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PHILADELPHIA — Chris Johnson stepped back, heaved up a desperation 3-pointer and watched it fall in to tie the game with 0.9 seconds on the clock.
Or so he thought.
As it turned out, Johnson stepped back a little too far, and the shot was discounted immediately when officials ruled he stepped out of bounds. The 76ers were awarded possession, and James Anderson made a pair of free throws a half-second later to seal Philadelphia's 113-108 win over the Boston Celtics on Monday night.
"That's that," 76ers coach Brett Brown said. "His foot was out of bounds."
Philadelphia led by 19 points in the second quarter, but Johnson hit 3-pointers on consecutive Boston possessions to trim the deficit to two as part of a 14-3 run to close the third quarter.
After an 11-4 Philadelphia run to open the fourth quarter, Boston flirted with a comeback and got within two points several times down the stretch but could never pull even. The Sixers aided the Celtics' near comeback with dismal foul shooting — they were 24 for 38 from the line.
"We missed free throws, Rondo was Rondo, Johnson made some shots," Brown said. "But I'm pleased we were able to find a way to win."
Michael Carter-Williams had 21 points and 14 rebounds and Tony Wroten scored 20 points for the Sixers in their final home game of the season.
"It was great to win at home," Carter-Williams said. "It was great to end on a positive note."
Carter-Williams had a key steal and pass to Wroten in the final minutes which led to Wroten making two free throws in helping keep the Sixers ahead.
"His ability to change things and lead breaks after he rebounds makes him unusually good," Brown said. "And I think he was pretty darn good tonight."
Kelly Olynyk scored 28 points to lead the Celtics. Jeff Green had 27 points and Avery Bradley added 23. Rajon Rondo finished with eight points, 14 assists and 11 rebounds.
"We definitely got a lot to play for, and it showed tonight. We could've laid down when we were down," said Brandon Bass, who finished with nine points and eight rebounds for Boston. "We kept fighting and made it a game."
Philadelphia took three of four games from Boston in winning the season series for the first time since 2006-07.
The banged-up Celtics played without Jared Sullinger (left ankle sprain), Jerryd Bayless (hyperextended right knee) and Kris Humphries (sore right knee).
After missing the past two games with a strained left shin, Rondo returned to action and dominated the game's first five minutes before Thaddeus Young's elbow to the head forced him to briefly leave the game.
Rondo had five assists in the first 5:08 as Boston took an early 16-7 lead.
But the minute the Celtics' floor general left the game, the Sixers took over and outscored the Celtics 60-34 the rest of the half.
Casper Ware made a long 3-pointer to cap a 22-9 run that put Philadelphia up by four late in the first quarter. Rondo, who returned late in the first quarter, followed suit by driving for a layup and drawing a foul. He then rebounded his own miss at the line and put the ball right back up for another two to erase the lead in 10 seconds.
The 76ers turned it on again in the second quarter, this time going on a 28-8 run to build a 19-point lead highlighted by Young's steal and ensuing cross-court pass to Wroten for an uncontested slam dunk.
Green led all players at the half with 14 points, but Carter-Williams paced Philadelphia with 12 points and eight assists as the 76ers took a 67-50 lead at the break.
NOTES: The Sixers scored 46 of 67 first-half points in the paint to the Celtics' 18. … The Celtics are the only team the 76ers have beaten more than once this season. The Sixers could make it two with a win in Miami in their season finale on Wednesday. … Boston concludes its season Wednesday at home vs. Washington. … Philadelphia finished 10-31 at home.
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"Peace On Earth"
[Ed. Note: Traverse van der Merwe was the founder of Discernment Ministries over two decades ago. His story can be found HERE. Recently, while cleaning out some old boxes, Jewel Grewe discovered this notation on a scrap of paper in Travers's handwriting. It seemed a fitting quote to run at the close of the year.]

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Apple today launched OS X 10.10, aka Yosemite, as a free upgrade for most Mac owners.
Mac users running last year's Mavericks, 2012's Mountain Lion, 2011's Lion and even 2009's Snow Leopard are able to download Yosemite from the Mac App Store starting today. The no-older-than-Snow-Leopard limitation was due to the App Store, the only distribution channel for Yosemite; versions of OS X that preceded Snow Leopard cannot access the online mart.
During a news conference today -- which Apple live-streamed -- Craig Federighi, who leads iOS and OS X development and has taken the roll of Jerry Lewis to Cook's Dean Martin straight man, spent considerable time summarizing the new features of Yosemite.
He also boasted that a million users had registered for the public beta, the first OS preview from Apple since 2000.
Of the new features in Yosemite, the most prominent -- the Continuity collection that includes task hand-off from an iOS device to a Mac, or vice versa, requires iOS 8.1, which Apple will release on Monday, Oct. 20.
The free Yosemite will be accompanied by upgrades to the also-free iWork suite -- Pages, Numbers and Keynote -- which are also available today, said Federighi.
OS X Yosemite tips the virtual scale at 5.2GB, slightly less than last year's Mavericks but still a massive download for customers with slower or metered Internet connections. It can be downloaded by choosing "Software Update" from the Apple menu at the far left of a Mac's menu bar.
Macs compatible with Yosemite include iMacs as old as mid-2007, MacBook Pro notebooks from late 2007 on and MacBook Air laptops from late 2008 going forward. All Macs sold from 2009 and later are able to run Yosemite, said Apple.


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MIAMI » Justin Bieber will plead guilty to lesser charges stemming from his arrest in South Florida in what police initially described as an illegal street drag race, two people directly involved in the case told The Associated Press on Tuesday.
The two people said the 20-year-old pop star would plead guilty to misdemeanor careless driving and resisting arrest without violence charges, rather than the original driving under the influence charge. Bieber also will agree to take an anger management course and make a $50,000 charitable donation, in addition to paying court-ordered fines. The plea agreement does not call for any jail time.
The two people insisted on anonymity because they were not authorized to comment publicly before a Wednesday court hearing. Bieber is not expected to attend the hearing. The Miami Herald first reported the plea deal.
Bieber was arrested early Jan. 23 in Miami Beach after what police described as an illegal street race between Bieber's rented Lamborghini and a Ferrari driven by R&B singer Khalil Amir Sharieff. Neither was charged with drag racing and there was little evidence they were even exceeding posted speed limits.
Alcohol breath tests found Bieber's level below the 0.02 limit for underage drivers, but urine tests showed the presence of marijuana and the anti-anxiety drug Xanax in his system. Bieber was also charged with resisting arrest after a profanity-laced tirade against police officers, as well as driving on an expired license.
In July, Bieber resolved another criminal case by pleading no contest to a misdemeanor vandalism charge for throwing eggs at a neighbor's house in Los Angeles. In that case, Bieber agreed to pay more than $80,000 in damages and meet a number of other conditions.
Bieber is also charged in Toronto with assaulting a limousine driver in late December. His lawyers have said he is not guilty in that case.
Also in Miami, Bieber is being sued by a photographer who says he was roughed up while snapping pictures of the singer outside a recording studio.
The Canadian-born Bieber shot to stardom at age 15, with his career overseen by two music industry heavyweights, singer Usher and manager Scooter Braun, after initially gaining notice through YouTube videos. He was nominated for two Grammy Awards for his 2010 full-length album debut "My World 2.0," but his popularity has begun to wane.


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It seemed like a new era in the half-century battle against the deadly toll of tobacco: U.S. health officials for the first time would begin regulating cigarettes, chew and other products responsible for a half-million American deaths annually.
"The decades-long effort to protect our children from the harmful effects of smoking has finally emerged victorious," said President Barack Obama, in a speech before signing the 2009 measure into law.
But a decade later, health advocates say the Food and Drug Administration has yet to put in place the most sweeping changes envisioned by Congress. Efforts to bolster cigarette warnings and ban harmful ingredients have been stymied by tobacco companies. And the pace of progress is so slow that the FDA now faces lawsuits from its traditional allies: anti-smoking groups who are suing the agency to take action.
