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If you are traveling to the Bay Area, consider skipping the high-rent districts around San Francisco and opt instead to stay in Oakland, CA. Located across the Oakland Bay Bridge only 12 miles from the San Francisco city center, Oakland offers plenty of cheap hotels and other budget accommodations.
The new Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites Oakland and the Best Western Plus Airport Inn & Suites are both cheap hotels in Oakland that consistently get great reviews. You'll also find plenty of national budget chains, including Super 8, La Quinta, Comfort Inn, and Motel 6 Oakland near the airport.
These budget properties not only offer free airport shuttles, but many also offer free shuttles around Oakland, including drops at most local public transportation points, so you can save money by skipping the rental car.
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Oakland can be quite busy during certain times of year, including football, baseball, and back-to-school seasons. If your travel plans are flexible, pay attention to what's happening in the area and adjust your travel schedule accordingly.
To find the best hotel deals in Oakland you'll want to book at least three weeks in advance. Most hotels offer a full refund if you cancel at least 24 hours before arrival, so there is little risk even if your plans change after booking.
There are plenty of free things to do in and around Oakland. Check out Lake Merritt, a large tidal lagoon just east of downtown Oakland, surrounded by parks and city neighborhoods. Visit the Redwood Regional Park, less than ten miles from the Oakland city center, to view the impressive and ancient redwood trees. Or hop across the Oakland Bay Bridge and head into San Francisco for a stroll through the famed Mission District or the colorful Castro neighborhoods.
Airbnb is a great option if you're looking for cheap accommodations in Oakland, CA. For about $110 per night, you can rent a private suite in a safe, quiet neighborhood near downtown, Emeryville, or nearby downtown Berkeley. Or, for only a few bucks more, rent an entire private house. Keep in mind that many of the Oakland Airbnb rentals require a minimum of two or three-night stays.
In these residential areas, walking to the BART stations is generally safe, so you can take advantage of the local public transportation. And with your own kitchen, you can save money by cooking most meals. Many of the Airbnb properties in Oakland are within walking distance to Trader Joes and other nice grocery stores where you can stock up.
Most Bay Area locals and frequent visitors prefer the smaller Oakland International Airport to San Francisco International. Add Oakland's ample selection of affordable hotels, and you've got the perfect home base from which to work and play.
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Ever dream about driving a horse-drawn carriage in Colonial Williamsburg, guiding a white-water raft down the Colorado River, running a cable car in San Francisco, operating a tour bus in Glacier National Park, serving on a cruise ship, or working for a scenic railroad in New England?
Scenic sightseeing transportation offers these and many more unique and interesting work opportunities in very special locations.
Using your excellent communications and customer-relations skills, you show and explain the sites and help each visitor enjoy their vacation or short stay. Jobs and careers are both seasonal and year-round.
Places to start include lists of U.S. National and State parks, city historic districts, and other private scenic attractions. Also, the Travel Industry Association of America (TIA) sponsors SeeAmerica.org that offers a comprehensive guide to U.S. scenic and sightseeing locations. Why not start by checking-out some of the following information sources.
The following site has information on scenic sightseeing. We highlight the sites and the content we think you'll find useful as you explore your career options in this area of transportation.
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Ann LaMotte, online
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LaMotte became an employee of LCU in 1980 and was appointed to
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and expansion of online instruction and training at LCU by creating
and developing online courses, and by training LCU faculty, staff
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promotion to the rank of associate professor was the result of a
recommendation process initiated by a committee of her peers. The
provost and dean also review requests for faculty promotion and,
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college president for final approval.
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The Marjorie G. and Carl W. Stern Book Arts and Special Collections Center of the San Francisco Public Library cordially invites you to view a selection of over eighty picture books from the Fox Collection featuring 19th century color printing, especially color wood engraving and chromolithographs. Highlights include "toy" and "moveable" books; work from the shop of Edmund Evans and many examples of fine British chromolithographs from the firms of Thomas Nelson & Sons, Frederick Warne, Dean & Son and George Routledge & Sons. Early hand-colored images are included as well.
The exhibition opening will be celebrated with a lecture on Saturday, January 5th, at 2pm in the Koret Auditorium on the Lower Level of the Main Library. Guest speaker, Laura E. Wasowicz, Curator of Children's Literature from the American Antiquarian Society, in Worcester, Massachusetts, will discuss the McLoughlin Brothers printing firm of New York and their influence on 19thcentury American color printing. Her talk is entitled McLoughlin Brothers: Nineteenth-Century Entrepreneurs and Innovators of the American Picture Book.
The AAS owns an extensive collection of McLoughlin Brothers materials including original drawings and prints, picture books, paper dolls, games, correspondence, catalogs, price lists, and manuscripts. The title of the exhibit Educate! Amuse! And In Colors! is taken from advertising copy found in their catalogs.
The Fox Collection includes more than 2,000 early British and American children's books many of which were drawn from the file copies of the McLoughlin Brothers publishers of New York. The collection was generously donated to the library in 1978 by book collector Mr. George M. Fox of Charlemont, Massachusetts and is on view to the public for the first time since then.
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Firebirds Wood Fired Grill - Leesburg
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It took over an hour and a half after we sat down to get our food. We were never given an explanation why and a Manager never came by. Will not return to Firebirds
It was amazing! Staff were really nice and food was amazing thank you!
Always on point and willing to make our favorite
Appetizer buffalo shrimp even though it's off the menu
Such amazing service
Thank you
Great place...Food was fantastic...server had lots of personality and was on point! Highly recommend.
Very busy and very noisy. Hard to hear. Our waitress was fantastic. I ordered soup and the prime rib. I was told they ran out of soup, no big deal. Then they brought soup to me which looked like they scraped out of the bottom of the pot. It smelled really bad but I tried it anyways and it tasted awful, there was a sour taste. The rest of my meal was so-so. Once I tried the soup it kind of ruined the rest of the dinner for me.
Great experience! Food was amazing so definitely worth the price. We got the ribeye and salmon and both were mouth watering good and the dessert was PHENOMENAL! We had the brownie and the cheesecake bites and WOW!
Firebirds is an outstanding venue anytime. Food, service and ambiance is outstanding. We will be back again and again
Love this place! Fantastic experience every time.
Outstanding special attention for my hubby's birthday! Great food, competitively priced and the ambiance is lovely!
Food was outstanding. The service was a little slow.
Firebirds is one of the few places my picky eater enjoys so we went to celebrate our birthdays, and I left a little disappointed. The chicken was obviously pre-cooked then reheated - cold in the middle and chewy. The sauce was about baked onto the plate from sitting under the warmer. However, my son ordered a steak that was perfect. You know what they say, when eating at a steak house, order a steak... lesson learned.
He food was mediocre at best. The service and ambiance were great.
We arrived for our 6:30 reservation at 6:25. There were 40 people standing at the hostess station. Wait staff were constantly cutting through. We were seated at 6:50. There was no place to sit (or stand). I have a disability and I had to stand and be pushed around while we waited. I had a prime rib and it was not close to being cooked the way I ordered it. I had a baked potato and it was cold. The waiter brought another one which was also cold. I watched them bus the table next to us; they used a paper napkin! The noise level was deafening. The manager did come over and said we would not be charged but that did not compensate for the horrible evening. We were there for a Veteran's Day special-some way to treat veterans!
Great place to have a meal.
Very good food and great service.
Would highly recommend to anyone.
Great service. Food very good, though a little expensive. Highly recommend.
Veterans Day Lunch.
Veteran's day special for me . Food was great , service wonderful during a very busy time.
Food was excellent, highly recommend the coconut shrimp!
Good food , efficient staff. Would like to see gluten-free breads/rolls to take advantage of sandwiches etc.
Very friendly staff and delicious food. Was perfect for a date!
Great delicious food...the parmesan mashed potatoes, salmon with seasonal veggies --- all cooked to perfection, especially the rib eye...it was perfect and oh so flavorful! GREAT Service, nice ambience.
The wait staff was excellent and so was the food.
Firebirds is one of our favorite restaurants, and we are usually there once a week. The food is excellent, and the service is always great.
Seated promptly, service outstanding throughout. We were advised that the steak we ordered was overdone and they were cooking another, now that is exceptional. GM, Byron, made us feel welcomed and provided a birthday dessert on the house. Definitely we will be coming back to Fireside.
My server was Chantal. She was so great, so attentive and helpful. The meatloaf was spectacular! Highly recommend!
Ate at Firebirds in LEESBURG. The ambiance was great for our 39th wedding anniversary. The food was excellent but the prices were a bi high priced.
Great food and amazing service! Generous friendly owner. We were 7 women had the best time and loved our gentle waitress.
