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In 3-quart casserole place butter.
Microwave at high (10) 1 minute to melt.
Add marshmallows.
Microwave at high (10) 2 to 3 minutes.
Stir until butter is melted and marshmallows are well blended.
Add cereal.
Stir until well coated.
Press warm mixture evenly and firmly into lightly buttered 2-quart oblong glass dish.
Use wax paper or buttered spatula to press firmly into an even layer.
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Replace Coil or whole unit?
My AC unit wasn't cooling and when the tech came to do the maintenance he found it low on refrigerant. He started adding R22 and did not stop until 10 lbs later. Under my maintenance plan I paid $67/lb for 9 lbs.
So I have a leak in the coil of my upstairs unit and need some advice as to what to do. They have quoted me $1400 for a new coil for the existing unit.
If they replace the unit, it will cost me $5050.80 for a new Trane XB13, but they will refund the $637 for R22 they added before finding the leak. Net $4416.80 vs. net $2037.
The salesman was pushing the need to move to a R410 unit and the associated resale. This seemed odd to me. I have another unit downstairs that would still be R22.
I don't plan to be in this house more than another year or two. What would you do?
oh god.. first of all.. freon 22. should not cost more than 20-25/ lb. 67 is a rip off.
i would shop around . I have exactly same problem.. I have decided to go in for R410A for one more reason.: first of all it is new; second more efficient.
I have quotes for a 4 ton 13 SEER Outside unit and inside coil for LENNOX for 2400 only. see the link.. it is 3100 if I change the whole air handling unit., but all I need inside is a coil(EVAP).hence I would go for that. I am also checking Trane XR13 prices.
shop around. its early. and AC folks are not fully busy.
try to install LENNOX or TRANE.
go in for the new systems. threy are more efficient.
ask for a checklist like
Complete package includes:
*Indoor & outdoor equipment 13Seer efficiency with new enviromental friendly 410a freon.
*Service disconnect & electrical whip. (outdoor unit)
*Concrete pad for out door unit.
*Digital Thermostat (Trane)
*Liquid line Dryer (installed in outdoor unit to filter out non condensables for protection)
*New Gas Stop, Gas Flex and Black pipe (on gas furnaces)
*New Emergency Drain pan.
*Labor and warranty.
Here is a link that might be useful: example of an advt
If dollars are your major concern and your truly only going to be in the home another year or two and think the outside condenser unit is in good shape then go for the new coil. You will be taking a gamble that the outside unit holds up until after you sell the house.
The best choice however is going with an entire new unit. You may even get more money for your home when you sell it due to it having a relatively new system and you won't be worrying about any major additional costs as the new equipment warranty will be in force.
I don't like repairing old R-22 systems. I would recommending investing in something new that will be trouble free for years to come. I think you can find a better price on a new system. There are other brands less expensive that are good too and are usually installed inexpensively by independent installers.


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City of Tucson Wins State Planning Award
The City of Tucson recently won the 2014 State Planning Award for Plan Tucson, the City's General and Sustainability Plan. Plan Tucson was approved by more than 65 percent of voters in the November 2013 election.
The award application required addressing seven criteria, including originality/innovation, transferability, quality, comprehensiveness, public outreach, role of planners, and effectiveness/results.
Plan Tucson was the culmination of a three-year process conducted by an in-house team of City planners, in collaboration with a diverse group of stakeholders to prepare a new General Plan that would serve as a comprehensive framework for a sustainable future over the next decade.
"While the City is honored to have received this award in a field of other worthy general plans, the award really belongs to the entire community, including all the members of the public who so generously shared their time, ideas, and knowledge over several years to help craft the Plan's goals and policies that address the many elements that contribute to a vital and livable community," said Nicole Ewing-Gavin, director of the Office of Integrated Planning.
The award was presented during the Nov. 6, 2014 American Planning Association, Arizona Chapter, Annual Planning Conference Awards Luncheon.
Tucson's Application for Designation as a "City of Gastronomy"
The City of Tucson, Santa Cruz Valley Heritage Alliance, University of Arizona Southwest Center, our media partner Edible Baja Arizona, and many other community partners are actively seeking recognition of our region's rich agricultural heritage, thriving food traditions, and culinary distinctiveness through a "City of Gastronomy" designation by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Read the application here.
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Delicata squash hybrid?
This year as an afterthought I planted some three year old Delicata squash seeds from a squash I had bought at the grocery store. The plants grew well and I got a pretty good harvest of this tasty squash. What was peculiar was that the squash on one of the plants were the same color as the regular Delicata, but a different shape, almost like acorn squash, but not quite. I am thinking maybe this is a hybrid, and that maybe the farm where the parent squash was growing had Delicata and maybe Acorn squash growing next to each other and they were cross-pollinated? Is this a plausible explanation? What do you think?
Delicata will cross pollinate with any other C. pepo and that species includes acorns, most summer squash, many pumpkins etc. It is not uncommon for growers of Delicata, to also grow Sweet Dumpling and Acorns as they have similar requirements. If they are within a 1/4 mile or so, they will cross. You can get some interesting specimens from cross pollinated seeds.
I had the same thing happen from a Burpee Heirloom pack, and someone who grew fields of Delicata told me that there are always a few plants that put out these round ones. Because of the overall similarity to Delicata in these cases (size, color, stripes) I would not be surprised if there is something other than hybrid seed going on... possibly a gene (fruit elongation) that gets turned off easily. But if the size, color, and stripes genes are dominant and the elongate shape is recessive my hypothesis could very well be wrong. My oddball was different in some other ways too. It was disease resistant and HUGE.


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SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- (Marketwired) -- 07/22/14 -- Alpine Data Labs announced today the introduction of Alpine Chorus 4.0, the industry's first Advanced Analytics enterprise platform that enables universal data discovery and search, bi-directional integration between Hadoop and all major data platforms, as well as compatibility with Spark and Cloudera 5.
