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The Regency Bristol3 Self rated
40 - 44 St Pauls Road Clifton, Bristol, BS8 1LR
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Located on St. Pauls Road, Clifton, Bristol, The Regency Bristol Hotel truly lives up to its name. Dating from Victorian times, our newly-refurbished hotel blends classic period charm with the very best in contemporary comforts.
The Regency Bristol provides 30 guest rooms and suites of various sizes, all of which have been newly-refurbished to the highest standards (including free WiFi) to ensure your stay is relaxing and enjoyable. Due to the Hotel's Grade II listed status and layout there are no lift facilities; however, our concierge service is there to help make your stay easy and hassle free.
During your stay, you can unwind in the Shisha Bar, with its beautiful-heated canopies and outdoor terraces. The hotel serves continental breakfast at an additional charge and this can be booked through reception upon arrival. The Hotel is ideally situated within walking distance of the City's main attractions. These include The Cabot Circus Shopping Centre, the theatre district and the famous Bristol Harbourside, as well as many other Events and Attractions.
Whether you are staying on business or taking a well-earned break, your comfort and well being is paramount to us. Our friendly, professional and dedicated team are committed to making your stay with us a memorable one
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I have been in the retirement plan industry for more than 31 years and attend the top industry conferences, seminars and view dozens of webinars every year.
I've been fortunate enough to have been invited to speak or to be a presenter or panelist at many industry events over the years. This has afforded my firm, our associates and me the luxury of being able to see what services the very best 401(k) advisers and advisory firms are delivering to their clients right now, as we approach the start of another "plan year."
Every December, as we end one plan year and approach another, many of the prospective clients, plan sponsors, human resources and finance professionals I speak with ask me, "what are the best, the brightest and the most highly respected advisory firms doing differently this year?"
Having many friendships and relationships with some of this industry's most highly respected and successful 401(k) advisory firms, I'll list for you below, (in my opinion), the four most important and effective things that we see the very best advisers doing to help make their clients' 401(k) plans the best they can be:
Focus on 401(k) participants
Twenty years ago it was common practice for a company to engage one person or firm to act as a stockbroker, life insurance agent, property/casualty/health insurance broker and oversee the company's 401(k) plan. Today, after "surviving" 408(b)(2), 404(a)(5), the Pension Protection Act and accepting the general acknowledgment that Americans are critically underprepared for retirement, it has become an industry "best practice" to retain a firm or adviser who focuses 100% of his attention on the 401(k) plan and the participants of those plans.
Remember, the preamble to ERISA requires fiduciaries to act "solely in the interest of the plan's participants and beneficiaries and for the exclusive purpose of providing benefits and defraying reasonable expenses of administering the plan."
Many plan sponsors are working with advisers to build a "fiduciary brick wall" between 401(k) plan services and other services provided to the firm such as insurance and ancillary financial products. Many see this as a question of potential "conflict of interest." Many employers are requiring potential advisers sign a "conflict of interest" statement that would potentially disclose any such conflicts.
Rollovers done right
The best firms have found ways to help plan participants become very well educated about the options available at retirement or job change time. Well-informed participants can work with the adviser who assists them in going directly to the providers of rollover products, such as investment and annuity vendors, without an intermediary taking commissions off the top (this can leave more money in the participant's account).
This "focus" on the 401(k) plan participant has helped weed out brokers who have in the past used their clients' 401(k) plans to sell high commission rollover annuity products or have encouraged participants to get their assets out of plans after age 59 ½, with earning a higher commission as the broker's goal.
Don't misunderstand, there are many instances where participants truly need professional assistance and there are countless industry professionals who earn every dollar they charge the individual clients they work with. The trend is, however, for advisers helping participants learn all they can about their options and assisting the individual in making an informed decision about what they require for future services.
Educate differently
The very best advisers and firms have transitioned away from seeing "education" as simply something that they rely completely on the record-keeping vendor personnel for. Much of this "educational support" has morphed into vendor provided representatives reading through script after script of pre-prepared PowerPoint slides that describe traditional subjects such as style boxes and target date funds.
The very best advisers have learned that the most effective "educational support" is personalized and customized for the target group and teaches subjects such as "how to calculate your progress towards retirement readiness." It also may include offering participants "investment advice" and personal "one on one" meetings to discuss individual circumstances. This is where advisers and advisory firms earn their fees. Ten years ago, the "best advisers" were those with the thickest and most impressive quarterly report books. Today, the best advisers are those really helping all plan participants prepare themselves and their families for retirement.
A subset of "educating differently" involves advisers who not only help participants better understand their employer's 401(k) plan and how to use it, but in helping them learn how to become better consumers, better savers and more efficient spenders.
I've long been a big fan of encouraging participants to read all they can about financial services and consumer spending issues, such as credit card use and personal credit management. Providing creative and novel ideas about how participants can get out of credit cards debt, reducing non critical spending (such as cable TV and cellphones) can help interested participants free up 401(k) plan savings that they didn't know existed.
These are a few examples of some things the best advisers are delivering in educational support services.
Vendor reviews every three years
In the past, many traditional "broker" driven relationships between clients and vendors were financially encouraged to retain the same vendor for long periods of time and to rarely challenge what is in place. Today, the best advisers and firms are conducting formal vendor reviews approximately every three years, partially as a fiduciary governance "best practice."
The data from these vendor reviews becomes part of the client's fiduciary audit file for long term archival and storage. This data also provides a framework for judging the "reasonableness" of fees being charged, as is required by the Department of Labor and the new fee regulations.
With the past 30 years in this country having witnessed the trend away from tradition defined benefit pension plans and toward virtual full reliance on 401(k) type programs, the role of the 401(k) plan adviser has evolved as well. Some service models that flourished 15 years ago are no longer viable.
Advisors of the future must learn to focus professional time and attention on the plan participant, his family and his future.
The opinions voiced in this material are for general information only and are not intended to provide specific advice or recommendations for any individual. To determine which investment(s) may be appropriate for you, consult your financial adviser prior to investing.
Securities offered through LPL Financial, Member Finra/SIPC. Investment advice offered through Independent Financial Partners, a registered investment adviser and separate entity from LPL Financial.

