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|Watauga Schools Set Short-Term Plan
|Written by Steve Frank
|Sunday, 31 March 2013 05:33
With the Kafitz era with the Watauga County Schools soon to be past, the Board of Education announced Friday a plan for the immediate future. That release said that David Fonseca, current assistant superintendent of Watauga County Schools, will carry out additional duties as needed
to support the school system in day-to-day operations until the Board announces its plan for an interim superintendent at its next meeting on April 8th. Dr. Fonseca said "We appreciate everyone's patience and understanding as we work through this time of transition. We remain absolutely committed to working with teachers, parents, and the community to put students first." Superintendent Dr. David Kafitz is resigning from the superintendent's position in a mutual agreement with the Watauga County Schools Board of Education after several incidents that came to light at the first of the year. The cost for his short tenure will continue for nearly another year and a half in the amount of $186,110 in the agreement announced last Thursday.
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A picture taken on November 16, 2012 shows a yard in the former... News PhotoCity Life,Construction Industry,Courtyard,Finance,Former,France,Horizontal,Illustration,Illustration Technique,Lyon,Outdoors,Prison,RhonePhotographer PHILIPPE MERLECollection: AFP 2012 AFPTO GO WITH AFP STORY BY TRISTAN MALLE - A picture taken on November 16, 2012 shows a yard in the former Saint-Joseph prison in Lyon. The old prison situated in the center of Lyon will become a building complex in a few months, an original initiative in France where the old prisons are generally destroyed. AFP PHOTO PHILIPPE MERLE (Photo credit should read PHILIPPE MERLE/AFP/Getty Images)

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12-18-2012 #1
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Doral cigarette sign? Limited market?
I recently found a neon Doral Cigarette sign.
I have seen these not sold on Ebay for $300 and $350. However, I have not seen any actually sold.
How do I determine a value for this? I know that it may be worth that amount but none are actually sold.
It seems to me that the market for this would be very limited?
Is this something that is going to take a long time to sell? Or can I put up for action at a low starting price for a quick sale?
12-19-2012 #2
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As always, something is worth what someone will pay. eBay listings mean nothing for valuation - it is the actual sales price that can help give context to some pricing. On the Worthopedia, I saw many neon cigarette signs sold, but the highest price was for a rare and usual one, and that was for around $400. Your sales strategy is up to you... how fast you need to move it along, and how much you paid for it should help guide you here.


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SIA Flashback – Oddballs and One-Offs
I have but one bone to pick with Keith Marvin's article from SIA #56, April 1980: At the end, he argues that the day of the custom car was restricted only to the pre-Depression era. Not so at all, as the Internet has so solidly elucidated us over the last decade or so. One-off cars, both factory-built and eccentric-built, span automotive history, from the first horseless carriage to today. Still, Marvin highlights several unusual and noteworthy vehicles from a variety of sources.
By the way, anybody who's been to Hershey the last few years has seen the 1936 White mentioned in the article. Are any of the others still around?


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A few years ago, with the kids grown and gone, my wife and I decided to downsize from a 4.5k Sq. Foot house with tons of space, to a condo. For anyone who's tried this, the detritus of 28 years of living in a large house with kids, and everything that's stored in it, does not fit into a condo, even one with a nice basement and storage room.
And my kids didn't want to part with a THING, including their childhood books and toys. But have they picked this stuff up? No.
When we moved, I thought we threw out or gave enough stuff away. That was not the case. Box upon box upon box of things we didn't need but couldn't part with at the time simply were piled into the basement storage room by the movers. I took a good chunk of the space and built a studio, but the storage room is still very large. And it has been filled to the brim with cardboard boxes for the past few years. I finally decided to set things right.
Over the past few weeks, I've emptied box after box, and consolidated things. But even after weeks and throwing away literally DOZENS of moving boxes, the basement is still full of boxes! And as my wife says, we can never remember what's where when we need to find something.
So today, I went to the hardware store and picked up ten or so large clear plastic storage tubs. After filling them, and consolidating at least a dozen MORE moving boxes into the tubs, and throwing out the cardboard ones, there are STILL dozens and dozens of moving boxes full of stuff!! It's like these freaking moving boxes have somehow reproduced in the storage room, because they are STILL everywhere! I hardly made a DENT.
I realize that Rome wasn't built in a day, but I have the uneasy feeling that I will be building this particular Rome for the rest of my life! I am Sisyphus with the rock at this point. It's endless.


