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text: > 3) Be aware that the kernel you are using will make a big > difference and that the semantics for ext3 have changed > a while ago so that it no longer uses data=ordered but > instead uses data=writeback by default (you can override AFAIKT, it's just an option for the default mount config now that wasn't offered before. major distros (I only checked fedora) still do data=ordered, and the latest kernel snapshot still has data=ordered as the default. the kernel config help text points to this: http://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Ext3_Data%3DOrdered_vs_Data%3DWriteback_mode which makes a useful point about app-level consistency still requiring fsyncs (which operates above any fs-level consistency guarantees.) also, I find swapfiles more convenient than partitions. some installers always force a swap partition to the tail of the disk, which is pessimal. regards, mark hahn. _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf

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Good Sam Shows Enjoying Strong Gate, Sales
March 19, 2013 by RVBusiness · 1 Comment
RV enthusiasts turned out in high numbers, resulting in record sales at GS Media & Events' RV Shows in January and early February, the company reported.
"GS Media and Events has access to vast resources of RV enthusiasts across the country, reaching qualified RV buyers nationwide through direct mail marketing as well as email campaigns to past show attendees, Good Sam Club members, as well as current or past Camping World customers," said Barbara Ronning, marketing and project manager for GS Media and Events. "Through these avenues, GS Media and Events reaches those consumers most likely to be looking to upgrade to a new model, trade in their old units, or even buy their very first RV. By providing quality, feature-packed shows, attendees return to our shows year after year."
Comments on specific shows follow:
• Regarding the Colorado RV Adventure Travel Show held Jan. 9-12, Jim Humble, of Windish RV Center in Lakewood, Colo., said, "The January show was very good. Traffic was very solid even with cold weather and a Bronco game on Saturday. Sales were similar to 2012 show, a record year for Windish RV Center. We saw great traffic in the weeks after the show as well, and we will continue to do shows with GS Media and events as they are a huge part of our yearly success."
• The Mid-America RV Show was held Jan. 17-20 in Kansas City, Mo. Daryn Anderson, general manager of Olathe Ford RV Center in Kansas City noted, "This was probably the best show as far as sales that we have had in many years. The show attendance seemed very large and the quality of the folks looking to purchase was also very encouraging for us. We are starting to plan for our attendance next year and definitely look forward to being a part of the Mid-America RV Show for many years to come."
• At the Minneapolis/St. Paul RV Vacation & Camping Show earlier in February, Coates RV Center of Forest Lake, Minn., reported record sales. Sarah Lange, owner of Coates RV, said, "This was our best show on record for sales, and we are very pleased with the results. Saturday traffic was heaviest I have seen, and we have had great follow-up with qualified leads in the weeks following the show. This is the best show to reach our potential customers."
• At the New Jersey RV & Camping Show in January, record attendance was set, explained Anthony Tedesco, show manager. "We had very strong reports of show sales from dealers. Crossroads Trailers reported the strongest level of sales since 2004, which was the height of the RV industry boom. In Greenville, S.C., strong attendance was reported with more than 100 units sold at the South Carolina RV and Camping Show. This year, we doubled the size of the show and quadrupled dealer participation."
• Record attendance was also set at the Atlantic City RV Show in February with dealers reporting excellent sales, said Ronning.
Upcoming RV shows for GS Media and Events include events in Providence, R.I., El Paso, Texas, and Milwaukee, Wis. All of these shows are part of the Progressive Insurance RV and Outdoor Show Series and will feature a variety of RVs, campground information and accessories along with expert advice and entertainment.
For more information about upcoming consumer shows, exhibitor lists and discounted online tickets to the shows, visit www.GSEvents.com.


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- This article is about the Martinizing process. For information on the Hypnotizing process see hypnosis
Martinizing is a process used by dry cleaners to remove stains from clothing.
Martinizing was first discovered by Dean Martin in 1953, when he accidentally spilled vodka onto Frank Sinatra's shirt which, coincidentally, had had a little bit of spaghetti sauce splattered on it earlier in the evening. Much to their surprise, it removed all traces of the stain. Sinatra, a keen businessman, recognized the value of the discovery and helped Martin patent the process and the rest, as they say, is history.
Current Trends[edit]
In its current form the Martinizing process now involves dipping an entire garment in vodka under pressure. It takes about an hour for the vodka to evaporate after the garment is removed from the pressure vessel. You wouldn't want to wear it right away as vodka is highly flammable (or slightly non-inflammable, the matter is still under debate), and if you were to get pulled over for a routine traffic stop, you'd have quite a bit of explaining to do to the officer, who would undoubtedly be quite suspicious at the strong aroma of alcohol he'd be easily able to detect.
Wink Martindale tried to challenge Martin's patent on the grounds that it infringed on his Martindalizing process which used club soda as a de-staining agent, but failed when it was shown that Martindale's process had to be used before the stain had been set, while Martin's process was effective even on dried set-in stains. Wrote U.S. District court judge Jonathan "Red" Walker, "clearly, Martin's approach is the more unique of the two." Martin and Martindale would not speak again for several years until they met at a roast for Foster Brooks during which Martindale would eventually storm off the set after Martin referred to him derisively as "bubbles".
Similar Processes[edit]
In Ireland, 'McMartinizing' uses Whiskey in combination with agitation to great effect, and also often as a dry cleaning agent.
The French process of 'Lewisizing' which uses wine was never much of a commercial success as it tended to produce more stains than it removed.
In Russia, early attempts at duplicating the process began with the experimental drinking of vodka, but was never really developed far beyond that despite considerable continuing research.


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Queen Elizabeth II has issued a decree to ensure all children born to Prince William and Catherine, Duchess Of Cambridge will receive a royal title.
The young couple is currently expecting a baby and authorities in Britain are fast-tracking a new law to change the rules on succession so if the child is a girl, she will be allowed to rule after her father – a right traditionally reserved for male heirs.
The Queen has now issued a formal decree to declare all of the couple's children will be given royal titles, instead of just the first boy. The ruling means that if Catherine gives birth to a baby girl, she will receive the title of Princess.
All boys after their first-born son will also receive the title of Prince.
The decree was issued on December 31, but was not made public until Wednesday.


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Similar to Philo's work are tools to split panoramas into orange peel segments. A free perl script, pictures and explanation are available on the Original IP-slicer page. A higher quality version of this script is included in the Image::RGBA perl module.


