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Long Island City is a district in Queens, a borough of New York City.
Traditionally industrial, LIC is now home to a rising arts community. Astoria is known for its large Greek population. This population is accompanied by Asians, Latin Americans, and Europeans. Many trendy restaurants and shops are located in Astoria, with Steinway Street being a primary shopping district. English is the primary language, but many residents in this area speak secondary languages as well.
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By Subway
Get to the heart of Long Island City by taking the E, M, or R trains to Queens Plaza, the N, Q, or 7 to Queensboro Plaza, the G to Court Square, the E or M to 23rd Street-Ely Avenue, or the 7 to 45th Road or Hunterspoint Avenue.
Get to Astoria by using the N and Q trains, which make several stops in that neighborhood.
By LIRR
There is a lonely LIRR terminal at Long Island City (officially, it's not even a station, but rather a "passenger yard"), as well as a somewhat busier station at Hunterspoint Ave. They are only served by a handful of trains during rush hours, and not accessible from Manhattan, but can be handy if you are traveling to/from those areas at that time. The Long Island City station is worth a visit if only to see how laughably huge it is given how little traffic goes through it (it was the main LIRR terminal before Penn Station).

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Growing up in Salisbury, as a teenager in the mid-to-late 90s, I knew the name Ronnie Gallagher. It wasn�t until a little more than a decade later that I met the man.
Growing up in Salisbury, as a teenager in the mid-to-late 90s, I knew the name Ronnie Gallagher. It wasn�t until a little more than a decade later that I met the man.
From the time I was able to talk, I never stopped, mostly about sports.
I owe that distinctive character trait to my father and grandfather, who were largely the same way.
Kenneth Honeycutt, my grandfather, was a talented athlete in football, basketball and baseball. Thomas Honeycutt, my father, was a catcher at Wingate University and on East Rowan�s 1973 state championship baseball team.
I was an average athlete myself, nothing spectacular like them, but I feel that what I am spectacular in is my passion and knowledge of sports.
After I graduated high school from East Rowan in 2001, I had goofed off my senior year and honestly had no clue what I wanted to do.
So I just did what dad always did and went to work.
From the time I graduated until I was 26, a span of eight years, I worked countless jobs, all the while dreaming of a career in sports.
I was going to school at Rowan-Cabarrus Community College, off and on, during those years.
I finally achieved my Associates' degree. It was nice, but not good enough.
My life-changing moment came in 2009. I was 26-years old and working at Best Buy in Kannapolis.
I was wasting my gift and I knew it.
As I sat on a stack of boxes on a pallet in the warehouse late one night, it hit me and I unleashed a flood of tears.
The next day, I applied to three universities: Catawba College, UNC-Wilmington and what I deemed a longshot and my dream school, the University of Tennessee.
Back to the subject of this column and what it truly means to me � Ronnie.
I had just finished my second semester of my sophomore year at Tennessee in the spring of 2010.
I was majoring in journalism with a focus on sports and for us to graduate, the university required us to do a practicum, which was a glorified word for internship.
I knew exactly where I wanted to do it � at the Salisbury Post.
I put a call and email in to Ronnie one day and my response was prompt.
�Jordan, thanks for your interest and I would love to talk to you and meet you one day this week if you could. Let�s meet at Ryan�s Steakhouse for lunch on me and don�t dress up.�
I told my mom the good news. My mother, being the classic southern woman she is, said �you better wear your best.�
I agreed against what Ronnie had said because you have to listen to mom, right?
I showed up and saw Ronnie sitting in a booth by the window.
I had imagined he would be in a dress shirt and tie himself, but I couldn�t have been more wrong.
He sat there in a Nike basketball shirt and a pair of athletic shorts.
As I sat down, he looked at me, extended his hand and said �I told you not to dress up.�
�I said I know sir, but my mother told me to.�
He cracked a laugh and we began to talk and he showed me an edition of the Post and I told him how familiar I was with the paper.
My father was a carrier for the Post from the time I was born until I was about 10 years old. I used to ride with him on his routes and help him throw the papers.
After about 45 minutes, or an hour, Ronnie offered me an internship that I immediately accepted.
He didn�t know what to expect and neither did I. From day one, I felt as if I was a full-time member of the Post�s sports staff.
I wasn�t paid a dime that summer, but as my writing improved under tutelage of Ronnie, Mike London, who I call my mentor, Bret Strelow and Ryan Bisesi, Gallagher began to like me and saw a lot of promise in me as a writer.
The following summer, he said he wanted me to be a part-time sports writer for the Post and he would pay me for each story.
I had done it, I felt like. I had earned respect from people that I had always looked up to and respected.
I drove from Salisbury to Statesville, Thomasville, High Point, Concord, Weddington and everywhere in between covering games for Ronnie.
When I got my first full-time job here in New Bern, the first congratulatory call I got was from Ronnie.
�You are going to do great,� he told me. �I am proud of you.�
That goes a long way for a rookie.
I had dreams of working with Ronnie again one day perhaps. Friday, when he passed away suddenly and unexpectedly, that became impossible.
Everything I learned from Ronnie will always stay with me for the rest of my career. I am grateful and honored to have first learned my craft at the Post.
I thank him for everything he taught me and I owe my career as a professional sports journalist largely in part to him. Goodbye pal.
Jordan Honeycutt can be reached at 252-635-5670 or at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow Jordan on Twitter @JHONEYnbsj29


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jrandync needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 99 designs submitted by 32 freelance designers.
New website with a unique self-describing legacy domain. We will employ a proprietary methodology and manufacturers input to showcase products in sets of three:
1.) The classic product
2.) An economical version
3.) A new hi-tech/upscale entry
and award one the BestQuality seal.
BestQuality will offer the consumer a quick and reliable destination to immediately get information on top products while also being very close to the transaction. While some may wish to do extensive research, BestQuality will provide a desirable quick take on virtually countless products.
The logo is envisioned as a blue ribbon award with Best Quality in the center. It will be a trademarked seal easily recognizable and brandable when affixed to the advertising of the award recipient. It should have a dynamic aspect and modern web look; a proud splash/badge of distinction.
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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It's less than a week until "The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift" hits theaters, and already some chicken littles are predicting a commercial face plant — via disinterest by all but the most hardcore 2F2F fans. (We're holding all commentary in that regard until the first RB26DETT-powered Mustang emerges on-screen.) For an appetizer, those who sweat the skills of Japan's hashiriya street racers can do worse than to check out this dual-POV clip of touge racing through Japan's canyon roads — in traffic. The gods of opposite lock smile broadly as these guys slip past unsuspecting motorists, just feet from approaching tour buses, with every turn of the wheel captured by the in-car cam. Don't try this on the Dixie Highway, kids. [Thanks to Stephen for the tip.]
Cars Street Racing Drift [via Google Video]
It Came from Japan: Street Racing in Osaka [internal]


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Reviewed by Adriana C. (age 8)
My favorite part of the story is when Shiver says, "Sparkle for Sparkle," because it is a great line to say. She is my favorite charcter because she has pretty eyes. This story relates to my life because I try to save my friends and family from danger. This story has pictures that are helpful.
