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ACHIEVE Kids Tri announces USAT Grant, Expansion Programs
At a benefit hosted Friday by the Washington Hilton, organizers announced receipt of a grant from USAT, the National Governing Body for multisport in the United States, which will help the program expand to new regions. Launched initially in Washington, D.C., the program expanded to Houston, Texas, in its second year. This year, the program will launch in Waterbury, Conn., and next year, ACHIEVE is reviewing potential sites in Atlanta, Ga., Chicago, Ill., and San Francisco, Calif.
Mayor Adrian M. Fenty said, "The District is committed to ensuring that kids have access to quality fitness and sports programs at our local schools and Parks and Recreation facilities. By encouraging our youth to participate in physical activities, we are laying the proper foundation for them to chose healthy lifestyles. As a triathlete, I know firsthand the benefits that can result."
"We are grateful to USAT for this generous grant which is helping us expand the program and bring the benefits of triathlon training to a new generation of young athletes," noted Molly Quinn, Executive Director of ACHIEVE. "We believe this program is an example of how a unique public-private partnership, such as the one we have between ACHIEVE and the Department of Parks and Recreation, can fulfill First Lady Michelle Obama's vision of promoting health, fitness and nutrition for the nation's young people."
"ACHIEVE Kids Tri is truly fueling the multisport lifestyle in today's youth, and USA Triathlon is proud to partner with this exciting program," said USA Triathlon CEO Skip Gilbert. "Instilling healthy habits at an early age is very important, and the ACHIEVE camps do a remarkable job of introducing our sport to children each summer."
The 2010 summer camp will take place June 21-July 30 at four sites in Washington, D.C.: the Turkey Thicket Recreation Center, the Benning Park Community Center, and – starting in 2010 – the Deanwood Community Center and Barry Farms Recreation Center. The program runs Monday through Friday from 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Under ACHIEVE's motto of "Enriching Lives Through Sport," the program will include specially trained counselors and coaches teaching kids triathlon skills, and how leading a healthy fitness-oriented lifestyle can help them succeed in life. In addition to fitness and nutrition counseling, each camper also receives a free healthy breakfast and lunch through the federal lunch program.
At the final day of camp, July 30, kids will compete in The Fourth Annual DC Kids' Triathlon. This race will be sanctioned by USAT and produced by Washington Sports and Events Management. This kid-sized triathlon will include athletes from all four camps and will take place at Turkey Thicket Recreation Center. The race will feature a 100m swim, 5k bike and a 2k run. There will be professional timing, a finish line banner, finishers medals, finishers t-shirts, a finish line photo and more. As USAT members racing in a USAT sanctioned triathlon they will officially record their first sanctioned triathlon finish time!
In addition to the D.C. sites, there is a camp taking place this summer in Houston, Texas, from June 28-August 6. Organized by Charles Moser, it will take place at the MacGregor Community Center and will culminate with The Houston Kids' Triathlon on Aug. 7. Also, beginning in 2010, a new site in Waterbury, Conn., will launch. Held at the Greater Waterbury YMCA, the camp will take place from June 28-Aug. 6, with the triathlon also being held on Aug. 7.
ACHIEVE is a free camp that relies on donations and grants to provide youth with all of the equipment and training that they will need during the program. Donations can be directed to a specific camp or region and go to support the purchase of swimsuits, goggles, swim caps, swim fins, pull buoys, kickboards, bikes, helmets, cycling jerseys and other training gear. Registration is free, but space is limited. To register, make a donation, or inquire about volunteering or coaching for one of the ACHIEVE camps, go to www.achievekidstri.org.
About ACHIEVE Kids Tri, Inc. (www.achievekidstri.org)
ACHIEVE Kids Tri, Inc. is a Washington, D.C.-based 501(c)(3) organization that was founded in 2007 by Charles (Chuck) Brodsky, founder of The Nation's Triathlon™ with the support of Washington, D.C., Mayor, Adrian Fenty, an avid triathlete, and Washington, D.C.'s Department of Parks and Recreation. Through its programs in Washington, D.C., Houston, Texas, and Waterbury, Conn., ACHIEVE connects youth with healthy lifestyle activities and choices and teaches them exercise skills that last a lifetime. Achieve summer camp programs are USAT-certified training centers where all kids become USAT members and compete in a USAT-sanctioned kids' triathlon at the end of camp. Sponsors and partners for ACHIEVE include Cycle Life USA, Kaiser Permanente, The Bike Lane, Washington Hilton and USA Triathlon.


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A new program is under way in Quincy to steer people suffering from mental health issues and commit crimes away from jail.
Plans for a so-called "mental health court" are in the works.
The idea is to get people with mental health problems appropriate treatment.
It's one of nine new specialty programs the state trial court is starting.
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According to his office's press release West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey sent a letter to President Obama on February 11th "expressing his concerns about the current direction of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and urging the President to change the agency's "current path" by nominating a more reasonable successor to recent EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson". As an example of the EPA's unreasonableness, the highly publicized letter cited the agency's "delay in issuing a permit for a West Virginia mining site" which, "resulted in the layoff of nearly 150 workers".
The problem is that it wasn't true. There was no layoff (1), a fact revealed not by a reporter or a news organization. It had to be pointed out by a guy named Rob Goodwin in a letter to the editor in the Charleston Gazette.
Sadly, gaps between rhetoric and fact, like the one in Morrisey's letter, are commonplace in West Virginia -- in its politics, in its news reporting, and in its lawmaking.
One of the few journalists to readily acknowledge the problem is Ken Ward, Jr. of the Charleston Gazette. Ward recently issued a series of tweets bemoaning the frequency with which lawmakers make unsubstantiated claims and are assisted by reporters who echo the claims, neither demanding sources nor checking the facts. So, when at a recent hearing on reforming the procedures under which teachers are hired and fired, Senator Bob Plymale claimed that grievance judges almost always side with seniority, Ward tweeted to a reporter covering the hearing, "Does he have data to support that?"
Of course, Plymale didn't.
Meanwhile, Ward has shown us how it should b done. Last year, in the wake of the Upper Big Branch mine tragedy, Governor Earl Ray Tomblin signed a "monumental" mine safety bill, which, a Ward story revealed, did almost nothing. The law didn't require real-time ventilation and monitoring of coal dust, which caused the UBB explosion. "New" rock-dust standards were redundant having been enacted two years earlier. An "anonymous mine safety tip line" was also already in existence. A requirement that miners be tested for drugs addressed an issue that has never been tied to a mining disaster and which had nothing to do with the UBB explosion. And the bill's increased fines for safety violations have not been implemented to this day.
It's important to note that Ward's story wasn't an "opinion piece". It didn't stake out a position either "for" or "against" the law. Nor was it really an example of "investigative journalism" since the facts contained in the story required only a comparison of the new law's provisions to existing state and federal law. The story was simply a solid piece of reporting that presented the new law in the context of the facts. And they, not Ward's opinion, undercut the governor's claim that the law was "monumental".
Sadly, Ward's work is a rarity. Consequently, we're regularly confronted with bogus claims and heavily hyped, but vacuous pieces of legislation that attract fawning press coverage with nary a trace of analysis.
