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Cruise Itinerary Details
Norwegian Breakaway
Departing from: New York, New York
Ports of Call:
- Port Canaveral (Orlando), Florida
- Great Stirrup Cay (Cruiseline Private Island), Bahamas
- Nassau, Bahamas
Bars, Clubs & Lounges
Intimate Lounge
Prime Meridian
Ice Bar
Syd Norman's Pour House
Scenic Views
Vibe Beach Club
Pool Bar
Waves Pool Bar
Martini Bar
Shakers Cocktail Bar
Whiskey Bar
Maltings Beer & Whiskey Bar
Irish Pub
O'Sheehan's Neighborhood Bar & Grill
Atrium Bar
Cafe & Bar at The Atrium
Casino Bar
Bar 21
Exclusive Lounge
The Haven Lounge (Private Access for Guests of The Haven only)
Music & Dancing
Piano Bar
Mixx Bar
Live Music Bar
Fat Cats Jazz & Blues Club
Dance Club
Bliss Ultra Lounge
Spice H2O
Teen Spots
Teen Lounge/Club
Entourage Teen Lounge
Video Arcade
Casino & Gambling
- Casino
- Numerous slot and video poker machines available
- Gaming Tables: Blackjack, Craps, Roulette, Let it Ride®, Three Card Poker, Texas Hold 'Em, Ultimate Texas Hold 'Em, Mini Baccarat, Pai Gow Poker, Spanish 21
- Tournaments: Blackjack, Slot and Texas Hold 'Em
- Free gaming lessons offered for table games and slots
- Launch Party
- Currencies Accepted: Credit Cards, Cash, and Traveler's Checks in U.S. currency
- Please Note: Game and machine varieties vary from ship to ship
- Mandara Spa
- Over 50 treatments from hot stone massages to oxygen facials, acupuncture and age-defying treatments
- Thermal Suite features steam room, dry sauna, Vitality pool, hot tubs, waterfalls and heated tile loungers
- Salt Room
- Hair Salon and Barber Shop
- Additional charge for spa and salon services
Sports & Fitness
- Pulse Fitness Center
- Fitness Center: Features state-of-the-art equipment including weight machines, free weights, stationary bikes, stair steppers, and treadmills
- Exercise Classes: various classes including Zumba, TRX training, cardio on the most advanced equipment or aerobics, spinning and kickboxing classes (additional fee)
- Outdoor Jogging Track
- Personal Training (additional fee)
Sports ComplexSports Complex - 3 stories of action-packed activities including a multi-level ropes-at-sea course, and The Plank.
- Challenge yourself on the multi-level ropes course with over 40 challenging elements.
- For the ultimate thrill, confront The Plank that extends 8 feet over the side of the ship. Cameras capture your conquering moment.
- Rapelling and Rock-Climbing Wall
- Spider Web - 24-foot enclosed climbing cage complete with a spiral slide
- Bungee Trampoline
- Mini-Golf
- 2 pools including Waves Pool and whirlpools - Deck 15
- Kids Aqua Park - Deck 15
- 5 Multi-story waterslides including Free-Fall and The Whip deliver the ultimate adrenalin rush
- The Haven Pool and whirlpools - Deck 16
- Tradewinds Tax-and-Duty-Free
- Shops including Tides Boutique, perfume shop, jewelry and gift shop, logo and souvenirs, and more
- Click Photo Gallery
- Art Gallery
- Burn the Floor
- Cirque Dreams Jungle Fantasy (additional fee)
- Rock of Ages - Tony award-winning Broadway sensation!
- Howl at the Moon - two musicians, two pianos
- Wine Lovers - the Musical (additional fee)
- Escape the Big Top
- Spice H2O Fireworks
Parties and Theme Nights
- Sailaway Party
- Captain's Welcome Party
- Dazzling Fireworks Display set to music
- Special events and parties vary depending on ship and itinerary
Music & Dance
- Live music
- Karaoke
- Dance Classes
Contests & Tournaments
- Wide variety of contests, games and tournaments
Other Features
- Library
- Card Room
- Internet Cafe
- Health & Wellness
- Exercise Classes
- Golf Lessons
- Gaming Lessons
- Dance Class
Family Friendly Features
- Family Gunk Challenges
- Family Pictionary
- Family Charades
- Family Pizza Making
- Family Lego Creations
- Family Friendly Face-Off Game Show
Just for Kids
For Norwegian's Youngest Guests (Ages 6 mos. - 2)Norwegian's youngest guests can enjoy up to 2 hours a day of sensory play, painting and other activities with their parents.
- Guppies (Ages 6 mo. - 2 yrs.) *At least one parent must attend with the child.
Splash Academy (Ages 3-12)Kids can enjoy creative play, sports and more, from theme-night activities to cool parties in this complimentary youth program.
- Turtles (Ages 3 -5) - Activities may include Arts & crafts, painting, Circus School (Tiger Act, feather balancing) Developmental activities, Sensory and messy play, Storytelling, Treasure hunts and more.
- Seals (Ages 6 -9) - Activities may include Circus School (scarf juggling, plate spinning, devil sticks, spinning rope), Games, Painting, Sports and family activities, Team-building challenges, Treasure hunts, Video games, and more.
- Dolphins (Ages 10 -12) - Activities may include Arts & crafts, Circus School (stilts, ball jugging, Chinese yo-yo, plate spinning), Scavenger hunts, Sports, Team-building challenges, Video games and challenges, and more.
Entourage (Age 13-14 and 15-17)
- Activities may include Arts and music, Circus School, Movies, Sports, Team-building challenges, Themed events and pool parties, Video games and challenges, and more.
Group Sitting for Kids
Group-sitting Options for Kids (Ages 3-12) - Fee BasedSometimes you just want some adult or grown-up time together. For kids 3-12, Port Play (when ship is in port) and Late Night Fun Zone (nightly) are located at the Kids Center, supervised by our youth staff and designed so that you can have some fun. And your kids, too!
- Port Play: If you want some alone time in port you can drop off your kids at Port Play for free. (Nominal fee applies during lunch and dinner hours.)
- Late Night Fun Zone: Planning a romantic dinner for two? You can leave your kids at Late Night Fun Zone, open every night. (Nominal fee applies.)