text: Before we start, just thought I would mention that "$" symbolizes a new line of code. Most of this information can be found on Building the System | Android Open Source 1) Make sure you have Ubuntu 10.04 installed on your computer. 2) Download the newest Android SDK for Linux here: http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html 3) Extract the insides into /<username>/android/sdk/ (create these directories) 4) Open up a Terminal. Type: Code: $ cd android/sdk/tools $ ./android 5) The Android SDK Manager will now pop up, make sure you have platform-tools and Android 4.0.3 checked. Then click Install '#' packages. Make sure to Accept All then select "Install". After a few minutes, it will finish and you can close the window. 6) Go back into Terminal. Type: Code: $ cd $ sudo gedit .bashrc (make sure to give it your password) 7) A new window will pop-up with words you will not understand. Just make sure to scroll all the way to the bottom on a blank line and enter this: export PATH=${PATH}:~/android/sdk/platform-tools | Save and close the file. 8) Now, time to install the Java 6 JDK. Open Terminal and type everything as follows: Code: $ sudo add-apt-repository "deb [U]http://archive.canonical.com[/U][URL="http://archive.canonical.com/"]/[/URL] lucid partner" $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk 9) This next code will install a lot of stuff that is critical to building Android. In Terminal copy and paste all of this and then simply hit enter: Code: $ sudo apt-get install git-core gnupg flex bison gperf build-essential \ zip curl zlib1g-dev libc6-dev lib32ncurses5-dev ia32-libs \ x11proto-core-dev libx11-dev lib32readline5-dev lib32z-dev \ libgl1-mesa-dev g++-multilib mingw32 tofrodos python-markdown \ libxml2-utils xsltproc 10) For this next part, we will be configuring USB Access for your Android device. Open Terminal and type: Code: $ gksu nautilus (enter your password if asked) 11) This will open up File Browser with root abilities. Find the directory /etc/udev/rules.d/ | Create a new file called 51-android.rules and open it. It will be blank so copy and paste this: 12) Still in the file, go to Search --> Replace. In "Search for" enter <username> (yes, include the <>). For "Replace with" enter your computer's username (the one you set up Ubuntu with). Click "Replace All" then save and exit the file. 13) Open Terminal once again and type: Code: $ cd $ mkdir bin $ sudo gedit .bashrc 14) In the file that pops up, scroll to the bottom and enter the following on a blank line: export PATH=${PATH}:~/bin | Save and exit the file. 15) Back in the Terminal window, type: Code: $ cd bin $ curl [URL]https://dl-ssl.google.com/dl/googlesource/git-repo/repo[/URL] > ~/bin/repo $ chmod a+x ~/bin/repo 16) You just installed the repo command into the bin folder we created recently. Now we need to use that command to access the android source code. Back in the same Terminal window, type: Code: $ cd ~/android $ mkdir source $ cd source $ repo init -u [URL]https://android.googlesource.com/platform/manifest[/URL] -b android-4.0.3_r1 17) After running the last command, it should prompt you to type in your name and e-mail address. Please enter in your REAL Gmail's name and e-mail address. 18) This next step will take possibly anywhere from 1-4 hours depending on your computer. In your Terminal window, type: Code: $ cd $ cd android/source $ repo sync 19) After the "repo sync" finishes, in the same Terminal window, you will want to verify the Git Tags by typing: Code: $ gpg --import (nothing will happen, that's okay) 20) Copy and paste this into Terminal then click CTRL+D to enter: 21) Go to Binaries for Nexus Phones and Flagship Devices - Google Support for Nexus Phones and Flagship Devices - Google Code and download the proper Nexus binaries, for Verizon you want to locate "Galaxy Nexus (CDMA/LTE)" and download the Graphics Component. After it finishes, open the imgtech-toro-iml74k.tgz and you will see a .sh file. Copy it and paste it into /android/source/. Do not put it in any other folders. 22) Locate "extract-imgtec-toro.sh" in the directory just listed and double click it. Select "Run in Terminal". Keep clicking enter until you get to the end of the License. Then type I ACCEPT and enter. You just created a new folder inside of the Android source called "vendor". 23) In your File Browser window, locate /android/source/device/samsung/toro. In "toro", you should see a file called extract-files.sh. Open this file with gedit. When it opens up, go to Search --> Replace. In "Search for" enter adb pull | In "Replace with" enter ./adb pull | Select "Replace All" then save and exit the file. 24) Back in the File Browser, locate /android/sdk/platform-tools. You should see a file called "adb". Right click it, select copy, then back into /android/source/device/samsung/toro right click and paste "adb". At this point, you will want to plug in your device and make sure USB Debugging is enabled. 25) Open a Terminal window and type: Code: $ cd ~/android/source/device/samsung/toro $ ./adb devices (it should now show your device is attached) $ ./extract-files.sh 26) The last command we just entered extracted files such as CDMA/LTE radios from your phone and stuck them into the source. YOU CAN NOT BE ON A CUSTOM ROM OR THIS WILL NOT WORK. PLEASE BE ON ANDROID 4.0.2 OTA ROOTED (if you are on a custom ROM and don't feel like reverting to stock... please read the second post in this thread explaining a different way to do it)! We are now at the point where we can compile the final product. 27) In Terminal, type: Code: $ cd ~/android/source $ lunch (it will now give you options, find "full_toro-userdebug" and type the number next to it and hit enter) $ make -j4 otapackage 28) The last command we just ran can take up to 5 hours, depending on the speed of your computer. If you have a quad-core, I recommend running make -j8 otapackage. It will take less time. After it completes, we will give it root access, and disable the automatic flashing back to stock recovery. 29) Congratulations! You just compiled your first ROM. Now we must make last minute edits to ensure success. To see your final product, locate /android/source/out/target/product/toro. There should be one .zip file in the directory. Copy and paste it to your Desktop. 30) We will now add root access. To do so, first go here to download Superuser.apk and the su binary I put together in a zip file: Galaxy Nexus Root by droseum20.zip | After downloading, open up the .zip until you see two folders, app and bin. Open "app" and you will see "Superuser.apk". Then, open your compiled ROM from your desktop. Go to System --> app. copy and paste Superuser.apk from one .zip to the other. Now go to System --> bin in both .zips. Take "su" and drag and drop it into the "bin" folder in your compiled ROM. Now it should have full root access. 31) When compiling a ROM, it will automatically stick the stock recovery in there and we want to keep ClockworkMod, so we will do as follows. First. you will want to delete the recovery folder that is in your ROM. Next, from your ROM go to /META-INF/com/google/android/ and open updater-script. From here, not only we will delete flashing the OG recovery, we will also add some next text when any users flash our ROM. 32) Now that you have the updater-script opened, Go to Search --> Search. Type in search for recovery. It will bring you to a line that says, "package_extract_dir("recovery", "/system")". Completely delete this line. If you want to give the users who flash your ROM some nice text while it is in the boring process of flashing, keep reading to 33. If you don't care and just want to finish this long process, skip to 34 (I advise reading 33 though). 33) Still in the updater-script file, scroll all the way to the top. Make a new, blank, top line. Type ui_print("and then whatever you want. At the end of each line, you must include"); If you are confused, here is an example: ui_print("This is an example"); Now, if you want to make almost a design by using multiple lines, you can do that as well. 34) After you save and exit the updater-script file, you may move on to this. Here I will show you how to either have Google Apps built into your ROM, or have Google Apps and your ROM flash separately. For this section, I give full credit to @Kejar31, the creator of GummyNex. Download his Google Apps from this ROM thread over at RootzWiki: [ROM][AOSP][4.0.3][CDMA] GummyNex 0.5.0 - 01/10/12 - RootzWiki After downloading, it will come out in a .zip package. Simply drag and drop it to your desktop. 35) Now, you have Google Apps downloaded, but not baked inside of your ROM. To do this, we will open the GAPPS.zip file. Simply drag and drop the data folder from his GAPPS package into your ROM (not in any folder). Now, drag and drop the signed folder from one to the other. In the GAPPS pacakge, go to System, then app. Copy and paste all of them into the /System/app/ folder in your ROM. Then open the System --> etc from GAPPS and your /System/etc/. Open permissions on both, then copy and paste all the permissions from GAPPS into your ROM. Now copy and paste all the contents from /systesm/framework/ to your ROM. Open, /System/lib/ on both and once again copy and paste the contents from GAPPS into your ROM. Lastly, go to /System/Vendor/ and copy and paste the folder inside vendor (called pitpatt) into /System/vendor/ in your ROM. 36) Okay, now you are ready to flash the ROM onto your phone to make sure all goes well. Simply transfer the full_toro-ota-eng.<username>.zip onto your phone however you usuaully would. Flash clockworkmod recovery if you already have not, wipe data/factory reset, wipe cache, then dalvik cache, install from zip on sd card, find the ROM and click "Yes" to install. Reboot your phone and make sure everything worked as expected! Run into a problem? Just read the second post or contact me via Google Talk (firstname.lastname@example.com).


