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ROCHESTER — Holy Rosary Credit Union (HRCU) recently recognized Virgie McQuade as Employee of the Quarter for the months of July, August and September.
"Virgie is a dedicated and valuable asset to HRCU," Kristy Randazzo, sales and services manager of HRCU said. "She has proven time and time again that she is a one-of-a-kind employee, as she continues to prove her dedication to the credit union and its membership."
McQuade started her career at HRCU as a part-time teller in September 2000 and was quickly elevated in a full-time capacity. Before long, she was promoted to the Member Services Department as a financial services associate. In 2007, McQuade was again promoted to senior financial services associate, working primarily out of the Dover office on Central Avenue.
She was elevated to her current role as assistant branch manager in Dover in 2009, helping oversee the day-to-day operations of the branch. She played a significant role in helping the branch claim Business of the Year honors in 2011, providing stellar service while also taking part in an array of community events. Since then, McQuade has continued to prove her value to HRCU, recently taking on a host of new assignments and responsibilities.
McQuade is a graduate of Holy Angel University in the Philippines. She lives in Rochester with her husband Mike and their two sons, Ryan and Brandon.
For more information, contact Anthony DeAngelis at (603) 332-6840, ext. 2227.
Holy Rosary names McQuade employee of quarter
ROCHESTER — Holy Rosary Credit Union (HRCU) recently recognized Virgie McQuade as Employee of the Quarter for the months of July, August and September.


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A painted metal Canary birdcage£180
A painted metal Canary birdcagewhite and blue of cylindrical drum form,£180
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A large consignment of old English Yorkstone flagstones,£9,000 inc. VAT
A large consignment of old English Yorkstone flagstones,a good consignment of flagstones of just over 50sq metres is offered as a single batch, there is scope to lay in courses as there is uniformity to the width in one axis,£9,000 inc. VAT
Spectacular Boiserie£85,000 the lot, including VAT
Spectacular Boiserie
The boiserie comprises a 17.5m run of panelling (8No. 3-panel sections 154cm wide, 2No. 2-panel sections 107cm wide, 5No. 1-panel sections 62cm wide) – the cornice set at 287cm high - beneath an additional register of fielded panels adding 45cm in height. The format is of repeating long panels above registers of circlets and square dado panels, each carved with gilded foliate clasps and rocaille ornament, a panelled frieze runs above with conforming gilded ornament – all surmounted by the moulded cornice; the vertical panels are spaced at 47cm centres and each element is framed with pilasters - of which there are 16No. (Three of the triple panels respectively incorporate: a discreet service door, a large cupboard door and a secret compartment for silver and flatware). Additionally, an arched overmantel measures 213cm high by 200cm wide, three arched window-ways include embroidered silk hanging pelmets. Lastly, a grand pair of arched entrance doors complete the room, with finely cast brass door furniture, hung within a moulded frame – to the reverse the doors have raised plain moulding.£85,000 the lot, including VAT
Reclaimed Victorian Pine Floorboards£35 - £68 + VAT Per Square Metre. Width Dependent
Reclaimed Victorian Pine Floorboards
Random lengths. Boards priced according to width with the widest batches being the dearest. Widths from 4" - 10".
Victorian baltic pine is an adaptable and characterful timber whose lightly distressed patina lends itself to use in a wide variety of interiors. Traditionally the timber was used in factories, warehouses, terraced housing and even stables. It's a softwood with hard wearing character. Although the timber does mark and scratch more easily than hard woods, it's this ability to develop a unique patina that is sought after by patrons of the most sympathetic restoration works.
As our boards are often sourced from factories, warehouses and mills more often than not it is our Victorian Baltic Pine batches that have the longest lengths. So although our customers are not able to specify long lengths when ordering, with Victorian Pine floorboards you can be assured that there will be more long lengths than short.
The recent conversion of many historic industrial buildings for new updated purposes is something that those of us concerned with English Heritage might consider a shame, however one way to ensure that our proud industrial heritage is not forgotten is through the re use of flooring like this Victorian Baltic pine. The increase in desirability of the warehouse-loft look has meant that there is an increased amount of original pine boarding available for our customers, so good supply can always be ensured.
If you are lucky enough to already own a Victorian property then you may have noticed that almost all pine floorboards in Victorian homes look similar. And you would be right, most Victorian pine ranges from 5 1/2 inches to 6 3/4 inches wide. The same can be said for the batches we most commonly have in stock. This similarity of construction enables our customers to patch in small areas rather than replacing entire floors. The retention of original features where ever possible is a desirable factor when undertaking the restoration of period properties.
A characteristic of Baltic pine which is favoured by the Scandinavian aesthetic is how well the material responds to bleaching or white washing. The porous, absorbent qualities of this timber in relation to other harder woods mean it takes well almost all finishes, dark or light. However the use of finishes with most LASSCO reclaimed boards is not advised. We try to source batches of timber for their original finish and often turn away batches of timber that are recently finished or yellowing as a result of poor finishing in the past. Our Victorian pine boards are chosen for their naturally aged character and appearance and should be lightly matte waxed and sealed.£35 - £68 + VAT Per Square Metre. Width Dependent
Regency style Carrara marble bullseye chimneypiece£850
Regency style Carrara marble bullseye chimneypiecethe rectangular shelf above cushion moulded frieze flanked by bullseye roundels, the conforming jambs on square footblocks.£850

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Software downloads policy
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What's the policy?
As a provider of services for users, advertisers, publishers and developers, we have created a set of principles for software and applications that are distributed through Twitter and Twitter Exchange Products (MoPub and Twitter Audience Platform).
Twitter reserves the right to suspend any ads or campaigns, or suspend (temporarily or permanently) any advertiser that violates the following guidelines, at Twitter's sole discretion, including but not limited to:
- Clear Process of Installation
Users must be given clear and accurate notice of all significant functions and features of the application, how it is installed (including if it installs additional bundled software), and must be able to review and reject any system changes the application makes. For example, an application must not include:
- Auto installers;
- Installers that obscure their identity, location, visibility, or use of system resources;
- Installers that irreversibly, silently or misleadingly change system settings; or,
- Installers that do not provide notice and opt-out of additional bundled software.
- User Privacy, Upfront Disclosure, and Information Sharing
An application must provide a clear and conspicuous disclosure of its privacy policy, including how it uses and shares device and user data with third parties. Also, an application must, at a minimum:
- Disclose all advertising features, and require affirmative and informed consent from a user before collection of a user's personal information, and before sharing a user's personal information with any third party; and
- Conform to applicable Twitter privacy policies and related content policies (available at twitter.com/privacy and twitter.com/adspolicy, respectively) as well as relevant regulatory and industry guidelines for advertising and use of device and user information.
