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Conducting meetings in the open and allowing the public to view how their government works is at the heart of what makes our government work effectively.
That hasn't been the case as three members of Carrollton City Council volunteered at the mayor's request to work on revising the Enterprise Incentive Program.
We hope you enjoy this special edition of The News-Democrat today. We are delivering this November issue in place of the River City Trading Post that we normally mail to you each Monday.
Despite watching most of my favorite television shows on DVR, I still have seen more of the nasty campaign ads this year than I like. I'm sure you are in the same boat.
The airwaves have been bombarded by the two U.S. Senate contenders trying to define each other through name-calling, taking things out of context and downright deceptive advertising.
The weather has changed and I'm excited about all of the outdoor activities that are coming up in downtown Carrollton.
Carrollton Main Street Program's First Fridays at the Courthouse Square returns from 4-8 p.m., Friday, June 6, with live music from the Downtown County Band, a favorite of crowds from years past.
In just a week, the campaigning will be over. Election signs will come down, and we will no longer be bombarded with political ads and the coverage of the national races on the evening news.
We will know who is going to be the president, who will represent us in the 4th Congressional District and in the state House of Representa-tives, and who will serve on our local city councils and commissions.
We know there is a drug problem in Carroll County. We see the charges lodged against local residents week after week in the newspaper's stories and public records.
It's so commonplace we might take it for granted. We shouldn't.
A couple of experiences Sunday got me thinking about how different the outcomes could have been.
The first was on a trip to Madison, Ind., in the early afternoon to run an errand. As I made my way down Hwy. 36 toward Milton, I came up behind a car that could not stay in its lane.
It is more than disappointing to see that Carrollton City Council is already considering going back on a commitment made to local residents when the concept of developing an RV campground on the banks of the Kentucky River was considered and adopted last year.
At a special meeting last week, city council discussed a resolution that would offer discounts to those who stay for 15 days. That's a great idea. It might inspire folks to visit our city and take in our region's natural beauty for more than a few days at a time.
Carroll County Fiscal Court has the opportunity to make a big difference in the lives of the county's youth as they consider a request to provide "stop-gap funding" for the Extension service 4-H position.
The Extension agent position for the county's 4-H program has been open since Mandy Parker left in 2009. She built an excellent program that involved our youth in healthy, life-enriching programs, some of which continue today because of the dedication of volunteers.
The end of the year is always an excellent time to reflect on accomplishments. And I'm happy to say I've seen progress on many of the items that I included on my 2010 Christmas wish list for Carroll County.
This means some of our important needs have been met, while others have seen the first steps of progress.
There's a lot of focus on this Friday — it's the day big retailers mark some special buys and draw big crowds in the pre-dawn hours.
Yes, I've joined some of the people out there in years past, battling for those Black Friday Specials. This year, like more recent years, however, I will be relaxing at home on this day instead of fighting the crowds and interrupting what I hope is a good night's sleep after stuffing myself on Thursday with my wife's excellent Thanksgiving fixin's.


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Overview of FeedSync support in the Microsoft Sync Framework
What is FeedSync ?
If you have not heard about "FeedSync" yet, it is the official name of an open and interoperable standard for representing synchronization metadata in a XML format. This specification was formerly called by Microsoft as "SSE" (Simple Sharing Extensions), and its name was changed to "FeedSync" prior to the first release version.
The fact that the "FeedSync" model is completely based on XML and it is quite simple to represent, makes this specification a good candidate to guarantee interoperability with other platforms.
The complete specification is based on two fundamental aspects,
1. A way to represent the "FeedSync" model as XML extensions that can be easily attached to any existing document. The most common use nowadays is to include them as part of a syndication feed like RSS or ATOM to keep synchronization metadata about each available item. Many people have started proving parsers for this specification as part of their Syndication libraries, some examples are Simple Sharing Extensions For .NET, Rome for Java, or Argotic (.NET)
Let's take a quick look at the metadata attached to some items in a RSS feed.
<feed xmlns:sx='http://feedsync.org/2007/feedsync'><
title>Hello World</title> <link>http://weblogs.asp.net/cibrax</link><
description>this is my feed</description> <sx:sharing since='11-05-2007T19:33:27Z' until='14-05-2007T19:33:27Z'><
sx:related link='http://kzu/full' type='complete' /> </sx:sharing><
item> <title>Foo Title</title><
description>Foo Description</description> <Foo Title='Foo' /><
sx:sync id='d92d64f5-c006-4086-a35a-c5195448d3ad' updates='2' deleted='false' noconflicts='false'> <sx:history sequence='2' when='18-05-2007T19:33:27Z' by='Cibrax' /><
sx:history sequence='1' when='14-05-2007T19:33:27Z' by='JohnFoo' /> </sx:sync> </item></
feed>First of all, it adds optional metadata at feed level through the "sharing" element to include aggregated information about related feeds or sources. (The since and until attributes in that element represents the lower and upper bounds of the items contained within the feed).
Secondly, it includes synchronization metadata at item level with the "sync" element. This element contains the following information:
a. An identifier to represent the item (Id attribute), this identifier must be unique across all the synchronization peers.
b. An history of updates that includes the person that made a change to the item, and the date/time of that change. As you can see, this information is quite simple, it does not say anything about what were the changes made to the item (We will see later that this information is actually not important for the merging algorithm).
c. Flags to indicate if the item was deleted or contains conflicts. (The same item version or sequence number was modified in one or more replicas at the same time).
The rest of the information not mentioned here is part of the RSS specification itself and it does not have anything to do with "FeedSync".
2. An algorithm that use the synchronization metadata to merge the items across several peers. For instance, to perform a bidirectional synchronization of local information between two peers. The algorithm also uses the metadata to detect conflicts at the moment of doing the merge operation.
For example, if we have the following information in two different replicas
ItemA-Sequence1 ItemC-Sequence1 ItemB-Sequence1 After the first synchronization, the resulting information will be:
ItemA-Sequence1 ItemC-Sequence1 ItemB-Sequence1 ItemA-Sequence1 ItemC-Sequence1 ItemB-Sequence1 Now, Let's say the replica B changes the item A and B( The sequence or version is incremented)
ItemA-Sequence1 ItemC-Sequence1 ItemB-Sequence1 ItemA-Sequence2 ItemC-Sequence1 ItemB-Sequence2 If they synchronize again, the resulting information will be:
ItemA-Sequence2 ItemC-Sequence1 ItemB-Sequence2 ItemA-Sequence2 ItemC-Sequence1 ItemB-Sequence2 Now, if both replicas change the same item before synchronizing, for instance ItemC. At the moment of synchronizing the information, they will have the same sequence for ItemC, and therefore a conflict will exist. (The algorithm to detect conflicts is more complex than this, I am just giving an example)
ItemA-Sequence2 ItemC-Sequence2 ItemB-Sequence2 ItemA-Sequence2 ItemC-Sequence2 ItemB-Sequence2 Having these two important aspects, a developer wanting to synchronize information with other applications only has to represent that information as a FeedSync feed (A normal feed that includes "FeedSync" metadata) and expose it somewhere. Another application can later on combine that feed with its own feed using the merging algorithm, which will result in a full biredirectional synchronization between those two application.
As you can see, both aspects complement each other, an bidirectional synchronization can not be done with just one of them.
How to expose your information in a FeedSync feed with the Sync Framework
1. The first thing you have to do is to determine which information you will want to expose in the final feed. Let's say that you have several copies of a database with customer information spread across several locations (Different company's branches perhaps), and you want to keep all those copies synchronized. You will have to expose that information as part of a feed, so people in other locations can synchronize their data against that feed (This example assumes that one central feed is used, but you can actually have multiple feeds that synchronize each other having a kind of tree structure, this is one of the goodness about FeedSync, no central replica is required).
