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Raquel Gur, MD, PhD
Dr. Gur is Professor of Psychiatry Neurology and Radiology at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine where she directs the Neuropsychiatry Section and the Schizophrenia Research Center and is Vice Chair of Research Development in the Department of Psychiatry. Her combined training in Psychology, Neurology and Psychiatry has provided the tools to pursue an academic career working with basic and clinical neuroscientists to advance the understanding of schizophrenia. In directing these research endeavors, she has interacted with scientists of diverse backgrounds, conducted collaborative interdisciplinary research, mentored junior faculty and trainees, and has come to know many patients and their families. She is a member and has served in organizations including the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, the NIMH Council and the American Psychiatric Association task forces including the DSM-5 Psychosis work group. She is Past President of the Society of Biological Psychiatry and President Elect of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology. NIMH has supported her research efforts and she has over 300 publications in peer-reviewed journals.
Karl and Linda Rickels Professor of Psychiatry
Vice Chair for Research Development
Director of the Neuropsychiatry Section
Member of University of Pennsylvania Psychiatry Department since 1975,
Secondary appointments in Radiology and Neurology
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel 1968-70
- Michigan State Univ, East Lansing, MI B.S. 1971 Psychology
- Michigan State Univ, East Lansing, MI M.A. 1972 Psychology
- Stanford University, Stanford, CA Res Assoc 1973-74 Neuropsychology
- Michigan State Univ, East Lansing, MI Ph.D. 1974 Clin & Develop Psych
- University of Pennsylvania, Phila, PA Post-Doc 1974-75 Clin Psychology
- University of Pennsylvania, Phila, PA M.D. 1980
Academic Positions
1975-1987 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Univ of PA School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
1980-1984 Resident, Department of Neurology, Univ of PA School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
1984-1986 Resident, Department of Psychiatry, Univ of PA School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
1984-present Director of Neuropsychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Univ of PA School of Medcine, Philadelphia, PA
1984-1987 Assistant Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology, Univ of PA School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
1987-1989 Associate Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology, Univ of PA School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
1989-present Professor, Departments of Psychiatry, Neurology, and Radiology, Univ of PA School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
2002-present The Karl and Linda Rickels Professor of Psychiatry, Univ of PA School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
Hospital and Administrative Appointments
1974-1979 Faculty in Residence, Univ of PA School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
1982-present Department of Psychiatry, Philadelphia Veterans Administration Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
1984-present Directory of Neuropsychiatry Section, Department of Psychiatry, Univ of PA School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
2003-present Vice Chair for Research Development, Department of Psychiatry, Univ of PA School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
NIMH Method to Extend Research In Time (MERIT) Award, MH42191 (1989)
Member, American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (1994)
NAMI Exemplary Psychiatrist Award (1997)
William Osler Patient Oriented Research Award (1997)
NARSAD Distinguished Investigator Award (1999)
Fellow, American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (2000)
American Psychiatric Association Kempf Fund Award (2001)
Institute of Medicine (2001)
American College of Psychiatrists Stanley Dean Award in Schizophrenia (2007)
IRG Member, Special Reviews Committee, National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
President, Society of Biological Psychiatry (2007)
NARSAD - Lieber Prize for Outstanding Research in Schizophrenia (2009)
American College of Physicians – William C. Menninger Memorial Award (2011)
National Alliance on Mental Illness (Pennsylvania Montgomery County) Brain Scientific Research Award (2012)
President-Elect, American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (2013)
Selected Publications:
Gur RE. Left hemisphere dysfunction and left hemisphere overactivation in schizophrenia. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 1978, 87, 226-238.
Gur RE, Skolnick BE, Gur RC, Caroff S, Rieger W, Obrist WD, Younkin D, Reivich M. Brain function in psychiatric disorders: I. Regional cerebral blood flow in medicated schizophrenics. Archives of General Psychiatry, 1983, 40, 1250-1254.
Gur RE, Resnick SM, Alavi A, Gur RC, Caroff S, Dann R, Silver F, Saykin AJ, Chawluk JB, Kushner M, Reivich M. Regional brain function in schizophrenia: I. A positron emission tomography study. Archives of General Psychiatry, 1987, 44, 119-125.
Gur RE, Mozley PD, Resnick SM, Shtasel DL, Kohn MI, Zimmerman RA, Herman GT, Atlas SW, Grossman RI, Erwin RJ, Gur RC. Magnetic resonance imaging in schizophrenia: I. Volumetric analysis of brain and cerebrospinal fluid. Archives of General Psychiatry, 1991, 48, 407-412.
Gur RE, Mozley PD, Shtasel DL, Cannon TD, Gallacher F, Turetsky BI, Grossman RI, Gur RC. Clinical subtypes of schizophrenia differ in brain and cerebrospinal fluid volume. American Journal of Psychiatry, 1994, 151, 343-350.
Gur RE, Mozley PD, Resnick SM, Mozley LH, Shtasel DL, Gallacher F, Arnold SE, Karp JS, Alavi A, Reivich M, Gur RC. Resting cerebral glucose metabolism and clinical features of schizophrenia. Archives of General Psychiatry, 1995, 52, 657-667.
Gur RE, Cowell P, Turetsky BI, Gallacher F, Cannon T, Bilker W, Gur RC. A followup MRI study of schizophrenia: Relationship of neuroanatomic changes with clinical and neurobehavioral measures. Archives of General Psychiatry, 1998, 55, 145-152.
Gur RE, Maany V, Mozley D, Swanson C, Bilker W, Gur RC. Subcortical MRI Volumes in Neuroleptic-Naive and Treated Patients With Schizophrenia. American J Psychiatry, 1998, 155, 1711-1717.
Gur RE, McGrath C, Chan RM, Schroeder L, Turner T, Turetsky BI, Kohler C, Alsop D, Maldjian J, Ragland JD, Gur RC. An fMRI study of facial emotion processing in schizophrenia. Am J Psychiatry. 2002;159:1992-1999. PMID: 12450947
Gur RE, Kohler CG, Turetsky BI, Siegel SJ, Kanes SJ, Bilker WB, Brennan AR, Gur RC. A sexually dimorphic ratio of orbitofrontal to amygdala volume is altered in schizophrenia. Biol Psychiatry. 2004;55:512-517. PMID: 15023579
Gur RE, Kohler CG, Ragland JD, Siegel SJ, Lesko K, Bilker WB, Gur RC. Flat affect in schizophrenia: Relation to emotion processing and neurocognitive measures. Schizophrenia Bulletin. 2006, 32, 279-287.
Gur RE, Loughead J, Kohler CG, Elliott MA, Lesko K, Ruparel K, Wolf DH, Gur RC.
