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Maryland's ballot questions this year include such big ticket items as same-sex marriage, a dream act, and congressional redistricting. But by far the dominant question, measured by the amount of campaigning, is gambling. Specifically, Marylanders have been bombarded with electioneering on the issue of whether a new casino should be added to the few that already exist, and whether certain table games should be permitted at all Maryland casinos.
It isn't surprising that the gambling question has seemed to dwarf all of the others. This issue is where the money is.
But how should conservatives vote on Question 7? Obviously, there's a conservative case to be made for supporting the extension of gambling. Gambling is a form of economic activity, and conservatives usually oppose restrictions on economic activity.
Personally, though, I find it extremely distasteful for the government to raise money by luring gambling addicts and lower income individuals into casinos. If it came down to it, I would rather pay higher taxes to support public education (which is where proponents of Question 7 say the gambling revenue will go) than squeeze the money out of Marylanders who cannot resist the attraction of gambling tables. In any case, there appears to be a substantial question as to whether the revenue actually would be used to support Maryland public schools, as proponents of Question 7 claim. So I am voting "no" on Question 7.
As I said, reasonable conservatives will disagree on Question 7. But I've had fun teasing liberals about it. The two common arguments they make are (1) that gambling brings in revenue that Maryland needs for its schools and (2) that the state's gamblers currently are driving to West Virginia and blowing money there that should be kept in in-state.
Both arguments seem inconsistent with liberalism. First, shouldn't liberals favor obtaining additional revenue by raising taxes on the wealthy, rather than through the comparatively regressive gambit of inducing suckers into making bad bets? Second, doesn't West Virginia, one of the poorest states in the Union, need gambling revenue more than Maryland does?
But when real money is involved and the issue is close to home, income redistribution usually takes a back seat at best for most liberals.


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Much has changed in Mozambique since the turn of the century. Today, the typical Mozambican lives 10 years longer than in 2001, largely due to a significant decline in infant and maternal mortality, reduced levels of morbidity across the population and improved access to health care services. Children are now more likely to participate in school than ever before, and the average household has a better chance of consuming safe water and being connected to the electricity grid. More Mozambicans live in better quality dwellings, scroll drown through messages received on their cellphones, and watch football games on flat screen TVs.
This progress has taken place in the backdrop of remarkable growth. Mozambique witnessed one of the fastest growth rates across Sub-Saharan Africa with its gross domestic product (GDP) expanding at an annual average rate of 7.2% between 2000 and 2016. As a result, average incomes have doubled even though fertility rates have remained relatively high.


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Your app icon may be a small square, but it has a huge impact on the success of your app. A great icon communicates your app's purpose and entices the right people to download. In order to stand out from the crowd, you want your icon designer to be an expert. But that doesn't necessarily mean you have to sacrifice your first born child in order to hire a Jony Ive protege. Luckily, we have a great freelance icon designer online ready to work with you, no matter what your budget is!
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How did we choose these as the top app icon designers?
Your app icon can be the difference from a download and a scroll-by, so you want to make sure yours is designed by the best. In order to ensure you work with our top designers, we took the following into consideration when putting together this list:
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Advocacy in action: community opposes Iowa County ordinancePosted on
Ordinance could mean an end to organized rides in Iowa County
Last night, I had the opportunity to testify in front of the Iowa County Transportation Committee at their monthly meeting in Dodgeville, WI. The concern from the community was so poignant that the Committee had to change locations to accommodate a larger audience. Even after moving down the street to a larger auditorium, space was at a premium with over 100 folks from all over the region packing the meeting to show their resolve against this proposed ordinance, and testify as to why this would negatively impact their business or event. Testimony lasted for over thirty-five minutes which is uncommon for this type of committee in this region, and did not include a single testimonial for the proposed ordinance. I was pleased to see such a diverse group of community stakeholders on hand to share their perspective and remind the committee that this ordinance would have a lasting negative impact, not just on bicycling in Iowa County, but also on the local economy. Folks from the Iowa County Economic Corporation and Dodgeville Chamber of Commerce, along with local business owners like Jeff "Potsie" Weber, who manages the Dodgeville Piggly Wiggly grocery store echoed concern that this ordinance would result in economic hardship for businesses in the region. Alongside small business owners, local motorcycle clubs, and avid cyclists from cross the region – the committee heard a resounding message – do not pass this ordinance.
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Motorcycle and bicycle ride organizers made it clear that this ordinance would either force them to move their rides elsewhere, or continue to produce them but limit their impact on the community, and this contribution is immense. Just one of the many rides that pass through Iowa County, the Dairyland Dare, has raised over $100,000 for organizations in Iowa County.
The committee, after hearing all of this compelling testimony and noting for the record that they had received over 250 emails from concerned constituents – spent a significant amount of time discussing how to move forward with the proposed ordinance. Much to our delight, Curt Peterson, Iowa County Supervisor, made the motion to send the ordinance to a sub-committee that would include community stakeholders, as well as elected officials with the hopes of addressing concerns and producing a better ordinance.
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Martinez wants rule change for loan deals
Everton boss Roberto Martinez wants a rule change that would allow loan players to play against their parent clubs.
The Spaniard has made good use of the loan market in his first season in charge at Goodison Park, with the likes of Romelu Lukaku, Gerard Deulofeu and Gareth Barry all impressing for the Merseyside club.
Martinez will be without Barry on Saturday, though, with the midfielder forced to sit out against parent club Manchester City due to the terms of his loan deal.
The former Wigan Athletic manager feels this Premier League regulation needs looking at, citing Thibaut Courtois' availability for Atletico Madrid's UEFA Champions League semi-final with Chelsea as an example of a player being allowed to turn out against his permanent employers.
"When you reach an agreement to allow a player to go, he should be allowed to play," he said on Thursday.
"I don't see a healthy way to treat a loan in not allowing a player to play against a parent club.
"The fairest way is to see what we've seen in the European competition, to see a player fully focused on the team that he is (playing for) and then at the end of the season it will be a matter of reassessing the situation.
"The loans are a real need in the modern game for different reasons. It's a very interesting debate and something that should be looked at.
"We shouldn't have two different rules in different competitions, I think the domestic laws should be the same as the European laws in that respect."


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12 MONTH UNLIMITED YOGA - 120+ Classes, Daytime & Evening, Various Venues,
Thursday, 16 August 2018 from 19:00 to 20:00 (BST)
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12 Month Unlimited Yoga
Over 120 Classes
Daytime & Evening Classes
Venues in Llandaff, Pentyrch & Pontyclun
Annual Pass cost: £300.00
Valid from 1st January 2018 to 31st December 2018
New for 2018 - Unlimited Yoga Pass with access to over 120 yoga classes.
Classes are available in the following venues:
Monday 6:30pm to 7:30pm Insole, Court, Llandaff
Tuesday 1:00pm - 2:00pm Pentyrch Village Hall
Thursday 7:00pm - 8:00pm All Hallows, Catholic Church, Pontyclun
The 12 Month Unlimited Yoga Pass allows you to attend yoga classes in any of the above venues.
You will need to bring a yoga mat, a block/brick is useful and can be purchased in Asda, Tesco, TKMaxx & Online
Classes are mixed abiities and accessible to men and women who are new to the practice of yoga or have a current yoga practice in place
Joanne blends a fusion of yoga styles including Vinyasa, Hatha, Yin, Dru & Viniyoga. Joanne shares her passion for 'all things being connected' linking her teachings to the moon cycles and natural rhythms of the earth, to encourage feelings of peace and calm & to help you to flow through the changes each life season brings. A regular yoga practice can help to develop strength and flexibility of body, mind & heart helping you to cope better in all areas of your life, mentally, physically, emotionally & spiritually, improving the immune system, sleep patterns & general feelings of wellness.
Classes include any of the following:
Yoga Sequences
Guided Visualisations
What are my transport/parking options for getting to and from the event?
Free onsite parking is available at all venues, Insole Court, Pentyrch Village Hall & All Hallows Catholic Church in Pontyclun
What can I bring into the event?
Yoga mat, Block/Brick/Strap
What's the refund policy?
The 12 Month Unlimited Yoga pass is non refundable. There is no refund for a partially used Yoga Pass.
Is my registration fee or ticket transferrable?
No, the Yoga Pass is non transferrable
On occasion there may be reasons to cancel a class, due to illness or holidays, or venues becoming unavailable or any other unforeseen reason, every effort will be taken on the organisers part to obtain cover for a class due to illness or holidays, or to hire an alternative venue if required, however no guarantee can be made to find appropriate cover for a class or locate an alternative venue, the refund policy remains the same and any cancelled classes remain non refundable.
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Joanne Gardner qualified as a 200hr Yoga Instructor with Yoga Alliance London in 2014 and has been teaching full time in and around the Cardiff area for 3 years. In 2008 Joanne studied Naturopathic Nutrition with Emma Jones Phillips and qulified as a Nutritional Advisor. In 2005 Joanne qualified as a Reiki 2 Degree Practitioner and practices at The Well Being Centre at Miskin Manor Health Club. Pursuing her interest in the angelic realms in 2005 Joanne qualified as an Angel & Ascension Teacher of the Diana Cooper School of Angels & Ascension. Joanne is enthusiastic, positive and knoweldgeable encouraging students to have fun with their learning whatever the subject. Joanne brings a fusion of yoga styles into her classes interspersed with philosophy, spiritual knowledge and experience. Joanne's style is relaxed and fun with emphasis on enjoying the moment through the connection with the breath and engaging fully in all the senses to fully embrace the here and now.