Alpine Chorus 4.0 brings innovation in data discovery, query parallelization and machine learning in distributed environments. The company also introduces the first of its kind life cycle management facility for Hadoop and non-Hadoop platforms which allows for sophisticated machine learning algorithms to be run and managed simply across heterogeneous data systems such as Cloudera, MapR, Pivotal HD or databases like PostGreSQL, Oracle and Greenplum. Complimentary access to Alpine Chorus 4.0 can be found at http://start.alpinenow.com
The Network Effect of Insights
"Research shows that only 4% of enterprises get business value out of their Big Data investment," says Joe Otto, President and CEO at Alpine Data Labs. "The current industry solutions encourage a siloed and non-scalable approach to Big Data and that simply limits progress. We focus on building the most comprehensive and scalable platform that enterprises can use to achieve Big Data ROI and to better connect people, data and insights. From helping people quickly visualize and work with any data, to running models 100 times faster on Spark, to operationalizing the deployment of real-time models via standards like PMML, customers using Alpine Chorus innovate faster because they can easily run deep algorithms at Big Data scale and in a timeframe of business relevance."
The new solution boasts over 100 new features and furthers the company's advantage in the field of Advanced Analytics. With Alpine Chorus 4.0, data scientists and engineers can be productive on any data -- Hadoop or not; business users are engaged early and quickly add value to the advanced analytics conversation; and finally, executives rely on a standard platform to build repeatable, secure and reusable analytical practices.
Over the last 6 months alone, the company has tripled its customer base and has grown by over 200% in the financial services, online media, government, retail and manufacturing sectors.
Data Discovery Made Simple
Most organizations cut into their competitive advantage early in the analytical process because their data scientists can't easily discover, assemble and transform data before working with it. That process can take months, because moving data is not simple and when it comes to working with Hadoop data, new skill sets need to be acquired.
Alpine Chorus 4.0's universal data discovery capability allows users to search, find and use data regardless of where it is. Using Alpine Chorus' "Google-like" search, users can find and browse any file, model, workflow, comment, dataset, etc. -- and when data is found, they can visualize it through powerful heat maps, scatter plots and histograms, all without data movement.
"This functionality alone made our team more effective. It allowed us to assemble and understand data quickly, without the complexity of working with MapReduce, or Pig or SQL," says Ron Rasmussen, CTO & SVP Engineering at Xactly Corp. "Our ability to work rapidly and iterate at Big Data scale is core to helping us deliver the best products to our customers."
Big Data Analytics at the Speed of Business
"Removing Hadoop's complexity will give any company a head start, but it's not enough," says Steven Hillion, co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Alpine Data Labs. "Once enterprises have identified the data they want to work with, they need to interrogate it without being encumbered by performance issues."
In this new release, the company unveils its Parallel Analytics Engine, a virtual layer that now executes all of Alpine Chorus' algorithms with multiple levels of parallelism. This includes the Workflow Graph Optimizer, which parses analytics workloads and deploys them in parallel to maximize the use of available resources; and the Polymorphic Data Service, which decides at run-time how to optimize queries for each type of data platform. These innovations, unique to Alpine Data Labs, represent the most efficient way to run sophisticated machine learning algorithms on a variety of distributed systems. They also made it possible for Alpine Chorus 4.0 to be the first Advanced Analytics platform to be certified on CDH5 and Spark, benchmarked running complex algorithms at up to a hundred times faster than previously possible.
"With Alpine Chorus 4.0 customers can work on important analytical issues at Big Data speed and keep the business engaged because of the solution's visual, powerful and collaborative approach," says Amr Awadallah, Founder and CTO at Cloudera. "Alpine Chorus is a showcase for analytics innovation in the Big Data Era and we're excited that it features the power of Cloudera 5."
The Internet of People
"The key to analytical excellence is collaboration," says Dan Vesset, Vice President of IDC's Business Analytics research. "Collaboration often gets a bad name because it sounds too abstract. However, our research shows that effective cross-enterprise collaboration has a determinant role in helping Big Data projects succeed and return value. Alpine Data Labs is leading the way here."
The new features in Alpine Chorus 4.0 make the benefits of collaboration very tangible:
- Data scientists can tap into the innovation of their business counterparts at every point in the analytics process through user-generated data: comments, tags, links and documents applied to models, workflows, datasets and sandboxes.
- Business Analysts can easily and visually understand data science work through collaborative analytics workspaces, communicating and iterating in real-time, increasing the value and confidence of their analysis.
- Data and IT engineers rely on Github-like version control features, job scheduling and data management capabilities and can operationalize Big Data Analytics in a secure and consistent manner.
- Executives benefit from a platform that is innovative, open and secure because all interactions in Alpine Chorus are recorded and auditable.
Alpine Chorus 4.0 rests on key new technological breakthroughs:
1) Visualize Before You Analyze: Universal Search, Interactive Visualizations and Data Augmentation add a layer of understanding on top of any data.
2) Transform and Query Without Extraction: Alpine Chorus comprehensive library of transformation operators -- from simple filters, to variable, null-value replacement operators to pivot, multi-join and normalization functions -- are accessible via sql editor or visual, drag and drop icons. All of Alpine Chorus operators run in place and in parallel.
3) Manage Data In and Out of Hadoop: data can be sent to Hadoop for building Big Data Lakes and out of Hadoop to write the results of large-scale computation done on Big Data to operational systems.
4) Do Predictive Analytics Natively on Big Data: All of Alpine Chorus are written and optimized to execute in parallel, making analysis at Big Data speed a reality.
5) Work With the Latest Innovations: Embraces Data Science standards for real-time scoring (PMML), as well as supports and contributes to open source platform technologies (Spark, Sqoop, Madlib, MLlib, etc). First Advanced Analytics platform to be certified on Spark and Cloudera CDH 5.
