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Just out of curiosity, why is x-pockolypse in it.
Just out of curiosity, why is x-pockolypse in it.
After Infamous proved to be a bit disappointing im putting all my eggs into the Batman basket to justify the damned PS4. Safe bet, as Rocksteady delivers. So far its looking great. Got a chuckle out of the total dismissal of Arkham Origins. Reading between the lines it seems like they are none to happy about Warner Bros pushing that out, or at least pushing that out under the "Arkham" title. Best thing ive heard Rocksteady say about it is "its really solid" and "i loved the fighting"(which they helped Warner Bros Montreal with). Havent played it myself so cant really comment but the sniping is amusing.
Also on game news, sorry Val:
http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/03/...-north-americaAssassin's Creed Comet, the alleged Xbox 360/PS3 tie-in to this fall's Assassin's Creed Unity, will allegedly take place in North America, feature nautical exploration, and star a playable Templar.
GameBlog reported that Comet stars Shay, a sailor and Templar, which Kotaku corroborated with sources.
Kotaku also claims Comet will take players to 1758 New York, where Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag's Adewalé, Assassin's Creed III's Haytham Kenway, and other familiar Assassin's Creed stars play various roles. Comet is, according to GameBlog, a direct sequel to Black Flag.
No Russia but at least you get Adewale and Haytham back. Hope they make Adewale the "main enemy". Would be a fun twist.
Terrorist attack count against the Anything Goes Thread: 4
Guess im going to have to get all of my promises of violence and threats of blackmail in as quickly as possible. Went with guarantees of nuclear fire last year, leaning towards simple shootings this one.
Anybody else notice that it's always people born between 1950-1970ish who use the phrase "pussification of America?" Which is funny given that the generations currently fighting the wars they started are the toughest since WWII's. Most of us can kick our dads' asses.
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The midfielder twisted his ankle when his studs got caught in the turf against Derby a week ago and, after undergoing a second scan, the prognosis is not good.
"At the beginning of the week we thought it was going to be a bit more positive than what it is," Rovers boss Gary Bowyer said.
"He's had it re-scanned and we now expect him to be out for a few months.
"He'll have an operation on Monday so hopefully that will speed up the recovery process with an outside chance of him being back for the end of the season."

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LAS CRUCES, N.M. (May 21)-The New Mexico State soccer team is having walk-on tryouts for the 2013 season Saturday, Aug. 10 at 6 p.m. at the NM State soccer field west of Aggie Memorial Stadium.
Interested individuals need to email assistant coach Freddy Delgado (firstname.lastname@example.com) and provide your name, NM State student ID number, high school attended, club team and soccer resume. If an individual has previously attended college, she must include what year she will be in school as well as prior colleges attended.
Prior to the tryout, individuals must complete the following requirements to be eligible by NCAA and University policy for tryouts:
- Pick-up a tryout form from the NM State compliance office located on the north side of the Pan American Center and next to the ticket office.
- Take the form to the athletic training center in the Fulton Center on the second floor. Proof of insurance and proof of a physical with doctor's statement that athlete is cleared for physical activity are needed. You must also get a sickle cell test done and the results must be provided to the athletic training room with physical papers in order for them to sign off (both the physical and the sickle cell test are required to tryout). If you are unable to get a physical from your home doctor, you can get a physical from the campus health center on the NM State campus. The number is 575-646-1512. You will need to schedule an appointment at least one week in advance of the tryout date to ensure enough time to get the sickle cell test results back. A NM State athletic trainer will sign the form when he/she approves you to tryout.
- Return the form to the compliance office so that they may assess your academic eligibility and all things related to ensure you are eligible to tryout/play soccer at NM State. You must be admitted and registered full-time on the main Las Cruces campus and be in good academic standing.
For more information, contact Freddy Delgado at email@example.com or 575-646-7922.


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If you ever thought about getting into the teaching industry, check out this cool graphic from Teacher Salary Info. It gives a good break down of all the numbers behind the job. Lets hope that you're getting into it to better the youth though, and that money doesn't play much into it. That being said, our teachers should definitely get paid what they're worth…and that's a whole lot!
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Spaces: Rose Perez
By Megan Stacy, For the Express-News : May 3, 2013
Photo By Photos by Robin Jerstad / For the Express-NewsTwo log cabins, dating from 1755 and early 1800s, were hauled to San Antonio in 1952 and re-formed to make one house. It was purchased in 2010 by Rose Perez.
Exposed logs behind the bed hint at the history of the house. Perez researched the home's story during renovations.
A Duncan Phyfe sofa joins other period pieces in the house.
The master bath, which was added to the house, is modern.
African art is as at home as deer trophies.
An island with a soapstone counter adds to the functionality of the kitchen.
Photo By For the Express-NewsThe 1-pound key used to lock and unlock the front door of the log cabin.
Photo By For the Express-NewsThe entrance to the lodge portion of the late log cabin belonging to Rose Perez and her sister Violet Grammer.
Photo By For the Express-NewsThe "lodge" of the log home of Rose Perez.
Photo By For the Express-NewsThe "lodge" of the late 1700's era log home of Rose Perez.
Photo By For the Express-NewsA door knocker in the late 1700s log home of Rose Perez.
Photo By For the Express-NewsA deer head with goggle on adds a touch of whimsy to the lodge area of the Rose Perez home.
Photo By For the Express-NewsAn upstairs sitting room in the late 1700's era log home of Rose Perez.
Photo By For the Express-NewsA dress form is used as an accent piece.
Photo By For the Express-NewsRose Perez updated the kitchen.
Photo By For the Express-NewsA cowhide chaise lounge and tile floors in the late 1700 era log home of Rose Perez,
Photo By For the Express-NewsZelda, the cat in the late 1700's era log hjome of Rose Perez, sits on the front porch.
Photo By For the Express-NewsRose Perez wipes the screen on ther front porch of her late 1700's era log home.
Photo By For the San Antonio Express-NewsThe late 1700's era log home of Rose Perez.
Photo By For the Express-NewsThe late 1700s-era log home of Rose Perez sits behind a white picket fence.
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Persistence pays: After touring the home for the first time, Rose Perez was heartbroken to learn that the house had already sold to investors. She found out months later through her real estate agent that the house would be auctioned in just a few days. While the auction was "nerve-racking," she says, she came out of it as the home's new owner.
Dig into the past: Perez contacted previous owners to learn more about the home. She was curious about the heavy front door, and through one of her contacts discovered that the door hardware came from an old Virginia jailhouse. The previous owner gave Perez the 1-pound key that goes with the door.
Strike a balance: Perez furnished the living room with antiques, including a white Duncan Phyfe sofa and a chaise lounge reupholstered in cowhide. The graceful lines of some of her antiques provide a perfect contrast to the earthiness of the old log cabin.
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People often tell Rose Perez they feel like they've stepped into another era and another place when they visit her home.
That's because it really does belong to a different time and it's from halfway across the country. Perez lives in a home built from two frontier-era log cabins, one dating to 1755 and the other from the early 1800s. The cabins were hauled to San Antonio from Virginia in 1952 and reassembled piece by piece on a lot a few miles west of St. Mary's University.
Perez didn't know that history when she lived in the neighborhood as a girl and walked past the home with her family. All she knew was that it was an anomaly in an area dominated by typical suburban homes.
Years later, Perez saw the home listed for sale. By then, it had fallen into neglect and was vacant and vandalized. Still, despite a visit that revealed a musty and dark interior, she found it charming.
"There was something about it that said home," Perez, a catastrophe claims adjuster, says.
