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Whether you have a herd of thousands, a cat, a dog or simply want to feed the birds in your back yard Cold Spring Co-op can provide expert knowledge, proper feed and supplies for your needs.
Cold Spring Co-op manufacture and custom blend a complete line of: Livestock, Poultry, Horse, Bird and Specialty Feeds.
We also carry pet food by Exclusive, Purina, Nutri Source, Diamond and Red Flannel.
Our specialist is on call to visit with you and your animal(s) at home!
Equine vitamin and mineral supplements, feed, animal bedding (wood shavings) premium alfalfa, timothy grass cubes and more.
It doesn't matter if you have a thousand head of cattle or a cat and a dog — either way Cold Spring Co-op can provide expert knowledge, proper feed and supplies for your animals.
The co-op, which started as a creamery back in November 1917, has evolved to custom blend fertilizer as well as custom mixes of livestock feeds, and specialty feeds. Last year, this co-op sold nearly $5 million in feed and $7.5 million in total agronomy sales (fertilizer chemicals and seed together)."We're able to serve the people in our area," manager Ralph Schlangen said. "We can accommodate the small farmers and yet we can supply and serve the big 3,000 plus acre farmers. We have a lot of equipment to accommodate any situation." In addition to providing feed and fertilizer, Cold Spring Co-op offers crop spraying services. Each year, from May to August, the co-op sprays about 45,000 acres of farmland. "We do a lot of custom spraying and custom fertilizing," Schlangen said. "We thrive a lot on service. If somebody wants something we try hard to get it done in a timely manner. We're not the biggest Co-op around but we emphasize service. We're really responsible, knowledgeable and we're price competitive for the size of our Co-op."
A few years ago, the co-op expanded to include a new Country Store on their premises. Schlangen said, "We offer a huge selection of toys, from tractors to trucks to Breyer Horses, Calico Critters, games and puzzles. We also have lawn and garden products, lawn & home décor, as well as wild bird supplies and pet supplies, and much more. It's been going really well. The building was for sale across the street from where we had our little store. It was previously a food market so we put our feed and everything in that building and it's really worked well. Now we have everything in one block area, that really helps us stay competitive. Our employees go from the country store across the street to the feed mill, to the fertilizer plant — all within walking distance."
Following the success of the new Country Store, the Co-op is expanding operations yet again. A new fertilizer plant is currently under construction, with a completion date of March 1. A new plant is greatly needed and will allow the co-op to offer improved and more responsive service."We used to always run out of fertilizer at the old plant, now we'll be two-and-a-half times bigger at this new plant," Schlangen said. "We'll have enough product on hand. We used to need a rain day every three or four days to shut people down so we could refill the plant up — now we'll have most of our product right on hand."
Once the new fertilizer plant is completed, the staff at Cold Spring Co-op will rely on the positive business climate that Schlangen believes has made the co-op a success for 100 years."We just stress service all the time," he said. "If employees hear something down in the country we make sure we follow up on it. If somebody hears that somebody wasn't happy with their feed or their crops, we make sure we get back out there and see what the problem is."
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After the Jonas Brothers abruptly canceled their tour in mid-October—and before the group officially disbanded—reports surfaced that Joe Jonas was suffering from a drug problem. According to the "See No More" singer himself, however, such stories couldn't be further from the truth.
"It's ridiculous!" the 24-year-old musician says, breaking his silence about the accusations for the first time ever. "We're not saying anything for two or three weeks and I'm a drug addict!"
Joe's girlfriend, Blanda Eggenschwiler, was also accused of using illegal substances. "It's obviously not true. I've never touched heroin in my life. Neither has my girlfriend," the pop star insists. "It's hilarious to me, but also frustrating as well. It pissed me off when it's about my girl and even about myself."

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The following training and technical assistance opportunities are a sample of those available through nationally recognized agencies and associations.
Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) Events
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Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) National Training and Technical Assistance Center (NTTAC)
BJA NTTAC serves as a major source of justice-related training and technical assistance information and resources, and offers specialized assistance on current laws and evolving trends affecting the criminal justice field.
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Laboratory Services Division
The FBI Laboratory provides forensic exams, technical support, expert witness testimony, and advanced training to FBI personnel and partners around the globe.
International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program (ICITAP)
ICITAP consists of coordinated, comprehensive training activities and technical assistance that would assist the host government to select and/or develop the management of a forensic laboratory. Emphasis is placed on establishing quality assurance programs to ensure the highest quality work product from every section of the laboratory.
National Forensic Science Technology Center (NFSTC)
NFSTC hosts forensic science trainings at its facility in Florida and also hosts online trainings. Additionally through its Web site, NFSTC offers forensic science training and resources.
National Institute of Justice (NIJ): Forensic Trainings
This section of the NIJ web site provides training courses on forensic DNA evidence to assist forensic scientists, officers and investigators, medical personnel, officers of the court, and victim advocates.
National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center (NLECTC)
NLECTC is a component of the National Institute of Justice's (NIJ) Office of Science and Technology. NLECTC offers training and technical assistance services to law enforcement agencies and correctional institutions on a number of different topics.
Regional Computer Forensics Program (RCFL)
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Through funding from the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC), SANE-SART provides information and technical assistance to individuals and institutions interested in developing new SANE-SART programs or improving existing ones.
The NCJRS Justice Events calendar offers a comprehensive list of conferences, workshops, seminars, and other events.
Links from the NCJRS Web site to non-Federal sites do not constitute an endorsement by NCJRS or its sponsors. NCJRS is not responsible for the content or privacy policy of any off-site pages that are referenced, nor does NCJRS guarantee the accuracy, completeness, timeliness, or correct sequencing of information. NCJRS is also not responsible for the use of, or results obtained from the use of, the information. It is the responsibility of the user to evaluate the content and usefulness of information obtained from non-Federal sites.


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This fine and spooky film comes to The Asylum courtesy of the great Eric Red, writer of the classic films Near Dark, Blue Steel and The Hitcher, as well as writer/director of Cohen and Tate, Body Parts and Bad Moon. He pulls double-duty on this film as well, a tale of ghostly vengeance.
A woman (Famke Janssen) who was trapped in an abusive marriage to a bully-cop (Michael Pare) managed to free herself by killing her husband. After a few years in jail, she is released to serve out the last year of her sentence under house arrest at her former home (hence an ankle-monitor that requires her to stay within the titular distance of the receiver). Problem is, the house is now haunted by the spirit of her deceased husband. And if she thought he was pissed before...
What follows is an atmospheric, intimate, intense and satisfying supernatural thriller. The story has a very classic feel - its scares relying more on suspense and pacing than shock and gore - while never feeling rehashed or stale, not for one second of one frame. It's a venerable cautionary tale refreshed for the modern era. And this is thanks to a taut script, expressive direction and stand-up performances across the board.
Famke Janssen (x-Men, Goldeneye) has always been, for my money, a pretty versatile actress, and here, as "Marnie" (a Hitchcock nod, I hope), she does nothing to dissuade this assumption; she runs an emotional gamut from cold apathy to fragile remorse, unbridled terror to fierce strength. Her performance gives this story the firm backbone it needs.
Bobby Canavale ("Third Watch," "Will & Grace," The Station Agent) plays the partner of Marnie's murdered husband, and also - spitefully on the department's part, I thought - the detective assigned to making sure she stays put. He's not a big fan of hers, as you would expect, and emotes a potent combination of condescension and indifference that as the film proceeds, evolves into a stern resolve masking a gentle, protective interior.
Michael Pare as the ghost of Marnie's husband is a purely physical performance. Aside from photographs, Pare "in person" is unrecognizable, and has no lines. But that does not detract in the slightest from what turns out to be a viscerally violent and powerful performance. When you're dealing with ghosts, pathos isn't always necessary; sometimes you can just have a scary, angry and dead son of a bitch intent on killing you - that's just how the paranormal cookie crumbles sometimes. Pare plays it simple and terrifying, and it rings true as pitch-perfect.
Also turning in a notable performance as the grocery-delivery-boy-turned-love-interest-by-default Ed Westwick ("Gossip Girl," Son of Rambow, S. Darko), who I'm always surprised to remember is British.
Anyway, overall, I was pretty impressed with this one. In particular, the lighting was spot-on at creating the frightening ambiance the film required, and the visual effect - especially in regards to the ghost - I thought were quite effective. I'll admit to being a little wary upon learning Pare would be playing a ghost, but believe me, the visual effects team pulls it off with hella creepy aplomb. In addition to the digital stuff, the physical effects, the poltergeist-y stuff were also startling and convincing. Mr. Red set a good number of his scares during the daytime, which not only served as a nice change of pace from your typical horror films, but also allowed for some truly beautiful and effectively unsettling contrasts of light and shadow.
As for the script, it's a tough gig using only one setting, but Red makes the most of the space he's given himself, picking a labyrinthine brownstone inside the larger, metropolitan maze, and creating an atmosphere that is claustrophobic without being confining, limited in space but not in the potential of that space. And god bless him, as I took it, at least, there was a subtle tinge or two of Poe that just sweetened the pot.
So then my assessment, if you're interested, is that 100 Feet is a smart, action-packed horror-thriller that's well-told, well-paced, well-performed and all-around just well-executed. Another fine film from a fine writer/director. Highly recommended.


