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Hmmm, this doesn't really fit in any of the sub-forums, but here it is anyway. Having a problem with my Tundra's brake light. The tail light/brake light functions are shared by one bulb, turn signal is a different bulb altogether. When I turn on the headlights, the tail light comes on just fine. But when I step on the brakes, the light does not get brighter.
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The 5000 Poppies project will be "planting" a field of more than 5000 poppies in Fed Square Melbourne as a stunning visual tribute to Australian servicemen and women for more than a century of service in all wars, conflicts and peacekeeping operations.
People are asked to make poppies (instructions can be found on the site) to be part of this display. Already they have more than 10 000 poppies.
I have decided to contribute to this project. My idea is to make a poppy for each of my extended family who fought in World War 1. As I started to make my list of soldiers I became disappointed with myself as I have neglected to tag these men with a military flag in Reunion. I am now trying to amend this.
These are the soldiers for whom I will dedicate my poppies.
- Ernest Lee Dawson
- Bertram Dawson
- William Vesey Dawson
- Gustav Lee Dawson Baumgarten
- Archibald Leslie Seabroook
- Clarence Seabrook
- Cyril Noel Seabrook *
- Eric Charles Seabrook *
- Lawrence Seabrook
- Reginald Henry Seabrook
- Roy Hopetoun Seabrook
- Thomas Claudius Seabrook
- Walter Waldo Seabrook
- Aubrey Adam Agnew
- Adam Thomas Agnew
- James Agnew
- John Francis Xavier Moylan *
- Samuel McColm
- William Moore
- John Moore *
- John Thomas Wright
- Frederick Knox Wright
- William Cecil Sibley *
- Albert William Merchant
- Walter Merchant
- William Joseph Richard Hooton
* These men lost their lives during the war.


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Jeff Cash was processed at the Onslow County Jail and released. He is in the court room today, Feb. 22.
Updated at 11:16 a.m.
Jeff Cash was processed at the Onslow County Jail and released. He is in the court room today, Feb. 22.
Updated at 9:27 p.m.
Jeff Cash, 26, who testified Thursday during his brother's DWI double murder trial, is charged with murder in the July shooting death of an Archdale man.
Cash is accused of shooting the man during an argument, according to warrants.
He remains in custody at the Onslow County Jail.
Moments after testifying against his older brother who is on trial for murder in the alleged drunk driving deaths of two passengers, the state�s key witness was arrested on outstanding warrants from another county Thursday afternoon.
Jeff Cash, 26, testified for the state in its case against Chris Cash, 28, who is on trial for two counts of second-degree murder in the deaths of 49-year-old Jerry Jackson and 24-year-old Kevin Nigel Embler. Jackson and Embler were thrown from a car when it crashed on Pony Farm Road around midnight on Jan. 6, 2012.
Jeff Cash was taken into custody by deputies of the Onslow County Sheriff�s Office at the conclusion of court proceedings Thursday. He is being held in the same jail where his brother has been locked up in pretrial confinement since the fatal wreck. The order for Jeff Cash�s arrest, from Randolph County, doesn�t state the reason for his detainment, an Onslow County magistrate said.
Chris Cash�s brother, Jeff Cash, and Chris Cash�s fianc�e Chauntelle Leigh Wann were also in the car when it crashed. The two were treated and later released from area hospitals.
A paramedic testified that during transport to the hospital Wann repeatedly said Chris Cash was driving. Chris Cash and Wann were married four months after the wreck. Their marriage precludes the state from compelling Wann to testify against her husband, lawyers said in court.
Jeff Cash � clad in a button down shirt, slacks and dress shoes � testified against his older brother.
�We don�t get along too well,� said 26-year-old Jeff Cash.
Though the brothers worked for their family business � Cash Pools of Jacksonville � they were on different crews. Jeff Cash was working with Jackson, an Archdale resident, on a masonry job at a private residence. Chris Cash was working with Embler, a High Point resident, at another site. After punching out at around noon, Chris Cash and Embler went to a nearby strip club.
�They were drinking,� Jeff Cash said. �Me and Jackson finished up and went back to the shop around five or six o�clock and punched out.�
The younger Cash brother and Jackson then drove to Chris Cash�s residence on Pony Farm Road where Embler, Chris Cash and Wann were waiting.
The five of them piled into Chris Cash�s Volkswagen Jetta and drove to a bar on Old Maplehurst Road, arriving after 7 p.m., Jeff Cash testified.
�We shot pool and drank beer,� he said. �Each of us would take turns buying pitchers of Bud Light. We were probably there for five, six, seven hours. We drank until we left.�
Jeff Cash said his brother was driving the Jetta when they left the bar. They went to the Wilco-Hess at Old Maplehurst Road and N.C. 53 to purchase beer.
Jeff Cash said the last thing he remembers as the Jetta turned onto Pony Farm Road just before the crash was that all the passengers were telling his brother to slow down.
�He drives erratically everywhere he goes,� Jeff Cash said, concluding his testimony for the state.
During cross examination, Chris Cash�s attorney, Jacksonville lawyer Stuart Popkin chipped away at Jeff Cash�s credibility. Popkin asked him if had used any illegal drugs just prior to the wreck. Jeff Cash said he had not, but Popkin produced medical records that showed he had Xanex in his system at the time of the wreck.
Popkin pointed to surveillance footage from the Wilco-Hess that showed the Jetta moving while Chris Cash was inside the store. Popkin asked who was really driving the car.
Popkin grilled his client�s brother about allegedly stealing the stereo system from the Jetta days after the wreck while the car was impounded. Popkin also cited Jeff Cash�s prior felony convictions for breaking and entering and asked him about a pending court date for attempted murder. State prosecutors objected and a crying woman ran out of the courtroom.
Chris Cash � dressed in a blue shirt and tie, dark slacks and Timberland-style boots � sat the defense table and quietly listened to his brother�s testimony.
Earlier in the day, Dr. William Kelly testified that medical examinations of Embler and Jackson didn�t warrant autopsies.
Kelly determined Embler�s cause of death to be blunt head injuries. He had a broken jaw with several bruises and cuts on his face. Embler had a blood alcohol content between 0.27 and 0.29.
Jackson died of multiple blunt traumas. He had road rash on his face, arm and lower back. His upper dentures were broken. Jackson had a blood alcohol content between 0.17 and 0.20.
Prosecutors asked family members of Jackson and Embler whether they wanted to remain in the courtroom while Kelly testified. The family members stayed, sobbing as the medical examiner describe the grisly condition of the two bodies.
Chris Cash�s blood alcohol content was 0.10 in a sample taken four hours after the wreck, according to previous testimony. The legal alcohol limit to drive in North Carolina is 0.08.
Chris Cash was charged by the N.C. State Highway Patrol with driving while impaired and two counts each of second-degree murder, felony death by motor vehicle, felony serious injury by vehicle, felony hit and run causing serious injury, failing to give aid to passengers and failing to report an accident.
Testimony continues at 9:30 a.m. as the responding state trooper takes the witness stand.
Contact Daily News Senior Reporter Lindell Kay at 910-219-8455 or email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter and friend him on Facebook @ 1lindell.


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I have a confession to make. It's a confession that no one who is reading this on tumblr, and relatively few people who follow me on Twitter, will be surprised by, but I think it's time I said it plainly and on the record.
I'm a baseball polyamorist.
You see, I've been baseball married to the Giants for pretty much my whole life. Certainly my whole life as a baseball fan, which is roughly twenty-two years and some change, if we're dating it back to the 1989 World Series and my first clear memories of baseball. I won't say it's been a perfect marriage, but every relationship has its flaws, and we've learned to live with ours (and in this case by flaws I mean the Giants inability to have pitching and offense at the same time for most of my life and my inability to not scream profanities at the television and curse every one of their souls* at least 40-50 games a season). For better or worse, I swear on my Noah Lowry game used jersey, I will never leave them. Continue reading


