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Nov 15, 2013 Release Notes
The following items are included in this release:
SEO & Marketing Enhancements
In the new member registration page, capture consent from the professional members to receive promotional emails for discounts and also to subscribe to Digipixart newsletter.
Maintenance upgrades
Routine maintenance and minor bug fixes.
July 02, 2013 Release Notes
The following items are included in this release:
Online Photo Store Enhancements
The following new features have been added to our online photo store:
- New product category 'Videos': This category contains the following product-
- Video delivered as DVD/CD
You can now sell a video delivered via DVD/CD to your customers. All video will be shown to customers in a separate tab called 'Videos'
Note: Video products are more suitable for dedicated video albums.
- Coupon Code Enhancements:
- Coupon expiration notification email will also contain the information about whether a coupon code has been used or not (redeemed by a customer or not)
- Based on customer feedback pagination has been changed from 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 of 12 to 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11 of 12
- Miscellaneous user interface enhancements and bug fixes
- New product category 'Videos': This category contains the following product-
Client Studio Manager 2.1 (Desktop application)
Client Studio Manager has the following changes:
- Support for tax exemption while placing orders for Organizations
- Various bug fixes
Note: The previous version of Client Studio Manager (CSM 2.0) will no longer be supported. You will need to uninstall the previous version and install the new version CSM 2.1 on or after July 2, 2013. Please refer to our frequently asked questions for uninstalling previous version of CSM and installing the new CSM 2.1, should you need any help.
Digipixart Lab Re-location
- Digipixart lab has recently re-located to North Carolina and all our orders will be shipped from this new location
- Updated the order emails to reflect the new lab location address
- Updated tax percentage applied towards an order based on Digipixart's new location
February 01, 2013 Release Notes
The following items are included in this release:
Client Studio Manager 2.0 (Desktop application)
We are enhancing our Client Studio Manager (CSM) application and introducing several new features:
- You can now order print products using CSM 2.0 for pictures present on your computer. You can purchase standard size prints, non-standard size prints, packages and enlargements right from your computer by-passing the online system completely, a facility that is only available to you as our registered business user.
- You can securely save and manage your payment methods from your CSM and use it during the checkout while ordering products from your new CSM.
- With this release, CSM is now available to our Regular (Retail) users as well in addition to our professional/business users. Now, our retail customers can also begin using the new CSM and benefit from all the features.
- We have upgraded the Client Studio Manager to use the latest technology aligning with our objectives of using latest technologies used in the industry giving the best for our customers.
- All features that were present in CSM 1.0 will continue to be available to you as always e.g. creation of album, image upload, digital image conversion etc.
- We have added a new automatic way of cleaning up upload jobs. CSM 2.0 will detect all upload jobs that are older than two weeks and perform a cleanup upon login.
Note: The previous version of Client Studio Manager (CSM 1.0) will no longer be supported due to the technology upgrade. You will need to uninstall the previous version CSM 1.0 and install the new version CSM 2.0 on or after February 1, 2013. Please refer to our frequently asked questions for uninstalling CSM 1.0 and installing the new CSM 2.0, should you need any help.
Online Photo Store Enhancements
Keeping in line with our tradition of providing regular enhancements upgrades, following new features have been added to our online photo store:
- Manage Payment Information: This is a new section available under the Studio Manager page in our online system.
- You can add new payment methods for use when ordering products using the new CSM 2.0
- You can edit and delete existing payment methods that you added using CSM 2.0. This is an additional option to manage your payment methods in your CSM 2.0.
- We plan to extend this facility for online checkout as well in the near future.
- Coupon Enhancements: Coupon Manager section has been enhanced with the following features -
- All expired coupons can now be deleted in a single click on the Coupon Manager page.
- Whether a coupon has been used or not (redeemed by a customer or not), is now visible on the Coupon Manager page.
- Other Enhancements:
- Based on feedback from you we are moving the 'Products delivered on DVD/CD' and 'Products delivered on email' from 'Specialty' tab to 'Prints' tab in the online product ordering section. So, now your customers will be able to purchase these two products from the 'Prints' tab itself.
- Manage Payment Information: This is a new section available under the Studio Manager page in our online system.
September 21, 2012 Release Notes
The following items are included in this release:
User Interface Enhancements
The user interface enhancements that we started previously are now complete giving you a rich and consistent user experience. Following are some of the key screens under Studio Manager that have been enhanced:
- Create Album
- View My Albums – Icon View & Tree View
- Album Templates Manager
- Pricing Templates Manager
- Coupon Manager
- Photo Upload Screens
- Order Photos
FedEx shipping option available again
The FedEx shipping option is revamped and available to you and your customers once again. This will be available to you in addition to currently available USPS shipping.
Set Album / Folder Cover functionality has been enhanced and extended to include all folders within an album
Now you can add a cover photo to a folder, using a photo from the parent album or a different folder within the album's tree.
Other upgrades
We have made few technical upgrades to our online photo store to further strengthen the system for rapidly expanding business. We have upgraded our application server to suit our growing needs for service oriented architecture, scalability and robustly support the future archival system.
July 20, 2012 Release Notes
Thanks to our valuable customers, our online system has seen rapid growth in the last few years. To ensure better quality of service and support the rapid growth for the years to come, Digipixart online system has made changes to its infrastructure and application.
The following are the benefits included in this release:
Better system response time even as we continue to add more users.
Photos are now stored more securely with robust backup capability.
FTP upload and watermarking of images will be much faster than before, and with significant performance improvements.
Improved response time in Crop feature (from end user perspective) and preservation of copyright/watermark (if present), depending on the settings or chosen crop area.
Established foundation for a future digital asset management system.
May 11, 2012 Release Notes
The following items are included in this release:
Portfolio Offerings
- Now you can organize and display your portfolio using a layout and theme of your choice from a list of options. Following are the different layouts that are offered with this release:
- 2 column layout with a light or dark background theme.
- 2 column layout with no thumbnail image.
- 3 column layout with a light or dark background theme.
- 3 column layout with no thumbnail image.
- 6 column layout with a light or dark background theme.
- More album sorting options have been introduced in this release. You can choose an album sort order option to present the portfolio to your customers. The album sort order options include:
- alphanumeric ascending (default) → [0-9] [a-z]
- alphanumeric descending → [9-0] [z-a]
- oldest to newest → based on album creation date
- newest to oldest → based on album creation date
- Now you can organize and display your portfolio using a layout and theme of your choice from a list of options. Following are the different layouts that are offered with this release:
Coupon Enhancements
- Newly created albums can now be added to an existing multiple-album/global coupon.
- Pick albums you want to include or exclude from a multiple-album/global coupon. This is applicable to both new and existing coupons.
- User interface for adding or editing a coupon is enhanced with additional tooltips for your convenience.
User Interface Enhancements
Included in this release are some additional user interface enhancements.
- Zoom image in galleries page has been enlarged by 15%.
- We have enhanced several user interface screens to bring consistent look and feel and we will continue to do so to provide you with better user experience. Following are some of the key screens under Studio Manager that have been enhanced.
