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Here is the latest Wisconsin sports news from The Associated Press
MILWAUKEE (AP) -- The Milwaukee Brewers outslugged the Pittsburgh Pirates 12-8 yesterday, sending the Pirates to their 10th loss in 13 games. Ryan Braun, Jeff Bianchi, Rickie Weeks, Carlos Gomez and Yovani Gallardo all homered for the Brewers. Garrett Jones, Michael McKenry and Gaby Sanchez went deep for the Pirates.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Quarterback Danny O'Brien posted solid numbers in his debut for No. 12 Wisconsin over the weekend. O'Brien threw for 219 yards and two touchdowns in the Badgers' 26-21 win over Northern Iowa on Saturday. The transfer from Maryland is trying to fill the shoes of former Wisconsin QB Russell Wilson.
CHICAGO (AP) -- Angel Pagan hit a tiebreaking single in the ninth inning yesterday to lead the San Francisco Giants past the Chicago Cubs 7-5. Marco Scutaro added another RBI single in the ninth for the Giants. Alfonso Soriano belted a three-run home run for the Cubs.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Stephen Strasburg pitched six scoreless innings yesterday in the Washington Nationals' 4-3 win over the St. Louis Cardinals. Strasburg allowed just two hits and struck out nine before the bullpen took over. Daniel Descalso hit a two-run homer for the Cardinals.
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Earlier this week, at the //BUILD 2012 conference, we announced the Windows Phone 8 developer platform, the most significant enhancement to our dev platform to date. Built on a common core shared with Windows 8, the dev platform is all new – from the underlying subsystems to the APIs and tools. Because so much has changed, I wanted to take a moment to touch on the highlights. Each section provides a short overview and links to additional detail to help you quickly navigate our all-new document library.
I encourage you to visit the Dev Center to download the new SDK and register for a local Dev Camp event to secure time with our experts to learn more. If you're new to Windows Phone or just getting started, you'll want to register for a new Individual Account by November 7 for just $8 (U.S.), a savings of $91. See the Dev Center for additional details.
Please give us your feedback here or at #wpdev.
By popular demand, we've added the ability to use C++ in your apps. Mobile developers need to build for multiple platforms and C++ is the code portability standard, both for business logic and for open source libraries like SQLite. In Windows Phone 8, you can now use C++ in your XAML-based C# or Visual Basic.NET apps – or you can write an entire app in pure C++ using our brand new native app model.
Introducing Direct3D app
In Windows Phone 8 we have a new gaming platform for C++ developers: Direct3D app. This new app model gives developers low-level access to Direct3D APIs for graphics, XAudio2, and WASAPI for audio as well as a host of other needed C++ APIs for game development. Even better, it is the same app model you'll find in Windows 8 – so not only is it easy to bring C++ games to Windows Phones, but it's also very easy to target Windows 8 at the same time! Our new C++ gaming platform has also made it easy for popular game engines and middleware, such as Unity3D, Havok, FMOD, Audiokinetic Wwise, and Autodesk Scaleform to target Windows Phone, and all of these will soon be available for Windows Phone 8. For more info about the native Direct3D app model and the features available to this type of app, see Direct3D app development for Windows Phone 8.
New and expansive Windows 8 aligned APIs
Windows Phone 8 is built on a shared core with Windows 8, and as part of that shared core we are introducing a new expansive Windows 8 aligned API that makes it easy to write apps that target both Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 apps. This new API surface is primarily built using the new Windows Runtime style APIs (which are available to both C#/Visual Basic.NET code and C++) and also includes COM and Win32 APIs.
XAML app improvements
We have evolved and improved our XAML app model in a significant way to make it very powerful and enable many new scenarios. The following sections cover the highlights.
XAML control improvements
It's now easier than ever to create visually responsive, beautiful, and consistent apps with a number of improvements to XAML controls.
Windows Runtime Components
XAML apps and Direct3D apps can build reusable Windows Runtime Components using C++. These components can provide APIs that are directly callable from C++ or C#/Visual Basic code.
C++ code reuse
XAML developers can now reuse C++ in their apps. This enables a whole new set of options, from using open source C/C++ code such as SQLite, to reusing C++ app code, to calling new COM and Win32 APIs in the Windows 8 Aligned API surface.
XAML and Direct3D
Windows Phone 8 introduces two new elements that enable XAML developers to render part of their app directly from Direct3D using C++.
DrawingSurface positions a Direct3D surface within a XAML app along with other XAML elements. This is useful when you want to render a small 'island of Direct3D' and have it automatically composited with other elements.
DrawingSurfaceBackgroundGrid is a very special element that must always be the root element of a page and allows developers to render directly to the background from Direct3D using C++. DrawingSurfaceBackgroundGrid, as its name implies, inherits from Grid so you can position child elements using Grid layout. The child elements are automatically composed by the platform on top of the Direct3D rendered background. DrawingSurfaceBackgroundGrid allows developers to render directly, instead of requiring a copy (through a Direct3D swap chain) like DrawingSurface requires, which results in faster performance. DrawingSurfaceBackgroundGrid was introduced to support games or other apps that require 'to the metal' graphics performance, but also want to use existing XAML elements for UI and have access to some features not available in the native app model like Live Tiles or Notifications.
Text improvements
We've added full support for right-to-left (RTL) languages. Mixing languages isn't a problem either as XAML supports bi-directional text, allowing both left-to-right and right-to-left text in the same sentence. Regardless of the text being rendered, it will be more consistent across apps now that the XAML text stack has been rewritten to use the same DWrite-based rendering system that powers the rest of the phone as well as Windows 8. For more info, see Creating bidirectional apps for Windows Phone 8.
New gesture support
Pinch and stretch data is now available inside the Manipulation series of touch events making it easier to create accurate and responsive two-finger scaling experiences. For more info, see Gesture support for Windows Phone.
Multi-res support
Windows Phone 8 supports new high-resolution displays, adding WXGA (768 x 1280) and 720p (720 x 1280) to the existing WVGA (480 x 800) from previous releases. Our commitment to supporting existing apps includes helping to ensure your current apps will "just work" in these new resolutions, with the phone doing the work of scaling and matting the applications to fill the screen. New apps can take advantage of the higher resolutions by including high-fidelity assets, while maintaining a single, common layout due to the use of logical pixels rather than physical pixels. And as always, game developers are free to choose the resolution that best supports their experience and rely on the high-quality scaler hardware to make it fill the screen. Finally, Visual Studio includes new emulators that make it easy to test all three resolutions even if you only have a single phone. For more info, see Multi-resolution apps for Windows Phone 8.
Networking improvements
Windows Phone 8 drastically expands the networking options available to developers.
App performance
We've made it possible for all apps run faster (even those built for Windows Phone 7.5) by enabling some key improvements:
Camera and Lenses
Lenses are camera-based apps that work with the built-in camera and enable new types of rich media experiences in the Camera Roll. With the addition of Windows Runtime APIs for capture, deeper control of the camera sensor is possible and can enable new types of image processing when used in combination with the ability to reuse C++ code. There are also more places to work better together with the phone, including creating auto-upload agents, photo editors, and the new ShareMediaTask for sharing to the cloud. For more info about Lenses, see Lenses for Windows Phone 8. For more info about ShareMediaTask class, see How to use the share media task for Windows Phone.
The Wallet Hub enables users to organize the digital versions of their payment cards, loyalty and membership cards, tickets, boarding passes, and deals and coupons. Wallet has an extensibility model that allows apps to provide and update Wallet content. Like Live Tiles, it's an additional surface area for your app to reach users even if they haven't launched your app. Wallet Agents help ensure that your content is always up to date. Secure NFC will be supported in some markets, allowing your Wallet items to be used for secure transactions. For more information about wallet, see Wallet for Windows Phone 8.
