text:
Selecting a health care plan can be an overwhelming task, because the options and coverages can be seemingly endless. Which insurance company should you choose? How much of a deductible should you opt for? Is your current doctor "in network?"
Which is better, a PPO (Preferred Provider Organization) or HMO (Health Maintenance Organization)? Consumer Reports has a guide to help you understand the different "managed care" options available, and to choose the best one for you. The features and differences are many. For example, if you don't want to have to worry about referrals and finding providers "in network," you may want to choose a PPO. With an HMO you might have to pay the full cost to see a provider out-of-network.
Consider a plan's deductible, the minimum amount you'll be responsible for paying before the insurance coverage kicks in. Because the lower the deductible, the higher your premium will be, if you're in good health and have few regular medical expenses, you may want to opt for an insurance plan with a higher deductible.
Next, think about co-pays, the costs you share with the insurance company. You may be responsible for a set amount, say $15, for an office visit, and $100 for a trip to the emergency room. Insurance plans also often have co-insurance, where you'll share an 80/20 or 90/10 or similar agreement with the insurance company. They'll pay 80 percent of the bill, and you'll be responsible for the balance, up to your out-of-pocket maximum, after which insurance should pick up 100 percent of the bill. The higher your out-of-pocket maximum is, the lower your premiums will be. You should weigh this aspect of each plan carefully.
Beware cheap health insurance. Of course, you want to snag the best deal possible, and pay the least amount in monthly premiums. Fully understand the plan and all of its benefits and limits before you agree to a plan. Ask questions and take notes to compare, if you have to. Check Standard & Poors insurance ratings, and try to choose a plan with a company which has an "A" or higher rating. Watch out for things like "no major medical," "guaranteed acceptance," and discounts up to a certain amount. These can be red flags for "junk" insurance plans.
Buy what you need. Don't get roped in to paying more for extended plans or extra benefits that won't actually benefit you that much. Conversely, don't get caught without the coverage you will need. Does the plan you're considering cover hospital stays and prescription drugs? The plan you choose should cover both, as well as outpatient treatments, emergency services, lab work and imaging, preventive care, mental health, substance abuse, rehabilitation services and maternity care (if you're a female of childbearing age).
Know the difference between a discount plan and insurance plan. For a discount plan, you'll pay a monthly fee for a card that may entitle you to discounts from certain providers. These are not intended to be a substitute for a full health insurance plan, and many are scams that won't actually offer you much for your investment. Consumer Reports recommends familiarizing yourself with the Federal Trade Commission's Consumer Information article about the difference between discount plans and health insurance.
Insurance plans, other than Medicare, must now provide a standard Summary of Benefits and Coverage form, detailing deductibles, co-insurance, co-pays, benefits and limitations. Use this form to help you compare different plans.
Share your thoughts and experience about shopping for insurance coverage below in the comments.


text:
NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT — Onstage, he looks like he's having fun, this village cowboy in his feathered Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid hat, in his pancake makeup, in his black leather jacket over a vest over a puffy white shirt. He's singing new lines on "Knockin' on Heaven's Door," singing "Mama, wipe the blood off my face." He's even dancing – bouncing at the knees and spiritedly skittering around – to his own music.
Dylan explained his dancing: "It's been in me for a while. As far as I'm concerned, it's just a natural thing."
And his makeup: "People are gonna ask, 'Why is he doing this, why is he doing that?' But there are always people who don't understand. People that are gonna try and make more out of it than it is. The reason I put it on is so you can see my face from far away."
Photos: Bob Dylan's 1975 Rolling Thunder Revue
From far away . . . That's just what Rosalie Sorrels, folk-singer, songwriter and friend of many of the artists on the Rolling Thunder Revue, was so upset about. She was at the concert in Burlington, Vermont; her old buddy Ramblin' Jack Elliott had arranged for her to see the end of the show from the side of the stage, but she was angry about many of the people she left behind. The 5500-capacity college gym, she said, was oversold, and at $8.50 a head. "There must have been three or four hundred people standing in the back, jammed into the doorways," she said, "and if you weren't 6'4", you just couldn't see. None of us," she went on, "could be seated. And we couldn't hear properly, and that's a rip-off."
In the wings, she was expressing her displeasure – gently, she said – to Elliott.
Well, he reasoned, "we get to more of the people this way, spread all this good music, all these good vibes."
Sorrels interrupted her friend. "Bullshit!" she shouted over the music.
Ramblin' Jack sighed. "All right," he told her, "I want some fuckin' money. I want a boat . . . I've wanted a boat since I was 14 years old."
As Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue passed its two-week mark, other people, at other and larger halls, added their own complaints. At two shows at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in New Haven, November 13th (one sold out 10,500 seats at the door; the other drew 9500), the sound was pitifully inadequate to reach throughout the vast hall, and since all tickets were the same price ($8.50), those relegated to the back felt cheated. Increasingly, as the Revue picked up musical steam, the pretour talk of a cozy trip through small clubs and halls, and of playing for "the people," was more and more being called into question.
The first 13 shows, in nine cities, brought in an estimated 83,478 customers at $7.50 to $8.50 each. At those prices, the gross for the first 13 shows would be a healthy $641,085.
At the onset of the tour, which began October 30th in Plymouth, Massachusetts, and was expected to run about six weeks in the Northeast, Dylan had talked vaguely of playing clubs and small halls. Thus was born a myth which was fostered by his record label and eagerly spread by the press. Only six days into the tour, the Revue began to double up, presenting two shows in one day for 20,878 in Providence and two shows here before 20,000.
Variety, the show business trade newspaper, jumped on Dylan's case with a long article, headlined "Is Dylan Interested in Money?" When the article was read to members of the tour, Dylan's initial reply was oblique: "I never planned to play in anybody's living room." Joan Baez was more direct: "Oh, tell them to just shove it up their asses."
In a lengthier elaboration, Dylan protested that the entire matter had to do with semantics. "Who ever announced that? We've got 70 people going around that we gotta pay for. We're gonna play anyplace we can but we also have a lot of expenses to meet. We're not gonna go out and play living rooms. It's not a nightclub show, you know. I don't know who said we were gonna play nightclubs. That was never intended to be. But we are gonna play some small theaters, and we have played some small theaters and we're gonna continue to play some. We're just playing the halls. I don't know where we're booked."
And the man who does know, tour director Lou Kemp, won't say. He lets the tour members themselves know the next booking through a daily newsletter. He and tour promoters Barry Imhoff and Shelly Finkel continue to swear local hall managers to secrecy when their halls are booked for the Revue. In Providence, for example, Civic Center manager Charles Toomey was contacted by Finkel and Imhoff almost a month before the November 4th show and was told that the booking would be immediately canceled if he told anyone Dylan was coming.
In New Haven, Coliseum manager Loris Smith reported a similar situation. He was the only person in town who knew of the booking until nine days before the show, when tickets went on sale and an announcement was made over WPLRFM. With no advertising, the New Haven booking was 1000 seats short of a sellout. Scalpers ended up hawking $8.50 tickets for as little as $4, even though the show in Burlington, Vermont, found scalpers asking – and getting – up to $40 for a $7.50 ticket.
To read the new issue of Rolling Stone online, plus the entire RS archive: Click Here
|Music Main
MUSIC 9 Classic Devo Videos
OLYMPICS 18 Epic Opening Ceremonies
Picks From Around the Web
blog comments powered by Disqus
Featured News From thedailybeast
We may use your e-mail address to send you the newsletter and offers that may interest you, on behalf of Rolling Stone and its partners. For more information please read our Privacy Policy.
Most Popular
Photos & Videos
Random Notes: Hottest Rock Pictures

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Every super hero needs a theme song. And a super villain to fight against.
Tag Archives: True Genius Requires Insanity
Some excerpts from Ta-Nehisi Coates's tour de force on Obama, race and the limits of integration.
A perspective on the Oak Creek, WI shootings from a member of the Sikh community
In case you missed it, Ms. Badu's choice words to Mr. Coyne
A worthwhile read on the go-go legend


text:
Patrick Buchnowski and Randy Griffith
A state police fire marshal is searching for the cause of a fire that reduced three buildings to rubble and left at least 13 people homeless in Johnstown's Moxham neighborhood late Thursday.
The six-alarm blaze destroyed two unoccupied structures and a five-unit apartment building in the 600 block of Coleman Avenue, city fire officials said.
The fire broke out in an unoccupied building around 10 p.m. and quickly spread to the buildings on each side as firefighters flooded the scene, city fire Chief Anthony Kovacic said.
Two more adjacent homes and some nearby garages also suffered serious damage.
"There was a lot of fire," Kovacic said. "We called in every available firefighter."
People living in the five units in the apartment complex fled the blaze uninjured, firefighters said.
"They got out before we got here," assistant fire Chief Bob Statler said at the scene.
Carlton Nelson, who lived in one of the apartments with his girlfriend and two children, said he was home alone when he spotted flames and roused the neighbors.
"I woke up and seen a big orange ball coming out," Nelson said. "I grabbed my shoes. I pounded on everybody's door. The porch was engulfed. It was hot."
The Salvation Army and Red Cross are helping displaced families, Kovacic said.
Resident Bob Miller, who formerly lived in the apartment building, said he was visiting friends nearby when the fire broke out.
"We heard it on the scanner," Miller said. "We came down to see what was going on. There were embers going 100 feet up in the air."
Several families living across the street were evacuated because of the intense heat, Kovacic said.
Firefighters battled the blaze using fire-suppression foam and water to keep the flames from spreading. Nearby homes were coated with foam for protection.
"We were able to prevent the fire from jumping the street," the chief said.
Power was restored to those homes and residents were allowed back inside around 3 a.m., Kovacic said.
Multiple volunteer fire crews were on standby in city fire stations to protect other areas of the city while Johnstown firefighters handled the blaze.
The strategy changed when the fifth and sixth alarms were called.
"We started to pull them in as the evening went on," Kovacic said. "I can't remember a time when we called in so many resources to help keep us from losing the block."
Six tankers were summoned to supply additional water. Water pressure was reduced when numerous hydrants were opened to battle the fire.
"You end up fighting each other for water," Statler said.
No damage estimate was available.
Several suburban companies also supplied fire police to assist city officers with traffic and crowd control. Hundreds of onlookers packed the neighborhood.
The Red Cross is aiding six families, including 11 adults and two children who lived in the apartment complex and the house next to it.
"We're providing food, clothing and shelter depending upon what their needs were," said Lauren Ashley, Red Cross communication officer.
The unoccupied structure where the fire started had been condemned for some time, neighbors said.
"The picture window was broken out," Moxham neighbor John Arnone said. "One of the neighbors said there were 25 cats living in there."
Click here to subscribe to The Tribune-Democrat print edition.
Click here to subscribe to The Tribune-Democrat e-edition.