She bought the 3,400-square-foot home at auction in 2010 and moved in with her sister and nephew. They began renovations, unearthing the home's story along the way.
"I found out all the history and loved it even more," she says.
She learned that the two log cabins were originally from the Shenandoah Valley of western Virginia. Hal Clayburne, a local contractor and antiques collector, found the tumbled-down cabins, disassembled them and shipped them to Texas by rail.
Clayburne joined the cabins to form the two-story house and preserved many original features, including five fire-
places (a sixth was added later), stone chimneys and an interior wood staircase. The heavy solidity of the centuries-old walls is one of Perez's favorite aspects of the home.
"You can't blow this house away," she says.
Perez tackled basic plumbing, electrical and air-conditioning repairs first. She replaced a hodgepodge of roofing materials with a new metal roof and circled the house with a white picket fence.
Previous owners had painted the exterior a uniform ash gray, obscuring its log cabin aesthetic, so Perez repainted the logs a dark wheat brown and highlighted mortar chinks with a sandy color. She enlivened the facade by painting window trim an antique red.
The low, beamed ceilings and dark wood preserved inside, however, made many rooms dim. Perez painted some interior walls white and added more lighting to brighten the spaces.
One room with plenty of light was the kitchen, where Perez made major changes. She relocated the stove, redid cabinets with a simple Shaker trim and added a white farmhouse sink. For functionality, she installed an island with a soapstone countertop. Bright apple-green paint finished the cheery room.
In another major project, she enclosed a back porch to make a master bathroom and laundry room. While thoroughly modern, details such as faux wood tile flooring tie the bathroom to the home's past.
Perez found that her collection of ethnic art and early American, Colonial and Victorian furniture fit right in. For example, the section of the home constructed from the 1800s-era log cabin is one wide room with a vaulted ceiling and walls lined with deer trophies. African art, leather couches and a drum kit in one corner seem at home next to the 200-year-old walls.
Perez has applied for a historic marker for the home.
"I feel like the house and the history of the home deserves that," she says.
Megan Stacy is a San Antonio freelance writer.


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At times, Microsoft's Chief Executive Officer, Steve Ballmer, reminds me of the US Vice President, Joe Biden. Ballmer, like Biden, can sometimes go off on a tangent and hold no punches back. Last night, Ballmer was being interviewed by Reid Hoffman on the state of Microsoft.
It was during this one on one session that Ballmer let some real zingers fly regarding both Apple and Google. To begin with, Ballmer saw Apple's iOS as something that is "highly controlled" and over priced with Ballmer giving the example of the sixth generation iPhone commanding prices of up to $1,000 in international markets. On the other hand, Ballmer saw Android as essentially the opposite of iOS. Whereas Apple had tight controls on iOS, Ballmer perceived Android as an operating system that is "uncontrolled", "wild" and an OS that was prone to malware.
With the stage set, Microsoft's CEO believed that their Windows based products could slide itself in between these two extremes and carve out a niche for itself. Ballmer went on to say that his company has worked very closely with third party developers to ensure the success of their latest products such as Windows 8, Phone and Surface. Below is an 8 minute segment of this interview. Have a listen and let us know your thoughts in the comments below.


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A couple of 2014 X5 (F15) prototypes flashed their grilles for the first time during one recent test run and our quick acting spies managed to capture it before their camouflage were reattached.
As we've reported previously, the grilles are indeed larger, wider, and bolder than those on the current X5. It retains the 7 slat design, but the grilles now dominate more of the front fascia and has a much thicker grille surround than the current X5 – see the comparison image below.
The hoodline has been … CONTINUED
We've just spied the next generation BMW X5 M prototype beginning its testing! Although still clad in full camouflage, signature M features leave no doubt that we are looking at the next X5 M.
The most conspicuous items are the quad M exhausts, active differential and blue brake calipers, which have become the signature color for M model brakes (i.e. F10 M5 and F12/F13 M6). Seen behind the blue M brakes are drilled rotors, the first for any X5 model. Hiding behind the front end camouflage are … CONTINUED
We first began spying the next generation BMW X5 (F15) in January during its cold climate testing. BMW has now ratcheted up testing of the F15 X5 and moved to the Nurburgring to begin some serious track testing.
The F15 X5 is expected to weigh less than the current E70 X5 and ride on a modified version of the F10 5 series chassis. Expect both diesel and gasoline 6-cylinder and 8-cylinder engine options. It should be introduced in late 2013 – early 2014 as a 2014 model … CONTINUED
The camouflage on BMW prototypes usually comes off slowly like a strip tease as prototypes advance from one test stage to the next. But, this time we've spied some parts of the next generation 2014 BMW X5 (codename: F15) in exposed form much earlier than expected.
It looks like an automotive version of the Sci-Fi horror film Predator, but this post crash test X5 prototype actually reveals much – the headlight shape, hood lines, fenders, and the side body character line. Keep in mind that some of … CONTINUED
It's often difficult to perceive the size and scale of a new BMW vehicle in spy photos/videos without any other model by its side. To tell the size of the upcoming next generation BMW X5 (F15), we've now spied it next to both the current X5 (E70) and the current X3.
Compared to the current X5, the F15 X5 doesn't appear to be much larger, and any increase in size (at least with respect to height and width) doesn't seem to be very perceptible at this distance. … CONTINUED
The next generation 2014 X5 (F15) continues its cold weather testing and our spies have spotted the F15 interior for the first time. Below are images of two different prototype X5s, each having different gauges and iDrive buttons. It seems that final designs on those two parts have not yet been finalized and are still undergoing evaluation. The first design seen below shows a larger iDrive button design which features a touchpad surface on top. This dash also features a full black panel display.
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We've now spied the 2014 BMW X5 (F15) on video in the first live motion look at the next X5, due at the end of 2013 as a 2014 model. This prototype is spotted in Northern Sweden undergoing cold temperature / winter weather testing. It can be seen purposely inducing slides and drifts, perhaps to test and develop the traction control and xDrive system.
Preliminary info indicates that the hood sits flush with the larger/wider grilles. The headlights are supposed to be trapezoidal shaped and … CONTINUED
The next generation BMW X5 (F15) has begun its public testing! We bring you the first photos of it undergoing winter testing in Northern Sweden. These photos show the F15′s new grille design for the first time – which are clearly larger, wider, and bolder than the current X5′s.
Preliminary info indicates that the hood sits flush with the larger/wider grilles. The headlights are supposed to be trapezoidal shaped and will connect to the headlights, like the F30 3 series. The F15 will also adopt many of … CONTINUED


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There are disclosed apparatus and methods for mixing solids that are difficult to mix. The apparatus includes means for providing a slurry of the solid to be mixed to the inlet side of a centrifugal recirculating pump.
1. In mixing apparatus for use with a container of liquid, the apparatus comprising a centrifugal recirculating pump having inlet means for receiving liquid from a container and discharge means for delivering liquid to such container, the improvement wherein there is provided means for introducing a slurry of highly concentrated solids to said inlet means from a source that is separate from the container.
2. The apparatus according to claim 1 wherein said discharge means includes nozzle means for discharging liquid both generally parallel to the wall of such a container and generally perpendicular to the wall of such a container.
3. A method of preparing a suspension of solids, comprising the steps of:
(a) preparing a highly concentrated slurry of said solids,
(b) preparing a container of liquid of a volume substantially greater than the volume of said slurry,
(c) recirculating said liquid volume through a centrifugal pump, and
(d) adding said highly concentrated slurry to said recirculating water at the inlet side of said pump, thereby forming a suspension of said solids in said container.
