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Courtyard SpartanburgRead MoreProperty Location When you stay at Courtyard Spartanburg in Spartanburg, you'll be in the business district and convenient to University of South Carolina Upstate and North Grove Medical Park. This eco-friendly hotel is within close proximity of Spartanburg Methodist College and Spartanburg Regional Hospital. Rooms Make yourself at home in one of the 109 air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators. Complimentary wireless Internet access is available to keep you connected. Bathrooms feature shower/tub combinations, complimentary toiletries, and hair dryers. Conveniences include complimentary weekday newspapers and coffee/tea makers, and housekeeping is provided daily. Rec, Spa, Premium Amenities DonÃât miss out on recreational opportunities including a fitness facility and a seasonal outdoor pool. Additional features include complimentary wireless Internet access, a fireplace in the lobby, and a television in the lobby. Dining Cooked-to-order breakfasts are available daily for a fee. Business, Other Amenities Featured amenities include a business center, business services, and audiovisual equipment. Planning an event in Spartanburg? This hotel has facilities measuring 756 square feet (68 square meters), including a meeting/conference room. Free self parking is available onsite.110 Mobile DriveSpartanburg, SC US
Residence Inn SpartanburgRead MoreProperty Location Located in Spartanburg, Residence Inn by Marriott Spartanburg is in the business district and convenient to Spartanburg Methodist College and Spartenburg Expo Center. This hotel is within close proximity of WestGate Mall and University of South Carolina Upstate. Rooms Make yourself at home in one of the air-conditioned rooms featuring kitchens with refrigerators and stovetops. Wired and wireless Internet access is complimentary, while 37-inch LCD televisions with satellite programming provide entertainment. Conveniences include safes and desks, as well as phones with voice mail. Rec, Spa, Premium Amenities Take advantage of recreation opportunities including an outdoor pool and a fitness facility. This hotel also features a fireplace in the lobby, a television in the lobby, and a picnic area. Dining While enjoying a refreshing dip in the hotel pool, you can order your favorite drink at the poolside bar. Business, Other Amenities Featured amenities include a business center, business services, and express check-in. Free parking is available onsite.9011 Fairforest RoadSpartanburg, SC US
A&W RestaurantRead MoreAs an iconic American brand, A&W stands for good times had over classic American food & treats. It all started in 1919 at Roy Allen's Root Beer stand, celebrating the return of World War I veterans. After partnering with Frank Wright, the good times never stopped, as A&W became the first major food franchise, growing along with the country over the course of the next several decades. Today, A&W remains a place for friends, families & communities to gather over the simple pleasures of great food & great company. We make quality food fresh just for you! Our Burgers are cooked-to-order with your choice of toppings, & our Hand-Breaded Chicken Tenders are 100% all-white meat, lightly breaded, & cooked to juicy, mouth-watering perfection. Our Root Beer is still made fresh in our restaurants with real cane sugar - top it off with our creamy vanilla soft serve for one of our signature Root Beer Floats!104 East Blackstock RoadSpartanburg, SC US
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Coffee Cup Cafe and SweeteryRead MoreCoffee Cup Cafe and Sweetery in Spartanburg offers a range of daily and weekly deals, making your grocery shopping experience an exciting one. Not everyone has time for pancakes in the morning. Get going with a tasty box of cereal the whole family will enjoy. Stay healthy on the regular with the produce available here. It's super fresh and can be used with any meal. If you love to taste different tea and coffee blends, check out the selection of items available at Coffee Cup Cafe and Sweetery. If pasta is what you're in the mood for, swing by Coffee Cup Cafe and Sweetery and pick up some fresh noodles. People can't get enough of the drinks here that take refreshment to the max. Whether you're hitting the gym or just running errands, water keeps your energy up and your body moving. Make sure to hit the shelves at Coffee Cup Cafe and Sweetery for some hydration while you're on the move. A little here, a little there, you can never have enough vinegar and oil. Used in almost every recipe, these liquids will come in handy. A frozen meal is just what you want when chopping, dicing, sauteing, and slicing isn't in the cards. Have you heard about the amazing frozen food offered here? Conveniently priced and designed to save you time where it counts, you'll be amazed you didn't try these dishes sooner. You can't beat the health benefits of fresh fish, so find a few you like and get to cooking! This fixing adds that little something extra to any baked good, so include it in all of your favorite recipes. Healthy eaters realize the importance of dairy in their diet. Make sure you're getting your fill of Vitamin D with dairy products from Coffee Cup Cafe and Sweetery. The healthy and tasty canned food items from Coffee Cup Cafe and Sweetery make great side dishes and cooking ingredients. Feeling bold and creative? Dress up your next meal with some unique and tasty seasonings and spices from here. A healthy and light snack from Coffee Cup Cafe and Sweetery is a great way to keep your energy up throughout the day. Kick off your weekend with a barbecue. Pick up some fresh and tender meats from here and start cooking. Planning your meals for the week? Don't forget to pick up a loaf of freshly-baked bread from Coffee Cup Cafe and Sweetery. If you're commuting by car, you will be happy to know that Coffee Cup Cafe and Sweetery is located near a number of parking options. Bring your grocery list to Coffee Cup Cafe and Sweetery and stock up the fridge.551 East Main StreetSpartanburg, SC US
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CIO weekly wrap-up: IT security tools, ways to keep your IT job, BPM
We cast our net far and wide at SearchCIO.com last week, looking at IT security tools, 10 ways to keep your IT job in this recession, how to organize and train your staff for business process management (BPM) project success, and how spend management software and cost transparency tools can help CIOs cut costs. Check out the stories and feel free to leave your comments below!