- Transparent and User-Expected Application Behaviors
Applications must explain changes that result in unexpected behaviors, and not obscure the changes or reasons for those changes. In particular, an application must not show any unexpected behaviors, including but not limited to the following:
- obscure its identity or fail to identify its own windows and features;
- obscure or block ordinary user controls on the application or device;
- irreversibly, silently or misleadingly change system settings; or,
- without clear and express prior user consent, make system changes that require payment to either undo the changes or restore full device functionality.
- Excluded, Prohibited and Dangerous Application Functionality
An application must not pose a threat to the privacy, security, or safety of a user, the control or functioning of a user device, or the operation of Twitter and its affiliates. For example, an application must not, directly or indirectly, among other prohibited functionalities:
- Perform any ad injection, ad proxying or ad overlay outside the application window itself, or have the primary function of overlaying ads on third party applications or content;
- Interfere with security, authentication and privacy features of Twitter, the user's device or other services and applications;
- Cause any harm to, damage to, or provide unauthorized access to a device or user data;
- Obscure or misrepresent the source, sponsorship or responsible party for the application or any of its functions, features or costs;
- Provide or link to unlawful, unlicensed, illegal or fraudulent content, goods or services; or,
- Have any function primarily for spamming, spyware, key-logging, silent or unauthorized data collection, user SSL or encryption circumvention, malware, rights management circumvention, virus installation or distribution, black hat search or social network manipulation.
- Simple Removal
Applications must have a clear way to completely uninstall itself and any additional downloads, such as via a device's normal uninstallation procedures and must not obscure or block ordinary user installation procedures, including but not limited to the following prohibited behaviors:
- Users must not be required to go through a lengthy process of unrelated uninstall tasks, asked to provide personal information, or charged for software removal;
- Uninstallation must comply with the application's privacy policy, and stop the application from obtaining or sharing any further user [or device] data;
Advertisers' use of Twitter services are also subject to all other applicable policies, and all relevant agreements between the advertiser and Twitter.
How does this policy vary from country to country?
This policy applies to Twitter Ads in all countries.
What do advertisers need to know about this policy?
Review our guidelines and make sure you understand the requirements for your brand and business. You are responsible for all your software and applications that are distributed through Twitter. This includes complying with applicable laws and regulations regarding advertisements.
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If you are an advertiser whose account or Tweets are under review and you would like to check on the status or request an expedited review, please log in to ads.twitter.com and file a support ticket using the Help? button in the top right corner of your ads dashboard.
Learn more about blocking or dismissing ads by reading this article on "Reporting Twitter Ads". To report an ad that is potentially violating these policies, use the Report an Ad form.
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Imagine a Day without Water
October 01, 2020
Could you go a day without water? No water to drink or make coffee? No water to shower, brush your teeth, flush the toilet, or do laundry? No water for firefighters to put out fires. No water for farmers to water their crops.
We know that water is essential. That's why we want you to know about a nationwide educational effort called "Imagine a Day Without Water." On October 21, the Value of Water Coalition is coordinating a national advocacy and educational event, Imagine a Day Without Water, to raise awareness about the most essential natural resource we have: Water. Across the country, water agencies, mayors, engineers, contractors, business leaders, community members, schools, organizations, corporations, environmental advocates, and more are joining together to educate people about how water is essential, the challenges facing water and wastewater systems, and the need for investment.
Even though water is absolutely vital to everything we do, it too often is forgotten. Out of sight, out of mind. Many people take water service for granted. Clean, safe, reliable, and affordable water comes out of the tap and flows down the drain without a second thought. But the massive infrastructure — much of it underground — which brings water to homes and businesses, takes it away, and treats it, is aging. A water main breaks somewhere in the U.S. every two minutes. Most pipes have an average life expectancy of 50 years, but in many major cities, water pipes are more than 100 years old. Communities cannot afford to go a day without water if those systems reach their breaking points.
Water is essential.
Water is essential for everything we do in life.
We need water to make a cup of coffee, fight fires, build bridges, and swim on a summer day. We need water to grow strawberries, manufacture blue jeans, and make life-saving medicines.
From agriculture to manufacturing, most sectors of our economy rely on water. Without water, our economy would grind to a halt.
While nature provides water, it takes pipes, pumps, equipment, and people working 24/7 to deliver clean water to homes and businesses, and then remove and treat wastewater so it can safely be reused or returned to the environment.
Water infrastructure is largely invisible. Because it's out of sight, it's out of mind for most people.
Problem: Water infrastructure and resources are at risk and this puts the nation at risk.
After working around the clock for 100 years or more, water and wastewater infrastructure is aging and failing.
These systems were built in the early 20th century for communities that looked completely different than today.
We also face serious water resource challenges including: epic drought in the Western states, water and sewer breaks in East Coast and Midwestern communities, and rising sea levels, all of which contribute to flooding and additional stress on water systems.
With a growing national population and finite water supplies, we have long-term water supply challenges that must be addressed with new and creative strategies that meet current and future needs.
1) Invest Locally
- We need water and wastewater bills that better reflect what it costs to deliver these essential services and to invest in the infrastructure so it's in a state of good repair.
- Water and wastewater services are incredibly affordable compared to other utilities. The truth is this: if your cable goes out, it's a nuisance, but if your water goes out, it is a crisis.
2) A Stronger Federal Partner
When the federal government sets infrastructure policy or makes infrastructure investments, water must be front and center.
- We need a stronger federal partner that expands access to low-cost capital for all water providers and encourages collaboration between the public and private sectors.
3) New Water Resource Strategies
- While conservation is critical, we also need innovative water management strategies to respond to the unprecedented water challenges facing communities all across the country. Investments can support a wide range of innovations including resource recovery, reuse, and diversification of local water supplies.
4) Public-Private Partnerships
- Water projects can be expensive and no one sector alone can meet the need for investment. Public-private partnerships are essential to meet our financing and water management needs.
Future/Potential: Ensure clean, safe water so all communities can thrive.
Water providers are economic anchors, frontline environmental stewards, good community partners and innovators.
We chart a prosperous and sustainable future if we invest in water infrastructure and water resources.
Water drives economic growth and competitiveness. Water protects public health, Water revitalizes neighborhoods and supports community vitality. Water sustains our environment and makes us more resilient in the face of climate change.
Water is life.
To learn more, visit us at: www.thevalueofwater.org /thevalueofwater @TheValueofWater
"Investing in our water is investing in a future where no American will have to imagine a day without water."
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Huge move in the bond market this morning… TLT jumped nearly $4! The TNX gapped down. So, now with rates at zero, bonds continue to move up in price and down in yield… That move must be getting close to over!
Short term rates as measured by the IRX (3 month Treasuries) are still flat lined near zero.
