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Yellow Pages, Inc. to Stop Sending Check Solicitations and to Provide Consumer Refunds
April 26, 2006
(Anchorage) - Alaska Attorney General David Márquez announced today that Yellow Pages, Inc. (YPI), d/b/a www.YellowPagesInc.com, a Nevada-based company located in Anaheim, CA, has agreed to stop sending check solicitations, which, when cashed or deposited, purport to obligate the consumer to pay for any of YPI's goods or services. Under the settlement agreement entered into between YPI, the State of Alaska and 27 other states, YPI has also agreed to pay $535,000 in costs and will provide customer refunds.
YPI sells business directory services primarily for its online Internet directory. To solicit business, YPI allegedly sent check solicitations to consumers consisting primarily of small businesses, churches, and schools across the country. If the recipient deposited the check it was signed up by YPI for the company's directory services.
"The checks sent to the consumers looked very much like rebate checks from local yellow page companies," said Márquez. "The solicitations did not have adequate disclosures on the front of the checks to inform consumers that cashing the check would make them liable to YPI for Internet advertising services costing $179.00 per year. A number of businesses and other organizations, in and outside Alaska, registered complaints that they were being billed for services for which they hadn't signed-up."
"YPI also sent subscription renewal notices to consumers who cashed the checks, which looked like an invoice or statement of account owed by the consumer, when in fact they were only requests to renew YPI's services," said Julia Coster, Assistant Attorney General in the Department of Law's Consumer Protection section. "These types of renewals, unaccompanied by adequate disclosures, would likely constitute a violation of the U.S. postal statutes relating to invoice advertising."
In the agreement, YPI denies all the allegations raised by the states, but the company has agreed to the following in the participating states:
- A complete cessation of all check solicitations
- A complete cessation of all collection efforts relating to past check solicitations sent to consumers
- A cancellation of all alleged contracts by consumers who cashed the checks and didn't pay for the services, and
- A prohibition on the use of check solicitation renewal forms in violation of postal statutes relating to invoice advertising
In addition, the settlement requires YPI to provide a refund to all consumers who file a complaint requesting a refund of payments made pursuant to YPI's check solicitation or check solicitation renewal collection efforts, and a cancellation of any alleged advertising contracts with the complaining consumers.
YPI will pay the participating 28 states a total of $535,000 to cover the states' costs and attorney's fees, and to be used by the states for consumer protection education and enforcement efforts. Alaska's share of the payment will be $55,000.
Over 425 businesses may be eligible to receive a refund in Alaska. Under the settlement businesses that cashed a solicitation check and paid for the advertising are eligible to receive a refund in the amount that they paid YPI, if at the time they made the payment they did not want the advertising services. Businesses that cashed the check, without paying for any advertising services, will have their alleged contract for advertising considered cancelled and they will not receive any more invoices or collection notices from YPI.
In order to receive a refund, the business should send a complaint or letter, by June 15, 2006, requesting a refund to the Alaska Department of Law, Consumer Protection Section, at 1031 W. 4th Avenue, Suite 200, Anchorage, Alaska 99501-1994. The complaint or letter should contain the organization's name, address, phone number, the name of the contact person, the amount paid, and should indicate that the organization did not want the advertising services when they made the payment for services.
For additional information about this settlement please contact Assistant Attorney General Julia Coster at (907) 269-5200.
- Alaska Complaint - *LARGE PDF (2.37MB)
- Alaska Consent Judgment - *LARGE PDF (4.45MB)
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A visit to the Historic Village Herberton is like stepping back in time. Showcasing Australia's rich and diverse history this outdoor pioneer museum is testament to an era that is long gone. Open year round to visitors, the Village collects, preserves and displays fascinating historical exhibits from across Australia. The history of this museum is also closely tied with the township of Herberton and features many priceless antiques as well as buildings that have come from the town's ancestors.
The Village currently has over 60 original buildings that date from Herberton's foundation years. Walking through the Village, visitors are given a sense of being in a real township complete with chemist, bottle collection, school, bank, grocer's store, frock salon, toy shop, mechanic, jail and more. You can spend an entire day absorbing it all so plan on relaxing and taking your time. In addition, the museum also offers a great gift shop at the Bakerville Tearooms for all your souvenir needs including toys and arts and crafts. The Tearooms also serves delicious homemade pies, scones, sandwiches and more.
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HARRISON, N.J. – The New York Red Bulls didn't have to wait long to get the bitter taste from last week's defeat to the Houston Dynamo out of their mouths.
In Friday's rematch at Red Bull Arena, Markus Holgersson and Jan Gunnar Solli tallied in the second half to send the Red Bulls to a 2-0 win over Houston, a reverse of the scoreline last Friday at BBVA Compass Stadium.
Holgersson scored the winner just after the hour mark Solli came off the bench to put away an insurance goal in stoppage time after a feed from Thierry Henry.
The win puts New York back atop the Eastern Conference and keeps them undefeated at home while pushing Houston down into second place. The result also snapped the Dynamo's five-game winning streak and eight-match unbeaten run.
The first half of the two clubs' third and final match of the year was an open and entertaining one, but neither team found the back of the net despite some good looks on goal. An active Macoumba Kandji had Houston's best chance midway through the opening 45 minutes after juking past Holgersson, but his ensuing shot hit the wrong side of the net from a tight angle.
With Houston absorbing pressure and looking to hit back on the counter using their speed on the flanks, the Red Bulls were able to dictate the tempo for the most part and also had a pair of chances that should have been finished.
Henry failed to put away his opportunity in the 30th minute after Joel Lindpere played him in, curling a wide-open shot that was still within the reach of Dynamo goalkeeper Tally Hall. Tim Cahill then missed an opportunity to score his first goal for New York seven minutes later, heading a corner kick wide of goal despite finding himself unmarked.
Cahill made sure not to miss on his next header. The Australian international got on the end of a Roy Miller cross and nodded the ball down to a wide-open Holgersson, who had the easiest of finishes in front of goal in the 61st minute.
OPTA Chalkboard: Holgersson scores, holds firm in back
Houston attempted to respond by serving Kandji with a steady diet of balls on the left, and it almost paid off. Kandji got in behind Lade in the 71st minute before hitingt a low shot that beat goalkeeper Bill Gaudette before rolling past the far post.
Five minutes later, the Dynamo again came close to equalizing when Corey Ashe's knuckling shot smacked off the crossbar.
Houston tried to pour on the pressure late, but that allowed for New York to hit back on the counter and seal the result with a tap-in from Solli in stoppage time.
The two teams will play at home in their next games, both on Aug. 19. The Red Bulls will host the Portland Timbers in the two teams' only meeting this season, while the Dynamo are set to host the Columbus Crew in an Eastern Conference showdown.
New York Red Bulls (12-7-5) vs. Houston Dynamo (11-6-7)
August 10, 2012 - Harrison, N.J.