text:
Simon Properties, owner of the Nanuet Mall, laid out a rough timeline for the Nanuet Mall after recently picking up the . Clarkstown town Supervisor Alex Gromack stopped by the Nanuet Civic Association meeting Thursday night with an update on the mall's status:
Estimated Timeline
- April 2011: Pick up demolition papers
- June 2011: Submit demolition papers
- September 2011: Demolish structures owned by Simon—main mall concourse, former Boscov's department store building, 2-story parking structure adjacent to the mall off Route 59. Sears and Macy's own their respective buildings
- 2012: Begin rebuilding and renovations
- 2013: Open part or all of the mall
"I don't know what they're spending, I don't know what this could cost, but it's substantial," said Gromack. "What they want to do is, in about 3-4 weeks, they want to come in with a demolition plan and get it approved with our building department and health department and all our entities will have a look at that. In a perfect world, they would like to start the demolition in September … of this year. They're ready to go.
Simon told Gromack that they want to go to the Planning Board in September and go through that process in 6-8 months to "hopefully get their approval and start construction (in February) ... and get part of it open or all of it open in late 2013."
"I don't know if that's a realistic goal, but them wanting to do it so quickly, six to eight months, that would be nice," he said. "So if they could start that process in September while they're doing 3-4 months of demolition, everything's kind of going on two tracks."
"They would like to start the demolition in 2012. I don't know if it's Jan (2012) or December or somewhere in between," Gromack added. "They would like to be open in 2013, and I don't know if that's January or December, but I think we all know that malls and entities that want to open always look at target dates and something about November and December is always an important time to open."
"So that's the news that I have now, nothing in writing, no plans submitted, but it's happening. I feel a lot more confident, than all the other times that they came here and talked about what they want to do. Now I'm telling you what they intend to do."
Simon's Perspective on Rebuilding
"Why did the old Bradlees get renovated? Because That company Stop and Shop felt Clarkstown was a great investment," said Gromack. "If you go down 303 in Congers, you'll see new entities there because we're a good investment. If you look at where Davies Farm house is, there are going to be new incubators and businesses going in there. Good schools, safe community, recreational opportunities, great citizens, it's a good package."
"So along comes Simon. And for the last three years, they've been saying, 'We need to do something' and I've heard all the rumors: that they're selling it to the orthodox, that it's going to be housing."
"Well this is where it's at. I don't have anything in writing, but I've spoken to the individuals again today because we're on a roll with getting information at least verbally. They believe that Nanuet is a strong hamlet, Clarkstown is a strong town and that we're in a good region."
A New Look
- Macy's and Sears will remain
- The main concourse, parking garage and Boscov's will be demolished
- The new mall will be smaller, traditional with an outdoor setting. It will not be enclosed, nor will it be outlets. It will be somewhere in between.
"If you've been to the mall, you've probably run into their architects and engineers tapping on walls of what they're going to knock down because they've got to be careful that when they knock it down, they don't bring Sears or Macy's down with it," said Gromack.
Since Simon does not own the buildings that house Macy's and Sears, Gromack said those buildings would remain.
"They're still up in the air about the look of it. And I misspoke," Gromack said referring to his previous statments of it only being a traditional mall. "It's changed over time. I've called it a 'traditional' mall. What they tell me now is that it's going to be more of an outdoor mall with traditional stores, high-end stores. So not like a Woodbury Commons with an outlet, but a traditional mall with outdoor setting. I have no idea what that means but they'll start presenting plans to you and we'll get an idea, but the good thing is that we've got a great planning board, a great ALC (Town Architectural and Landscape Commission), Zoning board, so it's going to be something very special."
Public Input
- There will be plenty of opportunity for the public to give input
- Input will be taken at planning board meetings and when Simon or Planning board representatives visit community civic meetings
"I spoke to (Tom) Schneider today who's overseeing it," he said. Schneider is Simon's main liason between the town and the company. "His committement is still there. Once they make their formal announcement to put the plans in that they will come to a meeting like this and other meetings because … the entire town should have input. Hopefully it will still be called the Nanuet mall."
"The one thing that I've said, and I think everyone agrees, is we desperately want this mall. It's going to be a little bit smaller. I don't know what it's going to look like. Our standards are a lot higher, they know that and you need to have input and you will have input."
"I think a lot is going to happen in the next 3-6 weeks and it's exciting. One of the things they're going to do very early in the process is come (to local civic meetings). Now, they'll tell you a number of things that they've got locked in, but I think that they can still talk about the look of the mall and other stores that are going in. One thing I can assure you on is an open process."
- Banchetto Feast is moving to Main Street
- A 60-80,000 square feet specialty food store will be included
- The stores will be high-end stores
- The stores at the Nanuet Mall will not likely duplicate existing stores at the Palisades Center
"I think it's very very exciting for Clarkstown and Nanuet. When one group starts to move up, everyone moves up," Gromack said. "They talked about the Italian restaurant Banchetto, moving them out. He had such a great lease that they can't get rid of him."
has a 25-year lease, said Gromack.
"They're going to move him (Banchetto Feast) on to Main Street … (the) dental offices on Main Street is where they're talking about getting Banchetto into … and he'll live on Main Street. When they open, he's not going back."
"The only type of store that I know is some type of specialty food store … and (my wife) believes they're talking about a Whole Foods or a Stew Leonards," Gromack said. "One thing that they indicated is, is that anything that they do, it's got to be high end—middle of the road and up—and it's got to be a little bit different than the Palisades Mall."
"There're are going to be some similarities ... (but) you can't have the Palisades Mall with an Old Navy and the Nanuet Mall with an Old Navy, the Palisades Mall with an Ann Taylor and the Nanuet Mall with an Ann Taylor … that's not going to work and hopefully, I think they know that."
"We're all going to survive because you're still going to need to go to the Palisades Mall because you need that Old Navy t-shirt, but you're going to want to go and do some other kind of shopping (at the Nanuet mall) because they've got certain shops."
Q&A between Gromack and the Public
What happens to the tax base while the mall is in a demolition stage?
"I've got to check with Cathy Conklin (of the Clarkstown Assessor's office), but it's at its lowest point right now, so certainly a year or two of construction, it can't get that much lower. There's still Macy's and (Sears) there. For that short term, it may not even drop anymore because it may at its lowest. Even if it drops for six months, it's going to shoot up quickly. That's certainly good news for the Nanuet School District."
"Cathy Conklin will have to do an assessment on square footage and tenants and everything else. I spoke to Mark McNeill (Nanuet Schools Superintendent) and Anne Byrne (Nanuet School Board President). They're certainly excited about it certainly with the drop of (Pfizer)."
The Boscov's property, who owns that?
Simon Properties owns it.
You said before that we can't have an Old Navy (at the Palisades center) and an Old Navy (at the Nanuet mall, meaning that there will not likely be duplicates in stores between the two malls). Does that mean that Macy's is going to stay (or leave)?
"I believe Macy's and Sears are staying. I believe at one point there was a discussion with Simon … they (Simon Properties) actually made offers to buy those two entities because they would have liked to knock down the whole thing and kind of start with a fresh canvas, but they (Macy's and Sears) want to stay."
"I believe that if you have a nice airy outdoor mall … setting, that those two entities will pick up."
"I think they slowed down part of their discussion for was that there's got to be a blend to the architecture ... I think they want to make the effort to blend in."
Will you be able to assure us that the local infrastructure will be looked at when they rebuild the mall, that it won't destroy the Nanuet community
"Absolutely, and that's why I think it's very important to make sure that you attend some of the planning boards and ALC (Town Architectural and Landscape Commission) meetings and we will have committee forums. The one thing that I feel very positive about is that … I think this is a project that will bring the community together"
Gromack added that Clarkstown will have extra meetings to ensure that the public has input.
"I believe it's a smaller mall. I don't think it's a particularly difficult process because it's not a zone change. They're downsizing it a little bit. They're not looking to expand it bigger than it is."
"I think there will be a community benefit that we will be able to talk to them about, about roads and drainage, certainly the fire department will be involved with some of the discussions."
"The team in Clarkstown is ready. We've told them that it's going to be a busy year, a lot of planning and inspections"
"We want them to meet with you. If there's a time when they're not able to come, we'll have our planning department come out and our town planner come out. We're going to have a lot of meetings. We want to make sure that what's done by Simon is done right and it's what the residents of Nanuet will be proud of. You've got my word on it"
I do know that you're going to have two closed entitites (Macy's and Sears) on the ends and if inside is open, do you think that presents a crime problem and the police should be involved in the planning. I don't want to see Nanuet become a loitering area. We need to have more police in this area because we're having this mall
"That's one of the things that we're going to talk about, this community benefit. The Palisades mall, I think, they make a contribution for additional police protection … so that on Fridays and Saturdays, they have some extra police.. Those are things that as we go through the process we may negotiate."
"I'm not 100 percent sure what an open mall is. They tell me it's not quite a Woodbury Commons, it's not an enclosed mall. I'm getting the sense that it's more like walking down Main Street, beautiful landscapes, facades, stores that you can go into, bigger connecting stores. Hopefully they'll be here in a month and show us some of these concepts and we'll talk about it"
What about the traffic flow on Middletown Road?
"That's going to be all be part of it. Those are traffic studies. A lot of time and attention is going to be put in it. We've got to make it work. We need to let them know that they're entitled to build something because of the zone, but we're entitled that there are certain standards."
"If we feel that this is going to be a very successful mall, they may have to do improvements on Main Street, work with the state DOT because they connect to a state road."
"They need to step up and pay for improvements and we're going to ask for the moon. They've got a lot of money and it's to their benefit. They don't want to create a mall that takes an hour for someone to get into"
Movie Theater?
"I heard a rumor that there was a movie theater, but honestly, the only thing I heard about was this 60-80,000 square feet of a specialty food store."
"They're very anxious to make a presentation and they'll start to outline the stores that they have contracts with and the ones that they're still trying to get and hopefully there will be some room where they'll hear from you guys and what you would like to see."
When the Palisades Mall came, they built the firehouse for West Nyack, when Costco came, they built the firehouse in Pomona, when Home Depot came, they gave money toward a new ambulance corps building, We (Nanuet) could use a new firehouse.
"Everything's on the table. We can certainly talk to them about community benefit. We're going to talk to them about what they can do and certainly the firehouse is near and dear to our hearts."
Are they going to do anything to improve the shopping area with Premier Fitness?
"I don't believe so. They're talking about the main structure (mall concourse)."
The 913,000 square foot mall opened in 1969 and features a variety of stores on two levels and a Macy's department store on the east side of the mall, with a Sears store on the west side.
Officials at Simon Properties have not commented on the future plans for the mall, which was expanded in 1994 and fell onto hard times with the opening of the larger Palisades Center in 1998.
Simon Property Group, Inc. is an S&P 500 company that owns or has an interest in 373 retail real estate properties comprising 256 million square feet of gross leasable area in North America, Europe and Asia. Simon Property Group and employs more than 5,000 people worldwide.
Editor's Note: Check back with Patch later for the Q&A video. Thanks for stopping by.