Below is a 3 month chart of TLT. Look at the opening print, it's above $120! It's also above the upper Bollinger, so this is worth watching.
Parabolic move? Check out these 5 minute charts... the TNX on left, TLT on the right. Look at the move since yesterday afternoon's FOMC announcment:
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Game 1: Farmingdale State - 9, Plattsburgh State - 4
Game 2: Farmingdale State - 1, Plattsburgh State - 0
Farmingdale, N.Y. - The Farmingdale State baseball team swept Plattsburgh State in two 9-inning games today in Farmingdale, N.Y. The Rams improved to 5-6 overall with the wins, while the Cardinals fell to 0-2.
In game one, the Rams scored four runs in both the first and second innings, with a combined seven hits, to build up an 8-0 lead. The first inning was highlighted by a 2 RBI single down the left field line by freshman third baseman Jorge Ruiz (Shirley, N.Y.). In the second, freshman designated hitter Dalton McCarthy (Manorville, N.Y.) doubled to right field to score two runs.
Both teams scored one run in the fifth, before Plattsburgh State made a run in the top of the ninth scoring three. Freshman Justin Schwartz (West Babylon, N.Y.) pitched the final inning to preserve a 9-4 Rams victory. Senior pitcher Anthony Eilers (Bay Shore, N.Y.) earned the win after allowing one run and three hits over five innings of work.
Senior left fielder David Zilnicki (Riverhead, N.Y.) stole his 38th career base today, which passed former record holder Luis Feliciano for most stolen bases in school history.
Game 2
In the bottom of the eighth inning, senior right fielder Terrence Bohonan (Patchogue, N.Y.) led off with a single up the middle. Senior first baseman Ron Remi (Massapequa, N.Y.) was hit by a pitch, putting runners on first and second with no outs. After a Rams lineout, a double steal put both runners in scoring position with one out.
Senior catcher Eric Wiener (Deer Park, N.Y.) converted a suicide squeeze, which scored pinch runner Nick Ventricelli (Woodbury, N.Y.) for a 1-0 Farmingdale State lead.
In the top of the ninth, junior pitcher James Powers (Jamesport, N.Y.) recorded the first two outs, before junior Timmy Trimarchi (Hauppauge, N.Y.) came in to force a groundout and pick up his second save of the season. Powers earned the win to improve to 2-1 on the year, after throwing 3.2 scoreless innings in relief. Starting pitcher Michael Dolce (St. James, N.Y.) allowed no runs and struck out four over five innings.
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The birthplace of meso-American civilizations by the great rivers. The Grijalva and the Usumacinta, the largest in Mexico, come together at the Pantanos de Centla Biosphere Reserve. The possibilities nature offers are infinite: boating at the Usumacinta Canyon, exploring caves like Cocona or raft down the white waters of the Grijalva.
The State capitol is Villahermosa, "The emerald of the SouthEast". Founded in the late 16th century by the Grijalva river, Villahermosa is one of the cities with the highest standards of living in Mexico and an up-and-coming meetings & events destination, with all the infrastructures and first-class hotels. We recommend to visit the La Venta Park & Museum, featuring impressive Olmec pieces, and the Regional Museum of Anthropology, displaying Monument 6 of Tortuguero, where the famous Maya prophecy of the ending of the 13th Baktun. Very close to Villahermosa, do visit the Comalcalco archeological site in the midst of the cocoa route, with the possibility of visiting haciendas and learning about the history of this age-old Mayan crop.


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Firebase lets you build more powerful, secure and scalable apps, using world-class infrastructure.
Store and sync data between users and devices - at global scale - using a cloud-hosted, NoSQL database. Cloud Firestore gives you live synchronization and offline support along with efficient data queries. Its integration with other Firebase products enables you to build truly serverless apps.
Bring powerful machine learning features to your mobile app. Firebase ML helps you deploy custom ML models optimized for on-device inference, which reduces your initial app installation size and lets you more easily make updates. You can also use AutoML Vision Edge to train your own custom image classification models, or access Cloud AI Vision APIs for a more turn-key solution.
Extend your app with custom backend code without needing to manage and scale your own servers. Functions can be triggered by events, which are emitted by Firebase products, Google Cloud services, or third parties, using webhooks.
Manage your users in a simple and secure way. Firebase Auth offers multiple methods to authenticate, including email and password, third-party providers like Google or Facebook, and using your existing account system directly. Build your own interface, or take advantage of our open source, fully customizable UI.
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Reduce your troubleshooting time by turning an avalanche of crashes into a manageable list of issues. Get clear, actionable insight into which issues to tackle first by seeing the user impact right in the Crashlytics dashboard. Realtime alerts will help you stay on top of stability even on the go. Crashlytics is the primary crash reporter for Firebase.
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1. Box Design code number - Customisation details with high resolution photograph (if required)
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Once we receive the above details, we shall get in touch with you and show you the graphical version of the gift box.
Once we receive your details, we shall create a graphical version of the gift and show it to you. Once you approve the final version, only then we shall produce the boxes. (Example 1, Example 2, Example 3, Example 4, Example 5)
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- Price is inclusive of taxes. Shipping is free in India.
- Lead time is 7 - 10 days. Most shipments are done via Blue Dart.
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Curious Nature: Deer duel for the most desired does
Curious Nature
Have you seen a male mule deer acting strangely this fall? Perhaps in a place you wouldn't normally see one during the day? Maybe a little distracted? Chances are, you saw a buck in the throes of the seasonal rut.
The timing of the rut is based on the gestation period of females, which for mule deer is roughly 200 days. Females generally go into estrus for a two- to three-week period in mid-November, giving birth the following June. Fawns born too early are susceptible to late spring weather, while those born too late will have a shortened time to grow and prepare for the following winter. During the rut, male mule deer compete for the right to mate, exhibit riskier behavior and subsequently, are easier to observe. The improved opportunity to land a big buck is one reason why hunting season generally coincides with the rut. This year, mule deer will face a reduced threat from the rifle, as 79,800 licenses were issued this season, down 6 percent from 2011.
Part of the reason for this is that mule deer have been steadily declining in numbers across their range. Found west of the 100th meridian, which splits the states of Nebraska and Kansas, mule deer are found as far north as the Yukon Territory and south to the province of Zacatecas in central Mexico.
Historical records testify to the original abundance of mule deer encountered by early settlers. Early market hunter Frank Mayer wrote about his experience hunting at the confluence of the Blue River and the Colorado just south of modern day Kremmling in 1878: "As the migration is now well begun, I encounter elk and deer at all hours of the day. They are crossing the river junction in such numbers that shooting them requires no skill." Later in his journal, Mayer records that he shot 89 mule deer in 78 days and finally quit when he became "tired of killing."