If you want to represent the customer's full name, address and phone number as an entry in a RSS feed, the entry will look as follow:
title>John Doe</title> <description>John Doe's Information</description><
Customer> <FullName>John Doe</FullName><
Address>Test Adress</Address> <PhoneNumber>xxx-xxxx-xxxx</PhoneNumber> </Customer></
item>This mapping between the real data and a XML payload (The RSS's entry data) can be done in the Sync Framework by having a concrete implementation of "FeedItemConverter" class. The implementation of this class will know how to map custom data to a XML payload and vice versa.
abstract class FeedItemConverter{
protected FeedItemConverter();
public abstract string ConvertItemDataToXmlText(object itemData); //Method to convert the actual item data into XML
public abstract object ConvertXmlToItemData(string itemXml); //Method to convert the XML data into the item data
I personally do not like much the signature of those methods, an string could be anything (itemXml), not just XML and that can not be enforced by the current API design. I would prefer to have something like this:
public abstract class FeedItemConverter
protected FeedItemConverter();
public abstract void WriteItemDataToXml(object itemData, XmlWriter xmlWriter); //Method to convert the actual item data into XML
public abstract object ReadItemDataFromXml(XmlReader xmlReader); //Method to convert the XML data into the item data
In the sample above, you should implement a "CustomerFeedItemConverter" to convert a customer instance into XML the xml representation and vice versa.
2. Secondly, you have to provide a mapping between your internal identifiers and the identifiers used in the synchronization metadata. From the MSDN documentation "
"A FeedIdConverter can convert replica IDs and item IDs from the flexible-length format of the provider to strings, and vice versa. Also, the ID converter must be able to generate a replica ID for an anonymous change. The FeedSync history for a change contains three potential attributes: sequence, when, and by. The by attribute represents the replica that made the change, but it is not required by the FeedSync schema and so might be absent. If a change does not include a by value, a replica ID must be generated for the change by combining the sequence and when values"
abstract class FeedIdConverter{
protected FeedIdConverter();
public abstract SyncIdFormatGroup IdFormats { get; }
public abstract string ConvertItemIdToString(SyncId itemId);
public abstract string ConvertReplicaIdToString(SyncId replicaId);
public abstract SyncId ConvertStringToItemId(string value);
public abstract SyncId ConvertStringToReplicaId(string value);
public abstract SyncId GenerateAnonymousReplicaId(string when, uint sequence);
Since the implementation of this provider will be the same most of the times, I think it would be a good idea to provide a default implementation of this provider as part of the Sync framework (It could provide extensibility points through virtual methods).
3. Once you have the item and id converters, they should be enough to start consuming or publishing FeedSync feeds with your custom information. The framework comes with two classes for that purpose, FeedConsumer and FeedProducer.
public class FeedProducer
public FeedProducer(KnowledgeSyncProvider storeProvider, FeedIdConverter idConverter, FeedItemConverter itemConverter);
public FeedIdConverter IdConverter { get; set; }
public EndpointState IncrementalFeedBaseline { get; set; }
public FeedItemConverter ItemConverter { get; set; }
public KnowledgeSyncProvider StoreProvider { get; set; }
public void ProduceFeed(Stream feedStream);
class FeedConsumer{
public FeedConsumer(KnowledgeSyncProvider storeProvider, FeedIdConverter idConverter, FeedItemConverter itemConverter);
public FeedItemConverter FeedItemConverter { get; set; }
public FeedIdConverter IdConverter { get; set; }
public KnowledgeSyncProvider StoreProvider { get; set; }
public EndpointState ConsumeFeed(Stream feedStream);
As you can see, those classes basically receive in the constructor the converters along with a sync repository (KnowledgeSyncProvider), the one that knows specific details about the underline data source. (for this example, it should know about the customers data in the database). All the magic is done by the methods ProduceFeed and ConsumeFeed, which reads/saves a feed from/to an existing stream. Again, I have three ideas to improve these classes,
a. They are tied to Rss/Atom, it should be extensible enough to support any document payload.
b. The underline stream must contain an existing Rss/Atom feed in order to save/read items on it. This is how these classes determine the format of the items. It would be great to have a way to specify a formatter for the items at the moment to save/read them. A approach very similar to the one taken by the Syndication API in WCF.
c. I would like to have a better integration with the WCF syndication API. I mean, a direct way to expose a REST endpoint for a feedsync feed, the consumer/producer classes could accept a SyndicationFeedFormatter as input to generate/consume the feed.
Once the data have been read from the underline stream into a sync repository, it can be used with the "SyncOrchestrator" (Part of the Sync Framework) to initiate a new synchronization session.
Complete Example "Browser Favorites"
A complete example that illustrates all the steps to implement a custom sync provider and expose its data as a FeedSync feed can be found here, http://blogs.msdn.com/sync/archive/2008/04/08/synchronization-of-browser-favorites-using-feedsync-and-the-microsoft-sync-framework.aspx
It basically shows how to synchronize the browser favorites information using FeedSync as the underline synchronization protocol.
Do you want to synchronize FeedSync data with clients behind a firewall and NAT ?
Now, that is possible thanks to WCF and the Relay service provided in Biztalk services. Imagine a WCF service that exposes feedsync items through the Relay service, if we use a WCF duplex contract for that service, it will be able to start a bidirectional synchronization with any client behind NAT and Firewalls. I will try to show this functionality any time soon.
In the meantime, If you want to know more about WCF duplex callbacks through NAT and Firewalls, I recommend this post written by Christian Weyer.
Federation Over TCP With WCF
One of the discussions that we had during the last summit with the rest of "Connected Systems" MVPs was the possibility of supporting a Federation Scenario over TCP in WCF. For many of us that scenario was possible in theory, but unfortunately no documentation or samples existed to support it. In fact, WCF only comes with pre-built binding for federation scenarios, the "WsFederationHttpBinding" binding, which is completely tied to Http.
For that reason, I decided to give it a shot and try to manipulate some custom bindings to use tcp instead of the common used http transport. One curios thing about TCP is that it requires security sessions (SecureConversation with requireSecurityContextCancellation equals to "True") in order to work fine. If you do not configure the binding with those security settings, WCF will throw a nice error message saying that the order of the binding elements is not correct. At the beginning I did not configure it in that way, and it took me sometime to figure out what the problem was, I would save some time with a better error description.
The resulting bindings for client, STS and the sample service were the following (In this sample, the client is authenticating against the service with a client certificate).
1. Client
customBinding> <binding name="STSBinding"><
security authenticationMode="SecureConversation" requireSecurityContextCancellation="true"> <secureConversationBootstrap authenticationMode="MutualCertificate"/></
security> <binaryMessageEncoding/><
tcpTransport /> </binding><
binding name="ServiceBinding"> <security authenticationMode="SecureConversation"><
secureConversationBootstrap authenticationMode="IssuedToken"> <issuedTokenParameters tokenType=http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/oasis-wss-saml-token-profile-1.1#SAMLV1.1><
issuer address="net.tcp://localhost:8000/sts" bindingConfiguration="STSBinding" binding="customBinding"> <identity><
dns value="STSAuthority"/> <!--Sample Cert for the STS --> </identity></
issuer> </issuedTokenParameters></
secureConversationBootstrap> </security><
binaryMessageEncoding/> <tcpTransport /></
binding> </customBinding></
bindings>2. STS
customBinding> <binding name="MutualCertificateBinding"><
security authenticationMode="SecureConversation" requireSecurityContextCancellation="true"> <secureConversationBootstrap authenticationMode="MutualCertificate"/></
security> <binaryMessageEncoding/><
tcpTransport /> </binding> </customBinding></
bindings>3. Sample Service
customBinding> <binding name="SampleService"><
security authenticationMode="SecureConversation" requireSecurityContextCancellation="true"> <secureConversationBootstrap authenticationMode="IssuedToken"><
issuedTokenParameters tokenType=http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/oasis-wss-saml-token-profile-1.1#SAMLV1.1> </issuedTokenParameters></
secureConversationBootstrap> </security><
binaryMessageEncoding/> <tcpTransport /></
binding> </customBinding></
bindings>It is not required that the STS and service use both TCP transport for communicating with the client, which is a cool thing because now we can combine different transports in a whole federation scenario. For instance, we can have a Http communication between the client and the STS, and a TCP communication with between the client and the final service.
The complete sample is available to download from here.
My first MVP summit
As a MVP rookie, the only thing I can say is that the event met all the expectations I had before traveling to Seattle, the wait was worth it. I could attend a lot of interesting sessions about WCF, WWF, and OSLO among others, which gave me a complete picture about where Microsoft is headed in the future with respect to Service oriented applications.
