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Veteran character actor and voiceover artist Allan Melvin appeared in dozens of TV shows during his 40 year career. His roles ranged from the cartoon voice of Magilla the Gorilla to a variety of "heavies" in various episodes of The Andy Griffith Show. He is probably best known in his TV roles as Cpl. Steve Henshaw in The Phil Silvers Show, Sgt. Charley Hacker in Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.K/i>, Sam the butcher and Alice's love interest on The Brady Bunch and Archie Bunker's best friend, Barney Hefner, on All in the Family.
Melvin also made numerous appearances in national TV commercials including the recurring role of Al the Plumber in Liquid-Plumr commercials for 15 years.
Allan Melvin was married to his wife, Amalia for 54 years when he passed away in 2008.
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The etiquette of FourSquare
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I offered a list of Twitter etiquette tips for journalists — or anyone — a while back, and it got quite a buzz around the Twitterverse. Here's round two: My updated list of what not to do on Twitter. 1. Don't Continue reading
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Happy 2010, readers! Wow. We survived what was quite the troubling year in journalism, and, I think, really, that journalism is better for it. Yes, there's been too many layoffs, pay cuts, buyouts. But I think the economic woes have Continue reading
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Funding and Grant Sources
Please contact us if you have any comments or recommendations for additions to list for grant sources for libraries. Use the Contact Us page, choose Linda Lord.
Be sure check new grants below but also possible ongoing opportunities from foundations, trusts and other nonprofits listed below the recent additions and deadlines.
- Unfortunately for libraries, money doesn't grow on trees. Even in good economic times, few libraries have all the resources they need or want to serve their communities. Fundraising Resources - Capital Campaigns offers tools and help finding funding resources with a focus on capital campaigns.
General Grant Sources
- List of local foundations or organizations that offer grants.
- Grant blog, a containing information about national grant sources; co-hosted by Pam MacKellar and Stephanie Gerding
- Top 40 Maine Foundations that Give Grants
- Grant Writing Tips [Word, 20KB]
Recent Additions and Deadlines
Grant Descriptions
The Margaret E. Burnham Charitable Trust
The Margaret E. Burnham Charitable Trust was established to benefit nonprofit organizations (1) located or operating in the State of Maine and (2) serving within the State of Maine. Funding Priorities: The Trust, in responding to the needs of the Maine communities it serves, is dedicated to funding five (5) significant program areas of interest within the following general annual distribution and allocation percentages:
For more information: http://www.megrants.org/Burnham.html
Kresge Foundation: Capital Challenge Grant Program
The mission of the Kresge Foundation is to strengthen nonprofit organizations throughout the United States that advance the well-being of humanity. The Foundation's six major areas of interest are health, environment, arts and culture, education, human services, and community development.
Through the Capital Challenge Grant Program, the Foundation supports organizations' immediate capital needs, such as building construction or renovation, the purchase of real estate, and the purchase of major equipment. Grants are awarded on a challenge basis, usually one-third to one-fifth of the amount an organization has to raise to complete its campaign goal.
The Foundation accepts online letters of intent for this program throughout the year. Visit Kresge Foundation: Capital Challenge Grant Program to review the Capital Challenge Grant Program guidelines. Applications are accepted throughout the year.
Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust
The foundation's interests include historic preservation, historical societies, arts and cultural programs, vocational education, education and the environment. Initial approach should be made through a letter to:
Michael J. Quinlan
The Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust
c/o Jensen, Baird, Gardner and Henry
10 Free Street
Portland, ME 04112
The Aldermere Foundation c/o Trust Co. of Maine
The Aldermere Foundation c/o Trust Co. of Maine
145 Exchange Street,
Bangor 04401
Contact: Dee Condon Fax: (207) 941-2498
Independent Foundation was established in Maine in 1977.
- Purpose and activities: Giving primarily for the arts, education, and religious organizations.
- Fields of interest: Animals/wildlife, preservation/protection; Arts, Arts Education; Christian agencies and churches; Libraries (Public); Museums (art)
- Geographic focus: Maine
- Deadlines: None
Bangor Savings Bank Foundation: Foundation Grant Making
"The Bangor Savings Bank Foundation Grant Making was created in 1997 to help fulfill our commitment to improving community life in Maine. Today, the Bank has chosen to improve the impact and coordination of its giving by channeling all major charitable contributions from the Bank through the Foundation's grant-making process."
Learn more about Bangor Savings grants:
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- Grant Guidelines & Eligibility
- Grant Applications & Instructions
The Libra Foundation
Elizabeth C. Flaherty
Administrative Assistant
Three Canal Plaza
P.O. Box 17516
Portland, ME 04112
(207) 879-6280
- The Libra Foundation is a private operating foundation established by Elizabeth B. Noyce which became active in June, 1989.
- This foundation is authorized by the Internal Revenue Service to make grants and contributions to charitable organizations other than political organizations.
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- Please direct inquiries, requests for application forms, letters and grant requests to contact information above.
The Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy - The Maine Family Literacy Initiative
Becky Dyer
Maine Department of Education
State House Station 23
Augusta, ME 04333
email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Telephone (207) 624-6755
- Purpose: Expand small family literacy programs throughout Maine.
Maine Philanthropy Center
USM Library
P.O. Box 9301
Portland, Maine 041-04-9301
Telephone 207-780-5039
- The Maine Philanthropy Center is a nonprofit organization established in 1995 by a group of foundations to promote effective philanthropy in Maine.
- Check the web site for helpful events and support for fundraising.
- About The Maine Philanthropy Center
The following serve as affiliates to the Maine Philanthropy Center.
- Bangor Public Library
- Camden Public Library
- UM Merrill Library in Machias
- Cary Library in Houlton
The Davis Foundation
Attn: Nancy M. Wilson, Executive Director
4 Fundy Road
Falmouth, Maine 04105
Telephone: 207-781-5504
- Applicants must be tax-exempt under 501(c)(3) of the IRS code and "not a private foundation" under section 509(a) of the code.
- Strong preference is given to organizations located in Southern Maine, but those in other parts of Maine and New England may be considered.
Maine Community Foundation
225 Main Street
Ellsworth, Maine 04605
Telephone 207-667-9735
Portland: One Monument Square, Suite 200
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Maine Humanities Council Let's Talk About It
Let's Talk About It is an adult reading & discussion program sponsored by Maine Humanities Council's Center for the Book in partnership with the Maine State Library. Programs are offered free of charge to Maine libraries thanks to funding from the Belvedere Fund of the Maine Community Foundation & the citizens of Maine through the New Century Community Program, with additional support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Please note there are application deadlines for hosting a Let's Talk About It program for Summer, Fall, and Winter/Spring.
More information about the program, application and deadlines to apply
Rose and Samuel Rudman Library Trust
Managed by Maine Community Foundation, awards granted every year to public libraries in Maine communities with population under 10,000 people.
Eligible libraries are located in Waldo, Knox, Hancock, Washington, Aroostook, Penobscot and Piscataquis counties.
Online application for member libraries
The Stephen and Tabitha King Foundation
The Stephen and Tabitha King Foundation is a private non-profit organization that "promotes strengthening and supporting communities and draws upon the values and spirituality of the founders."