Scoring Summary:
NY: Markus Holgersson 2 (Tim Cahill 1, Roy Miller 6) 61
NY: Jan Gunnar Solli 3 (Henry 7, Tim Cahill 2) 92+
Houston Dynamo: Tally Hall; Andre Hainault, Bobby Boswell, Jermaine Taylor, Corey Ashe; Boniek Garcia, Adam Moffat (Ricardo Clark 75), Brad Davis; Calen Carr (Luiz Camargo 66), Will Bruin (Brian Ching 70), Macoumba Kandji
Substitutes not used: Tyler Deric, Warren Creavalle, Alex Dixon, Je-Vaughn Watson
New York Red Bulls: Bill Gaudette; Connor Lade, Heath Pearce, Markus Holgersson, Roy Miller; Sebastien Le Toux (Jan Gunnar Solli 78), Dax McCarty, Tim Cahill, Joel Lindpere (Teemu Tainio 79); Kenny Cooper (Rafa Marquez 86), Thierry Henry
Substitutes not used: Jeremy Vuolo, Wilman Conde, Stephen Keel, Victor Palsson
Misconduct Summary:
HOU: Macoumba Kandji (caution) 28
NY: Joel Lindpere (caution) 58
NY: Connor Lade (caution) 67
Referee: Chris Penso
Referee's Assistants: Ian Anderson, Eric Proctor
4th Official: Ted Unkel
Attendance: 15,730


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Beautiful Girl Gold Plated Necklace
Playboy Tre speaks his mind about a party being thrown in his honor. Yep.
cant remember where i saw this
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VPlay is an interactive system based on a Microsoft Surface that is being developed over at Microsoft Research Cambridge. In short, it allows one or multiple users to manipulate video in real time. VPlay is designed for VJing (live video mixing) and achieves the real-time aspect by using digital objects that represent video clips, effects, and mixers. Users can then use simple touch gestures to move them around and arrange them while looking at the resulting ever-changing video output. Over the weekend, I found a video that shows off VPlay quite extensively. I've included the text from this video so that you can still get a feel for what's happening even if you can't watch the video:
- A new approach to VJing offering opportunities for collaboration
- Direct manipulation of video content mixers and effects, in real time
- VPlay System Overview
- Video clip and output display windows (these windows are also wall projected)
- Objects automatically connect when in close proximity
- Position multiple objects using bi-manual interaction
- Add a mixer object, in this case, an alpha blend
- The distance between the mixer and input objects controls the mix level
- Rotate the mixer object to change it from alpha blend to luma key
- Add a video effect object, in this case, a pixelate effect
- Adjust the effect by rotating the object
- Bringing it all together so far: Two video clips, an effect and a mixer
- The splitter object allows the creation of feedback loops
- Add an effect object into the feedback loop
- A more complex arrangement of objects, offering endless possibilities
- Pause, play and reverse clips by touching the edge of the object
- Rotating the object allows the video to be 'scratched'
- Add an additional window to preview video prior to final output
- Add a live video feed from a camera, then add an effect
- And finally, a live camera feed, video clips, effects, mixers and splitter
This video captured my attention so I did a little digging and found another one, also on YouTube, so if you liked the first, check this one out as well:
There are three researchers behind VPlay: Richard Harper, David Kirk, and Stuart Taylor. The last one filmed and edited the first video, and he also introduces himself in the second video. The group has published two separate papers on the intractive system: Turning the Tables: An Interactive Surface for VJing and VideoPlay: Playful and Social Editing of Video using Tangible Objects and Multi-touch Interaction. It's a Microsoft Research project, meaning the project will not necessarily become a product. Still, the implementation is definitely an interesting one.


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K.O.R.N wrote:Here's my analysis on Rum's arc so far. This post: https://www.reddit.com/r/OneTruthPrevai ... pter_1006/ is about Rum's relationships with some characters in the series and I also make a deduction on who Rum can be. Hope it's some good read for you.
K.O.R.N wrote:I conclude myself that Kuroda is Rum
DCUniverseAficionado wrote:And how do you feel about Gosho pulling the, "This guy's so obviously the culprit, he must be a red herring... nope, he actually is the culprit" twist?
kentasaiba wrote:What if Asaka is REALLY Rum? There might be no mysterious shogi-piece with a hidden message. If Rumi really comes out to be Rum, she just could be attacked by Mary or Tsutomu, who also had connections to Kohji. With Amuro the solution was really simple, so maybe this is the case too.
kentasaiba wrote:What if Asaka is REALLY Rum? There might be no mysterious shogi-piece with a hidden message. If Rumi really comes out to be Rum, she just could be attacked by Mary or Tsutomu, who also had connections to Kohji. With Amuro the solution was really simple, so maybe this is the case too.
It's a possibility yes, as we have seen this in many regular cases throughout the series. When Amuro first appeared you can say he's a red herring. The reason is he is shown to be a good detective and with the way he talks it clearly seemed like he tricked people into doing whatever for him. His appearance fits what Kir said before, "this member is good at info gathering". People think it was too easy to conclude that Amuro is Bourbon, so then I know a lot of others have chosen more complex routes in determining Bourbon's identity...like Subaru being Bourbon, or Sera...all those have been possibilities brought to the table.
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Really? How many regular cases had the pattern "clues and focus pretty much only on one person" and this person actually turned out to be the culprit?
And Sera wouldnt fit the "info gathering" -description?
She failed as much as Rei in his first appereance-case and got as close as him to Kogoro and friends.
And now we have Rumi as the superstraightforward pick and I would add Kuroda as one too.
In Bourbon-arc we didnt even had such a extensive face-to-face confrontation as we had with Kuroda/Rumi in the woods.
Every freakin time Kuroda meets Conan Gosho choses to draw Conan with a superfrightened face.
Even his intro was one big punch towards "this guy is a top notch Rum-candidate".
Given the fact that this is most likely the second last arc I really doubt that Gosho would present us a straightforward arc/Rum-pick.
dccd wrote:I dont know how the meta was here by that time, but I guess from the standard-reader-perspective
Subaru was by far the top-candidate for Bourbon.
the scanlator removed the whole list and rewrote the names wrongly. File 947 is right.Kevinp20 wrote:I just checked chapter 179 and found this :Spoiler:
On that picture, we can see that Shinichi's name is exactly above Koji's name. But, on chapter 947, Shinichi's name is 2 name above Koji's name. why there's a different? why can a person's name get into the list between Shinchi and Koji? is this just an error or what??
Ah, so that's how you have decided to make sense of "the boss' closest subordinate" clue.Zerozaki4869 wrote:(Remember Kuroda is a boss figure and Wakita is Boss' closest aide.)
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The upper respiratory infection has made a stop at our home. I hope he leaves soon. He is unwanted.
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Oh no. Hope all feels well really soon. My youngest has started coughing quite a bit (pollen everywhere). Oh, and hubby is okay.:)
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With the birth of baby boy just 10 weeks (or so) away, I've been thinking about Ava a lot lately, specifically how fast she seems to be growing up. So I thought I'd take some time to reflect on my girl and where she's at in this journey called life (and print it out for her baby book too).
Ava is 26 months old (2 years and 2 months for those of you mathematically-challenged) and fiercely independent. She loves to do or try to do things on her own, but has learned to ask for help when she needs it instead of just getting frustrated (though that still happens on occasion too). 😉
Her vocabulary is amazing. Some of the noteworthy things she's been saying lately are:
–"What you saying, mama/dada?" – when she doesn't hear or understand what we're telling her.
–"Why?" – Said for the first time a few days ago. I'm hoping I won't hear that one again for a little while longer since I know it will soon become a favorite word. 😉
–"I love you, mommy/dada/baby brother." (Said unsolicited) – Melts my heart every time.
–"I need _______." Insert pretty much anything in here, from "…to eat," "…chocolate" – she's her mother's daughter, "…to watch my favorite songs" – referring to the Laurie Berkner music DVD grandma bought her, "…to go outside," etc. The girl has "needs," not just wants. 😉
–She sometimes calls us *her* mama or *her* dada, like "What are you eating, my dada?" "What are you doing, my mama?"
