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Most people do not have to think too long to come up with a close friend or relative who has been touched by cancer. It is so near to us and can be so devastating, even when cured, that we instantly offer our hope, help and donations to those touched by its often random finger.
We're not fans of the armed robber or three-card Monte trickster, but there's something especially despicable in faking cancer to prey on other people's past pain and current goodness. How disappointing that our area has seen two women in recent months charged with felonies that state they faked cancer for cash.
Potentially more troubling is the hurdle this adds for those who really do have cancer and really do need help. Legitimate need will likely go unmet because any donation requires some degree of trust.
We hope our community doesn't snap shut its purse to avoid being fooled. We hope people will do their research and follow their gut as to the legitimacy of a cause.
We hope people remember that there may be 1 percent out there trying to take advantage of us, but that still leaves 99 percent in real need of a helping hand.
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The 34-year-old former Torino and AEK Athens keeper joined Palermo on loan until the end of the 2012-13 season with a view to helping the Sicilians retain their Serie A status. He made 15 appearances and conceded 15 goals.
Despite improving results, the Rosanero would ultimately return to Serie B after nine years away, but Sorrentino will remain at the Stadio Renzo Barbera for a tilt at promotion.
A statement published on palermocalcio.it read: "Palermo have exercised their right to take full ownership of Stefano Sorrentino from Chievo."
Chievo also confirmed conceding their half of Sorrentino's registration, adding that the keeper now "fully belonged" to Palermo.
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Full detailed profile on Sofie Duran Played by Justine Cotsonas on As the World Turns Daytime Soap Opera.
Justine Cotsonas
Real Name: Justine Cotsonas
At Fairwinds, Meg worries about Sofie but Paul tells her that nothing matters except their second chance. Margo calls and tells Paul that Sofie has dropped all the charges. Sofie stops by but Paul has already gone. Meg asks what she wants and Sofie says she wants to see her friend Paul. She refuses to leave when Meg tells her to go so Meg threatens to call the cops. Sofie turns to go and Meg asks why Paul's check wasn't enough of a "thank you" for her! Sofie can't believe Paul told her about the cash. Meg tells Sofie to forget about Paul and Sofie stomps off.
At The Lakeview, Lucinda and Lily chat over drinks after their business meeting is over. Lucinda gushes about how good Lily looks and how great her job is going. Lily says it feels good to be focused on something other than Holden. Lucinda realizes how late it is and says she has to go. Lily leaves. Instead of leaving, Lucinda goes to Barbara's table! Lucinda asks about the cancer diagnosis and they banter about being ill. Lucinda says Barbara needs to accept her illness but keep living. She warns Babs not to shut her family out and leaves. Paul and Meg arrive. Babs says she is tired so Paul cancels her dinner order and Meg takes her upstairs. Paul turns around to see Sofie there. She says how sorry she is and he says it was partially his fault. Sofie asks if they would have had a chance if Meg were out of the picture. Paul says no. He goes on upstairs and is stunned when Meg says she may take a leave of absence from the hospital so she can concentrate on Barbara.
Meg returns to The Lakeview after Bob grants her the leave of absence and tells Paul she can concentrate on Babs. Neither notices Sofie listening to them. She hears Meg talk about losing the patient at the hospital. Meg tells Paul they have to be wary of Sofie but Paul says Sofie is over him now.
Sofie sneaks into the lounge at the hospital and finds Meg's locker unlocked. She takes Meg's ID badge and uses the information to log into the hospital computer to find out exactly what happened to Meg's patient!
Cole is waiting for Sofie at The Lakeview. He warns her not to talk to Paul, Sofie wonders what he really wants from her. He says he wants to make up for the past because he is to blame for what Paul did! He says she has to do everything she can to keep the case out of a courtroom! Sofie returns to her room. Meg comes by, angry, and tells Sofie she knows she lied about her life in Winnetka. Sofie calls her bluff but when Meg starts talking about Sister Ann, Sofie has no idea what she is talking about. Sofie tells Meg to get out; Meg tells Sofie to tell the truth or she'll rip her life apart.
Paul is alone at Fairwinds when Sofie, hysterical, stops by and tells Paul to stop Meg from ruining her life. She goes on and on until Paul interrupts and apologizes for leading her on. Crying, Sofie says she can't handle it if Paul hates her. She whines about her ruined life and Paul listens, he encourages her to make better choices. He says she needs a fresh start. He grabs his checkbook and writes her a check so she can make a fresh start. Sofie takes the check! Meg arrives just after Sofie has gone. Paul tells her what he did. Meg can't believe it and thinks Sofie pulled another one over on him. Paul insists that Sofie wasn't vindictive - she was broken.
Sofie goes to the police station with the check and asks to see Margo!
Cole comes into Sofie's room and asks about her jewelry line; Sofie wonders what he really wants. Barbara knocks on the door! She tells Cole to hide and then opens the door. Sofie starts in about the jewelry line and her new ideas. Babs says their business arrangement is over! Sofie can't believe it. Barbara goes on about how Paul hates her now and her life is over and then storms out. Cole exits the bathroom; Sofie tries to kick him out but he won't go. He says he was wrong for running out on her and he wants to be a friend now. Sofie breaks down and tells him how much she depended on Paul and how he broke her trust and then raped her. Cole says maybe he can help - and he kisses her! They make love. After, Cole says they should blackmail Paul! Sofie says she won't do that to Paul and orders him to leave. He says she needs him or she'll screw up her plans!
Mike goes to Sofie's room. She invites him in. Mike advises her to call the police and then call him if Paul tries to get in touch with her. Sofie thanks him for being her only friend and starts crying. She tells him about losing her grandmother and says she doesn't have any friends. She tells him about the convent school she attended; Mike says he attended Catholic school, too. He asks more about her past but Sofie clams up. She says she is very tired so Mike turns to go. In the hall, he calls Meg. He says he knows where Sofie grew up and they agree to meet the next day.
At the police station, Mike arrives with Sofie to see Margo. She isn't there so Sofie agrees to wait. She thanks Mike for helping her. He warns her that they will need evidence of a crime and Sofie assures him they will have everything they need.


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brie in puff pastry
I have seen these recipes and they do not peel the brie.When you cut into it after its baked isn't the rine bitter because your cutting it and eating it with the pastry and all?
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Forum Post: David Stockman: Ben Bernanke Is The Most Dangerous Man In US History
Posted 2 years ago on April 2, 2013, 6:48 p.m. EST by john32
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Posted 2 years ago on April 2, 2013, 6:48 p.m. EST by john32
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this BS from the "inventor" of supply side & trickle down
Could they both be full of shit? Could both preplanned, pre thought out plan, both "options", be total bullshit?
Could it be that "both" sides have been totally corrrupted and lying to us?
"this BS from the "inventor" of supply side & trickle down"
Not really accurate....Stockman suggested the very policy I see you championing all the time on this forum...raise taxes on the rich.
WIKI: Stockman became one of the most controversial OMB directors ever during a tenure that lasted until his resignation during August 1985. Committed to the doctrine of supply-side economics, he assisted the approval of the "Reagan Budget" , which Stockman hoped would be a serious curtailment of the "welfare state"
Stockman's influence within the Reagan Administration decreased after the Atlantic Monthly magazine published the famous 18,246 word article, "The Education of David Stockman", in its December 1981 issue, based on lengthy interviews Stockman gave to reporter William Greider. The White House's public relations team thereafter attempted to limit the article's damage to Reagan's perceived fiscal-leadership skills.
Stockman was quoted as referring to Reagan's tax act as: "I mean, Kemp-Roth [Reagan's 1981 tax cut] was always a Trojan horse to bring down the top rate.... It's kind of hard to sell 'trickle down.'
So the supply-side formula was the only way to get a tax policy that was really 'trickle down.' __Supply-side is 'trickle-down' theory."
Of the budget process during his first year on the job, Mr. Stockman is quoted as saying: "None of us really understands what's going on with all these numbers," which was used as the subtitle of the article.


