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Living Inside the Vitsoe LA Showroom
For those who have ever thought, "I wish I could see how this would look in an actual home," Vitsoe seems to have been listening. Instead of opening a standard showroom in LA, Vitsoe moved their consultant, Rob, and his wife, Elise, into an apartment outfitted with the company's classic pieces - as well as the couple's own belongings, of course.
Opening a show apartment isn't a new concept for Vitsoe. In May 2011, Vitsoe opened an apartment in Munich with another couple setting up a home among the company's iconic furniture and storage systems.
Of course, the first thing I had to ask Rob about was how he and Elise were able to balance home life while keeping the apartment showroom ready. Luckily, as he points out, the apartment "by appointment only, so scheduling visits certainly helps in that when someone is coming by I can run through the apartment and get everything in order quickly (though Elise often complains that I stash things in drawers that she's destined to never find again). It actually doesn't require much tidying: I worked for Murray Moss for years in New York, and never managed to shake my tendency to dust compulsively. Keeping everything pristine has stuck with me, even at home. Elise loves having people over--in fact, if she's around on the weekends when customers come by, she'll usually co-opt them into a tea party."
As you would expect, the apartment is tricked out with Vitsoe products galore and the couple have made use of the 606 Universal Shelving System to solve many problems in the storage-challenged space. "We have systems for books (obviously!), LPs & HiFIs, our clothing, kitchen/crockery, a home office/studio, etc. I think most people might cringe at the idea of living in a "showroom" but all of the shelves in our apartment are filled with the objects we have collected individually and together over the years, so it feels like us. We're not minimalists, despite the implicit "minimalism" of Vitsoe."
Besides living their everyday lives in the apartment, the space is used as any showroom would. It's a space for customers to see the product in person and meet with a consultant to plan systems for their own space.
To schedule an appointment to visit the apartment, visit the Vitsoe website.
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Mets-Phils rivalry adds dynamic to friendship
LAKEWOOD, N.J. -- Dominic Smith and J.P. Crawford grew up about 13 miles apart in Southern California.
Starting when they were 12, they played together at Compton's Urban Youth Academy and on travel teams, and were teammates on the Jr. Division Champions of the 2009 RBI World Series. Then they squared off against each other with their high school squads.
LAKEWOOD, N.J. -- Dominic Smith and J.P. Crawford grew up about 13 miles apart in Southern California.
Starting when they were 12, they played together at Compton's Urban Youth Academy and on travel teams, and were teammates on the Jr. Division Champions of the 2009 RBI World Series. Then they squared off against each other with their high school squads.
Last June, they were both drafted in the first round, five slots apart. Smith, a 6-foot, 185-pound first baseman, was taken by the Mets at No. 11. Crawford, a 6-foot-2, 180-pound shortstop, was selected by the Phillies at No. 16. This past weekend, their Class A clubs met on the Jersey Shore, smack dab in the region where allegiances shift from New York teams to those from Philadelphia. In fact, if you took a helicopter to avoid traffic, tolls and the Atlantic Ocean, Lakewood's FirstEnergy Park is about 52 miles from both Citi Field and Citizens Bank Park.
They were literally in the middle of the Mets-Phillies rivalry. Down the road -- Five years? Ten? -- they could figuratively be the faces of the franchises as they clash 18 times a season in pursuit of a National League East title.
"It really hit us the night we got drafted," Smith said. "Some of the people at the Draft brought it up to us, and it really sunk in to our heads, like: Wow, we both stay on our path, when we get to the big leagues, we'll be playing against each other a lot. It should be a lot of fun."
For two guys who spent much of the past six years playing with each other, looking across the field to see such a friend in a rival's dugout may take some adjusting.
"Especially from playing with each other for so long, it's going to be a lot different," Crawford said. "But it's still going to be fun playing against him now."
After the Draft, both players started their professional careers in the rookie-level Gulf Coast League in Florida. Smith then played three games in the Appalachian League, also rookie level, while Crawford was promoted to Class A Lakewood for the final two weeks. Their batting lines looked pretty similar, too: Smith hit .301/.398/.439 in 206 plate appearances, Crawford put up .308/.405/.400 in 228 trips to the plate.
This season, they both broke camp in the Class A South Atlantic League, Smith with the Savannah Sand Gnats and Crawford with the Lakewood BlueClaws, but they have had decidedly different results. Following the weekend series (during which Smith's Sand Gnats won three out of five), Crawford was batting .288 and on Sunday hit his second home run. Smith came into the series batting .167 with no extra-base hits, but he went 6-for-17 with three doubles.
"Last year, when we got him toward the end of the year, I think it was a long year for him; a lot of stuff happened fast for him," said Crawford's manager, Greg Legg. "I kind of saw a guy who was tired. Right now, you're seeing a guy who ignites our offense; he's getting on base a lot. Great hands at the plate, great hands in the field. They hit it to him and there's a guy at third with two outs, he's the guy I want them to hit it to."
"You've just got to keep your head up," Crawford said. "That's been my main goal. If you struggle a little bit a day or two in a row, you just got to remember it's a long season. You gotta keep your head up, keep playing hard, no matter how you do."
Despite his meager numbers so far this season, Smith is not fazed.
"It's the third week of the season," he said. "Anything can happen from now until September. We play 144 games. I'm not panicking. Everybody who comes through, even my coaches, they aren't panicking. Even the front office isn't panicking. This is all a learning process. It's a part of my learning curve."
They are, after all, still teenagers (Crawford turned 19 in January, Smith will in June) playing in a league in which the average age of the players is nearly 22.
"He's a young kid at this level; it's a tough level for him," Savannah manager Luis Rojas said. "At-bat to at-bat, it's just keeping it the same, not trying anything new, not trying to do more. He's hitting the ball really good. He's been a victim of hitting the ball right at the defenders. He's having a good start. He's getting stronger every day with the experience, and it's helping him, it's helping his development right now."
Should both players progress level by level, climbing each rung of the ladder, they will advance together. After the Sally League, both the Mets and the Phillies have Class A Advanced affiliates in the Florida State League and Double-A clubs in the Eastern League. It is only at Triple-A where they would be separated, because the Mets' affiliate is currently in Las Vegas, and the Phillies' is in Lehigh Valley, Pa.
"I actually didn't even notice that," Smith said. "That would be fun. Hopefully, we both progress. He's doing a great job right now, and if he keeps it up all season, and if I keep doing like I did last night, I should be fine too. It should be a ton of fun, playing him every couple of weeks. He's a great player. Watching him since 13 to now is just amazing.
"Hopefully, we keep climbing the ladder like we're supposed to and when we get to Double-A we just make the jump to the big leagues, and that will be really fun."
Dan Cichalski is a senior editor for MLB.com.


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One touch of a button enables to start and stop water supply without any other operations, and divides and displays alkaline water and acidic water by seven colors.
Users can more easily use the UCE-9000 Turbo Water Ionizer since it is coated by touch panels and its functional selection is displayed by icons.
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Safety examinations are conducted according to the setup conditions after the installation of the UCE-9000 Turbo Water Ionizer, and voice guides are done in case of impropriety.
The energy generated in supplying necessary water basically controls the propagation of micro-organisms and keep the optimal status through its automatic cleaning function.
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The UCE-9000 Turbo Water Ionizer is the first ionizer in the indstry to have an automatically controllable SMS method power supply. The power provided to each part is monitored at the CPU chip and is safely supplied to maintain the safe use of the function of the product.
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The filters consisting of the 1st high efficient filters and the 2nd functional filters realize the best clean water status fitted to serviced water.
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Focusing on local history, Gullah culture, genealogy, natural history,and archaeology of lowcountry South Carolina's historic Beaufort, Hampton and Jasper counties.
26 March 2011
Tillie Maude O'Dell, Beaufort girl, Broadway actress
When families die out in a particular community, contributions of native sons (and daughters) get lost to time. An example for us to rectify this National Women's History Month is the life story of Maude O'Dell (spelling varies), a woman of considerable stage presence and enduring historical mystery.
Doing a little research leaves me with more questions than answers but with additional information to share with you.
