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Frequently Asked Questions
Table of Contents:
- What is UTC Alert?
- What is Rave Wireless Inc.?
- Is UTC ALERT just for cell phones?
- When will I get a UTC ALERT message?
- How can I get more information once I receive a UTC ALERT message?
- Will I get advertising messages from UTC ALERT?
- Can my parents or guardian subscribe to UTC ALERT?
- Does signing up for UTC ALERT cost me anything?
- Why is UTC ALERT necessary?
- What if I don't have a cell phone or my cell phone doesn't have text messaging?
- How do I sign up for UTC ALERT?
- Have additional questions or problems?
What is UTC ALERT?
UTC ALERT is a messaging system that allows UTC to communicate with members of the campus community quickly in the event of an emergency.
What is Rave Wireless Inc.?
Rave Wireless Inc. is the company that is contracted to provide the UTC ALERT system. When you sign up for the UTC ALERT system, you will be directed to their Web site for part of the process.
Is UTC ALERT just for cell phones?
UTC ALERT system can send messages to any device that can receive text messages through cellular service, such as cell phones, text pagers, BlackBerrys, and some wireless PDAs. In addition, messages will also be sent to your e-mail address.
When will I get a UTC ALERT message?
The University has created a well-defined set of situations that would prompt a UTC ALERT message. UTC ALERT only will be activated when there is a critical need to transmit urgent information to the campus community. Here are some examples:
- Ongoing safety threats in which an armed or dangerous criminal is at large on campus.
- Major facility emergencies or evacuations. This may include a large scale gas leak, fire, or hazardous material spill, occurring either on campus or near enough to campus to cause a credible threat to members of the campus community.
- Severe weather. This may include a threat from a tornado requiring those on campus to take shelter or an immediate closing due to anticipated weather issues.
How can I get more information once I receive a UTC ALERT message?
Due to the limitations of text messaging, UTC ALERT messages will be very brief and contain vital and immediate information. More information about a UTC ALERT message will be made available through the other forms of communication available to the University, including messages posted to www.UTC.edu, broadcast e-mails, and announcements to local media.
Will I get advertising messages from UTC ALERT?
No. UTC ALERT will not be used to deliver any kind of advertising content, and mobile numbers will not be shared with any third parties.
Can my parents or guardian subscribe to UTC ALERT?
The University has arranged for a limited number of subscriptions only for UTC students, faculty and staff members.
Does signing up for UTC ALERT cost me anything?
There is no cost to sign up for UTC ALERT. The only charges you incur would be the normal fees charged by your mobile service provider for receiving text messages. UTC will conduct a test of the UTC ALERT system each semester.
Why is UTC ALERT necessary?
The University has a wide variety of methods to communicate with members of the campus community. In recent years, the number of mobile telephones has dramatically increased, and text messaging has become a key method to reach people immediately. The UTC ALERT service allows the University to use the most up-to-date communication method to reach students, faculty and staff in the event of an emergency in addition to the university's other established and emerging communication methods.
What if I don't have a cell phone or my cell phone doesn't have text messaging?
UTC ALERT is just one of the communication channels used in the event of an emergency. It is not replacing any of our other previous methods of communication. It is building on those existing methods to keep up with the latest technology used by many members of our community.
How do I sign up for UTC ALERT?
It's easy! Just go to http://utc.edu/police/ and follow the instructions. Be sure to have your mobile phone when you sign up, as you'll need it to enter a confirmation number. You will also need your UTC email address.
Have additional questions or problems?
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Lady Gaga Returns to Twitter, Poses With Two Fashion Icons [Pic]
Lady Gaga has been silent on Twitter since April 27. Since she is so thumbs on with her little monsters, it's been surprising for her to be quiet.
Well, she returned to the digital space last night (May 29) and with a bang, sharing a photo of herself with two fashion icons.
That's milliner (aka a hatmaker) Philip Treacy to the left and '80s actress / model Grace Jones on the right, in the top photo.
You can figure out who's who on the bottom one, obvs, as Grace and Gaga plant smooches on the designer's cheeks.
Gaga has not occupied much digital space while recovering from surgery, save for a attending an event here and there.
She is not as visible online, while Rihanna continues to toplessly tweet and Instagram with reckless abandon. It feels like Mommy Monster is losing her digital footing, and not because her heels aren't high enough. She needs to make a comeback and quick. We miss her.

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We last wrote about Good Point Recycling back in January of this year, when reporter John Flowers reported on the growth of the Middlebury electronics recycling company, and their relocation to the old CPC warehouse off Exchange Street.
But since then, there's been quite a bit of buzz about the e-waste recyclers — both close to home and far afield. Most of the news focuses on Good Point's partnership with a plucky women's collective in Fronteras, Mexico. From Arizona Public Media comes this video clip of the Mexican operation, worth checking out if electronics recycling piques your interest:
Also worth a listen are two stories that aired on public radio this year: a piece on American Public Media's Marketplace and another on Living on Earth.
(Do you know of other stories of Addison County businesses or organizations being broadcast on the national stage? Let us know — we love getting the word out about local groups getting national coverage.)


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Toy for babies to explore
Babies eat, sleep and play! This eco-friendly toy for babies is great for teething. Babies can also explore different shapes and textures when they play. Each key features a fun phrase: "key to my new crib," "key to my mom's heart" and "key to my ride" (aka stroller). These cute teethers make a sweet baby gift. Constructed of lightweight pressed, durable bamboo, a rapidly regenerating wood source.
