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Students at a Southern California university moved into on-campus housing that included a new option — dormitories designated for students "interested in issues of concern to the black community."
Cal State's Halisi Scholars Black Living-Learning Community, designated units within the nearly 200-unit campus residential apartments, was offered in time for the new school year after student reports of racially insensitive comments at the school east of downtown Los Angeles. The school's Black Student Union issued a call in November 2015 for changes, including the new living-learning community.
Twenty-four students are living in the dorm space, and the school said there is a wait list to get in. Applications are no longer being accepted for fall 2016.
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The plan drew reaction on social media and among others who called it segregation and "black-only" housing. That's not the case, school officials and students said.
"They see something that says black housing, and they automatically equate it with black only," said student Jonathan Thomas. "It can be for anybody."
The apartments at Cal State Los Angeles are among several themed living communities, which are designed for students with common academic goals and interests. Other themed communities include the first-year residential experience for new students, scholars housing for honors college students and gender-neutral inclusive housing, which also has a long wait list, according to the school.
"This is not segregated housing," said CSULA spokesman Jonathan Thomas. "This housing is open to all students. It focuses on programs that are inclusive and non-discriminatory."
Cal State LA is not alone in offering themed housing. UC Berkeley offers African American, Asian Pacific American, Native American, women in science ad engineering and others themed housing.
Stanford University has four themed dorms. UCLA has a diverse list of learning communities, including Afrikan Diaspora, Gender, Sexuality, and Society, Sustainable Living and the Visual and Performing Arts Collective.


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The "American Idol" audition bus tour stops at the Tuscaloosa Amphitheater on Wednesday, giving wannabe stars an opportunity to audition for the show's 13th season.
The "American Idol" audition bus tour stops at the Tuscaloosa Amphitheater on Wednesday, giving wannabe stars an opportunity to audition for the show's 13th season.
Brian Robinson, a senior producer with "American Idol," said Tuscaloosa is the third stop on a five-city tour. The show will allow contestants to begin lining up outside the amphitheater at 6 a.m. for registration, which begins 7. Auditions are scheduled to conclude by 4 p.m.
According to the "American Idol" website, if contestants show up too late in the day, producers may not have time to accommodate everyone. However, Robinson said that everyone who registered in the previous two cities was able to audition.
"We've seen every audition," he said. "That's what we like to pride ourselves on. If you come out to audition for 'American Idol,' we like to see everyone."
Robinson estimated that more than 1,000 people auditioned at the stop in Oxford, Miss., and more than 2,000 in Little Rock, Ark. Auditions ended at 5 p.m. in Oxford and 6 in Little Rock.
"We've had great turnouts of talent," he said. "Numbers are important and the overall amount of people has been really good solid turnout, but most importantly we've found some really great and talented people."
Those auditioning will sing a song of their choice a cappella. For the first time, "American Idol" will give singers the opportunity to audition with their guitars. Contestants wishing to use a guitar will first be asked to sing a cappella and then may be asked by the producers to sing again using their guitar.
The website recommends contestants have two or three song choices prepared. Robinson said the length of each audition depends on the individual singers.
"It's really about coming in and being able to show in a really short audition to show that you have what it takes to go really far in the competition," he said. "They sing until we've heard enough to know if they have what it takes for this season."
The "American Idol" audition bus tour was a new addition in Season 12 and stopped in 10 small towns, finding contestants who, Robinson said, made it pretty far in the competition.
Those who make it to the next round of auditions will be given a "golden ticket." According to the show's website, contestants who advance should be ready to make travel accommodations.
Robinson, who has been with "American Idol" since the show's third season, said he thinks the tour is a great addition to the audition process.
"It gives us a chance to put ourselves right on the doorstop of someone who may not have the means or the time to travel to one of the cities we are in," he said. "We are looking to find someone who may not have auditioned, so it's sort of an outreach to all the people who have the talent to make it."
The tour continues in Knoxville, Tenn., on Friday and Winston-Salem, N.C., on Aug. 26.
In order to pick which cities the bus would travel to, producers selected cities far enough away from one another not to draw the same crowds, but close enough to fit into a short trip.
Robinson said he is excited to be coming through Tuscaloosa.
"Another reason we picked Tuscaloosa, is that Tuscaloosa is known to be winners with all the national championships from Alabama. It seems like a winning place to be so we're hoping to find our winner right here in Tuscaloosa," he said.
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OLYMPIA — Washington state's clemency board on Friday recommended a shortened sentence for a woman who is in the midst of a 22-year sentence for her role in a deadly group attack on a 64-year-old Everett man that occurred when she was 14.
After a two-hour hearing that was packed with family members and supporters of Marriam Oliver, the state's Clemency and Pardon's Board unanimously voted that Oliver, now 26, should be released in three years, as long as she doesn't have any infractions on her prison record during that time. The recommendation now goes to Gov. Jay Inslee, who will get the final say. There is no timeframe on when Inslee may make a decision on the case.
Oliver was one of five teens and an adult, Barbara Marie Opel, then 38, who either pleaded guilty or were convicted in the 2001 beating and stabbing death of Jerry Dean Heimann at his Everett home. Oliver, who was tried as an adult, received the lower end of the sentencing range for first-degree murder.
Oliver, who testified before the four-member board by telephone, cried and had to pause frequently as she recounted the crime.
"It is something that I will live for the rest of my life, that I took the life of a man, a father, a grandfather and friend," she said.
She said she first tried to run away from the assault but was coerced by Barbara Opel to return, and sobbed as she recounted for the board that she then hit Heimann over the head with a bat.
"I remember sitting in county jail ashamed of myself," she said. "That wasn't me."
Oliver testified that she has participated in several educational and volunteer programs in prison, currently works as a Braille translator, and said she uses her story to try and help others.
"Today, I have a deeper understanding of not just my life, but human life," she said.
Prosecutors said Opel was hired by Heimann as a caregiver to his elderly mother who had Alzheimer's disease. Opel recruited her own 13-year-old daughter and other teens to kill him so she could get control of his bank account.
Several people, including those who worked with Oliver at the juvenile rehabilitation center where she first served time, spoke of how her personality in prison countered that of the girl who was recruited by Barbara Opel.
"She is truly remorseful," said Danna Colingham, who was a volunteer at Echo Glen Children's Center who had worked on some humanitarian projects with Oliver, like making socks and quilts to send to orphans in South America. "She was a little girl coerced by someone to do something that was not in her nature."
However, in a written statement submitted to the board, Snohomish County Prosecutor Mark Roe called Oliver a "willing participant in a murder for hire."
