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RARE - Stunning 14m2 Boch Freres Art Nouveau floor - early 20th century (CE217)
SOLD SOLD SOLD A rare find is this stunning art nouveau floor dating from the beginning of the twentieth century and recovered from the dining room of a house in a small village of 215 inhabitants called Lez-Fontaine, in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais department of northern France. The reverse of these large and superb ceramics, 17.5cm sq./ 6.9 inch sq., are stamped Boch Freres, Maubeuge and the tiles are 1.75cm thick and weigh close to a kilo each.
The floor has all the DNA of art nouveau design, most apparent in the same size border tiles. The primary section of the floor is made up of two complementary field tiles; a styalized floral motif and a plain cross themed tile which serves to frame the motif. The floor is laid in the traditional french damier or chessboard method. The main section is completed by its framing with a triple border series; the same size taking one flower from the main field tile design and the half size a simple bar and star laid in duplicate. Having been cleaned of old mortar and years of wax the colours in this cool palette are crisp. Owing to their hand-made production process in small batches there is some tonal variation in colour and this is most apparent in the green of the cross themed field tile. We have laid two extreme examples of this next to each other in a photograph below.
The floor has a lovely patina and the ceramic of the tiles is in good condition; a small number of tiles display small chips and edge nibbles, all of which are groutable and some tiles, most particularly on the large borders, display surface capillary cracks which were formed after the tile left the kiln and was exposed to a humid environment. The high resolution photographs below, taken outside in overcast and showery conditions, are of a random c.2m2 section of the floor. Once laid the floor will simply require a regular wash to retain its beauty and being a highly fired tile is can be laid inside or outside of the home as well as work most effectively with underfloor heating systems.
Tile quantities, give or take one or two:-
Motif field tile - 160 - 4.9m2 / 53 sq. ft
Cross field tile - 160 - 4.9m2 / 53 sq.ft
Large border tiles - 60 plus 4 corners* - 1.96m2 / 21 sq. ft or 11.2 linear metres / 36.75 linear ft.
Small border tiles - 150 plus 8 corners - 2.3m2 / 25 sq. ft or 26.6 linear metres / 87 linear ft.
* one large border corner has a small chip
Plus c.30 free reject tiles for offcuts.


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Imagine this: You've spent years perfecting your survival plan, learning skills, stockpiling food, and building what amounts to a fortress that's basically in the middle of nowhere. You're all set to ride out almost anything the world has to throw at you. When the inevitable disaster finally does come, you're all set. This is the idea that many preppers have as an ideal scenario, but there's one thing missing: the rest of the world.
When talking about a disaster, is the act of surviving enough? For some people the answer to this is a resounding yes, but if you stop and think about it, surviving is only one small part of the larger picture.
Whatever the disaster is, it's up to the survivors to rebuild and make society function once again. These may not be skills you would think about when deciding what to learn for survival situations, but without people helping to make things better, you won't be surviving for much. There are some skills that you can learn to help make things better, and they're probably not ones you would naturally think of.
1. Public Speaking
When thinking about disaster survival, most people focus on doing things solo, or with a small group of people. In a true TEOTWAWKI situation, these small groups will, at some point, need to start joining forces to make any real changes.
Learning public speaking can help you lead these larger groups and direct them to get work done as a team. While most survivors may not be comfortable talking to large groups, having this skill can easily make you into a leader, which can help you practice skill #2.
2. Town/City Planning
Once groups start to come together to form communities again, the need to plan a town or city will be crucial to long-term survival. This can range from deciding which buildings in a deserted town to rebuild first to have basic needs met to the complete planning and layout of a new community.
This doesn't have to be full-size buildings and roads, but instead can be tents, cabins, even hand-built shelters. Organizing people into a community builds trust and gives a feeling of normalcy and togetherness that's crucial to keeping a group of people together.
These skills can be learned by attending local community planning meetings, reviewing common town layouts, and even paying attention to how your own town is laid out. This is easier to see when your town is smaller, but even visiting a small town can give you insight into town planning. Another great resource is this link from The Guardian where they talk about building a city from scratch.
3. Issue Resolution
The only sure thing about bringing people together into a group is that there will be conflict. Add into the standard types of conflict a stressful situation like major disaster and you have a recipe for some very heated arguments and more likely than not, all-out fights.
By studying conflict resolution, you can help a community be better organized and work together better. Force and threat of violence will only go so far in stopping people from fighting, which is why knowing how to successfully resolve conflicts is so important.
Check out the tips in this link for a great place to start, and while it's given in the first person, think about how these would apply to others and how you could use them to resolve other people's conflicts as well.
Bringing It All Together
By learning these skills and more, you can be a positive force in rebuilding the communities that disaster has torn apart. Hiding away and surviving is great for when a major disaster first happens, but when you transition from immediate survival mode to long-term survival mode, it's time to come out of hiding and start building communities once again.
This doesn't mean that you should run up to the first person you see and invite them into your survival plan and hope for the best, but communities can and must be rebuilt, and by not joining in the rebuilding process, you actually hurt the survival of everyone.

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Handling orchard ground in 1914.
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The lessons of each new season add to our collective knowledge base, provided we take time to pay attention to Nature's insistent teachings. The current editions of Apple Grower (2005) and Holistic Orchard (2011) benefit from this online opportunity to stay updated to cutting edge thinking in the orcharding world.
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|Notice how she crosses her legs? I love it!
So what have we been up to? We came home from the hospital (aka: Heaven) a week ago, and it has been a "learning experience" ever since. Here is what we have learned in 7 days...
- You can go from "Hmm, how do I change a diaper again?" to a NASCAR pit crew operation on diapers when your child despises being changed.
- Breakfast is not good when made at 9, then left for me to let the dogs out, then fix an emergency bottle, take a phone call while feeding the bottle, letting the animals in, and then discovering the cat eating it at 11:00, when you finally realize you never ate it.
- Bottle+ bouncy seat = spit up
- As soon as the lights go out for mama and daddy's bed time, baby's eyes fly open.
- Nursing...after many tears and guilt...will not be happening for us. And that is OK.
- Who invented onesies for newborns!? Have they ever put anything OVER a newborn's head? We are laying those to the side in favor of things that zip or snap up the front until further notice. Except if they are too cute, then we will give them a try for fashion's sake:o)
- The carseat dictates what kind of car you will have. For instance, when Matt and my dad literally cannot fit behind the steering wheel anymore, the carseat says "You need a new car". Another post will follow up on this topic...
I mentioned in Larkyn's blog that I was missing being pregnant. Yes, those first several days home, I was a little down about that. Which is to be expected, I guess? I had the world's easiest pregnancy and just missed the excitement surrounding it, the anticipation, thinking of myself as "2" rather than just me. I still shield my belly from hot water (weird, I know) when I get in the shower and am just starting to sleep on my stomach again....but I am getting better. I am obsessed with Larkyn (can you tell) and am glad she is here. But, if I am being honest, I can see how many women can get depressed right afterward. Luckily, my therapy is recording everything. Every moment in pictures, written on blogs, stashed in memory boxes, and that helps me. It is helping me to capture what is behind me now (as good as it was) and move on to being a parent!


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Featured in Disability and Beauty – July 22, 2011
Photographed in Harbour View golf Course and Recreation Complex within Kilcona Park, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
The Harbour View Golf Course and Recreation Complex sits on the banks of a picturesque man-made lake in northeastern Winnipeg. The golf course is a par 27 layout with water in play on five of its nine holes.
Harbour View Golf Course is part of a large recreation complex which is designed to provide residents and visitors to the city with activities and amenities commonly found at resort locations. The main clubhouse and other structures are fashioned to resemble a Maritime fishing village, complete with a watchtower. Recreation activity choices include pedal boating, tennis, miniature golf, horseshoes, deck shuffleboard, lawn bowling, sand volleyball, and a large picnic area.
Popular winter activities include cross country skiing, tobogganing, ice skating and broomball. After a round of golf or a day of recreation activity relax and enjoy a snack or meal in the restaurant or fireplace lounge.
The restaurant\'s outdoor deck extends over the water providing a close up with local waterfowl and a spectacular sunset view.


