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Lasers and vaporizers can't kill these chips! Researchers at Caltech have been testing a special component embedded in microchips that are capable of self-healing, making them less susceptible to damage from environmental conditions and other harmful impacts.
They found that their chips could fix themselves and keep on working even after being blasted by lasers.
According to TechNewsWorld, researches observed that even after vaporizing different components of the chips, the tiny power amplifiers they had built recovered the functions previously built in.
This emerging technology is a big deal!
On the average smartphone, if a single transistor is impaired it is enough to make the device unworkable.
This genius technology in the Caltech chips are equipped with a type of "digital immune system," that, similar to the human body, can bring in new resources to replace whatever has been damaged. In fact, when the chips were first hit by the laser they wasted a lot of power. They then kicked into healing mode and automatically contrived a way to change, in order to keep working efficiently.
Right now, if a microchip on your device is harmed or burns out, the whole system fails, not to mention all of the data stored in it. While the technology would serve consumers in diminishing tech support hours and dollars spent on new chips, electronics recyclers and companies, like HOBI International Inc, who are implementing mobile asset disposition programs will be required to set new standards for complete data erasure.
ITAD organizations and certified electronics recyclers will have to beware of the devices that acquire the self-healing chip technology when the time comes due to the contending chip wars between Intel and ARM. Competition between the two companies for the self-healing chip could become extremely heated.
Intel, with its chips found primarily in PCs and Macs, is fighting to be included in the rapidly growing tablet and smartphone markets. The makers of ARM chips, (Qualcomm, Apple, Samsung, Nvidia and others) which are primarily found in mobile devices, would like to see their presence in the tablet PCs.
The competition revolving around chips is divided. In order to gain more ground against Intel, the most popular chip maker to date, ARM partnered with Microsoft. Since there will be different chips placed in different tablet, PC and smartphone brands, consumers will wonder exactly what they are buying. Will their device have self-healing powers with the innovative chip or will it fail to repair itself after minuscule damage?
If lasers and vaporizers can't stop these chips from dying now, imagine how scientists will continue to improve the technology so that is longer lasting and nearly indestructible.


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Rouleur celebrates its 25th edition with a suitably eclectic mix from the wonderful world of bike racing, starting with the Editor's visit to Trek in Wisconsin.
Guy contends with snowdrifts and ice fishing whilst having his preconceptions about the hugely successful manufacturing giant shattered. Photographer Taz Darling thaws out inside the factory of one of Waterloo's biggest employers.
Richard Moore's teenage Tour-watching perked up no end when images of 7-Eleven's soigneur Shelley Verses flashed across the TV screen. The groundbreaking woman in a previously men-only world recalls life on the road with 'her boys'.
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Top management with the Division of the State Architect – the chief regulator of school construction – for years did nothing about nearly 1,100 building projects that its own supervisors had red-flagged. Safety defects were logged and then filed away without follow-up from the state. — Corey G. Johnson, California Watch
In the wake of the arrest of AI Weiwei, his objections and criticism regarding school construction safety in China were not taken lightly by anyone including the Chinese people and the Chinese government.
A similar case is unfolding in the State of California. California Watch is covering a multitude of reports regarding lax and or missing inspections, missing safety certificates, unethical conflicts of interest and at least one state inspector having a felony conviction in a construction safety case.
The California Watch report breaks down the overall state of affairs in three categories: 'lax oversight,' 'troubled inspectors' and 'repair money blocked.'
Lax Oversight: At least 20,000 projects in the State of California have not received their final safety certifications making that six out of ten schools having at least one certified building project.
"As the state architect's office relaxed its oversight, the office became closely aligned with the industry it regulates. Government officials became members of a lobbying group for school construction firms; mingled at conferences, golf tournaments and dinners; and briefed the lobbying group's clients at monthly meetings. The state even told its employees that taxpayers would foot the bill for their membership dues." --Lax oversight of school construction raises doubts about earthquake safety, California Watch
Troubled Inspectors: In addition to the inspector previously convicted of a felony charge, whom pleaded no contest to conspiracy to obstruct justice, nearly 300 other inspectors have been cited by the state for 'work-related deficiencies.' Under the Field Act, California law requires a special certification in order to inspect school and community college building. These inspectors, who work for the Division of the State Architect, are paid between $70 to $100 dollars an hour.
Acting State Architect Howard Smith has said in an interview that there is room for improvement but is generally effective.
Repair Money Blocked: Stringent thresholds have left many of the state's 7500 buildings unable to claim a piece of a $200 million fund created in order to repair and certify the State's troubled buildings. The report shows that, out of all of the schools in California, only about 3 dozen schools qualified for the funding. What is especially worse is that only two of the schools have received any funding-- "San Ramon Valley High School received $3.6 million to build a new gym, and Piedmont High School was awarded $1 million for two renovation projects."
"The Schwarzenegger administration eventually settled on areas that could expect ground movement of at least 1.7g – far more powerful, Zoback said, than the Loma Prieta quake in 1989 and the Northridge quake in 1994. The administration also restricted the types of buildings that could qualify for money." -- Restrictive rules keep schools from state's seismic repair fund, California Watch
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T-Mobile confirmed today that its Samsung Sidekick 4G and LG G2x phones will be available in stores on April 20.
"It's official, T-Mobile's Sidekick 4G arrives on April 20," T-Mobile tweeted this morning. The G2x, meanwhile, will be available online on April 15 and in stores on April 20, T-Mobile also tweeted. It will sell for $199.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate and two-year contract.
T-Mobile confirmed plans for the Samsung Sidekick 4G back in January, and provided more details last month. It features a 3.5-inch, 800-by-480 screen and is based on a heavily customized Android 2.2.1 and Samsung's TouchWiz. The screen slides up with a click to reveal the 5-row QWERTY keyboard.
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The new Sidekick interface is definitely based on Android 2.2 and Samsung's TouchWiz, although it has some unique Sidekick touches, like those links on the right-hand side of the screen. Samsung's "Feeds and Updates" social-networking widget appears in the video, though.
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"It was a joint decision reached by Microsoft and T-Mobile," T-Mobile spokesman Tom Harlin said. "We think it's a natural order for products to be replaced by newer technology, and we've announced there will be a 4G-enabled, Android-powered Sidekick."
But here's the catch: Harlin refused to commit to releasing the new Sidekick before May 31, saying only that "in terms of the next Sidekick, we'll have more information in the coming weeks."