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June 28, 2010
DOD Identifies Army Casualty
The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.
Staff Sgt. Edwardo Loredo, 34, of Houston, Texas, died June 24 at Jelewar, Afghanistan, when insurgents attacked his unit with an improvised explosive device. He was assigned to 2nd Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, N.C.
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Alex Chilton, vocalist and founder of Big Star, died last week.
Big Star hardly sold any records during it's brief 3 album stint, but is now recognized as one of the most influential and certainly under appreciated bands of the 1970s. Big Star was crucial in the emergence of alternative and indie rock in the 80's and 90's, and a key influence of pioneering bands like the Bangles and the Replacements.
South by Southwest had a tribute concert for Alex Chilton, which featured almost exclusively male rockers. That's a shame, since Big Star's music has been covered and wonderfully re-arranged by a huge array of musicians.
Here's a broader sampling of Big Star's legacy from BitchTapes...full track list after the fold.
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I'm about to platinum Uncharted: Drake's Fortune! It shall be my 2nd plat :) Just gotta get through crushing mode. I feel a rage quit coming. But Uncharted plat, you shall be mine sometime this week!
Whoever thought that upriver mission was a good idea....... FU.
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BlindPandaCake said 11 months agoReport
It takes so much just to kill one guy in this game. I'm constantly running out of ammo.
Starting now.
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Is Hard mode in this game easier or more difficult than in Uncharted 3? I've only played U3 on hard
ValentineWolf said 1 year agoReport
Hell yeah platinum #5 and my 2nd platinum today.
BunBunPowah said 1 year agoReport
I am on a roll this week, closing in on my 5th platinum. Just have two chapters left to finish on crushing.
My new crushing playthrough is going well im already on chapter 5. That plane wreck part on chapter 4 was still annoying but not as bad as the first time.
Finally finished crushing mode only the trophy didnt pop. So damn annoyed that is my last trophy for the platinum
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Finally got my hands on this beauty. Now I can play the trilogy in order.
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Foxy Lady – Truth, Memory and the Death of Western Yachtsmen in Democratic Kampuchea is an investigative journalist's account of one of history's most intriguing footnotes: the murder of four Americans, two Australians, an Englishman, a New Zealander and a Canadian by Cambodia's Khmer Rouge.
Dave Kattenburg was born on Long Island in 1953. He holds bachelor and Ph.D. degrees in biology and health sciences, teaches university science courses and produces radio stories and podcasts on global environment, development and social justice issues. Documentaries arising from his travels have appeared on CBC Radio, Radio Netherlands, Free Speech Radio and his own site www.greenplanetmonitor.net. David currently resides in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He began investigating the story of Foxy Lady in December 2007.
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OKLAHOMA CITY – Black Friday is in full force and many bargain hunters have been searching day and night for the best deal.
While shopping, we ran into Deanna Scribner at Toys 'R' Us.
Scribner means serious business; she was decked out in Christmas get up and hauling a binder full of coupons and ads.
"We price match all the stores," Scribner said.
Scribner said she spends an hour a week sorting out coupons; time well spent that pays off in the long run.
"I save hundreds every week; to price match you also save money," Scribner said.
Moving onto Best Buy, we ran into the three musketeers of shopping.
They were wearing matching green t-shirts that read, "Coordinated, caffeinated and a little bit crazy."
"We just have a great time getting out and shopping; it's really family time," shopper Kim West said. "If we get what we want, great, if we don't, then we don't. We just have a great time."
From Best Buy to Toys 'R' Us, many stores have been open all day and night since Thanksgiving to accommodate eager shoppers.
For Scribner, her Christmas list is long and although she's open about her coupons, she's keeping her presents a secret.
"I can't tell you really because I've got people that may be watching television but I'm, I'm shopping for kids," Scribner said.
Some sales last through the weekend so make sure to check out your favorite stores so you don't miss a good sale.
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by Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse-Five Chapter 1, Section 4 Summary
- The narrator tells us that he's outlined this book on Dresden a million times.
- The prettiest outline ever is the one he makes on the back of a piece of wallpaper with his kid's crayons. All the characters get different colors (red, blue, yellow); the yellow line stops when his character dies. The firestorm itself is a bar of orange across the page; all the colors of the people who survive continue on the other side.
- Where all the lines stop is at a field where thousands of prisoners of war are about to be released.
- There's an exchange going on: non-Soviet troops (Americans, Western Europeans, Canadians, South Africans, etc.) are being traded for Soviet troops (Russians, Poles, Yugoslavians).
- Remember, 1945, when World War II ends, is when the Cold War between the Soviets, the U.S., and Western Europe really starts up. After Germany's surrender, East Germany (of which Dresden is part) becomes part of the Soviet bloc. So both the capitalist and communist countries want to make sure that none of their troops end up on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain.
- The narrator keeps a souvenir: a Luftwaffe (German air force) saber.
- A bunch of other guys keep things too, that they've gotten out of the burned rubble of Dresden.
- All the Allied prisoners of war wind up in a rest camp in France.
- The narrator heads home, gets married, and has kids.
- Now his kids are grown, and he's just an old guy.
- He likes to make phone calls late at night to people he used to know a long time ago – in this case, girlfriends.
- He lets his dog in or out. He tells the dog, Sandy, that he likes him.
- He'll turn on talk radio coming out of Boston and New York.
- Occasionally he thinks about the time he spent after the war studying anthropology at the University of Chicago. There, he learned that there is absolutely no difference between people.
- He remembers that, before his dad died, he pointed out that none of the narrator's books have villains. The narrator told his father that that's something he learned in college, after the war.


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Gantz manga is now hosting online on EatManga, lets start reading Gantz online now. Please remember to buy an copy of official volume of Gantz manga to support the Gantz's author(s) and the Gantz manga's publisher, also visit scanlation group and say thanks for their great english scan of Gantz manga!
What is Gantz manga about ?
Somewhere in Tokyo, there is a room. In that room is a black sphere. Periodically, people who should otherwise have died are transferred to the room. There, the sphere gives them special suits and weapons, and sends them out on a mission to kill aliens here on Earth. While these missions take place, the rest of the world is largely oblivious to them. These missions are lethal--few participants survive them. The sphere calls the shots, and it's not the slightest bit nice. Its name... Gantz.


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Julian Assange, out of jail on bail in England and last seen, deliciously, complaining that someone was unfairly leaking details of his rape case in Sweden, has now made news for another reason: He has reportedly received $1.3 million from Random House and a British publishing company, Canongate, to write his memoirs. He has pledged to use the money "to keep Wikileaks afloat." That means that Canongate (an independenet publisher) and Random House (a division of the German giant Bertelesmann) are helping to subsidize WikiLeaks, an organization that traffics in stolen documents designed to hurt American foreign policy and anyone who cooperates with American officials–including British and German officials.
Their actions stand in sharp distinction to more responsible corporations such as Visa, Mastercard, Paypal, Facebook and Twitter that have cut off WikiLeaks because they do not want to be associated with its irresponsible and possibly criminal activities.
Where is the outrage? These publishers deserve, at the very least, considerable opprobrium for throwing a lifeline to the odious Julian Assange, an Internet vandal pursuing, by his own admission, an anti-American agenda. They should certainly be in the sights of the Justice Department as it contemplates legal action against Assange. At the very least prosecutors should plan to freeze and seize any payments to him. I wonder if there might not be a civil suit possible by one of Assange's victims–someone who has been hurt by the publication of these confidential communications–who might be able to go after the publishers for a substantial award? That may only be wishful thinking on my part but certainly it would be nice if these publishing houses did not get away with their amoral decision to try to make money out of this scandal and in the process to enrich one of the world's most disgusting cyber-preeners and -saboteurs.


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A process of selecting a recording on an audiovisual reproduction system consists of displaying a number of windows on a touch screen as an interface with a user. Items of information are stored in a bulk memory and are representative of an image of the album cover that is associated with each window and whose corresponding musical recording is stored in the bulk memory of the reproduction system. Each zone of a window is associated, via the touch-screen interface software, with at least one address for accessing the items of information in the database that is stored in the bulk memory belonging to the album cover whose image is displayed in the window that is touched by the user.
