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It has been two years since Colin Gillis disappeared from Tupper Lake, New York. A pre-med student, Colin was visiting home over spring break, and was excited to see his friends at a party that evening. There is not a clear picture of the party, but for whatever reason, it came to a quick end and the 18-year-old left on foot, with no coat, with temperatures in the teens. He was spotted by a person driving by, who quickly reported him to Tupper Lake Police, but when they went looking for the pedestrian, he was no where to be found.
There is large amounts of speculation as to what could have become of the young man and foul play has not been ruled out. Did he somehow get off the road and become lost in the nearby Adirondack Forest? Was there some kind of altercation with a fellow party goer that led to an unfortunate accident? Was he the victim of a murderer? These questions likely plague the minds of Colin's parents who, like all parents of missing children, will never give up hope of finding their son.
The entire area around where Colin was last seen has been thoroughly searched for several weeks after his disappearance, with only a few traces found to show the young man was ever there. There may actually be some salt behind the theory that there was some kind of incident at the party, though nothing official has been released. For a short time, it was believed that serial killer Israel Keyes may have somehow been involved in Colin's disappearance, but that has been ruled out, as it's proven Keyes was elsewhere in that time frame.
So what has become of Colin? Will he ever be found? If you have any information about the disappearance of Colin Gillis, please contact the Tupper Lake, NY Police Department at (518)359-3776 or your local law enforcement. There is a $25,000 reward for information.


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By Randy Shaw, THC Executive Director
THC staff has had great success in 2013 working to improve the quality of life for Tenderloin residents. Ben Ng, our Code Enforcement Outreach Coordinator, exposed grossly substandard living conditions at 308 Turk Street. Supported by tenants, neighborhood residents and organizers with THC's CCSRO Collaborative, Ng's efforts resulted in the building being cited for widespread housing code violations. The City Attorney then sued the building owner, and a receiver was ultimately appointed to operate the building, make the repairs, and sell the property.
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Letter Opener, Lindbergh, King Collection
On May 20-21, 1927, Charles Lindbergh literally flew into history when he crossed the Atlantic Ocean in his Ryan NYP Spirit of St. Louis, thus becoming the first pilot to fly solo and nonstop from New York to Paris. This flight made Lindbergh a household name and catapulted him into fame and celebrity. The objects of popular culture in the National Collection display everything from ashtrays to wristwatches reflect the public adulation for Lindbergh and the powerful commercial response to his celebrity. More than 75 years after the Spirit's historic flight, Lindbergh's name still has the power help sell manufactured goods.
Gift of the Stanley King Family.
Physical Description:
A silver propeller that rests in a wooden base. The base curves upwards from the front to the back to create a cradle for the propeller. The base has a silver plate on the front with "King" etched into the metal. A silver plate on the back of the base has black lettering that gives the inspiration for the design of the letter opener. The letter opener itself is shaped like the Hamilton Standard propeller that Lindbergh took with him on his 1927 trans-Atlantic flight. Two stickers, one on either blade are shaped like an oval with a black border outside of a gold and red design.
- Location
- Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA
- Hangar
- Boeing Aviation Hangar
- Type
- MEMORABILIA-Popular Culture
- Materials
- Wood and metal
- Dimensions
- 3-D: 25.4 x 3.3 x 2.5cm, 0.2kg (10 x 1 5/16 x 1 in., 3/8lb.)


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One of the small minority of cameras I didn't purchase online, I got this one several years ago at the monthly photo swap in SF's SOMA district (sponsored by the aforementioned Photo Supply). It was to be part of a two-body outfit with my old friend the P30t, but in reality I've never taken them both anywhere at the same time, just alternated their use.
Long known as the classic student camera, the venerable K1000 is a world-class manual SLR that is worth now as much as it ever was and takes marvelous pictures. When I say manual I mean it, manual everything. What a great camera this is, to learn on, to use. I'd say more about it but is there anyone who isn't already familiar with it? C'mon, you learned on one too, right? Sadly Pentax stopped making them years ago, supposedly to be replaced by the 'entry-level' ZX-M, more of a successor to the P30t than the K1000. You can still find them in plenty on ebay, though, and if they're in good shape they're holding their value well right along with those old SLR Konicas, Canons and Nikons. Solid? Dependable? It's been my go-to camera for documenting the births of two of my children, if that tells you anything.