–"I missed you, mommy/dada." – After she's been away from us for a little while. Sometimes she says it to me after she's napped even. So sweet. 🙂
–"Dangit." – Her favorite expletive at present. Hey, it could be worse, right? 😉
–She's started using pronouns (he, she, me, you, her, him) on a regular basis.
–She also knows "Mommy's name is Amy." "Daddy is Jody." and "Mommy is a woman." "Daddy is a man." "Ava is a little girl."
–And she says some pretty cute things. Like the other day when we were driving around and she saw a doggy out of the car window, she said, "Get in my arms, doggy. I want to hold you." 🙂
–She's also pretty wise. First, some background info: Whenever Ava gets particularly frustrated, we've encouraged her to go hit a pillow rather than throw toys, hit, etc. So the other night Jody was trying to do something and expressed some frustration and she said, "What happened, my dada?" And I told her that daddy was frustrated. And she said, "You need to go hit the pillow." Dada went and hit the pillow and felt much better. 🙂
We seem to be in the initial stages of potty learning. She woke up with a dry diaper two weekends ago so I encouraged her to sit on the potty. She sat on it until a little pee came out, then stood up excitedly and stopped peeing, saying "Yay, Ava!" So after we made a big deal out of that (and I was quite sure her bladder was still full), I asked if she wanted to try sitting on the potty again, which she did and promptly filled up with the remaining pee. Again, we praised her a lot. Since then she's also pooped (on about 10 separate occasions) and peed several other times on the potty. After the first poop, she praised herself by saying "Yay Ava," and then asked me "What happened to my butt?" Hehe. So I explained that the poop came out, etc. Anyway, I'm hoping to give her more opportunities to sit on the potty (i.e. let her run around with a naked butt during the day) and if it happens and she stays interested, great! We'll continue to praise her like crazy. 🙂 If not, we'll try again when she's ready. I admit the idea of having her out of diapers by the time baby brother comes is wonderful, but I'm not going to push her if she's not ready. So far though, whenever she's having naked time, she knows when she has to go potty and runs over and goes all on her own!
She's definitely a caretaker and loves her many babies (all of whom she lovingly calls "Baby Trajan" after our friend's baby of the same name). She can be very attentive to our needs, and always asks "What happened, mama/dada?" when she knows something is bothering us. She has also started rubbing my back lately when it is sore, then asks, "Is it all better now?" 🙂
She has a great imagination and it's such fun just to observe her playing. She has even pretended a clothes hanger was a mommy and the pants part of it that hung on it was the baby.
Ava loves to read – both on her own, flipping through the pages alone or having someone read to her. She will often pull out all of her books in a particular room and sit on the floor with them surrounding her as she "reads." She's always asking daddy for "one more book" at bedtime.
Waking up beside Ava in the morning is a wonderful way to start my day. She rolls over, puts her arm around my neck and says "Hi, mommy. I love you." Then we generally cuddle, give hugs and kisses, and talk for 10-15 minutes before getting up to start our day. I'm going to miss that special time with her in a few more months (although, who knows, maybe it will still work out like that). We are in the process of trying to find an inexpensive twin bed to put next to ours so that Ava can sleep there and we can have room for baby brother in the big bed. We had a lead on a great one last weekend, but the lady sold it out from under us. **grumble, grumble**
My nursing relationship with Ava continues. It has it's ups and downs (as you can imagine nursing while pregnant), but so far the positives have outweighed the negatives. I will write more about nursing while pregnant (the good and the bad) another time. I'm thankful I've been able to give Ava this gift of mama's milk for this long (even though my milk dried up earlier in my pregnancy). I know she and I have both received tremendous benefits from it.
The picture above was taken at Aunt Carrie's house a couple weeks ago after Ava discovered Aunt Carrie's dress-up garb. LOL


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Hello everyone! My name is Elisa Babel, and I'm the new contributing editor to BestofPUBLIB.
For those of you who attended ALA Annual in Chicago, I hope you had a great time, whether it was your first time or a repeat visit. I hadn't been in Chicago in 11 years so it was exciting to be back.
Here goes with my first post…
On Sunday, July 12, I attended the Cooperative Library and Information Science Alumni Reunion which was held in the Grand Ballroom at the Westin River North Hotel during ALA Annual in Chicago.
Alumni from nineteen participating library schools across the country came for a light dinner buffet and fellowship. (Eight other schools including Syracuse University, UC Berkley, University of Chicago, and Indiana University had private gatherings at hotels and restaurants throughout downtown Chicago) Many tables were near full to completely filled. It was a wonderful break from workshops and exhibits at ALA.
It was pleasure to see a library professor that I was acquainted with and a few current students from my school at our table. I enjoyed hearing news from campus, impressions about the conference, and the library job search. If you were able to attend, I hope you enjoyed the experience. It was a fun and informal atmosphere, and I'm glad I attended.
Here's a listing of the 19 library schools that participated the alumni reunion: ALISE at ALA
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Western Media: Israel Doing Its Best to Spare Civilians
Friday, July 11, 2014 | Israel Today Staff
In past flare-ups with the Palestinians, Israel has been unsurprisingly bashed by an international media that took Arab accusations of "war crimes" at face value. It would seem that the mainstream press has either woken up to reality, or has grown weary with constantly smearing the Jewish state.
As expected, cries of "genocide" and "massacres" have accompanied the still-raging Gaza war. But this time, the many in the media aren't buying it.
Yes, upwards of 90 Palestinians have been killed in Israel's pinpoint aerial attacks on Gaza's terrorist infrastructure. However, as CNN correspondent Ben Wedeman pointed out, each and every Israeli strike that occurs in a populated area is preceded by a warning call or a "knock on the roof" using a low-impact mortar.
Slate, a major US-based online magazine, was similarly impressed, calling Israel's effort to spare Gaza civilians "exemplary."
"According to many critics, Israel is slaughtering civilians in Gaza," opens the article by William Saletan, who continues, "The charges are false. By the standards of war, Israel's efforts to spare civilians have been exemplary."
Saletan stresses that Israel did not start this fight, and gave Hamas ample opportunity to back down before retaliating. And when Israel did go on the offensive, the ratio of Israeli military strikes to the number of Palestinians killed makes it clear there is no attempted genocide.
"Given that Israel has launched more than 500 airstrikes, you'd have to conclude that either Israel is failing miserably to kill people or, more plausibly, it's largely trying not to kill them," noted Saletan.
Seemingly frustrated by this turn of events, Hamas is now strongly suggesting that local Gaza residents stop "cooperating" with Israel by heeding these warnings and instead purposely place themselves in harm's way.
How long will it take before Hamas succeeds in producing a real massacre of its own people? And if and when that happens will the press still lay the blame where it really belongs?
All of that is anyone's guess at this point. But it is nice to see, even if only for a little while, some genuine honesty in international reporting, and especially a recognition that Israel imposes upon itself ethics of war that go far beyond those practiced by any other nation.
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Penn State York dancers Sam Noerpel, 19, of East Berlin, Pa., and Angi Solle, 19, of York, Pa., danced two nights away and completed the 46-hour, 39th annual Penn State IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathon (THON), Feb. 18-20, at the Bryce Jordan Center on Penn State's University Park campus. THON raised a record-breaking $9,563,016.09 for the Four Diamonds Fund to help children with cancer. Penn State York broke its own record, raising $17,160.71, the largest amount it has ever raised for THON and made it to the top 10 in fundraisers among the Penn State campuses. The highest total to date for York had been $9,486.71 raised in 2008.
