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Create a free custom toolbar and stay connected to your users even when they are surfing other websites. Whatever your users do on your website they can do with your community toolbar - from shopping to social networking to making reservations... you name it. Whole applications can even be put on the toolbar.
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Nearly three weeks after a tornado struck south Starkville, plenty of debris remains in the mobile home park hardest hit by the storm.
The Class EF-2 tornado cut a jagged east-northeast path through the community, leaving the greatest amount of damage behind in the Pines, a mobile home park just off Louisville Street.
The staff of the mobile home park is welcoming volunteers to pitch in and help.
Over the last several weeks, Pines resident Jason Ashley placed several calls about the debris pickup, first to park management, then to city officials. He spoke to Chief Administrative Officer Lynn Spruill on several occasions, the last of which was Monday.
Later in the day, city crews picked up debris on Ashley's street, including a pile adjacent to his house.
"I'm happy it's finally resolved. I'm disappointed it took as long as it did to clean it up and it required the residents of the Pines to call the city and ask for it to be cleaned up," Ashley said.
But a quick survey of the grounds at the Pines Monday shows the work is far from over. Several demolished mobile homes remain in tatters. The remains of one even continued to partially block a street.
Later in the day, Spruill addressed the issues around cleaning up the area.
The Pines is private property and crews conduct sanitation and rubbish pickup there, she said.
"So we have access but those are not city-maintained streets," she said.
Starkville Recycling conducts a normal rubbish run in the Pines, collecting sofas, limbs, rubbish, leaves, cuttings and clippings within certain parameters, Spruill said.
Then, city crews come behind them and pick up what's outside the contractual requirements, she said.
Sanitation crews have been making their normal runs, then after these runs, they will come back in the afternoons when they have time to conduct additional cleanup "as folks are cleaning up their residences," Spruill said.
"We're trying to save the city money. We've been trying to be cost-conscious about it."
In addition to the Pines, areas of town with damage from the tornado included Louisville, South Montgomery and Vine streets, along with Lynn Lane and Yellow Jacket Drive.
"The Pines is about all that's left," Spruill said.
City crews were able to conduct more work during an initial emergency declaration, including moving a trailer, she said, but "the city is limited to what our response can be beyond the true emergency status."
Spruill added city and private utility crews — and city street and sanitation workers — have all gone above and beyond in addressing the situation.
Private property owners have to conduct the cleanup work and get the debris "within 5 feet of the street in piles," then crews can collect the items using their equipment, Spruill said.
Misty McClelland, the office manager at the Pines, said the park owns the land, not any of the mobile homes.
It's the homeowner's responsibility to have insurance — "some did and some didn't," she said.
"We have had some that have had to wait on insurance," said Ricky Wallace, property r at the Pines. "The insurance part is slowly beginning."
McClelland said some volunteers began coming into the park to help with the cleanup effort Monday.
"They haven't asked for a penny," she said, adding some residents are hiring people to help.
As for the mobile home which remains partially in the street, McClelland said it's scheduled for cleanup this week.
Ashley said he hopes crews will continue to clean up "as people put their trash on the road."
"That's going to keep going on at the Pines for awhile. We'll keep getting through there," Spruill said.
Park staff are willing to accept additional volunteers who will be willing to help in the cleanup and debris removal process.
For information on volunteering, call 323-6423.
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AJGA Junior at Ruby Hill
Ruby Hill Golf Club
Pleasanton, Calif. • July 8 - 11, 2013
American Junior Golf Association • Contact: Chris Richards • (678) 644-4258 • email@example.com
Quick Facts
- 54-hole, stroke play event
- 84 boys and girls, ages 12-18
- The field includes players from seven states, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. Sixty-two players from California will compete.
Tournament Storylines
|College bound: 52 players have committed to play golf at the college of their choice.
|Suh siblings return
|An AJGA sister-brother duo, Justin Suh and Hannah Suh of San Jose, Calif., return after posting top-10 finishes in 2012. Justin finished runner-up in the Boys Division, while Hannah claimed 10th place last year.
Schedule of Events
|Monday, July 8
|1:30 p.m. shotgun
|Practice Round
|Tuesday, July 9
|7 – 11:30 a.m.
|First Round off No. 1 tee
|Wednesday, July 10
|7 – 11:30 a.m.
|Second Round off No. 1 tee
|Thursday, July 11
|7 – 11:30 a.m.
|Final Round off No. 1 tee
|4:30 p.m.
|Awards Ceremony
Top Players to Watch
|Anthony Cecere, Palos Verdes Estates, Calif. (2014)
|Cecere opened his AJGA career by winning his first tournament, the 2012 Preseason Junior at Oak Valley. He has moved up the Polo Golf Rankings and he currently sits at No. 84. Cecere has finished top 20 in all three 2013 starts, including T4 finish at the AJGA Junior at Robinson Ranch.
|Jonathan Lai, (Hong Kong) Arcadia, Calif. (2013)
|A 2013 graduate, Lai will look for his first AJGA victory. He tallied five top-10 AJGA finishes and will compete at Yale in the fall. Lai comes off a T11 showing at the ClubCorp Mission Hills Desert Junior.
|Justin Suh, San Jose, Calif. (2015)
|Suh returns to Ruby Hill after finishing runner-up in 2012. A USC verbal commit, Suh has posted six top-10 finishes, including a third-place finish at the 2011 Stockton Convention and Visitors Bureau Junior Open.
|Kelsey Ulep, Rocklin, Calif. (2014)
|With five top-15 finishes on her record, Ulep returns to Ruby hill after taking fourth in 2012. The University of Oregon verbal commit comes off a T12 showing at the AJGA Junior at Robinson Ranch.
|Stephanie Lau, Fullerton, Calif. (2015)
|Lau will make her first appearance at Ruby Hill after finishing top-15 in her last two AJGA starts. Her record includes 10 top-10 showings, highlighted by a runner-up finish at the 2011 Junior All-Star at River Ridge.
