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This was my third A to Z Challenge and probably my favorite so far. I got to not only play historian, but to get creative too. It wasn't always easy to come up with 21st-century cultural memes that had 16th-century analogues, but I managed. I guess my underlying goal was to help make people realize that life on Earth has been around for a very long time, that 500 years is just the blink of an eye, and that people who lived in the 1500's thought and felt and dreamed and schemed very much like people of the 21st century do. It was an incredibly innovative time, bringing huge advances in science, communications, philosophy and the arts that changed the world every bit as much as the Internet has done for you and me.
But of course, the satisfaction I derived from my own blog posts is only a part of what the A to Z Challenge is about. The real genius of the Challenge is its focus on interactivity - discovering new blogs and bloggers, reading and commenting on their posts, replying to their comments on your posts. Because as fascinating as it is for me to discover 16th-century people I'd never heard of, it's maybe even a little better to discover some new contemporaries who love to blog as much as I do. The Challenge, at its heart, is about creating and sustaining a supportive community, and that's a really wonderful goal. So once again, I'll thank Yvonne Ventresca, my friend and the very talented author of the Crystal-Kite-winning YA novel PANDEMIC and the forthcoming YA thriller, BLACK FLOWERS, WHITE LIES, due out in October (I can't wait!) Among the many ways Yvonne has always supported me and my writing career, she was the one who first told me about the A to Z Challenge and encouraged me to participate. And I want to thank the A to Z founders, hosts, minions and participants for making the month of April so exciting and rewarding! I'm very proud to be part of this annual adventure.
Monday, May 9, 2016
Friday, May 6, 2016
Two days ago I was nominated by Sarah Zama at The Old Shelter (http://theoldshelter.com) for the Liebster Award. I must admit I'd never heard of it, but it was so cool to be nominated by a fellow blogger! Sarah somehow found the time to loyally read my A to Z Challenge posts and leave many generous comments, while doing all her own well-researched and fascinating daily alphabetic posts about the 1920's jazz scene. Of course I accepted, but today, while I was still preparing my acceptance post, I was nominated for the same award again, this time by J. Lenni Dorner at http://jlennidorner.what-are-they. I'm incredibly grateful to both Sarah and J. My cup runneth over!!
So the first thing I have to do is answer 11 questions Sarah asked me, which are:
- Q: When your started your blog, did you know what you were doing?
2. Q: Many writers I know tell me they don't blog because they prefer to write their own stories. Why do you?
A: I started my blog at a time when I was feeling immensely frustrated that none of the YA novels I was writing were getting published. I decided that, rather than continuing to wait for the brass ring to fall into my grasp, I would be proactive and just WRITE. It's been a godsend to me.
3. Q: Do you plan your posts?
A: Define "plan." I don't post on any regular schedule (except for the A to Z Challenge, of course). But when I do have something I want to write about, I don't just dash off my posts. I take my time editing them to try to make them as interesting and well-written as I can.
4. Q: Do you stick to a posting schedule?
A: Oops. I think I just answered that one.
5. Q: When you sighed up for the AtoZ Challenge the first time, did you know what you were doing?
A: Well, I had a theme, I knew what my subject was going to be for each post, and I had pre-written some of them (I can't remember how many). Does that qualify as knowing what I'm doing?
6. Q: What were you thinking when you sighed up the second time?
A: I was thinking that I really got a kick out of doing it the first time and that I was going to enjoy participating a second time with a completely different theme.
7. Q: I can hardly resist a blogging challenge. Do you participate in many?
A: The A to Z is the only one in which I participate. I feel like my time is spread so thin that if I tried to participate in any more of them, I would dissolve into dust.
8. Q: What is the blogging challenge which was the most fun for you?
A: Damn! There I go with my premature answering again!
9. Q: Did you ever produce a vlog? If not, would you consider doing it?
A: Me? Figuring out how to produce a vlog? [hysterical laughter]
10. Q: Have you ever read articles about marketing to learn promoting your blog?
A: No, I haven't. I still think of my blog as a vehicle for entertaining myself, and if anyone else stumbles across it and likes it, so much the better! Yeah, I'm not exactly a born entrepreneur.
11. Q: Do you think writing a blog is the same as writing a book?
A: I think that writing a blog is completely different from writing a book, other than the fact that they both involve writing. My blog is about me. I write novels, which are only about me in ways I'm not fully aware of.
And now I believe I have to try to answer J's questions too:
- Q: What sets your blog apart? Why is it special or different?
2. Q: What spin would you put on this? "An apple a day keeps the doctor away, but _____"
A: "never leaving your house achieves the same goal. Nobody makes house calls these days."
3. Q: Red Vines, Twizzlers, or other type of red licorice?
A: So sorry. I hate licorice. Are you going to revoke my nomination?
4. Q: What's your favorite constellation? (Include an image if you can!)
A: Orion, without a doubt. In the winter - my birthday season - he's directly overhead every night, and I feel like he's guarding me.
5. Q: If you could have one of any vehicle you desire, but it's the only transportation vessel you can use for the rest of your life — what one would you choose?
A: If my current car would last me for the rest of my life, I'd be good with that. I like hanging on to useful things. Not a big fan of novelty.
6. Q: If you could save the human race from extinction, hypothetically, would you do it and why or why not?
A: I would. Because I still hope that someday we may get smart enough to stop hurting each other and our planet.
7. Q: What's your favorite scent?
A: I totally fail this one. My sense of smell is very limited. I'm glad when I can smell almost anything, even if it's gross.
8. Q: What is your favorite turtle, tortoise, or terrapin story?
A: The only one I know is the Tortoise and the Hare. Shameful, but true.
9. Q: What does liberty mean to you, personally?
A: The right to dress the way I want, think the way I want, write the way I want, make my own hard choices.
10. Q: What is the most memorable hobby of a fictional character you've come across?
A: I'd say Hannibal Lecter had several of the most memorable hobbies I've ever come across. You didn't say good hobbies, remember.
11. Q: If you could have one of the following abilities, which would you choose?
- Able to easily swim the length of the English Channel
- Eat 100 hotdogs in 10 minutes
- Have more color receptors in your eyes, thus being able to see more colors, ultraviolet, infrared, and polarized light
- Go back in time to kill one villain of your choice one time
- Walk any tightrope without danger
- Understand the needs/wants/desires of animals
- Grow any plant or tree anywhere in under one week
- Require only 2 hours of sleep after every 22 hours awake
- Light candles with your mind
- Have skin as hard and tough as carbonado diamonds, but with luster intensity from light reflection
1. My brother/only sibling and I were born in the same calendar year, he on January 25th and me on December 15th. (It took me decades to learn that these kinds of siblings are called Irish twins.)
2. That very same brother graduated high school at the age of 16. That summer, he announced to my parents that he had been teaching himself college- and masters-level mathematics, and had applied and been accepted to a math PhD program at Harvard for the coming fall (with a full scholarship, of course). He went on to get his PhD at age 20.
3. With my brother as my basis for comparison, I grew up believing that I was stupid.
4. I was accepted into college after my third year in high school, and graduated law school at the age of 23.
5. As a trial lawyer, I tried about 100 cases, and won my fair share.
6. I went on to work as an appellate lawyer. I've argued about 40 cases before my state Supreme Court, and won my fair share.
7. Despite all of this, I've gone through most of my adult life still believing that I was stupid and that everyone else knew it, but they were too polite to tell me to my face.
8. About five years ago I was promoted to being a managing attorney in my office. In this role, I have to supervise other attorneys and to participate in management decision-making.
9. To my amazement, I've found that I'm good at these tasks. People at work - some very smart people - seek out my advice and opinions, and seem satisfied when they get them.
10. For the first time in my life, I feel like I might actually not be stupid after all.
11. And that's a really good way to feel.
And now, huzzah!! I get to nominate some awesome bloggers for this award! Here's my list:
1. Nila Bose at Madly-in-Verse (nilabose.blogspot.com)
2. Guilie Castillo at Life in Dogs (http://lifeindogs.blogspot.com)
3. Stephanie Faris at Steph in the City (nominees are supposed to have fewer than 1,000 followers, and she just squeaks by with 977!) (http://stephie5741.blogspot.com)
4.Dahlia at Stories and More (http://mysilverstreaks.com)
5. Tamara Narayan, Author (www.tamaranarayan.com)
If my nominees accept, and I hope they do, here are the rules that must be followed:
If you have been nominated for The Liebster Award and you choose to accept it, write a blog post about the Liebster Award in which you:
- Thank the person who nominated you, and post a link to their blog in your post.
