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Black bear killed by wildlife officials in California
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) California Department of Fish and Wildlife says a black bear was killed Wednesday in the Visalia area because of concern for public safety.
The 150-pound bear was captured running free in early May in a northeast Bakersfield neighborhood. The bear, roughly 1 to 1 1/2 years old, likely ended up in the City in the Hills area of Bakersfield after coming down the Kern River channel, a DFW staffer said at the time.
Wildlife workers used a dart to tranquilize the bear when it was in Bakersfield. They took it to a rural area about 100 miles away.
Since then, the bear traveled to the Visalia area near the St. John's River, according to DFW spokeswoman Janice Mackey. The bear had been in an agricultural area for more than five days near a well-traveled road when wildlife workers tried multiple nonlethal approaches to capture.
They killed the bear when it acted aggressively with DFW staff and search hounds, according to Mackey.


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Oglebay Norton Reports Second Quarter Results
August 4, 2003
Oglebay Norton Co. recently reported its results for the second quarter and half-year ending on June 30, 2003. Revenues for the quarter were $116.5 million, compared to $112.6 million in the year-earlier period. Revenues for the six-month period were $179.4 million, compared to $174.9 million in the prior-year six-month period. The company recorded a $13.1 million, or $1.57 per diluted share, asset impairment charge to reduce the net book value of the Performance Minerals segment's mica operations to their estimated fair value, as determined by a third-party appraisal. Operating loss for the quarter, including the impact of the asset impairment charge, was $6.2 million, compared to operating income of $15.5 million in the second quarter of 2002. For the 2003 half-year period, including the impact of the asset impairment charge, operating loss was $8.4 million, compared to operating income of $17.0 million for the 2002 half-year period.
Michael D. Lundin, president and chief executive officer, recently hosted a conference call that will be available for replay until midnight EDT, August 15, 2003. To access the taped webcast, visit http://www.oglebaynorton.com and click the conference call button on the investor relations home page. To access the replay via telephone, call (888) 325-7187; the access code is LUNDIN.
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Staff Nurse
- Recruiter
- Medacs Healthcare - UK Permanent
- Location
- North West England
- Salary
- Band 5, £21,388 - £27,901 depending on experience
- Posted
- 30 Jan 2014
- Closes
- 27 Feb 2014
- Nursing Field
- Community Care
- Job Type
- Permanent
We are holding interviews in Manchester for band 5 staff nurses interested in working at a large NHS teaching hospital in the North West of England. Interviews will take place in February 2014, and we are looking to recruit general nurses, although there is also a wide range of specialities available. You must be willing to apply for NMC registration, or already registered with the NMC. New graduates are also welcome to apply. Applicants who fit these criteria are invited to send their CV to email@example.com
About the Hospital
Our client is a large NHS teaching hospital in the North West of England, which aims to deliver excellent patient care with compassion. The hospital provides general nursing care to 370,000 people in the nearby area, and specialist care to 1.5m people. This hospital is looking to expand their nursing staff to accommodate the high demand for its services.
This hospital provides multiple specialist services, some of which include:
- Burns Unit and Reconstructive/Plastic Surgery
- Oncology – chemotherapy, radiotherapy and surgery
- Disability and Rehabilitation Services – prosthetics and wheelchairs
- Major Trauma Centre
- Neurology and Neurosurgery
- Nephrology (Renal) Unit
If you would like to attend the interviews, or would like more information, then please email email@example.com


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Lydia Ko admits she's surprised by the speed of her transition from being an amateur to becoming a professional golf champion.
The 16-year-old showed composure that belied her age in coming from three shots behind midway through the final round to claim a three-shot victory in the Swinging Skirts World Ladies Masters in Taiwan.
Ko's success, and a cheque for $US150,000 ($NZ181,000), came in just her second tournament as a professional.
It follows her 21st placing on debut in the LPGA's season-ending CME Group Titleholders Championship in Florida in November.
"I'm really surprised," she said after walking off the final green at the Miramar Golf and Country Club in Taipei.
"I didn't really have this coming. I think playing in the CME two weeks ago definitely helped me with all the nerves."
The Aucklander said she felt the butterflies before the final round, when she trailed overnight leader Ryu So-yeon of South Korea by a stroke, but she told herself just to concentrate on her game.
"I always say I can't control what the opposition does," she said.
"All I can do at the end of the day is control my game and that's even hard by itself."
Among those who sent their congratulations was All Blacks fullback Israel Dagg, who in October had helped Ko announce her decision to turn professional via a YouTube video.
"Well done lyds maybe I can caddie your next tournament yeah??? awesome stuff so proud," Dagg tweeted.
Ko's coach, Guy Wilson, who watched on television as she clinched the win, said she showed she was a player for the future.
"She is someone that everyone will talk about for a long, long time," he said.
"Watching her cruise through each round and not struggle when the foot was pushed down on her - she showed everyone needs to keep up otherwise she will cruise right on past."
For the final round, Ko was in the same group as the world's top-ranked golfer, South Korean Inbee Park, and world No.5 Ryu, a former US Women's Open champion.
But she was undaunted by the company around her, even as Ryu opened up a three-shot lead at the turn.
The momentum began to swing her way at the par-four 10th, when she converted a 2m birdie putt while Ryu dropped a shot after finding a green-side bunker.
Ryu then conceded the lead on the par-three 14th, when she four-putted for a double-bogey.
Ko went on to finish with a three-under 69 to be 11-under for the 54-hole tournament, while Ryu carded a 73.
Park was third, one stroke further back, after a 70.
As an amateur, Ko entered 25 professional tournaments, winning four of them, including the Canadian Open, an LPGA Tour event, twice.
She didn't once miss a cut and had to forgo more than $1 million in prize-money.
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Day 1: Beijing
Arrive in Beijing, the capital of China. You are greeted by your guide at the airport outside the luggage claim area with your name displayed and then transferred to the four-star Holiday Inn Downtown Hotel or similar.
Day 2: Beijing
Morning program takes you to Tian An Men Square and the Forbidden City, the residence of Chinese emperors for more than 500 years. Afternoon sightseeing features the Temple of Heaven, where emperors once prayed for good harvests. If time permits, pay a visit to the Olympic Stadium. Includes: (B), (L).
Day 3: Beijing
The highlight today is to conquer the Badaling Great Wall, a symbol of the Chinese ancient civilization and to the Dingling, one of the Ming Tombs, the burial grounds for the 13 Ming Dynasty emperors. Drive back to city and go for some shopping at the famous Silk Markets. Includes: (B), (L).
Day 4: Beijing
Today you will have a chance to experience the real life of local Beijing residents on a tour to the Hutongs by rickshaw. Beijing Hutongs are regarded as the last embodiment of old Beijing's spirit. Walking along the back street of Hutongs and meeting people there will leave you a different understanding of China. Following is a visit to the Summer Palace, a summer resort for Empress Dowager Ci Xi. Includes: (B), (L).
Day 5: Beijing/Shanghai
After breakfast you will fly to Shanghai, the commercial center of China. Upon arrival in Shanghai, proceed to take a leisure stroll in the fabulous Yu Garden at the Old Quarter, the Jade Buddha Temple, the famous waterfront Bund and Nanjing Road at the shopping center. Check into the four-star Shanghai Hotel or similar. Includes: (B), (L).
Day 6: Shanghai
Take a city tour to visit the city's major attractions and get a general understanding of this city. First you will visit the Shanghai Museum, one of the best in China, to learn the history of this city, then to see its modern development plan at the Shanghai Urban Planning Museum. Also you will have the chance to get a bird's view of the whole Pudong new area on top of the Oriental Pearl TV Tower. Includes: (B), (L).
Day 7: Shanghai
Free day at your own arrangement. You may spend the day shopping or just walking around to get a better understanding of Shanghai. Or you can take some suggested activities from our ready-made option menu to enrich your stay in Shanghai. Includes: (B), (L).
Day 8: Shanghai
After breakfast transfer to the airport for your departure flight. Includes: (B), (L).
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["Savory" Seamless Roaster] [1915 (ca.)]
The front panel has no title. There is a color drawing of a Victorian child sitting in a chair holding a bowl of batter and licking the spoon. She has on a green and white frilly dress and white dust cap. The back end panel has hands lifting the lid and taking out poached eggs. Underneath them are the words Buffalo Steam Egg Poacher. The leaflet is hole-punched in the upper left corner and has a string through it. The inside has black and white drawings of the kitchen equipment made by the company.
Donor: Sliker, Shirley Brocker
Brand Name: Republic Metalware
Publisher: Republic Metalware (Buffalo, N.Y.)
1915 (ca.)
24 p.
12.7 x 8.3 cm
Language: English
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Copyright: This item is in the public domain.
