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Legendary Midway head football coach Tommy Sloan has decided to retire from coaching, a career that spanned some 44 years.
Sloan grew up in Lee County and graduated from Sanford Central High School. From there he attended college at Campbell and later completed a Masters program at Fayetteville State and Drivers Education at East Carolina.
Coach Sloan's teaching career began in the Clinton City Schools. "I went there to take Coach Raynor's place when he was playing major league baseball and had to go to spring training," explained the Midway coach. Sloan did his student teaching in the fall of 1969 and began coaching in the spring of 1970, while teaching at Butler Avenue School.
The opportunity to coach at Midway came in 1973. That year, Sloan coached basketball and baseball and was an assistant in football. The head football job came open his second year, so he gave up basketball and took the position he would hold from 1974-1998 and again from 2010 to the present.
Sloan first retired from coaching in 1998, although he continued teaching at Midway High School and later Midway Middle, where he was football coach for 4 years, before returning to the high school.
Coach Sloan's Raider baseball team won a State Championship in 1981, defeating Nakina (from Columbus County). He also served as the school's athletic director for 30 years.
Sloan cites two games as being extremely memorable during his career. The first was against Union some years back. The Raiders were trailing hopelessly as the game was about to end. "We had no timeouts left, there was less than a minute to go and they had the ball," recalled Sloan. "Then for some reason, we caused a fumble between the center and the quarterback and got the ball and went on to score and win."
The other standout game was this past season. The Raiders trailed East Bladen with just over a minute to go. It was 4th and 11 and Midway had the ball on their own 6 yard line. Raider quarterback Taylor Calcutt found Andre Sankey for a miracle 94 yard pass play to give the Raiders a 16-13 win.
As for advice for aspiring high football coaches, Sloan says, "Young coaches will be enthusiastic and energetic, more so than I am. They will work hard at it and study. The game's changing. The last 3 or 4 years, everything's spread. They just have to keep up with the changes and put in the time."
Sloan finished his career with an overall record of 217-118. His Raider teams won conference championships in 1978, 1988-90, and 1992-97. They were conference runners up in 1991, 1998, and 2013. This year's team finished 9-3, losing in the playoffs to Holmes High School in Edenton.
Sloan's teams were regional runners up in 1995 and 1996. They played Swain County for the State Championship in 1988.
Coach Sloan credits several coaches in helping to mold his career.
"I started under Chris Caison," said Sloan. "He was an organization man. Bobby Robinson came in behind him. He was a fundamentals man. Then I came to Midway and worked under Phil Byrd. He was more of a motivational type person." Sloan says he picked up a little from each of those coaches.
When asked about how high school football has changed since 1970, Coach Sloan says "Kids are faster, more physical, and more athletic, but that is not to say that their heart has changed." He says that today's kids get a lot of ideas from watching games on TV.
Sloan points out Heath Shuler and Dee Hardison as being among the greatest players he has coached against. Shuler was the quarterback at Swain County when Midway played them in 1988. He and Hardison, from Hobbton, both went on to careers in the NFL.
Several coaches stand out in Sloan's memory as being great competitors. "We had Ken Avent at North Duplin, Harvey Brooks at Princeton, Jack Holly at Wallace-Rose Hill, Al Britt at Hobbton, and Jeff Bell at Lakewood, among others. They were all pretty tough," Sloan recalled.
Coach Sloan says that he will miss being around the kids. "There is never dull moment around them and they keep you young," asserted Sloan. He says that he will not miss the practices and the bus rides.
Regarding his players at Midway he asserts, "We had some great ones. One of the things I tried to stress is when you put on that Midway blue, you're special. You play hard the entire game and give it what you got and you don't quit. I think all of our great players did that. You're only as good as your players and we had some good ones."
In conclusion, Sloan attests that "Midway people have been great for us and I have had a good long run. It's been a good place to work with good people to work for." The coach also stressed that he had a great coaching staff.
For his future plans, the Raider coach does not rule anything out, (other than substitute teaching) but for now he says, "I am just going to sit back and do what my wife tells me."


