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The celebration will take place on May 12, 2012.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Providence College Athletics, along with presenting sponsors Cox Sports and Coast to Coast Promotional Products, are pleased to announce that on May 12, 2012, they will hold a 15-year anniversary celebration of the 1997 Elite Eight men's basketball team.
This special team took us on a magical ride, coming within seconds of a return to the Final Four. This celebration will allow Friar fans to relive the memories and moments from that exciting season.
Please join current Head Coach Ed Cooley, former head men's basketball coach Pete Gillen, along with members of his staff and former Friar greats Austin Croshere, God Shammgod, Jamel Thomas, Derrick Brown, Ruben Garces and Corey Wright and many more.
"The 1996-97 Providence College basketball team was very talented," Coach Gillen said. "We came within a eye lash of reaching the Final Four and had the opportunity to win it all. Providence College is a special place and we all look forward to coming back and celebrating this great anniversary."
For more information and to purchase tickets for this Gala event please visit: http://alumni.providence.edu/elite8 [1]
For questions please contact Jennifer Cunningham at (401-865-1880).
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Scouting Grades* (present/future): Fastball: 7/8 | Curveball: 5/6 | Changeup: 6/7 | Control: 5/6 | Overall: 6/7
It's not often that a pitcher makes it to the big leagues in his first full season as a professional. It's even less common when one taken out of high school does it, but that's exactly what Bundy accomplished in 2012. The Oklahoma prep product started the year in the South Atlantic League and finished it in Baltimore. Along the way, he showed an ability to throw several pitches for strikes. His Fastball is easily plus, thrown up to 98 mph, and he maintains velocity deep into his starts with a clean and easy delivery. His curve should be at least above-average in the future, though he's still learning to throw it consistently. He has good arm speed on his changeup, which should be another above-average or better pitch. He looks every bit the top of the rotation starter the Orioles hoped they were getting when they gave him a Major League contract.
Kevin Gausman is ranked 37th.
Scouting Grades* (present/future): Fastball: 7/7 | Curveball: 4/5 | Changeup: 6/7 | Control: 4/5 | Overall: 5/6
What a difference two years can make. Coming out of high school, Gausman was a highly thought of pitcher with a ton of arm strength, but little else. After two seasons at LSU, he emerged as the top college arm taken in the 2012 Draft. He still has the power, his fastball is an easy plus pitch, but he's learned a lot more about his overall craft. He backs up his heater with another plus pitch, a changeup, which fades and sinks. His breaking stuff has always lagged behind a bit as he toyed with both a curve and slider in college, with the latter likely being the better option going forward. Improving that, along with his overall command, are all he needs to be a frontline starter in the big leagues in the near future.
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OREGON/UTAH - A'Lisa Joy Weston, born on March 6, 1990 in Salt Lake City, passed away on July 28, 2012 in Ferron.
A'Lisa has a zest for life. She was a creative, compassionate young lady and made friends everywhere she went.
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She was a very hard worker and got the job done. She has had a variety of jobs throughout her life in both Oregon and Utah.
She graduated at 17 and went to college for one year.
She used to have over 100 pairs of Converse shoes at one time as fashion was a favorite part of her life, be it clothes, jewelry or purses.
Her favorite color was purple. She loved her pets and would name them anything from Kiwi, Mango, Biscuits and Gravy to Buddy and Marshmallow.
She loved her body art and was proud of her Navajo heritage.
She has three brothers and one sister. She grew up with brothers Rodger Lee Myers and Robert Dean Brunson. She has one brother, David, and one sister, Amanda, whom she never met.
She loved all of her grandparents, uncles, aunts and cousins.
She will be greatly missed by all who met her and family.
Funeral services will be held on Saturday, Aug. 4, 2012 at 11 a.m. at the Recreation Center, 97 N. 100 W., in Emery. Burial will be at the cemetery in Emery.
A viewing will be held prior to the funeral service that morning from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m.
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At Target, shelves are decked and decorations hung with visions of sales galore. Black Friday shoppers get an earlier Christmas gift this year, with doors opening at 9 p.m. Thanksgiving night. Target announced earlier than ever doorbusters, calling it an "after dinner event for the family."
"I'll be here, definitely I will be here," said Paco Khalafalla, a devout Target shopper who plans to score some deals, mainly a new TV.
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On Change.org, a Target employee from California, Casey St. Clair, started a petition to "Take the high road and save Thanksgiving" for family time. More than 158,000 people signed in support, similar to last year, when employees protested Target's midnight opening.
"I currently work two jobs, substitute teach and work Target at nights and weekends, so having Thanksgiving off really does give me that one day to relax and visit family I otherwise have no time to see," St. Clair wrote on her petition.
Target Spokesperson Molly Snyder said Target's opening time was carefully evaluated with guests, the Target team and the business in mind.
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University of St. Thomas marketing professor Jon Seltzer says it comes down to competition, and stores like Target are simply supplying a demand, where workforce staffing is critically important.
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"There is an appetite for shopping and it's becoming earlier and earlier," he said. "Nobody wants to come in second in that race, it's really a question of people are thinking about shopping, and they want to go shopping."Paco Khalafalla still will be shopping, even though this year, his job at a call center requires him to work on Thanksgiving too.
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How important are experiments in science? Scientists use experiments to check whether a theory's predictions match up with reality, so without them you can't pick out bad theories.
In theoretical physics, however, there are many theories that cannot be tested. Not only because our experimental tools are nowhere near good enough, but also because there's some fundamental reason that stops us exploring some of the predictions those theories make. Examples are string theory, M theory and the various multiverse theories. Should we pursue them anyway, or dismiss them as speculation?
This debate, featuring one of our favourite theoretical physicists, David Tong (among others), explores this question and asks whether physics has strayed too far from experiment. It's been produced by the Institute of Art and Ideas in London.
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November 17, 2014
Our good friend Julian Gilbey has just told us about an amazing fact: if you roll a parabola along a straight line then the shape its focus traces out as it goes is ... a catenary! That's the shape a chain makes when it hangs freely under gravity and also the shape that gives you the strongest arches (see here and here to learn more).
Just why the two curves are connected in this way is a mystery (at least to us) — you can do the maths to prove it, but there doesn't seem an intuitive reason.
Julian has also produced this beautiful applet to illustrate the result. It shows the graph of the parabola with equation
which has its focus at the point (Use the left-hand slider to change the value of ) You can roll the parabola along using the right-hand slider and see the catenary the focus traces out. Its equation is
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November 12, 2014
Why do diamonds sparkle? Why is the shower the best place to sing? Where is the best place to stand to look at a statue? Where is the 4th dimension in Dali's paintings? Do you know the answers to these questions? Or perhaps, you didn't know you didn't know these interesting facts!
Never fear, John D. Barrow is here with all the answers to these and 96 other questions you didn't know you didn't know about maths and art. To celebrate the launch of his new book (his 22nd!) called 100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know About Maths and the Arts he's giving a talk at 6pm on Thursday 13 November for Gresham College. As well as find out more about the interplay of maths and art, you can also enjoy a free drink with Barrow after the talk!
