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Natalie Morales (NBC's "Today") and Al Roker (NBC's "Today") To Co-Host the Live Holiday Special
New York - November 3, 2010 - NBC will celebrate the lighting of the world's most famous Christmas tree once again with a live broadcast from Rockefeller Center in New York City on Tuesday, November 30 (8-9 p.m. ET/PT). The star-studded holiday special will feature performances by Susan Boyle, Mariah Carey, Charice, Sheryl Crow, Jackie Evancho, Josh Groban, Katherine Jenkins, Annie Lennox, Kylie Minogue, Jessica Simpson and The Radio City Rockettes with a mix of current hits and holiday classics.
The 78th annual holiday extravaganza will feature a tree that is 74 feet high, 40 feet in diameter and weighs a whopping 12 tons.
The tradition of the Rockefeller Christmas tree dates back to the Great Depression. First erected in 1933, the inaugural tree was decked with 700 lights and placed in front of the then eight-month-old RCA Building, now the GE Building. The Christmas tree gathering was enhanced in 1936 with the opening of the Rockefeller Plaza outdoor ice-skating pond. NBC-TV televised the tree lighting for the first time in 1951 on "The Kate Smith Show" and as part of the nationwide "Howdy Doody" television show from 1953-55.
Prior to this year's primetime telecast, WNBC, NBC's New York flagship station, and other nationwide affiliates will broadcast an additional live hour of the special (7-8 p.m. ET). "Christmas in Rockefeller Center" is produced by Brad Lachman Productions with Lachman serving as executive producer. Bill Bracken is producer.
Natalie Morales joined "Today" as a National Correspondent in February 2006 and was named co-anchor of the third hour of "Today" in March 2008. Morales also serves as a National Correspondent for all NBC News platforms including "NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams," "Dateline NBC," and MSNBC. Prior to joining "Today," Morales was an anchor and correspondent at MSNBC from March 2002 to February 2006. While working for NBC News, Morales has reported on and contributed to several major breaking news stories, including the 2009 presidential inauguration; the Southern California wildfires; the Minneapolis bridge collapse; Hurricane Katrina and the recovery efforts; the Tsunami disaster; the death of Pope John Paul II; the 2004 presidential election; the war in Iraq; and the Columbia Shuttle explosion. Additionally, Hispanic Magazine named her one of the "Top Hispanics to Watch" in 2005 and one of the "Top Trendsetters" of 2003. She currently resides in New Jersey with her husband and two sons.
Al Roker has been the weather and feature reporter on NBC News' "Today" since January 1996. Since July 2009 he has also been co-host of the morning show "Wake Up with Al" on the Weather channel. New York magazine has twice named Roker Best Weatherman. He came to WNBC-TV as a weekend weathercaster in December 1983 from WKYC-TV, the NBC television affiliate in Cleveland. Roker began his broadcasting career while still in college by landing a job as a weekend weatherman WTVH-TV in Syracuse, N.Y. in 1974. After graduation he moved on to weathercasting jobs in Washington, D.C. (1976-1978) and Cleveland, Ohio (1978-1983). He is a recipient of the American Meteorological Society's prestigious Seal of Approval and has been a pioneer in the use of computer graphics for weathercasting. Roker is a bestselling author with four acclaimed books to his credit. This will be his 24th year hosting "Christmas in Rockefeller Center."
First discovered on "Britain's Got Talent," Susan Boyle became an instant internet sensation with over 500 million views on YouTube. Her debut album, "I Dreamed A Dream," went from the most pre-ordered album in Amazon's global history to the fastest selling female debut album of all time in a matter of weeks. Boyle will be releasing her second album, "The Gift," on November 9th, with highlights including delightful renditions of the traditional hymn "Away In A Manger" and a cover of Crowded House's "Don't Dream It's Over."
"Merry Christmas II You" is Mariah Carey's 13th studio album, and follows up her worldwide multi-million-selling "Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel" (released September 2009), her multi-platinum "E=MC�" (2008), and worldwide 10 million selling "The Emancipation Of Mimi" (2005). "The Emancipation Of Mimi" generated three Grammy awards (including Best Contemporary R&B Album), two #1 singles, and countless more honors during its 18-month chart stay. Soundscan's biggest-selling album of 2005, Mimi featured "We Belong Together" (Grammy winner for Best Female R&B Vocal and Best R&B Song) and "Don't Forget About Us," Mariah's 16th and 17th #1 career singles respectively. They tied one of the most enduring chart records in Billboard Hot 100 history, Elvis Presley's 17 #1's. Three years later, Mariah surpassed Elvis when "Touch My Body" (from "E=MC�") became her 18th #1 Hot 100 hit. Mariah is now positioned as the only active recording artist with the potential to surpass the Beatles' all-time high of 20 #1 hits. The success of "E=MC�" brought total sales of Mariah's albums, singles and videos to more than 200 million worldwide, distancing her even further from the pack as the most successful female recording artist in history.
Born and raised in the Philippines, Charice found her singing voice at a young age. By age 7, she was supporting her family through her earnings from singing competitions. In 2007, a web-savvy fan began posting a series of Charice's performances on YouTube, including appearances on the Filipino talent show "Little Big Star" and the popular South Korean talent show "Star King." She instantly became an internet sensation, earning herself appearances on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" and "Oprah." She has since released her self-tilted debut album, which recently reached #1 in Japan.
Nine-time Grammy Award-winning musician Sheryl Crow recently released her seventh album, "100 Miles From Memphis." For the Missouri native, the album is a statement of purpose, featuring eleven songs that are characterized more by capturing a classic spirit than by imitating any specific style. Crow has sold 16 million albums in the United States and 35 million albums worldwide. She currently resides on a farm outside Nashville, Tennessee with her two sons.
Jackie Evancho, the 10-year old soprano prodigy whose performance on "America's Got Talent" won the hearts of millions and brought her into the national spotlight, will release her debut recording, "O Holy Night" on November 16. Since appearing on "America's Got Talent" Jackie's accumulated more than 30 million combined YouTube views and was the #1 Hot Google Search this past summer. Jackie first began singing at the age of 7 after watching "The Phantom of the Opera" on DVD. She launched her own YouTube channel and started serious vocal lessons when she was 8 years old. A Pittsburgh native, Jackie performed at local talent shows, going on to perform at high profile events including singing the National Anthem at Pittsburgh Pirates games.
Josh Groban returns to the "Christmas in Rockefeller" stage for the second time in his extensive career. An international superstar, the Los Angeles native has sold more than 25 million albums and DVDs worldwide, and filled arenas from North America and Europe to Australia and the Philippines. He was the best-selling recording artist of 2007 thanks to sales of his double-platinum 2006 album "Awake" and his blockbuster 5-time platinum Christmas album, "Noel." After teaming with super-producer Rick Rubin, Groban will be releasing his fifth studio album, "Illuminations" on November 15. This is a very personal album for Groban, who co-wrote 11 of the 13 songs on the collection including "Hidden Away," which Groban co-wrote with Dan Wilson.
Katherine Jenkins, known as "the young woman from the little place with the huge voice," hails from the tiny village of Neath in the Welsh Valley. With multi-platinum recordings along with critical acclaim and awards that span decades, Jenkins has become more than a household name in the United Kingdom. Not one to limit herself to opera or her classical/crossover, she loves to perform all types of music. Katherine's US debut album "Believe" was produced by 15-time Grammy-winning star-maker and hit man David Foster for 143/Warner Bros. Records.
Annie Lennox is the most successful female British artist in pop music history. She has amassed sales of more than 78 million albums worldwide in her 26-year career, both as a member of the groundbreaking Eurythmics and as a solo artist. Her towering achievements also include 34 hit singles, four Grammy Awards, 11 Brit Awards and five Ivor Novello Awards. The superstar has also won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe. In addition to her music, Lennox devotes her energy to The SING Campaign, a humanitarian organization Lennox founded to raise awareness and support for the AIDS/HIV pandemic in Africa.
Born in Australia, Kylie Minogue released her first single, a remake of the 1962 Little Eva hit "Locomotion," in 1987. The song hit #1 in Australia and remained in the top spot for seven weeks, becoming the biggest Australian single of the 80's. Two decades later, Kylie achieved the record for the most played female artist on UK radio over the last 20 years. Since then she has released eleven studio albums, two live CDs, eight live concert DVD's, plus her "Greatest Hits" and the "Ultimate Kylie" double album and multiple video packages. Minogue's latest album "Aphrodite" became Kylie's fifth #1 album in the UK which made Kylie the first solo artist in the history of the UK charts to have a #1 album in four different decades. Around the globe "Aphrodite" debuted in the top 10 in thirteen different countries. The album has produced two consecutive U.S. Billboard Club hits with "All The Lovers" and "Get Outta My Way." Kylie's "Aphrodite - Les Folies 2011" world tour begins in Denmark on February 19th and is expected to hit the U.S. this spring.