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It's long past midnight in Flatbush, Brooklyn, and firefighter Mark Merrell of Engine 255 is explaining to me why medals aren't important and being called a hero doesn't matter all that much.
"What you try to achieve is for somebody to say, 'you're a good fireman.' That's probably the biggest compliment you can get," he says. "And that don't come easy."
The firehouse kitchen erupts in laughter. Mark smiles, because it's a tough crowd and he knows I know that. But I'm spending twenty-four hours with the firefighters of Engine Company 255 and Ladder Company 157 -- one of the busiest firehouses in New York - and I'm ready for pretty much anything.


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Allergy Research Group introduced artemisinin to the U.S. market more than a decade ago. Allergy Research Group does independent potency assays on every batch (using HPLC), and independent tests verify its usefulness. Allergy Research Group artemisinin is minimum 98.5% pure, and does not contain thujone.
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Other Ingredients: Hydroxypropyl methylcellulose, microcrystalline cellulose, L-leucine.
Recommended Use:
Adults: As a dietary supplement, 1 or 2 capsules one or two times daily with meals, or as directed by a healthcare practitioner. Artemisinin is best taken as part of a program that includes appropriate liver support nutrients. Sensitive individuals may want to take with food.
Not indicated for pregnant or nursing women. Long term administration (greater than 1 month) should be monitored by a healthcare practitioner and include liver enzymes and hemoglobin testing. Combining with antioxidants or iron may theoretically decrease effectiveness. Detoxification reactions may be experienced by some individuals. In rare cases may cause idiosyncratic liver dysfunction. Keep out of the reach of children.


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Relatively simply, by having an icon (favicon or other) that loads the webpage on the desktop. or having a local carer who navigates to the page. We have users that do both. This right clicking problem can be physical, drug induced, related to learning difficulty, or other.... In an ideal world this introduction to the web could be semi-automated, memorise where you got to blah blah but we are not there yet. This might in any case interfere with the spontaneity that motivates. Jonathan Jon wrote > How does the user get to the website in the first place?Received on Wednesday, 4 June 2003 18:44:47 UTC
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text: Mike and I are so happy to announce that there will be another Hogan joining our travels come April 2017! We are beyond thrilled! Baby Hogan is due April 22nd, 2017, which means they'll be ready for their presidential race in 2052. I'm sure they'll be a better presidential candidate than either of our options right now :)


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The future is still what it used to be. Vangelis' music for Ridley Scott's portentous 1982 sci-fi thriller Blade Runner is often held up as an example of an original score that was in perfect harmony with the director's vision. Tonight it's taken apart and reassembled - well, pretty much the same as before.
As part of Massive Attack's predictably eclectic Meltdown strand at the Royal Festival Hall, this performance of the soundtrack by the 45-piece Heritage Orchestra, who have previously reinterpeted electronica by the likes of Amon Tobin, is 'mixed live' by the humourless Bristolians themselves. The Greek composer's swirling analogue synthesisers were a good fit for the wayward technology of the film's rainy future metropolis, so some may doubt whether it can work in classical concert form.
Right from 'Main Titles' it becomes apparent that this is not a 'remix', nor an orchestral piece inspired by Blade Runner, but a very faithful transcription of every detail from its pure electronic source to strings, brass and percussion. Thick synth pads become live strings; crystalline sweeps become chimes and xylophones. The tiniest incidental on-screen sound effect is replicated meticulously. Even the tempo is the same: the whole thing lasts only an hour, about as long as it takes to listen to the soundtrack CD. The question starts to arise: why bother?
Such concerns are forgotten during 'One More Kiss', the soundtrack's disarmingly simple 1930s dance band song. The crooning duties are filled by Guy Garvey from Elbow, who played the festival the previous night and who gives the number a sighing tenderness that outstrips the original. While Omar Ebrahim's attempt to recreate Demis Roussos's Arabic scat stylings on 'Tales of the Future' (not an easy feat) achieves mixed results, the more hummable 'End Titles' is brought to life by euphoric strings, resulting in something that sounds more like David Arnold doing a version of the Casualty theme tune.
The heroes of the performance are surely the percussionists, scurrying nimbly between glockenspiels, bells and gongs to recreate every last detail of the bearded one's shimmering soundscapes. It's less easy to see what Massive Attack have brought to the party. Perched at the mixing desk in the centre of the auditorium and occasionally chatting to well-wishers, Robert Del Naja's main contribution seems to be to cause the violins to suddenly get louder at one point, and to make a buzzing noise seem to move from left to right like a rogue wasp.
Blade Runner's iconic status is partly the result of its blending of beaten-up analogue noir with sleek, humming technology. Watching its soundtrack performed live is to witness a remarkable feat of adaptation, without really ever understanding the purpose. The only outcome, which is testament to the talent of the young Heritage Orchestra members and conductor Jules Buckley, is to demonstrate that Vangelis' score is pretty damn timeless.
Massive Attack's Meltdown continues at Southbank Centre from now until 24 June 2008 with performances still to come from George Clinton, Tuung and Ebony Bones and more. Please refer to the Southbank Centre Meltdown site for more details.
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In 1980 the Greek government decreed that the polytonic alphabet would be replaced by the simplified monotonic system.
Prior to that, there had been a popular/commercial movement towards this, featuring various forms of the simplified tonos accent -- dots, vertical dashes, and triangles.
In 1982 the Greek government (perhaps in a move to combat the tackyness of many of these accents nouveaux) decreed that the tonos would be angled, like an acute accent. This has subsequently become the Unicode standard.
The tonos in Lucida Grande (Apple OS font) is a small vertical dash, quite different from the acute accent.
The tonos in various Adobe Pro fonts, such as Minion and Myriad, is slightly angled a few degrees off vertical, again quite distinct from the acute.
Is this like the Euro symbol situation, where a typographic standard has been set, but found wanting and freely interpreted in practice?


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Kudos once again to Italian luxury purveyors of perfume: XerJoff, whom never seem to disappoint!
This time it is the captivating spicy chypre Modoc from their XJ Shooting Stars collection that has won me over. Modoc is an exquisitely crafted marriage between gorgeous soft woods, peppery carnation, earthy vetiver and real Florentine iris butter... the result being a deliciously velvety eau de parfum with warm, spicy elements. As far as traditional chypres go, Modoc seems really rather removed, however it still manages to embody a sense of distinction and timeless refinement that one comes to expect only of XerJoff.
Modoc just gets better and better as it evaporates on the skin. This edp lasts a very generous 10-12 hours and can be bought at select retail outlets in the UK, Italy, France and Russia.
For more information on XerJoff's high-end perfume creations, visit www.xerjoff.com.


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Hi there & happy March!
I have been working on a store makeover and just finally completed it. I hope you like the new look & new features that are available. We're having a storewide sale on all non sale items through the end of the month. Use coupon code:
march10 to save on your order!
Customer Loyalty Rewards Point Program: Our Customer Loyalty Rewards Program offers you 5% back every time you shop at GTGT! You get 1 point for every dollar spent, and can earn 5 Reward Points for leaving a product review.
Facebook Shopping Page: You can now find our products on our Facebook fan page! Just click on the Shop GTGT link to see a selection of our products.
Product Reviews: You can now find a product review section on every product page. This gives you a chance to write a review about a product that you love ( and earn 5 reward points ), plus you can read reviews of products that you haven't tried yet, but are interested in.
FREE Shipping for Minnesota Residents: To encourage buying locally, we're now offering free shipping to our Minnesota residents.
We've also added gift certificates, related product suggestions on the product pages, more product photos & photo zoom, and the Environmental Working Group (EWG) Skin Deep Cosmetic Database ratings on all of our skin care products that are listed in their database.
Enjoy the new look and features. Take care and happy shopping!
Andi Winterfield – Owner
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text: French thriller written and directed by Jérôme Salle. Notorious international money launderer Anthony Zimmer is a wanted man. Hunted by police forces all over the world, he now has the Russian mafia on his tail too. Unfortunately for the cops, Zimmer has had so much plastic surgery in order to evade capture, that no-one knows what he now looks or even sounds like. Knowing that Zimmer will try to get in touch with his mistress, Chiara (Sophie Marceau), police official Akerman (Sami Frey) has her followed to try and flush him out into the open. On the train to Nice, and with the police in hot pursuit, Chiara lures fellow passenger Francois Taillandier (Yvan Attal) with the promise of a shared bed. Waking to find his companion gone, and with Russian hitmen and the police on his trail, Francois's nightmare is only just beginning.


