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Point Park alumni Shua Potter, front left, Eric Hatch, center, and Case Dillard, right — all members of the cast of Mary Poppins -- lead a master class to teach current student dance routines from the national tour.
"Imagine you're on the edge, about to fall off. A gust of wind takes you but then you steady yourself. It's about controlled upper body motions here," said Case Dillard, who knows something about being a chimney sweep up on a rooftop.
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Dillard, 27, Potter, 28, and fellow alum Eric Hatch, 29, all part of the national tour of Mary Poppins, recently returned to campus to teach students "Step in Time" and a second number from the Broadway show. Fellow ensemble member Carol Angeli Dillard (Case Dillard's wife) joined the three. During the master class and question and answer session that followed, all shared nuggets of wisdom about musical theatre, life on tour and more.
Brittany Bohn, 21, a Point Park senior pursuing a dance major and musical theatre minor, was one of the students gathered in the George Rowland White Performance Studio to learn from the alums.
"It was great being able to see and learn this particular style of choreography up close," said Bohn afterward. "My ultimate goal is to work on Broadway, so for me the class was a remarkable opportunity." During the class, Dillard, a 2005 theatre arts grad who taught at three universities and danced with Ballet Arkansas before booking Mary Poppins, peppered the students with questions about tap steps, called for line changes and gave more tips about achieving the "free but controlled" moves required in "Step in Time."
Less than an hour later, the 75+ students were performing the number in small groups at tempo to music provided by Mary Poppins musician D. Scott Ferguson. After only a brief break all moved on to the equally challenging "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious."
Professor Jodi Welch, who teaches tap and jazz at the University, watched the students soak in the instruction and noted that their ability to pick up the numbers so quickly reflected the strength of Park Park's dance and musical theatre programs.
Dillard, Potter and Hatch all welcomed the chance to teach the master class and answer students' questions, said Welch.
Ashley Kasunich, 22, a senior pursuing a dance major and musical theatre minor, said she appreciated having yet another opportunity to learn from people already working where she wants to go.
Point Park regularly welcomes guest artists including renowned directors, producers, writers and choreographers. In fact, while the musical theatre master class was underway in the performance studio, Broadway choreographer and dancer Darrell Moultrie was conducting a jazz master class on campus, and Cheryl Mann, Tobin del Cuero and Paul Boos were in residence. Mann, del Cuero and Boos are staging works by Toru Shimazaki and George Balanchine for Conservatory Dance Company at The Byham.
Catherine Cabeen and Nicole Smith, repetiteurs staging Bill T. Jones' master work D-Man in the Water, also continued in residence at the Conservatory. In addition, Ben Stevenson, artistic director of the Texas Ballet Theater, conducted a ballet master class on campus. Stevenson is most noted for his choreography for the La Esmeralda Pas de Deux (1982), which is today a repertory staple with ballet companies all over the world.
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I hit the road from Delphos, Ohio very late. The trip from there to Ft. Wayne was entirely without incident, so I pulled into the parking lot at 8:25. No time for socializing, but Registration got me on my way to the Theater for the opening at 8:30. We heard from Amy Johnson Crow & Delia Cothrun Bourne, the 2013 Librarians' Day Coordinators. They deserve a great round of applause for putting together a wonderful set of speakers and an amazing tour of the facility. Thanks, ladies!! Jeffrey Krull, the Director of ACPL and Melissa Shmikus, Assistant Director and FGS Director also had some opening remarks. Then...
Kris Rzepczynski, the Senior Archivist at the Archives of Michigan spoke about collaboration to build and preserve collections. All I can say is he's a great speaker who understands that adding a touch of humor can keep the audiences attention while stilling getting your message across. He framed his subject around the dismantling of the Library & Archives of Michigan (which started in 2009) and how, in the end (as of today), the Genealogical Collection has a wonderful home and is available for all researchers. The trouble, as I see it, is that not enough people actually KNEW there was a moment when material might have been moved away or scraped. That's right - scraped. I hope that we all connect in a bit more to the collections, big and small, that we use for our research and stay aware of challenges they have due to budget constraints. How can you know? Just ask. Ask the staff. If they can't/won't tell you, check meeting minutes for public entities and professional forums for private ones. If they're at risk, it's being talked about somewhere and the sooner the genealogical community can come together to assist in providing a solution, the better the chance is that things will turn out like they did in Michigan. Oh, by the way, have you SEEN the website they have? Check it out at www.seekingmichigan.org!
Elaine Kuhn, the Kentucky History Services Coordinator from the Kenton County (KY) Public Library then shared her suggestions on how Libraries can work with local organizations to preserve and make accessible (sound familiar) primary materials at risk of being destroyed because the owners don't know what to do with them. The highlights were images of George Clooney (his family is from that area) and a photo of a gentleman (I didn't note his name) wearing his "Military Order of the Cooties" hat and uniform! Too funny, but an actual organization.
Lunch was sponsored by ProQuest and we had a brief presentation by Bill Forsythe who is the Director of Product Development. For those who go to their Public Library often, ProQuest has some great additions to their products. And, for those who work in Libraries, well, same goes. What caught my attention is they're adding Lesson Plans for Teachers. Love the idea of using the information available to enhance the learning experience.
OK. Here's where I have to admit that the call of my genea-friends (who I hadn't seen for TOO long) and the Library got the best of me. I admit it, I'm weak. I didn't go to the afternoon panel discussion because I heard the siren song of dead people calling my name. Don't judge me. LOL
Now, for the BEST part! We had the privilege of going behind the scenes at ACPL. And this is where the brevity comes in, because I only have an hour to get myself ready, get something to eat and make a beeline over to the Library to be there when it opens at 9!! Here goes:
We had a tour of the Genealogy Center. I've posted about it before; sadly, there's no time at this writing to find the right one. I'll try to edit the post tonight to include it so those who haven't been here can see it.
Then, we went down to the Lincoln Financial Foundation collection. What a remarkable collection of material from and about Abraham Lincoln. You can check out the website HERE.
We then got to see the area where they keep the three-dimensional objects from the collection along with rare book storage. Didn't take any pictures there because most of the material is on-line!! So awesome.
Next stop: genealogical material processing. ACPL is the rare Library where the Genealogical Collection material handling is completely separate from the rest of the Library. Check it out!
I love that the conveyor in the middle is used as a bit of a metaphor to keep material moving forward; to keep the process of working through the additions to the collections moving at all times. For me, this was the highlight of the tour. I'm not afraid to say that I genuinely wish that there was a facility like this closer to me. I would LOVE to work here!! But wait...there's more...
This lucky woman gets to scan material sent in by patrons. In this case, this is a bible from the mid-1700s from an attendee at FGS! How cool is that?! (Yes, at this point I was totally geeking out).
Internet Archives! That's right, this is the actual location where materials are scanned to be added to the Internet Archives website. They're a non-profit organization and they have a TON of material to scan, all so that genealogists and researchers alike can have access to the information contained in the materials they scan. Again, what a cool job.
So, that was my day yesterday. Or, at least the part at the Library, heh.
I finished up my night enjoying the company of some great genea-friends and acquaintances: Susan Clark, Kathy Reed, Becky Wiseman, Amy Coffin, Lisa Alzo and several others at the FamilySearch Blogger's Dinner. The food was very good (I was late, *sigh*) and it was great to hear about all the incredible things that are happening at FamilySearch. Stay tuned for some big announcements!
I ended the day watching Who Do You Think You Are with an amazing group of Genea-buddies. Oh, and if you weren't on social media to see my tweets, Kathleen Brandt of A3 Genealogy was responsible for the research on the O'Donnell segment that included locating the sword at the Smithsonian. What an incredible job she did - amazing job.
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Keynote AERC lectures and selected panels can be watched live at mises.org/live
Our online schedule includes (Central Time Zone):
9:15-10:15 A.M. | The F.A. Hayek Memorial Lecture (Sponsored by Greg and Joy Morin)
Randall Holcombe (Florida State University) | Political Capitalism: How Economic and Political Power Is Made and Maintained
10:30 A.M. – Noon | Panel on Remembering the Interwar Right
David Gordon (Mises Institute), Brion Mcclanahan (Abbeville Institute), Paul Gottfried (Elizabethtown College)
1:30 – 2:30 P.M | The Henry Hazlitt Memorial Lecture (Sponsored by Hunter Lewis)
Robert Luddy (Captiveaire) Henry Hazlitt's Long-Term Economic | Thinking: Foundation of Entrepreneurial Excellence
2:45 – 4:15 P.M. | Panel: 100th Anniversary of Nation, State, and Economy
Thomas Dilorenzo (Loyola University Maryland), Joseph Salerno (Mises Institute, Auburn University, and Pace University), Nikolay Gertchev (Ichec Brussels Management School), Jörg Guido Hülsmann (University of Angers)
4:30 – 5:30 P.M. | The Ludwig Von Mises Memorial Lecture (Sponsored by Yousif Almoayyed)
Michael Rectenwald (New York University, Retired) Libertarianism(s) Versus Postmodernism and 'Social Justice' Ideology
9:00 – 10:00 A.M. | the Lou Church Memorial Lecture (Sponsored by the Lou Church Foundation)
Daniel Ajamian (San Diego, California) The Cost of Enlightenment
1:00 – 2:30 P.M. | Paper Panel: Socialism
Rafael Acevedo (Texas Tech University), Yuri Maltsev (Carthage College), Edward Fuller (Palo Alto, California
2:45 – 3:45 P.M. | the Murray N. Rothbard Memorial Lecture (Sponsored by Don Printz)
David Dürr (University of Zurich) The Inescapability of Law: and of Mises, Rothbard, and Hoppe
4:00 – 5:30 P.M. | Panel: The Significance of Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Sponsored by Steve and Cassandra Torello)
David Gordon (Mises Institute), Mark Thornton (Mises Institute and Auburn University), N. Stephan Kinsella (Kinsella Law Group, Property and Freedom Society), Thomas Dilorenzo (Loyola University Maryland), Jörg Guido Hülsmann (University of Angers), Joseph Salerno (Mises Institute, Auburn University, Pace University)
Response: Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Property and Freedom Society, Mises Institute)
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A Blockchain Study Finds 0.00% Blockchain Success Rate . The study reported also reported 0 vendor call backs when asked for evidence of implementation.