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"Whammer Anniversary/Rat Trap"
WHAMMER ANNIVERSARY - Mr. and Mrs. Bots ford leave Becky to babysit TJ so they can celebrate their anniversary at a local ice cream parlor. When the Whammed can't get the sundae he orders he starts whamming. Becky has to find a way to save her parents, babysit TJ, and keep her secret identity intact. D
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NorthBankAlliance wrote:TBL was proper loud yesterday, mad scenes when we scored as well.
As usual though most of the away support can't hear a thing we sing.
We easily muted the ones next to us though they watched us singing most of the game.
Definately mate, thought it was a great atmosphere in there yesterday


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Pacqui is produced in small batches in the town of Tequila in Mexico. In the Aztec tongue paQui means "to be happy" and indeed drinking this small batch tequila is a pleasant experience.
On the nose the sweet and sugary agave aromas waft up to your nose. This is quickly followed by fruity aromas with fresh green grass and subtle minty notes dancing in harmony. There is nary a trace of burn.
On the palate it is smooth and velvety with rich agave notes. The grassy and slight herbal notes make their presence known on the mid palate followed by a light peppery note with a hint of palate cleansing citrus.
PaQui retails for about $35 for 750/ml.
While PaQui can easily be sipped neat it makes a wonderful addition to cocktails.
The first cocktail is one created by me.
Bright Lights at Night
2 oz Blanco Tequila (PaQui)
1 oz Lillet Blanc
Rinse of St. Germain
2 Dashes of Grapefruit Bitters
Rinse the cocktail glass with St. Germain. Add the tequila, Lillet, and bitters to a mixing glass. Add ice, stir for approx 25 seconds, and strain into the prepared cocktail glass. Garnish with a grapefruit twist.
For a slight variation on the Margarita try this drink from the Jones Complete Bar Guide.
1.5 oz of Blanco Tequila
3/4 oz Lime Juice
1/2 Egg White
1/2 Maraschino Liqueur
Combine all ingredients and dry shake to emulsify the egg white. Add ice and shake for another 10 seconds then strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
Note: Maraschino Liqueur is not the juice from a Maraschino cherry jar.
Or for your dessert fix try the Frostbite cocktail a mix of tequila, cream, and creme de cacao.


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I am always on the lookout for easy and nutritious weeknight recipes that can do double duty as unfussy brown-bag lunches. And you can't beat today's recipe on both counts.
The sprouts are the only labor-intensive part of this recipe because you need to slice them (and the onions), but it doesn't take that long and once you're done you're pretty much halfway through the recipe which otherwise is as simple as boiling pasta and turning the pepper mill. Now I don't care if you're the laziest cook on earth, or the busiest person alive– you can handle that. Although the recipe called for only 8 ounces of pasta and sprouts each, I almost doubled the quantity to use up all the pasta in the box and also to make enough for Desi and me to brown bag for a couple of days.
Have a great Thanksgiving, all!
- 1 box whole-wheat spaghetti (I used the kind that's thinner than average spaghetti but thicker than angel-hair). Break the spaghetti into two- or three-inch pieces and cook according to package directions. When done, drain, remove to a bowl, and mix in 1 tsp of extra virgin olive oil.
- 16 ounces of Brussels Sprouts , cut in half, then thinly sliced
- 2 large onions , thinly sliced
- 1 tsp extra virgin olive oil
- 1 cup white wine
- 1/4 tsp sugar
- Salt and pepper to taste
- Heat the oil in a large saucepan. Add the shredded onions and cook over medium-low heat, stirring frequently, for about 10 minutes or until the onions start to lightly brown.
- Add the Brussels Sprouts and cook, stirring, for about five minutes.
- Add the white wine and cook until most of the wine has evaporated but there's still some moisture left in the sauce. Stir in the sugar.
- Add the vegetable mixture to the bowl with the pasta. Season with salt and pepper. Stir to mix and serve hot.
(C) All recipes and photographs copyright of Holy Cow! Vegan Recipes.


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The Sentinel-2 mission comprises a constellation of two polar-orbiting satellites placed in the same orbit, phased at 180° to each other. It aims at monitoring variability in land surface conditions, and its wide swath width and high revisit time (10 days at the equator with one satellite, and 5 days with 2 satellites under cloud-free conditions which results in 2-3 days at mid-latitudes) will support monitoring of changes to vegetation within the growing season. The coverage limits are from between latitudes 56° south and 84° north.
For mission planning information, see the Copernicus Mission pages.
This Sentinel-2 Mission Guide provides a high-level description of the mission objectives, satellite description and ground segment. It also addresses the related heritage missions, thematic areas and Copernicus services, orbit characteristics and coverage, instrument payload, and data products.
The Mission Guide categories are:
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text: At 09:13 27.01.2004 -0800, you wrote: >Yes, a "sliding cosine transform" can be used in place of the usual >"hopping short-time Fourier transform", and in that case, phase information >is contained in the time variation of the sliding transform >coefficients. I didn't realize you were doing something like that, I claim, you are doing the same, at least twice unconsciously in your inner ears. I would however argue that neither magnitude-phase representation nor time-frequency representation omit information while the usual spectrogram is a faulty design that strips off phase. In other words, phase information is merely a fictitious component that belongs to an inappropriate model of the inner ear. I do not see any justification for attributing it to the actual real-valued analysis. so my >argument was based on different assumptions. Even the short-time Fourier >transform hopping by half its window length each frame can be stripped of >all phase information and still be used as the basis of a convincing sound >synthesis, at least for smoothly changing sounds. Yes, this is what the usual spectrogram does. Short-time means acceptable with respect to temporal resolutiontoo while too short as to resolve low frequency. Do you not believe that the natural spectrogram overcomes such discrepancy, too? It is distinguished by: "no arbitrary window and no trade-off". There are many variants of desinging the windows and also many designs of wavelets but there is only one physiological function of the inner ear and only one corresponding natural spectrogram. Eckard >At 03:08 AM 1/26/2004, Eckard Blumschein wrote: >>At 12:06 23.01.2004 -0800, Julius Smith wrote: >> >At 11:16 AM 1/23/2004, Eckard Blumschein wrote: >> >>First of all, forget the wrong idea that the cochlea performs a complex >> >>Fourier transform. >> > >> >This implies phase is discarded. >> >>No! Do not consider me a moron. You and largely the rest of the world grew >>up with the erroneous believe that there is no equivalent alternative to >>complex spectral analysis. Complex calculus is indeed tremendously useful. >>No matter whether one prefers magnitude and phase or real and imaginary >>part, one always has to consider both constituents except for the case one >>of them equals zero. Given, a function of time like 2A cos(omega t) does >>not have any imaginary part at all. Entrance into complex plane is payed by >>mandatory arbitrary omission of A exp(- i omega t) or A exp(i omega t). >>Neither the magnitude A nor the phase omega t can be discarded. >>At that point, you will object: Aren't anti-symmetrical functions, i.e. >>functions of time with odd symmetry like sinus, also needed in frequency >>analysis? >> >>No again, on condition, causality has been taken into account. In brief: >>Future signals cannot be analyzed yet. Even sin(omega t) can be continued >>as its mirror into fictive future time like an even function. Of course, >>this wouldn't hold for its derivative or antiderivative. However, our topic >>is just frequency analysis within cochlea. >> >> >However, phase information does exist as >> >the phase of the basilar membrane vibration,... >> >>I don't take amiss this fallacy. It has to do with the missing natural >>justification for fixing any reference point on the time scale. Our ears >>are not synchronized with anything. When Descartes introduced Cartesian >>coordinates, he imagined a spatially infinite world. Time is >>correspondingly believed to also expand from minus infinite to plus >>infinite. However, elapsed time definitely ends at the 'NOW' being the only >>clever choice for a natural time scale. Take subsequent snapshots of a >>sinusoid at NOW each. Try the same with any cochlear pattern. By chance, >>you might observe sin or cos. In other words, so called linear phase is >>arbitrary as is time. I don't deny that delay or according phase difference >>is reasonable with respect to a second signal or a different reference. >>Without such reference, a sinusoidal function cannot be a identified as >>sin, cos or something complex in between, and the reference is lacking in >>nature. The only natural reference is the NOW, which is steadily on the >>move. This causes the trouble of permanently lagging window position in >>case of arbitrarily centered complex Fourier transform. >> >> >> >Since basilar membrane filtering is generally >> >modeled as linear, any corresponding short-time-Fourier-transform would >> >have to be complex to model basilar membrane filtering. Subsequent >> >half-wave rectification does not eliminate all phase information, >> >>An old specialist of power electronics like me cannot retrace how you >>imagine rectification of a complex-valued function of time. >> >>My wife is a teacher for adults. Perhaps she would more heedfully >>anticipate what you and many others are feeling rather than thinking. I >>will try and elucidate how engineers handle a similar case: Consider an >>ideal sinusoidal voltage as a real input into a circuit that may also >>contain a first (small) resistor and a reactance in series. Parallel to the >>first resistor there are a diod and a much larger second impedance in >>series. The voltage across the first resistor is a complex quantity with >>respect to the source but pretty independent of the diod. However, >>piecewise linear calculation requires to refer to the current through the >>diod as a real one. In case of hearing, phase of the stimulus does not >>matter since it anyway relates to an arbitrary reference. >> >>As a rule, recognized experts like you tend to be cautious against >>radically uncommon views. Therefore I would like to ask you: Look at >>pattern of BM motion (e.g. T. Ren's) or of firing in the auditory nerve. >>They do not resemble magnitude, nothing to say about phase. As far as I can >>judge, they resemble the pattern of the natural (real-valued) spectrogram. >>More in detail: Magnitude cannot account for the different patterns with >>rarefaction vs. condensation clicks while positve and negative amplitudes >>of the natural spectrogram clearly differ from each other. >> >>In all, I didn't find any tenable argument in favor of complex cochlear >>function. On the other hand, Fourier cosine transform, the natural >>spectrogram and joint autocorrelation already resolved a lot of so far >>poorly understood questions. >> >>Incidentally, I recall a textbook denying any difference between time >>domain and frequency domain. I do not fully share this opinion. In >>particular, I consider it necessary to clearly distinguish between real >>world and fictitious complex domain.