49 Florida Ave.
Bangor, Maine 04401
Telephone: 1-207-990-2910
Fax: 207-990-2975
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FedEx Global Community Relations Program--The mission of the FedEx Global Community Relations Program is to support the communities the company serves through financial contributions, in-kind shipping services and volunteer services of employees. The company's core giving areas include: Emergency and Disaster Relief; Pedestrian and Child Safety; and Education, with emphasis on technology, global economics, cultural diversity and programs that enhance learning. FedEx also provides support for Health and Human Services, primarily through the United Way and March of Dimes, with limited support for youth development organizations and others that meet basic human needs. FedEx is especially interested in supporting organizations that request 5% or less of the total project budget. The company also weighs the involvement of employees in groups that seek financial support. Applications may be submitted at any time.


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Past Moot Competitions
Brief Report on the 5th LAWASIA International Moot Competition 2010
The 5th edition of the LAWASIA International Moot Competition that was held in New Delhi in conjunction with the 23rd LAWASIA Conference from 11th - 14th November 2010 with a total of 13 participating teams from Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Nepal, South Korea , United Kingdom and Vietnam.
The Preliminary and Semi-Final Rounds of the Competition were held at The Indian Law Institute and Final Round being held at the India Habitat Centre. This year's moot competition forum was a matter before The International Court Of Arbitration involves matters relating to International Law and the Law of Intellectual Property.
This year, we were honoured to have some highly distinguished members of the legal fraternity presiding as moot judges. Among them were Justice Vipin Sanghi from India, Justice Dr Haji Hamid Sultan Bin Abu Backer from Malaysia, His Honour Judge Marshall Phillip Irwin from Australia, Mr Ragunath Kesavan Chairman of Malaysian Bar, Mr Isomi Suzuki Vice President of LAWASIA and Mr Raoul Giudes Vice President of Queensland Law Society.
The success of the competition represented the culmination of our most valued moot judges comprising of members of academia, senior lawyers and practitioners of International Law Firms as well as those in private practice, Honourable Judges and Magistrates, speakers and delegates of the 23rd LAWASIA Conference who had taken their off from their busy schedules to join us. This gesture of warm embrace had brought about the success of the competition as a whole.
Moot Judges were truly impressed by the performance of all the participants and they were highly commended. To simply echo this: "The lawyer's brief is like the surgeon's knife, dissecting the whole inside of a question, and with it all the process of digestion." by Lord Byron (1788-1824), Don Juan, canto X, ST, XIV. Here, the mooters, armed with them not only the very well prepared scripts of arguments but an abundance of wise thoughts and ideas, handled the moot judges with confidence in a dazzling array of fine presentations.
We were extremely fortunate to witness their courage and their determined efforts which have not been in vain and with that, we are honoured to witness this incredible creation of the new generation of young lawyers.
LAWASIA observes that mooting has emerged as a critical component of legal education as it provides the skills training element for the fundamental skills necessary for a prospective lawyer and for this year, 2010, National Law University, Delhi India emerged as Champion by a slim margin over the Advance Tertiary College, Malaysia for The LAWASIA Trophy for Best Oralist.
Kenneth Koh Zhong Wey from Advance Tertiary College, Malaysia was adjudged the winner of the Mah Weng Kwai Trophy for Best Mooter for his eloquent mooting skills as well as his capability in articulating his thoughts and arguments condensing disparate, conflicting legal authorities into succinct and persuasive arguments in a professional, gracious, persuasive, and congenial demeanor which is a very important quality of a lawyer.
Proudly, The LAWASIA Trophy for Best Memorial went to BPP Law School from United Kingdom for an outstanding written submission.
The Committee had awarded one of the two special prizes, "The Spirit of LAWASIA Team Award", for the team that had best reflects the ideals, values, virtues of fair play, camaraderie, magnanimity and generosity in a competition environment and without hesitation, this went to Ho Chi Minh City University of Law whom also been awarded the same last year during the 4th LAWASIA International Moot Competition 2009.
"The LAWASIA Best Endeavour Prize" is awarded to the team that overcame challenges, difficulties and obstacles to compete in this competition. This award went to Kathmandu School Of Law, Nepal for we have witnessed courage in the face of adversity, honour in defeat and faith in despair. Despite their inexperience and limited usage of the language, they demonstrated courage, determination and dignity against the odds to persevere in doing their best.
Last but not least, in appreciation of each and every single obliging member of the organising committee and student volunteers that had dedicated their time of hard work diligently, passionately and kept their faith and strength of endless support to commit to a same mission, that is, the success of the competition.
May we all cherish the memories of this year's competition that we had spent together and see you all in Seoul, Korea for the 6th LAWASIA International Moot!
Brief Report on the 4th LAWASIA Moot Competition 2009
The 4th LAWASIA International Moot Competition held in Ho Chi Minh City in conjunction with the 22nd LAWASIA Conference from 9th - 12th November 2009 ended successfully with a remarkable 18 teams from Australia , China , Hong Kong , India , Malaysia , Philippines , Singapore , South Korea , United States of America and Vietnam.
Ho Chi Minh City, University of Law was the Host University of the competition. This year's moot competition forum was an arbitral tribunal and the moot problem involves matters relating to the International Law in cultural heritage protection and the Law of the Sea.
This year, we were extremely honoured to have invited some of the distinguished members of the Judiciary from different countries presiding as moot judges. Among them were The Hon. Chief Justice Robert French from Australia, Justice Vichai Ariyanuntaka from Thailand, The Rt Hon Justice Tan Sri Arifin bin Zakaria from Malaysia, Chief Federal Magistrate John Pascoe AO from Australia,Federal Magistrate Paul Howard from Australia, Judge Marshall Irwin from Australia and Judge Marilyn B Cassidy from the United States of America.
Moot Judges were truly impressed by the performance of all the participants and they were highly commended. Simply to echo the positive comment of Chief Federal Magistrate John Pascoe AO, 'I was very impressed by the high standard of presentation, especially as English was a second language for many of the participants. Their skill, dedication and capacity to deal with complex issues were outstanding.'
Advanced Tertiary College from Malaysia emerged as champion for both the LAWASIA Challenge Trophy and LAWASIA Trophy for the Best Memorial.
Mr Jules Moxon from University of Queensland was adjudged the winner of the Mah Weng Kwai Challenge Trophy for Best Mooter for his eloquent mooting skills as well as his capability in articulating his thoughts and arguments.
The Committee had awarded two special prizes, "The Spirit of LAWASIA", for the team that overcame challenges, difficulties and obstacles to compete in the competition and "The Best Endeavour Award", to the team that had best reflects the ideals, values, virtues of fair play, camaraderie, magnanimity and generosity in a competition environment. Both these prizes went to the Ho Chi Minh City University of Law in recognition of their perseverance and tenacity in overcoming the odds.
The 4th LAWASIA International Moot Competition 2009 is an International effort across boundaries. The LAWASIA Moot Standing Committee working out of Kuala Lumpur with the Host University and for the first time internationals student volunteers coming together to work with local student volunteers was an immensely satisfying International effort in capacity building.
The 4th LAWASIA International Moot Competition 2009 was a resounding success making this arguably the best edition thus far in the series of the LAWASIA International Moot Competitions!
