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Dining at the Pizza Pasta Company
About the Pizza Pasta Company
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Groups Welcome!
We are happy to accomodate your bus tour group or special event at any of our restaurants! The Chuckwagon can seat up to 300 with sheltered seating for about 150, and the Pizza Pasta can accomodate large groups as well, though the size varies from season to season. We can also accomodate large take-out orders from the deli.
Whether you're planning your Jackson Hole wedding, a family celebration, a bus tour, or a corporate retreat, or days in the Park with friends, we can help with your group!
Please call 307-733-2415 Ext. 300; or email firstname.lastname@example.com and Dawn will be happy to help you!
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Tricia Dornan and Dawn Gersten will make sure your group has the time of their lives!
We cater casual or formal events, from bus tours to weddings to corporate events.
Dornans Moose Chuckwagon
BREAKFAST: 8am - 11am; Daily
LUNCH: Noon - 3pm; Daily
DINNER: 5pm - 8pm; Monday - Thursday
The Chuckwagon opened in 1948 and we just completed our 66th year!! The Chuckwagon is known for its breakfast featuring all-you-can-eat sourdough pancakes, or your choice of biscuits and gravy or french toast. Lunch fare includes soups, salads and sandwiches on our homemade breads. Top off your day with a all-you-can-eat western style dinner served over an open fire in cast iron Dutch ovens, with a fresh salad on the side from our salad bar. Chicken, salmon, and steak from our own butcher shop. Enjoy a beer or glass of wine from the bar. Top it all off with a tasty dessert whipped up by our baker!
Monday Nights we host the Hootenanny: An Acoustic Event, sign up early to perform, free to the public.
PLEASE call ahead to make sure we are open for the evening meal. There are so many parties this summer!!!!! 307-733-2415, ext 203
Hope to see you here.
Josh Barron, CW Supervisor
Huntley Dornan, CEO
Cowboy cooking always tastes better in the great outdoors, and the Grand Tetons are nothing if not great!!
Folks in Jackson Hole have been loving our cowboy cooking for 60 years!
Hours of Operation: Pizza Pasta Company
Call for info; 307-733-2415 Ext. 204
11:30am - 9pm
Moose Bread
Baked Brie
Artichoke Dip
Quesadillas; Buffalo, Chicken, or Cheese
Baked Wings
Blue Bacon Stuffed Mushrooms
SOUPS: Daily Choices
Chicken Caesar
Greek Salad
Spinach Salad
Cobb Salad
Garden Salad
Meatball Sub
Smoked Salmon Croissant
Chicken Salad Croissant
Tuna Salad Croissant
Caprese Panini
Italian Panini
Greek, Stromboli, or Veggie
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PASTAS:$13 to $15
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Greek Pasta
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Chicken Gorgonzola
Red Curry Chicken
Linguini Carbonara
Lobster Penne
Smoked Trout Linguini
Seafood Pasta
Grilled Cheese
Penne w/ butter
Linguini w/ marinara w/ meatballs
Penne 'N' Cheese
Mini Pizza
Sean, and crew are in the kitchen working wonders with food.
Jazz, Abigail, Delilah, Zoya, and Joe are at the front of the house will help you make decisions from our great menu.
Stop by and enjoy the food and view.
We look forward to serving you.
Charles Lauder, Food & Beverage Manager
Come see our daily specials!
The view is delightful
Delicious Dining at Dornan's
Dornans' has produced some great cooks over the past three generations, and we're proud to share our meals with you!
At the Chuckwagon, eat delicious cowboy cuisine, the way Granddad taught us, fine-cut, natural aged Wyoming beef, cooked to perfection in dutch ovens over a blazing wood fire. Early birds are treated to all the hot sourdough pancakes you can eat. Josh Barron is with us for his first year at the Chuckwagon, he was previously one of our star chefs at the PPC. However, we are closed on some evenings for private events.
The Pizza Pasta Company reflects more modern tastes-- and the culinary prowess of Sean Dietz, and the team-- serving fresh pastas, crisp salads, gourmet pizzas, and hot sandwiches on our bakery-fresh breads. The Daily special is always a wonderful treat.
If you're on your way into Grand Teton National Park for a day of adventure, we can still set you up with a delicious deli sandwich, a cold drink, and some trail mix! Going climbing? Check out our selection of freeze-dried meals in the Trading Post, or consider one of our great espressos.
Even if you're just resting on the porch, taking in the view, we can tempt you with a bracing cappuccino and an ice cream cone, during June, July and August. We'll make sure you're fed well before you go on your way into the Tetons, Yellowstone, or the Jackson Hole area!
The winter season, we are the place to stop and have a great bowl of home-made soup, pasta, pizza, or one of our specials. Along with the fantastic view from the Spur Bar, our cozy fire welcomes all you stop by.
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A lawyer with a track record of successfully using the courts to block school parcel taxes has taken aim at Measure G, the parcel tax extension voters approved for the West Contra Costa Unified School District in November.
Contending that Measure G illegally taxes property owners at different rates, David Brillant is using some of the same legal arguments that persuaded the First District Court of Appeals to rule in December that Alameda Unified wrongly collected nearly $18 million under a parcel tax passed by voters in 2008, according to the Contra Costa Times.
Charles Ramsey, a member of WCCUSD's governing board, said he thinks the lawsuit is flawed. He said that not only does Measure G not go into effect until 2014-15, but that the parcel tax does not contain different rates for different types of property owners.
Measure G taxes property owners at 7.2 cents per square foot and owners of empty parcels at $7.20. Over the next five years, Measure G is expected to bring the district $50 million.