Since 2010 West Virginia has been cutting corporate income taxes ostensibly to stimulate job growth, but with no quantitative evidence that jobs have been added. Meanwhile the state will lose over $191 million in revenue by 2017 and now faces the prospect of painful budget cuts.
Similarly, West Virginia hands out roughly $100 million annually in corporate tax incentives, loans, and grants without any analysis of their effect. Only every three years does the Commerce Department provide the legislature with a report and even there it omits the names of recipient companies, the size of their incentives, and any results that have or have not been achieved.
Then there's the EPA's supposed "War on Coal", which is widely believed to have cost West Virginia thousands of jobs. Yet, there is no data to support the claim, nor is the absence of that data often reported. Meanwhile, there is abundant data showing that massive miner job losses have resulted from automation, the increased use of strip mining and mountaintop removal, and, most recently, the emergence of inexpensive natural gas as a competitor to coal. But, state leaders would rather blame the EPA and reporters let them.
Similarly, the natural gas boom is regularly said to be creating tens of thousands of jobs in the state. At last count fewer than a thousand jobs have been created and there has been no measurable increase in economic activity or employment in the counties where drilling is most prevalent, all facts which are almost never noted in stories about "the boom".
Finally, the governor is considering whether West Virginia should expand Medicaid under Obamacare. He publicly wrings his hands over the costs to the state, which are almost never quantified. Meanwhile, he and the press regularly fail to mention the $600 million in federal funds that expansion will inject every year into the state's economy.
In short, West Virginia is often an accountability-free zone where content-free politicking combines with fact-free news coverage to produce impact-free laws – laws that may appeal to public sentiment, but which accomplish little or nothing often at the price of draining the state of resources.
Former Defense Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, observed that there are known knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns, but in West Virginia we're also afflicted with knowable unknowns and we're afflicted with them because we're just too lazy to ask or, better yet, demand.
(1) See the last paragraph of page 34 of CONSOL Energy's February 7, 2013 10-K filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which reads in part:
"Thus far, CONSOL Energy subsidiaries have been able to continue operating their existing mines. However, CONSOL Energy was affected by a delay in permitting in 2012 for a new coal mine in Mingo County, WV, which resulted in a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) notice being issued for employees scheduled to begin work on the new mine. Since 2007, CONSOL Energy has undertaken permitting activities to permit a new surface mine with a post mine land use plan for a five mile stretch of connecting highway that is part of the King Coal Highway corridor. CONSOL of Kentucky entered into a Memorandum of Understanding in conjunction with the Federal Department of Highways Administration and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, to coordinate the design of the valley fills to serve as highway infrastructure. However, the EPA objected to CONSOL Energy's water discharge permit on the grounds of their April 2010 Appalachian guidance, which resulted in CONSOL Energy's issuance of a WARN notice on October 30, 2012 for 145 employees who were planned to work at the new coal mine. CONSOL Energy was able, in this instance, to redeploy these employees to work at another adjacent coal mine property for which a permit was already issued. However, there is no assurance that the permit for a new coal mine will be issued, or that CONSOL Energy would be able to re-deploy its employees under future similar circumstances."
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FANTASYLAND, WEST VIRGINIA (Pub Date, 3/9/13)
Posted by Sean O'Leary at 12:21 PM
Labels: Bob Plymale, Charleston Gazette, Donald Rumsfeld, Earl Ray Tomblin, EPA, Jr., Ken Ward Jr., mine safety, Obamacare, Patrick Morrisey, Rob Goodwin, West Virginia
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In connection with other "fantasies," you might want to look at this: http://energypolicyforum.org/2013/04/01/externalities-of-shales-road-damage/
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BlackBerry Thunder spotted in real photos
updated 05:40 pm EDT, Sun July 13, 2008
BBerry Thunder Real Photos
Research in Motion's BlackBerry Thunder touchscreen phone has at last been shown in real-world photography, courtesy of a leak by Crackberry. The device is identical to user guide drawings and other escaped images and is dominated by its touch display; four buttons underneath let RIM hide many extra software functions in menus rather than having to expose them with always-on visible buttons, as with the iPhone. The design should allow the Canadian company to implement its first touch interface without alienating most existing users.
The Thunder's keyboard has also been spotted in the leak and reveals a very different approach to typing than with the iPhone. Both devices can automatically adjust to landscape mode in certain cases, but the BlackBerry will change the layout itself to ensure that keys always remain large. In landscape mode, the device has access to a traditional QWERTY keyboard, while a vertical mode switches to RIM's SureType scheme borrowed from the BlackBerry Pearl, which puts two letters on each key .
Earlier reports have also suggested the Thunder will have localized haptic feedback that vibrates the screen near the point at which the user types, simulating a physical button push.
Despite the confirmation of the new touch BlackBerry as a real device, few other pieces of information have been supported by the leak, although it's widely understood that the Thunder will support 3G calls and data on both CDMA and GSM phone networks, advanced media playback, and a significantly new interface. A launch isn't expected until late in the year.


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President's Cabinet Meeting
February 28, 2005
President Ivory V. Nelson, Vice President Michael B. Hill, Vice President Howard E. Merlin, Vice President William B. Bynum, Dean Judith A.W. Thomas and Ms. Diane M. Brown.
Minutes of February 21, 2005 Cabinet meeting were approved.
Governor's 2005-2006 Capital Budget
The Governor's proposed 2005-2006 Capital Budget includes at $13 million Campus and Grounds Renovation project for Lincoln University. The project is needed to construct, repave, resurface walkways around campus, improve entranceways, landscape maintenance and development around the campus and provide additional parking.
Purchasing Agent Procedure/Coordination with Legal
Cabinet received a draft procedure for the procedure/coordination with legal for purchases. Further review/discussion with Internal Council is necessary before procedure is implemented.
Revised Code of Conduct Policy
Cabinet was asked to insure that all employees have returned their signed forms acknowledging receipt of the new/revised Code of Conduct Policy.
Student Affairs and Enrollment Management
Undergraduate Admission Statistics for fall 2005, as of February 28, 2005
# Undergraduate applications received for fall 2005……………… 3372
# Undergraduate applications received for fall 2004……………… 2615
# Undergraduate students admitted for fall 2005…………………. 571
# Undergraduate students admitted for fall 2004…………………. 494
There being no further business, President Nelson adjourned the meeting at 12:30 p.m.
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As far as wraps goes, this is definitely the first time we've seen something like this! It appears a Ferrari California in UK decided he wanted something a bit different to all the other wraps so he came up with this.So if you're in UK you may watch this rainbow checkered wrap Ferrari going past you. Previously we've seen few cars with a 'prototype camouflage' wrap which did not really work but we think the Ferrari can pull this off, for a little while at least.
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What's Wrong With The Western Conference?
The West used to be known as the speed and high scoring conference, the birth place of Gretzky and Kurri, Bure, Yzerman, Selanne, Fleury, Denis Savard, even the Maple Leafs teams of the 80's had the GREAT Rick Vaive, who had 3 consecutive 50 goal seasons.