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Users can search through a global collection of industrial designs on the DesignFinder module for Orbit.com, which currently covers the registers of 14 authorities. The following chart from the Questel website describes the coverage of the industrial design collection on Orbit.com:[1]
The following table is current as of October 2012. Visit this page for the most current version of the table.
Authority | First Publication Date | Last Update | Update Frequency | Total Designs |
Benelux | 1975/01/01 | Present | Monthly | 78,696 |
Canada | 1863/05/09 | Present | Weekly | 138,548 |
China | 1985/09/10 | Present | Weekly | 2,085,741 |
EP | 2003/04/01 | Present | Weekly | 648,058 |
France | 1910/01/20 | Present | Semimonthly | 678,193 |
Germany | 1988/10/10 | Present | Weekly | 905,127 |
International | 1977/01/01 | Present | Weekly | 386,517 |
Japan | 1909/12/23 | Present | Weekly | 1,601,970 |
Korea (South) | 1998/05/15 | Present | Weekly | 458,227 |
Russia | 1985/01/01 | Present | Monthly | 47,742 |
Spain | 1996/01/01 | Present | Weekly | 128,199 |
Switzerland | 1981/01/01 | Present | Weekly | 109,260 |
United kingdom | 1982/10/07 | Present | Weekly | 150,615 |
USA | 1977/01/01 | Present | Weekly | 636,005 |
According to the industrial designs user guide, English translations are currently available for Asian design collections (CN, JP, KR).[2]
Search Forms
Two search forms are available in the DesignFinder module on Orbit.com:[2]
- Quick Search - The quick search form consists of basic fields, including title, Locarno/national classification, owner, and numbers (application, registration, priority). The quick search form includes automatic right and left truncation, accepts basic Boolean operators, and the default operator between terms (except for numbers) and between fields is the Boolean operator AND.
Advanced Search - The advanced search form includes all fields available in the quick search, as well as additional fields (depending on the country, some fields aren't searchable): description, new owner/previous owner/all, designer name, representative, priority country, designated countries (FR and WO only), list of countries, date restrictions. The Questel website provides a fact sheet (PDF) containing a list of all available fields on the DesignFinder module and which fields are available for which authorities.
The advanced search form accepts Boolean operators AND/OR/NOT, as well as parentheses when combining different operators. The user guide notes that a space between two terms is equivalent to implied adjacency for Keywords. Left, right, and internal truncation and wildcard operators are available in the advanced search, although terms must be at least three characters long for truncation to work properly. Left truncation is not available for Owner, Designer or Representative searching. Avaible truncation and wildcard symbols include:
- + or * - Truncation replacing any number of characters
- ? - Truncation replacing zero or one character
- # - Truncation replaces exactly one character
For the result interface, user may choose to save a search. Users may modify the query (using command language) before saving the search. The name for the saved search must begin with a letter and contain alphanumeric characters only, with no spaces.[2]
From the left menu under the "My saved searches" option, users may view all saved searches and select to execute (rerun), edit, or delete a saved search.[2]
Users can also create an alert from the search result page, to be run weekly or monthly with new documents only or all documents. Available formats include classical (TXT, PDF, RTF), excel (XLS), XML (full or light). Users can send the alert to up to 23 emails. Choose the "My alerts" section in the left menu to view a list of all active alerts. Under the "My alerts" section, users can execute, view, edit, or delete any alert.[2]
Displaying Results
Search results can be displayed in list, details, or thumbnail image view.[2]
List View - This view lists the registration number, register, owner, title, application date, publication date, and Locarno Class for each result. Sorting is available for each column when the hitlist is less than 1000 results.
Display View - Display view lists the same bibliographic details for each result as the List View, and the details view additionally shows the first image or all images for each result. Like list view, sorting is available for each column when the hitlist is less than 1000 results.
Thumbnail View - This view displays only only the registration number and date with one or all images.
