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How long can this mac last? / SSD/RAM/battery upgrades
Hi guys,
I posted a question a day or two ago about the ram upgrade in my mid-2010 macbook pro 17" . I went ahead and purchased the 8gb max ram. Now of course I discovered SSD!
I would be willing to upgrade to an SSD, IF and only IF I can also purchase a battery and replace it for this thing later down the line. I'm already at 82% with 431 load cycles. I'm willing to dole out the cash for the SSD, but then I may need a new battery sometime in the future. I have yet to find a definite place to purchase a good battery for this 17" macbook.
Also, I can't afford the 480gb SSD. I could afford either the 128gb or 240gb from OWC. THe thing is storage.. I'll be headed to college this fall, I'm a photo major. I'm required to have TWO 1TB external drives, so it seems that everything is going to be stored on those. Plenty of room. I'd like to go for as much as I can afford, so it looks like I'd go for 240gb.
Is there a speed difference between 128gb and 240gb, or just capacity for file difference? Sorry for the stupid question.
Mid 2010, this thing is already pushing 4 years old. Is it unheard of to spend more money, and upgrade these things to make them last longer? Or should I not bother, leave it be, and upgrade to a new computer? THe thing is I love this 17" macbook.And they have been discontinued. It wasn't cheap when we got it, and for a few hundred more I think I can make it a brand new laptop.
I guess I just don't want to put a lot of money into it, for something else to crap out later.
What do you guys think? How old is your macbook pro?
But what you can do (if you REALLY want to)...is sell your current 17" MBP. Then buy a used Early 2011 or Late 2011 17" MBP (the last two 17" models Apple made)...then you have an REAL upgrade.
Alternatively. You could sell your 17" MBP...then purchase a new or newer 15" MBP...and use an external display if you need more screen real estate when working at a desk.
As far as the upgrades you mentioned. Max out the ram (if you haven't already)...and don't install an SSD larger than 256gig. If you go larger than that...then you'll be possibly spending too much money...which could be spent on a newer computer.
- Nick
Any individual computer could last for many, many years.
It could die later on today.
We have folks posting in the forum still using Macs made 10-15 years ago.
The last PC I had to fix was an 11 yr old Dell - now quite happily running Linux for it's owners.
How useful a computer is 5,7,10 years later depends on what you want/need to do on it.
For years, I had to build a new one every year if I wanted to put the latest software on it.
My needs have changed and now a computer is lasting me several years.
Thanks guys. So this is what I would need to correct... ? OWC OWCSSDMX6G240T 240GB Mercury EXTREME Pro 6G SSD... in stock at OWC .
Is there a speed difference between 120 and 240? I'd assume it's simply capacity. I'm trying to think if I could pull off 120GB, if I back up my pictures onto the external drives. I don't do much else, no apps really, just microsoft office and photoshop. Oh that reminds me, how will I transfer microsoft office/photoshop? I'd hate to have to purchase them again.
Since I got the laptop in 2011, I currently have used 75GB.
Whenever I create a short movie in iMovie, it takes a very long time to transfer files and load everything...I'm hoping a ram upgrade and SSD would speed things up.
I don't see a 256gb option. Anyway...wish there was a cheaper place to find one. Oh well...Any thoughts on a definite source for a battery for this model?
Thanks again.
According to the spec on the macsales website, you won't see a difference in performance between the 120GB and the 240GB version. There can be some differences with some models (and I'm pretty sure there will be a small one here), but according to the manufacturer the performance is the same, so you won't see any difference.
To transfer your files from one drive to the other, the easiest is to use time machine and backup your data on your external hard drive before making the swap.
Also you can get a box in which you can put your current hard drive in order to use it as an external drive, very handy. Mac sales should allow you to buy such a box when buying your SSD. If not, shop around.
As you have a standard macbook pro, you are not limited to OWC drives, you can get a 2.5" SSD from a different brand somewhere else.
Good luck!
No speed difference at all if they are the same drive. OWC makes 3GB/s and 6GB/s SATA II and SATA III. A 2010 MB used SATA II so go with the 3GB model. A 6gb/s model will simply run ay 3GB/s. If you are thinking of changing the MBP in the near future of course go with the 6GB/s. The 3GB version is about fifty bucks cheaper for the 240GB model. Have used Kingston, OWC, G.Skill Falcon and OCZ Vertex SSD
s and found OWC the most reliable:-:-
Okay, thanks guys. I will go for the 240GB drive. I received the 8GB of ram in the mail. Installed, Works great and I was able to open a TON of programs without a stutter. Nice.
The only thing I'm worried about is getting photoshop and MS office over to the new SSD. Oh, and of course itunes.
Can I really just copy the hard drive onto an external drive, and then move it all to the new drive once it's installed? I don't see how that could work, because wouldn't everyone be sharing photoshop and MS word that way?
Will I need to reinstall OSX lion?
Thanks again.
You can try however Migrating larger applications, particularly MS Office and Adobe generally requires re-activation. You do not have to upgrade to Lion particularly if you are using older software known as PowerPC software. Office 2004 is PowerPC. Snow Leopard OS X.6 runs these using a program called Rosetta, and this was culled with Lion and Mountain lion.
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PIPPA PASSES - The Alice Lloyd College softball team swept a doubleheader from visiting UC Clermont Saturday. More on Alice Lloyd's doubleheader sweep follows.
Game 1 - ALC 7, UCC 5: Alice Lloyd pitcher Kayla Stambaugh was solid in the circle as she led the host team to a hard-fought 7-5 victory in game one. The visiting squad scored one run to open the contest before Alice Lloyd quickly took over. The Lady Eagles plated two runs in the bottom of the inning before taking command with three runs in the fifth and two insurance runs one inning later.
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Game 2 - ALC 4, UCC 1: Pitcher Whitley Albury was in total command as she led host Alice Lloyd to a convincing 4-1 victory over UC Clermont.
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Hat - South Tyrolean, Women's Folk Costume, Black, circa 1890s Reg. No: HT 16975
- Summary:
- Black hat, part of a Tyrolean women's folk costume. It originally belonged to Heinrich Wieser's sister. It was made circa 1890s in South Tyrol. The hat was brought to Australia by the Wieser family when they migrated from Germany in 1951. The Wieser family's migration experience, is one of statelessness and displacement, both during World War II and afterwards, and of continual movement and fracturing of the family upon their arrival in Australia.
