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Support from Alumni, Parents, and Friends
Alumni, parents, and other supporters provide vital support to Dartmouth Football through a variety of means as described below. Please note that all such involvement must comply with NCAA and Ivy League regulations. For further information or clarification on NCAA or Ivy League rules, call the Dartmouth Athletics compliance office at (603) 646-1496 or email email@example.com.
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Official Friends of Dartmouth Football web site
The Friends of Dartmouth Football — more than 1,000 strong and growing — is a major factor in the team's success, providing support for video equipment, weight room equipment, annual team banquet, part-time coaches' salaries, travel warm-up gear, championship banners, and other vital needs that cannot be covered by the College's budget but are essential to operating a first-class varsity program. Many Friends are also actively involved in Dartmouth Football's annual Career Day and provide career advice, internships, and job opportunities for Big Green players. At home games, Friends are invited to visit the Friends/Sponsors tent for pre- and post-game receptions. Contributors also receive Coach Buddy Teevens's newsletter and are invited to participate in the annual Dartmouth Football Golf Classic. To become a Friend of Dartmouth Football please email email@example.com.
Contributions of any amount are gratefully appreciated.
Your Friends donation is tax deductible, is included in the Campaign for the Dartmouth Experience, and will be used exclusively for the support of Dartmouth Football. As a restricted gift, it cannot be credited to the Dartmouth College Fund, which is comprised of unrestricted gifts used across the College. If you prefer to make your donation by check, just send it to Friends of Dartmouth Football, 6083 Alumni Gymnasium, Hanover, NH 03755.
Interviews, Internships, Jobs -- Many alumni have volunteered and participated in a program that helps Dartmouth players explore different career fields with informational interviews, secure off-campus internships (usually during sophomore winter-spring), and generally helps Big Green student-athletes plan for their futures. This formalized relationship with alumni, and their business and professional organizations, gives Dartmouth football players greater opportunities to identify undergraduate internships and post-college job opportunities.
How Do I Learn More and Join?
The Friends of Dartmouth Football always encourages new members to join in this opportunity to support Big Green football. Interested parties should contact the Dartmouth Football Office at (603) 646-2467 or email email@example.com.
Identifying Outstanding Prospects
More than 1000 Dartmouth alumni, parents, and other supporters are currently members of the Athletic Sponsor Program, which provides vital recruiting resources for all of Dartmouth's varsity sports. The Sponsor Program is the sole source of funds for bringing more than 200 top athletic prospects to the campus each year for a first-hand view of the Dartmouth Experience. Additional Sponsor funds are allocated for coaches' recruiting trips, cell phones, and recruiting vehicles. In the event gifts exceed expenses, a portion of the unexpended gifts may also be transferred into a fund for long-term support of our coaches' recruiting efforts. (Click here for a complete description of the fund including provisions for alternate uses.)
All Sponsors receive our quarterly online newsletter, Peak, and are welcome to attend tent receptions prior to home football games. At certain membership levels, you are also informed of the specific athlete whose recruiting trip your donation made possible, so you can follow his or her progress through four years at Dartmouth. Please note the following giving levels and special benefits:
|Assigned a specific recruit every 3-4 years, so you'll always have a current student-athlete
|Assigned a specific recruit every 1-2 years and listed in our Leadership Sponsors display in Alumni Gym
|Assigned a recruit every year and listed in our Leadership display.
|Assigned a recruit every year, listed in Leadership display and VIP Reception with President Phil Hanlon '77 and AD Harry Sheehy for Homecoming
Your contribution is tax deductible. As a restricted gift, it is not part of the Dartmouth College Fund, but donations from alumni are recognized and included in overall Class totals. The Sponsor Program is entirely separate from individual sports' Friends groups. Checks should be payable to Dartmouth Athletic Sponsors, 6083 Alumni Gym, Hanover, NH 03755. For more information, please email firstname.lastname@example.com or call (603) 646-2463.
Dedicated supporters of Dartmouth Athletics are often interested in providing financial support that may be utilized at the discretion of the Director of Athletics and Recreation for the Athletic Department's broad-based program of NCAA Division I varsity athletics, club sports, intramurals, physical education, fitness classes, and other recreational offerings. Your donation to this fund is tax deductible and is included in the Campaign for the Dartmouth Experience. As a restricted gift, it cannot be credited to the Dartmouth College Fund, which is comprised of unrestricted gifts used across the College. For more information, contact email@example.com or at (603) 646-2463.
The Dartmouth Athletics Endowment (DAE) provides a permanent source of income to support the College's broad-based athletic and recreational programs. Annual income from gifts to the DAE helps secure the future of programs in which Dartmouth student-athletes can pursue excellence for generations to come. For more information regarding endowment opportunities, contact email@example.com or at (603) 646-2463.


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NHL poised to pull plug on games
As NHL Lockout 3.0 moved through Day 2 Monday, there again were no formal talks between the league and the NHL players association on a new collective bargaining agreement.
Instead, it appears the infuriating situation is only moving in the opposite direction: an entrenchment on both sides for what appears will be a prolonged impasse.
As more players departed for Europe, preparations are being made by the NHL to announce in the next couple of days the cancellation of the first wave of exhibition games, which were scheduled to start Sunday with the Ottawa Senators visiting the Montreal Canadiens at the Bell Centre.
There are 10 exhibition games scheduled for Monday, including the Senators at the Toronto Maple Leafs, the Buffalo Sabres at Montreal, the unique idea of split squads of Vancouver Canucks and Calgary Flames each hosting a game against each other and the Winnipeg Jets at the Edmonton Oilers.
The Nashville Predators and the Florida Panthers are scheduled to have a split-squad doubleheader in Florida Monday with one game at 2:30 p.m. and the other at 7 p.m.
As things stands now, all those games are in peril.
Some teams have already announced refund policies in the event of exhibition and/or regular-season games being cancelled.
On the Montreal Canadiens official website, the pre-sale of single-game tickets for both exhibition and regular-season games has been cancelled "and will be pushed back to a later date. We apologize for any inconvenience."
There are considerations to be made in the timing of the cancellations.
Having already disappointed its fans, the league will want to consider not ticking them off further with last-minute cancellations. The league will want to give them time to make adjustments to travel plans for those who might have been planning to attend exhibition games. There are also the logistics involved in getting teams to the cities in which they are scheduled to play and flights and hotel reservations to be cancelled.
Given the logistics of getting players back from Europe and into training camp when or if there is a settlement, it will probably take a couple of days for players to report to their respective NHL cities. Teams will likely want to practice for a couple of days before having their first exhibition games, so it is possible the league will cancel exhibition games in at least four-day blocks or perhaps as much as a week at a time.
There's no calculating at this point what has been the damage to league business. The cancellation of exhibition games, particularly those in Canada where, for the most part, the games are usually played in nearly full buildings at close to regular-season prices, the loss in revenue will be tangible.
