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Abigail Whitehouse
Richard McMahan sits quietly in his room at Bluegrass Way Assisted Living, looking out the window as he reflects on 99 years of life.
"I've led an interesting life, I really have," he said.
McMahan served in two wars, owned and operated a local shoe business in Campbellsville for 23 years and has been an active member of his church congregation for most of his life.
Dan and Virginia Flanagan will be celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary at a reception on Sunday, April 12, from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Virginia P. Flanagan Technology Center on the campus at Campbellsville University.
In lieu of any gifts, the family invites you to write a note of congratulations and memories to be included in a memory book for Dan and Ginny. Dan and Ginny were married on April 4, 1965, at the Jamestown First Baptist Church.
Stanley Sr. and Betty McCubbin of Campbellsville will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary on Sunday, Jan. 11, with a reception at All Occasions from 2 to 4 p.m.
The McCubbinses were married Jan. 14, 1955.
They have a son and daughter-in-law, Jr. and Kathy McCubbin; three grandchildren, Stan McCubbin III and his wife, Brandy, Todd McCubbin and his wife, Liz, and Andrea Goodman.
They also have six great-grandchildren, Logan Parker, Callie McCubbin, Chloe McCubbin, Jayden McCubbin, Kenley McCubbin and Kayden Long.
Ciera Brooke Gowin and Adam Corey Mattingly of Calvary announce their engagement.
Gowin is the daughter of Cindy Gowin and Brian and Tammy Gowin.
Mattingly is the son of Alan and Kim Mattingly.
The ceremony will be Saturday, Jan. 10, at Fairview Baptist Church in Mannsville at 4 p.m. A reception will follow at Center Square in Lebanon.
Family and friends are invited to attend. Invitations were sent to out-of-town guests only.
Citizens Bank and Trust Co. employees recently donated toys to the community Toys for Kids and Toys for Tots drive.
Becky Nash
County Extension Agent for Family and Consumer Sciences
A new year always brings its share of resolutions aimed to improve our health, body and mind. For a caregiver, perhaps the most important resolution that can be made is to take time for self. When you take care of yourself, you will be healthier, have more energy and enthusiasm to keep on giving care and feel better about yourself overall.
Here are some tips on how to carve out some "me" time in the next year.
Jamie Gail Flatt and Michael F. Harris of Knifley announce the birth of a daughter, Bella Gail Harris, at 12:57 p.m. on Dec. 18 at Taylor Regional Hospital in Campbellsville. She weighed 6 pounds and was 18 inches long.
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Emily Melson of Columbia and Obra Huff of Greensburg announce the birth of a son, Jayden Hunter Huff, at 5:29 a.m. on Dec. 19 at Taylor Regional Hospital in Campbellsville. He weighed 8 pounds, 1 ounce and was 20.5 inches long.
Taylor County Republican Women's Club officers for next year were recently announced.
Marlyn Shreve is president. Cindy Bale is first vice president and second vice president is Tina Draper.
Kathy Larimore is third vice president, Tonya Young is treasurer, Pat Phillips is historian and Barbara Gribbins is parliamentarian.
Sylvia Marcum is secretary and corresponding secretary is Margaret Stewart.
Greg Gribbins installed the officers.
Boy Scout Troop 616 members in Campbellsville participated in Wreaths Across America on Dec. 13 at Lebanon National Cemetery.
The scouts volunteered to lay wreaths.
Taylor Regional Hospital auxiliary volunteers had their annual awards luncheon on Dec. 2.
With 47 workers, the auxiliary has given 9,432.25 volunteer hours this year to help TRH by working at the information desk, surgery department, emergency department, radiology department, cancer center, cafeteria, greeter and gift shop.
The auxiliary also collected canned food items to be donated to the local food pantry as part of their service to the community.
Friends of Taylor County Public Library recently completed its application to become a nonprofit group. And, because the process is now complete, the group recently received $400 in reimbursement for the application fee.
Mary Lynn Collins, president of the Friends of the Kentucky Libraries Association, made the presentation at the last Friends of the Taylor County Public Library meeting.
The Friends group will meet again on Thursday, Jan. 15, at 5:30 p.m. at the library. It is open to the public.
Amazon Fulfillment Center recently donated food to feed 60 families this holiday season to Green River Ministries.
Pictured are GRM Executive Director Shirley Cheatham, at left, and social worker Kim Davis.
The Grandview recently raised $1,700 for local toy drives. Each year, the nursing and rehabilitation center hosts a Hall of Trees event.
Local businesses donate items for an auction and decorate Christmas trees for display at the center.
Residents toured the center on Dec. 13 and bought chances on the auction items.
In all, more than $1,700 was raised and divided evenly between the Toys for Tots and Toys for Kids efforts.
Roger and Kay Emerick of Campbellsville celebrated their 55th wedding anniversary last week in Florida.
The Emericks went to Florida to watch their granddaughter perform at Epcot with the Taylor County High School Show Choir. They celebrated by dining at Disney's Sarasota Resort Turf Club Bar and Grill with family.
The Emericks were married on Dec. 19, 1959.
Sarah Megan and John Anthony Wilcher of Campbellsville announce the birth of a son, Jase Anthony Wilcher, at 8:09 a.m. on Dec. 1 at Taylor Regional Hospital in Campbellsville. He weighed 8 pounds, 10 ounces and was 20.5 inches long.
Grandparents are Greg and Gayle Whitley and Roger and Deborah Bast of Campbellsville.
Great-grandparents are Korine Whitley of Campbellsville and the late William "Buster" and Elizabeth Allen, Howard Whitley, Carl and Irene Wilcher, Marvin Bast and Frances Murphy.
More than $18,000 was raised during this year's Q-104 Toys for Tots Radiothon.
Representatives from Murakami raised a total of $6,500 through various fundraisers, including luncheons, a silent auction and more.
Three couples graduated from the prenatal and childbirth classes taught at Taylor Regional Hospital in December. They are Cody and Morgan Wills, Tim and Gana Hooker and Ian and Kendra Glasscock, all of Campbellsville.
Classes are taught on Tuesdays from 6 to 8 p.m. and the first Saturday of the month from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Taylor Regional Hospital's meeting room.
Classes are free to anyone delivering at TRH. Nicole Collins, RN, CCE, teaches the classes.
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The Central Kentucky News-Journal is your source for local news, sports, events, and information in Campbellsville, KY and the surrounding area.


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Around noon on April 2, a distraught woman called 911 to report that a car had gone over the embankment on Keller Avenue in the Oakland hills.
First responders located the dark blue Honda Civic and realized this was no accident. The driver, Quinn Boyer, a 34-year-old Santa Clara County paramedic who lived in Dublin, had been fatally shot in the head.
Police Chief Howard Jordan said Boyer's killing stood out among the many homicides in the city because of who he was, where the crime occurred and the circumstances. He said Boyer was "a model citizen" who had just taken his father to a doctor's appointment when he was killed in a random attack in a neighborhood where violent crime is rare. "Everyone puts themselves in his shoes and says, 'it could have been me,'" Jordan said.
Whoever did it, however, was in the wind. Boyer did not regain consciousness. Police were never able to interview him. There were no witnesses to the shooting.
