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Hands-on with Olympus E-M10 - A New Addition to the OM-D Family (Price Update)
Olympus adds another member to the OM-D family, the EM-10. A smaller and more affordable version of the EM-5, will it be the camera to sway more shutterbugs to the Olympus camp? We give you our first impressions after spending some time with it.
Nikon Df Review - Df for Digital conFusion
I suspect there's very little I can do to sway your opinion about the Nikon Df. I've never seen such a polarizing camera before, and chances are that you already hate it or love it. Depending on which, you'll either hate or love this review.
5 Key Takeaways from CES 2014 (Plus Michael Bay)
Like every other year, this year's edition of CES is a massive deluge of news and product releases. If the avalanche of coverage is giving you a headache, or literally TL;DR, we've the solution. Just give us 5 minutes to tell you the five key things you should know from this year's show.
Hands-on: Samsung NX30 Interchangeable Lens Camera
We took the latest Samsung NX30 interchangeable lens digital camera for a quick hands-on test. All we can say for now is, Samsung's getting better at this.
Hands-on with the New Entry-Level Nikon D3300 DSLR (Price Update)
Nikon unveils its latest entry-level DSLR, the D3300. It comes with a new sensor and no optical low-pass filter. So what else is different from its 18-month-old predecessor, the D3200? Join us as we find out.
Panasonic Lumix GM1 Review - Compact, Classy & Competent
In the not too distant past, you had to choose between size or power for a digital camera. Now however, you can have your cake and eat it too. The Panasonic Lumix GM1 is a sterling example of a camera that can be compact, well-made and powerful at the same time.
15 in 15 - The Most Important Gadgets of the Last 15 Years
As HardwareZone celebrates its 15th year in operation, we take a look back at the last 15 years and discover the 15 most important, world-changing, game-busting gadgets to have been released by the hand of man. Love them or hate them, discover which ones made the cut right here.
Fujifilm X-E2 Review - A Camera for the Hands-On Enthusiast
Fujifilm keeps making a certain kind of camera for a certain kind of photographer, and they deserve kudos for it. The X-E2 is a continuation of that tradition, it's better but still kooky in places, yet still manages to charm. Check out the best and worst of Fujifilm's latest X-Trans mirrorless camera.
Sony A7R - The Outrageous 36MP Full-Frame Compact Mirrorless Camera
The Sony A7s are the culmination of a dream: full-frame mirrorless cameras in a compact frame. The Sony A7R takes that dream up a notch by including a 36MP sensor inside without an optical low-pass filter. I thought it wouldn't work, and here's how the A7R changed my mind.
Panasonic Lumix GM1 Launched in Singapore, Local Prices Announced
Panasonic has just wrapped the regional launch of their latest camera, the Lumix GM1. This mirrorless system camera marries beauty and brains; it's impossibly small, stylishly good-looking, and carries inside the high-performance 16MP sensor of the GX7. Check out our hands-on with the camera inside.


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Update on AbrahamThis marks Abraham's third loan to finance his business. He has since expanded and will use the borrowed money to purchase timber stock in bulk from a neighboring country to help cut cost and improve his profit. He plans to own a timber yard in future.
Previous Loan DetailsAbraham is 28 years old and married. He works as a carpenter in Mombasa. He has done carpentry for the past eight years, and he is doing great. This is his first business loan from KADET LTD to finance his business. He plans to purchase new hammers, nails, timber, and chisels. He will use t... More from Abraham's previous loan »
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Important Change – Harmony Power Module
You may have noticed in our 2016 Product Catalogue that our Harmony on desk module has been given a face lift. Harmony's appearance has been improved by introducing a double end cap system to remove all visible screws and greater flexibility will be achieved by the separate supply of data cables. Further design improvements include: Rear accessRead more
Introducing Winston
I would like to take this opportunity to introduce you to Winston. Winston isn't a new employee at CMD, but a new product that is aimed at helping you have a healthier, happier day at the office . Winston is a sit-stand workstation for up to 4 screens that instantly converts any desk into a sit stand workspace.Read more
Annual Stock Take
CMD Ltd will be conducting its annual stock take from Friday 30th October to Monday 2nd November 2015.
During this process orders will not be despatched and there will not be any invoicing or credit notes involving stock movements on Friday 30th October. Limited order despatches and stock transactions will re-commence from the afternoon of Monday 2nd November with full service resuming Tuesday 3rd November.Read more
Our increasing demand for power
Imagine it's the middle of the afternoon and your mobile phone starts bleeping, not to tell you that you have a call or a text message, but a notification and the worst type of notification 'Low battery'. While this is very frustrating there is not much we can do, other than find somewhere to charge our phone.
You are not alone. With our increasing reliance on mobile electronic devices we are also increasing the demand for power wherever we may be, but how far are you willing to go to charge your device?Read more
ICON – Tidy – July 2015
This is our Full Page advertisement published in the July edition of ICON Magazine. This Ad features our cable Tidy – A desk to floor cable management solution. It can be found on page 64Read more
Office Happiness – The ultimate guide to stay happy at work
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On Office – Air, Porthole and Contour – June 2015
Three, is the magic number full page Ad appearing in Junes edition of On Office Magazine. This Ad features our Porthole in desk module, Air flat screen monitor arm and Contour on desk power module. To see this head to page 74Read more
Office Demographics – Why can't we all just get along?
A great many people up and down the country work in some kind of office environment., from sales and marketing through to customer services and contact centres. All these occupations involve a unique social dynamic. A dynamic unseen in many other occupations. This, some believe, is what makes these fast paced environments a joy toRead more
Wackiest Workplaces & Craziest Offices – Part 1 Inventionland
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Product Focus – The Porthole Family
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TUSCALOOSA - Inspiration comes in many forms. For University of Alabama center Antoine Caldwell, a milestone he will achieve on Saturday morning can be traced all the way back to the seventh president of the United States, Andrew Jackson.