Ramsey said that charging owners of unimproved parcels 7.2 cents per square foot would not significantly reduce the revenue from the tax.
At the same time that he filed the suit against WCCUSD in January, Brillant sued San Leandro Unified, Davis Joint Unified and five school districts in Los Angeles County.
At the end of December, lawyers for Alameda Unified asked the the First Court of Appeals to reconsider its original decision, which the court agreed to do. However, the court is not allowing additional briefings and oral arguments in the rehearing.

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Are current market valuations justified?
With stock prices falling, Indian markets have become cheaper. But does that make them more attractive?
Valuations of the CNX 500 index, as measured by price-to-book value, have indeed declined steeply in five years. They have dropped from 5.5 times to barely 2 times. Over the last five years, the ratio has been at 2.6 times.
But at this discount, are Indian stocks a good 'buy'?
Not necessarily.
The return on equity, or the profit generated on every rupee of capital invested in Indian companies, has steadily declined over four years.
The return on equity (ROE) of the companies in the CNX 500 has fallen from 23 per cent in March 2008 to just 15.5 per cent by March 2012.
Lower shareholder returns, which is what a falling ROE implies, suggest that investors should pay less in terms of valuation multiples for these companies. But that is not all; profit growth for Indian companies has slowed in the last four years.
Yet, current stock valuations imply a high earnings growth — similar to what they were indicating during the market peaks. This indicates that there is a possibility of more downside to the broader market.
If one is keen to make long-term investments, one has to scout for stocks with attractive valuations that have bucked the trend of falling ROEs.
Behind falling ROEs
To analyse trends in ROE, we started out with 2007-08 numbers, a year of strong growth and high valuations for India Inc.
With that as the starting point, ROEs for CNX 500 companies (excluding banks and finance companies) have tumbled from 24.2 to 15 per cent.
A break-down of numbers shows that much of the decline in ROEs of companies (excluding finance companies and banks) was due to the fall in net profit margin. Moderation in leverage, that is, higher use of equity funding than debt, also diluted ROEs.
The net profit margin of CNX 500 companies declined from 11 per cent to 6.6 per cent over four years. While operating profit margins also suffered some dent due to higher raw material costs, higher fixed costs substantially reduced net profit margins.
Rise in depreciation is indicative of companies adding to fixed assets. But, earnings haven't kept pace with growth in assets.
Interest costs alone have risen at a 30 per cent CAGR during the last four years though companies managed to reduce their dependence on debt for funding needs.
Consequently, the annual growth of 18 per cent in net sales couldn't translate into a robust growth in profits. Net profit growth during the four-year period was at a modest 4 per cent.
The decline in ROE, however, wasn't uniform. Over two-thirds of the companies have witnessed decline in ROEs over the four-year period. Some sectors fared worse than others. Construction, realty, capital goods and telecom sector witnessed higher rate of decline in ROE.
But banking and finance companies, a few of the mid-tier IT companies and auto companies actually witnessed improvement in ROEs.
DLF, JSW Energy, Tata Steel, Idea Cellular and Unitech were some large-cap companies that saw their ROE decline sharply.
Of this, companies in sectors such as hotel, shipping, steel, capital goods and realty were amongst the ones that witnessed significant fall in their profitability due to fall in net margins.
For instance, the ROE of DLF declined from 67 per cent in 2007-08 to 4.4 per cent in 2011-12 after the net margin of the company declined to 12.4 per cent from 54 per cent.
Similarly, Unitech, HDIL and other realty stocks have also witnessed sharp decline in net margins.
The debt-equity ratio of CNX500 companies declined from 0.72 to 0.57 times in the four-year period. This should have ideally helped ROE.
The equity capital for Indian companies has expanded at twice the rate of debt funds over four years. Retained profits and fresh equity capital helped expansion in equity.
Companies such as Adani Enterprises, Aurobindo Pharma, Bajaj Electrical and Tata Steel are a few companies that have reduced their leverage ratio significantly and have seen moderation in return on equity.
Sufferers, survivors
Within the universe, non-finance companies witnessed a decline of ten percentage points in their return on equity. There was only a percentage point decline in ROEs of banking and finance companies.
The ROEs of non-finance companies and finance companies were 14.5 per cent and 15.8 per cent, respectively, for the recently concluded fiscal.
Larger companies as represented by CNX 100 continue to enjoy better ROE than mid-cap companies.
The ROE of large companies (excluding financials) was 16.7 per cent compared with 10 per cent in the case of mid-sized companies.
Higher interest costs were the key reason for mid-sized companies faring worse.
Interestingly, with their ROE at 10 per cent and high borrowing costs, it doesn't make sense for mid-cap companies to add leverage at this juncture as it may not benefit ROEs.
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Sting operation exposes rot of corruption in Delhi Police Maja Daruwala talking on Headlines Today, 05 February 2014.
Delhi police should be answerable to Delhi voters, Scroll.in, February 05, 2014 .
Letters to the editor , The Statesman, January 24, 2014 .
Centre ignored SC directions to initiate police reforms , Hindustan Times, January 22, 2014 .
NHRC notice to DGP over Ferozabad incident , The Times of India, January 17, 2014 .
Sri Lanka provides the argument for disbanding the Commonwealth , The Independent, December 13, 2013 .
Civil liberties groups call SC ruling a blow to basic rights , TOI, December 12, 2013 .
US to keep tab on Sri Lanka's Human Rights record , The Nation, December 10, 2013 .
