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I've been here since the beginning and although I rarely post,I lurk everyday. I can usually tell who posted before looking at their name. I may be wrong, but seems like some new names may not be so new. Question: When someone is banned, is there a time limit for reinstatement? Or can they re-register under another name?
March 25 at 23:20 EST .
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Excellent question!
March 26 at 09:01 EST .
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Ditto on Gram's comment.
I know of two individuals who have re-registered under different names. But it was soooo obvious, the fraud was uncovered rather quickly.
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Due to replacing a pipe, need to fill in a depression in my garden. It's not very large - Should I just fill it in with top soil? Or some kind of mix (like dirt and sand ). This is in my flower garden. Right now it's mud.
March 9 at 14:34 EST .
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Rake King
I suggest you use good soil if it's a garden area. Later when you turn your soil you will not have to worry since this soul is the same.
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Good advice. Welcome back RK.
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Rake King, glad to see you are back.
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Hi Nest and Hollyhock, you both work this wall and help others, along with my old friend Wrightwinger...who is very knowledgeable about gardening.
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WW: Thanks, my doc has me on a tether. He saved my life a few years back, so I am not one who is forgetting that. In other words I am back unless he sees my numbers go the wrong way. I expect to see this wall become very busy as Spring Rears her head. My best to your family.
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Rake King - Welcome back.
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After reading about problem with finding a place to bury the Boston Bomber, does anyone know when a prisoner at Gitmo dies, where is he buried? Of course, maybe none have died there.
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Can't they just assign an number and bury him in the city's Potter's Field?
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How about a burial at sea? It was good enough for Osama Bin Dead!
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WW how cruel and Inhumane. Have you no respect at all for our pig's sensibilities?
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Evidently I'm doing something wrong. I'm trying to find how many times Obama vacationed in Hawaii before becoming President. I've tried different wording to no avail. Does anyone know where I can find this info? Thanks.
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Try this.
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Does anyone else enjoy what I call little B movies? Ones that never got much attention, but are little gems. The other day, I downloaded "A Green Journey". Never heard of it before - made in 1990. Angela Lansbury (sp? ) stars. Now this movie is not award winning but very enjoyable and needless to say she was great.Definitely recommended. Another little "B" movie that was very interesting tho somewhat sad, is Lovely, Still (Martin Landau and Ellen Burstyn ). BTW, these are for so called "mature" viewers.
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Should have been clearer- saying mature viewers means no sex, no foul language, interesting storyline and older actors.
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From a comment on the mother site: Bumper sticker: I'm voting for the Mormon not the moron.
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I've been wondering - evidently from various polls, the majority of Repubs aren't that enthused overall about those running for Pres. They would like "more of a selection". Who would they want included in the current slate that would excite the majority?
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I came to this site to ask the same question. Who would the dissatisfied Republicans have on the slate? I believe we have potential candidates in the wings but they were wise enough to know they weren't ready for a presidential run.
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The best people aren't running because of the destruction the media inevitably wreaks on their private lives and and personal affairs. No one in their right mind would do this - except people with power hungry complexes - pointed refeence!
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I use Windows 7 with a pop up blocker. I can't seem to block the audio commercials. Normally I keep my speakers almost off cause I don't like the start up sound, but when I forget I find those audio's irritating. Thanks for any info.
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Go to the "Start" menu; Control Panel; Change System Sounds: Change the Sounds Scheme to "No Sounds" (from the computer system ). This will allow you to NOT HAVE start up sounds, as you've described having.
As far as those awful site which automatically start video or audio files when you enter the site, SHAME ON THEM.
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Says a lot.
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God bless them for protecting us!
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The other Occupiers only live in tents...once in a while, these guys can do it for months.
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Location: Bagram , Afghanistan just north of Kabul
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My mind floating - Does anyone remember John Beresford Tipton Jr? Yes, the old Millionaire TV show. That got me to thinking why people of money (Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, etc. ) always seem to give to charities and never to individuals. Charities are good, but, giving a few thousand (or hundreds ) directly to someone you don't know seems like a great idea. Someone could pay off their car, or credit card, pay a months rent, whatever. Is it the tax break that keeps that from happening? Or wanting the praise of giving?
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I don't mean to offend... why do people that are wealthy through good investments, the brilliance that allowed them to start companies that employ hundreds, discovering and developing life saving drugs, providing opportunities through foundations, et al, owe to any one individual ?
There are millions distributed through charities and foundations.
I'm going to stop here.
November 4 at 19:23 EST .
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My comment disappeared - I agree with you - I didn't make myself clear. If someone is going to give to a charity,(especially if they are making a sizable donation ) why not once in awhile give to an indvidual instead? Pick a name from the phone book.
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Life is not a tv program.
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Thanks - I didn't realize that.
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How do you know that wealthy people don't give cash to individuals? I bet they do, but they don't announce their gifts to the media. I am certainly not wealthy. A few years ago, a neighbor had a friend who was down and out, and staying at their house. I really couldn't afford it, but anonymously put $200 in an envelope on the windshield of his car. I heard him screaming praise when he found it in the morning. He didn't know it was from me, but it blessed me. What I want to believe is wealthy people do this, too, but don't want a press report about it.
November 4 at 23:22 EST .
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Rake King
Until his death no one knew that Frank Sinatra took care of a blind girl here in St. Louis paying for eye operations, etc. I agree with Surf, they just don't talk about it. Also, remember if they wish their giving to be a secret, in most cases it remains a secret.
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And as I recall, wasn't that one of the stipulations made by the donor in the TV series, that no one was to know the source of the windfall? Frankly, I think those that make a big show of their charity aren't doing it to be charitable, but to shine the light on themselves.
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Soft and textured come to mind when you set eyes on Preston Collection by Feiss. Heritage bronze hardware is the strong base for these fixtures. Bark ttexture with amber etch glass shades soften the light inside and allow for it to come out in a deep golden glow. This collection offers circular mounts, dangling pendants, and sconces.