You don't need to register for the event, it's first come first served. Find out more here. You can also read an extract of the book on Plus.
November 5, 2014
Our image of the week is all about chemistry!
Image created by Alexander Bujotzek, Peter Deuflhard and Marcus Weber. © Zuse Institute, Berlin, Germany.
This image reveals the shape of enzymes and how they bind together. It is produced using mathematical methods. Created by Alexander Bujotzek, Peter Deuflhard, and MarcusWeber. © Zuse Institute Berlin, Germany.
The picture is one of the images that appear in the book 50 visions of mathematics, which celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications.
You can see previous images of the week here.
November 3, 2014
The tightrope walker Nik Wallenda's latest achievement is breath-taking. Without a safety net or harness Wallenda walked the gap between buildings on either side of the Chicago River before crossing between the two Marina City towers — blindfolded. His feat was televised, but with a ten second delay, in case he fell. Thankfully he didn't! You can see part of his walk in the movie on the right, but don't look if you're faint-hearted.
Like any tightrope walker, Wallenda carried a long pole to aid his balance. But why? What's the physics behind it? We rummaged in the Plus archive and found that a few years ago mathematician John D. Barrow had already come up with an answer. The key idea is something called the moment of inertia, which measures an object's resistance to being spun around an axis. The long pole increases the tightrope walker's moment of inertia by placing mass far away from the body's centre line (moment of inertia has units of mass times the square of distance).
As a result, any small wobbles about the equilibrium position happen more slowly. They have a longer time period of oscillation (the period of small oscillations about a stable equilibrium increases as the square root of the moment of inertia) and the walker has more time to respond and restore the equilibrium.
To convince yourself that this really works, you don't need to do a blindfolded tightrope walk 150m above the ground. Simply compare how easy it is to balance a one metre ruler on your finger compared with a ten centimetre ruler.
You can read more about the moment of inertia, as applied to space crafts and boomerangs, in these Plus articles.
October 23, 2014
The chorus of people singing happy birthday to Maths Inspiration today could be deafening, particularly if the 100,000 teenagers who have been lucky enough to go along to these shows over the last 10 years join in!
Maths Inspiration, set up by Plus's good friend Rob Eastaway, is a fantastic project that runs interactive maths shows all over the UK. The shows are for 14-17 year olds and demonstrate how maths is useful beyond school. And they do more than that, they make maths cool! The shows are held in some of the most prestigious theatres in the country, including The Palace Theatre in London, The Crucible in Sheffield and The Bristol Hippodrome, and feature comedians, teachers, musicians, space scientists, stadium designers, medical professionals, and fitness instructors, who all also happen to be mathematicians. Each show features several talks on topics ranging from roller coasters to the maths used to convict criminals and is very interactive. Students are invited on stage to participate in demonstrations throughout the show.
And if you haven't had a chance to see one of their shows yet, you can still join the party. Their Autumn shows feature Rob Eastaway explaining what the competition between Coke and Pepsi can tell us about world peace, Hannah Fry examining how human connections can cause everything from the movement of crowds, to fashion, and can even help catch the odd burglar, and Ben Sparks will show why emotion, art and mathematics go hand in hand. You can book now at the Maths Inspiration website. And if you're not able to attend a show, you can still catch some of their shows on DVD.
From the Plus team and the 100,000 other lucky people to have seen your shows, Happy tenth birthday Maths Inspiration!
You can read more on Plus about Maths Inspiration in Maths inspires a roller coaster ride and many articles by Rob Eastawy as well as reviews of his great books.


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With the increasing advances in hardware technology for data collection, and advances in software technology (databases) for data organization, computer scientists have increasingly participated in the latest advancements of the outlier analysis field. Computer scientists, specifically, approach this field based on their practical experiences in managing large amounts of data, and with far fewer assumptions– the data can be of any type, structured or unstructured, and may be extremely large. Outlier Analysis is a comprehensive exposition, as understood by data mining experts, statisticians and computer scientists. The book has been organized carefully, and emphasis was placed on simplifying the content, so that students and practitioners can also benefit. Chapters will typically cover one of three areas: methods and techniques commonly used in outlier analysis, such as linear methods, proximity-based methods, subspace methods, and supervised methods; data domains, such as, text, categorical, mixed-attribute, time-series, streaming, discrete sequence, spatial and network data; and key applications of these methods as applied to diverse domains such as credit card fraud detection, intrusion detection, medical diagnosis, earth science, web log analytics, and social network analysis are covered.
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- An Introduction to Outlier Analysis.
- Probabilistic and Statistical Models for Outlier Detection.
- Linear Models for Outlier Detection.
- Proximity
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- Dimensional Outlier Detection: The Subspace Method.
- Supervised Outlier Detection.
- Outlier Detection in Categorical, Text and Mixed Attribute Data.
- Time Series and Multidimensional Streaming Outlier Detection.
- Outlier Detection in Discrete Sequences.
- Spatial Outlier Detection.
- Outlier Detection in Graphs and Networks.
- Applications of Outlier Analysis.
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William Shakespeare
Hamlet is an enigma. No matter how many ways critics examine him, no absolute truth emerges. Hamlet breathes with the multiple dimensions of a living human being, and everyone understands him in a personal way. Hamlet's challenge to Guildenstern rings true for everyone who seeks to know him: "You would pluck out the heart of my mystery." None of us ever really does.
The conundrum that is Hamlet stems from the fact that every time we look at him, he is different. In understanding literary characters, just as in understanding real people, our perceptions depend on what we bring to the investigation. Hamlet is so complete a character that, like an old friend or relative, our relationship to him changes each time we visit him, and he never ceases to surprise us. Therein lies the secret to the enduring love affair audiences have with him. They never tire of the intrigue.
The paradox of Hamlet's nature draws people to the character. He is at once the consummate iconoclast, in self-imposed exile from Elsinore Society, while, at the same time, he is the adulated champion of Denmark — the people's hero. He has no friends left, but Horatio loves him unconditionally. He is angry, dejected, depressed, and brooding; he is manic, elated, enthusiastic, and energetic. He is dark and suicidal, a man who loathes himself and his fate. Yet, at the same time, he is an existential thinker who accepts that he must deal with life on its own terms, that he must choose to meet it head on. "We defy augury. There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow."
Hamlet not only participates in his life, but astutely observes it as well. He recognizes the decay of the Danish society (represented by his Uncle Claudius), but also understands that he can blame no social ills on just one person. He remains aware of the ironies that constitute human endeavor, and he savors them. Though he says, "Man delights not me," the contradictions that characterize us all intrigue him. "What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god!"
As astutely as he observes the world around him, Hamlet also keenly critiques himself. In his soliloquys he upbraids himself for his failure to act as well as for his propensity for words.