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Contracts a source of angst
Further to our item last week about an IT contract management company that we were told had entered into the recruitment business, creating a possible conflict of interest, we wish to elaborate.
First, we apologise for misnaming one of the big three contract management companies as CXE when it is CXC Consultants Exchange.
On the issue of another big contract management company, Entity Solutions, allegedly becoming involved with recruitment through a subsidiary called Marpeon, the subsidiary is not a recruitment agency. It describes its activities as engagement management.
An account manager in the contract management business explained that, in a nutshell, the subsidiary of Entity Solutions was in the business of trying to get agreements with employers to manage the affairs of their contractors.
There are a couple of issues here. First, the primary source of clients for contract management firms are recruitment agencies. Trying to deal directly with employers could be viewed as a way of by-passing recruiters, which no doubt would make the recruiters unhappy.
Second, unlike recruiters, the clients of contract management companies are, by definition, contract employees.
Therefore, forging business agreements with employers could be viewed as a conflict of interest, which would no doubt make contractors unhappy.
According to our source, there is a potential for a conflict of interest if a contract management firm (or a subsidiary) does business with employers.
"It can be a conflict of interest (for a contract management company) to have a vendor relationship, but only if the option to choose the contract manager is taken away from the contractor," our source says.
Entity Solutions, one of the big three IT contractor management companies in Australia, seems to have developed a bit of a juggling act involving contractors, employers and recruitment agents.
We wait with interest to see how successful the company is in keeping all the balls in the air.
Slack security courses
Talk to any big IT employer or recruiter and one of the skills most in demand is security expertise.
Unfortunately, they face a couple of serious problems. Security expertise is in worldwide short supply.
Incredibly, universities do not seem to pay much attention to teaching IT security.
At a security summit in Melbourne last week, we caught up with Rich Mogull, vice-president, information security and risk, at research group Gartner.
Mr Mogull told us the lack of trained security people was related to the scarcity of security courses, a reflection of the newness of IT security as a strategic business issue.
"Our profession is being forced to mature because our businesses rely more on technology and are putting core business processes on internet-facing technology," Mr Mogull says.
"We need to make sure security works because the new cyber crooks are no longer bored teenagers but organised crime. And they have something to go after now, because there's real money to be made."
According to Mr Mogull, the state of the IT security profession is akin to the early days of the internet.
"The early web programmers weren't real programmers; they were just some people who learned HTML and dabbled," he says.
"Most computer science degrees might have one mandatory class on security, if you're lucky. "Therefore, we have computer programmers and network engineers who don't learn security. No wonder there's a shortage of trained security people."
Mr Mogull says the lack of IT security degree programs means organisations looking for security expertise have to rely on industry certifications such as CISSP (certified information system security professional).
"CISSP is still the gold standard but some people can gain certification in as little as five days," he says.
Given that several Australian academics attended the Gartner summit, perhaps the message might sink in that teaching skills in demand could be a way of boosting sagging computer science enrolments.
Jobs aren't ads
A switched-on reader recently pointed out something that has been on the minds of job seekers and industry watchers: the many surveys from recruitment agencies about the IT jobs market may be creating an impression there is an abundance of jobs available for suitably skilled professionals.
Most of these surveys are based on the number of job ads appearing in newspapers and on internet job boards, and this is a problem.
The proliferation of cheap internet job advertising has led to multiple postings of the same jobs on different boards.
Often a recruiter, or several recruiters, will post the same job ad on multiple job boards.
We wonder whether the recruiters' IT jobs surveys are just measuring how active the recruitment industry is in the cheap internet advertising space segment of the market.


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Event: Hottie Payal Rohatgi with beau Sangram Singh inaugurated Nitin Shete's art exhibition yesterday in Mumbai.
Guest List: Payal Rohatgi, Sangram Singh
Bollywood celeb Aamir Khan along with wife Kiran Rao were spotted at PVR.
Bollywood producers-directors Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Krishan Kumar, Ravi Bahl, Divya Khosla Kumar, Sajid Nadiadwala, Wardha Nadiadwala celebrate diwali with Bhushan Kumar
Bollywood celebs Kareena Kapoor Khan, Malaika Arora, Sonali Bendre, Nimrat Kaur among others were snapped by paparazzi.Bebo looked super cool in a casual look. She wore a white t-shirt with yoga pants...
Bollywood actress Shama Sikander celebrated Diwali festival at her residence.
Bollywood celebs Aamir Khan, Zaira Wasim, Fatima Sana Shaikh, Sanya Malhotra, Anil Kapoor, Nitesh Tiwari, Aparshakti Khurrana, Bhushan Kumar, Javed Akhtar, Shabana Azmi, Sachin Tendulkar, Rajkumar Hir...


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John F. Kennedy and Mayor Richard Daley, 1960
Senator John F. Kennedy and Mayor Richard Daley at a Democratic rally in Chicago a few days before the 1960 presidential election. The election, in which mysteriously late votes from Chicago helped Kennedy win, made Daley's national reputation.
Photo courtesy Bob Rea / Chicago's American
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Contrarian Corner takes a critical look at recent games, with the intention of encouraging a broader discussion of titles which have been the recipient of either an abundance of single-minded praise, or an undue amount of criticism. If you're interested in joining that discussion, keep reading.
And make sure to read Greg Miller's Dead Space 2 review for IGN's official thoughts on the game. Be forewarned -- if you haven't finished the game, spoilers will be discussed below.
Dead Space 2 purports to be a horror game. Paradoxically, it's a tactical shooter that constantly punctures the horrors I begin imagining for myself in its gloomy space station corridors. Using a weapon is an inherently terrifying act, but the way that most video games imagine it creates the opposite effect. Weapons are tools of empowerment and enemies are the sounding boards that reveal just how powerful the weapon in your hand is. Thus there is a natural limit on the amount of fear in shooting at slime monsters in the dark.
The original Dead Space lasted an hour or so before reaching this threshold for me. The concept sounds fantastic, an engineer with no military history sent to repair a marooned ship that his girlfriend happens to work on. But surprise! There are razor-clawed space zombies nesting there, the result of an alien artifact that triggers cellular mutation that turns carriers into Necromorphs. Surviving this onslaught in isolation while tinkering your way across the broken ship with a wrench and a screwdriver sounds brilliant -- a combination of lush visuals, vicarious storytelling, and non-combative logic puzzles in extraordinary circumstances. Add in a parable about apocalyptic religious extremism, government collusion, innocents betrayed, and a growing suspicion over your own actions and Dead Space portends to be a breakthrough.
But video games are not about their backdrops, and the foreground in Dead Space was shooting and lots of it. The wrench and screwdriver that you'd shown up with were not once used constructively and instead instantly transformed into guns. All the new tools you found along the way were similarly weaponized, filling in the traditional spectrum of shooter toys: pistol, machine gun, shotgun, flamethrower, and a power saw. Isaac wore an engineering suit that looked suspiciously like knight's armor. The instruction manual might have said he was an everyman, but within an hour of playing it was clear that he was a steady soldier who knew how to handle gun recoil and stand his ground with six or seven space demons lurching toward him.
Dead Space 2 starts with a similarly promising list of ideas. It opens with Isaac in a mental institution on a space colony on one of Saturn's moons. He is unarmed and being interrogated about what happened during his first trip into the brink. Did Isaac hallucinate everything? Did the Necromorphs really exist or was it a psychotic vision he had? Is he somehow responsible for his girlfriend's death? If enemy reactions to being shot are an inverse reflection of a character's strength, seeing the social responses to your character when he is talking his way through an insane conspiracy is a fine way of demonstrating whether or not he is trustworthy and believable. Likewise, beginning in a place far removed from the spattering blood and sputum of the original, lit normally and filled with mundane, non-demonic activity is a great concept -- a perfect frame to view the exaggerated violence through.
But Dead Space 2 instead jumps immediately back on the conveyor belt of enemy encounters. The lights flicker, Isaac's interviewer turns into a Necromorph, and within three minutes of starting, space hell is once again upon you. The next section has you guiding Isaac through a winding series of halls and staircases while stuck in a straitjacket. This adds tension because he can't fight back, but it also lessens the horror because he's shown a gauntlet of enemies up front and out in the open. If I can see something and escape it without the use of my hands, is there really that much to fear?
You either delimb the lurking flesh toilets or they catch you and smear you in their feco-bile."
Shooting in Dead Space 2 is tactically nuanced but irritatingly single-minded. You either delimb the lurking flesh toilets or they catch you and smear you in their feco-bile. It's not a bad context for an action scene, but it's the only one there is in the 15-hour skulk through the Sprawl. In classic video game fashion, Dead Space 2 tries to hold player interest by making combat progressively harder. Enemies take more damage, they move more quickly, they come in more deviously arranged swarms, and the battlegrounds become increasingly cluttered, limiting both your movement and the camera's angle of view.
There are variations in shape and movement, but Necromorphs are always the same essential thing: squishy zombies who look like burn victims. Here's a fat one, here's one on all fours, here's a baby one. They all play on the instinctual fear of anatomy and the strangely colored viscera swishing around under everyone's skin -- the fear that our physical nature belies something disgusting and monstrous. It's a fine fear to prey on, but it's the only one that's conjured by the Necromorphs. They have tactical nuance but they are thematically monotonous.