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Home List of Titles A tale of a web services initiative: what really matters in benefits realization
Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/72090
- Title
- A tale of a web services initiative: what really matters in benefits realization
- Author(s)
- Prananto, Adi; Setyawan, Emmanuel Arnody; Kuzic, Joze
- Abstract
- Despite the reemerging focus on business value realization of IS/IT investment, there is still comparatively limited knowledge on what an organisation can do to achieve the benefits it desires from IS/IT. Amidst the economic downturn, there needs to be more emphasis on value delivery of every investments an organization made, including investment in IS/IT. Through a story of successful web services initiatives of a multinational automotive engineering and manufacturing company, this paper tries to draw attention to a myriad of factors that contributes to the successful business value realization .
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- Conference paper
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies
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- Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Information Technology Interfaces (ITI 2009), Cavtat, Croatia, 22-25 June 2009, pp. 137-144
- Publication year
- 2009
- Keyword(s)
- Benefits management; Benefits realization; Business technology alignment; ROI; SOA; Web services
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- 9789537138158
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Kitchen Confidential: Is Enrico Brulard Real?
By Lolis Eric Elie
I've never worked for Enrico Brulard or anyone like him. I like to imagine that if some boss tortured me the way Brulard tortures Jeanette Desautel, I'd stage a cook's rebellion. But in the restaurant world, people not only work for bosses like Brulard, many seek them out. For those not in the world of restaurant kitchens, it seems like a strange psychology.
I figure the people who can best interpret Brulard are the two real-life New Orleans restaurant chefs who play line cooks on 'Treme,' Alon Shaya and Adrienne Eiser.
Alon grew up in Philadelphia. After attending the Culinary Institute of America, he moved to Las Vegas and worked with Jean-Louis Palladin and Watch Chunpol, a celebrated Thai chef. Years later Octavio Mantilla, the managing partner of John Besh's New Orleans-based restaurant group, recruited Alon to the city. He served as chef at Besh Steak in the Harrah's Casino. Then he partnered with Besh and Mantilla to open Domenica in 2008.
Adrienne Eiser grew up in Montreal. She also went to school at the Culinary Institute of America. After cooking at various restaurants in western Canada and New York City, she moved to New Orleans about two years ago. She's worked at several of the city's best restaurants including Stella! and Gautreau's. But her first love is charcuterie. She's been working as a chef at the best cheese and charcuterie shop in town, St. James Cheese Co.
I asked Adrienne and Alon whether they'd ever experienced the Brulard treatment.
"I had experiences like that in Las Vegas for sure with Jean Louis," says Alon. "He was a very passionate, passionate chef. I remember somebody on the garde manager station put out a salad and one of the leaves was slightly wilted. Jean Louis walked up to the cook and just started screaming at him. Everyone in the kitchen was always on edge. Nobody wanted to mess anything up because if you did, he would come after you.
"But he was an amazing chef, a genius. You would be scared working there, but you knew it was going to make you a better cook."
"I had a chef once throw a plate at me," Adrienne said. "He missed me and it crashed through a glass-fronted fridge and he said 'Be glad that wasn't your head.' That was in Canada. When you are working in a kitchen that is that temperamental, the word will spread when the chef gets there. It's like 'Daddy's home. Get your station in order.'
"You tend to internalize a lot of that. I'm nervous about my chef catching me doing something wrong, so I'm constantly monitoring everything I do. Everything has to be perfect. It may not be the best way to handle your employees; but it certainly is effective.
"Anybody who commits to work in fine dining sort of expects to deal with a chef like that. You stay because the food is that good and there is so much to learn. In first episode there's a scene that's really telling: Kim Dickens is in her apartment in New York and they are chatting and saying "He'll f**k with you just because he can. Great cook though, right?"
While there are still chefs out there torturing their line cooks, that mentality seems to be changing. "When I was coming up, it was expected. If you were going to work with one of the best chefs in the world, you knew what you were getting into before you went to work there. It seems like these days that mentality is kind of going away," Alon said.
Last week, I was on set talking to Donald Link, the chef owner of Herbsaint and Cochon. He'll be making a cameo appearance later in the season. He echoed Alon's sentiments: "We try to have an environment where people are mentored and taught and not yelled at. I'm not saying I never have done it. But it's been a long time. I tell my sous chefs, if somebody's bothering them that much, maybe that person shouldn't be working here."


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WASHINGTON – A motorcyclist and pedestrian were killed in an accident Saturday afternoon.
The accident happened at about 3:45 p.m. near the intersection of Branch Avenue and St. Barnabas Road in Prince George's County.
Joe Nathan Evans, 40, of Lorton, Va., was riding on a motorcycle when it struck Harry Lee, 64, of Clifton, Md.
Lee was pronounced dead on the scene. Evans was taken to the hospital where he also died.
Cpl. Larry Johnson, Prince George's County police spokesman, says the pedestrian appeared to be homeless and that he was not in a crosswalk.
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In gvim, you can change the font using the Edit menu, Select Font. An alternative is to enter the command:
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Am keeping this as a simple form of VimTip632 for newcomers.
How about for console vimmers? :-(
- Console Vim uses whatever font your console/terminal is using. Changing the font in your terminal is done differently depending on your system and the terminal in use. Consult the documentation or manpages for your terminal, or do a web search for how to change the font in your chosen terminal. I believe Vim cannot use a different font than the rest of the terminal. --Fritzophrenic 15:25, July 25, 2011 (UTC)
- Indeed. When running inside a terminal, Vim can, at most, change the colours (within the limits of the colours supported by the terminal: sometimes bold and unbold black and white, often 8 colours plus bold/unbold foreground only [or seen another way, 8 background and 16 foreground]; on X11 some terminals support up to 256 background and foreground colours; "changing colours" usually also includes the use of reverse-video), and, if the terminal supports them (not all terminals do, and even those which do may support it only with certain fonts), use bold, underline and/or italic. — Tonymec 05:44, July 26, 2011 (UTC)
NOTE: setting the font in your $HOME\_vimrc file in Windows will disable the search highlighting.
