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BENTOL, Liberia (AP) — More than 30 years after her father was slain in a bloody coup, the daughter of former Liberia President William Tolbert has been sworn in as the new mayor of Bentol, her family's base and a town that has played an outsized role in the West African nation's political history.
At an inauguration event over the weekend, 70-year-old Christine Tolbert Norman promised "speedy development" modeled on the work of her father.
"My dad had a vision to raise this country from mat to mattress," she said, evoking one of Tolbert's famous slogans. "That man gave the people economic empowerment so they would not sleep on the floor, but would instead sleep on mattresses."
While Norman's family ties evoke memories of a more stable period — before autocratic rule in the 1980s and then 14 years of civil conflict that killed more than 250,000 people — some said her election provided further evidence of Liberia's continued dependence on the same families who have dominated the country's politics for decades.
Bentol, a small town located not far from Liberia's capital, takes its name from two presidents: Stephen Allen Benson, who ran a farm there and was in office in the mid-1800s, and Tolbert, who was born there and took power in 1971.
Norman worked for her father as an assistant education minister. She still speaks admiringly of Tolbert's efforts to develop the country, and to bridge the divide between Americo-Liberians, who descended from freed American slaves, and the country's indigenous population.
Those efforts were cut short, however, on April 12, 1980, when a 28-year-old military officer name Samuel Doe staged a coup that involved killing Tolbert in the Executive Mansion. The exact circumstances of Tolbert's death have never been confirmed. Some reports indicate he was shot, while another version holds that he was disemboweled in his bed.
Less than two weeks after the coup, Doe's People's Redemption Council ordered that 13 leading officials in Tolbert's government be stripped down to their undergarments, tied to poles and executed on the beach by firing squad. One of the few high-ranking Tolbert officials to survive the purge was current President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
Norman escaped the violence, spending eight months under house arrest before fleeing to the United States and then moving to Ivory Coast, where she lived for 18 years. She returned not long before Sirleaf took office in 2006 as the first elected postwar president.
Sirleaf, who won re-election 2011, has vowed to cultivate a new generation of political leaders.
Doris Myers, who runs a program that encourages Liberian youth to pursue careers in science and technology, criticized Sirleaf's decision to appoint Norman.
"They are not creating a generation of young leaders," she said. "If you appoint a 70-year-old person to such a position, where do you leave the young ones who are the future leaders?"
Norman, who since returning to Liberia has devoted her time to education projects including a popular private school in Monrovia's Paynesville district, dismissed criticism about her age and said she was focused on the wellbeing of Bentol.
She said she would start a project to restore the town's buildings, many that remain damaged from wartime looting.
One of the few surviving structures in the town is the Zion Praise Church, where her father served as pastor until his death. Norman said that with time, religion had helped her to forgive her father's killers.
"Forgiveness is not an option. It is essential for an individual," she said. "Our family has generally forgiven the people who took my dad's life because it is a command of God."

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However, in many cases this wisdom seems to have eroded over time. The spirituality of indigenous and traditional peoples has been vital in maintaining and supporting stewardship practices, but it is also affected by many factors – including religious intolerance.
Can faiths and spiritual traditions of the world engage more deeply in safeguarding life on Earth? Recent experiences seem to show a very positive development in this direction, with notable examples from many religious and spiritual traditions – but much remains to be done.
"IUCN wanted to offer the opportunity for dialogue between faith and spiritual traditions and the conservation community, and to promote greater engagement and collaboration for sustainable living on a sustainable planet," said Gonzalo Oviedo, IUCN's Senior Adviser on Social Policy.
Other panelists included Prof. Mary Evelyn Tucker, from the Forum on Religion and Ecology, Yale University, Jonathan Rose, from The Garrison Institute, and Satish Kumar, Editor of Resurgence Magazine. The session was moderated by Prof. John Grim, from the Forum on Religion and Ecology, Yale University.
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Eight men have been arrested on suspicion of stealing 1.3 million pounds ($2 million) from a Barclays bank branch by tapping into its computers, British police said.
The gang is accused of installing a KVM device, or keyboard video mouse, on the bank's computer system that allowed it to carry out the cyber theft.
The men, aged between 24 and 47, are being questioned about conspiracy to steal and conspiracy to defraud U.K. banks.
Police said cash, jewels and thousands of credit cards have been found in searches at addresses in the greater London area. Police said the group operated out of a "control room" in central London that was being searched.
The arrests follow a failed attempt to use similar technology to rob the Santander bank last week. The same police investigators are handling both cases.
Detective Supt. Terry Wilson said one of the arrested men is the "Mr. Big" of British cybercrime.
Police suspect that in both cases a gang member posed as an engineer and installed a KVM on the bank's computers that allowed the suspects, in the Barclays case, to gain information used to siphon money from the bank.
"That would allow them to log the keystrokes and the actual screen, so you could gather passwords and see how people log into their systems," said Graham Cluley, an independent computer security analyst. "Then you could remotely access the computers as if you were sitting in front of it. Effectively, it's like breaking into the bank in the middle of the night."
Still, he said the bank's anti-fraud systems were probably activated by the unusual transactions shortly after the money was taken from Barclays, allowing the bank to recover it quickly.
"Money was technically moved, but no lasting financial damage was done," said Cluley, who believes the same suspects may have been behind the hacks at Barclays and Santander.
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Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2017 6:32 pm
Post subject: 4 months in and 14 lbs down - time for a testimonial
Hello there. I am posting this because I have lost a stone on No S and have kept on with it for 4 months now. I am so pleased with this way of eating for so many reasons and can imagine sticking with it for a long time and keeping up the motivation for maintenance although that does seem a long way off.
I lost the first half stone quite quickly and the weight loss has slowed down to about 2 lb a month but that is fine as I believe I will reach a healthy weight and stay there.
The best thing about the diet for me are:
Eating nearly anything for my three meals a day - very healthy and home cooked, supermarket sandwiches or takeaways/ meals out. I find I want healthy food which I think has to do with having an appetite.
Enjoying the meals more - appetite again.
Feeling in control and escaping my sugar addiction. I still need to crack this on S days as I am sometimes an idiot but not every S day and I can get back on track on Mondays.
Being able to mark a NWS day where necessary and not feeling that I have broken the diet.
Thinking about the diet very little - escaping the obsession that is required for some other diets and can't last forever.
It fits in so well with social eating especially with my husband. No special diet food and I am motivated to cook supper!
The support available on the boards here and the simplicity of habitcal.
The hard bits:
Learning to say no thank you to sweets and snacks being offered (although people don't really care what you eat)
The sugar cravings - these might go away if I didn't eat sugar at the weekend.
Feeling hungry in the afternoons - not always and I have got used to it as not that bad, learned to eat enough at meal times or I have a cup of tea to calm it down
Getting S days right
My mods:
Mainly relate to S days. I have tried a maximum of 5 S events and keeping off sweets 7 days a week. I have relaxed this now and aim for only having Ss that really feel worth it. Some days go better than others....
Intelligent dietary defaults:
Breakfast - toasted pitta bread, Brie and sweet peppers in the week, fried egg on toast with mushrooms and tomatoes at the weekend. I always aim to include some protein.