1. A jukebox system, comprising:
a jukebox device including a microprocessor, a local computer memory that maintains a local database of digitized songs of various artists and related graphical items corresponding to album covers associated with each the digitized songs, a display for displaying video, an audio arrangement providing audio, a communication system for enabling the jukebox device to communicate with an audio and graphic distribution network, and a multitasking operating system that enables simultaneous operation of the microprocessor, the display, the audio arrangement and the communication system;
wherein the jukebox is operable to play said digitized songs from said local computer memory on the jukebox device in response to requests by a user; and further wherein said jukebox device is provided with a registration procedure that checks, upon startup of the jukebox device and prior to placing the jukebox in service, that the jukebox device has been registered to play songs stored on the local computer memory; and
a server remote from said jukebox device that can be accessed by said jukebox device through said distribution network, wherein said server maintains a master database of songs and graphics that can be selectively downloaded to said jukebox device for storage in said local computer memory;
wherein said display on said jukebox device is a touch sensitive display that provides a user interface for operating said jukebox by enabling the user to select songs from said local computer memory for playing on said jukebox device, said jukebox device being operable to display on said display a graphical item that corresponds to a song currently playing on said jukebox device;
wherein said use interface includes a display screen on said touch sensitive display that displays a plurality of said graphical items corresponding to album covers for songs stored in said local computer memory, and an element for enabling the user to scroll the display screen in order to show further album covers for songs stored in said local computer memory;
wherein, upon touch selection by the user of one of the displayed album covers, the user interface is operable to display:
the selected album cover;
a list of available songs stored on the local computer memory tat exist on the album represented by the selected album cover; and
graphical items representing any additional album covers of the same artist as the selected album cover for which songs exist on the local computer memory;
and further wherein, upon touch selection by the user of a song from the displayed list of available songs, the selected song is queued for playing on the jukebox device.
2. The jukebox system of
3. The jukebox device of
This invention pertains to a process for selecting a recording on a digital audiovisual reproduction system with a touch screen, and the system for implementing the process.
Such audiovisual reproduction systems are generally found in cafes or pubs and are composed of a sound reproduction machine, generally referred to as a jukebox, connected to a monitor that displays video images or video clips. To do this, the jukebox is equipped with a video compact-disk reader and a library of video compact disks and includes pre-selection buttons that show the titles of the works of music that are to be selected. Payment of an adequate fee, followed by one or more pre-selections, activates the system, whereby the disk on which the selected work is found is automatically loaded into the reader, and the desired audiovisual reproduction can began.
Although these systems allow reliable and good-quality reproduction, they still have some serious drawbacks. A first drawback relates to the space that is required for storing the library. The library of disks requires that the system be of significant size. Likewise, these systems, which employ mainly mechanical hardware, use sophisticated techniques that lead to frequent and costly malfunctions. Moreover, it is quite uncommon for all of the works on a single disk to be listened to regularly, and some are almost never listened to, but the entire disk must be included in the library. Another drawback is due to the fact that the companies that manage and distribute these systems circulate a limited number of identical disks and require a certain amount of rotation among their clients. Consequently, the clients are sometimes made to wait when a disk is not available.
It is known from patent PCT/JWO 93 184 65 that there are computerized jukeboxes that make it possible to receive, through a telecommunications network and a modem that connects the jukebox to the network, digitized information that comprises songs or works of music, which are remotely loaded into a bulk memory of the jukebox. The communication system can also remotely load files that are representative of digitized graphical data, whereby the songs and graphical files are compressed before they are sent onto the network. The jukebox processor then makes use of these files by decompressing them and sending the graphical data to the video circuit and the song data to the audio circuit.
The processor, however, also manages the user interfaces, and the management of these different elements is accomplished sequentially by displaying the graphic images that are representative of the song and then responding to the user's activation of the keys, then by re-loading if the user has paid the desired amount and, finally, when the desired amount has been paid, by placing the selection in a queue to be played later. Moreover, this system can operate only by first displaying the graphic images and then initiating the playback of the song because, according to the logic diagrams, the processor cannot execute two tasks at the same time.
The activation of the keys by a user requires a certain amount of training, is a source of errors, and also extends song selection time.
The object of this invention is a recording selection process that is convenient and easy to use, even for a beginner.
This object is achieved by providing a process for selecting a recording on an audiovisual reproduction system using friendly on-screen windows. Moreover, with the friendly windows, data required for the display can be selected from information that is stored in a bulk memory representing an image of the recording cover. Corresponding music recordings are stored in the bulk memory of the reproduction system, and each zone of a window is associated with at least one address for accessing the information of the databases via a touch-screen interface.
According to another feature, a light touch on one of the windows causes the corresponding cover to be displayed with the various titles that can be selected from this cover. The selection of a title can then be made by lightly touching one of the titles on the list, and playback is accomplished by lightly touching an alphanumeric tile.
According to another feature, an area that includes several graphic display tiles in which the images of available covers by the same artist are displayed.
According to another feature, one strip or zone of the screen includes arrows at each end effecting scrolling in one direction or the other so as to display the other images of covers that cannot be displayed in the windows or the display tiles.
According to another feature, the window zone, which includes the several windows, displays a cover in each window and includes representations of selection criteria for searching the database of the system. The selection criterion can be activated when the user touches the screen. The selection criterion consists of data ranges such as recent decades, music category, song index, etc.
Another object of the invention is to propose an audiovisual reproduction system that makes it possible to implement the process.
This object is achieved with an audiovisual reproduction system developed around a microprocessor device that is associated with a payment device. The system includes bulk storage for, among other things, storing visual and sound recordings in compressed digital form. The system interfaces with a digital display and digital sound reproduction structure, whereby a video monitor is connected to a touch screen which, in turn, is connected to an interface program to react to a user touching the touch screen. These contacts are translated for the operating system as mouse events which, via a library of integrated tools and services, initiates the modification of the running of one of the interface program modules. Each display zone of the video monitor, associated with the touch screen, is associated with a criterion for searching the database of the visual or audio representation data corresponding to the information displayed on the screen.
According to another feature, the search criterion is the selection of a number of albums corresponding to the number of windows that can be displayed on the screen and the associated graphical information. The search criterion may additionally or alternatively consist of music category, date range, etc.
According to another feature, scanning of the database is done in increments of the size of the number of windows that can be displayed on the selection screen.
Other advantages and features of this invention will become clear from reading the following description with reference to the attached drawings, which are given as illustrative but non-limiting examples of an embodiment of the invention, in which:
FIG. 1 shows a flow diagram of the hardware that comprises the invention;
FIG. 2 shows a flow chart that indicates the specific service modules of a task and which, by means of the multi-task operating system, manages all of the modules that are included in a library stored in the bulk storage;
FIG. 3 shows the organization of the multi-task system that manages the hardware and software structure;
FIG. 4 shows a logic diagram describing the operation of the multi-task management system;
FIG. 5 shows a logic diagram for verifying the active state of the tasks;
FIG. 6 shows the organization diagram of the databases;
FIG. 7 shows the graphic display that is created when the audiovisual reproduction system plays a selected recording;
FIG. 8 shows an example of a graphic display corresponding to a first selection menu implementation mode; and
FIG. 9 shows the graphic display corresponding to a second selection menu validation mode.
Preferably, the audiovisual reproduction system according to the invention uses the items of hardware listed and referenced below, but it is not limited thereto.
Referring to FIG. 1, a central microprocessor unit (1) is a high-performance PC-compatible system, such as the Intel 80482 DX/2 type, which has the following memory resources and characteristics:
compatibility with the local Vesa bus;
processor cache memory: 256 Kbyte;
read-write memory: 32 Mbytes or more of RAM, auto-supply;
high-performance serial and parallel ports;
SVGA graphics adapter with microprocessor;
SCSI/2 bus controller.