In our Local History and Nature web pages of "Famous Beaufortonians", we find Matilda C. Odell, a.k.a. "Tillie" Maude Odell Doremus.
Here's what the entry written by Dennis Adams, Information Service Coordinator, says:
"Tillie" Maude Odell Doremus (1870 -1937): The stage career of Beaufort's best-known actress spanned almost forty years (half of that time was with the Shuberts in New York). Doremus appeared for 400 nights in The Prisoner of Zenda, her first real success. She went on to appear in The Student Prince, Show Boat and Tobacco Road (in the role of Sister Bessie Rice). Maude Odell Doremus was found dead in her dressing room just before the curtain was to go up on a performance of Tobacco Road. The cause of death was a heart attack. According to former Beaufort resident Brent Breedin, Ms. Doremus owned what was then known as the Edward Barnwell House (1405 Bay Street in Beaufort), which was bought soon after her death by sheriff James Edwin McTeer.
To see her stage credits sheet, click here to access the Internet Broadway Database.
Tobacco Road ran for a total of 3182 performances in the Forrest Theatre. Odell acted the role of Sister Bessie Rice from opening night on December 3, 1933 until her death backstage on February 27, 1937 awaiting her cue for Act 2.
(The Forrest Theatre is located at 230 W. 49th St., New York, NY. In 1945, it was renamed the Coronet Theatre; it became the Eugene O'Neill Theatre in 1959.)
The Internet Movie Database lists three films for Maude O'Dell: Dare Devil O'Dare (1934); and two silent black and white films from 1915 Gambier's Advocate and Niobe. (That's about all I could find out for free. To access the IMDB deeper requires a fee.)
You can view 14 images of our Beaufort Native Daughter Maude Odell in the digital Billy Rose Theatre Collection, an archive of almost 5 million items documenting the theatrical arts.
Please note: I discovered in the course of this research that there was an English model named "Maude Odell" at approximately the same time. Lots of the Google hits refer to the English model.
Now that we have access to the Ancestry Library Edition, I can dig a little deeper while sitting at my desk:
Her birth year is given variously as 1870, 1872, 1874, the month variously as August or November, depending on the source.
Because South Carolina didn't require registrations of births until 1915, there isn't a birth certificate to clarify the issue. Because O'dell is buried in the St. Peter's Catholic Church churchyard on Carteret Street, she was likely a lifelong Roman Catholic. Is there was a baptismal record at St. Peter's?
Between 1830 and 1900, the official enumeration date for the collection of federal census data was June 1st. So starting with the earliest birth year of record, I searched the 1870 census for her name. I found James,a baker, and Alice, whose housekeeping in the Odell household. There is a child, Benjamin Odell, aged 4 living with them.
Tillie first appears in the 1880 census as a 9 year old girl, living with her father, James, still a baker by trade, his wife, Alice, a confectioness, and son, Benjamin C, aged 14. The Odells have two boarders: Levi Wenstein, a music teacher from Georgia; and, Lizzie Botume, a teacher most closely associated with the "Old Fort" Plantation Freedman's school. (Elizabeth Botume wrote First days amongst the contrabands which we have in the BDC). A mulatto man, aged 20, Benjamin Johnson is listed as the family's servant.
If "Tillie Maude" is 9 in the 1880 census taken on 8 June (the enumerator dated that particular page), then she would have been born sometime between 2 June 1870 and 31 May 1871. Official registration date was June 1 as stated above.
The 1890 Federal Census was burned in a 1921 fire at the Smithsonian Institution where it was being stored. Thus, 20 years elapse between the 1880 census and 1900 census. A lot can happen in 20 years.
The next federal census, that of 1900, shows Tillie's occupation as "Actress." She is listed as 25 years old. Her month of birth is "August." Her year of birth is "1874." She is living in the Sea Island Hotel with her parents, James and Alice, and her younger brother, also a James. He's 18 years old.
I don't know what happened to brother Benjamin C. listed in 1880. Only 5 years older than Tillie Maude, and living in the James and Alice Odell household in 1880, she had to have known him! Where was he? There are several possibilities. In 1900, if alive, he should have been about 34 years of age. It may be that he set up his own household in the meantime. He could have moved away. He could have died. Since he's not the focus of this entry, I'm just going to let that unresolved issue rest.
Interestingly, Tillie Maude has gone from being 9 years old in 1880 to being only 25 years old in 1900. I assure you it's a definite closed numeral "9" and not a malformed numeral "4" in the 1880 census. Somewhere along the way, she's gotten 4 years younger in 20 years! However, such adjustments to age is not uncommon in census records, particularly among those of female gender.
Another discrepancy -- In James F.'s (the brother) death certificate, their father's name is listed as "John." In the 1870, 1880, and 1900 censuses, the head of household and husband of Alice is definitely "James" (the elder).
Maud got married around 1902. (Notice the change in spelling). She is listed in the 1910 census as "Maud O. Doremus," a married woman for 8 years, but she's living in the household of her widowed mother, Alice Odell, in a Hotel on Bay Street (the razed Sea Island Hotel -- upon which the current Sea Island Hotel sits). Her brother, James F., is employed as the hotel clerk.
How curious -- Alice is shown as the mother of two children, both of whom are still living. [The 1910 census asked how many children a woman had delivered and how many still survived.] What about Benjamin C. O'dell listed in as a son of James O'dell in 1880? [The relationship is described in terms of the relationship to the head of household.] Was he perhaps Alice's stepson?
Alice's husband, James, must have died between June 2, 1900 and May 31, 1910 - before South Carolina required the registration of deaths. There isn't a tombstone for him in the St. Peter's Churchyard cemetery nor do we have an obituary on file for James, the father. This might be another question for extant church records.
In the 1920 census, she is listed as "Muade O. Doremus,[sic]" aged 46, "Stage Actress", a lodger in the household with "stage actor," and married man, Leo Donnelly, at 129 48th Street. (No one else is listed within Donnelly's household.) In the same building, James, now age 36, lives alone. He is employed as a Hotel Manager.
Hard as I've tried, I cannot seem to find the right James O'dell and/or Maud(e) Doremus, Maud(e) Odell, M Odell, M Doremus, etc., in the 1930 census.
Leo Donnelly, birthplace Pennsylvania, about the right age in 1930, aged 52, a theatrical actor, has married a woman 20 years his junior, Enda, a literary agent. There is no sign of Maude in their apartment building.
Using what I know from other sources, she owned the house at 1405 Bay Street here in Beaufort. Trying a different approach, I went through the images of the 1930 federal census for Beaufort Town, ward-by-ward, image-by-image and still didn't find a listing for her. I found her mother's brother, John H. Clancy, on Bay Street. He's listed as the owner of the property, no street number, and aged 75. (Given that the census is only a quick snapshot of where a person was on a particular date, I wonder if she was abroad on April 1, 1930?)
Her body lies in the St. Peter's Catholic Churchyard on Carteret Street.
In the March 8, 1937 New York Times column on estate matters, subsection "Maude Odell's Estate $5000", James Odell, of 129 48th Street, was her sole beneficiary. James resided at 129 48th Street for no less than 17 years (1920 - 1937 when he inherits Maude's estate).
Her brother didn't have long to enjoy her estate. He died only 3 months later, on May 27th. His death certificate, available through the Ancestry Library Edition database in all of our branch libraries, indicates that he died of alcohol poisoning. He lies adjacent to his mother and sister in St. Peter's Churchyard cemetery.
An aside about New York Vital Records:
New York doesn't have its death certificates digitized in the ALE database, nor could I see how to access them online for free. When Maude presumably married, sometime around 1902, in New York, church records were the standard Matrimonial registration document. At this point, I don't know the name of her husband, the actual date or site of the ceremony. And, yes, I had to look up this information. The Red Book is great!Key take-away: Each state does registrations of births, marriages, and deaths different. There is no one standard rule that applies across all states over all years.
Bottom line: Although I cannot uncover all the details of Maude Odell's life from resources supplied by the Beaufort County Library system, I think that you will agree that the resources in the Beaufort District Collection on local history and the sources made available to library customers through Ancestry Library Edition did allow me to got me a lot farther along the research path than just the Google search.