Tickets for an exhibition game between the Leafs and the Philadelphia Flyers at the John Labatt Centre in London, for example, ranged from $65 to $100. That's a decent night's haul.
Teams have not yet started paying players — that doesn't happen until the regular season is under way — so the revenue from exhibition games for those teams fortunate enough to attract decent crowds is close to found money.
I know for a few people, missing a few exhibition games is viewed as doing the game a favour, but, once again, it will be some of the league's fans who will be hurt. Go to an NHL exhibition game and see how many kids are there. Season-ticket holders often don't go to the games, to the benefit of young fans, and many clubs run ticket promotions for pre-season games that make it affordable for families to at least see a few regular NHL players play live.
For fans of some of the big-market teams, exhibition games represent a rare opportunity to get a team to see their team's colours live, given regular-season tickets are hard to come by.
So, again, the impending cancellation of those exhibition games because of the lockout will likely zing those fans the most.
Top five exhibition games on chopping block
The NHL is preparing to cancel the first wave of pre-season games, barring a miracle resolution to the impasse in collective bargaining talks between the league and its players.
The exhibition schedule was set to begin Sunday.
Here's a look at the top five pre-season games (I know, that sounds like an oxymoron) that are in the most peril of being cancelled during the next few days:
1. In an interesting concept which we've seen in baseball's spring training, the Vancouver Canucks and Calgary Flames are scheduled to have a pair of split-squad games next Monday. One is to be played in Calgary and the other in Vancouver.
2. Also next Monday, the Nashville Predators and Florida Panthers are scheduled to have split-squad games, with both to be played in Florida, one in the afternoon and one at night. I know, two games featuring the Predators and Panthers in one day; the league cancelling those would be doing many fans a favour.
3. The Toronto Maple Leafs and Ottawa Senators are scheduled to renew the Battle of Ontario next Monday night. Exhibition or not, there's always the potential for fireworks. I know some fans will say it's interesting the Leafs don't have any split-squad games. Insert your own joke.
4. The Senators are scheduled to start the pre-season schedule Sunday with a visit to Montreal. Exhibition game or not, the Bell Centre always rocks.
5. The Winnipeg Jets are scheduled next Monday to visit the Edmonton Oilers. Getting a look at the young Oilers, if they decide to dress all their top picks, would be fun.

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Woodworm issues are to blame for the state of the flag on top of a Ripley town centre church.
The ladder leading to the tower at All Saints' Church, Church Street, Ripley, has woodworm, making it impossible to get to the flag, which is now in a poor state.
This week the church apologised for the poor condition of the flag, but said health and safety reasons due to woodworm affecting the ladder were to blame.
Church warden Elaine Joel said: "We would like to apologise to the town for the poor condition of the flag."
However specialists were due at the church tomorrow, April 25, to deal with the problem, she said.


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Personally I don't care about spoilers too much and I used to only watch anime. I was just against manga because I loved seeing the series come to life so to speak. These days I am the opposite and read manga primarily with just a few series that I watch. With that being said I don't see why it has to be on other people to try and avoid spoilers just because they like something more than the other. It isn't hard to use spoiler tags so if you just use them then people won't complain and you won't have to make threads about those complaints. It just kind of seems like you want to be lazy with posts and put everything off on the other people.
Not really and I often use spoiler tags if I feel I'm giving direct spoilers.
Let's go back in time to where Naruto fights Pain in the manga and the anime isn't there yet. If I post on the episode "I can't wait until Naruto fights Pain" if you have a problem with something like this, you should be reading the manga.
Now if I wanted to post
Spoiler Alert! Click to show or hide
Naruto defeats Pain and convinces pain to believe in him so he resurrects everyone he killed in the attack on konoha
I would use spoiler tags
Well then I take back what I said. That example seems fair enough to me and shouldn't really warrant any complaints. I suppose it also all just depends on how important the information is. Naruto fighting Pain isn't much of a spoiler given how the story typically goes and has progressed since that point where it would just make sense that they would fight each other at some point. In my opinion it is just the things people wouldn't expect to happen and major story events that just need spoiler tags. I suppose some people would be picky enough to not want any info at all and I would have to say they need to eff off and chill out because it would just be unreasonable.
Yeah I think people think I'm going around posting things like
Naruto Spoilers
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Neji dies
Bleach Spoilers
Spoiler Alert! Click to show or hide
Yamamoto Dies
all willy nilly for no reason
f u.
Purple wedding - greatest wedding in TV history
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No offense, but this thread is retarded.
Just for example; if you love watching Twilight in theaters and aren't interested or don't have time for the books, would you want someone telling you what happens in the final one, when they've only released two?
Of course not.
For a movie trilogy, saga, whatever, you want to have the full experience and you can't get that when someone's telling you everything that will happen.
What's so hard to understand about that? If they want a spoiler, they'll ask for one. That's why CR has the hide spoiler option. People should be allowed the decision, not have it forced down their throats.
I think he just wants to complain about it himself, the answer to his question has been given already a few times, in different examples, and he still presses the matter. At least, that's what I observed out of skimming all the posts.
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If I get spoiled about an ending of a series or a game, doesn't mean that I will stop playing it or stop watching it, but me enjoying the game/series will be reduced a lot, because then I know what is going to happen.. But there are exceptions.. Like comedy, you can't really spoil a comedy unless you spoil every single joke that is in the series -.- So that counts aswell..
But a example which I think most would agree with is... If I were to spoil a series like Death Note... Code Geass... People would really get angry, because they are so much focused at the plot of the story, in which case, it would definitely reduce the enjoyment of the series
what is this cr stuff
It is all for the excitement...
If "Nobody" is indestructible...Then I'm "Nobody"....!!!
Are you kidding me? You expect people to read through 700 chapters, and that's your reason to be an ass? Yeah, it's 50% pictures, it's freaking manga after all. Just because people are not as hard core as you, it doesn't mean they don't care. Just like how I won't bother reading harry potter 100000 books but I still wouldn't want to know the ending. People just don't care as much.
If people don't like manga, then they don't. It doesn't matter how easy it is to read through it. People won't do things they don't like, *news flash*
You're going to spoil other people's enjoyment just because you can? What about the people who actually do read the excruciating long manga
"too bad, you weren't reading fast enough"
get em teddy ◟ʕ╬ᴥ╬ ◟ʔ
I'll never understand dumbness.
The new naruto game doesn't show rarely any spoilers it's just a game ffs.
Hahahaha I just reread the original post and it makes even less sense now. I swear though the worst spoiling jackasses are on YouTube. I got the ending to the Sixth Sense spoiled on there and I've never gotten over it. Bastards.
I'm in agreement with a lot of other people, this thread is pretty stupid. One piece is my favourite anime and the reason I don't read the manga is because of the amount I care, as I'll enjoy watching the anime more. It's pretty hard not read the manga sometimes as I wanna know what happens in the story and I for sure don't want any spoilers, I mean how hard is it to put something in spoiler tags.