Work lunch - sandwich, salad, fruit and yoghurt - no crisps
This is my 3rd start and I do know that it is very possible to fall off the no S wagon and gain plenty of weight. I hope though that two episodes of that are enough for me. We will see. I hope to be back at a year in or 2 stone off with continued enthusiasm.
3 tasty meals a day and loving it
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Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2017 9:37 pm
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excellent, nettee!!! such a great summary!
congratulations on great progress!!!
Body Fat %: 17.6
in it for maintenance and, more importantly, sanity!!
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Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2017 1:35 pm
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Congratulations Nettee! And thanks for letting us know.
Of the many benefits you list, I think this is my favorite:
Thinking about the diet very little - escaping the obsession that is required for some other diets and can't last forever
Thanks for listing your hard bits, too. This is the one that resonates most with me:
Learning to say no thank you to sweets and snacks being offered (although people don't really care what you eat)
I think the secret is really learning to believe that second part -- they really, really don't care! Should be obvious, right? Do we care what others eat? Do we notice? And yet the other way around our funny self-obsessed psychology somehow doesn't want to let us off the hook.
Best of luck going forward and looking forward to your next report!
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Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2017 3:12 pm
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I think it's very interesting that it seems the holidays came and went without a lot of drama. They just fit in, as we would all like them to.
No matter what happens next, four months of relief sounds like a pretty good deal.
(Actually, I think there are some people who DO care what we eat and take it personally when we don't, but that's ultimately possible to overcome, too. But maybe you meant you might feel a little like you are missing out?)
Looking forward to updates.
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Thank you for your comments - it means a lot to me - especially hearing from you, Reinhard as the inventor of the system.
Most people really don't notice or care if you don't eat the snack they have offered round. Once I tried it I found that to be a revelation. Some people might especially if the baked something especially for you. I am used to the rules so don't really feel tempted in this situation but do think about how I can manage it without upsetting anyone 🙂.
Re the holidays - I had 2 nws days in December and one in January. I gained about 2lb and lost it again before long (this does not take account of my immediate post holiday weight but is Saturday 24th Dec to Sat 7th Jan. I am quite pleased that, although I do weigh daily, I am not freaked out by fluctuations.
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Way to go, Nette! You've inspired me!
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Thanks for posting this. Your perspective is a much-needed encouragement.
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Thanks for sharing, netee.
Very helpful!
No Sweets, No Snacks and No Seconds, Except (Sometimes) on days that start with "S".
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Thanks for sharing your success and providing an in depth analysis of what is going well and what has been difficult for you.
Your breakfasts sound super yummy btw!!
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The United States is currently engaged in a trade negotiation known as the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) with eight other Pacific Rim countries. Public Citizen recently posted a leaked draft of the agreement's proposed language on international investment. If the information they posted is accurate, it's good news for those who support U.S. constitutional values.
Among the proposed TPP guidelines for international investment:
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- Governments should not force companies to use a certain percent of domestic content if they prefer to use less-expensive imported inputs or require companies to export the goods they produce,
- Governments should not expropriate (steal) a covered investment except through the due process of law while providing compensation.
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For example, the Fifth Amendment to the Bill of Rights states: "nor shall any person…be deprived of…property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation." These words appear almost verbatim in the TPP draft.
Our Constitution's Commerce Clause makes it difficult for the state of California to discriminate against investors who live in Ohio, just as the TPP would make it difficult for TPP member countries to discriminate against investors based on which country they live in.
Trade agreements don't just need good rules. They need a good way to enforce the rules. The proposed TPP dispute-resolution process would let U.S. companies appeal to an international panel if they believe their property rights have been violated by another government. Foreign companies investing in the U.S. would have the same opportunity. That's much more effective than forcing investors to depend on the court system of the same government that just allegedly nationalized their property or otherwise broke the rules.
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Hi all, my name is Adam and i am a professional sports bettor. My idea is to put up a sports betting community with 2 colleagues .
A real good forum doesent excist in our contry, and we all have to hang out on the american forums.
We wanna start this community to start educate people, to discuss sports and help eachother out to become better within sports wagering and make better and great decissions, etc etc.
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What we want is a clean, cool, Logo/banner with our web adress SHARPS.se, maybe with an agressive look as the big major league teams use, i post some linx and you will get an idea i guess =)
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Jan. 27, 2012) – The ETSU baseball team will officially open preseason practice Friday as the Buccaneers continue to prepare for the start of the 2012 season.
"Our ball club and staff are so excited about officially getting started today," said ETSU head coach Tony Skole. "Our players returned from the holidays in great shape and we have had a productive two weeks of preparation to get ready for today. It is hard to imagine that Opening Day is just three weeks away.
"Obviously we have a ton of hard work and preparation ahead of us, but hard work is something that this group has not shied away from. Our coaching staff is very excited about this group. We have set a very high standard that we expect these guys to adhere to and it has been exciting to see them improve on a daily basis."
This season will also mark the inaugural season for the Bucs in brand new Thomas Stadium.
"There is great anticipation of finally being in our new facility" added Skole. "It is going to be very exciting these next three weeks to see the development actually come to life, as the surface is being put down. It is going to be a phenomenal place to play and finally a place that we can call home. We are looking forward to kicking off the 2012 season at "The Thom."
ETSU returns five field starters, three starting pitchers and 17 letterwinners from last season's 36-21 squad. In addition, the Bucs have nine newcomers on the team.
Among the returnees for the Bucs include Dylan Pratt (Johnson City, Tenn.), a member of the 2011 ABCA/Rawlings All-South Region Team, pitcher Derek Bushey (Richmond, Va.), a 2011 All-Atlantic Sun selection, infielder Kerry Doane (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.), a 2010 Atlantic Sun All-Freshman selection and outfielder Matthew Scruggs (Knoxville, Tenn.), a 2010 Atlantic Sun All-Tournament selection.
The Bucs open the 2012 season at home with a three-game series against Eastern Kentucky beginning on Friday, February 17. ETSU will begin the season with 18 of its first 19 games at home.
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Good news: Anthony Weiner and his wife Huma Abedin are still together.
Bad news: It's still reallllllllly awkward.
The disgraced former congressman and his wife were spotted having lunch in New York City on Saturday where she "looked miserable," a witness told the NY Daily News.
The couple (who both sported wedding rings) dined at La Bottega in Chelsea's Maritime Hotel and spent most of the meal attached to their cell phones (see below), the witness told the paper.
Their waiter told the NYDN that Weiner was a bad tipper and looked "really tense. Just like he was carrying some intense baggage."
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Tough Mudder is probably the best place to work on the planet. Our goal is to create unconventional, life-changing experiences, not only through our events, but also in our workplace.
Who we are
With offices in Brooklyn and London, we are a global team of hard-working, dynamic and quirky employees committed to a world where people help each other overcome all obstacles. We are a diverse lot, with backgrounds that include operations, hospitality, construction, consulting, banking, law and the military—and experience at elite organizations like the Olympics, Disney, the US Army, IDEO, and Red Bull.
