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Time to let Sunshine in
The atrocities range in scope but, nevertheless, have the same effect.
In 2013, three public entities were nominated for the Society of Professional Journalist's (SPJ) annual Black Hole Award for egregious violations of the public trust when it comes to open government.
One nomination was for the Washington State Board of Accountancy for reportedly abusing the deliberative process disclosure exemption of the state's Public Records Act.
Another was for the city of South Bend, Ind. and its mayor, Pete Buttigieg. The city and the mayor refused to release recordings of telephone conversations to the public that included police officials taking part in reportedly "unethical, racial and possibly criminal content."
The best of all — and the winner of the award — was Oklahoma State University.
The Student Press Law Center nominated the university, based in Stillwater, Okla. for, among several things, ignoring the Clery Act by not telling students the public or even the campus police department that university officials were aware of an alleged serial sex offender being on campus.
University officials cited the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) for its rationale in not informing the public.
Whether you agree with those instances being cited for lack of open government or not, the fact remains public officials doing the public's business behind closed doors is more common than you might think.
In 2002, the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors created Sunshine Week in efforts to promote more transparency in government. The 12th annual celebration of Sunshine Week began Monday.
In North Carolina, Gov. Pat McCrory campaigned for more openness and transparency in government, but that has been a campaign promise yet fulfilled.
Nationally, a massive spy program conducted by the National Security Agency is still being unmasked.
The fact of the matter is a lack of transparent government can be at any level. From the infamous Pentagon Papers in the 1970s to the aforementioned NSA debacle to contracts signed by county officials, the public has the right to know.
James Madison, who championed open government back in the 18th century, once said, "A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both."
That can hold true today.
By Matthew Clark, for the Editorial Board
The Daily Courier Editorial Board consists of community members Jerry Brewer, Kyle Bingham, Alex Moore, Tom Padgett and Cliff Strassenburg as well as Editor Matthew Clark.


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Ad Fact Check: Fairgrounds
The script
On-screen video:
State Rep. Abel Herrero, D-Robstown: "I'm here to commemorate a very -- uh -- great occasion for Nueces County."
Narrator: Really, Abel? Because in 1999, the voters said "no" to the fairgrounds.
[On screen quote from June 14, 1999, Caller-Times article: "Nueces County voters voted down a $38.5 million bond issue"]
Narrator: But your county commissioners are borrowing $95 million that we don't have. And they are bailing themselves out by raising your property taxes.
Narrator: But what's even worse -- they think it's a joke.
[On-screen video of Sept. 13, 2006, Nueces County Commissioners Court meeting:
Former Nueces County Judge Terry Shamsie: "he was trying to figure out how he was going to sell 95 million dollars' worth of debt to the public"]
Narrator: Send the politicians a message: stop wasting taxpayer money.
[On screen, images of Herrero, Nueces County commissioners Oscar Ortiz and Peggy Bañales]
Paid for by
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The medium
Cable TV; Internet
The issue
In 1999, voters rejected a $38.5 million bond to pay for the Richard M. Borchard Regional Fairgrounds along with other projects such as raising the JFK Causeway and dredging Packery Channel.
As was the case for the other projects, local officials found a way to obtain funding. For the fairgrounds, the county used certificates of obligation, which are bonds that don't require voter approval.
Construction of the fairgrounds is being completed in phases, and the total cost is expected to be $61 million, if a $30 million arena known as the Heritage Center, also is constructed.
On the full tape of the meeting, commissioners are seen laughing after Shamsie makes a joke about the naming of the Heritage Center. He points out that Republican Commissioner Chuck Cazalas gave the facility that name to "figure out how he was going to sell $95 million worth of debt to the public." The ad superimposes an image of Herrero laughing with the commissioners. On the tape of the meeting, he cannot be seen while the commissioners are laughing.
The $95 million discussed on the tape was a certificate of obligation issued in 2004. While $15 million was devoted to the fairgrounds, the rest of the money was devoted to road work and renovation of various county facilities.
The fairgrounds is part of an informal economic development plan for Robstown and western Nueces County led by Commissioner Oscar Ortiz. Other county-funded projects nearby include a minor league baseball stadium and a library.
The fairgrounds has cost more than expected. Construction costs have gone up, a factor tied to the high price of oil. Though Nueces County did not expect the venues to make money, they have lost more money than anticipated. In nine months of operation in 2007, Nueces County officials believed the fairgrounds would lose $395,000. The amount turned out to be $1.4 million. Since then, commissioners have dipped into reserve funds to close budget gaps at the facilities.
Herrero authored a resolution from the Texas House of Representatives extending "congratulations to the people of Nueces County on undertaking this outstanding project."
Herrero made no decisions whether the projects would be approved or how they would be funded. Bañales and Ortiz did.
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Outlook One of the top returning seniors in college baseball ... A 2008 first-team All-SEC selection, one of only three pitchers and two starters on the first team, as voted by the coaches ... Did not get much support during his starts in SEC play, but still managed a 3.33 ERA and a 3.29 ERA in 10 SEC starts, including two complete games ... A workhorse, tossed quality starts in 9-of-13 starts ... Without an injury-riddled NCAA regional opening game at Michigan, Rusin finished with a 2.84 ERA in 82.1 innings ... Has command that rivals anyone in the league, with a good fastball and excellent command of a breaking ball.
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2008 Became UK's first, first-team All-SEC pitcher since MLB setup man Scott Downs earned the honor in 1997 ... One of a league-high four UK players named to the All-SEC first-team in 2008 and one of only two starting pitchers in the league on the first-team, joining Patrick Keating (Florida) and the best closer the nation, reliever Joshua Field (Georgia) ... Posted a 3.33 ERA and a 6-3 record in 13 starts ... Hurled quality starts in 9-of-13 assignments, going seven or more innings seven times in 2008... Worked 83.2 innings, striking out 65 and throwing two complete games ... After helping UK clinch an SEC Tournament berth in his final regular season start vs. Ole Miss, Rusin experienced a minor injury that resulted in him not pitching in the SEC Tournament ... After a week of rest, was asked to pitch in the opening game of the Ann Arbor NCAA Regional, but was not 100-percent and was pulled after 1.1 innings ...Throw out the game vs. Michigan, which was the worst statistical outing of his career, and Rusin had a 2.84 ERA in 82.1 innings ...Two of three losses on the season came when the lefty hurled two complete-game performances on the road in the SEC (at Auburn, at Vanderbilt) - two eight-inning complete games that saw Rusin strike out 18 and allow five runs ... On the road in 2008, totaled a 2.63 ERA in 37 innings, striking out 33 in five starts ... Worked seven inning of one-run ball in his first start, walking none and striking out four ... In the second start of the year, Rusin worked seven scoreless, allowing only four hits and striking out nine ... Struck out a career high 10 in a complete-game loss at Auburn, holding the Tigers to two runs and one walk ... Worked 8.2 innings vs. South Carolina, striking out six, one out shy of the complete game ...Tossed 7.2 innings vs. Tennessee, striking out six despite sitting out during a rain delay ... Against LSU, worked 8.2 innings, where he allowed only one run and five hits.