In-app purchasing
Microsoft has engaged with commerce providers from 191 countries/regions around the world to bring you new ways to sell digital goods within your app. You can sell durable goods like avatar items, eBooks, and additional game levels, or consumable goods such video rentals or virtual currency in your apps (such as gold coins, or poker chips).
Users can make in-app purchases the same way they buy apps, using credit cards, PayPal, and our most-popular option: mobile operator billing. Microsoft provides electronic proof of purchase for every purchase so that you can identify each purchase uniquely, including who made it, when, and how much they paid in your app or on your server.
Revenue share pricing and terms are the same for in-app purchases as they are for app purchases. Our full policies are available here. For more information about in-app purchasing, see In-app purchase for Windows Phone 8.
App-to-app communication
Windows Phone 8 allows apps to register custom URIs and file type associations, so they can work better together.
Best of all, you never have to worry about whether users have your app installed to handle a given URI scheme or file type. If your URI scheme or file type is invoked and your app isn't installed, the phone will launch the Windows Phone Store and inform users they need to install your app to complete their task.
Lock notifications, wallpaper and new Live Tile support
Windows Phone 8 increases the opportunities for developers in notifications and Tiles.
For more info, see Tiles and notifications for Windows Phone and Lock screen for Windows Phone 8.
Windows Phone 8 includes a full-featured speech platform that allows users to launch and talk to their apps.
These APIs allow the use of both on-device voice recognition for local grammar and web-based voice recognition for dictation, powered by Bing. For more info, see Speech for Windows Phone 8.
VoIP platform
Windows Phone 8 introduces new platform features to enable VoIP providers to deeply integrate with the Windows Phone experience. We have enabled enhanced push notifications and opened up the incoming call notification so that VoIP providers can build experiences that look like regular incoming phone calls, including continuing to run in the background if the user launches a different app. These new APIs support video calls in addition to audio calls. For more info, see VoIP apps for Windows Phone 8.
Enterprise app support
Windows Phone 8 allows companies to enroll and manage phones.
Windows Phone 8 allows companies to distribute their apps to their employees, privately and in a security-enhanced way.
Contacts and calendar
Windows Phone 7.1 introduced read-only Contact and Calendar APIs, enabling apps to bring together users' contact and calendar information. Windows Phone 8 takes this a step further by allowing apps to create their own read-write contact stores on the phone and to have those contacts aggregated into the People Hub. Even better, apps can optionally make these contact stores visible to other apps.
Apps can now add appointments to the user's calendar in addition to the existing app-specific reminders functionality. For more info, see Contacts and Calendar for Windows Phone.
Fast application resume
In Windows Phone 7, a new instance of an app was always started when the user launched the app from Start or the App List, even if the app was already in memory. In Windows Phone 8, the app developer gets to choose either the default re-launch behavior or the new "Fast Resume" option, which simply resumes the existing app instance if it is suspended in the background. Apps that take advantage of the new "Fast Resume" option still exhibit the default "first page" resume user experience by default. For more info, see Fast app resume for Windows Phone 8.
Location aware apps
We've added new multitasking capabilities to enable apps to continuously track the user's location (with their permission, of course). This enables apps like navigation and run-tracker apps to run in the background even after the user switches to another app and can issue voice and audio from the background, show toast messages, or even update its Live Tile on Start. For more info, see Location for Windows Phone 8.


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Medicine for the Achilles Heel of Our Democracy?
Intergenerational Theft and the FairTax
The massive amounts of money we are borrowing and spending today to save our economy—and satisfy powerful interests--comes, in truth, from the future earnings of generations of Americans yet to be born. It is nothing less than intergenerational theft on a scale that would even make Bernie Madoff blush. This destructive path is both irresponsible and immoral and is only accepted by the public because our system of taxation has so effectively divorced our perception of government spending from the truth of where that wealth comes from--us. No recovery effort can fully overcome the inevitable damage that such practices create.
To be fair, the economic tools at hand and our recent economic history almost require this of modern American politicians. President Obama, Members of Congress and financial experts on the national stage have become sophisticated in the magician's art of misdirection. Little wonder. To admit that we are borrowing trillions of dollars against the earnings of unborn generations and then printing so much money that both foreign debt and our own purchasing power is devalued would both invite voter scorn and undermine the faith of foreign lenders whom we now count upon to finance our budgets.
The most compelling virtue of the FairTax, the national retail sales tax designed to replace the income tax system, may be that it turns every consumer in the United States into a "stakeholder" who will finally pressure politicians to limit irresponsible spending. The nation desperately needs this perspective because our politicians can't help themselves when it comes to spending our money. It is the surest path to election.
Advocates for FairTax legislation--which Washington loves to hate--rail against the destructive effects and unfair application of the income tax system. They point to trillions of dollars investment that is expected to flow into the United States with elimination of corporate and capital gains taxes. They love the idea of illegal immigrants and the entire underground economy joining the tax base. And they like the idea of a simple, visible tax on consumption that makes April 15th just another day and which frees desperately needed economic activity from the destructive effects of taxation.
But it is the medicine for the Achilles Heel of our democracy that may prove the most compelling strength of the FairTax. Thomas Jefferson and others warned that when, in a democracy, the public discovers that it can vote itself wealth from the public treasury, self-government may destroy the economic foundation of the nation. Many would argue that cynically ambitious candidates and elected officials have been buying votes with the public treasury for years.
Under the FairTax, every retail purchase of new goods and services is subject to federal taxation. The tax paid at the cash register is visible, unlike taxes that are now hidden in payroll withholding and embedded within the price of goods and services. Connecting government spending--however worthwhile--with what comes out of our paychecks is the currently missing "check and balance" that allows those who create wealth to fairly judge how government spends some of that wealth. If, as one wild example demonstrates, our leaders decide that colonization of the moon requires increasing the FairTax rate from it's current revenue neutral rate of 23% to 25% on all purchases, every consumer will demand a word about that. Today, by contrast, massive spending for entitlements, stimulus projects, pet projects and every other government program seems like "free money" to most voters. One need only look at the courting of the powerful senior citizen's block of voters, or the growth of "earmarks" to understand the siren song of such promises both to elected officials and to the body politic.
The effect is destructive as politicians from both parties have taken us down a path of unsustainable spending. Some economists, like Laurence Kotlikoff of Boston University, cite current and obligated future government debt at the local, state and federal level as so large that it threatens the "full faith and credit" of the United States. Others wonder if we are approaching the point when foreign creditors no longer believe that we can ever satisfy such debt—the definition of national bankruptcy.
Our collective answer to such worries has been to spend more by borrowing more from foreign creditors—both to assuage public fears and to address real problems. We are now spending the earnings of our children and grandchildren on both the challenges of a modern society and the politically popular wishes of entrenched interest groups across the political spectrum. The other answer from national leaders has been to collect less by legislating tax cuts in the legitimate hope that such cuts will spur investment and growth. If we were not already in such deep debt, the debate between the two sides might make sense and a rational middle ground might be achieved. But with more than $11 trillion of national debt, another $50-60 trillion in obligated entitlement spending almost upon us and another $40-60 trillion of debt at the state and local level, this argument begins to look a lot like ideologues endlessly arguing over whether to bake bread or grow wheat while standing in the middle of a long-parched desert.
Last year we borrowed about $160 billion from foreign lenders to send stimulus checks to taxpayers to spark consumption here. In the months leading up to April 15th, however, Americans paradoxically spent an estimated $300 billion on tax preparation costs. The FairTax eliminates these wasted tax system costs, spurs massive private investment and, perhaps most importantly, makes clear to every American the real cost of government promises and programs. In this, the FairTax may prove not to just be a better national tax system but the best way to both save our economy and provide badly needed medicine for our Republic.