"If you're not moving forward on your own with a clear goal in mind then, at some point, this is what happens," said Eric Lindblom, a lawyer at Georgetown University's O'Neill Institute who previously worked at the FDA's Center for Tobacco Products.
Ten years after the center's launch, Lindblom and others say they underestimated the obstacles that would crowd FDA's path, including industry lawsuits, lobbying and the grinding pace of government bureaucracy.
Earlier this month the agency proposed new graphic warning labels for cigarettes packets, a court-ordered move triggered by a lawsuit from the American Lung Association and other health groups who alleged the agency was dragging its feet on the effort. A 2011 attempt at requiring the labels was defeated in court by tobacco companies.
FDA tobacco director Mitch Zeller said the agency's critics have overlooked the enormous accomplishment of setting up the new center in the first place, for which there was "no blueprint or template."
"There was and there still is no other regulatory agency in the world with these authorities and responsibilities," Zeller said in an interview.
He noted that the FDA has invested more than $1.6 billion in tobacco research to guide its future decisions, such as how to regulate electronic cigarettes. He also pointed to the agency's $870 million in spending on anti-smoking advertising campaigns. Last week, researchers estimated that one of those campaigns, dubbed "the real cost," prevented between 380,000 and 587,000 young people from starting on cigarettes.
In a statement, agency acting Commissioner Ned Sharpless also highlighted the "extraordinary investments the FDA has made in science, education and enforcement," asserting that they "are already paying public health dividends and are sure to yield even more in the years to come."
The Tobacco Control Act did immediately ban misleading terms like "light" and "mild" from cigarettes and prohibited all flavors, except for menthol. But the more transformative powers to remake the tobacco industry were to be written by the agency itself as federal regulations. They include the ability to:
— reduce nicotine to make cigarettes less addictive
— remove cancer-causing ingredients to make tobacco products less harmful
— restrict packaging and advertising to make products less appealing
Micah Berman, a public health lawyer at Ohio State University, argues that FDA regulation has not yet had a measurable impact on the U.S. smoking rate.
Since 2009, the U.S. smoking rate has fallen by about a third — from 21 percent to 14 percent of adults. But Berman says this decline continues a decades-long trend attributable to longstanding measures, such as smoking bans, cigarette taxes and anti-smoking campaigns.
"FDA was given the authority to make tobacco products less toxic, less addictive and less attractive and it has not finalized one product standard to do any of those things," said Berman, who previously served as a senior FDA adviser.
In a recent paper, "The Faltering Promise of FDA Tobacco Regulation," Berman says FDA officials are not to blame for the lack of progress, but rather the "immense" structural challenges of getting new regulations through the Washington political machine.
He argues that the 2009 tobacco law merely shifted the longstanding battle between anti-smoking groups and Big Tobacco to federal institutions like the White House and Congress, which hold sway over the FDA.
"All of these are areas where the tobacco industry can spend a lot of time and money lobbying and has a lot of expertise and incentives to spend as much as it can," Berman said.
Lindblom, who worked at FDA from 2014 to 2016, noted that all proposed FDA regulations must be reviewed by the White House's Office of Management and Budget, which assesses their economic impact. Lindblom says that during his years at the agency, White House staff repeatedly called the FDA with concerns that echoed those of industry.
"It was clear that these were questions right out of industry's playbook," Lindblom said.
Perhaps the biggest regulations finalized under Obama were rules that expanded FDA's oversight to newer tobacco products, including electronic cigarettes, which the agency is still trying to implement. Other agency initiatives, including scrutinizing the harms of menthol cigarettes — used disproportionately by young people and minorities — were derailed by industry challenges.
Meanwhile, tobacco companies have their own grievances. The 2009 law offered industry the unprecedented opportunity to win FDA clearance for "reduced risk" tobacco products, which would be federally endorsed as posing lower risks to tobacco users. The FDA has yet to grant any such request.
"They are still establishing the rules of the road, but there has been some progress," said Joe Murillo, a vice president with Marlboro-maker Altria. The company is awaiting an FDA decision on whether it can market a heated tobacco product, iQOS, as less harmful than combustible cigarettes.
Under the Trump administration, former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb kicked off his tenure with the goal of making cigarettes less addictive by drastically cutting their nicotine content. He also rebooted the agency's effort to ban menthol flavoring in cigarettes.
But he spent most of his time at the agency responding to an unexpected explosion in e-cigarette use by teens.
Gottlieb left the FDA in April shortly after proposing new restrictions on retail sales of e-cigarettes. That regulation has not been finalized and is expected to face legal challenges. And the FDA has yet to introduce a concrete plan for cutting nicotine in cigarettes, but says it is on track to publish one later this year.
Matthew Myers of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids says the FDA is at a "crossroads" that will largely determine whether tobacco regulation is ultimately successful. Among other decisions, he points to an upcoming deadline to begin reviewing the health effects of e-cigarettes.
"FDA has sitting before it now decisions of such importance that they will impact tobacco control and public health for decades to come," Myers said.
But he isn't waiting to see what FDA does. Earlier this summer Myers' group and six others successfully sued the agency to move up its deadline for reviewing e-cigarettes to May 2020.


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Thomas Jefferson Papers
Created and maintained by the Library of Congress.
Reviewed June 11–16, 2004.
Thomas Jefferson Digital Archive
Created and maintained by the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library.
Reviewed June 11–16, 2004.
Thomas Jefferson, who wrote about twenty thousand letters and received many more, may well have amassed one of the largest and most consequential collections of correspondence in American history. He did so not only by devoting a significant portion of his life to the enterprise but also by systematically copying, preserving, filing, and cataloging these and other texts, such as public addresses, legal documents, and the prose and poetry that he extracted in his literary commonplace books. The result is an extraordinarily rich body of work reflecting the drama of Jefferson's era, the diversity of his interests, and the importance of his contributions. Thus these two excellent Web sites—which make available to an unprecedented number of people an unprecedented number of Jefferson's papers—perform a remarkable public service. They also serve as instructive examples of how Internet archives can and cannot replace traditional resources such as manuscripts collections and edited compilations.
The Thomas Jefferson Papers Web site provides high-quality digital images (and sometimes transcriptions) of the Library of Congress's unparalleled collection of Jefferson's incoming and outgoing letters, legal and literary commonplace books, financial records, and other written items. Taken together, these 27,000 documents consist of about 83,000 manuscript pages. Users of the site can either browse the collection, which is divided among ten categories (General Correspondence, Account Books, Commonplace Books, Miscellaneous Bound Volumes, etc.), or search by keyword. Most will find the latter method more useful and efficient, for all of the documents are searchable by date, author, and (in the case of letters) recipient. Some, moreover, are linked to searchable full-text transcriptions taken from collections such as Paul Leicester Ford's Works of Thomas Jefferson (12 vols., 1904–1905) and John C. Fitzpatrick's Writings of George Washington (39 vols., 1931–1944). As a result, typing "Monroe and 1815" into the search engine yields links to a total of four documents containing both words. These include two 1815 letters (January 1 and July 15) from Jefferson to James Monroe as well as letters from Jefferson to William H. Crawford (February 14, 1815) and Spencer Roane (October 12, 1815). In his notes to Crawford and Roane, both of which appear in Ford's Works of Jefferson, the third president refers by name to the future fifth president.
Clicking on the link to a document produces a screen that features a photographic image of the manuscript taken from the Library of Congress's sixty-five-reel microfilm edition of Jefferson's papers. Although the handwriting is generally too small to be easily read in these images, they can be magnified, with a generously high resolution. In addition, when a transcription is available for a document, a link to the text appears on the screen.