Hamlet is infuriatingly adept at twisting and manipulating words. He confuses his so-called friends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern — whom he trusts as he "would adders fang'd" — with his dissertations on ambition, turning their observations around so that they seem to admire beggars more than their King. And he leads them on a merry chase in search of Polonius' body. He openly mocks the dottering Polonius with his word plays, which elude the old man's understanding. He continually spars with Claudius, who recognizes the danger of Hamlet's wit but is never smart enough to defend himself against it.
Words are Hamlet's constant companions, his weapons, and his defenses. In Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, a play that was later adapted into a film, playwright and screenplaywright Tom Stoppard imagines the various wordplays in Hamlet as games. In one scene, his characters play a set of tennis where words serve as balls and rackets. Hamlet is certainly the Pete Sampras of wordplay.
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I wrote this because of my love for dogs and the cruelty they endure at the hand of man.
Stick cracks hard across my back
hunger, taunted, teased
caged without affection
never knowing what love is
mankind your cruelty
will not be discharged
you starve my needs
my hate augments
as I witness
others feed
you yell and kick and spit on me
as I lay quiet and cringing
on the ground
I want to please that's all I know
explain the wrongs I've done
humiliation, lack of worth have I
the life not born to lead
don't pit me against my adversary
this is what I silently plea
my limbs are weak
my body writhes each day
in pain, battle-scarred, agony
let me sleep
to not wake up again
I beg you stop this
bets are laid I'm dragged outside
the sunlight hurts my eyes
I have so much hate
churning through me
hate I cannot hide
laughter heard from men that stand
and taunt and scream the word 'kill'
please don't let me continue this
stop me now, I will
be the dog that you could love
not filled with animosity
I was born to love
give pleasure to the one
that owned and comforted me
I pace the ring do as I'm told
like a boxer ready for the fight
the other lurches teeth in my neck
latches on with all his mite
I beg you stop this
my blood pours and hits the ground
each droplet make men roar
I fight only to defend, relieve me
of this now
Wounds are left to heal alone
sores infest blood dried on skin
lick my cuts to try and heal
ready for the next battle
What pleasure can be found
in this 'sport' this blood thirst act
I struggle, don't understand
as you witness, laugh, applaud
who will be the last to stand
Man is cruel I've learnt through time
to continue this atrocious game
I just want love and to be held
I will never be the same
Please Let Us Try to Stop Dog – Fighting…or any animal fighting.
A useless, senseless and disgusting act by the most cruel and depraved individuals, for their pleasure, for a bet … just to see a dog pulling another to shreds….


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Seven Wonders
How could gardens grow in the middle of the desert? Find out in this BrainPOP movie, as Tim and Moby introduce you to the seven wonders of the ancient world! You'll discover when and where each of the seven monuments was built, and how some of them may have been constructed. Find out which was built as a tomb for someone's wife; which collapsed during an earthquake; which was the first lighthouse ever built; which is still standing; and which was the tallest building in the world until the 19th century. Finally, you'll discover who created the first list of wonders and why some structures were left off. What will future civilizations remember about us?
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I have two servers, 18.104.22.168 and 220.127.116.11, that were connected across a LAN. They are the components of a DMZ where 22.214.171.124 is the wen server and 18.104.22.168 the application server. 220.127.116.11 is running Ubuntu 11.04 while 220.127.116.11 is running Ubuntu 11.10. I had to restart 18.104.22.168 because Unity froze up. (I have since replaced it with Gnome.) Ever since I started it up again, I cannot get connectivity with 188.8.131.52. When I try
I getping 126.96.36.199
PING 126.96.36.199 (184.108.40.206) 56(84) bytes of data.
That is, it just hangs. I get the same result if I try
ping 188.8.131.52
on 18.104.22.168.
I had been saving my iptables in iptables.save but now I see that that fie is of zero size for some reason although I had a lot of rules in the IPtable. I tried to fix the problem with
sudo iptables -A OUTPUT -s 18.104.22.168 -j ACCEPT
sudo iptables -A OUTPUT -d 188.8.131.52 -j ACCEPT
sudo iptables -A INPUT -s 18.104.22.168 -j ACCEPT
sudo iptables -A INPUT -d 126.96.36.199 -j ACCEPT
but it has no effect.
Any assistance would be most appreciated,


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Grrrip Big Dog Leash is made of strong 1"W nylon webbing, with a breaking strength of 6,000 lb and nickel-plated snap hook. Read More
Colors: Pink, Red, Blue or Black
- Brand: Grrrip
- Form: Leash
- Breaking Strength: 6000 lb
- Color: Pink,Red,Blue,Black
- Size: 6'
Reviews (11)
"One of the best"
this leash is amazing, love the low handle by the neck, able to keep our larger dog in control and love that this leash is long so she can walk ahead of us without us having to run and keep up! will be buying more for ourother large dogs!
"Great Leash"
When you weigh 150 lbs and so does your Newfoundland, it gives you more control having the short handle. Difference of having control of the dog or being drug behind him on a long leash.
"Perfect for Crossing Street"
I have a 90 lbs Doberman puppy. With this leash I am able to control her while crossing the street and keep her close as well as give her room while walking. Very well made. Now that I have this I will never use another type of leash again.
"Practical Leash"
For anyone with large dogs, especially if you live in an urban area, this is the leash you should use.
"Great Quality"
I have a borzoi that is a bit dominate with other dogs. The quality of this item is amazing. And having the ability to bring the dog in so close and so fast and so safe is perfection.
"love this leash"
I have a 95lb half rottie and this leash is wonderful. I can keep her up close when needed or give her space when ok to do so. I am a senior citizen and my arthritic hands have trouble holding a regular leash tight enough. They slip thru my hand and cause burns on my fingers, this solves that completely. Would never buy a different leash again. Wish they came in more colors.
I got a rottweiler puppy and was looking on this site for toys. I was looking at about everything else and I saw this leash. If it hadn't have had a pic of a rottie I probably wouldn't have noticed it because I didn't need a leash. I had 3. This is a great price for this so I ordered one. It is great!!! I no longer have to wrap the leash around my arm 5 times and have leash burn from being pulled. Its great to use if you are taking your dog for a walk if a car goes by, people.. easy to keep them close to you. Great for training to walk on a leash also. I got another rottie last week and I just got on here to order another! Very stong and sturdy leash.
"Great Training Lead"
I bought this lead to help train my Australian Shepherd mix to stop pulling, and it works great! Lets me have control over him when he gets overly excited, and has worked well in training him. He now stays right by my side without pulling. Great lead!
"Controls 110 lbs"
"I would not take my German shepherd out with any other lead. She is not ""dog friendly"" and I have to be in control at all times. This lead does just that. I would recommend this to anyone with an adult dog that is not super friendly."