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Time to roll up those sleeves and dive inside the personal computer! The Basic CompTIA A+ Certification Prep course teaches you about the hardware common to virtually every personal computer, including microprocessors, RAM, power supplies, motherboards, UEFI/BIOS, the system setup utility, the expansion bus, and input/output devices. You'll learn how things work, how to configure everything, and how to troubleshoot in real-world environments. This course gives you the knowledge upon which you'll base the rest of your CompTIA A+ certification studies for the 220-901 and 220-902 exams. Plus it helps you take that first step to becoming an excellent PC technician. So what are you waiting for?!?
With a Master of Arts degree in Medieval History, Scott Jernigan feels as much at home in the musty archives of London as he does in the warm glow of a computer monitor. Scott teaches A+ Certification and PC hardware classes around the country, including several stints at the FBI Academy in Quantico, VA, Lucent Technologies in Baltimore, MD, and the United Nations in New York City. Scott has also edited numerous computer books, including the best-selling "All in One A+ Certification Exam Guide" and the "Network+ Certification Exam Guide" from McGraw-Hill. Practicing what he teaches, Scott is an A+ and Network+ Certified Technician.
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Another year has come and gone. Some things change; most do not. Predictions come true, or they are laughed at because the opposite occurred.
A brief review of some things I forecasted in the past two years may interest you. Please note that in many cases official industry data will not be published for several months. Thus, some of my information is gleaned from private surveys.
Prediction: A devastatingly affected middle-of-the-market.
What has happened: The largest number of 2006 club closures has come in this sector.
Prophecy for 2007: More of the same.
Prediction: Very low or no net growth in clubs this year.
What has happened: So far, a slight single-digit growth factor. Many clubs closing, many new clubs opening, particularly studio-type, smaller facilities.
Prophecy for 2007: An actual net loss in club numbers by the end of the year.
Prediction: A shift of a major portion of members to lower-priced clubs.
What has happened: It has begun in earnest. The biggest beneficiary of membership change has been the teens-per-month membership facilities led by Planet Fitness.
Prophecy for 2007: More of this happening at a faster pace. The continuation of commoditization will drive average membership prices even lower.
Prediction: Zero growth in the net membership.
What has happened: Looks like it has happened again.
Prophecy for 2007: Limited growth in this area. Look for the low-pricers to primarily attract new-to-fitness members, thus increasing the net numbers for the first time in three years.
Prediction: Several equipment manufacturers either merging or closing their doors.
What has happened: This did not happen. As a matter of fact, several new companies entered the equipment marketplace this year.
Prophecy for 2007: Your guess is as good as mine. I can't see why small independents are coming in given the power of the major manufacturers.
Prediction: A total upheaval in the group-exercise sector of the fitness marketplace.
What has happened: Just beginning to take hold. Clubs are recognizing that they can no longer carry weakly attended classes or net-loss departments.
Prophecy for 2007: More of the same plus a movement towards pre-packaged programming.
Prediction: Continued growth in the nonprofit fitness facility sector.
What has happened: The nonprofits now have more members than the for profits.
Prophecy for 2007: If the economy is slack and/or if oil, gas and food prices escalate again and/or if local clubs close, expect more growth in nonprofit memberships.
Prediction: Changes in sales and retention strategies.
What has happened: Operators that are seeing fewer prospects come through their doors (because of the failure of advertising) have recognized the need for all-out fights against member attrition.
Prophecy for 2007: Expect these efforts to continue and to contribute to higher net-membership numbers by the end of the year.
Prediction: National economy affects health-club membership purchases.
What has happened: Lower pricing in general has helped to keep membership numbers at least somewhat steady, despite an uncertain economy. Less available discretionary income has certainly affected areas like personal training and other fee-based programs in many clubs.
Prophecy for 2007: Consensus has it that the economy will slow further. Membership purchases will be directly tied to interest rates, unemployment and gas prices.
Note: Scudder will write From the Lip every other month in 2007.
Michael Scott Scudder owns and operates MSS FitBiz Connection, an online-based club consulting and training service. Scudder can be reached at 505-690-5974 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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OneClick OpenID: ClickPass March 11, 2008Posted by Doriano "Paisano" Carta in OpenID.
Tags: accounts, aggregation, clickpass, logins, OpenID, passwords
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I've been a longtime supporter of OpenID but I will admit that it's not as easy to use as it should be. There are far too many hoops to jump thru and too many clicks to use your OpenID account instead of creating yet another new one. Identity Crisis covers OpenID in more depth if you want more.
ClickPass plans to change the game and will make our lives much easier when it comes to our online profiles, logins and passwords. The key to their success is the much needed concept of one-click access which they do very well thus far. Here are the services that already offer ClickPass access.
Remember, they are new and the list of sites that will support ClickPass will continue to grow rapidly so be prepared to see this logo everywhere you go:
Here's how easy it is now to join new sites with ClickPass. Let's say I wanted to join Disqus so I go to their site: www.disqus.com and see their sign in/create account screen as we do on all sites.
Since I am new and want to join I click on Sign up now like we do everywhere else. However, here is where the game changes forever, folks!
You will notice the usual account name creation fields but take a look at the bottom of the screen and you will see the new ClickPass Enter logo with the OpenID logo next to it.
Click on that instead of filling out anything.
You will then see this screen which will be filled out for you by the kind folks at ClickPass who kind of know what you will use already but you can change it if you want to or if it is taken already.
Here's what it looks like:
Click this for more information about ClickPass and why they created their service and their vision for the future. I truly believe they are on to something big here.
I believe this is something everyone is going to use in the near-future. Why not get on board now?