- Display the award on your blog — by including it in your post and/or displaying it using a "widget" or a "gadget".
- Answer 11 questions about yourself, which will be provided to you by the person who nominated you.
- Provide 11 random facts about yourself.
- Nominate 5 – 11 blogs that you feel deserve the award, who have a less than 1000 followers.
- Create a new list of 11 questions for the nominees to answer.
- Inform the people/blogs that you nominated that they have been nominated for the Liebster Award and provide a link for them to your post so that they can learn about it (they might not have ever heard of it!)
1. Is your blog your best friend? Why or why not?
2. Blogging feels to me like a job ___ percent of the time, and like a joy ____ percent of the time.
3. What rules of Blogger Etiquette are most important to you?
4. Do you have any great tips for attracting readers to your blog?
5. What do you wish you could change about the education you had?
6. When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?
7. Of all the places you've lived, which one is your favorite? Why?
8. If you had a time machine, which era would be your first stop?
9. What's the best thing that happened to you within the past week?
10. What's the fastest way to get on your bad side?
11. What's the one thing that never fails to inspire you?
Lord, I thought this post would never end! I feel like I've run a marathon. Thanks for reading, and please check out the blogs of the people who nominated me, as well as those of the people I've nominated, because they're all REALLY interesting. Bye for now!
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By Elana Ashanti Jefferson Special to The Denver Post Blood may be thicker than water, but for Evan and Esther Premer, water is the family lifeblood. This mother-son duo runs the Aero Farm Co., a Lakewood garden business that relies on hydroponic towers to produce roughly 150 pounds of fresh greens each week for consumption at a handful of … [Read more...]
Veterans to Farmers Shows Promise as it Gears Up to Build Premiere Greenhouse
Read full article at Confluence Denver: One local entrepreneur has found an unusual way to support a historically neglected demographic while tapping into the "eat local" food movement. Veterans to Farmers will teach military veterans how to farm in urban environments, with its flagship greenhouse coming soon to the Curtis Park/Five Points area. … [Read more...]
Training our Protectors to be Providers
Read the full article: Training Our Protectors to be Providers Veterans to Farmers (VTF) is a Denver-based non-profit that tackles two complex issues in highly innovative ways. Since the U.S. began withdrawing troops from Iraq and Afghanistan in 2009, scores of men and women have returned home to look for work within the civilian sector. Finding … [Read more...]
Farming a Future for Veterans
Read the origional article in modern farmer by Sam Brasch The military taught Evan Premer not to waste time fixing a problem. On a day at the front end of summer, his indoor farm felt about 10 degrees too hot. He pulled a knife from his pocket and began to score the ribbed siding of the greenhouse. Once he'd carved out a five-foot square, he … [Read more...]
Redeploying the Family Farm
Evan Premer is the latest grower who is re-inventing the idea of the traditional American farm. With the help of Veterans to Farmers, community grants and private support, Evan launched Colorado's first vertical farm, AeroFarmCo, in Lakewood, Colo., this March. Even though he didn't grow up on a farm, Evan, a former sergeant in the U.S. Army, was … [Read more...]
VTF at Slow Money 4th National Gathering
Entrepreneur of the Year Award Nominee
Veterans to Farmers has been nominated for the Mamma Chia Entrepreneur of the Year Award through Slow Money, with a chance to win $50,000! Please help us win by VOTING once a day through April 16th. … [Read more...]
Pantry Paratus Radio Interview with Buck Adams
Listen to the interview at PantryParatus.com I cannot think of a better way to solve a bunch of serious looming problems all at once than what Buck Adams, founder of Veterans to Farmers has done in the Denver metro area. Veterans coming back from war or otherwise discharging out of the military are among the highest unemployed demographic in the … [Read more...]
From Guns to Greenhouses
Read the original article at maximumyield.com by Philip McIntosh The transition from war to civilian life can be hard for many veterans. Now, in Colorado, there is non-profit organization that aims to help by training these protectors to become providers… Kevin Lanzi sits quietly next to a 6-ft. tall tomato plant heavily laden with clusters of … [Read more...]
Veterans to Farmers in Boulder Magazine Winter 2012
Read the entire article online - Boulder Magazine Winter 2012 Ten years ago, Kevin Lanzi woke daily to the sounds of mortar shells aimed at his Marine unit's camp in the Iraqi desert. The guerrilla militias were fairly inaccurate with the mortars, but their more successful sniper attacks and roadside bombs killed or injured several of Lanzi's … [Read more...]

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Ashley Benson & Shay Mitchell - Teen Choice Awards 2013
Ashley Benson is stunning at the 2013 Teen Choice Awards held at the Gibson Amphitheatre on Sunday (August 11) in Los Angeles.
The 23-year-old actress was joined by her gorgeous Pretty Little Liars co-star Shay Mitchell.
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Ashley Benson
"I LOVE YOU GUYS. THANK YOU SOOOOOOO MUCH. BEST FANS EVER," Ashley tweeted after her show Pretty Little Liars won Choice TV Show: Drama.
Pretty Little Liars is also nominated for Choice Summer TV Show, competing against Teen Wolf, So You Think You Can Dance, The Fosters, and Under The Dome.
FYI: Ashley is wearing a Giorgio Armani look with Rachel Roy shoes, Neil Lane jewelry, Kara Ackerman earrings, and an Edie Parker clutch. Shay is wearing a Jenni Kayne jumpsuit, Jimmy Choo shoes, and Kimberly McDonald earrings and ring.
10+ pictures inside of Ashley Benson and Shay Mitchell attending the Teen Choice Awards…
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Labor unions and liberal groups are leery that Senate Democrats are willing to allow cuts to entitlement programs in a round of deficit-reduction talks slated for later this year.
These groups have stepped up pressure on Democratic leaders to appoint staunch party loyalists to the "supercommittee" tasked with cutting $1.5 trillion from the federal deficit.
The focus of the lobbying push is Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.).
The Strengthen Social Security Campaign, a coalition that includes dozens of labor unions and liberal advocacy groups, has drafted a letter to Reid and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) pressing them to pick three "steadfast supporters of Social Security."
"We feel very strongly that your three appointees to the Joint Select Committee on Budget Deficit Reduction should be steadfast supporters of Social Security, who oppose including cuts to the program in any plan to reduce the deficit," the coalition's leaders wrote Monday in the draft letter obtained by The Hill.
The draft version of the letter was addressed only to Reid, a sign that groups are likely more concerned about the possible defection of a Senate Democratic member of the supercommittee.
The final version of the letter made public later in the day was addressed to Reid and Pelosi.
The coalition consists of several powerful unions and liberal groups including the AFL-CIO, SEIU, MoveOn.org Political Action, NAACP, National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.
These organizations are not worried about Reid as much as they are about colleagues such as Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (Ill.) and Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-N.D.), who have expressed support for trimming Social Security benefits.
Durbin and Conrad served on the Simpson-Bowles fiscal commission and voted for a proposal to raise the Social Security age from 67 to 69 and use the chained consumer price index (CPI), a different accounting method that would lower cost-of-living adjustments.
Durbin, Conrad and Sen. Mark Warner (Va.) were the three Democrats in the Senate's Gang of Six, which called for Social Security and Medicare cuts in its deficit-reduction framework. The gang's plan would substitute the chained CPI and take $112 billion from beneficiaries over the next decade, according to an analysis posted by Campaign for America's Future, a liberal group.
More news from The Hill:
♦ The contenders and dark horses to land on 'supercommittee'
♦ Obama: US remains a 'triple-A country'
♦ Cantor to GOP: Resist tax hike pressure after downgrade
♦ Gore: Climate skeptics are peddling 'bulls--t'
♦ No progress on day two of Verizon strike
♦ Issa subpoenas documents on Boeing complaint
Both the Simpson-Bowles commission and the Gang of Six would have used the savings from cutting benefits to extend the solvency of the program. But labor unions and liberal groups would prefer raising the cap on income subject to payroll taxes.
