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Oct 2015 - $33.00
The clerk led us to our campsite via a golf cart. The site is fairly tight with about 2 feet of space on each end of our 36' motor home and tow. The roads are gravel and fairly narrow, but we were able to navigate easily enough. There is no wifi or cable. We were able to pull in several TV stations using our antenna and we had an adequate Verizon wireless signal (better data signal than voice). There is a very nice and clean dog run. The park is well maintained and clean. There is little road noise as the park is quite a distance from any major roadway. We overnighted here while traveling south on I-57. We would overnight here again. - Dale07
Aug 2015 - $40.00
We stayed at this KOA in August as we were visiting friends in the area. The KOA is close to I-55 and is convenient to Chicago (approximately 1-hour north). The Kankakee River State Park is nearby where one can rent horses and go horseback riding on the trails. Entrance/exit to this KOA is tight, so use caution. Interior roads are dirt and the campground workers were working on interior road improvements while we were there. Hopefully the interior roads are better now. The park is small and the sites are rather close together, not all that level, but are long for big-rigs/toads. Amenities offered are fire rings, Wi-Fi, garbage pick-up at site, swimming pool, playground, basketball and volleyball courts, laundry room, propane filling station, restrooms, and game room. Staff at this KOA are awesome! We stayed here for a total of 4-nights in our Class A motorhome. - The Diesel Gypsies
Jul 2015 - $33.00
This KOA is located well off the beaten path and was probably the best value KOA we found during this year's travel season. It is an older park, with a mixture of site amenities (Full Hook-up, Water/Electric, "Tent"). Interior gravel roads are a little tight and you have to be careful for trees and limbs. We arrived after a very rainy spell and there were huge puddles and soft spots in the roads near the office, but more gravel was spread while we were there. The sites are simple but reasonably spaced. We were able to (barely) get our large motorhome and towed vehicle into our space without blocking the road. I ended up backing out of our pull-thru for departure, as cars parked in nearby sites made it tough to exit our space. WiFi was essentially unusable but we did get a satellite TV signal through the trees and VZW 4G was reasonably strong. There were quite a few perma-rigs but they appeared to be more seasonal campers as opposed to residents and most were kept up. Things were pretty quiet, although I suspect it may be more lively during weekends and better weather. - RvTravelerNTechie


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Lillian Nairn, 76, of Pierson, Iowa, passed away Tuesday, December 1, 2015 at her residence in Pierson. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m. Saturday, December 5, 2015 at Rohde Funeral Home in Kingsley, Iowa with Rev. Len Garrison officiating. Burial will be at the Sunset View Cemetery in Washta, Iowa. Visitation will be Friday, between 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. at Rohde Funeral Home with the family present during this time. www.rohdefh.com

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Store managers said they'd never seen anything like the rush.
Yes, bread, milk and eggs were gone.
But so were fresh fruit, chili ingredients and potatoes.
Shoppers at two stores bought out the staples by early Saturday evening.
The turnout was bigger than on Christmas Eve or the day before Thanksgiving at Main Street Market in Franklin. Those days before a holiday usually bring in twice the 500 to 700 shoppers typical for a Saturday, co-manager Danielle Wood said. The store also ran out of potatoes, ground beef and chili beans, and sold tens of thousands of dollars more in groceries than expected, she said.
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The Invisible Bridge (Vintage Contemporaries) (original 2010; edition 2011)
by Julie Orringer
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The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer (2010)
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A good book but I think it could have been great. I've never read or thought about Hungarians during World War II. For that reason it was a new perspective on a well-written topic.
Much of the writing was beautiful but it did get tiresome at times. I'm not sure Andras had a thought that wasn't detailed. As a result the book was too long. Toward the end I cheered (literally) when time jumped ahead five months between chapters.
The Invisible Bridge begins in 1937 Budapest, on the night before Andras, one of three Jewish brothers, departs for Paris to study architecture. The first third of the book follows Andras and his friends, including the mysterious Klara Morgenstern, an older Hungarian dance teacher. The two quickly fall in love, despite Klara's doubts and her hidden past. As the Nazis start to gain power, Andras and Klara move back to Hungary, trying to find a safe harbor for their new family, even as the German army starts to close in. Given the times and the characters involved, this was destined to be a Holocaust novel. Because the rising threat of Nazism first shows up in small ways , most of the horrors remain in the background for a long time .
Eventually the novel changes to a story of holding on, fighting back, and surviving. Andras is sent to a forced labor camp, first in Subcarpathia, then Transylvania, and later in Ukraine. Rashly, he and a boyhood friend publish a satirical newspaper for the camp. Both of Andras' brothers have also been conscripted into the labor service of the Hungarian Army. Conditions become increasingly oppressive and dangerous for Hungarian Jews as the war advances.
This is a book that takes a while to build interest but it is worthwhile to continue. I had little knowledge of Hungary during the war and the role they played as an ally to Germany. The first part is really a coming of age story and then evolves into a tense account of a family threatened with war and hatred. It's a very powerful and haunting book.
It was a very slow start for me, and after reading 100 pages I was unsure if I wanted to continue. However as my reading progressed, I was drawn further into the story and came to care deeply for Andras Levi, his family and loved ones. Beautifully written novel—haunting and heartbreaking.
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In 1937 Andras Levi, a Hungarian Jew, arrived in Paris with a single suitcase and a scholarship to study architecture. He left behind his parents and two brothers – Tibor, who was saving to attend medical school in Italy, and Matyas, who would leave school to pursue a career as an entertainer. What he found in Paris, however, was the love of his life. The times conspired against the couple – war was on the horizon and past mistakes haunted them. Families were scattered, fortunes spent or confiscated, food was scarce, and yet the familial bonds endured.
Through her writing, Orringer invites the reader into the everyday lives of people who were caught up in historical events of epic proportions. We've all read books (fiction and nonfiction) about the atrocities of war, in particular those committed against the Jews during WW2. Seldom have I read a work that so drew me into the lives of the characters as they go about their business, unaware of the storm brewing. I was reminded of Herman Wouk's Winds of War. I kept checking the time frame wondering when the hammer would fall, because I knew it had to fall. This is an epic romance … an historical novel … a gloriously written testament to the love the author's grandparents had – for each other, for their families, for their friends. It celebrates the courage of individuals, and shames those who took advantage of the weak. And it shines a light on a corner of Europe that has not been written about frequently.