Though Blockchain has been touted as the answer to everything, a study of 43 solutions advanced in the international development sector has found exactly no evidence of success.
Three practitioners including erstwhile blockchain enthusiast John Burg, a Fellow at the US Agency for International Development (USAID), looked at instances of the distributed crypto ledger being used in a wide range of situations by NGOs, contractors and agencies. But they drew a complete blank.
"We found a proliferation of press releases, white papers, and persuasively written articles," Burg et al wrote on Thursday. "However, we found no documentation or evidence of the results blockchain was purported to have achieved in these claims. We also did not find lessons learned or practical insights, as are available for other technologies in development."
Noah Smith Wants Harvard to Abandon Its Devotion to "Libertarian" Economic Theory. Really.
Let's talk about Econ 101, scientism and modern economics.
At Bloomberg, Noah Smith argues that Greg Mankiw's Principles of Economics textbook is out of date because academic economists are more concerned with empirics and wealth inequality.
Furthermore, Smith pushes the view that economic theory itself is outdated. Not only because academic economists no longer study it or care about it, but supposedly because empirics have proven the laws of economics to be out of touch with reality.
He purports that Mankiw proposes theoretical insights that are skewed against redistribution because of his "libertarian political slant." This just seems to be another way of saying that it avoided most Keynesian mathematics and empiricism and focused on the foundational theory.
Many libertarians derive their views on economics from the Austrians. It's worth noting that Mankiw admittedly never read any Austrian economists in undergrad or grad school and only first read Hayek and added a note on Hayek to the 4th edition of his text in the mid-to-late 2000's. If you're conflating politics with economics, Mankiw is far from an Austrian or Austro-libertarian.
Smith neither addresses Mises' a priori defense of economic theory, or praxeology, nor Hayek's criticism of the scientism of the social sciences.
Smith also doesn't address the obvious: economic incentives explain the rise in empiricism in academia. And the politicization of the economy and growth in government explains why the economics professions have shifted politically left and focused their efforts on income distribution.
Smith states that new empirical methods prove that the assumption that economic actors are perfectly rational is false and uses this insight to disparage economists and libertarians relying on insights derived from the foundations of economics.
Disparaging Mankiw's lessons as skewed by libertarian thought ignores the fundamentals of Austro-libertarian economics. Mises did not rely on a view of perfect rationality to arrive at economic conclusions or to confirm the laws of economics. As Mises stated in Theory and History:
The sciences of human action starts from the fact that man purposefully aims at ends he has chosen. It is precisely this that all brands of positivism, behaviorism, and panphysicalism want either to deny altogether or to pass over in silence.
I will conclude with Mises' address to this very debate:
Economic statements and propositions are not derived from experience. They are, like those of logic and mathematics, a priori. They are not subject to verification and falsification on the ground of experience and facts. They are both logically and temporally antecedent to any comprehension of historical facts. They are a necessary requirement of any intellectual grasp of historical events.
While Mankiw is no Austrian, we should not let Smith dictate the discussion or get away with wrongly conflating various economic and political views given that he's completely ignoring long-standing economic explanations that address his criticism of foundational economic insights.
Recession Will Turn Debt Into Junk
Diane Swonk says the 20,000 payroll number for February was a head fake. She blamed bad weather, the government shutdown, and other gobbledygook to explain away the 160,000 job miss for the year's shortest month.
According to Michael Snyder, in a piece posted on Zerohedge.com,
The U.S. economy is growing at a 0.3 percent annualized rate in the first quarter , based on data on domestic construction spending in December released on Monday, the Atlanta Federal Reserve's GDPNow forecast model showed.
Mr. Snyder lists 18 data points on his blog " The Economic Collapse " supporting the idea that an economic winter is coming.
#1 Farm loan delinquencies just hit the highest level that we have seen in 9 years .
#2 We just learned that U.S. exports declined by 4 billion dollars during the month of December.
#3 J.C. Penney just announced that they will be closing another 24 stores .
#4 Victoria's Secret has just announced plans to close 53 stores .
#5 On Thursday, Gap announced that it will be closing 230 stores over the next two years.
#6 Payless ShoeSource has declared bankruptcy and is closing all 2,100 stores .
#7 Tesla is also closing all of their physical sales locations and will now only sell vehicles online.
#8 PepsiCo has started laying off workers and has committed to "millions of dollars in severance pay" .
#9 The Baltic Dry Index has dropped to the lowest level in more than two years .
#10 This is the worst slump for core U.S. factory orders in three years .
#11 We just witnessed the largest decline in the Philly Fed Business Index in more than 7 years .
#12 In January, sales of existing homes fell 8.9 percent from a year earlier. That was the third month in a row that we have seen a decline of at least 8 percent. This is an absolutely catastrophic trend for the real estate industry.
#13 U.S. housing starts were down 11.2 percent in December compared to the previous month.
#14 Compared to a year earlier, home sales in southern California were down 17 percent in January.
#15 In December, home sales in Sacramento County fell a whopping 22.5 percent compared to a year earlier.
#16 Pending home sales in the United States have now fallen on a year over year basis for 13 months in a row .
#17 More than 166 billion dollars in student loan debt is now "seriously delinquent" . That is an all-time record.
#18 More than 7 million Americans are behind on their auto loan payments. That is also a new all-time record, and it is far higher than anything that we witnessed during the last recession.
None of this has kept individuals, companies and governments from ramping up debt levels. Leverage abounds, everywhere. Grant's Interest rate Observer writes, "companies are tapping credit lines to compensate for shortfalls in cash flow."
Defining a zombie company as one failing to generate cash flow to cover interest expense for three consecutive years, Grant's points out that 128 companies in the S&P 1500, fit the description. The percentage of living dead has increased over the past 12 months, ending January 31st, from 12.4 percent of the broad index to 13.6 per cent.
Money manager Jeff Gundlach told Grant Williams on Real Vision ,
the economic data continues to deteriorate. And we're starting to see reversals and unemployment claims now rising on a four week moving average basis. We're starting to see earnings estimates collapsing, margin estimates collapsing, sales dropping. You see housing is negative, Surprise indices-- confidence is deteriorating. None of these things are at the alarm-bell recession, but they're getting fairly close.
Gundlach and Williams spoke about the 800 pound elephant in the room, the U.S. government's off balance sheet obligations. "123 Trillion, six times GDP. If we wanted to fund our liabilities, the 123 trillion-- over the next 60 years, we'd have to put 10% of our GDP aside, from negative 7 today to plus 10," Gundlach quipped.
After reflecting on investors buying AAA-rated mortgage-backed bonds back in 2005, believing they were playing it safe, Gundlach said,
Well, we have similar-- maybe not as egregious-- but it's an echo of a rating problem in the bond market right now, in the corporate bond market, where the corporate bond market has exploded in size. It's more than double where it was 10 or 12 years ago, and a lot of it is, I think, overrated. There was a report by Morgan Stanley Research that suggested that fully, fully 45% of parts of the corporate bond market would be rated junk right now, if you use leverage ratios alone. Now, they use more than leverage ratios.
There's other variables that go into rating. But the leverage ratio seems to be really important.
Right now the ratings agencies are buying what debt issuers are selling —a rosy future. But with recession clouds gathering, Gundlach figures,
there's not going to be any working towards a better place. And so all of those bonds potentially could be downgraded into a junk status. And as we all know, when a triple-B-rated corporate bond crosses the line into junk status, the price goes down. It doesn't go up. So you can find people that have poured into corporate bonds-- that includes corporate pension plans-- which thought that they had a clever idea of matching up their liabilities, which are discounted by the single-A long corporate rate, and so let's match them with assets that are corporate bonds, so they move together.
As I wrote a couple weeks ago, when debt turns to junk, ETFs and institutional holders will desperately be looking to sell at any price. "So will they sell?" Gundlach wonders rhetorically. "I think the answer is yes. And so if you have a misrated market, and it goes into a downgrade problem, you get tremendous forced selling. And that's what happened in '08 with the securitized market, and this time, I think it's the corporate bond market's turn."