"My dad used to have a little system back when I was in elementary school," said the 6-foot-3, 292 pound All-Southeastern Conference center. "For every ??A' I got, he would give me $20. And you know kids. That really motivated me. There were a couple of times I made all ??A's', in all five of my classes, so I got $100. It was good for me. It did a lot for me. It motivated me then, and as I got a little older, I guess it kind of stuck with me."
So it was Andrew Jackson, the U.S. president whose face adorns the $20 bill, who first inspired the Montgomery native as a six year old to work hard in school and make good grades. The $20 bills quickly piled up in Caldwell's savings account where he promptly deposited them after he received his report cards. Though the reward money would eventually stop long before he entered high school, "My parents probably got tired of losing so much money," he jokes, Caldwell remains as motivated in the classroom as ever.
He will graduate from the University of Alabama on Saturday at 9 a.m. along with four of his Crimson Tide teammates, all of whom have last names beginning with the letter ??C,': Chris Capps (consumer science), Matt Caddell (consumer science), Jamie Christensen (management) and Joshua Curry (general students in human environmental science). A few hours later, the five will reconvene at another famous campus landmark, Bryant-Denny Stadium, for a football scrimmage.
When he walks across the stage at Coleman Coliseum where commencement is held, Caldwell will set the first football record of the 2007 season. He is the first Tide football player to graduate within three years of entering school at the University. The general studies in human environmental science major was a freshman in the fall of 2004.
"Since I've been here, he's the fastest graduate in football that we've had," said Jon Dever, Assistant Athletics Director for Student Services who has been in charge of the Crimson Tide's academic program since 1992. "We've had a bunch of football players who have graduated in three-and-a-half years, but this guy has really busted his rear end in the summer and gotten through. He really wants to go on and do something else academically, so he's going to try to get another undergraduate degree."
Graduating in less than four years is no longer novel among the Tide's student-athletes, particularly some of its most high-profile names. It is becoming more and more common. As a UA student-athlete, the NFL's DeMeco Ryans graduated from Alabama within three-and-a-half years as will Tide basketball All-Southeastern Conference point guard Ronald Steele this December. Tide linebacker Keith Saunders already has his degree, and in December, Alabama football is on track to graduate nine more men.
"I'm proud of all of them," said Dever. "Keith Saunders has graduated already. Keith graduated in three-and-a-half years in business, so there's another good success story. He's been working on a second degree since January. That's another neat thing: we will have six guys who have their degrees starting opening day. That's something we are proud of. By the time we go to the bowl game, we'll have even more graduates on the team."
Handling full class loads and playing a varsity sport, and excelling at both, may seem daunting, but Caldwell says it's been engrained in him since first grade. He was excited, he says, when Dever informed him at lunch on Thursday that he was the first Tide football player to graduate within three years, but he says the feat came naturally.
"It wasn't really that hard for me at all," said Caldwell who enters the 2007 season with a streak of 25 consecutive starts at center. "I've always been focused. My parents preached to me academics from the start, since the first day I stepped in a classroom in elementary school. I was motivated when I came in here at Alabama. I've remained pretty confident throughout. I've focused on my grades a lot. I knew how important that was. I knew the importance of what I am: I'm a student-athlete. I knew that football would come to an end one day and I'd need a degree to fall back on, so that's what I pushed toward, getting that degree."
Caldwell, the son of Mack and Priscilla Caldwell and twin to brother Anthony, prepped at Lee-Montgomery. He broke his foot early in fall camp and was forced to redshirt that first season at Alabama in 2004. He followed that year with 12 starts in 2005 and made Rivals.com's Freshman All-American First Team. Last year his starting streak continued, adding all 13 games, and he was voted Second Team All-SEC by the league's coaches. He'll enter the 2007 season, his junior year on the field, as a contender on the Rimington Award Watch List which recognizes college football's most outstanding center.
"I probably spent a little more time studying my first year," said Caldwell of that redshirt season in 2004. "Even though I was hurt and couldn't play, I was still with the team a lot. I still travelled with the team and was doing all the team activities. But I went in knowing I had to stay focused, and I remained focused throughout. It's been great for me."
Along the way to Saturday morning's graduation, Caldwell has packed four years worth of classes into the three. The hardest of those?
"Probably CSM 445. It's a computer design class that I took last spring," said Caldwell, "and it was tough. I wasn't really interested in it and that probably had something to do with it. In most classes if you get behind, you have a chance to catch up. And in that class you can't catch up. It's just work on top of work on top of work. You get a day and you get behind and it just doubles up on you, especially if you are taking it during the season, it makes it worse. But that's how it goes. I got through it.
"I loved all the personal health classes I've taken: health and nutrition. I was really in to that stuff. Anything to do with consumer protection and consumer affairs, I liked those as well. That's the benefit of the degree I have. There are a lot of diverse things you can do with it, and I think that's why I've enjoyed it."
Caldwell's last official final examination as a University of Alabama undergraduate was this past Monday morning at 10:30.
"It kind of dawned on me then what I had actually done," said Caldwell of what he felt like putting the pencil down after taking his last final. "Our academics staff did a tremendous job in helping and guiding me. I realized Monday what I had done here in school, and it was just a great feeling. It was great just knowing that you had completed something like that. Having a degree is something that will take me somewhere."
Caldwell says this fall he is taking several consumer classes because he's leaning toward the consumer affairs field. He's also eying a career in real estate after his summer job experience of working in a real estate office. He has two more years of football eligibility remaining and will work toward that second degree while he continues to star on Saturday afternoons in the fall, a role he hopes will also lead him to the NFL.