Arthur Morey does a superb job on the audio book. His facility with the many languages – English, French, Hungarian, German, and Italian – lends authenticity and brings the work to life.
"The Invisible Bridge" is a stunning first novel, not just in the manner that Orringer's acclaimed short stories seemed to predict, but in a wholly unexpected fashion. Her short fiction is resolutely contemporary, closely — almost obsessively — observed and firmly situated in the time and place we now inhabit. "The Invisible Bridge," by contrast, is in every admirable sense an "ambitious" historical novel, in which large human emotions — profound love, familial bonds and the deepest of human loyalties — play out against the backdrop of unimaginable cruelty that was the Holocaust.
Ms. Orringer's long, crowded book is its own kind of forest, and not every tree needs to be here; her novel's dramatic power might have been greatly enhanced by pruning. But Andras's most enduring wish, it turns out, is to create a kind of family memorial. And Ms. Orringer, writing with both granddaughterly reverence and commanding authority, has done it for him.
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David Jones & E.R. Klein, Eds., Asian Texts, Asian Contexts: Encounters with Asian Philosophies and Religions
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David Jones & E.R. Klein, eds., Asian Texts, Asian Contexts: Encounters with Asian Philosophies and Religions. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2010. 287 pages.
This is an intelligent volume of quality scholarly essays that, collectively, provide pragmatic pedagogical wisdom on the infusion of Asian studies into college curricula. The biased--yet arguably correct--position of the editors is that Asian thought and practice ought to be an essential part of any college education. Their text reflects this view, providing non-specialists interpretive access to the primary philosophical and religious traditions of India, China, and Japan, along with common and well-tested pedagogical strategies for presenting this material to Western students.
The book is divided into three parts: "Encountering Asian Philosophies and Religions," "Texts," and "Contexts." "Encountering Asian Philosophies and Religions" includes only two essays, but they are both substantial contributions, written by prolific scholars of Asian Studies, John M. Koller and Roger T. Ames. In "The Importance of Asian Philosophy in the Curriculum," Koller gives four reasons for including Asian philosophy in undergraduate curricula: irst, knowledge of Asian philosophies is necessary for anyone who wants to understand the diverse ways in which a majority of the human race continue to understand themselves, others, and their world; second, Asian philosophies can help one cultivate self-understanding; third, Asian philosophies provide resources for developing one's own philosophical orientations; finally, a study of Asian philosophy enhances our ability to engage and develop alternative ways of constructing our worldviews. Koller then proceeds to introduce the basics of Indian and Chinese thought before offering one of the pinnacles of the volume: a list of ten questions to help educators select text for use in the classroom.
In the second essay in this section, "The Confucian Worldview: Uncommon Assumptions, Common Misconceptions," Roger Ames begins with a thought experiment, inviting his readers to imagine what the world would be like had the Chinese Empire engaged in the same extensive imperialist activities of the Western powers over the past three millennia. He concludes that this scenario would have resulted in a world guided by the ancient insights of Confucian thought instead of the Judeao-Christian epistemes that currently shape much of our global discourse and politics. In particular, Ames observes that over and against the dominant Western view of the person as singular and distinct from his or her environment, Confucian thought emphasizes the understanding of the individual as a "process" dynamically interwoven within a network of relations that define the individual as an inseparable part of a living, ever-changing, interconnected cosmos. His thoughtful essay teases out how this alternative conception of the "self" can be taught in the classroom.
"Texts" and "Contexts" discuss the two basic approaches by which teachers can introduce Asian philosophies and religions. "Texts" takes up three primary regions: India, China, and Japan. Essays on India include Vrinda Dalmiya's discussion of Bhagavad Gita, Jeffrey Dippmann's discussion of the Buddhist text Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra, and Tom Pynn's discussion of the essential texts, ontologies, and transformative disciplines of Samkhy and Yoga philosophy. All three authors are careful to tease out the intriguing parallels and distinctions between the ideas expressed in their respective texts and those of similar texts and traditions from the West, Dalmiya focusing on ethical decision making, Dippmann on the "human condition," and Pynn on the relationship of worldview to spiritual discipline and self-understanding. In the China section, Ronnie Littlejohn argues that the Daodejing is "too twisted" by historically contingent meaning and the attempt to validate standard philosophical preconceptions, and that we must learn to grasp it on its own self-referential terms. …


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What's It Like: To be fitted for a prosthetic
Why might someone need a prosthetic?
For some people, a prosthetic limb can provide mobility that's somewhat comparable to what they would have with their arm or leg.
Oklahoma has one of the highest rates in the U.S. for diabetes-related amputation. People with diabetes can suffer from problems with circulation that can lead to the amputation of part of their leg. Other reasons that might cause a person to lose a limb include traumatic injuries, such as being in a car accident or in military combat. Cancer and birth defects are other reasons a person might have a limb amputated.
What happens when you're fitted?
After your surgery, you likely will have to wait until the swelling in your limb goes down before you can be fitted for a temporary prosthetic. This usually happens once your bandages are removed and the wound is healed. After about six weeks, you will begin the fitting process.
The first prosthetic you receive will be temporary. You'll receive a permanent prosthetic months after your surgery, once your residual limb has taken a more final shape. Even though most of the swelling from your surgery goes down after about six months, about 20 percent of swelling takes a few years to work itself out.
During the temporary prosthetic fitting, you will meet with a prosthetics specialist and discuss what type of prosthetic is best for you. The specialist will want to know what types of activities you do on a day-to-day basis. For example, if you work outdoors, your needs would be different from someone who has a desk job. The goal of the prosthetic specialist will be to help you find a prosthetic that is most functional for you.
The prosthetics specialist likely will make a cast of your residual arm or leg. The specialist will use the cast to make a temporary socket for your arm or leg. That is how your residual limb connects to the prosthetic limb.