I think that others should read this story because it is wonderful and it show people how to get along with others.


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Luis Vasquez, of Pocono Summit, is charged with fatally shooting two other men in Coolbaugh Township Park in August. Vasquez owed one of the victims $20,000, according to information gathered by Pocono Mountain Regional Police.
The man charged with fatally shooting two other men in Coolbaugh Township Park in August owed one of the victims $20,000, according to information gathered by Pocono Mountain Regional Police.
Police said they caught a lucky break in the investigation almost three weeks after the murders, when a passerby spotted a discarded black duffle bag containing the handgun they now say Luis Vasquez, 28, of Pocono Summit, used to fire multiple shots into Bertoldo Velez, 55, and Joseph King, 38, both of Stroud Township.
Velez's head had been smashed open with a rock found at the scene.
The duffle bag containing the gun, clothes, shoes and a box of latex rubber gloves, was found in a drainage ditch 100 yards from Vasquez's home, police said. Vasquez was charged Thursday after ballistic and DNA test results on the bag and items inside came back.
Vasquez went to meet Velez in the park, located on Route 423 across from Tobyhanna Army Depot, on the night of Aug. 16 to pay what he owed Velez, police said.
Though it's unclear specifically what caused that meeting to turn fatal, Police Chief Harry Lewis said Velez had supplemented his income by loaning money to people and that King was Velez's "bodyguard."
All three men worked at United Envelope, which makes envelopes, in Mount Pocono.
An officer on patrol at 2:38 a.m. Aug. 17 found the bodies in and outside of Velez's 1997 Chevy Cavalier parked in a gravel parking area to the park's athletic fields. King was found in the passenger seat and Velez was found on the ground next to the driver side door.
Six Winchester-manufactured .45-caliber cartridge casings and three bullets were found on scene. At a subsequent autopsy, two more bullets were taken from King's body and an additional third from Velez's clothes, police said.
An affidavit of probable cause gives the following account:
Velez's son, Roy Velez, told police that his father had been having a hard time collecting the money Vasquez owed and that he had argued with Vasquez over debt in the past.
Roy Velez said he, his father and King had met with Vasquez more than a week prior to the murders to collect the debt and that Bertoldo Velez threatened Vasquez.
Tara Lynch, King's girlfriend and the mother of his weeks-old child, told police King had sent her text messages at about 8 p.m. Aug. 16, telling her he and Velez were meeting someone at the park to collect money owed to Velez.
Lynch said King told her they were going to wait only 10 minutes and then leave.
Lynch said King sent her no further text messages after 8 p.m. and that, when he didn't return home overnight, she suspected the worst.
Roy Velez told police he tried calling his father from about 8:30 p.m. Aug. 16 into the early morning of Aug. 17 and got no answer. He said his father also didn't return home, which was very unusual.
Vasquez told police he had worked at United Envelope for the past eight years and had known Bertoldo Velez for the past six. He said he owed Velez about $10,000 (not $20,000 as Roy Velez claimed) and paid $300 every 15 days. Police said it was unclear what the money was loaned for.
When asked what he did Aug. 16, Vasquez said he left home at 4 p.m. Julia Hernandez and Estuardo Vasquez, who had been living with him, said he left at 6 p.m. and that he claimed he was going to help a friend move a large-screen TV.
Vasquez said he dropped his wife at her job at Johnson & Johnson in Tobyhanna, filled a propane tank at American Hardware in Mount Pocono and then arrived at the park at 4:30 p.m. to watch a soccer game.
He said he parked his vehicle in the exact area where police estimate the murders occurred between 8:15 and 8:30 p.m. and where police found fresh tire impressions the next morning.
Vasquez said he returned home at 6:30 p.m., though Hernandez said it was 9 p.m.
Vasquez's cellphone records show his phone was hitting off the cell tower at Routes 611 and 423, near the murder scene, between 7:03 and 8:21 p.m., meaning he was in that area just prior to and during the murders.
Vasquez said he went back out to buy milk at 9:30 p.m. at Walmart in Mount Pocono. He said he was wearing blue cargo shorts, a green T-shirt and a green Boston Red Sox baseball hat, but Hernandez said he was wearing jeans and carrying a black backpack.
Police still didn't have enough to charge Vasquez.
Then, on Sept. 4, Richard C. Labar was walking on Vacation Lane in Stillwater Lakes, about 100 yards from Vasquez's Thunder Drive home, when he found the discarded duffle bag containing the .45-caliber handgun and other items and called police. The items in the backpack included a pair of jeans with reddish brown stains on them.
Ballistic and DNA testing were performed on these items, along with the rock from the murder scene. The blood from the stains on the rock, as well as on the jeans and a T-shirt from the backpack, matched Velez's DNA, while Vasquez's DNA was found on the T-shirt and other items.
Armed with this additional evidence, police arrested Vasquez Thursday without incident at his job. He was charged with two counts of murder and one count of tampering with evidence, placed in Monroe County Correctional Facility without bail and will appear in district court at a future date.


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Good Bye Lenin Hostel - Pub & Garden!
Lonely Planet'08 the best hostel in town: 'OUR PICK - Just about our favourite hostel...'
The kitchen is open all the time and tea and coffee are gratis.
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Hostel Facilities & Policies
- 24 Hour Reception
- 24 Hour Security
- Adaptors
- Age Restriction
- Airport Transfers
- Bar
- Bicycle parking
- Book Exchange
- Free Breakfast
- Common Room
- Credit Cards Accepted
- Free City Maps
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- Foosball
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BY TRAM (regular ticket price is 2,80 PLN)
From the main train/bus station you can take tram:
- 18 – direction: Czerwone Maki (5th stop)
You have to get off at the fifth stop, called Starowiślna. Turn right towards the direction you came from. Walk back to the nearest crossroad, where you should notice on the right side, on top of a building, Good Bye Lenin neon. Turn right on Berka Joselewicza Street. After 30m you will see an iron gate on your right. Pass the gate – don`t worry - Good Bye Lenin and a warm welcome await you straight ahead.
Alternatively, you may take the tram no. 18 and change at the 5th stop - Starowiślna to the tram no. 9 that will take you one more stop further - Miodowa.
ON FOOT (15-20 minutes):
When you exit the train station, you should find on your right a large shopping mall (Galeria Krakowska). Walk towards the intersection of the main streets (Basztowa, Lubicz, Westerplatte), now having the shopping mall behind your back. You will find in front of you, slightly to your left, a tunnel. Walk through it, and search for direction 'Westerplatte Street'. On Westerplatte Street you will walk around 10 minutes until you reach first huge crossroad with traffic lights. Turn left on Starowislna Street (don't mix up with Wielopole Street). Walking around 300m on this street you will cross Dietla Street (first crossroad with traffic lights). Still on Starowislna Street, 100m further you will see our neon on top of a building on the left hand side. Follow its indication. After 30m you will see an iron gate on your right. Pass the gate – don't worry - Good Bye Lenin and a warm welcome await you straight ahead.