Citation: ["Savory" Seamless Roaster] [1915 (ca.)]. The Alan and Shirley Brocker Sliker Collection, MSS 314, Special Collections, Michigan State University Libraries. Available at http://www.lib.msu.edu/exhibits/sliker/detail.jsp?id=3402


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Hey guys!
Shopping was fun – I even channeled my inner 4th grader and got some stirrup pants!
Kidding! Seriously though, I used to rock stirrup pants back in the day…and apparently now they're back in fashion? I suppose they would be good for boots, but I'm don't know if I'm ready to go back there quite yet! Do you have stirrup pants?
Ben and I also went grocery shopping and picked up something I've been super curious about – Throwback Mountain Dew made with real sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup.
I'm not exaggerating when I say that I can't have more than 2 sips of regular pop without getting an instant sugar headache. But with all the hype surrounding the sugar/HFCS swap, I felt like I had to give it a try!
The verdict? Syrupy sweet – maybe even sweeter than Dew made with HFCS. I stuck with a sip and moved on. Good effort on Pepsi Co's part for coming out with a unique product in a saturated market, but it's still just too much for me! Do you drink regular pop? I used to drink regular Mt. Dew all.the.time. in college – I have no idea how I used to do it! 8O
Around 4:00 my stomach started growwwwling with a fierceness. I peeked around my cupboards and found myself with all the ingredients for Homemade Chipotle Burrito Bowls. Yessssss!
I followed my standard recipe, but subbed cubed, extra-firm tofu for chicken (seasoned the same way and baked for 20 minutes @ 375 degrees) and instead of making my own salsa, I used the homemade stuff my friend gave me from our potluck yesterday!
Ben better watch it, because I am literally falling HARD for baked tofu. I absolutely adore it!!!!
If I closed my eyes I could have literally been sitting down at Chipotle. This recipe is spot on!
Lime & cilantro rice, spiced black beans & tofu, fresh salsa and a couple dashes of green Tabasco sauce. Perf.
I add a TON of cilantro to my rice and even add some on top of the whole dish. I find that most people either love or hate cilantro. I've even seen Facebook groups dedicated to taking sides! Where do you stand?
Mmm. Mmm. Mmm. I might be making this again tomorrow…you've been warned. ;)
And because I haven't had any chocolate today, (the horror!) I demolished a Chocolate Brownie PURE Bar for dessert. So.friggin.delicious! I could eat 10 of these – they're like brownie batter bars!
I think I'm watching the movie Valkyrie tonight. Anyone ever see it? I'm not a huge fan of Tom Cruise's (15% of me believes he really IS keeping Katie Holmes prisoner!!) but I feel like I should see the movie for some reason or another… hmmm…
Have a good night, peeps!
Looking back, what were some of your biggest fashion faux paus growing up?
Mine include enormous bangs, too many scrunchies, fluorescent EVERYTHING, and No Fear shirts. Oh, the horror!


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Demi Lovato: I want to inspire
Demi Lovato admits that she was "hesitant" about sharing her personal struggles with the public.
The Disney star is opening up about what life has been like for her after she received treatment for an eating disorder and self-harm in 2010 in an upcoming MTV documentary.
Demi invited cameras to follow her on tour and on a visit to the rehabilitation centre where she received care.
Being open and honest about her turmoil was a challenge for Demi.
"I was most definitely nervous about opening up to the cameras," she told MTV News. "And I was very hesitant to say certain things, but once I was around them for a while, I felt more comfortable and really opened up towards them."
Although filming wasn't easy, Demi is happy she completed the project. She hopes that her story will help others who are grappling with similar issues.
"My goals for my fans? It's to really inspire people," Demi gushed. "That's all I hope to accomplish. If there is a young girl at home dealing with the same issues that I'm dealing with, I want to be able to reach out to her and tell her that it's going to be OK."
"You know, I speak about a lot of serious issues and I really hope to get awareness out there about the issues that I dealt with. But at the end of the day, I just want people to see what it's like to be in my shoes. I kind of talked about the journey that I've been on and I just want people to take away a positive message. It gets better, you know?"
Demi Lovato: Stay Strong will premiere on MTV internationally on March 6.
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text: Colin J. Williams wrote: > Tim Hochberg wrote: > >> Colin J. Williams wrote: >> >>> Tim Hochberg wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> I was just looking at the interface for array and asarray to see >>>> what other stuff should go in the interface of the hypothetical >>>> ascontiguous. There's 'dtype', which I knew about, and 'fortran', >>>> which I didn't, but which makes sense. However, there's also >>>> 'ndmin'. First off, it's not described in docstring for asarray, >>>> but I was able to find it in the docstring for array without a >>>> problem. Second, is it really necessary? It seems to be useful in >>>> an awfully narrow set of circumstances, particularly since when you >>>> are padding axes not everyone wants to pad to the left. >>>> >>>> It would seem to be more useful to ditch the ndmin and have some >>>> sort of paddims function that was more full featured (padding to >>>> either the left or the right at a minimum). I'm not entirely sure >>>> what the best interface to such a beast would look like, but a >>>> simple tactic would be to just provide leftpaddims and rightpaddims. >>>> >>>> If it's not allready clear by now (;), I prefer several narrow >>>> interfaces to one broad one. >>>> >>>> -tim >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> What does ascontiguous do that copy doesn't? >> >> >> >> What it doesn't do is always copy the argument. Just like asarray, it >> returns it unchanged if it's contiguous. > > > Fair enough. I guess that, for some array a, "b= ascontiguous(a)" > saves a few keystrokes as compared > with "b= a if a.flags.contiguous else a.copy()". The intent of the > latter is clearer and probably burns fewer cycles. First, the second expression is not equivalent to ascontiguous. Second, I disagree strongly that it's clearer. Third, if cycles are actually a concern, ascontiguous if implemented in C would certainly be faster. Fourth, this can't be written in any released version of Python. Let me go into a little more detail on the first and second points. The common use case for asarray and ascontiguous is to adapt objects that you don't know much about into arrays. A typical pattern is: def func(a, b, c): a = asarray(a) b = ascontiguous(b) c = asarray(c) # Code that requires arrays for a,c and a contigous array for b. For this reason, as contiguous needs to take any object and attempt to turn it into a contiguous array if it isn't one already. So "b = ascontiguous(a)" is really equivalent to "b = asarray(a); b = b if b.flags.contiguous else b.copy()". Even if we could assume all the inputs were arrays, or we separately use as array first, the pattern you propose is error prone since it violates DRY. It would be all to easy to write "b= a if c.flags.contiguous else a.copy()" or some such. In order to verify that the expressions are correct, or in order to tell what they actually do you have to actually parse through the expression. "ascontiguous", on the other hand, is pretty much bomb proof once you know what it does. > > numarray has an iscontiguous method, which is a bit simpler than > concerning the Python user with flags. > >> >>> In numarray, transpose created a discontiguous array. copy() made >>> the array contiguous. Is there sufficient benefit to justify >>> another method? >> >> >> >> I was proposing a function, not a method. The array object has plenty >> of methods already. > > > Since the function would only operate on ArrayType instances, would it > not be better as a method? Your premise is wrong. It would operate on any object, so it has to be a function. It could also be a method, but that would be superfluous. Regards, -tim


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The revelations of widespread use of performance-enhancing drugs among athletes across the Tasman has been labelled ''the blackest day in Australian sport''.
If the bombshell report is substantiated it could have widespread repercussions, with suggestions already that AFL team Essendon, investigated over the use of supplements, could struggle to field a team this year.
In a parallel development, the report has raised the spectre of match-fixing and the infiltration of criminal gangs into the ranks of the nation's professional sportspeople.
For a nation which prides itself on its sporting prowess, and in many ways measures its place on the world stage in terms of its athletic achievement, the revelations have been portrayed as a bodyblow. Australia has always prided itself on taking no prisoners on the sportsfield but ultimately sticking to the rules. There have been exceptions, but then no country can claim its sporting soul is spotless. Indeed, there is some chatter that New Zealand athletes may also be implicated in the scandal.
This report, however, seems to represent a whole new level of cheating - organised, systematic and widespread.
''The findings are shocking and will disgust Australian sports fans,'' Minister for Home Affairs and Justice Jason Clare said. But will they really? Leaving aside for the moment the claims of match-fixing, it has to be asked if any sports fan can put their hand on their heart and say they are surprised there are sportsmen and women seeking every advantage they can to boost performance and heal more quickly from injury.
In contact sports, such as rugby and rugby league, the players are bigger, faster and stronger than they have ever been. The supplements industry is booming. Every professional sporting team carries barrels of high-protein whey powder and other sports supplements with them.
Is anybody who watches enormous men collide at high speed really interested in how many spoonfuls of creatine, how many cortisone injections, how many painkillers they have taken to perform such superhuman feats?