"Good Control"
I purchased this for keeping my pup under control during walks, as he pulls pretty badly sometimes. It is GREAT for keeping him just at my side when I need to. The only drawback for me is that I don't let him have full rein of any leash, so I have to wrap the excess around my hand, and it is a 6 foot leash, so it makes my hand a little sweaty and uncomfortable. Other then that, it's a great product.
"Great Leash"
Love this leash. Allows me to keep my lab by my side comfortably with better control, but also enough leash length for more walking room. My favorite leash.


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My favorite would have to be the Nu Wa cosplay
My favorite would have to be the Nu Wa cosplay
Freya for me. No competition.
Artemis. I think I see boobies.
Hel, she's hot and i like the tits!
Freya and Thor so epic ... i like it
My favorite one is Chang'E! I simply adore the princess-like dress and the weirdness of the hair accessory
My favourite is Aphrodite
really digging that Aphrodite if you know what I'm saying
Nemesis is my favorite. And I think this is her cosplay page. Xd https://www.facebook.com/foxyRoulette
My favorite was Freya for being the most accurate depiction of the ingame character (both costume and physique)!!


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You can distribute digital goods in your application by using a number of different license models (some of which are supported by the Payment Service). Depending on the license models that your application uses, you may want to customize the way you present purchase options to reflect which digital goods were purchased already.
Digital goods that are registered as consumable must be purchased by a user for each use. For example, in a virtual world simulation, you could sell tickets to a virtual attraction or feed for a virtual animal. The Payment Service does not set any controls on the number of times that a user can purchase these goods.
Digital goods that are registered as non-consumable are purchased only once by a user. The Payment Service server blocks subsequent purchases by the user. In this scenario, you might want to provide a way for users to see their purchase history. By invoking PaymentEngine.getExistingPurchases(), you can retrieve purchase records from the BlackBerry device and the Payment Service server that contain information about a user's past purchases. For more information about retrieving a record of past purchases, see Retrieving information about past purchases.
When you offer a non-consumable digital good, you must ensure that the digital goods are available through your application for a specific period of time after the user downloads the application. To view the required minimum time period in the Research In Motion SDK License agreement, visit http://us.blackberry.com/developers/legal.jsp.
You must also make sure that digital goods are still available if the user reinstalls the application or switches devices. Digital goods are not automatically restored, so it is up to you to make sure that users can download these digital goods again.
Digital goods that are registered as a subscription are purchased initially by a user, and the user is charged at regular intervals for continued use of the goods. When you register subscription-based digital goods, you must specify an initial fee and usage period, as well as a renewal fee and usage period. Users are charged the initial fee when they purchase the digital goods and can use the digital goods for the initial period of time. Users are then charged the renewal fee each time the usage period elapses so that they can continue to use the digital goods.
You can implement a trial period for your subscription-based digital goods by not specifying an initial fee. Users can download your digital goods and use them free of charge for the trial period and are charged after the trial period ends.
To purchase subscription-based digital goods in your application, users must be running BlackBerry App World storefront 3.1.


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En español | Q. I know that Social Security provides monthly benefits for widows and widowers and their children. Can you explain how this program works?
A. The Social Security Administration (SSA) is best known for providing retirement benefits to 38 million Americans. The SSA also plays a less-noticed but equally significant role by providing financial help to Americans who have lost loved ones.
Under Social Security law, when a person who has worked and paid Social Security taxes dies, certain members of that person's family may be eligible for survivor benefits.
As a result, there are now about 5 million widows and widowers receiving monthly benefits from Social Security based on the earnings records of their deceased spouses. Benefits also go to many children of deceased workers.
Below is a list of who may be eligible to receive survivor benefits. Please be aware that the rules are complicated and the best source for personal information is Social Security at 1-800-772-1213 from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday to Friday.
For more information, see: "Planning for Your Survivors."
Widows and widowers
- Widows and widowers who have reached full retirement age generally receive 100 percent of the spouse's benefit.
- They can take reduced survivor benefits as early as age 60-- or age 50 if disabled.
- If they are under full retirement age, they receive about 71.5 to 99 percent of the worker's benefit.
- They can receive benefits at any age if they take care of the deceased's child if the child is under age 16 or disabled. The individual caring for the child receives 75 percent of the worker's benefit.
Unmarried children
- Benefits can be paid to unmarried children under 18, or up to age 19, if they are attending high school full time. The child receives 75 percent of the worker's benefit.
- Under certain circumstances, benefits can be paid to stepchildren, grandchildren or adopted children. Benefits can be paid to children at any age if they were disabled before age 22 and remain disabled.
Dependent parents
- Benefits can be paid to dependent parents who are age 62 and older. For parents to qualify as dependents, the deceased worker -- that is, the son or daughter --would have had to provide at least one-half of the parent's financial support.
Divorced spouses
- If your divorced spouse dies, you can receive benefits as a widow or widower if the marriage lasted 10 years or more, you are age 60 or older (age 50 if disabled). Rules may vary if you remarry.


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|National Police Week Kicks Off Early in Avery
|Written by Steve Frank
|Monday, 13 May 2013 07:09
It's National Police week, and communities across the United States are coming together to honor and remember those law enforcement officers who made the ultimate sacrifice, as well as the family members, friends and fellow officers they left behind. That memory is all too new for Watauga
County residents, with the death of Deputy William Mast Jr. still fresh on the minds of the community. Saturday, Avery County law enforcement held their ceremony to the fallen, reading names of those killed, and family of Avery's most recent law enforcement death, deputy, Lt. Glenn Harold Hicks of the Avery Sheriff's Office, were called forward during the ceremony, then laid the wreath at the marker on the courthouse lawn. Hicks died a decade ago in an ambush while called to an incident. Wednesday is National Peace Officers Memorial Day, and this year, the names of 320 officers killed in the line of duty are being added to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, DC. These 320 officers include 119 officers who were killed during 2012, plus 201 officers who died in previous years but whose stories of sacrifice had been lost to history until now.
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President Barroso visits the European GNSS Agency (GSA) in Prague Publié le: 03/04/2013, Dernière mise à jour: 04/04/2013
President Barroso visits the European GNSS Agency in Prague.
On Wednesday 3 April, the President of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso visited the headquarters of the European Global Navigation and Satellite System (GNSS) Agency (GSA) in Prague.
During his visit, Mr Barroso emphasized amongst other things the importance of the Space sector and of the Galileo programme for the European citizens and Enterprises.
- The European GNSS Agency (GSA) manages public interests related to European GNSS programmes. The Agency's strategic objectives include the achievement of a fully operational GALILEO system, creating the world's leading satellite navigation system for civilian applications;
- GNSS is the acronym for 'Global Navigation Satellite System';
- Galileo is the name of the European Satellite Navigation programme.


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- Northern New York Newspapers
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LOWVILLE The Town Council will seek public comment next month on a proposed law that would ban large-scale manure digesters and regulate small ones.
After that, well sit down and digest what is presented, Supervisor Randall A. Schell said during the boards monthly meeting Thursday.