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Jul 19, 2015
Proving sorted lists correct using the Coq proof assistant
About 15 years ago, I was hanging out at the MIT AI Lab, and there was an ongoing seminar on the Coq proof assistant. The idea was that you wouldn't have to guess whether your programs were correct; you could prove that they worked correctly.
The were just two little problems:
- It looked ridiculously intimidating.
- Rumor said that it took a grad student all summer to implement and prove the greatest common divisor algorithm, which sounded rather impractical.
So I decided to stick to Lispy languages, which is what I was officially supposed to be hacking on, anyway, and I never did try to sit in on the seminar.
Taking another look
I should have taken a look much sooner. This stuff provides even more twisted fun than Haskell! Also, projects like the CompCert C compiler are impressive: Imagine a C compiler where every optimization has been proven correct.
Even better, we can write code in Coq, prove it correct, then export it to Haskell or several other functional languages.
Here's an example Coq proof. Let's start with a basic theorem that says "If we know
Ais true, and we know
Bis true, then we know
A /\ B(both
B) is true."
Theorem basic_conj : forall (A B : Prop), A -> B -> A /\ B. Proof. (* Give names to our inputs. *) intros A B H_A_True H_B_True. (* Specify that we want to prove each half of /\ separately. *) split. - apply H_A_True. (* Prove the left half. *) - apply H_B_True. (* Prove the right half. *) Qed.
But Coq proofs are intended to be read interactively, using a tool like CoqIDE or Emacs Proof General. Let me walk you through how this proof would really look.
At this point, the right-hand pane will show the theorem that we're trying to prove:
1 subgoals, subgoal 1 (ID 1) ============================ forall A B : Prop, A -> B -> A /\ B
May 17, 2015
Unscientific column store benchmarking in Rust
I've been fooling around with some natural language data from OPUS, the "open parallel corpus." This contains many gigabytes of movie subtitles, UN documents and other text, much of it tagged by part-of-speech and aligned across multiple languages. In total, there's over 50 GB of data, compressed.
"50 GB, compressed" is an awkward quantity of data:
- It's large enough so that Pandas can't suck it all into memory.
- It's large enough that PostgreSQL stops being fun, and starts feeling like work. (Although cstore_fdw might help.)
- It's too small to justify cloud-based tools like Hadoop. As the saying goes, "If it fits on your laptop's SSD, it's not big data." I have USB sticks large enough to hold 50 GB!
Let's look at various ways to tackle this.
Apr 05, 2015
Migrating from Heroku (and Linode) to Docker on AWS
I've long been a huge fan of Heroku. They've made it super easy to deploy and scale web applications without getting bogged down in server administration. Also, their free tier has been very generous, which made Heroku a perfect place to run weekend projects. (And my clients have happily paid plenty of money to Heroku over the years, so nobody's been losing out.)
Heroku's costs and limitations
Lately, the costs of using Heroku for weekend projects have been creeping upwards:
Sep 19, 2014
Rust lifetimes: Getting away with things that would be reckless in C++
Over the years, I've learned to be cautious with C++ pointers. In particular, I'm always very careful about who owns a given pointer, and who's in charge of calling
deleteon it. But my caution often forces me to write deliberately inefficient functions. For example:
vector<string> tokenize_string(const string &text);
Here, we have a large string
text, and we want to split it into a vector of tokens. This function is nice and safe, but it allocates one
stringfor every token in the input. Now, if we were feeling reckless, we could avoid these allocations by returning a vector of pointers into
vector<pair<const char *,const char *>> tokenize_string2(const string &text);
In this version, each token is represented by two pointers into
text: One pointing to the first character, and one pointing just beyond the last character.1 But this can go horribly wrong:
// Disaster strikes! auto v = tokenize_string2(get_input_string()); munge(v);
Why does this fail? The function
get_input_stringreturns a temporary string, and
tokenize_string2builds an array of pointers into that string. Unfortunately, the temporary string only lives until the end of the current expression, and then the underlying memory is released. And so all our pointers in
vnow point into oblivion—and our program just wound up getting featured in a CERT advisory. So personally, I'm going to prefer the inefficient
tokenize_stringfunction almost every time.
Rust lifetimes to the rescue!
Going back to our original design, let's declare a type
Token. Each token is either a
Wordor an
Other, and each token contains pointers into a pre-existing string. In Rust, we can declare this as follows:
#[deriving(Show, PartialEq)] enum Token<'a> { Word(&'a str), Other(&'a str) }
Sep 17, 2014
Deploying Rust applications to Heroku, with example code for Iron
Now with support for Iron, Cargo and
You can deploy an example Rust application to Heroku using this button:
If you'd prefer to use the command line, you'll need
gitand the Heroku toolbelt. Once these are installed, run:
git clone https://github.com/emk/heroku-rust-cargo-hello.git cd heroku-rust-cargo-hello heroku create --buildpack https://github.com/emk/heroku-buildpack-rust.git git push heroku master
This will download the example application, create a new Heroku project, and deploy the code to Heroku. That's it!
How it works
Our server is based on the Iron middleware library. We parse URL parameters and dispatch HTTP requests to the appropriate handler routine using Iron's router module:
fn main() { let mut router = Router::new(); router.get("/", hello); router.get("/:name", hello_name); Iron::new(router).listen(Ipv4Addr(0, 0, 0, 0), get_server_port()); }
hellofunction returns an HTTP status code and the content to send to the user:
fn hello(_: &mut Request) -> IronResult<Response> { Ok(Response::with(status::Ok, "Hello world!")) }
hello_namefunction is similar, but we look up the value of the
:nameparameter that we declared to the router, above.
fn hello_name(req: &mut Request) -> IronResult<Response> { let params = req.extensions.find::<Router,Params>().unwrap(); let name = params.find("name").unwrap(); Ok(Response::with(status::Ok, format!("Hello, {}!", name))) }
The final piece needed to run on Heroku is a function to look up up our port number:
fn get_server_port() -> Port { getenv("PORT") .and_then(|s| from_str::<Port>(s.as_slice())) .unwrap_or(8080) }
The full source code is available on GitHub. To learn more about Rust, see the excellent Rust guide.
Keep reading for notes on building the program locally and on configuring your own programs to run on Heroku.
May 30, 2014
Deploying Rust applications to Heroku, with example code for Rustful
Update, 24 June 2014: I'm planning to add support for building projects with Cargo shortly. I'll announce it here and on Twitter when it's ready.
Update, 12 July 2014: Highly experimental Cargo support is now available.
Update, 17 September 2014: This post is obsolete. Please see Deploying Rust to Heroku, with example code for Iron.
If you have
gitand the Heroku toolbelt on your system, this should be easy:
git clone https://github.com/emk/heroku-rust-hello.git cd heroku-rust-hello heroku create --buildpack https://github.com/emk/heroku-buildpack-rust.git git push heroku master
If you want to create your own Rust web server from scratch, keep reading. But fair warning: Rust is not yet ready for serious web development.
May 30, 2014
Installing Rust nightly builds on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid
Rust is a systems programming language designed around speed and safety. It sits roughly halfway between Go and Haskell. In particular, it combines precise, safe control over memory with high-level functional programming. Haskell programmers, for example, will notice that Rust's
and_thenworks much like
bindin Haskell's
use std::os::getenv; use std::io::net::ip::Port; /// Look up our server port number in PORT. fn get_server_port() -> Port { getenv("PORT") .and_then(|s| from_str::<Port>(s.as_slice())) .unwrap_or(8080) }
Anyway, I spent this morning trying to get Rust working on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid, as part of a larger effort to deploy a Rust application on Heroku. (More on that soon.) On Ubuntu 10.04,
rustcfails looking for
May 28, 2014
My personal tool choices for rich JavaScript applications (May 2014)
Today, it's possible to build rich, sophisticated applications in the browser. Everybody's familiar with GMail and Google Maps, of course, but have you seen stuff like Mozilla's PopcornMaker?
This just blows me away. And applications like this are appearing all over, and they're well within the reach of any tech startup.
Of course, the major problem with building sophisticated applications is that now you need to maintain them. And just hacking everything together with jQuery is probably going to make a mess.
I've built a few rich applications during the last twelve months, both for clients and for myself. Based on that experience, here's a list of tools that have worked well, and tools that look promising for the coming year. This list is shamelessly subjective, and probably already obsolete. Please feel free to contact me with better suggestions; I'll add a bunch of them to the article.
Personal choices: Table of contents
- Model View Controller: Ember.js (or Angular.js)
- Asynchronous callback handling: Promises/A+
- Module system: ECMAScript 6 modules and a transpiler
- Package management: Bower.js
- Unit testing: QUnit if I must, Jasmine or Mocha if I can
- DOM manipulation and compatibility: jQuery
- Syntax: CoffeeScript (OK, OK) or a couple of other alternatives
- The bad news: These recommendations will be obsolete quickly
The standard disclaimer applies: In 95% of all cases, it's better to stick with what you're already using, unless something else will offer you an order of magnitude better productivity.
Keep reading for code snippets, rationales and some promising alternatives.
May 22, 2014
Learning Middle Egyptian with Anki, slowly
Although I don't usually mention it here, one of my hobbies is learning languages. French is my strongest by far, but I've been experimenting with seeing just how slowly I can learn Middle Egyptian. Normally, I need to reach a certain minimum degree of obsession to actually make progress, but it turns out that software can help a bit, as I explain in this post on the Beeminder blog.
But when I decided to learn Egyptian, I was faced with a dilemma: I couldn't justify spending more than an hour per week on it. Hierogylphs are cool, but come on—it's a dead language. Unfortunately, it's hard to learn a language in slow motion, because two things always go wrong:
- I get distracted, and I never actually put in that hour per week…
- I forget everything I learn between lessons…
Of course, one key tool here is Anki, which clever exploits the spacing effect of human memory. To oversimplify, if I'm forced to recall something shortly before I would have otherwise forgotten it, I'll remember it at least twice as long the next time. This allows remembering things for O(2^N) time for N effort, which is a nice trick.
On a related note, I have a new toy up on GitHub: hierogloss, which extends Markdown with support for interlinear glosses rendered using JSesh:
H: z:A1*Z1 | 𓊃:𓏏*𓁐 | 𓂋:𓏤-𓊪𓅱 L: s | s.t | r-pw G: man | woman | whichever T: either [a] man or [a] woman
I love being able to toss together a tool like this on a whim. Programming's fun.
May 21, 2014
Scraping your Fitocracy score with capybara-webkit
Fitocracy is a great site for tracking exercise, one which manages to have both a very friendly culture and an impressively gung-ho attitude. But they've never gotten around to implementing any kind of official API. If you want to look up your Fitocracy score from inside a script, you need to jump through a surprising number of hoops.
First, let's create a Ruby
Gemfile. We'll use
capybara-webkit, which is normally used for testing Ruby websites:
source "https://rubygems.org" gem "capybara" gem "capybara-webkit" # Optional, if you want to debug using save_and_open_page. #gem 'launchy'
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- Jun 03, 2011 Heroku "Celadon Cedar" review
- May 20, 2011 Derivatives of algebraic data structures: An excellent tutorial
- May 12, 2011 What do these fixed points have in common?
- Apr 25, 2011 AWS outage timeline & downtimes by recovery strategy
- Dec 20, 2010 The state of Ruby, RDF and Rails 3
- Oct 13, 2010 Feedhose demo: Real-time RSS using Node.js and Socket.io
- Dec 29, 2009 Visualizing WordNet relationships as graphs
- Dec 28, 2009 Experimenting with NLTK
- Dec 28, 2009 Interesting Python libraries for natural language processing
- Nov 21, 2009 Wave Hackathon
- Sep 12, 2009 Upgrading randomhacks.net
- Sep 01, 2009 Real-time text annotation with Google Wave
- May 08, 2009 Write a 32-line chat client using Ruby, AMQP & EventMachine (and a GUI using Shoes)
- May 05, 2009 Financial crisis background and Munger on the banks
- Apr 30, 2009 Designing programs with RSpec and Cucumber (plus a book recomendation)
- Apr 30, 2009 Remote root holes reported as "denial of service"
- Jan 11, 2009 Installing TortoiseGit
- Sep 01, 2008 Ubiquitous Hoogle
- Oct 02, 2007 Probability monads at Hac 07 II
- Sep 18, 2007 Freiburg in October: Scheme, Dylan, and probability monads
- Sep 18, 2007 September 8th, 2007
- Jul 01, 2007 Ruby-style metaprogramming in JavaScript (plus a port of RSpec)
- Apr 28, 2007 Bowling in Haskell: A response to Ron Jeffries
- Apr 19, 2007 Robot localization using a particle system monad
- Mar 15, 2007 How to make Data.Set a monad
- Mar 12, 2007 Monads in 15 minutes: Backtracking and Maybe
- Mar 10, 2007 8 ways to report errors in Haskell
- Mar 07, 2007 Jim Hefferon's Linear Algebra: A free textbook with fascinating applications
- Mar 05, 2007 Three things I don't understand about monads
- Mar 03, 2007 Smart classification using Bayesian monads in Haskell
- Feb 22, 2007 Bayes' rule in Haskell, or why drug tests don't work
- Feb 21, 2007 Refactoring probability distributions, part 2: Random sampling
- Feb 21, 2007 Refactoring probability distributions, part 1: PerhapsT
- Feb 10, 2007 Probabilistic Functional Programming is cool
- Feb 10, 2007 Map fusion: Making Haskell 225% faster
- Feb 09, 2007 The first Carnival of Mathematics
- Feb 08, 2007 Haskell: Queues without pointers
- Feb 07, 2007 Do early adopters use IE?
- Feb 02, 2007 Haskell: What happens when you divide infinity by 2?
- Feb 01, 2007 Some useful closures, in Ruby
- Jan 22, 2007 High-Performance Haskell
- Jan 20, 2007 13 Ways of Looking at a Ruby Symbol
- Feb 15, 2006 Selenium on Rails, Reloaded: Client-Side Tests in Ruby
- Dec 03, 2005 Why Ruby is an acceptable LISP
- Nov 15, 2005 Moving a blog to Typo
- Nov 13, 2005 Typo sidebars: Recent Comments and Tagged Articles
- Oct 11, 2005 Random Hacks is back online
- Oct 11, 2005 McCarthy's Ambiguous Operator
- Jul 07, 2003 Preparing for the Winter Garden
- Jun 30, 2003 Tomato Update: Weeding and Irrigation
- Jun 30, 2003 Mason Update: The Weaver Has Woven
- Jun 27, 2003 Comments on "Putting open source on trial"
- Jun 27, 2003 Responses to "The Missing Future"
- Jun 22, 2003 The Missing Future
- Jun 22, 2003 PLUG Protests at SCO
- Jun 22, 2003 About the Author
- Jun 20, 2003 15 Minutes and 150MB of RAM to Compare Unix and Linux
- May 30, 2003 Tomato Progress
- May 30, 2003 Checking Code Ownership
- Mar 14, 2003 Update on the Strange SCO Case
- Mar 10, 2003 SCO Goes Nuclear
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- Dec 10, 2002 wxWindows Experiences
- Nov 10, 2002 Lightweight Languages 2 Conference (MIT, 2002)
- Sep 30, 2002 Fromberger spam filtering paper
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- Sep 24, 2002 Macintosh Developer Pain
- Sep 23, 2002 Using Bogofilter with Spam Assassin
- Sep 23, 2002 Machine Learning Links
- Sep 23, 2002 FTC Spam Archive
- Sep 22, 2002 How To Test a Trainable Spam Filter
- Sep 20, 2002 Things I Hate About CodeWarrior, Part I
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- Sep 13, 2002 Why Hygienic Macros Rock
- Sep 13, 2002 Bogofilter: A New Spam Filter
- Sep 13, 2002 Back from France
- Aug 27, 2002 Busy for a While
- Aug 13, 2002 RedHat Bill Update
- Aug 12, 2002 California Open Source Bill: A Really Bad Idea
- Aug 06, 2002 SpamAssassin: An Decent Spam Filter
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- Jul 22, 2002 Yet Another PHP Security Hole
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- Jul 21, 2002 Ogg Theora link
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- Jul 15, 1998 Parsing C headers with Gwydion Dylan's Melange
- Jul 06, 1998 BlitzMail architecture
- Jul 04, 1998 Trying out Glade
- Jul 03, 1998 Enlightenment and Guile
- Jul 02, 1998 Guile's looking much better
- Jul 01, 1998 MathMap custom spread filter
- Jun 30, 1998 Random Hacks goes online! (and a randomized emboss in MathMap)
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Rachel Bilson's personal style has long been a reader favorite here at Who What Wear, and it's easy to see why! Completely relatable and always flawlessly put together, Bilson's approach to fashion sparks wardrobe envy-both on the red carpet and during her off-duty hours. Of course, her savvy sensibilities aren't the only thing we adore about the actress. We've remained Bilson supporters ever since her days on The O.C., and we rejoiced when she made her small screen return in Hart of Dixie last year. Add an adorable film (Waiting for Forever) and a hit footwear collection (ShoeMint) into the mix, and it's safe to say she's made devoted fans out of us. Since we have a hunch you're on the same page, dear readers, we asked Bilson to share her spring must-have list as our February Guest Editor! From dainty rings to boldly printed pants, Bilson's picks are just as chic as the actress herself!
Club Monaco Willow Hat ($100, 310.858.0204) in Black
Not surprisingly, Bilson is impressed with Club Monaco's mastery of millinery, especially when it comes to their chic toppers! With its timeless shape and design, the Willow Hat is a winner in our books and we recommend snagging one before it's too late!
StyleMint Camden Color Block T-Shirt ($29.99) in White/Navy
It's obvious Bilson is devoted to the "Mint" brands, so we weren't surprised to find out that StyleMint's Camden Color Block T-Shirt is a beloved item in her wardrobe. Available in Bilson's preferred navy and white combo as well as a cool silver and charcoal, this deep v-neck top offers a comfortable, relaxed fit perfect for casual weekend outings. In other words: it's sure to become a beloved piece in your closet too!
Lip Smacker Fun Flavored Lip Gloss ($2) in Dr. Pepper
Though we imagine Bilson's makeup bag is stocked with the likes of Chanel and Dior, we were delighted to see she named Lip Smacker's Fun Flavored Lip Gloss as her go-to beauty product! So what's Bilson's flavor of choice? None other than classic Dr. Pepper, of course! This deliciously sweet gloss has been a favorite for the actress since her high school days, proving you really can't mess with a good thing!
Ray-Ban Wayfarer Sunglasses ($150) in Tortoise
Are there a more classic pair of sunglasses than the Ray-Ban Wayfarer? We think not, and Bilson certainly agrees! She's rarely spotted without these tried-and-true sunnies, which look chic teamed with any outfit. "The classic black or tortoise are go-tos," Bilson says. We agree that both are a foolproof investment you won't soon regret.
Narciso Rodriguez For Her Eau de Parfum ($90)
Out of the countless perfumes on the market, Bilson chose Narciso Rodriguez's For Her fragrance as her favorite-and it's easy to see why! "It's such a nice, clean scent," Bilson says, referring to the perfume's notes of orange blossom, amber, and vanilla. The relatively subtle, musky-sweet fragrance suits our GE's feminine sensibilities perfectly, making it totally irresistible and ideal for everyday spritzing!
JewelMint Lady Luck Rings ($30)
Considering Bilson typically steers clear of flashy, over-the-top outfits, it makes sense that a collection of dainty rings is her number one choice when it comes to jewelry. Designed by Kate Bosworth and stylist Cher Coulter for JewelMint, this trio of rings looks equally amazing stacked together or worn individually. Plus, as our GE keenly pointed out, mismatched metals make them a particularly charming option!
Zara Printed Trousers ($80)
If you're anxious to try printed pants this spring, you're in luck, because Bilson picked the perfect pair: Zara's Printed Trousers! With a fantastic, eye-catching pattern, tailored silhouette, and a great price tag to boot, these trousers are a wardrobe must.
The Row Black Calf Skin Doctor Bag ($4750, 888.222.7639)
Our affinity for all things The Row is no secret, so we were delighted to learn that our GE is similarly smitten with the Olsen-designed line. With its streamlined shape and minimalist vibe, the brand's Black Calf Skin Doctor Bag caught Bilson's savvy eye, and we wholeheartedly agree with her choice! If you're searching for a more wallet-friendly option, however, consider Oasis' Belt Work Bag ($72) or Calvin Klein's Doctor Satchel Leather Bag ($188), which both have the same timeless, sophisticated quality.
Rag & Bone Newbury Boots ($475) in Camel Canvas
Like Bilson, we appreciate versatile pieces that mesh with virtually any outfit under the sun. Case in point: the Newbury Boots by Rag & Bone. These shoes are perfect right now teamed with a chunky knit sweater and jeans, or paired with a sundress come spring, making them an investment-worthy buy you'll love for years to come!
Favorite Party Look: Chanel S/S 12 Look 74
Bilson considers Chanel her go-to source for party looks, and was especially enthralled by the diaphanous, bubble hem Organza Dress (price upon request, 800.550.0005) of the Parisian fashion house's S/S 12 collection. "It's so girly, flirty, and fun," says Bilson. Whether she's at a fashion fete or red carpet affair, Bilson will undoubtedly pull off this playful frock with ease!
Favorite Spring Runway Look: Erdem S/S 12 Look 1
When we asked Bilson about her favorite runway look, she was quick to mention Erdem's Isis Print Power Mesh Dress ($2380). Like us, she appreciates how the British designer's striking botanical prints instantly elevate simple silhouettes, and this particular dress is a prime example of just that. All in all, this Bilson-approved ensemble would be a fantastic addition to anyone's spring wardrobe!-Erin Fitzpatrick
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Philadelphia Eagles v New York Giants
- 2012 Newtown Connecticut Shooting
- American Football - Sport
- Attending
- Civilian
- Corey Webster
- East Rutherford
- Greeting
- Horizontal
- Kenny Phillips
- Killing
- Martellus Bennett
- Mass Murder
- Match - Sport
- Metlife Stadium
- New Jersey
- New York Giants
- Newtown - Connecticut
- Parent
- Person in Education
- Philadelphia Eagles
- Public Building
- Sandy Hook Elementary School
- Sport
- Sportsperson
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I've been getting into Quake Live recently to relive the nostalgia from the late 1990s when I was playing Quake on a dial up modem and hanging out in a Quakenet IRC chatroom.
Just looking for a friendly clan who don't take things seriously and likes to have drunken nights fragging each other etc now and then. I'm still pretty apt and skilled after all these years I feel! (backward rocket jumps easy, nad jumps not so good).


