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The Secret Life of the American Teenager's Shailene Woodley has a unique, innovative style, but there is one fashion staple that she loves to reuse: the black jumpsuit.
So far in 2012, she's worn two of them, both with plunging, deep V necklines that left little to the imagination. But the 20-year-old classes it up with chic heels and natural-looking makeup, creating stunning, edgy looks.
We first saw her rock a jumpsuit at Vanity Fair and Juicy Couture's "Vanities" 20th Anniversary Party on Feb. 20, 2012 (pictured left). While hosting the event — which supported her charity, All It Takes — she jumped into action in a black, BIRD by Juicy Couture jumpsuit with Dolce & Gabbana heels! This one had capped sleeves and slim-legged pants, showing off her fabulous figure.
The next time, at the 2012 MTV Movie Awards on June 3, 2012, Shai picked a bold, plunging Stella McCartney double-breasted black jumpsuit (pictured right), shocking fans and viewers with some hefty cleavage! She completed the look with Stella McCartney sandals and a cute fishtail braid, but let's be honest — all of the focus was on the her revealing halter top!
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Is it bad to finger the vagina after using the same finger that has been in the anus?
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Yes, because the finger that has explored the depths of the anal cavity has probably picked up some E. coli bacteria on its travels. E. coli from the colon that somehow gets into the urethra is the most common cause of urinary tract infections (UTIs). If you're giving them a lift, you're increasing your and/or your partner's risk of a UTI.
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More of this Pit Bull BS. We own a wonderful blue nose pit, who was a rescue from our local shelter. Her previous owner used her to breed, and once she couldn't have more pups, they got rid of her. Our dog is the sweetest family dog we have ever had. She is great with children, loving and happy. Don't blame the breed of dog, blame the damn owners. You can make any dog into a monster if you teach it to be mean. Such misconceptions around this issue.
And the rest of the story is.....? Great reporting
Lots of insensitive comments and needless banter here. This is a great story, one of a few lately that's actually POSITIVE. I am an 8 year Navy veteran, and after reading this contacted Alex at the GI Go Fund to volunteer my time. If there are any other Vets out there reading this article, maybe you should do the same. It's a couple hours of your time, and you just might save a fellow solider/sailor/airmen's life. Think about it.
Front page of NJ.com. Slow news day for sure. I like how the article stated that Millender "was a celebrity himself", starring in such shows as "Fat March". Fat July too, this guy is a pig, and NOT a celebrity.
This story was so terrible, I don't even know where to begin. The words denizen and visage in the same article? You have to be kidding me. Just report the story and save your snarky prose for some place else.
First off, this clown is NOT a celebrity. He spends a week in jail and has a life changing experience. You have to be kidding me. And he is speaking like he won't be going BACK to jail. Last I checked, 1st degree coke distribution charges are pretty serious. This guy is a moron.
I really can't believe some of these comments on here. Concerns about open food and dog hair? Have you seen some of the HUMAN customers and WORKERS in the stores you shop in? Get real. His dog is probably better behaved than you, and groomed better as well. As for WAWA, a simple apology won't cut it here. The manager called the cops on this guy. Normally, I view America as very sue happy, but this guy needs to find a lawyer. You can bet your you know what if he was a minority, the NAACP or another organization would have been all over this like mustard on a hoagie.
"Greasy Tony" had a place just off the campus of ASU in Tempe AZ. I think it was his brother or Uncle who owned it, but it was right next to my buddies apt complex. The walls we full of old school pics from the Jersey Shore, chicks in bikinis etc.
She must have looked funny as hell with all that crap stuffed in her pants and shirt.
OK, maybe a long post here..
About 6 months ago in Union, my wife and I were driving along with our 3 year old. We approach the LARGE intersection at Morris Ave and Stuyvesant . The line to stop at red is an easy 50 feet before the intersection even begins. As we pass approach the line, the light turns yellow. We proceed to go through, as it's a posted 30/35 mph zone, which should equate to a 3/3.5 sec yellow. WRONG. As soon as we cross the line and are 1/4 through the intersection, light goes red. Of course there is a friendly Union PD officer waiting for us on the flip side. Wife gets pulled over, officer issues ticket. Quite rude to boot, refused to listen to anything my wife has to say etc. We decide as a collective that we could be wrong about the light timing, maybe it wasn't too short etc, and admit to ourselves that we made a mistake, and were rightfully ticketed. Maybe not.
2 months pass, then we notice the same intersection we were ticket in now has a camera. Were the Union PD possibly collecting data to back up the usage of a red light camera? Maybe. Did they intentionally mess with the light timing to "PAD" the respective timing? Possibly. Now it seems that if we made that very mistake today, we wouldn't have been ticketed at all. And even worse, since we were actually pulled over by a cop, she got a 2 point ticket. Had this happened 2 months later, there would have been NO points assessed at all. Just seemed kinda fishy to me, and now it looks like it was.
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Rich people and their problems. Very funny article.
What a waste of time here. More than half of these people had balances in the THOUSANDS of dollars, and were allowed to pay 100 dollars and be released. Why even go though the process of arresting them? These cops could have been out doing some real police work, catching drug dealers etc. Instead, they rounded up a guy with an 89 dollar warrant. Gimme a break.
I wasn't aware that you can get a retro active ticket for driving on a suspended license. How do the cops know he ACTUALLY drove the vehicle in question? Maybe a friend was driving him? The motor vehicle charges sound very shaky to me.
Oh my, so Disgusting. Get over yourself. I feel bad for the chump that stood on line for a 12 hours for a waffle iron. He saved about 15 bucks. Happy Thanksgiving you jack hole.
Hey MORONS...they included his picture in the article so the public KNOWS WHAT HE LOOKS LIKE. He is still at large. How in the hell is this a race issue?