"The guys that were great football players here and who did well in the classroom, the DeMeco Ryans and the Tim Castilles, those were guys I looked up to," said Caldwell. "In the same team meetings that we're having now, they (the coaches) would talk about how well those guys were doing in class, and that's something I enjoyed. I thought, ??Man, these guys are playing football, and they are not just average football players, they're great football players. And they're doing that in the classroom.' It shows people that you can dedicate your time to football but you can dedicate just as much time to academics. It is possible. No matter what people say and try to stereotype football players and student-athletes, it is possible and we are getting it done on the field and in the classroom and graduating. I feel like I'm blessed to be in this position to show it off, to show that we are doing it."
Dever believes the success of the trend to graduate in less than four years is a result of a variety of factors.
"It's a family-type thing. I think a lot of things go into a student-athlete's success in the classroom," said Dever. "One is the student-athlete himself: their motivation, their drive and the commitment they have to school. And, secondly, the information that we provide them. I think our staff does a great job of trying to communicate with the student-athletes. And you can't do it without the support of the coaches, the support of the administration athletically, the support of the administration campus-wide. We have it all here. We really do, from Dr. (Robert E.) Witt, Dr. (Judy) Bonner, all the faculty and staff, the registrars. Really, it's a group of folks who work very closely together to do what these students came to do: graduate from the University of Alabama."
Saturday will be a full day for Caldwell, Caddell, Capps, Christensen and Curry. The celebration with their families and elation they'll feel as they walk across the stage to receive their diplomas will have to be brief. Within hours they'll be back to team meetings and joining their full squad for a 2:30 p.m. scrimmage.
"Matt Caddell and Chris Capps and I have talked a lot about this," said Caldwell of Saturday's graduation. "We all sit by each other in the locker room. We talk about what we're going to wear under our caps and gowns, joke about that. It's all fun. We know how hard we all worked toward it. We're just glad that we are so blessed to be in the position that we are in and we're proud of each other."


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BASELFACED: Art Basel Miami 2011
As Fall began to lend it's way into Winter here in the Northeast, a trip down to Miami for this year's Art Basel seemed to be the best way to absorb some culture and much needed Vitamin D before the Winter's hibernation set in. With accommodations the only plans set in stone, fresh from the airport it was off to the hostel to get situated. After the first of many drinks imbibed on the patio with fellow hostellers over the weekend, the next move was to Wynwood to check out the art walk and support some of NYC's graffiti icons.
2ESAE & SKI (aka Mike Baca & Fernando Romero) on rooftops, billboards, boxtrucks, or perhaps even bought pieces from them down on Prince St. on the weekends. For those less familiar, you can read up on the UR:NY story HERE.
Buff Monster, Lister, & the London Police.
Lister / Col / Chanoir / Cope2 / Pez / Free Humanity
After stopping briefly through Miguel Paredes gallery to pilfer some Sapporo, it was off to survey the Food Truck scene set up in an abandoned lot down the street. After pangs of drunken indecision, the lure of the Arepabox truck and the "Cachapa", a sweet corn arepa filled with Gruyere cheese and slathered with a variety of green and red hot sauce, proved to be too much to resist.
"largin up full crew, you know what to do"
In dire need of an electrolyte transfusion and some greasy sustenance, Friday started out with a trek to Little Havana to get the day started with the famous Cubana Frita from El Rey De Las Fritas.
THIS Blek Le Rat piece was spotted en route.
Underbelly Project group show. Started in the Spring of 2009, the large scale art project ushered over 100 artists representing 15 countries through one of NYC's long abandoned Subway stations to leave their mark deep underneath the konkrete jungle.
Dubtribe Soundsystem @ Electric Pickle
Porter Contemporary Gallery. Another highlight being the photography of Dulce Pinzon in room 218 curated by Alida Anderson Art Projects.
Miami Horror covering 'Once In A Lifetime' @ Electric Pickle
After a lifetime being shunned by family and peers in NY, it was time for this Dolphins fan to finally be among his people. With an Australian in tow primed for his first NFL experience, we headed to Landshark Stadium around 11am to take in the sights and aromas of the bustling tailgate scene. As hordes of shit-talking Raiders fans descended upon the parking lot, we crushed our remaining domestic piss beers and proceeded to watch the Dolphins absolutely trounce Oakland 34-14.
And the crowd goes wild....
Sunday night's debauchery was provided by the Overthrow's Art Basel edition of their Hard2Leave party at Gold Rush. Track selections were about what you'd expect from a Strip Club DJ'd by Ninjasonik, Craze, and the Overthrow DJs. DJ Assault & DJ Funk would have been proud. Out to Tamara Sky for dropping 'Bassface' and proving that Sound Pelligrino tunes go off in the titty bar too.
Waking up to a severe dent in the wallet and hangover to match, a walk from South Beach to Wynwood seemed the most economical, albeit extremely inconvenient of options. After asking many a local for directions and being told that walking simply wasn't an option, the stubborn New Yorker in me refused to be denied. The causeway connecting the beach from downtown Miami may not have been open for pedestrian traffic, but 7.2 miles later and a few hours worse for ware, it was time for one last stroll through Wynwood before heading to MIA International.
mowing the spot on NE Miami ave, he was also asked to recreate Revok's 'We Own The Night' piece outside of the Underbelly Project warehouse.
The next stop was to the Kohn Compound to check out the murals of the Graffuturim "In Situ" installation. Participating artist Eric Haze provided a foreward for the Co11ective group exhibition which you can find HERE.