2007 Promising young southpaw emerged as the top weekend starter on the staff ... Started 14 games, accumulated a 4.90 ERA and a 5-4 record ... Worked two complete games ... Named SEC Pitcher of the Week after holding down the hot hitting No. 18 Ole Miss batters to six hits and one unearned run in a complete-game Friday night win ... Began the season as the Saturday starter but moved to Friday night after the first weekend ... First start of the season, worked five innings against Furman, struck out seven, gave up one earned run, and allowed three hits ... Worked four or more innings in each of his 14 starts ... Struck out a career-high nine batters in a 6 2/3 inning performance against Wisconsin Milwaukee ...Took first loss of career in the SEC opener against No. 9 Arkansas ... Struck out two or more in each appearance of the season ... Dangerous left-handed pick off move caught a team-high five runners ... First complete game of career came in front of over 3,000 hostile fans at Florida, where Rusin worked nine innings, struck out eight, and allowed only two runs ... Followed up Florida performance with a 8 1/3 inning outing against Georgia, securing his fifth win of the season ... Had a solid outing against Tennessee in the first game of a doubleheader, before the defense allowed two unearned runs, chasing him from the game in the fifth ... Through first three starts, tallied a 2.70 ERA ... With two outs, held opponents to a .229 (24-for-105) average ... Forced 61 fly outs and 105 ground outs ... Averaged a team-best 6.17 innings per outing ... In the eight UK wins that Rusin started, the southpaw tallied a 5-0 record and a 2.50 ERA ... Had a 6.41 ERA at home and a 3.15 ERA on the road, including a 4-1 record away from Cliff Hagan Stadium.
2006 Opened year as a mid-week starter before moving to the bullpen midway through the season ... In five starts, recorded three wins en route to his spotless 5-0 record ... Came on in relief to beat South Carolina and Mississippi State ... Against the Gamecocks, retired all 10 batters he faced to close out an 11-inning victory ... Streak got to 18 consecutive batters retired the next weekend ... Did not allow a home run in 38 innings ... Struck out five in back-to-back starts vs. Xavier and Morehead State ... Appeared in seven SEC games in relief.
High School Played three years for coach Tony Demare at Divine Child High School ... Led team to back-to-back state championships in final two years while being named to the All-State Dream Team both times ... Hurled shutouts in three consecutive Catholic Leauge championship games at Comerica Park from 2003-05 ... Won the Catholic League Walt Bazylewicz Award as a senior as the league's top male athlete in all sports ... Named MVP of state all-star game after pitching three scoreless innings and driving in game-winning runs ... Went 28-4 in career with all four losses by one run ... Two of the losses came when he threw a one-hitter ... As a junior, went 12-1 with a 1.05 earned-run average while striking out 88 in 69 2/3 innings ... Went 7-1 with a 1.75 ERA en route to All-Catholic League honors ... Also played basketball, earning all-city honors as a junior.
Personal Full name is Christopher Patrick Rusin ... Son of Pat and Arlene Rusin ... Has a younger brother, Tyler (12), and a younger sister, Shannon (16) ... Born on Oct. 22, 1986 in Detroit, Mich.


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Brits take the scandal harder than mainland Europe; the usual suspects blame capitalism.
February 22, 2013 - 12:00 am
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New Student Convocation – August 28, 2015, 9:30 a.m., Patriot Center
Each year George Mason University welcomes incoming freshmen and transfer students with a day of programming that introduces them to university life. We begin the day with a welcome ceremony in the Patriot Center to introduce the student to their new academic life and what it will mean to be a George Mason University graduate. Faculty and staff are encouraged to attend and welcome the newest members of the university community.
Winter Graduation — December 19, 2015
9:00 a.m. – Undergraduate student ceremony
1:00 p.m. – Graduate (Masters and PhD) student ceremony
George Mason University will hold two ceremonies recognizing graduates on December 18, 2014 at 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. in the Patriot Center. These ceremonies are similar to the May college convocations in that all students in attendance will be individually recognized and doctoral students will be hooded. Students and faculty will be in full regalia. There will be light refreshments provided after the ceremony.
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Information on Commencement is available through the Office of Events Management.
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Preparing for the core
Forty K-2 teachers attended workshops designed to assist them in implementing the new math standards outlined by common core.
Common core is a new set of educational benchmarks that have been adopted by 46 states, including Tennessee.
A gradual transition toward the new standards has been taking place for several years, with full implementation slated for the 2013-2014 school year.
In mathematics, as with language arts, common core will focus more on process, with less emphasis on rote memorization. While teachers will be covering fewer standards, the concepts taught will be covered more thoroughly.
Seeking to aid teachers with the transition to common core, two workshops were held Thursday at the central office's curriculum and instruction building.
Programs on math journals and math stations were presented by Amanda Atchley, a second-grade teacher at Seymour Primary.
Jennifer Younger, instructional supervisor of math for grades K-8, said the program filled up quickly the day registration opened.
"These teachers are here because they want to be here," she said. "We had so much response that we are offering it again next Thursday, and those workshops are almost full, too."
The math journal session emphasized the importance of journals in helping students organize, clarify, and reflect on their thinking. A continuation of an earlier workshop held in January. teachers who attended the session began creating a math journal to incorporate into their classrooms.
The second session focused on utilizing math stations to encourage students to take an active role in their learning. The session also gave teachers the opportunity to make activities and learn new ideas to apply in their own classrooms.
Younger said the session was popular with teachers because they are able to identify with Atchley. "She's a wonderful presenter, and her evaluations were great," she said. "The teachers can relate to her because she's a real classroom teacher."
Jeremy Kerr, a kindergarten teacher at Catlettsburg Elementary, said he attended the program to find ways to improve his teaching while implementing the new common core skills in mathematics.
"We're learning new games and hands-on activities, as well as how to make stations more focused on math," Kerr said. "If they're (students) having fun, they're learning,"
Sherry Barker, who teaches first grade at Catlettsburg, agreed.
"Everything is becoming more complicated and in depth. The point is to engage students and keep them practicing with hands-on activities like manipulatives. She (Atchley) is showing us some of the things she does," she said.
"Kids won't be judged just on getting the right answer anymore," Kerr added. "It's not just about what they write down. They have to show how they get to the answer."
Both Kerr and Barker said the school system has been supportive in helping them make the switch to the new common core. "We are blessed to have a county that takes the time to educate us no matter what else is going on," Kerr said.
"Sevier County is on the stick more than most," agreed Barker.
Despite the challenge of adapting to the new standards, Younger said most teachers are optimistic about the change. "It's not easy," she said. "But the teachers have been engaged, interactive, and asking questions. The first session went 15 minutes over, and not one person had their stuff packed up."
Younger will travel to Nashville next week, along with five other teachers, for additional math training from the state. Those who attend this summer's state workshops will then hold after school training for other teachers in the fall.
"Hopefully we will learn something new and productive," Younger said. "We are continuously working and learning with the common core so we can come back and share with teachers."
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This course surveys the basic themes of the law governing lawyers. It includes both the state disciplinary codes (with special reference to New York and California) and aspects of the law of contract, torts, crime, tax, securities and other areas that pertain distinctively to lawyering. The principal topics are the meaning of the "rule of law" as it pertains to lawyer conduct, the regulatory structure of the profession, confidentiality, lawyer complicity in client illegality (with special reference to fraud and obstruction of justice), conflicts, and distinctive issues arising in corporate practice, government representation, and criminal defense.
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Welcome to the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Lehigh University. Browse our website and learn of the vitality of our educational and research programs, which rank among the strongest in the nation, and of our distinguished faculty who are dedicated to providing a first-rate educational experience to our students.