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In Reply to: Sudden Violence and Aggression in my home, please help posted by ahighlystressedmom on May 31, 2000 at 13:00:33:
: My 4 1/2 yr old autistic son has always been compliant and very sweet. We have worked hard to provide interventions in the most positive way possible since he was 20 months old. We have always accepted and loved him for who he is...autism and all, but suddenly, things have changed in our home.
: Starting around January, he became hyper-agressive, and his mood swings (always evident) became more pronounced. He started engaging in dangerous activities.
: In the last six weeks, things have escalated, and for the last 2 weeks, they have been out of control. He is hitting everyone, lashing out at his sister and is destroying our home. He won't work at school, he throws away his reinforcers. He is self injurious. His mood swings are sudden, violent and uncontrollable.
: I have attempted to get some support from various services in my area but have had no luck. Our support worker is unavailable.
: I am severely stressed over this. He has become so difficult I have had to keep him home from school. I do not have alot of help in the home and am a physical and mental mess. I am worried for my 6 yr old NT daughter and feel I have nowhere to turn...
: Any ideas on what could trigger such a change in personality? I have gone over and over details and can come up with no discernable pattern.
Dear Highlystressedmom,This sounds very similiar to the situation we have found ourselves in since late January. Myeight-year old autistic daughter suddenly went from compliant and non-behavioral to aggressive,self-injurious and totally out of control. She had never slept well, but her sleep habits went frombad to worse. Things got so bad I actually had to quit my job and stay home because she couldn't make it through the school day and I was constantly being called to school to come and get her. Over the next several weeks we also saw numerous specialists who couldn't find anymedical reason for her behavior. We did figure out eventually that she had reached an age where she could get into the cupboards and fridge by herself and was getting into foods that wedon't allow her. (She has been on the gluten/free/casean/free diet for about two years now). Assoon as we were able to get her diet straightened out the behaviors became much less frequentand she is sleeping better again. It took awhile to get the "junk" back out of her system but itwas well worth it. I feel as if I am getting my little girl back. Is your son on any special diet? Ifnot, you might want to look into the GF/CF diet. For some of our kids it really helps. If he is already on a diet, maybe he has reached an age where he is sneaking food? Just an idea. I hope this helps. Feel free to e-mail me and let me know how things are going. I know how frustrating it is to watch your child fall apart in front of your eyes and feel like there is nothingyou can to do to stop it. Hang in there! Good luck!Theresa
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CHICAGO (AP) — A federal judge Monday threw out a lawsuit filed by five states that want barriers placed in Chicago-area waterways to prevent Asian carp from invading the Great Lakes, but said he would consider new arguments if the case were filed again.
Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Ohio and Pennsylvania claimed the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Chicago's Metropolitan Water Reclamation District are causing a public nuisance by failing to physically separate a network of rivers and canals from Lake Michigan. Scientists have detected DNA from bighead and silver carp in the waterways. They say if the voracious carp become established in the Great Lakes, they could out-compete native species and severely damage the region's $7 billion fishing industry.
U.S. District Judge John Tharp said he couldn't order the agencies to do what the states want because federal law requires the corps to keep shipping channels open between Lake Michigan and one of the Chicago waterways — the Des Plaines River — and prohibits constructing dams in any navigable waterway without Congress' consent.
In a written ruling, Tharp said he was "mindful of, and alarmed by, the potentially devastating ecological, environmental, and economic consequences that may result from the establishment of an Asian carp population in the Great Lakes." But he said the proper way for the states to win approval of separating the waterways is through Congress.
Tharp left the door open for further court action, however, saying the states might be able to find other grounds for a nuisance claim that wouldn't have the effect of asking the corps and city agency to violate federal law. "There may be room in which the (states) can still maneuver," he wrote.
Joy Yearout, spokeswoman for Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette, said his office had not decided on its next step.
"We're certainly disappointed," Yearout said. "We're reviewing the ruling and we will consult with the other states on how to move forward."
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yes it isTuesday, July 19, 2011
# 68, Tracey (Tbmccarthy on ravelry ), you are headed to the movies!
Please email me with your address and I will make sure your fandango gift card, T-shirt and notebook land in your hands.
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We have a lot of house flags in our neighborhood as well. I enjoy checking them out. Some are just beautiful. A few are unbelieveable.
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Thursday, April 05, 2012
Get the Money with Revenue
Interesting turf feature at Gulfstream Park, a secondary allowances for older filly and mares sprinting 5 furlongs on the turf.
While Bill Mott has been otherwise engaged in Dubai, his able Payson Park assistants have been putting Revenue (3-1) through her paces and the 4-year-old filly hasn't missed a beat.
She's been training to the minute on an every-seven-days schedule and has been moving right along. She's a proven winner when fresh, has won sprinting on grass and was quick enough to win going 4-1/2 on the Tapeta surface at Presque Isle.
Reuniting with winning rider Joe Bravo, her late run style fitting today's race shape and with any maturity from 3 to 4, her competitive sophomore turf-sprint figure would be plenty good enough to win this given physical progression.
Taking Revenue to win at 5-2 or greater and key-boxing her in multiples with sharp She's Packin' Heat (6-1), classy Lady Rizzi (5-2) and the well spotted Brinca (6-1), reuniting with winning partner Danny Coa.
Running Totals: (1057) 325-207-155 Total Dollar Return: $2,239.60 [win selections only]
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Hi again Bart. Now I have shot the target at distances beween 11 and 3,7 meters. Should one try to remove the CA in the resulting files before proceeding? by feeding them to ACR, which now does this automatically?Edit:Ooops - I discovered that I had activated silent shooting, but not mirror lock-up, because on the Canon 5D2, the latter can not be combined with burst, and that is what I use in the field for exposure triplets. Should I repeat the test shots with mirror lock-up, or is it better that they reflect real life conditions?
Hi again...I am trying to read the pixel coordinates for the target and am in doubt exactly which pixels to choose. The devil is in the detail...Even after CA removal in ACR, the 2000% view shows visible CA. The screen shot shows the upper left corner of the slanted square (after 90° cw rotation) displayed in ImageJ. (The TIF has my camera profile embedded - not sure if ImageJ reads this.)So which 2 pixels would you choose to determine the angle?
Hi again...Thank you for your reply. - Now I managed... My angle is 5.553 degrees. [Of course I had planned to use a wider basis, but wanted to save Lula's disk space with the screen shot :-)] I also had the bright idea to choose an image that was shot at f/8 rather than the previous f/2.8 :-), so as to bring down the CA. This had some effect, but there is still CA (This is a Contax Sonnar 2.8/85, after all... What marvel of a lens did you use for your demonstration, which shows a perfectly neutral grey step wedge?)
When I looked at the first list of values, I saw that at the light end, there where 2 identical values, 65535, obviously the monitor white. After I excluded one of them, the calculated sigma went up from 0.67... to 0.70... So this leads to question #2: How many, and which, pixels to include in the row of pixels across the edge? Because the dark end is far from as well defined.
In my next attempt, I tried to limit at the dark end visually. The plot seems to extend more than necessary to the left. At the same time, the downward spikes go further down than the "black" level. So I identified the lowest value in the list and deleted values representing pixels to the left of that. Now the sigma is calculated to 0.50...I see that your plot includes about 15 pixels on either side of dark and light. But this will lead to a very different sigma.So which is the the right procedure?
Okay, first of all the bright end of the scale is too bright at 65535, you should reduce the exposure a bit. When you shoot a relected white, e.g. a colorchecker or as in this case a resolution chart, the paper white usually should read something like 235-240 in an 8-bit range if exposed to the right, therefore around 60000-62000 in a 16-bit range at the most.
Hi Bart, thank you for your fast reply.Is there a way to achieve this other than trial and error? What I did was point my Pentax spot meter to an area on the test image that I believed was defined as middle gray and exposed after that. I would have to re-shoot all images - or could it be done in the raw converter?
Hi again,while you answered, I wrote the following:Ooops -It is only in ImageJ that the white patch of the gray scale on your target reads 65535 - in Raw Developer and PhotoLine its about 175 (in 8 bit). The reason seems to be that my output from RD is in my own camera profile. After change to ProPhoto, ImageJ says between ca 61 500 and 62 534 - would that be OK? --edit: well if I need not re-shoot then I can just adjust a little in the raw converter.
Hi again - This is a little off topic in relationship to blur radius - but why is 65000 too bright? Why would one give away dynamic range?
I'm not sure what the contrast/gamma is for the Camera profile setting. What you preferably want is to know is the apparent blur for your normal workflow. It seems that if the Camera profile is part of your normal workflow and indicative for what you base your sharpening on, then the images would be a bit on the bright side.
Hi Bart, thank you for your answers.My normal workflow is output from Raw Developer in my camera profile (ICC), which is linear, then open in PhotoLine. PL opens the image by default as an RGB image in ProPhoto. I will then set the image type to Lab and attach standard Lab as the profile.Now for the test I have also opened in Photoshop.Here is what happens:In RD, the white patch of your target reads RGB 167-176-177. So this would be UNDERexposed, and so is the visual impression.
On the processed TIF opened in PhotoLine, the RGB reading is 255, and so is the visual impression: only the bottom 5 gray patches are distinguishable, the rest is white.No change after transition to Lab.
In Photoshop, the visual impression is the same - but the RGB reading is 32000! - 100 for L* in Lab! (of the RGB image; no change to Lab made here).ImageJ: same as PhotoLine, RGB reading 65535.What is going on here??
I fooled around a little with your target and tool. Attached are 4 screen shots of the upper half of the target, enlarged to approx. the same size as the screen display of the original.
Hi Bart,thank you for your detailed answer. So I'll try to have the target printed and mounted ASAP. Yes #1 is a screen shot of your png.It surprises me, too, that RD should not be so good. Last time I compared it to ACR CS5, combined with SmartSharpening in PS, RD was absolutely superior. But that was on overall rendering with emphasis on color, not on resolution in particular.This is off-topic, but what is the best raw converter in your view?


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It would be easy for top teams in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference to write off Morgan State. After all, coach Todd Bozeman's team opened this season by losing 13 of its first 19 games, coming off the program's worst record in six years.
Just two weeks shy of the MEAC tournament, however, the Bears are officially on a roll.
Point guard Blake Bozeman, the sophomore son of the coach, had a career-high 16 points to lead six players in double figures, as host Morgan State battled back from a nine-point deficit near halftime, creeping closer to the .500 mark with an 86-68 win over Coppin State.
"We've had the pieces all year. It's just now, at the perfect time, we seem to be clicking," said the younger Bozeman, who also had eight assists and six rebounds. "Everybody is buying in and doing the things that we've expected since the preseason."
It was the fifth win in the past six games for the Bears (11-14 overall, 7-6 MEAC) and second against the Eagles in 18 days. They close the regular season with three home games against teams that entered the night with a combined record of 21-54.
Coppin State, which broke a seven-game losing streak Saturday against Howard, fell to 6-23 (3-11). Despite 12 3-pointers, including four by guard Andre Armstrong (game-high 24 points), the Eagles managed just 30 points in the second half.
The key was more aggressive defense on the perimeter.
"That was one of the things we wanted to focus on — to guard them at the 3-point line," Todd Bozeman said. "The approach I took at the half was that they made nine 3s and shot [53 percent], and we were only down two. I thought that was a good sign. If I'm on the other end of that, I'm a little concerned, because how much better can you shoot it."
Shaquille Duncan, a 6-foot-9 sophomore, added 14 points and 11 rebounds and fellow forward DeWayne Jackson added 14 and seven for the Bears, who made seven of nine 3s after halftime.
After defeating the Eagles by 29 earlier this month, Morgan State appeared to be primed for another blowout early in this one.
With several members of the Ravens, including Torrey Smith and Pernell McPhee, watching from courtside, the Bears built a 17-6 lead in the first 8:37 by dominating the glass, hitting timely 3-pointers and limiting Coppin State to one shot on most possessions.
Content to fire away from the perimeter against a significantly taller opponent, the Eagles quickly found themselves in danger of letting the game slip away. Until, that is, they began to heat up.
After making just one of their first six 3-point attempts, the Eagles converted eight of their next 10, including three by guard Patrick Cole, as part of a 29-9 run. When Michael Murray hit the first of two foul shots with 2:48 left in the half, Coppin State had built a 35-26 lead of its own.
In danger of letting the game get out of hand, Morgan — the top offensive rebounding team in the conference — opened the second half looking to re-establish its physical dominance.
The Bears pushed the ball inside to draw fouls, threw it back out for open looks and, most of all, began to play Coppin State's perimeter shooters more aggressively. The result was a game-changing 16-2 run in which they held the Eagles without a field goal for six minutes.
"What I saw was they stepped the pressure up a lot more," Eagles coach Ron "Fang" Mitchell said. "They came out alive and more determined. We didn't come out like we have in the past. We didn't meet the challenge, then we get down on ourselves. A lot of that has to do with maturity."
When Justin Black hit teammate Anthony Hubbard for a layup with 13:22 to play, Morgan State had built its lead back to nine, and re-established control.


