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Of all things, I've been thinking of getting a coffee maker lately. As with everything, I've been thinking way too hard about it. Where I'm going to put it, if I should spend the money on it, if it'll be worth it. I've been patronizing my former nemesis, Turkey Hill, quite often recently. Their hazelnut coffee with french vanilla creamer just so happens to be delicious (despite the fact that I normally drink my coffee black). What isn't delicious is adding an extra 5-10 minutes in to my 3 minute commute to scratch and claw my way two blocks north first, make it to the cashier, and then two blocks back south (to avoid crazy crossing guards). I also kinda figured that a buck-five a day to put myself through such inconvenience might not be worth it.
So, what's a guy to do? The same thing I did with just about everything else when I first started my climb out of debt – make a spreadsheet, silly! I figured prices for a few different coffees and teas, per cup (cup cup, not coffee cup), and came up with a few surprising (and not so surprising) results. All numbers are based on Folgers' claim that 33.9oz of coffee makes 270 (weak ass) cups, and a nice, simple $20 coffee maker.
- Keurig will never be cheaper, ever - Regular Keurig 18 count cups are 66c each, and even 87c for the Starbucks brand ones. Compared to 53c gas station coffee, it doesn't even matter that the cheapest maker you'll find at WalMart for these things is still $80.
- Starbucks Italian coffee is still cheaper than green tea - Okay, that was a bit of a surprise. Granted, we're talking 9.29c versus 9.9c per cup, but still – cheaper is cheaper.
- Damn, even cheap tea is expensive – And I don't drink the cheap tea (not that I have anything against it). Lipton Bavarian Wild Berry Black Tea pyramids are the shit. Except for when the string breaks while you unravel it, in which case you'd best tie that back together and use it. I know I do.
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It's okay, I have tea!
Last year all this information was spread out over something like 4 posts. Since there are trees to be saved, I'm smashing it all together in one giant post! Herein we shall find the following:
- The money numbers
- The blog numbers
- The goal achievedness (yes it is)
- The goal settings
- The usual monthly goodness
The Money Numbers
- Debt service – $15,693.65 (vs $13,221.93 in 2010)
- Debt reduction - $14,732.27 (vs $12,311.65)
- Monthly debt service – $1,207.20 (vs $1,017.07)
- Spending money – $6,685.29 (vs $6,121.34), monthly average $557.1
- Total take home income – $25,950.95 (vs $21,295.79, a 21.86% increase!)
The Blog Numbers
- Subscribers – 215 (vs 160)
- Income – $3,230 (vs $1,350, up 139.3%)
- Expenses – $696 (vs $311.03, up 123.8%)
- Profit – $2,534 (vs $1,038.97, up 143.9%)
Those are purely non-search referrers. While I did get hit by Lifehacker a couple of times this year, they weren't nearly as fruitful as in 2010. Ah well, I'm not complaining. Take those out and the traffic is probably up. The mad increase in profitability is all thanks to having someone else manage my advertising for me, but I've got a lot of work to do myself. It would've been a down year if it weren't for that.
The Goal Achievedness
- Reduce debt 33% – The general idea here was that, with three and a half years left, I should shoot for a third to end up ahead of the game (when I was behind at the time). With my end of year payments, I bumped it up to 33.09%. Being barely over the line is no mistake, either, but it did come down to the last paycheck of the year.
- $3000 emergency fund - Bahahahahaha no. What I do have is a $666.52 emergency fund, as well as various other savings. Since I didn't really expect to hit this goal, it doesn't hurt too much. It had reached as high as $1,985 back in May, but apparently I decided it was better to spend that money at the time. Go team.
- Quit smoking – Smoke free since August 7th. There are so many smells I wish I didn't smell.
- Run a 7 minute mile – I thought this was pretty conservative, since I did a 6:30 in high school without having a goal in mind. I broke 8 minutes in July and haven't run since. As I definitely remember that cold-weather running sucks balls, I just couldn't bring myself to attempt a last minute effort.
- Quit drinking (excessively) - Haven't been keeping beer in the house for quite some time now. Got a 12 pack a month or so ago… that was uneventful. Money saved? Tons. All the more for hookers and blow.
- Junk out - While I did have one pretty successful weekend wherein I managed to fill a truck and a trailer, things have pretty much flatlined since then. I've been trying to keep an eye on incoming stuff, and trashing stuff as it annoys me (Regifting Robin is getting tossed pretty soon), there hasn't been much renewed effort. Neither pass nor fail.
- Conversational Japanese - This was probably a bit unrealistic, but I did both slack quite a bit and had less than the full year to work on it. It's not a failure, though, because I did make a heck of a lot of progress. I've got a pretty decent handle on the grammar, it's just a lack of vocabulary that does me in now. Just last night, though, I watched Summer Wars for the first time in about 6 months. I've seen this movie at least 10 times, and it just blew me away at how much of it I suddenly understood. Still not enough to know what's going on.
The Goal Settings
- Reduce debt 50% – With 2.33 years left to go before my debt free goal date of May 2014, it just kinda makes sense to go for a clean half. This is actually just a bit more than what I paid off in 2011, at a smidge under 15k. Sensing that a flatline goal might be a pussy move, I'm also looking at 60%, which is just under 18k.
- $3,000 emergency fund - I still think this is a good number for me, and should be easy as pie come May. After that it'll just be a matter of not blowing it, or needing to use it. Not so pie.
- Run a 6:30 mile - When facing failure, fail harder. I should be able to do this, dammit.
- Junk out - Non-quantifiable goals suck. This is one of them. I'll have to come up with something. A system, a schedule, something.
- $10,000 side hustle income – This is the big one. Going from $2,500 to 10k sounds unrealistic… to some. I see no reason why I shouldn't be able to do it, though. Ideas, I've got them. Honestly, though, there's no way I'm ever going to make it in this business if I can't hit this goal. Again, this is the big one.
- Half hour daily Japanese – Since a language goal is terribly difficult to quantify, I figure it's a hell of a lot easier to quantify the effort instead. This is going to be actual study time – watching a movie doesn't count.
The Usual Monthly Goodness
From December 1 to January 1, my net worth increased an average of $64.86 per day, or $2,010.73 overall, to -$27,483.24. This is a 7.32% increase, and results in a projected zero net worth on 1/25/2014. Meanwhile, my magic number went down from $1,126.50 to $1,104.84.