To see pictures of Penn State York's representatives at THON, visit http://live.psu.edu/stilllife/2435 online.
Throughout the weekend themed "Together Without Limits," members of the York THON Committee encouraged the dancers along with thousands of others and York's two THON families, the Hills and the Hagens. For the past five years, York has sponsored Madison "Maddie" Hill. Hill, 13, of Dover, Pa., has battled non-Hodgkin's lymphoma since October 2004. She completed her treatments in February 2008 and celebrated three years out of treatment on Feb. 15. She is in remission and today is a happy healthy teenager. She attended THON along with her parents, Dawn and Scott, and her brother, Travis.
In addition to Hill, Penn State York also sponsors 3-year-old Ava Hagens, of York, Pa., who was diagnosed on July 24, 2009, with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL). She is undergoing treatment and this was her second trip to THON along with her parents Jessica and Greg.
Under the direction of Penn State York students Stephanie Behrens, 21, of York, Pa., and Jennifer Lake, 19, of Wellsville, Pa., who danced at THON last year; the group was busy throughout the year and their efforts paid off. Behrens and Lake attended meetings at University Park throughout the year to catch up on all the THON rules and expectations and have been attending weekly meetings with the campus' THON committee since just after THON last year.
For York's dancers, and members of the campus' THON committee, the year has included a variety of fundraising efforts such as hosting a talent show called Paw Search, selling subs, hosting a basket bingo, selling Bon Ton community day books, and successfully taking part in canning weekends (soliciting donations) at several locations in the York area. In the end, all their work was a record-breaking success For The Kids.


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I have put up this page because at a certain point I found it necessary to provide a point of reference for those, who - for one reason or another - needed to get some information about me (always be friendly to your local policeman, they told me ;-). I then realized that beside the things people needed to know, there were also things I wanted them to know. And so I threw them both together, and hey presto! about came this site.
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One thing I know about registry software products is that they do give you the software for free so that you can see whether or not the product will find and or fix problems on your computer. If you find and error which invariably you will then they give you the option to buy the actually product. These product are usually referred to is trial versions. From there you get the option to purchase the full software product.
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COVER The lyrical lens: Sally Mann's poetry in stillness
Sitting in a retro red vinyl chair at a 1950s' formica-topped table with Pellet, her rescued Jack Russell terrier, curled near her feet, Sally Mann recalls the first photograph she ever made. Using her father's camera, she snapped a staged shot of her prep-school roommate and a male friend lying naked on a bed of pine needles in the forest. The image almost got 17-year-old Mann kicked out of school.
"It was a real good lesson for me about photography's intimation of truth but inherent mendacity," says Mann, whom Time magazine named America's Best Photographer in 2001. "It taught me that photography is a dangerous medium."
That image wouldn't be the last of Mann's to stir controversy. Her critically lauded black-and-white photographs of her children, collected as Immediate Family, came under fire in the 1990s, when Senator Jesse Helms tried to police arts funding on the basis of "decency."
Taken in Rockbridge County, where Mann has spent her entire life, the images explore the flux of innocence and non-innocence and the precarious nature of childhood. In some pictures, her children are nude; in others, they appear to be– or actually are– injured.
"I used to think of those family pictures, those really terrible ones, as inoculants," says Mann, who sums up her focus as "time, love, memory, and loss."
For the past decade, Mann has used the scarring effects of wet colloidal printing, a technique pioneered by 19th century photographers, to create images of southern landscapes and physical decay. "I have always loved the aesthetic of the process," she says, "the contemplative, almost reverential, memorial quality of it."
When Nick Nichols approached Mann about participating in the Festival of the Photograph, she says, "I thought it sounded like a good time," says Mann. "It's great to see Virginia embrace photography."
For her Second Street Gallery exhibition, Mann plans to show a range of work— big faces, dog bones, still lifes— all shot in her new studio.
Although she's currently engaged in several projects, including a series of self-portraits, two bodies of work about her husband, plus a study of race, what Mann really wishes she'll be asked in her Paramount interview are her horses. "So, Sally, tell me about every minute of the Biltmore Race," she jokes, referring to her love of endurance riding.
Recently, Mann, 56, says she reviewed contact sheets from her early career, and she was surprised by the similarity to her current ones. She notes, "There's still this same siren song from the same voices in the landscape."
Sally Mann's exhibition "The Given: Studio work," will be on view June 1-30 at Second Street Gallery. 115 Second St. NE. On June 8, Alex Chadwick will interview Mann at the Paramount Theater, 4-6pm. On June 9, What Remains, Steve Cantor's feature-length documentary about Mann, will screen at Vinegar Hill Theater at 1pm. For more information and/or to purchase tickets, visit festivalofthephotograph.org.
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Briggs High (BHS) Class of 1980 Alumni List
Help us Update the Briggs High 1980 Class List by adding any names missing from the list below:
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Frontier Communications gained approval from the state's attorney general, George Jepsen, to proceed with its $2 billion acquisition of AT&T's landline phone, broadband Internet and television services in Connecticut.
The three-year agreement was negotiated by Jepsen and Elin Swanson Katz, the state's consumer counsel, and filed with the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority on Tuesday. It awaits PURA's approval.
As part of the agreement, the Stamford-based Frontier pledged to invest $63 million in capital improvements to Connecticut's broadband service over three years, to maintain the basic landline residential rate for at least three years, and to provide the state's low-income veterans with reduced price broadband service, among other concessions.
"This agreement is the product of good-faith efforts on the part of Frontier, my office and the consumer counsel to ensure that this transaction protects and advances the public interest," Jepsen said in a statement. "The consumer protections in this agreement -- including provisions on service pricing and reliability -- will help to provide continuity of service for current and new customers. Additionally, $63 million in improvements to broadband service and capability over three years will have a significant impact not only on the quality of service for current customers but also on expanding broadband service to those currently underserved or unserved by AT&T."
"Frontier will be replacing AT&T as the state's sole provider of traditional landline phone service," Katz said, while noting the exception of Verizon's Greenwich territory. The company has also agreed to allocate $3 million of the total $63 million in funding to expand broadband service in underserved areas of the state. According to the agreement, customers in the state will not fund any portion of Frontier's AT&T acquisition premium or purchase price, or any costs associated with the transaction.
"With such an important responsibility, I'm pleased that Frontier has committed to provide some price protection for those that rely on basic phone service, which includes some of our most vulnerable citizens," Katz said.
"With Frontier's significant investment in broadband expansion, including $3 million specifically to help consumers who only can access dial-up internet service, I also hope to work with Frontier to implement continued improvement in both Internet speed and access in the next few years."


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2014 BMW X5 revealed
* New BMW X5 due on sale in November * Four-cylinder and two-wheel-drive versions * Prices will start from 42,590...
This is the new BMW X5, which promises to deliver a more premium cabin along with much-improved refinement and fuel efficiency when it goes on sale in the UK in November.
The new generation of BMW's most luxurious SUV is designed to take the model further upmarket and create some fresh air in the range between the X5 and its smaller brother, the X3.
The car's styling gets a light refresh, with a shorter front overhang and surfacing along the sizeable flanks. The overall profile is similar to that of the X3, in fact - albeit on the larger scale required by a model that can offer three rows of seats.