Limbic Activation Associated with Misidentification of Fearful Faces and Flat Affect in Schizophrenia. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2007; 64:1356-1366. PMID: 18056543
Gur RC, Ragland JD, Reivich M, Greenberg JH, Alavi A, Gur RE. Regional differences in the coupling between resting cerebral blood flow and metabolism may indicate action preparedness as a default state. Cereb Cortex. 2009;19:375-382. PMID: 18534991
Wolf DH, Satterthwaite TD, Loughead J, Pinkham A, Overton E, Elliott MA, Dent GW, Smith MA, Gur RC, Gur RE. Amygdala abnormalities in first-degree relatives of individuals with schizophrenia unmasked by benzodiazepine challenge. Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2011; 218:503-512. PMID: 21603892
Wolf DH, Gerraty R, Satterthwaite TD, Loughead J, Campellone T, Elliott MA, Turetsky BI, Gur RC, Gur RE. Striatal intrinsic reinforcement signals during recognition memory: relationship to response bias and dysregulation in schizophrenia. Front Behav Neurosci. 2011;5:81. PMID:22355285
Carlson GC, Talbot K, Halene TB, Gandal MJ, Kazi HA, Schlosser L, Phung QH, Gur RE, Arnold SE, Siegel SJ. Dysbindin-1 mutant mice implicate reduced fast-phasic inhibition as a final common disease mechanism in schizophrenia. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011; 108:E962-970. PMID: 21969553
Gur RC, Richard J, Calkins ME, Chiavacci R, Hansen JA, Bilker WB, Loughead J, Connolly JJ, Qiu H, Mentch FD, Abou-Sleiman PM, Hakonarson H, Gur RE. Age group and sex differences in performance on a computerized neurocognitive battery in children age 8-21. Neuropsychology. 2012; 26:251-265. PMID:22251308
Wolf DH, Pinkham AE, Satterthwaite TD, Ruparel K, Elliott MA, Valdez J, Smith MA, Detre JA, Gur RC, Gur RE. Oral alprazolam acutely increases nucleus accumbens perfusion. Mol Psychiatry. 2012 in press. PMID: 23070072
Satterthwaite TD, Wolf DH, Loughead J, Ruparel K, Elliott MA, Hakonarson H, Gur RC, Gur RE. Impact of in-scanner head motion on multiple measures of functional connectivity: relevance for studies of neurodevelopment in youth. Neuroimage. 2012;60:623-632. PMID: 22233733
Satterthwaite TD, Ruparel K, Loughead J, Elliott MA, Gerraty RT, Calkins ME, Hakonarson H, Gur RC, Gur RE, Wolf DH. Being right is its own reward: load and performance related ventral striatum activation to correct responses during a working memory task in youth. Neuroimage. 2012;61:723-729. PMID: 22484308
Satterthwaite TD, Elliott MA, Gerraty RT, Ruparel R, Loughead J, Calkins ME, Eickhoff SB, Hakonarson H, Gur RC, Gur RE, Wolf DH. An Improved Framework for Confound Regression and Filtering for Control of Motion Artifact in the Preprocessing of Resting-State Functional Connectivity Data. Neuroimage. 2012; 25:
Satterthwaite TD, Elliott MA, Ruparel K, Loughead J, Prabhakaran K, Calkins ME, Hopson R, Jackson C, Keefe J, Riley M, Mentch FD, Sleiman P, Verma R, Davatzikos C, Hakonarson H, Gur RC, Gur RE. Neuroimaging of the Philadelphia Neurodevelopmental Cohort. Neuroimage. 2013 PMID: 23921101
Tang SX, Yi JJ, Calkins ME, Whinna DA, Kohler CG, Souders MC, McDonald-McGinn DM, Zackai EH, Emanuel BS, Gur RC, Gur RE. Psychiatric disorders in 22q11.2 deletion syndrome are prevalent but undertreated. Psychol Med. 2013 Sep 9:1-11. In press. PMID: 24016317
Gur RE, Kaltman D, Melhem ER, Ruparel K, Prabhakaran K, Riley M, Yodh E, Hakonarson H, Satterthwaite T, Gur RC. Incidental findings in youths volunteering for brain MRI research. Am J Neroradiol. In press. PMID: 23811972


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Ron Wood
Birth Name: Ronald David Wood
Birth Place: Hillingdon, London, England
Years Active: 1964–present
Genres: R&B, Rock & Roll, Blues, Rock
Birth Place: Hillingdon, London, England
Years Active: 1964–present
Genres: R&B, Rock & Roll, Blues, Rock
Ronald David "Ronnie" Wood (born 1 June 1947) is an English rock guitarist and bassist best known as a member of The Jeff Beck Group, Faces, and The Rolling Stones. He is known for his characteristic slide guitar style, and also plays lap and pedal steel guitar. Wood began his career in 1964, when he joined The Birds on guitar. He then joined the mod group The Creation, but only remained with the group for a short time, and appeared on a small number of singles. Wood joined The Jeff Beck Group in 1968. They released two albums, ''Truth'' and ''Beck-Ola'', which became moderate successes. The group split in 1970, and Wood departed along with lead vocalist Rod Stewart to join former Small Face... Continue Bio >>
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Zimbra Server 5.0.9 and Zimbra Connector for iSync 5.0.2201
We have a special executive person here, that has >4500 calendar entries on his Zimbra server account. Syncronisation via Connector 5.0.2201 over iSync is crashing after approx. 1800 entries.
As reason why the process ZimbraHelper.app crashes I found out that the process took more than 2GB physical memory (RAM). I assume, that a process on Mac OS-X 10.5.4 cannot take more than 2GB RAM (even thogh more would be available).
What I don't understand is, why ZimbraHelper.app absorbs that much RAM. I understand that synchronising 4500 appointments is requiring a lot of ressources, but it seems to me that it's not possible to do that with the SOAP interface.
I'd be glad for comments to this scenario.
Thank you in advance
- Dan
PS: Please don't give me the advise to switch to CalDAV. I will post a separate problem description when I try to use CalDAV. ;)


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In the Headband Hall of Fame's most high-profile lady baller battle thus far, Maria Sharapova grabbed the biggest win in her comeback to date knocking off World No. 9 and third seed Victoria Azarenka 6-7(4), 6-4, 6-2 in LA's second round.
Apparently, the Russian relished the challenge Vika presented:
I loved it. You expect that against her. She's a great retriever and makes you hits tons of balls. I had to come in with a good game plan and a smart one. I think I did good job adjusting out to the circumstances. I am pleased.
I knew I was going to have to dig deep and try to find ways. I'm pretty happy with the way I was able to hang in with her and really step up when had to. That was the difference between us.
And what of the unexpected third shrieker in the match: the crying baby in the crowd? "Did I hear the baby? My mother in Russia heard the baby," the 3-time Grand Slammer replied.
Sarcastic much? Anyway, great win for Shrieka. This victory should do well for her confidence going forward since Vika is a strong ball striker on the rise and fights to the end. As for the Belarussian, the loss shouldn't hurt her too much since she's playing her first tourney since Wimbledon. She'll have plenty of time to get her game in gear for Flushing Meadow.
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|Memorial Day flags honor military
|Written by Holyoke Enterprise
American flags lined Holyoke's downtown and the cemetery last Monday, May 27 for Memorial Day, but signs of the holiday could be seen all across town.
Jim Gribben's house on South Belford Avenue proudly displays military flags on Memorial Day. Pictured from left, the flags include the American flag, prisoners of war/missing in action, Coast Guard, Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force. —Enterprise photo
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Game of chance
Gravel crunches underfoot as Corky Powers prowls the midway. In less than 24 hours, the Big Butler Fair will open. Off to one side, The Claw will beckon daredevils. On the other, the spinning teacups will spill childrens laughter. They are two of more than 40 rides he has brought here, their chrome and fresh paint sparkling in the haze that blurs the hills and vales of western Pennsylvania farm country. Storms are forecast.
Thats not good. Fairs need fair weather. Like hovering thunderclouds, Powers overhead looms the rides, some costing half a million dollars or more; the fleet of 47 gleaming white trucks, including 20 semis, parked in a field nearby; the $50,000 payroll he must meet each week, rain or shine. Powers shrugs. If I listened to the weather every day, he says, Id shoot myself.