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McALESTER — Until the pretty wins start coming for the McAlester Buffaloes, they know that if they have to win ugly, they can.
And if the Buffs have to come back to win, they can do that, too.
McAlester overcame a four-run deficit in the bottom of the fifth, and heavy rains forced the game to end half an inning later to give the Buffs an 8-7 win against the Broken Bow Savages on Saturday at Mike Deak Field.
McAlester has now won its first four games of the season, having had to come back in each one. McAlester beat Byng earlier on Saturday, 2-1.
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Just something that crossed my mind the other day. What defines success for you in powerlifting?
Winning or competing in certain meets?
Winning a national or world championship?
Making some money?
Placing on an "all time" list?
For me it really is pretty simple. i've always wanted to keep making a consistent improvement. I never have had a specific number that was my absolute limit. When I first started I wanted to bench 400 in a shirt. Things slowly progressed from there. I'm happy to keep pushing myself at a pretty agressive pace in the best gym in the world and enjoy the ride. I've competed in some pretty big meets, which is an absolute blast, but it's not what keeps me grinding day in and day out
So success for me is continual improvement. Reaching a point where I'm at least competitive with the top level benchers in the country. I've obviously got numbers I want to hit, but it's not ingrained in stone that those numbers are where I want to stop at. I'm just enjoying the ride of grinding and pushing on myself every day.
So I'm curious, what to you guys defines success?
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Breaking personal PR's and setting some records. After that i do it out of pure enjoyment. Powerlifting saved my life. If i didnt start weight lifting its a guarantee i would be a 350 lb diabetic by this point.
2000 or bust
I think success like any hobby is achieved with how happy you are when doing it. If you are enjoying yourself then you are being successful at it.
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I tend to view it the same way, as a hobby. My life does not depend on whether or not I hit a PR, although it's heavily influenced by it lol.
I guess I'm referring to the competitive nature or goal oriented nature of powerlifting. Obviously those of us that compete have an interest in challenging ourselves against others and I'm curious in that regard what makes people feel they or others are successful
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If people consistently ask you any of the following, my guess is you are doing ok:
How much ya bench?
Can you help me move this weekend?
How much do you eat a day?
Do you/did you play football?
Can you show me how to squat/Deadlift?
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As a young lifter who has been frequently injured by this sport, I define success as getting stronger without getting injured. Although I currently don't aspire to become an all-time record holding powerlifter, I do it for fun and the discipline I have gained helps me in my other goals in life.
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Getting within the Nation's best 5 lifters in my weightclass.
Medal at a National level comp.
Getting PRs, possibly in competition.
I lift mainly for the satisfaction a new PR gives you, but becoming competitive at the national level is what is getting my wheels to spin lately.
I would say being ranked in the top 10 for a weight class, or holding a national/world record.
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Being able to win,place, and hold records in multiple feds and styles matters to me as well. If you can do that then you are successful.
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Powerlifting has the blessing and curse of whatever number you're at is never good enough. I originally wanted to squat 800, but now 800 seems small to me. I'm positive it'll feel the same as I keep increasing. You'll keep progressing, but sometimes it can be a real mental game. Its good to keep it a hobby, I had a real hard time with this for a while.
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825 Squat
470 Bench
645 Deadlift
1905 total
My attitude and goal was do or die to be the all-time best over 50 and top 5 over 40. It finally happened last year at age 56. #1 squat single ply >50 all time (308 and any wt. class) and #3 >40 (308) with 830 lbs. #2 >50 total and #7 >40. But at that meet I injured my back which led to the discovery of malignant cancer in my right kidney. I almost died post surgery from a bad morphene reaction. They got all of the cancer with the kidney and I survived the morphene scare after 5 days in CCU, so I'm a cancer survivor. My reason for all this background info is this. I thought that breaking that squat record that had stood almost a 1/4 century would leave me satisfied and I would retire and be content and stop hammering my body with 3 knee surgeries and 3 shoulder surgeries leaving me with an artificial shoulder I competed with for 2 years. When they told me I had cancer I said well at least I went out on top, because I figured if I survived it I'd probably never compete again. Well; after the near death experience I did a lot of thinking and soul searching and I came to several realizations. One being that God had given me 2 special talents. I had given up one of them 12 years ago when I retired from Southern Gospel music. And was about to 'retire ' from the other, which was the genetic gift and the work ethic to become very strong. I realized that I'd been given a second chance to honor both gifts. I realized that I didn't have those gifts to stop doing either. I came to the conclusion that I have not come to the conclusion of my race both in my singing ministry and as a powerlifter. There will be challenges ahead as we continue to put our quartet together but conquering those challenges is part of the satisfaction. And I now see I can still enjoy conquering the challenges I'll face as a powerlifter: one kidney, diet and supplement limitations, artificial joints and all! A huge part of the satisfaction of getting that squat record was not just getting it but chasing it. I still have chases to make...best over 60, over 70..who knows? I realized it won't always be a matter of 'did I get to the finish line' faster than anyone ever has, but did I run my best race trying and was I a positive example to others along the way. The same with music this time around. Not to have another hit record, maybe we will again-maybe not; but to see someone get something they need from the message in the songs we sing. Bottom line is the same for both I think. If you love it and you and others are touched in a positive way because you do what you do, then that is a true measure of how successful you have been...in whatever you do. You never know who you might touch or influence by simple doing what you do.
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August 1, 2014
A Wisconsin Rapids home is getting a little sprucing up this week thanks to the help of some kids spending part of their summer volunteering.
They're members of a group called Teen Serve. It's made up of hundreds of young people from all over the Midwest.
Teen Serve helps people do things around their house that they can't do for themselves.
This week, the home of an 87-year-old Rapids resident is getting a fresh coat of paint.
From painting houses to cleaning out garages, and sometimes just keeping people company, these kind-hearted volunteers say their work is also a lot of fun and very rewarding.


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This is a preview of the upcoming album. Fresh off their third European tour, SOJA begins 2008 in Aloha fashion hitting the Hawaiian Islands, then onto the West Coast with a string of dates from Seattle to San Diego, and back East hitting select cities between New York and Miami. The New Year promises to bring many things, more shows, more music, more loveů
Stars and Stripes EP available here.
Show Dates
Tuesday April 1, 2008
123 Pleasant Street
123 Pleasant St.
Morgantown, WV 26505
Wednesday April 2, 2008
Crocodile Rock
520 W Hamilton St
Allentown, PA 18101
(610) 434-4600
w/ Special Guests Fear Nuttin Band & Bob
Thursday April 3, 2008
Sullivanĺs Hall
214 Sullivan St
New York, NY 10012
(212) 477-2782
w/ special guests Fear Nuttin Band & Mambo Sauce
Friday April 4, 2008
15 North
15 N Walnut St
West Chester, PA 19380
(610) 436-0287
w/ Special Guests Fear Nuttin Band & Three Legged Fox
Saturday April 5, 2008
Brew River
502 W Main St
Salisbury, MD 21801
(410) 677-6757
w/ Special Guest Fear Nuttin Band
Tuesday April 8, 2008
2061 F Evelyn Byrd Avenue
Harrisonburg, VA 22801
Telephone: (540) 434-7282
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Wednesday April 9, 2008
204 Draper Rd. NW
Blacksburg, VA 24060
Thursday April 10, 2008
Hampden-Sydney College
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w/ Citizen Cope
Friday April 11, 2008
The Pourhouse
224 S. Blount St
Raleigh, NC 27601
(919) 821-1120
w/ Special Guest Fear Nuttin Band
Saturday April 12, 2008
Pantana Bobĺs
513 Contanche St.
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(252) 757-3778
w/ Special Guest Fear Nuttin Band
Sunday April 13, 2008
The Soapbox
255 N. Front St
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(910) 251-8500
w/ Special Guest Fear Nuttin Band
Tuesday April 15, 2008
The Visulite Theatre
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Charlotte, NC 28204
(704) 358-9200
w/ Special Guest Fear Nuttin Band
Wednesday April 16, 2008
700 Gervais St
Columbia, SC 29201
(803) 254-4131
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Thursday April 17, 2008
Charleston Pour House
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(843) 571-4343
Friday April 18, 2008
860 A1A Beach Blvd.
St. Augustine Beach, FL
w/ Special Guest Scholarĺs Word
Saturday April 19, 2008
The Bank and Blueĺs
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Sunday April 20, 2008
Camp Jam
Lacoochee, FL
Saturday April 26, 2008***
Quixoteĺs True Blue
2637 Welton Street
Denver, CO 80205
Sunday April 27, 2008
1st Annual GUAM -Pacific Islands REGGAE FESTIVAL
Clark County Amphitheater
500 S Grand Central Pkwy
Las Vegas, NV 89106
Presented by AudioINK Entertainment with Guahan 702
Tuesday April 29, 2008***
Mogollon Brewing Co.