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- Old Town / Main Market Square - 10 min walk
- Jewish Square - 3 min walk
- Central Railway / Bus station - 15 min walk and 5 min by tram
- Wawel Royal Castle, St. Anna's Church, cathedral, dragon's cave
- Kazimierz, Isaac's Synagogue, Old Synagogue and many more synagogues
- Museums: Jewish, Ghetto, Etnographic, Archaeological, National, Czartoryski and many more
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- Very close to Cracow's vibrant nightlife
- Various bars, cafés, clubs
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Could Malta, a little island nation with a population of 400,000, be the most IT-savvy country in Europe?
Well, it all depends on how you measure it. Technology exports, innovation, research spending or broadband usage: all skew the answer in different directions. Scandinavian countries lead in telecoms deployment, Germany in patent awards and others in technology exports.
Malta, for instance, a member of the EU since May 2004, derives a greater proportion of its export revenue from high technology than any other European country, according to figures from Eurostat, the statistical service of the European Commission. High-tech goods and services accounted for 55.9 percent of Malta's exports in 2004.
In Ireland, where the government has worked hard to attract pan-European manufacturing, distribution and service operations for IT manufacturers including Apple, Dell and Intel, high technology accounted for only 29.1 percent of the country's exports. In comparison, the US gained 27 percent of its export revenue from high technology and Japan 22.8 percent.
For the UK the figure is 22.7 percent, and for France 20 percent, with Germany trailing at 14.8 percent.
Eurostat's definition of high-tech encompasses more than just computers: it also includes the manufacture of consumer electronic devices, pharmaceuticals, medical instruments and aircraft. The service side is almost exclusively IT-related, though: it includes telecoms, computer-related activities and R&D (research and development).
Production values
Malta's high-tech industry is a giant in another surprising sense: production value or, roughly speaking, sales. Its manufacturers generated annual average production value of €21m (about £14.5m), according to figures from Eurostat for 2002, the most recent year for which data is available. The average is pulled up by the activities of a few big companies, including the Maltese subsidiary of automotive switch and sensor maker Methode Electronics, which contributes annual sales of around €44m (£30m) to the group, and the Maltese division of ST Microelectronics NV, which claims to be the island's biggest exporter.
Let's keep things in perspective, though: Malta has fewer than 290 high-tech manufacturers (for this country, Eurostat lumps high-tech manufacturers in with makers of bulk chemicals, machinery and motor vehicles) while Italy has more than 34,651 of them, making it Europe's leader in this respect. That's almost twice as many as Germany, and represents 6.3 percent of the country's total manufacturing companies. However, despite being more numerous than their German counterparts, the Italian firms were much smaller, with average production values one third or less of those in Germany.
Where Germany excels is in the proportion of its manufacturing businesses that are in the high-tech sector.
Of Germany's 196,702 manufacturing companies, 19,346 or 9.8 percent were in the high-tech sector in 2002, ahead of the average of 6.3 percent for Europe's 25 member states (although only 15 of them were members at the time the statistics were gathered).
Curiously, though, Germany's high-tech manufacturers generated slightly less production value than their low-tech counterparts, with both categories averaging between €6m and €7m (£4m-£5m).
The UK's 11,866 high-tech manufacturers, 7.2 percent of the country's total, were more productive, with average production values of £7m (€10m) each, compared with £3m (€4m) for the country's non-high-tech manufacturers.
France, too, had a productive high-tech manufacturing sector: the 16,188 firms in this category (6.5 percent of France's total) had average production values of almost €9m (£6m), while the rest of its manufacturing sector struggled to reach €4m (£3m) on average.
Services with a smile
The relatively high production value of Germany's non-high-tech manufacturers compared with the UK could be due to the disappearance of Britain's traditional heavy manufacturing industry and its subsequent move into the service sector.
Britain's high-tech ambitions manifest themselves more in services than in manufacturing. Although the UK and Germany had about the same number of service companies per capita (499,587 for Germany, 425,819 for the UK), 19 percent of Britain's service sector is involved in high-tech knowledge and information services, compared with 4.4 percent in Germany.
Spending on R&D is one way in which companies – and countries – stay ahead of their market. Average spending on R&D was 1.9 percent of GDP (gross domestic product) in the EU in 2004, compared with 2.59 percent in the US and 3.15 percent in Japan, according to Eurostat. In Europe, 54 percent of that expenditure was financed by businesses, and the rest by governments. In the US, 63 percent of R&D was financed by business, and in Japan 75 percent.
By 2010, the European Commission wants European R&D spending to reach 3 percent of GDP, with two-thirds of that financed by industry.
Getting there
So how are the various European countries approaching that goal?
The Scandinavian countries are closest: Finland spent 3.51 percent of GDP on R&D in 2004, and its expenditure is growing by 4 percent a year in real terms. In addition, over two-thirds of the money comes from industry. Sweden spent a greater proportion, 3.74 percent, on R&D, but its spending is shrinking by 2.1 percent a year in real terms. Nevertheless, it's met the target of two-thirds of spending from businesses. Denmark's R&D budget of 2.63 percent of GDP is rising by 4.3 percent a year, with around 61 percent of it privately funded.
Germany's R&D spending is not too far behind that of Denmark, at 2.49 percent of GDP or €55.1bn (£35bn), with two-thirds of it coming from industry, but that spending is only growing at 0.8 percent in real terms, not enough to bring it up to 3 percent by the 2010 deadline.
French spending is growing equally sluggishly, hovering around 2.5 percent of GDP, half of it from industry.
The French hope to boost the proportion of private-sector funding by offering financial incentives to state-run laboratories to seek it out. The initiative will brand participating research centers as 'Carnot' laboratories (named after a French statesman and scientist), and is modelled on the German network of public-private funded Fraunhofer research institutes. Starting next year, the French Ministry of Research will offer additional government funding to laboratories that win research contracts from industrial partners. The funding will be related to the number of private sector partners the labs find, with an initial budget of €40m (£27.5m) devoted to the project.
The UK has not yet published figures for 2004, but for the last few years it's been hovering just below the EU average of 1.9 percent, less than half of it privately funded.
This is one area where Malta is setting a poor example, with R&D spending at just 0.29 percent of GDP, and most of that funded by the government.
Seeing the benefits
The effects of R&D spending by companies and countries are harder to measure. The European Commission has just published the 2005 EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard, which compares the performance of the top 700 R&D investors based in the EU with the top 700 investors based elsewhere. A preliminary analysis ranking the 200 or so IT and telecoms companies included in the survey by the ratio of R&D spending to net sales, and by the ratio of net profit to net sales, shows no obvious link between the two: none of the top ten companies for profitability are among the top ten for R&D spending, nor are the poorest spenders among the companies with the worst profitability.
Of course, there can be a significant lag between when a company begins spending on R&D, and when it reaps the fruits: this kind of simplistic ranking can only work in an industry where companies have been investing at the same rates for a decade or more in the technologies they are now selling.
If today's profits are no guide to the effectiveness of today's R&D programs, how else can we measure innovation? One way is to look at the number of patents awarded for new processes and technologies, the more immediate fruits of researchers' labours.
When it comes to judging Europe's IT industry, though, there are some flaws with this measure, as much of the innovation is in software. The patentability of software is still something of a grey area in Europe, following the European Parliament's rejection in July of a proposed directive on Computer-Implemented Inventions.