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People are our most important asset, and we believe in providing our employees with life-changing experiences just as we do with our customers. Here are some of the benefits you'll enjoy at Tough Mudder:
- Unlimited vacation policy
- Competitive health insurance benefits
- Pension (e.g. 401(k) plan)
- Annual performance based bonus
- Referral bonuses
- Ongoing career development opportunities and management training
- Annual Business Plan Competition (see TMU page for info)
- Fitness reimbursement
- Tuition reimbursement
- Charitable opportunities
- Commuter benefits
- Flexible spending accounts
- Free snacks and drinks in the office
- Discounted gear with our sponsors
- Company retreats
- Quarterly team fun events (baseball games, barbecues, scavenger hunts)
- Free entries to Tough Mudder events for friends and family
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Tough Mudder is a great place to work, but it's not for everyone. We take pride in having extremely high expectations for both ourselves and for each other. Tough Mudder is the hardest job any of us has ever had, but it is also the most interesting and rewarding.
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Montefiore was founded in 1884 by leaders of New York's Jewish community, who recognized the need for a care facility for patients with tuberculosis and other chronic illnesses. The hospital was named to honor Sir Moses Montefiore, a famed philanthropist of the time. Today Montefiore is one of the largest healthcare systems in the nation, including a dynamic medical center that covers three campuses.
The west campus, or the Henry and Lucy Moses Division, is comprised of a 706-bed hospital facility, the nine-story Jerome L. and Dawn Greene Medical Arts Pavilion for ambulatory care and diagnostic services, and the new Children's Hospital at Montefiore (CHAM). It is located in the Norwood section of the Bronx, directly south of the Westchester County border.
The east campus, or the Jack D. Weiler Division, is comprised of a 356-bed hospital and a state-of-the-art ambulatory care facility (1250 Waters Place) which houses major clinical departments and full-time physician private practices and support services for the hospital. It is located in the Pelham Parkway section of the Bronx and is adjacent to the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University.
The north campus, or the Wakefield Division, is comprised of the 369-bed hospital facility. It is located in the Wakefield section of the Bronx, adjacent to the Bronx River Parkway.
The North Bronx Healthcare Network (NBHN) is one of six regional networks established by the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation. The NBHN consists of Jacobi Medical Center (JMC), North Central Bronx Hospital (NCBH), and affiliated community health care centers, and is a major academic affiliate of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University.
Jacobi Medical Center provides quality health care for some 1.2 million Bronx and New York area residents. Founded in 1955, Jacobi was named in honor of Dr. Abraham Jacobi, known as the father of American pediatrics. With more than 500 beds, Jacobi Medical Center has grown into the largest public hospital in the Bronx and is the only Level I Trauma Center serving the North Bronx and Lower Westchester.
Opened in 1976, North Central Bronx Hospital (NCBH) is a 200-bed hospital adjacent to Montefiore Medical Center's Moses Division. This is one of New York City's most ethnically diverse service areas.
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In this article we will assume that the project management application is used in a company, with a lot of users that can create projects and set up tasks for a particular project. Employees will have different levels of access; this makes keeping track of user activity essential. To keep track of user activity, we will make use of PHP's excellent session management capabilities.
To write the application you will need PHP4 and higher as well as MYSQL 4 and higher. You will also need a web server such as Apache or IIS. Apache can be downloaded off the Internet for free, but IIS cannot; it comes with the Windows operating system. Some knowledge of CSS style sheets would also be good, but not strictly necessary.
Structure of the Application:
The project management application has three main sections.
1. User Authentication – This section will be responsible for logging in users. ALL users of the project management application MUST be logged in to use the application. It is in this section that the user sessions will be set up; in other words, this is were user tracking will start. The section will consist of the following scripts:
- login.php
- logout.php
- password.php
- user_registration.php
The login script will do the donkey work of logging in the user, checking if the user's username and password exist in the database, and taking the appropriate action. This script will present the user with a login HTML form that will have two form fields and a button. It will follow the tried and tested method of user verification. The logout script will do exactly what the name suggest and log out the user. Its primary aim is to destroy the session information that has been created by the login script, at the time of logging in.
2. The Application itself – This is the main part of the project management application. This is where the user or project managers can check the progress of a project, assign tasks to a project, add files and assign staff to work on a particular project. The application consists of the following scripts:
- main.php – The main page of the application. This is the page that you see immediately after you have passed the login test. This page will list all the projects that are registered in the name of the person that is logged in and will show the status of the project, the project name and date that the project was created. It will give you the option to see a detailed view of the project.
- view_project.php – This script will retrieve all the information about a given report. It will show the names of the staff who is working on this project, the files of the project , the owner and other pertinent details of the project.
Other scripts include:
- add_file.php
- add_project.php
- add_staff.php
- add_task.php
- delete_file.php
- delete_member.php
- edit_project.php
- edit_task.php
- view_files.php
- view_project.php
- view_staff.php
- view_tasks.php
3. Administration – This part is responsible for the overall maintenance of the project management application and can only be accessed by users with the highest level of clearance. There are two access levels, "admin" and "normal." "Admin" is the highest level of clearance that a user can have and will enable access to the application administration section. In the admin section of this application, administrators can add or remove users, add or remove projects and also view the status of each project. It consists of the following scripts:
- index.php – displays a menu containing hyperlinks to the user management and project management pages.
- add_project.php
- add_user.php
- del_project.php
- del_user.php
- edit_project.php
- edit_user.php
- list_projects.php
- list_user.php
- login.php
As you can see, I've used a persistent naming convention. This makes it easy to see what each script does. For example, it is easy to correctly guess what the list_projects.php script does and the delete_project.php does.
{mospagebreak title=Other project scripts}
There are a number of project wide files, which include the following:
functions.php – This script contains some of the functions that the application uses on a system wide basis. Below are some of them. The names are indicative of the work that the function is supposed to do:
function checkformat($aUsername){
return TRUE;
return FALSE;
The "checkformat()" function above uses regular expression to check the format of the given username. In this application, all user names must follow the format "name.surname" and all must be in lowercase. It is just to put another obstacle in the way of any potential intruder or hacker of the authentication system. As you might have guessed, the function is used by the login script as part of the verification process.
function checkmailformat($aEmail){
if(eregi('^[a-zA-Z0-9_-.]+@[a-zA-Z0-9-]+.[a-zA-Z0-9-.]+ $',$aEmail))
return TRUE;
return FALSE;
}//end function
The "checkmailformat()" function checks the format of an email address when a new user is created and also during the password recovery process. It also uses a regular expression to verify the format of the email address.
dbcon.php – The dbcon.php script basically contains the database login credentials. This is what my login details are:
$title = "Project Management";
//database connection
$db = mysql_connect("localhost") or die("Failed to open connection to MySQL server.");
mysql_select_db("project_management") or die("Unable to select database");
//set useful variables
$month_names = array("","January","February","March","April","May","June","July","August",
//set useful variables
$td = date("Y-m-d");
$date_time =date("Y-m-d h:i:s");
I can show you my connection details because I don't have any sensitive information that you should not see and also, I'm not connected to the Internet or part of any network, and so cannot be hacked. Otherwise, I would not do so. But please make use of the MySQL security system and secure your data; don't ever show your connection details to anyone, in fact, if you are going to use this application, make sure to put this file outside of your root directory. Now, this script contains some information that will be used most of the time and is therefore included in almost all the scripts of the project.
