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RICHLANDS, Va. —
Rachel Alley re-wrote the record books at Richlands. Time to aim for higher goals in 2013.
The 6-foot-1 senior signed a letter of intent to play volleyball at Bluefield College during a ceremony on Wednesday in the Richlands High School library.
"I am really excited, I have been looking forward to this day my whole life and I know I made a good decision," Alley said. "Going to Bluefield College, I have been talking to the coach for a while now and I love the girls and I love it up there so it is really a great decision."
Bluefield College volleyball coach Brian Votaw isn't arguing with that assessment. His Lady Rams doubled their win total last season to 16. Alley is part of his plan to build a competitive program in the Mid-South Conference.
"She is going to be something special at the college level because she is already a tremendous blocker and not even having played club (ball) or had any experiences like that so she is a diamond in the rough," Votaw said. "She is going to be something special by the time she is an upperclassmen in college for sure."
Alley was something special for three season at Richlands, setting career records for kills (846) and blocks (225), and season marks for kills (385) and blocks (110).
Those 110 blocks are the seventh most in state history, according to the Virginia High School League record book.
"She has been a tremendous asset to our program here, it has been a joy watching her grow and improve over the years and it has been a privilege being her coach," Richlands volleyball coach Ronnie Sparks said. "It is great having an athlete like that, she is a good athlete, tremendous in the classroom, I think she has a 4.0 GPA, she is just an all-around great kid.
"She is going to leave a big hole in our program. It is kind of hard to replace a 6-foot-1 middle hitter that put up the stats she put up for us over the last three years."
Alley also set match-high marks with 31 kills in a win over Tazewell last season, and twice had a school record 10 kills in single games in victories against the Bulldogs and Marion.
No wonder Alley, who is also a standout post player for the Richlands girls basketball team, knew her future was in volleyball.
"I have played basketball since I was like 4, but when I started playing volleyball in sixth grade I knew that it was the sport for me," Alley said. "It just came to me naturally and I have more fun with it.
"Basketball I had always worked hard for and I have had a great time doing it, but with volleyball I knew I would be able to go to college, have a good time and be able to do it. Volleyball is the sport that I have a passion for and the sport I want to put my time into."
That is good news for Votaw. Bluefield brought in nine freshmen last season, and improved from eight to 16 wins in one year, despite losing a remarkable 238 sets due to injuries.
"Our top seven starters missed that many games and we still doubled our win total so we think it could have been an incredible season with all of them," Votaw said. "We just believe coming into this next season with adding Rachel to the mix that it is just going to make the team even more impressive."
Alley earned numerous honors for her play on the court, including twice being an All-Southwest District first team honoree, and a two-time Region IV honorable mention selection.
She was also part of the Lady Blues' squad that unseated Carroll County as SWD champions in 2011.
"She set several records here at Richlands High School that will be hard for anybody else to probably eclipse," Sparks said. "She is proud of those accomplishments and I am proud I have had her at Richlands."
Sparks thinks she'll fit in just fine playing for the Rams in the Dome Gymnasium, a building he is very familiar with.
"I am glad to see her go on and further her career, and playing for Bluefield College, that is where I went to college so I am excited about that, it is close by so hopefully I will get to watch her play a little bit," Sparks said. "She will be a tremendous benefit to them.
"She is a great blocker and a great hitter and she has got a lot of potential to get even better than she already is so I think getting up there at the college level she will adapt really well with that and transition great into that.
"I think she is going to do a wonderful job, I expect her to put up some big numbers at Bluefield so it will be fun to watch her."
Alley's numbers could have been even tougher for the next person to reach. Sparks figures she had at least 120 kills as a ninth grader on the junior varsity squad.
"She did a good job that season, they don't really count in your varsity stats, but over three seasons she just continued to progress and progress and get better and put up bigger numbers every season," said Sparks, whose program also produced Ashley Morgan, who recently completed her career at Virginia Intermont. "It has been joy to have her on our team and in our program and I am just excited for her."
Alley had hoped to continue her athletic career at a school close to home, and she was looking for a Christian college. She found both at Bluefield.
"I knew that Bluefield was the place for me, I went up there and I stayed with the girls and we get along really great and the coach is great," Alley said. "He knows how to make me better, make me a better person and make me a better player so that is what sold me."
So did the improvement shown in the program.
"I know the program at Bluefield has got so much better over the past couple of years," Alley said. "I know we had a great group of girls this year and I am just looking forward to coming up next year and hopefully help keep that momentum as a team."
Picked to finish last in the Mid-South in the fall, the Rams finished 16-22 and qualified for the postseason tournament.
"I think a lot of people used to refer to us as 'Who-Field' and now they kind of know who we are," said Votaw, with a smile. "We were very successful last year, we doubled our win total from 8 to 16 in one season despite having a tremendous amount of injuries..."
Votaw expects the 6-1 Alley to be able to 'shut down opponents' at the net.
"She clearly can do that and she is clearly going to be a force," Votaw said. "This is no disrespect to the school that she is from, but once she gets trained at a higher level, her best years are still ahead of her."
Alley plans to take what she learned at Richlands, and put it good use at Bluefield.
"I have always had a great work ethic through (Coach Sparks) and through every sport at Richlands," Alley said. "That is what makes it great is the work ethic and good morals.
"That is what I hope to be able to carry over to Bluefield and be able to represent Richlands up there."
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WASHINGTON — A proposal by Maryland's Prince George's County Board of Education to copyright work created by staff and students for school could mean that a picture drawn by a first-grader, a lesson plan developed by a teacher or an app created by a teen would belong to the school system, not the individual.
The measure has some worried that by the system claiming ownership to the work of others, creativity could be stifled and there would be little incentive to come up with innovative ways to educate students. Some have questioned the legality of the proposal as it relates to students.
"There is something inherently wrong with that," David Cahn, an education activist who regularly attends county school board meetings, said before the board's vote to consider the policy. "There are better ways to do this than to take away a person's rights."
If the policy is approved, the county would become the only jurisdiction in the Washington region where the school board assumes ownership of work done by the school system's staff and students.
David Rein, a lawyer and adjunct law professor who teaches intellectual property at the University of Missouri in Kansas City, said he had never heard of a local school board enacting a policy allowing it to hold the copyright for a student's work.
Universities generally have "sharing agreements" for work created by professors and college students, Rein said. Under those agreements, a university, professor and student typically would benefit from a project, he said.
"The way this policy is written, it essentially says if a student writes a paper, goes home and polishes it up and expands it, the school district can knock on the door and say, 'We want a piece of that,' " Rein said. "I can't imagine that."
The proposal is part of a broader policy the board is reviewing that would provide guidelines for the "use and creation" of materials developed by employees and students. The boards' staff recommended the policy largely to address the increased use of technology in the classroom.
Board Chair Verjeana M. Jacobs said she and Vice Chair Carolyn M. Boston attended an Apple presentation and learned how teachers can use apps to create new curricula. The proposal was designed to make it clear who owns teacher-developed curricula created while using apps on iPads that are school property, Jacobs said.
It's not unusual for a company to hold the rights to an employee's work, copyright policy experts said. But the Prince George's policy goes a step further by saying that work created for the school by employees during their own time and using their own materials is the school system's property.
Kevin Welner, a professor and director of the National Education Policy Center at the University of Colorado in Boulder, said the proposal appears to be revenue-driven. There is a growing secondary online market for teacher lesson plans, he said.
"I think it's just the district saying, 'If there is some brilliant idea that one of our teachers comes up with, we want be in on that. Not only be in on that, but to have it all,' " he said.
Welner said teachers have always looked for ways to develop materials to reach their students, but "in the brave new world of software development, there might be more opportunity to be creative in ways that could reach beyond that specific teacher's classroom."
Still, Welner said he doesn't see the policy affecting teacher behavior.
"Within a large district, there might be some who would invest a lot of time into something that might be marketable, but most teachers invest their time in teaching for the immediate need of their students and this wouldn't change that," he said.
Peter Jaszi, a law professor with the Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic at American University, called the proposal in Prince George's "sufficiently extreme."
Jaszi said the policy sends the wrong message to students about respecting copyright. He also questioned whether the policy, as it applies to students, would be legal.
He said there would have to be an agreement between the student and the board to allow the copyright of his or her work. A company or organization cannot impose copyright on "someone by saying it is so," Jaszi said. "That seems to be the fundamental difficulty with this."
For Adrienne Paul and her sister, Abigail Schiavello, who wrote a 28-page book more than a decade ago in elementary school for a project that landed them a national television interview with Rosie O'Donnell and a $10,000 check from the American Cancer Society, the policy — had it been in effect — would have meant they would not have been able to sell the rights to "Our Mom Has Cancer."