Other processors having equivalent or better levels of performance may be used in the invention.
This central unit (1) controls and manages a sound control circuit (5), a telecommunications control circuit (4), an input control circuit (3), a bulk memory control circuit (2), and a circuit for controlling the display (6). The display consists primarily of a video monitor (62) with a flat non-interlaced screen, for example of the SVGA type with high resolution and low radiation. The monitor is used to reproduce images (for example, the album covers of the music selections), graphics, or video clips.
A bulk memory (21) uses high-speed, high-capacity hard disks and is connected to the memory already present in the microprocessor device. The bulk memory stores digitized and compressed audiovisual information.
A high-speed telecommunications modem (41), with a speed of at least 28.8 Kbps, or any other telecommunications hardware connected to other telecommunications media is integrated to enable the connection to an audiovisual information distribution network that is controlled by a central server.
In order to reproduce the sound information of the musical selections, the system includes speakers (54) that receive the signal from a tuner amplifier (53), which is connected to a music synthesizer electronic circuit (5). The system supports a large number of input sources while providing an output that ensures CD (compact disk) quality, such as, for example, the microprocessor-based multimedia audio adapter, like the "Sound Blaster" SBP32AWE sound card from Creative Labs Inc. to which two memory buffers (56,57) are added for the purpose explained above.
Likewise, the circuit for controlling the display (6) also contains two buffer memories (66, 67) for the purpose explained above.
A ventilated, heat-regulated 240-watt power supply supplies power to the system. This power supply is protected against overvoltages and overdriving.
Via an input controller circuit (3), the audiovisual reproduction system manages an "Intelli Touch" touch screen (33) from Elo Touch Systems Inc., which includes a glass cover panel that utilizes the "advanced surface wave technology," as well as an AT bus controller. This screen serves as an interface for selection information used by the customers via the video monitor (62) or a TV monitor (61), as well as control information and management oversight information used by the manager or owner of the system. It is also used for purposes of maintenance in combination with an external keyboard (34) that is connected to the system, which for this purpose has a keyboard connector controlled by a key lock (32) through the interface circuit (3).
The interface circuit (3) also interfaces with the system via a remote-controlled assembly (31) which consists of, for example:
an infrared remote control from Mind Path Technologies Inc., consisting of a transmitter with 15 control keys for the microprocessor system and eight control keys for a projection device; and
an infrared receiver with serial adapter from Mind Path Technologies Inc.
A fee payment device (35) from National Registers Inc. is also connected to the input interface circuit (3). Any other device that makes it possible to receive payment using coins, tickets, tokens, magnetic cards, smart cards, or a combination of means of payment can also be used.
To accommodate the system, there is also a chassis or steel frame with personalizable external fittings.
A wireless microphone (55) is connected to the sound controller, which makes it possible to convert the latter into a powerful public-address system or a karaoke machine. Likewise, the remote-control system (31) allows the manager, for example from behind the bar, to access and monitor various controls such as:
the start-stop control for the microphone;
the speaker mute control;
the volume control;
the control for canceling the musical selection currently being played.
Two buffers (56,57) are associated with the sound controller circuit (5) for each alternatively storing an item of information corresponding to least a quarter of a second of sound. Likewise, two buffers (66, 67) are associated with the video controller circuit (6) and are able, each by itself and alternatively, to store at least a tenth of a second of images. Finally, a respective buffer (46, 36, 26) is connected to each of the communication controller circuit (4), the input interface circuit (3), and the storage circuit (2).
The software for operating the system was developed around a library of tools and services that is largely oriented toward the audiovisual domain in a multi-media environment. This library will advantageously include a multi-task operating system that makes it possible to execute multiple fragments of code simultaneously and efficiently. This operating software thus makes it possible to concurrently execute, in an orderly manner and avoiding any conflict, operations that are carried out on the display and the sound reproduction structure, as well as to manage the telecommunications links via the distribution network. Moreover, this software is highly flexible.
As will be seen below, the library of tools includes a programming interface for the touch screen (33) that is associated with each graphic module, which will be described below and which includes, depending on the associated graphics module, functions for reacting to activation by one or more external events. The external events come from the user and are processed via the touch-screen interface so that they can be interpreted by the operating system as the equivalent of a mouse event. Thus, touching a zone is recognized by the touch-screen interface as a push event (down), the moving of the finger on the screen as a drag event (drag), and the removal of the finger from the screen as the release of a button (up). Each event that is interpreted by the associated touch-screen interface is then delivered to the corresponding module in order to trigger either a modification of a running program by calling, for example, another graphic module, or a modification of the physical parameters of the machine by causing these parameters to be stored and ensuring later use by the electronics associated with this parameter.
The digitized and compressed audiovisual data are stored in the bulk memory (21).
Each selection is available in two digitized formats with hi-fi or CD quality.
Before describing the flow diagram in FIG. 2, it must be noted that, although all these modules, described separately, seem to be being used serially, in reality the specific tasks of these modules are being executed simultaneously in an environment using the multi-task operating system. Consequently, the flow diagram indicates specific operations that a module is supposed to carry out and not a branch to this module that would invalidate all of the operations executed by the other modules.
The first module, marked SSM, is the module for starting the system. This module provides only a single service, and therefore it is loaded automatically as soon as the system is powered up. If the system is started with a valid registration number, it then goes directly into the "in service" mode of the module marked RMM.
The RMM module is the module of the "in service" mode, which is the operating mode that the system enters as soon as its registration number is validated. In this mode, the system is ready to handle any request that can be triggered by various predefined events, such as for example:
customers who touch the screen: when a customer or a user touches the screen, the system transfers control of its first-level session to the CBSM module of the customer selection and operating mode;
receipt of a remote-control signal: when a command is received, it is processed in a background session by the system command module SMM while the foreground session remains available for other actions;
the appearance of an end of time-out indicating that the system is inactive: when one of the various timers is activated, control is temporary turned over to the inactivity routine module IRM for processing.
The system remains in the "in-service" mode until one of the events described above occurs.
Thus, the RMM module of the "in-service" mode includes a module that makes it possible to deliver a graphic display corresponding to, e.g., that of FIG. 7. This graphic module makes it possible to display a window (80) that contains, for example, a "NOW PLAYING" indication in a zone (81).
A second window (82), which is smaller and is contained in the first window (80), makes it possible to graphically display the cover of the disk being played. In an alphanumeric tile (83), the title of the album currently being played is displayed, and in a second alphanumeric tile (84), the name of the album is displayed. A third alphanumeric tile (85) indicates the name of the artist or the group. This information comes from the database (16) based on the identification number of the title and on information that is stored in the database according to the access procedures as indicated in FIG. 6, explained below. Finally, the window (80) contains a zone (86) that gives the direction "press" or "touch me," urging the user to press his finger against the screen so that the RMM module, by detecting via the touch-screen interface module the position of the finger on any zone of the screen, transfers control of its session to the CBSM module of the mode for selection and searching of the selections by the customer.
In the event that the jukebox is no longer playing a song and when the end of the songs in the queue has been reached, the screen can display advertisements or the sample selections entered into memory by the jukebox manager. The purpose of these selection samples is to persuade the customer to listen to the entire song. The samples can be presented randomly or in an order that is pre-selected by the manager. This pre-selection is stored and serves as a search criterion for searching the jukebox database.
The IRM module is the inactivity routine module. This module contains routines that implement predefined functions such as the displaying of an album cover, the playing of snatches of musical works available in the system, the reproduction of complete selections for internal advertising purposes, audio reproductions for external advertising purposes, voiced-over advertising announcements of new musical selections, and the return to an auxiliary source. These options can be called up when the system is inactive and when a predefined, but adjustable, period of time, corresponding to a time-out, has elapsed.
A programming interface module (153) for the touch screen (33) contains different modules. Each of the sub-modules corresponds to one of the graphic modules indicated above.