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- Sonny: "Tommy, what was the big plan? You think I'd just take the fake cash? Save face and run away with my tail between my legs?"
- Tommy: "No. I just wanted to piss you off before I kill you."
- ―Sonny Forelli and Tommy Vercetti.
Keep Your Friends Close is the final storyline mission in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, that Tommy Vercetti does independently from his mansion in Starfish Island, Vice City.
As Tommy Vercetti's lordship over Vice City's underworld increases, so does Sonny Forelli's anger that Tommy is taking over Vice City. After failing to forcibly tax Tommy's expanding business ventures, Sonny arrives in Vice City himself to deal with Tommy in person. Forewarned of Sonny's arrival, Tommy sets aside $3 million in counterfeit cash in an attempt to placate him.
However, when Sonny finally arrives, the treacherous Lance Vance openly betrays Tommy, citing "business" as his motivation. At the same time, Tommy is also reeling from the realization that the 15 years he spent in prison on behalf of the Forellis was the result of an ambush orchestrated by Sonny himself.
These revelations precipitate an enormous gun battle inside Vercetti Estate. First, Tommy kills Lance on the rooftop of the mansion, then goes on to kill Sonny at the base of the staircase of the foyer along with all his guards. Tommy is also presumably injured during the gunfight; during the end cutscene, Rosenberg laments that Tommy ruined his suit (though no blood or other indicators of injury are seen). Following this, Tommy and Ken celebrate; they are in charge now.
Mission objectives
In order to complete the mission the player must:
- The Mafia are trying to steal your money. Defend your safe
- Go and kill Lance Vance, the backstabber
- Kill Sonny and finish this once and for all
- Lance Vance - Killed for betraying Tommy.
- Forelli Capo - Killed for trying to kill Tommy.
- Sonny Forelli - Killed for betraying Tommy and attempting to kill him.
The reward for completing this mission is $30,000 and a Hunter will spawn inside Fort Baxter or on a helipad in south Ocean Beach if the player has collected all 100 Hidden Packages. Also, members of the Vercetti Gang will carry Uzis.
Post Mission Phone Calls
Phone Call 1
Colonel Juan Garcia Cortez: Tommy, Thomas, it's Cortez. Que pasa?
Tommy Vercetti: Things are interesting. How are you, my friend?
Colonel Juan Garcia Cortez: I wanted to ask you about Mercedes.
Tommy Vercetti: Ok, what about her?
Colonel Juan Garcia Cortez: Oh Tommy, Tommy. I, I hear these stories, all these stories - I don't know what to think. Maybe she thinks she can do what she likes, but Tommy, tell me, is it true?
Tommy Vercetti: Is what true?
Colonel Juan Garcia Cortez: These stories I hear. Is she really going to be a lawyer? Oh Tommy, the shame, the shame! You know, we Cortez's are a proud family. We would never allow a daughter of ours to become a lawyer. Please tell me it isn't so. I don't think I could take it.
Tommy Vercetti: Oh Colonel, I can assure you Mercedes is never going to become a lawyer. Don't worry about it.
Colonel Juan Garcia Cortez: Oh thank you, Tommy. Tommy, thank you. The shame would be unbearable. She is a lady, not a parasite, you know. Anyway, Tommy, you must excuse me, the new minister of the interior has arrived. Many years ago, I killed his father in a failed coup so I must be polite. Good day, amigo.
Phone Call 2
Kent Paul: Tommy Vercetti, how's it going, Mr. big shot? I hear all these things about you, some kind of player in town, now eh...
Tommy Vercetti: Paul, you're drunk.
Kent Paul: Nah, you stupid prat, I ain't drunk. I only had a couple and some treats, ain't been to bed for a couple of days, you know. Anyway, don't give me that. I ain't a mug. Who set you up in this town? Who? Me. That's who.
Tommy Vercetti: Really?
Kent Paul: Don't give me that. Don't! I introduce you to people. I showed you the ropes, did a lot of stuff for you, and this is how you repay me. You ignore me. You won't give me a way in, after all I did for you! What do you think I am? A div or something?
Tommy Vercetti: Paul, take it easy. I've been busy, don't be an idiot.
Kent Paul: I ain't no idiot, mush. That's what they said in borstal. Are you asking for trouble, because you're going to get it! Tommy, mate. Please. You was my big hope! Please, don't laugh at me!
Tommy Vercetti: Paul, get some sleep, seriously.
Phone Call 3
Earnest Kelly: Tommy, it's Earnest. Earnest Kelly.
Tommy Vercetti How are you?
Earnest Kelly: I'm doing okay. I'll need a stick to walk, but I should be back to work soon enough.
Tommy Vercetti: Good.
Earnest Kelly: I heard about Lance. What a little prick, eh?
Tommy Vercetti: Yes.
Earnest Kelly: Never trust a man who walks around the street in his pajamas. That's what I say. Glad you killed him. I hope it was painful for the prick.
Tommy Vercetti: I think it was. You know, I just didn't think he was like that...
Earnest Kelly: Tommy, for a raging lunatic, you're pretty naive. I'll be back at work soon, teach you a thing or two about life, you hear.
Tommy Vercetti: Take your time, Earnest. Look after yourself.
Phone Call 4
Steve Scott: Tommy, it's Steve. You're a marvel! I'm a marvel! They love us. We are re-writing the record books, pal. We are talking major awards here. I can put my dad in a home and tell him to shut up. It's hot, man. H-O-T. He never believed in me. Never thought I was an artist, and now I've made it. I'm the best damn skin flick director of all time, my friend. I just wanted to say, it's a pleasure to have met you. I love you, baby. Don't go changing on me, you hear.
See Also
- In this mission the player can obtain a unique silver Stretch. The simple way to get it is to complete the mission, then the player can go outside, take one, and park in a garage.
- This has the longest name of any mission in the game, at 23 characters, and is the third longest in the era and fourth longest in the series, after San Andreas' Breaking the Bank at Caligula's, Liberty City Stories' The Portland Chainsaw Masquerade and Grand Theft Auto IV's I Need Your Clothes, Your Boots, and Your Motorcycle. It is also the longest-named final mission in the series.