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Leslie Hartigan needed a new wordpress theme design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 29 designs submitted by 10 freelance designers.
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Barbara Hartigan Renowned Irish Artist
Graduate of Limerick College of Art, Mulgrave Street, Limerick. 1968
Hon. Member and Past President of Limerick Art Society.
Illustrator of Laurel Publications " Limericks Glory"
Founder member of "The Market Artists."
Recipient of the Jim Kemmy award for Excellence in Art 2007
Based in Castleconnell, County Limerick, I work in watercolours, monochrome and pastel, landscapes, figurative, still life and portraiture I like the variety of different mediums and the challenge of experimentation.
In recent years I have been working with a new and very exciting oil technique which I call CreArtigan. This is a method where I build up many transparent layers of colour introducing action, movement, light and shade through the removal of paint rather than the application. This approach has a spontaneity which I find very exciting and which I can only equate to the delights of the multitude of "happy accidents" that occur in watercolours.
Over the past 40 years I have exhibited widely, both nationally and internationally. I am now venturing into the On-Line world and need a dynamic and vibrant Web Gallery to exhibit and sell my paintings to an International Audience.
I have exhibited successfully via conventional Art Gallerys for several years and would now like to make my work available to an audience that cannot view my work in person.
I also hope to facilitate regular customers that are repeat buyers of my Art, that they could be notified of new works as they become available and given the opportunity to puchase the works on-line prior to release via traditional art galleries.
We are looking to create a smart Wordpress theme Art Gallery to sell paintings and Fine Art. The site will be full of unique and origional high quality works that will be regurarly updated on a weekly basis.
The site will also sell other products such as prints and notlets of the origional works for customers with all types of budgets.
I am looking for a sharp site with a smart feel that is business orientated towards the sale of paintings. The site must be easily updated and modified by a non technical person.
The design must be a layered PSD file.
I want to incorporate a Twitter link and also a Blog section and have a facility to accept On-Line payments.
However, this is an Artist Website and should be unique and creative and avoid raw and brash colouring.
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Climate change is already making itself felt across the United States in many concrete ways, but it is still not too late to do something about the magnitude of its future impacts, according to a highly anticipated report released Tuesday with major contributions from Boulder scientists.
The 840-page U.S. National Climate Assessment, released by the White House and the product of four years of work by hundreds of the nation's top scientists, states, "Climate change, once considered an issue for the distant future, has moved squarely into the present.
"Corn producers in Iowa, oyster growers in Washington state and maple syrup producers in Vermont are all observing climate-related changes that are outside of recent experience."
The report states that average U.S. temperatures have increased from 1.3 to 1.9 degrees Fahrenheit since record keeping started in 1895, but most of that change has occurred since 1970. The most recent decade is the nation's warmest on record, and temperatures are expected to continue climbing.
An overview of the document, which highlights findings by region, said that for the Southwest, including Colorado, "Climate changes pose challenges for an already parched region that is expected to get hotter, and, in its southern half, significantly drier."
And, in the Southwest, the report said, "Widespread tree death and fires, which already have caused billions of dollars in economic losses, are projected to increase. Tourism and recreation also face climate change challenges, including reduced streamflow and a shorter snow season, influencing everything from the ski industry to lake and river recreation."
Increased heat and disruptions to the rain and snowpack "will send ripple effects throughout the region, affecting 56 million people — a population expected to increase to 94 million by 2050."
'An international hotbed of climate science'
The National Climate Assessment comes closely on the heels of two more installments in recent months of the most recent report by the International Panel on Climate Change, which offered a global perspective on the issue. And, just like the IPCC report, Tuesday's assessment carried key input from researchers in Boulder.
Kristen Averyt, associate director of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado, was at the White House for the assessment's release. She was a lead author for its chapter on energy, water and land. Averyt said the local expertise that contributed to the report can also be harnessed as Colorado and the Southwest grapple with the effects of climate change.
"Boulder has the benefit of really being not just a regional hotbed, but an international hotbed of climate science talent," Averyt said. "We're fortunate to have that expertise in our society, and we really should put that to use as we plan at the community, local and state scale."
Mark Serreze, director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center at CU, was a lead author on the chapter examining Alaska. That chapter states, among other findings, that over the past 60 years, Alaska has warmed more than twice as rapidly as the rest of the United States, its statewide average annual air temperature increasing 3 degrees Fahrenheit, and the average winter temperature climbing 6 degrees.
"The rate of warming in the Arctic is just astounding," Serreze said. "The Arctic is telling us that the climate really is changing, and it's not too late to do something about it, but we better get our act together soon."
Good marks on planning, mixed on implementation
Stopping global warming "in its tracks," however, is not an option, Serreze said.
"The first thing we need to do is adapt because climate change is already here, and no matter what we do right, it's going to continue."
Joel Smith, principal at Stratus Consulting of Boulder, was a convening lead author for the chapter on adaptation, highlighting efforts from the federal down to local levels, as well as in the corporate and non-governmental sector, to prepare for "unprecedented human-induced climate change" through adaptation.
He gives good grades to many communities — including Boulder and Boulder County — on preparation for the effects of climate change.
But overall, Smith said, "There is a lot of planning and not as much implementation. We we need to see more. It's a good start, and it's encouraging, but it's not enough."
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Aldon's ALM portfolio has this week been refreshed with the launch of Aldon Community Manager 9.5.4, the latest release of its web-based IT service management (ITSM) solution is now equipped with formalized templates for Agile development project management. As well as expanded facilities for test case management, the new release also reportedly boasts tighter integration with Aldon Report Manager.
Justifying its product refresh, Aldon says that the rapid iterations and flexibility of the Agile process itself require teams to have a more efficient way to manage the backlog of work and all the components that are undergoing modification. With the agile templates now shipping with Aldon Community Manager 9.5.4, the company claims that organizations will gain a centralized workspace where they can view the backlog and prioritize the work to be done.
In the pursuit of Agile best practices, industry reports suggest that ALM solutions with templates are a productive development route to follow regardless of whether the team is working in an all-Agile environment or taking a hybrid approach.
"Many organizations starting out in Agile use a whiteboard or an Excel spreadsheet to manage all of the stories," said Matt Scholl, CEO and president, Aldon. "That works if you've got 10 or so stories to manage. But what if you have to juggle 1,000 stories or even just 200? Cutting and copying, sorting and re-sorting, moving from one worksheet to another can be a daunting and time-consuming task. Aldon Community Manager helps streamline the whole tracking process."
Aldon also says that more and more IT organizations are using the test-driven design (TDD) approach for their development efforts as a way to think through requirements and design before writing functional code. Developers create a test with the end results in mind — and then code to it. They then run the tests to ensure they created what they originally set out to do. Aldon Community Manager 9.5.4 helps drive that process.
Automated test scripts can be attached to the collection of files that are being modified. For manual testing, all the steps in the testing process can be recorded as related tasks, along with any supporting screen layouts and expected results. Those tasks can then serve as the script for the testers. As they complete tests, they can record any errors, or if the test is successful, they can close the task.


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Mike Clink
Noted record producer Mike Clink has twenty years of experience in the music industry selling over seventy million records worldwide. After starting his career as an engineer at the famed Record Plant, recording such bands as Metallica, UFO, and Jefferson Airplane, he started getting more involved in producing by 1987.
Known for working with legendary bands such as Aerosmith, Guns N' Roses, and Megadeth, Clink also specializes in developing new talent, including GRAMMY nominated artist Sarah Kelly. Traveling the world to record the biggest media events, Mike's credits include ABC's Millennium Broadcast from Osaka, Japan, the Super Bowl XXXV Halftime Show, Super Bowl XXXVII pre-game show, and the 2002 FIFA World Cup Soccer Championship.
With his expertise in live recording, he started a new media company that specializes in the instantaneous fulfillment of CD's with added value content available immediately after a concert event. Mike frequently speaks on panels for The Recording Academy (NARAS), the Audio Engineering Society (AES), and forums that focus on digital rights and new media technology. Mike is a Trustee of the Los Angeles Chapter and a member the National Steering Committee of the Producers and Engineers Wing at NARAS. He is also the founder of the charitable organization, A Song of My Own, which pairs songwriters with patients at Children's Hospital in Los Angeles. Drawing from his diverse musical talents, Mike is known for his ability to work under pressure and to complete projects under the toughest circumstances.


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Patek Philippe partners with Kips Bay Boys and Girls Club for The Art of Watches Grand Exhibition New York
New York, NY – Patek Philippe is pleased to announce a collaboration with the Kips Bay Boys and Girls Club for The Art of Watches Grand Exhibition New York, which will take place July 13th – 23rd, 2017 at Cipriani 42nd Street. The 11-day public exhibition will showcase Patek Philippe's tradition of high-precision watch manufacturing, an insight into the company's 178-year history as well as its heritage in the domain of Haute Horlogerie. Visitors will have the opportunity to discover the world of the last privately family owned Geneva watch company from the inside.
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Hope College senior Lauren Wilbur of Norton Shores has been chosen to participate in the 2013 Governor's Economic Summit being held in Detroit on Sunday-Tuesday, March 17-19.
Hosted by Michigan Governor Rick Snyder at Cobo Center, the event focuses on addressing the state's employer-talent needs and creating opportunities for regional collaboration and placemaking. Those attending and participating in the discussion will include thought leaders in business, education, and economic and work force development. Wilbur, selected through the Michigan Economic Development Corporation, has been chosen to participate as a Young Talent panelist.
Wilbur is an economics and management double-major and minoring in French. Her activities at the college have also included the business club, of which she is a past president; the Vienna Summer School; and the Delta Phi sorority. She is a 2009 graduate of Mona Shores High School, and the daughter of Wesley and Jean Wilbur of Norton Shores.