This is a very interesting trial, that I wish was being televised on court TV. Paul is very dynamic, and the case has lots of compelling plot twists, almost movie like. From what I can tell from reading about the case, it seems that Paul may be guilty. BUT, he is a VERY smart man with an extraordinary legal back round that goes back many many years. Somewhere along the line I think Paul turned sour, and quite possibly ordered the murder of the witness. He did so knowing that it would be very difficult to find him guilty when/if he was ever charged with a crime. He is one cocky SOB to be sure, but he is also a very smart SOB, smart enough to beat a murder rap? We will know that in a few weeks. In a strange way, I am kinda hoping he does.
Negative comments aren't welcome here. This was a great organization that should be celebrated. A long storied history of charity to the community. Good job to all the former and current members.
Oh, and OutofPocket. Thank YOU for posting the CORRECT summary of the entire situation. The interpretation of free speech is very often twisted to fit unusual cases like this one. In America, you are allowed to say whatever you want. But your words carry consequences as well.
Thank you Dutch Girl for posting the stupidest comment I have ever read here on NJ.com.


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Cullen: View looking south over Cullen harbour, former line of railway and its viaducts behind town.
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Cullen: An eastbound mixed freight and passenger train approaching Cullen on the former Great North of Scotland Moray Coast line on 29th August 1961 behind an NBL Type 2 locomotive. The ...
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Cullen: September 1961, in former Great North of Scotland Railway territory. A mixed goods train from Elgin heading towards Aberdeen skirts the Moray Coast town of Cullen, hauled by one of ...
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Cullen: Viaduct west of Cullen on the Moray Coast line on 25 March 1973.
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Cullen: A view of Cullen on the former Moray Coast Line.The photo was taken from the longest viaduct and the rising curve of the line can be seen. The station was ...
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Cullen: The Great North of Scotland Railway was denied easy access to Cullen as The Earl of Seafield, being a director of the Highland Railway, refused to allow it to cross ...
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Cullen: Immediately west of Cullen Station was this four arch viaduct which crosses the main road, the only way to get all the arches in the picture was to stand in ...
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Cullen: The main eight arch viaduct on the approach to Cullen from Portknockie. Picture taken from the next viaduct in line.
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Katelyn Marie Dryden and Jordan Franklin Clark were married Nov. 10, 2012, at 6:30 p.m. at the Shawnee State University Center in Portsmouth, Ohio. Reverend Scott Rawlings officiated.
The bride is the daughter of Donna Dryden of Portsmouth and the late Rodney Dryden. She received her bachelor's degree from Marshall University, and is working on her master's degree in Health Care Management from Ohio University Southern. She is employed by the Chillicothe Veteran's Administration.
Jordan is the son of Jim and Debbie Clark of Wheelersburg. Jordan is employed by P.S. Management in New Boston.
The bride was escorted by her brother, Shane Dryden. The maid of honor was Lesa Black. Bridesmaids were Megan Cassidy, Misty Belly, and Chelsea Cartee. The best man was Justin Clark, brother of the groom. Groomsmen were Bryant McQuithy, Brad Schmidt, and Brandon Black.
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"Yes, Penarol are back." Speaking exclusively to FIFA.com, Carbonero coach Diego Aguirre is in no doubt that the Uruguayan giants are in business once more after an unduly lean spell by their standards.
Aguirre has been one of the prime movers in their domestic and continental resurgence, which has seen them advance to their first Copa Libertadores semi-final in 24 years, a remarkably long absence for a side that has won the competition five times in all and is the third most successful club in its history.
The coach has probably felt that absence more than anyone. After all it was his goal in the final minute of extra-time that gave Penarol a 1-0 victory over America de Cali in a play-off in the 1987 final, their last triumph in the competition.
"Penarol is one of the biggest clubs in the Copa," he says with the conviction you would expect of someone nicknamed La Fiera (The Beast). "The club has been a sleeping giant but now it's roused itself. I don't know how far we can go, but history demands that we aim as high as we can."
That soubriquet is an appropriate one. In his playing days Aguirre was an all-action striker who won three Uruguayan league winners' medals with Los Aurinegros and earned the lasting devotion of the fans in doing so. Then, in his first year back at the club as coach in 2003, he won the championship, thwarting rivals Nacional's hopes of a fourth straight title.
A barren run of six years then followed, equalling the worst spell in Penarol's history, only for Aguirre the saviour to return in 2009 and steer them to their 37th league crown the following year, a triumph made all the sweeter by victory over Nacional in the play-off final.
An enduring love affair
That title win cemented Penarol's position as the most successful side in Uruguay, with six more championships to their name than El Bolso. It also secured them a place in the Copa Libertadores, a trophy they first lifted in its inaugural year in 1960 and again in 1961, 1966 and 1982, when they also went on to win the three Intercontinental Cups in their possession.
"I'm a firm believer in motivation, and I always draw on history, the jersey and the difficulties other players who have worn it have had to overcome," explains the 45-year-old. "We have a responsibility and we have to see ourselves as winners, even if we don't win."
Winning is something Penarol had lost the habit of doing. While no other club has made more appearances in the Libertadores than Los Aurinegros, prior to this season they had failed on their five previous attempts to negotiate the group phase of the competition. Aguirre was in charge for two of those failed campaigns, though he has more than made up for it this time by guiding the team to the last four. In the process Penarol have set a new record for the most number of wins in the competition's history and the most number of goals scored. And should they overcome Velez Sarsfield over the next few days, they will appear in an unprecedented tenth final, overtaking Boca Juniors at the top of that particular table.
As far as their proud coach is concerned there are several reasons for their stirring run to the semis: "Bags of character, team spirit and a desire to take the initiative," he smiled. "We've recovered from a slow start and won the games that mattered. The sweetest win was against Internacional in Porto Alegre, where they hadn't lost since 1993. We defied logic that day. They were the favourites to win and with good reason too. They were the defending champions, they were at home in the second leg and they've got some great players. But Penarol showed how great they are and recorded another of their historic wins."