Born and raised outside of Dallas, Texas, Jessica Simpson has taken the music, fashion and entertainment industries by storm and become an international media darling. She made her mark in the music industry with her RIAA-certified double platinum 1999 debut, "Sweet Kisses," and has since released five additional full-length solo albums including the quadruple platinum "In This Skin" and her latest effort, "Do You Know." She soon began appearing on television in "That 70's Show," her MTV reality show "Newlyweds: Nick & Jessica," and her recent VH1 docu-series, "Jessica Simpson's: The Price of Beauty." Simpson has found additional success as a designer with her Jessica Simpson Collection and her fragrance "Fancy." An enthusiastic philanthropist, she also serves as the International Youth Ambassador for Operation Smile.


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Introduction to mmWave sensing: FMCW radars
New to mm-wave sensing? This series of five short videos provides a concise yet in-depth introduction to sensing using FMCW radars.
TI mmWave sensor labs
Labs are follow-along training videos that walk you through installation, building, and running examples of mmWave sensor projects.
TI mmWave Experiments: Sense the world with TI's mmWave
Sense the world with TI's mmWave is a training series where we demonstrate the capabilities of TI's IWR mmWave sensors based on questions that engineers have been asking on our mmWave sensors forum.
DS90UB953/954 System Design & Operation: Overview
This introduction video will give the background on FPD-Link III devices, such as the DS90UB953-Q1/ DS90UB954-Q1; the device's role within Advanced Driver Assist Systems (ADAS) in the automotive industry; and explain their broad appeal to engineers of all experience levels. This is fundamental to diving deeper into a 953/954 system, as well as, the links within the system.
DS90UB953/954 System Design & Operation: Typical Customer Issues
This section frames the design and operation video series by showing why it is important to contextualize customer problems in terms of the links between the devices.
Specifically, this section will discuss: issues with initializing the camera and issues with reading the incorrect serializer ID from the deserializer.
DS90UB953/954 System Design & Operation: Basic Design Rules
Understanding what hardware and software settings are important is critical to establishing a foundation for the 953/954 system. These settings can occur during or after power up and may need to be changed via software. As a result, these settings are routinely checked and verified before checking any of the other links in the system.
Specifically, this sections discusses: Diagnostics post power up, Mode and IDX Pins, Clocking Modes between the 953/954, Aliasing, I2C Pass Through, Port selection on 954, Analog Launch Pad (ALP), and Successful I2C Communication
DS90UB953/954 System Design & Operation: 953-954 Link Design
This section analyzes the link between the 953 and 954 and establishes how to identify the health and operation of the link. Since the link between the 953-954 is the most fundamental link used to communicate between devices, it is often checked first.
Specifically, this section discusses: Back Channel configuration, Built in Self Test (BIST), Adaptive Equalization (AEQ), and Channel Monitor Loop (CMLOUT)
DS90UB953/954 System Design & Operation: Sensor-953 Link Design
This is the Sensor and 953 Link Design section in DS90UB953/954 System Design & Operation video series. This video discusses how to use the sensor-953 link, as well as, the specific settings that are used with this link.
DS90UB953/954 System Design & Operation: 954-ISP/SoC Link Design
This section discusses what frame synchronization (FrameSync) is and how to configure in on the 953 and 954 and how CSI2 data is transferred across the link from the 954 to the ISP/SoC
Specifically, this section discusses: Frame Synchronization (FrameSync), Controlling 953 GPIOs locally and remotely via I2C, Unsynchronized and synchronized sensors, Internal and External Frame Sync, Port Forwarding, Accessing Indirect Registers, and Pattern Generation on 953 & 954
DS90UB953/954 System Design & Operation: Hardware Design
This section discusses how design a 953/954 using Power over Coax (PoC), and various hardware checks and concepts that need to be considered when analyzing a 953/954 system.
Specifically, this section discusses: Power Over Coax (PoC), AC Coupling Capacitors, PoC Inductors, Typical PoC Schematic, Critical Signal Routing, I2C Pullups, Loop Filter Capacitors on 953, Insertion Loss, Return Loss, and Time Domain Reflection (TDR) measurements.
Introduction to FPD-Link SerDes
These introduction videos describe the evolution of FPD-Link product families, and introduction to FPD-Link III SerDes for use in Infotainment and ADAS applications.
Diagnostic & Data Protection
This video series provides an overview of diagnostic capabilities of FPD-Link III and basic tips to simplify troubleshooting.
FPD-Link Parameters & Transmission Channel
This video series describes the key parameters used in the FPD-Link high-speed serial link consisting of the serializer, transmission medium and the de-serializer.
Power over Coax (PoC)
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Anthony Santos used to work out at his gym in New York's Chelsea neighborhood relatively unrecognized. Other than the gym's Latino staff members, few ever noticed the Bronx native. That changed three years ago when ads featuring Santos — aka Romeo Santos, lead singer of the internationally known bachata band Aventura — began popping up around the city promoting the group's upcoming concerts.
His days of working out at his gym incognito were over.
"These guys who never looked at me in the past were now watching me while they ran on their treadmills," said Santos, barefoot in his Park Hyatt Chicago hotel room Tuesday hours before an album-signing event downtown at FYE. "It felt kind of weird. One day, this girl came up to me at the gym and said, 'I could have sworn I saw your face on the bus today.' Just to mess with her, I said 'No, that's not me.'"
These days, the 30-year-old singer is still mostly unknown to non-Latinos in the United States. But, with a debut solo album, "Formula Vol. 1," on the Billboard charts and his own sitcom produced by Will Smith on the way, for how much longer?
Santos presented an award to Justin Bieber at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards and was invited to perform "Promise," his duet with Usher off of "Formula," on ABC's ""Dancing with the Stars"" (he declined because of schedule conflicts but did perform the song with Usher at the Latin Grammys Nov. 10). "Formula Vol. 1," which debuted at No. 9 on the Billboard 200 Tuesday, also includes cameos from Lil Wayne and Pitbull.
While the album features more English than your typical, predominantly Spanish Aventura album, Santos, born to a Puerto Rican mother and Dominican father, said he doesn't consider himself a true crossover artist. He believes the audience is crossing over to him more than he is crossing over to it.
"Some of my songs are Americanized, but it's still a bachata album. I could have gone in different directions with Usher, but I chose bachata," he said.
In 2012, Santos plans to make his acting debut in an as-yet untitled comedy set to air on ABC. Santos will play an aspiring entrepreneur in New York whose traditional Dominican father prefers he work at the family's restaurant. Santos said he can't believe that someone who has only acted in music videos could land his own TV show, but box office superstar Smith himself wasn't the most experienced actor, either, when he first starred in NBC's "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air."
"I've been able to perform in front of thousands of people on stage in a character that's nothing like me. I'm very shy,"" said Santos, whose band sold out New York's Madison Square Garden four times in 2010 and Los Angeles' Staples Center twice in 2009. "That gives me the confidence to do this (TV) show."
Santos plans on going back on the road in the near future, but it will be as a solo artist for the first time in his career. Asked if it will feel strange performing Aventura songs without the group's three other members, Santos simply said, "No."
"If you would have asked me that two or three months ago, I wouldn't have an answer," Santos said. "But I did a few private events and performed some Aventura songs since then, and it felt very organic. It didn't feel weird at all. But I ask myself if it would be weird for the other guys since they're doing it with another singer."
Some fans of Aventura worry they've likely seen the last of the group now that everyone is off doing separate projects. It doesn't help that Aventura's most recent album was called "The Last." Santos, however, claimed the band is "at a pause" and has not broken up.
"The plan right now is for us to offer our audience individual (projects)," Santos said. "At the end of 2013, we should be recording a new album."
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Raleigh, N.C., prepares for the future with broadband push and digital inclusion efforts.
Officials in Raleigh, N.C., are grooming the city to become a leader in the global economy.
A series of initiatives known as Raleigh Connected is strengthening broadband access and improving the technology skills of residents.
