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About Maps at UT Libraries
The Library has maps and geographic information in many formats: single maps (sheet maps), and atlases, for example. In addition to the Map Collection, maps may also be found in the Reference, Government Documents, the General Collection, and online.
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Finding Maps in the UT Library Catalog
Maps can most effectively be found in the UT Library Catalog by conducting a keyword search with the phrase 'd:maps' in the search. This will find materials where the subject heading contains the word maps. Use the Location information to determine which collection the map, atlas, or book is in.
Or, topograhic maps of Ohio and other Great Lakes states can be found with a
- Keyword search for Ohio quadrangle, Indiana quadrangle, etc.
- or Title search for: Toledo quadrangle Ohio, Gary quadrangle Indiana, etc. if you know the name of the quadrangle.
Finding Maps Online
The libraries have access to several databases that provide specialized geographic information from OhioLINK. There are also plenty of free map-related sites on the Internet.
- Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps Large-scale street plans of Ohio communities, produced by the Sanborn Fire Insurance company from 1867-1970.
- AP Images By clicking on Print Graphics from the More Media menu and searching for a geographic term, you can find news graphics which often contain maps.
- The Perry-Castenada LibraryKeeps a very detailed page of maps, including maps for sites of current news interest and outline maps.
- National Geographic Society
- Google MapsOne of several popular street mapping sites. Can be used for directions, overlayed with aerial imagery, etc.
- Bing MapsOnline map service with directions, 'bird's eye view', etc.
- CIA Maps & Publications De-classified maps from the Central Intelligence Agency. Great for basic political boundary and simple terrain maps. Images available, full maps available for purchase.
- United Nations Cartographic SectionDetailed maps available as PDF for countries, regions, and UN Mission areas.
- USGS StoreOrder or download topographic ('topo') maps. Downloads are free and are in a special GeoPDF format.
- David Rumsey Historical Map CollectionMany historical maps are available on this site.
- Old Maps OnlineHistorical maps from the David Rumsey Collection and other historical map collections with a great search interface.
Carlson Library Map Collection
The Map Collection is located on the east side of the third floor of Carlson Library and consists of sheet maps and atlases. These maps are for reference use, and therefore do not circulate. However, exceptions may be made for items to be used briefly in the classroom or for projects of short duration.
Maps are arranged by Library of Congress classification numbers. Atlases are on stands in the Collection.
Most of the collection consists of topographic maps (showing contours and elevation) for the Great Lakes states (Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, as well at the Canadian province of Ontario) from the United States Geological Survey. These are arranged in drawers by call numbers that group states by geographic region, with the maps filed alphabetically by quadrangle name. An index is included in each drawer.
|Call Number (All Start with 'G')
|New York
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Products refer to the commodities purchased by your organization. For instance, the workstation "Latitude D600" is a Product with the Product Type "Workstation". You can either import the product details from a CSV file or manually add the products in the application. Configuring products are essential while adding assets in the Asset module and while purchasing products using the Purchase Order form.
As and when the firm purchases a product, the product details should be entered in the application. If a product is discarded, then you can remove it from the list by deleting the same.
Most of the products wear out and decrease in value, over a period of time. For such products, calculating the depreciation is essential for financial reporting. You can configure depreciation using any of the 4 methods provided in the application.
To access the Product configuration wizard,
Login to the ServiceDesk Plus application using the user name and password of an admin user.
Click the Admin tab in the header pane.
In the Asset Management block, click the Products icon. The Product List view is displayed. You can add products, edit and delete products, and configure depreciation for products.
Adding Product
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In the Product List page, click Add New Product link available at the top right corner.
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If required, you can add relevant Description for the product.
Click Save. A message is displayed and the product is added. Click Save and Add New to save the product details and open the add product form to add another product. Click Cancel to go back to the Product List page, without saving the details.
Configuring Depreciation
If the selected Product Type is an asset or component, then the Depreciation Details block is displayed. ServiceDesk Plus allows 4 methods to calculate the depreciation of a product.
Methods of Calculating Depreciation
Declining Balance
Double Declining Balance
Straight Line
Sum of the Years Digit
Before we begin configuring depreciation, there are certain terms related to depreciation calculation:
Useful Life: The period during which an asset is expected to be available for use.
Salvage Value: The estimated selling value of any asset, after it has reached the end of service life or its value has depreciated substantially. It is the total net worth of any asset after it has exhausted its useful life span.
To configure depreciation details while adding the product,
Select the Depreciation Method from the drop down box. If the Depreciation Method is Declining Balance, then the Useful Life radio button and Decline Percent radio button appears. If the depreciation method is Straight Line, then the Useful Life radio button and Depreciation Percent radio button appears.
Specify the Useful Life of the product. If you have enabled Decline Percent or Depreciation Percent radio button, then specify the Decline Percent or Depreciation Percent of the product.
Specify the Salvage Value of the product.
Click Save button.
If you have not configured the depreciation details for a product, then you can also configure it from the Product List view.
Select the check box beside the product for which you want to configure depreciation.
Click Configure Depreciation button.
Select the Depreciation Method from the drop down box.
Specify the Useful Life and the Salvage Value of the product.
Click Save button. The depreciation details are configured for the selected product(s).
The configured Depreciation Details can be viewed in the Costs tab of the Assets details page. The depreciation is calculated only if the Purchase Cost and Acquisition Date is specified for the asset.
Associating Vendor
You can also associate the vendor to a product. To do so,
Click the Vendor tab.
Select the vendor of the product from Vendor Name drop-down.
Enter the Price of the product. The Vendor Name and Price are mandatory fields.
If there is any Tax Rate for the product, specify the same in the field provided.
If you know the warranty period of the product, enter it in the Warranty Period by choosing the number of years and months from the combo box.
Select the Maintenance Vendor of the product from the drop-down.
If you wish to add any comments, add it in the Comments text box.
Click Save to save the details. You can add more than one vendor who supplies the product. The vendors associated to the product information is displayed below the add vendor form.
If you do not wish to associate the vendor now, then click Cancel. It goes back to the Product List page.
Edit Product
You can edit the product details from the Product List page. To edit the product information,
Click the Edit icon beside Product Name in the Product List page.
Edit the fields in the form.
Click Save to save the details. While editing a product, you can also add new product by clicking Save and Add New button. Click Cancel to go back to the Product List page.
In some instances, you may add the product without associating the vendor. In such cases, you need to edit the product to associate the vendor.
Click the Vendor tab to associate a vendor for the product.
The Product Name is a non-editable field but you can add/edit the other fields in the form.
Click Save.
Delete Product
If a product is not used by a module, then you can delete the product from the list.
In the Product List page, enable the check box beside the product name.
Click Delete button. A dialog box confirming the delete operation appears.
Click OK to proceed. The product is deleted from the list.

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Lou Holtz once said, "Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."
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RALEIGH, N.C. - The 14th-ranked NC State rifle team will travel to No. 3 West Virginia on Sunday, Jan. 19, for the squad's fifth Great America Rifle Conference (GARC) match of the season. The competition is slated to begin at 8 a.m. inside the WVU Rifle Range.
"We're coming off a good first match for the semester and had several good training sessions this week, so I'm happy with our preparation for this match," said head coach Keith Miller. "We like the West Virginia range and have fired some of our best individual and team scores there in the past few years."