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Court tosses Chicago's shooting range ban, as Emanuel imposes tight restrictions
A federal appeals panel Wednesday tossed out a Chicago gun ordinance banning shooting ranges in the city. But Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the city council were ready to impose new rules.
Emanuel told reporters that city lawyers saw the appeals court's decision coming. So they drafted and quickly ushered through the council a strict set of rules about where any future shooting ranges can be located. They must be more than a thousand feet from schools, parks, liquor stores, hospitals, churches, libraries - the list goes on.
"Based on the reading of where we thought the case was going, I wanted to make sure the rest of the [city's gun control] ordinance did not get dragged down as it relates to the gun ranges," Emanuel said.
Other lawsuits remain against the city's gun control laws, but Wednesday's appeals court ruling specifically wiped out the ban on firing ranges within the city limits. The court wrote, "The right to possess firearms for protection...wouldn't mean much without the training and practice that make it effective."
The ruling points out the city itself recognized as much, by requiring all gun permit holders to take training at a firing range - even though they'd have to travel outside the city to do so. That changes with the court decision, and Emanuel's new ordinance.
It was an effort, the mayor said, "to address what the court just struck down and to get ourselves in line legally with what is required constitutionally."
But guns rights advocates said the fight is not over.
A spokesman for the Second Amendment Foundation, which was involved in the lawsuit, called Emanuel's ordinance "a day late, or maybe just an hour late, and way too short of the mark."
Likewise, Todd Vandermyde of the National Rifle Association claimed the rules are more restrictive than the court will allow. He said his group is willing to talk with Emanuel.
"They can either, you know, try to negotiate a resolution to this issue, and respect the rights of Chicago residents, or they can continue to throw good money after bad and litigate this ad-nauseum," Vandermyde said.
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County, Georgia History
Act/Resolution 28 of 184
1851 Vol. 1 -- Page: 58
Sequential Number: 028
Law Number: (No. 28.)
Full Title: An Act to lay off and organize a new
County from the Counties of Pike, Henry and Fayette.
24. SEC. I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of
the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by
authority of the same, That there shall be a new county laid out and
formed from the counties of Pike, Henry and Fayette, to be bounded as
Beginning on the line now separating the counties of Henry and Butts,
where the Towaliga river crosses the said line, and running up the middle
of the stream of said river to the point where the western line of lot of
land number one hundred and eighteen in the original second district of
Henry county crosses the same; thence north
Page: 59
along the line as run by the Surve or in laying off said district into
lots, to the north-east corner of lot number one hundred and forty-nine in
the said district; [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] on the original
surveyed line to the south west [Illegible Text] of lot number one hundred
and eighty-two, in the original third district of Henry county; thence
north across two ranges of lots; thence west along the surveyed line to
[Flint river in Fayette county; thence down the middle of the main stream
of said river to the south line of the eighth range of lots in the county
of Pike; thence east along the surveyed line to the principal branch of
the Potatoe Creek, in Pike county; thence down the run of the creek across
one range of lots;] thence east along the surveyed line to the line now
separating the counties of Pike and Monroe; thence north along the said
line to the south-west corner of Butts county; thence with the line
separating Butts from Pike and Henry counties, to the beginning; that the
territory thus included shall form a new county, to be called the county
of Spalding; that the same shall be attached to the Flint Judicial
circuit, to the third Congressional district, to the thirty-second
Senatorial district, and to the second Brigade of the eighth Division
Georgia Militia.
25. SEC. II. And be it further enacted, That the qualified voters within
said new county, shall on the first Monday in February next, at the
several election precincts now established by law, and which are included
within the said new county, proceed pursuant to the election laws now of
force, to elect all county officers necessary for the organization of the
said new county, according to the laws of this State; and the Inferior
Court thereof, so soon as commissioned, shall lay off the said new county
into Militia Districts, and advertise for the election of the requisite
number of Justices of the Peace, and the Governor on being duly certified
of the elections aforesaid, shall commission the persons elected according
to law.
26. SEC. III. That the Inferior Court of said new county shall select and
locate a site for the public buildings thereof within the limits of the
city of Griffin, and provide for the erection of the same, and make such
temporary arrangements for the transaction of the public business of said
new county in the meantime as may be necessary and proper.
27. SEC. IV. All officers now in commission who shall be included within
the limits of said new county, shall hold their commissions and exercise
the duties of the several offices within said county, until their
successors shall have been elected and qualified.
Page: 60
28. SEC. V. That all mesne process, executions, and other final process in
the hands of the Sheriffs, Coroners, and Constables of the counties of
which the new county may be formed, and which properly belong to said new
county, and which may have been levied or in part executed, and such
proceedings therein not finally disposed of at the time of passing this
Act, shall be delivered over to the corresponding officers of said new
county, and such officers are hereby authorized and required to proceed
with the same and in the same manner as if such process had been
originally in their hands; Provided, That in all cases, publication of the
time and places of sale and proceedings of the like character in the new
county shall be made for the time now prescribed by law, and all such
process which properly belong to the counties out of which said new county
may be framed, which may be in the hands of the officers of said new
county, shall in like manner be delivered over to the officers of said
counties to be executed by them in the manner herein prescribed.
29. SEC. VI. And be it further enacted, That all actions now pending in
either of the counties from which the said new county is taken, wherein
the defendant or defendants may be included in said new county, shall be
transferred with all papers relating thereto, and trial had in said new
county where the defendant resides. *
30. SEC. VII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That
the Inferior Court, Clerk of the Superior and Inferior Courts and Sheriffs
of said new county, shall as soon as convenient after their qualification,
from the best information they may be enabled to procure, make a selection
of the Grand and Petit Jurors, and proceed to the drawing thereof as
pointed out by law, for the ensuing Superior and Inferior Courts.
31. SEC. VIII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That
the Inferior Court of said new county shall have power to levy and collect
an extra tax for county purposes, in each of the years eighteen hundred
and fifty two and eighteen hundred and fifty three, of such per cent, on
the State tax, as to the said Court may seem necessary and proper.
32. SEC. IX. And be it further enacted, That the Superior Courts of said
new county shall be held on the fourth Mondays in February and August,
*and the Inferior Courts on the fourth Mondays in May and November.
Page: 61
32. SEC. X. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all
laws and parts of laws militating against this Act, be and the same are
hereby repealed.