You will have a strap or harness that attaches to your prosthetic that allows you to use body movement to move the prosthetic. The specialist will make adjustments to these straps to ensure that you can move without having to make movements that are painful or too difficult.
If this is your first fitting, you will wear the temporary socket for a few months. Otherwise, you will wear the temporary prosthetic up to a few weeks.
Does it hurt?
Some people who have had a limb amputated suffer from phantom pain. It's a pain you could feel from the area of your body that's no longer there. Medical experts say these sensations originate in the spinal cord and brain. The amount of phantom pain felt varies person to person.
Also, if your socket is fit wrong, you could feel pain, especially if it's too tight and restricting blood flow.
Some patients develop neuromas in places where a nerve was cut during amputation. Neuromas are little balls of nerves that can be quite painful when touched. The pain can be similar to the sudden pain felt when a dentist hits a cavity.
What's the recovery time?
It could take anywhere from a few months to several months to feel comfortable functioning with your prosthetic. Before, during and after you're fitted, you likely will see an occupational or physical therapist to help you adjust to using your prosthetic limb. The amount of time it will take you to get used to your prosthetic partially will depend on which limb you lost and how much of it was amputated. Also, it will depend on how comfortable your prosthetic fit is and also your attitude and the support around you.
People who lose a part of their body might suffer from grief and depression. Most insurance providers cover counseling sessions, and there are also counseling clinics for people who are underinsured and uninsured.
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You might need a new socket sooner than you need a new prosthetic. During the first few years, your residual limb likely will undergo various changes. Depending on your age, body changes and activity level, your prosthesis can lasts several months to several years.
Sources: Chuck Anderson, an upper limb specialist at Hanger Clinic; Hanger Clinic; Capt. Jon White, 40 Commando British Royal Marine; MedLinePlus; The Mayo Clinic; The Amputee Coalition.


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Sources: Two of Microsoft's Biggest Partners Are Looking For BuyersEn Pointe and Compucom, two of Microsoft's biggest partners, are looking for buyers. Channel sources say selling Microsoft software licensing is no longer a lucrative business.
SAS Reports $3.09 Billion In 2014 SalesBusiness intelligence software developer credits channel partners with influencing 30 percent of new sales during the year-and-a-half of large deals.
'Recommendations' Simplifies TIBCO's Spotfire BI AdoptionMove targets broader use of the business intelligence software among business users.
Windows XP Continues Haunting Microsoft From Beyond The Grave In Otherwise Decent 2QMicrosoft reported fiscal second-quarter results that were generally in line with Wall Street's expectations, but somehow, Windows XP continues to cause headaches for the software giant.
Microsoft CEO Nadella: We Want People To Love Windows 10, Not Just Use ItMicrosoft CEO Satya Nadella has tackled a number of tough challenges since taking over as CEO last year, and now he's got his mind set on getting people to love Windows again.
Box Shares Soar In Long Awaited IPO, Kindling Excitement In The ChannelBox's long-delayed but successful IPO will make it easier to take the company's cloud storage and file sync and share technology to customers as part of an overall solution, one of Box's top channel partners said.
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Master of Arts in Chaplaincy and Pastoral Care
The Master of Arts in Chaplaincy and Pastoral Care at the seminary's Loise Henderson Wessendorff Center for Christian Ministry and Vocation is a 72-hour degree designed for people interested in pastoral care in a variety of contexts. The core curriculum (four courses) provides a biblical, theological, historical, and ethical foundation for pastoral ministry. Other required coursework equips the student for general chaplaincy ministry in a variety of settings. Elective courses enable students to broaden and deepen their understanding of particular ministries in specified settings (e.g., hospice, VA hospitals, prisons, workplaces, disaster relief). The curriculum provides the requisite 72 credits specified by the Association of Professional Chaplains (APC) for recognition as a Board Certified Chaplain (BCC). Students or prospective students seeking board certification by the APC should review carefully the information at the Association of Professional Chaplains to learn about additional requirements for certification.
Prior to being awarded the degree, a candidate must fully discharge all financial obligations to the seminary and all requirements should be completed within six years from the date of entry into the program.
MCPC Program Goals
Through core courses in Biblical studies, history, theology and ethics and an in-depth study of issues in and approaches to chaplaincy, students will:
Being-Character Objectives:
- display self-awareness, virtuous character, spiritual depth, and relational maturity
Knowing-Content Objectives:
- articulate the scriptural, theological, ethical, historical, and pastoral foundations of ministry and how they inform the theory and practice of pastoral care and chaplaincy
- integrate relevant perspectives from the social sciences
Doing-Practical Objectives:
- use appropriately a range of practices and strategies, including significant resources of the Christian tradition in the practice of ministry
- demonstrate pastoral sensitivity within religiously and culturally diverse ministry settings
Course Requirements for the MCPC (72 hours)
Core Curriculum………………………………………………. 12 credits
B5330 Interpretation of the Bible for Ministry
H5310 Historical Studies for Ministry
T5340 Ethics for Ministry
T5350 Theological Studies for Ministry
Required Courses…………………………………………….. 48 credits
F5306 World Religions and their Spiritualities
F5316 Practicum in Theological Reflection
L5310 Liturgy and Ritual in the Pastoral Context
P2610 Clinical Pastoral Education
P5307 Multiculturalism and Diversity Issues in Pastoral Care
P5310 Preaching and Teaching for the Chaplain
P5320 Organizational Development and Systems Theory
P5330 Issues of Identity and Authority in Chaplaincy
P5340/C5328 Issues in Death and Dying
P5350/C5329 Issues in Loss and Bereavement
P5360 Ministry in Times of Crisis
P5370 The Life-Cycle in Pastoral Context
P5390/C5317 Medical Issues and Healing Presence
W3308 MCPC Capstone Seminar
W3309 Writing in Vocational Contexts
Elective Courses……………………………………………….. 12 credits
Related professional organizations:
Association for Clinical Pastoral Education http://www.acpe.edu/
Association of Professional Chaplains http://www.professionalchaplains.org/


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Peace Corps Information Session at UNC Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
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Make a difference in the lives of others and your own. Serving in the Peace Corps is a great way to help a community in need, immerse yourself in a new culture, learn a new language, and have the experience of a lifetime!