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- Black hat, velvet trim with heavy lace and velvet crown trim and long lace trimmed ties. Brim underside decorated with gold thread appliqué.
- Acquisition Information:
- Donation from Dr Claire French, 2003
|95 mm (Height), 285 mm (Width), 1355 mm (Length)
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|Inside hat inscribed in gold: Johann Unterrainer/BRUN[Illegible].
|Johann Unterrainer, Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol (South Tyrol), Italy, circa 1890s
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The Original Tetris on Windows Vista
For last days I'm very busy with Bidi support for Silverlight development. Working a lot of hours in order to finish it until TechEd. So, I'm very tired and need relaxation. What can be better, then Tetris? But, there are millions of Tetrises. What to choose? What's the question? The original one.
This genius game was developed by Vadim Gerasimov, Alexey Pajitnov and Dmitry Pavlovsky about 20 years ago and it still working on Windows PC (even in Vista). This how to build software. As far as I know, today Vadim works in Google, Alexey in WildSnake and Vadim is commercial director somewhere in Russia.
So, download and play Tetris now. Unfourchantely, 16 bit Antrix requires full screen emulation, that is not supported on Vista.
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Thanks for it.
It runs well on Vista 32 bit, but unfortunatelly it won't run on Vista 64 bit
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A mid-week dinner idea from Toronto's Ace Bakery. "One-dish meals are great for family dinners and casual weekend entertaining. They can be served right from the roasting pan, or when company is coming, spoon the vegetables onto a favourite serving dish, arrange the chicken on top, and decorate with sprigs of rosemary."
Three 1/4"-thick slices smoked bacon, cut into 1/4" cubes
9-10 large garlic cloves, peeled
2 tbsp freshly squeezed lemon juice
3-4 tbsp olive oil
1 tbsp fresh minced rosemary
1-1/2 tsp kosher salt
1/8 tsp freshly ground black pepper
2 large or 4 medium Portobello mushrooms
20-25 mini potatoes, 1-1/2" to 2" in length
12 shallots, peeled
3 sprigs fresh rosemary, plus more for garnishing the finished dish
3 chicken legs
3 chicken half breasts with bone in
12-16 cherry tomatoes (optional)
Coarsely ground sea salt and black pepper, to taste
Step 1: Sauté the bacon over medium heat until it has rendered its fat and all the cubes are cooked through. Drain and reserve.
Step 2: Finely grate 3-4 garlic cloves in a small bowl and mix with the lemon juice, 1 tbsp of the olive oil, minced rosemary, 1 tsp of the salt, and pepper.
Step 3: Thoroughly rub the mixture into the chicken and let marinate at room temperature or in the refrigerator for 1-1/2 to 2 hours while preparing the vegetables.
Step 4: Preheat the oven to 450°F.
Step 5: Bring the chicken to room temperature if it has been in the refrigerator.
Step 6: Scrape the black gills from the insides of the mushroom caps using a teaspoon, and cut the mushrooms into 1- to 1-1/2" pieces. Cut the potatoes into halves or quarters, depending on size. Mince 6 garlic cloves.
Step 7: Toss together the shallots, mushrooms, potatoes, 3 small sprigs rosemary, 1/2 tsp salt, 2-3 tbsp olive oil and the minced garlic cloves. Spoon into a shallow baking dish large enough to hold all the chicken in one layer.
Step 8: Place the chicken legs on the vegetables and roast for 10 minutes. Add the chicken breasts and roast for 25-30 minutes, depending on the size of the chicken pieces. The chicken is cooked when the juices run clear, not pink.
Step 9: Transfer the chicken to a dish and loosely tent with tinfoil to keep warm.
Step 10: Put the vegetables back in the oven until the potatoes are cooked through, another 10-15 minutes. This will also allow the chicken to rest. Add the cherry tomatoes, if using, in the last 5-7 minutes of cooking time.
Step 11: Discard the cooked rosemary sprigs and serve the chicken directly from the baking dish or spoon the vegetables onto a serving dish with a small lip. Put the chicken on top of the vegetables and top with the bacon, some fresh rosemary sprigs, and a sprinkle of coarsely ground sea salt and black pepper.
Note: If you decide to roast just chicken breasts, remember to add the "leg time" of 10 minutes to the roasting of the vegetables.
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strange. A151 and DBA-02 should share the same one. how old are your DBA?
Rockit Sounds R-50 Reviews and Impressions - Page 16
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- "Treble detailing, spacious sound, wide soundstage and layering""Incredible detail, massive soundstage, great build, super comfortable"
- "watery mids, airy highs, revealing, detailed, exceptional for trance and similiar music, excellent for background listening or sleeping in.""Soundstage, clarity, detail"
This over some time indeed. I am the second owner of about 6 moths and he probably had them over a year i think he said, maybe longer!
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They RULE!
But yeh can be finicky to type on....
I will in a couple of days write something more thoroughly about this modification and it will most likely appear in a different thread, but I just wanted to share this for now!
Today, these was returned to me after being modified by Brian from BTG-Audio and they include a nice RA Neutrik Jack!
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Looks nice! It's hard to tell exactly from the picture but is the cable removable or not? If not, was that ever an option from BTG-Audio?
Also, do the gray rubber housings still fit over the body after the recabling job?
Edited by PeterDLai - 5/7/12 at 7:42pm
No, it's not a removable cable since this is what I requested. I had my W4 modded at the same time to a RC version and I came up with the idea/question if Brian would try to crack the R-50 and solder a cable to the drivers since I preferred to have a RA Jack on this IEM, a better braided cable and just curious if this could be done, so there was some risk involved!
You will have to ask Brian if he thinks it is possible to turn it into a RC version. I removed the grey cover before I shipped the R-50 to him. I managed to get it back on, but slightly ripped it and I need to secure it with some glue. I will try to get pics. of this.
Unfortunately is landed at home and I am at work
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You r fired! go home and give us your first impressions xD
very interesting to hear your impressions...
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I value your ears, sir dweaver. Impressions please.