{mospagebreak title=Templates}
I've designed this application using Dreamweaver, which makes developing PHP applications a lot easier. As you will see, I've used Dreamweaver's templating technology to develop templates for the three different sections of the project management application:
admin.dwt.php – Administration section template. A sample of this template:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<!– TemplateBeginEditable name="doctitle" –>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<!– TemplateEndEditable –>
<!– TemplateBeginEditable name="head" –>
<!– TemplateEndEditable –>
<link href="main.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

Logged in:<!– TemplateBeginEditable name="EditRegion4" –>EditRegion4<!– TemplateEndEditable –>
Project Management Software -Administration
<!– TemplateBeginEditable name="EditRegion3" –> <!– TemplateEndEditable –>
<!– TemplateBeginEditable name="EditRegion5" –>EditRegion5<!– TemplateEndEditable –>

copyright © 2007 PM

The other two templates are:
PM_Main.dwt.php – Main section template
userauth.dwt.php – user authentication section template.
All of the templates have three editable regions. One allows space for the logged in user name to be displayed (as well as a logout hyperlink) while the two other sections show the navigation and main application features.
{mospagebreak title=Style Sheets}
Accompanying these templates are three Cascading Style Sheets:
adminstyle.css – As you've guessed, this one contains the styling for the admin section:
/* CSS Document */
body,html {
font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
/*Form stuff*/
INPUT.login {
background-color: #FFFFFF;
border:1px solid #333300 ;
font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Verdana;
font-size: 11px;
color: #333333;
border:1px double #333300;
/*border:1px solid #FFFFFF;*/}
.input40 {
border: 1px solid #999999;
font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Verdana;
font-size: 11px;
color: #333333;
background-color: #FFFFFF;
padding-left: 4px;
padding-right: 4px;
height: 20px;
/*end form stuff*/
border:1px ridge #FFFFFF;
.tooltip {
color: #006699;
font-style: italic;
font-size: 10px;
The other two styling sheets are:
main.css – contains styles for the main application section
loginstyle.css – contains styling for the user authentication section.
Database Tables
There are four database tables available for the application:
users – contains user log-in information
projects – contains project information
staff – contains staff information
tasks – contains information about tasks for each project
In this article we discussed the various sections and components that make up the project management application. In the next article we will look at the user authentication section of the application where we will discuss the code that makes up this section in detail.


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Indiana Freedom Trails Historic Marker Program
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In 1998, the National Park Service began the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom program to research, locate, and interpret all Underground Railroad events, people, and places in America. This nationwide federal program has created partnerships with State Historic Preservation Offices like the Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology (DHPA), as well as local historians, historical societies, museums, and others interested in the UGRR.
In February 1999, DHPA hosted a statewide meeting which helped establish the Indiana Freedom Trails (IFT), a statewide volunteer organization that is working to document Indiana's UGRR activity. IFT has developed into a cohesive, diverse group working to locate, verify, protect, preserve, and promote those Indiana sites and routes involved in the UGRR. IFT members dedicate themselves to the research, education, and interpretation of Indiana's UGRR heritage for the benefit of future generations.
While research continues across the State, some communities are beginning to interpret their UGRR history with unique historical markers. Working with the Indiana Historical Bureau (IHB), which administers the state historical marker program, the DHPA and the IHB have created a marker program dedicated especially to the interpretation of the Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad Marker Initiative has three purposes: to document and interpret Underground Railroad history in Indiana; to bring attention to that history with a visual reminder of the importance of those people, places, and events which constitute the history and context of the Underground Railroad in Indiana; and to assist the many individuals and groups—especially Indiana Freedom Trails—working to preserve the Underground Railroad history of Indiana through a heightened awareness of their existence and needs.
One of the primary goals of the DHPA's UGRR Initiative is to eliminate the legends and misinformation associated with the UGRR. For this reason, the IHB maintains strict standards of research and documentation to verify an UGRR related person, place, or event. Individuals, communities, or organizations seeking to receive an IHB-Freedom Trails Marker must meet the documentation standards and criteria. These guidelines help to insure that the accuracy of any site, person, or event interpreted by a marker is verifiable. Through these standards, Hoosiers can be certain that any Freedom Trails Marker reflects the accurate history of the UGRR in Indiana and does not perpetuate myths, legends, or inaccuracies.
To assist the goal of marking sites in Indiana, the DHPA has set aside funds from its federal Historic Preservation Fund program to help local groups or individuals to pay for the IHB-Freedom Trails marker. Interested parties should contact the DHPA's UGRR Initiative for more information. To learn more about the Indiana Historical Bureau Marker program contact the IHB at 317-232-2535 or at email@example.com.


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Robert Pattinson: 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' Guest
Robert Pattinson waves to his fans as he arrives at a taping for Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Monday (November 5) in Hollywood.
The 26-year-old actor went on the show to promote his upcoming flick The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2, which hits theaters on November 16.
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That same evening, Robert's co-star and rumored on-again girlfriend Kristen Stewart made an appearance on The Tonight Show to promote the flick as well.
Rob's Jimmy Kimmel Live! episode airs at midnight EST – be sure to watch!
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Every day, in every way, I find new reasons to thank God for that fateful afternoon I found a $1 copy of Paul Naschy's Vengeance of the Zombies in the Halloween bin at my local discount store. Not only did that purchase introduce me to the fantastic, uplifting, and life-affirming movies of Jacinto "Mighty Mighty" Molina--his legendary cursed nobleman Waldemar Daninksy, his evil-to-the-core sorcerer-knight Alaric de Marnac, and the rest of his unique, awe-inspiring filmography--it has since helped open my eyes to whole realms of the fantastique that otherwise might have remained dark to me. That seemingly chance discovery many Octobers ago has changed my life, and awakened me to pleasures that have enriched my experience of mad mad mad mad movies in ways I cannot even begin to catalogue properly.
That movie also introduced me to the cinematic vision of Argentina-born director León Klimovsky, who helmed not only VotZ but also collaborated with Naschy on Dr. Jekyll and the Werewolf, The Devil's Possessed, A Dragonfly for Each Corpse, and all-time Vicar-fave The Werewolf versus the Vampire Women. With a true painter's eye for eerie, effective compositions and striking supernatural imagery, Klimovsky helped shape the Naschy legacy and doubtless influenced Molina's own directorial style when he finally stepped behind the camera himself.
But of course Naschy made movies without Klimovsky, and so did Klimovsky without Naschy--and if his 1972 spooky vampire tale The Dracula Saga (released in the US this year by Deimos DVD, which has also been putting out excellent editions of many of Naschy's great films) is representative of the rest of his body of work, he is a director whose name every fan of horror, the fantastique, and the MAD should hold in even higher reverence.
We open with some very stylish titles--black background marred by a splash of brilliant red blood, growing larger with each subsequent drip. Simple, classic, beautiful. Count Dracula himself speaks to us in voice-over, recalling a time when the Dracula family was all but extinct. Fearing an end of the aristocratic bloodline, the Count's great-grandfather (the previous Count Dracula) sends for his newly married and 5-months-knocked-up granddaughter Berta and her skinny blond slip of a husband Hans to visit the castle where Berta grew up and, he hopes, stay long enough to drop an heir to the Dracula line.