Another interesting aspect of the summit was the opportunity to meet other MVPs in person, very smart people and community leaders like Scott Hanselman, Roy Osherove (IXMLSerializable), Sam Gentile, Jesus Rodriguez or Roman Kiss (The brain behind many of the cool WSE, WWF and WCF cool samples that you can find around) to name a few.
I look forward to attending the summit again next year :).
Windows Live Contacts API
With the boom in social networking, many web sites have started offering new tools for building or expanding your initial network of contacts.
For instance, sites like Facebook or Linkedin provide a tool to get your Windows Live contacts and use them to more easily find or invite those people into your social networks.
Although the idea is very good, the current implementation contains some serious security issues from my point of view. The user has to enter in some way his Windows LiveID credentials into those sites (using a custom http form), so they can log into Windows Live and get the user's contacts.
There is not any particular difference between this approach and a phising web site created by a malicious user only with the intention of getting your personal information.
Not all people (including me) trust these sites enough to provide them with valuable Windows LiveID credentials. These sites are very well-known, but we are not certainly sure which will be the final user of our credentials. (or even, if they are keeping them somewhere).
This security issue could be basically solved if Windows Live provided two fundamental things:
1. Http REST Services to get the user contacts or other personal information.
2. An authentication mechanism for those services based on security tokens. Something similar to what OAuth provides, so the user will never have to enter his credentials in a site different from Microsoft again. Another advantage of this protocol is that the user will finally decide whether he authorize third party sites to get his personal information or not. If you are curious about how OAuth works behind scene, an excellent "Begginer's guide" is available here.
Fortunately, the Windows Live team has made an excellent progress in these two aspects. One one hand, they have developed an "Windows Live ID Delegated Authentication SDK" to integrate Application providers through a protocol pretty similar to OAuth (I haven't had enough time yet to take a more detailed look at this SDK)
From the MSDN site,
"Delegated Authentication is based on a block of information, called a consent token, that is provided to your Web site by the Windows Live ID service for a given resource provider (such as contacts and photos). To obtain a consent token for use at a particular resource provider, you must first request it from the user by means of the Windows Live ID consent service. Your application must then manage the authentication data that is returned. For detailed information about how to request and manage consent, see the Windows Live Delegated Authentication SDK."
On other hand, as part of "Windows Live User Data APIs", they have started providing REST services to allow Windows Live users to safely and securely share their information stored in Windows Live services. One of this services is what they have called "Windows Live Contacts API", a REST service that enables developers to programmatically submit queries to, and retrieve results from, the Windows Live Contacts Address Book database service.
Hopefully, it will be a matter of time until Facebook or Linkedin start integrating services like these into their sites for the benefit of all :).
MVP Again 2008!!!
I am so excited, this is third time I received the Microsoft MVP award. Thanks to all people involved in the evaluation process and my MVP lead Fernando Garcia Loera.
I am looking forward to continue that collaborating throughout this year.
Thanks again Microsoft!!!

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The OverAchiever: Littlest Pet Shop, part 2 {WoW}
Oct 6th 2011 9:17AM With the mini jousters, by returning to the area and completing the daily joust quest 10 times will award you the other mini jouster as part of an achievement. The quest giver will send you an ingame mail along the lines of "it hasn't stopped crying since you took it's friend, please take thus little one as well"
Know Your Lore: A miscellany of characters {WoW}
Sep 29th 2011 3:28AM Orgrim Doomhammer. Friend to Durotan, the first orcs ever to form a friendship that bridged clans. Second in command of the Blackrock Clan, devoted to the Horde but recoiled at the power offered by Gul'dan and the warlocks. Taking the mantle of Warchief from Blackhand when he believed that the former chief was no longer fit to rule the Orc race. He took the war to the Alliance of Lordaeron. Not because he had bloodlust to be sated, but to provide space for all of his people to escape their dying world. Went out of his way to recruit Zul'jin and the Amani into te Horde. Turned the Horde's strength away from Lordaeron to punish Gul'dan for his treachery. That move may have caused the beginning of the Horde's defeat, but Doomhammer always believed that if the Horde lost it's honor, then it lost everything. Retreating to Blackrock Mountain and being defeated there, Doomhammer still hoped and planned to free his people and find a place for them on Azeroth. Up until his death at Hammerfall, it was still HIS Horde, with Thrall as his second. Doomhammer charged Thrall with continuing his plans. Free their people and create a home for them all.
Doomhammer is, in my mind, the most influential Orc. Who else could claim to work as hard as he to bringing the Orcish race back from the brink of destruction? He may be dead, but his work continues. Thrall, Garrosh. In their own ways they carry on Doomhammer's legacy. The prophecy ofthe Doomhammer line was fulfilled, he was their salvation. Lok'tar ogar Orgrim Doomhammer! Every honorable victory, every honorable defeat, is testament to your belief in the Orc race.
Know Your Lore: Lore Q&A-palooza {WoW}
Sep 4th 2011 9:33PM The rest of the clans were affected by proximity as you said, and were affected even before the Cup of Unity was offered to them by Guldan. Draka mentions to Durotan that his skin was turning green before the Horde marched to Shadowmoon Valley.
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Know Your Lore: Lore Q&A-palooza {WoW}
Sep 4th 2011 9:31PM @Anne Grom Hellscream gave his blessing for the entire Warsong clan to drink the blood of Mannoroth. "Voices of the Warsong! Come forth! Not a one of you will be denied this ecstasy!" - pg 305 of Rise of the Horde.
Blackhand's sons, Rend and Maim, also drunk from the Cup of Unity.
Breakfast Topic: What class should a brand new player pick? {WoW}
Jul 15th 2011 8:11AM "Which class do you like the idea of?"
The answer to that is the only thing that matters.
Around Azeroth: From the depths of hell {WoW}
Apr 23rd 2011 7:49PM Don't forget to check out the Hounds sister guild Horde side, the Scythe of Sylvanas!
The Lawbringer: Rookie's guide to the EULA, part 2 {WoW}
Aug 20th 2010 1:27AM You might be able to, but I doubt there's a single gaming retail store out there that will accept it, as most places go to great pains to say they don't accept returns on MMOs
Official: Dalaran Children's Week quests not repeatable this year {WoW}
May 4th 2010 8:52PM Well that sucks. Oh well, gives me a reason to do something during next year's Children's Week.
Officers' Quarters: A friendly loot system {WoW}
Apr 19th 2010 9:52AM When I was GM of a casual guild, this exact scenario came up. The difference was that I was MT, RL and Master Looter. Tank item comes up that I had been hanging out for for *ages*. Both myself and the OT rolled on it and my OT won. All hell broke loose on Vent because the guild believed I was entitled to it. We managed to get everyone calmed down and very carefully I explained what I was going to do. "The rules apply fairly to all, or to no one. Congrats." and handed him the item.
The rules are rules. If people want to 'give' their roll to someone else that's fine. But otherwise if you change the rules for one person, you have to change them for all.
Insider Trader: Profession bonuses and the crafters who love them {WoW}
Dec 4th 2009 10:46PM I run as Blacksmith/Engineering on my Prot Warrior, and I've found it enjoyable. Engineering is often the red headed stepchild of the profession family, but every now & then it throws up something great. Like an 82 stam trink for a tank levelling at the start of WotLK. Or a mail box/repair bot for the raid to grab last minute stuff. Or an ezmode way of pulling Auriaya with an explosive decoy instead of relying on a DPS or healer not to get instagibbed from doing it wrong.
Plus explosives are always good.