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Corinne D. "Cookie" Kuntz
Corinne D. "Cookie" Kuntz, 85, a resident at the Hacienda Rehab and Care Center in Sierra Vista, Ariz., and formerly of Elk Towers and 119 Maurus St., St. Marys, died on Sunday, Feb. 19, 2012 following a lengthy illness.She was born Feb. 15, 1927 in St. Marys, a daughter of the late Clarence T. and Gertrude Klausman Decker. On Nov. 5, 1949 in Sacred Heart Church, she married the late Francis L."Frank" Kuntz, who preceded her in death on Sept. 29, 2005.Mrs. Kuntz graduated from Central High School in the Class of 1945, and from St. Vincent School of Nursing in 1948, where she became a registered nurse. She was a member of the Sacred Heart Church, where she had volunteered for many years. She had also volunteered and had been active with the Cub Scout, where she had also served as a den mother. She was also a member of the Nurse's Study Club and enjoyed going for walks.She is survived by four sons, James J. Kuntz and his wife Sandra of Sierra Vista, Ariz., Gregory J. Kuntz and his wife Camille of Moon Twp., Phillip G. Kuntz and his wife Andrea of Mentor, Ohio; and Major Daniel F. Kuntz and his wife Brenda of Ft. Gordon, Ga., nine grandchildren, Samantha, Jennifer, Erica and Zachery, Matthew, Michael, Patrick, Nathan and Holden; three great-grandsons, Roger James "RJ," Ryan Michael, and Roger James; a brother, William H. Decker and his wife Thomasine of St. Marys; and a sister, Ruth Anne, Mrs. Donald Goetz of St. Marys. A Mass of Christian Burial for Corinne D. "Cookie" Kuntz will be celebrated at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church, 325 Center St., St. Marys, on Saturday, Feb. 25, 2012 at 10 a.m., with the Rev. Eric Vogt, O.S.B., as celebrant. Burial will follow in the St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery.Visitation will be at the Lynch-Green Funeral Home, 151 N. Michael St., St. Marys on Friday evening from 5 to 8 p.m. Memorial contributions may be made to a favorite charity. Online condolences may be placed at www.LynchGreen.com.
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Human evolution: From a note to a friend:
A friend had published an essay on controversies over human evolution, which prompted me to write:
One thing we might do well to keep in mind is t hat little is known about early humans - compared, say, to what we know about the Roman Empire.
As a result, the field is rife with speculation, but the speculation is often represented as fact. Changing opinion based on fragmentary information is represented as growth of knowledge in the field.
The problem is that one opinion rules out another rather than adding to a body of knowledge.
Just yesterday, I noted an article that claims that Neanderthal Man died out because homo sapiens ate them:The controversial suggestion follows publication of a study in the Journal of Anthropological Sciences about a Neanderthal jawbone apparently butchered by modern humans. Now the leader of the research team says he believes the flesh had been eaten by humans, while its teeth may have been used to make a necklace.
Fernando Rozzi, of Paris's Centre National de la Récherche Scientifique, said the jawbone had probably been cut into to remove flesh, including the tongue. Crucially, the butchery was similar to that used by humans to cut up deer carcass in the early Stone Age. "Neanderthals met a violent end at our hands and in some cases we ate them," Rozzi said.
Izzatso? Based on the above "vast mass" of evidence?
We don't know why the 'thals went extinct, and there are usually a number of causes of an extinction.And other scientists are not exactly buying into this theory. For one thing, it isn't clear why they didn't eat us.
People read this stuff because they are interested. No harm is done if no one takes it seriously. But some do because it supports their atheistic worldview, in the same way that some Christians take End Times speculation seriously. The former, however, are more likely to receive respect from academic sources, and that matters.
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Top 25 highest-paid athletes in the world
Tiger Woods was dethroned on Sports Illustrated's list of the 50 richest athletes in America by Floyd Mayweather. Now thatForbes has compiled their list of the world's 100 highest-paid athletes the numbers have changed. Does an American top the list? Is it Floyd Mayweather or someone new?
(Rankings courtesy of Forbes)
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Travalena, who began treatment for an aggressive form of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2002 and saw the disease return last July after going into remission in 2003, died Sunday at his home in Encino, according to his publicist, Roger Neal. Travalena also was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2003 but had been in complete remission since then.
Dubbed "The Man of a Thousand Faces" and "Mr. Everybody," Travalena emerged on the national stage as an impressionist in the early 1970s.
Over the next three decades, he was a headliner in Las Vegas, Reno and Atlantic City, performed in concerts across the country, appeared on "The Tonight Show" and other talk shows and starred in his own specials, such as "The Many Faces of Fred Travalena" and "Comedy in the Oval Office."
The boyish-faced entertainer is said to have had a repertoire of more than 360 celebrity, political and cartoon-character voices, including Clint Eastwood, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Joe Pesci, Robert De Niro, Henry Kissinger, Donald Rumsfeld, Johnny Mathis, Bruce Springsteen and Luciano Pavarotti.
"I've known impressionists who have reached a wall where they can't do any more" voices, Travalena told the Omaha World-Herald in 1996. "I don't have that problem, thank God."
In one part of his act, Travalena physically and vocally "morphed" into all of the U.S. presidents, from John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush.
He also was known to sing "Have I Told You Lately" in various voices, including Kermit the Frog ("Have I told you lately that I love you"), Katharine Hepburn ("Have I told you there's no one else above you") and Frank Sinatra ("You fill my heart with gladness . . . ")
The imaginative entertainer even did Sinatra imitating Boy George.
Of Italian and Irish heritage, Travalena was born Oct. 6, 1942, in the Bronx, N.Y., and grew up on Long Island.
When it came to impressions, he had an early role model: his father, a onetime entertainer who sang and performed comedy and impressions.
"He got me doing church shows when I was just a little kid," Travalena recalled in a 1998 interview on "The Crier Report" on Fox News Network. "I used to do an impression of [singer] Johnny Ray."
In school, he said, he learned to deal with bullies by imitating a Martian voice or Porky Pig. And he found he could deflect a teacher's question of why he didn't do his homework by making her laugh with his impression of Crazy Guggenheim, the goofy character played on TV by Frank Fontaine during the "Joe the Bartender" sketches on Jackie Gleason's show.
During a stint in the Army's Special Services, Travalena won the All-Army Entertainment Award for best singer and once impersonated President Lyndon Johnson's voice on the base theater's answering machine to announce the movies and show times.
Although he told the New York Times in 1989 that he was "headed for the commercial art field," Travalena said, "That wasn't getting me up in the morning, and I couldn't get show business out of my mind."
At one point after launching his career as a singer, he and his singer wife, Lois, were performing together at Andrews Air Force Base near Washington.
As recounted in a 1989 New York Times story, Lois surprised her husband by spontaneously asking the audience, "How'd you like to hear Fred do impressions?"
He went on to impersonate Dean Martin, Paul Lynde, Jim Nabors and Presidents Kennedy and Johnson.
"People liked it," he later said.
Travalena reportedly was performing at a resort hotel in the Catskills when impressionist Rich Little was in the audience. After the show, Little congratulated Travalena and later recommended him for a spot in British celebrity journalist David Frost's show at the Riviera in Las Vegas.
Travalena joined Little, Frank Gorshin and other impressionists as a regular on the "ABC Comedy Hour," the 1972 comedy-variety show, which was known in reruns as the "ABC Comedy Hour Presents the Kopycats."
In 1974, he opened for Shirley MacLaine at the MGM Grand and later opened for other Vegas performers such as Mathis, Davis, Wayne Newton and Andy Williams.
Travalena's talent for vocal mimicry led to a side career dubbing in clean dialogue to replace offensive words in feature films bound for airing on television -- including Pesci in "Casino," De Niro in "Brazil" and Sean Connery in "Just Cause."
Travalena made occasional guest appearances on TV series such as "The Love Boat" and "Murphy Brown," as well as on "Hollywood Squares" and other game shows. He also did voices on a number of TV cartoon series and appeared in the 1978 movie "The Buddy Holly Story."
In recent years, he turned to songwriting and singing and released CDs, including "We All Need Love Today" and "The Spirit of America."
Travalena received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2005.
He is survived by his wife of 39 years, Lois; sons Fred IV and Cory; and a granddaughter, Sophia.
Funeral services will be private.
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Option 1: You can choose to pay the amount due each month. This amount will vary from month to month, depending on overall usage and pricing.
Option 2: If you prefer to have equal and predictable bills each month, you can select our "Equal Payment Plan" (EPP) option*. Your monthly bill will be determined based on the average expected cost for your apartment type, spread over a 12-month lease term.
If you choose this option, your account balance will be "trued up" each September and, upon move out, in your final bill, to bring your balance to zero. Credit balances will be refunded at this time, and any outstanding balance will be due in full. Periodic reviews/adjustments may occur, as well.
The monthly EPP billing statement will show:
- The actual charges for that billing period**
- The equal payment amount due
- The total amount due in order to bring the account to a zero balance
This information is provided each month so that you can accurately track your account balance.
* EPP option may not be available at all communities.
** Your monthly bill reflects cost and usage from a previous period, to allow time for processing of master utility bill.
YES Energy Management is a third-party vendor that Home Properties has partnered with to manage utility billing. You will receive your bills directly from YES Energy Management.
YES Energy Management Resident Relations:
- Toll-free phone: 1-844-898-2354
- Hours of operation: 8:00 a.m. - 11:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, Eastern Time.
- Payment mailing address for checks: Contact your community's leasing office.
You may call YES Energy Management Resident Relations for assistance with the following:
- Billing method explanation
- Payment information
- EPP (Budget billing) definition
You can visit YES Energy Management online for assistance with the following:
- View your account history
- Reprint your last bill
Please contact your community office for assistance with the following:
- Change the name, occupant count, or date of move in, move out, or on-site transfer
- To sign up for or be removed from the Equal Payment Plan (EPP) option
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February 15, 2007
By JOHN FLOWERS
MIDDLEBURY — Some local entrepreneurs, college officials and economic development leaders are talking about the possibility of establishing a new plant that would produce biomass pellets and transform them into steam energy to generate heat and electricity for several businesses in Middlebury's industrial park.
Plans are still very conceptual at this point, as prospective players in the project are still crunching numbers to see if a biomass pellet/cogeneration facility would be economically and logistically viable for Middlebury. But those involved in the planning are very upbeat.
"This is very promising," said Morgan Wolaver, owner of Otter Creek Brewing, one of the potential participants. "It's not completely confirmed, but I think there is a more than 50-percent certainty it could happen."
February 12, 2007
MIDDLEBURY — The developer of The Center shopping plaza in Middlebury wants to build a Starbucks Coffee shop that would be erected at the site of the former Route 7 Car Wash, next to McDonald's Restaurant.
Plans on file with the Middlebury Planning Commission show a 1,749-square-foot Starbucks shop that would feature 25 parking spaces and drive-through service.
Representatives of Myron M. Hunt Inc. and Mill Bridge Construction — the prospective contractor for the project — are scheduled to discuss their plans with the Middlebury Planning Commission on Monday, Feb. 12.
"We are very excited about doing this," said Chris Hunt, a partner in Myron Hunt Inc. "We see it as a big improvement over the car wash property as it exists today, and as a great amenity for the town."
By CYRUS LEVESQUE
BRISTOL — Eight candidates will be on the Town Meeting Day ballot for seats on the Bristol Board of Selectmen. Incumbent John "Peeker" Heffernan is unopposed in his effort to be re-elected to a two-year term, but seven candidates are vying for the two other open seats.
Ted Lylis, Nate Bouvier and Carol Wells are all running for the three-year seat that will vacated by Selectman Dave Sharpe, who announced last month that he would not seek re-election. Sharon Compagna is one of four candidates to fill the remaining year in the seat held for seven years by her husband, Armand Compagna, who died Jan. 12. Peter Diminico, Ken Johnson, and Pam Jennings are also running for the one-year seat.
February 8, 2007
ADDISON COUNTY — The latest setbacks for Specialty Filaments and Standard Register are emblematic of what has been a multi-year slide in the manufacturing industry both locally and statewide, prompting economic development officials to refine the manner in which they recruit new businesses.
Addison County last month receive two doses of bad news from the manufacturing industry when Specialty Filaments and Standard Register announced they would be closing, resulting in the elimination of a combined total of 287 jobs.
Specialty Filaments received a reprieve when the Illinois-based Thomas Monahan Co. bought the business out of bankruptcy and reopened it on Monday with roughly 60 percent of its previous 175-member workforce. But Standard Register will lay off the last of its 112 Middlebury employees next month, while putting its 115,000-square-foot building on Route 7 South up for sale.
BRISTOL — The 2007 session may be only a month old, but the familiar topics of school funding, the Iraq War and better maintenance of the state's roads and bridges are topics already surfacing to the top of the Vermont Legislature's agenda.
Local lawmakers discussed those and other issues at the season's first legislative breakfast, held at American Legion Post 19 in Bristol on Monday. Area legislators — some of them recently appointed to committee leadership posts — gave the approximately 30 breakfast attendees an early glimpse at what has been going on under the Golden Dome.
They explained education-funding reform has already been making some headlines. Gov. James Douglas, along with Vermont House and Senate leaders, presented a unified front late last week in endorsing a property tax reform strategy that would emphasize cuts and new economies of scale, rather than tax increases.
February 8, 2007
By MEGAN JAMES
MIDDLEBURY — Every time Marichal Gentry calls Comcast to ask why Black Entertainment Television (BET) isn't included in his standard cable package — he's been doing this regularly since 1999 when Adelphia was the local provider — the representative offers the same curt explanation: Sorry sir, the market just doesn't demand it.
This isn't news to Gentry. The associate dean of Middlebury College, who grew up in North Carolina, has lived in Middlebury for eight years as part of one of Addison County's smallest minority groups: African Americans. He is used to having unique needs.
Here in Vermont, he scours Shaw's Supermarket for soul food to satiate his southern taste buds. He treks up to Horizons Salon in Essex Junction to get his hair cut by an African American woman who has experience working with black hair. And he leaves the state frequently, traveling to North Carolina and Tennessee where he can sing with his choir, visit his family and stock up on the recorded gospel music that's difficult to find up north.
February 5, 2007
By JOHN FLOWERS, CYRUS LEVESQUE AND MEGAN JAMES
MIDDLEBURY — Several Addison County schools will be asking local voters on Town Meeting Day to borrow up to $25,000 for federally mandated water system improvements.
At issue are provisions of the federal Safe Drinking Water Act that require public schools to have water disinfection systems wipe out any impurities that might be found during regular water tests.
"The goal is to oversee safe delivery of water from the source to the end-user tap," said Tim Raymond, water systems operations manager for the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation's (DEC) Water Supply Division.
BRISTOL — On Town Meeting Day, Bristol residents will weigh in on a proposed 2007-2008 town budget that would increase spending by 3.85 percent from the current year to $1,783,146. The budget, approved by Bristol selectmen last week, includes $1,436,546 to be raised by taxes, an increase of 4.27 percent over the current fiscal year.
If approved, the spending plan would increase the Bristol municipal tax rate to about 55.5 cents per $100 of property value, an increase of about 2.25 cents.
Voted appropriations made up the second-smallest section of the budget, at $351,925, but the largest percentage increase in expenditures, with an 8.56 percent increase over the current fiscal year. All the money for these appropriations, which include things like $15,000 for Howden Hall restoration, would be raised from taxes.
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Middlesex Certainly Exists When It Comes To Adult Dating
For Adult Dating enthusiasts, the question of whether the county of Middlesex still exists is purely academic. It may only be a postal area these days but it offers one of the best Adult Dating scenes anywhere in the U.K. This article reveals why this is the case. It also provides some facts and figures for adult Dating in the county.
In actual geographical size, Middlesex is the second smallest of English counties, occupying an area of just six hundred square kilometres. But this smallness is more than made up for by the huge population packed into its area. At the time the county was dissolved as an administrative one the population was already 2.25 million. The population of the same area today is no longer measured but it will have undoubtedly increased dramatically since figure was recorded in 1961. What this means to people who live in Middlesex and are looking to find adult dating partners in the county, is that they can hardly fail. Such an enormous population in such a small geographical area will inevitably be represented in the numbers of couples and singles who are registered with swingers clubs, dating sites and generally active on the adult scene throughout the county.
To confirm that this is the case, I looked at the numbers of people based in Middlesex registered with online swinger clubs. One of the foremost swinger clubs and adult dating sites, Club Aphrodite has a successful postal and non-internet part whose membership figures I also took into account.
On this basis and after allowing for the duplication that occurs through people registering on several different sites, the numbers of people actively participating in adult dating in Middlesex is 4400. This figure comprises of 1500 couples, 1600 single males and 1300 single females. These are very impressive figures indeed and would suggest that anyone based in Middlesex can do all their adult dating locally without needing to travel further afield.
Middlesex's potential as an excellent county for this kind of activity is not just about the number of adult contacts it has to offer however. The county also happens to have one the finest, well appointed and largest adult party venues in the U.K. It is located in a village very close to Heathrow and offers meetings and parties every weekend on Fridays and Saturdays, plus regular midweek events, usually on Wednesday nights.
The way to receive invites to parties held at this venue and at the many privately hosted parties and meetings that take place all over Middlesex is to join with a large swinger club and adult dating site, like Club Aphrodite. Even in a county like Middlesex with so much going for it, things won't happen just by sitting back and waiting. Take a look at the advice articles I have written on how to get the best out of adult dating and swinging. They will teach you how to create a great profile and become a popular member of your chosen adult-dating club. That way, you'll soon be receiving all the invitations you can handle.
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Washington Politician Tries to Take Away Veteran's Gun in a Public Meeting [VIDEO]
Watch a city councilman try to use democracy to strip a veteran of his constitutional right to exercise the 2nd Amendment.
We're expecting this story to go national. During a city council meeting the topic of guns came up and citizen Lucas Yonkman stood up, announced he was a disabled veteran, had spent five years in Afghanistan serving our country, and carried a fire arm every day as part of his job to protect people. He said he hoped everyone felt safer because of people like him. Then council member Rick Almberg (firstname.lastname@example.com) wanted to know if he had a gun in the meeting (and apparently had pushed to make Yonkman remove his hat earlier in the meeting). The city attorney said that wasn't really his place to ask, but Yonkman volunteered that he did have a concealed weapon, along with a concealed weapon permit, along with hours of training as a professional, along with the battle scars he received defending his right to carry.
Almberg proposed a motion (that the city attorney later said was illegal) to have him check the weapon at the door, or leave. The motion was voted down, and Almberg got up and left. Mayor Scott Dudley then gave an eloquent speech explaining the city council's responsibility is to defend and protect citizens' civil rights and that he, for one, felt safer having Yonkman in the room. Check out the good part here:


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October 2013 Plant Profile: Hypericum Hypearls™
Since our sample plants arrived three years ago from Blooms of Bressingham, this series of hybrid St. John's Wort has really impressed us with their vigor, beauty, and reliability out in the garden. These short shrubs are wonderful in bedding; not only are their showy yellow flowers attractive, it's the fruit on these tidy plants that are the main draw.
Luminous pink to captivating corals, they often will be blooming and fruiting at the same time making them exquisite in floral arrangements. Even the ripened black fruit remain intact and are quite ornamental.
Common Name: Hybrid St. John's Wort
Location: Blooms of Bressingham Plant Trials
Origin: Garden Origin
Height and Spread: 2-3′ high x 3″ wide
Bloom/Fruit Time: Mid-June-Frost


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Martha Jefferson, Region Ten partner on clinic
Region Ten and Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital are pleased to announce the opening of the Sentara Peterson Health Center. Located in downtown Charlottesville, the center will bring primary care services to consumers already benefiting from Region Ten's behavioral health services, as well as provide primary care services to anyone in the area who needs it.
"The idea for this center has been germinating for a few years," said Robert Johnson, executive director for Region Ten. "Just over a year ago I started talking with the team at Martha Jefferson about our desire to have a clinic that adds behavioral health and primary care, and it grew from there."
"This partnership allows both organizations to do what we do best," noted Ron Cottrell, vice president of business development for the Blue Ridge region of Sentara. "Martha Jefferson knows how to get people the appropriate medical care in the appropriate setting and Region Ten knows behavioral health care. Together, we have created something that is much better than if either of us tried to do it alone."
The center will be open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and be staffed with a physician as well as two nurse practitioners. The Sentara Peterson Health Center provides preventative care, including vaccines and physicals, treatment of acute illnesses, diabetes and high blood pressure management, women's health services and geriatric medicine.
Primary care services are critical in treating people with mental health issues for a number of reasons. Many patients have modifiable risk factors, such as smoking, obesity and inactivity, as well as social isolation, unemployment and poverty and a lack of access to care. The Sentara Peterson Health Center aims to help alleviate many of these factors by removing barriers to primary health care.
"Patients can come for appointments with their case managers at Region Ten and have their healthcare visit on the same day," noted Johnson. "Case managers may even go to appointments with patients to ensure they understand what they need to do for their physical health as well as their mental health."
"This Center provides a new model that has not existed in our community before and I believe Charlottesville will quickly realize the great benefit of this partnership," said Cottrell.


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The Curriculum and Requirements
The general education requirements at Western Connecticut State University are designed to expose students to the broad spectrum of human knowledge in the areas of writing and communication skills, humanities, social and behavioral sciences, natural and computational sciences, and health promotion and exercise sciences. Students matriculated for all degrees are required to complete courses in these five broad areas.
University Senate Committee on General Education
The Committee on General Education was established in March 2005 to "…ensure that the general education curriculum is consistent with the mission of Western Connecticut State University, the State of Connecticut's general education requirements, and the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC) accreditation standards."


text: hi since 220.127.116.11 it seems no more possible to activate the "Remote Access" for a database and allow "any" IP to connect to it. if i leave the "Remote Access IPs (separate by , and leave blank for any)" field blank and save the settings and then go back, the default IP address is entered, instead of having a blank field and the desired "any" access. can somebody confirm this bug? UPDATE: if i add the IP address manually, the "default IP" is always added to that list. so that explains why an empty field doesn't result in "any" :-( greets KoS


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John Corson III
OASIS - May 1964
John Corson Recalls . . .
Former Director of BOASI Recounts
WHEN JOHN CORSON, DIRECTOR of the Bureau of Old-Age and Survivors Insurance during much of its formative period, addressed a general staff meeting at the Social Security Administration headquarters recently, he evoked memories for many in the audience who had shared those stirring times with him.
John Corson is now professor of public and international affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, and a partner in a leading management consultant firm. But, earlier, from 1936 to 1938, he was Assistant Executive Director of the Social Security Board, and, for two periods between 1938 and 1944, he was Director of the Bureau of Old-Age and Survivors Insurance.
Unique Contribution
"I think," said Mr. Ball, on introducing the speaker, "there are really, among those who worked for the Social Security Board in the early days, three giants-Arthur Altmeyer (first Commissioner for Social Security), Wilbur Cohen (Assistant Secretary, Health, Education, and Welfare, who served with Social Security for 20 years), and John Corson . . . [who] have left more of their own personal mark on the institution . . . than any other individuals."
In summarizing "the unique things that John and his associates in those early days did," that have characterized our program and made it different, Commissioner Ball suggested three principal points.
John Corson and other pioneers had "a conviction that everything about the program and its administration should be designed for the benefit of the public . . . [for] service to the people in a friendly, helpful, sympathetic way in a face-to-face relationship in district offices [combined] with efficient and economic service behind the scenes," in processing the vast amount of paperwork, keeping of wage records, and handling other administrative detail.
Secondly, continued Mr. Ball, the program was considered to be part of a great cause, "a very significant part of the agelong war on poverty; John and his associates had much more than just a job--they had a mission."
And finally, these men had an "imaginative and pioneering attitude toward administration and management . . . It takes administrators like John Corson," the Commissioner concluded, "to make a living reality out of a cause, out of an ideal."
Looking indeed "a little young for a legend," John Corson spoke of many pleasant memories from his years of association with Social Security in its beginnings. "If you don't look back on those early days with great satisfaction," he continued in a more serious vein, "there's something wrong with you, even those who came in later. For you--all of us--can claim that of the 180 million people in the United States of America, you're just a handful, really just a handful, that had the rare opportunity, the real privilege, of developing one of the social institutions of this country that is now accepted, and accepted in the fullest sense."
In the beginning this was not so; it was not even sure that the social security system had a future, at all. "In the year 1936," Mr. Corson noted, "it was very uncertain that the Supreme Court would hold it constitutional. . . . They thought they'd worked out a scheme for unemployment insurance that would hold under a Supreme Court ruling, but they didn't really believe that they had better, at the most, than a 50-50 chance of getting the old-age and survivors insurance provisions through the Supreme Court."
Early Doubts
There also were many then who doubted that a system based on individual wage records could be administered. John Winant, first Chairman of the Social Security Board, was much concerned at the many expressions of uncertainty on this score. He invited a consultant to study our problems and advise us. After several months of study, this expert said, "It simply can't be done."
This was also the conclusion of a second outstanding consultant, who talked about "these millions and millions of little pieces of white paper that would inundate the Bureau"; it would be totally impossible to manage such a system.
"Well," Mr. Corson declared, "there are a couple of hundred people, many of them right here, some gone, that weathered these uncertainties and are responsible in considerable part for the fact that the American people do have a system of this sort. . . . It works very well."
"I'm very proud of this Administration, infinitely proud of it," the former Director exclaimed. He said he often hears Marion Folsom, former Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, and a member of the 1963 Advisory Council on Social Security, make the statement that in his experience in government he never found any organization that exceeded the efficiency of the management of SSA. Every time this happens, "My chest swells," Mr. Corson said, "and I say, 'Yeah, I used to be there.' "
"I'm infinitely proud of this Administration," he repeated, "because it has always seemed to me that it had a personality different from others."
Vital Organizations
"Can an organization have a personality?" he asked. "Having studied, I venture, at least 100 different organizations, I can assure you there are personalities attached to each organization." Some, he said were slow and stolid, which got the work done, but unimaginatively; and some had character and honor, but no plans, no particular getup-and-go. And some showed great pretense, but their luster would wear off; others cut corners, trading the public interest off for their own gain. "Then, some have character," he concluded, "and are alive, are going somewhere."
That's the kind of personality he saw in Social Security. To John Corson, the OASI personality was "marked by a belief, a deep, earnest belief, that we were doing something worthwhile. . . . And yet we always wanted to do it progressively better. . . . And what's more we knew we could do it a little better, and I emphasize that. We knew we could do it a little better. . . . I hope Social Security always will have that kind of personality. Indeed," he concluded, "if in the years ahead you lose it, this old antique will be back to haunt you."
John Corson (left), former Director of the Bureau of Old-Age and Survivors Insurance, and Robert Ball, SSA Commissioner, leave the stage after a general staff meeting at the Central Office, to greet personally many of Mr. Corson's associates from the early days in Social Security. SSA History Archives.