Councilmen set a public hearing on the proposed law for 11 a.m. May 16, with a hearing on a tentative law regulating solar energy systems set for 11:15 a.m. the same day.
Mr. Schell reported that the draft digester law had been sent to the state Department of Agriculture and Markets and that an official there expressed concerns with small-digester requirements, including setback distances and prohibition of any delivery of feedstock from off site.
He suggested that an exemption could be granted to farm operations in an agricultural district, the supervisor said.
Rather than make changes now, Mr. Schell suggested moving forward with the public hearing and including the Ag and Markets response as part of the official record.
The board still could tweak the law after the hearing, with another public hearing required only if substantial changes are made, according to town attorney Raymond A. Meier.
Councilmen in September floated an initial version of the law that would have regulated only siting of both small and large digesters. Several residents and the village Board of Trustees came out in opposition to the proposal, and the law was redrafted to prohibit such digesters.
Concerns cited in the law include the difficulty of monitoring pathogens in trucked-in waste, odor and noise from digester operation, increased truck traffic, potential for hauling through residential areas, possibility of spills on roads and emission of greenhouse gases, nitrogen, sulfur oxides, carbon monoxide, ammonia and particulate matter on a much larger scale than with small anaerobic digesters.
Small, on-farm digesters defined as those using manure generated from a single farm to generate energy for that farm would be allowed as an accessory agricultural use, as long as they are on lots of 10 acres or larger with setbacks of at least 100 feet from roads and other side and rear property lines and 300 feet from neighboring homes.
Town officials have been working on a digester law for some time, partly in response to a proposal by CH4 Biogas, Atlantic Beach, Fla., to site a commercial digester in the Lowville area. The town last year denied a zoning change that would have been needed to site the project in Lowville, and Kraft opted not to work with CH4 after retaining a low-cost power agreement through the ReCharge NY program.
Meanwhile, the proposed solar law would set height, setback and other limits for small-scale systems, while large systems with a capacity of more than 25 kilowatts could be sited only on a lot of 100 acres or more, with the project footprint allowed to occupy only up to half the lot size.
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New YouTube Homepage Launches
You may have noticed we've been experimenting with a new YouTube homepage. After countless user studies and community surveys, one thing came in loud and clear: the homepage in its current form doesn't mean much to most of you, and could be more personally relevant. So the goal of this experiment was to put more of an emphasis on 'videos for you'.
To pave the way for this experiment, we removed some of the less-used modules such as 'Videos Being Watched Now'. Then we moved modules like 'Spotlight' and 'Featured Videos' over to the right side. All of these changes were to make room for a combined list of personally relevant videos made up of recommendations for you, your subscriptions activity, and videos being shared by your friends.
Recently we opened up the experimental homepage to anyone who wanted to try it out. Millions of users opted in and now have this new version set as their homepage. Many of the people who tried the experimental homepage filled out our feedback form. While not everyone loved it, most people thought the new homepage was better than the old homepage.
Here are some of the enhancements offered by the new homepage (logged in users only):
- Increased focus on videos that matter to you (subscriptions, friend's sharing, recommendations)
- You can easily filter your homepage to show only the latest uploads from your subscriptions
- Don't miss anything; if a channel uploads four videos in a day, you'll see all four - instead of just the latest video
- Quick access to the inbox when you have new messages or comments
- Knows what you have seen (videos you've watched are grayed out)
- Remove any video (hover and click the "x" button)
Although some of you might miss some features, we think this latest version is a step in the right direction. It's simpler, more personal, and it makes it easier to follow and watch the videos that are meaningful to you. So today we're rolling out this new homepage for all logged in users worldwide.
We're dedicated to making YouTube the best place for you to discover and share great videos. Please send us your feedback in a video, in the forums, on this blog or on Twitter. As always, we'll be listening and taking your feedback very seriously.
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Blood on the leaves and blood at the root
Abel Meeropol, 1936
Pisgah Forest in North Carolina's transylvania County may seem like an odd place for human health fortunes to have pivoted, but there's something to be said for it. Here in the fall of 1953 an experiment was conducted that would change how tobacco companies viewed the world, demonstrating to their apparent satisfaction that cigarettes can cause cancer. The setting was the Ecusta Paper Corporation, the nation's leading supplier of rolling paper for the American tobacco industry. For more than ten years the company had been churning out the thin white papers that, when rolled into cylinders around chopped fermented tobacco leaf, got smoked in the form of cigarettes. Cigarette paper wasn't their only product: the company also produced paper for Bibles and financial forms. Death and taxes in a Bible sandwich, good coverage, vertical integration.
KNoWLEDGE, LIKE IGNoRANCE, HAS A GEoGRAPHy
A great deal of attention has been given to when the tobacco industry could have—or at least should have—known that smoking was killing people. The question has become of substantial legal interest, given the many recent lawsuits in which the timing of such events takes center stage. Historians are being asked to testify to whether the industry acted properly in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, when the tobacco Institute, the Council for Tobacco Research, and other industry bodies routinely dismissed claims that cigarettes could cause cancer or any other malady. Historians are being asked to judge at what point it is reasonable to talk about a "consensus" or "state of the art" regarding knowledge of such hazards and by what time it was no longer legitimate to ignore or dismiss such hazards.
These are not trivial questions, and it is often not even possible to say when a particular body of evidence becomes convincing or "indisputable"without also asking, convincing for whom? And to what level of certainty? Our answers will depend on the community whose knowledge pulse we are taking, and we shouldn't be surprised if discoveries are received differently in different parts of "the" scientific community—whose homogeneity is easy to exaggerate. Methods are not always uniformly appreciated, and different disciplinary communities can have very different prejudices or investments. Why should we expect new scientific findings to permeate every discipline at precisely the same rate? The presumption of a singular and well-defined state of the art is an ahistorical construct lawyers have to deal with, as part of their job of dividing the world into tidy packages of innocence and guilt. The law is more digital than analog, with nuance often the first casualty.
One way to approach such questions is to distinguish between public claims and private communications, with the former represented by, say, press releases and the latter by the millions of internal industry documents divulged in the course of litigation, most ofwhich are nowavailable online at http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu. This is an unparalleled historical archive—indeed a treasure—that scholars have only just begun to explore and from which we get a good sense of the changing status of knowledge within the industry.
Publicly, the industry is notorious for having refused, time and again, to admit the health hazards of cigarettes—until the final years of the twentieth century. As late as 1994 the CEOs of the nation's seven leading manufacturers—the "Seven Dwarfs"—all stood up before theU.S. Congress and swore they did not believe that cigarettes caused cancer or were addictive. Then again, in 1998, PhilipMorris CEO Geoffrey Bible testified under oath, "I do not believe that cigarette smoking causes cancer." Bible conceded a "possible risk" but not a "proven cause," the distinction lying in a kind of legal having-it-both-ways: an admission strong enough to ward off accusations of having failed to warn, yet weak enough to exculpate from charges of having marketed a deadly product.