One of our meals (hamburger) was good, but my chicken on my salad was not very edible. It was really bad. Service was okay, but food was slow. Overall a pretty marginal experience.
Our favorite appetizer is rarely on the menu
However the work to make it every time we come in
Buffalo Shrimp should be a staple on the appetizer menu
Great service. We had the best waitress. The food is always good. We had the salmon, and someone had the steak. I'd love to see some pizza on the menu.
Had the 7 oz filet with shrimp. Ordered the filet medium rare and that came out as requested, however the cut seemed a little fatty. It was a little chewy and unsure if the bacon wrap added to that. Taste was pretty good and the Parmesan mashed potatoes I had as a side were awesome. The shrimp was decent, and buttered, which was alright. I wish I had a side of cocktail sauce and I am sure I could have had one if I asked, but it took about hour for us to get our food and I was kind of over it.
Excellent liquor and very good beer selection. Wine selection is outstanding.
I'd recommend this place to someone who hasn't been, but this occasion left a lot to be desired considering the price and slower than usual service.
Drinks were not that good from the bar. Waiter was just ok - had to get his attention to get second round of drinks and to get boxes for food
The wings were swimming in hot sauce which was a little too much. I couldn't enjoy the smokiness of the wings. Next time I will request less sauce.
We were next to a table with very loud crying children with a birthday.
Our waitress was attentive; however it took a long time to get food over an hour+
Even when I was there for New Year´s Eve, it never took this long, so I was not sure what happened. If the order was put it late by the server, something happened in the kitchen and it got missed or what, but it took a super long time.
Group of seven for dinner. Food took an hour and a half to arrive and 6 out of 7 steaks were over cooked.
With such a tiny kitchen, it's no wonder they had a tough time getting our order out quickly. The wings were cold and dry. The manager came out and apologized for that and we didn't have to pay for them. Would have just preferred better food overall. Service was SLOW. We won't be returning.
The most amazing surf and turf and the best lobster I've ever had! It was so good I shared it with everyone at the table. It'll change your life.
Steak cooked perfectly. Nice venue. Love half price wine night!
We had a prix fixe menu that consisted of sheer perfection! Seriously, everything was wonderful...the spice in the wings, fresh and crisp Caesar salad and the prime rib was over the moon delicious. I rarely eat dessert, but ventured to the crème brûlée cheesecake, which was divine. I know this is a lot of positive comments on dinner, but this meal deserved it. We have dined here before, but by far was this the best meal that we have ever had at Firebirds. A prix fixe menu should be offered here more often. (It allows room in the budget to factor in cocktails and a nice bottle of wine with dinner.) Crème de la crème!
Food was great! Great waiter & ambience. Will definitely return.


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A Category 5 Texas Hurricane: Where landfall would be worst
For Texas weather watchers lulled to sleep by a hurricane-free 2013 and another quiet prediction for 2014, the lesson of Hurricane Andrew should be heeded.
It just takes one.
Andrew became the third costliest hurricane on record when it made landfall in Florida during what had otherwise been a relatively quiet 1992 hurricane season.
Texas may be due for its own Andrew, according to the insurance risk management group Karen Clark & Company.
The group found that the state hasn't experienced what it calls a "100 Year Hurricane" since the 1900 storm nearly wiped out Galveston.
Were a Category 5 storm to make landfall in Texas' sweet spot, the losses could be devastating.
Check out the photos above to see the landfall points where a Category 5 "100 Year Storm" would cause the largest losses.
(Note: A "100 Year Hurricane" is defined by Karen Clark & Company as the most intense hurricane that has at least a one percent chance occuring in a given region. For Texas, a 100 Year Hurricane is a Category 5 storm with sustained windspeeds of at least 155 mph.)


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As breathtaking today as when it was completed, Hoover Dam ranks among America's greatest achievements. The story of its conception, design, and construction is the story of the United States at a unique moment in history: when facing both a global economic crisis and the implacable elements of nature, we prevailed.
The United States after Hoover Dam was a different country from the one that began to build it, going from the glorification of individual effort to the value of shared enterprise and communal support. The dam became the physical embodiment of this change. A remote regional construction project was transformed from a Republican afterthought into a New Deal symbol of national pride. Hoover Dam went on to shape not only the American West but the American century.
Michael Hiltzik populates the epic tale of the dam's construction with larger-than-life characters, such as Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt, William Mulholland, and the dam's egomaniacal architect, Frank Crowe. Shedding real light on a one-of-a-kind moment in 20th-century American history, Hiltzik combines exhaustive research, trenchant observation, and a gift for unforgettable storytelling in a book that is bound to become a classic in its genre.
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- Roy
- 20-02-11
A Political Biography of the Dam
"Colossus" is Michael Hiltzik's contribution to the public works literature including - for example - David McCullough's "The Great Bridge" and "The Path Between the Seas" along with "Golden Gate" by Kevin Star. In this volume Hiltzik details the history of the taming of the Colorado River during the Western Expansion to the building of the Hoover Dam. The political horse trading, engineering, labor problems, and more other surprises than can be listed here are presented. The book offers an amazing window onto the sacrifices made by those who physically built the dam with their sweat, muscle, and sometimes their lives. Desperate men in desperate economic times. This book focuses on the political economic issues to the exclusion of engineering details. So readers expecting another "The Path Between the Seas" might be a little disappointed. This is more a political biography than an engineering biography of the dam. Otherwise, the prose keeps the listener's attention and the reading of Norman Dietz is excellent.
8 of 8 people found this review helpful
- James
- 12-07-10
Good, but far from great
Mr. Hiltzik could have used a really aggressive editor on this one. I love a good backstory, but I have a limit when it comes to running down so many rabbit trails. Also, Norman Dietz's narration is--and I hate to be harsh, but this is the truth--somewhat grandfatherly sounding. A subject matter this interesting should have made for a real "page-turner." As it is, I literally have to listen in short bursts to keep from becoming too frustrated.
8 of 10 people found this review helpful
- Amazon Customer
- 07-02-13
Detialed but interesting. a good listen.
I had this in my wish list for almost a year before downloading it, I should have done it sooner. This was a detailed account of not only the building of the dam but of the reasons for it. A history of the imperial valley of California starts the book out and then the appropriation of money that took years in Congress. the story also talks about president Hover, who had little to do with the dams creation but whose name was put on it. Stories of how Hover rewrote the way events transpired in his memoirs to make himself look better was a little surprising.
The story of the construction was well don and you could picture the men at work and almost feel the heat. There is even a story of a dog who became the dams mascot that was very touching.
This was a vary detailed book and I think you need a real interest in the subject to enjoy it fully.
It was a good listen, the narration was good and fit the subject. The next time I visit the dam I shall listen to this again.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
- 22-08-10
I loved this book
I enjoyed every word of this book. Whether you are interested in the Hoover Dam, dams, engineering, landscapes, archeology, the West, architecture, politics, history, concrete, water rights, art, labor, photography, business, contracting, land management, pioneering, rags to riches stories, etc., there is something in this book for you. The extensive research is tied together into a great story that is riveting throughout. The internet is full of photographs of the Hoover Dam construction to see while you are listening.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
- Fletch
- 16-08-10
Was expecting more.
After visiting the dam last year, I looked forward to learning more. While I did learn more, I didn't really enjoy this book. If you haven't already read it, check out "The Great Bridge" instead.
2 of 3 people found this review helpful
- Donald Hill
- 22-10-15
It's all about the details!
I feel that so many Americans are aware of the Hoover Dam from history books to documentaries. Hiltzik starts the book out with the history of how men tried to tame the Colorado River for farming throughout the Imperial Valley back in the 1800's.
This background is woven into the framework of how Hoover Dam came to be. The story delves into the details of the politics, contractors, the men who built it along with their living accommodations and dangerous working conditions.
I have visited Hoover Dam twice in my life. I was amazed by what I saw as I was able to take the tour both times. however, I will never think about this most incredible achievement of how man tamed such a wild river again. I feel the author provides a well balanced story, which did not take me long to get through because I was really intregued by the story.
I am fond of immersion reading so I usually read the hard copy while listening when I can. one curious note. the reader of the audio book has a very fine voice and does a great job, however he must have been either reading a slightly different version or decided to change some of the sentence structures. I just wanted to note that they are not identical. I haven't encountered that before, except for seeing that the printed copy was an older or newer version of the audio book. there was no mention of multiple editions in the copyright area in the front of the book.