As a result of this large-scale harvesting, the Colorado Territory established its first wildlife protection agency in 1879, which immediately began enforcing season and bag limits for many species. Despite the regulations, according to a study conducted by Colorado State University in conjunction with the Colorado Division of Wildlife, mule deer populations didn't fully rebound until after the dust bowl era of the early to mid 1930s. While exact numbers were not collected until the 1970s, wildlife professionals generally agree that herds reached modern highs in the 1940s, with populations between two or three times as large as the current 2012 post-hunt estimate of 420,000.
Why are mule deer populations declining? The answer is complex.
"There's no single cause," Colorado Parks and Wildlife big game manager Andy Holland recently told The Denver Post. "Between severe winters, increased development, habitat decline and migration corridor fragmentation, most Western states are seeing declines in mule deer populations."
Not mentioned by Holland are other associated factors including predation from hunters and coyotes, competition from elk and poor quality of forage due to the introduction of invasive species. Often the most contentious variable is that of coyotes. While some organizations and states have taken steps to limit coyote populations, state officials and biologists in Colorado maintain that there is no statistical correlation between coyote predation and reduced numbers of mule deer.
An iconic figure of the West, the mule or black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus) is an impressive figure. Mule deer are shorter and bulkier than white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) and can grow to a maximum size of 51⁄2 feet long, 31⁄2 feet tall and weigh up to 450 pounds. Because of their smaller digestive system, mule deer are unable to graze aggressively like elk and larger ruminants and instead browse and eat selectively, relying on choice trees, shrubs and grasses. In addition, mule deer are specialists that thrive in unspoiled areas, as opposed to their white-tailed cousins which readily adapt to suburban environments.
How can we best preserve and protect healthy mule deer herds in our valley? Go hunting! Current research indicates that legally harvested animals do not negatively impact the strength of mule deer herds, while the money raised by the Department of Parks and Wildlife helps to fund ongoing research and good management practices. In addition, hunting is a good way to gain insight into the natural habits of deer, build a lasting connection to one of the region's most iconic species and lay the groundwork for long-term preservation.
John Ceballos is a natural science educator at Walking Mountains Science Center. John enjoys bushwhacking in search of wildlife and went hunting for the first time ever in 2012.
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Gluten Free Product List
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One of the most long awaited touchscreen mobile phones has finally been released by LG, the LG Arena is a high-spec new mobile that closely follows the iPhone full touch screen concept.
The Arena offers a range of impressing features such as a 5 megapixel camera and a music player with Dolby Mobile. Although this brushed chrome finish mobile is not a smart phone it certainly has a wide variety of things to play with, the Arena's internal memory is huge at 8Gb of storage and can be expanded to 40Gb.
The three inch display has a high resolution of 480 x 800 pixels which is complemented by its cube idea which on top of the customisable home screen has 4 sides. The sides represent different menus grouped in categories such as multimedia, settings and communication etc.
The mobile phone has a 3.5mm headphone jack which makes it a big competitor to a stand alone music player, Dolby mobile mode means music is played more dynamically and very detailed.
Also known as the KM900, the new LG is receptive to swipes and taps and even a pinching technique for zooming into images or web pages. LG has clearly learnt a thing or two from Apple. Face detection and auto focus are features found in the five mega pixel camera which is also a video recording device with a built in digital camcorder.


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You've prepared your home, we've marketed it to prospective buyers, and we have some people ready to take a look. Here's how to make the most of that moment:
- Be ready: Buyers request showings on as little as a few hours' notice, so it's important to stay on top of your cleaning and clutter-purging.
- Be somewhere else: It's almost never a good idea for the seller to be present when the buyer is looking through a home. The buyer will feel uncomfortable and inhibited, which makes them less likely to make an offer. You'll be uncomfortable, too, as these strangers come in and "judge" your home. The seller's disclosure and factsheet will answer the vast majority of buyer questions; we will make notes of any additional questions for you to answer later.
- Be patient: It can take a while for a buyer to look at your home - and it's a good sign when a buyer invests a lot of time in the process. It also can take two or more visits before even the most interested buyer makes an offer.
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Some weekends, the signs seem to be everywhere: Open House Sunday, 2-5 p.m. With so many open houses, they must be a great way to sell homes, right?
Not necessarily. Open houses do have some advantages for sellers: They draw attention to your home and show it to many people at once in a more informal atmosphere.
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We call you on a Tuesday morning and tell you we have a very interested prospective buyer who wants to come by that afternoon. What do you do? As much of the following as you can:
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Dedicated to my uncle Ben Grummels senior. Killed by "Zero" fighter plane bullets while at the helm of his Dutch Mitchell B25 light bomber on return from Timor, heading to his Darwin NT base, in the defence of Australia. He had baby twins and a wife in Sydney.
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Photo I took of of the statue of WW1 General "Talbot Hobbs" weeks before his grandson and my classmate, Guy Hobbs (IM) died.
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First, let me thank you for looking at my problem and any time you put into helping me.
For my own entertainment and as a learning project, I have created a Java app that plays scrabble. It is meant to be used as a complement to a physical scrabble set. It is essentially a scrabble AI that will let you add one (or more) computer-controlled players to your traditional sit-down scrabble board game. It does not have the functionality to let you play without a physical board (adding such functionality would, for one, violate the IP rights of Mattel, Inc).
My system:
Eclipse SDK 64-bit
Version: 3.6.0
Build id: I20100608-0911
java -version returns:
java version "1.6.0_21"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_21-b06)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 17.0-b16, mixed mode)
Windows 7 64-bit
Dual Opteron "Shanghai" quad-cores (~2.9 GHz)
16 GB system memory
The AI algorithm is straightforward and brute-force. It finds every playable word, figures out the point value of each, and plays the highest scoring one. This requires vast amounts of memory and CPU time. The analysis is run with one thread per square on the game board, these threads are dispatched to a thread pool that runs as many threads in parallel as there are logical cores on the system.
When creating all these threads (450 in all, 2 for each tile), I get an OutOfMemoryException. Not unexpected. Each thread does after all have its own instance of a 160 000-entry dictionary. Problem is, this happens at a mere ~4 GB (according to windows task manager). Now before you say it, yes, I should get a hold of myself and only instantiate the new threads as the old ones finish. I probably will do that eventually. But since this is a learning project, I would like to figure out why I can't seem to increase the heap past 4 GB.