MacroMavens Stephanie Pomboy echos Gundlach's view,
In 2007, the lie was that you could take a cornucopia of crap, package it together, & somehow make it AAA. This time, the lie is that you can take a bunch of bonds that trade by appointment, lump them together in an ETF, & magically make them liquid.
So, with this storm brewing, the Fed's committee to save the world has started its roadshow.
How Many Economists Still Get Subjective Value Wrong
Subjective value is not objective. Sounds obvious, but the distinction is lost on most — scholars and practitioners alike.
People seem to think subjective value is simply a person's 'willingness to pay' a price. Well, it's not. Subjective value cannot be expressed in dollars and cents, because that would simply mean subjective value is an expression in terms of objective market purchasing power.
If value is subjective, however, that purchasing power too is subjectively valued, in terms of what subjective value it can provide (through the actual goods and services the money can purchase). And, in any market-like setting, willingness to give up purchasing power for a good only indicates that the person subjectively values that purchasing power (however it is appreciated by him/her) less than the value expected from the good that can be purchased.
Willingness to pay, expressed in the dollars and cents that in turn can command goods and services, only means the buyer expects to be better off from going through with the exchange. In terms of value theory, there may be no connection between the value of that which is forgone and that which is gained in return, other than them being valued differently (the former higher than the latter).
Scholars should know better than to confuse these things, but they're obviously quite confused.
Instead of thinking about the meaning of what they say, they adopt a practical shorthand used to get a dollar amount on a customer's valuation. This makes some sense from a practitioner's perspective, where a customer's willingness to pay for one's good is a rough estimate of what money price could potentially be charged for the good.
It's not accurate, however, which is why entrepreneurship models suggest that entrepreneurs should make sure to charge a price lower than customer's stated willingness to pay (if it can at all be trusted).
Also, the actual willingness to pay depends on offering the actual good along with the argument for why it would be valuable for the customer to have/buy it.
In a different time and place, and with different messaging, this 'willingness' changes both with how the good is subjectively appraised and with the other opportunities available to the customer. I might value a hamburger, but I value a hot dog more.
Consequently, if there are hot dogs my willingness to pay for hamburgers is practically zero; if there are no hot dogs in sight, my willingness to pay for hamburgers may be significant. See how this works?
One's willingness to pay is not about the [subjective] value of the good itself (that is, the satisfaction experienced, or in any case expected), but is contingent on alternatives available. Practitioners who are careful can gain insights from willingness-to-pay estimations. But it is still a very blunt tool, since what actually matters is the subjective valuation of a good and the subjective valuation of alternative goods (the comparison/tradeoff).
That scholars equate subjective valuation with objective money prices should be considered severe professional misconduct. For those who are in the business of thinking carefully about things, there is no place for conflating things.
Or, as in this case, mistaking (interpreting, really) subjective value for being objective. This is inexcusable and should disqualify you from the academy.
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College Admissions Scandal: More Meddling by the Feds
Bipartisan Attacks on the Second Amendment
A nationwide system of gun registration could be a step toward national gun confiscation. However, antigun bureaucrats need not go that far to use the expanded background check system to abuse the rights of gun owners. Gun owners could find themselves subject to surveillance and even harassment, such as more intensive screening by the Transportation Security Administration, because they own "too many" firearms.
Republican control of the White House and the Senate does not mean our gun rights are safe. Republicans have a long history of supporting gun control. After the 1999 Columbine shooting, many Republicans, including many who campaigned as being pro-Second Amendment, eagerly cooperated with then-President Bill Clinton on gun control. Some supposedly pro-gun Republicans also tried to pass "compromise" gun control legislation after the Sandy Hook shooting.
Neoconservative Senator Marco Rubio has introduced legislation that uses tax dollars to bribe states to adopt red flag laws. Red flag laws allow government to violate an individual's Second Amendment rights based on nothing more than a report that the individual could become violent. Red flag laws can allow an individual's guns to be taken away without due process simply because an estranged spouse, angry neighbor, or disgruntled coworker tells police the individual threatened him or otherwise made him feel unsafe.
President Trump has joined Rubio in wanting the government to, in Trump's words, "take the guns first, go through due process second." During his confirmation hearing, President Trump's new Attorney General William Barr expressed support for red flag laws. California Senator and leading gun control advocate Dianne Feinstein has expressed interest in working with Barr to deprive gun owners of due process. It would not be surprising to see left-wing authoritarians like Feinstein work with right-wing authoritarians like Barr and Rubio on "compromise" legislation containing both a national red flag law and expanded background checks.
My years in Congress taught me that few politicians can be counted on to protect our liberties. Most politicians must be pressured to stand up for freedom by informed and involved pro-liberty citizens That is why those of us who understand the benefits of liberty must remain vigilant against any attempt to erode respect for our rights, especially the right to defend ourselves against private crime and public tyranny.
Jeff Deist Joins TV Azteca to Discuss Free Markets and Liberty
During a recent trip to Mexico City, Jeff Deist was able to join Sergio Sarmiento of TV Azteca's adn40 for a great discussion on the meaning of liberty and the power of markets.
The interview is available here.
The Mises Institute been excited to increase our reach in the Spanish speaking world in recent years thanks to trips like this, as well our growing library of Spanish-language translations available at Mises.org/es.


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VMware is pricing its upcoming new software to run Windows on a Mac similar to rival Parallels software.
VMware said that its Fusion software for Macs can be pre-ordered beginning Tuesday for $39.99, and $79.99 when it becomes generally available near the end of August. Parallels Desktop 3.0 also costs $79.99, and $39.99 for users upgrading from a previous version of Parallels.
Both make it possible for Mac users to run Windows alongside Mac OS X. It is for people who use a Mac but also want to use software applications written only for Windows.
VMware released Fusion Beta 4 for Macs on Thursday. Besides running Windows OSes, Fusion also runs Linux and Solaris-based applications without having to reboot the computer to switch from the Mac OS to another OS.
VMware says one key feature of Fusion, called Unity, allows for seamless transition from Mac to Windows applications. Icons for Windows applications will be displayed along with those of Mac applications in the dock at the bottom of the computer screen.
"Unity makes Windows apps work just like Mac apps," said Patrick Lee, senior product manager for VMware. "The VMware Fusion Launcher allows you to search for and find Windows apps easily from your Mac without having to do anything extra. You don't need to use the [Windows] start menu. The start menu goes away."
VMware and Parallels will work in the coming Mac OS X version 10.5, code-named Leopard, due in October. Apple CEO Steve Jobs, in a keynote address at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference 2007 Monday in San Francisco, confirmed that Leopard will include Apple's Boot Camp as a standard feature. Boot Camp also enables a Mac computer to run Windows. Jobs said Boot Camp is "complementary" to Parallels or VMware.
Someone could use either Boot Camp or the Parallels/VMware approach, or both, to give them different options for running Windows applications on a Mac, said Gordon Haff, principal IT advisor at research firm Illuminata.
"With Boot Camp, you would boot up into Windows running natively or you would boot up into OS X running natively. With VMware Fusion or Parallels, you'll boot up into Mac OS X and then will have a hosted Windows virtual machine running on top of OS X," Haff said.
"There is no love lost," he said, between rivals VMware, a subsidiary of EMC Corp., and Parallels, which is owned by SWSoft. While each touts features that distinguish it from the other, he believes their features are largely comparable.
It became easier for Macs to run the Windows OS once Apple converted its computer line over to using chips from Intel in 2006.


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A winner was selected from 74 designs submitted by 21 freelance designers.
SynapDx Corporation
SynapDx was founded in Jan. 2010 to develop an innovative blood-based diagnostic test to aid in earlier detection of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). We currently have 6 full-time employees. This opportunity will help us shape our brand identity as it is our first website build.
In the United States, 1 in 110 children will eventually be diagnosed with an ASD. Currently, the average age of diagnosis is 4.5 years, yet the average age of parental first concern is before age two. Currently, ASDs are diagnosed using a series of behavioral tests. SynapDx is developing blood-based approaches to help physicians more quickly identify those children most likely to have ASDs to enable earlier diagnosis and treatment. Earlier diagnosis and treatment are associated with better outcomes for these children and their families.
We are serious about doing good science and function in a relatively conservative space. As a group, we are serious and deliberate in our approach, yet also care deeply about helping physicians and families more efficiently navigate the path to diagnosis.
We do not yet have a product to market, but are instead focused on research. We want a website that conveys high quality professionalism and does not try to do too much since we are still very early in our company development. We will build out more in advance of product launch.
We do not yet have a product to market, but are instead focused on building our reputation among the scientific and medical communities. Both groups are known for being skeptical and conservative. As such, a clean and simple design that is easily navigable is key.
Secondary audiences include: potential investors (also noted for their conservatism), media, and families who are either concerned about their children's development or who already have a child diagnosed with an ASD. We would like to project the same image to each of these groups.
Please see "Page Details" for description.
I would like to use the same design throughout the site for consistency, but I will explain the home page concept.