I did all this research in fits-and-starts around customers, programs, phone calls, and other duties in less than 4 hours.
Visit us to see the vast array of materials of permanent research value that we steward here in the Beaufort District Collection.
The image (ID: TH-41099 ) comes from the On Stage and Screen: The Billy Rose Theatre Collection in the New York Public Library's Digital Gallery.
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A Karate student tried really hard to do things right, but had a chronic problem -- his shoulders were too tight. His tight shoulders affected all his movements and caused him a great deal of pain. He even had to see the doctor and chiropractor about his shoulder problem.
His instructor would yell at him whenever he saw his tight shoulders. Then he would command, "Lower you shoulders and drop and give me twenty!" The student would obediently drop and do the pushups. This went on for years and the problem only got worse.
Finally a visiting instructor came to the dojo. He observed the student and mentioned to him that his shoulders were too tight. The student dropped and started to do pushup.
"Stop, stop," said the instructor, "please get up."
So what do you think that the instructor said to the student?
"Relax and squeeze your lats."
The point is that yelling at the student and making him do pushups as punishment only made the problem worse (mentally and physically). The solution was not to feed the problem but to have the student work positively on a solution.
"Relax and squeeze your lats" is not a punishment -- it is a positive solution to the problem.
Charles C. Goodin
Tight Shoulders -- Advice?
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Art. 340 covers the use, installation, and construction specifications of service-entrance cable (Types SE and USE). Type SE cable has a flame-retardant, moisture-resistant covering. Type USE cable, identified for underground use, has a moisture-resistant covering, but is not required to have a flame-retardant covering.
When using Type SE service-entrance cable for interior branch circuits and feeders, you must comply with the installation requirements of Parts I and II for NM cable, but not the 60°C conductor ampacity limitations noted in 334.80. The Code does not allow you to use Type USE cable for interior installations because it is not listed for this application.
The requirements of 424.3(B) requires the branch-circuit conductor for electric space heating equipment to have an ampacity of not less than 125% of the total heating load. A 10kW heater with a 3A blower motor must be wired with a conductor that has an ampacity of at least 56A. See the calculation noted in the Figure. You could use 4 AWG NM cable or 6 AWG SE cable to serve this load.


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Igbo phrasebook
Igbo (Igbo: Asụsụ Igbo) is a Niger-Congo language spoken primarily in south eastern Nigeria. There are between 18-25 million speakers that are mostly in the a part of Nigeria known as Igboland, and its speakers are primarily of Igbo descent. Igbo is a recognised language of Nigeria and is also spoken natively in Cameroon. There are many different dialects of Igbo which can sometimes cannot be mutually intelligible to other Igbo speakers, for this reason a standard for Igbo called 'Igbo izugbe' has been developed. Igbo is written in the Latin alphabet introduced by British colonialists and missionaries. Secret societies such as the Ekpe use the nsibidi ideograms to write Igbo and other languages around its area of influence. Nsibidi is an ideographic writing system used for over 1500 years.
Major cities where Igbo is dominant include Onitsha, Enugu, Owerri (oh-weh-reh), Port Harcourt, and Asaba (in Igbo, ah-hah-bah).
Through the transatlantic slave trade, the Igbo language has influenced many creoles in the Americas, especially in the former British Caribbean including islands such as Jamaica, Barbados, Dominica, and Trinidad and Tobago. Variations of Igbo can be found in Cuba, the island of Bioko in Equatorial Guinea, formerly known as Fernando Po, and in micro-communities in Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea, it is also spoken among the recent migrants of Igbo descent all over the world and in the organisations they have set up.
Igbo is a tonal language with a high, mid, and low range. Accents are used to indicate the high and low tones; an acute accent such as 'ó' are used for high tones, and a grave accent such as 'è' is used for a low tone. There are further accents that indicate nasal tones. The lower dotted accent such as 'ọ' is used to indicate a low nasal tone, and an upper dotted accent such as 'ė' is used for a high nasal tone. The trema (¨) such as 'ö' is used for a mid nasal tone.
Vowels in Igbo are very similar to those in English when there is little tone stress on them. Most of the times vowels in Igbo are written with accents indicating this tone.
Consonants do not have a tone in Igbo apart from 'n' and 'm' which are the only letters that can be written with accent marks.
Common diphthongs
Igbo is considered an agglutinative language. Igbo grammar generally maintains a subject–verb–object structure.
Social grammar
For those younger than yourself, they can be called by their gender, 'nwoke' male or 'nwanyi' female, or by 'nwa' (WAHN) meaning child. This form address can be patronising.
Reading and writing
The Igbo language was first written down with ideographs known as nsibidi which originated in the cross river region of Africa. Nsibidi characters or symbols were used to represent ideas and some words but were not read. British colonialism since the late 19th century till 1960 has wiped away nisbidi from daily use and has led to the introduction of the latin-script based önwu script used which is now used to write Igbo. The first book written in Igbo was an Ibo-Isuama primer by Bishop Ajayi Crowther, a Sierra Leonean creole of Egba-Yoruba descent in the 19th century. As a tonal language, the Latin script has been modified to fit the different tones and sounds of the Igbo language.
Igbo literature is has been little since colonialism introduced an alphabet. Literature in English by Igbo writers on Igbo society, however, have achieved international acclaim, the most popular of these books, Things Fall Apart, written by author Chinua Achebe, deals with the subject of colonialism and the destruction of Igbo society in the late 19th century.
Igbo languages tonality may be confusing at times as one word may have different meanings according to the way the tones are used. Diacritics are used to signal tones in written Igbo along with other special characters such as the dot over (˙) and underneath (.) A popular example of this is ákwà ('cloth'), àkwá ('egg').
Written Igbo
There are hundreds of Igbo dialects and Igboid languages spoken by different clans and former nation-states. The high variation and low mutual intelligibility between many Igbo dialects has been a hindrance to written Igbo and Igbo literature over the years, this has lead to the development of a standard form of Igbo known as 'central Igbo' or Igbo izugbe. This standard form was based on dialects around the central parts of Igboland. Although it is was created to boost Igbo literature, it has received backlash and opposition from Igbo speakers such as author Chinua Achebe, who prefer to speak their own dialects. Igbo izubge is the standard used in the curriculum of Igbo-language studies.
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There are only two seasons in the Igbo homeland; the dry season and the rainy season. There is also a dusty trade wind known as harmattan throughout west Africa.
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Oscar Hit "Beasts" Made With Help of Film Students
Explosions, stampedes and pig-like monsters - rare in a film made on a $1.5 million budget. But possible thanks to SF Academy of Art University students who did most of the special effects for "Beasts of the Southern Wild." WSJ's Linda Freund reports.
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Monterey County school administrators are calling recent media reports on expensive bonds misleading.
A report by the Los Angeles Times last week decried the dangers of school districts using capital appreciation bonds, or CABs, a type of financing where repayment can be deferred, but the debt can grow dramatically because of interest.
The report said CABs could saddle school districts with large amounts of debt, in some cases up to 10 times greater than the principal.
But Monterey County administrators say the report doesn"t tell the entire story.
They say they will refinance their CABs or pay them off early, avoiding the accumulation of large debts.
They also say looking at CABs by themselves could lead to erroneous conclusions because they are part of a district"s overall debt load. When terms of capital appreciation bonds are lumped in with terms of regular bonds, the overall debt load is very reasonable, officials say.
When voters approve a bond measure, the entire amount is not sold at once. The bond is broken up into segments — called issues — and each issue is often financed in different ways, depending on market conditions. For example, a $1 million bond might be split into four $250,000 issues, each borrowed at different times, under different terms. At Hartnell College in Salinas, these issues are labeled series A, B, C and D.
"It"s been a problem all along that the focus is on series D," the one financed with a CAB, said Hartnell President Willard Lewallen. Even if Hartnell didn"t refinance the debt, the payback of the total debt would be 4.8 times the principal, "not nine, 10 or 11 like all those articles say," Lewallen said.