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There is a Yahoo Group where extensive information is available in the archives and files sections.
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Sarah Silverman Will 'Scissor' a Mitt Romney Supporter For $100 Million
Of all the female comedians out there, Sarah Silverman might have the biggest balls. Actually, that's sexist. She's got bigger beans than most male comedians. This publicity stunt could be her ballsiest move to date.
Casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson, age 78, has announced that he will donate $100 million to Mitt Romney's campaign to defeat Barack Obama in November. According to the home-base for this proposal, ScissorSheldon.com, the "$100 Million Man" is the eighth wealthiest American, with a personal wealth estimated to be $24.9 billion, and his original choice for Presidential candidate was Newt Gingrich.
There are so many highlights to this video, but the winner has to be, 'How many Republican billionaires are giving their money to Mitt Romney? All of 'em. How many of them are getting scissored by a bikini-bottomed hot Jew @ss with big naturals? How many, Sheldon?' Actually, with that kind of money, probably more than you think.
We loved her show on Comedy Central for its shock value but we're sort of hoping Sheldon calls her bluff to see how far she'll take this. Fake-scissoring her 'Tales from the Crypt' dog is one thing, having 'traditional lesbian sex to fruition' with Grandaddy Warbucks is another.


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A good collaborative gallery show is like a good relationship—each artist's work supports the other without being repetitive or unharmonious. "The Give and Take," an exhibition in The Joseph Gross Gallery at The University of Arizona School of Art by Kristin Bauer and Emmett Potter, works on both levels. The married couple often collaborates and has exhibited together on numerous occasions.
The artists both work in multimedia and they share a similar aesthetic and point of view. Bauer says,
"I often juxtapose two or more iconic references or material of my own creating, drawing from a wide range of sources that spans anything from Renaissance sculpture to Jayne Mansfield, Shakespeare to Spielberg films, the Great Gatsby to Cheap Trick. How we make meaning of things as cognitive creatures, what we attach to and what we are repelled by is what keeps me engaged."
Similarly, Potter incorporates vintage comic book imagery into his work. He combines different color palettes and emphasizes what is absent against what is present, making pointed statements about pop-culture. Both Bauer and Potter adapt, appropriate, alter and excavate our shared public domain in an attempt to decode how we attach meaning to the iconography of our culture.
On exhibit since May 28, a closing reception for "The Give and Take" will be held on August 29 from 5:30-7 p.m.


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In my last post I wrote about my daughter's early complaints of summer boredom. She has had to eat those words. Since this last post, she's performed at an end of season gymnastics exhibition, spent a week at a Parks and Rec camp, and spent five days (and nights) in the Mark Twain National Forest camping and canoeing! I'm pretty sure she has had a blast with all these activities, even tipping the canoe in the cold, clear waters of the North Fork River! I must say, I enjoyed camping and canoeing, too...even though I had no cell phone service, no access to the internet, and had to drive to the "restroom" and "showers." Anyone who knows me, knows I'm not much of an "outside" kind of person! And, by the way, camping is A LOT of work! That said, I did have fun, but I'm glad to be home and I'm anxious to get back into my sewing room in order to finish up the last few of my Improvisational Piecing Craftsy course. I've had such an awesome time working on these projects. I finished my Do Over Quilt the night before we left for our camping trip. I'm super happy with the results:
|Do Over Quilt (Back)
I decided to use a decorative stitch for the quilting. I would have never even thought about trying that had it not been for the course instructor, Jacquie Gering. I love the result! I'm excited to bring this little quilt to the next Kansas City Modern Quilt Guild . Oh, did I mention I joined this Guild? Well, I finally did it! I went to my first meeting in May and joined a few days later. I'm thrilled to be a part of the Guild and I can't wait to get involved!
I hope you are enjoying your summer so far! It's been crazy busy for me already....what happened to "the lazy days of summer?" Nothing lazy about it so far for me...Wallace, however, may have it figured out!
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I'm always trying to become more time efficient in the way I clean the apartments but I keep failing in some departments like ironing the sheets. Have you got any advice? Are there any magic sheets out there or special iron that makes things faster?
For the moment I have a professional large steam press but still takes long to do everything.
What are your thoughts?