- Sonny's Right-Hand will take the model of a normal Forelli at the part where you have to kill Sonny Forelli.
- This mission is yet another one of the game's references to the 1983 film Scarface, closely mirroring that film's final gunfight. The only major difference is that Tommy Vercetti, unlike Tony Montana, is not killed.
- The mission's title is a reference to a line from the Mafia film The Godfather Part II. The original line from the movie is: "Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer."
- The final words shared between Tommy and Ken may be a reference to the ending of Casablanca, where Rick Blaine says to his friend: "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."
- No matter which outfit you are wearing in this mission, Ken Rosenberg will always say you ruined your suit. This also counts if the player is wearing the default outfit.
- In the final cutscene, Tommy uses a beta M16.
- It can often be quite difficult to kill Sonny with all of his guards shooting at you. One of the easiest ways to kill him is to walk to the staircase which leads to both the roof and the lowest floor, while dodging the bullets, and making it to the same level as Sonny. When you get there, kill all of his guards, and then, hiding behind one of the pillars, shoot at him (with a high-powered weapon to kill him quicker). If you angle yourself well behind the pillar furthest from Sonny, he shoots the one closest to him instead of shooting you, giving you a perfect advantage of killing him.
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Maine has the 10th-best high school graduation rate in the country, according to U.S. Department of Education, which for the first time this year, is using a standard formula to compare states. The good news is tempered, though, by a fair number of schools across the state that are still struggling. One is Wiscasset High School, where in just three years, the graduation rate has fallen by nearly 17 percentage points. In the first of a two-part series, Jay Field takes a look at why.
At Wiscasset High, some of the school's biggest success stories, it turns out, are also helping drag down its graduation rate. Take, for example, the case of Dale Peaslee. To understand how this soft-spoken, 17 year old ended up at Wiscasset, you first have to know something about his father.
"My dad didn't graduate eighth grade. So he wants me to turn everything around," Peaslee says. "He wishes he could go back and just go through everything and graduate and get a high school diploma."
Peaslee's father started digging blood worms to sell as bait when he was 15, And for a long time, not having that high school diploma didn't keep him from making a living. But eight years ago, Peaslee's dad had to quit digging after hurting his back. He started looking for new work, but found severely limited options without the diploma.
Until recently, it looked like Peaslee himself might end up in the same position as his father. "I started at Erskine Academy three or four years ago. And I ended up dropping out of there cause I just started failing all of my classes," he says. "And then, after that, I went to Cony and dropped out of there because my dad ended up in the hospital."
Peaslee considered dropping out. But his Dad urged him to give school another try. The family is from the town of Whitefield, which has school choice. So Peaslee began traveling 30 miles, by bus, to the only option he had left - Wiscasset High, in the consolidated district known as Sheepscott Valley, or RSU 12.
"I only had 2.5 credits and that didn't allow me to be a sophomore," he says. "So last year, I was a freshman at 16 years old. I passed all my classes last year, which got me enough credits so I could be a junior this year."
Wiscasset has been losing students in recent years. The school now has fewer than than 250 students. Peaslee credits the smaller environment - and more individualized attention from teachers - for his improving fortunes. He's now on track to graduate in what will end up being five years.
But in Maine, high schools have their graduation rates calculated based on the number of students earning degrees in four years. Deb Taylor is Wiscasset's principal.
"There are those students that we know, when we're signing them on and we're registering them, we are registering a dropout as the state would define them. There is nothing in me that could call that student a dropout," Taylor says.
What they are, are kids who begin high school in one place and end up somewhere else. The phenomenon is called mobility. Every year, Taylor says she gets a detailed breakdown of Wiscasset's student body from the state.
"Immediately, when I look at that over time, I see a number of trends. Number one, decreasing high school student population. Number two, greatly increasing number of transfers in and transfers out," she says.
Increased student mobility is on the rise in districts large and small across the state. Many factors are driving it, including ongoing fallout from district consolidation, expanded school choice, a weak employment market that has families moving around in search of work and a sharp rise, in recent years, in the state's poverty level.
As Taylor digested the recent trends at her school, she wondered if it could explain - at least partially - the nearly 17-point drop in the schools graduation rate over the past three years. So Taylor and her staff compared the graduation rates for students who attend Wiscasset all four years and those who transfer in.
"And that's where I saw dramatically different graduation rates. So those who are with us all four years are in the high 70s - 78 percent I believe. And for those who transfer in at some point in their high school career, in the 40s."
Now, Wiscasset is not a school free of problems, and there are likely other reasons for the decline in the school's graduation rate. But Taylor clearly believes it's a big contributing factor.
It's a problem that's not unique to Wiscassett, says Don Siviski, the state Superintendent of Instruction. Siviski says many districts struggle to help these kinds of kids.
"It's a huge challenge for a school system to stabilize a child's life and then get to the learning process," Siviski says. "Not all children are like that who move. But a majority of the transient population who go from school to school in the course of a year do not have a stable background."
Tomorrow, we'll take a look at steps Wiscasset High School is taking to improve its academic performance, including the introduction of a new teacher evaluation system.


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Former astronaut Mark Kelly told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday that he and his wife, former Arizona Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, are gun owners who support the right to own guns. But he says Congress must strengthen laws to prevent criminals and the mentally ill from getting guns.
Kelly said he and his wife are "two reasonable Americans" who believe it is time for Congress to act.
Kelly sat at the opposite end of the witness table from Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the National Rifle Association. LaPierre also was testifying.
Giffords, a 2011 shooting victim, testified briefly to the panel.
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Kevin Smith, 26, has worn many hats so far in his lifetime, and an Ivy League education from Princeton University may soon be added to his list of accomplishments.
"I attended Vol State for three semesters. While there, I had the chance to play baseball and be part of the honors program. In addition to my core curriculum, I took a couple of great courses in leadership development and a history class that sparked my continued interest in the events around the founding of America," he said."Baseball allowed me to do something I love and continue my education." he said.