Further down the block was a fresh production wall from IMOK's Ewok (5MH), Jick, & Mast. For more fresh Ewok debuted at this year's Basel, you can also check out his Brainlington video blog here.
Last but not least, this year's Ironlak wall centered around a fiery piece from Sofles with a background of paint drips provided by OG, Risky. Other artists participating included VANS, KEMS, VIZIE, JURNE, EWOK (MSK), and REMOTE .
Miami, it was real. We'll be seeing you next year. Special shouts go out to the Miami Beach hostel crew for keeping the vibes lively all weekend long. Out to anyone and everyone I met along the way. Your time!!


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Sneaky Affairhttps://www.smartsound.com/strata/images/STRATPWP_200.jpgSingle7100049-ST$ 39.957100049-EX$ 59.957100049-W$ 149.95Genre: Funky, Cartoon, Corporate/Technology, Urban Production Types: TV/ Film Drama, Commercials, Corporate, Video Games, Comedy, Corporate Communications, Home Videos Emotions: Driving, Energetic, Happy, Positive, Comical, Effervescent, Exuberant, Fresh, Funny, Incessant, Refreshing, Suspenseful, Wacky, Quirky, Sneaky, Investigative, Spy Instrument: Bass (Acoustic), Drums, Piano (Electric), Vibraphone, Violin, Instrumental
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Buck The TrendFunky and jazzy sax statements hold court in this upbeat dance delight. Can work with positive and fun footage as well as night life.https://www.smartsound.com/strata/images/BS30HC_200.jpgSingle57202-ST$ 39.9557202-EX$ 59.9557202-W$ 149.95Genre: Funky, Trance - Dance, Dance, Electronica, Disco, Electronic Production Types: Commercials, Video Games Emotions: Driving, Energetic, Confident, Fresh, Slick, Slammin, Upbeat Instrument: Electronic, Instrumental
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Mobius FunkWith a bass line to die for, this funky trip can add a unique flavor for visuals needing a slick-sounding backdrop.https://www.smartsound.com/strata/images/strata_cover_100.jpgSingle50308-ST$ 39.9550308-EX$ 59.9550308-W$ 149.95Genre: Funky, Drum & Bass, Urban Production Types: Sports, Video Games, Action-Drama, Background Emotions: Driving, Energetic, Exciting, Edgy, Hypnotic, Punchy, Slick, Urgent Instrument: Electronic, Bass (Electric), Drums, Instrumental
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Crave The CoolSlick and styling, this fusion-esque club-inspired chill track can add a cool sophistication to your presentation. Great as a general positive background.https://www.smartsound.com/strata/images/BS30HC_200.jpgSingle57204-ST$ 39.9557204-EX$ 59.9557204-W$ 149.95Genre: Funky, Themes, Trance - Dance, Dance, Electronica, Electronic Production Types: Commercials, Video Games Emotions: Cool, Atmospheric, Refreshing, Relaxed, Slick, Upbeat Instrument: Electronic, Instrumental
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Distant LightsA drippingly emotional opener is followed by a deep, phat dub groove, eventually returning to the emotional opener. Ideal for intense or emotional visuals.https://www.smartsound.com/artist/images/ASMR01_200.jpgSingle70005-ST$ 39.9570005-EX$ 59.9570005-W$ 149.95Genre: Funky, Electronica, Dubstep, Electronic Production Types: Cinematic, Commercials, Video Games Emotions: Driving, Energetic, Exciting, Powerful, Pulsating, Sinister, Somber, Angry Instrument: Electronic, Instrumental
Distant Lights from the album Dubstep
Fractal FrequenciesA sleek and stealthy groove geared to slip under the radar. Good for underscoring technological subject matter. Features Rhodes keyboard.https://www.smartsound.com/strata/images/BS29AU_200.jpgSingle57604-ST$ 39.9557604-EX$ 59.9557604-W$ 149.95Genre: Funky, Electronica, Rock Production Types: Video Games, Background Emotions: Sleek, Atmospheric, Heavy Instrument: Electronic, Piano (Electric), Instrumental
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Honoring Veteran's Day with 'Where Soldiers Come From'
Student veteran's organizations, libraries and community organizers are sharing soldiers' experiences along with screenings of the Emmy-winning POV film Where Soldiers Come From.
Making a War Documentary: A Twitter Chat with Heather Courtney (Where Soldiers Come From)
Join the #docchat Twitter chat on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012, at 8 PM Eastern (5 PM Pacific).
Next on POV: 'Where Soldiers Come From'
Watch the Emmy-nominated documentary about childhood friends who journey from a snowy, small town in northern Michigan to the mountains of Afghanistan. Broadcast Date: Thursday, September 6, 2012, on POV.
POV Films Garner A Record 16 Emmy Nominations!
We are humbled this morning to have received a record 16 nominations in the 33rd News and Documentary Emmy Awards, including four nominations for Best Documentary.
POV Announces Documentary Lineup for Its 25th Season on PBS
This year on POV, you'll see remarkable individuals challenging authority and their own limitations to indict a dictator, keep investigative journalism alive, rebuild after Katrina and find strength in love.
Viewers' Revelatory Reactions to 'Where Soldiers Come From'
A selection of comments about our most recent broadcast.
'Where Soldiers Come From' Premieres in Theaters
Where Soldiers Come From (POV, 2011) opens Friday, September 9 at Village East Cinemas in New York before opening in select theaters across the country.
BAMcinemaFEST 2011: Heather Courtney on 'Where Soldiers Come From'
In this dispatch from BAMcinemaFEST 2011, Heather Courtney tells freelance journalist Adam Schartoff how a filmmaking project about her Michigan hometown took a detour to Afghanistan.