Raleigh already has a significant tech presence as part of North Carolina's Research Triangle (which also includes the cities of Durham and Chapel Hill). Although the triangle is a hotbed of technology companies and research universities, other parts of Raleigh suffer from a significant digital divide. Raleigh Connected is intended to promote digital inclusion and attract even more high-tech employers to the region.
Connecting Teens to Technology
Participants receive 150 hours of classroom instruction and in exchange perform 56 hours of community service. The students are expected to serve as mentors, transferring their digital literacy skills to others in the community, said Linda Jones, manager of the Digital Connectors program.
"It's a multi-generational approach that could include family, friends, neighbors or anyone in the community," Jones said. "Being equipped with the 21st-century skills, they can transfer those skills to someone else — someone who may not have taken part in the program."
As of June, 59 students had graduated from the program. Jones added that she'd like to develop a Digital Connectors alumni program to keep students involved after they graduate.
Fay Cobb Payton, an associate professor at North Carolina State University who's involved with Digital Connectors, said the program prepares students for a wide range of careers — not just traditional tech jobs.
"You need to show young people exactly what computing skills enable them to do for careers in the future. So for instance, you have young people that were in the Digital Connectors program that wanted to be attorneys," Cobb said. "I can't imagine an attorney, in the future or currently, not using technology to create briefs, share briefs, share opinions and read all current [U.S.] Supreme Court rulings."
Through Raleigh Connected, the city is adding 125 miles of new fiber to its existing downtown fiber ring. The network is expected to be completed next year.
Along with strengthening its fiber infrastructure, Raleigh is providing broadband access to 2,000 low-income homes in the city, and it offers free outdoor Wi-Fi in the downtown area and convention center. In addition, Raleigh's Digital Connectors program trains local teens how to use technologies like social media and video. Those who complete the program serve as community "ambassadors" who teach friends and family members the skills they've learned.
Harvey Schmitt, president and CEO of the Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce, said that this year, city officials have been discussing the possibility of laying excess unused fiber (called dark fiber) that can be used in the future, giving Raleigh the additional capacity to support big data initiatives for local companies and others.
"We have folks like hospitals, the universities, we have companies like SAS and Red Hat, and there are a number [of companies] that could take advantage of a fiber network that would expand the availability of the big data movement," Schmitt said.
For many cities across the U.S., a broadband facelift may not be simple to achieve, given slashed budgets and limited grant funding available for broadband infrastructure. Even with the National Broadband Plan — a road map created by the FCC to help spread affordable, high-speed broadband access nationwide — such access is still very much a fantasy for cities struggling to get basic fiber laid down.
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Raleigh couldn't work alone to carry out its vision. To move forward with Raleigh Connected, the city needed reliable partnerships, Roper said.
Roper said the key to winning executive support for tech-based initiatives is to connect those programs to economic development. Raleigh worked with One Economy, a global technology nonprofit, and harnessed $1.4 million in federal stimulus funding for Raleigh Connected projects. Companies like IBM and Cisco Systems also extended resources to the city.
"[The value] has to be around promoting a cultural value of innovation. It has to be around entrepreneurship," she said. "It has to be around closing that gap of individuals who are really not ready to compete in a 21st-century technology culture. It has to be around those things because everybody gains from that."
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CBS' Poltrack: Demos Don't Tell the Entire Story of the 2012-13 Season
Research boss says smarter measurement, targeting could usher in 'golden age'
Despite a season that's been marked by vertiginous ratings declines, CBS research guru David Poltrack believes that broadcast's slow start "is not indicative of how the season will progress."
Speaking to investors today at the UBS Global Media and Communications Conference in New York, CBS' chief research officer said that the fall ratings have been impacted by a number of disruptive events, including numerous pre-emptions caused by the presidential debates and the late-October megastorm that caused major power outages in New York and New Jersey.
Of CBS' slate of four new series, three experienced disruptions related to the debates and Hurricane Sandy. The recently canceled Partners was bumped two weeks in a row (Oct. 22 and Oct. 29), while the new hit Vegas was pre-empted by the second presidential debate on Oct. 16 and Election Day itself.
All told, 16 episodes of various freshmen broadcast series were pre-empted by election activity or the storm. Among the returning series that experienced some October chaos were NBC's The Voice, Fox's New Girl, ABC's Modern Family and CBS' Person of Interest.
Poltrack also noted that a number of new series were available for sampling prior to the official start of the season (Sept. 24), thereby pulling GRPs out of the marketplace.
Only 43 percent of all new series premieres were viewed live as scheduled, while 51 percent were accessed via DVR. Five percent of the new fall debuts were streamed online, while the remainder of the series openers was delivered via video on demand.
All told, live, linear sampling of new series was down just 4 percent versus 2011, Poltrack said.
Should Nielsen further its efforts to blend traditional linear ratings with streaming and on-demand data, it would be more immediately apparent that broadcast TV "may be entering a new golden era," Poltrack said. In the meantime, many online impressions are overlooked and are not counted against ratings guarantees. This effectively makes younger viewers all but invisible to advertisers, as the 18-24 set is far more likely to watch network content outside the home.
A look at the linear deliveries for 2012-13 underscores why Poltrack and his colleagues are eager to squeeze more value out of digital viewing. Through the first eight weeks of the season, CBS is down 20 percent among adults 18-49, averaging a 2.8 rating in the demo. The network leads all comers with total deliveries, averaging 11.5 million viewers per night.
Fox is suffering the greatest year-over-year declines in the dollar demo, falling 29 percent to a 2.5 rating. Only NBC has shown growth, averaging a 3.2, up 23 percent from the same period in 2011.
With five weeks of the C3 currency on the books, the declines are less pronounced—although the respective time periods are not symmetrical. Through the end of October, Fox and CBS are both down 19 percent in the demo (2.3 and 2.2, respectively), while ABC dropped 11 percent to a 2.2. The currency puts NBC in the lead with 2.9, up 15 percent versus the first five weeks of the 2011-12 season.
For all the agita churned up by the historically weak live-plus-same-day numbers, CBS still boasts the top-rated scripted series on broadcast TV in The Big Bang Theory, which averages a 5.0 in the 18-49 demo in its Thursday 8 p.m. time slot. (The top-rated scripted series on all TV is AMC's The Walking Dead, which closed out the first half of its third season with an average 5.3 rating in the demo.)
The net also has introduced the two most-watched new series of the season in Vegas and Elementary. The Michael Chiklis-Dennis Quaid Vegas period piece averages 11.3 million total viewers, while the Sherlock Holmes refresh, Elementary, draws just south of 11 million per night. By comparison, NBC's biggest new hit, Revolution, is averaging 8.4 million viewers in its freshman campaign.
Of all 21 new series that have been introduced since the season began, Revolution puts up the biggest numbers where it counts. Per Nielsen, the show is averaging a 3.1 in the dollar demo. The older-skewing Elementary is outperforming the field in CBS' target demo, averaging a 3.3 rating among adults 25-54.
As is his wont, Poltrack spent a good deal of his presentation speaking about the importance of progressing beyond the industry's myopic devotion to age- and gender-defined demographics. He reviewed how CBS and Nielsen Catalina Solutions were able to demonstrate how viewers of the drama Blue Bloods overindexed on soft drink purchases, despite the fact that marketers tend to overlook that show's older (35-64) demo.


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This CRL Deluxe Plunger Lock for Showcases is manufactured with the cylinder welded to the back mounting plate which assures excellent security and reliability. Available with a selection of beautiful finishes, so your lock and showcase extrusion can have matching finishes. This Deluxe Plunger Lock is designed with a "slim-line" cylinder which is not only more attractive than similar locks, but simplifies installation. If the CRL Deluxe Plunger Lock is used with H-Bar Shoe Catalog Numbers LK610 or KK610, no notching of the glass is required. Requires a 9/16 inch (15 millimeter) diameter barrel hole and 5/16 inch (8 millimeter) diameter plunger hole. The lock comes complete with two keys and a strike plate.


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Interviews Produce "Internet Hero We've Been Waiting For"
"He likes to grill out, eat McDonald's and listen to salsa music. Charles Ramsey has also just become famous not only for his actions Monday in helping three Cleveland women escape from years of being held captive in a Cleveland house, but also for his interview he gave in detailing the events of the day," Mark Heim reported early Tuesday for al.com, an affiliate of Cleveland.com.
An Australian columnist called Ramsey "America's newest hero." Lacey Mason of Washington's WTOP-AM said, "Charles Ramsey just might be the Internet hero we've been waiting for."
Ramsey actually was interviewed by more than one reporter, including John Kosich of WEWS-TV, the Cleveland ABC affiliate, and Kevin Freeman of WJW-TV, the Fox affiliate.