The CBSM module is the customer search and selection mode module. Access to this module is triggered starting from the "in service" mode of FIG. 7 when the customer touches the screen. The display allows the user to display a selection menu, shown in FIGS. 8 and 9, to enable a powerful search tool and to aid the user in making his choice of musical selections.
FIG. 8 shows a first variant of the selection menu in which the monitor screen makes it possible to display a window (90), inside of which is an agenda that is equipped with, for example, an index (96). On one of the pages of the agenda is a display window showing the cover of an album (92), and on the other page (91) are a list (94) of the titles included in the album, and an alphanumeric tile (95), which makes it possible to initiate the playing of the recording that has been selected in advance by touching one of the titles on list (94). This action selects the title by, for example, highlighting. At the bottom of the screen is a strip (93) in which there are number of small windows (931-934) corresponding to different album covers belonging to the same musical group or the same singer. Directional arrows (930,935) make it possible, by touching these arrows, to scroll through the different covers not displayed in the small windows, either upward (930) or downward (935), that are available for the same group or singer.
In another embodiment of the interface shown in FIG. 9, the interface is divided into two sub-windows. In a first sub-window (100A), a number of small zones of sub-windows (101-106) in which a different image of each cover containing an album is displayed in each sub-window (101-106). Scrolling arrows, which are not shown and are identical to those (930, 935) in FIG. 9, make it possible to scan the other covers that are available. In another zone of the first sub-window (100A) selection criteria, for example, by new releases (111), by popular artists (112), by the names of artists (113), and by albums (114) are displayed. The second sub-window (100B) of the main window is divided into two parts, whereby a first part includes three selection criteria: a first criterion based on category (109), a second criterion based on index (108), and a third criterion based on era (110). A second part (107) of the sub-window (100B) displays an option for the user to select one of the decades that are displayed, for example, in alphanumeric tiles (1071-1076), each of which displays a decade in order to cover decade by decade, e.g., the half-century between 1940 and 1990. Thus, as can be understood, the touch-screen interface software associates with each of the touch-screen zones corresponding to a display zone a selection criterion that is used as a criterion for searching the database in order to access graphical or alphanumeric or audio data that are available in the database. Depending on need, this criterion is associated with an increment in the number of display windows shown at one time on the screen in order to select, for example, the number of graphical data corresponding to the maximum number of covers shown on the screen.
Here again, a programming interface module (153) for the touch screen (33) is connected in such a way that touching the different zones corresponding to the zones of action or scroll arrows is correctly interpreted by the interface module (153). Likewise, each graphic module will include a module that makes it possible to use the database (16) in the corresponding way later, which is described in connection with FIG. 6. This use of the database makes it possible, when the button "popular," for example, is touched, to display successively in each of display tiles (101-106 or 931-934) the images of an album and various names of popular music artists that are available.
The multi-task operating system is one of the essential elements that makes it possible to simultaneously execute multiple fragments of code and to manage the priorities among the different tasks that are called.
As shown in FIG. 3, this multi-task operating system is organized around a core that comprises a task priority resolution module (11), a task supervisor module (12), a sterilization module (13), and a communication process module (14). Each of these modules communicates with application programming interfaces (15) and the database (16). There are as many programming interfaces as there are applications. Module (15) also includes a first programming interface (151) for key switch (32), a second programming interface (152) for remote control (31), a third programming interface (153) for touch screen (33), a fourth programming interface (154) for keyboard (34), a fifth programming interface (155) for payment device (35), a sixth programming interface (156) for sound control circuit (5), a seventh programming interface (157) for video control circuit (6), and a last interface (158) for telecommunications control circuit (4).
Five tasks, in descending order of priority, are managed by the operating system, a first task (76) for the video inputs/outputs having the highest priority, a second task (75) of level two regarding sound, a third task (74) of level three for telecommunications, a fourth task (73) of level four for the interfaces, and a fifth task (70) of level five for management. These priority orders will be taken into account by the priority resolution module (11) as tasks appear or disappear. Thus, as soon as a video task appears, the other tasks being run are suspended, priority is given to this task, and all of the system's resources are dedicated to the video task. At the output, the purpose of video task (76) is to unload the video files from both memory (21) towards one of the two buffers (66, 67), while the other buffer (67, or 66, respectively) is used by the video controller circuit (6) to produce the display after the data are decompressed. At the input, the purpose of the video task (76) is to transfer the data received at the telecommunications buffer (46) to the bulk memory (21) and one of two buffers (26) of the bulk memory (21). The same is true of the sound task (75), on the one hand, at the input between the telecommunications buffer (46) and the buffer (26) of the bulk memory (21) and, on the other, at the output between the buffer (26) of the bulk memory (21) and one of two buffers (56, 57) of sound controller circuit (5).
The task supervisor module (12) will now be described in connection with FIG. 4. This module carries out, in order of priority, a first test (761) to determine whether the video task is active, i.e., whether one of the video buffers (66, 67) is empty. In the event that the response is negative, the task supervisor module moves on to the next test, which is a second test (751) for determining whether the sound task is active, i.e., whether one of the buffers (56, 57) is empty. In the event of a negative response, a third test (741) determines whether the communications task is active, i.e., whether the buffer (46) is empty. After there is an affirmative response to one of the tests, at stage (131), the task supervisor module (12) fills a memory access request queue and at stage (132) fulfills this request by reading or writing between the bulk memory (21) and the buffer that corresponds to the active task, and then goes back to the first test. When test (741) for determining whether a communication is active is affirmative, the supervisor (12) runs a test (742) to determine whether information is being written into or read in memory. If yes, the write or read request is placed in the queue at stage (131). Otherwise, at stage (743) the supervisor determines whether it is a case of transmission or reception and, in the case of transmission, at stage (744) the supervisor sends the information block to the central server. In the case of reception, at stage (746) the supervisor verifies that the buffers of the core are free for access and, if the response is yes, sends a message to the central server to accept receipt of a block of data at stage (747). If the response is negative, the initial tests are restarted. After a block is received, an error check (748) of the cyclic redundance type SRC (Cyclic Redundant Check) is carried out. The block is rejected at stage (740) in the event of an error or else accepted if there is no error by sending a corresponding message to the central server indicating that the block bearing a specified number is rejected or accepted, and it then goes back to the initial tests. In the event that no higher-level task is active, at stage (731) or stage (701) the supervisor ensures the processing of the interface or management tasks and then goes back to the starting tasks.
As FIG. 5 shows, the detection of an active or ready task is accomplished by a corresponding test (721-761) at each of corresponding software or hardware modules (26) of the hard disk, interface buffer (36), telecommunications buffer (46), sound buffers (56 and 57), and video buffers (66 and 67), which are associated with each of respective controller circuits (2, 3, 4, 5, 6) of each of the hardware devices associated with central unit (1). Test (721) makes it possible to see whether there are data present in the input/output memory buffer of the disk, test (731) makes it possible to see whether data are present in the hardware or software memory buffers of the customer interface device, test (741) makes it possible to see whether data are present in the software or hardware memory buffers of the telecommunications device, test (751) makes it possible to determine whether data are present in the hardware or software memory buffer for the sound, and test (761) makes it possible to see whether data are present in the hardware or software memory buffers of the video device. If one or more of these buffers is (are) filled with data, the supervisor (12) positions respective status buffer(s) (821) for the hard disk, buffer (831) for the interface, buffer (841) for telecommunications, buffer (851) for the sound, and buffer (861) for the video corresponding to the hardware in a logic state that is indicative of the activity.
Otherwise, at stage (800), the status buffers of the supervisor are brought back to a value that is indicative of inactivity.
The operating status of the system is retained on the hard disk.
Each time a significant event is initiated, the system records it immediately on the disk.
Thus, in the event of a power failure or equipment malfunction, the system will be able to start up again right where it was interrupted.
The events that trigger the protection of the operating status are:
insertion of money (addition of credit);
the addition of a selection to the queue;
the end of a selection (changing of the selection currently being played).
The file is in a machine format that can be read only by the unit and takes up no more than 64 bytes.