Well, I don't agree with the part about not caring enough if you aren't up-to-date with the latest because I personally like to let new episodes build up til I have a good number to watch all at once (hate cliffhangers <-<) But, it IS ridiculous to complain about spoilers if all you do is browse forums looking for people to talk about anime or manga with, or watch videos on youtube.
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TPS707xx family devices are designed to provide a complete power management solution for the TMS320 DSP family, processor power, ASIC, FPGA, and digital applications where dual output voltage regulators are required. Easy programmability of the sequencing function makes the TPS707xx family ideal for any TMS320 DSP applications with power sequencing requirements. Differentiated features, such as accuracy, fast transient response, SVS supervisory circuit, manual reset inputs, and an enable function, provide
a complete system solution.
The TPS707xx family of voltage regulators offer very low dropout voltage and dual outputs with power-up sequence control, which is designed primarily for DSP applications. These devices have extremely low noise output performance without using any added filter bypass capacitors and are designed to have a fast transient
response and be stable with 10µF low ESR capacitors.
These devices have fixed 3.3V/2.5V, 3.3V/1.8V, 3.3V/1.5V, 3.3V/1.2V, and adjustable/adjustable voltage options. Regulator 1 can support up to 250mA, and regulator 2 can support up to 125mA. Separate voltage inputs allow the designer to configure the source power.
Because the PMOS device behaves as a low-value resistor, the dropout voltage is very low (typically 83mV on regulator 1) and is directly proportional to the output current. Additionally, because the PMOS pass element is a voltage-driven device, the quiescent current is very low and independent of output loading (maximum of 230µA over the full range of output current). This LDO family also features a sleep mode; applying a high signal to EN (enable) shuts down both regulators, reducing the input current to 1µA at TJ = +25°C.
The device is enabled when the EN pin is connected to a low-level input voltage. The output voltages of the two
regulators are sensed at the VSENSE1 and VSENSE2 pins, respectively.
The input signal at the SEQ pin controls the power-up sequence of the two regulators. When the device is enabled and the SEQ terminal is pulled high or left open, VOUT2 turns on first and VOUT1 remains off until VOUT2
reaches approximately 83% of its regulated output voltage. At that time VOUT1 is turned on. If VOUT2 is pulled below 83% (for example, an overload condition), VOUT1 is turned off. Pulling the SEQ terminal low reverses the power-up order and VOUT1 is turned on first. The SEQ pin is connected to an internal pull-up current source.
For each regulator, there is an internal discharge transistor to discharge the output capacitor when the regulator is turned off (disabled).
The PG1 pin reports the voltage conditions at VOUT1, which can be used to implement an SVS for the circuitry supplied by regulator 1.
The TPS707xx features a RESET (SVS, POR, or Power-On Reset). RESET output initiates a reset in DSP systems and related digital applications in the event of an undervoltage condition. RESET indicates the status of VOUT2 and both manual reset pins (MR1 and MR2). When VOUT2 reaches 95% of its regulated voltage and MR1 and MR2 are in the logic high state, RESET goes to a high impedance state after a 120ms delay. RESET goes to the logic low state when the VOUT2 regulated output voltage is pulled below 95% (for example, an overload condition) of its regulated voltage. To monitor VOUT1, the PG1 output pin can be connected to MR1 or MR2.
The device has an undervoltage lockout (UVLO) circuit that prevents the internal regulators from turning on until VIN1 reaches 2.5V.


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This painting of the Bronte Cottage found on South End Road shows the garden in full bloom. The home is one of a block if Regency buildings common to that section of Hampstead.
Bronte Cottage is well known as the former residence of artist Mary Hill (1870-1947). She is particularly well known for her book Hampstead in Light and Shade and her postcards of Hampstead.


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Expanding possibilities for people with vision loss
Video description (sometimes called "audio description" or simply "description") makes television programs and movies accessible for people who are blind or visually impaired.
Short verbal descriptions of action or key visual scenes in a program, such as the setting, costumes, and facial expressions, are provided to add context. The descriptions are inserted into pauses within a program's dialogue. Video description helps people who are blind or visually impaired to gain more complete access to the content of TV programs and movies and thereby more fully participate in society.
The American Council of the Blind has set up a very informative web page on description at www.acb.org/adp . This page includes information about many aspects of description including television, movies, and other content.
Quick Keys: Play/Pause (ALT-SHIFT-P) Stop (ALT-SHIFT-X)Forward (ALT-SHIFT-W)Rewind (ALT-SHIFT-Q) Full Screen (ALT-SHIFT-F-ENTER) Closed Captions if available (ALT-SHIFT-C)
This American Foundation for the Blind Accessible Video Player ™ was created by AFB Copyright © 2015.
Jeff Corwin: Hey there. I'm Jeff Corwin. So you can enjoy the full TV experience, many shows now provide video description. Many people who are blind or have difficulty understanding visual cues find video description helpful. Description is available through your TV set-up menu.Jeff Corwin:
Watch this:
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Jeff: There are its tentacles, and there's its mouth.
Male narrator's voice: For more information, visit afb.org.Male narrator's voice:
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Most of the Javascript controls on a UX component support the concept of 'sub-themes'. This topic discusses how user-defined sub-themes can be added to a UX component.
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The sub-theme sets style and behavior properties of the control. Out of the box, each control type comes with one or more built-in sub-theme. For example, the Button control type comes with the following built-in sub-themes:
Every control type has a sub-theme of 'base' and this sub-theme is implied if no sub-theme is explicitly set. The sub-themes for a given style (e.g. iOS, MobBlue, etc.) are defined in the style.js file in the folder with the same name as the style. (e.g. CSS\iOS\style.js) Developers can define their own sub-themes by adding code to the style.js file, (in which case the new sub-theme will be available to all components that use a particular style), or by adding the sub-theme in as a 'locally' defined sub-theme as part of the UX component.
To define a local sub-theme, use these properties in the UX builder:
A sub-theme typically has both a Javascript aspect to it and a CSS aspect. In the image below, a window with the default appearance for a window using the iOS theme is shown. In the builder where this window was defined, no sub-theme was specified (which means that the 'base' window sub-theme was used)
However, in this next image, a custom sub-theme for the window was used. The appearance of the window has been completely changed as a result of applying the sub-theme. Notice that the window does not have a title, it is semi transparent (you can see the controls that are behind it), and the close button is positioned slightly above and to the right of the top right corner of the window.
To define this new window sub-theme, the following code was added in the 'Local sub-themes definition - Javascript' property of the UX component:
In addition, the following code was added in the 'Local sub-themes definition - CSS' property:
The Javascript shown above for the local sub-theme definition is a simple JSON object. The JSON object defines an object called 'window' which is the type of control for which the sub-theme is being defined. Within the 'window' object, a sub-theme called 'customSubTheme' has been defined. In this case only additional sub-theme for the 'window' class was defined, but you would define an unlimited number of window sub-themes. The sub-theme simply defines CSS class names to use for various aspects of the window and also defines other properties. For example, the 'inset' and 'verticalInset' properties define the placement of the window 'tools' relative to the top, right corner of the window (in this case, the only 'tool' is the close button).