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In the upper quarters of the house, Raman Saigal lives with his wife Sangeetha and three children. Despite the fact that this is essentially the house of a traditional "joint family", where members of the same family continue to live with each other, there is no sense of overcrowding in the large house.
Sangeetha has designed the rooms with a sophisticated European feel and antique furniture: there are either rooms in the top floor which centre around the comfortable family sitting room, or a downstairs room next to a guests' kitchen and elegant lobby which can be rented out as a suite. The young couple is sociable and friendly; they are great to talk to and are experts on life in Delhi, telling you all sorts of fashionable and interesting places to go. They have done a lot of traveling and are the quintessential cool modern couple, keeping a hospitable but informal relationship wit their guests
The beautiful roof garden is an excellent place to survey the local area and relax in style, maybe reading one of the books from the family's very up to date collection of Indian authors. The surrounding wide residential streets with walls covered in bright flowers lead to the cosmopolitan hub of South Extension where there are plenty of shops, nightlife and restaurants. You might equally want to stay in for a family meal with the Saigals on the floodlit roof garden and to start the day doing yoga before tackling the sights of Delhi...
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|Dev: Yuke's Yokohama
|Pub: THQ
|Release: October 30, 2012
|Players: 1-4
|Screen Resolution: 480p-1080p
|Blood, Crude Humor, Mild Language, Mild Suggestive Themes, Use of Alcohol, Violence
And here is the kicker. All of this customization, all of this user-made content, can be shared online like some sort of testosterone-driven LittleBigPlanet. You can download someone else's custom superstar, put them in a storyline with your superstar over a belt that a third person made, and then re-upload that back to the Internet. Granted, at the time of writing the pre-launch servers were a bit barren, but given enough time, WWE '13 will be fleshed out with its own user-generated universe of wrestling insanity. I can only hope that Vince McMahon sees some of these concepts and eventually integrates them into the WWE itself.
Now, to be fair, the game isn't perfect. In fact, some of its most glaring flaws are in its control scheme. You have buttons for strikes, grapples, and miscellaneous actions like Irish Whipping and going for pins. These buttons all do different things depending on where and how you are standing and what direction you are pushing. You then have another button for finishers and signature moves, a trigger for interacting with the environment, and another trigger to reverse the opponent.
Unfortunately, this control scheme has a few limitations. For one, the window for a reversal is unfairly small, which is very frustrating for new players. On the flipside, there is no limit to how many times you may reverse a move, so skilled players will find themselves in reversal loops that get boring quickly. In addition, it's kind of hard to tell when you can and can't move, i.e. when your character is dizzy and helpless or not. This leads to a lot of button mashing. The HUD is unfortunately barebones, and your HUD options don't get remembered from match to match if you set them, say, inside a match in the Attitude Era mode. There's also no way to check your move-list in the middle of a match, just your passive ability list, which makes some Attitude Era matches a lot of trial and error.
However, as frustrating as these flaws can be, you tend to look them over just so you can get to more narrative goodness. In that way, WWE '13 is actually at its most fun when played alone. It's far more fun to hop into the WWE Universe mode so you can take your wrestler of choice on a trip through the ranks in order to become the WWE champion than it is to simply sit down and play a vs. match with a buddy.
WWE '13 is one of those games that has just too much content to review. I've had WWE '13 for a couple weeks now and I still haven't seen everything the game has to offer. It has a feature set unlike any other and its commitment to both built-in narrative and player-based customization is greater than anything we have seen from almost any other title on the market, regardless of genre. In fact, the only flaws I can find in WWE '13 are concerning the gameplay engine itself, but the feature set is so huge it's almost like it doesn't even matter.
Angelo M. D'Argenio
Contributing Writer
Date: October 30, 2012
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Feldun-Purdue Fulfills Legacy to Benefit Southern Indiana Producers
By Olivia Maddox
The picturesque, rolling hills of southern Indiana—more suited for pasture than row crops—are a haven for the state's cattle producers. On a narrow road
snaking through the countryside west of Bedford, Indiana, a herd grazes on a hillside next to a pond. On the other side of the blacktop, young bulls are
grouped into large pens, standing in clusters or eating from feed bunkers along the fence line.
From a distance, the barns, silos, pasture and crops could be just another large cattle operation, if not for a sign proclaiming the property as Feldun-Purdue Agricultural Center and home of the Indiana Beef Evaluation Program.
The farm's origin dates to the 1830s, when it was part of extensive land holdings of Moses Fell, a prominent Lawrence County settler. Fell's last surviving
family member, Moses Fell Dunn, donated 360 acres to Purdue University in 1914. (See related article, "A Proud Hoosier History.")
It was the first property outside of Purdue's home county to be designated for experiment work.
This lasting legacy of the Fell and Dunn families celebrates its centennial in August; Feldun-PAC is Purdue's oldest, active research farm at the same
location. It was donated the same year Congress passed the Smith-Lever Act, which
established the Cooperative Extension Service.
The Purdue Experiment Station, which oversaw research and Extension activities in the early years, wasted no time putting the bequest to use.
In 1915, the orchard was renovated and crops planted to determine suitability of the fields for experimental work in soil and crop improvement. A few years
later, the orchard renovation was paying off—the apple harvest improved from a mere 200 bushels to 8,000 bushels.
The outbuildings mark different phases of the farm. A limestone chimney and fireplace from a long-ago log cabin still stands as does the apple shed where
produce from the orchards was processed. The repurposed poultry houses are a reminder of a period when a variety of livestock was raised here. An
open-sided pavilion, built by Purdue in 1935, hosted the Lawrence County fair, and a silo from the former Lynnwood-Purdue Agricultural Center in Carmel,
Indiana, stands sentinel. A modern pole barn houses the office and shop.
The farm expanded as small tracts of neighboring land became available. Today, the Feldun-Purdue Agricultural Center encompasses 880 acres, with an
additional 300 rental acres. The farm transitioned to a narrower focus on beef cattle breeding management and forages.
"The history of the Feldun-Purdue Agricultural Center truly highlights the need for outlying research farms across Indiana," says Jerry Fankhauser, director of Purdue Agricultural Centers. "Applied research efforts at Feldun-PAC have changed and
evolved over the years, and work done at this farm at present reflects the needs in the Indiana beef cattle industry."
Feldun-PAC has marked many changes during the last century—the orchards have been removed, and the limestone quarry mostly played out. But one of the most
pivotal changes occurred in 1989, when the Indiana Beef Evaluation Program, commonly called the bull test station, moved to Feldun.
The semi-annual bull test houses bulls for 146 days each summer and winter. Animals are evaluated for genetic defects, growth, meat quality, structural and
breeding soundness and expected progeny differences, or EPDs.
"The test provides opportunities for breeders to see how their bulls perform compared to other breeders' bulls in an on-farm environment," says Terry Stewart, Purdue animal scientist and IBEP secretary/treasurer.
Bulls scoring in the top two-thirds of the test, based on performance and structural and breeding soundness exams, are eligible for the IBEP bull sale.
"We're confident we have been able to improve the genetics of Indiana's breeding herd through the sales of high-quality bulls. But the sale is secondary to
educating producers and providing them with reliable data," Stewart says.
"The bull test station shows the great partnership between Purdue Agricultural Research and Extension and Indiana beef producers who volunteer their time
and talent to make the bull test station successful," Fankhauser says.
The majority of seed-stock producers submitting bulls are from Indiana, although bulls have come from 21 states and Canada. More than 10,000 bulls have
been tested since 1976.
"In the past, producers bought a bull from a sale barn or a neighbor," says Brad Shelton, Feldun-PAC
superintendent and manager of the test station. "They would breed their cows, then take the calves to the sale barn, and that was that. The bull might look
good, but looks aren't everything. Data collected during the bull test takes the guesswork out of buying a bull."
Producers agree. At the test station's 73rd sale in April, 118 bulls sold for an average $3,826, with the top-seller bringing $11,000. Both
figures set new sale records.
"I've bought three bulls from the Purdue sale, and they are fantastic," says Judy Chandler, who raises registered Angus on a 400-acre farm near Bedford.
"The calves are healthy—I think they're born running. And I haven't had to pull a calf since I've had a Purdue bull."
Chandler was new to farming when she decided to make a go of the farm following her divorce. She credits Richard Huntrods, Feldun-PAC superintendent from
1993-2011, with teaching her how to choose a bull based on what she wanted to do with the calves.
"Richard was a great help when I went into the cattle business," she says. "I wanted to learn how to do things the right way. Purdue offered a lot of
educational programs about forage, about cattle, about anything you needed to know or needed help with. Believe me, Purdue's there for you."
It's not just the IBEP bulls that have benefited Indiana producers. Feldun-PAC has sold replacement heifers from its Angus-Simmental herd. Chandler bought
some, as did Hunter von Leer, who runs about 100 head on 600 acres near Mitchell, Indiana. "My entire herd is first, second, third or fourth generation
from those original Purdue cows," he says. He's also had a string of successes in submitting bulls to the test. Twice he's won the top award for carcass
A movie and TV actor for 40 years, von Leer returned to his home state and started a second career as an Indiana cattleman. He's bought four bulls from
test station sales.
"I realized in just one season the difference a quality bull makes," von Leer says. "Your herd sells better. People come to your farm before you even have
your calves, wanting to purchase them because they already know what they're going to look like. The bulls have done exactly what Brad (Shelton) and
Richard (Huntrods) told me they would do to increase my herd and give me the quality I want."
When George Grundy Dunn and Julia Anna Fell married in 1841 they united two prominent, pioneer families that would continue to influence south central
Indiana's development, commerce, education and public policy for years to come.
Both families had amassed large land holdings—properties that would later become integral to the future of Indiana's two largest state universities.
The Dunn's eldest son, Moses Fell Dunn, a businessman, state legislator, lawyer, world traveler and philanthropist, would become the catalyst for
agricultural innovation in Lawrence County. This Bedford native son attended Hanover College, followed by a post-graduate course at Harvard and several
years of study in Europe.
He returned home in 1865, served in the state legislature in 1867 and began his law practice in 1872. In addition to running family business concerns, he
helped his mother run Feldun Fields, one of the family's farms, after his father's death in 1857. He sold land passed down from his ancestors to Indiana
University, where much of the Bloomington, Indiana, campus is located.
Dunn was convinced that fruits such as grapes, apples, cherries, peaches and pears would grow in the southern Indiana climate as well as they did in
California's. During the 1890s, he planted 6,000 trees to demonstrate his theory, and his efforts were key to starting the area's apple industry.
The family also had limestone quarries, including one on Feldun Fields. The Dark Hollow quarry produced an exceptional quality of limestone, the type used
to build landmarks such as the Indiana Statehouse, the Empire State Building and the Washington, D.C. Cathedral.
When his last surviving aunt, Antoinette Fell, died in 1914, Dunn donated 360 acres of Feldun Fields to Purdue University to be used as an experimental
farm to benefit local farmers. When Dunn died in 1915, he left additional acreage and securities to the university.