Nevertheless, researchers are finding plenty of scope for patenting inventions in the fields of computing and electronic communications techniques. Between 2000 and 2004, the number of European patents awarded in those fields by the European Patent Office (EPO) almost doubled, from 2,819 to 5,615. Of all the European countries, Germany won the most, with 741 IT patents. Second was France, with 466. Finland received 288, the UK 238 and Sweden 221.
However, European countries are but small players in the European patent game. In 2004, the European Patent Office granted 1,749 IT patents to US applicants, and 1,192 to Japan. Those two countries together accounted for almost two-thirds of the European IT patents awarded in 2000, although by 2004 this proportion had slipped – to just over half.
The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research notes in a report on Germany's technology performance in 2005 that patent awards for information and communication technologies are slowing in Sweden, the UK, the US and Japan, although Finland seems not to have been touched by this slump. Germany's patent applications have not, traditionally, been in such cutting-edge fields, although the country is increasingly moving in this direction, as this is where there is the greatest opportunity for global growth, the Ministry notes.
It adds that for this growth potential to be fulfilled there must be more investment in broadband communications infrastructure.
There's plenty of work to do: while Denmark had broadband penetration of around 18 percent at the end of 2004, and Finland, Sweden and Norway hovered around 15 percent, according to an IDC report published in June, the figure was nearer 10 percent for France and the UK, and less still for Germany.
Admittedly, France has deployed a lot of broadband connections in 2005, and the rankings could change – but that just goes to show that trying to measure the most IT-savvy country in Europe is like trying to hit a moving target.


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Why Does An Unpatentable 'Abstract Idea' Become Patentable If You Add 'On The Internet'?
from the good-question dept
At the core of the '545 patent is the basic idea that one can use advertisement as an exchange or currency. An Internet user can pay for copyrighted media by sitting through a sponsored message instead of paying money to download the media. This core principle, similar to the core of the Bilski patent, is an abstract idea. Indeed, public television channels have used the same basic idea for years to provide free (or offset the cost of) media to their viewers. At its heart, therefore, the patent does no more than disclose an abstract idea.Tragically, CAFC, the appeals court that handles patent matters and has a long history of expanding patent law, reversed the lower court's ruling and deemed the patent valid. While it didn't put it in these words specifically, it certainly appeared that the court was saying that any abstract idea can still be patentable if you just make it happen "on the internet."
In that ruling, the court discusses the fact that "abstract ideas" are not patentable, and notes that it used to use its machine-or-transformation test to determine if something was or was not an abstract idea. However, after the Supreme Court ruled in the Bilski case that this test might not always be appropriate, while failing to say what test would be appropriate, it's left CAFC with the freedom to make up totally arbitrary rules. And in this case, the arbitrary rule was effectively "we don't apply the machine-or-transformation test to 'information age' inventions." Why? Because if the inventions aren't physical, the machine or transformation test no longer applies:
While machine-or-transformation logic served well as a tool to evaluate the subject matter of Industrial Age processes, that test has far less application to the inventions of the Information Age.... Technology without anchors in physical structures and mechanical steps simply defy easy classification under the machine-or-transformation categories.Shorter version: what would be considered unpatentable abstract ideas in the offline world suddenly become patentable if you add "on the internet" to them.
That doesn't sound right to lots of people, and thankfully WildTangent is appealing the case and hoping the Supreme Court will hear it. As the petition to the Supreme Court notes, the question presented is:
Whether, or in what circumstances, a patent's general and indeterminate references to "over the Internet" or at "an Internet website" are sufficient to transform an unpatentable abstract idea into a patentable process for purposes of 35 U.S.C.Along with the petition, there were also two interesting filings in support, urging the Supreme Court to hear the case. One from Redhat, CCIA and EFF, which goes into great detail about how such broad patentability would seriously harm the open source world, and a strongly worded brief from Google and Verizon (yes, together) about how such a ruling would do serious harm to innovation by allowing all sorts of abstract ideas to be locked up via patent. Hopefully the Supreme Court is willing to listen -- and will push back (yet again) on a bad CAFC ruling.


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Hi.Tu frondens floruisti in alia vicissitudine,
quam Adam omne genus humanum produceret.
I'm unclear about the subj. impf. of produceret and can't translate it accurately.
Is it translated just as a simple past fact, "produced" ?
I checked several places of Gildersleeve myself eagerly, but the question has not been solved.
Could you direct me to the right place of the book (Allen & Greenough is ok too) ?
And please show me your translation of produceret.
A translation of above quotation is, though inaccurate,
Tu frondens floruisti in alia vicissitudine,
quam Adam omne genus humanum produceret.
You letting out leaves have blossomed in your turn as compared to Adam's turn when he produced the whole human race.
My thought.
1. If I translate the impf. produceret as a simple past fact "Adam produced" the translation is smooth.
But I don't have a sure grammatical backup-knowledge to do so.
2. produceret as progressive, continued action "Adam was producing" doesn't seem good, though it would be good if Adam is thought to have kept producing until tu (Mary the mother of Christ according to the booklet of my CD) frondens floruisti.
3, produceret as conative, intended, attempted action "Adam was going to produce" is odd, because Adm's production of human race occurred before tu frondens floruisti.
If "Adam tried to produce", I don't know if it is a correct translation but it seems acceptable even if tu frondens floruisti takes place after it.
4. Impf. of disappointment "Adam would produce the whole human race" maybe fits in the sentence, if by tu frondens Adam's role was ended halfway..
5. If a potentiality or a guess of the writer is implied by the subjunctive form of produceret, "Adam's role where he would produce the whole human race", or with plupf. nuance "Adam's turn when he would have been producing", the translation is somewhat unlikely, because Adam's producing human race should be an obvious fact and is no matter of potentiality and doesn't need a guess.
If the subj. is just a way of mild expression, it is ok.
There is another question about this sentence, about quam, but please treat it after the question on producere is solved.


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As the state continues to reel from the hacking scandal at the Department of Revenue, the news that it might have been prevented by filling a single security position is simply staggering.
According to testimony in a hearing recently before a Senate committee investigating the breach, the Department of Revenue's top cyber security position went unfilled for almost a year until last August because the state couldn't find anyone to take the job for the proffered $100,000 salary.
In hindsight, paying the going rate would have been a bargain. A cyber security specialist might have identified problems and installed needed safeguards before the system was breached in September.
And that wasn't the only costly omission, as the committee learned.
A $25,000 system that the state is putting into service could have prevented the breach at the DOR by adding another password requirement for those logging on remotely.
That might have countered the credulous DOR employee who was tricked into providing access to the hacker, who stole the tax data of some 3.9 million taxpayers.
The ad hoc Senate committee will continue to hold hearings periodically until the Legislature returns to session in January, and then issue a report on its findings. It should provide needed oversight and accountability on a matter of vital concern to virtually everyone in the state. ...
While Sen. Kevin Bryant, R-Anderson, takes the cabinet agency to task for its shortcomings, he does agree strongly with Gov. Nikki Haley on one issue - the need for state residents to contact the Internet security firm Experian for protection. So far, some 900,000 taxpayers have taken advantage of the protection provided by the state through Experian.