Dawn Ackerman, their mother, said she would have obtained legal advice if there had been a policy like the one being considered when her daughters wrote their book about her fight against cancer 14 years ago.
"I really would have objected to that," Ackerman said.
Paul agreed, saying the policy seems to be ill-conceived. It could stifle a child's creativity and strip students and their families of what is rightfully theirs, she said.
"I think if you paint a picture, publish a book or create an invention as a kid, your family — certainly not the school board — should have the rights to that," she said.


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john_324 Posts: 974To be fair, a twin-screw would have eaten up most of their budget...and they'd probably have had to beef up the suspension even more to handle the prodigious off-the-line grunt they provide (compared to the higher rpm kick of a centrifugal).
Agree on the pointlessness of swaping the hood though. But 'cause I'm old school, I dig the hood pins...not ridiculous at all as they claim... :blush:
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escalaya Posts: 1Hii, I have a 1984 S/E Firebird v8 305 and recently I had problems with it, I was on my way home from class, and suddenly I was shooting RPMs out the roof, for no reason and my car wasn't accelerating. I was doing a maximum of twenty, as I couldn't accelerate any faster and my RPM's were so high that it seemed like I should be doing 90MPH, so i slowly drove the backstreets, (5mph, lol) all the way home, and it's been sitting there out of commission ever since. It does this with all of the gears except reverse. Reverse works perfectly fine. Up until this I've never had a problem with this car, I've had it for 5 years, and I bought it off a little ol' lady who had it serviced religiously, I check the fluids everytime I get ready to take off, and take very good care of the car.
Also, for my nephew whom is taking the Driving test in a few days, what exactly is the "Auxiliary Equipment" on a car?
i have an black 88 firebird, both the interior and the body are in great condition. Its all black and it has 62,000 on it. i love the lambo doors but im not sure if they would be out of place. im thinking of putting a neon light or some kind on the bottom of the door and re doing the interior with MOMO. then putting neon lights right below my wipers so it will project onto my hood and illuminate my white firebird hood decal ( the decal is large im sure you've seen it before). i would appreciate your advice.
frumunda Posts: 15Look. The reality of the situation is this; the BIG THREE are in their financial death throes due to their need to have everything done cheap. In turn, they have had to expand their manufacturing (read; farm out), to countries that don't have a union and a wage and hour division breathing down their neck making them accountable.
Instead of doing the smart thing and shutting down those factories overseas, thereby moving that money here, they would rather stop paying people here. What does that do? It takes the money made by those workers that could be funneled back into our economy and makes it evaporate.
So ....when sales drop because the public has no expendable income, the snake ends up eating its tail.
In desperation, the BIG THREE are trying to revive the golden era of the automobile. Unfortunately, Dodge royally missed the mark with the Charger. Four doors and a grill reminiscent of the 50s 300? Are you kidding? The Charger was a two-seater, with distinct bodylines and characteristics. Missed the point completely. Ford got it right with the most recent incarnation of the Mustang, but missed the bus when they dropped the Bronco. The Explorer had so many transmission troubles (bad case on the AOD and A4LD) that the moniker got a bad rap before they could salvage the sales. Chevrolet can't seem to KEEP a model. They're renamed the same platform so many times I'm afraid all of their vehicles have schizophrenia. A front-wheel-drive Monte Carlo and Malibu? Have you completely lost touch with what the history of these cars are and what memories they recall to your brand-loyal customers?
This is my point. When you're bleeding from an amputation, you don't get a tiny band-aid. You stop doing the easy thing and fix whats wrong the right way.
Pony car wars ain't it.
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Neal's sales surge ahead this summer Lakewood Ranch-based builder announces another strong sales month and predicts more rapid growth during the rest of 2014.
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Neal Communities notched 62 home sales in June, plus broke an all time company record with 97 home closings. Junes sales bring Neals year to date sales total to 445, as the fast-growing southwest Florida home builder continues to dominate the regions new home market.
Our record sales numbers this year certainly help sustain our rapid growth pattern, said Michael Storey, president of Neal Communities. As the market continues to hold steady, we are forging ahead with new product, new communities, and plenty of inventory for home buyers ready to purchase and move in immediately, said Storey.
Storey and team anticipate celebrating a huge milestone late this summer, with Neal Communities expecting to close on its 10,000th home.
June sales took place in 16 communities in the southwest Florida region. Grand Palm, Neals master planned community in Venice, continued its sales success with 12 sales. Other noteworthy communities included Central Park in Lakewood Ranch and Eagle Trace in Manatee County with eight sales each, and Forest Creek in Parrish with seven sales.
With the launch of its luxury brand in June, Neal Signature Homes, the Lakewood Ranch based company unveiled two new models one at The Concession and one at The Inlets showcasing upscale features and amenities. Neal has close to a dozen more new communities in the works for 2014 spanning from Manatee to Lee Counties.
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Gas prices have shot up more than 40 cents since the beginning of the year.
Record-high gas prices this winter have put increasing pressure on household budgets during a time when trips to the gas station are typically cheaper.
But it's not just budget-strapped consumers lamenting unseasonably expensive fuel—lawmakers too are pressing for a closer look at what's causing surging prices at the pump.
On Monday Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) sent a letter to the Energy Information Administration, asking for more information about domestic oil production, exports and imports, refining operations, and any other factors that could be contributing to the uptick in gas prices.
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"American families and businesses have been paying record-high gasoline prices at the pump even as domestic oil production recently hit its highest level in more than two decades," Wyden wrote EIA Director Adam Sieminski. "For many Americans, there appears to be a fundamental disconnect between these facts, especially when many families are also using less gasoline thanks to more efficient cars and trucks."
Wyden—who recently said spikes in fuel costs have "no reasonable explanation"—requested the information ahead of an anticipated committee hearing to address the causes for high fuel prices, even while domestic oil production has surged.
EIA spokesman Jonathan Cogan said the agency is currently working with the Senate committee to respond to Wyden's request. He didn't have a timetable on when the report would be completed. Senate Energy and Resources Committee press secretary Keith Chu said no further arrangements had been made regarding potential witnesses for the hearing, or even scheduling the hearing itself.
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Average gasoline prices nationwide have risen more than 40 cents since the beginning of the year according to government data. As of Tuesday, they are on average around $3.70 a gallon, according to the most recent AAA Fuel Gauge. The EIA expects gas prices to average about $3.55 per gallon in 2013.
Recent price fluctuations can be explained by the transition from winter blend gasoline to summer blend gasoline, a process that constrains supply and drives up prices at the pump temporarily.
But the larger issue is overall refinery transparency, according to Gregg Laskoski, senior petroleum analyst at gas price comparison site GasBuddy.com, who adds that many times fuel markets are blind sided by issues at refineries that cause supply constraints.
"Very often there is minimal information made available about issues at refineries," Laskoski says. "By the time that's made available, and by the time anybody is aware of any issues, it's too late."
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Boise's leaders are searching for their version of Maya Lin.
Lin was a college senior and a mostly unknown artist when a committee chose her design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in 1981. She had no experience producing art on the scale of the wall that bears 58,000 names of dead or missing soldiers.
Still, her concept won over committee members. They shrugged off her lack of experience, and the wall was built.
Concept is the focus for Boise's new approach to finding a piece of art to stand in front of City Hall.
Experience, ability and qualifications were the guiding principles the first two times the city chose finalists for the $200,000 project. City Council members and art staffers wanted to make sure that whoever won the design competition had the chops to see it through.
Their criteria for finding Boise's iconic art excluded the state's own artists.
"Idaho artists may have great ideas, but they're not competitive because they haven't done it before," said Karen Bubb, the city's public arts manager.
What Boise got instead were qualified, respected artists from places such as Houston, Atlanta and Seattle. The problem was that the finalists' designs just weren't quite right.
This concept was too industrial, that one too corporate. Another raised technical concerns. None really captured what Boise is all about.
"It's almost like defining why we love Boise," said Maryanne Jordan, City Council president and a member of the most recent selection panel. "Sometimes it can be difficult to articulate, but as you go through any given day, you just kind of know why. Whether it's a view or an experience or an exchange with another person ... it reinforces that feeling of place for you, and that's what we're looking for in this piece."
Between March 2012 and May of this year, six finalists submitted nine concepts for an art installation at City Hall's plaza on Capitol Boulevard. All nine were ultimately rejected.
This time around, 60 percent of the points for selecting the winning bidder measure whether artists' concepts are "appropriate and desirable for City Hall Plaza."
