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"Weatherbeaten: Winslow Homer and Maine," 35 major oils and watercolors, Portland Museum of Art. portlandmuseum.org. Ends Sunday.
"Between Past and Present: The Homer Studio Photographic Project," contemporary photography made with historic processes, Portland Museum of Art. portlandmuseum.org. Through Feb. 17.
"The Portland Society of Art and Winslow Homer's Legacy in Maine," exploring the artistic relationship between Homer and the architect John Calvin Stevens and the early years of the Portland Society of Art, featuring architectural drawings and a range of paintings and watercolors by Homer and others, Portland Museum of Art. portlandmuseum.org. Through Feb. 3.
"Iconic America: The U.S. Outline as National Symbol," University of Southern Maine (Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education), Portland. usm.maine.edu/maps. Through Feb. 28.
Alex Katz, "Maine/New York," 28 paintings and one multi-part sculpture. Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville. colby.edu. Ends Sunday.
"Malaga Island: Fragmented Lives," historic photographs, documents, artifacts and first-person accounts, Maine State Museum, Augusta. mainestatemuseum.org. Through May.
"Jamie Wyeth, Rockwell Kent and Monhegan," paintings, and "Impressionist Summers: Frank W. Benson's North Haven," paintings, ends Sunday; "Recent Acquisitions," newly acquired work by Georgia O'Keeffe, Arthur Dove, Rockwell Kent, Marguerite and William Zorach, Elaine de Kooning, Andrew and N.C. Wyeth and more, through March 10; "Decorating the Everyday: Popular Art from the Farnsworth," furniture, paintings and textitles, through Sept. 22, Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland. farnsworthmuseum.org. "N'tolonapemk: Our Relatives' Place," archeological exhibits and stories of the Passamaquoddy, Abbe Museum, Bar Harbor. abbemuseum.org. Through October.
"Warmth and Style," handwoven, felted work and knit works by Janice Jones, Lorri Raymond, Susan Mills, Helen Farnham and Amy Smith, Markings Gallery, Bath. 443-1499. Through Monday.
"The Incarnation of Earthly Creations," Haitian art from paintings and sculpture to beads and metal, Museum of African Culture, Portland. museumafricanculture.org. Through Jan. 30.
Alan Bray, Mayumi Sarai and Susan Jane Belton, paintings, sculptures and portraits of cups of various brands of coffee, University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor. umma.umaine.edu. Through Saturday.
"Home Decoration: The Domestic Artistry of the Skolfield Women, 1845–1900," samplers, printed screens, flower arrangements, hair wreaths and more, Pejepscot Historical Society Museum, Brunswick. 729-6606. Through Monday.
"Ahead Full at Fifty: 50 Years of Collecting," Maine Maritime Museum, Bath. mainemaritimemuseum.org. Through May 26.
"The Exquisite Bird 2," photographs by Michael Milicia, Daunis Fine Jewelry, Portland. daunis.com. Through Monday.
"Cast in Amber" and "Interval," paintings by Veronia Cross and Louise Bourne, Elizabeth Moss Gallery, Falmouth. elizabethmossgalleries.com. Through Jan. 13.
"Elemental Equanimity," installation by Zachary Field, Coleman Burke Gallery at Port City Music Hall, Portland. colemanburke.com. Through Friday.
"CSA: Community Supporting Arts," nine artists, Savory Maine, Damariscotta. savorymainedining.com. Through Feb. 5.
"Fantastic Stories: The Supernatural in Nineteenth-Century Japanese Prints," Bowdoin College (Museum of Art), Brunswick. bowdoin.edu/art-museum. Through March 3.
"Abstract," mixed-media collage, sculpture, photography and painting from 36 Maine artists, Macpage LLC, South Portland. macpage.com. Through Jan. 25.
"The Sea Within Us: Iconically Maritime in Fashion and Design," presented by Maine Maritime Museum, Portland Public Library. portlandlibrary.com. Through June 14.
"Bright Beginnings," paintings, photography and ceramics by established artists and emerging artists, The DaVinci Experience Art Gallery, Falmouth. davinci experience.com. Through Jan. 12.
"Printmaking ABC: In Memoriam David P. Becker," highlights from recently acquired collection of 1,500 prints, Bowdoin College (Museum of Art), Brunswick. bowdoin.edu/art-museum. Through March 10.
"Living Geometry," paintings and drawings by John Silverio, Unity College (Leonard R. Craig Art Gallery). 948-9239. Through Jan. 11.
"Holiday Offerings: Pottery, Glass and Paintings," new work by glass artist Keith Weiskamp, potter Richard Boyd and painter Wyn Foland, Richard Boyd Gallery, Peaks Island. richardboydpottery.com. Ends Sunday.
"Mapping the Air," collaborative installation by Donna Parkinson and Sarah Vosmus, Harlow on the Circle Lobby Gallery, Augusta. harlowgallery.org. Through Jan. 25.
Nancy R. Davison, etchings and watercolors, York Hospital Cafe Art Gallery. 351-2021. Through Tuesday.
Juried Art Show, farm landscapes, Snug Harbor Farm, Kennebunk. snugharborfarm.com. Through Monday.
"The Holiday Show," 36 Greenhut artists, Greenhut Galleries, Portland. greenhutgalleries.com. Through Jan. 18.
"Winter Wonderland," latest artworks and goods, Whatnot Gallery, Spindleworks, Brunswick. spindleworks.org. Through Friday.
"Art for the Holidays: Gifts that Give Forever," Constellation Gallery, Portland. constellationart.com. Through Jan. 16.
"This Must Be the Place," seven local artists, The Oak and the Ax, Biddeford. theoakandtheax. blogspot.com. Through Jan. 18.
"Body as Light: A New Order," angels, magical boxes and shining beings by Clarity, aka Robert and Su.Sane Hake, Camden Public Library. camden.lib.me.us. Through Monday.
Winter Group Show, several local artists, Wells Public Library. 646-8181. Through Jan. 31.
"Color, Texture, Sparkle!", sculpture, pottery, turned wood, jewelry, wall art, glass, fiber and more, Markings Gallery, Bath. markingsgallery.com. Through Monday.
Painter and Illustrator Dahlov Ipcar, recent paintings, books and more, Maine Jewish Museum, Portland. mainejewishmuseum.org. Through Friday.
"Creative Teachers … Art by MAEA," watercolors, acrylics, oils, encaustics, relief sculpture and prints by members of Maine Art Education Association, University of New England (Campus Center), Biddeford. 602-2269. Through Jan. 12.
"Fancy Food Chains," graphite, watercolor and colored pencil by Jada Fitch, Green Hand Bookshop, Portland. 253-6808. Through Monday.
"Streets of Portland," paintings by Paul Black, Fore Street Gallery, Portland. Through Jan. 7.
Annual Prelude Clothesline Show, gift and art show featuring local artists, designers and upscale crafts, River Tree Arts, Kennebunk. rivertreearts.org. Through Saturday.
"Bringing Art Home for the Holidays Part II," fine art and giftables in wood, Harmon's & Barton's Gallery, Portland. harmonsbartons.com. Through Monday.
Southern Maine Community College Senior Art Students Exhibit, Rose Contemporary, Portland. rosecontemporary.com. Through Monday.
"Small Works," painting, drawing, sculpture and mixed media by 20 artists, Perimeter Gallery, Belfast. 338-0555. Through Jan. 20.
"Keeping Warm," 19th- and early 20th-century quilts, clothing, fiber art tools and crafts, toys and more, with historic photos of Maine in winter, Penobscot Marine Museum, Searsport. penobscotmarinemuseum.org. Through Feb. 24.
31st Annual Holiday Exhibition, Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland. caldbeck.com. Through Jan. 31.
"Work Ethic of a Chimney Sweep," aesthetic and cultural study of the Disney film "Mary Poppins," University of Maine (Charles Danforth Gallery), Augusta. uma.maine.edu. Through Jan. 18.
CSA: Community Supporting Arts Exhibit, Crosstrax Deli, Unity. crosstraxdeli.com. Through Jan. 26.
Kennebec Valley Art Association Annual Holiday Art Show & Sale, Harlow Gallery, Hallowell. harlowgallery.org. Through Jan. 12.
"A New View," acrylic and paper landscapes by L.M. Turner, Furman, Gregory and Deptula, Biddeford. 284-7145. Through Monday.
Waldo HAP Photo Project, Waterfall Arts, Belfast. waterfallarts.org. Through February.
"Out in the Open," pastels, paintings and prints by Karen Luse, Thomas Memorial Library, Cape Elizabeth. thomasmemoriallibrary.org. Through Jan. 30.
Art Openings
"Prints: Breaking Boundaries," 35 Maine artists who use new techniques and materials, presented by Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Portland Public Library (Lewis Gallery), Portland. cmcanow.org. Through Feb. 23. Artists' reception, 5 to 8 p.m. Friday.
"Emergent," installation by Rebecca FitzPatrick and Petra Simmons, Rose Contemporary, Portland. rosecontemporary.com. Opens Friday. Through Jan. 26.
"New Year: Works by Gallery Artists," paintings, Richard Boyd Gallery, Peaks Island. richardboydpottery.com. Through Feb. 17. Opening reception, 5 to 8 p.m. Friday.