Avoiding gotchas of security tools and global data privacy laws – Building a global privacy program is no picnic because of the plethora of laws. IT security tools can help — or hurt, if implemented without knowledge of the law.
10 ways to keep your IT job in this recession – IT careers are just as vulnerable as other jobs in this recession, but here are some tips to surviving layoffs and staying employed in the downturn.
How to organize and train your staff for BPM project success – Here's how organizations are setting up their business process management efforts, from centers of excellence to training that focuses on certain aspects of BPM.
Spend management software, cost transparency tools help CIOs cut costs – Spend management software and cost transparency tools are being used by CIOs in enterprise organizations to identify savings in new areas. Learn how to use these tools.
It's time for a federal data protection act
When the Massachusetts Senate took action this week to modify the state data privacy act (Standards for the Protection of Personal Information of Residents of the Commonwealth), I didn't jump for joy the way some people did.
Yes, the original legislation set such a high benchmark that it would place an enormous burden on businesses to comply: encrypting all personally identifiable information, designating one person to oversee a company's privacy program (a big burden for smaller businesses where there's not even one person dedicated to security). So I understand the hue and cry about legislators not getting the implications of what they are putting in place because they don't understand the technology, or IT, or the economics of risk management for the business world. That is all true.
But what is also true is that data protection is changing, and needs to change, in the U.S. Even as the Massachusetts law would defer to federal law in many places, the fact is we don't yet have a tough federal law on the order of what is commonplace in some other parts of the world. Americans, as capitalists, often roll their eyes at many European conventions (think: six-week vacations, nationalized health care, controls on greenhouse gas emissions) but in fact the U.S. could end up emulating some EU practices because they work. Privacy and data protection should be no different.
As a resident of Massachusetts, I'm disappointed that my state might not end up with the toughest data protection law in the nation. But I hope the feds will soon pick up the ball and take care of that for us. Unlike legislation like SOX, where the sins of the few brought the burden to the many, a federal data protection act would be one for all of us. With nothing less than the integrity of our identities at stake, creating such electronic border controls should involve federal funding just as any aspect of national security does. And on the global stage in the electronic age, this is indeed a national security issue.
Yes, many states have data protection laws on the books now. But that doesn't satisfy the Europeans, who view our data protection as weak without a federal law. Now's the time for the feds to step in and give us a united stand.
Looking for procurement cost cutting and governance stories
In the course of writing today's story on spend management software and cost transparency tools, I talked quite a bit with Shane O'Sullivan, group CIO for Skandia Group Cos., about his methods for tightening up operational costs in procurement. O'Sullivan touched on many aspects of his organization's program, and noted that having a procurement-related governance model in place from early on has been invaluable when it comes to being responsive to marketplace conditions, contract negotiations and the like.
That attitude makes sense to me: SearchCIO.com has looked at IT governance from a number of angles, and we've seen that — especially in a recessionary environment — organizations are finding that establishing protocols with regard to purchasing, hiring and other operational areas is imperative in order to run a lean-but-effective business.
I'm looking to write a longer story about procurement cost-cutting and governance strategies. Are you an enterprise CIO with experience in cost-cutting or governance related to procurement? If so, please email me at email@example.com.
CIO weekly wrap-up: SOA, BPM, BAM tools and our new IT consultant blog
Happy Monday! SearchCIO.com was hard at work this past week studying business process management (BPM), service-oriented architecture (SOA) and business activity monitoring (BAM). We also launched a new IT consultant blog. Read the details below!
A move to cloud computing should involve SOA and BPM – Enterprises preparing for cloud computing should involve SOA and BPM in the process to achieve transformational change.
How CIOs are enabling business activity monitoring with existing tools – Find out how CIOs are providing business users with real-time data without big investments in BAM tools.
BPM guide: Business process management best practices for CIOs – Business process management refers to an approach for improving an organization's processes. In this all-inclusive guide, find BPM news, best practices and tools for enterprise CIOs.
Ask the IT Consultant blog – We hope all of our regular blog visitors will take the time to visit our new blog, Ask the IT Consultant, where members of the Boston chapter of the Society for Information Management are available to answer your questions.
Is your ISV ready for application virtualization?
Some ISVs are behind the curve when it comes to changing their licensing terms to accommodate application virtualization.