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Where to Begin When You De-Clutter the Bathroom
Probably a good starting point to de-clutter your bathroom is your medicine cabinet…
There was a black hole in my in-law's bathroom.
No! Not that one! This one was called the medicine cabinet. I married into a family of pharmacists who had also lived through the Great Depression. That is a lethal combination! They believed that it was a sin to throw away anything that might be usable by someone, anyone, somewhere, anywhere. "You never know when you might need that!"
This rule applied to every item that entered their territory. Never mind that they probably wouldn't be able to find "it" when they had a use for "it."
The medicine cabinet was only a slightly different story. While they had accumulated an impressive collection of pharmaceuticals, unlike the rest of the house, the prescriptions were stored with the precision of a commercial pharmacy. They could put their fingers on almost any drug within seconds.
The problem with holding on to pharmaceuticals…
But two pharmaceutical concepts had escaped their notice.
- The first concept was that of keeping those pills out reach of children. The candy-like pills were beautifully displayed in long orderly rows in the cupboards of each bathroom. My polite suggestions were dismissed, "Just tell the children that they aren't to touch those things." Successive generations of children and grandchildren were charged with the task of keeping their children away from the bathroom cupboards at all times.
- The second escaped concept was the importance of expiration dates. "Oh, those dates are too conservative!" Now, that's probably true to a degree. But, I had to wonder, were the dates too conservative by 20 years?!
The accumulation of prescriptions and over-the-counter medicines is not unique to my in-laws, or even to retired pharmacists. It's just that their collection was bigger, better, and more bountiful than any other such collection I had ever seen! We really wanted to dispose of this wealth of medicine.
When we finally got the opportunity to clean out those cupboards we were faced with a dilemma…
How to safely dispose of prescription drugs?
Several phone calls later, we had learned of the following three great options for disposal:
- Most pharmacies have a drop off box for old prescriptions. Ask yours! (Be sure to ask about any exclusions, such as controlled substances).
- Many animal shelters will happily accept donations of meds (even expired ones) and first aid supplies. Call around and ask those near you.
- As a last resort, you can remove the pills from their identifying container, mix them with an "icky" material (like shampoo or compost), seal the resulting goo into two layers of Ziploc bags and then discard them with your regular household trash.
Whatever you do: please DO NOT FLUSH DOWN THE TOILET! While this practice used to be recommended, researchers realized that it threatens the health of local wildlife and the potability of the local water supply.
Don't let your medicine cabinets turn into a black-hole. Take the time now to dispose of outdated and unnecessary prescription medicines and make your medicine cabinet a safer and less cluttered place!
– Colleen Squier, Moving Forward, Inc.
**originally published 3/7/12


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Re: Manly Jokes -
Some years ago, the Lord came to the conclusion that the little house next to the Pearly Gates was looking a little shabby and He told Peter to get some estimates to fix it up. God thought some of that vinyl siding would be just fine.
Soon thereafter, a young man who was a Mexican, though saved, arrived for his Heavenly reward. Peter welcomed him and found that he had been a vinyl siding installer in life, so he asked him for an estimate. The young man took measurements and told Peter he would do the job for $2500.
Peter asked if the young man would break down (or explain the various costs) the job for him. The young man said the materials would cost $2500 and he would do the job for free, so glad he was to be in Heaven. Peter said that sounded pretty good, but God said to get three estimates.
Within days, an old and experienced contractor appeared at the gates and Peter asked him for an estimate. The old man took extensive and exact measurements, did some calculations and said the job would cost $5,000.
Peter said that was kind of high, but could he break it down for him. The old contractor explained that he would do the job exactly as it should be done, using only the best materials, with a lifetime factory guarantee, and that he would be using only the most expert labor to do the job. Peter thought that sounded reasonable, but he needed to get one more estimate.
A couple of weeks passed and an old siding salesman who had risen high in that business, it was Uncle Sol himself, appeared for his reward. Now, Uncle Sol was a Jew, but a shrewd one. He realized that if he was going to get to Heaven, he had to get right with Jesus and he did. Shout Glory! As an aside- Uncle Sol was killed by doing remodeling jobs, which has killed more Jews than Hitler.
Well, Peter asked Uncle Sol for the last estimate. Sol glanced over at the little house and said it would cost $22,500.
Brother Peter was flabberghasted. "Sol!", he cried, "that is nine times as high as the lowest bid and $17,500 more than the next. How did you come up with that? Break it down for me."
Uncle Sol said, "That's $10,000 for you, $10,000 for me and we'll let the Mexican do it."
They were friends for ever after.
God judgeth the righteous, And God is angry with the wicked every day- Psalm 7:11
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Akufo-Addo right in calling front-line politicians hypocrites - Baako
The Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide newspaper, Abdul-Malik Kweku Baako Jnr has seconded President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo's description of some front-line politicians who had kicked against the 2018 Defence Co-operation Agreement between Ghana and the U.S as hypocrites.
President Akufo-Addo during a national address on the agreement on Thursday condemned what he said was the "unspeakable hypocrisy of the fraternity of some front-line politicians, who make a habit of running with the hares and hunting with the hounds, who secretly wallow in the largesse of the United States of America, whilst, at the same time, promote anti-American sentiments to a populist constituency."
Speaking on Joy FM's news analysis programme, Newsfile on Saturday, Mr Baako said the front-line politicians were "hypocrites of the highest order".
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"The 'fraternity of front-line politicians' that is where the focus is. When you have a fraternity of front-line politicians out there, telling you that this 2018 agreement will create room for the introduction of nuclear bombs, the introduction of biological bombs into this country, the introduction of homosexuality into this country"
"If you have these people, who are experienced, who have been in government, who have signed similar agreements out there pushing that line and telling the world that look here there are secret armed …who are they? Hypocrites of the highest order" he said.
He said the President's response was an "adequate and immediate response" to these 'front-line politicians'.
He further stated that the deal was not in secret, adding that it was sent to Parliament two weeks before it came out.


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Simple Wordcloud wordclouds
A wordcloud can be one of the best tools that allows us to visualize most of the words and terms contained in tweets. Although its main use is for exploratory purposes, they have the advantage to be understandable by most users, and to be visually attractive to the human eyes (if done adequately).
How to create a wordcloud?
Wordclouds are relatively simple to make. Here's the main recipe steps
Download some tweets (via twitteR or XML)
Extract the text from the tweets
Do some text manipulation (for cleaning & formatting)
Create a lexical Corpus and a TermDocumentMatrix (via tm)
Obtain words and their frequencies
Plot the wordcloud
Example 1: tweets via twitteR
Step 1: Load all the required packages
Step 2: Let's get some tweets in english containing the words "machine learning"
mach_tweets = searchTwitter("machine learning", n=500, lang="en")
Step 3: Extract the text from the tweets in a vector
mach_text = sapply(mach_tweets, function(x) x$getText())
Step 4: Construct the lexical Corpus and the Term Document Matrix
We use the function Corpus to create the corpus, and the function VectorSource to indicate that the text is in the character vector mach_text. In order to create the term-document matrix we apply different transformation such as removing numbers, punctuation symbols, lower case, etc.
# create a corpus
mach_corpus = Corpus(VectorSource(mach_text))
# create document term matrix applying some transformations
tdm = TermDocumentMatrix(mach_corpus,
control = list(removePunctuation = TRUE,
stopwords = c("machine", "learning", stopwords("english")),
removeNumbers = TRUE, tolower = TRUE))
Step 5: Obtain words and their frequencies
# define tdm as matrix
m = as.matrix(tdm)
# get word counts in decreasing order
word_freqs = sort(rowSums(m), decreasing=TRUE)
# create a data frame with words and their frequencies
dm = data.frame(word=names(word_freqs), freq=word_freqs)
Step 6: Let's plot the wordcloud
# plot wordcloud
wordcloud(dm$word, dm$freq, random.order=FALSE, colors=brewer.pal(8, "Dark2"))
# save the image in png format
png("MachineLearningCloud.png", width=12, height=8, units="in", res=300)
wordcloud(dm$word, dm$freq, random.order=FALSE, colors=brewer.pal(8, "Dark2"))
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With Samsung on the brink of a big smartwatch reveal, Google confirms that it snapped up smartwatch maker WIMM Labs.
Google, oft rumored to be working on a smartwatch, quietly bought WIMM Labs last year to light a fire under the effort.
A Google spokeswoman confirmed to CNET that Google has acquired smartwatch maker WIMM. The takeover was first reported by GigaOm.
Smartwatch maker WIMM went dark last year, posting a cryptic thank-you message on its Web site citing "an exclusive, confidential relationship" for its technology.
Similar to previous reports of a coming Google smartwatch, the latest says the company has the work on the product — including WIMM's employees — centered in the Android unit, rather than its X Lab. That could mean a Google watch comes to market faster than the wearable Google has been trumpeting all year, Google Glass, which was a product of X Lab.
Though upstart tech companies have already introduced a slew of watches, giants are lumbering into the field too. Samsung is expected to unveil a smartwatch on September 4 called Galaxy Gear, and Apple has been rumored to be coming out with one.
Source : http://www.techrwanda.com/news/3353/google-plunges-deeper-into-smartwatch-wars-with-wimm/
Google plunges deeper into smartwatch wars with WIMM


