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The apple shuffle is not for you if you are a music lover.no EQ,no FM,no voice recorder and most important no bass.
I did not buy the product from flipkart but after seeing all these negative reviews I couldn't resist writing a review...
I have been a proud ipod shuffle owner for more than a year now and it has maintained efficiency , consistency and durability..... my average usage per day is around 2 hours and the charging lasts for a week.....
now about the audio quality.....haven't heard better....just for the record I have been using music players since I was in the 8th grade.....almost a decade......from cassettes to cd's and now usb.....
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* Ultra compact design
* On-body controls are back
* Very good sound quality
* Good battery life
* Limited 2GB of memory
* No FM radio
* Limited format support
Apple is offering only 2GB for storage with no option for memory to upgrade. If you find the 2GB is not enough, there are better alternatives like the Cowon iAudio E2 with 4GB of internal memory at cheaper price or the Sansa Clip which offers a screen plus microSD card support.
This tini device produces hi quality loud sound into your ears.
I ordered and got it in just two days. Amazingly fast...
But it doesn't have different music modes, a must have thing for any mp3 player.
I have used shuffle. I have come to believe that as good and beyond competition its music players had been in the past, its about time Apple should let go of the expensive price tags for its products like shuffle, or better still discontinue it. Shuffles were, like their weighty cousins like nano and classic are, great in their own way but are now certainly bettered by some other players in western countries. One such name is "Sansa". Its a Sandisk product and for Rs. 3300/- you get 4 gb capacity, a screen (for album arts and also for playing songs of your choice and a stopwatch a... (Expand)
The product is 100% original and brand new. well packed and delivered.
i was very happy and satisfied with the purchase and would love to do it again if someone else close to me would want to buy an apple ipod shuffle. (View complete review)
brand is awesome, sound is awesome, design is awesome, battery back up is awesome.
good one to buy..................................................... (View complete review)
Till now I have used many of the costly and premium mp3/mp4 players in the market including Phylips and Sony.This is the first time I tried of using the Aple Shuffle and that too because the low price.Just wanted to try....
But outstanding the results are awesome and out of my expectations.With... (View complete review)
Got it as Freebie .... so obviously i m loving it. Otherwise go for some android mobile as you can do much more with a mobile than this ipod (View complete review)


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NORMAN — Norman police officers arrested a man Saturday night after he left his car on the train tracks near the railroad crossing at Tecumseh Road.
Derick Ray Mellican was arrested and booked into Cleveland County Justice Center on complaints of public intoxication, obstruction of a railroad and trespassing on railroad property.
Police said Mellican's vehicle was northbound, stopped on the railroad tracks when a northbound Amtrak passenger train struck the vehicle around 10 p.m. on Saturday. The vehicle had been driving on the railroad tracks when Mellican stopped and exited the vehicle prior to the impact.
Mellican was transported by EMSStat to Norman Regional Hospital and was treated and released before he was booked into jail.