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DEXTER The General Brown Central School District Board of Education has narrowed its superintendent search to three finalists.
The board selected Leslie A. LaRose, deputy superintendent for the Franklin-Essex-Hamilton Board of Cooperative Educational Services, Malone; Mary E. Curcio, superintendent of the McGraw Central School District, and Cammy J. Morrison, assistant superintendent for curriculum/instruction at Gouverneur Central School District, as finalists over nine other candidates.
Board members conducted personal interviews with all three finalists Monday and will seek feedback from school personnel and community members Wednesday.
The whole idea is to provide the board with any input they possibly can gather, said Jack J. Boak, superintendent of the Jefferson-Lewis BOCES. Mr. Boak has helped guide the board through the search process.
While the board has worked on the search for several months, Mr. Boak said, next weeks interviews will give board members a chance to hear what school staff and district residents think of their next potential superintendent. Ms. LaRose, Mrs. Curcio or Mrs. Morrison will replace Superintendent Stephan J. Vigliotti Sr., who will leave June 30 to become superintendent at St. Lawrence Central School District, Brasher Falls.
Mr. Boak said the boards goal is to have a new superintendent selected by July 1.
During Wednesdays second-round interviews, candidates will be interviewed by administrative staff, students and food service/transportation/district office staff in the morning, before going on a district tour and being interviewed by faculty and instructional staff in the afternoon. Evening interviews with community members and instructional support staff will be held from 6:30 to 8:30.
According to resume information posted on the districts website, here is some information about each finalist:
n Ms. LaRose The Constable resident received a masters degree in educational administration from St. Lawrence University, Canton, in 2003 and has been employed at the Franklin-Essex-Hamilton BOCES since 2000. She has a vast range of professional leadership development skills, including leading the annual professional performance review plan training for BOCES and nine component school districts.
n Mrs. Curcio The Gouverneur resident has held various positions in education since 1992, including Harrisville Central School District principal, adjunct instructor at Onondaga Community College and math specialist for Jefferson-Lewis BOCES. She received a masters degree in math education from Syracuse University in 1995 and a certificate of advanced study in 2003 from SUNY Cortland.
n Mrs. Morrison The Brownville resident completed the state superintendent development program at SUNY Oswego in 2010 and has been an educator in the north country since 1992, when she was an elementary teacher for the Watertown City School District. She also has been an assistant elementary principal, curriculum coordinator and special-education supervisor.
Additional information about the finalists can be found on the districts website, www.gblions.org.
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16 U.S. Code § 4502a - Tropical forestry research and assistance
(a) Assistance
To promote sound management and conservation of tropical forests of the United States and to promote the development and transfer of technical, managerial, educational, and administrative skills to managers of tropical forests within or outside the United States, the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to provide assistance through the Forest Service to eligible entities in States with tropical forests to—
(1) develop, promote, and demonstrate sustainable harvesting of native woods and other forest products on a sustainable yield basis in balance with natural resource conservation;
(3) protect indigenous plant and animal species and essential watersheds from non-native animals, plants, and pathogens;
(5) establish a monitoring system in tropical forests to identify baseline conditions and determine detrimental changes or improvements over time;
(6) detect and appraise stresses affecting tropical forests caused by insect infestations, diseases, pollution, fire, and non-native animal and plant species, and by the influence of people;
(7) determine the causes of changes that are detected through experimentation, intensive monitoring, and data collection at affected tropical forest sites; and
(b) Form of assistance
Assistance provided to eligible entities under this section may be in the form of grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements.
(c) Definitions
As used in this section:
(1) Eligible entity
The term "eligible entity" means a State forester or equivalent State official, State, political subdivision of a State, Federal agency, private organization, corporation, or other private person.
Source(Pub. L. 102–574, § 3,Oct. 29, 1992, 106 Stat. 4596.)
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For Oct. 1, 1994, as the date the Compact of Free Association with the Republic of Palau enters into effect, referred to in subsec. (c)(2), see Proc. No. 6726, Sept. 27, 1994, 59 F.R. 49777, set out as a note under section 1931 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions.
Section was enacted as part of the Hawaii Tropical Forest Recovery Act, and not as part of the International Forestry Cooperation Act of 1990 which comprises this chapter.
Authorization of Appropriations
Pub. L. 102–574, § 5,Oct. 29, 1992, 106 Stat. 4599, provided that: "There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as are necessary to carry out sections 3 and 4 [enacting this section and provisions set out as a note under 4503a of this title]."
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Results tagged "Media sales" from IABlog
Despite my silent goal to never again take a multiple-choice exam post college, I found myself on July 31st at the NetCom testing center on West 33rd, preparing to take the IAB Digital Media Sales Certification exam.
The IAB launched this training program over a year ago to help increase the knowledge of digital sales professionals. As a marketing exec at PulsePoint, a data-driven content technology provider, I considered myself lucky to take the exam alongside our entire salesforce. In an effort to continue to adopt and help drive industry best practices, our SVP of Sales, John Ruvolo, instated the requirement that all sales support teams - sellers, client services, account managers, ad operations, and marketing - successfully complete the training and obtain certification. Now, I must admit - having to carve out time to study on top of the daily grind was a challenge, but as I started digesting the impressive body of study preparation materials created by the IAB, I found myself happy to do so.
I have worked my entire professional life in the digital media space and truly appreciate that the IAB has provided a training program that deepens my understanding of our industries ever-changing processes, rules and regulations, best practices, definitions and of course…all those acronyms. Our space evolves at a dizzying pace to (try to) stay ahead of the mind-blowing technology being created every day. Chrome TV, one-click mobile payments, location sharing apps…it's enough to make you seriously consider one of those 'digital detox' retreats. But without that evolution, without the constant influx of fresh ideas and new ways of connecting consumers to an amazing online experience, it would not be the exciting and fulfilling environment so many of us call home every day.
It has been common practice to learn and grow alongside all of this change through a mix of self-education and information sharing amongst colleagues, partners, and friends. What a relief to have a trusted, accredited program led by our industry body that helps to educate and benchmark our top professionals against rigorous industry standards. We finally have proof that we know what we are talking about…well, most of the time.
This IAB Certification process is something that digital execs across all business channels of our industry should undergo. I am proud that PulsePoint has embraced the program and offered it to employees beyond direct sellers; we are already exploring ways to incorporate this into all new hire training. Activating this program at the sales level of an organization and beyond can also impact future hiring decisions. It enables us to narrow candidate searches to only the best, most qualified applicants and allows us have even more faith that our teams are making the most educated decisions possible.
In order for digital media to continue being one of the most sought-after industries to work within, we must take responsibility to ensure that those dedicating their livelihood to it have the right tools to be as successful as possible. The IAB has taken great strides in creating a framework within which this critical professional development can happen, and I look forward to seeing it continue to grow.
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Lindsay Boesen is Director of Marketing at PulsePoint, and on Twitter @PulsePointBuzz.