Additionally, the Details Pane may be enabled to view details about a selected design in a pane adjacent to the hit list.[2] The details pane displays the title, registration number, register, owner, owner in original language (when available), application date, publication date, Locarno Class, description, and all the images for a selected design. The user can select an image to view a larger version of the image in a pop-up window. The register flag in the details pane may be selected to view the record for the design on the official authority's website.
When a user select the registration number from the list, display, or thumbnail views, they access the full record view for the design.[2] This view displays all available fields and images. Selecting an image will open a larger version of the image in a pop-up window, and PDFs are displayed for US designs. Users can select the register flag to view the record on the authority's website.
Individual records can be selected from the hitlist and exported in TXT, PDF, RTF, XLS, and XML formats. Users may also save a personalized export format to reuse in the future. Exports can be downloaded directly, as a zip file, or sent by email (with an optional comment).[2]
The option to only search and view industrial designs is a unique feature of Orbit.com that isn't available on other major patent search platforms. Questel seems to focus its products on patent and intellectual property coverage, and this focus is reflected in the decision to add industrial design coverage to the Orbit.com platform.
- ↑ "Industrial Design Coverage and Updates." Questel website, http://www.questel.com/customersupport/Coverage_and_Updates_designs.htm. Accessed October 9, 2012.
- ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 Questel. "INDUSTRIAL DESIGNS." May 2010. User guide, PDF document.


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I have owned my truck for about 8 years and it has been this way since I bought it. After I have burned off a few gallons it seems to read an accurate fuel level. I have seen many posts about this problem but would like some people that have had this and had it fixed to explain what is wrong and est cost to fix.
the fuel pump will need replacing . cost is about 600-800 USD. this is when you use a ac delco or Delphi pump. do not use AIRTEX AS THESE ARE SHORT ON LIFE. If you do this work the tank will need be dropped or you slide back and tilt up the bed to get access to the top of the fuel tank. I prefer the bed slide / tilt method. my 2000 has this problem since the warranty ended back in 2002. when the pump dies then I will fix it ...new pumps will require wires to be soldered and sealed with new style connectors in most cases if you have the OEM 2000 pump....
I'm curious. Doesn't the fuel pump only feed fuel into the line and engine ? Does it also measure the amount of fuel in the tank or wouldn't that be a fuel level gauge sensor ? Just trying to narrow it down. I'm sure you know what you're talking about but trying to get multiple opinions on this. Thank you for your information .
when you go buy this or look this up on the internet you will see 2 heavy wires this is the feed to the pump motor, the smaller sized wires are to the what they call sometimes rheostat , this is the sender which has this issue of getting slimmed up and what you get is an open circuit . this then causes the fuel gauge to jump around, the sender goes to the dash as well as the PCM... I known of some that removed the assy , then cleaned it put it back in to work great for a time then only to act up again. I use techron fuel treatment with a few ounces of marvel mystery oil to the fuel to reduce the jumping readings ...it will clean some of the reostat..
It does both. [MENTION=39185]j cat[/MENTION] has given you very good advice and information. No need for multiple opinions. Any opinion that is different than what is stated above would be incorrect. So, you can search high and low for a different answer, but you already have the correct one.
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Malley, Juliette and Netten, Ann (2009) Measuring outcomes of social care. Research Policy and Planning, 27 (2). pp. 85-96. ISSN 0264-519X
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This article summarises interim findings from the initial development stages of the Outcomes of Social Care for Adults (OSCA) project, which is developing a gold standard preference weighted measure of social care outcome. The project is building on previous work, including the Adult Social Care Outcome Toolkit (ASCOT) which is designed to capture information about an individual's social care-related quality of life (SQRQOL). The aim is for the measure to be applicable across as wide a range of user groups and care and support settings as possible. Analysis has identified the domains of occupation, social participation and involvement, and safety as areas for improvement. Conceptual work also identified the need to add a domain reflecting 'dignity'. Cognitive testing with 29 service users confirmed the relevance and scope of the domains. The next steps are to test the psychometric properties of the measure with a sample of service users. The measure is being proposed to be included in the planned user experience survey to cover all service user groups from 2011.
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A new world, more aliens, and even more Mechs!