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Despite that surprise success in the last 16 and the quarter-final defeat of Universidad Catolica, which involved another decisive victory on the road, Aguirre is refusing to talk his team up as favourites. "That would be disrespectful on my part," he says. "There are some strong teams left in the competition and I don't feel we're one of the favourites. The thing is, though, anything can happen in the semis, and I'm not just saying that."
As fate would have it, Velez are coached by Ricardo Gareca, who played in three consecutive Libertadores finals for America de Cali in the mid-1980s and lost the lot, including the 1987 showpiece against Penarol.
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Despite his obvious caution, Aguirre signs off on a confident note: "Of course we can win the title. I've dreamt about it before and I'm dreaming about it now, and I'm not going to change. I've every respect for the other teams, that goes without saying, but how could I not think about achieving something big with this club? That's what its history is all about."


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A charter member of the State University of New York (SUNY), Delhi offers a comprehensive line-up of academic programs that lead to baccalaureate and associate degrees, as well as one-year certifications. SUNY Delhi is a small, rural college, nestled in the picturesque Catskill Mountains of upstate New York and is currently experiencing record enrollment of over 3,400 students. The campus overlooks the scenic village of Delhi (pop. 2,000), a quaint community that represents small town America. The surrounding mountains radiate brilliant fall colors, there are miles of magnificent fishing streams, various natural forest and recreation areas, and covered bridges that combine for a refreshing lifestyle. Cooperstown, home of the Baseball Hall of Fame, is 40 miles away. Both Binghamton and Albany are an approximate 90-minute drive away. Metropolitan New York is easily reachable as well.
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The Office of Records and Registration is looking to fill the position of Staff Assistant with a dynamic self-starter, possessing excellent communication skills.
This position requires the individual to work on projects and maintain records in conjunction with our Admissions Office, Student Financial Services Office, SUNY system administration, and with the faculty at SUNY Delhi. This office also provides services to individual students and their families who are enrolled in a varied set of online, and in person courses on an as needed basis.
Duties and responsibilities will include:
1. Assist in the implementation, long term maintenance and trouble shooting of the new degree evaluation system (Degree Works).
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3. Be the main point of contact in Records and Registration for the off-site bachelor programs, providing assistance with their transfer credit evaluations, registration issues, graduation, and degree evaluations.
4. Develop the workflow capabilities of Xtender so as to eliminate the need for many paper forms currently in use.
5. Process all student withdrawals.
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Required: A bachelor's degree is required. The successful candidate will be detail orientated, able to work independently with direction, have strong technological and communication skills and the ability to evaluate and maximize efficiencies within the Student Records Module in Banner. The position requires an understanding of developmental approaches to student information and a commitment to providing excellent customer service.
Preferred: Two years experience in higher education; experience with Sungard Banner student information system or other collegiate student systems (Datatel,PeopleSoft); transfer evaluation experience; programming experience; strong computer skills including complex data analysis; customer service experience.
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I've been debating with myself for several days about whether I should write this post. Since some other bloggers have dealt with this question quite effectively recently, I haven't felt that I would have anything useful to add to the conversation. I changed my mind when I read Brian's recent heart wrenching post. For the religious folks who wonder why nonbelievers care at all about religion and why we can't we just respect believers' beliefs and leave them alone, I offer the following thoughts.
The first problem that I have with religious beliefs is that, as Greta Christina pointed out recently, acting on the basis of false beliefs can lead to ill-conceived, even harmful, behavior and decisions. Take, for example, cases of snake handlers who die from snakebites, or Jehovah's Witnesses who die for want of blood transfusions – both of which have occurred in the USA within the past several months. One may argue that such beliefs are misunderstandings of scriptural injunctions, but to so argue merely cedes my point. Yes, I agree, such beliefs are misunderstandings, but those misunderstandings are founded upon what believers have read in scriptures and they are founded upon traditions that have been passed down to successive generations for millennia. Quite simply, the misunderstood scriptures would not be taken so seriously, and the errant teachings that have been transmitted through the ages would not exist, were it not for the religious contexts that gave birth to them and continue to nourish them.
Consider the subject of Brian's post that I alluded to in the opening paragraph of this post. In this case, a man who was suffering from mental illness heard the voice of god telling him to slaughter his family. He responded by killing his teen aged daughter. Fortunately, his wife was not home at the time of the murder so she was spared. Prior to that event, the man had told members of his church that he was haunted by demons, was hearing voices and so on. The church people believed that the man was extraordinarily blessed to have such experiences! The tragedies of this man's delusional beliefs and his resultant behaviors are highlighted by the inconceivable (to me) failure of the man's religious community to distinguish between mental illness and the leading of god's holy spirit! Remove the shroud of religious superstition from the community's thought processes and the man's derangement would have been clearly evident.
I can already hear several of the faithful protesting that I'm painting all believers with the same broad, tainted brush. Most believers are not deranged, most believers do not handle poisonous snakes as part of their worship rituals, and only a few believers eschew modern medicine…. All of that is true, but it doesn't change the underlying fact that theistic belief in any form is mistaken. Even if those mistaken beliefs don't cause believers to make such egregious errors in judgment as those noted above, they can lead to other errors, such as susceptibility to swindling televangelists, or refusal to believe that one's pastor is molesting Sunday school children, or the notion that abstinence-only sex education is sufficient, or the conviction that gays are evil…. Even though the vast majority of believers apply rational thought processes in most areas of their lives, there is a corner of their minds, especially for religious conservatives, in which they refuse to shine the light of reason. Every scrap of information they process is run through religious filters. If it does not threaten to undermine the religious scaffold around which they've built their lives, then normal reasoning processes can be applied safely. If a bit of information contradicts the scaffold, then it must be rejected. Religious liberals, on the other hand, frequently bend the scaffold so that it will accommodate new information. Whatever process one applies, the fact remains that there are points at which reason and religion conflict. How one handles those conflicts determines the extent to which religious belief is harmful. Sometimes the harm is confined to believers. Other times, however, that harm spills over and affects others, believers and nonbelievers alike. This brings me to my second problem with religious belief.