- My Preferences
- My Portfolio Information
- My Personal Information
- My Order History
- Order Details
- My Business Information
- Sales Reports
March 02, 2012 Release Notes
The following items are included in this release:
Simplified Checkout process
Customer checkout process has been simplified with three easy to use screens and enhanced user interface.
New user-friendly features
- Review Items in Order: where the customer can review the items in shopping cart without leaving the checkout process.
- Print Receipt: where a customer can handily print out an order confirmation online in addition to getting an e-mail confirmation.
New coupon Gift Card coupon type and a global coupon feature
- Gift Card coupon: Now, you can add a gift card coupon for your customers that will allow customers to shop an album, and redeem the gift card coupon during the checkout process.
- Global coupon feature: One coupon that can be applied to all albums without an active coupon has been introduced. The coupon can be used with the following types:
- % Discount with minimum amount
- Percentage Discount
- Shipping Discount only
Coupon expiration notification
A notification feature to remind you about your expiring coupons has been introduced. An e-mail reminder will be sent to you for coupons that are about to expire in the next three days.
Photo store integration enhancement
Your integrated online photo store will now have a reduced height providing better usability experience.
November 18, 2011 Release Notes
The following items are included in this release:
New Digipixart Website
Digipixart website will have a new look and feel, a vibrant user interface with easy navigation to various product offerings and services. Once the new site is launched, we will keep you constantly posted with promotional offers, services, new changes etc.
Support for new photo store dimensions of 900px to 1000px wide
Digipixart supports new photo store dimensions ranging from 900px wide to 1000px wide. Both, new and existing customers can avail this option based on their website requirements.
User interface enhancements
- We have added easy navigation buttons previous and next while viewing a photo using the zoom feature in the galleries screen. Customer doesn't need to close a chosen zoom image to view another.
- Your website's look and feel is now throughout the site including specialty products and cards customization screens.
- In order to make customers shop across multiple albums, the "Continue Shopping" and "Return to Albums" feature on the website will now take the user back to your Photo Store Home page/Albums page where all of your albums are displayed/listed.
April 8, 2011 Release Notes
The following items are included in this release:
New Cards Product Introduced
We are excited to the launch a range of Cards product. We have introduced several different card types for our customers. The following are various card types introduced in this release:
- 4×8 Photo Cards: The 4×8 photo cards are simple and single sided cards. You can customize the card with user photo and also add few lines of text conveying your customized message. This exciting card comes in three categories: Holidays, Announcements and Other events.
- Post Cards: Post Cards are double sided with user selected photo in the front and custom text on the back. This is available in different categories: 1) 4×6 size ii) 5×7 size and iii) 5×7 card with patterns / designs surrounding a 4×6 user selected photo.
- Folding Cards: Folding Cards allows the user selected photo to appear in the front side and custom text on the inside of the card. This is available in different categories: 1) 4×6 size ii) 5×7 size and iii) 5×7 card with patterns / designs surrounding a 4×6 user selected photo.
Watermark Text Opacity
Now, you can adjust the watermark text opacity according to your needs. The text opacity ranges from 0.1 to 1.0 where a value of 0.1 makes the text more transparent and a value of 1.0 makes it more opaque.
June 24, 2010 Release Notes
The following items are included in this release:
Move to Cloud Infrastructure
We moved from our current infrastructure facility to Amazon Web Services based Cloud infrastructure. The overall benefits to you with our successful move to the new system and facility are as follows:
- You will continue to experience the same or improved system response time. The migration is more than just a move to a new facility. It provides the environment to add more computing power and communication speed dynamically as more users get on the system concurrently.
- The new system also provides the foundation for Digipixart to implement an archival and retrieval system in the near future. The upcoming archival and retrieval system would allow you to backup your photos for later use and images could be retrieved using a range of keywords and event dates. For our university customers, this system will provide inter-department photo search and access to online photo library for brochure, marketing and communication needs. It will also provide the capability to re-market the photos during reunions years later by retrieving the photos from archival system back onto the online photo store.
- The new environment also provides a very flexible platform to implement and test new features before the actual release of the software.
- The new system will eliminate any prolonged downtime due to hardware failure. It provides the redundancy for any hardware failure.
- The total disk storage will increase for the same low monthly fee.
March 15, 2010 Release Notes
The following items are included in this release:
Enhanced User Interface
Improved user interface for better "look and feel" experience during viewing and ordering of photos by customers.
Attractive Features and Shortcuts
Attractive shortcuts like zoom, mark as favorite and add to shopping cart were added to a grid under every photo in album view. Users can see large image by clicking the zoom icon. Favorites are identified using a red heart icon under the photo. Users can easily mark or remove by clicking on the heart icon. Clicking on Shopping Cart icon takes the user to the products page where they can add their product of choice to their cart.
Updated USPS Shipping Requirements
USPS has updated their shipping requirements. We immediately updated our interface to extend/update the service / requirements.
Help Tips
Added help tips to improve and assist customer's viewing and ordering process.
May 8th, 2009 Release Notes
Print Packages
Each print package is a collection of a variety of print sizes and quantities. This feature allows album owners (photographers) to offer their customers discounted prices for bulk purchases of certain prints. The packages are predefined by Digipixart Labs. For example: "Package A" contains 8 wallets prints; and "Package H" contains (2)-5×7 prints, (2)-wallet prints, and (1)-3.5×5 print.
- How to offer a package for sale: A print package is simply another product that a photographer can offer for sale. Thus, a photographer can add any print package to a Pricing Template, and the template can then be applied to one or more albums. Alternatively, the photographer can use an album's "Set Album Options" menu item to offer a print package for sale within the album.
- How to order packages: For albums which have print packages available for sale, customers are able to select a "Packages" tab in the product selection screen. By selecting this tab, the customer can choose to purchase any print package that is offered for sale within the album. Additionally, there is a roll over "help" icon within this tab. When a customer points to the Help icon, a list of "for sale" packages is displayed. The list contains the name and detailed contents of each package that is available for sale within the album.
- Photographers can order the print packages via the "Order Photos" link within the albums they own, just like ordering any other print product.
Credit Card Payment
Many photographers do not have a Point of Sale (POS) system to accept credit card payments for photography-related services (e.g., sitting fees charged to customers for photo sessions). This new feature allows Digipixart registered photographers to charge their customers' credit cards for services rendered. At the end of the month, Digipixart will send the photographer a check for the total amount charged to customers' credit cards during the month.
- This feature is available only for Professional Photographers (i.e., you must have signed-up as a professional photographer during your initial Digipixart registration).
- How to charge a customer's credit card for services: In the Studio Manager section, select the "Accept Credit Card Payment" option.
- How to report on credit card charges: In the Studio Manager section, select the "Credit Card Payment Report" option to generate the report.
Miscellaneous Updates
- Fixed issue which displayed duplicate billing addresses during professional user checkout.
- Improved Pricing Template functionality. Photographers can now add Prints, Specialty Products, Frames, and Packages separately.
March 21, 2009 Release Notes
The following items are included in this release:
Custom Text for Specialty Products
- Customers are able to add custom text to specialty products: coffee mugs, T-shirts, sweatshirts, puzzles, mouse pads, and golf towels. This upgraded user interface improves the specialty products that are currently offered.