4. A method according to claim 3 wherein said solids are dried microorganisms.
5. A method according to claim 3, wherein the concentration of said slurry is between about 25 and 150 grams per liter.
6. A method according to claim 3 wherein said suspension is used to nucleate water for snowmaking.
The present invention relates to mixing solids in liquids in order to produce a suspension of the solid.
As noted, the present invention is directed to providing suspensions of solids, particularly those that are difficult to suspend. While the preferred embodiment is directed to the suspending of dried microorganisms, it is not so limited. The invention is useful to suspend any suspendable solid.
In U.S. Pat. No. 4,200,228 there is disclosed a method for the making of snow whereby microorganisms are included in droplets that are sprayed into the air. The microorganisms that are used are of the type which are known to promote ice nucleation. As a result, snow can be made at temperatures that are much higher than are ordinarily possible. A typical microorganism that is useful in this method is a Pseudomonad and particularly Pseudomonas syringae.
In U.S. Pat. No. 4,637,217 there is disclosed a method for accelerating the freezing of sea water. Ice nucleating microorganisms are added to the water source, in this case sea water. The sea water is then distributed, such as by spraying, to make large ice structures. These ice structures are useful for oil drilling platforms in the polar regions. In this application of the ice nucleating microorganisms, the conditions of spraying are adjusted to promote the formation of ice on the surface rather than snow in the air. In addition to spraying, the patent also discloses other methods of distributing the ice nucleated sea water. For example, an area that is surrounded by a dam can be flooded by the nucleated sea water and allowed to freeze.
The water that is used in snow making is usually from an on site source such as a pond or stream. The water is pumped up the ski slope to the snow guns using large pumps. These pumps are inside enclosures in order to protect them from the weather and to facilitate maintenance.
Whether to make snow or to make large ice structures, the ice nucleating microorganism is usually delivered to the site in dried form. The microorganism is then resuspended in an aqueous medium, typically just water, in a concentrated form. This concentrate is mixed in a tank in the structure that contains the pumps for distributing the water to the ice making system. Since only a small amount of the microorganism is needed to nucleate the source water, only a small amount of this concentrate needs to be injected into the water supply. In a typical installation, a 100 liter suspension of microorganism having a microorganism concentration of 3 g/L will nucleate about 380,000 liters of water and will last for about 10 hours before the tank will need to be refilled with new suspension.
Thus, there is a need to suspend quantities of dried microorganism. A typical method is to introduce the dried solid into the tank and then to activate a recirculating system. The recirculation system is equipped with a pump that is capable of pumping the suspension at a rate that results in a turnover of about two tank volumes per minute. This high turnover and turbulence associated with the pump tends to mix and suspend the microorganism. In another method, the container holding the suspension is stirred with a conventional motor driven impeller.
However, in these prior art methods, problems were encountered with the suspension. Large particles still tended to settle at the bottom of the container and filters in the discharge line from the container tended to fill rapidly. Prior to the present invention, the need for an improved method of suspending the microorganisms was apparent.
In accordance with the present invention, there is provided an improved mixing apparatus for use with a container of liquid, the apparatus comprising a centrifugal recirculating pump having inlet means for receiving liquid from a container and discharge means for delivering liquid to such container. The improvement is that there is provided means for introducing a slurry of highly concentrated solids to said inlet means from a source that is separate from the container.
In another aspect of the invention, there is provided a method of preparing a suspension of solids, comprising the steps of:
(a) preparing a highly concentrated slurry of said solids,
(b) preparing a container of liquid of a volume substantially greater than the volume of said slurry,
(c) recirculating said liquid volume through a centrifugal pump, and
(d) adding said highly concentrated slurry to said recirculating water at the inlet side of said pump, thereby forming a suspension of said solids in said container.
FIG. 1 is a partially schematic representation of the suspending apparatus of the invention.
The present invention can be understood from FIG. 1. There is illustrated a mixing and storing container for the suspension shown in cut away section at 10. Attached to the bottom of container 10 is an inlet line 30 for a centrifugal recirculating pump 20. To the discharge side of pump 20 is discharge line 40 having a discharge nozzle generally shown at 41. Discharge nozzle 41 is located inside container 10 and is described more fully below.
Also attached to the bottom of container 10 is discharge line 50 for discharging the suspension to the injection system (not shown) for the snow or ice making equipment. The discharge line 50 includes a solids trap 52. The function of the trap 52 and the line 53 will be described in more detail below.
In accordance with the present invention there is provided means for providing a slurry of the solid to be suspended to the inlet side of the recirculating pump. The means in this embodiment includes a "T" fitting 31 in the intake line 30. To one of the openings in the "T" is attached line 32 having a valve 33.
In operation, the container 10 is filled with the liquid into which the solid is to be suspended. A highly concentrated slurry of the solid is prepared in container 34. The recirculating pump 20 is activated, the line 32 is placed into container 34 and valve 33 is opened. The slurry is transported through line 32 into inlet line 30 and thereafter into pump 20 and finally through line 40 into container 10.
I have found that forming a thick slurry and passing the slurry through pump 20 finely divides the solids and the result is a thorough suspension of the solids. Such thick slurries can be in a concentration of from about 25 to about 150 grams per liter, preferrably about 85 grams per liter. This is in contrast to the suspension where the concentration of solids is typically about 2 to 6 grams per liter.
In preferred embodiments, the discharge line 40 is connected to a discharge nozzle 41 inside the container 10. The nozzle 41 includes a discharge 43 to discharge recirculating suspension generally parallel to the tank wall and a discharge 42 to discharge recirculating suspension generally perpendicular to the tank wall. This arrangement of discharge substantially eliminates vortexing in the container and improves the suspension of the solids.
In the comparison described below, the invention was practiced using the following equipment: The container 10 was a 750 liter tank. The recirculating pump operated at 3400 rpm and had a capacity of about 380 liters per minute. Inlet line 30 and discharge line 40 were about 3.75 cm in diameter while line 32 was about 1.25 cm in diameter. Nozzle 43 was a 1.90 cm opening while nozzle 42 was a 1.25 cm opening.
To illustrate the improvement attained with the invention, 1500 grams of microorganism was placed in about 20 liters of water in container 34. Container 10 was filled with about 480 liters of water and pump 20 was activated. Then, line 32 was placed in the slurry and valve 33 was opened. In about 2 minutes, container 34 was empty and the container 10 was full of suspended microorganism at a concentration of about 3 grams per liter. To test the quality of the suspension, the resulting suspension was poured over a large black surface having a drain. The milky white suspension went down the drain leaving behind only small amounts of solids.
In comparison, the same apparatus was used except the 1500 grams of microorganism were added by pouring the solids into the top of container 10 in the conventional manner. Valve 33 was closed. The recirculation pump 20 was activated for 15 minutes and the resulting suspension tested as before. As the suspension drained, a white film was left behind on the black surface indicating incomplete suspension of the microorganism. Thus, the apparatus and method of the invention provides faster and more complete suspension of the microorganism.
While the present invention is an improvement over the art, if the container is allowed to stand for long periods, some settling of microorganism will occur. Further, it is desirable to circulate the susepension in the container 10 periodically so as to eliminate any localized increase in temperature that might occur. Thus, it is common to activate the recirculating pump 20 for about 1 minute every hour. During the remainder of the hour, suspension is continuously removed through discharge line 50 at a rate of typically 1 liter per minute for injection into the snow or ice making water supply. I have found it desirable to provide a trap 52 in this discharge line. Any solids that might settle out while the recirculating pump is not operating are collected in trap 52. When recirculating pump 20 is activated, the collected solids are drawn from trap 52 into the intake line 30 through line 53. Thus, the settled solids are resuspended.