OK this is one tempermental little beastie! I started by switching the tips for the largeest tips and found they filled my ears really well but they seemed to muffle the treble a bit. I then switched to the middle tips and found they were almost to loose making the sound almost sibilant. I then switched to a pair of klipsch oval gels I had kicking around and once I thought I had them in right started to grove to the sound but then became disatisfied with them as they also seemed to loose some sonic qualities.
I then looked over and saw some unused Shure Olives and decided to see if they fit and golly they do! MAGIC! Suddenly I am getting better bass, better mids, and the treble doesn't sound quite so brittle.
So now that I have talked about the challenges of getting the right tip and seal I will talk about the IEM itself. I like the cable, it's quite soft and just feels very well done. I kinda of like the memory wire portion as it hold the IEM stable but is a bit stiffer than I am used to. I do wish it had an L jack but will live with what it has. The tip kit is OK but a it sparse and I can see people having to fish for other tips.
My following sonic impressions are first blush so may change...
Sonically speaking I find I have grown more used to dynamic based signatures between my Shure fullsize headphones and my Sony MDR 7550. So I am having to let my brain burn in regarding to the sharper knifelike transitions and speed you get from a BA speaker system. I also am used to a larger feeling sound stage. But it was nice to go for a walk and not hear wind noise, something my others headphones all suffer from to some extent or another and I am going to enjoy not having to hear all the noise on the train tomorrow.
Bass - These are more punchy than the MDR-7550 but lack some of the volume of that headphone and are very similar to the SRH-940 headphone in bass so not quite as heavy as the SRH-1440. For those owning the GR07 I would say the sub-bass is not as good as the GR07 but they are snappier.
The mids are on the warm side but not to much and not dark in any fashion. The mids have great detail as well and are slightly forward but lack just a smidge of transparency.
Treble initially felt very truncated and lacking decay but after finding the right tip combination has started to feel a bit more enjoyable. I miss the decay of a good dynamic speaker though so will see if these grow on me more as I go along.
Overall I don't see any real glaring issues with the sound of these though, they didn't wow me but they also didn't make me want to pull them out in frustration either. I have a feeling they might be like the GR07 in that they will grow on me and their lack of serious flaws will become their biggest strength. One thing is certain, once properly inserted and sealed these will never be a cause of fatigue and they are very comfortable in ear as well.
Thanks for impressions!
How would you compare them to your Earsonics SM3 especially clarity and stage..?
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RISD grad and graphic designer dad David LaFerriere has a creative outlet that starts before he hits the office: Each morning he draws a new illustration on his kids' sandwich bags before they head out for school. "Each drawing is done just after I make the sandwich," LaFerriere writes. "The challenges are coming up with an idea and then drawing quickly and directly on the bag, every line counts."
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P-H-M welcomes Mona Ames to the band! Mona comes to P-H-M as their new keyboard player & back-up vocals. Bringing Mona on board allows Lance Kamin to concentrate on bass guitar giving the band a fuller sound and more flexibility in song composition. Join us in welcoming Mona to the team!
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The UWBC executive committee would like to thank the following Alumni members for their very generous donations to the UWBC through their membership to the Warwick Graduate Association Boat Club (WGBC). We obviously welcome additions to this list and to make a donation to the UWBC (through the WGBC membership) please see the club membership section.
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In his fourth State of the State speech Monday, Gov. Bill Haslam unveiled his Tennessee Promise plan to offer qualified students free tuition to state community and technical colleges. "This is a bold promise," he told this newspaper's Editorial Board a day later, and one that could "speak volumes" to companies wishing to come to our state.
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The governor says Tennessee Promise will help fight the rising costs of higher education, while raising the bar for students and state institutions alike. Haslam promises the free tuition will help see Tennessee students not only enroll in college, but stay and earn a degree.
The governor has made a number of promises regarding Tennessee Promise, and we believe they are practical and achievable, but there are other promises we mustn't forget as we move forward with this program.
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This touching and hilarious one act play written by Lisa Gifford, which took last year's Camden Fringe by storm, is back! Re-edited for 2013 and supported by a web based TV series. The first episode is available now to accompany the stage play's 3-week run at the Etcetera Theatre in Camden. It's all very modern and interactive, isn't it?
What can we say about 3some? It's an absolute must see for Fringe theatre-goers and threesome enthusiasts. Holler y'all.
The show opens with Jenny (played by writer Lisa Gifford) and fiancé Paul (played by Peter Halpin) who celebrating moving in together. They get pissed, basically. They are joined by Paul's equally sozzled best friend Rob (Euan King) - a Scottish lad playing Essex's answer to Ryan Gosling. Yes.
A drunken game of 'I Never' reveals that Jen's been with a girl, Rob's been with many many girls and sensitive dark horse Paul has had a threesome. Scandalous!
Myriad romantic couplings are revealed as Gifford explores what happens to one's sexual politics under the horizon-broadening influence of alcohol. Then they shag. All three chums end up in the bedroom and this comedy-drama cycles through love, romance, friendship, sex and the effects of secrets revealed.
Relationships, we learn, have their tests. And pleasure has its consequences.
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The unpopular Blackboard Mobile Learn app has been redesigned using feedback received from users. The application that can either be licensed by a school or purchased for $1.99 per year or $5.99 for life by the student has received terrible ratings over the years, but the new design looks much cleaner and, in a way, ready for iOS 7.
Blackboard is a learning management system used by schools of all sizes. The app allows students to check grades, receive push notifications when things are posted to the system, and attach files right from Dropbox. However, the additional cost to the student, slow interface, previous Wifi-only restriction, and other app policies and restrictions caused the app to receive low ratings and put the app and company in bad light.
Here's the changelog for the new version:
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Inspired by your feedback, we've completely redesigned the app. This update makes using the app and reading content easier than ever. Some of the sweet new features include:
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-More support for Rich Content Styles like Bold, Underline, Italics, and Hyperlinks
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Previously, the app seemed to focus on skeuomorphic metaphors rather than actual features and easy navigation.
The app is available in the App Store. If you use Blackboard, let us know what you think of the new design and whether or not it'll convince you to use the app more often.
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i like how it looks, but i kinda like the old design better. well see how it works as the semester goes by!