You will learn of the breadth and depth of our curriculum, which offers up-to-date course offerings, opportunities for hands-on experiential learning, and a forward-looking educational environment. Electrical and computer engineering is a broad and dynamic field. At Lehigh, ECE includes circuits and systems, solid-state electronics, integrated circuit design, nanotechnology, electromagnetics, optical technologies, communications, signal processing, control, bioelectronics, and computer architecture and hardware. Our undergraduate programs stress fundamentals and creative problem-solving skills, introduce students to newly emerging technologies and their applications, and prepare them for the challenges of careers in a rapidly evolving field. Our department is relatively small, with an undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of less than 7 to 1, permitting close interaction between the faculty and students at all levels.
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COLUMBIA CITY — Three people were injured Wednesday, one seriously, in a two-vehicle collision north of Columbia City.
Elizabeth Peterson, 18, of Riley Road, Columbia City was airlifted by Parkview Hospital's Samaritan helicopter following the crash that occurred on state Route 9 and County Road 500 North at about 4 p.m.
Peterson was listed by police as incoherent at the scene with apparent internal injuries. Her condition was unavailable at Parkview today.
Also injured at the scene was Sarah Peterson, 10, also of Riley Road, Columbia City and Wesley Pease, 31, of Poplar Road in Columbia City.
Sarah Peterson was transferred to Parkview Memorial Hospital in Fort Wayne and Pease, who complained of pain at the scene was transported to Parkview-Whitley Hospital in Columbia City.
The condition of those two crash victims was also unavailable today.
According to police, Pease reported he was southbound on state Route 9 when the four-door sedan driven by Elizabeth Peterson pulled out in front of his small pickup truck.
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The Canon EOS 6D DSLR camera is the ideal tool for unlocking your creative vision. It features a 20.2 Megapixel Full-Frame CMOS sensor, a wide ISO range of 100-25600, expandable to L: 50, H1: 51200, and H2: 102400, for incredible image quality even in low light, and a DIGIC 5+ Image Processor delivers enhanced noise reduction and exceptional processing speed. A new 11-point AF including a high-precision center cross-type AF point with EV -3 sensitivity allows focusing in extreme low-light conditions, and with continuous shooting up to 4.5 fps, you are ready to capture fast action.
Full HD video with manual exposure control, multiple frame rates, and the benefits of a Full-Frame sensor provides stunning performance and creative flexibility. The built-in Wi-Fi transmitter allows you to wirelessly transfer your images to social networking sites through CANON iMAGE GATEWAY, or upload virtually anywhere from your iOS or Android smartphone with the free download of the EOS Remote app. You can use your smartphone for remote camera control and operation (with the EOS Remote app), or even print your images on a Wi-Fi compatible printer.
Perfect for travel and nature photography, the built-in GPS allows location data to be recorded while shooting. Compact, lightweight, brilliant low-light performance, and loaded with easy to use features, the EOS 6D is truly the Full-Frame DSLR camera for everyone.
The Canon 6D is commonly used for Family photos, Landscape/scenery, Low light, Sports/action, Travel, Video, Weddings, Wildlife and more.The Canon 6D is most used by customers who consider themselves to be a Photo enthusiast, Pro photographer, Semi-pro photographer among others.The Canon 6D is popular because customers like the following qualities of the Canon 6D: Easy to use, Fast / accurate auto-focus, Fast shutter speed, Good image quality, High ISO performance, Image stabilization, Large clear LCD and Quiet
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Canon 6d Review I've now been using my 6d for a bit over a week and feel that I've handled it enough to write a comprehensive review. First, let me tell you that I upgraded from a Rebel T2i, which I absolutely loved. I'm by no means a pro, and I don't typically get paid for my work; but I would classify myself as a photo enthusiast. I travel a lot and size and weight were factors in my decision to go with the 6d. I also like to shoot with available light, which is why I wanted to go full fram...View full Review
Canon 6d Review I've now been using my 6d for a bit over a week and feel that I've handled it enough to write a comprehensive review. First, let me tell you that I upgraded from a Rebel T2i, which I absolutely loved. I'm by no means a pro, and I don't typically get paid for my work; but I would classify myself as a photo enthusiast. I travel a lot and size and weight were factors in my decision to go with the 6d. I also like to shoot with available light, which is why I wanted to go full frame for the high ISO performance. For some reason it says I purchased the body only, but I actually bought the kit. Let me address some of the "cons" that people are complaining about right out of the gate. I'm going to assume that most people considering the 6d are like me - looking to upgrade from a nice point and shoot style camera or a Rebel series or other APS-C style DSLR. Nearly everything that people are stating are "cons" I never had on my Rebel in the first place, so I don't miss these features. The AF system has gotten a lot of attention, but on my Rebel, I used the center point 90% of the time for focusing. The center point on the 6d is just amazing. It focuses in an almost completely dark room. Certainly it will be able to focus for any situation when you are going to shoot hand held. I will take the simplified control of 11 AF points and an absolutely fantastic center focus point over 61 points (caveat: I don't shoot sports or other fast moving objects so I wouldn't really benefit from the addition points for tracking a moving subject). I rarely, if ever, shoot video so not having a headphone jack doesn't bother me in the slightest. Also, not having a built in flash is no big deal to me either. I'm going to assume that people looking at this price range for a camera have an external flash and understand the limitations of a built in flash. I never used the one on my Rebel anyway. Finally, not having two SD card slots doesn't seem like a big loss to me. While I think the redundancy of two slots might be nice, I've never had an SD card fail on me and perpetually back up my images anyway. 24-105mm f/4 Kit Lens: Honestly this was probably what was holding me back the most about going full frame. I previously have been using the Canon EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 IS and I have to say that better than 90% of my pictures taken with my T2i were shot using this lens. While the 17-55 doesn't have a red ring or L in its name, it defiantly can run with the L glass. I worried that going from a relatively fast 2.8 (EF-S lenses do not fit on the 6d) to an f/4 would be limiting, but I also didn't want to give up IS and the 24-70mm was out of my price range anyway. Let me say that given the higher ISO performance, I don't really miss the stop I lost going to an f/4 lens. I actually like having a bit more reach with the 24-105. I would defiantly have kept my 17-55 f/2.8 if I could have, but I also don't feel limited by the 24-105 f/4. In the future I plan to get the 16-35 f/2.8 for use alongside the 25-105 f/4. So in summary, if you are like me and hesitating about giving up your 17-55mm f/2.8 for the 24-105 f/4, don't worry - the kit lens is fantastic and you won't regret going full frame for a second. ISO Performance: Let me sum it up in one word: amazing. I hate noisy pictures and I'd hesitate to shoot much above ISO 400 with my T2i. I have no problem shooting at 3200-6400 with the 6d. I took some shots basically in the dark at 25,600 and they were defiantly usable. Low light performance is just amazing. I can't comment on how it compares to other full frame cameras, but I do know there is just no comparison between APS-C sensors and this one. Auto ISO on this camera is awesome. I never used Auto ISO on my T2i (as I said above I hate noisy images and didn't like the camera constantly trying to push up the ISO). The Auto ISO on this camera lets you set a minimum shutter speed (great for people, like myself, who rarely use a tripod). It brings the shutter down to (near) the minimum, and then starts to the boost the ISO. Additionally (like most SLR's) you can set the maximum and minimum Auto ISO speeds. Autofocus: I touched on this above, but for its limitations, I actually like the AF system. I shoot mostly still subjects in available light and absolutely love the center