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Wednesday, May 21, 2014
The power of the press is, well, powerful.
Last week, we wrote a piece about tidbits from the Moultrie News' history. In that story, former publisher Charlie Diggle was asked about the identity of columnist Hungryneck Harry. He had no clue.
Well, Hungryneck Harry's daughter called to reveal his identity.
It was none other than Jay Mullen, former husband of the late Jeanette Mullen Harper who passed away May 8.
Harper made her children swear that as long as she was alive, they would never reveal that their father was the author of the sometimes controversial column. Coincidentally, her passing and the questioning of Harry's identity were timely.
Maggie was just a child when her father penned those columns, but she remembers he would sneak over to the office building, long after they had closed for the day, and slide his story under the door.
Mullen served in World War II in U.S. Air Force Intelligence as a spy for the Allies.
According to Maggie, he decoded encrypted messages and carried Cyanide in case he was captured.
He attended the University of Cincinnati and the Schuster-Martin School of Drama and later moved to Charleston in 1953.
Mullen landed a job and hit the airwaves on WTMA as a DJ and talk show host on his show "Moon Mullen."
Maggie describes him as a gifted musician and songwriter and a star of stage and screen in Charleston.
Mullen had a traveling comedy act variety show on WCSC-TV in 1955 and worked as the promotion manager at WCSC-TV in the early days of television.
He also served as director of the Dock Street Theatre from 1955-1958.
He tried unsuccessfully at politics by running for the for U.S. Senate in 1959 and for county council in 1966. He ran for State Senate in 1992 and barely lost again.
Mullen returned to college at age 65, and graduated at age 69, before going on to earn his Masters degree at age 72 from The Citadel.
He then taught history at the College of Charleston and The Citadel.
Mullen died in 2006 of Parkinson's Disease.
So why all the mystery?
Perhaps fear of retribution to his family should someone disagree with his political leanings.
But daughter Maggie said, "If dad had not been such a great writer, I wouldn't have bothered to say anything. He had great wit. His sense of humor was unparalleled."
Mullen was previously married to Jeanette Mullen Harper, 79, of Mount Pleasant who passed away May 8, also after a long battle with Parkinson's disease. Jeanette was a retired Charleston County magistrate and municipal judge, as well as a retired Charleston County teacher. Both are survived by their children, Maggie LaBrasca, Chris Mullen and Tim Matthew Mullen.
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A secure shell (SSH) is a terminal program that encrypts the data that you send and receive to a remote system. For the general private and academic user, the client software for SSH is free. It comes in many different "flavors" and is used similarly to "telnet".
At this point, HPCVL requires its users to use the HPCVL Portal for interactive login, to ensure that the data transfer is safe and that "eavesdropping" or "connection hijacking" is unlikely. HPCVL also requires that all file transfers are done using SCP within the Portal.
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Cognitive style, influenced by gender and former learning history of the learner and so on, gradually formed with various factors combined, is personalized way of distinguishing, processing and storing information. Therefore foreign language teaching should comply with the learner's gender characteristics of their cognitive styles, respect its differences, adopt matching teaching strategies, Network and multimedia technologies should be adopted to promote personalized teaching to enable all the learners to become successful foreign language learners.
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In the spring of 2015, the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation will award approximately 80 scholarships to help students with exceptional promise and demonstrated financial need earn a baccalaureate degree from a four-year college. The amount and duration of awards vary by student based on the cost of attendance and the length of the program as well as other scholarships or grants received. The maximum available per student is $40,000 per year. This is the largest scholarship offered in the United States to community college university transfer students.
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Apple's co-founder, Steve Wozniak, volunteered to answer questions asked by the Slashdot community in a thread called "Ask Steve Wozniak Anything." And commenters did. There are all manner of questions for Steve Wozniak including his opinion of Apple, Android, iOS 6, lawsuits, his favorite jokes, and… because it's the internet… the reason he's a Freemason. Though there are hundreds of questions left unanswered, Woz replied to quite a few of the most highly rated questions from the Slashdot community on Monday afternoon.
It goes without saying that jailbreaking is one of the biggest concerns for our readers. Naturally, we'd want to know where Apple's co-founder, and currently a shareholder, sides on the issue. We know he's not unfamiliar with the practice: There was an infamous clip in 2008, before the launch of the official App Store, where Woz "hacked" Kathy Griffin's iPhone 2G on camera.
Here is what Woz understands about Apple's reason to officially keep the app distribution model locked into iTunes:
"There is no one right opinion. I'm for more openness. I believe that you can create the best most innovative products even when they are open. But I could be wrong. Open products tend to seem more complex. I suggest that maybe 80% of us or more are technophobes and scared to admit how little we know. I'm thinking of our moms and dads a lot in this thought. Apple is the safest haven for them not to get confused."
Woz went on to say that, "I have always given my support to the jailbreak community because they remind me of myself when I met Steve Jobs and how we were, then and for the years leading to Apple."
Wozniak also expressed that he never imagined cell phones, cell phone computers, or broadband internet in the days of the Apple II. He does not believe iOS 6 is inferior to Android (but we've seen his backpack and know he also keeps Android phones handy). As for lawsuits, Woz wishes that "instead of all these lawsuits Apple was sitting down and cross-licensing with the other players. They have come up some very good features without complicating the UI. Things like a palm swipe to take a screen snapshot. I would like my iPhone to be the best it could, even if someone else did some of the things first. And Apple could license iTunes perhaps, or help the other platforms develop it. The market shares would probably remain the same but we consumers would all win."
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:Hi ! : :> Yes, the check for only the next one is intended. Putting a iterative :> loop in the middle of the process selection code's critical path is :> not very condusive to performance. :Well, but with n CPUs your chance is 1/n you hit one. :And the expected length k of the loop is << runqcount. :How expensive is an IPI plus cache invalidation plus cache misses :compared to k times this loop ? :I don't know and I don't want to step on anyones toes. :I just think it's worth a thought. :Maybe trying min(n, runqcount) times or so would do the job... : :Cheers :Peter : :-- :<peter.kadau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Well, there are a lot of factors here, such as the timing of the scheduling event and which cpu's scheduler checks the run queue first. Affinity usually runs into the most trouble with programs which block for short periods of time, such as when doing read I/O, which a scheduling runq check (of any type) would not do a very good job of detecting. The single-node lookahead chance does far better then 1/n because while you have more cpus to play with, you also have fewer processes on the runq (and more already running on a particular cpu), and you have timing effects that work in your favor. For example, take a look at setrunqueue() in kern_switch.c. setrunqueue() is responsible not only for entering the process onto the run queue, but also for waking up the 'best' cpu for the scheduling of that process. This is where the meat of DFly's affinity actually happens... it wakes up the cpu that ran the process before in order to give that cpu a chance to schedule the newly runnable process before other cpus. It does not, however, prevent other cpus from scheduling the newly runnable process. You wind up with a weighted statistical effect that should, in most cases, schedule the process on a cpu with affinity to that process but which does not prevent the process from being scheduled by some other cpu if the target cpu is too busy with other processes. In short, there are a lot of factors involved and some real life statistical testing would need to be done to find the right algorithms to schedule the processes optimally. It isn't a good idea to spend a lot of cpu time on just one tiny aspect of the problem and, in fact, doing so can introduce some pretty aweful degenerate situations. For example, in a very heavily loaded system there might be hundreds of processes on the run queues. The last thing you want to do is cause an iterative loop to be executed every time one has a wakeup() event. That could easily lead to billions of wasted cpu cycles. -Matt Matthew Dillon <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>


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The Demise of NATO
Today NATO is floundering in a permanent state of crisis, for the two conditions on which it was built—American invulnerability and European weakness—have virtually disappeared. The nuclear stalemate has erased the significance of American atomic supremacy, while the evolution of military technology has made the United States directly vulnerable to attack. Europe, for its part, has reconstituted itself into a stable and powerful economic force, one which is eager to assert its independence and potentially capable of defending its own interests. In combination, these two changes in the world power structure have undermined NATO's foundation and thrown its future into doubt.