It's a scary time for the whole family when a child has been diagnosed with kidney failure. Dialysis can help a child survive an acute episode of kidney failure or stay healthy until a donated kidney becomes available. At University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital, children are treated at the Pediatric Dialysis Center, the only facility of its kind in Iowa. Our staff is dedicated to helping your child get the care he or she needs in order to lead the most normal life possible.
The kidneys remove waste products and extra water from the blood. If the kidneys do not work properly, your child will need some help to do this work. At UI Stead Family Children's Hospital our patients are treated through hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis (both center and home-based therapies). Each type of dialysis will affect your family's lifestyle. Your doctor and nurses will help you choose the one that is best for your child. Each situation is different.
With hemodialysis, your child's blood passes through a filter to remove waste products, extra salt, and extra water. Hemodialysis helps control blood pressure and keeps the proper balance of potassium, sodium, calcium, and bicarbonate in the body. Hemodialysis is done at the Pediatric Dialysis Center, typically three times a week. Patients are connected to a machine that removes waste products and extra water from their blood, doing the work of a healthy kidney. Each dialysis session lasts up to four hours.
Peritoneal dialysis uses the lining of your child's abdomen, called the peritoneal membrane, to filter blood. Fluid is put in the patient's abdomen through a small, flexible tube called a peritoneal dialysis catheter and flushed out either every night while the patient sleeps (automatic peritoneal dialysis) or by regular exchanges throughout the day (continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis). This type of dialysis can be performed at home each day with the help of family members.
Dialysis is a life-saving treatment, but chronic kidney failure can bring on emotional, social, medical and financial issues and stresses for children and their families. Our staff is committed to lessening the burden of dialysis on patients and their families through supportive child and family-centered care.
The child-friendly Pediatric Dialysis Center was made possible with the support of Walmart and Sam's Club, whose associates raised and donated $400,000 for the project through Children's Miracle Network Hospitals.
You can utilize Individually Assign to assign material to individual or select students in a folder that contains Student Completion Rules . Students who are not individually assigned to the material or folder will automatically see the folder as Completed.
Check Student Progress
As students complete student completion rules, you can view each student's progress by clicking the Student Progress button at the top of the page within a folder or at the top of the Materials page.Student Progress
Use the Excused Exception to Bypass Completion Rules
Instructors who use Student Completion Rules may need to bypass one or more required assignments for a variety of reasons.For example, if a student is absent and makes up a required assignmentwith a different make-up project, or a student is new to class and doesn't need to start at the beginning of a folder with completion rules.
In these situations, instructors can use the Excused exception in their gradebook to bypass one or more materialswith completion rules applied.Excused
To apply the Excused exception,hover your mouse pointer over the cell for the material in your gradebook, click the flag that displays, and select Excused :
Now whenthe student opens the StudentProgress view, the material is marked as Excused andthe student may continue through the materials in the Student Completion series.
My studentis reporting she completed a rule, but she is unable to proceed to the next required item
If you are experiencing trouble with the Student Progress report, start by rechecking student progress to refresh the report:Recheck Student Progress
If you are still experiencing any difficulty with Student Completion Rules and Student Progress, contact the Schoology Help Desk.
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The following is a statement from the Georgia Legislative Black Caucus regarding Rep. Tyrone Brooks, a longtime civil rights activist and a Georgia State Representative. Brooks was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges that he misappropriated almost $1 million in charitable funds from Universal Humanities, a charity he founded in 1990, and the Georgia Association of Black Elected Officials (GABEO), in May. Brooks, however, has not been removed from his elected post.
The Georgia Legislative Black Caucus is saddened to hear of the indictment of Representative Tyrone Brooks. Rep. Brooks is a distinguished veteran of the struggle for civil rights in Georgia. These allegations cannot erase his record of service and sacrifice.
An indictment does not in and of itself prove any criminal liability and carries with it no proof of guilt. The presumption of innocence is fundamental to our system of criminal justice and it is our hope that individuals will not jump to any conclusion while this case is pending.
Representative Brooks, his family, and his constituents need our support at this time. He is our friend and a respected public official and we stand along side of him. [sic]
We pray for impartial justice on his behalf. His contributions to the fight for civil rights demands no less!
Georgia Legislative Black Caucus Statement on State Representative Tyrone Brooks was originally published on atlantadailyworld.com


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KINGSTON — Marlboro went eyeball to eyeball with adversity, which meant one thing with a trip to the Class B state championship game at stake Saturday. Glens Falls was in trouble.
KINGSTON — Marlboro went eyeball to eyeball with adversity, which meant one thing with a trip to the Class B state championship game at stake Saturday. Glens Falls was in trouble.
The Marlboro Iron Dukes had fashioned a reputation for smoothly responding to challenges. "Next man up!'' coach Rich Ward would shout when injuries took hold. Marlboro seemed especially impressive facing in-game deficits, responding with remarkable calm and poise. Just last week they clenched their teeth through an overtime win over Our Lady of Lourdes, Marlboro's first state-tourney win and the first for a Section 9 Class B school in 12 years.
So when Glens Falls led 20-9 at halftime in the state semifinals, even 28-17 with 9:28 left, Marlboro held off on planning the pity parties. "Definitely,'' Marlboro running back/linebacker Matt Tamburri agreed later. "We are mostly a second-half team. We have fighters.''
Marlboro kids sure enjoy a good fight. Only the battle wasn't enough against Glens Falls at Dietz Stadium. Marlboro needed a heavier dose of execution. When Glens Falls took that 11-point lead with 9:28 left, Marlboro responded by going three-and-out and, following its own forced punt, turning over the ball via interception with 5:53 left.
It was finally just about over — the game, Marlboro's unprecedented season. Glens Falls never yielded the ball again, classily taking a knee at Marlboro's 3 in the final minute of its 28-17 win.
"Jeez,'' Tamburri said when asked to gather his emotions. "Ticked off. Not satisfied at all. I feel a little short-changed. Almost shell-shocked.''
All perfectly understandable emotions. These were teams with similar styles, and Marlboro (11-1) felt it had the more effective one. But Glens Falls jumped on top 14-0 before Marlboro got the chance to work up a sweat. The Indians scored on two of their first four plays from scrimmage, first executing a 64-yard flea flicker to the 1 on their opening play. On the first play of its next possession, Mike Lanoir ran by Marlboro's defense and reeled in quarterback Cam Girard's perfect pass in stride at midfield before completing an 80-yard touchdown catch.
"They made plays and we didn't make plays,'' Ward said. "Today, they were the better team. These (Marlboro) kids are great. They took the program to the next level.''
Tamburri, who began the day with 123 tackles, headed for the locker room to say a few words to teammates before boarding the bus. He had a good idea what he would say. "That out of all the years, this one is the best, and I've never had a group of guys who fought so hard, and I loved working with this team every single day.''