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During the recent election campaign, candidates talked about per capita personal income as a measure of our state's economic success.
Let's now pretend that our governor-elect, his staff and his legislature all know that Indiana's per capita personal income, relative to the nation, is slipping.
Let us further fantasize that these men and women also understand what per capita personal income is and is not, why it is the most commonly used measure of economic well-being and why it is the wrong measure.
Finally, let's imagine that counties are of consequence to Indiana's new political elite. This is the greatest assumption we'll make since it would be a reversal of state policy.
Throughout the years, Indiana local governments, including counties, have become less important as their powers have diminished and their responsibilities increased. The legislature plays them like yo-yos, twisting and turning them in strange arcs, yanking them like disobedient tethered dogs.
The story of Indiana's per capita personal income from 2000 to 2010 begins with a statewide decrease of 2.3 percent after adjusting for inflation. This happened as total personal income grew by 4.1 percent, but population increased by 6.5 percent. Our real income did not grow as fast as the number of people living in the state, hence per capita personal income fell.
Per capita personal income grows when total personal income increases faster than the population does. This happened in just 30 of our 92 counties, including Monroe, Porter, Vanderburgh, Floyd and Jefferson. At the same time, 14 counties — including Hancock, Johnson, Clark, and Lake — had faster population growth than personal income growth. The consequence: Per capita personal income declined despite positive growth in both population and income.
If the rate of population decline is smaller than the rate of increase in personal income, then per capita personal income rises. Between 2000 and 2010, this happened in 18 Indiana counties, including Jay, Sullivan and Knox. A closer look shows Knox County (Vincennes) leading the state in per capita personal income growth (15.4 percent) because it lost 2 percent of its population while increasing its real personal income by 13.1 percent. Is Knox County our model for prosperity?
In sum, real per capita personal income fell in 41 of 92 counties. In 30 counties, real personal income fell; and in 29 counties, population declined. Is the state's policy with regard to per capita personal income going to be expressed in terms of the whole state? Or, will there be an interest in seeing counties with low per capita personal income increase their position in the state, reducing the disparity between the richest and poorest counties?
In 2000, the wealthiest county, as measured by per capita personal income, was Hamilton at $55,675 in 2010 inflation-adjusted dollars. Two recessions during the decade, plus moderate inflation and the state's leading population growth rate (49.3 percent) reduced Hamilton County's per capita personal income to $48,692.
In that decade the wedge between the wealthiest and the poorest counties grew. In 2000, Hamilton stood 2.28 times as wealthy as the poorest county Starke; in 2010 Hamilton's edge against Lagrange (the new poorest county) was 2.44.
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old saint stephens is located in washington county off of US 43 just south of jackson alabama. today the remains of the town of old saint stephens is a alabama historic park. saint stephens was the first territorial capital of alabama. saint stephens was first established in the 1790's on a bluff overlooking the tombigbee river. at this point in the river there were shoals which forced boats to off load their cargo to be carried over land to mobile. this made the town of saint stephens an important trading post and transportation hub. juan vincente folch, the spanish governor of mobile was aware of the economic and strategic importance of saint stephens and built a fort there in 1789. in 1804 mississippi superior court judge ephram kirby visted saint stephens and wrote a letter to president thomas jefferson about his impression of the residents of the town. he wrote "the residents of saint stephens are illiterate, wild and savage, of depraved morals, unworthy of public confidence or private esteems, litigious, disunited and knowing each other, universally distrustful of each other". saint stephens' wild reputation was well known in the mississippi territory and traveling minister lorenzo dow decided to bring religion to saint stephnes. dow was tarred and feathered and run out of town. in 1817 mississippi was granted statehood and saint stephens became the first capital of the alabama territory. the population of saint stephens grew into the thousands and by 1818 there were 500 homes in the town and 20 stores and commercial establishments. the decline of saint stephens began in 1819 when the alabama territorial legislature decided to move the capital to cahawba. also during this time shallow draft river boats were developed and river commerce by passed the town. by 1833 saint stephens had shrunk to a tiny village and by the outbreak of the civil war saint stephens was a ghost town. for those interested in early american history old saint stephens is an interesting place to visit in southwest alabama.
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Those who know recent history at the University of San Diego know one thing about the football head coaching job there.
It can be a huge steppingstone to something very big in the coaching profession. Ask Jim Harbaugh, and now, maybe ask Ron Caragher.
Harbaugh took the giant leap from non-scholarship football to take the Stanford job and parlayed his success there to become the head coach of the San Francisco 49es.
Will Caragher, after six years of great success at USD -- success that includes a 44-22 record and shares of three Pioneer Football Leauge titles -- follow the career footsteps of Harbaugh. Will Caragher take the San Jose State head coaching job if offered to him? We'll have to see.
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Caragher said late Thursday that he interviewed with San Jose State Thursday.
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Caragher said the fact he won't hear back from San Jose until next week will work out for him because he can address the team at the team awards banquet Saturday night.
"I want the focus right now to be on our team, the seniors who are leaving," Caragher said. "If I do take this job it would be bittersweet. We have such a good team coming back, all our recruits."
Caragher said he blended his annual recruiting trip to the Bay Area with a stop at San Jose. He said he started in the Bay Area, visited Sacramento, Stockton, Salinas and then back to the Bay Area.
"I'm from that area, so it's always good to get back there, and I've been doing that for years now," Caragher said.
Meantime, up at San Jose, the Spartans began preparing Thursday for the Military Bowl on Dec. 27 against Bowling Green. The San Jose Mercury News listed eight head coach candidates who Spartans athletic director Gene Bleymaier ought to consider, but Caragher's name isn't on the list. When asked about that, the author of the list, Jon Wilner, said if the list went 10 deep, Caragher would have made it. But like one knowledgeable person close to the situation said, "It doesn't matter where you are on the list. It only matters if you're still standing when the decision is made."