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OK, another year and a half later…Sunday, January 9th, 2011
Looks like I wrote an article almost 14 months ago named 'Two Years Later', and never followed it up. I have been involved in several creative online activities, all of them just hobbies and brain candy.
In the meantime, I want to start writing articles again. I need a creative outlet. I just cannot let it be a time sink like it became in the past.
I have let this poor site fall into a state of disrepair. Left to its own, it has become a spam magnet. 'Tis a new year, and time for new beginnings. Let the early spring cleaning begin.
First thing's first though – I wonder if I should move this blog out of edublogs to something more commonly used, like Blogger or WordPress? In the first place, it looks like this article, and each article I will write, will be stuck with a stupid ad:
Back around 2007, when I first thought of blogging, I did not know how to fire one up. RoseMary, my wife and schoolteacher, signed me up to this edublogs, a blogging site for educators and students. I then spent the next year on here on edublogs "educating" people about my loss of Faith in Christianity. I was shocked at how popular my articles became and how many comments, detates, and discussions they generated.
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It is really annoying.
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|—n , pl apsides
|Also called: apse either of two points lying at the extremities of an eccentric orbit of a planet, satellite, etc, such as the aphelion and perihelion of a planet or the apogee and perigee of the moon. The line of apsides connects two such points and is the principal axis of the orbit
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apsis [%PREMIUM_LINK%] (āp'sĭs) Pronunciation Key
Plural apsides (āp'sĭ-dēz')
In the path of an orbiting body, either of the two points at which it is closest to or farthest away from the body it is orbiting. See also apoapsis, periapsis.
in astronomy, either of the two points on an elliptical orbit that are nearest to, and farthest from, the focus, or centre of attraction. The line of apsides, connecting the two points, is the major axis of the orbit. The point nearest the focus is the pericentre, or periapsis, and that farthest from it is the apocentre, or apoapsis. Specific terms can be used for individual bodies: if the Sun is the centre, the specific terms perihelion and aphelion are generally used; if the Earth, perigee and apogee. Periastron and apastron refer to an orbit around a star, and perijove and apojove refer to an orbit around Jupiter
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In this episode Richard Baker, Forgotten Realms author, returned to our studio to read a select passage from his most recent novel, Corsair. Second book in the Blades of the Moonsea series, Corsair continues the exploits of Geran Hulmaster several years after the events of Swordmage.
He was a sadistic young lord who charmed his way into the marrying the Harmach of Hulburg's sister before he was exiled for conspiring against his new brother-and-law.
Now he is Captain of the Kraken Queen, High Captain of the Black Moon Corsairs—a ruthless pirate fleet that scours the Moonsea, raping, pillaging, and burning wherever they go.
He was willing to let bygones be bygones, but when the Harmach of Hulburg arms a warship to thwart his piracy, he starts taking their actions against him personally.
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Keeping good medical records
As much as you might want to put the experience behind you once treatment is completed, it is very important to keep good records of your child's medical care during this time. Eventually, your child will grow up, be on his or her own, and have new doctors. It is important that he or she be able to give the new doctors the details of the cancer diagnosis and treatment. Gathering the details soon after treatment may be easier than trying to get them at some point in the future. There are certain pieces of information that your child's doctors should have, even after the child has become an adult. These include:
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Serve with a green salad and some crusty bread in summer or with roast potatoes, carrots and peas for winter – roast chicken is a dish for all seasons.
Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas 6.
Slice the lemon halfway through lengthways. Insert a sprig of thyme into the slit and place the lemon inside the cavity of the chicken.
Make the flavoured oil. Strip the leaves from the remaining thyme stalks and place the leaves in a bowl.
Press the garlic cloves with the heel of your hand to lightly crush. Remove the skins and add the garlic cloves to the bowl.
Pour the olive oil into the bowl.
Using a pestle and mortar, a mini food processor or a hand blender, blend together the thyme leaves, garlic and olive oil. It should be quite liquid.
Spoon the thyme, garlic and oil mixture all over the chicken, working it into all the nooks and crannies.
Place the chicken in a roasting tray and pour over the remaining flavoured oil. Season the chicken generously with sea salt and black pepper.
Cover the chicken loosely with foil and roast in the oven for 30 minutes. After 30 minutes, remove the foil and roast for another 20-30 minutes and reduce the temperature to 160C-180C/320F-350F/Gas 3-4. It's fully cooked when the juices run clear when the bird is pierced in the thigh with a skewer.
Turn off the oven and let the bird rest in the residual heat for at least ten minutes. Remove from the oven, then carve.
Stir the pan juices over the hob to heat through.
Serve the carved chicken on a large platter and pour the pan juices over the top.
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Cobb County and Georgia overall stayed fairly consistent in party voting between the presidential elections of 2008 and 2012.
Below is a breakdown of how Georgians voted Tuesday to give the Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, the Peach State's 16 electoral votes in his loss to incumbent Democrat Barack Obama.
Georgia 2012 (from the Huffington Post)
Mitt Romney—2,070,221 (53.4%)
Barack Obama—1,761,761 (45.4%)
Other—45,056 (1.2%)
Georgia 2008 (from the New York Times)
John McCain—2,048,244 (52.2%)
Barack Obama—1,843,452 (47%)
Other—28,805 (.7%)
Cobb County 2012
Mitt Romney—171,464 (55.49%)
Barack Obama—132,526 (42.89%)
Gary Johnson—4,999 (1.62%)
Registered voters—415,314
Ballots cast—310,356
Voter turnout—74.73%
Cobb County 2008
John McCain—170,957 (54.2%)
Barack Obama—141,216 (44.8%)
Other—2,966 (.9%)
2012 Metro Atlanta Counties for Romney (no change from 2008 for McCain)
2012 Metro Atlanta Counties for Obama (no change from 2008)
2012 Electoral College (Florida remained undecided Wednesday)
Barack Obama—303
Mitt Romney—206
2008 Electoral College
Barack Obama—365
John McCain—173
2012 Popular Vote
Barack Obama—60,652,149 (50.4%)
Mitt Romney—57,810,390 (48.0%)
2008 Popular Vote
Barack Obama—66,862,039 (53.4%)
Mitt Romney—58,319,442 (46.6%)
Precinct-by-precinct totals for Cobb are available online.
Coverage from Tuesday:
- West Cobb Elects New School Board Member
- Photos: West Cobb Voters Hit the Polls
- Cobb Chooses Warren for Another Term as Sherifff
- Georgia Charter Schools Amendment Passes
- Georgia Votes: 2012 Election Results
- Mitt Romney Projected to Win Georgia
- Barack Obama Re-Elected President
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By Craig Tally
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JOPLIN, Mo. —
Why this war between religion and science? In extremes, a religionist sees the scientist as anti-God and the scientist sees the religionist as anti-reason.
It doesn't seem to matter that there are scientists who express faith in God, and there are religionists who have a high regard for science. Indeed, there are many people of faith who embrace the discoveries of science without fear and trembling.
Yet, in spite of these instances, the battles rage on.
J. B. Stump, teacher of philosophy at Bethel College in Indiana, recently contributed a significant piece to The Christian Century magazine, a favorite of mine. It is titled "Cosmic Question." This article, if taken to heart, should go a long way in easing the tension that exists between many scientists and religionists.
Essentially, Stump raises the question of God's place in a world explained by science. Science, says Stump, has explained many things that were once thought to be supernatural events. We may continue to pray for rain, but we now understand the science of rain, and we no longer hear deity in a clap of thunder.
Many are threatened by scientific discoveries. It's as if God is being "explained away," and science is to blame. If we insist on giving God credibility through science, then we are in for a long, futile struggle.
This need not be. This should not be.
The scientist, whether or not he acknowledges it, is doing the very thing God intends -- exploring and seeking a fuller knowledge of this earth and universe.
There is nothing to fear there. We were given a brain and a soul, and the two should and can get along well. The brain wants to explain the world; the soul wants to interpret the world. Science deals with the physical realm; theology deals with the spiritual realm.
The difference between these two disciplines, theology and science, might be explained in a way described by Stump: "We should consider God's relationship to creation to be more like that of a personal agent, rather than a force of nature. Then we can talk about God's actions in personal terms like Ôwilling,' Ôgoverning' and Ôloving,' and we don't need to worry that a new scientific theory will prove this wrong."
Should we manage to get on with this, the talk of science and religion will reflect the same dynamic as that of a conversation about an orchestral concert. Science can explain the workings of the musical instruments in terms of air, vibration and sound waves -- those things that are physical in nature. Theology can talk about beauty, meaning, experience and interpretation -- those topics that are spiritual. There is no conflict here.
The scientist might accept the Big Bang theory of beginnings as the best possible explanation of the beginning of the universe, but science is helpless seeking a First Cause or an Unmoved Mover behind the Big Bang. Stump quotes the agnostic cosmologist Robert Jastrow: "For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountain of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries."
For Jastrow to make this acknowledgment is quite admirable. Will his confession make any difference? I certainly hope so. When all is said and done, we arrive at the same place, precisely at the starting point of the Bible: "In the beginning, God."
Craig Tally is the senior minister of First Community Church in Joplin. His column appears bi-weekly. He can be reached at ctally7740@ gmail.com.


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July 31, 2014
JACKSON COUNTY, Ohio (WSAZ) -- One person is dead and two others were taken to the hospital following a crash in Jackson, Ohio.
It happened about 10:30 p.m., Saturday on Route 93 near Standpipe Road.
According to Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers, two vehicles hit head-on.
Troopers say Guy Sheets, a passenger in one of the cars, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Troopers also say Lora Sheets, one of the drivers, was flown to the hospital with incapacitating injuries. Joseph V. Osborne, the other driver, was taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
Troopers say OVI (impaired driving by drugs or alcohol) is a suspected factor in the crash.
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John Ward is a consultant for Innovent Solutions, specializing in BIRT and e-commerce search and navigation solutions. Prior to that, John was an Assistant Vice President for Citibank, North America, managing the training MIS group and overseeing development of new technology-based training initiatives. John actively works with and tests BIRT—an open-source reporting platform built on Eclipse—including development work based on BIRT reports and the BIRT APIs.
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NORMAN — It's been a busy offseason for the NFL and not in a good way. Instead of talking about expansion and prosperity, it's had to deal with off the field issues.
Since the Baltimore Ravens beat the San Francisco 49ers in an exciting Super Bowl, 29 NFL players have been arrested. None more high profile or unbelievable than former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez, who was charged with murder last week.
The 23-year-old Hernandez has not only been charged with the June 17 killing of his friend Odin Lloyd, but he is reportedly a suspect in two Boston homicides from earlier this year.
The news has been unsettling for many current and former NFL players.
"I'm sad and not stunned," former Oklahoma and Ravens defensive tackle Martin Chase said. "Been following Aaron since his days at Florida. He has always been one foot in one foot out. This is where all pro athletes fail. They feel they can do there job and be a thug at the same time."
If the charges and accusations about Hernandez prove true, the Patriots and the NFL won't be able to brush the public relations nightmare under the rug.
"Anytime someone is accused of murder it is a surprise," an NFL scout who asked to remain anonymous said. "You would think that after the well documented troubles he had in college that he would not put himself in this type of situation.
"It's sad that the result of bad decisions cost a man his life. I didn't scout Hernandez, but I remember character issues being discussed heavily. I never thought he would be accused of murder."
This is not the first time a current NFL player has been charged with murder. In 2001, Rae Carruth (now Rae Lamar Wiggins) was found guilty of conspiring to murder the woman who was pregnant with his child. He was found guilty of conspiring to murder and is serving a sentence of at least 18 years. He is expected to be released in 2018.