Having one installed application that is streamed to many users, as is the model with application virtualization, versus a per-user licensing model, is one curve ball ISVs are mulling.
There is what analyst Mike Cherry with Kirkland, Wash.-based Directions on Microsoft calls a chicken-and-egg game going on: CIOs are waiting for word from their vertical ISVs on whether they're going to adapt their licensing models for virtualized versions of their applications, and ISVs are waiting on CIOs to tell them to come up with licensing that reflects a virtual environment/application.
There are risks that CIOs can run into if they forge ahead and virtualize an application without first checking to see if the ISV can support that type of deployment. Cherry has seen companies do just that, only to be told by the ISV to put the application back on the physical server because the ISV doesn't know how to fix the application when something goes wrong in a virtual environment.
And he's not alone. Ty Schwab, CEO and founder of virtualization consulting firm Blackhawk Technology Consulting LLC in Eugene, Ore., has said that not enough companies are checking to see if the ISV is supporting virtualized versions of their applications, and not all software vendors have a plan for how they're going to charge for their applications in a virtual environment.
He advises that CIOs test the application to make sure it can be virtualized, then call the software vendors to come up with a plan for how they're going to charge you for licensing.
In addition to the cost of the software license, keep in mind that you will have to pay for the technology used to create a virtual application, such as SoftGrid, which Microsoft acquired and renamed App-V 4.5. Such software comes with a one-time fee of $2,000 to $5,000 for the application virtualization studio or administration console needed to design, repackage and virtualize applications. On top of that there is an application virtualization licensing cost of around $30 to $150 per application that is virtualized.
Have you already gone through the process of negotiating virtualization licensing terms with your ISV? Do you have any advice for others as they start down that path?
Let me know at email@example.com.
Adding a 'business downturn' clause to your telecom contracts
Telecom providers will do whatever it takes to keep your business, even in a business downturn. And that's not just lip service.
Did you know that you can insist on a "business downturn" contract clause in your telecom agreements? Many large corporations are spending in the millions on telecom expenses each year. Even the IT organizations that excel at telecom expense management can't effectively do so when the business takes a hit. For instance, if your company loses a major account or sells off a subsidiary or business unit, a "business downturn" contract clause allows you to reduce your original commitment level to the telecom provider – in terms of spending, rates and/or contract length.
A "business downturn" contract clause can also cover migration to a new technology that possibly reduces the original amount of services covered by your contract. However, "you will want to eliminate language restricting the clause to business downturns 'beyond the customer's control' or to situations in which the customer cannot meet the commitment 'despite its best efforts,'" advises telecommunications and IT law firm Levine, Blaszak, Block & Boothby LLP on its website. "Such phrases eviscerate any rights that the clause otherwise grants."
Just last month, TNCI, a national voice and data communications reseller, competitive level exchange carrier and VoIP network provider, announced that it was offering a "business downturn flexibility" contract clause to new and existing customers using its telecom services. The new contract clause is "designed as a method for renegotiating service agreements due to a change in the customer's business situation as a result of the recession," according to a statement by company officials.
TNCI isn't the first to do this and definitely won't be the last. Telecom providers are feeling the heat of this weakened economy and are doing whatever is necessary to work with IT organizations on managing their telecom spending and services.
Telecom providers ultimately want to keep your business. It's easier for them to keep a remaining large customer than invest in a new one. "If Verizon has a customer with 1,000 analog lines, it is easier to lower their rates or work with them on their contract, than install 1000 lines for a new customer," said Michael McCauley, PMP of TelPlus Communications, a managed telecommunications solutions provider. "It's always much easier to negotiate from a point of strength."
Whether your telecom spending is managed through IT or an outsourced service provider, adding a "business downturn" clause to your contracts is a smart business decision in bad times.
CIO weekly wrap-up: Challenges of a state CIO, BPM, SOA and ROI
This past week, SearchCIO.com was all over business process management, from BPM and service-oriented architecture (SOA) and how they work together to how to find fast ROI using BPM. We also podcasted an interview with the Massachusetts state CIO, who offered helpful lessons for any enterprise CIO grappling with new technologies, compliance, budgets and more. Check it all out below, and scroll down for the latest from the blog.
The challenges of a state CIO – In this podcast, Anne Margulies, state CIO of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, discusses the challenges of investing in new technology, while keeping an IT infrastructure running smoothly.
How BPM and SOA work together for business process improvement – Enterprises should marry their BPM and SOA efforts if they really want reuse — and true business process improvement.
BPM software: How to find fast ROI on smaller projects – BPM software can lead to fast ROI when companies use it properly, experts and users say. Learn how Level 3 Communications launched its own BPM platform and how you can do the same.
CIOs increasingly at nexus of risk management and compliance efforts
At a conference session on risk management and compliance, CIO Carolyn Damon let it be known that it is not uncommon for CIOs to be spending 40% of their time conferring with legal counsel. And, no, she was not talking about CIOs at law firms, but CIOs in regulated industries.