Search Albums
- Customers are able to search your albums by album name and keywords created by you. This feature is convenient for the customers of photographers who have a large number of albums in our system. It helps your customers quickly find the albums that contain their photos.
Digital Flush Mount Albums
- A new functionality allows your customers to select favorite photos and send them to Digipixart Labs for digital flush mount design, printing, and binding services. This feature mainly caters to wedding and event photographers who would like us to handle the production of digital flush mount albums.
Miscellaneous Updates
- Each folder's cover image is larger, expanded to be the same size as the album cover images.
Print sizes are sorted and displayed from the smallest size to the largest size.
Requested by some clients, the word "Portfolio" is removed from the main page on which all your albums are displayed.
- Each folder's cover image is larger, expanded to be the same size as the album cover images.
November 25, 2008 Release Notes
Coupon Codes
Coupon codes allow album owners (photographers) to offer their customers discounts. The following rules govern coupon code usage:
- When an album owner (photographer) applies a coupon type to an album, a unique coupon code is generated and provided to the photographer. The photographer can then share this coupon code with the relevant customers.
- Each coupon code can only be assigned to one album.
- Each coupon code has a date range during which it is valid (i.e., a start date and an end date).
- Each album can have a maximum of one active coupon code assigned to it.
- Each customer can only use a coupon code one time.
- Each coupon code can only be used for purchases within the album to which the code applies (i.e., the album for which the photographer created the coupon code).
Four coupon types are implemented in this release. These types are described below; where necessary, examples of each type's usage are provided.
Type 1: First Print Free
- You select one print size for this coupon (e.g., 4×6, 5×7, etc.).
- The customer does not need to buy more than one print.
- The customer cannot take advantage of the coupon code if he/she does not order the print size chosen by you (i.e., the print size for which the coupon was created).
Type 2: Second Print Free
- You select one or more print sizes for this coupon.
- The customer must order more than one print to take advantage of this coupon.
- Prints can be ordered from different images. For example, one 4×6 print can be ordered for a photo; and another 4×6 print can be ordered for a different photo.
- Example: You select 4×6 and 5×7 with the Second Print Free Rule.
Customer 1: Customer orders: one 4×6 and two 5x7s Customer will pay the cost for: one 4×6 and one 5×7 Customer gets the following for free: one 5×7
Customer 2: Customer orders: three 4x6s and two 5x7s Customer will pay the cost for: two 4x6s and one 5×7 Customer gets the following for free: one 4×6; and one 5×7
Type 3: Minimum Order with Percentage Discount
- You set the minimum order amount and the percentage discount.
- Example: You offer a minimum order amount of $200.00 with 5% discount.
Customer 1: Customer orders: $199.00 of merchandise on checkout. Discount applied to customer's purchase: None.
Customer 2: Customer orders: $200.00 of merchandise on checkout. Discount applied to customer's purchase: $10 (5% of the order)
Type 4: Percentage Discount from Total Order
- You set the percentage discount, which does not require a minimum purchase.
- Example: You offer a 10% discount.
Customer 1: Customer orders: $199.00 of merchandise on checkout. Discount applied to customer's purchase: $19.90 (10% of the order)
Customer 2: Customer orders: $200.00 of merchandise on checkout. Discount applied to customer's purchase: $20 (10% of the order)
You can also offer free shipping in combination with any of the aforementioned coupon type or just free shipping.
Note: Be aware that free shipping in combination with the First Print Free coupon (Type 1) may result in an order being rejected. Specifically, if only one print is ordered by a customer, the order will not be processed since the total cost of this order is $0.00 and a credit card transaction of $0.00 is not allowed.
Miscellaneous Updates
- Provided the option to disable color tone and cropping for your albums. With more and more artists using our system to display and sell their paintings online, allowing customer to change color tone and cropping has been a problem for the artists. This release allows any album owner to disable the color tone and cropping features for any album.
- Many minor improvements are deployed: from better message display on checkout, to internal upgrades within the system. Many of these improvements are not visible to the users, but they are important to the long-term performance and stability of your online photo store.
Please do not hesitate to email or call me if you have any question about the functionalities we provide in any of our releases. After all, the intent of each release is to serve you better. I look forward to hearing from you and thank you for your continued support.
Danny Chu


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Vascular Solutions Launches Reprocessing Service for ClosureFAST Vein Catheters
Vascular Solutions Inc. offers a reprocessing service for the ClosureFAST radiofrequency ablation catheter in the United States. The ClosureFAST catheter, manufactured and marketed by VNUS Medical Technologies Inc. is widely used for performing endovenous therapy for the treatment of varicose veins. Vascular Solutions' reprocessing service is designed to help physicians reduce medical waste and lower their costs.
Vascular Solutions offers the reprocessing service under contract with Northeast Scientific Inc. (NES), an established third-party reprocessor of medical devices. NES received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Nov. 30, 2011 for reprocessing the ClosureFAST catheter.
NES has granted Vascular Solutions the exclusive right through Dec. 31, 2016 to market the ClosureFAST reprocessing service to hospitals and clinics within the United States through Vascular Solutions' direct sales force. Vascular Solutions has already begun to take orders for the ClosureFAST reprocessing service and NES has begun to receive used ClosureFAST catheters from several of these customers for reprocessing.
Hospitals and clinics that subscribe to the service send their used ClosureFAST catheters directly to NES for reprocessing. Upon completion of reprocessing, customers receive those same catheters back, ready for a second use. NES's validated reprocessing system for the ClosureFAST catheters involves multiple stages, including decontamination, cleaning, drying, packaging, labeling, sterilization, and biological quarantine testing. As part of the process, each catheter is subjected to function testing and undergoes multiple inspections to ensure that quality standards are met.
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Video:How to Tell a Real Ghost Picture From a Fakewith Richard Estep
How can you tell whether a ghost picture is real or fake? Watch this About.com video featuring a paranormal expert to help you decipher if a picture is a hoax or a ghostly apparition.See Transcript
Transcript:How to Tell a Real Ghost Picture From a Fake
Hello, I am Richard Estep, Director of the Boulder Paranormal Research Society located in Boulder, Colorado. I am here today for About.com to discuss how to tell a real ghost picture from a fake.
Ghost Pictures Contain an Unexplained Image
A ghost photograph, or a paranormal photograph is the definition of a photograph that contains an object, or an image, or a person, or a light anomaly in it that was usually not seen at the time, although this isn't always the case. But most of the time, nothing was usually seen by the photographer until the image was either developed on film, or either played back on their digital camera.
Ghost Photography Pre-Dates Digital Cameras
Most of the really impressive classic ghost photographs pre-date the digital age, so when there was no photoshop, there were no means of digitally manipulating images, pretty much the only way to fake a ghost photograph was to use a double exposure, smoke and mirrors as the Victorian spirit photographers did, and various tricks with the plate and the negatives itself.
Investigate the Negative of Ghost Photographs
The good news about that, as far as paranormal researchers are concerned, is that we have a physical negative that we can have examined by photographic experts, to determine whether it has been tampered with or manipulated with in any way.