Reham Aarti said the city finally has the right idea. Aarti was one of the few local artists who applied for a commission to build the art. She was frustrated by the city's original strategy, which she said amounted to a Catch-22 for locals.
"Yeah, none of us have done anything that big, but we're never going to get to if you don't let us," Aarti said. "If people have a chance to see what we're trying to do, I think that'll really help us. Because (the finalists) are outsiders. They don't get it. They don't know Boise. They don't have a feel for it. You know what I mean?"
The idea for redoing City Hall Plaza dates to June 2011. The city was facing a major remodel of its headquarters, located Downtown between Capitol Boulevard, 6th Street, Idaho Street and Main Street.
The fountain on the plaza's north side leaks into a parking garage below City Hall and needs to be removed. The council voted to redo the plaza's aesthetics as part of the remodeling.
It allotted $100,000 to the project from the city's public art fund. Capital City Development Corp., Boise's urban renewal agency, put in $100,000 of its own money for the project.
In August 2011, the city published a nationwide solicitation for artists interested in building a piece of art at the plaza's north end, including a fountain or other water feature.
Three months later, a selection panel reviewed applications from 40 artists. Only three of them were Idahoans, none of whom had experience with art projects on the scale Boise was looking for.
The selection panel picked three finalists. All were respected and accomplished artists. The panel rejected all of their proposals and asked them for a second round of ideas.
In May 2012, the artists submitted three new proposals. But the City Council rejected the selection panel's choice: a collection of rocks that would appear to levitate on geysers of water.
That led to another round of proposals. The city removed the water feature requirement and moved the piece's location to the south side of the plaza, but used the same evaluation criteria as before.
In March of this year, a new selection panel picked three finalists - again, none from Idaho - from a field of 54 applicants. Five of the original applicants were Idahoans.
In May, the panel and City Council rejected all of the finalists' concepts. That brings us to the new approach.
This time around, the city is asking for designs upfront. The new call for proposals, which the city has dubbed "Plan C," is similar to the process that found Maya Lin more than 30 years ago.
It's also a way to give local artists a boost.
"This process allows for artists who have not had the experience of doing a $200,000, large-scale project to put forward their ideas, thus giving Idaho artists who are willing to do the work to develop a proposal a better shot at getting the commission, but also keeps it open to a national pool," according to a memo from Boise's Arts and History Department.
Limiting bids to local artists would be illegal. For projects valued at more than $50,000, state law requires the city to accept applications from any qualified bidder.
Besides that, the city doesn't want its own artists to face that kind of discrimination when they enter competitions in other states.
Boise has taken other steps to encourage local artists. The city held a workshop Sept. 30 to talk to artists about what's expected and how to make a strong application. Bubb said about 30 artists attended. A second workshop is scheduled for Oct. 21.
Bubb said the city is willing to help artists navigate the process of turning their ideas into reality - another advantage for locals. But that doesn't mean local artists' concepts will receive preferential treatment, she said.
"We need to look for what is the best project for City Hall, irrespective of where they're from," Bubb said. "It's important to not be provincial in that aspect. ... But, that said, doing this as a call for proposals is an opportunity for artists to jump scale who have not had that opportunity before."
Artists have until Nov. 8 to submit their proposals, which the city will then unveil Nov. 12. Boise still wants a sculpture, Bubb said, but other elements may be considered.
"It doesn't have to be a single monolithic object," she said.
Bubb admits the new process might not attract any acceptable proposals. If that's the case, she said, the city will start over - again.
Though Boise has already spent between $10,000 and $12,000 to find the right art, it's better than spending $200,000 on a piece no one likes, she said.
Aarti said she'll apply for a third time and feels pretty good about her chances of winning the competition. Whether she does or not, this moment could be a turning point for Boise's artist community, she said.
"We're kind of teetering on this edge right now where a lot of us are still - I mean daily - having to re-fight this daily battle of why is art important," Aarti said. "It's not just you get to make pretty stuff. You actually have to be able to answer that question when people get angry about public art."
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HILLSBOROUGH — A driver accused of crushing a bicyclist to death on Pleasant Green Road on June 3 pleaded guilty this week to misdemeanor death by vehicle and driving without insurance.
Ryan Idyle, 26, will serve 45 days in jail. The remainder of his eight-month sentence is suspended as long as he abides by the rules of his five-year probation.
The victim, Clive Sweeney, 59, was an avid cyclist who rode about 40 miles a day. Idyle lost control of his Honda Passport traveling north, crossed the center line and pushed Sweeney's body up against another vehicle traveling south behind the cyclist, according to prosecutor Steve Motta.
Prosecutors dropped several other charges against Idyle in exchange for the guilty plea.
Idyle's probation officer will work out restitution for Paula Garcia, the injured driver of the other vehicle, and Brenda Condrin, Sweeney's widow. But Idyle, who was also charged with driving without registration or an emissions inspection, is unlikely to be able to pay much, Motta said.


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HOUSTON - A Congressman from Texas is taking his campaign to crush gun control legislation to a new level.
U.S. Rep. Steve Stockman, a Republican, is raffling off a new Bushmaster AR-15 rifle on his web site.
He writes: "Grab this gun before Obama does."
Stockman, who represents Southeast Texas, is no stranger to controversy.
He recently unveiled a new campaign bumper sticker that reads, "If babies had guns, they wouldn't be aborted."


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NFC Times Exclusive: Whereas three years ago, major banks and telcos in the Netherlands looked like they would move forward together on NFC mobile payments, with plans to form a first-of-its kind joint venture, the situation today promises to be much different.
The three major banks in the Netherlands, ING, ABN AMRO and Rabobank, have formed a temporary group to launch a large NFC trial in the Dutch city of Leiden with mobile operator KPN.
PARIS, France – MasterCard Worldwide and ING bank have launched a trial in the Netherlands enabling bank staffers to shop on the Web and then make online payments with a PayPass application stored on a secure element in their NFC phones.
Dutch mobile operators and banks have decided not to form a joint venture to roll out NFC services together, saying "developments in the market" were responsible for ending the deal that was nearly three years in the making.
U.S.-based global product safety and testing company UL has acquired Netherlands-based NFC and smart card consulting and test tools firm Collis, which has worked with NFC joint ventures that have formed or are planned in the United States, United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
Major mobile operators and banks in the Netherlands say they plan to launch their NFC mobile-payment project in early 2013 as they await approval from European regulators for their planned joint venture.
Dutch operators and banks plan to launch NFC services in the second or third quarter of 2012, probably starting in a small city followed by a nationwide launch weeks later, Peter Van Leeuwen, strategy and business development manager for mobile operator KPN, reportedly said.
The three largest banks and three largest mobile operators in the Netherlands today announced their intention to form a joint venture to launch mobile payment, using full NFC phones.
Visa Inc. announced Thursday it would launch a tokenization service in September, as part of what it calls its Visa Digital Solutions "suite of offerings."
Taiwanese mobile operators have sold a combined 4.2 million NFC-enabled phones and hope to launch their joint TSM platform by the end of the year.
Germany's third largest mobile operator, E-Plus, has launched NFC payments with a prepaid wallet card, joining other German telcos, which have also launched prepaid payments applications on their SIM cards.
Australia's largest credit union, CUA, is the first financial institution in Asia-Pacific to commercially launch mobile payments using host-card emulation, announcing the move today in Australia.
Payment network China UnionPay and China-based handset maker ZTE have disclosed an agreement to enable contactless payment on embedded chips in two of ZTE's latest high-end Android phones.
As the Hungarian Mobile Wallet Association prepares to enable its members to commercially launch NFC mobile payments, it has released the results of its 12-month NFC payments and loyalty pilot along with a survey of users.
Swiss telco Swisscom has launched an NFC mobile wallet app called Tapit, with the country's two other major telcos expected to follow later in 2014.
France-based telco Orange and Air France, along with airline industry and information technology services provider SITA have launched a trial of an NFC boarding pass application for the airline's route from Toulouse to Paris, and SITA is also piloting Bluetooth low energy beacons at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport.
NFC Times Exclusive: Both Visa and MasterCard plan to offer their own HCE services to banks and other issuers to help the financial institutions launch host-card emulation, as the payment networks continue to try to expedite the rollout of HCE technology for NFC mobile payments, NFC Times has learned.
NFC Times Exclusive: Host-card emulation represents an "inflection point" for driving the rollout of NFC mobile payments and could also help the SIM-based NFC ecosystem to become more efficient and less costly, the head of payments innovation for major Spanish bank BBVA told NFC Times.