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Bumble bees: yellowbanded bumble bee (Bombus terricola)
The yellowbanded Bumble Bee is a northeastern bee whose workers have a characteristic fringe of brownish-yellow hairs on their fifth abdominal segment. This bee was once commonly distributed throughout the east and upper Midwest of the United States and throughout most of southern Canada, but has steeply declined in recent years. The yellowbanded Bumble Bee is an excellent pollinator of potatoes, alfalfa, plants in the rose family (such as raspberries), and cranberry, as well as a wide variety of wildflowers and other crops.
Please contact us if you have any information on the current or recent distribution of the yellowbanded Bumble Bee. If you do research on bumble bees, have incidental bumble bees in your collection, or have student insect collections from the past few years, it would help us to know if you have or have not seen these bees. It is as important for us to document where these bees were formerly common, but not recently collected, as it is to document where they were collected.
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Until recently, Bombus terricola was commonly found east of the Rockies in the northern United States and into southern Canada, from eastern Montana and Alberta, across the northern states and southern portion of the Canadian provinces through to the east coast, with a southern extension along the Appalachian Mountains in the eastern U.S. Although absent from most its range since 2000, recently B. terricola has been found in isolated parts of its range in 2005 to 2008. It has been primarily found in the northern and eastern parts of its range, and at lower abundances than were observed previously.
In order to properly identify bumble bees, you need to first determine whether the bee you are examining is male or female.
Yellowbanded bumble bee queens and workers have yellow on the front part of the thorax and the second and third abdominal segments. Otherwise their hair is primarily black including that on the legs and the base of the abdomen, with the exception of a fringe of brownish yellow hairs on the fifth abdominal segment. Their hair is nearly entirely black on the head. Coloration on the males is similar to the females except male B. terricola have pale yellowish hair on the front of the face and the top of the head. Similar bees that could occur in the same region are B. pensylvanicus and B. auricomus.
Yellowbanded bumble bee males have pale, yellowish on the front of their faces, with intermixed black hairs on the sides, and and mostly black hairs around the antennae. The top of the head has pale yellowish hairs intermixed with black, especially laterally. Their hair is pale yellowish on the front of the thorax and black over the posterior two-thirds of thorax. The second and third abdominal segments have bright yellow hair. Abdominal segments 1, 5 and 6 have mostly black hair with some pale hairs on segments 5 and 6.
Distinguishing B. terricola from B. pensylvanicus and B. auricomus
Females of B. pensylvanicus and B. auricomus have long faces in contrast to the round face of B. terricola. Females of B. pensylvanicus and B. auricomus have black only on the last two abdominal segments as opposed to B. terricola having the last three abdominal segments black with a fringe of brown hairs on segment 5. While male B. terricola have a prominent patch of yellow hair of the front of their faces, male B. auricomus and B. pensylvanicus have mostly black hair on the front of their faces. In addition, B. auricomus males have much larger eyes than B. terricola males.
For an online key, photographs of Yellow-banded bumble bee specimens and extensive identification information, visit the Discoverlife website.
Bumble bees are also excellent pollinators of many crops. Bumble bees are able to fly in cooler temperatures and lower light levels than many other bees, and they perform a behavior called "buzz pollination," in which the bee grabs the pollen producing structure of the flower in her jaws and vibrates her wing musculature causing vibrations that dislodge pollen that would have otherwise remained trapped in the flower's anthers. Some plants, including tomatoes, peppers, and cranberries, require buzz pollination.
All bumble bees belong to the genus Bombus within the family Apidae. The family Apidae includes the well-known honey bees and bumble bees, as well as carpenter bees, cuckoo bees, digger bees, stingless bees, and orchid bees. B. terricola belongs to a sub-genus of Bombus, Bombus sensu stricto. Bumble bees are important pollinators of wild flowering plants and crops. As generalist foragers, they do not depend on any one flower type. However, some plants do rely on bumble bees to achieve pollination. Loss of bumble bees can have far ranging ecological impacts due to their role as pollinators. In Britain and the Netherlands, where multiple bumble bee and other bee species have gone extinct, there is evidence of decline in the abundances of insect pollinated plants.
Until recently, the Yellow-banded Bumble Bee was commonly found east of the Rockies in the northern United States and into southern Canada, from eastern Montana and Alberta, across the northern states and southern portion of the Canadian provinces through to the east coast, with a southern extension along the Appalachian mountains in the eastern U.S. That U.S. states where the Yellow-banded bumble bee was formerly found include: Montana, South Dakota, North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, West Virginia, and portions of Ohio, Massachusetts, Maryland, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, and North Carolina. The Yellow-banded Bumble Bee has not been seen in most parts of its range in the U.S. since 1999, with the exception of records in a few locations in Wisconsin in 2007 and a single location in Pennsylvania in 2006. This bee has not been seen in many years in Tennessee, New York, Maine and Vermont, although it commonly occurred in these states in the past.
There are a number of threats facing bumble bees, any of which may be leading to the decline of the yellowbanded bumble bee. The major threats to bumble bees include: spread of pests and diseases by the commercial bumble bee industry, other pests and diseases, habitat destruction or alteration, pesticides, invasive species, natural pest or predator population cycles, and climate change.
Commercial bumble bee rearing may be the greatest threat to Bombus terricola. In North America, two bumble bee species have been commercially reared for pollination of greenhouse tomatoes and other crops: B. occidentalis and B. impatiens. Between 1992 and 1994, queens of B. occidentalis and B. impatiens were shipped to European rearing facilities, where colonies were produced then shipped back to the U.S. for commercial pollination. Bumble bee expert Robbin Thorp has hypothesized that these bumble bee colonies acquired a disease (probably a virulent strain of the microsporidian Nosema bombi) from a European bee that was in the same rearing facility, the Buff-tailed Bumble Bee (Bombus terrestris). The North American bumble bees would have had no prior resistance to this pathogen. Dr. Thorp hypothesizes that the disease then spread to wild populations of B. occidentalis and B. franklini in the West (from exposure to infected populations of commercially reared B. occidentalis), and B. affinis and B. terricola in the East (from exposure to commercially reared B. impatiens). In the late 1990's, biologists began to notice that B. affinis, B. occidentalis, B. terricola, and B. franklini were severely declining.
Where these bees were once very common, they were nearly impossible to find. B. impatiens has not shown a dramatic decline; Robbin Thorp hypothesizes that B. impatiens may serve as a carrier of an exotic strain of Nosema bombi, although it may not be as severly affected by the disease as B. affinis, B. occidentalis, B. terricola, and B. franklini. B. affinis, B. occidentalis, B. terricola, and B. franklini are closely related to each other (they all belong to the subgenus Bombus sensu stricto). B. impatiens is not as closely related, which may explain the difference in sensitivity to a pathogen. This hypothesis is still in need of validation, although the timing, speed, and severity of the population crashes strongly supports the idea that an introduced disease caused the decline of bees.
The rearing company Koppert recently applied for a permit to transport the eastern species Bombus impatiens to California for crop pollination. The Xerces Society worked with bumble bee researchers to prepare comments to the USDA/APHIS discouraging the movement of these bees into new areas.
Besides the threat posed by the commercial bumble bee industry, there are many other threats to wild bumble bee populations. Bumble bees are threatened by many kinds of habitat alterations which may destroy, alter, fragment, degrade or reduce their food supply (flowers that produce the nectar and pollen they require), nest sites (e.g. abandoned rodent burrows and bird nests), and hibernation sites for over-wintering queens. Major threats that alter landscapes and habitat required by bumble bees include agricultural and urban development. Livestock grazing also may pose a threat to bumble bees, as animals remove flowering food sources, alter the vegetation community, and likely disturb nest sites. As bumble bee habitats become increasingly fragmented, the size of each population diminishes and inbreeding becomes more prevalent. Inbred populations of bumble bees show decreased genetic diversity and increased risk of decline.
Insecticide applications on farms poses a direct threat to foraging bumble bees. Insecticide application on Forest Service managed public lands for spruce budworm has been shown to cause massive kills of bumble bees and reduce pollination of nearby commercial blueberries in New Brunswick. Broad-spectrum herbicides used to control weeds can indirectly harm bumble bees by removing the flowers that would otherwise provide the bees with pollen and nectar.
Bumble bees are threatened by invasive plants and insects. The invasion and dominance of native grasslands by exotic plants may threaten bumble bees by directly competing with the native nectar and pollen plants that they rely upon. In the absence of fire, native conifers encroach upon many meadows, which removes habitat available to bumble bees. The small hive beetle (Aethina tumida) is an invasive parasite of the honeybee, yet it also infests bumble bee colonies. Its actual impact on bumble bee colonies could be severe, although it has not been well studied.
Global climate change also poses a real threat to bumble bees; anecdotal evidence has suggested that some of the bumble bee species adapted to cool temperatures are in decline, whereas warmer adapted species are expanding their ranges. Baseline data and long term monitoring are needed to better understand the true impact of climate change on bumble bees.
Much of the content for this page was developed from a status review, co-authored by professor emeritus Robbin Thorp (U.C. Davis Department of Entomology), Elaine Evans, and Scott Hoffman Black (Xerces). Bee illustrations were provided by Elaine Evans.
Funding for our efforts to conserve bumble bees in decline has been generously provided by the CS Fund and Xerces Society members.
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Gotta get them 2 stars where ya can ** -- OrangeHokieFan 02/10/2018 12:18PM
Talk about throwing a wider recruiting net. . . . -- laphroaig 02/09/2018 1:02PM
Go where you have connections I guess ** -- Hamburger 02/09/2018 11:15PM
Their goal is to dominate Hawaii.... ** -- VTUD 02/09/2018 9:48PM
Well, gotta do something as the best in Virginia aren't going there. -- Casey 02/09/2018 9:37PM
Nope, Tonga ** -- EDGEMAN 02/09/2018 3:56PM
It's a Mormon thing. Many in Hawaii. BYU is yuge there. ** -- 48zip 02/09/2018 3:49PM
Only so many can play at BYU or Utah and the Mormons place a tremendous -- WhoopACC Hokie 02/09/2018 4:42PM
4,700 miles seems like a liesurely stroll when you put it like that.** -- laphroaig 02/09/2018 5:00PM
How far is Australia? ** -- WhoopACC Hokie 02/09/2018 5:05PM
That's a fair point if you consider a punter qualifies as a football player ** -- laphroaig 02/09/2018 5:12PM
Our punter is a football player, an Australian Rules Football player. ** -- Atlee Hokie 02/09/2018 7:35PM
Easy there, big guy. This thread wasn't started to be serious about UVa. ** -- laphroaig 02/10/2018 06:39AM
Almost as logical as your previous arguments..... ** -- WhoopACC Hokie 02/09/2018 5:19PM
Change your name to "whoosh". I'm not making arguments, -- laphroaig 02/10/2018 06:35AM
By belittling the punter? Or ribbing 48zip when he was offering up his -- WhoopACC Hokie 02/10/2018 09:49AM
There's not that many according to DaveVT's link below. ** -- laphroaig 02/09/2018 4:00PM
3 percent of the total population and almost 74000 members. ** -- WhoopACC Hokie 02/09/2018 4:36PM
According to the link, there's 2% in Virginia which has to be way more -- laphroaig 02/09/2018 4:42PM
How many are playing for anyone? Isn't that the more pertinent question? ** -- WhoopACC Hokie 02/09/2018 4:43PM
No, it's not pertinent for anyone around here except Bronco. ** -- laphroaig 02/09/2018 4:47PM
Well, it has been a while since I was there (Spring Break 1976) -- 48zip 02/09/2018 4:21PM
You were able to identify Mormons while on spring break? What? -- laphroaig 02/09/2018 4:26PM
Polynesian Cultural Center is a big attraction. Run by Mormons. -- 48zip 02/09/2018 4:30PM
I'll say it again - What? You're a college kid on spring break in Hawaii -- laphroaig 02/09/2018 4:35PM
Hey the UCF QB and Alabama QB are from Hawaii. They are really good. ** -- OrlandoHokie 02/09/2018 2:27PM
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Here -- DaveVT 02/09/2018 1:05PM
Link.....Bronco hopes the Hawaiian guys will teach the team to do this, so -- squarerootofone 02/09/2018 1:49PM
The New Zealand all Backs rugby team pre game ritual -- Harry Colby 02/10/2018 08:40AM
Haka!!!!!!! Wooooooooo!!!!!! ** -- Snape 02/09/2018 6:38PM
At 3-9 apparently no one was impressed or intimidated ** -- VTNSC 02/09/2018 6:14PM
Yeah, Hawaii football is pretty bad. But the pre-game thing is unique. ** -- squarerootofone 02/09/2018 6:18PM
OK, if you say so. ** -- laphroaig 02/09/2018 3:54PM
Did they steal that from the kiwis? ** -- HwoodHokie 02/09/2018 2:18PM