The latest X5 will be offered with a choice of five engines - four diesels and one petrol - and, for the first time, with the option of a rear-wheel-drive model alongside the usual four-wheel-drive variants. Regardless of how many driven wheels it has, the X5's gearbox will be a standard eight-speed automatic, equipped with stop-start.
UK sales will start on November 16, with three initial models. The xDrive30d uses a 3.0-litre six-cylinder turbodiesel engine with 255bhp and 413lb ft of torque, and it can reach 62mph from rest in 6.9sec. BMW claims this X5 is around 20% more efficient than the model it replaces, with a combined fuel economy figure of 45.6mpg and CO2 emissions from 162g/km.
The performance-focused X5 M50d offers 376bhp and 546lb ft, for a 0-62mph time of 5.3 seconds, with combined fuel economy of 42.2mpg and CO2 emissions starting at 177g/km. There will also be a petrol at launch - the xDrive50i - which brings 443bhp and 479lb ft from its twin-turbocharged 4.4-litre V8 motor. Its poor fuel economy (27.2mpg) and high CO2 emissions (242g/km) mean it will sell in tiny numbers in the UK, though.
Three further diesel-engined models will arrive before the end of this year: the sDrive 25d and xDrive25d, which introduce a four-cylinder 2.0-litre turbodiesel motor into the X5 range for the first time, and the xDrive40d.
The 2.0-litre turbodiesel has 215bhp and 332lb ft in both of its models, but the rear-drive sDrive25d model's greater efficiency brings its CO2 emissions down to 149g/km and lifts economy to 50.4mpg. The four-wheel-drive xDrive25d emits 155g/km and averages 47.9mpg.
The xDrive40d uses a twin-turbocharged 3.0-litre straight-six turbodiesel with 309bhp and 465lb ft; it should return around 44mpg and emit 169g/km of CO2, although BMW has yet to confirm this.
The X5 has traditionally been one of the more road-focused SUVs, and the new variant looks poised to build upon that reputation with Drive Dynamic Control, which is standard on all models. It allows the driver to select different modes that adjust the power steering response, the gearbox set-up and, depending on which of the four suspension packages has been chosen, the car's ride and handling.
The cabin has been radically altered, with BMW's 10.2-inch wide-screen display dominating the fascia. Comfort or sports seats can be chosen for the front, while heated comfort seats are now available for the second row for the first time. The third-row seats can be lowered into the boot floor individually, potentially maximising boot space when only one of them is required.
BMW says the car offers at least 650 litres of boot space and up to 1870 litres if the second and third rows of seats are folded away completely.
BMW has already confirmed prices. The X5 sDrive25d will cost from 42,590; its four-wheel-drive sister, the xDrive25d, will start at 44,895. The xDrive30d will cost from 47,895, a rise of more than 2000 over the outgoing version, while the xDrive40d gets a similar hike, to 50,665.
The two most expensive models will be split by only a few hundred pounds; the X5 M50d will cost 63,715 and the X5 xDrive50i will start at 63,920.
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Ken Block, eat your heart out; there really is nothing that can conquer parking lot grands prix like this man and his Lotus Seven clone.
This video from back in 2006 shows that while it might be somewhat suggestive in the looks department, there's no denying the straight capabilities of Se7ens. If you're looking to own a more maneuverable car than this, I hope you enjoy driving a go kart to work.
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China begins work on world-beating MEGA power cables
An 800kv line will have largest capacity on the planet
China's apparently unceasing efforts to lead the world in every conceivable field continued on Sunday after engineers in the western region of Xinjiang began construction of what is claimed will be the largest capacity power line on the planet.
The 800 kilovolt (kv) ultra-high voltage power transmission line is being built by the State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC) and when completed will transmit a whopping 37 billion kWh per year on average, Xinhua reported.
The line will stretch 1,373 miles from Hami prefecture in the east of the region, through Gansu, Shaanxi, Ningxia and Shanxi before finishing in Zhengzhou, the capital of central province Henan.
The 23.39 billion yuan (£2.3bn) line is expected to have a world beating capacity of eight million kW when completed in 2014, Xinhua said.
The line, and many more like it, is needed in China because of the sheer size of the country and its well-documented supply and demand issues.
Put simply, most of the country's power is consumed in the eastern and central regions but produced in the west. Xinjiang has coal reserves of two trillion tons, for example, and is a major base for wind power, according to the report.
The environmental impact of the power lines was also down played by SGCC.
"We can reduce 317,000 tons of sulfur dioxide and 267,000 tons of nitrogen oxide which would otherwise be produced during the transportation," SGCC's general manager Liu Zhenya was quoted as saying.
As if that wasn't enough, Sunday also saw the start of construction on a second line designed to connect Xinjiang, Gansu and Qinghai provinces with the rest of the country.
The 9.56bn yuan (£941m) 750kv line will run 1354 miles to connect these wind and solar power-generating regions with energy-hungry parts of the country.
These huge investments in power line infrastructure are necessary to meet the demand for energy in the world's fastest growing major economy, fuelled in no small part by the rapid growth of the technology manufacturing industry in recent years. ®
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On November 13, 2013, the state-run media regulatory board High Council on Freedom of Communication (CSLC), suspended three private weeklies from circulation for nine months in connection with articles they published that were critical of the authorities, according to news reports. The 11 members of the council are hand-picked by the president and have the authority to suspend news outlets, according to CPJ research.
The council suspended Sel-Piment after the paper republished in its November 6, 2013, edition an Internet article on a purported victim of alleged police brutality, according to local journalists and news reports. In a press conference, Deputy Director General of Police Albert Ngoto singled out the article as "defamatory," according to news reports. The council accused the paper of "insulting the national police corps, defamation, manipulation of opinion, publication of misinformation and accusations without proof," according to news reports.
The Council also accused La Voix du Peuple of "insulting the army corps, undermining human dignity and manipulating opinion" in connection with its article that was critical of the military, according to news reports.
Le Glaive was suspended over an April 2013 opinion piece that questioned the academic and professional qualifications of Serge Bouya, President Denis Sassou-Nguesso's nephew, whom the president appointed the Deputy Director General of the port of Pointe Noire, the country's second largest city, according to news reports.


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When Kim Kardashian decided to file for divorce from Kris Humphries after a mere 72-days of marriage, I'm sure she never, ever, anticipated the fallout. It's pretty much nuclear at this point for the 31-year-old reality star, as almost every aspect of her life has come plummeting down around her. Unfortunately (or fortunately depending on how you look at it), things are potentially about to get much worse for Kim!
But first reports are circulating that the desperate for love and attention Kim is shacking up with NY Jets Quarterback Mark Sanchez. Is there a professional athlete Kim hasn't boinked?! No wonder Tebow rejected her!
According to the blog TerezOwens, a source reports that Kim was "secretly" dating the NFL player while she was in NYC filming the first season of KKTNY and now that she is done with old Hump things are once again hot and heavy – still in secret, of course – since Mark has a real girlfriend (reportedly model Kate Upton)! "Kim and Mark like to meet in hotels for dinner dates and flings", a source reports. "Whenever Kim is in New York, they hang out. They are very careful with not being seen together, Mark is seeing someone!"
So are the two serious? "Kim's just in it for the sex", says an insider close to Kimmie. "She has her hopes set on a bigger 'star' than Sanchez. But for now, he will do."