Damon is CIO of GE Capital Americas-Capital Financial Inc. — and proof that in the risk-riddled Great Recession, the office of the CIO is extending far beyond the four walls of the data center.
Yesterday, at the Gartner conference on risk and compliance in Chicago, Damon was play-acting the role of the CIO at the fictitious WinterNuke Co., an energy conglomerate under fire from environmentalists, regulators, shareholders, ordinary citizens, you name it. The constellation of mismanaged risks behind all the bad publicity included a failed SOX audit related to a botched acquisition; plans to build a nuclear plant in a seaside resort area; and a fired overseas employee claiming the speculative trades he made that lost millions were in fact sanctioned by upper management. (The fake scenario is a compilation of problems experienced by Gartner clients this year.) As keeper of the corporate data, the make-believe CIO was at the center of the legal maelstrom. The truth is that many real-life CIOs are there, too, or soon will be, she said.
"It is an interesting fact of where we are going from an IT perspective. Understanding the regulations that are out there, understanding business language, as well as understanding technology and then marrying the three, is fast becoming the role of the IT leader in organizations out there," Damon said.
In those fake CNN reports on WinterNuke, there was no mention of IT per se, "and yet technology touches every one of the areas" under fire, Damon said.
A critical component of the real CIO's job is to know exactly what the IT controls are for those areas and to "feather them against the regulations" that affect those areas, she said. The other part of the job is communicating the business benefits of that model to your counterparts in the legal as well as financial departments. "The more you can communicate with your legal partner what that method does and how it manages the risks they are concerned about, the more you have a partner," she said, adding that the same goes for the CFO, with the added data point of how many dollars can be saved by implementing the IT model. "It's about one executive at a time."
By the way, among the many wrinkles in the fictitious case under review is the location of the rogue trader in Europe, where the data privacy laws might stymie the company's investigation. That would not have been a problem at GE because her company "has been proactive" and gotten preconsent from overseas employees. Knowing the countries that you're doing business in is critical. Spend time with the attorneys, Damon said, and if they don't know the data privacy laws, the record retention requirements or the data movement protocol in the various geographies, the CIO should be able to lay it out.
That said, it is not the CIO who owns the risk management program for the company, Damon stressed. "Somebody has to have the overall plan."
IT investment in a recession doubles returns, expert says
Here's a take on IT spending that most IT executives will be happy to hear: Companies that make IT investments in a recession will see the financial dividends for years.
"It's double coupon days for IT investment," Howard Rubin, MIT CISR research associate and professor emeritus at Hunter College of The City University of New York, recently told IT and business professionals at the Society for Information Management monthly Boston meeting.
If a company invests $10 million now in IT, Rubin said, then another company that waits until better economic times to make that investment will likely spend twice as much to catch up with the business that made the initial investment in a timely manner.
"Competitors won't be able to afford to catch up," Rubin said.
The thrust of Rubin's talk – that IT investment still matters, even in a recession – hinged on the notion that spending on IT vastly enhances a company's business performance, and the gap between you and the competition goes straight to your financial bottom line.
Each dollar of new IT investment between 2003 and 2004 led to a gross profit increase of $1.47 in 2006, Rubin said, while a 26% increase in cumulative absolute technology spending in the U.S. in 2006 helped drive 114% in absolute gross profit. In other words, IT pays for itself and more.
Of course, in today's recession, technology spending is colliding with economic conditions, Rubin said. The current high fixed cost of IT in most companies is preventing change, and conventional IT cost-cutting models – outsourcing, offshoring, laying off workers, squeezing vendors, reducing portfolios — have "hit the wall" under pressures to spend less.
"You can take advantage of this time by optimizing what you're doing," Rubin said.
This could involve tapping into technologies such as Gmail, or shifting more costs to vendors via new supply chain management models.
But time is of the essence, because your competitors will catch up if you give them the opening. If you can make external partners understand your new scale, he said, you should see rapid IT transformation that benefits the business' bottom line. And isn't creating dividends – both now and down the line — what we're all looking to accomplish, especially in a recession?
CIO weekly wrap-up: Virtualization, VMware cloud and SOA governance
It was a virtualization-heavy week for SearchCIO.com, as we covered VMware's new cloud operating system, virtualization management tools and SOA governance, and tested our readers' knowledge of virtualization and the private cloud. Check it all out below
Cloud computing initiatives show wide range as VMware touts cloud OS – VMware's new cloud operating system, vSphere, brings new capabilities, though some big cloud projects will use Microsoft's virtualization technology.
Virtualization management tools: Ready for prime time? – Virtualization management tools help enterprise CIOs address virtual server sprawl, workload balancing and other issues. Learn about costs and options in this podcast.
SOA governance: How and why to build it into your SOA initiative – Service-oriented architecture governance prevents duplication of services and wins business buy-in. Here's how to start or improve your governance effort.
Virtualization and the private cloud: A quiz for enterprise CIOs – What do you know about virtualization and the private cloud? Take this quiz to find out.