The following elements should be included in some way:
-links to the sub-pages: Home, Team, Science, News, Careers, Contact Us
-a dominant graphical/photo element (kids/families, science, etc.)
-company logo (see attached)
-space for text description of company
-space for dated press release headers and links
-horizontal contact information across bottom of page
http://www.synapdx.com - it is just a landing page with our logo as a placeholder.
http://www.7sbio.com is a good example of what we would like to achieve: a clean, simple layout that is easily navigable yet attractive.
http://www.goodstartgenetics.com is also clean and relatively simple: not too much text, interesting graphics. I feel like their home page has some distracting elements (the blue rectangular elements draw more attention than is warranted). Of the pages included here, I like this one least.
http://www.xdx.com/ - I like the general look of this page. Their technology approach is similar to ours - you will notice the squares that are evocative of the attached image of a "heat map". Our initial product relies on similar interpretation, so feel free to use this as a design inspiration.
http://www.americanwell.com/ - beautiful graphic elements; would it be possible to provide shifting graphics that incorporate visual and textual elements?
http://www.genomichealth.com/ - similar layout to the other options - but particularly like the repeated design reference to the logo used throughout the page in ways big and small.


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It fits together; that must have been GM's goal at the time. Its just one of those things that makes one wonder what they were thinking. The original transmission pan; has a drain plug, but yet the cross member prevents easy access to the transmission filter! It's a real mess to change both; the design made an easy thing into a really irritating drippy mess. I've owned the car since I was 18 and still recall my thoughts the first time under the car............."What the "Over time I've decided they got 99% of the car right, this is just something that could have been a better design on the cross member.


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Kali Harrison: Headed for nursing
Kali Harrison will be doing her usual activities this summer: babysitting, checking out customers at Food Lion, reading and hanging out with friends near the water.
She is looking forward to some new things too.
After graduation, she takes her first-ever cruise to the Caribbean with her aunt and uncle. This fall, she'll enter East Carolina University as an EC Scholar, move into Garrett Dorm and room with one of her best friends, Lauren Kelly, who will be an Honors College student.
"I'm really looking forward to all the people I get to meet, and I'm really excited about ECU football, tailgating and social events," said Harrison, who lives in Davidson with parents Jennifer and Scott Harrison and brother, Kyle.
Her mind was set on ECU after visiting campus. "I just like the feel," Harrison said. "Everyone is so friendly and outgoing."
Her father works with several ECU alumni, who are happy she will become a Pirate.
Harrison plans on a nursing career, although she has considered medical school too. She volunteered last summer at Levine Children's Hospital at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, where she saw nurses interact and get to know their patients. "I want that personal connection with patients," said Harrison, who hopes to volunteer at Pitt County Memorial Hospital while she is a student.
She is in the top 15 percent of her 450-member graduating class at Lake Norman High School, where she has played soccer, served on student council and the prom committee and been a member of the National Honors Society and Beta Club.
She also has been captain of her travel soccer team, which meant almost daily practices and year round weekend games in towns from Pennsylvania to Florida. The team even traveled to Germany and Denmark to play her sophomore year. "We're pretty close. They're my other family," Harrison said.
She is an active member of Trinity United Methodist Church and Cove Church and has been a speaker and youth leader at Chrysalis, a teen Christian retreat.
When she comes to ECU, she'll bring her outgoing personality and leadership skills, developed through her participation in many extracurricular, community and volunteer activities.
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Inspired by their farm in upstate NY, the duo behind Jersey City concept store Smith & Chang created a series of soaps that bring the outdoors to shower time. And their farm-to-medicine cabinet bars, made of the best quality natural ingredients, are as effective as they are freshly scented. They cleanse, exfoliate, and moisturize your skin and leave you smelling like, well, fresh country air.
I purchased this for my dad as a gift, he is a really manly man, but underneath it all if you get him really nice bar soaps, he absolutely loves them. I went with the colonial lavender, something he and my mother both love. It is masculine yet still has the classic lavender scent. It is like the soap is possibly wrapped in a muslin cloth, which is super nice. It isnt a huge bar a soap, but I am happy with my purchase5
I'm actually being silly because this soap does have a farm like quality. It's a bit of a rough texture but the scent is farm fresh. To be honest my husband got to this before I did and I will probably have to share the soap with him. He loves the feeling of an exfoliating soap and I like the feeling of freshness.5


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Petrinska Hostel & Apartments
The Petrinska Hostel & Apartments are right in the centre of Prague. It's newly opened and just 7 minutes walk to the oldest and most beautiful bridge in Prague (Charles bridge), as well as the Old Town.
We offer different types of rooms with a refrigerator, plate, tea can. Clean linen and towels are at your disposal. Rooms, which have shared facilities, have a common kitchen and bathroom just between each 2 rooms.
Our reception operates from 9a.m. till 6.p.m.
NO CURFEW - you'll get your own key when you check-in and you will keep it for all your stay.
CHECK-IN time is from 14:00
Incase you are arriving after 18:00 please call to hostel reception to let us know before your arrival and a receptionist will wait for you.
CHECK-OUT time is by 10.a.m
Availability & RatesTo view availability and prices please select dates and click 'Update Dates'
Hostel Facilities & Policies
- Bicycle parking
- Breakfast Not Included
- Credit Cards Not Accepted
- Elevator
- Telephone/Fax Facilities
- Free Internet Access
- Hair Dryers For Hire
- Self-Catering Facilities
- Linen Included
- Luggage Storage
- No Curfew
- Reading Light
- Tours/Travel Desk
- Towels For Hire
Cancellation PolicyThis property has a 1 day cancellation policy. Failure to cancel within this time will result in a cancellation charge equal to the first night of your stay.
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from Main railway station - by tram number 9 till the stop Vodickova (3rd stop), street Školská is opposite (look at the map).
from the airport - bus number 119 till Metro station 'Nádraží Veleslavín' - take a green line metro till station MUSTEK - from there by tram number 9till the stop Vodickova (1st stop), street Školská is opposite (look at the map).
from Holesovice railway station take the tram N14 till the stop Vodickova, street skolska is opposite (look at the map).
from Florenc bus station - by metro till station Museum (VenceslavsSquare), than change to tram number 9 till the stop Vodickova (1st stop), street Školska is opposite (look at the map).
Our personal works from 9:00 - 18:00.
CHECK-IN time is from 14:00 If you need to arrive a little bit earlier you are more than welcome to come and have a coffee before you check-in. In case of late or early arrival, please let us know in advance. Its no problem, we will wait for you if you let us know.
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Gamma is the relation between pixel value respectivley electric power and visible brightness on a specific output medium.
Although for common uses the gamma value just controls the subjective brightness of the mid range of pixels, there are certain situations in a photo stitching workflow where it makes a quantitive difference to the results:
- Pixel values are interpolated when correcting TCA (transverse chromatic aberration).
- Pixel intensity is scaled when correcting vignetting.
- Pixel values are interpolated when photos are reprojected into the output image.
- Blending via feathering, enblend or smartblend averages pixel values between images.
In any of these situations, it may be necessary to work with linear data (gamma = 1.0) or to use tools that work internally with gamma corrected data like so:
When using fulla to correct chromatic aberration and vignetting, be sure to set the -i parameter to the gamma of your input images.
nona, PTStitcher and PTmender all accept a g (gamma) parameter on the m line, most GUI front-ends allow you to set this.
See Helmut Dersch's article on Interpolation and Gamma Correction.
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jhoch necesitaba un nuevo diseño de impreso o envases y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 45 diseños de 17 diseñadores freelance.
The Hoch Group
The Hoch Group is a luxury real estate brokerage team in NYC. We help our customers buy and sell real estate in Manhattan. We have a blog and an email news letter but we would like to send out a print news letter each month. Please look at our web site at http://www.jordanhoch.com. We want the mailer to match the look of our web site.
We will be mailing this mailer to buildings that we have sold in recently. We are doing this to maintain our presence. Our buyers and sellers are upper middle class new yorkers who are used to high end looking products and marketing.
The product needs to be delivered in PHOTO SHOP and has to be easily edited. Every month we will be changing the photos and articles. The dimensions of the mailer should be 6 inches by 9 inches. Attached is an example of a layout and what the mailer should be. My team and I will take care of the other side of the mailer. Please note, though the layout of the attached mailer is fine, the look does not work. It needs to be more professional. Please look at http://www.jordanhoch.com and the mailer should feel like the web site. Pull photos and the articles from the web site. You dont need to put the full article. Actually we expect to print just a teaser on the mailer and ask people to go to the web site to finish the article. Any questions please ask.
PS - If you want to chage the layout from the example please do! It just needs to be no bigger that 6x9.


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classyannouncements needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 56 designs submitted by 13 freelance designers.
We've been in business since 2000, providing custom photo cards. Our customers send us 1-4 pictures, select a template, choose a font and submit their text for their special occasion. We put all those elements together for them, send a proof and work with them to tweak it until it is exactly as they want it. Photo retouching is included (teeth whitening, red-eye removal, etc.) Once the proof is approved, we print the cards on our state of the art photo printer and send them and very heavy, high-quality, "classy" mailing envelopes that are custom-made. The envelopes are a crisp white color with vertical lines.