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A woman who lives nearly a football field away from an embattled Oakhurst bar said she can't sleep at night because of yelling and fighting at the establishment.
"The bar is not run the way it was 10 years ago. Patrons at the establishment are now more out of control and violent," the woman recently told an investigator for the state's Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement.
Another woman said she is afraid to come out of her home at night because of the stabbings, shootings and fights she's witnessed at the bar – Edder's Den, located at the edge of the Oakhurst Homes.
Shooting firearms into the air, drunken driving and drug activity has a 17-year resident of the Oakhurst area worried about what is happening to his community.
These concerns are a sampling of what neighbors around the bar at 534 Sheridan St. say they live with, concerns that played a role in legal action by Cambria County District Attorney Kelly Callihan and an order late last week by President Judge Timothy Creany to padlock the doors.
That all may change, but it likely will not be until after Monday's hearing in front of Creany, when he is expected to hear testimony from law enforcement and others regarding the impact of the bar on resources and the community.
Using a state civil statute, Callihan is asking Creany to determine Edder's Den is a nuisance bar and close its doors for a year.
This approach in dealing with bars and nightclubs that attract drugs and a violent clientele is relatively new in Cambria County, although former District Attorney and now Judge Patrick Kiniry in 2007 was prepared to take a similar approach.
With the help of Johnstown police, Kiniry and his staff compiled a three-inch thick case against Palumbo's Tavern in the west end of the city.
"People were unable to sit on their porches, unable to take evening walks," Kiniry said of the violent activity in and outside the bar run by David Ferg Jr.
But before the civil lawsuit could be filed, word reached the owner of the property, Arthur Palumbo of Windber, who stepped in and closed the bar.
In the summer of 2012, a deal was reached between the owners of a bar on Pittsburgh's South Side to close its doors and sell or transfer the liquor license after a man was shot in the back inside the establishment.
Resolution to a nuisance bar often comes before the case reaches the court, said Mike Manko, spokesman for Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen Zappala.
"There are very few times we've actually gone into court to get a bar closed," Manko said. "Usually there is a consent agreement and it usually involves the liquor license."
Documentation of a significant amount of bad activity is needed for a bar to be closed by the courts, Manko said.
Along with statements from impacted Oakhurst residents, the Edder's Den lawsuit includes reports from each time the Johnstown Police Department was called to the bar or the area immediately around it when patrons were involved.
Beginning June 30, 2010, through November 26, 2012, the officers responded to 68 complaints ranging from disorderly conduct to shots fired.
An aggressive approach by Blair County authorities has brought some relief for residents in Altoona.
Several years ago, court action closed the Panda Bar in downtown Altoona after illegal drugs and crime got out of hand, staff of the office of Blair County District Attorney Richard Consiglio said.
Consiglio said more recently, drugs and violence got out of control at the Mirage, also known as the Palace and The Tin Cup, but the liquor control board stepped in and pulled its license before any local court action was taken.
The establishment still operates, but as a "bottle club," a place where patrons bring their own alcohol, Consiglio said.
Using the state's civil statute to close down bars that draw a troublesome crowd often bent on violence is becoming an increasingly popular way to improve a community, said one state official.
No longer is it the role of a district attorney primarily to prosecute crimes in the courtroom, said attorney Richard Long, executive director of the Pennsylvania District Attorneys Association.
More and more, district attorneys are finding themselves striving to improve the quality of life in the communities they serve, Long said.
The welfare of a community is a concern of Callihan's that has surfaced, especially when addressing the court in defendant sentencings.
While she fell short of mentioning Edder's Den during the February sentencing of Philadelphia natives Marquis Neal and his cousin Anthony Harvey for the 2011 murder of J-Quan Lewis, a Queens, New York, native, the veiled reference was evident.
"These two individuals came here to our city from Philadelphia, really with no purpose, no jobs, no addresses," she told the court about Neal and Harvey. "They drifted from address to address, girlfriend to girlfriend, from bar to bar."
Callihan described the fear of residents in Oakhurst as "great," especially when there is gunfire in the middle of the day.
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Sold into prostitution aged 9, then saved from execution at 18, Leila now 22 tells her life story for the first time. To listen, click here.
Monthly Archive: November 2007
Nov 29 2007
Leila's story
Nov 22 2007
More Islamic [In]justice in Saudi Arabia
The gang rape victim who has become known as the 'girl from Al Qatif' has been sentenced to 200 lashes and a 6-month prison term in Saudi Arabia for being alone with a member of the opposite sex who was not an immediate family member before she was raped. To find out more about this …
Nov 19 2007
This Tuesday November 20, 13.00-14.30 Maryam Namazie will be speaking on a panel entitled: ISLAM, REIGIOUS DIVERSITY AND UNIVERSAL RIGHTS IN MULTI ETHNIC DEMOCRACIES in Stockholm, Sweden. In 2005, the British parliament was very close to passing a law against "religious hatred". In the spring of 2006 the United Nations Human Rights Council passed a …
Nov 19 2007
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Nov 15 2007
27 year old Zahra Bani Ameri hangs herself in prison
27 year old Zahra Bani Ameri – a medical student – committed suicide in a Hamedan Province prison two days after she was arrested on November 11 in a park for being there with a man.
Nov 12 2007
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Arrest of Haft Tape sugar factory workers
November 07, 2007 To: Worker organizations and unions all around the world The Iranian Ministry of Intelligence has started to arrest striking Haft-Tape workers! The workers demand international support! On Monday, November 5th one of the workers of Haft-Tape Sugar Factory naming Qorban (Ramazan) Alipour was arrested by agents of the Ministry of Intelligence and …
Nov 07 2007
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Nov 05 2007
Funding Islamic organisations support political Islam
Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain 5 November 2007 It is outrageous that the British Government is to hand out public money to Islamic organisations, and that taxpayers should help train clerics and fund madrassas, which are in effect sectarian schools and recruiting grounds for political Islam. It is insulting that Hazel Blears sees this as …
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MANKATO — Eugen Kavan always wanted to work in customer service to help people find solutions to their problems.
He's had that chance the past few years working at three different Mankato businesses, Buffalo Wild Wings, McDonald's and Best Buy.
Kavan, 24, has also been with Lifeworks for about five years. The nonprofit helps people with disabilities become more integrated into the community.
And in that time, Ted Ornas, who helps clients find employment, said he's seen Kavan grow a great deal. That's why he was so thrilled to learn that Kavan had won one of Lifeworks' big annual awards.
Lifeworks gives an award every year called the Personal Achievement Award, open to any of the 600-700 Lifeworks clients in Minnesota. As the title suggests, the award goes to someone who has made great strides in personal development and achievement.
Ornas said Lifeworks received 140 nominations for the award. And the committee chose Kavan to be the 2013 recipient.
"(I was) speechless," Kavan said.
He'll receive the award at the end of April at a ceremony. More than 900 people attended last year's awards ceremony, Ornas said.
"I'm happy and nervous," he said.
Ornas said Kavan has "just blossomed" in the time he's known him. And in the past year, especially, Kavan has been thriving since he started working at Best Buy, Ornas said.
Kavan's first job was at McDonald's, he said. Then came Buffalo Wild Wings, where he started by working at special events, such as festivals.
"I wouldn't say he's a workaholic, but he loves to work," Ornas said. "All of his jobs have helped him progress."
Ornas and Kavan said both jobs have been good experiences. But since he's been at Best Buy, Ornas said, he's been spending a great deal of time on the floor with customers, helping them learn about products or helping them to place orders.
"It's been kind of his dream job," Ornas said.
Kavan was hired at Best Buy to do seasonal work, but he did so well, the company kept him on, Ornas said. The company also sent him for four days of training at a Twin Cities campus.
"And they don't do that with everybody," Ornas said.