On the coach ride to Bistritz, Berta is plagued by horrible, wonderful nightmares. Shot through what looks like one of those marbled glass mirrors your grandma had in the 70s, the visions find Berta running through an abandoned, sunlit house, in a seemingly endless Hall of Doors. Every now and then she opens a door to find a hideous, hissing Man-Bat creature waiting for her! The freakiness of which is not to be understated. She awakens with a start in Hans's spindly arms, only to find that the horses have been spooked by something and refuse to go any closer to the Borgho Pass. However, the feisty coachman offers to walk with them the mile or so into the village, carrying their bags himself, since obviously neither Berta nor Hans has the physical strength to manage it.
a long-haired hunchback type who regales the travellers with tales of lamias in the woods and an abandoned churchyard fifteen leagues distant whose eerie bell can be still be heard, rung by no human hand. "The cemetery of Vlad Tepes," he warns them, "is inhabited only by the dead!" Well, duh. Despite the nice, creepy warning, the travelers decide to continue on foot to their final destination.
Soon they're off traipsing through the creepy woods, and a soundtrack blast of that famous sampled wolf howl tells us that something evil's afoot. (At least we can infer the creepiness from the soundtrack--the pristine digital print Deimos has given us, while it gives us some truly gorgeous colors and creepy contrasts later, certainly doesn't do the day-for-night cinematography any favors.) Sure enough the pair soon stumble over the body of a peasant girl--topless, with tell-tale fang marks not only in her neck, but on her exposed boobs! The girl is not dead, however--she gets up and takes a few steps before collapsing from loss of blood. Somehow Hans and Berta get her back to the village.
The villagers are a colorful lot--we have the gruff superstitious innkeeper, the wanton one-eyed drunken gadabout who finds every horrible thing extremely hilarious, the inquisitive doctor/investigator who also happens to be crippled for some reason, and the more-than-slightly manic village preacher, who opines that the girl (now stretched out on a table in the pub for examination) "provoked wickedness" with her looks and got the wages of her sin. "There on the table you see LUST stretched out!" he cries, a little too enthusiastically IYKWIM. The innkeeper's wife gives Berta some info on her family history, none of it good, and a previously bitten barmaid puts the moves on Hans, only to be REJECTED but later taken up on her offer by a mysterious cloaked figure in her room (to whom she bares her breasts Hulkamania-style...zang).
Berta, meanwhile, is having more awesome dreams, this time involving an old woman in a black choker who really loses her head if people mess with her jewelry (an old story, and creepily well-done here). In the morning a suave stranger named Gabor, a servant of the Count, has come to bring them to the castle at last. Gabor is a real pleasure to watch, an understated Renfield character with young Oliver Reed-handsomeness and crazy eyes second to none--well, maybe one. His oily smiles and strange nonchalance--as when Berta discovers what appear to be the graves of her grandfather and cousins in the family crypt, despite having been told they were all waiting for her at the castle, and Gabor laughs manically and sighs, "Oh, don't let it worry you." Seriously, some people are just so uptight.
Hans and Berta are forced to eat lunch alone when none of their hosts show up, and they help themselves to a cold dinner of nearly-raw meat and Chateau du Temprapaint wine that Hans pronounces "horrible!" and yet continues to drink; Berta wisely abstains. After dinner Hans notices a portrait of a regal, commanding, beautiful woman whom Berta doesn't recognize--and who we later learn is the count's new wife. Hans quickly becomes hypnotized by it--and since the countess is played by Eurobeauty Helga Liné (Naschy's gorgeously icy partner in evil from Horror Rises from the Tomb), well, no fucking wonder.
A couple of things worth noting at this point. First of all, it appears that Klimovsky is playing around a little with some visual experiments, much as he pioneered the creepy and effective slow-motion vampire sequences in WWvVW. For scenes inside the castle, for instance, there often seems to be a gauzy fabric or something over the lens, lending a dreamlike, almost "canvas" quality to the visuals. I'm not sure how effective it is (at first I thought it might be a flaw in the transfer, or something wrong with my TV), but it is interesting. Also, Berta's history with the family is a bit confusing, since apparently she grew up at the castle, had her two female cousins for playmates, and remembers her grandfather fondly and without a hint as to his vampirism. It's implied that perhaps Helga brought the curse with her, as one might easily believe--her character exudes evil commanding sexuality in every frame--but since grandpa's name on his tombstone reads "Ivor Vlad Tepes"--well, you can't help but wonder.
Count himself (played wonderfully weary and aristocratic by Narciso Ibáñez Menta), the new countess Munia (Liné), and Berta's beautiful young cousins, one of whom is played by another HRftT alumnus, Cristina Suriani (the painter's blonde girlfriend from that earlier film). The makeup on the vampire family is GREAT, it has to be said, especially on the Count and the Countess--unnatural, otherworldly pale skin and glittering eyes. (The Count explains they suffer a "family illness" that causes the odd skin tone.) Despite the Count's aristocratic bearing, Munia is obviously in charge of things here, turning her cold, commanding gaze on Hans with a seductive, hungry look.
From here things really pick up, with lots of wonderful, creepy set-pieces and plenty of gorgeous Euroflesh on display. We soon learn that the Count hopes Berta's son will be the healthy, vibrant shot of fresh blood needed to keep the Dracula line going, since the only remaining heir is an inhuman monster--"The result of the excesses and degradations of my anscestors!" the Count explains--they keep locked in the attic and periodically feed a villager or errant gypsy girl to. (The makeup on this creature is truly nightmarish and unsettling, and unless I miss my guess must have influenced some of Guillermo Del Toro's fantastical creations in Pan's Labyrinth.) Helga Liné seduces Hans with a vampire dance of love that really made me want to go stake someone IYKWIMAITYD, while the undead family watches pervily from the shadows. Won over to the dark side, Hans tries to inject Berta with his vampire love, but is denied to the tune of two vicious stab wounds and the old "It's not me, it's YOU" breakup speech.
Unable to seduce her to vampirism, the Dracula clan inistead locks Berta in the house and reduces her to a human incubator, waiting patiently for the new heir to be born. In the meantime she starts going a little crazy, wandering the halls of doors during the daytime (just like in the dream!) and chewing on her hair while subject to disturbing abdominal pains ("Don't you understand?" Dracula intones, "She's being eaten from the inside!"). Meanwhile the cousins find the Pervy Preacher walking in the woods and have their wicked way with him (after getting their kits off--double-zang), and two amorous yet still dirty, thieving gypsies break into the castle and get screaming death for their trouble (one at the hands of the Last Son of the Dracula Klan, the other in an amazing head-knocking fall down a spiral staircase). Finally the baby is born, apparently dead, leading Berta to off Gabor Scatman Crothers-style and hobble down to the crypt to finish things off for good and all. It's tied up with an amazing and off-putting final image that I wager will stick with you long after the credits roll.
Enough cannot be said about the visual style of León Klimovsky--this is just a beautiful film to look at, from the bright and wonderful castle sets to the cramped and darkened dungeons and pub. The haunting look of the vampire family, the wild creature design of the Last In Line, the dream sequences, the seductive walking dead, the almost-okay-definitely-too-much red of the family's special "wine"--all work together to create a near-fairy tale ambiance that permeates the whole film. The Deimos print brings all this out wonderfully, with the exception perhaps of the too-bright day-for-night scenes, but hey, this is the 70s--whatchagonnado?