The Skaintz Imperium was eradicated from the backwater planet of Garm, but at great cost. The population of the world was decimated within weeks, and Garm will never be the same. At least humanity can breathe easily knowing that the mysterious aliens are all dead.... But are they? Using their natural form of communication, Skaintz radio signals did chirrup and click, however briefly. Transmissions in their ancient language now spread at the speed of light in a growing sphere, reaching farther from Garm every year. In the vast oceans of nothingness between the stars unknown things float. And they listen....
Mech 2 is the story of Neu Schweitz, a planet in a system 3.2 light years from Garm. It's a beautiful world of snow-topped mountains, green valleys and nearly a billion humans struggling with piracy and politics. Soon, however, they will be struggling for their very lives.
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Elected officials gathered at Mount Airy High School for their informal gathering in the media center of the school to fellowship, have a bite to eat and learn a little something about public education.
The event was part of an ongoing gathering of elected officials, a tradition one said is invaluable.
"I've found them to be very educational over the years," said Kate Appler, who serves on the Mount Airy School Board. "I've learned things at these meetings not just about our local community, but future plans as a region. I've appreciated their choice of speakers and how it enhances the county as a whole, and I'm glad we continue doing it."
The event kicked off during dinner, as the Mount Airy High School Show Choir, under the leadership of Gena Ray, performed a selection of Christmas tunes.
Following dinner, Mount Airy School Superintendent Dr. Greg Little told the group that he wanted to speak for a moment about public education.
"For the past several years, it's been tough to be an educator in North Carolina," he said. "But even with those challenges, we have teachers who come to work every single day with the singular goal of serving and educating students."
Little paused to show a brief presentation where he asked parents, students and staff members what they love about the public schools.
"Because you get to work and learn stuff," one elementary school girl said.
"I like that I can come to a place that's safe, where I have a lot of friends," said another. "It's kind of like I'm home at school. Everyone is amazing."
Parents touted things like graduation rates, safety and the importance of community involvement in the school system.
"This is the future of our nation," Little said when the presentation was over. "For me, public education is about the transformation of a life."
He noted that a quality public education can transform future generations.
"I see it as a pathway to greatness, where every child is given the opportunity to be great," Little said. "We encourage students to dream big, nurture those dreams and sometimes even turn them into reality."
In closing, Little said he is worried about hiring quality teachers in the future.
"Our investment in public schools has never been more important," he said, noting the state is at the bottom in teacher pay. "I believe that in about five years, we're going to see a real crisis in bringing quality teachers to North Carolina.
"Think about your children and grandchildren," Little concluded. "Who do you want teaching them in the classroom?"
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Some locals say the Aboriginal dream-time legend associated with how the site came into being (three sisters of the Katoomba tribe that were turned to stone by their tribe's witchdoctor) is actually a modern day fabrication for the benefit of tourists.
Before Katoomba and the Three Sisters became the mandatory tourist stop in the Blue Mountains, the small town of Blackheath benefited from visits to a lookout known as Gavottes Leap. By comparison, this tourist site is a lot less developed but the natural beauty is comparable if not better. Have a look and decide for yourself.


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The decline in arecanut yield in the district owing to climatic changes and disease has triggered a sharp increase in its price. The price of saraku variety of arecanut was around Rs. 18,000 per quintal last September and has doubled to Rs. 36,000 per quintal today. Similarly, the price of bette, rashi idi and api varieties have also increased by around 70 per cent during the same period.
The Union government's announcement of increasing the minimum import price of arecanut from Rs. 75 to Rs. 110 a kg in the second week of May triggered the northward climb in prices. There was a 20 to 30 per cent increase in prices in a span of 15 days. Arecanut growers had thought the State government's May 31 ban on gutka would result in a slump in arecanut prices. However, the price of api and rashi idi varieties that was around Rs. 18,000 per quintal prior to the ban went up to Rs. 21,000 by the first week of August.