Ward was on his way to the room now. "Anything I'm going to say will not make them feel better now,'' he said. "I'm proud of our kids. First of all, they are fun to be around. They are good people. Their families are good. They are just tough, great people.''
They promised to be valuable messages for a team that would do just about anything for one more fight.
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Windows 8 sales 'below internal projections', source claims
Windows 8 sales have been called 'disappointing' by Microsoft, according to an alleged tipster who has also suggested that sales of the operating system are below company projections. Get the details below.
Gamespot reports – by way of Paul Thurrott's Supersite for Windows – that one of Thurrott's trusted sources inside Microsoft has shed light on the company's reaction to sales of the operating system so far.
Thurrott writes in an account of his source's claim, "Sales of Windows 8 PCs are well below Microsoft's internal projections and have been described inside the company as disappointing. But here's the catch: The software giant blames the slow start on lackluster PC maker designs and availability, further justifying its new Surface strategy."
The source claimed that Microsoft cites PC maker's "inability to deliver," as a key reason for the poor sales of Windows 8, and again underlines the company's move into making its own bespoke tablet hardware.
It comes as some game developers have waxed lyrical on the subject of Windows 8's closed platform, including Introversion's Chris Delay who went so far as to say that Microsoft has 'Apple envy'.
Serious Sam developer Alen Ladavac also waded into the debate heavily on the Steam forums, stating, "If it was just about 'being downloaded from Windows store', it would not be a problem. It would be nice to have a common hub to download things from. But to get an app onto that store, it has to be certified by Microsoft."
What's your take on Windows 8? Is this poor sell-through just a result of this being a costly time of year, or is the operating system in danger of being in real trouble? Let us know below.


text: There are lots of pre-fab NAS options out there such as Drobo or Synology devices, but with the right parts you can build a home built system for a bit less with a lot more expandability and flexibility than those other options. In this article I'll outline my own custom build of a NAS server and the equipment I used to make it all possible. I used some spare parts and shelving to make for a more convenient setup over the short term without the need for a rack initially. In some ways this article is an update to this setup I've been running for awhile, showing its been a venerable setup in the longer run so far.


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Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel, "Uncle Tom's Cabin," sold over half a million copies in its first five years. While it was widely popular in the North, it was derided in the South as a wild exaggeration of the conditions of slavery. In response to her critics, she published the "Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin" a year later. The "Key" chronicles her evidence and cites sources to prove the authenticity of her archetypical characters. Although Stowe was from Connecticut, she moved with her family to Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1836. Sitting on the Ohio River separating Kentucky from Ohio, Cincinnati was a border town with an active abolitionist community. Here Stowe met many fugitive slaves and learned about the life of blacks in the South.
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When the French say things like je ne sais quoi, we get it, but we cant quite put it into words of our own. But thats exactly the job for which Anne Trager has signed up.
Trager is a part-time Durango resident who spends most of her life in Toulouse, France, with her husband, Fabrice Neuman. Hes French, shes American.
When she reads books in France, she reads them in French. But a few years ago, it occurred to her that maybe some of her American friends would enjoy some of those French books, too, if only they could read them.
From such inspiration are great entrepreneurial ideas born. Trager has founded Le French Book, a digital-first publisher of French books translated into English.
Many best-sellers in France, especially popular genres like crime fiction, are never translated out of the language. So Trager began by picking and choosing a few of her favorite whodunits and making them available to English language readers.
Im going to bring the books over that I like to read, Trager said.
Shes already translated three books: The 7th Woman by Frederique Molay (whom some call the French Michael Connelly), The Paris Lawyer by Sylvie Granotier and Treachery in Bordeaux by Jean-Pierre Alaux, which also was a made-for-TV series on French television.
As if translating novels into another language doesnt sound challenging enough, there are the aforementioned nuances of language that make word-for-word translations impossible. For example, in translating Treachery in Bordeaux, Trager had to overcome the fact that the French have five words for wine barrel.
If there are two or three different uses in one sentence, I have to change that sentence so as not to use wine barrel three times in the same sentence. It gets tricky, Trager said, aware of the irony of having used sentence three times in one sentence.
Trager works with an editor in Ohio, Amy Richards, who does not speak French. She says that works in the duos favor as Richards need only concentrate on ensuring that the book makes sense in English independent of the original version.
I dont want anything culturally different to hold up the readers so its important that Amy understands it. Then, I know the readers will, too, Trager said.
Trager said she hopes to translate about 10 books a year. She said she has no immediate plans to offer print versions of the translated books, which are now available on e-reader platforms like Kindle, Nook and iPad.


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Salesnet, a customer relationship management (CRM) software and professional services company, has released a Microsoft Word add-in for Salesnet CRM.
The new Word Add-In replaced the legacy communication manager functionality and provides increased performance and enhanced document merge capabilities, by allowing users to work with templates, data, and merged documents directly from within Microsoft Word.
Beyond the enhanced document merge functionality there are also features that allow users to save or attach Word or PDF documents to Salesnet CRM. Additionally, Salesnet is now providing pre-built templates as starting points. Users can select records using ad-hoc searches or leverage existing reports to select merge records.
The Microsoft Word Add-In for Salesnet CRM is the second in a series of Office Add-Ins providing tight integration between Salesnet CRM and Microsoft Office 2007, 2010 and 2013.


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The Event Horizon Telescope team has unmasked the heart of the jet-shooting galaxy M87.
Astronomers just knocked on a black hole's door. An international team reports in this week's Science that it has peered into the very heart of M87, an elliptical galaxy whose supermassive black hole spews forth a 5,000-light-year-long jet of ionized particles flung out by whirling lines of magnetic field.That's some doormat.
The astronomers used four radio telescopes in three locations — Hawaii, Arizona, and California — to make the observations, which are part of the still-developing Event Horizon Telescope project. When completed, the EHT's planet-wide network of antennas will span from the South Pole to Hawaii and southern Europe, working together as a single Earth-size telescope to cut through the veil enshrouding nearby supermassive black holes and reveal how physics works where extreme gravity is the only game in town.
Last year, a Japanese team led by Kazuhiro Hada (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan) used the Very Long Baseline Array to observe as close to the base of M87's jet as the astronomers could. They found that, as they observed at higher frequencies, the jet's apparent origin walked backwards toward the black hole, as though it were about to converge on a fixed point.
Sheperd Doeleman (MIT Haystack Observatory) and his colleagues have now used the nascent EHT to observe M87 at 230 GHz, a frequency five times higher than the highest frequency used by the Japanese team. At 230 GHz astronomers can cut right through the dense material bunched up in the jet's core, down to the point where the source stops inching backwards. When they measured the size of the jet, the astronomers found its diameter was about 5.5 event-horizon radii (or 2.25 black hole widths).
"We have now arrived at the black hole itself," Doeleman says. "It's really hard to see how the black hole could not be there."