I always loved the app because it notified me when new content was uploaded to each subject and integration with Dropbox made the process of downloading the file to all my devices a matter of two clicks. Otherwise, I would have to type my password everytime I'd want to check if there was new content. But this new design is wonderful, much better than the last. However, I've testing the app and no longer supports true windows within the app. I used it a lot to switch between content in the classroom. Now I guess I have to use IBooks and Documents to have two docs opened at the same time.
Asking if we're going to jse it more is kind of redundant, since we use it as required by the school..
That being said, the new design is really refreshing, and espacially the new way it handles documents by showing them in full screen and keeping them there when you switch back and forth between apps, is essential.


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The Google Blog announced earlier this morning that Google Maps has added a new click to call feature for businesses who have signed up for a listing through Google Local Business Center. At first glance it's both very easy to use and useful for both searches and businesses. But first glances can be deceiving sometimes.
When I first saw it announced at TechCrunch's post Google Local Adds Click to Call my first instinct was to think this was some kind of pay per call advertising. Google's been expanding its advertising programs lately having recently announced plans to push AdWords into both radio and newspapers. But call to click is something different. It's free and all you have to do is use Google Maps to take advantage of it.
From now on when you do a search at Google Maps and come across a business that has listed itself with Google Local, you'll see a link after their listed phone number with the single word 'call.' When you click the link a simple text box appears via Ajax asking for your phone number. Enter your phone number and Google connects the call for you. Your phone rings as does the phone of the business you're calling. Google pays all charges, though if you're using a cell phone the minutes will still count against your plan .
I thought I'd give it a test and gave myself a call from another phone. Everything seemed to work fine. Both phones rang, though I decided not to answer since I've closed the office for the day and wasn't feeling like taking a business call. Google says the phone number of the business will appear on your caller id so you can easily save it for future reference. One thing I found interesting though was on the business phone the incoming call shows as coming from California. As a business I'm not sure I would care to see all the incoming California calls, especially if my business only served local customers. I assume it's Google's way of thinking it's protecting it's visitors, but it seems kind of pointless to me. What if for some reason the call gets disconnected and I wanted to call back the potential customer? Guess I won't be able to, while there's a person on the other end who might just be thinking I'm rude.
For the customer the main advantage would seem to be having the call paid by Google, though given the calls should mostly be local I'm not sure how much of a benefit this is. I had originally thought going through the search box would be more convenient, but in all honesty I still had to go pick up my phone. I'm not sure how much more convenient it is to type a number into a computer than it is to dial it on my phone. At the moment I'm having a hard time seeing any advantage to me as a searcher.
Now if people do find value in calling through Google then I can see benefit for the business as it would likely increase the number of calls and given the call is coming via a search I would assume it's targeted and should lead to more sales. The big question though is will searches think there's value here and sadly I'm not seeing it.
I assume Google will be using click to call in part as a testing of a possible future pay per call advertising model and they'll be deriving some benefit from the new system, but for now I'm not seeing the value for the end user. Perhaps others will, but I'll be just as happy to dial the number directly and not have to take the call through a third party. The one place I am seeing an advantage is when finding a business online that doesn't have a toll free number. Why not hop on over to Google Maps and see if they have a listing then use click to call to save on the long distance.
Overall the new call system isn't a bad idea. While I may not find it useful it certainly isn't taking anything away and I'm sure there will be people who will make use of the system. Business owners with a physical address will probably want to sign up for the listing for the possibility of calls though I can't say I'm expecting the phone to ring any more often than it does right now.
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Professor of Psychology Marilyn Boltz presented a paper titled "Temporal Concepts and Predicted Duration Estimates" at the Meeting of the Psychonomics Society, November 19-22 in Boston. The paper was co-authored by Yen Na Yum '08, who is pursuing a Ph.D. in psycholinguistics at Tufts University.
Assistant Professor of Political Science Craig Borowiak presented a paper titled "Theorizing Solidarity Economy Movements" at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Political Theory, October 22-24 in College Station, Tex.; and another paper entitled "Solidarity Economy: Utopian Socialism for the 21st Century?" at the "Rethinking Marxism" Seventh International Conference, November 5-8 at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.
Visiting Assistant Professor of German Imke Brust presented an overview of her dissertation entitled "Narrating the Imagination of Unified Nations in Post-Apartheid South Africa and Post-Wall Germany" at the Annual Conference of the Coalition of WiG (Women in German), October 22-25 in Augusta, Mich.
Ruth Marshall Magill Professor of Music Curt Cacioppo had the American premiere of his composition "Philadelphia Diary" performed by pianist Althea Waites, October 11 at Cerritos College in Norwalk, Calif. His "Largo for Strings" was performed by the Rochester Symphony in Rochester Hills, Mich. on November 6. He also performed in the world premiere of his new work "When the Orchard Dances Ceased," commissioned by the American Composers Orchestra, during an ACO Orchestra Underground concert at Carnegie Hall on November 30.
Professor of Music Richard Freedman attended the Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, November 12-15 in Philadelphia, where he was an invited speaker on a panel presentation by the Pedagogy Study Group, organized around the theme of musicology and public concerts/arts organizations. He spoke about his pre-concert lectures at the Philadelphia Orchestra and Chamber Music Society.
Professor of History Linda Gerstein gave a paper titled "I was Karpovich's last student at Harvard in 1957: Linking Russian Immigration and American Academia" at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, November 12-15 in Boston.
Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies Hank Glassman presented a paper entitled "Keepsake Robe/Robe of Liberation: Family Ties and Buddhist Renunciation in Medieval Japanese Literature" at the International Conference on "Tracing the Study of Japanese Buddhism," held at the University of California, Berkeley in September. He also served on the panel "Points of View on the History of Kōshiki: Discourse and Performativity of a Liturgical Genre" and presented a paper titled "Written on the Body: Jizō Images and Kōshiki" at the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, November 6-10 in Montreal.
Assistant Professor of Spanish Aurelia Gómez presented a paper focused on the poetry written by political prisoners during the dirty war in Mexico at the Congreso Internacional de Investigaciones Literarias, Universidad Veracruzana, October 14-16 in Xalapa, Mexico.