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I know some of you have Berninas and I've wanted one for a very long time. I'm about to go look at a 200 that the seller said has been upgraded to a 730. My question is should this upgrade mean that the machine has been upgraded to include a USB port for transferring designs? If it doesn't how else do you transfer designs to the machine? The seller said she bought it and hasn't had time to really explore it so doesn't know much about it, so I'm kind of on my own... she said she has fabric and thread for me to try it out and I'd be welcome to sit down and do that (of course I wouldn't even consider it if it didn't)... I'll bring my own fabric and thread too. I think it's a good deal if the machine can do what I want, and I'm getting excited, but nervous too because I've never had any experience with Bernina and this is a lot of money to me... Thanks for any advice you can give! |
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- Posted by vacuumfreak (My Page) on Tue, Jun 18, 13 at 16:23
Well, I'm now the proud new owner of a Bernina 200/730! I got to the ladies house and she had the machine all set up and I played with it and made sure everything worked and fell love with the way it worked. This is a dream machine for sure and I can't wait to get to know it. It came with all kinds of presser feet (but no walking foot, so I will have to order one) and the rolling cases and the embroidery stuff and the usb stick (it does have the drive) and the cd rom reader and so many books and CDs... it will take me a long time to play with everything, but I'll enjoy every second of it. The lady who sold it to me said her husband bought it for her before he died and she hasn't had a chance to really play with it so it worked out perfectly for both of us. I'm going to have to rent a storage shed just for the accessories! |
Wow! What a great find! Enjoy your new toy. Donna PS - need a serger? Mine's for sale. :) |
- Posted by vacuumfreak (My Page) on Tue, Jun 18, 13 at 17:04
Thanks, Donna, you are a funny one! I just spent 2 months rent on this thing (of course my rent is only 500 dollars but still) LOL Actually, the lady was selling a Viking serger for 400 dollars as well, but threading one scares the fire out of me and I don't make clothes :o) I haven't played with it yet except at her house, but I'm about to... I do believe Jasper approves |
You are going to love this machine! My friend has one as well as a newer 830 (I think) and really prefers the 200/730. We will, of course, need pictures of what you make on it! Enjoy! Maryv |
- Posted by magothyrivergirl (My Page) on Tue, Jun 18, 13 at 17:54
Congratulations Bobby!!! You finally got your DREAM MACHINE you've been lusting over! Take a deep breath---read the manuals completely and don't lose them :~). It's a lot of money for every sewer, and alot to learn. You're young and savvy--so your brain can handle it! Enjoy - have fun. I would suggest you find a Bernina forum - check Yahoo groups - for the technical stuff---but stay here for the art and creativity --- and besides--we like you! :~) Now save your pennies to buy thread. |
Don't let Jasper steal it unless he can pay for it! LOL Donna |
- Posted by littlehelen (email@example.com) on Tue, Jun 18, 13 at 20:33
Congratulations!!! That's Awesome. I have a much lower model Bernina , a 440QE and I love it...but wow...you've got the real mccoy. I know you will have a blast trying it all out... Have fun !!! V. |
- Posted by geezerfolks (My Page) on Tue, Jun 18, 13 at 21:21
I am so happy for you and know how exciting it is to get a machine in that price range for the very first time. Scared, but tickled pink! Enjoy your new machine and have fun learning all the neat stuff it will do. I don't know how you're going to do it, but you will need more room shortly. Might have to build a loft. lol SharonG/FL |
- Posted by vacuumfreak (My Page) on Tue, Jun 18, 13 at 22:20
Enjoy! So exciting! I have an 830 and love it - dream machine, 50th birthday/anniversary/Christmas gift from my hubby. Play with it, get it serviced, go to the bernina website and check out some of their blogs/classes. Have fun! |
Wow, congratulations on your purchase. I am excited to hear about your new relationship. :) Seriously, I love the picture of your sewing machines with the vacuums in the background. |
- Posted by littlehelen (My Page) on Wed, Jun 19, 13 at 11:56
LOL...don't leave me w/ these peasants! Watch out it knows who you are.... Is the balance stitch regulator (BSR) built in with this model? this makes me want to upgrade, but I haven't figured out everything my 440 can do, let alone move to the next level. V. |
- Posted by vacuumfreak (My Page) on Wed, Jun 19, 13 at 22:47
Helen, this does have the ability to accept a Bernina Stitch Regulator because of the upgrade to the 730... I don't have that attachment, but it's nice to know it has the ability. Now I have to get embroidery thread! It even came with a package of Sulky sticky stabilizer! I think I'm going to keep my Brother because feet for the Bernina are insanely expensive and there are times when I may need a button attaching foot, walking foot, or quarter inch foot (the Bernina didn't come with any of those and I got them all for the Brother and use the button attaching foot quite often though I've never made a button hole in my life).... One neat thing is that the lady said the machine was purchased in 2002 and that was the year I graduated high school! She also told me to text her if I had any issues or questions and she'd do her best to help me if she could, so that was very sweet of her... |
- Posted by vacuumfreak (My Page) on Thu, Jun 20, 13 at 6:42
I just wanted to updated that I figured out how to check the hours on the machine and it has been on standby for 366 hours, sewing time is 10:15 and embroidery time is 1:15! I think that's pretty good for a machine that is 11 years old... especially since 1 of the sewing hours was from me! |
- Posted by littlehelen (My Page) on Thu, Jun 20, 13 at 12:54
The BSR's are pricey...so be sure to try one in a shop to insure you want it before putting out the cash. Wow...you did get a good deal considering the little usage this machine had...obvioulsy it had the wrong owner! V. |
- Posted by vacuumfreak (My Page) on Thu, Jun 20, 13 at 14:05
I noticed a used BSR on C/L a while ago and it was 400 dollars so I can't imagine what they cost new, but I have so many other things to explore before I even think about that! We're still bonding and I played with the embroidery function to see how it worked... used regular thread though, I need to get some embroidery thread for sure, but it was so nice to play with all the editing options and watch it stitch out my name right before my eyes! I used sticky stabilizer so I didn't have to use the top (inside) part of the hoop and it worked perfectly... the towel was too thick to have allowed for the top part of the hoop to be used anyway. I know I'll get better results with embroidery thread and someone suggested using top stabilizer on towels, so I'll do that next time, but still I'm impressed. I noticed one thing it lacks which surprises me. It doesn't have a stop/start button for regular sewing like some of the cheapest Brother and Singers do (even my Brother had that)... you use the reverse button to stop/start for embroidery, but there isn't a way to sew without the foot pedal. I never used that feature anyway because I like to stay in control, but it would be nice to have. |
- Posted by vacuumfreak (My Page) on Thu, Jun 20, 13 at 15:52
Somebody please stop me... laundry and dishes aren't getting done and I was supposed to pick up my bicycle from the bike shop 2 days ago... |
Looks like you're having a great time! For towels, you can put a layer of tulle over the top (you can buy 6" wide rolls of it at JoAnn's pretty cheaply) and that keeps the thread from sinking down into the pile. Interesting that it doesn't have a start/stop button. My Brother emb. machine does - you have to unplug the foot pedal to use the embroidery function. Donna |
- Posted by littlehelen (My Page) on Fri, Jun 21, 13 at 9:02
Check your manual, my Bernina has a memory start / stop ... I've rarely used it, but it worked great when putting in a name or date...it stops after one pass in case I don't manually catch it at the end. I would hope the upgrade would have a similar feature. V. |
- Posted by vacuumfreak (My Page) on Tue, Jul 2, 13 at 20:54
I promise this will be my lat Bernina post, but I made a video and just wanted to share it in case there are any other "machine-o-philes" lurking... machines are important to be because my love for them is what got me started quilting... |
Here is a link that might be useful: Bobby's machines...
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Re:Download size (900 comments)
Am I missing something?
Unsurprisingly, yes. You can get a DVD in the mail.
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Re:Download size (900 comments)
Am I missing something?
Unsurprisingly, yes. You can get a DVD in the mail.
Re:Professionalism (1231 comments)
I have a better idea. Canonical can release every six months and you can upgrade once a year.
Re:Release cycles? (1231 comments)
That poll is not scientific (people who find the poll are more likely to be people with problems), and out of people who upgraded the success rate is 68%. It is listed as 35% because they count successful installs separately from upgrades. Checking the polls for previous releases, the numbers are pretty much the same as this one.
I still don't use a new Ubuntu release for at least a few weeks though. There is always a flood of package upgrades for a few weeks after a release.
Re:Celsius: It's for telling temperature (1233 comments)
And also, when building a house (in the US) most things do seem to be written in inches.
Re:What's the Difference Between a Computer Salesm (650 comments)
I once was handed a hard drive that would work fine when first plugged in, and then fail after 10-20 minutes of use when it heated up, and then work again after cooling down. I set up a fan to blow over it and copied off all the data in several short bursts and told my friend to buy a new drive. I can see how lazy technicians at a chain might quickly give up when handed something like that.