It's time for taxpayers to contact Experian to ensure that protection will be extended before the Jan. 31 deadline. There no sense in compounding the state's errors with procrastination.
If you're thinking Congress took a step toward cooperation on immigration policy with a recent action on the STEM Jobs Act, don't believe it.
First, there is the matter of priorities. Congress has a lot on its plate between now and Dec. 31, notably budget issues and the "fiscal cliff." As many believe there can be no real resolutions until after a new Congress is seated in January, it is nearly certain that the lame-duck crew on Capitol Hill now will not be able to agree on substantive immigration reforms.
The action came in the Republican-controlled House, with the GOP apparently anxious to show quickly it has softened positions on immigration policy in the wake of rejection of the party at the polls by Hispanics and other minorities.
By a 245-139 vote, the House approved the STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) Jobs Act that would make green cards accessible to foreign students graduating with advanced science and math degrees from U.S. universities. The legislation is supported by high-tech industry, which is looking for qualified workers amid the reality of foreign students receiving nearly 60 percent of U.S. engineering doctorates and more than 50 percent of doctorates in mathematics and computer science.
GOP leaders also added a provision making it easier for immigrants working in the country legally to bring their spouses and children to the United States while they wait for their visa applications to be approved. ...
But as much pro-business and pro-family sense as the changes make, they represent little more than symbols by Republicans who have made a name for themselves, rightly or wrongly, as anti-immigrant.
According to an Associated Press report, Democrats, including members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, reacted to STEM passage by calling the GOP's hand on its intent. They note the legislation offsets projections of 55,000 new permanent-residency visas by eliminating a program that provides green cards to people with traditionally lower rates of immigration, particularly those from Africa. ...
Before being attacked from the right more than a half-decade ago when then-President George W. Bush made immigration reform a priority, South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham was out front in supporting a comprehensive approach.
Now, in a new bipartisan effort, he is joining Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., in pitching changes that would bolster security at the borders while providing a pathway to citizenship for the millions in the country illegally.
With the election providing new incentive for cooperation, Republicans and Democrats should get behind Graham and Schumer in aggressively pushing the effort toward big-picture solutions. The immigration rhetoric has gone on long enough.


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Watch One of the best movies made by Maha Jodi which shows real life story of peoples living in villages. this is one of my best maha jodi movies. "Maha Jodi" means two the most successful and respected comedians in the Nepalese entertainment industry Hari Bansha Acharya and Madan Krishna Shrestha. "MaHa Jodi", the other one being Madan Krishna Shrestha. He also performs on stage most of the time with his partner, Madan Krishna Shrestha. He is one of the most successful comedians of all time. Both Haribansa and Madan Krishna are one of the most successful and respected comedians in the Nepalese entertainment industry. The most celebrated Nepali comedy duo, Madan Krishna Shrestha and Hari Bansha Acharya, also referred to as the Maha Jodi, were on tour, performing around different cities in the USA at the end of 2014.
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Traveling gives us the opportunity to disconnect from our regular life. You get to forget your problems/issues for a few weeks, it can also help you figure things out that you would not have understood without the distance traveling can give you. We all have crazy schedules, work and a family to take care of, going away alone or with some friends can give you distance and perhaps even make you realize how important these people are for you. Like the saying says: we never know what we have until we lose it.
Another great benefit is the relaxation you get to do. It's nice to live life to its fullest and enjoy a stress free time with yourself. Going on vacation lets us recharge our "batteries" by disconnecting us from our regular life. When we come back we feel invigorated and we are happy to be back in our day to day routine. It's a very good stress remover that has a lot more to give than most people are willing to accept.
Traveling increases our knowledge and widens our perspective. To view new customs, different ways of living is fantastic for the mind. It gives us a new perspective about life and especially our life, it can help us change some of our habits or even create new ones. When I travel I usually make it a point to try new food, some cultures don't have fries in their diet and they are all skinny, others use spices to give taste and not oils or fats. Discovering different values and ways to get by in life is really interesting. You also need to visit exotic new places and discover what this wonderful world has to offer.


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ETSU has won 11 straight against the Lady Bisons
NASHVILLE (Jan. 5, 2013) – Looking to snap a four-game losing streak, the Lady Bucs continue Atlantic Sun play with a weekend on the road, starting with a trip to Nashville to battle the Lipscomb Lady Bisons. Tip time is set for Saturday evening at 5 p.m. ET inside Allen Arena.
The matchup between the Lady Bucs and Lady Bisons will be the 16th all-time meeting between the two schools, a series in which ETSU (2-6, 0-1) has dominated with 11 straight victories and an overall 14-1 series advantage. The blue and gold hope this dominance continues in an effort to get their first win since Dec. 2 at Morehead State.
For more on Saturday's game, read the game notes below. For more on ETSU women's basketball throughout the 2012-13 season, visit ETSUBucs.com and click on the women's hoops link.
The ETSU Department of Intercollegiate Athletics would like to ask both the print and broadcast media to honor our request to be called "ETSU" throughout the 2012-13 season ... East Tennessee State in first reference is acceptable, but subsequent references should be ETSU ... On TV graphics, please use ETSU ... Our nickname is the Lady Buccaneers, but Lady Bucs is also acceptable.
ETSU (2-6) began Atlantic Sun play with a trip to Spartanburg, S.C. to take on the USC Upstate Spartans (5-7) inside the Hodge Center. The Lady Bucs took an early lead with a made three-pointer from Shawn Randall (Orlando, Fla.) on their first offensive possession, but Upstate quicky started their hot shooting from three-point range. The Spartans knocked down six first half trifectas and took a 38-26 advantage going into the half. ETSU again executed a play on their first possession of the half and got a quick bucket, but Upstate responded by continuing to knock down outside shots and getting to the free throw line. When it looked like the rout was on as the half wound down, the Lady Bucs did not quit and cut a then 28-point deficit down to as few as nine with under five minutes remaining. Ultimately the once large deficit proved too much to overcome and ETSU fell, 90-79. The Lady Bucs held advantages in the points in the paint, points off turnovers, second chance points and bench points categories, but with Upstate knocking down 31 free throws in 34 tries, a late rally was not enough. Randall recorded 16 points, while ETSU again got strong contributions from their bench again 15 points apiece from Tiana Burley (Camilla, Ga.) and Maria Bond (Macon, Ga.)
Saturday's contest in Allen Arena will be the 16th all-time meeting between the two schools. The Lady Bucs and Lady Bisons last met last season on Feb. 16 when ETSU bested Lipscomb, 59-39. The Lady Bucs turned in an impressive defensive performance with ETSU's stifling defense limiting Lipscomb to a 22.8 percent shooting clip (13-57) as well as forcing 26 turnovers, a season-high 16 steals, and eight block shots. Along with the strong defensive performance, the Blue and Gold received a total team effort as 10 different players reached the scoring column, while 10 Lady Bucs also posted double figures in minutes played. With the win, the Lady Bucs snapped their three-game losing streak and improved to 7-19, 6-9 in A-Sun play, while Lipscomb dropped to 5-21, 3-12. The victory also completed a season sweep of the Lady Bisons after a prior 89-52 ETSU win in Johnson City on Jan. 21.