Approval Date: Approved, December 20th, 1851.
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Hilltown Archives The Altamont Enterprise, December 17, 2009
Knox Town Hall project underway at last
By Zach Simeone
KNOX Construction to expand and upgrade the Town Hall is underway, after years of planning. The town board approved payments for this month's work at last week's town board meeting.
This was Democratic Councilman Dennis Decker's last meeting, at least for the next four years, as he lost his run for re-election in November to Republican Travis Stevens.
The 1977 town hall will have a $1.3-million makeover, scheduled to be completed in April of 2010.
At the meeting, the town board voted to authorize a total $168,441.13 in payments for the Town Hall project, divided up among the following contractors:
M.A. Schafer Construction will be paid $91,712.77 for framing work, and $9,792 for roof work;
Wainschaf Associates Inc. will be paid $19,607.36 for general work;
Tri-Valley Plumbing and Heating Inc. will be paid $7,547.75 for plumbing work;
Eckert Mechanical Service Corp. will be paid $12,350 for heating, ventilation, and cooling work; and
Phoenix Electrical will be paid $27,431.25 for electrical work.
Tuesday's meeting was held in an upstairs office, with construction taking place in the regular lower-level meeting room.
"The concrete floor downstairs is finished," Supervisor Michael Hammond said this week. "The old meeting room is all going to be built into a fireproof and secure storage area and offices."
The building has a new foundation as well, he went on.
"Site work has been done putting in storm sewers, grading to finish elevations, framing is just about completed," Hammond said. "Electrical work is ongoing, plumbing work is ongoing. The roofing material will probably be started next week, of course, everything's subject to the weather right now."
The project will include an entirely new roof, new siding, offices for building and zoning administrators, and a new meeting room, where each of the town's governmental bodies will meet, with higher ceilings, and a built-in, semi-circular dais.
There will also be a records vault on the ground floor, and a hydraulically powered elevator that goes between the first and second floors to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act. The copy room will be moved, and the whole building will be air-conditioned. The supervisor's office will remain as is.
The windows along the south wall will be enlarged to about double their current size, and there will be an emergency generator to power the building in the case of an outage.
Construction for the project began on Aug. 28, and is still expected to reach completion this spring, as was previously projected.
"We're right on schedule," Hammond said this week. "Very much so."
Other business
In other business at this month's meeting, the town board:
Heard from Clerk Kimberly Swain that the town will be receiving less money in a records-retention grant from the state than was at first anticipated. While the town was initially expecting $10,100, it will instead be receiving $7,650, and that amount may decrease an additional 6 percent, Swain said.
The grant money will go towards taking inventory of all records stored at Town Hall, and performing a needs assessment determining whether or not any of these records can be disposed of. Whatever records are kept will be stored in a categorized, interactive database;
Heard from John Dorfman, the town's attorney, that the current records-storage room at Town Hall should be tested for the presence of dusts and molds before hiring an outside firm to handle the records.
"The area of mold and dust, and the litigation that comes along with it, are very serious," Dorfman told the town board. "There are potential hazards."
The discussion was tabled until the January town board meeting;
Heard from Highway Superintendent Gary Salisbury that the transfer station is not currently accepting electronic devices for disposal.
"We absolutely cannot take any more electronic devices until we've got a way to get rid of them," said Salisbury;
Scheduled its re-organizational meeting for Jan. 1 at 9 a.m.; and
Voted unanimously in favor of purchasing a laptop computer for the tax collector's office, for a price not to exceed $700.


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Xu Xu Fang's style is not easy to pin down. While the first three tracks on their latest EP, The Mourning Son, play like a cross of Pink Floyd and Slowdive, the closing piece is a nearly 14-minute-long droning beast. Up until that point, however, the album plays a lot like a rainy day spent at the beach. The waves crashing during the intro obviously exude that feeling, but the atmospheric nature of Xu Xu Fang's music rings true in every track. On "These Days", your ears are treated to crashing cymbals that mesh perfectly with the psychedelic, Dark Side of the Moon-inspired guitars which have a mind of their own. And then there are the hazy, shoegazing vocals that add another layer to the already dense song.
The following tracks, "The Mourning Son" and "Good Times Have Gone Away", carry on the sound echoing forth from "These Days". Marching band drums draw you in before they are eclipsed by the ethereal singing and thudding keys on "The Mourning Son". While "Good Times Have Gone Away" plays like a heavier piece from Souvlaki, it also oozes hints of classic rock, particularly during the chorus. Remember that rainy-day feeling I touched on? Well, it hits full throttle on "Terra Scura". Equal parts drone and simple storm recordings, the track is a mammoth to listen to at night. The booming thunder and subtle noise play like a Sunn O))) experiment without any of the harsh vocals. Although "Terra Scura" is certainly not a painless listen, it proves that Xu Xu Fang is not satisfied with playing straightforward, albeit fantastic, music. And here's hoping that this band of oddballs keeps pining away in the studio, because it's not hard to tell there is something truly great brewing throughout this EP.
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IBM Java 8 open beta has been available since September 2013 and this is not a new news, but milti-tenant capability becomes much more important in light of the Cloud announcement made by IBM this week. Imagine how cool it will be to use multi-tenant JVM to run your Java or Java EE applications not only on the cloud, but on premise?
Let me explain what multi-tenant JVM really is. In a traditional model every time you type "java xyz" you start new operating system process and run single application per OS process with entire JVM dedicated to serving your app. If you have very large application (say WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment) with many different different WAR and EAR files deployed into that server having one JVM per "application" is not a bad idea. In this case WAS ND provides "operating environment" for multiple applications that you deployed into it and it makes a good use of the JVM and OS resources and under high load with proper tuning and proper applications can consume up to 100% of CPU and memory available to the OS. This is how JVMs from OpenJDK, Sun JDK and IBM JDK used to work in the past (and still do).
Now imagine different environment. What if you do not have one GIGANTIC high load application? What if you have hundreds (or thousands) of small applications and services and they may or may not be highly loaded? With Tomcat, WebLogic or JBoss on top of traditional JVM you can still deploy those apps and services as independent EARs and WARs and there will be certain amount of isolation provided by the JVM, but you will certainly have issues with singleton patterns and potentially other administration and security issues. This is why there are multiple different levels of isolation ranging from separating hardware servers with real brick and steel walls, to OS virtualization with KVM, VMware to running multiple JVM instances on the same OS. Each of these methods has a benefit (level of security and independence), but it has disadvantages – mainly high resource requirements resulting in high costs (need too much memory, too many cores, too many software licenses, etc.).