Scanning the Butler County fairgrounds, 50 miles north of Pittsburgh in the Allegheny foothills, he can picture tomorrows crowd, the first of the 125,000 wholl pour in from Beaver Falls, Slippery Rock, Cherry Valley and other hamlets and towns during its run. Nine days later, the show will close at midnight. By dawn, the midway will be dismantled, loaded on the trucks and rolling toward its next stop, like clockwork. Thats because weve done it so many times.
At 59, Powers has the easy manner of a man who has lived life on the road, weathering setbacks and enjoying successes one town at a time, one fair at a time. His business has grown like that, one ride at a time, from the three he started with in 1980 to the 54 he has now. Theyre housed each winter in a sprawling complex at his headquarters in Burgaw, north of Wilmington in coastal Pender County.
This fair is one of about 3,200 held each year in the U.S. and Canada, according to the Springfield, Mo.-based International Association of Fairs and Expositions. The trade group has more than 2,500 members, including traveling carnivals like Powers Great American Midways, their vendors and the venues they play. His is one of the 10 largest carnivals. And now, after 26 years traveling the circuit, Leslie E. Corky Powers is ready for the big time: the North Carolina State Fair.
Drawing 700,000 to 800,000 people each year, its one of the largest and generally considered the best state fair in the nation. The money is massive. The states take: usually about $9 million, most of it from admission tickets and the fee the midway operator pays to be there. Based on public records and insider estimates, Powers Great American Midways could gross $4 million to $6 million during the fairs nine-day run in October. What kind of margin a midway operator might make, nobody will say.
Livonia, Mich.-based W.G. Wade Shows had the contract last year. I play more state fairs than any other carnival company in North America, says Frank Zaitshik, its president, and nothing I say nothing ever prepared me for playing it. Its like going to the Super Bowl without ever having been there before. Its the closest thing I play to a true state fair. Theres pride in it that you find no other place. Tar Heels come farther from each of the 100 counties in the state stay longer and spend more than anybody else anywhere. And about 40% of those who come ride the rides.
In 2000, Orlando, Fla.-based Strates Shows sold $4.5 million of ride tickets. It had held the midway contract without ever bidding on it since 1948, but with Jim Graham set to retire after 36 years as agriculture commissioner, that would likely change. That year, the Democrats nominated Meg Scott Phipps to succeed him. She possessed a prize political pedigree: Her grandfather had been agriculture commissioner, governor an office her father also held and a U.S. senator.
The N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Affairs runs the fair, and, if she won, she would run the Agriculture Department. In what would turn into the states biggest political scandal in recent history, carnival operators funneled her at least $150,000, ostensibly to pay campaign costs. Some contributions, including those from Powers family, were legal; others were not. Strates would keep the contract another year, but one of her most generous benefactors Monroe Township, N.J.-based Amusements of America got it for 2002.
In October 2003, Phipps sat in Wake County Superior Court while a jury foreman read guilty verdicts against her on five state charges. A few weeks later, she pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to five federal charges. The federal judge fined her $25,000, then sent her away, a marshal leading her off in handcuffs. Shes serving four years in Alderson Federal Prison Camp in West Virginia.
Now, a muggy summer day finds Corky Powers checking last-minute details of the Big Butler Fair, Pennsylvanias biggest. But this falls date in Raleigh will be the biggest of his career, five times the size of his previous biggest, the Mountain State Fair in Asheville in 2004 and 2005, which drew 140,000 people last year. The big time. He can thank Phipps clay feet and, something no carny likes having to rely on, his luck.
As the calendar turns to January 2006, Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler and Wesley Wyatt, who has managed the State Fair since 1997, are frustrated. Neither had been implicated, but the scandal has tainted the 153-year-old event, turning a cherished Tar Heel institution into potential political poison for anyone touching it.
In 2000, Phipps had defeated Troxler by a slim margin of 51% to 49% despite her massive lead in fundraising $1.1 million to his $22,400. But the Republican Guilford County farmer would bounce back in 2004, beating Britt Cobb, whom Democratic Gov. Mike Easley had appointed interim agriculture commissioner after Phipps resigned. Even that had been controversial. Cobb had waited three months to concede while lawyers battled over some 4,000 ballots that had been lost in Carteret County.
Drawing Powers name from a cup, the agriculture commissioner made him an offer: Take it or leave it.
In her brief tenure, Phipps had broken not only the law but tradition by throwing open the fair contract to bids. Many, including most in the carnival industry, thought it was an overdue step in the right direction. But instead of paying the state a percentage of the take on rides, games and concessions, operators now have to pay a fixed fee for each person who comes through the gate, with the high bidder getting the contract.
Strates won it in 2003 by agreeing to pay $6.50 per ticket holder. It wont comment, but rivals say that was too much in effect, it was trying to buy back the business it had held so long. The next year, Reithoffer Shows, based in Gibsonton, Fla., got it with a bid of $5.811/2 per person. In 2005, Wade Shows won with $5.911/2. I made some money, Zaitshik says, but it certainly wasnt a fair rate of return on $30 million worth of equipment and considering the vulnerability of the weather.
Troxler and Wyatt have a revolt on their hands. Fred Rosen, president of Los Angeles-based North American Midway Entertainment, has told them they are in the process of killing the fair by demanding that operators pay too much. Another new wrinkle: Starting this year, the con- tract will be for three years rather than one. By early January, only one bid has come in: Wade Shows offers $3 per head, barely half what it had paid a year earlier. That wasnt acceptable, says Brian Long, an Agriculture Department spokesman. It wasnt even close. So Troxler and Wyatt cook up an alternative.
Late Tuesday afternoon, Jan. 17, Troxler calls Wyatt and counsel David McCloud to his office. Its either this his plan or the department has to start cobbling together its own midway, calling on numerous operators to provide rides. The fair typically has more than 100. Nobody barks, Step right up, but Ag officials are about to operate their own game of chance. They scribble the names of five prequalified carnivals North American, Strates, Wade, Reithoffer and Powers Great American on scraps of paper that Troxler folds and drops in a red plastic cup Wyatt has found.
They had calculated that $5.50 a head would be fair, betting one of the five would break ranks to pay it. That fee would earn the state $3.5 million to $4 million, maybe more. They throw in a couple of sweeteners. The state would knock off 10 cents each for up to two new blockbuster rides brought in to goose the gate, which could cut the fee to $5.30. And the operator wont have to pay the fee for the thousands who get in free on Military Day. No negotiations. The first to accept the terms would win the contract.
But who gets first crack at it? The commissioner held the cup above his head, reached in and pulled out a name, Wyatt says. Its late in the day. Theyll start calling the next morning in the order that the names are drawn. Written on the first slip: Powers Great American Midways.
The ascending winter sun finds Powers winding through the Pennsylvania mountains on his way to a meeting of that states county-fair association in Hershey. His cell phone rings. Corky, he blurts in his clipped accent. Interference jumbles the connection. Troxler ... North Carolina ... fair contract ... Its 9:30 a.m.
Powers calls back 15 minutes later when he finds a stronger signal. Troxler spells out the terms. You have one hour to let us know. If the answer is no, we go to the next name. We werent trying to be ugly to the carnivals or trying to pressure them, Wyatt says. We were prepared to go through this all day. But we just wanted to get the job done. The clock begins ticking. At 10:25, Powers calls back. The answer is yes.
Its the morning of opening day of the Big Butler Fair, six months later. Dew sparkles on Corky Powers rides. The gates will open at 1. A loudspeaker from one of the rides sputters, then zydeco bursts forth. Ma tite fille ... Its bouncy, happy music midway music but in the $300,000 motor home that is Powers mobile office and command center, staff members wince. Jeez, one grumbles, weve heard that a thousand times.
