehrlich.
Born in Los Angeles, Dresser has been a creative force since he first started gaining attention in the early '70s with Stanley Crouch's Black Music Infinity, a free jazz ensemble that included Bobby Bradford, Arthur Blythe, James Newton, and David Murray. He earned a BA and MA from UC San Diego studying contrabass with Bertram Turetzky. While on a Fulbright in Italy studying with maestro Franco Petracchi, Dresser was recruited by Anthony Braxton for his celebrated quartet with Gerry Hemingway and pianist Marilyn Crispell. Dresser made the move to New York in 1986 and spent a decade touring and recording with the reed visionary. A ubiquitous force on the Downtown scene, he worked widely with masters such as Ray Anderson, Tim Berne, Anthony Davis, and John Zorn.
A prolific composer and recording artist, Dresser developed many pieces for the Arcado String Trio, and Tambastics, while receiving numerous commissions and recording his original scores for several classic silent films, including The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Since returning to Southern California in 2004 to join the UCSD music faculty he's maintained creative relationships with many of his New York associates, though the move west coincided with his renewed focus on solo bass performance and telematic research. Recommitted to working with larger groups, he's once again the catalyst for a roiling creative community, work that earned him a prestigious Doris Duke Impact Award in 2015. More than impactful, Sedimental You is music to recharge your ears, agitate your soul, and open your mind.


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Suits Showrunner Speaks on Season 2, Character IntroductionsChandel Charles at . Comments
With Harvey about to come under fire for burying evidence under the tutelage of the former DA, and with flashbacks on tap that introduce new characters, showrunner Aaron Korsh took part in a conference call this week, dishing on the origins of his hit show and giving us an idea of what to expect going forward on Suits Season 2.
He also revealed the meaning behind the can-opener! Read on for the answer...
Let's start with the concept of the "civil war." It's a theme that's quickly emerged this season and was derived, Korsh explains, from "a lot of shows that [he's] a big fan of," as they often "bring in an outside character as a foil."
Hence the decision to reveal the ever-elusive Hardman.
"It just seemed like a perfect fit to bring [Hardman] in and let him be the foil that kind of solved the problem of how to keep Mike in the firm and still have Jessica find out about his secrets."
Viewers can look forward, meanwhile, to other new characters coming on board this summer, including one named Monica (played by Garbiel Macht's wife, Jacinda Barrett).
She "left the firm under kind of cloudy circumstances and... plays both a role in the past and in the present," Korsh teased, adding that "she interacts mainly with Louis in the episode in the past and Mike in the episode in the present. But she's got a history with everyone at the firm... and her departure affects Rachel, Louis, Daniel, Harvey, Jessica, everyone."
The upcoming flashback episode will also include Mike's first encounter with Jenny and shed more light on Sarah Rafferty's Donna, while depicting life at the company before the drama that pushed Hardman out.
Of course, I had to ask what that Season 1 concluding can-opener was all about.
Korsh said the "ritual" that Donna and Harvey have to do before every case seemed too "overtly sexual" for the network's tastes. As a result, when asked to take it out, he I'll get the can opener just as a "throw away line," which, unwittingly giving birth to a reference that... well... actually doesn't mean anything all!
But it did still lead to a Facebook page for said can-opener.
Suits airs on USA Network Thursdays at 10/9c.
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I installed the git repository module as was given in the tutorial page. However I ran in to a lot of problems.
The mydomain.com/git/something.git would always show 403 forbidden error despite the number of repositories I make.
I follow the instructions to clone to a local repository but I just can't seem to push back after an initial commit. It always says git-push-http error, code 22.
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Had the same problem, at least the following changes worked for me:
- after creating the repo, check the file gitweb.cgi
- lines 49/50 should be corrected; once the git_base_url is correct, the "browse repository" button works ok, but there's no snapshot.cgi so the snapshots_url does not work. So - seems to be a bug in virtualmin-git, that git_base_url isn't correctly set, at least under Debian Wheezy.
- I had to change line 31 $gitbin to /usr/lib/git-core, as "/usr/bin/git-rev-list" was not found using "/usr/bin" default setting, perhaps related to Wheezy, too.
- the default gitweb.cgi used is /usr/share/webmin/virtualmin-git/gitweb.cgi.source.new, so I could change $gitbin there - I think these should be configurable options in virtualmin-git module (Feature Request!)
