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The show, which is scheduled to take place Sunday, June 5, at downtown venue Vibiana, is essentially a mega-mall for swank baby gear —showcasing high-end fashion, gear (strollers, carriers and the like), gourmet food and services for tiny tots.
From booths and, in a few cases, sophisticated installations, such as high-end nurseries, vendors will sell their wares at discounted prices and pass out swag.
Park, who has toddlers of her own, came up with the idea for the show a couple of years ago, "after I noticed that there's a huge baby boom out there," she said. She added, "All of my mommy friends and I were trying to find out what's the newest crib, carrier, diaper bag. I thought, 'We need to have a luxury-based event where parents can go and learn about different products and services.'"
Brands scheduled to show at the event include PetitNest — a décor company co-owned by actress Tiffani Thiessen that sells $590 baby sheet sets — Layla Grace, Storksak Diaper Bags and Happy Baby Foods.
ErgoBaby Carriers, which makes one of the most ubiquitous baby carriers in L.A., will be offering free loaner carriers for moms and dads holding VIP tickets (complete with sanitary teething guards). "I thought it might get a little crazy with all those strollers," noted Park, who has also arranged for a company to give complimentary stroller cleanings to VIP ticket holders.
The event will also feature activities for toddlers, such as the Rocking With Daddy station, where tots can bang on drums with dad, and an art enclave where kids can decorate nightlights.
Local baby shop the Pump Station will be hosting a nursing area, and event hosts Catt Sadler and Jason Kennedy — both hosts on the E! Network — will moderate various raffles, which will include the biggie giveaway of a $1,400 crib by Newport Cottage Crib.
"It's crazy trying to keep up with all the new products and services," Park said. "Parents are the absolute busiest people in the world. At the show, you can take in everything at once."
The Plush show will take place June 5 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Vibiana, 214 S. Main St., Los Angeles. (213) 626-1507. Tickets are available at Plushshow.com. General admission tickets are $25, or $40 per couple. VIP tickets are $80, or $140 per couple. Kids 3 years old and under are free.
Christos Bridal trunk show Thursday through Saturday:Peruse the ethereal, vintage-inspired bridal gowns of Christos at this two-day trunk show. The Bridal Salon at Saks Fifth Avenue, Four West, 9634 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills. By appointment only, call (310) 887-5509.
Juicy Couture Outlet: The quintessentially Californian brand has opened a 2,779-square-foot outlet store at the Citadel Outlets. 100 Citadel Drive, Los Angeles. (323) 725-0083. Sunday through Thursday 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Ted Baker London shop at Bloomingdale's: Playfully preppy British brand Ted Baker London has opened a shop-in-shop at Bloomingdale's at the Beverly Center, featuring men's and women's looks. 8500 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles. (310) 360-2700. 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday; 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday; 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday.


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Life is not without it's risks. We can sit alone in our bedroom and are unlikely to be hit by a moving vehicle. Other things might happen to our bodies if that is a life choice. ..
Riding a bike has risk. Building and running a Hot car might have risk? Things happen all the time, not to be graphic, but evey single activity we engage in comes with a certain unknown level of risk.
All we can do is accept that we are not in control and that we need to keep in our lives what brings us joy.
Riding is about living in the moment, somedays when I feel spooked I am extra careful but the extra care sometimes is a distraction so I focus on my riding technique. Riding well usually makes for a safer ride. Riding well is about paying attention to everything around you well in advance and riding that way makes it safer. Nobody can predict the future, things do happen, that unseen gravel on a corner kind of situation.
Maybe the OP had an angel on his shoulder or maybe it is lack of attention brought on by distraction? Nobody will ever know what will happen on today's ride. Be the best rider you can, know mistakes may happen, attempt to leave a margin for error and the rest is beyond our control.
Children certainly bring us joy . Spending that motorcycle time with your kids would be time well spent.
How we live our lives and what we value for ourselves and our children is a personal matter. Everything in life cannot be predicted, to not ski, not play football, not ride on the back of a horse because of fear something can happen is to stop living the best life we might have been given.
I don't know if you want conformation or are seeking reasons to continue riding? This is a question many of us have considered at sometime. There is no answer .
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UTSA to test outdoor emergency notification system Friday, April 15
(April 13, 2011)--UTSA officials will conduct a test of the university's Giant Voice outdoor mass notification system at the Main Campus between 3 and 5 p.m., Friday, April 15.
Those on the UTSA Main Campus and the surrounding community may hear messages on the outdoor speaker system and should not be concerned when the tests are conducted. The test will consist of three tones followed by a brief announcement that it is a test of the emergency notification system.
The indoor and outdoor notification system was launched in September 2009 to augment the university's emergency notification system. The system features four outdoor speaker arrays that deliver recorded or live voice announcements that can be heard optimally within 1,600 feet of each speaker array.
To prepare the UTSA and surrounding communities for system testing, the university will work with apartment complexes, neighborhood associations, businesses, media outlets, the San Antonio Office of Emergency Management and other officials to provide information on the system and test.
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The portable router is a hand-held electric tool with a rotating bit that can be used to shape the edges and corners of wood. A plunge router can also cut pockets and details from the center of a work. Differently shaped bits can be used to achieve a variety of effects, making the router a highly versatile tool with countless applications. Given enough time and creativity, this one tool can replace all the others in the shop.


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The Twitterverse isn't just for talking about the people of The Bachelorette, it's for taking with them, too! We've scoured the Internets clean and came up with this list of Twitter handles for as many of Season 8's contestants as we could find — and of course The Bachelorette herself, Emily Maynard.
We would never condone Internet stalking (unless it's of exes of our own), but you might be surprised to see which contestants seem to be interacting (Wolf, Ryan and Charlie!), and which ones follow Emily (ahem, Kalon). As this list grows, we'll be sure to update it!
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Book Review: Camel In Action 55 55
RickJWagner writes "I'm pretty certain this is the definitive guide to Apache Camel, destined to be referred to as 'The Camel Book' by Camel users for a long time. It covers Camel inside and out, upside and down, 550 pages worth of gritty detail that takes the reader from level zero to monitoring of your production applications. If you use Camel, or think you might want to, you need to pick up a copy of this book." Read below for the rest of Rick's review.If you haven't used Camel, it's known as an "Integration Framework", a phrase that I like to equate to "ESB Lite". By that I mean if you want to route messages or transform them, this is a tool you might consider. Still not quite sure what I'm describing? Here's a couple of examples. If you want to read messages from a JMS queue, use the contents to invoke a web service and put the results of the web service call in a database, Camel's a good tool. If you want to read in a flat file, split it into individual lines, take a part from each line to call a web service, Camel's a good tool. Camel does all this and more, acting as a sort of universal router and message transformer. Camel aims to implement the famed "Enterprise Integration Patterns", which are easily understandable descriptions of processing snippets that provide functionality in likely scenarios when you're using messaging. If you're brand new to this type of programming, I'd encourage you to use Google to check out "Enterprise Integration Patterns"-- you'll quickly get a feel for the workspace Camel lives in.
|Camel In Action
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|A Camel tutorial full of small examples showing how to work with the integration patterns.
The book is exhaustive in it's coverage of Camel. It shows the reader how to configure Camel using both Java code and Spring configuration snippets. It's meant to be progressive in nature, showing the reader simple uses to start with, then progressing to more advanced scenarios as the book gets into the latter chapters. (More about this later, it involves my only complaint about the book.) Along the way, the authors address real-world topics like transactions, production monitoring, and deployment to different hosting containers. All told, the book reflects the concerns of someone who has actually used Camel for real-world work, and as such will prove to be an invaluable resource for anyone moving Camel to production.