The arecanut yield had declined by around 30 per cent in the district last year owing to poor rainfall. Farmers sold last year's produce by the end of June. The arecanut harvested this year will enter the market from November second week. With an acute mismatch between supply and actual demand in the past three months, prices have increased sharply.
D.B. Shankarappa, president of Shimoga Arecanut Growers' Association, told The Hindu that the price of arecanut is expected to escalate further. Owing to heavy rain that lashed the district this year, arecanut trees have been infected with fruit rot disease (koleroga).
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Only the farmers in Shimoga and Bhadravati taluks, where the loss due to koleroga was comparatively less, are expecting some benefit from the price rise.
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Single-arm double-mode double-order planar waveguide interferometric sensor
Applied Optics, Vol. 40, Issue 3, pp. 349-359 (2001)
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A sensor is described for which interference measurements of the phase delay between two propagating modes of different orders in a slab thin-film waveguide are used as the sensing technique. The basic building block of the sensor is a polymer film doped with an indicator dye such as Bromocresol Purple. The modes of two orders such as TM0 and TM1 are simultaneously excited in the light-guiding film with a focusing optics and a prism coupler. The modes are decoupled from the film and recombined to produce an interference pattern in the face of an output optical fiber. The sensitivity of the sensor to the ambient temperature change is 1.5 °C, and the sensitivity to NH3 is 200 parts in 106 for one full oscillation of the signal.
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(120.3180) Instrumentation, measurement, and metrology : Interferometry
(130.2790) Integrated optics : Guided waves
(130.3120) Integrated optics : Integrated optics devices
(130.6010) Integrated optics : Sensors
Original Manuscript: May 3, 2000
Revised Manuscript: September 22, 2000
Published: January 20, 2001
Sergey S. Sarkisov, Darnell E. Diggs, Grigory Adamovsky, and Michael J. Curley, "Single-arm double-mode double-order planar waveguide interferometric sensor," Appl. Opt. 40, 349-359 (2001)
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Bridge the GapPosted by OurTwoSense (Atlantic Shores, United States) on 26 May 2008 in Architecture. : A record of timeslots shared : Chris from South Jersey, United StatesWell done! The work you have done on this is amazing, and I am having a hard time being able to tell where the "seam" is. You do amazing work..... 26 May 2008 12:35pm Observing from Chester, United KingdomThis is a beauty.... a perfect match. You are the expert Ronnie ! 26 May 2008 12:45pm Andrew Gould from Sydney, AustraliaThis is too pefect! I just don't believe what I'm seeing!!! Fantastic work! (I do hope the bridge holds up, though!) 26 May 2008 12:52pm tyan from Singapore, Singaporehahaha,wow!i cannot believe my eyes too,seamless!:) 26 May 2008 1:30pm Tracey from White Hall, United StatesToo funny! Your ability at stitching is incredible! Seamless mesh of the two scenes! 26 May 2008 3:09pm Marion from Nanaimo, BC, CanadaWhat a wonderful blending of two images. I don't know how the two of you do it. Find the pictures that will go so well together and then blend them. Perfect job as always. But I'm with Andrew, I do hope it holds up. 26 May 2008 3:10pm JoeB from Brampton, CanadaAlmost had me at first as a single shot, you seamless sneaks. 26 May 2008 4:27pm Alun Lambert from cheshire, United KingdomThis one is great, i had to look twice 26 May 2008 5:44pm Margie from Auckland, New ZealandIncredible seamless stitching! And I love the L and R exchange. :) 26 May 2008 7:05pm António Pires from Lisbon, PortugalWe cannot miss one of your photos. I don't know what to appreciate more, the expertise or the humour. 26 May 2008 8:34pm Elspeth from Trinidad and TobagoNever ceases to amaze me how you join the two images together so seamlessly! 26 May 2008 11:28pm Earnest from Oklahoma, United StatesNicely done and very enjoyable. Certainly fools the eye.. 27 May 2008 12:00am lissa from New York, United StatesI am always amaze when I visit this site, it's just so well done, amazing! 27 May 2008 1:17am MaryB from Staffordshire, United KingdomIncredible work! Still can't see the join :) 27 May 2008 1:18am Doug from Long Beach, United StatesHonestly, it took me a few moments of looking and then realizing I needed to really look before I noticed the spot where the shots came together. I'm running out of words to praise these. 