Vol State set the tone for Smith to get his Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Kentucky, Gatton College of Business and Economics.
Smith recently accepted a full tuition fellowship into the graduate program at the Princeton University Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. "I am excited to be focusing my studies on domestic policy. My love for politics evolved out of wanting to make a difference," he said.
He said he has attended literally hundreds of political events in over 40 states assisting the Republican Party, and has had the opportunity to work with the White House and former President George W. Bush. "President Bush is a leader I admire and respect. It was an honor to participate as a presidential motorcade driver, visit the president's ranch in Crawford, and have many other memorable moments with the President such as talking football with him on Super Bowl Sunday." he added.
Smith was also the special assistant to Chairman Robert Duncan of the Republican National Committee during the 2008 presidential election. Republican ideals are important to Smith. "Those are the beliefs and the core that I have; lower taxes, less government, individual responsibility, and a strong national defense. That is my version of the American dream."
Born in East Kentucky, Smith said he has a love for the Appalachian mountain area. "There is a real need for development in East Kentucky and I aim to use my skills and abilities to benefit the region," he said. "I like being engaged in activities that are meaningful and create results."
In 2009, Smith founded a non-profit group called Young Professionals of East Kentucky (YPEK). "This organization brings together young leaders, ages 21 to 40, to benefit and improve the region of East Kentucky. Our motto is: connect, grow, and lead," he said. There are no membership fees and the organization is funded by private donations. "Our sponsors include local corporations and state universities, all whom are invested in developing the regions leaders of tomorrow."Events with YPEK have included forums with U.S. Congressman Hal Rogers and former Kentucky Governor Paul Patton. In addition, the group has participated in community service projects, such as planting native tree species on reclaimed mine sites.
Smith has a plan after graduating from Princeton. "My goal is to bring back new ideas and new solutions to Kentucky and Appalachia."
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People of all ages have an ongoing romantic fascination with country living. Maybe you're one of those people who sits in traffic and daydreams of someday trading gridlock for greener pastures. Or perhaps your feet are firmly planted in the city (and you wouldn't know a heifer from a haybale--or care to meet either one), but you enjoy reading about other peoples' crazy adventures from the safety of the nearest Starbuck's. Or possibly you're a fellow ruralite who could use a good laugh or two--at somebody else's expense (and ignorance) for a change.
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Abandon Ship! (Japanese: すてられ船!しのびよる影!! The Abandoned Ship! The Creeping Shadow! ) is the 32nd episode of Pokémon: Advanced.
Episode PlotEdit
The gang is traveling via a ship to Slateport City. Ash sees his new badge he earned from Brawly. However, they need to arrive to Slateport where May is going to have her first Contest. However, the crew is actually Team Rocket in disguise, planning to capture the Pokémon. The crew gives the drink and offers Ash's Pikachu some food as well, to which he agrees, but is captured in a bag. Meowth and Jessie's Wobbuffet appear in Magikarp submarine as well.
Ash brings Corphish and he cuts the bag, releasing Pikachu. Jessie brings Seviper and it uses Poison Tail, but Corphish evades and uses Crabhammer. May sends her Beautifly and it uses Gust to send Team Rocket on the submarine. Pikachu uses Thunderbolt to blast them off.
After a while, Brock notices that the ship has been out of gas and a storm is approaching them. The waves drift them to an abandoned ship, where they must find a radio. Ash spots another, newer boat nearby, making it definite that someone else in on the ship. A man goes outside the ship, introducing himself as Tommy. The gang explains their problem, but Tommy says that he came to investigate and that his Marshtomp might be in the ship. Tommy will drive them as soon as he is done investigating the ship.
Tommy gave food and drinks to the gang. May's Torchic sees a door being opened and goes in. Torchic screams and the gang comes in, but Torchic disappeared. Team Rocket appears to be blasted off into the ship, but a Pokémon sees them. Meowth enters a room and is soon taken by the creature. The gang searches for Torchic, but as Max turns around, he is taken as well. Max wakes up, seeing that Meowth and Torchic are being tied.
As the gang continues, a door is being shaken and it opens, revealing some Azurill and Marill going. Max thinks that Meowth should cut him loose, but Meowth does not see how it affects him, so Max will free him when Meowth frees him. Max is freed and unties Torchic, but a lone Spinarak appears, capturing Max once more. Jessie and James search for Meowth, but suddenly a box begins to shake, making a Golduck release himself. As Jessie goes, James is being caught by the creature.
James is being tied to the place where Torchic, Max and Meowth are. Meowth tries to free James, but Max gets in the way, so nobody is untied. As the gang searches, May is pulled to the water. Brock brings Mudkip to search for May, but Mudkip does not see her. May is being caught as well, but Max cheers her up as Brock, Tommy and Ash search for them. Meowth and James remind them that Jessie's also left to search for them. Jessie wanders and sees a Wooper wandering, but the creature captures her as well.
The others make fun of Jessie being tied, so she tackles them. Meowth turns around and (unintentionally) tackles them. Jessie's Wobbuffet releases itself, but soon is tied as well. The gang searches for others, but the creature is about to grab Ash's Pikachu, but he uses Thunderbolt to defend himself. The creature is a Swampert. The Swampert goes away, with others following it. However, they lose it as it goes into the water.
Mudkip follows the Swampert, with others following him. They go to the other side and see an opened door. As they go inside, they see everyone tied up. Swampert attacks the gang with Mudshot, so Ash sends Corphish to battle and he uses Crabhammer, but is soon defeated with Swampert's Iron Tail. Tommy seems to think that the Swampert is his Marshtomp, but it evolved. Tommy attempts to persuade it, but Swampert uses Mudshot. Swampert is mad, but Tommy does not give up, as the Swampert thinks Tommy abandoned it. Team Rocket beg to be untied soon.
Tommy still attempts to persuade Swampert, but with little success. When it sees Mudkip, it remembers its days when it was a Mudkip - when it evolved into the Marshtomp and when it used Iron Tail. The Swampert forgives Tommy and everybody is untied. Team Rocket isn't missing an opportunity, so Jessie sends Seviper and it uses Poison Tail, but Swampert attacks Seviper, defeating it immediately.