Our business is completely online.
Our target audience is in the US, approx. 25-65 years old, has disposable income, wants to set themselves apart from generic paper announcements/invitations. They want to celebrate or announce their special event with a flourish! These special events include: holiday greetings, birth/adoption announcements, retirement, elopements and weddings as well as christenings and save-the-date cards.
I want CLEAN, SIMPLE, ELEGANT and, yes, CLASSY. My current logo is basically just my website address. I am open to suggestions! I am in the process of giving my website a facelift and will be changing the look/feel and colors. I want to get away from the pink and blue. I'm tentatively thinking white/silver or white/gray--but again, I'm open to suggestion.
I want to use the logo on my website, business cards, product brochure, etc. I would also like to use it for stickers to be used in packaging my product for clients (to place on the tissue paper covering their pictures/envelopes). I'm thinking just the "C" and the "A" intertwined elegantly. This will probably have to be a modified version of the logo.
The new logo needs to be clear, readable and should probably include the website address in some fashion.
My current tagline is " Beautiful, custom retouched photo cards for all your special occasions" (on the brochure) and "Photo cards for all your special occasions" (part of the current logo).
Attached is my current logo...Have fun!
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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Illuminators, in reality are tricky little buggers to get right. Can't be too sparkly, can't be too pearly. Can't be too dry, can't be too creamy. Remember when Benefit High Beam was Da Bomb? How everyone used to go on about how Kylie used it, and therefore we should too, if we wanted to look like large toothed, Jason Donovan loving pixies.
Do I have a dream illuminator? No, not yet.
Sleek Makeup's is quite old school in that respect, it reminds me of a bronzy version of Moon Beam:
This shade is Empress, more of a gold but there is also Goddess, a darker bronze. So is it any good?
This is actually a very nice color despite looking like a bizarre tangerine. Its a beautiful warm gold that I think works best on warm skin tones, but could work on paler skins…if you really want it to.
Yeah its nice, golden, glowy. Nicer than Moon Beam anyway.
Its thick. Thicker than High Beam and Moon Beam, one of the thickest illuminators I have tried. Its not too bad although you should only use a tiny tiny bit unless you want to look like Moonface:
At least with a thick illuminator you can see where its going. I hate really liquidy ones that you start to blend in and before you know it, your blending it down to your knees.
Its about £6.80 I think, for 30ml. Its definitely no more than £7. Thats a lot of product, this will last a long time so you can smother yourself in it, if you want.
Sleek Makeup seem to have taken a magic pill or something because they are getting it right (even for my fussy butt) quite a lot. The Lip Cushion, the Sleek Palettes etc. etc. They are really doing what a lot of drugstore level brands can't…finding a niche in a competitive market at a good price but good quality too. Wow, that sounds like a business pitch! I am not employed or bribed by Sleek, you'll be pleased to know.
View their range and you can buy the stuff from Superdrug, where I would urge you always check unsealed products to make sure some 16 year old hasn't snotted in it.


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Ronald A. Smaldone, PhD
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B. S. 2003, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Ph.D. 2008, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Postdoctoral Associate 2008-2012, Northwestern University
Research Description
Many of the world's pressing problems, such as clean energy solutions and improving human health, call for the design of new and more advanced materials that serve to meet these challenges. Our group is primarily interested in the design of novel organic and inorganic materials by using the principles of supramolecular chemistry, organic synthesis and biomimetic self-assembly. Specifically, our research focuses on several key areas:
- Developing new methods for the synthesis and processing of porous materials and polymers for the storage of hydrogen, natural gas and electrical power.
- The design and synthesis of novel polycyclic aromatic building blocks for the development of electrically-active and highly-ordered solid state materials.
- Using synthetically functionalized biomolecules (i.e., DNA and peptides) to direct the formation of nanostructured devices and soft-materials.
We are currently looking for highly-motivated graduate and undergraduate students to join us!
Selected Publications
Forgan, R. S., Smaldone, R. A.; Gassensmith, J. J.; Furukawa, H.; Cordes, D. B.; Li, Q.; Wilmer, C.; Botros, Y. Y.; Snurr, R. Q.; Slawin, A. M. Z.; Stoddart, J. F. "Nanoporous Carbohydrate Metal-Organic Frameworks" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 406–417.
Boyle, M. M.; Smaldone, R. A.; Whalley, A.; Ambrogio, M.; Stoddart, J. F. "Mechanized Materials" Chem. Sci. 2011, 2, 204–210.
Smaldone, R. A.; Forgan, R. S.; Furukawa, H.; Gassensmith, J. J.; Slawin, A. M. Z.; Yaghi, O. M.; Stoddart, J. F.; "Metal-Organic Frameworks from Edible Natural Products" Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2010, 49, 8630–8634.
Smaldone, R. A.; Moore, J. S. "Foldamers as Reactive Sieves: Reactivity as a Probe of Conformational Flexibility" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 5444–5450.
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denim wrote:Any chance momentum can be restored too?
I can try, but it's going to take manual labor - the import truncated everything from that forum for some reason unknown to me. I'm on the other side of the country right now but when I get home I'll fire up a VM with the old software and try to find a way to make it behave. I think the best I might be able to do is isolate it into its own phpBB install and perhaps try to merge it - we "lost" the photo gallery also - I still have it in an archive but there wasn't a simple way of bringing it over. I can easily get anyone their photos if they request them though, I just have to pull them out of their folder in the archive.


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Pierre Chao shares his thoughts on where future innovation will come from
When looking at today's market and trying to figure out where innovation will come from in the future, where do you begin?
This was the theme of the Fairfax County, Va., Chamber of Commerce 2013 GovCon Symposium that took place Tuesday morning.
Pierre Chao, managing partner at Enlightenment Capital and Renaissance Strategic Advisors, sat on one of the panels, and gave his views about future industry innovation.
He was asked what his expectations for change in the government contracting industry are, and what stability is going to look like in the new world.
But it isn't stability that should be considered most here, Chao said. "Dynamism is actually what you're looking for," he said.
"There are so many trends in the industry that it's important to set them into two categories," Chao said; there are long-term, secular trends, and then there are cyclical trends.
"Innovation is tied to either one of these," he added.
The long-term trends are things like moving to the cloud and cybersecurity—things that need to be considered and implemented now, and will not lose their importance, he said.
Another long-term trend that Chao mentioned was the aging of the federal workforce.
Five years from now, the government will have lost around half of its workforce, and "it is this room," Chao said, referring to government contractors, "that is going to solve those problems."
Going into cyclical trends, Chao said that the current time "smells and looks a lot like '89 to '91, that many of us lived through," he said.
So, many contractors probably have a sense of what is going to happen, and what needs to be done.
For those that don't, Chao said that his company did an analysis of the top 100 companies in the last downturn, potted their strategies, and were able to figure out the best and worst strategies for companies during such a downturn.
The worst, value-destructive strategy was, not surprisingly, to do nothing, with the second worst value-destructive strategy being doing something you didn't know how to do.
"The strategy that created the most value, at that time, was the proactive strategy, which at that time was [mergers and acquisitions], and hence why we see [mergers and acquisitions] as part of the landscape," Chao said.
And to the extent that mergers and acquisitions is somewhat constrained by government policy, innovation this time around will show up in business model innovation, Chao said, and it will be related to products.
He said he could trace the top 10 defense companies back to the 1930s, noting very little change at the top from that perspective.
"The only times when the industry changes are when new technology shows up," he said.
Older defense companies are tied to the aircraft age, and the newer ones were tied to the technology age. "The next batch was services, and we can all try to imagine what's going to be the next wave," Chao said.
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The Province is reporting that Pixar Canada has shut its doors and laid off its staff.
Close to 100 employees at Pixar Canada's Gastown animation studio lost their jobs Tuesday as the company decided to pack up the three-year-old operation and concentrate its operations in Emeryville, California.The facility opened in the Spring of 2010. This is the third studio that Disney has opened and closed in Canada and the second in Vancouver. As recently as August 20, Pixar Canada was advertising for a layout artist and animators, so it appears that this decision was fairly sudden.
"A decision was made to refocus operations and resources under the one roof," Barb Matheson, a spokesman for Pixar parent company Disney, said from Toronto. "Staff were just told today. Not great news, obviously. It was just a refocussing of efforts and resources to the one facility."
It is important for animation artists and students to realize that while companies like Disney/Pixar appeal to a person's love for their characters and the status of joining a winning team, that branch plants are nothing more than economic calculations. At the time it opened, Pixar Vancouver made economic sense; now, for some reason, it doesn't. The Pixar dust that was liberally spread throughout Canada was a marketing opportunity to gain the company good will and bait for prospective employees.
It wouldn't surprise me if in five or ten years Disney/Pixar opens yet another studio in Canada. I hope that people wake up to the fact that a job in a branch plant is just a job. It might be a good job in terms of pay or opportunity, but in fundamental ways, it is no different than any other kind of job. If they no longer want you, you're gone.
(If anyone from Pixar Canada would care to comment, I'd be interested in an employee's view of the shut down. Did employees receive notice or severance? What happens to projects that are still in progress?)