Multi-tenant JVM provides an excellent compromise and offers the best of both worlds – good level of isolation with very little overhead. To quote IBM developerWorks article on the benefits of multi-tenant JVM:"… The main benefit of using the multitenant JVM is that deployments avoid the memory consumption that's typically associated with using multiple standard JVMs. This overhead has several causes:
- The Java heap consumes hundreds of megabytes of memory. Heap objects cannot be shared between JVMs, even when the objects are identical. Furthermore, JVMs tend to use all of the heap that's allocated to them even if they need the peak amount for only a short time.
- The Just-in-time (JIT) compiler consumes tens of megabytes of memory, because generated code is private and consumes memory. Generated code also takes significant processor cycles to produce, which steals time from applications.
- Internal artifacts for classes (many of which, such as
Hashtable, exist for all applications) consume memory. One instance of each of these artifacts exists for each JVM.
- Each JVM has a garbage-collector helper thread per core by default and also has multiple compilation threads. Compilation or garbage-collection activity can occur simultaneously in one or more of the JVMs, which can be suboptimal as the JVMs will compete for limited processor time.
IBM has measured application density and startup times and published very impressive results – and that is all using open beta version of the JVM. Imagine being able to run 4 times more instances without having to spend more money for memory, CPUs or licenses! That is very impressive indeed:
To see complete explanation of these tables, please read full article on IBM developerWorks. To be fare, IBM is not the only vendor working on multi-tenant JVMs, but IBM is the first mainstream JVM provider with this capability.
I can't wait when IBM starts shipping products on top of this new JVM!
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CHEYENNE, WYO., May 29, 2008 – The Qwest Foundation today committed to "growing" a love for science among children and donated $5,000 to the Cheyenne Botanic Gardens. The grant will allow the Botanic Gardens to purchase technology equipment for a science discovery lab that will be a part of the new Children's Garden.
While the science discovery lab is still in development, the concept is already planting seeds of excitement in the community. Once built, children will study ecosystems, grow crops and model renewable energy in a hands-on environment. The science discovery lab will be open year-round to "harvest" ideas from children and students of all ages.
"The world around us is constantly moving, growing and changing, and thanks to the Qwest Foundation, children will literally get their hands dirty as they learn what makes it work," said Shane Smith, executive director of the Cheyenne Botanic Gardens.
Along with the science discovery lab, the Children's Garden will renovate a 1930s stone complex into a three-quarter-acre garden that will feature landscape environments like wetlands and native plants. The science discovery lab will let students examine and research soil, insects and energy sources, among other things.
"It's so important for children to study science and understand how their actions can impact the world," said Laramie County School District Science Coordinator Mike Wallace. "This science discovery lab will give our students a place to play and learn in nature, and I appreciate the Qwest Foundation's recognition of the value of science and technology in education."
The Qwest Foundation's $5,000 grant will go toward the purchase of microscopes, simple scopes and laptops for the science discovery lab, which will "sow" the significance of science in their minds.
"We congratulate the Botanic Gardens on its goal to bring the significance of science and technology to children through living environments," said Mike Ceballos, Qwest Wyoming president. "It's one thing to read about wetlands and ecosystems, but so much more inspiring for children to actually interact with them, and Qwest is proud to help support that excitement."
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The Children's Garden at the Cheyenne Botanic Gardens is the largest project undertaken by the Cheyenne Botanic Gardens in its 30-year history. A Children's Garden was first considered for Cheyenne a decade ago, when the Gardens commissioned Colorado landscape architect Herb Schaal to work with the community on a master plan. Schaal has since been recognized with the most awards of any designers at his firm EDAW, the largest landscape architecture firm in the world. Schaal specializes in children's gardens. His design for Cheyenne's Children's Garden has already received two awards from the American Society of Landscape Architects.
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RE: transfer of Hellers
Thank you very much, Charles. It is so nice to have them all connected properly. Do you know anything about these folks? I don't have any spouse or children for Carl Chamberlain. God bless your new year at you seek Him! :-) ~ Jamie
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Hello Charles, thanks again for transferring Frank Heller. Would you please transfer to me Margaret F. Wilshire Heller, Carl F. Chamberlain, and Elijah F. Chamberlain? I appreciate your helpfulness.
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I've posted photos of all of the tombstones in the section where Frances is buried.
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Thanks Charles,
I don't anticipate that I will have to go back for any more photos. There were only two that were my husband's family, and the shots that I got were ok, just a slight angle. The fact that her parents were buried there is probably the reason she chose to be buried there. Her husband is buried where his parents are resting. He died almost 40 years before his wife, so I wasn't surprised by her choice. I do appreciate the information though. I will leave it up on my page for others to see. It is a long way from Oklahoma to New York and since I just got home after three weeks, I am not looking to go back for a while. ~~laugh~~ But you never know.
Thanks again for your response.
Happy graving.
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Hello Charles,
I just returned to Oklahoma from a research trip to NY, the Elmira/Big Flats area. I was told that you couldn't get into Second Street anymore, so I walked around it and as luck would have it, our family stones were next to the fence, and I was able to stick my camera through the fence and get a slanted shot of the stones that turned out fairly well. I was just wondering, seeing all the photos you have taken for this cemetery...who did you have to see to get access, or was it still unlocked last year? No one could really tell me anything, and I didn't take the time to go to City Hall after I found that I could get shots through the fence.
I could see why they put up the fence and locked it up.
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Thanks for going to the extra trouble to leave a photo of where Clyde is buried. We know it is only his physical remains, anyway. He spirit has gone to God, to await the final reckoning day. We pray everyone has prepared for that day and looks forward with joy to meeting their Creator and the Savior of the believers.
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Thanks for the photo of Edmund & Helen's stone. I really appreciate it!
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Thanks for finding James' grave site, and for taking the photo.
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Thank you very much! Those are very nice pictures. God bless you for taking so much time for us. I will share these with the family. Jesus is our Redeemer.
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The name on the lips, hearts and well, the one that ends quite a few curses, these days is Denver Broncos QB Tim Tebow. Tebow, that stunning pillar of chastity and virtue, has brought miracles back in vogue on the NFL stage. He has engineered so many of them this season that I hear that President Obama is looking into having him take a crack at our country's deficit.