text:
By Paul Bedard | 07/23/14
By Paul Bedard | 07/24/14
By Paul Bedard | 07/23/14
By Luke Rosiak | 07/23/14
By David M. Drucker | 07/24/14
By: Fred Barnes
Republicans have distinct advantages in Senate races this year, including President Obama's low job ratings, the number of vulnerable Democrats, and an unhappy national mood. But there's...Read More...
By: Abram N. Shulsky, Eric Brown and Hillel Fradkin
Iraqi prime minister Nuri al-Maliki knows what he wants: a third term in office for himself and U.S. military help in defeating ISIS (now the Islamic State). Political reconciliation between...Read More...
By: Wesley J. Smith
Should the law compel nursing homes to starve certain Alzheimer's patients to death? This is not an alarmist fantasy, but a real question, soon to be forced by advocates of ever-wider...Read More...


text:
The News Courier
Church briefs must be submitted in writing, either on a form available at The News Courier office at 410 W. Green St., Athens, or sending email to firstname.lastname@example.com or a fax to 256-233-7753.
• Gospel Meeting. Oakland Church of Christ at 18111 Townsend Ford Road is holding gospel meeting services Feb. 3-8 with speaker Bill Hall. Sunday services are at 9:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. today, Feb. 3, and at 7 p.m. Monday through Friday, Feb. 4-8. Public is invited. Contact: 256-729-8866
• Black history celebration. The Trinity High School Class of 1966 will host its Black History Month Celebration at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 9, at the Village View United Methodist Church. Pastor Gaylon Darby will be the guest speaker. Music is provided by the Round Island Male Choir.
• Fellowship. Deliverance Outreach will have fellowship with New Zion P.B. Church in Harvest at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 10. Speaker of the hour is Pastor Aaron Jones. Deliverance Outreach is in charge of the service.


text:
Plone 3 Intranets
save 15%!
save 37%!
|Also available on:
- Install, set up, and use a corporate Plone intranet with ease
- Secure your intranet using Plone's out-of-the-box features
- Explore the most useful add-ons for your intranet and learn how to use them
- Clear, step-by-step instructions, practical examples, and straightforward explanation
Book DetailsLanguage : English
Paperback : 312 pages [ 235mm x 191mm ]
Release Date : August 2010
Author(s) : Víctor Fernández de Alba
Topics and Technologies : All Books, CMS and eCommerce, Content Management (CMS), Open Source, Plone, Python
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction to Plone
Chapter 2: Getting Started
Chapter 3: Managing our Content
Chapter 4: Configuring our Site
Chapter 5: Managing Users, Groups, Roles, and Permissions
Chapter 6: Managing Workflows
Chapter 7: Securing our Intranet
Chapter 8: Using Content Type Effectively
Chapter 9: Intranet Add-on Products
Chapter 10: Basic Product Development
Chapter 11: Content Rules, Syndication, and Advanced Features
Chapter 12: Theming our Intranet
Chapter 13: Deploying our Intranet
Victor Fernández de Alba's book Plone 3 Intranets is very well written and is for planners and administrators. It contains some of the clearest explanations of users and group administration, sharing and workflow of any of the current Plone books, and the quality of the prose is definitely a cut above Packt's common product. Read more
This book is a great start to get familiar with Plone for business use, and also challenging enough to keep you reaching for it for reference afterwards. I learned quite a bit about the internal workings of the Zope/Plone logic and would highly recommend this book. Read more
Submit Errata
Please let us know if you have found any errors not listed on this list by completing our errata submission form. Our editors will check them and add them to this list. Thank you.
Sample chapters
You can view our sample chapters and prefaces of this title on PacktLib or download sample chapters in PDF format.
What you will learn from this book
- Get to grips with installing Plone and all its dependencies
- Easily set up your Plone site and optimize it to work as an intranet
- Manage users and groups, and use local and global roles to manage content access
- Create and modify Plone workflows and learn how to use them
- Explore the most common security use cases in an intranet and learn how to deal with them in Plone
- Make effective use of content type and some of the out-of-the-box Plone features to work for your intranet
- Enhance your intranet with useful add-on products, like corporate blogs, message boards, document preview helpers, and so on
- Give a fresh, standing-out look to your intranet with attractive themes
- Deploy your intranet and make your site live
In Detail
Plone is widely used for creating feature-rich and secure enterprise intranets. Each company has different goals, architecture, hierarchy, and size and requires a very different intranet to manage its business. No matter what size, or what purpose, Plone offers solutions to the most common intranet needs, and more.
If you've never built an intranet before, you don't even have programming skills, or you don't have any experience with CMSs, this practical guide targeted at people with no previous experience with Plone is the most suitable book for you. Starting from scratch, it will show you how to design and build a feature-rich, secure corporate intranet easily, by optimizing the features of Plone. It will guide you from the initial setup through Plone basics, security, and workflow-related topics, ending with the most common deployment techniques. It will help you learn how to use content types effectively for your intranet. You will learn how to manage the life cycle of your documents and content in general using workflows. It will teach you how to manage security and access to your content granularly. You will learn to manage local users, and get to know about the mechanisms that Plone makes available to the users to manage their data.
This step-by-step book will also show you how to choose the right add-on products for your site, and how to enhance your intranet by using them efficiently. At the end, you will learn how to deploy your intranet and make your site live for your users.
Build your own Plone-based intranet easily and successfully by focusing on effective usage of content type, security, content life cycle, and suitable Plone add-ons
This is a step-by-step guide, from installing your first Plone instance to deploying your intranet. Each chapter will show you an essential aspect that your intranet should have. However, each chapter is isolated enough to serve as a reference manual for later use. The book is packed with examples and useful screenshots for easy learning.
Who this book is for
This book is for anyone who needs to build an intranet with no limits on capabilities or features. Even if you don't have previous CMS experience or programming skills, this book is for you. Targeted at beginners with no previous experience with Plone, this book will teach you step by step and at the end you should have a full-featured, reliable, and secure intranet.


text:
Wow, I have never seen such developers all over the world so unanimous on any issue. If anything, I underestimated how much people hate job boards clogged with anonymous posts put up by commission- and resume-fishing recruiters.
The jobs board policy will remain: We will continue to require a company name and take down posts that don't disclose the actual company.
Recruiters can use it if they post the name of the company that is actually hiring. This, I think, will only be of interest to recruiters doing exclusive searches (also known as "retained searches").
Finally, summer intern Noah has added a feature to display the Joel Test score on the main page for companies that choose to fill it out, which seems to be quite a lot of them. Thanks, summer intern Noah!
You're reading Joel on Software, stuffed with years and years of completely raving mad articles about software development, managing software teams, designing user interfaces, running successful software companies, and rubber duckies.
I'm Joel Spolsky, co-founder of Fog Creek Software, a New York company that proves that you can treat programmers well and still be highly profitable. Programmers get private offices, free lunch, and work 40 hours a week. Customers only pay for software if they're delighted. We make Trello, which lets you organize anything, together, FogBugz, enlightened issue tracking software for bug tracking, and Kiln, which provides distributed version control and code reviews. I'm also the co-founder and CEO of Stack Exchange. More about me.