Digital Photo Editing Fabricates Ghost Images
In the current age, we have so many software programs that will do this, and some that are even intended to fake ghost photographs. Perhaps the most common misconception out there is the orb.
People on the internet, you can troll websites, you will see thousands of people telling you the orbs, these small glowing circular objects are spirits of the dead. What orbs actually are the vast majority of the time is dust. And it's very telling that we really didn't see orbs in photographs until the advent of the digital camera; there are very few early orb ghost photographs back when photographers used film.
Metadata Reveals Photo Tampering
Well, if a modern photographic expert in digital imagery were able to look at the metadata of this file, which is very easily done, they would in fact be able to tell that the underlying image has been modified today, and that something has been inserted, digitally inserted, which would be the face itself. But to the untrained eye, to the person on the internet who doesn't know any better, this could look somewhat convincing.
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From the name of a river in Ireland. It is not clear why it has become so popular as a given name; compare Clodagh. In part it may also be a transferred use of the Irish surname, Gaelic Ó Seanáin 'descendant of Seanán' (a diminutive of Seán). Shannon is not found as a traditional given name in Ireland itself.
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"In this parish are 5142 heads of families, 2439 male child, 2432 female child, 484 male servants, 935 female servants, in all 11432 individuals, and 2893 families. 432 individuals reside in Restalrig, 557 in Abbeyhill and 1497 in Calton of Edinburgh."
(From the Statistical Account of Scotland 1791-1799 Vol II)
"The story of Leith" by John Russell was published by Thomas Nelson & Sons, Ltd of London and Edinburgh in 1922. The book is 472 pages long and includes an index. The history starts with prehistoric times and runs through to the First World War, just before the book was published.
"The Port of Leith: its history and its people" by Sue Mowat, ISBN 0 85976 403 6, published by Forth Ports PLC (Leith) in conjunction with John Donald Publishers Ltd. The bokk concentrates on the history since 1329 when Leith was granted by Robert the Bruce to the burgesses of Edinburgh. The story is told through the people of Leith, and illustrated throughout with photographs, drawings and copies of original documents. The history runs right up to 1994 and there is an extensive bibliography section at the end, as well as a detailed index. The book is 468 pages long.
The parish church has records for births dating from 1599, for marriages from 1588 and for deaths from 1662. These are held in the General Register Office for Scotland in Edinburgh and copies on microfilm may be consulted in the Midlothian Studies Centre in Loanhead and also in LDS Family History Centres around the world.
The transcription of the section for South Leith from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson. The transcription of the section for (all) Leith from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
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In a move that could escalate hostilities with Congress, President Obama may be planning to use his executive authority to publicize special funding requests that lawmakers make for pet projects.
A memo that the White House has floated on Capitol Hill would require executive branch agencies to make public any letter from a member of Congress seeking special consideration for any project or organization vying for government funding. National Journal obtained a draft copy of the executive memo.
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A White House spokesman declined to comment, except to say he did not believe the document would be coming next week.
The threat to name and shame would potentially cut off another avenue members of Congress have for influencing government spending in their own back yards. It comes at a time that Obama is ratcheting up his campaign rhetoric against Congress, which he blames for blocking his efforts to stimulate the economy, on the eve of his 2012 reelection effort.
In the draft language, the administration couches the move as an extension of its efforts to eliminate congressional earmarks and promote government openness and accountability.
"Earmarks written into law or otherwise referenced in legislative materials are not the only threat to merit-based and competitive criteria for the use of government funds," the draft says. "Too often, federal agencies are pressured informally to show special favor to certain parties or interests in the course of agency decision-making concerning federal projects, programs, contracts, and grants.
"According to some reports, such pressures have increased over the past year," the draft memo adds. "Like legislated earmarks, these pressures on agency decision-making also undermine the neutral application of merit-based and competitive criteria for the allocation of federal resources."
Aides on Capitol Hill said privately the proposed new ruling would shed light on what has become a workaround for the earmark ban. Instead of directly putting earmarks into legislation, members of Congress have written to executive branch agencies to request special consideration for a group or a project that is seeking federal funding.
Such a decision by the White House could cause embarrassment for members who say they do not request earmarks, but who have written to executive branch agencies seeking special consideration for funding in their districts.
Other aides worried the new rules will represent a further consolidation of power within the executive branch. The ban on earmarks has already given executive branch departments more freedom to create their budgets; further limiting member influence on those budgets would only move power farther away from the Capitol.
The proposed memo will build on an executive order that former President George W. Bush issued in January 2008, which banned federal agencies from accepting funding requests from members of Congress unless those requests were specifically included in legislative texts. That executive order drew fire from Capitol Hill and lobbying agencies, which said the White House was robbing Congress of its right to set spending priorities.


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The 27-year-old France international has been linked with a potential move to the Premier League with Chelsea and Liverpool both hot on the heels of the player, according to reports.
Gomis, who has 18 months remaining on his current deal, has scored 13 goals in all competitions this season and is helping Lyon keep up their challenge at the top of Ligue 1.
Aulas claims the interest in Gomis is not only from England, but expects the situation to be resolved in the coming weeks.
He told a press conference: "Bafe has talked about Chelsea in the past as they seem a very prestigious club to him, but there are also other propositions.
"Of course, all the talk is about him moving to England, but there are other European clubs interested in him too.
"I'm sure things will begin to accelerate in the next couple of weeks and we expect things to be sorted soon."


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How to make a jelly mould light
This totally unique light will be a real focal point of any room. You just need to seek out an old jelly mould - try second hand shops, junk stores and eBay - to use as the lampshade.
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Step 1: Collect your equipment
You'll need an old tin jelly mould and a metal light fitting, preferably one with a silk braided flex. Silk braided flex can be bought in a good electrical store. You might as well spend a bit more on the fitting as flex as they are going to be on show. You'll also need a sharp tool with a fine point, a hammer, a plug and a light bulb that fits.


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Assemble the German Naval Destroyers Z37 & Z39 with this 1:700 Scale Plastic Model Kit from the Tamiya Water Line Series. Suitable for Ages 14 & Older.
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This was my 2nd model to build after a 40 year pause, my aging eyes and hands prompted me to get a magnifier and tweezers. This has helped. I was very happy to get two models for the low price. The ships went together well, I had few problems. I built one in each version (early and late). There weren't too many parts and I was happy with the detail, I look for ease over detail. On a further note, I actually want to build a 1934a or 1936 Z type destroyer, these are type 1936a mob. Looking at the pieces, I'm quite sure I can rearrange them some and build a ship that looks like the earlier version. I don't know how exact it will be, but for me I think it will be close enough. So, I'm going buying this kit again and make some modifications to the build, so the final ships looks more like a type 1936 destroyer.
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OKLAHOMA CITY – Hit and run accidents in our state come in at alarming numbers.
On Monday, police continue searching for the person who killed an Oklahoma inventor, Jack McClung.
Scattered groceries were the only pieces of evidence left behind of the hit and run that killed the 79-year-old.
"He loved everyone, and he will be greatly missed by many. He had a big heart," said Debra Murray.