Hada agrees. "The EHT team has actually made it" to where the jet launches, he says. "This is a very exciting result. I would like to say congratulations on the excellent work of the EHT team."Here's where things turn strange. The black hole is a gravitational pit in spacetime, and it bends nearby light like a lens. The innermost edge of the gas accretion disk feeding M87's black hole — a leviathan weighing 6 billion Suns — should form a ring about 6 event-horizon radii across, as long as the beast isn't spinning. But general relativity can play tricks on the eyes. Because the black hole bends light emitted from the surrounding disk of hot gas, this innermost edge would look like its width was 7.3 event-horizon radii. Even with the requisite fudge room in the numbers, 5.5 is not 7.3.
But what if the black hole spins? Astronomers think an accretion disk can hug a spinning black hole more tightly if the black hole and the disk spin in the same direction.
So the EHT team decided to make two assumptions. One, the emission the astronomers observe comes from where the jet's spaghetti-noodle-like magnetic field lines pick up most of their material. Two, this loading dock is anchored in the accretion disk's innermost edge.
If both these assumptions are true, then M87's black hole has to be spinning in the same direction as the disk around it, and at a speed at least 20% the speed of light, the team concludes.
Under the Rug
Not everyone's convinced by this conclusion. "The observation is very nice, but the interpretation needs confirmation," says Alan Marscher (Boston University).
Jet theorist Alexander Tchekhovskoy (Princeton) agrees that the conclusions are only as good as the assumptions behind them. He says that the emission the EHT detects might not be from the disk's inner edge but from the second jet shooting from the black hole's other pole, a jet astronomers have only seen hints of because it points away from us. If so, the spin deduction goes out the window.
Doeleman agrees with these concerns. "Of course these observations are open to interpretation," he says. But he asserts that the conclusion is not his team's most important point. The astronomers only used three sites to make their EHT network, but already the observations are nearly at the point where they can distinguish what's happening at the jet's base. With more sites — most notably the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, which will integrate with the EHT in 2015 — the team will be able to determine what's making the emission they detect.
"We're getting some real data," Doeleman says — and that's a milestone in a field that's been basically theoretical for so long. Now's the time that astronomers can actually get serious about solving jets, he says, because they're obtaining specific observations that theorists will have to explain. "This is a nut that we can crack."
Reference: S. S. Doeleman et al. "Jet-Launching Structure Resolved Near the Supermassive Black Hole in M87." Science, 27 September 2012.


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Virginia Graeme Baker: Sending ripples across the pool industry
by Myles McMorrow, April 18, 2009
The Virginia Graeme Baker (VGB) Pool and Spa Safety Act, Who She Was and How It Is Sending Ripples Across the Pool Industry Nationwide
Virginia Graeme Baker (VGB) was lovingly known to her friends and family as Graeme (pronounced Graham). The granddaughter of former Secretary of State James Baker, Graeme went with her mother, Nancy, and four sisters to a family friend's home for a graduation party on June 15, 2002. The focal point of the party was the swimming pool and hot tub.
Graeme had worn her swimsuit to the party and jumped into the pool as soon as they arrived. A short time later, Graeme's older sister ran to her mother and said that Graeme was under water in the hot tub and would not come up. Nancy ran to the hot tub, but could only see a dark figure under the bubbles obscuring the surface.
Nancy jumped into the hot tub and discovered the horrific sight of her daughter's unconscious body on the bottom. Not realizing that her daughter was trapped underwater by the suction of the whirlpool's drain, Nancy desperately and unsuccessfully tried to pull her daughter out.
Two adult men at the party came and helped, finally managing to free Graeme and pulling so hard the drain cover broke in the process. Lifesaving efforts were immediately performed on the little girl, but she couldn't be revived.
It was a sad day for the Baker family and they did not want to see another child lost in such a horrific traumatic experience as they had lost Virginia Graeme Baker. Nancy Baker took what she had learned and teamed up with Safe Kids USA - a Washington DC nonprofit that helps lobby laws worldwide in the name of child safety. With the help of her family's Washington contacts and Safe Kids USA a law was passed on December 19, 2007 affecting all commercial pools in the USA and was named after Virginia Graeme Baker and is referred to as the VGB Pool and Spa Safety Act .
Signed by President George W. Bush on December 19, 2007, and went into effect December 19, 2008. It is called the Virginia Graeme Baker Pool and Spa Safety Act, This is a federal law for all commercial pools and swim clubs as well as residential pools built after that date to have new drain covers or Safety Vacuum Release Systems (SVRS) installed in all pools to meet the new code to prevent bodily injury and/or death. All covers and SVRS* must meet or exceed the ASME/ANSI A112.19.8-2007 National Standards and ASTM G154 for UV Testing. This is stamped on all compliant systems and the law is regulated by the Consumer Product Safety Commission as well as state and local pool inspectors. A Safety Vacuum Release System works by monitoring the vacuum on the suction side of the pool or spa pump.
When a blockage occurs in the main drain or skimmer a sudden rise in vacuum will cause the SRVS to shut down pump operation and activate an audible alarm. The pump will remain off with the alarm sounding until the SVRS is manually reset. The bill states that the maximum fine is $1.8 million and for the pool to be closed until compliant with the law. Between 1985 and 2004, 33 deaths were contributed to entrapment from the suction of pool filters.
This has sent ripples in the swimming industry and does not only apply to swim clubs. It is affecting the hotel industry and the medical hydrotherapy sector as well. The problem is that it is difficult to replace a cover or add a SRVS to many older pools. They were built in a time before these products were around. Retrofitting these older pools can be quite costly. Some pools have gotten estimates of over $20,000 to be brought into compliance.
This raises major issues in the aquatics industry and is having an adverse affect not just with the owners of the pools but with the 23 million swimmers six years and older that swim each year according to a USA Swimming pool poll taken nationwide. In the current state of our economy many people in the industry cannot afford these repairs at this time and many cities do not have the money in their budgets to make the repairs. There are thousands of pools that are scheduled to be closed for the summer for this reason.
To put it perspective the city of Philadelphia, PA will only be opening 46 of the total of 73 outdoor pools this summer. Many of the pools closing are because costs are too high for the upgrades to comply with the VGB law. The good news is the cable TV channel A&E is helping to keep the 46 open; originally 63 of the 73 were to close. A&E is giving proceeds from the show Parking Wars in a deal it made with the city for following the parking enforcement officers making a hit realty show. Another example is the city of San Diego, CA. They were about to close the city pools until Aquastar, one of the manufactures of the drains covers based in San Diego, came to the rescue and donated covers for all the pools.
The hotel industry is being hit the hardest with pleasure travel way down in these hard times. Many in smaller cities are closing their pools because they do not have the income to repair and upgrade the swimming pools and spas to the new law. This is giving more reason for the hotels to lose business and income. Most people with kids like the pools to occupy the children and with no pool open people are likely to stay elsewhere or the next town over.