Swampert uses Hydro Pump, blasting Team Rocket away. Tommy plans to set the place up for Water Pokémon. The gang supports Tommy's idea and they ride off to Slateport City.
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- When it showed Max waking up, finding himself captured in Spinarak's String Shot, along with May's Torchic and Meowth, it showed they looked to be at least ten feet in the air. However, when Meowth cut Max loose, it showed Meowth and Torchic to be low enough for Max to reach up and attempt to help May's Torchic down. This was repeatedly shown through the episode as the captured were shown again and again to be at least ten feet in the air.
- Near the end of the episode when Tommy was taking everyone to Slateport, May says she's excited for her Contest, and Ash says he's excited for his Slateport City Gym battle, though there is no Gym in Slateport. He may have been referring to his battle with Wattson in Mauville City.
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Ash's Badge case, consisting of a red Poké Ball silhouette, does not get changed into a red rectangle.


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The Maine Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, along with the Maine Chapter of Social Workers and the Maine Psychological Association, are weighing in on a closely-watched court case involving a transgender girl who was forced to stop using the girls' restroom at her Orono elementary school. As Susan Sharon reports, the groups have filed a "friend of the court" brief on behalf of the girl, whose case is being appealed to the Maine Supreme Court.
In their brief filed with the Maine Supreme Court, the child welfare groups say that a "girl who happens to be transgender should be fully recognized and respected as a girl - irrespective of whether she has undergone any particular medical treatments." To do otherwise, they say, "consigns her to a life of discomfort and distress."
The case began six years ago when the fifth-grade student, known as Susan Doe in her lawsuit, was forced to use a separate, staff-only restroom after another student's grandfather complained that she was a boy and shouldn't be allowed to use the girls' restroom.
Susan Doe, who has since been publicly identified as Nicole Maines, was born a boy but identified as a girl from a very young age. She dressed, acted and looked like a girl. Now 16, Nicole described herself this way in an interview with MPBN two years ago.
"The thought of me being a boy just kind of makes me cringe," she said. "I couldn't do it. So I would always wear the turtleneck shirt as long hair. I was always into the girl characters of everything. That's how I rolled. I was like, yeah, I'm a girl. I don't think I could be a boy."
The groups say in their brief that "from a medical and health persepctive, sexual identity...is the most important determinant of a person's sex." They say that for normal psychological development and educational growth, transgender students must be able to integrate how they feel into their life experience, and that, they say, must include the ability to use the restroom consistent with their gender identity.
Dr. Steven Feder is a Boothbay Harbor pediatrician and president of the Maine Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
"It's very well established that there is something called Gender Identity Disorder, or Gender Dysphoria, and there's a very specific plan of treatment for that, some of which can be medical but much of which is supportive and nurturing," he says.
Feder says his group, which includes 200 pediatricians in Maine, wants the court to recognize that anything that separates a child out because of a medical condition can be psychologically damaging.
The Maine Human Rights Act prohibits schools from discriminating based on a child's gender identity in any aspect of school life. And Nicole and her family filed a lawsuit aginst the school district in 2009 for unlawful discrimination in education and public accommodation.
But last year a Penobscot County Superior Court ruled that the school district "acted within the law under the public accommodation discrimination claim." Melissa Hewey is the attorney for the school.
"The law specifically allows for what the school did and therefore it can't be discriminatory," she says. "And there are certainly arguments on both sides of the issue, and that's an issue that the Legislature, not the courts, needs to grapple with."
In her own brief, Hewey points out that Maine law allows schools to separate bathrooms on the basis of sex rather than gender identity. She writes that "unless or until a statute mandates a different policy, separate bathrooms on the basis of sex is not unlawful discrimination under the Maine Human Rights Act."
The Maine Supreme Court has not yet scheduled oral arguments in the case.


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Pumpkins are one of the unofficial mascots of the Halloween holiday. Pumpkins are used as the base for Jack-o-Lanterns, a traditional decoration for this spooky holiday. The jack-o-lantern face is carved into the side of a pumpkin or other gourd to guard your home from malevolent spirits on Halloween night. Now, pumpkins are used almost exclusively for mere decoration and often feature friendly smiles rather than scary grimaces. Traditionally, pumpkins are carved with faces, but creative carvers have made all kinds of pictures and scenes from a simple silhouette. The Halloween pumpkin is certainly a favorite part of this holiday for revelers of all ages.


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MOUNT HOPE, W.Va. -- It didn't take a lot of arm-twisting to get a half-dozen members of a Spohn Ranch Skateparks construction crew to break out their boards and spend a few minutes showing off their newest and biggest creation to a group of visitors to the Summit Bechtel Reserve.
The construction crew is putting the finishing touches to more than 100,000 square feet of skating terrain at one of 11 adventure areas at the massive 10,600-acre Boy Scout reserve, which opens July 15. That's when 40,000 Scouts and their leaders will converge on the New River Gorge for the 2013 National Scout Jamboree. The Summit will be the permanent home of the jamboree.
Here, during the 10-day jamboree, Boy Scouts from across the nation will be able to try their hands at a wide variety of outdoor activities in world-class venues.
"We build what we enjoy riding, as well," said Mike Bradford, the chief operating officer of the Los Angeles-based construction company. "What we're creating here is something we know the kids are going to enjoy skating. That's the greatest part about our job."
The Park Adventure Area at Summit Bechtel Reserve, for instance, is home of the world's second-largest outdoor skate park, featuring six distinct areas with bowls, ramps and rails for riders of all skill levels.
At the nearby Trax Adventure Area, the world's second-largest BMX facility awaits Scouts of every skill level, with more than 273,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor features, including downhill, pump, table-top, freestyle, race and dual-slalom courses.
On Sunday, more than 1,200 area residents were invited to take part in a driving tour of the massive Boy Scout facility to see what has taken shape since construction began at the site three years ago. Even the tour route was big, covering a 14-mile loop through the reserve.