text:
Schytians were not Slavs, they were more Persian. Which means you're going very very far if you drag that line towards Russia. It's hardly even comparable. And as for Revelations, well it's so full of imagery that it can just as well be the US it's describing. As for Ukraine it will not join NATO nor will Putin invade or annex the Eastern part of Ukraine. The reason for this is that the government in Ukraine could accept giving up the Eastern Part of Ukraine due to the trade off; 9 million pro Russia voters are no longer in consideration when it comes to elections. Suddenly the pro-West of Ukraine will turn towards EU and the US and before you know it Ukraine will be a part of NATO. Then Putin will have the missile defense shield along the Polish and Ukrainian border as well as NATO bases. I don't think the rest of NATO would hesitate much by letting Ukraine join NATO, simply because it would mean that they'd get a larger border against Russia as well as the possibility for NATO ports in the Black Sea. In all fairness; the result above would actually serve the West a lot more than status quo.
What is highly likely to happen is an independent Eastern Ukraine which Russia will have as a buffer state against Western Europe. Ukraine will at no point be allowed to join NATO simply because Putin can very well turn off the gas valve that keeps them warm in the winter. No gas for Ukraine would send the price for rest of Europe skyrocketing, and although Europe would survive it would set them back quite severely. Gas prices would also make oil prices jump, which would be hurtful for the US. None of the NATO countries(apart from the oil producing ones) will benefit from Ukraine joining NATO. In fact it's more likely that Ukraine will join the EU than NATO, even if that is highly unlikely. Putin might be going mental, but he knows that a war with the West won't be a short one, and long term wars are expensive especially when you go to war with your trade partner. At worst we're heading for small version of the Cold War era, but still the countries will be trading. Europe is dependent on Russia and vica verca. Don't think you need to head into your basement just yet.
Be a massive cocktease and get tons of free drinks. Maybe make some dude miserable by telling him I'm fat and watch them try to convince me otherwise. You know, typical woman things...
Hey, does that mean you lot would be having the babies too? I'd like to see you squeeze one out hahahhahahahah Let me see you say how a little baby that your man literally just shat out is beautiful. Not to mention you going out to get us pickled herrings at 2 AM because we're craving it
Malala is a brave girl, no one will contest that. She stood up against the Taliban and have been a vital spokesperson for education for women in the third world, as well as the rest of the world. No doubt about it. The issue finally has a face and it's someone that the first world has actually fallen in love with. However, has she really done anything? Has she done anything else than light a hope in the world? In my opinion, no. Secondly, she is 16. Does anyone know what a massive prize her head would be for any fundamendalist groups in the world had she been given the peace prize? Lets face it, it's not just the Taliban that are against her, but there are nutjobs in the rest of the world as well that are sympathetic to the extreme islamic views(mostly they're in the west because they get ostrochised from their small local communities). I actually believe she would have been living on borrowed time and schools might have been force to take the choice between letting her go to their school and risking the lives of her fellow pupils, or expelling her. It's an increadibly difficult situation. EDIT: Likewise, the deadline for nominating people to the peace prize ran out in February. Her major contributions have been after this deadline, so according to the will of Alfred Nobel(which dictates what the recipient must have done to earn it) she's not even close to being eligable for the prize. I have no doubt that she will at some point get it should she continue her work, but not now. OPCW actually has done something to promote peace. The destruction of weapons is a big step towards peace. Some 75% of the world's chemical weapons have been destroyed so far by them, and now they're heading into the world's biggest chemical weapons cache in Syria. These are truly the unsung heroes, because they don't hold speeches, but prevent children from suffering agonising deaths from Sarin gas. As for the Nobel committe being biased, they're actually rather broad in the political spectrum. Each party in the Norwegian parliment selects one member to be placed there. Although the current chairman is a humongeous twat that has his eyes on Norway becoming part of the EU and himself as the President of the EU, it's still a broad spectrum of politicians that have managed to piss off China to such a degree that they've cut a lot of ties to Norway, politically and financially. So no, it's not a bunch of stupid commies sitting there.
So we've had the fuss about GTA V being released and making more money than any games, movies or music by the first 24 hours. Still to come we have the big guns of Battlefield 4 and Call of Duty: Ghosts as well as Assassin's Creed Black Flag and Batman Arkham Origins. Tons of other less known, like Football Manager that will probably do well in Europe. Any games you're particularly looking forward to? Anyone that is a must have? Personally Batman and Assassin's Creed is a must buy for me. I'll have a look at whatever else pops up, but this is definetely a must for me.
Have you tried telling him what makes you feel good? If you masturbate at all then surely you know how to give yourself an orgasm. Just because something works on one woman, doesn't mean that it works on you. For all you know he'll end up with a girl that says surprise buttsex is so pleasurable despite the pain that he should try it on you and before you know it you're in the ER. Like Kimasa said, do you really believe that him shagging another woman would benefit your sex life? Is him fucking another woman something that turns you on, because if it's not then I doubt there's really any point of doing it. And if he is crappy in bed then I doubt she'll be willing to be a teacher and bring him into sexual training, because that would require a lot of patience. I could see the thrill of training an 18yo virgin to suck my dick like a godess, but I have to admit having to "train" a sexually experienced woman in her 30's would have less of an appeal to me...
If the Confederate flag is supposed to symbolise hard work and church on the Sunday and all that then they've done one shitty job at marketing it for that purpose. To me it is THE symbol of American stupidity, racism, bigotry, opressing, Bible bashing, intolerance and a bunch of other things, simply because the ones wielding it have been spewing this crap. Banning it isn't the solution, you just have to educate people, although given that the states and different schoolboards have so much liberty in what is to be taught at school it will take some time before that happens. In the meantime, let me turn your attention to this picture. Notice the caption in the bottom. Kinda sums it up... http://www.lamebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/rebwed3.png
Unless they both engulf eachother's pussies in a 69 then I'm quite sure that there's at least one hole available for you to stick your cock in. Just wait and see what happens. If they do a 69 then maybe you can stick your cock in one of them. If one licks the other with her ass up in the air you have a pussy/ass or mouth available to you. Go with the flow. Spontaniuety(if that's a word) is part of the fun about the whole thing. No plan survives longer than the first shot...
Tobacco and alcohol would both be banned if they had been discovered today, had we known all the negative effects. There are no real positive sides that can outweigh all the negative effects for it.As for what smoking does, as Felix said it does relax the smoker. The nicotine does raise your heart rate, but it lowers your blood pressure and it gives your brain a relaxed feeling. I had my bloodpressure taken right after a smoke and the nurse had to ask if I was feeling alright. But the extra taxes on tobacco is big business for all the governments. Look at the EU. They're trying to appear proper by working on a ban on certain tastes to cigarettes, like menthol, but they've still banned snus, a Swedish form for tobacco that you put under your lip. I've tried the US version and it's not the same. Point is that snus reduces the risk of cancer by 90%, basically meaning it's healthier. So where's the common sense in saying you want people to stop smoking, but you outright ban something that has helped a lot of smokers quit is retarded. It's like banning drugs and then saying you also ban methadone.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/10/02/the-shutdown-is-the-constitutions-fault/It's a pretty long one, but basically he says that the constitution is to blame for the shutdown and advocates for the removal of the current political system in the US and get in parlamentarism instead. There are currently two houses that are put equal, and basically it makes it rather difficult for the voters to know exactly who to blame for things going to shit. In 2010 the economy was garbage, so, as political science would predict, the American people punished the party in power, the Democrats.But the diffusion of power throughout the political system made it impossible to know for sure who was responsible for the state of the economy. Maybe it was the fault of Susan Collins and other moderate senators who used filibuster threats to cut the stimulus. Maybe it was the fault of the rest of the Republican caucus for imposing a 60-vote threshold for stimulus and not cooperating. Maybe it was the Bush-appointed Federal Open Market Committee's fault for not loosening rates in 2007 and 2008. Maybe it was all Obama's fault for not pushing for more stimulus, and Democrats in Congress would have been happy to pass it. In most other countries the government needs the backing of the parliment to actually be appointed. Sure, both Italy and Germany have presidents, but the power is with the Prime Minister who runs a government based on which party got how many seats. In terms it's quite easy to see who to blame; it's the guys in power, no matter what. It's not a question of whether it's the President/Prime Minister or the people in the parliment. A survey showed that only 10% of the US population have faith in the congress(couldn't find the source, sorry), and I doubt things will improve over this stalemate. So is it time where they should actually have a voting on whether or not to rethink the entire political system and adopt parlamentarism with only one house?
OK I should of said, do you think BB is a way to communicate with your friends when you see them online. This has nothing to do with cybering or sexual talking, or do you think it is privating? You're talking to someone, so it is a way of communication if you look at the definition of the word. I'm not sure what you're asking for here. It's communication between you and another person that no one else can see. Maybe if you gave a tad more info then it would give some better paramters...
We change in the way we percieve words. If you called a black man a nigger in the 60's you were a regular white person, today you're a racist. I think that the same is with Redskin. It used to be a perfectly acceptable word to use(even if it was meant in a discriminating manner), but today it's not all that ok. If it had been a couple of overly politically correct reports then I would have said show them the finger, because I usually just hate journalists. If the movement and desire for change is at grassrot level, then it's need to change. A club is nothing without it's supporters, and in manners like this the supporters should be heard. Just don't change it to Washington Native Americans, that will just look ridicilous...
How many hours of sleep do you need per night? I'm simply curious to know.Personally, I need a minimum of 8 hours, but to really feel my best I need at least 9 hours. It's not rare for me to sleep 10-11 hours on the weekend either.I answered 9 hours on the poll.I've always been a big sleeper and envy those who can get away with less sleep time. You have a rather unhealthy sleep pattern that at some point is going to backfire on you. I had a similar one to what you have, sleeping at all kinds of hours and my shrink gave me a very thourogh explenation of why that is going to fuck you up. There are two different theories regarding sleep. One is that we have four different stages of sleep; REM, Alpha, Beta and Delta sleep. REM is when you dream and your brain is very active, while Delta is when your brain is more or less shut off and it's only keeping your vitals alive. I'm sure I'm not the only one that has woken up one hour before the alarm clock and felt refreshed and then thought "I can sleep an hour more!" and then woken up pretty much ruined despite having one hour more of sleep. This is because if you wake up during REM then your brain is pretty much switched on and it only need a few more switches to become 100% functional. However if you go from Delta to fully awake then it's like starting an old engine in 30 degrees below zero. The second is that you have a section of your sleep called Nadir. This is usually at around 4 AM if you go to sleep at around 10-11. Switching this around so that at one stage it's 5 AM and then suddenly 3 AM and so forth fucks you up and you'll wake up feeling exhausted. The most effective way for this not to happen is basically just keep a set sleeping pattern all week, e.g. to bed at 12 and up at 7, even through the weekend. They've done quite a bit of research on it. They also say that more than 7 hours of sleep a night is unhealthy and that you'll actaully die younger if you sleep 9 hours a night versus 6 hours a night. Personally I have been able to function on 3 hours of sleep, as long as my brain is occupied. That's the important thing for me. If I do something boring and mundane, like sitting on a long bus trip, then I'll be exhausted even after 9 hours of sleep. What happens when I'm awake is more important than how long I sleep for me to function.
I would suggest riding a bike, it be stationary or actually going outside the gym, and run it on lighter gears. Then you keep movement but you don't really put pressure on it. Movement is good unless you're healing from a fracture or a torn tendon or something, but not putting weight on it.
Ask your doctor if there's anywhere they can take a mould or scan of the underside of your foot. It's a very common problem that the weight isn't distributed evenly like it should when you walk or run. This can cause problems all the way up to your lower back. Treatment is a pair og custom made soles you put in your shoes.If you have knee problems in general then get good shoes and don't run on pavement or treadmill. Find a softer surface to run on.
Apparently, the venison wasn't destroyed because it wasn't inspected or properly handled, it was rejected just because it was venison. Louisiana law forbids the serving of venison in any public place, restaurants or any public eating facility, such as a homeless shelter. They had been eating venison for years at this homeless shelter, but one of the people complained about being fed deer meat. It only takes one asshole to ruin things for everybody. Is this because of health reasons? I know that we in Norway have strict rules regarding livestock being given antibiotics and how long it takes before you can send them to the slaughter house. Can it be that there's something that the deer eat in the wild that makes it kinda dodgy to actaully take money for the meat. Some kind of disease that has ridden the area? After all, they do suspect that the Muslim ban on pigs was actually due to pigs were usually disease ridden. Basically if this is the case then what kind of signal would it send out if you say "You can't sell this to paying customers, but you can give it to the homeless." Imagine the state recieving the heat for calling homeless people second class citizens. But this is just me speculating.
I might have a wrong impression of American society, but consider this scenario and tell me if you find it implausible; someone eats the venison and gets sick and maybe dies because of it. They do an autopsy and find out it was something wrong with the venison. A family member that has no sense of morality and common decency decides to sue someone, maybe even the city, for letting food that hasn't gone through the proper channels be distributed to homeless people. Person gets X million dollars even though the judge says "This is fucking ludicrous, but it's the law." It's a fucking stupid and horrendous scenario, but I've learned to never underestimate the greed of humans.
But it isn't immoral to break the laws? In answer to this; it all depends on whose side you're looking at and what moral law they broke. Woman is forced into a marriage and can't by law get out of the marriage. Her husband beats her and abuses her in all kinds of ways. She flees the country and has thus by definition broken the law of her country. From her husbands and the local views she has acted immoral, but from a western point of view she has broken a inhuman law and is thus not immoral. You seek for a simplistic answer in a place there is none.As for your scenario, there are no moral obligations for anyone considering our point of view, but maybe if he has a relative that have helped him out with different necessary tasks and helped him build up his empire it could be immoral to throw out a good portion of his inheritance into the sea. To me it more seems like he's doing what you do a lot of the time; trolling As for laws an morality in general, it seems to me you're saying that without morality there would be no laws. That's wrong. Without morality there would be pragmatism, you'd have a completely neutral view on what makes the society run smoothest and will benefit most if not everyone. Let's remove morality out of the equation and throw out the law against stealing as well. It becomes easier to break a window and get what you want than it is to actually go to work and earn what you need to buy the ware. Society will if not stagnate then at least slow down due to there not being anyone buying or producing things, but they're instead stealing it. Even societies that have had no problems with blood vengance due to deaths have had secondary solutions simply because it doesn't benefit society that people go on killing each other.
Not so sure about the idea of a newbie chatroom. Can imagine plenty of guys wanting to"help" the newbies...Consider the chatroom as a bar. You go in and see a bunch of people. You order a beer and then dit down at a corner table and don't talk to anyone. Do you think it would be fair to call the other people in the bar cliquy because they didn't approach you? Try talking to someone. There are hundreds of people that go into the chatroom and you're sure to find someone that will say hi back. Just don't be too timid to engage in a conversation.
I just wash with regular soap and a washcloth. I also trim my pubes which makes me sweat less in the entire area. Never had any problems with it.I'm guessing most guys, at least uncircumsiced guys, have had the experience of finding cock cheese under their foreskin. Little white stuff that looks kinda like feta cheese. This isn't a sign of you having a shitty hygiene, it's actually glands around the head that's excreeting it as an additional lube. It's made from the same stuff that comes out of your zits when you squeeze them, so yes ladies, you have cock cheese too. And it's in your face. But if you see it, wash it off. Once it has reached that stage it has no more use.
Elit, what a sad song you've sung yourself! I wish you a MUCH happier day than this sounds! //www.youtube.com/embed/h_TFFdFGEFo Never mind, lad. I care. BEST... BIRTHDAY SONG.... EVER!!!!!
How about passing a law that says you can't post or publish pictures of children(below 18) without the parent or legal guardian's written consent. Sure, you take out the paparazzis and they'll cry about free press and all that, but then again; what about the protection of other children? Children that are somehow involved in witness protection program, children that are hiding from abusive parent(s). I'm sure if we took the time we could come up with hundreds of reasons why posting pics of people under the 18 without the parent's written consent should be against the law. If national security can override civil liberties, then why the hell can't the protection of children do so?
Stripes is the thing this year, and they come in black and some other colour. http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FLso9f8lESE/UdRZpSFDOKI/AAAAAAAAUcE/jFUAZwZQTXI/s738/Hull+City+13-14+Home+Kit.jpg
Those Paparazzi's are in general the bottom feeders of society. The scum of the earth. Even if Halle Berry moved to the middle of Montana she would still have a bunch of paparazzi's following her and her kids, because they're celebreties. Headlines would be "See Berry's new country life" and so forth. Once you've hit the star, these piranahs will go through hell and back to get pictures of you. The newer and more different the better. Just look at Lady Diana. She was dead in her car and those bastards were still taking pictures of her.So no, the paparazzis will get no sympathy from me. They're the kind of people that abuse the 1st ammendment and freedom of press and make a mockery of it. No way in hell will I ever stand shoulder to shoulder with those cunts.
Distrust sadly is no real damage. Just because there are a bunch of human rights violations doesn't mean people will stop buying stuff from the US or stop accepting US money in whatever form it comes. The US has only lost face, nothing more.And the corrupt old facists at IOC won't stop the olympics unless there is footage of Putin in Siberia standing in front of a Gulag and says in very broken English "In here we kill faggots". It's the very terrible truth of how money has corrupted what used to be an event that was about peace.
If Russian law - or homophobic hooliganism causes arrest or injury of foreign athletes or olympic attendees, the Olympics are going to get a serious and deserved black eye. Russia/Putin may or may not care, but its rep will take damage. Putin and Russia are too powerful to give a crap about their reputation, especially regarding something like this. Come summer the incidents would sadly be forgotten. Just look at the US. How many scandals have not the US in general been a part of over the years, with Gitmo, Abu Ghraib, Iraq war, Manning, Snowden and PRISM and all the other things, yet still there are more skeletons in the closet as the rest of the world views it. The USA, Russia and China are a couple of the countries in the world that are so powerful and influential that they can give the finger to the rest of the world. Now the Norwegian IOC member have actually gone on record and said that anyone who wants to do the a pro-gay protest should just forget about it because it's in the Olympic charter that there will be no politicla demonstration by athletes. So basically, Sprite on the the top of the podium wrapping herself in the rainbow flag would make her lose her medal.
One thing you didn't consider; the change in market price of gold, silver and platinum once it gets revealed that a massive amount is now gone forever.