15 N Agassiz St
Flagstaff, AZ 86001
(928) 773-8950
Wednesday April 30, 2008***
Club Red
2155 E University Dr
Tempe, AZ 85281
(480) 966-4733
w/ special guest Rebelution
Friday May 2, 2008
3105 Ocean Front Walk
San Diego, CA 92109
(858) 488-1780
w/ special guest Rebelution
Saturday May 3, 2008
OC Tavern
2369 S. El Camino Real
San Clemente, CA 92672
(949) 542-8877
w/ special guest Rebelution
Sunday May 4, 2008
Malibu Inn
22969 Pacific Coast Hwy.
Malibu, CA 90265
w/ special guest Rebelution
Monday May 5, 2008
The Grad
990 Industrial Way
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401
w/ special guest Rebelution & Resination
Presented by Good Vibez
Wednesday May 7, 2008
1221 State Street suite 205
Santa Barbara, Ca 93101
w/ special guest Rebelution
Thursday May 8, 2008***
1011 Pacific Ave.
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
w/ special guest Rebelution
16+ to enter
Presented by Good Vibez
Friday May 9, 2008***
The Roxy
9009 W. Sunset Blvd
Hollywood, CA 90069
w/ special guest Rebelution
Sunday May 11, 2008
333 11th St
San Francisco, CA 94103
(415) 255-0333
w/ special guest Rebelution
Thursday June 5, 2008***
9:30 Club
815 V St. N.W.
Washington, DC
w/special guest Rebelution
Friday July 11, 2008***
Walther Productions presents:
All Good Festival
Marvinĺs MountainTop
Mason Town, WV
Friday July 25, 2008
Festival International Reggae Vibration Quebec
Quebec, Canada
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Bill Frezza, Contributor
I chronicle the decline and fall of entitlement democracy
UPDATE – "10 Ways the Greek People Can Save Themselves"
Once in a great while an opportunity comes along to deliver justice to a people, giving them what they truly deserve. Greece's time has come.
It must be dawning on all but the most obtuse member of the banking elite that they can't possibly steal enough money from German taxpayers to save the Greek government from default. Put it off, maybe, but collapse is inevitable.
Once this happens, what is the purpose of casting Greece into some selective temporary financial purgatory where the irrelevant Greek economy can continue embarrassing anyone foolish enough to lend their dysfunctional government a dime? Why not go all the way and give the country what many of its people have been violently demanding for almost a century?
Let them have Communism.
Hard as it is for young people to believe, Communism was once a major historical force holding billions of people in thrall. Outside the halls of elite universities, who still takes it seriously? Sure we have Cuba, where the Castro deathwatch is the last thing standing between that benighted penal colony and an inevitable makeover by Club Med. Then there is Venezuela, though hope is fading that Hugo Chavez will carry the Bolivarian banner much longer now that he's busy sucking down FOLFOX cocktails while checking for signs that his hair is falling out. And frankly, a psychopathic family dynasty ruling a nation of stunted zombies hardly makes North Korea a proper Communist exemplar.
What the world needs, lest we forget, is a contemporary example of Communism in action. What better candidate than Greece? They've been pining for it for years, exhibiting a level of anti-capitalist vitriol unmatched in any developed country. They are temperamentally attuned to it, having driven all hard working Greeks abroad in search of opportunity. They pose no military threat to their neighbors, unless you quake at the sight of soldiers marching around in white skirts. And they have all the trappings of a modern Western nation, making them an uncompromised test bed for Marxist theories. Just toss them out of the European Union, cut off the flow of free Euros, and hand them back the printing plates for their old drachmas. Then stand back for a generation and watch.
The land that invented democracy used it to perfect the art of living at the expense of others, an example all Western democracies appear intent on emulating. Being the first to run out of other people's money makes Greece truly ripe to take the next logical step beyond socialism.
As wrenching as it will be we can take comfort in the fact that Greece doesn't have much of an economy to disrupt. The only Greek industry that's worth a damn is tourism, rapidly collapsing as travelers get tired of being stranded by strikes while dodging Molotov cocktails. The rest of us can find plenty of other sources of lamb chops, yogurt, and olive oil. They crushed the concept of private property long ago under the burden of environmental, cultural, and social regulations that govern land use. Wouldn't it be instructive to let them have a go at building a workers' paradise to remind us what state enforced equality looks like?
Unlike neighboring Balkan nations that got to experience the joys of Communism after the Second World War, Greece was brought back from the brink by massive western intervention as well as a Churchillian side deal that obliged Stalin to butt out. The nasty civil war between the Greek Communist Party (the KKE) and government forces backed by Britain and the U.S. set the stage for decades of struggle between communist sympathizers who never gave up the dream, and right wing juntas determined to rule by force. The uneasy peace that has existed since the colonels were booted merely masks underlying tensions as every Greek worries, is someone else working fewer hours than I am?
Dear "contributor",
citizens voted to live in the expense of others? well thats a very nice bubble you are leaving it too! All of us that got an education, work in private sector, pay our taxes and by also your products do not live in the expense of others… but then again you better work with stereotypes. Honestly you are an amazing writer!!! you should also say for all the blacks that are the same, the Chinese, etc. But your brain works only with these type of stereotypes and can understand things…..
As for your projections Tyrany will follow, well what you live in a free country right? The one that the media have a blast and feed you anything the want? The one that your dream is to go spend money in Las Vegas or own a small house in Florida…. come one give me a break. Be a real journalist and dont eat everything you are being served.
As for the get out of it quickly, well my dear ignorant, arrogant writer (hope God makes you one) first of all we didnt start the crisis. Who did?
So most probably you should also get out? Check what you owe! and also since you predict the future you will not always get out of it that easy be printing money, you owe too much to the chinese (if you know what i mean)
In this just to close up, even the so called carrier paths, economies, crisis etc will drive Greeks out of Greece, well thats life, we will manage and find somewhere work! But we will also have vacations to Mykonos, Santorini, Chalkidiki, Amorgos….. bored to continue…. places that you need to spend something like $5.000 to reach or travel to Thailand :) well you also have another alternative already mentioned the amazing Florida!!!!
if you need i can send you some pics of our summer houses, that no matter what even if we go outside of Greece we will keep……
you see it is a curse (economically) to live in Greece but also an amazing privilege (on of the most beautiful countries)
As for your article http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/9262068/Greece-will-run-out-of-money-soon-warns-deputy-prime-minister.html
We know this for 2 years know you info is kind of old. That is why we are borrowing money.
And by the way Mr Genius one quick question:
why the are borrowing us money?
Dear Sir,Although your article does contain a great deal of truth and factual observations it is negated by the virulence of your style.It would have been much more constructive if you had made the same observations and included helpful suggestions at an opportune time in the past.