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City Manager Michael V. O'Brien said Tuesday a recent report on opioid abuse in the city was "hurtful," and contained inaccurate information.
The Massachusetts Health Council Inc., an independent research board supported by the Massachusetts Medical Society and Novo Nordisk, recently released a report on the state's public health trends. The report stated that lifetime heroin use in the city is almost 5 percent, twice the state and national average.
In a report to the City Council, Mr. O'Brien explained that the report contained seriously flawed data, and is being disputed by the state Department of Public Health's Bureau of Substance Abuse Services. The report led MHC Executive Director Susan Servais in November to say that the city has the worst heroin addiction problem in the entire country.
Mr. O'Brien explained in his report that the city's issues with opiates, which include heroin and Oxycontin, are comparable with other large urban areas in the state. He wrote that the authors of the report in part relied on reports from GoLocalWorcester.com, an online news site, to infer that the heroin problem was worse than it actually is.
"In fact, data as released by the MDPH BSAS places Worcester 10th among the state's urban centers for non-fatal and fatal overdoses related to opiate use," Mr. O'Brien wrote.
Mr. O'Brien wrote that despite the disputed report, the city recognizes that substance abuse remains a significant public health challenge, and said there are programs and strategies in place to address the problem.


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J.C. Penney marked the beginning of a trend that saw the big national chains begin to dominate the local economy.
The arrival of a J.C. Penney store in downtown Ocala in early 1933 was one of those unheralded historic events that would have a long-lasting impact on the commercial success of the city's vital retail center. If Penney saw the possibility of financial success in struggling Ocala, could Sears Roebuck be far behind?
The nation's economic depression had hit Ocala hard. Actually, the local depression began with the collapse of the Florida real estate boom in the latter part of the 1920s, an event that preceded the stock market crash of 1929.
J.C. Penney may not have been the first of a series of national retail chains to discover Ocala as a prime market for its merchandise, but it did mark the beginning of a trend that saw the big national chains begin to dominate the local economy.
When Penney moved into the two-story brick building on North Magnolia, between what is now Silver Springs Boulevard and First Street, the former home of George MacKay's furniture store, most of the businesses around the square were locally owned.
There were Rheinauers, Blockers, Franks, Malever's Guarantee Clothing, Bitting's Drug Store and at least four other drug stores, and numerous locally owned specialty shops. The chains included two other "dime" stores, McCrory and Woolworth, and A&P grocery. Only A&P gave a foretaste of what was to come when grocery stores became supermarkets and abandoned the downtown business center.
Downtown business booms
Western Union, the city's vital communications center with the world, was across Magnolia from the new J.C. Penney store. Postal Telegraph, which ran a poor second to Western Union, had a small office elsewhere.
Then there were the hotels and cafes, beauty parlors, shoe repair shops, photo shops and stationery stores. Professional offices were upstairs over the retail businesses. Numerous businesses were on the ground floor of the Ocala House Hotel along Main Street and Broadway.
The leading hotel was the Marion, which also housed Central Florida Realty and the chamber of commerce office until an independent building was erected by the chamber several years later on Silver Springs Boulevard at Osceola
Even in the depths of the Great Depression, downtown Ocala was the commercial heartbeat of Ocala.
Deparment stores flock to Ocala
Sure enough, the arrival of J.C. Penney soon was followed by Sears Roebuck, settling in another building in the same block. Sears even used a furniture warehouse in the rear that also had been used by MacKay Furniture. By 1933, the building was owned by Jim Taylor's Ocala Manufacturing Co.
Soon, Sears and J.C. Penney would be joined by a new firm, Belk-Lindsey, in the same block on Magnolia. It wasn't quite a chain store, but it was the beginning of a new partnership in Florida to compete with Penney's, Sears and other merchandisers.
A popular North Marion native, Colin Lindsey, joined forces with an existing firm to create the Belk-Lindsey store. It wasn't a new business model for Belk, but it worked in Ocala and over the years grew and developed into a major retail firm.
The corporate bosses may not want to acknowledge Colin Lindsey's success in putting Belk on the Florida map today, but there it is.
Stores leave downtown
After World War II, it was Belk that led the migration of retail businesses away from the downtown retail center to outlying shopping centers, locating first in Pine Plaza with a great deal of local fanfare, then finally migrating to the mall.
Sears bought formerly state-owned land on Silver Springs Boulevard at 25th Avenue to develop its own shopping center, that it would call Searstown. Like Belk, Sears later would move to Ocala's new mall, where it would have more space.
From the beginning, Sears' corporate offices underestimated the Ocala market and established undersized stores, at least until it reached the mall.
The old Searstown building later was remodeled into a supermarket, which today stands empty. The attached shopping center includes Big Lots and a number of small shops and an acre or two of parking.
Victims of the changing economy
In early 1900, the Searstown area was part of the site of a state prison farm. Silver Springs Boulevard ended at about 11th Street because the route was blocked by state-owned land. The prison camp was closed after a great deal of scandal and the land became part of the site for a girls industrial school. The scandal involved the mistreatment of prisoners who were leased to private businesses as laborers.
Fort King also came to a dead end at what's now known as the McPherson Governmental Complex. Typical of Ocala in that day, Fort King continued on the east side of the complex. All that got straightened out after World War II, and we have the present road configuration, including the south extension of 25th Avenue.
The original block along the west side of Magnolia that housed Penney, Sears, Belk and the Malever store has been converted into a parking lot today. The buildings were demolished, like so much of historic downtown Ocala, victims of a changing economy.
An avid Marion County historian, David Cook is a retired editor of the Star-Banner. He may be contacted at 237-2535.


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UEFA urges ban on 3rd-party player transfer rights
UEFA has called on FIFA to prohibit the third-party ownership of
players' transfer rights.
UEFA says it will introduce rules covering its club competitions
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"should FIFA not take the appropriate steps."
FIFA has said it will submit a proposal within months to its
soccer committee, which is chaired by UEFA President Michel
Third-party ownership allows investors to buy a stake in a
player from his club, and cash in on future transfer fees.
UEFA believes the practice distorts competition as clubs control
players they could not otherwise afford and allows investors to
syphon money from the game.
The practice is banned in some countries, including England and
It is popular with Spanish and Portuguese clubs to recruit South
American players.


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Organization brings holiday cheer to seniors
Volunteers buy gifts for seniors
Organization brings holiday cheer to seniors
Volunteers buy gifts for seniors
A local organization is stepping up to help seniors in need over the holidays.
Home Instead Senior Care is coordinating a campaign its calling "Be a Santa to a Senior." Volunteers choose an ornament at a participating business and then buy a gift for a senior.
Starting Dec. 10, Meals on Wheels will take the gifts to seniors in Merrimack, Belknap and Hillsborough counties.
Organizers said one small gift can make a big difference.
"Sometimes this is the only festive thing wherever they live or the only gift," said Pattie Hayes, Home Instead spokeswoman. "Maybe it's the one piece of holiday spirit that that person gets throughout the whole year."
For more information on how to help, call 603-668-6868 or visit the organization's website.


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CARSON, Calif. – A young United States side showed pluck, guile and determination in coming back to draw 1-1 with Chile in front of 18,580 fans at the Home Depot Center in Saturday night's friendly.
The equally green Chileans opened the scoring early in the second half before Teal Bunbury provided the American strike, converting from the penalty spot in the 72nd minute after Juan Agudelo was taken down in the box.
Seven MLS-based Americans – Eric Alexander, Sean Franklin, Jeff Larentowicz, Zach Loyd, Sean Johnson, Chris Wondolowski and Anthony Wallace – earned their first senior-team caps, marking 12 debutants in the US' last two games.
After a sloppy opening from both sides, the US began to dominate possession. Dax McCarty and Wondolowski both struck shots from distance in the opening quarter-hour, but Chilean goalkeeper Paulo Garcés punched the first one over the bar and smothered the latter attempt for the 2010 Golden Boot winter.
In the 17th minute, Francisco Silva brought down Brek Shea after the FC Dallas winger won a footrace. The Universidad Católica star earned a yellow card from Mexican referee Francisco Chacón Gutiérrez. Loyd returned the favor, drawing a caution six minutes later for a late challenge on Silva in the midfield.
The teams continued to trade blows as the half progressed, but neither side managed to find the back of the net. Chile's Esteban Paredes – the only player on the Chilean side who was a member of Marcelo Bielsa's World Cup squad in South Africa last summer – had perhaps the best chance, forcing a save from Nick Rimando on a free kick from 25 yards.
Bradley made two substitutions at the half, bringing on Johnson and Marvell Wynne for Rimando and Omar Gonzalez. Chile countered with Felipe Seymour for Luis Pedro Figueroa.
The South American squad broke through in the 53rd minute on a goal by Paredes. A backheel from captain Fernando Meneses freed Seymour down the right channel and the substitute put in a cross that eluded Wynne. The Colo-Colo forward controlled the ball poorly, but no American could close the attacker out before he calmly beat Johnson with an athletic side volley.
Immediately after the tally, Agudelo and Bunbury removed their warm-ups. The duo replaced Shea and Wondolowski, respectively, at the hour mark, and the youth infusion gave the US a much-needed burst of energy.
The Americans finally tied up the match on one of the best passing sequences of the game. Tim Ream started the play from midfield, hitting McCarty, whose touch found Agudelo. The New York Red Bulls forward played one-two with Alejandro Bedoya. After taking the return, the 18-year-old touched the ball to his right and was brought down by a Chilean defender in the box.
Gutiérrez pointed to the spot, and Bunbury's ensuing penalty was low and true, beating Garcés to his left.
Saturday's match concludes the USMNT's annual January camp. The US next take on Egypt in Cairo on Feb. 9, an official FIFA date in which Bradley will likely reconvene his full complement of senior-teamers.
United States
Nick Rimando (Sean Johnson 45); Sean Franklin, Tim Ream, Omar Gonzalez (Marvell Wynne 45), Zach Loyd (Anthony Wallace 72); Dax McCarty, Jeff Larentowicz; Alejandro Bedoya (Eric Alexander 83); Mikkel Diskerud; Break Shea (Juan Agudelo 60); Chris Wondolowski (Teal Bunbury 60).
Paulo Garcés; Juan Abarca, Sebastián Toro, Paulo Magalhaes; Francisco Silva, Fernando Meneses, Eugenio Mena; Esteban Paredes; Luis Pedro Figueroa (Felipe Seymour 45); Daud Gazale (Luca Domínguez 71); Edson Puch.
Noah Davis covers the United States national team for MLSsoccer.com. Follow him on Twitter at @noahedavis.