Tebow, who could look like garbage one week, say, like the final game of the season, a 7-3 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs. Then he comes out the next week and just shreds the Pittsburgh Steelers number 1 defense for over 300 yards passing.
That's right, passing.
Watching this man child play is almost like watching the Road Runner. No matter what traps and surprises the NFL, or the media (aka Wile E Coyote) places out for him, he avoids or ignores them with a friendly 'meep meep' and just continues running along.
It's maddeningly frustrating and oddly reassuring at the same side.
I say that because as a Steelers fan, I should be mad at him for beating my team but oddly enough, I can't work up the anger enough to be resentful towards him. The guy exudes likability to the point where you can almost change that word to Tebability. As in, it's his Tebability factor that just keeps winning people over.
Granted, I speak only for myself in regards to my feelings after Sunday's game. There is still plenty of Steelers rage towards the guy out there. Heck, a buddy of mine placed a picture of him in a urinal just so he could have the satisfaction of peeing repeatedly on his face (I'm thinking there could be a deeper psychological problem there myself).
No, for whatever flaws that Tebow has, and I'm not even sure they are flaws but merely calculated misses meant to lull the opposition into a false sense of security that makes them leave no safety help over the middle, thus allowing a one play overtime to take place (yes, I'm not quite over it yet), the guy seems to be clutch. And yes, while I have no anger towards Tebow, I have plenty towards the Steelers game plan and the inability of Ike Taylor to cover anything in this game.
Tebow is easily the most polarizing figure in the NFL right now and win or lose when Denver plays New England on Saturday, he is going to be the talk of the NFL next season. I'm thinking it's going to be lose but hey, I thought that last week too.
Listen, one last parting shot here. It's easy to dismiss Tebow for his inaccuracy, his outspoken faith, or even because of his rabid fans annoying the shoot out of you on twitter, but you can't deny that he has a place under center in this league. He may never win a SuperBowl, or win MVP, but that doesn't mean he can't forge his own place in the annuls of NFL history.
OK, it's been more than 4 hours, I've got to go get this Teboner checked out.
Good luck with yours!
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The full Vick contract
Published: August 19th, 2009 | Tags: Donovan McNabb, Mike Vick, Philadelphia Eagles
Here's the full scope of the two-year contract quarterback Mike Vick signed with the Philadelphia Eagles, complete with incentives, according to a league source:
In 2009, Vick gets a $1.625 million salary. He was advanced $50,000 of that total up front. There is also a likely to be earned bonus in the first year of the contract that helps the contract comply with the 30 percent rule, but that's essentially salary-cap gymnastics and not anything that will truly impact the money at play here.
In 2010, the Eagles have until the fifth day of the league year to pick up a team option — which, as I reported the night this all went down, gives the team a window in which to shop and potentially trade Vick before they have to decide on whether or not to pay him in 2010.
If they execute that option, Vick gets a base salary of $3.75 million. He is due a roster bonus in early March as well that would trigger a $1.5 million bonus payment, and that roster bonus would also make $1 million of the $3.75 million base salary guaranteed. Overall, excluding incentives, Vick's contract in 2010 would be worth $5.25 million.
Here's how the incentives work: Vick first must participate in 33 percent of the total offensive snaps in 2010, regardless of position (so it doesn't matter if he is lined up as a quarterback or wide receiver or tight end or running back, just that he's on the field for a third of the offensive snaps in some capacity. Then, he must also have played at least 51 percent of the total offensive snaps in at least nine individual games.
Again, this is not an either/or (yes, I worded it that way on purpose, fellow Elliott Smith fans). Vick must hit both of these qualifiers in order to be eligible for these playing-time incentives.
If Vick meets these criteria and plays in 51 percent of the offensive snaps in nine games, he gets an $850,000 bonus.
If he meets the criteria and plays in 51 percent of the snaps in 11 games, he gets an additional $1.05 million bonus.
If he meets the criteria and plays in 51 percent of the snaps in 13 games, he gets another $850,00.
So, the full incentive package is worth up to $2.75 million.
And thus the total, maximum, two-year compensation, if Vick hits all incentives, would be $9.625 million.
Looking at this, it would obviously behoove him to be a starting quarterback somewhere in 2010 to increase his earnings — given his bankruptcy status, that's imperative — and barring an injury to Donovan McNabb, that doesn't seem quite so likely in Philadelphia. You never know, McNabb could get hurt and Vick could shine, but given the reworked deal McNabb received this offseason, that's an unlikely scenario at this time. My gut has been the Eagles showcase him and then move him, but we all know this is a league where anything can happen and there is never a shortage on drama or intrigue.


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Huge swathes of greenfield sites could be swallowed up for housing under Bradford Council's proposals for future land use, opposition councillors have warned.
To satisfy government requirements, the council has to earmark enough land in its Core Strategy document to accommodate 42,100 homes between now and 2030.
The proposals went on public display this week for a period of public consultation and suggest up to 11,000 of these homes could be built on green belt areas.
But Bingley Rural councillor Simon Cooke, Conservative deputy leader and spokesman for housing, planning and transport, said that did not seem "plausible" and would fail to meet the district's housing needs.
He said: "There is a very real risk that in ten years' time we will have lost 900 acres of open fields, while hundreds of acres of brownfield land is undeveloped.
"The proposals for housing in the urban areas around the city are often neither viable nor deliverable. Once green belt land is gone it is gone, and at that time we may end up having to look at building on more while proposing the exact same brownfield sites that are proposed at present."
The council states that while there is a need to develop some green belt locations, the principle at the heart of the strategy is one of regeneration, to make the most efficient use of urban and previously developed land.
Coun Val Slater, the Labour-run authority's executive member for housing, planning and transport, said: "We have identified brownfield sites for development, but unfortunately there are not enough of those sites to meet the district's needs.
"Unfortunately, the 'brownfield sites first' policy was abolished nationally, so we have less power to make developers use brownfield land first.
"Regrettably, we will have to look at developing greenfield sites, but it is vital these are not the most valuable and unique lands that make up our great district."
The Core Strategy Publication Draft is available for inspection at the council offices and at main libraries, and can be downloaded at bradford.gov.uk/LDF.


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When the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing tour reaches the mid-point of the season, teams are given the time to reflect on their past performance and focus on the remaining 11 races on the schedule.
Doug Herbert and his Snap-on Tools dragster team put the three-week break between races to good use and now it`s time to get back to the track.