I've seen enough of Caragher to know that he could coach just about anywhere. Give him the opportunity to go Division I right now and there's no doubt in my mind that he could assemble a quality coaching staff, do the right recruiting and develop a bowl team in no time. At San Jose State, he'd be getting a very good situation, unless the team's defensive stars left with defensive coordinator Kent Baer if he's snubbed for the job and decides to follow former Spartans coach Mike MacIntyre to Colorado.
No matter what, Caragher has a very good situation at Alcala Park. Next year he gets all his skill players back and once again USD likely will be favored to win the PFL and, for the first time ever, be eligible for the post-season playoffs.
I only covered Caragher for a portion of the team's games this year, but in that short time I could see knows the game and all facets of it. He surrounds himself with talented assistant coaches who also know the game and know how to motivate young men. He had to replace six assistant coaches before this season and still managed to put together a cohesive staff, a winning group. At San Jose State he'd have a much bigger salary – in the $450,000 a year range – and have a bigger pool to pay coaches. The man he might replace at San Jose went to Colorado for a $10 million contract that includes a pool of $2.6 million a year to pay assistant coaches. That's the kind of money there is out there for talented coaches. Caragher likely would quadruple his salary by stepping up to San Jose State.


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Christopher Nolan: The Banyan Tree
The Banyan Tree
SIXTY YEARS AFTER his death, James Joyce still eclipses Ireland's living literary talents. Any time a new writer blasts off into the stratosphere, there is Joyce waiting in monolithic splendor to swallow up all the glory. (That contemporary writers such as Roddy Doyle, Edna O'Brien, and Patrick McCabe should escape this umbra is a testament to their individual genius.) So it is with grudging reluctance that one brings up Joyce to describe Christopher "Christy" Nolan's first novel, The Banyan Tree. But there is no other way around it: More than any contemporary writer, Nolan has set his sights on confronting Joyce's stylistic legacy. In this new novel, Nolan proves what a fruitless quest that is. Though it should come as no surprise, no one can out-Joyce Joyce himself.
Still, in The Banyan Tree Nolan endeavors mightily to pull it off. Like Ulysses, Nolan's novel conjures the interior life of a primary character with charged, melodic prose. Thus we meet Minnie O'Brien, a luckless yet stolid Irishwoman who strongly resembles Molly Bloom. Nolan begins with Minnie churning cream on her dairy farm, then tacks backward to recount her life story. We see her as the waggle-toothed daughter of a butcher, as the innocent bride of a hearty Irishman named Peter O'Brien, and finally as a widowed mother of three, trying desperately to cull a living from a pasture of diminishing health. Along the way Nolan limns Minnie's consciousness: He reveals her insecurities as a mother, and most poignantly, her attempts to redefine herself in her husband's absence.
Like Joyce, Nolan bludgeons his characters with fate, and Peter O'Brien's death is the first of many sad events that befall Minnie. This run of bad luck includes her children, who virtually abandon her in old age. One goes to England to nurse the battered Englishmen injured in their oppression of Ireland; another goes to Africa and then America to be a bishop when his own townspeople could use a little faith; and the last goes to greener, more successfully farmed pastures. The departure of this son also coincides with the utter decline of the O'Brien homestead. As a result, Minnie is left with only the gnarled roots of her banyan tree, not its loving shade.
The plot twists that convey this unraveling of family life are rather mundane. There are weddings and wakes, small-town run-ins and churchly ceremonies, all decently portrayed. Given their typicality, the most important thing for Nolan is to capture their effect on Minnie. Yet he is not consistently successful in this venture. For example, in conveying how unhinged Minnie is by her aloneness, Nolan offers this sentence: "Minnie tried to sing that billhooked day, but her famished voice didn't remember, couldn't alliterate, wouldn't echo, for her epiglottis stayed closed astride her windpipe, a stunt which gagged sound, sold out on her jugular vein, and in all sternum-stopped her singing."
Taken by itself this sentence seems perhaps just a bit overdone--perhaps more than a bit. Yet in the context of Nolan's own biography this fiercely Joycean prolixity is rather startling. This entire book, it turns out, was composed using a device called a unicorn stick. Having been deprived of oxygen at birth, Nolan is mute and quadriplegic, and must write with a pointer attached to his forehead. It took 12 years and half a million keystrokes for him to finish The Banyan Tree.
In a sense, Nolan seems to have brought the same kind of epic effort to the crafting of each sentence, paragraph, and page of the book, and the ends are both fascinating and often flawed. The book veritably chokes on its language. Verbs become nouns and vice versa; neologisms bloom like out-of-control dandelions. In some cases, the effect can be beautiful, as when he describes Minnie's butter churn as a "druidic, dark drum." But too often Nolan winds up with sentences like "They had had the drama of their odyssey lurexed by cobwebbed immolation." String thousands of phrases like this one together and you have a very, very long cadenza, which drowns out the book's more plain, rustic song.
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Rich in history and rife with Western style, the city of Denton, Texas is located off I-35 about 40 miles south of the Oklahoma border. Denton, a college town, is home to the University of North Texas and Texas Woman's University. It is just minutes from the bass-fishing hotspot, Lake Lewisville.
As you search for apartments in Denton, know that you're in good company – Denton is one of the fastest-growing cities in the country, along with the rest of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. Denton has a commuter rail station on DCTA's A-train, which takes riders to Lewisville and Carrollton.