"Travels with Eddie and Other Surprises" by Diane Hudson and "Visual Whispers" by Dan Dow, photography, Addison Woolley Gallery, Portland. addisonwoolley.com. Through Jan. 26. Opening reception, 5 to 8 p.m. Friday.
"Still Dancing With Dance," dance photography by Arthur Fink with live dancers, Arthur Fink Studio, Portland. 615-5722. 5 to 8 p.m. Friday.
Michael Heiko, "Why I Moved to Maine," photographs and cyanotypes of Maine culture and beyond, Harmon's & Barton's Gallery, Portland. harmonsbartons.com. Through Jan. 31. Opening reception, 5 to 8 p.m. Friday.
"Honest and Catkins: A Life's Work of Beauty," water colors and oils by Florence Nellie Holland, Kennebunk Free Library. kennebunklibrary.org. Through Jan. 31. Opening reception, 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. Saturday.
Musica de Filia All-Female Choirs, apprentice choir auditions, Musica de Filia studio, Portland. musicadefilia.com. 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Wednesday.
"Ordinary Days," musical, casting two men and two women, bring sheet music, City Theater, Biddeford. citytheater.org. 6:30 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday.
Musica de Filia All-Female Choirs, chamber choir auditions, Musica de Filia studio, Portland. musicadefilia.com. 5:30 to 8 p.m. Thursday.
Natural Resources Council of Maine Polar Bear Plunge and 5K Race, benefits the Natural Resources Council of Maine., East End Beach, Portland, $30. 430-0127. nrcm.kintera.org/dipdash. 5K at 11 a.m., plunge at noon Monday.
25th Annual Lobster Dip, benefits Special Olympics Maine, beach in front of The Brunswick, Old Orchard Beach. $100 minimum donation. somaine.org. Noon Tuesday.
Books and Authors
Eastern Maine Camera Club Presents Photographer Brian Vanden Brink, author of "Iconic: Perspectives on a Man-Made World," Bangor Parks and Recreation. 318-9995. 6:30 p.m. Thursday.
Classical Music
Portland Conservatory of Music Noonday Concerts, mezzo-soprano Jennifer Dudley and pianist Jesse Feinberg, First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church, Portland, free. 775-3356. 12:15 p.m. Thursday.
"Spacious Vision Song Project," Christmas show, songs and arias from singers Barbara Kilduff and Gerald Seminatore and pianist Brian Moll, cash or check only, Bowdoin Chapel, Brunswick, $10 to $15. spaciousvision.com. 7:30 p.m. Friday.
Choral Art Society's Epiphany Celebration, presented by the Choral Art Camerata and conducted by CAS music director Robert Russell, Woodfords Congregational Church, Portland, $15 advance, $20 door. choralart.org. 7:30 p.m. Saturday.
Pianist Masanobu Ikemiya, classics to ragtime, Jewett Auditorium, Augusta, $5 to $10, 12 and under free. concertsatjewett.com. 2 p.m. Jan. 6.
Bob Marley, Merrill Auditorium, with special guest Krazy Jake, Portland, $47.50. porttix.com. 8 p.m. Sunday and Monday.
15th Annual New Year's Extravaganza Contra Dance, with callers Maggie Robinson, Richard Green and Kim Roberts and musicians Baron Collins-Hill and Jessie and Greg Boardman, Wescustogo Grange Hall, North Yarmouth, $10 to $12. 712-2837. 7:30 p.m. potluck, 8:30 p.m. dance Monday.
Port City Swing Dance, live music by The Delta Knight, Woodfords Congregational Church, Portland, $10. portcityswing.com. Lessons at 8 p.m., dance at 9 p.m. Friday.
Contra Dance, Big Moose Band and caller Chrissy Fowler, College of the Atlantic (Gates Center), Bar Harbor, $1 to $6, $2 for family dance. 288-5015. Family dance at 6:30 p.m., lessons at 7:30, dance at 8 p.m. Saturday.
"Cross Pollination" — Bangor Ballet's Annual Evening at the Arts, several pieces by dancers and choreographers, Husson University (Gracie Theatre), Bangor, $45. 945-3457. 5 p.m. Saturday.
Westbrook Winter Fest, skating, pancake breakfast, hockey tournament, horse and wagon rides, 5K run, snow sculptures and more, downtown. westbrookmaine.com. Friday through Jan. 6.
"Eckhart Tolle — Stillness Amidst the World," part two, Camden Public Library, free. 785-2610. 1:30 p.m. Saturday.
For Children
New Year's at Noon Pajama Party, special countdown and balloon drop, free for members and kids under 18 months, Children's Museum and Theatre of Maine, Portland, $9. kitetails.org. 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday.
moe., jam band, with Assembly of Dust, State Theatre, Portland, all ages, general admission. statetheatreportland.com. 8 p.m. Sunday ($35) and Monday ($50).
Stephen Kellogg, folk-rock, solo show, Jonathan's Restaurant, Ogunquit, $25 advance, $28 door. jonathansrestaurant.com. 8 p.m. Sunday.
Dimensions in Jazz Presents The Young (Jazz) Lions' "Home for the Holidays," jam band, Woodfords Congregational Church, Portland, $10 advance, $15 door, $5 students. 828-1310. 8 p.m. Sunday.
MartyParty with Of The Trees, electronic dance music, hip-hop and dubstep, Port City Music Hall, Portland, $20, $35 VIP, 18-plus. portcitymusichall.com. 9 p.m. Monday.
New Year's Eve Party, Dirty White Hats, Cam Groves and karaoke with DJ Johnny Red, '80s music all night with Rob from WCYY in the basement, Asylum, Portland, $7, 21-plus. portlandasylum.com. Doors at 8 p.m. Monday.
New Year's Eve with Peter Wolf, rock, featuring guitarists Duke Levine and Kevin Barry, Stone Mountain Arts Center, Brownfield, $85. stonemountainartscenter.com. 8 p.m. Monday.
Rob Schreiber's Standard Issue, jazz from the great American songbook, Grace Restaurant, Portland. 828-4422. 6:30 to 9 p.m. Monday.
New Year's Ball and SAMFUND Benefit, with Sly-Chi and Model Airplane, Big Easy, Portland, $25 advance, $30 door. bigeasyportland.com. 8 p.m. Monday.
Open Mic Night, Deer Run Tavern, Yarmouth, free, all ages. 846-9555. 7:30 p.m. Thursday. Spike & Co., jazz, Rockland Public Library, free. 594-0310. 6:30 p.m. Thursday.
Pete Witham and the Cozmik Zombies Winter Residency, (downstairs), Empire Dine & Dance, Portland, no cover, 21-plus. portlandempire.com. 7:30 p.m. Thursday.
Dean Ford, A Severe Joy and GinLab, Empire Dine & Dance, Portland, $6, 21-plus. portlandempire.com. Indy, 9 p.m. Thursday.
Alba's Edge & Velocipede, traditional fiddle tunes and Latin to jazz and funk grooves, St. Lawrence Arts Center, Portland, $10 advance, $12 door. stlawrencearts.org. 7:30 p.m. Friday.
Murmurations Choir Presents "Thaw," an evening exploring movement and voice, Space, Portland, free. space538.org. 5 to 8 p.m. Friday.
Hot Day at the Zoo, acoustic folk, blues, ragtime, jazz and progressive bluegrass, One Longfellow Square, Portland. onelongfellowsquare.com. 8 p.m. Friday.
The Burners, gypsy Americana, Dana Gross opens, One Longfellow Square, Portland, $10 advance, $15 door. onelongfellowsquare.com. 8 p.m. Saturday.
Village Coffee House, Sean Mencher and the Rhythm Kings, rockabilly and swing, New Gloucester Congregational Church, $5 to $10. villagecoffeehouse.org. 7:30 p.m. Saturday.
Shape Note Singing, four-part singing tradition also known as sacred harp, all welcome to participate, The New Church, Portland, donation. 216-3890. 1 to 4 p.m. Jan. 6.
Kids' Open Mic, hosted by Portland musicians Liam Swift and Sadie Grant, One Longfellow Square, Portland, $5. onelongfellowsquare.com. 3 to 6 p.m. Jan. 6.
Special Events
"Christmas at Victoria Mansion: The Gilded Age," self-guided tours, Victoria Mansion, Portland, $5 to $15, under 5 free. victoriamansion.org. Daily. Closed Tuesday.
Camden Stage Festival: "At The Cabaret," theatrical romp and musical tour of Kurt Weill's greatest works, Camden Opera House, $17 to $35, $50 premium seats. camdenstage.org/boxoffice. 4 p.m. Sunday.
New Year's Eve Party with the Bobby Messano Band, blues, Trade Winds Motor Inn Keel Lounge, Rockland, $199 per couple includes room, four-course dinner, dance, party favors, Champagne toast and breakfast. 596-6055. Dinner at 7:30 p.m., dance at 9 p.m. Monday.
New Year's Eve with Super Lucha Explosiva, Mexican-style wrestling matches, DJ sets by Nan'l Meiklejohn and Gabe FM, Space, Portland, $20, 21-plus. space538.org. 8:30 p.m. Monday.