2012 Results
AJGA Junior at Ruby Hill
Ruby Hill Golf Club (July 9 - 12, 2012)
|Boys Division
|Jacob Solomon
|Dublin, Calif.
|Justin Suh
|San Jose, Calif.
|Collin Morikawa
|La Canada Flintridge, Calif.
|Cody Blick
|Danville, Calif.
|Peter Kyo Won Koo
|(South Korea) Tucson, Ariz.
|Girls Division
|Ziyi Wang
|Beijing, China
|Simin Feng
|(China) Windermere, Fla.
|Chayanid Prapassarangkul
|Bangkok, Thailand
|Alexandra Kaui
|Las Vegas, Nev.
|Kacie Komoto
|Honolulu, Hawaii
|Kelsey Ulep
|Rocklin, Calif.
Media Accommodations
The AJGA Junior at Ruby Hill will have AJGA communications representatives on hand to assist media throughout the week. Prior to the tournament the AJGA will provide information about the event and its participants, as well as assist with player interviews.
After each round, media officials on-site will write a recap with the day's results. These will be emailed to all media outlets. Interviews with AJGA Tournament Directors, Tournament Chairmen and juniors may be conducted before or after tournament rounds.
For more information about the AJGA and tournaments, please refer to ajga.org. Tournament websites are accessible from the homepage and include recaps, list of participants, tee times, live scoring, course and sponsorship information.
About the AJGA
The American Junior Golf Association is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to the overall growth and development of young men and women who aspire to earn college golf scholarships through competitive junior golf. The AJGA provides valuable exposure for college golf scholarships, and has an annual junior membership (boys and girls, ages 12-18) of more than 6,300 members from 48 states and more than 50 foreign countries. Through initiatives like the Achieving Competitive Excellence (ACE) Grant, a financial assistance program, and Leadership Links, a service-oriented platform that teaches juniors charitable-giving skills, the AJGA fosters the growth of golf's next generation.
Titleist, the AJGA's National Sponsor, has been the catalyst and driving force behind the Association's success since 1989. Rolex, which is in its fourth decade of AJGA support, became the inaugural AJGA Premier Partner in 2004. In 2007, after 12 years of support, Ralph Lauren became the AJGA's second Premier Partner.
AJGA alumni have risen to the top of amateur, collegiate and professional golf. Former AJGA juniors have compiled more than 600 victories on the PGA and LPGA Tours. AJGA alumni include Jordan Spieth, Brandt Snedeker, Bubba Watson, Webb Simpson, Hunter Mahan, Phil Mickelson, Tiger Woods, Stacy Lewis, Vicky Hurst, Inbee Park, Paula Creamer, Cristie Kerr, Brittany Lincicome and Morgan Pressel.
Tournament field
|Boys Division
|Roman Aragon
|Mission Viejo, Calif.
|Matthew Ashley
|San Jose, Calif.
|Oscar Baek
|(South Korea) La Habra, Calif.
|Connor Blick
|Danville, Calif.
|Alec Bommarito
|Pleasanton, Calif.
|Charlie Cameron
|El Dorado Hills, Calif.
|Jeff Carney
|San Mateo, Calif.
|Anthony Cecere
|Palos Verdes Estates, Calif.
|Andrew Chu
|Henderson, Nev.
|Perry Cohen
|La Jolla, Calif.
|Jim Coon
|Orinda, Calif.
|Roy Cootes
|Rolling Hills, Calif.
|Sam Dickey
|Las Vegas, Nev.
|Shrish Dwivedi
|Redwood City, Calif.
|Rei Echizenya
|Dublin, Calif.
|Bryant Falconello
|Pacific Palisades, Calif.
|James Frahm
|Laguna Niguel, Calif.
|Hale Furey
|Newport Beach, Calif.
|Tanner Gore
|El Paso, Texas
|Ryan Gronlund
|Pleasanton, Calif.
|Davis Holman
|Yorba Linda, Calif.
|Cole Houghton
|Diablo, Calif.
|Yu-Chuan Hsiang
|(Taiwan) La Quinta, Calif.
|Tanner Hughes
|Livermore, Calif.
|Carter Irwin
|Dove Canyon, Calif.
|Gookmin Kim
|(South Korea) La Habra, Calif.
|Louis Kim
|Brea, Calif.
|Patrick Kim
|Pleasanton, Calif.
|Chad Kubes
|Shingle Springs, Calif.
|Eddy Lai
|San Jose, Calif.
|Jonathan Lai
|(Hong Kong) Arcadia, Calif.
|Alexander Lee
|Sacramento, Calif.
|Matt Lutz
|Placentia, Calif.
|Manny Manzone
|Moraga, Calif.
|Jose Mendez
|San Jose, Costa Rica
|Brian Moon
|Mukilteo, Wash.
|Scott Munger
|Danville, Calif.
|Teddy Oitzman
|Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.
|Spencer Painton
|Aurora, Colo.
|Chris Parkinson
|Danville, Calif.
|Tharusyan Pillay
|San Jose, Calif.
|Victor Ponte
|Camarillo, Calif.
|Peter Richards
|Westport, Conn.
|Austin Riley
|Pleasanton, Calif.
|Hayden Shieh
|Fremont, Calif.
|Tailin Song
|(China) Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.