The second problem I have with religious belief is that believers do not live in vacuums. Their religious beliefs are not always private and those beliefs do affect others, including me, in numerous ways. Billy wrote a great post about this recently. To cite one example, when creationists and Intelligent Design proponents advocate for the inclusion of their non-scientific theories in school science curricula, in addition to hurting their own children, they threaten to undermine my children's education, they threaten to undermine American progress in scientific and medical research and they threaten to dilute the American education system and thereby weaken our nation's economy. In short, when they bring their religious beliefs into the public square and seek to impose those beliefs on others, they threaten our livelihoods and our well-being. Another example: when a fundamentalist presidential candidate advocates amending the Constitution so that it conforms to an ancient book of fables, he threatens my liberty of conscience. Cases like these and countless others lead me to conclude that the only way I can adopt a philosophy of "live and let live" is if religious believers will pledge to do the same. The moment they open their church doors and let their ideas drip all over the pavement is the moment they invite me, regardless of whether they intend to do so, to examine those ideas. This leads to my third problem with religious belief.
The third problem I have with religious beliefs is the persistent entreaty that I respect religious beliefs simply because they are religious. My response to this demand is that I'll extend to religious beliefs the same degree of respect that I extend to astrology or phrenology or alchemy and not a speck more or less than that. Nevertheless, I will always strive to respect believers, regardless of what I think about their beliefs. If believers want their beliefs to be considered as plausible foundations of social, economic, international, educational, or any other public policies, then I will critique those beliefs just as scrupulously as I would critique the beliefs of a Marxist, a Maoist, or a monarchist. Religious beliefs are simply one class of ideas among many that have the potential to do real damage to individuals, societies and nations (though it seems self-evident to me that false beliefs will seldom pass muster as suitable foundations for good policy decisions). All ideas, religious and otherwise, should be scrutinized ruthlessly before one renders judgments regarding their soundness. Religious ideas are no more special than any others, they are simply more widespread and more deeply ingrained than most.
Setting aside, momentarily, the fact that religious beliefs are detrimental to believers and nonbelievers alike, it is true that all of us hold many values, interests and aspirations in common. These are bases upon which we can all agree to work together for our common good. If we can agree to do so, then maybe one day I'll be able to revise my view of religion and concede that, perhaps, it is good for some people, though certainly not for all. Until that happens, however, I will continue to maintain that, given current conditions, religion's bad effects far outweigh its good ones.
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Music: Igor Stravinsky (19121913)
Choreography: Glen Tetley
Staging: Bronwen Curry
Scenic and Costume Design: Nadine Baylis
Original Lighting Design: John B. Read
Lighting Design: Randall G. Chiarelli
Duration: 38 minutes
Original Production Premiere: May 29, 1913: Diaghilev's Ballets Russes (Paris), choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky
Tetley Production Premiere: April 17, 1974; Bavarian State Opera Ballet (Munich)
Pacific Northwest Ballet Premiere: February 3, 2005
Arguably the greatest and most significant work of orchestral music of the twentieth century, Igor Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps has been an inspiration for choreographers all over the world. The original ballet by Vaslav Nijinsky had its scandalous debut by Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes on May 29, 1913, at the Theatre des Champs-Elysées in Paris. The score, considered the prime landmark in the development of modern music, baffled and vexed audiences for its unorthodox composition and orchestration. The choreography, depicting the rituals of a pre-Christian Russian community celebrating the arrival of Spring, eschews all the elements of traditional ballet classicism and makes use of crude movements—jumping in place, shuffling, stomping, forming hobbled groupings with feet turned in and arms in angular positions. Subtitled Pictures of Ancient Russia, the ballet dealt with a tribal community which each year requires the sacrifice of a virgin for the renewal of Spring.
Nijinsky's Sacre had only seven performances in Paris and later in London. In 1920 Diaghilev commissioned a new version by Leonide Massine, who later took his production to the United States where Martha Graham portrayed the Chosen Virgin. Since then the score has been a magnet to dozens of ballet and modern dance choreographers on three continents. While some have made drastic departures from the intentions of the original, most treat the music as an accompaniment to a primitive ritualthough not necessarily a Russian one.
In 1974, Glen Tetley devised his version for the Bavarian State Opera Ballet. His choreography, a masterful combination of classical ballet movement and modern dance technique, reflects his training and performance experience in both schools. For the Munich dancers, he created a challenging ensemble work and a tour de force role for a male dancer, who portrays a youth chosen for the Spring sacrifice. In this stark ballet, the primal society depicted has no ethnic characteristics; perhaps they are merely the inhabitants of human consciousness. A full ensemble and a chorus of 12 male dancers convey the driving force of Stravinsky's raw rhythms, and a couple representing parent figures connect and couple to affect his rebirth.
The ballet was remounted for American Ballet Theatre in 1976, providing a striking vehicle for the young Mikhail Baryshnikov, with Martine van Hamel and Clark Tippet as the parent figures. In recent years, Tetley's Le Sacre has been successfully restored by Houston Ballet and Ballet West in Salt Lake City.
Notes by Leland Windreich.


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Final note from out-going member
It has been a privilege being your elected Board member for the past four years and I would like to thank all the families and friends of Area 4 for their constant support of our schools and students. I have worked with the Aiken County School Board Members and administration to make sure our school facilities were improved and that quality instruction, up-to-date technology, academic resources, and extra curricular activities were provided for our students.
Thanks to all present and past board members whom I served with the last four years for their support of the facilities and students in District 1 (Area 4).
I would like to thank Jimmy West, my financial officer during my election, and for his support then and now. I am grateful to all those who helped me get signatures for my election and I am humbled by those who voted for me.
My family supported me during my tenure. Brock Bass, my son, provided my slogan This Bass is hooked into education. Alexis Bass Short, my daughter, and Deborah Bass, my wife, were supportive of my efforts for student success.