The NHRA makes its way to Denver this weekend for the 26th annual Mopar Mile-High Nationals at Bandimere Speedway. It is the first of the three-race Western Swing. A stop in Seattle and Sonoma, Calif. complete the sweep – a test Herbert and the Snap-on team is prepared for.
"The best part about the break is that the entire team was able to step back and look at what we have done as well as look at what needs to happen," Herbert said.
"This was the first time (recently hired crew chief) Wayne Dupuy has been in the shop as our crew chief and he needed time to get a lot of things accomplished on the car.
"Wayne wanted to make a few more adjustments on the car and the team has worked real hard to make sure it`s all done. Now we`re ready to go win."
Dupuy already has a win in Denver, taking home the honors with the late Darrell Russell in 2002.
Dupuy and Russell also won the next weekend at Pacific Raceways in Seattle and nearly had the sweep with a final round appearance at the third stop of the Western Swing. Who stopped them?
Herbert beat Russell in the final round at Infineon Raceway that year.
"Wayne has done well at all three races before, especially in the thin air at Bandimere Speedway," Herbert said.
"This time off before the Western Swing has been so critical because he wanted to get caught up in the shop before we hit the road again. We have big plans for the rest of the season and it all starts this weekend.
"We want to win races and it all starts with having a consistently competitive car that can win rounds. This team wants to move up from our eighth place in the standings and that`s not unrealistic at all."
For now the team must focus on this weekend`s event at Bandimere Speedway – one of the facilities Herbert enjoys racing at year after year.
"The nice thing about the race this weekend is that it`s at Bandimere Speedway," Herbert said. "The Bandimere family re-invests in their track every year and the racers and fans reap the benefits of that. They take a lot of pride in the track and it`s always nicer than the year before."
The NHRA POWERade Series starts pro qualifying with sessions on Friday at 4:15 and 7:15 p.m. Qualifying continues Saturday at 3 and 6 p.m. before final eliminations start at noon Sunday.
ESPN2 will air coverage of this weekend`s event starting with qualifying at 8 p.m. (ET) on Saturday. Final eliminations can be seen on ESPN2 at 9 p.m. (ET) on Sunday. NHRA 2Day starts at 11:30 a.m. on Sunday, also on ESPN2.
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AURORA — A week-long federal sweep of Aurora's jail identified 12 inmates who are subject to deportation, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said Thursday.
On Tuesday, the agency completed what it called a "surge" of its criminal alien program, during which officers from the Enforcement and Removal Operation's Denver bureau — an extension of ICE — screened all 346 inmates booked into the jail. The program's goal was to identify undocumented immigrants.
Some community members protested the fact that ERO officers were also conducting thorough reviews of court summonses.
ICE spokesman Carl Rusnok said none of the 12 immigrants facing deportation came as a result of court summonses.
The week-long surge took place between Feb. 28 and March 6.
Aurora police officials were concerned that local immigrants might think that officers were working directly with ICE officials.
"We are a transparent organization that strives to reach all residents of our city, regardless of their immigration status," said Sgt. Cassidee Carlson, a spokeswoman for the Aurora Police Department. "Our message is always the same when dealing with our immigrant community — we do not enforce an immigration law, that is a federal issue.
"We want to establish trust within our community to ensure that victims and witnesses feel safe to come forward to the police."
The jail is overseen by the city's court administrator Zelda DeBoyes. DeBoyes said she was informed of the ICE surge three weeks before it was to begin.
Moreover, DeBoyes said the ICE surge is a normal routine.
"When someone is processed into the detention center, we ask their birth place, and based on their response we send an immigrant alien query down to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, then if they're going to bond out of the jail we contact ICE to see if they have a detainer on the individual," DeBoyes said. "The only thing about this surge was that ICE agents were in the actual jail doing interviews with all immigrants processed into the jail."
DeBoyes added that officials with ICE have not informed her of any future surges.
Julie Gonzales, organizing director for the Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition, said trust between the immigrant community and local law enforcement has already been frayed.
"When ICE comes into the community and starts looking at all court summonses issued by law enforcement, they're overreaching," said Gonzales, noting that only after the surge ended March 6 did ICE offer to sit down and listen to the coalition's concerns.
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Album Rating: 4.57 year olds don't have angst. They stay angry at things for like 3 minutes then completely forget
Plus you don't need angst to love this. I am super mellow and have never used this album to vent anger or anything cos I rarely have any, i just think it's amazingly put together and I love the anger they put into it even if I don't share it!
Digging: Helpless - Debt
Album Rating: 5.0gud album
Album Rating: 4.5@ JS19 Maybe one day you'll get very angry at your significant other and listen to this album enraged. Then maybe you'll 5 it ;)
Album Rating: 4.5dont say 7 year old dont have angst! not every angst is scenekid-angst.
theres people with actual problems out there too and they may very well be 7 years old
Album Rating: 5.0it's scientifically proven that this sounds better when you're pissed
Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Offalbums is rah-good
Digging: Geotic - Abysma
Album Rating: 4.5I didn't say that! I said that usually - a 7 year old can't concentrate on something for long enough to really be *angry*. Like 2 friends get cross with each other over a toy? 10min they'll be playing with it happily together.
Being 7 was awesome
Album Rating: 4.5ofc its better when youre pissed
anger connects with anger
Album Rating: 4.5'@ JS19 Maybe one day you'll get very angry at your significant other and listen to this album enraged. Then maybe you'll 5 it ;)'
I doubt it. Anger is such a silly emotion. Even in the rare instances I actually get a bit cross I can't stand wallowing in it. It's so self absorbed
Album Rating: 4.5JS: Ok i see what you mean
Album Rating: 4.5Bach I love your taste nigga
Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound OffI know I taste great.
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Legalization opponent Kevin Sabet, a former adviser to the Obama administration's drug policy director, disputed the argument of many libertarians that government should not interfere in pot use by people.
"The libertarian argument is fundamentally flawed because drug use does not affect just the individual, it affects healthcare costs, criminal justice costs that we see with a legal drug like alcohol and costs to our highway safety," Sabet said.
Sure it could affect healthcare costs -- decreasing them by providing an affordable alternative to a lot of expensive and, for some, less effective remedies. And the criminal justice costs are a product of present law, not an independent expense. And drug use isn't going to go up a whole lot with new legislation. It pretty much is what it is.