Insurance companies companies are being affected too. They are stepping up to get the pools compliant. The average swim club or community pool carries up to a 3 million dollar policy against injury or death . The insurance companies are making these pools comply to avoid the risk of lawsuits. If the pools do not comply they will not have the insurance coverage to remain open. One of the biggest lawsuit settlements ever won over a pool drain injury was for the sum of 30 million dollars. Five-year old Valerie Lakey was disemboweled and died after being caught and suctioned by the wading pool's defective drain. The case was tried and won by John Edwards against the manufacture of the drain, pool associations, and management company of the pool.
While this law is only for all new pools and commercial pools at this point, that may not be the case soon. The Consumer Product Safety Commission will receive federal funding for the residential portion of the VGB Pool and Spa Safety Act. The $410 billion budget bill passed by Congress includes $7.28 million for implementation of the federal safety law. Of this, $2 million is designated to reward states that pass their safety legislation pertaining to residential installations, while $5 million goes to water-safety education and enforcement of the VGB Act.
The agency has not yet drawn up a timeline for getting the residential program underway, but it will need to move quickly. The law only specifies that funding be given for 2009 and 2010 and with states all fighting for their piece of the pie; I bet you will see this part of the law at a pool near you soon!


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Busch Eyes First "Plate" Win at Talladega
October 21, 2011
TALLADEGA, Ala. (October 18, 2011) - Sunday's Good Sam RV Parks & Resorts 500 at Talladega Superspeedway will be Shell-Pennzoil Dodge driver Kurt Busch's 44th career NASCAR points-paying restrictor-plate race and he is still looking for his first victory in this thrilling brand of competition.
"People look back at the great Speed Weeks 2011 we had in Daytona back in February and they say, 'but he did win - I saw that No. 22 Shell-Pennzoil Dodge in Victory Lane every time I turned on the TV it seemed like,'" said Busch, currently seventh in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Chase points race and 27 points out of first with five races remaining to determine this year's series champion. "We did take our "Double Deuce" Dodge to Victory Lane at Daytona - on two occasions to be exact, but neither time was a points race win.
"We just had a helluva Speed Weeks, that's for sure," said Busch. "We won the Budweiser Shootout and then came back and won our qualifying race the following Thursday. We had such a strong car in the Daytona 500 and that was so disappointing to be so close to winning it and having to settle for a fifth-place finish like we did.
"So here we are heading back into Talladega for the final plate race of the season and, yes, we are still after that first points-paying plate race win," said Busch. "With the new rules package for this weekend, we're all coming back in there not really knowing what to expect. No matter how it works out, though, the strategy is always the same in the Talladega races. You always have to strive to survive and be there at the end."
Busch's career record on the circuit's longest track - the 2.66-mile Talladega Superspeedway - offers substance to have everyone scratching their heads wondering how the 2004 series champ could still be winless there. In the 21 races entering Sunday's battle there, Busch has six top-five finishes and 13 top-10s. He finished a strong third in his first race there back in April 2001. Busch has a 20.1 average start and a 13.9 average finish at Talladega, extremely impressive considering he has three DNFs.
In 43 total restrictor-plate races entering this weekend's Talladega battle, Busch may still be looking for his first victory, but he has recorded 16 top-five finishes, including three seconds and six thirds. He has 25 top-10 finishes. His record boasts a 20.2 average start and 15.1 average finish, even with five career DNFs in his restrictor-plate racing.
"It certainly is one of our sport's biggest mysteries as to how Kurt has not yet won a points race in restrictor-plate competition," offered crew chief Steve Addington, who will be atop Busch's pit box on Sunday, calling the shots for the 68th consecutive race. "You could take a poll in the garage area and the consensus would be that Kurt is definitely among the top-five best plate racers out there. All the racing insiders are just plain baffled that he hasn't added one of those wins to his career total yet.
"When you look back on our season, we've had quite a successful year on so many different tracks," said Addington. "We started out with the great runs in Daytona, we won on the road course out at Sonoma (Infinion Raceway) and we even one on a high-banked one-mile track (Dover). So, it has been like our most successful days have been on tracks where we haven't won on before.
"We just have the feeling like this is Kurt's week to get the win at Talladega," Addington said.
NASCAR officials recently announced two rule changes for this weekend's Good Sam 500. The size of the restrictor plate that teams will use to prepare and practice for the race will increase by 1/64 inch and is now going to be 57/64 inch diameter. This will provide the teams with an additional 7-10 horsepower. Additionally, the pressure relief valve on the cars' cooling system will be recalibrated to reduce the pressure by approximately eight pounds per square inch from last April's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Talladega.
"The hope is that it will give us a little more throttle to use," said Busch. "I've seen estimates that it should give us maybe from seven to 10 additional horsepower. But the feeling is that the change in the pressure valve will see us limited as to how many laps we can push each other before needing to swap positions.
"The bottom line is that we really won't know how it will affect the racing until we get there," said Busch. "The answers will unfold when we get out there in Friday's drafting practice."
Busch participated in a recent press conference at Kansas Speedway where Talladega Superspeedway Chairman Grant Lynch announced a $100,000 bonus to the driver leading the most times if there are more than 100 lead changes in this Sunday's race.
"I told Grant that we'll definitely be aiming at taking his bonus money," said Busch. "Talladega has the record for most lead changes in a race as we've had 88 changes in the last two spring races there. With the new rules in place for this race, it could help produce 100 or more lead changes. I'm sure that the TV guys will be all on top of that. We'll be doing everything we can to win that extra 100 grand."
This weekend's schedule at Talladega Superspeedway begins on Friday with practice sessions scheduled from 1:30 p.m. till 2:15 p.m. and from 3:00 p.m. till 4:00 p.m. Saturday's 11:15 a.m. single round of qualifying will establish Sunday's 43-car starting field. Sunday's Good Sam Club 500 (188 laps, 500.08 miles) has a 1:00 p.m. CT (2:00 p.m. ET) starting time and features live coverage by ESPN-TV and MRN Radio.


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Vehicle-miles traveled (VMT) are key data for highway planning and management, and a common measure of roadway use. Along with other data, VMT are often used in estimating congestion, air quality, and potential gas-tax revenues, and can provide a general measure of the level of the nation's economic activity.
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NOTE: The current value is compared to the value from the same period in the previous year to account for seasonality.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Office of Highway Policy Information, Traffic Volume Trends, available at http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ as of October 2013.
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Brooklyn Brewery
Brooklyn Brewery
In 1984, Steve Hindy had returned from a stint as a war correspondent in the Middle East. He had faced explosions, fatalities and kidnap but he says the biggest impact on his life was discovering home brewing. Having never have taken the easy option, he decided to start his own brewing business. Brooklyn is at the heart of the American dream and Steve Hindy was determined for a shot at success. After all, Steve says, the easy option is never fun. He was a good friend with his downstairs neighbour, Tom Potter who later on quit his job and founded the brewery. In 1994 the pair hired highly respected brew master, Garret Oliver who was well known for his innovation and pioneering spirit. Garret Oliver lived up to his reputation and created many special and seasonal beers. Phoenix/Beehive, the respected distributor of Heineken, Guinness and Miller, now distributes Brooklyn Brewery. Tom Potter sold his share to the Otterway family whose roots were in Brooklyn and today the Brewery is finishing major expansion in order to keep up with such a huge demand from its loyal customers.