The source code that goes with the book is clean, easy to read, and above all it works right out of the box. It's all Maven-centric, so if you're not a Maven user yet you will be at least partially practiced in it by the time you're done with this book. The examples are straight out of the chapters, so you can look to the book for a detailed explanation of what you're running. (You can also run what's being described, and monkey with it to learn new things. Very handy.) I offer no improvement for the sample code, it works as advertised.
I was especially impressed by the care the authors took to explain the really nitty-gritty stuff that a real-world user is going to need. Concurrency and transactions fall into this category. All the sample examples in the world won't help you if the book doesn't help you scale you app and make it safe for production use, considerations you sometimes don't find in tech books. They're here, though, and covered in sufficient detail to meet your go-to-production needs.
This is a big book, and the text it contains is as simple as it should be but no simpler. The illustrations are simple and relevant. If you're brand new to Camel and want to read it front to back, be prepared to allocate a good number of hours for this task. This is because there's just a lot of material covered here, none of it fluff. If you're already an established Camel user, this book will serve well as a desktop reference for when you want to venture off into more of Camel's abundant functionality.
So what's not to like? The only criticism I have for this book is that the ordering of the chapters is not quite to my liking. It starts out with the simple canned examples, and they get progressively harder, 'till the reader is finally given the knowledge to write their own applications way out in chapter 11. If you're like me, you like to see an example or two, then you like to start hacking out your own "Hello World" apps to get a feel for how to build the artifacts you need to get things running. I thought chapter 11 was too late in the game for that knowledge. In fairness, if you're a reader who doesn't mind skipping around as you read, then just skip to chapter 11 right away and you needn't worry about this tiny nit.
So who's this book good for? Camel users of all types, from beginners to those who already own running Camel apps will benefit from this book. You won't be sorry-- you'll never wish you'd held out for a better book, because there just flat isn't going to be one, at least not for a long, long time.
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Hello to all, you are well ? I post a small article before going to the high school because I think of you !! LOL
I was anxious to say to you that I have posted an article yesterday on my official blog because it was the birthday of Travis Barker.
I thought that I could pay him a small tribute because it is one of my idols !
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NYC Police Want to Jam Cell Phones During Terrorist Attacks
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Jan 9, 2009, 12:04 PM by Eric M. Zeman @phonescooper
The New York City Police Department is exploring ways in which it could disrupt communication between terrorists by jamming cell phone signals if an attack were to happen. They would hope to shut down communication in a limited area, such as a zone at or near an attack site, while still allowing citizens the ability to make emergency calls. The plan is only in the discussion phase and not near any sort of testing. The idea was brought to the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs by NYC Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly. He said, "Law enforcement needs to find ways to disrupt cellphones and other communications" in the event of an attack.
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Built in 1826, the Jamae Mosque was the first of three mosques in Chinatown erected by the Chulias, who were Tamil Muslims from the Coromandel Coast of Southern India. Together with its neighbour, Sri Mariamman Temple, the mosque stands out in its predominantly Chinese location.
If you're looking for something a little different, this is the mosque to visit. The site's architectural style is eclectic, and the intricately designed palace façade features tiny doors and cross-shaped openings. While the entrance gate is in the Indo-Islamic style, the prayer hall possess neoclassical features.
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News of Riverton, Lander and Fremont County, Wyoming, from the Ranger's award winning journalists.
Board elections should be public
Nov 27, 2012 - Carl Niswonger, Riverton
Well, it appears that the board of directors of the Riverton Senior Citizens Center has thumbed its collective nose at the citizens of Fremont County once again. Evidently this board had a hard time finding a Riverton citizen that met its criteria to serve on this elite board. Instead, they appointed a green-card carrying Canadian to the board and ignored qualified Riverton residents. That is a slap in the face of every U.S. citizen in Fremont County. The "good ol' boy" syndrome is alive and well in Riverton. Every U.S. Citizen in Fremont County should be up in arms and calling for the resignation of the board of directors of the RSCC.
One U.S. citizen, who has served as a volunteer at the senior center for years, was denied a position on the board because he did not fall into lock-step with the requirements to serve on the board. The requirements are very simple: (1) You must not disagree with anything that the members of the board say or do, (2) engage or even attempt to engage in a serious discussion of any issue or topic at an open meeting of the board. The board meeting is conducted behind closed doors and called an "executive session" and is never discussed in the open meeting. To disagree with this board of directors spells doom and seals your fate to never be considered for the board of director. If you come up with possible solutions to the numerous problems faced by the center, they will never be considered.
If you doubt any of this, you should attend the next few board meetings and then judge for yourself. But first, please go back and look at the minutes of their meetings for the past couple of years. You will see how totally the board has failed in its leadership responsibility to the seniors in this community and how many members have missed meetings. If you do attend, please remember that if you wish to speak at any of the meetings you must first submit a request to do so. And you will have no idea what the Board is going to address at that meeting. Several seniors were ready to make a rather large donation for the troubled transportation program at one of the board meetings and were denied the opportunity to even speak.
How much longer are the Citizens of Fremont County going to tolerate this dictatorial type of government? This is government without representation. Citizens, take action, and do it now before there is more injustice. Demand free elections for the board of directors of the Riverton Senior Citizens Center. The right to vote is basic to a free people!


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I've posted a few times about my fleece not wicking. Well, after a few more washings (including using vinegar and switching detergents), the water is no longer pooling on top of the fleece. It is soaking into the fleece, and into the absorbent layer underneath. I assume this means it's working, but I thought that the water would be pulled through the fleece and the fleece would be dry fairly quickly. I'm finding that although the water is being soaked into the fleece and I can feel it in the UHaul pads underneath, the fleece is still wet for quite a while.
I'm fine if this is the way it's supposed to work, but I just didn't know if I should be washing it a few more times, or if it's all set to go now. For what it's worth, I think I've washed them about 8 times now!
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Jamie Lee Curtis compares Seth MacFarlane's Oscars 'boob song' to 'public executions'
Jamie Lee Curtis was not a fan of Seth MacFarlane's turn hosting the Academy Awards. In fact, she was so much not a fan that she had to get out her anger towards the awards show in an essay posted to The Huffington Post.
In the article, titled "And the Oscar Goes to... Hell," Curtis takes issue with the fact that MacFarlane's jokes were -- in her words -- offensive. Chief among the off-putting segments was the Oscars' most talked skit: MacFarlane's "We Saw Your Boobs" song.
"The 'boob' song, as it will be known in perpetuity, may go down as the highest-rated Oscar number in history, but at what cost?" Curtis writes. "I'm sure public executions would get big ratings too, but is that what the Oscars are truly about? Ratings? When did they turn into a 'roast'? At least at a roast you know what's in store. What if actors and actresses stopped attending the Oscars because it was deemed open session to ridicule and parody them? Would the Academy be so cavalier then?"
She continues, "I was offended by the Oscar show. I am sorry that this is what we are talking about and not 'Argo's' lovely win or Jennifer's amazing performance or Daniel's eloquence and humor and grace or the fallout from the sequester. What we will be talking about is Seth's lack of class and a 14-year-old boy's derogatory word for one of the most beautiful, motherly and literally nurturing parts of the female form."
Curtis concludes her essay with a quote from the "Les Miserables" classic song "I Dreamed A Dream" -- yes, the one that guaranteed Anne Hathaway her Academy Award win. "'There was a time when men were kind, when their voices and their words inviting,'" she quotes. "'There was a time, then it all went wrong.' And the Oscar goes to?"