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When Jacques Chirac announced his intention to unveil Islamic schoolgirls in France by barring the hijab, or headscarf, from state-run schools, he raised some provocative questions. Why would a French president whose power as a global broker derives from his close ties to the Arab-Muslim world (and distance from the United States and Israel) act to restrict Islam's burgeoning place in French society? Why would the European leader behind the international opposition to the war in Iraq -- dubbed by at least one Arab media outlet "the Western Saladin" -- suddenly seek to sweep a big chunk of Islam out of the French public square?
Sure, Chirac took the ecumenical approach and barred Jewish yarmulkes and "obvious" Christian crosses from the schools as well, but it was the scarf-wrapped girl-multitudes in increasingly Muslim France that caused presidential concern. There hasn't been a good explanation for his decision, but the untamed uproar in the Arab and Muslim world makes it pretty clear that the priciest dates on sale next Ramadan won't be called (as they were this year) "Chiracs." Indeed, some analysts see hijab-trouble ahead for France, with Middle East expert Walid Phares predicting that "a myriad of jihads," both nonviolent and violent, "can and will take place."
Meanwhile, does banning Muslim headscarves in French public schools infringe on freedom of religion? Most clergy, along with such watchdog groups as Freedom House and the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, have already said yes, huffily. But here's where things get intellectually gooey. If the headscarf is a feature of Islam, and Islam has a history of repressing non-Muslims, then is the headscarf a symbol of religious repression? If so, how can Chirac be curtailing religious liberty by restricting a symbol of religious repression?
Also worth wondering is whether a headscarf is a religious "symbol" in the first place. This sounds like a question for the muftis on call at "Fatwa Corner" at www.islamonline.com, a fundamentalist Web site tracking every wrinkle of the hijab controversy. There, a reader learns that the headscarf is not a symbol of Muslim faith, but rather "an ordinance from Allah to protect (girls') chastity." In other words, unlike yarmulkes and crucifixes, the hijab doesn't function as a sign of piety, as many assume. It is wrapped around a girl's head and upper torso to serve a purpose.
As one Web site scholar puts it, "If a girl is approaching puberty, there is the fear that her not wearing hijab may cause young men to be tempted by her, or her by them ... The parent or guardian has to make her wear hijab so as to prevent means that may lead to evil or immorality."
Diana West is the author of American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation's Character (St. Martin's Press, 2013), and The Death of the Grown-Up: How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization (St. Martin's Press, 2007).
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That's a beautiful hot curvy shape and the outfit is practically perfect And I just happen to like one-pieces/leotards :3
So is she a Belgian Blue or does the green lipstick and outfit give her She-Hulk strength?
R.I.P Clara Peller.
R.I.P Clara Peller.
I knew that suit looked familiar >w<
You wouldn't like her when she's booby!
oh wait... I was thinking of someone else.
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4. The Eucharist as Memorial
5. The Eucharist as Presence
6. The Eucharist as Sacrifice
7. The Eucharist & Baptism
8. The Eucharist, Church Unity & Ecumenism
9. The Eucharist & Social Justice
The Eucharist & Eschatology
Pastoral Issues: Priestly Ministry & Priestless Sundays
Pastoral Issues: Liturgical Language
The Emerging World Church & the Eucharist of the Future
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of Christ," in Praying the Sacraments
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Acrylic painting
he was just here two nights before...lol...
thanks for sharing such a perfect submission
thanks for sharing such a perfect submission
This is so beautiful! Very good work!
Thankyou so much for yur support. You have an eye for good art. There is some very good stuff in the feature. I will definetly browse it some more when I get time. Thanks again.
The wrinkles on his face are just perfect. Great piece c:
Thanks, I was hoping I did not go overboard with the wrinkles. I am glad you like it.
Thanks so much. Merry Chritmas
a real old man
with all the folds
good work
with all the folds
good work
Wow, this is amazing! I wish I could draw like this...mine would be a stick figure with a mustache right now.
Lol, thanks so much. I am glad you like it. Merry Christmas
Thank you so much. Merry Christmas
Wonderful acrylic portrait of Old Saint Nick...and just in time for Christmas. I love the texture of his beard. Fantastic attention to detail and an outstanding job! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks so much for the encouraging comments. I am glad you liked my Santa painting. I will have nightmares about that beard. It seriously kicked my butt. I finally got it to look ok. Anyway, thanks again, and merry Christmas
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Is his wrist slashed? o__O
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This reminds me of when I was a kid really good job!
Thanks, wanted to do a Santa picture because no matter how grown up we get, we still love Santa Clause and Christmas. Merry Christmas to you


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KINGSVILLE - April 23, 2010
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The work of generations of KTAI FM 91.1 advisers and station managers has helped to keep Texas A&M University-Kingsville's student radio station thriving for 40 years. A ceremony and perpetual plaque dedication held at 2 p.m. Thursday, April 22 in the radio and television wing of Manning Hall served to recognize those who have helped shape the station during the previous four decades.