I have tried setting -Xmx in the eclipse.ini file, and a number of other options. My current settings are:
plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.win32.win32.x86_64_1. 1.0.v20100503
My last run returned this GC log file:
Desired survivor size 805306368 bytes, new threshold 7 (max 15)
[PSYoungGen: 2548108K->42180K(5505024K)] 2548108K->42180K(7602176K), 0.0444170 secs] [Times: user=0.22 sys=0.06, real=0.05 secs]
1042.405: [Full GC (System) [PSYoungGen: 42180K->0K(5505024K)] [ParOldGen: 0K->41782K(2097152K)] 42180K->41782K(7602176K) [PSPermGen: 65435K->65402K(65600K)], 0.1811456 secs] [Times: user=0.47 sys=0.06, real=0.20 secs]
Desired survivor size 805306368 bytes, new threshold 7 (max 15)
[PSYoungGen: 309330K->96K(5505024K)] 351112K->41878K(7602176K), 0.0021289 secs] [Times: user=0.00 sys=0.00, real=0.00 secs]
1097.874: [Full GC (System) [PSYoungGen: 96K->0K(5505024K)] [ParOldGen: 41782K->41656K(2097152K)] 41878K->41656K(7602176K) [PSPermGen: 65411K->65411K(65600K)], 0.1760697 secs] [Times: user=0.66 sys=0.00, real=0.19 secs]
PSYoungGen total 5505024K, used 315971K [0x0000000305420000, 0x0000000485420000, 0x0000000485420000)
eden space 4718592K, 6% used [0x0000000305420000,0x00000003188b0d40,0x0000000425 420000)
from space 786432K, 0% used [0x0000000455420000,0x0000000455420000,0x0000000485 420000)
to space 786432K, 0% used [0x0000000425420000,0x0000000425420000,0x0000000455 420000)
ParOldGen total 2097152K, used 41656K [0x0000000185420000, 0x0000000205420000, 0x0000000305420000)
object space 2097152K, 1% used [0x0000000185420000,0x0000000187cce1c8,0x0000000205 420000)
PSPermGen total 67136K, used 67133K [0x0000000180020000, 0x00000001841b0000, 0x0000000185420000)
object space 67136K, 99% used [0x0000000180020000,0x00000001841af6e8,0x0000000184 1b0000)
I must admit that I'm still a novice at trying to configure the Garbage Collector. I only have a vague idea of what the generations are and how they interact etc...
I can think of a couple reasons I would see this behavior:
1) For some reason my attempts at setting the heap size are not having any effect, and GC ergonomics auto-initialize to 1/4 of available memory, aka 4 GB.
2) Windows for some reason will not give the process more than 4 GB of memory, and the GC times out due to excessive paging. If this were happening, shouldn't I be seeing an entry in the log about it?
3) For some reason, I'm still limited to a 32-bit virtual address space, even though I'm running both 64-bit eclipse and 64-bit java. 2^32 = 4 294 967 296 and I usually top out at a memory usage of ~4 220 000 kb, so it certainly seems plausible.
Does anyone have any insight? I'd be happy to provide the source code, but it's pretty long so I figured I'd ask if you want to see it first.
Thank you in advance for any help!
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Being the only doctor in my family, I am constantly quizzed by relatives both close at home and by the distant ones, about how one can stay healthy given their busy lives. Now, we all know what an understatement "busy lives" is, when the people that I am talking about happen to be residents of San Diego, a county with over 1.6 million overweight or obese people! With a fast paced life, it simply becomes almost impossible to maintain a healthy diet, which in my opinion is the most important key to a healthy body and lifestyle.
So every morning you are either stuffing yourself with a burger and a milkshake or juice bought from a drive-through while driving your car, OR stuffing yourself with whatever you could find in the refrigerator at your home. In both scenarios, a commonality exists—that of an unplanned, unhealthy diet. There is simply no time or motivation left to prepare well-balanced and healthy food, if you are going to have to juggle readying your kids, giving them a ride to school, driving yourself to work and then after a long day at work, come home dead tired.
Considering all of these complexities, the responsibility of me as a doctor to prescribe methods to maintain a healthy lifestyle to my family and clients, increases manifold.
Is there a way then, to escape this daily grind and emerge healthy every day?
As a doctor, nothing gives me more pleasure than informing my clients (I do not like to call them my patients) that the answer is a solid YES! There is a healthy diet, that promises to fulfill every dietary need of your body and one which does not require any special effort (other than following the diet strictly, of course) from your side! And it is called San Diego diet food delivery plan by BistroMD.
Like actress Camille Guaty, I love BistroMD.
What is a San Diego diet first of all?
It is a diet developed by Bistro MD, that makes losing weight easy without having to give up on your favorite dishes! Bistro MD is a diet food delivery service operating in San Diego (and some other states as well), where registered dietitians and award-winning chefs work together to develop some of the most healthy and amazing gourmet dishes. These people have a passion for good food.
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Perhaps you have heard of Nutrisystem diet. It is a meal delivery diet program, like Bistro MD. The truth is, these two programs are a lot different. Here are the main differences:
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Levoy Theatre
126-130 N. High Street,
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The Levoy Theatre is Millville, New Jersey's historic vaudeville theater and was originally built in 1908.
At its peak, the Neo-Classical styled Levoy Theatre seated over 2,000 patrons, making it one of the largest auditoriums in New Jersey. During the 1940's the Levoy Theatre was operated by Warner Bros. Circuit Management. The Levoy Theatre closed in December 1974 and fell into disrepair.
It was purchased by the Levoy Theatre Preservation Society in 1998. The society, a non-profit group, is dedicated to the preservation, restoration, and operation of the Levoy Theatre as a community performing arts center and museum. Sadly, during renovation work on January 3, 2011, the building collapsed, and was partially destroyed.
Renovations were carried out and it reopened in August 2012.
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In this photo a 1958 Edsel is parked in front of the theater:
Here is a photo taken in 2009 by Seth Gaines.
Great looking theater. Did they loose the marquee in the collapse?
Thanks for you photo ken mc
The marquee had been removed during construction. Not sure where is was stored or if it sustained any damage, though.
Rebuilding has begun, news story here: View link
I asked the Levoy Preservation Society if the theater's facade was going to be rebuilt like the original. Here is their answer: "yes Scott, the facade will look like the original 1920's version. The Levoy had multiple face lifts over the course of the last century, and early on the design team and the board of directors chose to reconstruct the facade in the exact likeness of the one from a 1927 photo we have."
Ogren Construction, the firm responsible for the Levoy Theater construction/restoration project has been cited by OSHA for "not properly supporting the structure and digging too low." Story here: http://www.nj.com/cumberland/index.ssf/2011/07/ogren_construction_cited_by_os.html
I was a volunteer with Joe Pierce, back in 1998. I thought that we were going to restore the theatre. But when the city & state kicked in millions of dollars in grants, ..you guessed it the lawyers & politicians, who knew nothing about running a theatre, took over, & demolished the place!