First Annual Clam Drop New Year's Celebration, music, cocoa and lowering of Steamer the Clam Festival mascot from the belfry, First Universalist Church, Yarmouth, free. uuyarmouth.org. 7 p.m. and midnight Monday.
New Year's at the Planetarium, "The Little Star That Could," 7:30 p.m.; "Eight Planets and Counting," 8:30 p.m.; "When Venus Transits the Sun," 9:30 p.m.; "Two Small Pieces of Glass," 10:15 p.m.; "Ibex — Search for The Edge of The Solar System," 11 p.m.; night sky tour (live action presentation," 11:40 p.m.; Times Square countdown, 11:55 p.m. Monday, University of Southern Maine (Southworth Planetarium), Portland, $5 to $10. usm.maine.edu/planet.
New Year's Eve Dinner, Concert and Dance Party, music by Nutopians and DJ Greg Curry, Champagne toast, dinner, Franco American Heritage Center, Lewiston, $60, $25 for concert only. francocenter.org. 7 p.m. Monday.
New Year's Hike, 2-mile hike on snowmobile trails near the health center, children and leashed dogs welcome, Sacopee Valley Health Center, Porter, free. 625-3082. 11 a.m. Tuesday; hot cocoa and refreshments at 10:30 a.m.
Freeport First Friday, old-time jazz, fiddle tunes and vocals by Crabapple Jam with three-course dinner, Freeport Community Center, $15. 865-3985. 6 p.m. Friday.
Metropolitan Opera Live in HD: Berlioz' "Les Troyens," University of Maine (Collins Center for the Arts), Orono, $18 to $28. collinscenterforthearts.com. Noon Saturday.
Metropolitan Opera Live in HD: Berlioz's "Les Troyens," Fryeburg Academy (Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center), Fryeburg, $18 to $26. fryeburgacademy.org/pac. Noon Saturday.
New Gloucester History Barn Open House, permanent and temporary exhibits about local history, New Gloucester Historical Society, free. 926-3188. 9 a.m. to Noon Saturday.
Portland Pirates, AHL affiliate of the NHL Phoenix Coyotes, Cumberland County Civic Center, Portland, $15 to $20. portlandpirates.com. Vs. Worcester, 5:30 p.m. Monday; vs. Providence, 7 p.m. Wedneday; vs. Bridgeport, 7 p.m. Saturday.
Maine Red Claws, NBA Development League affiliate of the Boston Celtics, Portland Exposition Building, $6 to $30. nba.com/dleague/maine. Vs. Springfield, 1 p.m. Monday; vs. Erie, 7 p.m. Friday; vs. Canton, 7 p.m. Saturday.
Phyzgig, vaudeville variety show; juggling, illusions, storytelling, physical comedy and more, Acorn Studio Theater, Westbrook, $10 to $20. phyzgig.org. 1 and 3 p.m. Sunday.
Phyzgig Vaudeville Show, vaudeville variety show; juggling, illusions, storytelling, physical comedy and more, Portland Stage Company, $10 to $20. phyzgig.org. 5 p.m. Sunday; 2 and 7 p.m. Monday.
"The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)," three actors perform a comic parody and tribute to all of Shakespeare's plays, Lyric Music Theater, South Portland, $10. lyricmusictheater.org. 8 p.m. Thursday; 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday; 2:30 p.m. Jan. 6.
Disney's "Beauty and the Beast," national tour of Broadway musical, presented by Portland Ovations, Merrill Auditorium, Portland, $45 to $70. portlandovations.org. 7 p.m. Friday; 1 and 7 p.m. Saturday.
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Facebook owned Instagram recently launched its newest messaging app named Bolt. It is a one tap messaging app for Android and iOS smartphones which directly compete with the extremely popular Snapchat app. Bolt is currently available only for users in New Zealand, Singapore and South Africa, while the app will roll out globally in the coming weeks.
Similar to Snapchat, this app allows you to send images and videos to your friends, which is automatically deleted after it has been viewed by the recipient. It also lets you annotate messages with text captions. You don't need a Facebook or Instagram account to sign-up. Bolt allows you to sign up using your phone number and add up to 20 friends in your favorite list.
You can easily send images by tapping on your friend's face or you can even long-press to send a video. After the message has been received, your friends can directly reply by sending text or images. The best part is the shake-to-undo feature, which retracts your message by shaking your phone within the first few seconds. Currently, you cannot send messages to more than one person at a time and you cannot add more than 20 friends from your contacts to the favorite list.
Apart from taking photos from the rear camera, Bolt also allows you to take selfies. You can also turn on the flast from the on-screen button. To delete a message, just swipe it to the right and it is gone forever. We'll review the Bolt app in the coming days. Stay tuned! If you live in New Zealand, Singapore or South Africa, you can download the Bolt app right now from the download links given below.
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Pixable Brings the Hashtag to Facebook Photos
Photo-sorting app Pixable is bringing the Twitter-style hashtag to Facebook photos.
The startup's core service sorts images from your Facebook and Twitter feeds into piles such as "Top of the Day," "New on Twitter" and "New Profile Pics." Now you can tag the photos in these categories with hashtags and see them in your Facebook Timeline.
A new Facebook Timeline integration will show activity on the app within modules on user timelines. Photos with hashtags show up in a separate module in your timeline that functions like an album collection organized by sentiment rather than event. Using the new feature, you can sort the photos you view on Pixable — from both you and your friends on Facebook and Twitter — into piles such as #cute, #nyc, #friends or #birthday both within the app and on your Facebook profile.
Other Pixable Facebook Timeline modules include a roundup of favorited photos each month and a general log of app activity.
So far about 1.5 million people have installed Pixable on their iPhones and 300,000 have installed it on their iPads. About 20% of them log in every day.
"People are treating this more like a photo inbox," explains Pixable co-founder Andres Blank. "The photos that really matter come to you, you don't have to go on a hunt."
While focusing on photo consumption rather than broadcasting is what distinguishes Pixable from other photo apps, it also puts the app at a disadvantage when it comes to growing its numbers.
Hashtags are Pixable's first broadcasting mechanism. When you add one to a photo, it can be Tweeted, Facebooked or shared with the rest of the community. Users can also browse public photos by hashtag.


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Amaru (アマル, Amaru) appears in Naruto Shippūden the Movie: Bonds. She is an apprentice doctor, originated from a village in the Land of Fire.
Amaru is an orphan who came from a village in the Land of Fire, her parents died of unknown causes. When she was small, she suffered from a strange illness. No one tried to help her, fearing that they would be infected. Because of this, she became alone and shunned from social interaction with the people of her own village all her life like Naruto and Gaara. Later, she was cured by a kind doctor named Shinnō, whom Amaru grew to idolise, as he was the first and at the time only person to show her kindness. After which, Amaru insisted for Shinnō to make her his student, to which he agreed.
Amaru, being treated as an outcast for her entire childhood due to her illness and status as an orphan, became lonely. Therefore, when Shinnō, the first person to treat her with kindness, came along, she immediately grew attached to him. She at first requested for him to train her into a ninja, in the hopes of avenging herself on the villagers who mocked her for being an orphan, but with the elderly doctor's (later proven false) ideology of saving people being more important, Amaru also adopted this belief. Her admiration for Shinnō borders to the point of love, and Naruto even suspected it to be romantic, though she awkwardly denied it. When Shinnō supposedly died, Amaru was devastated, and was susceptible to the darkness within her. This, however, was nothing compared to when Shinnō revealing his true colours, in which Amaru suffered a severe mental collapse. However, both times, when she nearly succumbed to the darkness, Naruto managed to save her, and gave her a new will to live. Even with this betrayal, Amaru still loved Shinnō, and confessed to him, as well as expressing concern for when Shinnō was defeated by Naruto and Sasuke.
Amaru is a tomboy, and along with her way of dressing, Naruto mistook her for a boy to begin with. She tends to lash out at Naruto at first, sending him flying out of the broken window for being close to her face in the Konoha Hospital, and then slapping him for suggesting that she is in love with Shinnō. However, it is suggested that she developed a crush for Naruto.
Amaru is a girl who has long reddish-brown hair, though she kept it wrapped in her blue bandanna. The bandanna was her way of emulating her beloved teacher, Shinnō, but is different in colour and is longer in the cloth's length. Before this, Amaru wore a blue head band, which did not cover up her long hair. After Shinnō's false death, Amaru was given her red bandanna, which she wore in place of her own, until Shinnō took it back and tore it to pieces. Amaru has rather thick eyebrows and blue eyes, and a mole under the left eye. Amaru also wore a cyan-blue gi with a cream-coloured vest over it, which covers her cleavage, blue shorts, and dark arm- and leg-bands.
Overall, due to her dress-style covering up her cleavage along with her tomboyish attitude, she was at first mistaken as a boy by Naruto Uzumaki.
Due to having been under Shinnō's tutelage for a number of years, Amaru is a competent medic. She demonstrated her medical aptitude when she applied first-aid treatment to Naruto after he was poisoned by envenomed carnivorous fish that reside in the river around her village. She wields a scalpel that her mentor gave her, and uses it mostly for surgical purposes, but also demonstrated usage as a tool to pick the lock on the prisons within Ancor Vantian. She has enough physical strength to unintentionally knock a person many feet away with her bare hands.