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Welcome Nerds or wanna be nerds. Dress up in nerd costumes for girls or even guys who want to dress up as a girl nerd LOL. I always have to chuckle when guys try their best to dress up as girls for costume parties.
Well getting back to the nerd costume for real girls, it is really easy and fast to put together. This costume idea is great and easy to create whether you need the full blown costume or only a few accessories. The main thing is to have fun dressing up and this costume is really for everyone!
These are the things I have found for you nerds to be:
1. Nerd Costumes Girls
2. Girl Nerd Accessories: wigs, nerd kits, nerd belly piercings, teeth, braces, stockings, socks, shoes
3. Sexy Nerd Costumes for Girls
4. Girl Nerd T-Shirts
Cute nerd costumes girls
These cute dresses come in many different colors and motives. Here is the nerd version. Do you and your friends want to be a nerd group? Then here is a cute idea. You can even pass out the nerd candys to your friends or even to get to know someone new. It is a great ice breaker. This outfit works really well for best friend halloween costumes.
I Love Nerds Costume
This nerd costume for girls is for the cute nerd girl look.
This is a one piece dress that looks like a two piece. The t-shirt has the I love nerds print on front and the skirt is a plaid mini skirt with suspenders attached to it. I also has a matching bow and of course the most important accessory the nerd glasses.
What you would need to have are some knee highs and shoes that match. You can always wear high heels, but I think flats are good for this costume too. Now all you need to do is your hair and makeup and your done!
Girl Nerd Kit
This is great if you already know what you want to wear and just need some extra nerdy stuff to complete your outfit. All of us have something in our closet that qualifies as nerd gear. Just take a white shirt or blouse and button it all the way up. Then take a baggy pair of pants and pull it all the way up and secure it with a thin belt. Now all you need is the nerd kit to spice it all up. Another great idea is to wear the girl nerd t-shirt shown below.
What you get are three things. It comes with suspenders, bow tie and your nerd glasses. So put it on and your ready to go.
Female Nerd Accessories
Female Nerd Kit: wig, glasses and braces
This is a must have if you want the look of a real girl nerd. You can use this accessory to make the dorky nerd girl look by leaving the hairdoo as is. If you want the cute nerd girl look then you can just make two ponytails with cute bows. To make the cute look even better use these makeup tips show here.
This package Includes one black wig and comes with glasses and braces and is a great deal!
Blonde Prom Queen Nightmare Wig
The blond and red head model are perfect for the dorky nerd costume for girls. They make the costume look really dorky and can look really funny.
This blonde Prom Queen Nightmare Wig is the queen of nerds.
The Red Head Prom Queen Nightmare Wig
Isn't she beautiful !? Guarenteed to get compliments and maybey even attract your nerd guy.
Wig cap: A great tip is to wear a wig cap which helps to control your hair under the wig. Your hair won't slip out and give the wig a perfect look. The wig will fit better and is more comfortable.
Nerd Belly Piercing
Nerd Socks
These socks can be combined with your outfit. If you make your own outfit these socks can give you that extra look you are looking for.
Nerd Teeth
It's all in the smile. You need to have the right nerd smile.
Nerd Braces
Ugly Betty
Includes wig, glasses, braces and neclace.
Sexy Nerd Costumes Girls
The other nerd look is the sexy nerd girl look. Here are some ideas to look at and you can pick up some ideas. For this look you need a sexy outfit and of course all the right accessories. The nerd glasses, the hosery and high heels.
Click here for a whole bunch of more sexy nerd costume ideas
Matching Shoes
These shoes go with most girl nerd costumes.
Girl Nerd T-Shirts
These t-shirts are cult and can be worn with your own nerd costume for girls that you have created on your own. The nice thing about these t-shirts is that you can wear them long after the party is over. People will of course read your t-shirt and they make for great conversations.


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By Sarah Lang
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Lebanon —
Sue Ritz led her last Boone County Senior Services, Inc., annual meeting Wednesday, Jan. 30, as her 25 years with the organization came to a close.
Ritz, the agency's executive director who stepped down Jan. 31 and into retirement, said the annual meeting is a time for her to look back on each year and remember the recent year's accomplishments. It is usually a time for her to look forward, but, she said, that will be up to new executive director, Anita Bowen.
Ritz shared with the packed room the changes she has seen in the agency during her years, from 1988 to today. The agency moved from the little blue house on North Lebanon Street to the wonderful facility it has today, she said — and the agency is even starting to outgrow it. In 1988, the agency's transportation program took 547 one-way trips with three drivers. In 2012, it took 1,266 different people on 25,616 trips with 23 drivers and 19 vehicles.
"We have come a long way," Ritz said. "In 1988, we were Boone County's best-kept secret, and we didn't want to be. Now people are starting to figure out who we are."
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Tonawanda News — 2002 — 10 years ago
• Some opponents of the Gateway Point project felt that the project would attract rich people with fancy boats and that the money should be spent on public safety and schools instead.
• The Rev. Lisa Drysdale was installed as the pastor of Family Life at the Salem United Church of Christ.
1987 — 25 years ago
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1962 — 50 years ago
• Niagara County Savings Bank opened its beautiful, new, modern structure on Payne Avenue, opposite the Mid-City Plaza. Free yardsticks, rainhats and lollipops were handed out.
• K-D Wholesale Distributing, Erie Avenue, was advertising 6-ft deluxe Evergleem aluminum Christmas trees with 100 branches for $8.97, regularly $15.00.
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Quantum of Content and innovations in user experience
On Saturday, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg sat down with Paul Graham, founder of tech accelerator Y Combinator, for the first presentation at Startup School 2012. Graham asked Zuckerberg if Facebook could have existed any earlier than its launch in 2004. Zuckerberg's response sounded in keeping with the general "growth hacking" orientation of Y Combinator, and it was remarked upon afterwards on many tech websites fairly uncritically. But to my ears, it was a bit of a whopper:
One of the big trends we see is that the amount that any individual shares in a given year seems to be growing at this exponentially increasing rate. It is this social networking version of Moore's Law. What that suggests to me is that if we expect that this rate is going to double every year, then look out ten years, 2 to the 10th is 1024, ten years from now people will be sharing about a thousand times as many things. The question is not would Facebook have not been possible before 2004, it would have been in some capacity, but people would have shared less. And if you fast forward five years there are going to be all of these social services that people will be using to share way more. And I think anyone here can think about, ten years from now, people are going to be sharing a thousand times as much stuff a day if this trend continues. What things are going to have to exist in the world, what kind of services are going to have to exist for that to be possible?
It is , perhaps, unfair to take what Zuckerberg said at face value, but as the CEO of the world's largest social network speaking to a room of aspiring internet entrepreneurs, his words will be followed quite literally. So, just to continue his trope of the rough approximation calculated on the fly, let's do a little math. Let's say a moderate Facebook user posts five status updates a day. A thousand times five is 5,000. Let's indulge in the fantasy that the average Facebook user sleeps eight hours a night (as if), that leaves us with 57,600 waking seconds a day. So this means that the average Facebook users, ten years from now, will be posting a status update just about every ten waking seconds!
Zuckerberg might counter by saying that his point is that there will have to be new kinds of services invented (by the people in that room) to make this level of sharing possible. But even in this back of the envelope example, it is clear that a thousand times the current level of sharing—102,400% just to make it clear that this is not a more comprehensible 1,000% increase—would no longer be about authorship, but about surveillance.
It is axiomatic at Y Combinator that growth is the primary metric that determines invest-ability. Some startups have brilliant engineering, like Instagram, others brilliant marketing, like Pinterest, but the common denominator is rapid growth. And whatever criticisms I may have about Facebook, Zuckerberg makes a clear case that he invented something that people wanted to use. You can't fake that.
But the questionable part comes after the initial big growth. What happens as a company, like Facebook, tries to sustain high-growth? The answer, I fear, is that it finds itself manipulating its users to engineer the growth. Certainly many people feel this way about Facebook already, so imagine what will be required to maintain a 100% growth rate each year for the next ten. Beyond a certain point, users will only be able to share more through automation. And the content generated by that automation will surpass other users' ability to consume it. At this point, "content" is actually just "data" that can be "read" only through automation. If it is not crystal clear already, this is all going in a direction where we will not be generating content for our own pleasure and that of our friends, but for the machines that can extract value from it.
It is not Y Combinator's job to question the whole enterprise. They are in the fairly miraculous business of helping entrepreneurs turn their ideas and talents into viable businesses. But for Zuckerberg who has had great success, and for the incredibly smart people in that room on Saturday, it is worth pausing to consider the goals of this project. Exponential growth has become a shorthand for "emergent properties we don't completely understand." Every system that has growth potential also has breaks, mechanisms that create friction, that maintain equilibrium. The implications of one hundred thousand percent growth in "sharing" are massive for the internet, for data centers, for energy consumption, for privacy and, ultimately, for how people spend their time.
Wouldn't a better keynote for a group of internet entrepreneurs ask, "what is the most value we can create for users, with the least invasion of their privacy, the least data consumed and the most pleasure and satisfaction delivered?" The real disruption may lie in creating profitable businesses that do not rely on such metastasized growth projections. There's always Startup School 2013.
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I do not trust a word mark zuckerberg says.
You shouldn't either.
He will mislead competition.
The math is wrong. 16 hours times 3600 seconds an hour is 57600, so it will be around 1 status update per 10 seconds, nor 1 second. 5760 waking seconds is 1.6 hour.
Thank you, and yes I understand the absurdity of making a status every 10 seconds. I merely wish to point out a technical error.