With so little to go on, how did Oakland police investigators solve a killing on one of the major gateways to the Oakland hills? What was the trail to four middle school and two high school boys ages 13 to 16? Teenagers who authorities allege targeted Boyer, who had briefly stopped by the side of the road, not at a stop sign as had been widely reported, in a random attack?
Jordan allowed me to interview lead investigators Sgt. Randy Brandwood and Officer Phong Tran. The Tribune agreed not to publish details that police felt might compromise the criminal investigation.
Here, according to investigators' accounts, is a summary of major case developments.
Day 1, April 2
The witness to Boyer's car going off the road told police she saw a possible suspect in a brown car and heard a shot. But she couldn't give specifics. A senior patrol officer told major crimes investigators that a gold Dodge Intrepid had been carjacked in East Oakland earlier that morning. He said it could be the same brown car the witness was talking about. Later that afternoon, a group of boys hijacked a burgundy Honda Civic and led school police on a high-speed chase. Police broke off the pursuit when it got dangerous.
Day 2, April 3
Oakland hills residents began calling OPD offering to show investigators their surveillance video. None of it proved useful. However, investigators obtained other video that placed a gold Intrepid on Keller around the time of the shooting.
Police began investigating a possible link between the stolen Intrepid and the Boyer shooting. They obtained video from a liquor store near the intersection where the car was stolen. That afternoon, a group of boys robbed a 14-year-old on 64th Avenue and shot him in the buttocks. A witness told police the attackers were in a gold Intrepid. Investigators obtained video from nearby Frick Middle School corroborating that. Police found the abandoned Intrepid about 3:30 p.m. Investigators say evidence links it to the shootings of Boyer and the 14-year-old boy.
Day 3, April 4.
Investigators reviewed the liquor store video. They discovered that the boys pictured were the same people the victim said were in the store before they stole his gold Intrepid at gunpoint. Police began canvassing the area near where the Intrepid was dumped trying to identify the boys who they suspected lived nearby. Boyer died later that afternoon.
April 5 through April 18
Investigators were able to recover additional video showing some of the boys walking on High Street toward Congress Avenue right before the Intrepid carjacking.
Investigators called on school district Officer Anthony Fergoso for help identifying the boys. He identified one 14-year-old. Tran reviewed the boy's criminal history and recognized one of his associates from the liquor store video. That 15-year-old was in juvenile hall charged with robbing a woman five days after the Boyer shooting. Fergoso arrested the 14-year-old, along with his companion, a second 15-year-old, whom the officer also recognized from OPD photos.
OPD investigators read the boys their Miranda rights and questioned them. According to police, they confessed to being present at the Boyer shooting and the shooting of the 14-year-old but downplayed their involvement. They also gave police the names of the other boys they said participated in the crimes.
Meanwhile, Fergoso, who had been involved in the high-speed police chase of the burgundy Honda, told investigators he recognized the boy in San Leandro Juvenile Hall as the driver.
By April 16, all six suspects were in custody.
On April 18, the Alameda County district attorney said Christian Burton, 16, who is alleged to have fired the shot that killed Boyer, would be tried as an adult on murder charges.
Citing confidentiality of juvenile records, the DA would not say which –if any — of the various carjacking and shooting crimes the other five boys had been or would be charged with.
People in the community coming forward was a big key to solving the case. Some even steered investigators to important clues. For instance, some citizens noticed that the boys were all wearing khaki pants — a probable school uniform.
"A lot of it was the community assistance," says Tran. "If you live among the silence, you live among the violence."
Tammerlin Drummond is a columnist for the Bay Area News Group. Her column runs Tuesday and Sunday. Contact her at tdrummond@bayareanewsgroup or follow her at Twitter.com/Tammerlin.

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Aussie blokes are the sexiest in the world
Australia may have lost against the Netherlands on Thursday at the World Cup, but our men are winning on another front.
Aussie blokes are the sexiest in the world, ahead of Italian and British men, according to a poll released by travel dating website Miss Travel.
Australian women, on the other hand, were lagging in the sexy stakes. They were ranked seventh behind Russia and Colombia.
The US website asked members of their site, both men and women, to rate nationalities in order of what they find sexiest.
The full list for hottest males in 2014 is as follows: Australia, Italy, Britain, Scotland, Spain, America, Ireland, Brazil, Canada and the Netherlands.
For the women, following Brazil, Russia and Colombia is Britain, the Philippines, Spain, Australia, Bulgaria, South Africa and Canada.
Although Australian women were only seventh, they didn't even make the cut in last year's poll. But neither did Australian men.
Who or how many people were polled is unknown.
Miss Travel aims to match ''generous'' travellers who hate to travel with ''attractive'' people who like to travel for free.
The site also allows the rich to give to the good-looking in terms of frequent flyers points.
''Attractive members who accumulate enough frequent flyer points may redeem them for free airline tickets and hotel rooms, allowing them the opportunity to travel the world for free,'' the website says.
Livia Gamble is a reporter with Fairfax Media


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Opportunity Commission
Company Fired Employee Because Of Lifting Limitation, Federal Agency Charges
MILWAUKEE – AutoZone, Inc., the nationwide auto parts retailer, violated federal law by firing an employee because of her disability and failing to provide reasonable accommodation for her lifting limitation, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.
The EEOC's suit (Civil Action No. 2:12-cv-303 in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin) alleged that AutoZone violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by terminating Margaret Zych, a parts store manager in AutoZone's Cudahy store, in July 2009 shortly after she had received her doctor's release to return to work with a permanent 15-pound lifting restriction – the result of a 2007 work injury to her shoulder. The agency said that AutoZone fired Zych because of her disability and failed to provide reasonable accommodation for the lifting restriction, even though it had provided an accommodation for nearly two years after the injury occurred.
Such alleged conduct violates the ADA, which requires an employer to provide a reasonable accommodation of an employee's disability unless the employer would suffer an undue hardship as a result. The EEOC filed suit after first attempting to reach a voluntary settlement through its conciliation process. Among other things, the agency's lawsuit seeks monetary relief in the form of back pay, compensatory and punitive damages and a permanent injunction enjoining AutoZone from further discriminating on the basis of disability.
"AutoZone terminated Ms. Zych after four years of dedicated service, without continuing an accommodation that had worked well," said John Hendrickson, regional attorney for the EEOC's Chicago District. "A company is legally obligated to work toward reasonable accommodations with its employees, and a permanent restriction is not the end of the process, especially where the employee has been doing the job effectively."
The EEOC's Chicago District Office is responsible for processing discrimination charges, administrative enforcement and the conduct of agency litigation in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, North Dakota and South Dakota, and operates Area Offices in Milwaukee and Minneapolis.
The EEOC is responsible for enforcing federal laws against employment discrimination. Further information is available at www.eeoc.gov.


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It's a Double Down!
Hey H.T., is "double down" actually a football thing? Or am I thinking of that KFC sandwich again?
Mmmmm. KFC. Maybe with some biscuits and honey, and that minced coleslaw that's really sweet? Aw yeah. That's the stuff.
Oh, and I think those cakes are misspelled or whatever.
Now, SOMEONE GET ME SOME CHICKEN. The Pentaverate demands it.


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Ambos' pay claim could cost government millions
PARAMEDICS in Tasmania want to be recognised as professionals in an industrial test case that could cost the state government millions of dollars.