Plot Overview
After the infamous ninja from the Land of the Sky decimated Konohagakure, Amaru arrived to aid in healing people alongside her sensei Shinnō. She quickly made it clear how much she admired her teacher. After helping with the injured, she and Shinnō were escorted back to their village by Naruto, Sakura, and Hinata. Upon arriving at the village, they discovered that it too was destroyed by the Sky ninja.
Horrified by the sight, Amaru accidentally triggered a trap that would have killed her had Shinnō not saved her at the cost of his own life. From her mourning, the Zero-Tails, which was sealed within the Land of the Sky, manifested itself by turning Amaru's negative emotions into Dark Chakra, and attacked Naruto and Sakura, but Naruto managed to suppress its control by comforting Amaru, returning her to normal. Wanting to make her sensei proud, Amaru joined Naruto in rescuing the villagers, which lead them to an old ruins that turned out to be the Sky ninja's headquarters and mother ship. To Amaru's delight, she discovered that Shinnō was still alive. But her joy quickly turned to horror as Shinnō revealed that he was working with the Sky ninja and that the kind man he appeared to be was a lie. He also revealed to have been attempting to conjure negative emotions to power the Zero-Tails by having it gather massive amounts of dark chakra.
Falling into despair, she was given new hope from Naruto who convinced her that while Shinnō himself may have not believed in what he taught her, there is truth to valuing life. Amaru then went off to find and rescue Hinata and the villagers that were locked up. When the mother ship began crashing from the sky, Naruto forced her to join the villagers in a smaller ship, but she chose to jump after Naruto to be there for him for a change. They fell from the sky and they were saved by Jiraiya summoning Gamabunta to cushion their fall. She is then shown holding Naruto while he's unconscious.


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Why Are Investors Shrugging at J.P. Morgan's Fines?
Wall Street bank analysts and investors are shrugging on the news of a possible $11 billion fine J.P. Morgan faces from regulators. Sital Patel joins the News Hub with details on what investors and analysts are saying about the deal. (Photo: AP)
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Puig back in lineup after experiencing dehydration
Ken Gurnick is a reporter for MLB.com.
MIAMI -- Dodgers outfielder Yasiel Puig was back in the starting lineup Thursday after apparently experiencing dehydration Wednesday night.
Manager Don Mattingly said the reason for Puig's limping while he ran Wednesday night was calf cramps. Mattingly said Puig received intravenous fluids after the game and was likely to receive them again before Thursday's game.
"They [trainers] said he's fine," Mattingly said. "We just tell him to be under control."
Although Puig homered Tuesday night after entering the game in a double switch, that's the only hit in his last 18 at-bats.
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DNS Changer Check-Up: as you may have already heard, on Monday, July 9th, computers affected by the DNSChanger virus will no longer be allowed to use internet. You check for Malware and Virus before Monday 9th on: http://www.dns-ok.us/ and http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2011/november/malware_110911
DNS Changer started, in 2007, to redirect internet traffic to malicious sites. Some clean DNS servers have been created to keep visitors safe, however they will stop working on Monday. So now it is time to ensure there is no such malware on your computer.


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It's no secret that selling a printer—like razors or video game consoles—is a money losing proposition. Instead, it's the accessories—the blades, the games, and in this case, the inkjet cartridges—where manufacturers make most of their money.
Imagine one person's surprise, then, to discover that HP has apparently been selling its customers printer cartridges with less ink than previous models. In a post on an HP Printer Cartridges blog, user "adminsky" opened two of the same HP inkjet cartridges from different manufacturing years—one dated January 2010, and the second 2012. What he discovered was a smaller piece of hydrophobic foam inside the newer cartridge, a supposed sign that cartridges were being manufactured with less ink than what people had paid for in the past. Just to be sure, he also opened a third, different cartridge, also manufactured this year, and found an even smaller piece of foam.
To get a better sense of why this matters, we first need to examine how a typical inkjet print cartridge works. The inside of an inkjet cartridge contains a foam-filled reservoir that is mostly saturated with ink. A patent filing from Lexmark, an HP competitor, says this is typically "unfelted polyurethane open cell foam," or what we refer to as hydrophobic foam.
If you look closely at the images posted on the HP Ink Cartridge blog, you'll see that the foam is only partially saturated. "Ambient pressure is applied to ink in the foam-filled ink reservoir through the dry foam material," reads Lexmark's patent filing, and capillary action ensures that there is always fresh ink at the bottom of the reservoir. Admisnky's logic is that a smaller piece of hydrophobic foam holds "less ink for your money." However, if you look again at the cartridge teardown, it appears that the smaller foam pieces are saturated with just as much ink, if not more, when compared to the larger piece of foam, where the ink is dispersed over a wider area.
Ars reached out to HP to see whether the HP Ink Cartridge blog's assertion—that newer inkjet cartridges from the company are cheating consumers—was correct.
"It's important to note that the size of foam inside a cartridge does not directly correlate with the amount of ink in the cartridge or the number of pages that a cartridge will be able to print," said an HP spokesperson in an e-mail earlier this afternoon.
"Over time," the e-mail continues, "the design of HP printers and ink cartridges are upgraded to make them more efficient with ink and able to deliver the same number of prints with less materials. However, the outer physical design of the cartridge has to remain the same to fit in the compatible printers." This was also pointed out in comments on Adminsky's blog and comments on other sites such as BoingBoing.
Basically, HP says it has improved the quality of its porous hydrophobic foam so that its printers can yield the same number of prints with a smaller-sized block of foam. Whether this means that the foam has been saturated with less ink is irrelevant. Instead of focusing on the amount of ink stored within a cartridge, which can actually be misleading, it makes more sense to focus on what is commonly referred to as print yield—the amount of pages that can be printed before a cartridge needs to be changed. According to HP, while the size and design of its cartridges have changed over the years, yield remains the same.
Of course, whether this is actually the case is hard to tell from pictures alone. While the size of the foam has indeed decreased, a conclusive comparison of page yield would would require a more thorough comparison between cartridges of different size and manufacture year—something which even the HP Ink Cartridge blog admits it has yet to do.
So while it's easy to believe that HP and other print manufacturers are up to something nefarious here, it seems that a piece of foam might not be the most convincing smoking gun.


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Frustration is mounting over a computer glitch, which is preventing wannabe festival goers from securing a ticket to this year's Splendour in the Grass.
SPLENDOUR in the Grass tickets will go on sale at 9am this morning after sales were halted last night at 9pm.
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IT appears Westpac's banking issues have been resolved, as music fans make a last-chance dash online for Splendour in the Grass tickets.