|David Stitt
|Simi Valley, Calif.
|Joshua Suh
|La Canada, Calif.
|Justin Suh
|San Jose, Calif.
|Nick Swanson
|Huntington Beach, Calif.
|Issei Tanabe
|(Japan) Huntington Beach, Calif.
|Lawrence Ting
|Taipei, Taiwan
|Shawn Tsai
|(Taiwan) Indio, Calif.
|Christopher Tyminski
|Franklin, Tenn.
|Jens Verhey
|Reno, Nev.
|Thomas Weaver
|Westlake Village, Calif.
|Brandon Wu
|Danville, Calif.
|Sunny Yan
|Monterey, Calif.
|Girls Division
|Sydney Babiak
|Martinez, Calif.
|Hannah Cruz
|Long Beach, Calif.
|Cynthia Diaz
|Bucaramanga, Colombia
|Shiyang Fan
|(China) Carlsbad, Calif.
|Breann Fox
|Chino, Calif.
|Sachi Hamada
|Fullerton, Calif.
|Yubin Huh
|(South Korea) San Diego, Calif.
|Jennifer Kim
|Tracy, Calif.
|Stephanie Lau
|Fullerton, Calif.
|Beth Lillie
|Fullerton, Calif.
|Siyun Liu
|Shanghai, China
|Irene Maemura
|Shadow Hills, Calif.
|Natalie Mattison
|Cypress, Calif.
|Melody Blue Muehlbauer
|Vista, Calif.
|Nina Alexis Novilla
|Carson, Calif.
|Joan Park
|Diamond Bar, Calif.
|Lisa Sasaki
|Hillsborough, Calif.
|Krista Twet
|Clovis, Calif.
|Kelsey Ulep
|Rocklin, Calif.
|Samantha Winchester
|Encino, Calif.
|Michelle Xie
|Palo Alto, Calif.
|Nancy Xu
|Sunnyvale, Calif.
|Michelle Yom
|Torrance, Calif.
|Katherine Zhu
|San Jose, Calif.


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Heat loss thru insulation board
Does anyone have thoughts on how much heat loss is "acceptable" through the insulation board and into the hearth? I am considering a material that, according to the manufacturer's calculations, will reach about 206 degrees F on the side opposite an 1100 degree heat (assuming that heat is direct and constant). Does anyone know how FB Board compares to that? Is 1100 too high a number to use? I could have them recalculate it, but what's a realistic number (i.e., how hot does the base of the oven floor get)?
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What is the material? What kind of cost range are you talking about? Is it easily obtainable?
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I don't think your floor will hit that temp.
I could be wrong.
But the losses you are describing seem normal and acceptable to me.
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The material is Insblok-19, which others here have used. The numbers I quoted were based on 2" panels. With 3", the outside will reach 171 degrees @ 1100 degrees inside.
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Maybe one of our thermocouple users can help in this.
In using my IR, the face temp of my hearth bricks goes off the scale (over 1050 degrees) directly under the fire, how much of that bleeds all the way through the bricks an into the insulation - I don't know. I used 4" of vermiculete as my insulation under the hearth. The highest temp I have seen through the insulation and through the support slab and 1/2" backerboard is around 125 degrees (after firing for 3-4 hrs).
Re: Heat loss thru insulation board
I think the insulation boards are the way to go, if you can afford the expense.
Take pics of your build.
We are all voyeurs here!:D
Re: Heat loss thru insulation board
Dave, links to my pics are in my signature line. I have definitely decided to go with the boards; I just need to decide which ones and how thick!
Re: Heat loss thru insulation board
If I had a do over.... 4 inches of board at the minimum....
Re: Heat loss thru insulation board
These would be great for insulating the hearth.
Check out the 2 lb bricks.
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Election results now official
By Mike Morris | November 19, 2012 | Updated: November 19, 2012 6:21pm
The results of the Nov. 6 general election were made official Monday with votes by the governing bodies of Harris County, the City of Houston, Houston Community College, the Metropolitan Transit Authority and other local governments.
The actions, known as a canvass, finalize the tallies in scores of local races and propositions, taking into account votes counted after Election Day, such as overseas and provisional ballots.
Most notably among local races, the canvass starts the clock ticking on a special election in Senate District 6, where Mario Gallegos was reelected posthumously.
Gov. Rick Perry has 20 days to declare an emergency, authorizing an expedited special election, which then would be held on a Tuesday or Saturday between 21 and 45 days after the emergency declaration.


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This blog hopes to document the events in the life of a rural Irish Primary School during 2013-2014. You can also see activities for 2012-2013.
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Taurbeg Wind Farm, Rockchapel.
As part of our investigative science project we visited Taurbeg Windfarm.
We got a great welcome from Victoria and Claire, were taken around the farm, saw the sophisticated technology in action and learned how wind generates electricity.
Post Visit Activities.
Using resources from the farm we created our own windmills on returning to school.
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New Scientist magazine - 19 July 2014
Spark of life revisited thanks to electric bacteria
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The discovery and culturing of bacteria that eat and excrete electrons means we may soon find out just how little electricity fundamental life requires
What will hypercomputers let us do? Good question
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Machines that go beyond human logic could help us understand how we think – if we can only figure out what to ask them
Church takes 'important' long-term view on fossil fuel
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The World Council of Churches has said investing in fossil fuels is unethical. The move won't affect emissions, but it could have a wider impact
Detroit water shut-offs condemned as threat to health
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Health professionals are speaking out against Detroit's policy of cutting off water to people with unpaid bills – warning of a disaster in the making
US admits security breaches with deadly virus samples
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Biosecurity slip-ups in US labs handling anthrax and smallpox happened because of lack of oversight and failure to follow protocol, says new report
Spaceport UK: Government plan to launch spaceplanes
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The UK Space Agency has revealed it is planning to build a spaceport somewhere in the UK before 2018 – and Scotland looks to be a prime location
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Child "cured" of HIV tests positive, rise in animal testing in the UK, most distant planets in the Milky Way found and more
Disco-era spacecraft not dead, just out of gas
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An attempt to fire engines on the vintage space probe ISEE-3 fell flat, but the craft could still research cosmic rays and magnetic fields
Exoplanet names will be put to public vote
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The international group that names cosmic bodies is crowd-sourcing names for exoplanets – but will you be able to name a planet Alderaan or Westeros?