Some of the accomplishments include: A. L. Corbett Middle School gym restrooms (to be completed by December; RSM elementary/middle school Phase 1 construction bids should be finished by December; administrative organizational change within Aiken County public education; all high school graduates have graduation ceremonies at the USC Convocation Center; Area 4 office on Highway 39 will be sold; tribunal system implemented for discipline; K-8 structure for Busbee Elementary and A. L. Corbett Middle; valedictorian determined at end of senior year; county-wide alternative school; and the computer platform upgrade to Microsoft Windows 7 for WSH and RSMH.
I leave the board knowing that students are first priority and thanks to all the families and friends in District 1(Area 4) and throughout Aiken County for their continued support of students and schools.
John A. Bass
Aiken County School Board
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It's difficult to have the motivation to wake up every morning on time, let alone maintain that schedule on a daily basis, but it's not impossible. We all need to wake up, face reality and start the day off right, but it's difficult to do so when we are already defeated by the voices in our head telling us to sleep another 10-15 minutes, or an even hour. Let me tell you, it won't make you any less tired getting those extra minutes of sleep in, and in fact, it will only make you feel more slouchy.
Successful people know they have things to get done that day, which is why they always wake up on time without fail. Here's a great video to help you wake up every morning. I suggest you find a means to convert this into an mp3 file so that you can wake up every morning, ready for the grind!
The Best Motivation To Wake Up
Key Points In Motivation To Wake Up
Don't give in to the negative voices in your head
You are a person who strives for success, and someone who refuses to be defeated by weakness. But without noticing it, you have already failed the moment you woke up and decided you would rather sleep in than to get up at the time you had originally set the night before. Remember, the way you start your day will determine how the rest of that day goes, so don't snooze!
Let your momentum build you up and keep you there
Often, people will say that the first million is always the hardest, and it's true. Once you have momentum built up, your success will continue to grow like a snowball effect, rolling down the hill. Soon, the snowball will get so large that the mass alone will be enough to stop anyone or anything getting in the way of your dreams. Never stop moving, and that is the key to success.
There are many others that want what you want, remember that!
If you're not willing to work harder than everyone at what you do, it's best to reconsider your goals and objectives. In no way am I encouraging anyone to give up, but don't waste your own time and energy if you're not giving it 100%. If you don't work the grind everyday, you're going to end up losing to the guy who simply never gave up, regardless of his of skill or talent.
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Acoustic and Perceptual Analysis of Speech in Spinocerebellar Ataxia (SCA)
E Schalling, L Hartelius
A number of speech tasks produced by ten subjects with different types of spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA) and various degrees of dysarthria, and a group of age and gender matched normal controls, were investigated using acoustic instrumentation and perceptual assessment. All subjects showed a number of signs of decreased speech rate, increased pause duration, decreased and more variable durations of alternating motion rate (AMR) syllables and inter-stress intervals (ISI) in addition to vocal instability. These signs were consistent with the perceptual judgment of ataxic dysarthria. Furthermore, the severity of impairment found using these speech analysis methods seemed to correspond to the general severity of the disease and the duration of the illness in these few subjects. The tasks studied appeared to be relevant and suitable for acoustic analyses as they did reveal deviations in the speech of the subjects compared to controls.


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Market Impact
The past several years have been tough for SoftBrands, a Minneapolis, Minnesota (US)-based provider of enterprise solutions for the manufacturing and hospitality industries (see SoftBrands' Recovery Softens the AremisSoft Bankruptcy Blow and Fourth Shift's evolution within SoftBrands' DemandStream). However, the worst is certainly past for SoftBrands, and there are some glimmers of hope for a better future.
For a discussion of the Classic Fourth Shift and Fourth Shift Edition for SAP Business One products, see Classic Enterprise Resource Planning Solution Shifts Over. For a discussion of the evolution and DemandStream products, see Extended Enterprise Resource Planning Vendor Shows Its Lean Side. For details on SoftBrands Hospitality, see Vendor Extends the Welcome Mat for Hospitality Industry.
This is Part Five of the five-part SoftBrands' Recovery Softens the AremisSoft Bankruptcy Blow series.
SoftBrands' manufacturing customers are concentrated in the life sciences, machinery, chemical and plastics, automotive, consumer products, and electronics industries. We believe that the life sciences and consumer products sectors represent potential growth markets for SoftBrands in North America. In the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) markets, there is growth potential in Eastern Europe, primarily in the Czech Republic, Poland, and Russia.
When it comes to the Asia Pacific market, the manufacturing sector in China is growing rapidly, and the vendor should be well positioned to capitalize on this growth. In particular, SoftBrands should gain an advantage from the facts that the erstwhile Fourth Shift was the first enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendor to be certified by Chinese authorities, and that, for a long time, the Chinese market lacked the strong local competition found everywhere else. There might also be potential for SoftBrands to gain market share with private Chinese enterprises as a result of the Fourth Shift Edition for SAP Business One offering. However, the vendor will likely need to produce local language versions before it can generate substantial sales of Fourth Shift Edition for SAP Business One in the Asia Pacific market. In addition, localization of value proposition, implementation services, and functionality will be required to adapt the product to the cultural differences found in Chinese companies.
In terms of the hospitality sector, SoftBrands has a hospitality customer base of approximately 2,500 worldwide. Organic growth in hospitality might come from replacing legacy systems with new products such as Medallion, and winning new-name accounts.
Regardless of industry, however, all the above forays should be backed up by substantial progress in developing an indirect channel to supplement the company's direct sales force. SoftBrands currently has direct sales offices in several countries, including in Minneapolis, Minnesota (US); Reading, UK; and Tianjin, China.