The Thomas Jefferson Papers, a well-designed and wonderfully useful Web site, renders obsolete the Library of Congress's cumbersome microfilm compendium of Jefferson's papers, which was never available at more than a small number of research libraries. Yet it possesses some of the same limitations as the microfilm from which its images of documents are taken. First among them is the fact that the microfilm did not constitute a complete reproduction of the library's collection. Images usually do not include the back sides of the sheets of paper on which Jefferson's correspondents wrote, even though this is where he sometimes made notations. Moreover, enclosures such as newspaper clippings—mentioned in some of his letters and preserved alongside them in the manuscripts collection—also were oftentimes not microfilmed. A separate group of several dozen newspaper clippings (a few of which were annotated by Jefferson) cataloged by the library as volume 10 of "Series 7: Miscellaneous Bound Volumes" was never microfilmed and therefore does not appear on the Web site. A second limitation is that the presentation of documents alone is no match for the usefulness of the accompanying explanatory notes that appear in the painstakingly edited Papers of Thomas Jefferson (Julian P. Boyd et al., eds., 31 vols. to date, 1950- ). Most important among these caveats, however, is the fact that, although the Library of Congress's collection of the third president's papers constitutes the bulk of his correspondence, it does not include many of the letters in the possession of institutions such as the Huntington Library, the Massachusetts Historical Society, and the University of Virginia.
The Thomas Jefferson Digital Archive, a project of the Electronic Text Center of the University of Virginia Library, helps to bridge this gap. About 1,700 items of Jefferson's correspondence contained within the university's manuscripts collection, most of them compiled and rendered keyword-searchable by Frank E. Grizzard Jr., appear on this site. So does Grizzard's Documentary History of the Construction of the Buildings at the University of Virginia, 1817–1828 (1996, 2003), a masterly account to which these letters to and from Jefferson relate. Another highly useful feature is Frank Shuffelton's Thomas Jefferson: Comprehensive, Annotated Bibliographies of Writings about Him, 1826–1997 (2001), an exhaustive and fully searchable collection based on two printed volumes containing synopses of and astute commentaries on the four thousand books and articles relating to Jefferson published since his death. So valuable is Shuffelton's bibliography that, as a point of departure for Jefferson research, it surpasses highly regarded online tools such as jstor and America: History and Life.
These sites contain or provide links to other resources that should interest people seeking to learn more about Jefferson. The Thomas Jefferson Digital Archive, for example, includes John P. Foley's nine-thousand-entry Jeffersonian Cyclopedia (1900), a veritable Bartlett's of Jefferson quotations. It lists links to organizations such as Monticello's International Center for Jefferson Studies and sites such as the university's interactive tour of Jefferson's original campus in Charlottesville, which he dubbed the "academical village." The Thomas Jefferson Papers site, meanwhile, includes a detailed chronology of Jefferson's life, popular quotations of Jefferson's, and an explanation of how the "Jamestown Records" of Virginia's early settlement found their way into the Library of Congress's collection of Jefferson's papers.
Such features constitute fine resources for teachers and students in high schools and colleges and can serve as handy references for all individuals interested in the life, times, and legacies of America's most polymath founder. The greatest benefactors of these Web sites, however, are researchers who now have access to thousands of letters, many of which are keyword-searchable, not included in printed editions of the third president's papers. Thomas Jefferson, who in 1823 wrote that "it is the duty of every good citizen to use all the opportunities, which occur to him, for preserving documents relating to the history of our country," no doubt would extol these two fine Web sites, which not only preserve but also propagate his words as well as the writings of the multitudinous individuals who constituted his own world and—with him—helped to shape ours.
Robert M. S. McDonald
United States Military Academy
West Point, New York


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On the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the release of Live! At The Star-Club, Bloomsbury Publishing is offering a copy of Jerry Lee Lewis: Lost and Found signed by Jerry Lee Lewis himself.
For a chance to win, tweet something you lost and then found again with the hashtag #lostandfound and you will be entered to win. Contest ends 5/1!
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On April 5, 1964, as the Beatles were filmed in London being chased by a horde of screaming kids for the opening credits of A Hard Day's Night, Jerry Lee Lewis was in Hamburg, West Germany, where he'd arrived with his backing band, the Nashville Teens. Lewis played two sets that evening at the Star-Club. The shows were captured on tape by producer Siggi Loch, edited down to twelve songs, and issued later that year. Live! At The Star-Club remains one of the most powerful rock and roll shows ever recorded, Lewis's and the Nashville Teens' performances among the most mighty ever waxed.
I asked esteemed rock and roll writer and Jerry Lee Lewis biographer Nick Tosches for his take on the 50th anniversary of the album's release. He said that Live! At The Star-Club is "the perfect suicide-pact marriage between music and methamphetamine, and one of the most overpowering and essential moments in all of rock and roll—a manic paroxysm such as might raise the dead, fell the living, and forever rend the veils of night." I too was amazed by the ferocity of the record when I first heard it in the early 1990s on a Rhino Records CD re-release, and over the years I became deeply curious—one might say obsessed—about the making of the album and its place in Jerry Lee Lewis's vexed career and in the history of great, raw rock and roll.
When Lewis played the Star-Club he was, of course, six years removed from the scandal of having married Myra Gale Brown, his 13-year-old first cousin (once removed). As I began research for the book, I'd assumed that six years was a long enough stretch for Lewis to have been "forgiven" by the record-buying public, but I was wrong. Commercially speaking he was at a low point when he played Hamburg. He was continuing to tour, but without the assistance of his earlier, powerful promoters and supporters; the venue sizes were shrinking, as were his record sales. He visited England and Germany in the spring of 1964 promoting his newest single "I'm On Fire" and The Golden Hits of Jerry Lee Lewis, an album featuring rerecordings of some of his older songs, both released by his new record label, Smash.
After the so-called British Invasion of 1964, Lewis had to battle harder than ever to recapture the interest and the dollars of his dwindling audience. It wasn't until the end of the decade, when he reinvented himself as a hardcore honky tonk country musician, that he would again sell millions of albums, helping to restore his career well into the 1970s. But the years in between "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" and "What's Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made A Loser Out Of Me)" were lean and exhausting, marked by diminishing returns, and Lewis found that nonstop touring (in the shape of brutal, often sparsely-attended one-night stands across the U.S.) was the best way to keep himself, his splintering family, and his band members in pocket money, and his legend in the light.
So, among obscure singles and album releases, Jerry Lee Lewis continued to hit the road, mining his Sun Records catalogue and his staggering knowledge of the Americana songbook, kicking away his piano stool and shaking loose his hair. Fans of raucous, no-holds-barred rock and roll are the luckier for it. Lewis's performance at the Star-Club, backed by a band barely able to keep up with the Killer, is incendiary and untouched. The opening trio of songs, as sequenced by Loch, stands up to any live rock and roll ever taped: "Mean Woman Blues," "High School Confidential," and "Money"—women, youth, and cash—barrel over the listener from the sheer intensity of Lewis's playing amped up by his outsized personality, the sonic myth of The Killer. From a reckless tear through "What'd I Say?" to rehabilitated older hits to an astounding, brawly emotional take on Hank Williams's "Your Cheating Heart," Lewis and the Nashville Teens muscle their way through the rock and roll in front of a delirious crowd as if the sweaty, ear-splitting journey might somehow renew them. Lewis had a lot to prove every night during this complicated and difficult time in his career.
Fortunately, Siggi Loch was there to record for posterity this ordinary, extraordinary night in April of 1964. "I listened to the album again, after all these years." Loch said. "It still sounds amazingly exciting!"