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As fall allergies heighten, influenza is just around the corner.
As fall allergies heighten, influenza is just around the corner.
September or October is the time to act on prevention by getting a flu shot.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, influenza, or the flu, is a contagious respiratory illness that spreads from droplets through coughing, sneezing and talking. It can also stem from touching objects contaminated by the virus and then touching the eyes, nose or mouth where it invades the body and produces discomforting symptoms.
�It�s in the air by people spraying it by sneezing or coughing,� said Ginger Raines, Lenoir County Health Department�s immunization nurse.
It may be associated with fever and chills. Other symptoms can include coughing, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose, muscle or body aches, fatigue and possibly vomiting and diarrhea, which is more common in children, according to the CDC.
It�s important to note,� said Krissy Hoover, Lenoir Memorial Hospital�s infection preventionist, �sometimes you don�t get a fever with the flu.�
Anyone can get the flu, but young children, pregnant women, the elderly and anyone with a reduced immunity has a higher risk of complications from the flu. That includes people with asthma, heart disease, diabetes and other diseases.
The flu can lead to more serious illnesses, such as bacterial pneumonia, dehydration, ear and sinus infections and worsened medical conditions and, in severe cases, death can result.
�It�s really serious,� Raines said, �because for the elderly, their immune system is down and for children, they haven�t built up an immunity.�
The duration may be as long as two weeks without further complications. An individual exposed to the virus can be contagious for more than a week, even the day before symptoms start.
Hoover said a person must be fever-free without the use of fever-reducers for 24 hours before they are considered non-contagious.
There are some simple measures that can reduce a person�s chance of getting or spreading the virus.
�Avoid touching your eyes, nose and mouth,� Hoover said, �and wash your hands.�
Health officials also say to cough into your elbow, sleeve or tissue and throw the tissue in the trash. Disinfect items that are touched frequently, like door knobs and keyboards. And get a flu shot early in the season.
Between 135 million and 139 million doses of influenza vaccine are being produced for the 2013-14 flu season for ages 6 months and older, according to the CDC.
People who care for others who have a high risk of developing complications from the flu should be vaccinated as early as possible.
�It takes a couple of weeks,� Hoover said, �for your body to produce protective antibodies.�
This season�s flu shots contain two Influenza A virus strains � H1N1 and H3N2, and one or two influenza B viruses. The vaccinations are not live strains, so they will not cause a person to get the flu.
�It�s important to get vaccinated annually,� said Amy Crompton, Jones County Health Department�s health education specialist, �� because the flu vaccine changes every year.�
People who are severely allergic to eggs, have had a severe reaction to the vaccine before, are sick with a fever or have a history or Guillain-Barr� syndrome should not get a flu shot.
But most people ages 6 months and older can get a flu shot each year. A high-dose vaccine may be recommended for people ages 65 years and older.
Healthy people between the ages of 2-49 may choose to get a nasal spray vaccine called a live attenuated influenza vaccine, or LAIV. Despite its name, it does not cause the flu.
The flu season generally begins around October, depending on the weather, and ends around May.
Jones County�s health department won�t have the vaccination until mid-October, Crompton said. To be placed on a waiting list, call 252-448-9111 during business hours starting on Oct. 1.
�We (will) have both the flu shots and flu mist,� Crompton said. The mist is a once-annual preventive measure just like the shot with one spray in each nostril, she added.
Margaret Fisher can be reached at 252-559-1082 or email@example.com. Follow her on Twitter @MargaretFishr.
When, where to get a flu shot
Lenoir County Health Department
Vaccinations available Oct. 1
Adult walk-ins from 8:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m., afternoons starting at 1:30 p.m., Monday-Friday
Children by appointment only
For information, call 526-4200
Jones County Health Department
Vaccinations will be available in mid-October
Calls to be placed on a waiting list will be accepted Oct. 1
For information, call 448-9111
Pamlico County Health Department
Vaccinations began Sept. 23
Adult walk-ins from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday
Clinics for Adults 18 and older from 8:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m. Oct. 7 at Reelsboro Fire Station; Oct. 11 Oriental Town Hall; Oct. 14 Goose Creek Community Center. Free for those with Medicare or Medicaid. Non-insured $25.
For information, call 745-5111
Craven County Health Department
Craven County will schedule clinics once its flu vaccine arrives.