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Cheesy goodness: Taylor Swift and Harry Styles recreate 'Dirty Dancing' liftBy Kat Giantis
Nobody puts Haylor in a corner. In a photo that makes us wonder if Taylor "Yoko" Swift and Harry Styles are now just messing with us, it appears the budding lovebirds were photographed recreating the lift scene from "Dirty Dancing" during a One Direction afterparty following a recent show at Madison Square Garden.Granted, it's unclear if this Twitpic is actually of them, but that hasn't stopped a flood of questions, including but not limited to: How long did they practice this move before trying it in public? Why and when did they practice this? Did Swift receive pointers from BFF Emma Stone, who re-enacted the scene with Ryan Gosling in "Crazy, Stupid, Love"? (As his character explained, "I tell girls I can do the move. I put on the song, 'Time of Your Life,' I do the big move and they always wanna have sex with me.")And if you're wondering, you will indeed be humming, "Yes, I swear, it's the truth, and I owe it all to yewwwwwwww" for the rest of the day.Haylor's apparent lovey-dovey airborne moment caps off several weeks of increased public displays of affection from the pair, from their daytime outing to the Central Park Zoo to their nighttime makeout."They are completely enamored with each other," a source tells Hollywood Life, "and are in the 'like-like' phase." Of course they are.Still, this photo has us pondering just what romantic scene Taylor and Harry will imitate next. Will they tuck into a plate of spaghetti and meatballs, and then share a chaste kiss after they both end up sucking down a particularly long strand of pasta? Will Swift blast "Wind Beneath My Wings" from a boom box while standing outside Styles' window? Give us your best guess in the comments, then click on for more photos ...© Twitter


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bak'-bit raghal; doloo: To slander the absent, like a dog biting behind the back, where one cannot see; to go about as a talebearer. "He that backbiteth [Revised Version, slandereth] not with his tongue" (Ps 15:3).
Backbiters bak'-bit-~rz (Greek katalaloi: Men who speak against. Vulgate, "detractors" (Ro 1:30)).
Backbiting bak'-bit-ing: cether: Adj. "a backbiting tongue"; literally, "a tongue of secrecy" (Pr 25:23). katalalia: substantive "a speaking against" (2Co 12:20; Wisdom 1:11); "evil speaking" (1Pe 2:1). glossa trite: "a backbiting tongue" (the King James Version of Ecclesiasticus 28:14,15); more literally translated in the Revised Version (British and American) "a third person's tongue."
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I thought i had a chance with her come to find out she's been having a boyfriend for a year, i had 4 years to make a move on her and i didn't i feel so stupid her boyfriend looks like a male model compared to m and looking at her i see how she could get someone like him. We stopped talking completely when she started dating him and now i feel like im to late. They make a good cuple and she's absolutely in love with him she kisses the ground he walks on and h kisses hers. While im over there looking like a fool..
Thats her the one closest to the camera with the black shirt on i feel like i just lost half of me that wasn't ever a part of me what do i do
And please no petty remarks she's only 16 turning 17 the girl on the left just turned 16.
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You're just going to have to try and move on, she's already in love with someone else. Did you get her permission to post her picture here?
Yeah she's on here and she knows about it i posted it on here to kinda hint at her and let her know how i feel im pretty sure she's seen it she has me followed but i also wanted to get opinions


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- Pre-Academy (7U & 8U), Thursday, May 24th
- In-person registration available @ Decatur Family YMCA from 4:00 - 6:00pm
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Missed in-person signing day? While we encourage all participants to regisiter online, we will have in person registration available with the Soccer Office Program Services Desk on weeknights in June to register for DDYSC Academy & Select programs:
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We had 20 guys attend University Nationals. 11 wrestled in Greco-Roman, 19 wrestled in Freestyle. We had one of the largest contingents in the tournaments. I was pleased we had such a significant presence. It bodes well for our future. Guys, who train and compete in the off season, tend to show greater improvement. Our guys were able to be the guinea pigs for the new rules implemented by FILA and USA Wrestling. It was a unique experience as the wrestlers, coaches and officials were learning and interpreting rules on the fly. For the most part, the rules seemed to be a huge step in the right direction for wrestling.
If a team score was kept, we would have been in the running to win in Greco-Roman. We had 6 All-Americans. All of the placers won matches. Zach Isenhour finished 7th, Corey Smith finished 6th, Shohei Takagi and Matt Meadows finished 5th, Jake Kettler finished 4th, and Sahid Kargbo led the way with a 3rd place finish.
We did not have as good of results as I had hoped for in Freestyle. The weight classes were large and had lots of tough competitors. We did not have a place winner. Ryan Hunsberger made it the closest to placing. He wrestled well. I liked the pace he set in his matches and his desire to score points.
We drove vans to Akron, so we had a good time to bond. We also stayed in a hotel that did not have many other guests, so we had our run of the place. The highlight for most was going to the Meadows home every night for a great meal. They treated us great. We have never eaten so well on the road. At the end of each evening, Mrs. Meadows sent us home with a lunch sack with snacks to help tide us over. We were blessed.
Most of the guys have now gone home or are taking a few days off. After a long school year and some added training and competition, they are ready for a break. We will host a short training camp this weekend for the Virginia State schoolboy, cadet, and junior teams. Some of the guys will return to help with the mini-camp.
We will take part in our alumni golf outing on June 10. Hopefully, we will have a large turnout of wrestling alums on the golf course. If we have the most, we will get part of the proceeds from the event. We won last year, so I am hopeful we will do it again. We are also participating in an alumni challenge in regard to the percentage of alums who donate to the program by the end of June. If we win this, Dan Wotring will donate more money to us. He made this challenge a few years ago and we lost to Men's Volleyball. We better not let this happen again.


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Links of note...
The Broome County Arts Council - Making art, theater and literature happen in Broome County and beyond!. Sharon & Mary Jo ROCK!
River Read Books - The independent bookstore of Binghamton, NY and the home of my Monthly open mike. I say thee yay, Connie, Jane and Pat!
Limestone Dust Poetry Festival Huntsville, Alabama
Whereforearts.com - WhereforeArts.com is an online showcase of some of the finest "under-known" performing and graphic artists.
Poetworks Press - Where the anthology 'Passing' is available.
Boone's Dock Press, and Kempton Boone Van Hoff, (izzat a name or what??) Publisher of 'Stark Raving Calm'.
Josh Joffen - Old friend, Award-winning Singer-Songwriter and half of our 'Words & Music' project. Worth a listen and then some.
Copious thanks be to...
Marianela Medrano for the translation work, over and above ANY call of duty or history. Marianela is a bilingual (English/Spanish) Licensed Professional Counselor and Certified Poetry Therapist with a doctorate in Psychology from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. A published poet and author, she writes in both Spanish and English. Learn more at: integraljourneys.com
More thanks are due to Judith Zweiman, writer, poet, musician par excellance, for advice and counsel, as well as whipping my bio into a publishable form.
To professional photographer — Robert Berkowitz whose RSBimageworks houses a veritable who's who of singer-songwriters and other artists, as well as Colette McCurry and Jill McKernan, all of whom came, saw and recorded my evolution with impeccable taste... and a camera.
Poet & Editor José Gouveia, who edited Rubber Side Down: The Biker Poet Anthology and has been a friend and unindicted co-conspirator for the past decade. He's also responsible for ordering the manuscript that became 'Stark Raving Calm'.
And the friends who provide comment criticism, support, praise and the occasional place to sleep whilst I journey through the realm of poetry... The Bunn Hill Poetry Workshop - (Myron, Richard, Burt, Mark and Shirley), Josh & Maya, Robert & Jacqui, Peddlar, Gypsy, Susan and Moshe..
And, finally, to you. That you are reading this makes me both grateful and humbled by your attention. Cheers!