In fact, based, on the one hand, on the task management module, whereby the highest priority is given to the video task and, on the other hand, on the presence of the hardware or software buffers that are assigned to each of these tasks to temporarily store the data and on the presence of the status buffers relative to each task, it is possible to have all of these tasks managed by a single central unit with a multi-task operating system that offers the ability to provide a video display, i.e., animated images opposite a graphical representation in which the data to be processed are less complex. This use of a video presentation can also be done without hampering the processing of the sound owing to the fact that the sound controller circuit (5) contains buffers that are large enough to store enough compressed data to make it possible, while the sound is being processed, to transfer video data to one of the video buffers (66, 67) while waiting for the next transfer of sound data.
Moreover, the multi-task operating system includes a library that contains a set of tools and services and makes it possible to accelerate the operation significantly due to the fact that it is integrated into the storage and to the great flexibility that is thus provided. In particular, this makes it possible to create a multimedia universe by simultaneously managing, in a simple and effective manner, the reproduction of sound, the displaying of images or graphics, video animation, and the user interface. As shown in FIG. 6, the database (16) is composed of several bases.
A first base (161) covers the titles of the audiovisual works, a second base (162) covers the artists, a third base (163) covers the labels (LABEL), a fourth base (164) covers the albums, and a fifth base (165) covers the fees. The first base (161) contains a first item of information (1611), corresponding to the title of the work, and a second item of information (1612) corresponding to the identification of the product. This product identification is unique. A third item of information (1613) relates to the music category, i.e.,jazz, classical, variety, etc. A fourth item of information (1614) indicates the date of the update. A fifth item of information (1615) indicates in seconds the time required to play the piece. A sixth item of information (1616) is a link to the fee base, and a seventh item of information (1617) is a link to the album. An eighth item of information (1618) is a link to one of the "LABEL" labels. A ninth item of information (1619) indicates the purchase price for the manager of the jukebox. A tenth item of information (1620) indicates the amount of the fee for each play of the work. An eleventh item of information (1610) is a link to the base on the artists. This link consists of the identity of the artist (1621) and the name of the group (1622).
The album information base contains the album identity (1641), which is a link to the seventh item of information (1617) of the title base. The album information base also contains the title (1642), the update date of the album (1643), and the label identity (LABEL) (1644).
When an audio or audiovisual selection is being played, touching the screen initiates a search by artist name of the various albums and the display of a number of different albums by the same singer or group that are available in the database corresponding to the number of display windows or tiles. If the number of albums exceeds the number of windows, the software displays only the next n albums corresponding to the album played, and the user can display them by touching the scrolling arrows. When the jukebox is not playing an audio or audiovisual selection, the program initiates, e.g., by randomly scanning the database, the display at regular intervals of sets of images of covers of different albums that are available by random selection or by other selection criteria that are determined by the program. Touching a screen zone that is associated with a selection criterion initiates a program to search the database for data corresponding to the criteria and then makes it possible to send these data to the display management software for display, in each of the windows, of the images corresponding to the data selected on the basis of the criterion that is activated.
Any modification that is within the grasp of one skilled in the art is also part of this invention. Thus, with regard to buffers, it should be recalled that buffers may be present either physically on the circuit to which they are assigned or they may be implemented by software by reserving storage sites in the system memory.
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It's long been the dream of some activists and their intellectual allies, and it is coming true because of the current recession or economic downturn or whatever you want to call it:
Illegal-immigrant Mexican workers are leaving this country in droves, crossing the border north to south and going back home. Some are already coming back because things are even tougher in Mexico, but so far, not most.
The reasons are many, including increased enforcement activity against American employers who hire illegals and more cooperation from local police in various parts of this country.
But economics is the main reason immigrants are leaving. As more companies cut budgets and banks foreclose on many thousands of homes, employment opportunities for unskilled illegal immigrants have diminished.
Over the last 18 months, according to Carlos Flores Vizcarra, the Mexican consul general in Phoenix, more than 2 million Mexican immigrants have returned home because of diminished opportunities here. That amounts to about 10 to 12 percent of all illegals who were in this country two years ago.
It may be the realization of a fantasy for the anti-immigration lobby, but it also might be a hint of a nightmare to come for other people and businesses. For one thing, farmers in many parts of America complained both of the last two years of a labor shortage. Whether or not it's coincidence, the prices of many foodstuffs rose steeply during that time and they're still going up.
And homeowners who are staying put may soon be paying more for roofing, fencing and many other chores long performed by Mexican migrants. Not to mention the prices of restaurant meals, hotel rooms and carwashes, to name three industries also known to employ many illegals.
The suggestion these things may be harbingers of the not-too-distant future comes in some remarkable demographic information Flores disclosed this fall in an unpublicized but significant speech to students at Arizona's Thunderbird School of Global Management.
"Mexico will not be a never-ending source of human beings as it has been for the last 60 years," Flores said. "There will be shortages of labor in Mexico." If he's right and Mexico does experience its first-ever labor shortage, Mexican workers here almost certainly will return home in numbers far larger than those of the last two years.
Why a labor shortage in a nation that has long suffered massive unemployment, driving would-be workers to risk the dangerous migration to this country?
Flores said the population increases Mexico has seen since the early 1940s are ending. In 1942, when America began sending large numbers of its young men to war overseas and Mexicans moved in behind them to do essential work both illegally and under the old bracero guest-worker program, Mexico had only 18 million people in a territory almost half as large as America. Today, population exceeds 107 million, a five-fold increase in just more than 60 years. The huge and fast Mexican population explosion "is like a revolution that no country could have digested," Flores said. "What has been our safety valve? The USA."
In short, Mexico had no room for the approximately 22 million migrants living in America during the peak of the illegal immigrant boom earlier this decade. America did.
But internal Mexican projections now indicate population is stabilizing, with forecasts that the number of Mexicans will actually begin dropping after about 2040.
In short, the end is in sight for the population explosion that created masses of immigrants and a seemingly endless supply of cheap labor for America. At the same time, prosperity in Canada and a strong Canadian dollar are drawing more and more Mexican workers there, providing new competition for Mexican workers.
Which led Flores to ask this: "Within 30 years, nearly 77 million Americans (known as the baby-boom generation) will be retiring. Who will take the place of those folks in the work force?"
No one knows just now, but the presumption long has been that it would be immigrants, with Mexico the most obvious likely source. But no one knows what might happen if that labor source dries up.
Which is a completely new scenario for the anti-immigration lobby to ponder.
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tssent- Great comment, you make valid points. You should really consider posting in our community TV Reviews blog. http://blog.syracuse.com/tvreviews/index.html
I agree kinglakerman. I wouldn't be upset if Aaron went home though.
Also adding Florida, since it got deleted!
Thanks Ozcuse, I also just realized that I forgot Oakland. Adding them now! Thanks again!
Such a great show!!! I can't wait for tonight either, but then I'm going to be bummed bc who knows when it'll be back on!
This cast is definitely interesting...I swear they keep getting weirder and weirder. I feel like Nicole Scherzinger from the Pussycat Dolls is going to win. I mean she does dance and sing for a living.
Ummmm well I'm not sure friends, but you probably ran in the same circles, just 7 years apart. Wow, you guys probably had the same professors.
It's kind of like how I had class with Carmelo Anthony...and he asked to borrow a pen.
I thought it was a bit of a letdown as well. I was actually kind of bored watching it. Can't wait for the guys to sing tho!
I actually can't wait to see "Valentine's Day" and Percy Jackson. Both seem like half-way decent movies.
I'm telling ya, this is the way to go. You are wearing them anyways and if for some reason someone attacks you (hopefully this will never happen), those suckers could do some serious damage. No knife, pepper spray or taser needed. Now just do a self defense class and you are golden!
The silver is horrible, it should be blue...I think the orange trim around the collar and the top of the shorts looks weird.
These photos are so great! Thank you so much for posting them!
I was at that show as well...It was awesome! That was when i first experienced the greatness that is Sugarland. HAHAHA!
I also saw them with Kenny Chesney last summer in Pittsburgh.