The invention has been described in detail with particular reference to preferred embodiments thereof, but it will be understood that variations and modifications can be effected within the spirit and scope of the invention.
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« YTD Total Returns for January 2013 | Main | It Only Took the Dow 1,939 Days to Get Back to 14,000 »
What Does a Positive January Mean for the Rest of the Year?
By JLP | February 1, 2013
So, we had another January with a positive return. This January, the S&P 500 had a total return of 5.18%.
You have probably heard about the January Effect. Basically, it means what happens in January usually foreshadows what will happen for the year. I decided to look back at the returns I have to see if there was any truth to the saying. The findings were interesting.
Of the 87 years that I have data on (not including this year), I found that there were 55 years with a positive January.
Of those 55 years, 46 of them (roughly 84%) had positive returns over the next 11 months.
Here's another way to look at it:
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BG Says:
February 1st, 2013 at 7:22 pm
"Of those 55 years, 46 of them (roughly 84%) had positive returns over the next 11 months."
Just a clarification question: 84% had positive returns over the next 11 months not including the January gains, or does that include the gains from January too?
If the former, that is quite amazing.
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February 1st, 2013 at 11:38 pm
No, that does not include January's return. In other words, it's like waiting to see how January performs and investing in February if January was positive.


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Ten local families will receive a Christmas dinner thanks in part to LifeStore in Elkin.
The insurance business, located at 925 North Bridge St., is collecting non-perishable food items to fill 10 food baskets with Christmas dinner for needy families.
"It is a company-wide initiative … we all decided that in our own communities we would seek to feed families in need," said Ann Ashman, senior vice president and branch manager of Elkin's LifeStore.
Other LifeStore offices are located in West Jefferson, North Wilkesboro, Lenoir, Boone and Sparta.
Ashman said she contacted Elkin City Schools and Bridges Schools to gather a list of children in the school system who came from families with needs.
"We identified five families from each school system," she said.
LifeStore will be collecting the non-perishable items including canned vegetables, brown sugar, flour, canned cranberry sauce, canned pumpkin and pie crust mix, canned milk, canned ham, biscuit or roll mix, package stuffing, cake mix, and non perishable items that children can eat while home from school such as granola bars and easy mac.
Monetary donations for purchasing extra food are also appreciated.
LifeStore will be collecting items and monetary donations until Dec. 19, at which point the food will be delivered to the families. Store hours are Monday through Friday 8 a.m. until 5 p.m.
"We have had moderate participation so far, but of course we would really appreciate more," Ashman said.
For more information, contact LifeStore at 835-4060.
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40 CFR 1045.810 - What materials does this part reference?
Documents listed in this section have been incorporated by reference into this part. The Director of the Federal Register approved the incorporation by reference as prescribed in 5 U.S.C. 552(a) and 1 CFR part 51. Anyone may inspect copies at the U.S. EPA, Air and Radiation Docket and Information Center, 1301 Constitution Ave., NW., Room B102, EPA West Building, Washington, DC 20460 or at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). For information on the availability of this material at NARA, call 202-741-6030, or go to: http://www.archives.gov/federal_register/code_of_federal_regulations/ibr_locations.html.
(a) SAE material. Table 1 to this section lists material from the Society of Automotive Engineers that we have incorporated by reference. The first column lists the number and name of the material. The second column lists the sections of this part where we reference it. Anyone may purchase copies of these materials from the Society of Automotive Engineers, 400 Commonwealth Drive, Warrendale, PA 15096 or http://www.sae.org. Table 1 follows:
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Tributes after Cornwall councillor Ray Tovey's death at 65
Posted: September 13, 2012|
TRIBUTES from family, friends and colleagues have poured in for a west Cornwall councillor after his death from a brain tumour aged 65.
Ray Tovey, Cornwall councillor for Gwinear-Gwithian and St Erth, died at St Julia's Hospice in Hayle on Saturday morning, nine months after his illness was diagnosed in December.
Mr Tovey, who had to stand down from his Cabinet position as portfolio-holder for localism and devolution earlier this year, was elected to the council in 2009.
He had previously been a long-serving chairman of Gwinear-Gwithian parish council, a Penwith district councillor and a Newlyn harbour commissioner.
His daughter Hannah Eustice said her father bore his illness with courage.
"He was just so brave about the whole thing," she said. "I don't think he complained once. Up until the last two weeks or so he was out every single day in his wheelchair for a walk with mum. He just kept going; he wanted to see us all and he realised the importance of it all."
After his diagnosis Mr Tovey underwent an operation at Derriford Hospital in Plymouth and treatment at the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro.
He is survived by his wife Jenny, their daughters, Hannah and Rachel Murray, and grandchildren Jake, 8, Alfie, 6, Flora, 4, and three-year-old Scarlett.
He was born in Hayes in Middlesex and grew up in Somerset, where his family were coal merchants.
He met Jenny at Somerset College of Art in Taunton, and worked in London at the Pemberton Advertising Agency in Baker Street before returning to Somerset as a freelance graphic designer.
The couple moved to Cornwall when Mr Tovey got a job at Falmouth School of Art as a lecturer in graphic design.
He was later promoted to head of graphic design and then seconded to BTEC and Edexcel as a moderator.
Mrs Tovey said: "He took early retirement at 55 and went travelling with me. A lot of it was done on a motorbike and sidecar. He built his own camper van and fitted it out himself. After a number of years travelling he came home and got involved in local government."
Outside work he enjoyed water sports and was a keen motorcyclist.
Mrs Eustice said: "He was one of the first surfers down at Godrevy.
"That was a massive part of his life: surfing, canoeing with friends, and he had a surf ski."
St Erth parish clerk Peter Rylett met him through surfing before they worked together. "I shall really miss working with him, his intellect and great sense of humour, and feel great sadness over the loss of a good friend," he said.
Cornwall Council leader Alec Robertson said: "Ray was a first-class councillor and a first-class man. The dignity, courage and positivity with which he faced his terminal illness were the qualities we all associated with Ray in his working life."
The funeral is at Gwinear Church on Tuesday at 11am. All are welcome, and no formal mourning attire is requested. Donations may be made to Cornwall Hospice Care – St Julia's Hospice.


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BIOL:409 Aquatic Ecology Laboratory.
Field laboratory in aquatic ecology techniques. Topics include physical and chemical measurements and the identification and enumeration of phytoplankton, zooplankton, aquatic plants and benthic organisms. Same as ECOL:409. Prerequisite: BIOL:102 or ECOL:201 or instructor's permission. 1 SH. 4 laboratory hours.
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Knox Man Dies During Ice Storm
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) – State police in Maine say a 50-year-old man died when he tried to refill a generator that was running after power went out during this week's ice storm.
Spokesman Steve McCausland says family members found the body of Timothy Woods of Knox early Tuesday in a detached garage about 15 minutes after he went out to gas up the generator. Police believe he was overcome by carbon monoxide fumes.
By midday Tuesday, more than 106,000 people still were without power following the two-day storm that snapped branches and power lines. Utilities say it could be Friday before power is fully restored.
The Red Cross opened a third shelter Tuesday morning in Brewer. Shelters opened in Belfast and Calais Monday night. There are also 12 warming centers open around the state.
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COLUMBIA CITY — Amendments to Columbia City's sign ordinance continue to be a topic of discussion for the Columbia City Plan Commission.
Part of the sign ordinance being examined is related to electronic messaging centers.