NFC Times Exclusive: With its high rate of smartphone ownership, strong contactless-payment infrastructure and well-developed NFC ecosystem, Canada is increasingly seen as a market to watch for NFC commercial deployments.
Spanish bank BBVA is claiming to be the first bank to commercially launch payments with host-card emulation, announcing today an upgrade of its Android mobile-wallet app incorporating Visa's HCE specifications.


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JESSEE, Roberta B., 77, homemaker, died Friday. Services 10 a.m. Thursday, Fairview Baptist Church, Checotah Funeral and Cremation Service.
LEAFER, John Edward, 70, coach/teacher, died Wednesday. Services 11 a.m. Tuesday, First Baptist Church, Cornerstone Funeral Home and Crematory.
PENNINGTON, Teddy Clay, 71, maintenance worker, died Friday. Services pending, Cornerstone Funeral Home and Crematory.
SINER, T.H. "Booster," 90, car salesman, died Wednesday. Services 2 p.m. Tuesday, Cornerstone Funeral Home Chapel, Cornerstone Funeral Home and Crematory.
CHECOTAH – HESTER, Juanita "Nita," 58, Walmart deli clerk, died Friday. Services pending, Garrett Family Funeral Home and Cremation Service.
CHECOTAH – WENCL, Dean, 60, Boeing aircraft machinist, died Sunday. Services pending, Garrett Family Funeral Home and Cremation Service.
CHECOTAH – SULLIVAN, Hazel Winkle, 91, homemaker, died Friday. Services 11 a.m. Wednesday, First Free Will Baptist Church, Garrett Family Funeral Home and Cremation Service.
FORT GIBSON – NAIL, Betty L., 78, homemaker, died Thursday. Services 10 a.m. Tuesday, First Baptist Church, Millsap Funeral Service.
HASKELL – ALLEN, Kathy Darlene, 62, homemaker, died Friday. Services pending, Checotah Funeral and Cremation Service.
OKTAHA – WALKER, Quince Wayne, 42, machinist, died Thursday. Services 2 p.m. Tuesday, Oktaha High School gymnasium, Checotah Funeral and Cremation Service.
QUINTON – LEE, Michael David, 26, brickmason, died Thursday. Services 2 p.m. Tuesday, Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Salt Fork/Enid, Hunn & Black Funeral Home and Crematory.
ROSE – HARLESS, Brady F., 76, carpenter, died Friday. Services 2 p.m. today, Teresita Cemetery, Green Country Funeral Home, Tahlequah.
SALLISAW – SMITHSON, Anna Doris, 89, died Sunday. Services 2 p.m. Tuesday, First United Methodist Church, Agent-Mallory-Martin Funeral Home.
WAGONER – ELLINGTON, Anna Lee, 76, cook, died Friday. Services 12:30 p.m. today, Life Choice Church, Shipman Funeral Home and Crematory.
WAGONER – HUSKEY, Lucille, 92, retired clerk, died Thursday. Services 10:30 a.m. today, Hersman-Nichols Funeral Home Chapel, Hersman-Nichols Funeral Home.
OAKHURST – KNIGHT, Shirley June, 72, homemaker, died Saturday. Services 11 a.m. Tuesday, IOOF Cemetery, Hulbert, Mallett Funeral Home, Wagoner.
TULSA – VINSON, Jim E., 78, transportation supervisor for Tulsa Public Schools, died Saturday. Services pending, Keith D. Biglow Funeral Directors, Tulsa Chapel.
ELLINGTON, Anna Lee, 12:30 p.m., Life Choice Church, Wagoner (Shipman Funeral Home and Crematory, Wagoner)
HARLESS, Brady F., 2 p.m., Teresita Cemetery (Green Country Funeral Home, Tahlequah)
HUSKEY, Lucille, 10:30 a.m., Hersman-Nichols Funeral Home Chapel (Hersman-Nichols Funeral Home, Wagoner)


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Clear your calender for next weekend and get something done!
MiLKlabs will be hosting a "Finish Weekend" this November 12th – 13th. Drop in whenever you feel like it or spend the full two days finishing "that" project.
It can be anything that needs to be finished, some ideas:
- A scarf
- An essay
- A robot
- A song
- A prototype
- A website
- An annoying software bug
- A blog post
When and Where
It will be running from 10am to 5pm on the Saturday and Sunday, but there may be people there outside of those hours. (Is anyone adventurous/determined enough to bring a sleeping bag and do an all-nighter?)
It will be hosted at our miLKLabs space at the Franciscan Friary, Lower Henry Street, Limerick
As always, curious members of the public are free to call in and look around. And for a small donation (maybe €5) you can use the space/energy/knowledge/skills to finish a project of your own.


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We are a regional alliance with the following goals:
- ending a devastating form of coal mining called mountaintop removal coal mining,
- putting a halt to destructive coal technologies, and
- creating a sustainable, just Appalachia.
We believe that our campaign to abolish mountaintop removal mining is an important element of the national effort for progressive, systemic change in our nation's economic, energy, and environmental policies. By working in coalition to highlight and organize against the dangers and true costs of our dependence on coal, we can help move the nation away from our current extraction economy and toward a new ethic of whole and healthy communities.
Our work is founded on these beliefs:
Mountain people are experts of their own lives
All people should have a seat at the table in determining the future of their communities
Regional collaboration strengthens political power built locally
Systemic change is necessary to achieve justice in our region
The Alliance for Appalachia envisions a world in which we, residents of mountain communities, are able to determine the futures of our communities; where political discourse is public, is welcomed, is impactful, and is free of corporate interests. We envision a world in which all people have access to clean water, clean air and a healthy land base--and a world in which these resources are owned and shared locally. We envision a world in which successful development is measured by the degree to which local economies are robust and lasting, and in which diversity, collaboration, safe working conditions and self-empowerment are pillars of those economies.


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December 31
Ring In 2008 With These New Year's Eve Parties
Identitiy Theft Protection Information
www.annual, creditreport.com
Equifax: 1-800-525-6285
Fred Thompson's , Message to Iowa Voters
December 29
Middle TN's Largest Kwanzaa Celebration
December 24
C, hristmas Eve Worship Services
Nashville International Airport
December 19
Disciplinary action of Dr. William Baber
Tennessee, Department of Labor and Workforce Development
December 1, 7
U.S. Postal Service Holiday Deadlines
Friends Of Eric Volz Web site
Domestic Violence Assistance:
December 14
Emails from NASA astronaut Lisa , Nowak to William Oefelein. (Scroll down to the bottom of the page.)
How To Mail Holiday Packages With Care
December 13
<, P>View The 409-Page Mitchell Report regarding steroid use in Major League Baseball (6.47 MB PDF)
December 12
Members of "Project for Student Success" for Metro Schools
Robertson County Animal Control
December 11
Tennesseans for Accountability in Government
December 10
Tips for going green this Christmas and other holiday eco-, friendly tips
Excerpts From Gore's Nobel Prize Speech
December 9
Gabe's My Heart Cancer Website
December 7
Identity theft: What , you can do
December 6
Hotline for foreclosure prevention counseling services: 1-888-995-HOPE
Interested in buyin, g Christmas gifts for foster children, call 445-2669 or 445-2644
TN Department Educat, ion: Report Card 2007
Randstad Response To NC5 Investigat, ion
December 5
<, IMG hspace=2 src="http://wtvf.images.worldnow.com/images/static/video/gfx/icon_video.gif" border=0>Web Extra: How Facial Recogniti, on Security Works
General Electric Recalls Microwave Combo Wall Ovens<, /A>
December 4
Traffic safety school in Clarksville
December 3
Online government , surplus sale at www.govdeals.com
2007 Metro Holiday Ligh, ts Contest
December 2
November 30
Missing people listed on Metro police Web site
December Christmas Parades<, /P>
The Salvation Army304, E. 7th St.
Hopkinsville, KY 42240-0427
Clearinghouses for nonprofit groups in Middle Tennessee and nationally
November 29
To help Shane Warren, donations are accepted to the Shane Warren Victim Relief Fund at any First Federal Bank branch in Dickson or Hickman County ,
Canadian Horses In Need Of Rescuing <, /P>
To contact girl who is trying to prevent horse slau, ghtering, email firstname.lastname@example.com
November 27
Info, rmation about stability control in vehicles
Metro Police crime pre, sentation to, Urban League of Middle Tennessee
N, , ovember 26
November 24
November 23
NewsChannel 5 , Holiday Shopping Survey
American Can, cer So, ciety Wig Shop
November 22,
November 21
<, P>Primary vs. Caucus
Nashville International Airport Flight, Schedule
November 20
Airport Survival Guide for a , Speedy Travel
Kids Acting Workshop
Alan Dysert
(615) 500-7661
November 19
November 16
Information on the Jolly Angels Toy Drive
N, ational Alliance Black School Educators and 35th Annual NABSE Conference
November 15,
Tennessee Tobacco Quitline
Gateway Boulevard SEIS Comments
Metro Public works
720 S. Fifth St.
Nashville, TN 37206
http://www.nashville.gov/pw/Gateway_project or contact the M, etro Project Manager John Wonderly at 862-8730 or email@example.com.