AF point and its ability to focus in near dark conditions. AF is fast and of the few hundred pictures I've taken so far, hasn't missed yet. I like the simplicity of the 11-point AF system. I find the 61-point system hard to navigate. Coming from a Rebel, the AF system is very similar so there was really no learning curve when going to the 6d. Design & Button Layout: The 6d is surprisingly small and light. It's honestly not much bigger than my T2i, and only slightly heavier. It defiantly doesn't feel cheap though. It feels rugged, well built, and substantial in your hand. It doesn't have the plastic feel that the Rebels do. It feels like a pro-level camera. Coming from a Rebel, I felt pretty at home with the button layout. A few things are in different places (e.g. the mode dial is on the other side to make room for the top LCD screen) but I was adjusted within a day or so. The mode dial lock is a cool little feature, but I can't say I ever had an issue with the mode dial moving itself on my Rebel. The 8-way rocker is a bit annoying, but still a step above the four way buttons on the Rebel series. It's also nice to have the wheel on the back to adjust aperture (or shutter speed) in Manual mode, instead of having to press and hold a button and use the main dial on the T2i. The menu system feels well laid out and everything is pretty easy to find. Also having two custom spots on the mode dial is a nice addition (people seems to be complaining there are only 2 instead of 3, but let me say that 2 is much better than the zero I had before!). You can use the custom spots for pretty much anything (I have my set up for exposure bracketing and portraits). The ISO button location also takes a bit of getting used to when moving from a Rebel to the 6d, but the reassessed button and raised dot make it relatively easy to adjust quickly. Also you can customize a lot of the button assignments in the custom functions menu. Battery life seems to be pretty good so far. As expected, using GPS and WiFi considerably shorten the life, but it's certainly still acceptable. A note about aftermarket batteries: they work, but the camera doesn't play nice with them. If you put in an aftermarket battery the camera warns you that it isn't a Canon battery and asks if you want to continue. It also doesn't know how much battery life is remaining. I'm hoping the aftermarket battery manufacturers will update their batteries soon (Wassabi indicated within a month or two they would be releasing an update). WiFi & GPS: I bought this camera not really thinking I would use either of these features very often, but let me say they are welcome additions. The WiFi is pretty simple to set up (if you've ever set up a router or even configured your smart phone to connect to WiFi then you shouldn't have any issues). In less than 20 minutes I tried out connecting to an iPad, Android phone, laptop, and even a uploading directly to Facebook without any issues at all (note that you have to connect to your laptop first to set up Facebook and you have to register with Canon). Transferring images wirelessly from the 6d to a laptop is surprisingly fast and easy. Also, viewing images on an iPad wireless is easy (note that I haven't seen a dedicated iPad app yet, just for iPhone. Hopefully Canon has something in the works so we can see our images in full Retina glory!). I don't have much to say about GPS, other than it works. I stepped outside and it acquired a satellite signal pretty fast. You can view the geotagged information either in the provided Canon Maps application or in Adobe Lightroom. I think this will be really great when I am traveling. Note that the GPS stays on even when the camera is off (WiFi does not, however). You can turn off (or at least turn down the frequency) of the "bread crumb" feature (which tracks your location at set intervals to plot your path) to save some battery life. Advanced Shooting Modes: HDR, white balance and exposure bracketing, and multiple exposure modes are all really great features. I love to shoot HDR and the camera does a pretty decent job of aligning and merging the images when shooting hand held. I do feel limited in that you can only take three exposures in HDR mode. I also find it a pain to have to turn off RAW mode in order to turn on HDR. I actually prefer the exposure bracketing. You can bracket up to seven shots in 1/3 EV steps (note that if you want to bracket more than the default three shots you have to change a setting in the custom functions menu). The camera contains a lot of features for JPEG shooters (since I shoot mostly RAW I don't use these features often, but they seem nice to have for people who don't use post processing software). The camera will now do lens profile corrections (fixing distortion, brightness, vignette, etc.) for the lens that is attached. I always apply this to my photos using Lightroom and it's nice to have in-camera. Summary: In sum, the 6d is a fantastic camera. I don't at all feel hampered by the so called "limitations" pointed out in some of the reviews (lack of pop of flash, only 11 AF points, a single SD card slot, etc.). If you are upgrading from a Rebel you will love the improved center AF point, high ISO performance, speed, build quality, advanced shooting modes, and WiFi and GPS built in. I don't feel the need to compare this camera to Nikon's or Canon's other offering, because honestly this is a fantastic camera in its own right. I was already invested with several lenses in the Canon system, so Nikon was never really a consideration for me. The choice was really between the 6d and the 5d M3 and given the relatively large cost difference the 6d was the clear choice. Also if your considering the 5d M2, I think the benefit of five plus years of development has greatly benefited the 6d, and therefore would highly recommend the 6d over the 5d M2 for the sensor and new Digic 5+ processor. Pros: +Awesome low light / high ISO performance +Great center AF point for very low light focusing +WiFi and GPS built in provide awesome flexibility in shooting, especially for travelers +Relatively light and small (for a full frame) without sacrificing solid construction +Very bright and clear viewfinder (especially when compared to the Rebels) +Digic 5+ processor provides great JPEG improvements and fast enough shooting speed Cons: -Kit lens is only f/4, and the 24-70 f/2.8 is pricey! -HDR mode is slightly cumbersome to use and disappointing with its three shot exposure limitation -Button layout takes a bit to adjust to
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I normally don't pre-order, but went from Canon D-20 to D50 to 7D and figured I would be safe, based on history, with a dream upgrade to 1 D-6 with full frame. My new D-6 arrived today. Boo! What a disappointment, without even shooting a single thousand pics! I knew that my lonely EF lenses and prized L lens needed a new good home. That's why I "upgraded". Cheaper than a 5D or 1D, so I thought. Here's what my lenses said: "I'd rather be mounted on a Brownie. It makes me feel so cheap." Guess...View full Review
I normally don't pre-order, but went from Canon D-20 to D50 to 7D and figured I would be safe, based on history, with a dream upgrade to 1 D-6 with full frame. My new D-6 arrived today. Boo! What a disappointment, without even shooting a single thousand pics! I knew that my lonely EF lenses and prized L lens needed a new good home. That's why I "upgraded". Cheaper than a 5D or 1D, so I thought. Here's what my lenses said: "I'd rather be mounted on a Brownie. It makes me feel so cheap." Guess that's the message? A point a shoot hybrid / cross with semi pro capabilities" " I am out out of balance." Now the weight balance needs to come from the grip. What did they do?" Oops. We changed the add on grip mounting so it's not compatable with the D7. Have to buy a new one now. ): Tough luck! Oh, we decided that pop up flash was not 'pro' enough so we dropped it. Well you might have asked, Canon, 'cause that little gadget, limited as is was, actually served a use, now and then. Sorry Canon, this is a catch up to Nikon wannabe. I am a Canon Guy and I am disappointed!!
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I'm primarily a green screen photographer but, occasionally I do work outdoors. I upgraded to this camera from a crop (half) frame camera and I couldn't be more pleased. The photos I take are sharper, clearer, and this camera works very well for me in low light situations. So, far I can't find anything I don't like about it. I would recommend this to a friend.
A meaning grade from my 50D. The difference became obvious when I enlarged a cropped image 100%. One good reason to pay more to get a full frame sensor.
A full frame DSLR that I could afford! It's ISO range has little noise at the high end. And I LOVE the multiple exposure feature! Can't wait to get a 2nd body now!