Kim is, however, denying any sort of relationship with Mark. Taking to Twitter, Kim claims the rumor is complete BS. "Dating rumors are always fun when u don't even know the people your supposedly linked to! Who makes this stuff up!", she wrote. And just in case you've forgotten, Kimmie Kakes denied she had a sex tape just weeks before it was "leaked."
Moving on to Kimmie's drama with Kris. If you recall, shortly after Kim filed for divorce, Kris retaliated by seeking an annulment claiming "fraud." Because Kris filed for the annulment, Kim is now legally unable to end her marriage until a judge rules whether or not there is "clear and convincing evidence" that fraud occurred!
Currently there are no divorce talks taking place according to a Humphries family insider, since neither party wants to compromise or withdraw their petition. If Kimmie isn't careful she could be headed for a very, very public divorce – like televised public. Oooohhhh… some real reality TV from the Kardashians for a change!
Family attorney Vikki Zeigler tells HollywoodLife exclusively that if Kim doesn't start negotiating with Kris, she will likely find herself in court early this summer. Which would necessitate the many Kardashian family members (and Scott Disick) to testify! Since California has an "open policy on popular court cases," television cameras will be allowed in the courthouse to capture every minute of Kim attempting to convince a jury that she went into her marriage with the purest of intentions.
Kim's attorney, the famed Laura Wasser, is attempting to move the marriage dissolution to mediation instead, but Kris is resisting!
Kris believes he has evidence that proves fraud took place and is adamant he thought their marriage was real! According to an insider Kris is certain "Kim had no intention to stay married to him and she just got married to make money. He and his team wouldn't go forward if they didn't believe that they could prove this [in court.]"
"Kim was filming scenes saying that she was dissatisfied with her marriage during the week of Sept. 8, which was barely three weeks after the wedding," says the source. "His team believes that the season of Kourtney and Kim Take New York was developed with the theme of divorce, without Kris being made aware of it."
Claiming he never knew Kim was feeling unhappy in their relationship, Kris says "he was never in the scenes where they discuss Kim's unhappiness and he never caught Kim talking to her sisters about being unhappy." On last week's season finale Kris was seen searching for Kim while she sat in her dressing room furtively sobbing to her sister. Kris seemed completely in the dark about Kim's feelings.
"When the pair wasn't filming, Kim was normal and affectionate to Kris", the source explains. Additionally, it seems E! edited a scene of Kris to make it look like he was the one talking about divorce.
Kris' motivation for an open trial is his desire for the public to see the truth about Kim and her dishonest behavior! "Kris wants the world to know how badly he was duped into this sham of a marriage", a source tells Reality Weekly.
He believes he was fooled from the get-go and cast unwittingly to play a role as the groom to garner Kim attention and a huge payout! "Kris feels he was set up by the Kardashians. He wants to be able to tell his side", says the insider. "When he married Kim, he thought it was forever, but he realized Kim wasn't in love with him and now believes he was merely a prop." Remember, Kim allegedly made an estimated $17M in endorsements, TV specials, photos, and product placements all due to her nuptials. No one knows how much of that money went to Kris, as it was reported he was only eligible for a "limited cut of the wedding money," per their prenup.
And for all of those who think Kris is stupid, he insists he was well aware of what he was marrying into! "Kris understood that he was committing himself to the Kardashian way of life," and was not surprised that he would be asked to participate in scripted scenes to further the plot of their shows.
Once Kim filed for divorce, "Kris knew he was going to look like the bad guy on Kourtney and Kim Take New York, but it's so blatant and over-the-top, it's just cruel ", says the source.
Vikki Zeigler believes scenes from Kim's various reality shows could be admissible in court to help prove she had no intention of staying married to Kris! Citing the scene where the couple is discussing where they will live post-filming and Kim basically tries to convince Kris not to move in with her, Vikki believes, "It shows that she never had any intent of doing what a wife is supposed to do — live with her husband."
And Kris may have another reason for wanting the trial to go public! Allegedly the prenup the couple signed bars Kris from publicly discussing the details of their marriage, including monies earned from the event, "But if a judge grants the divorce on the grounds of fraud," a source explains, "the prenup is void." Tell-all time!
So why is Kim willing to risk a public trial over agreeing to an annulment? Her already eviscerated reputation! If Kim admits her marriage was a fraud, she might be liable to pay back some of those vendors who offered services and products for her wedding. Potentially she could face civil suits from others who feel they were duped by Kim's money grubbing, attention whoring ways!
Whether or not fraud was committed isn't the only issue the former couple is facing-off over. Kris wants to know just what happened to all those wedding gifts and he believes legally he has a say in what happens to them! Kris wanted her to return all the gifts to their original senders. Kim instead decided to donate the estimated $200,000 the gifts were worth to the Dream Foundation, a charity she supports. Shortly after this promise, reports emerged that Kim had actually exchanged many of those exorbitantly priced gifts for Rolex watches!
Well Kris is still furious that greedykins-Kimmie still won't return any of the remaining presents – even the very, very pricey ones! "One of the super expensive wedding gifts they received was a Ferrari and he thinks it, like all the other gifts should be returned to its sender," a source close to Kris reveals. Kris claims he had no control over the gifts because he wasn't involved in the decision of what to do with them post-wedding – believing his marriage was forever he wasn't concerned!
"Kris has never seen any of his gifts. He doesn't have a list of any of the gifts. He feels the gifts are communal property in the marriage and therefore, they should have been at least divided 50/50," a source tells HollywoodLife. And because Kim isn't communicating with her ex, he has been learning about her sketchy behaviors through the media and is appalled that she would exchange presents from his family and friends for personal items instead of returning them!
Even worse for Kim, apparently divorce court isn't the only court Kris is hoping to visit with Kim! Sources are reporting he is looking to file a civil case (aka lawsuit!) against Kimmie for misleading him about her affections. "Kris thought he was getting married for life and he found out he was getting a divorce on a radio show," a source contends.
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The Urban Transportation Center (UTC) at the University of Illinois at Chicago is dedicated to conducting research, inspiring education and providing technical assistance on urban transportation planning, policy, operations and management. Since 1979, the UTC has delivered innovative research and education to solve real-world transportation problems. The strategic goal of UTC transportation research is to promote livable communities throughout the nation.


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From Michael Ende, author of The Neverending Story:
Nur der richtige Name gibt allen Wesen und Dingen ihre Wirklichkeit. Der falsche Name macht alles unwirklich.
Only the right name gives beings and things their reality. The wrong name makes everything unreal.
(Discovered on my never-ending quest to figure out how Ende coined Atreyu.)
From a late 1879 issue of Notes and Queries:
I have met a boy named Washington christened General George, a girl named Togotubuline, and, still more extraordinary, a boy called Wonderful Counsellor (from Isaiah ix. 6).
From the BuzzFeed video If Asians Said The Stuff White People Say:
Do you have a normal name too, or just your white name?
From the BuzzFeed video If Black People Said The Stuff White People Say:
Your name is so easy to spell and pronounce. Is it, like, really easy to get a job?
From the BuzzFeed video If Latinos Said The Stuff White People Say:
-How do you say your name again?
-I love how you pronounce it. One more time?
-God, I could never say it like that!
From "High Sounding Names," an article published in the Cambridge Sentinel in late 1909:
The English society reporter for the last two or three seasons has had to record the doings of debutantes bearing distinguished surnames, prefaced by such disconcerting Christian–rather un-Christian–names as Venetia, Aurea, Ela, Linnie, Eldrydd, Dulcibella, Ganfreda, Laline, Morwenna and Lelgarde.