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December 2009 NAD Classic Series C 565BEE CD Player In October, I reviewed Zandčn Audio Systems' ultraexpensive 2500S CD player ($22,000 USD). If you've read some of the comments I've made in the last few years about the future of CD playback, you might find it strange that I'm now reviewing my second CD player in a single year. CD sales have long been waning, and when I reviewed Slim Devices' (now Logitech) Transporter network music player in late 2006 and experienced firsthand what a computer-based source for digital recordings could do, I knew the handwriting was on the wall for the Compact Disc and its players, even for audiophiles. But the CD is dying a slow death. And despite what some feel about the ability of SACD (now relegated to niche status) and audio-only Blu-ray Disc to encode high-resolution sound in two or more channels, no new physical medium is going to supplant the CD. Computer-based audio is where everything is heading. Category: Budget Leader That doesn't mean we all should immediately scrap or sell our CD players. Nor does it mean that we might not need another player, particularly if the price is right. The Compact Disc has been the dominant physical music format for almost 30 years now; it's likely to be quite a few more years before everyone considers it obsolete. A good CD player bought today can still be considered a wise purchase because it's a convenient way to play what discs are and will be available. Not everyone wants to rip their entire music collection to a computer just to play some music. Enter the C 565BEE ($799), the top model in NAD's very reasonably priced Classic Series of CD players. For a CD player, it's a lot more interesting than you might think. Associated Equipment Description The Classic C 565BEE measures 17"W x 3.5"H x 11.5"D, including connectors and feet, and weighs 11.5 pounds. My experience with some past NAD components has been that, while generally inexpensive, they looked and felt too cheap -- with flimsy chassis, wobbly knobs, and buttons that seemed ready to fall off. The C 565BEE is a good bit better than that, with a substantial-enough chassis, excellent fit'n'finish, and sturdy-feeling buttons and connectors. The rear panel has one pair of single-ended RCA analog outputs, an optical digital input, one optical and one coaxial digital output, a 12V trigger input, an IR (infrared) remote input, an RS-232 port, and a two-prong mains receptacle for the basic black power cord. The C 565BEE is chock full of features. At its heart are 24-bit/192kHz Wolfson DAC chips in what NAD calls a "dual-differential" configuration, and a transport that reads CD, CD-R, and CD-RW discs. In addition to 16-bit/44.1kHz "Red Book" CDs, the C 565BEE can decode MP3 and WMA files (up to 320kbps) stored on a CD-R, as well as MP3 and WMA files (again up to 320kbps) stored on a FAT-formatted storage device hooked up to the USB port on the NAD's front panel. The C 565BEE lets you browse through up to 128 folders and eight subfolder levels on the attached device using the Speakers -- Revel Ultima Salon2, Magico V2, PSB Synchrony One, Mirage OMD-28 Preamplifiers -- Blue Circle Audio BC3000 Mk.II, Benchmark Media DAC1 HDR D/A converter, Anthem Statement D2v Power amplifiers -- Blue Circle Audio BC204, Axiom Audio A1400-8 Integrated amplifiers -- Classé Audio CAP-2100, Zandčn Audio Systems Model 600 Digital sources -- Simaudio Moon Evolution SuperNova CD player; Oppo Digital DV-980H DVD player; Benchmark Media DAC1 HDR, Stello DA220 Mk.II, Blue Circle Audio BC501 D/A converters Speaker cables -- DH Labs Silver Sonic Q-10 Signature, Siltech Classic Anniversary Analog interconnects -- Nirvana Audio S-L, Nordost Quattro Fil, Siltech Classic Anniversary Digital interconnects -- Nirvana Audio Transmission Digital, i2Digital front-panel display and controls or its remote control. X-60 The USB port is handy for rippers of MP3 and WMA files (I'm not one, which is why I didn't use this feature), but the one thing I really wish the C 565BEE could do is provide support for WAV, Apple Lossless, or FLAC files at 16/44.1 or higher resolution. If it could, this player would be a game-changing device for audiophiles whose music is already stored in a lossless, CD-resolution format; it would basically make the C 565BEE an audiophile-grade music server. Unfortunately, the NAD doesn't do that -- and that's the only knock I have against it. The C 565BEE's front panel is unique in lacking the usual Play, Pause, and Track Skip buttons. These functions are instead handled by the large Play/Pause/Skip knob on the right, just above the USB port. You skip through tracks by turning the knob left or right, and Pause or Play by pushing it straight in. Clever. The fluorescent display is bright enough to be read from across the room. Under it are eight pushbuttons; from left to right, these are: Stop/Open, for stopping play as well as opening and closing the disc drawer; Source, for selecting the playback device (transport, optical digital input, or USB port); SRC, which activates the sample-rate converter and toggles between the native sampling rate of the recording being played, or upsamples it to 24/96 or 24/192; Random, equivalent to Shuffle play of the tracks from the selected source; Repeat, to program disc tracks (CD) or files and/or folders (via USB) to play repeatedly; Display, which toggles to show different types of playback information, depending on the source; and Scan Back and Scan Forward, to search within the track or file being played. The remote control basically duplicates the front panel, but adds one particularly relevant option: Filter. This button lets you select among five digital filters, labeled Filter 1 through 5, each of which has its own sonic signature based on how it handles group delay, ripple, and stopband characteristics. Along with the choices of upsampling, these filters make possible some interesting fine-tuning of the NAD's sound (see below). Another thing I particularly like is how the C 565BEE is turned on and off. As long as it's plugged in, the player is always powered up and, therefore, warmed up; to ready it for day-to-day use, you press the Standby button, at the far left of the front panel. But if a disc is already loaded in the drawer, you don't have to first press Standby -- the C 565BEE will come to life and start playing the disc as soon as you press Play. Likewise, pressing Stop/Open will open the drawer without your having to first press Standby. Finally, the C 565BEE automatically goes into Standby mode when it's been left idle for ten minutes -- handy if you don't like walking up to the player and pushing the button to turn it off for the day, or if you doze off while listening to music. One-button startup is a small thing, and NAD isn't the only company to offer it. But not all CD players do this, and it's little things like this that make using the C 565BEE that much easier and more enjoyable to use. Furthermore, the number of features and the clever way some of the button functions have been conceived indicate to me that NAD is constantly looking for ways to improve their players, even in CD's twilight years. More important, they've found ways to greatly improve sound quality, as you'll read about below. Sound I'm not sure I knew exactly what to expect when I inserted the C 565BEE in my system, but I sure didn't expect it to sound much like my reference CD player, a Simaudio Moon Evolution SuperNova ($6500). The SuperNova is of reference grade for both its build (massive, all-metal construction) and its sound -- the latter is basically beyond criticism. These two players weren't similar in how they were built but in how they sounded -- when I closed my eyes and listened, I could swear that they weren't just siblings, but identical twins. The C 565BEE had the same warmth, richness, and presence as the 'Nova -- qualities that give all music played through the Simaudio a feeling of tangible weight. Voices were rich and present, but without any syrupy character or hazing-over of detail. Willie Nelson's voice on Stardust (CD, Columbia CK 35305) hung perfectly between my speakers, isolated in space, with sound that was deeply textured and present. It sounded really real. The NAD's bass was deep and tight, and with that warmth and presence of the mids, drums had wallop and weight, and an overall sense of robustness that translated into a very realistic, natural sound. As impressed as I was by the NAD's rich, present sound, I was blown away by the refinement of its high frequencies -- always the Achilles' heel of lower-priced CD players and DACs. Most often, inexpensive CD players make cymbals sound splashy, and the top end of acoustic guitars exceedingly brittle. My Oppo Digital DV-980H DVD player sold for under $200 when available, and its reproduction of CDs is decent enough for the money -- but that doesn't mean it sounds good, period. Through a hi-rez system such as mine, the Oppo sounds splashy and brittle, and it's fatiguing to listen to for any length of time. The C 565BEE had not one of those objectionable qualities. In fact, with most recordings, the C 565BEE's HF refinement was neck-and-neck with the SuperNova's -- astonishing, given that it costs less than one-eighth as much. Cymbals were ultraclean, guitar was never brittle, and, provided a recording contained such information in the first place, the NAD's re-creations of "air" -- the sense of physical space surrounding an instrument or voice -- and HF detail were beyond reproach. This level of refinement was why I didn't hesitate to include the C 565BEE in my reference system when I reviewed Revel's amazing Ultima Salon2 speakers ($22,000/pair). The player might cost only $799, but it's suitable for use in systems that approach the state of the art. I used my trusty ol' reference CDs to test the NAD's soundstaging and imaging: Ennio Morricone's choral-based score for the film The Mission (Virgin CDV2402), and Ani DiFranco's mainly acoustic Up Up Up Up Up Up (Righteous Babe RBR013-D). With The Mission, I listen to the delineation of the choral voices, to hear if they're clearly separated, as well as to the expansiveness of the soundstage, from left to right and from front to back. That stage should sound big, and through the C 565BEE it did. The NAD conveyed a lot of space, allowing the chorus to fill the front half of my large room -- the width and depth were outstanding. Within that stage, individual voices, and their positions relative to other voices, were easy to discern. I haven't heard any CD player, at any price, do substantially better than the C 565BEE did in this regard. Playing the very beginning of "Everest," track 7 on Up Up Up Up Up Up, I listen to the positioning of the male voice counting "one, two, three, four." The voice should be centered in the stage but recessed, surrounded by a certain amount of ambience. Throughout the rest of the track, DiFranco's voice should be placed very close to but not touching the left speaker, and "housed" in a tightly focused space about 3' behind the plane described by the speaker baffles. Those unfamiliar with this recording are usually surprised by where DiFranco's voice is positioned in the mix, but, deliberate or not, that's where it is. These voices were not only correctly positioned, the spatial cues around them were extremely easy to hear, and the space around each sounded exactly right. For me to be able to hear so well into recordings indicated that the NAD C 565BEE was a CD player of very high resolution. In fact, the C 565BEE's level of refinement and its ability to extract detail so impressed me that I took some extra time to switch back and forth between it and the SuperNova, to hear precisely how close their performances were, and if there were any areas in which the NAD might actually surpass the Sim. To do so, I relied exclusively on the highly resolving, full-range Revel Ultima Salon2s to ensure I was hearing the full audioband -- a decision that proved vital. The two players' high-frequency detail and refinement were so close that I'd call it a draw -- high praise for the NAD. When I played discs that don't have much truly deep-bass content -- e.g., most pop and rock recordings, which shelve off at 50 or 60Hz -- it was basically another draw. At the very low end of the audioband, the SuperNova edged ahead with a slightly more