But this season Western Conference is being Dominated by the East. The West only has 6 players in the top 30 for points, and only 1 player in the top 17 Igninla, Thornton, Marleau, Pronger, Frolov and Selanne… The West have only 1 player in the top 10 for goals with Ryan Smyth sitting in #8 with 15 goals, and they have 9 total in the top 30, Iginla, Marleau, Naslund, Rolston, Sykora, Kuntiz (Hello) Frolov and Selanne….In Shots they have again only 9 total in the top 30, 1 player in the top 14 in spot #8 with Rolston who has 88 shots, with Blake, Zetterberg, Hejduk, Svatos, Iginla and Selanne rounding out the top 30.
Only Jerome Iginla and Teemu Selanne are the players in top 30 in each category (Points, Goals, Shots)
The West has 3 players in the top 10 in assists with #3 Pronger (23), #7 Henrik Sedin (21) and #8 Teemu Selanne (20), but then only have 3 more in the top 30 for a total of 6 players in the top 30 in assists, Kopitar, Kariya and Tanguay.
The only player in the Western Conference to be in the top 4 in all categories for Points, Asssits, Goals and shots is Teemu Selanne!!! WAY TO GO TEEMU.
So is Teemu Selanne the best offensive player in the Western Conference??? The stats say he is the best all around (and he's only making $3.75 million) and he was dynamite last year when he came in the top 30 in all 4 categories last season. He is #7 overall for points in the NHL and leading the Western Conference in that category.
So is Teemu the best in the West??


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Mozilla names new CEO after year-long search
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Former CTO takes reins, names new COO in focus on Firefox OS
Mozilla co-founder Brendan Eich has been named by the foundation's board of directors to be its new CEO. Eich, best known for his invention of JavaScript as a developer for Netscape in the mid-90s, has been with the company in the role of CTO for the past nine years. He replaces Gary Kovacs, who announced a year ago that he was stepping down from the post. Eich has said that further development of Firefox as a mobile OS is his top priority, particularly for smartphones.
Samples of 'Firefox OS' mobile devices
To this end, Eich has promoted Li Gong, one of the lead developers of the Firefox OS, to be Mozilla's new COO -- replacing Jay Sullivan, who has been the acting CEO since Kovacs retired and who plans to leave himself once the transition is complete. Eich, now installed as CEO, wrote on the company's blog that "Mozilla is about people-power on the Web and Internet --putting individual users, who create as well as consume, above all other agendas." He went on to say that users are "our ultimate cause" and "a source of inspiration and ongoing help" in the development of the platform and browser.
Co-founder and first CEO Mitchell Baker will continue her role as executive chair of the company, praising Eich as "an absolutely foundational element of Mozilla and our success for the past 15 years." She added that she was "very happy with this combination of continuity and change" in the company. Eich will be in charge of fulfilling Mozilla's promise of new, Firefox OS-powered handsets and "$25 smartphones" the company has promised.


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During an appearance at Door County Maritime Museum on Friday, Gov. Scott Walker told reporters and local leaders that traveler spending in Door County increased 6.5 percent in 2012.
The total impact of traveler spending in Door County increased 6.5 percent to $367.5 million in 2012, according to statistics released Friday by the state Department of Tourism and the Door County Visitor Bureau.
The total, which includes both direct and indirect spending, was included in tourism's $16.8 billion impact on the state economy, a 5 percent statewide increase. During a news conference at the Door County Maritime Museum, Gov. Scott Walker said the state of Wisconsin greeted 96.6 million visitors last year.
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I'm making a UI that lives inside an iFrame and can be embedded into HTML pages. The UI contains a horizontal menu of variable length. Think something like:
Home - Login - About - Help
But where the length / number of elements of the menu is subject to change. The UI exists on the top right of each page it is embedded on. What I'd like to happen is when I add an element to the menu, let's say "Contact Us", I want the iFrame to expand left to accomodate the extra element.
Right now the menu is structured with multiple divs styled with
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but I've also tried it using UL and LIs.
What's making this complicated is that I don't want the iFrame's width to be the whole page, I just want it to be big enough to contain the menu. But if I don't set the width explicitly when I add new elements, instead of lining up horizontally they get pushed to the next line.
So when I add a new element (Contact Us) I want it to look like this:
Home - Login - About - Help - Contact Us
But it ends up looking like
Home - Login - About - Help
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(Remember this is all happening inside of an iFrame that is
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What I'm trying to figure out is how to make the iFrame expand to the left instead of pushing new elements down to the next line. Thanks in advance.


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Moot Court Competition - Legal Research and Writing (John A. Campbel - LAW 6491 Hours
Advanced brief writing and oral advocacy at the appellate level. This course is open to second- and third-year students who participate in the Campbell Competition. Pass/D/Fail.
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President Barack Obama waves as he gets off Air Force One upon his arrival at King Khalid International airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Friday. Obama is in Saudi Arabia to reassure the key Gulf ally that his commitment to the Arab world isn't wavering.
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Young adults have typically identified with the Democratic Party, but those ties have become stronger since 2006.
The Gallup Poll finds that 54% of 18-to-29-year-olds on average since 2006 have aligned themselves with Democrats compared with 36% who identify with the Republican Party.
From 1993-2003, the gap among young adults wasn't as wide. Gallup's analysis of its polls taken over the years finds that 47% of 18-to-29-year-olds, on average, identified with Democrats compared with 42% for Republicans. ...


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Oh man, I wish life had a reset button, Rich thought with sinking despair, I wish high school had a reset button so I could escape from this silent hell. Black clouds darkened the already dusk twilight of Rich's mind, a twilight caused by this "silent hell" he had subjected himself to. He felt for his backpack full of books and assorted metal objects, a testament to his loneliness.
He had been alone for so long that it had ceased to cause him noticeable pain. His agony was buried deep beneath the surface; a roaring, furious monster caged only by the barest of means, the bonds weakening further each day and threatening to free it to wage it's terrible destruction. The unseen black clouds covering Rich's mind seemed to flash with dark lightning to the beating of his heart and the roar of his agony.
Rich felt his chin musingly, fingers brushing against dark stubble, and wondered. When did it all go wrong? When did I turn my life to shit? He had thought high school was going to be so great, an exciting change of pace from the shitheap of a middle school he had attended. It had been great at first actually, it had been exactly what he had imagined it to be; new people, new subjects, new teachers and a girl who loved him and him, her.
The blissful feeling of these days was now like a newborn pup, full of love and joy at first, then locked in a crypt and left to die; a puppy that, before starving to death, was torn and mangled by the dark, hellish things lurking in the crypt. The feelings, like the puppy, had died after a while from the assault of the twisted creatures in Rich's mind and the memories of that joy and love had fled; leaving only the dismal silence broken by the sound of hulking, monstrous things shuffling in the shadows.
Back in the days when that figurative puppy was still alive and joy and love frolicked through Rich's mind, there had been no need for a reset button. Rich had thought of a reset button and shivered with fear at the thought of losing what he had. Before total despair consumes, love must flee first Rich thought with a certain sadness of the soul that infected his whole person with its creeping tendrils. He often read in books about characters who "cried until they couldn't cry anymore, then cried some more." Rich knew what that meant now, he felt like an empty, dry husk and his eyes like twin barren, burning deserts, void of all moisture and tears.