In its original conception NATO was meant to be a simple guarantee pact between the United States and Europe. It held out the promise that America would intervene if necessary to prevent Western Europe from falling under Communist control. Thus it was, in effect, an extension of the Monroe Doctrine from the Western hemisphere to Europe, with a repudiation of that provision which forbade our interference in European affairs. For the Europeans, the pact with America offered the promise of a desperately needed breathing space to help them weather the early postwar period of social unrest and economic hardship. Behind the shield of NATO—and with the stimulus of the Marshall Plan—the Europeans would build up their own economies so that they might become secure from subversion within and strong enough to protect themselves from without. The alliance, then, appeared to be in everyone's interest: it gave the Europeans an opportunity to reconstruct their economies without the burden of a large-scale arms program; and it gave America the assurance that the resources of Western Europe would not drop by default into Russian hands.
But if the avowed purpose of NATO was to serve as a military adjunct to what was essentially an economic aid program—the idea being that the Marshall Plan would ultimately pay itself off in the ability of the Europeans to provide their own defense—there was also another view of the relative priorities of American military and economic involvement in Europe. The Truman administration, in fact, was split in two over the issue. On the one side were those who saw the Soviet threat as primarily political-economic and only secondarily military; for them NATO was a fence behind which Europe could rebuild its shattered house. On the other side were those who conceived the alliance as a military counter-force to the Soviet presence in Eastern Europe, and as a device for securing advanced bases for American power. In this view, Soviet aggression was believed to be imminent, and NATO was therefore seen only as the prelude to a vast rearmament program designed to achieve parity on the Continent with the Russians.
These two views were quite irreconcilable because they rested on totally different interpretations of Europe's needs and Russia's intentions. The conflict, however, was soon resolved in favor of those who regarded NATO as the framework for a powerful military counter to the Soviet Union. Accordingly, the alliance was transformed from a simple guarantee pact, under which America promised to come to Europe's defense in case of a Soviet attack, into an integrated military force pooling the resources of Europe and America. Within less than two years after the treaty was signed, Secretary of State Acheson called for the rearmament of Germany and the incorporation of ten German divisions into a European land army.
Despite this change, however, the alliance continued to rest—as it had rested since its inception—upon the strength of the American nuclear deterrent. The nuclear guarantee was the ultimate line of Western defense, and—despite token military integration—control of the deterrent lay entirely in American hands. So far as the Europeans were concerned, this meant that there was always the danger that the United States, for reasons of its own safety, might one day decide to withdraw the guarantee, thereby leaving the continent vulnerable to Russian aggression. American involvement in Europe was too recent a phenomenon for Europeans to take for granted; more vivid in their minds was the long history of American isolationism. Nor could the creation of a European land army solve this problem, for even with a large conventional army Europe could not deter the Russians from using their nuclear weapons if there were no fear of American nuclear reprisal. Thus, the Europeans were obliged to find some means of making sure that in the event of Russian aggression against the Continent, the United States would be committed from the very start.
The answer lay in the American troops stationed in Europe as a contribution to the NATO land forces. The presence of these soldiers served, in a way that no promise or treaty possibly could, to guarantee that the United States would be immediately drawn into any military struggle in Europe. In other words, these troops were simply American hostages to Europe. Whatever additional functions they may have had, this was—and still is—their primary purpose, and it explains why our European allies have always been determined to keep them there. Unable by themselves to hold back any serious Soviet assault, the American divisions in Germany are the only tangible proof that the American nuclear guarantee really does extend to Europe.
Obviously, neither American nor European strategists could openly admit this, not even to each other. Such an admission would have horrified the United States Congress (which had been persuaded that NATO was the first step toward a mystical trans-Atlantic brotherhood), and it might have led to a new sweep of isolationism—exactly what the Europeans were bent on preventing. Consequently, elaborate theories were designed to account for the American land forces in Germany: they were there because the Europeans were outnumbered by Russian "hordes" (although census figures revealed this to be nonsense); or to serve as a "trip wire" which would bring an immediate nuclear response to any Russian land probe (although the Europeans could have played the same role themselves—if they had trusted the American guarantee).
So the Europeans got their hostages—but only at a price. The price was the creation of sizable land armies which were larger than the token commitments they had originally been prepared to make to NATO. Faced by labor shortages, material scarcities, and public hostility, the governments of Western Europe nevertheless restored the draft and devoted a considerable proportion of their scarce resources to building an army that was larger than they wanted and one for which NATO strategy could assign no function.
But the American hostages in Germany not only assured the Europeans that the United States was inextricably involved in the fate of the Continent; they also made the American nuclear deterrent more credible to the Russians. America's strategic nuclear arsenal, plus the tactical atomic weapons at the front, together formed the backbone of European defense. If the Russians relied upon their superior conventional forces to start a westward probe, they would be decimated by American short-range tactical weapons. And if they should be so foolish as to launch an all-out attack on Western Europe, America's strategic nuclear force would be unleashed in terrible retribution against the Soviet Union itself.
This strategy was reasonable so long as the United States retained a monopoly on tactical atomic weapons. But the whole picture changed when the Russians incorporated tactical atomic weapons into their army as well. From that point on, any confrontation of forces in Central Europe promised to escalate into a full-scale nuclear holocaust, and NATO's pledge to use atomic weapons in defense of Europe would only be realizable at the cost of transforming the Continent into a radioactive charnel-house. While the distinction between a nuclear war fought with tactical weapons and one fought with strategic weapons may be relevant to residents of Chicago, it is of little significance for the millions of people concentrated in the narrow land corridors of Europe.