The Health and Community Services Union has lodged a claim on behalf of the state's 270 full-time equivalent paramedics that seeks professional status for the job and a 17 per cent pay increase to reflect that.
For a paramedic starting at the base level of $53,064, that would equate to a $9000 jump in pay.
It will be the first time in more than 20 years that the Tasmanian Industrial Commission has been asked to consider the work values of a paramedic.
HACSU acting state secretary Tim Jacobson said that over that time the demands, training and responsibilities of a paramedic had changed remarkably.
"The work of paramedics is now central to the work that's provided in the health system in general," Mr Jacobson said.
"No longer is it simply about transporting people. They are professionals and should be recognised as such.
"The sooner you treat people in terms of emergency medical conditions, the shorter the length of stay in hospital and the better the life outcome for that patient."
The commission could take months to consider the complex case that's been brought against the cash-strapped Tasmanian government, and whether it will order a reclassification.
Premier Lara Giddings has restricted all public sector workers to a 2.5 per cent pay rise when it comes to workplace bargaining in order to make considerable budget savings.
Similar cases lodged in South Australia and the Australian Capital Territory over the past few years resulted in pay increases of 20 to 25 per cent for paramedics in those places.
Mr Jacobson said other states were also likely to follow suit.
"Increasingly what we're finding is, given the special nature of their work, paramedicine is becoming a more mobile profession just like nursing and allied health professionals," he said.
"So in order for us to maintain our presence and certainly our ability to attract and retain people we're going to have to continue to pay what the market demands."
The union will ask the commission to assess Tasmanian paramedics against their interstate counterparts, as well as nurses and allied health professionals. The base salary for a Tasmanian nurse is $56,135.
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Robbie Keane to finish career in the MLS
Robbie Keane has reiterated his desire to stay in America and continue playing for LA Galaxy in the MLS.
Keane has recently signed a new two-year contract and has an additional year as an option.
The 32-year-old has insisted he is very happy with life in America. Having featured for seven English clubs previously, Keane admitted he won't be returning to the Premier League before the end of his career.
Speaking before Ireland's friendly against Spain in New York, he told reporters: "Go back to who? You're just playing for the sake of playing and making the numbers up unless you are playing for Manchester United, Chelsea, Tottenham or Liverpool.
"I am very, very happy, very content where I am in this situation in my life. If you keep playing and keep producing and keep scoring goals, it doesn't really matter where you are.
"I couldn't tell you if it is the best move of my career to be honest with you. At that moment in time, it was the right decision for me and the family, and I certainly don't have any regrets.
"I have just signed a two-year contract, possibly three years, so at this moment in time, I'm not thinking too far ahead. At the moment, I am very, very happy and I will just keep playing and keep plugging away."
Keane joined LA Galaxy in 2011 and has been prolific in the MLS since his move. In the 55 appearances he's made for the club, he has scored 31 goals.
But with his career coming to an end, the striker has admitted that going into management is something he's interesting in when he eventually retires.
"I am doing my coaching badges in December - but I am going to try to play as long as I can first," he said. "When you get older, you tend to analyse whereas when you are younger, you have got no worries, you just think it's never, ever going to end.
"As you get older, you understand the game a lot more and you watch the mangers closely, like Marco (Tardelli), the manager, and see their see their different ideas.
"I have been lucky enough to play for one of the great managers, so hopefully that will stand me in good stead."
At the start of the 2013 season, Keane was announced as LA Galaxy captain taking over from Landon Donovan.
The striker recently became Ireland's most capped player and will take his cap tally to 127 against Spain in New York tonight.
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Apollo FireWire
Customer Reviews
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A. Colton
Solidly built, sounds great. Plugins are great too.
Mostly used for recording drums with an Audient ASP 880.
T. Zmuda
Just what I needed
I was pretty dead set on the Apogee Symphony due to the reputation of the converters and the expansion options. However after A/B'ing the two, I decided to pick up an Apollo Duo (slightly more "open" field of depth IMO). The I/O options are just enough and if I ever need more in the future, the daisy chain option is available. The onboard pre's are very transparent and provide a ton of headroom. I rate 4/5 because of my issue with UAD-2 (running on MacBook Pro with Retina 2.8 GHz i7 quad, 16 GB RAM, 512 SSD). Everyday I get a popup (from Console) that tells me that plugins have been disabled. Always remedied by a quick restart, but is not ideal in the middle of a session! Overall, it was a major improvement!
A. Taashur
From Motu to Apollo
I have been a Digital Performer and Motu hardware user for 8 years. Motu are making solid products.
In April last year I run into a promotion by UA for the Apollo hardware plus $1000 plug-ins. I decided to take my chance and move into the UA platform.
I have to say that sound quality is absolutely a giant step forward.
The pros:
1. Great preamps.
2. Great plug ins.
3. Free plug ins....Stuter, SR88, Lexicon, Pultec Pro, Little labs voice of god.
The cons:
1. Some firewire issues when running plug ins at times.
2. bandwidth adjustment can be tricky.
3. no MIDI
4. Some instability of the audio hardware to drop once and a while when a session is loading. Again I am not sure if this is something to do more with my studio setup or not.
Update pls
R. Amarell
The last two stars UA could get with an update
As often read... there are many good reasons to work with this Interface.
BUT two things annoy me every day. If UA could solve this with updates the Apollo would be perfect.
First problem: even with the (expensive) Thunderbolt card installed, the audio I/O speed is same as FireWire already offers. When I bought the Apollo UA told the press that you can get PCIe speeds with this interface. It was not true... but this was my main reason to buy the Apollo. The TB option card brings more speed only to the UAD PlugIn section.
Second problem: the "UA mixer engine" is' extremely CPU hungry. It is still in 32bit... maybe Mac OS has problems translating it to the 64bit OS at the system level.
Please solve this via update!!! If you do so: 5 stars
Apollo - Em Portugues - Brazil
Infelizmente tenho que usar o delay compensation do protools com os plugs da UAD para compensar os muitos atrasos dos plugins,e não estar conseguindo usar minha project mix como controladora por estar conflitando com a Apollo quad... mas do resto achei a melhor compra minha dos ultimos tempos e creio que irei adquirir muitas outras coisas da UA em breve... Pena a apollo quad não vir com mais plugins já na compra. Mas de qualquer forma estou muito satisfeito. Bruno Brito.
A. Williams
Yes, it's all true
The Universal Audio Apollo is everything the buzz has promised - powerful processing, pristine audio, straight forward operation. Easily configures with DAW (I'm running Nuendo 5), and the dual headphone outputs coupled with the Console app, make it a breeze to move from tracking to editing and mixing with a quick turn of a dial. For the first time, I find the DAW recording process flowing uninhibited from idea to execution. And of course the plug-ins. Yes, yes, and yes. I have encountered some recurrent issues with taxing the FW800 bus, even after adjusting the bandwidth much lower. I'm sure when I move to a Thunderbolt hard drive, or perhaps the card for the Apollo, this issue will evaporate.
Powerful. Quality. A Bargain.
M. Gustavsson
The best recording unit ever!!!
It has it all.
I was surprised as soon i heard the sound quality.
Open, clear and I can hear where everything is placed in the sound field.