Heim offered this account: "Michelle Knight, 32, Amanda Berry, 27, and Gina DeJesus, 23, were found at a house in Cleveland Monday after going missing between 2002 and 2004.
"Three brothers were arrested, including 52-year-old Ariel Castro.
" 'I heard screaming,' Ramsey told Cleveland's ABC affiliate. 'I'm eating my McDonald's. I come outside. I see this girl going nuts, trying to get out of a house. So I go on the porch, and she says 'help me get out. I've been here a long time.' So you know, I figured it was a domestic dispute. So I opened the door, and we couldn't get in. … So we kicked the bottom. And she comes out with a little girl and she says "call 911. My name is Amanda Berry." '
"Ramsey said he had no idea what was going on at his neighbor's house. 'My neighbor, you got some big testicles to pull this off, bro,' he said. 'Because we see this dude every day. Every day. I mean every day. I barbecue with this dude. We eat ribs and what not and listen to salsa music. You see where I'm coming from? Bro, not a clue that girl was in that house.'
"The reporter then asked him what the reaction was on the girls' faces. 'Bro, I knew something was wrong when a little pretty white girl ran into a black man's arms," Ramsey said. Something's wrong here. Dead giveaway. Dead giveaway. Dead giveaway. Either she's homeless or she's got problems. That's the only reason she run to a black man.' . . ."
* Kevin Freeman, WMJI-TV, Cleveland: Charles Ramsey Tells About Finding Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus And Michelle Knight (video)
* Ryan Haidet, WKYC-TV, Cleveland: Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus & Michele Knight trending on Twitter globally
* Thomas J. Sheeran and John Coyne, Associated Press: Frantic 911 call leads to 3 missing women in Ohio
*Scott Shaw, Plain Dealer: Video: Charles Ramsey on how he helped Amanda Berry escape
*Jen Steer, newsnet5.com: VIDEO: Cleveland man who found missing woman Amanda Berry: 'I thought that girl was dead'
"It's easy to believe the worst is over in the economic downturn," Nancy DiTomaso wrote Sunday for the Opinionator section of the New York Times website. "But for African-Americans, the pain continues — over 13 percent of black workers are unemployed, nearly twice the national average. And that's not a new development: regardless of the economy, job prospects for African-Americans have long been significantly worse than for the country as a whole.
"The most obvious explanation for this entrenched disparity is racial discrimination. But in my research I have found a somewhat different culprit: favoritism. Getting an inside edge by using help from family and friends is a powerful, hidden force driving inequality in the United States," continued DiTomaso, vice dean for faculty and research and a professor of management and global business at Rutgers Business School. She is the author of "The American Non-Dilemma: Racial Inequality Without Racism."
"Such favoritism has a strong racial component," DiTomaso wrote. Through such seemingly innocuous networking, white Americans tend to help other whites, because social resources are concentrated among whites. If African-Americans are not part of the same networks, they will have a harder time finding decent jobs.
"The mechanism that reproduces inequality, in other words, may be inclusion more than exclusion. And while exclusion or discrimination is illegal, inclusion or favoritism is not — meaning it can be more insidious and largely immune to legal challenges.
"Favoritism is almost universal in today's job market. In interviews with hundreds of people on this topic, I found that all but a handful used the help of family and friends to find 70 percent of the jobs they held over their lifetimes; they all used personal networks and insider information if it was available to them.
"In this context of widespread networking, the idea that there is a job 'market' based solely on skills, qualifications and merit is false. . . ."
As DiTomaso offered relatively fresh thinking on the inequality issue, the Economist magazine went in the other direction. Last week, its cover featured the headline "Time to scrap affirmative action" and the image of a thumbs down.
Along with the familiar arguments against affirmative action, the cover story maintained that even the notion that the practice promotes diversity on campuses does not wash.
"The University of Texas (UT) justifies discriminating in favour of black people not on the ground that society owes it to them, but because, it claims, a diverse university offers a better education to all its students," the Economist asserted. "That is a reasonable argument — some companies benefit from understanding a variety of customers, for instance, and the police probably keep order better if enough of them share a culture with the neighbourhood they patrol — but it does not wash for most institutions. In UT's case, although colleges benefit from a diversity of ideas, to use skin colour as a proxy for this implies that all black people and all Chinese people view the world in a similar way. That suggests a bleak view of the human imagination. . . . "
Noliwe M. Rooks, writing in the Chronicle of Higher Education, suggested something else was afoot with such arguments.
"It's clear that at some point, our national debate over race and affirmative action shifted from a primary concern over when and how colleges might use the policies to help students overcome past and present economic, social, and cultural barriers to a belief that such policies should be used only if they don't keep middle-class white students from attending the college of their choice," she wrote. "In the process, we have ignored the fact that the fewer numbers of black, Latino, and Native American students there are on a college campus, the greater the likelihood that white students will racially harass them.
"Those were the findings of a June 2012 research brief issued by the University of California at Los Angeles's Higher Education Research Institute, which found that on campuses with the lowest diversity, racial harassment is a consistent and growing feature of college life. That should trouble us. . . ."
* Lee A. Daniels, syndicated: The Economy's Invisible People
* Jerry Large, Seattle Times: Inequality a poor path to follow
* Mark Trahant, indianz.com: Indian Country left behind as jobs evaporate
*Seth Freed Wessler, Colorlines: How Public Policy Built The Racial Wealth Divide
Howard Kurtz Grilled Over Mistakes in Riveting TV
"Media critic Howard Kurtz used his CNN show on Sunday to point a finger at himself, apologizing for a story on gay basketball player Jason Collins that he said was riddled with errors and shouldn't have been written in the first place," David Bauder reported for the Associated Press.
"The extraordinary edition of CNN's 'Reliable Sources' contained not only his apology but also a session with two other media critics who sharply questioned his credibility. . . . "
Media writer Eric Deggans wrote in his Tampa Bay (Fla.) Times blog, "I can't recall the last time a major journalism figure faced up to his mistakes in such a straightforward fashion — devoting the first 15 minutes of his show to a grilling by two other reporters. (The New York Post, by contrast, was resistant enough to expressing regret for errors in its Boston Marathon coverage that a prankster inserted a fake apology from its editor into some copies of the newspaper.)
"Here's hoping this brings better reporting from Kurtz and more accountability from journalists in general, as we recognize any one of us has the potential to make a big mistake at the wrong time. . . ."
Meanwhile, Collins and his family members were interviewed by Oprah Winfrey for a 90-minute show on Winfrey's OWN network, and the Democratic National Committee announced Collins would headline its annual lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender gala, on May 29.
Chris Broussard of ESPN, who said April 29 on ESPN's "Outside The Lines" that homosexual acts, adultery and premarital sex were "walking in open rebellion to God," continued to be attacked for singling out homosexuality. Broussard has said he is not making further public comments.
* Jeff Bercovici, Forbes: Howard Kurtz's Bad Reporting About Jason Collins Cost Him a Lot of Money
* Mike Bianchi, Orlando Sentinel: ESPN, Chris Broussard should single out sinful NBA players having children out of wedlock
* Kevin Cirilli, Politico: Howard Kurtz apologizes on CNN for errors
* Dan Kennedy blog: The Knight Foundation's curious funding decisions
*Peter Lauria, BuzzFeed: No One Watched Howard Kurtz's Apology Sunday (May 7)
* John McWhorter, Daily News, New York: On basketball and the Bible
* Phillip Morris, Plain Dealer, Cleveland: Jason Collins is no Jackie Robinson but both men tell us a lot about our nation
* Tony Norman, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Who is Jason Collins? The word finally is out
*Ian O'Connor, ESPNNewYork.com: Lombardi: A champion of gay rights
* Rem Rieder, American Journalism Review: Howard Kurtz's Mea Culpa
*Meenal Vamburkar, Mediaite: 'I Screwed Up': Howard Kurtz Gets Grilled On Controversy Over His Erroneous Jason Collins Story (video)
Latinos Become Largest Ethnic Group in Texas Schools
In another indicator of the nation's changing demographics, the Dallas Morning News reported for Sunday's editions that "Hispanics have passed whites as the largest ethnic group in Texas schools, making up almost 51 percent of public school enrollment.
"The influx of Hispanic students, many from poor families, has brought about many changes in classrooms, with more expected as that population continues to grow," according to the story by Yvonne Marquez and Luke Winkie.