Dear Sir;
I am Greek! and feel ashamed of what is happening!out here! came back to Greece 20xyears ago! lived in switzerland before….I agree totally with what you say! many of us feel the same! but our leaders!.;who by the way! have NO CLUE! about what it means "developments and insentives to attract "investors"!or even the sence of "partnership"!as an EU+ EUROZONE member..should be made aware of this article! i suggest that you send to mr. ALEXIS TSIPRAS's FACE BOOK or BLOG..(Leader of the far left party!and the like in the Communist party….)this very article! Maybe they will understand that "their idea of "patriotism..and the return to the drachma"is simply "DANGEROUS" , FLAWED and completely..out of time!and a return to "Cuba-style" rule…..
It is an old saying from the time Constantinople was entered by the Otoman Empire throught a back door known only to a few Greeks. It goes like this:
"The forest cannot be cut without the wooden stick of the axe"
Mr. Frezza, your article praising the "hard working Turks" and blamming the Greeks is a blasphamy to the classical studies and known history.
Are you trying to make a name for yourself claiming people should listen to you closer due to your "Greek-American" roots?
You are a "recovering venture capitalist" who should also become a recovering Greek and learn our history. You don't even know when Greece took its Independence from the Turs. It was 1821 not 1832!
When you wonder what have the Greeks done lately, look no further than Wilson Churchill and read his elogies for the Greek courage and heroism during WWII.
Also, study capitalism and comunism dogma and understand the concepts before you pretend to know anything about either of them.
Varvara M. Gokea, Esq.
A Greek-American, political refugee from communist Romania
It is an old saying from the time Constantinople was entered by the Ottoman Empire through a back door known only to a few Greeks. It goes like this:
"The forest cannot be cut without the wooden stick of the axe"
Mr. Frezza, your article praising the "hard working Turks" and blaming the Greeks is a blasphemy to the classical studies and known history.
Are you trying to make a name for yourself claiming people should listen to you closer due to your "Greek-American" roots?
You are a "recovering venture capitalist" who should also become a recovering Greek and learn our history. You don't even know when Greece took its Independence from the Turks. It was 1821 not 1832!
When you wonder what have the Greeks done lately, look no further than Wilson Churchill and read his elegies for the Greek courage and heroism during WWII.
Also, study capitalism and communism dogma and understand the concepts before you pretend to know anything about either of them.
Varvara M. Gokea, Esq.
A Greek-American, political refugee from communist Romania
As Greek woman, the only thing that I will say is that all these that happens are a very good financial game. Just like the American movies.!
They sucked out of Greece all that they could, and now they re going to buy all the COMMONs for pennies on the dollar, and Greece will end up the liberterian wet dream of all multi nationals. A suiper poor country, with no unions, no public schools, no public libraries or parks, just super cheap labor for the bankers and their corporate cronies to suck every ounce of blood out of the Greek people. Many seem to think that the Greek siyuation is unique, and some sort of accident, or horrible mismanage,ment etc… The truth is that Greece is juat another target of the Economic Hitmen that target nations like Greece, Ecuador, Indosesia, Chile and the list goes on and on.


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High school basketball action in Middle Georgia kicks back into high gear this week with holiday tournaments at Tattnall Square and Veterans.
Both tournaments tip off Thursday and continue through Saturday.
The schedule Thursday at Veterans is Warner Robins (girls) vs. Perry, 10 a.m.; Mary Persons (boys) vs. Warner Robins, 11:30 a.m.; Mary Persons (girls) vs. Stockbridge, 1 p.m.; Perry (boys) vs. Worth County, 2:30 p.m.; Rutland (girls) vs. Warner Robins, 4 p.m.; Rutland (boys) vs. Benjamin Russell, 5:30 p.m.; and Hawkinsville (boys) vs. Veterans, 7 p.m.
The schedule Thursday at Tattnall is Covenant (girls) vs. Arlington, 10 a.m.; Covenant (boys) vs. Arlington, 11:30 a.m.; Macon Area Christian (girls) vs. Bulloch, 1 p.m.; Macon Area Christian (boys) vs. Bulloch, 2:30 p.m.; Westfield (girls) vs. Frederica, 4 p.m.; Westfield (boys) vs. Frederica, 5:30 p.m.; CFCA (girls) vs. Tattnall Square, 7 p.m.; CFCA (boys) vs. Tattnall Square, 8:30 p.m.
High school basketball action in Middle Georgia kicks back into high gear this week with holiday tournaments at Tattnall Square and Veterans.
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Lemony prosciutto-wrapped asparagus
(Serves 4)
1 pound Asparagus
1 package (8 oz) Philadelphia Cream Cheese
2 oz chevre (goat cheese), crumbled
2 lemons – juice of both, zest of one
6 leaves basil, finely chopped
¼ tsp kosher salt (+ 2 tbsp kosher salt for the boiling water)
½ tsp freshly ground black pepper
1 pound prosciutto, VERY thinly sliced
Allow cream cheese and goat cheese to soften in a medium-sized bowl.
Bring a 3-quart saucepan of water with 2 tbsp kosher salt to a boil. Fill another bowl with ice and water. Trim the woody ends off the asparagus. In batches, blanch the asparagus in the salted boiling water for 1 minute, then immediately plunge the asparagus in the ice water to stop the cooking (shock). Drain the asparagus and pat dry.
Mix the cream cheese and goat cheese with the lemon juice, lemon zest, chopped basil, ¼ tsp kosher salt and the black pepper until thoroughly mixed (either by hand or with blender.
To wrap the asparagus, lay a very thin slice of prosciutto on the cutting board. Spread a small amount of the cream cheese mixture on half of the prosciutto slice. Lay the blanched asparagus, on top, with the end (not the pretty end – leave that to hang out of the prosciutto). Roll the prosciutto around the cream cheese mixture and the bottom end of the asparagus, so that the pretty tip end of the asparagus stays out. Present on a plate or chill until ready to use.


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Sewage project begins in Village
Date: November 12, 2009
by: Kurt Schultheis | City Editor
The Public Works Department started a $600,000 wastewater restoration project, also known as a rehabilitation slip-lining project, in Longbeach Village today.
Work will be performed over the next six months starting first in the Village just south of Broadway.
Work will then shift to Dream Island Road and, eventually, on Longview Drive in Button Harbor.
The wastewater pipelines collect sewage and, overtime, develop cracks that allow groundwater to seep in and create issues that increase the cost of treatment and disposal of the sewage.
The contractor, Jacksonville-based Insituform Technologies, will be notifying residents when they begin working on their street and will provide advance notification when work will be performed on a certain section of the street.
A brief interruption to service is possible, according to staff, but all residents will be notified ahead of time before that occurs.
Pending weather delays, the project is expected to be complete in May 2010.
Town staff urges residents to exercise caution when driving or walking in close proximity to the construction crews. Barricades and safety cones will be in place to alert residents to the work being performed.
Please contact Town Engineer Anne Ross at 316-1988 if you have any questions about this project.
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Tiny trio tours safety facilities
Commissioner Lynn Larson's three grandchildren, Zander, 9, Zora, 8, and Zoe Ramsey, 5, got a close-up look at what Longboat Key police and firefighters do to keep residents safe earlier this month, during a tour of the police and north fire stations.
Mar Vista dollars to benefit local teen
Mar Vista Dockside Restaurant & Pub's walls and ceiling are covered with dollar bills, signed and decorated by patrons. Every few years the restaurant removes the bills for a good cause.
'We Are The Marines'
That is how Maj. Brian Dix introduced "The Commandant's Own" U.S. Marine Drum & Bugle Corps July 4, at Avery Fisher Hall.


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former Courier editor
OTTUMWA — People will rue the day when daily newspapers cease to exist.