He said that the remaining 10 years Oliver currently has to serve "is not an excessive sentence for such a brutal crime" and wrote that a reduction of her sentence was not warranted.
Members of the board expressed concern about the brutality of the crime, as well as some infractions that Oliver had received while in prison in recent years, including a situation where she yelled at a guard and another where she was penalized for a fight that she insisted was just her trying to intervene in an altercation involving other prisoners.
"You're a model prisoner, and then all of a sudden you're doing all this," said board member Raul Almeida.
"I understand that's what's in front of you, and how it looks, but that's not the whole entire picture or a reflection of me, it honestly isn't," she responded.
Oliver's attorney, Jennifer Stutzer, hugged Oliver's sister and others after the board made its recommendation, contingent on her having no more infractions between now and her release.
"She has earned this," Stutzer said.
Barbara Opel was sentenced in 2003 to life in prison without parole. Her daughter, Heather, is serving a 22-year sentence. Heather Opel's boyfriend, Jeff Grote, was 17 at the time of the crime and pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in Heimann's death. He is serving a 50-year sentence. Kyle Boston, 14 at the time of the slaying, was sentenced to 18 years behind bars after pleading guilty to second-degree murder. Boston's cousin from Marysville, then 13, was convicted of first- and second-degree murder in juvenile court in 2001 and has since been released. In Washington, youths sentenced in juvenile court cannot be imprisoned past the age of 21.
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Britain's very own EU High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs, Cathy Ashton, has not had a terribly good press after a report from the European Parliament said her department had too many decision-making layers, is top heavy and is indecisive in response to crises. It didn't help that she was looking for a four per cent increase in her department's budget, amounting to £18 million for next year.
Which is why she will be doing everything possible to make the most of her one diplomatic triumph last weekend, a deal between Kosovo and Serbia. Implementation talks started yesterday.
Indeed the one undoubted gainer from the Kosovo-Serbia deal initialled by Hashim Thaci, Kosovo prime minister, and Serbia's Ivica Dacic and brokered by Baroness Ashton is the EU. Or as the FT puts it, 'the accord makes clear that the Eurozone crisis has not diminished the EU's allure. Without the promise of getting on the road to membership, Serbia would never have engaged'. Actually that last bit is true, though I find, myself, that it's a useful rule that if the FT is in favour of something, it's probably right to take the opposite view.
The deal gives substantial autonomy to an association of Serb-majority areas in return for Serbia recognising that Kosovo has supreme legal authority over the whole of the country, without recognising Kosovo itself.
The Serb association will have control over education, economic development, health and planning, but without tax-raising powers. And it will have its own judges, administering Kosovo law.
But by now, things have moved on from the triumphalism following the deal. Both Thaci and others concerned have had death threats from their own side, with the additional frisson on the Serbian side of angry demonstrations in northern Kosovo, in which leaders of the municipalities concerned called for their own assembly. (Shades of the Serb Republic in Bosnia there, which is meant to be part of a unitary state but actually runs its own show.) For what it's worth, Serbs in the north are enraged at the prospect of having to carry official documents like drivers licences issued by the Kosovo government, not by Belgrade. Which tells you everything about the status quo.
I think myself there's quite a lot not to like about Baroness Ashton's deal. The problem is, as Ilir Deda of the KIPRED think-tank (and a friend of my Kosovo Albanian husband) put it, this could put the end to prospects for a multi-ethnic Kosovo. There are perhaps 90,000 Serbs in Kosovo – actually that figure is disputed; there were more but many have left since the conflict in 1999 – and just over half of them live in the north, in the area including Mitrovica right next to Serbia. That northern bit is to most intents and purposes run by Serbia – public sector workers get their pay from Belgrade, not Prishtina. That leaves tens of thousands of Serbs outside in scattered enclaves around Kosovo.
And the risk is that the autonomy given to Serb areas will be concentrated in the northern enclave, which will have control over its own police force, leaving the Serbian communities elsewhere marginalised – and they're vulnerable enough already. The synod of the Serbian Orthodox church says that it looks like the abandonment of Serbs in Metohija, the area to the south and west of the country.
Then there's the question of Albanians who were ethnically cleansed from the north, thousands of them. The chances of them returning home were always pretty slim; now they're nil. This isn't an agreement that makes for integration of ethnic groups; it makes for increased separatism and God knows, it was happening already.
Kosovo itself – or rather, Hashim Thaci – has ended up trading quite a lot in return for something a good deal short of what Kosovars actually want, a seat for Kosovo at the UN and membership of organisations like Interpol. Serbia is now on the fast track to EU accession, and, more importantly, substantial EU funds. It still has a veto over recognition of Kosovo at the UN – as the Serbian PM said on Monday, 'We are not able to by ourselves block Kosovo's path to the UN, but we can with the help of our friends Russia and China'. The Serbian north, which can work closely with Belgrade, has conceded that it will not oppose being showered with cash by the central government in Prishtina but it's not at all clear that it won't also continue to have funding from Serbia.
The grimmest scenario is that the Serbian north will become something like the Serb Republic in Bosnia, which I mentioned above, notionally part of Bosnia but actually running its own show. The sunniest scenario is that Serbia will do its bit to promote Serb participation in the Kosovo state, rather than use the agreement to promote partition on the ground. Either way, Kosovo will be billed as a triumph of EU diplomacy and useful ammunition for Lady Ashton's bid for more EU funding.
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All six species of sea turtles found in U.S. waters are listed as endangered or threatened, but the exact population sizes of these species are unknown due to a lack of key information regarding birth and survival rates. The U.S. Endangered Species Act prohibits the hunting of sea turtles and reduces incidental losses from activities such as shrimp trawling and development on beaches used for nesting. However, current monitoring does not provide enough information on sea turtle populations to evaluate the effectiveness of these protective measures. This National Research Council report reviews current methods for assessing sea turtle populations and finds that although counts of sea turtles are essential, more detailed information on sea turtle biology, such as survival rates and breeding patterns, is needed to predict and understand changes in populations in order to develop successful management and conservation plans.
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The intense proximity of journalists and athletes at Super Bowl Media Day usually causes one or two moments noteworthy for their ridiculousness, despite most players endeavoring to maintain a low profile. Leave it to Niners wide receiver Randy Moss to make things interesting.
"I do think I'm the greatest receiver," declared Moss. "This year has been a down year for me statistically, the year before I retired was a down year and then in Oakland was a down year. So, I don't really live on numbers, I really live on impact and what you're able to do out on that field. So I really do think that I'm the greatest receiver ever to play this game."