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Samsung's ATIV Smart PC Pro 700T is a convertible tablet with aspirations to be an ultrabook, it is 1.97 lbs, with an 11.6" 1080p touchscreen powered by a Core i5-3317U with 4GB of DDR3-1600 in single channel configuration. For connectivity you get a a MicroSD port, a single USB 3.0 port, two USB 2.0 ports on the dock, Micro HDMI and analog audio with Wi-Fi, WiDi and Bluetooth 4.0. The Tech Report tested its battery life for both surfing and playing 720p video, seeing 6 hours in the first case and 5 hours in the second with very little difference when tested docked. The final verdict was mixed, while it is almost an ultrabook and almost a convertible tablet in many ways it inherited the worst of both worlds; though if you find yourself needing both devices in your life this ATIV might be a good compromise for you.
"This Windows 8 convertible has x86 ultrabook guts, an 11.6" 1080p display, and speedy solid-state storage. Attach it to the bundled keyboard dock, and it turns into a quasi-ultrabook. Is this the ultimate Windows 8 mobile machine, and is it worth the nearly $1,200 asking price?"
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The EG300 combines the functions of both an edger and a multirip into one machine. The EG300 maximises recovery from each board and increases overall productivity of your sawmill by 20-30%.
As standard, the EG300 is supplied with two circular sawblades for use as an edger. One blade is fixed and the other is adjustable from the operator control console - using the electronic Setworks system to accurately pre-set the required width of the board. Optional lasers can be installed to assist the operator in determining the precise width for maximum recovery.
The EG300 comprises three main components - the main saw unit, the infeed table and the outfeed table. This modular construction ensures easier transportation, handling and installation.
Two top rollers make it easy to move a board back to the front of the edger for a return pass. An adjustable fence allows the operator to quickly position boards with an already straight edge.
Optionally, the EG300 can be fitted with up to five circular sawblades for multirip applications. Four of the blades are fixed for cutting standard widths and the fifth is movable. Changing between edger and multirip operations is simple, and this flexible design allows the operator to react quickly to changing demand. Power feed is variable from 0-20 m/min.
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[Update: Yahoo has confirmed the breach, which affects 500 million users. Read our follow-up article.]
Following reports that Yahoo will confirm a data breach that affects hundreds of millions of accounts, some users reported Thursday on Twitter and elsewhere that they were prompted to change their email password when trying to log in.
Yahoo launched an investigation into a possible breach in early August after someone offered to sell a data dump of over 200 million Yahoo accounts on an underground market, including usernames, easy-to-crack password hashes, dates of birth and backup email addresses.
The company has since determined that the breach is real and that it's even worse than initially believed, news website Recode reported Thursday, citing unnamed sources familiar with the investigation.
While Yahoo has yet to make an announcement and did not immediately respond to a request for comment, the company has prompted some users to reset their passwords in the past 24 hours due to "suspicious activity" on their accounts.
The prompt to reset passwords may not be directly linked to the reported data breach. But a confirmation of the breach now, more than a month and a half after the data was put up for sale, will likely prompt questions as to why the company waited so long before forcing users to change their passwords.
"If it really was available then and Yahoo are only confirming it now, I'd be really interested in why the delay was so long," said Troy Hunt, a security researcher who runs the data breach notification website Have I been pwned?.
The user who advertised the Yahoo account data on an underground website uses the online handle peace_of_mind and is a well-known seller of stolen information. He has previously put up for sale millions of account records from MySpace, LinkedIn, Tumblr and other websites and for the most part those breaches have been confirmed even though they had actually occurred years earlier.
"We saw LinkedIn, MySpace and tumblr [data dumps] all dating back many years yet just appearing for sale now so Yahoo may be consistent with that," Hunt said via email.
Given Peace's track record, the researcher said that he wouldn't have been surprised that the data was put up for sale last month if it proved to be authentic, even though some people questioned whether Peace actually had the information at that time.
It's odd that no one has managed to obtain a copy of the data set so far and confirmed its authenticity, at least not publicly, especially since Peace is known to drop his price over time. Hunt believes that if this data dump follows the the same pattern as other recent ones, it will turn up in the public domain soon and he will be able to add it to Have I been pwned.
A confirmation of the data breach this week would come as Yahoo's US$4.8 billion sale of its core internet operations to Verizon is being finalized; the deal has yet to be approved by regulators.


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A top seller, the Dragonfly's success is largely due to its mid-size blade and ergonomic handle that features a front-finger choil and spine cusp. Blade-to-handle geometry and leveraging points empower the Dragonfly to cut and feel like a much larger knife in the hand. Designed as a carry-friendly folder, it comes with a left/right-hand tip-up wire clip, patented Bi-Directional Texturing™ on the handle, spine and choil jimping and screw-together handle construction. The ZDP-189 blade has a high-performance flat-grind and is available with a PlainEdge configuration.
The Dragonfly 2 Lightweight focuses around features which make it ergonomically comfortable including positioning the Spyderco Round Hole in precise relation to the blade's pivot for the smoothest blade opening and a series of gripping angles and leveraging spots on the FRN (fiberglass reinforce nylon) handle that properly position the hand for fatigue-free and comfortable cutting.
ZDP-189 steel is one of the knife industry's hottest, hardest and highest performing knife steels today. Three percent of its structure is pure carbon which makes the steel harder and in turn furthers its edge retention capacity. High-performance or exotic steels like ZDP-189 are offered on many of Spyderco's everyday-carry working folders including the Dragonfly 2 Lightweight.


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Karl Ludwig Börne was born Loeb Baruch on May 6, 1786, at Frankfurt am Main. He studied medicine and later constitutional law and political science at the universities of Heidelberg and Giessen. On his return to Frankfurt he received (1811) the appointment of police actuary in that city; he had to resign his post due to his ethnicity in 1814. Embittered by the oppression suffered by Jews in Germany, he took to journalism and edited the liberal newspapers 'Frankfurter Staatsristretto' and 'Die Zeitschwingen'. In 1818 he converted to Lutheran Protestantism and changed his name. From 1818 to 1821 he edited 'Die Wage', a paper distinguished by its political articles until it was suppressed by police. In 1821 Börne took a pause from journalism and lived in Paris, Hamburg and Frankfurt. In Paris he published 'La Balance', a revival of 'Die Wage' and 'Briefe aus Paris'. He died in Paris in 1837.
Moritz Daniel Oppenheim was the foremost Jewish painter of the 19th century in Germany. He was born in Hanau to German-Jewish parents in 1799 and first studied painting under Conrad Westermayr before attending the Munich Academy of Arts. He traveled to Paris to study under Jean-Baptiste Regnault, and then to Rome where he studied with Bertel Thorwaldsen, Barthold Georg Niebuhr, and Johann Friedrich Overbeck. His observations of Jewish ghetto life in Rome served as preparation for later works. In 1825, he settled in Frankfurt am Main. Unlike some of his contemporaries, he chose not to convert to a Christian faith.
Karl Barth was a German engraver, draftsman, and translator born in Eisfeld. He was an apprentice to his father, a goldsmith, in Hildburghausen before studying engraving in Stuttgart under Johannes Muller between 1805 and 1812, while also under the protection of the princes of Thurn and Taxis (a German noble family). He worked and attended the art academy in Munich in 1814. He then spent a few years in Rome, where he befriended the poet Friedrich Rückert. He returned to Germany in 1820 and settled in Hildburghausen. Barth drafted illustrations and worked with Carl Hohnbaum and Friedrich Sickler, as well as with Joseph Meyers for his Bibliographical Institute. He suffered from depression and committed suicide in Kassel in 1853.
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HATTIESBURG – Jermaine Brown will be guest speaker for the annual Black History Month Observance at the Forrest County Center of Pearl River Community College.
The program will be held at 11 a.m. Monday, Feb. 3, in the Building 5 multi purpose room on the Hattiesburg campus.
A native of Hattiesburg, Brown is principal of Hattiesburg High School where he graduated in 1991.
He holds the Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Jackson State University and the master's and Education Specialist degrees from the University of Southern Mississippi. Brown is pursing a PhD in education administration at Southern Miss.