Stop by the information session at Hanes 242 from 4-5 PM on September 3rd. The session will be hosted by Peace Corps Campus Recruiter, Thomas Phillips, who will discuss Volunteer experiences, answer questions, and provide tips to guide you through the application process.
About the Peace Corps: Read more or watch a video about how Peace Corps service makes a difference for the communities served, the volunteers themselves, and here in the U.S. Learn what it's like to be a Volunteer including what Volunteers do, where they go, and the many benefits of Peace Corps service. Or apply now to begin your life-defining experience.
Thomas, who served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Georgia is available to meet with students and community members who are interested in applying and learning more about Peace Corps. Please see his contact information below:
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Ive beeen riding my Langster for a while now freewheel and would like to try riding it fixed. Its a 2005 and comes with the flip flop hub stock. I removed the wheel thinking the gear would slide right off, but am having trouble removing it. I probably dont have to mention that Im not a bike tech, heh. Anyhow, can anyone help me figure out how to remove the gearing from the free side and get it onto the fixed side of the hub? Im assuming this is pretty simple, I feel pretty silly that I cant figure it out.
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I "upgraded" from an '08 QC Big Horn which had the HEMI to my current truck, which is a '10 CC Sport, also with the HEMI, and I don't regret it for a minute.
The 4th gens were done right when they were redesigned. The ride quality of the 4th gens versus the 3rd gens is like night and day. They ride pretty much like a car, but have the versatility of a truck. Both of my truck were two wheel drive, with stock suspension along with stocks wheels, so that may be a factor as well. My '08 had the crappy Good Year tires, I've replaced the crappy tires on my '10 with Cooper Discover HT Plus tires and I haven't looked back.
I've taken my '10 on several road trips, and it has always been comfortable, with plenty of room for all. I live in the northwestern corner of Louisiana, and I've driven it to New Orleans twice (about 6 hrs), Galvaston, TX once (about 8 hrs) and to Atlanta, GA (11 hrs). On the interstate dependent upon my speed I got 19-21 mpg and around town I tend to get around 12-14 mpg. The HEMI is highly dependent upon how you drive. If you baby it, you'll get a lil better mileage, but if you put your foot into it, it'll suck up the gas.
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Does anyone else notice that a lot of the "how to dress manly" posts seem to really show what a city boy would wear?
I'm not saying that it's wrong, but it's not "manly" to wear a $160 plaid shirt. That's just plain dumb.
Being manly isn't the cost of your clothing, watch, shoes, etc... It's how you wear it, and what you wear it for. I'm a welder, I don't wear expensive clothes or make sure my hair is perfect every day (long hair and longer beard, wouldn't be easy anyway) but I still consider what I wear to work to be "manly" in some of the strongest senses of the term.
To everyone, a "man" is not always clean cut, fresh pressed, white collar, and high dollar. Personally, I don't enjoy when posts tell me to look like some banker off Mad Men. I like my long hair, I like my rough beard, and I'll be damned if someone tells me that it ain't manly to have either. Just the same as when I wear my dirty wranglers and faded work shirts every day.
My point is, many of the articles I read on here are telling people how to dress and act like a yuppie.
Sometimes being a man means being uncut, dirty, and rugged. I wish more articles showed this type of man...
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Welcome to AoM. We go through these waves where we get people talking about dress. It has gotten a lot better than the days when they would pile up and say that there was no way you could be a man and wear cargo shorts or flip flops and you should wear a 28 piece suit everywhere, but.....
The site is a little more dedicated to the dress up crowd when concerning discussions on dress. For the most part, I would suggest to ignore it unless someone just gets too out of touch with the reality that the rest of us actually live in.
I thought it was a 24 piece suit with a pocket watch on a watch fob.
Perhaps the bias in the discussions stems from the fact that, when doing physical work in "dirty Wranglers," color matching and style cues are not particularly necessary or even desirable.
Let's face it. Every guy knows how to dress when changing his car's oil, or cutting down a tree. But, dressing up is no longer a skill taught to boys during their formative years. And people ask questions about the stuff they don't already know.
You'll notice in my posts I don't focus on the foppish excesses that some do. I know the rules of etiquette for pocket watches, fabrics, understand color analyses, and I regularly snort with derision when someone commits a fashion faux pas like wearing a wristwatch with french cuffs. But that's not everyday life for most of us.
Heck. 3/4 of my wardrobe came from WalMart and Wrangler. That's *real* life.
P.S. Though they often are, a big beard does not have to be unkempt or rough looking. Mine is getting pretty big, now, and still looks impeccable.
I learned not to wear silk shirts when changing the oil on my car. However, my boxers are always silk no matter what I'm doing.
I noticed pretty much the same narrow band of dress being discussed.
There was surprisingly little Western wear/ outdoors wear on one end or tuxedos on the other. I do not dress up often and could stand some information on formal wear just as much as I would like new sources for tough, cheap outdoors clothes.
This pretty much sums up what I was trying to say in less words.
Good point. It may be that most of the people here are Urban minded. Or have that style mindset. Personally I like dressing well and my style choice tends toward a particular style of dress. I don't thing you can't dress well in a different style.
My general rule is fitted and collared and tucked in. but then again that is MY view.
I'm not sure what posts you have in mind; the site hasn't seemed especially foppish to me of late. Certainly I don't think we've seen many (if any) arguments that a man is "always clean cut, fresh pressed, white collar, and high dollar," or that being manly is "the cost of your clothing, watch, shoes, etc..."
As for the prevalence of questions and discussion about dressing up, I think Chuck nailed it. "Let's face it. Every guy knows how to dress when changing his car's oil, or cutting down a tree. But, dressing up is no longer a skill taught to boys during their formative years. And people ask questions about the stuff they don't already know."