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When people think of a bivalve organism, they should typically imagine a sessile animal with it's shell partially or fully buried in the sand and feeding through its elongated siphon which filters out plankton in the water column.
A scallop, the only migratory bivalve organism, seems to defy many stereotypical morphological features that are endemic to the class Bivalvia.
Obviously since they are not sessile, they have had no need to develop a way to anchor themselves in one spot. Infaunal bivalves such as clams, have developed a foot that elongates and helps them bury themselves in soft substratum. Similarly, epifaunal bivalves such as mussels have developed byssal threads that hold them in place. Because scallops have no need for these mechanisms, its lifestyle differs from your typical bivalve.
After watching everyone torture the poor Spiny Pink Scallops (Chlamys rubida) in the sea tables in lab 3 yesterday, I became fascinated by the way they are able to swim.
I did find a couple interesting papers about scallop swimming dynamics.
This first one is an interesting study on scallop body size and how it effects swimming trajectory in different flow speeds. They found that in higher flows smaller scallops always had a backwards net swimming trajectory in both their active swimming period and passive sinking period. Larger scallops made more progress in their active swimming period but were still at the mercy of the current in their passive sinking period. These results are fairly predictable but it's cool to see swimming dynamics rigorously quantified.
This is a study on the effects of barnacle encrustation on scallop swimming dynamics. They found that barnacle encrustation negatively effects active swimming efficiency in both height and distance. Also they found that scallops encrusted with barnacles required more energy to swim a given distance. In the energetics studies they did, they found that there was no detectable difference in aerobic energy, but there was a difference in anaerobic energy required. Basically, they respired the same amount of oxygen, but more anaerobic nutrients were required by the barnacle encrusted scallops.
Another interesting (and relevant to our class!) thing I found in this paper is that while barnacle encrustation decreases the drag coefficient (Cd), sponge encrustation does not change it very much. So when our Chlamys rubida were frantically evading the Pychnopodia, the encrusting sponge should not have been making a very bid difference in drag.
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On Richard Tucker
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I was delighted to read Jacob Cohen's "In Memory of Richard Tucker" [April], for he expresses some of my own views of Tucker's qualities and achievements.
My knowledge of Richard Tucker began when, going to speak at a remote village church hall in South Wales, . . . I noticed in a music-shop window, a small record jacket: "Richard Tucker. Kol Nidre. Eli Eli." I had never heard of the man . . . or of the particular series of records. However, the next day I ordered the record. Once I had heard it, I had to know more about him. . . .
A few years later, I was staying for part of Passover at a certain "borscht-belt" hotel. . . . As we were about to enter the "temple," I was told, "Oh, by the way, our cantor for the services is Richard Tucker." . . . A few minutes later, I heard, first, the voice of the rabbi, who touched a sentimental chord in that he had ministered to my own home congregation in Wales until a few years earlier, and then I listened, fascinated, to the hazzanut of Richard Tucker. He was the first man to make me weep at the sound of music. It is no insult to say that he brought back for me the memories of the hazzanim of London's East End. . . . They were men who had wonderful voices which were not always properly trained and developed, or truly appreciated. And as Richard Tucker led the davening that day, I wept. . . .
Len Goss
Council of Christians and Jews
London, England
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I have two questions concerning Jacob Cohen's wonderful article. . . . What does Mr. Cohen mean by the words "an unanswerable demonstration of how Puccini should be sung"?
Mr. Cohen also writes: "Tucker was absolutely riveting in the third act [of Carmen]." I don't know what Tucker was doing riveting in the midst of Carmen, but this doesn't make sense either, as Mr. Cohen says Tucker was absolutely riveting. . . .
James I. Rothschild
Winnetka, Illinois
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James I. Rothschild is quite right. Don Jose does not actually rivet in the third act of Carmen. He glowers a lot, fights a little, and in the fourth act stabs, but he does not actually rivet. Mr. Rothschild has provided an absolutely unanswerable demonstration of how the English language should be protected.


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CHICAGO – What happens if injury sidelines Indiana starting quarterback Nate Sudfeld?
Who takes over to run the Hoosiers' potent offense?
Say hello to Nate Boudreau.
Boudreau is a 6-3, 220-pound walk-on from Illinois. He's a redshirt sophomore who saw a few snaps last year during blowout wins over Indiana State and Bowling Green. He has yet to throw a collegiate pass.
The same is true of the other quarterbacks on the roster – true freshmen Zander Diamont and Danny Cameron.
"We'll start Day One in practice with Nate," coach Kevin Wilson said. "He's been very, very sharp in our summer workouts. I think he sees the opportunity and the sense of urgency. He's been here longer than our other guys. So we'll start there."
IU's quarterback depth took a big hit when Cam Coffman transferred last winter, and then Tre Roberson transferred in June. Both had started and excelled for the Hoosiers.
"It's going to be a three-man battle between a more veteran guy like Nate Boudreau, and then we'll see with Zander and then Danny," Wilson said.
Boudreau's biggest claim to Hoosier fame is winning scout team player of the year (last season). He's a two-time winner of scout player of the week (against Michigan last year, against Michigan State two years ago).
He was an all-conference high school player at Neuqua Valley in Naperville, Ill., where he also played basketball.
In case you're wondering, he's a biology major.
Diamont joined the program in January after graduating high school in December. The 6-1, 175-pound California native was the Los Angeles city player of the year last season after throwing for 3,501 yards and 47 touchdowns.
Cameron, who signed in June, is the son of former IU quarterback and head football coach Cam Cameron, now the LSU offensive coordinator.
"We'll see how Zander does," Wilson said. "He's a very talented kid. He did well in the spring, but he's young.
"We signed Danny late. We had a chance to work with him at (June) camp. We needed another scholarship quarterback. I was very impressed with him. He's a coach's kid, kind of a gym rat."


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There is still a modern language requirement to deal with, which means I must work on my German and translate a bit daily, and there are oral examinations coming up soon.
I want to thank all of you who have been there for me for your support and kindness, and I want to let you know that I'll be blogging at a more intellectual level soon. My apologies that the recent entries have not engaged deeper issues.
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A marathon-running baker raised nearly £1,000 to help a charity set up by a Cockermouth woman following the death of her six-year-old son.
Saskia Patrick held a 24-hour bakeathon over the weekend – and ran half a mile every hour – to raise money for the Booktastic charity.
The charity was set up by friend Fiona Grove, of Brandlingill, after her son Wilf died of a cancerous brain tumour.
It provides reading material for youngsters on the ward at Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary where Wilf spent nine months.
Throughout the challenge, which began at 9am on Saturday, Saskia baked more than 600 cakes – and they sold out within an hour of them going on sale.
Saskia, 27, of Central Road, Dearham, who taught Wilf during the last months of his life, said: "It went really well and once I had sold out people started giving me donations.
"There was a constant stream of people and some of them I didn't even know.
"I am really grateful to everyone who came and I never thought I would make this much money."
Saskia, a teacher at Wigton Infant School, said she found it hard during the early hours of Sunday morning when there was no one around to help her.
She added: "The whole 24 hours wasn't too bad but between 5am and 7am I was really struggling on my own."
Following her son's death Fiona and friends, who called themselves the Fells Angels, took part in the Bob Graham Round, which crosses 42 Lakeland peaks, and raised £30,000.
The money was donated to the North of England Children's Cancer Research, Crawford House, a hostel for parents of child patients staying at Newcastle and the Great North Air Ambulance with the rest used to set up the charity.