Brief Report on the 3rd LAWASIA Moot Competition 2008
Brief Report on the 2nd LAWASIA Moot Competition 2007
Brief Report on the 1st LAWASIA Moot Competition 2005 The inaugural LAWASIA Moot Competition was held in Gold Coast, Australia. In its first year, the moot was open to teams from universities in LAWASIA Member countries. Dr. Ros Macdonald of QUT School of Law was the LAWASIA Moot Coordinator. Seven teams travelled to the Gold Coast, and not without difficulties, such as troubles with visas and flight delays. Teams came from the HuaZhong University of Science and Technology Law School (HUST), China; the University of Hong Kong; Hidayatullah National Law University, Raipur, India; Sri Lanka National Law College; the University of Malaya, Malaysia; International Islamic University of Malaysia; and the University of Western Australia. The semifinalists in the inaugural ABA LAWASIA Moot were the University of Hong Kong, International Islamic University of Malaysia, the University of Malaya and the University of Western Australia. From the semifinals, the University of Hong Kong team and the University of Western Australia team competed in the final. The Finals judges, Justice Santosi Hegde, Justice Garry Downes and Judge Michael Rackemann unanimously decided that the winner of the Final was the University of Hong Kong. The Hong Kong team was Ms. Leona Cheung, Ms. Queenie Lau, and Ms. Asa Collett, coached by Dr. Hong Xue. The University of Western Australia team was Mr. Chris Pearce, Mr. Geoff Kuehne and Mr. Andrew Lodder.
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The business press is paddling like mad to keep up its head above the swirling subprime tide, making creative and original work difficult.
James R. Hagerty of The Wall Street Journal keeps his head and helps readers out with an interesting piece that reveals exactly to whom financial "innovators" turn to when they get into trouble: the government, of course.
The piece, "Where Countrywide Chief is Finding a Life Preserver," in last Monday's Journal, finds that Countrywide Financial Corp. has drawn 37 percent (or $51 billion worth) of the loans on the books of the Federal Home Loan Bank in Atlanta.
This bailout comes with no small bit of irony. Folks, Countrywide is at the heart of the subprime crisis, both symbolically and in a material way. Its bad practices—boiler room tactics for borrowers, deceptive marks for investors and buyers of its trash— caused the problem.
And yet here is this government-chartered lender placing, ultimately, tax dollars at risk, where the market fears to tread:
Countrywide's borrowings from the Atlanta bank are mostly secured by mortgages — an asset many investors are shunning as defaults soar. Some politicians for years have raised questions about risks taken by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored mortgage investors. Stuart Plesser, an equity analyst at Standard & Poor's in New York, said that politicians should similarly scrutinize the home loan banks. One vital question, he says, is "how good is the collateral?"
Nobody knows the answer to that question, and that's the problem. But markets have a hunch that it's "not good."
Despite anxiety among investors about mortgages, the home loan banks have increased their own bond-market borrowings as others have turned to them in recent months for funding. The home loan bank system's debt outstanding rose to $1.134 trillion as of Sept. 30, up 21% from nine months earlier. Although they operate independently, the 12 home loan banks are jointly liable for one another's debts.
The political response came swiftly. Several hours after the Journal published Hagerty's story, Senator Chuck Schumer urged regulators to stop "extending advances backed by predatory mortgages" and to examine the risk to the Federal Home Loan Bank system created by the Atlanta bank's policies.
Aaron L. Task at TheStreet.com responded to Schumer's response said it was one of "Five Dumbest Things on Wall Street This Week."
Given that the Federal Home Loan Bank system was set up in 1932 for the very purpose of aiding failing banks and to support mortgage lending, and that Countrywide sure could use a helping hand, Schumer's broadside evoked former Sen. (Alfonse) D'Amato, a Republican best remembered for his strange, occasionally offensive and often perplexing filibusters.
We think Task's logic doesn't hold water. The Federal Home Loan Bank wasn't set up in 1932 to aid crooked failing banks. And of course the government should examine its own risk. Who does he think it is, Citigroup?
Oh, and don't look now, but Countrywide isn't even the biggest user of these Federal Home Loan Bank advances. That would be Citigroup.
Speaking of the government, Gretchen Morgenson last week drew an illuminating comparison between a nonprofit subprime lender and the Countrywides of the world. In the debate over who's responsible for the housing crisis, the banks and their pals often trot out the argument that borrowers were either incompetent, negligent or flat-out criminal in obtaining loans for houses they couldn't afford.
Morgenson puts the lie to that line by showing that NeighborWorks America, a government-created nonprofit that helps mostly subprime borrowers in poor urban neighborhoods, has a considerably better record than those Wall Street "innovators." Its subprime customers perform only slightly worse than commercial players' prime customers.
As of June 30, the most recent figures available, 3.34 percent of NeighborWorks' borrowers were at least 30 days' delinquent on their loans, only slightly higher than the 2.63 percent delinquency rate on prime loans recorded in that period by the Mortgage Bankers Association. Compared with subprime loans over all, the NeighborWorks loans really outperform. Its 3.34 percent delinquency rate is well below the 14.54 percent on subprime loans nationwide. Foreclosure figures show a similar pattern. The NeighborWorks loans that went into foreclosure during the second quarter of 2007 totaled 0.56 percent, while subprime loan foreclosures came in at 2.45 percent during that period. The foreclosure rate for NeighborWorks loans was a little over double the 0.25 percent rate for prime loans in the period.
Some of this effect has to do with the education component of the NeighborWorks program, but much of it is because the program provides fixed-rate loans, not the adjustable-rate (or more aptly, "exploding") mortgages that comprised 90 percent of subprime loans made between 2004 and 2006, Morgenson says.


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By JOHN BURNETT
Tribune-Herald staff writer
A child of homicide victim Faafetai Fiu may have witnessed the fatal shooting, according to court documents filed by police.
Kimie Fiu, wife of the slain 32-year-old man, told police that she and her husband had been arguing all day on Dec. 29, and that sometime during the evening, she dropped him off at the so-called "lonely tree" on Bayfront so he could finish his beer, documents state. The woman, who told officers her family was homeless, said she then drove down the road so she and her children could sleep.
Later, she said, she was awakened by her son, who told her that he had heard gunshots. She told her son that it was firecrackers and went back to sleep. She said she was awakened again, this time by a police officer who asked her if he knew who had been popping fireworks. She replied that she had been sleeping and told the officer to ask the fisherman in the car next to hers. The officer told her there was no other car there. When he shined his flashlight where she said the car had been, the officer discovered her husband's body, which had two gunshot wounds to his front upper torso and another six gunshot wounds to his rear upper torso, documents state.
According to documents, a therapist at the Children's Justice Center interviewed a "minor child" who had been sleeping in Fiu's 1997 Mercury Sable. The child described being awakened by gunshots, "hearing gunshots, seeing green colored lights, observing Fiu getting shot and falling to the ground dead." The child told the therapist that the shooter was the fisherman, that Fiu and the shooter were fighting before the shooting, and that Fiu was shot five times. It's not known if the child interviewed was the son who had awakened his mother.
Another man who had been fishing on the Bayfront told officers he'd noticed a silver-gray car with "all the windows covered up as if someone was living in the car," documents state. The man told police that at some point in the evening, he heard a slamming sound and loud voices coming from the area of that car, and saw "two parties circling the vehicle with one party holding both hands up around shoulder height," police wrote. The man told officers he believed it was a dispute, but things had quieted, so he continued fishing. He said he later heard "what he believed to be two to three gunshots coming from the area of the silver-gray vehicle." He said that after a pause, there were numerous shots. He told police he feared for his safety and left the area, returning to talk to police after he felt it was safe.