The dressing and grooming articles about suits, sport coats, etc... are mostly how-to guides for men who need or want to wear those cloths but don't know how, or how to do so well. And most of the threads begin as questions (i.e. what should I wear on a first date? I want to dress better in high school/college/my office without looking too weird, what should I do? What kind of tux should I wear to prom? How should I dress for my friend's wedding? What should I wear for a job interview? Where can I buy good shoes?). Nor are these all city-boy question, since even country boys doing dirty jobs dress up at times, even if it's just for prom, weddings, and funerals.
As for articles with men bring rugged, I think there are plenty, but they don't focus on the clothing worn while men are camping, or changing a flat tire (which I once did have to do while dressed up after a wedding) or grilling something, etc...
I see your point here, but it doesn't hit what I'm trying to say in some cases. I understand the prom/office/wedding/shoes. The reality of it for me is, if it wasn't prom, a wedding, or a funeral, it's boots and jeans man. Manly to a lot of people isn't khaki pants and "going sockless in the summer." The only thing that might change from my field clothes to say a first date would be the cleanliness of the clothes I'm wearing. I was just reading through and the articles that came up really made me say "huh, that's what a man is these days... it's a shame"
Looking at the links you cited I can see your point a little better. Those posts are, however, not typical, and the forums really don't see much of that "wear this specific expensive piece of clothing" approach. You can either ignore the dressing and grooming articles and forum threads, or, if you go through more, I think you'll see more balance.
So, it's your position that the clothes make the man, and not the other way around. It's funny, because I believe the opposite.
So much of your personal presentation is how you present yourself to others...and that includes the clothes, yes. There *is* such a thing as appropriate style, and usually it's more a representation of respect for a venue more than anything else, but fundamentally they're just guidelines at best. I've known people who look "runway model" fabulous in a tee shirt and ripped jeans, and people who look so awkward in a suit that it's pathetic.
In my mind, it's the man behind the clothes that *really* matters.
I like people who are secure in themselves. Leaders, or alphas if you prefer that terminology. Leaders rarely adhere to the "rules" of style...they follow, break, or even set those trends, according to their OWN will.
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Career Development in Tourism and Leisure: An Exploratory Study of the Influence of Mobility and Mentoring
Ayres, Helen, Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management
Careers in the tourism industry are relatively new phenomena and have not been the subject of extensive research. Yet, it is clear from the little research that is available that high levels of mobility and unclear career paths stigmatise tourism careers. These issues focus highly in the new 'boundaryless' career that has received much attention in human resources research recently. Mentoring has been portrayed as a useful tool to help employees cope with this new career environment. To test this premise, 23 managers in the industry were interviewed and told their own 'career story'. Respondents reported frequent intra-company, inter-company, and inter-industry career moves and rated mentoring programs as a powerful career management tool. These findings have implications for policy development within the industry and for those seeking a career in tourism. Those involved with other new and emerging professions with find this article of interest.
Recent trends suggest that the traditional organisational career offering a career for life philosophy appears to have been replaced by a more flexible and uncertain career construct characterised by intra-organisation, inter-organisation and even inter-industry career moves (Arthur, Inkson, & Pringle, 1999). Previously, careers had been the responsibility of both the organisation and the individual, but now careers appear to be owned and controlled by the individual (Arthur & Rousseau, 1996b). Careers are clearly in a state of transition. As new and emerging professions, such as tourism, enter this turbulent career environment, new and uncertain career challenges face both the organisation and the individual.
The research discussed in this article reports on a project exploring careers in the tourism industry in Australia where mentoring and mobility emerged as key influences of career success. Mobility was found to be as fundamental to career development in tourism as it is in the new career construct. Mentoring was found to be a clear management and motivational tool to those in evolving careers and assisted in the transfer of career responsibility to the individual. It is hoped that this study will pre-empt further research into careers in this rapidly developing industry and that the findings may assist those already employed in the industry, as well as those planning to embark on a tourism career in an environment of the changing career concept.
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The invention pertains to transceivers and modems. More particularly, the invention pertains to asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) modems used to achieve very high speed data communication via telephone networks.
There is an ever present desire to maximize the speed of digital communications via networks, and particularly telecommunication networks, such as public telephone systems. Accordingly, telecommunication network providers now offer customers many options for coupling to the telephone network in addition to the standard analog based connection commonly referred to as POTS (Plain Old Telephone System). Some of the options that are widely available are Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) lines, T-1 lines, E-1 lines, digital subscriber lines (DSL) and asymmetric digital subscriber lines (ADSL).
ADSL's can provide very high data speeds, such as on the order of several megabits per second, over a standard twisted wire pair. Unlike the traditional data modems used for analog communication with a telephone central office via a twisted wire pair, ADSL requires modems both at the subscriber end and at the telephone company Central Office end. Current ADSL systems employ discrete multitone (DMT) technology to implement high bandwidth communications, such as for digital TV broadcast, on demand video, high speed video-based internet access, work at home digital file transfer, teleconferencing, home shopping, and other information services over existing twisted wire pair telephone lines.
Several DMT standards have been promulgated. For instance, the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has promulgated a standard for ADSL that is commonly termed G.lite and which is set forth in ITU-T specification G.992.2, incorporated herein by reference. Another standard, promulgated by ANSI, is commonly termed Heavy ADSL and is set forth in ANSI specification T1.413, issue 2, also incorporated herein by reference. In DMT communications, data is sent in frames. A frame is comprised of a plurality of samples, each frame including data samples and cyclic prefix samples. Data samples comprise most of the frame and the collection of data samples in a single frame comprise one DMT symbol. The cyclic prefix is added at the beginning of each frame and comprises the last L samples of that frame. Accordingly, the cyclic prefix samples are between the DMT symbols in the data stream. The purpose of the cyclic prefix is to help avoid inter-symbol interference (ISI). The frame and cyclic prefix is of a standardized length. For example, in heavy ADSL, each symbol comprises 512 samples with 256 tones (32 tones for upstream communications), each tone having a real and an imaginary portion. Heavy ADSL utilizes a cyclic prefix of length L=32 samples. Accordingly, a frame has 544 samples.