From the essay "The Joy of Being Called Morven Crumlish" by the awesomely named Morven Crumlish (via British Baby Names):
I like having an unusual name. The Morven part is not so uncommon in Scotland – most people I meet know another Morven, and I know at least half a dozen. I once ended up in the pub with two other Morvens, which got funnier as the night wore on. Added to the Crumlish, though, my name is, I think, unique. "There can't be more than one Morven Crumlish!" is something I hear a lot, when the different parts of my life accidentally collide, which makes it difficult to misbehave. In the past my name has become an abstraction. "So this is what a Morven Crumlish looks like," said the porters who wheeled me down to get my tonsils removed, reducing me to an indefinite object.
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"Plastic: A Toxic Love Story''
by Susan Freinkel (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
"A century into mankind's love affair with plastic,'' writes Susan Freinkel, in "Plastic: A Toxic Love Story,'' "we're starting to recognize this is not a healthy relationship.'' This eloquent, elegant book thoughtfully plumbs the cascading, unintended consequences of our dependence on plastics, from the way obesity followed ballooning cola bottles to a new and now permanent culture of disposable material goods. The author sketches the history of a series of plastic products, along the way inviting readers to think about consumerism, luxury, design, waste. People once saved and reused disposable Styrofoam coffee cups, for instance; they had to be taught to throw them away. It's a lesson we learned too well, Freinkel argues in this highly readable, truly important book. She doesn't merely condemn plastic but rather seeks to understand it, pondering the ambiguous inheritance of a material that "can rightly inspire both our deepest admiration and our strongest disgust.''
"America Walks into a Bar: A Spirited History of Taverns and Saloons, Speakeasies and Grog Shops'' by Christine Sismondo
(Oxford University)
"The Central Park Five: A Chronicle of a City Wilding'' by Sarah Burns (Knopf)
"Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West''
by Dorothy Wickenden (Scribner)
"The Chitlin' Circuit and the Road to Rock 'n' Roll''
by Preston Lauterbach (Norton)
"Red Dust Road: An Autobiographical Journey''
by Jackie Kay (Atlas)
"Three Famines: Starvation and Politics''
by Thomas Keneally (Public Affairs)
"Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid
That Sparked the Civil War'' by Tony Horwitz
(Henry Holt)
"A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown''
by Julia Scheeres (Free Press)
"The Story of Charlotte's Web: E.B. White's Eccentric Life in Nature and the Birth
of an American Classic'' by Michael Sims (Harper)
Kate Tuttle writes the "Short Takes'' column for the Globe. She can be reached at email@example.com.
"Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption,
and Baseball's Longest Game''
by Dan Barry (Harper)
Baseball has its literary canon, and the only book to break into the lineup in the last decade just might be "Bottom of the 33rd'' by Dan Barry, a crisp little volume about the longest professional game ever played, a 1981 endurance struggle between the Pawtucket Red Sox and the Rochester Red Wings that lit up a Rhode Island night even though only 19 spectators remained at the end. For 8 hours 25 minutes the men played on, and though the spectators ached for the match to end, the reader feels quite the opposite. This is a book that is in fact more memorable than the event it celebrates, for it sets out the beauty in the rhythms of the game and explains its hold on us - in this case a hold that lasted into the night and well into the next morning, which happened to be on Easter weekend, unless of course you believe that was not a coincidence at all.
"The Quiet World: Saving Alaska's Wilderness
Kingdom, 1879-1960'' by Douglas Brinkley (Harper)
"Jerusalem, Jerusalem: How the Ancient City Ignited Our Modern World'' by James Carroll (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
"The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End
of America's Childhood'' by Jane Leavy (Harper)
"Branch Rickey'' by Jimmy Breslin (Viking)
"To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty
and Rebellion, 1914-1918'' by Adam Hochschild (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
"An Accidental Sportswriter: A Memoir''
by Robert Lipsyte (Ecco)
"The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler'sGermany, 1944-1945'' by Ian Kershaw (Penguin)
"Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman''
by Robert K. Massie (Random House)
"Civilization: The West and the Rest''
by Niall Ferguson (Penguin)
David M. Shribman, executive editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, can be reached at email@example.com.
"Pulphead: Essays''
by John Jeremiah Sullivan (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Nearly a decade ago I read an essay by John Jeremiah Sullivan in Harper's. "Horseman, Pass By'' was a nearly perfect blend of reportage, memoir, and cultural criticism poured onto the page with an alarmingly original voice. Journalists - even extraordinary ones - are frequently doomed by the forgetfulness of their readers, and though that essay haunted me, I quickly forgot who wrote it. I won't forget again. "Pulphead,'' Sullivan's new collection of essays, is devastatingly, sublimely good, even though it doesn't include the horse piece. Sullivan revitalizes fringe events, mis-appreciated moments, and forgotten figures, from Christian rock festivals and Michael Jackson's first performance of "Billie Jean'' to spectral, nearly forgotten blues singers, in idiosyncratic, warm-hearted, ribald, and slantwise essays. Most pieces in "Pulphead'' were previously published in magazines like GQ, which is shocking: Sullivan not only transcends what we think of as magazine writing, but comes close to replacing the Great American Novel with the Great American Essay.
"The Missing of the Somme'' by Geoff Dyer (Vintage)
"Sweet Heaven When I Die: Faith, Faithlessness, and the Country In Between'' by Jeff Sharlet (Norton)
"Blue Nights'' by Joan Didion (Knopf)
"Believing is Seeing: Observations on the Mysteries of Photography'' by Errol Morris (Penguin)
"Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution'' by Mary Gabriel (Little, Brown)
"Arguably: Essays'' by Christopher Hitchens (Twelve)
"Alibis: Essays on Elsewhere'' by André Aciman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
"Adventures in the Orgasmatron: How the Sexual Revolution Came to America'' by Christopher Turner (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
"Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President''
by Candice Millard (Doubleday)
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Bonita boys basketball coach Greg Eckler, who abruptly resigned on Friday after 12 years in charge, asked players to wrestle as a form of discipline during halftime of a 43-40 loss to Diamond Bar on Jan. 8, resulting in a minor head injury to one of the players, according to Bonita Unified Assistant Superintendent Curtis Frick.
The injury was not serious and the player returned to play the second half, explained Frick.
After parents complained to school officials the following day about what allegedly took place, Eckler opted to resign when confronted by school officials. Eckler could not be reached for comment.
"It's unfortunate what happened," Frick said.
Eckler, who has won six league titles including three straight Hacienda League titles since taking over, is widely regarded as one of the best coaching tacticians around. However, he has come under scrutiny over the years for his colorful language on the sidelines, but never for something like this. Assistant coaches Mark Shores, Randy Bell and Mark Miller will direct the team for the rest of the season.
According to sources close to the basketball team, this is the first year Eckler has asked players to wrestle as a way of "toughening" them up. He asked players to wrestle during some practices as well, according to sources.
"It was a situation where the game wasn't going well and you have an unhappy coach, disappointed kids and the coach tried a motivational strategy that didn't work out positively," Frick said of the wrestling incident. "One of the kids came off with a bump on his head after hitting a bench. It was unfortunate and the coach (Eckler) resigned as a result."
Eckler resigned his coaching duties but will remain a teacher at Bonita High School, Frick explained.