"We are recognizing the faculty and staff who have contributed so much to KTAI with a perpetual plaque that will hang on the station's walls," said Dr. Manuel Flores, chair of the communications and theatre arts department. "By doing so, we insure their legacy and their vision are never far from mind as the station continues to evolve."
The plaque will now hang inside the radio booth in Manning Hall.
The plaque dedication was the final event in a series of KTAI FM 91.1 40th anniversary festivities. On-air since February 1970, the station continues to serve both the A&M-Kingsville and greater Kingsville communities. The station plays various blocks of music including oldies, Top 40 and rock and frequently broadcasts Javelina athletics. The student-run station also provides the university's communications students with the opportunity to learn different aspects of the radio industry.
KTAI can be heard live on the web at www.tamuk.edu/ktai.
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dd showering with df
We are having our fourth this June. My husband or I showered with each of the babies. It made for quick washing :) If I was in the shower he would hand our LO in and I would wash him/her up and he would have a towel ready for me to hand baby back out to him. or the same way around if he was showering, I would hand him our baby and be waiting with a towel for when he finished washing her. I never thought it was weird but I guess it would depend on the person
my dh showered with DD before she turned 1 but even then he wore underwear he washed her then i would take her out and he finished taking a shower. I don't think it's right for a girl to take a shower with daddy with him completly naked but that might just be me i'm weird like that (i grew up with out a dad so that might make a diffrance at how i look at things)
Isabella H 8/22/11 9lbs 13oz, Samuel Y 7/6/13 9lbs 8oz, Lucas Y 8/18/14 9lbs 9oz, #4 due 1/1/16
Me (29) DH (30)
DS Harvey 12/10/2010 DS Archie 12/01/2011
Baby girl (Arabella) Born 05/29/2013 EDD 06/08/2013
Mr. & Mrs. H 7.18.15
Miss Audria Nouvelle Diem 5.16.13 & Miss Davin Aura Shayne 8.17.15 <3
-Cat (31) married to Shay (28) since 02/09, been together since 6/07


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editor: I really enjoyed your new feature highlighting notable trees ( In Profile, " Spring 2000). The sycamore is one of my favorite trees, and it was good reading. I liked the format and hope you will continue until you have profiled all North American trees.
Jack Bates
Eau Claire, Wisconsin
editor: Jane Braxton Little's "Flowing from Forests to Faucets," (Spring 2000) does not accurately give credit where credit is due.
The Cedar River watershed has a nearly 100-year history of producing municipal and industrial water with a sustainable forest management program and without costly filtration. In fact, Allen E. Thompson described the program in American Forests in the early 1950s. That program continued until the mid-1980s, when harvesting timber, particularly on public lands, became portrayed as a sin, and habitat protection became popular among preservation-minded people.
Using the Endangered Species Act as justification, these special interests politicized the long-established professional and successful management program for the Cedar River watershed. In the current political climate, I share in advocating for the watershed as an ecological reserve and recognize that such a change in management objectives is a political decision. But the outcome of Seattle's "public" decision process is an unnecessarily expensive and restricted Habitat Conservation Plan detrimental to the city and its water rate payers.
It is unfortunate that the critical topic of forests and waters should be treated as superficially and inaccurately as it was in the article. The role' of special interests in determining the program was seriously understated. Fortunately, their mistakes are often tempered by the dynamics of natural processes. Thank God.
Joe E. Monahan
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City of Seattle MISTAKEN IDENTITY
editor: Thank you for the fine article in the spring issue ("Connecticut's Identification Guru, " National Register). But I wonder about that alleged tulip poplar at Mt. Vernon ("Witness to History, "Spring 2000). It's kind of fun conjecturing what it is, but it is definitely not a tulip poplar. Most likely, it is an American elm, possibly a hickory, of which the best candidate would be the pignut, Carga glabra. But I may be way off base.
Ed Richardson
Glastonbury, Connecticut
editor's response: Thanks to those sharp-eyed readers who correctly ID'd the Mt. Vernon tree as an American elm. The tree was described by the photo agency as a tulip poplar and after a review in-house, we decided to go with their ID. Next time, we'll call Ed!
editor: I take issue with some points in the Spring 2000 issue. The juxtaposition of the story of Julia "Butterfly" Hill crusading to save a large tree ("Clippings") with the National Register of Big Trees highlights a truly dangerous tendency in modern America. Often we equate large trees with old-growth and assume "larger" means "older." That mistake has caused some very damaging management decisions at a national level. While salvaging timber leveled by Hurricane Floyd, I found two black spruce side by side. One was 16 inches at the stump; the other was 5 inches. The smaller one was more than 150 years older!
The ad facing the Register depicts a child in a park-like redwood grove-- with not one stick of regeneration in sight. No matter how popular such a vista may be with focus groups, it does not depict a healthy forest. …


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Spelling variations of this family name include: Vick, de Vick, Vicq, Fick, Feck, Fecke, Fedde, Feddema, Feddercke and many more.