The Los Angeles Times report followed a controversy in the Poway Unified School District near San Diego, which last year approved issuing a $105 million bond that will ultimately cost local taxpayers about $1 billion to repay.
Not all CABs pose the same risks. The Los Angeles Times cited finance experts who said a payoff of four times more than the principal is considered reasonable.
According to a list compiled by the Times, there are only three CABs in Monterey County that fall in this category: at the Bradley Union School District, which is scheduled to pay almost $3.5 million to repay its $500,000 bond; at the Santa Rita Union School District in Salinas, which is scheduled to pay about $13 million to repay its $2.6 million bond; and at Hartnell.
That is, if district officials allow the bond to reach its full maturity, or if the economy remains so stagnant refinancing won"t be feasible, according to district officials.
Unlike the Poway bond, Hartnell"s CAB has a provision that allows for early repayment, say bond advisers. In 2019, before the first lump sums are due, administrators are planning to refinance the bonds.
The problem will be if the economy hasn"t recovered sufficiently by then and no other bonds at better terms can be re-issued.
"The way bonds work, (sellers) imply assessed value growth for the bond to be paid in future years," said Ron Holly, Monterey County"s debt manager. In other words, if assessed value doesn"t increase on par with the increases needed to make the payments, there could be trouble.
District officials are between a rock and a hard place. Once a bond has been approved, voters are eager to see projects developed — so officials are in a rush to get the financing in place. If market conditions are not ideal, they may have to settle for what they can get.
"A problem all of these districts have faced is trying to provide projects promised to voters and trying to comply with Proposition 39," said Dale Scott, a San Francisco-based financial adviser for school districts. Prop. 39 allows bonds to be passed with 55 percent of the vote and sets limits on how much property owners can be taxed.
Capital appreciation bonds are also used to smooth out the amount of taxes property owners have to pay during the entire life of the bond.
Regular bonds require interest payments be made almost immediately after they are issued — which can make them more expensive right off the bat. With capital appreciation bonds, interest rates are put off until later, when assessed values go up.
"It"s like a home mortgage: In the initial first couple of years you pay mostly interest," said Rick Blanckmeister, chief business officer for Carmel Unified School District. "As it matures, 100 percent will be going to principal."
Carmel Unified"s CAB made up only 8 percent of all bonds issued in the district since 2000, administrators say. They will be repaid in 22 years, with a cost of no more than two times the original amount.
"We"ve done very well by our taxpayers," Carmel Superintendent Marvin Biasotti said. "They"re paying well below what they approved, less than we estimated when we went to voters."
To maintain the tax rate promised to voters, Monterey Peninsula Unified School District issued $2.6 million in capital appreciation bonds in 2011, part of bonds totaling nearly $35 million. The CAB will be repaid in less than 20 years and will cost $13.2 million to repay — both within the margins of what is considered "prudent" by experts.
"MPUSD issued a very cost-effective financing for its taxpayers," Superintendent Marilyn Shepherd said in an email. "Unlike the Poway Unified School District, financing which has come under significant scrutiny, MPUSD utilized CABs prudently. MPUSD"s financing had 7.6 percent CABs, Poway had 100 percent CABs. MPUSD"s CABs were intentionally utilized in the early part of the financing to minimize the interest cost (in years 1 through 19), Poway utilized their CABs in years 22 through 40."
Poway capital appreciation bonds, unlike Hartnell"s, cannot be paid off early. That"s another element that makes CABs risky.
The Poway debacle has prompted Southern California lawmakers to begin drafting legislation that will restrict the use of capital appreciation bonds.
Claudia Meléndez Salinas can be reached at 753-6755 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Capital Appreciation Bonds in Monterey County
Monterey County school administrators would prefer not to look at CABs by themselves, but as part of their overall debt load. When terms of capital appreciation bonds are lumped in with terms of other school bonds, the overall debt load is very reasonable, officials say.
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I remembered how close I'd came to the runway during my last landing. I didn't want that to happen again! I made sure my downwind approach was further east...
...downwind, crosswind, final... wow, maybe I overdid it on the "further east" thing. I was going to land east of the landing area. Oh well, at least I knew how to do a standup landing now.
I flared, stood up and...
...thunk! Fell forward on my knees, hard.
Huh? How'd that happen? So many of my earlier landings had been so soft. Was it the new lines on the student canopy?
Stop blaming the parachute and try again, I told myself. And this time, try to land correctly. In the landing area, perhaps.
My second jump went like the first one. Unimpressive exit, improved tracking, pulled on time, etc... Now to land properly.
Okay, I thought. Let's do the downwind leg a bit closer than last time so you don't land in the sticks again.
I went downwind, turned crosswind and...
...Damn! I was too close to the runway again!
You idiot! I thought, cutting the crosswind leg short. The landing pattern isn't that complicated! Why have you been screwing it up lately?
Then final approach came. Toggles up, toggles up, don't flare too high, flare half way, all the way... ...hey I was still coming in like a freight train. I PLF'd hard and came to a stop.
Well, that was train wreck, I thought.
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Sony HDR-HC1/HVR-A1 and housings
Posted 12 November 2005 - 10:02 AM
This leaves the A1u as the clear choice. Light & Motion's bluefin A1 will access the custom button, which can be programed for manual white balance, making this a very attractive option.
Sea & Sea's housing would also be compatible w/ the MWB, but it strangely didn't access the telemacro button.
Posted 12 November 2005 - 11:55 AM
I guess I need to take a step back for a few months and see how everything unfolds before I commit to a housing. I was pretty much sold on the Amphibico if it was going to be an electronic housing with one touch MWB and a $2k retail price.
I guess that was just too good to be true.
Posted 18 November 2005 - 12:47 AM
Hi Sim, We have two controls on the top and bottom of the touch screen that allow you to touch all pads in the pmenu. You can see a picture on our website and look up #6039.01.
Glenn Goodrich
So manual WB can be accessed through the housing. I checked out the HC-1 here at Sony Kuala Lumpur, you need to tap the touch screen menu like 4-5 times to get to the manual WB and another 3-4 times to get out of the menu to have a clear screen! A bit dodgy if you need to WB fast, unless you don't mind to see through the words shown on the menu!
Anyway, it's still a huge savings of $1K to the A1 plus & $900 for the Ike housing compared to Amphibico's Evo ( not released yet ) and the wet lenses you might already have ie Inon UWL-100, UrPRO filter, etc can be attached to the Ike. Btw Ike just up the price to $1100!
So what do you guys think?
Posted 18 November 2005 - 08:17 AM
Posted 18 November 2005 - 08:22 AM
Still it would be akward to do it on the Ikelite housing, through the viewfinder or side mirror, right hand on the right grip and left hand tackling the WB menu and the white slate? Use your buddy? or white fins? Modify arms on ball joint attached to the grip to hold the white slate?
Would appreciate some feedback, thanks from Malaysia!
Posted 19 November 2005 - 09:21 PM
Posted 20 November 2005 - 06:12 AM
Posted 20 November 2005 - 06:12 AM
Just checked the HC-1 again, the manual "one-touch" WB on the touch screen menu can be set to a total of 4 taps, including exiting the menu...so a lot less than I thought!
Still it would be akward to do it on the Ikelite housing, through the viewfinder or side mirror, right hand on the right grip and left hand tackling the WB menu and the white slate? Use your buddy? or white fins? Modify arms on ball joint attached to the grip to hold the white slate?
Would appreciate some feedback, thanks from Malaysia!
Hi Sim, from Malaysia too. Waiting for you guys to test the Ike underwater before I put money down. I was halfway towards purchasing the A1 cause I thought manual WB wasn't available with the HC1.
Posted 20 November 2005 - 06:31 AM
Nikon D200; Seacam; Ikelite DS-125
Posted 20 November 2005 - 04:11 PM
Brine Shrimp, looks like we might be the 1st two in Malaysia with the HC-1 underwater eh?
A big thank you to all contributors here, it's great to see so many people helping out each other!
Posted 20 November 2005 - 11:32 PM
Hope this is OK with everyone, please proceed from there.