The correct link to the theater is www.levoy.net. Lots of construction photos, as well as the theater's history story is on the site.
The new marquee and facade restores the look of the LeVoy of 1925.
The Levoy also has a Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/LevoyMillville
The rebuilt theater reopens August 3 with The Music Man on stage. A full schedule of live entertainment follows. On Sept. 9, 2 silent short films are shown with live accompanyment by The Peacherine Orchestra.
First year of operation seen as a success. Philly.com story here.
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Power in Compact Cleaning
Capital improvement decisions can often be "no risk/no reward." This shop passed on potential production equipment in favor of a new cleaning system and found great reward.
For any shop, investing in major capital improvements, including new production, logistics or after-production equipment, is always a potential risk. Despite painstaking research, a company often can't be fully sure about the decision it has made until well after the equipment is installed and integrated into its plant operations.
A new parts cleaning system is one of these major capital investments. The management team at Northwest Automatics Inc., in Kent, Wash. (near Seattle), was researching parts cleaning systems several years back. Gary Olsen, operations manager at the company, breaks these types of purchases down into three general categories: "Yeah, that was a decent purchase," "Maybe that wasn't such a good idea," and "I should have done this 10 years ago." He says the company's purchase of the Dürr Ecoclean Minio 85C falls into the last of these categories.
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Northwest Automatics is a machine shop occupying three buildings of 10,000 square feet each. The company produces high quality machined components with a number of multi-spindles, Swiss and CNC lathes and mills. The shop has been in business for about 15 years, working with various materials producing a variety of products, from threaded fasteners to fittings for a range of industries. Brass sensor housings, for example, are produced for the Seattle area's aerospace industries. While brass products are the main focus, the company also machines products from all grades of steel, alloy and stainless steels, as well as some plastics. It is a competitive job shop, considering no job too small or too complicated. It is open to taking all types of projects in a range of industries such as trucking, agriculture, medical, defense and recreation, to name a few.
As a number of the company's products are designed for Seattle's defense and aerospace industries, the exacting nature of those industries means the components that Northwest Automatics produces must meet the very close tolerances demanded. For this reason, the parts cleaning system must ensure that machined components also meet the stringent requirements for cleanliness and readiness for further manufacturing.
Narrowing Options
The company formerly had a vapor degreasing system in one of its shops. The system worked fairly well, but used some potentially hazardous chemicals such as trichloroethylene, the use of which is now severely restricted. As the company moved into its new premises, it also sought a more efficient way to clean parts, as it had a constant backlog of numerous 5-gallon buckets waiting to go through cleaning. Previously, two people worked about 8 hours a day on parts cleaning.
The management team looked extensively for parts cleaning systems that would help get better results in the parts cleaning processes while saving labor and other costs. They decided against aqueous systems, which have many tanks and reservoirs with fluids that must be replaced often, resulting in disposal issues. Furthermore, a lot of parts machined by Northwest Automatics have deep blind holes. The management team found that the aqueous systems had trouble removing the grind slurry from the blind holes and, thus, did not satisfactorily meet the cleaning specifications.
Coming up empty in its search for a sufficient parts cleaning system, the team noticed that most that it investigated didn't really save much labor or time. Throughput times seemed too long, and many required manual racking of parts as opposed to the ability to clean parts in open baskets. Many also had large amounts of fluids that had to be disposed of frequently.
The Decision
While at the Precision Machining Technology Show (PMTS) in 2005, Mr. Olsen visited the Dürr Ecoclean booth to see more parts cleaning systems. Intrigued by the systems on display, he threw every parts cleaning question in the book at Dürr's sales rep, Fred Thompson.
The Northwest Automatics team was doubtful about the sales hype, and therefore shipped a pallet of dirtier than usual test parts to Dürr Ecoclean's Michigan facility. Mr. Olsen watched the cleaning and drying process in person and was impressed by how effectively it cleaned and dried the parts. "Rather than take the salesman's word," Mr. Olsen says. "I wanted to see with my own eyes if it could do what they said it could. And it definitely was able to. Once testing proved its capabilities, we knew we had found the system we wanted."
Northwest Automatics chose the Dürr Ecoclean Minio 85C, a smaller system available from Dürr Ecoclean, because research showed that it was the right size for the shop's capacity. With a small footprint—1 meter wide by a little more than 2 meters deep (about 39 inches by 87 inches)—the Minio 85C can work well both for small facilities with comparatively low production and large-scale plants with decentralized cleaning stations.
The Minio 85C delivers degreasing and cleaning results with non-halogenated hydrocarbons through high-power injection flood washing and circulation filtration. The entire multi-stage cleaning process (cleaning, rinsing, vapor degreasing and vacuum drying), takes place in a single work chamber under vacuum. This process saves heating energy and minimizes vapor loss. Its throughput of about nine batches per hour (depending on the work sequence and required treatment time) met Northwest's requirements for cleaning efficiency as well as a reduced labor investment.
The company also selected the optional ultrasonic cleaning feature. It has been a worthwhile option in terms of reaching the necessary level of deep cleaning, particularly with releasing machining oils and chips from the blind holes that are machined. Although it offers powerful cleaning, degreasing and removal of swarf and chips, the Minio 85C still allows easy customization of its eight washing programs through the Siemens S7 control.
Meeting Requirements
After it was installed, the cleaning system quickly tackled the backlog of parts to be cleaned at Northwest Automatics. Now, one person works on parts cleaning for only 4 hours a day (as compared with about 16 person-hours per day previously), and the cleaning system keeps up with the output. The company is able to stay ahead of production with less time invested, and the parts are better cleaned than they had been before. That's a winning combination overall.
Northwest Automatics also has been pleased with all elements of the service from Dürr Ecoclean. The cleaning system was delivered promptly after being ordered, and setup and training were smooth and thorough. The system has performed very reliably since Day 1. Mr. Olsen points out that he can count on one hand the number of times he had to call the manufacturer for troubleshooting or to have a technician come in and do something that couldn't be handled in-house. "Not only are the systems reliable, but our personnel have been trained well enough to be able to troubleshoot any technical operating issues that have come up," he says.
An unforeseen side benefit has been the use of the Minio 85C for cleaning tooling and accessories. The company has a lot of collets, collet pads and bushings for the Swiss lathes, for example, which get quite dirty over the course of machining runs. These need to be cleaned before they can be used for the next run. Rather than cleaning them manually—a labor-intensive process by any estimation—operators simply run them in the cleaning system, saving significant setup time.