He longed to press a reset button and feel those deserts fill up with water so emotion would flood back into his body. He longed to start over, to not screw up, to cradle his girl like the queen she is and keep her safe. He longed to have kept those demons bound up inside of him instead of letting them escape and wreak havoc and horror.
Books had provided him temporary solace. The written word, the rustle of pages and the sweet, dry smell of an old book all granted him a safe haven. It did not last though as his protectors discovered the devils he was hiding and summarily kicked him out. He had wandered the wastelands stretched before him, every step feeling like another turn of a shovel digging up his grave. His soul and mind were tortured by restless dreams and he felt reality begin to slip away. None of that mattered anymore, if reality had dissipated he would have been fine, as all he longed for was new life and a chance to go back and do it all over again and get it right this time.
A faint jubilation, the most he could feel empty as he was, overcame Rich as he remembered his backpack and the contents within. At long last his search had ended and The Reset Button now lay safely nestled in the container on his back. He noticed that his feet had unconsciously brought him to a bathroom door. He casually stuck his arm out, the door flew open and once inside Rich ducked into a stall.
A terrible glee overcame him, the manic glee of a man who knew not what he was doing but did it nonetheless. He slung his backpack on a nearby hook and rummaged through it for what he was looking for. His hand closed over the smooth, cold metal of The Reset Button and he pulled it out, his jubilation growing greater and his glee more terrible. It gleamed dully in the fluorescent lighting, a specter that stared at Richie through its dark, abyss-like eye. He placed that eye to his temple, his hand closing around its base and his finger fitting into its trigger.
Rich felt an ecstasy overcome him and he beamed brightly, the first real smile he had had in months. Finally, a second chance his mind sighed happily.
He slammed his finger down on the trigger with a 'bang!' that echoed off the walls and scared the people outside into investigating. Rich's body, which had already begun to shut down, jumped back in a convulsive shudder. A…second…chance was the last thought he had before darkness took him.
The gun lay smoking on the floor next to him..
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Friday, January 29, 2010
Out Of Sync
Have a great weekend everyone!
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No tell us more!!!ReplyDelete
What?! No suspense! I want to know NOW.ReplyDelete
Suspense is for suckers. Tell us more!ReplyDelete
Sounds like my bedroom and your apartment are in a similar situation :).ReplyDelete
Girl I am RIGHT THERE WITH YOU. Slow down, life!!ReplyDelete
Also, THANKS for your wonderful comment on my Kitty blog. I really, really appreciated that.
If brides have a year to get out their thank yous, I think the average Joe (or Stevie) should be allowed at least a month! =)ReplyDelete
Caro, Jess and Becky...I'll be posting pretty soon. :-)ReplyDelete
Blair, you've had so many big changes in your life recently so I'm sure things are totally crazy right now, but I'm sure things will start to slow down for you soon. And you're very welcome on the kitty comment. I know it's hard. Keep your chin up!
Nilsa, THANK YOU! I always feel so rotten when I send them out so late, but I did get a thank you note yesterday which also made me feel a bit better... :-)


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Random Twerk Video of the Day: Solange Knowles at Made in America Fest
by Greg Smith | Posted on Tuesday, September 3rd, 2013
I always thought Solange was more of a freak than Beyonce. She's got some moves though. Shout to to Bossip for the find.


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To find out more information or how you can help out with the preparation for that day, contact Mrs. Vivian Meeks (404-255-5112).


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The BasicEffect API and feature set did not change in Game Studio 4.0, but the implementation saw some aggressive optimizations.
In previous versions, BasicEffect was intended as a starting point for beginners. We expected expert programmers to soon move on to writing their own shaders, so as long as BasicEffect performed adequately on both Windows and Xbox, it wasn't worth spending time on further optimization.
Windows Phone changed this priority for two reasons:
I though it would be interesting to describe the details of how we sped things up.
In spite of its name, BasicEffect is actually quite complex! If you look at the HLSL source code, you will see that the previous versions included 12 different vertex shaders to support all permutations of these options:
Plus 4 different pixel shaders:
BasicEffect has many other adjustable knobs, but we did not include specialized shaders for every possible combination. For instance we always evaluated the fog equation, and implemented the FogEnable property by setting parameter values to make the result come out zero if we did not want fog.
There is a balance between providing many shader permutations (which minimizes GPU instruction counts), versus fewer shaders (which minimizes memory overhead and development/test cost). When we reevaluated this balance in the light of Windows Phone, we decided to add more specialized shaders. As of Game Studio 4.0, BasicEffect now has a total of 32 permutations. There are 20 vertex shaders:
Plus 10 pixel shaders:
A common tension in shader programming is that when you design effect parameters to provide a nice clean API, the resulting parameter formats are not always the most efficient for HLSL optimization.
D3D tries to correct any such mismatches through a feature called "preshaders". The HLSL compiler looks for computations that are the same for all vertices or all pixels, and moves these out of the main shader into a special setup pass which runs on the CPU before drawing begins. This is a great feature, but has a couple of fatal flaws:
Game Studio 4.0 adds the ability to implement preshader computations in C#, by overloading this new method, which is called immediately before EffectPass.Apply sets parameter values onto the graphics device:
protected virtual void Effect.OnApply();
This allows BasicEffect to expose whatever properties the API requires, without needing these to match the underlying HLSL shader parameters. When the programmer changes a managed property, we just set a dirty flag, then recompute derived HLSL parameter values during OnApply. We used this new ability to precompute many things:
We also applied some good 'ole algebraic optimizations, using math to find cheaper ways of getting the results we wanted.
We got a nice win from vectorizing the lighting computations, using matrix operations to evaluate all three lights at the same time. The new code is harder to read, but a couple of instructions shorter.
One place we slightly changed the final output is the fog equation. Previous versions used distance fog, which is computed from the distance between camera and vertex. We now use depth fog, which only considers how far in front of the camera each vertex is, ignoring any sideways offset. The visual difference is subtle, but depth fog is much cheaper to evaluate.
To take one example, here are the instruction counts for BasicEffect using vertex color and texture, but no lighting or fog:
Vertex Shader
Pixel Shader
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Preemptive question: "can we get the source for these optimized shaders?"
I would certainly love to release this, but we haven't worked out he details yet. Stay tuned!
>>> is it better to have a single BasicEffect instance and change it's properties dynamically or would we have better performance with multiple instances, each with unique set of properties?
In my engine I find the latter to be a rather sizeable gain.
But this might be to some extent due to having large pre-shaders or too expensive parameter computations(not sure if the effects system is smart enough to avoid pre-shader evaluation when not setting dependant parameters though?).
Perhaps time for dual quaternion support...
> Preshaders are not supported on Xbox or Windows Phone.
Oh my, well that's something I didn't know about...
I'm tempted to ask for what else is not supported, because some things have to be manually done (i.e. unrolling loops inlining or using attributes).
Does the compiler for XBOX targeted files will perform those overly aggressive optimizations that it does to the windows ones? Compiling a shader on windows with no optimizations flag will make your instructions counts sometimes go twice the compile-optimized one. Even after all Matrix packing, taking advantage of vector4 testing, branching, dot products, etc. the optimizations check will go several steps further and almost always throw at you a "not humanly possible to do for every shader" slick high performance compiled file.