Privately, however, the companies were already discussing tobacco as a potential carcinogen by the 1940s. Industry scientists were keenly interested in the evidence starting to show that smoking could cause cancer and took limited steps to identify and remove whatever offending agents could be found in cigarettes. The goal for a time (beginning already in the 1930s) was to create a "safe" or at least a "safer" cigarette—though this was rarely expressed in public, given the reluctance to admit that tobacco was at all unsafe. And once the decision had beenmade to deny all evidence of harms—in 1953—it was difficult (for legal reasons) to stray very far from this path. Management must have known that the sordid admissions would eventually have to bemade, but the hope was that this could be delayed into the indefinite future, into someone else's watch. It's as if they were operating a gigantic—and deadly—oncologic Ponzi scheme.
So when did the industry realize it was killing people? That turns out to depend on what you mean by "the industry." Even if we restrict our attention to manufacturers in the United States, it is difficult to establish a uniform time scale for the acceptance or recognition of hazards, since we are talking about large and complex organizations with tens of thousands of employees. Did tobacco growers know as early as the chemists employed in the industry's research laboratories? (Surely not.) What about theworkers mixing the flavorants, or the lawyers guarding against lawsuits, or the CEOs running the show?
The tobaccomen eventually came to speak with a single voice, but this required painstaking planning by some of the best brains of American hucksterism. Coordination was not without certain risks, of course, since the industry had been reeling from charges of collusion since 1911, when "Buck" Duke's American tobacco empire was broken up through exercise of the Sherman Anti-trust Act. Even after dismemberment the companies had to ward off charges of illegitimate consort—there are examples from the 1930s and 1940s—and the perennial threat of regulation. This was a clear and present danger into the 1950s, and the stakes must have been high for the companies to risk yet another charge of collusion, as they did on December 14, 1953, when CEOs from the nation's leading tobacco makers met at the Plaza Hotel in Manhattan to plan a response to escalating publicity of a cigarette–cancer link. Paul M.Hahn, president of the American Tobacco Company, had organized the meeting, knowing that the industry could well be fighting for its life. And it was here, with the aid of the public relations firm Hill & Knowlton, that the industry decided to launch its infamous "Not Yet Proven" campaign of distraction, false reassurance, and manufactured ignorance.
We also have to recognize, though, that smoking causes myriad different kinds of disease and that evidence for these various links comes at different points in time. Attention is often focused on cancer, but that is partly for legal reasons, having to do with the fact that it is easier to litigate a relatively monocausal disease (like lung cancer) than a malady with varied and diverse causes (such as heart disease). Tobacco kills more people via cardiac arrest, but since a higher fraction of all lung cancers are traceable to smoking, it is easier to win a legal case on the cancer front than on the (messier) field of the cardiovascular. Ninety percent of all lung cancers are caused by smoking, compared with only about a third of all heart attacks. This also seems to have influenced tobacco historiography; there is much more written about tobacco cancer than tobacco heart disease. Or emphysema or chronic bronchitis.
The lung cancer focus, though, is not unjustified. Smoking causes many other kinds of tumors—lip, throat, esophagus, tongue, gums, jaw, even bladder and female breast—but pulmonary malignancies are the quintessential calling card of smokers, killing about 160,000 Americans every year and more than ten times this globally.
So when was it realized that smoking causes lung cancer? The question is deceptively complex, and our answer will depend on what stage in the process of medical discovery we want to highlight.
Excerpted from Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition Copyright © 2012 by Robert N. Proctor. Excerpted with permission by University of California Press.


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In "Distance and Virtual Learning in the United States," Peter J. Dirr suggests that the present-day virtual learning is the fourth phase of an evolutionary process that began with correspondence courses in the 19th century, progressed to televised courses in the 1950s and then went on to online postsecondary courses in the late 1980s. In fact, the term "distance learning" encompasses a wide variety of learning modes, including:
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One of the most recent developments in the provision of distance learning is the proliferation of virtual charter schools. State and local education leaders have expressed concern that virtual charter institutions may not be able to adequately monitor, for funding purposes, whether students are indeed attending "class," and whether students logging on are in-district students or are perhaps private or home-schooled students not registered with the district but participating free of charge in the state-funded courses. Online charter schools are currently the subject of litigation in Pennsylvania and Ohio.
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When: Friday, October 7, 1:00 p.m.
Opponent: Los Angeles Kings (in Stockholm, Sweden)
UPDATE: Here's today's lineup:
Brandon Dubinsky/Brad Richards/Marian Gaborik
Ruslan Fedotenko/Artem Anisimov/Ryan Callahan
Wojtek Wolski/Derek Stepan/Mats Zuccarello
Mike Rupp/Brian Boyle/Brandon Prust
Ryan McDonagh-Dan Girardi
Michael Del Zotto-Mike Sauer
Steve Eminger-Tim Erixon
EARLIER: Today the New York Rangers will open their season
against the Los Angeles Kings, a team that shares many similarities with them.
Both teams have teetered on the edge of the playoff picture in
recent years, both teams made a huge acquisition that is expected to change
their fortunes this season and both teams were without their star defenseman
for most of training camp.
The Los Angeles Kings finished seventh in the Western
Conference in 2010-2011 and while the Rangers were ousted by the Washington
Capitals in the first round of the playoffs, the Kings were eliminated by another
powerhouse, the San Jose Sharks.
The Rangers had just returned to the playoffs after barely
missing out on the postseason in 2009-2010 while Los Angeles, another young
team, barely made the playoffs each of the last two seasons.
Each team entered the summer seeking to upgrade its talent in
order take the next step. Kings GM Dean
Lombardi attempted to snag both Brad and Mike Richards, but in the end he
settled for the ex-Flyer captain that is expected to act as a co-pilot for Anze
Kopitar to propel the Kings to the next level. Brad ended up with the Rangers and is expected to revitalize the career
of Slovakian sniper Marian Gaborik.
For each team, expectations entering training camp were sky
The Kings' only problem was a familiar one to New York –
their No. 1 defenseman wasn't a participant in training camp.
The Kings finally brought 21-year-old defenseman Drew
Doughty back into the fold when they signed him on September 29th to an
eight-year, $56 million deal, a number surpassed this summer only by Brad Richards'
deal with the Blueshirts. New York is
still sorely missing Marc Staal, out with post-concussion symptoms and will be
forced to open the season with a patchwork blueline.
Without Staal, enthusiasm for the Rangers' potential has been
But the Blueshirts are still a solid team and today's tilt with the Kings should be a good measuring stick of just where this team
stands without its best defensive player.
The pressure will be on rookie defenseman Tim Erixon to
handle the likes of Kopitar, Richards, Dustin Brown and Justin Williams, but as
usual New York will also rely on goaltender Henrik Lundqvist to keep the Kings
off the scoreboard.
The hope is that with the addition of Richards, the Rangers
may have the firepower to match Los Angeles, even with Staal out of the lineup.