The mic pres are excellent.
They sound comparable to a lot more expensive pres out there on the market.
The fact that I can record direct with a plugin on it without latency thats revolutionary.
UAD plugins are top notch and creating music have been so much easier now and faster.
I can use the monitor our direct the my speakers and thats convenient.
No need for an extra monitor unit
Its like UAD have taken the best of everything and put it in one box.
Need to say no more and now i can sell hardware i no longer use and buy plugins
for that money instead.
It cant be better
Thanks /Mik
R. Andersen
This piece of gear has revitalised everything in the studio. It just makes all recording session fluent and efficient. The pre-amps are ultra clean and make everything sparkle and that combined with the UAD plugin DSP processing and the console gives super control of the sessions. I look forward to the thunderbolt card release as this will undoubtably change everything even further.
Thank you Universal Audio.
The Apollo is the new heart of the studio.
Best Regards,
E. Van
I Love it from the moment i heard it.
It is clear! and that is perfect for use with the uad plugs!
no problems with installing.
looking great easy to use.
what can i say more.
i'm very exited about it.
eric van de bovenkamp
piano player from the netherlands
M. Van
I'm most impressed so far, especially with the DSP and the plug ins. I only wish I could afford to buy more! It seems like a solid piece of kit, and I'm pleased with the audio quality.
N. Gowland
This is the best single purchase I have ever made, turns out my hard earned money has been very wisely spent because the quality of my recordings have finally arrived in the pro domain which is really good news as I have struggled for years to get the sound I so desired. I recently recorded a solo classical piano album with DPA mics and my new Apollo and the results are astounding. My only grumble is how few plug ins were included as standard for my £2k plus which is the only reason I can't give it the full 5 stars, and y'know if plug ins weren't so prohibitively expensive for us small guys we would all buy and use them more, anyway enough of the politics overall absolutely thrilled with my new Apollo.
Thanks UA 4*
D. Smith
I just purchased a UA Apollo. Of course the first thing we do when we get a new interface is listen to all our mixes done with the old hardware. Well, I was blown away at the clarity & detail the Apollo brought to my system & I was coming from an RME Fireface 400 that I was really happy with. But the Apollo just really opened up the top end, added an extra level or definition to the midrange (for the first time my dynaudio BM5s are not sounding boxy in the mids!) & opened the soundfield's width & depth.
I just just completed my first album mix through the Apollo & the UAD plugins included & I must say the mixes are sounding great. They're translating better & faster. Less mix corrections are needed as making better choices right off!
M. Murray
The UA Team has done a great job with the overall appearance and feel of the new Apollo. The front panel is very clean and organized well.
The 1U model is held together with steel and aluminum plates. You can toss this thing around. Guaranteed it will still hold together.
The unit works seamlessly with the very popular "console" app provided. The routing that can be done in the back end and integrated with your DAW is amazing.
Whether you're running old or new mixes, or even songs from your itunes library this unit does a great job at clearing things up and making your music come to life.
Would have loved to have seen more "Free" UAD plugins, considering the price.
S. Zoega
A beuatifully made piece of kit, solid and sounds gorgeous with that indefinable quality of "air". The operating method of the apollo takes a bit of getting used to, but works seamlessly... though an amp modeller is now a real "hole" in the UAD library. Adding Mackie/Euphonix hardware control surface support would also be a major leap in creating a complete system for those of us who cant mix with a mouse
C. Jacobs
With this unit I am able to make better mixing decisions. I love the sound to the point that I don't believe I need to purchase a summing box. The only issue is I have to bypass the headphones 1 & 2 because I get a scratchy sound when I adjust the volume on both HP jacks. I've, tried it in different outlets, different headphones (3 different) but the scratch is still there when adjusting the volume knob. I've even returned the unit and got another unit and same thing. I thought I was going crazy so I let other people listen to see if they've heard and they've also heard the sound. UA is awsome and offered to fix the issue. I appreciate that but I just can't ship my unit out and wait a week to get it back. too busy.
K. Richards
When I set out looking for a new audio interface I wanted something that had mic pres, top notch converters, thunderbolt compatibility, two sets of headphones and the incredible UAD processing. The Apollo is all of these things and more. Its effortlessly easy to use and sounds absolutely incredible. I would have liked it to have midi I/O as well as a dim switch on the unit itself, but these are minor things. One thing I didn't know until I got the unit however, is that the ADAT ports are not two separate ports. At 44.1 and 48 kHz port 2 mirrors port 1, at high sample rates using both ports allows more channels. Apart from that it was everything UA says it is. All in all its a fantastic box that lives up to the UA name, and I'm very pleased.
J. Hazelby
The Apollo is pretty much what I wanted. I mainly record acoustic instruments and vocals, but need the flexibility to do drum kits from time to time. The Mic preamps do what I want - provide incredible fidelity of the boosted signal so all the richness of an acoustic guitar remains after the considerable gain increase. Monitoring live with an 1176, a 1073 and an EMT Plate is wonderful. As a player it really gives you confidence to play expressively. I don't like to commit to a sound on recording so I love the flexibility of just monitoring with the plug-ins and fine tuning from within Logic later. All the analogue warmth (of which I'm a massive fan) can be added with the plug-ins and they do this very well indeed.
D. Keldie
I do mainly overdub recording at my home studio, and had been using MOTU hardware for years -- very reliable stuff, but then one of my clients brought over his $5000 Prism Orpheus that blew me away. I decided it was time to upgrade, but didn't want to spend that amount, so I started checking things out in the $2000 range -- Apogee Ensemble sounded very nice, but then I heard news about the Apollo, and, already being a satisfied UA customer with a 6176 and a UAD-2 Quad, I decided to wait for the Apollo to arrive at my local dealer. Long story short, I LOVE IT !! And I'm glad I waited !!
G. Kurtz
What can I say?
I bought apollo with a lynx aurora 8, and a UA 2/610, together with other things. A HUGE upgrade on my studio.
Best thing I could ever do. Apollo is awesome. Good preamps, superb conversion and huge processing power.
Don't think apollo as a "interface to record with plugins". I think this is the main "marketing" of UA... But you can buy apollo even if you are not planning to record with plugs. All the rest are superb.
Get an apollo and a good AD-DA (like lynx) and you have 16 professional channels. 18 if you have a good 2ch AD Endless possibilities.
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My last audio interface was the 'flagship' of a big name UK based brand.
It had trouble talking with Pro Tools & Logic, I/O operating level issues with my large format console, and several strange sonic issues. it's control software was the most ridiculous user unfriendly creation I have ever tried to use in my career.
I decided to upgrade and was advised to consider the brand new UA Apollo. I'd read about it, it seemed very pro and impressive, but I'd been sucked in before.
I took a chance with the Apollo, and I must say it's so good, it's the single most significant piece of new gear I now own. The sound is surely as good as it gets, the software is superbly designed, and my mixing console loves it. No more issues.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Valley Motors, Inc., in Russellville Ark., violated federal law by terminating an employee's employment following her complaint of gender discrimination, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today.
According to the EEOC's suit, Pamela Profitt was told when she was hired that she would be able to work on the pre-owned lot. When open positions on the lot continued to be filled by men, Profitt complained to the owner that she was not being permitted to sell cars from the pre-owned lot because of her gender. Profitt's employment was terminated less than one week after her complaint.