Documents state that evidence collected from the scene include eight spent 9-millimeter casings, one intact 9-millimeter bullet and four cigarette butts.
Police also obtained surveillance video from the Mooheau Bus Terminal which showed the "grayish-colored vehicle" park along Bayfront Highway at 11:28 a.m. on Dec. 29 and remain there. Documents state that at about 8:41 p.m. "flashes can be seen in the area of this vehicle, which corresponds with the time of the shooting," documents state.
Hilo Patrol Officer Mark Santos told detectives he'd encountered the silver car with the windows covered numerous times. One encounter was in the parking lot of Andrews Gym about four hours after the shooting. Santos said the car's owner, Mark A. Whyne, was sleeping in the car. Santos provided detectives with the car's license plate number, according to documents.
Officers served a search warrant on Whyne on Feb. 4 at the Wailoa Small Boat Harbor in Hilo and found a 9-millimeter pistol in a fanny pack he was wearing and a loaded .22-caliber pistol in his car. Whyne was taken into custody at that point. Documents state that forensic tests on the bullets found in Fiu matched the 9-millimeter. Both firearms were registered to Whyne, police said.
If there was a physical confrontation between the suspect and victim, the 55-year-old Whyne is 5-foot-5 and 135 pounds, while the much-younger Fiu was 6-foot-2 and 240 pounds, according to court records.
Whyne was described in documents as unemployed, divorced and living in the car, but had worked as a special education teacher at Pahoa High School from 1991 to 2005 and at McKinley High School in Honolulu from 2007 to 2011.
McKinley Principal Ron Okamura told the Tribune-Herald that Whyne resigned his teaching job "for personal reasons" and said the shooting was "kind of shocking in two ways."
"Not only is he a former teacher of mine, but I'm from Hilo and that all happened while I was home," Okamura said. "I didn't know he'd gone back to the Big Island. He's homeless now? He used to be married. What happened?"
Okamura found another detail of the case disturbing, as well.
"You know, he used to wear that fanny pack when he was here," the principal said.
Whyne, who's charged with second-degree murder, use of a firearm in the commission of a felony and carrying a loaded firearm, has requested a mental examination.
A court hearing is scheduled for March 12.
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GOProud ends its silence after getting the boot as CPAC sponsors:
ACU board members do, however, have a legitimate argument for excluding the group. The conservative movement has long depended upon the unity of a coalition consisting of those who advocate economic liberty, strong national defense, and traditional moral values. "Movement conservatives cannot be expected to agree on everything," says board member Morton Blackwell. "But no group which insists on the incompatibility of a major element of the conservative movement should have a formal role at CPAC.
GOProud, of course, doesn't buy it. "Half of our membership is not gay," says Barron. "It is perposerious for me to believe that those people cannot be social conservatives. I mean, hell, Ann coulter is chair of our advisory council."
"Dick Cheney has a more progressive position on marriage than GOProud does," adds Barron, who is, himself, married to a man (Barron obviously believes in gay marriage, but GOProud avoids the issue, arguing it should be left up to the states to decide).
As Stacy McCain likes to say, you can't build a movement by a process of subtraction.
Another thing to remember: The future will be even more gay-friendly than today. So until it changes its ways, CPAC is not the future.
20 Comments, 8 Threads
1. Chris Bolts Sr
With the financial markets a mess, the Middle East going up in flames, Europe going down the tubes, and China and Iran getting more aggressive I think the way conservatives treat gays should be ranked very low on the list.
Progress has given us nothing but trouble.
August 10, 2011 - 6:57 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
How the conservative movement treats conservative allies is indicative of the sagacity and health of the movement.
August 10, 2011 - 7:00 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
Doug Dever
Amen, Stephen. It seems like we've had this debate a couple of times in recent memory and haven't learned. During GWB's first term the extreme social conservative wing of the GOP started making noises that the "big tent might be a little bit too big" with groups like Dobson's Focus on the Family complaining that it was time to marginalize the libertarians and the gays within the GOP. Let's examine how that worked out… Not that marginalizing the gay community would cost the GOP any elections, but as a fiscal conservative who is just starting to trust the GOP (maybe a little bit) again, I'd be concerned to see us heading down that particular slippery slope another time.
August 10, 2011 - 7:57 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
Chris Bolts
So, it's either beat on social conservatives or accept gay conservatives. Glad I know what the conservative movement is all about. Then again, if the courts forces us all to accept gay marriage, or even the states, then it'll be okay in the end, right Stephen?
August 10, 2011 - 8:09 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
Show me a case where GOProud has pushed a case like you're talking about. Just one.
Put up or shut up.
August 10, 2011 - 8:33 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
Chris Bolts
They're pushing it NOW, Stephen. It's the ACU's event and they can exclude whomever they wish. Why should the ACU have to force it's doors open for GOProud at the risk of alienating it's other members? The statement from the GOProud member above says everything, "Dick Cheney has a more progressive position on marriage than GOProud does." The "progressive" position on matters – politically, culturally, and economically – has done wonders for the world.
It seems to me that every time this issue comes up, people are always saying that the federal government has no role in determining the state of marriage. You are absolutely right. The state of marriage was determined well before there was a such a thing as the United States government, but in order to accept gay marriage the only way that it can be implemented is by having the government force it on people. I don't accept the government's role on moral issues and can now see why it has gained so much power in the area.
August 11, 2011 - 9:20 am Link to this Comment
Robert Jeffers
It's not about throwing one out over the other – this part of being a "Conservative" I don't get about alot of "Social Conservatives" – if you truly believe that Federal government shouldn't have a role in it, means that FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SHOULDN'T HAVE A ROLE IN IT. That goes both ways, even if they are doing things that YOU like. Take that as a person who believes in the rights of the CHURCH to decide who it marries (or choses not to).
If you actually READ Steve's piece, you'd see that GOProud said it should be left to the States to decide. Sounds like Constitutionalism to me. Tell me, why do you hate the Constitution and Founders so much? (Just kidding)
August 10, 2011 - 9:54 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
tim maguire
Agreed, Robert. If we're deciding who's conservative and who isn't, I'd rather jettison the social conservatives. As discussed in the comments of the last GOProud post, the real struggle is not left vs. right, but big government vs. small government and I see little evidence that social conservatives are on the right side of that issue.
August 11, 2011 - 5:27 am Link to this Comment
Evil Red Scandi
Oh come on now. It's perfectly OK to hold the fiscal future of this country hostage by certain groups so that they can impose their religious beliefs on others. It's what Jesus would do. It's right there in the Bible next to the part of protesting at the funerals of fallen soldiers.
August 11, 2011 - 12:31 am Link to this Comment | Reply
2. Jeff Gauch
Organizations like GOProud serve a vital function. They act as "halfway houses" for recovering Democrats. They give lie to the Democratic assertion that the GOP has no place for minorities. In time the recoverer realizes that the GOP doesn't care if he's gay, black, or Californian. At least the libertarian wing doesn't care. That, I think, is a major source of the heat on this issue. The social conservatives know that groups like this will change the balance of power in the GOP. Gays are the only minority group that is likely to strongly prefer the libertarian wing. Keeping them marginalized is the best way to maintain political power. Destroying the country is a small price to pay.