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Everything I know about buying and selling clothes on consignment I owe to my friend Kathleen, a remarkably well-dressed woman. She shops in consignment stores located in upscale areas. And, boy, can she dress. She's a consignment seller, too. I've known Kathleen to buy an outfit from one of her favorite consignment stores for a special occasion, then turn around and sell it back into consignment the next day. See what I mean? She's very clever.
The consignment process is simple. If you are a seller, the store sets its criteria for accepting merchandise, and sets the price — usually 50 percent of the new retail price. Expect a consignment shop to have very high standards for what they will accept: Must be a current style, must be brought in clean and must have no visible wear, holes or stains.
Now your items will be put on the sales floor and displayed for 30 to 60 days. Once sold you will receive 30 to 50 percent of the purchase price depending on that store's policy.
Recently I have fallen in love with an online consignment store, ThredUp, that specializes in children's clothing. I recently stopped by with my 3-year old grandson, Eli, in mind.
I was pretty much blown away, as I searched through size 4T. I'm talking designer brands in the latest styles with everything priced more like a sale at Target, not full retail at Nordstrom. An adorable Mickey Mouse jacket ($6.99) and bright yellow Izod sweater ($9.99) caught my eye.
The pictures and descriptions were so clear and thorough, I had no doubt about the colors, quality and condition. I grabbed them up fast because I knew they would be perfect. My first order came to $16.99 total, as I was eligible for free shipping on top of these rock-bottom prices. The items arrived in just three days, beautifully wrapped and just in time for "Yellow Day" at preschool. And that jacket — what a find! It is 100 percent cotton, with a very soft, lightly quilted lining. I could not be happier.
ThredUp customers can also sell items on consignment to earn store credit to buy more clothes or for cash via PayPal. ThredUp sent me a big bag with my order, inviting me to fill it up with items that meet its high standards and return it following the printed instructions. It doesn't get much easier than that.
You know that I never recommend products and services that I do not use myself and believe in. You can add ThredUp to our EC list of reliable resources.
The folks at ThredUp have kindly offered EC readers a $10 off coupon, which you can get at EverydayCheapskate.com/ThredUp. (This coupon cannot be combined with other offers and does not apply to shipping.) What a lovely gesture, ThredUp. Thanks!
As soon as I put a period on this sentence, I'm calling Kathleen to tell her that ThredUp just opened its new women's shop.
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EDITOR'S NOTE: In the first part of this series, which appeared in Sunday's Ardmoreite, community members contended that "the whole community is in an uproar" over what has transpired at Dickson Schools since the start of the school year, alleged criminal actions by a former teacher and actions by the superintendent.
Even as the Carter County Sheriff's Department launched its investigation into allegations against former Dickson teacher Stephanie Ringwald, community members and parents have become frustrated.
That frustration erupted into public condemnation of Ringwald and her mother, Dickson superintendent Sherry Howe, during meetings Thursday night and Friday night at the Dickson Town Hall.
Howe refutes allegations which have been leveled against her, and deferred all questions to her attorney, Richard O'Carroll, who is based in Tulsa. O'Carroll was interviewed by telephone, and followed up with a press release. In the press release, O'Carroll said:
"Sherry Howe has been an efficient, effective, hard-working, unblemished and correct superintendent for Dickson Schools for 18 years. Unfortunately, Ms. Howe's daughter, who was a schoolteacher, was implicated in perhaps contributing to the delinquency of minor students. Ms. Howe demanded and obtained her daughter's resignation. That matter is now an issue for law enforcement and the courts. No one is suggesting Ms. Howe showed any favoritism to her daughter; to the contrary, Ms. Howe was harder on her.
"Ms. Howe had just recently been awarded a three-year contract. Although she had done nothing wrong in the slightest, last week, Ms. Howe attempted to clear the air over her daughter and either get a vote of confidence from the board, acknowledging she had done nothing wrong, or else Ms. Howe wanted to negotiate a settlement package consistent with her new contract. This was proposed on the agenda, and then withdrawn. There has been no agenda on this issue since. At present, and likely for the long-term, Ms. Howe will continue in her job in her usual fashion, secure in the knowledge that for every disgruntled naysayer found by television producers, there are 10 grateful parents for the work she did to help their children to succeed."
In an earlier interview with The Ardmoreite, Howe said she was unaware of the rumors regarding her daughter's actions, and indicated her daughter resigned because of an incident where Ringwald encouraged a high school student to bully other students. The incident took place on the first day of school, prior to the beginning of the criminal investigation.
The agenda item for the executive session on Sept. 18 referred to in O'Carroll's release stated the purpose was solely to consider "Proposed severance package from Superintendent Sherry Howe." No mention of discussion of a criminal investigation for a former employee was made.
Following the interview with Howe on Aug. 30 and the subsequent story published on Sept. 1 about the criminal investigation, Howe sent a text message to Ardmoreite reporter Michael Pineda with the request, "Michael, please let people know that I will do what is right?"
O'Carroll was asked, "What does Howe consider as the right thing to do?"
His reply: "Sherry is completely intent on continuing her duties, not withstanding a vocal minority that is found in every school district. She is much beloved and well respected and never had a bad review. That is the position that she is taking. She is capable of continuing her duties and she tried to explain her position. She has done nothing wrong. To the contrary, she tried to clear the air and has been unable to get it done. All this behind-the-scenes grumbling has created a potentially untenable position."
O'Carroll's statement that Howe intends to stay in her present position sends something of a mixed message following the canceled meeting on Sept. 18. In an interview with The Ardmoreite, Howe asked that a big deal not be made of the canceled meeting, and promised a big story in the upcoming week, which she also promised to KTEN.
Nothing materialized other than the community gathering to discuss the issue. An effort to reach school board president Kent Donica was unsuccessful.
O'Carroll did offer his intentions, should the school board choose to take action against Howe.
"If they come after her because of her daughter, I am going to own them, and you can quote me on that," he said.