Brown has held administrative positions in three other schools districts – Forrest County, Biloxi and Meridian. He is a member of the Mississippi Association of School Administrators, the Jackson State and Southern Miss alumni associations and Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity and is a life member of the NAACP.
He has participated in the Leadership Pine Belt Class of 2000, the Mississippi Education Policy Fellowship Program, which resulted in him being named a Carnegie Fellow by the Institute of Educational Leadership in Washington, D.C.; and was selected in 2006 to attend the Senate Leadership Summit for Young Professionals, Washington, D.C.
Brown and his wife, the former Kim Stewart of Tupelo, are the parents of two daughters, Carrington and Karsyn. He is a twin son of Charles J. Brown and Christine Brown Cooley.
The public is invited to attend the program.
Brown to speak at FCC Black History Month Observance
HATTIESBURG – Jermaine Brown will be guest speaker for the annual Black History Month Observance at the Forrest County Center of Pearl River Community College.


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Flipping the pages of my calendar over and watching the days fly by, I can't help but notice that the changing seasons have affected my appetite. These cold days certainly evoke cravings for warmer, heartier dishes than I desired only a few months ago. However, I find myself not only in need of additional warmth and comfort food, but more sweets. For some reason, fall and winter just scream "baking, desserts, sugar!" in my mind, so I've been thinking about the sweeter side of the season, and especially chocolate even more than usual lately. Good thing I found Verē Chocolate, a high-end brand with an impressive line of vegan offerings.
Talk about heaven; with a box full of quality chocolate in endless forms and flavors sitting before me, the hardest part of this review was deciding on what to try first! Trying to exercise some amount of restraint, I decided to start with the basics and sample their 75% cacao chocolate bars. Not only does each of these fantastic flavors come in standard 3-ounce bars, but also 10 gram sample sizes. Should portion control be a concern, then the mini batons are an excellent choice, giving you a satisfying taste without the potential to overindulge.
To get a good baseline on the flavor profile of this chocolate, the Ultimo Dark bar made of pure cacao, sugar, and little else was the obvious initial pick. Solid and snappy, this very smooth chocolate is incredibly rich and intense. More bitter than sweet, it's definitely a "mature" chocolate. The slightly burnt, woodsy notes make it somewhat sharp in flavor, but it is still has a well-rounded and powerful taste. Though it is something that could only be eaten in small doses, I bet it would add some incredible contrast to sweet baked goods as well.
What really sets Verē apart from other chocolate makers is their willingness to try out more adventurous flavors. One of these highly unusual pairings is found in their Anise and Espresso bar; two completely different tastes that I would have never thought to put together. I was very curious about what the results might be. The smell of warm, roasted espresso beans hit me first, followed by the taste of an intense cup of mocha. However, as the piece finishes dissolving the aftertaste of spicy anise brings a finale with a kick. Somewhat gritty from whole ground beans, this may be more of an acquired taste… But even as a self-professed anise detractor, I found this flavor grew on me, and the bar was gone before I knew it.
However, anise isn't their spiciest offering. For all you chili-lovers and hot-heads out there, the Cayenne and Cacao Nib bar is the one for you. Immediately after taking a bite, the heat hits your tongue with jarring impact, so be careful not to bite off more than you can chew! The explosive spice is nicely tempered by the intense dark chocolate, but nothing could take away from that fire. Crunchy cacao nibs keep the texture exciting enough to match the flavor, making for one unique chocolate experience. If you're bored of the same old chocolate, this bar will shake things up and get you out of that rut for sure.
Bringing some whimsy back into the picture, this Banana and Macadamia Nut bar is unlike any I've tried before. Lighter and sweeter than the previous offerings, this tropical delight is sure to please those seeking a more candy-like treat. Although the banana flavor is very faint and somewhat difficult to detect, the essence still adds a certain something to the overall flavor profile. A scant handful of mac nuts give you an occasional morsel to crunch on, but I wouldn't say that this one is particularly mind-blowing.
My favorite of this whole assortment was the Raspberry and Lemon bar. While it wasn't lemony, perse, there was an additional acidic kick to it that heightened the bitterness of the chocolate. Tart pieces of raspberries dotted the whole piece, adding color and interest, and a slight chewiness too. This isn't your standard sweet, easy to eat chocolate- it's much more intense than what you might find in the candy aisle of your average grocery store. Anything with raspberry will get my vote, but the smoothly melting dark chocolate really made this an incredible combination.
If you're looking for something a bit less bracing than pure, powerful, dark chocolate, I would highly recommend Verē's clusters. I had the good luck of sampling both the almond and coconut clusters, and both of their featured ingredients were impeccably fresh and flavorful. The chocolate seems like more of an afterthought in these, allowing the nuts to shine through and steal the spotlight. Each thin disk is pleasingly crunchy, crisp, and refreshingly uncomplicated.
Speaking of simple, their line of wafers provides a number of flavor sensations while appeasing your inner chocoholic. Ranging from cacoa nibs to pink peppercorns, espresso beans to tamari almonds, there's something here that everyone can enjoy. Snappy and smooth-melting, the chocolate supports whatever topping may adorn it, and those add-ons are naturally as fresh as can be. My only criticism is that I wish they were more plentiful and evenly distributed, but I'll still happily eat every last one without complaint.
Looking for a gourmet, vegan gift to give this holiday season? Verē has you covered, providing a number of specially arranged gift boxes that will accommodate your dietary needs, and give you a good sampling of a number of different chocolates. They even have a page listing all of their vegan items to make things easy.
Since many chocolatiers don't bother to limit the dairy, I was excited that this gourmet name would care enough to do so, and I think that this decision has definitely paid off.
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I had mentioned about vegan brownie cupcakes in my previous post and here I'm with the recipe. Actually 2 weeks back it was my son's turn to provide snacks for his classmates in preschool and I was wondering what to bake from the humungous collection of eggless recipes I have now. Since I'm hosting this event, I decided to bake something using flax seed meal. I wanted to bake something simple, which appeals children and that can be easily packed.
I had borrowed "The Joy of Vegan Baking" book from the library and this brownie recipe (the author has actually adapted the recipe from Sinfully Vegan) caught my eye. Do you know the reason? It does not have any added fat like butter/oil etc. Applesauce is replaced for fat in the recipe. I'm aware of the fact that unsweetened applesauce recipe can be used as an egg substitute as well as a fat substitute, but I have tried neither. So I was determined to try this recipe because I will be baking something healthy and who doesn't like brownies, leave alone preschoolers.
If you have baked brownies before you would know that it takes a long time to cool and then you have to cut it. I wanted to bake 35 brownies and the recipe mentioned that it would yield 8-9 brownies, so I would have to bake 4-5 batches, take into account the cooling time, packing etc, which would consume a considerable amount of time. Then only I remembered what I had read a long time back in a magazine.
One of the readers had mentioned that she baked brownies in a muffin tin and they came out very well. I decided to try it and I'm so glad that I tried it because it's such a wonderful/neat idea. I think I'll be baking brownies only in a muffin tin henceforth. Moreover the serving size is also increased to 12 from 8, using a muffin pan instead of a regular baking dish. So I had to bake only 3 batches.
Vegan Brownie Cupcakes Recipe
|Prep Time
|Cook Time
|15 Mins
|23 Mins + Cooling Mins
|12 Cupcakes
- 1 And 1/2 Cups Granulated Sugar Or Sweetener (I Used Regular Sugar)
- 3/4 Cup Unsweetened Applesauce (I Used Nature's Promise Organic Applesauce)
- 2 Tablespoons Water
- 2 Teaspoons Flax Seed Powder
- 1/2 Cup Water
- 2 Teaspoons Vanilla Extract (I Used Trader Joes Pure Vanilla Flavor Alcohol Free)
- 1 And 1/3 Cups All Purpose Flour
- 3/4 Cup Cocoa (I Used Hershey's)
- 1 Cup Vegan Chocolate Chips (But I Used The Regular Nestle Ones)
- 1 Cup Optional Chopped Walnuts (I Omitted)
- 3/4 Teaspoon Baking Powder
- 1/4 Teaspoon Salt
- Preheat oven to 350F/180C for 15 minutes.