August 10, 2011 - 9:58 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
3. nonny
I wrote this a while ago for classical values…
I'm straight and I want Gay Marriage legalized. I want gay couples to be publicly registered with the government. Just like the rest of us. For too long gays have been able to bounce from partner to partner, with none of the special trapped in misery feelings that so many hetro married couples have. I want Gays want to fully experience divorce court with all the life wrecking hell it has to offer. I want gays to think "Wow, your 18 year old son is really hot, but he's not worth my house and half of my remaining life's income." Gays just about never kill their ex-lovers. It's just too easy to dump and move on. I want to change that too.
I want gays to share that special feeling of looking across the breakfast table in the morning and knowing that they're trapped for the rest of their lives… Or at least, the rest of their spouse's life… If we're lucky, gays will soon be able to adopt. Then they'll get to share custody battles and child support for other people's kids. The precious darlings have wanted equal treatment for a long time. Looks like they're finally getting it. Welcome to hell. bitches.
I really don't have any resentments over gays, per se. What I resent the hell out of are the whiny flamers sobbing about how they're so put upon in this, the most tolerant society on earth.
I'd like nothing better than for gays with closets full of assault rifles to be as quietly married as everybody else. Look at it this way, every gay married couple is two caring, sensitive guys locking themselves away from women. More hot, rampant coeds for the rest of us!
I have not referred to lesbians so far, because lesbians are hot.
August 10, 2011 - 10:53 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
John J
You're right. Even conservatives have become so preprogrammed and PC, that they never can think this through without attaching gobs of emotional claptrap.
I do not care who you have sex with, or how, but when you become a "gay" this or a "gay" that, you are making it the issue. You are not only doing something which I find abhorrent, but you are rubbing my nose in it. Gay marriage has no actual meaning or purpose except to force non-gays into their play-world. I have a gay brother and sister, and I know very many gay people, some of whom are conservative, most of whom are liberal nutjobs. I always tell them the same thing: I don't march down the street with my organ hanging out, having fake (or real) sex with a fire hydrant, and demand you like it (and I have seen exactly this, and the gay conservatives present said nothing), so, if you want to be my friend, behave properly, and we'll get along great. And let's not pretend we don't all know what "properly" entails, either.
If you choose to label yourself, first, foremost, and always as a Klan member, ACU wouldn't want you either, for exactly the same reason: you are offending the other members through their associational endorsement. If you are gay, and want to be involved with the ACU, join a group that is welcome, and leave your gayness at the door. The question I have is, "Why do you require a gay organization only to represent you? Are you heterophobic?"August 13, 2011 - 12:31 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
4. Marshall Art
I can only say this: I am more than willing to accept homosexuals as partners in advancing conservative policies in this country. The more the merrier. But, I will not join in furthering specifically homosexual causes. If some Democrat believes in lower tax rates, I will welcome his efforts to help get rates lowered. But I will not support his push to over-regulate business. I don't have to agree with absolutely every point with each person on the bus, but not everyone is worthy to drive it. We should take whatever help we can get on conservative issues. But that doesn't mean we must support each sub-group's personal issue.
By the same token (or maybe, "on the other hand"), each sub-group, such as GOProud, needs to be conscious of why they are on the bus in the first place. They can't divert its course in order to satisfy its personal and unique issues. The bus can't get to its more important destination of conservatism by stopping along the way to satisfy any riders with less than conservative stops.
(Wow. I'm having trouble with my bus analogy.)
August 11, 2011 - 1:09 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
And BTW, the future will be truly "more gay-friendly" when it stops pretending the condition is morally benign and not consequence free for either the individual or the culture.
August 11, 2011 - 1:14 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
Jeff Gauch
To stretch your bus analogy. The fewer stops, the fewer the riders.
August 11, 2011 - 9:05 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
Ah! But the bus is a charter, not a city bus. The charter picks up all the riders at one terminal for transport to a mutually desired destination: a country with conservative values regarding defense, the economy and, in general, right & wrong, and all the benefits derived therein. That doesn't mean that each rider will have each and every personally beneficial desire addressed, but that every desire met will be beneficial to each rider.
Whew! Thanks for the help with my analogy.
August 12, 2011 - 12:37 am Link to this Comment | Reply
The gay organization that has any chance of making inroads with cultural conservatives is the one that can establish itself as the antithesis of the statism of the gay left. Specifically:
1. It accepts that rational people can disagree over the nature of homosexuality, and recognizes that many of the negative attitudes toward homosexuality are secular in nature.
2. It accepts that people don't have to like homosexuality to get along with homosexuals, and recognizes that many cultural conservatives share this belief.
3. It recognizes that the Boy Scouts have good reasons for excluding gay scout masters for reasons that have nothing to do with homosexuality, reasons that parallel those for Girl Scouts to exclude (gay or straight) male troop leaders.
4. It rejects the ethic of the gay left that seeks to employ the government to change people's minds about homosexuality.
4a. It fully accepts principles of educational libertarianism – parents ultimately decide what their children be taught, without being overruled by GLSEN, Planned Parenthood, CAIR, NEA, AFT, AFL-CIO, People for the American Way or whomever.
4b. It recognizes that the government own neither the common language nor the concepts that language symbolizes, that marriage is a cultural convention that predates formal government, and therefore that government has no authority to redefine the concept of marriage, whose meaning has always limited itself to heterosexual unions, between a man and a woman or a man and his harem. It also recognizes the motivations of SSM proponents – if they howlingly reject an institution with all the legal privileges of American marriage but not the name, one can only conclude that a crucial goal of SSM is to jack with other people's vocabulary a la Newspeak.
5. It rejects "hate crimes" classifications. Hate is not something a jury and ESPECIALLY not lawmakers can objectively assess. Judges are already empowered to take extenuating circumstances into account per sentencing; "hate crimes" classification is unnecessary.
That's what I coudl come up with at the top of my head. Is GOProud that kind of organization?
I must say, having "proud" or "pride" in your organization's name is a big turnoff. It comes across as arrogant. Maybe not "We Are The Champions"-level arrogance, but still.
August 11, 2011 - 11:31 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
6. SusannaS
Thank you, Mr. Henderson. Well said.
August 11, 2011 - 4:50 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
8. Megan
"As Stacy McCain likes to say, you can't build a movement by a process of subtraction."
And you can't maintain a movement by kowtowing to every ragged band of mercenaries which offers its services and pledging allegiance to *their* flag. That's what the Democrats do with gun control, abortion absolutists, feminazis, gays, race-mongers, tax and spend social engineers, union bullies, terrorist sympathizers, multiculti loons, and all the rest of their threadbare patchwork quilt of crazy. Throw a rock, and you'll hit a patch that at least one of the other patches wants torn to shreds.
GOProud can go to hell. The point of their existence should be to advance the conservative values of the strong military/lower taxes/moral values triad, not to try to force conservatives to advance theirs. And then bitch about it and call us "bigots" when we refuse to bend over.
"Another thing to remember: The future will be even more gay-friendly than today."
I'm sorry, isn't this what liberals always said about abortion? Whoops. Turns out public opinion can swing in the moral values direction, too. Ultrasound has changed a lot of minds in a very short time. Besides, I thought the job of a conservative was to stand athwart history yelling "Stop!"