Oh, and before I forget, one last look at the 2011 goal chart before I clear the slate!
Wait, what's that? Right in the middle there… Capital One paid off… December 31st!? Yeeeaaaaahhhhh dog! Debt eliminated, $200 monthly payment eliminated, and with that, my minimum monthly debt payment is down to an amazing $215!!! Yes, this is going to be an excellent year.
Ijou? Iie, choudo hajimete!
Today is December 28th. Including today, there are four more days left in 2011. You haven't been living without a calendar, have you?
For many goals, it's far too late to do anything now (how inspiring!), but for a few, now is the time to triple check and make sure you're not missing the boat by a few inches. I nearly slipped myself tonight after work – I've been getting thoroughly sick of my current set of speakers that I use to jam out at work, decided I'd had enough, and had every intention of running out to WalMart and dropping $100 on some new ones. It dawned on me then that achievement or failure could hinge on that hundred bucks.
Looking at the preliminary numbers, I just might be right! Not only do I know to keep my wallet closed for the next few days, I know exactly what needs to be done to hit certain numbers. Depending on Friday's paycheck for finality only slightly hampers my efforts.
And then, there are a few goals that I'll just have to save for next year.
You. Go check your goals! Time's a wastin' and it's down to the wire.
The PA Attorney General says that "if a debt collector breaks the FDCPA once, they will do it again." Turns out they're right. My early problems with the latest collector to get a hand on my electric account, IC System, weren't really problems, even if they were violations. My first letter from them came about two weeks after my first phone call from them. Do I care? Nope. One of the first phone calls came in at quarter after 9pm. Do I care? Nope.
Both are violations of the FDCPA, and in turn also violations of PA's Fair Credit Extension Uniformity Act. Neither has caused me any actual harm, or even annoyance. Doubling my balance, however, does. The FCEUA prohibits "collection of any amount not agreed to by the agreement creating the debt or authorized by law." Now, I have no idea what I may have agreed to with the electric company when I moved in to my apartment, but I highly doubt that it was that. Pennsylvania law allows for 6% interest on debts, which certainly doesn't double anything after 3 years.
Wolfram Alpha gives an interest rate of 23.11% to double a balance in 3 years. That sucks even for a credit card. Fuck. That. Shit.
I was on the fence before this, teetering between just paying the damn thing, or letting the statute of limitations run out. But for such a gross violation, one that does adversely affect me, is it time to fuck the collector? While I could report them to the AG, that wouldn't benefit me directly, if the AG were to even take action in the first place. Is it time to sue, and play the $1,000 per violation lottery? If I did, there is of course a chance that they would settle it right away, but if not, I'd either have to grow some pretty big balls to take them on pro se, or find representation that would be willing to work on a contingency basis (and also take a hefty chunk of the proceeds [which would probably be worth it for pants-pissing prevention]).
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AUSTIN — Texas is poised to consider storing spent nuclear reactor fuel, or high-level radioactive waste, from all over the country.
On Friday, state House Speaker Joe Straus, R-San Antonio, gave out interim charges to standing committees in the House.
One of his three charges to the House Environmental Regulation Committee read: "Study the rules, laws, and regulations pertaining to the disposal of high-level radioactive waste in Texas and determine the potential economic impact of permitting a facility in Texas. Make specific recommendations on the state and federal actions necessary to permit a high-level radioactive waste disposal or interim storage facility in Texas."
The setup bothered Tom Smith, the Texas director for the left-leaning watchdog group Public Citizen.
"Every state that has looked at this has decided it's too dangerous eventually," Smith said. "The risk is incredibly high. ... It's all risk and very little reward for the state of Texas."
Even if other states have rejected the measure to bring in high-level radioactive waste, Smith said the measure stands a chance to succeed in Texas because of the powerful special interest behind it.
"Part of reason we're so concerned is over the last 10 years virtually with every vote on radioactive waste in Texas, the enormous power of the radioactive waste lobby and the donors have been enough to push this legislation through," Smith said.
Harold Simmons, a billionaire political donor who died in December at age 82, owned Vahli, a trading company that holds Waste Control Specialists. Waste Control Specialists have a low-level radioactive waste facility in Andrews County in far West Texas near the New Mexico border. Low-level waste can include medical waste and resins used at nuclear power plants.
During the last legislative session, state Rep. Drew Darby, R-San Angelo, helped carry legislation to allow the facility to take in more waste so it can stay open year-round.
The facility was not in Darby's district, but Darby said he helped with the bill because it is a West Texas issue.
The WCS-Texas Solution PAC donated $5,000 to Darby in 2013 and $15,000 in 2012. Darby has said the money did not influence him.
Chuck McDonald, a spokesman for Waste Control Specialists, said his organization hadn't been in touch with the speaker's office about the high-level facility. McDonald welcomed the chance to begin a dialogue about what Texas can do, not only for national waste but for its own.
He said that in 1982 the federal government said it would handle high-level waste storage, but that hasn't come to pass, and the federal government has halted permanent storage at Nevada's Yucca Mountain.
"It's an issue that needs to be examined ... now that the federal government has fallen short on its promise to Texas generators and Texas taxpayers for this high-level issue," McDonald said.
Texas has six generators — two at universities, and four commercial generators, with two in North Texas and two in south Texas. Waste is stored on-site, he said.
"The initial thought is, we've got to solve our own problems in Texas," McDonald said.
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I provide day care for my brothers 2yr old son. I plan to have a full tummy tuck . Will I be able to resume care for him in week or two if I stay housebound. When will it be safe to pick him up. I am 47 and have had 3 C Sections so I am aware of the pain but am a quick healer. Thanks.
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It is important that you avoid straining, lifting, and bending completely over during this time as well. To pick up your nephew, I recommend you wait at least 6 weeks after surgery.
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Thank you for your question. It is important that you discuss your recovery and when you can do lifting with the surgeon who performed your tummy tuck. If extensive muscle repair work is done you should not be lifting more than 5 or 10 pounds for several weeks after your surgery as guided by your surgeon.
Routine tummy tuck's in younger healthy individuals require at least 2 weeks recovery before lifting. Every patient is individual however and the most important thing is to get specific guidelines from your surgeon.