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Find all dem Backlinks – Ahrefs #1 Link Finding Tool
Ahrefs is the new comer to the link indexing scene and in my opinion, blasting the likes of their competitors out the water. They've come in, offered a great product and people are loving it more and more!
Ahrefs ridiculously powerful indexing spider makes it knock the competition literally out of the water. The easy format and easy exportation makes the entire user experience super easy to handle the large amounts of data on offer.
What is the Competition looking like?
In my opinion, there is only one real competitor of Ahrefs, and that's MajesticSEO – The likes of Open Site Explorer and SEMRush take months and months to update and are only really relevant to sites who have been on the net for 3-4 months+ whereas the 2nd day this blog came out, Ahrefs picked up 80 links I'd built over the past couple days!
Case Studies vs the Competition
Site #1 -
Ahrefs: 3 Backlinks
MajesticSEO: 1 Backlink
OSE: 0 Backlinks
Site #2 -
Ahrefs: 670 Backlinks
MajesticSEO: 371 Backlinks
OSE: 0 Backlinks
Site #3 -
Ahrefs: 8,361
MajesticSEO: 10,796
OSE: 4,479 Backlinks
Site #4 -
Ahrefs: 10,772
MajesticSEO: 8,772
Now, as you can see Ahrefs won pretty much everyone of these – The main thing that I'd take away from this little case study isn't even here though. OSE only allows you to actually see 10,000 links (No matter if you have a million, it'll only display 10,000 MAXIMUM).
MajesticSEO allows you to see a different number of backlinks dependent on your package.
Ahrefs, allows you to see every single backlink you have, regardless off your package.
Using Ahrefs to look at Anchor Text Diversity
As you can see above, it offers how many backlinks you're getting (e.g. 21 / 3% of my backlink profile for "god of seo") – As well as the percentage of your backlinks that have that specific anchor text.
This means, when you look through a backlink profile, you can have a great look at which anchor texts need more backlinks and which you need to thin out a bit! For me, it needs to be the "visit this user's website" which is mainly from a ton of Forum's I am a member off!
Using the Epic Graphs Provided
Ahrefs includes a pretty awesome range of graphs, I've personally used a number of them in my presentations in and out of work. As well as to offer a graphical representation of something that tends to be, well.. Quite boring.
Most CEOs and big business decision makers, honestly.. don't give a flying pig about dofollow and nofollow distribution and the way your have backlinks etc.. But Graphs and Maths! Well, they always like to see you've done this much for their money and you can show them in a nicely formatted way.
Comparing your Backlinks Social Signals
Ahrefs also includes (If you click the "External" Tab) how many social signals from Google+, Twitter & Facebook each off your Backlinks has. This is a great way to check if you or your competitors links are "real" most fake links tend to not have any sort of social signals at all, though some clever people are starting to work around this!
Leave your Feedback on Ahrefs!
I hoped you enjoyed by Little Review of Ahrefs, and it's the best Backlink Indexer by Far right now, let's see how the competition does over the following months!


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Here's to saying "yes" to the crazy, unexpected things in life. Get on an elephant. 🐘 Seriously. I recommend it. Not just for fun, but it'll put life into perspective for you real quick. While on an elephant you don't feel that safe [no seat straps], you think you're moving slow but you're actually moving rather quickly, you may feel like you're gonna fall but the key is to look straight ahead. It'll be bumpy but he's got you, you're not going anywhere, their backs are super wide. You're holding on tightly to what you have while on him, not really realizing that could totally just slip out of your hands and fall right with you.
Here's what I was reminded of today - ENJOY life because it's passing rather quickly. Hold "things" loosely & the people you love tighter. Be confident - you are smart. Brave. A leader - keep your head up. Look beyond the now to where you're actually going, savor the journey. The elephant in your life will actually bow to you if you take control. You're the only thing keeping you back from kicking booty at whatever you do. Change your thoughts, change your life!


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Some justices go to summer school
Monday, August 26, 2002
WASHINGTON -- Like most teachers, Supreme Court justices take a long summer vacation. And some justices, like some teachers, earn a little extra cash by teaching summer school.
As usual, the court finished this year's term by July and won't begin to hear cases again until October. The break allows for trips outside the capital and for busman's holidays spent lecturing law students in Italy or the Greek coast.
American law schools sponsor the programs, which typically offer salaries as well as travel, hotel and food expenses. Schools consider it a coup to land a Supreme Court lecturer, who gets headline billing and helps attract paying students.
Louis Del Duca, who directs overseas summer programs at Penn State's Dickinson School of Law, said justices and students benefit from the experience.
"It's the difference between learning from a printed text and having one mind exposed to another mind on the spot," said Del Duca, whose school has been host to about a half-dozen justices in recent summers. "There's no substitute for that."
Only Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg provided details of their teaching plans in response to a request from The Associated Press. Other justices did not teach this summer or did not respond. Representatives of three schools said they planned to pay salaries to justices this year but provided no details.
Some details of the teaching arrangements appear on the annual financial disclosure forms the justices file each spring. Justices must disclose salaries but not what sponsors pay to put them up.
In the past, some justices have declined offered salaries. Others have taken the maximum allowed -- 15 percent of their federal salary
Back from Europe
At Dickinson's invitation, Rehnquist lectured in Strasbourg, France, this summer on the Supreme Court in American history. He collected $12,500 for teaching at the same forum last year.
Justice Anthony M. Kennedy reprised a course called "Fundamental Rights in Europe and the United States" in Salzburg, Austria, sponsored by the University of the Pacific's McGeorge School of Law. He was paid $16,500 for the seminar last year.
Ginsburg is back from teaching in Siena, Italy, organized by Tulane University, and Justice Antonin Scalia taught constitutional law at St. Mary's University Institute on World Legal Problems at Innsbruck, Austria.
Justices Sandra Day O'Connor, Stephen Breyer and John Paul Stevens have taught similar European sessions in past years.
An ethical debate surrounds judicial seminars sponsored by law schools with corporate or other outside underwriting. Federal judges hear lectures that frequently have pro-business themes while being wined and dined for a few days.
Unlike those sessions, paid teaching stints raise no serious conflict of interest issues for the justices, legal ethics specialists said. Sponsoring law schools are unlikely to be the subject of future court cases, and the justices stick to teaching basic subjects, law professors said.
Still, the justices and some of the schools that hire them are reluctant to discuss salary arrangements, which come on top of the justices' regular government salaries of $192,600 for Rehnquist and $184,400 for his eight junior colleagues.
"We live in a society where people have to live with not just the reality but the appearance of impropriety," said Vikram David Amar, law professor at the University of California, Hastings. "I don't think the amount of money involved is going to warp anybody's perspective, however."
'Full day's work'
Gary Ruskin, director of the Congressional Accountability Project, a watchdog group that has opposed pay raises for members of Congress and federal judges, does not like the idea of moonlighting justices.
"Supreme Court justices are paid generously, and they are expected to spend full time on the taxpayers' business," Ruskin said. "That doesn't mean we control every moment of their time, but it is reasonable to expect a full day's work for a full day's pay."
Justices may take vacations as they wish, but they are never entirely off duty. They always are on call to vote on last-minute death row appeals and other emergency cases, and they must keep up with a daunting summer reading list of cases before the court.
Justices Clarence Thomas and David H. Souter do their reading away from Washington and away from the classroom. Thomas hits the road for much of the summer in a plush motor home, and Justice David H. Souter repairs to the woods of New Hampshire.