"Our current ordinance does not specifically deal with that," said Dave Sewell, executive director of Whitley County Planning and Building. "We thought we needed some provisions in there that would give us some restriction and control over it. What we are trying to do is allow electronic message centers as designed, but with some kind of regulation, so there is some control and it doesn't get out of hand."
Proposed regulations would affect the size of the sign and how much time it takes to display the message. Part of the size is connected to the location of the business and the speed limit for the road.
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It was a sad day for Emma Bunton, whose search for her lost dog has come to a dismal end.
Without delving into details, she took to Twitter to thank those who reached out when she announced earlier this week that her and fiancé Jade Jones' chocolate Labrador Phoebe went missing on a daily walk.
"To all the amazing people who supported us at this horrible time, our precious Phoebe has been found and it's terrible news," the Spice Girl, 37, Tweeted Wednesday. "We are devastated."
"Thank you everyone for your support," Jones, 33, added. "Love you Phoebe always."
The couple, who are parents to sons Beau and Tate, also thanked Dog Lost, a database for lost and found dogs in the U.K., who assisted the family.
Phoebe, whom she described as gentle and gorgeous, was microchipped at the time of her disappearance.
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With work completed after several years on the Evaluation and Appraisal Report (EAR)-based amendments to the Walton County Comprehensive Plan, Gerry Demers suggested to county commissioners on Oct. 12 that planning staff begin working on some other projects.
The projects involve the county's other growth management document, the land development code, which provides details to implement the comprehensive plan's broader goals. Demers, county director of planning and development services, first suggested that staff work on an ordinance to provide more specific requirements for projects proposed as planned unit developments (PUDs).
The PUD concept provides for certain requirements, setbacks for example, to be reduced or waived when a project incorporates elements of benefit to the public.
Demers noted that the code currently sets no minimum size for a PUD project, and that some have been proposed at a size of one acre or less. He noted that once written, the ordinance would go before the Walton County Planning Commission and then the Walton County Board of County Commissioners (BCC). Demers also suggested work on revising some areas of the land development code to make them consistent with the EAR revisions to the comp plan.
District 3 Commissioner Larry Jones asked Demers to provide a more definitive outline of the areas of the code for which revisions would be proposed, and Demers agreed to do so at a future BCC meeting.
South Walton County resident Lloyd Blue requested that before starting on new projects that staff wrap up issues already being worked on such as the proposed revisions for the driving on the beach ordinance and also what has been referred to as the "wedding house ordinance."
Lynn Hoshihara, interim county attorney, said that on Oct. 26 she would be asking the BCC to set public hearings for draft ordinances on both matters.
South Walton County resident Anita Page urged the BCC to have staff proceed with work on the revised requirements for PUDs, calling PUDs "one of the biggest problems we have had."
Larry Jones then commented that in his opinion neighborhood commercial uses have been problematic over the past several months and perhaps for years.
Jones suggested that, if the other commissioners were in agreement, staff could be asked to look at making neighborhood commercial a conditional land use category. The advantage would be that it would provide the BCC with latitude to set different conditions that would be appropriate for different areas, he noted.
District 5 Commissioner Cecilia Jones thanked Jones for bringing up this idea and said she thought the idea was a good one. District 4 Commissioner Sara Comander agreed.
Larry Jones then brought up the problem of the county having no way to monitor what kind of business "shows up" at any particular location when one business is replaced by another, and no way of ensuring that the new business is in compliance with the land development code.
Walton County has no business or occupational license requirement. The idea for establishing such a requirement has been kicked around over the years, but Jones was very clear in saying that in no way was he proposing this alternative.
Instead he suggested that the county look at setting up a "certificate of land use compliance" to be issued to businesses. This would serve as a mechanism to ensure that there is a review by the county of each business with regard to the land use category in which it is located, Jones explained.
Comander agreed on the importance of knowing what kind of business is operating at a particular location. She said fire district personnel had brought up the problem of not knowing what type of business is in operation on any given property. Fire response personnel may show up at a location, for example, thinking that a dress shop is there, when the property's use has changed to a restaurant, she said. From a standpoint of having proper equipment to respond to such an emergency, it is important to know what kind of business is on a property, she explained.
Comander added that, from an economic development perspective, it is also valuable to have this information.
The commissioners directed staff to pursue this concept and bring information on it before them at a future meeting.


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Rewinding briefly to Ars Electronica just to share the best definition of Piratbyrån I've heard formulated in the English language:
Piratbyrån (The Piracy Bureau) is not an organization but an on-going conversation on copyright, file-sharing and digital culture. Over the last six years Piratbyrån has been able to create a discursive space that enables individual and collective actors to be heard, and to significantly expand the range of opinions entering the public debate regarding copyright. To advance this conversation, they have been using a wide range of innovative, experimental, often humorous techniques – as well as traditional means such as public discussions, interviews and publications.
The resulting debate has been multi-layered ranging from the technological (e.g. The Pirate Bay) to the artistic (e.g. a bus tour through Europe to Manifesta 08) to the political (e.g. Pirate Party). With very limited resources, Piratbyrån has been able to galvanize a political movement that has already shaped the development of digital culture and public policy in Sweden and across Europe, pushing the boundaries of the possible.
Piratbyrån aims at nothing less than to fundamentally question the most basic categories – e.g. the distinction between the producer and the consumer – through which we understand culture in order to investigate if and how these apply to the digital condition.
Piratbyrån does not claim to offer a solution to this extremely complex issue; indeed, it questions the assumption that copyright offers a one-size-fits all solution to cultural production, which now needs to be replaced with another unified solution. All of this has been done with great dedication and under considerable personal risk, yet they never forget that humor and irony are among the strongest weapons available to cultural producers.
This was the motivation from jury member David Sasaki for giving an award of distinction to Piratbyrån in the "digital communities" category of Prix Ars Electronica. After that, the word was given to me for a brief talk on the dilemma in receiving 5000 euro to an informal project.


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Connection beams and lateral plates are made separately in advance of fabrication. Two or more connection beams are simultaneously placed in parallel on an intermittently movable belt conveyor and lateral plates are then supplied thereto while the connection beams are moving on the belt conveyor. Both are joined together by the use of adhesives or by heat-melting. The bond is then secured by applying pressure.
1. A method for fabricating pallets comprising the steps of:
a. placing a plurality of separate and discrete connection beams in parallel at predetermined distances from each other on a conveyor line with the longitudinal dimension of said beams extending in the longitudinal direction of said conveyor line;
b. intermittently moving said conveyor line and said connection beams longitudinally to predetermined positions and stopping said conveyor line and connection beams;
c. intermittently supplying a plurality of lateral plates to said predetermined positions at spaced intervals on one side of the thus intermittently moved beams with said plates extending transversely to the longitudinal dimension of said beams and at a predetermined angle to the surface of said beams, and stopping the movement of said plates before said plates are in full contact with said beams;
d. applying a means for providing an adhesive on the contacting surfaces of at least one of said plates and beams while said beams and plates are stopped;
e. thereafter continuing the intermittent movement of said beams and plates to place said beams and said plates in parallel, immediately thereafter pressing said plates against said beams by a press means, and moving said beams and plates in full contact through said press means under pressure for a desired time to form a secure bond therebetween; and
f. releasing the thus bonded beams and plates from said press means, turning the thus released bonded beams and plates over, and repeating steps (b)-(e) to thereby bond further plates at predetermined intervals to the opposite side of said beams.
2. The method of claim 1, further comprising supplying said lateral plates with the said means for providing the adhesive.