About the Environment
Not only does the cleaning system help the shop keep its labor costs lower while cleaning machined parts to tight specifications, it does so in an environmentally sensitive manner. As evidence, when the EPA was recently in the shop looking at processes and machines, the agent was genuinely impressed that the system is entirely self-contained (nothing down the drain) and that it is a clean operation in terms of solvent disposal. Northwest Automatics only has to dispose of about one 55-gallon drum of solvent per year, even though it averages 1,000 to 1,500 loads before changing out the distillation tank. Mr. Olsen says, "The guy from the EPA was very impressed that such a system is available on the market."
The Minio 85C's waste and energy saving features, such as heat recovery throughout the entire process, can fit well for shops interested in "greening" their manufacturing processes.
Return on Investment
Although Northwest Automatics considered purchasing other production equipment instead of the Minio 85C, the features the cleaning system brings seemed to make it the best choice. Benefits such as time and labor savings, rejection-free parts cleaning, multi-purpose use in cleaning tooling, and environmental friendliness in terms of energy use and minimal solvent disposal have helped the system more than pay for itself in the 5 years since it was purchased.
"This is one of those big decisions we have not regretted making," Mr. Olsen says. "We have seen savings in the amount of labor we have to put into parts cleaning and the quality of the cleaning has improved considerably as well. There is a night-and-day difference in the quality of cleaning. Our customers are happy with the cleaning results, and our platers are pleased. The parts no longer need additional cleaning before plating, going directly in with no additional prepping required."
Northwest Automatics chose the parts cleaning system from Dürr Ecoclean because it delivered the necessary performance—parts cleaned to the highest specifications and labor savings in an environmentally friendly system. Mr. Olsen continues to be a big believer in the product, demonstrating the equipment to neighboring shops and talking it up at various trade shows and networking events.
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People in the U.S. who maintain Facebook Pages can now maintain them via their Android phones and tablets.
Debuting earlier this month in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the app hit the shores of the U.S. and the U.K. yesterday, according to The Next Web. A Facebook spokesperson told TNW last week that the Android app would be "rolling out more widely in the coming weeks."
As opposed to personal profiles, Facebook Pages are often used by businesses, organizations, and public figures that have something to sell or promote and who want to build up a following of fans or potential customers.
The Facebook Pages Manager Android app offers a variety of features.
You can post new updates and photos and answer user comments. You can reply to private messages sent to your page. You can also receive notices about new activity on your page and see data revealing how many people are checking out your page. You can even manage multiple pages from the app.
Facebook has long offered a similar app for iOS. So it's about time Android users had their own version.


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In Renaissance painting the female nude, a frequent subject matter which enjoyed considerable popularity, carries for the most part a positive connotation. A nude figure becomes an attribute, or occasionally, the personification of truth, beauty, geniality, friendship, soul and love. Especially in connection with the subject of love it appears in numerous works of philosophers, poets and artists. Such writers, philosophers and poets as Marsilio Ficino, Jacopo Sannazzaro, Pietro Bembo, Baldassare Castiglione, Pietro Aretino or Lodovico Ariosto nurtured the greatest Renaissance creative talents: Leonardo, Giorgione, Titian, Michelangelo and Veronese. The awareness of the relationship between philosophy, poetry, literature and the visual arts and their mutual influence is important to the analysis of Titian's painting. In his article the author attempts to substantiate that the artist's inspiration in painting the Venus of Urbina stems from the love sonnets of one of the greatest poets of Italian Renaissance, Vittoria Colonna (Victoria Columna), written after the death of her husband Ferdinando Francesco (Ferrante) d'Avalos. The subject is a humanly beautiful nude woman whose pose is borrowed from the idealized beauty of the Sleeping Venus by Gorgione. Titian's painting contains numerous symbolically important elements of meaning: 1) white bed linen — purity; 2) crimson bed and 3) red roses — love; 4) fading red roses and 5) fallen rose — death; 6) pattern of black flowers, 7) black enamels of the bracelet, 8) widow's black ring and 9) triangular black spot — mourning; 10) green drapery — hope; 11) pearl — symbol of passing, 'Vanitas'; 12) small dog — marital faithfulness; 13) green myrtle in the jardinière — marital love; 14) column — symbol of virtue of bravery and boldness 'Fortitudo', also the emblem of the house of Colonna; and 15) 'cassoni' — bridal chests as well as other significant elements. In Titian's picture all of these symbols concur in the creation of an allegory of love and at the same time of the philosophical treatise which is a reflection on life, death, love and on the temporary earthly time which should be enjoyed. It is the victory of love over time and temptation, as one finds in the love sonnets by Vittoria Colonna, the 'Victoria Amoris'.
Leonardo's Virgin Mother is always solicitous; Michelangelo's is inattentive. In several images, moreover, most notably in the Doni Tondo, Michelangelo masculinizes the Virgin Mary. Michelangelo's works seem introspective and self-referential; Leonardo is far less personally engaged than Michelangelo in analyzing Mary's motherhood and in consequence more traditional in his Marian imagery. Leonardo is intrigued by the individualized Child, whereas Michelangelo is equally obsessed with the Mother, and her separation from her Child. Michelangelo's Madonna is the antithesis of Leonardo's, in physique, physiognomy, and psychology.
The present article examines Virgin with the Christ Child, a painting by Antonello da Messina from the National Gallery, London. Its attribution had long been questioned due to the painting's stylistical ambivalence, since it evidently contains elements characteristic to both early and late phase of Antonello's artistic activity, as it was proved by comparison with other of his Madonnas. This inconsistency between the painting's lower and upper parts is explained in the article, thus sketching a possible scenario of its execution, and hopefully removing the question mark often put by the name of its author. It is namely suggested that the painting in question could have been begun by the young artist and only later refashioned, either for himself or at a request of one of his commissioners. Hence comes this stylistical dichotomy in the London Madonna.
The comparative structural analysis of some of Michelangelo's best known works of sculpture including the Duomo Deposition and the Pietà Rondanini as well as the Brutus and several full length figures, and also of Michelangelo's preparatory drawings for these works and of his studies for the Annunciations and for a Crucifixion and a Resurrection, show that the master constantly reckoned with the conceptual implications of laterality which he defined not according to the left and right of the figure represented but according to the subjective experience of the viewer. In addition to the conventional moral implications of the right and left as metaphors of positive and negative connotations respectively, the polarity also seems to be endowed with special temporal meanings: the left is often associated with a retrospective view of the past and the right with the anticipation of things to come.
Having previously suggested that the story of the Faun Michelangelo made in the Medici garden, first told by Condivi and embellished by Vasari, is a fable, the author adduces further reasons to suppose this account deeply poetical. He here places the tale in the tradition of the novella about the artist by associating it with a typologically similar tale, recounted by Doni and repeated by Vasari, about Michelangelo and Topolino. Suggesting that Michelangelo is himself a novelliere, the author relates the tale of the Faun Michelangelo told to Condivi to the related autobiographical fiction of his poetry.