Denton is home to the North Texas State Fair and Rodeo, which attracts visitors from all over Texas and beyond. Denton also hosts the annual Denton Arts & Jazz Festival. Although it is often referred to as Horse Country, Denton's cultural activities have caught national attention — it was named America's "Best Music Scene" by Paste magazine in 2008. It also made Money magazine's list as one of the best places to live in the country.
Denton Square is the historic center of Denton and is a terrific place for shopping and dining. At the heart of the square you'll find Denton County Courthouse-on-the-Square, the historic courthouse built in 1896. The courthouse is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and contains a museum. It is also the gravesite of the city's founder, John B. Denton.
Businesses located in Denton include Peterbilt, a truck manufacturer, and Jostens, a jewelry producer. With great shopping, restaurants, historic sites, and easy access to nearby cities, you'll enjoy living in your new Denton apartment.
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Look to Central Wisconsin for Value on Top Golf Courses
Fly to California's Monterey Peninsula and reserve a tee time at Pebble Beach Golf Links and you can expect to shell out greens fees of $305 per round (plus cart). Stay closer to home and play a round of golf at Kemper Lakes in Long Grove and you'll pay greens fees of $130 per person (including cart).
Who says golf isn't a rich person's sport? Why, the folks in Central Wisconsin say just that - and with good reason. At local high-caliber courses they have come to expect uncrowded fairways and budget-friendly greens fees ranging between $30 and $50.
For example, at Lake Arrowhead at Nekoosa, ranked by Golf Digest as one of the best golf values in America, golfers pay only $47 per round. At The Ridges in Wisconsin Rapids, greens fees run only $42 for an 18-hole course with challenging elevations and plenty of water and woods - white birch, green willows and towering pines. At RiverEdge at Marshfield, site of many state tournaments, you can play 18 holes for less than $30.
Lake Arrowhead, 42 miles north of Wisconsin Dells and only 13 miles south of Wisconsin Rapids, ranks among the top public golf courses in America and is one of only three Wisconsin clubs to earn the "great value" designation from Golf Digest, an award given to the top 100 courses nationwide in this category.
The Lake Arrowhead golf complex consists of two 18-hole courses: the Pines and the Lake. The Pines course, opened in the early 1980s and designed by well-known course architects Killian and Nugent, challenges the five-handicapper as well as the weekend golfer. It features a manicured par 72 layout combining bentgrass tees and fairways, velvet-like greens and strategically placed sand traps.
Carved out of Wisconsin's big timber country, the course has fairways flanked by lofty oaks and pines and includes five spectacular water holes. Whether or not you make your shot, there is always the scenic beauty of the North Woods surrounding you to make it all worthwhile.
For those interested in combining a little fishing with their golf, 300-acre Lake Arrowhead is stocked with bass, northern pike, walleye and panfish. During summer, the Shermalot Ski Team performs every Wednesday and Saturday evening at the Rome Lions Park.
One of the up-and-coming Central Wisconsin courses is The Ridges Golf Club at Wisconsin Rapids. Around since the mid-1960s, it has been reshaped and vastly improved by its present owners, brothers Dan and Todd Goska. Besides major course improvements, the Goskas added a lighted driving range and a new clubhouse.
Sit in that clubhouse restaurant and watch golfers tee off for the back nine with a shot that begins on an 80-foot-high ridge into a valley flanked by tall pines and a twisting creek. The redoubtable back nine is wooded and tight with several holes that bring a winding stream into play. Overall, you'll find the course deceptively challenging with a spaciousness that belies its tight fairways and the increasing density of trees that enclose the finishing holes. On Sundays $25 buys unlimited golf plus a cart after 1 p.m.
While in Wisconsin Rapids, take time to drive along The Cranberry Highway. The community, located in the geographic center of the state, sits in the heart of one of the nation's major cranberry-producing areas. Although many people visit during harvest in autumn, June brings pretty white-to-pale-pink cranberry blossoms. Blossoms resemble the head of a crane - hence, "crane berry."
As motorists travel the highway, they can stop for a cranberry shake or cranberry muffin or visit a cheese factory for (you guessed it) "cran-jack" cheese, studded with dried fruit. The route runs about 40 miles and includes visits to numerous marsh areas, historic sites, museums, markets, shops and restaurants. …


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RENTON, Wash. (AP) — With the Seattle Seahawks offense finally showing signs of life the last few weeks using a no-huddle offense engineered by quarterback Tarvaris Jackson, backup Charlie Whitehurst was left to practice the no-huddle on his own.
Whitehurst hadn't had many opportunities in practice to get acclimated to the team's new high-paced offense. His experience was limited strictly to work in the preseason and in the team's hotel rooms on Saturday nights.
It was time well spent as Whitehurst was called upon to take the reins of the offense early in the second half against the New York Giants on Sunday.


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Instead of spending time in jail, an Amity man cleaned up around a local thrift shop, straightened shelves and helped move the store to a new location during 40 hours of community service.
Derek Weisend spent about two weeks working at the Lord's Cupboard in Franklin as part of his sentence after pleading guilty to charges of operating while intoxicated and battery. But he went into the community service job and worked hard, and after he finished his court-ordered time the director offered him a part-time job.
Now he's earning a bit of money and wants to go back to school. He's put the late-night party that got him in trouble behind him, he said.
About 300 people, mostly first-time offenders or people convicted of misdemeanors, currently are completing community service as part of their sentences after a criminal conviction, according to Johnson County Community Corrections. They are required to go out to local organizations, such as Goodwill or the Johnson County Animal Shelter, and spend that time at work.
If you visit a local organization such as Goodwill, offenders get a work apron just like any other employee, so you might get help finding dishes or some gently used pants from a person working their court-ordered hours and not even realize it, store manager Kristin Meyer said.