Re:Maybe the measurements are wrong or incomplete (436 comments)
It could be a case of selection bias. Hot, fast moving planets are probably easier to detect than slow, cold ones. I don't think Kepler has much fear that this will disprove his work, his equations are based on geometry and are definitely correct (or can be corrected by general relativity). A problem in the model for how fast stars eat planets is more likely.
Re:Already have wireless power.... (184 comments)
You're thinking of radiated power, this is magnetically coupled power. The wavelength is set by the resonant frequency of the coil and load. You want the coils to be much shorter than the wavelength to avoid radiating power (which is wasted).
Re:Dumb question... (184 comments)
This technology makes the very short range technique used in transformers work over a medium range (on the order of the coil diameter), but it is not and probably can not be a long range technique (like lasers). I only say probably and not definitely because I have studied science history.
Re:Dumb question... (184 comments)
This is magnetic coupling taking advantage of the resonant frequency of the system and is strictly a local effect. Radio's are electromagnetic radiation, which is where electrical and magnetic fields sustain each other will travelling through space indefinitely. The energy in the oscillation of a radio wave does not decrease with distance, it just gets spread out over a larger area (or absorbed, but that isn't relevant to this).
Re:Oh this is going to look cool (184 comments)
Your argument is effectively, "prove physical relation, break rules of physics" You can't make it smaller without making it less efficient. The resonance effect they are using to get decent efficiency degrades quickly once the separation is greater than the coil diameters.
Re:Stupid... (925 comments)
And yet, every developed country with single payer (government run) healthcare spends less of its GDP on health care and achieves better results. Amazing. The reason of course, is that there is no real competition now but there is lots of profit for insurance companies; and bad performance due to screwed up fee structures that encourage expensive procedures instead of cheap prevention.
Re:While there may be "newer" languages (794 comments)
Personally, I think FORTRAN should be taken out and shot. Godawful unmaintainable code is the norm , and there is nothing you can do in FORTRAN that you can't do in a cleaner environment like C++. People only still use FORTRAN because they are used to it, and it will not go away until all the old fucks die.
A lot of that has more to do with who wrote the code than the language. The new C++ analysis code coming out also tends to be "godawful". And FORTRAN95 supposedly has a lot of modern features, so new code can be reasonable. As the article you quoted points out:
Finally, there is no need to be a religious extremist; these days, procedures in different languages can be intermixed (which will only become easier). Different subsets of applications can be written in the most appropriate language, e.g. Java for the web, and all can be glued together in a PYTHON framework. On the other hand, it is also possible to misuse almost any language: C++ includes C, and Fortran still has the GO TO function.
Re:While there may be "newer" languages (794 comments)
Fortran has tons of libraries specialized to whatever scientific field you are working in, and is unavoidable in high energy physics especially. Of course, most of these can be wrapped in C and then used in whatever high level language you like.
Re:Donate them (381 comments)
For the homeless to use on their shiny laptops? Libraries already have those materials, and are warm.
Re:Be useful. (381 comments)
I bought these when they had 5x2GB for the same price, but it is still a decent deal. They're not fancy, but they do work well. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820326009 100 1GB flash drives delivered to your door for $412.
I like matplotlib, scipy but ... (46 comments)
I like matplotlib and scipy but I have lots of problems with memory not being freed when making and closing a lot of plots. It might be something I'm doing though, so I'm curious if the book discusses this.
Re:The Odds (Re:Deliberately causing panic) (604 comments)
I am not concerned at all about my personal health, I realize there is little chance that this flu will raise my chances of dying above the background noise of car accidents, random violence and bee stings. I am a little concerned about the potential effect on an already very fragile economy.
Re:Wow (447 comments)
Normally I am skeptical of claims about radio waves causing people harm, but 100MW/9 means Vatican Radio is using over 10 MEGAWATTS. I nearly soiled myself. Cancer is no surprise. Hell, I'm surprised there aren't birds dropping from the sky pre-cooked (yes I'm aware that due to the wavelength absorption in tissue is low). Instead of mutating children and spewing nonsense, they could be providing power for a few thousand poor villages.
Re:we need a trade embargo (876 comments)
How would it help Chinese workers is they are out of jobs???
It wouldn't. But slave labor and unemployment are not the only options.
How would it help the developed world if everything costs more???
You might see a resurgence of a local service industry repairing these more expensive components. So the chinese could get paid more to build higher quality parts, and we wouldn't need to buy a new keyboard every year, and there would be some moderately skilled service jobs in the developed world.
When people/companies/countries trade, then both of the trading partners are better off. Otherwise they wouldn't trade...
Trade is generally, though not always, good for society as a whole. It is always good for the traders. It is often not good for the labors, especially when one partner in the trade uses unethical labor practices to reduce prices.
Re:It's not about polarization (183 comments)
Thanks for the heads up, I was about to dismiss this as fluff. Instead it is something 10-20+ years off, but much more interesting.


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Nearly a dozen education-related tax credit bills could revamp donations for schools, affecting campuses and tax returns across the state.
Arizonans can earn tax credits if they donate money for tuition at private schools or extracurricular activities at public schools. But the string of proposed laws could create an entirely new landscape.
If House Bill 2421 passes, the donations that now can be used only for extracurricular activities could be used for classroom instruction.
And Senate Bill 1263 would allow corporations to earn tax credits of up to $100,000 for their donations to school tuition organizations.
Another, Senate Bill 1355, would create a $250 individual income tax credit for teachers who purchase school supplies for the classroom.
"We still don't pay teachers what we should be paying them," said Sen. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Tucson. At the same time, many teachers are spending their own money to try to increase classroom standards.
"You see teachers paying hundreds of dollars out of their own pockets for paper, markers, furniture, all sorts of stuff," she said. "Teachers that do that should receive some reimbursement."
The bill could have a tough road ahead, though. Improved pay for teachers is in vogue, but with the state facing a massive budget deficit, the price tag might be hard to swallow.
According to the state Department of Revenue, if all public schoolteachers took the maximum credit allowed, state income tax revenue would drop by an estimated $14 million. The reduction would hit the general fund.
That estimate doesn't include charter schools, private schools or substitute teachers who are eligible to use the credit. Six of the education tax credit bills will be heard today by the Senate Education Committee. Other bills also have been filed in the Legislature, including one in the House that would offer a $1,500 tax credit for those who home-school their children.
The education tax credit bills may be popular with lawmakers because they can put more money into classrooms without raising taxes. The Arizona School Boards Association, though, is against the idea, saying tax credits are bad public policy. Inequity is a major concern, with the wealthy districts receiving the majority of the money.
Still, interest remains very high in the tax credits, Phoenix accountant Robert Hockensmith said.
In the past, teachers could get some relief when they spent their own money on supplies. They had to exceed 2 percent of their household income to get a deduction. Now they get the $250 carrot.
"It's a very good change in the law," he said, to give folks some money back.
Other bills, though, would try to rein in the credits.
Senate Bill 1240 says that people can take a tax credit for donations to private schools or public schools, but not for both.
Another, Senate Bill 1297, would push accountability. Before March of every year, every school tuition organization would have to report the name, address and social security number of each taxpayer who made a contribution. The organizations also would have to report names and social security numbers of the children who received tuition grants or scholarships, and the schools they attended.
Sen. Mark Anderson, R-Mesa, is sponsoring the corporate tax credit bill on behalf of the Goldwater Institute, a conservative-leaning think tank that backed previous school tax credits and school-choice measures.
Anderson believes the credit could save the state money, or at least not cost it any. Scholarships from the credit would be limited to low-income students transferring from public to private schools, and would be capped at 75 percent of the state's per-pupil funding average of about $4,500, Anderson said.
He acknowledges that scholarship tuition organizations may end up with more money for scholarships than there are slots available at private schools for less than $3,400. Elite parochial schools such as Brophy College Preparatory have tuition of about $6,000 a year, although the credit is close to the tuition of several private elementary schools, said Rep. Steve Yarborough, R-Chandler, who directs one of the state's largest school tuition organizations.