Posted 24 November 2005 - 06:21 AM
1. the silverfushhousing which appeared in the beginning of the poll: i dont really care about whitebalance, so i can live without that button on the housing. but how you want to get the HC1 in there? the manufacturer says there is 220 milimeters space. the hc1 is 185 milimeters ... the hc-optimised sony-lens is much longer than the remaining 35 milimeters (lets not talk about the small battery you'd have to use). My question: is there another lens (good quality & at least 50% zoomable)? or nobody thought about the extra lenght of the lens? ... same thing for the top-dawg housing?
so if all these housings are too short, what is remaining, if i want lanc-control: undersea miniDV, the Amphibicos ... and? or am i forggetting another option?
2. concerning the hc1 itself: for me it is the maximum expense possible. i cant spend more for the cam. for that money (1600 euro here) ... is it really the best choice for UW-Videography? i start getting concerned because of all that low-light problem discussions ... is that just compared to more expensive models or is the hc1 generally bad for low-light ... ands so for uw?
thanks for short and simple answers (i dont undersand much of technology) ...
Posted 24 November 2005 - 01:18 PM
Posted 24 November 2005 - 06:23 PM
Sounds like you are new to the game. If you don't care about white balance maybe you shouldn't be buying the high-definition camera, the HC1. You should consider something cheaper and more basic, not HD, and you can buy a cheaper housing for it without white balance! Read through all the other threads, there is a lot of information around, and do your own research on the internet.
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Posted 24 November 2005 - 10:09 PM
Have a look through this thread and decide if it is really what you want at this point in time...
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Posted 29 November 2005 - 06:38 AM
We are now looking into getting the A1 for our second camera to work with the FX1 underwater.
The PRO EVO HD Amphibico housing when used with the A1 camera can give you access to white balance control through use of the A1's 'assign' button. Unfortunately this is not available with the HC1 camera, as it does not have this 'assign' button.
Will be interesting to see how they go side by side underwater.
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Posted 01 December 2005 - 12:07 PM
Looks like a nice piece of work - I think I'm getting one...
Posted 02 December 2005 - 07:36 AM
I'm happy with the HC-1 and Ikelite....
Posted 02 December 2005 - 11:39 AM
Still looks like a steriod enhanced version of the Dive buddy plus for my TRV950 though. Where is the 120 degree port as standard. ???
But if it comes up trumps with the goods and the white balance then I'm all for it.
Someone buy it, test it, then give us a review..Then i will part with my hard earned cash. (ha,ha)
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Posted 02 December 2005 - 10:04 PM
Depends on which version, the HC1 is $1995, the A1U version is $2995.
$2995 ??? It says $1995 on my screen.
Seems like the white balance only will work with the A1U through the assignable button. Since I just recently read that L&M can't support WB on the HC1 with their Bluefin, I'm now more inclined to buy the EVO and save $1199.
But if it comes up trumps with the goods and the white balance then I'm all for it.
I most likely will after Christmas. Unless I go with USVH. Plan to test it in the spring somewhere warm. Will post the results here in the future.
Someone buy it, test it, then give us a review..Then i will part with my hard earned cash. (ha,ha)


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My maternal grandfather grew up in Chicago. He came from a family of bricklayers, but that line of work didn't interest him after he became familiar with it. It wasn't the work he disliked. It was the work ethic of some of the employees he disliked. He said they were more interested in taking breaks and getting paid regardless of the quality of the job they did.
Grandpa ended up riding the rails instead of laying bricks. He went through Iowa and liked what he saw, so he decided to stay there. He worked on a crew installing drainage tile in farm fields in central Iowa. Eventually, he became a farmer himself. One of things I always remember him talking about from those days was the way they harvested corn. "A good man could pick a hundred bushels a day!"
That was a full day. One guy would grab ears of corn on the stalk, peel them from the husk, and then toss them over his shoulder into the horse-drawn wagon next to him as he moved across a field. The hundred-bushel mark was sort of a measure of worth. If you could harvest a hundred bushels, you were an upright individual. Anything less made you suspect.
My grandfather died 20 years ago, just a few days shy of his 100th birthday. He would make the trip from central Iowa to our farm in northeast Iowa quite a bit, even in his later years. The best part of those visits for me was when we'd get him outside and show him some of the equipment we use on the farm. Even the stuff we had 20-some years ago amazed him. If he saw what we had today, he'd be stunned. The combine we use to harvest corn today is the smallest model John Deere makes. Even so, it will easily harvest a thousand bushels of corn in an hour. A hundred bushels in a day was a big deal in my grandpa's day, and they were only taking the whole ear of corn with the kernels still attached. The machine I use removes those kernels from the cob and turns out a product that used to require a separate threshing crew in my grandfather's day.
Everything in agriculture seems to get bigger at an alarming pace. In September we harvest corn for silage. That's where we take the entire corn plant, cut it off at the base of the stalk, run the whole plant through a series of rotating knives to chop it into pieces about 3/8 in. long, and spew the mixture out a curved pipe into a wagon pulled behind the unit. That silage is dumped from the wagon onto the ground where a tractor is used to push it into a pile. The tractor then drives over the pile repeatedly to pack the material down and eliminate air from the pile so the product will ferment. That fermented feed is then fed to cattle.
The chopper we use for silage is a self-propelled unit. It is similar to a combine, except that it chops up the whole plant rather than taking only the ear of corn. The operator sits in the cab directly in front of the engine and directly over the rotating knives. Pull-type choppers are hooked to a tractor to provide the power necessary to work. The tractor sits to one side of the chopper instead of following down the row like a self-propelled unit.
Part of the harvesting work I do is to go to other farmers' fields and "open up the field" for them by chopping the outside rows off the field. That allows them to run their pull-type chopper without driving over any rows of corn. They pay me a slightly higher fee per load to open the field than they would if I chopped the whole thing for them.
Our chopper is also the smallest one that John Deere makes. There are two different heads we use for harvesting corn silage. One takes two rows at a time, which are spaced 38 in. apart. The other one takes three rows spaced 30 in. apart. Incidentally, the magic number of 38 came about because it was the standard width of a draft horse during my grandpa's time. You could get your horse to fit between the rows of corn if they were planted 38 in. apart, but you couldn't get a horse worthy of working a full day to fit down 30-in. rows.
I've always kept up on new equipment. What I discovered this week is that you don't truly appreciate the advances that have been made until you see it for yourself, just like when my grandfather came to the farm.
Last fall I realized how tiny my self-propelled chopper really is — the one my grandfather would think was a brute. It's a cupcake compared to the thing I saw coming down the road one night. If you subscribe to Hay & Forage Grower (And who DOESN'T, you ask? Losers, that's who!), you may have seen an article about corn silage harvesting. The machine in the picture was an older model, but it belongs to Bushman Custom Chopping. Steve Bushman is the guy behind that company. He covers most of Iowa for his work. In addition to chopping silage, he also does some planting and other harvesting, as well as tub grinding of hay. That's where you take a bale of hay and put it into a giant food processor and basically chop it into confetti so it can be added to cattle rations more easily than long hay. This tiny little 500- or 600-horsepower Caterpillar diesel engine turns a 1,800-pound bale of hay into a pile of chaff in about 45 seconds. It is a wonder to behold.
Steve has usually been a Deere loyalist, but he switched teams in the last year since buying out another operator. Two of his three machines are made by Krone. It was a Krone I saw at the intersection near my place the other night. The monster is powered by a cute little engine with a mere 850 horsepower. The giant corn head folds into three sections. When operating, it harvests 12 rows at a time. That's a 30-foot-wide path through the field — four times as big as my biggest corn head.
Meeting it on the road is one thing. Seeing it in action is what blows your mind. I had a hunch where they were going, so I stopped by to grab Guy No. 1 and we headed out to watch the show.
We got in the truck and went for a drive past my uncle's place. Just as we pulled up to the intersection, we noticed a long line of trucks waiting on the road ahead of us. The giant Krone Big X self-propelled forage harvester was just pulling into the field. Like synchronized swimmers, the trucks fell in line behind the chopper and followed behind. Next thing you know, we could hear the howl of the machine as a huge stream of silage came shooting out of its gooseneck (the curved pipe through which the silage blows from the rotating knives into whatever storage unit you fill).