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See this photo - You will like it. But there is a controversy around this photo. One person on the Webshots message board said this :
What a wonderful blend of colours and God's creation. At the present time I live in Beijing and in the smog I often look at this picture and remember how beautiful the world can be.
Ralph Nordstrom writes:
This photograph is not possible. First of all, I have photographed at this same location in the Tetons. It's the famous Ox Bow bend in the river and I can vouch for the fact that there are no wildflowers growing anywhere around there, especially in such profusion. Second, the wildflowers' presented here are anything but wildflowers. Rather, they are a photograph from a lush domestic garden superimposed on the otherwise beautiful photograph of Mt. Moran and the river.
Source J-walk Blog.
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Know about US Economic CrisisPosted by blog4net | | Debt, dollar, NAFTA, Oil, Recession, Websites | 0 comments »
Economyincrisis.org is a website that is trying to inform the people of the true economic situation of the US to the people. This site covers many aspects of the US economy like Oil,America's Economic Recession, industries, Banking, Jobs, latest economic news etc. This site has wonderful posts on solutions to America's Economic Problems, Six economic questions the Presidential Candidates must answer, Living in Debt, why America should get out of WTO etc.
The site loads pretty fast. Interface is very neat, professional and attractive. The site has very good articles which run across 30 pages of index. It predicts that Oil price may reach $200 / bl. The site has Economic Videos also. The site puts some interesting questions to the Presidential Candidates which were infact asked before March 4 Primaries in Ohio and texas. They include WTO, living on unaffordable imports and debt. The site also discusses current hot issues like NAFTA, Air Force Airbus Deal, Recession 2008, etc. The analysis is very good and makes us contemplating.
What attracted me is the site has a forum to discuss issues of economy, policies, solutions, personal wealth protection etc. The subjects are again divided into several topics providing an opportunity for the readers to participate in the discussion. One can post his opinion as a guest also, without registering. Another section called Get Involved lists out several things to spread the awareness like emailing or calling congresspersons, telling friends etc. Frequent Questions section answers some questions relating to GDP, Trade Deficit, Networth etc. The site contains links to other economic analysis, debt management, subprime/housing websites also.
The site is interesting, brings several facts to our attention. This is an endeavour to spread the truth on US economy.
I give a big thumbs up for the site.
To visit the site, Click Here.
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Wanna have a peek into Google's Office? please have it...
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If we want to control eating disorders of our children, or teach them anger management, the first thing we do is Google and see which website is offering the best advice. On Google or Yahoo, millions of results are shown and definitely we have to sift through many websites to select the best website and browse.
But the website provided by Tufts University does the expert job of selecting the best websites and places them on its Child&family WebGuide site. The site is very neatly organised by categories like Family/ Parenting, Typical Child Development etc and divides into several sub-sections. Links to the best websites only are placed for each and every topic.
Navigation is very easy, appealing and convenient. You can find websites relating to various aspects of children belonging to different ages like anger management, stress management etc for teenagers.
This website is very exhaustive and updated constantly. The site has some great links for health insurance policies also. It is not an easy task to mention all the issues that the site has links.
This is a great non-profit site without even a shade of profitability.
A great site to get back to whenever we need to address an issue of children or family.
Click Here to visit the site.
America's 11 Most Endangered PlacesPosted by blog4net | | america, History, Videos, YouTube | 0 comments »
Watch this nice video which tells about America's 11 most endangered places.
Here are sone nice pics I collected from the Internet.
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Beitbart.com reports today that a dog, Marine which was trained by a Japanese centre for sniffing cancer cells in humans is being cloned in South Korea. It is reported that two clones will be made, one will remain in south korea and the other will be taken to japan for studies. The owner of the dog Yuji Satoh also confirmed the cloning. The experts from Seoul National University have taken the skin samples from Marine for the Project.
Researchers believe that cancer cells emit a scent not present in other healthy cells and it can be picked up by dogs in urine samples. If the project succeeds, they plan to clone more dogs.
I wish this project succeeds and helps us in fighting the deadly disease of cancer.
I wish all luck to the researchers in making the project a big success.
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Yes, all the major browsers have development tools now, but I think most people are in agreement that you just can't beat Firebug and the slew of other development-specific addons for Firefox. Outside of these tools, I often hear people complain about Firefox being slow, memory hungry, or crashy. I thought it would be interesting to ask about people's browser choice if these development tools were not a factor, so just judging by UI and speed and features and such.
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Firefox topped the polls, showing that you guys still like the browsing experience on Firefox best even without fancy tools. Personally I like Firefox OK, but I have some crashing issues and I would definitely be a Safari man if mostly just used browsers for browsing. I think WebKit is the best rendering engine, and Safari 4 is just smoking fast all the way around. The web inspector with Safari is also fairly nice, it's definitely second to Firebug, it just needs the "inspect" feature of Firebug (mousing around to drill down to the exact element) to really be of great general use. If there was a final version of Chrome for Mac I could even seeing going that route, since I really dig how it localizes each tab so you can't crash the whole browser. Safari and Chrome were neck and neck for second, but ultimately Safari took it.
Opera took fourth, happily beating out Internet Explorer, which was in last place other than the Other category. I'm sure some of the "Others" were specially purposed browsers like Flock, built around social networking.
I'll leave this up for most of the day probably. I have a new Poll idea I'll put up and post about tomorrow. As a heads up, Friday is the 2nd anniversary of CSS-Tricks, so definitely pop back over that day if you are only an infrequent reader!


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See the bottom where it shows the capital "S" with the red circle crossed through it ...
Also I went to my device manager ... I do not see DVD/CD
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thats a firefox addon called no script
See the bottom where it shows the capital "S" with the red circle crossed through it
there are two cables to the cd drive ...one for power and 1 for data that connects to the motherboard...you should disconnect and reconnect both ends on the data cable and unplug and replug the power connector
Hi I just checked the cable from the DVD/CD drives and followed the wires to the power and all seems to be OK and plugged
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4 Dead, 4 Wounded in Shootings Outside Upstate N.Y. Restaurant
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Eight people leaving a party at a downtown Buffalo restaurant were shot early Saturday, four of them fatally, including a Texas man who had returned to his hometown to celebrate his first wedding anniversary, police said.
Managers had decided to close the City Grill in the city's business district after an altercation inside. The victims were leaving at about 2:30 a.m. when a man who had been inside began shooting, police said.
"There were verbal things going on. Management apparently chose to close down and have everybody leave the restaurant," Chief of Detectives Dennis Richards said. "People were leaving when this shooting happened."
Keith Johnson, 25, of Buffalo was charged Saturday afternoon with four counts of second-degree murder, but a prosecutor later told the Buffalo News that he intended to go to court Sunday morning to seek dismissal of the charges.
Erie County District Attorney Frank A. Sedita III told the newspaper he was making the move after reviewing video and photos from the scene and interviewing additional witnesses, noting that the evidence showed "certain discrepancies of people and clothing."
"We are having serious second thoughts," Sedita told the newspaper. "I have serious reservations about whether we have the right guy here."
Sedita declined comment when contacted at his home by The Associated Press early Sunday, other than to say he planned to be in court.
Police spokesman Michael DeGeorge did not immediately return cell phone and e-mail messages seeking comment early Sunday about the newspaper's report.
Johnson was in custody late Saturday afternoon and unavailable for comment. Police didn't know whether he was involved in the earlier altercation and asked witnesses to speak up.
"We need people to come forward," said Police Commissioner Daniel Derenda, who estimated there were 100 people at the scene when police arrived.
The group was attending a party in advance of a more formal anniversary celebration scheduled for later Saturday, authorities said. The couple, Danyell Mackin, 30, and his wife, Tanisha, married in Texas a year ago and had returned to celebrate with Buffalo-area friends and family, authorities said. Tanisha Mackin was not hurt.
"An occasion that should have been a joyous one, a happy one, turned tragic," Mayor Byron Brown said Saturday near the restaurant, a popular stop for office workers during the week and people attending theater and sporting events at night.
The Mackins, who grew up in the same neighborhood, had been friends since they were 13 and started dating in 2001, according to a website created to commemorate their marriage and provide details about the celebration.
The couple, known as "Dee" and "Tee," have a 6-year-old son, Danyell Jr., and a 7-month-old daughter, Destinee, who was scheduled to be christened on Sunday, the website said. The family had moved from Buffalo to Austin, Texas, in 2006, and the Mackins worked for a local bank.
The reception was to be held at a community center in Buffalo, and the couple said online that it was "dedicated to the people who meant so much to us and that we lost."
Police identified the other three victims as Willie McCaa III, 26; Shawnita McNeil, 27; and Tiffany Wilhite, 32.
"A senseless, random killing," said Wilhite's father, Raymond Wilhite, who returned to the restaurant a few hours after the shooting. "This kind of thing just has to stop."
McNeil was Wilhite's cousin.
"There's no words to explain how I feel," McNeil's mother, Ruby Martin, said. "She got along with everybody. She knows a lot of people. She didn't deserve to be killed. I'm pretty sure it wasn't intended for her."
Demario Vass, 30, remained in critical condition Saturday night, DeGeorge said. Two men, James Robb Jr., 27, and Shamar Davis, 30, were in stable condition. And 27-year-old Tillman Ward, who was shot in the elbow, was in good condition.
Tommy Dates, 35, of Buffalo, said he was at the bar area of the restaurant with his friends when he noticed a party had broken up. He said people started leaving the restaurant but rushed back inside a few minutes later.
"A lot of people were real upset, just trying to get out of the way," Dates said at the scene about two hours after the shootings. "Everyone was in a panic."
Johnson lives in a two-family house about six miles from the restaurant, near the University of Buffalo's south campus. No one responded to a knock on his door Saturday night, and a woman who answered the door of the other family's home said he lives with his mother and that she also left with police when Johnson was taken into custody.
The restaurant posted a statement on its website Saturday expressing condolences to the victims and their families.
"We at City Grill are deeply saddened by the tragic events," the statement said.
Three covered bodies lay in front of the restaurant for several hours, one of them on the sidewalk across the street. About 20 people stood behind yellow crime scene tape, some trying to console grief-stricken relatives and friends.
"It was horrible seeing members of our community lying in the street," the mayor said.
The window of an office next to the Main Street restaurant was shattered, as was glass at a light-rail stop across the street.
"Nobody knows why," Martin said. "Somebody else was just shooting in a crowd."
Associated Press Writer Ben Dobbin contributed to this report.