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Ramped-up utility
When it comes to utility vehicles, there are plenty of choices. For many, the final purchasing decision comes down to choosing key features and getting the most value for your dollar. That's precisely why manufacturers like Kubota and Cushman are continually redefining their already-popular machines.
Kubota rtv900xt
Kubota recently released the latest version of its RTV900. The RTV900XT's key new feature is the Variable Hydro Transmission (VHT) Plus2, which offers higher torque to maximize towing and hauling performance, as well as smooth dynamic braking and easier shifting.
The 21.6-gross hp., three-cylinder, liquid-cooled Kubota diesel engine is performance-matched to the transmission, which means you'll have plenty of power and torque to handle even the toughest jobs.
The front of the machine sports a new reinforced gunmetal-gray steel front guard for extra protection and durability. The hydrostatic power steering makes this machine easy to control and maneuver. The new seat design gives both operator and passenger added comfort.
Add an optional hydraulic bed-lift system to the extra-large steel cargo bed, and you'll find that hauling and dumping are made easy with a single lever.
The MSRP for the RTV900XT starts at $12,470. To learn more about the models in the RTV family, call 888/4-KUBOTA or visit www.kubota.com.
Cushman 1600XD
Cushman brand, which is owned by Textron, Inc., began with two cousins building farm machinery and two-cycle boat engines in 1901. It has since transformed into the manufacturer of a broad line of utility vehicles, including its latest addition – the 1600XD.
This machine combines four-wheel-drive capability with a 22-hp., 1,007-cc three-cylinder OHV diesel engine to handle big jobs on tough terrain.
The automatic, continuously variable transmission can be placed in high gear for higher maximum speed or low gear to take advantage of greater torque and pulling power. Top speed is 25 mph in high gear and 10.5 mph in low.
Total payload capacity is 1,600 pounds, and its 14.2-cubic-foot steel cargo bed can hold a maximum of 1,100 pounds. It can also tow up to 1,300 pounds from the rear receiver hitch.
The MSRP is $11,999, which includes windshield, ROPS, and roof. To find out more, visit www.cushman.com.
Add a cab
Curtis Industries recently introduced a modular cab system for the Kawasaki Teryx utility vehicle.
When the weather changes, transform your vehicle using the Curtis Rapid Convertible System. Available in black, you can purchase cab components separately or as a complete kit.
To learn more, call 800/343-7676 or visit www.curtisindustries.net.
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Agronomy Tip: Add Sulfur to Your Fertility Program
Add sulfur to your fertility program through a dry application or by sidedressing with liquid.


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RVW Update: VEX Sack Attack v1.2.1 Now Available!
Attention all VEX teams! We just released a substantial update to this year's VEX Sack Attack virtual world. Download it here, or on the RVW Level Packs download page. Here's what's new:
New Robot: Clawbot
- Clawbot features a 4-wheel, 2-motor drive system, an arm motor, a gripper, and the full array of sensors. Best of all, it's fully programmable in ROBOTC!
- Additional sample code for Clawbot is installed with the update, and can be downloaded here.
Pre-loads and Automatic Scoring
- Both Gripperbot and Scooperbot can be pre-loaded with a sack! You can control what side the robot starts on, whether it gets a pre-load, and enable the autonomous duration all from the main menu.
- Scoring is fully implemented in this new version.
- Earn normal points from sacks, bonus points from bonus sacks, and even more bonus points from the autonomous bonus and "parking" your robot before time runs out.
- A cool, new timer and scoreboard keeps track of the match in the top-left corner of the window. Compete with your classmates or teammates to see who can get the highest score before time runs out!
- Driver Control loads are also implemented once the autonomous period ends. Introduce them into the playing field by clicking on the green sack icons in the top-right corner.
Sensor View
- Ever wonder why your Ultrasonic sensor "sees" the values that it does? Enable the new Sensor View to see what's triggering the Ultrasonic sensor and the heading of your compass.
Additional Enhancements
- We've improved the robot-sack interaction on all of the robots.
- The lighting and contrast of the game have been enhanced, making it easier to grab and score the sacks.
- Lots of small tweaks and adjustments.
To view the original post for the VEX Sack Attack virtual world (complete with video), visit this link.


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Website: http://gracearlington.com/men/
Saturdays, 8:30am - 10am. Enter into an in-depth study of the Bible, discussed using a Socratic questioning method under the leadership of Jerry Bates. This group meets in the Conference Room downstairs at the end of the hall of the Life Center.


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MEMPHIS, Tenn.—Behind a 30-point performance from Lauren Avant, Rhodes College defeated the Birmingham-Southern women's basketball team Sunday afternoon, 71-58, in Memphis.
BSC falls to 7-10 overall and 2-4 in the Southern Athletic Association, while Rhodes moves to 14-1 overall and 6-0 in the SAA to remain atop the league standings.
The Lynx jumped out to a 13-0 lead to start the game, but the Panthers fought back after that with a 12-1 run to cut it to 14-12 by the 8:38 mark of the first half. Rhodes scored seven straight points after that, though, to go back up 21-12. BSC would come as close at five, 29-24, with 3:02 left in the half, but trailed 37-25 at halftime.
Rhodes stretched the lead to 19, 53-34, less than 10 minutes into the second half, and maintained a comfortable margin for the duration of the game, eventually winning 71-58.
Avant's 30 points, nine rebounds, five steals, and four assists led all players, followed by Rhodes' Sarah Johnson with 19 points.
Seniors Melanie Short and Alex Adams led BSC with 11 points apiece, and Adams also led with eight rebounds. Freshman Kelsey Brown led the Panthers with three steals and two assists.
BSC struggled offensively, shooting 12-51 (.235) overall, 5-18 (.278) from three-point range, and 29-39 (.744) from the free throw line. Rhodes shot better overall, hitting 25-58 (.431) from the field, but shot only 4-19 (.211) from beyond the arc and 17-29 (.586) from the line.
Rebounds were even at 39 for both teams, but the Panthers turned it over 24 times, eight more than the Lynx.
BSC returns home next weekend for more conference action, taking on Berry on Friday at 6 p.m. and Oglethorpe on Sunday at 1 p.m. in Bill Battle Coliseum.


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February 3, 2006
During the month of January, we had 20,861 unique vistors and 34,733 total visits. This is a new record for OrthodoxWiki. Keep up the good work everyone! As of today, we have about 1,400 "legitimate content pages." We've had a total of 1,087,564 page views, and 26,020 page edits since the wiki was setup. That comes to 4.45 average edits per page, and 41.80 views per edit. Our Alexa ranking is now 359,870 and continues to ascend rapidly.
January 1, 2006
We are beginning the new year off with approximately 1,345 content pages and 756 registered users. We've had 860,392 page views, and 24,162 page edits since the wiki was setup. In December, 2005, we had 17990 unique vistors, down slightly from last month.
Our Alexa ranking is now 422,224, which is up 40,337 from the last update.
Mysteriously, we are showing over 5500 page loads from the FAA. Does one of our active members work there?
Top keywords (with over twenty search engine referrals) for December are: philokalia (120), nativity icon (94), david bentley hart (63), filioque (44), protoevangelion (39), icon corners (37), theotokos (36), protoevangelion of james (36), sarum rite (35), kontakion (34), orthros (32), byzantine chant (29), icon corner (28), st. basil s cathedral (25), and french saints (22).
December 3, 2005 Update
For the month of November, we had 18985 unique visitors. That's up a little from last month. We're up to 1275 articles and 641 registered users.
October 27, 2005 Update
OrthodoxWiki is almost a year old!
It's been awhile since we've had an update on OrthodoxWiki's web stats. I was happily suprised to find an exponential increase in traffic.
Through the month of October, we've been averaging about 1200 unique visits a day -- that's how many we used to get in a whole month.
As of today, we've had 12975 unique visitors, averaging 2.23 visits each, and 11.53 pages. About 70% stayed less than two minutes, but more than 10% stuck for more than an hour.
The top 25 countries represented (according to internet reckoning) are (in order): United States, Great Britain, Australia, Unknown, European Union, Canada, China, Germany, Greece, Romania, Finland, Sweden, Netherlands, Egypt, France, Singapore, Yugoslavia, Brazil, Spain, Italy, Japan, Denmark, Russian Federation, New Zealand, and Hong Kong.
More of our referral traffic (excluding search engine traffic) is still coming from blog sites, with various Orthodox link directories making a nice showing.
Other facts you might find interesting:
- 90% of folks accessing OrthodoxWiki are using some kind of Windows system, with 244 hits coming from "Windows Codename Longhorn." 6.3% are from Mac users, and 3.4% for all others, including 0.8% for Linux.
- 73.1% of people are using some variation of Internet Explorer, 13.1% Firefox, 1.6% Netscape, 4.9% Mozilla, 4.2% Safari, and 0.7% Opera.
- Though still a very small number, more hits are beginning to show up from cell phones and PDA's.
- Monday and Tuesday beat out Saturday and Sunday as the most trafficked days.
- The Main Page is most frequently landed on, and the List of American monasteries is number two, but Harold of England beats out John Chrysostom for third place.
From Special:Statistics
As of this moment, there are 4,631 total pages in the database. This includes "talk" pages, pages about OrthodoxWiki, minimal "stub" pages, redirects, and others that probably don't qualify as content pages. Excluding those, there are 1,164 pages that are probably legitimate content pages.
There have been a total of 505,495 page views, and 17,464 page edits since the wiki was setup. That comes to 3.77 average edits per page, and 28.94 views per edit.
There are 475 registered users, of which 11 (2.32%) are administrators.
Feb-April 2005 Updates
With the spike in content over the past month, OrthodoxWiki has experienced a marked rise in visitors from various search engines, especially Google. Some of the more interesting search queries can be found at OrthodoxWiki:Keyphrases. At this point, we're also averaging well over 1500 unqiue visits a month, from at least 50 countries around the world including every continent except Antarctica. As of early February, the top five countries are: the U.S., Austrailia, the Russian Federation, Greece, and Great Britain. Stats for the wiki itself are available at here.
- As of March 26th, it looks like we are averaging 200 unique visits a day, which is about 6000 a month. That's a great increase! We're up to 455 articles now.
- As of April 23rd, we're averaging about 300 visits a day.