text:
The Mets should keep John Maine around for next season.
2009 Mets Transaction Register, Part 2
Non-Tender Candidate: Jeff Francoeur
I attended seven Mets games this season, six at Citi Field and one at Nationals Park, resulting in a 4-3 record. Without looking at numbers and going with my gut, I felt like the following Mets...
2009 Mets Transaction Register, Part 1
1st base coach Luis Alicea will not be back on the Mets coaching staff in 2010. 3rd base coach Razor Shines will be back with the organization, but not as 3rd base coach (pop the champagne). Sandy Alomar Sr. will also be re-assigned, exiting his bench coach role. Pitching coach Dan Warthen, hitting coach Howard Johnson and bullpen coach Randy Niemann will retain their jobs.
The Mets didn't quite live up to the expectations of the Amazin' Avenue community.
Jeremy Reed will almost certainly be non-tendered by the Mets and with good reason.
Drawing walks? Good. Allowing walks? Bad.
Hitting homeruns is good. Allowing homeruns is bad.
We'll email you a reset link.
If you signed up using a 3rd party account like Facebook or Twitter, please login with it instead.
You must be a member of Amazin' Avenue to participate.
We have our own Community Guidelines at Amazin' Avenue. You should read them.
You must be a member of Amazin' Avenue to participate.
We have our own Community Guidelines at Amazin' Avenue. You should read them.
Choose an available username to complete sign up.
In order to provide our users with a better overall experience, we ask for more information from Facebook when using it to login so that we can learn more about our audience and provide you with the best possible experience. We do not store specific user data and the sharing of it is not required to login with Facebook.