Sports fans - and some journalists - want to believe in miracles. And when the ''miraculous'' becomes commonplace, many ride right along with it. When Lance Armstrong clambered off his death bed to crush the opposition in the world's toughest sporting event, people wanted so hard to believe that they forgot to ask sensible questions.
When a group of juiced-up baseball players began smashing home runs like never before, many baseball writers in the US lapped it up. Now, those same writers, some of whom wrote books about these off-the-chart feats, have refused to induct Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa in baseball's Hall of Fame.
What this illuminates is the curious place professional sport holds in the popular imagination. It is a place of stories and legends, a narrative that ultimately has little interest in how the incredible is achieved. Not until dossiers have been compiled and witnesses subpoenaed do the wise clamber on to high ground to begin their sermons.
Little wonder then that some athletes, whose career window is short and at constant risk of being slammed shut by injury, continue to use substances which not only harm the spirit of fair play but may also do long-term damage to their bodies. In the search for a competitive edge in any field of human endeavour the risks and rewards are weighed - and humans will ultimately make their choice. This week's report says peptides and other hormones being used for performance enhancement in Australia are very difficult to detect. It is not hard to do the maths.
Acknowledging the problem is not to condone it. Professional sport must take steps to build a culture which not only rewards whistleblowers but also lowers expectations of what athletes can achieve.
Worrying, too, are the allegations of match-fixing. The average fan can perhaps understand the motives for performance-enhancement - players pushing the boundaries to try to win. But players trying their best to lose? This undermines everything sport stands for and, with its links to criminal gangs, casts a deep shadow indeed.


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Apple's iPhone 4: Thoroughly Reviewedby Brian Klug & Anand Lal Shimpi on June 30, 2010 4:06 AM EST
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- Smartphones
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- Gadgets
- Mobile
Meet Manveer. I've known him since I was in the 6th grade. Somewhere around the 8th grade we started a ritual of calling each other every day after school and talking about video games, computers and dumb things that happened at school. We talked on the phone for hours. Back in those days we would even play the same game on separate computers while talking on the phone. It was a precursor to voice chat in gaming networks like Steam or Xbox Live. It was ridiculous amounts of fun.
Manveer is up in the corner, the crazy guy is yours truly
Tonight Manveer and I FaceTimed. It's the feature I wish we had when we were back in middle school. These days it's a lot harder to explain why you've got some random dude's face on your phone talking to you about completely pointless things at 12:54AM on a Tuesday night. I spent part of the chat covering one of the lights in my room with my head and calling it an Anand Head Eclipse. At the risk of further embarrassing myself publicly, it was fun.
For those of you who don't know, FaceTime is Apple's VoIP protocol built into the iPhone 4.
Granted we've been able to do this sort of thing for quite a while now over instant messenger networks. Integration into your smartphone is just the next logical step, and in the right conditions it works very well.
The first requirement is that both users need to have an iPhone 4 obviously. Both also need to be on WiFi. While the FaceTime icon will appear if you call another iPhone 4, if you try to activate the connection you'll get this error unless you're on WiFi:
With a bit of poor UI design Apple will actually display a FaceTime icon with a question mark in it if you call another iOS phone. Trying to activate FaceTime however gives you an error.
FaceTime requires roughly 100 - 150Kbps of bandwidth in both directions to work smoothly. The download should be fine but the upload is pretty high given that many broadband providers in the US are ridiculously stingy with their upload bandwidth. For FaceTime to work well you can't be uploading or downloading anything large in the background, or if you are just throttle everything else to give you enough bandwidth to work with.
The next problem with FaceTime is the iPhone 4 lacks an absolutely necessary integrated stand. HTC got it perfect with the EVO 4G, unfortunately the 4 has no such thing. The closest you can get is Apple's iPhone 4 dock, it'll set you back $29 but it's necessary to prevent you from getting tired holding your phone out in front of you. Laying the 4 down on your desk while you FaceTime just gives the person on the other end of the line a great view of your nostrils. Not very welcoming.
This is the on-table view of FaceTime, you need a stand
Even once you've met all of the requirements it's still not a guaranteed thing. Even with ample bandwidth I had one FaceTime chat stall in the middle of the chat. My incoming feed froze and I had to wait a couple of seconds for it to resume. I also had a problem where FaceTime would fail to start on the first try. A subsequent try fixed it.
As you'll see in our camera investigation, the low light performance of the 4's front facing camera is horrid. Couple that with FaceTime and you will get bad image quality if you're not in a well lit room:
Ugh, what is this, 1998?
While in FaceTime you can easily switch between front and rear cameras by tapping the camera icon in the lower right corner. Unfortunately the compression on the video is enough to render text illegible while in FaceTime:
This was taken using the rear facing camera over FT
Obviously everyone knows where FaceTime is going. Apple is supposedly opening the protocol up to all developers, so you'd be able to theoretically build desktop and other smartphone FaceTime clients. And ultimately as mobile broadband speeds (hello WiMAX and LTE) improve the WiFi requirement will be dropped. But is it a good feature today?
It really depends on who you know with an iPhone 4. If you've got a Manveer, absolutely - the feature is worth it. If you have a bunch of casual acquaintances with iPhone 4s, probably not. It's only useful if you know the person on the other side very well.
There is one other major benefit to FaceTime. Once enabled your call is routed over WiFi to the Internet, not AT&T's 3G network. It doesn't use any of your plan's minutes and more importantly, voice quality is much improved over a regular 3G/EDGE phone call. It's VoIP, not a crappy cell connection. Even if you just cover the camera it's actually better to make calls over FaceTime than 3G based on the sound quality alone.
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mesiah - Thursday, July 01, 2010 - linkI don't agree with the flash memory support. Flash memory is so cheap to implement that it comes on the cheapest of cheap products. And before anyone uses the excuse of "a flash port would clutter up the phone and make it look ugly" Look at the huge ugly connector port used to sync / dock an iphone. Compare that to micro usb. You don't think they could shrink that thing to a quarter of its current size, or less, and add in a flash memory port? Hell, A smart engineer could make a docking port that doubles as a flash memory port (makes me wonder why we haven't seen this yet.) The reason you don't get upgradeable flash memory is the same reason you don't get removeable batteries. There isn't money in batteries and memory, the money is in forcing people with outdated hardware to upgrade. Reply
The0ne - Thursday, July 01, 2010 - linkErr, I think u might has misread what I was trying to say. As you've stated flash memory support is very easy and cheap to design in. For Apple not to have it means they have purposely decided against it. For example, creative labs has flash support on some of their PMP devices but it is extremely poor in design that it's unusable. That's the other caveat to just putting features in and not properly supporting it. Reply
Anand Lal Shimpi - Wednesday, June 30, 2010 - linkBy feature parity I was referring to what's new that made it into iPhone 4: higher res screen, 45nm SoC, much improved battery life, smaller form factor. I'd expect that within the next 6 - 12 months we will see Android phones with similar specs.
Software feature wise, Android is at parity in most cases and far ahead in others.
Take care,
Anand Reply
darwinosx - Wednesday, June 30, 2010 - linkThey you don't know much about either Android, the iPhone 4, or both. Reply
Mumrik - Friday, July 02, 2010 - linkAre you aware that your username undermines every single pro Apple comment you make?
Also, I think most of us will take Anand's word for it over an anonymous commenter's. Reply
mmike70 - Sunday, July 04, 2010 - linkWhy does it undermine? Reply
John Sawyer - Thursday, July 01, 2010 - linkThe somewhat larger number of pixels in the Retina display that Apple is using in the iPhone 4, plus its smaller size than the Evo and Droid X displays, do combine to make for a massive difference, as the pictures in the article show. I've compared the two, and the iPhone 4 display really is startlingly good. Many things don't look hugely different between the two, such as some videos, larger graphics and text, etc., but small text (which I look at a lot because that's what a lot of websites serve up) certainly does. Reply
semo - Wednesday, June 30, 2010 - linkI'm sorry Anand but I just couldn't bring my self to read your review after yet again detecting your bias towards this product. You come from an engineering background and it shows in your methods of analysis which appeals to me.
Do you wait 6 hours in line for a new SSD? I detect hints of emotion in this article's introduction. I could be wrong but I always try to avoid technical reading when I suspect there is bias. It is plain to see on other technical sites where the companies' mission statement is part of the introduction but much more subtle here.
I look forward to your next SSD and chip architecture articles. Reply
bplewis24 - Wednesday, June 30, 2010 - linkAnand is about the most objective Apple iPhone fanboy there is. There is no denying this, and it's both a compliment and a criticism. Until he can stop making subjective generalizations like this:
"There is this more open, more configurable, more capable feel you get with Android that you don't with the iPhone. That can be both a positive and a negative. Android phones feel more like computers while iPhones have more of that appliance feel. It still boils down to personal preference, the 4 won't change that."