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Silversmithing Class Locations, Dates and Times for Rhode IslandSorry, I didn't have any Jewelry Making classes that would fit your location or schedule. I do send out an updated schedule on the 1st and 15th of every month showing where I will be teaching for the next 120 days. If you would like to receive Silversmithing Class schedule then please fill out the form below. I do not sell or rent my mailing list and it has an immediate one click removal function.
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People are Saying...
This was the greatest class and instructor EVER!
I went into this class thinking it would be very tedious, something fun to try, probably make something cool, but not anything I would try again. My main objective was to learn about soldering without having to invest money in tools/materials I might never use again.
Dave is a great teacher. The class was nonstop education. It was a lot of info on selling, techniques, tips, etc. Never did I feel rushed or bogged down. Dave took a great amount of time individually helping each of us. Answering even unrelated questions. He showed us ways to make silver smiting fast (big fan) and profitable.
I completed 2 projects, and felt confident enough to help a couple other students a bit. I am in awe of my projects, and although they are not my usual aesthetic, I love them, and will now set up a space to do more pieces, combining the techniques I learned with some enameling techniques.
I can't rave about Dave enough. He is so organized, calm, patient and funny. He is safety conscious and critiques your work by teaching you what you could do better. He makes you feel confident in what you are doing.
If you get the chance, take his class. I can't wait for the advanced ones.
Class review by Miranda Ackerley:
This is the perfect class for anyone wanting to learn how to be a successful silversmith, whether for yourself or your business. I've taken a silversmithing class before, but was unable to continue making silversmithing pieces because of how expensive the supplies were. Therefore, I was most impressed by how affordable the tools and supplies used in this silversmithing class were. Unlike other silversmithing classes, Dave taught me how to use supplies that are less expensive and don't require their own room to keep from burning my house down. After the class, I was able to purchase the supplies and set up an area on my kitchen table to work without spending a small fortune. I think Dave can make any unsure beginner feel like an expert, and I left with the confidence to make beautiful pendants on my own.
Class Review By Alexis Brown
Just a note to thank you again for the great Intro to Silversmithing class. I learned so much in the 2 short days... and you gave me such a renewed appreciation for Southwestern jewelry. I have a large collection of Native American jewelry that I have collected for many years... just looking at those pieces now, and realizing what is involved to create these pieces... well, I'm in awe!.
Karen V
Dave Smith's Beginning Silversmithing class was AWESOME! Two days of nonstop education. Dave is very organized, patient and entertaining. He took time to help each person individually while keeping the rest of the class working too. He is safety conscious and critiques your work by teaching you what you could do better while instilling confidence in what you are doing. I am quite impressed with my project pieces and can't wait for the advanced class. I have been making and selling beaded jewelry for about 4 years and while I love the creative aspect, I haven't really found my 'nitch'. Until now! Thanks Dave,
Laury H
Hi Dave, I just wanted to thank you again for the Silversmithing class you taught at Beadoholique in Spring, Texas. I had a great time and FINALLY learned to solder without being scared of it. I am quite happy with my piece and enjoyed your way of teaching. I too teach jewelry classes and I'm a fine silver snob!! There's nothing like it although I am told gold is wonderful to work with but too rich for my 'not very deep' pockets! Thanks again and I hope to be in another one of your classes somewhere in time.
Kathy C.
I have been wanting to attend a silversmithing class to learn about the techniques because I didn't want to learn on my own, and I am so glad I waited! I was blown away with the quality of instruction and how many techniques we were able to learn in just two days. Everything we needed was provided for the class, and I was so impressed with the preparation that is taken to get ready for students. Dave was great with giving 1 on 1 attention to each student (even in a large class), was extremely patient for those that were slower learners, and made difficult techniques seem simple with giving professional hints and tips. Plus he even pushed through and continued the course when he was sick. Dave gave us lots of options to get everything we needed to start on our own, including tools, materials, and instructional dvd's/'online content at very competitive prices as well. I was so impressed with my own work and enjoyed it so much that I decided to purchase a kit and the online instruction so I could review our techniques and learn new ones. The online content is fabulous; it gives you a view that would just be like your own on the bench, and even shows how to prevent or fix mistakes! Dave gave me the confidence to start making pieces the very next day on my own, and I'm very excited to have learned this skill. I couldn't have been happier with the class and the instructor. If you decide to take this course I guarantee you will not be disappointed!
Melissa M.
Hi Dave, I was in your class at Argenta Bead Company this past September. After your class I took another beginner silversmith class because a pendant, ring and possibly a bracelet was to be taught and I wanted more practice and knew I'd probably get to learn different techniques with silversmithing. So far the class has only worked on a ring. I am very thankful I found your class because this class is more of a craft class. I got to experience an acetylene torch, saw, warm pickle and paste flux (I prefer your method for flux & pickle) but it has been very frustrating and illogical with some procedures. Many students have had to re-solder pieces because the instructor did not do a good job at showing how to manipulate the solder with heat. Because you made us watch twice how solder follows heat I was able to save my solder when it balled up on the inside of my ring connection. Very proud moment for me because I was in a state of panic. There is much more I can point out but it would be a book. If I hadn't found your class and took just this other one I would have given up on making jewelry, and I want this to be a business. So thank you for sharing your skills and experience. I hope to take another class from you some day.
Rick C.
This was so much more than a soldering class. I went home and created jewelry for my wife and kids. They love it!
Tiffany H.
OMG! I am so looking forward to the advanced silversmithing class. I am the only student at my school who is making their own sterling body art.
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I tried learning in on-line silversmithing classes but there
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An amusement park (sometimes referred to as a funfair) or theme park is a group of entertainment attractions, rides, and other events in a location for the enjoyment of large numbers of people.they have fixed location, as opposed to traveling funfairs and traveling carnivals.
Children's Fairyland
Aquatic Park
Waterworld California
Pixieland Amusement Park
San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park: Visitor Center
Six Flags Discovery Kingdom
Adventure Playground
Aqua Adventure Water Park
Small World Park
Sonoma TrainTown Railroad
Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk
Planet Snoopy
Carousel Columbia
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Scandia Family Fun Center
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Usually,providing attractions meant to cater specifically to certain age groups, as well as some that are aimed towards all ages. Theme parks, a specific type of amusement park, are usually much more intricately themed to a certain subject or group of subjects than normal amusement parks.