Thanks to the help of members of the Casa Piola, a studio which certainly included Gaulli before he went to Rome, clocks in Genoa were highly decorative. Piola's drawing of the 1660s for a night clock perhaps to be painted by the French artist Cotelle [Fig. 2] demonstrates his collaboration with clockmakers, as does Gaulli's night clock for Cardinal Chigi in Ariccia in 1670. Gaulli's clock face painted around 1693 on a clock by Callin [Fig. 1] and his drawing for a standing clock [Fig. 4] show patrons continued to want his designs for these functional items. After the deaths of Piola and Gaulli, ornament on clocks got more complex as Piolesque swinging figures decorated surfaces, i.e., in a drawing by Domenico Parodi [Fig. 6] and in a c. 1730 clock carved by Maragliano [Fig. 5].
The American art historical literature has given a consistently negative reading to Goya's masterful portrait of The Family of Charles IV. Surprisingly, this bias made its way from art historical survey literature into the scholarly literature, with comments by nineteenth-century French critics cited as sources but without documentation. Conversely, European criticism was directed at the Bourbon sitters based on a cynical reading of Goya as a caricaturist, but has always been laudatory of the artist. The pejorative views of Goya's portrait may stem from a remark made by Renoir in 1907, probably echoing a popular cliché of the time.
Two types of bronze Hanukkah lamps with triangular back plates have since the nineteenth century been dated from the twelfth to the fourteenth century. They have been attributed to Italy, Germany, France and Spain. No scholarly consensus has been reached on either date or country of origin. Medieval Jewish literary sources and surviving medieval miniatures do not attest to bronze Hanukkah lamps with triangular back plates. It is suggested that all of the Hanukkah lamps discussed were produced in the nineteenth century, as the evidence presented for their medieval origins rests largely on unsubstantiated reports and hearsay.


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Whether by plane, by train, or by a laced-up pair of sneakers, we have to get where we going. But just how we do that changes constantly. Today, we want to know what you think the future of transportation will look like.
Will teleportation move beyond the silver screen? Will the space day-tour shuttle idea ever get off the ground? Will we all be stuck in traffic in our hover cars, or will it just be the health perks of good old-fashioned walking that win out in the end?
Tell us your predictions in the comments — and include a photo, please!
Image: Chaosmaker / Shutterstock.


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As if the U.S. Postal Service weren't already in enough financial trouble, a growing number of startups are about to make its future even more uncertain. They're trying to lure one of its main revenue sources — the nearly 48 billion bills, statements, account notices and offers that companies send to households every year — into the electronic realm. That could make the USPS's $3.1 billion third-quarter loss seem like small change. The companies aim to do so with secure online services that, unlike e-mail, are inaccessible to spammers and allow consumers to receive, organize and respond to important correspondence all in one digital place. Matt Swain, associate director at research firm InfoTrends, calls the technology "a potential game-changer."
Zumbox, a Los Angeles firm launched in December 2009, was the first digital mail service out of the gate. With $17.7 million in venture funding from private investors including former Walt Disney Chief Executive Officer Michael D. Eisner, the company is creating a digital mailbox for every street address in the country. (Ironically, it's using a freely available USPS database to do so.) When customers sign up, Zumbox mails them a PIN which they must use to register their account, a step that verifies the link between the virtual Zumbox and the real-world address. That assures mail senders that information is going to the right household. Users can then access their Zumbox, free of charge, to receive and store electronic mail, pay bills and opt out of paper mailings. "There's sort of an inevitability about the migration of the mail to digital," says Zumbox CEO John Payne.
The inevitable can't come quickly enough for some companies. In 2010, for the first time, households reported paying more bills electronically than by mail, according to the most recent USPS Household Diary Study. But only about 15 percent of consumer bills and statements are delivered exclusively online.
Bloomberg Businessweek: The U.S. Postal Service nears collapse
Businesses spend about $30 billion each year printing, collating, and mailing documents and a typical bill costs a company anywhere from 70¢ to a dollar to deliver. Zumbox charges senders as little as 20¢. "Mailing is all about the cost of postage," says Frank Delfer, chief technology officer of DST Output, an El Dorado Hills, Calif., company that processes 2.3 billion paper bills, statements and financial documents annually for large companies. DST started offering Zumbox to its customers in early August. "Digital postal mail lets companies save money compared to the way they're doing it today."
Zumbox already has competition. In January, Pitney Bowes, a maker of postage meters and machines, announced plans to offer a service called Volly that, like Zumbox, will create a digital mailbox tied to a customer's mailing address. Manilla, a startup owned by Hearst that launched in February, characterizes itself as a free personal account management service. It can't actually receive mail as Zumbox does, but once users give Manilla the credentials for their business accounts, the site provides an organized view of all their bills, finances, travel rewards programs and subscriptions, along with payment reminders. Doxo, begun in October 2010 and backed in part by Bezos Expeditions, which manages Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos's personal investments, operates similarly to Manilla but also allows users to upload and store documents.
Bloomberg Businessweek: Mail delivery may stop in 2012 unless Congress frees up cash
All the services are free to consumers and make money by charging mailers a per-document fee when customers agree to paperless billing. They also promise to do away with junk mail, since spammers won't be able to infiltrate the gated electronic system set up by the digital mail services. That doesn't mean the mailboxes will be entirely annoyance-free. Zumbox says it plans to allow verified marketers to send mail — otherwise known as spam — but that customers can filter those messages and opt out of unwanted marketing. And while no online service is completely impervious to being hacked, the digital mail providers have invested in the same level of encryption and security that banks use.
Right now, the various digital mailbox services are rushing to form partnerships with companies that send out bills and statements, while building up their user base. Manilla is taking out two-page spreads in Hearst magazines such as Cosmopolitan and Redbook, and Zumbox has launched a million-dollar sweepstakes to get people to sign up and refer friends. Pitney Bowes has promised to commit 5¢ to 10¢ per share, or about $20 million, for market development of Volly.
Bloomberg Businessweek: Why the USPS lags the rest
Swain, the InfoTrends analyst, expects more companies to jump into the digital mailbox business. Digital postal mail has already caught on in Finland and Denmark, he says, and New Zealand's postal service recently licensed Zumbox's platform. The country plans to roll out digital mail to 1.45 million households as early as year's end. If the trend holds in the U.S., then in a few years' time, the USPS may have nothing to deliver other than the mail no one really needs.
The bottom line: Digital mail services are targeting the 48 billion bills, statements, and financial documents sent by companies through USPS every year.


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Description: Unscramble the pieces to make a picture.
Instructions: Click on a tile to move it into the empty space.
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