She bought library trollies and books to donate to the RVI and has since given hundreds more to the hospital and has offered audio books by uploading them onto laptops and tablets.
Fiona, 43, said the books had helped bring families together and allowed parents to read stories to their children who had maybe not had the opportunity before.
Saskia thanked all the businesses who helped with baking ingredients including the Trout Hotel, Laid with Love, Armathwaite Hall, the Co-op, Multiple Sclerosis Society and Hoopers.
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See inside the world's most expensive one-bedroom apartment. Located within a neighborhood in Tokyo this one-bedroom apartment is valued at $21.8 million USD. The neighborhood, Minami-Azabu, is known to be one of the most prestigious districts in Tokyo. This particular apartment sits on the 10th floor of a building and spans 4,434 square feet. It comes completely furnished with custom designed furniture by Cecotti Collezioni. There is even a walk-in wardrobe with a shoe storage unit able to hold up to 200 pairs of shoes. The apartment also features a custom designed kitchen and the walls, flooring, and doors throughout are "made from the highest quality italian stone and wood" (The Ultra Linx). The Japanese artist, Hiroshi Senju painted a number of original paintings on site, and they are displayed throughout the unit. Overall, there is a real attention to design and atmosphere within the apartment. One of its most charming features is the central courtyard where "corridor surrounding it is designed as a lounge space for guests to enjoy the charming seasonal garden" (Toronto Standard).
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UW System Regents approved raising the non resident admission cap last week. Non resident tuition is about double what is for in state residents. Which UW-L Cancellor, Joe Gow, says does not seem to bother the international students on campus now.
Regent John Drew supports the move, but he also urged the board to consider raising tuition rates for both non resident and international students to help cover the cost of admitting more in state students.


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Continental Airlines has signed a letter of intent (LOI) with JetBlue Airways subsidiary LiveTV to bring in-flight Wi-Fi - via Ka-band satellite - to more than 200 domestic aircraft equipped with LiveTV's 95-channel in-seat live television systems.
The deal with Continental represents what could be considered a watershed moment for LiveTV, which, while having successfully deployed Ku-band satellite-based DirecTV in-flight entertainment with several airlines, has struggled for years to gain traction in the Wi-Fi market with its lower-bandwidth air-to-ground (ATG)-based Kiteline in-flight email/messaging service.
LiveTV has since refocused its efforts on offering an ultra-high-speed Ka-band offering, in partnership with satellite communications specialist ViaSat, and succeeded in securing both United-Continental Holdings subsidiary Continental, as evidenced by today's LOI announcement, in addition to reaching a fleet-wide equipage deal last year with parent JetBlue.
The Ka-band service being brought to Continental's fleet will utilize the same ViaSat-1 satellite - set for launch later this year - that will help support JetBlue's in-flight connectivity plans.
United Airlines currently offers Aircell's Gogo ATG-based in-flight high-speed Internet service on 14 aircraft, including on all p.s flights linking New York JFK with Los Angeles and San Francisco. It is unclear if United intents to extend its Gogo equipage across its own fleet, or thrash out a deal with LiveTV for Ka-band service.
However, United-Continental president and CEO Jeff Smisek said today during a JP Morgan Aviation, Transportation and Defence conference that United may work with a different set of suppliers to provide Wi-Fi across its entire fleet. In international markets, for example, the Ka-band service supported by ViaSat-1 will not cover off-shore or overseas operations. For that, United will either need to adopt a Ku-band solution in the near-term or the global Ka-band solution on offer from Inmarsat beginning around the 2015 timeframe.
Aircell recently announced it is now offering a Ku solution to its airline partners for operations outside the United States, as part of the Chicago-headquartered firm's technology path, which will also see global Ka offered from 2015.
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I never said that their is not a difference between DX9 and DX10 because their obviously is! I have played them both so I know the differences!
However the ini tweaks for DX9 do infact bring it closer to how it looks in dx10. NOTE I DID NOT SAY THAT IT LOOKED IDENTICAL. DX10 OVER ALL STILL LOOKS BETTER.
I don't read you wrong. I just don't think we agree on how big the diff between the two modes are.
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Patrick Chamoiseau was born on December 3, 1953 in Fort-de-France, Martinique, where he currently resides. After studying law and social sciences in Paris, he started working as a social worker, first in France, then in Martinique. Inspired by Martinican fellow thinker and writer Édouard Glissant and by the study of ethnography, Chamoiseau started taking interest in the disappearing cultural forms of his native island. He thus rediscovered the vitality of his first language, the Creole language, which he had to give up when he started primary school. Chamoiseau has written books of fiction and nonfiction alike, and has also been involved in the production of films. He has won a series of literary prizes, which includes the Prix …
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Washington, DC (PRWEB) December 11, 2012
Professionals in the City, a DC organization of over 200,000 professionals, is announcing their New Years Eve Gala.
This New Years DC Gala attracts up to 3,000 people a year, and is more than just drinking and dancing. It includes many activities in separate rooms within one large space. "Our goal is to create a party that will dazzle our guests. With everything we have planned this year, our guests will experience a different New Year's Eve in a special way", says Michael Karlan, owner of Professionals in the City.
Tickets are being offered at a special introductory price of $139.00. There is a separate $99.00 option for this New Years DC party below, which includes an open bar, but does not include food. But purchase your tickets here now since prices will go up soon!
Some of the special DC New Years Eve activities include:
The DC New Years Eve gala runs from 9 p.m. until 2 a.m. and includes all entertainment, food, and an open bar. They also offer a discounted 10:30 p.m. - 2 a.m. non-food option that includes the open bar.
From 9 p.m. to 10:30 p.m., their carving stations will serve black pepper crusted prime rib and deep fried turkey breast with accompanying sides. There will also be a made to order pasta station with a variety of pastas, sauces, and toppings to choose from. Look forward to a sundry of dips and chips and a Viennese dessert display as well.
Professionals in the City has more than 200,000 D.C. members and hosts more than 1,000 events each year. They are the largest social and networking organization in the country, and organize hundreds of great events each year to bring together professionals in the D.C. community to familiarize residents with all the excitement that the city has to offer.
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This fantastic dish is a refreshing take on creamy Italian pasta recipes. Instead of spaghetti it uses low GI buckwheat soba noodles, along with a delicious medley of iron-rich hijiki seaweed and low in fat and high in protein soy milk, together with garlic, bacon and mushrooms. Easy to rustle up, our Creamy Bacon, Mushroom & Seaweed Soba recipe uses both Japanese store-cupboard favourites and western fridge staples, so it's a handy recipe if you don't have time to go shopping. It can also be made gluten free if you use 100% buckwheat soba noodles!
• 160g Soba Noodles
• 6g Hijiki Seaweed
• 2 Bacon Rashers
• 1/4 Sheet Nori Seaweed
• 1 Garlic Clove
• 1/2 Onion
• 50g Enoki, Shimeji or Shiitake Mushrooms
• 1 Consommé Stock Cube
• 300ml Soy Milk
• Salt and pepper to taste
Recommended Drink: Buckwheat Shochu
Soak the hijiki and shiitake mushrooms separately in a bowl of water. In the meantime, cut your bacon and nori seaweed into 1cm strips and slice your garlic and onion.
In a pan, boil the soba noodles for five and a half minutes or according to your packets instructions. Grab a large frying pan, add a little oil and soften the garlic, then add the onion, mushrooms and bacon.
Once the bacon and onion are cooked through add the consommé cube and soy milk, mix well, then add the reconstituted hijiki seaweed. Cook for a further 1 – 2 minutes.