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This heavy glass platter is beautifully adorn with a colorful fish scene. We picked up this gorgeous piece at an estate sale and I am not sure of the circa. The platter is 14 1/2 inches in diameter and stands 1 3/4 inches tall. It is in excellent condition, no chips or cracks.
This vintage teapot, sugar and creamer each come with their own little aluminum cozy. The bottom is stamped in green with what looks like "Regal Design", "877448" and are marked "Made in England". All of the cosies are marked "Made in England". I purchased this little set at an estate sale so I am not sure on their circa, though I believe them to be older. All three pieces have some crazing but no chips or cracks...
This 10 oz. teapot or coffee pot is constructed of 18% nickle silver base metal. Wear-Brite Holloware has been manufactured by Grand Silver Company for over 70 years. I believe this to be an older coffee pot or teapot, but I am not sure exactly how old it is. It stands 5 1/4 inches tall, has a 2 1/4 inch top diameter and 3 1/4 inch base diameter. The bottom has "Wear-Brite Trade Mark 266-10 OZ" engraved on the bottom...
All Items : Kitchen : Salt and Pepper Shakers : Contemporary item #413459 (stock #N1027)
These vintage globe shaped salt and pepper shakers were made by Irice NY. I am not exactly sure the age of these little shakers but I believe them to be older. They stand approximately 2 1/4 inches tall and they are in excellent condition with no chips or cracks.


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** 1/2 (out of four)
Rockie Fresh likes cars. He likes buying cars ("In 2013/I plan to buy too many cars"). He likes talking about cars. He likes driving cars, and he likes driving metaphors: both of his higher-profile mixtape releases were named as such: last year's popular "Driving 88" and now, "Electric Highway," his first release after being signed to Rick Ross's Maybach Music Group, a rap label named after the luxury Maybach automobile.
Imagining "Electric Highway" as a reflection of Rockie's style actually works pretty well. Coasting on an effortless flow over some lush production, he sounds comfortable, on cruise control in the best way possible. Imagine Kanye's "808s and Heartbreak" or Drake's "Take Care" without the angst and general darkness, replace it with swagger and a warmer undercurrent of piano keys and bleep-bloops—that's "Highway." Rockie barely raps on songs like "The Lights" or "Lights Glow," opting for a Cudi-esque croon, drenched in reverb and auto-tune.
When he does rap, Rockie's rhymes often blend into the beat, his cadence vacillating between a Rick Ross heave-ho and 2 Chainz' nimble drawl as he spits about usual fodder of women, clothes and, duh, cars. He's so smooth that he's best when complemented by another emcee, like the tenser Sasha Go Hard on the slinky, The xx-sampling "Show Me Something" or Curren$y's more textured stoner flow on "Roll Up Right Now." Sometimes though, he comes off like a schlocky Wiz Khalifa, like on the lethargic "Hold Me Down."
He doesn't drop a lot of explicit Chicago put-ons; not that that matters, but it's a measure of where he's come in the last year: from finding his niche as a smooth talker in a sea of bangers to finding his own lane in the world of major labels. The chilled-out neon aesthetic is derivative, sure, but its honed and fun, pulling off his low-key flexes with confidence.
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This weekend, I had a chance to visit the Newberry Library in Chicago and I am so pleased I had the opportunity to visit! I was in town for business purposes – to deliver a presentation for work. However, I arrived early Saturday morning so that I could take advantage of the library being open from 9-1pm.
I arrived in town at 8am and made it to the library by 9:30. Fortunately, it was only about a mile away from my hotel so it was very easy to get there. The first thing I can say is that it is a beautiful building. I love big, stately, building and Newberry Library does not disappoint.
The check-in process was very easy, and there were nice gentlemen in the lobby to help explain all the procedures for getting checked-in and getting my reader's card. The library has good information on the website to help prepare for the visit so there were no surprises for me throughout the process.
On my way up to the genealogy room, I did pass some gorgeous artwork, but look at this incredible family tree! It is a tree from 1880 from the Richard & Abigail Lippincott family. You can see more up-close pictures of it here.
It is so detailed and absolutely amazing!
Can you imagine having a family tree like that? So cool!
After getting my card, going to the 2nd floor genealogy collection and getting signed in, I was assigned a table to work at – K2.
I'd done some preparation before the visit since here, most of the collection is in closed stacks and staff retrieve materials for you. You can request 3 items pulled at a time. I requested my first three and then began browsing the reference materials they do have on open shelves.
I worked through a few items in the reference collection, that even though I have access to here at home, I don't get to the library & state archives as often as I'd like, so having some time to look was still valuable. I then also worked with many items over the course of the morning that I don't have regular access to and that was helpful.
I wasn't there to do any specific type of search, I was generally just looking up some information & material I can use on the genweb sites, so at least I didn't feel pressured. It was nice just to be among the beautiful research setting and have a few hours to take in my surroundings. The staff at the library were all helpful and I can see why the Newberry Library is so well-regarded.
I have some leads to follow-up on now which will probably take me awhile; and that's fine by me. 🙂
If you have ever been to the Newberry Library or are planning to go, I'd love to hear from you!


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In 2010, singer/songwriter Neal Casal released his photo book chronicling his time with Ryan Adams and the Cardinals, A View of Other Windows. We were fortunate enough to catch up with Neal recently for an intimate conversation about music, photography, and the Cardinals.
Todd Levinson Frank: You've obviously been documenting the Cardinals for a while, when did you think it could and would make a decent book? If the Cardinals hadn't "ended" in 2009, would this book have still come out this soon, or did the timing work out that this book would put a nice bow on the Cardinals era?
Neal Casal: I didn't know these photos would make a decent book until the book was about 90% finished. I doubted the quality of the work until very late in the game. Once it was finished though, I knew it was up to standards and that we had achieved something special.
I didn't start taking the photos with the intention of making a book, I was just doing it because I loved to take photos of my band mates. The idea of the photos being a book came much later.