Pro Portrait and wedding photographer Great Image quality. Fast and Sharp. Easy to use. Lots of great features. Still hard to focus in low light.
This is a good camera for beginners.
Why I bought the 6D? I had fun with the 7D for over 2 years and figured it was time to buy a full frame to add diversity to my creative process. What do I miss about the 7D that the 6D doesn't have? The speed. I loved how fast my 7D was at burst as well as using the joystick for focus selection. What do I love about the 6D? ISO, Full Frame, WiFi for on the spot proofing with clients.
This camera has the image quaity of a high end camera but none of the features. Upon pulling it out of the box, it almost went right back. the frame is small (built on the 70D platform)and the layout really doesn't favor the pro. Way to easy to bump buttons and change settings when shooting in manual. The deal breaker was NO PC SYNC port! A camera in this price range should have a SYNC port. I wish I found this return period. I thought this was going to be an upgrade to my 7D, in some ways it was. The sensor size creates images that no crop sensor can. The image quality and ISO performance is amazing. Unfortunatly that is where everything ends. I deceded on this camera because on paper the differences I saw between the 6D and 5DIII didn't justify the price difference for me and I really liked the wifi and GPS capability built in. But these fell short as well. GPS is great and works as it should, but indoor is still problematic. The real issue though is it is ALWAYS on. even with the camera turned off it is on, killing the battery. So taking the camera out for a short 1 hour shoot, a few days later the battery is dead already. So I tend not to use it and have it turned off in the settings. WI-FI would seem to be a natural but it does not nterface with Lightroom. Yes there is a wrk around but my Eye-fi card does so much better with this. It is really only good for transfering ALL files so you don't have to remove your card or use a cable but it is also slow. Where WIFI shines is being able to download direct to phone/tablet and remote view. I love being able to download to my phone and go right to social media or review images on my iPad. The remote view function is terrific... for images. I am now moving into video and very dissappointed to find out I cannot use it as remote monitor for video. Overall the camera takes stunning images but the cheap frame and lack of usefulness of key unique features make this camera more of a gimmick then a serious pro camera. Image quality 5 STAR, but overall I have to give it a 2.
I use this for commercial photography, editorial, weddings and cinematography. I'm a big Canon 5d II & III fan and kept a Canon 7d as my backup camera, I sold the Canon 7d and purchased the Canon 6d as my backup camera. I shoot both stills and video, so having an extra camera is important. Right off the bat, it's quieter, it shoots great in low light and performs almost as well as my Canon 5d and 5d Mark II. The menus are full of new features that might be great for JPEG shooters, but I shoot mainly RAW files, so some of those features don't matter much to me. As far as low light high ISO shooting, you'll have to use noise software like Lightroom to manage the noise. At 3200 ISO, it's pretty good but it is a bit noisy, but the LR software smooths it away with just a little loss in sharpness. So far I'm happy to be shooting at 3000 ISO, when shooting at 5000 ISO be on the lookout for noise in the shadows and dark backgrounds. From all the reviews I read, I thought there would be very little noise, well folks, it's noisy at high ISO, but it seems to be tighter pixels, so noise reduction doe's a great job and repairing that. But having the ability to shoot at 3200 to 5000 ISO is great for lowlight situations that wedding photographers face. I noticed that typically I shot wedding receptions on my 5D at 1600 ISO to brighten up my backgrounds and mix ambient light with flash, shooting the 6D at 3200 ISO seems to be comparable. One note: I had to lower my flash settings quite a bit when mixing flash at 3200 ISO, as the flash on manual settings at 1/16 was pretty hot. I shot a lot at 1/32 and 1/64 to compensate for the high ISO brightness. This is actually a plus, as it should reduce battery consumption, and I can shoot a bit faster shutter speed too. I can't wait to try it out more in the next wedding season. I also read that shooting in low light with flash was better than the 5d, sorry, it's just as bad shooting in low light. It sometimes struggles to lock focus, or even find focus to fire off a shot. As most wedding photographers know, that dark reception time is a challenge for focus. It's a solid camera, comparable to the 5d, and it definitely is worth the money. My only concern is dealing with the white balance inside the menu, but again, I shoot mainly RAW. I do shoot a lot of video and trying to dig into the menu to change white balance is a bear that I'll have to learn to deal with while shooting video. If you have the money, go for the 5dIII, but if you want to save on some money, this is a great camera.
I decided to pay the money and step up to a full frame camera and spent a couple months researching and finally decided to go with the Canon 6D and with the rebate offer at the time including the kit 24-105mm L series lens I couldn't be happier. Even if I hadn't got the rebate I still would have gone the same way. I wanted a few specific things; I wanted tack sharp images, the ability to get clean (noiseless) shots at higher ISO and even do some great night stuff at very high ISO. I've got all that and lots more with my 6D. I could have spent another $1300 and got the 5D Mark III but now I can apply that $1300 to another great lens and have the best of both worlds. Bottom line: I'm a happy camper/photographer.
I use this camera to take pictures of my family, wildlife and landscapes. The 6D is everything I expected it to be. Amazing noise control at high ISO. Autofocus works on a star at night (it takes several tries). It can focus using light from a full moon (it also takes several tries). The battery life drops to 50% after taking about 100 shots which is a lot shorter than I had expected. But this could be due to the fact that I have been taking a lot of longer exposure shots(5-10 seconds). The face tracking autofocus for video works very well. At first I was missing the White Balance button but I am used to it now. I set it to sunlight and do white balance during post processing. The lens however is not as good as I hoped. At 24mm and f/4, the vignetting is noticiable but you can correct this easily during post processing. My biggest grief about it is that it gets really soft at f/11 and smaller. This lens gives me an effective usable aperture range of f/4 to f/8. Besides this, it's a great lens.
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Are you ready to add a little samba spice to your performance? If so, you're looking at the right instruments to do it. Agogo bells are some of the most distinctive-sounding and looking instruments in a percussionist's collection, attaching easily to a rack or stand with a simple mount to make a unique expansion to your drum set. You can also hold them by hand for a world beat session, coloring the sound with their characteristic high-pitched clink. The agogo bells can be traced back to western Africa, where their ancient origins make them some of the oldest samba instruments still in use today. Agogo bells were often used in religious gatherings or to announce the arrival of an important dignitary. From there, they found their way into everyday music. For centuries, these bells' tinny overtones have been adding high-register flavor to percussion ensembles.
The arrangement of the agogo, with two differently-sized bells positioned next to each other, offers some interesting options for playing. The two distinct tones can be played with sticks, creating a sound reminiscent of the cowbell, or you can tap the bells together for a complementary metallic tone. Agogo bells make natural partners for conga drums, chiming in with higher overtones to accent the congas' mid-range sounds. Read More >


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After nearly 30 years with the Johnson City Power Board, Robert White is leaving his post as the utility's chief public relations officer to run a utility in Kentucky.
White will vacate his role at the Power Board May 10 to assume his new role as CEO of the Russellville Electric Plant Board in Russellville, Ky.
Like the JCPB, the Kentucky utility purchases its power from the Tennessee Valley Authority. Additionally, the Electric Plant Board offers broadband telecommunications services.
The additional services offered by the utility was one of the things that attracted White to the Kentucky market.
"It's a small community that's forward-thinking enough to deploy the advanced communications network that they have. They're already offering internet, phone and cable to their customers. They've been doing that for almost two years now," he said.