International Community Must Continue To Monitor Sri Lanka: Commonwealth HR Initiative , Colombo Telegraph, December 10, 2013 .
Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative condemns thrashing of murder suspects in Anantapur, Colombo Telegraph, December 10, 2013 .
CHRI commemorates human rights day, Colombo Telegraph, December 10, 2013 .
Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative condemns thrashing of murder suspects in Anantapur, TOI, December 03, 2013 .
Stringent law to protect whistle blowers needed: Right's group,Business Standard, December 02, 2013 .
Open policing and freedom of information in India and Russia, The Guardian, November 20, 2013 .
GLOBAL CALL FOR THE PROTECTION OF CIVIL SOCIETY IN SRI LANKA, Rights Now, November 15, 2013 .
Activists From 50 Countries Concern About President Rajapaksa's Speech At C'wealth Peoples Forum, Colombo Telegraph, November 15, 2013.
Students to intensify stir over CHOGM The Hindu, November 05, 2013.
Despite Tamil opposition, Manmohan 'keen' on attending CHOGM India Today, November 01, 2013.
This CHOGM, The Commonwealth Will Be At A Critical Place – C'wealth Human Rights Initiative, Colombo Telegraph, October 24, 2013 .
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Whistle-blower's bill weakened, RTI Act style DNA Spacial, August 20, 2013.
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An elderly man died in a house fire in Ensley Thursday morning, marking the fourth fire fatality in Birmingham in 2014.
Neighbors rescued a woman from a burning home in the 900 block of 19th Street Southwest after a fire broke out around 5:20 a.m., but 89-year-old James Thomas Riley was unable to escape and he later perished in the blaze.
Riley's daughter told ABC 33/40 reporter Bryant Somerville that she was asleep when the fire started and woke up to the loud sound of concerned neighbors pounding on her door.
The cause of the fire is unknown at this time. An investigation remains ongoing.
According to Birmingham Fire Battalion Chief C.W. Mardis, three of the four fatal fires in Birmingham this year were caused by space heaters.
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Women & Gender
Ensuring equity between women and men is the key to unleashing the full potential of communities to transform their lives. Mercy Corps addresses the unmet needs of women and girls in places where they have been marginalized and disempowered, while recognizing that it is vital to involve men and boys in the process of helping women and girls claim their equal place.
Throughout our programs, we consider the needs of both genders and build on the courage and resourcefulness of women to help them improve their families and communities.
All stories about Women & Gender
Afghanistan: International Women's Day: Working hard for our futures March 8, 2012
While we at the Mercy Corps office in Kabul celebrate International Women's Day, it remains a sad reality that much of the rest of Afghanistan is not.
Indonesia: Healthier babies in Jakarta's poorest neighborhoods March 7, 2012
Did you know that a father holding his infant on his shoulder at the end of the day may be the best way to soothe a cranky child? The baby is often comforted by the father's heartbeat and his calm demeanor, which relieves a tired and stressed mother after a long day of infant care.
Colombia: Children find brighter futures off the streets March 1, 2012
Espacios para Crecer, or Spaces to Grow, uses education to fight child labor in Bogotá's most impoverished neighborhoods.
Uganda: Acting up for healthier communities February 27, 2012
There's been a lot of action in northern Uganda lately. But in an area still recovering from the government's 21-year war with the Lord' Resistance Army, this is, for once, a welcome kind of drama.
Mongolia: Yak slippers point to the future of small business February 22, 2012
Holding a child's slipper — deep chocolate brown with a strong leather sole — I marvel at the fine warmth of the yak felt and realize this is not just a shoe.
Haiti: Protecting small business owners in Haiti February 9, 2012
Japan: Women back to work as seaweed harvesting begins February 3, 2012
Yesterday I met Hiroko Mirura. In her early 60s, Ms. Mirura is a former scallop merchant, proud wife of a fisherman, and a strong female leader in the town of Minamisanriku.
Libya: Ambassador Rice visits resource center December 2, 2011
U.S. Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice toured a photography exhibit, watched a film and participated in a discussion with the artists at our newly opened Civil Society Resource Center in Benghazi on Nov. 22.
Haiti: Insuring women-owned businesses against natural disaster December 1, 2011
I have been in Haiti for a mere 36 hours and have already waded through a river, trekked through rice fields, climbed mountains and stumbled upon a buzzing open market in a remote village in the Central Plateau.
Central African Republic: From violence to vocation, fear to freedom October 24, 2011
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A discussion of various crochet techniques, including Interlocking Crochet™, a unique crochet technique which creates a double-sided fabric.
You can use yarn or a double strand of embroidery thread to weave through your project, creating simple, but beautiful designs.
When looking at a single crocheted or basic Afghan/Tunisian crocheted item, you'll notice blocks are created by the vertical bars and horizontal threads. These blocks form a mesh on which embroidery stitches can be worked to create a beautiful design. The most popular stitch used is the cross stitch.
If you are a true Tunisian novice, refer to her previous book, Get Hooked on Tunisian Crochet.
The New Tunisian Crochet, Contemporary Designs from Time-Honored Traditions by Dora Ohrenstein is a new Tunisian/Afghan crochet book with some great added features.
The beauty of this stitch is the textured knit-like fabric it creates. The Waffle Stitch results in a pleasant waffle-like pattern on one side and rows of running stitches on the other side.
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Raymond Michael Leavins is 42 years old. He is 5'9", 145 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes.
In May, Panama City Police responded to a call in the 1400 block of Lisenby Ave. They determined that Raymond Michael Leavins had been engaged in a verbal altercation with the victim which escalated into a physical altercation. During the course of the fight, police say Leavins choked the victim and then held a knife to her throat. He then proceeded to force her to a wooded area and held her against her will.