My daughter called Sunday night to make sure I was watching "60 Minutes" on television (get the irony?). There was a segment about the cutting back of The Times-Picayune in New Orleans, La., from a seven-day publication to printing three days a week.
There were the usual interviews — from a longtime reporter to the city's mayor to the current editor (the guy in charge of the decision didn't want to appear on camera).
The reporter, of course, spoke about the loss to the readers, the ones who want to read the newspaper with their morning coffee and, in New Orleans, a beignet.
The editor spoke along company lines. Enough said.
The mayor agreed, yes, it was not good for the city — a city that has endured despite a devastating hurricane, which The Times-Picayune wrote about and won a Pulitzer Prize.
Metro cities need their daily newspapers, he said.
Of course, they do.
So do small towns like Ottumwa. Thankfully, Ottumwans and southeast Iowa readers can still receive the Courier six days a week.
Two years out of the business, I know the struggles newspapers face. I am glad I am not there fighting the fight with downsizing and fewer resources.
I applaud the efforts of staff members who still produce a great product. It is great, dear readers, because those producing it are doing so under conditions that would have been unthinkable 20 years ago. Today, fewer staff members do the same work — what do you think that means?
You can see it on page 1 — stories by two reporters, many days. There are not four reporters as when I left. And add the fact that those reporters have to do double duty when one is sick or on vacation or on one of the required unpaid leave days. It's the same throughout the facility and at newspapers throughout the country.
We are fighting an uphill battle, one filled with laptop computers, iPads, smartphones and whatever the latest tech gadget is. I've been with friends wondering the answer to some question, and one gets on his smartphone to find the answer PDQ on the Internet.
What I know most, and best, is that a free government demands a free press which works, first and foremost, to assure credibility of those we elect. It's a tough job, a demanding job and, an oh, so rewarding job.
I was almost amused — except that I abhorred it — reading Sunday's Register column by the editor apologizing for Donald Kaul's recent column on the "Fiscal Cliff" and his suggestions.
I began taking the Sunday paper because of Donald Kaul.
Give me a break. Can't the state's largest newspaper stand the wrath of people upset that Kaul brazenly said what many of us have been thinking? I thought that paper understood that. It has always promoted that it was a newspaper with a variety of opinions.
So, that's what you can lose, dear readers: A newspaper that stands firm against all sorts of things. We old journalism school graduates were taught that we were the watchdogs of government. We were trained to find the truth and to print it. Please, let us not lose that.
There is room for both print and online editions. There has to be. Many of us still want to hold a newspaper in our hand, along with a bound book. In the Courier's case, the publisher has shifted the focus of the news to local, and I think that is the right move. Only Courier reporters can write about local news. We do it best and always have.
I don't know what will happen in the future to the daily newspaper as we know it. Will my new grandchild grow up without a daily newspaper? Well, not in this grandma's house.
Judy Krieger is a retired Courier editor.


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What is Learning Zone?
Learning Zone is UUM's learning management system (LMS) based on Moodle, which is developed from a learning-centric perspective rather than a technical administrative perspective. Learning Zone enables lecturers to enhance their students' learning by providing an online environment to distribute materials and encourage collaboration and interaction both within and outside the classroom. It provides a range of functionality to allow for content creation and delivery, communication, collaboration and assessment.
Features1. Assignment module
- The Assignment module allows students to submit assignments for the teacher to grade and provide comments.
- Assignment submissions are date-stamped.
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- The Advanced uploading of files assignment allows a student to upload a set number of files. Teachers may also upload files, and students may add online notes.
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- Students can be allowed to resubmit their assignments after grading in order to have the chance to improve their grade.
- Teachers may choose to receive email notification of assignment submissions.
- A 'View x submitted assignments' link on the assignment page informs teachers of the number of assignments submitted to-date.
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- A quick grade feature enables teachers to grade multiple assignments on one page then save all the changes.
- Assignments which have not yet been graded have the word 'Grade' highlighted in the status column.
2. Chat module
- The Chat module enables participants to have a real-time synchronous discussion via the web.
- The module supports smilies e.g. :-), links, HTML code and emoting e.g. /me.
- Participants can send a sound to other participants by clicking the beep link next to their name.
- Profile pictures are displayed next to participants' names in the chat window.
- The chat window auto-scroll may be disabled if desired.
- A version of the chat window without frames and JavaScript is available.
- A chat time can be chosen and set to repeat at the same time each day or each week.
- Past chat sessions can be archived for a specified number of days.
- Past chat sessions can be made available for everyone to view, or restricted to teachers only.
- Selected past chat sessions may be deleted by a teacher.
3. Choice module
- The Choice module enables a teacher to ask a question and specify a choice of multiple responses.
- Responses may be displayed horizontally or vertically.
- The time period in which students can answer the choice may be restricted.
- The teacher can choose whether to allow students to change their answer or only accept their first answer.
- The teacher can choose whether results are shown to students after they answer, after the choice activity is closed, always or never.
- Results may be published anonymously or showing names.
- The number of participants who can select each response may be limited.
- A column listing names of students who have not yet answered the choice may be displayed.
4. Database module
- In a database activity, students can add entries to a database.
- A database activity may include up to 12 different Database fields.
- Entries can be viewed in a list or singly or they can be searched or browsed.
- A teacher can set a default sort order of entries.
- A teacher can export database entries in a choice of formats.
- The time period in which students can view and/or add entries to the database activity may be restricted.
- A required number of entries may be set before a student can view other database entries.
- A maximum number of entries which a student can submit may be set.
- Users may be allowed to add comments.
- Approval by a teacher may be required before entries are viewable by everyone.
- Entries may be rated according to a chosen grading scale.
- A Database presets feature enables database activities to be shared with others.
5. Forum module
- By default, a new course contains a News forum in which only teachers can post and subscription is forced.
- By default, a new course contains a Latest News block which displays a specific number of recent discussions from the news forum.
- In a standard forum, users can start discussions, add replies and attach files to their posts.
- In a single simple discussion forum only teachers can start discussions.
- In a 'Each person posts one discussion' forum users can start exactly one discussion and can reply to all discussions.
- In a Q & A forum students must post first before they can view other posts.
- A teacher can set one of 4 possible forum subscription options.
- Students can edit or delete their forum posts within a set time limit.
- A teacher can set one of 3 possible options for tracking read forum posts.
- A teacher can set one of 5 possible forum rating aggregation types.
- A teacher can choose a grading scale for rating forum posts and can restrict rating to within certain dates.
- A teacher can block students from posting in a forum after they post a certain number of posts in a given period.
- Users can choose from 4 discussion display options and their choice is remembered.
- Teachers can split discussions and can move discussions between forums in the same course.
- Teachers can edit or delete any forum post.
6. Glossary module
- The Glossary module enables participants to create and maintain a list of definitions, like a dictionary.
- Display formats available are Simple, dictionary style, Continuous without author, Full with or without author, Encyclopedia, Entry list and FAQ.
- Entries can be searched or browsed by alphabet, category, date or author.
- Users can attach files to glossary entries. Images are shown inline.
- Teachers can choose whether students can always edit their entries or whether there is an editing time limit.
- Teachers can choose whether to provide a link for students to a printer-friendly version of the list of glossary entries.
- Approval by a teacher may be required before entries are viewable by everyone.
- Users may be allowed to add comments.
- Entries can be set to automatically link to elsewhere in the course where the word or phrase is mentioned.
- A glossary may be defined as 'global' to enable automatic links to elsewhere in the whole site.
- Entries may be rated according to a chosen grading scale.
- Entries may be organised into categories and keywords added.
- Duplicate entries can be allowed or prevented.
- Entries can be imported via an XML file.
- Entries can be exported to an XML file.
7. Lesson module
- The Lesson module enables teachers to create a series of pages for students to navigate through in different ways depending upon their choices to questions about the page content.