The Wolfpack (16-6, 0-4 GARC) recorded its second-highest score of the season in its last outing at Murray State, as the squad posted a score of 4612 to finish second at the match. The team shot a score of 2332 in the air rifle competition and a total of 2280 in smallbore.
West Virginia (6-0, 4-0 GARC) enters the match undefeated after defeating the Navy Midshipmen in its last competition. The squad will be competing for the first time in the 2014 calendar year, as it was last in action on Nov. 16, 2013.
"West Virginia is really strong this year, staying in the top three so far," Miller added. "The race for the top team will likely come down to them, Alaska, and Kentucky."
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I've been messing around with video game music since about 1997 with my good friend Joseph Majalca in Chicago under the moniker Royal Space Force. We started off by using sound tests and otherwise sampling bits of games that we thought had cool tunes, and then mixing and matching them together while adding other instrumentation on top. It was much akin to a DJ mixing records together, but our records were video games. However, as time progressed, we wanted to get more direct access to the bleeps and bloops we'd been sampling and actually compose some tunes from scratch with those sounds. That dream was realized when we discovered a hidden sound sequencing program built into the Game Boy Camera. The Game Boy Camera is otherwise a fairly useless novelty that allows you to take digital pictures with your old 8-bit Nintendo Game Boy. The pictures are, as you would expect, pretty grainy and digital. A cool effect, but I don't think it's anything that you can't achieve with Photoshop. However, by accessing a game mode inside the software menu, and by shooting the appropriate bad guy at the beginning of the first level, you are magically transported to a 3-channel, 16-step sequencer that is loads of fun! It turns out the Game Boy Camera is not the only Game Boy-based sound program. There are at least two others: Little Sound DJ and Nanoloop. The Game Boy Camera's version may be the simplest of the three, but it still can serve up some cool sound textures that would be hard to imitate with a generic synthesizer. The 16-step sequencer has three different channels: Sound I, Sound II, and Noise (aka drums). Sound I seems to be a square-wave-type sound. You can change the duty cycle; apply either a rising or falling volume envelope with varying rise/fall time; gate the sound to make it either long or short (or ungate it to make it continuous until the next note); and apply an LFO modulation with variable depth, frequency, and a choice of three different modulation waveforms (sine, square, and random). Besides all that, you can shrink or stretch the loop length from two to sixteen steps, choose notes over a three-octave range, and pan the sound left, right, or center. Not bad for just sound #1! Sound II has similar controls (minus a few), except you have the choice of three different waveforms. One is also square, another sounds rather Speak & Spell-ish, and the third can actually be conformed to your own choosing! It's fun to see what different shapes sound like. The noise (or drum) channel lets you create some pretty cool 8-bit beats. You can choose two different noise sounds for each note, pan them, and control the volume envelope and gate. Turning the gate off makes for some pretty awesome industrial sounds. If you hit the B button, you are taken to a screen where you can control things from a higher level while you watch a Game Boy version of yourself move your hands around a keyboard, mixer, and turntable. Here you can control Tempo, bring each sound in and out, and add some preset sound effect samples on top. You can even do a fake scratching sort of thing by pushing hard right or left. The greatest fun, however, is probably had by staying within the low-level sequencing screens and manipulating the parameters in real-time. The gate function is especially useful for this. Unfortunately, when switching between sounds, there is a slight gap in the music, but one has to make do. If the Nintendo Game Boy isn't old-skool enough for you, Paul Slocum's Synthcart for the Atari 2600 will hopefully fill the void. Slocum is a veritable genius of hacking old technology to make music and/or other fun things. He has a number of projects under his belt and underway that are all super cool. The Synthcart is no exception. The Atari Synthcart is an actual working hardware cartridge (however, you can also download a software only version that works with Atari emulators). To play the Synthcart, you must acquire two Atari keyboard controllers. I'm not sure what games used these, but they are basically a 12-button device (there's no joystick, just buttons). I have found that on eBay there are two versions available. One has hard plastic buttons; the other has soft rubber buttons. The plastic button one is a little more fun to use for the beat section of the Synthcart, but the rubber button one is far superior (and less painful on the fingers) for playing notes. Also, the buttons on the plastic version can come loose after heavy use. So if you have to choose, go with the rubber button style. What you get with the Synthcart is basically a simple keyboard with a handful of sounds and about 33 preprogrammed beats. Depending on the positions of the various switches on the Atari 2600 console, each keyboard controller will take on a different sound or activate the rhythm section. Each button will trigger a different note or beat preset. Multiple notes can be held down to achieve either chords or arpeggiation (depending on how you select it on the setup screen). You can even play multiple beats at the same time! There are two setup screens that allow you to change the way the Synthcart behaves. You can change the tempo, scale, arpeggiation style, volume envelope, tremolo, beat bank, and coarsely control the level between the sound on the left vs. right keypad. The nature of the beast makes the tempos a bit strange, the noise floor a bit high, and the actual note values slightly off key. But you shouldn't let this deter you. The sounds that come out of this thing are incredible, and it's well worth the quirkiness to get down and dirty with them. What's more, a hidden Easter egg allows you to enter a light show mode where the entire screen flashes in patterns and colors that correspond to the music you make with the keypads. This was used to great effect when Royal Space Force performed with two Synthcarts live at SXSW 2005. I wish I could have been in the audience to see it projected on the big screen behind us. Unfortunately, before you can make full use out of the light show mode, you have to become well acquainted with Mr. Synthcart because you will no longer be able to see what you're doing on the screen. Just make good notes, and you'll be ok. Heading back in the other direction, I recently became aware of a third hardware-based video game music device known as Midines. The origins of Midines are rather mysterious. The inventor at www.wayfar.net has chosen to remain anonymous, so we can only guess at his identity and intentions. Nonetheless, whoever is responsible for this piece has fulfilled a longtime dream of mine. Midines is an actual 8-bit Nintendo cartridge (the US version, not Famicom) with a MIDI cable coming out of it. You plug the MIDI cable into a keyboard, PC, etc, and you can control the sound chip in the Nintendo at the press of a key (or two or three). For those that aren't aware, the Nintendo sound chip contains five sounds: two square (or pulse) waves, one triangle wave, a noise channel, and a PCM sample bank. Midines gives you access to each of these sounds by putting them on different MIDI channels. For this reason, it probably makes the most sense to compose for Midines with a computer sequencing program. You'll just have an easier time controlling all the channels at once that way. Since I'm not much of a MIDI guy, I haven't delved too deep into this one yet, but the sounds are great fun. The square/pulse waves are like your two melody lines, the triangle wave is like the bass, the noise for rhythm or special effects, and the PCM bank houses an entire drum kit apparently sampled from a TR-707 and other classic drum machines. Here is where I wish you could change things up by uploading your own samples, but beggars can't be choosers. I look forward to composing some of my own 8-bit Nintendo songs once I get my whole MIDI setup going for my computer. All in all, these three devices can provide hours of entertainment as well as sounds and textures you won't find elsewhere. Those of us who grew up on the old video games have a special set of memories associated with the lo-fi bleeps and bloops lying dormant in our brains. It's great fun to tap into that and relive one's youth. The video game music (or chip tune) genre has been exploding as of late. And with toys like this, it's no wonder. (Game Boy Camera $3-$10, www.ebay.com; Synthcart $25, qotile.net/synth.html; Midines $99, www.wayfar.net)
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The Lake Norman Kiwanis Club recently awarded six $500 college scholarships to members of Key Clubs at three local high schools. Meanwhile, the club's first 5K Trail Run/Walk at Rural Hill May 18 raised $750 for charity.