The Netherlands has backed down on their legal-for-everybody-anywhere concept. The unintended consequences went too far, even for them. We're nowhere near that point.
You want to pick up some crossover votes? This is not the way to go, Mr. Sabet.


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This is a guest post from Luke Muehlhauser, author of Common Sense Atheism and Worldview Naturalism, and Executive Director of MIRI. Luke does not intend to persuade skeptics that they should believe everything he does about the technological singularity. Rather, he aims to lay out the issues clearly so that skeptics can apply the tools of skepticism to a variety of claims associated with "the singularity" and come to their own conclusions.
Does God exist? Nope.
Does homeopathy work? Nope.
Are ghosts real? Nope.
In a way, these questions are too easy. It is important to get the right answers about the standard punching bags of scientific skepticism, because popular delusions do great harm, and they waste time and money. But once you've figured out the basics — science trumps intuition, magic isn't real, things are made of atoms, etc. — then you might want to apply your critical thinking skills to some more challenging questions.
Anthropogenic global warming (AGW) is a good case study. Most skeptics now accept AGW, but it wasn't always so: see Michael Shermer's story about his flip from AGW skeptic to activist. The argument in favor of AGW is, one must admit, more complicated than the argument against homeopathy.
And what about those predictions of what Earth's climate will look like 3-4 decades from now? Do we have good reasons to think we can predict such things — reasons that hold up to a scientific, skeptical analysis?
What about the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI)? Does it count as science if we haven't heard from anyone and we're not sure what we're looking for? And, can we make any predictions about what would happen if we did make contact? Maybe SETI is a bad idea, because alien civilizations with radio technology are probably much more advanced than we are, and probably don't share our weird, human-specific values. Is there any way to think rationally about these kinds of questions, or is one person's guess as good as another's?
Thankfully, skeptics have discussed subjects like global warming and SETI. See, for example, Massimo Pigliucci on global warming and CSI's Peter Schenkel on SETI.
But my purpose isn't to launch new debates about global warming or SETI. I'm not an expert on either one.
I do, however, know a thing or two about another hard, fairly complicated problem ripe for skeptical analysis: the "technological singularity."
In fact, the singularity issue has much in common with global warming and SETI. With global warming it shares the challenge of predicting what could happen decades in the future, and with SETI it shares the challenge of reasoning about what non-human minds would want, and what could happen if we encounter them.
How can we reason skeptically about the singularity? We can't just assume the singularity will come because of Moore's law, and we can't just dismiss the singularity because it sounds like a "rapture of the nerds." Instead, we need to (1) replace the ambiguous term "singularity" with a list of specific, testable claims, and then (2) examine the evidence for each of those claims in turn.
(If we were discussing AGW or SETI, we'd have to do the same thing. Is the Earth warming? Is human activity contributing? Can we predict what the climate will look like 50 years into the future? Which interventions would make the biggest difference? Could SETI plausibly detect aliens? Can we predict anything about the level of those aliens' technological development? Can we predict anything about what goals they're likely to have? These questions involve a variety of claims, and we'd need to examine the evidence for each claim in turn.)
A long book would be required to do the whole subject justice, but for now I can link interested readers to some related resources for several different singularity-related propositions:
- The Law of Accelerating Returns. In 2001, Ray Kurzweil wrote: "An analysis of the history of technology shows that technological change is exponential, contrary to the common-sense 'intuitive linear' view. So we won't experience 100 years of progress in the 21st century — it will be more like 20,000 years of progress (at today's rate). The 'returns,' such as chip speed and cost-effectiveness, also increase exponentially…" Is this true? Starting points include Béla Nagy et al. (2010) and Scott Alexander.
- Feasibility of AGI. Artificial General Intelligence (AGI, aka Strong AI or human-level AI) refers to systems that excel not merely on narrow tasks like arithmetic or chess, but to "systems which match or exceed the cognitive performance of humans in virtually all domains of interest" (and also are not whole brain emulations; see below). One singularity-related claim is simply that AGI is technologically feasible. To investigate, start with Wikipedia's article on Strong AI.
- AGI timelines optimism. Sometimes, people claim not just that AGI is feasible, but that humans are likely to build it relatively soon: say, within the next 50 years. Let's call that "AGI timelines optimism." Is this claim justified? Some good starting points are Armstrong & Sotala (2012) and Muehlhauser & Salamon (2013).
- Feasibility of whole brain emulation. A whole brain emulation (WBE) would be a functional computer simulation of an entire human brain. Another singularity-related claim is simply that WBE is technologically feasible. Here, you might as well start with Wikipedia.
- Feasibility of indefinite survival. Some claim not just that WBE is feasible, but that WBE will enable minds to make backup copies of themselves, allowing them to survive indefinitely — until the heat death of the universe approaches, or at least for billions of years. Here, Sandberg & Armstrong (2012) is a starting point.
- WBE timelines optimism. Some forecasters think not just that WBE is feasible but also that we are likely to build it relatively soon: say, in the next 50 years. Let's call that "WBE timelines optimism." To examine this claim, you can start with Sandberg & Bostrom (2012).
- Feasibility of superintelligence. For our purposes, let's define "superintelligence" as "an intellect that is much smarter than the best human brains in practically every field, including scientific creativity, general wisdom and social skills" (either AGI or WBE). Another singularity-related claim is that superintelligence is technologically feasible. Chalmers (2010) has a good preliminary analysis (he refers to superintelligence as "AI++").
- Intelligence explosion. My description: "Once human programmers build an AI with a better-than-human capacity for AI design, [its] goal for self-improvement may motivate a positive feedback loop of self-enhancement. Now when the machine intelligence improves itself, it improves the intelligence that does the improving. Thus… [a] population of greater-than-human machine intelligences may be able to create a… cascade of self-improvement cycles, enabling a… transition to machine superintelligence." Once again, Chalmers (2010) is a good starting point.
- Slow takeoff vs. fast takeoff. Some AI theorists predict that if an intelligence explosion occurs, the transition from human-level machine intelligence to machine superintelligence will occur in years or decades. This would be a "slow takeoff." Others predict the transition would happen in mere hours, days, or months: a "fast takeoff." A good place to start on this subject is Yudkowsky (2013).
- Doom by default. Some theorists predict that the default outcome of an intelligence explosion is doom for the human species, since superintelligences will have goals at least somewhat different from our own, and will have more power to steer the future than biological humans will. Is that likely? A good place to start is Muehlhauser & Helm (2013).