text:
With a list of endorsements that reads like a who's who of Brooklyn politics, easily won the Democratic nomination for state Assembly Thursday night.
The male district leader for the 57th Assembly District who had strong backing from outgoing Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries, beat out fellow district leader and education policy wonk and Haitian soccer mom with nearly two-thirds of the vote, according to the New York Times.
In the final count, with 100 percent of precincts reporting, Mosley got 4,295 votes or 62.6 percent, Alabi got 2,078 votes or 30.3 percent while Martine Guerrier, despite a New York Times endorsement, got just 493 votes, or 7.2 percent.
"We knocked on thousands of doors, made thousands of calls, and I am proud to say that we are here today in victory," Mosley said in a written statment after the results were in.
"I look forward to going to Albany and working with my sister, Tish James, in City Hall and my brother, Hakeem Jeffries, in Congress. Together, as a progressive trifecta, we will work for you and fight for the 57th Assembly district."
The Howard Law School graduate will face Republican Francis Voyticky in the November election in this heavily Democratic district.
Born and raised in Central Brooklyn, Mosley has worked for former Gov. David Paterson, on John Kerry's presidential bid in 2004 and most recently as an advisor to the New York State Senate Democratic Minority Conference.
"Public service is in my blood," Mosley . "My grandparents helped elect one of the first African-American Supreme court jurists in Kings County. That story was told to me growing up throughout my childhood."
"The 57th has changed a lot in the last 30 years, with new residents and businesses changing the demographics," he added. "However many of the problems that Brooklynites faced then are still the same now. I want to go up to Albany and work with my fellow colleagues in government to bring the best results to Brooklyn."
Martine Guerrier congratulated Mosley on her website, saying he was "well organized" and ran "a strong campaign."
She said she's considering trying again in 2014.
"Though the outcome is not the one I was working for, I did learn alot about the process," she told Patch via e-mail.
"I made contact with thousands of people (who apparently need more convincing that primary elections matter) and can now tackle a broader scope of local concerns and national issues because I have shown everyone that I am willing to jump into the arena to be a voice of the people," she added.
Alabi sent an e-mail early Friday morning thanking supporters.
"We are proud of the campaign we ran and the hard work we put in. It was truly an honor to meet so many on the campaign trail, but what is more to have the opportunity to discuss issues pertinent to our community. We will continue to 'fight the good fight' to improve the quality of life for so many in the 57th Assembly District and beyond. All the best moving forward," she wrote.


text:
Libby O'Ruairi
I love animals, especially cats, and enjoy spending time with family and friends. Living at the beach or near a large lake one day is my dream. I enjoy walking and meditation and try to make each day a little better than the day before.
Recent Activity
No activities to show.
Copyright ©2014 Planck LLC d/b/a Patch Media. All rights reserved | Patch Network


text:
I was always curious why classical composers use names like this Étude in E-flat minor (Frédéric_Chopin) or Missa in G major (Johann Sebastian Bach). Is this from scales of this songs? Weren't they blocked to ever use this scale again? Why didn't they create unique titles?
Many classical composers frequently used this method that you stated. Bach wrote over 1120 pieces. Naming 1120 pieces, each with a unique name can be hard. Some were named for where they were performed e.g. the Brandenburg Concertos. It was also common for a composer to number his pieces of the same format. Eine Kleine Nachtmusik is also known as Serenade No. 13 for strings in G Major. The most common technique, however, was to name after the musical form and it's key. Beethoven composed a Bagatelle in C minor. He then titled this piece Bagatelle in C minor. His well known Fur Elise is also referred to as Bagatelle No. 25 in A minor.
Using a key did not prohibit a composer from using that key again (there are only thirty keys). Using a key did not prohibit them from using the same key on a work with the same form either. Bach wrote over thirty Prelude and Fugues. Four of these were Prelude and Fugue in A minor. They are now differentiated by their own BWV catalog numbers (assigned in 1950). Many pieces did have unique titles, but with the amounts of pieces the composers composed, unique titles were difficult to come up with. Also, most pieces had no lyrics. It is much easier to come up with a title when there are lyrics. So, they turned to this technique. It was used frequently during the Common Practice Period.
By "Classical", I assume you mean "not pop music" rather than the historical Classical Period specifically. The examples you gave weren't actually Classical composers (J.S. Bach was a Baroque composer; Chopin was Romantic).
In Bach's case, his music was always very functional - it almost always served a purpose. As such, it made sense to give functional names to his works. Categorising pieces into a musical form and a key (Toccata & Fugue in D Minor) made much more sense than subjective sentimental titles like "Scary Atmosphere for a Haunted House", for example.
Another reason was the sheer volume of works that these composers produced (Bach wrote over 1,100; Chopin a 'mere' 230 that we know of). Naming them all with something poetic would have been a task in itself!
In addition, the majority of these functionally-named works were instrumental - if you look at their choral/vocal pieces, they are more likely to have alternative names, simply because having words in them means a title is easy to extract.
Compare these with modern music which is now predominantly vocal, i.e. pop songs - and you can see why we don't really need to name things with reference to form and key any more. The title is suggested by the lyrical content.
So as ubiquitous as Justin Beiber may seem, he has a long way to go before he even equals a quarter of Chopin's output and hence he can still name his composition "Boyfriend" rather than "R&B Hip-Hop song in B♭minor".
The purpose of adding so much information is to insure the reader knows which work is in question. To make up a case, say we start with a Chopin Waltz. We could name the key - Eb, for example - but there could be more than one Waltz in Eb. To narrow it down, we might provide an opus number (when it was composed) or a date in the case of some more recent composers. What if there is more than one Waltz in that key and with that same opus number? We would need to know the number in the opus. This isn't a Chopin work but let's pursue the business to the end for an imaginary one - Chopin (composer) Waltz (title) in Eb (key) Opus 50 (order of when it was submitted for publication) No. 3 (to be specific), so Chopin's Waltz in Eb, Op. 50 No. 3. That's almost always enough information. If we need to be even more specific than that, perhaps the tempo could be sited, but I've never seen that occur.
A simple answer is: because it works; it helps to reduce the number of matching pieces and there is a good chance, that it is unique then. For example Schubert: if you select "c major", just two symphonies remain, therefore a "little" or "great" is usually added. One easily recognises, that this naming is only possible at later times. The names came seldom from the composer itself, but were either invented later for easy classification or - more likely - by the publisher of the score, to have something like a "marketing brand" (often even against the will of the composer). Further sources are customer ordering or artist playing the piece (Goldberg-Variations, Diabellis variations contest), the town, where the first performance took place (Haydns London symphonies are a handful, so additional characteristics were needed, like "the clock" due to a rhythmic pattern in a middle movement). One has to remember, that in the days before radio and grammophone composers were simple responsible for producing music for banquets. I can imagine, that they were happy to have a piece finished and the score copied in time and did not bother for inventing a name.
Even in the context of rock and roll, coming up with names is hard. Gems like "A Simple Desultory Philippic" don't just grow on trees. You have to dig them up!
There is some trend toward abandoning "names" in electronic music, where sometimes just the BPM will suffice. And of course, sound effects recordings.
It'd be nice to get away with calling things "double-boogie 100 #3", "minor descending-bass rag 120 #2", "rock waltz #437".
My guess is that a musical piece was just that, and did not need to be connected with other aspects as it is today.
Music expresses very often non-musical feelings nowadays, for examples through titles (but not only). I don't think it was the case then, not to the same extent.
We give very much importance to the name of a piece today, but there was no need to choose a name then, since that was not as important.
I suppose that this changed when composers started to consistently express something else than just the music, through the music. Debussy's symphonic poems come to mind, but it surely started long before him.


text:
By Bill Burt
---- — BOSTON — Three days after fearing and seeing the worst, Rich Whalley was smiling yesterday.
His parents, Eric and Ann Whalley, formerly of North Andover, were injured to varying degrees after the explosions on Boylston Street near the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
Both needed immediate surgeries — his dad, Eric, had a piece of shrapnel in his brain, a severely damaged eye and several broken bones while his mother had a very bad leg injury — and were in separate buildings in Intensive Care Units.
Yesterday they were moved to the same room, both nearly stabilized enough to be moved out of ICU. And both got an important visitor to their hospital room, Michelle Obama, President Barack Obama's wife.
"It was an amazing day," said Rich, a 2006 graduate of North Andover High. "It was amazing how much better my parents looked and the fact that they were in the same room together. And then Michelle Obama came by. It really was incredible."
Only a few hours after the explosion on Patriots Day, his dad, Eric, was seen in a dramatic photo being led away from the scene in a wheelchair with blood all over his body.
He hadn't been able to speak to his family until yesterday.
"My dad was moving around, cracking jokes, being real positive," said Rich, whose parents moved to Charlestown after he graduated from college in 2010. "He has made an amazing recovery. Everything is stable in his head. His right eye is damaged. And the piece of shrapnel (in his head) is a BB. But he will probably be moved out of ICU (Friday or Saturday)."
According to Rich, his mother Ann had major injuries to one of her legs, including some soft tissue damage. Both of his parents suffered from burns on one of their legs.
"It is still a little overwhelming for her," said Rich, who has spent many hours with his parents along with his brother Chris. "But she's going in the right direction."
Rich said he hasn't really talked much about the bombing, though he said, "From my understanding my father remembers it all. My mother is still in shock."
Rich said he and his brother have been overwhelmed by the support his parents have received, which includes a fund — The Whalley Recovery Fund, www.giveforward.com/fundraiser/yy72/whalleyrecoveryfund, which has almost seen $50,000 in donations.
"We can't thank people enough," said Rich, a 2010 graduate of MIT. "We still have a long way to go. But they are getting better and that's where our focus is right now."
The Whalley Recovery Fund A fund has been set up to help the recovery of Ann and Eric Whalley, both 65, after suffering major injuries from the explosions on Boylston Street near the finish line of the Boston Marathon in Boston. Their two sons, Chris (34) and Rich (25), North Andover High alumni, are with them at the hospital and doing everything they can to support their parents. The Whalley family has a long road ahead of them physically and emotionally as they recover together from this horrible tragedy. As friends of the Whalley family, a recovery fund to help ease their financial burden has been started. Go to www.giveforward.com/fundraiser/yy72/whalleyrecoveryfund for more information.


text:
Jake Meadors filled in for injured Silver Creek quarterback Brooks Howell and threw a 25-yard touchdown pass to Austin Hasting to give the Dragons a 6-2 halftime lead against Corydon Central on Friday.
However, despite a great effort by the Creek defense, the more experience Panthers were able to outscored the Dragons 13-0 in the second half for a 15-6 Mid-Southern Conference victory.
The Panthers are now 3-0 and are giving up fewer than seven points per contest. Silver Creek continued to show its vast improvement on defense. In two games a year ago, the Dragons gave up 70 and 42 points against Corydon.
The 15 points Silver Creek surrendered tied a school record set a year ago in a 35-15 win over North Harrison.
The Dragons (1-2) are back in Mid-Southern Conference action next week when they face 1-2 Eastern.