Associate Professor of Religion Tracey Hucks presented a paper titled "Ethnographies of Religion: Practice, Problems, and Possibilities" and presided over a session entitled "Decoding Embodiment: Womanist Thought, Identity, and the Engagement of Culture" at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, November 6-9 in Montreal.
Associate Professor of Religion Naomi Koltun-Fromm presented her paper "State of the Disunion" and gave a survey of the field of Jewish-Christian relations in Late Antiquity at the meeting of SBL: Society for the Study of Biblical Literature, November 21-24 in New Orleans. She also met with the committee of the subgroup, Religions of Late Antiquity, of which she is co-chair.
Professor of Economics Vladimir Kontorovich gave a talk called "Secrecy and Western Study of the Soviet Military Sector" at the national convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, November 12-15 in Boston.
Associate Professor of Mathematics Weiwen Miao gave a talk called "The Use of Statistics in the Legal System" at Swarthmore College on October 27. She presented two actual cases to show how statistics can be properly used to assist courts' decisions: Ricci v. DeStephano, the reverse discrimination case about New Haven firefighter promotions, and Maloley v. National Revenue Service of Canada, a discrimination case on hiring tax collectors.
Between October 5 and 18, Visiting Instructor of Physics Jorge Moreno gave a talk entitled "Do halo mergers trigger quasars?" at the following places: the University of Heidelberg, the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Munich, the Advanced School of Advanced Studies in Trieste, and the University of Groningen.
Emeritus Professor of Political Science Rob Mortimer presented a paper entitled "Political leadership in Maghrebi regimes" at the Middle East Studies Association annual meeting, November 21-24 in Boston.
Assistant Professor of Economics David Owens gave a talk called "An Experimental Analysis of Observational Learning with Payoff Externalities" at the 2009 North American ESA (Economic Science Association) Conference, November 12-14 in Tucson.
Associate Professor of German Ulrich Schönherr gave a paper at the Max Kade German-American Research Institute at Penn State on December 3, entitled "Music, Postwar Politics, and Edgar Reitz's Die Zweite Heimat." His recent translation of Georges Perec's play The Machine was published in the Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. XXIX, Spring 2009.
Visiting Assistant Professor of English Rebecca Sheehan participated in a panel called "Digital Modernisms" at the Modernist Studies Association Annual Convention, November 4-8 in Montreal. She presented a paper entitled "Frampton's Digital Pentagram: A Study of the Avant-Garde in the Age of the Digital."
Visiting Associate Professor in Independent College Programs Carol Solomon participated as a commentator in a panel called "Education Through the Eye" at the History of Education Society Annual Meeting, October 23 in Philadelphia.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology Ruti Talmor gave a paper called "Transnational Art Markets and the Quest for Change among Ghanaian Youth" at the African Studies Association 51st Annual Meeting, "Africa at a Crossroads," November 19-22 in New Orleans.
Assistant Professor of Political Science Susanna Wing won the 2009 Best Book Award from the African Politics Conference Group for Constructing Democracy in Transitioning Societies of Africa: Constitutionalism and Deliberation in Mali, which was published in April 2008. The book is based on extensive fieldwork in Mali. She also gave a seminar at Yale University on October 14 based on her paper "Exploring Democracy, Women's Rights, and Legal Reform in Francophone Africa."
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The move follows the steadily increasing control of the company exercised by Liberty Media, which now own about half of the Sirius shares outstanding.
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hey all
an episode of restauraunt makeover on food network canada right now is doing "joe boo's cookoos" restauraunt
it has a large wood burning rotisserie with what looks like lots of smoke.. its also a kosher restaurant, but nothing wrong with that..
i thought maybe it was vancouver or somewhere else in canada, but googling it says the restaurant is in thornhill... i've never heard this place mentioned before.. the chicken looks tasty and i like the idea of the wood burning oven.. uncommon for where i live, at least
side dishes look awful but the chicken has me interested
anyone tried it?
how old is this episode?
Hey Duckdown,
That show is almost two years old. I live in the area and have tried the chicken on a couple of occassions. Ok but certainly not worth the drive. Nice smokey flavour, although
the quality of the bird never impressed me. The one time I ordered a half chicken to go the breast was dry. The second time I ordered a whole bird I thought it was just a bit underdone at the core of the breastbone and thigh. The biggest issue here is the price. I paid over $25 for a whole takeout BBQ bird (not huge at all) smaller than a Costco or Lablaw.. Absolutley unreasonable. They charge by the weight of the bird and the cost is ridiculous for a fairly decent tasting bird but of no great quality.......
re: duckdown
It's a kosher restaurant -- possibly part of the reason for the price!
re: duckdown
I saw that episode yesterday aswell and decided to check it out. I made my way up Bathurst with address in hand, I found the place when the aroma of burning wood hit me. I ended up getting a whole cut-up chicken, it was cooked well with alot of flavour. The price was a bit of a concern, as I wasn't sure how much I would end up paying for a whole chicken. They charge $1.69/100 g, I paid $15.12 (including tax) for a decent sized bird.
re: Harry Singh
As farmgirl mentioned, it's kosher and that is certainly the reason for the high prices. The cost of kosher meat is substantially higher than non-kosher. And further, the fact that there is little to no competition for kosher wood-fire oven chickens, that gives them a competitive advantage to exploit!
re: duckdown
You are paying for several things.
One of these is the labour vs cooking chickens in a combi oven (which almost all Toronto supermarkets use). I'm also unaware of any other Toronto restaurants (kosher or not) that sell wood roasted chickens to go.
The big one, though, is the kosher supervision. In addition to the extra cost of the kosher chickens, they are paying a supervision fee to the organization (likely the COR) that certifies their food as okay for orthodox Jews to eat.
Some of these restaurants have a rabbi on the premises to ensure, among other things beyond the obvious, that there are no bugs in the lettuce.
"i thought maybe it was vancouver or somewhere else in canada"
I believe ALL of Restaurant Makeover shows are in the GTA (or closeby).


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What's old is new again. At least that's what LG would have you believe after teasing the upcoming LG Optimus Vu, a brand new 5-inch device with a 4:3 aspect ratio. The Optimus Vu breaks away from the now standard 16:9 mold of tall and skinny devices, instead offering a smartphone that looks something like a tiny iPad at first glance.