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The need for women to resume care taker roles quickly is one of the limitations of a Tummy Tuck. The MOST important part of a Tummy Tuck is the muscle repair. The 6 pack Rectus muscles which were split by pregnancy and or obesity MUST be brought together and more IF the tummy stands a chance of being flattened. Each surgeon has his own philosophy on the tightness of the repair, the number of stitches, their type and how many layers or repair are placed. AFTER the repair is completed and the excess skin is removed, EVERY time you strain the muscle repair is pulled sideways and is put in potential jeopardy of being ripped. The risk lessens as the skin reattaches to the muscle surface and the strain of lifting is distributed across a broader surface - not only the repair itself.
For this reason, I ask my patients NOT to lift anything heavier than 10-15 pounds for at least 4-6 weeks after surgery. I would advise you to find alternative options for the care of your nephew while you are healing.
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Within a few hours after the procedure, abdominoplasty patients will walk in a slightly bent over position. Strenuous activity and lifting of more than 10 pounds (including your nephew) should be avoided for at least six weeks after surgery or even longer if time be needed.
Most patients are able to return to work and daily activities within two to three weeks of surgery like driving and cooking. I would not recommend doing anything physical like picking him up or running around with him, but simple tasks are fine after a couple days following the surgery.
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You always feel good when you are involved in initiatives that help humanity, don't you? Even if the part you play is small, you are proud of being able to participate. Over the years this has happened to me a couple times. I got dragged into the GS1 food recall initiative a couple years ago. I had the opportunity to give some advice to the team that helped mPedigree address drug counterfeiting in Africa. Both made me proud, I have to admit.
The latter work got me in touch with HP's Social Innovation team which turned out to be an eye opener for me. So, when the team approached me a couple months ago to discuss education and cloud computing, I was really interested to help them out. Not that I did a lot, but I added my little piece to the great work they do. This time it was about education. Indeed, HP has been running an education program, titled HP LIFE (HP Learning Initiative for Entrepreneurs) since 2007. In 340 training centers across 49 countries they have delivered, with their partners, education for entrepreneurs in 20 languages, using more than 800 certified trainers. In doing so they reached 1.2 million people with training, access to IT and online activities, allowing around 20,000 businesses to be established or to grow, creating approximately 43,000 jobs.
Frankly in the current economic climate this is not bad! But there is only so much you can do with on-site training. So, the team felt they needed to go to the next step. And what should that be? Fundamentally moving to an e-Learning platform. Not knowing how many students there would be, neither where they would be located, using a cloud solution was quickly seen as a no brainer.
The objective of HP LIFE e-learning: to be a cloud-based, free, online training program that enables entrepreneurs and small enterprises around the globe to learn the real-life IT and business skills they need to start or grow a business in the 21st century.
As of today the solution is in pilot and is the first HP Sustainability and Social innovation (SSI) global cloud solution for education, allowing entrepreneurs to learn at their own pace wherever they are, for increased social and business impact. It is also a showcase of strong collaboration with learning content partner, the global non-profit Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC).
The HP LIFE e-Learning platform transforms the current face-to-face training option, offered in 340 HP LIFE training centers in 49 countries, to an online global audience of entrepreneurs and small business owners. The core of the program will remain the same the provision of innovative training that allows potential or existing entrepreneurs to use technology effectively to start or increase their business and thereby improve their life and the life of the community in which they live. The aim is to create a global community where entrepreneurs can interact. Engaged entrepreneurs will now be able to tap into interactive, hands-on courses in an environment that supports peer collaboration and online access to up-to-date resources wherever they are and whenever they want. There is even the opportunity of receiving an e-mentorship from HP Experts, based on levels of engagement with the HP LIFE e-Learning program. The initial online offering is in English, but more courses will come online soon in other languages and on a variety of mobile devices.
The solution also provides a resource for education institutions and trainers to support distance learning for entrepreneurs. Now, here is the challenge. How do we make all of this work around the globe, knowing that our target audiences are in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and South America to name a few? This brings with it a couple requirements. Obviously the environment is expected to be up and running 24/7 and should allow for 1 million students to interact, even if we do not believe that many will use it in the pilot phase.
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The content of the HP-LIFE environment, provided by content partners, is hosted in HP's Cloud Services environment. But we all know that users expect instantaneous response when working online. So, the fundamental question of the design team was how to ensure such response time globally. The design calls for the use of web front ends hosted either by HP Cloud and its CDN (Content Delivery Network) or by friendly service providers in an HP CloudSystem Matrix deployment near to the user. The "near to user" concept is not a geographical description, but rather one of low latency, providing the user with a good experience for media-rich interactive content.
HP Cloud manages the data including a single master addressing the single interactive community requirements. The front ends each have a LAMP stack with a web application server and a copy of the database. Memcache is used to replicate the interactive databases to the front ends. Drupal is friendly to this approach and the content providers can manage content on the system easily.
The reason we use HP Cloud and CloudSystem Matrix is that this gives us the flexibility to scale up quickly as required. The service providers have the ability to burst into HP Cloud for additional resources as this is now supported with MOE 7.1 (Matrix Operating Environment), including a standard interface with OpenStack Nova, powering HP Cloud. This is actually a great example of a converged cloud implementation. We get the best of both worlds, a great user experience and a centralized content delivery management.
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- South Africa serving the southern African Region
Other infrastructures should be added in the next weeks, post pilot. Those include in particular Asia.
The initial pilot deployment is done through HP Cloud out of North America, but during the coming months the other infrastructures will become available in a transparent manner to the user.
Initially HP-LIFE allows the consumption of the training material that has been successfully used for a number of years now, but it would be a pity not to take advantage of the fact we use a cloud environment to add cloud specific capabilities. We are also tapping into the skills of HP employees by creating e-mentoring capabilities, establishing Q&A centers, etc. Over time , the objective of HP LIFE is to become an entrepreneur social media platform, helping entrepreneurs all over the globe to share their experience, support each other, create new activities and fuel business. That's definitely something we need at the current time. And by the way, the HP LIFE Facebook page has welcomed its 10,000 fan on June 28th. There you can see how global online interaction is key.
This is another exciting project where technology joins social innovation for the good of society. It demonstrates that, although we often keep looking at cloud as a new environment to deliver our existing functionality, cloud can also be used for innovation. Actually I believe it should be used that way more often than not. HP LIFE shows us how this can be done and how, using cloud, initiatives can cross boundaries and get the best out of people.