As heads around the world shook in disbelief, NFL Network analyst Rich Eisen said what we all were thinking.
"And Jerry Rice just threw something at his television set," joked Eisen, who went on to express his gratitude to Moss for offering something other than the standard boilerplate so many athletes regurgitate.
But sometimes boilerplate is exactly what a team needs, and that's what deposed Niners starting QB Alex Smith offered up on Tuesday. Media Day can be a grind under the best of circumstances, so imagine the dread felt by Smith, who lost his starting job in November, after sustaining a concussion during a 24-24 tie with the St. Louis Rams.
In less than three months, Smith has gone from leading the offense of a first-place team to not even having a podium at Media Day. But Smith took it like a man, standing there amid a rotating throng of journalists, addressing the biggest loss of his career.
"It's tough, for sure. I'm not gonna lie to you," Smith said. "It hasn't been the easiest thing, it's been frustrating, disappointing, for sure. I really felt like I was playing my best football right before the injury, so that's been tough. But at the same time, you deal with it, you move on… Do I still deal with it? For sure. But this is a team game. I love the locker room, I love the group of guys we have, and that's bigger than me. I certainly wasn't gonna put myself before any of that."
Colin Kaepernick, the man who replaced Smith as the starting QB, made every effort to be equally gracious about the awkward situation.
"Alex is a great guy, he's been phenomenal this whole time," Kaepernick said when asked about his relationship with his predecessor. "He's done everything he can to help, and he continues to help me."
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Kaepernick hopes to lead San Francisco to their sixth Super Bowl championship, which would tie them with the Steelers for most all time. Naturally, he turned to Steve Young, who in 1995 led SF to the last of those titles, for some advice.
"Steve Young gave me two words that he thought about when he thought about the Super Bowl: 'humility' and 'fierce.' Those are two things that resonated with me.
Nobody drew a bigger crowd at Media Day than Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis, one of the NFL's biggest, loudest, most controversial personalities.
Among the first question thrown his way was about the recent "Saturday Night Live" sketch spoofing his emotional outburst during the National Anthem ahead of the AFC Championship game against the Patriots.
"I'm a big comedian myself, so I love comedy," laughed Lewis. "I looked at it, I enjoyed it, like most fans enjoyed it."
On a more serious note, Lewis is mentioned in a Sports Illustrated story that went online shortly before Lewis faced the media, in which it is claimed that the future Hall-of-Famer had used a banned substance, deer antler velvet extract, to come back from injury. Lewis brushed aside questions about the report.
"Two years ago it was the same report, I wouldn't give that report or him any of my press," said Lewis. "He's not worthy of that. Next question."
Lewis offered a more formal denial via the Ravens.
"Ray has been randomly tested for banned substances and has never failed a test. We have never been notified of a failed test. He has never been notified of a failed test," Kevin Byrne, vice president of communications for the Ravens, told ESPN. "He denied using the substance discussed in the article and we believe him."
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Boston, MA -- (SBWIRE) -- 05/06/2014 -- Demand for AFH tissue and hygiene is limited in Kenya. Many smaller consumer foodservice outlets such as bars and cafes and many budget hotels do not supply toilet paper, due to offering squat toilets. Those consumer foodservice and hotel outlets that do offer toilet paper meanwhile typically purchase these products via retail channels. Many businesses similarly rely on squat toilets or purchase toilet paper from retail outlets, with a similar situation seen in hospitals/healthcare and public...
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I see. Good foresight. I blanket rollbacked due to the classification errors (Note: Clone Techniques is a jutsu category, classification. It doesn't go next to ninjutsu and taijutsu, ect.). Feel free to put them back.--TheUltimate3 (talk)
- Those won't be listed under "Clone Techniques" because as I said, it is not a category in which those techniques are used, and they wouldn't be Collaboration Techniques either because by definition, a Collaboration Technique requires two people to use two techniques to create a new one. A clone does not count.--TheUltimate3 (talk) 01:38, November 5, 2012 (UTC)
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Oooohhhh. Why didn't you just say so? Then again, those lists were broken when I entered them lately.... --X29 02:24, November 6, 2012 (UTC)
Language, and that's what I said. --X29 02:44, November 6, 2012 (UTC)
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Because it is not a technique. Susanoo being equip to Kurama or the Kurama mantle isn't a second technique, and we don't deal in fanon, so unless Kishi gives it a name, or it is explicitly said to be another technique, then you had no business creating it. ~ Ten Tailed Fox 22:36, October 19, 2013 (UTC)


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A blog about Canadians who habitually wear their orders, decorations and medals incorrectly.
Over the past decade we have noticed a rampant increase in the number of people who are wearing their orders, decorations and medals incorrectly. The cadre of people who flagrantly violate the official rules on how you are supposed to wear your medals ranges from the average veteran right up to current and former Governors General. Indeed, there is much evidence to suggest that the higher the rank of the individual the more likely they are to just wear whatever they want, however they want. We like to think of this as "Instant Dictator Syndrome" or self-aggrandizement at its most obvious.
Why do people wear their medals incorrectly? Often it is because they simply do not know any better. If you are one of these people you should consult WEARING ORDERS, DECORATIONS AND MEDALS which is available from the Chancellery of Honours at Rideau Hall. This guide will help you figure out how you are supposed to wear your officially granted orders, decorations and medals.
When it comes to wearing your medals incorrectly the worst offenders tend to be former Governors General, Lieutenant Governors and retired Generals. When these people – all in authority and all surrounded by staff who know better – wear their medals wrong they are obviously suffering from the dreaded Instant Dictator Syndrome. The attitude accompanied with this most severe condition is "the more medals I wear the more important I will look."
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"The Light Bringer" Co-Authors Mike Force & Chris DiGiuseppi Guest-Blog with Mike Angley
MA: I am pleased today to welcome co-authors Chris DiGiuseppi and Mike Force. Chris and Mike have penned a wonderful suspense novel, The Light Bringer. Both of these gentlemen are fellow former law enforcement officers, so I have a special place in my heart (and on my blog) for their service.
Chris has over nineteen years in law enforcement at various levels up to and including Assistant Chief of Police. He is a graduate of the FBI National Academy and Northwestern University School of Police Staff Command. He is trained in various aspects of law enforcement and holds degrees in Human Resources and Business Administration. Chris lives with his wife and children in Missouri.