"As a hard-core school choice advocate, I support the bill, but one of my concerns is, if you have a family that's already free-lunch qualified and you give them a scholarship that's less than tuition, it's a fairly empty gesture," Yarborough said.
The bill now would cap the tax credits at $50 million. But Anderson has an amendment to start the cap at $10 million a year and phase it in by $10 million a year, to make sure the credit works as advertised.
Sen. Ken Cheuvront believes it would be impossible to know if the private tuition organizations are spending the scholarship money in the manner required by the bill. Cheuvront is sponsoring a bill to require stricter reporting to the Department of Revenue of who now gets scholarships and in what amount, so claims that the tax credits save state money can be proved.
"The bottom line is, we can't afford to send any more public money to private schools at a time when we have a $1 billion hole in our general fund," said Cheuvront, D-Phoenix. "We are cutting public education enough as it is. This would just give special interests a new vehicle to not give the state its fair share."


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I need help. I found ink marks from a pen on our leather couch. What can I do to get it out? I tried a little soap and water, desolve it (even though it wasn't recommended)and quick and brite. Nothing is working. I am not sure how long the ink has been there. I can't imagine it being there for more than a couple of days without us noticing it.
Does anyone have any idea that won't ruin the couch? The couch is a light color beige but the ink marks are on top where you can see it. HELP!!!! Sandy |
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I have always had good success with hair spray. I don't think it would hurt the leather but try first in an inconspicous place. Spray it and wait a minute and then rub it off. |
Thanks for the tip. I tried it. One of the marks got lighter and I think if I keep working on it maybe it will get even lighter. The darker one isn't cooperating as much. I will keep trying though. Thanks for your help. Sandy |
Have you tried goof off or goo gone? They are usually good at taking out ink. Check an inconspicous area of the couch first to see that it doesn't damage the leather. If all else fails try a baby wipe. Those things work wonders and probably won't harm the leather. |
The furniture store where we bought our leather couch gave us a Bottle of Ink Away when they saw our 3 kids. |
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Wed, Oct 24, 12 at 18:22
For the last three days I have been thinning out and cutting back the 2 large Forsythia hedges. Crawling in, cutting, pulling, dragging to the curb and cutting to manageable length for the city pick-up. Was about done for the day and my back started to hurt pretty much.
Stubborn as I am, I had to finish and then almost did not make it to straighten back up. Now I got what in German is called a "Hexenschuss" - shot by a witch. Aspercreme, a hot pad and Motrin for the moment, later a bout with the Pilates Performer and I hope I will be ok in the morning. Have to pulverize a lot of leaves. Found 11 dilapitated nests, got chewed out by sparrows and the mocking bird and the cat gave me dirty looks because her favorite hedge hidingplace has been exposed. |
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- Posted by west_gardener (My Page) on Wed, Oct 24, 12 at 19:11
Oh, I know what you mean about wanting something cleaned up, it is so satisfying when it is done. Hope you feel better tomorrow. |
My date with the crabgrass this afternoon has me eating tylanol 3s. I hurt all over..... |
I love Forsythia, it's the first thing to bloom in the spring.Don't think I've seen one as large as you describe,lucky you. |
- Posted by lilosophie none (My Page) on Thu, Oct 25, 12 at 0:41
My Tante Elsa would get Hexenschuss from sneezing, she had hayfever big time in spring. Hope you get relief, looks as though you have enough remedies to deal with it. I am a Hinkelbein since I broke my femur two years ago, so I am vary careful, but I do manage to stack my firewood, as long as I don't do it all at once - usually 30 minutes each day gets it done. It is hard not to push, but I think I learned my lesson. Take care, Anneliese |
Was ist ein (eine?) Hinkelbein? |
- Posted by anneliese_32 6 (My Page) on Mon, Oct 29, 12 at 20:06
It means you limp on one leg. |
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Get one step closer to the decriminalization on marijuana with a medical marijuana card. For decades stoners have been clamoring for legalized green and it finally seems as if medical science and the laws are catching up to what they've been asking for. Science has shown that marijuana can help ease the pain cancer and AIDS patients experience, help people with eating disorders maintain a healthy weight by inducing the munchies and silence the parts of the brain that cause compulsive disorders, making it a powerful treatment for many disorders and illnesses. Even though science has proved that marijuana can have a positive effects on a person's health, it remains outlawed in most states. In the past ten years, fourteen states have enacted laws that will legalize marijuana for medical purposes in the form of a medical marijuana card. Having a medical marijuana card will allow you to purchase and smoke medical grade marijuana without having to worry about prosecution. Don't get confused and think that a medical marijuana card is a lience for just anyone to smoke; as progressive as these medical marijuana cards are, all fourteen states have very strict guidelines on how to obtain a medical marijuana card and where you can purchase medical marijuna.
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One early planning disaster began in the 1980s, when the heart of what used to be a small town was torn out to make room for a redevelopment scheme cooked up by the Englewood Urban Renewal Authority. In 1981, the EURA called for the late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century commercial buildings that once stood between South Broadway and South Bannock Street in the 3300 and 3400 blocks to be replaced by a King Soopers, retail shops and a conference center/hotel. While I don't doubt that this plan would have been just dreamy, most of it never happened, although there is a King Soopers smack in the middle of the formerly charming business district. An interesting detail is that Susan Powers, then the executive director of the EURA, came up with the plan. Powers, of course, went on to head the Denver Urban Renewal Authority, and in that position she spearheaded the effort to destroy I.M. Pei's Zeckendorf Plaza, which was located in downtown Denver. This was not the only destructive project Powers endorsed at DURA, just the most glaring one. And here's an example that proves that truth is stranger than fiction: After being a one-woman demolition derby while serving in back-to-back public positions for nearly two decades, Powers, now a private developer is -- seriously -- a historic preservationist! She's just redeveloped the old Denver Fire Clay factory into lofts, and phase one was so successful, she launched phase two.
Oh, great: She's finally seen the light -- and only twenty years too late.
But bad ideas in Englewood go back further than the Powers era, back at least to 1968, when a public park was turned into Cinderella City. The massive mall itself, near the corner of Broadway and Hampden Avenue, has now been torn down and is being replaced by Englewood's CityCenter, a jumble of half-baked concepts masquerading as a planned town center. The new buildings are mostly pretty bad, comic-book versions of traditional architecture. They can be described as postmodernism reduced to meaningless gestures.
The style (dare I call it that?) is associated with the new-urbanism movement, a wildly successful ideology that is destroying towns all over America. The model is Main Street at Disneyland, but done less convincingly and more cheaply. The appeal of the new urbanism is apparent: It meets the goals of developers while co-opting the ideals of the community, all under the sedative haze created by pseudo-small-town buildings.
The delicious irony here? Englewood is, in a sense, remaking what it destroyed in the '80s.
But if you think nostalgia meant the powers that be in Englewood would take a belatedly enlightened look at the genuinely historic buildings that have survived, you are wrong.
Just west of Cinderella City stood the old Englewood Library and City Hall, formerly Norgren Industries. Both were good examples of mid-twentieth-century modernism, and both were demolished as part of the still-under-construction CityCenter. In these buildings, and others like them, certain attributes of the international style were combined with Wright's Usonian technique. This should have had an added value in Englewood, considering that the modernist Arapahoe Acres -- the nation's first post-war neighborhood to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places -- is located here, too, making modernism the suburb's only claim to architectural fame. (And we can't forget the other modernist landmark in Englewood, the 1970s Colonial Bank. Just blocks from the CityCenter, this world-class expressionist masterpiece by Denver's Charles Deaton is clearly the most important building in Englewood.)
So let's see -- the only historic architecture in Englewood of any value is old modernist architecture. The city owned two modernist buildings and wanted to create a new center of town in the vicinity. Wouldn't common sense have suggested to even the dimmest member of the planning staff that the old modernist buildings might be nice to have in the new CityCenter? Apparently not. Because instead of common sense, new urbanism guided the decisions, and new urbanism is as dismissive of historic architecture as it is of contemporary architecture.
The only element of Cinderella City to survive was a former department store at the west end of the mall. The building, originally constructed for the Broadway Southwest chain, was given a $10 million face-lift overseen by Denver architect David Tryba, who also designed an adjacent building that is nearing completion. These buildings are two of the few bright spots at CityCenter; another is the nearby light-rail station with its dramatic pedestrian bridge.