It should be noted that
In the transmit direction, digital data is transmitted from the transmitter 102 to a scrambler 104 that scrambles the data for transmission. The data is then processed through a forward error correction (FEC) encoder 106 which adds syndrome bytes to the data. The syndrome bytes will be used for error correction by the receiver at the receiving terminal. Next, as shown in block 108, the transmit data is encoded using quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM). The data is then converted from the frequency domain to the time domain via Inverse Fast Fourier Transform (IFFT) 110.
A 1:4 interpolator 112 interpolates the output of IFFT block 110 to produce 512 samples from the 128 samples output from block 110. The 32 sample cyclic prefix is added to each frame in block 114. The data is then forwarded to a coder/decoder (CODEC) 116. The CODEC encodes the data for transmission over the twisted wire pair to the receiving device.
In the receiver portion of transceiver 100, the received signal is passed from the twisted wire pair through the CODEC 116 where it is decoded. It is then passed to a time domain equalizer (TEQ) 118 to shorten the channel impulse response. Then, in 120, the cyclic prefix is removed. It will be appreciated by those of skill in the related arts that, if the length of the channel impulse response is less than or equal to the cyclic prefix length, then the Inter-Symbol Interference (ISI) can be eliminated by removing the Cyclic Prefix (CP) length. Furthermore it is possible to compensate for channel distortion with the frequency domain equalization (FEQ) in block 124, discussed further below.
An echo canceller (EC) 134 is coupled between the transmit path and the receive path and creates an echo cancellation signal based on the transmit signal which is subtracted by subtractor 121 from the receive signal in order to cancel any echo of the transmit signal that is present on the twisted wire pair that could interfere with the received signal. The residual echo signal is converted back to the frequency domain by fast fourier transform (FFT) in block 122.
The received signal, which now has had the cyclic prefix removed and has been converted back to the frequency domain is sent to block 124, where frequency domain equalization (FEQ) is employed to compensate for the channel distortion.
The received signal is then processed through a quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) decoder 126 to decode the tone signal into digital data. That is followed by forward error correction (FEC) in block 128 which uses the syndrome bits that were added by the transmit path FEC encoder 106 to perform forward error correction. Finally, the data is descrambled in block 130 to extract the true data signal and then forwarded to a receiver 132.
The output of the FFT block 122 also is sent to a timing recovery circuit 136 that controls the CODEC 116 to synchronize the CODEC to the timing of the received data. Essentially, the timing recovery process is a feedback process in which the timing tones are detected and used to continuously adjust the CODEC timing so as to sample the received data at the appropriate sampling points.
In prior art frame alignment schemes, during initialization, the transmitter transmits a known pattern in a frame and the receiver attempts to receive that pattern. More particularly, the transmitter transmits the same pattern in a Who plurality of frames, for example 1024 consecutive frames. The receiver performs a cross-correlation of the data on the two wire pair with the expected pattern while the transmitter transmits those 1024 frames and determines which set of L+1 consecutive samples yields the peak cross correlation. The timing that resulted in the peak cross correlation calculation is selected as the start time of a frame or a symbol. It means that the sample that resulted in the peak cross correlation calculation is the first sample of the frame, e.g., 544 samples (before removing the cyclic prefix).
This technique for frame alignment or symbol alignment is computationally demanding and is not as accurate as desired.
Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide an improved method and apparatus for frame alignment in a DMT transceiver.
It is another object of the present invention to provide an improved DMT transceiver.
The invention is a method and apparatus for aligning with a transmit frame in a discrete multitone (DMT) transceiver so as to minimize inter-symbol interference (ISI). The method and apparatus involves calculating the shortening channel impulse response and then determining the particular set of consecutive samples of length L+1 in the shortening channel impulse response, that has a maximal energy. Once this particular set of coefficient is determined, the first coefficient of that set is selected as a starting location h′0 in shortening impulse response for determining frame alignment. This can be achieved by skipping samples of the receive signal in a particular frame.
The majority of the interference of the immediately preceding symbol on the present symbol typically is approximately contributed by shortening channel impulse response coefficients h′L+1, h′L+2, . . . h′P−1, where P is the DMT symbol length (e.g., 512 samples). This is true because the channel impulse response coefficients, h′0, h′1, . . . h′L, do not contribute to the ISI. Therefore, the majority of the interference can be calculated with the shortening channel impulse response coefficients h′L+1, h′L+2, - - - and h′P−1.
The noise on the i-th subcarrier is a complex value ri+sij, where j=√{square root over (−1)}, and the absolute value √{square root over (ri 2+si 2)} is considered to be the ISI noise on the i-th subcarrier. The total ISI noise is computed by summing all the inner products of the weight factor vector W and the ISI leakage energy vector from the previous symbol, {overscore (C)}|h′i|FVk. The rotation of the shortening channel impulse response, that yields the smallest total ISI noise will be chosen as the frame alignment point.
Accordingly, to determine the best rotation of the shortening channel impulse response coefficients for frame alignment, we calculate the ISI using the rotation as described above as well as several immediately surrounding rotations of the coefficients and select the rotation that yields the lowest ISI value. The calculations are performed in the frequency domain. Specifically, we multiply the average energy of the transmitted symbol (which is a constant) by the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) of the ISI value caused by the imperfect shortening channel impulse response coefficients. We do this for various rotations including and immediately surrounding the rotation determined above and take the rotation that yields the smallest value. It has been found that excellent results can be achieved by calculating the interference value for a relatively small number of rotations. For instance, in a DMT system with 512 samples per symbol and a 32 sample cyclic prefix, excellent results can be achieved by calculating interference for about seven different rotations surrounding and including the rotation corresponding to the maximum channel response.
y(n)=x(n)*h(n) Eq. (1)
The time domain equalization circuit (TEQ) 211 in the receiver 213 is a short time-domain finite impulse response (FIR) filter that convolves the received signal, y(n), with a coefficient 1+a(n). The output y′(n) from the time domain equalization domain circuit 211 therefore is:
y′(n)=y(n)*(1+a(n))=x(n)*(h(n)*(1+a(n)))=x(n)*h′(n) Eq. (2)
Let us call h(n)*(1+a(n)) the shortening channel impulse response (or shortening channel) and denote it as h′(n) having a length M.