Mike has spent over 30 years in law enforcement, the last 19 as a Police Chief. Mike has numerous certifications in various areas of law, forensics, investigations and criminology. He is a graduate of the FBI National Academy and served 22 years in the U.S. Marines where he retired as a Captain. He oversaw operations for twenty-seven military installations worldwide. He holds degrees in Political Science and Human Resources. Mike lives with his wife in Missouri and has three grown children and a granddaughter.
Thanks for your LEO and military service, and welcome aboard! I'm going to fire questions at you both, so perhaps we'll go back and forth for equal time. Chris, please tell us a little bit about your professional LE background.
CD: I've risen through the ranks from patrol officer up to Assistant Chief of Police for a small community near St. Louis, MO. I've experienced many different facets of police work during my tenure since starting in 1991 to include general patrol, public and community relations, support services functions and administrative functions over our Operations Division. Since our agency is smaller, 30 sworn officers and 10 civilian employees, we've had the luxury of building a team of professionals centering on good core values that we look for when recruiting people for our organizational family.
More important than my professional background, I'm married with 3 children and 2 step children – and couldn't be happier.
MA: Excellent, and I could not agree more with your assessment about the role of family. Mike, your turn. Tell us why you chose to write a novel, especially why you and Chris decided to co-author a project.
MF: Chris and I talked about writing a book for many years. The desire to write was sparked from the many tragedies we experienced over the course of our careers and our book relates to those instances. In my opinion, the initial reason that we wrote was basically therapeutic, as our story helped us make some sense of those things that often bothered us involving tragic incidents of death. Helping people through those times of despair and grief pushed us to question the complexity of life and why things happened, that seemed so wrong. The first half of our book is based on real incidents that Chris and I experienced in both our professional and personal lives. The last portion of our book delves into a supernatural explanation that takes the reader beyond life.
MA: Obviously, your professional careers inspired your story, but are any of your characters based upon real-life people with whom you've interacted?
CD: Our personal and professional lives definitely formed our writing, and our characters are based on real people and/or personalities we've encountered throughout our lives.
MA: Tell us about The Light Bringer.
MF: The Light Bringer is our first novel and is part of a trilogy. Our publisher, HCI Books, has it categorized as Suspense Fiction but it also has a paranormal/supernatural element as well as an inspirational theme.
MA: Who is the hero or heroine in the story?
CD: Our main character is an ex-military man who is now a police sergeant. His personality traits and overall characterization was developed as a mixture of our (myself and co-author Mike Force) background, habits and personal traits.
MA: This may be a tough question considering your protagonist is a composite of you both, but what are his strengths and flaws?
MF: I believe his strengths and weaknesses stem from the same thing. He's a deep thinker and extremely empathetic where he spends a great deal of time fighting to stick to his core values.
MA: There's a lot to be said about having strong core values, and I'm afraid not too many real people, let alone fictional characters, embody them. What about a bad guy – any unique antagonist you want to tell us about?
CD: There is one particular character that was developed who portrays a person of poor character and values who is continually doing what's wrong. His constant dedication to victimize others leads to a much bigger plot and eventually reveals his involvement in something extremely evil and wrong.
MA: I suspected as much based upon your hero's description. What better antagonist than someone who is the polar opposite? I take it there are some elements of real-life experiences and people in The Light Bringer?
MF: Absolutely – the first portion of the book centers around 16 different people who die – most of those incidents are based on real experiences that we've had in our professional and personal lives.
MA: Since The Light Bringer is the first in a trilogy, how close are you to getting the second book out?
CD: We have the second draft written and hope to further it within the next year or so. The second book bridges the first and the third. The third book will offer finality to the overlying plot and message. The main characters will continue through the trilogy with new characters being added as we go.
MA: Given the inspirational nature of The Light Bringer, what do you want your readers to walk away with after reading it?
MF & CD: The Light Bringer focuses on the question "Why do people die." We've received many praises and endorsements from readers via advanced readers' copies. The book seems to appeal to a diverse crowd from those who like a good paranormal suspense/thriller, to those who like a murder mystery with a supernatural twist or even those who are looking for an inspirational message of hope in dark times. It's our desire that this book will not only entertain but also help people who struggle with grief and despair because of tragedy. We additionally aspire to challenge the reader to draw their own conclusions pertaining to the concept of how "doing what's right" in life perhaps follows you after death.
MA: Gentlemen, it was a pleasure having you guest with me today, and thanks again for your public service. I encourage my readers to learn more about Mike Force, Chris DiGiuseppi, and The Light Bringer by visiting their website: http://www.thelightbringerbook.com/ Read More


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About 300 people attended the 30th annual Ebony Appreciation Awards Banquet on Sunday that honored prominent blacks in Alachua County.
For a week, Karen Coles hunted for a ticket to the Ebony Appreciation Awards Banquet. Her 6-year-old son Kouvaris had begged her to take him to see his friends from the Star Center Children's Theatre speak.
After going through several people, Coles, 34, chased down banquet coordinator Bernadette Woody and paid for two $40 tickets. She bought her son a lavender dress shirt and a tiny gray-striped vest.
At the banquet, Kouvaris perched on his seat as his small hands gripped the chair and listened intently to the speakers. He took pictures to show later to his friends at Littlewood Elementary School.
"He just likes to hear people speak," his mother said. "I'm going to keep bringing him to these events so he can learn about African-American history in Alachua County."
About 300 people attended the 30th annual Ebony Appreciation Awards Banquet on Sunday that honored prominent blacks in Alachua County who are pioneers in their field and have made significant contributions. The banquet at the Best Western Gateway Grand also acknowledged the contributions of a community service award recipient, four centenarians and a local landmark.
Two high school female athletes, Kalen McGill, 17, and Dominique McBroom, 15, were honored at the ceremony. McGill is the first black fast-pitch softball pitcher at P.K. Yonge Developmental Research School and McBroom is first black lacrosse goalie at Buchholz High School.
Other pioneers honored included: Kim Barton, the first outreach coordinator with the Alachua County Supervisor of Elections Office; Ann Bowens, the first black woman in the U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resource Conservation Office to deliver a live nationwide televised training course; Tr�vis King, the first black male judicial assistant in the state of Florida; and Dr. Carolyn Tucker, the first black University of Florida professor honored as a Distinguished Alumni Professor at UF.
Rhonda Wilson received the community service award for founding the Star Center Children's Theatre Center in Gainesville, and the Safety Cab Company also received recognition as a landmark.