Warner has said he wants to serve on the supercommittee that is charged with putting together a deficit-reduction package by Nov. 23 but acknowledged he won't likely be picked. Durbin and Conrad have a better chance of serving on the panel given their seniority and influence within the Democratic caucus.
"Regrettably, Social Security cuts were on the table during recent rounds of deficit negotiations between the White House and the Congress," Strengthen Social Security Campaign wrote. "A strong push was made to, at a minimum, reduce Social Security's cost of-living adjustments by adopting the chained CPI.
"Such a cut would violate a promise made by politicians that they would not support benefit cuts for anyone currently receiving benefits or of persons who were nearing retirement age.
Reid has vocally opposed cuts to Social Security benefits and the coalition's letter acknowledged he is "a true champion of Social Security."
An aide to Reid said his boss will continue to oppose benefit cuts.
"His position on Social Security has been very, very clear," said the aide. "He hasn't changed his position on Social Security."
But Reid might be helpless to stop a proposal from the joint, select committee that cuts Social Security or Medicare. If only seven of the panel's 12 members agreed on a package, it would be guaranteed an up-or-down vote and be protected from amendments on the Senate floor.
Labor unions and liberal groups are worried about the possibility of one of the six Democrats defecting. The committee will be established under the auspices of the legislation Congress passed last week to raise the debt ceiling.
Reid and Pelosi each will pick three members of the supercommittee and have until Aug. 16 to make their selections.


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From The Book of List, which is packed with amazing lists like this one: 33 Names of Things You Never Knew had Names.
Columella Nasi: The bottom part of the nose between the nostrils.
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Here's one for ya: That dent in the middle of your upper lip is called a philtrum. My son knew that before he even knew where his wrist is. Crazy kiddo...*LOL*
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Latest content added for The Portal to Texas History Collection: Texas Oral History Collectionhttps://texashistory.unt.edu/explore/collections/TOHC/browse/?fq=str_location_county:Lubbock+County,+TX2012-02-12T11:09:31-06:00UNT LibrariesThis is a custom feed for browsing The Portal to Texas History Collection: Texas Oral History CollectionOral History Interview with Cleatus A. LeBow, May 2, 20062012-02-12T11:09:31-06:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth204511/

Interview with Cleatus A. LeBow, a serviceman in the U. S. Navy during World War II. LeBow joined the navy in 1943 and went from Lubbock, Texas to San Diego for recruit training. He shipped out to Pearl Harbor aboard an LST from San Francisco. At Pearl Harbor, he was assigned to a work detail aboard the USS Oklahoma, which had just been righted. Shortly thereafter, he boarded the USS Indianapolis to serve as a range finder operator on one of the gun turrets. Upon leaving Hawaii, the Indianapolis went to Tarawa and then the Marshall Islands. LeBow witnessed Japanese civilian suicides on Saipan. He also witnessed the flag-raising on Iwo Jima from his range finder position aboard the ship. LeBow describes being hit by a kamikaze off Okinawa. He also discusses delivering atomic bomb components to Tinian and being torpedoed on the way to the Philippines. He describes abandoning the ship and spending five days in the water, including his faith in God, hallucinations, rescue, and his recovery.


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The LHS girls tennis team won a closely fought 4-3 match against old region foe Blythewood High School at the University of South Carolina at Lancaster tennis courts on Monday night to open the 2010 season.
All of the matches were close in points, with the Lady Bruins prevailing at the end with a dramatic win by the second doubles team of Morgan Gardner and McKenzie Blanton.
The match went into a third-set tie-breaker and the Lady Bruins prevailed by a score of 10-8.
WILMINGTON, N.C. – A former Lancaster resident was found dead on the floor of a Wilmington apartment early Wednesday, according to the Wilmington Police Department.
Reginald B. "Reggie" Bunton, 42, was stabbed to death early Wednesday, police said. His most recent address was a shelter in Wilmington, said Lucy Crockett, public affairs officer for the Wilmington Police Department.
Haneef Adib Rahamann Jr., 57, has been charged with first-degree murder and armed robbery.
After almost a year of success, Sally Sherrin is looking at expanding the county's medical ride service.
Sherrin, executive director of the Lancaster County Council on Aging, helps to operate and oversee the Lancaster Area Ride Service, which transports non-Medicaid recipients to appointments with licensed physicians and other providers in Lancaster County and beyond. Because the service has more than doubled its ridership since its debut last October, Sherrin sees a bright future in it.
A sewer line broke Friday morning near Plantation Road in Lancaster, causing more than 5,000 gallons of raw sewage to flow into Bear Creek.
The spill was discovered at 8:30 a.m. Friday.
Mark Harmon, wastewater collection supervisor for the city of Lancaster, said a large tree fell on top of the sewer line, which is located in the creek. The line broke and sewage began to flow into the creek.
The S.C. Department of Heath and Environmental Control (DHEC) requires that all sewage spills of 5,000 or more gallons be reported to the local media, Harmon said.
The Andrew Jackson Lady Volunteers made an unbeaten run to capture the Lancaster County volleyball tournament at Lancaster High School on Saturday.
"We were real pleased," said AJ first-year coach John Verdugo. "The key for us was that we worked well together which was important.
"A few times we were down in some matches, but we kept coming back," he said. "We worked well together and had good teamwork. This was a good building block because I felt we were up against some good competition."
The winning foursome posted a narrow win in the eighth annual Diabetes Education Clinic golf tournament at the Lancaster Golf Club on Saturday afternoon.
The winning foursome, in the captain's choice with handicap tournament, shot a 51.6, which included Garrett Hammond, Eric Funderburk, Ray Rainey and Ross Baker.
"We just had a good overall effort with each player doing his part," Funderburk said. "We brother-in-lawed it pretty well out there."
Funderburk said the team eagled both par fives on the front nine, holes two and five.
A Lancaster man racked up nine charges after police say he sped away from a driver's license checkpoint in a stolen car Saturday.
Rashad Demon "Shorty Cake" Johnson, 22, of 408 Pardue St., has been charged by the Lancaster Police Department with possession of a stolen vehicle, second-offense driving under suspension (DUI-related), second-offense simple possession of marijuana, reckless driving, failure to stop for blue lights and siren, possession of a controlled substance, violation of ABC law, resisting arrest and alighting from a moving vehicle.
A family of five stood outside their 11th Street home in the freezing cold and watched their home burn.
It was a windy night in February 1974, and that wind added a formidable element, as the flames blew, threatening to catch the neighboring houses on fire.
Wayne Bryson, fire chief at Gooches Crossroads Volunteer Fire Department, remembers it clearly. He said that house fire stands out the most to him of all the fires he's fought in his more than 30 years of fire service.
Friday night high school football action for week two has two at home seeking to rebound and a pair on the road hoping to extend early success.
Buford and Andrew Jackson, each coming off opening night losses, will be at home, while Lancaster and Indian Land head west in hopes of their second wins this season.
Lancaster, 1-0 after a 35-16 first night win over AJ, travels to Chester, while Indian Land ventures to Blacksburg to battle the Wildcats. IL, 1-0, is coming off a 28-13 home win over Buford.
Peggy Little will be leaving See Lancaster SC.
Little, director of the tourism-promotions group, put it her resignation Tuesday. Her last day is Sept. 13, said Teresa Meeks, support services director for the city of Lancaster.
Meeks said Little didn't give a reason why she is leaving.
"We'll hate to see her go," Meeks said. "We'll miss her with the city, but we'll continue on."
A little more than a year ago, Little was hired as director of the then-reorganized See Lancaster.
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Amateur Baseball: Power stroke leads Red Wing to victory
Mike Stegora continued his hot streak at the plate Thursday, going 3-for-4 with a triple and a home run, as Red Wing defeated Kewaskum (Wis.) 7-3 at the Red Wing Athletic Field.
Stegora tallied three RBI, scored two runs and stole two bases in the victory. Zach Laffey finished 2-for-4 with a home run and three RBI.
Augie Lindmark pitched six innings for the Aces, giving up three runs (one earned) on seven hits and two walks while striking out five.
Red Wing scored six runs in the first four innings of Thursday's win, ripping eight hits and walking three times, after falling behind 1-0 in the top of the first inning. The A's added a run in the third inning and another tally in the sixth inning. Andy Gibart pitched a perfect seventh inning and Brett Gadient sealed the win with two scoreless innings.