His last known address is listed on 9th Street in Panama City. If you know where Raymond Michael Leavins is now, call Crimestoppers at 785-Tips.


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Curio Professional 6
If Zengobi's Curio Professional 6.2 had a television commercial, I suspect it would be in the style of the late Billy Mays. Curio is a single application for note taking, outlining, mind mapping, project management, charting, drawing, presenting, and more. Zengobi describes Curio as a brainstorming and project management application for creative types and visual thinkers. Curio executes most of its features with aplomb, but with so many of them Curio puts up a very busy interface.
A Curio document is a collection of "idea spaces." Idea spaces are like slides in Keynote or PowerPoint, canvases upon which you add a mélange of text, images and diagrams collectively referred to as "figures." The simplest figures are lines and shapes that can be drawn on the idea space, then moved, resized, and colored as desired. When an idea space's background is set to mimic notebook paper, text figures snap to the lines, perfect for taking notes. Curio also accepts input from pressure-sensitive drawing tablets so you can doodle on your notepad, too. Though unlike other figures, drawings can't be moved and don't respect layers-they're always on the top layer.
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List figures are hierarchical outlines similar to Microsoft Word's outline feature set. In Curio, lists are movable objects that can be dragged to any position on the idea space. Annoyingly, there is no provision for importing lists from other sources, and a block of return-separated text pasted into a list figure will be treated as a single line, not as individual items.
Curio also sports table figures allowing you to create a grid and fill it with text, images and other figures. Compared to the often-maddening table editors in word processors and Web page editors, Curio's tables are refreshingly easy to create and manipulate. Images dropped into a cell scale neatly with the table as it's resized. Selecting cells, even non-contiguous sets, works exactly like it ought to.
Still another figure type is a moveable text box called the index card. In its default form the index card figure looks exactly like a real index card-the same shape, the same 3-by-5 aspect ratio, even the same red line at the top and blue lines below.
The last major figure is the mind map. Mind mapping is a brainstorming and note taking technique that eschews linear, monochromatic writing in favor of a hub and spoke diagram with liberal use of color and images. Curio has all the major components mind mapping software requires: easy creation of nodes, automatic layout, and ample formatting options to customize the shape and color of the nodes and lines. Mind map nodes, like most Curio figures, can be assigned one of five priority ranks from "very low" to "urgent." Figures can be rated from one to five stars, flagged with a variety of icons, and have a checkbox attached. Each of those attributes can be searched against allowing you to find, say, all the flagged figures with a three-star rating marked urgent.
Zengobi touts Curio's project management capabilities, though they mostly amount to the ability to assign start and end dates to figures. Start and end dates for items in a hierarchical figure like a list or mind map can be chained to the items above and below. A status tab in Curio's inspector pane lists all the figures with dates assigned grouped by due date.


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Christal was wearing a hat by Magid from Loehmann's. It cost $29.99. Her Donna Morgan dress was $39.99 from Marshalls and her BCBG shoes were $70 at TJMaxx.
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Students at West Parish Elementary School Wednesday were treated to a laser show set to music, then immediately immersed themselves in examining and even trying on some of the world's great inventions during the "Big Fat Science Show."
The presentation allowed students to handle arrowheads and other simple tools from the Stone Age, compare and contrast the Roman and Greek styles of metal armor with medieval chain mail and modern bulletproof vests. Some students tried on the Roman-style armor, which included a breastplate, shield and helmet, weighing in at about 50 pounds.
Told the weight of metal covering her, second-grader Adrianna Snow exclaimed that she was "too young" for that. Pupils were also observing the size, shape, artistic touches and functions of the armor and weaponry.
Kaleidoscopes were on display, along with other examples of optical illusions. There was also a microscope available for use, and even an old-view camera son display.
Pupils got close to topographical maps of New England, bows and arrowheads, timekeeping and navigational devices such as compasses and sextants. They could also practice writing with quill pens and inks — with ink quickly mopped up from that table, and arms and faces smeared in green, magenta and black.
Finally, there was the Age of Machines table, exhibiting several types of motors, including a sterling and a hero's engine.
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CSU tennis earns accolades from ITA, TennisRecruiting.net
Rams recognized for academic and recruiting excellence, fan support
Tennis recap: Colorado State falls to No. 48 UNLV in MW championships
Colorado State drops first round of championships, concluding season play
Falcons soar past Rams, 6-1
Colorado State drops final match of regular season
Tennis Recap: Rams fall in home finale 7-0
Colorado State comes up short against conference-rival Wyoming
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2010-11 (Junior): Notched 21 overall victories... Playing at the Nos. 2 and 3 positions, compiled a singles record of 9-21... In doubles, paired up with two partners and played at the No. 2 position during regular-season play... Compiled a doubles record of 12-17.
2009-10 (Sophomore): A former walk-on, led the Rams in overall singles victories, going 17-18...Earned six wins during the fall tournament season and 11 during the dual matches, playing at the Nos. 4, 5 and 6 positions, after playing a limited schedule in 2008-09...According to coaches, showed the most Improvement of anybody on the team...Combined with doubles partners, went 12-22.
2008-09 (Freshman): Compiled wins against Weber State, Utah State and CU while battling through some illness, which restricted her playing time.
High School: Attended Capital High School in Boise, Idaho, where she earned four varsity letters in tennis and was part of a conference championship team in both her sophomore and junior years... state champion for Idaho in 2008 for girls singles, and State champion for mixed doubles in 2006.