I'm sure I'll share more on HP LIFE as the project moves forward and hope you are as excited as I am about this project. Let's join forces and wish all the best to the project team.
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NFL Draft Prep: Ted Thompson's Best Rounds
Earlier today we laid out how Green Bay Packers general manager Ted Thompson does not draft for need, even though he pretends he does. Now, we're going to explore what rounds Mr. Draft and Develop has his best success in.
Thompson has had the most picks in the seventh round (16), followed closely by the fifth and fourth (14). He's had the fewest picks in the third (7).
Trader Ted! You know, you've got to get rid of as many third-round picks as possible so you can stockpile those sevenths! That's where all the hidden gems are!
After a lot of thought, it seems like the best way to determine the impact of these classes by round is their number of starts for the Packers. We've also thrown in the number of Pro Bowls for each round, as well as how many guys are no longer on the team.
Anyway, let's get on with it.
First Round | (9) |
2013 | Datone Jones |
2012 | Nick Perry |
2011 | Derek Sherrod |
2010 | Bryan Bulaga |
2009 | B.J. Raji |
2009 | Clay Matthews |
2007 | Justin Harrell |
2006 | A.J. Hawk |
2005 | Aaron Rodgers |
Starts: 385, Pro Bowls: 8, Not on the roster: 1
Average: 42.8 starts
Second Round | (13) |
2013 | Eddie Lacy |
2012 | Jerel Worthy |
Casey Hayward | |
2011 | Randall Cobb |
2010 | Mike Neal |
2008 | Jordy Nelson |
Brian Brohm | |
Pat Lee | |
2007 | Brandon Jackson |
2006 | Daryn Colledge |
Greg Jennings | |
2005 | Nick Collins |
Terrence Murphy |
Starts: 365, Pro Bowls: 6, Not on the roster: 7
Average: 15.9 starts
Third Round | (7) |
2011 | Alex Green |
2010 | Morgan Burnett |
2008 | Jermichael Finley |
2007 | James Jones |
Aaron Rouse | |
2006 | Abdul Hodge |
Jason Spitz |
Starts: 204, Pro Bowls: 0, Not on the roster: 6
Average: 29.1 starts
Fourth Round | (14) |
2013 | David Bakhtiari |
J.C. Tretter | |
Johnathan Franklin | |
2012 | Mike Daniels |
Jerron McMillian | |
2011 | Davon House |
2009 | T.J. Lang |
2008 | Jeremy Thompson |
Josh Sitton | |
2007 | Allen Barbre |
2006 | Cory Rodgers |
Will Blackmon | |
2005 | Marviel Underwood |
Brady Poppinga |
Starts: 215, Pro Bowls: 1, Not on the roster: 7
Average: 15.4 starts
Fifth Round | (14) |
2013 | Micah Hyde |
Josh Boyd | |
2012 | Terrell Manning |
2011 | D.J. Williams |
2010 | Andrew Quarless |
Marshall Newhouse | |
2009 | Quinn Johnson |
Jamon Meredith | |
2008 | Breno Giacomini |
2007 | David Clowney |
2006 | Ingle Martin |
Tony Moll | |
2005 | Junius Coston |
Michael Hawkins |
Starts: 82, Pro Bowls: 0, Not on the roster: 11
Average: 5.9 starts
Sixth Round | (13) |
2013 | Nate Palmer |
2011 | Caleb Schlauderaff |
D.J. Smith | |
Ricky Elmore | |
2010 | James Starks |
2009 | Jarius Wynn |
Brandon Underwood | |
2007 | Korey Hall |
Desmond Bishop | |
Mason Crosby | |
2006 | Johnny Jolly |
2005 | Mike Montgomery |
Craig Bragg |
Starts: 239*, Pro Bowls: 0, Not on the roster: 10
Average: 18.4 starts
* we're counting Mason Crosby as a starter
Seventh Round | (16) |
2013 | Charles Johnson |
Kevin Dorsey | |
Sam Barrington | |
2012 | Andrew Datko |
B.J. Coleman | |
2011 | Ryan Taylor |
Lawrence Guy | |
2010 | C.J. Wilson |
2009 | Brad Jones |
2008 | Matt Flynn |
Brett Swain | |
2007 | DeShawn Wynn |
Clark Harris | |
2006 | Dave Tollefson |
2005 | Kurt Campbell |
Will Whitticker |
Starts: 74, Pro Bowls: 0, Not on the roster: 11
Average: 4.6 starts
What does all of this tells us?
Well, first let's get the obvious out of the way. You're going start guys you draft in the first round unless one of their legs fall off, which we're pretty sure is what happened to Justin Harrell and Derek Sherrod. Not surprisingly, the most starts come from that group.
Similarly, very few seventh-round picks end up sticking for long in the NFL. So, it shouldn't be a surprise that that's the the group that's produced the fewest starts.
What should be surprising is what a shit show Ted's fifth-round picks have been. The Packers are getting, on average, a little less than six career starts from their fifth-round picks under Ted Thompson. That's awful.
The team is getting an average of over 10 more career starts per man from their SIXTH-round picks.
If you look at the picks, two of those guys didn't even make the club — Meredith and Clowney. Four others only made it one season with the team — Manning, Hawkins, Martin and Giacomini.
We're pretty sure once the fifth round rolls around, Ted takes his big board off the wall, takes a gigantic dump on it, smears it all around and then just walks out of the room.
Ted has actually taken quite a few dumps in the second round as well. The average of 15.9 starts per guy is lower than that of the third and sixth round and nearly even with the fourth (15.4). In other words, Thompson has made his fair share of bust-worthy picks in the second, including Pat Lee, Brian Brohm, Brandon Jackson and through no fault of his own, Terrence Murphy. We suspect Jerel Worthy will be joining that group soon enough.
The other surprising thing is, Ted Thompson has made only one third-round pick that's currently on the roster — Morgan Burnett. Granted, he's had only seven third rounders overall, but it's not a good sign when six of them are no longer with the team.
So if history tells us anything here, it's that there's a good chance Ted is going to swing and miss on a guy in the second, trade out of the third and that he might as well not even participate in the fifth.