Will UK reshuffle boost science and environment?
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New environment secretary Liz Truss may prove more eco-friendly than her predecessor. Meanwhile Greg Clark is made minister for universities and science
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Unlike any other life on Earth, these extraordinary bacteria use energy in its purest form – they eat and breathe electrons – and they are everywhere
Arthritis drug shows potential to stall Alzheimer's
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Etanercept might be able to reduce the cognitive decline in people with Alzheimer's disease, according to a small pilot safety study
Strange dark stuff is making the universe too bright
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Sky surveys suggest that dark matter or some other mysterious dark material may be lighting up the universe with too much ultraviolet radiation
Panning for dark matter in an Australian gold mine
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Michael Slezak goes deep under the outback to find a home for the southern hemisphere's first WIMP detector, which could confirm our best direct signal yet
Chimpanzee brain power is strongly heritable
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Variations in chimpanzee intelligence have been shown for the first time to be strongly dictated by genetic inheritance, echoing findings in people
Waste paper turned into a super-spongy battery
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Treat paper in the right way and it can become a form of porous carbon capable of sucking up charge – making it the perfect battery for storing wind energy
Amphibians' swim stroke has lasted 270 million years
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Electrifying feet help geckos keep their grip
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Famine puts next two generations at risk of obesity
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First boron buckyballs roll out of the lab
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Food influences body clock and may ease jet lag
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High-precision hydrogen clock to hunt for new physics
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An ultra-precise clock that ticks to the rhythm of hydrogen molecules could offer a way to probe particle masses and look for signs of odd behaviour
Largest laser gives diamond a record-setting squeeze
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Marine microbes march to the beat of the same drum
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Books out, 3D printers in for reinvented US libraries
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Ethical 3D printing begins with plastic waste pickers
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Sensor-laden smart bandages to monitor vital signs
Technology > Newsp24
A project called Bioscope is building a type of bandage that senses a hospital patient's heart rate, temperature, internal body noises and physical movement
Cycling is a drag act in virtual wind tunnel
Regulars > Aperturepp26-27
A hideously complex mass of equations can tell you about air flow over your boat, F1 car or bike – while also making the prettiest images in engineering
Defending the grand vision of the Human Brain Project
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Criticism of the European Union's Human Brain Project misses the point of its unifying mission, says the project's co-executive director Richard Frackowiak
We're growing living walls to save lions
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Masai people in Tanzania kill lions that kill their livestock – so conservationist Laly Lichtenfeld is helping them make corrals to keep all the animals safe
We've locked up carbon dioxide by turning it to stone
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Opinion > Letterspp32-33
Does testosterone keep you slim, cruelty-free conservation, near-death experiences and more
Turing's oracle: The computer that goes beyond logic
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White holes: Hunting the other side of a black hole
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Kelp wanted: Pioneering the seaweed farm of the future
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Beyond the bones: The archaeology of human networks
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A bird in the hand: The tale of one woman and her hawk
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Frankfort is the oldest town on the Penobscot River, first settled in the 1760s by Massachusetts soldiers from nearby Fort Pownall. With the end of the French and Indian War, the Penobscot Valley became part of New England, and more specifically Massachusetts, leading to the first cautious encroachments by English-speaking settlers on the lands of the Penobscot Indians. This process, which would begin in Frankfort, would end with the founding of Bangor, Brewer, Orono, Old Town and other inland settlements, and the eventual restriction of the Penobscot people to their major village at "Indian Old Town", or the present Penobscot Indian Reservation.
Today's Frankfort is just a small portion of the original town, which contained the present-day towns of Frankfort, Winterport, Stockton Springs, and Prospect. Ft. Pownall was thus in Frankfort, and the town's major village was what is now Winterport. Frankfort was a logical place for settlement not only because Verona Island commanded the approach up the river, but because the river above the town froze during the winter, making this the last ice-free port as one ascended — hence the name "Winterport".
One of the first settlers was Lt. Joshua Treat (1729-1802), the armorer at Ft. Pownall, whose brother became one of the first settlers of Bangor.


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In February 2009 C.J. was asked to contribute a chapter to a book being written for John Piper known to us only as "The Festschrift," a top-secret project spoken of only in whispers. As you can imagine, C.J. was eager, humbled, and honored to participate in any project that honored Dr. Piper. Over the following months he worked on his essay under strict secrecy.That secret book is now known by its permanent title: For the Fame of God's Name: Essays in Honor of John Piper (Crossway, 2010). And now that it's public we can talk about it. Even better, the publisher has graciously given us permission to post C.J.'s chapter here. The chapter is titled "The Pastor and the Trinity." It is intended to help pastors care for individuals in their churches through the broad work of the Triune God. It's written for pastors, but all readers will benefit from reading it. In this chapter C.J. shows how we can daily apply in our lives the grace of the Savior, the love of the Father, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit. Over the past few weeks we posted the chapter in 11 parts:
01: Hidden in Plain Sight02: A Model for Pastoral Ministry
03: The Grace of the Lord Jesus04: The Doctrine of Sin: Handle with Care05: Make Calvary Your Landmark
06: The Love of God07: The Father's Love in the Cross08: The Father's Love in Adoption
09: The Fellowship of the Holy Spirit10: Celebrate the Breadth of God's Work11: The Spirit Leads Us to the Cross
C.J. Mahaney serves as the senior pastor of Sovereign Grace Church of Louisville. He has blogged here on pastoral ministry, Christian living, and (from time to time) sports.