Have noticed that, at least on windows, in Debug mode the shaders will be compiled as "WITHOUT optimizations" and on Release mode it will be "WITH optimizations".
On a side note: amazing work crunching down to dust those instruction numbers!.
Really want to test that OnApply() method, since I really didn't get it... if I have separate World View Projection Matrices, how would I make my shader see that as a single WVP matrix automatically as in pre-shaders? (In my case, I opted to rewrite all shaders with a single WVP and WV matrices, plus some other similar things, but just to understand the logic behind it a little bit)
Thanks Shawn!.
Congrats on your wedding.
> if I have separate World View Projection Matrices, how would I make my shader see that as a single WVP matrix automatically as in pre-shaders?
You write your shader to expose a single WVP matrix, but then you write your C# wrapper class to expose separate W, V, and P properties. The setters for these properties just store the new value, and set a dirty flag, but don't directly call EffectParameter.SetValue (since there is no single EffectParameter corresponding to these properties). Then in your OnApply method, you check if this dirty flag is set, and if so, combine the three matrices to compute the combined WVP, then pass this derived value through to the shader using EffectParameter.SetValue.
To see how we used this, you could check out the 4.0 CTP implementation of BasicEffect using .NET Reflector...


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By Michael Megehee, DC
Of the three services that Dcs can offer to commercial drivers and motor carriers, the Department of Transportation (DOT) medical exam is usually the starting point. In previous issues of ACA News, we've described the benefits of performing the DOT exam. This article is intended to help you prepare to add DOT medical exams to your practice.
What Does the Medical Exam Include?
Although there is no current federal requirement for "formal" physician training, providers are required to be familiar with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Association (FMCSA) medical standards and the "rigors" of driving. Begin by downloading the nine-page DOT physical form at www.teamcme.com/drivers/dot-physical- form/. You must be especially familiar with Pages 4 to 8 of the form. After performing the exam, the provider gives the driver a Medical Examiner Certificate, which the drivers must carry with them when they drive.
We all have patients who are drivers, and this is a good avenue to perform your first DOT medical exam. A complete DOT medical exam will require a 30-minute appointment. Half of that time is Spent with office staff, and half with the physician.
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A urine dipstick test for glucose, blood, protein and specific gravity is required; however, if you don't perform this service, federal guidelines allow referrals to a lab or another physician. Urine dipsticks are CLIA exempt, but chiropractic scope of practice issues in Tennessee, Hawaii and New York may require a referral.
To test the driver's hearing, providers use the "whisper test." Those without an audiometer refer out drivers who don't pass. For this reason, having an audiometer is convenient, but it must be a "pure tone" audiometer, and the automatic models keep your staff from having to manually administer the test. It also allows your staff to perform the yearly hearing tests required by OSHA for workers in noisy environments.
Other supplies needed to perform the DOT medical exam include an otoscope; blood pressure cuff; Snellen eye chart; stethoscope; and cards with signal green, red and yellow. There is no requirement for an otoscopic exam of the eye unless you suspect a medical condition, but you must visualize the auditory canal and tympanic membrane. Having an automatic blood pressure cuff reduces the workload for your staff, and stethoscope use is limited to breath and heart sounds and auscultating the abdomen and carotid arteries.
Visual acuity is measured for distance only (20 ft) and must be reported in Snellen-equivalent measurements. It is not necessary to use color vision charts, as the driver is only required to differentiate The colors of "signal" green, yellow and red. Having a card for each of these specific colors saves time as drivers, even if color blind, can nearly always distinguish them.
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Diagnosis or management of medical conditions is not a requirement of the DOT medical exam. Your role as medical examiner is to determine whether the nature and severity of the condition poses a risk to safe driving. For healthy drivers, this is simple and straightforward. However, it can be challenging when a driver has a health condition that could pose a risk to safety. These include cardiac, pulmonary, mental and neurological conditions, as well as use of certain medications.
For drivers with medical conditions, examiners communicate with the treating physician and, in many cases, a recommendation to drive from the treating physician is a requirement. As you work with these other providers, the FMCSA medical standards provide the benchmark to make the driver status decision. The medical examiner, not the treating physician, makes that determination.
Learning the FMCSA medical standards and guidelines is the key to providing DOT medical exams competently.
While the comprehensive nature of your training at chiropractic school and private practice will serve you well, you will gain more specific knowledge of certain medical conditions not commonly managed in a chiropractic office. The FMCSA online Medical Examiner Handbook, available at http://nrcme.fmcsa.dot.gov/mehandbook/Mehandbook.htm, contains the answers to questions about some of the common medical conditions that affect Medical examiners use "best practice" to determine driving status, but a number of health conditions and medications always warrant driving disqualification. For these reasons, attending training is the best course to follow. At a live training, you can have your questions answered immediately and listen to the questions and answers of others. Rubbing shoulders with other medical examiners also leads to discussions of difficult and interesting cases.
The lack of required training has been the Achilles' heel for performing consistent high-quality DOT medical exams The National Registry will for the first time require physician training. As the Final Rule is projected to be published this September, those that begin training now will have the edge. They will be familiar with FMCSA medical standards and will have established a client base. This is your opportunity to "specialize," to raise the standard of DOT medical exams, serve the needs of the transportation industry, and participate in FMCSA's goal to improve highway safety.
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For additional information on performing the DOT medical exam and what supplies are needed, please go to www.TeamCME.com and fill out the physician information form. In the remarks section, please indicate that you would like a copy of "Getting Started." Look for information regarding the 2011 training convention schedule in ACA publications, on www.acatoday.org or www.TeamCME.com.
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I'm after a table saw and saw these at Bunnings...just wondered if anyone had any comments or words or warning about cheapies like this?
G'day Guys,
Has anyone got one of these:
I'm after a table saw and saw these at Bunnings...just wondered if anyone had any comments or words or warning about cheapies like this?
Just exactly what do you intend to do with it?
Borrowed a neighbours, its not the ozito but looks the same.
I had problems with the clamps not holding and the metal was so weak it
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I've found my self needing a table saw for a varietyof things over the years and have got away without one for too long.
Latest one is the edge of a deck, where it meets a retaining wall where I need to cut a piece of decking length-ways to fill an inch-wide slot...
Also cutting malemaine has been a pretty regular occurance over the years... I'm sick of using a straight edge, clamps and a circular saw...
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I have read they they can suffer from on/off switch problems but mine is fine so far...
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Read This at Your Leisure
"Women have at least 30 hours of leisure time every week." HA! Did you get that? Now, don't kill the messenger. I didn't say it, and I bet you don't believe it. Robin sure did not. But that's what a researcher by the name of John Robinson, a sociologist at the University of Maryland, says was revealed in the research he did. His findings state (admittedly simplified, but you can read more below): Women today have an extra 30 hours to spare each week, even though more of them are working outside the home than in the 1960s.
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How We Taught This Lesson in the Past: Lesson 45: "If I Perish, I Perish"
Lesson 45: "If I Perish, I Perish"
The stories of Daniel and Esther are used in this year's manual as examples of courage "in living gospel standards." The following pair of lessons, from a 1937 seminary text (J.A. Washburn, Story of the Old Testament) will not, I'm afraid, be particularly helpful to teachers preparing this year's lesson because these old lessons merely retell the narratives and ask the obvious questions.