Really, Anand? Being more open and configurable can be a bad thing? We really need to stop perpetuating this myth that Androids can only be liked by "PC" geeks and people who like to dig deep into the OS. The reality is that Android devices don't force you to customize if you don't want to.
I'm also fairly certain that the "scrolling" issue which isn't present on my Moto Droid has something to do with the live wallpapers eating up CPU processing power. Nevertheless, I don't experience it on my phone and to blanketly imply that the OS UI is clunky (which most iPhone fanboys cling to in every comparison) is completely disingenuous.
Until Anand can rid himself of some of this bias, he will still be known as the best and most objective iPHone reviewer on the interwebs, but the title in and of itself won't be saying very much.
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Anand Lal Shimpi - Wednesday, June 30, 2010 - linkIt honestly is basic differences in UI design. Unified settings panels (iOS) vs. per-app options and global settings (Android), much more freedom to configure how you want things displayed/presented, extending all the way down to the keyboard (Android) vs. a single Apple dictated way. These are the types of things that make the iPhone more of an appliance, basically if you like Apple's approach then there's no better device for you. A *lot* of users don't, and that's where Android comes in to play. I don't believe the power and flexibility of a PC-like device is a bad thing, but not everyone feels the same way. Take a die hard iPhone user and give them your Droid, you'll probably get the same response I did when I let some of those folks use the Nexus One or EVO 4G. It's really a preference thing, it reminds me a lot of the Mac vs. PC debates.
And while i haven't played with the Droid, the scrolling issue is present on the Nexus One with live wallpapers disabled as well as enabled. Although enabling them makes it worse. The HTC Incredible is the first Android phone I've used that actually improved it, although didn't solve it completely.
I expect that in the next major Android update Google will fix it once and for all. I hope.
Take care,
Anand Reply


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An opportunity for green businesses to share ideas
Local green entrepreneurs are uniting for the first Santa Cruz Green Business Camp on Oct. 22. The conference brings local small and medium-sized businesses together to share ideas and perspectives on achieving a green economy. Conference organizer and consultant for Sustainability Works, a company that helps monitor and manage sustainability performance and offers sustainability workshops, Matthew Marichiba stresses the importance of green businesses gathering and discussing their ideas. "The underlying intention is to crank up the local green economy, and the unconfrence format is a perfect way to spark the conversations that need to happen," he says. Rather than attend a forum and listen to lectures all day, the "unconference" setting allows all local businesses in attendance to participate in discussions and offer their input on green business practices. Attendees are encouraged to submit topics for discussion and chime in during such discussions to elicit breakout topics.
The Santa Cruz Green Business Camp 2009 is an offshoot of a San Francisco event that occurred in April. Based on the success of the San Francisco event, the Santa Cruz forum will offer entrepreneurs from the Central Coast (Monterey, Santa Clara, San Benito counties and beyond) the opportunity to network and collaborate with like-minded business leaders, creating a more stable economy and offering positive environmental and social impacts through their businesses. "This forum is for green-minded business people to come together and discuss earth-friendly innovations, operations, products and resources," Marichiba explains in the press release.
The Green Business Camp will be held on Thursday, Oct. 22 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Inner Light Ministries, 5630 Soquel Dr.. Inner Light Ministries is looking forward to holding this event as they are a green certified organization with the Monterey Bay Area Green Business Program. The cost for the forum is $45 for pre-registration or $75 at the door. Interested? Visit GreenBusinessSantaCruz.com for more information or or e-mail organizers of the event at [email protected] greenbusinesssantacruz.com


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Fantasy football: Ben Roethlisberger eyes return
NFL.com Staff | Tags: Three and out, Ben Roethlisberger, Knowshon Moreno, Matt Forte, Michael Bush, Ronnie Hillman
Big return: Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger might be close to making his return. The veteran hopes to play in Sunday's second and final regular-season meeting with the Ravens. "I'm going to try," Roethlisberger told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Sunday. "It's killing me to watch." ESPN's Chris Mortensen reportedBig Ben will start soft-tossing the ball early this week to examine his range of motion and work through the pain, according to team sources. That sound you just heard was every Mike Wallace owner putting their head through the ceiling from jumping for utter joy. The wideout has been anemic without his quarterback, posting a miserable total of 1.30 fantasy points over his last two games.
Fast one: Denver Broncos coach John Fox pulled the rug out from under our feet on Sunday by starting running back Knowshon Moreno over Ronnie Hillman. A ghost up until yesterday, Moreno toted the rock 20 times compared to Hillman's three. The Georgia product becomes the back to own in Denver. As Michael Fabiano notes in his Week 13 waiver wire analysis, Moreno is available in 98.7 percent of leagues, so owners in need of help have found their solution. That is, if you're the lucky one atop the waiver order this week.
Bear the pain: Chicago Bears running back Matt Forte left Sunday's game with an ankle injury and did not return to action. Little was cleared up on Monday, coach Lovie Smith simply stating that there is "concern" about the health of the back and he was "hopeful that he will be able to go." Michael Bush took over in Forte's absence, but as fantasy expert Jason Smith notes in his "Targets and Touches" analysis, a timeshare could be in the future. "Bush's 22 touches rank him 11th this week for running backs, but more importantly, Bush and Forte had split the carries until Forte's injury in the second half of the Bears win. If Forte is out, Bush becomes a low-end No. 1 fantasy running back. If Forte can play, Bush is now a very good flex play, simply because you know he's going to get the goal-line carries for Chicago in addition to half the workload."
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HOUSTON, Oct. 11, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ENGlobal Corporation (Nasdaq:ENG), a leading provider of energy-related project delivery solutions, announced today that its Board of Directors has initiated a process to explore and consider possible strategic alternatives for enhancing shareholder value and supporting the Company's long-term financial strength. These alternatives could include, but are not limited to, raising capital, selling a portion of the Company's assets, and the possible sale or merger of ENGlobal, among other alternatives. The Board of Directors has retained Simmons & Company International, an international financial advisory firm with significant experience in the energy industry, as its financial advisor during this process. ENGlobal continues to take actions to streamline its operations, including the previously announced divestiture of its Field Solutions segment, the implementation of expense reduction initiatives, and the retention of a management consultant to perform advisory services. "It's important to note that management's primary focus is to implement our plan to return the Company to profitability," said Mr. Coskey. "Simmons will assist us with the evaluation and negotiation of various proposals presented to the Company to date in addition to other alternatives." Mr. Coskey continued. "I firmly believe we are a company with inherent value, including tangible book value, that is greater than our current stock price would indicate. I would like to thank our loyal employees and valued clients for their continued support. We are committed to taking the necessary steps to turn our business around and ensure its long-term success." The Company has not made any decision to engage in any specific strategic alternative at this time, and the exploration of strategic alternatives may not result in any specific action or transaction. ENGlobal does not intend to provide updates or make any further comment regarding its exploration and evaluation of strategic alternatives unless and until the Board of Directors has approved a definitive course of action.
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Palo Alto, CA, United States, 2014/10/21 - European Railway Ticket Distributor Rail Europe 4A Replaces Fragmented Data Management Systems with TIBCO Jaspersoft - TIBCO.com. NASDAQ: TIBX
TIBCO Software, Inc. today announced that it has been chosen by Rail Europe 4A (RE4A), a worldwide leader in the distribution of European rail products, to provide centralized and reliable data analytics and automated reporting capabilities.
Faced with the need to manage a constantly growing volume of data while simultaneously preparing to launch new products, RE4A decided to overhaul its existing BI solution. Following an audit, the TIBCO Jaspersoft® embedded BI solution was chosen along with system integrator, Audaxis.
Previously, RE4A used multiple tools where users relied on a myriad systems for their reporting needs. For example, Excel spreadsheet software was used to analyze monthly data while more detailed daily analyses were performed using an existing BI solution that had reached its performance limits. Meanwhile, the sales reports sent to the agents came directly from the Euronet reservation system. The new project was therefore primarily inspired by the need to centralize all analytics tasks.
With more than 50,000 different travel combinations, Rail Europe 4A can use the Jaspersoft® BI suite for highly granular analysis of how individual offers are performing, as well as for sales and margin analyses. Users now have a wide range of static reports at their fingertips to analyze sales by country, distribution channel and products. This will help deliver accurate reporting to all levels, from management, through service providers, to shareholders.
Rail Europe 4A now has a reliable management and reporting tool that raises the bar for flexibility, responsiveness, security and efficiency, said David Berriri, finance manager, Rail Europe 4A. We are also impressed by the ease of use offered by the TIBCO Jaspersoft platform with its relatively minimalist design. Users need minimal expertise and very little time to generate, schedule or download a report.