The emergence of redshirt-sophomore Tiana Burley has provided a badly-needed inside presence for the Lady Bucs. In the transfer's first action as a Lady Buc due to NCAA regulations, the center came off the bench and posted a double-double of 19 points and 13 rebounds in a loss to Appalachian State. This performance awarded Burley A-Sun Newcomer of the Week honors on Dec. 26. Burley also was a big contribution off the bench for the Lady Bucs against USC Upstate, in which she posted eight points and three rebounds in 15 minutes of play.
The Blue and Gold have out-rebounded the opposition in five of the eight games this season and enter Saturdays's game with a plus-3.0 rebounding margin (42.8-39.8), ranking first in the A-Sun … in its game at Morehead State, ETSU out-rebounded the Eagles by 20, 46-26 … the Lady Bucs' plus-3.0 rebound margin currently ranks in the top 100 in the country.
Destiny Mitchell has scored in double figures in four out of eight games of the season and is averaging 13.1 points per contest … Mitchell scoring a season-high 26 points in the opener at High Point back on Nov. 10 and added 14 points and 16 rebounds in the 10-point win vs. Memphis to close out the month of November ... Mitchell is currently fourth in the A-Sun in scoring (13.8), second in rebounding (8.7), fourth in steals (2.3) and fifth in field goal percentage (47.4).
Mitchell is well on her way to become the 21st Lady Buc to join the 1,000-point club ... She is on pace to break the 1,000-point mark near the end of February as she registered 347 points as a freshman and 367 points as a sophomore for 714 total points... through ETSU's first seven games of the 2012-13 season she has scored 92 to move her career total to 806 .. if Mitchell scores in similar fashion in the next two years as she did as a rookie and a sophomore, she will put herself in the top-10 in Lady Buc history.
Through the early portion of the season, ETSU has gotten strong contributions from its bench. On the season ETSU averages nearly 35 bench points per game, inlcuding a season-high 57 points off the bench against Morehead State. Key reserves Cara Bowling (7.4 ppg), Maria Bond (6.1 ppg), Tiana Burley (9.0 ppg) and Brianna Bogard (5.4 ppg) have proved to be very valubale off the bench for the Lady Bucs.
The Lady Bucs have enjoyed a lot of success since joining the A-Sun in 2005-06 … since joining the league, the Lady Buccaneers have averaged 15 conference wins a year, including a league-best and school record 18-2 mark in 2009-10, three Atlantic Sun Tournament titles (2008-2010), and two regular season championships (2008 and 2010) …in total, ETSU is 99-34 (.744) against conference foes since moving into the A-Sun … the Lady Bucs have also won 79 of their last 105 games against conference foes (includes the 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011 A-Sun Tournaments).
ETSU fans wanting to receive Buccaneer news, score updates, in-game promotions and much more sent to their mobile device can do so by signing up for "Buc Updates." Click here to sign up today!
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3 NATO summit protesters receive 5- to 8-year prison terms on arson and mob-action charges
CHICAGO – Three protesters acquitted of terrorism for plotting Molotov cocktail attacks in Chicago during a NATO summit were sentenced to prison terms Friday of between five and eight years on lesser arson and mob-action charges.
Among the targets the activists discussed attacking during the 2012 event, prosecutors say, was President Barack Obama's campaign headquarters, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's house and police facilities.
Despite their acquittals during a February trial on all terrorism counts — brought under a rarely used Illinois statute — the issue remained at the forefront of Friday's five-hour sentencing hearing.
Judge Thaddeus Wilson raised it himself in his remarks minutes before imposing the sentences, saying the plan to lob gas-filled bottles at the targets, had it been carried out, would have struck fear in the city.
"It might not be terrorism," the Cook County circuit judge said. "But it is terrorizing."
All three were convicted of the same charges, but Brian Church, 22, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., ended up getting the shortest sentence — five years. Jared Chase, 29, of Keene, N.H., got the longest, 8 years; and Brent Betterly, 26, of Oakland Park, got six years.
With credit for their two years in jail awaiting trial, all three could end up serving less than a third of their designated sentences. Church could be out in less than a year.
The decision by Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez to prosecute the three under the state's terrorism statute raised eyebrows at the time. A conviction on that charge carries a maximum life sentence.
Lead prosecutor Jack Blakey began his statement urging Wilson to hand all three men 14-year sentences by referring to the Boston Marathon bombings one year ago, which left three people dead and hundreds injured.
"Why bring up Boson? Because in Boston there were no undercover (police) to intercede," Blakey said. He suggested that only the successful infiltration of Chicago police posing as activists stopped the defendants from creating similar mayhem.
Church said in a statement to the judge earlier that that he resented that comparison.
"Despite what some people would have you believe, I love my country," Church said. "To be compared to Boston ... it rips my heart."
Defense attorney Thomas Durkin criticized prosecutors for raising the specter of terrorism even after jurors came back with not guilty verdicts in February on all the terrorist-related counts.
"They have the audacity to compare this to Boston?!" he said, raising his voice and turning to look at prosecutors. "I didn't think for a second they would be ignorant enough to compare this to Boston."
Durkin said prosecutors were trying to taint the defendants with the label of terrorism to justify longer sentences even though their terrorism case had collapsed at trial.
The defense described their clients as misfits who were often high during the alleged plotting. They say undercover police — known as "Mo" and "Gloves" — egged the men on about ominous-sounding acts their clients never took seriously.
Betterly's 15-minute statement to the judge Friday was partly a political dissertation about his belief in a peaceful anarchism against what he described as the subterfuge of transnational corporations. But he also echoed defense attorneys from the trial, saying their talk captured on FBI wiretaps was merely "fits of dark humor."
Wilson, though, alluded to conflicting portraits of the three.
"They were no Three Stooges," he told the hearing.
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Intention Statement
Excuse the extremely long prose here but it's greatly needed...