Non-toxic and baby-safe. For ages 3 months and up.My First (Bamboo) Keys dimensions: 5.5" x 5.5" x 1"


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If March Madness describes the three-week college basketball tournament that ends April 2, then April Madness describes tax time. Yes, it's that dreaded time of the year again, almost the day of reckoning with the IRS. It is also a propitious time to assess how effective you were in planning your tax strategy for the previous year, including the benefits of philanthropy.
Take a few minutes to answer the following questions. This will help you evaluate your tax-planning performance, and we hope it might help you improve your outcome next year when April Madness rolls around again.
Capital-Gain Strategies
Any gain or loss is just a paper transaction until you actually sell an investment. When you do, the gain or loss shows up in your tax picture. Because you control the timing of buy-and-sell decisions, you have significant control over the impact these transactions have on your taxes.
Issue 1: Did you sell losing stocks before year-end to generate a realized capital loss?
Your capital gain and loss are "netted against each other" to determine the amount and nature of what you report on your tax return. If you have realized gain during the course of the year, it is generally a good idea to sell some of your losers to offset that gain. Remember, though, you have to wait more than 30 days to buy a stock back or you cannot recognize the loss for tax purposes. Even if you do not have gain to offset, you can use loss to offset up to $3,000 of ordinary income.
Issue 2: Did you wait until after the end of the year to sell a stock at a gain?
Sometimes delaying a sale just a few days can push the tax consequences into the next tax year. Again, don't let tax considerations alone dictate your decisions. If you believe a stock is sinking fast, it may be better to sell and deal with the tax consequences than to risk further erosion of the price of the stock.
Issue 3: Did you claim a charitable deduction on your tax return?
If you itemize deductions, your charitable-contribution deductions generate tax savings proportional to your marginal-tax bracket.
Example: Last year Phil made a $10,000 gift to us. Because Phil was in the 33% federal income-tax bracket (changing for 2018 to 35%), that gift saved him $3,300 (33% x $10,000) in taxes.
Issue 4: Did you accelerate this year's charitable gift into last year in order to reap the benefits of itemizing?
For many taxpayers, itemized deductions come close to equaling the standard deduction each year but never quite meet that amount; consequently, they elect to use the standard deduction. If you find yourself close to but short of the standard-deduction threshold, you might consider doubling up on your charitable giving this year and skipping next year. You will realize savings to the extent your extra gift causes your itemized deductions to exceed the standard deduction. Keep in mind, though, that the standard deduction will almost double for each filing status in 2018.
Issue 5: Did you use long-term appreciated securities or real estate to make your charitable gift?
If you use long-term appreciated securities or real estate to fund your charitable gift, not only can you deduct its full fair-market value from your taxes, but you also avoid recognizing or paying tax on the appreciation.
Example: Ruth G contributed stock worth $30,000 that she had bought five years ago for $10,000. If she had sold the stock, she would have faced a tax of $3,000 on her $20,000 gain ($20,000 x 15% capital-gain tax rate). In her 35% federal tax bracket, the $30,000 gift produced $10,500 of income-tax savings as well ($30,000 x 35%). Her total savings are $13,500.
Issue 6: Did you make a contribution to a tax-advantaged retirement program last year?
Combining objectives: If you have major charitable goals in addition to a desire to enhance your retirement security, with some creative planning you can address both objectives simultaneously. You can make charitable gifts that pay you income for life—and often such plans can be arranged so that most or all of the income is paid after your retirement.
Issue 7: Did you establish a charitable life-income gift last year?
Example: Don G, aged 70, watched his stock portfolio grow over the years. He has seen some of that gain disappear and is concerned about the future direction of the market. Now that he is retired, he would also like to get a higher return from his investments—most of his stocks pay little or no dividends—but is reluctant to sell and experience major capital gain.
Don decides to use growth stock currently worth $100,000, purchased years ago for $20,000, to create a charitable remainder unitrust that will pay him 6% of its annual value. This will produce a charitable deduction of approximately $46,750, saving him about $16,360 in his 35% tax bracket. Better still, he will not have to pay any tax on the $80,000 gain when he transfers the stock to the trust—a savings of $12,000. The first year Don will receive payment of $6,000—a $6,000 net increase in cash flow because the stock he used to create the trust paid no dividends.
We would welcome the chance to discuss how this or another type of life-income plan can address your retirement-planning and charitable goals. Please contact us if we can be of assistance.
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Journey to the Stars
Thursday, July 18, 2013
8:30 p.m.–10:30 p.m.
This event repeats every week on Thursday between 6/20/2013 and 9/5/2013.
Please note: This event has already taken place. Please use the Search options on the right to find upcoming events.
Volunteers from the Amateur Astronomers Association will guide your eyes across the sky as you discover the wonders of the universe.
Pier 1 in Brooklyn Bridge Park
Directions to this location
Old Fulton Street and Furman Street
Event Organizer
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rsstroom reader - toilet paper printer!by lemondeduweb & 1 other
Imprimante de flux rss sur du papier toilette. Avec identificateur biométrique
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We believe in the open web, think internet services should be sustainable, build for the long term.
While we are re-launching the service, we only accept new members through invitation.
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Statement of Purpose
This blogswarm will promote blog postings opposing the war in Iraq and calling for a full withdrawal of foreign occupying forces in Iraq. Five years of an illegal and catastrophic war is five years too many. On the March 19 anniversary of the conquest of Iraq by the Bush Administration, there needs to be a loud volume of voices countering the pro-war propaganda from far too many politicians and corporate media outlets.
Trying to Decide What to Write?
You are encouraged to write against the war from a variety of perspectives. The war is a huge problem, and that makes it an enormous subject for blogging. Here are some things you might want to consider if you are having difficulty making up your mind:
- Attend an anti-war event and report on it.