27 May 2008 3:06am djedfre from schaumburg, United Statesi bet those ducks are confused! great work (again)! 27 May 2008 6:39am Michael Skorulski from Cigel, SlovakiaA wonderful merging that would be an excellent image in its own right. 27 May 2008 10:51am Pied Crow from Nairobi, KenyaNice and disorienting. You should give us all a tutorial. 27 May 2008 2:16pm danthro from Suburbia, United Stateswow! this is very very cool. you really did an amazing job blending these two together! great work 27 May 2008 6:23pm Toño from Estella, SpainHi again Ronnie.A long time since the last visit.Good work.Thanks for your shots. 28 May 2008 7:23am Richard_Irwin from Belper, United KingdomVery clever once again, very masterful use of digital techniques. 28 May 2008 9:24am Ron from Saint Louis, United StatesEven the light and shadows work so well together ... time traveling made ever so interesting! 28 May 2008 9:37am alex centrella from California, United Statesfantastic work again...i love this blog.. 28 May 2008 2:52pm johnnyanne from United StatesGreat job. It's weird, it seems like a cloud is covering the sun in the foreground and I know it's just me being crazy but it really is a great photo. 28 May 2008 5:55pm Anita from West Nottingham, United StatesAmazing! You are getting better and better at this combining of images, and you started out great. Lovely. 30 May 2008 10:03am akarui from Kagoshima, JapanI suppose that the Ronnie picture is continuying on the left as the design of the top bridge is identical. Lilly picture should be the modern part. 1 Jun 2008 1:14am Rabbit from Richmond, United StatesThat is some GREAT fiddling and faddling to get a seamless shot there - wow. Love the mix and match of this one. 2 Jun 2008 3:15pm |
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Kimberly Carson, Eric Edwards, Joanna Storm, Olinka, Gina Carrera, Herschel Savage, Paul Thomas, Shone Taylor, Tamara Longley, Joey Silvera, Billy Dee
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A Ha! At last, those nice boychicks at Adult Video News have bestowed upon me the honor and privilege of finally reviewing an adult tape. When they told me the tape was entitled Yiddish Erotica, I thought to myself, terrific! ... a tape I could really sink my teeth into (you should pardon the expression).
So what do I do? ... I make myself some hot tea and sit down in front of the VCR and get ready to enjoy myself reviewing this tape. But OY VEY!!! was I in for such a surprise. The tape is broken down into a series of clips or vignettes from old footage from as far back as I care to remember. You shouldn't know from the disappointment that I felt when I witnessed that not even one of the film shorts had even the slightest reference to, or about, Jews. 1 presume that Video Classics, with their fancy, schmancy name, does not consider the Jews as the chosen people, except when it comes to titles for video cassette boxes.
For instance, the first story called "Poolside Party" features Gina Carrera on her hands and knees (not a common sight for a Jewish American Princess) with her lover splashing in and about the swimming pool and Gina. Unless she is supposed to be facing the Wailing Wall or Bloomingdale's, there are no Jewish ties. Besides, her lover looks like a German! And the same follows for the remainder of the vignettes with such names as "European Encounter," "Room for Rent" and the very original "Play It Again Sam."
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Exempt and nonexempt: You've likely seen these terms when filling out an application, noticed them in job postings and heard them used in conversation. But if you're like most people, the difference between the two categories is fuzzy at best. Do you even know what exempt workers are exempt from?
Let's start at the beginning. The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) requires that employers classify jobs as either exempt or nonexempt. Nonexempt employees are covered by FLSA rules and regulations, and exempt employees are not.
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Exempt positions are excluded from minimum wage, overtime regulations, and other rights and protections afforded nonexempt workers. Employers must pay a salary rather than an hourly wage for a position for it to be exempt. Typically, only executive, supervisory, professional or outside sales positions are exempt positions.