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Districts May Not Have To Pay More To Retirement System
Posted: December 21, 2012 at 5:13 a.m.
The first question for George Hopkins, director of the Arkansas Teacher Retirement System, was whether school districts will have to pay for a proposed 1 percent increase in contributions to the system
By The Numbers
Arkansas Teacher Retirement System
Active Members: 76,478
Retirees: 36,042
Working retirees: 3,994
Oldest ATRS member: 107 years old
Number of retirees more than 100 years old: 21
Number of retirees between 90 and 99 years old: 728
Estimated value as of 9-30-12: $11.7 billion
Source: Arkansas Teacher Retirement System
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PAUL Muguti recently proved that "age ain't nothing but a number" when, at the age of 54, he was upgraded to a fifth kyu yellow belt-belt holder during the third IFK Kyokushinkai Zimbabwe karate grading at Lake Chivero just outside Harare.
At the age of 54, Muguti was the oldest karateka to be upgraded while Rebecca Sanyamandwe was the only female karateka to receive her colours during this upgrading session.
Sanyamandwe is now a sixth kyu blue-belt holder while Kudakwashe Shava was upgraded to a second kyu green-belt holder.
Other senior karatekas who were upgraded are Brighton Mutashu (sixth kyu blue-belt) and Sydney Zhanero (sixth kyu blue-belt).
A number of junior karatekas were also upgraded during the third IFK Kyokushinkai Zimbabwe upgrading session at Lake Chivero.
Leading the way in the juniors category was seven-year-old Jean-Claude Domingo Mufundisi who is now a third kyu green-belt holder in kyokushinkai (full contact) style.
Mufundisi, the son of one of the country's top kyokushinkai karatekas and instructors Tawanda Mufundisi, has also won four gold medals in national tournaments, which were held this year.
Another promising young karateka Nigel Marunga was also all smiles after this session as he was upgraded to a fifth kyu yellow-belt holder.
Mufundisi and Marunga were emulated by Itayi Deyera who rose to a sixth kyu blue-belt holder while his brother Michael was upgraded to an eighth kyu orange-belt holder.
Brandon Makanja (eighth kyu orange belt), Derek Gudhe (eighth kyu orange belt) and Francis Bingadadi (ninth kyu orange belt) were the other young karatekas who were upgraded at Lake Chivero.
The grading panel consisted of Tawanda Mufundisi, Tendayi Mutikani, Jabulani Mabhena, Naison Chituwa, Progress Makoni and Nicholas Tandi Muchatisi.
Speaking after the grading session at Lake Chivero, Tawanda Mufundisi, who is one of the founder members of the IFK Kyokushinkai in Zimbabwe, said the upgrading of all these karatekas showed that the sport of karate was growing in this country.
"We are all gathered here to mark or celebrate another milestone achievement for our style, kyokushinkai, which of late has established itself as one of the biggest karate styles in Zimbabwe.
"The upgrading of all these karatekas, both juniors and seniors, will not only benefit the kyokushinkai style but it will also benefit karate in general in this country.
"This shows that the sport is growing in Zimbabwe and we, the IFK Kyokushinkai Zimbabwe, are determined to help to make karate one of the most popular sporting disciplines in this country," Tawanda Mufundisi said.
The next grading session will be held in June 2013.
Tawanda Mufundisi is one of the most respected karatekas in the country and with the help of seasoned instructor Mutikani they formed the IFK Kyokushinkai Zimbabwe a couple of years ago.
Last month the organisation successfully staged their second knockdown championships at the City Sports Centre where more than 100 fighters from all the country took part.
Mutikani said after the knockdown championships that they were looking at staging more tournaments next year in which they would invite top karatekas from neighbouring countries such as South Africa, Zambia and Botswana. Apart from being one of the founder members of the IFK Kyokushinkai Zimbabwe, Mutikani is the national full contact styles technical director.


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Nokia may be working to launch a Windows 8 tablet in Q4 2012. It is rumored to be powered by Qualcomm's SoC and will run Windows on ARM.Read More
Since Windows 8 Consumer Preview was released, there has been a lot of noise about usability. Is it justified?Read More
Microsoft on Tuesday released an SDK that provides map controls that developers can implement in Metro-style Windows 8 apps.Read More
Michael Dell sees Windows 8 tablet as a competitive product against the iPad in the enterprise.Read More
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Despite all the wrangling and denials, Liberia's role in Sierra Leone horrors is being established. And gradually, world political actors troubled by Sierra Leone's unending terror have come to accept the bare truth that peace in that sad country lies in Liberia, nowhere else. United Nations Ambassadors who recently toured West Africa, with justified "caution and realism" over Charles Taylor's new promises of peace, have concluded that the former warlord holds the keys to ending the bloodbath that has consumed the former British colony for over a decade.
"The perception is very strong in the region that the flow of arms and diamonds is coming through Liberia," Britain's U.N. Ambassador Jeremy Greenstock said, adding the usual and redundant phrase of Taylor's denial. "There is no need to be a part of the instability in Sierra Leone because it would lead to your instability," the ambassador told the warlord turned president.