- Interview military families and veterans.
- NEW IDEA: Blog reactions to Pacifica's Live Radio Coverage of the Winter Soldier testimony by Iraq Vets would be of great interest. Coverage from the event in Washington, DC would be great too. This event deserves all the coverage it can possibly get.
- Examine current plans and the rather shadowy oil laws as well as long term military bases.
- Compare and contrast candidates stated intentions on what they claim they will do with their records.
- Publicize online action alerts by pro-peace organizations.
- Discuss the economic impacts of the war on people in Iraq and/or western countries.
- Discuss the casualties on both sides.
- Explore issues and impacts often ignored by most media outlets.
- Analyze war propaganda.
How to Participate:
1) Post a comment here- Bring the Noise! Bring the Swarm! with your blog's title and URL. (A Blogger ID may not be enough for us to figure out who you are.) There are regularly updated listings of all participating blogs.
2) Optional: Save one of the blogswarm graphics to your system and upload it to your blog, linking to:
Here are some graphics for this purpose.
3) Be sure to follow up on your commitment to write a posting on March 19 against the war.
4) Spread the word among other people who want to end this nutty war.
nb. The comment thread for this post is now closed. To leave your details comment here- Bring the Noise! Bring the Swarm!


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As document imaging begins to catch on in the construction industry, some contractors are replacing manual data entry with scanning to streamline accounting.
Almost a year and a half ago, Rosendin Electric was processing about 13,000 invoices per month with an accounting staff of 12. Under these conditions, it wasn't uncommon for this $400 million electrical contracting firm to have a backlog of unprocessed paperwork of at least two weeks and change orders that remained unresolved for months. Today San Jose, Calif.-based Rosendin, which focuses on commercial, industrial, and high-tech jobs, has a backlog of unprocessed paperwork of about five business days after going completely electronic with its Accounts Payable (AP) process. What made the difference? One of the top 10 electrical contractors in the country, with five branch offices, three service divisions, and 1,750 employees, Rosendin is one of several contractors that have gone beyond your basic accounting software and implemented document imaging within the past few years.
Accounting software is nothing new to electrical contractors. Like the rest of the business world, nearly all contractors manage their finances on a computer — what varies are their applications. Some use standard business accounting software while others prefer a package crafted specifically for the construction industry. Some hire programmers to write a program exclusively for their needs or rely on in-house personnel to create a series of customized spreadsheets in Excel. According to data from the Construction Financial Management Association, 97% of contractors (including generals and specialty subs) used some type of accounting software in 2000. But there's a big difference between automating your accounting functions and routing and approving invoices and purchase orders electronically. Standard accounting software doesn't eliminate the manual paper trail that's often necessary for routing and approving invoices. Document imaging, on the other hand, at least holds the promise for a paperless process.
Defining document imaging.
The concept isn't complicated. Scanning replaces the data entry associated with manually inputting invoices into the computer, eliminates copying and filing, and turns the routing and approval process into an electronic step. Once you scan the invoice, it becomes a permanent electronic record (most commonly saved in a .tif or .jpg format), which is indexed to various degrees of sophistication depending on your preference, and attached to the transaction. You can e-mail the image, fax it, and search for information by many variables, including name, date, project, phase, invoice number, dollar amount, part, or vendor. If stored on a CD or optical disc, it's admissible in court as a permanent record — just like paper.
How does document imaging work with accounting in a construction setting? It depends on the solution, and there are several ways to go. There are hundreds of generic document imaging systems; however, most of them aren't industry specific. Targeting a much narrower niche, Construction Imaging Systems (CIS), Rocky Mount, N.C., offers a stand-alone document imaging system designed specifically for the construction industry. The system works in conjunction with various accounting and project management vendors' software by pulling data from these programs into its imaging system. Another alternative is document imaging built into the accounting and project management software as an additional module, such as Seattle-based Dexter & Chaney's Forefront software. Rosendin selected a customized imaging solution from CIS to work with its existing applications, a traditional accounting and project control software product designed for construction companies.
Breaking new ground.
Before implementing the system in July 2001, Rosendin handled all transactions the old-fashioned way — with paper, says Daren Mays, assistant controller. "We would make copies of every invoice that came in and route those out to purchasing agents for approval," he says. "We have offices in Oregon, Arizona, New Mexico, and California, and job sites all over the West Coast. Probably on a third of those, we wouldn't hear anything back, so we'd make another copy and send out a second request. That would take a day. The purchasing agents would approve it, and send it back down to us — that would take another day. Then sometimes it still wasn't right because we'd already paid another invoice against that purchase order. Sometimes it could take a week to get something resolved. With the new system, we can get something like that resolved in 15 to 30 minutes."
Here's how it works at Rosendin. An AP clerk opens the mail and scans the invoices into batches. "This is not your typical desktop scanner," clarifies Mays. "It's a $20,000 scanner that's the size of a large fax machine."
With both the accounting and imaging software programs open, the clerk returns to his workstation to input some basic indexing information into the accounting software. Next, he hits a button and the imaging system scrapes all of the appropriate information from the accounting screen and imports the data into its indexes. The information is automatically stored on a dedicated server and saved to optical laser disk. When a project manager logs onto the system, a function called Doc Notify pops up, showing him he has "X" number of invoices to approve. He can also view any electronic sticky notes or annotations right on the image. The system keeps a complete audit trail of who's seen what, so tracking and reporting becomes almost effortless.