How it's made
Brooklyn Brewery produces their beautiful beers through a long and slow maturation, ensuring a flavoursome finish. Using the British technique, they steep the beer with dry hopping. The popular beer, Brooklyn brown Ale, is made from two row British malts, aromatic Belgian malts and also American roasted malts.
The taste
Brooklyn Brewery Beers accommodate many foods and are great for accentuating flavours such as chicken. The smooth, refreshing bubbles cleanse the palate and accommodate cheeses well. Although delicious when newly bottled, some of the beers can be aged like a fine wine. Other variations of the beer include light and zesty flavours such as Brooklyn Sorachi Ace, which bursts with a spicy lemongrass aroma, sure to refresh.
Brooklyn East India Pale Ale (BB Date 19/12/18)£2.89 by the case: £67.20
Brooklyn Local 2£12.98 by the case: £151.20
Brooklyn Naranjito (BB Date 12/12/18)£2.59 by the case: £60.24
Brooklyn Scorcher IPA Can£2.48 by the case: £29.04
Brooklyn Sorachi Ace 355ml£3.49 by the case: £81.36
Brooklyn Summer Ale£2.99 by the case: £69.60
Brooklyn Tripel Burner£24.98 by the case: £290.88


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Costello Tagliapietra Spring 2009: Anchored in Lady, With a Touch of Butch
Costello Tagliapietra Spring 2009: Anchored in Lady, With a Touch of Butch
>> The third time was the charm for Costello Tagliapietra yesterday — after starting and stopping the runway music two times, the second of which included dimming the lights, the show finally got under way for the third and final time an hour after its scheduled start. Lucky for Jeffrey Costello and Robert Tagliapietra, their designs made it worth the wait.
Their tailored lady got some edge, courtesy of Philip Crangi's black leather accessories and an airbrushed-on tattoo . Each girl sported a blue anchor with her initials under it, Miu Miu Fall 2008-style, to match the designers' own anchor and initial tattoos, and Christina Kruse got to show off the big cobra tattooed on her arm. An unconventional fabric choice — ultrasuede — gave a matte contrast to all the shiny charmeuse, and unexpected color combinations gave a real zing to the lineup. The only major problem came from the shoes, made by Giuseppe Zanotti for the show — a lot of girls had trouble navigating them, and Georgina Stojilkovic came close to falling.
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Erie County Sheriff Timothy B. Howard has reported the arrest of two offenders for driving while intoxicated by sheriff's road patrols in separate incidents on Sunday morning, Jan. 27.
While on patrol in Grand Island, Deputy Dan Harris responded to a single-car accident at approximately 12:15 a.m. This led to the arrest of Autumn L. Urbaniak, age 22, of North Tonawanda. In addition to driving drunk, she had in her possession a quantity of marijuana and multiple packages of synthetic marijuana. She was charged with DWI as well as criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree and unlawful possession of marijuana. She was processed at the Grand Island substation where her blood-alcohol content was determined to be .11 percent.
While on patrol in Grand Island at approximately 3:15 a.m., Deputy Mike Okal arrested a 19-year-old Grand Island man following a traffic stop. After failing standard field sobriety tests, the man was taken to the Grand Island substation to be processed. His blood-alcohol content was determined to be .09 percent.
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Karleen Tutton's 22 grandchildren always perk up when she tells the tale of her 6-foot-6-inch great grandfather who stared down a grizzly bear in the 1800s.
A bear he was hunting in the Utah wilderness attacked him, she recounts, and he survived by jamming his rifle down the bear's throat. The story is based on a journal he kept, which has been passed down through generations of Tutton's family.
"The grandkids love that story," said Tutton, of Springfield, Mo., "Especially the boys."
Tutton is among nearly 7,000 genealogy enthusiasts in Salt Lake City this week at "RootsTech," the largest family history conference in the U.S., now in its third year.
"I really want to learn more about some of the technology available for searching for ancestors," said Tutton, 67, whose family has already traced their roots back to 1500 in England and Scotland.
The three-day conference is hosted by Family Search, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' nonprofit organization dedicated to the research of family history.
The conference brings together genealogy enthusiasts of all levels, from people with decades of experience to others just getting started. The focus is on how websites, software and other technology can help people find, organize, preserve and share family history.
Organizers say the rise of social media and development of new technology has driven more people to dig into their family history.
The growing expo — attendance has more than doubled in three years — is another example of how Salt Lake City has become a mecca for genealogists. The church's Family History Library is considered the world's largest repository of genealogy records and is visited by 700,000 people annually.
The focus on genealogy by Mormons is rooted in their belief that families should be the focal point of their lives, and that family relationships continue into eternity.
Tutton is Mormon, but many attendees are from other religious faiths. Sisters Daisy McConnell and Donna Lupo are non-Mormons from St. Louis, Mo., who are trying to expand their knowledge of where they come from.
McConnell has been doing genealogy for 15 years and traced her father's side of the family back six generations to the early 1800s in Sicily, Italy. She came to the conference to learn how she can use DNA to help her get past a dead end on her mother's side of the family tree, which trails off in 1820.
Lupo is just getting started in genealogy and plans to learn how she can better organize all the documents and photos her sister has compiled that fill up her house. She also hopes to find out which of the stories passed down through generations are true.
There are a tremendous amount of stories available. You learn from the history of your ancestors.
–Karleen Tutton
The sisters already have found a newspaper article confirming a story about woman from their family who rode a horse to let the men know Indians were attacking.
"These are stories we want our family to know," McConnell, 60, said. "We want our kids and their kids to know where we came from."
Keynote speaker Dennis Brimhall, president of LDS Family Search International, urged attendees to think about what their great-grandchildren would wish they would have done to document family stories. With digital cameras, social media and a bounty of technology, preserving family history is easier than ever, Brimhall said.
He urged people to help promote worldwide efforts to document the lives of people. Family Search volunteers have put 1 billion searchable genealogy records online from around the world in the past seven years. Prior to that, it took 86 years to index the first billion records. Brimhall said UNICEF has found that 40 percent of people in world will live and die with no records.
"We need to remember that people don't really exist until we know their story," Brimhall said.
Brimhall also encouraged people to get their children involved and bring down the average age of family historians. More than 2,000 school-aged children will attend the conference on Saturday and learn how they can get started in genealogy.
Tutton plans to attend a session this week about how to encourage her own children and grandchildren to get involved.
"There are a tremendous amount of stories available," Tutton said. "You learn from the history of your ancestors."
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