Drain the cooked soba in a colander in the sink, rinse with cold water to remove any stickiness and gently squeeze out any excess water.
Transfer the soba noodles to the frying pan with the sauce and mix together, ensuring the noodles are evenly covered. Cook for a further 1 – 2 minutes to ensure the soba are heated through.
Serve on a plate with a sprinkling of shredded nori and salt and pepper to taste. Our Creamy Bacon, Mushroom & Seaweed Soba recipe goes well with a glass of buckwheat shochu on the rocks.
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A recurring and very common customer issue seen here at the Percona Support team involves how to make the ibdata1 file "shrink" within MySQL. I can only imagine there's a degree of regret by some of the InnoDB architects on their design decisions regarding disk-space management by the shared tablespace* because this has been a big […]
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MySQL optimizer: ANALYZE TABLE and Waiting for table flush
The MySQL optimizer makes the decision of what execution plan to use based on the information provided by the storage engines. That information is not accurate in some engines like InnoDB and they are based in statistics calculations therefore sometimes some tune is needed. In InnoDB these statistics are calculated automatically, check the following blog […]
Recovering CREATE TABLE statement from .frm file
So lets say you have .frm file for the table and you need to recover CREATE TABLE statement for this table. In particular when we do Innodb Recovery we often get .frm files and some mess in the Innodb tablespace from which we have to get data from. Of course we could relay on old […]
Can you Trust CHECK TABLE ?
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mysql> repair table a3;
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1 row in set (0.10 sec)
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The sort order is obviously wrong while CHECK TABLE is not reporting any error
MySQL MyISAM Active Active Clustering – looking for trouble ?
Reading last few days worth of planet MySQL and commenting on some entries as you can see. The post by Oli catches my attention. There is also PDF with more details available Oli is saying you can use MySQL with Active Active Clustering and MyISAM tables if you follow certain rules like enabling external locking, […]
Long PRIMARY KEY for Innodb tables
I've written and spoke a lot about using short PRIMARY KEYs with Innodb tables due to the fact all other key will refer to the rows by primary key. I also recommended to use sequential primary keys so you do not end up having random primary key BTREE updates which can be very expensive. Today […]
Using MyISAM in production
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How to setup a PXC cluster with GTIDs (and have async slaves replicating from it!)
This past week was marked by a series of personal findings related to the use of Global Transaction IDs (GTIDs) on Galera-based clusters such as Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC). The main one being the fact that transactions touching MyISAM tables (and FLUSH PRIVILEGES!) issued on a giving node of the cluster are recorded on a GTID set […]
The ARCHIVE Storage Engine – does it do what you expect?
Sometimes there is a need for keeping large amounts of old, rarely used data without investing too much on expensive storage. Very often such data doesn't need to be updated anymore, or the intent is to leave it untouched. I sometimes wonder what I should really suggest to our Support customers. For this purpose, the […]
TokuDB vs InnoDB in timeseries INSERT benchmark
This post is a continuation of my research of TokuDB's storage engine to understand if it is suitable for timeseries workloads. While inserting LOAD DATA INFILE into an empty table shows great results for TokuDB, what's more interesting is seeing some realistic workloads. So this time let's take a look at the INSERT benchmark.


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Dom's Inter dream is at an end
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A PLYMOUTH schoolboy's dream of playing for Italian football giants Inter Milan ended in front of the TV cameras last night.
Dominic Matcham left reality show Football's Next Star when a Milan coach told the 17-year-old he wouldn't make the grade at the world-famous club.
The gifted midfielder, right, beat thousands of skilled youngsters in the UK and Ireland to reach the final 10 in the Sky1 show, which is offering a contract with Jose Mourinho's Italian champions.
But the Plymouth College pupil was eliminated after a week of training and trials in the northern Italian city.
Dom was devastated by the news that he wouldn't be taken on by the 17-times Italian champions, who boast some of the greatest stars in world football, including Portugal midfielder Luis Figo and Cameroon striker Samuel Eto'o. But he soon picked himself up.
Dom said: "I was really disappointed immediately afterwards. I felt I had let myself down.
"But then the reality hit that I had beaten about 7,000 other people to get to the final."
Dom was on Plymouth Argyle's books until he was 16, but was not offered a professional contract.
Since then the teenager from Harrowbarrow, near Callington, has trained with Argyle's Championship rivals Bristol City and Crystal Palace.
Former Argyle boss Neil Warnock, now at the helm at Palace, told Dom he was good enough to make the grade after trials at the South London club before Christmas. Dom will learn more about his future when he meets Warnock later this month.
In the meantime, the teenager is turning out for Tavistock in the South West Peninsula Premier League and studying for A Levels.
He said: "I will give everything to football until I'm 18 or 19. If I don't make it, I'd like to work in television."
A career on screen is a realistic fallback for Dom. Sky bosses were so impressed with the Cornish lad's camera manner that they have offered him a work experience stint.


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Mr. Jasper D. "David" Hylton, age 60, Limestone, passed away Tuesday, October 8, 2013, at the Johnson City Medical Center.
Mr. Hylton was a native of Washington County and son of the late Ben Hylton & Jeanetta Arrowood McAmis.
He was a member of the Army National Guard. He was also a former employee of Dockery's Floor Covering.
Survivors include one son and daughter-in-law, Jason & Amanda Hylton, Erwin; granddaughter, Ariel Hylton; one brother and sister-in-law, Tim & Laura Hylton, Limestone; sister and brother-in-law, Starr & Dean Pearson, Rocky Mount, NC; aunt and uncle, Betty & Howard Gillis, Limestone; niece and nephews, Kevin Pearson, Amber Pearson and Drew Pearson; and several cousins.
Memorial services will be conducted at 7:00 p.m. Friday, October 11, 2013, at the Dillow-Taylor Funeral Home with Pastor Darrell Shelton officiating.
The family will receive friends from 5:00-7:00 p.m. Friday prior to the service.
Graveside services will be conducted at 11:00 a.m. Saturday, October 12, 2013, at New Salem Cemetery.
Condolences may be sent to the Hylton family online at www.dillow-taylor.com.
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Colonie, New York
- This article is about the town. For the village of the same name, see Colonie (village), New York.
- For the original municipality named Colonie, see Arbor Hill, Albany, New York.
Colonie Town Hall
|Official name: Town of Colonie
|Name origin: From Dutch Colonie meaning a colony, referring to the Colony of Rensselaerswyck surrounding Albany
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|New York
|Capital District
|Mohawk, Hudson
|Colonie Town Hall
|- elevation
|344 ft (105 m)
|- coordinates
|42°43′10″N 73°45′22″W / 42.71944°N 73.75611°WCoordinates: 42°43′10″N 73°45′22″W / 42.71944°N 73.75611°W
|Highest point
|Locust Lane Loudonville
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|413 ft (126 m)
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|Lowest point
|sea level
|- elevation
|0 ft (0 m)
|57.9 sq mi (150 km2)
|- land
|56.1 sq mi (145 km2)
|- water
|1.8 sq mi (5 km2)
|81,591 (2010)
|1,413.6 / sq mi (546 / km2)
|Incorporation as town
|- location
|Town Hall
|Town supervisor
|Paula A. Mahan (D)
|- summer (DST)
|ZIP Code
|12047, 12110, 12189, 12204, 12205, 12211, 12241, 12303, 12304, 12309
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Location in Albany County and the state of New York.
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Colonie /ˌkɒləˈniː/ is a town in Albany County, New York, United States. It is the most populous suburb of Albany, New York, and is the third largest town in area in Albany County, occupying about 11% of the county. Several hamlets exist within the town. As of the 2010 census, the town had a total population of 81,591.