Personal: Born Oct. 7, 1988, in Boise, Idaho, to George Mulhern and Tricia Kennedy...Has one older sister, Kaitlyn. who also attended CSU...Dad played tennis for San Jose State...Is related to Matt Mulhern, a former tennis player at Air Force...Majoring in zoology.
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Who's that knocking on your door, Moraga? If the Town Council approves a new ordinance Wednesday, if it's a solicitor or peddler, they will require a permit from the city.
According to a staff report, Moraga officials have long assumed that the town already had an ordinance requiring peddlers and solicitors to have a license. After increased complaints from residents about rude and aggressive salespeople, however, a thorough search of town archives failed to turn up any such requirement. Nearby cities such as Concord, Pleasant Hill and Walnut Creek all require that door-to-door solicitors and peddlers complete a registration process prior to knocking on doors.
On Wednesday, the council will consider approving Moraga's first such ordinance.
"Over the past few years, complaints from Moraga residents have increased and a common theme of aggressive, confrontational, and rude behavior by peddlers and solicitors has emerged," said Police Chief Robert Priebe in a staff report to the council.
He cites an example of out-of-state magazine salespeople being brought to Moraga, using false and misleading information to make sales, and being transported to another area the following day.
Sometimes sales people are rude – one resident complained that she was cursed at by a food peddler when she refused to open the door. Others have had similar complaints about a solar company.
It can get more than just rude. In 2005, a 90-year-old Lafayette woman was murdered by an out-of-state magazine salesman who was later found and convicted, Priebe said.
"The proposed new ordinance balances First Amendment rights with the rights of property owners to privacy and security in their own homes," Priebe said. It requires all peddlers and solicitors to first obtain a permit from the police department.
The council meeting begins at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Joaquin Moraga Intermediate School Auditorium, 1010 Camino Pablo.
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If you're motivated to reclaim your fitness, heading back to the gym can be overwhelming with the wide selection of cardio equipment.
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The U.S., unbeaten in five games at the 10-team tournament, advanced to the championship game by beating Quebec 9-1 in semifinal play Friday in Sydney.
The Americans, who have outscored their opponents 43-6, will face Team Pacific, which defeated Russia 7-3 in the other semifinal Friday night in North Sydney.
The gold medal game is slated for 5 p.m.
U.S. 9, Quebec 1: Tournament leading scorer Colin White netted two goals and two assists in the rout.
Matthew Tkachuk and Nicholas Boka also potted a pair of goals with singles going to Auston Matthews, Jack Roslovic and Michael Floodstrand.
Pascal Aquin answered for Quebec.
Team Pacific 7, Russia 3: Matteo Gennaro collected two goals and an assist for the winners.
Noah Juulsen, Ty Ronning, Nick Merkley, Giorgio Estephan and Jansen Harkins also scored for Pacific, winners of four straight.
Dmitry Zhukenov, Aleksandr Zhebelev and Artur Tyanulin replied for the Russians.
Russia and Quebec will play in the bronze medal game today at noon at Centre 200.
Team Atlantic ready for final game
Team Atlantic had to wait one more day to play its final game ever at the World Under-17 Hockey Challenge.
Atlantic's seventh-place game against the Czech Republic, slated for Friday evening in Port Hawkesbury, was pushed back to this afternoon because of the blizzard that crippled much of the Maritimes. The ninth-place game in Port Hawkesbury and fifth-place game in North Sydney were played Friday afternoon as were the two semifinals Friday evening at Centre 200.
"The roads, I guess, were just awful with whiteout conditions so it was best to just postpone it to 2 o'clock (Saturday) in Port Hawkesbury," Atlantic head coach Doug Doull said.
"This will give the guys a little more time to prepare for our last game as Team Atlantic."
This under-17 championship marks the final time that five regional teams will compete. Beginning next year, three national teams will represent Canada at the tournament.
That fact isn't lost on the Atlantic team, including its head coach.
"One of the messages we're passing along to the guys is that this is a chance to go down in history, winning that last game," said Doull, a former NHLer from Glace Bay who now lives in Moncton. "I think we'll see a real effort, maybe even more so after being pent up because of the postponement.
"Maybe that extra day of rest will help the guys heal up a little bit. In a tournament like this, fatigue has set in. It's been taxing on them and they could use that day off."
Team Atlantic had played four games in four days, compiling a 1-3 round-robin record in the competitive B pool with Ontario, the United States, Russia and Germany.
The feisty Atlantic squad put up a valiant effort in a 5-1 loss in their opener Monday against Ontario. The next day, they were no match for the U.S., losing 9-1 to the unbeaten Americans, who steamrolled through the preliminary round.
Atlantic did manage to get its first win on New Year's Day, a 4-3 decision over Germany. The team finished the round robin with a 5-3 loss to Russia on Thursday.
"I thought that Ontario game, where we killed off two 5-on-3 power plays, we kept it 1-0 in the first period, we showed that we belonged in this tournament," Doull said. "They (Ontario) capitalized on our mistakes and that's what the best teams do here.
"After that game, it's tough to come right back and play against a strong U.S. team. It's a tough tournament when you're trying to pull guys together from the day before and expect them to match up against a team that plays against 20-year-olds the entire year like the U.S. does.
"But I'm proud of these guys. The fact that they gave everything they had, we couldn't ask for much more out of them in terms of effort. But we're still not done. There's still a job to be finished here against the Czechs."
Ontario 6, Sweden 3: At North Sydney, Lawson Crouse and Dylan Strome each tallied twice for Ontario, a pre-tournament favourite which finishes a disappointing fifth.