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CJ and Debbie Ray at McDonald's Today
CJ and Debbie Ray will be live in Youngsville today at McDonalds to celebrate McDonalds Youngsville location's 1 year anniversary!
This weekend is UL's first home football game! Come meet some of the UL Coaching staff, the UL Cheerleaders and dancers. And get a free cheer stick while supplies last.
And don't miss this special anniversary offer: Friday September 16th, Only from 11a – 1p , Buy one get one: Quarter Pounder with Cheese Or Southern Style Chicken sandwich. At the McDonalds in Youngsville only Friday 11a-1pm.


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Please Adeola Agoro, help me.
I don't enjoying sex with my wife. I can stay one month or many weeks before having sex with her. (2), I release quickly – like two minutes. Please, I want you to help my marriage. Any power control drugs?
Unfortunately, you did not state your age. If you're a man in mid-life experiencing reduced sexual desire you're not alone. Surveys show as many as 25% of men experience reduced sex drive and low sex drive
affects one in three marriages.
Just like you, there are many husbands who aren't interested in sex with their wives. Some sit up late hoping she will go to sleep before they come to bed so they won't have to be embarrassed by non-performance. Low sex drive is a more common problem than you might think. Declining testosterone levels as a natural consequence of aging, plus stress from work and family demands can add up to sexual burn out. The good news is there is plenty you can do to boost low libido and restore normal desire.
Low libido is the same as low sex drive – but not the same thing as impotence or erectile dysfunction. Impotence is wanting to have sex but not being able to carry through on the desire. Low libido is having little desire for sex even if you are capable of achieving erections. The causes of low libido in men are physical and psychological.
Physical causes of low libido
Alcoholism (most common), drug abuse (cocaine and marijuana), obesity (common), diabetes or other "major" diseases, prescribed drugs, particularly Proscar, a tablet used for prostate problems, low testosterone levels and thyroid disease.
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Organized by the International Art Festival, Urban Sketchers Costa Rica was invited to host the workshop "dibujo en movimiento", in fact, a typical USK Sketchwalk.
Lovely day and a great bunch of people (old friends and new) who produced some very amazing sketches.
Thank you, Oscar Ruiz from Zinefest/FIA for organizing this great event and for inviting us to join!
And to the participants - thank you all for showing up and drawing with us!!
First reunion in the park:
Sketching at the Old Customs House (Antigua Aduana):
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OK Here are the answers to our mystery shoe journey.
1. The number 13 - clues throughout starting with the flight number (0513 = Friday(5th day) 13th).
2. Timmies is fav beverage - shown in pic 1.
3. Six Feet Under was fav show - shown in pic 2.
4. Stephen King is fav author - shown in pic 3. I wasn't looking for fav book - too many good ones...lol.
5. Lady Gaga is fav singer - clue "Lady" in post 1, clue "Gaga" in post 2. "Pokerface" song reference in later post.
6. Chocolate ice cream is favorite ice cream - clue in post 3.
7. Dog is favorite animal - clue is last pic of Feb 5.
8. A Brad is fav embellie for papercrafting - part of handmade gift and part of brad buddies in blog candy pic.
9. Green is fav color - on shoe background paper.
10. Fall is fav season - on shoe background paper.
11. Camping is fav activity - on shoe adornment (trees, bear, outdoor food sticker).
12. Halloween is fav holiday - Boo and ghost on strap of shoe, moon sticker on shoe, "I'm a witch" reference.
13. This was the hard one! Egypt is my fav country. The sphinx is shown inside the shoe!!
Thanks for all who played along.
Since there was no winner but 4 dedicated people did email to play along, I will send you each a mystery piece of the blog candy. I deeply appreciate your commitment to sharing my birthday with me. You made my day alot brighter with your friendship.
Please email me your mailing address for your prize:
Have a great day everyone!!
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looking for John Priest born North Curry Somerset
We are researching my wife's family tree, the Priest family from North Curry. One person, John Priest was born in 1821 and we have established he joined the Somerset Light infantry as a Baker/confectioner, with the last posting shown as Winchester Barracks in about 1851 and was discharged in 1860. We can find no other trace of him except that on discharge he deferred his pension. Are there an family members who can assist with information
lookng for priest families in New Jersey
My wife is Priscilla Matthews nee Priest whose relatives originate from North Curry in Somerset. We know that in 1887 the following left for New Jersey:
Mary Priest, nee Blackwell, with Phillis, Samuel, William Henry, James and Alfred.From records in Somerset it appears they left the UK on different dates, we assumed from Liverpool. Mary Ann Priest is believed to have lived with her sister Agnes Hanson for a while?
Priscilla did meet some members of the family when she visitrd New Jersey in 1975. We are having difficulty tracing any current family members of the above named. Any help would be appreciated.
Robert and Priscilla Matthews
Meyer family at Victoria, Australia
I am researching my family and one part of it is the Lane family from Rissington, Gloucester, England.
Emily Muriel Lane married Ernest John ( Hans ) Meyer in October 1910 at Newark New Jersey. He died May 1944 at Mornington, Victoria, Australia. From research it appears there was a son born November 1913 at San Fransisco USA and he married a Joan Martin at Melbourne, Australia in April 1938. I cannot find any trace of when they went to or died in Australia or if there are any recent members of the family out there
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Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Book Review: Clockwork Prince
Author: Cassandra Clare
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Length: 502 pages
"In the magical underworld of Victorian London, Tessa Gray has at last found safety with the Shadowhunters. But that safety proves fleeting when rogue forces in the Clave plot to see her protector, Charlotte, replaced as head of the Institute. If Charlotte loses her position, Tessa will be out on the street—and easy prey for the mysterious Magister, who wants to use Tessa's powers for his own dark ends.
With the help of the handsome, self-destructive Will and the fiercely devoted Jem, Tessa discovers that the Magister's war on the Shadowhunters is deeply personal. He blames them for a long-ago tragedy that shattered his life. To unravel the secrets of the past, the trio journeys from mist-shrouded Yorkshire to a manor house that holds untold horrors, from the slums of London to an enchanted ballroom where Tessa discovers that the truth of her parentage is more sinister than she had imagined. When they encounter a clockwork demon bearing a warning for Will, they realize that the Magister himself knows their every move—and that one of their own has betrayed them.
Tessa finds her heart drawn more and more to Jem, though her longing for Will, despite his dark moods, continues to unsettle her. But something is changing in Will—the wall he has built around himself is crumbling. Could finding the Magister free Will from his secrets and give Tessa the answers about who she is and what she was born to do?
As their dangerous search for the Magister and the truth leads the friends into peril, Tessa learns that when love and lies are mixed, they can corrupt even the purest heart."
Protagonist: The character of Tessa was severely strong ever since the beginning of the first book, but she gets stronger still as she delves further into the shadow world in hopes of finding out more about herself and the plans of the cruel and malicious Magister. In addition to growing in the knowledge of who she is and who she might be she and Sophie, the Institute's maid, are taught to defend themselves by the reluctant Lightwood brothers. Due to this she begins to stand up for herself more and becomes all the more independent. That being said, she does do a few things that I feel like are either foolish or too hasty, though as I like to say having a protagonist that's too perfect makes for an boring story.
Romance: The love triangle in this installment becomes even more pronounced as now both Jem and Will want to be with Tessa. However this is made all the more complicated as Will refuses to admit his feelings to her and tries albeit unsuccessfully to push her away, and Jem doesn't want to saddle Tessa with his illness and the fact that he may not live much longer. Tessa however remains oblivious to Jem's affections through a large portion of the book and is still trying to figure Will out. There are of course other couples who have their own problems as well as those who are starting new. I, at times, preferred learning and reading more about these couples rather than the main romance as they can be a bit less complicated and more enjoyable.
World-Building: In this installment we learn more about the London Institute and the current heads of the Clave. We also get to meet Gideon, Gabriel Lightwood's older brother as he starts to train the Institutes maid, Sophie while Gabriel trains Tessa. We get to see more about the history of the Lightwood and Fairchild families and why Benedict Lightwood hates Charolette so much. We find out why Will treats Tessa so badly when it's evident that he cares for her and why he is only himself around Jem. Tessa learns more about who her family really is and a secret that she never knew comes to light from the most unpredictable source.
Predictablilty: I have to say that I loved how much information was presented in such a shocking and unforeseeable way/ Most of the information had a bit of foreshadowing attached to it but there were a few times that things came out of the blue but, interestingly enough, not in an annoying way that sometimes happens when a large plot point is revealed with no warning at all. I have to say that a lot of Cassandra Clare's books in this world have a great way of catching you off guard and shocking you senseless.
Ending: There is a great cliffhanger in this book, one that has a bit of foreshadowing, but in spite of this I felt a bit down at the end of this book. There were fun and exciting parts but there were also parts that were heartbreaking and full of things happening just a little too late leaving characters feeling sad and helpless as they watch the happiness of others. I do have to say I was so happy that I waited a bit to read this series as I don't have to wait very long at all to dive into the next and final installment.