The Electric Plant Board is located in a much smaller community than that of the JCPB, serving about 4,000 customers.
White began his career with the Power Board in 1984 as a meter reader.
"That was back when we had to read the meters. The only thing smart was our brain," he said.
Before serving as chief public relations officer, White served in a number of other roles at the utility, including assistant stockkeeper and manager of maintenance, purchasing and transportation department.
White, a native of Johnson City, said he and his wife, Karen, a third-grade teacher at Cherokee Elementary School, are looking forward to the new opportunity despite leaving the area they've called home.
"I'm so excited for the opportunity, but there will be some sadness because I'm leaving the community that I've known and I've grown up in and raised my family here ... but sometimes God provides opportunities and there are necessary endings for new beginnings," he said.
Jenny Brock, chairwoman of the Power Board's board of directors, said White's service over the past 28 years has been a major asset to the utility.
"I think Robert White has been kind of the face of the Power Board to Johnson City and the rest of our service area for many years, and it's really benefitted the Power Board well and taken it through the changes with the Power Board," she said.
Brock said White will be missed, but she's happy to see him further his career.
"He's going to have a great knowledge base in that job and be able to get the position that he's been wanting and looking for," she said.
Power Board CEO Jeff Dykes also said the utility will miss White's service.
"Robert's a great gentleman and I know this is something he's looking forward to. I think he'll do a great job for those folks out there and we'll certainly miss him, but we wish him the very best," he said.
Following White's departure from the utility, Dykes said officials will begin looking at what to do with the position as the Power Board moves forward.


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37621-012: GMS Regional Communicable Diseases Control (formerly Communicable Disease Control in the Greater Mekong Subregion)
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The Project will assist to assess communicable disease control (CDC) efforts in Cambodia, Lao PDR, and Vietnam in the context of the GMS, identify priorities for and feasibility of strengthening CDC programs and coordination, and prepare a project proposal based on these identified priorities. The Project components include harmonizing policy development and standards of products and services, strengthening surveillance systems and implementation of WHO international health regulations, ... Read More
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John Langan has taught reading and writing at Atlantic Community College near Atlantic City, New Jersey, for over twenty years. The author of a popular series of college textbooks on both reading and writing, he enjoys the challenge of developing materials that teach skills in an especially clear and lively way. Before teaching, he earned advanced degrees in writing at Rutgers University and in reading at Glassboro State Collee. He also spent a year writing fiction.
To the Instructor PART ONE: Basic Principles of Effective Writing Chapter 1: An Introduction to Writing Understanding Point and Support An Overview: How the Book is Organized Benefits of Paragraph Writing Writing as a Skill Writing as a Process of Discovery Keeping a Journal Using This Text Chapter 2: The Writing Process Prewriting Writing a First Draft Revising Editing Review Activities Chapter 3: The First and Second Steps in Writing Step 1: Begin With a Point Step 2: Support the Point with Specific Evidence Reinforcing Point and Support The Importance of Specific Details The Importance of Adequate Details Practice in Making and Supporting a Point Chapter 4: The Third Step in Writing Step 3: Organize and Connect the Specific Evidence Practice in Organizing and Connecting Specific Evidence Chapter 5: The Fourth Step in Writing Step 4: Write Clear, Error-Free Sentences Revising Sentences Editing Sentences Practice in Revising Sentences Chapter 6: Four Bases for Revising Writing Base 1: Unity Base 2: Support Base 3: Coherence Base 4: Sentence Skills Practice in Using the Four Bases PART TWO: Paragraph Development Chapter 7: Introduction to Paragraph Development Nine Patterns of Paragraph Development Important Considerations in Paragraph Development Using a Computer Using Peer Review Doing a Personal Review Chapter 8: Exemplification Chapter 9: Process Chapter 10: Cause and Effect Chapter 11: Comparison and Contrast Chapter 12: Definition Chapter 13: Division and Classification Chapter 14: Description Chapter 15: Narration Chapter 16: Argument Chapter 17: Additional Paragraph Assignments PART THREE: Essay Development Chapter 18: Writing the Essay What Is an Essay? Important Points About the Essay Essays to Consider Planning the Essay Practice in Writing the Essay Essay Writing Assignments PART FOUR: Research Skills Chapter 19: Using the Library and the Internet Chapter 20: Writing a Research Paper PART FIVE: Handbook of Sentence Skills Preview Sentence-Skills Diagnostic Test Section I: GRAMMAR Chapter 21: Subjects and Verbs Chapter 22: Sentence Sense Chapter 23: Fragments Chapter 24: Run-Ons Chapter 25: Standard English Verbs Chapter 26: Irregular Verbs Chapter 27: Subject-Verb Agreement Chapter 28: Pronoun Agreement and Reference Chapter 29: Pronoun Types Chapter 30: Adjectives and Adverbs Chapter 31: Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers Section II: MECHANICS Chapter 32: Paper Format Chapter 33: Capital Letters Chapter 34: Numbers and Abbreviations Section III: PUNCTUATION Chapter 35: Apostrophe Chapter 36: Quotation Marks Chapter 37: Comma Chapter 38: Other Punctuation Marks Section IV: WORD USE Chapter 39: Using the Dictionary Chapter 40: Improving Spelling Chapter 41: Vocabulary Development Chapter 42: Commonly Confused Words Chapter 43: Effective Word Choice Chapter 44: ESL Pointers Section V: PRACTICE Chapter 45: Combined Mastery Tests Chapter 46: Editing Tests Sentence-Skills Achievement Test PART SIX: Readings for Writers Introduction to the Readings Goals and Values All the Good Things by Sister Helen Mrosla Rowing the Bus by Paul Logan The Scholarship Jacket by Marta Salnas Joe Davis: A Cool Man by Beth Johnson The First, the Clay, and the Rock by Donald Holland What Good Families Are Doing Right by Delores Curran Education and Self-Improvement Do It Better! by Ben Carson, M.D. with Cecil Murphey Anxiety: Challenge by Another Name by James Lincoln Collier Let's Really Reform Our Schools by Anita Garland How They Get You to Do That by Janny Scott Dealing with Feelings by Rudolph F. Verderber Extra-Large, Please by Diane Urbina Human Groups and Society The Most Hateful Words by Amy Tan The Storyteller by H. H. Munro (Saki) Rudeness at the Movies by Bill Wine Bullies in School by Kathleen Berger From Father to Son, Last Words to Live By by Dana Canedy A Drunken Ride, a Tragic Aftermath by Theresa Conroy and Christine M. Johnson Reading Comprehension Chart Appendix A: Answers and Charts Preview Answers to Sentence Skills Diagnostic Test and Introductory Projects Charts Appendix B: A Writer's Journal Acknowledgments Index
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SQL Server View problem in LightSwitch 2012
I recently faced a problem in Visual Studio LightSwitch 2012 with SQL Server views. I attached an external datasource to my project and when I tried to import my view (which is very simple) I experienced some issues.
Here is my View in SQL Server 2012:
During the import process a warning says my view doesn't have any primary key (apparently it's mandatory in LightSwitch) and that a key has been inferred...
When I check my view in my LightSwitch data source...
...one of my field(rating_id_session) has been changed to a key which means that I will not be able anymore to view all lines of my views in a grid but just one record per session id, which is just impossible for me...
To avoid this issue, we have to find a workaround which needs two steps:
The first one is to avoid that our field rating_id_session becomes a key during the import. For that we will force SQL Server to mark it as "nullable" by converting it.