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Another Wednesday Whale Love! Check out this picture I found:
I like how much is going on in the picture. And how confused the whale is, ahahaha.
Another practical piece:
(not sure why the border is SO HUGE on this image) The whale is darling and, I mean, c'mon. Couldn't you use another clock? Like, just one? For the bathroom or living room or ANY room? I love clocks.
Last up, this:
He's only half a foot high but he looks so awesome. I have so much whale love for this little statue!


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As per my knowledge, I have seen the only following functions which will produce primes for $n$:
$n^2 - n + 41$
$n^2 + n + 41$
Of course both functions faile for $n = 41$ due to the polynomial representation. I tried to prepare a function which will generate primes continously. As we know that primes are infinite but there is a gaps between them and tough to produce all primes in a single function or algorithm. Please look my algorthm, which I belive that, it will produce only primes.
#include <iostream> int testForPrime (int n) { int p, i; p = 1; i = 3; int result = n; while (i < result) { result = n / i; if (n == i * result) { p = 0; i = n; } i = i + 2; } return (p); } int main (int argc, char * const argv[]) { int p, i, n; i = 3; n = 5; std::cout << "Initiating prime number generation sequence...\n\n1:2\n2: 3\n"; while (1) { p = testForPrime (n); if (p == 1) { std::cout << i << ": " << n << "\n"; i++; } n = n + 2; } return 0; }
For better undrestanding please see the my source file at by clicking EDIT of my post.
I would like to know the follwoing:
- Is my algorithm is true or may be need more modifications?
- If we restrict to number of primes less than x in terms of the zeros of the zeta function. The first term is $x/\log(x)$. The Riemann hypothesis is equivalent to the assertion that other terms are bounded by a constant times $\log(x)$ times the square root of $x$. The Riemann hypothesis asserts that all the 'non-obvious' zeros of the zeta function are complex numbers with real part $1/2$. how?
If you can give little more clarification on this second part, I will write another algorithm for justification of this second problem.


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For the first time in the history of The Ultimate Fighter, women swill serve as both coaches and contestants.
UFC President announced during Saturday's UFC 158 event that women's bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey will coach on The Ultimate Fighter 18against the winner of April's fight featuring Miesha Tate vs. Cat Zingano.
The season will feature both male and female 135-pound fighters.
"I'm going to announce tonight the coaches of The Ultimate Fighter for the next season," White said. "It will be Ronda Rousey versus the winner of Tate and Zingano, who are fighting in the 'TUF' ultimate finale on April 13. For the first time ever, two women coaches, and we will have 135-pound men and 135-pound women living and training in the house together."
The Ultimate Fighter 17 finale takes place April 17 at Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas. Tate vs. Zingano takes place on the FX-broadcast main card.
Open tryouts for "TUF 18" take place April 18 in Las Vegas. Further details are expected to be announced shortly.
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The Duke Energy company says their 82,000-ton coal ash spill from one of its retired power plants into North Carolina's Dan River is not dangerous. Thousands of dead fish disagree from their toxic cement graves. Just look at all that sludge.
The video above clearly shows the result: The ash turned the riverbed into toxic uncured cement. Here's a view of the spill, which apparently hasn't stopped yet.


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With Sony revealing yesterday that all PlayStation Plus subscribers are getting a download of the DC Universe Online beta for Christmas, it's probably a good time to show you how character creation works in the super heroic MMO.
Crecente talked us through character creation in DC Universe Online last week, and now we're showing you what that looks like. While my creation pales in comparison to his furry tiger guy, you'll see that I already had my own animal champion in Magical Gunwolf, the best super villain ever to cackle menacingly.
What sort of character do you plan on creating?


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The Sloan Consortium is partnering with a group of higher education and inter-governmental organizations to launch a new research initiative focused on the global impact of online learning. The Global Online Education Report (GlobalOHER) will collect empirical data on the state of online learning worldwide.
The report will provide:
"Whether called open, distance, flexible, e-learning or online learning, more institutions are offering, or planning to offer, educational services using new delivery methods," said Kathleen Ives, acting chief executive officer and executive director of the Sloan Consortium, in a press release. "The GlobalOHER initiative is the first formal effort to define online learning in the global context, to document levels of participation, the importance of online learning in institutional strategies and the policy implications for online learning."
GlobalOHER partners currently include:
The initiative is also supported by many regional associations and stakeholders around the world, with more expected to participate. "A comprehensive study such as this can only be conducted through the combined efforts of multiple international partners," said Gard Titlestad, secretary general for ICDE, in a prepared statement. "We are fortunate to have an outstanding group of leading international organizations joining forces for this initiative."
The initial global survey of institutions will be conducted in 2014, with the GlobalOHER being issued semi-annually thereafter. The report will replicate the methodology, approach and report scope of the U.S. Higher Education reports produced by the Babson Survey Research Group for the last 10 years. "Taking this study global would not be possible without this alliance of world-class organizations," said I. Elaine Allen, co-director, Babson Survey Research Group and professor of biostatistics and epidemiology at UCSF. "We are delighted to be part of this important research effort."
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Weekly Food for Thought with a recipe for Avocada Salsa, how guys can make dinner a romantic experience, "Weeknights with Giada" by Giada De Laurentiis and more.
It's time to banish that old stereotype that the only guys who can cook are professional chefs. It's not too difficult to elevate a simple meal to the level of a gourmet experience. Here are some tips:
- Music, lighting and decor sets the ambiance for a romantic occasion.
- A tablecloth adds a touch of refinement while protecting furniture and easing post-meal cleanup.
- Add a floral centerpiece to do double duty as a decoration and as a gift for her. Light some candles to enhance the mood.
- Use your good dishes and set them on opposite sides of the table. Place knives and spoons to the right of the plate and forks to the left.
- There's a wine to complement whatever meal you decide to serve, For ideas, talk to the wine steward at your local grocer or wine shop. Many stores also suggest recipes to pair with their featured wines.
Tip of the Week: Don't chill tomatoes
For the best tomato flavor, never refrigerate them. A chilled tomato will not finish ripening because cold halts the ripening process. Cold also kills the flavor of tomatoes, so even when the tomatoes are fully ripe, keep them out of the refrigerator.
-- Family Features/ Florida Tomatoes
Easy recipe: Tomato and Avocado Salsa
2 large tomatoes, diced
1 large avocado, peeled, seeded and diced
1/2 cup red onion, chopped
1/2 cup bell pepper, chopped
1/4 cup fresh cilantro, chopped
1 lime, juiced
1 teaspoon powdered cumin
Your favorite hot sauce (for heat)
Kosher salt and fresh ground pepper to taste
In medium mixing bowl, combine all ingredients. Stir to combine. Taste and adjust seasoning with salt, pepper and hot sauce. Serve at room temperature for best flavor. For hotter version, substitute 1 seeded fresh jalapeno pepper for green pepper. Also, if you prefer, use toasted cumin seed instead of ground cumin. Yields 4 to 6 servings.
-- Family Features/ Florida Tomatoes
Did You Know?
Raw roasts, steaks and chops (beef, veal, lamb and pork) should not be in the refrigerator for longer than three to five days. – FoodSafety.gov
Food Quiz
What is the most common name in Canada for the delicious treat of flat fried dough, often topped with cinnamon and sugar?
A. fried duck wing
B. beaver tail
C. flying saucer
D. prairie cake
-- funtrivia.com
Answer is at bottom of column
Wise to the Word: Panko
[PAHN-koh] Bread crumbs used in Japanese cooking for coating fried foods. They're coarser than those normally used in the United States and create a deliciously crunchy crust. Panko is sold in Asian markets.
-- epicurious.com
Number to Know
315: One hot dog with a hot dog bun and ketchup is about 315 calories.
-- calorieking.com
The Dish On …
"Weeknights with Giada: Quick and Simple Recipes to Revamp Dinner" by Giada De Laurentiis
Giada De Laurentiis is one of America's most-loved culinary stars, adored for her Food Network hit shows and her New York Timesbestselling cookbooks alike, both of which feature her fresh, flavorful Italian recipes. For the first time, Giada tackles weeknight cooking, sharing her favorite tips and go-to dishes—all in her vibrant signature style—to get a delicious meal on the table in a flash.
-- Crown Publishing Group
Food Quiz Answer
B. beaver tail
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Reforming the VA one step at a time
Congress is poised to pass the most significant reforms to the Department of Veterans Affairs in nearly two decades — but don't expect quick fixes to the layers of rot at the agency.
The House and Senate have passed bills responding to revelations that veterans died after the VA delayed providing medical care. But the measures don't change the VA employees' habit of gaming the system, covering up problems and punishing whistleblowers who try to sound the alarm — the "corrosive culture" that White House deputy chief of staff Rob Nabors warned about in a report to President Barack Obama last week.
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A conference committee will resume work next week to iron out differences between the House and Senate bills. But nearly two months after the VA became engulfed in scandal, there's a sense that Congress may end up simply passing a bill that looks good on paper but doesn't offer a guarantee that such problems won't surface again.
( Also on POLITICO: Barack Obama announces VA pick)
"The real danger with what we're doing today is that we'll say we fixed it and didn't fix it," said Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), a member of the House-Senate conference committee. "And that's what I'll predict what will come out of the conference: A feel-good, spend money, do this [bill], but you won't fix the core problems."
As Rep. Phil Roe (R-Tenn.) put it last week at the conference committee's inaugural meeting: "The backlog, we can fix. We've got to change the culture."
Even so, the VA scandal focused the nation's attention on issues festering for years. For veterans groups and lawmakers following the issue, the revelations provided a rare moment for a Congress that's often paralyzed to actually make some changes. And with lawmakers from both parties angry at the VA's lapses, the reform effort is a chance to break Washington's inertia — even if more fundamental changes to the agency are out of reach.
Negotiators on the conference committee insist they can pass a bill strong enough to send a message to the VA. Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said the chances of an agreement are good because there are "more similarities than differences" between the House and Senate bills.
( Also on POLITICO: White House report: Overhaul VA's 'corrosive culture')
And veterans groups say that to really attack the VA's problems, Congress has to take baby steps. The bills currently being debated on Capitol Hill, they argue, are a good first step.
"It's going to do a lot more good than people think," said Louis Celli, director of the legislative division of the American Legion. Even if there aren't a lot of senior VA executives who lose their jobs, Celli said, the fact that the bill will allow them to be fired at all "will send a message that you can't just camp out and earn $200,000 a year and not have to worry about the consequences."
Tom Tarantino, chief policy officer at Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, said the bill is "one in a series of many steps the VA has to take."
"Ultimately, this has to be the VA changing its culture," he said. "Congress can't pass culture change."
The House and Senate bills do actually accomplish several goals.
Perhaps most importantly, the proposals would make it easier to fire senior executives. Obama says that's one of the main contributions the legislation can make.
"Everyone is going to be held accountable for doing better. And Congress can help by giving the secretary more authority to remove senior leaders," he said on Monday as he announced the nomination of former Procter & Gamble executive Robert McDonald to head the VA.
But negotiators still need to decide whether to let employees appeal their firings. The Senate version gives employees seven days to appeal their dismissal to the Merit Systems Protection Board, while the House doesn't address the issue. Either way, veterans groups say the mere ability to get rid of "the dead weight" — as Tarantino puts it — would be a major step forward.
"We have to create a culture of accountability, because right now, the agency is mired in inertia," Tarantino said.
Both the House and Senate would let veterans get medical care from other doctors if they can't get it quickly enough from the VA, or if they live more than 40 miles from a VA facility. That authority would last for only two years, but veterans groups say it's one of the most important changes that's likely to come out of the legislation, because it would allow the new system to be tested and refined.