Also note that later this year, Oxford University Press will be publishing a scholarly monograph on intelligence explosion and machine superintelligence, written by Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom. For now, you can hear an overview of Bostrom's views on the subject in this video interview.
A more accessible book on the subject, also forthcoming this year, is James Barratt's Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era.


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On the Relationship between Market Concentration and Bank Risk Taking
We analyse risk-taking behaviour of banks in the context of spatial competition. Banks mobilise unsecured deposits by offering deposit rates, which they invest either in a prudent or in a gambling asset. Limited liability along with high return of a successful gamble induce moral hazard at the bank level. We show that when the market concentration is low, banks invest in the gambling asset. On the other hand, for sufficiently high levels of market concentration, all banks choose the prudent asset to invest in. We further show that a merger of two neighboring banks increases the likelihood of prudent behaviour. Finally, introduction of a deposit insurance scheme exacerbates banks' moral hazard problem.
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"That's right! I said it and I'm not ashamed, and neither is President Obama!"
I have to admit, I can't crack this code. It must be one of those white privilege things. Also it must be one of those Melissa Harris-Perry things.
HARRIS-PERRY: "I want to talk today about a controversial word. It's a word that has been with us for years. And like it or not, it's indelibly printed in the pages of American history. A word that was originally intended as a derogatory term, meant to shame and divide and demean. The word was conceived of by a group of wealthy white men who needed a way to put themselves above and apart from a black man, to render him inferior and unequal and diminish his accomplishments.
"President Obama has been labelled with this word by his opponents, and at first he rose above it, hoping that if he could just make a cause for what he'd achieved, his opponents would fail in making their label stick. But no matter how many successes that he had as president, he realized there were still many people for whom he'd never be anything more than that one disparaging word — a belief he knew was held not just by his political opponents, but also by a significant portion of the American electorate.
"And so he decided if you can't beat them, you've got to join them. So he embraced the word and made it his own, sending his opposition a message they weren't expecting: 'If that's what you want me to be, I'll be that.'
"Y'all know the word that I'm talking about. Obamacare! That's right! I said it and I'm not ashamed, and neither is President Obama!"
"I mean, what do you call the president who rescues the U.S. auto industry?" she said sarcastically. "Obamacare! What do you call the president who finally eliminates Osama bin Laden? Obamacare! What do you call the president who ends don't ask don't tell? Say it with me: Obamacare!"
I honestly don't know if this counts as a speech or a mental breakdown. The actual origin of ObamaCare appears to have been by a lobbyist who wasn't really intending to coin a term, but was using an existing format.
The many would-be candidates for president in 2008 are falling over themselves offering their own proposals. We will soon see a "Giuliani-care" and "Obama-care" to go along with "McCain-care," "Edwards-care," and a totally revamped and remodeled "Hillary-care" from the 1990s.
ObamaCare just swaps a new name into HillaryCare.


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Man charged in Denver sexual assault cold case from 20 years ago
DENVER — The Denver District Attorney's Office has charged a man of sexually assaulting and raping a woman nearly 20 years ago.
Donald Shores, 56, is charged with aggravated sexual assault and crime of violence that allege he assaulted and raped a 67-year-old woman on Sept. 6, 1994, in the 2000 block of Colorado Boulevard.
The victim died from cancer in 2000, but DNA collected at the time was connected to Shores in January after he was arrested in Texas on a drug charge.
Shores is being held in Temple, Texas, and faces extradition to Colorado. Bond has been set at $250,000.


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Why is my computer constantly beeping at me?
Anyway, once I got to my desktop, I hear this "BEEP" maybe more of a click. Anyway I figured that I was holding down to many keys at once, because that makes a specific sound. Nope.
So I continue doing my routine, login to AIM, start Firefox, load iTunes. Then I hear it again. I don't notice it much until it happens the third time. Thats when I decide to count intervals between beeps. Roughly 35-36 seconds between beeps. Every. Time. O_o
I figure, since my speakers are on, I'll turn them off. Nope. Nothing. Still the dreaded beep. I've found that its coming from my computer tower..
Sooooo, anything I can do to stop this beep? Its a really aggressive sounding thing. Almost angry..
I've posted this same question in the forums: https://www.instructables.com/community/My-Computer-is-Possessed-Please-help/
i have something similar but it is extreeeemly quiet. you have to not be making any noise to here it and be at the right angle. could you tell me if it is the same problem?
goto my computer click view system info
goto hardware tab click device manager
then show hidden devices
then non plug and play drivers
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With my mind on my taxes and my taxes on my mind
Property tax reform in Pennsylvania, in some strange way, takes me back to 1993 and an iconic rap song about gin and juice.
No, there is no sex, marijuana or alcohol in this story.
But like the chorus of that Snoop Dogg song, there are a lot of people with their mind on money and money on the mind.
You'll have to look up the full lyrics on your own because that's where the comparison ends for this blog.
Along with transportation funding, the debate over property tax relief has found its way back to the top of the pile in the General Assembly this fall.
Earlier this month, the state House passed Rep. Seth Grove's optional property tax elimination bill. That bill would allow school districts to use earned income tax, business privilege tax or a mercantile tax as a way to eliminate or reduce millage rates. They also could use a combination approach with those taxes.
Grove's bill is part of a four-bill package that recently ascended to the forefront of the debate.
But let's not forget about the Property Tax Independence Act, or House Bill 76 and Senate Bill 76, that was introduced earlier this year. Those proposals would eliminate property taxes dedicated to school districts and replace the funding by raising the personal income tax from 3.07 to 4.34 percent and increasing and broadening the sales tax to 7 percent from 6 and include previously exempted items.
The Pennsylvania Association of Realtors just launched a dedicated website for S.B. 76, RealReform76.com. The PAR has called the bill a "fiscally responsible option for property tax reform."
S.B. 76 would make Pennsylvania more attractive for economic development and homeownership, according to the PAR.
But analysis from the state's Independent Fiscal Office suggests the math doesn't quite add up in the H.B. 76 and S.B. 76 plan.
The net fiscal impact of replacing the revenue streams would be $3 million in the first year and as much as $1 billion by 2018-19, according to the IFO.
Where do you come down on this issue? Should it be a statewide solution or do you let local taxing bodies decide what works best for them?
Tough call. Maybe it is time for that drink.