Retaliation for complaining about discrimination violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The EEOC filed suit, Civil Action No. 4:10-cv-1420 WRW, in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas, after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement. The suit seeks monetary relief in the form of back pay, compensatory and punitive damages, and an injunction against future discrimination.
"Retaliation complaints are on the rise nationwide," said Katharine W. Kores, district director of the EEOC's Memphis District Office, which has jurisdiction over Arkansas and Tennessee and certain counties in Mississippi. "An employer simply cannot terminate an employee for complaining about the violation of her federally protected rights. The Commission is vigorously pursuing retaliation cases."
Valley Motors sells Nissan and Chrysler products in Russellville, Arkansas.
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Friday, November 9, 2007
On the Street….World of Chic, Paris
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I want those trousers – wow! And her haircut!
Compared to the other two looks she is so vibrant and fresh!
Where are those trousers?!
These three photos are fab! Pic one – love the volume of the pants. Pic two – how chic is her sling? Pic three – love, lovel love that dress!
sart these pictures are fantastic, and the clothes are obviosuly very chic, fashion forward, etc., but your posts as of late have been all fashion industry -types. your most inspiring work is of people who have unique style because it's innate, not because it's their job and therefore have unlimited resources.
That blonde woman on the top picture has just about made my day. She is absolutely drop-freaking-dead gorgeous, not top mention tonnes of style. If she's a model, then all the better because those pants are so cool, yet so unmodel-like.
this is the first time i have seen an unflattering picture of carine. even in pictures where she strongly resembles iggy pop she looks right some how, in her element. perhaps it's the stark lighting. the bottom woman also looks terribly out of place, though in a different way. her outfit is so not about daytime and bright sunshine.
the top woman is terribly real and lovely. great picture.
the girl in the middle is beautiful. delicate, simple, and soft. i like it. i was in brazil last week, and the general style is bold bright colors. what a world of difference.
Anja Rubik is amazing :D
Amazing looks! The second one, is that Carine? She is allways looking great!
Is it really still that warm in Paris, or are these from a while ago?
I love the Wayfarers in the last one, without trying to make the look all eighties. Very classic.
I LOVE the baggy pants on that first lady. Paired with the satin bolero… The textures and proportions have a lovely and alarming contrast. Brava.
I adore the wide pants. With the tiny cropped jacket, her proportions are perfect while complex. very lovely et tres chic.
The top photo is superb – the wide pants, killer haircut – everything works here! Also, you are making me want to take off for Paris immediately – I need a chic injection!
Oooh, was the second lady injured in the line of fashion duty?
the lady with the short black dress has good legs but she cuts them short with the shoes. never liked shoes that do that to a womans' legs.
Paris pic 1.
I like this androgen style very much.
her outfit altogether is so complete; short hair, black skin jacket, and those trousers!
the long fringe with the short sides become so perfect to her triangular face form.
Love the first woman — very gutsy but the proportion is perfect. I'd love to wear my cropped leather jacket like that, but I'm afraid I'd just end up looking like I was wearing pajama bottoms…
#1 is just my fav…the strides are a type I dream of. The large check just clenches it.
#2 the white shoes and the black dress w/ cut out lace…not a look you see everyday, but it works for HER. That's Carine?
#3 proves you really CAN get away w/ everything in Paris. How often does one see a mostly (sans tights) evening wear look in the day?
Mostly black…3 different PoVs, this is Paris at it's most Paris.
love Anja
anon 11:04…her legs probably wouldn't look cut off to you (they don't to me) if she'd chosen black shoes. Tho I'm personally not into white shoes, I thought that she made an interesting choice wrt the white shoes. It does make the ensemble pop visually, even if it doesn't fully work.
#1 is all about the proportions, eh?
three very cool chicks! great shots and great pants on the top girl..
The blonde in the first pic is of model Anja Rubik, attending the Chloe show. And she looks fantastic diverging from the typical skinny pants, slim silhouette models normally wear. Definitely one of my favorite models.
i love the first one the most–inspirational. i thin its anja rubik. she is soo lovely and sweet. (i had the pleasure of meeting her) she poses for chloe's fall 07 campaign with freja
Wait a minute, is that a make-shift (chic) sling that Carine is wearing?! I love that. I respect that.
That second photo is so fascinating on so many levels. Picasso-like with all the extremes: stick hair/stark shoes/ironed-out forehead /angular arm w/ the ferris wheel in the background. It's very modern with a story to tell. On a fashion level – I don't begin to understand those shoes.
Anya Rubik can wear anything. I adore the voluminous trousers with the cropped leather jacket, but wouldn't want to see a non-model attempt it.
And Carine demonstrates the chic way to carry an injured arm; no ugly white drugstore-issue sling for her!
Can someone break my arm?
This is what I love about this site and the pictures you take (thanks, by the way!)–that I can appreciate personal styles and outfits that I personally would never wear or even think about wearing. But I like knowing, and appreciating, that on the right woman or man, they look fabulous and absolutely right in every way. I don't condemn the woman in the 1st pic because I know I could never pull off those pants–but she looks fab, no? And I've never seen a woman in an arm sling look so chic! For me, it's all about personal style, and that is why I look forward to visiting this site every day, because it gives me a bit of style insight into other people and places. Bravo!
1st girl with short blond hair is really cute. I can see someone wearing that outfit with sandals
woman #1 = stunning
i need those giant pants
was that Carine? Her dress reminds me of Azzedine Alaia.
And Anja Rubik looks fabulous in those trousers!
Anja Rubik.
It's Anja Rubik.
tres chic! the lady up top is absolutely amazing!
It's certain that the last black dress in this series looks much better in person. The way it's made makes it hard to capture in a photo.
#2: i adore the dress but the length is completely wrong for her.
pic1_ head to toe Chloe cruise08
pic2_ Alaia dress and Givenchy shoes
pic3_ derss from Chloe f/w07
I must be the only one who thinks the girl in the first pic of the series has got it all wrong in terms of proportion. There's too much volume involved here. And while I like the pants and the bolero respectively, I would never have teamed them together. Add to that the short do atop that long neck, well, it just makes her look like a pin-head quite frankly.
is that a sling Carine is wearing? hope she didn't hurt herself too bad!
Anja makes me long for straight hair. Her look grows on me. When I first saw her in this outfit, I didn't like it.
I never liked Carine in those sunglasses. They do nothing for her.
Who is the third attractive woman?
God Damn it. I'm in love. This hair cut… the tight jacket and ample trousers. J'adooooooooooore.
Girl 1 is great, There is lots of that relaxed style I like. This is all for now.
My goodness.
The first picture.
Will you marry me?
I'm anonymous but you are not.
Both those trousers and the cropped jacket are fabulous!
1st pic: beautiful, everything is great!
2nd pic: sister of carine roitfeld?
3rd pic: sister of kate bosworth?
Alice olive: I still don´t get you – you seem to like just everything presented. Am I a fool or what? Surely there are some pictures that you don´t like so much? Wish you could open your heart or something.
For Anon 1:55pm
why would you care what she likes?
What real difference does it make to you?
anja is so so beautiful.
mixing of texture in look no.3 is a little off,
suede boots with that dress? hmmmm.
but aside from that… she looks amazing knees up!
the dress in the second picture is lovely!