In short, despite the missile bases, despite the nuclear stockpiles, despite the troops trained in the use of atomic weapons, NATO's nuclear strategy ceased to make sense on the day the Russians equipped their own forces with tactical nuclear weapons. At that moment it became unmistakably clear that America's vast nuclear force, all protestations to the contrary notwithstanding, could only be used to deter the Russians from launching an attack on Europe—but never to fight battles on the Continent once war had erupted. If deterrence ever broke down, there could be no nuclear defense of Europe that would not also mean the destruction of Europe. Yet to have admitted this would have been to demolish the entire foundation on which NATO's elaborate structure for defense had been built.
It was to cope with the new situation and restore a lost credibility to NATO that the Kennedy administration proposed an increase in the alliance's land forces from 23 to a total of 30 divisions. In the eyes of its advocates this proposal offered the prospect of a conventional NATO response to any Soviet land probe in Central Europe without the suicidal resort to nuclear weapons. By an unfortunate coincidence, 30 was exactly the number of divisions which NATO had earlier claimed was the bare minimum necessary to support a strategy relying on the very tactical weapons that it now proposed to circumvent. How the same 30 divisions could serve either strategy equally well was a mystery no one cared to explain.
This increased land force would have to come from the Europeans themselves, giving them the task of countering any Russian land attack by conventional means. As its part in the new strategy, the United States would continue to keep its troops as hostage in West Germany, but its principal contribution would be the awesome nuclear arsenal which it harbors for the joint defense of the West. From an American point of view, this division of labor—European manpower plus the American nuclear deterrent—seemed an ideal solution to NATO's defense problems: at long last the old Dulles doctrine of "massive retaliation"—so bold in phrase, so meaningless in effect—could be put to rest. From the European point of view, however, the new strategy has come too late and promises too little. For the advent of the intercontinental missile, by making the United States itself vulnerable to Russian nuclear power, has brought the credibility of our guarantee to Europe into even more serious question than before.
Nations are often loyal to one another; sometimes they will even fight on their friends' behalf. But nuclear weapons have made war qualitatively different from anything nations have experienced in the past. Nobody can be sure that a nation will deliberately commit suicide in response to an attack on its allies. The Europeans know that "never" and "always" have been said too many times in the history of alliances for any nation to count upon them; and they well remember Czechoslovakia in 1938 and Budapest in 1956. De Gaulle voiced a widespread underlying fear in Europe when he said:
America and Soviet Russia are able to strike one another directly and no doubt reciprocally able to destroy one another. It is not certain that they will risk it. No one today can know when, or how, or why one or the other of these great atomic powers will use its nuclear arsenal. One has only to say this in order to understand that as far as concerns the defense of France, the battle of Europe, and even the world war such as they were imagined when NATO was created, all is brought into question.
For the supreme task of nuclear deterrence, then, alliances have ceased to be psychologically credible, although they remain useful for other purposes. Only a political confederation can give the assurance that an attack upon one really is an attack upon all. But the "Atlantic community," however laudable a goal, is still little more than rhetoric, and the disintegrating NATO alliance appears increasingly unlikely to furnish a stable base for a political union between America and Europe—one which neither partner seems willing to translate from hyperbole to reality.
A part from all this, the new emphasis on conventional forces in Europe is no solution to the disagreements within the alliance because it consigns the Europeans to an inherently inferior role. Europe today is an emerging great power, the economic equal of America, and potentially capable of defending itself. Caught up in the vision of European union, a vision which we ourselves encouraged them to form, and impelled by the very economic recovery that we ourselves fostered in order to make them self-sufficient once again, the Europeans are no longer content to leave the ultimate decision between war and peace concentrated exclusively in American hands. There should be nothing surprising in this. "It is," as Henry Kissinger has pointed out, "against all reason to expect our European allies to integrate their conventional forces in a joint command and to place increased reliance on a conventional defense, while one partner reserves for itself a monopoly on the means of responding to the Soviet nuclear threat and freedom of action in employing nuclear weapons."
In sum, it is not simply that certain defense policies have become outdated, but rather that the whole structure of the alliance has become anachronistic, and is not likely to be revitalized by gimmicks such as nuclear multilateralism and missile-carrying cargo ships. Multilateralism, under which the United States and the European allies would both contribute to a pool of nuclear weapons, is simply a device for side-stepping the basic question of who shall control the West's nuclear forces. If the projected joint nuclear force were to be controlled by a committee of nations operating under majority rule, it would have the power to pull the United States into a nuclear war even against its own will—a situation that no American President has ever proposed and that no Congress would permit. If, on the other hand, the joint nuclear force is to be subject to an American veto—as the administration has admitted—then there is little hope that it will satisfy the desire of the Europeans for a greater role in their own defense. All it offers them is the dubious privilege of paying for expensive American-made weapons which they cannot control, for which even Pentagon strategists can find no military justification, and which promise to make Germany the fulcrum of a powerful nuclear missile force in a spasmodic effort to block France's modest nuclear efforts.
Nato's strategic crisis might be less severe if the only point of contention between the United States and the Soviet Union were centered in Europe. Then it might be reasonable to suppose that American and European interests were identical, and it might reasonably be argued that it is in Europe's best interest to continue relying on the American nuclear monopoly. But unfortunately, the struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union is not confined to Europe. Latin America, Southeast Asia, and Africa are all implicated too, and the events of the past few years have shown that the interests of our European allies in these areas often differ from our own. Latin America is peripheral to Europeans' concerns; our involvement in Vietnam elicits either their disinterest or disapproval; and in the long Congo crisis we learned that our closest allies were most opposed to our policies. NATO, whatever the pretensions of its enthusiasts, is not a global alliance; it is only a pact between America and Europe for the defense of Europe. Beyond that it may have great expectations but little substance.
The interests of the two partners, as they conceive them, have diverged significantly in the past, but perhaps never so greatly as during the recent Cuban crisis. The importance of this episode can hardly be exaggerated, for as nothing since the Suez landings in 1956, it brought home to the Europeans the full extent of their bondage to American strategy and their total inability to influence that strategy. It revealed the true balance of forces within the alliance, showing the difference between power in being and power in theory, and it demonstrated how NATO really works in times of crisis.
To most Americans, the handling of the Cuban crisis seemed at once brave and judicious, authoritative and magnanimous—a triumphant display of military power tempered by political wisdom. While it may indeed have been all of these things, the Europeans viewed it from a different perspective. For them there were two crucial lessons to be drawn from the Cuban crisis. The first was that the United States was ready to risk the nuclear obliteration of its allies in defense of American interests, although the United States would not allow itself to be drawn into danger in defense of European interests—as its actions in the Suez landings demonstrated. The second lesson was that the two nuclear giants would impose whatever settlement they saw fit upon weak third nations involved in their power rivalry.