"He's a well respected teacher and will continue as a teacher in the District," Frick said. "The (Bonita) administration and district officials met with the team and parents since the incident occurred and will continue to listen and if any new information comes forward, we'll deal with it."


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One Hydraulic Press Supplants Three Mechanicals
Ilsco Corp., Cincinnati, OH, is no stranger to changing with the times and technology. Founded in 1894 as a family-owned business, the firm began as the Incandescent Light and Stove Company, selling gas systems. Today it manufactures 15,000 UL-listed electrical components in copper and aluminum, and is one of the largest direct suppliers of mechanical connectors to U.S. and Canadian electrical OEMs. It operates out of six locations throughout North America, including its 250,000-sq.-ft. plant in Cincinnati, with 220 employees.
The Move from Mechanical to Hydraulic
For many years, Ilsco relied on mechanical presses to form its products, at one time operating as many as 50 mechanical presses from 5 to 150 tons. Now, thanks to more efficient equipment and press automation, its press count is down to just 15.
|Ilsco's 75-ton hydraulic press features an integral knockout cylinder mounted in the main ram for punching, trimming and marking electrical connectors in aluminum up to ½ in. thick, and for forming copper.
However, says Tipton, the firm continued to seek s to consolidate dies and processes, and reduce the number of presses on its floor.
"We consider full-revolution presses old technology," he says. "They are laborious to set up and are not on the leading edge of safety. The more we learned about hydraulic, the more interested we became." Besides solving maintenance and setup difficulties, Ilsco believed that hydraulic-press technology would allow it to consolidate dies and reduce the number of mechanical presses by providing adjustable stroke length and adjustable tonnage."
Ilsco's hydraulic press of choice: a 75-ton model (from Greenerd Press & Machine Co., Nashua, NH) with an integral knockout cylinder mounted in the main ram for punching, trimming and marking electrical connectors in aluminum up to ½ in. thick, and for forming in copper. The press includes a heavy, welded frame that optimizes rigidity and minimizes deflection, to ensure dimensional accuracy and repeatability, and provide long tool life. A large daylight and throat depth accommodates large dies, and long stroke lengths are adjustable from 1 to 18 in.
One Press Replaces Three
"With the addition of the Greenerd press," says Tipton, "we significantly increased productivity in several s. Its adjustable stroke length and tonnage capabilities provide us with tremendous versatility. Due to the large 18-in. stroke capacity, we've been able to standardize our dies and replace three mechanical presses–30-, 25- and 60-ton models–with the one hydraulic press."
Also, according to Ilsco, press setup time has been reduced by as much as 85 percent. The press features preprogrammed controls with stored part numbers and recipes. A removable press table allows operators to quickly and easily drill and tap tool-mounting holes or to resurface the table.
The Ilsco team also has discovered several benefits it never counted on when it purchased the hydraulic press. For example, when forming copper on a mechanical press, the material often fractured. The hydraulic press solved this issue by producing a more even, constant pressure throughout the stroke. The firm expects that this capability will likely lead to more projects being transferred to the hydraulic press, including the manufacture of compression lugs, which also present material-flow challenges when formed on mechanical presses.
The hydraulic press produces some 15,000 specialty connectors/month and, once Ilsco completes the transition of its dies to the Greenerd press, it expects production to double within 6 months. MF
Article provided by Greenerd Press & Machine Co., Inc.: 603/889-4101; www.greenerd.com.
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Barmouth, or Abermaw or even Y Bermo as it is known in Welsh, is southern Snowdonia's most popular seaside resort with breathtaking views of Cardigan Bay and the picturesque harbour. The town's beach, Abermaw, is west facing with a mixture of sand and some fine shingle and is ideal for bathing and watersports.
The town can get busy, a land train runs along the promenade and there are traditional donkey rides, swing boats and amusement arcades. Barmouth beach is vast with good disabled access to the beach and all leisure amenities, including a full range of shops, cafes and pubs are within a short distance. There are several delightful walks of varying distance which start in Barmouth and follow routes into the hills beyond.
At low tide it is possible to walk all the way to Harlech to the north with wonderful views over Tremadog Bay. The town is located on Route 8 of the National Cycle Network and the traffic free trail from Barmouth to Dolgellau along the Mawddach Estuary offers spectacular views. Dog restrictions apply between May and September.
Barmouth developed on the back of the shipbuilding industry, lying as it does on the Mawddach river estuary, but then flourished into a popular seaside resort. An iconic feature of the town is Barmouth Bridge, the 136 year–old railway viaduct across the Mawddach Estuary. It is half a mile in length with a wooden promenade suitable for pedestrians or cyclists which now forms part of the Wales Coast Path and the Lon Las Cymru Cycle Network. Morfa Mawddach railway halt is situated at the other side of the bridge, for legs too tired to walk back!
Enjoy a short walking tour of Barmouth's Maritime Heritage by visiting the Sailor's Institute, Ty Gwyn and Ty Crwn all situated around the harbour and open during daylight hours only with free admission.
William Wordsworth who visited the town in the nineteenth century said of Barmouth:
"With a fine sea view in front, the mountains behind, the glorious estuary running eight miles inland, and Cadair Idris within compass of a day's walk, Barmouth can always hold its own against any rival."
Notable buildings in the town are the medieval Ty Gwyn tower house and the nineteenth century Ty Crwn roundhouse prison. Another building in the centre of town which has shot to fame - or infamy - in recent years is the 'Arousal Café'. Originally named Carousel Café, the letter C was stolen soon after the sign was put up. The owner has regularly attempted to replace the C letter, only to find it missing again the following day. At the time of writing, he has ceased trying to reinstate the 'C'.
Ty Gwyn dates back to 1460 and is one of the first four buildings to be built in the shelter of the anchorage. It was built by Gruffydd Fychan of Cors -y-Gedol as a potential escape route. Later, Jasper Tudor, Earl of Pembroke lay concealed in the building with his ward, the future King Henry VII, when plotting the downfall of Richard at the Battle of Bosworth. Ty Crwn (the Old Gaol) situated just behind Ty Gwyn, has two figures showing what life was like a prisoner in 1830.
The Sailors' Institute is probable the last remaining example of its king in Wales. Erected in 1890, the Victorian Reading Room is a fine example of its time. The building houses many artefacts, pictures and paintings and the daily newspaper may still be read free of charge. Artefacts including those form The Bronze Bell Wreck, which was discovered by local sub-aqua club members just off the coast, will soon be on display.
The vessel foundered in a storm in 1709 carrying a cargo of Carrara marble from Genoa. The most beautiful find was the Bronze Bell, clearly marked 1677. Local sculptor Frank Cocksey has been commissioned to carve one of the marble blocks as a unique piece of art to be sited within the new harbour side improvement scheme.
Barmouth has a railway station on the Cambrian Coast line from Machynlleth to Pwllheli.
Events at this Venue
|Sat 13 Jun
|Barmouth to Fort William Three Peaks Yacht Race
|Sun 5 Jul
|Barmouth Food Festival
|Sat 11 - Sun 12 Jul
|Mawddach Paddlesports Festival
|Sat 19 - Mon 28 Sep
|Barmouth Festival of Walking
Barmouth Tourist Information Centre
Southern Snowdonia,
On the A496.
with charge
: 0 miles from Barmouth station
- Coach parties accepted
- Disabled toilets
- On-site catering
- On-site light refreshments
- Picnic site
- Postbox
- Public toilets
- Accepts groups
- Children welcome
- Disabled access
- Dogs accepted