But in a new strategy of buying time and cementing his grip on the RUF rebels as a buffer Army and for personal protection and diamonds, the Liberian president has opted for a policy of deceptive appeasement by promising the UN ambassadors the surrender of diamond areas to UN force. The puzzle is why the sudden change of heart.
Perhaps we can search for answers in the change of command of the UN force after the departure of its outspoken and uncompromising Indian commander Maj. Gen. Vijay Jetley, who, among others, accused Liberia and Nigeria of manipulating the Force for their own interests, along with his allegations that key Nigerian officers and politicians charged with handling the crisis are aligned with the rebels for diamonds.
Now out of sight, his job has been awarded to Kenya's Gen. Daniel Opande who, prior to his appointment, met Taylor on a "private visit" behind closed doors, according to Monrovia sources. Opande's significance in the unfolding West African drama is linked to his image and record in Liberia where served as UN Observer force commander. At one point in meetings with Interim President Amos Sawyer, Gen. Opande actually advocated a surrender of power to Taylor outside elections. He believed Taylor had to be given a chance. Not easy to forget one who campaigns for one to be president even after gruesome horror stories are tied to his name, Taylor has understandably preserved links between him and Opende. Now, the two men are back in action and dealing with the same problem---how to defuse a gangster army and deprive it power. In Liberia, the problem was solved by giving such an Army the chance, forget about how. With the same actors back in business full swing, should we expect a similar solution?
Memories of the Kenyan in devastated Liberia then seeing every uniformed African soldier as a messiah for redemption are still fresh. Gen. Opande was well liked within the rebel National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL) with its endless supply of prostitutes to service "friends." He mingled freely with the rebel officials and commanders, now politicians and Army officers in charge of RUF operations. He was more of a ceremonial soldier--- neatly dressed and finding the bars and the few foreign restaurants more appealing places than high-risk military adventures left for underpaid Nigerian officers. Rebel commanders in Taylor's self-proclaimed capital of Gbanga, which Opande visited very frequently, and elsewhere, who called him "oilipantie," admired him, and he too, perhaps, may have viewed them as reasonable men of purpose despite their horrific atrocities and the fear they instilled in society. Once in power, the NPFL command (now the Liberian Army) and political leadership honored the Kenyan for his "great" services to humanity, their humanity. Could one conclude, then, that Taylor, with his past close ties to fellow African Opande, ties he found impossible to establish with the Indian commander, has now rediscovered a man with whom he can do business in troubled Sierra Leone?


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During a Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Wisconsin over the weekend a few in the crowd gave Governor Scott Walker a Hitler style salute after he was introduced.
I assume these Hitler saluters are upset with Walker for signing legislation limiting collective bargaining "rights" of public employees in Wisconsin in order to save the state's economy, after it was passed in the State Assembly. The protestors must be forgetting that the economic climate in Wisconsin has already improved, school districts actually have more money to hire more teachers now, teachers who were fired have come back to work, in other words, Walker'a budget bill is working.
Despite early criticism from city officials, new figures show Milwaukee will gain more than it will lose next year from the state's controversial budget and budget-repair legislation.
The city projects it will save at least $25 million a year - and potentially as much as $36 million in 2012 - from health care benefit changes it didn't have to negotiate with unions, as a result of provisions in the 2009-'11 budget-repair measure that ended most collective bargaining for most public employees.
That saving would be partly offset by about $14 million in cuts in state aid to the city in the 2011-'13 state budget. The figure is down from earlier estimates of more than $17 million, after the Legislature scaled back Gov. Scott Walker's proposed cuts in aid for local streets and recycling.
As a result, the city would come out with a net gain of at least $11 million for its 2012 budget, slicing into the "structural deficit" created by costs rising faster than revenue and reducing the spending cuts that Mayor Tom Barrett and the Common Council must impose.
And they did this at a Christmas tree lighting ceremony. Really?
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The Police in Lagos said on Tuesday that they had arrested seven armed robbery suspects who raided some Bureau-de-Change at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos, and killed two officers.
Mr Umar Manko, the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Command, made this known while parading the suspects at the Police Headquarters, Ikeja.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that the suspects were said to have invaded some Bureau-de-Change at the Airport on March 13, 2013, at about 7.30 p.m., carting away unspecified amounts of foreign currencies and killing two police officers.
Manko explained that after the incident, the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) under the command, took over investigation of the case.
"We have arrested seven suspected armed robbers, who participated in the robbery operation at the airport in Lagos on the 13th of March.
"So far, we have been able to recover six AK-47, four dynamites, two locally made pistols, 1,920 rounds of ammunition, 64 AK-47 rifle magazines and charms.
"In 2012, the same gang attacked same place and carted away about N600 million. The suspects involved in this operation are not resident in Lagos.
"They live in Osun, Ogun and Oyo states. They only come to Lagos to carry out crime, " Manko said.
He said that one of the suspects, (names withheld), who claimed to be a pastor and herbalist, had admitted that he used to pray and prepare charms for the suspects at Odogbolu area in Ogun State.
He said that the suspect confirmed that he had received N900,000 from the two operations.
Meanwhile, the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr Mohammed Abubakar, has awarded 17 officers attached to the SARS of the command with 'Certificate of Courage'.
Manko, who presented the certificates to the officers on behalf of the IGP, said that Abubakar was pleased with the performance of the officers in combating violent crimes in Lagos State.
"We are here to share 'Certificate of Courage' signed by the IGP to men of SARS for their efforts in fighting crime in Lagos State.
"This award is the second in the series which the IGP uses to appreciate officers for a job well done".