Performance wise, Tina Sáinz as Berta starts out the flat, two-dimensional damsel in distress, but actually pulls out a good "crazy prisoner" turn near the end that I found effective and surprising. Menta as Count Dracula is the picture of world-weary aristocracy, and a scene where he creeps into Berta's bedroom (presumably to feed) starts out feeling pervy and wrong but thanks to his bravura acting turns into a touching, poignant expression of lost nobility, as he finally decides not to take his grandaughter's blood.
Helga Liné, who just absolutely OWNS every moment of screentime she gets. Having only seen her in concert with Naschy before, perhaps I felt that some of her lustre was due to the reflected glory of Jacinto. Here she proves this is not so--she's regal, beautiful, and dangerous, a screen villainess definitely NOT to be trifled with. And her seduction scene with Hans--WOW. ZANG. ZANGWOW.
It's not a perfect film--the experimental gauze filter (if that's indeed what it is) is interesting, but often more distracting than effective. And some of the performances--I'm lookin' at YOU, Hans--leave a bit to be desired. Still, for fans of the fantastique who'd like to see an interesting variation on the Dracula story with added helpings of monsters and Euroflesh, this is one you should seek out. 2.75 Thumbs. And here's hoping we get to see more of Klimovsky's work stateside in the near future.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
The Dracula Saga (1972): or, Keep It in the Family
Posted by The Vicar of VHS at 4:21 PM
Labels: '70s, 2-3 thumbs, Helga Liné, Monsters Amok, That Famous Sampled Wolf Howl, Vampires (Regular)
5 comments:
- The Duke of DVD said...
A fantastic review, Vicar! I must see this, it sounds great, what with all the camera filters and boob-bitings.
- September 18, 2008 at 10:56 AM
- Fred said...
I thought I had seen this years ago, but after reading your review and looking at the pictures, I realize I haven't but definitely should. I guess I got this confused with another Spanish vampire movie from the early 70s.
"...a cold dinner of nearly-raw meat and Chateau du Temprapaint wine that Hans pronounces "horrible!" and yet continues to drink..."
Sounds like me during my college days. I still get hangovers thinking aobut it!
- September 18, 2008 at 4:24 PM
- The Vicar of VHS said...
You should definitely check it out, fred--it's well worth the viewing, and the Deimos editions are not expensive. Plus I think all the online rental places have them.
>>Sounds like me during my college days.
Ha! Indeed! I was more a Watercolor Beer man myself...
- September 18, 2008 at 8:17 PM
Vicar - had to tell you about my weekend. I have often read your eloquent musings on Paul Naschy and thought, damn it I need to see some of these! But my netflix queue is in a horrid state - over 89 movies on the dvd side and almost 70 on the instant watch (each viewing someone different in the family gets to pick a movie).
But anyway so I was thinking it might be a while til I got to see one. And then this Saturday I couldn't sleep so I got up and rummaged through my dvd bin and at the very bottom were a ton of ultra cheap dvds I had gotten from the drug store last year for a dollar. As I get to the bottom what do I see - The Werewolf versus the Vampire Woman! I did a happy dance and joyfully watched said film and damn you are right Naschy is the man! And that movie is awesome - I only wish I had a remastered copy because some of the scenes seem to be in black and white even though it is a color film. Excellent stuff, you have created another convert.
- September 22, 2008 at 7:10 AM
- The Vicar of VHS said...
So glad to be present at the birth of another Naschyphile! Yes, there are few better places to start than my beloved WWvVW, and the public domain dvd sets are pretty much littered with prints of it, in various cut/uncut dingy/undingy states. However--
>>I only wish I had a remastered copy
You're in luck there, since Deimos has put out a super-duper pristine remastering recently under its original and to my mind less awesome title Werewolf Shadow. HIGHLY recommended purchase--plus, if you've got a Best Buy within striking distance, BB has an exclusive double-feature set with Werewolf Shadow AND Curse of the Devil, for a ridiculously low price of about $15 total. CotD is almost as awesome as WWvVW, and has the greatest LEAP ATTACK ever filmed. Again, recommended. ;)
- September 22, 2008 at 8:07 AM


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Just riding along, a ride I do along the i-90 lid, and there was Haulin' Colin, his peeps from Madison Market, and the Bicycle-Powered Parade Float. I stopped and they did a quick demo:
I'm sure it was well received for Seattle's Pride Parade.
This is filed under, crazy shit I see on the bike, along with just riding along, and sometimes I wonder if it's the blog that moves me or the other way around.
There's always a post to write from every ride I do.
Technote: shot with iPhone 4 HD video, initially edited with the iMovie App, and uploaded. The embedded movie in this post was imported from the iPhone and edited with iMovie HD.


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On Monday I touched on the impracticality and infeasibility of the alleged Iranian plan to initiate war with Israel, specifically with a nuclear strike. There simply is no way to spin this in Iran. Even a conventional weapon strike on Israel would trigger a massive military response from Israel, NATO, and Uncle Sam. A nuclear strike against Israel would result in Iran resembling the surface of Mercury within 24 hours. Whether nuclear or conventional, American or multinational, the response would reduce Iran to the Stone Age and doubtlessly involve many thousands of deaths.
It doesn't sound like something sane people would do, and I despise the neocon "(Insert tinpot dictator here) is a Hitler! He is bent on national suicide!" rhetoric. But disregarding that argument leaves me at a loss to explain their recent missile tests. From the earliest days of the Cold War, missile and warhead tests have been nothing but an exercise in dick-waving and saber-rattling. You do it to give your enemy second thoughts, to instill fear, to give evidence of a "credible deterrent." And what kind of idiot would believe that Western Europe and the U.S. are going to be impressed by short- and medium-range ballistic missiles of primitive design and minimal accuracy? Iran isn't rattling a saber so much as they are rattling a wet noodle. Their current missile technology roughly approximates America's in 1955.
So they're not trying to intimidate us. They are showing off an offensive capability. It could not be considered a deterrent unless the leaders of Iran are literally retarded. So, like North Korea, I am convinced that the government in Iran is composed entirely of unstable, unpredictable morons who now have effective delivery vehicles for a variety of weapons. Since a diplomatic solution is unlikely, I think we're on the path to another military one (with both of those countries, but let's focus on Iran for now). Sure, maybe we'll get lucky and Iran will undergo internal upheaval. The current government barely made it through an election a few months ago. But of course we can't bank on that happening.
Here we see the ultimate folly of our misadventure in Iraq. We simply don't have the manpower, the resources, or the national will to engage in another military escapade in the Middle East. We pissed all of those things away in Iraq while legitimate threats festered in other countries. So what can we do? The answer is simple: we can do the only thing we're any good at doing. We will bomb the everloving shit out of Iran, cripple it, and walk away. Think Gulf War I instead of Gulf War II.