Nonexempt employees, as the term implies, are not exempt from FLSA requirements. Employees who fall within this category must be paid at least the federal minimum wage for each hour worked and given overtime pay of not less than one-and-a-half times their hourly rate for any hours worked beyond 40 each week.
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Aside from the various tax brackets into which we all fall based on our income level, there is no difference in how exempt and nonexempt employees are taxed. For both categories of workers, all pay is "earned income" and therefore taxable to the wage earner based upon tax bracket. Income is income; it doesn't matter if it's earned by the hour or as an annual salary.
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Im a backpacker, so if i do stay somewhere I go for the cheapest and most cozy. - most of the time i couchsurf, so ill be at home with people and i can use their kitchen.
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Peel, seed and dice the tomatoes; season them to taste with capers and vinegar and just a touch of oil; season with salt and pepper. Place a bed of the diced tomatoes on each diner's plate, leaving enough room in the center for the shad. When the shad is out of the oven, center it in the middle of the tomatoes and garnish with chives.
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It's possible to build a library that gives access to some R functions, without having to install the whole of R. The package rclmath is a wrapper that gives access to some of these functions (definitions for the "utility" functions are included but not exported, the "constants" are included in a separate file but they're read as double-floats anyway and the extra precision is lost).
The stand-alone library libRmath is not included in standard R distributions. The Windows version Rmath.dll is included in the download (taken from this page with compilation instructions); for other operating systems the library is often available as a package, and otherwise can be easily compiled as described in the R Installation and Administration manual (it is also possible to cross-compile a Win32 version in Linux).
Beta, Choose, Gamma (and related), and Bessel functions are available. A random number generator is implemented that can produce the following distributions (and also the corresponding density, quantile, and cumulative distribution functions): Normal, Uniform, Gamma, Beta, Lognormal, [Non-central] Chi-squared, [Non-central] F, [Non-central] Student's t, [Negative] Binomial, Cauchy, Exponential, Geometric, Hypergeometric, Poisson, Logistic, Weibull, Studentized Range, Wilcoxon [Signed] Rank.
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MacOSX/i386 | OK | no FFI | [64-bit] OK | NA | FFI fails | OK | OK |
MacOSX/PPC | OK | OK | OK | OK | no DFFI | OK | OK |
Download: rclmath.tar.gz
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CL-USER> (rmath:gamma 3.2) 2.4239655953848476d0 CL-USER> (rmath:bessel :i 2 3) 0.21273995923985264d0 CL-USER> (rmath:rng-seed) (1234 5678) CL-USER> (rmath:r-weibull 2 .3) 0.4531797452688073d0 CL-USER> (rmath:r-weibull 2 .3) 0.11911193157047341d0 CL-USER> (setf (rmath:rng-seed) '(1234 5678)) (1234 5678) CL-USER> (rmath:r-weibull 2 .3) 0.4531797452688073d0
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I think "This birds for you, Bud" is rather funny. It references a Budweiser commercial, wraps up his actions and the way we feel about him all in one.
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How about:
"Warning: It's Bird Hunting Season in Texas" (I believe it's currently duck & geese season right now) Or you could do a picture of elmer fud and say "We're hunting birds" Or how about...."Hey Bud - Pull my finger" or "Hey Bud - You're number 2" or "Two birds in the hand = $250K" |
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Before I get out of here I will throw an honest to goodness suggestion out for public improvement. People are always getting on TV because they have a sign highlighting the host station's call letters, in this case ESPN. I know getting on the tube might or might not be a concern here, but........
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Years ago MNF was in Tampa. Someone had a huge sign with Howard Cosell's face on it and something nice written (I forget)
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I gave up on the ESPN sign b/c well, no good ideas - and believe it or not, I'm not going to force a sign just to try to get on TV.
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I just thought about the "this birds for you Bud"
I hope it works and gets on TV and people actually get it!
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Woo, Im glad you're going with the "This birds for you!" If you make it on tv, I can tell my wife that my time on the mssageboard is productive!
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You could throw a Jeff Spicolli in there . Hey Bud , it's our party .
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