"The same men arrested the suspected armed robbers, who attacked the bureau-de-change at the airport.
"The I-G said that those who work hard will publicly be rewarded and those who do wrong will also be publicly punished.
"This certificate is I-G's appreciation to the men for fighting crime in Lagos. The force recognises their efforts also".
"The Lagos State Police Command also commends these men for their effort," Manko said.
The commissioner commended Gov Babatunde Fashola, for providing logistics to security agencies, adding that he had also rewarded men of SARS for their "brilliant" performance.
NAN reports that one of the officers recognised was the Officer in Charge of SARS, Mr Abba Kyiari (SP). (NAN)


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Sites in the Quarter
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The Hurva Synagogue
The Hurva Synagogue
A group of European immigrants, followers of Rabbi Yehuda Hasid, settled in the Jewish Quarter on the 27th of October 1700, and began building a synagogue. On the 27th of October 1721, marauding Arabs burnt the synagogue and courtyard, destroying both.
In 1816, almost 100 years after the synagogue was first destroyed, followers of the GRA managed to obtain a license from the Turkish authorities in Kushta, annulling previous debts and permitting the rebuilding of the synagogue. It was inaugurated a second time in 1864. The renewal of the synagogue and the restoration of the ruin were perceived as the initial phase of redemption.
Since its establishment, the Hurva, or by its full name "The Beit Ya'akov Synagogue in the Courtyard of the Ruin of Rabbi Yehuda Hassid", became the largest, most magnificent and most important synagogue in the entire Land of Israel and the center of life in the Jewish Quarter.
In this hall, the Ashkenazi rabbis of Jerusalem and the Land of Israel were appointed. Here, in a festive prayer ceremony, the flag of the Jewish Regiments that fought in the Second World War was placed in safekeeping. From this
Lesser Temple", at a praying assembly held by the Chief Rabi Yitzhak Isaac Halevi Hertzog and the Hassidic leader Rabbi Mordehai Alter of Gur, emanated a scream to save the Jews of Europe.
Two days after the Jewish Quarter fell in May 1948, the Jordanians blew the synagogue up, a symbolic deed to express their victory. Thus, the synagogue was turned into a pile of rubble for the second time in its history. From this moment, the continuity of Jewish life in the Jewish Quarter was curtailed for 19 years.
After the Six-Day War, visitors to the Quarter saw the destruction - the Quarter itself, and the Hurva as well, was a pile of ruins.
When the Quarter was restored, it was decided not to contend with the historic monuments that were symbols of the Quarter and of its destruction. Accumulated rubble was cleared out of the synagogues, and the remnants were restored as archeological sites. The arch of the northern wall was restored, a silent outcry protesting past atrocities.
The Hurva was a part of the fabric of Jerusalem's architecture. The Hurva's dome became the symbol and manifestation of the synagogue. It is engraved on the collective memory of the Jewish People, and its absence is sorely felt.
JQDC decided to restore the synagogue's grandeur, and to restore the Hurva to its former magnificence. The project is currently in the building stage.
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Children shut in day care closet as punishment
Worker banned from job, is appealing ruling
A worker at an Oceanside child care center has been banned from ever working with children again after she was caught on video two times putting children in a dark supply closet for a few seconds.
Elaine Joseph Rowe, 55, was fired from Kiddie Academy of Oceanside last October after she was reported to state licensing officials for directing preschoolers into the dark supply closet and shutting the door as a form of discipline.
Her actions were caught on webcams installed by the day care center, which reported the incident to the state.
In June, state officials said her actions violated state health and safety laws and banned her from the profession for life — a decision Rowe is appealing. A hearing officer will review her case on Nov. 15 in San Diego.
Rowe referred comment to her attorney, William Winship, who called the taped incident a "colossal misunderstanding."
"Mrs. Joseph has been a darling teacher for kids for 8 or 10 years, and she is very, very cordial, very bright," Winship said. "There is a line around the block of people who want to appear for her as character witnesses, and this was an insult to her and so she wants to clear her name. ... These are only allegations."
According to a state report of the incident, Rowe can be seen on tape Oct. 5 around 10:26 a.m. "forcefully" grabbing a child's hand, placing the child in the closet and closing the door. After a few seconds, the child emerged, rubbing his or her eye, the report states. Moments later, Rowe is seen using her open hand to push a second child by the back of the head into the closet before again shutting the door.
"This time the teacher then stood up against the door, barricading the door so it could not be opened," the report states, adding that the door was reopened seconds later and the second child exited.
State licensing officials wrote, "The violations cited represents an immediate risk to the healthy development of the children who either experience the actions of teacher #1 or observed the children being direct(ed) to stay in the storage closet, which darkens when closed."
The incidents were deemed Type A violations, the most serious classification, for violating the personal rights of the students, a deficiency the day care center told state officials was "immediately corrected by removing the offender from our school."
A second teacher in the classroom was apparently unaware of Rowe's actions, state officials wrote. The teacher received training for a month on how to be more vigilant, center staff told state officials.
The incidents were not referred to law enforcement, licensing officials said, adding that determinations on whether to do so are handled on a case-by-case basis. Day care workers are mandated to report cases of suspected child abuse and can contact the county's child welfare services abuse hotline to do so, or when in doubt.
A preliminary search by Oceanside Police did not locate any reports of the incident, Lt. Leonard Mata said.


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No one has ever floated a boat on another world, but NASA is now considering doing just that, on Saturn's icy moon Titan. Probing the moon's hydrocarbon lakes could reveal clues to its climate and perhaps even signs of exotic life forms.