Overall I'm giving this book 5 out of 5 stars it does a shining job of following it's previous installment and raising the stakes as the the clock ticks down and the final battle will begin.
P.S. To enter for a chance to win a SIGNED copy of the next and final installment in this breathtaking trilogy head on over to my Giveaways/Contests page and as always it's International!
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In chapter 25, Tempe is about to read through the autopsy report on the one woman found at Murtry Island when Kathryn arrives. Kathryn tells Tempe that Heidi, the mother of the murdered twins, was a member of the commune who came to them with a young man she knew before. As part of the commune's beliefs, Heidi was to mate with another man in the commune, but she became pregnant with her boyfriend's baby instead. Heidi ran away when she realized how angry Dom and his fellow leaders were with her. Kathryn also tells Tempe that she overheard an argument between El and Jennifer Cannon, one of the victims from Murtry, and later Jennifer disappeared along with a friend of hers named Anne or Alice. In chapter 26, Tempe calls Red while Kathryn naps upstairs and asks if based on what Kathryn...
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Farming Syed Ghani Khan's farm stands unique with a verdant tapestry of 700 paddy varieties and 120 types of mango. This distinct ecosystem is the result of a farmer's constant effort with constructive involvement of his family, writes Anitha Pailoor, against the backdrop of the United Nations declaring 2014 as the year of family farming
This is Nazar Bath collected from the tribal people of Maharashtra. They sow this unique rice variety in the middle of paddy field since it acts as a trap crop and weed controller. Black in colour, pockets of this variety in the field look like spots that protect the field. Dambar Sali is popular in North Karnataka for similar properties."
"I have studied about 150 insects in this farm. More than 50 per cent support the crop. Those green twigs are resting places for birds. They are the natural pest controllers. Look here. I have recently come across this beetle in my farm. I am yet to figure out whether it is useful or not." After a break, biodiversity conserver and farmer-scientist Syed Ghani Khan resumes to collecting seeds from 700 paddy strains cultivated in one acre while his 12-year-old daughter crosschecks her records and realises that few varieties are missing.
"Squirrels cherish the sweetness of paddy sprouts and do not let them grow." We see a father passing on the knowledge of ecosystem. Fragrance of jasmine attracts us to the other part of the farm where Ghani's brothers are harvesting Thai Jasmine Black paddy grown in one-and-a-half acres.
Paddy harvest in Bada Bagh, a unique farm in Kirugavalu near Malavalli Taluk of Mandya district, has intensified activities in their house a few kilometres away.
Ghani's wife Syeda Firdouse and other women are busy making arrangements to store the seeds and pack as per the demand. Ghani's mother Haleema Begum is occupied in seed preservation for next year's sowing.
40 seeds that changed his life
Agriculture is something more than a livelihood activity to this family. It is a way to conserve biodiversity, a path to revive traditional practices. Syed Ghani Khan and his brother Syed Hasan are into agriculture while two brothers who are working in cities join hands when necessary.
Ghani Khan (37) had an innate passion to tend plants since his childhood. "During his school days, Ghani spent more time in the kitchen garden than playing with friends," recalls his mother. "When I was a teenager, my father fell ill and was bedridden for years. Being the eldest, my studies and experiments in the farm went parallel.
By the time he could complete his graduation in archeology and museology, his father passed away. Ghani stood firm in his farm and anchored the future of his three brothers. "There are many turning points in my life. A fistful of native seeds tops among them," Ghani narrates his journey from a chemical farmer to a native seed conserver. In the beginning, chemical farming looked comfortable. But when both personal and field's health deteriorated, he decided to shift to organic farming. It was followed by his passion for paddy varieties.
Ghani's uncle had acquired a small quantity of seeds of unknown paddy variety in 2000. Though he was reluctant to share the seeds, Ghani managed to get 40 seeds. The variety yielded well in organic method. Ironically, for two years the variety could not be identified, until a visitor recognised it as Ratnachudi. In those two years, Ghani Khan had realised that native paddy varieties were on the verge of extinction. This awareness compelled him to focus on conservation.
It was not an easy task considering the kind of work involved in conserving a variety. First six years saw only five additional varieties. Gradually, he came into contact with individuals and organisations with similar objectives. Save our Rice Campaign, anchored by Sahaja Samruddha in Karnataka, gave him opportunities to visit farms and research centres across the country. He interacted and exchanged seeds with other leading paddy conservers in the country. Paddy varieties of Thailand and Malaysia are gifted from his friends of Save Rice Campaign. "Every time he is back from a programme or field trip, I'm sure that Bada Bagh will get new members," says Haleema Begum.
Conservation process
"I do not say that I'm doing it scientifically. But whatever I have done is systematic." Wide diversity of wetland, dryland, medicinal, aromatic rices along with unique varieties like jugal, a twin-grained paddy, Narikel, which resembles coconut flower, Burma Black, Ramigali and Rajbhog, a weed suppressor, give the visitors a feel of plant museum. Each variety is evenly spaced in straight rows. A list of the varieties is hung in front of each row.
A portion of the experimental plot is covered with high-yielding varieties that are planted for comparative study with traditional rice plants. After being able to revive the distinct paddy varieties of the region, Ghani Khan is trying to test the most feasible varieties for local climatic conditions. Growing plants in cement rings for conservation purpose is his latest experiment. It saves him space.
About 99 per cent cross-pollination doesn't happen in native paddy. But to rule out even one per cent, Ghani combines long and short duration crops. Direct sowing is done. Though there is sufficient water due to KRS Dam, Ghani takes care to use minimum water just to maintain moisture.
He uses a concoction of selected medicinal leaves to check pests and diseases. Weeding is done using cono weeder. Slurry, green manure and mulching of 10 types of pulses ensure good fertility.
Ghani was trained in seed production at Krishi Vijnana Kendra, Vishweshwaraiah Channel Farm, Mandya. In his early phase as a farmer, he had supplied seeds of high yielding varieties to Karnataka State Seed Corporation. He has applied the same knowledge to conserve native seeds. So far he has given seeds to more than 6,000 farmers across Karnataka and outside the state. Some farmers exchange the seeds, other return double the quantity after harvest.
Once the crop is ready for harvest, he organises a field day so that farmers can choose the variety that best suits their requirement. Ghani selects the varieties based on yield, market demand and climatic conditions. Usually, consumers contact him directly for rice. Sahaja Organics is one of the major clients. He has even exported certain varieties to Dubai and Abu Dhabi.
"Farmers are the primary victims of climate change. Traditional varieties help us face unpredictable climatic and ecological conditions while high yielding varieties can't." Through his careful insight of selecting plants and developing varieties with suitable traits, Ghani has become a farmer breeder. He has been studying each variety and the ecosystem it builds. This year, he has cross-pollinated Salem Sanna and HMT to get a new race.
"Ghani has a clear understanding of the significance of on-farm conservation. He has also cultivated a researcher's outlook. Research centres and universities should join hands with him to systematically propagate the good work done. Scientists should help him in characterisation and experiment the varieties in a larger area.
Even if five per cent of the varieties in his collection are found useful for their drought, flood, pest, disease-resistant properties or for high yield, it is remarkable for both researchers and farmers. Farmers can relate more when they observe the crop in another farmer's field. Keeping this in mind, we are planning to conduct activities in his farm," says Dr N Devakumar, co-ordinator, Research Institute on Organic Farming, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore.
Hand in hand
When his brother is busy researching on paddy strains, Syed Hasan takes care of the vegetable plots, papaya, guava and sugar cane which make the farm diverse in terms of crops too. Casuarina is grown in 3 acres and teak in patches bordering the 20-acre farm.
Bada Bagh is also known for its exotic mango collection. About 120 mango varieties which are 100 to 200 years old are registered with the National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources.
When the paddy variety crossed 100, Ghani's mother thought of tasting all the varieties. So, once the seeds are distributed to those interested, she mixes all the varieties together and gets it milled to use it for their daily consumption. "It is tasty, colourful and nutritious," she says. HMT, a farmer-developed variety, is the other one they prefer for consumption.
Syeda Firdouse has started the novel activity of designing ornaments and decorative items from paddy seeds.
Ghani was given the Plant Genome Savior Farmer Recognition by the Central Government in 2012. The family has launched the Ghani Agriculture and Rural Development Organisation to support their activities.
"This family demonstrates the joy of farming. They are content in what they do and what they get in return. Ghani can locate paddy in the woods. The entire family is supportive of Ghani's quest," lauds Murthy, a fellow farmer, who is inspired by Ghani.
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International aviation should be taxed because this is a great example of a fair tax that could be used to benefit multiple countries simply by asking for the people that are well off enough to afford to travel by air to contribute more to society. Those that cannot afford to are not affected by this tax.
Taxation of International air travel would prohibit the number of flights in and out of our country. This would result in decreased trade and tourism ultimately hurting our fragile economy. We should allow other countries free access to our airports if we want to see our economy improve and trade expand.