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Being a true born and raised son of the south I was taught early on that labor unions were in league with the devil. The South, more than any other area of the country, has an aversion to workers having any say in their treatment. This of course has it's roots in the old agrarian south where slave labor was employed until the middle of the 19th century. The mill towns that I grew up around were themselves a kind of slavery, notorious for their horrendous working conditions and keeping their workers beholden to the company store. I later worked for a large retail establishment so paranoid at the prospect of unionization that they wouldn't let the Girl Scouts sell cookies in their parking lot for fear that it would open the door to labor organizing.
Of course now that I'm older I realize that so much we as workers take for granted we owe to the Labor movement. A living wage, paid vacations, sick days, weekends, overtime pay, safe work environments, child labor laws, employer paid health insurance and pensions (now 401ks), and the list goes on. These aren't gifts from a benevolent market, these concessions were fought and died for by ordinary workers just like you and me. Workers who made the union label.
In 1945, just over one out of every three private sector employees (35.5 percent) were union members. That number began to decline in the early sixties and by 1980 had dropped to barely one out of five (21.9 percent) according to the Bureau of Labor statistics (BLS). Today only 11.8 percent of private sector workers nationwide, and only 4 percent in Georgia, are members of a labor union. It's no coincidence that non-union workers' average wages have barely kept pace with inflation over the last decade. When increases in health insurance costs and the loss of other employee benefits are factored in, the average non-union worker has gone backwards. Our standard of living is in decline.
The American worker is in crisis, with unemployment mired at 8 percent the boss has us right where they want us; scared and pliable. Remember that next time you hear someone bashing unions. Ask yourself where that comes from and in whose best interest it is to keep workers running scared and pointing fingers at each other. Most of all, remember that when you go to the polls in November. Vote for the party that represents us, the American worker, vote Democrat.