About Rail Europe 4A
Rail Europe is the world leader in distribution of European Railways products. A joint venture between the French National Railways (SNCF) and the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB), Rail Europe 4A distributes and promotes European Railways products, as well as Amtrak (US rail operator), in the 4As: Asia, Australia & New Zealand, Africa & The Middle East, and South America.
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The Cookie That I Couldn't Eat
I like Pierre Hermé very much. He's a genius, and his stuff is gorgeous and the fellow deserves all the accolades that are bestowed upon him. He seems like a nice guy and his shops in Paris are swanky as all get-out.
His white truffle macaron I found very intriguing. Rather brilliant, actually. And I'm a big fan of his Arabesque, two apricot-flavored disks with a dusting of pistachio and a hint of crunchy croquante in the middle.
But this one, I couldn't eat.
Some friends brought over a box of his macarons from his newest shop on the rue Cambon, and as they were running down the list of flavors in the box after dinner, I stopped…and gulped…when they told me what was in this one: foie gras and chocolate.
Look, I like foie gras. I like chocolate. But the idea of a sweet cookie combining the two was making my stomach quesy. On a scale of 1-to-10, I would say I'm a solid 5 in terms of being an adventurous eater. I don't need to try everything that I can, but I'll eat sea slugs, liver, oysters, barnacles, eels, and other squirmies, but I don't feel the need to have bragging rights over everything which may remotely be edible.And I'm
rarely never inspired to stick anything in my mouth that I'm certain I won't like.
But cookies? I love cookies! There's very, very few that I don't like. In fact, I can't think of one that I don't.
(Unless there's a cookie lurking around out there made of licorice, or squid. In either case, non merci.)
As we worked our way through the box, we finally got to the end, and all that was left was that one lonely red-hued foie gras et chocolat macaron. They insisted I try just a bite, a small bite, and I had to beg off.
I'll stick with Monsieur Hermé's tried-and-true flavors, like caramel à la fleur de sel, café, fruit de la passion et chocolate au lait, and even go out on a limb with a few oddities such as wasabi and grapefruit or the truffe blanche et noisette that fill out the rest of his current collection. But this one I couldn't eat.
Any takers for the last one?
Pierre Hermé
4, rue Cambon (1st)
Other addresses in Paris:
185, rue Vaugirard (15th)
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Day 9 of The 2012 Apple Challenge: Dried Apple Rings
It took time for me to build up the enthusiasm to go to my kitchen and make today's apple recipe. It's not that I'm getting bored with the challenge, but I am getting tired of washing dishes. With two apple bread recipes almost back-to-back, plus apple cookies and cupcakes, I was ready to make something that didn't require a lot of dishes.
Dried apple rings was the obvious solution. All you need for this recipe are apples, a cutting board, a sharp knife and lemons. You also need a bowl to soak the apples in, a measuring cup for the lemon juice and water, plus a baking sheet and wire rack for the oven.
OK, this recipe required a lot of dishes, too, but at least most of them could be loaded in the dishwasher. It's my kids' job to unload that!
- 1 tablespoon citric acid or lemon juice
- Firm, unblemished apples, cored, peeled or unpeeled, and cut into thin rings
Add the apples, ensuring they are completely submerged. Leave to sit for 5 minutes. Do this in batches.
Arrange the apple slices on racks and place in the oven, using a skewer to hold the door ajar. At 170 degrees, they will be read (quite chewy) within two hours.
Recipe adapted from countryliving.co.uk
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DENVER, Aug. 1, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Air Methods Corporation (Nasdaq:AIRM), the largest air medical transportation company in the world, announced today that it has successfully completed its acquisition of OF Air Holdings Corporation and its subsidiaries, including Omniflight Helicopters, Inc. (together, Omniflight). Omniflight provides air medical transport services throughout the United States and provides these services under both the community-based and hospital-based service delivery models, utilizing a fleet of approximately 100 helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft. Omniflight is headquartered in Addison, Texas, with operations in 18 states involving over 75 base locations.
In connection with the closing of the acquisition of Omniflight, Air Methods successfully closed on a $200 million term loan with its bank group, led by KeyBank National Association (NYSE:KEY). The $200 million term loan, plus additional cash on hand, was used to finance the acquisition of Omniflight.
Aaron Todd, CEO of Air Methods stated, "We are very pleased to have completed all the necessary steps to close our acquisition of Omniflight within two weeks of our original expectation. Closing this transaction during the peak summer months should provide greater financial offset to non-recurring transaction and transition costs which will be expensed during the initial months following closing. The interest rate on our term loan is approximately 2.5%, which fluctuates with the London Interbank Offer Rate (LIBOR). Our original pro-forma consolidated financial statements assumed an average rate of 5% cost of funds, thus providing added cushion from our initial projections. We continue to believe that the operational efficiencies associated with this combination will help ensure that Air Methods remains cost competitive, while still maintaining its very high safety and quality standards."
Air Methods Corporation (www.airmethods.com) is a leader in emergency aeromedical transportation and medical services. The Hospital Based Services Division is the largest provider of air medical transport services for hospitals. The Community Based Services Division is one of the largest community-based providers of air medical services. The Products Division specializes in the design and manufacture of aeromedical and aerospace technology. The Company's fleet of owned, leased or maintained aircraft features over 300 helicopters and fixed wing aircraft.
The Air Methods Corporation logo is available at http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/prs/?pkgid=6955
Forward Looking Statements: This press release contains forward-looking statements which are subject to safe harbors created under the U.S. federal securities laws. These statements include, among others, statements regarding the expected benefits of the acquisition (financially or otherwise). Statements regarding future events are based on the Company's current expectations and are necessarily subject to associated risks related to, among other things, costs associated with the acquisition, the retention of employees of Omniflight and the ability of the Company to successfully integrate Omniflight's market opportunities, technology, personnel and operations, and other events that could adversely impact the integration of Omniflight, including industry or economic conditions outside of our control. Therefore, actual results may differ materially and adversely from those expressed in any forward-looking statements. For information regarding other related risks, see the "Risk Factors" section of the Company's most recent Form 10-K filed with the SEC on March 11, 2011, and other risk factors described from time to time in the Company's 10-Q and 10-K filings with the SEC.
Please contact Christine Clarke at (303) 792-7579 to be included on the Company's fax and/or mailing list.
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DETROIT (AP) -- Bridging the political aisle, Michigan's members of Congress say they support President Barack Obama's decision to ask for a congressional vote before undertaking an attack on Syria in response to apparent poison gas attacks the U.S. says killed at least 1,400 people.
Republican U.S. Reps. Candice Miller and Justin Amash and Democratic U.S. Reps. Dan Kildee and Sander Levin have issued statements endorsing Obama's decision to seek support from Congress rather than rely solely on his powers as president. The House and Senate return from summer recess Sept. 9.
U.S. Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., and chairman of the Armed Services Committee, said Obama "made a strong case" Saturday when he gave his reasons for a retaliatory attack on the Syrian government but said he wanted congressional backing before acting.
The president "wisely chose to seek congressional support, even though he believes he is not required by law to do so," Levin said in a statement. "It is important that the president is seeking support and participation from other countries, including Arab countries.
"I have again urged the president to use this time to help the Syrian people defend themselves by assisting vetted elements of the Syrian opposition in obtaining more effective weapons such as anti-tank weapons."
Miller, from Harrison Township, said she believes Obama needs a vote from Congress before he can legally act.
"I disagree with President Obama when he states that he has the unilateral authority to take our nation into another war in Syria, but I am glad that he has decided to seek an authorization for this action from Congress," Miller said in a statement. She said she was "very thankful that so many of my constituents have responded and the input I have received so far indicates that they are very skeptical that it is in our nation's interests to become engaged in the Syrian conflict.
"I share their skepticism."
After attending a classified briefing Sunday, Miller said she still does not believe that "the case has yet been made" for U.S. military action against Syria. What is clear, she said, is that President Bashar Assad's government did attack its people with poison.
"I am now quite certain based on the information shared with us that the Assad regime did use chemical weapons in the ongoing Syrian civil war," Miller said. "It is my belief that the world must unite against such an assault on human dignity and join together to stop further such atrocities."
Kildee, of Flint, said he looked forward to "a robust debate in the Congress and a discussion with the American people. I will continue to listen to the concerns of my constituents and evaluate the intelligence and the use of limited military force. Ultimately, I will make a decision and vote solely based on the facts and evidence presented to me."
Rep. Sander Levin, of Royal Oak, said he also attended a classified briefing Sunday on the U.S. evidence "that the Syrian government carried out a major chemical weapons attack on Aug. 21 involving a nerve agent."
"The Syrian government has crossed a red line set out not only by the president but over many years by human society," said Levin, Carl Levin's brother. "The Congress must respond and I will vote in favor of a response that is targeted and focused."