weighty and impactful sound; but the two players were still very close. And this slight difference was audible only with certain recordings, such as Ola Gjeilo's Stone Rose (SACD/CD, 2L 2L48SACD), which effectively captures the low end of an acoustic piano; and the Cowboy Junkies' The Trinity Session (CD, RCA 8568-2-R), whose opening track, "Mining for Gold," pressurizes the room. With these, the SuperNova eked out a touch more grunt and heft, to sound more powerful overall. This was where the Revels came in: If I'd been using smaller, less-than-full-range speakers, I probably wouldn't have been able to hear much difference at all. The C 565BEE had a gorgeous richness and presence in the mids that made voices sound tangible and real; the 'Nova has basically the same character -- then ups it with just a bit more of the same. But that little bit more results in great presence, which makes for a slightly bolder, more realistic sound. The players' overall characters may be almost the same, but even identical twins reveal tiny differences over time; in this pairing, the 'Nova had just a bit more robustness and richness -- it was the twin with just a little more charisma. Most remarkable, perhaps, was the level of detail the C 565BEE revealed, something I would never have expected from something costing under a grand. I'd received for review a Benchmark Media Systems DAC1 HDR D/A converter ($1895), and was listening to it hooked up (via an i2Digital X-60 digital link) to the transport section of the Simaudio SuperNova. In terms of detail, the $799 C 565BEE equaled that $8395 combination. Going head to head with the SuperNova revealed that the C 565BEE got awfully close, falling just a bit short on only the smallest things. For instance, the SuperNova makes those tiny spatial cues just a little bit easier to hear; in DiFranco's "Everest," the space around the male speaking voice extended slightly more, and the edges of the room were easier to hear. And the expansive soundstages throughout The Mission expanded by just a percentage point or two. To make a credible CD player for under $1000 that invites few criticisms is impressive. To create something at that price that, across the board, can hang with something that's close to the state of the art is extraordinary -- and that's what NAD has created in the C 565BEE. The player comes within inches of the very best, at a fraction of the cost. Digital doodads The two features of the C 565BEE I haven't yet touched on are the user-adjustable upsampling and digital filters. Neither drastically changed the player's sound, and thus don't affect anything I've said so far. Instead, they made very subtle changes to the sound that will likely have you picking one setting for some types of music, and another for other types. I experienced the same thing with the NAD's upsampling options as I did with other components offering this feature: no upsampling offers a starker, more immediate sound, and as I moved up from 16-bit/44.1kHz to 24/96 and then to 24/192, I heard a touch more high-frequency emphasis, which resulted in an increased sense of spaciousness -- but with a slight loss of the immediacy provided by no upsampling. There was one more thing: Depending on the recording, the HF emphasis and increased spaciousness could sound a touch like a swirly DSP hall sound that was sometimes distracting. When fellow reviewer Philip Beaudette listened, he heard the same thing, and described it as a slight "ringing." Some people might like it because it makes the C 565BEE sound almost "golden." Not I -- most of the time, I left the upsampling off. The five digital filter options proved more interesting. I heard far greater differences among these settings with a straight 16/44.1 datastream than when upsampling the same to 24/96 or 24/192. My preferred settings were in order of preference: Filter 2, described in the manual as "Medium rolloff filter that has high group delay, low ripple, and medium stopband characteristics"); Filter 1 ("Slow rolloff filter that has low group delay, low ripple and wide stopband characteristics"); and Filter 5 ("Medium rolloff filter that has lower group delay and wider stopband characteristics"). Filter 1 gave the starkest, most immediate presentation. Filter 2 was just a touch more subdued, imparting a hint of ease that worked well with recordings that had some inherent bite or edge. Filter 2 also sounded more spacious -- similar to what upsampling provided, but without the swirliness. Filters 3 and 4 were very similar to Filter 2, and were often indistinguishable from each other with a lot of the music I was listening to. Because Filter 5 sounded like a combination of attributes of Filters 1 and 2, you'd think it would be the one I used most often, but that wasn't the case. Instead, Filter 5 sounded more like a compromise between 1 and 2. If I wanted what Filter 1 was doing, I would use that; likewise for Filter 2. In short, each filter offers something subtly different; which one you'll prefer will be dictated by the recording and your personal taste. I mostly listened to the C 565BEE with the upsampling off and Filter 2 engaged, but I can easily imagine someone else using a different combination of settings. Conclusion Although I've now reviewed two CD players in 2009, I wouldn't be surprised if I didn't review one in 2010 -- or ever again. CD playback is dying out; from here on, computer-based audio at higher resolutions is likely to be the focus of my reviews of digital source components. That said, the NAD Classic Series C 565BEE is about as good as any to be the subject of my final CD-player review. It's well built, rich in features, and easy to use. Most important for audiophiles, it delivers sound quality that approaches that produced by the very best players on the market, and for only $799. That's no insignificant thing -- the world doesn't need a cost-no-object player for a dying music format; it needs a player that will provide cutting-edge performance for a budget price. In short, it needs the C 565BEE. The NAD Classic Series C 565BEE is a CD player that's close to the state of the art while being something regular people can afford. For many, it will be the last great CD player they'll ever need to buy; in fact, it's so good it might tempt even those who are convinced that they've already bought their last CD player. For so many reasons, very highly recommended. . . . Doug Schneider [email protected] NAD Classic Series C 565BEE CD Player Price: $799 USD. Warranty: Two years parts and labor. NAD Electronics International 633 Granite Court Pickering, Ontario L1W 3K1 Canada Phone: (905) 831-6555 Website: www.nadelectronics.com
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I've got an application developed in Sencha Touch 1.1, it's running native using Cordova/Phonegap.
It works great on iPad 2 and iPad mini. Usually, it works great on iPad 3 too. However, when it opens a Sencha Chart graph it might crash.
When I'm looking in the XCode console, I see that the appliction on the iPad 3 receives memory warnings quite often. The iPad mini and iPad 2 doesn't. That's unexpected, since the iPad 3 has the twice amount of memory and the application doesn't use more memory on the iPad 3. It uses about 85MB.
Does anyone have a clue what's going on?
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Algarrobo Property Being Advanced More Quickly Than Expected by Swingplane Ventures
By Steven Ralston, CFA
The stock price of Swingplane Ventures (SWVI: OTCBB) continued to rally this week as more information about the potential of the Algarrobo property has been released, since our previous article. The project is advancing more quickly than expected with near-term production having been pursued more aggressively than previously indicated.
Over the last two months, test shipments of low-grade ore were delivered, some of which already have been graded and processed by ENAMI (with payments having been issued). In addition, further descriptions of drift development in the press releases have clarified the extent of vein discovery and development on two of the 32 tenures controlled by Swingplane's option.
Swingplane Ventures is focusing currently on the discovery of high-grade copper ore to the south of the past producing Estaca and Viuda mines, predominately in the tenures of Ruble 5B and Ruble 5. However, while exposing the high-grade veins through drifting (using heavy machinery to make a horizontal cut to access a mineralized vein), haloes of low-grade ore have been encountered. Management decided to test the economic viability of the fringe ore by shipping 500 tonnes to the ENAMI facility at Copiapo for leach processing.
To date, payments totaling $30,845 have been received for 130 tonnes of material grading between 1.88% and 4.28% Cu from the Veta Gruesa vein. Payment has not yet been received for the ore from the Descubridora vein, which graded significantly higher (between 7.75% and 8.8% Cu). Utilizing the information released, we calculate that if all 500 tonnes are comparable in grade and composition to the ore thus far graded and sold, approximately $200,000 should be received from this test of low-grade-ore.
High-grade copper ore (grading higher that 9% Cu), the primary emphasis in Swingplane's development of the Algarrobo property, is being stockpiled in anticipation of the issuance of a license for the sale of high-grade material to ENAMI. Since a license already had been issued for the property in 2009, a new license is expected to be issued in the near future. Management estimates that over 400 tonnes of Direct Shipping Mineralized Material with an average grade between 10% and 12% Cu has been amassed from the drifts. Again, making use of the tonnage, grades and payment information provided by the company in its press releases, we estimate that at least $400,000 should be received for this high-grade stockpile.
It cannot be over-emphasized that copper, as the Chile's largest export, is considered strategic to the county's national interest As a result, high-grade copper ore can be sold as Direct Shipping Mineralized Material to ENAMI (Empresa Nacional de Minería). ENAMI is a large, state-owned mining company which provides competitive processing services to small- and midsize-mining companies, like Swingplane, allowing them to monetize ore without undergoing the time and expense of designing, permitting and constructing smelting facilities.
Swingplane is entitled to two-thirds of the net proceeds from the sales to ENAMI once a mill is operational to pre-process the ore. The cash flow can help fund the exploration and development expenditures of the Roble and Angela tenures, including a Gryphon Multi-Parameter airborne survey which management is considering.
A Gryphon airborne survey simultaneous collects six measurements in a single pass by an aircraft over a target area, specifically electromagnetics, high-resolution magnetics, gravity gradiometry, gamma ray spectrometry, LiDAR digital terrain imaging and digital video imaging. The concurrent interpretation of multiple geophysical properties provides a greater understanding of near-surface and sub-surface geological features, such as overburden thickness and potential mineralized veins, while also minimizing the risk of missing targets. A vital component to cost-effectively prospecting for additional high-grade copper veins, especially in the Angela tenures, will be robust geophysical surveys and their interpretation.
The descriptions of drift development now clearly identify three veins on the Algarrobo property from which ore has been shipped to ENAMI for processing and payment. The three veins are located a few hundred meters south of the Estaca and Viuda mines and are named Veta Gruesa, False Estaca and Descubridora.
The Veta Gruesa vein is a newly discovered vein, while the False Estaca and Descubridora are interpreted to be western extensions of veins exploited by the Estaca and Descubridora mines. According to the press releases, the extension of the Descubridora is very high-grade with two drifts (Descibridora I and Descubridora II) exposing mineralization up to 46.58% Cu. Three drifts (Veta Gruesa Centre, Exploration and Veta Gruesa East) have been developed on the Veta Gruesa vein, and one drift has been driven on the False Estaca vein. Management indicates that at least eight additional drift sites are targeted for development.