Web Extra: Helping Jai, l Parents Understand How Babies Work
November 14
November 13
Waist-, to-Hip Ratio Calculator
November 12
Forbes article on sedentary cities
November 11
November 10
November 9
School district policies on fundraising
Nashville Charities
Domestic Violence Assistance:
Jarred "Bo" Collins had no insurance and he has a 4-year-old son. The family has set up a memorial fund to pay for the funeral and his,, son's c, ollege education. You can donate at any U.S. Bank under the Jarred Collins Memorial Fund.
I, nternational Au Pair Association
November 7
Partial list of MNPS efforts to improve gradu, a, tion rates
Criteria Metro follows to determine the poverty rate
Record Fifth Planet Discovered Orbiting Nearby Star
November 6,
Calculating Your Yearly Fuel Costs
Mid-Cum, berland Human Resource Agency
November 3
Safe Place for Animals
P.O. Box 243
Gallatin, TN 37066
Holiday T, ours- Bellmeade Plantation
November 2
Web Extra: Victim Discusses Life After Shooting
Web Extra: Interview With Mary Winkler's Boyfriend
Frozen Pizzas Recalled For Possible E. coli
TN Department Education: Report Card 2007
MNPS rezoning plans for the 2008-, 2009 school year
During the next several weeks, MNPS will be considering necessary rezoning for the 2008-2009 school year. Members of the Board of Education received a first draft of a proposed rezoning plan from staff d, uring their Oct. 9 regular meeting.
In the coming weeks, Board members will be hosting public meetings for discussion and community input. If, you live in an area impacted by a zoning change, you will receive a telephone call in advance of the meeting n, ear you.
Scheduled meetings include:
October 22 - Antioch High School at 6:30 p.m. - hosted by Karen Johnson, Jo An, n Brannon
October 25 - Hillwood High School at 6:30 p.m. - hosted by Marsha Warden
October 29 - Madison School at 6 p.m. - hosted , by Mark North
October 30 - Stratford High School at 6 p.m. - hosted by Gracie Porter
November 1 - Napier Elementa, ry at 6 p.m. - hosted by Steve Glover
November 5 - John Early at 6 p.m. - hosted by Marsha Warden
November 6 - Bass Middle at 6:30 p.m. - hosted by George Thompson
November 8 - Brick Church at 6:30 p.m. - hosted by George Thompson
November 12 - Maplewood High at 6 p.m. - hosted by Gracie Porter
November 15 - East Literature Magnet at 6:30 p.m. - Public Hearing
If you would like to view the preliminary student assignment plan, click here.
I, f you would like to view the news release about the plan, click here.
Novemb,, , er 1
Web Extra: Rokisha Alderson's Testimony
Non-Livestock Animal Humane Death Act
Rules of the Tennessee State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners
October 31
Consumer Products Safety Commission
Williamson County Parks and Recreation
October 30
October 29
Early detection and screening for autism,
Funeral arrangements for Porter Wagoner
October 26
October 25
Women Rock For The Cure's eBay Auction
DHS Rules On Notification Of Infectious Diseases
Scheduled rezoning meetings for Metro Schools
Consumer Products Safety Commission
October 23
Information about tuition prices from The College Board
October 22
Scheduled rezoning meetings for Metro Schools
October 21
October 19
PDF: Bobby McGee Affidavit
PDF: Titans, NFL and Pacman Lawsuit
October 18
To avoid Secret Shopper scams:
October 17
Walking With Dinosaurs schedule
October 15
List of crimes reported at Club 615
October 12
Alliance for Climat, e Protection
Ways To Help Stem Global Climate Change
2007 Southern Festival of Books
October 11
Oral Cough and Cold Medicines Recall
Gang Awareness and Education for Clarksville
Sending Text Me, ssages To Keep Citizens Safe
Preliminary Plan For Rezoning In Metro Schools
October 6
Word of Mouth Adversiting
October 5
October 4
Consumer Products Safety Commission
October 3
Accelerated Cure Project for Multiple Sclerosis
October 2
Middle Tennessee Chapter of American Gold Star Mothers
October 1
Health Department Smoking Compa, int Form:
September 27
Play Yard recall: www.cpsc.gov
September 26
Improve Your Computer's Functions For Free
September 25
Flight status at Nashville International Airport
Flight delay information from the FAA
September 22
Donations to Tuberous Sclerosis, Research
http://, www.nashville.gov/recycle/main.htm
September 21
Domestic Violence Assistance:
&am, p;am, p;, lt;, A href="http://www.utbioenergy.org/">UT Office of Bioenergy Programs
September 20
Tennessee Sexual Offender Registry
September 18
Consumer Rep, ort Power Blowers
Septemb, er 17
How The Tennessee Lottery Uses The Money
September 15
September 13
September 10
New stores in Smyrna
Copy of Rob Briley's arrest report
, September, 9
First Baptist Church Hender, sonville
September 8
September 7
September 5
Fred Thompson Announces Candidacy
Tips to secure your wireless internet connection:
Nashville Area Habitat for Humanity
New pipe organ at Schermerhorn Symphony Center
September 4
Humane Association of Wilson County
Sept, e,, mber 1
August 31
Driver license a, nd sobriety checkpoints
Immi, gration Issues in Tennessee
Nashville Area Habitat f, or Humanity
August 28
August 27
A Guide To Stretching , Your Fuel Dollars
August 24
Youth Footh/Heat Risk Guidelines
August 22
Web Extra: Interview W, ith Rudie Thomsen, Winkler Friend
<, P>Web Extra: Interview With Jim Todd About Winkler Custody Battle
Tennessee Wallking Horse National Celebr, ation
August 21
Best lemonade stand in America contest
Cas, h 3, Cash 4 Special Offer
Identity theft: What you can do
August 20
Impact of Drought Conditions on Tennessee Agriculture
<, A href="http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/health-fitness/health-care/health-insurance-9-07/7-ways-to-make-the-most-of-your-health-plan/0709_health_steps_1.htm" target=_blank>Ho, w To Make The Most Of Your Health Plan
August 18
August 17
Metro Nashville Public Schools
August 15
Selling Princess Diana's dress
eBay auction and America's Promise
Tax Options for Drought Sales of, Livestock
August 14
August 10
Temporary restra, ining order in connection with Adam "Jones" Jones' wrestling contract
Memorandum of Law In Support Of Motion For Temporary Restraining Order
Information about Metro school crossing guards
<, STRONG>August 8
Tennessee Dept. of Education Adequate Yearly Progress
, , August 7
List of Country Music Hall of Fame Inductees
August 6
Metro Action Commission
August 5
Mary Parrish Domestic Violence Center
August 3
Open teaching positions in Metro Schools
Tennessee bridges classified as structurally deficient
August 1Vanderbilt Children's Hospital CHAMP Dolls Donation<, /A>
Study on printer particle emissions
July 31
Consumer Report on Kitchen Sinks
July 30
Bruce Mendenhall search document
July 28
Assistance League of Nashville Golf Tournament
July 27
Ebay Discount Tips
, www.goofbay.com
July 25
July 21
Just in Time Hotline
July 19
Easy-Bake Oven Recall
<, STRONG>July 18
BACA - Bikers Against Child Abuse
July 17
Harry Potter , stamp
http://ww, w.royalmail.com/portal/rm
The Rescue and Restore Victims of Human Traffick, ing Campaign
July 16Home for a Hero
Nashville Sounds tickets
July 15
Statewide Master Gardene, r Website
July 14,
Gerber Cereal Recall
July 11
July 10
MNPS Standard School Attire
July 8
Solar Cooking
July 5
Check out our parking maps, recommendations for getting around downtown Nashville and options for shuttles and spe, cial rates.