The showdown between America and Russia was Realpolitik on a grand scale, the most naked military confrontation they had yet engaged in. To Washington officials, their intoxicating victory seemed to indicate that the Europeans had even more reason than ever to put their faith in American diplomacy and American protection. But the Europeans—who were neither consulted in advance nor allowed to assume that they could in any way influence the course the United States had embarked upon—interpreted this victory quite differently: they saw themselves in the place of Cuba, forced to accept a settlement imposed upon it by two great nuclear powers acting in concert. It was, so far as they were concerned, Suez all over again, with Cuba the victim instead of Britain and France. From this point of view, the moral of the Cuban crisis was that when the chips are down nations without nuclear weapons will always be forced to acquiesce in the will of the nuclear powers. Rather than undermining the European desire for an independent nuclear deterrent, as Washington imagined, Cuba only reinforced it.
By acting unilaterally in Cuba, the Kennedy administration did everything that was consistent with the interests of a great power, and everything inconsistent with the maintenance of an integrated alliance. It is not that its actions were wrong; a great power must pursue its interests even at the expense of alienating its allies. But these actions revealed that the alliance, for all the rhetoric about interdependence, is still made up of one powerful nation and a group of its protectorates. Such an alliance of unequals, based upon an outdated political vision of the world, and structured upon the permanent dominance of one of the partners, cannot outlast the disappearance of the conditions which originally led to its creation. NATO is faced with a crisis it can no longer avoid. In an age where alliances are becoming obsolete, it must either be replaced by something completely different—that is, an Atlantic community to which the United States would relinquish its sovereignty, its control of nuclear weapons, and its diplomacy—or else the alliance will dissolve as Europe constitutes itself as a great power with its own independent system of defense. Considering the sad history of military alliances based on external threats, and the tendency of nuclear weapons to reinforce rather than undermine national sovereignty, it seems that NATO is in process of joining that long and distinguished list of disintegrated alliances.


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Kumiho A6 RDA Review
Oct 01
RDA (Rebuildable Dripping Atomizers) is used for dripping the e-liquid directly into the coil or wick. Because of no tank available the wick does not remain wet. This means that you need to continue with dripping the e-liquid onto the coil or wick after your few puffs. It may be a bit tedious but then it offers the fresh and cleanest flavor. Besides this because of dripping you can frequently switch to different flavors as you don't have to full the tank of a particular e-liquid.
If you have ever been near the vaping community for a long time, you are bound to hear about RDA's (rebuildable dripping atomizers). This equipment seems to be a bit difficult to use but in reality it's not, you just need practice. The methods to rebuild available on various sites may frighten some of the newcomers. But once you start building your new coil you will realize how easy it is.
The new users must know that there are lots of advantages of using RDA (rebuildable dripping atomizer). The flavor is superb, you get more throat hit, and as mentioned before easy to manage. Things required to rebuild are as follows.
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- Gauge wire of 2 inch
- Wick – two inch
KUMIHO A6 Steel Rebuildable dripping atomizer RDA is easy to built and clean and is recommended for advanced users as it requires rebuilding and changing of the coil. Stainless drip tip 510/901 and coil of 1.8 ohm comes equipped with this device. In 510, the air is drawn from the bottom and not the side making it similar to atomizers available in market. You can build the coil and wick by yourself and the resistance can be easily changed by adjusting the length of coil. This device comes in with a 60 days Warranty Card from the manufacturer.
It helps people to quit their smoking habit for good.
This device has some great features like those of other expensive products in market. It has a changeable and removable coil battery in which you can change resistance by adjusting the length of coil. Length of this device is 40 mm and Diameter of 14mm. it is made up of stainless steel. 501 or 901 style drips can be used on A6. If the unit does not fire then you need to adjust the center pin to make a proper contact. The cost of this device varies from $5 to $9.95 and can be purchased online on sites like http://www.route66vapor.com/kumiho-a6-atomizer-rda/ or http://www.healthcabin.net/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=8580 etc.
RDA is basically for users who are experienced and have basic electronic knowledge to use the device properly. The users should know how different thickness of wicks or coils can vary in (resistance) ohms. Multimeter to verify the ohms of each and every coil that is made is very important. Users having no basic knowledge of lithium and MOD Ion devices cannot use this material safely.Read More


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The Care and Feeding of an iPod
Heh. You're thinking, again, that I must really be obsessed with the iPod. But no - this was made in response to my happiness with my iPod. I originally had a Panasonic SJ-MR200 MD recorder, but never used it as much as I intended, due to MD's lack of direct computer control and uploading of music - with MD recorders of that time, you had to record in real time. When the iPod was released, I scoffed at it, thinking it too costly and limited in storage capacity. What was I thinking?
I've linked to a PDF file I made in 2002, and have updated with pertinent contact information. I originally intended to keep up with each iPod model, but could not due to 2 reasons:
- My pocketbook, already strained by college tuition payments, could not keep up with Apple's development cycle.
- As far as I was concerned, it was too difficult to constantly update a book, since the iPod was so easy to use in the first place; ie, it was more or less pointless. It was fun at the time, so I think it was worth it…


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Tri-County Community Action has served seniors for more than 25 years in Oldham, Trimble and Henry Counties, but after the Kentucky Office of Aging changed its standards last year, the non-profit agency located in La Grange was afraid it would have to shut its doors to the adult day care program.
Instead, though, the program opted to transition from a social model to a medical model adult day care and this would require some changes around the already-existing facility.
Businesswomen in Oldham County come with many different definitions according to Deana Epperly Karem, Executive Director of Oldham Chamber and Economic Development. They are leaders, mentors, coaches, friends, sisters, confidants and activists.
These strong women are being celebrated once again at the sixth annual Celebration of Women, hosted by the Oldham Chamber next week.
Ten local residents, five men and five women, will be competing for the title of "Prospect Star 2015" on Feb. 21 at the Mellwood Arts Center. "Dancing With Prospect Stars & Taste of Prospect" is an exciting fundraiser, hosted by the Prospect Area Chamber of Commerce. The event, in its second year, will benefit the chamber and the 10 individual charities the contestants have chosen. Before the big night, the stars will be accepting donations on behalf of their chosen charities. Each dollar donated in their name will count as a vote.
The WOOFery has spent nearly three years on Main Street in La Grange, but recently it became so popular it outgrew its space.
When owner Tanya Turner added the grooming salon to her business in 2013, it quickly became apparent that parking was a serious issue for her clients — both two-legged and four-legged.
"My heart was attached to Main Street, so it took me about eight months to find the exact, right location that would suit our needs, as well as the needs and comfort of our customers," Turner said.
With snow flurries fluttering around her, temperatures around freezing and 10 minutes left to go, La Grange resident Patricia Stark was beyond excited.
"This is Christmas to me, it's like Christmas morning," Stark said.
The cause of Stark's excitement was the grand opening of a Dollar Tree in the Oldham Plaza complex, an opening that was delayed two years due to problems with the complex's landlord, Icon-Oldham Development, an offshoot of Icon Properties in Louisville.
Many communities have seen a spike in the craft beer market over the last few years and now La Grange will be part of the Beer Lovers Club with a new business coming to its historic district.
Tom and Linda Clemons have been in the alcohol industry for many decades and now have expanded their repertoire with the Main Street Bourbon and Ale House opening later this month in La Grange.