My silage wagons are pulled by the chopper. The power I have allows me to hit the back of the 18-foot wagon with the stream of silage. Steve's chopper was filling a truck trailing behind it approximately 75 FEET! I've known Steve for probably 20 years. When I talked to him at the Hay Expo this summer, he told me a story my grandpa would have loved. His new chopper puts out a stream of silage so big and so powerful that Steve can aim the gooseneck at the very top side of his truck's wall when it sits on a slightly sloped field and actually tip the truck over when it's empty! This is a tandem-axle truck with a capacity to carry about 15 to 20 tons in a load! It's a little bigger than an average garbage truck. I'd be lucky to tip over a cow with the stream of silage from my chopper. You know, not that I've tried or anything.
We sat there and watched for maybe 20 or 30 minutes. That half hour of work was about equal to what I do in a good day with the two-row 38-in. corn head on my Deere. I went to bed that night with an incredible inferiority complex. The only thing that allowed me to sleep was the idea that I paid about 30 grand for my chopper and Steve coughed up 400 grand for one Krone, plus who knows how much for the seven trucks to haul all that silage away. Plus, take all that times THREE for all the crews Steve runs! His guys know how to work, too. Grandpa would be proud of them.
I know I haven't done an adequate job describing this machine to you, so let's get real. Youtube holds the solution. Here is a link I found to demonstrate how impressive the Krone Big X really is: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf9yv0_LCvM. This is one from a European harvest: www.leechvideo.com/video/view1290686.html.
Grandpa would be amazed. Stop by sometime for a visit and I'll show you around. Of course, at my place, with the scale of my equipment, it won't be a Modern Marvels episode as much as a Fisher-Price moment.
Guy No. 2


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Selma Schwarzwald
Born: September 2, 1937
Lvov, Poland
Both of Selma's Jewish parents, Daniel Schwarzwald and Laura Litwak, had been raised in the industrial city of Lvov. As many different nationalities lived in Lvov, Selma's mother and father could speak many languages--Polish, Russian, German and Yiddish. In running his successful lumber business, Daniel also occasionally used English.
1933-39: My parents married in April 1935 and I was born two years later. My father was afraid that there might be a war and wanted to move the family to safety in Britain. But my mother didn't want to abandon her parents. In September 1939, when I was 2 years old, the Germans invaded Poland from the west while the Soviets invaded from the east. Lvov fell under Soviet control.
1940-44: In 1941 the Germans occupied Lvov. On the day of my fifth birthday, my father disappeared. My mother and I moved to a small town called Busko-Zdroj. She told me my name was Zofia Tymejko, that we were Catholic, and warned me: "Never tell anyone we're from Lvov, never talk to strangers." We became practicing Catholics. One day at school, my teacher said Germans and Jews were bad--the Germans because they killed Poles, the Jews because they killed Jesus. I asked Mother; she said she knew some Jews and that they weren't all bad.
After the war ended, Selma and her mother immigrated to England. There, Selma learned that she was Jewish. She eventually became a doctor, and settled in America in 1963.


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Some foul calls by replacement referees led to much gnashing of teeth and crushing of beer cans around the country this week. Union referees had been locked out by N.F.L. managers (they've since settled their differences), and the temporary zebras running the field seemed to be using a rule book devised by Hal Roach. Fans and players alike took to the twitter-sphere to express their disgust after a series of memorable midfield maldecisions. Nowhere was the horror more keenly felt than in Wisconsin, after the beloved Green Bay Packers had a win stolen by a fumbled decision as time ran out against the Seattle Seahawks.
Football and unionism make strange bedfellows. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and Congressman and V.P. candidate Paul Ryan, not exactly notable fans of all things unionized, experienced fourth-down conversions in grudging acknowledgments that the professional, unionized refs were clearly missed on America's football fields of glory. "After catching a few hours of sleep, the #Packers game is still just as painful. #Returntherealrefs," Gov. Walker tweeted to the malicious delight of public sector workers—and fans of irony—throughout the cheesehead region.
"Give me a break. It is time to get the real refs," said Congressman Ryan before finding a way, somehow, to compare the hapless refs to the president's handling of the economy. Perhaps the greatest reality stretching came from radio personality Rush Limbaugh who at various points blamed the poor on-field performances on American liberalism, affirmative action, and, of course, President Obama before asserting that the replacement refs were just as competent as the union pros they covered for (#cuzunionsarealwaysbad?).
It's doubtful that the scandal on the Astroturf will lead to a union revival in America. As the private sector completes its final discard of union employees, public sector unionized workers will no doubt remain the target of a plutocrats' blitz. The referee kerfuffle, however, reminds that something does actually remain sacrosanct in America: Sunday afternoon. You're still all on your own Sunday morning.
The actual play was not an interception because if both have their hands on the ball the decision goes to the offensive player. The original player getting the ball has to maintain possession through the process. He didn't. By the time the referee got to the ball it was a tug of war in the pile and the only legitimate call was a touchdown. It it had happened in the middle of the field at another point in the game, the whole discussion would have been on what constitutes possession and a catch and just be of interest to football fans. Because it ended the game it became a national discussion.
If the player had just batted the ball down and not had tried to catch the ball the whole thing would be mute and not the conversation that has permeated everywhere this week. Interesting, one of the points the NFL wants in its negotiations is to ensure they get good referees by having more officiating crews so they can get rid of those not performing. They recognize that the regular referees are often not the best and need to be weeded out.
Also, by breaking up the union, some of the substitute refs, who are likely better than the union refs, could get jobs that they would otherwise be shut out of because the union protects substandard officials. If you want the best employess, which clearly is what this issue was about, you get rid of the unions altogether and establish merit-based standards.
I actually went one step further. The primary sticking point was not wages, wanting to change from a defined benefit to defined contribution pension system. The union did not like their pensions being unilaterally altered; the league correctly stated that it was the trend, and all the rest of their employees were going the same.
I just found it sad because there was no argument considering the wisdom of the fact that it is a general trend toward defined contribution plans. It was again the employer with the power.
A quick read of Retirement Heist by Ellen Schultz is eye-opening. It's amazing how companies complain about the pressure on the pension systems, after they legally looted those same pension systems.
Hopefully we will get a legal conscience in these practices will change
plus, I plain feel badly for those refs - like the ump that blew the call on the no-hitter last year... live with...
It's sports, folks!!!!


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Bluffton Today is a community newspaper. As we celebrate National Newspaper Week, we remind our loyal readers - in print and online - that we are here to give you news you can use about your community.
National news can be found on cable TV, weather can be seen on several channels and talk radio during drive time is available on the AM or FM dial. But people turn to local community newspapers and websites for news about their community, Town Hall, Beaufort County Council and local businesses.
While the industry has had many transformations over the years, technology helps us gather information in the 21st Century.
You can visit our website 24/7, read news on tablets and laptops and smart phones.
As a result of this new technology, a lot of large newspapers are struggling. In reality, daily newspapers are more and more frequently printing only two to three times a week. Bluffton Today changed its print model from daily to twice weekly in August 2011. But we also shifted content online more now than ever as well.
Local community newspapers like Bluffton Today are thriving because we have weathered the storm year to remain a fixture in the community.
As communities become more complex and diverse, the role of the local newspaper in informing our communities becomes even more important. We become the official watchdog and tool for communication for many.
Local newspapers and accompanying websites regularly check in with the courts and police stations. We print announcements on births, deaths, engagements, marriages, anniversaries, church news, job openings, school information and service club endeavors.
We publish notices of local municipal meetings. We cover tax increases, millage initiatives, notices of changes in laws and property rezoning - all issues that most directly affect pocketbooks by determining how hard-earned tax dollars are spent at the local level and how are local officials are representing us.
Newspapers help run the local economic engine and provide a community marketplace. Newspapers offer local small businesses with an effective and affordable means of connecting with local consumers. We print sales at the supermarket, coupons for discounts at local stores, real estate listings and classifieds for everything from a used car to a neighbor's garage sale.