Murray says her dad wanted to be independent.
At his age, he couldn't drive anymore, but she says he always walked to get food at NW23rd and Geraldine.
That's where the car hit him.
"The police came to my door," said Murray. "They told me, and I was really in shock. I could not believe it. I kept saying, 'Are you sure?'."
It's a feeling Kim Collins knows well. Her father, Junior Scott was killed in a hit and run nearly three years ago.
Then, on Thursday, a driver ran over her son, Jonathan, on his eighth birthday.
"I cried, and I screamed," said Jonathan.
The drivers in all three cases are still on the road, adding to the long list that detectives work every day.
Police say hit and runs rarely end in injuries or a fatality.
Most hit and runs are fender benders in a parking lot, but investigators in Oklahoma City alone deal with an average of 300 a month.
The drivers who run rarely get caught.
While Jonathan pleads with the driver who hit him, "You need to slow down."
Murray can only think how happy her father would be knowing the little boy survived, and how bad she feels for the driver who killed her father.
"I feel really bad for them. It must be an awful, awful thing to weigh on you," said Murray. "I hope that they do turn themself in and get peace about it."
Witnesses described the car that killed McClung as a black four door Mitsubishi or Honda with red grill and bumper and a racing stripe.
The car that hit the little boy is described as a black Chevrolet truck, possibly a Silverado.
Jonathan Collins' family has set up a fund for him for those who want to donate toward his medical bills.
It is at BancFirst under the Jonathan Collins Benefit Fund.


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Rain started to fall in downtown Charleston as the sun was coming up today. The National Weather Service forecast says it will be overcast today, with the overall chance of rain for the area at 40 percent. High should be about 81 degrees and winds will be from the west-southwest at 5-10 mph.
Tonight should be mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and a low of 61 degrees. Winds will be from the southwest at 5 to 10 mph, shifting to the northwest after midnight. The chance of rain tonight is 20 percent.
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See definition in Oxford Advanced Learner's DictionaryLine breaks: hoop
Pronunciation: /huːp/
Definition of hoop in English:
1A circular band of metal, wood, or similar material, especially one used for binding the staves of barrels or forming part of a framework.
Example sentences
- All edges will meet properly and the barrel will hold liquid without any agent other than the hoops which hold the staves together.
- In the eighteenth century, wooden barrels were assembled out of individual staves and hoops, with no two barrels being identical.
- She said: 'The wind was so strong that it blew some of the aluminium hoops out of the framework and bent them double.'
1.1 (also hoop earring) An earring in the form of a circular band of metal or other material: a pair of plain gold hoops
More example sentences
- He had large hoop earrings in each ear and wore dark clothing.
- Tiffany wore huge silver hoops in her ears and had plum lipstick smeared over her lips.
- Most of the men just had a hoop in one ear.
1.2(In the past) a toy in the form of a large circular band of wood, rolled along the ground with a stick.
Example sentences
- We used to have freedom and play in the fields with traditional toys such as hoops, a top and whip and marbles.
- He laughed, 'I would do many things for her, but playing with dolls and hoops is not one of them.'
- Above the fountain, one can see an eroded relief of a seated girl and a boy standing with a hoop and rod.
1.3 short for hula hoop. spin the hoop around your waist or around your hips
More example sentences
- Ten young performers with hoops draped around their small frames formed a circle and danced around the award-winning Grey Buffalo Singers.
- But can gyrating a day-glo hoop around the middle really give you a waspish waist?
- Spin the hoop around and vigorously shake your hips.
1.4A large ring for circus performers to jump through.
Example sentences
- She jumped through the hoop, rolled over and did a back flip.
- It's amazing how the tiger can jump through flaming hoops, how the bear can ride a motorcycle and how the lion can walk on a tightrope.
- Sometimes the cats execute jumps, skips, and turns, or leap through flaming hoops, eliciting ooohs and aaahs from the packed circle of onlookers.
1.5 historical A circle of flexible material used for expanding a woman's petticoat or skirt: a woman in hoops and crinoline
More example sentences
- Women's underclothes are so much simpler than they used to be - no lacings, no tiny buttons and hooks, no hoops and petticoats.
- This will add lots of volume to your skirt, without using boned hoops.
- Such gowns, by the late 1850s, had hoops, wire contraptions which replaced the multitude of petticoats and which caused women's dresses to billow out even further.
1.6chiefly British A metal arch through which balls are hit in croquet.
Example sentences
- Croquet mallets and hoops wait on the lawn for those who want some pre-lunch exercise, while immaculately attired staff help you choose from the extensive menu of both Malaysian and Western cuisine.
- As the little ball rolled through the hoop in front of it, Isabel giggled with Christine in delight.
- Hoops will generally come in sets of 6, being the number on a standard croquet lawn.
1.7The round metal rim from which a basketball net is suspended: by the official rules of the game, a basketball hoop must be 18 inches in diameter and 10 feet off the ground
More example sentences
- How high is it from the floor to the bottom of the backboard on a regulation basketball hoop?
- The other good bit of news is that the family that is buying our house does want to keep the basketball hoop in the back yard.
- But when I got there and saw the basketball hoops, it reminded me of the times when my friends Darlene, Lana and I used to play together.
1.8 (hoops) US informal The game of basketball: Henry's father played hoops for Kansas
More example sentences
- Ever tried to play hoops with an underinflated ball?
- George set up his camera to shoot himself playing hoops outside his school.
- It's a bit silly to toss off phrases like 'historic occasion' when you're opening up a few square yards of painted concrete for a game of hoops.
2A horizontal band of a contrasting colour on a sports shirt or jockey's cap.
Example sentences
- 'We are looking for three men, one of whom was wearing a shirt with dark hoops,' he said.
- One sports firm agreed that some numbering could be illegible on certain backgrounds of hoops, bands and colours.
- Why Celtic chose green-and-white hoops as opposed to stripes nobody seems sure.
2.1Australian informal A jockey.
Example sentences
- The retiring hoop gave his charge the command at the 400 metre mark and she responded with a sound win by a length.
- The 34-year-old is supported by his wife and year-old son as well as fellow Queensland hoops.
- He didn't envy the Derby-winning hoop at Randwick or the rider who rode for a million dollars or who lived in the big house overlooking the ocean.
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Bind or encircle with or as with hoops: a man was hooping a barrel
More example sentences
- The children also took part in Victorian pastimes such as Throw the Horseshoe, a coconut shy, a tin can alley, marbles and hoop the duck.
- For proper placement, hoop and stitch the design before cutting the rectangle.
- I did all kinds of jobs for myself, from mending a pair of boots to hooping a barrel.
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jump through hoops
- Perform a difficult and gruelling series of tests at someone else's request or command: the banks make you beg for a loan and they make you jump through hoops to get itMore example sentences
- The development of these drugs consists solely of going through the hoops of getting bureaucratic approval to use them!
- If he had sold the house then they would probably not have to go through the hoops of getting a search warrant.
- Some orphans wreck their life with heavy use of illicit drugs after going through the hoops of searching for a job in vain.