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With the bishops in the United States investigating the Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA) this question seems to be on a lot of people's minds. Do the Girl Scouts really help girls? In many ways, what they teach goes against how I want to raise my own girls, but I never really thought about why. The Girl Scouts have this whole attitude about them that is just, frankly, not feminine.
I grew up with the "you can be anything a man can be" cultural message, and I took it seriously. As a child, I tried to run faster, climb higher, and make better grades than the boys in my classes. Heck, I even hauled hay and shot rifles (still can) as a teen. When Hillary Clinton made her comment about staying home and baking cookies and having teas, I even remember thinking how proud I was that I was just like that in my twenties. Nope, no standin' by my man like Tammy Wynette. At that point I was a single mother, and an unstoppable force as a scientist on a career path of success (so I stupidly told myself). Older, wiser, and full of regrets, I have come to regard such messages to young women as dangerous to the institution of the family – and to a young woman's own sense of happiness and fulfillment.
Enough of the trip down memory lane. Do Girl Scouts help girls now?
Rather than base my opinion only on my personal experiences though, I decided to ask my friend Mary Rice Hasson about it. She is also a mother of seven and a lawyer who serves as a Fellow in Catholic studies at the conservative think tank in Washington D.C., Ethics and Public Policy Center. She is an expert on these issues, particularly on Catholic women's views of faith, conscience and family. A LifeNews article cites her as agreeing that the bishop investigation is needed, and then quotes her.
"A collision course is probably a good description of where things are headed," she said. "The leadership of the Girl Scouts is reflexively liberal. Their board is dominated by people whose views are antithetical to the teachings of the Catholic Church."
That got my attention. I asked her about the Girl Scouts, and for advice about raising girls in general. I am more interested in guiding principles than details. I was struck by this advice: "My parents raised us girls (7 of us) to believe we could do anything—but to value motherhood and to retain the sense of femininity that flourishes by embracing womanhood, not aping masculinity." Bingo!
Value motherhood. Be feminine. Embrace womanhood. Do not ape masculinity.
At her suggestion, I took a look at the current Girl Scout campaign, TogetherThere, and winced. No, I do not want my girls exposed to such career-oriented myopic hubris; it is all too familiar.
"A girl who doesn't believe she has what it takes to be a leader isn't likely to run for mayor one day. A girl who is laughed at by peers for being outspoken in the classroom isn't dreaming of sitting at the head of the table, running a board meeting. A girl who hides her abilities in science and math won't find the cure to illnesses that affect us all."
It almost sounds good, but think about it. The end goal of developing character is not to run for office, be a corporate officer, or become famous for discovering cures. That turns you into an object held up for scrutiny based on what you accomplish professionally, and it sets unreasonable expectations. It is anything but feminine. What about all the girls who do not become those things? What about all the girls who do not even want to become those things? The Get the Facts page is all about becoming a high-profile leader in government, industry, or academia, and how those areas are dominated by men.
There is no mention of the natural leadership position for women – Motherhood.
The slogan for the TogetherThere campaign is "When girls succeed, so does society." The text goes on to say that the status of women in society is a direct measure of that society's success. But hang on! Define success. Is a woman only successful if she achieves a leadership position outside the home? Also, by definition, not everyone can be a leader, so instilling this ideology in girls only sets most of them up for unrealistic, false failure, a sense of failure that is not really failure at all. The power of being a woman is not constrained to the office, boardroom, or laboratory. In fact, I would put that way down on the list of ways women can positively influence society.
Further, why isn't being a mother and raising children listed as success? Why isn't picking a valiant knight for a husband who dotes on you, provides for you, and admires you for the sacrifices you make to raise your children considered high status?
It has been said that severing ties with Girl Scouts might be a sacrifice for some Catholic families, but I do not agree that it is a sacrifice to forego a social institution with flawed messages for girls. I think our girls might be better prepared for true leadership if they are at home learning to serve their family by doing kind little things like baking cookies, rather than out selling them as little future-activist fund-raisers. Dare I say, they might be better prepared for true success if they understand the magnificent importance of standing by your man.
As for being educated, that is for the edification of their souls and development of their God-given gifts, and it is a journey they will be on for their whole lives if someone does not convince them the only purpose of education is to earn a title on a business card…or patches, pins, stars, and crests, or something.
Come to think of it, yes, we will definitely be foregoing the green uniforms and sashes for something a little more mysterious and lacy – like chapel veils. [Did she just say that out loud?] Sure did.
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--Defines the local port on which the agent is listening in order to communicate with the assets
--Defines the local port on which the agent is listening in order to communicate with the assets
agent.assetport = 9999
--Address on which the agent is accepting connection in order to communicate with the assets
--Pattern is accepted: can be set to "*" to accept connection from any address, by default shell accepts only localhost connection.
--agent.assetaddress = "*"
agent.= ""
--Persistence options
agent.persistlatency = 60 --latency before data persistence in seconds, nil to disable
agent.persistsize = 20000 --max byte length
--Persistence options
Revision as of 09:46, 1 March 2013
- 1 Access to the configuration
- 2 How does the Config Store works
- 3 List of configuration parameters that can be applied on the ReadyAgent
- 3.1 Agent generic settings
- 3.2 Server connection settings
- 3.3 Mediation protocol settings
- 3.4 Shell related settings
- 3.5 Time related settings
- 3.6 Modem configuration
- 3.7 Network connectivity settings
- 3.8 Device Management and monitoring settings
- 3.9 Logging framework
- 3.10 Update framework
- 3.11 Monitoring system
- 3.12 Lua RPC server
- 3.13 Data queues
Access to the configuration
The following configuration elements are accessible through different APIs/Protocols.
From the Server through M3DA
The configuration table can be read (M3DA Command ReadNode) and written (Data writing).
The path of the elements is prefixed by the path '@sys.config'.
From The Lua Shell
In the Lua Shell you can access the configuration table thanks to the 'agent.config' module:
-- Load/retrieve the config module c = require 'agent.config' -- print all config from the mediation sub category p(c.mediation) -- assign a new parameter (de-activate mediation stuff) c.mediation.activate = false
From the asset application
See DeviceTree library API. A couple of function for setting and reading variables are provided.
Generated doc is available here.
Most likely, user will need the following command:
dt = require "devicetree" dt.init() :dt.get("config") -- user may append strings after config in order to browse deeper into the tree, e.g. ":dt.get("config.server.autoconnect")"
How does the Config Store works
Default configuration
The ReadyAgent comes with a default configuration that can be altered and restored at any time. The default configuration of the ReadyAgent is specified into the file defaultconfig.lua that comes with the ReadyAgent. The ReadyAgent must be redeployed (build/installed) in order to change the defaultconfig.lua.
Persisted configuration
In addition of the defaultconfig.lua it is possible to modify the ReadyAgent configuration at anytime.
When changed the configuration entries are persisted into a non volatile storage area.
On OpenAT it uses ADL Flash Objects. The object is named "ConfigStore".
On Linux and similar OS it uses a QDBM file stored into a flash file system. By default, the ConfigStore is stored into "./persist/ConfigStore" file, relative to the directory where the ReadyAgent is executed.
Configuration loading workflow
When the ReadyAgent starts it looks if it has an already stored configuration (ConfigStore). If it does not find one then (and only then) it uses the defaultconfig.lua as a default configuration, and create the ConfigStore object. This means that changing the defaultconfig.lua after the first start of the ReadyAgent, will not change the current configuration of the ReadyAgent. A call to config.default() method is necessary to reload the default configuration.
The configuration tree is stored in persisted memory (flash). Any change to the configuration is written synchronously, meaning that the settings are persisted as soon as returning from a 'set' function.
ConfigStore API
The Configuration module has an API to manipulate the configuration store, in a lua shell you can type:
agent.config.default(path) -- reloads the configuration subtree 'path' from the -- defaultconfig.lua file. agent.config.diff(path) -- returns a list of items that are different from the default config. agent.config.pdiff(path) -- pretty print the above list agent.config.set(path, value)-- set a value in the configuration agent.config.get(path) -- gets a value for the configuration subtree
List of configuration parameters that can be applied on the ReadyAgent
Agent generic settings
--Defines the local port on which the agent is listening in order to communicate with the assets agent.assetport = 9999 --Address on which the agent is accepting connection in order to communicate with the assets --Pattern is accepted: can be set to "*" to accept connection from any address, by default shell accepts only localhost connection. --agent.assetaddress = "*" --Devices ID used to communicate with the platform server agent.deviceId = "012345678901234" --Device type, for example to be used in Update before accepting an update. --Not used on Open AT for now. agent.devicetype= "" --Defines the local port on which the agent is listening in order to receive LUASIGNAL from external applications (Linux only) agent.signalport = 18888 --Persistence options agent.persistlatency = 60 --latency before data persistence in seconds, nil to disable agent.persistsize = 20000 --max byte length
Server connection settings
--URL on which the agent will try the server connection. This parameter is only relevant for HTTP transport protocol
server.url = "http://m2mop.net/device/com"
--When the device is behind a proxy this settings defines a HTTP proxy. This parameter is only relevant for HTTP transport protocol
--server.proxy must be a URL starting by "http://".
server.proxy = "some.proxy.server"
--Agent auto connection policy
server.autoconnect = {}
--server.autoconnect.onboot = true -- connect a few seconds after the ReadyAgent started
--server.autoconnect.period = 5 -- period in minute (connect every 5 minutes)
--server.autoconnect.cron = "0 0 * * *" -- cron entry (connect once a day at midnight)
server.autoconnect.ondemand = 10 -- latency before connection (in seconds) after some data has been given to the ReadyAgent before it connects to the server (connect will occur at maximum 10 seconds after some data has been written)
Mediation protocol settings
--Activate or de-activate the mediation client on the device
mediation.activate = true
--Connection timeout (in seconds)
mediation.timeout = 5
--Defines the ordered list of mediation server to connect to
mediation.servers = { {addr = "webplt-qa.anyware-tech.com", port = 2048}, {addr = "m2mop.anyware-tech.com", port = 2048} }
--this is equivalent to
--mediation.servers[1].addr = "webplt-qa.anyware-tech.com"
--mediation.servers[1].port = 2048
--mediation.servers[2].addr = "m2mop.anyware-tech.com"
--mediation.servers[2].port = 2048
--Defines the polling period (in seconds) of the mediation protocol according to each bearer
--When period is set to 0, it will do a one time polling when the bearer is mounted.
--If a bearer is absent from this list, mediation protocol is not used on that bearer
mediation.pollingperiod = { ETH=0, GPRS=10}
--this is equivalent to
--Defines the number of attempts before considering current mediation servers as dead
mediation.servers.retries = 5
--Mediation restart after failure delay (in seconds), default value (if not set) is 1800 seconds (30 minutes)
mediation.retrydelay = 300
--Activate the Lua Shell
shell.activate = true
--Local port on which the Lua Shell server is listening
shell.port = 2000
--Address on which the Lua Shell server is accepting connection
--Pattern is accepted: can be set to "*" to accept connection from any address, by default shell accepts only localhost connection.
--shell.address = "*"
shell.editmode = "edit" -- can be "line" if the trivial line by line mode is wanted
shell.historysize = 30 -- only valid for edit mode
Modem configuration
modem.activate = true
--SIM pin code
modem.pin = ""
--AT Serial interface (Linux Only)
modem.atport = "/dev/ttyS0"
--PPP Serial port
modem.pppport = "/dev/ttyS2"
--export sms api to assets
modem.sms = true
Network connectivity settings
-- Activate / deactivate the NetworkManager
network.activate = true
-- FakeNetman Signal
-- When non nil and network.activate==false then the signal("NETMAN", "CONNECTED", network.initsignal) is emitted when the ReadyAgent is initialized
network.initsignal = "Default"
--Maximum failures on bearer selection
--network.maxfailure = 2
--List of supported bearers and ordered priority
network.bearerpriority = {"ETH","GPRS"}
--this is equivalent to
--network.bearerpriority[1] = "ETH"
--network.bearerpriority[2] = "GPRS"
--amount of time to wait before going back to the preferred bearer if connected bearer is not the first of bearerpriority list.
--if set to nil or equals to 0 netman will never go back automatically to first bearer.
network.maxconnectiontime = 30
--SMS fallback - Activate the SMS fallback: if the network is unavailable, an sms is sent instead of making an http connection
--network.smsfallback = "+33102345879" --address to send outgoing sms to (e.g. server SMS reception number)
--network.pinghost --host for tcpping
--network.pingport --port for tcpping
-- Bearer configuration
network.bearer = {}
--GPRS configuration
-- retry is the number of retries before switching to the next bearer, MANDATORY
--retryperiod is the time (in seconds on linux, in 100ms on openAT) between 2 retries on the same bearer, MANDATORY
network.bearer.GPRS = { retry = 2, retryperiod = 50, apn = "internet-entreprise", username="orange", password="orange"} username and password can be not set if not mandatory by the operator
--If network.bearer.XXX.retry and / or network.bearer.XXX.retryperiod are not specified the NetworkManager will try to use those 'global' setting
--ETHERNET configuration
--ETHERNET with DHCP
-- retry is the number of retries before switching to the next bearer, MANDATORY
--retryperiod is the time (in seconds on linux, in 100ms on openAT) between 2 retries on the same bearer, MANDATORY
--device is the name of the openAT device. This field is used by the driver to initialize correctly the driver. Only m2mboxpro and fastrack are supported today. MANDATORY, OAT DEVICES ONLY
--macaddress is the mac address of the ethernet card. If not defined, the driver will try to retrieve it from flash OAT DEVICES ONLY
network.bearer.ETH = {retry = 2, retryperiod = 5, mode = "dhcp", device='m2mboxpro'}
--ETHERNET with static IP
--network.bearer.ETH = {retry = 2, retryperiod = 5, mode = "static", address = "10.0.2.87", netmask = "255.255.0.0", broadcast = "10.0.255.255", gateway= "10.0.0.254", nameserver1 = "10.6.0.224", nameserver2 = "10.6.0.225"}
Device Management and monitoring settings
--Device Management and monitoring settings
--Activate the Device Management module
device.activate = true
--ip address or host name and port number of the server hosting the ServerAppSide for the TCPRemoteConnect command
--device.tcprconnect ={addr = '10.41.51.50', port = 2065 }
Logging framework
Update framework
Monitoring system
– activate the monitoring
monitoring.activate = true
– gives access to the global environment into the monitoring scripts
monitoring.debug = true
Lua RPC server
– activate LuaRPC server
rpc.activate = true
– optional: define the address to bind the server socket to. default value is 'localhost'
rpc.address = 'localhost'
– optional: define the port to bind the server socket to. default value is 1999
rpc.port = 1999
Data queues
– activate Data queues
data.activate = true
data.queues = { } – list of available Data queues
– Each data queue correspond to a data sending policy, there are three main types of policies:
– manual: data sending is triggered by the user
– cron: data sending is triggered on cron events
– latency: data sending is triggered some times after a data push
data.queues.default = { 'manual' } – default data queue to use when no policy name is used when sending data
data.queues.hourly = { latency = 60*60 }
data.queues.daily = { latency = 24*60*60 }
data.queues.never = { 'manual' }
data.queues.now = { latency = 5 }