Brad Boegel went 3-for-4 and Adam Sarauer was 2-for-4 to lead Kewaskum.
The Aces travel to face Lake City Friday.


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Elder Law Practice Says Funeral Pre-Planning is A Great IdeaThursday night we did a Workshop at ASU ? Beebe concerning the need for Advance Planning. Our co-sponsor for the event was Westbrook Funeral Home of Beebe. We had a good crowd and a lot of interest. At this workshop, the primary focus was how to protect assets in the event of a long term care stay.
The reality is that if you or a loved one has to go to a nursing home and you haven?t done estate planning in advance, your options are limited. However, there are good things that can be done to preserve some assets. One thing is pre-planning and pre-paying for your funeral. A pre-paid irrevocable burial contract is an exempt resource in Arkansas for Medicaid planning purposes.
There are many ?maybes? in life, but dying is not one of them. If the parents don?t pre-pay for their funeral and last expenses with some of their few remaining dollars, this expense may fall in the laps of the kids when the parents die. Pre-planning and pre-paying for your funeral is also a good idea for two additional reasons: 1) It takes the emotional strain of this decision off the kids at the time of death; and (2) It freezes the cost ? a person in the funeral industry told me that the cost of final expenses was going up approximately five percent a year. By locking this in now, you are saving a lot of money.
So, the two primary lessons I hope you learned from this blog post are:
1. Pre-plan your estate while you have the capacity to do so. I will discuss many reasons why you should do this in my next blog post.
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Ok, so this is officially my first build. My girl here, Sivir, is in my honest opinion, one of the most overlooked champions in the game. She is easily one of the best, if not the best pusher in the League, not to mention she's just sexy. So here is my first at bat with an old champ, and a new perspective.
Good Pusher
Built in Banshee's passive
Good DPS
Teamfight winning Ult
Very Squishy
Somewhat weak Early game
Relient on timing(aka shield)
Often targetted
So to start off I'm going to say this. No, I don't stack attack speed. No, I don't rush a warmogs. And no, I don't want to hear your arguments about whether or not i am a "noob". Keep in mind, this is my take, my opinion. There are many out there, feel free to express your own, but do so in a polite manner.
Early Game
So you start off with a meki pendant and 2 health pots. Try your best to get mid-lane.
Most people won't try to argue with you about it because of the fact that they know that sivir has excelent pushing capabilities. What people don't realize is that, when used correctly, she has excelent survivability and can basicly keep an enemy mid-laner gimped for much of the game. Don't actually put any points into any of your skills until you know who you are actually facing in mid lane. If its someone who is not worth your time and mana harrassing,(Vlad mostly), then put a point in Ricochet and chug away at those creeps. Level 2 spell shield is a must. Not only will it save you from a lot of harrasal damage from enemys, but it acts as a mana replenishment. Try to bait your enemys into using skills and shielding them for mana regen, but be careful not to burn ur shield only to take the damage and be out of mana. Boomerang is your primary harrass skill. Try to make it so you end up hitting the enemy champ on the way out and back in. IF u can line it up to where u also hit creeps, although your blade will do less damage, u can clear the lane a little faster, and hit 2 birds with one stone so to speak.
By now your creep kill counter should be growing. Don't worry if u dont have a kill, if u haven't been ganked and haven't died, your doing your part still. Don't be afraid to help in teamfights but remember, your not the greatest ganker. Base once you have enough money for a Tear and Beserker Greaves. Also, don't be afraid to buy health potions throughout the game. Until you have your starks, you still have very low health and regen, so those pots allow you to survive longer and stay in your lane.
Late Game
By now you should have your Occult and Starks. Get in every teamfight possible. But never run to the front of your team. Your ult can change fights in an instant. So pop ur ult, turn on richochet, and boomerang those squishys, if your team is competent things should drop and you will see your stacks on sword of the occult slowly rise. Hitting 20 stacks on occult is highly improbably because you will be targeted a lot. Rely on your positioning during fights, and utilize your spellshield. Buy your blood thirster and you become one tough cookie. Hitting someone for 250+ damage plus any ricochets that come in contact with them can add up fast.
The reason i put warmogs as last item is for two reasons.
1) IF your positioning is correct and you make good use of spell shield, you shouldn't die too often.
2) By the time you are buying it, other teams will have a good amount of items on their bars, so the extra help never hurts.
Laning 2v1
So your team has decided to send you to a 2v1 lane. No problem. Start off your build the same but grab richochet at lvl 1 followed by lvl 2 spell shield. Sit back and auto the closest creeps u can, don't worry about pushing out, stay near that turret since you are still squishy. At level 3 if you arn't being harrassed too badly you can grab boomerang blade, but if ur sitting right under your turret lvl 2 richochet isn't a bad idea. By level 6 you want 1 point in boomerang, 2 in richochet, 2 in spell shield, and 1 in your ult. Communicate with ur jungler for ganks since u do have a level advantage.
So there you go, please feel free to comment but remember to do so politely. If you have any further questions just leave them in a comment or ask for my IGN and i will gladly help.


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On Sunday, Mike Wallace informed the nation on 60 Minutes that our troops in the Gulf region don't have sufficient training or the right protection and detection gear to survive an Iraqi chemical or biological attack. Not exactly breaking news to the readers of this column or Defense Watch (sftt.org), the tenacious Pentagon watchdog that's been warning us for months not to allow a replay of the 1991 Gulf War mistakes -- which, according to a November 2002 Veterans Affairs report, has so far killed or disabled almost 180,000 Desert Storm vets.
The 60 Minutes story was backed up by a congressional General Accounting Office report blistering the top brass for rushing our troops into harm's way without doing their sworn duty: making sure they were good to go. It seems their precious deployment timetable is more important than their grunts, who might soon be dispatched into a potentially poisonous caldron -- to destroy Iraq's chemical and biological weapons -- without the right gear.
Although the Pentagon brass were too into escape-and-evade tactics to find the time to do an on-camera interview with Mike Wallace, a senior congressional aide, speaking off the record, said: "While of course I'm not able to disclose anything `classified,' you should know your story's absolutely on-target. The classified facts regarding our preparedness for chemical or biological warfare are a lot worse than 60 Minutes reported."
Wait a minute! If a Senate aide on the outside of the inside loop knows the score, surely the military brass, the aide's senator boss and at least a platoon of his peers also know that -- unlike Desert Storm, where the vast number of deaths or disabilities were accidentally self-inflicted by U.S. bomber- and/or engineer-zapped Iraqi chemical munitions blowing downwind and striking our troops -- our sons and daughters now sharpening their bayonets are in even more jeopardy this time around from Iraqi horror weapons that will be intentionally zeroed in on them.


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Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has defended his decision to appear on a light-hearted Sunday TV programme, after criticism from some MPs.
Mr Clegg baked a cake and drank tequila on Channel 4's Sunday Brunch programme.
Conservative MP Peter Bone told the Daily Telegraph this was "bizarre" given the crisis in Ukraine.
But the Lib Dem leader said he had also discussed Ukraine on the programme., adding: "I think it's right always to try and reach out to people."
Mr Clegg was asked at a press conference whether it had been bad judgement to appear on the programme at a time of international crisis.
'Bizarre thing'
Mr Clegg responded: "It's a show which is watched by lots and lots of people, lots of young people.
"We talked about Ukraine, we talked about politics, we talked about government policy.
"I think it's important for politicians to get through to people who care about what is going on in the world as much as anyone else.
"Is the suggestion that people who watch Sunday Brunch don't care about Ukraine? That's not my experience."
Mr Bone had told the Telegraph: "When there's huge problems in the Ukraine and Middle East, it's a bizarre thing for a deputy prime minister to be doing. Perhaps it was a job audition for when he loses his seat at the next election."
And Labour MP Grahame Morris told the same newspaper Mr Clegg had demonstrated a "alarming, cavalier indifference" to the situation in Ukraine.
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A Lib Dem spokesman said: "It's important for politicians to be able to speak to a wider audience than those people who religiously read the political pages and watch Andrew Marr every Sunday.
"As Mr Clegg said on Sunday Brunch the political world often seems completely out of step with normal life and that is something we need to address."