- Boots
- 08-04-14
The dam that set the precedent for civil engineers
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Having lived several decades in Southern California and in and around Arizona, as well as being familiar with Nevada, I loved listening to this book. I can directly relate to many of the locations described. I continue to marvel at the tenacity of engineers like Frank Crowe. Of course in today's world many of the concepts and rules of engagement in the construction business employed at the Hoover dam site would never have been thought of let alone implemented. The construction of Boulder city, was a magnanimous effort within itself, and then have you get all those people to and from the work site everyday that was a huge effort. The cement plants that were built to support the concrete requirements which are long since gone. The railroad was built to bring equipment and pipe to the site, now long since gone. How do you stop the Colorado River so we can build the dam? The engineers of the Six Companies Corporation, made it look easy, simply carve out diversion tunnels in solid rock and let the River flow in a different direction! I recently met a young civil engineering graduate and ask him if he had ever heard of the Hoover dam, to my surprise he told me that he did study that in engineering school briefly it was part of the curriculum. The PBS channel with the American Experience also has a great video of this project.
- Tim
- 15-05-13
Dam Building
Whenever I visit Las Vegas, I almost always take a detour to visit the Hoover Dam. It's something that you have to see for yourself. After reading The Great Bridge by David McCullough, I was seeking out other great massive infrastructures such as the Hoover Dam.
Colossus by Michael Hiltzik was disappointing and I had a rough time at finishing the book. Maybe I've been reading too much from David McCullough, but Michael Hiltzik fails at explaining the actual building of the dam. Instead, 90% of the book is about politics and very little engineering of dam building.
I would had learned more at reading the encyclopedia than from the information of this book. Do yourself a favor, go visit the Hoover Dam and take the tour because there is not enough dam building in Colossus.
I wanted to know more about how the concrete cures, blowing up the side of the mountain and so on, but instead I heard about politics . I can't remembered if the author explained the height and the width on the Hoover Dam.
If you are going to write national monuments, write on the subject. Don't tell me the side stories that doesn't relate. If you had a grandfather that helped built the Hoover Dam, I highly doubt that he will tell his grandchildren what went on behind closed doors.
- Roy
- 22-04-12
FDR, Hoover and The New Deal ...
Using the story of the Hoover Dam as a back drop this book chronicles the early 20th century and places a number of events leading up to and after construction in perspective.
Hiltzik followed this book with a second volume titled "The New Deal" ... the two books fit together perfectly.
Note: The Owyhee Dam & Reservoir is located west of Boise, Idaho but over the Oregon state-line in Eastern Oregon and not in Idaho. The text mistakenly places this project in Idaho.
- Trevor
- 27-10-10
Long but excellent
I loved this book. It's a bit long winded with lots of political information on how it came about but a fascinating account of the Hoover Dam. If you've seen the dam in person you owe it to yourself to understand the effort made in making it happen and the building process. A true feat of engineering of the early 20th century.


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Why It Will Be Harder to Buy a House in 2014
If shopping for a new home is on your to-do list you might want to get it done by the end of the year. MarketWatch's AnnaMaria Andriotis explains the restrictions potential buyers will face on MoneyBeat. Photo: Getty Images.
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The King's English: Eighteenth-Century Language
Two points about eighteenth-century English and English-American society are important to keep in mind when considering any type of public behavior in those societies. First of all, they were stratified societies and the ways in which people interacted with one another reflected their relative social positions. Not only how something was said, but when it was said, were reflective of the social positions of the speakers. For example, it was not proper for someone of a lower social rank to offer a greeting to a person of higher rank without having been first addressed by that person. Nor was it proper for the social inferior to end the conversation. Secondly, there was some fluidity between the the levels of society. Money was not enough to lift a person to a higher level, however. Deportment was also important. Deportment included dress, bodily carriage, and using the polite forms of conversation. During the course of the eighteenth century, the middling sort were increasingly able to afford the trappings of gentility, and they were eager to acquire the accomplishments as well. By the late eighteenth century, therefore, many had acquired the rudiments of polite conversation.
FORMS OF ADDRESSSir, alone, was a common form of address used by all classes in conversation with gentlemen, or with men of the middle classes. Gentry wives called their husbands Sir, and the children called their fathers Sir. It is entirely appropriate to call adult male visitors Sir. Some examples include:
How does your lady, Sir?Madam, alone, was used to address gentry women, married or unmarried, young and old. Whether or not the middling sort were using it is not clear. Gentry children called their mothers Madam. It is appropriate to call adult female visitors Madam:
Sir, if you please, may I speak with you a moment?
Madam, I am quite amazed.Mr., Mrs., and Miss were used, as appropriate, in conjunction with the surname when addressing gentry or prosperous middle-class persons. For example, Mr. Burwell, Mrs. Page, Miss Blair. Husbands and wives often addressed one another in public asMr. or Mrs., plus the surname.
Madam, I do greatly admire your gown.
Some colonial officials were addressed using Mr. plus the title of the office held by that person.
Mr. Speaker [Speaker of the House of Burgesses]People in the eighteenth century also addressed each another according to their relationship to one another, including:
Mr. President [President of the Council]
Mr. Attorney [Attorney General]
Used in context, people said:
To be sure, Husband, you know these matters better than I.Addressing a visitor as Friend was acceptable.
I am glad to see you, Cousin.
Step-relations and in-laws often addressed one another as if they were blood
kin. Thus, step-brothers could address one another as Brother, as could
brothers-in-law. The same applies to Father, Mother, Daughter,
Son, and Sister. Sons-in-law and daughters-in-law sometimes addressed
their spouse-s parent(s) as Mother or Father, plus the parents
surname. For example: Mother Nelson, Father Page.
Young children also addressed their parents as Papa and Mama. Daughters, at least, continued to address their fathers as Daddy and Papa, even after marriage. Father seems to have been the form used by older boys and men. At least one young Virginia boy called his grandfather Grandpapa.
GREETINGS AND FAREWELLSGood morning, good day, good evening, and other similar greetings were used widely by polite society in the eighteenth century. A good day to you, Sir or A good morning to you, Robin (or any nickname) were used informally by the gentry and were more likely than the abbreviated forms above to be used by the middling sort and lower in addressing the gentry as well as each other.
How do you do? was a common greeting in genteel society during the eighteenth century. It survives in the now-casual "How 'ya doin'?" How do you do? was often followed by either an inquiry after the other person's family, or by an expression of pleasure at seeing the other person. Sometimes an inquiry after the family of the person addressed was used alone as a greeting:
How do you do, Mr. Harrison? I'm right heartily glad to see you.
How does your father, old fellow? [gentleman to gentleman]
How do you do? How does all at home?
Your servant, or variations such as Your humble servant and Your most obedient servant, were also polite greetings among the gentry and middling sorts. This greeting originated as a form of gracious condescension. It would have been redundant, and therefore impertinent, for a white person of low status, a servant, or a slave to address his superior in this fashion. A member of the gentry and a prosperous middle-class person, however, might each have used this expression to address the other:
Sir, I am your most obedient servant. I am heartily glad to see you.
[First gentleman]: Sir, your humble servant. I'm very glad to see you.
[Second gentleman]: Sir, I am yours. How does your family?
In a conversation between social equals or near equals, politeness required the second party to affirm that he/she was the servant of the first party.
All of the above greetings were commonly used by gentlemen. Ladies used How do you do? and inquiries about family, particularly female members of the other person's family. Ladies appear to have been more likely to have used I am glad to see you, rather than right heartily glad or heartily glad. They also appear to have used the Your servant type of greeting with less frequency than did gentlemen. Of course, Good day was an acceptable greeting for both ladies and gentlemen.
The most common form of genteel farewell seems to have been of the your servant variety and appears to have been used by the middling sorts and above. Again, the second party returned the civility:
[1st party]: ... and so, your servant, Sir.
[2nd party]: Sir, I am yours.
Your servant, Sir.
Yours, Sir.
Your servant could be expanded to Your humble servant, Your obedient servant, or (if you wanted to be really subservient) Your most obedient and humble servant.
A signal for departure used mainly by gentlemen with their social equals was By your leave, sometimes varied to With your permission:
[1st Gentleman]: ... by your leave, Sir.
[2nd Gentleman]: Your servant, Sir.
The gentry and higher social ranks also employed French phrases at times in conversation, and Adieu was used as a sort of breezy farewell among friends or family.
Acceptable to all genders and stations were variations on Good day:
[1st party]: I wish you a good evening, Sir/Madam.
or (less formal)
Good evening to you, Sir/Madam/Friend. or (informal)
Good night to you, Robin.
[2nd party]: The like to you, Sir/Madam/ Friend.
or (still again!) Your servant.
For those of you who find the phrase irritating, it may be a comfort to know
that "Have a nice day" did not originate in the 1970s; it has its
roots in the civil Good day to you of earlier centuries.