3. The method of claim 2, wherein said step of supplying said means comprises jetting a stream of hot air on the surfaces of said connection beams and said lateral plates to slightly melt the surfaces thereof.
4. The method of claim 2, wherein said step of supplying said means comprises applying an adhesive material to the surfaces of said connection beams and said lateral plates.
5. The method of claim 1, wherein said step of intermittently supplying comprises moving said plates into contact, only at the lower leading edge thereof, with said beams.
6. The method of claim 1, wherein said angle is substantially 30�-60�.
7. The method of claim 1, wherein said angle is substantially 40�.
This is a continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 343,024, filed Mar. 20, 1973, now abandoned.
This invention relates to a method for fabricating pallets. Conventional box frames, concrete casting flasks or pallets that are made by joining connection beams and a number of lateral plates together have been made of wood or metal. In order to join the various parts, nails or metal pieces are conventionally used for wood pallets and welding or riveting is conventionally used for metal pallets. This work is substantially performed manually for each pallet. This manual method has required much work, much man-power, and much time, and has resulted in a lack of mass productivity and high costs.
Furthermore, in the case of joints held together by nails, the holding force is local and discontinuous. This weakpoint brings about a problem of instability of the quality. For example, the frame may collapse as a result of an impact force. On the other hand, when a pallet is made in one piece by synthetic resin injection molding, expensive equipment must be furnished, and it is difficult to embed reinforcements therein when required. As a result, it becomes impossible to achieve the required rigidity at low cost.
This invention is designed to remove these deficiencies. According to the invention, connection beams and lateral plates are made separately in advance of fabrication. Two or more of the connection beams are simultaneously placed in parallel on an intermittently movable belt conveyor, and lateral plates are supplied while the connection beams are moving with the belt conveyor. Both are intermittently stopped and have contact surfaces thereof made adhesive and are then pressed together. This process is carried out quite efficiently.
The advantages of the present invention will become clear from the following detailed description, taken together with the accompanying drawings, in which:
FIG. 1 is a rough profile view of the arrangement of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a detailed plan of the arrangement of FIG. 1;
FIGS. 3a and 3b are perspective views of the finished product; and
FIG. 4 is a rough profile view of a second embodiment of the invention.
In the drawings, and particularly FIGS. 1 and 2, elements 1 are connection beams and elements 2 are lateral plates. Contact surfaces 3 of the members are made from hard and rigid polyethylene, polypropylene, polyvinyl chloride, ABS resin, or other thermoplastic resin materials. Alternatively, the members can be made from materials which can be firmly glued together by appropriate adhesives. Stiffeners 4 can be inserted inside of connection beams 1 and lateral plates 2, if necessary. Various shapes of steel material can be used as stiffeners 4 to meet different requirements. A hopper 6 is arranged above and near the end of belt conveyor 5 which is driven by known means (not shown) in a predetermined intermittent manner and at a predetermined speed. Connection beams 1 are stored in the hopper 6 parallel to the moving direction of conveyor belt 5, and these are supplied to the belt conveyor 5 with an equal space left therebetween. Beams 1 thus move intermittently with belt conveyor 5. A second hopper 7 is arranged at about the middle of the belt conveyor 5. This hopper 7 contains lateral plates 2 which extend perpendicular to the moving direction of the conveyor belt 5. Rotating arm 8 is arranged between opening 9 of the hopper 7 and a connection beam on the belt conveyor 5. This arm can be rotated by any known power source in synchronization with the velocity and intermittent movement of the conveyor 5, and is designed to attract a lateral plate 2 when chuck 10, attached at the top of the arm 8, is positioned at the opening 9 of the hopper 7. The chuck 10 then rotates down to supply the connection beams 1 with a lateral plate 2. Plates 2 are thus supplied to beams 1 at a predetermined angle, e.g., within 30� -60� and preferably 40� to the surface of the beams such that the bottom leading edge of each plate 2 first contacts predetermined positions of respective beams 1 (see FIGS. 1 and 4). At this precise moment conveyor belt 5 stops. Alternatively, the leading edge may contact the beams when the conveyor stops. Arm 8 also preferably stops.
As would be obvious to one skilled in the art, the supplying of the lateral plates can also be accomplished by a rotating gear system or by an inclined gravity system, rather than the rotating arm system.
When conveyor belt 5 and preferably arm 8 are stopped, hot air jet nozzles 11 jet hot air to the contact surfaces 3 of the lateral plate 2 and/or connection beams 1, to slightly melt the surfaces thereof, the melting forming an adhesive or bonding means. In this case, connection beam 1 and lateral plate 2 may be made from the same material, such as polyethylene resin, and can be glued by applying a solution of the same resin thereon. Alternatively, they may be glued by applying other effective chemical solution materials. After the adhesive surfaces are provided, belt 5 and arm 8 are again started, whereby the complete bottom surface of plate 2 is placed in contact with beams 1.
The connection beams and the lateral plates then move between press belt 12 and conveyor belt 5 to attain complete adhesion by pressing.
The pressuring time can be adjusted to match the hardening time of the adhesives by controlling the velocity of the conveyor belt 5 or by changing the length of the press belt 12. When heat hardening is necessary, conveyor belt 5 may be surrounded, at least in part, in a hot chamber. This method is capable of producing either frame A or frame B, shown in FIGS. 3a and 3b. Frame A is taken out after it passes through press belt 12, and therefore lateral plates 2 are glued only on one side of connection beams 1. Frame B, however, has additional lateral plates 2 on the other side of connection beams 1. This is accomplished by turning over frame A by means of a reversion mechanism and sending it back through the apparatus, but without feeding additional beams 1, or by arranging a second rotating arm 8, second hot air jet nozzle 11, and second press belt 12 downstream of the device. Frame A can be used for box frames, concrete casting flasks, etc., and frame B is useful as a freight transportation pallet or the like.
FIG. 4 shows another embodiment for fabricating frame B wherein roller 13 is used for the movement of connection beams 1 instead of belt conveyor 5, so that lateral plates 2 can be glued on both sides of connection beams 1 at the same time.
In this invention, connection beams are first supplied on the belt conveyor, and then lateral plates are supplied to extend perpendicular to the connection beams while they are moving on the conveyor. Such supplying is achieved by intermittent movement of the plates and beams, and respective surfaces thereof are made to be adhesive while the beams and plates are stopped and just before the plates are moved into complete surface contact with the beams on the belt conveyor by a solution of the material or by applying adhesives or chemical solution materials thereto. The advantages of this invention are that the procedure is conducted mechanically with continuous intermittent operation, and thus reinforcement is easily possible to meet the usage requirements of the frame. Also, by having the beams and plates stopped while the contact surfaces thereof are made adhesive, the control of the application of the hot air or the adhesive is much better. That is, it is possible to prevent hot air or adhesive from flowing or jetting beyond the front leading edge of each plate, or onto undesired portions of the beams. As a result, the product is quite durable, relatively inexpensive, and of high quality, and may be used for many different purposes. Especially, the hot air jetted far away will melt the undesired portions. This will result in inequal adhesion at contacts of the plates and beams, which will therefore easily separate.
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The Department of World Languages and Cultures invites all FSU students, faculty, and staff to enjoy internationally acclaimed movies. All screenings are free and will be shown Wednesdays at 5:30 p.m. in the Language Lab (386 Butler).