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Friday, March 18, 2011
THE ART OF COMMUNITY - Learning With Each Other And Discovering Our Passion!
Barb...When I think of stories about community, I always think of what our family and many others learned from our daughter. Erin was a young woman with Down syndrome and her life demonstrated the rich connections and relationships that result from an inclusive learning community. Among her passions was theatre and she met and celebrated with many friends through that love. It began at Westerville South High School and introduced her to Otterbein University and many wonderful and reciprocal relationships with other theatre lovers! Real friendship often comes from our shared interests and passions and not our shared abilities.
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EcoTech Reef Link Schedule
Hi there,
My first post in here so hopefully it's in the right place etc.
I'm after some advice from folk with the EcoTech MP40 powerheads with a ReefLink.
I've had these on for 9 months and I've created my own schedule but I'm not entirely convinced it's getting the best results out of what are clearly very good powerheads.
My set up is as follows:
400 litres mixed reef, mainly SPS with some LPS (2x Goni's, 5x hammers).
4ft wide.
2x EcoTech MP40 Powerheads.
Nyos 3000 Skimmer.
Balling Method.
Dosing NO3POX4.
The reason I'm not entirely happy is I am constantly in the tank with a turkey baster and ramping the power heads up to try and battle detritus pretty much daily.
The schedule I have is as follows:
00:00 - 06:00 - Constant Speed - 20%
06:00 - 08:30 - Nutrient Transport - 60%
08:30 - 11:00 - Reefcrest - 70%
11:00 - 14:00 - Reefcrest - 60%
14:00 - 17:00 - Lagoon - 50%
17:00 - 00:00 - Constant Speed - 35%
What experiences have people had in here with their schedules? Any advice welcome!!
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So I used to try all kinds of weird flows with my gyres, mostly alternating flow which was somthing like 12 seconds 1 way, 12 seconds the other, or some type of pulse...I can't recall where I heard it but someone was talking about Ocean currents, and how its not really 12 seconds, more like a few hours.
Today I have my Gyres set to 4 hours one way, 4 hours the other with a small ramp up and down, but otherwise it becomes a constant rate.
The main difference has been that debris tends to stay suspended in the tank and go round and round in the current that develops when the water has been flowing in a gyre like direction for a few hours (until it gets sucked down the overflow.) It took a few weeks for all the corals to adjust to this change in flow but boy some of my frogs have never extended more. The fish love getting to have a real current to fight for a few hours each way too.
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I have mine carried between constant ant night, reef crest and 2.5 hours of nutrient transport mode. NT mode doesn't seem to stir up my tank and clean off my rocks as I'd like but my hammer coral seems to like the flow variation.
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Cappies reviews: To Kill a Mockingbird
By Emily Weckend
J.H. Picard High School
Dramatic, deep and distinctly defiant, Lillian Osborne's poignant production of To Kill a Mockingbird reflected shades of political turmoil present in modern day society, proving that not everything is as simple as black and white.
Student directed by Deborah Aikins and Jazlynn Steinbach, this retelling of a classic American coming of age story was brought to life in a haze of sound and motion. First published in 1960, the novel written by Harper Lee was later adapted into a play by Christopher Sergel. Taking place in the weary town of Maycomb, Alabama during the Dirty Thirties, To Kill a Mockingbird explores the loss of innocence experienced by protagonist Scout as she transforms into a young woman, Jean Louise Finch. The story deals with issues such as racial prejudice and classism by portraying the unjust conviction of a black man in the far south.
With the slightest twitch of her nose and hunch of her shoulders, Anika Osborne evoked the very image of a petulant child in her brilliant interpretation of Scout (the child-counterpart of Jean Louise). Along with these ingeniously subtle mannerisms, Sample maintained a strong and natural southern accent executed with impeccable diction. Likewise, Markus Gaenzle presented a raw and passionate performance in the role of Atticus Finch. His powerful enunciation and meaningful pauses aided in the creation of a stifling and engaging atmosphere. The result of the duo's interaction was a mix of serious undertones mingled with delightful nuances.
In the role of Bob Ewell, Jazlynn Steinbach, who was also co-director, created an aura so threatening that the audience was hushed by her convincing stage presence. She achieved this through contemptuous micro-expressions, a clenched jaw and careless posture. Steinbach's never-ceasing commmitment to the role created the impression that no one, not even the audience, was safe from Ewell's wrath. It was the mark of a seasoned actress. Paired with this performance was the resonating representation of Mayella Ewell by Kseniya Kataeva. Her trembling demeanour, shifting eyes and strikingly childish voice demonstrated the actress's tremendous command of body language. Their turbulent relationship, achieved through both physical and mental exchanges, never ceased to stimulate the audience's interest.
Simple yet potent, the technical elements tied up the seams of the production. The lighting, which ranged from warm yellows to a chilly midnight blue, was executed by Ryan Drews. Drifting, ghost-like, through the air, smoke from the fog machine operated by Tantawan Davis helped convey an eerie atmosphere. From the slightest "cuckoo" to a spine-rattling gun shot, the sound managed by Tyleen Saison and Zain Patel was highly immersive.
As a whole, the cast of Lillian Osborne succeeded in producing a powerful spectacle. The resonating performances compelled a re-examination of current events, questioning just how far from the past we truly are … and the mockingbirds we have since targeted.
By Christine Francisco
J.H. Picard High School
History may not always be pretty, but it must be told. Lillian Osborne's production of To Kill a Mockingbird showcased the highs and lows of life in the southern United States during a time of racial tension and economic depression.
Set in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the years of the Great Depression, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird is told from the perspective of Miss Jean Louise Finch as she revisits her childhood in a series of vignettes. Her most prominent memory is the trial of Tom Robinson, a black man accused of a heinous crime against a white woman. Ultimately the true nature of the town's close-minded inhabitants is revealed through this event, and Finch must face some harsh truths about the world.
Though considered to be controversial when it was first released in 1960, the novel has quickly become a staple in English Literature courses and has been adapted into award-winning films.
Anika Osborne took the stage as the headstrong and quick-tempered young Scout. Her expressions and childlike mannerisms created a believable character with whom it was easy to empathize. Playing Jem Finch was Brendan Heard, who captured both the protective and keen aspects of his character perfectly. The duo's chemistry on stage resulted in a convincing sibling dynamic that never felt forced.
Markus Gaenzle had such powerful vocalization and stage presence in his role of Atticus Finch that the audience could not help but hang on to his every word. Kseniya Kataeva, playing Mayella Ewell, gave an explosive performance during the trial. Jazlynn Steinbach brought the role of Bob Ewell to life with her menacing aura and southern drawl. Overall, there was no shortage of energy. From start to finish, the cast stayed consistent in their characters and showed incredible passion in getting their message to the audience.
Impressively, the show's directors were students Deborah Aikins and Jazlynn Steinbach, making Lillian Osborne's production of To Kill a Mockingbird almost completely student-driven. The simplistic set created by Owen Thomas and Blaire Dickie was effective and never took attention away from the characters or the action happening on stage. The subtle yet seamless lighting from day to night was operated by Ryan Drews. The student directors worked relentlessly behind-the-scenes to combine the cast and crew's talents to create an entertaining and compelling show.
Lillian Osborne's poignant performance of To Kill a Mockingbird highlights the importance of empathy in a time of discrimination and inequality.
By Stephen Stewart
Millwoods Christian School