But come to think of it, that's pretty much all this year's lesson does, too.
The Hebrew Boys
Character of the Hebrew Boys.
By "Hebrew Boys" we mean Daniel and his three friends, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. We have already learned something of them. They were carried to Babylon among the first captives. They are spoken of as princes and were physically without blemish. Because of their intelligence and high type of manhood they were selected to attend the king's school and later rose to high governmental positions. Daniel held positions of influence in three kingdoms, Babylonia, Media, and Persia.
But it was not always easy sailing for these young men. Because of their success other officers became jealous and caused Daniel and his friends many trials and much unnecessary suffering. Two of these incidents will be considered in this lesson. When Daniel, through the power of the Lord, interpreted Nebuchadnezzar's dream, the king exclaimed, 'Of a truth it is, that your god is a god of gods," but he turned not from his idolatry.
Daniel's Friends in the Fiery Furnace. (Dan. 3:1, 3-30)
Jealous accusers. "Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits; he set it up in the plain of dura, in the province of Babylon. then the princes, the governors, and captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, were gathered together unto the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up. Then an herald cried aloud: 'to you it is commanded, O people, nations, and languages, that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of music, ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up: and whoso falleth not down and worshipeth shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace. Therefore at that time, when all the people heard the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, prattern, and all the people, the nations, and the languages, fell down and worshiped the golden image. … Wherefore at that time certain Chaldeans came near, and accused the Jews.
They spake and said to the king Nebuchadnezzar: O king, live for ever. Thou, O king, hast made a decree, that every man that shall hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of music, shall fall down and worship the golden image: and whoso falleth not down and worshipeth, that he should be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace. there are certain Jews whom thou hast set over the affairs of the province of Babylon, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego; these men, O king, have not regarded thee: they serve not thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
Then Nebuchadnezzar in his rage and fury commanded to bring shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Then they brought these men before the king. Nebuchadnezzar spake and said unto them: Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, do not ye serve my gods, nor worship the golden image which I have set up?
True to Their Standards. Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of music, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made; well: but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands?
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said to the king: O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter. If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. but if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego; therefore he spake, and commanded that they should heat the furnace one seven times more than it was wont to be heated. And he commanded certain mighty men that were in his army to bind Shadrach, meshach, and Abednego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace. Then these men were bound in their coats, their hosen, and their hats, and their other garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace. Therefore because the king's commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire slew those men that took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.
Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonished, and rose up in haste, and spake, and said unto his counsellors: Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered and said, unto the king, True, O King. he answered and said, lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.
Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace, and spake, and said: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, ye servants of the most high God, come forth, and come hither. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, came forth of the midst of the fire. And the princes, governors, and captains, and the king's counsellors, being gathered together saw these men, upon whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was an hair of their head singed, neither were their coats changed, nor the smell of fire had passed on them.
Their Reward. Then Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said: Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed the king's word, and yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any God, except their own God. therefore I make a decree, That every people, nation, and language, which speak any thing amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill: because there is no other God that can deliver after this sort. Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, in the province of Babylon.
Daniel's Experience. (Dan. 6:1-23, 25-28).
Jealous Accusers. Years passed. The Babylonians had been conquered, and Darius of Media ruled, but Daniel held power and influence in the new kingdom.
It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom an hundred and twenty princes, which should be over the whole kingdom; and over these three presidents, of whom Daniel was one, that the princes might give account unto them, and the king should have no damage. Then this Daniel was preferred above the presidents and princes, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm. then the presidents and princes sought to find occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom; but they could find none occasion nor fault; forasmuch as he was faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him. Then said these men, We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel; except we find it against him concerning the law of his God.
Then these presidents and princes assembled together to the king, and said thus unto him: King Darius, live for ever. all the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counselors, and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any god or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions. now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not. Wherefore king Darius signed the writing and the decree.
True to His Standards. Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.
In the Lion's Den. Then these men assembled, and found Daniel praying and making supplication before his God. Then they came near, and spake before the king concerning the king's decree, Hast thou not signed a decree, that every man that shall ask a petition of any God or man within thirty days, save of thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? the king answered and said: The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not. then answered they and said before the king: That Daniel, which is of the children of the captivity of Judah, regardeth not thee, O king, nor the decree that thou hast signed, but maketh his petition three times a day.
Then the king, when he heard these words, was sore displeased, with himself, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him: and he labored till the going down of the sun to deliver him. Then these men assembled unto the king, and said unto the king: Know, O king, that the law of the Medes and Persians is, that no decree nor statute which the king establisheth may be changed.
Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. Now the king spake and said unto Daniel: Thy God whom thou servest continually, he will deliver thee. And a stone was brought, and laid upon the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his own signet, and with the signet of his lords; that the purpose might not be changed concerning Daniel.
Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting: neither were instruments of music brought before him: and his sleep went from him. Then the king arose very early in the morning, and went in haste unto the den of lions.
Daniel's Reward. And when he came to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice unto Daniel: and the king spake and said to Daniel: O Daniel, servant of the living God, is thy God, whom thou servest continually, able to deliver thee from the lions? Then said Daniel unto the king: O king, live for ever. My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions' mouths that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt.
Then was the king exceeding glad for him, and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no manner of hurt was found upon him, because he believed in his God. … Then king Darius wrote unto all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth: Peace be multiplied unto you. I make a decree, that in every dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel: for he is the living God, and steadfast for ever, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed, and his dominion shall be even unto the end. He delivereth and rescueth, and he worketh signs and wonders in heaven and in hearth, who hath delivered Daniel from the power of the lions. So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius, and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian."
1. In the fiery furnace story what suggests moral courage? physical courage?
2. Can one be morally strong and physically a weakling? Can one be just the opposite? May one be strong both morally and physically? Explain and try to give illustrations.'
3. Explain the nature of each musical instrument mentioned in the story of Nebuchadnezzar's image. (Special assignment.)
4. What evidences had now been given to nebuchadnezzar that Israel's God was the true God?
5. Quote the boys' answer to Nebuchadnezzar, when he commanded them to worship his idol.
6. Pick out the similarities between the fiery furnace and the lion stories.
7. What governmental change took place between the two events?
8. What experience shows that other rulers were jealous of these four boys?
Queen Esther
How a Jewish Girl Became Queen of Persia (Esther 1:1-3, 7, 9-13, 15-16, 1, 21; 2:12-, 4-5, 7-8, 16-17, 20).
Queen Vasthi Disobeys the King. Now it came to pass that King Ahasuerus made a feast to all the people that were present in Shushan the palace, both unto great and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king's palace; and they gave them drink in vessels of gold, … and royal wine in abundance, according to the state of the king. Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house. On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded the seven chamberlains that served in the presence of the king, to bring Vashti the queen before the king with the crown royal, to shew the people and the princes her beauty: for she was fair to look on. But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king's commandment: therefore was the king very wroth, and his anger burned in him. Then the king said to the wise men, What shall we do unto the queen Vashti according to law, because she hath not performed the commandment of the king?