Amash, of Cascade Township, said in a Twitter posting that "it took a lot of pressure" from the public and Congress, but the president "made the right decision by requesting authorization from Congress before taking military action." He said Obama "hasn't come close to justifying war in Syria, and I know few members of Congress who support an attack on Syria based on the current reasoning of the administration."
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- In a message dated 6/11/2000 2:14:33 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
rayne182@... writes:
<< It will be quite hot at the event I'm going to (middle of summer), and most
likely quite dusty. What sort of material will be period (or at least look
it), but be light enough so I won't get overheated?
Also, what sort of colours/patterns are good? Early period, if it helps,
around 9th century. >>
Linen! I pretty much swore off doing overdresses for the summer out of
anything else after last couple of heated events. Try
www.fabrics-store.com -- about $5.50 a yard, and large selection of colors,
with several kinds of always popular in Rus' red. Speaking of colors --
avoid dark shades, those are for mourning.
Look at Predslava's website
http://hometown.aol.com/Predslava/GiliarovskaiaPatterns.html for a "rubakha"
pattern. This is your basic undergarment, which, if you are young enough,
you could even wear alone in your period. If not, you can make a
navershnik, a shorter overdress with wide sleeves, decorated along the hem
(at least, don't be afraid to overdo it). For a maiden, zanaveska is a good
option -- a tabard-like garment, worn berted over the undershirt.
<< Another thing. I wonder if there is a Russian/Slavic equivelent for the
English "Stephanie" - It's my mundane life and going under anything other
than that (except my mundane nickname Sway) is just..strange for me. >>
You should really consult Paul's Dictionary of Period Russian Names:
www.sca.org/heraldry/paul/ -- he is a real expert. As a suggestion, I
recommend Stepanida, which is probably as close to Stephanie as you can get.
Post-period nickname for this was "Stiesha."
I hope this helps!
- You all have helped me tremendously! Thank you, thank you, thank you. Ever
so much.
Off to the (online) fabric store!
Sway/Stepanida (I like that)
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[This information is from Vol. IV, pp. 1627-1628 of Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs, edited by Cuyler Reynolds (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1911). It is in the Reference collection of the Schenectady County Public Library at R 929.1 R45. Some of the formatting of the original, especially in lists of descendants, may have been altered slightly for ease of reading.]
This branch of the Kelly family begins with Robert Kelly, who was born in Scotland about the year 1795. He settled in New York City, later in Johnstown, New York, finally in Broadalbin, Fulton county, where he engaged in farming. He married (first) at Greenwich, city of New York, January 6, 1818, Elizabeth Cummin, who died August 8, 1824. He married (second) November 18, 1826, Ellen Zule. Children of first wife, all born in New York City:
Children of second wife:
(II) James C., son of Robert and Elizabeth (Cummin) Kelly, was born in New York City, June 16, 1824, died in the Military Hospital from wounds received at the battle of Winchester, Virginia, September 20, 1864, and is buried in the National Cemetery at Winchester. Early in life he followed the sea and made several whaling trips from New Bedford, Massachusetts. Later he joined his father in Fulton county, and afterwards learned the glovemaker's trade. He finally gave up his life for his country after a career of bravery in action, for which he received deserved promotion. He enlisted August 19, 1862, at Johnstown, New York, to serve three years, was mustered in as a private of Company A, One Hundred and Fifty-third New York Volunteer Infantry, August 29, 1862. The regiment went to the front and was attached to the Army of the Potomac and shared in the hard fighting of that army. He was promoted corporal, October 17, 1862; sergeant, March 31, 1863, was wounded in action, September 19, 1864, at Winchester, Virginia, and died of his wounds at the army hospital. He married Fidelia Ann, daughter of Peter Close, of the town of Mayfield, Fulton county, and his wife, Mary R. (Brown) Close, a daughter of Nathaniel and Cynthia (Wood) Brown. Children of James C. and Fidelia Ann Kelly:
(III) James Erwin, son of James C. and Fidelia Ann (Close) Kelly, was born in Kingsboro, Fulton county, September 6, 1862. He was educated in the public school and at Kingsboro Academy. After completing his studies he learned the trade of glovemaker with D. B. Judson, of Kingsboro. He afterwards went to Mayfield and became a partner of James E. Wood, and as Wood & Kelly did a very successful manufacturing business until 1890, when he sold his interest and moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Mr. Kelly returned to Mayfield in 1892 and began manufacturing gloves under his own name, transacting a large and profitable volume of business. In 1904 he purchased the old Judson factory in Gloversville, where he first learned the glove business, and has since operated both factories on fine men's, women's and children's gloves, in connection with his brother-in-law, E. W. Fiske. His residence is in Gloversville on East State street, adjoining his factory. He is an attendant of the Kingsboro Avenue Presbyterian Church; a member of Gloversville Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, and the Eccentric Club. In political faith he is a Republican. He married, December 15, 1886, Ada Blanche, daughter of Charles H. and Isadore (Dora) (Case) Van Buren (see Van Buren IX). Children of James E. and Ada B. (Van Buren) Kelly:
The Van Burens, of whom Ada Blanche (Van Buren) Kelly is the eighth generation of the Van Burens in America, begin with Cornelis Van Buren, who came from Holland to America in 1631.
(II) Martin Cornelis, son of Cornelis Van Buren.
(III) Pieter Martense, son of Martin Cornelis Van Buren.
(IV) Barent, son of Pieter Martense Van Buren, was a resident of Kinderhook. He married Maria Whinney. Children:
(V) Francis, son of Barent and Maria (Whinney) Van Buren, was born at Kinderhook, November 16, 1728, died May 6, 1815. In 1779 he removed to what is now the town of Mayfield, Fulton county, New York, where he purchased and settled upon a tract of five hundred acres of land. He served during the revolution in the Seventh Regiment, Albany county militia. He married, about 1760, Johanna Van Slyck, born October 23, 1736, died April 5, 1815, also a descendant of an early Dutch Mohawk Valley family. Children:
(VI) Harmon F., son of Francis and Johanna (Van Slyck) Van Buren, was born March 29, 1775, died September 30, 1858. He accompanied his father to the Mohawk Valley and became the owner of one-quarter of the Mayfield purchase. Here he followed agriculture all his days, becoming prominent in town and church affairs, being especially active in the latter. He married, about 1796, Catherine Miller, born 1774, died March 13, 1845. Children:
(VII) Oliver Miller, son of Harmon F. and Catherine (Miller) Van Buren, was born in Mayfield, Fulton county, New York, April 4, 1807, died June, 1882. He was a farmer and a devoted member of the Presbyterian church. He married, January 21, 1829, Sallie Maria Hayes, born April 9, 1811, died April 18, 1883. Children:
(VIII) Charles Henry, son of Oliver Miller and Sallie Maria (Hayes) Van Buren, was born May 17, 1836, died March 2, 1897. He married, March 30, 1864, Isadore (Dora) Case. Children:
(IX) Ada Blanche, daughter of Charles Henry and Isadore (Dora) (Case) Van Buren, was born January 29, 1867, married, December 15, 1886, James E. Kelly (see Kelly III).
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This course comprises a mix of lectures and practical exercises designed to provide the delegates with the skills and knowledge needed to participate in QMS audits. The course is run over 2 days with exercises designed to give the delegates "hands-on" experience.
To give a basic understanding of:
- Auditing Quality Management Systems (QMS) established to ISO 9001:2015 requirements and how to assess their effectiveness
- The benefits and pitfalls in auditing such systems
- Assessing the control over processes
- The techniques and skills needed and how to audit such an organisation
Course content
A two day course containing the following:
- Introduction to Quality Management Systems
- Preparation for audits
- QMS documentation requirements
- Managing a QMS audit programme
- Control of processes
- The PDCA cycle
- Improvement systems
- Preparation to auditing
- Checklist production
- Auditing skills
- Audit practice
- Reporting audit findings
Pre requisites
In line with CQI IRCA requirements it is assumed that attendees have a basic understanding of ISO 9001:2015 or have attended the QMS Foundation course.


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Kellan Lutz can't wait for fans to watch Edward and Bella tie the knot in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1, which is in theaters this fall.
The buff actor, 26, had a front row seat with all the other Cullens, and he's bubbling over with excitement.
"I've been waiting for it," he tells me during the DKNY Sunglass Soiree at The Beach at Dream Downtown in NYC. "I read all the books. What I get the biggest kick out of is knowing what the fans are really going to love, so when we shoot a scene like that, like the marriage and the arm-wrestling scene for Kristen [Stewart] and I, I just love when you bring this idea in your head – 'cause you envision how the scene is going to be shot – and then it comes to reality, and you're really in the moment and you feel alive and interjected with it. And then you step back, and you're like 'the fans are really going to like this. They're *really* going to like this.'"