Cathy Hellier
Department of Historical Research


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A study of the life of philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche argues that geniuses are made, not born, discussing the work of a man who aimed at genius, absorbing the work of mentors and marshaling his creativity for his mission.
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Here, Pletsch (Intellectual History/Miami Univ., Ohio) describes both how Nietzsche consciously chose to become a genius and the cultural conditions that allowed him to do so--the cult of genius itself, its 18th-century secular origins, its function in a period of progress, and Nietzsche's redefinition of it. Pletsch offers little personal information about Nietzsche aside from his military service, his nearsightedness, his inability to relate to women. Born in a society that worshipped genius and in a family of intellectually gifted Lutheran ministers, Nietzsche, orphaned at age five and industrious, introverted, bright, and ambitious, modeled himself after a series of father-surrogates and became a distinguished if dissatisfied professor of classical philosophy. In his discipleship to Wagner (whom he later repudiated as a ``disease'' to be overcome), he found his voice as a philosopher and his status as a genius, which he considered a critical as well as a creative role. As Pletsch uses it, the term ``genius'' is a vocation, not a description; a calling, not a gift; a choice, not a destiny. Its relationship to performance, excellence, originality, and comprehensive knowledge is marginal. But if Nietzsche were not born with exceptional gifts, when did he become a genius and who ratified his status? And how can one reconcile this culturally based theory of genius with the psychological one Pletsch also introduces, a modified Freudian family romance? As Thomas Kuhn has argued in science and Harold Bloom in literature, creative achievements are often the result of choosing strong ``fathers,'' predecessors, to be overcome--success itself being a combination of the struggle with the father and serendipity. In spite of its decisive tone, Pletsch's intriguing study is speculative and needs to be seen in relation to other studies of creativity.


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Chinary Ung, composer
Age: 68
Education: Member of first graduating class of Cambodia's National Music Conservatory; Manhattan School of Music, bachelor's and master's degrees in music;
Achievements: Grawemeyer Award (1989; the first American composer to win the award) and honors from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the
Personal: Lives in the UTC area with his wife, violist Susan Ung. They have two children, both in college: Kalean (at Cal Arts) and Sonika (at Chapman University).
Anyone enrolling in Chinary Ung's composition classes at UCSD is going to learn about a lot more than music. "I used to tell my students: Some of you have high intelligence and are very talented. And if you wanted to, you could work very hard. But with just these three things put together, it won't click," said the Cambodian-American composer. "You won't be anybody in composition. You tell me: What are you missing?"
With his 1989 Grawemeyer Award, widely considered classical music's
The New Zealand Herald, reporting on "O Cambodia," a concert in Auckland earlier this year that included Ung's "In Memoriam," called him a "a major international figure." And the Herald found a "sense of catharsis" in his music, which the Connections Chamber Music Series will present in concerts in Encinitas and Mission Viejo next weekend.
Ung's highly spiritual, otherworldly music draws on a range of Eastern traditions and techniques, including having instrumentalists vocalize while they play. But he is more interested in addressing that missing element, especially with his students, than outlining the specifics of his compositional practice.
"I try to guide them on the intangible situation," Ung said in his office at the University of California San Diego, where he has taught since 1995. "Where is your heart? What are you doing? What is your message? Does it boost your ego only, or does your music communicate to people? Does it empower humanity? Or is it just a form of self-indulgence?"
Ung has spent a lifetime looking into his heart, considering his circumstances and contemplating the fragile nature of life.
He came to the United States in 1964 on an
The individual invited him to his office, they had a chat, and one thing led to another. Ung obtained a scholarship to study at Columbia University, which allowed him to stay in the United States (although he returned briefly to Cambodia before starting at Columbia).
"The point is this," Ung said. "If I did not go (to that office), and I did not take that elevator at exactly the perfect time, I would have been sent back to Cambodia (permanently)." There, he would have soon faced Pol Pot and the murderous Khmer Rouge. And with their disdain for intellectuals, Ung said, "I would be gone in no time at all."
That was the fate of many of his family members, including three brothers and a sister. They perished in the genocide that claimed approximately 2 million lives.
"Life is so delicate," Ung said. "It is so scary when you look back at that. It's incredible. But I'm lucky. I'm not complaining."
Ung put the clarinet aside and studied composition with the Chinese-American composer Chou Wen-Chung at Columbia, where he earned a doctorate. But his education had just begun.
Spurred by the political turmoil in Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge's attempted eradication of traditional Cambodian culture, Ung stopped composing and immersed himself in the music of his homeland, even learning to play the roneat ek, a Cambodian xylophone.
He contacted Cambodian musicians, dancers and scholars and initiated performances and recording projects (two volumes of traditional Cambodian music for the Folkways label) while teaching first at the University of Northern Illinois and then at
"When I heard it for the first time, I was enchanted," Ung said. "It was like, 'Oh my God!' It was just like I'm in paradise. I never realized until later that I made myself a musician because of that experience. Also because of the war: If there was no war, I'd say, 'Hey, a bunch of people are playing this instrument and preserving the art and so forth. Why bother?' But I felt responsible."
At first, his work with Cambodian music had little effect on his "serious" music, which was steeped in the post-serialist, experimental aesthetic he had learned at Columbia.
"Back then, I imagined a circle with a solid vertical line in the middle," Ung said. "This is Cambodian music and this is my own music, which was derived from my Western training. I made it clear: I don't mix the two."
Between 1974 and 1985 he wrote a single piece of "classical" music, "Khse Buon" for solo cello (or viola). In it, he tentatively started breaking through that boundary. With 1986's "Inner Voices" (which won the Grawemeyer) and especially in 1987's "Spiral" (which won the Friedheim), he found his own voice.
"The solid line became a dotted line," he said. "I don't even care anymore whether I'm being influenced by what. It's not my concern anymore."
The idea of a spiral — something that circles back but continues going — proved especially inspirational, prompting a series of pieces: "Spiral II," "Grand Spiral," "Antiphonal Spirals" and more. Ung became so obsessed by spirals he had to force himself to stop, fearful he was falling into a pattern.
"I stopped (writing spirals) for eight years," Ung said. "How did I stop? Our house is on the top of the hill, and we built a 17-foot-diameter sunken patio (in a circular shape). And I made that not just as something in the middle of my garden in my backyard; it is a mental mark to stop me from composing this spiral."
But his patio was purposely imperfect and left incomplete.
"It was calculated that way," Ung said. "I don't believe in a complete loop or circle; I always leave room for negotiation — in fight, in war, in love, in teaching, in anything."
Now a U.S. citizen, he left room to visit Cambodia in 2002 and remains committed to the cause of Cambodian music and culture. He frequently lectures and performs in Asia and is the principal curator for the 2013 Season of Cambodia festival in New York.
"It took me a long time to realize, yes, music is something I love to do, but it's not at the top of my list anymore," he said.
"Humanity, friendship, solving the suffering of your friends, yourself, reaching out to people, and so forth. There's a list probably pretty long. And then there is music."
Works by Chinary Ung
Upcoming premieres and releases:
May 21, 22, 2011: U.S. premiere of "In Memoriam" in Encinitas and Mission Viejo (commissioned by the Connections Chamber Music Series of California and the New Zealand Trio)
June 3, 2011: U.S. premiere of "After Rising Light" at California State University Santa Barbara in collaboration with the Asian Young Musicians Connection
Late 2011: Release of "Spiral XI: Mother and Child" (with Susan Ung) and "Spiral IX: Maha Sathukar" on Bridge Records (the third in a series of Ung's work on Bridge; the first Bridge CD was named one of the top 10 classical CDs of 2009 by
2012: Premiere of "Spiral XIV," commissioned by Zeitgeist (with a grant from Meet the Composer and Chamber Music America) and premiere of Viola Concerto commissioned by the S.E.M. Ensemble (funded by the Jebediah Foundation New Music Commission)
Recent performances:
"Angkor Tribute to the Masters" (concert at Angkor Wat — Bayon Temple in Cambodia, celebrating 900 years of Cambodian music, 2011)
"O Cambodia" (music performed as part of the Auckland Arts Festival, New Zealand, 2011)
"Spiral VI," "Seven
"Formless Spiral" (violist Susan Ung with Real Quiet, commissioned by La Jolla Music Society SummerFest and the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, 2010)
"De Capo Chamber Players: Music of Chinary Ung" (part of the Smithsonian Institution's Asian Pacific Heritage Month celebration at the Freer Gallery, 2010)
"Spirals VI" (performed by Continuum as part of a Fromm Music Foundation concert at
The series
During 2010-11, the Union-Tribune is profiling UCSD's composition faculty, the heart of the university's highly regarded music department. Previous stories can be found online. Visit
classical-music.uniontrib.com or the links listed below.