Before we get into some serious discussion on the scope of this expedition, let me (being the one who brought this subject up in the pub) state my original intentions (just so you understand and to clear misconceptions). Wikitravel is a world-wide travel guide...built in collaboration by Wikitravellers from around the globe. When browsing the requests for articles page I noticed a desire for a "Highways and Interstates travel guide". As I am an American, I thought of how many tens of millions of Americans take road trips each year. Since this is a travel guide, I thought that maybe guides to interstates and a few other major highways would be helpful and within the scope of what Wikitravel is...a travel guide. When people go on long road trips, they will be going through numerous regions and to me, having to dig through numerous regions just to find something interesting or fun to do is a long and tedious task. Furthermore, what may be listed in an article for a major city could be on the opposite side of town from where the interstate passes through and at the same time something fun and/or interesting might be right off of the interstate but buried deep within a city article. To me the idea of creating articles for interstates was mostly about convenience...both for the someone just looking for an hour break on a trip...or someone looking to take a leisurely trip. If you take a look at what I did with Interstate 4(which I could still add much more to), you'd understand how much it differs from having to delve through numerous region and city articles. Someone who printed the guide and is on the road could go "look the next exit is the world's largest McDonald's...let's eat" whereas that is buried deep in the Orlando article and then they'd have to figure out where in the city it is...see what I mean by convenience? I did not intend that this become an encyclopedic "the next exit is in 14.2 miles and is blah blah"...no, I only want to list major exits of ones with attractions! The problem comes with fairness...Wikitravel is a world-wide travel guide. Now we need to make articles for highways in other countries...fine. The purpose, however, was to provide a guide to major highways that are oft-traveled by people on road trips (like the US Interstate system). Some have the misconception that we need to create a guide for every highway in every country...NO! Unless there's something special, we should stick to places with a "car culture" and where road trips are frequent and these articles would be of great use. Is this plan ambitious...absolutely! However, weren't the founders of Wikitravel ambitious to think that articles for thousands of destinations world-wide could ever get to the point of being useful? This is a project...err, expedition...which will take some time (maybe a few years), but once completed it will be a great asset for Wikitravel. If you still don't feel this belongs here, maybe someone could guide me through the process of creating a wiki website and I'll start Wikiroute for my ambitions. I just wanted to make my intentions clear before we start discussing things. I'm no authoritative figure around here (and not really trying to be) but I felt compelled to mention this and put it at the top of the talk page since I brought up the idea and it seems like there's zero direction to this new expedition. I hope you now have a better idea of this. We've talked a lot already in the pub, so please only reply if it's notable (we don't need 50 replies to this too)...otherwise skip to the next header AHeneen 04:50, 7 December 2008 (EST)
Wikitravel:Routes Expedition
I have many thoughts on this issue, and am not necessarily sold on either proposal. But could we please move our discussions out of the pub and to a "Wikitravel talk:Routes Expedition" page. I'd rather create new sections to discuss specific issues, since these two discussions are covering many points, and are a bit unwieldy. --Peter Talk 16:13, 6 December 2008 (EST)
AHeneen 02:50, 7 December 2008 (EST)
Discussion on creation of route pages
this was swept in from the pub on December 7, 2008 by AHeneen. Originally under the title "US Interstates".
I noticed a few days ago "highways and interstates" in the Requests for articles page. Being something I am interested in, I went ahead and started an article for Interstate 4. The reason I am in the Traveller's Pub is to ask what an appropriate template would be. Itinerary seems natural, but would it be fine to leave out the "get in" and "drink" sections altogether? They don't seem to be practical. There's only two other interstate articles on WT: Interstate 10 and Interstate 95(vfd). I'm just looking for a little feedback on how to structure the articles before more are created...that's all. Thanks! AHeneen 00:53, 5 December 2008 (EST)
Well, if you read the Requests for articles page, there was a bit of support for such articles. Eventually, this wouldn't just be a guide about one interstate, we'd have numerous articles made about interstates. The I-4 article is certainly not complete. What I had in mind was creating an article like an itinerary, but a little different. Listed in the article would be things to see and do, as well as listing major interchanges which (as more interstates became articles) people could click and find things to do along that interstate. My rationale behind this is that lots of users on Wikitravel are Americans and most Americans go on road trips every once in a while. Sure one can use the state articles and then browse the regions or cities through which the interstate passes, but I was thinking that interstate articles would make the information more concise for users. Say I am heading from Atlanta to Chicago...rather than click and browse regions of Georgia, Tenessee, Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois, I could use the Interstate 75 article to see what's between Atlanta and Chattanooga, then click on the link to the Interstate 24 article to see what's between Chattanooga and Nashville, then click on the Interstate 65 article to see what there is to do between Nashville and Chigago. To Inas...these would not be an itinerary that you would want to do (as in being particularly interesting), but once there are a sufficient number of interstate articles, you could create your own itinerary...like I said, lots of Americans go on road trips each year, and such guides would provide a means of figuring out what to do on them. I simply started w/I-4 because that's what I'm familiar with. With regards to Wikitravel:What is an article?, these articles would be like an itinerary...but need to be a little different. The "get in" and "drink" don't seem like practical sections and I was wondering what should be added before setting a precedent for other articles. Since this is a first in a series of articles on interstates, I was trying to decide on an appropriate template and dropped a few lines here in the Traveler's pub to get some feedback (because I know this is a good place to get some). Do you understand now? AHeneen 02:31, 5 December 2008 (EST)
As a travel site, it is understandable that users will be looking for information on specific roads and/or highways. See our helpful user who thought Interstate 95 should have an article, even if just a stub. While the convention here has been to focus on destinations rather than focusing on the methods one takes to get around, highway information seems to be an area where we have a gap between what users are looking for and what we have available for them. It's all well and good to explain how that you can get to Peoria (Illinois) by taking I-74, but it seems we have users who work the other way around -- "where can I go if I'm traveling on I-74"? Minimally, I think every major (i.e., national-level expressway) highway should at least have a bare list of destinations along the route -- sort of a disambiguation page, or like what we've done for Great Lakes. LtPowers 11:34, 5 December 2008 (EST)
So those who think that route articles are a bad idea in general, what do you think users who search for Interstate 84 (for example) should see? Should they see a redlink with some search results? Or a page that will at least give them a list of options for destinations? LtPowers 18:58, 5 December 2008 (EST)
I'd like to see an experimental article for an Interstate that does list all the cities and places it goes through just to see how well it works out. Here's my problems with just listing cities:
So I'd like to see us plunge forward with one or two non-itinerary articles just to see how well or badly it works out. For example, I'd like to see one for I-5 in California. -- Colin 21:49, 5 December 2008 (EST)
In lieu of highway articles, how about..?
I have been kicking around this idea in my head for some time now, and the above conversation makes it a good time to throw it out there. I don't think creating a separate article for every highway is necessarily a good idea because it will duplicate a ton of information from city and regional articles. However, it would be a convenient thing for the user to have an easy way to see all the city articles along a given route. I do think this information is highly relevant to the traveller, so my proposed solution is to use a template to make a tidy little box for destination articles that shows highways that pass through that destination plus 1) the next destination in each direction for which wikitravel has an article, and 2) the next major destination in each direction. As an example, in the article for Oklahoma City, we could have a little box that looks like this:
This would give users the option to navigate through our site as if they are following a highway, and would be more useful for trip-planning because, unlike having different articles for different highways, this offers a visual interface which allows you to change highways at any junction. My suggestion would be that it go at the bottom of the Get out section, so that it's always in a predictable place. And yes, I realize that will make it look a little similar to some of the templates in use on Wikipedia, but I think this information is very important and useful, especially for countries as big and prone to car-travel as the US or Canada. Feedback? Texugo 03:11, 5 December 2008 (EST)
Anyway, I'm sure there are ways around these things, so am quite happy to be told I'm wrong, or to argue things :) Nrms 07:48, 5 December 2008 (EST)
We definitely can do highway pages if they are major, as already done but very good point inas. edmontonenthusiast [ee] .T.A.L.K. 14:26, 5 December 2008 (EST).