The former department store has been renamed the Civic Center (isn't there already one of those in the area?), and it houses the relocated library, the city's council chambers and offices and -- here's the good part -- the Museum of Outdoor Arts. The relocation of MOA to Englewood was a lucky break, both for the city and for the museum.
The MOA was founded twenty years ago by wealthy real-estate developer John Madden and his daughter, Cynthia Madden Leitner. The idea was to have a museum without walls made up of a collection of sculptures that would be installed in outdoor public places. Today, the museum has a multi-million-dollar budget and a multi-million-dollar permanent collection.


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H-1B Cap-Gap Extension Information
- What is the F-1/ H-1B Cap Gap?
- What is a Cap-Gap extension and who is eligible?
- Can the Cap-Gap extension of OPT be extended beyond September 30 if the H-1B petition filed on the student's behalf has not been adjudicated by USCIS?
- Will students receive personal notification when they have a Cap-Gap extension?
- How will students know if their Cap-Gap extension is terminated before September 30 due to a withdrawn or denied H-1B petition?
- What proof will students have that they are entitled to the extension of employment authorization and status?
- What happens if my H-1B is denied after applying for the Cap-Gap extension?
- How do I apply for the Cap-Gap Extension?
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What is the H-1B Cap-Gap?
The H-1B cap is the limit on the number of H-1Bs allowed each fiscal year. Currently, the cap is 65,000. The fiscal year begins on October 1 when a new batch of the 65,000 H-1Bs becomes available. Employers are allowed to file an H-1B petition up to 6 months before the new fiscal year (April 1) so as to join the queue of new applications waiting for the October 1 date. See the USCIS web site (update link to this fiscal year) for the most current count of H-1B petitions filed.
The cap does not apply to all H-1B visas. Certain non-profit reserach positions are unlimited.
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The cap gap extension is a period in which an eligible F-1 student's status is automatically extended to bridge the gap between the end of F-1 status and start of H-1B status. If the student is in a period of authorized post-completion OPT on or after the date the student becomes eligible for the extension, the student's post-completion OPT is also automatically extended.
The eligibility date is the date a USCIS Service Center receives a properly filed Form I-129, Petition for a Nonimmigrant Worker, naming the student as a beneficiary of the petition from the prospective employer.
The cap gap extension starts when the student's current period of F-1 status ends, regardless of whether the student was in a period of OPT. However, if the student was not in a period of authorized post-completion OPT on the eligibility date, the extension of status starts on the day after the student's initial grace period expires.
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No. Pursuant to 8 CFR 214.2(f)(5)(vi)(A), the duration of status, and any employment authorization granted under 8 CFR 274a.12(c)(3)(i)(B) and (C), of an F-1 student who is the beneficiary of an H-1B petition and request for change of status can only be extended until October 1.If the H-1B petition is pending beyond October 1, a student can remain in the United States based on the pending change of status petition. However, a student with OPT employment authorization extended through the Cap-Gap period must stop working until the H-1B petition is approved.
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A Cap-Gap I-20 will be generated through SEVIS by an OIP Advisor that takes into account the different stages of the H-1B filing, selection, and adjudication process. The Cap-Gap I-20 will contain the following endorsement:
"F-1 status and employment authorization for this student have been automatically extended to [the applicable date will be inserted]. The student is authorized to remain in the United States and continue employment with an expired employment authorization document. This is pursuant to 8 CFR 214.2(f)(5)(iv) and 8 CFR 274a.12(b)(6)(iv), as updated April 8, 2008 in a rule published in the Federal Register (73 FR 18944)".
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If your H-1B petition has been filed by your employer and receipted by USCIS, you are eligible for an automatic Cap-Gap extension I-20 through September 30th. To request this Cap-Gap extension I-20, send the following to firstname.lastname@example.com with "Cap-Gap Extension" in the subject line:- SEVIS Number
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noun \ˈhen-ˌbān\Definition of HENBANE
: a poisonous fetid Eurasian herb (Hyoscyamus niger) of the nightshade family with yellowish-brown flowers and sticky hairy leaves that yield hyoscyamine and scopolamine
First Known Use of HENBANE
14th century
Rhymes with HENBANE
abstain, again, air lane, airplane, amain, arcane, arraign, attain, Bahrain, Bassein, Beltane, biplane, birdbrain, block plane, bloodstain, boat train, brain drain, bugbane, campaign, champagne, champaign, Champlain, checkrein, chicane, chilblain, choke chain, chow mein, cinquain, cocaine, Cockaigne, Coltrane, coxswain, complain, constrain, contain, cordwain, cowbane, crackbrain, demesne, deplane, destain, detain, detrain, devein, disdain, distain, distrain, dogbane, domain, drivetrain, dumb cane, edge-grain, Elaine, enchain, enplane, entrain, ethane, explain, eyestrain, fast lane, fleabane, floatplane, floodplain, food chain, forebrain, Fort Wayne, Gawain, germane, Great Dane, grosgrain, half plane, hindbrain, house-train, humane, Hussein, Igraine, immane, inane, ingrain, insane, jack plane, lamebrain, left brain, lightplane, lo mein, long-chain, Lorraine, maintain, marchpane, membrane, methane, midbrain, migraine, Montaigne, montane, moraine, mortmain, Moulmein, mundane, neck-rein, New Spain, obtain, octane, ordain, pertain, plain-Jane, profane, propane, ptomaine, purslane, quatrain, raise Cain, refrain, remain, restrain, retain, retrain, right brain, romaine, sailplane, sea-lane, seaplane, seatrain, split-brain, sustain, tailplane, tearstain, terrane, Touraine, towplane, triplane, Ukraine, unchain, urbane, vervain, vicereine, villein, volplane, warplane, wave train, wolfsbane
noun \ˈhen-ˌbān\ (Medical Dictionary)Medical Definition of HENBANE
: a poisonous fetid Old World herb of the genus Hyoscyamus (H. niger) that has sticky hairy dentate leaves and yellowish brown flowers, contains the alkaloids hyoscyamine and scopolamine, and is the source of hyoscyamus—called also black henbane, insane root
noun (Concise Encyclopedia)Plant (Hyoscyamus niger) of the nightshade family, native to Britain and found growing wild in poor soil and on rubbish heaps. It also occurs in central and southern Europe and from western Asia to India and Siberia and has long been naturalized in the U.S. The whole plant has a powerful nauseating odour. Commercial henbane, which consists of the dried leaves of H. niger and sometimes of H. muticus, of Egypt, yields three drugs: atropine, hyoscyamine, and scopolamine. Isolated and purified, these drugs are remedies for spasmodic muscular contractions, nervous irritation, and hysteria.
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Football: 22 local players in BCS national championship game
- 4:20 pm Friday, January 3rd, 2014 by Anthony Chiang
When Florida State and Auburn face off for the BCS national championship on Monday, there will be a lot of familiar faces on the field. [More]
Cardinal Newman WR Travis Rudolph chooses FSU
- 4:54 pm Thursday, January 2nd, 2014 by Anthony Chiang
Travis Rudolph kept everybody guessing during the recruiting process. [More]
Dwyer's Kai James plays in McDonald's All-American Game
- 6:39 pm Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013 by Matt Porter
Dwyer senior Kai James boldly went where one other Palm Beach County female had gone before. [More]
Girls hoops: Dwyer's Kai James to play in McDonald's All-American Game
- 5:35 pm Friday, February 15th, 2013 by Matt Porter
She's a Team USA player, gold medal winner and Florida State signee.