Canada West 4, Germany 3: At Port Hawkesbury, Ryan Gardiner's goal eight minutes into the third period stood as the winner in the ninth-place game.


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The issue: Cass County's adult education program is now offering its GED classes online.
Our view: This is a great move that makes this needed help available to even more local residents.
Cass-Logan Educational Attainment Resource took a huge step forward last month when it began to offer classes preparing students for the General Educational Development test online.
Director Tami McMahan says the move is intended to allow students with difficult schedules or transportation issues to obtain a high school diploma. Because of the new program, McMahan said, nine students who otherwise would have been unable to complete the GED classes are taking those classes online.
Among them, she said, are two new mothers. Others simply perform better online than in a classroom setting.
All told, CLEAR has more than 200 students enrolled in its English as a new language and basic education classes.
Both online and face-to-face classes are offered free of charge to CLEAR's students, who pay for the final GED test themselves.
All potential GED students have to register in person at CLEAR to demonstrate their interest, then can begin working through the GED material online if they go that route.
Students spend at least nine hours a week working with a program that is tailored to their needs based on a preliminary assessment. A CLEAR instructor monitors each student's progress and can tweak the material manually as needed.
Extensive review tools within the online program allow instructors to see exactly where a student is struggling or doing well.
The Logansport-Cass County Economic Development Foundation launched the CLEAR program two years ago in response to a community need. Business leaders had seen the statistics indicating that Logansport and Cass County were trailing the state in terms of education levels. They realized that if the city and county were going to sell themselves to prospective employers, they had to find a way to help local residents obtain the education they needed.
The program has been a huge success, and this latest feature is just another step to making educational opportunities available.
If you or a family member needs the services CLEAR has to offer, you now have one less excuse not to pursue them. Congratulations to McMahan and the CLEAR program on making this option available.
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Before Steven Pinker wrote bestsellers on language and human nature, he wrote several technical monographs on language acquisition that have become classics in cognitive science. Learnability and Cognition, first published in 1989, brought together two big topics: how do children learn their mother tongue, and how does the mind represent basic categories of meaning such as space, time, causality, agency, and goals?
In Theory and Evidence Barbara Koslowski brings into sharp focus the ways in which the standard literature both distorts and underestimates the reasoning abilities of ordinary people. She provides the basis for a new research program on a more complete characterization of scientific reasoning, problem solving, and causality.
As children acquire arithmetic skills, they often develop "bugs" - small, local misconceptions that cause systematic errors. Mind Bugs combines a novel cognitive simulation process with careful hypothesis testing to explore how mathematics students acquire procedural skills in instructional settings, focusing in particular on these procedural misconceptions and what they reveal about the learning process.
Recent approaches to language processing have focused either on individual cognitive processes in producing and understanding language or on social cognitive factors in interactive conversation. Although the cognitive and social approaches to language processing would seem to have little theoretical or methodological common ground, the goal of this book is to encourage the merging of these two traditions.
In The Algebraic Mind, Gary Marcus attempts to integrate two theories about how the mind works, one that says that the mind is a computer-like manipulator of symbols, and another that says that the mind is a large network of neurons working together in parallel.
How do children learn that the word "dog" refers not to all four-legged animals, and not just to Ralph, but to all members of a particular species? How do they learn the meanings of verbs like "think," adjectives like "good," and words for abstract entities such as "mortgage" and "story"? The acquisition of word meaning is one of the fundamental issues in the study of mind.
Spatial competence is a central aspect of human adaptation. To understand human cognitive functioning, we must understand how people code the locations of things, how they navigate in the world, and how they represent and mentally manipulate spatial information. Until recently three approaches have dominated thinking about spatial development. Followers of Piaget claim that infants are born without knowledge of space or a conception of permanent objects that occupy space. They develop such knowledge through experience and manipulation of their environment.
In the past twenty-five years there has been an explosion in research on the development of perception. This research has produced discoveries at multiple levels: ecological analyses of the information available for perception, models of representation and process, and improved understanding of biological mechanisms. In this comprehensive treatment of infant perception, Philip Kellman and Martha Arterberry bring together work at these multiple levels to produce a new picture of perception's origins.
Research on creolization, language change, and language acquisition has been converging toward a triangulation of the constraints along which grammatical systems develop within individual speakers—and (viewed externally) across generations of speakers. The originality of this volume is in its comparison of various sorts of language development from a number of linguistic-theoretic and empirical perspectives, using data from both speech and gestural modalities and from a diversity of acquisition environments.
Words, Thoughts, and Theories articulates and defends the "theory theory" of cognitive and semantic development—the idea that infants and young children, like scientists, learn about the world by forming and revising theories, a view of the origins of knowledge and meaning that has broad implications for cognitive science.
Race in the Making provides a new understanding of how people conceptualize social categories and shows why this knowledge is so readily recruited to create and maintain systems of unequal power.
Alvin Liberman and his colleagues at the Haskins Laboratory in New Haven created the techniques, the methods, and the insights appropriate to the study of speech perception.
In Mindblindness, Simon Baron-Cohen presents a model of the evolution and development of "mindreading." He argues that we mindread all the time, effortlessly, automatically, and mostly unconsciously. It is the natural way in which we interpret, predict, and participate in social behavior and communication. We ascribe mental states to people: states such as thoughts, desires, knowledge, and intentions.