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Remynse and Schnack Capture Wilson/ITA Southwest Regionals
Oct. 25, 2009
San Diego, Calif. - UCLA's Andrea Remynse and Yasmin Schnack captured the Wilson/ITA Southwest Regional doubles title in San Diego on Sunday to earn main draw acceptance into next month's ITA National Collegiate Indoor Championships.
Remynse and Schnack, the tournament's top-seeded doubles team, defeated Arizona's Natasha Marks/Claire Rietsch, 8-4 in Sunday's final.
Schnack actually has a chance to two titles in San Diego, as the Bruin senior defeated Marks, 6-4, 6-1 in one of Sunday's semifinals. She will meet USC's Maria Sanchez in the championship match on Monday. Sanchez dispatched of Remynse, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 in the other semifinal on Sunday.
Complete draws from the Wilson/ITA Southwest Regionals can be found on the San Diego State women's tennis page located HERE.
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Download the authoritative guide: Cloud Computing 2018: Using the Cloud to Transform Your Business
Jim Bound, chairman of the North American IPv6 Task Force
Are You Ready for IPv6?
Soon or later the world is going to move to IPv6, the next generation IP, which includes a vastly expanded address space (128 bit instead of 32), far higher security, and auto-configuration that does away with the need for local Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol DHCP servers and allows global addressing.
- What does this all mean for you?
- When should you start preparing to move to IPv6?
- What preparations should you make? How much will it cost?
- What if you do nothing?
- How do you know that IPv6 will be relevant any time soon?
To answer the last question first, the U.S. Government is putting its considerable weight behind a push towards IPv6. For example, the Defense Department with its $30 billion budget has been buying only IPv6-compliant networking gear since October 2003, and aims to have full IPv6 compliance by 2008.
Clearly IPv6 is on the rise, and its adoption is likely to snowball as more IPv6 networks encourage the use of IPv6 devices, making IPv6 networks more desirable.
Time Shouldn't Matter
So when should you start preparing? In a way, timing is not critical IPv6 was designed from the very beginning to co-exist with IPv4, so, in theory, you could keep your head down and ignore IPv6, while continue to operate as you do now.
But, in practice, the sooner you start the better. "If you are not thinking about planning a move to IPv6 today, it's costing you money," said Jim Bound, chairman of the North American IPv6 Task Force. "The longer you wait and live with IPv4 bandaids, plugs and fixes to make it all work, the more you'll be buying that doesn't support IPv6 and the more it will cost you to move in the end."
Strategize, Plan and Test
Planning and testing are obviously important steps in making a network IPv6 compliant, but the very first thing you should be doing is sorting out your procurement strategy and, specifically, ensuring that everything you buy from now on is IPv6 capable. That way when you do start to test and pilot IPv6 networking you won't have to go out and replace existing equipment.
Cody Christman, Verio's director, product engineering, network services
The only way that IPv6 is likely to become a real cost burden is if you ignore it and then discover you need to comply with it in a hurry. This could be because customers won't deal with you perhaps for security reasons or because you need its functionality to stay competitive. Whatever the cause, if in the future you need IPv6 fast then it could end costing you a great deal if you don't start preparing now.
Equipment Can Wait, Training Starts Now
One area where you will need to spend some money on is training and education. You may be able to replace equipment gradually, but you and your staff need to be up to speed with IPv6 and its requirements. Again, if you start planning now you should be able to get most of your team up to speed by the time the skills are required in earnest.
What about bandwidth? Will you have to upgrade your network when you implement IPv6? Japan-based telecoms carrier NTT subsidiary Verio offers IPv6 connectivity via its NTT/Verio Global IP network, and Cody Christman, Verio's director, product engineering, network services, says the overall effect on network speed of implementing IPv6 is negligible, so there will be no need for costly upgrades or avoiding future ones either. "The address is longer, but the IP datagram is shorter. And routing tables are simpler, so they could need less processing. Overall, the effect is insignificant it won't make the network faster or slower," he said.
Are there any other things that net admins should be thinking about? Cisco, Juniper and other hardware vendors, and specialist software vendors, will be ensuring in no small part thanks to the U.S. Government that their code is IPv6 compliant, but what about the software you've developed in house? "It's important that you consider how any home-grown administration tools will work," Christman said. Will they work at all? Will you need to rewrite them? How important are they, and how easy will it be to test any rewrites in your own pilot schemes? It would be prudent to check.
Don't Be Caught Off-Guard
There's no question that IPv6 is coming in fact it's already fairly commonplace in parts of Asia and Japan and the only uncertainty is when it will be a commercial imperative for your organization to adopt it. It's been a long time in development, but your best bet is to start preparing if you want it to be a benefit, not an obstacle, to your business. Jim Bound, of the IPv6 task force, offers this advice: "IPv6 is a disruptive technology, and I think all of a sudden everyone will be using it."
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WASHINGTON — RACIAL PURITY is a silly topic, partly because there's no such thing. We've all been blended, and we almost surely had a common origin. Still there's something about the subject that makes people nervous.
Minority populations grew twice as fast during the '80s as in the '70s, according to the U.S. Census. Nearly one in four Americans now has African, Asian, Hispanic or American Indian ancestry. Despite the fact we are a nation of immigrants, many whites find this disquieting.
Each new wave of newcomers has been resented by those who got here ahead of it. The Irish, Italians and East Europeans all faced discrimination and racial slurs. But their assimilation was a piece of cake contrasted with what Americans of different skin hues have to go through.