There's just something about their shows that makes you leave feeling happy!
I was at that show as well...It was awesome! That was when i first experienced the greatness that is Sugarland. HAHAHA!
I also saw them with Kenny Chesney last summer in Pittsburgh.
There's just something about their shows that makes you leave feeling happy!
Thanks Mark for the information! I never would have known that Sugarland was coming without you blogging about it. I can't wait to see them again, they are so great live!
I'm glad that her mom reacted that way...why would Heidi go and do that? I mean she obviously has self-confidence issues. And to say that it was because of the record industry and for her pop singing career is a joke. SHE IS NOT A GOOD SINGER! But definitely is a hot mess!
You can always count on Lady Gaga to have the most outrageous outfits.
I completely agree...the students should not be in the 300s. What about putting the entire student section behind the team benches? I feel like that would open up even more seating for the students and will make it an even louder loud house. Thoughts?
I love Flying Bison....I hope this works out for them!
I think the giant heads are great! There should be one for every player.


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How clearing works: this year's applicants are in a strong position
With an extra 30,000 university places available this year, prime courses will be on offer through clearing
Today is results day: A-level students across the UK are finding out whether they have the grades they need for university. The good news for anyone hoping to find a course through the clearing system is that there will be an extra 6,000 clearing places up for grabs this year, with universities seeking a record total of 500,000 freshers, 30,000 more than last year, says the BBC.
These days, results can arrive by text message, online, or still in an old-fashioned envelope. Many students will get good news today – but some will learn they have not achieved the grades they hoped for and cannot take up the university place they were offered.
For them, disappointment may give way to stress as they are forced to weigh up options, but going through clearing doesn't have to mean settling for second best.
What do students do first if their results are worse than expected?
Go in to college, is the BBC's advice. Teachers will be able to advise students on what to do next. Some students will have missed out on their first choice but may still be offered a place on their second, the 'insurance' option. Others may not be able to take up either offer – and clearing is their next step.
What is clearing – and how long does it take?
Clearing is the process of matching would-be students who no longer have an offer from a university – usually because they didn't make the grades – to universities who have unfilled places. Some of those empty slots are created because the students to whom they were promised have not achieved good enough grades. Most spaces are filled within a few days, so students have to act fast to secure themselves a position.
How does clearing work?
Would-be students need to take charge of the process themselves, finding an alternative course from the official list of vacancies, researching it and then calling the university in question directly to try to secure a place. "Still the nerves and warm up the telephone voice," advises David Ellis in the Daily Telegraph, offering plenty of advice on what he calls a "daunting process".
Where do students find a list of vacancies?
Ucas, the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service, maintains an official list of vacancies on its website. It also runs a customer support centre on 0371 468 0468 which advises individuals on their progress through clearing.
Are the best courses available through clearing?
Clearing used to be seen as a route to a consolation prize, but this is changing. The Daily Telegraph reports that at least 18 out of the 24 universities in the elite Russell Group (which includes Oxford and Cambridge) are offering courses through clearing, including biology, chemistry, physics, economics, maths, geography, history, English, French and German. Some of the best universities are treating clearing as "akin to the football transfer windows", says higher education expert Mike Boxall, using the process as an opportunity to find students who have performed better than expected.


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Chapter Two
By Park DeVane
The second Seminole Indian War was declared ended in 1842. It was decided in Washington that a reservation for the Indians would be set aside in Southwest Florida for their use. The act stipulated that no white settlers would be allowed to settle in this area. Neither would traders be allowed among them on the reserve.
The same year (1842) the Armed Occupation Act was passed in Washington that allowed veterans of the Indian wars to make application for a homestead of 160 acres in Florida. Many of the men who had fought the Indians all over Florida during the years 1835-42 recognized the possibilities of settling on good land that lay within this area.
The boundary of this reserve was very roughly described as follows: Beginning at the mouth of Peas Creek (Peace River) and up the river to Big Charlie Creek - up this creek to the south prong. Up this South Prong and east to the eastern shore to Istokpoga Creek to Kissimmee River. Then south on Kissimmee River to its mouth on Lake Okeechobee. South through Lake Okeechobee and the saw grass to Shark River on the southern coast. Then along the western coast a few miles inland to the point of beginning.
The Indians were not allowed to have any ocean coast line within the reserve, the reason being that they traded with the Spanish fishermen in past years and they were the source of their supply of guns and powder during the Indian Wars.
Another stipulation of this treaty was that the government would allow licensed traders to erect trading stores just outside the reserves' northern and western boundary. These stores would stock the supplies needed by the Indians and would be traded for animal skins, melons, corn, dried meat, etc.
The settlers began to move further south and paid little attention to the boundary lines and some began squatting within the reserve. Billy Bowlegs was resigned to accept the reserve and would, in all likelihood, live up to the agreement if left alone and not molested by white settlers. He tried very hard to keep peace among the members of the tribes that bitterly opposed accepting the reserve.
The trading houses were built and stoked by a trading firm from Tampa Bay named Kennedy and Darling, licensed by the government to trade with the Indians.
It appeared that everything was working out well for awhile but then tragedy struck on July 17, 1849. Some hot-headed Indians killed Captain Payne and Lott (Dempsey) Whidden at the store on Paynes Creek (Bowling Green). The settlers in South Florida immediately left their homes and gathered at the nearest fort for protection. They petitioned Washington to send military forces into the area.
General David Twiggs was sent to Fort Brooke, Tampa, to take command of the forces and it was decided by the military authorities to build a series of forts across South Florida. These forts were to be no more than 15 miles apart. Gen. Twiggs built the first of these forts on the upper Manatee River at the head of navigation. (This is near present day Ellenton). This fort was named Fort Hammer. Then, from 10-15 miles apart going east, the following forts were erected:
Fort Crawford
Fort Myaca
Fort Green
Fort Chokonikla (Creek language translation - burned store or house)
Fort Meade
Fort Clinch (at Frostproof)
Fort Kissimmee
Fort Arbuckle (at Bombing Range)
Fort Drum
Fort Vinton
Fort Capron (north of Ft. Pierce)
These forts were garrisoned by U.S. regular troops and a constant patrol was made between them day and night.
After a few months, Billy Bowlegs made contact with Capt. John Casey, the Indian agent at Sarasota and he told the captain to tell Gen. Twiggs that in a short time he would bring in the guilty Indians who killed Payne and Whidden. As he promised, he brought in to Fort Brooke, four Indians who took part in the killing and he also brought along the severed hands of another Indian who refused to be captured by him. He expressed his deep regrets for the trouble and hoped they could live in peace again.
After this, the forts were gradually abandoned. Some were active only a few months. The Indians moved deeper into the Everglades and would have remained in peace except for the actions of more unscrupulous white men in 1855, which is another story.
Park DeVane
The story of Chokonikla is reprinted from DeVane's Early Florida History.
(This article is reprinted from Bulletin Number Thirty Three.
Sebring Historical Society, July 1981. Pages 957-958.)


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Car Club News for December 13, 2008
The Roam'n Relics Car Club and Ventura Vintage Rods hold an informal get together on Saturday mornings from 8:30 to 11 a.m. at the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in Camarillo.
The event is informal, no host, come when you can, grab some coffee and check out the street rods and custom cars that show up.
The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf is at 824 Arneill Road.
Information: 583-2965 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Web sites: http://www.roamnrelics.com and http://www.VenturaVintageRods.org.
The Fifth Annual David Mann Chopper Fest will be held Dec. 14 at Seaside Park, 10 W. Harbor Blvd. in Ventura.
The event is a tribute to nationally renowned motorcycle artist David Mann whose images kick-started the chopper craze. It features a bike show with hundreds of contemporary and vintage motorcycle models, new and used parts swap meet, custom bike builder displays and performances by Charlie Brechtel Band and more.
Original David Mann paintings will be displayed by Ron Segal and a tribute to Mann will be hosted by Jennifer Scott.
The show features 13 classes and entry is $30, which includes two passes and an event T-shirt.