If you now try to re-import your view, you will have the following error:
All fields are nullable now, so there is no way to create an inferred key: the view is also simply not imported.
We now have to create a dummy primary key to be able to import our view and to see all records.
The best way to create this primary key - which could be unique for each record - is to use NewID().
I will also use the function ISNULL to add my new field to the inferred key.
With this new key, my view is now imported and I will be able to use it correctly.
To resume
When you want to take out a field from an inferred key, you can use CAST or CONVERT functions.
To add a field to an inferred key, use the ISNULL function with 0 for integer fields and N'' for char fields.
And if you don't have one or more fields to use for keys, you have the possibility to use NEWID() to create one.
Hope this will help you ;-)


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Cognitive reorganization during pregnancy and the postpartum period: An evolutionary perspectiveEvolutionary Psychology 10(4): 659-687
Where the non-human animal research investigating reproduction-induced cognitive reorganization has focused on neural plasticity and adaptive advantage in response to the demands associated with pregnancy and parenting, human studies have primarily concentrated on pregnancy-induced memory decline. The current review updates Henry and Rendell's 2007 meta-analysis, and examines cognitive reorganization as the result of reproductive experience from an adaptationist perspective. Investigations of pregnancy-induced cognitive change in human females may benefit by focusing on areas, such as social cognition, where a cognitive advantage would serve a protective function, and by extending the study duration beyond pregnancy into the postpartum period.
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The exact distance of the course will be five and a quarter miles. The start will be made at 3.45 o'clock sharp from in front of the gymnasium. From there the course will be across the Common to Concord Avenue to Walden Street; from there across the fields in a northerly direction to the junction of the Fitchburg Railroad with the Watertown branch where the runners will be checked; up the Fitchburg to the Glaeialis where the runners will be checked a second time; from there in a south westerly direction to Fresh Pond, around Fresh Pond drive to Cushing Street, down Cushing Street to Mount Auburn Station for a third check; from Mount Auburn Station to the finish in front of the Law School. Prizes will be given the first three men in and the time of the first ten men at the finish will be taken. The course will be marked by a trail of paper.
Cross Country Run.
The fact of the outdoor runs given by the Athletic Association for the fall of 1892 will be held this afternoon. It will be a cross-country run. scratch, open to all members of the university.
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Gardens NYC-An Affinia Hotel
Gardens NYC-An Affinia Hotel
Hotel Guest Rating: 8.4/10
215 East 64th Street
New York, NY 10021
Welcome to the Gardens NYC-An Affinia Hotel
Spacious kitchenette suites and plush beds are among the highlights at the all-suites Gardens NYC-an Affinia Hotel on the Upper East Side.
Hotel Features
The stylish, 14-story hotel has 129 spacious suites, each of which features separate living and sleeping areas, along with kitchens with refrigerators, microwave ovens, dishwashers, coffee makers, cookware and tableware. A restful sleep awaits guests on custom-designed beds with pillow-top mattresses, triple sheets, down comforters and a choice of pillows. Wi-Fi is available (for a fee). The hotel lobby workstation offers a laptop and other business equipment (also for a fee). Parking is available for an extra charge.
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This Upper East Side hotel is within walking distance of Central Park, Museum Mile and the subway. LaGuardia Airport is a 20-minute drive, JFK is 25 minutes, and Newark Liberty International Airport is 35 minutes away.
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Spread out and do some cooking in Gardens NYC-an Affinia Hotel's spacious kitchenette suites near art museums and leafy Central Park.
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November 18, 2014
Family Traveling with Teens
The room was clean, ample, and modern. The kitchen clean and well-equipped. The bathroom clean, spacious, modern and well appointed. The staff were very friendly and helpful. The location is excellent: on a very nice, quiet street in a pleasant neighborhood. There is a very good diner just around the corner, and a parking facility just across the street (valet parking at this facility is available from the hotel). ...
June 2, 2014
Senior Travelers
older hotel being renovated.
January 22, 2014
Family Traveling with Young Children
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September 25, 2012
Senior Travelers
Staff was super helpful. I had to extend my stay and they kept me in the same room. Catching a cab was easy. The bellman ran up to the corner for me.
June 9, 2012
Huge room; very friendly staff; very clean; great location.
May 2, 2012
Solo Traveler
I love the Affinia at 50th and 3rd, but wanted to be further uptown for this trip. This location is undergoing renovation so the lounge was closed, there is no lobby and the fitness center has apparently not been dealt with yet. The rooms are fine and comfortable and the staff is great, as I have found at all the Affinia locations. I would like to return after renovation is finished before I judge. ...
April 22, 2012
Senior Travelers
Hotel satisfied our needs very well. Would definitely stay there again when in NY for more than 2 nights.
February 26, 2012
Family Traveling with Young Children
Needs some updating esp in the bathroom and kitchen as stated above. On the shabby side there. Our deadbolt lock on the door did not seem to work and the hotel did not repair it when we told them. Nice to have two rooms and kitchen to make meals in, but there weren't enough chairs for all of us to sit down to eat. Could use a chair or two and side table in the bedroom. The housekeeping staff came quickly enough with towels and blankets. Friendly desk staff. Complementary coffee and tea in the lobby. ...
February 21, 2012
Great from beginning to end. All front desk staff very friendly and helpful. Bellhop wonderful name Kris. room very spacious. Very quiet hotel. Great kitchen and bathroom. Plenty of amenities. great location. Loved parking available next door. Will definitely visit again.
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Yes Bravo. Next on our list should be to a push to accept white people into the NAACP. Then we can fight to have Irishmen join the Puerto Rican day parade. How about having aethiests march in the Christmas Macy's parade ?. This country is so messed up. Seems to me that minorities are now the bullies, hiding behind the facade of acceptance. What a bunch of bull.
The problem with guns in America is that many states have no laws restricting purchases and those guns go across the country and get into the hands of criminals. If all the states had strict laws pertaining to purchases such as NJ or NY, I believe you would see a decline in shooting's. I believe in gun ownership for those individuals who are law abiding and responsible Americans. The constitution gives us this right and I believe I have the right to defend myself against those who wish to do me harm. Now this doesn't address the fact that sometimes law abiding citezens "short circuit" but if all law abiding citezens were allowed to carry guns on their person, the monster in Colorado would have not had the chance to kill all those innocent people. He would have been peppered with bullets from those upright citezens in the theater. On a side note, the for fathers of our country provided us with the right to bear arms for what other reason than self defense and hunting?.....so that if our government ever rose against its people, we had the means to have another revolution and replace it with a new one.
The Governor is nothing more than an arrogant bully. How he gets away with the things he say's is unbelievable.
For every person on this site who posts that this a great thing, let me remind you that these employees are not entitled to social security. Social security gives cost of living increases. If you collect or plan on collecting social security you should understand that the increases are necessary as the cost of living goes up. Don't be so quick to applaud for as in the article it states, "the federal government is looking into at COLA susspensions. Guess what? that means you.
Where do you draw the line? If I was wanted, I would just dress in muslim apparel and be free to go anywhere I wanted without fear of aprehension.
Who mentioned anything about the Bible? Homosexuality is perfectly normal and if practiced whole heartedly and without deviation, will not lead to it being weened out by natural selection. Its what nature intended.
Un-natural? what are you people talking about? How else would the species multiply. There plenty of homosexual animals, for instance, chipmunks....very homosexual and don't forget about bears. Its totally natural.