And I don't care what they do in the bedroom. I just wish they'd stop dragging their bedroom into the middle of every damn street.
August 12, 2011 - 11:43 am Link to this Comment | Reply
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The St. Louis County Library Foundation is pleased to present a special Children's Book Week event with popular young adult author Eoin Colfer. Mr. Colfer will appear with a special guest on Friday, May 17 at 7:00 p.m. at St. Louis County Library Headquarters, 1640 S. Lindbergh Blvd.
The program is free and open to the public. Books for signing will be available for purchase from Barnes and Noble.
Eoin Colfer's appearances at St. Louis County Library are always a treat, featuring comedy, stage antics and other surprises. This visit will be no different! Mr. Colfer will appear with a mysterious special guest to unveil a new series. "W.A.R.P. Book 1: The Reluctant Assassin" takes the reader on a wild time-traveling ride from Victorian England to our present day.
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The Santa Clara Center for Occupational Health (SCCOSH) and Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition (SVTC) Collections, 1978-2002 (bulk 1982-1995), document the history of SCCOSH and SVTC. SCCOSH grew from the efforts of three women's health and labor rights organizers, Robin Baker, Amanda Hawes, and Pat Lamborn, who had come to focus on the Valley's largely unrepresented working-class minorities in the late 1970s. SCCOSH organized various campaigns in the fields of workers' rights advocacy and occupational safety and health training, particularly within the Silicon Valley electronics industries. At the outset, SCCOSH envisioned itself as representing three constituencies: local labor unions and labor councils, ill and injured workers, and community residents affected by wildfire industrial development of the Santa Clara Valley since the mid-1970s. The Silicon Valley Toxic Coalition (SVTC) developed from a SCCOSH project into a wide-ranging, independent nonprofit organization founded by Ted Smith (1945-), attorney and activist in 1982 in response to the suspicion that leaks at manufacturing sites for IBM and Fairchild Electronics were causing health issues in nearby Silicon Valley homes. The SVTC is a San José, California-based research and advocacy group that promotes safe environmental practices in the high tech industry. The records of SCCOSH and SVTC consist of administrative files, correspondence, research, publications, official reports, newspaper clippings, photographs, notes, congressional testimony, and legislative material concerning these organizations and their mission to reduce toxins and hazardous waste in the Silicon Valley. This collection is arranged into 15 series: Series I: SCCOSH, Activism, 1976-2002; Series II: SCCOSH, Workplace Hazard Files, 1978-1999; Series III: SCCOSH, Administrative Files, 1978-2001; Series IV: SCCOSH, Legal Case Files, 1980-1998; Series V: SVTC, Model Hazardous Materials Storage, 1981-1986; Series VI: SVTC, Groundwater Cleanup, 1981-1997; Series VII: SVTC Toxic Gas Model Ordinance, 1982-1997; Series VIII: SVTC, Administrative Files, 1982-1999; Series IX: SVTC, Founder Ted Smith, 1983-1995; Series X: SVTC, United Technologies Corporation, 1984-1995; Series XI: SVTC, Toxics Coordinating Project, 1985-1990; Series XII: SVTC, Tanner Bill, 1986-1991; Series XIII: SVTC, Stanford University/Biotechnology Activism, 1987-1991; Series XIV: SVTC, Earth Day, 1987-1993; and Series XV: Newspaper Articles, 1987-1997.
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KC's Previews for February 2012
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In KC's latest Westfield column, he looks at the latest Previews catalog. Two of his top recommendations are Legends of the Dark Knight: Jim Aparo (due in April), a reprint of a bunch of The Brave and the Bold stories, and Showcase Presents: The Losers (due in March). Click that first link to learn why these books are so neat.
KC also goes through upcoming Marvel comics, especially as they relate to the Avengers, and plugs a particularly unusual one-shot, as well as proposing "Domo and the Doc", the world's weirdest team-up.
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March 16, 2001
Surprise election sends Whitaker to Florida
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By Tita Parham
LAKELAND The Florida Conference has a new bishop, the Rev. Timothy Wayne Whitaker, 52, formerly superintendent of the Virginia Annual Conferences Norfolk District.
The episcopacy committee of the Southeastern Jurisdictional Conference (SEJ) made that recommendation with the rest of the jurisdictions appointments for bishop in its Feb. 27 report to delegates during the evening session of the jurisdictions special called session. Delegates approved the appointments, effective April 2.
Committee members unanimously agreed on the decisions, according to Denny White, the committees chair.
The special session began Feb. 26 in Lake Junaluska, N.C., and was held to elect a bishop to fill the vacancy created by the death of Bishop Cornelius L. Henderson, 66, who died Dec. 7 after a two-year battle with cancer. Henderson was serving in his second appointment as bishop of the Florida Conference. Retired Bishop J. Lloyd Knox was appointed bishop of the conference after Hendersons death and during Hendersons six-month medical leave of absence in 1999.
United Methodist bishops in the United States are ordinarily elected in regularly scheduled jurisdictional conferences held every four years.
Election stuns new bishop
Whitakers election came as a surprise to many delegates and the bishop-elect himself.
"I am stunned by my election," Whitaker said in an interview following the announcement. "I had decided I did not want to be a candidate."
Whitaker withdrew from the election the first night of the session in a 10-minute presentation to delegates after being nominated that evening on the first ballot. He re-emerged on the 13th ballot, took a significant lead over the two leading nominees on the 15th ballot and was elected bishop on the 17th ballot with 395 out of 497 valid votes. He needed 299 to be elected.
Whitaker said he had not accepted a nomination and endorsement from his conference prior to the session because he did not want to go through the election process again. He was a nominee and strong contender during elections at the jurisdictional conference last July. When competition for the third opening narrowed to him and one other candidate, he withdrew, paving the way for the election of the Rev. James R. King Jr.
He said nomination for the special session would be a distraction to his life and ministry during a time when he was becoming refocused.
Whitaker also felt he was not the right fit for the position because he sensed the delegates view of the role of bishop was different from his. He said the bishops office is one of a "pastoral theologian" and administrative, but many people feel bishops are more like CEOs, chief executive officers, of companies.
"At the end of the conference there was this tremendous movement to elect me, and I felt it would be a sin against the church and the Lord if I did not accept," he said. "I accept it as the church exercising its judgment and the church believing this was a movement of the Holy Spirit."
Florida delegates say Whitaker is good choice
Many members of the Florida Conference delegation said they were pleased with the appointment.
Knox said he felt good about the decision because Whitaker is "an excellent leader and a wonderful pastor who will lead the conference into the 21st century."
"I believe the Holy Spirit led us in choosing the best person," Knox said. "That was seen in the deadlock and rising of the name that fit Florida."
"We are thrilled," said Mary Alice Massey, head of the conferences delegation and a member of the episcopacy committee. "We perceived Gods will would be done."
The Rev. Dick Wills said the appointment, not the election, surprised him. "Before coming up here [the delegation] there was a lot of positive discussion about him. It was a disappointment when he said he did not want to be nominated," Wills said. "You can imagine the thrill when his name appeared again."