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LeShane Greenhill launched his latest company, Sagents, in June. Sagents connects buyers with sellers and keeps track of how a buyer spends its money on services. / Sanford Myers / The Tennessean
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Team: CEO LeShane Greenhill, CTO and co-founder Raj Menon, Tony Elovitz, Pradeep Kumar, Bibin James
Advisers/investors: Holly Grenvicz , Jason Denenberg, Brian Fox, Evan Owens, Brandon Oliver
Revenue model: Suppliers pay $29 per opportunity or $139 a month for unlimited access and use of marketing tools. Corporations pay monthly fees for Sagents analytics, with fees varying based on the amount of data accessed.
Money raised and sought: Sagents has raised $42,500 and is seeking to raise an additional $600,000.
Clients: Bridgestone Corp.; Barge, Waggoner, Sumner and Cannon Inc.; Rogers Group Inc.; Medi-Copy Services Inc.
LeShane Greenhill began working on his latest company, Sagents, in 2011, and it launched in June. Before Sagents, Greenhill founded Pishon, which helps companies outsource sales, as well as Greenhill Development Co., which helped small businesses manage a network of desktop computers. Greenhill is a well-known figure in Nashvilles emerging tech scene. He recently sat down with Tennessean technology reporter Jamie McGee to talk about his newest venture.
What does Sagents do?
We are an analytics engine that connects buyers and suppliers at the time of need, the time of purchase, and then tracks buyers spending data throughout the process. We help corporations better understand who they are spending money with, how much they are spending with them, how often they are spending with them and then what kind of categories those companies fall in. (For example) how many are you spending with that are women owned, how many are African-American owned or disabled-veteran owned?
How does it work?
Buyers use one side of the platform to identify suppliers in two ways. One is through just a regular search: They can go to the platform and just do a search based on some keyword or certain criteria they put in, or they can upload or create a posting, which is nothing more than saying, This is what Im looking for, this is what my budget is, this is what my objective is and when Im looking to buy. So, they create their posting and then the suppliers that are on the other end of the platform that match up with that posting get notified.
What problem is Sagents seeking to address?
The big problem we are solving is the amount of time. We are automating what (buyers) currently use Excel spreadsheets to do now. (Our system) allows them to keep track of what their past history was and compare month-to-month and quarter-to-quarter to see if theyre hitting their spending goals. It helps them easily report that information either upstream to executive management within the company or externally to corporate or federal partners who require that they track and record that information.
Buyers have either internal initiatives, goodwill initiatives or external requirements to spend a certain amount of money with small, women- and minority-owned businesses, particularly if they have a state, government or federal contract. The buyers typically run into the problem of finding the suppliers that fall within those categories, and then once they find them, quickly qualifying them or determining whether they are 51 percent owned by whatever category they fall in. We help the buyer succinctly identify suppliers that fall within certain categories.
How did you get interested in this idea for the company?
It came about through Pishon. I was looking for ways to reduce the hurdles of small businesses to do more business with corporate America. I didnt find anything I really liked in terms of technology tools, so I decided I would try to build something. Thats the short version.
What have been some big milestones in the last two years?
We made it through the Entrepreneur Centers program. That was awesome. We were able to launch with a Fortune 500 company, Bridgestone. We were also able to launch with a partnership with the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce. Since launching our first product, weve been able to land four or five new clients.
Where would you like to see Sagents in three years? Our goal is to have a platform that is ubiquitous with making the jobs for supply diversity officers in corporate America more effective and more time efficient. We are working on some partnerships now that within three years will allow us to be well past a $3 million or $4 million company. We want to be a market leader within the next three years.
This is not your first startup. In college, you started Wizzkidds.com, which helps high school kids handle money; Greenhill Development Group; and then Pishon.What lessons did you learn from your previous startups that have helped you?
Thats easy. One is have more advisers around you from the very beginning. Two, get advisers that are not people you already know. Three, make sure you choose your partner carefully. Four, raise money quicker, and then five, dont be afraid to use offshore resources.
How did you find your partner?
I met (Sree Raj) at BarCamp at 2010. Thats specifically why I went to BarCamp, looking for a (chief technology officer), partner. I was volunteering at BarCamp because it was my way of being connected to the technology community. In the room I was overseeing as a volunteer, he was the last speaker in my room. I liked what the guy had to say, so I went up to him and said, Hey, Id love to speak with you more about what you just spoke about. We got together a week or two later, and I told him what I was working on, and he told me more about himself. Just through that one conversation at Starbucks, we just decided he had the skills I was looking for, and he was the last person I had interviews with out of 13. We just hit it off and put together an agreement, and its been rock solid since then.
What about your high school lawn mowing business? Any takeaways there?
Dont be afraid to ask for the money. In my lawn mowing business I had to walk around the neighborhood and knock on the door and ask if I could cut grass. You cant be afraid to open your mouth and ask people for money and ask people if you can do work for them. I did it for three years. I was making $100, $150 a week, something like that. Thats where I learned sales. My motivation was the fact that one day I asked my dad for an advance on my allowance so I could buy a video game and he said, No, thats not how the world works. You dont get an advance on paychecks. The next day I came home in junior high school, and he went and bought a lawn mower and said, Go and make your own money.
What is the most challenging part of launching a company?
Its a balancing act between building a product that solves a problem and making sure you have the capital resources to build the team to support that product. Thats the challenge.


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The earth, round and rolling around the sun
old beyond ken, rolling with the punches
rolling with the tides of all the oceans
rolling with the ebb and flow of beings.
It slides through space gravities exerting,
the sun, the moon, the dark matter unseen
all keeping it on its path and axis
a respectable distance from its neighbors
This bright blue green dot so glassy and small
travelling through space so vast, black and cold
While we may eye Mars' broad plains and ice caps
we hold earth close as mother, life itself.
We hold thee dear, earth, mother, spring of life
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The Williamson County Fair continues to draw residents from Southern Illinois and beyond. The grandstand events still thrill young and old alike and the Saturday Championship Demo Derby is always sold out long before the first car takes to the track. Local residents bring their arts and crafts for cash prizes and of course bragging rights with the ribbons. Horsemen have enjoyed harness races on the same track for over a hundred years. On the east end of the grounds, Western, Gaited, and Speed horse shows are well attended.
Sept. 12, Saturday-The McLean Co. Barn Keepers will hold their 10th annual tour in Chenoa Twp., Chenoa, Il. from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Maps and registration will be available at the Chenoa Methodist Church from 9 a.m.-2 p.m.Pick up your map and travel at your own leisure. Rain or shine. 309-475-6951 or 309-378-2406 www.mcleancobarnkeepers.org. See us on Facebook.
A historic tour of Flora's Elmwood Cemetery. Your evening will begin and conclude at the Flora Depot. Board hayride wagons and be transported into Elmwood Cemetery. You'll stay aboard the wagons and find several interesting characters waiting to tell their stories. Tickets purchased at the event, concessions available.


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McKinley Freeman: The man is a poet, a cupcake lover, the best person to go furniture shopping with, just a spectacular, spectacular dude. His biggest skill is making Derek the kind of bad boy you want to see get the girl. When he did that line of blow at the mansion (through a rolled up check to his mama), you felt so bad for him. And his pick me speech? What does Season 2 hold for Derek and Ahsha now that they've done the deed (AND ON THE BACK OF A CONVERTIBLE NO LESS DAAAAAAAYAAAAAAAM)? Hmm…
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Don Stark: What a f–king scum bag. I mean Oscar! He may or may not have murdered Mia. ("Water under the bridge"?, what an a–hole!) In real life this guy is sweeter than the basketball cookies he brought on the last day of filming. He was the first person to predict we'd be a hit. He said he had the same feeling about That 70's Show, which he rocked that awesome 'fro on for eight seasons. Our original cheerleader, we love Don to death. Plus he's funny as hell. In that inappropriate way you really like.