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OGDEN — Expressing his "pure delight" at becoming Weber State's newest Wildcat, Charles Wight was named as the university's 12th president Monday by the Utah Board of Regents.
Wight has been serving as associate vice president and dean of the graduate school at the University of Utah.
"I am honored to have the opportunity to lead Weber State University in its next phase of development," Wight said. "Having spent the last 28 years as an educator and administrator at the University of Utah, I am excited to assume a position of leadership at Weber State University and help guide its mission of providing students with personalized learning experiences that will help them become responsible, educated members of their communities."
Wight said his primary goal as president will be Weber State's contribution to Gov. Gary Herbert's goal of having 66 percent of Utahns holding a post-secondary degree or certificate by 2030.
All of Utah's colleges and universities are working toward that goal, he said, but WSU has perhaps a greater role to play than other schools in reaching out to new students and preparing them for the workforce because of the university's community focus and the economic demographics of the Ogden area.
To that end, Wight said his administration will be focused on increasing both enrollment and graduation rates. Too many students, he said, are failing to reach the end of their coursework.
"The most important thing is to make sure students are successful in their degree programs," Wight said.
Another focus of his presidency, Wight said, will be the continued implementation and advancement of technology in education. In his role at the University of Utah, he was involved in technological research, as well as overseeing tech support on campus.
Wight said he brings with him a knowledge of what other universities are doing and what can and cannot be done with technology.
Wight replaces Ann Millner, who announced her resignation in March after 10 years of service. At the time of her appointment, Millner was the first woman to be president of a public university in Utah.
Millner presided over a period of substantial growth for the university, which included additions in degree offerings and a 46 percent jump in enrollment since fall 2007, according to university spokeswoman Allison Hess.
At the time of her resignation, Millner said she had always intended to serve as president for roughly a decade. Prior to her appointment, she worked for 20 years at various positions at the university.
Millner will continue to serve as president until the end of the calendar year, at which point she will assume a role teaching health administration classes at WSU.
"This is home. I'll always be a Wildcat," she said. "I'm going to keep running until we pass the baton, but I'm excited to pass the baton."
Before naming Wight as president, Board of Regents Chairwoman Bonnie Beesley thanked Millner for her service, listing several of the university's accomplishments during her tenure and drawing a standing ovation from the capacity crowd in the Shephard Union ballroom.
"We have here a remarkable legacy president in the best sense of the word," Beesley said. "There are no holes, no crises to attend to, nothing to fix. The institution is strong, stable, poised and ready for the next step."
The Board of Regents selected Wight from a pool of four finalists, including Kathryn Cruz-Uribe, provost and vice president for Academic Affairs at California State University, Monterey Bay; Kim Hunter Reed, chief of staff of the Louisiana State Board of Regents; and Michael Thomas, president and CEO of the New England Board of Education.
Regent Robert Marquardt, chairman of the selection committee, said the board received nearly 50 applications for the position.
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A letter in the Sept. 9 Tomahawk Laeder:
Re: Patriot Day Program 2008, Sept. 11 at 10 a.m.
"A Community Gathering," Lincoln County Veterans Memorial.
The program will provide the Tomahawk community an opportunity to remember the 2,900-plus people who lost their lives in the four planes and all those in the buildings at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and at Shanksville.
The program will recognize those who gave the final sacrifice to assist victims of the tragedy; our police, firefighters, medical personnel and volunteers. A special remembrance for the men and women who have served and are serving in our Armed Forces will be made.
Using music, prayer and a special presentation by Tomahawk Elementary students we will join together in our hearts and minds and gain strength through each other to show support and optimism for our future.
Please join us at the Lincoln County Veterans Memorial.
A special time to gather and reflect and share will begin at 9 a.m. with musical selections beginning at 9:45 a.m. The program will begin at 10 a.m. with the Veterans Honor Guard presenting the flags, followed by a 30-minute program.
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Kristen Stewart's first post-scandal red carpet
Very well done.
Even if the hits are coming, you take them anyway. It's a character building approach. And it's a much stronger strategic move than that apology. A friend and I were discussing this last night. He compared the apology, the delivery of it, the desperateness of it, the theatricality of it, to 10 Things I Hate About You, or any dramatic declaration in a high school movie in which one of the leads expresses to the other lead, in the most public way possible, like in the cafeteria, that I Love You or I Miss You. If that was high school for Kristen Stewart, last night was post-graduation.
Stewart spent a lot of time with fans AND the press. Her face was spectacular. She wore Zuhair Murad which... you know...that's Carrie Underwood styles, and I don't love. But the aesthetic is not the point. The point is she did not simply pose for photos and rush inside, like we've seen from so many other stars after a scandal. Here's how it went down:
At first it didn't seem like she would be giving interviews. No one knew before she arrived if she'd be stopping for media. At one point it looked like it would be a bust. And then there was a huddle with her publicist. They called Garrett Hedlund over. He nodded. And they worked the press line paired, generous with their time, thoughtful with their answers. Smart. And strategic. She was nervous though. You could tell because at the step and repeat her leg was trembling. And as she made her way down the line, she started to get little red bumps on her neck. Which I find so endearing. Like I said earlier, it's a character building experience. As Sasha, who was producing the carpet, said to me afterwards - she came to play. And she'll be playing more today at the On The Road junket. She's paired today too - with Walter Salles. So she's meeting her professional obligations but they're doing their best to put her in a protected situation. Coming to TIFF was the right move. So far it's been a success.
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by Timothy Beneke
Mark Reinhold, Oracle's Chief Architect, the Java Platform Group, took the stage to kick off Sunday's technical keynote at the Moscone Center. He began by quoting "father of Java" James Gosling. For Java to thrive, it must maintain what Gosling called the "feel of Java". In other words, it must retain the key values of readability, simplicity, and universality.
"If we keep those," said Reinhold, "then Java will remain not just productive but fun. It is not enough to simply add popular features each year."
Lambda Expressions – The Single Largest Upgrade Ever
He turned to lambda expressions, which he described as the single largest upgrade to the programming model ever -- larger even than generics. "This is the first time we have done a carefully coordinated co-evolution of the JVM, the language, and the libraries all together – and the results still feel like Java," said Reinhold.
He then welcomed Oracle Java Language Architect, Brian Goetz, to share the stage and began by remarking that while most developers understand that lambda offers a simple way to express code as data, some are not sure how it helps Java. Goetz responded that lambda expressions would more than help Java. "It's going to change the way we all program in Java every day," he explained. "Programming well is about finding the right abstractions. We want the code we write to look like the problem statements it's trying to solve, so we can look at it and immediately know it's correct. Java has always given us good tools for abstracting over data types. I wanted to do better in abstracting over patterns of behavior – that's where lambda comes in."
He illustrated this with some simple code that was, strictly speaking, "good" code, but weighed down with boilerplate and did not read like the problem statement it was trying to solve. It could be improved by using an inner class tool, but that too generated a lot of boilerplate. Reinhardt pointed out that improving the code made it less pleasant to work with, as if the developer was being punished for doing the right thing. This often causes developers to give up and do it the "dumb and ugly way".
Lambdas can replace inner classes with a lambda expression which is simply an anonymous method that captures a behavior without a lot of syntactic boilerplate. "Lambdas are a nicer syntax," said Goetz. "But they are also something deeper. It's not just a compiler generating inner classes for you – it uses the invokedynamic feature to get more compact and higher performance code. It will make a qualitative difference in the way we program."
If the right way to write a program is unpleasant, then people are less likely to do it according to Goetz. They are more tolerant of doing it the wrong way. He gave an example of how lambda expressions address this with the collections API involving a new abstraction to the JDK called stream and showed how to represent a simple query through applying a filter and mapping transformation, followed by an aggregation, in a way that is fused into one path without creating any intermediate weapons.
Reinhold summarized the key points: "So lambda brings 3 weapons to Java – syntax, performance and abstraction."
"Plus parallelism," Goetz added. He explained that Java 7 has the fork/join framework for parallel decomposition that is powerful, flexible, and highly efficient – but not the easiest thing to use. Goetz showed how lambdas enable better parallelism without needing to write fork join code: by asking the collection for a parallel stream it uses fork/join under the hood.
Lambda also helps with normal sequential code by making code clearer, less noisy, and easier to read. "When you have code that is hard to read, that's where bugs come from. You are trying to maintain some code, you look at the code and think you know what it does, but don't actually know what it does, and boom! – you've introduced a bug."
All in all, the message was clear: Lambda expressions make Java code easier to read and easier to write.
Working with Lambda and the Collections Framework
For lambdas to be successful, they must work with the Java Collections Framework, which is now 15 years old. So an evolution of the interface was in order. Goetz's team had to grow an interface over time without breaking implementations of the interface. They added a concept that allows developers to compatibly add a method to an interface, as long as a default implementation is provided.
Reinhold remarked that he has now written a couple of thousand lines of code with lambda features and really enjoyed it. "I can be more productive, and the end result still feels like Java," he said.
To get started learning lambda expressions, Java developers can go to the OpenJDK Project Lambda page and download the developer preview builds there.
Reinhold reminded attendees that there is a great deal more in Java SE 8 besides lambda expressions. Developer preview builds can be downloaded at JDK8.java.net. "Now is a great time to download JDK 8 and take it for a spin. Every planned feature is in there. It's reasonably stable and it passes almost all of the tests. If you have any feedback, please send it in!" said Reinhold.
Playing Chess
In the rest of the technical keynote, Oracle's John Ceccarelli, head of engineering for Oracle's NetBeans team and Oracle's JavaFX architect Jasper Potts, arrived on stage to demonstrate a Duke pad running real Java via a chess program that was connected to a server. The iPad operated through an HTML5 client talking to a Java EE 7 back end with an EE server in charge of messaging, communication, game state, and so on, with clients hook into it – all built with NetBeans. Jasper Potts further showed off the chess demo with an HTML5 client using a front end to a chess server that was managing the chess games. Then a robot, powered by Java ME 8, took over the game.
Oracle Software Engineer, Santiago Pericas Geertsen, who built the chess server, also described how it was built with 5 distinct functional modules.
In sum, attendees witnessed a server running Java EE 7 hooked up with a variety of clients, some written in HTML5, one written in JavaFX on a Duke pad, one using JavaFX 3D on a powerful laptop, plus a Java ME 8-powered robot contributing to the ongoing chess game. In the process, the powers of the Raspberry Pi were demonstrated.
Developers were encouraged to jump in the water, go for a swim, and have fun with NetBeans and Java embedded.
Java SE 9 and Beyond
Wrapping it up, Reinhold peered a bit into the future and suggested some possible directions for Java, some of which are already in development:
One is Java on GPUs, graphic processing units. As GPUs are being used more and more widely to process big data he suggested that it would be good to make Java work directly with the GPU rather than having to call out to some primitive interface. An OpenJDK called Sumatra has people working on this.
Reinhold spoke of the need for reification. Java's generics, added in 2004, are based on the notion of erasure for good technical reasons as a sound way to create a type system that supports migration compatibility. But this creates programming problems in which the erasure approach severely limits what can be expressed. Reinhold suggested that introducing some reification and eliminating the "annoying dichotomy between primitive and reference types" would be of value.
He mentioned JNI 2.0 and said, "It just shouldn't be so hard to integrate Java with native code after all these years."
He called for memory efficient data structures: "As we get into big data – all this boxing and pointer chasing makes it hard to do big data well. We could have less boxing and pointer chasing and load a lot more data into memory."
Finally, he talked about the notion of a truly modular platform. "The compact profile in Java 8 is a start but it is not flexible enough. We need to continue to unify the Java SE and Java ME platforms."
OpenJDK Project Lambda
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea's outgoing president has granted special pardons to political allies despite criticism from his successor.
The Justice Ministry says President Lee Myung-bak ordered pardons for more than 50 people at a Cabinet meeting Tuesday.
They include a friend from college and an aide seen as his political mentor. Both were convicted of bribery.
The list also includes former ruling party lawmakers and business executives.
President-elect Park Geun-hye's spokespeople have criticized the pardons as an abuse of power. Lee's office denies it.
Park will replace Lee in late February. The two belong to the same conservative party.
Special pardons in the final months of presidential terms are common in South Korean politics.