For the event on Saturday, Feb. 7:
Washington Street will be partially closed from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. The closure will begin at the CityPlace crosswalk just west of Doty Lane and run down to the stop sign at Second Street.
For the event on Saturday, Feb. 28:
"Washington Street will be partially closed from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. The closure will begin at the CityPlace crosswalk just west of Doty Lane and run down to the stop sign at Second Street."
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University of Louisville President James Ramsey gives a powerpoint presentation about his university's success on Friday. Also, South Oldham Rotary President John Oliva presents Ramsey with a gift.
A local car dealership is cruising into 2015 by selling the first truck in what it calls the "wave of the future."
Tri-County Ford, located off Exit 17 in Buckner, recently sold a 2015 Ford F-150 to Oldham County resident Frank Durham. And while truck sales aren't uncommon at Tri-County, the new F-150 is. According to Ford Motor Company, the truck is the first to use military grade aluminum, not steel, in its production.
A discussion about the upcoming session of the General Assembly, hosted by the Oldham County Chamber, went from a conversation of issues like right to work to a full-blown political update.
Panelists at the forum included Joe Gerth of the Courier-Journal, Greg Brotzge, a lobbyist, and State Rep. David Osborne, a Republican from Prospect.
"Kentucky government has not been a proactive force for businesses in history," Osborne said. "I think that's why we continue to be at the bottom of the rankings in business."
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Rolls-Royce has outlined its plans for reducing Trent 500 maintenance costs as part of Airbus's strategy to improve the market appeal of the A340-500/600 series.
Airbus hopes to make the out-of-production aircraft more competitive against the Boeing 777 by capitalising on comparatively low lease rates for the four-engined widebody. These plans include reconfiguring cabins to increase capacity and, crucially, cutting the maintenance costs of the Trent 500 powerplants.
Rolls-Royce has cleared up the slightly mixed messages around exactly which engines are being benchmarked for the company's pledge to match the A340's powerplant maintenance costs with those of the 777 under the slogan "four engines for the price of two".
Airbus presentation material indicates that Rolls-Royce would support four Trent 500s for the cost of two General Electric GE90-115Bs, which power the 777-300ER. But Rolls-Royce says it is measuring costs against the Trent 800 or GE90-94B engines used on the previous-generation 777-200ER.
The conflicting information resulted from a "misunderstanding", says Rolls-Royce, which points out that the GE90-115B's estimated maintenance cost per engine flight hour is around 25% higher than that of the Trent 800 or the GE90-94B. Therefore, if Trent 500 costs are half those of a Trent 800/GE90-94B, the saving over the GE90-115B is even greater than 50%.
The engine maker says that the A340 campaign is aimed at making the type more attractive against the 777 in the second-hand marketplace where aircraft are typically at least 10 years old. This, it says, excludes the popular 777-300ER
Rolls-Royce plans to cut maintenance costs through a number of measures tailored to airlines' individual circumstances, though the details are still under development. However, utilising a greater number of used spare parts and conducting more repairs to return damaged components to service – instead of installing new material – will be key strategies to achieve the MRO cost reduction.
The manufacturer also intends to offer operators exchange engines to replace powerplants that have reached their end of life.
The engine MRO support initiative is presented by Airbus as a key element of its A340 campaign, and promised improvements to Rolls-Royce's TotalCare aftermarket programme should be well received by those who have previously been critical of how it is structured.
But Rolls-Royce says the revamp will not bring a "huge change" over previous Trent 500 maintenance costs. As engine MRO typically accounts for around 5% of total cash operating costs for long-haul aircraft, the savings from lower maintenance spending will only form part of range of airframe and engine measures, it says.
Rolls-Royce declines to quantify the savings targeted from the new maintenance strategy, but says these should be "slightly higher" than the efficiencies available from reducing fuel burn by using the Trent 500 EP+ engine upgrade package.
This package – which includes aerodynamically improved compressor aerofoils with an elliptically shaped leading-edge profile – cuts fuel consumption by 0.5% and should deliver savings of up to $200,000 per aircraft per year, says Rolls-Royce.
The new initiative will be delivered though the flight hour-based TotalCare programme, but the engine maker is not ruling out also applying it to time-and-materials maintenance arrangements or customers with fixed overhaul costs.


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There are two possible options here that may work. I haven't tried either of them yet but have seen reports of both options working.
1. Use a cable to connect from the iPhone to the composite video port of the Smart Board. I think this is the correct cable
Apple Composite AV Cable - Apple Store (U.S.)
. If your smart board has component video connections there is also a similar cable with that connection. This may not work in all cases as there appear to be some apps that do not support video out this way. It is also a one way connection in the sense that any touches made on the SmartBoard are not reflected back to the iPhone.
2. There is supposedly a piece of software that would allow two way communication but I can't seem to find the link at the moment. Will post back when I have more.
Edit: The app that I was thinking of does not exactly allow two way communication between the iPad and SmartBoard. Essentially you are using this program to control the computer that has SmartBoard software installed. Useful but not exactly what you want to do. Looks like we are limited to option one for the time being.
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Liddle: Friendly run-out useful
by Ashley Houghton
U18 coach on York, McGrath and Smith.
U18 coach Craig Liddle believes his young Black Cats will benefit immensely from the physical test they faced in their 2-2 draw with York City on Thursday.
Liddle's side, who currently sit second in their Barclays U18 Premier League group, conceded late having led for long periods in the behind closed doors game at the Academy of Light.
But Liddle feels his boys will reap the rewards from a more physical encounter despite the late leveller.
"It was a different type of game to what we are used to with York being a Football League club," Liddle explained.
"It's a little bit more direct and a bit more physical than what we're used to at Academy level but for me it's a good learning curve for the boys to give them that type of challenge.
"I thought first-half we did quite well, without being brilliant. We dominated the game, went 2-0 up and they get the goal which made it 2-1 and a little bit of a precarious situation.
"In the second half York had the wind behind them and I think they deserved the draw at the end of the day.
"For me it wasn't about the result, but more about the performance to keep the lads ticking over ahead of Stoke next week."
Liddle fielded mainly first-year scholars and under-16's for the behind closed doors friendly with the Minstermen and he was delighted with the way the youngsters applied themselves.
Jaison McGrath in particularly impressive, bagging two goals during his first 90 minutes of the campaign having been troubled by injuries since joining up with the Black Cats from Celtic at the start of the season.
"We had an under-15 on at the end, three under-16's and the majority were first-years so it wasn't probably our strongest side in terms of physicality but the lads adapted quite well and I think we can take a few positives from the game.
"Jaison's had a lot of injury problems throughout the season and I think that's possibly his first 90 minutes so we're glad he's got through that and a couple of goals will do his confidence the world of good."
Liddle also reflected on Martin Smith's performance in the under-21s' win over Middlesbrough on Tuesday.
Smith scored the winner in that game and Liddle was pleased to see one of his under-18's making an impact in Kevin Ball's development squad.