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The accordion is probably most closely identified with folk music from Eastern Europe and South America, but the young Lithuanian virtuoso Martynas Levickis aims to prove that it can make all kinds of music, everywhere. His debut album on Decca is a riotous ride through a rainbow of styles, all of them artfully tailored and arranged to show off Martynas's brilliant playing. From Beethoven to Vivaldi, Ennio Morricone to Lady Gaga, he takes the accordion around the world and back and forth across the centuries.
"Yes, I want to change the image of the accordion", Martynas explains, "but I'm also trying to show all the different possibilities I have as a performer. All the arrangements are brand new and the pieces have never been played this way before. It's exciting for me to be breaking some rules." Martynas recently completed his degree at the Royal Academy of Music in London, and has acquired all the knowledge and technical expertise of a professional classical musician, but he sees classical music as just one part of his personal mix. "At some point in my career I want to record an album of modern accordion compositions. But my new album is contemporary music too, just from a different angle."
In 2010, while he was still studying at the Royal Academy, Martynas won the "Lithuania's Got Talent" TV show and became a household name in his homeland. He could easily have built a comfortable performing career for himself there, but ever since one of his teachers back home told him he needed to get out of tiny Lithuania and study abroad, Martynas's horizons have gone global.
When he first began experimenting with the accordion as a three-year-old child he was merely experiencing the sheer instinctive joy of music. "My uncle, who was the main influence behind my musical education, bought that first accordion for me. It was a very small instrument and there wasn't a lot you could play on it. A few years later I got a huge Russian accordion. I used to play in front of the mirror so I could see the keys and where to put my fingers."
Some visiting relatives heard the young Martynas play and recommended a music teacher. At eight, he enrolled in a music school, and when he was 12 his teachers began entering him in competitions. He won awards all over Europe, and advanced steadily to a conservatory. In 2004, he was the first accordionist to be awarded Lithuania's Queen Morta prize. His prodigious musical talent was becoming his passport to the wider world, and in 2008 Martynas made his fateful move to London. In 2009 he won the 71st American Accordionist Association competition in Memphis, and in 2010 he took second prize at the Gala-Rini International Competition in California. Also that year he won the Coupe Mondiale, literally the accordionists' World Cup.
It's onward and upward. Already Martynas has performed at such prestigious venues as the Purcell Room, the Royal Festival Hall and the Wigmore Hall. He has many more dates in his diary for 2013, but for all his success, you can't take Lithuania out of the boy. "If you want a great weekend away", he urges, "just go to Vilnius and walk around, because it's a really nice city." You may well hear an accordion player too.
mastery of an instrument once dismissed as a squeezeboxThe Times of London
I've been listening to a new version of Get Lucky. Daft Punk's original is pretty good but this summer it's all about Martynas's performance of it on YouTube — played on the accordion. Squeezeboxes have never been regarded as the route to mainstream success, but Martynas Levickis (pronounced "Levitskis") is changing that. The "adopted Londoner" (he moved here from his native Lithuania five years ago) had his debut album go straight to No 1 in the classical charts, outselling Katherine Jenkins. And he's only 23. His album includes covers of songs by the likes of Lady Gaga and Katy Perry, belying Martynas's rigorous classical training, but also serious pieces by Bach and Vivaldi.The Standard
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Caregivers play a special role in the lives of the ones they tend to each day.
Their tasks and challenges are great, sometimes outweighing the needed thanks.
That's why those dedicated folks are special.
Recently a Lancaster caregiver, Karen Hoffman, was honored for her work as a caring caregiver.
Hoffman was presented the local Family Caregiver of the Year Award, an annual honor given by Homewatch Caregivers, which is an international provider of full-service home care, and co-sponsored by the National Family Caregivers Association.
Ten years and the images are still as vivid as if it was only 10 minutes ago. The horrific sight of smoke billowing from the World Trade Center after terrorist-piloted suicide planes slammed into the buildings.
Then there was the damage at the seemingly impregnable Pentagon and the plane crash in the Pennsylvania field, which, if not for some civilian heroes, might have struck the U.S. Capitol and killed key national leaders.
For most of us, Monday will be a day off. It's Labor Day, a federal holiday that celebrates the contributions of America's 153.2 million workers. Schools will be closed, as will government offices, banks and many other businesses.
Labor Day's roots extend back to Sept. 5, 1882, when American labor leader Peter J. McGuire organized the first parade of about 10,000 workers in New York City. The Carpenters and Joiners Union secretary was inspired after seeing a labor festival in Canada.
Local governments are considering an option to contract with Tax Management Associates to recoup tax dollars owed by residents who are improperly claiming tax credits and exemptions on property taxes.
The city of Lancaster, town of Kershaw and Lancaster County Council recently heard a presentation about the program.
Tax Management Associates conducts tax audits to catch residents improperly paying 4 percent taxes on homes listed as a primary residence; residents improperly claiming a homestead exemption; and businesses not paying their taxes properly.
The troubled Edenmoor development in Indian Land has been in the news regularly for the last few months.
Many of the stories have been long and complicated because the issues surrounding the stalled development are complex, involving the county's Forfeited Land Commission, developers, financiers, tax and bond sales and pending contracts. And much of what has taken place has been behind closed doors, making it even more difficult to make sense of what's going on.
Dennis Cauthen was trying to help fellow firefighter Randy White find the right word. White was describing how it felt for the Elgin Volunteer Fire Department to be one of several fire departments trying to save the blazing historic Lancaster County Courthouse that early Aug. 4 morning in 2008.
"Honored," said Cauthen, fire chief. "We're honored to have helped the city (of Lancaster) and other departments save the courthouse."
The last couple of weeks have been really busy for teachers, students and their families. Some families have been scrambling to get in those last few days of vacation fun before the school bells ring Monday morning.
Many students and their parents took advantage of the recent sales-tax-free weekend to buy school supplies and clothes.
For several weeks now, teachers have been preparing their classrooms for the return of students Monday.
The start of the 2011-12 school term will feature David Shamble in the principal's office at Indian Land High School. Shamble, a former assistant principal since 2007, is replacing Kathy Faris.
Faris, the IL principal for the last five years, resigned her post in mid-July, about a month before the start of the upcoming school term.
Shamble, who considers Faris his mentor, will no doubt continue many of the initiatives she started. But he will also have his own agenda for the Class AA high school.
You have to give it to scam artists – some are getting pretty creative. And dire economic times are breeding ingenuity among some of the best.
In the past six months, The Lancaster News has published several articles about various scams in Lancaster County.
In February, reporter Reece Murphy shared the plight of a woman who was summoned to Springs Memorial Hospital in the wee hours of the morning. The caller, who identified himself as a highway patrolman, said she had a family member at the hospital and to get there fast.
Tax hikes and fee increases have been in the news a lot lately, as they always are this time of year. All across the county, residents are learning they will have to pay more in taxes and fees in the upcoming year.
Lancaster County School District recently approved a 5-mill tax increase, which will cost the average Lancaster County homeowner about $20 more this year.
The town of Kershaw's budget includes a 1.2-mill tax hike, which will cost its homeowners $4.80 more in yearly taxes on a $100,000 home. It also increased its water and sewer bill by $7.
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Habitat for Humanity International and The Home Depot Foundation have expanded Partners in Sustainable Building with a $30 million incentive fund to encourage affiliates to build 5,000 homes that meet Energy Star guidelines or a nationally recognized green building standard.
More than 120 affiliates across 45 states were selected to participate in the first year of the national rollout that begins at the end of August. These affiliates will be granted $3,000 for each home built to Energy Star standards and up to $5,000 for each home built to a higher green standard. Nearly 1,500 sustainable homes will be built in 2009 and 2010 alone. The grant process is annual, which gives other Habitat affiliates the opportunity to participate in the program.
Partners in Sustainable Building was established last year through a pilot program with 30 affiliates across a variety of climates in rural and urban areas throughout the United States. Habitat built more than 260 sustainable homes that met a green building standard during the pilot. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, benefits or features of homes built to this standard include:
The pilot program demonstrated that the upfront costs of building green are modest and can be recouped through savings on utility and energy costs over the course of a home's mortgage. For instance, during the pilot phase of the program, an additional $2,000 in energy-saving features were added to Habitat houses. Early results show energy savings between 15 and 30 percent. In fact, in some of the homes already built to LEED Platinum standards are seeing energy savings of almost 50 percent.
"The Home Depot Foundation believes green building techniques are not a luxury - they aren't exotic or expensive," said Kelly Caffarelli, president of The Home Depot Foundation. "By embracing the practical principles of green building, our partnership with Habitat for Humanity International is demonstrating that these techniques can actually make homes more affordable to own, maintain and live in from day one and for the long term. With health and economic concerns at an all-time high, this issue is more important than ever for the families who will purchase these homes."
To inspire and educate additional affiliate participation, eight Habitat State Support Organizations, which provide services to 440 affiliates, will also receive grant money to add staff and host training sessions for Habitat affiliates to learn how to build to nationally recognized green standards.
"The introduction of the Partners in Sustainable Building program has created excitement about the benefits of green building within Habitat for Humanity," said Jonathan Reckford, chief executive officer of Habitat for Humanity International. "With the support of The Home Depot Foundation, we have a great opportunity to bring the economic benefits of sustainable building to our homeowners and to show our volunteers how easily and affordably they can make their own homes greener as well."