The TEQ circuit 211 (i.e., Eq. (2)) shortens the channel impulse response to the length of the cyclic prefix, e.g., 32 samples. Then the cyclic prefix is removed from the signal y′(n) in block 215.
If the shortening channel length, M, is less than or equal to the length, L, of the cyclic prefix, i.e., M≦L, then each y′(n) will have no dependence on any transmitted samples before x(n−L), i.e., there will be no inter-symbol interference (ISI).
Thus, after the cyclic prefix is removed, the actual symbol will remain without inter symbol interference. However, if M>L, then the sampling signal y′(n) is dependent on the samples before x(n−L) and, thus, the removal of the cyclic prefix would not prevent inter-symbol interference and thus would degrade the performance of the transceiver. Hence, it is desirable to design an efficient TEQ shortening filter, 1+a(n), that makes M≦L and for which the energy in the channel impulse response h′(n) with 0≦n<512 is as small as possible for n≧L and as large as possible for n<L.
For proper operation of the transceiver in accordance with the description above, of course, the frame in the receiver must align itself to the frame in the remote transmitter in order to read the frame samples correctly. The proper frame alignment point is determined during initialization.
U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/481,027 entitled "Method and Apparatus for Time-Domain Equalization in Discrete Multitone Transceivers", filed on Jan. 11, 2000, describes a TEQ shortening filter that produces an overall channel response h′(n) for which M≦L, as desired in order to eliminate ISI.
The impulse response h(n) of the channel has the transfer function:
where L is the length of the cyclic prefix, and K is the length of the TEQ filter having impulse response (1+a(n)) or A(z). In accordance with equation (3), the transfer function of the shortening channel is:
{overscore (h)}(z)=A(z)H(z)=b 0 +b 1 z −1 +b 2 z −2 + . . . +b (L−1) z −(L−1) Eq. (4)
Thus, the length, M, of the shortening channel is set equal to the length of the cyclic prefix, L, so that ISI between two consecutive symbols can be eliminated to improve the overall performance of the transceiver by removing the cyclic prefix.
I=[b 0 b 1 b 2 . . . b (L−1) −a 1 −a 2 . . . −a (K−1)]T =[b a] T Eq. (5)
W(n)=[x(n)x(n−1)x(n−2) . . . x(n−(L−1))y(n−1)y(n−2) . . . y(n−(K−1))]T Eq. (6)
where T denotes the transpose of a matrix. From equations (3) through (6), the estimated signal, {tilde over (y)}(n), at the receiver is:
{tilde over (y)}(n)=I T W(n) Eq. (7)
and the error is:
e(n)=y(n)−{tilde over (y)}(n) Eq. (8)
From the well known LMS (Least Mean Square) error algorithm, the optimal solution Iopt is
RIopt=r Eq. (9)
R=E{W(n)W T(n)} Eq. (10)
r=E{y(n)W(n)} Eq. (11)
E{ } in the equations above represents a generalized averaging function or an ensemble average.
Since some channel interference is caused by channel noise and impairments, it is very difficult to achieve a shortening channel impulse response that has only (L+1) continuous nonzero values and zeros in the remaining slots. Hence, accurate frame alignment can be very critical to the overall performance of DMT transceivers.
Let [h′0, h′1, h′2, . . . h′511] be the shortening channel impulse response. As previously mentioned, one way to locate the frame alignment roughly is by finding the series of consecutive coefficients of length L+1 (L is the channel prefix length) that yields the maximal energy. By skipping samples in the receive signal in a particular frame, we can allocate the first coefficient of the series of consecutive coefficients of length L+1 as h′0, whereby the coefficients from h′0 to h′L yield the maximal energy. The coefficients of the shortening channel impulse response from h′L+1 to h′P−1 contribute to lSl. Hence, we try to make the energy as low as possible for h′L+1 to h′P−1. Although there is maximal energy in h′0 to h′L, it is not necessarily the best choice for frame alignment. Rather, we know only that the frame alignment point is close to this point. Thus, we implement a fine-tuning algorithm in accordance with the present invention to find the best location for frame alignment.
Let c=[c0, c1, c2, . . . c511] and d=[d0, d1, d2, . . . d511] be the samples of previous symbol and current symbol, respectively, that are sent from the transmitter. Due to the addition of the 32 samples of cyclic prefix, the samples that go out through the CODEC and channel will be [c0, c1, c2, . . . c511, d480, d481, . . . d511, d0, d1, d2, . . . d511]. Let the corresponding samples at the receiver be [c′0, c′1, c′2, . . . c′511, d″480, d″481, . . . d″511, d′0, d′1, d′2, . . . d′511]. Thus, after removing the cyclic prefix, we have:
d′ 0= d 0 h′ 0 +d 511 h′ 1 +d 510 h′ 2 + . . . +d 480 h′ 32 +c 511 h′ 33 + . . . +c 33 h′ 511 (12)
d′ 1= d 1 h′ 0 +d 0 h′ 1 +d 511 h′ 2 + . . . +d 480 h′ 33 +c 511 h′ 34 + . . . +c 32 h′ 511 (13)
d′ 511= d 511 h′ 0 +d 510 h′ 1 +d 509 h′ 2 + . . . +d 0 h′ 511 (14)
From equations (12) to (14) and the imperfectly shortening channel impulse response, the previous symbol will interfere with the current symbol. The interference is c511h′33+ . . . +c33h′511 in d′0, c511h′34+ . . . +c32h′511 in d′1, etc. If we assume that the transmitted signal is a pseudo random and stationary signal, the major interference from the previous symbol on the current symbol is h′33, . . . , h′511. That is:
where {overscore (C)} is the average energy value of the transmitted symbol and INTF represents the symbol interference. Equation (15) can be rewritten as:
In equation (16), {overscore (C)} is a constant and can be ignored. The coefficient of the h′511 shortening channel impulse response contributes more symbol interference that the coefficient h′33 and the coefficients from h′0 to h′32 do not affect the symbol interference at all due to the removal of the cyclic prefix.