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hello everyone! i want to bind +zoom on a different button when i switch to rail then it usually is bound on and also want to have a different zoomfov.
eg: bind r "weapon 7; bind mouse2 +zoom; cg_zoomfov 70"
but it doesnt work this way because ofc ql thinks cg_zoomfov is a new cmd. so i have the zoomfov but it is not bound on mouse2 which it must be to make it work out for me... anyone has an idea?
edit: i found a way. but its not every elegant... i wrote zoom.cfg with only this in it: bind mouse2 "+zoom; cg_zoomfov 70" and than i put bind r "weapon 7; exec zoom.cfg" in my qlcfg... so i have to execute a cfg each time i switch to rail.. if anyone knows a "slim" way to do this, it would be great.


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THE MORNING SKATE — Compliance Buyouts and Interpreting Visnovsky's Agent
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As part of the new deal between the League and the Players, teams will have the opportunity to buyout two uninjured players this summer. But for whatever reason, teams couldn't buy anyone out right now. So what's a team with Wade Redden or Scott Gomez on it to do? Why pay them to sit at home and not get injured of course. That's just what the Rangers and Canadiens have been doing with Redden and Gomez. That is, until this weekend.
In a disturbingly fast amount of time (considering how long it took to end the lockout) the League and Players agreed to allow teams to use one of their compliance buyouts this season. As as of Saturday teams can put players making $3 million or more through waivers — basically a formality — and then will be free to buy them out after which the player can sign for another team or accept a minor league assignment. There's not much benefit for the team to do this. They'll still be dealing with the player's full cap hit all year. It's more of a way to allow the players to find an employer who wants them.
All that being said, it's not likely that Rick DiPietro would get bought out via this method. The Islanders could use a second goalie on the bench, as sitting Kevin Poulin or Anders Nilsson behind Nabokov for the year does those players no good. Also, in this special buyout period, the player has to agree to it. Rick DiPietro still wants to play and doesn't seem to mind doing it in an Islanders uniform.
Oh and to answer the questions about whether the Islanders should grab Gomez. No team in their right mind should grab Gomez off waivers. They'll be on the hook for that entire ugly contract. Wait till all 30 teams pass on him and then try to sign him at a discount. I still would rather have that roster spot saved for a young player but if I was going to grab Gomez, that's how I would do it.
Lubomir Visnovsky said he looks forward to reporting to the NYI after tending to "personal reasons" which have kept him from reporting.
— NEIL SHEEHY (@ICEHockeyAgent) January 16, 2013
That tweet came out last night at about 10pm from Neil Sheehy, Lubomir Visnovsky's agent. So, do we interpret this as Visnovsky will report after he finishes tending to "personal reasons?" Or, has he finished tending to "personal reasons" and will now report? A lovely semantics debate. And furthermore, why is Visnovsky on a team bus to Prague if he's got said personal issues?
Either way, it's getting to seem like Visnovsky has exhausted his options and will be here at some point. If this truly is the end, then it seems the KHL barring him from yesterday's game was the final straw.
One guy who knows a thing or two about the Kings farm system is Sound Tigers head coach Scott Pellerin. Pellerin spent six years in Manchester as a Monarchs assistant coach. Three of those years were spent coaching Hickey. CT Post's Mike Fornabaio has the coach's thoughts:
Pellerin said he's a good guy, does good work in the community, a leader. That reminded me that the Monarchs put a letter on him in his second pro season.
"He somebody who's got very good hockey IQ," Pellerin said. "He picks things up, what other teams are doing, from the bench. He has those communication skills with his teammates. We relied on him to be a leader on the team."
That's what Dee Karl quoted Rick DiPietro as saying about the shortened season. Here, look:
Forget 'Orange, Blue and You.' New motto for the 2013 New York Islanders: Balls to the Wall.
ALSO: Here's the full television schedule… Mark Streit looking to turn things around this season; "I feel way better now after playing a few games back home. I don't think about the shoulder anymore"… And here's Bob McKenzie's Isles season preview:


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John Stuart Mill's classic essay "On Liberty" gives reasons why some people should not be taking over other people's decisions about their own lives. But Professor Cass Sunstein of Harvard has given reasons to the contrary. He cites research showing "that people make a lot of mistakes, and that those mistakes can prove extremely damaging."
Professor Sunstein is undoubtedly correct that "people make a lot of mistakes." Most of us can look back over our own lives and see many mistakes, including some that were very damaging.
What Cass Sunstein does not tell us is what sort of creatures, other than people, are going to override our mistaken decisions for us. That is the key flaw in the theory and agenda of the left.
Implicit in the wide range of efforts on the left to get government to take over more of our decisions for us is the assumption that there is some superior class of people who are either wiser or nobler than the rest of us.
Yes, we all make mistakes. But do governments not make bigger and more catastrophic mistakes?
Think about the First World War, from which nations on both sides ended up worse off than before, after an unprecedented carnage that killed substantial fractions of whole younger generations and left millions starving amid the rubble of war.
Think about the Holocaust, and about other government slaughters of even more millions of innocent men, women and children under Communist governments in the Soviet Union and China.
Even in the United States, government policies in the 1930s led to crops being plowed under, thousands of little pigs being slaughtered and buried, and milk being poured down sewers, at a time when many Americans were suffering from hunger and diseases caused by malnutrition.
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Distraction, Entertainment and List of Places to Help
Matthew Cerrone , Lead Writer
Last week was crazy. However, while I have my family and home back in order after Hurricane Sandy, sadly, this is not the case for so many of our friends in the tri-state area.
Sports is entertainment. It's fun, or at least it's supposed to be. We like to pretend that it's as significant as life or death, but – when compared to matters of actual life and death, and our family's health and safety – we quickly realize sports is simply a distraction.
That said, while I understand there is pain and suffering going on in our community, I'd like to think part of my responsibility on this blog is to give people a place to be distracted, especially at a time like this. Again, sports is fun and it's something to talk about, debate and connect to. However, I totally understand if – because of what is going on in your life and others – sports and hot stove rumors must take a back seat. Of course, if it is your thing, or if you're simply looking for an escape, I hope what we do here can help in a small way.
To see a list of places you can donate, be involved and help people recover from the hurricane, check out this link to WNYC.org.
To get a more moment-by-moment, specific list of people and places in need, follow Anthony DeRosa on Twitter, where he is doing an amazing job directing and connecting help.


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Matchup: 1-2-3 Against the Titans
With the season hanging in the balance, the Jets head to Nashville to take on the Titans. Here's three things to look out for in tonight's game.
Run Baby Run — The Jets running game has gotten in a groove in recent weeks and this is no week to stop what's been working for the Jets during their two game winning streak. The offensive line is doing a much better job of blocking over the second half of the season and Shonn Greene is starting to take better advantage of the situation … that and Bilal Powell has pushed Greene for time on the field. The running game helps to cover over Mark Sanchez and minimize the impact of a group of replacement level receivers. Of course, with the addition of Braylon Edwards to the lineup, look to see if the Jets don't try and set up a few plays to highlight him under the Monday night lights.
Stop Chris Johnson — While it's unkown if Johnson will be wearing his visor for his postgame presser, the Jets are going to have to prioritize the dynamic speedster in what they do defensively. The Titans have four new or replacement starters on their offensive line due to injuries all season and Chris Johnson's game has suffered because of it in recent weeks. The Jets are going to have to do their best to stop him at the line of scrimmage or at the least funnel him to David Harris, as I don't know how capable the rest of the linebackers would be at stopping Johnson in the open field. The name of the game is to hit Johnson as hard as they can close to the line of scrimmage or never allow him to get to full speed on stretches or end run plays outside the tackles. If they do, they'll be toast. Look for the Jets to bring LaRon Landry up as much as possible to help boost the run stoppers. Johnson hasn't posted a hundred plus yard game in three weeks with his depleted offense and while his receiving skills have been lauded, he's yet to tally more than 50 yards in a game this season … will this be the first time this season he breaks that mark? Might be a good week to try the Jets aging linebackers …
Jake Locker — Locker is still learning a lot about the NFL but his two best attributes are his ability to scramble and create more time on the run as well as throw the ball deep with precision. The Jets are going to have to do their best to pressure Locker with base personnel and drop as many players as they can into coverage on passing downs. Look for the Jets to force Locker to scramble against the grain and to set up many traps in the secondary. With the added need to contain Johnson, this might be a good week to run a lot of nickel and dime packages – specifically the Jets "Big Nickel" package which uses Eric Smith as an extra linebacker.


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15 U.S. Code § 55 - Additional definitions
(a) False advertisement
(1) The term "false advertisement" means an advertisement, other than labeling, which is misleading in a material respect; and in determining whether any advertisement is misleading, there shall be taken into account (among other things) not only representations made or suggested by statement, word, design, device, sound, or any combination thereof, but also the extent to which the advertisement fails to reveal facts material in the light of such representations or material with respect to consequences which may result from the use of the commodity to which the advertisement relates under the conditions prescribed in said advertisement, or under such conditions as are customary or usual. No advertisement of a drug shall be deemed to be false if it is disseminated only to members of the medical profession, contains no false representation of a material fact, and includes, or is accompanied in each instance by truthful disclosure of, the formula showing quantitatively each ingredient of such drug.
(2) In the case of oleomargarine or margarine an advertisement shall be deemed misleading in a material respect if in such advertisement representations are made or suggested by statement, word, grade designation, design, device, symbol, sound, or any combination thereof, that such oleomargarine or margarine is a dairy product, except that nothing contained herein shall prevent a truthful, accurate, and full statement in any such advertisement of all the ingredients contained in such oleomargarine or margarine.
(b) Food
The term "food" means
(c) Drug
The term "drug" means
(1) articles recognized in the official United States Pharmacopoeia, official Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United States, or official National Formulary, or any supplement to any of them; and
(2) articles intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in man or other animals; and
(3) articles (other than food) intended to affect the structure or any function of the body of man or other animals; and
(4) articles intended for use as a component of any article specified in clause (1), (2), or (3); but does not include devices or their components, parts, or accessories.
(d) Device
The term "device" (except when used in subsection (a) of this section) means an instrument, apparatus, implement, machine, contrivance, implant, in vitro reagent, or other similar or related article, including any component, part, or accessory, which is—
(1) recognized in the official National Formulary, or the United States Pharmacopeia, or any supplement to them,
(2) intended for use in the diagnosis of disease or other conditions, or in the cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease, in man or other animals, or
which does not achieve any of its principal intended purposes through chemical action within or on the body of man or other animals and which is not dependent upon being metabolized for the achievement of any of its principal intended purposes.
(e) Cosmetic
The term "cosmetic" means
(1) articles to be rubbed, poured, sprinkled, or sprayed on, introduced into, or otherwise applied to the human body or any part thereof intended for cleansing, beautifying, promoting attractiveness, or altering the appearance, and
(2) articles intended for use as a component of any such article; except that such term shall not include soap.
(f) Oleomargarine or margarine
For the purposes of this section and section 347 of title 21, the term "oleomargarine" or "margarine" includes—
Source(Sept. 26, 1914, ch. 311, § 15, as added Mar. 21, 1938, ch. 49, § 4,52 Stat. 114; amended Mar. 16, 1950, ch. 61, § 4(a), (b),64 Stat. 21; Pub. L. 94–295, § 3(a)(1)(B),May 28, 1976, 90 Stat. 575.)
1976—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 94–295expanded definition of "device" to include implements, machines, implants, in vitro reagents, and other similar or related articles, added recognition in the National Formulary or the United States Pharmacopeia, or any supplement to the Formulary or Pharmacopeia, to the enumeration of conditions under which a device may qualify for inclusion under this chapter, and inserted requirements that a device be one which does not achieve any of its principal intended purposes through chemical action within or on the body of man or other animals and which is not dependent upon being metabolized for the achievement of any of its principal intended purposes.
1950—Subsec. (a). Act Mar. 16, 1950, § 4(a), designated existing provisions as par. (1) and added par. (2) relating to oleomargarine.
Subsec. (f). Act Mar. 16, 1950, § 4(b), added subsec. (f).
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By KEVIN SCANNELLSun Advocate reporter
While a precious and vital resource like water is not always available in abundance, Price City is looking to help lead the way in "slowing the flow" of water usage by focusing on ways to conserve water.
After months of reviewing water usage in the community, the Price City Water Conservation Committee presented a detailed look at many topics to the Price City Council on Wednesday evening including water usage by the city and its residents, where Price City draws its water from and what steps can be taken to help lower water usage by city departments.
Gary Sonntag, Price City Public Works director, said the committee has made great progress and will work to continue the momentum the group has gained over the past six months.
Price City has seen its fair share of high and low water years in the past decade. In 2011, which Sonntag said was a strong water year, 30 inches of water was in the mountains. Just a year later, the number dropped to 11 inches. The latest measurements in the mountains shows a water level of 13 inches.
"We've been in situations with short water supply before," he said.
The first water use in Price City came from the Price River and the area has long depended on sources including Colton Springs for water for the past century, Sonntag said calling the springs a "precious source of water".
"It has been very reliable for the city and the quality is pristine," he explained.
One area of concern for city officials has been the water level at Scofield Reservoir. The water levels were at 50,000 acre feet in 2011 but those levels have dropped to a current level of 29,000 during a recent check.
"We could end up the end on the low side this year," Sonntag said.
While the city is not rushing into any decisions - or think they are a real possibility - on possible water restrictions for residents, the push to get more information out to people about water conservation is a goal they hope to achieve as the warmer weather arrives with spring.
The city is looking into possible ways to inform the community on water usage and what tips can be given to help conserve water. Russell Seeley, Price City engineer, said one possibility would be to include information on the utility bills to residents that could residents better understand their water usage much like the power usage information currently included on bills.
While one idea may be the bigger the lot, the higher the usage of water. That might not always be the case. John Procarione, Price City public works assistant, said lot sizes in the city did not make a difference in the amount of water used by residents. "Some people use a lot of water and some don't," he said.
In 2012, Price City produced 999,999,000 gallons of water total, Procarione said, but Price City used only 5.3 percent of it. City water usage did increase from 45 million gallons in 2011 to 53.3 million gallons in 2012, an increase of 12.3 percent.
Price City Mayor Joe Piccolo said he was surprised to see the amount of water the city produced and how much of it the city is using. If the city is serious about water conservation, then they must lead by example, he said.
"Price City must lead the way in slowing the flow," Piccolo said.
City workers in various departments are looking at ways to cut back on water usage. Brianna Welch, a supervisor with the Parks and Cemetery Department, said one goal of her department is to cut back on watering by 50 percent with the help of ground monitors that give out readings of ground saturation and when watering should be done.
While the city has been working on informing the community about water conservation, they have enlisted the help of a unique creation to help get the message out. A water mascot, Drew Drop, was created by the committee as the face of the program. Dew Drop's look, complete with a snorkel and yellow rain boots, is all over the place including on refrigerator magnets and stickers that the city will be looking to hand out at various events in the upcoming months.
To help get the message across to the city council, Ron Brewer, a water-sewer crew manager, used his guitar and harmonica to sing a song he wrote about water conservation after introducing Dew Drop. Brewer and Sam White, a supervisor with the water-sewer department, also performed a skit for the council that detailed the information available on Price City's website about water conservation that includes information on committee members, tips, water statistics, newsletters and links to websites such as the Division of Water Resources.
With much more work and research still needing to be done, Sonntag said this was a good start for the committee since they first came together in August of last year.
"If we ask the public to do this, we need to look within and see what we can do as well," Sonntag said. "If we think we can do it, then the enthusiasm of conserving water can spread out to the community."