"By taking a break from the normal schedule, the programme allowed Nick to speak about the plane crash and the ongoing situation in the Ukraine."
During his appearance on the programme, Mr Clegg said the tragedy had been "made all the more harrowing for all the families because they don't think their loved ones, their bodies, are being treated with the dignity and respect they deserve".
He said it was time "to get tough with the Russians, with Putin... I just think we have got to change gear and say 'enough is enough, you have got to pull back, you have got to stop supporting these people' because we can't carry on like this".
Some 298 people dies after Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 crashed in eastern Ukrian last week. There were ten Britons among them.
Ukraine and pro-Russian rebels have accused each other of shooting down the Boeing 777, killing 298 passengers.


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We assisted a private property company with the disposal of a portfolio of properties that were originally charged to IRBC. A fall in the market together with a failure by IBRC to consent to a key re-letting, led to the values being substantially below the outstanding loan amount.
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By Kyunghee Park, Anna Shiryaevskaya and Chou Hui Hong
July 8 (Bloomberg) — Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. won an order valued at as much as $2.8 billion for nine ice-class vessels that will haul gas from the Yamal LNG project in Russia, according to people familiar with the matter.
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd. of Japan will buy and operate three of the ships, according to the four people, who asked not to be identified because the order hasn't been announced.
The liquefied natural gas project is on an Ob River estuary, which is iced over for nine months of the year, according to the website of Total SA, one of the venture's partners. OAO Novatek, the Tarko-Sale, Russia-based company that's the main partner in Yamal LNG, has said the venture plans to supply both Asian and European markets.
Daewoo Shipbuilding, the world's second-largest ship builder, declined to comment in an e-mailed response. Mitsui OSK's spokesman Atsushi Seki also declined to comment.
The latest order is in addition to a contract, valued at about $300 million, signed in March with Russia's shipping company OAO Sovcomflot for one LNG ship for the Yamal project.
The project has contracted almost all of its planned output, and will sell the fuel to its three shareholders, as well as to Gazprom Marketing & Trading and Spain's Gas Natural SDG SA. China National Petroleum Corp. is one of the three shareholders in Yamal LNG, which is scheduled to start exports in 2017.
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Snowman with Holly
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Now we need to organize a get together one day with you and Penny hay :) missed chatting to you girls in the forum, have been very slack and hopping on for facebook and this is it really.. Email me so we can have a lunch or dinner date to catch up :) Linda
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Hysterical! You are amazing, Val! What an incredible - and unforgettable! adventure! Going to share this. It's a riot! (And no one would have blamed you for starting a one-woman riot!)ReplyDelete
Haha, Steph. It's always funnier in hindsight as well!Delete
O How Romantic ......... NOT :)ReplyDelete
Shall we say it had potential...until it didn't, Mel :)Delete
Oh dear, I was going to say no wonder he is your Ex-husband....but then I thought of a few similar incidents, albeit on land, involving my HB, and we are still married. Maybe it is just Men?? he he So glad you survived without mishap and it is not lost on me that you had the solution, Val.ReplyDelete
Good one, Patricia. Actually it had nothing to do with him being an ex-husband. I have just as many good stories about Koos. These stories are actually good memories because they can be recalled with humour ;)Delete
I've got an ex-husband as well. Mine was not nearly as entertaining as yours sounds, but presumably you are only telling us the funny bits! Loved the post!ReplyDelete
You are right, Stephanie. He was a very entertaining individual - probably still is!Delete
Ah, ex-husbands. They always come with great stories. I'm impressed that you managed to forgive yours. (Mine cut a a slice from a Christmas cake I'd made - in November. It was a low point!)ReplyDelete
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Would never have thought of using a broom! Not surprised he is an ex dear xxx
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WebAPI is a term used to refer to a suite of device compatibility and access APIs that allow Web apps and content to access device hardware (such as battery status or the device vibration hardware), as well as access to data stored on the device (such as the calendar or contacts list).
Goals: Learn about working with APIs. Look into some specific APIs that are commonly used and few new ones. Create a sample app to showcase the APIs.
Specifications: This course is designed for developers who has basic understanding of HTML, CSS and JavaScript and more advanced topics as Promises and looking to learn more about the Web APIs that are used in web development.
You explored Node.js and some of its packages. Maybe you built the hello-world http server and looked into working with the file system. This workshop will be your next step.
Topics: The core Node.js concepts and API modules. The Node runtime built-in modules. V8 and other dependencies. Node's concurrency model. Libuv and the Event Loop. Working with Event Emitters. TCP/UDP networking. HTTP and HTTPS support. Readable, writable, and transform streams. Node clusters and child processes.
Level: Intermediate
Prerequisites: Good knowledge of JavaScript. Basic knowledge of the Node.js runtime.
React basically won the debate for how to build user interfaces in the DOM. Now async is the new driving force of innovation in modern JavaScript. Figuring out how to build an async architecture on React/Redux is still an open question. Learn the pros and cons of different async approaches in Redux including thunks, promises, generators / sagas, RxJS, and more.
You know your JavaScript and you looked into React.js. You understand the big concepts behind React. Maybe you built a simple application with React. This workshop will be your next step.
Topics: The different parts of the React.js library. How to write clean reusable components with modern JavaScript. The Virtual DOM. The JSX extension. The benefits of readability, reusability, and composability. React synthetic events, DOM access. Controlled components. Mounting/Updating lifecycle methods. Testing components. Higher-order components. Performance and optimization. State management and data immutability. Working with APIs. Styling. Production deployment.
Level: Intermediate
Prerequisites: Good knowledge of JavaScript. Basic knowledge of React.js.
What? Is that even possible? We're sure as hell going to try! Since many of us are self taught and/or dropouts (myself included) we lack the advantages that a formal CS education can give. This additional theory can give us useful context to make tradeoffs in implementations and architectures.
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Algorithms and Big O Analysis Recursion Sorting! Bubble Insertion Merge Quick Data Structures! Stacks, Queues and Priority Queues Maps and Sets Hash Tables Array Lists Linked Lists Binary Search Trees AVL Trees Functional Programming 101 in 30 mins Map Reduce Filter Who this class is for?
Anyone who wishes they had a better understanding of computer science concepts. This includes self-taught developers, designers who learned to code, or devs just starting down the path of learning to be a good coder.
You need to know JavaScript. We won't be going over syntax and we will be going fast. The focus will be on the concepts and not on the language.
Who this class is not for?
If you look at the list of concepts we're going over and say "I know most or all of those" then this class won't be for you. You're welcome to still come but this class will focus on getting everyone up on the same understanding.
Ever been asked a dumb interview question about arcane computer science concepts that you haven't ever learned and you question why they're asking? We're going to learn both how to ace those interviews and why those concepts are still useful to you!
Four more semesters of computer science! This class will cover additional concepts not covered by the first part. It is not required that you take both or even in order. So come in and learn the sorts of things they'll ask you in technical interviews and that will help you be a better programmer.
Some things we're going to cover:
Pathfinding Algorithms
Tree traversals
Bloom filters
P, NP problems (like the traveling salesman)
More sorting!
And more!
Who this class is for:
Anyone who wishes they had a better understanding of computer science concepts. This includes self-taught developers, designers who learned to code, or devs just starting down the path of learning to be a good coder.
You need to know JavaScript. We won't be going over syntax and we will be going fast. The focus will be on the concepts and not on the language.
Who this class is not for:
If you look at the list of concepts we're going over and say "I know most or all of those" then this class won't be for you. You're welcome to still come but this class will focus on getting everyone up on the same understanding.
By now you almost certainly have heard of React and Redux: two libraries that took frontend development by storm. Many large companies like Netflix, Reddit, Facebook, Khan Academy, Airbnb, and more are shipping React. It's become ingrained in the frontend development community.
In this workshop, we'll go from knowing about using React to coding a whole app in it, start-to-finish. After we finish it, we'll refactor to include Redux as part of the app, so you can see how to code an app without Redux and with Redux so you can make an informed decision if you want to include it. We'll also talk about debugging techniques, best practices, and discuss other topics related to the React ecosystem. We'll even do a bit of universal rendering at the end.
This workshop assumes you have a working knowledge of ES5-era JavaScript. ES6 will be used but it will also be explained as it is used.