First found in Bavaria, where the name was closely identified in early mediaeval times with the feudal society which would become prominent throughout European history. The name would later emerge as a noble family with great influence, having many distinguished branches, and become noted for its involvement in social, economic and political affairs.
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Temple Beth Sholom ladies goes Hollywood
The Sophisticated Ladies fashion show at Temple Beth Sholom brings movies and fashion to life.
Teens swapped clothing and recieved fashion tips from Plato's Closet Saturday at Selby Library for Fashion Dash.
Pups paraded at the Dog Dayz of Summer Saturday, at Five Points Park. The Sarasota Downtown Merchants Association sponsored the event during which dogs were judged on best costume. Top dog went to Minko, an Italian greyhound.
Beads, F.O.B celebrated 20 years Friday, July 19, at the shop at 2232 Gulf Gate Drive. Long-time customers and friends joined the party that included cake, appetizers and wine.
Scents of tomatoes and pasta float through the air as Chef Camp campers at Mattison's Forty One prepare to serve a delicious lunch to their guests. Chef Camp offers four sessions through the summer where children are taught by real chefs to sauté, grill, make pasta, sauce and deserts. The Taste of Tuscany session ran from July 15 to July 19 with 15 campers participating. Campers learned what professional chefs do to prepare for the day. They were taught by Mattison's Forty One Chefs Jeff Sladky, Ken Smith, Ray LaJoie, and Aaron Mortensen about proper table setting, event logistics, kitchen safety and of course cooking the meals.
Members of the Argus Foundation met Thursday, July 18, at The Francis, for their regular Meet the Minds lunch series. Guest speaker Tarren Bragdon, CEO of the Foundation for Government Accountability, spoke about the impact Medicaid expansion will have on taxpayers and patients.
During the event, community members will receive free giveaways and their pups can munch on free doggy treats.
Break free from the old routine, and take your dog (or dogs) for more than just a walk at these five fun places to play with fido.


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I cannot connect with the app!
My MacBook Pro detects the Remote, I enter the 4 digits and then my iPhone tells me it cannot find my Library -_-'
I am connected on the same wi-fi with both devices and it's not a guest network
I already logged off and then back on Home Sharing both on the Mac and the iPhone, I also tried deleting the app and reinstalling it...
If someone could help me please,
Thanks in advance!
I had the same problem
a terminal command that wiped all of the firewall settings worked for me using home sharing.
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For many guitarists, the infamous Fender Stratocaster is perfect. However, there are many within the ranks that prefer things a little different, and resort to tweaking, upgrading, hot-rodding and the like. This is not to conclude that the Fender Stratocaster is hopelessly flawed, to the contrary, millions of its players have found hundreds of things going for it. Having said that, this group was created as a tribute to the "hot rod" Strat. Please feel free to join the mailing list and contribute to discussions ranging from setups, basic pickup swaps, tremolo tweaks, refinishing, to all out rebuilding of the Strat. We won't discern against the brand, so if you would like to talk G&L, Tom Anderson, Kramer, Carvin, Peavey, Ibanez, your personally crafted work of art, shop class project or whatever, that will be great. In the interest of Stratocaster design evolution, any topic from vintage to super Strat is encouraged and welcome.
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And, please, DO NOT SPAM the list.
This Yahoo! group is not affiliated with www.customstratocaster.com
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Although, running an air conditioning looks really straightforward, however it's an intricate device that depends on the appropriate performance of numerous parts. Consequently, small blunders in the air conditioning setup could badly influence its working. Below are the 7 usual errors that you must stay clear of throughout replacement of an air conditioning.
7 Common Aircon Installation Mistakes To Avoid
1. Poorly Sized System
Mounting an extra-large air conditioning heating and cooling unit could cause incorrect moisture control, high functional expenses, and also uneasy temperature level adjustments. Nonetheless, if the air conditioner is undersized after that you will not obtain enough air conditioning, will certainly obtain high power costs, as well as devices would certainly have much shorter life expectancy. As a result, prior to mounting the air conditioning, it's crucial to consult with a trusted air conditioning service provider as well as run a correct lots blood circulation. Specialists of the specialist will certainly see your house as well as will certainly take a dimension of home windows, ceiling, floorings, wall surfaces, and so on. They will certainly look for insulation as well as take into consideration various other elements, prior to identifying the air conditioning capability required for your house.
2. Incorrect Positioning of Aircon
Mounting the air conditioning in the ideal location is extremely essential, as it could affect its power effectiveness. Put your air conditioning in a questionable place, to make sure that it does not need to function more challenging for cooling your house. When setting up home window Air Conditioner, see to it that it's a little slanted in the direction of back, which will certainly permit appropriate drain. Installment of air conditioning in a questionable area excels, however make certain that it isn't really obstructed by trees and also bushes. Correct air flow is necessary for effective procedure of your air conditioning, as well as it will certainly make certain that the power costs stays minimal.