The much anticipated debut of the Richards-Gaborik tandem could
be the big story of the first game and Brandon Dubinsky will get first crack on
their left side. How that trio performs
could dictate how line combinations are constructed from here on out.
Both teams are widely expected to make the playoffs and some
even believe that each is ready to compete for the division crown. Like the Rangers, Los Angeles has some mighty
foes to overcome to rise in the Western Conference. Perennial juggernauts Detroit, Vancouver,
Chicago and San Jose still have to be considered the favorites, but the Kings
may be next in line.
If New York is still hoping to follow a similar arc, the
team will need to show that it can survive temporarily without its star
The Kings will provide a major test, but it's one that a supposedly
improved Rangers' squad should be up for.
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Open Cloud Workshop, April 10, from 2:00 to 5:30pmThis workshop will be organized and co-ordinated by OW2, and will be open to other open cloud communities. It will offer to attendees a mix of panel discussion and presentations given by experts from the open cloud community at large. About the Open Cloud Workshop:
The Open Cloud is reaching public and private infrastructures, offering a new flexibility to local, national and global IT projects. Innovation takes place around technical and collaborative projects federating ISVs, scientific and industrial research groups. They rely on cloud standards such as OCCI, CIMI and CDMI to improve data portability and service interoperability over heterogenous infrastructures. To seize the latest Open Cloud opportunities, visit Cloud Computing World Expo, April 10-11, in Paris and join the April 10th afternoon free Open Cloud Workshop, designed and co-ordinated by the OW2 OSCi (Open Source Cloudware initiative) and gathering many open cloud projects, experts and communities. PROGRAM Panel 2:00pm: OCEAN Project: the first Open Cloud Who's who - more
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Readers need to be aware of at least two basic things. First off, an idealised 'black body' (which gives of radiation in a very uniform and predictable way as a function of temperature – encapsulated in the Stefan-Boltzmann equation) has a basic sensitivity (at Earth's radiating temperature) of about 0.27 °C/(W/m2). That is, a change in radiative forcing of about 4 W/m2 would give around 1°C warming. The second thing to know is that the Earth is not a black body! On the real planet, there are multitudes of feedbacks that affect other greenhouse components (ice alebdo, water vapour, clouds etc.) and so the true issue for climate sensitivity is what these feedbacks amount to.
So here's the first trick. Ignore all the feedbacks – then you will obviously get to a number that is close to the 'black body' calculation. Duh! Any calculation that lumps together water vapour and CO2 is effectively doing this (and if anyone is any doubt about whether water vapour is forcing or a feedback, I'd refer them to this older post).
As we explain in our glossary item, climatologists use the concept of radiative forcing and climate sensitivity because it provides a very robust predictive tool for knowing what model results will be, given a change of forcing. The climate sensitivity is an output of complex models (it is not decided ahead of time) and it doesn't help as much with the details of the response (i.e. regional patterns or changes in variance), but it's still quite useful for many broad brush responses. Empirically, we know that for a particular model, once you know its climate sensitivity you can easily predict how much it will warm or cool if you change one of the forcings (like CO2 or solar). We also know that the best definition of the forcing is the change in flux at the tropopause, and that the most predictable diagnostic is the global mean surface temperature anomaly. Thus it is natural to look at the real world and see whether there is evidence that it behaves in the same way (and it appears to, since model hindcasts of past changes match observations very well).
So for our next trick, try dividing energy fluxes at the surface by temperature changes at the surface. As is obvious, this isn't the same as the definition of climate sensitivity – it is in fact the same as the black body (no feedback case) discussed above – and so, again it's no surprise when the numbers come up as similar to the black body case.
But we are still not done! The next thing to conviently forget is that climate sensitivity is an equilibrium concept. It tells you the temperature that you get to eventually. In a transient situation (such as we have at present), there is a lag related to the slow warm up of the oceans, which implies that the temperature takes a number of decades to catch up with the forcings. This lag is associated with the planetary energy imbalance and the rise in ocean heat content. If you don't take that into account it will always make the observed 'sensitivity' smaller than it should be. Therefore if you take the observed warming (0.6°C) and divide by the estimated total forcings (~1.6 +/- 1W/m2) you get a number that is roughly half the one expected. You can even go one better – if you ignore the fact that there are negative forcings in the system as well (cheifly aerosols and land use changes), the forcing from all the warming effects is larger still (~2.6 W/m2), and so the implied sensitivity even smaller! Of course, you could take the imbalance (~0.33 +/- 0.23 W/m2 in a recent paper) into account and use the total net forcing, but that would give you something that includes 3°C for 2xCO2 in the error bars, and that wouldn't be useful, would it?
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Party: Members of the St. Anthony Hospital Foundation celebrated "50 years of success," as noted on the party invitation, at a party at the Devon Energy Center. They invited donors to celebrate the anniversary.
Party: Members of the St. Anthony Hospital Foundation celebrated "50 years of success," as noted on the party invitation, at a party at the Devon Energy Center. They invited donors to celebrate the anniversary.
Party favors/flower arrangements: Miniature bottles of Champagne and chocolate truffles were party favors and bouquets of yellow calla lilies decorated the tables.
Seen: Judy Love, Lori and Joe Hodges, Kim and Michael Beaver, Denise and Dr. Jim Brinkworth, Larry Nichols, Sherry and Tim Rhodes, Barbara Brou, Lisa and Tony Vaughn, Karen and Rob Luke, Dr. Gigi Toma, Tom Wolfe, James Pickel, Debby and Paul Dudman, Jamie and Clay Farha, Linda and Duke Ligon, Tish and Mike Milligan and Susan and Dr. James Wendelken.
Dinner/shower: Beth Cook and Corey McCauley were honored at a dinner and couple's shower at Mamasita's. A taco bar was set up, complete with salsas and layered dips.
Theme: "Let's Fiesta." Centerpieces were sunflowers and colorful monogrammed orange and hot pink napkins added to the decor.
Hosts: Cathy and Mike Cross, Kelly Daviee, Susan and Carl Edwards, Amy and Eddie Edwards, Cyndi and Jim David, Shelley and Kent Studebaker, Marilyn and Jack Henley, Debbie and Ron McCord, Leslie Kidd, Mary and J. Robert Reneau and Gwen and Jack Vollbrecht.
Gift: The hosts gave the engaged couple, who will be married in April, a William Yeoward cake stand.
Guests: Ann and Zane Fleming, Johnson Edwards, Elaine and Chris Anderson, Katie O'Brien, Adam Goodrich, Mary Lynn Fryer, Hallie and Henley Sims, Jordan Kelley, Liz and Campbell Black, Anne and Jeff McQueen, Elizabeth and Tyler Holland and Jill Myatt and Trey Marler.
Birthday party: Bill Brown and Jim Markey were honorees at a 75th birthday party given by Mary Ann Markey, Susan Whittington, Marianne Brown and Kirsten Cash (wives and daughters of the guests of honor). The event was in the home of Kirsten and Ross Cash.