To help plan Sunday's event, "we talked to the people at Oglebay Park in Wheeling, who have a lot of experience with people taking driving tours to see the annual Christmas lights display," said Gary Hartley, director of community and government relations for the Summit Bechtel Reserve.
"With less than 60 days to go until the Summit opens and the jamboree begins, we are thrilled for the community to see our progress and share this experience with them," Hartley said. "Until recently, there's been so much heavy construction going on that it hasn't been safe or practical to give people a peek behind the curtain to see what's been going on at the Summit."
Among other sites visited during Sunday's tour was The Rocks Adventure Area - the world's largest man-made outdoor climbing area, featuring 125 climbing walls, 100 bouldering stations and 45 rappelling venues. Made from concrete shot onto metal frames, the cliff segments at The Rocks were designed to resemble the sandstone climbing surfaces found in the New River Gorge, right down to the pigments used to stain the faux rock walls.
Other adventure areas nearing completion at the Summit include The Zip, with more than 5 miles of zip lines, including five parallel 3,500-foot lines. For mountain bikers, the Low Gear and High Gear adventure areas offer a total of 36 miles of trails, ranging from downhill and cross-country routes to dual slalom and jump courses.
The Bows archery adventure center ranks third in the world in shooting opportunities, with 60 static shooting stations, 36 sporting stations, 10 long-distance stations, and 10 trap-shooting type stations. For shooting sports, The Barrels provides more than 200 unique rifle, pistol and shotgun options, making it also the world's third-largest venue of its kind.
Four Olympic size above-ground pools soon will be installed atop concrete pads at The Pools Adventure Area, home base for swimming and scuba activities.
More than 100 miles of utilities have been installed underground at Summit Bechtel. Five small cellphone towers have been installed at the reserve's five base camp areas, and Scouts will have access to wi-fi, and 3-G and 4-G phone service.
While Summitt Bechtel encompasses nearly 14 square miles of land, only a small portion of the property is being developed.
"We're trying to keep our footprint as small as possible, and we're trying to limit it to areas that have already been disturbed by mining and timbering," said Allison Schapker, director of design and sustainability for Trinity Works, Summitt Bechtel's design firm.
Of the scouting reserve's 10,600 acres, 1,200 are being developed to accommodate national jamboree activities, and 100 are being developed for the Scott Summit Center, its year-round visitor-friendly area where a variety of outdoor activities can be sampled. Scott Summit Center is also the home of AT&T Summit Stadium, a 70,000-seat amphitheater with three stages, where shows and concerts will be hosted during the upcoming jamboree.
Nearly all the rest of the property will be left as is, including a 1,600-acre section of creeks and wetlands adjacent to National Park Service land that is being placed in a conservation easement.
There are six base camps for Scouts, each accommodating between 7,000 and 8,000 campers. At the camps, gray water from showers and sinks will be recycled for use in toilets, reducing per-person water use from 30 gallons a day to about eight, Schapker said.
Buffer strips of man-made wetlands ring the reserve's four artificial lakes to filter sediment from entering the ponds.
More than 1,000 West Virginians have helped with construction of the Summit, which will become the Boy Scouts of America's fourth high-adventure base when it is not serving as national jamboree headquarters. In 2019, the Fayette County site will host Scouting's World Jamboree.
"We've been assured by our contractors that everything will be completed on schedule," Hartley said. "It will probably include some seven-day weeks and some working at night, but we'll be ready for the Scouts on July 15."
"It's pretty exciting to have a permanent home for our national jamboree," said Renee Fairrer, public relations manager for the BSA, "but our main goal right now is to make sure every one of the 40,000 kids who come here for the 2013 jamboree have the time of their life."
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CATAPULT offers a full automation suite for SMB retailers. This front-to-back enterprise framework includes: Point-of-sale, self checkout, back office, inventory, mobile analytics and maintenance, supply chain, EDI supplier integration, warehousing, general ledger integration, loyalty, gift card, membership management, fuel pump integration, and pharmacy system integration.
Celerant Technology is a retail technology provider offering unparalleled and seamless multi-channel integration to retailers across all industries. Since 1999, Celerant has consistently accelerated business growth and efficiency through unique innovations such as: POS, inventory management, data warehousing / mining, integrated ecommerce, mobile applications and back office - to name a few. With an open and collaborative environment, the company focuses on each retailer's specific integration needs to form genuine, enduring partnerships. As a mid-market retail system leader, Celerant provides solutions and expert advice to continually accelerate retail growth.
ChainDrive is a complete end-to-end scalable Fully Integrated Cross-Channel Retail Management Solution that enables retailers to gain greater control over all of their Retail, e-Commerce and Wholesale business processes. Specifically designed and developed by retail and industry professionals, ChainDrive identifies and addresses the pain-points retailers face today. By leveraging data obtained from all operational channels, ChainDrive delivers clear, concise and actionable information, providing the tools needed to manage performance, track productivity and improve efficiencies throughout the organization. Catering to the demands of today's omnichannel retail marketplace, ChainDrive truly provides a single integrated solution that facilitates all aspects of operations for today's online and offline retailer. From Point of Sale, Mobile, Merchandising to Order Fulfillment all the way through to Financials, ChainDrive offers flexible, user friendly cross channel solutions specifically designed for the Apparel, Footwear, Jewelry, Sporting Goods, Department Store and Specialty markets.
CoStar Real Estate Manager is a leader in best-in-class software for retail real estate information. The company's software and services help customers deliver on their business strategies by better managing their real estate portfolios. CoStar Real Estate Manager solutions include strategy and analytics, portfolio management, lease administration, project management, transaction management, and lease abstracting services. CoStar Real Estate Manager software now features powerful CoStar market research data that helps guide better and more efficient lease decisions. No other real estate information management software provider can offer this additional value.