So, outside the US? What about the European route network? In a lot of European countries they are the only route designation, in some countries they are dual labelled with the national highway network, and in some countries, like the UK they are not used at all. I like the idea, and for a Dane it would make sense to use in Europe, as we use the E network to navigate, but I know Germans mainly use the German numbering system. And would I be complete wrong thinking that travellers in Europe (and Japan for that matter) mainly use public transportation anyway? making hard to justify the effort here. Also I agree it should be made narrower --Stefan (sertmann) Talk 06:15, 6 December 2008 (EST)
You realise this would be difficult. So we got Europe and America. What about Asia, Canada, UAE, Australia, etc.? Canada would be difficult cause it is not just a set type of highways. edmontonenthusiast [ee] .T.A.L.K. 12:23, 6 December 2008 (EST).
I think this is a brilliant idea, and much less intensive than a bunch of highway articles, and a template like this makes it easy to apply to virtually any route, such as a rail line. I think this works best at the bottom of the article in the Get out section - it's simple, straight-forward, it fits with the theme of "Get out", and would be less obtrusive there rather than sticking it the Get in section. And yes, it needs to have all the little small destinations, otherwise it would defeat the point.
But there is one thing though - going back to what AHeneen was saying, the region articles have a lot of information on small destinations which can't have articles of their own. So let's say you drove out of the city on the interstate and you're about to pass "Buffalo Bill's Western Amusement Park", which happens to have a really fantastic BBQ joint. Obviously, info like this belongs in the regional article, not the template - the template shouldn't have any specific destination info, just links to the destination article, such as a city or a national park. I'd kinda like to see links to regional articles included in this somehow, but I don't know how you could do it without it looking weird. Perhaps you could put the name of the city where this specific template goes on the top of the template, followed by a link to the regional article (so for instance your Oklahoma City template, it would say on top Oklahoma City (Greater Oklahoma City). I dunno, it's just a thought. If we can't get the regional article in somehow, I still support the idea. PerryPlanet Talk 16:48, 6 December 2008 (EST)
Should this be moved to Wikitravel talk:Routes Expedition? If so, feel free to move it or tell me and I'll get around to it. AHeneen 02:10, 7 December 2008 (EST)
One quick question about the template, which may be too much detail to worry about now but... currently we have it so that it displays the nearest destination of any size and the nearest large city, which I think is great. But what should it display if the next locale is the terminus? Should the space where the next large city goes say Terminus? PerryPlanet Talk 12:29, 7 December 2008 (EST)
I am wondering if we could get Canadian symbols? There is a bunch-some are on Wikipedia[logo] but we cannot use. Just wondering. edmontonenthusiast [ee] .T.A.L.K. 12:34, 7 December 2008 (EST).
Good to see real-life examples in Wikitravel articles! In general I like it, but the awkwardness of the Pennsylvania articles (seems like the coverage there is rather poor, with few articles) somewhat hinders it. But that's an issue with the Pennsylvania articles, not the freeway templates. I do have a couple of things to say about the templates though...
Update on Routebox experiment
I put in a few hours to flesh this out for better examination. Routebox navigation is more or less complete for the Texas Panhandle and Oklahoma Great Plains regions, plus areas from Oklahoma City down to Dallas-Fort Worth, and everything on and north of I-20 as far west as Odessa. Routes completed include all US interstates and US Routes which pass through the area as well as a handful of Texas routes which provide access to article destination otherwise left out of the network. I was at first a little leary of putting in the full set of US routes and supplemental state routes, but the result is that about 65% of the destination still have only one or two routes listed, and only a very few have more than 3, with Dallas having the most at 7.
In the process of implementing all this, I had some thoughts about guidelines we should implement if this is going to be consistent, comprehensive, and useful. Here are my ideas:
I'm going to hold off adding any more areas to the project until I get some more comments. Please explore the areas I've done with the above proposed guidelines in mind, and give me your comments. If after the next round of comments there are no major objections, I'd like to move this to a separate expedition page and starting rolling it out in other areas. I'm personally really really happy with the way this is working so far. Texugo 06:22, 13 December 2008 (EST)


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Christmas in July helps to "raise" toys for Brashear
July 19, 2011
Brashear Association's Christmas in July Happy Hour and Toy Drive is slated for Wednesday, July 20, from 5-8 p.m. at the Double Wide Grill, 2339 East Carson Street.
Christmas in July
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The third annual Happy Hour kicks off Brashear's yearly toy drive provides Christmas presents for children throughout South Side and the Hilltop neighborhoods. Last year, through donations from the community and additional sources, the agency was able to brighten Christmas with gifts for more than 700 children in the community.
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Bringing Justice to the People
Maliana – A father's assault on his eight-year old daughter. Five violent deaths rooted in a land dispute between family members. A conflict involving religious differences results in homes being destroyed and neighbors in fear for their lives. Since these three crimes happened in Maliana, trying the cases would normally require all those involved to travel three and a half hours on often barely passable roads to reach the local district court in Suai. (Lee versaun Tetum iha ne'e)
- Mobile courts are designed to overcome infrastructure problems like poor roads and a lack of transport, which make it difficult for defendants, witnesses and victims to get to courts.
- From 2010 to 2013, 184 cases were held and more than 2,000 people attended mobile justice sessions and outreach sessions.
Instead, these and nine other cases were heard in a makeshift courtroom at Maliana's Municipality Building from 25-27 November as part of a mobile court programme that brings Timor-Leste's justice system to people living in remote areas.
"Bad road conditions, the lack of money for transportation, and the remoteness of some areas hamper our efforts to get defendants, victims and witnesses to the court in Suai," said Álvaro Maria Freitas, Suai Judge Administrator. "With the mobile court, we can facilitate communities' access to justice, resolve pending cases and reduce backlogs."
Support for the mobile court initiative has been provided by UNDP's Justice System Programme (JSP) since being launched in 2010. It is part the JSP's efforts to help citizens understand their rights and ensure they know how to access those rights. The project also includes legal outreach sessions which are held throughout the country to raise communities' awareness of their rights and of the mechanisms in place to ensure they can realize those rights, ultimately increasing access to justice for the population.
Currently, the four district courts of Dili, Baucau, Oecussi and Suai cover Timor-Leste's 13 districts. Tough terrains, transportation and limited financial resources often make it difficult for people in remote areas to reach their local district court.
During 2013, 96 cases were handled during mobile court sessions. Since 2010, the mobile courts have handled 184 cases, involving more than 2,000 participants in the related outreach sessions. This was approximately three times the number of cases that would have been heard in the Suai district court during the same period, drastically reducing the backlog of cases in Suai and making justice more accessible for all.
In the last mobile court session of the year, defendants, victims and community members attended hearings both of simple cases presided over by a single judge, and of more complex cases requiring a trial panel of three judges.
"When community members are able to attend the sessions and see how the Court works, their trust in the formal justice increases", said Florencia Freitas, Suai District Court Judge. "People feel encouraged to come forward and give their testimony after attending the hearings".
"Mobile justice is a wonderful example of a simple solution to the problems people in remote areas face in going to court," said Mikiko Tanaka, UNDP's Country Director. "UNDP is pleased to have supported this issue and will continue to provide technical, financial and logistical support to the government until such time as it is ready to fully take on the initiative."
For more information, please contact Slava Mysak, Access to Justice Advisor, at firstname.lastname@example.com