6) Extend and Productionize Models: Alpine Chorus REST API available to run, and edit run user defined functions (UDFs) as part of an end-to-end analytic workflow.
7) Manage the Analytics Full-Life Cycle: Github-like Version Control (copy workflow, history capture, revert capability), Check-in, commenting, model review and tracking, Job Scheduling, Data management.
For more, try Alpine for free @ http://start.alpinenow.com
Alpine Chorus is the world's first Enterprise Platform for Advanced Analytics on Big Data and Hadoop. With Alpine, data scientists and business analysts can work with large data sets, develop and collaborate on models at scale without having to use code or download software. Leaders in all industries, from Financial Services to Healthcare, use Alpine to outsmart their competition. Maybe you should too. Find out more at: www.alpinenow.com
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More than 21 million Americans will be using public WLANs in 2007, attracted by the cheap and superfast remote Internet access provided in airports, shopping malls, coffee bars and hotels, according to a report by Analysys.
More than 21 million Americans will be using public wireless local area networks (WLANs) in 2007, attracted by the cheap and superfast remote Internet access provided in airports, shopping malls, coffee bars and hotels, according to a report by Analysys.
Public WLAN services enable users to hook up their laptops and PDAs to their Internet service provider (ISP) or company intranet at speeds of up to 11 Mb/s.
"The appeal of these services means that the number of hot-spot locations in the U.S. will grow from 3,700 this year to 41,000 by 2007," said Monica Paolini, a co-author of the report. "This will, in turn, generate over $3 billion in service revenues."
The development of the WLAN market has been spurred on by the industry-wide adoption of a common technical platform based on the IEEE 802.11b standard [definition]. A rapidly growing number of devices (forecast to top 91 million in the next five years), such as PDAs and laptops, are now being shipped with cards already installed that can make use of public WLAN networks.
According to the report, the most notable issue to be resolved is the ability of public WLAN operators to provide a wide coverage for potential users. These operators need to pursue roaming agreements with each other to minimize the cost of deploying access gateways in every possible hot-spot location.
"For the market to accelerate as we expect, it's imperative for service providers to offer better location information and network detection software as part of well-presented service propositions with appropriate security and pricing," Paolini said.
The impact WLAN services will have on the cellular phone market remains unclear. Analysys predicts that by 2007 the public WLAN market will equate to about 25 percent of mobile data service revenues and could cannibalize up to 7 percent of cellular data operator revenues in the United States.
"While cell phone use has become principally a consumer-oriented product/service, public broadband connectivity, aside from kiosk-based access, continues to be corporate-driven and is targeted to meet the needs of the business traveler," said Amy Cravens, an industry analyst with In-Stat/MDR. "Service providers and hardware manufacturers in this space are intently focused on enabling those applications that are most demanded by business travelers and ensuring a level of network security appropriate for the confidential corporate content that will flow over them. Furthermore, while kiosk access is, principally, a pay-as-you-go service, WLAN providers base their revenue model on pre-paid subscription plans."
According to In-Stat, among the drivers most critical to the success of public area WLANs is the corporate adoption of VPNs, corporate conversion to notebooks and wireless roaming agreements.
In-Stat also expects the corporate culture of North America will make the region the predominant public area access market throughout the forecast period. The airport is currently the primary area of interest for public area access, but other possible locations include convention centers, cafes, train stations and airplanes.
The WLAN -802.11 market (including 802.11a and 802.11b) grew 21 percent from the third quarter of 2001 to the fourth quarter, with revenues of $363.3 million, according to the Dell'Oro Group.
"While 802.11a products began shipping during the quarter, they represented a very small percentage of the overall market," according to Greg Collins, a director at Dell'Oro Group. "We forecast that in 2002 the vast majority of the wireless LAN market will continue to be 802.11b."
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INVITATION FOR BIDS Sealed proposals will be received by Harborcreek Township, Millcreek Township, and Fairview Township, at the Harborcreek Township Municipal Building, 5601 Buffalo Road, Harborcreek, Pennsylvania 16421, until Friday, April 10, 2015 at 4:30 p.m. These proposals will be opened and reviewed thereafter. An award will be announced at the respective Township meetings held the week of May 4-7, 2015 at the respective Township municipal buildings, with the Millcreek Township meeting on Tuesday, May 5, 2015 at 9:30 a.m. at 3608 West 26th Street, Erie, PA 16506, the Harborcreek Township meeting on Wednesday, May 6, 2015 at 9:00 a.m. at 5601 Buffalo Road, Harborcreek, PA 16421, and the Fairview Township meeting on May 7, 2015 at 9:00 a.m. at 7471 McCray Road, Fairview, PA 16415. Interested bidders may obtain a bid package by contacting the Harborcreek Township at the address referenced above or by telephone, (814) 899-3171. The bid package includes this solicitation, Bid Instructions, the Proposal Form, and a Specimen Contract For The Services To Be Provided. All bids received in a timely fashion will be opened and reviewed as indicated. Award of the contract may or may not take place at the meeting indicated above insofar as THE TOWNSHIP SPECIFICALLY RESERVES THE RIGHT TO REJECT ANY AND ALL BIDS RECEIVED. The Proposals must be in the form provided by the Township and sealed in an envelope marked with "Proposal For UCC Services".
Posted on: 03/16/2015
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS Harborcreek Township, in accordance with the Second Class Township Code, 53 P.S. §§65701 et seq., and acting through its Board of Supervisors, hereby solicits proposals to rent/lease a certain parcel of land located at the intersection of Interstate 90 and State Route 430, in Harborcreek Township, and more specifically described in Deed Book 890, Page 393, and having County Tax Assessment # (27) 71-225-9, containing 4.85 acres, more or less. The specific terms of the lease/rent proposal may be obtained from the Harborcreek Township Municipal Office Building, 5601 Buffalo Road, Harborcreek, Pennsylvania 16421. The minimum bid is $1,000.00 per month. Harborcreek Township reserves the right to reject any or all bid proposals. Award of the lease shall be to the highest responsible bidder. Deadline for bid proposal submission is no later than 4:00 p.m., Tuesday, March 31st, 2015. Bid proposals should be mailed or delivered to the Harborcreek Township Municipal Building, in a sealed envelope (marked on the outside of the envelope "Lease/Rent Bid") at the above-referenced address. The proposals will be opened on Wednesday, April 1st, 2015, at the Regular Supervisors' Meeting at 9:00 a.m. in the Municipal Building.