I think that at some point in the next two or three years Iran's belligerence will get to the point that policymakers will decide to act. But rather than get engaged in another ground war, they will punt on "regime change" and simply reduce Iran to smoking rubble. They will provide years and years worth of footage for new series on The Military Channel: bombs laser-guided down chimneys, unmanned Predator drones swooping in to level villages, and night-vision footage of smoldering weapon stashes. They will decide that their only concern is disarmament. They will be more than happy to let the current batch of lunatics stay in power so long as they're neutered. Every inch of Iran's nuclear and military infrastructure is already pre-targeted. It makes too much sense, especially given the depletion of our ground forces, for spineless American politicians to choose any other option.
Think about it. What are we good at anymore? We positively suck at "spreading democracy" and all that horseshit. We've failed at regime change for 100 years. We haven't had a meaningful diplomatic success in decades. We are good at sending our aircraft carriers (of which we have about 95% of the total global supply) to the shores of some unworthy opponent and bombing the sweet holy fuck out of them. Anything that comes before or after that is beyond us. We have military technology, especially of the aeronautical and blowuppable kind, that is light years beyond what the rest of the globe can field. Applying it is our only talent nowadays.
Civilian casualties will be horrific (after all, every video of a bomb surgically flying into a window hides a hundred other videos of bombs missing by half a mile) but we'll do what we usually do and lay the moral culpability for them on Iran's leaders. Look what you made us do! Look at how little they care for the lives of their people! The only silver lining is that I fundamentally believe that Iranians are decent, reasonable, and pragmatic people, and as soon as they realize they are all about to be used for USAF target practice it could spur a change in the country's political system. But if I had to put my life's savings on it, I'd call Vegas right now and say "$53.12 on air strikes in Iran by 2011."


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Update: Greenfire restaurant. 6795 Riverside Blvd., is open today until 3 p.m. Call 815-316-3473 for reservations.
We share some tips to help you survive the Thanksgiving holiday. This guide is not intended to be a complete listing, rather a sampling of what is available and what isn't for the Thanksgiving holiday.
What's closed
Banks, government offices, Rockford Mass Transit office and services are closed today. City offices and Rockford Park District offices are closed today and Friday. Schools are closed through Friday. Illinois Department of Employment Security service centers will be closed today and Friday.
Please call your favorite restaurant ahead of time to make sure it is open and inquire whether reservations are necessary.
A spot check of area restaurants found that the following will be closed:
Abreo, Applebee's, Buffalo Wild Wings, Capri, Chili's, Der Rathskellar, Five Forks, Giordano's, Giovanni's (pick-up of to-go packages only), Granite City, Illinois Machine Shed, Imperial Palace, JMK Nippon, Johnny Pamcakes, Kuma's, Lino's, Mary's Market (North Alpine Road location), Nunzio's, Old Chicago, Olive Garden, The Olympic Tavern, Pearl, Pino's, Shogun, T.G.I. Friday's
Some of those open include:
Big Al's, 610 N. Bell School Road, Rockford, 815-398-6411, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., no food served.
Cliffbreakers, 700 W. Riverside Blvd., Rockford, 815-282-3033, 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Buffet for $24.95, $12.95 for ages 4-10, free for 3 and younger. Walk-ins welcome.
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, 730 N. Lyford Road, Rockford, 815-226-1944, 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. Offers meal packages to go to serve up to six, $53.99-$54.99, whole hams, pies and full menu.
Denny's, 7375 E. State St. and 1541 Sandy Hollow Road, Rockford, 24 hours.
Franchesco's, 7128 Spring Creek Road, Rockford, 815-229-0800. Champagne brunch from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., $27.95; children 4 and younger are free. Reservations recommended.
Green Fire, 6795 Riverside Blvd., open until 3 p.m. Call 815-316-3473 for reservations.
Hoffman House, 7550 E. State St., Rockford, 815-397-5800, 7 to 9:30 a.m. breakfast served from menu; 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. holiday buffet: $27.99, $11.99 for ages 6-12, free for ages 5 and younger. Booked.
Hooter's, 6904 Argus Drive, Rockford, 815-229-0539. Open from 4 to 10 p.m. today.
I-HOP, 6960 Argus Drive, Rockford, 815-394-5315, 24 hours.
Lone Star, 6690 E. State St., Rockford, 815-226-1122, noon to 8 p.m. Turkey dinner plus full regular menu.
Mary's Market, 4431 E. State St., Rockford, 8 a.m. to noon (all other Mary's Markets will be closed).
Mr. C's Family Restaurant, 4309 W. State St., Rockford, 815-964-5347, 5:30 to 11 a.m. for breakfast.
Oscar's, 5980 E. State St., Rockford, 815-399-6100, 4 p.m. to 2 a.m.
Perkins, 6779 E. State St., Rockford, 815-395-1190, 24 hours.
Ruby Tuesday, 7616 Walton St., Rockford, 815-227-5576, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Stockholm Inn, 2420 Charles St., Rockford, 815-397-3534, 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. breakfast buffet for $12.95; 7:30 to 10:30 a.m. breakfast off the menu; smorgasbord from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., $12.95; turkey dinner off the menu for $12.95.
Stone Eagle, 6445 E. State St., Rockford, 815-316-3636, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Turkey platter for $17.95 plus full regular menu available; children 5 and younger eat free.
Thunder Bay Grille, 7652 Potawatomi Trail, Rockford, 815-397-4800, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Traditional Thanksgiving buffet: $16.99, $8.49 for ages 5-10, $2.99 for ages 3-4, free for younger than 3. Reservations encouraged.
Fast-food restaurants
Most fast-food restaurants will be closed, including Beef-a-Roo, Pizza Hut, Subway, KFC, Steak 'n Shake and Taco Bell.
All McDonald's will be open.
Free Thanksgiving meals
Court Street United Methodist Church, 215 N. Court St., Rockford, 815-962-6061, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Serving the homeless and those alone for the holiday.
Liquor stores
Artale, 6876 Spring Creek Road, Loves Park, 815-877-9463, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
House of Bottles, 5619 N. Second St., Loves Park, 815-633-8993, 9 a.m. to 11 p.m.
Pridom, 2428 S. Alpine Road, Rockford, 815-398-4910, 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Royal Liquors, 3714 E. State St., Rockford, 815-399-3418, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.
CherryVale Mall, 7200 Harrison Ave., Rockford, 815-332-2440, 8 p.m., department stores including Barnes & Noble Booksellers, Bergner's, JCPenney, Macy's and Sears will be open along with 50 specialty stores.
Edgebrook Shopping Center and East State Antiques Mall will be closed today.
Department stores
American TV & Appliance, 6651 E. State St., Rockford, 815-516-1982, 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. today, 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday.
Best Buy, 281 Deane Drive, Rockford, 815-395-8405, 6 p.m. until midnight today, then open through 10 p.m. Friday.
Gordman's, both locations, will be closed today.
Kmart, 6 a.m. today.
Kohl's, 6125 E. State St., Rockford, 815-397-0048, opens at 8 p.m. today, then open through midnight Saturday.
Old Navy, 6143 E. State St., Rockford, 815-397-5227, opens at 7 p.m. today.
Target, open at 8 p.m. today through 11 p.m. Friday.
Walmart, 24 hours. Black Friday sale starts at 6 p.m. today.