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More specifically I'm referring to when people tell you something like "God is punishing you" or "God loves you" when they know you're an atheist? The double standard in this is obvious when you reveal your view towards it and you're immediately labeled as arrogant or close-minded. I think this notion is asinine because the fact that they aren't receptive to your worldview is the very essence of being close-minded.
How do you "win" so to speak in these situations? What do you all do?
P.S. I'm thankful for atheist communities such as this because if I didn't have it to unwind I'd lose my mind.
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There is no "winning" if your goal is to prove any kind of point to these kinds of people. They have a vested interest in deluding themselves into believing that you are the problem, despite any contrary evidence or reason, and without just cause. The best bet is to stay away from such people, and remember that while they may LOOK bright, that it is just because the speed of light is slightly faster than the speed of stupidity.
Well, once I felt really bad.
But little by little I'm getting used.
I am an atheist, I in live Brazil and here in our country to declare atheist is the same thing as being in "hell." (ironically)
I am sorry to hear of your rough experience. I hope you are able to find friends that are willing to accept you for who you are, rather than who they want you to be.
If my acquaintances know my views about religion and say something like "god is punishing you," I return by saying, "I know your god is punishing me, because you are here." If they say something similar to "god loves you," I say " I know your god loves me because you are leaving." If they do not know me and make similar comments, I do not give them the time of day.
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Born out of Italy's automotive epicenter in Modena, CRP Racing is a well-regarded engineering firm, whose roots can be firmly found in car racing's premier class, Formula One. This year marks 45 years of CRP Racing's tradecraft, and it also marks the public launch of the company's Energica Ego electric superbike.
A project we first saw first-hand at the 2011 EICMA show, and later in the FIM eRoadRacing electric series, the company's Energica Ego electric motorcycle seemed like an over-reach. The design was…umm, different…the naming was tough for English-speakers who were familiar with the Austrian school of thought regarding psychoanalysis, and CRP Racing's experience with electric drivetrains was a huge question mark.
Fast-forward to the 2013 EICMA show, where the Energica Ego project showed its resilience. The small Italian firm had found a drivetrain partner, its concept bike had been flushed out into a runner, and the folks from Modena were pushing forward with their plans to release a production model. However, we have seen plenty of electric motorcycle startups reach this point before, with the term "production" being used only by the loosest of definitions.
Arriving then at Alice's Restaurant, a local motorcycle hangout near A&R HQ, I had plenty of skepticism packed with my leathers, helmet, boots, and gloves. However, the design of the Energica Ego had begun to grow on me — it wasn't the same lustful wanting that I had with the lines of the Mission RS though, nor the racing-bred techno-orgasm that comes with the MotoCzysz E1pc — but it was a certain appreciation that the bird-like nose no longer rubbed me the wrong way.
Just as the Ego had evolved into something more refined and polished over time, so too had the company. After riding the Ego on a modest trip down one of the SF Bay Area's favorite twisty roads, the impression was solidified — if I arrived a cynic to the bike launch, I left Alice's as a convert.


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5 on August 14, 2018
My wife and I truly enjoyed our weekend getaway. Gloria and Bob were the most thoughtful hosts. Our breakfast was delicious and customized to our specific dietary requests. Our gorgeous room overlooking Sandy Hook beach was cleaned almost immediately after we left. Gloria offered us rides around town and dropped us off at the beach in the morning. The beauty of this B&B is in the minor details. Gloria and Bob pack a fridge with complementary sodas and waters. They also provide complementary red wine, white wine, and delicious homemade brandy. The cable TV in our room had hundreds of channels, all on a crystal clear flatscreen. Although my wife and I enjoyed interacting with our hosts, they were sure to give us plenty of privacy and were never intrusive. Perhaps my favorite part of the trip--playing with the two on-site dogs, Jake and Freckles. This is an ideal B&B for a romantic getaway. I highly encourage you to book with Gloria and Bob!
5 on May 01, 2016
The room was so nice. They put a cot in the room for my other son. The muffins, wow. The whole breakfast was amazing. They are wonderful people and the beach views from our room was so great. Will definitely stay again!
4.0 on September 10, 2015
I have stayed here for years. I love this wonderful magical place!! So nice the hostess and host!! Thank you for the amazing fruit salad!! Love to Seascape Manor!! Linda Marie
5 on October 30, 2014
I stayed here with my 2 friends. Gloria was wonderfully accommodating and she he took an extra effort to put in a cot in our room as we all shared one room together. We stayed in the Precious Moments room. We loved the balcony and the ocean view was wonderful both at night and during the day. The highlight was the breakfast on the porch with a beautiful ocean view and sounds of nature around us. The food was absolutely delicious, Gloria is truly a gourmet chef and Bob is an excellent and entertaining 'waiter.' I highly recommend the Seascape Manor, you will not be disappointed!
5 on September 27, 2012
This was a wonderful and friendly B&B, so elegant. The breakfast service was slow but Gloria makes everything from scratch & it was worth the wait.
4.2 on May 21, 2012
Treated Mom to a Mother's Day weekend at Seascape Manor. We wanted to bird watch at Sandy Hook and enjoy a relaxing weekend and dinner on the Navesink. The location of the B&B is amazing. The Hartshorne Suite has a king sized bed, pullout twin couch (so comfortable), soaking tub, and private balcony with an amazing view (see website photo, view of Long Island and shipping channel at night). I felt confident that the resident pets (all friendly) were never in the suite and were not overly present, but more visitors that you would pass by now and again. Bob took great care of us during our stay, Sherry was wonderful via phone/email (sorry I didn't meet her); I finally was able to meet Gloria after breakfast, which she cooks and is wonderful. Mini-massages from Barbara the morning of our departure were a relaxing way to end the weekend. I'll be booking another stay soon. Jessica (Lehigh Valley, PA)
4.4 on April 12, 2012
Our weekend was Friday 4/30 through Sunday 4/1 at the Sea Scape manor. We needed some time away from family, work, & routine! It was such a good idea to visit! Our room was clean, inviting, and well appointed. The Inn Keepers were friendly and thoughtful. The household pets were shy but well mannered and breakfast the morning of out departure Sunday was delicious and hearty. Our hostess drove us back to our train station afterward! Saturday night dinner by recommendation from our hosts to Bahr's Seafood Restaurant was an excellent choice. And the owner at Barh's even drove us back to the Sea Scape when he found out we were referred to his establishment for the good food! I have only good things to say. If you need a mini staycation close to home our new friends at Sea Scape manor will take good care of you. Rene S.
5 on December 08, 2011
I would like to thank you and your family for the beautiful moments that you gave us. Than you so much for everything!. Your place was awesome. It was a time that we will never forget. Like I told you before, in all these years, we never had any chances to spend time like this. Wanda told me that it was a dream come true. We hope that God gives you all the health and blessing that you need in life. It's impossible to explain with words how grateful we are. We could not have wished for a more wonderful time. Thank you for taking care of veterans!!!
4.8 on November 11, 2011
Thing place is wonderful. My boyfriend and I came here for a romantic get away and had a wonderful time. The decor is beautiful. Nice beach front. Great service. friendly couple. Will come again.
5 on August 09, 2011
Great place to stay and the pets were alot of fun too, food great rooms clean and terrific views!
5 on August 08, 2011
My wife and I have stayed at Seascape Manor at least ten times over the last 9 years. Neither my wife or I have a single complaint from any of our stays. We have stayed in every room, our favorite being the Garden Room, which gives you the feeling of total seclusion in your own little world. The breakfasts are absolutely delicious and will be catered to those with food allergies. The beds are wonderfully comfortable and rooms cute and well appointed. Sherry and Gloria go out of their way to be helpful, whether its something in the house or directions to local attractions or restaraunts. I will be calling soon to reserve my annual anniversary room
1.0 on October 10, 2010
October 2010 Totally NOT qualified to be a bed & breakfast!! They should close the doors to the public for renovations, maintenance and taking out the excess junk. It is very difficult to find the place - the easement to the property is through the high school parking lot. If you want to go stay at Granny's in a guest room it's okey. The place lacks taste in decor, smells of dogs, dusty and cramped with no staff/workers in sight. Just one sweet woman there having to carry the whole burden. The website is very deceptive and I highly resented having to pay for false advertising of the place. This BnB is 20 years behind in upkeep.
Innkeeper Response
Thank you for expressing your opinion. You stated to us when you arrived that you are 'allergic to old'. We can't understand why you even booked with us. Our bed & breakfast was described on our website as being over 120 years old with antique furniture and period decor. Perhaps you did not understand that this meant our home is vintage and the decor is of the period. There are pictures of our rooms on the website. We cater to guests that want to feel like they are going home to grandma's. You obviously chose the wrong place to stay. Most standard bed & breakfast's are by definition an old house restored for guests. Since you were here only 5 minutes and never saw the guest room, perhaps you didn't fully appreciate the large spacious room, the beauty of the ocean view, the beautiful landscaping and wonderful deck overlooking the ocean. There is nothing wrong with the upkeep of our house. It is meant to look like an 1889 farm house and it is lovingly cared for and kept fresh and dust free. We have inspection certificates that will confirm this. We are honored to have the original hardwood floors and the original plastered walls. We are sorry you did not like our B&B. We wonder why you would book in a vintage house if you are allergic to old. We will refund your deposit and hope you choose to stay in modern hotels from now on.