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Eva Jun (b. 1986, San Francisco) uses a sparing, loose, gestural stroke to convey the shape of an object or figure, her line giving immense energy to her subject. She prefers acrylic, pastel, watercolor, and ink, but she also explores other media, including a body of wood cut-outs. Often, she layers marks, washes, and shading in the background of her work, creating an undulating motion behind the central image.
Jun joined the Creativity Explored studio in 2008.
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Debt DIY: Va. Residents Invited to Balance County Budget
Conservatives are fond of saying that if families can sit down at the kitchen table and balance a budget each year, why can't Congress? Starting Tuesday, one Virginia official is putting that problem back in mom and dad's hands.
Braddock District Supervisor John Cook of Fairfax County, Va., today released a tool that allows constituents to put together their own plan for the county's financial-year 2014 budget.
The simulation asks readers to look through the budget as was proposed earlier this year, plug in the changes they would make to funding for nine different areas and compare the outcome of their plan to the county executive's.
Fairfax officials are likely to raise property taxes this budget cycle to make up for revenue lost to the uncertainty presented by "sequestration" budget cuts.
The last page of the simulation asks users to determine how much they would have to raise or could lower the property tax based on the numbers in their budget. It then allows them to determine what they would pay based on the average home value for the area.
The last step urges users to share their plans via mail and social media.
Many states are looking for new and innovative ways to bring in revenue or areas to cut spending this year, as sequestration puts the ax to federal grants. New Jersey, Delaware and Nevada have all legalized online gambling in the past year. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will tax money brought in by the new enterprise by 15 percent.
Other states, like Massachusetts, are looking to raise existing taxes to bridge the gap this budget cycle.
There have been several budget tools like Fairfax County's for federal and local budgets over the years.
When the nation's capital was having trouble cutting $591 million from its budget for FY 2010, the Washington Post put together a more complex feature that allowed users to move figures up and down, calculating the bottom line and telling users "You have a deficit" or "Your budget is balanced."
The Center on Policy Attitudes and the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland have a program that allows users to design a budget for FY 2015. The New York Times' tool looks more into the future, showing how individual adjustments would affect spending in 2015 and 2030.


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Great Tyrant supports local artists by helping them connect with fans.
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A Great Tyrant account is also compatible with your mobile. Enter your download codes in transit, no fuss. Start listening on your way home from the concert. Return to access previously redeemed downloads.
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The SAU Choir performs "War and Peace," an eclectic pairing of classic and contemporary choral works addressing issues relating to war, conflict, peace, and understanding.
Reconnect with football alumni! Meet current coaches, have lunch with players, make the coin toss at Saturday's game, and more!
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Sandra Dyas is a visual artist living in Iowa City and teaches photography, video, and performance art at Cornell College.
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Last November, Sony Pictures approached Aaron Sorkin and asked him to write the screenplay for a biopic on Steve Jobs.
"The Social Network" screenwriter said at the time that he was "strongly considering" turning Walter Isaacson's authorized biography into a movie.
This week he is officially on board with the project.
Sorkin said last year he needed to weigh out his options before agreeing to write the movie because it was such a large project and at the time he was still reading Isaacson's book.
Sorkin won the Oscar for the screenplay he wrote "The Social Network," which was based on Mark Zuckerberg's launching of Facebook.
He has also developed a track record of taking Bay Area-based projects. In addition to "The Social Network," Sorkin also adapted the screenplay for "Moneyball," a story about Oakland Athletics' General Manager Billy Beane.