"Some schools already struggle with how to teach an increasing number of poor children who don't speak English. Others are preparing for a day when their enrollment primarily is made up of low-income students, most of them Hispanic. . . . "
* Nancy Benac, Huffington Post: Everything You Need to Know About Immigration Reform And The 'Gang Of Eight' Bill
* Drew DeSilver, Pew Research Center: How Mexicans in the United States See Their Identity
* Ana Gonzalez-Barrera and Mark Hugo Lopez, Pew Hispanic Center: A Demographic Portrait of Mexican-Origin Hispanics in the United States
* Liz Hester, Talking Biz News: The intersection of business and politics
* Andrea Plaid, Racialicious: The Hippocratic Oath Doesn't Apply To Undocumented Immigrants
* Mary Sanchez, Kansas City Star: Immigration reform faces tough compromises in Congress
* Nelson D. Schwartz, New York Times: Transformation of a Town Underscores Immigrants' Impact
3 Services Honoring Neuharth Planned Next Week
The Newseum Monday announced two additional services celebrating the life of Al Neuharth, the USA Today founder who led the Gannett Co., the Freedom Forum and the Newseum before he died April 19 at 89.
All three services are to be streamed online. The first takes place Tuesday, May 14, at 5:30 p.m. EDT at Florida Today in Melbourne, Fla., the newspaper he founded as a precursor to USA Today.
The second is scheduled for Wednesday, May 15, at the Newseum in Washington at 5:30 p.m. EDT. As previously announced, the third is planned for 10 a.m. CDT May 17 at the University of South Dakota in Vermillion.
The Washington service is scheduled at the same time as a memorial for Lynne Duke, the former Washington Post reporter and editor, who is to be remembered at 6:30 p.m. May 15 at the Post building.
In the News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C., on April 25, Publisher Orage Quarles III listed "three very important principles that I practice each day and share as often as possible with young people." He said he learned all of them from Neuharth: "Pay attention to detail," "Arrive early" and " Learn to listen."
* Editorial, Daily World, Opelousas, La.: Al Neuharth leaves a rich legacy behind
* Tom Fenton, El Paso Inc.: From the publisher
* Roland S. Martin, Creators Syndicate: Al Neuharth Was a True Champion of Media Diversity
NPR Reporters' Mellifluous Names Reflect a Diversity
What makes NPR reporters' names so particularly mellifluous? There's that pleasing alliteration — Allison Aubrey, Louisa Lim, Carl Kassell, Susan Stamberg," Deirdre Mask wrote Monday for the Atlantic.
"And it's hard to match those mouth-filling [double-barreled] names. Think Ofeibea Quist-Arcton, Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson, Chana Joffe-Walt, Lourdes Garcia-Navarro, Dina Temple-Raston, Charlayne Hunter-Gault. According to one study, women in the arts and entertainment are more likely to keep their names; the authors hypothesized that their maiden names had already become 'akin to a "brand".' All the same, reporter 'Nell Boyce' lacks the snazzy ring of Nell Greenfieldboyce, her married name mash-up. . . ."
Mask continued, "Of course, NPR's seemingly exotic names reflect the sweep of NPR's international coverage and America's own diversity. Yuki Noguchi isn't an unusual name for a Japanese woman, and Doualy Xaykaothao might be a perfectly boring name for a Lao-Hmong-American. Neda Ulaby's first name means 'dew' and is fairly common in Syria. ('It's also the name of the heroine of an opera called Pagliacci who is literally killed by a clown,' she told me over email.) Lakshmi Singh's Carribbean father is probably the reason why she pronounces her name LAK-shmee and not LUK-shmee, as South Asian friends like to tell her it should be pronounced.
"Some names are just family names. You can blame Michele Norris's father for the heavy stress on her first name's first syllable; she honors him by insisting everyone pronounce the name the same way he did (MEE-shell). Cokie Roberts's full name is actually Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne Roberts. Cokie was just easier for her brother to pronounce.
"Korva Coleman's name is actually a twist on an elderly relative's name, Cora. But 'in some Slavic languages and possibly Hebrew,' Ms. Coleman explained in an email, 'my name apparently means "slut." ' . . ."
Mario Machado, Chinese-American TV Reporter in L.A.
"Mario Machado was a familiar presence on Los Angeles TV and radio for a few decades starting in 1967, when he joined Channel 9 (then KHJ-TV) as the city's first Chinese-American TV news reporter," Kevin Roderick reported Sunday for LAObserved.
Machado died at his West Hills home Saturday of complications of pneumonia, his daughter said, according to Rebecca Trounson of the Los Angeles Times. He had been ill for some time with Parkinson's disease.
Roderick continued, "Machado had been born in Shanghai of Chinese and Portuguese heritage: his father was a vice-chancellor of the Portuguese consulate in Shanghai. From KHJ Machado moved quickly moved to 'The Big News' at Channel 2, the city's dominant evening news program with Jerry Dunphy as the anchor. He became the city's first designated consumer reporter. In the 1970s Machado hosted 'Noontime' on KNXT and began to handle a number of other news and interview shows, as well as radio. . . ."
Machado played Casey Wong in three RoboCop films in a parody of TV anchors and portrayed an interviewer in Rocky III (1982) and Scarface (1983), Mike Barnes wrote Monday for the Hollywood Reporter. Barnes wrote that Machado often played a journalist in films and on television.
Nominate a J-Educator Who Has Helped Diversity
The Association of Opinion Journalists, formerly the National Conference of Editorial Writers, annually grants a Barry Bingham Sr. Fellowship — actually an award — "in recognition of an educator's outstanding efforts to encourage minority students in the field of journalism." The educator should be at the college level.
Nominations, now being accepted for the 2013 award, should consist of a statement about why you believe your nominee is deserving.
The final selection will be made by the AOJ Foundation board and announced in time for the Oct. 13-15 convention in Newport, R.I., where the presentation will be made.
Since 2000, the recipient has been awarded an honorarium of $1,000 to be used to "further work in progress or begin a new project."
Past winners include James Hawkins, Florida A&M University (1990); Larry Kaggwa, Howard University (1992); Ben Holman, University of Maryland (1996); Linda Jones, Roosevelt University, Chicago (1998); Ramon Chavez, University of Colorado, Boulder (1999); Erna Smith, San Francisco State (2000); Joseph Selden, Penn State (2001); Cheryl Smith, Paul Quinn College (2002); Rose Richard, Marquette University (2003); Leara D. Rhodes, University of Georgia (2004); Denny McAuliffe, University of Montana (2005); Pearl Stewart, Black College Wire (2006); Valerie White, Florida A&M University (2007); Phillip Dixon, Howard University (2008); Bruce DePyssler, North Carolina Central University (2009); Sree Sreenivasan, Columbia University (2010); Yvonne Latty, New York University (2011); and Michelle Johnson, Boston University (2012).
Nominations may be emailed to Richard Prince, AOJ Diversity Committee chair, richardprince (at) hotmail.com. The deadline is May 24.
* "The American Society of News Editors, which hosts and provides support for more than 5,000 student-written publications on my.hsj.org, announced last week that it would no longer host school newspapers because there are 'so many more options available to schools,' " Katina Paron reported Monday for schoolbook.org. "But those options were not clear yet to many advisers who oversee their school's journalism program. . . ."
* On KTXD-TV in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, "rotating Texas Daily pundit Debbie Denmon accepted an on-air marriage proposal during Friday's show from Richard Greagor," Ed Bark reported Monday for his Uncle Barky's Bytes site. "They've been dating since December 2011. Denmon, a former longtime WFAA8 anchor-reporter, is now director of communications for the Dallas County District Attorney's office. Witnessing the bended-knee ring ceremony were Texas Daily host Jeff Brady and pundit Iola Johnson, also formerly of WFAA8. . . . (video).
* "Uriel Posadas has been named News Director of KINT-26, the Univision affiliate in El Paso," Veronica Villafañe reported Friday for her Media Moves site. "He replaces Zoltán Csanyi-Salcedo, who left in March to take a job at ESPN. . . ."
* In New York, "WNBC reporter John Noel is hospitalized with brain cancer," Jerry Barmash reported Wednesday for the Tuned In site. He's reportedly being treated at Lutheran Medical Center in Brooklyn. Noel, who joined WNBC in 1998, was first diagnosed with the disease last year. . . ."