Dec. 5: Rand Steiger:
Jan. 9: Katharina Rosenberger:
Feb. 27: Roger Reynolds:
April 10: Lei Liang:
Today: Chinary Ung
October: Philippe Manoury
U.S. premiere of Chinary Ung's "In Memoriam"
Connections Chamber Music Series
When and where: 2 p.m. Saturday, Encinitas Library, 540 Cornish Drive; 4 p.m. next Sunday, Murray Center, 24932 Veterans Way, Mission Viejo
Tickets: $10 (Encinitas); $15 (Mission Viejo)
Phone: (760) 753-7376 (Encinitas); (949) 470-3062 (Mission Viejo)


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October 14, 2013
Columbus State Day makes news
This young attendee got his Superhero on after a visit to the Superhero Physics booth in the courtyard.
Beautiful fall weather and an all-out effort by Columbus State faculty and staff made for an excellent Columbus State Day October 12—our 50th anniversary gift to the community.
The Columbus Campus was all decked out with tents and exhibits, food trucks and touch-a-trucks, free books and free classes for everyone. Classes offered ranged from Positive Parenting to Using Photoshop like a Pro, and from Cooking with Young Children, to Retiring without Money Worries. There was something for everyone. Read more about the day in the Columbus Dispatch.
The day wrapped up with a special lecture from Dr. Shane Lopez, the world's leading researcher on hope, who taught attendees how investing in their future can pay off.
Reminder: Feedback requested for VP Candidates
Please remember to give your feedback on the candidates for the position of vice president for Information Technology, as they are introduced to campus through the Open Forums. The link to the feedback form is online here: Feedback Form
The final Open Forum for candidate Brian Rellinger, Chief Information Officer, Ohio Wesleyan University, will be Tuesday, October 15, from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. in the Conference Center Ballroom, fourth floor WD.
Christopher's Restaurant now on the web
The student-run dining experience, Christopher's, now has a website where you can find menus, prices, hours and days that the restaurant will be serving each semester. Students in the Foodservice program are required to participate in the week-to-week production of running a foodservice establishment. As patrons of Christopher's, you will be asked to critic the meal and the students that serve you. The information is reviewed and discussed after the restaurant is closed each week in order to better prepare our future managers in the Hospitality industry.
Briefings on Health Rewards Program offered
All full-time employees with UHC coverage are invited to attend a briefing which will help you navigate the web portal and answer any questions you may have about the Health Rewards Program offered through United Health Care (UHC). The briefings will be held:
Wednesday, October 16, from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. in CT 107 and
Tuesday, October 22, from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. in WD 352
Delaware Campus employees should RSVP to Nichole Bowman-Glover to attend a teleconference.
All employees, spouses or domestic partners covered under either of the UHC plans through Columbus State must reach eight (8) points in the Health Rewards program to maintain a 20 percent payroll contribution.
The Health Rewards website contains the information on the Health Rewards program and points. The deadline to achieve the eight points is June 30, 2014 for
the 2015 year. Tutorials are available online here: http://welcometomyuhc.com/healthandwellness/tour/.
For any additional information, contact Nichole Bowman-Glover, Wellness coordinator at ext. 3989.
Learning Management System (LMS) campus evaluation continues
Are you interested in finding out more about the latest learning management system (LMS) software from Blackboard and Instructure Canvas? If so, please join us for these LMS forums:
Instructure Canvas - 2:30 – 4:00 p.m. on Thursday, October 17, in CT 107
The New Blackboard (SP 13) - 2:30 – 4:00 p.m. on Monday, October 21, in CT 107
All are welcome to attend these software demonstrations and Q&A sessions.
To watch archived videos of these forums and to explore both of these LMS platforms on your own in a "sandbox" environment, go to the new LMS Evaluation organization in Columbus State's current Blackboard system. Learn how to access it by watching this three-minute tutorial: http://www.kaltura.com/tiny/q6g6o
Distance Education and Instructional Support (DEIS) welcomes your input during this process through November 14.
Jackie Miller's son Brett in 1983 sporting his CTI sweats.
Jackie Miller, RN, professor in the Nursing Department, took a moment to reminisce during Columbus State's recent birthday celebrations, looking back to the day her students gave her a CTI Cougars sweat suit for her baby-to-be Brett, born October 3, 1983. Much later on, Brett met his future wife Erica on a student nursing trip to Mexico. Jackie now has a bouncing baby grandson, Gavin, to dress up in Columbus State onesies!


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Sometimes the obvious needs stated because it isn't quite so obvious to some. Read on...
1. If it seems too good to be true, it probably is - This should be the way every trader approaches trading these days. SCF is easily the best trading site on the web simply because we have the largest membership of top-notch traders. However, it is naive to think that every single trader on any site is 100% trustworthy. If a new trader is offering you his $1000 sell value Adrian Peterson 1/1
Lately there has been a rash of really bad decisions and really upset people because of their bad decisions. To that end I thought it might be a good idea to create a little "guide" on how to be a smart trader (and win disputes). These are the most common reasons that result in losing a dispute.
Keep Your Receipt!!
This is probably the single greatest "mistake" that i see. Something as simple as holding on to a postal receipt can mean the difference between
Updated 09-10-2009 at 09:14 AM by duane1969
Just finished watching the Redskins-Steelers preseason game a bit ago (I Tivoed it, don't get confused wondering how I watched it almost 2 weeks after it aired LOL). I have some thoughts after watching the game that I thought I would share.....
1) Joe Theismann is an IDIOT!!! I have always respected him simply because he is a HOFer but this guy just doesn't know when to shut up.
2) The other commentator (don't know his name) has no idea what is going on. He
Updated 08-28-2009 at 05:00 PM by duane1969
Well, things have slowed in the NFL world. The draft is still 2 weeks away, the hype of free agency has died down, the Steelers haters have finally stopped crying the blues over the Steelers winning another Lombardi Trophy. So I think it is time to put up some of my all-time favorite Steelers quotes and facts.
"It's like what they said about the raptor in Jurassic Park - one of us gets your attention, the other one gets you."
Greg Lloyd
They did it!!! I have to admit, I was literally on the edge of my seat for the final 8 minutes. I had a knot in my stomach the size of a softball and was wired tight. That was the most exciting end to a Super Bowl that I have ever seen.
To the BooBirds. Go ahead and cry. I know you will. It is what you do. No matter what happens, you will always try to belittle the best team in football. I am used to it. It is pathetic but it is what you do best, so enjoy it.
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NORTH AMERICA: 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes' Clears $155M on Thursday; 'Purge: Anarchy' Tops $40M in First Week
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Fox reports that Dawn of the Planet of the Apes took in $3.3 million on Thursday, off 43 percent from the same day last week. The sequel has amassed an impressive $155.7 million domestically in its first two weeks, pacing 32.5 percent ahead of its 2011 predecessor.
Universal's The Purge: Anarchy posted $2.1 million yesterday to give it a one-week sum of $41.4 million. That's about 5 percent behind where the original film stood at the same point in release, although still an overall healthy total for the follow-up.
Disney reports that Planes: Fire and Rescue grossed $2.0 million on Thursday. The animated sequel has tallied $25.8 million in its first seven days, or about 19 percent less than its 2013 predecessor at the same point.
Sony's Sex Tape bagged $1.26 million yesterday, giving it $20.9 million through 7 days of release. Unfortunately, the R-rated comedy is trailing fellow Cameron Diaz-Jason Segel flick Bad Teacher by 54 percent.
Rounding out the top five, Transformers: Age of Extinction posted $0.95 million on Thursday to give it a 46 percent week-to-week drop and a new domestic cume of $231.75 million. The sequel surpassed X-Men: Days of Future Past on Wednesday to become this summer's top grossing film so far. It currently leads Captain America: The Winter Soldier by 1 percent at the same point in release, and Transformers: Dark of the Moon by 30 percent.
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By: Tony Narisi
The audience at Philly Improv Theater at the Shubin Theatre was treated to a great double-shot of local improv comedy Saturday night when two house teams kicked the evening off at 8:30.