Beginning to Read reconciles the debate that has divided theorists for decades over the "right" way to help children learn to read. Drawing on a rich array of research on the nature and development of reading proficiency, Adams shows educators that they need not remain trapped in the phonics versus teaching-for-meaning dilemma.
In the field of psychology, beginning in the 1950s, Eleanor J. Gibson's ideas and experiments revolutionized the study of development. She nearly single-handedly developed the field of perceptual learning with a series of brilliant studies that culminated in the seminal work, Perceptual Learning and Development. More recently, Gibson has been a driving force in the profound shift from mentalistic models, or intellectual stages, toward an ecological view of development, involving function and action.
How do animals represent space, time, number and rate? From insects to humans, Charles Gallistel explores the sophisticated computations performed in these ubiquitous yet neglected domains of animal learning. He proposes new and imaginative hypotheses about brain and mental processes and provides original insights about animal behavior using a computational-representational framework that is an exciting alternative to traditional associative theories of learning.
Taking a stand midway between Piaget's constructivism and Fodor's nativism, Annette Karmiloff-Smith offers an exciting new theory of developmental change that embraces both approaches, showing how both are necessary to a fundamental theory of human cognition. Karmiloff-Smith shifts the focus from what cognitive science can offer the study of development to what a developmental perspective can offer cognitive science, presenting a coherent portrait of the flexibility and creativity of the human mind as it develops from infancy to middle childhood.
In Concepts, Kinds, and Cognitive Development, Frank C. Keil provides a coherent account of how concepts and word meanings develop in children, adding to our understanding of the representational nature of concepts and word meanings at all ages.
When children learn a language, they soon are able to make surprisingly subtle distinctions: "donate them a book" sounds odd, for example, even though "give them a book" is perfectly natural. How can this happen, given that children do not confine themselves to the sentence types they hear, and are usually not corrected when they speak ungrammatically? Steven Pinker resolves this paradox in a detailed theory of how children acquire argument structure.
Very young children are surrounded by a huge array of objects, all unfamiliar; yet by the age of three, and despite their limited information processing abilities, children are remarkably capable of categorizing objects and learning object labels. In this landmark work on early conceptual and lexical development Ellen Markman challenges the fundamental assumptions of traditional theories of language acquisition and proposes a new notion of how children acquire categories.
Systems That Learn presents a mathematical framework for the study of learning in a variety of domains. It provides the basic concepts and techniques of learning theory as well as a comprehensive account of what is currently known about a variety of learning paradigms.
Are children fundamentally different kinds of thinkers than adults? Or are the cognitive differences between young children and adults merely a matter of accumulation of knowledge? In this book, Susan Carey develops an alternative to these two ways of thinking about childhood cognition, putting forth the idea of conceptual change and its relation to the development of knowledge systems.
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Ok, official AVFC site, you might want to think about your warning in a tweet about Stephen Warnock joining Twitter: "Just to make fans aware, @stephenwarnock3 is indeed the real deal." The real deal? As in...a decent leftback? No, just his real self on Twitter. How long until @mattf15 starts trolling him like he was Darren Bent the other night?


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Cloud Nine -Beautiful Semi- Oceanfront Home with Pool in Nags Head
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CLOUD NINE is just where you will be once you step inside this beautiful Nags Head beach home, only one lot back from the ocean.
This beautifully decorated 8 bedroom (sleeps 22) home offers everything you could want in a vacation home....8 bedrooms,(6 master suites,4 with king beds), 8 full
bathrooms, 2 half baths, game room with pool table and wet bar, big screen TV, private pool, hot tub, spacious great room, large fully equipped kitchen with bar sink and lots of outdoor deck areas for enjoying the sun, ocean view and ocean breezes. Plus, you are never "out of touch" as the house has high-speed and wireless internet access is provided for your convenience.
Not only does this home offer every amenity you can imagine, you also receive access to the private Village Beach Club, located just down the street, with an oceanfront outdoor pool,tennis courts, game room and cafe.
CLOUD NINE is also centrally located to all the attractions and activities offered on the Outer Banks....historic lighthouses, beautiful Roanoke Island, Jockey Ridge State Park, Wright Brothers Memorial, the National Seashore, all water activities and ocean or sound fishing. Plus, there are restaurants and wonderful shopping areas within walking distance of the house.
You will not find a more luxurious and comfortable vacation home on the Outer Banks. Perfect for family reunions, corporate retreats or just your own private get-a way, CLOUD NINE truly has it all!
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1 Pyramid Bunk (sleeps 3), 1 Bunk Set
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8 TV's (1 Big Screen), 3 VCR's, 3 DVD Players, 2 Stereos with CD
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Elizabethan Gardens, Tour of English Sailing Ship, Quaint Shops)
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A multi-media design studio in Thailand that specialises in LGBT issues has created an adorable infographic based animation arguing the case for same-sex marriage.
The studio, Gay Me Design, is made up of a group of designers who believe in using their professional abilities to help create a better society and creating media for social good.
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4 BR--Lakefront with dock, Little Niangua-calm water in Camdenton
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This House has been remodeled & was listed for the first time in 2011, we had many wonderful guests & several are returning for their second year with us!!!!
Location: Northwest of Camdenton/Southwest of Sunrise Beach, Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri, USA (West of Osage Beach)On the Calm Waters of the Little Niangua Arm
Enjoy your own private get away spot at the beautiful Lake of the Ozarks. Summer Fun at the lake. Escape the city to relax in our quiet country setting, or stay year round. 2,100 sq. ft. home on the water enjoying the smooth water at the 5.4 Mile Marker of the Little Niangua Arm of the Lake of the Ozarks. Very few steps to the water. There is a dock with plenty of fishing & swimming space and a 10' x 24' slip for your boat. If you like the outdoors you'll love the lower patio with ample eating and seating areas and gas grill. There is a covered balconey on the upper level overlooking the lake.