Manufacturing sales offices employing about forty direct sales personnel are located in Singapore; Shanghai, Beijing, and Guangzhou, China; Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa; Dublin, Ireland; and Mexico City, Mexico. The vendor's customer service hubs for the manufacturing business are found in Mexico City, Mexico; Blackburn, UK; Mantua, New Jersey (US); and Johannesburg, South Africa. Despite the fact that SoftBrands distributes its manufacturing software and services through a combination of direct sales and resellers, essentially all its revenue is generated through the direct sales offices. The following table summarizes the principal means of distribution for SoftBrands manufacturing products by geography.
Table 1. Distribution of SoftBrands Manufacturing Products by Geography
SoftBrands has quite a dispersed organization for a relatively small vendor with a number of diverse products. However, we believe that without development of a loyal channel beyond the current contracts with approximately twenty-five resellers and referral partners, the company's growth will be insufficient and SoftBrands will remain only marginally profitable. This is particularly true in light of many tier one vendors' painful learning experiences regarding the importance of resellers in the lower end of the market.
SoftBrands Future Focus
We expect SoftBrands to increase the amount of distribution resources devoted to its newest product offering, Fourth Shift Edition for SAP Business One, within the next few years. In addition, SAP will more than likely help SoftBrands round out its functionality in areas such as distribution requirements planning (DRP), transportation management, plant maintenance, and enterprise asset management (EAM), where SoftBrands would require significant investment to deliver on its own.
However, the markets for some of SoftBrands' more established products are mature, and the vendor may have difficulty generating significant new software license sales in those markets. In North America, for instance, the combination of a decline in the level of manufacturing activity and ERP software package purchases by a substantial portion of mid-sized manufacturing concerns can be expected to limit the potential for new license sales growth of existing ERP packages.
In these markets, SoftBrands may depend for growth on new software products that have a less consistent record of sales and service revenue, such as DemandStream and Fourth Shift Edition for SAP Business One. Demand Stream is a new application for lean manufacturing and a potential gold mine, but SoftBrands needs to form a respectable and knowledgeable team of business consultants that can help customers apply the technology to their lean initiatives.
While the vendor may become increasingly dependent on such products, which are not yet widely accepted (and which no one can be certain will ever be, since they have not sold in substantial quantities so far), SoftBrands will continue to invest in its other manufacturing applications, such as its classic Fourth Shift application and evolution. Given the apparent refocusing and transfer of the sales force to the SAP Business One edition, the vendor will have to tread carefully so as to not disconcert users of the original Fourth Shift. This is especially true in light of the fact that this product's recurring revenue remains a major chunk of the company's revenue. At the very least, SoftBrands should clarify for both existing and prospective users the functional, technological, and pricing differences between Fourth Shift and Fourth Shift Edition for SAP Business One. In other words, if someone was attracted to Fourth Shift in the first place, why should she or he consider (or not) the SAP Business One edition?
SoftBrands currently employs a staff of over eighty developers in its manufacturing software development department, and has contracts with a handful of independent developers. Table 2 shows the geographical spread of the product development departments for the various manufacturing products.
Table 2. Location of SoftBrands Product Development Departments by Product
The Fourth Shift development staff focuses on developing new functionality that customers have indicated they desire and extending the interoperability of Fourth Shift with other software products and new platforms. Additionally, the vendor is still currently devoting substantial effort to integrating selected portions of the base Fourth Shift code with SAP Business One for Fourth Shift Edition for SAP Business One. On the other hand, SoftBrands' evolution development staff is focused on custom programming using the evolution tools to create individualized ERP systems for evolution customers. The DemandStream development staff has created, and continues to create, new software technology that further enhances this new product.
The idea of gaining economies of scale by building common application components as commodities that can be deployed within the entire product portfolio is tempting and promising in the very long run. However, the flagship back-office product lines will likely remain on separate tracks for some time to come, owing to their quite disparate, and in some instances proprietary, technologies and user bases. The disparity in the technological foundation of the products is also a disadvantage in that it has likely multiplied development expenses and caused difficulties with product integration, which also complicates the tracking of third party partnerships to compensate for the products' different weak areas.
This technological diversity is not SoftBrands' only problem. In addition to the problem of blending many formerly independent organizations together, SoftBrands is still figuring out how best to bring their different technologies and industrial experiences to bear. Even if one puts aside the vendor's tainted parent's past (and the resulting negative market sentiments), the new company is left with multiple products whose brand recognition is quite low due to both the recent re-branding effort and brand confusion caused by the multiplicity of manufacturing products (not to mention the host of hospitality products).
Also, while the products may have their separate niches (i.e., Fourth Shift will be sold to Microsoft-centric smaller enterprises with up to $50 million (USD) in revenues within medical or surgical products, machinery, automotive, rubber and plastics, and furniture and cabinetry segments; evolution will go to larger enterprises with up to $250 million (USD) in revenues that prefer the UNIX and Oracle platform combination within the converters and packaging, apparel, textiles, food, and primary and dimensional metals segments), they may in some instances be similar enough to confuse former Fourth Shift and evolution direct sales representatives and value-added resellers (VARs) when selling the combined portfolio (e.g., to platform-agnostic, mid-market enterprises in the electronics and fabricated products sectors).
The channel partners for the most part will continue to concentrate on one product or the other, at least for now, which will demand little cross-training. Further, only selected members of SoftBrands' direct sales teams in selected geographies will be in the position of representing multiple products, and these individuals will be assisted by pre-sales consultants from one product group or the other who know their products in-depth. Still, the conundrum of how to show a single face to customers certainly remains, especially when it comes to more vigorous enticement and reactivation of over 1,000 dormant accounts. One should also be closely watching the impact of Fourth Shift Edition for SAP Business One on SoftBrands' revenue in the next several quarters as additional geographical releases enter the market.
That being said, SoftBrands faces fierce competition on many fronts. The market for ERP software is intensely competitive worldwide and also price sensitive because the functionality of many of the product offerings in this market have become similar to each other. Moreover, the North American portion of the market has matured and is largely saturated by existing vendors. Competition in this market has become particularly acute, and the market has shown reduced growth since 2000. The EMEA and Asia Pacific markets are less saturated and stronger growth opportunities exist.