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Monty McMahon is one of the founders of Total Packers. He is probably the most famous graduate of UW-Oshkosh next to Jim Gantner.
Maybe you should also compare to other teams since the Packer are in a league. in addition a lot depends on if you are drafting at the first of the draft or at the end of the draft most years. All I know is if Ted is drafting toward the later half of the draft each year and we keep the most players that were originally drafted or signed by the organization then someone is doing something right other than taking a dump on the draft board.
You can not hit on all the picks, you cannot take them all, and the more picks you have the better chance you have on finding the gems.
There needs to be a statisical analysis compared to other GMS, weighted with draft order. No one bats 1000. It is just not possible.
At the time people were gushing about Derek Sherrod. A lot of experts also questioned Eddie Lacy AND David Bakhtiari. I think Pete Prisco gave the latter a -C minus or something, which should invalidate any draft grades within two or three years after the fact. Several teams, including the Steelers and Broncos, put Lacy on the do not pick blacklist as well.
If it does show one thing, it is really really hard to draft well consistently. -
1 out of 64 selections. And the hit or miss 1st round tendencies make for a pretty scary picture.
We find decent football players to surround the 2-5 stars/really good players, but it's not enough to beat the truly elite teams. And of course injuries have been a huge factor, but it makes you wonder what could be, if that 1 for 64 was even 5-8 out of 64
That's a lot of swings & misses and middling selections for such and heralded draft guru ;)
As GM I'd target specific players and do my best to trade back and then up again to grab exactly who I wanted. Ted typically likes to accumulate about 11 picks per draft…he's a couple short so I'd expect him to trade down a get a couple more shots at the dart board. Too bad he'll probably just sit there and play the waiting game after trading down. Collecting more 'guys' with limited potential who'll not be on this team in a year or two.
The thing that bears consideration is that a few if the heavyweight teams have been drafting at the beginning of the first round for a few years. Teddy has been drafting in the 20's out of the first round fairly consistently.
The Niners had how many early first round draft picks for 10 years straight? The fact that the Pack avoids the "he that is first, shall be last" designs on parity that the NFL Draft promotes is a feat in and of itself.
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Soetedjo, Fransisca (2006) The Comparison between the filled pauses used by the male Petra Christian University students and those used by the female students in answering questions. Bachelor thesis, Petra Christian University.
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In this study, I want to investigate the types of filled pauses used by the male university students and those used by the female students in answering questions. After that, I compare it to find the similarities and the differences. That is why I will use the theories about filled pauses, the relationship between filled pauses with gender and also the theory about questions itself. In doing this study, I employed a quantitative - descriptive approach. The data were obtained by recording the utterances of 40 (forty) male Petra Christian University students and 40 (forty) female Petra Christian University students. After the recording, I transcribed the data, identified, classified and finally analyzed it. From the findings, I found four similarities. Firstly, both groups (the males and the females) use the same five types of filled pauses which consists of 2 (two) Unlexicalized Filled Pauses (ehm.. and ee/eh.) and 3 (three) Lexicalized Filled Pauses (yah/ya/yo, apa/apa ya/apa nama?e itu and gimana ya/ yak apa ya). Secondly, both the male and the female students mostly use the Unlexicalized Filled Pause. Thirdly, I found that ?ehm... and ...yah...../ya/yo are the types of filled pauses that most frequently used by both groups. Fourthly, in general, the production of filled pauses by both groups rises in line with the level of difficulty of the questions. However, not only similarities, I also found the difference. The females use more types of filled pauses compare to the males. The females use 6 types, while the males only use 5 types. The females use "kenapa ya", which the males do not use. Finally, I noticed that even the males use fewer types of filled pauses than the females, they show higher numbers and frequencies of the production of filled pauses.
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Kouros, Christina (2005) Examining the complex dynamics of learning in cooperative small groups : the relationship between student attitudes, group behaviours, and academic achievement. PhD thesis, Concordia University.
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Based on the volumes of research demonstrating the cognitive and affective benefits of cooperation, small group strategies are increasingly being implemented in classrooms. However, in order for learning to be enhanced in the small group environment, there has to be clearer understanding of the complex dynamics that operate when students work together. The purpose of this study was to investigate how student attitudes toward small group learning and group behaviours influence learning. A main goal of this study was to validate the Student Attitudes toward Group Environments (SAGE) questionnaire that tapped areas of small group learning not addressed by other inventories. The findings indicated that the SAGE questionnaire is a valuable instrument for it serves both as a diagnostic measure and as a predictive measure. There were two significant predictors that explained 13.3% of the variance in student final grades; the attitudinal factor quality of product and process and the behavioural factor seeking content information. Overall, high school and CEGEP students had positive attitudes toward learning with fellow classmates. However, students wanted the freedom to select their group members, and group evaluation and division of task elicited diverse views. This information is critical for small group researchers and educators who are interested in knowing the underlying processes that influence academic achievement and success in cooperative groups.
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Date: | 2005 |
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In the spirit of Martin Luther King Jr., I'd like to propose a Microinequity Awareness Day. It is not always possible for us to completely walk in the shoes of another, but maybe we can increase our awareness of some of the subtle extra work society requires of some of us and not others. My proposal is that you spend the day thinking about how much easier your life is than some others.
1. On this day, use only handicap-accessible entrances and restrooms. Since you can't use any stairs this day, how many times in one day did you have hunt to find an accessible entrance, change your usual route or go a longer way than usual?
2. On this day, imagine that everyone is suspicious of you. You need to show an additional photo ID when you enter any building, when you enter the library, whenever you use your student card or your credit card. Every stranger you meet checks their wallet or purse after they turn away from you. A black friend of mine mentioned two types of things that happen to him each day: at the grocery store, a white person in front forgot their coupon, and the clerk volunteered to still give the customer the discount. My black friend had also forgotten his coupon and not only did the clerk not volunteer to give the discount, but when my friend asked, he was refused. At the library, they not only wanted to see his library card but also a separate picture ID. How many extra times today did you have to find an extra photo ID? How did it feel to think that others were suspicious of you?
3. For males, after dark, you either need to walk with a buddy, or you need to walk with your keys in your hand as a potential defensive weapon. How many times today did you have to wait for a buddy so you could go somewhere? How many times did you have to think about getting your keys out of your pocket and into your hands? Imagine that everyone who walks past you is looking at your chest. How does it feel to have people not look you in the eye?