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The video that circulated on Egyptian blogs this winter showed Emad Mohamed Ali Mohamed, a 21-year-old bus driver, lying on the floor stripped naked from the waist down–his hands bound behind his back and his legs held in the air. He screams and begs as he is sodomized with a stick while those around him, whose faces are not visible to us, taunt him.
Hours earlier, Ali Mohamed (known among friends as Emad al-Kabir) had been picked up by two plainclothes police officers in Bulaq al-Daqrur, a roughish slum in Giza, across the river from downtown Cairo's crumbling Europeanate area. The young man's offense was venturing to break up a scuffle between police officers and his cousin. Despite the inhospitable treatment he endured, al-Kabir was released thirty-six hours later with no charges to speak of. After all, torture of this variety is commonplace. Protesting its manifestations, or questioning the logic behind it, is usually met with a shrug, even contemptuous indifference.
And so, when it was announced in late December that the two police officers who had supervised the abuse, Capt. Islam Nabih and Cpl. Reda Fathi, had been detained and their case transferred to a criminal court for investigation, it seemed that something had changed. With the simple act of uploading the video to a blog, a web impresario known as Demagh MAK had unleashed a storm of attention both at home and abroad around the case of the diminutive, soft-spoken bus driver. A link to the video, passed around among activists and journalists and posted on YouTube (until it was removed for graphic content), was finally picked up by the more intrepid Egyptian independent papers as well as Arab satellite channels such as Al Jazeera and Dream TV. Even a handful of jihadi websites chimed in, fuming about the excesses of the infidel Egyptian regime. Within days, the video had taken on a life of its own.
Watching the revelations unfold, one couldn't help but think there was more to come. Sure enough, before long another leak–also spread via blogs–revealed a man (later identified as Ahmed Gad) receiving sharp slaps to the face from a belligerent officer. And then came the jarring image of a young woman, ostensibly a murder suspect, pleading for mercy while suspended from a stick held across two chairs, in what seemed a throwback to a medieval interrogation method. Whoever was behind the camera, presumably a police officer, seemed to relish the ability to capture the scene: As the woman screams "Please, ya basha!" (a sign of prostration) over and over, the camera moves in and out, making use, with abandon, of the zoom function.


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Bruins dominate Maple Leafs to win Game 1by Mike G. Morreale / NHL.com
BOSTON -- So now we know why Boston Bruins general manager Peter Chiarelli decided to give veteran defenseman Wade Redden another shot.
Redden proved his GM prophetic Wednesday when he not only scored his first Stanley Cup Playoff goal in six seasons but collected his first multipoint playoff performance in seven to help the Bruins to a 4-1 victory against the Toronto Maple Leafs in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Quarterfinals at TD Garden.
"It was fun to be back out there … that's for sure," Redden told more than a dozen reporters surrounding his locker stall after the game. "I said before, I'm going to get the most out of it. I've been away for a while, so it was good to get back out there."
David Krejci had a goal and two assists, Nathan Horton and Johnny Boychuk each scored once, and Milan Lucic chipped in with two assists to lead the fourth-seeded Bruins. Goalie Tuukka Rask earned his eighth career playoff win with 19 saves. The Bruins will look to gain a 2-0 lead in the best-of-7 series Saturday when Game 2 is held here.
The fifth-seeded Maple Leafs, who opened the game strong but fizzled fast, finished 1-for-3 on the power play. Boston dominated in every fashion, hitting players whenever given the chance and outnumbering them for most loose pucks in the Toronto end. Outside of allowing the opening goal of the game, Boston coach Claude Julien had to be pleased with his team's effort throughout.
"We seemed to be turning the corner the past four games or so, and when you're on a winning streak and you keep winning, you start to see some things happening and it takes a while before you start paying the price for it," Julien said. "[Wednesday], the guys were focused, they were ready, and at the same time, we've been here before, there's some experience behind it. I thought we played a solid game."
The Bruins not only looked to be the better team, but certainly the more experienced. The Maple Leafs had 10 players making their playoff debuts: Tyler Bozak, Mikhail Grabovski, Carl Gunnarsson, Nazem Kadri, Leo Komarov, Michael Kostka, Nikolai Kulemin, Clarke MacArthur, Frazer McLaren and goalie James Reimer.
"I just thought we self-destructed," Maple Leafs coach Randy Carlyle said. "We had a decent start; we scored the first goal and got ourselves on the right track. We had a good forecheck early in the hockey game and then we just stopped. We started to turn the puck over and we fed them and they took advantage of the miscues."
Reimer, under siege much of the evening, finished with 36 saves. Maple Leafs captain Dion Phaneuf said his goalie did the best job he could under the circumstances.
"As a group, and that includes me, we have to be better," Reimer said. "I don't think there's one thing from [Wednesday] that stands out. You just have to find a way to make some of those saves and some of those goals that go in are pucks I could definitely stop. I think it was a tough night and I don't think there was one glaring thing I need to work on. I think we just reset as a group and come back Saturday with a better effort."
Maple Leafs forward Phil Kessel, the former Bruins player who was serenaded with chants of "Kess-el! Kess-el!", was held to one shot in 13:51 of ice time.
"I didn't really pay attention to [the fans]," Kessel said.
The Bruins did what they do best to open the second period, sustaining a ferocious forecheck and getting to every loose puck in the offensive end on the way to scoring twice to open a 4-1 advantage. After yielding the first goal of the game, the Bruins completely took control in every way, shape or form.
"We gave up the early one, but you want to bounce back," Bruins captain Zdeno Chara said. "I thought that we did that and played pretty strong for 60 minutes."
Chara was locked up against Kessel's line most of the night. Julien also opted to have Patrice Bergeron's line with Brad Marchand and Tyler Seguin on the ice whenever Kessel's line was on the ice.
Krejci's turnaround wrist shot from the slot off a feed from Lucic at 10:25 gave the Bruins a 3-1 lead. A little over five minutes later, Boychuk teed up a perfectly placed drop pass by Krejci just inside the blue line at the right point and beat Reimer high to the short side.
"I'm just trying to go out there, do my best and help the team to win games," Krejci said. "As a line [with Lucic and Horton], I think we did a good job. We put the puck in the net. In the playoffs, there's always somebody new to be a hero, so I feel we had a good game, but if we want a good run, we know we're going to need all four lines."
Boston took the lead with 11.7 seconds left when Horton deflected a shot past Reimer with his team on the power play. The goal came nine seconds after Toronto's James van Riemsdyk hit the goalpost with a wrist shot.
Redden took the initial shot from the top of the right circle that Horton deftly knocked down with the blade. Replays of the goal confirmed it was a legal play by Horton, who scored the ninth postseason goal of his career. The assist by Redden marked his first two-point performance in a playoff game since May 5, 2006, when he had three assists as a member of the Ottawa Senators against Buffalo Sabres.
"There's a lot of experience in here and guys have been through it all before," Redden said. "Obviously, you want to do it all the time, but we put it together tonight."
Redden was acquired from the St. Louis Blues in exchange for a conditional NHL Draft pick. Because he has played at least one game in the 2013 Stanley Cup Playoffs, that pick becomes a 2014 sixth-round choice.
Redden, 35, played the first 11 years of his career for Ottawa.
He scored his first playoff goal in six seasons to pull the Bruins into a 1-1 tie with 3:40 remaining in the first period. Gregory Campbell attempted a wraparound at the right post, but the puck came off his stick to Redden near the boards at the top of the left circle. His rising slap shot found space between Reimer's glove hand and pad before skittering over the goal line. The goal was Redden's first postseason marker since May 28, 2007, when he played for the Senators.
The Maple Leafs opened the scoring with a power-play goal by van Riemsdyk 1:54 into the first. Tyler Bozak won an offensive-zone draw, and Cody Franson backhanded a centering attempt that deflected to van Riemsdyk. The big center, standing uncontested in the slot, redirected the puck over the line for his 12th career playoff goal and first with Toronto. The goal came 16 seconds after Bergeron was sent to the box for tripping.
"I think we just got away from our game a bit and what makes us a successful team," van Riemsdyk said. "We will have to get back to that next game."
Bruins defenseman Adam McQuaid helped his team regain a little of the momentum back after the van Riemsdyk goal when he unloaded with a heavy hit on Maple Leafs forward Jay McClement 27 seconds later along the wall in the neutral zone. It almost worked too; Marchand rang a shot off the short side goal post on Reimer from the bottom of the right circle at 4:42.