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The Hamptons party scene will sparkle night and day for the July Fourth holiday weekend. Tonight, East Hampton hot spot Georgica, which has never before opened on July 3, will host the first annual Voss Foundation Benefit with Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Ariel Meredith. Farther east, celebrity photographer Ben Watts will host his annual Shark Attack Sounds party on Friday at the Montauk Yacht Club. He'll serve his newly launched WattsUp Rosé during DJ sets by Chelsea Leyland, Zen Freeman and Carl Kennedy. Expected guests include tall and gorgeous Alessandra Ambrosio and Dree Hemingway, plus Ben's movie star sister, Naomi Watts. On Saturday another Montauk hot spot, Surf Lodge, will host CoverGirl's Easy Breezy Summer Block Party with DJ Kiss and Samantha Ronson playing. If you're stuck in the city watching fireworks over the Hudson River, nightlife doyenne Susanne Bartsch and Brandon Voss will host a July Fourth special installment of the weekly Catwalk party at Marquee, renamed "Indepen/dance," with "living art installations" and costumed dancers.
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Retail Shows Update: Good News Continues
January 12, 2011 by RVBusiness · Comments Off on Retail Shows Update: Good News Continues
Encouraging comments about the season's first retail RV shows continue to filter back from the show sites.
Anthony Tedesco, show manager for the just completed 22nd Annual North Carolina RV & Camping Show held in the Greensboro Coliseum and sponsored by Affinity Events, said attendance totaled about 12,000 and topped the 2010 show. Initial reports from the 14 participating dealerships are very positive.
"We had strong reports from multiple dealers having significant sales," Tedesco said. "One dealer doing the show had his best show in 22 years."
"Another thing to note from the dealers. The feedback they got from talking to the attendees was a lot more positive than last year, which could be a sign things are improving with the economy. They seemed to think last year attitudes were down in the dumps. There was more upbeat vibes from the attendees this year."
Despite the frigid temperatures and multiple threats of snow, the show was a great success with the largest number of exhibitors in the history of the show, he said.
Robbie Booth from Americamp RV Sales agreed, "The strong attendee traffic continued on from last year, resulting in a positive future outlook in RV sales."
The show was sponsored by Affinity Events, a division of Affinity Group Inc. (AGI), parent company of RVBUSINESS.com.
Here are comments on the Ohio RV Supershow, held Jan. 6-9 at the I-X Center in Cleveland, from Sid Johnson, director of marketing at Jayco Inc.
"There was very, very heavy traffic, extraordinarily heavy traffic. Sales generated didn't match the traffic but were good, better than last year's show."
Interest was across the board, from entry-level towables and other towables and up. "There was a lot of interest with motorhomes and high-end towables. It seems like there were a lot of current RV owners who are ready to trade in after being out of the market during the recession."
Any surprises? "Class C motorhomes did better than I thought they would do."
Winnebago Industries Inc. has been in seven retail shows already this year and reported increased sales at five of them compared to last year, reported Roger Martin, vice president of sales and marketing. "We saw increased retail sales at five of seven shows this past weekend (vs. last year)."
Attendance was up at three of seven shows (plus-20% in one case and plus-35% in another). Attendance was consistent with 2010 at another three of seven shows.
Of particular interest trafficwise and saleswise were new floorplans for 2011 especially the Winnebago Vista and Itasca Sunstar 35F and the Winnebago Tour and Itasca Ellipse 42QD, he said. Both floorplans are unique to Winnebago Industries.
"Overall, we are sensing dealers being a little more conservative with their show marketing dollar resulting in their taking fewer units and reducing display sizes. In some cases dealers are electing not to go to regional shows that haven't produced cost-efficient results," he said.
The Houston International Boat, Sport & Travel Show got underway Jan. 7 at the Reliant Center in Houston. RVs are a small part of that show, featuring towables from six dealerships in the greater Houston area, but "traffic is good, steady and busy on the first weekend; a lot of people are shopping," said Desi Cryer, sales manager at Topper's RV Center, a Route 66 dealership in Houston.
The show continues through Jan. 16.
As reported earlier by RBUSINESS.com, the 14th Annual Camping World RV Supershow, held Jan. 6-9 at the state fairgrounds in Syracuse, N.Y., was the best in years, the sponsor said.
"The show was great, traffic was fantastic," Kevin Bostrom, regional vice president of Camping World, told RVBUSINESS.com. The show featured some 350 units from Camping World stores in Syracuse, New Jersey and New Hampshire.
Snowy weather held down traffic on Friday "but Thursday, Saturday and Sunday surely made up for it," he said.
Sales more than exceeded the 2010 show, and that show was a good one, he noted.
The Syracuse show has always been a good one for towable sales, he said, "but we sold a great selection of new motorhomes as well, from 21-foot Class C's to 42-footers with tag axles."
A host of shows get underway this week in Tampa, Fla., Pittsburgh, Denver, Chicago, Kansas City, Mo., St. Paul, Minn., Grand Rapids, Mich., St. Louis and Indianapolis.
Camping World and Affinity Events are affiliated with Affinity Group Inc. (AGI), parent company of RVBUSINESS.com.


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Carolyn Southard said she is able to walk again, thanks to the help of the Onslow Caregivers Inc.
Carolyn Southard said she is able to walk again, thanks to the help of the Onslow Caregivers Inc.
In June, Southard had her leg amputated due to diabetes and a lack of blood flow. Recovery became a challenge � the medications needed were expensive and the drive to Morehead City five days a week for eight weeks to see a wound specialist seemed unmanageable.
�There is no way possible I would be able to afford the gas,� Southard, who lives in Maysville, said of the drive.
Southard is a patient with Onslow County Home Health and Hospice which benefits from the work of Onslow Caregivers Inc. The charity works to defray the costs of home health care and hospice patients and works closely with the Onslow County Home Health and Hospice group.
Onslow Caregivers stepped in and provided Southard with gas cards so she could make the drive to her treatments.
�I�ve needed tremendous help, and they�ve been right there each time,� she said. �Anything the community can do to help them would be amazing, because they help people.�
Onslow Caregivers main fundraising event is the Festival of Trees, which is currently its 11th year of providing more than 100 decorated trees � along with a host of other activities � to festival goers.
The event raises funds for home health care and hospice patients, with a focus on patients with the Onslow County Home Health and Hospice, a county entity. The funds help provide patients with medicines, transportation, food, utility bills, necessities and �whatever the nurses who take care of them say they need,� said Jean Cole, co-chairman for the Onslow Caregivers Inc. Cole said they also hope to raise enough funds for a hospice house in the county.
Festival of Trees relies mainly on grassroots donations, according to Cole, collecting funds from the community. Volunteers help put the festival on each year.
Money is primarily earned through $200 sponsorships of live Christmas trees for the festival. Whoever sponsors chooses who decorates their tree, which Cole said makes the whole experience personal. The trees can then go into a silent auction bare or with their decorations. The proceeds from the trees sold in the auction benefit the Onslow Caregivers. The deadline for sponsorships is Nov. 1.
Festival goers can also enjoy a sweet shoppe, a gingerbread house with holiday gifts, a military display honoring local fallen warriors, time with Santa, door prizes, and non-stop entertainment directed by TV & Stage Productions, and displays from local organizations.
Cole said the event brings joy to festival-goers while it raises money for an excellent cause. �It�s old-fashioned. It�s sweet. It�s family. It�s community,� said Cole.
New this year is the addition of the Wee Little Trees � a project which the Council for the Arts Jacksonville-Onslow is spearheading with the Onslow Caregivers.
Cole came up with the idea to add a contest for the public to participate in. The 24 by 24 inch trees will be auctioned off in the silent auction to benefit Onslow Caregivers Inc. and the Council for the Arts.
Council Director Connie Wenners said the trees can be made of any material. So far, she�s seen trees made of game board pieces, tinker toys and steel.
�There�s no limit to your imagination for these trees,� she said.
Anyone is invited to enter a wee tree into the competition, which will be judged by two local artists for awards such as �Best in Show,� a people�s choice award, most unusual, and most �Christmas-y.�
Children 17 and under will compete in one category while adults 18 and up will compete in another.
The tree deemed Best in Show by the judges will earn a special spot on display in the Council of the Arts for a year according to Wenners, while the rest of the trees will go into the silent auction at the festival.
Wenner said the $5 registration fee will go to the Council for operations. Participants should register by Nov. 15. Trees can be dropped off at the American Legion building the day before the festival from 1 to 7 p.m.
Cole said they have only the day before to set up in the American Legion building before the festival begins at 10 a.m. Nov. 23. When the festival ends Monday, they have that evening to clean up. They are always looking for helping hands, Cole said, adding volunteers can call and sign up at 910-324-1650.
Want to participate?
Sponsor a live tree for $200 call Jean Cole at 910-324-1650. The deadline to sponsor a tree is Nov. 1. Enter a Wee Little Tree for $5. Register by calling the Council for the Arts at 910-455-9840, visiting the website at www.jaxarts.com, emailing them at firstname.lastname@example.com, or visiting 826 New Bridge St. in Jacksonville. The deadline to sponsor a wee tree is Nov. 15.
Want to go?
$2 donation is requested
10 a.m. To 8 p.m. Nov. 23
11 a.m. To 6 p.m. Nov. 24
8:30 a.m. To 2 p.m. Monday, Nov. 25 is Children�s Day
Festivities will be held at the American Legion Building in Jacksonville.
Want to volunteer?
Call 910-324-1650.