* In Orlando, Jessica Sanchez, the morning traffic reporter at WKMG-TV wrote on her blog Saturday about her ongoing treatment for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. "There's a simple explanation for why it has taken me so long to get back on here and jet out another update: Cancer. People can tell you cancer is a bitch but until she runs her blackened claws through your hair and you feel the bitter coldness of her tongue mark you with a capital C as you tremble with fear and uncertainty you don't quite understand the depths of her depravity… especially when she partners up with the other big C: Chemotherapy. . . ."
* In Santa Barbara, Calif., "KEYT News anchor Paula Lopez has been noticeably absent from behind the news desk the past two weeks, less than a month after an inaugural broadcast return that followed her brief disappearance," Gina Potthoff wrote Thursday for Noozhawk.
* The International Press Institute and the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers Monday "welcomed the passage of seminal legislation in Mexico designed to combat the almost complete impunity in cases of crimes committed against the country's journalists. The changes to the Federal Code on Penal Procedure, among other statutes — all of which entered into force last Thursday, World Press Freedom Day — put into practice a constitutional reform from last summer granting the federal government the power to prosecute crimes against freedom of expression . . .," Scott Griffen of IPI reported.
* In Mexico, "Two sons of a well-known journalism couple have been shot to death, authorities in a northern Mexico border state said Sunday," the Associated Press reported. "Alfredo David Paramo, 21, and Diego Alejandro Paramo, 23, were followed by gunmen, intercepted at an intersection and killed as they were driving home about 4 a.m. Saturday in the state capital, Chihuahua state prosecutor's spokesman Carlos Gonzalez said. . . ."
*"Part of the weekend's celebratory aspects of the World Press Freedom Day in Liberia caused nerve-wracking emotions when the head of the presidential guard took the podium to unleash his venom, calling some journalists 'terrorists' and vowing to pursue them whenever they published articles questioning his integrity and those of other government officials," the New Democrat of Monrovia reported on Monday.
* "Burundi's government took unusually swift action last week in response to the police shooting of a radio reporter, after the journalist sought information at a roadblock in the capital Bujumbura where market vendors were allegedly being 'taxed' for passage," Mohamed Keita wrote Friday for the Committee to Protect Journalists. "Perhaps the shooting could have been averted if authorities had bothered to discipline officers involved in previous attacks on journalists. . . ."
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NASHVILLE (AP) - A new conservative political action committee holding a fundraiser outside Nashville next week has so far failed to register with the state.
The invitation to the Freedom PAC's $50-per-ticket fundraiser on Oct. 3 says the event in Lebanon will honor John Harris, the president of the Tennessee Firearms Association, and health care investor Andy Miller, who spent more than $180,000 to support Lou Ann Zelenik's failed effort to oust U.S. Rep. Diane Black in the Republican primary last year.
John Allyn, the legal counsel to the Tennessee Registry of Election Finance, said state law requires political action committees to register before they receive or spend any money.
The PAC and its treasurer, furniture and appliance retailer A. J. McCall of Lebanon, did not return messages seeking comment.
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When Corey met Tim Sorenson as a student at New York's Fashion Institute of Technology, she never would have never guessed that two cities, two children, and several businesses later, they would be serving artisanal softserve out of a 1978 Chevy emergency response vehicle in Austin, Texas.
However, maybe she should have seen it coming. "I've been obsessed with ice cream my whole life," says Corey. She recalls the parlors of her youth the way some kids collect baseball cards, with the MVPs being the Grape Nuts concoction served at a shop in Provincetown, Massachusetts and Friendly's classic Reese's Pieces sundae piled high in a silver dish.
"That peanut butter sauce was the most amazing peanut butter sauce for that sundae," she recalls with a smile, "...until I made mine!"
Cow Tipping Creamery is a turquoise gem in a food trailer park near Austin's University of Texas. The menu is a force to be reckoned with, and peanut butter sauce has to be one of the most ordinary things on it. You're more likely to find Dr. Pepper cherry sauce and blood orange olive oil and champagne marshmallows and honey dust—all made from scratch by Tim and Corey.
Before they opened last spring, they toyed with the idea of offering a few typical candy toppings, but Tim says, "It's a slippery slope. First you start with M&Ms and soon you're doing gummy worms and Oreos and, 'oh look, it's dirt and worms!' No way, there was no way we were going to do that. Honestly you could go anywhere else and get that, but you can't go anywhere else and get our toppings."
The canvas used for their palette of texturous, salty, and sweet toppings is a creamy softserve infused anywhere from 48 hours or longer. Indonesian vanilla, speckled with bean flecks, is almost always one of the choices and the other can be anything from mint (infused with fresh farmer's market mint) to coffee (infused with fair trade beans) to more adventurous flavors like matcha green tea, cereal milk, and horchata.
The Sorensons list New York's Momofuku Milk Bar as an inspiration of theirs, as well as The Big Gay Ice Cream Truck. "They made it fun," says Tim. "And softserve up until that point wasn't fun."
The mixmasters behind Cow Tipping Creamery pride themselves in using the highest quality ingredients: organic milk and sugar, local items whenever possible, and premium products like San Francisco's Tcho and Ghiradelli chocolate—and lots of it! They call their sundaes "stackers" ($4.50 for 12 ounces/$5.50 for 16 ounces) because toppings are layered between softserve, creating a bit of magic in each bite; cones are made the same way. Speciality shakes ($4.25 for 12 ounces/$5.50 for 16 ounces) are made with only a splash of milk and come chock full of goodies which zip through wide bubble tea straws.
"You can build an ice cream truck to make money but it definitely would not be this!" laughs Tim. "We decided we wanted to make something we'd be proud of more than anything else."
Click through the slideshow to see some of their frozen creations.
Cow Tipping Creamery
2512 Rio Grande Street Austin TX 78705 (cowtippingcreamery.com)
About the Author: Veronica Meewes is an Austin-based freelance writer and food blogger who will travel for food but always comes back for breakfast tacos. Follow her on Twitter @wellfedlife and visit her blog.
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Figuring out how many CPU cores a computer has (even hyperthreaded ones)
Finding all mounted drives. Mount gives too much info, I was thinking of getting the devices from fdisk -l and then using that to filter out the list in mount but I haven't really messed around with it yet.
I already got the networking stuff figured out:
will show me what network cards are installed and
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ifconfig | grep -v Loopback | grep -v 00-00-00-00 | grep 'Link encap' | awk '{print $1}'
will let me know which cards are wireless.
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iwconfig 2> /dev/null | grep IEEE | awk '{print $1}'
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Parking lot repairs were approved Sept. 13 by the Seneca Township board.
Board members accepted the $4,679 bid from Belson Asphalt for repairs at the township hall. A bid was also received from Bales Construction.
The township's financial records received an "unqualified" rating from the auditor Meredith Matthews of Donna Baker and Associates. In addition to giving the township the top "unqualified" opinion, Matthews also told the board that the township was in a good financial condition.
Surveys from township residents regarding a township website and a proposed trash tag system produced mixed opinions.
A land split was approved for the Ries property at 7388 Weston Rd.
The board unanimously approved a motion to bring all land split cases before the board for a vote.
That process has been followed in past, explained clerk Allison Ott, but it was never made official policy.
Land split applications are turned in to the clerk or supervisor.


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Women's share of jobs in the legal and medical fields climbed during the past decade even as their share of the overall workforce stalled at slightly less than half. Women held 33.4% of legal jobs—including lawyers, judges, magistrates and other judicial workers—in 2010, up from 29.2% in 2000....
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In today's Friday Sermon Hazoor further elucidated the ongoing subject of the Divine attribute of Al-Aziz (The Mighty) With reference to Quranic verses and ahadith expounding seeking knowledge of Allah's creation Hazoor said that angels send salutations to one who teaches goodness and that in actual fact only that person is a true scholar who has fear of Allah in his heart. Hazoor said when a person embarks on the way to seek knowledge; Allah the Exalted places that person on the way that leads to Paradise. Presenting the Promised Messiah's (on whom be peace) exposition Hazoor said that those who fear Allah have in actual fact the true knowledge of the Divine beauty and majesty and are deeply humble. Those devoid of humility cannot ever justifiably be considered scholars in matters of faith. The pinnacle of a believer is when he reaches the stage of 'true certainty'.