Key Club International, an international high school program sponsored by Kiwanis International, is the oldest and largest service leadership organization for teens, teaching leadership through service to others.
Each scholarship award winner volunteered for a minimum of 50 hours of community service and wrote an essay about what they learned about leadership or volunteerism as a Key Club member.
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- Hopewell High School: Elizabeth Beth Conner – Club adviser Anne Conner
- Lake Norman Charter – Sarah Fletcher, Radhika Wakankar – Club adviser Leigh Anne Williams
The Lake Norman Kiwanis Club is thanking sponsors, volunteers, walkers, and runners who helped raise more than $750 for MusicalMinds NC and other charities during the inaugural Lake Norman Kiwanis 5k Trail Walk/Run at Rural Hill on May 18. Medals were awarded to all who finished the race.


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China Symposium: The Future Risk and Opportunity Of Online's Impact on Shopping Mall Ownership
May 6, 2015
Appconomy President and COO, Brian Magierski, will talk about the ecosystem embracing both offline and online worlds that interact with each other to create a seamless experience to the consumer. He will also share success stories of using loyalty, context-awareness, smart locations, social, payments and stored-value features that power the consumer journey of today and the future.
High-Powered Summit Aims to Link Austin, Chinese Entrepreneurs
April 8, 2015
Chinese investors and business owners will mingle in Austin Monday and Tuesday with American companies seeking partnerships and foreign expansions. The 2015 China-U.S. Private Investment Summit will also include a keynote speech from President Bill Clinton. Day one of the Summit will provide a series of expert panel discussions about the business, historical and cultural relationships of the two countries. Day two will feature closed-door investment project pitches with Chinese and U.S. investors.
Appconomy Announces Additions to Their Leadership Team
March 26, 2015
Appconomy announces the addition of Lisa Pearson and Michael Beamer to their leadership team.
Smart Life, Co-Authored by Dr. Liu Jiren and Steve Papermaster, Has Been Published
September 10, 2013
The book Smart Life has been officially released by CITIC Publishing House, co-authored by Dr. Liu Jiren, chairman and founder of Neusoft Corporation, and Steve Papermaster, chairman and co-CEO of Appconomy, Inc. Based on the analysis of nine current trends, this book discusses how mobile applications and devices have been changing people's work, entertainment and lifestyles. It aims to guide readers on how to bring the changing technologies into full play to improve people's life and create a better world.
Appconomy's Jinjin Loyalty App Wins 1st Prize in Prestigious China Mobile App Competition
August 28, 2013
Appconomy, Inc. today announced that its Jinjin Marketplace loyalty app was awarded 1st Prize in the China Mobile App Competition, produced by The Chinese Institute of Electronics.
ByteLight Reinvents Retail Check-ins and Check-Outs with New Light Field Communication Standard
July 31, 2013
The company revolutionizing indoor location with lighting-based software partners with Appconomy to pilot light field communication readers with Chinese retailers.
Appconomy Launches Carrefour Smart Shopper App in China in a Major Milestone for the Retail Industry
June 20, 2013
Appconomy, Inc. today launched its first-in-China, context-aware, mobile marketing platform with the introduction of the Carrefour Smart Shopper app. The Carrefour Smart Shopper app combines state-of-the-art indoor location sensing technology, a user-friendly, social shopping list, and a sophisticated advertising system that enables retailers to engage with their customers in a next generation of personalization.
Major Upgrade of Zhangyingbao Mobile Service for Taobao Merchants, Powered by Appconomy, Provides Integrated Social Media, a New UI, and Enhanced Taobao Integration
June 13, 2013
This significant update to the Zhangyingbao mobile service, powered by the Appconomy platform, includes a new and improved user interface for Zhangyingbao-generated mobile apps and the ability for app users to extensively share and promote their Taobao shopping experiences through popular Chinese social media like Sina Weibo and Tencent Wechat.
Appconomy Appoints Charles Liu, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
June 3, 2013
Appconomy, Inc., a leading developer of mobile commerce applications and marketing tools, announced today that Charles Zhengyu Liu has been appointed Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the company. Prior to joining Appconomy, Mr. Liu had served as a senior manager with RIM (now named Blackberry) in China since the company opened operations in 2006, first as the General Manager of RIM China and more recently as Chairman of RIM Mobile Science & Technology (China) Co., Ltd.
Appconomy Launches Mobile App Generator Service for Merchants on Taobao, the World's Largest E-commerce Marketplace
Feb 21, 2013
Appconomy, Inc., a leading developer of mobile commerce applications and marketing tools, announced today the launch of a service from its Cloud Commerce Platform that is designed specifically for merchants selling on Taobao in China. By using the service, Taobao merchants can create a native mobile app of their store, in less than 5 minutes and with no technical knowledge required.
Appconomy Launches Mobile Gifting in China, Providing a Powerful, New Platform for Retail and Food & Beverage Merchants to Grow Revenue and Acquire Customers
Feb 7, 2013
Appconomy, Inc., developer of the Appconomy Commerce Cloud platform and mobile apps, announced today the launch of Mobile Gifting in its Jinjin mobile marketplace in China. With Mobile Gifting, merchants listed in the Jinjin app can make their products and services available for purchase by Jinjin users as gifts for their friends, family and colleagues.
Appconomy Announces Launch of its Jinjin Marketplace in China; Completes Series A Round for $16 Million Total
Dec 20, 2012
Appconomy, Inc., developer of the Appconomy Commerce Cloud platform and mobile apps, announced today the launch of its Jinjin™ mobile marketplace in China. The Jinjin marketplace launched in two of China's most strategic markets, Beijing and Shanghai, the nation's capital and the country's largest city, respectively. Appconomy also announced that it had raised an additional $6 million in venture financing to complete its Series A round, for a final total of more than $16 million, to continue the rapid introduction of the Jinjin marketplace app and its mobile solutions across China's retail industry.
Appconomy Announces Jinjin (TM) Platform and Apps for Retail Merchants, Leading the Mobile Revolution in China
Nov 1, 2012
Appconomy, Inc. announced today the general availability of its Jinjin™ mobile platform and apps for large and small retailers at the 14th China Retail Industry Convention, being held here in Tianjin, just outside of Beijing. Appconomy's retail solutions, being demonstrated at the convention's Expo, combine in-store guides, smart shopping lists, and personalized in-store promotions to retail consumers using Android or iOS devices, combined with retailer-specific loyalty plans and customer analysis that make the Jinjin platform an appealing choice for retail chains.
Joe Canterbury, Long-Time Starbucks Global Business Development Executive, Joins Appconomy
Apr 10, 2012
Appconomy, Inc. announced today that Joe Canterbury, a key executive responsible for international business development for Starbucks for more than a decade, has joined the company to lead its global market operations, including Marketing, Sales, Business Development and Support functions.