I love love love LOVE thaose pants in the first picture – she is gorgeous!
The first one is Anja Rubik – the Polish top model. Absolutely gorgeous haircut and style. I love her.
I guess it shows how far removed I am from the fashion world, but I didn't know these were models at first.. just women with great style sense. And then, after reading these comments, came to learn that these women ARE indeed models, and therefore DO have more resources at their disposal. It somehow made me feel a little disappointed. I guess I agree with Livie xoxo – I am most inspired by your photos of "regular" non-model types who simply have fabulous style.
I just love the first shot. Her haircut and colour really balances those big beautiful pants. She just captures a great new look.
Love Carine as usual and what amazing weather to photograph her against. Was she demonstrating the chic way to have a broken arm or was the sling a non-medical part of the outfit?
First of all, Sart, why would you even publish an attack on another poster. You have the option to publish a post or not.
Second, Thank God for Alice Olive!
She has been posting and reading as long as I have and probably even longer. She is one of the last really positive voices and what is wrong with that.
Everyone seems to feel like they can rip apart each featured person and that their comments are fact not opinion.
The whole point of this blog is not open season for unkind deconstruction but one man's eye and who he finds interesting. If you don't agree, he is not wrong for choosing them, you just differ in your opinions.
I can't help but remember that amazing Dior Homme Femme 2 that got slammed because androgeny does not sit well with some.
Kindness and respect is not synonymous with having a closed heart.
Is that anja in the first picture??
My favorite part of the first picture is her hair.
Does the woman in the second picture have her arm tied up? I alway smile when someone can chicly cover an injury.
Sart: I have already answered to why I´m bothered when there is one person,maybe more who just love every single picture you place on the blog. It bothers me ´cause I believe there are things we do like and things that we don´t like. If you shut the other side of yourself you are not real/honest to yourself nor to others.
just got my hair cut like anja's :)
The trousers in the top picture are marvellous — they have something of a martial arts costume and a Marlene Dietrich pant. Very nice. Could be Yohji.
#3 is pure evil.
i love it
Isn't that Anja Rubik (polish model, chloe's face) on the first photo?
Is it Anja Rubik in the first picture? She is gorgeous. One of my favourite models.
I love the Sartorialist photos, but I agree with the person who said that "regular," cool-looking people are infinitely more interesting than professionally beautiful people (tall, skinny models, etc). In fact, I think the art in the Sartorialist postings is that the photos DO find beauty in all kinds of different people & looks.
Please — more regular — but fascinating — people!


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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Crude-oil futures on Friday fell to their lowest level since early February as data showed the U.S. economy creating fewer jobs than expected in April, adding to worries about the health of the recovery.
Crude for June delivery CLM22, +0.85% dropped $4.05, or 4%, to settle at $98.49 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
That was oil's largest one-day percentage loss since Dec. 14, and the lowest settlement since Feb. 7.
The result brought weekly losses to 6.1%, the worst five-day performance since the week ended Sept. 23.
"The jobs data was the bulls' last hope. Now the market realizes that with a slowing economy and weak demand we might drown in an ocean of supply," said Phil Flynn, a vice president with PFGBest in Chicago.
Early in the session, the Labor Department reported U.S. nonfarm payrolls expanded by 115,000 last month. Economists surveyed by MarketWatch had expected an addition of 163,000 jobs.
Employment gains for March and February were revised higher from previous estimates, however. Read more about the employment report.
"There's no way to explain away this report, there's no excuse to these numbers," said James Cordier, a portfolio manager with Optionsellers.com in Florida. "The U.S. economy is slowing; no one is arguing about that anymore."
Disappointing economic data tend to raise concerns about the strength of the economy and oil demand in the U.S., the world's largest consumer of crude.
Oil futures were already trading lower ahead the jobs report, extending losses from the preceding session and from Wednesday. Crude closed at its lowest level in two weeks on Thursday, tumbling $2.68, or 2.6%, to settle at $102.54 a barrel.
Record-high levels of inventories also continued to weigh on markets. Wednesday's U.S. inventories report revealed another large rise in stockpiles, the sixth in a row, and one that put crude supplies at a 21-year high.
Traders also sorted out a change in exchange rules prompted by new Commodity Futures Trading Commission regulations in commodity trading.
The new rules, which will increase the money needed to trade futures for some exchange members, are set to go into effect in 90 days, and not Monday as previously expected.
The CME Group, the U.S. top exchange for futures, said in a news release late Thursday it had sought and received the 90-day extension to "work with the CFTC to address member-customer concerns."
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The settlement put weekly losses for gasoline at 5.4%.
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June natural-gas futures NGM12 shed 6 cents, or 2.6%, to $2.28 per million British thermal units. On the week, however, the product gained 4.3%, up for two consecutive weeks.


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Thanks a lot, Sid, Marius and Ashwin for all those kind words... Again, the pleasure was all mine, and I greatly enjoyed this evening / weekend with you guys around.
I have now received some of the pictures sent by my sister- but they are not as good as those taken by Sid. And since Marius had the chuzpe to post a picture that was taken with Sid's camera (and which Sid kindly sent us via email yesterday), and Sid has until now refrained from posting more than one other of his photographs, I will just feel free to post a selection of the pictures taken by Sid.
Here's one more with Marius and me in a lively discussion, and it's also the proof that Ashwin has been there (he's the guy in the foreground with the blue shirt):


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Sarah Stroup's book, Borders Among Activists: International NGOs in the United States, Britain, and France (Cornell, 2012), is now available!
Go here for more information and to buy the book.
Professor receives fellowship
Chris Klyza (Political Science) has been awarded a fellowship from the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation for a project titled Alaska: Conservation in the Final Frontier. He will travel to Alaska to experience and photograph its landscapes and to better understand the issues at stake there, especially on lands managed by the major federal land management agencies. This trip is designed to significantly enhance two courses that he teaches every year, Conservation and Environmental Policy and Seminar on American Environmental Politics, as well as all his teaching of environmental studies.
Students receive NSF grant
Cara Myers and Nate Brown, were selected as researchers for a large NSF project hosted out of the University of Pittsburgh. They'll work on a 2012 NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program entitled, "Negotiations and Impacts: Water Policy Across China's Loess Plateau" examining how economic development and societal change impact the Yellow River Loess Plateau. The team of 12 researchers (mostly graduate students) is led by well-known scholars Pierre Landry, Roberta Soltz, and James Cook.


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Cisco + EMC + VCE + VMWare Spells Success for SAP HANA and Cloud
Do the technology partners that comprise your data center really make a difference? In the case of SAP HANA and Cloud, the answer is yes. The Application Data Centers of the future look much different than the Application Data Center of the past. CIO's are looking for ways to reduce costs, floor space, and management of their Data Centers while increasing the intelligence they gather from their existing data in order to get a leg up on their competition.
Thanks to their numerous advanced technologies (i.e UCS..) Cisco and EMC, with the active participation of VMware and VCE have developed over the past years a strong architecture to support the traditional needs of the SAP customers, but also new requirements related to cloud and big data.
With the recent certification of SAP Scale-Out, Cisco and EMC are partnering more closely than ever to provide Application Data Center Managers with the platform and persistent storage needed to solve the issues that keep CIO's awake at night.