In accordance with the analysis above, the symbol interference of the previous symbol on the current symbol is caused by the nonzero coefficients in the shortening channel impulse response. In order to reduce the symbol interference, we rotate the shortening channel impulse response [h′0, h′1, h′2, . . . , h′511] such that the last 479 (512−33) coefficients of the shortening channel impulse response have less symbol interference on the next symbol.
Let us define Vk as
Then equation (15) and (16) can be rewritten as
We can determine how much effect the symbol interference has on each tone in the receiver by taking the FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) of equation (16), as follows;
FFT512(Vk)=(r0+s0j, r1+s1j, . . . , r255+s255j) and
FVk=[t0, t1, . . . , t255] is a 256 real value vector with ti=√{square root over (ri 2+si 2)}.
In ADSL, the different tones will be loaded by different numbers of bits, depending on the tone's SNR (Signal to Noise Ratio). The noise is caused by ISI and all other effects of line impairments (such as echo, noise from radio signals, etc.) A bit loading algorithm will assign a certain number of bits to each tone based on the SNR, the capacity of bit rate, and other factors. For more generality, in equation (18), the noise on each tone can be weighted by a different value, W0, W1, . . . , W255. In that case, the weight factor vector W on the 256 tones would be the vector.
Then the total noise, TN, caused by ISI can be expressed as
|x| denotes the absolute value of x,
FVi is a vector of 256 real values, and
FVi·W is an inner product of FVi and W.
The weight factors Wi in equation (19) could be different for each of the 256 tones, depending on the importance of the tone based on its location. For example, the weight factors for the tones from 0 to 31 can be set to zeros since they are used for transmitted signals. Also, the weight factor for the timing tone (e.g., W63) can be set slightly higher than the weight factor of the other tones since tone 63 is an important tone because it is involved in the performance of timing recovery. If timing recovery performance is poor, it will degrade the overall performance of the system and affect all of the tones.
Equation (20) exactly describes the symbol interference by the nonzero coefficients h′33, . . . , h′511 in the shortening channel impulse response on each tone in the receiver. Since the first 33 samples, from h0′ to h32′, in the shortening channel impulse response do not cause symbol interference, we can start to find the maximal energy of L+1 (33) consecutive coefficients of the shortening channel impulse response by rotating the shortening channel impulse response coefficients in a particular frame such that the coefficients from h0′ to h32′, have the maximal energy. After that, we employ equation (20) to fine-tune to the best rotation around this range, i.e., the rotation that yields the minimal TN value.
For instance, if we want to consider this rotation plus the three rotations to each side of this rotation (for a total of seven tested rotations), then we would perform equation (20) a total of seven times, as follows:
The one of these seven values for TN that has the smallest value is selected as the best rotation to use for frame alignment. For example, if TN4 is the minimal ISI, then there is no need to do anything further because the original frame alignment is the best one. However, if TN3 is the minimal ISI, then the receiver should skip 511 (i.e., 512−1) samples in one frame in order to rotate the shortening channel impulse response as follows:
h′0→h′1,h′1→h′2, . . . , h′511→h′0.
In practical implementations, the FVi·W computations can be stored in tables to reduce processing time.
In operation, block 140 first cross-correlates the received data with a pre-defined periodic transmitted pattern frame signal to find the real channel impulse response without shortening the channel. This process results in a coarse location of the frame alignment position and prepares for TEQ training. TEQ training is then performed. After the completion of TEQ training, the shortening channel impulse response is determined in block 146 in accordance with equation 20 to fine-tune the correct sampling position for final frame alignment.
The process performed in block 146 is illustrated in the flow chart of
In step 406, counter n is set to 1 and i is set to i−3. Note that the value of i must be calculated modulo P, where P is the shortening channel impulse response length, e.g., 512 for heavy ADSL. For example, if, in step 404, i is set to 2, then i−3 is 511 when counting modulo 512. In step 408, equation (20) is used to calculate TN for this particular rotation of the samples. The result is saved as TNn. In the example that is illustrated in
When it is determined in step 412 that TN has been calculated for all seven rotations, flow proceeds to step 414. In step 414, the rotation that yielded a minimum value for TN (for the seven rotations tested) is selected as the rotation to be used for frame alignment during normal operation. The process ends at step 416.
It will be understood by those of skill in the art that n can be set to any other reasonable value. It has been found that the best rotation for frame alignment (as determined by equation 20) typically will be within about three samples of the rotation corresponding to the maximal channel impulse response energy in L+1 consecutive coefficients as determined in step 404. Accordingly, n=7 is a reasonable choice. However, it can be any number less than 512. For general application, the weighed vector W in equation 19 can be set to
However, it can be set to provide a different value for each tone if desired.
Having thus described a few particular embodiments of the invention, various alterations, modifications, and improvements will readily occur to those skilled in the art. Such alterations, modifications and improvements as are made obvious by this disclosure are intended to be part of this description though not expressly stated herein, and are intended to be within the spirit and scope of the invention. Accordingly, the foregoing description is by way of example only, and not limiting. The invention is limited only as defined in the following claims and equivalents thereto.
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The current population of Panama City Metro is 202,430 with the median age of 40. Panama City Metro's median household income is $49,585, and the average household net worth is $304,963.
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Age distribution represents the distribution of the population in Panama City Metro by age group. In Panama City Metro, the male-to-female ratio is 101,921:100,517, which is 6% higher than the ratio of Florida, which is 9,753,484:10,194,993. Age demographic data is sourced from census, 2015.
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Household income distribution represents the distribution of Panama City Metro income brackets at the household level. Overall, the median household income for Panama City Metro is $49,585, which is 8% higher than that of Florida ($45,934). Income data for Panama City Metro is sourced from census, 2015.
Education data represents the highest level of education attained by residents in Panama City Metro. In Panama City Metro, 22% of residents 18 and over graduated from high school and 23% completed a Bachelor's degree or higher, which is 7% lower than that of Florida. Education statistics is sourced from census, 2015.