Welcome to 1930s Maycomb, Alabama, a community laced with prejudice and discrimination. But through the eyes of a girl on the brink of adolescence, it is just a couple of dusty alleyways, some quaint farmhouses guarded by white-picket fences, and a righteous man attempting to show his children that what's right takes precedence over collective bias. Lillian Osborne's To Kill a Mockingbird was a passionate reinvigoration of this poignant tribute to innocence in the face of ignorance.
Although first published in 1960, To Kill a Mockingbird, with its realist perspective on the discrimination that plagues the judicial system, still strikes chords in today's world. Told through the eyes of Scout Finch, the novel follows her journey away from childlike innocence. In the midst of her father's defence of an innocent African-American man, Scout slowly sees the cracks in her reality and the effects of the volatile prejudice that riddles the world around her.
From the opening lines, Lillian Osborne's heartfelt passion and dedication to such an intense yet prevalent story, enticed. The crisp and emotional delivery of all lines evoked sympathy for some and contempt for others. The incredibly versatile cast adopted this literary colossus and crafted it into a raw reflection of Lee's original confrontation of the systemic discrimination that haunts the judicial system.
Basking in the innocence and vulnerability of a young child, Anika Osborne as Scout led the cast with energy and confidence. Osborne captivated and enthralled until curtain call, never dropping character. Her joy and unadulterated enthusiasm lightened the dark themes when needed, giving her the capacity to increase the degree of her performance in times of high emotion as well. In almost perfect unison of both character and spirit was Ashtyn Sample as Jean Louise Finch. Sample's raw emotion and invigorating tone never wavered, acting as the necessary glue to unify and purpose such a performance.
Markus Gaenzle, as Atticus Finch, grounded the performance with his profound wisdom and maturity. Embodying such an iconic figure was most definitely daunting, but Gaenzle was unhindered. Stepping into the quite large and unkempt shoes of Bob Ewell was student director, Jazlynn Steinbach. Her presence dominated the stage from the moment she stepped onto it. Steinbach's control of such an emotionally and morally challenging role was a feat to be acknowledged, and was most definitely appreciated. Her chilling characterization and terrorizing delivery was the ultimate highlight of the night.
Student directors Jazlynn Steinbach and Deborah Aikins made bold and rewarding choices. With major responsibilities placed on them, both directors were clearly driven by raw talent and cultivated passion. Lighting was effectively used to transition between moods and settings, and the use of a fog machine near the end of the second act was a mysterious and exciting touch.
With solidarity and vivid characterization, Lillian Osborne explored the past failures of humanity with poise, and through fervour and dedication, actively voiced a cry for change in the future.
By Mat Hick
W.P. Wagner High School
Upon first light, the town of Maycomb, Alabama was greeted by tweeting. Was it blue jays, or the chirps of children? The whistles of the working man or of idle elders? No! It was the titular creature from Lillian Osborne's innovative rendition of To Kill A Mockingbird.
In 1960, Harper Lee's beloved characters were first penned and published. Then, in 1990, Monroeville, Alabama hosted the first staged version of the novel.
Tom Robinson, a black man, is the catalyst who wakes the sleeping town of broken men and tired old ladies. With horrific assault allegations towards Tom, it is up to Atticus Finch, loving widower and father, to defend him justly in a court of biased law. Meanwhile, Atticus must maintain his paternal responsibilities and righteousness, ultimately teaching his kids true integrity, and that "you rarely win, but sometimes you do," and that is enough.
Markus Gaenzle brought passion to the mild-mannered role of Atticus, and created a flawed every-man. This passion was mirrored by Atticus's mettlesome spitfire of a daughter, Scout (Anika Osborne), who consistently spewed her southern drawl throughout the production. Her reactive and naive demeanour contrasted with that of her elder brother Jem (Brendan Heard) and his observant and occasionally wise brand of youth. Especially wise was the portrayal of Scout's adult character, Jean Louise Finch, (Ashtyn Sample) who grew into her sophistication over the years after idolizing her father for so many of them.
In the role of Bob Ewell, Jazlynn Steinbach was the epitome of insolence. She channelled her directing prowess through precise glares and controlled outbursts towards the character's worn-down daughter, Mayella, played by Kseniya Kataeva. Sharing director duties with Steinbach was Deborah Aikins, who controlled the stage with mature decisions throughout the directorial process.
Tyleen Saison (sound) and Zain Patel (stage management) effectively selected and executed cues during the play. Ryan Drews met their prowess on lights, completely enveloping Ashtyn Sample in light in an effort to help mask the noise of the few set changes during her moments of exposition. As Drews methodically added and displaced light, the set of Owen Thomas and Blaire Dickie was beautifully presented. With the neighbourhood tree, and multiple porches for the residents of Maycomb to enjoy, Owen and Blaire crafted a community that begged to be believed.
Singing with unfiltered throats, the cast and crew of Lillian Osborne's production were mockingbirds, for even still they were innocent. The cast and crew of To Kill A Mockingbird showcased the need for the empathy and kindness that they so clearly possess. Lillian Osborne? "They don't do nothing but sing."
By Mary Frank
J.H. Picard High School
A timeless classic was brought to life in Lillian Osborne High School's production of To Kill a Mockingbird. Their talented cast and crew paid homage to the world of Macomb County, as seen through the inquisitive eyes of Jean Louise "Scout" Finch.
Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird was originally published in 1960, achieving immediate success as winner of the Pulitzer Prize. The book was dramatized just two years after its release into the well-known film of the same name. In 1990, the stage adaptation by Christopher Sergel was first produced.
A nostalgic trip to small-town Alabama in the 1930s, To Kill a Mockingbird is told from the perspective of young Scout Finch. Accompanied by her brother Jem, Scout watches as her father Atticus defends a black man in court amid the racial tensions and injustice of Maycomb County. Not yet aware of many strict social norms, Scout comes to see the unfair stereotypes brought to light by her father's case. The sad events surrounding Scout's childhood allow her to mature and grow, as she learns the importance of seeing past outward appearances.
The energy and dedication brought to the stage by Lillian Osborne's cast was incredible. Narrator Jean Louise was played by Ashtyn Sample, giving an engaging recount of her childhood as Scout. Enacting these events as they were told, Anika Osborne portrayed young Scout, emanating the spunk and innocence true to the nature of her character. Never once straying from her role, she passionately rendered Scout as unique and endearing. Brendan Heard worked cohesively with Osborne in an excellent and entertaining portrayal of Jem. Of course, the Finch family would not be complete without Atticus, whom Markus Gaenzle conveyed with voracity.
Among the townspeople, Bob Ewell and his daughter Mayella were striking characters. Jazlynn Steinbach seemed truly invested in the southern drawl and threatening aura of the elder Ewell, a feat made more impressive by the mere two weeks she had to learn the part. In the role of Mayella, Kseniya Kataeva projected the pure fear, vulnerability, and anger of a the character victimized by her situation. Given the serious subject matter, there was not much to laugh at, but small bits of comic relief were provided by Maya Appavoo in the role of Mrs. Dubose. Appavoo delivered her scolding lines to the neighbourhood kids while brandishing her cane.
Such a stunning production would not have been possible without student-directors Deborah Aikins and Jazlynn Steinbach. The show ran smoothly with many effective creative choices, a testament to the directors' abilities.
Behind the scenes, several elements helped to enrich the atmosphere onstage. With sound done by Tyleen Saison and Zain Patel, the play opened with the peaceful chirping of birds, transforming later on into the swooshing of wind, and finally a shocking gunshot. A fog machine installed by Tantawan Davis added to the feeling of suspense during a dark night.
Addressing issues of discrimination still relevant today, Lillian Osborne's rendition of To Kill a Mockingbird was a truly beautiful and thought-provoking experience.