Appconomy Closes $10 Million Financing Round, Including Strategic Shareholder Neusoft; Accelerates Operations in China
Dec 19, 2011
Appconomy, Inc. announced today that it has closed a $10 million round of Series A equity and venture debt funding intended to accelerate the company's strategic initiatives and operations in China. Shanghai-based Qiming Ventures led the round, and will have a representative join Appconomy's board of directors. Neusoft Corporation became a significant minority shareholder of Appconomy. Other participants in the round included existing investors Western Technology Investment and True Ventures.
FSNTracks iPhone Mobile App Available
Oct 26, 2011
FreightWatch Security Net (FSN), a leading provider of embeddable, covert tracking solutions, announces the availability of FSNtracks iPhone app for free download in the iTunes App Store. The FSNtracks mobile app is powered by a mobile app platform developed by Appconomy, with U.S. headquarters in Austin, Texas. In addition to using components of its first generation platform, Appconomy also provided design, development, and integration assistance for the creation of the FSNtracks app.
Appconomy and Neusoft, China's Largest IT Solution & Service Provider, Announce Plans to Form Strategic Alliance to Power AppCommerce in US and China
Sep 26, 2011
Neusoft Corporation, the largest IT solution & service provider in China, and Appconomy, Inc. announced today plans to form a strategic alliance. By integrating the powerful Appconomy Platform for AppCommerce with Neusoft's cross platform app environment, Appconomy will be able to power a new generation of commerce and community apps in the US, China, and globally. In connection with the alliance, Neusoft will become a significant minority shareholder in Appconomy and will license its cross platform app environment to Appconomy. Both companies will seek to leverage combined customers and partners in the two largest markets for apps in the world.
Appconomy Announces Acquisition of Yoohoot Media and Key Management Additions Powering Further Growth of its Global Apps Platform
Aug 17, 2011
Appconomy, which develops and powers apps that simplify and improve peoples' lives, today announced the acquisition of AppCommerce company Yoohoot Media, Inc., along with the addition of its co-founder, Gerry Goldstein, as VP of AppCommerce. It also announced the addition of Scott Brittain, a member of the senior executive team from the enterprise software company, SolarWinds, Inc. (NYSE: SWI), to the Appconomy management team, as VP of Products.
Appconomy Raises $1.5 Million, Seeks to Revolutionize Work with Mobile Apps
Dec 28, 2010
The Apps are the Economy! Appconomy, Inc. today announced an initial $1.5 million funding round led by True Ventures. With this funding, Appconomy enters the $35 Billion global apps market, seeking to innovate work-based apps that power the economies of people, businesses and enterprises.


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ISSUE DATE: October 10, 2000
What's New
Awards, Honors and Recognition
Awards, Honors and Recognition
What's New?
Global exchange
A contribution by Mario Varuzza (International Education)
The fall Study Abroad Fair, held in the Lecture Center on September 26, was a great success. More than 500 students explored the possibility of studying abroad. Through discussion with program directors, staff from other SUNY schools and international students, they learned about the overseas programs offered through the SUNY system. For the first time, the Educational Opportunity Program was represented at the Study Abroad Fair to encourage EOP students to take advantage of this opportunity. The Center for International Programs would like to thank the faculty and staff of New Paltz for realizing the importance of global exchange and encouraging students to attend the fair. We hope that each year the fair will continue to be successful in promoting international education.
In a theatre near you
Tony Kirby (Angelo Miliano) and Alice Sycamore (Nia Curran McGovern) return home after an evening at the ballet in You Can't Take It With You, the 1930s comedy by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart being performed by theatre arts students in McKenna Theatre through October 15. Simone Federman is the show's director. For tickets or more information, please call the box office at x3880. Photo by David Cavallaro.
... An event has been added to Unity in Diversity Festival activities, which are being co-sponsored by SUNY New Paltz and the village and town of New Paltz. The event, an open community discussion of Larry Watson's Montana 1948 and issues involving social justice, will be held 7-8:30 p.m. on Thursday, October 12. Attendance/participation is free. The Unity in Diversity Day Festival will take place the following Sunday in Hasbrouck Park.
... The SUNY New Paltz web site was 100 percent accessible to people with disabilities as of the September 30 deadline. Links to some non-compliant sites were removed. Managers of those sites should contact the web coordinator at x3274 for assistance in bringing those sites up to standard.
... Guidelines for requesting surplus items have been established by the Office of Property Control. Thank you in advance for your cooperation, and please direct any additional questions to Jane Wood at x3269.
... Legislation barring the display of a student's social security number passed the State Legislature, and takes effect July 1. According to SUNY Central, SSNs cannot be in a posting or public listing of grades, on class rosters or other lists provided to teachers, on student ID cards, or in directories or similar listings. Jonathan Lewit, assistant vice president of technology and information systems, said that New Paltz has begun implementing the required changes by switching over to the use of the 16-digit ID number on the SUNYCARD. The first eight digits of the ID are the campus code, and the next eight identify the person who owns it. When used, this ID will be preceded by the letter X so that it is clear that it isn't an SSN. Anyone who does not have a SUNY ID should get one now. Some forms do require a faculty SSN; these will likely be changed as time allows.
Awards, Honors, and Recognition
Anne Moss, SUNY New Paltz Foundation treasurer, received an Emmy Award last month for her work as the host of a segment on the WPSX-TV/Penn State Sports Network's "Center Court With Rene Portland." The six-show series is a behind- the-scenes look at Penn State women's basketball. The honor was announced September 18 during the 2000 Mid-Atlantic Emmy Awards Show in Philadelphia.
A book by Sheila Schwartz (Professor Emerita/Secondary Education), The Little Terrorist, is being published this month by Xlibris, the Internet company of Random House. The novel — set in Balmville, Newburgh and at Stewart Airport — is about the effects of terrorism around the world. The "terrorist" is an injured child who may be part of a terrorist family. Schwarz is the author of 15 books, and has been editing novels for the Writers Digest Criticism Service. She has just completed a six- month job as senior project editor at McGraw-Hill.
An essay by H.R. Stoneback (English), "Freedom and Motion, Place and Placelessness: On the Road in Hemingway's America," is included in Hemingway and the Natural World, a collection of critical essays edited by R. Fleming and published by the University of Idaho Press. Additionally, Stoneback was a featured speaker at the International Faith and Literary Art Conference held at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, last winter. Following a featured address by author John Grisham, Stoneback presented " 'Drink Your Beer, Billy Graham': Hemingway's Religious Pilgrimages from Oak Park to Africa." While in Texas, he also gave a poetry reading at an international event titled Art & Soul Writer's Conference.
An exhibition of the jewelry work of Jamie Bennett (Art and Class of '74) was held at YU Gallery of Mizuno College in Tokyo, Japan, last summer. The Mizuno College Museum purchased two of his works for their permanent collection. Bennett also conducted a one-week seminar on traditional strategies in jewelry design at Mizuno College.
During the spring semester, Eugene Heath (Philosophy) was a European Enlightenment Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, Scotland There he also presented a talk, "The Eighteenth-Century Scots on the Unintended Emergence of Morals and Customs." Additionally, Heath presented a paper, "Adam Smith on Benevolence and Commerce: A New View from an Old Guide," to the world congress of the International Society of Business, Economics, and Ethics, gathered in July in Săo Paulo, Brazil.
Students in the news
A five-person production crew from MTV spent September 12 and 15 on campus shooting an episode of "Mission Makeover," a new program which premiered last month. Senior and business administration major George Greis and other New Paltz students and faculty will appear in the episode which will air on MTV at 3 p.m. this Thursday. Greis was selected to receive a makeover, one-night stay in New York City, and starring role in the episode through a contest he entered locally.