He adds, "It was cold as heck that day, but it was beautiful. It really was. It was really special seeing Stephenie Meyer in the back, crying, because this is such an important scene in the movie, the book and the series, and in all the fans lives for them to see it."
Hm, what was so beautiful about it?
"It's a wedding, and these forbidden loves finally become one. The lion and the lamb becoming one, which is truly special. I'm all for marriage. My brother got married – I got teary-eyed at that. I think it's special. I can't wait to hear the music that's going to be laid behind it. I think everyone's going to love it."
Pick up the OK! on newsstands now for more about Kellan Lutz. The cover line is "Kourtney and Khloe Reveal Secrets of Kim's Wedding." And get ready for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn -Part 1, which is in theaters November 18.


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Spring hay and pasture seedings are normally done from late February through late April in many parts of the country, including Iowa.
However, the extended period of wet weather and possible flooding in 2010 has many producers wondering when they can get their forages planted, says Stephen K. Barnhart, Iowa State University agronomist.
He offers the following advice regarding the current soggy situation:
Can spring forage stands still successfully be planted?
The short answer is yes, into the first ten days to two weeks of May, says Barnhart. The end of the spring forage planting season is limited by seedling development and growth into the summer months. Most forage seedlings are emerging and growing root systems into the top one to three inches of the seedbed during the three to four weeks following germination.
The increasingly dry and hot soil surfaces in late May and June increase the risk that the small forage seedlings do not establish. So, the risk depends on rainfall and soil temperatures from here on. If conditions turn normal or hotter and dryer than normal, the risk of late planted forage seeding failures increases. If late May and early June conditions remain cooler and wetter than normal, then later-than-desired spring forage seedings may survive very well.
Planting later than desired, adds to vulnerability to erosion and weed competition. Keep cereal companion crop planting rates to half of a full seeding rate or less, and mow or clip new seedings several times during the early seedling development months to allow light to reach small developing legume and grass seedlings. Also scout for and manage potato leafhoppers in new alfalfa seedings.
What about skipping spring planting and planting the new hay and pasture fields in late-summer?
The success of late summer planted forages is set by both the planting window that provides for a six to eight week establishment time requirement for seedlings before the first killing freeze of the fall, and the necessity of adequate existing soil moisture and likelihood of average or better fall rain, he explains.
For alfalfa and other forage legumes, the seed should be planted by Aug. 10 for the northern third of Iowa, by Aug. 20 for the middle third of the state and by late August or the first week of September for the southern third of the state. Cool-season forage grasses can be planted a few weeks later in each of these zones.
The risk of stand failure is high if seed is planted in dry soil, and rainfall patterns for the remainder of the fall season are erratic.
Can purchased seed be carried over until fall or next spring?
Seed is perishable. Germination declines over extended storage time, and declines faster if seed storage conditions are warm and in high humidity. Certainly try to store carry-over seed in a cool, dry place. Even better, try to arrange for storage in a more desirable seed storage facility, he says. If you do have concerns about the viability of carry-over forage seed, have a germination test done before planting and adjust sowing rates to compensate for any germination percentage losses, concludes Barnhart.
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Name: rk38400 Date: 04/28/98
I really like the Action interface (in fact, I'd
implemented it myself in a previous version of my
system) - but what about toggles? I'd like to be
able to define a ToggleAction that has an on/off
state. When I add it to a JToolbar, I'd get a
JToggleButton. When I add it to a JMenu, I'd get
a JCheckboxMenuItem. Setting its state to be on via
the menuitem would cause the appearance of the
JToggleButton to change automatically, etc.
The same idea could probably be extended to encompass
JRadioButton/JRadioButtonMenuItem pairs...
(Review ID: 29188)
Name: krT82822 Date: 01/24/2000
java version "1.3beta"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.3beta-O)
Java(TM) HotSpot Client VM (build 1.3beta-O, mixed mode)
Why does the new method "JToolBar.CreateActionComponent" return a JButton?
Because of this, it's not possible to create a JToggleButton for the action.
Suggestion: CreateActionComponent should return a JAbstractButton or, even
better, a Component (since buttons aren't the only thing usually visible in a
toolbar, and for example ComboBoxes could be associated with an action as well).
(Review ID: 100282)
Name: krC82822 Date: 11/02/2000
java version "1.3.0"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.3.0-C)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.3.0-C, mixed mode)
Right now Action and AbstractAction provides support for creating several
controls with a common behaviour and with their enabled state synchronized, but
there is no way to have several toggle buttons synchronized in such a way. I
think it could be interesting to add ToggleAction and AbstractToggleAction, so
we could have several toggle buttons with their selected state synchronized.
The additional classes could be something like this:
package javax.swing;
public interface ToggleAction extends Action
boolean isSelected( );
void setSelected( boolean selected );
package javax.swing;
import java.io.Serializable;
import java.awt.event.*;
public abstract class AbstractToggleAction extends AbstractAction
implements ToggleAction, Cloneable, Serializable
protected boolean selected = false;
public AbstractToggleAction( )
{ super( ); }
public AbstractToggleAction( String name )
{ super( name ); }
public AbstractToggleAction( String name, Icon icon )
{ super( name, icon ); }
public Object clone( )
AbstractToggleAction copy = null;
copy = (AbstractToggleAction) super.clone( );
copy.selected = this.selected;
catch( CloneNotSupportedException exc )
return copy;
public boolean isSelected( )
{ return selected; }
public void setSelected( boolean selected )
if( this.selected != selected )
this.selected = selected;
firePropertyChange( "selected", new Boolean( !this.selected ), new Boolean
( this.selected ) );
public void actionPerformed( ActionEvent e )
Object source = e.getSource( );
if( source instanceof AbstractButton )
AbstractButton button = (AbstractButton) source;
setSelected( button.isSelected( ) );
This classes could be used adding a setToggleAction method to JToggleButton and
(Review ID: 111728)
Because this bug was filed much earlier than 4491747, I'm going to close 4491747 as a duplicate of this but fix all the remaining issues from 4491747 in this bug. Here's the list of things that are going to change:
Action will get the new keys:
public static final String SELECTED_KEY;
public static final String DISPLAYED_MNEMONIC_INDEX_KEY;
public static final String LARGE_ICON_KEY;
SELECTED_KEY will be useful for togglebutton, radiobutton, checkbox, checkboxmenuitem and radiobuttonmenuitem. If the selected state of the button changes the selected property of the Action will be updated. Similarly if the SELECTED_KEY property of the Action changes the button will update it's state appropriately.
DISPLAYED_MNEMONIC_INDEX_KEY name describes what it does;)
LARGE_ICON_KEY will be used by all non-menuitem buttons. If LARGE_ICON_KEY is non-null it's value will be used as the icon, if it's null the icon from SMALL_ICON_KEY will be used.
The previously undocumented client property 'hideActionText' will now be a public property (AbstractButton will have a set/getter for it). And changes to the property (or client property) will be immediate.
The system property swing.actions.reconfigureOnNull will be provided so that if true a 'null' property name will result in the component resetting all interested properties.
Finally, all of this will be documented in Action:)
Name: krC82822 Date: 11/02/2000
The only possible workaround is manual synchronization, as should be done with buttons if Action didn't exist
(Review ID: 111728)
We should do this, but we need to figure out an flexible solution
for all actions and containers.
There are a lot of good ideas here. First I was using 4629461 to drive this work in tiger but I'll close that as a duplicate of this one.
###@###.### 2002-05-30
This one may require API changes which we cannot do for tiger at this point. We agree that this is an important feature but there is still some discussion on the correct approach. One approach is that we add new classes which represent toggles. Another approach is that the toggles are stored as properties on the Action.
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I happen to be a huge fan of the Hancock Gourmet lobster roll served at the Big E Maine building. This lobster roll is only available at the Big E and by mail order. There is no store you can drive to an buy this lobster roll, even in the summer. So, imagine my thrill when I saw that a lobster roll kit from Hancock was available through Gilt Taste for a mere $60, including shipping. I know, that's still pretty steep, but it's usually closer to $85. They claim that the kit makes 6 lobster rolls, and includes 6 buns, and 1 pound of mixed lobster salad. It really depends on how hearty you prefer your lobster rolls. I made 4 lobster rolls out of the one pound package, but you could get away with making 6 smaller rolls, I just happen to prefer a hearty meat:bread ratio. I placed my order and my package arrived at my door the next day, how very exciting! Fresh Maine lobster rolls and I never even left my house.