- Sherry Ruby (innkeeper)
5 on July 25, 2010
My husband and I have stayed at Seascape every summer for at least 12 years if not longer and will keep going back there as long as we are able. We have stayed in every room except the Garden Room downstairs on the lower level. Our favorite room is the Hartshorne Room which is a very large room with a king bed and a wonderful private deck. We love the location even if you do have to drive to get to the beach, restaurants etc. The grounds are beautiful and it is very quiet and peaceful there. Sherry is a wonderful innkeeper and is very helpful and Gloria makes the most delicious breakfasts! It is a full breakfast starting with homemade muffins, fresh fruit and an entree which you can eat on the deck (in summer). We love Oscar (the long haired dachshund) - he is so sweet. Even my husband, who is NOT a dog lover at all, enjoys Oscar. We can't wait to go there this August for four days! Thanks to Sherry and Gloria for their wonderful hospitality.
5 on November 22, 2009
7th time I`ve been there and I will be back again. Everything excellent!! Frederick Grotz
4.8 on September 17, 2009
Obviously we love Seascape Manor as we recently stayed there for the 6th summer in a row. We have stayed in 3 of the 4 rooms and our favorite is by far The Garden Room but the other 2 are really nice too. The staff is wonderful as are the breakfasts every morning. Everything you need is in every room and if it's not the staff will gladly get what you need. They really go out of their way to ensure that everyone has the most relaxing time there. We just wish we could stay longer when we go there. Can't wait to go back next summer and hope you get to expand to 6 rooms. Thanks! Reesa Rosenthal
3.6 on July 16, 2009
Not your typical seaside setting, but lovely none-the-less. This B&B, which sits high atop a bluff, has one of the best ocean views you will ever experience. A bit difficult to find, those who seek quiet and seclusion will be drawn to this inn. A nearby park looks great for hiking and biking, but beware - you will have to drive to the beach and restaurants. Our room was smaller in person than depicted on the web-site, but was still quaint and comfortable. The private deck afforded a spectacular view (particularly the sunrise over the ocean), but was in need of a good, fresh coat of paint, as are some other exterior areas of this property. Weather permitting, a delicious breakfast (one of the best we ever had) is served on the main deck. All in all, a nice place to stay, although it appears to be in need of a general sprucing up. Would recommend.
Innkeeper Response
Thank you for your comments. We have painted the exterior of the B&B since your stay. It was a damp spring and early summer and we couldn't get it painted prior to mid July. We are glad the rest of the B&B impressed you.
- Sherry Ruby (innkeeper)
4.6 on August 02, 2008
We have stayed at the Inn 4 times. The building is well maintained and has great architectural charm. The grounds and surroundings are landscaped beautifully. Each room is interesting and has different character. The living room, dining area and deck are lovely. The proximity to the Sandy Hook park, and numerous other Northern Jersey shore communities affords extensive and diverse sources of entertainment. Or you can just sit on the main level or room decks and take in the hillside ambience, which includes passing deer and bird populations; views of the NYC skyline; and the Atlantic Ocean.
5 on June 28, 2007
We've stayed at the Seascape Manor for several years usually on our anniversary weekend in the month of August. the Breakfast is wonderful, the views breathtaking, and the service perfect. We keep trying to go back but its always booked. ! Sherry Ruby is always available to accommodate your needs and the cats are adorable.
5 on March 15, 2007
The sunset was gorgeous. Very cozy and warm Inn. The breakfast was out of this world with a view of the ocean. The main rooms were very nice and inviting and each bedroom room has it's own ambiance. We can't wait to stay in the summer to take advantage of the outdoors.


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Public Speaking with Fran Lebowitz
Until last night I didn't know who Fran Lebowitz was. I think I may have thought she was the photographer Annie Leibovitz. Turns out that isn't the case. She is a writer. Martin Scorsese has made a wonderful, hilarious documentary about Lebowitz that consists mainly of her talking to Scorsese and clips of Q&A portions of her public lectures, including one conducted by Toni Morrison. You may not always agree with her point of view (although I do more often than not) but she is a total straight shooter and really, really funny. She is a wonderful literary, cultural throwback to another time. This is definitely worth watching.
1918Recently I reposted my "A Century of Books" list asking for your help to fill in a couple of holes I had on the list. I couldn't find anything for 1911, 1918, 1921 and I was looking for something to bump DH Lawrence out of 1920. Many of you took the challenge and helped me find good stuff for each of those years except 1918. To be accurate, many of you suggested books for 1918 as well, but I had already read those fantastic books: My Antonia (Willa Cather), and The Return of the Soldier (Rebecca West), so I was still left with a 1918 hole.
That is until today when I saw a comment that Toward Infinity left on that post. TI pointed me towards Goodreads which allows one to do a search that returns the 200 most popular books (as rated by the Goodreads users who added the books to the GR database) for 1918. It really came up with some interesting titles.
- A few I have already read: The Magnificent Ambersons (Booth Tarkington) and Eminent Victorians (Lytton Stratchey).
- Many I wouldn't want to read.
- Some non-fiction that sounded kind of fascinating like one called American Negro Slavery--I can only imagine what the perspective might have been on that with only about 60 years separating the end of the Civil War and the publishing of the book.
- I also could add a Bobbsey Twin book, or one of the Forsyte Saga, but I am the kind of person who needs to start at the beginning.
Dodo Press
I couldn't help but notice that several of the books on the 1918 list were published by the Dodo Press. If I had a better memory, I would have recalled that Elaine wrote about the imprint about a year and half ago. Looks like a great resource for finding all kinds of out of print stuff. I am going to have to spend some time exploring.
I hadn't been on Goodreads for almost two years. I love it and I hate it. I love it because it is a great way to keep track of things. I hate it because it makes me go into OCD meltdown and consumes too much time when I could be doing something more interesting, like reading.


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Cate Phillips needed a new wordpress theme design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 22 designs submitted by 2 freelance designers.
Sales Dynamix
We're B2B matchmakers. Our clients believe business is about selling and maintaining relationships. We make matches for them by initiating relationships with the right firms.
Our clients hire us to develop new business for them so that they may finish their sales process. They will describe themselves as doing Relationship Selling. We generate leads and then cultivate the leads to the point of being defined and qualified opportunities, typically scheduling meetings on behalf of our clients. We usually rely heavily on the phone and use email and other online tools to support those phone attempts and/or conversations.
We are a family owned business – a father-daughter combo. We pride ourselves on being very direct and genuine; a 'what you see is what you get' type of mentality. We refuse to be anything but successful with the campaigns we design and implement so we work very hard and are honest about what we can and can't do.
Our original site is: http://www.salesdynamixllc.com. We have been in business just over a year. The original site did the trick for us when we were just starting but we're definitely ready for a new one.
Our target audience has two main criteria:
1) Any business that sells to other businesses (B2B)
2) Non-transactional sales cycle; the sales process must be relationship based and it must be a complex sale. Our clients will not find value in our services if they are selling widgets, it must be something complex enough where there is value in the "door opening" portion of the sale.
A PDF containing the simple requirements and the logo files are attached.
Note about the logo files.... the PNG file has the tagline we want but the originals are also included.
We need the winning designer to provide a layered PSD file.
Please be creative and don't be afraid to ask questions.
We've uploaded a PDF of the http://www.salesdynamixllc.com/services.html graphic with the correct text in case you would like to re-design this when you show us a sub-page, to fit the overall look and feel you are creating.
And, also please use the following text for the homepage:
Instead of: "Relax. We can help." Please use: "We're B2B Matchmakers."
And the remaining text on the homepage should be:
Our clients believe business is about selling and maintaining relationships. We make matches for them by initiating relationships with the right firms.
Thank you for taking a look at our brief. We're looking forward to launching a new site!


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Part Number(s)
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Trim your paper to fit the front and back of the binder clip. Apply modge podge to one side at a time and cover with the strips of paper.
Once the glue or modge podge is dry decorate with more paper, stickers or other embellishments. Word to the wise, if you are putting names or words on yours, make sure the silver clippy "leg" part is pointing downwards before you put your words on. Otherwise when they are actually clipped onto papers, the words will appear upside down. Click on the collage and look at first photo, the word Ta-Da is upside down.
Wrap in clever packaging, and deliver! We gave some of these as teacher gifts, and some to my home schooling mommy friend.
Words to use:
child's name
teacher's name
days of the week
to call
to file
to read
to send
to copy
to grade
small photos of animals, flowers, things you collect
Here are some more ideas:
Fabric covered at How About Orange
Two Peas in a Bucket
With ribbon at Scrapjazz
Binder clips and lots of other cute stuff at Emuse
Decorated binder clips
4 comments:
- Heather said...
- May 6, 2009 at 8:00 AM
- Autumn Barta said...
cute stuff! Baby number three should be here near the end of June, beginning of July! We are having a little girl! , and then we are done! I don't know how you do it, but I think 3 will be plenty to keep me busy!