3. Improper Insulation
Correct insulation of the room is a crucial aspect. When it come to a home window Air Conditioner, it is very important that the open locations in between the leading and also lower home window panes are fulled of shielding foam. There are unique insulation panels offered for home window A/C, which give far better insulation. For split-ACs, it's vital to mount best sized air ducts. The dimension of the air duct is relied on the basis of lots blood circulation and also any kind of error could cause inappropriate effectiveness of the air conditioning air conditioner and also very early tools failing. Poorly closed ductworks additionally develop troubles as they lead to leak of cooled down air and also therefore boosting the work-load on the Air Conditioner system.
4. Incorrect Positioning of Thermostat
Consistently ensure that the thermostat is not near the lights or other warmth producing home appliance. If thermostat is regularly subjected to warmth after that, your power expenses will certainly boost since your air conditioning would certainly help additional time. Over-working of air conditioning will certainly lead to inappropriate air conditioning, undesirable moisture degrees, as well as boost in upkeep expenses. In addition, over use of the air conditioning will certainly lower its life-span. you may contact us at here http://www.airconservicingsingapore.com/contact-us/
5. Poor Indoor Air Quality
Contamination in the interior air is a significant trouble, which could decrease the performance of your air conditioning. There are numerous points in your house that could create interior air contamination like mold and mildew, carpetings, plant pollen, materials, mildew, and so on. The contamination in the interior air could obtain worsened if it's does not obtain sufficient air flow as well as is subjected to high moisture. These toxins could impact the working of an air conditioning as well as effect its total efficiency. Nonetheless, by deciding on a trusted specialist you could quickly repair this trouble due to the fact that they will certainly encourage you regarding the actions you should consider lowering the contamination inside your residence. In addition, an insulation contractor could encourage you regarding various other tools, which will certainly even more assist you in doing away with the air pollutants.
6. Not Checking For Leaks
When doing air conditioning setup it's vital to look for the degree of coolant or Freon degree in the air conditioning air conditioner. Any type of leak could create lots of illness, as well as just 10 percent loss of Freon or coolant could lead to 20 percent additional power expenses. Sometimes installers do not look for leak since they believe it's a brand-new air conditioning heating and cooling unit, yet in some cases heating and cooling unit is ruined throughout setup, which could trigger leak.
7. Selecting the Wrong Contractor
There are lots of people which are not comfy with mounting aicons. For that reason, they opt to employ experts that could finish the task for them. Nevertheless, while picking an expert service provider they make the blunder of deciding on the expert that is requesting cheapest prices. You need to understand that a badly educated specialist will certainly make an incorrect air conditioning setup, as well as could additionally ruin your home windows or air conditioning tools throughout the installment. As a result, it's vital to decide on the installer after correct query as well as not simply opt for the most inexpensive company.
One of the most typical errors that typically takes place throughout air conditioning replacement are discussed over. If you do not prevent these errors after that you will certainly wind up paying money in power costs, will certainly obtain poor air conditioning, and also the life-span of your air conditioner will certainly obtain minimized. Nevertheless, you could conveniently stay clear of these blunders by working with a reliable insulation contractor.


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Save the date Alumni Weekend 2016 April 22-24
Have you heard? We partnered with Kohoutek! Come back to campus and relive a Pitzer tradition. In addition to this music and arts festival, look forward to beer tasting, delectable food truck selections, a special reunion for Pitzer graduates who have studied abroad, Passover observances and other fun social gatherings with fellow alumni and students.
This year we are celebrate the signature classes of 1966, 1971, 1976, 1981, 1986, 1991, 1996, 2001, 2006, 2011 and the graduating seniors of 2016!
Want to help plan activities and make the experience for your signature class a great one? Contact Senior Director of Alumni Relations Nancy Treser-Osgood to share your interests and become an Alumni Weekend Volunteer!
Registration will open in early 2016.
See photos from Alumni Weekend 2015 here.


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- in June and July 2015: every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday;
- in August 2015: every Tuesday and Thursday;
The next few tours in 2015 will be held on these dates: June 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 18, 23, 24 and 25;.
Meeting point: Skat Prokat Bike Shop, 22:30.
Cost: 1900 rubles per person including bike.
Duration: 3,5 hours, finishing 2:00am at Skat Prokat.
A White Nights version of our famed bike tour! Ride the city through the never-ending sunset. Take in spectacular
views and the unique white nights vibe. Watch the giant drawbridges across the Neva open in the middle of the night. See the city
from a totally different angle - at night, in motion!
Stops along the way include:
- Smolny Institute and Cathedral
- The Aurora Battleship
- Fantastic views from the bridges and the embankments of the Neva
- Historical residential areas of Vasilievsky and Petrogradsky Islands
- Palace Bridge or Trinity Bridge (or both) during the opening
- Field of Mars
- Church on the Spilled Blood
- Palace Square
The tour is conducted in Engish and Russian.
More info here:
To book this tour privately,
please write us at firstname.lastname@example.com
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