Elm is a typed, functional programming language that compiles to JavaScript. It's famous for ensuring robust applications, and Elm's wildly developer friendly compiler helps developers write elegant, long-lived and safe frontend code. It has recently started drawing widespread attention and is starting to position itself as something other compile-to-js languages hasn't achieved yet - a viable alternative to JavaScript.
Elm utilizes a React-like rendering system, using a tree of pure view functions, while structuring its app using the so-called Elm architecture (which the Redux architecture is loosely based on). All data is immutable, of course, and the language supports fancy features such as algebraic data types, pattern matching and type inference.
Did this pique your interest? This workshops provides a thorough explanation of syntax and semantics with comparison to JavaScript. The workshop also serves as an introduction to ML-style typed functional programming, and after this workshop you'll be able to judge for yourself whether a language like Elm could ever replace JavaScript as our go-to tool for large-scale web development.
This course will be an introduction to virtual reality development, using mobile web frameworks, based on WebVR. It will begin with introduction to using the 3D framework three.js. The course will then introduce the principles of virtual reality development, and describe how to build immersive virtual reality worlds that can be explored in the browser. The focus of the course will be Android VR devices (Google Daydream, Google Cardboard, and GearVR).
The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) defined the look, feel, and sound of video games in the late 80's and early 90's. The NES' impressive library of games was written using 6502 assembly language, which is relatively simple when compared to assembly languages for modern processors. The MOS Technologies 6502 processor, combined with the NES' custom "Picture Processing Unit" (PPU) and optimized memory layout, allowed for an incredibly diverse range of game experiences.
Most commercial NES games were programmed by very small teams, often with only one or two members writing assembly code. Even now, developers continue to push the bounds of what the system was originally thought capable of. There have been a number of Kickstarters for original NES games, often programmed by solo developers. Learning NES development will give you a deeper understanding of how computers work at a low level. Also, it's fun!
In this workshop, we will explore assembly development for the NES with a modern toolkit, building out a full, playable game along the way. The workshop does not assume any previous experience with assembly language or game development. All you will need is a computer and familiarity with basic programming concepts like variables, if statements, for loops, and functions. By the end of the workshop, we will have covered:
The history of the NES, including the hardware limitations and tradeoffs that led to its design
How the major components of the NES work - CPU, PPU, APU, address bus, cartridge mappers
Binary and hexadecimal numbers
6502 assembly and the ca65 assembler
Creating NES graphics from scratch with modern tools
8-bit collision detection and physics
Reading controller input
Principles of digital sound synthesis
Playing sound and music on the NES
Techniques used in popular NES games
How to write an NES emulator
Distributing your NES games for people to play on real hardware or on the Web
Kevin is a senior software engineer at Snapsheet in Chicago. He has been writing NES assembly in his free time for the last two years. He is interested in programming music, making and analyzing games, and the intersections between code and the physical world. Kevin is a frequent presenter on game development and computing history topics at conferences including Abstractions, Node.js Interactive, and Strange Loop.


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July 11, 2013
Montana Commission Expands Trophy Hunting for Wolves
One hunter could kill five in new, longer season
The Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission approved an unjustified and devastating proposal to expand trophy hunting of Montana's wolves. Each hunter could kill up to five wolves – compared to three in the previous year – and the season expanded to cover September 15 to March 15, putting pregnant wolves in jeopardy.
Wendy Hergenraeder, Montana state director for The Humane Society of the United States said: "We are extremely disappointed that the Commission has furthered its hostile assault on Montana's wolves. After the devastating effects the 2012 hunting season had on the population – especially to Yellowstone Park's wolf packs – our Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission should be working to protect the fragile population, not adopting the same aggressive measures that put wolves on the endangered species list in the first place."
Wolves have been in decline in Montana, and this action will accelerate the loss of animals that only recently began recovering from the brink of extinction.
The Commission will continue to allow the use of traps and snares for wolves near public trails and recreation areas – placing pets and non-target species at serious risk.
- Before the 2012-2013 hunting and trapping season, the population estimate for Montana's wolves was only around 625. Since hunting of wolves has been allowed, populations have already faced a steady decline. Prior to that, Montana wolves were already in decline – 4 percent from 2011 to 2012, according to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service estimates.
- Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks reported that 225 wolves – 128 by hunters, 97 by trappers – were killed during the 2012-2013 season, a 36 percent increase over the previous season.
- Mating season for wolves in the Montana region begins around February, and may last into March.[1] Extending the hunting season for wolves to March 15 would mean that pregnant wolves could be targeted.
- Wolves provide many ecological benefits to the ecosystem by preventing the overpopulation of deer and other wildlife, which can assist in curbing the spread of deadly diseases like Chronic Wasting Disease, which has already been found in Montana and many neighboring states.[2]
- The gray wolf (Canis lupus) once roamed across the United States in the hundreds of thousands. However, federally funded eradication programs, which lasted through the mid-1900s, bounty programs, poisons, trapping and aerial shooting nearly eliminated the gray wolf from the lower 48 states. Approximately 6,000 gray wolves are thought to remain in the contiguous United States today.
- Two populations of wolves – the Great Lakes and Northern Rockies – are currently under state control. Several states where wolves are currently delisted have rushed to open trophy hunting seasons involving some of the cruelest and most unsporting methods including steel-jawed leghold traps, baiting and chasing down wolves with packs of dogs. Hunting and trapping programs last year killed about half of the wolves in the Northern Rockies population.
Media Contact: Kaitlin Sanderson: 240-672-8397; email@example.com
[1] Mech, L. David. 2002. Breeding season of Wolves, Canis lupus, in relation to latitude. Canadian Field Naturalist 116(1):139-140. Jamestown, ND: Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center Online. http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/mammals/latitude/index.htm (Version 12AUG2004).
[2] Stein, T. Study: Wolves may help control wasting disease. Denver, CO: The Denver Post. Aug. 9, 2005. Accessed at: http://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/study-wolves-may-help-control-wasting-disease/article_883b4e4b-863d-510f-8616-e1200ae88190.html


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A symposium on "Affirmative Action for the New Millennium," to be held on Wednesday, March 30, marks the start of a series of public events sponsored by the Johns Hopkins Diversity Leadership Council in a program titled "Diaspora and Communities." The two-year series has been funded by a Hewlett Foundation Pluralism and Unity grant.
The purpose of the first symposium, which will include an open forum, is "to stimulate discussion about the future of affirmative action," says Ronald Walters, chair of the Diversity Leadership Council. It will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. in 111 Mergenthaler, Homewood campus.
The featured speaker will be another Ronald Walters--a political scientist at the University of Maryland, College Park, and a former adviser to Jesse Jackson, as well as a frequent commentator on race and politics. He is a professor of Afro-American studies and of government and politics and senior scholar, Academy of Leadership.
He will be joined on the panel by two Hopkins faculty members--Walters, professor of history, and Frances Ferguson, professor of English and co-director of the Program for Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality--and Carmen Nieves, president of the Federation of Hispanic Organizations and executive director of the Child Health Foundation.
"Exploring different frames of reference in an effort to understand other points of view, rather than just debate them, is crucial to building alliances across difference," says Cecy Kuruvilla, senior organization development/ diversity specialist and staff to the council. With this in mind, sign-up sheets will be available for Hopkins faculty, staff and students to form small groups for ongoing faciliated dialogue on various diversity dimensions.
More information on the Diversity Council and the Hewlett Foundation grant can be found at http://www.peabody.jhu.edu/diversity.


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PCs still require maintenance, as much as we wish they were magic boxes that did all the work for us. Unfortunately, many people make mistakes when it comes to maintaining their PC. These mistakes could result in hardware damage, security breaches, data loss, money spent unnecessarily, and general system instability.
We generally cover lists of PC maintenance tips you should do, but knowing what not to do can be even more important. We'll cover some of the most common mistakes so you can avoid them and keep your PC running like new.
Not Updating Your Operating System and Software
Keeping your computer's software updated is important. Operating systems, browsers, and their plug-ins in particular are frequently updated with security fixes. If you're running an unpatched version of Windows, outdated version of Firefox, or vulnerable version of Java Is Java Unsafe & Should You Disable It? Is Java Unsafe & Should You Disable It? Oracle's Java plug-in has become less and less common on the Web, but it's become more and more common in the news. Whether Java is allowing over 600,000 Macs to be infected or Oracle is... Read More , your computer is at risk.