June 25
ECC Director RoxAnn Brown's resignation letter
June 19
The Commonwealt, h Fund
www.commonwealth, fund.org
June 15
Quiz on Tennessee Gun Law
http://crime.a, bout.com/library/blgunquiz_tn.htm
Tennessee Handgun Carry Permit Information
June 14
Padmasambhava Buddhist Center of Tennessee
Information about new diet drug Alli
June 13,
Golf fundrais, er to benefit Metro Officer Danita Marsh
Map of V, ietnam Veterans Boulevard closure
http://www.tdot.state.tn.us/mediaroo, m/2007/ClosureofSR386.pdf
ATM Safety Tips
http://www.aba.com/Consumer+Co, nnection/CNC_contips_atm.htm
Cumberland County Playhouse
June 12
Bonnaroo Detours
http://wtvf.ima, ges.worldnow.com/images/incoming/bonnaroodetours.pdf
Tennessee Highway Patrol
June 9<, /STRONG>
Nashville Area Red Cross
http://www.nashviller, edcross.org
June 8
Franklin, Tenn., Police Department S, ex Offender Registry
June 6
Products For A Cleaner Planet
green, e, rchoices.org
Salute America's Soldiers
June 5
Staph Infection Information From Vanderbilt Hospital
June 4
Get or renew passport
Metro Pools Open For Summer
Financial Privacy Campaign
www.Consume, rsUnion.org
June 3
Tom Urbanski Fund
June 1
Toothpaste recall
May 30
Safe Haven Family Shelter
May 28
Precipitation Levels
Trace Your Ancestry
May 27
Boating Laws
May 25
Tennessee Renaissance Festival
May 24
Clean air in Te, nnessee
http://state.t, n.us/environment/apc/
May 23
"Crime In Tennessee" report
www.TBI.state.tn, .us
Child Care Resource and Referral Centers
http://www.tennessee.gov/humanserv/adfam/c, crrc.htm
Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury
May 21
American Academy of Dermatology
May 17
Na, shville G, , as
Underwater Warriors
May 16
GE Appliances
May 14
Wolf Creek Dam
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety
Finding gas prices
May , 13
Goat Farming
www.tn, goatproducers.org
May 12
Bone Marrow Dr, ive
United Sta, tes Post Office
May 11
Baby Names
May 8
Nashville Predators Scoreboard For Sale
May 7
West Nile Virus Information
http://www2.state.tn.us/health/CEDS/WNV/wnvhome.a, sp
Consumer Reports Successful Diets
http://www, .consumerreports.org/cro/index.htm
May 4
Vanderbilt University , Emergency Text Alerts
May 3
Affiliated Computer Services,
May 2
Tennessee Renaissance Festival
www.tnrenfest.com<, /P>
April 27
TBI: Crime on Campus Report
April 26
Sales Tax Holidayhttp://www.tennessee.gov/revenue/s, alestaxholiday/
Minxx shooting victim Tommy Urbanksi
www.tommyurbanski, fund.com
April 24, 2007
W, olf Dam Creek Risk Analysis
Dining Out For Life
April 22, 2007Save Bernie's Farm
Country Music Marathon and 1/2 Marathon
April 20, 2007
Copy of Pacman newspaper ad
http://www.tennessean.com, /assets/pdf/DN70431419.PDF
Rover, Murfreesboro Public Transportation
April 18, 2007
School, Patrol: CAPE
Country Music Marathon and 1/2 Marathon
http://www.cmm, arathon.com/home.html
April 17, 2007
Virginia Tech Student Blogs
Baby Checklist
April 14, 2007
Bowling Green Skate Park
April 13, 2007
April 12, 200, 7
FDA Information , Ab, out Pet Food Recall
April 11, 2007
US A, rmy Corps of Engineers Dam Project
April 10, 2007
TDOT map for Mack Hatcher http://www.tdot.state.tn.us/news/, 2005/120205, .htm
Nashville Area Red Cross "Join the 10,000" Campaign
April 9, 2007,
Nashville Red Cross Donations
April 6, 2007
Tornado Safe Roo, ms
www, .tornadosaferooms.com/
Milky War Farms
April 4, 2007
Pet Food Recalls
http://www.fda.gov/oc/opacom/hottopics/petfood., html
http://www.purina, .com/Company/Press/2007, /MightyDog.aspx
Stroller Strides, , featured on School Patrol
, Pool Ladder Recall
h, ttp://www.intexcorp.com/
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Pacman Fan Club In Nashville
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The Daily Star
---- — Back in 2009 — exactly the Jan. 13, edition of The Daily Star — there was a "Dear Abby" by Jeanne Phillips column titled "Work dress code is crucial." I cut that out and kept it.
The other day I was paging through one of our Bible translations (of all places) and there it was tucked away on the same page along with 1 Timothy 2:9, which empathizes well arranged dress. I carefully unfolded the now brittle piece of paper. It was worth the reread and a reprint.
Yes, now it is worth our attention, since today's work ethics certainly need some sprucing up. Take it from this oldster, that when doing business anywhere, the first thing I see is the workforce and how they are presented — a plus or a minus. (My husband and I have actually walked out of a business when hearing vulgar language.)
I went to school up outside of Boston, back in the early 1950s. Several college courses emphasized the need for a good appearance plus grooming when interviewing for a job. Also this was vital in keeping that job and progressing in your employment by having good work ethics. That would be not only pertain to your work habits but also in your presence and demeanor.
Here's the column (in part):
"Trying to run a business in Florida" wrote: "Dear Abby: You're in a position to do young people a great service by educating a generation that has grown up in a casual-dress world that there's a line between how one dresses in personal life and how one dresses for work. Cross it, and it could negatively affect you career." (That's so true.)
The article went on to reiterate what a large company did to encourage better PR. It sent out to all employees dress code guidelines with a warning of repercussions if not adhered to. It worked.
It highlighted some suggestions if an individual wanted to be regarded as a serious professional: In other words, get the job, keep the job and progress not only monetarily but in position.
I will summarize to fit into my space:
1: Dress for success, and not sex — no-no to spaghetti straps, short skirts, low-cut and revealing tight clothing, etc.
2: Cover up with modest shoes and not flip-flops or sandals. "We don't want to see your pedicure, your toe rings, the crust on your heels, or smell your feet."
3: Make it fit: "We have a woman working here who looks like a sausage stuffed in a polyester casing. It's hard to take her seriously. The same goes for pants that are so loose and low-slung that you can see his underwear or her thong."
4: Don't pollute: This highlighted that pungent fragrances for both men and women could be offensive. (This could also include any strong stinky smell such as wood smoke, manure barn odor...)
5: Bathe: (This was very informative). It read: "There seems to be a new 'natural' cult popping up whose adherents believe that washing removes vital oils from the skin (or hair) and should be avoided. This phenomenon is more often, but not always, a male habit. Anyone in close contact with others should bathe or shower daily." (Amen to that!)
Yes, to bathe or shower daily is good personal hygiene and is vital for good health. I believe most folks recognize that.
That particular newspaper column was dated 2009 and my upbringing in the world of business was back in the 1950s onward. All was true then and all is applicable now.
We had strict laws, back then, like what was termed "Blue Laws." No open stores on Sundays, and there were curfews.
Yes, those Sundays were for family time where we would plan activities together and perhaps include relatives and friends. Family was very important and not to be neglected as was a healthy lifestyle, pleasant employment, contentment and all the other pluses that bring happiness.
Elaine W. Kniskern is a 79-year-old resident of Schenevus and a grandmother of five. She can reached at email@example.com. 'Senior Scene' columns can be found at www. thedailystar.com/seniorscene.


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Stepping into the role Bernadette Peters first played in the original 1987 Broadway production, Streep looks spellbinding in menacing talons and a matted gray wig as her character seeks to reverse a curse so that her beauty may be restored.
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July 31, 2014
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- AEP crews were called to 8th Avenue near 26th Street in Huntington Saturday evening after a car slammed into a power pole, knocking it down.
Cabell County Dispatchers say the driver of the car had blacked out, and drove right into the pole. Huntington Police confirmed to WSAZ.com that the driver had been drinking. However, they say he was nowhere near the legal limit.
Police say the driver suffered from several medical conditions and was on oxygen. The man's identity was not released, and his condition is unknown at this time.


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Arthur Foulkes
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A Clay County man has agreed to plead guilty to what federal prosecutors call perhaps the nation's largest "sextortion" case.
Richard L. Finkbiner, 40, of eastern Clay County signed the plea agreement last week admitting that he used the Internet to obtain sexually explicit images of minors and then threatening to release those images if the minors did not provide him with more images.
Prosecutors signed the agreement Wednesday.
Authorities believe Finkbiner victimized hundreds of minors all across the U.S. He was charged only in connection with a fraction of those cases. He also agreed to plead guilty to owning child pornography.