text:
RALEIGH — The Carolina Hurricanes owe one to Taylor Swift.
Because of Swift's concert Friday at PNC Arena, the Canes had to move to Raleigh Center Ice for the day. Two preseason practices were held, and a team scrimmage that proved to be feisty, fierce and physical.
Before the scrimmage ended, there were two fights, a lot of big hits, one woozy player and a smile on the face of Canes coach Kirk Muller.
"I'm very pleased. The competitive level was great," Muller said.
The smaller rink at RCI was a factor in the physicality. Put big bodies in smaller spaces and there will be more collisions on the ice.
Forward Jared Staal had the first big hit in the scrimmage, a jarring check on defenseman Tim Gleason.
"I thought he set the whole tempo of the practice with his hit," Muller said.
Jared Staal, the youngest of the Canes' three Staal brothers, wasn't through, later hitting Gleason again and drawing a menacing stare and glare.
Soon, veteran defenseman Mike Komisarek and forward Nicolas Blanchard dropped the gloves and started throwing punches. Later, defenseman Matt Corrente and forward Brendan Woods did the same.
Corrente was reacting to Woods hammering Jiri Tlusty along the boards. Tlusty left the ice for treatment and was held out of the second practice session, but Muller said the forward could return for Saturday's workouts at PNC Arena.
And no complaints from the coach.
"Hey, camp's started," Muller said. "There are a lot of guys ready to go. There's a fine line between respect and veterans and young guys and wherever you are on the totem pole. ... If I'm a player and I worked hard all summer and I trained in the gym and I know there's a job opening right now, you've got to go out and show it. That's where we're at.
"We're not a team that made the playoffs or the Stanley Cup finals last year. We don't have our 20 set guys. We're looking for guys who want to play a certain style and play hard and I thought the guys get the message and did it on the ice."
The pace of the scrimmage was brisk, the mood intense. Forwards Zac Dalpe and Drayson Bowman scored, but the staff was gauging effort as much as results Friday.
Blanchard, like Jared Staal, spent most of last season with the Charlotte Checkers in the American Hockey League but did make his NHL debut with the Canes. Komisarek signed a one-year, free-agent contract with the Canes, looking to resurrect his career after some lean years with the Toronto Maple Leafs.
In a flash, the two were at each other behind the net, landing some solid blows. And then, just as quickly, shaking it off.
"It happens when you battle hard in a scrimmage," Blanchard said. "It's not something you're looking to do against your own teammate. But after the fight I tapped (Komisarek's) pads. It was over. He wasn't mad and I wasn't mad. It just happened. We play hard."
Asked about the fight, Komisarek smiled and said, "These young guys run around, with a lot of energy. You have to quiet them down a little bit.
"No, it was great to see. Guys are battling, guys are competing. It's exactly what you want coming into a camp like this. The team hasn't made the playoffs in quite some time. Everyone is hungry, everyone is pushing each other. Guys are battling and competing for ice time and spots."
Forward Nathan Gerbe was not at practice Friday because of personal reasons. Forward Sergey Tolchinsky sat out his group practice and the scrimmage but said he hoped to return Saturday.
Defenseman Ron Hainsey, a free agent signed Thursday by the Canes, will put in his first practice Saturday.
The Hurricanes will hold two group practices and another scrimmage Saturday at PNC Arena, beginning at 9 a.m. The annual Caniac Carnival, which begins Sunday at 10 a.m. at PNC Arena, is highlighted by the Red-White scrimmage at 1 p.m.
"We're not letting up," Muller said. "What we saw today, we want to see tomorrow. One good practice doesn't make it for some guys. The carryover and the energy has to build right into tomorrow and the following day and right into the Red-White game."
Alexander: 919-829-8945


text:
The most gruesome, avert-your-eyes aspect of Mitt Romney's tortuous effort to distance himself from his signature achievement as Massachusetts governor may be over. As the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, he may finally be able to spend less time worrying about shoring up his right flank by condemning the Affordable Care Act—and, by implication, the similar state law passed on his watch—and more able to train his fire on other targets.
Calling attention to what's been derisively termed "Obamacare" was never a winning play for Romney. His scathing criticism produced an almost unresolvable tension between his current persona and the governor he was, a feedback loop that implicated Romney as much as the president.
To the extent that Romney continues to assail the law, he'll focus, as he has for months, on the federal government's new role as regulator of the health insurance industry. Romney's chief defense of the Massachusetts law has been that it was a state-specific solution to a problem, not something intended for a national scale, and it's true that he has never favored increased federal control over the insurance industry at any time in his career. Romney has vowed to let states opt out of the law's requirements as soon as he becomes president—and to push for legislation to repeal it outright.
"It was always a liberal pipe dream that a 2,700-page, multitrillion-dollar federal takeover could actually address the very serious problems we face with health care," Romney said on the law's second anniversary. "Sadly, the law itself is fast becoming the national nightmare that I and other critics have
always predicted."
"Trying to do a major overhaul of everything all at once is not productive and [is] problematic."—Tevi Troy, Romney health care adviser
But, of course, his Massachusetts plan and the federal law share many important similarities. They both aim to help individuals buy insurance through state-based "exchanges." And they both require people to have health insurance or pay a fine. Romney's law also expanded Medicaid and offered subsidies to help low-income people buy insurance, just like its federal counterpart. Obama's reelection campaign loves to suggest that Massachusetts furnished the entire model for the federal law.
More important, the Obama team contends that were Romney to become president and advocate repeal, he would do more than seek to eliminate what he describes as an unpopular, bureaucratic program; he would effectively be denying insurance to 30 million people, as well as rolling back guarantees that those with preexisting medical conditions can get affordable coverage, and taking money back from seniors struggling to pay for their prescription drugs through Medicare.
So far, Romney's health care agenda isn't an affirmative one. He seeks to destroy more than to create. To the extent that he has offered his vision for health care reform circa 2012, the proposals seem to be decidedly warmed-over GOP pitches to loosen controls on insurers and unfetter the free market.
On that score, at least, the gulf between Romney and Obama is wide. The health care law that Obama signed puts the federal government squarely in control of the private health insurance industry, regulating everything from how much money insurance companies can spend on overhead to the menu of benefits that they must include in certain plans.
That translates, philosophically, to a wider debate about access to coverage. Should it be the government's role to pool risk to bring down the cost of health insurance and ensure that benefits are available to those most in need? Or should the market be left to its own devices to produce cost-saving efficiencies and tailored insurance plans?
Romney's position on health care and the law he helped enact in 2006 has always been more nuanced than his detractors on both the right and the left would have you believe. John McDonough, a professor at Harvard University's School of Public Health, says that even though the resemblance between Title I of the federal law—which establishes insurance exchanges—and the Massachusetts law is "striking and unmistakable," it's not entirely fair to call the state law "Romneycare."
As a Republican governor working with a Democratic Legislature, Romney didn't get everything he wanted, notes McDonough, who helped write the federal legislation. Romney sought but failed to get looser restrictions on the policies that consumers would be required to buy under the law.
"He really preferred a much thinner form of coverage for people ... that would have only required very thin catastrophic coverage as the form of the mandate," McDonough said.
Romney now prefers an even more bare-bones option on the federal level. In a health policy plan he sketched on the second anniversary of the Affordable Care Act's signing, he rolled out a laundry list of the long-standing GOP-favored fixes to the health insurance market.
He wants to let states pick and choose among the rules that the federal law puts on insurance plans, such as limiting how much they can spend on overhead or requiring reviews of premiums that increase 10 percent or more. Romney proposes capping medical-malpractice awards and enabling individuals and small businesses to join together to buy insurance coverage. He also wants to allow insurers to sell policies across state lines, a change that advocates say will increase competition and lower prices.
Romney says he would outlaw discrimination against individuals with preexisting medical conditions, but only for those people who already have insurance coverage. He has given few details on how this would work, but it sounds similar to at least one piece of the current law that prohibits insurance companies from terminating a person's coverage because of a prior illness. Under Romney's plan, however, those who become ill without insurance and seek to buy it on the individual market would likely be out of luck. That position is a full pivot away from the Massachusetts law and the federal health care law, which requires insurance companies to cover people regardless of their health or whether they've been insured previously.
Still, as recently as 2009, Romney foresaw a role for the federal government in health care. In a newspaper commentary, he urged Obama to use the not-yet-passed law to tackle the job of bringing down costs. "Here is where the federal government can do something we could not: Take steps to stop or slow medical inflation," Romney wrote in USA Today.
Today, Romney appears to have abandoned that position by omission. Instead, he says that undoing insurance regulations to make the market more competitive will ultimately bring down costs, and he vaguely proposes seeking "alternatives" to the current system that pays doctors and hospitals for every test or procedure they do, even if it isn't useful.
But even as Romney shifted further and further to the right during the primaries, one issue on which he did not choose the most conservative approach was the tax treatment of health insurance.
In the 2008 presidential campaign, GOP nominee John McCain said he would dismantle the tax exclusion that employers and employees get when they pay health insurance premiums and would replace it with a credit. This year, Romney is (so far) taking the safer approach, saying he would give anyone that tax exclusion, regardless of where they get their insurance. Under current law, you are only eligible for the tax exclusion if you receive insurance through your employer.
Even though Romney hasn't completely embraced McCain's proposal, the philosophy behind the two positions is similar. Romney reasons that broadening the tax break encourages people to buy health insurance on their own instead of accepting whatever their employer provides, thus improving competition among plans. Or so the Republican thinking goes.
Democrats say that very principle cost Republicans the presidential election in 2008.
"What's surprising about Governor Romney's plans on insurance and coverage is that they are entirely a rehash of proposals Senator McCain put forward in 2008, which were utterly rejected by the American people," Neera Tanden, president of the Center for American Progress, said in an interview. Tanden led Obama's domestic-policy shop during the 2008 campaign.
As of now, Romney hasn't spelled out whether he would allow people to get a tax break on their health insurance if they take the standard deduction on their tax forms (rather than itemize their deductions), as most tax filers do. But a campaign spokesman said that it is Romney's goal to ensure that everyone gets the "same tax treatment for health insurance."
"The idea is, you want to equalize treatment regardless of how you acquire insurance," said Tevi Troy, who was Health and Human Services deputy secretary in the George W. Bush administration and is now a health policy adviser on Romney's campaign. "Our insurance system is based on this old model from World War II, when employees stayed with an institution for decades at a time."
So why not jettison the employer exclusion altogether? "Trying to do a major overhaul of everything all at once is not productive and [is] problematic," Troy said. "A smaller step might be a wiser way of doing it."
Going smaller might also be a wise campaign move. When Obama attacked McCain's proposal to end the tax credit, the GOP nominee struggled to explain his policy. Eliminating the exclusion would almost certainly cause turmoil and could encourage many employers to drop coverage—a charge that Obama frequently made about McCain's plan and that Republicans use now to criticize Obama's health care law.
"You have to remember that Barack Obama spent more money demagoguing the McCain health plan than has been spent on a single idea in the history of the Republican Party," said John Goodman, the CEO of the conservative National Center for Policy Analysis. "He made Republicans very skittish about that plan."
Douglas Holtz-Eakin, who helped develop McCain's health policies in 2008, acknowledged that Republicans faced an uphill battle in 2008 in selling the plan to wipe out the deduction for employer-sponsored health insurance. "It was always the goal of the opposition to make it look unattractive. Your job is to sell the package as a whole," Holtz-Eakin said. "One could read the history as that I didn't do that very well."
Whether Romney gets rid of the tax exclusion or offers it to more people, Democrats say that his proposals won't fix a broken system in the manner the 2010 health care law can.
"It's all the same Republican ideas that have been around forever," said Jonathan Gruber, an MIT professor who is credited with convincing both Obama and then-Gov. Romney that a mandate for insurance coverage was necessary. "It's striking in comparison to President Obama, who effectively adopted Republican ideas, like exchanges, to build this pragmatic reform. Romney is retreading the old trails, parts of which don't work."
Gruber says he doesn't oppose changing the tax incentives associated with health care coverage but adds that doing so "doesn't solve the fundamental problems in our market."
And those problems are? "A 55-year-old with cancer can't get insurance," Gruber said. "The employer solves that now … but with just individual tax credits, sick people can't buy insurance."
The Romney answer to that problem might be high-risk pools, which typically have the government subsidizing people who are already sick and can't get coverage. But these pools are expensive, Gruber says, often requiring premiums that people with limited incomes can't afford.
If Obama secures a second term, the fate of the Affordable Care Act may become more settled—depending, of course, on how the Supreme Court rules on the law's constitutionality in June. If the law—or key parts of it—are upheld and Obama is reelected, his administration will be fully occupied with implementing the most sweeping provisions of the act.
"He will do his utmost, if he is still there, to implement, as full as possible, what's in the ACA. And that in and of itself is the most ambitious health reform agenda ever passed in the history of the nation," McDonough said.
The most visible effort will be making sure that the state and federal insurance exchanges are up and running smoothly in 2014, when an estimated 30 million people start signing up online. The challenges to reaching that goal are immense. One monster task that states must accomplish: developing IT systems that can process information from the Internal Revenue Service to determine what credits and benefits people qualify for based on their income, and that can cross-check that information with Medicaid databases and private insurance companies to enroll applicants in health care plans.
Another huge piece of the health care law that Obama will have to tinker with are the pilot programs to test ways to bring health care costs down. Many of those programs—such as accountable care organizations, which financially punish or reward hospitals and doctors based on how healthy they keep their patients—are in their very early stages. The next few years will be pivotal in determining their success or failure.
Gruber, who is consulting with the Obama campaign, said that bending the health care cost curve would be a major focus of the president's second term. "He'll let them go through those experiments and see what we learn," Gruber said, "actually moving forward instead of backward."
Republicans see a far less rosy outlook, arguing that the law will lead more and more employers to cease offering health insurance.
"If nothing stops, I see costs continuing to rise, employers dropping coverage. I still see a lot of people uncovered. The access problem isn't addressed," Troy said. "The [Congressional Budget Office] assumed 22 million to 23 million people would be uninsured in 2019 … presumably, that's a combination of people who are starting to pay the penalty [and] people who don't understand what their rights or obligations are."
Almost every poll shows that the country is evenly split when it comes to the government and their health insurance. (Although a substantial majority—67 percent in a March ABC News/Washington Post poll—say they don't like the government requiring them to choose between buying insurance or paying a fine.)
As much as the 2010 election was a referendum on the Affordable Care Act, the 2012 election could be one as well because of Romney's campaign positions. Are voters prepared to see a Republican president try to dismantle Obama's health care law? Would they be happy with the GOP alternative, which would likely be a return to the pre-2010 status quo, with perhaps even greater deregulation of the insurance industry? The challenge for both Obama and Romney lies in outlining the risks involved if the other wins in November. And with Americans already weary of a health care debate that has lasted for years, voters could stop caring which argument is right—or even worse, stop paying attention altogether.
This article appears in the May 12, 2012 edition of National Journal Magazine.
National Journal