Be sure to keep your software updated Why Do Apps Nag Me to Update & Should I Listen? [Windows] Why Do Apps Nag Me to Update & Should I Listen? [Windows] Software update notifications seem like a constant companion on every computer. Every app wants to update regularly, and they nag us with notifications until we give in and update. These notifications can be inconvenient, especially... Read More . Set Windows to automatically install updates or at least inform you of them, leave your browser set to automatically install updates, and ensure Flash, Adobe Reader, Java, and other browser plug-ins you have installed are set to update automatically. Don't disable these auto-updating features — they help keep your PC secure.
Letting Dust Build Up
Dust builds up inside of your PC's case over time. This dust clogs up fans, reducing air flow and increasing the temperature inside your PC. A large amount of dust build-up can result in problems with cooling, which could even lead to system crashes as your CPU's temperature increases too far. If you're playing demanding games on a PC that's clogged with dust, the heat will have nowhere to go and may damage your hardware.
To help with air flow, you should open your desktop computer's case occasionally and clean out the dust using a can of compressed air. Cleaning the dust inside your laptop How to Fix an Overheating Laptop How to Fix an Overheating Laptop The greatest threat for your laptop, except for your your coffee mug, is overheating. We show you what you can do about it. Read More will likely be more difficult, as laptop's aren't generally meant to be easy-to-open. Spraying compressed air into your laptop's fan vents may help dislodge some of the dust, but you'd have to open your laptop's case for a serious cleaning.
Not Backing Up Your Files
Your computer's hard drive will fail eventually. It might even fail tomorrow. If your computer's hard drive failed tomorrow, would you have backup copies of all your important documents, photos, and other files? Or would you lose lots of important data?
Create a backup strategy to ensure your files won't go down with your computer, whether you make regular backups on a removable hard drive or cloud storage service. Windows 8 has a built-in backup tool Did You Know Windows 8 Has a Built-In Time Machine Backup? Did You Know Windows 8 Has a Built-In Time Machine Backup? We sometimes forget with all the focus on Windows 8's new "Modern" interface, but Windows 8 has a variety of great desktop improvements. One of them is File History, a built-in backup feature that functions... Read More that functions similarly to Apple's Time Machine, while Windows 7 has its own backup feature How To Set Up & Use Windows 7 Backup & Restore Feature How To Set Up & Use Windows 7 Backup & Restore Feature It's hardly a secret when I tell you that sooner or later you will need a backup of your personal data. Do you have one right now? What keeps most people from preparing regular backups... Read More .
Many people ignore backups until they lose their files. Don't become one of them — start backing up your files before you lose them.
Plugging Directly into the Power Outlet
Do you have your desktop computer or laptop plugged directly into a wall outlet? You shouldn't. You should have your computer plugged into a surge protector and the surge protector plugged into the wall. Many power bars have built-in surge protectors, but the cheapest ones just function as extension cords and provide no surge protection.
A surge protector ensures that power surges — which can occur during bad storms, for example — won't destroy your computer's hardware. Plugging your computer directly into the power outlet could result in a power surge damaging it. You can even get portable surge protectors for your laptop Getting A New Computer, Part 4: How To Properly Protect Your Laptop Getting A New Computer, Part 4: How To Properly Protect Your Laptop A lot of research is involved in choosing the right computer. Should you go with a laptop or desktop? If you decide on a laptop, how do you choose which one? In all of these... Read More .
Defragmenting When Unnecessary
Windows automatically defragments your hard drive in the background, so most people should never need to open the Disk Defragmenter and defragment their hard drives manually. There are some exceptions — for example, if you've just installed a large game and you want maximum performance, you may want to defragment before you play the game.
However, most of the time, defragmenting your hard drives is probably unnecessary. On a solid-state drive, it can actually be harmful — you should never defragment a solid-state drive 3 Top Tips To Maintain Performance & Extend The Life Of Your SSD 3 Top Tips To Maintain Performance & Extend The Life Of Your SSD For years, standard hard drives have been the speed limiting factor in overall system responsiveness. While hard drive size, RAM capacity, and CPU speed have grown almost exponentially, the spinning speed of a hard drive,... Read More .
Running Multiple Antivirus Programs
You should only use one antivirus program on your computer. Antivirus programs hook deep into the operating system, checking programs before they run. If you have two antivirus programs attempting to do this at once, they can interfere with each other and cause your computer to crash. They may identify each other as malware or prevent each other from working.
Ensure you only have a single antivirus program installed and running in the background. If you want a second opinion, you can use an antivirus program that will just perform a system scan while not running in the background What Is The Benefit Of An Online/Cloud-Based Anti-Virus? What Is The Benefit Of An Online/Cloud-Based Anti-Virus? It seems like all the apps we use on our computers are migrating to the cloud these days. Email, chatting, editing documents and pictures – increasingly, we're using cloud-based solutions for almost everything.. There are... Read More .
Using a Registry Cleaner or "PC Cleaning" App
Everyone wants to sell you a program that will somehow speed up your computer by deleting temporary files and cleaning up your registry. These programs are at best unnecessary, and at worst harmful. Either way, many of them will take a bite out of your bank account.
We've already covered why registry cleaners aren't useful Using Registry Cleaner: Does Is It Really Make a Difference? Using Registry Cleaner: Does Is It Really Make a Difference? Advertisements for registry cleaners are all over the Web. There's an entire industry out there bent on convincing inexperienced computer users that their registry needs fixing, and that, for ten easy payments of $29.95, their... Read More . A registry cleaner won't speed up your computer, but it could cause damage to your registry.
The "PC cleaning" apps advertised on television at 3 a.m. and on banner ads all over the web are similarly unnecessary. If you want to delete temporary files, you can use the Disk Cleanup program 5 Ways To Clean Up Your Computer With An Automated Script [Windows] 5 Ways To Clean Up Your Computer With An Automated Script [Windows] Computer maintenance isn't exactly something that most people remember to do. For the general user that isn't exactly tech savvy, when a computer doesn't work, they either call for help or simply buy a new... Read More included with Windows or use the free CCleaner utility Optimize Your System To Run At Its Best With CCleaner Optimize Your System To Run At Its Best With CCleaner Over the last two years, CCleaner has changed quite a bit in terms of version numbers...up now to version 3.10 at the time of this writing. While visually the program actually hasn't changed much (it's... Read More . Avoid the paid PC-cleaning apps.
Obstructing Air Flow
Your computer needs proper cooling How To Install A New PC Cooling Fan How To Install A New PC Cooling Fan Computers have changed a lot over the last decade, but one thing remains the same – the need for cooling. Efficiency has pushed temperatures down but hasn't eliminated heat as an issue. That's particularly true... Read More . In addition to ensuring that dust doesn't clog its vents, you'll want to ensure that the air vents don't become obstructed. For example, if you have a desktop PC in a tower, ensure that its air vents aren't pressed up against a wall. If you have a laptop with an air vent, don't place it on a bed that it will sink into, causing the blanket to obstruct its air vents. Don't put your laptop on your lap in a position that will result in the air vents being blocked, either. Always take cooling and air flow into account.
This is particularly important when playing a demanding game or otherwise stressing your PC. If you're just browsing the web, your computer shouldn't heat up too much. You can get away with having your laptop's vents blocked for a short time during light usage, but don't leave it that way for long.
Installing Dangerous or Annoying Programs
When installing programs on your computer, you should be vigilant. Judge the trustworthiness of each program before you download it How To Do Your Research Before You Download Free Software How To Do Your Research Before You Download Free Software Before downloading a free program, you should be sure it's trustworthy. Determining whether a download is safe is a basic skill, but one everyone needs -- particularly on Windows. Use these tips to ensure you... Read More . Don't install programs that look scammy. Be careful when you install software A Simple Checklist To Safely Installing Free Software Without All The Junk A Simple Checklist To Safely Installing Free Software Without All The Junk Picture this - you've just found this awesome free software that you are stoked about because of all that it can do for you, but when you install it, you discover that it is packed... Read More so you don't end up installing browser toolbars and other adware that will annoy you. Know the types of files that are dangerous and be careful when running them — for example, don't download screensavers, which can contain viruses.