Powers is at home here, north of the Mason-Dixon Line and east of Lake Erie. His parents, grandparents and great-grandparents all worked the fairs of western New York, operating food concessions, games and all the old carnival stuff you saw 50 years ago. Born and reared in Rochester, he went to work for Caterpillar after graduating from high school in 1966, rising to service manager of the forklift division there. Buying three rides in 1980, he worked them part time and, by 1984, figured he had to choose between Cat and the carnival. It was easy. This takes a certain breed, he says, squinting into the morning sun. You learn to love it. Its in our hearts.
Powers joined a new breed of carnies. Fairs, as markets for merchandise and commodities, date to ancient Rome and, in North Carolina, to the Colonial era. Though the emphasis was on trade, socializing and agricultural and homemaking competitions, even early fairs offered carnival attractions such as sideshows as well as drinking, gambling, brawling and other less savory diversions. By the turn of the century, the modern midway, combining food, rides, shows and games, began taking shape, spurred by the introduction of the Ferris wheel at the Worlds Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893.
Carnivals, traveling from fair to fair, provided a kind of excitement found nowhere else, an exotic, if fleeting, once-a-year escape from the humdrum of rural life. In doing so, they changed the nature of the events themselves. The North Carolina State Fair, more than most, maintains its rustic roots. But by the latter half of the 20th century, it, like the state, no longer was the refuge of rubes. The hootchy-kootchy and freak shows that had supplemented the apple-pie and handmade-quilt competitions were, in turn, supplanted by the mechanical marvels of the new midway.
If all the N.C. State Fair had now was a livestock show, you can bet it wouldnt be attracting 700,000 visitors, says Max Willis, chief operating officer of the fair association. Its the same with fairs, large and small, all across the country. Its no longer the only show in town. The rides have to be faster and more exciting. Most people can get to a theme park in a couple of hours, so the bigger, the better. Fairs that cant compete die, as scores have nationwide. The Caswell County Fair closed last year after attracting only about 2,000 people over five days.
This change means Powers has to run a business that in many ways resembles the old carny life of his forebears about as much as derivatives trading does tarot-card reading. Not only is it labor- and capital-intensive, but he must be a master of logistics and the most minute detail, any of which might make the difference between riches and ruin. And nobody can control the weather. He has 85 people on his payroll and close to 200 subcontractors who run games and other attractions. When the show is on the road, he is effectively mayor, CEO and ringmaster. He estimates his investment in equipment and rides conservatively, and the figure has to be pried out of him at well over $10 million. We accumulated equipment on an annual basis. At first, we couldnt compete for a lot of the hundred-year-old East Coast fairs, but when it started to happen, it was almost like a whirlwind. We began getting great locations.
Powers began working Tar Heel fairs in 1988, the states mild spring and fall allowing him to stretch his season. In 1993, he and partner Bob Gillis bought 20 acres in Burgaw and moved their headquarters there. He bought out Gillis three years later and moved his own family to Wilmington in 1997. More than a dozen relatives, including his three sons and daughter, followed. All of his children and their spouses work with him, as does his wife, who also is his business partner.
Its not the old carny life. Some wont travel with us, Powers says, because they think we have too many rules.
In Burgaw, 15 employees toil year-round in four shops with more than 12,000 square feet, rebuilding and maintaining rides and other equipment. That allows him to minimize capital costs. Though he pays $1,000 a day for $10 million of insurance, none of his rides ever has been involved in a fatal accident. About four years ago, a suicidal Jacksonville man leaped from a gondola ride 60 feet in the air. I thought he was dead, Powers says. He lived, and his family sued us. They lost.
Jonathan Brooks, who heads the N.C. Department of Labor division that inspects rides, says Powers Great American gets cited less than the average for carnivals. Their winter quarters are here in North Carolina, so when he strips them down, they call us and ask if we want to come and look. They bend over backwards to cooperate.
The carnival begins its circuit in Eastern North Carolina in March, then heads north to spend the summer in Virginia, Maryland, New York and Pennsylvania before returning to North Carolina in the fall. Especially during the first half of his season, before the big county and regional fairs, he splits the carnival into the Light Blue and Dark Blue units to play smaller venues, including community festivals and shopping centers.
At the Big Butler Fair, theyre back together. Scores of motor homes and trailers occupy a shady grove behind the midway. Lawn chairs sprawl; grills smoke. In a small trailer on the back of the lot, with an American flag on the door and crayon drawings on the walls, children of carnival workers go to a school that travels with the show.
This is not the carnival of old, staffed by scruffy drifters scarier than the haunted-house ride. On the midway, all personnel wear yellow golf shirts embroidered with a Powers Great American Midways logo and an ID tag. They cant smoke. The number of tattoos and body piercings they can bare is limited. No dangling earrings for men or women. Some wont travel with us because they think we have too many rules, Powers says.
His labor cost will rise this fall in Raleigh. Last year, Wade Shows, which usually employs about 300, had to boost its payroll to 1,000, straining its capacity to find help. The answer for us, Zaitshik says, was foreign workers. With fuel prices soaring, its expensive to move equipment hundreds of miles each week and then keep running it after setting up. That cost, too, will skyrocket in October. At the State Fair, instead of running four electric generators as usual, well be running 25, Powers says. I know for a fact the fuel bill there last year was for $121,000.
To get the 20-cent discount on his head fee, Powers will bring two new rides to the fair The Twister and Freak Out. Such rides, usually imported from Europe, cost at least $500,000 each. Hell have to make the bulk of his revenue at $3.50 to $4.50 a clip, the typical price of a ride ticket. Hell tap other carnival companies for help staging the midway and augmenting the number of rides. Wade Shows will be a major subcontractor, paying Powers Great American for the privilege.
Powers also will become temporary landlord for scores of vendors, from civic clubs selling ham biscuits to traveling games. Their rent will vary, depending on location and size. A 20-foot balloon-game trailer, for instance, might command $6,000 or more for the nine-day fair. There will be as many as 150 concessions.
As the summer heat starts to build in Pennsylvania, Powers checks his midway. Well have 100-plus rides in Raleigh. Thats double this one. But we can do it. Well make money. Im sure of that. His walkie-talkie crackles.
The gates open. Cars drive in. Under the tin roof of the exhibition shed, women of the Butler County Grange sell cookbooks. The Ferris wheel turns slowly. At Hogway Speedway, a speaker blares Salty Dog Blues. Two dozen spectators watch Brant Cook, a subcontractor from Catawba County, start his first pig race of the day, the pigs bearing names and numbers of NASCAR drivers. The North Carolina State Fair, the big time for Corky Powers, is months off. In Pennsylvania, the skies look threatening, but his luck holds. It doesnt rain.


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This is an incredible "map" of the satellites orbiting Earth.
It is just a representation, but I thought it was good idea fodder. It is from NASA picture of the day.
Bill Stickers is innocent! It isn't Bill's fault that he was hanging out in the wrong place.
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I didn't want to see this. Now I'm gonna go all paranoid.
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Very nice. Of course you paranoid people do realize that 95% of those sats are commercial and scientific right?
I'm more afraid of big commercial interests then the good ol' Kingdom of Sweden watching my ass. SÄPO (swedish security service) would do a good job in an old keystone flick.
Did you know they actually let hard time convicts go on "R&R" here? They have two officers with them, but if they go home to a wife or girlfriend the officers stay outside?
One of our most famous spies escaped with his wife to USSR via finland on such an occasion.
That's a whole lotta "space junk"
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Because amateur astro guys have some pretty impressive scopes and CCD's these days they tend to see the old spy sats. They are making many materials which are really black now. Really black as in virtually no light comes off of them in a wide spectrum. I saw only this week some researchers using a sort of fur made of nano tubes which have the same effect as moth eyeballs - the ultimate stealth creatures.