The newspaper is also very personal. Communities feel a sense of ownership in their local newspaper. Sometimes it's a love-hate relationship, and we understand and appreciate that.
National websites and major news blogs offer plenty of national, international news and analysis, but they do not offer the local stories that people in the greater Bluffton area care about.
Community newspapers are the one constant source of local information. Community newspapers deliver - in good times and bad.


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Lord McAlpine, Wronged By BBC, Demands 10,000 People On Twitter Pay Up
from the mcalpine-effect dept
But, more interesting to us, is the fact that Lord McAlpine (not a Twitter user) has announced his intention to go after 10,000 Twitter users for either claiming he was the person in question or for retweeting someone else saying that. Some have already apologized for their tweets, but even among those who have, they claim that McAlpine's lawyers are going to ridiculous lengths, with one person, Sally Bercow, who has apologized, also claiming that McAlpine's lawyers are "ambulance chasers" and "big bullies."
But the decision to force 10,000 people to pay up seems crazy:
Lawyers acting for Lord McAlpine have also drawn up a "very long list" of targets they intend to pursue for defamation, including the authors of 1,000 original tweets and a further 9,000 individuals who retweeted those messages.Apparently if you're "small time" you won't have to pay as much:
Lord McAlpine's solicitor, Andrew Reed, said last night that those with under 500 followers will be asked to make a donation to charity as part of a settlement, with an "administration fee" for sorting it out. He added that higher profile figures, such as Ms Bercow, are "a separate matter".Here's the insane part: McAlpine claims that he's doing this to "restore my reputation." Demanding 10,000 people on Twitter pay up isn't going to "restore" your reputation. It's going to tarnish it. Yes, it's pretty clear that McAlpine was wronged by the initial reports that suggested he was involved in the scandal. And the BBC is paying up handsomely for their mistake (apparently a six figure settlement has already been negotiated). But the news that the BBC's report was false spread like wildfire. Everyone knows the report was false. Going after people on Twitter for talking about it doesn't do anything more to restore his reputation, it just makes him look like a giant bully -- and, in the process, calls much more attention to him and his tactics here.


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DesignView needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 52 designs submitted by 15 freelance designers.
I need a redesign of our website; http://www.foresceneweb.com/
We like this design; http://www.ehow.com/ we want our page stretching horizontally like that one.
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Home Page: http://dev.foresceneweb.com/fs/Fore…e-home.pdf
Inner page: http://dev.foresceneweb.com/fs/Fore…-inner.pdf
Portfolio Page: http://dev.foresceneweb.com/fs/Fore…tfolio.pdf
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Sites for reference, they portrait the style and over all feel of what we are looking for:
• http://www.pixelcrayons.com/
• http://noamdesign.com/
• http://magicdust.com.au/_mgxroot/page_home.html
• http://www.thewebshowroom.com.au/home/
• http://www.quikclicks.com.au/
• http://www.bhconsulting.net.au/pages/home.do (I want the same width as this side)
Follow the blueprints structure but be creative in the design. I'll leave the color scheme open but over all we are looking for a clean, professional and creative look. White must be the dominant color. Use the green from the logo but no more than 10% of site should be green. If you're using images I prefer images of professional individuals. The design must be WEB 2.0
Please submit a mockup for all three pages (Home, Inner, Portfolio), they are similar, is not a lot of work. If you think is too much then only submit the home page design but this will lower your chances against someone who submits all three mockups.
We like this design; http://www.ehow.com/ we want our page stretching horizontally like that one.
This is a great opportunity to build a professional relationship that can be beneficial for both parties. If you have any questions please contact me.


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If you overhear two pilots in a conversation with the words "overhaul" or "TBO," chances are it's about engines. If you discover you've stumbled upon a discussion about constant-speed propeller overhauls, consider yourself lucky. If, upon further eavesdropping, you realize that you've caught two pilots talking about an overhaul of a fixed-pitch propeller, it's time to buy a lottery ticket.
Many owners of fixed-pitch propellers are unaware that a TBO even exists for their props. But it does, and for good reason. McCauley recommends that their fixed-pitch propellers be overhauled every seven years or 2,000 hours, while Sensenich only uses 2,000 operating hours as the TBO for their propellers. These overhauls are important, both for safety and performance. Stresses build up in the outer surfaces of the blades that can be relieved by resurfacing the blade and treating for corrosion. However, another important benefit of the overhaul is the inspection and correction of blade tracking and pitch.
It's surprising to see how many fixed-pitch propellers turn up at the overhaul with significant pitch and track issues. In the case of a friend of mine, her seemingly "good" propeller turned out to have one blade set to a pitch two inches greater than the other. She literally had a climb prop on one side and a cruise prop on the other. I can only imagine how much smoother that engine must have seemed following the prop overhaul.
Overhaul of a fixed-pitch propeller is also an excellent opportunity to make pitch changes to optimize propeller performance for your aircraft and the type of flying that you do. If you check the type certificate for your aircraft, you are likely to find a range of pitch settings that are allowed for the aircraft. They are identified in inches of theoretical forward movement during one rotation. There will usually be at least one cruise pitch setting and one climb pitch setting. As a rule of thumb, every inch of pitch change will reduce or increase the resulting engine rpm at the same power setting by 30 to 50 rpm.
That said, changing the pitch of a propeller should be carefully planned. All fixed-pitch propellers have a limit to the cumulative amount that they can be bent; commonly eight inches of pitch change. For example, if you start with a propeller pitch of 60 and increase it to 66, you can only bend the propeller pitch two more inches, in either direction, for the life of the propeller. Keep this in mind when buying a used propeller. It may be effectively run out either dimensionally or with regard to pitch changes.
If you do decide to have your fixed-pitch propeller re-pitched, you may want to see if the shop will allow you to witness the process yourself. It's an educational experience, but it's not for the faint of heart. Re-pitching is a remarkable ballet alternating between brute force and delicate measurement. First, the technician marks a series of points, known as stations, which are measured from the propeller hub outward on the blade face. Then, he or she uses a highly accurate protractor to measure the exact angles at every station along the propeller blades and compare them against the specs from the propeller manufacturer.
The next part can cause some heart flutter in the owner, as the technicians pull out an eight-foot steel pry bar with a fork on the end, fit it over the blade and proceed to pull, push, or hang on it in an effort to twist the blade ever so slightly. At each break in the wrestling-like action, the protractor comes back out to measure the new blade angles and determine if another round of strong-man is in order. I distinctly remember squinting in pain as I watched this process for the first time on my own propeller. That said, it clearly demonstrates the strength of propellers.
Overhauls of constant-speed propellers are much closer in nature to engine overhauls. There are a lot of individual components that make up the hub of a constant-speed propeller and they have very close tolerances. Each must be inspected, measured, and/or replaced as necessary to meet the manufacturer's overhaul guidelines.
Owners of expensive constant-speed propellers generally know the TBO of their propellers and also know that, if left unchecked, small problems can become very expensive ones. Unfortunately, they often pay attention to the hours portion of the TBO, while ignoring the age limit set by the manufacturer. This is a mistake, since corrosion is the leading cause of hub damage and corrosion is more dependent on age and environment than on operating hours. This is one reason that it is so important to get a constant-speed propeller overhauled or inspected within the recommended TBO. If you catch a problem early, the cost can be reasonable (in airplane terms). However, if the wear or corrosion damage exceeds the tolerances of the component, replacement can be a very expensive proposition.
One maintenance option that is available to owners operating under Part 91 is the "inspect and repair as necessary" or IRAN. As opposed to a complete overhaul, this procedure involves disassembly, inspection, and repair on an as-needed basis versus the overhaul requirements set by the manufacturer, which may be much more stringent on component replacement. It's better than waiting beyond TBO, but it is also a false economy, depending on your situation. The difference in cost between an IRAN and an overhaul may be quite close, and you will still have a propeller with the same "time since overhaul" when you're all done. Communication with the propeller shop is the key to making good decisions here. Check in with them as soon as they have completed the inspection, discuss the options, and make an informed decision.