With reference to the glory and splendour of the Holy Quran Hazoor said that once the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings be on him) told a person, in accordance with his needs, that in greatness the three foremost passages of the Holy Quran were, Surah Ikhlaas, Ayah tul Kursi and the last passages of Surah Al Baqara. The Holy Prophet (peace and blessings be on him) warned of many calamities to come and said that the Holy Quran was the only antidote to these problems. Hazoor explained that The Holy Quran was indeed one thing that is free from any blemish, and a true scholar could never be satiated with it. Hazoor added that the Promised Messiah (on whom be peace) said that the Holy Quran was an ocean of cognisance (gnosis) and a true believer is one who follows it to the letter. With reference to Allama Razi's writings on the subject Hazoor said that while the attribute of Al Aziz signifies the absolute might of Allah the Exalted, its regular Quranic usage in conjunction with other Divine attributes denotes the overriding Divine attributes of forgiveness, compassion and wisdom.
Hazoor concluded on pronouncing a few related revelations of the Promised Messiah (on whom be peace). Following are two of those revelations:
"By Your Honour and Majesty, You alone are the Mighty."
"An honourable title, an honourable title, it shall be accompanied by a tremendous sign."
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A street sweeper crashed into a New Jersey home Monday morning after a country club worker set a leaf blower in its cab and the tool disengaged the parking brake, police said.
The 48-year-old worker had parked the sweeper on a hill on Indian Terrace in Sparta while he used the leaf blower nearby.
Police said when he set the blower in the sweeper's cab, it freed the parking brake and sent the 28,000-pound truck rolling down the hill, where it crossed a road, smashed a mailbox and careened into a house.
No one was in the home, but it suffered extensive damage, police said.
The worker hurt his knee chasing after the sweeper.


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2011 Keystone RV Residence Destination Series M-402 BH Equipment: Prices and Specs
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TRAVEL TRAILERS/5TH WHEELS - Prices include air conditioner, awning, stabilizer jacks, microwave, AM/FM cassette stereo and water heater with DSI. Challenger and Hornet previously listed under Damon Corporation.
2011 Note
In addition to standard equipment Alpine includes fireplace, Alps and Chateau Packages. Avalanche includes Whiteout and Base Camp Packages. Bullet Ultra Lite and Bullet Premier include Exterior, Interior, Premier(Bullet Premier only) and Thermal Packages. Cougar High Country includes Camping in Style, Value and Polar Packages, 32" LCD TV, high gloss grey exterior, and upgraded countertops. Cougar includes Camping in Style, Value, Convenience, Polar Package, 32" LCD TV. Cougar includes Camping in Style, Value, Convenience and Polar Packages. Energy includes High Energy, Entertainment Packages, upgraded generator and 15.0 A/C. Fuzion Touring Edition III includes Touring Edition III, Gear It Up Garage, Performance Package and dual A/C. Laredo includes LCD TV, Best in Class and Bigger is Better (fifth wheels only) Packages. Outback 10th Anniversary includes Comfort, Designer and 10th Anniversary Packages, 32" HD LCD TV(only on 298 RE). Passport GT and Ultra Lite include Exterior and Interior Packages. Raptor travel trailers and fifth wheel 297 SE include Premium, Safety, Interior and Exterior Value Packages. Raptor Fifth Wheel includes Raptor Luxury, Interior, Exterior, Premium and Safety Packages. Raptor model 4014 LEV includes 12 cubic foot 4 door refrigerator and 2nd fuel tank. Residence includes Residential Package. Retreat includes Retreat Standard Package. Springdale includes enclosed underbelly, (fifth wheels only), 15 A/C ducted, fiberglass exterior (fifth wheels only) and Pacific Packages. Sprinter Copper Canyon includes Camping Made Easy and Customer First Safety Packages. Sprinter includes Camping Made Easy, Customer First Safety and Premium Packages. Summerland includes Summer Package. Sydney 10th Anniversary includes Sydney Designer, Sydney Comfort and 10th Anniversary Packages.
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In today's Washington Post, columnist David Ignatius seems to suggests that somehow Saturday's attempted bomb plot represents the advent of a "new generation of terrorists."
However, the facts of the Times Square plot actually demonstrate quite the opposite—that al Qaeda's tactics remain largely identical to previously foiled attacks against the U.S. In many ways, this foiled attack feels like a replay of the attempted Christmas Day bombing of a plane landing in Detroit. Let's look at a few of the similarities:
- Known enemy? Check. The U.S. government has long been aware that al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), whom the underwear bomber was affiliated with, and al Qaeda cells in Pakistan, have communicated that America was there enemy and have staged multiple attacks against the United States.
- Known terrorist networks? AQAP and al Qaeda groups in Pakistan are widely known to recruit would-be attackers to organized terror training camps, giving them the skills and resources to stage attacks. Ignatius seems to indicate that because some of these groups are less organized than before that somehow we have little knowledge of their structure and desire to do damage. However, authorities have long recognized that Yemen and Pakistan are staging grounds for terrorist activity.
- Known tactic? Roadside car bombs have been used so frequently against U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Iraq that Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has ordered the creation of a Counter Improvised Explosive Taskforce to help tackle the problem. Much like airplanes, U.S. authorities are highly aware of the use of these tactics by terrorists—and nothing about should be much of a surprise.
Taken as a whole, its hard to form any other conclusion than that this was a federal failure to connect these dots together—not some sort of new and creative strategy by terrorists to throw off authorities.
The New York City Police Department, for its part, did exactly what it was supposed to do. It responded fast, neutralized the danger, and worked tirelessly to track down leads and narrow down a suspect. Without credible intelligence passed down seamlessly through the system, there would be little they could do to stop the plot before they did.
It is clear that the system, in this instance, did not work, much like it didn't on Christmas Day. And while the dots lined up neatly, no one actually connected them. What's more frustrating is that the system actually can work to stop these types of plots against Americans. At least 30 plots have been foiled since 9/11—28 of which were the result of good law enforcement, intelligence gathering, and/or information sharing with our friends and allies abroad. The lesson of these plots, is that being successful requires law enforcement to stop plots in the earliest stages.
Sheer luck isn't an appropriate strategy for preventing attacks. The White House must begin to drill down on these failures of the system. Asking the right questions, but also making tough choices—ones that ensure that counterterrorism abilities are preserved and defended will have to be part of the process. Choosing to embrace this job is necessary for the safety of Americans and winning the war on terrorism is a 24-7-365 job.


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Food Security was the main theme at the IUCN World Conservation Congress on Saturday 8 Sept. A high-level Leaders Dialogue took place and many sessions, workshops and meetings focused on conservation issues related to agricultural landscapes. Out of these, the following trends were noted:
"Tinkering at the margins does not help; food security needs structural changes. We can feed the world but we need to think more innovatively and globally" -- Amita Shah, Gujarat institute of Development Research.
Ecosystem services serve as a foundation for an integrated approach to food security
Ecosystem services and nature-based solutions can provide a strong foundation for rethinking food security and sustainable food production. Food production needs to integrate resilient ecosystems with diverse systems of production, taking into account community and gender rights.
There is a clear need to compile and disseminate knowledge to influence policy and practice, in particular around:
• The importance of diverse ecosystems in providing resilient food systems
• The importance of conserving wild resources that contribute to food security
As noted in a workshop, a joint statement of experts from biodiversity conventions made it clear:
"Biodiversity can indeed help alleviate hunger and poverty, can promote human health, and be the basis for ensuring freedom and equity for all."
The true cost of food needs to be reflected in price
"A sustainable way of life is only possible when prices reflect the real cost of production" -- IUCN Tweet
To promote food security, the price of food needs to reflect the actual cost of production including the impact on biodiversity and ecosystems – which is referred to as "natural capital accounting".
To foster global food security there is need to create tools that measure the contributions of biodiversity and ecosystem processes to food production. It is essential that the benefits derived from natural systems that support food productions be taken into account when valuing the agricultural products -- especially those that are linked to maintaining crucial ecosystems services. Managers of agricultural systems need to be aware of the immediate and downstream environmental and social costs of food production. A base line standard for "natural capital accounting would go a long way to achieving this goal.
At a national, and even regional scale, it is crucial that the contributions of nature be recognized for their contributions to national/regional economies. To achieve global food security, social and environmental costs should be taken into account when calculating costs of food production. The discussion must go beyond profit and subsidies and focus on how to promote competitive advantage to those who internalize ecological costs.
To achieve global food security requires a spectrum of capacities ranging from local farmers/fishers to large industrial-scale production.
Small and medium scale farming and community managed food production play an important role in food security as well as in conservation of natural resources. Lessons can be learned from small-scale fisheries in coastal areas, community-based forest management strategies that recognize the importance of traditional management systems, and promote sustainable livelihoods.
The role ecosystems play in augmenting rural incomes and providing resources for food production needs to be documented and communicated to policy makers.