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shoot hoops
- US informal Play basketball: he'd rather play golf or shoot hoops than workMore example sentences
- Young basketball players can shoot hoops to their hearts' content at this year's Yorkshire International Basketball Camp.
- He took the basketball from the garage and began to shoot hoops.
- Being home was better than being at school; at home I could mess around in my front yard and shoot hoops.
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hooped adjective
- Example sentences
- She wore a dark purple crinoline hooped dress, such a strange colour for one so young.
- And personally, I think her hooped earrings could be bigger.
- He was attacked because he wore a green and white hooped top with a shamrock.
Late Old English hōp, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch hoep.
Words that rhyme with hoopbloop, cock-a-hoop, coop, croup, droop, drupe, dupe, goop, group, Guadeloupe, loop, poop, recoup, roup, scoop, sloop, snoop, soup, stoep, stoop, stoup, stupe, swoop, troop, troupe, whoop
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A nonpartisan group, formed in 1999 to fight a huge oil merger in Alaska, is speaking in support of the Senate's bipartisan coalition.
Leaders of Backbone plan to hold a news conference next week in Anchorage to support the coalition, which Backbone says has a record of "putting Alaska first."
This comes after some Republicans, including the governor, expressed a desire to break up the current coalition.
Malcolm Roberts is with Backbone. He says Alaska is at risk of becoming the "owned state," rather than an owner-state. He says the coalition has shown courage and reflected the spirit of Alaska, which he says isn't partisan.
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Careers the focus at Emerging Young Leaders meeting
The Emerging Young Leaders Program recently held a meeting at the Central Children's Home in Oxford that focused on non-traditional occupations for women.
Dorothy Perry, the program's co-chairwoman, presided.
Karen Yowell and Mary Anderson were the guest panelist speakers. Both shared experiences and obstacles they have dealt with relating to their career paths.
Linda Smith served as the keynote speaker. Her presentation focused on the acronym WINTER, standing for women in non-traditional employment roles.
She encouraged the young leaders to think outside of the box with regards to career choice, enroll in proper classes and seek information from others with established careers.
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Blue Devil recruits see schedules lighten up
After a busy month of July, recruits will have the opportunity to relax for much of August, which should enable many prospects in the classes of 2013 and 2014 to visit schools and begin narrowing down their list of prospective schools.
Julius Randle-- arguably the top 2013 target for Duke basketball head coach Mike Krzyzewski--is expected to announce some sort of list in the near future. Duke is seemingly a lock to be in the top five, along with Kentucky, Kansas and North Carolina, while schools such as Baylor, Texas and North Carolina State are very much in the mix too.
Pegging a leader in Randle's recruitment is virtually impossible still. Duke, however, is considered to be in a very strong position given the strong relationship between assistant coach Jeff Capel and Randle, along with the fact the Blue Devils have a commitment from Randle's close friend and AAU teammate Matt Jones.
Last week, the first 12 players for the Under Armor Elite 24 game were announced. Duke targets Marcus Lee and Randle have been selected to play in the event. The remaining 12 players will be announced soon and the game will be played August 25 in Los Angeles, Cali.
As for Duke's 2013 perimeter targets, Robert Hubbs recently told Josh Paunil of National Recruiting Spotlight in an interview, "I want to get the feel up at Duke."
So expect the dynamic 6-foot-5 wing, who has seen his stock sky rocket over the past few months, to pay a visit to Durham this fall.
Shifting to 2014, it has become well known that Krzyzewski is all-in for Tyus Jones, the top point guard in the class. Recently, college basketball heavyweights Kentucky and North Carolina have aggressively entered the sweepstakes to land Jones as John Calipari and Roy Williams have both recently offered Jones a scholarship.
Similar to most years, the recruiting overlap between Duke and archrival North Carolina is prevalent. In the class of 2013, the Tar Heels and Blue Devils, among many other schools, are vying to land Austin Nichols, Jabari Parker, Lee and Randle.
The class of 2014 recruiting may be even more heated between the two Tobacco Road foes as they both have offers out to Theo Pinson, Justise Winslow, Jahlil Okafor and Tyus Jones.
And of those shared targets, Winslow and Okafor, who were arguably the two best players for the U.S. U-17 National team that recently won gold, paid a visit to UCLA last week.


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PITTSBORO — Willie Eugene Ellis, 87, formerly of Sanford, died Wednesday (10/16/13) at The Laurels of Chatham in Pittsboro.
He was born in Chatham County on April 9, 1926. He was one of 11 children born to John and Edna Johnson Ellis. He retired from Federal Paperboard Company (now International Paper). Following his retirement, he worked part-time for Hardees. He was a member of Hickory Mountain United Methodist Church. He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife, Ozzie Jones Ellis; a son, James Eugene Ellis; and five sisters and brothers.
He is survived by his daughter, Brenda Beal of Sanford; sons, Thomas Ellis of Bear Creek and Luke Ellis of Siler City; sisters, Fay Tisdale of Siler City and Ann Ring of Greensboro; brothers, James Ellis and Grady Ellis, both of Sanford, and Burnice Ellis of Bynum; seven grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
Funeral service will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday at Hickory Mountain United Methodist Church with the Rev. Mary Ellen Bender and the Rev. Ray Gooch presiding. Interment will follow at the church cemetery.
Friends may visit with the family from 6 to 8 p.m. today at Hall-Wynne Funeral Home in Pittsboro.
Online condolences may be made at www.hallwynne.com.
Arrangements are by Hall-Wynne Funeral Service & Cremation in Pittsboro.
WEST END — Lair Brower died Sunday (10/13/13) at her home.
Funeral service will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. at St. Peters Deliverance Church in Southern Pines.
Viewing will be held today from 1 to 7 p.m. at the funeral home.
She is survived by her husband, Willie Brower; three daughters, Yolanda Capel, LaShonda Capel and Brittany Brower; one son, LaFrazier Capel (Melody); mother, Nellie Capel; five grandchildren, five sisters and one brother.
Arrangements are by Pugh & Smith Funeral Home of Carthage.
FAYETTEVILLE — Rev. Lovern Hicks Small, 67, of 538 Williwood Road, died Monday (10/14/13) at Wake Medical Center in Cary.
Funeral service will be conducted at 12 p.m. Saturday at Lewis Chapel Missionary Baptist Church in Fayetteville with the Rev. Dr. John D. Fuller Sr. officiating. A private interment will be held at Hicks Family Cemetery in Linden.
Surviving are one son, Horace Thomas II; one daughter, Jazzmine Vernae; two granddaughters; and three sisters, Mary Dean of Sanford, and Dorothy Waller (James) and Rose Ferguson, of Fayetteville.
Arrangements are by Dafford Funeral Home in Dunn.
HILLSBOROUGH — Elizabeth Scott Neville, 88, of Orange County, died Tuesday (10/15/13) at Brookshire Nursing Center.
She was proceeded in death by a son, David Lee Neville.
She is survived by two daughters, Lucy (Bob) of Carrboro and Linda (Randy) of Chapel Hill; two sons, Morrison (Kishia) of Atworth, Ga., and Marion of Chapel Hill; a sister in-law, Cora Jiggitt of Madison, N.J.; nine grandchildren; six great-grandchildren, and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.