U.S. Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., was the guest speaker at the banquet and has been described by President Barack Obama as "One of a handful of people who, when they speak, the entire Congress listens." He told the story of Henry and Eliza Briggs, a couple who filed the case Briggs v. Elliot, which became one of five cases that was combined into Brown v. Board of Education.
"They had a dream that although he was a filler at a gas station and she was a maid, their children would do better," said Clyburn. "It ain't about having degrees. It ain't about having money. It's about having the intestinal fortitude, the guts to take a stand when necessary."
Clyburn, who was elected president of his NAACP youth chapter at 12, lost three elections in a row at the beginning of his career. He said his friend told him that after three strikes, he was out and should stop trying.
"I told her that was a baseball rule," he said. "You ain't ever out in life. We must remember to let our children succeed no matter how many times they fail."


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The dismissals of the four arrested ones weren't the only news coming from Nick Saban on the player personnel front Wednesday.
Wide receiver Danny Woodson Jr., the Alabama head coach said, has been suspended and will not participate with the team this spring. The only reason given for the suspension was, of course, unspecified violations of team rules.
Woodson, a four-star member of the Tide's 2011 recruiting class, played in six games in 2012 after redshirting his true freshman season. He caught one pass for nine yards.
Additionally, fellow receiver Marvin Shinn (pictured) has elected to not participate in the team's offseason program, including spring practice. As for his future, Saban said flatly that he's "assuming that he's going to decide to go someplace else, but I haven't heard that."
Shinn caught six passes for 42 yards in playing in all 14 of the Tide's games last season. Like Woodson, Shinn was a four-star recruit in UA's 2011 class. He was rated as the No. 3 player in the state of Alabama that year and the No. 10 receiver in the country.
Those weren't the only issues at the position as the Tide enters spring practice, which will commence March 16 and conclude with the annual A-Day game April 20.
Senior Kevin Norwood has a toe injury that's he's been dealing with for months and has put his availability for most if not all of the spring in doubt, at least on the full-participation front. Because of the injury, Norwood has not participated in the offseason conditioning program.
Saban did not specify whether the injury will or won't require surgery, or what impact if any it will have on Norwood's availability for summer camp.
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Training Load
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ildibad wrote:Remeber that training should decrease both CTL and ATL on the long run. the same amount of kilometers at the same speed should be easier.
So my advice is to avoid giving to much weight to the figures.
ildibad wrote:CTL on a span of 45 days means just that the influence of the training older than 45 days is equal to 0.
ATl on a span of 11 days means that you need at 11 days to recover fully from fatigue.
mechgt wrote:
Note that technically everyone's constants are different, but in reality this (Training Load) is a mathematical model, not the law. You might tune it, but as Ildibad said, I wouldn't get too wrapped up in trying to make it "exactly right" (as I don't believe that exists). It uses a mathematical algorithm to model or guess, what we experience, it's not a precise measurement.
Ruskie wrote:But there are two other values, by default at 0, which are ATL and CTL "initial values". I wonder what they are for and how to estimate them...
texmurphy wrote:Ruskie wrote:But there are two other values, by default at 0, which are ATL and CTL "initial values". I wonder what they are for and how to estimate them...
They are used to extend your moving averages back before your history. Assuming you have been in training prior to ST recording, then they would be your estimate of that training. If no change in training then use your current values. Or if the ST usage start was well into the past, leave it a 0.
sunbeam wrote:Hi,
I'm 48 years old and wonder whether there are any data or experience how age affects the ATL and CTL time constants. Clearly, I'm not recovering as fast as I did when I was 22...
It may also take me more time to "build up" CTL.
I'm using 12 and 45 right now.
Second, I have the feeling that when I do really hard intervals, like 5 x 1 km way below my current 10k race speed in anaerobic territory and reaching up to 95% of my heart rate reserve, it does give me relatively few TRIMP points - compared to let's say a relatively easy run at constant speed and maybe at 69% of heart rate reserve (that would be around 77% of maximal heart rate).
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There was a man who had four sons. He wanted his sons to learn not to judge things too quickly. So he sent them each on a quest, in turn, to go and look at a pear tree that was a great distance away.


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I'm trying to implement a key listener to a program I'm doing for school. I got a little help with it already elsewhere but I'm still having trouble getting it to work. I will include the two classes that should be of importance. I have two others that handle the images and variable data but I don't think they have any effect with the problem at hand.
As you can see the listener is there and I did addKeyListener(this) in the constructer like I was told. When I press any buttons on the keyboard nothing happens. All I really need is to get it to respond to a key stroke and I think I can handle everything else in the program. Everything else is also currently working properly. Any help with what I'm doing wrong would be greatly appreciated. Thank you all very much for your time and have a good day.
import javax.swing.*; import java.awt.*; import java.awt.event.*; import java.awt.image.BufferedImage; import java.util.*; import java.util.Timer; public class ArcadeFighterPanel extends JPanel implements KeyListener { //declare variables position xydata = new position(); int playerx = xydata.PlayerX(), playery = xydata.PlayerY(); int delay = 1000; // delay for 1 sec. int period = 1000; // repeat every sec. Timer timer = new Timer(); final int MAX_LEFT_X = 0, MAX_RIGHT_X = 250, MAX_Y = 171; BufferedImage loadImg = ImageControll.makeColorTransparent("fighter_idle.png", Color.WHITE); //set up the panel that displays public ArcadeFighterPanel () { /*JButton changeButton = new JButton ("Start Game"); changeButton.addActionListener(new ChangeListener()); add(changeButton); */ setBackground(Color.GRAY); setPreferredSize(new Dimension(600,250)); addKeyListener(this); } //pant the screen with characters public void paintComponent (Graphics page) { super.paintComponent(page); page.setColor(Color.GREEN); page.fillRect(0, 225, 600, 25); page.drawImage(loadImg, playerx, playery, this); timer.scheduleAtFixedRate(new TimerTask() { public void run() { playerx = xydata.PlayerX(); playery = xydata.PlayerY(); repaint(); } }, delay, period); } @Override public void keyPressed(KeyEvent e) { System.out.println("Key pressed"); } @Override public void keyTyped(KeyEvent e) { // TODO Auto-generated method stub } @Override public void keyReleased(KeyEvent e) { // TODO Auto-generated method stub } }
import javax.swing.*; public class arcadeFighter { private static JFrame frame; public static void main(String[] args) { JFrame frame = new JFrame ("Awsome Arcade Fighter Extreem"); frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(javax.swing.JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE); frame.setResizable( false ); frame.getContentPane().add(new ArcadeFighterPanel()); frame.pack(); frame.setVisible(true); } }


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Each type of pemphigus and relate diseases has differing kinds and differing percentages of ocular involvement. Also, the treatments for these diseases have many ocular side effects. Therefore it is very important that an Ophthalmologist examines the eyes of patients with pemphigus . This is especially true at the beginning of symptoms and treatments so any eye problem can be promptly handled.