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Does anyone know if there are law schools that offer more than one part-time option, e.g., students can take fewer credits per semester than is typical in a part-time program? I work full-time in a high-stress job, am the only breadwinner, and have a spouse and kid to feed; so reducing my workload isn't an option. Still, I don't want to be in class four nights a week and completely miss out on my kid's childhood. Would love to hear about experiences with flexible part-time JD programs. Thanks in advance.


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Hickory girls top Indians, lock up outright NWC title
Behind 20 points from Danasia Witherspoon, the Hickory Lady Red Tornadoes locked up the outright girls Northwestern Conference basketball title in 2012 with a win against St. Stephens on Tuesday.
"We're excited about that," said Hickory coach Barbara Helms on her team clinching the conference. "We talked about that before the game. The main thing is you want to have good seeding going in to the playoffs. This certainly does it for us. Everything is one step closer to the next. We like to take it game-by-game at this point, but you have to appreciate what you've earned. We're excited about this. We look forward to finishing strong."
Hickory (22-1, 11-0) maintained a balanced attack offensively, receiving 12 points from Aja Hoyle and 10 points apiece from Yazmin Hannah and Alex Wright.
"In the second half, we made a lot of substitutions," Helms said. "I thought a lot of different people picked up the tempo for us. It was very dispersed basketball and a lot of different people contributed. There was a lot of inside and outside scoring. Pressure defense worked well. I was pleased with us defensively."
Darian Fisher led St. Stephens (3-19, 0-11) with eight points.
Hickory 73, St. Stephens 58
The Red Tornadoes kept pace with Alexander Central atop the Northwestern Conference standings with a road win against the Indians.
Zach Jarrett scored a game-high 21 points for Hickory (20-3, 10-1) and C.J. Wardrick chipped in 12 points.
St. Stephens (13-10, 5-6) got into early foul trouble with seniors Zach Bumgarner and Jordan James picking up three fouls each. James earned three fouls in the first half, while Bumgarner earned his third early in the first half.
Drew Starkey paced the Indians with 18 points and Dillion Spencer added 11 points.
Girls basketball
Bandys 63, East Burke 45
Madi and Jesse Story combined for 39 points to lift the Lady Trojans to their 20th win of the season against the Lady Cavaliers on Tuesday in Catawba.
Madi Story netted a game-high 25 points and Jesse Story pitched in 14 points in the victory for Bandys (21-1, 12-1). Brittany Moss added 11 points, seven rebounds and six steals.
Bailey Gragg paced East Burke (15-8, 8-5) with 21 points. Lauren Arney added 11 points for the Lady Cavaliers.
Newton-Conover 63, South Iredell 31
The Lady Red Devils remain tied atop the CVAC standings with a win against the Lady Vikings in Statesville.
Shynese Whitener scored 22 points for the Lady Red Devils (20-3, 12-1). Fellow senior Kadesha Gibbs recorded a double-double with 11 points and 16 rebounds.
Aaliyah Jackson guided South Iredell (13-9, 7-6) with 15 points.
Other girls scores
Maiden 58, Bunker Hill 36
Boys basketball
Bunker Hill 52, Maiden 33
Colton Chapman scored 17 points to lift the Bears to the Catawba Valley 2A road win in Maiden on Tuesday.
Jordan McGinnis and Nathan Sherrill added seven points in the victory for Bunker Hill (5-17, 5-8), who broke a tie for fifth place in the conference with the Blue Devils.
Jalen Gibbs scored 13 points for Maiden (9-12, 5-8), while Jason Gantt added 10 points.
Other boys scores
Newton-Conover 52, South Iredell 31
East Burke 83, Bandys 49


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NBA Finals Preview: Miami Heat vs. San Antonio Spurs
Thursday night the San Antonio Spurs will collide with the Miami Heat for Game One in the NBA Finals. The Spurs were the dominant NBA team of the past and Heat are the dominant NBA team of the present. Now, the two teams square off to decide the winner of the 2013 Larry O'Brien Trophy.
For the Spurs, Tim Duncan is the face of their franchise. Duncan's first NBA finals appearance was in 1999, which is 13 years ago. Now, the Big Fundamental is going for a fifth ring, and trying to beat LeBron James for a second time in the NBA Finals. (Duncan's Spurs' beat James' Cavaliers in the 2007 Finals.) However, this time, it's not all Duncan's team, but mostly Tony Parker's team. Parker is averaging 23.0 points, 7.2 assists, 3.9 rebounds, and 1.2 steals while shooting 37.5% from long range, and 47.5% from the field in the 2013 postseason.
The Spurs "Big Three" have been led by Parker. Duncan has averaged 17.8 points, 9.2 rebounds, and 1.7 blocks while shooting 46.1% from the field. Duncan's biggest part of his game has been his ability to knock jumpers, along with his knack to take it inside and battle in the post. Manu Ginobili, the other member of the Spurs "Big Three," has averaged 11.5 points, 4.5 rebounds, 5.4 assists, and 1.4 steals while shooting an astounding 71.2% from long range, and 38.3% from the field.
Outside of the Spurs "Big Three," Kawhi Leonard has been the silent assassin for the Spurs, and will be key to helping shut down James. He can score, but will play great defense and rebound. He's averaged 13.0 points, 8.0 assists, 1.6 steals, and 1.7 blocks.
For James, the NBA MVP is trying to win his second title with the Heat. James has had to learn to be both the facilitator and the playmaker. James is averaging 26.2 points, 7.3 rebounds, 6.4 assists, 1.6 steals, and shooting 38.7% from long range and 51.4% from the field. James has had do this with subpar performances from the Heat's "Big Three," as Dwyane Wade has battled injuries (knee) and Chris Bosh has played poorly (most notably 3-for-13 in Game 7). Wade is averaging just 14.1 points, 4.9 rebounds, 4.9 assists, and 1.6 steals while shooting 25% from long range and 44.7% from the field in. Bosh, meanwhile, has averaged 12. 3 points, 6.6 rebounds, 1.2 assists while shooting 48.4% from long range, and 45.7% from the field.
For Miami, with the struggles Wade and Bosh have dealt with, James has had to step up, along with key role players. Most notably, Chris Andersen, Udonis Haslem, and Mike Miller. Andersen missed Game 6 due to suspension, but has shot lights out, (77.8% over last 5 games) and played solid defense. Haslem has provided quality minutes (about 20.2 over last five games), and played well, most notably in Game 3 when he had 17 points, (8-for-9 from the field). Miller has came on the last two games, playing 17, and 12 minutes, and has knocked down timely three pointers that have sparked momentum for the Heat.
In what should be a great series, starting off in Miami for Game One, both teams are led by great players, but great coaches, as Gregg Popovich and Erik Spoelstra go head to head on the sidelines.
The NBA Finals start at 8 p.m. CDT on ABC on Thursday night.