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LANSING, MI (AP)-- A bill to require the more than 40,000 people on Michigan's sex offender registry to pay an annual fee is igniting a debate over who should bear the costs for operating the system that tracks offenders.
The bill recently approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee would require offenders who are not in prison to pay an annual $50 fee instead of a one-time $50 registration fee.
Republican Senator Rick Jones of Grand Ledge says sex offenders should be required to pay because "they put themselves on this registry by their actions."
But the American Civil Liberties Union says the fee is an overly burdensome cost for offenders who already struggle to find jobs and housing.
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Thursday, October 30, 2008
Washington Square Park '07
13 comments:
- Chuck Pefley said...
Something else we see when we look into that pawn shop window is our own reflection in the glass ... and just like NYC our physical features have morphed over the years.
- October 30, 2008 at 11:25 AM
- Laurie said...
You said it, Ken. I had no idea so much of NYC was morphing into corporate sameness. Keep snapping those photos, my friend. Keep a record!
- October 30, 2008 at 1:04 PM
- JM said...
Today you've captured one of NYC ex-libris, at least that will not be torn down (I hope!).
- October 30, 2008 at 2:44 PM
- Tanya said...
Crazy isn't it? I really enjoyed your post today :)
- October 30, 2008 at 2:52 PM
- Virginia said...
We hear ya KM. Keep at it my friend. Some of us are listening unfortuntately not the ones with the moolah!
- October 30, 2008 at 3:09 PM
- rchrd said...
This might be one reason why I have mixed feelings about ever coming back to NYC to visit. My last visit about 10 years ago left me so depressed and wondering if what I remember from living in WSV in the 60's was just a figment of my imagination or really real because so much of my visual memory has been obliterated by bland and boring buildings and shops.
Luckily I do have some pictures from that previous life.
Like this one:
Is it progress, or reverse amnesia?
- October 30, 2008 at 7:21 PM
- CoyoteFe said...
"What we take in visually becomes our thoughts."
Yes it does.
- October 30, 2008 at 7:52 PM
- ken mac said...
everyone should check out rchrds shots of old NY, they are fantastic!
- October 30, 2008 at 7:54 PM
- Blognote said...
Thanks for keeping track of old New York, Ken!!
- October 31, 2008 at 1:35 AM
- Coca Cutie said...
Love the wet fountain!
- October 31, 2008 at 5:53 AM
- Lily Hydrangea said...
what you have written is hard to accept, but it is true. I am glad you are documenting what is left.
I checked out the older photo of Washington Square, that is really neat!
- November 2, 2008 at 11:47 PM
- Ming the Merciless said...
Wooowww! I was about to ask if the constructions are done until I saw the 2007 in the title. :-(
- November 10, 2008 at 11:24 PM
- custom writing services said...
Fantastic!! BRAVO, amazing shots you made!! well done!
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Friday, June 14, 2013
The song, Shoo Fly, Dont Bother Me, has been sung, mostly by children, for well over one hundred years.
The last lines of the chorus are:
Shoo fly, dont bother me, for I belong to somebody.
When I was a child, racin around the house swattin flies, I sang the military version:
Shoo fly, dont bother me, for I belong to Company B.
Theres even another version substituting Company G for Company B.
As a child, I used an all-metal swatter as if I were on the front line of a combat mission.
There was a certain skill necessary to patiently wait til the fly landed, sneak up on him, and smash him to smithereens.
The flyswatter I have today is a sissy swatter, made of plastic, and Ive only had to use it two or three times this year.
Is the common housefly on the decline?
Or is it that we stay so shut up in our air-conditioned homes that they dont have a chance to sneak in?
Back in June of 1913, the Civic Club of Georgetown announced an anti-fly campaign for the children of Georgetown that was to run through Sept. 15 of that year.
Boys and girls were to bring or send in the slaughtered flies to the office of G. Johnson, health officer. They were instructed to bring in ...not less than half a pint at a time.
Half a pint? Georgetown must have been swarming with flies.
Prizes were given monthly to children bringing in the most flies. First, second, and third place winners received $5, $3, and $1, respectively. At the end of the anti-fly campaign, an additional $5 was awarded to the three children with the highest numbers collected over the summer.
The rules were simple. Flies could be killed by any method, including the use of fly traps and flappers (swatters), but flies caught with sticky paper did not qualify. I guess it would be difficult to insert a length of flypaper into a half-pint jar.
I was unable to find the names of the winners of the anti-fly campaign, but I found out the why. Earlier that month, an article was published in The Georgetown Times quoting a Dr. E.W. Saunders of St. Louis. Dr. Saunders said that experiments had ...practically established the fly as a carrier of infantile paralysis.
Also, flies were already being exterminated because experiments had indicated that flies were spreaders of typhoid fever.
Our public health officials took this to heart and on June 6, Dr. Olin Sawyer of Georgetown delivered a thirty-minute talk to school children on the fly, a dangerous creature.
Its heartening to know that our medical community and public officials took swift action to wipe out the fly, a true (they thought) danger to the health of the community.
What I dont understand is that they asked the children of Georgetown to eradicate the menace.
Polio and typhoid fever? What were they thinking?
To be fair, there were other items in the same newspaper which seem just as remarkable one hundred years later.
For instance, in the classified section there is an ad for property for sale in Hemingway.
One lot, 190x67, with four-room dwelling and store (20x40). One two-story barn 12x16, two stables and two sheds. Dwelling will rent for $12.50 a month. Store will rent for at least $10 a month.
Not interested in renting? The entire property could be purchased for $300 down and $1,235 payable in two installments.
The property was being offered through J.A. Doyle, Real Estate and Insurance, Hemingway.
Another property being offered was 300 acres of land, eight miles by road and six by water from Georgetown, with enough timber on it to pay the asking price of $3,000. Wow!
To the GCDL and The Georgetown Times ... thanks for the memories.
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I expressed my very real concern about the slow pace of the present negotiations.
We need to recognise the fact that the eurozone is experiencing slow economic growth.
Mr President, the process of European integration is slow, and calls for patience.
However, the reform process embarked upon so far sometimes feels a bit slow.
In any case it is very clear that there is still a long way to go and the pace is slow.
to slow {verbo}
to slow [slowed|slowed] {vb} (también: to be slow, to put back, to hold up, to slow down)
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It is true that the pace of reform has slowed, particularly the economic reforms.
This should not, however, slow down the prompt implementation of the directive.
Our fellow citizens feel that European integration is making very slow progress.
It is encouraging that there is a certain, albeit slow, shift in opinion in the US.
Mr Eric Rouleau, the former French Ambassador, speaks of a slow-motion genocide.
It is encouraging that there is a certain, albeit slow, shift in opinion in the US.
Just as we were slow to react to the economic storm, but that is another story.
Others countries move somewhat slower - maybe Ukraine is an example of that.
Since the end of 2005 there have been signs of slow but sure economic recovery.
During times of heavy computer virus outbreaks, the Internet can slow down.
We are moving forward, but progress in the area of gender equality is slow.
Regretfully, it has to be said that the Council was slow in dealing with this matter.
On Turkey, you told us that Turkey's accession process was only slowed down.
Frequently, too much supervision only slows down and paralyses operations.
The European economy is slowing down as a result of high and volatile oil prices.
Running more than one antivirus program can also slow down your computer.
In some countries, however, implementation has been slow and even formal.
He appeared to be very concerned at the slow recovery of economic growth.
If the substance were labelled explicitly, this industry would die a slow death.
A nice lesson from which a sector in crisis will not be slow to draw conclusions.
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