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Feminist News
US Federal Appeals Court Rules For-Profit Must Cover Contraception
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled on Tuesday that Autocam Corporation - a for-profit entity that provides manufacturing services for automotive and medical industries - must comply with the Affordable Care Act's contraception coverage mandate.
Autocam claimed that providing contraception coverage in its health care plans at no extra cost for employees would violate its rights under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA). In a unanimous opinion, the Sixth Circuit rejected Autocam's argument and determined that secular, for-profit corporations are not "persons" protected under the the Act.
Rev. Barry Lynn, Executive Director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, praised the decision. "Religious liberty is for people, not Big Business," Lynn said. "No corporation should ever be able to tell its employees that they can't have access to contraceptive coverage simply because it offends the boss' religious views." Americans United filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the case.
Over 40 secular, for-profit corporations, have alleged that providing contraception coverage in their employee health care plans at no cost violates their religious rights, and a total of 70 federal lawsuits have been filed by opponents to the birth control benefit. Federal courts across the country have been split on whether or not secular, for-profit businesses can be exempt from compliance, suggesting that the Supreme Court will be forced to rule on the issue soon.
Media Resources: US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit Opinions 9/17/2013; Americans United for Separation of Church and State Press Release 9/17/2013; RH Reality Check 9/17/2013


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It's been a week or so since I wrote anything. Writer's block? Laziness? Nothing to write about? Who knows? I've been sitting on this topic for a few days & now I feel the time is write to truly express my outrage (probably not the right word). Coachella, in case you live in a cave (talking to you Osama), is a 3 day music festival in Indio, California in April every year that highlights some of the most amazing bands & usually showcases new & old alike. This year, however, the lineup is shit. Talk about getting right to the point.
Last year the headliners were Paul McCartney, The Cure & The Killers. This year it's Jay-Z, Muse & Gorillaz? Jay-Z is awesome & I've wanted to see him forever. He's one of the best rapper's around, but Gorillaz & Muse? I just don't understand why Muse is blowing up so huge. They're good, but headlining material? Not so much. I saw them at the Download festival a few years ago opening up for Beck & the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. They're a nice band, with a nice sound. Hardly, headlining material. Don't even get me started on Gorillaz who were another nice band about 5 years ago.
Sunday might as well be labeled has-been night with Pavement, Sly & the Family Stone & De La Soul also on the bill. 2009 had Franz Ferdinand, Morrissey, The Black Keys, Leonard Cohen & Paul McCartney & that was just the first day. What happened to getting the biggest acts in the world & showcasing them. It's like the promoters for Coachella threw in the towel & just said "fuck it, we'll see if Stephen Malkmus wants to get an underachieving 90's band back together!" They're not even headlining!
It's get's better. In their infinite wisdom they have decided not to sell individual day tickets, but to reduce the cost of camping. This, to me, is a sign that they know they're not going to make their money back with such a subpar lineup. If I had their money & the time they had form one year to the next to lock down anyone I wanted here's 10 of the artists I would get.
Bruce Springsteen – Have him headline like he did at Bonnaroo. He'll play for 3 hours like McCartney did & leave everyone with a memorable experience. .
Born to Run (Unplugged) – Bruce Springsteen
Thunder Road (Acoustic) – Bruce Springsteen
The Avett Brothers – Yeah I know they're playing Day 1 on a shitty side stage, but I'd get rid of Grace Jones & move in the Avett's. Poor planning once again.
Laundry Room – Avett Brothers
It Goes On & On – Avett Brothers
The Pixies – They've been playing again recently & would've been a helluva better option than Pavement.
Here Comes Your Man (Live) – The Pixies
Hey (Live) – The Pixies
Blitzen Trapper – An amazing band that would've fit nicely with Passion Pit & Grizzly Bear on day 1.
Furr – Blitzen Trapper
Wild Mountain Nation – Blitzen Trapper
Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse – They came out with one of the best underground album in years (probably since The Grey Album) & John Waters will be playing on Saturday.
Revenge – Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse featuring Wayne Coyne from The Flaming Lips
Little Girl – Feat. Julian Casablancas
Dr. Dre – He's coming out with a new album. Could've gotten Eminem on stage with him & screams West Coast much more than the New Jersey native Jay-Z.
Nuthin' but a G Thang – Dr. Dre
Forgot About Dre – Dr. Dre feat. Eminem
Guns 'N Roses – What better venue than Coachella to try & get the original line-up together for a one-off? This is what Coachella used to be about, getting bands back together after years of strife.
Don't Cry – Guns N' Roses
Knockin' on Heaven's Door – Guns N' Roses
Led Zeppelin – They've been talking about getting back together for a couple of years now. Wouldn't Coachella have reaped the benefits of getting such an amazing act on their queue?
Black Dog (Live) – Led Zeppelin
Going to California (Live) – Led Zeppelin
My Morning Jacket – They bring their own audience much like the Dead, but talented. They are a band that would bring people from across the country to the event, unlike say…Muse or Grace Jones.
One Big Holiday (Live) – MMJ
Where to Begin – MMJ
Oasis – What better venue than to get the Brothers Gallagher to kiss & make up once again than Coachella. They could bring a global audience to watch what could turn out to be great music or a great fistfight. Either way the crowd is entertained.
Live Forever (Unplugged) – Oasis


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New York, NY– January 27, 2009 – 2K Sports, the sports publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO), today announced that MLB Front Office Manager is now available in retail stores for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, Games for Windows and the PLAYSTATION 3 computer entertainment system. MLB Front Office Manager is the first and only MLB-licensed manager game for consoles and Windows PC, offering baseball fans the unique opportunity to manage their favorite Major League team and experience the thrilling life of a GM. Players will do everything a manager does - make the tough decisions like replacing aging veterans with rookies, scout the Minor Leagues, select new players in the Amateur and Rule 5 drafts, offer arbitration to free agents, make blockbuster trades, and participate in bidding wars for posted players from Japan.
Helping to guide players through their journey as an aspiring GM, MLB Front Office Manager features one of the most talented and respected GM's in baseball today, Billy Beane of the Oakland Athletics. Since being named GM in 1997, Beane has turned the Oakland Athletics into a consistent postseason contender, and provides helpful hints and insightful baseball information to mentor players throughout their career. With an exciting presentation style designed to resemble a real life TV broadcast, MLB Front Office Manager also tracks the progression of each player's knowledge and skill level over time, allowing players to gain points when they improve in various areas and help the team win more games as a result. For competitive players, an online fantasy mode lets them create head-to-head management experiences. With up to 30 managers in the league, players can compete against friends to see who has what it takes to be the best.
MLB Front Office Manager, developed by Blue Castle Games and published by 2K Sports, is rated E for Everyone by the ESRB and is now available for Xbox 360, Games for Windows and the PLAYSTATION 3 system. For more information about MLB Front Office Manager, please visit www.2ksports.com/games/mlbmanager.
About Take-Two Interactive Software
Headquartered in New York City, Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. is a global developer, marketer, distributor and publisher of interactive entertainment software games for the PC, PLAYSTATION 3 and PlayStation 2 computer entertainment systems, PSP (PlayStation Portable) system, Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, Wii and Nintendo DS. The Company publishes and develops products through its wholly owned labels Rockstar Games, 2K Games, 2K Sports and 2K Play; and distributes software, hardware and accessories in North America through its Jack of All Games subsidiary. Take-Two's common stock is publicly traded on NASDAQ under the symbol TTWO. For more corporate and product information please visit our website at www.take2games.com.


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That lab has got to be the most tolerant dog in the world. IMO this lab is a pretty good representation of the breed but holy cow - if any lab should eat a kid it should be this one. The video is endearing and the beginning was cute but the kid crawling all over the dog was a little much, I don't think any dog should have to put up with that.
Serious kudos to that dog for being so well behaved and tolerant.