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One Less Gun: Officers Arrest Two and Seize Three Illegal Firearms in Three Separate Incidents/
Boston Police Officers made the streets of Boston safer last night by recovering three illegal firearms and arresting two suspects in three separate incidents. The facts and circumstances of those incidents are as follows:
INCIDENT #1: At about 6:35 PM on Thursday, May 7, 2015, members of the Youth Violence Strike Force affected an onsite arrest of an individual carrying a firearm in the area of Brookway and Elven Roads in Roslindale in District E-5 (West Roxbury).
While on patrol in the above area, officers observed a group of males gathered around a park bench. As officers approached in their cruiser, a male on a bike signaled to the group that the officers were coming. As he did so, two males became hyper-vigilant and broke away from the group, walking at a rapid pace. One of the males made an attempt to evade the officers while gripping a heavy object in his right front pocket. Officers stopped the individual and a pat frisk revealed a loaded Glock 27 Gen 4 firearm in the suspect's front pocket.
Officers arrested 21-year-old Marshawn A. Potts of Dorchester and charged him with Unlawful Possession of a Firearm, Unlawful Possession of Ammunition, and Carrying a Loaded Firearm. Potts also had an active outstanding warrant.
INCIDENT #2: At about 10:35 PM on Thursday, May 7, 2015, officers from District B-2 (Roxbury) responded to a radio call for a group of kids tossing a firearm back and forth in the area of 160 Ruggles Street.
Upon arrival, officers observed a group of males fitting the description given by the caller. While officers spoke with the group, another officer investigated the surrounding area and found an abandoned backpack in a common area of a nearby address. When no one in the residence claimed the property, officers conducted a pat frisk of the bag and felt a hard object in the shape of a firearm. Officers recovered and seized an Arminius .22 caliber revolver from the backpack. All individuals in the group were identified and released.
INCIDENT #3: At about 4:40 AM on Friday, May 8, 2015, members of the BPD Special Investigations Unit with the assistance of the BPD SWAT Team executed a search warrant in the area of Southern Avenue and Ferndale Street in District B-3 (Mattapan).
As a result of the search warrant, officers recovered the following:
- Approximately 7 pounds of marijuana
- Various drug paraphernalia
- One loaded Norinco 9mm semi-automatic firearm
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Okay, I have been manipulating XML with PowerShell on and off for over a year now. And I will tell you, all the examples that you find on the internet are way too simplistic.
I have yet to get a piece of XML out of code that is very simple, neat and tidy.
Working with CIM interfaces and XML application configuration files I frequently find my XML muddied up with array strings within tags.
Oh my. These arrays within an XML Element reek havoc on the nice simple XML parsing that PowerShell does (and assumes).
Or, worse yet, the XML is filled with namespaces and therefore you cannot simply [xml] (cast it to XML) and deal with it.
Say for example that I have a web config file that I want to change, and it is written in XML. first I have to get the file:
$file = get-childitem -path "IIS:\Sites\Default Web Site\App\Settings\web.config"
Then get the content of the config file and cast it to XML:
$xml = [xml](get-content $file)
Within this file are tags and settings that are actually arrays of settings within tags. Or they are dictionaries (but they don't return that way).
In the XML might look like this:
<AppThings allowSomething="on" showBar="off">
<client />
<someAppPolicy setting="off" />
<someOtherAppPolicy enableFoo="off" />
To modify one of these array settings I simply treat it as an array an modify the proper setting.
$somePolicy = @($xml.GetElementsByTagName("someAppPolicy"))
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if ($e.setting -eq "off" ) {
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@exports = $to->exports();
The same as the method on the Triead, equivalent to $to->get()->exports(). The returned array contains the name-value pairs of the nexus names and objects.
@imports = $to->imports();
This method is different from the Triead method. It still returns an array of name-value pairs but the values are Facets (not Nexuses, as in Triead). It's a natural difference, since the facets are useful in the owner thread, and available only in it.
$result = $to->flushWriters();
Flush any data collected in the writer facets, sending them to the appropriate nexuses. The data in each facet becomes a tray that is sent to the nexus (if there was no data collected on a facet, nothing will be sent from it). Returns 1 if the flush was completed, 0 if the thread was requested to die and this the data was discarded. The data is never sent out of a facet by itself, it always must be flushed in one of the explicit ways (TrieadOwner::flushWriters(), Facet::flushWriter(), or enqueueing a rowop on the facet's labels _BEGIN_ and _END_). The flush may get stuck if this is an input-only thread and a drain is active, it will wait until the drain is released.
Request this Triead itself to die. This is the way to disconnect from the nexuses while the thread is exiting on its own. For example, if this thread going to dump its data before exit to a large file that takes half an hour to write, normally the data queued for this thread might fill up the queues in the nexuses, and it's a bad practice to keep the other threads stuck due to the overflowing buffers. Requesting this thread to die disconnects it from the nexuses and prevents the data from collecting.The thread could also be disconnected by marking it dead, but it will keep the harvester stuck waiting to join it while the thread completes its long write, and that's not so good either. So this call provides the solution, avoiding both pitfalls.
$result = $to->nextXtray();
Process one incoming tray from a single reader nexus (any nexus where data is available). A tray essentially embodies a transaction, and "X" stands for "cross-thread". There actually is the Xtray type that represents the Tray in a special thread-safe format but it's used only inside the nexuses and not visible from outside.
If there is currently no data to process, this method will wait.
The return value is 1 normally, or 0 if the thread was requested to die. So the typical usage is:
while($to->nextXtray()) { ... }
The method mainLoop() encapsulates the most typical usage, and nextXtray() needs to be used directly only in the more unusual circumstances.
The data is read from the reverse nexuses first, at a higher priority. If any reverse nexus has data available, it will always be read before the direct nexuses. A reverse nexus typically completes a topological loop, so this priority creates the preference to cycle the data through the loop until it comes out, before accepting more data into the loop. Since all the nexuses have non-zero-length queues, obviously, there will be multiple data items traveling through the loop, in different phases, but this priority solution limits the amount of data kept in the loop's queues and allows the queue flow control to prevent too much data from entering the loop.
The raised priority of the reverse nexuses can also be used to deliver the urgent messages. Remember, there is nothing preventing you from marking any nexus as reverse (as long as it doesn't create a loop consisting of only the reverse nexuses).
The downside of having the reverse nexuses connected to a thread is that it causes an extra overhead from the check with a mutex synchronization on each nextXtray(). The regular-priority direct nexuses use double-buffering, with locking a mutex only when the second buffer runs dry, and refilling it by swapping its contents with the whole collected first buffer. But the high-priority reverse nexuses have to be checked every time, even if they have no incoming data.
Within the same priority the data is processed in the round-robin order. More exactly, each refill of the double-buffering grabs the data from the first buffer of each facet and moves it to the second buffer. Then the second buffer is processed in the round-robin fashion until it runs out and another refill becomes needed.
The nextXtray() processes all the rowops from the incoming tray by calling them on the facet's FnReturn. Two special rowops are generated automatically even if they haven't been queued up explicitly, on the facet's labels _BEGIN_ and _END_ (to avoid extra overhead, they are actually generated only if there is any processing chained for them).
The nextXtray() automatically flushes the writers after processing a tray.
If a fatal error is encountered during processing (such as some code in a label died), nextXtray() will catch the exception, discard the rest of the tray and confess itself (without flushing the writers).
$result = $to->nextXtrayNoWait();
Similar to nextXtray(), but returns immediately if there is no data to process. Returns 0 if there is either no input data or the thread was requested to die (the way to differentiate between these cases is to call $to->isRqDead()).
$result = $to->nextXtrayTimeout($timeout);
Similar to nextXtrayNoWait(), only if there is no data, waits for up to the length of timeout. The timeout value is floating-point seconds. Returns 0 if the timeout has expired or the thread was requested to die.
$result = $to->nextXtrayTimeLimit($deadline);
Similar to nextXtrayNoWait(), only if there is no data, waits until the absolute deadline. The deadline value is time since epoch floating-point seconds, such as returned by Triceps::now(). Returns 0 if the wait reached the deadline or the thread was requested to die.
Process the incoming trays until the thread is requested to die. The exact implementation of the main loop (in C++) is:
void TrieadOwner::mainLoop()
while (nextXtray())
{ }
It also used to call markDead() after the loop, and my earlier posts might say so, but now I've realized that it would not be advisable in the situations when the thread needs to do a lengthy saving of its state, blocking the harvester, so I've removed it.
The drain API of the TrieadOwner is very similar to the one in the App. The best way to do the drain is by the automatically-scoped AutoDrain class. If a drain doesn't need an automatic scoping, use the TrieadOwner API. And finally if you want to mess with drains from outside an app's Triead and thus don't have a TrieadOwner, only then use the App API.
$result = $to->isDrained();
The methods are used in exactly the same way as the similar App methods, with only the difference of the names on the shared drains.
The exclusive drains always make the exclusion for this Triead. (Only one thread can be excluded from a drain). Normally the exclusive drains should be used only for the input-only threads. They could potentially be used to exclude the non-input-only thread too but I'm not sure, what's the point, and haven't worked out if it would work reliably (it might, or it might not).
$result = $to->isRqDrain();
Check whether a drain request is active. This can be used in the threads that generate data based on the real-time clock yet aren't input-only: if they find that a drain is active, they should refrain from generating the data and go back to the waiting. There is no way for them to find when the drain is released, so they should just continue to the next timeout as usual. Such code must use nextXtrayTimeout() or nextXtrayTimeLimit() for the timeouts, or the drain would never complete. The input-only threads don't have this limitation. And of course keep in mind that the better practice is to deal with the deal time either in the input-only threads or by driving it from outside the model altogether.