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Education at the Center of Director-General's Official Visits to Africa
One month after attending the celebrations of the 21st Summit of the African Union and its 50th Anniversary where she addressed African Youth on the General History of Africa and African renaissance, the Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, once again will put education at the center of her official visits to Gabon, Ghana, Malawi and Congo from 5 to 13 July 2013.
In the Republic of Gabon, the Director-General will take part in the Albert Schweitzer Hospital Centennial Symposium. The Government of Gabon is organizing this event to celebrate the legacy of one the 20th century's greatest humanitarians and Nobel Prize 1952. The Director-General will participate in a debate with Michel Sidibé, head of UNAIDS, on the importance of Education to combat HIV/AIDS and on the research on Malaria and Tuberculosis supported by the Albert Schweitzer Hospital.
Irina Bokova will also launch the second phase of UNESCO's Capacity Development for Education for All (CapEFA) In Malawi, and she is also expected to launch UNESCO's project on teacher training in the Republic of Congo, with the objective to provide quality training to 3000 teachers across the country. In Ghana, the Director-General will highlight the efforts to foster the African renaissance as well as higher education challenges in Africa in a meeting with University in Cape Coast.
During her visits, the Director General is expected to meet the President of the Republic of Gabon, H.E. Ali Bongo Ondimba, the President of the Republic of Ghana, H.E. John Dramani and the President of the Republic of Malawi, H.E. Joyce Banda.
On July 12th, Irina Bokova will emphasize the role of cultural industries and take part in opening the 9th edition of the Pan African Music Festival (FESPAM), held in Brazzaville in the presence of the President of the Republic, H.E. Denis Sassou-N'Guesso.
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Ex-Mo. High Court Judge Named to University Board
JEFFERSON CITY (AP) - Former Missouri Supreme Court Judge Ann Covington has been named to the University of Missouri Board of Curators.
Gov. Jay Nixon announced Covington's appointment Thursday to a term that would end in January 2019. The appointment requires confirmation by the state Senate.
The Board of Curators governs the four-campus University of Missouri system.
Covington was appointed by Republican Gov. John Ashcroft to the Missouri Court of Appeals' Western District in 1987 and the state Supreme Court in 1989, making her the first woman to serve on both courts.
She retired from the bench in 2001 and worked in private legal practice until 2010.
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Fishing for Trouble
Radar confusion and speed cited in ferry groundingWhile the perennial issue of commercial vessel and recreational boat collisions, near misses and allisions with navigational aids are certainly nothing new, in much of the navigable waters of the United States they are typically associated with the warmer weather of late spring, summer and early fall when privately-owned boats abound on the nation's lakes, rivers, bays and sounds.But even after the cabin cruisers, sailboats, jet skis, kayaks, canoes and paddleboards are stowed away for the season, those unfortunate encounters between working vessels and private watercraft continue to occur, albeit with less frequency
Red and White and Green All Over
INSIGHTS: Thomas C. Escher, Chairman, Red and White FleetIn 1960, Tom Escher, the grandson of the founder and now the current owner, started working as a sweeper and a mechanics helper on the Red and White vessels. In 1997, Escher purchased the Red and White Fleet, becoming the third generation of the family to own and operate the business. In September 2018, Red and White Fleet welcomed Enhydra, the newest and largest addition to the fleet. Enhydra is the first 600-passenger hybrid-drive vessel operating in the United States. Escher will be building more zero pollution passenger vessels.
Three Missing After Tug Collision
The U.S. Coast Guard and local agencies are searching for three crew members missing following a collision between two towing vessels on the Mississippi River at mile marker 123, near Luling, La., Sunday.The Coast Guard said its watchstanders in New Orleans were alerted at 5:37 a.m. on Sunday that towing vessels RC Creppel and Cooperative Spirit had collided and that four members of the RC Creppel were missing.The Cooperative Spirit was reportedly transiting upbound on the river when it entered a barge fleeting area and allied with barges before colliding with the towing vessel RC Creppel, causing the RC Creppel to sink and barges to breakaway.
Coronavirus Places Shipping on High Alert
The Wuhan coronavirus outbreak has placed the shipping industry on high alert amid a rising death toll in China and reports that the fast-spreading illness is reaching new shores.The flu-like coronavirus, first identified in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China on December 31, has killed more than two dozen people in China and is believed to have infected more than 900 worldwide, according to several media reports. Cases have been confirmed in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangdong, and internationally in travelers returning from China to Japan, South Korea, Thailand and the U.S.
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Carnival Cruise Line's next flagship was floated out at Meyer Turku Shipyard in Finland, the builder announced on Friday.The 180,000-gross-ton, 5,200-passenger cruise ship Mardi Gras will be the largest in the Carnival fleet upon delivery in October 2020.Ben Clement, Carnival's senior vice president of newbuilds, says the the "one-of-a-kind" ship is a "game-changer".Meyer Turku CEO, Jan Meyer, agrees. "I believe Mardi Gras will be a truly special ship," Meyer says. "She will be the first to use our now proven liquefied natural gas (LNG) cruise ship propulsion system in North American markets and feature many other sophisticated technologies – including BOLT


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sim_13 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 191 designs submitted by 43 freelance designers.
TumzUp.com: a play on the term "thumbs up" using the suffix Tum for tummy
We are soon launching a website called TumzUp that will focus on a digestive disorder called Acid Reflux (also known as GERD).
The website will be a one stop shop for anyone suffering from the disease. Besides providing key information on the disease and how to manage it, it will provide lifestyle and recipe ideas. It will include an online community where people can share their experiences and ask questions.
The website will be visually interesting (with great photography), entertaining, positive and encouraging.
Please note that this is NOT a medical website. It is an independent resource for people who either live with the disease or look after someone who has it.
NOTE: To get a feel of the tone/content of the website, please take a look at the attached snapshot of the design of the website's home page.
Anyone who suffers from Acid Reflux (also know as GERD: Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease).
The disease affects people of all ages – from infants to the elderly. However, it is most common in people who are 40+.
1. TumzUp must be written with an uppercase T and an uppercase U. Although it is one word (no space between Tumz and Up), it should be broken up in a way that it reads as 2 words (Tumz & Up). You can play with color, font, size, etc to do this.