Using Power-Hungry Graphics Cards
Everyone likes powerful hardware, but most people don't need it. If you're building a PC for your parents or upgrading an existing PC, don't just put the most power-hungry graphics card in it. More importantly, don't just install two of the most power-hungry graphics cards in an SLI What Is SLI & How Can It Improve Gaming Performance? What Is SLI & How Can It Improve Gaming Performance? Sometimes a niche term is taken for granted. We have some such terms in the world of computing hardware, and one of them is SLI. It's been around for so long that geeks take it... Read More or Crossfire setup. The most powerful graphics cards can suck down a lot of electricity, even if they're not being used heavily. Even if you got a great deal on that graphics card, it may not be worth installing — if you never play games, it will only increase your electricity bill.
Try to avoid using other hardware that sucks down too much electricity, too. For example, if you still use an old CRT monitor, you should upgrade to an LCD monitor — they take much less electricity to run How Much Does Your PC Cost To Run? How Much Does Your PC Cost To Run? Read More , in addition to eliminating the CRT monitor flicker that can cause headaches.
We're sure these aren't the only widespread errors that people make. Leave a comment and share other bad PC maintenance habits people should avoid!
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To anyone who thinks installing updates isn't important:
You use this to create a fake network that the victim automatically connects to:
You then use something like Metasploit to gain access (since you have now tricked someone into connecting to your network you can also intercept the webpages they are trying to visit):
Then you install malware/spyware/viruses or whatever else you want. Additionally someone could setup a webpage and install something nasty over the internet instead of creating a fake network.
Dust, Dust, Dust!!! Clean That dust!
Good Article and best maintains on your systems, can you get best performance your systems.
Cleanup fan and hit-sink dust.
I am done reading these kind of articles frankly. I have read so many articles like this. Some say cleaners are good, some not. Some say automatic win updates are good, some not. If you go and ask Microsoft they say dont use ccleaners and tune up, others say they are good. Can each of the pc manufacturers come out with an official announcement on what is good for their system and what not. Else we as customers will always be 50-50 on what we need to do and what not. No hard feelings towards these articles and the authors who write it. I know every person on earth will have a different opinion. But the truth is each and every person has a different kidn of pc and it all boils down to how we use our system. As for me what i have learnt is below:
1) Avoid installing and playing around with your system by installing and unistalling softwares. I know a windows pc is supposed to handle installation and deletion of softwares but that harms your pc more than anything else.
2) Have been using cccleaner since a year and it is the only software which actually speeds up my pc. I am using ashampoo's pc tune up utility. But it doesnt speed up my pc.
3) Do not place your system where there is a lost of dust. If you stay nearby a dusty highway or road, then take care of your system. The other day my pc technician brushed
What do you do about dust when you have a laptop and don't have the technical smarts to open it up and clean out yourself ? I'm on a limited income and computer maintenance shops charge a fortune for the slightest thing. so am I stuck with my dust ?
> Plugging your computer directly into the power outlet could result in a power surge damaging it
Yes, however the situation is not hopeless. In fact into the power supply of our PC there is already a surge protection. As far as I have seen, there is a varistor and it's even medium sized, it's not the least available from manufacturers. Therefore we have already a certain protection from surges.
Just for information only.
> Many power bars have built-in surge protectors
Yes, and it's necessary to verify how much powerful is that protection. A cheap power bar may have a poor 7 mm varistor...
Also not destatisizing (removing static, is that even a word lol) yourself and going to replace a component or clean the inside of you computer and touch something thats sensitive to static electricity and killing it
These l10 little yet big things are the main reason why pc techs, like me, make our money. if the general public knew out secrets then we would be out of business.....#irony don't you just love it?
Mauricio, I've found that most people that this applies to, won't take the time or devote the energy to do it for themselves. So our jobs are safe :)
I'll give you that, but seeing as that times are changing, the demand and job market for PC Techs will downgrade and eventually fade. Yes, we may transition into other technological areas but the PC (Desktop/Laptop) Techs days seem almost over.
Amen to that. Too bad the good old days when Techs like us actually received and charged payment on our skills; nowadays most people only call techs whenever they realize that GeekSquad is overpriced and CraigsList Fails
I must take issue with some of the statements you made.
"Don't disable auto-update" - updates from Microsoft are a crapshoot. Too often they cause more problems than they solve and have to be backed out. Let the system notify you of updates then apply them manually. No amount of updates will ever make Flash and Java secure. Whether intentionally or by error, they were created full of security vulnerabilities.
"Defragmenting when unnecessary" - when using OS x or *nix you're right. When using Windows, regular defrag is required. Run the Analyze option of Disk Defrag right after Windows is done with its self-defrag and you'll find hundreds of files in hundreds of pieces. The graph looks like a picket fence. Not too good for efficient reading and writing of files.
"Using a registry cleaner or a PC cleaning app" - Windows is notorious for not doing clean uninstalls. There always is flotsam and jetsam left behind, both in the Registry and in the folders. I agree that inexperienced users should not muck about in the Registry. However, a reputable cleaner can get rid of hundreds, if not thousands of leftover keys. Might not speed anything up but it will make things cleaner. Same goes for cleaning out temporary files such as cookies or other Internet debris. I've seen PCs with 800,000 and more cookies and TIFs and they were slower than molasses at the North Pole. After couple of passes with CCleaner, they perked right up.
I agree with all three points, especially the last. CC cleaner and Glary Utilities have worked well for me and the computers I've ran them on.
I really don't buy the placebo effect or that it's just a coincidence. I am not just talking about the registry cleaner but the whole cleaning modules that have definitely shown improvements that I've witnessed.
I use a hair dryer on cool settings to blow dust out of my tower after taking the panel off.
Great article. Most of these I'm okay on, some I didn't know.
Just to expand on what you said regarding AV programs. Yes, very important not to have two resident AV programs (ones running all the time in the background). And I just want to emphasize what you said about "getting a second opinion." IMO it's extremely important to have more than that you can use manually in addition to the resident program that runs in the background all the time. No one AV or malware program can protect or find everything, and you can go overboard, but having one or two that you can run manual checks with in addition to the resident program is smart. (I've have one program find things another one didn't.
like malwarebytes vs alot of other antivirus
I really, really wish people would stop scaring users into enabling all those goddam automatic updates. First, in my experience, more than half of all computer problems are because of automatic updates that don't work or mess the system, Second, many of them are accomplished by slowing start up to a crawl and/or hogging resources.
If the machine works, don't update it without good reason. Don't update to fix bugs that don't affect you. Most of all, don't update without backing up first.
In all my years of computing, and I'm talking decades, I've been affected by maybe 2 malware, but have lost countless hours trying to recover from "security updates".
yep i dont keep automatic updates turned on because one always mess up the system, so i have it notify me, and then i either make a restore point or harddrive back before i do it.
Of course by not updating you're often leaving yourself vulnerable. When windows updates it is typically patching security holes. When it says the update fixes a vulnerability that allows an attacker "remote access" it is actually doing that. If you visit a web page on a vulnerable system you can be infected without ever knowing it. Of course most viruses and malware that silently install in the background target big business and government doesn't mean you still can't get one. On top of which it's getting more common for threats to bypass virus protection and remain hidden an active for a long time before anyone notices them. If you don't see any obvious side effects, how do you know to check for infections.
Re: Surge protectors, I'm not a big fan of "just" a surge protector. Several places I have lived have had LOW power problems, too. I have everything electronic (that matters -- not my bedside clock) in a battery backup / UPS. They are really not as expensive as they used to be, and when the battery dies (3-4 years), most have easily-replaceable battery compartments.
I will regularly be sitting at the computer, and the UPS clicks, signifying it is now on battery, and nothing else happens -- lights do not flicker, nothing else shows a problem.
But, good tips!


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Orangeville Indoor Market
January 27, 2018, 9:00am - 1:00pm
Orangeville Town Hall will be buzzing with activity this fall and winter as the Orangeville Farmers' Market moves indoors. The market operated every other Saturday between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. from November 4 to April 21. Occupying the main floor atrium and upper floor mezzanine, the indoor market features vendors who offer locally-raised meats, baked goods, unique arts and crafts, and local seasonal produce.
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87 Broadway, Orangeville, ON L9W 1K1| Directions
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