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It's almost laughable that after 27 games last season, the Bruins actually thought they had a chance to win the Stanley Cup with an offense that wouldn't have put fear in the tiniest of youth hockey teams.
With his two-goal performance last night, Milan Lucic now leads the Bruins with 15 goals and 25 points. Who was last season's leader in those categories? Well, Patrice Bergeron had tallied 21 points 27 games, but just eight goals.
Yes, Lucic has nearly doubled Bergeron's goal total of a season ago at this point. However, Bergeron still led the Bruins in both departments, with Marco Sturm tied with him in goals.
Lucic and Nathan Horton's (22) current point totals would have led the Bruins at this point of last season. And four other players' current point totals would have been good enough for second on the squad last season, as after Bergeron's 21, three Bruins were tied for second with just 14 points. This season, after Lucic and Horton, the Bruins are getting impressive production from David Krejci (19), Mark Recchi (18), Michael Ryder (18) and Bergeron (15).
As a team, the Bruins possess a 5-on-5 goals for/goals against ratio of 1.51. That ranks them second in the NHL just behind Philadelphia. Last season, for the entire campaign, Boston was 19th with a ratio of 0.95.
So entering this season, the Bruins wanted to be a better offensive team. One third of the way through, Boston can check that off their to-do list.


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So make yourself comfortable, pour yourself a glass of vino, and enjoy with me Susan's account of Italy's Women Owned Wineries:
"Lucille Ball lifting up her skirt, jumping into a barrel, and stomping grapes with the peasants might be the first image that comes to mind when you think of Italian women and winemaking. As entertaining as that is, cut to the twenty-first century's more sophisticated and inspiring phenomenon: Italian women have jumped into the art of winemaking and joined the ranks of the country's top producers, winning awards and high scores in wine journals.
It all started in the 1980s, when gutsy Italian women began to move away from their traditional roles. Instead of simply helping out on their family's farms and with marketing, they enrolled in winemaking schools, often where they'd be the lone female in their classroom. In 1988, an organization called Le Donne del Vino (Women of Wine) was formed, and now it has over two hundred members from all over Italy.
Che coincidenza that ever since that time Italian wines have become some of the most beloved in the world. Not only have women brought fresh insights into production, they've also pumped up the marketing, traveling internationally as multilingual ambassadors for Italy's major export. Big wineries like Antinori, Lungarotti, Planeta, Argiolas, and Zenato all have women running them or in top-level positions.
If you're planning on visiting wineries, keep in mind that most aren't set up Napa Valley-style with elaborate tasting rooms and souvenir shops. Once again, a woman, Donatella Cinelli Colombini (profiled below), was on the forefront of Italian wine tourism, founding an organization in 1993, called Movimento Turismo del Vino. It now includes over eight hundred wineries which host events throughout the year. The most famous is Cantine Aperte on the last Sunday in May, when these wineries open their doors to the public. For now, even if a winery's tasting hours are posted, it's best to call ahead to confirm or make an appointment.Here are a few of the many places where women reign:
Tuscany: Val d'Orcia–BrunelloSouth of Siena, the landscape opens to rolling hills graced with stately cypress trees, stone farmhouses, olive groves, and vineyards. Here's where Brunello di Montalcino, one of Italy's most prestigious wines, is born.
❁ Casato Prime Donne, Donatella Cinelli ColombiniThis place is exceptional for two reasons: It's the only winery in Italy (maybe anywhere) that has an all-female staff, and it produces award-winning Brunello that made history as the first to be designed by an all-female panel of experts. Trailblazer Donatella moved on from her family's renowned wine business in 1998 to create two Tuscan wineries. Both have brought her great success, including the Best Wine Producer in Italy award from the Italian Sommeliers Association.A visit to her Casato Prime Donne, a converted sixteenth-century hunting lodge, is not only a wonderful tasting experience. The grounds have been transformed into an open-air museum, inspiring peaceful wandering. Paths amidst the hilly vineyards have rest spots with contemporary artwork or engraved quotations from winners of the Casato Prime Donne award, given annually to a female who has promoted women's roles in society. Among previous awardees are the Cabrinian nuns and the ballerina Carla Fracci. The engraved quotation on Fracci's signpost says: "Look around, you are in the moral center of the world."Guided tours in English are available Monday-Friday, and by appointment on Saturday and Sunday.
❁ Fattoria Resta, Anna Lisa Tempestini"Earthy and soulful," is what I'd call Anna Lisa's Martin del Nero Rosso Orcia wine. I would describe her the same way. Her passion for sharing her passion of the Val d'Orcia, a place she's called home for twenty years, is deep. In only half a day with her, I felt plugged into the spirit, and flavors of this place.Though she grew up in cities, Anna Lisa is a country girl at heart. She was born in Chicago and moved to Florence with her family when she was four. Her love for wine began when she was nineteen, working in the PR department of Florence's Chianti Consortium and slipping next door to taste top DOCG wines. Yearning to work in the vineyards, she quit her job and headed to the Val d'Orcia.
I meet her twenty years later, with a husband and three kids, living in a converted monastery that overlooks her very own vineyard. We taste her wonderful wine, her olive oil, there's even some balsamic vinegar she's working on. As Anna Lisa is part American, she especially enjoys visitors from the States, and she's sought after for her custom-designed winery tours and cooking classes. "Each tour is an adventure for me, as well as my guests," she said.My tour included lunch at the Vineria Le Potazzine, in the heart of the nearby medieval hilltop town of Montalcino. Wine bottles surround us as we dig into homemade pici with sugo di cinghiale (thick spaghetti pasta with a sauce of tomato and wild boar). We taste a rich, delicate Le Potazzine Brunello, made by Anna Lisa's girlfriend Gigliola and her husband. Potazzine are the little, colorful birds that flit about these parts, and also a word used as a term of endearment for children.As we're sitting there, Gigliola's two young potazzine burst in from the school bus. They're wearing matching grape-colored turtlenecks. Full of energy, the girls spin around, kiss their parents, then settle down for lunch. That's just how idyllic life can be around here.By appointment. Winery tours and cooking classes also available.
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Piedmont: Le Langhe–BaroloWest of Alba, the northern Italian town that's famous for its white truffles, is a graceful wide valley of lush vineyards—Le Langhe—where Barolo, the "King of Wines" is produced. It was a woman, Marchesa Giulia Colbert, who made Barolo famous in the nineteenth century. She wanted somethiing better than the wine that was being produced from the grapes growing around her Piedmont castle. So she called in a French wine expert to make wine similar to a Bordeaux. She was so happy with the result, she sent cartloads of it to the King of Savoy in Turin. It became a hit there and all over the courts of Europe.
❁ Marchesi di Barolo, Anna AbbonaAnna has been married for twenty-eight years to Ernesto Abbona, whose family has owned this prestigious winery since the early twentieth century. She's a glamorous VIP of the wine world and when I met her she graciously took a break from a meeting with producers to sit with me in the dining room, which she also oversees. By the way, you must make a reservation to have lunch here to enjoy Piemontese specialties such as brasato—veal braised in Barolo. "My husband is home resting from the weekend," she said. "We women are stronger!"The winery is a grand butter-yellow complex that sits across from the Barolo castle where Marchesa Giulia Colbert once reigned. It originated as the headquarters for the Opera Pia Barolo, a charitable foundation Giulia created to help the town's needy, which the Abbona family keeps going. On a tour, you get to see the original barrels used in Giulia's day, and there's an incredible wine library, with a bottle of Barolo from 1859 as well as shelves that hold vintages from 1938 on up—totaling 35,000 bottles.Call for appointment and restaurant reservation (017 356 4400).
❁ Pira & Figli Estate, Chiara Boschis"The Barolo Boys and One Girl" was written on a t-shirt for a promotional tour for Barolo in the 1980s. That one girl was Chiara Boschis, who was put in charge of this place in 1990. Chiara says that since her parents never treated her any differently than her brothers (who taught her winemaking), working in the male Barolo world has never been a problem. Chiara's an exceptionally attractive woman who makes a silky and refined Barolo. It's won many awards and turned a spotlight onto this small winery that puts out a limited produc-tion. The winery offers accommodations in a renovated farmhouse on the outskirts of Barolo—a perfect agriturismo base to explore the abundance of delicious wines in the region. Movimento Turismo del Vino: www.movimentoturismovino.it
SUSAN'S SUGGESTED TOURSTerre di Emozioni (www.terrediemozioni.com)—Land of Emotions in English—is an Italian tour operator that offers explorations of the wineries of Piedmont.
SUSAN'S RECOMMENDED READINGBarolo, by Matthew Gavin Frank; also excerpted in The Best Travel Writing 2008 and The Best Travel Writing 2009 edited by James O'Reilly, Larry Habegger, and Sean O'Reilly
Adventures in Wine, edited by Thom Elkje."
{ Excerpt courtesy Susan Van Allen and Travelers' Tales }
About the author: Susan Van Allen's passion for Italy stems from her maternal grandparents, who emigrated from Southern Italy to the US. When she first stepped off the train into Roma Termini in 1976, she was immediately hooked on Italian travel. Since that day she's explored Italy up and down the peninsula–visiting relatives, immersing herself in the country's masterpieces and culture, taking language and cooking classes, and going on boating, biking, and hiking adventures.
The best book of the year for traveling women is available online and in bookstores near you.