"I saw the second half of the game as I was training with my lads as the game was going on but what he did, when I was watching, he did very well.
"He's had a good run of form in the 18s and the pleasing thing is that he stepped up to the 21s and produced the goods at that level."


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Custom Black Iron
Posted by Pablo Alvarado on Friday, January 3, 2014 in custom hardware, blacksmithing, black iron, Customer Projects - leave a comment
• Hope everyone had a fun and safe New Year's! Now that we''re back from our winter break, I wanted to share with you all a recent project we worked on right before we closed down for the holidays. It was for a customer who was looking to have some custom shutter dogs made. Now to be honest …
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It's all about Hand Forged Iron
Posted by Web Team on Wednesday, March 27, 2013 in blacksmithing, American made hardware, black iron
• Hand forged iron is incredibly desirable among those seeking a look that is both classic and beautiful. Hand forged iron is noted for its strength and durability, as well as its authenticity, but why? Before one can best appreciate the benefits of hand forged iron, one must understand the …
Taking Care of Hand-Forged Iron Hardware
Posted by Web Team on Friday, September 14, 2012 in hand forged iron, black iron
Hand-forged iron hardware adds a strikingly beautiful period touch to doors, drawers, cabinets, and other areas of the home. In designing such handles, pulls, hinges, and other pieces, Horton Brasses employs the same process used to create 18th century iron hardware, giving each a custom look that …
Posted by Orion Henderson on Friday, June 8, 2012 in blacksmithing, hand forged iron, black iron
It is a rare thing, but we are having a sale and we are having one right now! We are discounting our cainet sized H and HL iron hinges. These are a fully forged blacksmith made product. Each one is crafted by hand with a hammer, an anvil, and a coal forge. Why are we having a sale? Because … read more »
One Heat
Posted by Molly and George on Thursday, February 9, 2012 in blacksmithing, American made hardware, iron strap hinges, early american hardware, hand forged iron, black iron, custom iron, Iron hardware - 1 comment
• Small stock heated in the forge cools quickly. This short video shows the shaping of an HF-19 ring grip. The cusps have been forged on each end of the stock and the screw holes punched. • The shaping of a grip is quickly done with the proper heat and tools. We start out with two batches of …
What is Wrought Iron?
Posted by Molly and George on Monday, December 12, 2011 in blacksmithing, black iron, hand forged iron, wrought iron
In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, blacksmiths • had a very narrow range of materials to work with under the • hammer. There was wrought iron, wonderfully malleable, and • three types of high carbon steel. • Wrought iron isn't available to smiths today. What we have …
A Shop Shaded by Trees
Posted by Molly and George on Friday, September 9, 2011 in americana, blacksmithing, hand forged iron, black iron - 1 comment
Under the spreading chestnut tree / The village smithy stands • -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • The blacksmith shop, along with all the other buildings on our • property, is heavily shaded by trees in the summer. We did this • deliberately when we laid out the buildings, orienting them so …
What's It?
Posted by Molly and George on Tuesday, September 6, 2011 in blacksmithing, black iron, hand forged iron - 1 comment
At gatherings of blacksmiths, a frequent feature is the "What's It?" display. In this display are tools from old shops, many of which were individually made by smiths to perform specific jobs. Sometimes the tool in the "What's It?" display is so specialized and idiosyncratic that the smiths at the …
Using a Power Hammer
Posted by Molly and George on Wednesday, July 13, 2011 in blacksmithing, American made hardware, black iron, hand forged iron, wrought iron
While most of the forge work in the shop is done by hand using a hammer and anvil, we do at times use a power hammer. Ours is used to rough out forgings, the work done in traditional shops by the apprentice, where brute force is more important than precise blows. • Diderot Hammer • Power …
Blacksmith's Riveting, Brazing and Welding, part 2
Posted by Molly and George on Friday, June 10, 2011 in blacksmithing, American made hardware, black iron, hand forged iron, Iron hardware, wrought iron
In our previous post we talked about how we use mechanical joints, brazing and electrical welding to fasten metal parts together for tools and jigs in the shop. In the work we do for Horton, we use only riveted fastening: we head pins for hinges much like we'd head a rivet, and in making Suffolk …


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text: According to multiple media outlets, Pressey is one of 60 players from across the country who have received the invite. You can find the complete list here, courtesy of ESPN draft analyst Chad Ford. Pressey, a 5-foot-11 point guard, declared for the draft in April after an up-and-down season in which he was forced to carry a greater offensive burden after the graduation of Marcus Denmon and Kim English and the December transfer of star guard Michael Dixon, Jr. He responded by posting career highs in points (11.9) and assists (7.1), while helping the Tigers to a 23-11 record and a NCAA Tournament appearance.


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There will be a new Battlefield game in 2016, EA spokesperson confirms
A new Battlefield game is coming in 2016, according to a spokesperson for publisher Electronic Arts. The news was revealed during an investor's call, and it essentially marks the point at which the franchise moves to a yearly release model.
"What we've said is that our intention over the next couple of years is to have a first-person shooter as one of the core titles," the representative said (reported by IGN). "This year, obviously, it's Star Wars Battlefront. Next year, it's another Battlefield title."
EA's 'Live to Play' conference at E3 2015 starts June 15th @ 1:00pm PDT
Publishing juggernaut Electronic Arts will begin their E3 2015 press conference on June 15th, and it will run for an hour and a half. It begins 1.00pm PDT / 9.00pm GMT+1 in Shrine Auditorium. What's expected up on stage?
So far they haven't revealed what's in their E3 line-up but almost certainly it will have Star Wars: Battlefront, MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic, DLC offerings for Battlefield: Hardline and hopefully the next Mass Effect.
EA's Johan Andersson wants Windows 10 and DirectX 12 as "minspec for our holiday 2016 games" on Frostbite
Technical director Johan Andersson for EA DICE's Frostbite engine has said he would like to have Microsoft's summer-bound OS Windows 10 and the new shiny DirectX 12 API as "minspec" for future Frostbite games.
He'd like that as soon as late 2016, given the significant gains the two will afford game studios. Adoption among "core gamers will be really quite fast" thanks to Microsoft's upgrade program.
Battlefield 4's Winter Patch released, adds new Squad Obliteration game mode
DICE has released Battlefield 4's Winter Patch, which adds a brand new game mode called Squad Obliteration alongside the usual laundry list of fixes, balance tweaks and alterations.
Squad Obliteration is slightly altered version of Obliteration, which had you trying to blow up the opposing team's base with a bomb. It's intended for competitive squad versus squad play, and removes parachute spawns, extends the bomb timer, and forces you to destroy the mode's three targets in order.
2 billion points in Battlefield 4's Rush mode unlocks Heist mode in Battlefield Hardline beta
EA DICE has thrown down a community challenge for Battlefield 4 and would-be crime fighters and criminals in Battlefield Hardline. If the community scores 2 billion points in Battlefield 4's Rush mode...