- Coat an 8×8 inch square baking dish with nonstick cooking spray. If you choose to bake brownie cupcakes, line a 12 muffin tin with muffin liners or coat with nonstick cooking spray itself.
- In a medium size bowl, stir together sugar, applesauce and 2 tablespoons water.
- Either mix flax seed meal with 1/2 cup water in a small cup or blend it in a blender.
- Add the flax seed mixture and vanilla to the applesauce mixture and combine well.
- In another small bowl, combine flour, cocoa, baking powder, salt, chocolate chips and walnuts (if using).
- Add the wet ingredients to the flour mixture.
- Stir just to combine, do not overmix.
- Pour into prepare pan. If using a muffin tin, fill each mould 3/4ths full. The given measurement is perfect for 12 muffins, so divide the batter accordingly, which is around 3-4 tablespoons of batter in each cup.
- The time given in the original recipe for baking in a brownie pan is 40 minutes for chewy brownies and 45-47 minutes for cake like brownies. But since I used a muffin tin to bake brownies, mine was done exactly at 23 minutes.
- Once the cupcakes are out of the oven, leave it in the tin for 2 minutes and then transfer to a wire cooling rack for the brownie cupcakes to cool completely.
- As for the taste, it was AWESOME. You can never guess that these are healthy brownies. They were so moist. I was not able to get the feedback from the children, but one of the teachers told me that it tasted very good and the children really enjoyed it.
- While buying applesauce, check thoroughly the ingredients list. Some brands have very large amount of high fructose corn syrup, which increases the sugar content to 25gms per serving. I think unsweetened applesauce is available only in organic brands. The Nature's Promise brand is made only with organic apples and water. It does not have any additional sweeteners, so 1/2 cup serving has only 9gms sugar which is actually from the apples.
- I used muffin liners to line the tin, which made the clean up also very easy. Another advantage of using muffin tins is, they cool in no time.
- These brownie cupcakes taste better the next day of baking.
|Nutrition Facts
|Servings: 12
|Per Serving
|% Daily Value*
|Calories 313
|Total Fat 11.9g
|Saturated Fat 3.7g
|Trans Fat 0g
|Cholesterol 3mg
|Sodium 64mg
|Potassium 300mg
|Total Carb 50.4g
|Dietary Fiber 3.9g
|Sugars 34.1g
|Protein 6.3g
|Vitamin A 1% – Vitamin C 1%
|Calcium 6% – Iron 13%


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A 12-year-old hoops star died during an all-star basketball game over the weekend, the Atlanta Journal-Constitutional reports.
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Jeremy Nelson "was having a heck of a game" according to his coach, Bryan Larrieu, before he pulled up after missing a shot during the Saturday night game. Larrieu took Nelson out of the game. But he slipped in and out of consciousness soon as he sat on the bench. He was rushed to a local hospital where he later died.
There is no known cause of death at this point.
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The 6-foot player was well-respected at Budford Middle School, according to schools superintendent Dr. Geye S. Hamby.
"Jeremy was a very kind young man and an excellent student athlete," Hamby told the Journal-Constitution. "Jeremy had a presence in the hallways and on the court. He was a young man that always shared kindness with others and one that the students enjoyed being around. His very pleasant demeanor will be missed by all."
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"He was just a wonderful kid, said DeMarcus Irons, who coached Jeremy when he was 10, and has known him since he was 8 years old. "It's a big loss. He represented everything good we were trying to do with these kids," in the league.
The boy's father, Herb Wilson, told CBS Atlanta that his son received annual physicals and had no known health issues. "When it's your time – your number comes up," Herb Nelson said. "I would have traded places a thousand times with my son. You can't run from your time."
All of Nelson's siblings play basketball. His twin sister, Jessica, plays basketball for Buford's seventh-grade team. And his older sister, Kristina, a senior on the Buford high school team, recently signed to play with Notre Dame.
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Silo Halo are a DC-based trio that combines guitar, bass, keys and male and female vocals into a dark shoegaze-indie-dream-fuzz sound. Christin Durham(bass, vox), Christopher Goett (guitar, vox) and Greg Svitil (guitar, keys, vox) have all been players in the DC music scene for years (in bands including The Antiques, Girl Loves Distortion, Victor Victoria, Soft Complex, The Parlor Scouts…) but came to play together in 2010, first under the name Night and the City, and in 2011 as Silo Halo. They released their first album this year, titled Night and the City, on Etxe Records, an independent label founded by Goett. Full disclosure- I first met Greg when I joined the band Soft Complex in 2004, and have remained friends with him since then. I've always been in awe of his musicianship, creativity, kindness, and general awesomeness as a human being. I've been lucky enough to get to know Christin and Chris through Greg in the past year, and one thing that really impressed me about the trio is their dedication to contributing to the creative community in the DC area, not just with their own music, but with tireless enthusiasm and support of others. You can see Silo Halo play Black Cat tonight along with The Mean Season and Golden Looks!
Alexia: How did Silo Halo come together as a band?
Christin: I asked Greg if The Antiques would like to play in my basement when I lived in Arlington. I was playing in a queer-centric 80s cover band at the time, and we would practice and play parties down there, so I eventually decided to put on more formal shows, calling the venue The Basement Speakeasy. That first show with The Antiques and Screen Vinyl Image was December 2008, and it ended up being The Antiques last show. Greg asked if I'd like to collaborate with him for a new project not long after that.
Greg: I saw Christin's band Victor Victoria and was energized by hearing her sing and play bass, which suited what I had in mind as far as forming a band in which I wouldn't be the main singer and songwriter. At the same time I was connecting a lot with Chris, but his band Girl Loves Distortion was still pretty active, and so it was a few months before we could bring him in to write, play, and sing.
Chris: Greg and I met via a regular community potluck of musicians, independent music label types, and recordists. We connected on several levels musically and personally. As The Antiques reached antiquity, I became aware of the new musical project. Christin and I met at We Fought The Big One, and that was another strong and instant connection.
Alexia: What song or artist first made you fall in love with rock music?
Greg: There's a clear moment when rock n roll gripped me, which happened when I was ten years old, sitting two feet in front of the TV. The Ronettes came on, singing "Be My Baby." Years later, I learned that the clip I saw was from Shindig in 1965. Their time and place was mysterious to me. At ten years old, I couldn't place where or when they came from, and the music didn't sound like anything I'd ever heard before. It still doesn't. The sound was just enormous. I was mesmerized by their voices and how they looked and how they moved. A few months later, I discovered that my older sister had a tape of the song- it was the Dirty Dancing soundtrack- and I thought that she must be the coolest person on earth to have the capability to cue up the Ronettes at the drop of a hat. During my teenage years, the whole Ronettes catalog became some of the most important music in the world to me, and as an adult, it still is.
Christin: Speaking of The Ronettes, one of the songs Greg saw Victor Victoria perform was "Take Me Home Tonight" by Eddie Money, so seeing me sing Ronnie's parts probably solidified his notion to ask me to make music with him, or at least that's the theory I like, haha. A friend at the Christian school I attended for grades K through 3 played me "Crazy For You" by Madonna on her walkman. I've loved the devil's music ever since. My older sister got me into bands like The Cure and REM at an early age.
Chris: I would have to credit my older sisters with my musical tastes and exposure as well. I have vivid recollection of my sisters and their friends sitting around and spinning their vinyl, socializing and discussing music. Most of this would now be classified as "first wave" music. However, the first really transformative musical experience for me was seeing Public Enemy play to a stadium full of people in 1992. The visual imagery, the ferocity, the command of the crowd, and the message were amazing and changed how I thought about recorded music. I've been an avid concert goer ever since.