Since implementing the system, Mays says Rosendin has reduced its AP staff by six people (although partly due to the economy), eliminated overtime, and seen a payback on the investment in less than a year. Although he originally selected this product solely for AP purposes, Mays says imaging has already spread to other applications in his company, such as contracts, change orders, field time cards, labor reports, and monthly job cost reports. "We don't really image the labor and job cost reports," Mays says. "What we do is COLD [computer output to laser disk] store them where we create a report in [our accounting program] and then download that into the imaging system. So instead of having 60 different project managers running that report all at the same time, they're all able to go out onto the imaging system and look at the information."
Mays and his accounting staff can also deal with their vendors in a more proactive way. "Before we had this system, my boss and I were getting phone calls probably at least once a week from vendors complaining," Mays says. "I get a call maybe once every other month now, and it's often not even AP-related. Certain vendors are going to get mad, so you just kind of have to put that by the wayside. But overall our vendor relations have greatly improved, our capital has improved, we're getting information into our billing system quicker, and we bill the expenses much faster now."
Another advantage of electronic invoicing relates to litigation prevention. Before document imaging, Mays recalls a potential litigation situation. "We had to run a job report with all of the vendor history on a particular job and pull all of the invoices," Mays says. "I was out in a semi trailer for about a day and a half looking through files. With this system, I could have probably gotten all of that together in 15 minutes."
Now Rosendin only keeps paper originals for three months before getting rid of them. "We're at the point now where we're going to be able to blow out a wall in an area we call our 'vault,' which is our document storage space next to MIS, so they can have more room for the servers we need," says Mays.
Besides moving toward a paperless process and maximizing accounting efficiency, Mays has greater aspirations for the system. Although files are currently accessible through the network, Mays hopes to eventually provide Web access for his larger vendors so they can pull up invoices and check on the status of different payments via the Internet. He would also like to use another feature of the system: pulling up invoices (for cost plus billing and time and material projects) and creating CD-ROMs with a viewer for customers.
Feasibility for small- to mid-sized contractors.
If you look at the construction market as a whole, Rosendin is undoubtedly ahead of the game technology-wise, as an early adopter of imaging. How realistic is it for smaller contractors to implement a similar solution?
Dennis Earnshaw, who's worked as a software designer for Timberline Software, Beaverton, Ore., for the past 19 years and recently moved into strategic planning, thinks it will be awhile before most of his customers are ready to throw away paper — at least until the price of imaging comes down. "To invest the kind of money you need for an imaging system to handle any kind of substantial volume, you're looking at well over $100,000," says Earnshaw. "We've got some larger general contractors that have done that. But by the time you look at the kind of scanners you need (paper-fed high-speed scanners), the storage, jukeboxes, and the indexing software, it's pretty expensive. You can get these little desktop scanners, but to really scan the kind of volume of paper that these guys push, it's still a big-guy solution."
Brad Mathews, vice president of sales and marketing, Dexter & Chaney, says since technology has improved recently, document imaging is now cost-effective for most electrical contractors. "You can now buy a good scanner for way under $1,000," Mathews says. "You can buy a little inexpensive one for $100, but for $600 or so, you can get a very fast practical unit for somebody who does a lot of scanning, and they're wonderful. Perhaps best of all, integrated document imaging provides a fast, easy way to route and approve vendor invoices using e-mail notification. Storage has gotten so much cheaper. Just a few years ago, people were talking about using optical drives to store this stuff and all of these fancy systems. That's not necessary. You just use the hard drive on your server."
Although it's currently geared toward contractors who have at least $30 million annual revenues, Larry McAdams, president of CIS, says he's working on making his product more economically feasible for smaller contractors. To ensure a quality imaging system, McAdams says two requirements are critical for scanning an AP invoice: the quality of the image enhancement board in the scanner and feed capability. "You need an image enhancement board or software because some invoices are blue, red, yellow, or green, and some are very light. We use a Bell & Howell scanner a lot because it does a line-by-line contrast adjustment," says McAdams, noting that the least expensive scanner he's seen that will handle multi-size documents effectively costs $3,700; however, he's in the process of testing a $2,500 unit he believes will be acceptable. "Some of the scanners also don't feed multi-sized documents very well. It's no good to have a document after you shred the original if you can't read it."
Offering a document imaging option to his project management and accounting software for the past 21/2 years, John Chaney, president and cofounder of Dexter & Chaney, has seen demand pick up recently. "The majority of customers are still storing one paper copy, but I think that's changing," says Chaney. "It's one thing for us to tell them they need to get into imaging, but when their fellow electrical contractors start saying, 'What are you saving that stuff for? Yeah, we did that too, and then realized it was just a waste,' it really makes an impression."
Chaney says the ironic thing is his larger customers and early adopters of document imaging are the ones that have eliminated paper. "The funny thing is they have much more volume than the smaller guys," he says. "So what happens is the small guy goes, 'Wow, if they can do it, why aren't we doing it?'"
Earnshaw believes the industry is moving toward single vendor solutions. "That might help somebody like Timberline or hurt them," he says. "It's going to be interesting to see what's going to happen out there because we've tried the whole integration thing between vendors, and that's a rough road. You get into issues like who is going to support whom, what happened when a version changes on one end and not on another. Now the integration is broken. Who owns the rights to this? The data doesn't match — over here the job number is six characters, over there it's 10 characters."
Roseann Rohrssen, vice president at New York City-based Zwicker Electric, an electrical contractor that specializes in mostly new commercial/industrial construction, sees integration as the wave of the future. "We have wanted to scan, but scanning is not ready for us," she says. "If we scanned all of our invoices, it's not going to work. We still have people who hand write invoices. Scanning is great, but right now that's really Jetsons — it's really way out there."