You should get a clear black night about an hour after end of sunset and look up. It takes just a few seconds to see commercial satellites all over the place. I have tried taking photos of the ISS tho and thats a whopper and I cant do it without making it look like a big streak.
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I've also read the criticism of that diagram's misrepresentation of data, specifically, while each dot represents one piece of debris, each dot (at the scale drawn) occupied 100's of kilometers square in space, leading one to feel we are enshrouded by debris.
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City Council may award a contract by this September
June 26, 2013
Six firms remain in the running to help Wheeling leaders craft a plan to guide them into the next decade, as members of a steering committee on Tuesday narrowed down a pool of nine applicants seekin......
The Mother of all Plans -WNHAC- cost millions. Nothing of merit has emerged as planned. The only beneficiaries of all the plans have been the out of town planning companies. They have done very well. One exception was Aderholt who was paid hundreds of thousands to pursue the Downtown Outlet Mall; although he had no commercial experience. Not one tenant was ever signed.
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Well, as you can clearly see by this graph, we have a plan to drive people out of the city and make those carry overs disappear by building needless sports complexes and undeserved raises for overpaid city managers.
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An idiot with a broom could implement Wheeling's most basic master plan one sweep at a time.
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Three words.
More. Decorative. Tarps.
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Why does the City of Wheeling need to hire a "Planning Firm" ro help them decide what to do with empty lots?
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How about posting the 1997 plan so we can refresh our memory and compare the plan to the outcome 15 years later! $100,000 in CDBG (federal tax payers) money could be used for something constructive.....
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Every now and then, you see something on the internet that just makes you stop and go "yay!" Such is the case with these neato photos by artist Wilma Hurskainen, who gathered her three sisters together to recreate family photos that their dad took of them when they were little for a series called "Growth." This is one of those great art projects that functions well on a conceptual level as well as a purely visual one; you can ponder Wilma's artist's statement at the same time that you're having fun picking out little details. I especially like this part of her statement:
I have always been very attracted by the photograph´s ability to cross time and create this kind of comparisons. There is something sad, almost tragic, about looking at old photographs compared to new ones and seeing how people and things have changed or grown up. After all, it is said that time has been accepted as a common means of measuring life because people are not able nor willing to see the change in themselves. In the pictures it seems as if we were trying to go back to our childhood by adopting the same position towards each other and the photographer´s/spectator´s gaze but we unavoidably fail. We have to fail – there is no return in time.
This is very true. Enjoy!
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A Beautiful Mind
|Release Date: December 21, 2001
|Running Time: 134 mins.
|MPAA Rating: PG 13
|Box Office: $170,708,996.00
|Genre: Adaptation, Biopic, Drama
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Summary:From the heights of notoriety to the depths of depravity, John Forbes Nash, Jr. experiences it all. A mathematical genius, he made an astonishing discovery early in his career and stood on the brink of international acclaim. But the handsome and arrogant Nash soon found himself on a painful and harrowing journey of self-discovery once he was diagnosed with schizophrenia. After many years of struggle, he eventually triumphed over this tragedy, and finally, late in life, received the Nobel Prize.


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He's a motivator and a winner with the heart of a warrior. Josh Cranfill is this month's "2 Those Who Care" recipient. For several years, Josh has been the steam behind the Western Alamance High School football team. At each game you can find him on the sidelines pushing the team to victory. Josh has Spinal Muscular Atrophy and has been in a wheelchair since he was two years old. But his love for football has inspired him to spend every moment he can working to help the football team. They consider him an assistant coach and say he's the one they count on to be there for the rough and tumble of the game.
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Load your Rome Vagabond Duffel Bag with enough clothes and snacks to get you through a week (or other undetermined length of time), strap your skateboard to the top, and haul all that travel-ready goodness to the airport. There's even room for all those things you don't need like your wallet (since it's empty now) and your car keys (since you sold your car to pay for airfare). The adjustable shoulder strap will come in handy if you end up footing it, and the reinforced carry straps will stand up to serious abuse and high mileage.
- High-denier polyester
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Good value for money
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
a decent gym duffel, packs compact for storage, good enough number of pockets.
if strap was a little wider, it'd be easy to sling onto the shoulder. not good color combinations, cloth on the outer side gives it a regular feel (doesn't matter much to me, but could be of concern to some other folks)
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Not the highest quality, but it's held up so far. red and Romesds so I love it. I've been looking for a basic duffel just like this.
A great bag
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
This bag is fantastic for the price. I use it every weekend and it has yet to fail me.
What are the dimensions? In inches? Length,...
What are the dimensions? In inches? Length, width, and height? Seems like pretty basic info that would be provided.
The pack is a 19 x 10 inch cylinder.


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I have make a migration from my Centos 5.8 ZCS 7.2.1 to Centos 6 ZCS 8.0.1 over the way, that i install on Centos 6 first the ZCS 7.2.1 and copy then /opt/zimbra from old server to new server, and after them i upgrade the ZCS 7 to ZCS 8. So everything is working fine, but i have not the new original Theme from ZCS 8 that i see on a fresh installation. Is there something i can do that i can get the new original Theme from ZCS8? And did someone know how the call this theme? i want this new fresh Theme it is nice :), so can someone help me here?


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CLARKSVILLE, Md. (WUSA) -- You can get a free ticket to a Washington Redskins game if you donate blood at the Columbia Gym in Clarksville, Md. on October 12.
According to officials, the Redskins and the American Red Cross are hosting a blood drive from noon to 7 p.m. that day at 6151 Daylong Lane.
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Anybody have any pointers as to where to look for this oddity:
Message arrives, receives a spam score of -1.909, required is set to default 6.6, yet the message subject gets the SPAM flag added...
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This message itself is clearly not spam, and in fact originates on one of our other mail servers (not this particular instance of Zimbra.) I have confirmed that the previous server is *not* flagging this message - it occurs on this instance of ZCS.
It would be one thing to go searching if the score showed a spammy message, but in this case it is clearly ham at that stage too, so I'm a bit lost. Interestingly, this appears to be the only user whose messages get flagged this way...
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Hello, Guild!
I've been reading here for a while, as a guest. After using a few tutorials from other sites that linked back here, I thought I should sign up and say hi and thanks to those who helped me out. Of course, an account is an obvious choice for me because I've explored the forums before and I absolutely love making maps!
I'm a fantasy writer and reader. I have self-published the first book in a set of 5, and am hard at work on the 2nd. Book 1 is called Shadow Glyph and can be found on Amazon! For more info, check out my website.
I spend a lot of time world-building using a variety of prompts, questions, tutorials, etc (not all of it is making maps, I do a lot of conceptual & cultural construction too). Most of this work is for future projects, as my 5 book series is quite locked down in terms of world. In particular, I have begun a massive undertaking that I plan to construct in great depth over the next 5-10 years before writing anything in it. I'm still in the groundwork stages of this world: I've got the physical/continental geography and map done but am still working on broad concepts and have not yet narrowed in on regional maps. For this project, I used a2area's Israh Tutorial and was amazed by the results.
That's a pretty good summary of my interests and recent tasks. I look forward to sharing some of my mapping endeavors with others that enjoy them too, and maybe even getting some helpful tips along the way!


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Please find enclosed the preliminary translation of the Administrator interface. Many thanks to Pascal Montagne, he contributed half of the translation.
The tar file should be expanded under /opt/zimbra/apache-tomcat-5.5.15/webapps/zimbraAdmin/WEB-INF/classes/msgs.