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Orange County's now got the so-far unchallenged title of mastodon capital of the United States. Which is a really big bone deal.
Orange County's now got the so-far unchallenged title of mastodon capital of the United States. Which is a really big bone deal.
Ribs, tusks, skulls, vertebrae of this great beast weighing as much as 8 tons are stacked up everywhere, from the Orange County Government Center to the Bear Mountain Zoo.
"Orange County has more mastodons than any other part of the U.S. and perhaps the world," says SUNY Orange biology professor Dr. Walter Jahn.
Right in the college's biotech building lobby you encounter an almost complete skeleton of the great beast, dubbed Sugar.
This elephant cousin's life was snuffed out maybe 11,000 years ago when it sank into what was then the vast wetland of decaying plants, mud and sloshing lake and pond water left behind by a massive, melting ice sheet.
Picture this: Weighing maybe 6 tons, Sugar's standing in what became a farm near Sugarloaf, and the sun's glowing weakly over the huge mucky swamp.
The reddish, fur-covered massive mastodon's frosty breath spurts from its head in clouds. It's in trouble.
Raising its huge trunk in surprise, it sinks slowly into the soupy mud that's debris from vegetation ground into bits and pieces by ice. "A gooey mess of muck several feet thick. The mastodons went in, got stuck and never came out," says Johanna Titus, author with husband Robert Titus of "The Hudson Valley in the Ice Age." "That's why we find so many of them in there."
A tough way to go.
Sugar was found in 1972 when a farmer's machinery ran into something very hard, very unyielding. It was Sugar's almost a complete skeleton.
But our mastodon boneyard may be far from being completely discovered.
"Could there be other bones," Jahn says. "I certainly think that's likely."
"A student found a bone sticking out of the dirt while paddling along the Wallkill River."
In this ancient mastodon world swam giant beavers 8 feet long (and 240 pounds); mountain lions roamed with wolves, woodland caribou and others now long gone.
"It must have been a time of incredible serenity," says Hudson River naturalist Tom Lake, "the only sounds were from the calls of waterfowl, the chortling of eagles and the trumpeting of elephants."
In other words, we weren't around.
"There were no chainsaws, leaf-blowers or speeders on the highway," Lake explains.
The footnote to all this is what this world has left us — curiosity.
This fascinating world will be celebrated by the Hudson Highlands Nature Museum in a mammoth show called "Mastodons: Ice Age to Discovery" at the Wildlife Education Center in Cornwall-on-Hudson for 18 months starting Jan. 26.
This is an up-close look at the mastodons' world, which includes the Paleo-Indians. Displays include a feast-your-eyes-on 10-foot-tall life-size mastodon cutout, a giant beaver cutout and a Paleo-Indian rock shelter for kids.
"Given the tusks and bones and remains of the Ice Age elephants," says Lake, who is advising this show, "you can nearly sense the mastodons presence, almost feel the ground rumble on cold snowy days."
Meanwhile, SUNY Orange students write papers about mastodons and Sugar's become a campus mascot. "Sugar greets you at the building entrance," Jahn says. "He means a lot. He's a great teaching tool."
The mastodon world came between wild swings in our world — from being at the bottom of a huge sea to an Orange County under a more than 3,000- foot-thick ice sheet that dripped away, leaving vast marshes that became the Black Dirt farmlands.
In other words, mastodons make you wonder.


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"Seeing Things"
Simkins began drawing at an early age and started doing graffiti under name Craola. Graffiti art became his impetus for creating and gave him the confidence to paint large works. In addition, it taught him perspective, color theory and further developed artistic skills, which later translated into his work with acrylics. His outlandish dreamt of characters are part of a fantasy sideshow, inspired by elements from pop culture, the old masters, nature, carnival kitsch and most importantly, a warped imagination. It is the careful weaving of these elements that makes Greg Simkins a sought after surrealist painter today.
Simkins' work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions and has successfully sold out five solo exhibitions. His art is seen in a wide variety of industries from clothing to video games and has also come to life in the form of toys. His client/collaboration list includes Disney, Mattel, Upper Playground, Juxtapoz, To Die For, Vans, Converse, AFI, Saosin, Gym Class Heroes, Pennywise, STRANGEco, Ningyoushi, Kid Robot, Zero Friends, Epitaph, Dark Horse, Iron Fist and Pulse International.


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Sunset over the Rocks
The sun setting over Johnshaven Beach
The famous zig-zag pier at St Monans
The Golden Castle
Eilean Donan Castle lit by the low evening sun
The Bridge
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Crescent Sunrise
The sun rising over Beach Crescent in Broughty Ferry.
Palace on the Isle
The magnificent Lazienki Palace in it's verdant surroundings.
Castle Sunrise
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The Foot of the Tail
The Tail Burn which runs down from Loch Skeen.
Rocky Outcrops
The coast at Johnshaven at the blue hour.
The Wheat Field
Sun Up
The sun rising over the Tay Rail Bridge.
Falls of Unich
The beautiful Falls of Unich near Loch Lee.
Over the rocks and far away
A small stream running across the rocks towards Loch Lee.
Valley of the Horse
A stunning white horse grazing at the head of Loch Lee
Over the hills and far away
A bridge leading in to the distant hills
Concrete Leviathan
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Reflective Waters
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House in the Hills
A bothy sitting in the Glen Shee valley.
Ruin with a View
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The Path to the Lighthouse
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Monzie Castle Mid Lodge
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The sun setting over Loch Leven in Kinross.
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The Neidpath Viaduct which crossed the River Tweed near Peebels.
Abandoned Earth
The rusting fragments of the abandoned Fife Earth Project at Lassodie.
Rispond Beach
The picturesque Rispond Beach at Sango Bay in Durness.
Hay bales sitting in a field outside Comrie.
Beeline for Braemar
Beehives near Braemaer buzzing with activity.
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The Valley of the Storm
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In Monticello, 59 percent of the active voters participated in the election, totaling 564 voters.
In contrast, the voter turnout in Blanding was 29 percent of active voters, or 426 voters.
The difference in turnout is widely attributed to the fact that Monticello voters participated via mailed ballots while Blanding voters had a more traditional election with absentee ballots by request and voting at the polling place on election day.
Monticello officials said that they are pleased with the first general election to take place by mailed ballots. They claim that voter participation grew without an increase in cost.
Ballots were mailed to registered voters in Monticello several weeks before the election. There were few reports of problems. The San Juan Record is interested in contacting registered voters who did not receive a ballot.
San Juan County officials are hopeful to move to mailed ballots for all precincts in the county in future elections.
In Monticello, Tim Young was elected to a four-year terms as Mayor. Young received 452 votes or 80 percent, compared to 104 votes, or 18 percent, for challenger Eric George.
Young will replace Doug Allen, who served for two terms as Mayor of Monticello, in addition to two terms on the Monticello City Council before that.
Young, who owns San Juan Pharmacy in Monticello, is currently a member of the Monticello City Council. It appears as if one of the first orders of business for the new council in January will be appointing a replacement for Young.
New members of the Monticello City Council are Steve Duke and George Rice. Duke led all candidates, receiving 407 votes or 72 percent, while Rice was close behind with 398 votes or 71 percent.
Monte Wells was third place with 169 votes, or 30 percent and Matt Keyes received 133 votes, or 24 percent.
A total of seven candidates ran for the two open positions on the city council. The candidates were pared to four in an August primary election.
Duke and Rice will replace Councilmen Brad Randall and Craig Leavitt. The two incumbent councilmen did not seek another term on the City Council.
In Blanding, Calvin Balch was elected to a four-year term as Mayor with 378 votes. Balch, who served as mayor several years ago, returns for another term. He was unopposed in the race for Mayor after the current mayor, Toni Turk, withdrew his candidacy after the filing period closed.
Robert Ogle and Taylor Harrison were elected to the Blanding City Council. Ogle, who was appointed to the council in 2012, earned his first electorate victory with 263 votes, or 62 percent of the vote.
Harrison was elected on his first try at public office with 248 votes, or 58 percent of the vote.
Other candidates for the race include incumbent Charlie Taylor, who received 163 votes or 38 percent; and Keele Johnson, who received 126 votes, or 30 percent.
The winning candidates will be sworn in in January and begin four year terms.