Rohrssen spent the past four years converting her firm's previous customized proprietary software program to a real-time Y2K-compliant system, choosing Timberline. Now everything is electronic except keying in invoice information. Zwicker, who would like to scan, rehashes the issue every six to nine months with upper management, and continues to look at what's out there. "There are a lot of great products out there for storage, but we don't want to just do storage. We want to be able to process the paper. I think what's eventually going to end up taking the place of imaging is e-mailed invoices."
Earnshaw agrees e-mail is a viable alternative to document imaging. In fact, Timberline announced a concept called I-docs some time ago. "It's an electronic document that can travel via e-mail. Let's say the GC sends a draw request to the sub, they open it up, they just type their numbers in, and e-mail it back," says Earnshaw. "That's something further out on our horizon, but it's an example of where one might go with data exchange. The construction industry is just now getting on the e-mail bandwagon. If you can use some kind of existing medium that they're used to working with right in their office on their network, it's going to be more realistic."
No matter if you buy into document imaging or not, it's no secret contractors struggle with integration. Most have separate systems for accounting, project management, tool tracking, and estimating. Whichever answer enables all of these systems to communicate with each other will be the ideal solution. Obviously, this is easier said than done.


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Kanye West was in Chicago on tour a couple days ago, so of course he took time out of his set to sing/rap/talk about Michael Jordan whom he considers to be "one of the most influential people in our civilization." Yes, it was as glorious as it sounds.
We could describe at length Kanye's views on Jordan's place in human history, or any of the other subjects of his based freestyle, but instead we'll join the rest of the United Center in singing along to "Why Did That Happen (We Shoulda Never Ever Let MJ Play For the Wizards)." Lyrics here.
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text: Here's a good laugh to make your Monday a bit better. While many of us were busy playing with our week-old Tour this weekend, forums member kurpaige was simply laughing at the "Sperizon" Tour that UPS left at the door. As it turns out, the Sprint boxed Tour, sold by Sprint and shipped out by Sprint, turned out to be Verizon branded. Odd? Extremely. We're not exactly sure who is to blame for this mishap, but you can be sure someone will take the heat.


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Sigma Announces March Availability for DP3 Merrill
At CES 2013 we announced the Sigma DP3 Merrill camera, an f/2.8 fixed 50mm focal length compact camera – the third and final camera in the DP Merrill lineup. With an almost identical build and feel as the DP1 and DP2 Merrill cameras, Sigma enthusiasts will not miss a beat when picking up the DP3. The DP3 Merrill features the same 46 megapixel (15.4-megapixel effective) Foveon X3 image sensor as the rest of the Merrill lineup, including the SD1. Complementing the DP1 (with a 19mm f/2.8 lens) and the DP2 (with a 30mm f/2.8 lens), the DP3 rounds out this group with its 50mm lens (75mm equivalent on a 35mm). The lens gives users greater telephoto focal length and allows for macro shooting.
The Foveon X3 image sensor works by combining the talents of 3 sensor layers (each layer at 4,704 x 3,136) to ensure the capture of full and complete color. Sigma has also done away with a low-pass filter. This allows for better capture of light and color. The camera is powered by two TRUE II processing engines.
The 50mm f/2.8 lens uses Special Low Dispersion (SLD) glass and aspherical elements that reduces aberrations and allows for improved image quality. Full manual control over image production is standard on the DP lineup. The camera has the ability to shoot in RAW mode, as well as shoot JPEGs. ISO sensitivities range from 100-6400, although shooting at anything above ISO 400 is not recommended. Movies can be recorded at 640×480 at 30 fps. However, as we have stated in our DP2 Merrill review, that clearly makes a statement that this is camera is meant for creating great still images, not recording stunning video.
If the camera is anything like its brothers (which we expect it to be), it will have amazing image quality but be lack-luster in AF speed and high ISO performance. That being said, we can't wait to get our hands on it. The Merrill lineup creates some beautiful images and we are excited to put it to the test. With the new Sigma Photo Pro 5.5 software upgrade we look forward to seeing B&W images produced in the monochrome mode.
The Sigma DP3 Merrill will be available in early March for the street price of $999.


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An conference call interview session with Joseph Barksdale, the second of two third-round draft picks:
(Note: DeMarcus Van Dyke was not available. The Raiders are scheduled to have all three picks at the facility for interview sessions Satruday)
Going from Detroit to LSU
It was a pretty long and extensive process as far as choosing what college to go to. But it ultimately depended on, the SEC is a pretty strong conference, and I wanted to go to a school that was successful in the SEC. I wanted to win, and LSU seemed to fit those criteria, as well as being able to graduate and putting an emphasis on education.
A former defensive tackle, using that mentality on offense
"Definitely. I'd been playing that position four years prior to switching to offensive line, so a lot of those certain mindsets and things like that I still keep with me."
The switch to offensive line
"When I first got there, the defensive tackle position was pretty deep … I went to coach Miles early and told him I wanted to help make an impact on the team, and he told me – he knew I would be a pretty good defensive tackle, but he said I could be a pretty good offensive tackle as well and suggested moving to offensive tackle because we were pretty thin at the time. So it was pretty much to help the team out."
Preference, left side or right side
"Not at all. I'm just trying to come in and be as productive as I can on whatever side they put me on."
Playing both guard and tackle
"I can play any position, anything that will help the team."
The transition from guard to tackle
"Probably a good two or three weeks."
Knowledge of Raiders history
"My dad actually told me a lot about the Raiders when I first started playing football, about how you guys have an overall winning tradition but hard-hitting defense and a fast-paced offense. I know a lot about the offensive line tradition as well. I know Oakland has a pretty good track record when it comes to developing offensive line talent."