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Months-long campaigns, heated debates and political advertisements will all culminate today for the 2012 general election.
While the presidential race between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney has received all the national publicity, the battle for local elections is still going strong.
The county clerk's office, which is in charge of all elections in Jefferson County, had to add voting machines and polling workers at its busiest locations during early voting. County Clerk Carolyn Guidry said there seems to be a large interest in this election compared to the past.
"It seems, for the moment, that voter apathy has disappeared," she said.
Jefferson County had 67,925 people cast a ballot during early voting this year, an increase of more than 6,000 from the last presidential election. Despite 4,300 less registered voters during this year's election compared to 2008, participation has increased.
This year, 46.1 percent of registered voters have already cast a ballot. In 2008, 58.65 percent of registered voters had participated at the end of the election.
The race between Nick Lampson and Randy Weber for Congressional District 14 has been especially close, with each campaign raising more than $1 million, according to the Federal Elections Committee website.
"If the voters of Congressional District 14 hire me, they will have a true representative who will be a bold leader," Weber said in a statement. "An overwhelming majority have made it clear that they are upset with the way the current administration has conducted themselves."
But Lampson has taken the reigns with media endorsements, receiving the nod from the Houston Chronicle, Galveston Daily News and Beaumont Enterprise. Former President Bill Clinton also promoted Lampson during a Democratic rally at Lamar University last month.
"Jefferson County has the opportunity to have one of its own as its representative in Congress, and it's creating a lot of excitement," Lampson said in a statement.
The less-publicized races for tax assessor-collector and the 136th district court could be much tighter than in the past.
Democratic incumbent Milton Gunn Shuffield has been the 136th judge for more than 16 years and is letting that experience lead his campaign. His opponent on the Republican ballot, Rick Williams, served on the bench for 12 months after being appointed by Gov. Rick Perry in 2006 and thinks it's time for a change.
Republican Shane Howard, the current tax assessor-collector, is confident he'll win because he has supporters from both parties and made major changes to the tax office. Thomas Sigee, the Democratic challenger who is running largely on his military background, wants to increase accessibility and extend tax office hours.
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Webmin: Good for Guru and Newbie Alike
To quote their web site, "Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix." I found Webmin a few years ago when I was looking to register the domain webmin.com. I had an idea for a cool control panel to help administer my Linux server farm, and I was annoyed that someone had gotten to the domain first, until I started looking at the software they had for downloading. After that I was hooked.
Webmin's goal of providing a web-based interface is not unique. A number of tools are out there, both open source and commercial, with the same goal. What makes Webmin stand out from the crowd is that it can be useful to both experienced and inexperienced Linux administrators. Before I explain how it fulfills such a difficult task, let's look at how you install the software and what you can do with it.
Before we delve into the feature set of Webmin, I should explain a little about its design. Webmin is basically a large collection of CGIs written in Perl. It runs its own web server on a port that you specify when you install it, allowing you to manage the security of Webmin separately from your real web server. The full list of supported platforms is on the site, and it includes Red Hat, Solaris, Debian, *BSD, HP-UX, IRIX, AIX, DEC, SCO and Mac OS X.
What makes Webmin unique is its modular design. Every service or feature is exposed through a set of modules. This means that if the application you would like to control from Webmin is not supported, you can use the Webmin API to build a new module that will allow Webmin to control it. Webmin ships with 50 standard modules and many more are available, so you have plenty of source code examples to help get you started. Although Webmin itself is distributed under the BSD license, the modules you build can be distributed under any license you choose. This keeps the tool open to submissions from both the Open Source community and commercial vendors.
Installation is a breeze; go to www.webmin.com/webmin and download either the RPM or the tarball. If you use the tarball, you will need to run the setup.sh once you have unpacked it. This program handles the installation for you. One tip if you use the tarball: make sure you unpack it where you want those files to live. After you have installed Webmin, do not delete the Webmin directory you just unpacked or Webmin will not work. If you want to uninstall Webmin later, an uninstall script is included that will remove the initial directory as well as all the other files Webmin puts on your drive.
Now that you have Webmin installed, you need to open a web browser and log in to the IP address/resolvable server name and port (typically 10,000) that you configured Webmin to use when you installed it (see Figure 1). Once you have logged in, you should be greeted by the index page of Webmin, including several category tabs in which the various Webmin modules are grouped (see Figure 2). For example, the "Webmin" tab is where all the configuration settings for general themes, users, modules, etc., are located (the default theme is used in these figures). Other tab groupings include System, Servers, Networking, Hardware and Others.
The System tab handles tasks that have to do with managing the computer or server itself. This includes setting disk quotas, setting up NIS, altering PAM, looking at the syslog, adding users, managing cron, setting up NFS and even modifying boot-time services or rebooting the server.
The Servers tab groups all the server service configuration modules together. This is where you will find Apache, BIND, DHCP, sendmail, Squid and a number of other related modules (see Figure 3).
The Networking tab is a new addition, and on Linux it offers a good GUI ipchains configuration module, as well as a subcategory of various network utilities such as ping, traceroute, whois and dig.
The Hardware tab, of course, handles things that are directly hardware-related. This is where you will find information about your disk partitions, system time, network interface configurations, LILO and even software RAID.
The last tab is a potpourri category that has a full Java-based ssh/Telnet client, Java-based file manager, special user-definable module called Custom Commands, system log viewer, Perl modules section, and web-based system and server-status monitoring module. The Custom Commands module lets you build a simple interface to Webmin that allows you to run any command you want. This can be very useful if you need Webmin to do something specific that does not require a full module to accomplish. Figure 4 shows some custom examples that were created quickly and easily.
Awesome post
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Webmin Rocks!!
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Use of bold etc.
Fine articles, but very difficult to read. I know it's an old article, but you could none-the-less consider using bold on headlines, bullets to make it more readable, etc.
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I've asked a few people who have relations to Webmin for some help but they have not responded... if you read this please consider what I have to say.
I was givin the task to setup a system at my school to allow students to sign up to a program, and then develop a website... having that website being allowed to be viewed on our network.
I found webmin and usermin and thought that I had the solution and I think there may be a way to get it to work (in the file manager students can just create a new file and then instert the html, though some kind of script to allow them to make a website like geocities or freewebs.com would be very NICE!)
I need help allowing users' files to be view in such a format as:
I'm not sure HOW to allow this though.
Also if anyone knows of any scripts that I can use for free (I'm doing this for free) that would allow users to make a site on the server (It's running a version of linux redhat that I installed) that would be awesome!
Finally.. is there anyway to allow people to sign up for an account? So that I do not have to set up every single user...
Re: Webmin: Good for Guru and Newbie Alike
Your article is excellent. I use webadmin and it is great.
Would like to know more about your background as I am an Elmendorf as well, Jim Elmendorf, firstname.lastname@example.com.
Look forward to hearing from you.
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RALEIGH — In her first bid for re-election, Raleigh Mayor Nancy McFarlane faces challenges from a political newcomer and a familiar face in local politics.
Real-estate broker Venita Peyton and chiropractor Robert Weltzin filed to run for the mayor's seat this week. Peyton is a longtime community activist who has run unsuccessfully for various local offices before.
Peyton ran for mayor in 1997 against then-incumbent Tom Fetzer, garnering 40 percent of the vote. She ran again two years later, crossing from Democrat to Republican to endorse Paul Coble in a runoff election. More recently, she's run for Wake County commissioner and school board.
Peyton now describes herself as an unaffiliated candidate who is upset about Raleigh's current leadership and the firing of City Manager Russell Allen.
"In removing the city manager, they also removed the security of our city employees," Peyton said Friday. "It has destabilized them. ... It is important to me that we restore credibility and integrity to Raleigh."
Weltzin is a new face on the Raleigh political scene, having moved to the area in 2010 to serve as a reserve military police officer. He says he is interested in public safety issues as well as the city's growth.
"I've always been interested in politics, especially since Raleigh became my home," he said after filing Friday morning. "Raleigh needs a mayor to help build the community and have the forward thinking to assist in developing new jobs."
In city council races, only District E Councilman Bonner Gaylord is running unopposed. All other incumbents are seeking reelection with a challenger or two.
The at-large contests – with incumbents Russ Stephenson and Mary-Ann Baldwin – heated up late in the filing period with two challengers, Red Roof Inn employee and former Republican precinct chairman Jason Spriggs, and St. David's School technology director Rob Williams.
The other council races look like this:
North Raleigh Council District A: Incumbent Randy Stagner and challenger Wayne Maiorano
Northeast Raleigh Council District B: Incumbent John Odom and challengers Brian Fitzsimmons and Sam Smith
Southeast Raleigh Council District C: Incumbent Eugene Weeks and challengers Marcus Hill and Racquel Williams
Southwest Raleigh Council District D: Incumbent Thomas Crowder and challenger Jim Kemp Sherron
Wake school board
Each of the four Wake County school board seats up for grabs this fall has two candidates. District 2 – which covers Garner and southern Wake – is the only contest without an incumbent, as John Tedesco plans to step down.
The races are officially nonpartisan, but in recent years both political parties have been heavily involved in the campaigns. No matter the outcome, this fall's election won't change the Democratic board majority.
Matt Scruggs, a Republican precinct official and auto parts store manager from Fuquay-Varina, filed Friday to run against Monika Johnson-Hostler in District 2. Johnson-Hostler – who is executive director of the N.C. Coalition Against Sexual Assault and president of the National Alliance to End Sexual Violence – is a registered Democrat.
In northern and eastern Wake's District 1, incumbent Democrat Tom Benton of Zebulon faces Don McIntyre, a Wake Forest Republican. Incumbent Republican Deborah Prickett and challenger Zora Felton, a Democrat, are running in District 7, and incumbent Bill Fletcher and challenger Nancy Caggia, both Republicans, face off in District 9.
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The mission of the Criminal Justice Studies Program is to provide students with knowledge of the historical, philosophical, social, political and legal theories, concepts, practices, and events which affect the criminal justice system, its agencies and components in contemporary society. The interdisciplinary nature of the program demonstrates and understanding and/or appreciation of the diverse areas. Through its curriculum design, students experience courses offered in the humanities and social sciences thereby supporting the liberal arts mission of the College of Arts and Sciences.
Students are encouraged to appreciate sensitivity to the arts, view philosophy and religion as a means of human expression, and examine opportunities for further intellectual development. Students are also encouraged to use the sciences and mathematics as a means for analyzing, organizing, quantifying and expressing their ideas. Courses offered in the criminal justice studies program, political science, psychology, sociology, anthropology and social work provide students with the knowledge on the interdependence of people in communities and the world through differing cultures, systems of government, and global organizations and networks. Students learn about the interrelationship of the physical, social, emotional, and intellectual growth of individuals in interaction inside and outside the social units of peers, the family, the church, popular media, and the local community's social service and justice agencies.