First up was the six-person team of Mayor Karen. Basing their set off of the audience suggestion of Gandhi, the team started with some rapid-fire scenes. From a man deciding to stop abusing his wife after achieving inner peace to two men using "violent" protest methods to get a Dairy Queen re-opened, these scenes were short and sweet, with cuts coming in after only about three to five lines but still providing the audience with big laughs. As the form went on, the audience saw three recurring scenes being explored more in-depth—young Mother Theresa's scandalous love affair with Jesus, people in eerie places surrounded by animals making extremely strange noises, and a little boy, Timmy, whose newly single father is trying to get him to clean his room and learn that actions have consequences. In their last scene, Timmy was executed while his father looked on hoping that he had learned his lesson. With this scene and many others throughout the night, Mayor Karen exhibited their skills in beat structure and stake-raising to the audience.
Next up was the five-person team of ZaoGao. Going with the audience suggestion of "penny coat," the team performed an interesting form I'd never seen before, where characters remain on stage amidst the action the entire time, freezing in and out of movement as needed. As with Mayor Karen, they had good singular scenes, but their strongest moments came when they developed ideas through a number of scenes, as seen in the story of a woman who buys a house haunted by teen angst or Bad Luck Travis, the time-traveling explorer with a knack for destroying ancient relics. Possibly my favorite premise of the night was the one of Mr. and Mrs. Host. This couple is under the impression that their neighbors are constantly trying to see them having sex, while the neighbors actually have fake heads set up in the window, based on their thinking that the Hosts constantly want them to watch them having sex. With smooth transitions and good mental connections and references between scenes, ZaoGao put on a great twenty minutes of comedy that kept the laughs coming.


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A laptop computer containing "limited" medical information about patients at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital was stolen from a physician's car earlier this month, the hospital announced Monday.
The theft happened the night of Jan. 9, when the physician was parked away from the hospital, the hospital said in a statement. An investigation involving law enforcement and the hospital's internal security was opened the following day, but the laptop has yet to be recovered.
The laptop was password-protected, according to the statement.
The hospital said it has contacted approximately 57,000 patients about the theft. In addition to mailed letters, the hospital has established a toll-free line to answer questions. The number is 855-731-6016 and available Monday through Friday from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The information, which was predominately from 2009 and related to past patient care and research, included names and dates of birth, basic medical descriptors and medical record numbers, which were used only by the hospital to identify patients. There was also limited contact information for some of the patients.
The hospital said none of the "limited" information on the laptop was marketable. It did not contain Social Security numbers and financial or credit card information, according to the statement.
However, free identity protection services are being offered to all of the potentially affected patients.
To date, there is no indication that any patient information has been accessed or compromised, according to the statement. In the meantime, the hospital is beefing up its existing safeguards.
"As a result of this incident, we are taking additional steps to further strengthen our policies and controls surrounding the protection of patient data, including redoubling our efforts to ensure that all computers and devices containing medical information are encrypted," the statement said.
Email Jason Green at jgreen@ dailynewsgroup.com; follow him at twitter.com/jgreendailynews.


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Dallas City Council member Dwaine Caraway's effort to ban disposable plastic checkout bags and paper sacks will come up for debate in August when the council returns from its summer break.
Caraway has said he's convinced he will win. Others on the council say it's far from a done deal.
The proposed ordinance would:
— Prohibit businesses from providing thin, single-use carryout plastic and paper bags.
— Allow businesses to provide or sell reusable carryout bags. That includes washable cloth, fabric or woven bags; recyclable plastic bags that are at least 0.004 inches thick; and, when the rule takes effect, paper bags with at least 40 percent recycled content. It would require that paper bags have at least 80 percent recycled content a year later.
— Require signs at stores reminding shoppers to bring their own reusable bags to carry purchases home.
— Allow exemptions, including plastic dry cleaning bags; garbage and newspaper bags; trash can liners; bags for certain bulk food purchases, such as candy and nuts; bags used to wrap frozen foods; and restaurant carryout bags.
A look at arguments on both sides of the debate:
River trash shows need for plastic-bag ban, backers say
Diego Contreras tugged at another mud-splattered plastic bag entangled in the brush.
"There's a lot more trash than I expected," said Contreras, 15, of Dallas.
He pulled off a few pieces of the weathered sack before his canoe floated from the Trinity River's edge last week.
It's that common plastic bag that City Council member Dwaine Caraway wants to ban to curb litter in Dallas, helping city workers and volunteers involved in cleanup efforts. The council is expected to debate a ban in August.
Contreras, a student at Uplift Williams Preparatory, spent two hours on the Elm Fork of the Trinity River near Irving's California Crossing Park.
He removed trash, from cans and bottles to buckets and golf balls, in an effort organized by Groundwork Dallas, an environmental group.
Peter Payton, executive director of Groundwork, said the 20 volunteers collected about 250 pounds of garbage that afternoon.
In the past three years, he said, the organization has helped picked up about 80 tons of litter along the Trinity River and its bottomland hardwood forest.
"All of the trash from all of these people ends up right here," he said.
Instead of thin, throwaway plastic bags, he said, reusable bags are "the way to go."
"Plastics are not good for clean water," he said.
Still, he wondered about the citywide challenges in trying to outlaw single-use plastic and paper sacks. He noted the times when his wife or one of his three children will ask him to grab something from the store on his way home.
"You think, 'Well, it won't hurt this time,'" he said.
"But then when you get home, one of the bags ends up in the Dumpster and then the landfill and then it blows into the water."
Dallas' Park and Recreation Department praised the volunteer efforts.
Assistant director John Jenkins said the department maintains more than 21,000 park acres on a $24 million maintenance budget, about $3 million reserved for anti-litter operations.
Last year, 5,097 hours of volunteer litter pickup were recorded.
"That's huge," Jenkins said. "They really help us to enhance our park system. We couldn't do it without our volunteers."
The department's budget includes a $2.5 million contract with Good Earth, a landscaping, management and tree service, and weekend and evening litter cleanup programs.
Jenkins said Good Earth isn't responsible for the "non-active" park areas, such as the forested edges of the Trinity River. The majority of parks — 80 percent — are picked up an average of four days a week.
"Isolated, natural areas, where the parks are not developed — that's where we find a whole lot of issues," he said.
Among the Ground Work volunteers on the recent outing, Garrett Boone, co-founder of the Container Store, said he supports a bag ban.
He's paddled the Trinity River for 14 years and said, "There's lots of bottles and Styrofoam cups and plastic bags."
"The Trinity is a reflection of how we live" and needs to be protected, he said.
He said everyone should rely on reusable bags, instead of single-use plastic bags.
"Austin has one, and the city has kept going," he said.
Plant says recycling is key to curbing litter
The machine eats plastic 24 hours a day.
Employees dump scraps onto a conveyer belt into the U-shaped machine. It grinds and fluffs the pieces, melts the material and feeds it through a 21-foot-long extruder.
The result: regenerated pellets, one of the ingredients to make a plastic bag.
At the Hilex Poly manufacturing facility in Carrollton, officials say their work is dedicated to recycling. They call it a prime example of why the Dallas City Council shouldn't be considering a ban on plastic bags.
"I don't know why plastic bags have come under fire," said Michael Cole, the plant superintendent in Carrollton and Farmers Branch.
The ban's backers say single-use paper and plastic bags are trashing the city. Hilex Poly says they aren't the enemy when recycled and reused.
"We want to stick with statistics and reality, as opposed to more inflammatory, ideological discussions that plastic bags are hanging in trees all over," said Mark Daniels, the company's senior vice president of sustainability and environmental policy.
He cited a 2009 Keep America Beautiful survey that found that plastic bags comprise 0.6 percent of litter.
At the Carrollton facility, rolls of plastic unwind at high speeds. Machines print finished material with names such as Family Dollar, Cabela's and Taco Bell. The plant operates 24 hours a day, year-round, and employs 128.
Daniels said a ban would threaten the jobs of the more than 1,600 employees at Hilex Poly's 17 facilities nationwide.
"It's really important to these families," he said.
Inside the plant, the manufactured bags contain 25 percent recycled content, on average. The percentages depend on what kinds of bags are ordered — the darker the bag, the higher the recycled content.
"Whenever you see a white bag, you're not going to see a lot of recycled content," Daniels said. Recycled resin pellets are often brown or off-white.
The work starts with the retailers that participate in the Bag-2-Bag program, such Kroger grocery stores, where shoppers can drop off used plastic bags. Kroger officials also have spoken out against the Dallas City Council proposal.
Kroger trucks deliver food to the store and then take the used plastic bags to its distribution centers in Keller and Houston.
That's where Hilex Poly comes in — buying the plastic scrap, from $250 to $400 a ton, depending on market demand, Daniels said.
"For the retailers, it helps keep their costs in line," he said. The plastic then is driven to Indiana, Louisiana or Houston to be recycled and reprocessed into resin pellets.
Some of the beadlike material returns in rail cars to Carrollton and moves into the manufacturing process.