Enjoy the calm, glassy waters found on the Little Niangua. This smooth water provides the perfect conditions for water-skiing, tubing, personal watercrafts, and swimming. It's also no secret that these waters boast some of the best bass fishing in the Midwest. Also great crappie, walleye, channel catfish and paddlefish fishing.
The view of the lake, the bluffs across the way and sunsets you will experience will be breathtaking.
The 3 bathrooms all have a shower/tub. One of the bathrooms is off of the Master Bedroom which has a Queen size bed. There is a King size bed in one bedroom, Full size bed in one and the 4th Bedroom sleeps 4 in a Full/Twin Bunk and an additional Twin Bed.
An inflatable mattress is also provided.
The fully equipped kitchen has a microwave, crock pot, coffee pot, pots, pans, utensils, etc. Range with smooth top cooking surface, dishwasher, refrigerator with ice maker.
Lower level has a bar equipped with compact frig, microwave, blender, everything you need to fix those cool drinks to enjoy while lounging on the patio just outside the door.
For more information I have a website on:
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Email me & I will sent you a link
Pets are welcome (Pet Policy summary ---pets are not allowed in bedrooms or on bedding & must be up to date on vaccinations, tick & flea control, and be properly supervised, etc)
house rental amenities
Linens Provided
Washer & Dryer
Central Heat & Air Conditioning
3 Full Bathrooms
Refrigerator with/ice maker
Bar Refrigerator, Blender
2 Microwaves
Toaster, Crock Pot, Coffeemaker, Cooking Utensils
Gas BBQ Grill
Covered upper balconey
Lower level covered Patio
Seating for 12 for your outdoor dining
Boat Slip 10 x 24
Picnic table & Fish cleaning sink on dock
activities and attractions in Camdenton Missouri
- Lakefront
- Boating
- Swimming
- Fishing
Other Activities in the area include caves, hiking, waterpark, go-karts, lazer tag, mini golf, factory outlet mall, theaters, golf courses.
vacation rental rates
Deposit required at Booking
Credit Cards accepted through Paypal
$350.00 nightly rate High Season June to Labor Day
Weekly rentals preferred, Holiday's + 15%
In addition to the Rental rate there is a Cleaning Fee, Pet Fee & Tax
Check in 3:00pm and Check out 10:30am
We are required to collect 8.975% tax on Rental Fee
Feel free to ask about shorter stays and special deals for "off season"
Discounts may be available -Ask-


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Ocean/Beach View - Isla Verde Puerto Rico in Puerto Rico
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Penthouse Studio with king size bed and a full size Sofa bed.
Equipped kitchen, 39" Vizio FLAT Cable TV, high speed Internet, DVD, large balcony, AC,Phone and Free parking. Located on the BEACH at the ESJ Towers just 5 minutes from the Intern'l Airport and next door to two Resort
Hotels with Casinos...the El San Juan Resort Hotel and the
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Restaurant and Mi Casita Restaurant serving favorite Puerto Rican
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Rico. Comfortable for two to four NONSMOKING persons only, no pets.
PS. Breathtaking Ocean View...the BEST on the Island!
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Equipped kitchen, towels and linen, central air conditioner, Cable
TV, DVD, high speed Internet, beach towels, free parking.
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Recreational facilities include large pool, children's pool,
jacuzzi, sauna, game room, exercise room, direct access to
beach, ping pong room, billiard room, business center.
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Price is $115.00 to 140.00 per night, a $250.00 refundable security
deposit is required and a $60.00 cleaning fee. This penthouse
apartment has a prime view and location with a large balcony.
Call for available dates. You may charge your vacation to your Visa,
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Isabel Martinez 1-800-200-5964
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ArcSight, LogRhythm, and NitroSecurity ace mining event logs for security alerting, compliance auditing, and other usesFollow @rogeragrimes
Log storage. Storing tens of millions to billions of messages takes a lot of disk space. Most appliances come with terabytes of disk storage in RAID configurations. Both software and hardware products claim to do some sort of storage compression, but as with transmission compression claims, take the vendors' figures with a grain of salt. Their storage compression statistics are often based upon the smallest event log messages and the highest compression values, and don't reflect real-world results.
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A few products have what is known as "storage groups," which are individually defined logical partitions devoted to a particular task, such as PCI compliance, or a particular grouping of devices -- for example, Cisco wireless routers. In addition to organizing a certain class of data for reporting purposes, storage groups can be used to make sure that a particular application has enough disk space to serve a particular policy requirement -- for instance, save data for two years. ArcSight is especially strong in this area, with sizing parameters and CPU prioritization available.
Lastly, you'll want to determine whether event log data is stored or archived in the vendor's proprietary format, in its raw (unfiltered and unstructured) form, or in both? Most products store active data in a proprietary format, but archived or exported data remains in a raw format. This means that re-imported data will have to be parsed and indexed again to be useful, but it's also easier to prove chain-of-custody concerns if that raw data (assuming it is also digitally signed) is later needed for legal reasons.
Real-time viewing. Most products allow real-time viewing of incoming data and show some top trends -- often called tailing. If you have a system of any moderate size, with hundreds to thousands of messages coming in every second, real-time viewing of all data quickly loses its allure. All products allow real-time data to be filtered to show only relevant events for a particular interest. Often these filters can be saved to search historical data and produce related reports.
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