The actions taken by management to date indicate a strong commitment to explore for high-grade copper veins on the Algarrobo property, to produce as soon as possible from the veins so far unearthed by drifting, to fast-track the rate of vein discovery through advanced geophysical surveys and to increase the current production level by exploiting newly discovered veins.
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No fair, picking on explicit design decisions. :-)
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What's wrong about the warning? It's there to prevent the common pitfall of expecting things like this to work right:
And seems like a perfectly reasonable warning. Many other warnings are special-cased and very specific, so I don't know why you chose this one.
Update: I didn't realize the warning would trigger with one and only one space. That does seem kind of peculiar. But if that was the crux of what the OP was talking about, it wasn't exactly clear.
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Traverse City Beach Bums vs. Windy City Thunderbolts: After a fun weekend at camp the kids and I decided to catch a Beach Bums game on our way back home. We were all pretty tired, but the game gave us a chance to relax and enjoy some baseball. We've hit at least one game every season since the team came here in 2006, and they're all pretty fun. Not much of a crowd for a Monday night, but enough going on to keep us entertained. In the game, the Bums won 8-3 on the back of two hits by Matt Brown, who also had a stolen base. The team had four stolen bases in the game altogether including two by J.T. Hall. Ryan Platt got the win for TC on the hill. We'll try to get to another game here this summer, but next on our slate are the Whitecaps next month on Star Wars night. Can't wait for that one…
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I have been unable to update for ages. I wasn't getting a message but on trying to download from the Adobe site there was no response. It finally let me do it today - in fact a prompt came up - after I had first updated Adobe in IE. No idea why this worked but it did!
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|This pie was absolutely wonderful…a lovely taste of summer!!
I hate to say this but, this recipe caused me to rebel. First off, I have a favorite pie crust recipe. And because it has never failed me, I won't deviate from it! It's from Nick Malgieri…you can find it here. It always rolls out easily, is easy to handle, and is wonderfully flaky! So when it comes to my pie crusts…Nick is the man!
Second, I was not going to cook half the blueberries on the stove, let them cool, add them to the rest of the fruit, to then bake in the oven! Having baked many pies, it seemed like a unnecessary step to me. So I skipped that step and mixed my berries and nectarines together in a bowl, with the rest of the ingredients. That is, with the exception of the flour. I changed out the flour for two tablespoons of cornstarch and a tablespoon of tapioca! I really hate runny pies, and it's been my experience that when I try to thicken my pies with flour, they never thicken sufficiently! Oh, and just one more thing….I made a lattice crust!! OK…I rebelled and I'm sorry but, this pie was perfectly delectable!! Happy Tuesday everyone!!
Our lovely hosts this week are my friend Lizzy of That Skinny Chick Can Bake and Hilary of Manchego's Kitchen. You can find the recipe for this pie on their blogs. Thanks ladies for hosting!! To see what other group members are doing you can check it out at the TWD webpage.
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|Rolls out easily…the best
|Nectarines and blueberries mixed with all the other ingredients
|Brushed with egg and sprinkled with sugar….ready for the oven
|I put foil around my outer crust so that it doesn't overly brown
|Just out of the oven and ready to go to a dinner party!
|It looked pretty….however, I never got a photo of the sliced pie
|It was a perfect consistency and absolutely delicious!


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A Kansas assistant attorney general is urging state lawmakers to require mandatory $2,500 fines against anyone convicted of paying for sex, even if they receive diversion.
Pat Colloton testified Monday that a state fund to help human trafficking victims is in danger of going broke because many people convicted of patronizing prostitutes are given diversion but not fined. The fines are used to fund the Human Trafficking Victim Assistance Fund.
The Topeka Capital-Journal reported that a bill before a Kansas House committee would require the fines, and also prevent offenders from getting a second diversion if they are convicted of the crime twice. Local courts also would be required to report all convictions and diversions for patronizing prostitutes to a central Kansas Bureau of Investigation database.


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Burbank, CA (July 9, 2013) - ABC Family debuts the series "Spell-Mageddon" on Wednesday, July 24 (9:00PM - 10:00 PM ET/PT). Hosted by Alfonso Ribeiro, the one hour game show puts a fresh spin on the spelling bee, where contestants take on hilarious distractions while spelling increasingly challenging words. The show will join ABC Family's Wednesday night comedy line-up on Wednesday July 24th at 9pm ET/PT following "Melissa and Joey" and "Baby Daddy."
Challenges include:
"Buzzed In," - Contestants must race to a buzzer, maneuvering a slippery obstacle course while trying to avoid a giant swinging log.
"Zapped" - Contestants spell while being zapped, blasted with cold air, sprayed in the face with water, and soaked with blue slushy ice water.
"In Your Face" - Contestants are strapped to a giant fork and swung into a huge pie.
"Sensory Overload" - Contestants are surrounded by flashing monitors, blaring speakers, lasers, flash bulbs and strobe lights.
"Spell-Mageddon" is created and Executive Produced by Adam Reed, Adam Freeman and Leslie Greif of Thinkfactory Media. Additional Executive Producers are Jeff Krask and Michael Canter.
Part of the Disney/ABC Television Group, ABC Family is distributed in over 97 million homes. ABC Family features programming reflecting today's families, entertaining and connecting with adults through relatable programming about today's relationships - told with a mix of diversity, passion, humor and heart. ABC Family's programming is a combination of network-defining original series and original movies, quality acquired series and blockbuster theatricals. Emmy(R) Award-winning ABCFamily.com provides a variety of interactive entertainment and community features, from rich, fan-centric programming - including blogs, viewing parties, webisodes, full episodes of the network's hit programming, along with sneak peek exclusive previews and behind-the-scenes clips. ABC Family is also the destination for annual Holiday events with "13 Nights of Halloween" and "25 Days of Christmas." ABC Family. A New Kind of Family.
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My eight-year-old is running a race at school next week, and I'm going to let her dope. Good parenting, right? What, was I multitasking so much during Lance Armstrong's Oprah interview that this is what I took away from it? Nope, not this time.
Before you call social services, read this: I'm letting her dope by drinking beet juice for breakfast.
I should probably have started by saying that this juice, with beets, carrots, ginger, apple, and clementine, is complex, sweet, and delicious. It's a beautiful bright red color. It's loaded with nutrients like folate, manganese, potassium, and magnesium. All of that is reason enough for me to spend the five morning minutes it will take to press this handful of simple ingredients through the juicer. (And don't tell my kid, but it's possible those are the real reasons for her high-power breakfast.)
But the idea of improving athletic performance in this series of short videos from Dr. Michael Greger piqued my curiosity. (Spoiler alert: a big arugula salad may be the best power meal of all. It's a Crisper Whisperer's dream come true.) The only kicker is you can't brush your teeth between the meal and your workout. No judgment, okay?
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The fire roars to life as Bashkim Tejeci takes his mouth-blown torch to the latest piece of filigree. For 43 years he has been perfecting his craft. But his students are only just beginning their journey.
The small shop sits by the Lumbardhi/Bistrica river in Prizren, Kosovo*. Outwardly humble, its heart is rich with history, and deep with an ancient knowledge.
Filigran is an enterprise originally formed in 1947 by the Yugoslav state in cooperation with local craftspeople. At its peak, Filigran had 142 people creating and selling unique silver jewellery known as filigree. With the collapse of communism, the factory closed its doors and many masters remained unemployed.
Today, a group of only ten work in this studio. A new initiative is planting the seeds of to revive filigree work in a systematic way. It's gathered masters to teach students how to bend and shape thin strips of silver into beautiful pieces of art.
One of these students is Nazan Fushan. A mother of three, she fell in love with filigree as a young child.
"My father used to own a factory that produced coins, spoons, ashtrays, and filigree, but this was all done by machinery," she says. "Sometimes he would bring back necklaces and it made me fall in love with it."
Nazan is excited by the opportunity to learn, not only for herself, but for her children. "I love handmade works, so this is an opportunity to learn how to pass this on to my children."
Faik Bamja is the manager of Filigran Association. He has worked with the entreprise for half of his life.
"Filigree has a spiritual and physical connection with the people of Prizren" explains Faik Bamja.
The 60-year old artisan is the manager of Filigran Association, having worked with the enterprise for half of his life. As a young man, he studied electrical chemistry, a vocation he has applied to his art.
Faik is excited by the drive and desire of his pupils. For him, passing down this knowledge to the next generation is hard to put into words.
"The feeling cannot be described, it can only be transformed into art," he says.
The workshop has given Semra Alija a unique medium to express herself.
"I want to put femininity into my work, so that it is appealing, and also to display my heritage, so other people can see it and learn from it" she said.
The student of education at the University of Prizren, finds the experience almost spiritual.
"When I work, I feel fulfilled and calm, like a meditation," she adds.
For Semra, and the other participants, the workshop has been invaluable experience in beginning their own filigree journey and has inspired many of them to dream of something bigger.
"The workshop has inspired me to open my own shop one day. This desire is something completely new."
Carefully watching over the students, is Bashkim Tejeci, who has become one of the masters of the craft. For him, the charm is in the minute details that are the essence of filigree's elegance.