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Evangelyn Alocilja
Biosensors, nanostructured bio-detection devices, diagnostics for infectious diseases, biodefense, food safety, environmental safety, electronic nose
Rigoberto Burgueño
Rigoberto Burgueño received his B.S. degree in structural engineering in 1993 and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in engineering sciences, with specialization in structural engineering, in 1994 and 1999, respectively, all from the University of California, San Diego. He is currently a professor in the area of structural engineering, mechanics and materials in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and director of MSU's Civil Infrastructure Laboratory. His research interests include: development of mechanical metamaterials and mechanical devices using elastic instabilities, hybrid nano- and micro-structured material systems, composite materials and structures, multiscale modeling, solid and structural mechanics, experimental characterization of materials and structures, inelastic response of concrete structures, and earthquake engineering. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Federal Highway Administration, the Michigan Department of Transportation and the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute. Dr. Burgueño has been recipient of several teaching and research awards, including the MSU's Teacher-Scholar Award (2006), MSU's Withrow Teaching Excellence Award (2005, 2011, 2015), and the CERF Charles Pankow Award for Innovation (1996). He is an associate editor of the Journal of Structural Engineering and editorial board member of the Journal of Composites for Construction.
Prem Chahal
Research interest in Terahertz (THz) and Millimeter-wave Electronics, IR Sensors, Microsystems Packaging, RF-MEMS, BioMEMS, and Flex Electronics.
Yiming Deng
Dr. Yiming Deng is an associate professor of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA. He was an associate professor with tenure at the University of Colorado, Denver and Anschutz Medical Campus. He obtained his Ph.D. degree at Michigan State University and B.S. degree at Tsinghua University, both in Electrical Engineering. Dr. Deng has over 13 years of experience in the development of sensors and instrumentation, innovative numerical modeling for nondestructive evaluation (NDE) and structural health monitoring. His current research focuses on high-resolution and multi-wave NDE sensing and imaging systems that involve development of novel nonintrusive sensors, high fidelity multi-physics modeling for understanding NDE imaging physics, and experimental validation with sensor prototyping for critical energy and transportation infrastructures. He has external research funding from USDOT, PHMSA, DoD, NIH, GTI, NJH, NSFC, ANST and private industries. Dr. Deng served as panelists for NSF, US DOE, US DOT, HKRGC. He is the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Reliability and senior member of IEEE.
Laura Dillon
Laura Dillon received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts in 1984. She spent thirteen years in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara, before joining the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at Michigan State University in 1997. She served as the CSE Department Chair from 2003-2007. Professor Dillon's research interests center on specification and analysis of concurrent software systems, formal methods in software engineering, and programming languages.
Wayne Dyksen
Wayne Dyksen serves as an Associate Director of MATRIX, The Center for Humane, Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences OnLine. His research interests includes computational humanities, cyber security, web services, and high performance computing. Dyksen is a member of the Board of Advisors of the College of Information Technology of the United Arab Emirates University. He also serves as a member of the Strategic Partners Council of the Department of Computer Science at Calvin College.
Richard Enbody
Rich Enbody came to MSU in 1987 with a Ph.D. from the U. of Minnesota. Before graduate school he taught high school mathematics for six years. His B.A. was in Mathematics from Carleton College. His work at MSU has covered a variety of topics with many related to computer architecture such as parallel processing, caching, power and security. He holds two patents in nanotechnology devices with two more pending in security hardware.
Anil Jain
Anil Jain's research interests include pattern recognition, computer vision and biometric recognition. His articles on biometrics have appeared in Scientific American, Nature, IEEE Spectrum, Scholarpedia, and MIT Technology Review. He has received a number of awards, including Guggenheim fellowship, Humboldt Research award, Fulbright fellowship, IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement award (2003), W. Wallace McDowell award (2007), IAPR King-Sun Fu Prize (2008), and ICDM 2008 Research Contribution Award. He holds six patents and is the author of several books.
Leo Kempel
Leo Kempel's current research interests are conformal antennas, engineered materials for microwave applications, and computational electromagnetics. Kempel is a Member of Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, and Commission B of the International Scientific Radio Union (URSI). He received the MSU College of Engineering's Withrow Distinguished Scholar (Junior Faculty) Award in 2001, the MSU Teacher-Scholar award in 2002, and a CAREER award by the National Science Foundation in 2002.
Hassan Khalil
Principal research interests: robust and adaptive control of nonlinear systems, singular perturbation methods in control. He is currently a University Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He has published several papers on singular perturbation methods and nonlinear control. He is the author of Nonlinear Control (Pearson, 2015), Nonlinear Systems (3rd Ed., Prentice Hall, 2002) and a coauthor of Singular Perturbation Methods in Control: Analysis and Design (SIAM, 1999). Khalil is a as well as a fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC).
Venkatesh Kodur, Ph.D., P.E., F.CAE, F.INAE, F.ASCE, F.ACI, F.SEI
Dr. Venkatesh Kodur is a University Distinguished Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Michigan State University. He also serves as Director of the Centre on Structural Fire Engineering and Diagnostics at Michigan State University. His research interests include: Evaluation of fire resistance of structural systems through large scale fire experiments and numerical modeling and characterization of materials under high temperature. His research contributions have lead to the development of fundamental understanding on the fire behavior of material and structural systems and also resulted in numerous design approaches and innovative and cost-effective solutions for enhancing fire-resistance of structural systems. He has published over 350 peer-reviewed papers in journals and conferences, and has given numerous invited key-note presentations. He is one of the highly cited authors in Civil Engineering and as per Google Scholar, he has more than 7000 citations with an "h" index of 48.
Prof. Kodur is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering and a Foreign Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering. He is a professional engineer, Fellow of American Society of Civil Engineers, Fellow of Structural Engineering Institute, Society of Civil Engineers, Fellow of American Concrete Institute, Associate Editor of Journal of Structural Engineering, Chairman of ACI Fire Protection Committee, Chairman of ASCE-29 (Fire) Standards Committee and a member of UK-EPSRC College of Reviewers. He has won many awards including MSU University Distinguished Professor, AISC Faculty Fellowship Award, MSU Distinguished Faculty Award, NRCC (Government of Canada) Outstanding Achievement Award and NATO Award for collaborative research. Dr. Kodur was part of the FEMA/ASCE Building Performance Assessment Team that studied the collapse of WTC buildings as a result of September 11 incidents.
Sandeep Kulkarni
Sandeep Kulkarni received his Ph.D. from Ohio State University in 1999, where he received a Presidential Fellowship and departmental award for outstanding research. His research interests include fault-tolerance, distributed systems, operating systems, networks, software engineering, security, and reliability. He has developed numerous tools for the design of fault-tolerant and secure computing systems.
M. Emin Kutay
Dr. Kutay's background and interests are primarily on experimental and numerical investigation of fundamental material behavior of asphalt pavements and granular materials. His research focuses on improvement of the AASHTO Superpave mix design, understanding and better prediction of fatigue cracking in asphalt pavements using state-of-the-art techniques such as the Viscoelastic Continuum Damage (VECD) Theory and development of tools to improve understanding of permanent deformation (rutting) characteristics of asphalt pavements. His other research interests include pavement surface characteristics such as smoothness, tire/pavement noise and splash/spray.
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Nizar Lajnef
Dr. Lajnef's interests are in the area of sensors design for civil infrastructure and biomechanical systems, sensors networks design and implementation, nano-watt and self-powered sensors, and smart materials/composites/alloys and systems.
Tongtong Li
Prof. Li's research interests lie in wireless security, cognitive networks, wireless sensor networks, cyber-physical systems, wireless communications, digital signal processing, and information theory. Current projects in Prof. Li's BAWC (Broadband Access and Wireless Communication) Lab include: highly efficient and reliable communication system design, multi-layer techniques for secure communications under hostile environments, secure cyber-physical communication systems, and security issues in cognitive networks.
Xiang-Yang Alex Liu
Alex Liu joined Michigan State University in 2006 after earning his Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin. He is the co-author of a number of papers published at conferences/journals such as Sigmetrics, PODC, ICNP, Infocom, DSN, ICDCS, TPDS. His research interests include networking, security, and systems. He won the 2004 IEEE & IFIP William C. Carter Award with the citation, "to recognize an individual who has made a significant contribution to the field of dependable computing through his or her graduate dissertation research''.
Andrew Mason
Dr. Mason research utilizes mixed-signal integrated circuits and microfabrication to addresses challenges in microsystem development for biochemical, neural, and environmental sensing applications. Current projects include high-resolution, low-power, bioelectrochemical interrogation circuits; adaptive chemical sensor interface circuits; post-CMOS fabrication of electrochemical sensor arrays; and implantable mixed-signal integrated circuits for signal processing of wireless neural recordings. Dr. Mason is a Senior Member of the IEEE, an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (TBCAS), and a General Chair of the 2011 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference. He teaches courses in the area of microelectronics and biomedical engineering, including VLSI design, microprocessor systems, and biomedical instrumentation.
Philip Mckinley
Philip K. McKinley received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was a member of technical staff at Bell Laboratories in Naperville, Illinois from 1982-1990. Dr. McKinley has served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems and was co-chair of the program committee for the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems. His current research interests include Distributed systems, self-adaptive software, autonomic computing, adaptive middleware, group communication services, digital evolution, artificial life, overlay networks, and service composition.
Joydeep Mitra
Joydeep Mitra joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering as an Associate Professor. Prior to this appointment he held academic positions at New Mexico State University and North Dakota State University, and was a senior consulting engineer with LCG Consulting, Los Altos, Calif. He acquired his PhD in electrical engineering from Texas A&M University, College Station, and his bachelor's degree, also in electrical engineering, from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. His research interests include power system reliability and security, and distributed and renewable energy resource planning. He has received research support from electric utilities, Sandia National Laboratories, the Department of Energy, and the National Science Foundation, including an NSF CAREER Award. He is a senior member of the IEEE and contributes to the Power and Energy Society, the Industrial Applications Society, and the Standards Association.
Jian Ren
Jian Ren received his Ph.D. degree in ECE from Xidian University in 1994. His research interests are in the areas of wireless and wireline network security, computer system security, cryptographic primitives, sequence design, error-control coding and information theory.
Edward Rothwell
Antennas, scattering, radar target identification, measurement of the electromagnetic properties of materials, electromagnetic theory.
Pang-Ning Tan
Dr. Pang-Ning Tan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at MSU. He received his M.S degree in Physics and Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from University of Minnesota. His research interests span a broad range of data mining problems, from pattern discovery (association analysis, anomaly detection, and cluster analysis) to predictive modeling. In addition to addressing fundamental problems in data mining, he is also interested in applying data mining techniques to various application domains including climate and Earth sciences, social and information networks, botnet and webspam detection, and medical informatics. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research, Army Research Office, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and Michigan State University.
Eric Torng
Eric Torng is a member of the Digital Evolution Laboratory and a founding member of the Quantitative Biology and Modeling Initiative at Michigan State University. He serves as graduate director for the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. His research interests include algorithms, on-line algorithms, scheduling, computational complexity, TCAM, packet processing.
Guan-Hua (Scott) Tu
Satish Udpa
Former Dean of Engineering, Satish Udpa's research interests span the broad area of materials characterization and nondestructive evaluation (NDE). Work done by him to date in the area includes an extensive repertoire of forward models for simulating physical processes underlying several inspection techniques. Coupled with careful experimental work, such forward models can be used for designing new sensors, optimizing test conditions, estimating the probability of detection, assessing designs for inspectability and training inverse models for characterizing defects.
Lalita Udpa
Her research interests include various aspects of NDE, such as development of computational models for the forward problem in NDE, signal and image processing, pattern recognition and neural networks, and development of solution techniques for inverse problems. Her current projects include finite-element modeling of electromagnetic NDE methods applied to aircraft geometries, application of neural network and signal processing algorithms to NDE data, and development of image processing techniques for automated analysis of NDE and biomedical images.
Guowei Wei
Indrek Wichman
Combustion and flame studies related to fire and theoretical combustion, analytical modeling (fire, ignition, quenching, flame spread, instabilities), computational modeling (flame spread, triple flames, instabilities, solid pyrolysis, microgravity flames), experimentation (MSU fire tunnel, thermal property measurement, flames in small enclosed spaces (micro flames), burner flame attachment).
Gregory Wierzba
His current research interests are in SPICE macromodeling of analog ICs, symbolic circuit analysis and audio engineering. Dr. Wierzba is a member of Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi, Phi Kappa Phi, and Sigma Xi. He was the recipient of the 1986 Myril B. Reed Best Paper Award of the Midwest Symposium on Circuit and Systems.
Thomas Wolff
Geotechnical; reliability analysis of dams, levees and hydraulic structures, probabilistic analysis and reliability-based design in geotechnical engineering; probabilistic slope stability analysis.
Neil Wright
Heat transfer; thermophysical property measurement; parameter estimation; thermal biology
Li Xiao
Li Xiao received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the College of William and Mary in 2002. She is a member of the Experimental Laboratory for Advanced Networking and Systems. Her research interests include distributed and networking systems, overlay systems and applications, wireless sensor networks, wireless mesh networks, system resource management, and design and implementations of experimental algorithms.
Guoliang Xing
Guoliang Xing earned his D.Sc. ('06) and M.S. ('03) in computer science from Washington University in St. Louis. He received a B.S. in electrical engineering and M.S. in computer science from Xi'an Jiaotong University in 1998 and 2001, respectively. Prior to joining MSU, he was an assistant professor of computer science at the City University of Hong Kong. His research interests include wireless sensor networks, mobile computing, and networked embedded systems.
Mi Zhang
Mi Zhang's research interests and efforts span the areas of ubiquitous computing, mobile sensing, wearable computing, embedded systems, pattern recognition, and applied machine learning. He is particularly interested in developing intelligent mobile sensing and ubiquitous computing technologies with a special focus on health care and medical applications. This fits well with a fascinating research field referred to as Mobile Health (mHealth), which aims to realize the vision of patient-centric personalized health care. Prior to joining MSU, he was a Postdoctoral Associate at Cornell University.