4. For heterosexuals, imagine that everyone that sees you with anyone of the opposite sex wonders if you are sexual partners and makes a face imagining your possible sexual liaisons. How does it feel to have to be concerned about holding hands or showing affection to your boyfriend/girlfriend in public?
I have tried this and boy, did I work hard that day.


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Maisons-Alfort | ||
The church of Sainte-Agnès, in Maisons-Alfort
Paris and inner ring departments |
Coordinates: 48°48′21″N 2°26′16″E / 48.8058°N 2.4378°ECoordinates: 48°48′21″N 2°26′16″E / 48.8058°N 2.4378°E | ||
Country | France | |
Region | Île-de-France | |
Department | Val-de-Marne | |
Arrondissement | Créteil | |
Canton | 2 cantons | |
Government | ||
• Mayor | Michel Herbillon | |
Area1 | 5.38 km2 (2.08 sq mi) | |
Population (2006)2 | 53,607 | |
• Density | 10,000/km2 (26,000/sq mi) | |
INSEE/Postal code | 94046 / 94700 | |
Elevation | 24–47 m (79–154 ft) | |
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once. |
Maisons-Alfort (French pronunciation: [mɛ.zɔ̃.al.fɔʁ]) is a commune in the southeastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 8.4 km (5.2 mi) from the center of Paris.
Maisons-Alfort is famous as the location of the National Veterinary School of Alfort. The Fort de Charenton, constructed between 1841 and 1845, has since 1959 housed the Commandement des Écoles de la Gendarmerie Nationale.
Originally, Maisons-Alfort was called simply Maisons. The name Maisons comes from Medieval Latin Mansiones, meaning "the houses".
At the creation of the commune during the French Revolution, the name of the hamlet of Alfort was joined with the name of Maisons. The name Alfort comes from the manor built there by Peter of Aigueblanche, Bishop of Hereford (England), in the middle of the 13th century. The name of this Manor of Hereford was corrupted into Harefort, then Hallefort, and eventually Alfort. The National Veterinary School of Alfort was settled several centuries later in the manor and its estate.
On 1 April 1885, 40% of the territory of Maisons-Alfort was detached and became the commune of Alfortville.
In 1905, Buffalo Bill stayed two months in Maisons-Alfort while his famous Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show performed in Paris.
Maisons-Alfort is divided into two cantons:
- Maisons-Alfort-Nord, with 23,704 inhabitants;
- Maisons-Alfort-Sud, with 27 399 inhabitants.
Points of interest[edit]
- École nationale vétérinaire d'Alfort
- Fort de Charenton
- Jardin botanique de l'École nationale vétérinaire d'Alfort
- Musée Fragonard d'Alfort
- Tariq Abdul-Wahad, basketball player
- Thomas N'Gijol, comedian
- Ladjie Soukouna, footballer
- Nicole Tourneur, women writer
International relations[edit]
Maisons-Alfort is twinned with Moers in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Maisons-Alfort is served by three stations on Paris Métro Line 8: École Vétérinaire de Maisons-Alfort, Maisons-Alfort — Stade, and Maisons-Alfort — Les Juilliottes.
It is also served by two stations on Paris RER line D: Maisons-Alfort – Alfortville and Le Vert de Maisons.
See also[edit]
- Mayors of Essonne Association (French)
External links[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Maisons-Alfort. |
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COLUMBIA — Efforts to improve affordable housing options for low-income Columbia residents received a boost Friday when the Columbia Housing Authority received assistance for two projects.
The Missouri Housing Development Commission approved requests for help with financing to build the Mid-Missouri Veterans Campus and to renovate Stuart Parker Apartments and Paquin Tower.
An application for assistance to renovate the Bear Creek Apartments in north Columbia was denied.
Veterans Campus
The Veterans Campus was awarded nearly $4.4 million in federal and state tax credits and tax-exempt bonds. The assistance awarded includes:
- Federal tax credits ($133,941), at 85 cents to the dollar
- State tax credits ($133,941), at 45 cents to the dollar
- Tax-exempt bonds ($3.1 million)
- Affordable Housing Assistance Program credits from the commission ($1 million)
State tax credits are given to the Housing Authority on the condition that it keeps rent prices in the targeted properties low and that the apartments be reserved for low-income people. The authority then sells the credit to people with tax liabilities, and the state forgives the debt.
Columbia Housing Authority has also applied for $500,000 from the Federal Home Loan Bank of Des Moines, which, if approved, will be given out in November.
The Veterans Campus program is supported by the Housing Authority, Welcome Home Inc. and Truman Veterans Hospital to provide permanent and transitional housing for veterans, as well as support services and a place for veterans to be with other veterans.
The Veterans Campus will be at 2112 Business Loop 70 E., where the Deluxe Inn is now located.
The Housing Authority's portion of the campus will comprise 25 one-bedroom apartments of permanent housing for participants of the Housing and Urban Development's Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing program. That part of the campus also will include a fitness room, computer lab, laundry facilities and office and programming space.
The veterans housing program is run by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, which provides homeless veterans housing assistance and support services, according to its website. The program uses a voucher system to help homeless veterans and their families move into permanent housing.
Columbia Housing Authority administers 85 vouchers and has served more than 165 veterans through the program, according to a news release from housing authority CEO Phil Steinhaus.
Welcome Home Inc. — a shelter for homeless veterans at 1206 Range Line St. — currently provides temporary housing for 10 veterans. Its portion of the new campus will house 29 veterans temporarily in a motel-like setting, with private bathrooms. This addition will allow the shelter to provide private space for female veterans and veterans with children. The project will contain a commercial kitchen, dining room, lounge area, computer lab, laundry facilities, a patio and office and programming space.
Welcome Home and the VA hospital also will house a Supportive Services Center.
Stuart Parker Apartments and Paquin Tower
The Housing Authority also received nearly $13 million in tax credits and bonds to pay for the renovation of 284 public housing apartments. The assistance awarded includes:
- Federal tax credits ($833,983), at 85 cents to the dollar
- State tax credits ($700,000), at 45 cents to the dollar
- Tax-exempt bonds ($11.4 million)
Stuart Parker Apartments comprises 84 townhomes and garden apartments in the Lincoln, Unity, Worley, Oak and Hicks public housing neighborhoods. These apartments are the oldest public housing properties the Housing Authority owns, Steinhaus said in the release.