His appointment was a clear answer to prayer, according Wills. "He has a heart for God and an intense desire to make disciples of Jesus Christ," Will said. "That translates into dynamics of church growth and a movement of the Holy Spirit which empowers that. The groundwork Bishop Henderson laid well now see the fruit of that with this bishop."
Other delegates felt the outcome was spirit driven. "I think the Holy Spirit was there this afternoon, in spite of us," said John Dowell, president of the Florida Conference United Methodist Men.
Jacksonville District Superintendent Thom Shafer said it was a "God movement." "When you can experience the Spirit moving in a way you can transform an entire event, its a God movement," he said.
Shafer said the greatest strength Whitaker brings to the Florida Conference is being who he is. "He always qualified his statement [about his nomination] that he is responsible to the direction of the Holy Spirit in his life. I trust that," Shafer said. "If that truly does describe him then he is working with the Holy Spirit in his life. Hes committed because hes committed to God."
The Rev. Marta Burke, a delegate from the Miami District, said she feels Whitaker will be a good bishop for Florida, but felt the election fell into "some old patterns of electing a bishop" when it became deadlocked between the Rev. Al Gwinn and the Rev. Nancy Rankin.
Burke had hoped for a forum of conversation between the leading nominees and the delegates. "The only conversation we had is when people declined [their nomination] or in between breaks," she said. "I was hoping we could trust the process and interface with each other."
The elections progression was a reaction to a fear of facing the different ideologies and philosophies of the two leading candidates, according to Burke.
"Were saying were a diverse church, but we dont want to deal with our diversity. We dont want conflict wed have to face our diversity," she said. "We missed an opportunity to be the church."
Ministry enters a new phase Whitaker was consecrated a bishop Wednesday morning during the last session. Although his wife, Melba, had not been with him throughout the conference she attended the consecration service, thanks to a church member in Richmond, Va., who arranged for a private jet to transport her to the conference. No commercial flights would have gotten her to the service in time. When Whitaker gave his withdrawal presentation early in the election he said he came "without wife, robe or speech." Prior to his appointment as district superintendent, Whitaker served as pastor of Centenary United Methodist Church in the Richmond District from June 1993 to June 1997 and other appointments in the Virginia Conference from 1975 to 1993. Whitaker was also pastor and student pastor of churches in the Mississippi Conference and student pastor and minister of youth in the Georgia Conference. He was ordained an elder in the Mississippi Conference in 1974. Whitaker has served a variety of churches, "from small and rural churches to downtown churches with ministries to the homeless and poor," according to Wills. Whitaker received a bachelor of arts degree in 1970 from Millsaps College in Jackson, Miss., and a master of divinity degree in 1973 from Emory University, Atlanta, Ga. Whitaker and his wife have two sons, Scott, 28, and Eric, 25. The special session ended after the consecration service. A total of 524 of 540 lay and clergy delegates attended. The Southeastern Jurisdiction is one of five jurisdictions, or regional areas, in the United States and comprises 12,309 United Methodist congregations and nearly 2.9 million members. The Florida Conference is the second largest of 65 annual conferences in the United States, with 743 churches and more than 340,000 members. It extends east of the Appalachicola River to Key West. For Whitaker's complete biographical sketch and photo visit http://umns.umc.org/elections/bios/twhitaker.htm
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If you are bringing a boat, there are two boat ramps available to you within one mile of the house. There are davits on the property for your use.
You will have private beach access with covered pavilions, BBQ grills, restroom facilities and showers located ¼ mile from the house. Walk, drive or bicycle. Just bring your picnic basket. There are beach chairs for your use. This private beach is open from sunrise to sunset.
This is a large home in a beautiful waterfront community with everything you need for a great vacation. It features a king master suite w/ flat screen TV, private shower and walk out balcony, 2 queen bedroom each with their own private full bathroom. The master bedroom, living room and kitchen overlook the Gulf of Mexico and boasts of all the luxuries of home. The living room has 46" flat screen TV with over 200 channels including high def, DVD player a few movies to get you started.
Water from your in-ground hot tub cascades into the spacious swimming pool. There is a fourth ½ bathroom within adjacent to the pool and hot tub.
Cook out on the screened-in lanai, which is accessible from the master bedroom, kitchen and living room. The spacious kitchen has been remodeled with new appliances and granite tops.
This vacation home is located about 45 minutes from Tampa International Airport on Florida's Gulf Coast. Local attractions include the historical Tarpon Springs Sponge Docks, minutes away on the Anclote River, where you can take a sponge diver boat tour, dolphin tour, sample the best of Greek cuisine and night life with lots of shopping.
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Game developer Herocraft has announced that they will be developing a number of games for BlackBerry Playbook and BlackBerry 10 platform. Herocraft is a game developer headquartered in Kalinigrad Russia, they develop games for several platforms like Google Play and Nokia Ovi and BlackBerry.
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Computer Scientists Find New Shortcuts for Infamous Traveling Salesman Problem
Not long ago, a team of researchers from Stanford and McGill universities broke a 35-year record in computer science by an almost imperceptible margin — four hundredths of a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a percent, to be exact. The advance — made to that poster child for hard-to-solve computer science quandaries, the "traveling salesman" problem — was too minuscule to have any immediate practical significance, but it has breathed new life into the search for improved approximate solutions.
The traveling salesman problem asks: Given a collection of cities connected by highways, what is the shortest route that visits every city and returns to the starting place? The answer has practical applications to processes such as drilling holes in circuit boards, scheduling tasks on a computer and ordering features of a genome.
The traveling salesman problem is easy to state, and — in theory at least — it can be easily solved by checking every round-trip route to find the shortest one. The trouble with this brute force approach is that as the number of cities grows, the corresponding number of round-trips to check quickly outstrips the capabilities of the fastest computers. With 10 cities, there are more than 300,000 different round-trips. With 15 cities, the number of possibilities balloons to more than 87 billion.
Christofides' Algorithm
In the early days of computers, mathematicians hoped that someone would come up with a much better approach to large traveling salesman problems — some algorithm that would allow computers to solve them in a reasonable amount of time. But while computer scientists have made progress with specific scenarios — identifying the shortest round-trip route for a 49-city map in the 1950s, a 2,392-city map in the 1980s and a 85,900-city map in 2006 — no one has devised an algorithm that can efficiently solve every traveling salesman problem. According to a landmark paper published in 1972, such a solution might not even be possible. Computer scientist Richard Karp, of the University of California at Berkeley, showed that the traveling salesman problem is "NP-hard," which means that it has no efficient algorithm (unless a famous conjecture called P=NP is true — but the majority of computer scientists now suspect that it is false).
After Karp's paper was published, many computer scientists set their sights on creating an efficient algorithm to find approximate solutions to the traveling salesman problem — round-trip routes whose lengths come within striking distance of that of the best possible route. Here, they had better luck: In 1976, Nicos Christofides, a professor at Imperial College London, developed an algorithmthat produces routes guaranteed to be at most 50 percent longer than the shortest route.
When it was created, many computer scientists assumed that Christofides' algorithm, which is simple enough to teach to computer science undergraduates in an hour, was a placeholder that would eventually give way to a more sophisticated algorithm able to better approximate the true solution. Yet for decades, that algorithm failed to materialize.
"Almost every graduate student in theoretical computer science has at some point spent a few futile weeks or months trying to improve upon Christofides' algorithm," said Sanjeev Arora, a computer scientist at Princeton University.