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COWBOYS and Indians will take to the streets of Ainsdale this Saturday as the village celebrates its seventh annual Edwardian Day.
Organisers of the summertime celebration are bringing the wild west to town, with a fancy dress parade, where children between the ages of six and 12 are encouraged to don their best 'Cowboys and Indians' attire.
Event organisers, Ainsdale Civic Society, are promising a fun-packed day, featuring a colourful carnival parade, as well as a variety of charity stalls, music provided by local youngsters in the form of choirs, samba bands and jazz ensembles, and a visit from the Mayor of Sefton, Cllr Paul Tweed.
Tony Brough, Chairman of Ainsdale Civic Society, said: "The last seven years we have been hugely supported by the local community. It is a very popular event.
"It was a splendid turnout last year. The Ainsdale Civic Society committee has been working really hard since last year to get everything ready."
Last year over a thousand people joined in the celebrations, which had a Caribbean Carnival theme.
Two New Orleans jazz bands, a Samba band and a percussion band took centre stage to provide music for the day, while children enjoyed a range of exciting entertainment, such as a climbing wall and fairground rides.
This year, the street stalls will start trading from 10am, while the celebrations are officially launched at midday, when the vibrant parade sets off through the village.
At around 2pm the fancy dress competition will be judged, and prizes awarded at the bandstand in Station Road.
The contest, which costs £1 to enter, carries a first prizes of £30, with £20 and £10 prizes for the runners-up.
Joan Major, secretary of Ainsdale Civic Society, added: "It is a very enjoyable family day. We can't wait."
Ainsdale Edwardian Day - What's On
Ken Nicholson and Brenda Pomfret
Sefton Schools Brass Ensemble
Ainsdale C of E Primary School
Sefton Schools Brass Ensemble
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Sefton Schools Jazz Ensemble
Holy Family RC High School Samba Band
Ken Nicholson and Brenda Pomfret
Holy Family RC Samba Band and singers
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President Hitt to Host Open Forum for Students
An open forum for students to discuss their ideas, concerns and campus experiences will be hosted by President John C. Hitt in the Student Union on Monday, Feb. 13. Also at the forum will be A. Dale Whittaker, provost and executive vice president, and vice presidents Maribeth Ehasz, Grant Heston, Dan Holsenbeck and Bill Merck.
The forum will be 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. in the Key West Ballroom, Room 218AB. Anyone unable to attend the forum can view it at this direct link.


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I have a question on how to make a condition in loop script.
this is a simple for loop, that loops something tills it reaches 100, I want to run anther thing after every 5 times that the loops run,
so in this example, another thing should be run 25 times when the main loops reaches 100.
I am not sure how to code it.
if I put the condition if " i==5" it plays only once,
appreciate your help;
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