Daniels estimates that for every 10 pounds of bags Hilex Poly sells, the company repurchases 3.2 pounds — a 32 percent recycling rate.
He said the company wants to expand its recycling infrastructure and help tell consumers about the need to recycle.
"If you buy a gallon of milk or buy detergent with a handle on it you don't need a bag," he said. "We're really trying to drive that point home to our retail partners: Use these things responsibly."


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For Seniors: View an Image in Windows Photo Viewer
Windows Photo Viewer enables you to view digital photos. You can also use Windows Photo Viewer to e-mail or print photos, burn (save) photos to disc, or display images in a photo slide show on-screen.
1Choose Start→Pictures.
The Pictures library opens in Windows Explorer, displaying a list of related folders and images. If needed, double-click folders until you locate the image you want to view.
2Click an image, then click the arrow on the Open button and choose Windows Photo Viewer.
The image is displayed in Windows Photo Viewer.
If you double-click any photo in any Pictures library folder, it opens in Windows Live Gallery, a viewer similar to Windows Photo Viewer but with slightly different menu commands and tools.
3Use the tools along the bottom of the viewer to control the view.
Click the Display Size icon (magnifying glass) to display a slider you can drag to zoom in or out. Click the Next and Previous icons to move to a previous or following image in the same folder.
Click the center Play Slide Show button to display the images in this folder in a continuous slide show. To exit the slide show, right-click and select Exit.
Click the Rotate Clockwise or Rotate Counterclockwise icons to spin the image 90 degrees at a time. Click the Delete button to delete the selected image.
If you want to quickly open a photo in another application, click the Open button at the top of the Windows Photo Viewer window and chose a program such as Paint or Microsoft Office Picture Manager.


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These are all the News & Announcements posted in September, 2009.
Tuesday, 29
Banned Books Week 2009
This week is Banned Books Week. Banned Books week is an annual event that celebrates freedom to read or the freedom to express one's opinion even if that opinion might be considered unorthodox or unpopular. Banned Books Week stresses the importance of ensuring the availability of unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints to all who wish to read them. To see a list of books that others have attempted to ban, view The American Library Association's (ALA) list of Frequently Challenged Books. While you are on the ALA website take a look at their list of Banned and Challenged Classics. Chances are that you will find one of your favorites on that list.
Celebrate your freedom to read by selecting a book from a list of banned books available at the Logan Library.
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One Day Booksale - October 2
The Logan Library is holding a large book sale on Friday, October 2 from 10:00 am to 6:00 p.m.. Used books, DVDs, videos, and other items will be available - all for $2.00 or less. Proceeds will benefit the library.
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Staff Reading Pick
Here is another reading pick from the Logan Library Staff.
Book: Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
Recommended by: Becky, Childrens Librarian
This is easily the best children's fantasy novel I've read in years. Deftly weaving together fantasy and Chinese mythology, it tells the story of a plucky young girl who sets out on a quest to find the Old Man of the Moon and change her poverty-stricken family's fortunes. Beautifully written and totally captivating.
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There is some evidence that heat will help decrease low back pain. There is little proof that cold will help.footnote 1 But some people do find that heat or cold help them. Follow these suggestions if you would like to try heat or cold for low back pain.
Heat to relieve low back pain
Ice to relieve low back pain
Ice and cold packs can relieve pain, swelling, and inflammation from injuries and other conditions such as arthritis. Use either a commercial cold pack or:
Ice the area at least 3 times a day. For the first 72 hours (3 days), ice for 10 minutes once an hour the first day, then every 2 to 3 hours. After that, a good pattern is to ice for 10 to 15 minutes 3 times a day: in the morning, in the late afternoon after work or school, and about a half hour before bedtime. Also ice after any prolonged activity or vigorous exercise.
Always keep a damp cloth between your skin and the cold pack, and press firmly against all the curves of the affected area. Do not apply ice for longer than 15 to 20 minutes at a time. And do not fall asleep with the ice on your skin.
Try alternating
You may also want to try switching between heat and cold. Use heat for 15 to 20 minutes, then a few hours later use ice for 10 to 15 minutes.
French SD, et al. (2006). Superficial heat or cold for low back pain. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (1).
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Twice as many Americans commit suicide in states where most households have a gun than in states with low rates of gun ownership, according to a new study.
Several studies have linked gun ownership to the risk of suicide by firearm, according to Dr. Matthew Miller, the new study's lead author from the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston.
But some critics question whether people living in states where lots of residents own guns are inherently more suicidal than those who live in places where ownership is less common.
To address that critique, Miller and his colleagues gathered state-by-state data on gun ownership, suicide attempts and suicide deaths from a variety of sources, including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and health surveys.
They compared the 16 states with the highest gun ownership rates to the six states with the lowest rates. Both of those groups included about 62 million people.
In the high gun ownership group, 51 percent of adults lived in a household with firearms, versus 15 percent of adults in the low gun ownership group.
There were about 7,300 firearm suicides in the states with the most guns - including Alabama, Montana and West Virginia - in 2008 to 2009, according to findings published in the American Journal of Epidemiology.
That compared to 1,700 suicides by gun in the low ownership states, such as Hawaii, Massachusetts and New York.
The number of non-gun suicides in the two sets of states was similar, at about 4,200 and 4,300, respectively. What's more, state-wide rates of suicide attempts did not differ based on levels of household gun ownership.
"Living in a home with a gun greatly increases the risk of suicide, and that increased risk is not because people who live in homes with guns or in areas where guns are more prevalent are more suicidal," Miller told Reuters Health.
"They're not. It's because when people make suicide attempts with guns, they're much more likely to die than when they make attempts with other commonly used methods."
The increased suicide risk associated with gun ownership is not a pro-gun or anti-gun issue, he added.
"We're not going to legislate our way out of suicide very easily, and that's not the goal," he said. "The goal is to help people realize that there is a risk."
The study confirms that people with guns at home are no more likely to attempt to kill themselves - but they are more likely to succeed because they are more likely to use a gun, Dr. Eric Fleegler, a pediatric emergency medicine doctor at Boston Children's Hospital and instructor at Harvard Medical School, said.
For example, about three percent of people who attempt suicide with drugs or cutting actually kill themselves, he said. But about 90 percent of attempts using a firearm are successful.
According to the CDC, about 12 in every 100,000 Americans committed suicide in 2010 - half of them with a gun.
"It is unlikely that we're going to take guns away per se, but we do need to make people understand the risks that are associated with this," said Fleegler, who studies firearms and public health but did not participate in the new research.
People with guns at home can take safety precautions, he told Reuters Health, such as storing the gun in a lockbox and keeping the gun and ammunition in separate places.
The researchers agreed, however, that there hasn't been much funding available to study whether such gun safety measures are effective for suicide prevention.
After the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, Miller noted, President Barack Obama announced he would make $10 million available to fund research on firearms and public health.
Right now, he added, the CDC spends about $100,000 on firearms-related research, and the National Institutes of Health spends "almost nothing."
Given that firearms are the second-leading cause of death among people under age 40 after car crashes, Miller said, even if that $10 million was made available every year it would still be "woefully inadequate."
SOURCE: bit.ly/15pX542 American Journal of Epidemiology, online August 23, 2013.


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Here is this week's edition recorded at 6:30pm tonight Aug 18, 2009
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Phillies Talk - the latest podcast "Pedro's first 'real' start"
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- AnonymousAugust 19, 2009 at 7:59 AM
Vick has served his time. There are people that are involved with the death of humans in the NFL. You need to get off your high horse. If McNabb goes down Vick will give us the best chance at winning. Me and my dog will be at the games to support the Eagles and Vick.ReplyDelete
I'll say it again, it's a privilege to be able to play in the NFL not a right, why should he get a 'second' chance?, there are plenty of players out there who didn't do what he did.ReplyDelete
Yes, he served his time, that is true. I think there should be a point thought that you say... sorry you're not eligible to play in the NFL your character background is not something we want associated with the properties of the NFL.
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WILLIAMSBURG, Va.—Senior Sara Parkinson (Chorley, England/Loughborough University) broke the school record in the women's 5,000-meter run as the UMBC track and field teams opened the 2011 outdoor season at the Colonial Relays this weekend. The men finished 14th with 29 points, while the women took 20th with 16 points.
Parkinson finished 12th in the 5,000 in a time of 17:04.22, breaking Karin Wagner's 26-year old record.
Sophomore Amanda Deller (Aberdeen, Md./Aberdeen) won the shot put with a throw of 14.22m (46'8").