Funeral service will be conducted at 11 a.m. Saturday at Hickory Grove Missionary Baptist Church in Chapel Hill. Wake will be held from 10:30 to 11 a.m. before the funeral. Burial will follow at the church cemetery.
Arrangements by Knotts Funeral Home.
DURHAM — Purcell Suitt, 70, of 1019 Buchanan Blvd., died Thursday (10/10/13) at Duke Regional Hospital in Durham.
Funeral service will be conducted Saturday at Word of Faith in Durham. The wake will be from noon to 1 p.m. at the church with the funeral beginning at 1 p.m. at the church. Burial will follow at Chapel Hill Memorial Cemetery in Chapel Hill.
Arrangements are by Knotts Funeral Home.
SILER CITY — Thomas "Tommy" Wayne Smith, 69, of 416 W. Tenth St., died Wednesday (10/16/13).
He was born in Randolph County on Aug. 12, 1944, the son of Glenn Thomas and Hazel (Black) Smith. He had retired from Mountaire Farms in maintenance. He was preceded in death by his parents.
He is survived by his wife of 48 years, Brenda (Bell) Smith; two sisters, Brenda Albright and Glenda Smith, both of Liberty; and one nephew.
A graveside service will be held Saturday at 3 p.m. at Chatham Memorial Park in Siler City with the Rev. Jim Whittaker officiating.
Memorials may be made to West End United Methodist Church, P.O. Box 1017, Siler City, N.C. 27344 or to a church of your choice.
Arrangements are by Smith & Buckner Funeral Home.
Online condolences may be made at www.pughfuneralhome.com.


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As you know by now, our Passion City Church family is taking a sabbath together. Specifically, we will not be gathering on Sunday August 12 or August 19, and our Passion, PCC, sixsteps offices will be closed the week of August 13-17. I know it's a bit unconventional for a church to NOT meet, but for us it's a needed and desired time to pause and remember that God is the source of all we have and are.
For us, Sabbath is not just a good idea. It's the cornerstone of our walk with Jesus, a reflection of our understanding of His grace demonstrated from the earliest of times. In fact, Scripture tells us in Genesis 2:1-3: Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done. At the end of the first week on earth God rested from His work. How can we not do the same?
As well, when God gave the ten commandments to Moses, sabbath was again front and center. In fact, the longest of the commands requires us to "remember the sabbath and keep it holy." While we don't live under the letter of the law, the spirit of the law still guides us. Thus, the principle of observing a day of rest is still a vital part of the fabric of following Jesus.
So what is sabbath anyway? Well, Sabbath is more than a day off, it's really more of a day up. Sabbath is an attitude of the heart that prompts us to remember that our lives are not simply the products of our hard work and ingenuity. Sabbath is the art of breathing in, and acknowledging the reality that we are what we are because of the grace of God. On the sixth day, when humans entered the Creation story, God had ALREADY made the heavens and the earth. He did all that without any help or assistance from us! Then, when things were just as He wanted, we were created by and for Him, and placed into an "already in motion" story of His greatness, power and grace.
Later, in the context of sabbath, Jesus invites us: Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble of heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light. The Jesus Way is the pathway of quiet rest, and trust in the greatness and sovereignty of God–a path that leads to rest for weary souls no matter what circumstances we find ourselves walking through.
While it's true God gives us work to do and roles to play in His story, He wants us to remember each step of the way that it's us who are counting on Him, not the other way around. Jesus is the cornerstone of our lives and of His Church. Everything that is lasting and true rests on Him alone.
We at PCC are still a relatively new tribe…a burgeoning church led by a ferociously dedicated team of Door Holders and the best staff/team in the world. Throughout 2012 we have sought to mirror Isaiah 54: 2: Enlarge the place of your tent, stretch your tent curtains wide, do not hold back; lengthen your cords, strengthen your stakes. As we have followed His leading, we have watched God expand the borders of all things Passion, sixstepsrecords and PCC. Lot's of new people have made their way to our House and thousands have been rocked by the power and presence of God's Spirit. But every season can't be about stretching our curtains even wider. At times, the best move a leader can make is to step back to strengthen the fabric and deepen the stakes.
As a way of doing just that, PCC is taking a collective pause. It's not just a break, it's a time to remember the faithfulness of Jesus and to renew our confidence in Him. It's a way of giving Him glory by trusting Him in our rest.
As a church, PCC has often rallied around the words of Andrew Murray: Waiting on God ascribes to God the glory of being all to us. When we wait, God works, both to replenish us and to create His future around us, bringing forth supernatural results without our knowledge or assistance. When we wait, and rest, we embrace our finiteness, our weakness, our smallness. And when we look up, we honor Him by letting Him know that we know what He knows–that Jesus is all we need!
So, if you consider yourself a part of our PCC family, I want to invite you into this season with us. Let's make space to remember, and let's try not to cram the days of rest with more striving of another kind. Take time for yourself and time to be with family and friends. Make notes of remembrance and pray prayers of thanks. Give God glory for what He has done and tell Him you are confident He is going to be and do all you need in the future.
On Sunday, August 19, we'll host an "online family worship gathering" to help navigate you and your family through a time of celebrating the faithfulness God has shown. And on August 26, we'll all be back together at 515. We trust the PCC House will be jammed that day as we gather again at 11/4/6:45 and launch into a fall season that is sure to blow us all away.
Passion City Church is a Jesus church. He is at the center of it all. So, let's fill these days with talk about Him…and believe that in our resting we will be made strong.
For God, For People, For The City, For The World,
Louie (PCC Door Holder)


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Harris County DA Race: Republicans should re-elect Pat Lykos
As a taxpayer, I don't give a rat's rear end that you are sad because Judge Lykos took your beer bong away. [Read More]
Harris County DA race, runaway grand jury, pioneer woman
A few links on the Harris County DA's race featuring Mike Anderson and Pat Lykos. [Read More]
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|Version 8.7.A - This Banner process, that generates the direct deposit file, has been modified by OUS for all institutions to add check digit security and to include a print statement to write the security digit to the log file. The chart of account code has also been added to the output file. This baseline version of PHPDIRD includes a new parameter called ID Type which allows you to identify which ID (either the SSN or the Employee ID) will print out on the earnings statements. OUS used to have a mod that only allowd the printing of Employee ID. This mod is no longer needed with this new parameter. In version 8.7.A, an additional mod was added related to Ellucians' new parameter 08 (called Institution Bank Code) that was introduced with HR 8.6 in defect resolution CMS-DFCT104156). This new parameter allows a user to enter a valid Bank Code for the Check Date if they do want to use the Bank Code from PTRPICT or NTRFINI Active 'fiscal year record'. Since this new parameter has the potential to cause adverse processing implications in OUS, it is extremely risky to allow anyone to enter a value in this parameter. As a result, the new mod prevents any user for adding a value in this parameter. If a value is added, then no LIS file gets generated. We will instruct all OUS institutions to not even enter this new parameter in the GJAPDEF (job parameters) form. But there is always the risk that the new parameter will automatically get added back to GJAPDEF any time a new version of PHPDIRD is delivered from Ellucian.