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MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- When No. 15 Wisconsin takes on No. 11 Michigan State in Saturday's Big Ten championship game in Indianapolis, the Badgers won't be using revenge as their motivation.
The Spartans have beaten the Badgers two years in a row, and this year's loss was particularly painful: A last-second Hail Mary pass for a game-winning touchdown that essentially took Wisconsin out of the national championship picture.
But Badgers coach Bret Bielema says Michigan State earned that victory, "and our kids have to take that and learn from it."
For Wisconsin, Saturday's game is a chance to continue their rebound from shocking collapses in back-to-back losses against Michigan State and Ohio State. For Michigan State, it's a chance to go to the Rose Bowl after being left out of the BCS last season.


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Before becoming vice president in 1881, Chester Arthur had had a thriving legal practice in New York and served with distinction in the Civil War as an engineer-in-chief with the rank of quartermaster general in the New York Volunteers. He also served as collector of the Port of New York from 1871 to 1878, supervising nearly 1,300 agents responsible for collecting about 75 percent of the nation's import duties.
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Here we snow again.
Northern New Jersey is about to get slammed with what weather experts are calling a 24-hour event from Wednesday night into Thursday night, and could leave behind as much as a foot of snow and ice.
Deemed the first "classic" coastal storm of the year by meteorologist Rob Reale at Weather Works in Hackettstown, snowfall will begin around midnight Wednesday into Thursday. Motorists looking to hit the roads for work Thursday morning will be greeted by one- to two-inches of snow on the pavement with more to come, Reale said.
As Thursday morning progresses, snowfall totals will reach anywhere between three and six inches, and then turn over to ice and freezing rain in the afternoon, Reale said.
It won't end there, though. Once the wetter precipitation stops, more snow is expected for the evening commute Thursday, and won't end until midnight.
"Driving conditions are going to be nasty," Reale said. "There'll be high winds, coastal flooding, and plenty of precipitation. It's definitely going to be a pretty big mess."
While the details of the storm's track are still fuzzy,
Reale said, residents in northern New Jersey can expect anywhere between 6
and 12 inches of snow when the storm wraps up.


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The Norman Transcript
NORMAN — In water policy discussions, city council members and city staff often say Norman needs to decide if it wants to be water customer or a water provider. An answer to that question is a significant part of the long-range water discussions now under way.
The years-long drought has put a sense of urgency in the current policy debate. Rationing imposed this past week may be earliest ever for Norman. Federal legislation that allows water to be transferred to Lake Thunderbird from southeastern Oklahoma has recently made headlines.
Oklahoma City's decision to restrict watering and water sales will impact Norman which bought more than 160 million gallons — less than two weeks supply — in fiscal 2012.
The water restrictions come as Norman's homebuilding industry begins a rebound from some troubled years. Permits for single-family homes are up. There were 374 permits issued in 2012 compared to 315 in 2011. Multi-family is up, too, with a couple of larger projects under way and in planning stages.
City officials can't tell whether the restrictions are helping. Water use was an average of 8.4 million gallons per day this week compared to 8.8 MGD for the same period in 2011.
Norman citizens have shown they will respond for the greater good. Time and a rainy spring will tell if the rules are working.
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Following a 4-12 finish to the 2012 season, the Detroit Lions have begun an important off-season in their development. As I have noted in the past, the Lions have a good, young nucleus of players to build around. But now is the time to get the job done or, very likely, the organization will turn toward a new coaching staff and front office.
As we now know, Lions head coach Jim Schwartz will return for a fifth season with the team. Schwartz has kept both his offensive coordinator Scott Linehan and defensive coordinator Gunther Cunningham. There were several changes on the staff as it relates to position coaches, especially on the offensive side of the ball. The Lions also changed special teams coordinators this off-season – not an unexpected move after last year's problems.
The new coaches will bring different perspectives to a staff that has stayed largely intact through the first four years of Schwartz's tenure. The coordinators will still teach a similar philosophy, which will play an important role in personnel decisions this off-season.
General Manager Martin Mayhew has made the decision to bring in Brian Xanders – formerly with the Denver Broncos – to retool the personnel and scouting departments. Because NFL teams are already well prepared for this off-season's free agency period and college draft, this move will not have much short-term impact but may prove successful in the long term.
A large part of managing a team is managing the salary cap. The Lions have already cut some high priced veteran players (Kyle Vanden Bosch, Stephen Peterman, Titus Young) while retooling the last year of Dominic Raiola's contract to save money. Reports are that the Lions will also look to re-tool the contracts of Matthew Stafford and Nate Burleson to have enough money within the salary cap to sign other impact players.
Draft preparation is well under way. The Lions coaching staff got a jump-start on seeing prospective players as coaches in the Senior Bowl last month. This gave them the opportunity to coach players in practice all week. This could prove valuable in evaluating character and skill levels – especially for players drafted in the later rounds. The NFL combine will take place later this month.
With these moves in place, the careful work now begins to rebuild the roster. The Lions will have to make key decisions on which of their own free agents to re-sign, which free agents to target (free agency begins in March), and which players to draft (the NFL Draft is in late April). On both sides of the ball the Lions need playmakers – players who will change the outcome of a game with a strong pass rush, a key defensive turnover, or a long touchdown run.
As best I can tell, the Lions will build around the passing game of Stafford and Calvin Johnson on offense. The NFL has increasingly become a passing league in the last decade. The Lions are expected to re-tool their offensive line, especially if Jeff Backus retires. 2012 first round draft pick Riley Reiff is expected to start at one tackle spot, with guard Rob Sims and center Raiola returning for sure. If Backus retires, the Lions will need two new starters.
It is expected that running back Jahvid Best will retire due to concussions and that the Lions will pursue a speed running back in the draft/free agency to compliment power running back Mikel Leshoure. The name Reggie Bush keeps popping up. The team will also look to address the wide receiver position – trying (again) to find compliments to Calvin Johnson so that the all-pro doesn't get triple teamed in 2013.
On defense, the Lions will build around their two young defensive tackles Ndamukong Suh and Nick Fairley in their attempt to rush the passer with a strong defensive line. I am convinced that the scheme that the Lions want to play does not value investing a lot of resources into the defensive backfield (despite fan concerns) – where the Lions may have some new starters in 2013. I expect that cornerback Chris Houston and safety Louis Delmas will both be back. The team is looking at safety George Wilson from the Bills.
The special teams will hopefully be improved. The Lions are awaiting word from 42-year old kicker Jason Hanson on whether or not he will play another season. If he decides to retire, the Lions will have a new kicker, punter and kick/punt returner in 2013 – to go along with the new coordinator.
In the months ahead, we will be able to better analyze the moves in free agency and the draft to see if the Lions are on the right track to success in 2013. Until then, we will be inundated with names and more names of players who could, should, or won't become Detroit Lions – always an interesting time of the year for NFL followers.
I have been a die hard Lions fan since 1991. I played football in high school and began a college playing career at Wayne State before hanging up the cleats. I will try to provide a perspective on my favorite NFL team for the Patch.