Posted on: 01/09/2015
PUBLIC NOTICEThe Harborcreek Township Zoning Hearing Board will assemble on Tuesday, January 20, 2015 at 7:00 PM at the Harborcreek Township Municipal Building, 5601 Buffalo Road, Harborcreek, PA to consider the appeals of:U Pick 6 Harbor House, leasing agent of property at 4454 Buffalo Road, Erie, PA, County Index No. (27) 13-105-2.05; requesting a variance to reduce the side yard setback from the required 10 ft. to 7 ft. for the purpose of constructing an 8 ft. by 24 ft. addition on the east side of building. Property is zoned B-1 Business.This application can be reviewed at the Harborcreek Township Municipal Building, Zoning Office during regular business hours. All those desiring to do so may come to the hearing and be heard. HARBORCREEK TOWNSHIP ZONING HEARING BOARDBrian Marshall, Chairman
Posted on: 01/05/2015
PUBLIC NOTICEThe Harborcreek Township Board of Supervisors at their organization meeting on Monday, January 5, 2015 set the following days and times for meetings for the year 2015 at the Harborcreek Municipal Complex, located at 5601 Buffalo Road, Harborcreek, PA 16421: Harborcreek Parks and Recreation Board 3rd Monday each month @ 7:00 p.m. Harborcreek Sewer Authority 2nd Monday each month @ 5:30 p.m.Exception: October Meeting: Authority will meet on Tuesday, October 13th. Harborcreek Water Authority As needed. Harborcreek Planning Commission 1st Thursday each month @ 6:00 p.m. Harborcreek Zoning Hearing Board 3rd Tuesday each month @ 7:00 p.m. (as needed)Harborcreek Board of Supervisors 1st Wednesday each month @ 9:00 a.m. 3rd Wednesday each month @ 6:00 p.m. Any person with a disability requiring a special accommodation to attend a Supervisors' Meeting should notify Dean Pepicello at (814) 899-3171 as early as possible, but not later than five work days prior to the meeting. The township will make every effort to provide a reasonable accommodation.Please note: The Harborcreek Township hours of operation are as follows: Open 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday with 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. open for business
Posted on: 12/29/2014
PUBLIC NOTICEThe Harborcreek Township Board of Supervisors has scheduled the following meetings to be held at the Municipal Complex, 5601 Buffalo Road, Harborcreek, PA 16421 for the first two weeks of January 2015, as follows:Township Organization MeetingMonday, January 5, 2015 at 9:00 a.m.Board of AuditorsTuesday, January 6, 2015 at 6:00 p.m.Regular Board of Supervisors MeetingWednesday, January 7, 2015 at 9:00 a.m.Planning CommissionThursday, January 8, 2015 at 6:00 p.m.Any person with a disability requiring a special accommodation to attend a Supervisors' Meeting or Commission or Board meetings should notify Dean S. Pepicello at 814-899-3171 as early as possible, but not later than five work days prior to the meeting. The township will make every effort to provide a reasonable accommodation.
Posted on: 12/18/2014
PUBLIC NOTICE The Harborcreek Township Board of Supervisors announces the adoption of the 2015 General Fund and State Liquid Fuels Budgets for a total of $5,084,526.00, and sets the millage for 2015 at .9663 mills. The adopted budgets are available for inspection at the office of the Secretary of Harborcreek Township, 5601 Buffalo Road, Harborcreek, PA 16421.
Posted on: 12/05/2014
PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Harborcreek Township Board of Supervisors intends to retain the services of a CPA for the fiscal year 2014 audit at their Reorganization Meeting on January 5, 2015.
Posted on: 01/28/2015
A Cobblestone Hotel Land Development was granted final approval on January 21, 2015. The 11,000 sq. ft. 2 story with 44 hotel rooms will begin construction this Spring. The hotel will be located at 4995 Station Road.
A new Giant Eagle GetGo Convenience Store/Cafe and Fuel Pumps Land Development was granted final approval on January 21, 2015. The location will be on the corner of Station Road and Knowledge Parkway. Anticipated construction will be this Spring.
Posted on: 11/24/2014
A new Dunkin Donuts Land Development was granted final approval on September 2014. The 1,834 sq. ft. building will be located at 3918 Buffalo Road. Construction is scheduled to begin in April 2015.
Posted on: 11/15/2013
Stan's Garden Center Land Development, will consist of a new westerly driveway which will align with the traffic light at Buffalo and Walbridge Road, parking improvements, stormwater management facility, landscaping and sidewalk installation. Stan's Garden Center was granted final approval on September 18, 2013.
Knowledge Park Building #7, further known as Advanced Manufacturing & Innovation Center, a 2 story building which will house educational and offices along the south side of Technology Drive was granted final approval on October 16, 2013.
Posted on: 12/20/2013
We are proud to participate in the "Retire Your Old Glory" program to retire United States of America flags in a dignified and respectful manner.A "Retire Your Old Glory" bin is located in the back entrance to the Harborcreek Township building and is available during normal business hours.
Posted on: 07/21/2011
Harborcreek Township Parks Department has recently completed refurbishing the existing walking trails behind the township building, adjacent to Municipal Drive heading towards Community Park. See the photos here.
Posted on: 08/15/2012
Compost is available from the township. The cost is $10 a load for pickup or $25 delivered. Call the township at 899-3171 and ask to speak with Michelle to schedule a time.