Cake/decorations: The cake had a photo of both of the honorees, and decorations included photos of them and fun facts from 1938.


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Deceptive practices conducted via the Internet continued to dominate the types of scams reported to the Utah Division of Consumer Protection during fiscal year 2008.
The con artists rely on the Internet to exploit the vulnerability of Utahns residing at locations throughout the state, pointed out the consumer protection division.
One factor contributing to the vulnerability of consumers focuses on the fact that the con artists make the pitches in the privacy of an individual's home, where the person feels less guarded.
People also tend to believe what they read and the method of payment for Internet transactions is simple as well as easy.
But unfortunately, consumers have little recourse in the event they fall victim to the deceptive practices, emphasized the state agency.
Common tactics frequently used by the Internet con artists include the unauthorized debiting of an individual's bank account, the automatic billing of monthly fees until cancellation notices are received and the failure to provide consumers with a three-day right of rescission.
To alleviate the risks of falling victim to E-commerce and Internet scams, the consumer protection division encourages Carbon County residents to:
â¢Check out the companies and offers prior to conducting business at the websites.
Dishonest individuals operate in the bricks and mortar world as well as on the Internet, indicated the state agency.
But online, people cannot judge an operator's trustworthiness with a gut-affirming look in the eye and it is remarkably simple for Internet scammers to impersonate a legitimate business.
â¢Never click on links or reply to an email, text or pop-up message requesting personal or financial information.
Identity thieves have obtained personal information from many victims at once by hacking into large databases managed by businesses or government agencies, explained the consumer protection agency.
While consumers cannot enjoy all benefits of the Internet without sharing limited personal information, local web visitors should exercise caution and deal only with familiar or trusted organizations.
People should never provide personal information before finding out how the data will be used and protected.
â¢Personally type bank and business web addresses into the browsers.
â¢Ignore email, text, pop-up or phone messages that asks people to call a number to update accounts or give personal information to access a refund.
Consumers should personally contact the bank numbers listed on financial statements and look up businesses in a telephone directory, noted the state agency.
â¢Complete independent research before shopping on an unfamiliar website.
Consumers should call the seller's telephone number before purchasing products or services online, advised the state agency. If people cannot find a working telephone number, they should shop at a different site.
â¢Type the web address into a search engine and avoid doing business with the seller if unfavorable reviews are posted on the website.
â¢Consider using a software toolbar that rates websites and warns consumers if the seller has received unfavorable reports from experts or Internet visitors.
Some reputable companies provide free tools that may alert Internet visitors if a web address is a known phishing site or is used to distribute spyware, noted the consumer protection agency.
â¢Never provide personal or financial information through a company's website when shopping online before checking for indicators that the site is secure.
The indicators include a lock icon on the browser's status bar or a website URL beginning with https. The S in the address stands for secure, explained the consumer protection agency.
Unfortunately, no indicator is foolproof, warned the state agency. Some scammers have forged security icons. And some hackers have managed to breach sites that took appropriate security precautions.
â¢Read website privacy policies.
The privacy policies should clearly define the range of personal information the website collects.
The policies should also explain how the site intends to use the data and whether the personal information will be provided to third parties, concluded the state consumer protection division.
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08/29/07: Plastic People Hit the US!
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Alternative Tentacles has co-released (with AK Press) Ward Churchill's In A Pig's Eye - Reflections on the Police State, Repression and Native America and Pacifism As Pathology spoken word cds, and carries various Churchill books in our on-line store.
"There are many people in this country, and in this administration, who claim that those who have opposed the invasion of Iraq are unpatriotic (at best) and treasonous (at worst). Indeed, the USA PATRIOT Act, passed unanimously by Congress, stipulates penalties for criticism of the government. Patriotism, to the framers of the act, means supporting the decisions of our political leaders and that dissent is un-American. Protesters at presidential appearances have been routinely herded into "free speech zones" where their signs and slogans are only seen by the encircling cordon of police. This in spite of the fact that there is no mention in the Constitution that free speech is to be confined to a zone. Pretty soon cars will be sporting retro-sixties "America: Love it or Leave it!" bumper stickers. This attitude, however, only calls attention to one of this nation's most conspicuous failings-pervasive historical illiteracy. We need to recognize that dissent is American, that protest is patriotic. It is, in fact, one of the fundamental traits that define us...
The English colonies in North America were founded on dissent, and almost immediately after religious dissenters arrived in Massachusetts Bay voices of protest rose up against the puritan authorities. Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams were banished for their views during the first decade of settlement. Let us also remember the patriots who fought the American Revolution to establish independence from a government that was not responsive to the needs of its colonial subjects, and reflect on the ideals expressed in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. None of this was accomplished without a great deal of debate, dissent, protest, argument, resistance. None of it was easy. But somehow we did evolve into a country "of the people, by the people, for the people." Or did we?...
Today the American people are torn by an ill-advised war and occupation led by leaders who, in seeking to stifle the sort of healthy debate a democracy requires, do not seem to understand, indeed, who seem to shun, our own history. Many of those who opposed the war not only wanted to give peace a chance, but also take back the American government which appears to have been hijacked by ultra-rightist hawks. Neoconservatives have taken control of a United States which has historically prided itself in its values of peace, democracy, equality, freedom, and anti-imperialism, and, in the process, they are systematically eroding (if not actually demolishing) those ideals. There is nothing "conservative" about them. And the results of the 2006 mid-term elections seem, at first glance, to indicate that many American conservatives have repudiated the neoconservative ideology.
A democracy depends on an educated, well-informed citizenry. It also depends on educated well-informed leaders who are deeply connected and committed to cherishing, conserving, and nurturing the ideals which we believe set us apart. But those currently in power are not caretakers of the "American Dream." Will they be judged by history, like the despoilers of the pharaohs' tombs, as looters who have drained all meaning from the treasures of American democracy? Has "democracy" indeed become a radical notion?
If we get to the point where not only the international community, but even American citizens view the United States as the major threat to world peace than what hope is there for the world? What hope is there for countries that don't even pretend to love freedom ever to evolve into the kind of society that we espouse? If we don't take back our country the world itself (not just the United States) is doomed. We will look at the rest of the world from our "city upon a hill" and all we'll see is our own haunted reflection staring back at us."
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In the December issue of Common Stock we printed three versions of this tune, two from the 17th century and one from the 19th; here are a number of 18th & early 19th century versions, chosen for their variety of 'interpretations' and 'developments' of the original song theme, which I currently take to be that notated by Henry Atkinson in his manuscript, though there may have been a 'different' tune in circulation which eventually got concatenated with Atkinson's.
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One consequence of the changes that have taken place in Scottish piping in recent years is that pipers who formerly played only from music written for the Great Highland Bagpipe now find themselves being presented with music for other instruments, music which makes demands on the players which they have not met with before.