2. The logo must be bold, clean, simple and contemporary. It should NOT have a medical/institutional look and feel to it. See attached file to understand the nature of the website.
3. The logo should reflect the tone of the website, which will be entertaining, upbeat, light and positive.
4. The logo design must be scalable and easily reproducible. It must work well in all mediums (including mobile, as a favicon, in low-resolution and B&W).
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Meet the CoverGirl Peacock Flare Mascara
Hi everyone! My recent blog post, Top Beauty Brands to be Thankful For, really allowed me to reflect on what brands and products I love most and why. But it also made me intrigued to try out some new beauty goodies. That's why I was super excited to find this box of new CoverGirl products on my doorstep. I received these items complimentary from Influenster for testing … Read More Meet the CoverGirl Peacock Flare Mascara


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- The Conto super family is a powerful and clear typeface for complex corporate typography. From essential text to captions, tables and advertising, the 64 weights have the flexibility to fulfil your every typographic need. The Conto family is simple, serious, elegant and independent. Conto's minimalist and simplified lowercase forms, combined with contrast that ranges from the mono-linear in the thin to the pronounced in the bold, mark the typeface as an independent and striking design. But with its remarkable number of discretionary ligatures, you'll find Conto isn't just useful for setting text and headlines, but for logotypes and lettering. From elegant thin to strong black, each of Conto's eight weights is available in four widths (compressed, condensed, narrow and regular) and contains around 880 glyphs to support all Latin-script based languages. Each weight also includes small caps, all the figures you need for serious typography and, of course, case and small-cap sensitive punctuation and fractions. In memory of Peter Bruhn: Conto was to have been published at the Fountain Foundry. During my studies at the Hague, I interviewed Peter (the interview is printed in the book 158 Answers). We had a nice exchange about my typeface and after giving feedback and corrections, he decided he was going to release Conto. Thank you for your help, Peter!
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64 matches, 64 epic individual performances. View the Budweiser Man of the Match hall of fame for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
64 matches played, 64 matches predicted! Thank you for playing. The winners have been announced!
Available on web, IOS and Android
The fantasy of 32 teams is now the reality for France. Congratulations to all our McDonald's Fantasy prize winners.
Thank you for sticking, swapping and sharing! The Panini Digital Sticker album is now closed.
France are our new World Cup champion! How did you perform in our Bracket Challenge?
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2013 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 2500 Passenger Van First Test
Class Leader Faces New Competition
While vehicles in some automotive segments are updated with regular frequency, those in segments like full-size vans tend to be neglected for extended periods of time. Take the 2013 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 2500 Passenger Van we recently tested. Aside from an updated engine -- a 3.0-liter turbodiesel V-6 that replaced a 2.7-liter turbodiesel I-5 -- this van is largely identical to Sprinter that arrived on American shores in the mid-2000s, initially branded as a Dodge under the waning days of the rocky DaimlerChrysler marriage, and introduced the U.S. market to the virtues of the tall European-style van.
Strictly Business
The Sprinter's OM642 diesel engine is shared with other Mercedes-Benz car models in varying states of tune, but nothing else about the Sprinter could be remotely described as "car-like." From its commanding driving position, forward-angled steering wheel, and plastic floor lining, nearly every aspect of the Sprinter is strictly utilitarian. It's purity of purpose is not necessarily a bad thing, but with new competitors just around the corner from Ram and Ford, the Sprinter's single-minded functionality may lose appeal to the newcomers' more customer-friendly features.
To its credit, the Sprinter does offer some modern niceties in the form of Bluetooth phone connectivity and a rear-view camera. But even these features show their age relative to the rest of the automotive market. There's no touchscreen interface and the Bluetooth not offer phone voice commands. The phone can be answered with the touch of a button on the steering wheel, but initiating a call through the Bluetooth interface requires reaching over to the radio and scrolling through the phone menu to select a phonebook entry. That said, voice recognition in the Sprinter might be a dicey proposition anyway, given its towering height and squeaky, rattly interior (mostly coming from the roof-mounted air conditioning unit). There's plenty of wind and ambient noise inside, which could make for some amusing, if not infuriating interpretations by the voice-recognition system.
Surprising Spunk
In this shuttle-like passenger-van form, the Sprinter is no cosseting, silent luxo-barge -- though many are converted into high-end mobile executive lounges. For work purposes, the Sprinter goes about its business cheerfully and purposefully. A 3.0-liter engine in a nearly 6000-lb van may not sound like a recipe for driving fun, but the V-6's delivery of its 325 lb-ft of torque comes on early, and stretches out in a nice, long, consistent plateau from just off idle to nearly 4000 rpm, near the upper reaches of the diesel's dynamic range.
We did not get a chance to load the van down to its capacity of 12 passengers, which would likely dampen its enthusiasm, but unloaded, the van never felt underpowered either around town or on the highway. However, at the test track, the Sprinter did not exactly live up to its name, performing a leisurely 11.7-second 0-60 run.
Part of the problem is the Sprinter's transmission, which is showing its age. By now, most Mercedes models have transitioned to seven-speed units, but the Sprinter soldiers along with a five-speed automatic. This slight paucity of ratios manifests itself at a somewhat busy 3200 rpm at 80 mph, but given the Sprinter's sensitivity to crosswinds at highway speeds, a more prudent pace is advisable regardless.
Despite its imposing stature and size, the Sprinter is surprisingly agile and maneuverable in snug spaces. The rear-view camera display is a somewhat crude flip-up screen on top of the dashboard that occasionally displayed stern-looking commands in German punctuated with an exclamation point. The best we could figure, it said not to run over Dachshunds behind the vehicle.
Game On
Starting with the 2014 model year, the Sprinter will face two new formidable competitors. First is Ford's new Transit line, which has been a staple of European fleets for decades, but is a newcomer to North America. With a choice of three engines, and matching the Sprinter model-for-model with body, cab and chassis configurations, the Transit also brings a much more modern and high-tech cockpit that is much more appealing visually than the Sprinter's staid, no-nonsense dash and cabin.
Second is the Ram ProMaster, which is based on the proven Fiat Ducato. The ProMaster departs from convention by employing a front-drive layout, resulting in a much lower entry height and load floor than the towering Sprinter. On paper, the ProMaster's optional 3.0-liter four-cylinder diesel is down slightly from the Sprinter's output, but has an extra ratio along with the advantage of the lighter and more efficient front-drive powertrain. Its cabin isn't quite as car-like as the Transit's, but still promises to be substantially more technologically up-to-date than the current Sprinter.