Consider volunteering for one of our 3 local Fire Departments.
Drop-off your gently used shoes and clothing here at the Municipal Building. Look for the large white Salvation Army - Donation Collection Bin setting outside in front of the building.
Posted on: 08/11/2014
The Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has awarded more than $750,000 in annual coastal zone management grants to organizations dedicated to protecting and preserving Pennsylvania's coastal zones along Lake Erie and the Delaware Estuary.Harborcreek Township will receive $35,500 of this grant to develop a master site plan for the newly acquired Shorewood Park.
Posted on: 06/18/2014
Harborcreek Township recently acquired 1.56 acres of land adjacent to Shorewood Park along Lake Erie. The township has been attempting to acquire the property for several years and in September 2011 was awarded 80% of the appraised value of the land ($357,000.00) from the National Scenic Byways Project – with Harborcreek Township responsible for the additional 20%. While there is certainly limited Lake Erie Shoreline left in Erie County, Harborcreek Township Supervisors agreed to go forward with the purchase of the property to add to the Parks Department inventory. While final details of the property acquisition were underway, Supervisors applied for an additional grant through the PA Department of Conservation and Natural Resources – Bureau of Recreation and Conservation (DCNR) to supplement the balance to complete closing. To the delight of the Harborcreek Supervisors in December of 2013, DCNR awarded additional funds in the amount of $88,000.00 to Harborcreek Township. In essence, the complete acquisition of land along Lake Erie was completely funded through grants – with no direct costs to Harborcreek residents. It is the intention of the Harborcreek Parks Department to make general cleanup of the newly acquired property this Summer and make it usable to township residents. In addition, the township plans to continue look for possible grant and funding opportunities to create a Master Site Plan for the future development of Shorewood Park. In the meantime, please enjoy a new addition to the Harborcreek Parks System.
Posted on: 07/17/2014
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PARK CITY — "Whiplash" and the documentary "Rich Hill" claimed the top prizes at the Sundance Film Festival Awards Ceremony Saturday night.
Buzz surrounding "Whiplash" permeated the 2014 festival, earning the film an audience award in addition to its Grand Jury prize. The film, directed by the 29-year-old Damien Chazelle, stars Miles Teller as an ambitious jazz drummer studying under a ruthless and demanding instructor, played by J.K. Simmons.
"It was just impossible to finance because no one wants to make a movie about a jazz drummer," Chazelle said. "This is an incredible honor and it's such a nice way to complete this journey."
In international cinema, "To Kill a Man" and "Return to Homs" claimed the World Cinema Grand Jury Prizes for a dramatic film and documentary film, respectively.
Husband-and-wife duo Nick Offerman, of NBC's "Parks and Recreation," and Megan Mullally, of "Will and Grace," hosted the event, which was held at the Basin Recreation Fieldhouse in Park City.
Commenting on the festival's 30th anniversary, Mullally said Sundance is "looking pretty foxy for its age," and honored festival founder Robert Redford for creating an event that "brings together some of the most talented and innovative artists in the world."
In addition to the grand jury awards, films were recognized for writing, directing, and cinematography. Awards were distributed on the penultimate day of this year's festival, which showcased 118 feature-length films from 37 countries during its 10-day run in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and at the Sundance Resort.
"I want you to look at the people around you and be very proud of yourselves. You're here," Offerman told the festival filmmakers. "It's an astonishing accomplishment. Keep up the good work, please and thank you."
Festival Director John Cooper similarly congratulated the filmmakers for their work. He said that success is not measured by awards won and lost or whether a film is purchased for distribution. Instead, Cooper said, success is measured by the response of an audience.
"On that success front you killed it this year," Cooper said. "I am inspired by your courage and in awe of your passion."
Audience awards for international films were given to the documentary "The Green Prince" and the narrative feature "Difret." "Alive Inside: A Story of Music & Memory" received the audience awards for a U.S. documentary film.
This year's Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award went to "The Skeleton Twins," a comedy starring "Saturday Night Live" alums Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader.
A full list of this year's award winners can be found on the Sundance Film Festival website.
The 10-day festival drew thousands of visitors to the Beehive State and Park City. During the Salt Lake Gala screening of "Mitt" early in the festival, Gov. Gary Herbert said the Festival contributed $375 million in economic impact for the state over the past five years.
Barb Hyatt attended the festival for her seventh time this year and listed "Whiplash" and "Wish I Was Here" among the standouts from the week. The Baltimore, Maryland resident has a home in Park City that brings her to Utah for the winters, but she said it's her love of film that leads her back to Sundance.
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I'll take advice from anyone provided the advice is right. Objectivism teaches that A is A. Thus if 2 + 2 is 4, it doesn't matter if the devil himself makes that claim, reality will always be reality. Porn is a choice, like being a Christian, like getting a tattoo (which the Bible condemns btw), like many other choices. As for the children, worry about your own. Your children belong to you, the children of your neighbor don't belong to you.


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Spirit of capitalism: religion and economic development.
In the continuing search for an adequate theory of economic growth, some researchers have increasingly argued that such explanations for growth should go further to include a nation's culture, especially religion. In fact, recent research indicates that the economic influence of religion has a profound impact on economic performance. Religion influences the formation of beliefs that shape individual traits such as honesty, work ethic, thrift, and openness to strangers. Religious beliefs and related character traits can be seen as "spiritual capital," a concept that is analogous to the human capital that economists have found to be important for worker productivity. Human capital includes the skills and knowledge that come from formal schooling, on-the-job training, and guidance from parents. Analogously, spiritual capital includes formal education through organized religion, as well as influences from family and social interactions. Thus, the economic effects of organized religion can be seen as operating through the formation of spiritual capital.