Finally in 2011, the Stanford-McGill team edged past Christofides' 50 percent guarantee for certain types of traveling salesman problems, showing that its algorithm's solutions would be at most 49.99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999996 percent longer than the true answer.
A string of improved approximation algorithms have since emerged, after computer scientists began looking at the problem with fresh eyes. Although these approximations apply only to certain types of traveling salesman problems, the approach they embody holds great promise, said Michel Goemans, a computer scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
"We've barely scratched the surface," he said. "I'm a big believer that, maybe five years down the road, there will be a much more powerful result."


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OMAC is the organization for automation and manufacturing professionals that is dedicated to supporting the machine automation and operation needs of manufacturing.
Board members Mark Ruberg and Dan Amundson discuss OMAC with Summit's Pat Reynolds during PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2013.
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The Organization for Machine Automation and Control (OMAC), best known for the PackML standard, generated more interest than ever with a demonstration of PackML in action at PACK EXPO Las Vegas (Sept. 23–25, 2013; Las Vegas Convention Center).
OMAC, an organization for automation and manufacturing professionals, supports the machine automation and operation needs of manufacturing. The group used its presence at PACK EXPO to demonstrate the interoperability between control platforms using standards it has adopted and/or developed.
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One of the nation's top brewers, MillerCoors, has recently joined the Organization for Machine Automation and Control (OMAC). "We are pleased to welcome MillerCoors as a new member to the organization and have them continue to adobt policies driven by OMAC. It is quite significant that more of the leading names in consumer packaged goods are finding value in our initiatives," remarks Dr. Bryan Griffen, Electrical & Automation Engineering Manager of Nestlé and Chair of the OMAC Packaging Workgroup.
The Automation Conference held in Chicago, IL May 22-23, provided a golden opportunity for Nestle's Bryan Griffen to deliver an update on recent initiatives of the OMAC Packaging Workgroup. Griffen, who is the OPW chairman, was one of the keynote speakers at the conference, which is produced by Automation World and Packaging World.


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"He puzzled and puzzled till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. Maybe Christmas, he thought … doesn't come from a store. Maybe Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more!"
The holiday shopping blitz certainly started early this year. In fact, I think I may have seen the first Christmas ad in store as early as October. The positive side of this -- maybe those marketers are just trying to keep Christmas all the year.
As the curtain readies to come down on 2012, I have been thinking about some of the topics we've discussed this year and what innovations we have been able to tap into -- almost like the few cherished presents we get at Christmas during Hanukah, Kwanzaa or even Festivus. The past 12 months have seen many innovations from companies such as Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, HP, movie studios as well as from brand marketers, agencies and ad-tech companies. And each time we...
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Wanda Ouida Burks Parsons, 81, of Benton passed away July 15. She was born July 24, 1930, in Benton to the late Tommy E. and Ruby Lea Crook Burks. Wanda was a member of Sharon Missionary Baptist Church.Â
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Robert Euel Parsons; and a brother, Tommy Ray Burks.
She is survived by two daughters, Billie June Lovell and husband Lanny and Sandra Pelton; two sons, Robert Gary Parsons and wife Jan and Terry Parsons and wife Sherry all of Benton; a sister, Martha Lea Tumey of Lake Village; nine grandchildren, Matt Hollowell and wife Kim, Jayme Nalley and husband Dillon, Lani Lovell, Shane Parsons and wife Stephanie, Adam Parsons and wife Becky, Wesley Parsons, Angel Cuffel and husband Joe, Dustin Parsons and Layne Parsons, all of Benton; six great-grandchildren, Clay Cuffel, Hannah Cuffel, Michael Cuffel, McGregor Parsons, Clair Parsons and Andrew Parsons; and several nieces, nephews and cousins.
Funeral service will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday, July 18, at Ashby Funeral Home. Burial will follow at New Friendship Cemetery.
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This year at KDWB's annual holiday bash, concert-goers had a little extra help looking glamorous. Regency Beauty Institute students and graduates manned hair and makeup stations at the Jingle Ball pre-party and decked guests out in glow sticks, lip gloss and glitter hair spray galore. Our licensed graduates created hairstyles from updo twists to curls that bounced higher than the crowd when the first artist took the stage at the main event.
Energy was high at the pre-party before one of the most-anticipated holiday concerts in St. Paul, MN, but skyrocketed when Fifth Harmony and Austin Mahone each took the stage to perform. They even answered a few audience questions before the main event.
The line-up at KDWB's Jingle Ball included Fifth Harmony, Austin Mahone, Robin Thicke, Ariana Grande, Fall Out Boy, Enrique Iglesias, Flo Rida and Miley Cyrus. From Robin Thicke performing one of the summer's hottest songs to Pete Wentz's guitar riffs, there's no doubt the opening artists packed as much power as the headliners.
Besides sets that got the crowd singing, we saw plenty of spirit from holiday sweaters to guests dressed as Miley and Robin Thicke during their performance at the VMAs.
Pre-party guests even had the chance to text and win a backstage meet-and-greet with the "Wrecking Ball" singer herself during the show.
Some tickets to Jingle Ball sold for up to $4,000, but for winners Elise W. and Elena K. the chance to meet one of the most talked-about pop starts of 2013 was priceless.
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Plastic shoe maker Crocs, Inc. (NASDAQ:CROX - 15.17) has been popular among call traders lately, with the stock up 26% since touching a two-year low in November. So far today, CROX has seen more than 8,600 calls cross the tape -- about nine times its average intraday call volume, and roughly 20 times the number of puts exchanged. Digging deeper, it looks like one speculator is gambling on an extended rally for CROX, but is hedging his bets just in case.
The equity's out-of-the-money June 18 and June 22 calls have each seen more than 2,500 contracts change hands, mostly in symmetrical blocks marked "spread." The 18-strike calls traded at the ask price of $0.85, suggesting they were bought, while the 22-strike calls crossed closer to the bid at $0.20, implying they were likely sold. Since volume has outstripped open interest at both strikes, it appears the trader established a bull call spread for a net debit of $0.65 per pair of contracts.
By purchasing the 18-strike calls to open, the investor is betting on CROX to surmount the $18 level by June options expiration. However, in order to reduce the cost of the trade, as well as his breakeven level, the speculator simultaneously sold the higher-strike calls. Now, the trader needs CROX to topple the $18.65 level (bought call strike plus premium paid), and is risking just $0.65. Had he simply bought the 18-strike calls, he'd need CROX to conquer the $18.85 level, and he'd have $0.85 at risk.
But, the sale of the June 22 calls also caps his maximum profit potential at $3.35 (difference between strikes minus net debit), no matter how far CROX should sail past the $22 level. The "vanilla" June 18 call buyer's maximum profit potential is theoretically unlimited.
Expanding our sentiment horizon, we find that bullish betting has become par for the course for CROX. On the International Securities Exchange (ISE), Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), and NASDAQ OMX PHLX (PHLX), traders have bought to open more than eight CROX calls for every put during the past two weeks. What's more, the stock's 10-day call/put volume ratio of 8.33 ranks in the 70th percentile of its annual range, suggesting option buyers have initiated bullish bets at a faster clip than usual.
At last look, CROX has fallen in tandem with the broader equities market, shedding 1.2% to explore the $15.17 vicinity.