And Memucan answered before the king and the princes: If it please the king, let there go a royal commandment from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, that it be not altered, That Vashti come no more before king Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate unto another that is better than she.
And the saying pleased the king and the princes; and the king did according to the word of Memucan.
How Esther Was Chosen. After these things, when the wrath of king Ahasuerus was appeased, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her. Then said the king's servants, Let there be fair young virgins south fro the king: … and let the maiden which pleaseth the king be queen instead of Vashti. And the thing pleased the king; and he did so.
Now in Shushan the palace there was a certain Jew, whose name was Mordecai … And he brought up … Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.
So it came to pass, when the king's commandment and his decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together unto Shushan the palace, that Esther was taken unto king Ahasuerus into his house royal. And the king loved Esther above all the women, and she obtained grace and favor in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown upon her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti. Esther had not yet shewed her kindred nor her people; as Mordecai had charged her: for Esther did the commandment of Mordecai, like as when she was brought up with him.
Haman's Plot to Destroy the Jews (3:1-2, 5-6, 8-13, 4:1-5, 7-17)
Haman's Hatred for the Jews. After these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman, … and advance him, and set his seat above all the princes that were with him. And all the king's servants, that were in the king's gate, bowed, and reverenced Haman: for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai bowed not, nor did him reverence. And when Haman saw that Mordecai bowed not, nor did him reverence, then was Haman full of wrath. And he thought to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had shewed him the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the people of Mordecai.
And Man said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and separated among the peoples in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it is not for the king's profit to suffer them. If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed. And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it unto Haman. And the king said unto Haman: The people are given to thee to do with them as it seemeth good to thee.
Then were the king's scribes called on the thirteenth day of the first month, and there was written according to all that Haman had commanded. And the letters were sent by posts into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a prey.
Mordecai's Appeal to Esther for Help. When Mordecai perceived all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry; and came even before the king's gate: for none might enter into the king's gate clothed with sackcloth. And in every province, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes. So Esther's maids and her chamberlains came and told it her. Then was the queen exceedingly grieved; and she sent one of the king's chamberlains, and gave him a commandment to Mordecai, to know what it was, and why it was. And Mordecai told him of all that had happened. Also he gave him the cop of the writing of the decree that was given at Shushan to destroy them, to shew it unto Esther, and to declare it unto her, and to charge her that she should go in unto the king, to make supplication unto him. And he came and told Esther the words of Mordecai.
Again Esther spake and gave him commandment unto Mordecai: all the king's servants, and the people of the king's provinces, do know, that whosoever, whether man or woman, shall come unto the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law of his to put him to death, except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden sceptre, that he may live: but I have not been called to come in unto the king these thirty days. And they told to Mordecai Esther's words.
Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther: Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king's house, more than all the Jews. for if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father's house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?
Then Esther bade them return Mordecai this answer: Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish. So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther had commanded him.
Esther's Courage (5:1-5, 4-5, 9, 13-14; 6:1-11; 7:1-6, 9-10).
Haman Invited to the Queen's feast. Now it came to pass on the third day, that Esther put on her royal apparel, and stood in the inner court of the king's house, over against the king's house: and the king sat upon his royal throne in the royal house, over against the gate of the house. And it was so, when the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, that she obtained favor in his sight: and the king held out to Esther the golden sceptre that was in his hand. So Esther drew near, and touched the top of the sceptre. Then said the king unto her: What wilt thou, queen Esther? and what is thy request? it shall be even given thee to the half of the kingdom. And Esther answered, If it seem good unto the king, let the king and Haman come this day unto the banquet that I have prepared for him. Then the king said, Cause Haman to make haste, that he may do as Esther hath said.
Then went Haman forth that day joyful and with a glad heart: but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate, that he stood not up, nor trembled before him, he was full of indignation against Mordecai. nevertheless Haman refrained himself: and when he came home, he sent and called for his friends, and Zeresh his wife. And he said unto them, All this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate. Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him: Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and to-morrow speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.
Mordecai Honored. On that night could not the king sleep, and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king. And it was found written, that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's chamberlains, the keepers of the door, who sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus. And the king said: What honor and dignity hath been done to Mordecai for this? Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him, There is nothing done for him. and the king said, Who is in the court? Now Haman was come into the outward court of the king's house, to speak unto the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him. And the king's servants said unto him: behold, Haman standeth in the court. And the king said, let him come in. So Haman came in. And the king said unto him, what shall be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honor? Now Haman thought in his heart, To whom would the king delight to do honor more than to myself? And Haman answered the king, For the man whom the king delighteth to honor, let royal apparel be brought which the king useth to wear, and the horse that the king rideth upon, and the crown royal which is set upon his head. And let this apparel and horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king's most noble princes, that they may array the man withal whom the king delighteth to honor, and bring him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaim before him, Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delighteth to honor.
Then the king said to Haman, Make haste, and take the apparel and the horse, as thou hast said, and do even so to Mordecai the Jew, that sitteth at the king's gate; let nothing fail of all that thou hast spoken. then took Haman the apparel and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and brought him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaimed before him, Thus shall it be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honor.
Haman's Punishment. So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen. And the king said again unto Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine: What is thy petition, queen Esther? Then Esther the queen answered and said, O king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request: for we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish.
Then the king Ahasuerus answered and said unto Esther: Who is he, and where is he, that durst presume in his heart to do so? And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen. and Harbonah, one of the chamberlains said before the king, Behold, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman had made for Mordecai, who had spoken good for the king, standeth in the house of Haman. Then the king said, hang him thereon, So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.
Deliverance of the Jews. (8:1-3, 5-7, 8-12, 15-17; 9:1-2, 20-23).
On that day did the king Ahasuerus give the house of Haman the Jews' enemy unto Esther the queen. And Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was unto her. And the king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it unto Mordecai. And Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman. And Esther spake yet again before the king, and said: If it please the king, and if I have found favor in his sight, and the thing seem right before the king, and I be pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman, which he wrote to destroy the Jews which are in all the king's provinces: for how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?
Then the king Ahasuerus said unto Esther: … The writing which I written in the king's name, and sealed with the king's ring, may no man reverse.
Then were the king's scribes called. And he wrote in the king Ahasuerus' name, and sealed it with the king's ring, and sent letters by posts on horseback, and riders on mules, camels, and young dromedaries; wherein the king granted the Jews which were in every city to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life, to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, both little ones and women, and to take the spoil of them for a prey, upon one day in all the provinces of king Ahasuerus, namely, upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar.
And Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal apparel of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a garment of fine linen and purple: and the city of Shushan rejoiced and was glad. The Jews had light, and gladness, and joy, and honor. And in every province, and in every city, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, the Jews had joy and gladness, a feast and a good day. And many of the people of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews fell upon them.
Now in the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, the Jews gathered themselves together in their cities throughout all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, to lay hand on such as sought their hurt; and no man could withstand them; for the fear of them fell upon all people.
And Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters unto all the Jews that were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, both nigh and far, to establish this among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly as the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day; that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor. And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written unto them. And so was introduced the Feast of Purim.