...then the beta for Battlefield Hardline will include the Heist mode. This scrambling for points begins today, January 21st @ 9 AM PST and will end January 24th @ 11:59 PM PST.


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High efficiency, low maintenance and max performance - all the features demanded by today's pool professionals. The Max-E-Pool has the new Quick-lock trap covering and the 2" ports incorporate internal and external threads. Available in single and two speed models, with ratings from 1/2 to 3 HP
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I have done this in one or two of the SalesLogix Crystal reports I worked on in previous posts to help separate out records. I recently had a client ask me how to do this and when I looked back through the posts I discovered that the information is buried deep in one of the many blogs I have written. So the easy way to shade every other row in a report is as follows.
For this task I use the RecordNumber function that comes with Crystal. This function basically returns the record number in the order it is displayed in your report. I want to shade every other record so I will use a formula to identify odd number records. This is the formula I came up with:
if right(Cstr(RecordNumber),4) in ["1.00","3.00","5.00","7.00","9.00"] then crSilver
else crWhite
In this formula I convert the RecordNumber function from a float to a string. I then take the forth number from the right side of the value, and see if it is in an Array of odd numbers formated as string for the comparison. If the number does match then color Silver will be given to the back ground. If not the color white.
This formula is added through the Section Expert in the details section of my report. Remember that you can easily open the Section Expert by right clicking in the section you want to apply the formula to and selecting the "Section Expert" value from the list that appears. When the expert opens you will see two tabs on the right side of the screen ("Common" and "Color"). The "Color" provides you a place to add the formula.
Quick and easy.
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They are the most hottest, most beautiful and most desired female stars of all time. It's been a long while since they celebrated the splendid triumph of their beauty and talent, but still we remember their iconic roles. They are those women who inspire our moms and us to be elegant, stylish and beautiful. Who are THEY?
Let's remember who is the best actress in the world, but I've identified 7 most beautiful actresses of all time. Would you agree with my choice?
Most Elegant Woman of all time
She is like a butterfly – tender, elegant, charming and touching, Audrey Hepburn. She is internationally-recognized most elegant woman of XX century and fashion icon of all time. Being placed in the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame, she is the greatest female screen legend in the history of American cinema. The list of films with her role is huge, but my favorite is "Roman Holiday."
Most Desired Actress of all time
Everybody knows Marquise des Anges or Angelique, one of the most desired French actresses Michèle Mercier. She is beautiful, talented and stunning with her large hazel eyes and winsome smile. The world knows her for the role in the historical adventurous film "Angélique." Michele's image was bold, sexy, daring and 'fresh.' I'm sure there are a lot of women who desired and still desire to take example by this stunning actress.
Hottest Actress of all time
No male could pass by that stunning woman – all remember her unforgettable role of Sugar Kane in the comedy "Some Like It Hot." This woman attracted people's attention – both men and women. She inspired women to be beautiful and desired, and made men lose their heads. Marilyn Monroe was and is still a major sex symbol in the world.
Most Eccentric Female Film Star
"I can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tomorrow." With these well-known words Scarlett O'Hara tried to avoid different troubles. Vivien Leigh's role of Scarlett was eccentric, dynamic and charming at the same time. A little girl and adult woman meet in one face of Scarlett, she seems busy, charming and smart, but can be jealous at the same time. Vivien played her best role in the film "Gone with the Wind" and became a symbol of strong and cheerful woman, ready to overcome all difficulty.
Most Charming Actress
Michael Jackson once said: "Elizabeth Taylor is gorgeous, beautiful, and she still is today. I am crazy about her. " And we all are crazy about this stunning woman. Her charming violet eyes and black hair attracted men's attention and her image deeply sank into their hearts. Elizabeth's glamorous lifestyle, unique beauty and passion for jewelry are well-known facts from her life.
Bellissima from Italy
Monica Bellucci is one of the most beautiful actress, as well. She began her career as a prominent fashion model and only then as an actress. She is a style icon, since women try to take example of her way of wear, walk and even live.
Most famous walk in the history of movies
Italy's most renowned and honored actress Sophia Loren took rightful place on this list of the most beautiful actresses of all time. If you ask a man why Sophia is the most stunning Italian actress – he would answer "look at her walk, you will understand me." There is an interesting fact from her life: Sophia's walk is the most famous in the cinema history, but learn how she achieved that. Her husband Carlo Ponti taught her to walk properly – he made her go up and down between two rows of tables with open doors and close them by thighs – thus, appeared her world's known walking!)
What about you? Do you have your example of a female film star who inspires you to be beautiful and in fashion?
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WEDNESDAY, Aug. 27, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- In a new study done from the heights of Mount Everest, Italian researchers found that your blood pressure steadily increases if you ascend to great heights.
They also found that a drug widely used to treat high blood pressure was ineffective once climbers reached above a certain altitude.
The findings, reported online Aug. 27 in the European Heart Journal, could impact not just high-altitude trekkers but those at sea level who have sleep apnea, in which a blocked airway temporarily halts their breathing, as well as others with some chronic diseases.
The researchers joined an expedition of 47 volunteers who traveled to the Mount Everest base camp, which is at an altitude of 5,400 meters, or approximately 17,700 feet. The volunteers wore blood pressure monitors that took round-the-clock readings as they climbed up to the base camp.
The participants were also randomized to receive either 80 milligrams (mg) of the blood pressure-lowering drug telmisartan (MIcardis), or a placebo. Telmisartan is angiotensin receptor blocker (ARB) because it blocks the effects of a peptide called angiotensin II, which causes blood vessels to narrow. The researchers collected blood samples as well.
They found that exposure to the very high altitude of 5,400 meters was responsible for an increase of 14 mmHg in systolic blood pressure and 10 mmHg in diastolic blood pressure, averaged over a 24-hour period of monitoring. They also found that while telmisartan significantly reduced blood pressure at sea level and at 3,400 meters (11,155 feet), no effects could be seen shortly after arriving at 5,400 meters.
"This blood pressure increase is due to several factors, the most important being the effects of oxygen deprivation in increasing activity in the body's sympathetic nervous system. This leads to the heart working harder and the peripheral blood vessels constricting," he added.
The findings may have a number of implications for those who have diseases or conditions that can result in oxygen deprivation, study leader Gianfranco Parati, director of the Cardiology Research Laboratory at the Istituto Auxologico Italiano in Milan, said in a journal news release.
They may help in "the management of patients with chronic diseases, including chronic heart failure, in which breathing is interrupted periodically, acute worsening of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, obstructive sleep apnea and severe obesity. Together, these conditions affect more than 600 million people worldwide, making our results highly significant from a clinical perspective," he said.
"Our findings will also enable us to take appropriate action to warn cardiovascular patients of the need for caution whenever they are going to be exposed to high altitudes for leisure or work," Parati concluded.
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The U.S. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute explains the causes of high blood pressure.