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Dear OncoLink "Ask The Experts,"
Lili Duda, VMD, Section Editor of the OncoLink Veterinary Oncology Menu, responds:
Probably the best affordable option is a combination of prednisone and lomustine (CCNU). Prednisone is given daily, and lomustine is given every 3-4 weeks. CBCs do need to be monitored routinely. We would also add in an H2 blocker (eg. Pepcid /Tagamet) and an H1 blocker (antihistamine such as Chlortrimeton or Benadryl).


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Public transit use in Frederick Co. doubles in last decade
About four years ago, Suzanne Carroll made a choice that almost 3,000 workers old enough to drive in Frederick County made in 2011 -- she began to commute by public transit. Her commute is now less hectic, despite occasional MARC train delays, she said.
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Isaac Strack, as a Design Technologist for Adobe Systems, actively researches, develops, and contributes to emerging device and Internet technologies, incorporating these new technologies into the Adobe Digital Media and Digital Marketing product lines. He is on the board of directors for the Wasatch Institute of Technology, a computer science high school located in Utah that is changing the face of education through an Agile-based teaching methodology, which emphasizes real-life technology skills and STEM education.
Isaac worked for the Service Technologies group at eBay for over 11 years, where he was on the forefront of AJAX, .NET, and web-related technologies. While at eBay, he earned a web technology patent, and is one of the original developers of the Listing Violation Inspection System (LVIS), used to monitor and regulate auctions and member-to-member transactions.
Isaac has a passion for technology and design, and conveys that passion through his contributions online and in his local community. Despite his experiences to the contrary, he's still naive enough to believe what Steve Jobs said, "If you have a good idea and a little moxie, you can change the world."


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In an attempt to alleviate a recent influx of cats and kittens, Weatherford/Parker County Animal Shelter is taking a page from the Priceline philosophy: name your own price.
Interim Director of Animal Services Dustin Deel announced earlier this week the shelter has set dates for the name your own price promotion, which he had announced earlier this month at a shelter advisory committee meeting.
The promotion is scheduled for Friday, June 21, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday, June 22, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the shelter, located on Hickory Drive in Weatherford.
Deel said every year during the spring mating season, the shelter is overrun with cats and this is a way of getting those numbers down. The promotion is good for both adult cats and kittens.
All adoptions come with the spay or neuter surgery, all vaccinations, dewormer and a microchip. Deel at the meeting said if the promotion is successful, consideration of opening it to dogs as well will be considered.
All available pets can be found online at www.weatherfordtx.gov/animals. For any questions, call 817-598-4111.


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How We Got to College: Janet Henkai
Here's how this Maryland high schooler chose to attend the University of Pittsburgh.
The journey to college acceptance is one best told by the experts: high school seniors who've just completed the process. Learning how others got into college can help inform your own effort, so we asked students from the Class of 2011 at Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Md., to relate their experiences, tips, and observations.
Janet Henkai wants to study both physical therapy and environmental issues. She applied to—and got into—seven schools: Smith College in Massachusetts, the University of Wisconsin, Boston University, Ithaca College in New York, Xavier University in Ohio, Virginia Commonwealth University, and the University of Pittsburgh.
An athlete with a long history of playing field hockey and basketball, she has spent much time in PT offices herself. During a particularly inspiring stint she experienced at age 12 for an ankle injury, her sessions overlapped with a woman who was learning to walk again after a car accident. "It's not only physical, it's psychological, having a physical therapist say you can do this," she says. To keep costs to a minimum, Henkai opted for Pitt, which awarded her full tuition.
GPA: 3.55 unweighted
SAT scores: 600 math, 560 critical reading, 600 writing
Extracurriculars: Team captain for field hockey and basketball, volunteer on local conservation projects and as a coach at sports camps, National Honor Society
Essay topic: Balancing her sexual orientation and religious beliefs
Sacrifice: Gave up basketball as a senior to pursue scholarships and other aid
One hook: Racked up a total of nearly 1,000 hours in community service
[Read about 6 scholarships that award leadership.]
Words of wisdom: "It seems easier to write about yourself, but in the end it's a lot harder."
Advice: Apply to a variety of schools, including small, larger, rural, urban, so you don't get stuck with a choice of just one type.
On visits: "On paper, Wisconsin seemed like the perfect place, but when I stepped on Pittsburgh's campus I knew I wanted to go there." Take a tour with a student, and better yet, request a guide who is pursuing the major you plan on declaring.
Heads-up: It doesn't end once you turn in the application; expect requests for information, and anticipate snafus.
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"Chuck Norris cracked skulls for years as a Texas ranger on television, and now Texas wants to make it official, minus the cracking skulls part. Gov. Rick Perry is scheduled to make the 70-year-old actor an honorary member of the famed law enforcement squad on Thursday, AP reports.
The small ceremony will take place at an unspecified Texas Rangers office in suburban Dallas, TX.
Perry is also giving Chuck's younger brother Aaron, a stunt coordinator and producer, an honorary membership as well."


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Second Meeting Best Western Ramkota Hotel
2013 Interim 1400 8th Avenue NW
Monday & Tuesday, July 1 & 2, 2013 Aberdeen, South Dakota
Monday, July 1, 2013
The second meeting of the interim Regional Watershed Advisory Task Force was called to order by Senator Mike Vehle, Vice Chair, at 9:00 a.m. (CDT), on Monday, July 1, 2013, at the Best Western Ramkota Hotel in Aberdeen, South Dakota.
A quorum was determined with the following members present: Senator Mike Vehle, Vice Chair; Representatives Dennis Feickert, Spencer Hawley, and Leslie Heinemann; Ms. Kim Vanneman; and Messrs. Dennis Duncan, Mike Jaspers, Rick Sommers, Paul Symens, and George Vandel. Members excused were: Representative Brian Gosch, Chair; and Senators Jason Frerichs, Tom Jones, and Russell Olson.
Staff members present included Tom Magedanz, Principal Research Analyst, and David Ortbahn, Principal Research Analyst.
All material distributed at the meeting is attached to the original minutes on file in the Legislative Research Council (LRC). The committee documents are available at the LRC website at http://legis.state.sd.us under "Interim Information – Committee Documents." For the purpose of continuity, these minutes are not necessarily in chronological order.
MS. KIM VANNEMAN MOVED, SECONDED BY MR. MIKE JASPERS, TO APPROVE THE MINUTES OF APRIL 22, 2013. The motion prevailed unanimously on a voice vote.
Opening Remarks
Senator Mike Vehle, Vice Chair, welcomed everyone to the meeting and reviewed for everyone the directive of the task force as provided by statute.
LRC staff distributed maps of the major watersheds and water development districts in South Dakota (Document 1).
South Dakota Corn Growers Association
Mr. Matt McCaulley, South Dakota Corn Growers Association (SDCGA), distributed a handout (Document 2) and presented a Power Point presentation (Document 3) in which he