Awareness of being on Raiders' radar
"Not really, man. I was just sitting around, probably like everyone else, just waiting on a phone call and being optimistic."
Location for draft
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According to Missoula County Sheriff's Captain Josh Clark, the search team composed of the Five Valley Back Country Ski Patrol and Missoula County Search and Rescue located Derek at 10:07 Thursday morning.
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Clark says that the lost skier was "cold and hungry," and no further physical injury has been discovered so far. A contact with the search and rescue team is scheduled to relay more information later today.
Deputy Gordon Schmill was on the search and rescue team and says that one of Wcislak's bindings broke while he was on the east side of paradise run. Luckilly, Wcislak was equipped with a backpack, lighter, shovel, and other necessary survival gear. Wcislak followed a drainage out through Grant Creek where he was eventually discovered by Search and Rescue.
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Original story - A young skier named Derek Wcislak became lost on Snowbowl Wednesday night. Search and Rescue crews were on the mountain until late Wednesday night.
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Saturday, September 15, 2007
Washcloths. Again.
I'm doing the 18-hour work thingie today and I'm pretty close to bagged, so I'm jamming out on the posting and hoping that I can placate you with views of more pretty washcloths.
These are from Lisa. Thank you!
These are lovely silky little cloths from Marina in Oregon -- all lacy and such.
Barb in Victoria sent these two cloths plus a bunch of little shampoos which I'm sure will be gratefully received.
Although I've clearly come to terms with the camera, more or less, every now and again I have a brain fart.
Apparently this was one of those times. I have no idea what happened here.
These five cloths are from Jessica in Beverley Hills. They're lovely ... and I certainly hope you bought stock in whatever company manufactures the tape you used to seal the box! (There were knives and cussing involved in the opening of this box).
These three washcloths are from Mrs. Quimby.
I had the honour of getting to watch her make most of one while watching her husband be a rock star.
She was knitting yellow yarn on yellow needles, while drinking beer and after drinking tequila.
She's my kinda gal.
And here's the other 12 cloths from Ann.
Several have pretty designs, and one is even heart-shaped!
Thank you so much, again.
That brings the total of cloths that I've posted to 75. Yes, there are another 42 already photographed, plus whatever's in the envelope that I picked up at my PO box yesterday. At least I think it was yesterday ... time's running together a little bit right now.
But never fear! Hubby is on the way back here with some sort of lunch (California roll and some tempura, I do believe) and he's making dinner tonight. There may well be some of that pinot noir that I seem to like marinating my butt in, as well.
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Sounds like my kind of knitting!
One tequila, 2 tequila, 3 tequila, floor.
You seem rather quiet, I vote for some time off and wine for you:)
One tequila, 2 tequila, 3 tequila, floor.
You seem rather quiet, I vote for some time off and wine for you:)
There's nothing like marinating in good pinot noir (or, hell, even not-so-good pinot noir) to make things better. Enjoy!
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London Riots? Blame The Blackberry!
from the oh-come-on deptThe London riots sound a bit crazy, but perhaps even crazier is the fact that officials now seem to want to blame messaging via Blackberry devices for the riots:
Steve Kavanagh, the deputy assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan police, said that "really inflamatory, inaccurate" messages on Twitter were mainly to blame for the disorder. "Social media and other methods have been used to organise these levels of greed and criminality," he said at a press conference on Monday afternoon.Ah, right, just like vocal cords, pamphlets, telephones and other communication tools "were mainly to blame" for previous riots. Hint to the Metropolitan police: if you're going to always blame the tool, you're not going to do a very good job dealing with riots. If people want to speak out, they'll figure out a way to speak out. It's not the technology that is to blame. The technology is just a tool, and if you block off one path, you can be damn sure that they'll figure out another path instead.
Of course, the downside of officials misleadingly blaming the technology is that you get folks like this Dutch politician who took to Twitter about this to ask why police don't just turn off Blackberry Messenger in London -- perhaps not realizing that shutting that channel of communications down wouldn't stop anything -- but likely would anger people even more.
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BUZZARDS BAY, MA- For the fourth year in a row, a University of Massachusetts Dartmouth cross country team has won their opening meet.
This year, it was the women who were victorious, as they finished first and the men finished third in their opening meet of the season, the Travis Fuller Invitational, hosted by Massachusetts Maritime along the shores of the Cape Cod Canal Saturday.
The women finished first place in a 12 team field, scoring 32 points, and outdistancing second place Emerson, which scored 86. The men scored 84 points. Bridgewater State won the men's race with 19 points, Emmanuel was second with 81 and Emerson third with 97.
For the women, senior Meaghan Bohigian (Barre, MA/Quabbin Regional HS) led the way, finishing second with a time of 18:51 for the three-mile course. Junior Courtney Testa (Hopkinton, MA/Hopkinton HS) was third in 18:54, freshman Samantha Roderigues (Somerset, MA/Somerset HS) was sixth in 19:38, freshman Katie Sheehan (Scituate, MA/Scituate HS) was ninth in 19:51, and freshman Samantha Hurley (Agawam, MA/Agawam HS) was 12th in 20:24. Senior Megan Oliveira (Somerset, MA/Somerset HS) was 13th in 20:30, senior Stacey Dybel (Littleton, MA/Notre Dame Academy) was 16th in 20:46, and freshman Carolyn Cornell (Abington, MA/Cardinal Spellman HS) was 46th in 22:41.