ZMsg and AjxMsg are the same as for the regular interface.
Observer that the *_fr* files are soft links to the *_fr_FR* files. In principle only the *_fr* files are needed to automatically use French if the browser language is French, but I include both file names just in case.
Remember to restart Zimbra and empty the cache of your browser before testing.
If it doesn't work and you don' t need multi-language support, just copy the *fr_FR* files over the English files.
If you have problems downloading the attachment (it takes some time for approval), you can download it from http://files.whitehatmail.fr/ with user "invite" password "invite".


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A rematch and title fight pitting Sengoku middleweight champion Jorge Santiago (22-8 MMA, 6-1 SRC) against Kazuo Misaki (22-10-2 MMA, 3-2 SRC) is in the works and expected to be part of World Victory Road's Sengoku Raiden Championships 13 event.
A source close to the negotiations told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) that at least one competitor has signed for the bout, which is expected to be finalized soon.
Sengoku Raiden Championships 13 takes place June 20 at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo.
The star-studded event, which is expected to air in North America on HDNet, also features a title fight between featherweight champ Masanori Kanehara and Marlon Sandro.
Santiago and Misaki first fought in January 2009. The fight materialized after Santiago won the 2008 Sengoku middleweight grand prix. He then pushed his win streak to nine fights by scoring a come-from-behind fifth-round submission victory over Misaki. The Japanese fighter refused to tap from the rear-naked choke and went unconscious before the referee halted the fight.
After that title win, Santiago fought highly regarded Polish competitor Mamed Khalidov in a non-title fight. Khalidov extended his undefeated streak to 18 fights and stopped Santiago via first-round TKO at Sengoku Raiden Championships 11 in November.
However, in an immediate rematch in which the belt was up for grabs, Santiago avenged the defeat and stopped Khalidov via unanimous decision at Sengoku Raiden Championships 12 in Match.
Santiago now meets Misaski, who's 1-1 since the loss to Santiago. Misaki, who was once ranked as one of the world's top-10 middleweight fighters while competing in PRIDE Fighting Championships, rebounded for a technical-submission win over Kazuhiro Nakamura in August but then suffered a dramatic TKO loss to striker Melvin Manhoef in December.
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Lady Gaga has gone nude for the cover of her new album, "ARTPOP."
The pop superstar commissioned celebrated artist Jeff Koons to create a sculpture of herself for the project's artwork, and the finished product was unveiled on Monday.
The cover features a blonde-wigged Gaga sitting with her legs spread open around a large, mirror-polished blue ball as she covers her breasts with her hands.
Sharing the image on her Twitter.com page, the singer writes, "FULL ARTPOP ALBUM COVER.'One second I'm a Koons, then suddenly the Koons is me!'".
The sculpture itself is set to be displayed as part of a special art show celebrating the November release of ARTPOP.
The "Applause" hitmaker is no stranger to stripping off – she's previously disrobed for numerous fashion photo shoots and went completely naked for a promo video for performance artist Marina Abramovic this summer.


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I'm a bolivian citizen currently living in Bolivia until November 6th at which point I will join my family in Norway. The Norwegian visa application has been approved, I hold a Schengen visa (already stamped on my passport) to enter Norway and I am supposed to stop by the authorities having jurisdiction in Norway to get the permanent visa stamped on my passport upon arrival.
I will arrive to the UK via Heathrow and will be in transit for 2 hours before I board my flight to Oslo on the same day.
I also have a 10-year tourist visa to the US. Will I need a visa to pass through the UK? If so, which one?


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Kengo Kuma's Xinjin Zhi Museum Has a Pretty and Practical Perforated Facade
The Xinjin Zhi Museum is located at the foot of Laojunshan mountain in Xinjin and serves to usher people to the holy place of Taoism. Dedicated to the religion of Taoism, the design of the museum shows the essence of Taoism through its space and exhibitions.
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A new TV sitcom produced by basketball star LeBron James and "Glee" actor Mike O'Malley has been given the green light by bosses at Starz network.
The Miami Heat forward, along with his longtime friend and business partner Maverick Carter, "The Cosby Show" producer Tom Werner, and O'Malley will serve as executive producers on the project, titled "Survivor's Remorse."
O'Malley, who has previously written for the TV series Shameless, will also pen the script.
The half-hour comedy is loosely based on James' own rise to fame, as it follows the lives of two friends, one of whom is a basketball star, and how their relationships with friends and family change with their success.
The series has been picked up for six episodes and will debut next autumn, according to Deadline.com.


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WASHINGTON – D.C. police are investigating a triple shooting on Eastern Avenue that occurred Thursday evening.
Additionally, a D.C. police cruiser collided with another vehicle while responding to the incident, sending two officers to the hospital.
The shootings happened just before 7 p.m. near the corner of Taylor and 22nd streets NE.
D.C. police say the victims included a man and two male juveniles. They were taken to a local hospital but their conditions weren't immediately known.
The car crash occurred when a police cruiser carrying two officers collided with another vehicle just before 7 p.m. at the corner of South Dakota Avenue and 26th Street NE.
One officer was trapped and had to be taken to a local hospital. The other suffered minor injuries.
The information about injuries to passengers of the other vehicle was not immediately available.
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Mother Jones Publishes Koch Brothers Secret Meeting Guest List
February 5, 2014
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There's one main rule at the conservative donor conclaves held twice a year by Charles and David Koch at luxury resorts: What happens there stays there.The billionaire industrialists and their political operatives strive to ensure the anonymity of the wealthy conservatives who fund their sprawling political operationwhich funneled more than $400 million into the 2012 electionsand to keep their plans private. Attendees of these summits are warned that the seminars, where the Kochs and their allies hatch strategies for electing Republicans and advancing conservative initiatives on the state and national levels, are strictly confidential; they are cautioned to keep a close eye on their meeting notes and materials. But last week, following the Kochs' first donor gathering of 2014, one attendee left behind a sensitive document at the Renaissance Esmeralda resort outside of Palm Springs, California, where the Kochs and their comrades had spent three days focused on winning the 2014 midterm elections and more. The document lists VIP donorsincluding John Schnatter, the founder of the Papa John's pizza chainwho were scheduled for one-on-one meetings with representatives of the political, corporate, and philanthropic wings of Kochworld. The one-page document, provided to Mother Jones by a hotel guest who discovered it, offers a fascinating glimpse into the Kochs' political machine and shows how closely intertwined it is with Koch Industries, their $115 billion conglomerate.http://www.motherjones.com/politics/...medium=twitter
The more than 40 donors courted by the Kochs include hedge fund and private-equity billionaires, real estate tycoons, and executives of top corporations, including Jockey International and TRT Holdings, owner of Omni Hotels and Gold's Gym. A number of them have never been identified as members of the Koch donor network, including Schnatter, one of the more prominent names on the list. An outspoken opponent of the Affordable Care Act, he is a longtime Republican donor who hosted a fundraiser for Mitt Romney's presidential campaign. The document notes that the pizza mogul was scheduled to meet with Ryan Stowers, the director of higher education at the Charles G. Koch Foundation. (Schnatter did not respond to requests for comment.)
The left column are the guests (note John "Papa" Schnatter). The middle "players" column are the Koch employees these guests are slated to meet with "1-on-1". Where is David Koch? Was he not feeling well? Lolz
Anyway, this is kind of a big deal, as these forty lizard people in the left column had hoped they would remain anonymous. Please check out the Mother Jones link, as it contains brief descriptions of everyone on the page:


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Workers from the state's Department of Transportation are building a fence in the center median of Hempstead Turnpike, approximately 1,000 feet long, between Carman and Franklin avenues.