SOURCE: European Heart Journal, news release, Aug. 26, 2014
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PRESTONSBURG – Johnson County is well represented this month at the Big Sandy Community and Technical College Art Gallery, with a duel exhibit by two of its natives, Tina Penix and Robin Renee. The exhibit is now open and will run until Oct. 25.
Tina Penix is an artist who has achieved a high level of technical skill, even though she has never had any formal art training. She credits her talents to God. Penix says her religious beliefs have provided comfort as well as inspiration. Her art is in a realist style, and represents her life and perceptions of the world around her. Her brightly colored canvasses convey a world of peace, and also inner strength.
Penix is a single mom and lives with her three children Bruce Thomas, Tabitha Cortney and Tyler Cade.
Robin Renee is a multi-talented artist, who not only produces a variety of artwork from drawing to photography, but creates frames for her work that are art in themselves.
"I use the flawed wood knots, holes, jagged edges, worm holes, etc. I use them because the imperfections add to the beauty of my frames," Renee said.
Renee says she has a passion for depicting people, animals, and landscapes. Robin Renee's art has been featured on CD covers, country music magazines, and she has taken photos of well-known celebrities. Robin is a self-taught artist and photographer, and recently started a business to market her art.
A reception for Tina Penix and Robin Renee will be Tuesday, Oct. 18, at the Big Sandy Community and Technical College Art Gallery from 6 until 7:30 p.m., with refreshments being offered. The public is invited.
The gallery is open five days a week. Monday through Thursday, gallery hours are 9 a.m. until 3 p.m., and Fridays, 9 a.m. until noon. For information about this show or future ones, contact the gallery at (606) 886-3863, ext. 64746.


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COLUMBIA - A national small business organization on Tuesday endorsed Gov. Nikki Haley's re-election bid.
The endorsement was made on behalf of the political action committee Save America's Free Enterprise Trust, of the National Federation of Independent Businesses. The announcement was made at the Shealy Truck Center.
NFIB's state director, Ben Homeyer, said the state's small businesses have no greater friend than Haley and her office.
"We've seen a drop in the tax rate for small businesses going from 5 (percent) to 3 percent," Homeyer said. "And this was a direct result of the NFIB working with the House and the Senate, as well as the Governor to make this happen."
Shealy President Bruce Shealy said he believed Haley received the organization's endorsement because she has the backs of small businesses.
"Since the beginning of the Haley administration, small business development and growth has been a major priority," Shealy said. "Coming from the background of a family owned business, Gov. Haley is uniquely qualified to understand the dynamics that drive an effective public-private sector relationship."
Haley said the NFIB's endorsement would likely be the closest to her, because she grew up working with her family's small business.
"I will never forget what drives me as a governor is still what drove that kid at 13 years old," she said, adding that small businesses run the state.
"When you look at the economy in South Carolina, this didn't happen because we got lucky," Haley said. "This happened because we said we were going to put business and people first, and we didn't just talk about it, we did it."
Kristin Sosanie, spokeswoman for the South Carolina Democratic Party, said the endorsement was a desperate move for Haley's campaign after an internal Democratic poll that leaked showed Haley's re-election bid remains vulnerable.
"Nikki Haley has forced South Carolina's small businesses to pay the highest commercial and industrial property taxes in the country, all while she gives hundreds of millions of tax dollars to out-of-state corporations," Sosanie said. "Haley has consistently stacked the deck against our state's local business owners, so the lack of support from the real small-business community is no surprise."
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Sunday morning cooking for Campus Kitchen is perhaps not what you'd think. They don't actually cook all of the food during the cooking session; most of it is pre-cooked by dining and donated in the form of leftovers. This is a positive thing though – it means that leftover food, instead of being wasted, is given to people who are hungry. Sometimes they need to cook a little more food to round out the nutritional value of the meal (this week they had to make an extra tray of rice to include more carbs) but overall, the food they donate is food that would otherwise be thrown away. During the week they store it in coolers in Runk's kitchen, and check the temperature daily to make sure it stays within safe ranges. Then on Sunday the cooking shift comes in – bright and early at 9:30 am – and puts it in the steamer to freshen it up.
When I walked in to talk to this week's shift, I found two girls and two guys, the girls in hairnets and everyone in aprons. "Hey!" they exclaimed, grinning and friendly. Aubrey and Ariel, the shift leaders, then proceeded to show me around the kitchen, a gleaming metal maze that clanked and hummed with the sounds of ovens, freezers, and slamming metal doors. Around us Runk's kitchen staff worked diligently to prepare Sunday brunch.
"175 for the vegetables!" called out Aubrey, who had her head in the steamer, checking their temperature. Ariel explained how they have to be really careful with their paperwork, making sure to record the temperature of everything they served, to ensure that the food was safe to eat. "Potatoes are 170!" called Aubrey again. There are also a lot of logistical issues to working in the kitchen – simply forgetting to switch the steamer from "manual" to "timer" can cause problems.
There were some humorous moments during the shift, too, like when one of the vegetable trays got stuck in the steamer. After the food is steamed, it's placed in a heater, which is then placed in a warmer box to trap the heat. These big boxes are finally loaded into volunteers' cars and driven to the Salvation Army, where the same volunteers serve the food to Charlottesville community members.
The enthusiastic CK staff, with all the food loaded into warmers, has a reason to be proud. The group is starting a new initiative that helps the environment, U.Va. dining, and the poor community of Charlottesville. Leaving the morning shift, I felt glad that I'd gotten up early on a Sunday to be a part of this experience. Campus Kitchen can only be described as a strong new group with a lot of momentum and even more potential.
Editor's Note: Campus Kitchen is a new student volunteer opportunity collaborating with Madison House, if you're a student interested in volunteering with Campus Kitchen email Aubrey Mignone at firstname.lastname@example.com or Katie Pollard at email@example.com.


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Jimmy Saville to be revealed as a paedophile? (Part 7)
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The Mail is banging on about the importance of "free press", forgetting it was Channel4 who broke the Rennard story, and ITV who broke Savile. Both regulated broadcasters.
Yeah, maybe The Mail will break the story about paedophiles & child abusers in the Thatcher & current government? (one of the names on the alleged leaked Elm Guest House list still sits on the front bench)
Somehow, I very much doubt it....
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The whole thing is still a cover-up. It's the establishment trying to save face. That is the nature of the beast.
Thankfully, the people can see right through them....
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Get real you the establishment is MPs, The Mail, The Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph all attempting to reveal a coverup.
In fact the hacking inquiry has shown you can't more establishment than Rupert Murdoch and The Sun.
Bleh, they are just mouthpieces.
The government/PM, Royal Family/Queen, mainstream press, mainstream media/tv, etc... just mouthpieces, figureheads, puppets... all part of the propaganda machine.
The real people behind ""The Establishment" will do anything, and I mean "anything!", to hold on to their wealth & power.
And if that means covering up scandals and passing the buck on to some has-been celebs and dead politicians, then so be it.
But hey, we shall see. Maybe all will be revealed.....
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