Sentencing people to community service gives them a chance to work with others toward a positive goal, which helps keep them away from criminal activity, Johnson County Juvenile Court Magistrate Marla Clark said.
The county community corrections office keeps a list of local businesses, nonprofits and churches that have agreed to put offenders to work, track their service hours and report back to corrections staff, community corrections director Albert Hessman said. Offenders and the group they're working for both track their hours, typically a total of 40, which helps prevent people from trying to cheat the program, Hessman said.
'A pro-social activity'
Typically those hours are spent doing simple tasks such as mopping floors, pulling weeds or stocking shelves. But that frees up workers to concentrate on other projects.
For example, last year people doing community service at the animal shelter worked 2,245 hours cleaning and doing other projects to keep the property in good shape, which gave employees more time to work with animals or help people looking to adopt a pet, director Michael Delp said.
At Lord's Cupboard, while community service workers are cleaning the shop and straightening out racks, employees can sort through donations and get new items out on the shelves, assistant manager Megan Sims said.
Community service is a good fit for someone who is in trouble for the first time because it requires low supervision and puts offenders in a positive environment, Clark said. She deals mostly with 16- and 17-year-olds in the juvenile court and can put them in community service or have them work in the court's service learning program, where they help tend a community garden to grow produce that is then given away, she said. Those programs allow teens to work with positive role models and do something helpful, such as providing food for someone who can't afford it, she said.
"We know what causes delinquent behavior, and one of the things is peer involvements and antisocial thoughts. Our goal is to get them involved in a pro-social activity and something that contributes to society and get them around better peers," she said.
A few hours of hard work helps give offenders a little more appreciation for their community, Delp said. One offender who helped with outdoor landscaping came back after his service hours were complete to provide some free mulch. Another man came back to install a new blade on the animal shelter's mower after he had been helping cut grass one summer, Delp said. Each of those people wanted to help out more, even though they weren't required to, he said.
The animal shelter typically has four or five people fulfilling community service per day, so many that former corrections officer Mike Park was hired by the county to help monitor the workers and keep track of their progress.
Following the rules
Most of the workers in the program are people who got in trouble for the first time or were convicted of low-level charges, such as driving while intoxicated, so Park has few behavioral problems with workers. Some people who have full-time jobs during the week grumble about having to squeeze in service hours after their shift or on weekends. But Park more often runs into people who don't know how to mop a floor or use a broom and dust pan, he said.
Delp and Park also set strict rules. When serving community service, people don't get to work directly with the animals and aren't supposed interact with people who visit the animal shelter. They've also taken a boot camp-style approach with a 12-year-old who was assigned to community service, telling him he's not to speak unless spoken to first, Delp said.
Other locations are less strict. At Goodwill in Franklin, the 10 to 15 community service workers who show up each month are treated the same as any other employee, Meyer said. When they sign in for the day, they're given a work apron, required to leave their cellphones in the break room and given breaks just like any other employee. They're not working the register or handing out information about tax deductions to people dropping off donations, but otherwise there's little difference.
"The customer doesn't know if they work there or not. Sometimes it might be a question as to where something might be, and if they've been here a few times, they might know where the item is located, or they'll come get another associate," Meyer said.
Lord's Cupboard gets one or two people serving community service per month. They help out around the store, allowing employees to do other work. When someone like Weisend comes in and puts in the effort, the program can benefit them, she said.
"He did such a great job and had a great attitude, and it was a really great experience for him," she said.
His co-workers say he's been a great addition to the staff, and community service helped reaffirm that working hard is the best way to get ahead, he said.
"It is an opportunity for people to show up, work hard and make the most of it," Weisend said. "And that goes for anything in life."


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Milford, Ohio (January 10, 2013) – Henry County Water and Sewerage Authority (McDonough, Ga.) has used equipment from Fluid Conservation Systems (FCS) to create an efficient leak detection program. The program has eliminated nearly 400 million gallons of non-revenue water in the last five years.
Henry County maintains over 1,400 miles of mains to serve its approximately 54,000 meter connections. Its pipelines are constructed of various materials, mostly ductile iron as well as PVC and cast iron, with the oldest sections dating back to 1970. As part of the Metropolitan North Georgia Water Planning District, Henry County is required to submit annual audits of its water distribution system. After a 2007 audit, Henry County saw rising non-revenue water rates and began investigating leak detection programs used by surrounding counties.
Using an empty subdivision with operational water pipes as a test site, Henry County Lead GIS Field Technician Brock Biles conducted side-by-side comparisons of three different leak detection systems. He found that the FCS products sold by Matchpoint Inc. (Wilmington, N.C.) were the most effective at finding leaks.
"Henry County had the most scientific approach to product selection that I had ever seen," said Matchpoint Inc. Vice President, Simon Wick.
After extensive product training from Matchpoint, the county deployed its new leak detection program in May 2007 with 80 Permalog+ acoustic loggers and an AC Digital correlator. By the end of the year, the one-man team had located 26 leaks that generated over 20,000,000 gallons of water per year, saving Henry County an estimated $50,426.
Henry County uses the "Lift and Shift" method of deploying Permalog+ noise loggers, which promotes quick and efficient leak detection with a limited number of logging devices. Loggers are distributed to one area of the water distribution network for a short period of time, retrieved and analyzed for potential leak indications, and then rapidly redeployed to other areas of the system. Information collected is then uploaded to an intranet map of the distribution network, allowing the leak detection team to see a history of leak data and logger deployments for each area of the system.
Since its inception, the Henry County leak detection team has grown to three full time and three part time employees, and saved approximately 380 million gallons of water at a cost of over $933,000. It has become a model among its peers, hosting 10 municipalities since 2011 to demonstrate how the program works.
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