Details on the device are scarce with nothing but a brief video showing off some of the device's curves. I'm sure we'll see more at MWC later this month but in the meantime, what do you guys think? Is there any appeal in a 4:3, 5-inch Android device? Personally, I've found 16:9 devices to be almost completely useless in landscape mode so this device has me intrigued. But then again, maybe I'm being overly optimistic?
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The Chicken Inn, approximately four miles west of Creston on the north side of Highway 34, will re-open Oct. 9.
The Chicken Inn is listed in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The new caretakers of the Chicken Inn are Snooky and Jim George and Kevin and Debbie Glick. Debbie is the daughter of the late Harvey Briles, the former owner. Work has gone into cleaning and fixing up the inn over the past seven months.
The plan is for the inn to host a jam session every Wednesday evening and also have dances on the first and third Saturday of each month, as well as other special occasions.
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- Cartoon Characters: Rastamouse, Scratchy, Zoomer, Bandulu, Missy D, Wensley Dale, Rubba, Dub, Bagga T, Fats, Sol, Little Patch.
- Voice Actors: Reggie Yates, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, William Vanderpuye, Cornell John.
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Bowmann here at BWone.com and we're going to take a look at the Skyfire web browser for your windows mobile device so let's get started. The first thing you need to do is obviously to download it and we'll provide the link to the website at s Skyfire.com and we can download the link. There are free different ways of downloading software. Most of them are included in the Bowmann pack which is my free collection of windows mobiles that I like to have o my device.
So once you've downloaded it and it gotten on your device here you can actually sure get the file on your device, watch my dragon tutorial video, sure you have to do it there and once you've done that you want to click on the cab file here and install it. You want to install it to your device, just done setup there. So you'll see install stop by home screen and search bar so if you're now using Touchflo and you just want to use the standard today's screen, you can install that or if this case we don't want o put that on and it's going to say and install it safely, do you want to launch it right away, they are pretty quick and it's going to accept the agreements, it's going to actually accept the data services and make sure that you know that your up to date if you don't have any limited plan.
In the browser, and okay, you want to load up the Skyfire web browser you'd be presented here sort of this home page here. Now in this homepage here you have a bunch of different feeds done here at the bottom, give you some—a little bit one hour access news feed that you could scroll over here and you've at the top here your bookmarks. It's going to come with some pre-loaded already. Click that, yeah, YouTube, Hulu, and stuff like that if—now social sections you get Facebook, Bibo, Twitter, Photobucket, things like that. You can also go to your history tab here and can view the previous text that you've going on. And if you look at the top it says log in or create account. If you create an account at scot bar the next thing about that is it'll ask you to synchronize your bookmarks and your cookies so you can easily transfer your tuff between phones, your bookmarks and all your files and all your save the date between save browser and between phones and you could just pay in the forms as well. That's the cool thing about signing up and you need some more stuff as well.
Alright, let's go at the home page here. And you can actually customize this home page as well. So what you see down here at the bottom is the only thing you can have put on it via customize. You can add your log in on Facebook and Twitter. You can add different news, newsfeeds that you just dig, Google news, ESPN, different feeds and media and you just have to—all you have to do is click. To deactivate them, you got to activate it, click it once again and it'll activate back up and you can put custom feeds right here. Then on already with it.
So once you've done that, click close here, you can go to back and it'll save all your settings. And then here at the bottom and here at the bottom row. You have here your menu, I mean your menu start to give you navigation actions differentiate settings and stuff like that as well, and cancel back, this is your back right here. And if you want to go to webpage just click the top here which says empty search or your arrow so let's click on that. Click on the bottom and it opens the virtual keyboard and you click, let's go to PW1 and that stuff try and get where you're going here at BWone.com, let's figure it out. And then click go.
So you load the progression at the bottom. It's really quick and there it is right there and it gives you how to zoom if you're not using a touch screen phone, if you're using like one of those mobiles, smart phone that does not have a touch screen or series 60 Nokia phone. You'll only to use the— and stuff like that. That works on here as well but I'll see with touch screen phone. You only need a touch screen. And remember the site and it does it really well and it is really quick. As you could see here, you see my site and all you have to do is double click in, zoom in, double click on the zoom out. You'll accept an advance zoom if you hit here at the top, so with the plus and minus. You can zoom as close as you want and then zoom back out. Then right next you have your home button then go back to home, use your back button and if you want to hide the stop bar click that button right there and then hide that to makes you full screen mode and you can bring it back as easily as that.
And just to show you it does word it quickly, switch to landscape mode, so if you want to see the whole thing in a landscape it's pretty quickly. Hide this top bar here which is kind of weird but you can click menu, hit web search and it will bring you back up again. So you can type another URL if you want to.
So the nice thing about scot fire is that it supports flash. So if you go to one of these links here, you can see TouchPro video, be sure you have flash radio in there. Just go in there, scroll down to the bottom and install a flash video. If you click on it, it will stop playing the flash right there for you and it will embed it to the website and you have this little sound button up so that you could turn the sound off or on. It went to loads up.
There you go your flash support. And it looks like I already put it over to YouTube. Go to the home page. It'll show you that it supports all the flash elements as well. So you can get the flash on YouTube, you get certain flash on the webpage as well for the support, so that probably there is the Skyfire web browser. It's definitely faster than the upper browser that's built into the TouchPro and built into MS mobile pro at Six Pro devices. It definitely have a lot of added features which gain, gain and add feeds to it.
Like I said it floats really fast. You can go from landscape to portrait mode very quickly. It does a whole lot good about it. I definitely recommend downloading. I remember using this a little while before when I was in private beta and it was pretty good but there was a little bugs here and there but it worked all that out and it's fast and it's smooth and I definitely recommend it over the other web browser right now being at that book into your phone. I would definitely download the Skyfire browser and go forward and give it a shot.
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Welcome To The Mara Predator Project
The Mara Predator Project is building an identification database of lions in and around the conservancies north of the Masai Mara National Reserve. By tracking individuals, we can identify pride home ranges and population trends. This allows us to apply effective conservation techniques.
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18th May 2011
If you've been watching the BBC's Planet Earth Live, you'll know that the Mara Predator Project were asked to name Moja's mum.