The lobster arrives in a styrofoam cooler, packed nicely with cold packs packs. The meat is pre-mixed with the mayo and as they say on the package "spices". Immediately, I embarked on lobster roll assembly. I brushed the outside of the bun with melted butter, grilled it to golden perfection. I also brushed the inside with melted butter, because can you really ever have enough butter? I piled in the lobster meat and dug in. I was fully expecting this to be an exact replica of the Big E lobster roll, except of course, better, because of all the butter and grilling I involved. To be perfectly honest, it wasn't quite as good as the Big E version. The spongie pieces had the yuck spongie texture and had to be removed, unlike the Big E version where they have the slippery texture and incorporate seamlessly into a the lobster bites. I know, slippery is a terrible description of something delicious, but it's the only way I can think to distinguish it from the other texture. Through online chat with Hancock, I confirmed that this claw and knuckle meat is fresh picked and has never been previously frozen. The lobster meat was still very good, briny, tasty, not too much mayo and I have to guess that by spices, they mean nothing more than salt and pepper because I didn't taste anything else. That is a good thing.
The bread was the standard split top bun, allegedly only sold in New England and superior to other buns. I did a side by side bun comparison with Wonder buns, but that's for another post to come. When coated in butter and grilled up, it was a great complement to the cool lobster meat. Overall, this was a very tasty lobster roll, delivered right to my door and a perfect fix if you happen to be in the large part of the world where fresh picked Maine lobster isn't available year round. I happen to be lucky enough to live near City Fish, where I can get fresh picked lobster meat for $40/lb year round, so I won't likely be ordering this mail order lobster roll very often. By comparison, the price of the Hancock kit may seem high, but when you think about how much you pay for one lobster roll in the summer, which often isn't nearly as good and Maine fresh as this one, for 6 lobster rolls, this really is a very good deal. So, if all my pictures of lobster rolls are making you crave one and you think you have to wait until a summer New England vacation, think again. Order this up and you could be eating a fresh, tasty lobster roll, wherever you are, tomorrow!
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Latin American Music Festival at Ithaca College to Continue with Spring Celebration
ITHACA, NY — The Ithaca College Latin American Music Festival will continue this spring featuring lectures, concerts and master classes by and about some of Latin America's leading contemporary composers and performers. All events are free and open to the public.
The yearlong initiative, created by School of Music faculty member Jorge Villavicencio Grossmann, celebrates the roots – past and present – of Latin American music.
"Latin America is a melting pot of cultures and ethnicities," said Grossmann. "This makes for an extremely rich confluence of musical elements and styles that I feel the community, both academic and at large, needs to become familiar with."
A native of Peru, Grossmann teaches music composition and serves as director of the Latin American composers' collective áltaVoz. He created the festival to raise awareness for Latin American music in the academic community and the community at large. The concerts provide a varied repertoire of Latin American music spanning more than 100 years, with a special emphasis on works completed in the last decade. Lectures and master classes approach topics beyond music such as questions of identity, ethnicity and cultural background.
In conjunction with the festival, Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez and Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon jointly serve as this year's Karel Husa Visiting Professors of Composition.
The events listed below are among some of the highlights of the spring portion of the Latin American Music Festival:
Monday, Mar. 3
7 p.m., Iger Lecture Hall, Whalen Center
Zohn-Muldoon will discuss his music during the second Karel Husa Visiting Professor of Composition lecture. Often drawing inspiration from Mexican themes, his music makes use of unique instrumental colors and intricate rhythm. Zohn-Muldoon is currently chairperson of music composition at the Eastman School of Music.
Wednesday, Mar. 5
7:30 p.m., Iger Lecture Hall, Whalen Center
Cuban-American composer and Brooklyn College/CUNY professor Tania León will give a lecture discussing her recent work. León has enjoyed a distinguished international career as a composer, conductor, new music advocate and has also played a leading role in promoting the music of Latin America.
Saturday, Apr. 12
8:15 p.m., Hockett Family Recital Hall, Whalen Center
The Ithaca College Contemporary Ensemble's second concert of the season includes a work by Sanchez-Gutierrez, Mexican-American composer and 2013-14 Karel Husa Visiting Professor of Composition, in addition to a piece by Sang Mi Ahn, winner of the 2013 Ithaca College Heckscher Prize in Music Composition. The program also includes works by Foss, Grossmann, Garrido-Lecca, and Davidovsky.
Monday, Apr. 21
8:15 p.m., Hockett Family Recital Hall, Whalen Center
The Distractfold Ensemble – a fresh, strong and daring voice in the UK music community specializing in instrumental, acousmatic and hybrid music of the 21st century – will perform works by Harvey (UK), Alvarez (Chile), Pauly (UK/Costa Rica), Díez-Fischer (Argentina) and Grossmann (Peru/Brazil/US).
Tuesday, Apr. 22
1:05 p.m., Arnold and Lucy Broido Classroom, Whalen Center
U.K.-based Costa Rican composer Mauricio Pauly will give a composition seminar. Pauly teaches at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester and at the Architectural Association Interprofessional Studio in London. He is artistic co-director of Distractfold Ensemble and plays electric bass with the Manchester-based trio, A Greater Horror.
A full listing of the Latin American Music Festival events can be viewed at www.ithaca.edu/lamf.
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I got in my order from CurlMart a couple of days ago and I've been playing around with some of the different products. Today I was going to try the Sacred Love Low Poo and OneC, but I put a little on my fingers and it seems like it has a LOT of color! My hair is naturally brown with a little bit of gold, and I get red highlights every 6-7 weeks. Will the Sacred Love products put a lot of red on my hair? Will I be able to get it out with a sulfate shampoo? I'm having my highlights redone on Friday so I don't want to make a mess!
I use Sacred Love, and it doesn't change the color of my hair at all that I've noticed. (My hair is a lot lighter than it looks in my avatar pic.) I don't color my hair, though, so I don't know if it would affect your highlights.
I went through a couple of bottles of it about a year ago (had no-poo, low-poo and One C) and I guess the reason I switched back to the regular versions is because I couldn't tell any difference in the color. I didn't think they were worth the extra because I was hoping for more visible results.
Did any of you notice it staining anything? I'd like to try the Brown OneC, but I'm worried about it staining my hands and bathtub.
I don't remember any staining. I think the times when I spilled some on the tub or wherever, I was able to just wipe it off with a sponge.
Thanks for the advice! I'm really tempted to try it a few days before I go in since my original highlights have faded A LOT and I wouldn't mind a little bit more uniformity right now.
I tried it this morning--I didn't notice much difference, if any. I think it may have evened out the tones between my faded highlights and my natural color a bit, but it's hard to say. No staining anywhere, and I used it in a bath.
BTW, does OneC always smell so bad? Or is it just the red?
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In the face of an unpleasant and persistent problem, the Care Inspectorate has been doing a good and reliable job.
In recent months, thanks to the organisation's solid regime of unannounced visits, a number of care homes in Scotland have been exposed as falling way below the standards expected of them. Where necessary, homes have also been closed to new referrals to prevent any more elderly people being exposed to an inadequate standard of care.
To the inspectorate's credit, it now intends to go even further and routinely name the worst nursing homes, nurseries and other care agencies with a view to shocking them into improving their service.
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There is a strong case to be made for such a name-and-shame strategy although, as the inspectorate itself has pointed out, the vast majority of care homes and nurseries in Scotland perform well, with less than 1% falling to the lowest grade of 1 on a scale of 1 to 6 (where 1 is unsatisfactory and 6 excellent). For this reason, as well as naming the worst homes, the inspectorate also intends to highlight the best ones.
At the other end of the scale, the worst examples of care in Scotland are upsetting and disturbing. In one recent case - Ainslie Manor in Girvan, Ayrshire - some residents were left with untreated bedsores; in another - Torbrae House in Castlemilk, Glasgow - some of the staff did not know how to spot the symptoms of dehydration.
Under the new regime, the Care Inspectorate will name such homes when they reach the lowest two grades of care: 1 (unsatisfactory) and 2 (weak). It already publishes its reports online, but the inspectorate says it wants to be even more open and transparent by specifically highlighting the services that give it cause for concern.
Such transparency is welcome, although it will always be important to put the inspectorate's findings into proper context. The care sector in Scotland remains under-funded and, while a poor standard of service is never acceptable, many homes are falling behind because they do not have the funds they need.
If and when the inspectorate does go ahead and name sub-standard homes, it may have the effect of encouraging people to use other agencies, but it will also be important that, should an agency remain immune to bad publicity, the inspectorate is prepared to use its enforcement powers. In the past, the inspectorate and its predecessors have leaned too far in the direction of encouraging homes to improve rather than forcing them to.
Of course, the Care Inspectorate also has a duty to offer incentives to improve and in this regard the scheme in which poor agencies are mentored by others that are doing well is an example of good practice. But for those that do not respond, the name and shame policy offers the prospect of shocking the poor performers into action. If it also creates a culture where action is seen to be taken when an agency falls below par, it could help to persuade the public too that it is always worth complaining when they, or someone they care about, does not receive the service they deserve.