text: UNS Energy's principal subsidiary, Tucson Electric Power (TEP), provides safe, reliable power to more than 402,000 customers in southern Arizona. Fellow subsidiary UniSource Energy Services (UES) provides natural gas and electric service to about 237,000 customers in 30 communities across Arizona. UES utility services are offered through its operating subsidiaries, UNS Gas and UNS Electric.


text:
The 25th annual "Northwest Flower & Garden Show" kicks off today. It features over 20 gardens in the theme of "Gardens go Hollywood."
90 truckloads of sawdust and over one million pounds of rock are inside the Washington State Convention Center for the show. KING 5's Christie Johnson gave us a preview.
Northwest Flower & Garden Show
- Washington State Convention Center
- Wednesday, Feb. 20 – Sunday, Feb. 24
- Admission: $20; kids 12 and under free
For more information visit the show's website.


text:
Books best-sellers: October 7, 2012
1. "The Casual Vacancy" by J.K. Rowling (Little, Brown)
2. "Winter of the World" by Ken Follett (Dutton)
3. "Gone Girl" by Gillian Flynn (Crown)
4. "The Time Keeper" by Mitch Albom (Hyperion)
5. "A Wanted Man" by Lee Child (Delacorte)
6. "Low Pressure" by Sandra Brown (Grand Central)
7. "Zoo" by Patterson, Ledwidge (Little, Brown)
8. "Severe Clear" by Stuart Woods (Putnam)
9. "Delusion in Death" by J.D. Robb (Putnam)
10. "Founders" by James Wesley Rawles (Atria)
11. "The Tombs" by Clive Cussler (Putnam)
12. "This Is How You Lose Her" by Junot Diaz (Riverhead)
13. "Telegraph Avenue" by Michael Chabon (Harper)
14. "Rapture" by J.R. Ward (NAL)
15. "A Fool's Gold Christmas" by Susan Mallery (Harlequin HQN)
1. "No Easy Day" by Mark Owen (Dutton)
2. "Waging Heavy Peace" by Neil Young (Blue Rider Press)
3. "I Declare: 31 Promises to Speak" by Joel Osteen (FaithWords)
4. "One Last Strike" by Tony La Russa (William Morrow)
5. "Guinness World Records 2013" by Guinness World Records (Guinness World Records)
6. "The Financial Crisis and the Free Market Cure: Why Pure Capitalism is the World Economy's Only Hope" by John A. Allison (McGraw-Hill)
7. "Mugged" by Ann Coulter (Sentinel)
8. "The Price of Politics" by Bob Woodward (Simon & Schuster)
9. "Joseph Anton: A Memoir" by Salman Rushdie (Random House)
10. "Killing Lincoln" by Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard (Holt)
11. "How Children Succeed" by Paul Tough (HMH)
12. "Divine Healing Hands" by Zhi Gang Sha, M.D. (Atria)
13. "Into the Fire" by Dakota Meyer (Random House)
14. "Listening In" by Caroline Kennedy (Hyperion)
15. "The Oath: The Obama White House" by Jeffrey Toobin (Doubleday)
1. "Victims" by Jonathan Kellerman (Ballantine)
2. "Micro" by Michael Crichton (Harper)
3. "What Doesn't Kill You" by Iris Johansen (St. Martin's)
4. "D.C. Dead" by Stuart Woods (Signet)
5. "Red Mist" by Patricia Cornwell (Berkley)
6. "The Lady Risks All" by Stephanie Laurens (Avon)
7. "Eat to Live" by Joel Fuhrman (Little, Brown)
8. "Thanksgiving Prayer" by Debbie Macomber (Harlequin)
9. "Fall of Giants" by Ken Follett (Signet)
10. "A Day Away" by Nora Roberts (Silhouette Books)
11. "Zero Day" by David Baldacci (Vision)
12. "Run the Risk" by Lori Foster (Harlequin HQN)
13. "Kill Shot" by Vince Flynn (Atria)
14. "77 Shadow Street" by Dean R. Koontz (Bantam)
15. "The Race" by Clive Cussler (Berkley)
1. "Fifty Shades of Grey" by E.L. James (Vintage)
2. "Fifty Shades Darker" by E.L. James (Vintage)
3. "Fifty Shades Freed" by E.L. James (Vintage)
4. "The Chew" by The Chew (Hyperion)
5. "Guilty Wives" by James Patterson, David Ellis (Grand Central)
6. "Bared to You" by Sylvia Day (Berkley)
7. "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky (MTV Books)
8. "The Best of Me" by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central Publishing)
9. "Beautiful Disaster: A Novel" by Jamie McGuire (Atria Books)
10. "Admired: 21 Ways to Double Your Value" by Mark C. Thompson (Evolve Publishing)
11. "The Harbinger" by Jonathan Cahn (Frontline)
12. "Catherine the Great" by Robert K. Massie (Random House)
13. "To Heaven And Back" by Mary C. Neal (WaterBrook Press)
14. "The Marriage Plot" by Jeffrey Eugenides (Picador)
15. "Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?" by Mindy Kaling (Three Rivers Press)
Subscribe to the Ventura County Star
Need Help? Call us at 1-877-710-6182.
Monday-Friday: 6am-3pm / Saturday: 6:30am-10:30am / Sunday: 7am-11am