Alexia: What inspires you?
Chris: My loved ones, friends, and neighborhood. Ordinary folks doing extraordinary things in their own way, on their own scale.
Greg: People's lives, whether they're those who I know, or those who I see on screen or hear or read about.
Christin: I'm a highly empathetic and emotional person, so I'm easily moved and inspired. Like most people, it's easier for me to say what I don't like and what doesn't inspire me: indie brodeo, reality television, money, career, capitalism, suburbia, shopping malls…


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Transit service runs from Downtown to Memorial Stadium
The City of Lawrence invites KU football fans to park in Downtown Lawrence for free and catch a ride to and from Memorial Stadium during this football season. Downtown to Memorial Stadium service will be available for all home-game Saturdays. Fans can enjoy downtown restaurants and shops before and after the game.
Parking in the New Hampshire Street Parking Garage, 900 block of New Hampshire, the lower level and ramps of the Riverfront Parking Garage, 600 block of New Hampshire, and the Vermont Street Parking Garage, 700 block of Vermont, will be free for weekend game days.
The service to and from Memorial Stadium is $1 for all passengers. The service will run two hours prior to kick-off and one hour after the game or when no additional post-game passengers are present. Signs on the buses will display: #11 Downtown/Football Service.
Bus service will pick up and drop off passengers at only these four stops:
- On the south side of 9th Street east of Massachusetts (next to the U.S. Bank building)
- In front of the Riverfront Parking Garage
- On the west side of Vermont Street north of 8th (in front of Douglas County Senior Services)
- Memorial Stadium
To get help planning a route or for more information, call (785) 864-4644. Visit us on Facebook @lawrencetransit.


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Things to think about
1. Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?
2. Why is it that no matter what color of bubble bath you use the bubbles are always white?
3. Is there ever a day that mattresses are not on sale?
4. Why do people constantly return to the refrigerator with hopes that something new to eat will have materialized?
5. On electric toasters, why do they engrave the message "one slice"? How many pieces of bread do they think people are really gonna try to stuff in that slot?
6. Why do people keep running over a string a dozen times with their vacuum cleaner, then reach down, pick it up, examine it, then put it down to give the vacuum one more chance?
7. Why is it that no plastic garbage bag will open from the end you first try?
8. How do those dead bugs get into those closed light fixtures?
9. Considering all the lint you get in your dryer, if you kept drying your clothes would they eventually just disappear?
10. When we are in the supermarket and someone rams our ankle with a shopping cart than apologizes for doing so, why do we say, "It's all right?" Well, it isn't all right so why don't we say, "That hurt, you stupid idiot?"
11. Why is it that whenever you attempt to catch something that's falling off the table you always manage to knock something else over?
12. Is it true that the only difference between a yard sale and a trash pickup is how close to the road the stuff is placed?
13. In winter why do we try to keep the house as warm as it was in summer when we complained about the heat?
14. How come we never hear father-in-law jokes?
15. If at first you don't succeed, shouldn't you try doing it like your wife told you to do it?
16. The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Australians is suffering from sort of mental illness.
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2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalog | 20243
University Studies Courses
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UNIV 1180 TRIO/SSS College Orientation (1 credits)
UNIV 1190 First Year Experience Seminar (1 credits)
UNIV 1199 Critical Reading and Analysis (2 credits)
UNIV 1200 TRIO/SSS Life Career Planning (2 credits)
UNIV 1995 Northern Connect (0 credits)
UNIV 1996 Athletic Fee (0 credits)
UNIV 1997 Health Services Fee (0 credits)
UNIV 1998 Student Activity Fee (0 credits)
UNIV 1999 Super Fee (0 credits)
UNIV 3000 Interdisciplinary Research Methods (3 credits)
UNIV 3010 Effective Presentation of Research Results (3 credits)
UNIV 3100 College to Career (1 credits)
UNIV 3200 Capstone for TRIO students (3 credits)
UNIV 3910 Directed Independent Study (1-2 credits)
UNIV 3931 Experimental Course (3 credits)
UNIV 3970 Internship (3 credits)
UNIV 4910 Independent Study (1-2 credits)
UNIV 4917 DIS Tchg Assoc | (1-2 credits)
UNIV 4970 Internship (3 credits)
UNIV 1190 First Year Experience Seminar (1 credits)
Designed to support the freshman transition to college, this seminar establishes the core academic skills, social competencies, and values that enable students to excel within the university community. The seminar's ultimate goal is to enhance and enrich the student experience so that students may develop a sense of citizenry and derive the maximum benefit from the intellectual and social opportunities of college life. This is achieved through integrating extracurricular, curricular, and co-curricular offerings within the course content. Faculty lectures, professional staff presentations, and diverse field experiences supplement seminar topic areas.
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Earl's Court
With a summer show of cutting-edge art, Lord and Lady Burlington are waking up Lismore Castle, his family's ancient Irish estate.
Lismore Castle, perched high on a cliff above the River Blackwater in County Waterford, Ireland, has seen its share of transformations. A multiturreted fortress built in 1185 on the ruins of a monastery that date from 633, it later functioned as a bishop's palace; from 1589 until 1602, it was the estate of Sir Walter Raleigh. For the past 250 years, the castle has served as a very stately extra home for the Cavendish family, heirs to the illustrious dukedom of Devonshire. What, one wonders, would the property's former occupants make of the neon signs spelling out slang expressions for female genitalia, currently installed in the castle's west wing?
These items (by the late Jason Rhoades) and other artworks are bringing a long-derelict portion of the castle to life as a summer exhibition space called Lismore Castle Arts. The gallery is the brainchild of the estate's overseer of the past few years, William Cavendish, the Earl of Burlington. A boyishly handsome 40-year-old, he has worked as a professional photographer and prefers to be known as William Burlington. Nonetheless, it is difficult for him to escape his birthright. The son and heir of the present Duke of Devonshire, he will one day inherit Chatsworth, one of England's most palatial, treasure-stocked residences.
Strolling through a Lismore courtyard on a rainy day in April, Burlington displays a mixture of pride and amusement about his lineage. Pointing out the family coat of arms carved in the ancient stone above an entry, he notes its Latin motto, Cavendo Tutus. "It's not a very impressive one," he says, almost apologetically. "It means 'Survive by Caution,' which is hardly likely to strike fear into the hearts of one's enemies. As a child, I used to wish it were something more like 'Death or Glory.' But it seems to have worked for us."
That's an understatement: His father, who became the 12th Duke of Devonshire, in 2004, is Britain's 88th-richest person, with a $790 million fortune, according to the London Times. (Burlington's grandmother, Deborah, the last of the six fabled Mitford sisters, still crackles with wit at 89.) In addition to the 75,000-acre Chatsworth and the 8,000-acre Lismore, the Duke owns several other significant properties, including Bolton Abbey, a 12th-century priory in Yorkshire.
Still, the family's real-estate holdings aren't quite as extensive as they were in the days of Burlington's ancestor the Sixth Duke, who came to Lismore for the first time around 1810 with the intention of selling it to cover the huge gambling debts racked up by his recently deceased mother, the profligate Georgiana (subject of last year's costume drama The Duchess). Instead, enchanted by the castle's romantic charms, he decided to restore and enlarge it, an undertaking into which he poured a good deal of his fortune and energy. Working closely with Sir Joseph Paxton, architect of the Crystal Palace, and A.W. Pugin, who helped rebuild the Palace of Westminster, he transformed the place into a sumptuous 19th-century fantasy of a Gothic castle.