As noted in the World Leaders Dialogue, there is no doubt that food production and conservation can be compatible if adequate policies are developed and implemented.
Trends and comments compiled by IUCN communications staff at Congress.


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School Reports
Doing a School Report on Utah? Here are some sites that can help!
The Utah History Encyclopedia
The first complete history of Utah in encyclopedia form, consisting of 575 articles and over 200 historic photographs.
A fun way to find information about Parks & Recreation resources, Zoos & Museums, Education, Health Resources, Information about Utah, and information for Parents about safety.
Kids Search Tools
This kid-friendly search area includes selected sites, screened sites for kids, sites for teachers and kids, and strictly fun sites.
Historical Society - History for Kids
If you're looking for facts about Utah, this is the place to look! This site contains everything from dinosaurs to state symbols, geography to the Utah Encyclopedia. You can research information here and print it out from school or home.
The Utah State Historical Society's Education site provides historical information for students and teachers.
Capitol Hill Kids
Find activities and games designed to appeal to children's interest to learn and have fun.
The White House for Kids
This is the official site where kids can learn about the history and traditions of the White House.
Research Resources
The Utah State Historical Society's research collections include a variety of materials, totaling almost one million items. These materials cover all aspects of Utah's social and cultural history from the 1840s to the present.
State Symbols
- State Animal: Rocky Mountain Elk
- State Bird: California Seagull
- State Cooking Pot: Dutch Oven
- State Emblem: Beehive
- State Fish: Bonneville Cutthroat Trout
- State Flag: State Flag and Seal
- State Flower: Sego Lily
- State Folk Dance: Square Dance
- State Fossil: Allosaurus
- State Fruit: Cherry
- State Gem: Topaz
- State Grass: Indian Rice Grass
- State Insect: Honey Bee
- State Mineral: Copper
- State Motto: "Industry"
- State Rock: Coal
- State Song: "Utah, This Is The Place"
- State Hymn: "Utah We Love Thee"
- State Star: Dubhe
- State Tartan: Utah State Tartan
- State Tree: Quaking Aspen
- State Vegetable: Spanish Sweet Onion
- State Historic Vegetable: Sugar Beet
- State Winter Sports: Skiing and Snowboarding
- State Astronomical Symbol: Beehive Cluster located in the constellation of Cancer the Crab.
- State Firearm: John M. Browning designed M1911 automatic pistol
- State Railroad Museum: Ogden Union Station
More Helpful Resources
Just for Utah Youth
A web site for Utah Youth. Specific info for foster youth.
Utah Mentor
Utah Mentor is an online resource to help students and their families select a college, apply for admission, and plan to finance higher education.
Users may browse Schoolbug.org and retrieve information on any public school in the United States.
Utah Education Network
The Utah Education Network offers a variety of educational services in addition to coordinating distance learning within the state.
Utah's Electronic High School
UEH provides access to distance-education classes for students who wish to make up lost credit, take courses not offered at their school, or even additional courses to accelerate graduation.
Utah's Struggle For Statehood
This online exhibit tells the story of Utah's 50-year struggle to achieve statehood using the wealth of documents, photographs, and memorabilia held at various Utah repositories.
K-12 Educator Resource Center
The Utah Education Network created this Web site exclusively for K-12 educators. You will find education tools, activities, lesson plans, curriculum guides, and professional development opportunities.
K-12 Student Resource Center
This site is designed to help K-12 students locate educational web pages, activities, materials, UEN delivered courses, and more.
UDOT Kids Page
Learn about how roads are constructed, who is in charge of them, and how you can be safe while traveling on Utah's freeways and streets.
- Attorney General's Kids page
- K-12 Pioneer Library Site


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The current version of the VoIP toolkit is not very spectacular and contains only two small utilities. The first tool being SIPUserGuess that exploits a vulnerability that I found in the Asterisk SIP implementation (AST-2009-008) and allows for enumeration of valid usernames. The vulnerability has been addressed by the Asterisk team and patches exists for all supported versions.
The second tool, VoIPPwGuess, can be used to perform an online audit of password quality for SIP or IAX2 accounts. The tool takes a list of passwords that it verifies against a list of usernames.
When developing the tools some stability issues were encountered on the server-side, mostly for older implementations of the IAX2 protocols. In order to prevent systems from becoming unresponsive the application enforces a limit on the number of tries performed each second when using the IAX2 protocol. However, experienced users (that know what they're doing) have the possibility to override this limit by setting the -maxtps to a higher value.
The toolkit is available for download below and, as always, please report any bugs that you encounter.
Changes in version 0.2
– Bugfixed incorrect SIP line-feeds
– Added support for proxy authentication
– Added another way to guess valid user names
– Added possibility to specify remote port
Version 0.2 binary voiptk-0.2-bin.tar.gz
Version 0.1 binary voiptk-0.1-bin.tar.gz
VOIP Toolkit (VOIPTK) was developed by Patrik Karlsson.


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pine is a mail program developed at the University of Washington. It has easy-to-remember single character commands and a menu interface which displays those available at each point.
You might choose to use pine if you like learning new tools by exploration rather than reading a manual. The menu system is designed to handle mistakes by new users, and the on-line help system offers advice specific to whatever screen you are currently viewing.
Start using pine with the command:
You may also find pine to be helpful if you wish to use more than one mailbox to manage your electronic mail.


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Victoria Beckham was honoured last night in London at the Harper's Bazaar Women of the Year Awards. Son Brooklyn, 14, was her date. Instead of pose-harding, which is how she normally behaves on a carpet, Posh smiled tenderly and demonstrated her affection for her oldest child.
Is this the natural progression of belly cupping? That whatever urge that compels a woman to belly cup her unborn child for photos is transferred to the grown child in adolescence? This is what we should be spending our research dollars on.
I have a nephew around the same age as Brooklyn. We go to movies together. I'm the old aunt who picks him up after school and pays for the popcorn and he gives me one word answers when I try to get all gossipy about his personal life. Sometimes, when we're enjoying a great moment, I'll throw my arm around him and squeeze. And I'm surprised because he doesn't shirk or shrink or run away. Now I'm tempted to see what he would do if I took him to a premiere and did the same with cameras around. Because look how sweet Brooklyn is with his mother. He's not all like, "aw, mom, can you please not embarrass me". He's not all "I'm too cool to be kissed by my mommy". Rather, he seems totally proud of his parent and so happy to be with her. Cute, right?


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Last Chance to Vote
NBC did a nice piece on the Coles and hopefully it will sustain the momentum that's been propelling this event since February.
Go HERE and vote today.
UPDATE: We have been watching the votes for the last 20 minutes and the second-place contestants are getting around 5 votes every 30 seconds or so. If you haven't voted yet, go to the link above and vote. Tell your friends. Tell your family. There is about a 2000-vote difference right now.
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Transgender Homecoming Queen
Transgender Teen Makes Homecoming History
This past Friday night at a homecoming game in Huntington Beach, CA, the news wasn't just about the football score. During halftime, 16-year-old Cassidy Lynn Campbell — who was born a boy named Lance — was crowned homecoming queen at Marina High School.
The transgender teen was understandably shocked and happy, saying it wasn't just a big moment for her, but for so many LGBT teens around the nation. Cassidy has always been open about her transformation, documenting the three-year process on Twitter and in YouTube videos.
After her win, she immediately faced backlash on social media, and although she's been hurt by the comments, she says she's trying not to take them too seriously.
After all, she said, "I just think it is such a huge step for the transgender community. The majority at my school wanted me to win. So many people embraced me and accept me for who I am. I think that is pretty profound."
Thank you for all the love and support everyone<33 friday night was very hard but i am strong and have gotten past it, and am so happy now!
— Cassidy Lynn (@xocassidylynn) September 23, 2013
Cassidy's not the first transgender girl to win homecoming queen in the country, but she still made history as the first in Orange County, CA.


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I am relatively new to windows programming and this is my first attempt at using winsock, but this error has me baffeled.
Using MSVC++ 6.0
I #include "winsock2.h" but I get unresolved external symbol errors for any of the winsock functions I call. I don't get any errors for any of the structures. It's as if I am missing the definitions of the functions. (I assumed that including the header file would give access to the function definitions, since this is how the rest of my includes work)
Also, if I move the #include "winsock2.h" to before the line #include "stdafx.h" (which MSVC put in there for me), then instead fo the linker errors, I get undeclared identifier errors for all the winsock functions instead. (not sure if this helps diagnose the problem or not)
Any help is appreciated...