Major renovations will make the apartments more livable, accessible and energy efficient while also attempting to minimize the relocation of existing residents, according to the release.
Minor improvements also will be made to the 200 apartments in Paquin Tower, which houses low-income seniors and people with disabilities.
This program will be the first approved Rental Assistance Demonstration program in Missouri. The program will provide housing choice vouchers to subsidize rent. These apartments will become approved Section 8 housing after renovations.
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So here are the general categories, so far, of things that visitors ought to be aware of:
1. What to bring/not to bring
2. What a sailboat does/why it heels/why it will not capsize… (hopefully:-)
3. The lines and how they work (sheets, halyards, and winches)
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Now, how to best word some of these items so that they are simple and clear to someone getting an email about coming out sailing for a couple of days or longer.?
On comment above about laminated head info--People do not read these things! Specific verbal instructions are needed.
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Estate and Gift Tax Must-Reads for 2011Bridget J. CrawfordPace University School of Law March 12, 2012 Tax Notes Vol. 134, p. 1453, 2012 Abstract: This short column is part of the annual Tax Notes issue that highlights noteworthy law review articles published during the previous year. In this piece, I identify articles relating to estate and gift tax taxation that practitioners likely will find of interest, not withstanding Chief Justice Roberts' view that academics don't publish work that is of "much help to the bar." The articles reviewed (in alphabetical order by author's last name) are: (1) Martin D. Begleiter, "Son of the Trust Code - the Iowa Trust Code after Ten Years;" (2) Frances H. Foster, "Should Pets Inherit?"; (3) Thomas P. Gallanis, "The New Direction of American Trust Law;" (4) Wendy C. Gerzog, "The New Super-Charged PAT (Power of Appointment) Trust;" (5) Victoria J. Haneman, "Changing the Estate Planning Malpractice Landscape: Applying the Constructive Trust to Cure Testamentary Mistake;" (6) Adam J. Hirsch, "Freedom of Testation/Freedom of Contract;" (7) Kristine S. Knaplund, "The New Uniform Probate Code's Surprising Gender Inequities;" (8) Kristine S. Knaplund, "Synthetic Cells, Synthetic Life, and Inheritance;" (9) Carla Spivack, "Let's Get Serious: Spousal Abuse Should Bar Inheritance;" (10) Lee-ford Tritt, "The Limitations of an Economic Agency Cost Theory of Trust Law." Number of Pages in PDF File: 3 Keywords: legal scholarship, estate and gift tax, tax, wills JEL Classification: K34, K19, K11 Date posted: March 16, 2012Suggested CitationContact Information
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By Ericka Chickowski | Posted 2009-03-20 Email PrintHere are 10 ways to protect your company's data.
In the past, discussions about the protection of endpoints, such as PCs and laptops, have revolved around anti-virus software. Recently, however, the focus has shifted to policy-based enforcement that offers more complete protection. Policy-based endpoint management should cover configuration management, patch management, access management, application management and even anti-virus applications.
"If you start to control your endpoints from a policy perspective, then suddenly you've got the ability to manage your endpoints much more effectively than you can with a single technology or a couple of technologies," says Scott Johnson, business line executive for host solutions at IBM Internet Security Systems (ISS).
Sonnenschein's Hansen says protecting endpoint systems is a cornerstone to his approach because once you prioritize information, you'll likely realize that much of it is stored on these systems. That's why it's critical to ensure that endpoint devices are a safe place to house data.
"If you think about it, this is where more of a systems security approach comes in," says Hansen, who makes use of IBM ISS technologies to carry out that approach. "I think we're obligated to look at the systems that we can manipulate and manage."
As hackers continue to develop more sophisticated techniques to evade detection and flood anti-virus technology with thousands of variants of the same malware in order to get past signatures, you might want to consider changing your protection models.
Some enterprises find that application whitelisting is a good alternative to the traditional anti-virus model. The idea is that instead of blocking the known bad elements, you will allow only the specified good applications to run and will block everything else.
According to Josh Corman, principal security strategist for IBM ISS, whitelisting can be appropriate in some use cases, but in other instances, it will drive up operational costs so high that it will become untenable. The best cases are in static environments in which workers will not need to install applications on the fly to get work done. He mentions call center environments as an example.
"One of the best applications we ever saw for application whitelisting was a retail environment with Windows XP-based cash registers," Corman says. "They modified the image only once every six months, so anything new had to be bad." In that case, whitelisting was so effective that there wasn't a need to install anti-virus protection on those machines.
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text: COMMAND kernel SYSTEMS AFFECTED Windows 2000 SP2 and earlier PROBLEM Eric Domazlicky posted following. Repeat these steps to reproduce the bug: 1. Log in as a local admin 2. Check your local security policy under "User rights" to make sure "Everyone" cannot logon locally, by default it can't. 3. Rename the local administrators group to something besides "Administrators" 4. Reboot your machine 5. Try to log in as an administrator either Domain or local. You can't because your local policy setting says "Administrators" may logon locally but- that group no longer exists (since you renamed it). In other words the local policy settings aren't stored using SIDs, it's just storing straight group names - very lazy on the part of Microsoft. Also quite annoying when you find you can't login to your machine because you changed the name of the Administrators group. Justin Silles shared another story. He has one PC as a Win2k DC with active directory and terminal services and one laptop running win2k. While setting up the security settings (for the domain) he had set the administrators group to be the only one to log in locally. He had also changed the name of the local administrator on the server and various other settings. After a few moments he was no longer able to log on to my server locally. He was not able to figure out the problem so heI figured he could log on via the Terminal Services connection...still not able to access it. After figuring that his client was acting up (laptop) he rebooted. This is when things went bad. At the laptop was part of the domain and it took on the new policy settings after the reboot he was now locked out of that PC as well. The error is "Local security policy does not allow user to log in". In an attempt to get back into my server and laptop he took a different PC he had installed a fresh copy of win2k Pro and set it up on my network to try and fix this problem. During the install Justin added it to the domain, thus taking on the same bad security settings. After the final install process the PC reboots as usual and then locked me out with the same error. He reinstalled the OS this time staying out of the domain. He then booted and mapped to the admin share on the server, browsed to and deleted (see MSKB Q201227): {xxxx-XXXX} = Combination of letters numbers (hex) there will be two of these and you have to remove the file from both (numbered them 1 and 2, but that has nothing to do with the numbers inside the {}): C:\WINNT\SYSVOL\DOMAIN\Policies\{xxxx-XXX1}\Machine\Microsoft\Windows NT\SecExit\GptTmpl.inf C:\WINNT\SYSVOL\DOMAIN\Policies\{xxxx-XXX2}\Machine\Microsoft\Windows NT\SecExit\GptTmpl.inf Within a few seconds the HD activity lights went nuts (policy change was taking effect) and he was able to log into his Server. Justin rebooted his laptop and regained access to that as well. SOLUTION The only way to log on as an administrator to that workstation is to get the NTrights.exe file from the W2k resource kit and run it from a remote machine to grant your renamed Administrators group Log on locally rights. As for Justin's case there is two other ways to fix this 1) log in using the win2k recovery counsel and delete the file then reboot the server. However this requires you to take down the server. The fix above does not, since all access to the server otherwise is still functional. 2) If you can figure out which setting is in the "GptTmpl.inf" file, you can just delete that line (log on locally?) and then the server would be fine with all other important security settings still functional.