Some key competitors for Fourth Shift include Epicor Software, QAD, SYSPRO, Microsoft Business Solutions, Oracle, PeopleSoft, and Infor Global Solutions. Key competitors for DemandStream include QAD, Oracle, Infor (formerly Lilly Software), Pelion Systems, Factory Logic, Exemplary, etc., while the evolution product competes with vendors of financial and enterprise management products from a number of suppliers, including QAD, Oracle, IFS, Infor (formerly MAPICS), Intentia, Glovia, Verticent, and SSA Global. The enterprise software market for the hotel and resort category is also highly competitive and fragmented. SoftBrands' property management systems (PMS) products compete primarily with Micros-Fidelios, HIS, and Springer Miller, while in the leisure management systems (LMS) realm, Springer Miller is the primary competitor. Similar to their manufacturing brethren, SoftBrands' hospitality products compete primarily on the basis of functionality and integration capabilities
User Recommendations
SoftBrands' target market of manufacturing and distribution companies in the $10 million (USD) to $250 million (USD) yearly revenue range, including regional subsidiaries of multinational corporations, should certainly consider the company's latest value proposition. However, such companies should also be aware of other equivalent products.
Midsize manufacturers or existing SAP customers with a need for worldwide supply chain business-to-business (B2B) integration and collaboration and for a divisional or plant-level ERP system should take a look at Fourth Shift Edition for SAP Business One.
For repetitive, batch process, make-to-order (MTO), discrete, and mixed-mode manufacturing enterprises at the lower end of the mid-market, which have limited information technology (IT) budgets and conservative IT strategy, as well as significant manufacturing, customer relationship management (CRM), supply chain, and collaborative B2B e-commerce requirements, we generally recommend including the original Fourth Shift in a long list for an enterprise application selection. Although it addresses the market horizontally, the product has a high proportion of its customers in the automotive, electronics, computers, machinery, fabricated products, consumer products, batch process, and medical devices industries, where traceability and engineering change management (ECM) are key requirements.
Meanwhile, evolution is more suitable for the upper-end of the same market, serving enterprises requiring three-dimensional (3D) or attribute-based bills of materials (BOM), such as textiles, food, paper, mining, and pharmaceuticals companies in MTO, contract-based and configure-to-order (CTO) manufacturing environments.
As DemandStream is targeted at flexible lean manufacturers; can handle mixed-mode operations, electronic kanbans, and just in time (JIT) at the plant level; and can agnostically interface to most ERP systems, non-SoftBrands users may benefit from evaluating it on a stand-alone basis. The product might be of particular interest to enterprises experiencing demand fluctuation, product customization and combination, frequent engineering changes, numerous resource bottlenecks, long lead times, and supply chain complexity, but which are still keen on deploying lean manufacturing principles.
Nonetheless, due to relatively recent restructuring and a fledgling channel, potential clients should conduct thorough research on available resources and reference sites of a regional SoftBrands office or an affiliate service provider. Existing users of earlier product releases that face stabilization (e.g., Micro Data Base Systems [mbds]-based products) should react positively to the company's strategic activities (as outlined above), as they may benefit from querying the company's future product migration path, service and support, or scalability strategy, and as they may be able to negotiate favorable maintenance reinstatement contracts.


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No, not beer! ROOT Beer, silly!
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The 15 Best Conservative News Sites On The Internet
Even though Right Wing News is an opinion site these days, I do still surf the web for news and to find material to write about. Some websites I read for columnists, others I peruse to see what particular bloggers have to say, but when I'm looking for news, here are the websites I check out in order.
15) Twitchy: Michelle Malkin's new Twitter based news site.
14) Doug Ross: Larwyn's Linx is great.
13) Weasel Zippers: Not as much volume as other places, but quality work.
12) Free Republic: Better known for commenting than news, but still good.
11) Bad Blue: Outstanding Twitter based news
10) The Right Scoop: Videos, links, and heavily updated.
9) Daily Caller: The place to go for original conservative reporting.
8) Lucianne: Old reliable. When I have trouble finding something good, I go here.
7) Gateway Pundit: It's unbelievable to me that any one person can be this on top of things.
6) Breitbart: The combined Breitbart collective is AMAZING for links and journalism.
5) Instapundit: Glenn Reynolds has been the best known linker in the blogosphere for more than a decade.
4) The Blaze: Beck's news machine is already a must read.
3) Memorandum: What people are talking about right now on both sides of the blogosphere. (Not conservative per se, but still good)
2) Hot Air: Frequently updated headlines, plus the latest news stories.
1) The Drudge Report: Whatever Drudge links becomes what everyone is talking about.
PS: If you're looking for great news websites, I'd also recommend my other blog, Linkiest.
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South Texas report: Late goal sinks Islanders soccer team
TULSA, Okla. - Mary-Kate Halsmer's goal with less than four minutes remaining lifted Oral Roberts to a 2-1 victory over the Texas A&M-Corpus Christi women's soccer team Sunday.
Brooke Erdmann scored her first career goal in the 53rd minute for the Islanders (1-9-0, 0-4-0 Southland), who have lost all four conference games by one goal.
"We battled for 90 minutes today," Islanders coach Shanna Caldwell said. "And that's the tough part about this game — sometimes you come out on the wrong side of the score. Today was the best soccer we've played all year. Our movement off the ball was great and we created some great chances.
"Everything about today was positive and I think we have made the adjustment to come out strong from the first whistle. The results might not be there on the box score but this team continues to improve and battle and play better every game. I'm very proud of them."
Audrey Baldwin made five saves for the Islanders while Maddie Rhodes made five saves and Kayla Keller also scored for the Golden Eagles (8-2-0, 3-0-0).
A&M-Corpus Christi returns home to face McNeese State at 3:30 p.m. Friday at Dugan Family Stadium.