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IRRX, it seems you enjoy provocation and antagonism.
I have never met a practicing attorney who went to an online school. Does anyone here know one? I think I read an article once where the attorney on record for some case went to California School of Law, but never personally met any online law school grad attorney.
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Annual Washington Post Bucket Event 2010
Diana Thomas and her grandson D'Andre Hall purchase drinking water at... NachrichtenfotoEinzelhandel,Enkel,Horizontal,Maryland - Bundesstaat,Männliche Person,Trinken,USA,Vermischtes,WasserPhotographer The Washington PostCollection: The Washington Post 2013 The Washington PostTEMPLE HILLS, MD - JULY 16: Diana Thomas and her grandson D'Andre Hall purchase drinking water at Jumbo Foods International Supermarket in Temple Hills, MD on July 16, 2013. The supermarket is well stocked for water because the manager had warehoused water, along with other emergency supplies, in preparation for the summer storm season. Later today the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission will shut down a water main that will cut water to thousands of residents and businesses in southern Prince George's County. The shutoff is necessary to make much-need repairs. WSSC officials say the outage will run 2-4 days WSSC officials say. They're advising residents to stock up on water, fill bathtubs to use for flushing, and ration water as much as necessary. (Photo by Linda Davidson / The Washington Post via Getty Images)


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Sen. Pat Toomey announces support for postage stamp bill to fund Alzheimer's research, Sen. Dick Durbin calls for $150 billion in biomedical research funding to combat diseases like Alzheimer's, and Maryland named the best state in the US for brain health (read more).
Must reads
The economic ripple of Alzheimer's, Sandy Halperin raising Alzheimer's awareness in Florida and beyond, and a new partnership between Alector and J&J to develop Alzheimer's therapies (read more).
Read the full piece online here.
Blood test may predict early Alzheimer's disease, the ethical questions of diagnosing Alzheimer's early, and the need to fund Alzheimer's research now to avoid future economic disaster (read more).


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After being ejected from the Democratic National Platform, God was ushered back in at the Democratic Convention in Charolotte, N.C.
But if the boos at the convention surrounding God's return are any indicator, this might as well be the last time He gets invited. Delegates to the convention voted three times on an amendment package that would restore both a reference to God in the platform and recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital. All three votes were too close to call, but chair Antonio Villaraigosa called the third one for our currant sitting president anyway. A chorus of 'boos' filled the hall as God and Jerusalem were reseated in the text.
The outcome marked a thin victory for those Democrats who believe their party should openly and collectively acknowledge responsibility to a God who has blessed humanity and America in particular. The ethos is scriptural, "from those to whom much is given, much will be expected".
Momentum, however, is not in their direction. The Democratic Party increasingly grounds its sense of responsibility in secular humanistic principles, which are seen as more inclusive than God. This evolution has played out in platforms of recent years and in telling moments of this year's convention.
Lets look back eight years to 2004, when then-Senator Barack Obama assured DNC delegates, "We worship an awesome God in the blue states." That year's platform described America as "one nation, under God." The environmental mandate was framed as coming from above: "God gave America extraordinary natural gifts; it is our responsibility to protect them." It acknowledged the Biblical vision that fueled the Civil Rights movement and ongoing struggles for human rights: "each of us should be as equal in the eyes of the law as we are in the eyes of God." Democrats explicitly understood those in power to be answerable to a God of justice, compassion and high expectations. What Happened to change that position? All these references to the Almighty have since disappeared.
"Inserting God into parties' platforms is unnecessarily divisive," said a tweet Wednesday night (9-12-12) from the Secular Coalition, a lobbying group for nonbelievers. The group later added: "God-given didn't add anything to the platform except pandering and a word that excludes millions of nontheists."
The Democratic party ultimately must decide whether to defend the notion that God blesses everyone, even those who don't believe in God, and endows everyone with capacities that must be honored. After all, the logic goes, they aren't man-made. They are sacred. And what God has made, let no one put asunder.
At this convention, we've heard a party struggling to figure out where, if anywhere, God fits in public life. But if God-talk is deemed inherently non-inclusive, then these too will be secularized. Michelle Obama explained how her husband makes a high-stakes decision. She suggested he gets advice from all types of people. She notably didn't mention prayer or God.
What's evolving, it seems, is a party that explicitly embraces faith, not God, as an important force. "Faith has always been a central part of the American story," the Democratic party has constantly pursued several legislative moves to remove God from America. Faith, not God, is identified here as a driver of progress. People of faith tend to see it the other way around: God acts, inspires and deserves glory; faith merely testifies to what God has done. Religious Democrats need to reckon with the prospect that their party does not see it as they do.
As Democrats weigh whether to drop God from their platforms in the future, they'll need to assess whether secular humanism is truly the most inclusive - or the most fitting. To celebrate faith without acknowledging God would remove awareness of common grace and collective higher responsibility. That might seem strange, coming from a party that emphasizes the need for more accountability, not less, among the powerful on Wall Street, in corporate board rooms and across the aisle. Perhaps, hopefully Democrats will decide once again that God is worth keeping and handle the boos in stride.
As Ronald Reagan said, '' When we forget that we're one nation under God, we'll be a nation gone under''.
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A woman died and a man was injured Wednesday night in an accident in Volusia County, according to authorities.
The crash happened at 7:10 p.m. on Osteen Maytown Road and Lakeview Drive.
Florida Highway Patrol said Brandon Alfonso, 27, and Jessica Alfonso, 26, were walking in the westbound lanes of Osteen Maytown Road when they were struck by a vehicle.
After the impact, Jessica Alfonso was thrown into the eastbound lanes and run over by a SUV, FHP said.
Authorities said they were both transported to the hospital, where Jessica Alfonso died. Brandon Alfonso was in stable condition Wednesday night.
Both vehicles stayed on scene and troopers are still gathering information, authorities said. No charges have been filed.