William himself paid only one visit to the property, at age 10, when his parents brought him and his sisters for a visit from their home in London. No one had lived there full-time since 1944, when Lord Charles Cavendish, son of the Ninth Duke, died. (He had moved to Lismore in 1932, with his bride, Adele Astaire, sister of Fred.) In 2004, when Burlington's parents were renovating Lismore, he pitched to his father his dream of transforming the west wing into a gallery. After receiving an enthusiastic yes, Burlington, an Eton and Cambridge graduate who was working in London as a photographer for newspapers and magazines, oversaw a restoration that turned the cavernous space into a winning minimalist gallery. A group show featuring the works of Matthew Barney, Barry Flanagan, Richard Long and others opened in 2005. The next summer Burlington mounted a solo show with Long, who created site-specific works incorporating materials he gathered from the local landscape.
Around the same time, Burlington found an enthusiastic new friend who shared his interest in art, Laura Montagu. Then an editor at Harper's Bazaar UK, she had grown up in the art world; her father, Richard Roundell, is vice chairman of Christie's. After bonding during their frequent visits to London galleries, Burlington and Montagu fell in love and, in 2007, were married. Soon after, the Duke entrusted his son with the responsibility of running the castle in its entirety. "They knew I had a deep love for Lismore and felt that a younger hand on the tiller would be a good thing, especially in light of their increased commitments at Chatsworth after my grandfather's death," says Burlington.
Marrying Montagu was something of a bold move for Burlington; it was the first time an heir to the 300-year-old Devonshire title had married a divorcée. (In 2002, after a four-year marriage, she split from Orlando Montagu, the Earl of Sandwich's youngest son.) Though the English press made much of Burlington's precedent-breaking choice of bride, his family didn't blink. "I don't think it crossed any of our minds. I just feel I am very lucky to have found the love of my life and [that] she agreed to marry me," he says. His happiness was "trebled," Burlington adds, with the birth this past March of a daughter, Maud, in London, where the family now lives in a 19th-century town house in Holland Park.
A classic blond English beauty who speaks in soft tones, Laura, 37, fell for Lismore's charms upon her first visit: "It was like a fairy tale, and I couldn't believe how verdant everything was."
Bringing contemporary art to this rather remote corner of Southern Ireland has been an exciting adventure for the pair. While the nonprofit exhibition space's growing reputation is now drawing sophisticated cultural tourists, in the beginning it was visited primarily by the thousands who come annually to see Lismore's stupendous gardens. The Burlingtons seem particularly pleased that the local population has been coming in large numbers to see the art, too. "People have been so receptive. Or at least the ones that think it's rubbish are kind enough not to say it," says Laura.
While the art on display may seem avant-garde, Burlington is actually following in family tradition. Most of the items in the Devonshire collection—which includes pictures by Holbein, Rembrandt and Veronese—were fresh goods when they were purchased. In his day, for example, the Sixth Duke built a gallery at Chatsworth to display his collection of Antonio Canova sculptures, which were considered daring by contemporary society because of their stark depiction of naked flesh. And Burlington's grandparents and parents were early collectors of, respectively, Lucian Freud and David Hockney. But Burlington is putting his own touch on the ancestral hobby. "I wanted to do something that was a bit more ephemeral, not so acquisitive," he says. "We're just following our passions and hoping that if we do things at a high enough level, people will at least respect that."
The castle's 2007 show, "Titled/Untitled," was a unique collaboration with another family of collectors, Don and Mera Rubell of Miami. Burlington says he was struck by the couple's passion for collecting when he heard them lecture at the Frieze Art Fair. ("I almost started stalking them afterward," he confesses.) Following a visit to their Miami exhibition space, Burlington persuaded them to come to Ireland, where he conceived of his idea for the show: The Rubells would select items from the Devonshire collection (including works at Chatsworth), and William and Laura would take their pick from the Rubell trove. The Rubells' contemporary art, mainly video works by Gregor Schneider, Hernan Bas and others, was displayed in a stable block, while the Devonshire pieces, including portraits by Van Dyck, Reynolds and Gainsborough, were hung in the Lismore Castle Arts gallery.
"My family started our collection 45 years ago, and his began 500 years ago," Mera Rubell says of Burlington. "But I was so impressed by how forward looking he is. He's a very contemporary person, but at the same time he is determined to understand and appreciate the past."
For this season's show, "United Technologies," the Burlingtons wanted to explore the relationship between beauty and utility. Their guest curator, Belgian-born Philippe Pirotte, director of the Kunsthalle Bern in Switzerland, chose the artists, including Ai Weiwei, Stefan Brüggemann and Rita McBride.
Rather than just "parachuting" their work in, as Burlington terms it, most of the artists arrive at the castle days before the opening to begin installation, or, in the case of Corey McCorkle, to start brewing. After gathering wild dandelions from the castle grounds, McCorkle boiled the flowers in huge vats, then put the liquid in jugs for fermentation. In September the wine will be poured into handcrafted bottles that are already on display in the Paxton-designed glass conservatory in the garden. "Using the most ubiquitous, least desired thing in the garden—weeds—I choose to make something ceremonial," explains McCorkle, who also applied gold leaf to ornately carved wooden walking sticks, which visitors will be able to sign out for hiking on the grounds. While in residence at Lismore, the Brooklyn-based artist is allowed free rein. "I have the keys to the castle," he says with a sense of disbelief.
The afternoon of the opening, the castle is a beehive of activity. All 12 bedrooms are occupied by the artists, as well as curators, collectors, dealers and friends who have flown in. After a boisterous cocktail hour in the gallery, which spills out into the garden, dinner is served in the Great Hall, a grand room that resembles a miniature Houses of Parliament.
London gallerist Iwan Wirth, who represents the Jason Rhoades estate, has great admiration for the Burlingtons' endeavors. "It displays a deep, intimate commitment to art that museums no longer are able to have," he says of Lismore Castle Arts. Staying overnight at the castle, he adds, made the experience "a gesamtkunstwerk," or total artwork. "It was fantastic to relax in my bedroom, admiring a 17th-century tapestry and the Pugin wallpaper while paging though a 1942 Vogue that was lying on a shelf and glimpsing out my window to the river below, with fly fishermen wading through it."
"We are in a very fortunate position," says Burlington the next day. "We are not bound in the way that institutions and commercial galleries are. Hopefully, we can offer the artists a chance to do something out of their normal cycle." But the greatest pleasure for him, it seems, has come from doing his part to expand his family's artistic legacy. "All my life, this part of the castle has been dead and derelict," he says. "We are very happy to see life going on in there now."
Paintings reproduced by permission of Stephen Conroy; © The Devonshire Collection, Chatsworth.


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Read Between the Grip: Hug Psychology
There's no better place to read between the grip than the hug. It's like a gauge of human emotions. Weak, halfhearted hugs are disappointing and can demonstrate obligation or distraction, but it's the hug that goes from friendly to "let's get a room" that I'm interested in. Learn how to discern the "we're just friends" hug from the "something more" — and more — hug.
Friendly Hug
These hugs may be longer than a hello hug between friends, but the "we're just friends" variety works like this: Your arms go below his shoulders while his go around yours. His hands may wander if you stay long enough, but really shouldn't go beyond your midback or upper arms. There may be a quick peck on the cheek, which you can analyze based on previous hugs or if he kisses other girls. A longer hug when one of you is comforting the other rarely means anything beyond friendship, but can!
"Something More" Hug
If the friendly hug gets friendlier then something more may be behind it. When chests touch while both people hug each other's shoulders, it's considered a heart-to-heart hug. It's definitely a sign that there's more where that came from. The placement of hands is also key. If hands wander longer and farther than normal, then it's probably not your imagination — but his!
"Make No Mistake About It" Hug
Whether you're in a relationship or not, if there is lower-body contact, then you two are either having sex or will be very soon. When a guy hugs you from behind (hopefully you know him . . . well!) then he can't wait to be alone with you. Longer and tighter hugs signal intense feelings, and they demonstrate commitment when done in public.