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Celebrity chef and talk show host Rachael Ray instructs Natalie DiStefano of Ballston Spa how to prepare Chicken Cordon Bleu during her annual benefit show at Lake George High School, Ray's alma mater. Held Thursday April 12 in the school auditorium, it was the first time in the show's history that an audience member was invited onstage to help concoct an entree.
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August 4, 2015
Training camp sure has changed for the Cowboys since Jason Garrett was a backup quarterback with Dallas.
The Cowboys had their first training camp practice Monday in California, with temperatures in the mid-60s. There was a one-hour walkthrough in the morning and practice in the afternoon.
Garrett remembers two-a-day practices in the Texas heat as a Cowboys player in the 1990s, specifically camps at St. Edward's University in Austin. The coach says the team would practice twice a day in full pads and that it was hot every day.
He said that was just the nature of the time. Garrett says none of the players liked it, but all benefited from it.
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Kill devinfo handling in drivers, set device description in one place - usbd_probe_and_attach() and let generic device code to output descriptions. Obtained-from: FreeBSD with modifications
Nuke usbdevs and references to it.
Kill usage of USB_VENDOR_FOO and USB_PRODUCT_BAR defines mostly using two methods: - USB_DEVICE(vendor_id, product_id) macro. - Using C99 structure initialisers. While at it, kill all custom "vendor and product id pair" structures and custom walkthrough methods for these structures.
Use device_printf() where it makes sense.
Add support for HandyTech's Braille displays into ubsa(4) (ID found in Linux driver).
Reomve unnecessary sys/vnode.h include.
Nuke USB_MATCH*, USB_ATTACH* and USB_DETACH* macros.
Nuke SIMPLEQ_* and logprintf.
Nuke device_ptr_t, USBBASEDEVICE, USBDEVNAME(), USBDEVUNIT(), USBGETSOFTC(), USBDEVPTRNAME() and Static with help from sed(1).
Nuke the code specific to NetBSD/OpenBSD/FreeBSD at first. I doubt anyone will update these pieces and I don't intend to review macros for all platforms. There is the chance though that I might kill something which should stay in the code in form "TODO: port it to DF". So, please review and kick me.
Rename printf -> kprintf in sys/ and add some defines where necessary (files which are used in userland, too).
Rename malloc->kmalloc, free->kfree, and realloc->krealloc. Pass 1
Do some M_WAITOK<->M_INTWAIT cleanups. Code entered from userland, such as device open and device ioctl, generally use M_WAITOK, while low level structures such as the capacity structure are allocated using M_INTWAIT.
Add defined(__FreeBSD__) and defined(__DragonFly__) where appropiriate.
Bring in the entire FreeBSD-5 USB infrastructure. As of this commit my USB camera, Hard Drive, Mouse, and Sony memory key all work and I can even unplug and replug them in without crashing the port. Not all drivers and subsystems compile as of this commit, but the ones that do not are very close.
Synchronize the USB, CAM, and TASKQUEUE subsystems with FreeBSD RELENG_4. Also update the $FreeBSD$ ids in the files to the synchronized rev numbers. This has the side effect of bringing in some additional SCSI robustness checks, bug fixes, quirk inheritance between subsystems (e.g. USB now sets PIM_NO_6_BYTE by default and CAM now understands it). This also brings in a huge amount of SCSI CD code that had been MFCd to FreeBSD-4 from FreeBSD-5.
kernel tree reorganization stage 1: Major cvs repository work (not logged as commits) plus a major reworking of the #include's to accomodate the relocations. * CVS repository files manually moved. Old directories left intact and empty (temporary). * Reorganize all filesystems into vfs/, most devices into dev/, sub-divide devices by function. * Begin to move device-specific architecture files to the device subdirs rather then throwing them all into, e.g. i386/include * Reorganize files related to system busses, placing the related code in a new bus/ directory. Also move cam to bus/cam though this may not have been the best idea in retrospect. * Reorganize emulation code and place it in a new emulation/ directory. * Remove the -I- compiler option in order to allow #include file localization, rename all config generated X.h files to use_X.h to clean up the conflicts. * Remove /usr/src/include (or /usr/include) dependancies during the kernel build, beyond what is normally needed to compile helper programs. * Make config create 'machine' softlinks for architecture specific directories outside of the standard <arch>/include. * Bump the config rev. WARNING! after this commit /usr/include and /usr/src/sys/compile/* should be regenerated from scratch.
Add the DragonFly cvs id and perform general cleanups on cvs/rcs/sccs ids. Most ids have been removed from !lint sections and moved into comment sections.
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The letters, along with some penned for former state representative Steve Brown, had been closed to the public but were unsealed in federal court late last week.
Smith had spent his two-plus months prior to sentencing lobbying his supporters both in and beyond Missouri to write on his behalf. It's a diverse bunch that includes numerous elected officials, several journalists, educators, lawyers, secretaries, former interns and campaign workers, constituents, at least one police officer and a current member of the city's police board.
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So I have a front loader and I am stripping my diapers weekly or they smell horrid and give my girls rashes. I use prefolds and fitteds with wool and econobum covers. I have tried vinegar soaks, rockin green funk rock, switching detergents, upping water amount as much as possible, wet pail with vinegat, dawn dish soap, tto, baking soda.....I am considering switching to sposies cause my girls are rashy and stinking and I am sick of stripping. My last ideas are to 1)buy a top loader 2) try flats cause they seem like they would get less buildup. Does this make sense?
I have boiled them. I have soaked overnight in hot water and vinegar. I have used Funk Rock Ammonia stripper.
I add bleach to my pre-wash of only poop diapers to limit the amount of damage bleach could do.
tiny bit of bleach!
Ditto to trying a tiny bit of bleach. I put in a little bit during the regular wash - in the bleach spot, it comes to less than a tablespoon.
Otherwise I have a little bit of everything in my stash and have never had any stink issues with the flats. I really like them. Oh and the next wash I buy will be a top loader HE, I'm not loving my front loader for diaper washing/soaking.
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