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Thursday, December 27, 2001
Monday December 24, 2001
eye-witness account of the American Airflines fight
63, Paris-Miami, near-disaster
06:25 PM Flights MY flight to Cancun was
late. That is, my flight from Paris to Miami
(connecting to Cancun) was late. That is, American
Airlines flight 63 on the 22nd Dec was late.
I was sitted in 28E. My sister was in 28G.
Parents in 28H and 28J. Richard Reid was in
29H, just behind my mother. We'd actually boarded
the flight late as the ground staff were on strike.
The plane eventually left around an hour late. It
was overbooked: people were offered vouchers to
take a later plane. It was a pretty fun crowd, a
holiday crowd, mostly French and Italians but many
others too. We ascended, read the inflight
magazine, ate a quick lunch and relaxed for a bit.
I kind of dozed off.
I wake up as my sister smells burning. Like a
match burning, or some plastic. We look around and
a flight attendant tells 29H to "put it out". 29H
was a bit of a dodgy guy. Tall, with a hat and
People throw water on him (everyone had smelt
the burning). There were no restraints on board at
all: we used belts, headphone wires, anything. The
plane starts to descend. General panic. Everyone is
ordered to sit down. People threaten to use fire
extinguishers on 29H. "Is there a doctor on
Yes, two as it happens and they inject him with
a sedative. The captain slowly gets us all to calm
down. The staff get his shoes off (we wonder why?),
his bag, his passport, maybe some drugs. Strong men
are chosen to restrain him (they are relieved later
on). The captain announces that we will be landing
at Boston instead of Miami and that we'll be
escorted by fighter pilots.
You can imagine us being slightly nervous at
this point. We were forced to sit down. We had to
put hands up to go to the toilet. Anyone standing
up was a suspect. The crew decide to show the film
Legally Blonde to calm us down. It kind of
works, until we see F15 fighter jets on starboard.
It seems that we landed quickly.
The aircraft goes to a quiet bit of the runway
and we're surrounded by flashing lights. Police,
fire, ambulance, state police etc. We get boarded
by a SWAT team in full bulletproof gear and they
take him away safely. We slowly deboard, go through
customs, get stopped for two hours with no news,
get moved to somewhere else (guarded by military
police and only allowed to the toilet under
Twenty FBI agents arrive and start interviewing
everyone familiy by family. A nice FBI man named
Jamey wishes my father happy birthday. We'd
forgotten. Up to the interview nobody had really
told us anything. We find out he had a fuse and
some explosive in his shoes, possibly C4. and that
he had tried to board the same flight the day
before but was stopped by police. Only at this
point to we realise how serious it is.
A guy calls his girlfriend and we find out we're
on CNN (they mostly get everything correct). It is
currently 9 pm. We're still in Boston airport.
We've been up 24 hours (time differences). We're
exhausted and stressed. The FBI have gone home. We
head off to Miami very slowly. They check all our
bags for explosives. The machine takes 15 mins per
bag. There are about 200 bags. We point out it'll
take more than a day. Mob rule when they're nasty
to us. I was going to dive on my holidays. I think
I'll just lie on the beach.
I've been saying "Are we there yet?" to my
sister since we left the flat in Paris. I've said
it a lot recently. Our journay took ages and was
like Die Hard. My sister doesn't remember
the last time she saw me use a pen. We end up
stopping at NYC to change crew, hah! We eventually
get to Cancun, seeing ourselves in the newspapers
at Miami.
There is more stuff, but I'm not going to put it
up now. I don't think I want to fly to San Diego
for the Perl Conference. I thing I'm going by train
to the German Perl Workshop. I'm fed up of the
cheesy crisp snacks AA serve (we've had way too
many of them). We're here. We've relaxed on the
beach. We say hi to our fellow survivors(?). We
party hard and try to chill. Not a relaxing
Are we really there yet? (please spread this
wide and far)
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I installed Arch about a week ago, and since then, I have not had any sound output from my headphone jack in Windows. My speakers work perfectly fine. I have since reinstalled all sound drivers, and even ran a system restore to the time before I installed Arch, but nothing made a difference.
My sound is working perfectly fine in Arch.
My laptop is an Asus K53E.
Information about my audio device:
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 05)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 1b43
Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
Thanks in advance. I assume that the problem is specific to my machine's specs, since googling this issue didn't do much good.
There was another person on the forums who had the same problem.
I may have to CONSOLE you about your usage of ridiculously easy graphical interfaces...
Look ma, no mouse.
I removed the battery from my laptop for six minutes or so, and booted directly into windows. The audio was normal after that, so I am assuming this is a pulsaudio issue. I then booted into Arch, then windows again, and no audio once more. I assume that the others experiencing this issue are running Gnome...
So the issue now is, how do I safely remove/disable pulseaudio in Gnome?
:: gnome-settings-daemon: requires pulseaudio
:: pulseaudio-alsa: requires pulseaudio
Check this: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=928817
Also, not sure about being a problem with pulseaudio.
Try to kill the pulseaudio daemon, and play something using alsa. Then reboot to windows, to check if the problem is present.
If pulseaudio is actually the problem, well, do those steps. Maybe you'll need to recompile gnome... or just change to another DE or to a plain WM (Do you really need gnome?)
"open source is about choice"
Open source is about opening the source code complying with this conditions, period. The ability to choose among several packages is just a nice side effect.
I removed pulseaudio and pulseaudio-alsa, but kept their dependencies, but the problem still exists. I am really baffled here...I don't know how an issue like this can carry from one OS to another.
No, I do not need gnome, KDE will surely suffice, but until I actually figure out what the real issue is here, I don't want to completely remove an entire DE hastily.
I tested to see if shutting down the system would yeild the same results as removing the battery and it does. If I simply shut down before booting between operating systems, Windows' audio works correctly.
Still, this problem alludes me. Since I have all of gnome's packages cached in pkg, I decided to remove it completely from my system just to check if the problem is associated with gnome. However, the problem persists...unless there are other suggestions, I am going to keep gnome, and simply shut down everytime I want to switch between Arch and Windows, to assure audio functionality.
Yeah, keep gnome, for what you said, I don't think is a gnome/pulseaudio problem at all; it looks more like a problem with the snd_hda_intel driver.
I would do trial and error tests with the snd_hda_intel options, read about them here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1043568
...maybe if you remove the module from memory before restarting to windows... I don't know, is just a shot in the dark
# rmmod snd_hda_intel
"open source is about choice"
Open source is about opening the source code complying with this conditions, period. The ability to choose among several packages is just a nice side effect.
Well... Removing the intel driver didn't work. Still need to halt the system and pull the plug.
I will try to unload all sound related modules and see if that helps. Still all modules should be unloaded automatically when Arch is going down...
Last edited by conchyliferous (2013-02-17 11:13:08)


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Greek Goddesses – College Girls Use their Chests as Billboards During Rush Week
Man, college is the best, huh?
A little backstory on these pictures for our interested readers: Ever since the first picture was taken on the first digital camera, fraternity bros have been convincing women to plug frats on topless pics during Rush Week.
So...Wait. Not a single person is still reading this. You have all scrolled down. We can basically say whatever we want, and it doesn't matter. We would like to admit something publically -- We can understand why women find Sean Connery attractive. We do too.
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Simple Harmonic Oscillator
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One of the most important model systems in quantum mechanics because a wide variaty of physical situations can be reduced to it either exactly or approximately. In particular, a system near an equilibrium configuration can often be described in terms of one or more harmonic oscillators. Furthermore, it is one of the few quantum mechanical systems for which a simple exact solution is known.
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However, other devices may not tolerate the low voltage or erratic current delivery of dying batteries. What other hardware will you be using?
Running ATMEGA328P-PU, which is pico power, right?
Speed Grade:- 0 - 4 email@example.com - 5.5V, 0 - 10 firstname.lastname@example.com - 5.5.V, 0 - 20 MHz @ 4.5 - 5.5V
For one, an nRF24L01 radio. It's rated for 1.9-3.6. So I guess if I went with straight batteries, I could stack 3 as far as that guy is concerned.
For temp, I had been looking at MCP9700 which can go down only 2.3V.
1.2 * 3 = 3.6. That gets you nicely into the 10 MHz band allowing you to reliably run the processor at 8 MHz.
If you can, running the processor at 1 MHz will significantly increase the battery life.
Yeah, all is well on the day with fresh new batteries
I suppose the thing to do here is just run a dying batteries test.
Oooh, scary! :O I'm just wrapping my head around 8 MHz. Is there even a boards configuration for lower?
The input can be anything from 1.0 to 5.5V, so this can also be used with 2x or 3x AA battery packs (even 4, if NiMh), and it will continue to work when hooked up to a 5V power supply. The regulator will work down to less than 0.5V and can squeeze the very last bit of energy from the battery.
ST makes a booster - L6920 - that is about the best I've found in terms of quiescent power consumption (down to some 20uA or less depending on input voltage) and low voltage startup behavior. This will run down to 0.5V or so (actually, 0.4xx V in practice if you're not drawing much current). Not sure how low in cost you want to go; there are definitely cheaper ones out there if you don't mind higher idle current.
Do you have any plans or schematics online? I'm also working on a very low-powered Arduino variant geared toward energy harvesting projects; might be good to compare notes.
I want to build a drift buoy to send off to see if it could make it across the pacific, using ocean currents at particular depths as a conveyor and pressure sensor to determine depth. I will have a 'report' routine where it will surface and get a GPS location, charge the batteries with a solar cell, and transmit its data points and location to me using ULF. Obviously I want the thing to be using little-no power when it isn't collecting data or transmitting...