The fence's installation, which began last week, is part of a safety-improvement initiative along the entire 16-mile Hempstead Turnpike corridor. The fence, directly in front of the Nassau University Medical Center — an area where there are no crosswalks, and widespread jaywalking is an ongoing problem — is expected to be completed by the end of January, said Jennifer Post, a spokeswoman for the DOT.
While East Meadow homeowners who live near the turnpike agree that by discouraging jaywalking, the fence can only improve safety, its installation has raised concerns about access for emergency vehicles, and about its aesthetics. And the project has angered residents who live south of the turnpike, who claim that it does nothing to solve a problem that has plagued their community for more than a year — the lack of parking.
In 2011, East Meadow resident Yvonne Amato, along with several homeowners near the turnpike, began a campaign to request residential signage on streets south of Hempstead Turnpike. They say that for almost two years, NUMC employees have parked their cars on residential streets, crowding their neighborhoods and even blocking their driveways — and the addition of a fence will do nothing to solve their problems.
After circulating a petition and collecting 82 signatures, Amato said that a bill, currently being written by Town of Hempstead Attorney Charles Kovit and State Assemblyman Tom McKevitt, would require permit parking on residential streets and prevent NUMC employees from parking on them.
"The fence will deter people from crossing in the middle. And it will save lives," said Amato, who has lived on 1st Street for 31 years. "But we still have the problem of people parking in our neighborhood."
Amato and John Nikiel, who lives one block south of Hempstead Turnpike, both expressed their fear that the fence is a precursor to a crosswalk to be installed in the area. However, Post said that there are no plans to add any crosswalk or traffic signal within the fenced area. Still, Nikiel said, "It just feels to me that it's not the right solution to the problem."
Improving safety on the turnpike
The Hempstead Turnpike safety initiative commenced last spring, said Post, and includes the remarking and widening of crosswalks along the roads, the addition of new features to pedestrian crossing buttons — they light up when pushed — and the retiming of traffic signals to increase pedestrian crossing times.
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Nice! I have actually been to that exact temple during my travels!
Hello everybody,
I'm looking for a battlemap for an upcoming D&D game. Actually I feel awful making my first post here a request, but I've spent so long looking for something like this and I'm just not enough of a mapmaker to do it myself u_u; I admire the skill base here tremendously, so I hope that somebody will please consider the idea. I'm trying to be as liberal as possible with requirements, because I really hope that any cartographer who takes the request will also be able to get something out of it <:)
(Note: If you know of a map like this that already exists, that would also be just super :D I looked around for quite some time, but of course I wasn't able to check everywhere. So, please go ahead and link it if you do, and I shall apologise for wasting everybody's time >3>; )
If possible, I would like to have the map by the beginning of December, when the game starts.
What I am hoping for is a D&D style tactical map, depicting a typical western-style fantasy city street, which has been suddenly overrun by huge plants. Though the buildings are just like they were last night, the forest should look like it has been there forever; something, as yet unknown, has caused an ancient forest to spring up overnight.
For visuals, think shade canopy, giant root structures crawling over the roofs and digging through the cobblestones, that sort of idea. Something like these beautiful giants: (example 1, example 2, example 3), except the buildings beneath would be residences in a fantasy town, not ancient temples. I don't have a specific street structure in mind, so you could arrange it how you liked as long as there's enough room for the PCs to move around (so streets should be 10' wide at least). Please feel free to be creative with the scene - you could partially collapse some walls, block off some paths with vegetation, add tents/stalls, or whatever else interests you.
It doesn't need to be super-realistic; in fact, I prefer a somewhat stylised approach (I'm kind of in love with Torstan's battlemaps (link)). However, since this is a free request I realise I'm lucky to get whatever I get, so I'm not about to complain if a cartographer uses any style they please. It would really be excellent if it was in colour though.
It would be excellent to get a print-sized map, but the game is online, so a low-res version perfectly good (I don't want to push my luck ^_^;). If you haven't dealt with them before, printed D&D battlemaps use a 1" square grid, 1" = 5' scale. The program I am using for the game uses a 64px grid, but bigger is fine; I can happily scale down the final result.
To be large enough for a combat scene, the map will probably need to be somewhere between about 12*18 and 20*25 squares. Exact dimensions are not a concern, so once again, that depends on whatever works best for the cartographer.
I have no intention to publish the map or make any profit from it. You keep the copyright, and I would absolutely love for you to publish/sell the map yourself. If you normally do professional work, you can even publish it to RPGNow (or wherever) and ask me to buy my own copy. Since I can't pay a proper commission fee, I would really like for anybody who takes the request to be able to make money out of it themselves.
I think I can't receive private messages yet, so please reply here, email bitemegraphics(at)gmail(dot)com, or contact me on deviantArt (link) if you have ay questions.
Thank you all for your time, I really appreciate your consideration :)
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Beth and Ted Gaines are Placer's new power couple at the Capitol
By: Gus Thomson, Journal Staff Writer
Republican Beth Gaines of Roseville was sworn in Thursday as the new District 4 assemblywoman. Gaines' oath of office also marks the start of a new and unique era in Placer and El Dorado county politics, with a husband-and-wife team serving concurrently in the Senate and Assembly at the state Capitol. While Ted Gaines has taken a workmanlike route to state office, including a stint on the Placer County Board of Supervisors, his wife of 25 years, Beth Gaines, was a surprise ballot entry in January but a winner in the May 3 special election runoff. Beth Gaines was sworn in at the start of the morning session of the state Assembly on Thursday by Speaker John Perez. She succeeds Ted Gaines, who was elected District 1 state senator in January and vacated his seat to take office. The Gaineses will be the third married couple to serve concurrently in the state Legislature. The first were Republican Sen. George Runner and Assemblywoman Sharon Runner, who first held office together in 2004, representing a section of Los Angeles County. The Ventura County-area's Tony and Audra Strickland have also since served concurrently. State Sen. Doug La Malfa, R-Richvale, said that having both Beth and Ted Gaines in the Legislature is going to be a plus, given both their strong support of business and job creation. "It works out great – it's certainly not unheard of," La Malfa said. "Beth is going to bring a very commonsense message in a time of fiscal crisis. She worked in the family business and served at Ted's side. She's pretty much trained and ready to go once she gets her feet wet." Ted Gaines said Monday that he and his wife will have offices in the same building in Roseville as well as the Capitol. The State Office of the Assembly kept the lease on Gaines's old Assembly office in Roseville and Beth Gaines will move in soon after her swearing in. While the two share strong Republican ties, Ted Gaines said his wife and future Placer-to-Sacramento commuting partner will be acting independently in the Legislature. "She'll bring her own viewpoints," Ted Gaines said. "I know she's going to do a great job." Beth Gaines was in intensive Legislative training this week, taking a crash course in a variety of topics, including how floor sessions work and ethics. During the campaign, Beth Gaines faced criticism for her relative lack of experience. She has never served in an elected office and her closest rival, Roseville City Councilman John Allard, challenged her on her business credentials, questioning how much of a role she played as a marketing consultant for Ted Gaines's Point West Insurance. Gaines described questions about her lack of experience as a non-issue. She cited her knowledge of the district through working with her husband, being part of a small business in District 1 for 25 years, and raising six children in the district. On the education front, Gaines said three of her children are now utilizing public schools, five of the six have attended public schools, her children have attended private schools and she home-schooled them in their early years. "I've been blessed by this district and now it's my time to give back," Beth Gaines said. Cheryl Bly-Chester, a Republican who finished fourth in the March 8 primary, said she has spoken with Beth Gaines several times since that election. She too said Beth Gaines should do a fine job. "She's listening and not at all resistant to my ideas on controlling over-regulation," Bly-Chester said. "I'm encouraged by that." Roseville's Rob Matthews, who also lost to Gaines in the March 8 special election primary, said the only "minus" he feels the new Assemblywoman will have to overcome is stepping out from behind her husband's shadow. "I think she's going to do a really great job with the support she has," Matthews said. "I was one of the first to congratulate her. As a Republican, I always want to support Republican candidates." On the issues Sen. Ted Gaines, R-Roseville, District 1 Tax extension Californians pay among the highest taxes in the country and we can't keep forcing them to dig deeper to support an overgrown government. Lower tax rates stimulate economic expansion and job growth and that is the path California should follow. Education funding Right now only 60 percent of our education dollars make their way into the classroom. I want to cut bureaucracy and make sure that our teachers and the students they teach are getting the resources we invest, not layer after layer of administration. Business A group of CEO's just ranked California as the worst place to do business – for the 7th year in a row. We need to cut red tape that frustrates businesses and lower taxes to provide incentives for job creators to expand here. Prison overcrowding Public safety is government's highest priority and we need to make sure that people who have victimized Californians pay their debt to society. We need to expand our authority to ship prisoners out of state and continue to pursue expanding prison capacity. Early release is not an option. Assemblywoman Beth Gaines, R-Roseville, District 4 Tax extension The Governor's tax plan will put funding for essential programs at greater risk by killing jobs. My Assembly Republican colleagues and I have presented a budget roadmap today that shows we can protect priorities like education and public safety without raising taxes on families and small businesses. 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A central Indiana prosecutor says police have made an arrest in a 20-year-old slaying after DNA taken from the crime scene matched that of a former Indiana man now living in Mississippi.