Photo (right): Student George Greis' daily activities at SUNY New Paltz are filmed by MTV production assistant Deanna Wollenburg for a "Mission Makeover" episode to air Thursday, October 12. Other crew members pictured are, from L to R: Gillian Walsh, producer of the episode, and Donna Maringelli, production manager.
News Pulse is published for the faculty and staff of SUNY New Paltz by the Office of Public Affairs, Division of Advancement. It is printed in house on recycled paper and is also available at www.newpaltz.edu/newspulse. To submit information to the newsletter, please complete the online submission form at http://hawk.newpaltz.edu/newspulse. Contact writer/editor Nancy Pizio at x3187 with any additional concerns. We appreciate your patience at items are included as expeditiously as possible. Past issues are now available online!


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Johnson breaks league stolen base mark with seven steals in final two games
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The Swift Current Indians will enter the Western Major Baseball League playoffs on a five-game winning streak after doubling up on the Moose Miller Express 10-5 Wednesday.
The game, meaningless in the standings, was highlighted by outfielder Josh Johnson stealing his 37th and 38th bases of the season to set the league record. The outfielder from Tampa, Florida also led the league in runs scored and finished third with a .379 average.
Eric Sams also had a big game with two home runs, four runs batted in and three runs scored.
Mike Frericks picked up the win with four scoreless relief innings, allowing only two hits and two walks while striking out three. Locals Justin Kehler and Reilley Grose both pitched scoreless innings as well.
The Indians finished the season with a 28-18 record to win the Central Division and had the third best winning percentage (.609) in the 11-team league.
They will now face the Weyburn Beavers (20-26) in the opening round of the playoffs. The best-of-five series opens Friday and Saturday in Swift Current at 7:05 p.m. at Mitchell Field each night. The two teams split the four-game season series with both teams winning once at home and once on the road.


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It occupies an abandoned Conrail railroad corridor that had been known as the "Panhandle Railroad". It has been converted to a bicycle and walking trail. It covers a distance of 29 miles from Walkers Mill, Pennsylvania to Weirton, West Virginia.
The Panhandle Trail, an interstate rails-to-trails project that runs 29 miles between Walker's Mill, Pennsylvania (Near Pittsburgh) to Weirton, West Virginia. The name "Panhandle" comes from the former railroad line that ran through this corridor. It was originally the P.C.C.& St.L.RR. which stands for Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis. Afterwards it was taken over by the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR), also known as "The Pennsy," and then Conrail. The railroad became abandoned in the 1980s, and in 1999 became known as "The Panhandle Trail


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This is the 21st century. I'm on board with retiring the name/mascot of Washington's football team. I've tried my best to refrain from using the name on this site, instead going with "Washington Snyders."
The debate about the nickname is back, perhaps because of the resurgence of the franchise behind its new phenom quarterback Robert Griffin III. There is a consensus. Everyone believes at least this: "I can see a lot of reasonable people being offended by that."
Another reason to change the name: the Western theme is a bit tired and old fashioned. As you can see from my suggestion below, there is a largely untapped area of a very popular genre that can be looked to for new names, and I'd be willing to bet that Daniel Snyder would like to be seen as the first to do so (and make a lot more money than with the current controversial name).
I get that it is a tough thing to change. Tradition has a pull. Look, as a fan, it's hard to give up that fight song. It's very catchy. I guess we're conditioned to love it because it plays every time something really good happens. It's very Pavlovian for us. However, I think a lot of us would gladly give it up if you gave us something clearly better.
The change needs to be to something unique and awesome (as in, "Wow! That's kind of cool. I wonder why nobody thought of that before.") It should be something from our more modern culture that creates a great contrast with the previous anachronistic nickname. Of course, to enhance the likelihood that the change will occur, it needs to be a choice that has the potential for Daniel Snyder to make a lot of new money.
The Washington professional football team should consider a deal with Marvel to use its character Wolverine as the football franchise's nickname/mascot. For the unfamiliar, from IMDB:
Wolverine is a mutant, possessing animal-keen senses, enhanced physical capabilities, [a metal-coated skeleton], three retracting claws on each hand, and a healing factor that allows him to recover from virtually any wound, disease or toxin at an accelerated rate.
A "healing factor" mascot would be a fitting inspiration for a team with RGIII. Some will say, "Yeah, but, isn't Wolverine a Canadian?" I'd answer, true, but Vikings are hardly Americans either.
The culture has clearly shifted away from the whole Cowboys and Indians theme. The people have spoken. Look at what's raking in the cash in theaters or on TV. Is it Westerns or Comic Book properties? The Washington Wolverines would have the most marketable mascot/logo of any professional sports team. The character's own fanbase would drive an increase in merchandise sales. You can easily imagine a sea of foam claws ($15 per pair) slicing the air at FedEx Field. Hey, Marvel, I bet a lot of those fans will be snatching up a bunch of those Halloween costumes. Oh, and the hair … so many possibilities for the fandom. (Start with a rainbow Wolverine wig and a Logan 3:16 sign.) Also, I think the burgundy and gold team colors can be carried over and adapted to the character.
Look, Mr. Snyder, you don't even have to choose "Wolverines," just try to get really creative with it. You did get your wealth from an innovative and modern business sector. I don't want to see any Washington Generals or Washington Senators or Washington Monuments or Washington Blue Herons or Washington Lobbyists. Don't name your team after the damn airport! To make the change smooth, you have to give us something great.


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Ex-Norwich City goalkeeper Chris Woods, who is now goalkeeping coach at Everton.
Michael Bailey
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
John Ruddy has time on his side regarding international recognition, as far as ex-Canaries stopper and current Everton goalkeeping coach Chris Woods is concerned.
Woods, a 1985 League Cup and Second Division title winner during his five years with Norwich City, helped develop Ruddy as a prospect at Goodison Park before he made his move to Carrow Road in July 2010.
Since then Ruddy has impressed, becoming one of the Premier League's top young goalkeepers and a major contender for City's player of the season award this term. And although the England call-up some Norwich fans have looked for has not arrived yet, Woods is happy to see his old protégé blossoming at his former club.
"I'm not surprised with John's success at all – he was with us for a number of years and he's always had great potential," said Woods, capped 43 times by England. "He needed the games, which he left Everton to get, and it has helped him enormously. He's a great reader of the game, a great presence and he's just proved to everyone how good a keeper he has become.
"It's hard when you are not playing games because you need to do that in order to make decisions. You can't make decisions on a training ground, day in day out. That's the important thing and John has been really good with the fact he goes out and generally the decisions he makes are correct.
"Obviously consistency is a major part of a goalkeeping repertoire and you need to make sure if you do make a mistake, it's going to be three or four games until you make another.
"That's what you have to learn and I'm sure that is what John is learning all the time. He is a very level-headed lad that works hard, so I'm just really pleased he is where he is."
And that England call?
"He's only played in the top flight for one season and he's not even completed that yet – but all John has got to keep doing is carrying on putting the performances in and let everything else take care of itself.
"You know what it's like. As soon as you start playing well people start saying this, that and the other. You need to keep focused on the position and the job that you've got in front of you and I'm sure John will do that."