As she vies for a state championship with Dwyer High, senior Kai James added another honor to her hoops resume: McDonald's All-American. [More]
Baseball: No. 7 Benjamin routs Jensen Beach (and its crazy uniforms)
- 9:02 pm Wednesday, February 13th, 2013 by Matt Porter
PALM BEACH GARDENS — A large group of baseball professionals – one jokingly referred to it as "enough for a cocktail party" – crowded behind the backstop at Benjamin on Wednesday afternoon. [More]
Girls soccer: Palm Beach Central's Yulie Lopez a Miss Soccer finalist
- 6:00 pm Tuesday, February 12th, 2013 by Matt Porter
Yulie Lopez was far and away the best player in Palm Beach County this season, but the rest of the state didn't overlook her talent. [More]
Atlantic's Keith Bryant picks Florida State over Miami, Southern Cal
- 2:17 pm Wednesday, February 6th, 2013 by Matt Porter
DELRAY BEACH — Growing more than comfortable with his role as a showman this recruiting season, Keith Bryant made it clear he had a bag of tricks ready for national signing day. [More]
FAU football getting a surprise visitor this weekend
- 12:23 pm Monday, January 28th, 2013 by Jeff Greer
With nine days remaining until national signing day, Florida Atlantic has scheduled a visitor who might raise some eyebrows.
Palm Beach County has more Super Bowl players than anywhere else
- 4:31 pm Monday, January 21st, 2013 by Matt Porter
Perhaps no pocket of the country will take greater pride in watching Super Bowl XLVII than Belle Glade and Pahokee. [More]
FSU baseball player, American Heritage alum injured in skydiving accident
- 12:23 am Saturday, January 5th, 2013 by Matt Porter
Florida State officials say senior baseball player Stephen Spradling is lucky to be alive after a weekend skydiving accident. [More]


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I have a 6 foot banana tree that was first planted in my North Carolina back yard last year and it did beautifully. Dug it up and overwintered inside and it continued to grow and flourish. This past April, I planted it back outside in same spot as last year however now it is struggling with growth (has only produced 1 new leaf in 2 months)and even more disturbing is the obvious rotting at the top of the trunk. It seemed that perhaps water was being trapped in the upper layers of the trunk where it peels back some so I peeled it back and removed rotten edges and followed a recommendation to water it with a solution of Epsom salt. Rot did not re-appear for a while but is now back. The leaves, though few, are healty and normal looking. The NC soil that it is planted in contains a lot of clay, though I did ammend it a bit when planting with manure and top soil. I'm not sure if tree is experiencing a drainage issue or if this is a disease. Any advice? |
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Chop the whole top of the tree of and keep cutting in off until you reach a point where you can no longer see any black inside. When I say cut it off, I mean actually take a saw and cut the trunk (pseudo stem) completely off toward the top and then you will be able to see all the separate rings that make up the trunk. The very center may show some black mush. Just keep on cutting slice by slice until you don't see the black mush anymore. If the corm has not rotted you will see new leaves emerge from the center and start growing normally again. I had to do this with my Ice Cream this year and it looks great now. |
I'll give it a try. One of my neighbors that used to live in Costa Rica suggested the same thing. Thank you for the advice! :) |
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Hello. I am looking for advice on Ficus Benjamina. In the spring we procured two large beautiful trees in pots. They are approximately 7-8' tall. Have done very well outside on the north side of the house next to our hot tub. Being as big as they are there is no way these guys can come inside. Just won't work. Will they survive the southeast Ga winter? Will they lose their leaves until spring? Is there something I can do to protect them outside until warmer weather? I know it's not real close to freeze time, but I would like to have a game plan for that first frost warning! Thanks! |
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This species is not hardy here. Not very likely even in southern Georgia. They can be very tempermental about changing conditions. I had a big one for a number of years and it was always dropping leaves. If it got accustomed to a spot and I moved it at all, it was sure to drop leaves in protest. I read that it could be cut back to make it more manageable, but after I did, it was never the same. Finally it died. When its right it is very nice. |
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Just like postgame fashion last year, flopping has become the most important story of the NBA playoffs. It's become such a big story, in fact, that one national columnist even suggested that a 3-on-3 game featuring Juwan Howard and James Jones was the best game he'd seen during the entire postseason. That literally happened.
When you hear about flopping so much, it makes you think of all the times you've heard about flopping. For me anyways. And while I thought I couldn't care less about the drama surrounding flopping since it's something that happens a handful of times per game and usually ends with the flopee being ridiculed on Twitter, everything changed when I accidentally unearted a deep-seated memory that I thought I'd buried a long time ago.
I, Trey Kerby, flopped once. I'm ashamed to admit it, but it's true.
Let's go back to 1996, when I was just a seventh grader on the B-team for the Plano Middle School Tigers. I was 12 years old and hadn't hit the growth spurt that would turn me in to the giant I am today. No, I was just a chubby kid who hadn't even touched the rim yet, which was kind of a bummer since that was the coolest thing in to do back in those days. As you might surmise from the B-team designation, I wasn't that great at basketball, though I'd like to state for the record that I was probably one of the five best kids on the worse of the two teams in my tiny, tiny middle school.
Being not good, I had to do something to get on the court. And since my dad taught me that defense was important, I started there. But that wasn't all he taught me. No, my dad also taught me all about taking charges, how they can be better than a block because your team gets possession no matter what, and that it's easy for anyone to learn because all you have to do is get hit and fall down. And considering I couldn't jump or run, that seemed like a valuable skill to learn.
So I learned about charges, as much as you can anyhow. Like I said, it's pretty much just getting hit and falling down. Even back then, charges happened. I don't know why I'm spending so many words explaining this, but taking a charge is easy. You literally just have to stand there, especially when you're in seventh grade.
At this point, I should also mention that middle school basketball coaches love it when you take charges. Nothing gets a science teacher more excited than a kid who is willing to get rammed in the chest and hit the deck. It's like getting an A+ in basketball. Needless to say, I started taking charges.
Well, kind of. You are not going to believe this, but playing against teams like the Newark Norseman and Indian Creek Timberwolves doesn't lead to a bunch of athletic plays in the lane where it's easy to take charges. Thinking back now, I'm not even positive that I ever took a single charge during a game in my entire middle school career. Between me not moving fast enough to beat people to spots and opponents not moving fast enough to spots for me to beat them to, taking charges was tough. You really had to search out opportunities to let a mustachioed 13-year-old run you over.
Nonetheless, I still tried to take charges in practice when I could, telling myself that I'd be ready should a game opportunity ever present itself. And the one time it did, I blew it.
It happened against some team I can't remember. Could have been the Sandwich Indians. Could have been the Earlville Raiders. It could have even been against the Somonauk Bobcats. All I remember now is what happened.
As most plays are when kids suck at basketball, it was during a transition play. I don't exactly recall what transpired before that fateful moment, but I do know the other team was coming at our basket and I was basically in the halfcourt circle. As any coach will tell you, you get the ball in the middle on the fast break, and as anyone who has seen a basketball will tell you, the halfcourt circle is in the middle of the basketball court. It was a perfect storm of charge-taking possibility, and I was jacked to finally make my dad proud. So I started leaning backwards, just a little bit. I saw this kid coming at me and just knew I was taking that charge. It was just a matter of getting hit and falling down, and I was already taking care of my half of the equation.
Of course, that kid saw me as well and decided that it would probably be a better idea to avoid me since running in to other people is something that's generally always avoided. But since I was already falling, I had to do something. That something, I guess, was modifying my fall so that his leg would clip mine which would make us both fall over, which would make for a charge, which would make me look great.
So I turned my straight back lean in to a back-and-to-the-left lean, and everything worked out perfectly. Sort of. We did hit legs, I did fall, he did fall, a whistle was blown … but ummm, well, you've seen the title of this post. I flopped. It was horrible, like bad enough that I would remember it 17 years later. Not only had I basically tripped this kid as he was dribbling up the court, I had also done so while I myself was falling down. It was not my greatest moment on the basketball court.
I got called for a block, duh, and the ref actually told me that if I did that again he'd give me a technical. Thinking back now, I wonder if that referee was David Stern. Probably not, but I wouldn't rule it out. The deterrent worked though. Being scolded in public as a 12-year-old is enough to make you want to learn how to actually take charges, rather than get fallen on. By the time I got to high school, I was good enough at it that I took two in a half a couple of times, which might be the worst humblebrag in the history of the world. I'm just glad I learned before the advent of YouTube, otherwise my name and a video of the flop would have been broadcast in to millions of homes and I wouldn't have been able to leave my house, much like the NBA floppers who are being fined the equivalent of $12 for their transgressions.
And that is the time I flopped during a seventh grade basketball game. It feels good to get this off my chest. Do you think I should have been suspended, or would a fine have sufficed?