Titan's surface is dotted with lakes, making it strangely reminiscent of Earth. But rather than water, the lakes are filled with a mixture of methane and ethane, which are gases on Earth but are liquid at Titan's surface temperature of -180 °C.
NASA is now considering sending a probe to splash down into one of the lakes. It has selected a mission called the Titan Mare Explorer (TiME) as one of three finalists competing for a chance to fly in 2016. The TiME project is led by Ellen Stofan of Proxemy Research in Gaithersburg, Maryland.
In 2023, after a seven-year cruise from Earth, TiME would parachute into a lake in Titan's northern hemisphere called Ligeia Mare. Powered by heat from the decay of an onboard plutonium supply, the probe would bob around the lake's surface and make measurements for about three months.
Titan is the only place in the solar system that appears to have a cycle analogous to the water cycle on Earth, with hydrocarbon rain depositing liquid on the surface, followed by evaporation and more rain.
Rain-lashed probe?
TiME would help reveal details about this cycle by measuring the temperature, humidity and winds at the surface of the lake. With luck, it could be the first probe to experience rain on another world. The probe would also snap pictures of the lake's surface and shorelines and peer up at clouds in the sky.
Though it lacks a means of propulsion, the flying-saucer shaped probe should gradually drift with the breeze, allowing it to sample different parts of the lake. As it did so, it could measure the lake's depth with sonar and taste the brew of chemicals it contains with a mass spectrometer.
That would provide a new window into Titan's intriguing chemistry. Complex carbon-based, or organic, molecules, such as acetylene, are known to form in abundance in the moon's atmosphere and rain down onto the surface.
The organic molecules are likely to get mixed into the lakes and might undergo further chemical reactions there. Some scientists have even speculated that microscopic life forms could live in the lakes, eating acetylene and breathing hydrogen gas.
Searching for signs of life
With its mass spectrometer, TiME would explore any interesting chemistry going on in the lake. If any life is present, it might produce unusual patterns in the abundance of organic molecules.
"Titan is an endpoint on exploring what are the limits to life in our solar system," Stofan told New Scientist. "We're going to be looking for patterns in abundances of compounds to look for evidence for more complex or interesting reactions."
But in order to fly, TiME will have to out-compete two other proposed missions: a seismic monitoring station for Mars and a probe that would hop around the surface of a comet.
NASA has awarded $3 million to each of the three competing teams to flesh out their mission concepts. After a review in 2012, the agency plans to decide which mission will receive the $425 million it needs to fly.
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On Friday 21 November 2003 09:24, David Margolis wrote:
> He tried to install (and I'm making up the exact file name):
> hsfmodem-1.2.3-i686.rpm
> This didn't work, and I think it's because he was supposed to install
> hsfmodem-1.2.3-athlon.rpm (the help files say the achitecture is important
> for getting this particular driver running).
> Anyway, I tried to run: rpm -e hsfmodem-1.2.3
> and I get something like: sorry, hsfmodem-1.2.3 is not installed
Hmmm, let's ask rpm if it has any packages that resemble hsfmodem.
rpm -qa | grep hsfmodem
If the package is returned try an rpm -e on it.
rpm -e hfsmodem NOTE - no version, just the name of the package... this is
why rpm did not recognize your package above as not installed.
> So I go: rpm -ivh (or -Uvh) hsfmodem-1.2.3-athlon.rpm
> and I get: hsfmodem-1.2.3 interfers with hsfmodem-1.2.3
> The question is, how do I fool rpm into believing one package is not there
> so I can install the other if it appears there seems to be something stuck
> in rpm's database (or whatever system it uses to keep track of installed
> packages)?
You can't.... but you can force RPM to install over the other package. I
would do my best to resolve and UNinstall the installed package first.
If that does not work.... bring out the big guns.
rpm -ivh --force hfsmodem-1.2.3-athlon.rpm
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Comment: Re:Bad data (Score 2) 105 105
by francium de neobie (#45171663) Attached to: Tech's Highest-Paid Engineers Are At Juniper
Well, I'd rather save $2k - $3k every month and have housemates. That's $36k per year of extra cash for Christ's sake. You roll that into Tesla in the beginning of this year and now it's $150k (okay you'd need to be quite lucky to do this); or you roll that into BitCoins whenever there's a panic; or you just save it up and wait for the next market crash. But as you can see.. if you save and invest that, it becomes Porsche or even Ferrari money pretty quickly.
... and... that's still not enough for a good house :(


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Rectangle PQRS has X and Y on the edges. Triangles PQY, YRX and XSP
have equal areas. Prove X and Y divide the sides of PQRS in the
golden ratio.
A 1 metre cube has one face on the ground and one face against a
wall. A 4 metre ladder leans against the wall and just touches the
cube. How high is the top of the ladder above the ground?
Investigate how you can work out what day of the week your birthday will be on next year, and the year after...
Tom started us off with the following
idea. Thanks Tom.
So, using the diagram you know
that $$105= \frac{105-1}{2} + \frac{105+1}{2}$$
$$ 105 = 52 +53$$
$$ 105 = 53^2 - 52^2$$
You can always find one way using this method.
$$1155= \frac{1155-1}{2} +
$$ 1155 = 577+578$$
$$ 105 = 578^2 - 577^2$$
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i want to get the plaque parts.
but the arbiter sword part it $60-90$
i was wondering if i could swap a cortana sword for the arbiter sword on the plaque?
could it be modified easily to fit?
the only thing i see thats different is the hilt peg would have to be reversed (drilled) as the blade peg looks like it goes all the way thru.(no modify blad peg)
plaque figures 4/5 with no arbiter 60$ with arbiter $100