In-form Everton visit Carrow Road on Saturday having lost just twice in 15 matches and have an FA Cup semi-final with city rivals Liverpool to look forward to seven days later. And Woods is looking forward to a rare trip back to the club at which he made 267 appearances following a 1981 move from QPR.
"I can't believe when I look back how many years ago that was – I'm getting old, I'm afraid," said the 52-year-old. "I've been back a couple of times since I left and there have been massive changes. It's a great ground and when it's full it has got a really great atmosphere. It's somewhere that will always be very close to me – I thoroughly enjoyed my time there.
"It was a great place to be. We went to the Milk Cup final, we ended up with a relegation and promotion, so there was a bit of everything. We had a great set of lads and everybody went out together, played hard for each other and the staff was good. The whole club, I can't speak highly enough about it. It was a great time in my career."
Woods agrees that some of those old habits shine through Paul Lambert's current side, guided by his assistant Ian Culverhouse – a former City team-mate of Woods, who moved to Scottish giants Glasgow Rangers when he left in 1986.
"It's great to see people you played with and go on about old times and then see what they're doing at the moment," added Woods. "I probably played against Paul (Lambert) when he was at St Mirren but it's a long time ago. Obviously he has done a tremendous job at Norwich and hopefully I'll wish both him and Ian continued success – after Saturday."
Those Norwich fans hoping Everton's big date with Liverpool could mean David Moyes' men take their eyes off their Easter challenge may be left disappointed.
"The manager wouldn't let that happen," warned Woods. "We've also got Sunderland at home on Monday, so we won't be looking at the semi-final until after that.
"Everybody wants to play in the big games and you need to make sure you are performing so you get picked and play in those. No matter who you're playing we like to think everybody is working hard to achieve that.
"But we're not too bad at the moment. Obviously it's going to be a tough game coming up to Carrow Road. Norwich have been playing well and they've had a great season so far."
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red rooster your a c**k. MAD BREWER WHAT A LEGEND K K WAS . I REMEMBER STANDING IN THE BARCLAY AND SINGING KEELAN FOR INDIA
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Sian, "KK a Welsh legend" is stretching it a bit! He was born in Calcutta. True, he played a few games for Wrexham before he signed for NCFC in 1963 but he played nearly 600 games for us! Yarco, I remember singing "ay yi yi yi, Keelan is better than Yashin, Bolland is better than Eusebio and 1p5wich are in for a thrashin`". Approximately! Btw, Sian you have conned me out of my share of the "Delila`s Depilatory" Dosh. I spoke to the King of Spain the other day and he denies using any of it, but he did mention giving a lot of money to a strange Welsh lady for something called a Welshpool Wax. Sort it out!
Thursday, April 5, 2012
Time may well be on Cruddy's side, but unfortunately goalkeeping ability isn't. He's simply not good enough for the Premier League. We should let him go out on loan to a Championship club for a season and then take him back when we get relegated. Ged - NCFC Fan Spokesman (and Pinkun legend)
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Mr Ed has a valid point. FF was great while we were pounding teams in L1. He was superb there. JR has seen us through the Championship and is doing his bit in the Prem. Still only 25. Very young for a goalie. PP; I never thought Gunn was a particularly good goalie either. He was there in more spacious days. Job for Life. Keelan was hugely better. As was Chris Woods, Ken Nethercott, Sandy Kennon, Andy Marshall and Cody MacDonald! Also a dreadful choice as "Manager". And that embarrassing air-shot at 1p5wich to gift them a win!! Unforgiveable.
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Ethered. FF was super. Better than BG! KK was the best. Cody MacDonald was in same category as "airshot" Gunn. But "Hellboy" Ruddy is competing for us in a very hard Premiership. He`s doing fine. OTBC.
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
He will never be patch on F.Foster who I believe is with Celtic now. Probably those that think Ruddy is good also thought B.Gunn was. I have VHS tape of both Munich Norwich games, easy to see why Norwich lost. Clean sheets, what are they?
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
What's occuring Mr Brewer? If you can show me a contract then I can show you some of me hard-earned money, if not you will just have to whistle for it. You may have noticed how many of your players are completely bald, well I can tell you we have probably over-cooked the mixture a little. Andrew Crofts used to stock up on it when he was attending Wales training and supply the rest but he developed immunity see, and now his hair's come back. Anyways, gotta go, I 've got an appointment at the tatoo parlour, holiday special, two for one.
Thursday, April 5, 2012
But let's face it, "M'Fanwy's Muffin Away" and "How Clean is my Valley" were not really good brand names for the intimate depliatory market were they? Probably best to stick to the beer and ale market. We know you know it back to front, whereas most of the guys only know it upside down.
Thursday, April 5, 2012
Correction! KK played 673 games for us, the first against Cardiff. More Welsh connection. Btw, his middle name was Damien. Should have stopped at 666 games! OTBC.
Thursday, April 5, 2012
Sian, you`re a meany. All that creative thought I put into rebranding Muffannwy`s original product and sourcing local materials like Samphire and farm slurry. I will never trust a Welsh Witch again! I hope the tattooist punctures your implants. lol.x.
Thursday, April 5, 2012
Woodsy would fill a wider goal these days. Does he go out to lunch with Gunny?
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Sorry PP, but couldn't disagree more. I wonder how FF would have coped with some of the Premier League forwards. FF was our keeper when we were down in league 1 and I would say the standard in the SPL isn't much higher than that!!
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Woodsy would fill a wider goal these days. Does he go out to lunch with Gunny?
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
What's occuring Yarco? I appreciate your sentiment but have to point out that I only have memories of memories a baby carrot or some other mini-veg. Kevin Keelan, a Welsh legend. Ged ddatrys y broblem! Rydych crio gwastraff o groen.
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
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Chilongozi School takes around 237 pupils, in 9 grades, being taught by 8 teachers (a ratio of around 30 pupils to 1 teacher) - of these children many are orphaned. The school is in the very remote Malama Chiefdom, in the GMA on the other side of the Luangwa River to our bushcamps, where human-wildlife conflict is a major issue. As the crow flies Chilongozi School is somewhere in between Chindeni & Bilimungwe bushcamps - on the eastern side of the River. The school is run by Mr Mwale, the Head Teacher, and his team of 7 other teachers.
The Bushcamp Company supports the school, giving assistance wi th the purchasing of the school's stationery supplies - books, pencils, papers, text books. With the help of guests' generosity we send 6 older children (grades 10 & 11) to High School by paying their school & boarding fees, uniforms etc. The Bushcamp Company also pays three teachers' salaries to supplement the Government-funded teachers and have paid to have a new teacher's house built and to sink a borehole. We hope to build more houses and a classroom in the future. To encourage a conservation mindset within the children, in 2009 we started what we hope will be an annual event, by taking 100 kids from the school on a game drive, where our professional guides gave conservation-orientated talks and hosted them for lunch.


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Tying with Woodduck Flank
By Bob Petti
flank feathers are without a doubt one of the most beautiful
feathers in all of nature. Their utility as a fly tying material
is legendary - and deservedly so. They can be used in many different
ways in a variety of fly styles. Certainly for trout fly tyers,
woodduck flank feathers possess magic powers.