We had thousands of suggestions on the Facebook page, and we're happy to announce that we chose the name Nyota, which means 'star' in Swahili.
She has already lived up to her name, and we hope that she continues to be a shining example to little Moja.
Check back soon to see her profile added to the site.
For more information and for regular updates, don't forget to visit our facebook page.
You can take part in the project by photographing lions and reporting your sightings to us by following the steps below. For more information, browse our 'How to' guides or click here to read more about the project and Living With Lions.
1. Identify Your Lion
Have you seen a lion in or around the Mara North Conservancy and surrounding conservation areas, and want to identify it? Use the left column to enter the characteristics of your lion to begin your search. You can use the 'How To' guides to help you.
Need help identifying lions? Click here
Need help ageing lions? Click here
2. Submit your Sighting and Photographs
Fill in the form to tell us about a lion that you have seen and submit your images. Don't forget to try and identify your lion first! We will then confirm the sighting and post it on the lion's profile page.
Need help reporting your sighting? Click here
Guide 1: Photographing and Identifying lions
Guide 2: Ageing lions
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You can also pick up a booklet with the above information at your lodge.
You can read about the day-to-day lives of our study lions on our blog. If you've managed to identify your lion, it's a perfect way to keep up to date.


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Lewis Hamilton had his first taste of NASCAR at Watkins Glen last week. But his former rival Kimi Raikkonen has taken things a step further, starting a couple of races in NASCAR's junior categories. Jamey Price was at Charlotte Superspeedway last month to watch Raikkonen's first race in a NASCAR Truck. I have long been […]
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Father blames EMS delay for son's death, calls for reform
Charles Minard has been looking for answers since the death of his son two months ago.
Chaz Minard, 25, died Dec. 21, six days after he was brought to Physician's Regional Hospital after going into cardiac arrest.
Charles Minard believes his son wouldn't have to died had Collier County EMS arrived at his North Naples home faster.
"They failed my family," he said. "And things have to change."
Last week, Minard appeared before Collier County commissioners, asking them to hold EMS responsible.
"I want you to help me reach for accountability," he said. "I want you to help me reach for change before anyone else dies."
Minard's ordeal began around 11 a.m. on Dec. 14, when he went to wake his son. When Minard walked into the room, he found Chaz was awake, but struggling to breathe. He told his wife to call 911.
"His tongue was sticking out of his mouth and he was biting on it. He was panting," Minard said.
The couple, who live on Coral Wood Drive — about three miles from where the nearest ambulance is stationed — waited for EMS. And waited.
"My daughter ran down to the end of the driveway looking for an ambulance," he said. "My wife was screaming, 'Where's EMS?'"
While records show EMS was dispatched one minute after 911 dispatchers received the call, the ambulance did not get moving for six minutes after that dispatch. The dispatch went over the radio, but the crew members were in separate parts of the station vacuuming and did not hear the call, according to reports.
EMS arrived to the Minard home 13 minutes after Chaz's mother first called 911. By the time they arrived, Golden Gate fire paramedics and a Collier County sheriff's deputy were at the home performing CPR and attempting to restart Chaz's heart, which was in asystole, or flatline.
County staff declined to comment on the case, citing possible litigation. But Walter Kopka, Collier's EMS chief, said response times to calls are tiered and it is not unusual for others to arrive before an ambulance.
When an emergency call goes out, it does not just go out to an ambulance with advanced life support capabilities, Kopka said. First responders with basic life support training are dispatched as well.
For example, if 911 dispatchers receive a call about an unconscious person, a fire truck with a paramedic on the engine might respond first. They can check the person's sugar levels and begin CPR before the ambulance arrives.
"We have more fire engines out there and they are dispatched at the same time," Kopka said. "It's the way it is supposed to work. It's a system-wide approach."
The county receives about 36,000 911 calls per year, Kopka said. Collier ambulances transport patients after about 68 percent of them, he said.
Kopka said the county's response goal is 8 minutes or less, 90 percent of the time, for properties west of Collier Boulevard, and 12 minutes or less, 90 percent of the time, for properties east of Collier Boulevard. The discrepancy exists, he said, because Golden Gate Estates is more spread out than the urban area.
That response time is travel time only, he said. It does not include the time for the message to reach the crew from dispatch.
EMS statistics show that emergency responders met their 12-minute goal in Collier's rural area 87.31 percent of the time in 2011 and 89.11 percent of the time in 2012.
In the urban area, EMS crews met the 8-minute response time 87.83 percent in 2011 and 89.94 percent in 2012.
Kopka cites several reasons for the improved response times, including that Collier County EMS stopped rotating crews from station to station, which allows crews to learn the area they work in. Crews are now only rotated when they are in training, he said.
But while response times improved county-wide, they did not improve in every area of the county.
During a comparable 3-month period of January through March in 2011 and 2012, response times declined in some areas, including around Pine Ridge Road and Interstate 75, which is near Minard's home. Kopka acknowledged that when it is your loved one who is among the 10 percent of patients whose response times are lagging, the figure doesn't mean much.
"It's not a perfect system and we are always looking for areas of improvement," he said. "For those particular stations that did see a decrease, we have to find out what we're lacking."
On Dec. 14, Chaz Minard was loaded into the ambulance and taken to Physicians Regional Hospital. On the way, he regained his pulse, according to reports.
"They took him into the hospital and started working on him," said Charles Minard. "At one point, he opened his eyes and looked at us. I think that look was goodbye. He closed his eyes. He never opened them again."
Six days after EMS brought him to the hospital, doctors told Minard and his wife that their son would never wake up. His brain had been deprived of oxygen for too long. They made the decision to take him off life support.
"We turned off the machines and let him be with his son," said Minard, referring to Chaz's son, Charlie, who died three years ago. "If everyone did what they were supposed to do, my son would be here now."
Since his son's death, Minard said he has been looking for answers. The county has completed an internal investigation into the matter, but has not released the findings. Minard said the county also billed him $800 for his son's ambulance ride.
Commissioners were urged by County Attorney Jeff Klatzkow not to comment on what Minard said because possible legal action could be taken by the family. But Commissioner Georgia Hiller questioned whether Minard should have been billed by EMS after his son died.