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God's Acre
God's Acre (German Gottesacker, lit. Field of God) is an ancient Germanic designation for a burial ground.
In Christianity[edit]
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It has become the traditional name given to the graveyards of Congregations of the Moravian Church. The first Moravian God's Acre was begun in 1730 on the western slope of the Hutberg (Hill of Watching) at Herrnhut Saxony in Germany, the Moravian Mother Congregation. As the Moravian Church spread around the world, they laid out their graveyards on hilltops, calling them Hutberg and naming the graveyard God's Acre.The name comes from the belief that the bodies of the dead are "sown as seed" in God's Acre, as in a field, so that they can rise again when Jesus Christ returns to the world. God's Acre is not literally one acre in size; many are larger or smaller.
Moravians believe strongly in equality, even in death; therefore, every stone in a God's Acre is a recumbent stone with the same proportions and made of the same material so that no one person stands out among the stones. The Communion of Saints is continued even on the graveyard as it reflects the continuity of the congregation. In addition, the deceased are buried by choir; to the Moravians, these were the living groups into which the Congregation was originally divided to meet the needs of the members according to their age and station in life. Originally men and women sat in their choir groups in church at worship. The burial by choir in God's Acre also reflects the way the members of the congregation sat as a worshipping community so that visually and symbolically the Congregation continues in the graveyard.
Along with being separated by gender, there are also sections for people of different age and marital status. The typical configuration has sections for infant girls and infant boys, girls and boys, single men and single women, and married men and married women known as the choir system. The deceased are buried in their section in the order they have died. Smaller God's Acres may combine the infant and children sections. Some larger God's Acres, such as the one for the Salem Congregation in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, may also have separate sections for those who are cremated, as their remains take up less space than those who are buried with their bodies intact.
In addition to the God's Acre on the Hutberg in Herrnhut and the God's Acre of Salem Congregation in Winston-Salem, N.C. there are striking God's Acres in almost every Moravian Congregation, including in Chelsea Moravian Burial Ground (part of London) in the United Kingdom, Bethlehem and Nazareth, Pennsylvania, Bethania in North Carolina and Koenigsfeld in the Black Forest of Germany. Many God's Acres also feature arched entrance gates inscribed with an appropriate Bible verse along the top; if there is more than one entrance to the Acre, each gate will usually have a verse above it.
Many Moravian churches have a custom of holding an Easter sunrise service, or Resurrection Service in a God's Acre, the "Church Militant" gathering together amid the graves of the "Church Triumphant" before the Risen Savior. The week prior to the service, families and church groups clean the gravestones and decorate them with flowers, transforming the God's Acre into an almost-garden like place. The opening words of the Resurrection Service, "The Lord is risen!/The Lord is risen indeed!" date from the first such Moravian-style service in Herrnhut, Germany in 1732. The liturgy for the service is a Confession of Faith drawn up by Nicolaus Ludwig, Count von Zinzendorf (1700–1760) patron and leader of the Renewed Unitas Fratrum. It is based on Dr. Martin Luther's Small Catechism.
Blackville, South Carolina[edit]
God's Acre also refers to a small patch of land whose legal owner is "God Almighty". The land includes a natural spring whose water local tradition holds has healing powers. Located near Blackville, South Carolina, the land was owned by L. P. "Lute" Boylston until 1944 when he died. In his will, Boylston gave the land to "God Almighty" to ensure that the water from its spring would always be free for anyone to drink. It can be found just off SC 3; look for signs three miles (5 km) north of Blackville. Coordinates: 33.392160, -81.273276 The Springs are listed as part of the South Carolina National Heritage Corridor.[1] There is also a nearby historical marker on SC 3.[2]
New Canaan, Connecticut[edit]
A section of town in New Canaan, Connecticut, where there are three large, white churches side by side, is referred to locally as "God's Acre", although the area is actually less than an acre and the name came about because the area was once a cemetery.[3]
- ^ South Carolina National Heritage Corridor "Rivers, Rails, and Crossroads Region 3, Healing Springs site."
- ^ The Historical Marker Database, "God's Acre Healing Springs Marker"
- ^ Debbie Seaman, "New England: True Northeast; White Churches; New Canaan, Conn." The New York Times (June 3, 2001) Retrieved July 7, 2010


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So, installing rgdal, which is an important R package for spatial data analysis can be a bit of a pain on the mac. Here are two ways to make it happen.
The Easy Way
- In R run: install.packages('rgdal',repos="http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin")
The Hard Way
- Download and install GDAL 1.8 Complete and PROJ framework v4.7.0-2 from: http://www.kyngchaos.com/software/frameworks%29
- Download the latest version of rgdal from CRAN. Currently 0.7-1
- Run Terminal.app, and in the same directory as rgdal_0.7-1.tar.gz run:
R CMD INSTALL --configure-args='--with-gdal-config=/Library/Frameworks/GDAL.framework/Programs/gdal-config --with-proj-include=/Library/Frameworks/PROJ.framework/Headers --with-proj-lib=/Library/Frameworks/PROJ.framework/unix/lib' rgdal_0.7-1.tar.gz
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