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Definition of dirge
a. - A piece of music of a mournful character, to accompany funeral rites; a funeral hymn. 2
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Scott Rudin Biography
Scott Rudin is an American producer who was born in New York City in 1958. By his late 20s Rudin was president of production at 20th Century FOX. He produced a steady stream of hits there and at Paramount, with films such as The Firm, There Will be Blood and No Country for Old Men. Rudinis only one of 14 people to have received the four major entertainment honors: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony. For his work on Captain Phillips (2013), he was nominated for yet another Oscar in 2014 for best picture.
Early Life
Scott Rudin was born on July 14, 1958, in New York City, and grew up in the town of Baldwin on Long Island. The older of two brothers, he was not especially fond of his childhood or close to his family. Rudin stated, "I've never been nurtured" and admitted he doesn't get along with his mother. He said of his upbringing: "I was a Jewish kid from Long Island who didn't want to be a Jewish kid from Long Island. There's no mystery to it. It's fairly self-explanatory. My father sold men's clothing. I don't know where he works now. He was a salesman."
Rudin gained career experience at age 15 by working as an assistant to legendary theater producer Kermit Bloomgarten and later for producers Robert Whitehead and Emanuel Azenberg. After graduating from high school, Rudin shocked his parents by declining a scholarship from Brown University. Instead he worked as a casting agent, and within a couple of years he launched his own casting company.
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At age 21, Rudin relocated to Hollywood and worked as a producer on dramas such as the miniseries Little Gloria ... Happy at Last (1982), a biopic based on Gloria Vanderbilt, and He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin' (1983), an Emmy-winning children's program. Rudin then created his own production company, Scott Rudin Productions. The company found success in films such as Mrs. Soffel (1984), for which its lead actress, Diane Keaton, was nominated for a Golden Globe.
20th Century FOX soon recognized Rudin's talent and recruited him to serve as its executive producer. By his late 20s, Rudin was promoted to president of production, a position he held for a year before resigning to revive his production company. Scott Rudin Productions partnered with Paramount to produce films such as Pacific Heights (1990), Regarding Henry (1991), The Addams Family (1991), Little Man Tate (1991) and Sister Act (1992).
In 1992 Rudin signed with Tri-Star Pictures, but soon thereafter several films he had worked on at Paramount were released, including the hit films The Firm (1993) and Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993). Rudin then delved into theatre, where in 1994 he won a best musical Tony Award for his production of Passion. In his career, he would go on to win Tony Awards for a multitude of productions including Copenhagen (2000), The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia (2002), Doubt (2005), The History Boys (2006) and Book of Mormon (2012).
Rudin delayed his move to Tri-Star Pictures indefinitely and continued to work at Paramount on films including Clueless (1995), The First Wives Club (1996) and Ransom (1996). He dabbled in television with the based-on-the-movie series Clueless (1996-99) and then worked on other hit films like Wonder Boys (2000), Zoolander (2001) and The Hours (2002), which received an Academy Award nomination for best picture. In 2004 he left Paramount and collaborated with Disney on the movie M. Night Shyalaman's The Village. Rudin's dual Oscar nominations took place in 2007 with There Will Be Blood and No Country for Old Men, the latter which won the award for best picture.
In 2010, Rudin's streak of hit films continued with The Social Network and True Grit followed by The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011). His success carried on the next year with his Grammy win for producing the 2012 best musical theater album for Book of Mormon. Rudin is only one of 14 people to have received the four major entertainment honors—Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony. For his work on Captain Phillips (2013), he gained another Oscar nomination in 2014 for best picture.
Personal Life
With his zeal for working non-stop, there's little time for personal relationships for Rudin, who is openly gay. He is known in the entertainment industry for both his intelligence and his bad behavior, and the turnover rate for his assistants is notoriously high, due to his demanding and sometimes extreme behavior. Rudin reportedly requires his assistants to line up calls continuously, one after the other, so no time is wasted, lest they face his wrath should there be a gap between calls.
Rudin is also known as one to break the rules, as he has admitted to parking in handicapped spots on the Paramount lot. He rationalized, "I loosely interpreted handicapped as covering emotionally handicapped in addition to physically." The practice only ended when guards, frustrated at Rudin's continual defiance, called Los Angeles police who issued him three $330 tickets.
Rudin's frustration has at times turned physical, including during an incident in which he broke the windshield of his. He stated, "I once threw the phone into my windshield when I was on the phone with Jodie Foster. It was her telling me she wanted to cast Harry Connick in Little Man Tate and me saying, 'Not without a test you're not.' I don't want to be told who's going to be in a movie I'm producing."
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Assistance Animals and Diabetes
I would like to introduce myself, and talk about animals and healing. I have been a Veterinary Nurse educator since 1969, (Guess my age) and taught college in California, and Nevada. I have been a Type 2 for 10 years (that I know of) and I take insulin. I would like to share my experiences with health and animals.
I have seen real miracles with animals, and their people. They serve us as companions, assistants, and therapists for people with various needs. All for the price of food, clean water, and a place to sleep.
If you need a friend that does not care that you didn't comb your hair, or brush your teeth, and that you're in your PJ's all day Sunday, look to your furry companion. Animals give uncompromising love without judgement and we all need that. I have seen elderly animals, and their owners, where neither one was in good shape, but somehow they kept going. Children with severe autism can become calmer with a therapy dog to talk to. It has been shown, medically, that people with chronic diseases (and without) benefit from animal companionship. Blood pressure goes down when we pet a dog, or cat or talk to a bird or horse.
We now have "Diabetes" assistance dogs that can enable diabetics that are not able to obtain good blood sugar control, to go out, and have a near normal life with an "Assistance Dog" indicating highs, or lows in blood sugar, with 80% accuracy, often before the owner knows it.
If you, or a loved one has a need for one of these wonderful angels, they are out there. NOTE: Make sure the trainers are reputable, and involved with one of the national accreditation organizations BEFORE you get involved.
A place to start is the DELTA Society, a nationally recognized organization which has done research on the human - animal companion bond, and is responsible for many of the laws governing assistance, and therapy animals, allowing them onto planes and into restaurants, and anywhere else their human may go. (The law only covered Guide dogs previously) The site is; DELTA Society "Pet Partners" http://www.deltasociety.org/page.aspx?pid=183
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Carol I love this topic. You are so right about these animals. I'm from oxford ms. And here they train Labs to do as your talking about. Even to the point they say to detect a diabetic that's about to go into a coma. This is hear say. But I think you are so right. Thx you for sharing
Howdy Carol!
My 2nd wife "Jem" was totally blind at age 14 and throughout her life she had 3 or 4 guide dogs.
She told me fondly of the relationship that she formed with them. By the time I came into Jem's life, she no longer had those guide dogs, for whatever reason.
I guess I became her guide. But she had formed a lot of good memories of those companions.
She's passed from this life now, but the stories she told about them live on in my memory.
My current g/f SuzyQ, has a cat which has grown on me. We are parted (suzyQ "biunique" the cat and I have each gone our separate ways for the past 2 weeks, and I miss them both — where I hadn't been all that fond of cats previously). I think "Bayou" has kept Suzy going during her divorce and its aftermath.
To be sure, when Bayou goes to "kitty heaven" I am certain that Sue will rescue another cat to replace him.
Thanks for sharing that. I didn't have the information on Delta Society, but will keep it in mind.
James Baker
Hi James,
Sounds as though you have had some wonderful ties to **assistance animals,** and their people.
I have two friends, that are married, and are both blind. They co-wrote the book, " PARTNERS IN INDEPENDENCE: A Success Story of Dogs and the Disabled," by Ed and Toni Eames, book or CD Available through the IAADP (International Association of Assistance Dog Partners) web page. Which talks about this wonderful bond, and what it take to prepare an animal to become a guide, or service dog. I have blessed to have known them, and help treat several of their dogs over the years.
They also wrote a book for veterinarians on what to do, or not do, when you perform a medical procedure on a guide dog or assistance animal. You literally are responsible for someone's eyes, or senses, in respect to a guide dog or diabetes dog. Anytime you put them under anesthesia, or do any medical procedure which may impair them for awhile you must take that into account! Please feel free to write me about general animal questions.
Please See Your Veterinarian First For Any Medical Questions or Problems
** I use the term "assistance animals" to include the other species that are used for these companions. Such as monkeys, cats, or horses. **
Carol Palmer
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