- Multiple choice, true/false, matching, numeric, short answer and essay questions may be added to lesson pages.
- A time limit for the lesson may be set, with any questions answered after the time is up not counted.
- The lesson may be graded with a set maximum grade and appear in the course gradebook.
- Students may be allowed to retake the lesson and either their maximum or mean grade recorded in the gradebook.
- Students may be allowed to navigate back through the lesson and change their answers.
- The maximum number of attempts allowed for each question may be set.
- A lesson may be displayed as a slide show, with a fixed width, height, and custom background colour. A scroll bar will be displayed if the width or height of the slide is exceeded by the content of a page.
- Access to a lesson may be restricted with a password and/or available from and deadline dates.
- Access to a lesson may be set to be dependent upon performance (time spent, completed, certain grade obtained) in another lesson in the same course.
8. SCORM module
- The SCORM module enables teachers to add SCORM and AICC packages to their course.
- The package display can be displayed in a frame or window of specified size, with the table of contents (if applicable) shown on the left, in a drop-down menu or hidden.
- The number of attempts (if applicable) can be restricted and grading may be set to highest, first, last or average of attempts.
- A maximum grade and grading method (highest grade, average grade, sum of grades or number of completed/passed Learning Objects for the activity) can be set.
- Students can leave the activity. On their return, students are presented with the same page as the one they left. Progress through the activity is indicated to via checkbox ticks.
- Teachers can access SCORM reports via a 'View reports for x users' link on the SCORM page. Sections of the activity may be marked browsed, incomplete, completed or failed. The time spent on each section is also displayed. If a section includes questions then the score is displayed.
9. Survey module
- The Survey module enables teachers to gather data from their students via a Constructivist On-Line Learning Environment Survey (COLLES) or a Attitudes to Thinking and Learning Survey (ATTLS).
- Survey data can be viewed by course, student, or question.
- Survey data can also be downloaded as a spreadsheet or text file.
10. Wiki module
- The Wiki module enables participants to create web pages which anyone can then edit.
- Edited pages may be previewed before saving.
- New pages in the wiki can be created by editing an existing page and typing the title of a new page, enclosing the title text in square brackets.
- A history of each wiki page is available listing author, created and last modified dates and references, plus browse, fetch-back (to revert the page back to a previous version) and diff (showing the difference in two versions) links.
- There are 3 wiki types - teacher (only the teacher can edit the wiki), groups (one wiki per group) and student (every student has their own wiki, which only they and their teacher can edit).
- The HTML mode can be set - no HTML (wiki markup may be used for formatting text), safe HTML (only certain HTML tags are permitted) or HTML only (HTML editor displayed).
- Students may be allowed to add files as attachments (upto the course upload file size limit).
- CamelCase linking may be allowed.
- Students can be allowed certain administrative privileges - set page flags, strip pages, remove pages, revert mass changes
- A teacher can upload content for the initial page via a text file.
11. Web Meeting module
- The Web Meeting module lets you start Virtual Meet, a web conferencing classroom sessions directly from within Learning Zone.
- Lecturers can schedule the web meeting in the future and the students will be acknowledged when the meeting is about to start.
12. Turnitin module
- The Turnitin module give lecturers the ability to use Turnitin to check papers or assignment from their students for potential plagiarism without leaving their Learning Zone account.
13. Integration with MyBox
- MyBox is online file storage with collaboration and sharing features, which can be used by students and staff to store files.
- Staff can use MyBox with Learning Zone if they decided to share or exchange big files or reuse the same content in different locations without the need to update it everywhere..
- Please click here to learn more about this feature
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Follow Me to Nellie's
by Dominique Morisseau
Thursday, February 6, 2014, 8 p.m.
Friday, February 7, 2014, 8 p.m.
Saturday, February 8, 2014, 8 p.m.
Tickets: $11 public, $8 seniors, OC staff, faculty, and alumni, $5 students (purchase tickets)
All tickets $3 more at the door.
Location: Hall Auditorium (general admission, directions)
Justin Emeka, director
The dynamic voice of emerging playwright Dominique Morisseau brings the early civil rights movement to vivid life in this tale of Madame Nellie's house in 1955 Natchez. Inspired by a family memoir, Ms. Morisseau recounts a dramatic story "of an aspiring blues singer who is looking for a way out, a voting rights activist looking for shelter, a brothel of wounded women looking for change. " Rich in atmosphere and character, Follow Me to Nellie's scintillates with unfulfilled desires illuminated by hope "during the reign of segregation and under the watchful eye of Miss Nellie Jackson. "
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Amy Brocato Pearson
Jacksonville Daily Progress
An early afternoon accident snarled traffic in both directions near the 1200 block of W. Rusk Street as cars were forced to stop in all four lanes while the debris was cleared.
The accident happened about 1:20 p.m., said Jacksonville Police Sergeant Jason Price.
An 18-wheeler, belonging to Blevins Inc., a distributor of manufactured home hardware, plumbing, electrical and repair supplies to parts stores, was westbound en route to Palestine when a black sedan, traveling east bound, crossed the center line twice and eventually struck the truck near the driver's side front axel while the driver of the truck was trying to change lanes to avoid a collision.
"I kept seeing the car cross the yellow lines," said the driver of the 18-wheeler, who declined to give his name to the Daily Progress. "I kept moving over, I was watching her. 'You're not going to hit me,' I said."
Ultimately the sedan struck the truck near the intersection of West Rusk and Gillespie Road, pushing the 53-foot truck back several yards.
Sgt. Price said no extraction equipment was needed to free the driver of the mangled sedan, who was transported to a local hospital.
Repeatedly crossing the center line of a roadway could indicate distracted or intoxicated driving, Price said, although he did not speak with the driver of the sedan at the scene of the accident.
The driver of the 18-wheeler was not injured, although he was shaken up.
"Ironically," he said. "I published a book that came out just last week about a long haul driver who was involved in a bad wreck." The book, "The Long Haul," was written under the name "William Tellot."
Another distracted driving accident occurred on the Loop and Hwy 69 about 7:45 a.m. Wednesday morning, said Sgt. Price, who had also responded to that call.
"A vehicle entered the intersection when it was not safe or legal to do so and struck another vehicle," he said. "It was a case of distracted driving."
The female drivers of both of those vehicles were transported by ambulance to area hospitals.
None of the conditions – or names – of the drivers were known at press time.


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The Hickory Creek Middle School band hosted a Veterans Day Concert on Nov. 7.
A Veterans Day Observation was presented at 7 p.m., with Frankfort mayor Jim Holland overseeing the proceedings.
The Tiger Band backed mayor Holland with classic patriotic songs, including The Star Spangled Banner, Battle Hymn Epic and American the Beautiful.
Veterans in the audience were recognized as Marches of the Armed Forces played.
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The Herald Bulletin
---- — Historical Society July Meeting
ANDERSON — On Monday at 7 p.m., the monthly meeting of the Madison County Historical Society, Inc. will feature County Historian Steve Jackson as speaker, discussing "36 Days in Alexandria, 1911."
The meeting, in the Madison County History Center, 11 W. 11th St., is open to MCHS members and friends as well as those who would like to be a member or friend of the society. There is no charge to attend this or any event in the facility.
For more information call 683-0052.
New Life Church to host skating party
ANDERSON — New Life Apostolic Church will host a Gospel Summer Skating Party on Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m. at Anderson Roll Arena, 2711 Broadway.
Admission is $1. Skate rental is $2.75. The party will include door prizes.
'Mexican Fiesta' dance Sunday
ANDERSON — Footloose Square Dance Club is hosting a "Mexican Fiesta" dance on Sunday at the Rangeline Community Center, 1405 N. Rangeline Road.