General admission is $10. Military personnel who show military identification cards will be admitted for $5 and children 12 and younger are free.
For more information call Tory at 217-2113, Harry at 650-6777 or visit http://www.chopperfestival.com.
Jalopy Joe's will be a holding a Car Show and Pin-Up Girl Contest on the third Sunday of each month from noon to 3 p.m. at its Ventura location, 1419 E. Santa Clara St.
Entry fee is $10 for any year or model of car or motorcycle. Three trophies will be awarded in each class, based on the people's choice. Winners must be present to win. There also will be a Koolest Kids Car and Koolest Kids Bike contests, with one trophy awarded to the winners in each category. The event also will feature pinstriper Danny A. and Car Art by Chris, along with food and music, but no alcohol.
Admission is free to spectators.
For more information, call Joe at 794-4286.
Cruise nights
Cruise to Paradise Grill & Sports Bar is held from 6-9 p.m. on the second Friday of every month in Ventura. Paradise Grill & Sports Bar welcomes hot rods and customs cars and will be offering raffles, prizes and discounts on food and beverages.
Paradise Grill & Sports Bar also is the site for a weekly Bike Night on Wednesdays from 6 to 9 p.m. Along with discounts on food and beverages, a DJ will be spinning tunes.
For more information, call Frank at 648-5927.
Newbury Park Cruise Night is held at 4:30 p.m. every Saturday, weather permitting. The location is the Newbury Park Gateway shopping center at Kelly and Newbury roads, in front of Kohl's department store.
All high-performance, muscle cars and hot rods are welcome.
Web site: http://www.conejocruise.com.
Museums, exhibits
The Murphy Auto Museum features a large collection of vintage automobiles, including classics of the '30s, street rods, and muscle cars on loan courtesy of local residents.
It is at 2230 Statham Blvd. in Oxnard, one mile east of Five-Points off Oxnard Boulevard. It is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. every Saturday and Sunday.
Information: 487-4333
Web site: http://murphyautomuseum.com
Club meetings
The Model A Ford Club of Ventura County meets the third Monday of each month at a different location to be announced.
Information: Marv, 647-1479, Leonard, 485-4752; or Royle, 486-0020.
The Central Coast British Car Club (formerly Central Coast Triumphs) meets at 7 p.m. the first Tuesday of each month at Carrow's Restaurant on the corners of Harbor Boulevard and Seaward Avenue in Ventura.
Information: Gary Rice, president, 644-3290.
Web site: http://www.centralcoastbritishcarclub.com.
Red Line Corvettes meets the second Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m. at Thousand Oaks Inn, 75 W. Thousand Oaks Blvd., Thousand Oaks. Corvette owners and enthusiasts are welcome.
On the Web: http://www.redlinecorvettes.com.
Channel Island Pontiac Car Club meets at 7 p.m. the second Tuesday of each month at Marie Callender Restaurants & Bakeries, 1295 So. Victoria Ave., in Ventura. It is open to all Pontiac enthusiasts.
Information: Tom Maloney, 484-2981.
The Ventura V-8 Club, an early Ford V-8 Club of America Chapter, meets the third Tuesday of each month at Carrows Restaurant, 301 E. Daily Drive in Camarillo. Dinner is at 6 p.m. followed by a club meeting at 7 p.m. The club invites those interested in 1932 to 1953 Fords to attend.
Information: Roy Pool, 987-6718.
Pick-Ups Limited of Southern California, Ventura County Chapter, invites enthusiasts of 1953 to 1956 Ford F100 pick-ups to attend meetings at 7 p.m. the first Wednesday of each month at Denny's at Moorpark Road and Thousand Oaks Boulevard in Thousand Oaks.
Information: Ray, 498-8497 or Kyle, 437-6611.
Ventura County Corvette Club, sponsored by Todey Chevrolet in Oxnard, meets at 7 p.m. the second Wednesday of each month at Carrows Restaurant, Seaward Avenue and Harbor Boulevard, in Ventura.
Information: Jack, 64452.
Web site: http://VenturaCountyCorvetteClub.com
The Seaside Goats (owners of 2004-2006 Pontiac GTOs) meets the second Wednesday of each month from 6 to 8 p.m. at Hi Cees restaurant, 1591 Spinnaker Drive in the Ventura Harbor Village. All Goat owners and enthusiasts are invited to join for dinner and shop talk.
Information: William Holden, 509-0592 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.
The Tri-County Mustang Club meets at 7 p.m. the fourth Wednesday of each month at Santino's restaurant, 4231 Telegraph Road in Ventura.
Information: Jack Peterson, 985-7103; Vince Schlerf, 682-5329.
Web site: http://www.TCMustangClub.org.
The San Fernando Valley Region of the Vintage Chevrolet Club of America meets the first Thursday of each month at the Balboa Recreation Center, Club Room, 17015 Burbank Blvd. in Encino. Members have cars dating to 1916.
Information: Steve Rosenberg, 379-9666.
Web site: http://www.SFVRegionvcca.com.
The Roam'n Relics Car Club is dedicated to promoting the automotive hobby and to providing support for various charities. Meetings are held on the first Thursday of each month in Simi Valley. Membership is open to anyone owning a 1974 or older American-made car.
Information: 583-2965 or email@example.com.
Web site: http://www.roamnrelics.com
The Valley Mustang Club of Woodland Hills meets at 7 p.m. the second Thursday of each month at Miller's, 8945 De Soto Ave. in Canoga Park.
Information: Ted Poliskey, 522-7480 or email@example.com.
Web site: http://www.valleymustangclub.com.
Ventura County Chevys invites those interested in the preservation, restoration and/or modification of 1955 to 1957 Chevrolet automobiles, trucks and other pre-1972 Chevrolet automobiles and hot rods to attend club meetings at the Simi Valley Unified School District Wood Ranch Conference Center. The club meets at 7:30 p.m. the second Friday of each month at the conference center, 222 Country Club Drive in Simi Valley.
Information: Erich Monteith, 376-2475.
The Porsche Club of America, Santa Barbara Region meets at 8:30 a.m. the first Saturday of each month at the Way Point Cafe at the Camarillo Airport and at 9 a.m. on the second Saturday of the month at Moby Dick Restaurant on Stearns Wharf in Santa Barbara. All Porsche owners are invited.
Information: David Stone, 389-8999, or email@example.com.
Motor Monarchs Inc. was established in 1948 and is Ventura County's oldest hot rod club. Meetings are conducted at various locations throughout the county.
Information: C. Darryl Struth, 644-6211.
Ventura Vintage Rods is a family-oriented club open to pre-1973 street rods, customs, panels and pick-ups. The club has monthly meetings at different locations and sponsors a variety of outings such as cruises, poker runs, dinners and visits to special places.
The club also plans and organizes the annual Harbor Run car show held each September at the Channel Islands Harbor in support of local charities.
Information: Jerry at 604-4437 or Charlie at 479-1102.
Web site: http://www.VenturaVintageRods.org.
Tri-County Airstream Club is open for anyone who owns an Airstream motorhome or trailer. Rallies take place at campsites along the coast throughout the year. Airstreams of all models and vintages are welcomed.
Information: David Neel, 895-4005.
Corvairs are fun to own and fun to drive. Owners of GM's "Mechanical Marvel" have many interesting family activities in Southern California. Parades, picnics, shows, tours and swap meets are just a few. The group plans to be at the Concours d'Elegance on Oct. 5 at Pio Pico Adobe in Mission Hills and the Great Western Fan Belt Toss and Swap Meet on Nov. 1 and 2 at the Orange County Fairgrounds in Costa Mesa.
Information: Jack Pinard, member Corvair Society of America (http://www.corvair.org), 340-6533 or email@example.com.
(Send submissions and updates for Car Club News to Ventura County Star, Attn.: Wheels, P.O. Box 6006, Camarillo, CA 93011; e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.com; or fax to 48236. All submissions are subject to editing. For a complete listing of car club events and information, visit online at http://VenturaCountyStar.com/cars.)
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