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What Can I Do with a Specialization in Transformative Social Change?
Each Specialization has goals and related student learning outcomes that are reflected in the program curriculum, offerings, and requirements. All programs include student development of competencies in the area of research and scholarship. In addition to a plan for meeting the goals and objectives of their degree program, students will develop specific plans for meeting their individual goals in Transformative Social Change at their initial Residential Orientation and in subsequent work with faculty mentors. These are reviewed and revised periodically throughout the M.A. and Ph.D. program.
Career Outcomes
Program graduates will be prepared for leadership work in a wide range of governmental, nonprofit-NGO, public policy research, social advocacy, and educational settings. The Transformative Social Change Specialization will appeal to:
• leaders and activists in governmental and non-governmental social action and community service organizations and networks
• teachers in traditional and non-traditional higher education institutions who want the opportunity to deepen and develop their work in a vibrant collegial setting
• newer activists who want to develop their social entrepreneurship, community organizing, and activist skills and credentials.
In addition to organizational and activist work, some graduates teach at the college or university level in a variety of disciplines. Students completing Saybrook work in this area have found a broad range of professional opportunities for their training, including:
• designing a student retention program for Native American students
• working with the California Attorney General's office on domestic violence policy
• developing a new model for the emancipation of foster care youth
• evaluating community programs for at-risk youth
• establishing a program for maintaining economic viability for Tibetan refugees in Nepalese camps
• working with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and NATO peacekeepers in Kosovo
• developing corporate-community partnerships to further environmental education
• creating a community-based model for school improvement
• domestic and youth violence prevention and intervention
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Why You Need It: To Find Cheap Gas
Most gasoline retailers have apps that locate their branded stores, which are handy if you use their credit cards. But for drivers who simply want the cheapest gas—and want to avoid the unpleasant surprise of fueling up and then spotting cheaper gas a mile down the road—there's the iPhone app iGasUp. It displays the 10 nearest fuel stations and their prices, derived from the same pricing service that supplies the AAA and satellite companies.
Originally introduced in 2008, the iGasUp app just recently dropped its price from $2.99 to $0.99 and says it plans to add fuel-station amenities such as carwashes to its listings. The iGasUp folks claim that 110,000 fuel stations are included in its database, which is nearly every station in operation in the U.S.
Why You Need It: To Track Your Kid's Driving (or Argue Your Way Out of a Ticket)
Using the accelerometer in an Android phone, My Max Speed 2.0 logs speed and location every 5 seconds and makes the data available for exporting to a spreadsheet. The app is intended to be used two ways: to monitor a teen's driving habits and to provide an accurate record with which to argue against speeding tickets. It can also provide a location history or send a message if the phone carrying the app travels outside a preset location perimeter.
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Meet The Supermodel: Anne V From A To V
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Naomi Campbell's hit modeling competition show, The Face, which airs Wednesdays at 10/9 p.m. central on Oxygen, added another gorgeous face to its cast this season with Anne V (the V stands for Vyalitsyna, which thankfully she doesn't ask us to pronounce). We caught up with the leggy blonde recently to chat about everything from her personal style to that time she rode an elephant. Read on!
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A Is For Anchovy
Also known as Chovy, her adorable Pomeranian pooch who passed away late last year. Anne, however, is determined that his memory lives on. "I actually wrote an illustrated kid's book about him called Anchovy the Flying Dog that I'm hoping to get published this year," she says.
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B Is For Butt
"It's my least favorite feature," Anne admits. "I wish it were bigger. That said, I'm pretty secure with my body at this point in my life."
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C Is For "Cool Girl" Style
Anne's personal style is cool girl all the way, think: moto jackets, denim skirts, and crop tops. Her at-home look, however, is less, shall we say, polished, with a focus on colorblind combinations of sweatpants and t-shirts. "I look like an absolute idiot!" she says. Awwww, we doubt it.
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D Is For Doctors
Both of Anne's parents are physicians back in Russia. Her mother is a pediatrician and her father is a sports doctor for a football team.
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E Is For Exercise (Obviously)
"I work with a trainer and do a bit of everything," Anne says. "Pilates, boxing, horseback riding–whatever my body is telling me. Although sometimes my body tells me to eat cookies at 2 a.m.!"
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F is For Freckles
Anne's trademark feature.
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G is for Gorky
The name of Anne's hometown in Russia. Now known as Nizhny Novgorod, it's the country's fifth-largest city.
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H is for Hip Hop
Anne's favorite type of music. "I put it on every single morning," she says. "It gets me going."
Her Top 5 Hip Hop Songs, In No Particular Order
"Ignition," by R. Kelly
"Big Poppa," by The Notorious B.I.G.
"Around the Way Girl," by LL Cool J
"Chillin,'" by Wale
"Ms. Fat Booty," by Mos Def
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I Is For Irina Shayk
Anne's bestie in the modeling business.
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J Is For Julia Roberts
The star of Anne's favorite all-time movie, Pretty Woman. "I know it's cliché," she says. "But I could never get bored of watching it."
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K Is For Kids
"I want at least two," Anne says. "The more the merrier."
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L Is For Lullaby
This summer, Anne will appear alongside Amy Adams and Jennifer Hudson in Lullaby, a film about a man who discovers that his father is going to take himself off life support. "It was one of those projects everyone was just so excited to be a part of," Anne says.
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M Is For Marathon
In 2009, Anne worked as volunteer for the non-profit organization, Achilles International, and helped guide a disabled athlete through the ING New York Marathon.
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N Is For Naomi Campbell
The iconic catwalk queen (seen here with Chovy) is The Face's executive producer and stars in both its U.S. and U.K. versions. The show's basic premise centers on Campbell and two fellow cover girls (this season, it's Anne and Lydia Hearst), who each pick four aspiring model contestants to mentor through a series of industry-related challenges. "It's all about sharing our knowledge with them," Anne says. "Because when you start out in this business, you have no idea what you're doing."
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O Is For Oxygen
The cable network that airs The Face — Wednesdays at 10/9 p.m. central, to be exact.
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P Is For Pachyderms
Anne traveled to Burma last year, where she fulfilled her longtime dream of riding an elephant. "I was paired with the biggest elephant of all, who was named Yuki, which was good because for me, bigger is always better," she says with a laugh. Anne handled Yuki so well, her guide told her that, should this whole supermodel thing not work out, she could be a professional elephant trainer.
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Q Is For Quality
As in a "quality guy", which Anne, who is currently single, has an eye out for. "I want a true gentleman," she says.
Pictured: The truest gentleman of them all, Ryan Gosling
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R Is For Russian Food
"It's my guilty pleasure," says Anne, of native dishes like pickled veggies, pirozhki (pies stuffed with meat or veggies), and Olivier Salad (mayonnaise-based potato salad)."Unfortunately, I don't get to eat it that often if I want to keep the body of a model."
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S Is For Science
Growing up, Anne had aspirations of becoming a chemist. "I was obsessed," she recently told the press. " I had the most wonderful chemistry teacher that made me fall in love with chemistry. It was a woman."
Pictured: A young Anne in a Holloween costume
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T Is For The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue
Anne has appeared in the magazine a whopping 10 years in a row.
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U Is For Utopia
"My home is my oasis," says Anne, of her abode in New York's West Village.
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V Is For Victoria's Secret
Anne is a familiar face on the Victoria's Secret runway, having walked in numerous shows. The model, who got her big break after winning an IMG/MTV modeling contest at age 15, has also appeared in campaigns for Chloe, Chanel, Tommy Hilfiger, and Prada.


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A solution for sharing sports data
SportsML is the only open, global XML standard for the interchange of sports data. Designed to be as easy to understand and implement as possible, SportsML allows for the exchange of sports scores, schedules, standings, and statistics for a wide variety of sports competitions.
Key features are:
- Covers scores, schedules, standings, statistics, and more
- Global in scope and design
- Common framework for all sports
- Plug-in modules for specific sports
- Well documented and easy to use
- Open and non-proprietary: Your feedback is welcome!
In brief
Its extensibility allows for the easy accommodation of many sports from around the globe. SportsML cooperates with current IPTC standards NewsML and NITF to enable publishers to package sports statistics alongside edited coverage of sports.
SportsML uses the eXtensible Markup Language to define the content and structure of sports data, which means that developers of interactive or printed sports data services will have a far easier time integrating sports feeds that adhere to SportsML than if they rely on other proprietary formats.
SportsML 2.2 Download ZIP Package with:
- Schemas
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Find more specification documents in the SportsML section of the IPTC Developer Site.
- SportsML Classic documentation pages (schema hierarchy overview)
- SportsML-G2 documentation pages (schema hierarchy overview)
Users of SportsML 2.0 and higher can elect to create and share standalone SportsML files, or they can include their SportsML as part of IPTC G2 structures. Find more documentation in the SportsML section of the IPTC Developer Site.
The IPTC Developer Site provides technical information about SportsML-G2.
The SportsML Users Forum is used to share experiences, raise questions and recommend and discuss changes to the SportsML-G2 standard. It also connects companies and organizations who use SportsML-G2 and vendors who create tools that process NewsML-G2 documents.