If a federal judge accepts the 23-page plea agreement, Finkbiner would face a sentence of between 30 and 50 years in prison. In federal cases such as this, a defendant is required to serve at least 85 percent of a sentence, meaning Finkbiner would be 65 when released if he received the lightest possible sentence.
"The government will argue for a much higher sentence" than 30 years, said Joseph Hogsett, U.S. attorney for the southern district of Indiana, who stopped in Terre Haute for a short news conference Thursday.
After being tricked into providing sexually explicit images, minors "became, in effect, Finkbiner's 'cam' slaves," Hogsett told reporters in the federal courthouse downtown.
Police arrested Finkbiner in April 2012 and charged him with sexually exploiting two minors. A search of his rural Clay County home turned up thousands of sexually explicit images and videos showing hundreds of possible victims. Since then, charges related to 11 other victims, mostly teenage boys, have been introduced into the case.
Although Finkbiner and prosecutors have signed the plea agreement, it must still be approved by a federal judge. In any case, if more victims come forward, their "victim impact" statements could influence any possible sentence, said Zach Myers, assistant U.S. attorney and a lead investigator in the case, who was also in Terre Haute Thursday. Additional victims could also seek restitution, Hogsett said.
The plea agreement sets special conditions in the event Finkbiner, who has been in custody since his arrest, is ever released from prison. It prohibits him from owning pornography, orders him to receive treatment for sexual disorders and bars him from having any unsupervised contact with minors unless approved by a probation officer in advance.
The agreement also orders Finkbiner to register as a sex offender, consent to searches (including searches of his computer systems) and to provide a DNA sample. Finkbiner also faces the possibility of paying restitution to his victims and could face a court-ordered fine.
In exchange for Finkbiner's plea, prosecutors agreed not to bring any additional charges stemming from the "sexploitation" case, according to the agreement.
A judge has ordered Finkbiner to remain in federal custody until his sentencing or trail.
Hogsett on Thursday urged other victims to contact the U.S. attorney's office at 888-368-5067.
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North Lake Tahoe creates an Apres Ski guide, which suggests that any tourist who works at Google should buy a round of drinks. However, to view the guide, you have to go through a data-sucking slalom.
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The Eighth Annual Hot Tamale Chili Cookoff in the City of Grayson proved to be another success.
The event, produced by the Greater Eastside Chamber of Commerce (GECC) benefits the Grayson Care Groups. This is a group of school teachers looking out for the material and financial (field trips etc.) needs of children in the community, took place Saturday.
With perfect weather and great community involvement, a fun time of music and sampling of tasty chili was had by all. Sponsors of the event included many local businesses: Republic Services, Sam's Club, Southeast Urgent Care, Tom M. Wages Funeral Home, Precision Planning, Inc, Art Thou Signs, Georgia Surgicare, Grayson Orthodontics, Purofirst of Gwinnett, Brusters Ice Cream, Moosehead Marketing Solutions, Quality Awards, Freskos Media, Paychex, and Houston & CO., CPA's are among the businesses involved in the festival.
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By Jack Molitor
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ANDERSON, Ind. —
Police are still looking for more information about a body found in a rural area on the city's northwest side on March 21.
According to a press release from Anderson Police Department spokesman Joel Sandefur, police now want help from the public to gather information about the death of Anthony Dewayne Brown, 34, of Lima, Ohio. Brown's body was found behind some debris off Anderson-Frankton Road, killed by a single gunshot wound to the head. At the time the body was found, Anderson Chief of Police Larry Crenshaw said it appeared the body had been placed there by someone.
Police are still treating the incident as a homicide and the investigation is ongoing, Sandefur said.
After performing an autopsy of the body at Indiana University Health Ball Memorial Hospital in Muncie, Madison County Coroner Marian Dunnichay estimated Brown's body had been there for three to five days.
Brown had been sought by police in Allen County, Ohio, since Nov. 30, 2011, for trafficking in cocaine, according to the Lima/Allen County Crimestoppers website.
According to public records, Brown pleaded to cocaine charges on more than one occasion in Allen County. There were court cases filed in October 2004, December 2004 and September 2006.
Police said a young girl had seen Brown's body on Wednesday and told her father about it. When she told him about it again on Thursday afternoon, he went out to see for himself and then called police.
Sandefur asked anyone with knowledge of Brown or the incident that led to his death to contact APD detectives at (765) 648-6739.
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Monday evening, the city's World's Fair Park Working Group met at the Foundry to hear some partially fleshed-out presentations of what to do with the park's South Lawn. Not really a problem, and a popular place for a few festivals and Frisbee-chasing dogs, the South Lawn (located right between the constantly building university and the rapidly reviving downtown) has been envied by several planners of Big Projects since the '90s. The current task force includes several World's Fair Park honchos and is co-chaired by the city's Chief Policy Officer Bill Lyons and Jan Simek, UT anthropology professor and sometime administrator. Most of City Council was present in the room, watching with interest. But the questions came mainly from the Working Group itself.
Private businessman Harry Sherrod, of Sherrod and Associates, opened with maybe the most unusual proposal, a mixed-use project including a large (1,000 cars!) parking garage, a good-sized hotel, and space for UT expansion. If we understood him correctly, Sherrod means to build a good portion of the project underground, and restore the South Lawn itself, above his building proposal, 24 feet above the current grade. "If you flew over, you wouldn't know the difference," he said.
He's working with William S. Denton, "the Sunsphere's architect of record," who was present in the room. For those of us in the gallery, Sherrod's diagrams on paper were small and hard to discern.
Clarence Brown Theatre Artistic Director Cal MacLean, who's actually a member of the aforementioned Working Group, followed with the most detailed of the proposals, with high-contrast color slides. He wants to move the entire theater department from the center of campus to this more-public place. The first of two options he presented showed a five-story building that would be functionally a small-scale performing-arts center, with multiple theaters, the major storage space required by a theater program, and classrooms. It sounded as if the theater space proposed for the South Lawn would almost precisely duplicate their current arrangement. Of the three theaters he described, one would approximate the current Clarence Brown in size (500-560 seats), one would be sort of like the Carousel (and called "the Carousel"), and one higher up in the building would be a "black box" theater, perhaps like the present lab theater. The advantages, he said, would be the immediate adjacency of theater classrooms (as it is, theater students have to walk outside to get to the theater), and better access for patrons. Clarence Brown has found itself surrounded by pedestrian space. "That's good for the university," he said, but has left some traditional theater patrons with the perception that it's hard to drive to and park at Clarence Brown. The new site, he said, would also provide an architectural link between downtown and the university.
"We need a theater center," he said, "something we have longed for ever since the first Clarence Brown Theatre was built." MacLean continued, with something that sounded like an Act Now challenge: "If we can't find it here, we're going to pursue it elsewhere." He offered two versions of the plan, one of which would take up more of the South Lawn, but which would be only four stories in height. UT's plan leaves a substantial portion of the South Lawn untouched. Option 1 would leave green space south of a line approximating White Avenue. It might be enough for picnics and Frisbees, but not nearly enough for a beer festival or major concert.
Sherrod had emphasized parking, but MacLean said the existing parking, which includes UT's 11th Street parking garage, which is usually mostly empty in the evenings, would be plenty, especially considering that many prospective patrons might just be ambling over from downtown.
Then Ashley Capps, concert wizard and a member of the Working Group's "staff," stood and offered the shortest presentation of the evening. He didn't have an architectural plan so much as a graphic demonstration. What he'd like to see on the South Lawn isn't a dramatic-arts complex but another, much larger, amphitheater. He got a schematic drawing of the Charlottesville amphitheater, which holds 3,000 and strikes Capps as ideal for what Knoxville needs, and superimposed it on a map of the South Lawn. Such a facility would cost $7-8 million, he said, assuming it included bathroom facilities. It was moved farther south than the UT proposal, leaving some green space, but on the Clinch Avenue side, which Capps said could be used for overflow crowds.
One task-force member brought up the adjacency to the existing Tennessee Amphitheater, which the larger amphitheater would resemble in some ways. Capps said the new building would make the older, smaller one easier to program.
Capps handled one question in character. Would the current parking be sufficient for what he wanted to program there?
"Hopefully not," he said.
Of course, no one was there to represent the fourth option, which is to leave it alone. That was the conclusion, after weeks of discussion, of the top-flight national consulting group the Urban Land Institute in 1999. They happened to be there the weekend of a John Fogerty concert, in the grass and under the stars, and perplexed some convention-center promoters when they concluded they could not think of a better use for that space. So the convention center was built a few hundred feet away, on Henley Street.