An additional vulnerability on the Sprinter is its high price. Our tester totaled a whopping $59,170. Pricing on the Transit has not yet been announced. Pricing has been announced for the ProMaster starting in the high $20s for a gas-powered cargo model. A passenger version of the ProMaster has not yet been officially announced or confirmed, but would likely undercut the Sprinter by a significant margin.
Mercedes-Benz is not exactly asleep at the switch either, with prototypes of the next-generation model seen testing. Technological, as well as driving refinements are a given, but whether the next-gen model will leapfrog or match its new class peers remains to be seen.
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Nexternal necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 8 diseños de 3 diseñadores freelance.
http://www.Nexternal.com is looking for a talented designer to create a custom golf themed layout for our software demonstration site http://www.firstfairway.com.
Checkout the breif and good luck!
Desired Style:
Clean, Classic, friendly, Sales oriented
Accepted File Formats:
.png and or .psp (must have layers)
At Nexternal we use First Fairway to showcase our ecommerce software. Therefore our professionalism must be evident within our demonstration store.
We have managed two prior sitepoint contests; http://www.sitepoint.com/marketplac…ntest/1022 and http://www.sitepoint.com/marketplac…ntest/1443 with great success and look forward to completing another.
General GUIDELINES:
1. Width: 980px. Orientation; Center.
2. Top Tab Navigation; Clubs, Golf Balls, Golf Bags, Apparel, Accessories, Specials
3. Logo; Upper Left, feel free to refine as it's not firm.
4. Search Box; Upper Right (lower)
5. Link back to Nexternal.com; Upper Right (top) - This will reduce the disconnect between First Fairway and Nexternal when a prospective client (or unknowing golfer) visits the demo. This requirement is extra tough because this section needs to POP off the page, but not disrupt the rest of the idea. Link to Nexternal Logo here: http://host.nexternal.com/newsite/l…_color.gif. Removing subtext is OK, but do not modify.
6. Live Chat Button
7. Featured Products and Merchandising area should take up much most of the main content screen. (See List of featured products* at bottom, you do not need to use all of them).
8. Shop By Brand dropdown box.
9. Marketing; Free Ground Shipping on Orders over $75
10. Use some text content (title(s) and or description(s)) not just images for products. - This is an SEO concern not layout.
11. "Get on our email list" input box in footer
12. Footer Links Affiliate Program, Dealer Login, Help Desk, Gift Cards, Gift Certificates
13. As you design, please bear in mind the home page should be consistent with the "inner" pages. Meaning; if the homepage won't work for the inside of a store...it won't work. This leaves a huge amount of flexibility, but should be accounted for.
Sites we like; Nordstrom.com, Shop.Callawaygolf.com, Gap.com, Store.Apple.com. We like clean friendly designs.
Buttons - Feel free to submit button suggestions add to cart, checkout, etc. However, we may end up running a separate contest for those once the look of the site is dialed in.
We look forward to seeing your designs and providing feedback. GOOD LUCK!
*Featured Products
Callaway Hybrid Series H301 Sunglasses - http://store.firstfairway.com/Product57
Titleist 907-DI Driver - http://store.firstfairway.com/Product56
Nike Sphere Dry Polo - http://store.firstfairway.com/Product59
Callaway HX Hot Golf Ball - http://store.firstfairway.com/Product58
Nike Course Umbrella - http://store.firstfairway.com/Product10
Mizuno MP-32 Iron Set - http://store.firstfairway.com/Product49
Taylor Made Lancer Cart Bag - http://store.firstfairway.com/Product70
Nike Men's SP-8 Golf Shoes - http://store.firstfairway.com/Product60
Golfer's Survival Kit - http://store.firstfairway.com/Product53


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Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Tombstone Tuesday- James McKeen, Derry, New Hampshire
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Wow - the original QR code!ReplyDelete
Sometimes I'm just happy to find a tombstone, but this would definitely be the mother lode of tombstones!ReplyDelete
nice article and photos. I am of the same family as James McKeen and his brother John. We have done a lot of research on our family via DNA testing. I located our family in Ireland several years ago. My branch settled in Mississippi 1830s. Interesting data for you, this is the same family as Senator John McCain. I have even located our point of origin in Argyll with the aid of the DNA results.ReplyDelete
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I am a German journalist and in a book with German love letters that I picked up on the flee market, I found a letter of James McKeen to a woman he calls My Joy. The letter was written 1967 in Manila, Philippines, on stationary with the name of James Mc Keen on it, his home and his office number as well as a cable address. He has given the book to the woman in 1952 and has written a poem on the first page, probably he is also the author of that poem. Can anybody help me to find this man? Please reply to email@example.com
James Mckeen's great grand daughter, Jean McKee was the 1st wife of Robert Darrah (my maternal 5x great grand father). I am so happy to have this information!ReplyDelete


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Hi, my problem is more theoretical, I have a program for arithmetic operations and the input could look like this
Node expression = new Plus(new UnaryMinus(new Value(1)), new Multiply(new Value(2), new Value(3)));
// -1 + (2 * 3)
and I could use a little help with designing structure of this... I have Interface for Print of this expression and for calculation, now I would like to use inheritance for those operands ( + , - , / , * ). How to make it most easier? The path I chosen isn't the best I think - I made a class "operator" like this
public class operator implements Node { int a,b,outcome; public operator(Value a, Value b) { this.a = a.getValue(); this.b = b.getValue(); } public operator(Value a, plus plusExp) { this.a = a.getValue(); plusExp.calculate(); this.b = plusExp.outcome; }
public class plus extends operator implements Node { public plus(Value a, Value b) { super(a, b); System.out.println("2x Value of " + a.getValue() + ", " + b.getValue());//just print } public plus(Value a, plus plusExp) { super(a, plusExp); } public void calculate() { outcome = a + b; } }
public class Value { private int value; Value(int i) { this.value = i; } public int getValue() { return value; } } public class unaryMinus extends Value{ public unaryMinus(int a) { super(-a); } }
public interface Node { void calculate(); void printExp(); }
of course this is only for Plus and for minus, etc. it would be quite long... could you please give me a hint how to make a structure of those operands ( plus, minus,...) and of class Operand ( or is this class even important? ) so I wouldn't have to make all possible combination of operands but only something like this..
(Value a, Value b);
(Value a, Operand b);
(Operand a, Operand b);
(Operand a, Value b);
BTW I know that the code isn't complete - I just separated pieces of code so you could take a picture of what I have.