Propellers deserve your respect and attention. Take good care of them; perform routine maintenance to prevent corrosion damage, and address minor stress points before they become major ones. Lastly, remember to give that blade a pat on the back for a job well done as you head to the baggage compartment and grab the tow bar for pulling or pushing the aircraft around the ramp; your propeller will thank you someday.


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|Document Type:
|Sound Recording
|All Authors / Contributors:
Gordon Skene; Lou Costello; Bud Abbott; John Fogerty; Mickey Mantle; Teresa Brewer; Danny Kaye; Count Basie; Taps Miller; Terry Cashman; Bob Dylan; Dan Dailey; Les Brown; Betty Bonney; Nat King Cole; Mabel Scott; Dave Frishberg; Steve Goodman; Wynona Carr; De Wolf Hopper; Babe Ruth; Lou Gehrig; Ralph Kiner; Bob Hope; Bing Crosby; Dorothy Lamour; Shout! Factory (Firm); Harry Simeone Songsters.; Peter, Paul, and Mary (Musical group); Andrews Sisters.; Treniers (Musical group)
|0738929204 9780738929200
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Compact discs.
Descriptive notes (56 p. : ill. : ports.) enclosed.
|4 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (49 pages)
|disc 1: The music. It's a beautiful day for a ball game (The Harry Simeone Songsters) --
Centerfield (John Fogerty) --
I love Mickey (Mickey Mantle and Teresa Brewer) --
D-O-D-G-E-R-S song (Oh really? No, O'Malley) (Danny Kaye) --
Did you see Jackie Robinson hit that ball? (Count Basie and His Orchestra feat. Taps Miller) --
Talkin' baseball (Willie, Mickey and "The Duke) (Terry Cashman) --
Catfish (Bob Dylan) --
Take me out to the ball game (The Andrews Sisters feat. Dan Dailey) --
"Joltin'" Joe DiMaggio (Les Brown and His Orchestra feat. Betty Bonney) --
Baseball boogie (Mabel Scott) --
The first baseball game (Nat King Cole) --
Right field (Peter, Paul & Mary) --
Say hey (The Willie Mays song) (The Treniers) --
Van Lingle Mungo (Dave Frishberg) --
A dying Cub fan's last request (Steve Goodman) --
The ball game (Sister Wynona Carr). disc 2: The games. Yankees win fourth straight World Series (1939) --
"The shot heard round the world" (1951) --
Willie Mays robs Vic Wertz with "The Catch" (1954) --
Don Larsen pitches perfect game in World Series (1956) --
Ted Williams homers in final career at bat (1960) --
Bill Mazeroski's World Series-winning home run (1960) --
Roger Maris breaks single season home run record (1961) --
The Amazin' Mets win the 1969 World Series (1969) --
Hank Aaron breaks career home run record (1974) --
Bucky Dent homers to win AL East title (1978) --
Bill Buckner's error continues Red Sox curse (1986) --
Kirk Gibson homers to win Game 1 of the World Series (1988) --
Nolan Ryan hurls seventh no-hitter (1991) --
Cal Ripken, Jr. breaks consecutive games played record --
Mark McGwire's 62nd home run breaks Maris' record (1998) --
Barry Bonds breaks McGwire's record with 71st home run (2001) --
Red Sox win World Series and break 86-year-old curse (2004). disc 3: The players. Cy Young remembers perfect game (1904) --
Ty Cobb talks about his career (1906-1918) --
Babe Ruth talks about his goals in baseball (1934) --
Lou Gehrig announces retirement at Yankee Stadium (1939) --
Ted Williams talks about his love of baseball (1946) --
Babe Ruth gives farewell address at Yankee Stadium (1947) --
Jackie Robinson on being first African-American player (1948) --
"Joltin'" Joe DiMaggio announces retirement (1951) --
NY Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers move to West Coast (1957) --
Hank Aaron on pressure of chasing Ruth's home run record (1974) --
Pete Rose addresses gambling accusations (1989) --
Cal Ripken, Jr. on consecutive-games-played streak (1995) --
Barry Bonds talks about 700th career home run (2004) --
Red Sox manager Terry Francona on winning the World Series (2004). disc 4: The rest. Casey at the bat (DeWolf Hopper, 1909) --
Babe and Lou, the home run twins (Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, 1928) --
Babe Ruth answers questions from his young fans (1941) --
"Two Top Gruskin": Duffy's Tavern radio program (1947) --
Ralph Kiner Wheaties ad, with Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour (1950) --
Who's on first (Abbott and Costello) --
Joe DiMaggio marries Marilyn Monroe (1954) --
Brooklyn Dodgers' GM Branch Rickey on baseball's future and expansion (1957) --
Remembrances of Ebbets Field and the Brooklyn Dodgers before the stadium is torn down (1961) --
Tommy Lasorda is bleeping mad after Dave Kingman hits three home runs against Dodgers (1976).
|Other Titles:
|It's a beautiful day for a ball game.
I love Mickey.
D-O-D-G-E-R-S song (Oh really? No, O'Malley)
Did you see Jackie Robinson hit that ball?
Talkin' baseball.
Take me out to the ball game.
"Joltin'" Joe DiMaggio.
Baseball boogie.
First baseball game.
Right field.
Say hey.
Van Lingle Mungo.
Dying Cub fan's last request.
Ball game.
Casey at the bat.
Babe and Lou, the home run twins.
Who's on first.
|[compilation produced by the Shout! Factory All-Stars with Gordon Skene].
A celebration of baseball, including broadcast highlights of games, news items, comedy skits, commercials, and songs related to the sport.
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Last year, the Ravens went into Cincinnati, beat the Bengals and clinched an AFC North title on the season's final weekend.
This season, it doesn't appear that they'll have to wait that long. In fact, they may not even have to wait beyond this weekend.
A Ravens victory over the struggling Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday, coupled by a Bengals loss against the San Diego Chargers, would give the Ravens their second straight AFC North crown.
Following their thrilling 16-13 overtime victory over the Chargers yesterday, the Ravens sit at 9-2 for just the second time in team history. They have a three-game lead over the Steelers, who were beaten by the last-place Cleveland Browns yesterday, and the Bengals, who trounced the awful Oakland Raiders to improve to 6-5.
Obviously, a Ravens victory Sunday would create a four-game lead over the Steelers with only four games to play. The Ravens would also have the first tiebreak by virtue of their head-to-head sweep over Pittsburgh, meaning the Steelers would be eliminated from contention for the division crown.
As for the Bengals, if they fell four games back with four to play, they couldn't catch the Ravens either even if they beat them in Week 16 in the head-to-head matchup. That's because the Ravens would move to 5-0 against the division with a victory over Pittsburgh on Sunday. The worst the Ravens could finish is 5-1 in that department.
The Browns, meanwhile, are 2-3 against the division and could finish no better than 3-3.
Obviously, the Ravens have bigger goals in mind, including getting a first-round bye and home-field advantage throughout the playoffs, but clinching the division this early would be a pretty nice accomplishment for John Harbaugh and company.


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Australia's High Court Strikes Down Marriage Equality In Canberra; Same-Sex Marriages To Be Annulled
Australia's brief foray into same-sex marriage has ended. The nation's Supreme Court struck down same-sex marriage, which was briefly legalized in Canberra, also known as the Australian Capital Territory.
This was in contrast to Australia's federal law, which does not give same-sex couples the right to marry.
For five days, same-sex couples could get married in Australia's capital city of Canberra. Those who did were the first in the country to do so.
But that fleeting window was slammed shut Thursday by the Australian High Court, which ruled that a recent local law legalizing same-sex marriage was invalid.
That means that the marriages of the couples who took advantage of the law to tie the knot -- 27 according to local media -- will be annulled.
"This is devastating for those couples who married this week and for their families," said Rodney Croome, the national director of the advocacy group Australian Marriage Equality. "However, this is just a temporary defeat."
Australian gay rights activists said their fight would now shift to lobbying the national parliament to change federal legislation.
It's particularly sad and disheartening to see couples legally marry only to have their unions dissolved based on the whim of the court. We hope the lobbying efforts of marriage equality activists at the federal level prove to be successful.
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