The name is derived from the Dutch Colonye or "Colonie", derived from the Colonie of Rensselaerswyck. All the land outside the Village of Beverwyck (now Albany) was referred to as the "Colonie". The town of Colonie is north of Albany and is at the northern border of the county. Within the town of Colonie are two villages, one also known as Colonie and the other known as Menands.
This area was once part of the Rensselaerwyck manor. The town of Colonie was formed in 1895 after the rural residents of the town of Watervliet opposed the state's proposal to transform the entire town into a city of Watervliet. The town/village of Green Island was also split off as a town from the town of Watervliet a year later and the village of West Troy that remained became the current city of Watervliet. All debts from the original town were divided proportionally between Green Island, Watervliet, and Colonie. Several lawsuits worked their way through the court system from the results of division.[3] The original town of Watervliet was the "mother of towns" in Albany County, having once been all the land outside of the city of Albany within the county,[4] all current towns either were formed directly or indirectly from a town formed from Watervliet. The central part of the town was once the location of the extensive Shaker community farms. The Watervliet Shaker Historic District is located in Colonie. Much of that land is now occupied by the Albany International Airport.[citation needed]
Through to the 1930s, Colonie was a simple series of extensive farms and a few hamlets. However, in the post-war years, there was intensive suburban development, originally on the corridor that connected Albany and Schenectady, but quickly throughout the entire township. By 1980, suburban development had saturated the community. At the same time, there were large highways (I-87, I-787, US Rt. 9 and NY Rt. 7) constructed which drastically changed the nature of the town and life there. The Colonie of the 1990s and beyond has become an entirely different community from the town of the 1930s and 1940s.[citation needed]
The Casparus F. Pruyn House is open to the public as the historical and cultural arts center for the Town of Colonie.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 57.9 square miles (149.9 km²). 56.1 square miles (145.2 km²) of it is land and 1.8 square miles (4.7 km²) of it (3.11%) is water.
The north town line borders Schenectady County, and Saratoga County, marked by the Mohawk River. The east town line is the border of Rensselaer County, marked by the Hudson River. The town lies near the junction of the Hudson and the Mohawk.
Interstate 87, Interstate 787, and U.S. Route 9 pass through the town. State Routes 5, 7, and 32 are also important arterials within the town.
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|Colonie Historical Populations
As of the census[1] of 2000, there were 79,258 people, 30,980 households, and 20,539 families residing in the town. The population density was 1,413.6 inhabitants per square mile (545.8/km²). There were 32,280 housing units at an average density of 575.7 per square mile (222.3/km²). The racial makeup of the town was 90.55% White, 3.96% Black or African American, 0.15% Native American, 3.59% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.61% from other races, and 1.13% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.86% of the population.
There were 30,980 households out of which 29.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 53.3% were married couples living together, 9.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 33.7% were non-families. 28.1% of all households were made up of individuals and 11.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.43 and the average family size was 3.00.
In the town the population was spread out with 21.8% under the age of 18, 8.9% from 18 to 24, 27.8% from 25 to 44, 25.1% from 45 to 64, and 16.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females there were 92.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 89.6 males.
The median income for a household in the town was $51,817, and the median income for a family was $62,649. Males had a median income of $41,453 versus $30,763 for females. The per capita income for the town was $25,231. About 3.0% of families and 4.7% of the population were below the poverty line, including 4.5% of those under age 18 and 6.0% of those age 65 or over.
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The current town supervisor is Paula Mahan, a Democrat. She was elected to her first term in November 2007, defeating long-time Republican incumbent Mary Brizzell. In November 2009, Mahan was re-elected to a second term, defeating former Republican Albany County Executive/former New York State Senator Michael J. Hoblock. In November 2011, Mahan was re-elected to a third term, defeating former New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner and the former Director of the town's Planning and Economic Development Committee, Denise Sheehan, by less than 400 votes. She was re-elected in 2013 to a fourth term by defeating political newcomer Todd A. Drake. The town board has six members, with four-year terms; three members are elected every odd-numbered year.
The seat of Colonie's government is Colonie Memorial Town Hall, located on New York Route 9 in Newtonville, near Siena College. The town courts, police department, and emergency medical services department are located at the Public Safety Building near Albany International Airport.
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Law enforcement in the town is primarily provided by the Town of Colonie Police Department; within the village of Menands which occupies the southeastern corner of the town there is the Village of Menands Police Department as well. However, that law enforcement is supplemented by the New York State Police Troop G (the headquarters of which lies within the town of Colonie), and the Albany County Sheriff's Office which patrols the Albany International Airport and operates the Albany County Correctional Facilities (which also lie within the town of Colonie). In November 2007, the town of Colonie was ranked the sixth safest place to live in a Morgan Quitno Publishing study of crime rates across the United States.[citation needed]
On November 23, 2009, CQ Press (formerly known as Morgan Quitno Publishing) ranked the town of Colonie with the lowest crime rate of all communities in the United States with a population of at least 75,000 residents. On November 22, 2010, CQ Press again ranked the town of Colonie with the lowest crime rate of all communities in the United States with a population of at least 75,000 residents. On November 12, 2011, the town fell to seventh in the same ranking, relinquishing the top spot to Fishers, Indiana.[citation needed]
Emergency Medical Service (advanced, basic, and transport) in the town is primarily provided by the Town of Colonie Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Department. The EMS Department operates out of four ambulance stations scattered throughout the town of Colonie to facilitate the most rapid response. The EMS Department also serves as an integral part of any heavy or light technical rescue operations in the town. In 1999, the town of Colonie Emergency Medical Services Department was awarded the National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians' National Paramedic Service of the Year Award. The award is given to one service of high distinction that has demonstrated excellence, innovation and community service.
On May 4, 2010, the town of Colonie was awarded the 2010 International Association of Fire Chiefs' "Heartsafe Community" award for making significant advances in emergency cardiac care. There are two awards given each year, one for large communities (over 100,000 in population) and one for a small communities (under 100,000 in population). Colonie was tapped for the small community honor and Anchorage, Alaska was tapped for the large community honor. On August 28, 2010, the New York State EMS Council awarded the town of Colonie Emergency Medical Services Department the New York State "EMS Agency of the Year" award.
Firefighting service in the town is primarily provided by one of twelve (mostly volunteer) firefighting agencies and one paid fire brigade. (See also Administrative divisions of New York.)
- Five Fire Districts (Boght Community, Midway, Schuyler Heights, Verdoy, and West Albany).
- One Joint Fire District (Stanford Heights [Niskayuna & Colonie]).
- Four Fire Protection Districts (Fuller Road, Latham, Maplewood, and Shaker Road-Loudonville).
- Two Village Fire Departments (Colonie and Menands).
These agencies encompass seventeen fire stations, two small rescue boats (Boght & Verdoy), seven ladder trucks (Fuller Road, Latham, Menands, Midway, Schuyler Heights, Shaker Road-Loudonville, and Stanford Heights), one Hazardous Materials Specialty Rescue (West Albany), one Trench/Structural Collapse Specialty Rescue (Village of Colonie), one Confined Space Specialty Rescue (Latham), eight General/Light Rescue apparatus, numerous full-size pumpers, a small number of attack pumpers, and a small number of EMS First-Response vehicles.