Lyons' closing remarks about whether these proposals might be considered on their own or as part of a World's Fair Park master plan suggested that no decisions about the proposals are imminent. Their next meeting, he said, will be next year sometime.
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Sen. Leland Yee has announced legistlation to help counties implement Laura's Law, a program that allows enforcement of Assisted Outpatient Treatment orders for some potentially dangerous mentally ill patients.
Yee released a statement Thursday, on the 12-year anniversary of a mass shooting in Nevada County that left three people dead, including Laura Wilcox.
Specifically, Yee plans to remove unnecessary and cumbersome barriers to implementation of Laura's Law, such as allowing counties to use existing mental health funds to implement the program as well as removing the requirement of a vote of the local county board of supervisors, according to his office.
"While we should not draw direct correlations between mental illness and all acts of violence, both mental health treatment and reasonable gun control should be part of a comprehensive response to protect children and families," Yee said. "It is imperative that we find ways to implement Laura's Law throughout California."
Laura's Law allows counties to assure that court-ordered help reaches people who are not complying with voluntary treatment programs, have a history of hospitalization, arrest or violent behavior and are potentially dangerous to themselves or others.
Many counties have failed to implement Laura's Law despite the fact that the policy has proven to result in less hospitalization, less homelessness, fewer arrests, less incarceration, increased collaboration between the mental health and justice systems, as well as a more efficient and effective cross-agency delivery system, according to Yee's office.


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UAHuntsville to host propulsion research workshop
Huntsville, Ala. (October 10, 2011) - The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAHuntsville) will host a propulsion research workshop on Friday, Oct. 14.
The workshop will be held at the university's Shelby Center for Science and Technology (room 301) from 8 a.m., to 5 p.m. Co-chairpersons for the workshop are Dr. Shankar Mahalingam, dean, of the College of Engineering, and Dr. Robert Frederick, Jr., interim director of the Propulsion Research Center. Mahalingam and Frederick also hold the rank of professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering.
The workshop stemmed from UAHuntsville's invitation to be on the planning team for the new NASA National Institute for Rocket Propulsion Systems (NIRPS). The university accepted the task to coordinate issue identification among the academic propulsion community across the nation and provide that information to the NASA planning team.
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Croissants Bistro and Bakery will be hosting their Annual Cupcake Eating Contest this 4th of July! This contest is for adults who want to have fun and who love a great cupcake! In its 2nd year, this contest will feature flavors and frostings that are TBD. Last year, the winner ate 19 cupcakes in 5 minutes! Registration is not opened yet and more details will be announced when it gets closer.Next Date:
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By Jana Schultz, Okeene correspondent
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Okeene Elementary School recently held its annual spelling bee. The winner in first through third grades was third-grader Lauren Luckie, with second-grader Madison Schmidt as runner up.
The fourth-through-sixth-grade division winner was Jess Gabill, with Katie Boeckman as runner up.
The Okeene Junior High Lady Whippets participated in the County Line Junior High Basketball Tournament. They beat the Crescent Lady Tigers to bring home the third-place trophy. Members of the team include Sadie Moore, Brooklyn Meier, Jada Lorenz, Ashleigh Hicks, Karlli Giesick, Meagan Osmus, Kayla Fast, Holly Boeckman, Denise Aldrich, Desirea Alvarado, Savannah Lamb, Brookelyn Lozer, Kallee Dunn and Clarissa Krause. The team is coached by Ross Doane.
The Okeene Junior High Whippets also competed in the tournament, defeating the Crescent Tigers to bring home the consolation championship. Members of the team include Mason Gambill, Craig Westfahl, Blake Bedwell, Koby Smith, Masen Graham, Terry Barnes, Nolan Rackley, Carlos Rivera, Michael Day, Jordan Buhr, Joel Nusz, Drew Nault, Trey Brown, Aaron Winstead and Cashen Graham. Their coach is Patrick Penner.
Children ages 10-14 are invited to participate in the local level of competition for the Knights of Columbus free-throw contest at 2 p.m. today at Okeene High School gym. The championship is sponsored each year, with winners progressing through local, district, and state contests. Winners of each age division will receive a trophy. Participants will need written parental consent. Entry forms will be available at the contest. For more information, contact Lonnie Boeckman at 822-5032.
Newly appointed Town Board Trustee Cory Weber has been sworn in by Mayor Wayne Carter.
Cory was appointed to the seat vacated by Chip Outhier. He will serve the remainder of that term until the next municipal election, slated for April.
Okeene Electric customers Tom Ellis, Debra Farhar and Doug Barnes received rebate checks for the installation of high-efficiency electric heat pumps in their home.
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Sony still hasn't told us when the Vita TV will break out of Japan but we reckon it won't be too long before the microconsole begins its Western voyage. And we can't wait: between putting our Vita games on the TV, streaming from the PS4 and potentially dishing up a roster of TV streaming apps, the Vita TV is a must-have piece of kit for any PlayStationer's living room. Watch your back, Chromecast.
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As wearables flood the market, the line between fitness tracker and smartwatch is beginning to blur. The LG Lifeband Touch indeed straddles the two, monitoring your daily activity while also offering call and text notifications from your smartphone. It also pairs with LG's Heart Rate Earphones, which'll measure your heart from inside your ear. If you fancy decorating your wrist with some wearable tech, this is a solid all-rounder.
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Obama to Leave Hawaii Tonight and Head Back to Washington
President will return to White House to tackle fiscal cliff deadlock.
President Obama is planning to cut short his Hawaii vacation and leave for Washington Wednesday night in an effort to kick-start budget negotiations that have stalled over tax hikes for the rich and spending priorities.
Obama left for Hawaii last Friday with his wife Michelle and daughters Malia and Sasha, but his aides say he decided to head back to the White House early because Congress is returning to duty Thursday after its own holiday break. Obama hopes all sides can find a compromise that will avoid the "fiscal cliff" of automatic tax increases and deep spending cuts scheduled to start taking effect on January 1. Economists say allowing this to happen could thrown the nation back into recession.
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White House advisers say the president might accept a scaled-down budget package to get the government past the fiscal cliff, but he is still apparently insisting on higher taxes for the wealthy, an idea opposed by many Republicans. White House advisers say Obama might also accept reductions in some entitlement programs, such as Social Security, a proposal which is opposed by many Democrats.
Complicating the situation, just before the holiday break, House Speaker John Boehner, an Ohio Republican, failed to get enough House Republicans to support his own version of a budget bill that called for tax hikes on millionaires. Acknowledging the lack of support, Boehner declined to allow a vote on the measure. So it's unclear how much Boehner will be able to negotiate on behalf of his GOP colleagues in the future.
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The outcome of the budget battle may now hinge on the Senate, which is controlled by Democrats and which could conceivably break the logjam with a budget bill of its own.
Obama's wife and children will stay for several more days in Hawaii, where the president was born and where he has vacationed for many years. For the past few days, he followed his usual pattern of spending time privately with his family and friends, relaxing on the beach, and playing golf, and visiting U.S. military personnel on Christmas Day.
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A Marne, Iowa man cited in the shooting death of a dog has now also been charged with animal abuse.
Collins Cutler was initially charged with firing a gun inside city limits in the shooting that killed a year-old chocolate Labrador retriever named Wrigley that had been playing near his house.
Wrigley was traveling from Denver with owner Stacey Ernat, who told officers that Wrigley and another dog were playing in a yard Monday when Cutler fired a shotgun from about 40 feet away.
Cass County Sheriff Darby McLaren said Cutler told a deputy that he thought he had a right to shoot Wrigley because the dog had come onto his property.
The additional animal abuse charge means Cutler could face up to two years in prison instead of one month in jail.


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Today, July 11, is National Collector Car Appreciation Day across the U.S. That means...
Jimmie Johnson said he fears that the switch back to pack racing is going to make things difficult for the young drivers in this weekend's Daytona 500.
"Some of the guys coming in have only tandem racing," the five-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion said of the way two cars hooked up in stock-car racing's previous aerodynamic configuration. "When you are tandem racing, you are forced to partner with someone--if you like them or not, if you trust them or not, regardless of experience or if it is a rookie driver."
Pack racing is different, the 2006 Daytona 500 winner said.
"You have a little bit more free will and you can choose who you want to work with a little bit more," Johnson said. "So, not only does a rookie driver have to face the issue of not having any pack experience but also the guys around them.
"There's a lot more decisions that take place in pack racing. [Young drivers] are probably fighting a double-edged sword."
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