Measuring Religion's Impact
The relationship between religion and economic growth becomes clear when measures of religiosity are incorporated into more traditional cross-country data sets on national-accounts variables and other economic, political, and social indicators observed since 1960. The measures of participation in organized religion and of religious beliefs come from representative surveys of individuals in about 60 countries, such as the World Values Surveys, International Social Survey Program, and Gallup Millennium Survey. Each survey typically covers between 1,000 and 2,000 respondents in a survey-year, providing data on household attendance rates at houses of worship, as well as information on religious beliefs quantified as the fraction of the population who answered "yes" to the question of whether they believe in heaven, hell, life after death, and God. Other questions, which might be more robust across religions, are whether the respondent considers himself or herself to be religious and whether religion plays an important role in his or her life.
But these data sources alone are not enough basis for firm conclusions about the role of religion in economic growth, since identifying the precise direction of causation is problematic. While the goal is to understand the effects of religiosity on economic growth, as measured by national levels of worship attendance and religious beliefs, there may be reverse effects of economic development on religiosity. This reverse channel has, in fact, been the focus of a substantial literature in the sociology of religion.
One prominent theory in this literature is the secularization hypothesis, whereby economic development is thought to make people less religions as gauged, for example, by church attendance and religious beliefs. This hypothesis also proposes that economic progress causes organized religion to play a lesser role in political decision-making and in other general social and legal processes.
The secularization hypothesis is controversial, and the continuing vitality, of religion in the United States has often been offered as a counter-example. A recent study by the economist Laurence Iannaccone shows that the "classic secularization pattern," whereby states that were once highly religious experienced steady declines in church attendance, applies only to a few countries in Western Europe. France, Germany, and Britain especially showed declines in church attendance rates from 40 to 60 percent in the 1920s and 1930s, to 10 to 15 percent today.
An important competing theory of religiosity--inspired by Adam Smith himself--focuses on "market" or "supply-side" forces. This approach downplays the role of economic development and other "demand factors" for religion and emphasizes instead the extent of competition among religion providers. A greater diversity of religions available in a country or region is thought to promote greater competition, hence a better quality religion product, and therefore higher religious participation and beliefs.
More fundamentally, the extent of religious competition depends on how the government regulates new entrants and existing providers in the religion market. Thus, the supply-side approach argues that government regulation, subsidy, and suppression are important determinants of religious participation and beliefs. The presence or absence of an established state religion is one dimension of this interaction between government and religion.
The primary purpose of our present research is not to assess the validity of the secularization hypothesis or the market model of religious participation. Rather, we are studying the country-wide determinants--or, at least, correlates--of religiosity to analyze the effects of religion on economic growth. Specifically, our study of religiosity helps to pin down the direction of causation from religion to economic performance, rather than the reverse. The estimation procedure is to isolate some variables--called instrumental variables--that have important influences on religiosity without being heavily influenced by economic variables. The estimation then reveals how differences in religiosity--driven by the variations in these instrumental variables--influence economic growth.
The basic empirical framework for such an analysis has been used in many previous studies. This approach relates economic growth to lagged values of a number of explanatory variables. These variables include levels of per capita GDP, schooling, life expectancy, the fertility rate, ratios of investment and government consumption to GDP, measures of international openness and the terms of trade, indicators of the rule of law and democracy, and the inflation rate (an indicator of macroeconomic stability). The present analysis adds measures of religiosity to this list of explanatory variables. Thus, we are examining how religion affects economic growth given values of the other explanatory variables. Moreover, the use of instrumental variables isolates the effects of religion on economic outcomes, rather than the reverse.
Religion Matters
The results of such studies have consistently found that religious beliefs profoundly influence economic growth. For example, for given levels of church attendance, economic growth rises when certain religious beliefs increase. The beliefs that seem to be growth-promoting are those concerned with hell, heaven, and an afterlife. In contrast, growth is not related to belief in God. Across a broad group of countries, the average fraction of persons expressing belief in God is 80 percent, compared to only 38 percent for hell, 55 percent for heaven, and 58 percent for an afterlife. Thus, it seems that affirmation of belief in God is a reflexive response with little content. In contrast, the survey responses about beliefs in hell, heaven, and an afterlife are less often positive and apparently more indicative of the religious convictions that matter for economic performance. It should be noted, however, that the positive link between religious beliefs and economic growth depends on die nature of religious doctrine.
Beliefs are growth-enhancing if the perceived punishments and rewards reinforce good behavior such as honesty and hard work. This relationship, however, would be reversed if the religious doctrine encouraged non-productive behavior such as violence. The generally positive results of the analysis suggest that this "dark side" of religion is atypical.
Another key finding is that, for given religious beliefs, greater participation in organized religious services--gauged by frequency of attendance at houses of worship--reducess economic growth. This result may seem paradoxical, given the earlier conclusion that religious convictions increase economic growth. Convictions such as a belief in heaven or hell might affect individuals by creating perceived punishments and rewards that relate to "good" and "bad" lifetime behavior--which in turn can influence behaviors like thrift, work ethic, and honesty that contribute to economic growth. But these values must come from somewhere in the first place. Thus, if we assume that religious beliefs are fixed--as we do in our empirical work--an increase in attendance at houses of worship signifies that the religion sector is less productive. That is, more resources, in terms of time and goods, are being consumed by the religion sector for given outputs (the religious beliefs). Hence, the negative relationship between attendance at houses of worship and economic growth can be explained by a causal chain whereby attendance at houses of worship affects religious beliefs, which affects individual traits, which in turn affects economic performance. This dynamic can explain the otherwise puzzling result that higher church attendance reduces economic growth.
However, the story is not quite so simple. Attendance at houses of worship may have a beneficial impact on growth by instilling stronger religious beliefs--especially with regard to concepts like heaven, hell, and the afterlife, which are linked to higher economic growth. Thus, to calculate the overall effect, we have to know the extent to which higher religious input (gauged, for example, by church attendance) leads to higher religious output (beliefs). When religious beliefs and church attendance increase together, the response of economic growth is weak. That is, countries that are more religious overall--higher beliefs and higher attendance--tend, other things equal, to grow at about an average rate. By contrast, countries that have high levels of belief and relatively lower levels of attendance at houses of worship--such as the United Kingdom, Japan, and Scandinavian countries seem to have historically high growth experiences.