- One Paid Fire Brigade[5]
The Albany International Airport Fire Brigade consists of a full-time paid crash/fire/rescue staff, three crash/rescue vehicles, a mini pumper, hazmat truck, foam re-supply truck, and a full-size pumper. However, the airport's fire units stay on Airport Authority property most of the time, and are housed in yet another fire station that is on the Airport Authority's property. Occasionally, the Airport Fire Brigade responds to mutual aid requests with the bordering Shaker Road-Loudonville Fire Department, as well as other fire agencies within the town of Colonie and Albany County.
- Also located in the town of Colonie is a New York sponsored Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) Team, New York Task Force 2 (NY-TF2). NY-TF2 (then known as the New York Regional Response Team-1 {NYRRT-1}) was the first USAR team on site immediately following the attacks on, and collapse of, the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, owing to the fact that many members of NY-TF1 (based in New York City) were members of the FDNY that perished in the collapse. Those same members provided much of the initial training to NY-TF2.[citation needed]
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There are four public school districts that serve the town of Colonie, the South Colonie Central School District, North Colonie Central Schools, Watervliet City School District, and Menands Union Free School District. South Colonie (Colonie Central High School) serves much of the western part of the town, including West Albany, the village of Colonie, and a small part of the adjoining town of Niskayuna. North Colonie (Shaker High School) serves Latham and the smaller, suburban and rural hamlets to the north of Latham, as well as most of Loudonville and Newtonville. The Watervliet City School District (Watervliet High School) serves some students from Menands and the Schuyler Heights area. The Menands Union Free School District is a single building school district serving the village of Menands and educates students from kindergarten through eighth grade. Upon completion of eighth grade, Menands Union Free School District students choose from a list (developed by the Menands UFSD) of local high schools to attend. In 2008, a fifth public school district, the Maplewood-Colonie Common School District, merged with-and-into the North Colonie School District.
The town of Colonie is also home to the Christian Brothers Academy of Albany, as well as several private and/or religious elementary schools. Siena College is located in the hamlet of Newtonville/Loudonville. Bryant & Stratton College and ITT Technical Institute, both proprietary colleges, have campuses in the town of Colonie.
There are two dedicated weekly newspapers for parts of the town, the Colonie Spotlight and Loudonville Spotlight. Also, Channel 17 on Time Warner Cable in the town is a Public-access television station devoted to town news, programming, and events. The studios are located inside the town library.
Although not dedicated to the town of Colonie, the offices and distribution center for the major daily local newspaper, Albany Times Union (owned by the Hearst Corporation), lies within the town. The town was the site of the fourth season finale of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition in 2007.[citation needed]
Communities and locations[edit]
- Albany International Airport (ALB) -- An airport servicing Albany and the region; technically the airport is in Latham
- Boght Corners—A hamlet in the northeast part of the town.
- Colonie—An incorporated village.
- Crescent Station—A hamlet at the northernmost point of the town of Colonie.
- Karner—A hamlet southwest of the village of Colonie.
- Dunsbach Ferry—A hamlet in the northwest part of the town at the Mohawk River.
- Latham—A hamlet near the center of the town.
- Lisha Kill—A hamlet in the northwest section of town, on Route 5.
- Loudonville—A suburban hamlet near the city line of Albany.
- Mannsville—Part of the Schuyler Heights Fire District and Watervliet City School District.[6]
- Maplewood—A hamlet adjacent to Cohoes, Watervliet and Green Island.
- Maywood—A hamlet northwest of Colonie village on Route 5.
- Menands—An incorporated village in the eastern part of town.
- Newtonville—A hamlet between Latham and Loudonville.
- Schuyler Heights—A hamlet north of Menands; south and west of Watervliet; east of Loudonville; lying on the west bank of the Hudson River. Part of the Schuyler Heights Fire District[7] and Watervliet City School District and North Colonie School District.
- Roessleville—A suburban community near the city line of Albany
- Shakers—A settlement southwest of Albany Airport.
- Stanford Heights—A hamlet on the west town line with Schenectady County.
- Verdoy—A hamlet north of Albany airport.
- West Albany—A hamlet on the southern edge of the town, along the city line of Albany.
- ^ a b "American FactFinder". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved 2008-01-31.
- ^ "US Board on Geographic Names". United States Geological Survey. 2007-10-25. Retrieved 2008-01-31.
- ^ National Reporter System (1898). New York Supplement, Vol. 50. W.C. Little & Co. pp. 488–491. Retrieved 2009-04-05.
- ^ "New York State Museum Bulletin". New York State Museum. 1934. pp. 21, 31.
- ^ Albany International Airport Fire Brigade
- ^ Mannsville, Albany County, New York profile, vliet.neric.org; accessed December 7, 2014.
- ^ Schuyler Heights Fire District info, schuylerheightsvfd.com; accessed December 7, 2014.
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Silver Lake College Photographer and Digital Communications Coordinator Dale Van Minsel was recently honored with an invitation to participate in the Social Culture Café "A Click Forward" group exhibit at Internazionale a Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy. The show featured a collection of 72 photographs taken with an iPhone in three categories: Public Art, Urban/Street Art, and Social/ Creative Spaces. Dale's photograph, entitled "Totem" is shown at left. The image was captured with his iPhone on a leisurely drive in southern Manitowoc County. The exhibit was open from October 5 to October 7, 2012. A total of 59 artists worldwide were selected to participate in the exhibit. Internazionale is a weekly journal that publishes the best articles from journals and newspapers from all over the world. The Social Culture Café group is a collaboration between Centro Studi Dante Bighi, a group of Italian Architects from Ferrara and Facebook photography group, Hipstamatic Sardinia. Dale resides in Howards Grove, Wisconsin and has exhibited his photography at numerous venues locally. For more information and to view many outstanding examples of Dale's work, please visit his website at dvanminsel.com.
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I updated my 27" iMac i7 to Lion a few weeks ago. I use the computer the majority of the day and then shut it down each night. Every few days or so when I turn on the computer Lion has reorganized all of the folders on my desktop to the right side of the screen. I have reviewed all of the auto sort functions and have disable everything.
The strange thing is that it only happens every few days. Most times it works just fine.
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I have had the same experience.
I have not been able to explain it, but if I was guessing it might have something to do with Lion being to "restore" the windows you had open when you start it again.
It sure is strange.
I think you are right on Lion trying to "restore" a previous session. I think this because there is usually an application open that was part of a previous session when my folders are reorganized.
I guess be sure all programs are completely shut down before you click "Shut Down" and see if it ever does it again. I am usually really good about this but it is possible when I'm in a hurry I just shut down without manually closing all applications.
Maybe I do have a bug. I have the same thing that only happens now and again but it is only 1 icon that moves. It always moves the same spot as well. Really strange. It's reminds me of my old windows machine. It did the same thing. Ouch that's not a good thing.
Well we've had a single update and I have been very good about closing all applications before shutting down but just had this issue again today. I can not figure out a reason why this is happening. It doesn't happen for any rhyme or reason; it just happens on occasion and I'd really like it to stop.
Has anyone had a similar experience or know of a solution?
It has only happened to me a few times. Once it was all icons the second and third time it was only 1 icon. It has not happened in the past couple of weeks. Not sure what the deal is but I'm not sweating it simply because it has not happened in while. I know that it was on a restart that it happened. Not shutting down and restarting the computer but actually on a restart. My Win 7 setup used to do the same thing.
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Texas' historic dance halls declining
By Rebecca Salinas | August 7, 2014
Billboard Magazine names three Texas music venues in its list of "25 Most Popular Music Clubs in the U.S.," which includes a lesser-known Austin hotspot.
Click through the slideshow to see 25 Texas dance halls still operating.
Photo By Courtesy of RepublicRanches.comThe number of Texas dance halls is dwindling around the state, but the tradition still lives on.