Junior Imani Colbert (Upper Marlboro, Md./C.H. Flowers) finished fifth in the 100-meter dash in a time of 14.56. Fellow junior Kiki Malomo-Paris(Northern Ireland/Glenlola Collegiate School) placed seventh in the long jump with a leap of 5.36m (17'7").
On the men's side, junior Aaron Brooks (Upper Marlboro, Md./Dematha) earned bronze in the discus throw with a heave of 47.16m (154'9") and placed eighth in the shot put with a throw of 14.25m (46'9").
The trio of sophomore Trae Proctor (Brandywine, Md./Thomas Stone) and seniors Dominic Devaud (Baltimore, Md./Archbishop Curley) and Keith Brown (Columbia, Md./McDonough) finished 4-5-6 in the 110-meter hurdles in times of 14.78, 14.99 and 15.18, respectively.
Sophomore Shioma Obemeata (New Rochelle, N.Y./Iona Preparatory/St. Francis College) finished sixth in the triple jump with a leap of 13.95m (45'9.25")
Freshman Vinny Di Salvo (Washingtonville, N.Y./Washingtonville) crossed the line eighth in the 3,000-meter steeplechase in time of 9:28.15.
The sprint medley relay team of Brown, freshman Kyle Baker (Bowie, Md./Archbishop Spalding) and juniors Arjun Pradeep (Ellicott City, Md./Mount Hebron) and Joshua Hewitson (New Market, Md./Linganore) finished third in a time of 3:31.80.
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Firefox EV Plug-In Only Supports VeriSign Certificates
Back in May we announced a Firefox plug-in from VeriSign that added "green bar" support for Firefox 2.x. The address bar turns green when the site uses an EV (Extended Validation) SSL certificate. IE has had this support built in for much longer. It turns out that the support in the Firefox plug-in only works for sites that use EV certificates issued by VeriSign.
It's easy to jump to conspiratorial conclusions, but the reasons behind this are complicated. First, the practical impact: there are some, although very few, EV sites on the Web which if viewed in Internet Explorer 7 will show the green bar, but not in Firefox with the VeriSign plug-in. The first example I found was GoDaddy, which issued and signed their own EV certificate for their site.
Windows maintains a list of trusted root certificates (in IE do Tool | Internet Options | Content tab | Certificates button | Trusted Root Certificates tab). Some root certificates come with the operating system and the list can be updated. Internet Explorer checks this list. Microsoft's list of root certificates is also maintained at this web page.
Firefox maintains its own list (Tools-Options-Advanced-Encryption tab-View Certificates button-Authorities tab:
But the Firefox plug-in is managed by VeriSign, and they must decide which root certificates to trust. They could have assumed that all CAs offering EV certificates had followed all the rules, and the rules (set by the CA/Browser Forum) are pretty stringent. Or they could have tried to verify which are doing all the vetting they need to.
This work really should be done by the browser writers, and VeriSign tells me that Microsoft does it. When Microsoft calls to ask you questions about your procedures you take the call and (according Microsoft requires a copy of the CA's WebTrust EV audit before turning on that root for EV and also requires a copy of the yearly WebTrust compliance audit to keep the green bar active.
This is also a temporary problem. Firefox 3 will, it appears, support EV certificates natively. At this point the job of policing certificate authorities will transfer to Mozilla.
But it isn't reasonable to expect VeriSign to call up other certificate authorities and demand proof of their good business practices. That wouldn't rub people the right way. So in the meantime, only VeriSign certs are working, and if this isn't acceptable then Firefox isn't an acceptable EV platform. Unless something else changes, you'll have to wait for version 3.


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The MLS All-Star Game might feature just the team to sell out Reliant Stadium in Houston.
Monday's Sports Business Journal reports that Soccer United Marketing (SUM), the marketing and commercial arm of Major League Soccer, is working with CAA Sports on a Manchester United tour of North America during the summer. The tour would involve a stop in Houston for a match against the MLS All-Stars.
SBJ cited sources as providing details of a four-game tour including stops in Boston, Philadelphia, Toronto and Houston for the MLS All-Star Game.
MLSsoccer.com has confirmed that a deal is yet to be finalized and that match-ups with multiple MLS clubs are contemplated. No MLS team has ever faced Manchester United in league history.
The timing of the tour will eventually determine the players who would be available to travel to the U.S. MLS has yet to announce a date for its All-Star Game.


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Big Rapids, Mich. - The nationally sixth-ranked Ferris State University men's ice hockey team took its nation-leading unbeaten streak on the road and stretched it to 10-straight contests with an impressive 4-1 triumph over the Northern Michigan Wildcats on Friday (Nov. 29) evening in Marquette, Mich.
The Bulldogs, who maintained their first-place lead in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) standings, seized control with two first-period goals en route to the convincing win in the weekend series' opener at the Berry Events Center.
Ferris State remained unbeaten in its debut season in the WCHA as the Bulldogs improved to 11-2-1 overall and 8-0-1 in league action. FSU is unbeaten over its last 10 contests with a 9-0-1 mark.
The contest marked the first of eight-straight games away from home for Ferris State.
Ferris State came away with the victory in an intense and competitive game as the Bulldogs scored twice in the first frame and held a 4-0 lead until NMU scored its lone goal of the night in the final seconds.
The Bulldogs struck first at 11:41 of the opening period when sophomore forward Matt Robertson tallied his fifth goal of the campaign as he jammed in a shot in front of the net. Freshman Chad McDonald notched his sixth assist of the year on the initial goal of the evening.
FSU added a second goal in the opening stanza a little more than five minutes later at 16:54 when sophomore defenseman Zach Dorer scored his second marker of the year on a shot from the point that bounced in off the post. Both freshman forward Kyle Schempp and senior center Cory Kane picked up their fifth helpers each on the goal.
In the second period, the two teams combined for 10 penalties as the action went back and forth. However, Schempp stretched the FSU advantage to three goals late in the period with a power-play goal for the Bulldogs at 16:25 of the second frame. His sixth goal of the season came on a tip-in in front of the net and was assisted by senior forward Garrett Thompson and junior defenseman Jason Binkley, who recorded their 10th and ninth assists of the year, respectively.
The Bulldogs added an early third period goal to push the advantage to 4-0 when sophomore defenseman Brandon Anselmini scored his first goal of the campaign only 1:33 into the final period. He rifled in a shot on yet another Bulldog power play with Robertson notching his second point of the night on his first assist of the season.
Northern Michigan scored its only goal of the night with 11 seconds left in the contest as Cohen Adair capitalized on a power-play opportunity with assists credited to Sami Salminen and Luke Eibler.
That was as close as NMU could come, though, as Bulldog junior goaltender CJ Motte shut the door most of the night. He finished with 32 saves in the contest in pushing his nation-leading and unbeaten winning mark in net to 11-0-1 on the year.
Meanwhile, NMU's Mathias Dahlstrom fell to 5-4-1 on the year by allowing four goals and making 17 saves in 41:33 of action. Derek Dun came on in relief and made eight saves in the final 18:27 of action for the Wildcats.
NMU held a 33-29 edge in total shots for the night, but FSU finished two-of-seven on the power play with the Wildcats converting once in four tries.
Northern Michigan was whistled for 10 penalties totaling 31 minutes with the Bulldogs called seven times for 25 minutes in the box.
With the loss, the Wildcats fell to 6-6-1 overall and 4-3-0 in league action.
This year marks the fourth consecutive season in which the Bulldogs have traveled to Marquette to face the Wildcats on the Olympic ice sheet at the Berry Events Center. FSU has recorded three wins in a tie over the last five matchups versus NMU in Marquette dating back to the 2011-12 campaign.
The two teams will square off again on Saturday (Nov. 30) night in the series' finale starting at 7:07 p.m. (ET). The contest can be heard live on Sunny 97.3 FM and the Bulldog Sports Network at FerrisStateBulldogs.com starting with pregame coverage at 6:30 p.m.
Bulldogs Push Nation-Leading Unbeaten Streak To 10 Games With Road Victory
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During his recent visit to Indonesia, Kumi Naidoo (Greenpeace International Executive Director) and a Greenpeace team flew over Sumatra to bear witness to the forest destruction that is happening there.
Rainforests and carbon-rich peatlands in Indonesia are being destroyed at such a rate that Indonesia is now the world's third largest emitter of greenhouse gases, after the US and China. The habitats of endangered species like the orang-utan and Sumatran tiger are disappearing. The homes and livelihoods of indigenous communities are being destroyed.
Greenpeace is campaigning to end the destruction of Indonesia's rainforests and carbon-rich peatlands. Indonesia and Norway now have a chance to change history and to end the destruction of Indonesia's rainforests and carbon-rich peatlands.
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