"We are working on EMS. It is a matter of life and death and this is a major issue," she said, adding her own husband died of sudden cardiac arrest. "We are committed to doing the best for the citizens of this county. We will."
Kopka said when EMS responds to a scene, it bills all patients unless the ambulance does not transport them or the person is deceased upon arrival. Those "user fees" make up 40 percent of EMS's budget with the remainder coming from tax dollars.
Minard said he wants access to the internal investigation and he would like county staff to answer his questions about the delayed response.
He said he would like to see EMS privatized because he believes it would make it more accountable.
"Collier EMS stole my future. They stole my son's future," he said. "How many families should have to go through this? Enough is enough."
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School Health Promotion Toolkit
Students who are healthy and fit will come to school ready to learn. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that the health status of students is strongly linked to their academic success and recommends coordinated school health programs to improve educational performance and the well-being of students as they become adults. The resources in this toolkit are designed to help increase health knowledge, attitudes and skills; increase positive health behaviors and outcomes; improve education outcomes; and improve social outcomes.
The School Health Promotion Toolkit is a resource developed by the Fairfax County Health Department in partnership with Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS). These resources may be used to promote good health in the elementary school setting. As part of the pilot initiative, this toolkit will first include:
1. Morning Announcement Scripts: These scripts provide messages about monthly health topics that can be read by elementary school students and faculty during their school's morning announcements.
2. Newsletter Articles: Newsletter articles of various lengths are provided for use in any publication that has a parent audience. The text may be copied and pasted into school publications.
3. Posters: These posters are available to download and print. They can be displayed where appropriate in elementary schools, such as in health rooms, classrooms and cafeterias.
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A statement for the Midwest Craft Beer community!
Sat, Aug 23
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Come enjoy 80+ breweries and over 400 individual American Craft Beers for your sampling pleasure! Absolutely a statement for the Midwest Craft Beer community! Deschutes Brewery is proud to be a part of the fun!
The Great Nebraska Beer Fest is a true regional beer fest in that we're drawing in never-before-seen brewers and their beers to join us. A celebration of American Craft Beer with a spotlight on Nebraska and regional breweries, plus Bend Oregon's Deschutes Brewery. See you down at the fest with your pals and some damn tasty Deschutes Brewery beer in hand. Cheers!


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Senator Blunt Praises Continued Aid To Rebuild, Revitalize Joplin, Mo. In The Wake Of Deadly Tornado
WASHINGTON, D.C. – A year and a half after a devastating tornado hit Joplin, Mo., U.S. Senator Roy Blunt (Mo.) praised the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) commitment to provide the city with $45.2 million in Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) decision to extend rural housing loans today.
The CDBG resources awarded in Joplin today are a direct result of a provision that Blunt sponsored in the Senate and passed into law, which allocated $400 million in disaster funding for the nation's "most impacted and distressed" communities. Of that funding, Joplin will receive $45.2 million.
Blunt also sent a letter to USDA in 2011 requesting a population waiver for Rural Housing Services loan programs to help the City of Joplin rebuild. USDA announced this morning that it will extend the waiver until September 30, 2013. These funds can be used to build, repair, renovate or relocate a home, or to purchase and prepare sites, including providing water and sewage facilities.
"When the disaster exceeds the ability of communities and states, the federal government has a responsibility to help people rebuild," said Blunt. "I'm pleased that Joplin continues to receive the important federal resources it needs to revitalize this region, and I am grateful for the generosity of countless volunteers and the tireless work of state and local officials."
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The Sweetwater High School Mustang Band participated in the UIL Region Solo and Ensemble Contest at Abilene High School. Sweetwater earned more solo medals than any other AAA, AA or A school at the competition. Twenty student musicians made 1's on their solos.
In order to advance to the State Contest, students must earn a superior (first division) rating on a class one ensemble (Class 1 is the most difficult music list), or on a memorized Class 1 solo. Sweetwater had students advance to state. Advancing soloists were Crysten Ivy, who memorized the Clarinet Concerto by Stamitz, Chase Scott, who memorized Improvisation and Caprice by Bozza for alto sax and Steven Le, who memorized Mozart's Concerto #3 for French horn. Students who also advanced to state on their class 1 ensembles included Clay Kitchens – trumpet, Stephen Shipp – trumpet, Laura DuClos – euphonium, Steven Le – French horn, Corynn Martin – clarinet, Vanessa Perez-Poe – clarinet, Cysten Ivy – clarinet, and Kirsten Sparkman – clarinet.Â
Additional first division solo winners were Christen Gutierrez – flute, Jasmine Reddic – flute, Corynn Martin – clarinet, Elvira Gamez – clarinet, Destiny Osteen – bass clarinet, Chance Adams – alto sax, Annie Lansford – tenor sax (class 1), Ethan Spear – tenor sax, Clay Kitchens – trumpet (class 1), Stephen Shipp – trumpet (class 1), Briana Rosas – trombone (class 1), Cody Chapman – trombone, Angelica Collier – euphonium, Laura DuClos – euphonium (Class 1), Jeremey Witt – percussion, Leah Warren – percussion, and Colton Scott – percussion.
Piano accompanists for the Sweetwater Band soloists were Martha Taylor and Bonnie Walters. The UIL State Solo and Ensemble Contest will be held in Austin on May 28. The Sweetwater Middle School Band solo festival will also be held in May.


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Hey Jordan. I'd been unable to post for a while and when I was able to come back and see the changes...
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Hey Jordan. I'd been unable to post for a while and when I was able to come back and see the changes...
I know I'm a month late, but thanks for making a mobile friendly site, it is much simpler to navigate. My main problem was the text input box, it would not resize to fit the zoomed in phone, and putting the cursor at any place would often jump it forward or right back to the end of the text.
Anyway, now I have a much better phone(HTC one x) and would probably be ok on the full site, but I will use the mobile site a lot now - can't beat a bit ofsimplicity.
If I may bring an issue to your attention regarding the mobile friendly site, clicking/tapping on the spoiler tagged boxes does not open them.
That's one for Jordan.
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Thanks Jordan, works fine now, looks fine too.
A place for Stephen king related art such as Mr.Pennywise
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