I'm a career firefighter with 20 years on. Do you know how my sick time is payed to me? Let me enlighten you. First off, I work 24 hour shifts. Sick days are broken down into 12 hour blocks. If I am sick, I use 2 days, 12 hours each. When I retire and if I have sick time left in my "bank", the city will pay me for 1/3 of my days. I forfeit the other 2/3. Of that 1/3, they will only pay me on 8 hrs or 3/4 of a sick day. So, if after 25 - 30 years I have left over sick time, lets say 60 days, they will pay me 3/4 of 20 day's or 15 days. Thats really not a boat. Its more like a canoe. Unfortunately the media grabs onto that 1 guy like a cheif who has a large payout and now the uninformed layperson thinks we all have these giant pay outs. Not true people. A little incorrect information out there spreads on sites like this and soon its truth. Be careful spreading miss-information.
Wrong. We pay into pension because we do not receive social security. Its not like the private sectors pension's where they get social security AND their pensions. We get only a pension. No social security. So if they did away with pension contributions, they would then have to make social security contributions. Six in one half a dozen in the other.
Very typical response from an ignorant individual. I did not make any dissparaging remarks and spoke only truth yet here is a "man" who resorts to name calling instead of a legitamate response. Yes there is a greater reward but we contribute more than those in social security and those like myself in the public safety sector sacrifice our health, put ourselves in danger and dedicate our lives to protecting strangers like you who in their spare time knock us. As a added piece of information I have watched most of my retired co-workers die within a short time frame. As a USA today study concluded, the average firefighter will live 7 years past retirement. Not really worth the small extra monthly pay and may be why it is larger in the first place.
@ Fredhamil.....Ponzi scheme? You mean like Social Security? Thats the same pricipal behind the state pension system. People pay into the system to be invested and the proceeds are doled out after they retire. Are you aware that state and local workers who contribute up to 10% of their gross salary towards their pension are ineligible to receive social security? Thats right, ineligible. On top of that those who are retired now, thanks to a new law, are not going to receive annual increases as those who receive social security do. Not very fair. If state and local municipalities dropped their respective pension sytems for their employees then they would have to start contributing to social security AND social security payments can't be skipped as pension payments have been over the last 11 years. The skipped payments, not skipped by the employees but the employer's portion, are the reason the pension is "broke" as our great leader Christie states. Please get information correct before making irresponsible posts.
I dont know where you get your miss-information from. Most state workers are far from the $100,000 dollar salary. In fact only 6% of government workers attain a salary above $100,000 and that is upper management, which is about the same percentage in the private sector. Please get your information straight before you come here and post idiotic statements. Do you really think average state and municipal workers are making that much? The average salary is $57,000.
It was only thrown out of Federal Court. It was remanded to State Court.
It was only thrown out of Federal Court. It was remanded to State Court.
Why isn't Christie doing something about Joey D? Because he needs him to further his agenda. I believe if you worked and paid into a pension system and you are retired, take your pension. If you come back to work for the same state, you should have your pension halted until you really retire. Christie will not say anything about politicians who are doing the same thing but on his side. What a disgrace. Politics as usual. You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours.


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The 6/14 Virtualization Security Podcast we spoke about firewall placement within the virtual environment as well as storage based defense in depth. While we covered Encryption on the 5/31 podcast, in the 6/14 podcast we covered other measures when dealing with storage (which will be part of a followup post). This conversation was slightly different than all other firewall discussions, as it was about migrating from a physical environment to a virtual environment, and keeping the same firewall placements. Spurred by a customer, we sought to come to a set of guidelines to follow for defense in depth within the virtual as well as physical and hybrid cloud environments.
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The 3/8 Virtualization Security Podcast held a discussion on the happenings as the 2012 RSA Conference in San Francisco as well as a discussion of the features of Bitdefender's entry into the virtualization and cloud space with their SVE product. RSA Conference high lights not just those security tools for the virtualization and cloud spaces but the entire industry and each year there is always a common theme. Was there one this year? Was there any surprises at the conference?
I and others look at Virtualization Security constructs with an eye towards Cloud Security, but they are not necessarily the same. Granted for some clouds, virtualization security can lead to cloud security but this really depends on how the cloud's architecture. Even so, what we know from Virtualization Security WILL apply to Cloud Security and will be the basis for best practices. But you say, my cloud does not use Virtualizaiton? Ah ha, I say, but it is still a cloud? And that implies there are similar security concerns. This was the discussion on the 1/26 Virtualization Security Podcast.
Christmas is over and New Years is on its way. A time to make resolutions and see the year complete. A time to review what is old and plan for the future. This is a perfect time to review your defense in depth and look to see if there are security additions needed in 2012. So what cloud and virtualization security New Years resolutions should I make for 2012?
Since Juniper bought Altor Networks, there has been steady progress to use Altor VF3 (now Juniper vGW, pronounced vee-Gee-W) as a way to extend the functionality of the Juniper SRX Series of Service Gateways into the virtual and cloud environments. Juniper is focusing on the entire security stack from the endpoint to the hypervisor, vGW offers one component of that entire picture. Another component is the Junos Pulse Mobile Security Suite which provides Security as a Service for mobile devices. These two components alone are a very powerful set of tools for any Enterprise. When you add in the other components it is a compelling story from network security perspective.


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Waco, TX (SportsNetwork.com) - Taurean Prince poured in 15 points off the bench to lead a balanced Baylor scoring attack, as the ninth-ranked Bears cruised past Savannah State, 80-50, on Friday at Ferrell Center.
Cory Jefferson supplied 13 points, seven rebounds and three blocks, while Isaiah Austin and Rico Gathers each added 11 points for the Bears (12-1), who notched their 12th straight home victory, good for the second-longest home win streak in school history.
"We don't take anyone for granted," Jefferson said. "We knew coming into the game that we needed to play like we've been playing all year and worry about the next game afterward."
Joshua Montgomery made four 3-pointers en route to a team-high 15 points for the Tigers (2-12), who have dropped 10 straight games.
"[Baylor is] every bit of what their rankings are," Savannah State head coach Horace Broadnax said of the Bears. "They have a lot of different weapons to hurt you with and they are just huge and big."
After Khiry White opened the game with a jumper to give the Tigers their first and only lead, Gary Franklin drilled a triple at the other end, sparking a 11-2 Baylor run that Jefferson capped with a trey for an 11-4 lead.
Austin netted the final four points of a 9-0 surge later in the frame that increased Baylor's cushion to 32-17 with 7:20 left in the first half.
The Bears carried a 46-30 advantage into the break before scoring the first five points of the second half to push the spread to 21 points.
Savannah State briefly got within 15 following a Alante Fenner jumper just before the midpoint of the half, but Gathers supplied seven points in a 9-0 surge that gave the Bears a 66-42 lead with 8:14 to play.
The difference never dipped below 20 the rest of the way as the Bears cruised to victory down the stretch.
Baylor's longest home win streak at Ferrell Center is 15 games, set from Feb.
3, 2010-Jan. 11, 2011 ... Baylor opens Big 12 play at Iowa State on Tuesday
... The Bears improved to 14-0 all-time against teams from the Mid-Eastern
Atlantic Conference ... The Tigers open MEAC play at home against Maryland-
Eastern Shore on Monday ... Jefferson has scored in double figures in a
career-best 11 straight games.
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