For the men, freshman Ben Girard (Manchester, MA/Manchester Essex HS) was seventh in 28:27 over the five mile course. Freshman Eric Karstunen (Pembroke, MA/Pembroke HS) was 11th in 28:57, sophomore Zach Switaj (Tamworth, NH/Kennett Regional HS) was 12th in 29:10, freshman Scott Bernazzani (Abington, MA/Cardinal Spellman HS) was 25th in 30:35, freshman Matt Ferro (Halifax, MA/Silver Lake HS) was 30th in 30:59, and freshman Paul Solem (Stoughton, MA/Stoughton HS) was 41st in 31:54.
"Our two teams are pretty different," said UMass Dartmouth Head Coach Jon Hird. "Our women's team has some seasoned seniors and a group of freshmen, while our men's team is almost entirely freshmen, and includes a sophomore who is running cross country for the first time. I thought it was a very good start for the women. Any time you have freshmen running in their first collegiate meet, it's exciting, and it can't get any better than that. For their first effort, third place was pretty good."
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[PS3/360/WiiU] Tekken Tag Tournament 2
Holy shit the fighting game renaissance continues!
lol @ Lily and Asuka @ the end, considering they were my sub and main in T6 respectively that's probably mt\y tag team. Pretty damn hyped for this since Tekken Tag was my fav Tekken.. spent so much on the arcade unit @ my Uni for this back in the day.
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This is great news. TTT is one of my favorite arcade fighting games of all time. Hopefully Jun makes it in so I'll have Kazuya and Jun as my team again. Along with Anna and Nina.
Add TTT2 along with MvC3, I'm set. Hopefully KOF XIII and VFFS gets a console release date soon.
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Jun might have a comeback after all:
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That's the concern of most fans too, but I think something will be worked on her. So far, I think Tekken has made good efforts on differentiating the movesets for the same martial arts practitioners. The Mishimas, for example. The movesets between Jin, Heihachi, Devil Jin, and Kazuya became more distinct since Tekken 4 up to now.
Hopefully she won't be a pallette swap of Asuka ^^;
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I'm so glad that she's being considered... but at the same time, if she ended up not making it into the game this announcement would lead to a bigger case of disappointment more than anything. I hope she's added into the game, I miss Jun.
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Location: Indonesia
Age: 30
^ Can't wait for that XD good to see that there's some kind of assist break. And IMO they should lower the juggle damage or increase the life bar.
Never played the first TTT before, but how do we pull a combo with 2 characters simultaneously? or it could only be done with a compatible pairing?
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Moe Land
Age: 38
The "Assist Break", like he said needs timing. I think the health bars are higher now, though I dunno about the juggles though and the wall combos seems very damaging to me most especially when both players are ganging up on an opponent.
The previous TTT game Bruce Irvine was a monster! He had too much cheap moves and needed to be rebalanced. The good fact is that Bruce had low Stamina to balance his cheapness, but still cheap as hell before. As for the combo's you cannot simultaneously be with your partner in the first TTT, but there are special tag assist like Paul and Law/Jin and Jun/King and Armor King and the generic tag in tag out, you can also attack using punch buttons for a dive and kick for a sliding sweep. Not sure if that engine is still present in TTT2.
Anyways Iam awaiting the storyline here on previous TTT all stories are non canon. Questionable though on some characters.
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – UC Santa Barbara's David Opoku has been called up to train with the Ghana U-23 National Team and will attempt to earn a spot on the squad that plays Nigeria this weekend in the All Africa Games qualifier.
The forward, who will begin his sophomore season with the Gauchos in August, was called up to the national team camp two weeks ago and has been training with the team for the past week. He has already played in one contest with the team, which they won, 3-2, last Thursday. He will play his second game on Wednesday, June 22.
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NAPLES, Fla. (AP) Moments after Na Yeon Choi tapped in for par to complete her two-shot win at the Titleholders, Inbee Park ran onto the 18th green at The TwinEagles Club and showered her with champagne.
Both South Koreans had reason to celebrate Sunday.
Choi captured the final event of the LPGA Tour season by atoning for a double bogey with an eagle on the front nine, and then playing it smart off the tee on the short 16th hole and hitting a superb sand wedge in which she had hardly any room for error. She closed with a 2-under 70 for a two-shot win over So Yeon Ryu.
Park was never in serious contention, though she needed a solid outing in the final round to lock up the LPGA Tour money title and capture the Vare Trophy for the lowest scoring average of the season.
That led to a debate of which Choi wanted no part. Who's the best South Korean in women's golf?
``Except me?'' Choi said.
She laughed in a rare moment of bravado.
``I think it seems that Inbee is playing really well this year. I think she has a lot of confidence from this year and I think she can play really well next year, too,'' Choi said.
The LPGA Tour closed up shop for the year with plenty up for grabs.
Stacy Lewis won four times and was the first American to win player of the year since Beth Daniel in 1994. Park won the Vare Trophy and the money title, the only woman to surpass $2 million in earnings this year. Right behind her was Choi, the 25-year-old who plays with such control. She won twice this year, but they were big ones - $585,000 from the U.S. Women's Open and $500,000 from the Titleholders, the two biggest prizes in women's golf.
The rookie of the year was Ryu, who doesn't seem like a rookie and certainly doesn't play like one. Ryu won the U.S. Women's Open last year before she was an LPGA member. She gave Choi all she could handle until Ryu three-putted for bogey on the 14th hole, and had to scramble for par on the 16th when Choi pulled ahead.
And don't forget Yani Tseng, who remains No. 1 in the women's world ranking.