The impact of attendance at houses of worship is further complicated by the fact that attendance may actually serve as a proxy for other dynamics at work. For example, it is possible that attendance may be important not because of its impact of religious beliefs, but because it contributes to the building of social networks and social capital through organized religious services. Similarly, the church-attendance variable may actually capture the influence of organized religion on laws and regulations that affect economic behavior. The overall empirical result of greater attendance is to reduce economic growth, but the precise mechanism for this result is still being studied and understood.
Figures 1 and 2 display some of the findings graphically. The horizontal axis in Figure 1 has a measure of the frequency of monthly church attendance in a country. The vertical axis shows the country's growth rate of per capita GDP over a 10-year interval, which can be 1965-75, 197-585, or 1985-95. The variable plotted adjusts the observed growth rate for the effects of all of the explanatory variables other than monthly church attendance. Conceptually, the fitted, downward-sloping line shows how economic growth would fall if monthly attendance at houses of worship were to rise, while the other explanatory variables did not change. One of these explanatory variables is religious belief, in this case, belief in hell. Thus, the negative effect on growth applies when belonging (that is, church attendance) rises for a given level of believing.
Figure 2 is constructed analogously, except that the horizontal axis is a measure of belief in hell. In this case, the upward-sloping line shows how economic growth would rise if belief in hell were to increase, while the other explanatory variables--including monthly church attendance--were held constant. Hence, this positive effect on growth applies when believing (in this case, in hell) rises for given belonging.
Future Research
Studies like this one have yielded other empirical results, many of which are preliminary and require further research. First, there is some indication that the stick from belief in hell is more potent than the carrot from belief in heaven in terms of growth promotion. This assertion still requires greater corroboration from forthcoming data in the 2001 World Values Survey. These data will be particularly useful because they contain far greater representation of Muslim countries, which tend to have high levels of belief in hell and heaven.
Second, there is reason to anticipate that the effects of beliefs in hell and heaven on economic performance would be weaker in religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism, for which hell and heaven do not represent ultimate individual objectives. There is weak support for this proposition in current data, but again the forthcoming 2001 World Values Survey should provide helpful data which includes expanded coverage of countries in which the population adheres primarily to Buddhism or other Eastern religions.
At this point, these findings about the economic effects of religion are exciting and provocative, although preliminary. There is more than enough in the results to warrant further research by ourselves and others; indeed, additional research can assess the effects of religiosity on political and social variables, including democracy, the rule of law, fertility, and health. This further research will likely modify our findings and may even overturn some of them. However, the overarching conclusion of this research is inescapable: a state's religiosity has important influences on its economic performance.
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This bad habit will come back to haunt you.Credit card debt
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Men do this more than women.Fall in love.
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People who use a lot of these have a lot of sex.Emojis
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What percentage of women would have a risk free one night stand?30%
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This is the sexiest female name.Scarlett
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Men would pay this for rock hard abs.$5,000
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Women want this from men.Respect
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Earn the "psycho chick" label by doing this.Tell him you like him too soon.
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The Cimitero Acattolico ("Non-Catholic Cemetery") of Rome, often referred to as the Cimitero dei protestanti ("Protestant Cemetery") or Cimitero degli Inglesi ("Englishmen's Cemetery"), is a public cemetery in the rione of Testaccio in Rome. It is near Porta San Paolo and adjacent to the Pyramid of Cestius, a small-scale Egyptian-style pyramid built in 30 BC as a tomb and later incorporated into the section of the Aurelian Walls that borders the cemetery. It was formerly called Il Cimitero Anticattolico, the anti-Catholic cemetery.[1] It has Mediterranean cypress, pomegranate and other trees, and a grassy meadow. It is the final resting place of non-Catholics including but not exclusive to Protestants or British people. The earliest known burial is that of a University of Oxford student named Langton in 1738. The English poets John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley are buried there.
John Keats[edit]
Keats died in Rome of tuberculosis at the age of 25, and is buried in the cemetery. His epitaph, which does not mention him by name, is by his friends Joseph Severn and Charles Armitage Brown, and reads:
This grave contains all that was mortal, of a young English poet, who on his death bed, in the bitterness of his heart, at the malicious power of his enemies, desired these words to be engraven on his tombstone: Here lies one whose name was writ in water.
Percy Bysshe Shelley[edit]
Shelley, who did not know how to swim, drowned in 1822 while sailing in his yacht off the Italian Riviera. When his body washed up upon the shore, a copy of Keats' poetry was discovered in his pocket - doubled back - as though it had been put away in a hurry. He was cremated on the beach near Viareggio by his friends, the poet Lord Byron and the English adventurer Edward John Trelawny. His ashes were sent to the British consulate in Rome, who had them interred in the Protestant Cemetery some months later.
Shelley's heart supposedly survived cremation and was snatched out of the flames by Trelawny, who subsequently gave it to Shelley's widow, Mary. When Mary Shelley died, the heart was found in her desk wrapped in the manuscript of "Adonais," the elegy Shelley had written the year before upon the death of Keats, in which the poet urges the traveler, "Go thou to Rome ...".
Shelley and Mary's three-year-old son William was also buried in the Protestant Cemetery.
Shelley's heart[2] was finally buried, encased in silver, in 1889, with the son who survived him, Sir Percy Florence Shelley,[3] but his gravestone in the Protestant Cemetery is inscribed: Cor cordium ("heart of hearts"), followed by a quotation from Shakespeare's The Tempest:
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea change,
Into something rich and strange.