Click through the slideshow to see 25 Texas dance halls still in operation.
Martinez Social Club - 7791 Farm to Market 1346, San Antonio
Photo By BILLY CALZADA/SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWSQuihi Gun Club - 260 County Road 4518, Hondo
Photo By Photo courtesy Vanessa GavalyaGruene Hall - 1281 Gruene Rd, New Braunfels
Photo By Kendalia HalleKendalia Halle - 1135 FM 3351 N., Kendalia, 210-863-1100
Photo By Bob Owen/San Antonio Express-NewsBraun Hall - 9721 Braun Road, San Antonio
Photo By Courtesy photoAnhalt Hall - 2390 Anhalt Road, Spring Branch
Photo By Edward A. Ornelas/San Antonio Express-NewsMesquite Trail Drivers Hall and Arena - 11663 Ford Road, Adkins
Photo By Twin Sisters Hall ClubTwin Sisters Hall Club - 6720 U.S. 218 S., Blanco
Photo By Courtesy of RepublicRanches.comSchroeder Hall - 12516 FM 622, Goliad
Photo By Melissa Ward AguilarArkey Blue's Silver Dollar Saloon – 308 Main, Bandera
Photo By Kristin FinanBilly Bob's Texas - 2520 Rodeo Plaza, Fort Worth
Fischer Dance Hall - 115 Fischer Store Road, Fischer
Photo By Fred Bunch/Houston ChronicleGilley's Dallas - 1135 S Lamar St, Dallas
Photo By Express-News file photosFloore's Country Store - 14464 Old Bandera Road, Helotes
Photo By ROBERT JOHNSON/SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWSFreiheit Country Store - 2157 Farm to Market Road 1101, New Braunfels
Hangin' Tree Saloon - 18424 2nd St., Bracken
Photo By TOM REEL/SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWSLeon Springs Dance Hall - 24135 I-10 West, San Antonio
Luckenbach Dance Hall - 412 Luckenbach Town Loop, Fredericksburg
Dance halls can be a fun and romantic way to spend an evening. For those new to the dance hall scene, here are some tips.
Photo By TAMMY MCKINLEYFollow traffic rules. Dance halls can be crowded. Couples normally rotate anti-clockwise, but if the space is too crowded, follow the lead of other pairs. Watch out for your partner - if you're about to hit someone, speak up!
Photo By TOUKO HUJANEN/New York TimesCheck yourself before you wreck yourself. Make sure you have enough space and experience before you attempt jumps and spins. It can lead to collisions and pain - for you and other couples. Guys, learning to lead while on a crowded dance floor is not a good plan - practice the steps off the floor first.
Photo By (Frazer Harrison / 2011 Getty Images)Leave your purse at home. It's better for everyone involved. Even cross-body purses can be a pain when dancing. When preparing to go out to a dance hall, keep in mind that if someone spins with a purse on their shoulder, it'll hit their partner, and if you leave it on a table, it might get stolen. Hand your purse to a friend if you're dancing, or ditch the handbag all together and carry some cash and your phone in a pocket or in your boots.
Photo By Pascal Le Segretain/Getty ImagesAlso, ditch the heels. If you're ballroom dancing, heels may be a first choice, but if you're two-stepping or swing dancing, you want something with a little slide.
Photo By Johnny Hanson/Houston ChronicleLike these pink cowboy boots. Flats or cowboy boots both work for dances ike the two-step. Show off your style with a pair that is comfortable and snazzy.
Photo By Daniel Acker/BloombergStem the sweat. It happens to everyone, especially on a crowded dance floor. Doing your best to stop the sweat/stink is a courtesy to your partner and everyone around you.
When surrounded by line dancers, don't panic. Sometimes a song comes on and everyone starts to line dance, and woops, you didn't get the memo. Either calmly leave the dance floor, or try and learn the steps. If you can do that quickly and gracefully without running into anybody, it can be a great learning experience.
Photo By Courtesy photoBe friendly. Dance halls are great places to meet people, so don't be afraid to dance with other people. It's completely acceptable for both men and women to ask people to dance. If you want to dance, stand near the dance floor. And, take into account people's feelings and be polite.
Take some lessons. If you feel uncomfortable about rushing onto the dance floor, take some lessons first. A lot of dance halls have lessons on certain nights, or you could get a friend to teach you.
SAN ANTONIO – With Texas' cowboy and music culture, small-scale dance halls should be flourishing in both big and small towns. But, the tradition and popularity of these Texas stomping grounds is dwindling.
The number of dance halls has decreased from 1,000 in their prime to about a few hundred now, said Patrick Sparks, president of the Texas Dance Hall Preservation.
"We are very alarmed at the loss of this Texas history," he said "With dance halls, it is tragic when we lose one. We think they all have to be saved."
One contributing factor to the dancehall drought is the urban growth surrounding the dance halls.
Sparks said because of the changing landscape, many people do not appreciate the historical dance halls like they should.
James White, owner of the Broken Spoke in Austin, told KVUE in an article that the apartments and city life surrounding his dancehall are overwhelming.
"We are surrounded. The apartments make it feel like it's the Alamo," White told the news station.
Now, people living in urban areas would rather go to modern night clubs, Sparks said, rather than dance halls, many of which were built in the late 19th or early 20th century. Unlike clubs, Sparks said dance halls are family oriented, and that is what makes them unique.
"We really try to promote the family aspect in Texas dance halls," he said. "It's a place where little kids got to play. It's a place where little boys learned how to ask the little girl to dance, properly."
"A lot of Texans grew up in dance halls," he said.
Although the number of dance halls has declined over the years, Sparks said there has been a recent increase in interest because people are starting to realize that some dance halls still exist.
He said Texans mainly visit Gruene Hall or Luckenbach Dance Hall, but other dance halls, such as Anhalt Hall, Quihi Gun Club and Dance Hall, Kendalia Halle and Twin Sisters Dance Hall, are just as interesting.
"They're the same, but different," he said. "People are realizing you can still go dancing at a 100-year-old dance hall, and still realize it is like it was 100 years ago."
Last month, Gruene Hall made Vogue Australia's list of the top 20 bars in the country, the Express-News reported.
"This honky-tonk dance hall in a ghost town in middle-of-nowhere Texas is where Texans come from far and wide to throw back a few and quite literally kick up their heels," Vogue stated on its website.
Sparks thinks the idea and culture around Texas dance halls is gaining steam because they are original, unlike overrated clubs.
Still, Sparks says, the costs that come with maintaining the century-old landmarks burden old dance halls. He adds that many dance halls have burned down, or have been abandoned because of their poor condition.
Tim and Barbara Worthy, owners of The Old Coupland Dance Hall and Inn in Coupland told KVUE that since the building is 108 years old, maintenance costs can run pretty high.
"It's not as good as it used to be," Barbra Worthy told the news station.
She said other than that, they cannot afford popular performers to make it more attractive. She tells the station that the dance hall either sees upcoming artists or older musicians, like Johnny Rodriguez or The Bellamy Brothers.
Sparks said that fees by the Performing Rights Organization can reach as high as $3,000, asked by the
"Demands from organizations can really frighten hall owners," he said. "Fee demands can easily shut down a rural dance hall."
He said nonetheless, it is important for Texans to know their heritage. He believes dance halls are historical landmarks because many of them started as a gathering place for German immigrants or gun clubs.
"If you want someone to understand Texas and Texans, first you take them to the Alamo, then you take them to a dancehall," he said. "That is our culture. That is what Texas did. That is what we do."


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