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Detroit, MI (Sports Network) - For the second time in less than a week Houston
went to overtime, and for the second time, the team pulled out a win. After
missing a 51-yard field goal earlier in the extra session, Shayne Graham
booted a 32-yarder with 2:21 left to give the Houston Texans a thrilling 34-31
win over the Detroit Lions at Ford Field. Last Sunday, Andre Johnson caught a
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attempts while Arian Foster had 20 carries for 102 yards and two scores for
Houston, which has won five straight overall. Matthew Stafford went 31-for-61
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1947 Chevrolet Gets Wipers and Windows - Clear SailingWritten by on August 16, 2010 Project Shop Truck Gets Glass and Wipers
During our last trip to Hot Rods By Dean in Phoenix, the progress on Project Shop Truck had taken a couple of steps forward with the installation of the windshield, rear glass, rubber, and windshield wiper kit.
Project Shop Truck, as you know, is our sister publication STREET RODDER's '47 Chevy pickup project, with work being done at Hot Rods By Dean and progress being recorded right here on these pages. The buildup is unusual in that their traditional-styled '47 Chevy pickup is being built entirely from readily available aftermarket components. Many of the parts, including the wiper kit, came from Chevs of the 40's.
Cutting and installing glass is a specialized skill, which is why rod shops bring in skilled specialists to do it. Hot Rods By Dean relies on Bell Glass Company, located in Phoenix, for many of their project vehicles
Rich Williams from Bell Glass, along with his brother and father, has been doing this for 30 years, and installed the two-piece windshield and rear glass on SR's '47, using glass from JR Distributor International and rubber from SoffSeal. That said let's take a look at what was going on during our last trip out to Phoenix.
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The first step in installing the windshield was working the rubber gasket over the edge of the glass, maintaining tension around the perimeter to ensure a good seal. This requires a little more effort on a two-piece windshield, but not much.This hook tool was helpful for fitting the glass inside the rubber molding. Rich also used it when he installed the rear glass.Rich used the hook tool to work a length of rope into the channels between the rubber and the glass on both sides of the windshield. The excess rope was taped to the glass to keep it out of the way.Charlie Sullens and Jonathan Williams of Hot Rods By Dean pressed the windshield into place while Rich pulled the rope from inside the truck. As the rope is pulled out around the perimeter, it pulls the rubber channel over the lip of the frame.Rich took the hook tool to the outside of the rubber gasket to make sure he had a proper fit on the exterior.The corner windows of a five-window truck add more work and are a bit trickier because of the compound curves. This glass was installed in the opposite manner from the windshield. The rubber window gasket was installed first and the glass was worked into the rubber. A few shots of silicone lubricant around the rubber molding made this process easier. A lot of careful pounding and finessing was involved, and Rich's hook tool was really paying off. "The guys who did this in the old days were true craftsmen," Rich says. Same goes for the guys who do it now.
The rear window was added the same way as the corner glass: rubber first, then glass. Repro bodies, believe it or not, are not always perfect and sometimes the windows are not a precise fit. This rear glass was a little too tall. Rich took it back to Bell Glass for some grinding and when he brought it back it was just right.Since we have a windshield, we figured we should have windshield wipers. Our New Port Engineering wiper kit from Chevs of the 40's includes this 12V wiper motor, which offers two speeds with park. Jonathan mounted the motor underneath the pickup dash out of the way of the heater hoses and yet to be installed gauges.The motor comes wired to the control knob, which was mounted in the center of the upper dash, where they won't have to hunt for it.Looking up from underneath the dash, you can see where the linkage arm-which moves laterally to control the wiper arm movement-is mounted on the underside of the cowl. You can also see one of the wiper transmission assemblies (arrow) extending through the sheetmetal.From right to left, here is the uninstalled transmission assembly, the chrome transmission bezel, and the octagonal nut that holds the bezel in place.Installing the wiper arms is a simple matter of pressing them onto the splined ends of the transmissions.


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They need to take at least another 25 out of there to make a difference.
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They need to take at least another 25 out of there to make a difference.
If they took all of them out it would take a long time for Lolo to recover to even 1/2 what it was. Still atleast F&G is stepping in and killing some of them.
What a difficult and frustrating subject, I am no expert but at the rate of each breeding pair having 4-7 pups a year I think we are losing the battle. Like you said MM at least they are doing something but is that just a front to try and keep us at bay or is it an honest effort? They killed only 25 wolves in the previous 5 actions and they killed 23 this go-round, hmmm. They better keep loading...
Killing 25 wolves is not as easy as it sounds. Lolo is rugged country with lots of timber and places to hide and Im sure the wolves figure out whats going on pretty fast. 40 wolves total were taken last year and there are probably more they dont know about so thats probably not to bad, its just 15 years to late.....
That makes sense MM, like I said I am no expert on the issue but I do know it is extremely political and we all know how those things go. Do you feel Idaho is good at management? I have had a few experiences there as far as dealing with there biologist and I found some of the info when I got boots on the ground to be inaccurate and also ran across a few bitter resident hunters when you talk about game and fish there. I know you can get that anywhere but it seems like there are a decent number of states much better at management. I have and will continue to hunt there but just curious on your thoughts or experience??
I think the biggest problem is F&G had their hands tied for so long with the wolves on the endangered list and they couldnt start to manage them at the right time and I think they have been blamed for alot of things they had no control over. They have made some fairly aggressive moves to control wolves since they have been off the endangered list but every time they do anything there are a bunch of lawsuits and I think they want to do more but are also worried about them getting back on the endangered list if they get to aggressive too. So basically there hands are still tied, just not as tight as they were.
Guys i deleted the other threads on this. No need for three separate conversations on the same subject.
I see MM. Thanks for some facts.
I sure would like to put one down!
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