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Sam's Blog is a bi-weekly addition to the US Youth Soccer Blog. Sam Snow is the Coaching Director for US Youth Soccer.
Tuesday, February 03, 2015
Sam Snow
Soccer coaches in America have a multitude of both formal and informal coaching education available to them. The formal education is the courses such as the "E" or "Y" or "C" Licenses through the state and national associations. Formal education could also be the Master's Degree in Coaching Soccer through Ohio University. http://www.ohio.edu/graduate/programinfo/CoachingOnlineSoccer-Info.cfm
Informal education may include mentoring within a club, clinics, webinars or conventions. In the last category I recently attended the 2015 US Youth Soccer Workshop / NSCAA Convention in Philadelphia. This was my 34th NSCAA Convention and my 20th US Youth Soccer Workshop http://www.usyouthsoccer.org/workshop/nscaa/. For the last three years the two events have taken place side-by-side. The contract has been renewed for another three years. I foresee the partnership continuing for many more years.
This gathering of coaches, vendors, referees and administrators is unsurpassed in the world. Where else could professional team coaches rub elbows with local youth coaches? Indeed with over 9000 people in attendance every level of soccer is represented. The convention is a fantastic education opportunity. Sessions are given for administrators, coaches and referees. There are demonstrations done with players of all ages and both genders. Classroom sessions take place from Wednesday through Sunday of the convention week. There are so many wonderful sessions going on that you couldn't possibly attend them all. Truthfully you will need to attend two or three years in a row to take it all in.
As I write this blog post I'm flying from Denver back to Dallas. I, along with Mike Freitag, gave some sessions for a coach clinic hosted by the Broomfield S.C. http://www.broomfieldsoccerclub.org/Default.aspx?tabid=690416&mid=714779&newskeyid=HN1&newsid=47512&ctl=newsdetail Bill Stara organized the clinic for all coaches in the northern Denver area. Over the course of the day about 100 coaches, players, their parents and administrators attended.
All youth soccer clubs must budget and plan for continuing education of the coaches, administrators and parents in the club. The players deserve this effort by the adults. Investment in the growth of its personnel is a club's highest priority.
So whether it's a small clinic in a club or attendance at a national convention, coaches must be lifelong students of the game. Indeed refining one's craft of coaching is an on-going process. If you are a soccer coach then you must be committed to your formal and informal education. A coach has every right to expect the club to host a clinic at least once a year. But the coach has an obligation to attend the clinic. On the club wide 'clinic day' all training sessions and matches should be postponed.
Youth soccer clubs should also budget to annually send some of the staff to a state symposium or a national convention. The experience is eye opening!
Continuing education of coaches should be a cultural norm in all American soccer clubs. I look forward to seeing you at the 2016 US Youth Soccer Workshop in Baltimore next January.
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Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Listen to Dempsey and Klinsmann talk about the U.S. Men's National Team's game with Chile tonight at 5 p.m. CT. Watch here.
After stating his intent to become a member of the U.S. Men's National Team, Gedion Zelalem appeared to be on the path to represent the country sooner rather than later. Turns out, it isn't quite that easy. Read more.
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Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Mix Diskerud can't say enough good things about the camp that kicks off the U.S. Men's National Team campaign. If the choice is Southern California or Norway in January, well ... Read more.
It's no surprise that the New England Revolution have been looking to beef up their core group of forwards, but a possible return of Juan Agudelo might catch observers off guard. Read more.
Adrian Heath's squad may be relatively young, but that isn't stopping the Orlando City head coach from setting lofty goals ahead of the team's first MLS campaign. Read more.
Monday, January 26, 2015
Some athletes are lucky enough to get their own cleats... check out Neymar's.
U.S. Men's National Team head coach Jurgen Klinsmann has named a 23-player roster for the upcoming friendlies against Chile and Panama, including nine players from the 2014 FIFA World Cup roster. Read more.


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NFL 2014: You Can't Spell Fail Without FLA
By Russell S. Baxter
Pro Football Guru
They say good things come in threes.
Are we sure?
It was a pretty forgettable 2013 for the Miami Dolphins (8-8), Jacksonville Jaguars (4-12) and Tampa Bay Buccaneers (4-12), making for plenty of overcast in the Sunshine State.
But just in case you thought this was a recent phenomenon, think again.
Dating back to 2009, the Dolphins (35-45), Buccaneers (28-52) and Jaguars (26-54) are a combined 89-151. The clubs have combined to make zero playoff appearances and have produced only one winning season (Tampa Bay finished 10-6 and missed the playoffs in 2010) over that time frame.
You have to go back to 2008, when the Dolphins won the AFC East with an 11-5 mark, to find a team from the 27th state in the union to reach the playoffs in the NFL.
Of course, for fans of the three teams from Florida, there will be plenty to talk about the evening of May 8 at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. Jacksonville owns the third overall pick in the 2014 NFL Draft, followed closely by Tampa Bay (7th) and eventually Miami (19th).
Is this the year things turn around?
The Bucs are trotting out new uniforms, a new head coach in Lovie Smith and a roster that remains pretty talented. Bill Lazor is the new offensive coordinator with the Dolphins, replacing Mike Sherman, and hopefully the team and head coach Joe Philbin can put last season's embarrassing locker room incidents behind them.
As for the Jaguars, Gus Bradley's club is hoping to build on the fact that following a 0-8 start last season, they split their final eight outings. For what it's worth, the Bucs did the same exact thing this past season. Jacksonville also just re-signed potential free-agent quarterback Chad Henne, who threw nine of his 13 touchdown passes in the team's final five games in December.
Still, all three clubs from Florida ended 2013 on a sour note. The Dolphins dropped their final two games while the Jaguars and Buccaneers each bring three-game losing streaks into this September.
So what can we expect from each club this offseason. Will Miami be as aggressive in free agency as they were in a year ago? Will Jacksonville and Tampa Bay delve deep into the open market when it opens on March 11?
In any case, it's been far too long since the league has seen a team from the Sunshine State play beyond the regular season.
Perhaps this is the year the drought, per se, ends in the state of Florida.
Russell S. Baxter is the founder of ProFootballGuru.com has been covering the NFL for 30-plus years on numerous platforms, including Bleacher Report and Pro Player Insiders. Follow me on Twitter at @BaxFootballGuru and Facebook at Pro Football Guru.


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text: Dr. Ulrike Luderer, UCI associate professor of medicine, has been named by Gov. Jerry Brown to the state Developmental & Reproductive Toxicant Identification Committee. The independent panel, which operates within the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, was formed under Proposition 65, a 1986 law aimed at protecting the state's drinking water sources from harmful chemicals. Under the legislation, the governor is required to publish annually a list of chemicals known to cause cancer, birth defects or other reproductive harm. The Developmental & Reproductive Toxicant Identification Committee, along with the Carcinogen Identification Committee, comprises scientists and health professionals who decide which chemicals are added to the list. Luderer is one of seven University of California faculty members appointed to the panel.