- May 6, 2009 at 5:52 PM
- Mrs. Dunbar said...
What a great idea. I think I'll try this as part of Monkey's teacher's end of the year gifts.
- May 6, 2009 at 9:37 PM
- SensationallySarah said...
This is such a fabulous idea! I linked up to you and modified it to use maps instead of scrapbook paper! Thanks for the inspiration!
Sensationally Sarah (http://sensationallysrh.blogspot.com/2012/02/binder-clips-covered-in-map-these-are.html#comment-form)
- February 22, 2012 at 5:02 PM
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Date(s) - 04/21/2018
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Scarlet Pearl Casino Resort
Beatles vs Stones – A Musical Shoot Out
The British Invasion brought us the two most popular rock groups of all time, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, as well as the liveliest debate in rock history – which band is the greatest? These two legendary bands will engage in an on-stage, mash-up duel – a musical "shoot out of the hits" if you will – featuring internationally renowned tribute bands, Abbey Road and Jumping Jack Flash.
"Electrifying show!" said the O.C. Register.
"The most unique tribute show in decades," said the L.A. Times.
"The crowd was on their feet screaming the entire time!" said the Idaho Statesman.
"If you missed The Beatles and The Rolling Stones live, here is your second chance," said the San Clemente Times.
Abbey Road (A Tribute to the Beatles)
Five alternating power sets with the two bands coming together on stage for an amazing encore makes this show a once-in-a-lifetime event.
The cast of In My Life perform as a concert band. With their tight harmonies, flawless note for note renditions of Beatles hits, custom–tailored costumes, vintage instruments, Liverpudlian dialect and precise attention to every detail, Abbey Road – Tribute to the Beatles has honed their show to become one of the most musically and visually satisfying Beatle tribute acts in the world. Abbey Road recreates the magic, music, wit and charm of the Beatles, including the Fab Four's cheeky personalities, familiar onstage banter and patter between songs.
Three costume changes cover the full range of the Beatle experience and beyond, with authentic early black Beatle suits, Sgt. Pepper's regalia and Abbey Road attire. Hear the piccolo trumpet solo on Penny Lane and the full orchestration of A Day in the Life. Relive the emotional intensity of Paul's moving Yesterday solo, as well as the high energy of stadium songs like Twist and Shout and other Beatle hits.
Jumpin Jack Flash
Imagine walking into your favorite 500 seat music venue and stumbling upon the Rolling Stones! They're all there; Mick is prancing and gyrating, Keith is ripping licks, posing
with his trusty beat-up Telecaster. Charlie and Bill are laying down the back-beat, and depending on what time of night it is, either Brian Jones or Ron Wood round out the
line-up. But there's a problem; this isn't London 1964, but rather Los Angeles 2010. Put down the pint and take a closer look mate, it's Jumping Jack Flash, the world's greatest tribute to the Rolling Stones!
Jumping Jack Flash honors the privilege of re-creating a Rolling Stones live performance by delivering what audiences come to see — the theatrics and power of the "Greatest Rock-n-Roll Band In The World" in its' prime, with you in the front row! Performing song selections from all periods of The Stones' legendary career, you can depend on hearing the band perform the hits that you still sing along to in your car (however badly).
The greatest care has been given to the smallest details, to insure that song performance, wardrobe, instrumentation, etc., are spot-on re-creations of the real thing. If Jumping Jack Flash can't rock you, nobody will!
Only a lucky few will ever have the resources to (gasp!) hire the legendary Rolling Stones for their private event, or even to buy stage-side tickets for that matter.
So for everybody else, Jumping Jack Flash puts you in front row center at the second most memorable concert of your life (and for a somewhat smaller fee)!


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Identity Theft Repor ted
A 52-year- old Breezewood area man told state police investigators he was the victim of identity theft on Wednesday, September 5. According to reports, the banking information of the victim was used to make unauthorized purchases at 6:30 p.m. The location of the identity theft was 1215 Lincoln Highway in Brush Creek Township.
One Accused Of Assault
Pennsylvania State Police in McConnellsburg have accused a 42-year-old McConnellsburg woman with simple assault following an incident at 102 Lincoln Way West. Police reported the woman allegedly punched a 48-year- old woman, also from McConnellsburg, in the mouth on Tuesday, September 11, at 9:40 a.m. The victim lost several teeth in the attack. Police did not release the name of the accused in the incident.
Police Make DUI Arrest On Interstate
State police arrested a Shelocta, Pa., man for driving under the influence following a traffic stop on September 13 along Interstate 70. Charges against Robert Allen Odenkirk, 52, in the 6:46 p.m. incident are pending through the office of Magisterial District Judge Carol Jean Johnson.
Metal Taken
Various scrap metal as well as several pieces of plate steel, loader arms from a track loader and an oil trailer furnace were stolen from 817 Camp Ridge Road in Licking Creek Township. The theft is believed to have occurred between September 4 and 12. Victim is a Harrisonville area man. Anyone having further information pertinent to this incident should contact state police Trooper Watkins at 717-485- 3131.
Three Injured In Two-Vehicle Crash
Three individuals suffered injuries ranging from minor to moderate during a twovehicle collision along Route 16 in Ayr Township last Thursday afternoon.
Pennsylvania State Police at the McConnellsburg barracks reported Jed R. Imbraguglio, 38, of Mercersburg, was heading westbound when he attempted to make a left-hand turn. Imbraguglio's 1999 Jeep Cherokee turned into the path of an eastbound 2010 Nissan Altima driven by 29-year-old Karen L. Welch of Big Cove Tannery.
Imbraguglio and Welch were both wearing seat belts during the 3:45 p.m. accident. Welch's passenger, a 4- year-old girl, was secured in a child safety seat. Both vehicles were disabled as a result of the damage.
State police noted they will charge Imbraguglio with turning movements and required signals.
Megans Law Violation Reported In Burnt Cabins
A convicted sex offender from Aliquippa, Pa., was arrested in Fulton County last Friday after it was determined he had been living in Burnt Cabins for more than three months without reporting his new address to Pennsylvania State Police.
Forty-five-year- old Anthony Carroll Brown was arraigned for the Megans Law violation on September 14 before Magisterial District Judge Devin Horne. Brown was remanded to the Franklin County Prison in lieu of $100,000 bail.
Marijuana Found
Pennsylvania State Police in McConnellsburg found alleged marijuana plants growing on the Thorny Bush Lane, Union Township, property of 63-year-old Daniel Roberts of Warfordsburg. The plants were reportedly found on Saturday, September 1, at 4:30 p.m. Roberts is to be charged with posses- sion of a controlled substance.
Medication Stolen
Various prescription pills were stolen from 49 Hillside Estates, McConnellsburg, on Friday, September 14, at 5 p.m. Victim of the theft is a 61-year-old McConnellsburg woman, state police said. Anyone having further information linked to this case is asked to contact state police Trooper Piasecki at 717- 485-3131.
Copper Wire Taken
Several rolls of Rome-Ex copper wire were stolen from 654 Big Cove Tannery, Mercersburg, between 7:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. on Thursday, September 13. In addition, state police noted a half roll of THHN copper was removed from the location as well as a 55-gallon rubber drum. Victim is a 21-year-old male from Big Cove Tannery. Anyone with additional information pertinent to this burglary and theft is urged to call state police Trooper Bartlett at 717-485-3131.
Cash Stolen During Party
A 19-year- old McConnellsburg woman told state police investigators cash was taken from her wallet while a small party was going on at her home located on the 500 block of Lincoln Way East. The woman said $575 was stolen from her wallet on Sunday, September 16, between 12:01 a.m. and 1:30 a.m. Anyone having further information concerning this theft should immediately call state police Trooper Remeikas at 717-485-3131.
Car Overturns
A southbound 2001 Volkswagen Jetta struck a deer along Great Cove Road on Sunday, September 16, before travelling into a ditch and overturning.
Pennsylvania State Police in McConnellsburg alleged driver Jeffrey D. Vangosen of Hancock, Md., fled the crash scene in Belfast Township on foot. He did not notify law enforcement authorities of the crash that occurred at 2 a.m. just south of the intersection of Southwood Drive.
He was not injured and was reportedly using a seat belt. Vangosen, 26, will be cited for driving on roadways laned for traffic.
Police Make DUI Arrest
Pennsylvania State Police in McConnellsburg have filed charges of driving under the influence of alcohol against 56-year-old McConnellsburg resident Michael Keith Wilson. Wilson was observed travelling southbound along Great Cove Road at a "high rate of speed" on Saturday, September 15, at 1:59 p.m. Wilson is charged through Magisterial District Judge Wendy Mellott.
Man Charged With Public Drunkenness
Tyler Ryan Smith, 25, Three Springs, was cited for public drunkenness by state police following an incident at 524 Poplar Street in Mc- Connellsburg Borough. Police investigators said on Saturday, September 15, at 8:10 p.m. Smith was publicly intoxicated, "uncooperative and then became combative." Charges are through Magisterial District Judge Wendy Mellott.