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quartz movement, mother of pearl dial with roman numerals, aperture for date, pink diamonds and diamond-set on bezel, with 7 floating diamonds mixed with pink diamonds and diamonds, 18k gold bracelet finely integrated with 2 rows pink diamonds and 2 rows diamond-set, with 18k gold Chopard buckle
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Surfin' Safari
I'd had the foresight to put a rain jacket in my pannier along with a pair of full-fingered gloves and my windbreaker. The temperature was about 60F (15C) with the wind out of the east. My rule-of-thumb is to add an extra layer under the rain jacket. I don't mind getting wet if I can stay warm.
Sure enough, within the first mile I was very wet. The rain soaked my bandana under the helmet. My shoes and shorts were wet, but the Centurion's fenders kept most of the grime at bay.
I rode north, thinking about the huge puddle that forms at the first railroad crossing. The crossing is at an angle, so I have to zigzag to cross it safely even when it's dry. In the wet, it's more treacherous. The puddle forms every time it rains, or when the lawn sprinklers are on at the business next to the road. It complicates the crossing slightly, requiring an extra zigzag.
So I was spinning along, looking at traffic and thinking about the upcoming maneuver. I forgot about another, smaller dip that collected a puddle. That is, I forgot about it until I was almost on it. Just then, a pickup swung over the centerline to pass. It threw up a wall of water, a tsunami that crashed right down over my head! The shock woke me up better than any cup of coffee! Maybe he was being a dick. Maybe it was inadvertent. Regardless, all I could do was laugh. I was already soaked so what's a little more water?
I could have ridden that wave all the way home. Naturally, that gave rise to a tune in my head that matched the pedal tempo.
We'll all be gone for the summer,
We're on safari to stay.
Tell the teacher we're surfin'
Surfin' USA.………….the Beach Boys
Sometimes, riding in the rain can be a lot of fun!


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Here comes Santa Claus… and local holiday hoops tournaments
Christmas is creeping nearer, and you all know what that means: holiday high school basketball tournaments. There are three local holiday high school hoops tournaments. Here are the first-round matchups for each. New Hanover County Holiday Classic, Dec. 20-22, Laney High School December 20 Game 1: Ashley vs North Brunswick, 4 p.m. Game 2:New Hanover vs Havelock, 5:30 p.m. Game 3: Laney vs N.W. Cabarrus, 7 p.m. Game 4: Hoggard vs Cherokee, 8:30 p.m. December 21, Game 5 Loser Game… Read More »


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The euro-area recovery failed to gather momentum last quarter, as France unexpectedly stalled and economies from Italy to the Netherlands shrank.
Growth of just 0.2 percent for the currency bloc, half as much as economists had forecast, adds pressure on the European Central Bank (ECB) to deliver stimulus measures next month in its battle against weak inflation and anemic output. While German expansion doubled to 0.8 percent, that wasn't enough to offset renewed weakness across the region, including a 0.7 percent drop in Portugal.
ECB President Mario Draghi primed investors last week for further stimulus in June, saying the 24-member Governing Council is "comfortable with acting" next month. With the euro area's recovery from a record-long recession still fragile, officials are battling to revive price growth, with the inflation rate at less than half the ECB's target.
"The recovery is still more or less in train in most countries, but the headline number is disappointing and the horror show was the Dutch number," said Richard Barwell, an economist at Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc in London. "We think the ECB is going to act in June, and we think it will be a package of measures."
The euro pared losses against the dollar after today's data were released, trading at $1.3674 at 11:21 a.m. in Brussels, down 0.3 percent on the day. The Stoxx Europe 600 Index was down 0.1 percent to 341.21.
Dutch GDP fell 1.4 percent in the first quarter, the sharpest contraction in the euro area, Eurostat said today. The Italian and Finnish economies shrank 0.1 percent and 0.4 percent, respectively.
Still, four quarters of growth have spurred some optimism among companies in the currency bloc.
Belgium's Bekaert NV "expects sustained solid demand in Europe," the world's largest maker of steel cord for tires said on May 14. "The upward trend in demand from automotive markets in Europe as of the second half of 2013, continued at the start of 2014."
ThyssenKrupp AG, Germany's largest steelmaker, this week raised its full-year earnings forecast and reported the first quarterly profit in almost two years after selling assets and cutting costs.
Yet the euro zone continues to struggle with the legacy of the debt crisis. The unemployment rate was 11.8 percent for a fourth month in March, near the all-time high of 12 percent last year. The annual inflation rate was 0.7 percent in April, Eurostat said today in a separate report.
Potential Slowdown
The economy will probably expand 0.3 percent in the second quarter, according to the median of 28 economists' forecasts in a separate Bloomberg survey.
Even in the Eurozone powerhouse, Germany, there are signs of a potential slowdown in the second quarter. The ZEW Center for European Economic Research in Mannheim, which aims to predict economic developments six months in advance, said this week its index of investor expectations slid for a fifth month in May to the lowest since January 2013.
The Bundesbank has warned that while the economy shows an upward trend, growth will slow "noticeably" in the three months through June.
The euro-area recovery is "proceeding at a slow pace, and it still remains fairly modest," Draghi said last week in Brussels after the ECB left its benchmark rate at 0.25 percent and its deposit rate at zero. "There is consensus about being dissatisfied with the projected path of inflation."
While officials have stressed that no decision on policy action in June has been made, economists from BNP Paribas SA to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc predict the ECB will cut interest rates.
Should the ECB decide to act, it might deploy multiple tools rather than just reducing borrowing costs. Options include offering more long-term loans to banks or halting the sterilization of liquidity from crisis-era bond purchases under the Securities Markets Program.
"We never precommit unconditionally, but there is a row of possibilities," ECB Executive Board member Yves Mersch said yesterday in Berlin.
Draghi will present revised macroeconomic forecasts when policy makers meet in Frankfurt in June. The ECB predicted in March that GDP will rise 1.2 percent this year, 1.5 percent in 2015 and 1.8 percent in 2016. Inflation is projected at 1 percent in 2014, accelerating to 1.5 percent in 2016.


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Turkey: Smoked, Oven Roasted or Fried? [POLL]
With Thanksgiving coming up Thursday, the annual radio station Thanksgiving lunch with the staff and family is coming up tomorrow afternoon and of course the main dish at the luncheon will be turkey. But how that turkey gets prepared for us was up for a great debate!
When the topic first came up, the turkey that was going to be served was going to be fried, but then there was objection to it and others wanted a traditional oven roasted turkey and then there was a group that wanted a smoked turkey. See, ya can't please everyone everytime, just some of the time! So that leads me to my question,
I think it was finally decided that we were going to have fried and smoked turkey offered to us tomorrow for our station Thanksgiving lunch.
As you get ready for your family get together Thursday, I found this interesting statistic when it comes to turkeys and Thanksgiving. The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that around 45 million turkeys will be eaten, which is one-sixth of all of the turkeys sold in the U.s. for a year. Our consumption of turkey has been on the rise over the last 25 years ot around 16.1 pounds per person per year according to the National Turkey Federation.


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Television, film and stage actor Ed Asner (TV's "The Mary Tyler Moore Show") will talk about his life and career in "A Conversation with Ed Asner" on Tuesday, Jan. 8 at 7:30 p.m. at the Scottish Rite Theatre (formerly the Stratford Movie Theater), 2422 Main St. in Stratford.
The seven Emmy award-winner will launch a series of American Shakespeare Theatre Alumni Talks which will benefit the Stratford Arts Commission and the Stratford Center for the Arts at the American Shakespeare Theatre.
Joe Meyers, arts and entertainment feature writer for The Connecticut Post and Hearst Media Newsa Group will conduct the onstage interview and q and a.
Asner comes to Stratford immediately following the close of Broadway's "Grace," which he co-stars with Paul Rudd and Michael Shannon.
Asner received the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award and was inducted into the Academy of Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame.
In 2009, he voiced the character of the Old Man in Pixar's "Up." In 2003, he played Santa Claus in the film "Elf."
Asner appeared at the American Shakesperare Theatre early in his career beginning in 1959 in "The Merry Wives of Windsor, "Romeo and Juliet" and "All's Well That Ends Well."
Nancy Marchand who would later co-star with Asner in the TV series, "Lou Grant" was at the theater in 1958.
Among the actors for Asner's season were: Barbara Barrie, Morris Carnovsky, Richard Easton, Will Geer, Mariette Hartley, Hiram Sherman, Inga Swenson, Sada Thompson, and as an academy student, David Marguluies
Directing that season was John Houseman, with choreography by George Balanchine, sets by David Hays, lighting by Tharon Musser and Jean Rosenthal.
Tickets are $25 general seating; $50 VIP seating;.
Tickets may be reserved at 203-572-8177 or may be purchased at the Devan News & Variety in Stratford Center and Hann's Kitchen in Paradise Green in Stratford.


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