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int XGetDeviceButtonMapping(display, device, map_return, nmap)
Display *display;
XDevice *device;
unsigned char map_return[];
int nmap;
XSetDeviceButtonMapping can generate BadDevice, BadMatch, and BadValue errors.
The XGetDeviceButtonMapping request returns the current mapping of the specified device. Buttons are numbered starting from one. XGetDeviceButtonMapping returns the number of physical buttons actually on the device. The nominal mapping for a device is map[i]=i+1. The nmap argument specifies the length of the array where the device mapping is returned, and only the first nmap elements are returned in map_return.
XGetDeviceButtonMapping can generate BadDevice or BadMatch errors.
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Park Slope Food Co-Op Falls into Chaos: Should They Have a Position on Israel?
"After three years of heated debate," The Wall Street Journal reports, "the Park Slope Food Co-op is at last ready for a vote." The vote is about whether they should vote about whether they should boycott products made in Israel, to protest what boycotters consider "an apartheid system against Palestinians."
Somewhere in Jerusalem, Benjamin Netanyahu is convening an emergency cabinet meeting. If Israel loses the Park Slope Food Co-op, will the nation ever recover? [WSJ, image via wallyg]


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An agreement among Greece's creditors on how to reduce its large debt pile should be "rooted in reality and not in wishful thinking," the head of the International Monetary Fund said as she heads into a tense meeting with European leaders.
Christine Lagarde, the IMF's managing director, canceled the last leg of her visit to Asia, skipping a Southeast Asian summit in Cambodia, to return to Brussels for a meeting on Tuesday of the Eurogroup on Greece.
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As she left the Philippines, Lagarde told Reuters she would push for a permanent solution to Greece's debts to avoid prolonged uncertainty and further damage to the Greek economy.
To Lagarde, that means countries in the euro zone should send a strong signal they remain committed to Greece by agreeing to reduce the debt Athens owes them.
"I am always trying to be constructive but I am driven by two objectives," she said in an interview, "to build and approve a program for Greece that is solid, that is convincing today, that will be sustainable tomorrow, that is rooted in reality and not in wishful thinking.
"The second objective is to maintain the integrity, credibility and quality of advice that we are giving, not for the Fund itself, which obviously is a concern of mine, but to lend that to the Europeans because that is what they are interested in," she said late on Saturday.
In an unusually public airing of disagreement that flared during a news conference in Brussels on November 13, Jean-Claude Juncker, who chairs the Eurogroup of finance ministers, said the target of reducing Greece's debt to 120 percent of gross domestic product by 2020 should be moved by two years to 2022.
Appearing surprised by Juncker's statement, Lagarde disagreed, insisting the target of 2020 should remain.
The stand-off threatens to further delay the next 31.5 billion euro tranche of Greece's bailout, pushing the country close to bankruptcy. Greece's successive bailouts have already suffered setbacks from elections and resistance to reforms.
"They might resent me ... but that is in their interest," Lagarde said of the European creditors. "The two objectives are critical for me, both of them."
Taking a hit on Greek debt is politically difficult for politicians like Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, facing an election in 2013.
Greece is heading into its sixth year of depression that has wiped a fifth off its economic output and sent unemployment to a record high -- one in four Greeks are out of work.
Bickering among its creditors could cause more economic damage for Greece if markets do not believe that Athens has the support of Europe and is concerned about the IMF's commitment to the bailout.
Lagarde has previously said the IMF does not walk away from countries, but without a European deal on Greece's debt and financing she cannot take the matter to the IMF board of member countries for approval.
"(Markets) are not going to be convinced today that the solution holds in the medium term," she said of Greece's debt problems. "And that is what we need to focus on."
One option is for euro zone countries to agree on cutting the interest rate on outstanding Greek debt -- some have suggested reducing it to zero. Another option is combining interest rate reductions with prolonging the repayment period, a move that could calm markets since the bulk of the debt matures in 2021/2022.
"The sense I have ... is that the Europeans have taken the view that the zone has to stay a zone of 17 member states," Lagarde said of Europe's political commitment to Athens.
Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann, who is also a member of the European Central Bank's governing council, said on Friday that Greece levels were unsustainable but that it would have to earn a writedown by getting its budget into shape.
The IMF's role in the European debt crisis has forced it into new territory. It has operated alongside the European Union and European Central Bank as part of a "troika" of emergency lenders to Greece, Ireland and Portugal.
The row with Europe over how to deal with Greece's debt is a test for the credibility -- and independence -- of the IMF.
In Malaysia and the Philippines last week, where the IMF's prescriptive policies were blamed for exacerbating the 1997/1998 Asian financial crisis, Lagarde was confronted with questions about how tough she was prepared to be with Europe and the United States.
While acknowledging the IMF's mistakes in Asia, she said the Fund could use its surveillance to pressure countries to act.
"I am not just concerned about the perception of the Fund's credibility, I'm concerned about the real credibility of the Fund," Lagarde said.
She said it was important that the IMF remained even-handed in its advice. "The real credibility is not for ourselves, not for the satisfaction of the egos of Mr So-and-So, or Mrs So-and-So, but for what goodwill we have to offer to the membership," she said.
Lagarde expressed confidence that the United States would be able to avoid its looming budget crisis and said the IMF would press Washington to act. "We are going to be there, maybe discreetly to begin with as we do, and maybe more publicly," she added.
U.S. President Barack Obama and his Republican rivals are in talks aimed at avoiding what has been dubbed "a fiscal cliff" at the end of the year, which economists have warned could push the economy into recession.
Without an agreement by Congress, the economy will be pushed over the "fiscal cliff" of spending cuts and tax increases worth about $600 billion.
"It will take time because people are going to want to save face and reach out and close as much as the gap as they can," she added.
(Editing by Robert Birsel and Paul Tait)


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Gotcha! Installing a Radio Frequency Identification SystemBy Sean Gallagher | Posted 2002-12-01 Print
The biggest expense in implementing radio frequency identification (RFID) systems might not be the transponders and receivers.
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? The biggest expense in implementing radio frequency identification (RFID) systems might not be the transponders and receivers
The biggest expense may well be the cost to beef up your data so that applications can take advantage of the wireless technology.
In a warehouse, you may have to add fields to record the timing of various events and associated location information for all products that come in. This starts with what pallet an item is on and the time and location that the pallet was last scanned by an RFID reader, for instance.
In a store such as Prada's, you may have to create new ways not of tracking goods, but of linking different types of goods and accessories together. The data has to be set up to support "up-selling."
"This is bigger than Y2K," says Peter Abell of AMR Research, in reference to the massive database updates needed in the late '90s to ensure that programs would continue to operate in the new millennium. "That's because of new data elementsyou're not just checking for two-digit years in data," he says. Now, for every place a company has a Universal Product Code in its database, it will need a location, a time and a block of serial numbers.
? Integration is in its infancy
While there are some tools available to integrate radio systems into enterprise applications, they are just frameworks. You'll need a good deal of custom development to connect the readers that track radio tags to the databases that underlie your inventory and sales systems.
? You'll need to check your physics books
"The laws of physics are bound to take over with [radio frequency] technology applications," says Bill Allen, e-marketing manager for the Texas Instruments' RFID group. "Metallic environments disturb, and in some case, destroy a radio frequency field." Translation: Steel buildings can be a hazard. Recognize that, during deployment, antennas may need to be moved, readers may need to be finely tuned and equipment that generates interference may need to be shielded.
? The equipment can be costly
Low-cost "disposable" tags cost around 30 to 40 cents each, and radio frequency readers cost about $500 each in volume, according to Abell. That's not a problem for applications that track "high value, high margin" goods like the clothes Prada sells, but it's still too expensive for moving and tracking low-cost stuff. But, Abell says, by 2006 tags should sell in volume for about a nickel apiece and readers will drop to $100.
? This is not a standard technology
While there are efforts to standardize radio tags, current systems from different makers aren't compatible. That may change over the next two years.
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This past weekend, a pastor in Texas brought a bed up to the rooftop of his megachurch and sat in it with his wife for 24 hours. The pastor, Ed Young, decided to do the stunt to promote a new book he has called Sexperiment: 7 Days to Lasting Intimacy With Your Spouse. Young swore it wasn't a gimmick and said he was simply doing it to spread a message: "Bring God back into the bed." I guess it's easier for Him to find the bed if you're up on the roof?
The point might be for couples (of the married variety only, Young is quick to point out!) to be having more sex, but there wasn't any hanky-panky going on at this bed-in. For one thing, it was freezing outside and they both had to keep their coats and hats and gloves on. Plus, they were on a webcam the entire time and chatting with people on Skype—so there wasn't much time or privacy for indulging in any sexperimentation. That's probably for the best, since this isn't a scenario where you'd want to hear things being shouted from the rooftops.
'Sexperiment': Texas pastor beds down with wife atop church [LA Times]
Texas pastor's 24-hour 'Sexperiment' [KHOU]