Thanks to SAP HANA, data that previously was unattainable or unstructured, is now reportable to CIO's in a format that will allow them to make instantaneous decisions to the benefit of their customers and to their bottom line. Since everything with SAP HANA is real-time in memory, reports that used to take days or weeks are now attainable in seconds. Cisco and EMC have provided the perfect platform for these transactions giving Application Data Center managers choices they may not have with other hardware vendors.
"Cisco and EMC have teamed up with SAP around SAP HANA, building an integrated and certified appliance (read more here) The benefits are that the appliance leverages the very dense memory footprint of the UCS B440 M3 blades, and use MPFS (a very unique storage protocol on the VNX) and NAS on the EMC VNX5300 to solve one of the challenges that HANA on it's own doesn't address – which is data persistence, as well as delivering replication options. Interestingly, we saw 3x higher performance leveraging MPFS and NAS together, as opposed to straight up NFS. " EMC VP Chad Sakac (blog The Virtual Geek )
In addition to being the ideal platform for SAP HANA, when you add in VCE and VMWare to the mix, the combined Cloud Vblock solution becomes an optimized platform for any Application Data Center Manager. Servers become virtualized, Data Centers become consolidated, and management become simplified.
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Global technology heavyweights are eager to make inroads into China, the world's biggest smartphone market. Yet local brands like Xiaomi, Lenovo, Coolpad, Huawei are putting up stiff resistance, selling phones for around half the price of their larger competitors. They've even beaten the iPhone into fourth place in rankings of Chinese smartphone sales... and now they're setting their sights on foreign customers too.


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Andy and Lana Wachowski first burst onto the scene with the 1996 crime thriller Bound, but it was their sophomore effort – ground-breaking sci-fi action thriller The Matrix – that went on to define their careers. However, in the years since concluding The Matrix trilogy, the writing/directing duo has struggled to live up to the success of the Keanu Reeves-fronted film.
Both of their subsequent directorial efforts – 2008 live-action cartoon Speed Racer and ambitious 2012 epic Cloud Atlas (which they co-directed with Tom Tykwer) – failed to draw in large audiences, and while these two films have their share of defenders (read our Cloud Atlas review), neither has lived up to the promise (i.e. box office numbers) of their signature franchise. That being said, their latest offering – sci-fi epic Jupiter Ascending – could be a step in the right direction.
We've already seen the first U.S. trailer for the film – which stars Channing Tatum and Mila Kunis – and now we have our first look at the international trailer (see above). Narratively speaking, the latest footage doesn't reveal much new information regarding the mysterious plot of the film, but questions are nothing new when it comes to the Wachowskis' complex tales. The film's visuals look impressive enough, and the quirky character design and juxtaposition of earthly elements with over-the-top sci-fi elements does bear some resemblance to another anticipated summer film, namely Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy.
Like Rocket Raccoon's big-screen debut, Jupiter Ascending is certainly one of the industry's riskiest releases this year. The film's creators are positioning it as a "science fiction space opera" and claim that – not unlike Cloud Atlas - it meshes together several different genres. In that way, the film could follow the tradition of sci-fi epics like Star Wars and Avatar, or it could prove to be a John Carter sized financial misfire, despite the star status of Tatum (Magic Mike) and Kunis (Oz: The Great and Powerful).
At this point, it could go either way, but considering the Wachowskis' track record, the film will likely feature breathtaking effects and at least attempt to bring something fresh to theaters. Whether or not the film actually pulls it off is perhaps the biggest question surrounding the mystery-laden world of Jupiter Ascending.
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Any persons with a Disability who require a Support Person when attending a movie theatre are eligible for the Access 2 Card if they meet certain minimal criteria. For information about the program, guests may go to the Access 2 Program website located at http://www.access2card.ca/.
Companion seating is also available, allowing the Support Person to sit next to or in very close proximity to a guest requiring accessible seating.
Cineplex welcomes guests with Disabilities who are accompanied by Guide Dogs or Service Animals on those premises that are open to the public, or those areas open to any third party. Service Animals are permitted provided that the animal is not otherwise excluded by law. If a Service Animal is excluded by law, we will ensure that alternate means are available to enable the person with a Disability to obtain, use or benefit from our goods and services.
If it is not readily apparent that the animal is a Service Animal, Cineplex may ask for a letter from a physician or nurse confirming that the guest requires the animal for reasons relating to his or her disability. Cineplex may also, or instead, ask for a valid identification card signed by the Attorney General of Canada or a certificate of training from a recognized Guide Dog or Service Animal training school.FEEDBACK PROCESS
Customers may provide comments regarding Cineplex's implementation of this Policy by email, verbally or in writing to:
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If any of the above methods of communication are not suitable, guests may request another method. Privacy will be respected at all times and Cineplex will review all feedback in order to improve its customer service.
Cineplex Guest Services will confirm our receipt of such feedback and will provide a response as soon as reasonably possible. We will endeavour to provide such a response in a manner that it is accessible to the complainant.
Cineplex endeavours to give notice, as soon as reasonably possible, to the public when there is a temporary disruption to our facilities or services. Such notice will include information about the reason for the disruption, its expected duration and a description of alternate facilities or services, if available. The notice will be placed in an obvious location within the theatre or the Cineplex website, or by another method that is reasonable under the circumstances.
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Davis extends Devils deal
Crawley Town have received a boost today with the news that defender Claude Davis has penned a new 18-month contract with the current League Two leaders.
The vastly experienced Jamaican international has decided that his immediate future remains at the Broadfield Stadium, after initially signing a short-term deal back in September.
The 32-year-old is part of one of the meanest defences in the division, with Crawley conceding just 29 goals so far this campaign.
Red Devils' boss Steve Evans said: "We are absolutely delighted to have big Claude with us for the next 18 months."
Davis seems to have found his feet playing in England's fourth tier after spells with a host of higher clubs in his career thus far, including Preston North End, Derby County and Crystal Palace.
An increased set of first-team chances seems to have benefited the 6 ft 2 enforcer, who has made a total of 17 appearances for this season.News Now - Sport News


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Mention the Aviation Museum of NH when you book your stay at The Sleep Inn, Londonderry, NH. We are pleased to refer the Sleep Inn as a prerferred hotel.
Our goal is to combine aviation preservation and educational outreach activities with social events that provide an opportunity for members to experience interesting and informative events and to share their passion for aviation history with good friends and good times.
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Painting is one of the easiest ways to update the look of your home. You can change the mood of a room in no time at all. It's easy to paint your home – the key is taking the time to prepare the walls properly and getting the right tools.
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Where Cisco IT Deploys Cisco Unified Communications Manager Clusters … and Why
Cisco IT currently has approximately 21 Cisco Unified Communications Manager (UCM) clusters worldwide to support our global voice communications in the production environment. Where we deploy these clusters around the globe reflects our user concentrations, their requirements for call performance, and the availability of and regulatory considerations for network infrastructure in different parts of the world.