Epicor Retail advanced, end-to-end solutions enable business transformations that drive profitability and accelerate growth. Available via the Cloud or on-premises, our suite includes Store/Mobile Store, Digital Commerce, Enterprise Order Management, CRM / Clienteling, Merchandising, Planning / Assortment Planning, Sourcing and PLM, Retail Analytics, and Audit and Operations Management. Epicor Retail solutions enable unified views of customers, inventory and transactions across the enterprise. They equip you to deliver remarkable customer experiences, precisely match your supply with your demand, and gain actionable intelligence. More than 500 leading retail brands worldwide trust Epicor Retail to help them remain current, competitive, and consistently strong.
Island Pacific is a leading provider of software solutions to the retail industry. Our high-value, innovative solutions help retailers improve efficiency and effectiveness of their operations and build strong, long lasting relationships with customers. To meet a more mobile and demanding consumer, retailers need to deliver on the consumer's terms. Island Pacific's SmartSuite provides a real-time view of stock availability across all retail channels. The intelligent, dynamic and flexible solution allows customers to shop how, where and when suits their needs. Our software helps retailers ensure they have the right product range at the right time across all retail touchpoints. Our strong forecasting, merchandise and assortment planning, allocation, replen and merchandising solutions allow retailers to drive sales and profitability across all channels enhancing the customer experience.
Oracle provides retailers with a complete, open and integrated suite of business applications, server and storage solutions that are engineered to work together to optimize every aspect of their business. The Top 20 retailers worldwide - including fashion, hardlines, grocery, and specialty retailers - use Oracle solutions to drive performance, deliver critical insights, and fuel growth across traditional, mobile, and commerce channels.
At RunIt Systems, we believe that a Point of Sale System should become your tool for making more money, plain and simple. Our deep size-based inventory matrix enables specialty retailers (Clothing/Apparel, Footwear/Shoe & Sporting Goods) to understand more than ever about the items they carry. Our reporting functions simplify the process of uncovering opportunities that may have been hidden in the past. Combining the most critical information with up-to-the- minute, real-time access to every store from any PC, Phone/iPad, or Android means that you can take the right actions, whenever you need to, and from wherever you happen to be. And with our new iPod/iPad POS extension, you can take your business to places previously unimagined.
Stanchion® Front Counter Stanchion front counter controls all aspects of your POS sales tasks. Capabilities include gift card redemptions, product searches, price lookups, receipt reprinting and sales invoice creation. Mobile store applications allow employees to work untethered to complete tasks, including inventory, ordering and receiving. Stanchion® Back Office Stanchion back office features enterprise-level, back-of-store capabilities, with easy-to-use product-configuration and system-administration tools right at your fingertips. Back-of-store features enable easy system management while supporting global POS terminals. Stanchion® Enterprise Stanchion enterprise has robust store applications that include managing shelf labels, reporting data and producing POS-display slide shows to promote products, services and campaigns. Sophisticated promotions can be implemented immediately, taking advantage of real-time data. The master data repository gives the ability to effectively manage integrity for all store systems.
SymmetricDS is the leading open source solution for Data Replication, Change Data Capture, and Data Transformation for retail store systems. Reliably move data in both directions between central office and stores in near real time.
UTC RETAIL offers a suite of store solutions, including software, hardware and services, which help retailers to thrive in the ever-changing and always accelerating retail climate. With 27 years of experience and over 450,000 store-level installations, we have been recognized as the industry leader in delivering outstanding service and exceptional value. By leveraging innovative, modern technology, our solutions provide you greater flexibility across multiple channels and platforms, and extend the long-term benefits of your investment, well into the future. For more information on UTC RETAIL, visit us at www.utcretail.com.
VISION Portfolio, PCMS's best of breed retail suite, has been designed and architected as an open, Java-based store systems solution that enables retailers to adapt to blurring sector lines, varying store sizes, different selling formats and global growth pressures. With POS, loss prevention, front/back office, self checkout, kiosk, mobile and much more, VISION Portfolio addresses the full spectrum of retailers' needs by providing individual or end-to-end solutions to meet current and unforeseen needs.
Jesta I.S. is an international supplier of integrated software solutions for brand manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers specializing in apparel, footwear, accessories and hard-goods verticals. Jesta's Vision Suite is a modular platform that eliminates the inefficiencies and inaccuracies of disjointed applications. It builds scalable business operations, helps increase market share and improve margins across the entire supply chain - from product design to omni-channel retail. Customers include Perry Ellis International, Puma, Genesco, J.McLaughlin, Town Shoes, The Marine Corps Exchange, Cole Haan, Corporativo Ferrioni, Vera Bradley, DSW and Carter's, among others. Please contact us for a free consultation and demo.
Yourcegid Retail is a cloud-based retail management solution that integrates a broad range of functionality - including POS and store operations, omnichannel, inventory management and merchandising, reporting and analytics, BI, CRM and customer loyalty - into a single platform. The real time, feature rich solution enables you to enhance the customer experience, optimize operational efficiency, and ensure ongoing profitable growth. Easy to use and flexible, Yourcegid Retail empowers you to do retail your own way.


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Okay, so as of now, Pirates are subtype: 2 and to me this makes no sense since, like barbarians they're a whole different race with their own factional organisation and such.
The main reasoning behind this is that all the current pirates should have a subtype 2, that would allow for more interactions with grims/units from other sphere.
lackey - warrior
Dub/Reia - Royalty
Plunderer - adventurer
The new gunner pirate from the coming set - gunner
They have their own subtype field buffing, which is more flavorful within subtype 1 than subtype 2, not to mention dub's auto and there is no way they'd be allying themselves with any of the other subtype 1s, cause you know pirates.


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One of our primary objectives is to provide our music education students with the musical and pedagogical foundation and tools to create rich learning opportunities for their students to develop their creative potential and experience the world from multiple perspectives. Teachers must utilize all means necessary to create the kinds of learning environments that encourage students to take risks, be adventurous in their thinking and problem-solving, and unleash the imaginations they come into the world with.
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Our graduates often find their experiences at UMass Lowell prepare them for a real world approach to school music teaching which opened their minds to a greater diversity of methods and students than they could have ever envisioned.
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