The LPGA Tour now takes three months off, and the lasting image will be Choi's solid play that turned a great season into her best one yet. She won her first major in the summer at Blackwolf Run and then closed out the year with another big win at the Titleholders, giving her just under $2 million in earnings.
``I feel really great, and I'm really satisfied how I played - not just this week, but this season,'' Choi said.
It was the first time Choi's mother watched her win outside South Korea, and Choi kept it suspenseful with a double bogey on the third hole that created a four-way tie atop the leaderboard with so much golf left to play. Two holes later, Choi drilled a 3-wood from 240 yards and bounced onto the green and settled 10 feet away for eagle.
Choi and Ryu pulled away from the field, and it felt like high noon over Seoul the rest of the way.
``I was very nervous last night,'' Choi said. ``I told people that leading the tournament, there's always extra pressure. Even on front nine, when I had the double bogey and tie for first place, I felt more comfortable than leading. Maybe that sounds a little weird. I like chasing somebody, and then I can play more aggressive.''
Choi and Ryu each made birdie on the par-3 12th that enabled Choi to keep a one-shot lead. Ryu then hit 3-wood into about 25 feet for a two-putt birdie on the 13th to tie for the lead. But on the next hole, she didn't account for the wind making her 30-foot birdie putt faster than it looked. The putt went some 6 feet by the hole, and a three-putt bogey cost her a share of the lead. She never caught up the rest of the way.
``I learn one more thing,'' Ryu said. ``I have to think about the wind strength at the green.''
Choi took it from there, and seized control on the 16th, which can be reached off the tee with a big drive. Her caddie, Jason Hamilton, didn't think it was worth the risk. Anything short leaves an awkward pitch, which is what Ryu ended up facing. Anything too close to the green and to the left leaves a blind pitch to the back of the three-tiered green, and par becomes a good score.
Choi hit 3-wood to the left side of the fairway and a 52-wedge to a tiny spot on an elevated green she couldn't see.
``Left side of the fairway is a better angle to the second shot,'' Choi said. ``I think the pin was at 79 yards, but I just landed it almost at the pin. I tried to land it almost to the pin. There's not a lot of room.''
It checked up and trickled to 3 feet, and she was on her way.
Brittany Lincicome also closed with a 70 at The TwinEagles Club for finish alone in third. Karrie Webb had a 69 to finish another shot behind.
``I'm really happy with how I played this season,'' Choi said. ``I won my first major and even this tournament is very big for me. I think I can have even bigger expectations now and think I deserve it.''
She is becoming known as ``Big Apple'' because of her initials - NYC - and she sure knows how to pick the right tournaments to win. Her wins at the U.S. Women's Open and the Titleholders provided about 55 percent of her season earnings. This win couldn't have come at a better time.
Her mother came over to help her buy a new house in Orlando on Monday.
``I talked to my mom last night and said if I win this week we can buy a bigger house,'' Choi said.


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On a recent Glendale night, the customary cold stillness of the 1100 block North Pacific Avenue in Glendale was agreeably jostled. At about 9, the warm sounds emerging from the Neat Bar doorway added welcome vitality to the commercial street that bisects placid residential blocks.
Singer and keyboardist Dave Damiani has initiated a Wednesday jazz series at the Neat, making it a hospitable destination for listeners and musicians alike. After opening with guitarist Nick Mancini and vocalist Gina Saputo, Damiani brought his own Jazzadelics band in. The music, the fine musicians, the easy atmosphere and the well-stocked bar make Wednesday night jazz at the Neat a scene with the potential of becoming a real scene.
Damiani met Neat owner Aidan Demerest when they both tended bar at the Hotel Sofitel in Los Angeles. Demerest had the ability to create innovative mixed drinks, which he's carried over to Neat.
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Their book is full of standards: Great American Songbook fare, show tunes and jazz anthems. Time and again, the choices skirted the obvious yet mined fine material: "Don't Be on the Outside," "I'm Old-Fashioned," Matt Dennis' "Everything Happens to Me," "How Little We Know" and Bobby Hebb's "Sunny." Damiani's retooled Angeleno lyrics to "Come Fly With Me" brought smiles: "… in Dodgerland there's a taco stand...."
It's a fine quartet with many virtues. Zweig's hollow-body Ibanez — played with a flat plectrum or a thumb-pick — is unfailingly tasty, with lyrical flourishes. Damiani is an agreeable singer but his KORG keyboard turns into a Hammond B3 on the swinging "Sunny." He's also an engaging frontman, whose own "The World is Against Me" is a gently comic pity party.
The young players portend great things. Witek is a meticulous yet flexible drummer. He administers the pulse yet embellishes with small but meaningful touches: a metal brush handle scraped across the diameter of a cymbal on Frank Foster's "Shiny Stockings," or harmonized cymbal bell taps to Miles Davis' "If I Were a Bell," intro reveal careful attention to detail and vocabulary.
Thiroux plays contrabass with a firm and nimble touch. She phrases her solo on "Outside" as a horn player might, complete with breathing spaces. She also sings in a lyrical, Chet Baker manner, leavened by a swing sensibility. She's overly reliant on scatting, something she'll probably outgrow. As Thiroux studies privately with bass giant John Clayton and Witek with Clayton's musical brother, ace drummer Jeff Hamilton, they're a musical team that functions together admirably.
Wednesdays at Neat hold many pleasant surprises indeed.
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Effective October 1, 2013 Able-Bodied Adults Without Dependents (ABAWD) will no longer be exempt from the SNAP Employment & Training requirements. This means that adults who are able to work and don't have dependents (ABAWD) can only get SNAP benefits for three months in a 36-month period unless they meet at least one of the following:
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- You are pregnant
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