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Soft, slightly cropped wool sweater with a patterned front body and sleeves. Decorative button tabs at sides and open stitch detail at back. Long rib trim at collar, cuffs and hem.
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On Friday, July 17th, cheer on the Cards as they take on the Mets with fellow Mizzou devotees. All fans purchasing a ticket to this special Mizzou Theme Night will receive a Mizzou themed Cardinals cap! Come early for a pre-game pep rally featuring Truman, The Golden Girls, The Mizzou Band and Athletes!
Please note: the Mizzou themed Cardinals cap is available only with the purchase of a special Theme Night ticket. All Theme Night purchases for events that include giveaway items will come with a game ticket and a separate voucher. The voucher can be exchanged at the game or pre-game festival for that event's giveaway item. You will not be able to receive the item unless you have your voucher with you at the event. You may pick up your Mizzou Cap at Riverview Corner, on Terrace level 1st base side across from section 434, from 5:45 to 7:45 p.m.
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|Avery Fire Units Back-up Carter County at House Fire
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Avery fire units were asked to cross the state line to help a with Carter County house fire. The 8am call was to a house--fully involved in flames--near the TN 143 and Cove Creek Road intersection, south of Roan Mountain. The assistance was canceled after Carter County units determined the house was abandoned. The investigation into the fire will be conducted by Tennessee authorities.
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Kirk Schnieder, Psychology
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"An emphasis on quick fixes runs deep in our culture," says Kirk Schneider, and that's a problem for everyone interested in mental health.
Real satisfaction with life comes from profound choices made over a lifetime; they come from a sense of awe toward the world we live in; and they come from presence in the daily moments we experience.
Happiness cannot be prescribed like an antibiotic; it can't be picked up in 15 minutes like a drive-through meal. All too often, quick fixes are a big part of what makes us unhappy – but they're what we demand our mental health professionals give us.
Much of the mental health world has given in, tacitly agreeing that whatever your insurance company pays for must be good for you. But ever since 1993, when Rollo May asked him to co-write a textbook on existential psychology, Kirk Schneider has been pushing back.
A Saybrook alumnus, today Kirk is a practicing psychotherapist, the editor of The Journal of Humanistic Psychology, and Vice President of the Existential Humanistic Institute.
He is one of the leading theorists breaking new ground in "talk" therapy and showing, over and over again, that psychologically addressing your hopes and problems, fears and dreams, can be far more effective than wishing them away with medication or quick fixes.
"What makes therapy effective involves its ability to meaningfully connect the big issues and questions of life to the way a person lives day-to-day," Schneider says. "If you're not doing that … if you're looking for a quick fix … then actually you're making real growth much harder."
Effective therapy also has a great deal to do with "contextual factors:"
"The relationship with a therapist should hold and illuminate that which is palpably charged and alive within the client, instead of just talking about it. It's a chance for personal growth and change." Schneider says. "Too often, that's what people are being denied when they ask for help."
Schneider understands the power of good therapy as a client as well as a therapist. A family tragedy when he was a young boy, the death of his older brother, got him asking life's toughest questions at an early age.
"That was my very informal and disturbing introduction to existentialism," he remembers. "His death opened the deepest questions of existence. Who am I? What is a human being? What is our purpose? I was too young to ask those questions directly, but I knew they were rolling around, and I had some great fears about existence."
It was a therapist, he remembers, "a particularly great healer," that helped him work through it, and rediscover his love of life.
At some level, Kirk's known what he's wanted to do ever since.
He majored in psychology as an undergraduate, found the humanistic and existential approaches to be the most exciting, the most relevant, and never looked back.
He studied at Saybrook in the 1980s with such luminaries as James Bugental and Rollo May, and eventually came to work closely with them. Rollo May served on his dissertation committee; Bugental offered him one of the first internships at the Interlogue Counseling Center; and soon Schneider was actively publishing on ways that the pioneering existential approaches to therapy his mentors had developed could be expanded into new areas and enriched.
He began to take it to the next level with the book he co-authored with May, The Psychology of Existence, the last book May would write.
"That's where I really developed, based on Rollo and Jim's inspiration, Existential-Integrative psychotherapy," Schneider says. "
Existential-Integrative therapy (EI) is Schneider's attempt to both advance existential therapy as originated by May and to make it more relevant to today's clinical climate.
"This is at the cutting edge of contemporary practice," Schneider says. "We know now that what makes therapy effective is these contextual factors, is the quality of the relationship between therapist and client: why not develop an approach that other approaches can look to, like existential therapy, that not only include but specialize in these aspects? That's where, I think, psychology as a whole is headed, now that it's been shown again and again that you can't simply check symptoms off a list and hand out drugs and expect someone's life to improve. You need to engage the client as a whole human being – at the level of his or her core struggle, and that's what we're offering to the broader profession."
Now a faculty member at Saybrook, Schneider says he's working to teach the next generation of practitioners to understand therapy as more than just an intellectual process, but as an engaging –and relational – approach to healing and to life.
"We don't just talk about presence, we try as best we can to illustrate it," he says. "We really encourage embodiment and experiential contact with what we're doing – and that seems to be the thing that students appreciate most. That as we develop the next generation of therapists, they're not just listening to a lecture but experiencing how therapy works, at its core."


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Rob Bona of Springville took a 7 lb. 4 oz., 25.5 inch tiger trout with a cheese bait. Rob's son-in-law, Riley Thorpe, caught a 16 lb. 2 oz., 30.5 inch long brown trout with a spinner. Both men were shore fishing at the Mountain View unit of Scofield State Park on Oct. 14.
Bona, who has a cabin in Scofield West, was with Thorpe and his two twin 2-year-old boys, Ryker and Hunter. "I have been fishing this lake for over 40 years and never caught anything like this, not even close," Bona said.
He caught the tiger while bait fishing on bottom using cheese-like substance). Riley caught the big brown a little later while spin casting deep with a heavy spinner.
"He thought he was hung up on the bottom but all the sudden it came to life. We almost lost it back into the lake because we didn't have a net but I sacrificed a wet boot and crotch took it for a ride to make sure it didn't get away," said Rob.
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Wendy Thurlow is an award winning art jeweler who studied her craft in Philadelphia at the University of the Arts. In 1999 she received a BFA in Metals. She continued her education with intense internships and weeklong jewelry workshops.
Wendy has been producing her own one-of-kind and limited edition jewelry for over 15 years. She incorporates techniques such as forging, acid etching, and various surface embellishments to give her jewelry texture and depth. Wendy's jewelry is organic and sculptural. Her primary focus has been the use of mixed metals with semiprecious stones, fossils and found objects. Her eye for composition and attraction to form and design enable her to create jewelry of a distinct style.
Wendy exhibits her work nationally, has many private collectors internationally, and has been an exhibitor at local art festivals. In addition to her studio work, Wendy is passionate about teaching the art of metal and instructs various levels of jewelry making classes.


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Guardian Small Business Award winner helps its community members become entrepreneurs
The first initiative in the nation to "comprehensively address the economic barriers faced by low- and moderate-income LGBT individuals and families," the 10-year-old San Francisco LGBT Center's Economic Development Department (EDD) takes on a huge task.
More than a third of SF's homeless people are LGBT. Transgender individuals often face huge amounts of discrimination in the workplace, and suffer from some of the highest unemployment rates as a result. Prejudice and, often, a lack of a structured environment due to homophobia, can discourage LGBT people from starting their own business or cause them to fear coming out at work.
The LGBT Center EDD energetically addresses these issues with a vast array of programs, events, collaborative workshops, and innovative actions. The center's Small Business Services arm helps guide LGBT entrepreneurs all the way from pre-startup to expansion: free, one-on-one technical assistance, collaborative workshops, a credit-building micro-loan program, loan packaging, small business mentorship, and referrals to its huge small business development network.
Soon to launch: a "fun, intuitive, and user-friendly" business plan development app; B-Lab, a free drop-in incubator to share ideas, receive mentoring, and engage in mini-workshops; a "Capital Within Reach: How to Empower Your Small Business With Alternative Funding" seminar, including crowdsourcing tips, May 21 at 6:30pm; and, in October, the 2014 Bicoastal Economic Empowerment Week, with a chance to schmooze and learn from New York start-ups. The center's Small Business Services' keystone event, its Fall LGBT Career Fair, attracts thousands of attendees and hundreds of employers looking to make connection with LGBTs.
"Eighty-three percent of employers who participated in one of our recent career fairs said they plan to follow up with the candidates they met there," Kevin Fu, the center's public relations coordinator, says. "And during the 2012-2013 fiscal year, our Small Business Services Program provided technical assistance to 89 businesses, worked with 50 entrepreneurs to develop business plans, connected seven businesses to mentors and helped 12 small businesses secure $140,000 in growth capital."
When grouped with the Economic Development Department's other initiatives — including the LGBTQ Employment Services Program (which features the nation's first specifically transgender-oriented employment program, TEEI), and the Financial Services Program, which supports asset-building and helps with credit repair and homebuying assistance —the LGBT Center is working overtime to keep the LGBT community on its financial feet.
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Leapin' Lizards! The popular comic strip heroine takes center stage in one of the world's best-loved musicals, designed expressly for elementary and middle school students. With equal measures of pluck and positivity, Little Orphan Annie charms everyone's hearts, despite a next-to-nothing start in 1930s New York City. She is determined to find her parents, who abandoned her years ago on the doorstep of an orphanage run by the cruel, embittered Miss Hannigan. With the help of the other girls in the orphanage, Annie escapes to the wondrous and magical world of New York City. In adventure after fun-filled adventure, Annie foils Miss Hannigan's evil machinations and befriends President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. She finds a new home and family with billionaire Oliver Warbucks, his personal secretary Grace Farrell, and a lovable mutt named Sandy. The showkit contains a director's guide, 30 actor's scripts, a piano/vocal score, a choreography DVD, 2 Performance/Accompaniment CDs, and 30 Family Matters booklets. Order the audio sampler first, for an overview of the show, licensing information, and full recordings of the songs. 30 minutes.
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Each Broadway Jr. or $495 Kids ShowKit includes: 30 Student Libretto/Actor's Scripts, 1 Piano/Vocal Score, 1 Director Script (including 1 Production Handbook and 1 Cross-Curricular Book), 2 Performance/Accompaniment CDs, 1 Choreography DVD, 1 Media Disk ($645 shows only), and 30 Family Matters Booklets. Upon placing your order, you will receive a contract directly from Hal Leonard Corporation. After the signed contract is returned to Hal Leonard, they will send you the complete ShowKit (non-returnable) and a Dramatic Performing License that will allow your organization unlimited performing rights for one year. J.W. Pepper will then send you an invoice for all the material. For schools or organizations that have licensed the production and purchased the complete ShowKit, additional items are available for an additional cost. To preview each musical, just order the Audio Sampler for the show you are considering. In each sampler you'll find a complete overview of the show, a list of characters, song ranges, scene breakdowns, and a full recording of each song. It also includes a complete description of the ShowKit components, details on how to order, and other important information regarding your performance.
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- Performances must be done by accredited schools using students in Grade 9 or under only. High schools with students older than ninth grade must contact Music Theater International directly.
- Dance Studios and Summer Camps which are accredited by the American Camping Association may also perform the shows. The summer camp must be connected to an accredited academic elementary/middle school that licenses the show for the camp. These types of organizations will have some different license restrictions with respect to the age of performers, the number of performances allowed and the time frame during which the performances must take place.
- Sorry, orders cannot be processed for Community Theatres, Children's Theatres or Performing Arts schools which do not have an academic curriculum.
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