See some patterns utilizing Woodduck
Dry Flies Wet Flies Streamers Nymphs
I have to admit a particular fondness for woodduck flank. Ever since I was given my first baggie of feathers from a duck hunting friend, I was smitten. The color - the texture - the barring of the feathers - like so many natural fly tying materials they have a natural beauty above and beyond the world of fly tying. The fact that they are so useful as a material for trout flies makes my modest stash of feathers one of my most prized possessions. Indeed, you truly can never have too many woodduck feathers.
The terms woodduck, summer duck, and mandarin duck are oftentimes used interchangeably in fly tying texts, most often in the context of the buff colored barred flank feathers. Summer duck is a nickname that has been used for both the mandarin duck and the woodduck, there are in fact two distinct birds behind all these feathers. The woodduck, Aix sponsa, is native to North America while the mandarin duck, Aix galericulata, is native to Asia. The two are closely related biologically, the hens being almost indistinguishable in appearance, but the drakes are quite distinct on the water. However, it is the flank feathers of the drakes that are of great interest to fly tyers. They are so nearly identical that one can easily be used as a substitute for the other in all but the most strict tying recipes.
Undoubtedly the most common and well known use for woodduck flank feathers is the wings of dry flies. In fact, the upright and split woodduck flank wings on such flies as the Quill Gordon and the Hendrickson is the hallmark of Catskill style dry flies. It's not the only use for these precious feathers, however. Woodduck flank feathers are used in flies ranging from tiny emerging midge imitations to large trolling smelt streamers.
Fly Wings
As we mentioned above, dry fly winging is the most common use of woodduck flank feathers. While most tyers use a single feather for winging their dry flies, some use a pair of feathers, especially on larger flies like a size 12 Quill Gordon. For dry flies that utilize a pair of feathers, elongated feathers are more suitable. For flies that will use one feather to form the split wings, the "triangle" shaped feathers are perfect, especially the ones with a very flat top edge with few broken barbules.
In the early days of Catskill fly fishing, it seemed that each classic dry fly had a matching wet fly. While mainly out of fashion these days, a few of these old patterns remain quite effective in our trout streams. A few of my favorites include the Light Cahill, the Dark Cahill, the Hendrickson, and the Quill Gordon. The Quill Gordon wet, in particular, is an effective fly fished during a hatch because the dun emerges from it's nymphal shuck on the stream bottom and rises to the surface of the stream as with crumpled wings and flailing legs. While the Quill Gordon wet may not be a perfect anatomical representation of this stage of the emergence, it certainly is appropriate and it has brought many early season fish to hand.
Streamer Shoulders and Wings
If you look at a classic Rangeley style New England Streamer, you'll see one of the key features that separates these streamers from all other types of baitfish imitations. That is the use of a "shoulder" feather that simulates the head and gill plate of a baitfish. While many feathers are used for this purposes, there is little doubt that the Silver Pheasant is the most common. Woodduck flank is used on quite a few very beautiful streamers - from as far back as those designed by Carrie Stevens to modern flies designed by Mike Martinek, Jr. and his contemporaries. The woodduck with it's beautiful mottling and lovely "buff" color makes for a very striking shoulder on a streamer.
Nymphs and Emergers
The mottling and coloration of woodduck flank feathers make them very appropriate for tails and legs on mayfly nymphs and emergers. Since you only need a few fibers per tail or set of legs, it's a shame to waste a full feather for these purposes. When I prepare flank feathers for dry fly wings or wet fly wings, there always seems to be some leftover feather that can either be thrown away or save for nymph tails and legs.
This article was slanted heavily toward the use of woodduck flank feathers in trout flies. While this is certainly their most common use, it is not the only type of flies in which they can be used. Mark Waslik's "Camp Fly" is a salmon fly in the tradition of Earnest Crosfield that uses woodduck flank as the topping. Some of the classic lake flies shown in Mary Orvis Marbury's book has wings of woodduck flank. I've also seen examples of bass baitfish flies that make use of woodduck.
Talk to me
Do you have interesting uses for woodduck flank? Do you use it in some special flies? Do have have a favorite trick or tip you'd like to share? If so, write me and I'll update this feature with your thoughts and ideas.
Next to the "waste" feather is a handful of flies that make use of woodduck flank for nymph an emerger tails and legs. The CFC loopwing emergers were tied for the Hendrickson hatch on the West Branch of the Delaware. Not the easiest fly to see on the water, but it's effective.
From: Ron Cavalier · rc2512·at·aol.com Link
Submitted July 2nd 2012
Excellent explanation on the use of Woodduck Flank Feathers. Since converting from salt water to fresh water fly tying, I've been somewhat amazed at the variety of feathers used to tie various patterns and how many different applications there are..
From: Peter Kurylko · kurylkop·at·aol.com Link
Submitted March 14th 2009
I am an amateur fly tyer. I have used feathers but never of a Wood Duck. I recently found a Wood Duck killed by a predatory animal. Thank you for I hope to put your methods upon tying to use to make flies of higher standard to catch fish better. Very efficient site!!!
From: Ken Iwamasa · Iwamasa·at·colorado.edu Link
Submitted May 31st 2008
I am in need for whole wood duck skins. do you know anyone, hunters, etc, retails, that deals with them?
GFF staff commentFrom: Bob Petti · bob_petti·at·yahoo.com Link
Submitted February 23rd 2007
Here is a bit on the Wood Duck Heron, posted to the streamers@ list back in 2001.
From: Dave Wilson · dwils9·at·verizon.net Link
Submitted February 22nd 2007
I just started using wood duck flank feathers last fall and they have become one of my favorite tying materials. I saw a Wood Duck Heron fly mentioned in a recent article. Do you know where I can find a recipe for this fly. Thanks for any help you can givem. This is an excellent resource.
From: Russell Norville · norville·at·cableone.net Link
Submitted December 8th 2006
I am a duck hunter in west tennessee and i am a beginner fly tyer. Which feathers of wood duck and mallard are the feathers i need to keep? Also, do i need to do anything special to them?
From: Salvatore Ilardi · ymmasvorv61·at·hotmail.com Link
Submitted November 19th 2006
Hello , hope you are well. I have just discovered this site. Quite impressed. Im fairly new to fly fishing and im sure i will learn a great deal from this site.
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The comeback kid: Cape Coral-Fort Myers area fastest growing between 2012 and 2013
One might call Lee County the comeback kid.
After being pummeled by high foreclosure and unemployment rates during the last economic slowdown, the Cape Coral-Fort Myers metropolitan area was among the nation's fastest growing between 2012 and 2013, according to a list released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau.
The metro area landed 10th on the list because it grew by 2.5 percent to around 640,000 residents.
By comparison, the Naples-Immokalee-Marco Island metro area, which did not make the top 10, grew about 2 percent to 339,642.
Officials in Lee said the census announcement is just one of several positive indicators, both anecdotal and statistical, that suggest the county's recent economic troubles are coming to an end.
"As a community matures, you should have constant growth. Without growth, you really don't have prosperity," said Rick Michael, Lee's economic development director.
New construction permitting, annual taxable sales and tourism numbers rose in 2013.
"You see a lot of things heating up," Michael said.
A statistic that experts like to see diminishing is the unemployment rate.
The Cape Coral-Fort Myers metro area's unemployment rate topped 12 percent in 2010, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. It was among the hardest hit places in the state.
But in 2013, the metro area's unemployment dropped below 8 percent for the first time since about 2008.