- the repo push error is a client issue, see: http://www.mkonrad.net/Blog/Git-over-HTTPWebDAV-A-solution-for-git-http-... using .netrc to store login resolves it
i have also been experiencing issues with getting gitweb.cgi to work out of the box with its virtualmin module and counterpart;
i have filed a bug report (although, it may not be a bug?), https://sourceforge.net/p/webadmin/bugs/4341/
i followed the steps outlined above, and corrected the paths... after changing the apache directory permissions on the git directories to allow cgi execution, i could finally log in to these directories using the browser.
however, the CGI wrapper is throwing errors when attempting to perform any critical operations:
gitweb.cgi: Use of uninitialized value $epoch in gmtime at gitweb.cgi line 813., referer: https://website.com/git/gitweb.cgi?p=ispman.git;a=commit;h=
gitweb.cgi: Use of uninitialized value $epoch in addition (+) at gitweb.cgi line 823.,
gitweb.cgi: Use of uninitialized value $head in concatenation (.) or string at gitweb.cgi line 129.,
gitweb.cgi: Use of uninitialized value $head in concatenation (.) or string at gitweb.cgi line 130.,
what i extracted from the actual error reported on the page:
403 Forbidden - Invalid hash parameter.
403 Forbidden - Reading tree failed.
considering i am still new to Git, and coming from SVN, i assume that although the gitweb.cgi wrapper is broken, WebDAV and remote authoring might still work- but i will have to do further testing. if this IS the case, i guess i could tell people that they can only create, delete, and change permissions on
not sure whether to remove Git support until things are fixed, or if there might some trivial fix in which i seem to be missing...
any help would be greatly appreciated! virtualmin is a great product, and integration with Git would be fantastic to offer my clients :)
okay so, after some hard work, i figured out a solution to my problems.
first, the solutions was to follow the steps outline above by : lulatsch66
Next, the Gitweb wrapper used by virtualmin seems to be possibly out of date;
Considering if gitweb was installed from the repository, the solution to fix gitweb.cgi was to copy the repository installed gitweb.cgi, including dependencies (files under ./static in the gitweb template directory) to the users ./git directory, fix permissions (both on the filesystem, and in the users .htaccess), and edit the cgi wrapper within respect to the changes normally made by virtualmin (specify repository path, etc)
after this, some final changes would be to edit /etc/gitweb.conf and comment out the project path directive, in order to always load this from the users configuration
note: on the client side (Windows), i also experience a problem with pushing anything to the repository. along side the suggested .netrc fix, it seems that sometimes there is a dependency issues, and libcurl-4.dll was missing, or was the wrong version. the solution for this is to add git to the PATH directive. if this does not help, try copying libcurl.dll to System32. you may also be able to simply rename libcurl.dll to libcurl-4.dll to in the git bin directory.
hope that this helps somebody! i will duplicate this post into my bug report so that we may get git working out of the box again!


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UK-based architect Asif Khan commented on the differences between the older generation of architects and the ones working in the industry today whom he describes as "more inclusive".
"I am going to generalise slightly, but I think there is a more inclusive approach to architecture [today]. There is more listening going on. ," he told designMENA on his first visit to the UAE.
He explains that on one hand projects are being realised much faster which results in a more reduced dialogue between clients and architects with higher expectations of productivity.
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He added: "There are also a lot more architects than there were 20 or 30 years ago. There is a need for more with the population increasing and the massive increase of the amount of built environment that is being created.
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• Bryan Falk has been named project architect in the BG Architecture division of BG Consultants Inc. Falk will be responsible for managing BG Architecture in the firm's Lawrence office. Falk has more than seven years of experience in building design and project management. He has a bachelor's degree in interdisciplinary studies from the University of Missouri, a Master of Architecture from Kansas University and a Master of Science in architectural studies from MU. He is a LEED accredited professional and president-elect of AIA Topeka and has performed research focused on emerging technologies in architecture. Falk currently resides in Topeka but plans to move to the Lawrence area.
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• John Esau, of Keller Williams Realty Diamond Partners in Lawrence, and Oliver Minnis, of Stephens Real Estate in Lawrence, recently graduated from the Right Track Leadership Academy presented by the Kansas Association of Realtors. Fourteen Kansas Realtors completed the five-day 2012 program, which included sessions on recognizing and maximizing individual and group strengths, diplomacy, conflict resolution, ethics, public-speaking skills, the psychology of leadership, conducting effective meetings, approaches to group decision-making and goal-setting systems. Minnis is the president of the Lawrence Board of Realtors, and Esau will fill that role in 2013.
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