We use Cisco UCM servers to support our corporate voice needs, and to support our customer contact centers around the world. For our corporate voice environment we have three different types of clusters:
- Campus cluster for our larger campus sites
- Regional Centralized Call Processing clusters that aggregate and control the traffic from many smaller Cisco sites
- Cluster-over-the-WAN clusters that support regional offices with servers based in different geographical locations
The campus clusters serve our campus locations in Irvine, California, in Research Triangle Park (RTP), North Carolina, as well as our headquarters location of San Jose California where we have the largest numbers of Cisco employees and phones. With the campus cluster, all call processing resources are local, so we don't need to provide resiliency in the form of Survivable Remote Site Telephony. In San Jose alone, the campus cluster can support up to 60,000 phones across our current 50 or more buildings. This cluster is our largest, and is considered a "super-cluster". We support a Publisher, two TFTP servers (primary and backup), and 16 subscribers (half primary and half secondary), for a cluster size of 19 servers. We also support a couple of virtual server instances to provide IP Phone Services, as well as servers for voicemail (Unity Connection on UCS), Presence, and dedicated Trace File storage servers. We also have centralized some of our Cisco Unified Operations Manager and other management and provisioning servers there.
Our Centralized Call Processing clusters are located in each region to serve multiple Cisco offices while optimizing network performance, controlling costs and supporting central administration. The US East and US West clusters serve Cisco users in those regions including Canada, Mexico and Central and South America.
We always try to locate cluster servers in two different data centers in the same campus when we can, for added redundancy. In Cluster-over-the-WAN, we keep some of the cluster servers in another location entirely. Our Europe/Middle East/Africa regional cluster is one example of a Cluster-over-the-WAN environment – in this case the publisher and some subscribers are in Amsterdam, while subscriber and other servers in the same cluster are in London and Brussels; the distance adds redundancy without affecting service performance.
We have used these three models to support our standard environment. In the case of India, a Centralized Call Processing cluster is used to support the region. Likewise in the Asia Pacific rim we have several Centralized Call Processing clusters to support the many Cisco field sales offices in this part of the world.
Choosing locations for Cisco UCM clusters is like fitting together the pieces of a changing puzzle. Although the decision factors are complex, our ongoing goal is to consolidate the number of clusters to to support our global environment.
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jasonhwells needed a new coded website design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 33 designs submitted by 11 freelance designers.
We need a one-page website redesign. Layout example provided. PNG, PSD layouts "ok" until winner is declared.
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I have a layout designed for a new look & feel of our website. This layout is good, but I need the red colors moved to more of blues found in our logo we have on our existing site: http://www.integritas-group.com.
We need the rounded box areas turned into html code and images used to keep the same look and feel (such as rounded corners, etc.) Any images with text in them needs to put inside a table and the text needs to written in HTML with the table having the image as a background, because we have UTF-8 language conversion in our system that translates a block of code into the actual word based on a particular language, therefore a word set into an image will not be translatable by our system.
We need to html code from this layout, because we need to be able to stretch some of these rounded box areas and move them around for the multiple pages in our website (Home, Wealth, Health, Training, Community, etc.) So, really this is only design of a one page website for the designer giving our programming crew the ability to adjust the layout based on the data contained in the pages.
We are open to PNG, PSD layouts BEFORE html coding is done, because we understand that may be easier for a designer to do until we pick the winner.


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Telescope Accessories & Parts
ZWO Astronomy Cameras ZWO 60mm Guide Scope - ZWO-60280$118.00
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Telescope Accessories at High Point Scientific
We carry an enormous selection of telescope accessories at High Point Scientific! Whether you need an optical telescope accessory, like an eyepiece, Barlow lens, diagonal, filter, or reducer; or an accessory to keep dew off of your telescope, such as a dew shield or heated strap and controller, we've got you covered with our large selection of telescope parts for sale. You'll also find dovetail plates, saddle plates and other mounting hardware, focusers, finder scopes, telescope cases, batteries and power supplies, as well as hundreds of telescope and camera adapters that will suit your needs.
Speaking of cameras, it's amazing how many dedicated astronomy cameras, both CCD and CMOS, are available today. High Point carries hundreds of imaging cameras, including one-shot color cameras, cooled cameras, and monochrome cameras that can accept a color filter wheel and filters for tri-color imaging. We even have a nice selection of top-of-the-line large format CCD imaging cameras for results that rival those found in space magazines. Want to start out with equipment you already have? Your iPhone or Android smartphone can be used to take pictures through your telescope with the addition of a smartphone adapter.
In other words, astronomy isn't just for professionals or scientists. You can dive in with a small telescope and then accessorize it to suit your own requirements with our telescope parts for sale. Whether you use a telescope to look at the Moon every once in awhile (a Moon Filter would help with that!) or you're out every night taking spectacular pictures of distant galaxies, there is something for everyone in astronomy. Start off by choosing the accessories you need to enjoy your telescope, and then grow from there. High Point is here to help you buy telescope accessories to suit your needs. We can help you choose the best accessories for your telescope and make sure they will enhance your current visual and imaging set-up.


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US ambassador to India resigns 1 week before vote
NEW DELHI (AP) — The American ambassador to India said she has resigned and will retire before the end of May, ending a two-year tenure after the strip-search of an Indian diplomat in New York City badly damaged U.S.-India ties.
In a posting on the U.S. Embassy website Monday, Ambassador Nancy Powell gave no reason for her decision but said she had planned it for some time.
The resignation comes at an awkward time, with India's national elections just one week away. It also comes as the two countries are still trying to mend ties following the diplomatic spat over the arrest of diplomat Devyani Khobragade (dayv-YAHN'-ee KOH'-bruh-gah-day) in New York.
In Washington, State Department Deputy Spokeswoman Marie Harf denied Powell's decision had anything to do with tensions between the two countries.
"It is in no way related to any tension, any recent situations," Harf said.
India and the United States have become close allies over the past decade, following many years of Cold War distrust. But the ties unraveled in December, when Khobragade, India's deputy consul general in New York, was arrested in Manhattan and strip-searched.
Khobragade was accused of lying on visa forms so she could bring her maid to the U.S., paying her a pittance while forcing her to work long hours. Khobragade has denied any wrongdoing and she has since returned to India.
The affair laid bare a string of cultural taboos in India, where strip-searching a member of the educated elite would be unthinkable.
The U.S. Marshals said Khobragade was treated no differently than others who are arrested. But the case caused an international furor, with Indian officials calling her treatment barbaric. India unleashed a steady stream of retaliatory measures against U.S. diplomats, such as removing concrete barriers around the U.S. Embassy, saying they obstructed traffic, and revoking diplomats' ID cards.
Powell took up her posting in New Delhi two years ago. Prior to President Barack Obama nominating her as ambassador to India, she was director-general of the foreign service and director of human resources.
She is ending a 37-year career that has included postings as U.S. ambassador to Uganda, Ghana, Pakistan, Nepal and India.
Her stint in Pakistan between 2002 and 2004 came as the United States was first seeking Islamabad's cooperation in fighting al-Qaida and the Taliban after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
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Have a Ball!
It's your birthday! Have a ball!
No, seriously. Have a ball:
"Look at all the extra care the baker took in crafting this lovely...round...spherical...ball-like thing for your birthday! That random capitalization and uncrossed 't' really add to the post-modernistic feel, too, don't you think?
"Plus, the pink dots add [jazz hands] pizazz!"
Angie C, you spin me right 'round.