Other burials[edit]
- Hendrik Christian Andersen (1872–1940), sculptor, friend of Henry James
- R.M. Ballantyne (1825 – 1894), Scottish novelist.
- John Bell (1763–1820), Scottish surgeon and anatomist
- Pietro Boyesen (1819–1882), Danish photographer
- Martin Boyd (1893-1972), Australian novelist and autobiographer.
- Karl Briullov (1799–1852), Russian painter
- Jesse Benedict Carter (1872-1917), American Classical scholar
- Zakhar Chernyshev (1796–1862), Russian participant in the Decembrist revolt
- Enrico Coleman (1846–1911), artist and orchid-lover
- Gregory Corso (1930–2001), American beat generation poet
- Richard Henry Dana, Jr. (1815–1882), American author of Two Years Before the Mast
- Frances Minto Elliot (1820–1898), English writer
- Robert K. Evans (1852—1926), United States Army Brigadier General
- Robert Finch (1783–1830), English antiquary and connoisseur of the arts
- Carlo Emilio Gadda (1893–1973), Italian novelist
- John Gibson (1790–1866), Welsh sculptor, student of Canova
- August von Goethe (1789–1830), son of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; his monument features a medallion by Bertel Thorvaldsen
- Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937), Italian philosopher, leader of the Italian Communist Party
- Richard Saltonstall Greenough (1819–1904), American sculptor
- William H. Herriman (1829-1918), American art collector
- Wilhelm von Humboldt (1794–1803), son of the German diplomat and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt
- Alexander Ivanov (1806–1858), Russian painter
- Vyacheslav Ivanov (1866–1949), Russian poet, philosopher, and classical scholar
- Chauncey Ives (1810–1894), American sculptor
- John Keats (1795–1821), English poet
- Belinda Lee (1935–1961), British actress
- Hans von Marées (1837–1887), German painter
- George Perkins Marsh (1801–1882), American Minister to Italy 1861–1882, author of "Man and Nature"
- Malwida von Meysenbug (1816–1903), German author
- E. Herbert Norman (1909–57), Canadian diplomat and historian.
- Thomas Jefferson Page (1808–1899), commander of United States Navy expeditions exploring the Río de la Plata
- Bruno Pontecorvo (1913–1993), Italian nuclear physicist
- G. Frederick Reinhardt (1911–1971), U.S. Ambassador to Italy 1961–1968, Administrator of this Cemetery 1961–1968
- Heinrich Reinhold (1788–1825), German painter, draughtsman, engraver. His tombstone features a medallion by Bertel Thorvaldsen
- Sarah Parker Remond (1826–1894), American abolitionist
- Gottfried Semper (1803–1879), German architect
- Joseph Severn (1793–1879), English painter, consul in Rome, and friend of John Keats, beside whom he is buried
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822), English poet
- Franklin Simmons (1839–1913), American sculptor and painter
- William Wetmore Story (1819–1895), American sculptor, buried beside his wife, Emelyn Story, under his own Angel of Grief.
- Pavel Svedomsky (1849-1904), Russian painter
- John Addington Symonds (1840–1893), English poet and critic
- Manfredo Tafuri (1935–1994), Italian architectural historian
- Lady Temple (died 1809), wife of Sir Grenville Temple, 9th Baronet
- Edward John Trelawny (1792–1881), English author, friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley, beside whose ashes he is buried
- Elihu Vedder (1836–1923), American painter, sculptor, graphic artist
- Wilhelm Friedrich Waiblinger (1804–1830), German poet and biographer of Friedrich Hölderlin
- Friedrich Adolf Freiherr von Willisen (1798–1864), Prussian General and Ambassador to the Holy See
- Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840–1894), American novelist and short story writer, friend of Henry James
- Helen Zelezny-Scholz (1882-1974), Czech-born sculptor and architectural sculptor
- ^ Alison Chapman and Jane Stabler, editors, "Unfolding the South: Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers and Artists in Italy" (University of Manchester Press, 2003), p. 83.
- ^ Or, some have suggested, his liver. See "Possibly Not Shelley's Heart?", New York Times, 28 June 1885.
- ^ Lexa Selph, "Shelley's Heart", Letter to the Editor, The New York Times, 8 June 1985.
Further reading[edit]
- Stanley-Price, Nicholas (2014). The Non-Catholic Cemetery in Rome: its history, its people and its survival for 300 years. Rome: Non-Catholic Cemetery in Rome. ISBN 978-88-909168-0-9.
- Antonio Menniti Ippolito, Il Cimitero acattolico di Roma. la presenza protestante nella città del papa, Roma, Viella, 2014, ISBN 978-88-6728-114-5
External links[edit]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Protestant Cemetery, Rome.
- On-line database of tombs and deceased
- [1]
- Cemetery website (in Italian and English)
- The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 285, 1 December 1827, Project Gutenberg E-text contains an article entitled "Protestant Burial-Ground At Rome"
- The Keats-Shelley House in Rome
- GPS coordinates you need to use to find the graves of famous people in the Non-Catholic Cemetery
- Elisabeth Rosenthal. "A Cemetery of Poets Is in Crisis in Rome", International Herald Tribune, 8 February 2006


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5.0 out of 5 stars Extrovert Bernstein on introverted Mahler - what a combination!,
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Bernstein lived his life in the public eye from his 1947 radio debut conducting the New York Philharmonic with only a few hours rehearsal for the indisposed Bruno Walter to his death in 1990, he was the "Maestro par excellence" - a composer (with a foot in many camps), conductor, educator, political activist, polymath - an inspiration. To have him (and others) as a guide to Mahler, a composer whose music he loved and performed while others did not, is the best.
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I have been reading Fischer's recent biography of Mahler and was, as a result, a little concerned that a broadcase originally made in the 1908s would be dangerously out of date. With a number of points from Alma Mahler now discredited I was concerned that there would be a lot of erroneous material in this film.
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