Caller will be Tom Davis and the cuer is Judy Mouton. Pre-rounds are at 6 p.m. and square dancing will be from 6:30 to 9 p.m. There will be door prizes, a half pot drawing and a food table featuring some of our Mexican favorites.
The group dances the third and fifth Sundays of the month.
For more information, call 610-2377 or visit the website at http://www.footloose.us.com.
Kathryn Mascaro to lead garden discussion
ANDERSON — Madison County Master Gardeners Garden Talk will be held from 11 a.m. to noon Saturday in the Anderson Public Library Delaware Room, 111 E. 12th St.
Master gardener Kathryn Mascaro will lead the discussion on native plants. Find out about their idiosyncrasies (fertilizing, staking, bloom time length) as well as the native cultivars. She will advise the group on mixing natives with other plants as well as attracting wildlife in your garden.
The event is free to the public.
For more information call 641-9514 or e-mail email@example.com.
11th anniversary Bill Vaughn Cruise-In Saturday
ANDERSON — The 11th anniversary Bill Vaughn Memorial Cruise-In will be held from 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday at Frisch's Big Boy, 500 N. Broadway, Anderson. The event is being hosted by Frisch's and the Piston Poppers Car Club. Registration from 1 to 3 p.m. Entry fee is $10. Dash plaques will be given to the first 200 entries.
There will be a 50/50 drawing, raffles, door prizes and special awards for the Top 30. 50's and 60's music will be played by DG the DJ. There will be face painting and a chance to win a basket.
Entertainment will be provided by Zach Day and the Full Throttle Band.
Proceeds from the day's event will go to Stepping Stones for Veterans.
For more information contact email@example.com or www.PistonPoppers.net.
Mainstage Theatre to present 'A Year with Frog & Toad'
ANDERSON — Anderson's Mainstage Theatre will present "A Year with Frog & Toad" on July 18-21 and July 26-27. Curtain time is 7:30 p.m. with the exception of the July 21, matinee at 3 p.m.
Tickets are $10 and available by calling 644-5111.


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Cellar/Tasting Notes Amber in color with a moderate to full-bodied taste of dried apricot and nutmeg. Aged a minimum of 8 years.
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Tonawanda News — I think the gun owners have a different view of the new gun laws. The NRA is lying to you and making it sound like a bad thing. First of all NO ONE is taking away your guns or your right to own a gun. More thorough background checks, stiffer penalties for giving or selling a gun to a felon and smaller clips. Pistols are for protection, rifles are for hunting and target practice. Semi automatics are for mass killing. No one has any use for these weapons. A gun that can shoot 60 rounds per minute belongs in the military and not on the streets.
Reading about the recurrence of environmental problems in the Love Canal area of Niagara Falls leads me to ask where all the documentation is on how environmentally safe or unsafe are the Buffalo Bolt plant area, Tonawanda Island, the Durez and National Grinding Wheel area, Remington Rand plant area, Wurlitzer plant area, Riverside Chemical plant area, merry-go-round manufacturing areas, the sled and wagon plant area. Are NT residents living in those areas safe?
There was a thing on the news about the dentist who is a convicted felon because he filed false claims. He is now looking for a tax break from the government. I would think he does not deserve a tax break. As a dentist he is going to make tons of money. He doesn't really need a tax break for redoing his building. Plus he's a convicted felon! Ridiculous!
I think the Flight 3407 families are losing sight of what they're doing. They aren't the first to lose people in death, they won't be the last. I think they are kind of beating this to death. I think they are doing this for themselves, not for the family. Maybe they should go to church and pray for their loved ones. It might help.


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The night I butchered my first and only chicken, its body still warm from the summer sun, I told my friend how much it had meant to me to be able to see the other side of dinner. He nodded in agreement: "That's why I do this," he said simply, his waving arm taking in the garden, the chicken run, the wall of homeschooling materials.
"We can study chickens all day long, but in the end, what matters is that my children understand -- this animal was sitting over there eating bugs, and now it's sitting on the table and we're eating it. It gives them a healthy respect for life and death."
This healthy respect recently led Salon's Francis Lam to eschew chicken, not altogether, but the kind that are crammed into tiny wire cages and fed until they almost burst, never seeing the light of the sun or feeling the thrill of pecking a beetle out of a crack in the earth.
Of course we'd all like to feel good about the food we feed our families. The trouble is it's a lot more complicated than it used to be. Even a simple act, like purchasing a chicken to roast for Sunday dinner, requires a fair amount of knowledge and patience for ethically-minded shoppers. So here's a brief guide:
There are a number of terms that usually apply to chicken, but here are the top five with some brief explanations:
Organic: This is the most clearly-defined label, since it's sanctioned by the USDA and enforced through scheduled and random inspections. Any chicken bearing the "organic" label must be fed organic feed, which means it isn't grown with pesticides or genetic modifications. It also means the animals have not received antibiotics, which is a common treatment for the diseases that plague flocks of birds raised in cramped quarters, so chances are good it had more room than most in which to grow up. Also, organic chickens must be "free-range," which might make you wonder . . .
Free-Range: What exactly is free-range? The term technically means only that the birds have access to the outdoors. So, yes, it's possble the farm keeps them in deplorable conditions but opens a tiny door to alow them outside for 15 minutes a day. Chances are it's a little better than that, but there's really no telling.
Pastured: Although also not enforced, this label implies the chickens spent some time in the outdoors, doing what they do best: hunting bugs, munching grass and needling each other.
Cage-Free: This is one of the most disturbing and misleading terms out there. "Cage-Free" implies that the chickens are given a large area in which to roam happily, but all it means is that the chickens literally don't have cages. They are often crammed together in an indoor henhouse and given very little room to breathe or be their chicken selves.
Natural: This is by far the most meaningless label in the modern food production industry. One of my favorite stories concerns carmine, a bright red dye used in many fruit juices. It's made from the ground-up bodies of beetles. But technically, beetles are natural, i.e. not produced in a lab -- hence the natural label!
In The Omnivore's Dilemma () Michael Pollan receives a revelation after eating brined, smoked chicken from a farm that uses traditional methods of growing and husbandry. While musing about the fact that the chickens tasted so deliciously chickeny, he decides that they are so true to form because they've been allowed to follow their natural instincts -- in other words, to act like chickens.
I can say from experience that pastured, organic chickens taste a lot better. However, because they're allowed to move around, they tend to be a little tougher and drier; be sure to keep them submerged if you're stewing them, and baste frequently for a roasted meal.
Here's where the rubber meets the road: it varies a great deal. Since we can't infinitely sustain the market for boneless chicken tenderloin, it's a more responsible choice to buy a whole chicken and eat it for several days: roasted first, then chopped into chicken salad or .
Regular old factory-farmed chicken can be as cheap as $1-2 per pound. Organic is about twice that, depending on the institution, and truly pasture-raised chicken can run $6 per pound or even more. If you're cooking for a dozen, the meal could get expensive awfully rast.
Bottom Line
It's hard to trust a nameless, faceless corporation, which is why (as with any other food item) the most foolproof way to find out how their animals are raised is simply to go and check out the animal pens. If the farm refuses you entrance, that's telling on its own, but in most cases they're happy to have customer visits that will probably bring them more business!


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Hapkido martial art introductory class [1]
A demonstration and introductory class for Hapkdio, a Korean self–defense oriented martial art. The curriculum is focused not on sparring or competition, but on developing sefl–confidence, self–discipline and the skills and mindset you need to survive violence. Hapkido teaches ways to avoid and redirect an attacker's energy, allowing a smaller person to defeat a larger aggressor. Hapkido is used by military and police teams worldwide and serves as a basis for many women's self–defense programs. Head Instructor Brian Hayes has been training in Hapkido for over 20 years and has been teaching Hapkido here at Iowa since 1998.
August 27, 2013 - 7:00pm
Field House Room S481
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