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Sony PS3 video store due this summer?
updated 03:50 pm EDT, Mon April 21, 2008
Sony PS3 Videos in Summer
Sony's anticipated PlayStation 3 video store could be available as soon as this summer and with wide support, sources tell the LA Times. The console maker is allegedly in talks with multiple major studios and would open the store with a mixture of full-length movies and TV shows. No information has yet been supplied as to which companies are likely to be onboard or whether Sony will offer any videos in HD.
The initiative is both an attempt to rival a similar service available through the PS3's most immediate challenger, Microsoft's Xbox 360, as well as to take advantage of the PS3's popularity to gain an edge in the media hub market over closer competitors such as the Apple TV. Sony credits the PS3 in helping to muscle HD DVD out of the movie disc business and is believed to have a similar hope for strictly online content.
Sony has typically struggled with online video, having sold off Movielink to Blockbuster and gaining modest support for its BRAVIA Internet Link that displays pre-supplied content directly to some of the company's HDTV sets.


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Well, the Baltimore 10-miler was a big 'ole mess for me! I am really disappointed in my performance. Yes, the course is really hilly; yes, it was hot. BUT–I was in shape for this. I really have no good explanation for what happened.
My plan was to go out at a 7:30 pace for the first mile and eventually average about a 7:18 to 7:20 pace. My PR–from this spring–is a low 1:13. I knew this was a much tougher course and it would be much hotter. But I also thought my fitness level could make up the deficit and that running a high 1:13 to a low 1:14 would be realistic.
First mile went according to plan. Second mile, too fast, a flat 7:00. Still…that shouldn't have ruined my race. I got back to around a 7:20-7:30 for the next couple of miles. But my legs were feeling bad and they just felt worse as the race progressed. In the end, a 1:17 flat was my time. The silly thing is that the overall second and third place women were from my age group, as was the master's winner, leaving me first in my age group. Should make me feel better, but it doesn't–for me a good race is about time, not hardware.
A couple of bright spots: My friend Janelle, who is MUCH faster than me, had a bad day too, and we eventually ended up together. I'm sure by mile 7 she could have ditched me, but she was kind enough to run as my wing man and encourage me through the many tough spots. I can't imagine how ugly my time would have been without her! And my friend Jess, who took the relaxed attitude into the race, went 1:12. Great job on a tough day!
So my dilemma is where to go from here. I can't really point to any one factor that brought me down in this one. I am now a mental mess about my racing. Am I overtrained? On paper, I would have to say no. But the last couple of weeks, my legs felt bad, until my last few days pre-race. I am not mentally burned out–I'm still hungry. So that doesn't sound like overtraining. But something's going on here and I need to figure it out so that I can salvage my season.


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Logan, John Alexander (1826–1886), a United States political leader and army officer. Logan served in both houses of Congress and in the Union Army, where he rose to the rank of major general. He was one of the most capable of the nonprofessional officers in the army.
Logan was born in Jackson County, Illinois. He was a lieutenant in the Mexican War and attended Shiloh College and Louisville University, receiving a law degree in 1851. He served in the House of Representatives as a Douglas Democrat from 1859 to 1861.
During most of the Civil War Logan served with the Army of the Tennessee, which he commanded briefly in 1864. He took part in the Siege of Vicksburg and the Battle of Atlanta, and was twice wounded. After the war he served in the House of Representatives as a Republican, 1866–71, and in the Senate, 1871–77 and 1879–86. He campaigned unsuccessfully for Vice President in 1884 as the running mate of James G. Blaine.
Logan was particularly active in veterans' affairs. He helped organize and was three times president of the Grand Army of the Republic. In 1868 he established May 30 as the date for Memorial Day. Logan wrote The Great Conspiracy (1886) and The Volunteer Soldier in America (1887).


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Moskito Island is back in the news!
Late last year, rumors swirled (and were later dismissed) that the current owner, billionaire Richard Branson, was scrapping plans for his eco-village resort on the island and had sold the place for $20.5 million. Now it turns out that the stage is set for it to become a wildlife refuge for endangered species.
First on Branson's list is the importation of 30 endangered Madagascar ring-tailed lemurs from zoos in South Africa, Sweden and Canada. Later relocations of Red Ruffed Lemurs and possibly Sifakas may follow.
"We've been helping to try and preserve lemurs, and sadly in Madagascar because of the government being overthrown the space for lemurs is getting less and less," Sir Richard told BBC News from his Caribbean property. "Here on Moskito Island we've got a beautiful rainforest – we brought in experts from South Africa, and they say it would be an absolutely perfect place where lemurs can be protected and breed."
Of course, introducing a non-native species into a new habitat is always a risky move – and some conservationists are wary of Branson's plan.
"Lemurs are voracious. I can't imagine why anyone would want to introduce a new species like the lemur into a pristine environment like Moskito," Dr. James D. Lazell, a biologist with Conservation Agency told the NY Times. "There is nothing like them that has ever lived on these islands."
Branson insists that everything will be done to ensure that the lemurs adapt to their new home in a way that's not detrimental to Moskito's environment; including inoculation against the most common diseases and a quarantine "in comfortable cages" for three to four months. The animals are expected to arrive on the island in the next few weeks.
Should this conservation scheme prove successful, the billionaire says he'll create additional "mini Madagascars around the world where species can roam wild."
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Thursday, November 15, 2012
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WASHINGTON — The struggling U.S. Postal Service is reporting a record annual loss of $15.9 billion.
The financial losses for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30 were nearly $11 billion more than the previous year.
The numbers cap a tumultuous financial year in which the post office was forced for the first time to default on more than $11 billion in payments to avert bankruptcy.
The mail agency for months has been urging Congress to pass an overhaul bill to let it trim letter delivery to five days a week and reduce annual payments for future retiree health care.
Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe says the large losses cannot be sustained.
The mail agency forecasts billions in additional losses next year as it awaits financial relief from Congress.
VSU 3 years ago
That's a lot of postage stamps.
VietVet1 3 years ago
Yet they pay HUGE $$$$$ to work over time on April 15 tax day. Please explain why? If the post office closes at 5pm - then close at 5pm. And don't forget the bonuses. Cut Wednesday & Saturday delivery. With that they should be able to run in the black.
missdaisy 3 years ago
Could UPS, FedEx, or DHL survive such losses? They don't have the ability to just soak the taxpayers even more for another failed government bureau. The Post Office is not efficient because they don't have to be.
Sherwood_Eagle_Alum 3 years ago
I think it's time to privatize the USPS. A net loss of almost 16 Billion in one year??
chinaberry25 3 years ago
Sherwood, it would take a Congressional approval because no one but USPS can deliver 1st class mail. My mail gets slower and slower every week and they have not even moved the sorting center.
Sherwood_Eagle_Alum 3 years ago
Oh, I'm not saying it would happen overnight, but it's necessary given the state of their financial situation. It's not like this is a one time thing either. Already projecting net losses in the billions for next year as well.
As taxpayers we would do better to take those tax dollars, shred them up, and use it as insulation for our homes.
chinaberry25 3 years ago
Forgot to say they are also unions and you know how that goes. They would probably be making money if they were not union backed.
Sherwood_Eagle_Alum 3 years ago
I agree, unions are as outdated as the typewriter. At one time they were necessary, but now they are practically useless.
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