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There is so much material that they could use for just a series of Batman movies, like Hush, No Man's Land, Knightfall, Knightsend, etc. If the Harley and Wonder Woman movie succeeds, I wonder if it would open the door for other movies about other female characters like Catwoman, Birds of Prey, Zatanna. Apparently, a report came out saying that Zach Snyder directed a small portion of Suicide Squad. Like seriously? If this is true, will he be doing that with the other movies? If one of the other director's doesn't do something he likes, is he going to jump in and take over?
Hush involved Bruce Wayne in the regular Batman universe. Though I think it might have been a stand alone? It is the story arc where Catwoman/Selina Kyle is with Batman/Bruce. During the story, the villain, Hush, attacks Catwoman and rips her heart out. While she is in the hospital Batman visits her, tells her he loves her. If I remember right, Hush made himself to look like Bruce Wayne in order to destroy him.Its interesting, in the previous DC universe before the New 52, Bruce trusted Catwoman with his secret identity. In the new DC universe, she doesn't know it, or at least didn't when it started.The Gotham tv series did the Court of Owls recently. And, that was a story arc in the New 52 universe which revealed, Bruce had a brother Thomas who was kept sequestered in a hospital.
The course of human history will not be changed by this movie, that much is certain. But those early reviews that were saying it was worse than the Fant4stic just wrong.Then they'd be firing the wrong guy The director of photography is the one responsible for the camera work.Update:Looks like Suicide Squad has had a decent enough opening weekend, taking over $130 Million. Best August opening figures.
Yeah, but I hate to say it, they did put it up against literally nothing else.
That line of reasoning doesn't really hold true. It's not like people are being marched into cinemas with a gun to their heads being told they have to watch 'something'.
No, it's perfectly valid. Otherwise people wouldn't work to avoid competition. Think about it. This has actually been a very week summer for blockbusters. The only other thing that came out was the Independence Day sequel and that was long enough back that it wouldn't affect Suicide Squad.Also remember that fans aren't the only people that go watch these movies. There are names in the comic book world that have entered into a common knowledge folklore state. Batman, Superman, Joker, etc. Further more it has Will Smith in it, and that's a particularly large draw for many of the target movie going audiences. When you want to see a summer movie, and aren't particularly up on everything DC, and it has the Joker in it are you going to go watch the literally nothing being played in theaters right now or are you going to go see the Will Smith Superhero movie with the admittedly catchy trailers?
I agree that studios try to avoid releasing big films at the same time because it hurts both films. People can only spend their money once, so by staggering major releases studios aren't fighting over the same pay cheque. So the idea that a particular film is only doing well because put against 'nothing else' is wrong because major releases are always put up against 'nothing else'. Also saying people have 'no choice' in what they watch is wrong, I just looked at my local cinema listing :Suicide SquadFinding DoryThe Secret Life of PetsThe Legend of TarzanStar Trek : BeyondThe BFGNow You See Me 2Jason BourneIce AgeGhostbustersCentral IntelligenceWhile not every film is going to appeal everyone, there is still plenty of choice. There is also the choice not to see any of them. Just because a particular person is in the movie doesn't mean people automatically are going to watch it, for example; After Earth staring Will Smith: US Box Office $ 60 Million or how about Wild Wild West starring Will Smith : US Box Office $ 113 Million both commercial flops.It is fair to say that Suicide Squad has had a great opening weekend, in spite of all the negative reviews, but drawing conclusions beyond that would be premature.
Will Smith is great, but it's Will Smith who a walking vat of screen charisma, so no shocks there.
What I mean to say in terms of opening weekend, Suicide Squad has no real competition.
Look no actor gets through their career without one flop, and After Earth unfortunately had the problem of getting M. Night Shamalyan attached to it when his name was pure cyanide.
Yes, but every marquee film is scheduled so that is has no real competition, you said so yourself. Look at the top 9 earning films for 2016 so far :Finding Dory - June 17th - $135 Million opening weekendCivil War - May 6th - $179 MillionDeadpool - February 12th - $135 MillionJungle Book - April 15th - $100 MillionZootopia - March 4th - $75 MillionBvS - March 25th - $166 MillionSecret Life of Pets - July 8th - $104 MillionX-Men : Apocalypse - May 27th - $65 MillionKung Fu Panda - January 29th - $41 MillionEvery one of them had the opening weekend to themselves, so if the only reason a film does well is because of a lack competition then it applies to all of them. If it applies to all of them, then it's a non-factor in their success. Now, if you do really think that a lack of competition is the reason that a film has a good opening weekend, then what does that say about Deadpool? It has been demonstrated that films released in February are the worst. (there are statistics and everything) So Deadpool was released at the low point in the movie calendar, but I'm guessing if asked why the movie had such a strong opening weekend your answer would not be 'lack of competition.'Wild Wild West, Concussion, Focus, The Legend of Bagger Vance, Winter's Tale, Hancock, Seven Pounds. I think it's fair to say Will Smith has been in his share of stinkers that had nothing to do with M. Night Shamalyan. Sure, having a big name attached makes selling the idea of a film far easier but if it's fundamentally a bad film people won't go to see it.
Hmm, so I was watching Ant-Man again and in the final act of the movie just after Scott goes sub-atomic where he is drifting in the quantum realm. The various flashes of atoms and molecules, etc in the upper left hand corner behind Scott you can see flashes of what looks like a human form. The form looks like Janet van Dyn/Wasp's form. Was that coincidence? Just a random shape that flashed several times behind Scott or are they teasing the possibilty that they will explore the quantum realm more in the sequel which results in rescuing Janet?
They could go in any number of directions. Though, they could go with the Once Upon a Time effect since Marvel is now owned by Disney. If they go with someone younger to show Janet didn't age, maybe someone like Meghan Ory? Or, if they showed that she didn't age, Catherine Zeta Jones would be an interesting choice as she is married to Michael Douglas.Isn't the Eternity character much larger? The image flashes in the scene in Ant-man were a bit more streamlined, feminine?
Though it is possible for the character of Eternity to be used in Infinity war. In the bio about the character, he is an omnipotent being representing all time and reality in the universe. Eternity usually manifests if there is a threat to the universe like Thanos or Dormammu surfaces. With the amount of characters they're building for Infinity war, it seems like overkill power wise to have an infinitally powerful character show up?
Apparently, a report came out saying that Zach Snyder directed a small portion of Suicide Squad. Like seriously? If this is true, will he be doing that with the other movies? If one of the other director's doesn't do something he likes, is he going to jump in and take over?
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Mike Ditka was back to talking football on Monday morning, three days after he was hospitalized in Chicago with a minor stroke.
The 73-year-old Ditka appeared on Mike and Mike in the Morning and said he's feeling fine and eager to get back to work as an ESPN analyst after watching football from his couch on Sunday.
"I feel pretty darn good. I'm optimistic. I feel good about everything: I'm Iron Mike," he said. "I watched almost all the games."
Ditka's speech sounded fine and he was sharp and aware of all the day's news in the NFL, and he said he viewed his stroke as more of a speed bump than a life-altering event.
"I was kind of driving down the highway of life really fast, and I had a flat tire," Ditka said "I'm OK. You don't expect those things to happen, but they come up on you."
A Hall of Fame tight end who played for the Bears, Eagles and Cowboys, Ditka coached the 1985 Bears to the championship at Super Bowl XX.


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Biotech Recruitment Consultants is a specialist recruitment company working with the biotechnology ("biotech") industry. In Australia, we use the broad definition of biotechnology, which includes pharmaceuticals, medical devices, agricultural biotech, environmental biotech, food science, mining biotechnology, etc. Basically, it applies to any technology that uses, or is used by, biological organisations (including humans).
We offer jobseekers assistance with writing their CVs or resumes and in targeting appropriate companies that would suit their skills and experience.
For companies or potential employers, we offer executive search and recruitment services for staff at all levels, including the Board directors to the receptionist, and all the specialist management or scientific personnel in betweeen. We also maintain a database of potential candidates.
Jobseekers and other candidates that may be looking for, or considering a new job in the biotech industry.
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Would prefer to do away with the current landing page and go straight into a well-designed page that can be adapted for subsequent pages (if required).
I'm not wedded to the existing colours of the current website - am open to anything that can give it a modern and professional look, but which complements (or contrasts) with the logo colours.
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Watch the 'Glee' Cast Perform One Direction's 'What Makes You Beautiful'
In case you had any doubt that One Direction were a bona fide pop phenomenon, their inescapable hit 'What Makes You Beautiful' is featured in Tuesday's episode of 'Glee.'
The New Directions cover One Direction in the prom episode, entitled 'Prom-A-Saurus.' 1D member (and Demi Lovato's favorite) Niall Horan was particularly over the moon about the feature. "To have a song in 'Glee' is just fantastic," Horan told DigitalSpy. "We're all big fans of the show and are so excited they chose 'What Makes You Beautiful' for an episode."
The 'Glee' cover is beyond loyal to the original to the point of being near-karaoke. Chord Overstreet takes over Harry Styles' solos and heartthrob status, with his classmates grabbing at his flawless blond shag as he sings and makes his way through the crowd.
Will Scheuster (played by Matthew Morrison) was originally slated to perform the track, but instead he's dancing with his lady to it in the audience. Morrison may have inadvertently thrown some shady comments at the U.K. sensations when the cover was first announced. "I've just heard of them, they're really taking over the States," Morrison told The Sun in March. "They've made it now though, they're on 'Glee!' This will probably help their record sales too."
And, you know, your ratings.
The 'Glee' 'Prom-A-Saurus' episode airs this Tuesday, May 8, at 8PM ET on FOX.
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We are a leading innovation firm in the Caribbean Region that provides most of the services that you need in order to transform an idea or project into a real life innovation.
That includes activities such as
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The culture of our company is defined by knowledge intensive work with an informal or bullshit-free style. We work for all kinds of industries, mostly with top management or decision makers.
The first step for a company to work with us is to train their top management in the most important innovation concepts and their workforce in how to collaborate in order to innovate. (This is what this project is about!)
Then, companies embark in a business innovation process that ends up in any of the outcomes described in the first paragraph.
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2. Multidisciplinary teams involved in innovation work (Marketing leaders, supply chain specialists, operations managers, Sales managers)
In the Dominican Republic, where we are based, this kind of training and consulting work is pretty much new, we´re one of the very few companies (not to say almost the only one) doing this kind of work. So the market is pretty new, but there is increasing interest from all industries in this subject.
What we need is a design template for a brochure that we can update multiple times with the information of the different workshops that we offer. We plan to re-use the same formats (and layouts), and change the graphics and-or pictures...
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