Lee's Economic Development Office aims to continue adding employers to the region either by luring new businesses as done with car rental giant Hertz or through expansions of existing companies such as Gartner Inc.
"You're always going to have a major portion of the economy that is tourism and construction," Michael said. "There's certainly a need for further diversification for our workforce and who our employers are to protect the entire region from any future economic softness."
Foreclosures in Lee County have also fallen, with February filings falling to one of the county's lowest numbers since 2011.
There were 211 new filings in February, down from 265 in January and 422 a year ago, according to the Lee County Clerk's Office.
Cape Coral often led the nation in foreclosures for much of the economic downturn. But Dana Brunette, Cape Coral's economic development director, said the city and the rest of Lee County are experiencing "healthy, controlled growth," and the U.S. Census numbers prove it.
"It shows we're coming back strong as a region," Brunette said. "I wouldn't be surprised next year to see us higher on that list."
New construction is on the rise in many parts of the area, according to the county's Department of Community Development, which oversees planning, zoning, building and other development services in unincorporated Lee.
Single-family permits were up 55 percent over 2012. Through 2013, contractors pulled 860 permits to build single-family houses in unincorporated Lee County, according to Community Development. Collectively, the value of those permits is about $195 million.
Contractors pulled 82 single-family permits collectively valued at more than $16.2 million in February, according to Community Development. By comparison, 70 such permits were issued in February 2013.
General commercial activity was valued at more than $5 million in February. During that month in 2013, commercial permits came in at $979,850.
As more people move in, demand on county services and infrastructure will grow, too, and that's where growth management plans step in to make the transition smooth, said Rick Burris, principal planner for Lee County Community Development.
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Wed Dec 05, 2:38 pm
The Afghan Minister of Interior Affairs Mujtaba Patang says that the Afghan National Police is not nationalized along ethnic lines, but it is aligned unofficially into political and national interest groups.
Mr. Patang expressed these views when he was summoned to appear in front of the National Council to respond to the increase of insecurity and corruption at the national police level.
Members of the Parliament criticized Ministry Interior Affairs, saying, "A corruption within the National police infrastructure has caused insecurity in the country."
The Minister of Interior Affairs admitted the criticism, saying that the Afghan police force aligns itself along political and national interest group lines, but not along ethnic lines.
Mr. Patang emphasized these alignments had caused bickering and mistrust among people and created challenges at different leadership levels of the police force and had impacted the mission performance in some instances.
Mr. Patang's main objection as he spoke to the National Assembly was regarding the local police and he said, "The local police were assigned to work among their own local people and they are related to them. Unfortunately, this sometimes results in the local police supporting criminals because they think they must protect their relatives."
The strongest criticism was about the local police because they were recruited from local people and they had the apparent inability to effectively provide the necessary police protections among the local Afghan people because they seem to think they must not seek prosecution of family members or friends.
According to Mr. Patang these types of problems remain a legacy problem for the MOI since during the past decade the national police have been repeatedly accused of such behavior, and the attendant mistrust has caused people to join Government armed opposition groups such as the Taliban.
He stated that there had been strong police reforms since the earlier days of the ANP. He then said, "We are working on a strategic plan for a better security future for Afghanistan."
He said that the establishment of reforms within the police structure would require more time and that these reforms should be implemented to ensure better security conditions in the future.


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Steed, A; Milton, R; Spinello, S; Croxford, B; (2004) Data visualization within urban models. In: Proceedings - Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics 2004. (pp. 9 - 16).
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Last Thursday, various French newsrooms and ministerial cabinets received an email signed by a certain Didier L. The author, physically disabled by a genetic illness, lost his job four years ago and today finds himself destitute. Here is the seemingly banal story of an "invisible man" who refuses to give up.
Forty-years-old, Didier L suffers from a hereditary illness of the blood. An artistic director, he's been looking for work since the company he worked for was liquidated in 2004. He sent his "Letter to France" to various MPs and journalists, right up to the French President, Nicolas Sarkozy.
You can send Didier a question directly onto his profile page. He prefers to remain anonymous.
Four years ago, the company I worked for filed for bankruptcy. I was able to take advantage of the redundancy allowance while I searched for a new job. I spent 14 hours a day, seven days a week, on the internet. Out of 300 CVs I sent off, I had three responses. All negative.
After revaluating my situation, I looked for work in emerging countries in the Far East. Very soon an artistic director's post was offered to me in Hong Kong, in a large American architecture company. I was in charge of the communication across the four continents. Not bad for someone who didn't get their baccalaureate |exams taken at 19 in France]... But sadly, the humidity didn't help my illness at all and increased the pains by 60%... Despite the morphine patches.
So I returned to France. I wasn't eligible for any benefits, not even an unemployment allowance or a disability allowance, because according to the authorities, my wife's salary was sufficient. Nothing. We wanted to divorce, but I didn't have the means. I'm now a tenant in my own home, which I can't pay for anymore. In France, I'm an invisible citizen, in a judicial gap. I have no income and can claim nothing.
None of my employers knew of my disability. Some of them found out later and were very surprised. They just said that I worked more than the others... If only they knew that behind the humour and enthusiasm, I suffered permanently and only the morphine patches enabled me to get up in the morning.... If they had known that my right hip was fake, and the left would soon follow, that my shoulders were ruined and I had constant pain in my chest and back...
But I want to be judged by my professional abilities. So I clench my teeth. And I work twice as hard as the others. In any case, who knows about this illness, that even doctors find hard to explain.
Must I live abroad forever, despite my illness? As at least, outside of France, people are impressed by my creativity, whereas here, I don't even pass the interviews, because I don't have any qualifications.
My situation is complex. It would be easier just to be handicapped, just to be unemployed or just to be destitute. Usually people who accumulate become rich, no?
So I'm invisible. Condemned to roving, condemned to charity. There's nothing I can do. Not yet. I have a last bit of pride.
Today, I would like you to know that such a situation exists. That it must be remedied. I ask of you, reading this letter, maybe you'll be the one to answer my call...
I'm going back to Hong Kong in September. I'm putting my remaining finances into the trip. I'm hoping to find work there. I think it's my last chance. Never mind if I suffer, I'll clench my teeth. But I need to work, I love my work too much."
It is sad to know that in a country where human rights is of the highest importance can have someone with abilities but not being able to find a reasonable job for 4 years in his own country.
As a Chinese, I see France as a country with rich culture and abundant resources because of its car manufacturing industry, aviation, fashion and cosmetics, luxurious brands, tourism, wines and cuisines, etc. The country has exports to the international market and "Made in France" is a brand of quality. I've learnt French for 4 years. What I have heard most from my teachers, in the textbooks, and on the web is unemployment. On the news, you can hear huge layoffs. The other day I was searching for some exercises for public exams. On two of the websites, they had exercises talking about unemployment.
I don't understand what is happening in France. All I know is there is a lot of bad publicity around which is a shame for such a beautiful country.
Didier, don't despair! Your persistence will be paid off sooner or later...if not in France!
Hello Didier! I wish you good luck in Hong Kong! I find it strange that you cannot get any help in France. I have always known France to have a good social system, where people that are unemployed get helped by the state, and where there are a lot of incentives for child birth and a pro immigration politic. I hope all goes well, after all hard work is recognized everywhere.