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Syncope (medical symptom): Syncope means loss of consciousness such as fainting. The term "dizziness" is often used for milder feelings of lightheadedness that often precede a fainting episode. The vague word "dizziness" needs to be distinguished from symptoms such as balance difficulty, vertigo, fainting, or general weakness. True dizziness is a lightheadedness or a sensation that you are about to faint. Any faintness or dizziness symptom needs prompt professional medical advice.
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Style # 203057
Disco babe! This bebe cocktail dress features glossy ombre-style sequin embellishments and thick heavy-stretch fabric that holds you in. Try it with a pair silver heels and top it off with a moto jacket to achieve a quick after-dark look.
- 86% rayon, 14% spandex.
- Center back to hem: 21" (53 cm).
- Back zipper.
- Dry clean.
- Imported.
- Model is 5'9" and is wearing a US size S.
Ombre Sequin Bandage Dress is rated out of 5 by 10.
Rated 2 out of 5 by Nira from Not for curvy girls I got this dress online. Because of the reviews I went one size up so I got S instead of my usual XS in BeBe dresses. When I got it in mail I was not happy. The dress does not stretch at all just like other viewers mentioned. It is really tight in hips (which did work for me btw) but really loose in a waist area. I don't think that XS would fit me either because I would simply not be able to pull it on on my hips.I am curvy (36-26-36) so the dress looks really unflattering on me. I think it would work for girls with more sporty type of body. I would not advise to buy this dress before trying it on. I will try to take it to be altered but I am not sure if it is possible to get it fixed. This is my first purchase from BeBe I am not happy about but I got this dress on sale so I can live with that.
Date published: 2013-02-12
Rated 3 out of 5 by drwilson from Beautiful dress in person - odd fit Beautiful dress - but risky buying online, I usually wear a size small in bebe dresses - but as luck would have they were sold out when it was 50% off so I ordered a medium & so glad I did - dress is not a bandage dress because it has no spandex hips really tight, but once I got in on loved it!!!
Date published: 2013-02-06
Rated 5 out of 5 by angelbabyboo67 from right fit i would have to disagree with other reviews that stated its a small fit as i found it a regular fit , like all the other bebe dresses. i ordered this dress in xs and its too big in the waist for me but since it was final sale im keeping it. ill just have to deal with looking larger in the waist while wearing it. of course if normally you try to fit yourself in a size smaller stretchy dress then in this case you will not fit into it properly. look into the fit guide in order to choose the correct size because this dress does go accordingly to it
Date published: 2013-02-02
Rated 5 out of 5 by tangernat from love it ! I bought this dress and it is perfect! it does have a very snug fit which i like. I do work out so it is a little tight on the thighs but it looks good! for me the length is perfect . most of all i LOVE the sparkles
Date published: 2013-01-31
Rated 1 out of 5 by Sunshine7Special from Great idea, horrible execution... I ordered this dress during the additional 50% off special, so it was a steal. Even at a fraction of the price, however, it was not worth it. This is a beautifully made dress, and looks great on the hanger. Unfortunately that is where the fun stops. I am 5'3, @120 lbs, and decently proportioned. After reading reviews, I figured a medium would do well since the dress ran small. Boy was I wrong! The dress was way too tight in the hips, too long in the torso, and too large in the mid section. A small would not have worked since I could barely get the medium up around my hips. It is basically a straight dress with no give in our out. In order to look great in this dress you must have a long torso and be relatively straight up and down. I don't even know anyone with the proportions necessary to make this dress work. To Goodwill it may go!
Date published: 2013-01-31
Rated 5 out of 5 by JiTyc from SEXIE! I am a petite, and ike TIGHT dress so this is perfect for me. I have big hips, comparing to the upper part of my body so the dress in size XS is kinda tight around there. However, it's pretty hard for me to find a dress that fits all my curves.
Date published: 2013-01-30
Rated 5 out of 5 by Jjblue79 from Amazing I just received this in the mail today during the extra 50% off sale and I love it! I read the previous reviews so I ordered a small instead of a extra small and it fit perfect. I am 113 and 5'3" 34D. Hope this helps others. It's a great deal on a beautiful dress. There is no real stretch as others state but it fit me perfect.
Date published: 2013-01-25
Rated 1 out of 5 by kat75 from runs small I had the same problem as other review, always buy medium in bebe dresses and this time dress wouldn't even come up past my hips. It is a no refund dress and since I ordered online, stores don't carry it. New Years is tonight and no luck finding a dress I like as much. This dress is much smaller than usual
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The country of Swaziland is an absolute monarchy on the African continent. Its leader, King Mswati III, faces huge challenges as he fights to save his people from starvation and the worst AIDS crisis in the world. At a startling 31 years, Swaziland has the lowest life expectancy in the world.
These problems have given birth to an underground revolutionary movement intent on bringing democracy to the country.
The Royals' lead a lavish lifestyle, replete with palaces for each of the King's fourteen wives, a fleet of expensive cars, designer wardrobes, and schooling abroad for his 22 children, while the majority of the people live in poverty. A group of young "freedom fighters" attempt to remove the King from power and form a constitutional monarchy.
Their anger results in protest rallies and violent clashes with the police. When the HIV/AIDS prevalence rate is 42.6%, the highest in the world, hope for survival begins to be questioned. At the center of all these worlds is the King's eldest daughter, Princess Sikhanyiso.
When she returns home to attend the annual Reed Dance, where over 75,000 bare-chested virgins dance in front of the King, hoping to become his next wife, the Princess begins to question the role of the monarchy. As her father becomes more oblivious to the dire situation plaguing the country, her concern about a possible revolution becomes heightened.
She is left with some tough decisions; what will become of her country and what will she do about it.


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Court Says Patent Marking Law Is Unconstitutional; Expired Patent Trolls May Be Put Out Of Business
from the patent-marking dept
The law had a liability limit of $500 for false marking. And therein lies a big problem, because that $500 is defined somewhat ambiguously, and it wasn't clear if, say, you made a bunch of ties and marked them with an expired patent, if you were liable for $500 total for the whole bunch... or were you liable for $500 for each individual tie that bore the mark? Not too long ago, a court ruled that it was for each individual item, rather than at the product line level... and that opened the floodgates, as various folks around the country just went in hunt of any product with an expired patent number they could sue for mega bucks. In one example, it was noted that this ruling made the total liability jump from $500 to $10 trillion.
I was somewhat conflicted about all of this. I agree that you shouldn't be able to falsely mark something as being patented, but it also seemed quite clear that this ruling and law were being abused not for any real consumer protection, but just to squeeze money out of manufacturers -- and that seemed problematic.
velox was the first to alert us to a ruling that said such false marking laws are unconstitutional, mainly because they hand over a function of the government (preventing false markings) to private citizens, noting that this violates the constitution in handing over criminal law issues to private actors. I imagine there will be appeals and other rulings on this issue, but from an initial quick read, this ruling seems to make sense. It doesn't make it legal to falsely mark a patent, but recognizes that this is a matter for the government to decide, not some private citizen.


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Wednesday, November 23, 2011
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Hello Friends,
Happy Thanksgiving!
To ALL of you, American and otherwise, I am sincerely grateful for YOU.
To those of you doing Nano and still aiming for your 50k, YOU CAN DO THIS. It's not too late to put up epic word counts and finish.
And for those of you/us who've crossed the finish line, CONGRATS!
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Monday, November 7, 2011
Deep In It...and Winner Announced!
8:21 PM | Posted by Lola Sharp | | Edit Post
Hello Friends,
1) This is going to be a quickie because I'm deep deep DEEP into my Nano-WIP.
2) Sorry this took so long (see #1), but I finally have a winner for Hilary Wagner's THE WHITE ASSASSIN (Book II of The NIGHTSHADE CHRONICLES)...
and the winner is... *drumroll*...
Claire Hennessy !!!
CONGRATS Claire!
(Claire, please email me your mailing address and I will send it out right away.)
3) The lovely Karen Hooper's debut book, Tangled Tides, is coming out later THIS MONTH! You can pre-order it (here). (I may have already ordered one :)
4) Because I think it's funny:
5) Thanks for putting up with my random posts posted randomly.
I hope this finds you healthy and happy.
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