"The beautiful thing is that when you take into consideration this whole craft, you can analyse and see what you can do from a single wire, and what a hand, an eye, and the spirit of a person delivers to the final product," he said.
Bashkim believes in this unifying power of filigree, "Art does not have boundaries. Who does it belong to? It is everybody's in its own way, it doesn't matter who you are or what you believe," he added.
Filigree developed gradually in the region during the 15th century. By the 18th century, it was flourishing. Caravans passing through age-old settlements played an active part in shaping the craft, and the art form keeps developing to this day. Although there have been famous craftspeople in other towns across Kosovo, Prizren was, and still is, the main centre for jewellery makers.
Many ethnicities have lived side-by-side for centuries in Prizren. Although the 1999 Kosovo conflict disturbed these multi-ethnic relations, the vibrant city has pushed to restore the harmony among ethnic communities. This filigree workshop is just one example of that spirit.
"Preserving cultural heritage – like filigree – is a crucial component of our work in sustainable development," says Sehadin Shok, UNDP Project Manager.
"We are not only ensuring filigree's survival but also using the unifying power of art to create stronger bonds between communities.. Across Kosovo, our cultural heritage projects bring people together and develop understanding, tolerance, and mutual respect."
The organisation responsible for organising these workshops and bringing together masters and students, EC Ma Ndryshe, hopes to turn Filigran into an economically sustainable enterprise.
Flaka Xerxa, an architect by profession, is the project manager. She has been working with EC Ma Ndryshe on the preservation and protection of Kosovo's rich cultural heritage since 2013.
"Filigree is important in Prizren, and many people want to learn it. That's why this is such a powerful project" she comments.
Faik Bamja and the other masters have been heartened by the number of applicants for the workshops, and the future of filigree.
"For me, it is like a dream and I still can not believe it," he said. "Our motto used to be 'let's protect the tradition', now it is 'let's continue the tradition."
The workshop is a part of the EU-funded 'Inter-community Dialogue through Inclusive Cultural Heritage Preservation' project which is implemented by UNDP in Kosovo.
Kosovo (*) - This designation is without prejudice to positions on status, and is in line with UNSCR 1244/1999 and the ICJ opinion on the Kosovo declaration of independence.
Photos: Arben Llapashtica / UNDP Kosovo, Story: Sebastian Sherrah, Martin Fosse, 2019 UNDP Eurasia
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The health care field, becoming more computer-savvy, is starting to take advantage of conveniences and flexibilities that were developed over the past decade for the Web and mobile platforms. A couple weeks ago, a new open source project was announced to increase options for offering data over the Internet with proper controls–options with particular relevance for patient control over health data.
The User-Managed Access (UMA) standard supports privacy through a combination of encryption and network protocols that have a thirty-year history. UMA reached a stable release, 1.0 in April of this year. A number of implementations are being developed, some of them open source.
Before I try to navigate the complexities of privacy protocols and standards, let's look at a few use cases (currently still hypothetical) for UMA:
A parent wants to show the child's school records from the doctor's office just long enough for the school nurse to verify that the child has received the necessary vaccinations.
A traveler taking a temporary job in a foreign city wants to grant a local clinic access to the health records stored by her primary care physician for the six months during which the job lasts.
The open source implementation I'll highlight in this article is OpenUMA from a company named ForgeRock. ForgeRock specializes in identity management online and creates a number of open source projects that can be found on their web page. They are also a leading participant in the non-profit Kantara Initiative, where they helped develop UMA as part of the UMA Developer Resources Work Group.
The advantage of open source libraries and tools for UMA is that the standard involves many different pieces of software run by different parts of the system: anyone with data to share, and anyone who wants access to it. The technology is not aimed at any one field, but health IT experts are among its greatest enthusiasts.
The fundamental technology behind UMA is OAuth, a well-tested means of authorizing people on web sites. When you want to leave a comment on a news article and see a button that says, "Log in using Facebook" or some other popular site, OAuth is in use.
OAuth is an enabling technology, by which I mean that it opens up huge possibilities for more complex and feature-rich tools to be built on top. It provides hooks for such tools through its notion of profiles–new standards that anyone can create to work with it. UMA is one such profile.
What UMA contributes over and above OAuth was described to me by Eve Maler, a leading member of the UMA working group who wrote their work up in the specification I cited earlier, and who currently works for ForgeRock. OAuth lets you manage different services for yourself. When you run an app that posts to Twitter on your behalf, or log in to a new site through your Facebook account, OAuth lets your account on one service do something for your account on another service.
UMA, in contrast, lets you grant access to other people. It's not your account at a doctor's office that is accessing data, but the doctor himself.
UMA can take on some nitty-gritty real-life situations that are hard to handle with OAuth alone. OAuth provides a single yes/no decision: is a person authorized or not? It's UMA that can handle the wide variety of conditions that affect whether you want information released. These vary from field to field, but the conditions of time and credentials mentioned earlier are important examples in health care. I covered one project using UMA in an earlier article.
With OAuth, you can grant access to an account and then revoke it later (with some technical dexterity). But UMA allows you to build a time limit into the original access. Of course, the recipient does not lose the data to which you granted access, but when the time expires he cannot return to get new data.
UMA also allows you to define resource sets to segment data. You could put vaccinations in a resource set that you share with others, withholding other kinds of data.
OpenUMA contains two crucial elements of a UMA implementation:
The authorization server
This server accepts a list of restrictions from the site holding the data and the credentials submitted by the person requesting access to the data. The server is a very generic function: any UMA request can use any authorization server, and the server can run anywhere. Theoretically, you could run your own. But it would be more practical for a site that hosts data–Microsoft HealthVault, for instance, or some general cloud provider–to run an authorization server. In any case, the site publicizes a URL where it can be contacted by people with data or people requesting data.
The resource server
These submit requests to the authorization server from applications and servers that hold people's data. The resource server handles the complex interactions with the authorization server so that application developers can focus on their core business.
Instead of the OpenUMA resource server, apps can link in libraries that provide the same functions. These libraries are being developed by the Kantara Initiative.
So before we can safely share and withhold data, what's missing?
The UMA standard doesn't offer any way to specify a condition, such as "Release my data only this week." This gap is filled by policy languages, which standards groups will have to develop and code up in a compatible manner. A few exist already.
Maler points out that developers could also benefit from tools for editing and testing code, along with other supporting software that projects build up over time. The UMA resource working group is still at the beginning of their efforts, but we can look forward to a time when fine-grained patient control over access to data becomes as simple as using any of the other RESTful APIs that have filled the programmer's toolbox.


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Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Functional Affirmative Action Program Process For Federal Contractors And Subcontractors Is Back
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By Tommy Eden, Attorney
On June 28 The U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs has released a new directive to outline the process by which federal supply and service contractors can apply for Functional Affirmative Action Program agreements, which can be viewed at http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/directives/dir296.htm.
Under Executive Order 11246, any company with 50 or more employees and a federal contract of $50,000 or more is required to develop a written affirmative action program for each of its establishments. An AAP helps contractors identify and analyze potential disparities related to the employment of women and minorities.
Where disparities exist, contractors can use AAPs to articulate specific procedures they will follow and good faith efforts they will make to provide equal employment opportunities. FAAP agreements allow large contractors the flexibility to create AAPs by functional or business units rather than by individual establishments. For example, a company could develop an affirmative action program for all sales associates across multiple offices in different states as opposed to creating one for each work site.
OFCCP reviewed its policies regarding the FAAP process and made significant changes, including the requirement of written approval by the OFCCP director before contractors can begin developing FAAPs, thereby eliminating the provision for automatic approval if OFCCP failed to act upon the request within 120 days; shorter terms for FAAP agreements which will now expire after three years, instead of five, at which point a renewal will have to be approved; and the possibility of a compliance evaluation by OFCCP should contractors fail to submit the required annual updates to their FAAP agreements.
All contractors who currently have an approved FAAP agreement will be required to renew it in accordance with the new guidance. Contractors without these agreements should continue to maintain and develop establishment-based AAPs. Answers to frequently asked questions about the FAAP can be found at http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/faqs/faapfaqs.htm.
The new guidance rescinds a previous directive, Administrative Notice/Functional AAP, issued March 21, 2002, and ends a yearlong suspension in the acceptance of requests to develop or renew FAAP agreements while the program was under review.
In addition to Executive Order 11246, OFCCP's legal authority exists under Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974. As amended, these three laws hold those who do business with the federal government, both contractors and subcontractors, to the fair and reasonable standard that they not discriminate in employment on the basis of gender, race, color, religion, national origin, disability or status as a protected veteran. For more information visit http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/.
Common Sense Counsel: with great opportunity to contract with the federal government, also come great obligations. A Governmental contractor must maintain an approved written affirmative action plan, post appropriate notices on bulletin boards, training its supervisory workforce, self monitor its own compliance, establish goals and other related program requirements. Fair warning: this agency aggressively audits and investigates. Dealing with the government is clearly not a do-it-yourself program.
Tommy Eden is a Lee County native, an attorney with the local office of Capell & Howard, PC and a member of the ABA Section of Labor and Employment Law and serves on the Board of Directors for the East Alabama SHRM Chapter. He can be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com or 334-501-1540.
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