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Wild looking to Xcel at home
It says energy on the building.
The Minnesota Wild hope it means they will regain enough energy to win inside their home barn.
After two losses to start the Western Conference semifinal series against the Chicago Blackhawks, Wild head coach Mike Yeo's plan for his players was as much to recharge as much as anything else.
The desired effect would be to more focused when the series resumes Tuesday night at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul.
"I feel last game, it looked like maybe a lack of energy caused some things tactically where we weren't sharp enough," Yeo said Monday. "Puck support, in particular for me, and just sort of the spacing between our players, whether it's in our checking game or whether it's when we have the puck. Again, a little more jump, a little more in our step, and the difference … is big."
Big enough to erase a 2-0 deficit for the second consecutive Stanley Cup playoff series?
Time will tell, although that would seem a Paul Bunyan-sized order.
The Wild have managed to be tied in the third period of both losses to start the series, but the defending Cup champions from Chicago pulled away for three-goal victories on both occasions.
"We definitely haven't shown what we're capable of," winger Charlie Coyle said. "We haven't been on our game. We haven't had that grittiness that we brought last series. I think being at home right now is good for us and usually brings out the best in us, being here and playing here.
"I think the last two games we've kind of just got caught playing their way. We need to get back to playing our game and doing what we do best. When we play our game and we're on, we play good. Sometimes during the game, some things don't go your way, you kind of change up what you're doing right. I think we did that the last two games."
There may be something to the fatigue factor coming into play, combined with an emotional ride.
Minnesota went straight to Chicago and kicked off the second-round series on Friday, two days after claiming Game 7 in Denver in overtime to upset the Colorado Avalanche. A couple of nights in their own beds may do the Wild players a world of good.
"You get so high up after that Game 7 win and you feel great," Coyle said. "Then you go to Chicago and I don't know if we just kind of went through the motions or why after that such a high. You lose that game and all of a sudden it feels like it's the end of the world again. We've got to get back to staying on that even-keel and not getting too high or too low. As of right now, we've got to put those games behind us.
"There's nothing to save it for now. It's end of the year, playoff time. We need to get our energy up. We know we still have it. We've just got to go out and prove it and show it. We have to the team to do it. We've done it before. We did it last series when things weren't going our way and we changed things around."
The Wild certainly need something to change the fortunes. Counting last year's series, which Chicago won in five games, Minnesota has lost six of seven playoff meetings with the Blackhawks.
"I don't feel that there's any mental block with this team," defenceman Clayton Stoner said. "The last two games, I felt we could win both games and we're not that far off. It's not like they're killing us out there. They're capitalizing on their chances and we're not.
"I think the belief in the room is very strong. As much as we respect them, I don't think that we think they're a better team."
Chicago centre Andrew Shaw, who was injured in the series opener and was out of action for Game 2, didn't make the trip and won't play Tuesday. "We still think he's going on the next part of this trip and could play Friday," head coach Joel Quenneville … The Blackhawks will not remain in Minnesota between the two games in St. Paul, opting to return home instead … Friday's Game 4 will start at 7:30 p.m. EST … Wild winger Matt Cooke, suspended seven games for his knee-on-knee hit on Colorado's Tyson Barrie in the first round, will serve the final game of his banishment on Tuesday.


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Me, Myself & We: The only sober one a very big family ...
So, 11 days before I turn 30 years old,I experience a complete "Soul Shift", (I'll speak in non concluding terms) literally within a three hour time period. It all started when I decided to figure out who I was, so I pulled up "Wikipedia" and did a simple search on the name Jonathan. I had known what the name meant however, I wanted to explore all of the "thesauracle" meanings and "disambiguations" associated with my name. After all, it had been 29 yrs 344 days and 21 hours since I could remember why I ha to strugle for so long.(other than the sel sabotage and bad decisions of course)
About halfway through my exploration and research; keep in mind I had been an Investigator for nearly 11 years, so I was not lacking in the research and directional values to take while doing so... Continuing very attentive at this point, a click after click after pop up (you know how that is) led me to a gentleman by the name of Burt Goldman, aka: The American Monk. At this point, I researched the site and the concept he had and is currently teaching is calle Quantum Jumping. "WTF is that" I said to myself. Although I could remember 26 numbers of Pi, and won my sixth grade memorization competition mind you, I was terrible at math even though I could memorize numbers and anything else I "needed" to.
Listening to a teaser type web clip, the magnificent 83 year-old who looks 50 walked me through my first "Jump" and introduced me to my "Doppleganger" so I could "clear some things up" for those who don't know, a Doppleganger is just another orm of youself in an alternate/hypnotistic state. After we spoke and shook hands, we parted ways, I walked through and closed the door behind me and ascended back up the 11 steps I walked down and then snap, came to..
From that day forward my life has never been the same and one by one I noticed my friends and family members starting to, what I percieved as "letting me go" however, to this day I will not make that "SNAP judgement". My 30th was on March 9th, today is September 8th and pretty much every single family member and friend I have (except one of each) thinks I am absolutely knuts, and need to be institutionalized because "it's my issue and problem that I am not dealing with reality". HA!! lol.... I have been to the county psych ward twice since June and have passed with "flying" ;) colors... That is where this chapter will be placed on a "To Be Continued" status until further, near future correspondance and gratitutde between myself and Snap are a bit more concrete.. Although, I ill say that I have been recruited and am now attending school, writing poetry and a "story", similar to "One flew over the Coo Coo's Nest"
I have a completely mind blowing conclusion to this story that is still playing out that you and listeners will not want to miss. It may actually take the "judgement" out of Snap and replace it with "Snap, We're Here", or something o the sort.... LOL ;)
I am crazy though. I have come to terms with that. I have decided that I am knuckin futz because everyone else has the same definition and falls under the classification of what "Normal" is....
I can't begin to express my gracious gratitiude for your time and consideration... I look forward to a very exciting and fun filled story time with my friends who speak through frequency modulation and vibrational activation rhythyms... (hee hee)
Always & Only, In Love & Light...
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Matt Damon recalls when a Holocaust survivor spoke to his Facing History and Ourselves class when he was in middle school. The experience of hearing the survivor's personal story changed his attitude about school. It was the first time that he felt history was relevant to his life.


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Wayne D. Bottom writes about a safety issue from fading paint marking the turn lanes on Northwest Eighth Avenue at Newberry Road.
Wayne D. Bottom writes about a safety issue from fading paint marking the turn lanes on Northwest Eighth Avenue at Newberry Road.
"I feel that the white lines dividing the two lanes on 8th have become so light in color that I notice that traffic making the turn onto 8th are demonstrating that they frequently are almost into the wrong lane because the white lines are not clear to see," Bottom said in an email. "It would not (take) half an hour to simply paint the lines."
Bottom added that the work needs to be done before the big-picture future of Eighth Avenue, which is starting to be considered by the city, is settled.
The intersection is under the jurisdiction of the Florida Department of Transportation because Newberry is a state road. District DOT spokeswoman Gina Busscher said in an email that staff will check out the situation.
"Our maintenance office will review it on Tuesday (Monday is a state holiday). They will make it a priority," Busscher said.
Meanwhile, Gainesville Public Works Department spokesman Chip Skinner said the city has jurisdiction for Eighth Avenue leading into the intersection.
"Typically, we restripe the major city streets every seven years, and typically we have enough funding to stripe about seven miles a year," Skinner said.
Meanwhile, anyone traveling into Georgia on Interstate 75 can count on some delays. Resurfacing started last week on a 9.5-mile section from the state line to State Road 6 in Hamilton County and is expected to be completed in the summer.
Busscher said in a news release that a reduced speed of 60 mph in the construction zone will be enforced. No work will be done on the weekends.