Most stores will be open for regular or modified hours, including:
Gray's Foods, 1630 N. Alpine Road, Rockford (Highcrest), 7 a.m. to 1 p.m.; 1210 Broadway, Rockford, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Schnucks, 6 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Pacemaker Fine Foods, 413 Southtowne Drive, Belvidere, 815-544-3443, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Countryside Market-Pacemaker, 13517 Route 76, Poplar Grove, 815-765-9108, 7 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Save-a-Lot, 868 W. Riverside, Rockford, 815-282-5347, 8 a.m. to noon.
Sullivan's, 703 N. Elida St., Winnebago, 815-335-1501, 6 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Valli Produce, 6550 N. Alpine Road, Loves Park, 815-639-0735, and 5880 E. State St., Rockford, 815-397-0000, 7 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Woodman's Food Market, 3155 McFarland Road, Rockford, 815-986-0220, closing at 1:30 p.m.
Most stores post their own hours of operation, so call ahead.
North Park Pharmacy, 7924 N. Second St., Machesney Park, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Walgreens Drug Stores, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. for storefront; the store at 2323 Charles St. and its pharmacy will be open 24 hours. Pharmacies not open at other stores.
CVS stores, 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. storefront; 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. pharmacy. 3915 E. State St., location is 24 hours.
Movie theaters
AMC theaters are open for the holiday.
Library hours
Rockford Public Library and North Suburban Libraries in Loves Park are closed today.
Medical offices
For medical emergencies, please contact or visit your hospital emergency room.
Medical services of a nonemergency nature can be handled at:
Brookside Immediate Care Clinic, 1215 N. Alpine Road, Rockford, 815-391-7800, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. all holidays.
Physicians Immediate Care Clinic, 1663 Belvidere Road, Belvidere, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. today; 4350 Morsay Drive, Rockford, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. today; Riverside location, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. today; 3475 S. Alpine Road, Rockford, closed; 6595 E. State St., Rockford, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. today.
Rockford Health System Convenient Care, 3401 N. Perryville Road, Rockford, will be open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today. All five Convenient Cares are open normal business hours Friday.
OSF Center for Health-Rock Cut PromptCare, 9951 Rock Cut Crossing, Loves Park, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. today.
Other emergencies
Animal Emergency Clinic, 4236 Maray Drive, Rockford, 815-229-7791, 24 hours.
Remedies Renewing Lives' 24-hour line is open.


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This is the first pack of my best motivational business tracks. Simple uplifting music… will bring something special inside your work! Try them! (Write me for customized works).
Tracks: 1. Building Future 1:24 2. Growing Up 1:15 3. Happy Time 1:08 4. Strong People 1:15 5. Positive Mood 1:18
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This is a glimpse of one of the bay doors at the Boeing plant in Everett, WA. It's the largest, (volume wise) building in the world.
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Old Habits Or New Envy? Microsoft Bans 3rd Party Browsers On Windows RT
from the antitrust-bells? dept
However, a war of words is brewing between Microsoft and Mozilla over the fact that Microsoft is effectively banning native third party browsers on Windows RT -- which will effectively become the "mobile device" version of Windows. On top of that, the company apparently is blocking the use of certain APIs that would be useful -- and which Microsoft's own browser will be able to use.
It's easy to assume nefarious intent on the part of Microsoft, but reading through the details, it feels more like a case where Microsoft is growing jealous of Apple's control over the iPhone platform, and is effectively looking to do some of the same with its next generation mobile offering. I think that's pretty short-sighted. Denying third party browsers may have worked for now, for Apple, but that's driven (in large part) by the larger than life infatuation with Apple products. I'm not sure any other company can pull it off -- especially Microsoft.
The way to compete with Apple is to attack where it's weakest -- and that's by being more open. Instead, it looks like (in typical Microsoft fashion) Microsoft has decided to try to attack Apple by copying where Apple is strongest -- in its walled garden. And, in the process, the company may end up setting off some antitrust alarm bells. Oh, and also, along the way, it will severely hurt its own platform by limiting the types of useful innovations that others might provide. That doesn't seem like a very smart business plan.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – In its last action of the 2011 calendar year, the MIT Rifle team continued in its winning ways, picking up victories over the Massachusetts Maritime Academy and the Wentworth Institute of Technology. The Engineers, who swept both the air rifle and small bore competitions, downed the Buccaneers by a final of 4,354-3,827. It was closer against the Jaguars, but the result was the same, a 4,354-4,217 decision for MIT. The victories ran MIT's record to 14-2 this season.
Senior Nigel Kojimoto (Honolulu, Hawaii) led the way for MIT, posting the team's top scores in both air rifle and small bore. His 573 in air rifle led all competitors and was just three off his season-high. Firing a 550 in small bore, he was second overall in the competition.
Junior Elizabeth Phillips (Anchorage, Alaska) fired off a season best score of 562 in air rifle to finish second overall in the meet. Seniors Michael Batista (Melbourne, Fla.) and Jennifer de Bruijn (Harare, Zimbabwe) rounded out the scoring for the Engineers, coming in within one point of each other with totals of 534 and 535.
Phillips was also second on the squad in small bore, totaling a 548 to finish just two points behind Kojimoto. Junior Timothy Jenks (The Woodlands, Texas) was next for MIT, posting a season best score of 529, with de Bruijn finishing off the Engineers scoring with a 523.
Senior Christian Valledor (Ft. Leavenworth, Kan.) also posted strong effort for the Engineers, shooting season highs of 498 in small bore and 523 in air rifle.
MIT will not be back in action until January 28 when the Engineers will host the annual Beanpot competition that will include squads from Coast Guard, Penn State and Wentworth.


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Abstract: Blood in the Dust, Death in the Dark: combat and chemical warfare at Roman Dura-Europos, Syria
Alternatively titled 'Cold-Case CSI: Roman Syria AD256', this is a detective story, an exercise in uncovering forgotten secrets of a ferocious battle fought between the Romans and Sasanians. It is a tale told entirely through archaeology, for the siege in which perished the city of Dura-Europos, 'Pompeii of the East', is unknown to history. The Franco-American excavations of the 1920s-30s, and new work between 1986-2011, has revealed in graphic detail the course of the Sasanian attacks, and the determined efforts of the Roman defenders to thwart them; siege ramps and mines are still there to be seen, and excavation recovered copious weaponry and the bones of the slain, including dramatic traces of the defenders' last stand. This, the most vivid archaeological testimony ever found for ancient warfare, is still revealing surprises. For careful reappraisal of evidence preserved in the old excavation archives suggests that an early form of chemical warfare was among the horrors unleashed at Dura, the earliest archaeological testimony for one of the grimmest of all facets of human conflict…
Short bibliography and website on lecture topic:
James, S.T. 2011. 'Stratagems, combat and "chemical warfare" in the siege-mines of Dura-Europos,' American Journal of Archaeology 115: 69–101.
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10 Pretty Pink Pieces You Can Totally Pull Off
Pink isn't a color that many say they are very secure in using for interiors. It's easy to feel that it will be overwhelming or too girly. Don't worry, most people are in the same boat that you are and will be ridiculously jealous when you add a little pink to your space with confidence. Here are 10 pieces that are easy to incorporate.
There are small pieces and large, depending on how comfortable you are with the idea. If you're new to the idea of bringing this color to your home, start small (like the frame). It's a minimal commitment while you warm up to things.
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Images: As credited above.