The K series evolved from the classic Spotmatic, in fact the K1000 itself is essentially a Spotmatic with a bayonet mount. I read this somewhere and thought, OK, many cameras can trace their lineage back through cameras that came before them. But I acquired a nice blue-black velvet-lined leather Spotmatic case with an Argus C4 inside and, well, the case fits the K1000 like a glove. So there ya go. There were more full-featured K-series Pentaxes before the K1000 (for instance the popular but hard-to-find KX with aperture preview and mirror lockup), but perhaps more features means more failures? At any rate, the scaled-down but dependable K1000 outlasted its higher-end counterparts until it was finally discontinued in 1997.
I didn't show the standard lens because you can see it on the next page, and the Vivitar is to illustrate that there are a wide variety of K-mount lenses available, not just from Pentax but from Vivitar, Ricoh, KMZ-Zenit, Cosina, and many others. However, the Pentax SMC-A 2:50 is one of the best lenses I've ever used. I had a 16"x20" poster print made of a handheld shot of grapes on color print film without any loss of clarity. It's outstanding and has excellent color correction (SMC stands for Super Multi-Coated, a coating system jointly developed with Zeiss that is called T* on Zeiss lenses).
Speaking of lenses, the Pentax K-mount in its various forms is one of the most versatile in history - with only a couple of exceptions, any K-mount body will accept any K-mount lens, and will use any features in common to both lens and body. Here's a table on how this compatiblity works, courtesy of Bojidar Dimitriov's K-mount Equipment Page. Example: I recently brought the K1000 to the camera store and fitted it with a brand new Pentax 80-300 autofocus FA lens. No auto modes since the K1000 doesn't have any but the lens fit like a glove! The P30t would have gained auto-aperture modes. (No, I didn't actually buy the lens...!)
May I just add that I think the K1000 is the perfect size for an SLR, at least for my hands. It's balanced well enough that it's not front-heavy, and there's just enough width to comfortably and securely grip the camera without it feeling either too bulky or too small. By contrast, the Yashica TL Super (which I love) is just slightly longer and feels a little big while the Zenit 12CD is just smaller and heavier enough to feel comparatively unbalanced and I've almost dropped it a couple of times for lack of area to hold it properly.
At one point I noticed the mirror wasn't flipping down. This was basically when I had pulled out the camera to document the birth of our second child and I wasn't sure if I was even getting the pictures - was it a shutter problem? A mirror problem? I didn't really have time to think about it, just shoot and hope. Turns out the foam cushion for the mirror was gummy with age and at slow speeds would stick to the mirror, preventing it from flipping back into place. I figured this out by asking advice on the AceCamera forum (and receiving it from none other than Rick Oleson). I scraped the foam out as advised, and haven't had the trouble since. Now that I've some repair experience under my belt I went back and glued in some felt from a film canister and it's like new (maybe better?).
Tips & Tricks
Something to remember: there's no 'on' switch for the meter, it just reads whatever's in front of the lens, so make sure you LEAVE THE LENS CAP ON when you're not using the camera. Otherwise it will happily meter the wall till the battery dies...
It doesn't bother me with my other classics but because this was my second 'real' camera after the P30t I was struck by the 'dilemma' of not having a film window to see if and what type of film was inside. For $1 or so you can get a stick-on holder for a film box back to go on the film door. I'm not recommending it, just throwing that out there. I think it looks a bit amateur. I've since gotten into the habit of setting the film speed immediately even if I don't have a battery in for the meter, and if I'm not sure if a camera has film I spin the wind knob clockwise a few turns to see if there's any resistance.
Invest in a K-mount to screw-mount or T-mount adapter to take advantage of the many nice used lenses available. Screw mount (M42) will get you your nice Takumar lenses from your old Spotmatic Pentaxes, also vintage Yashinon (Yashica), Meyer-Optik (Praktica), etc.; T-mount is more of a universal standard mount that then uses adapters for the various other mount systems (Minolta, Canon, etc.). I got a K-mount to PSM (Pentax Screw Mount) adapter so I can use my various M42 lenses if I so choose. Expect to pay $15-25 US for such an adapter.
Related Links
- Ah, the manual in JPG form
- Bojidar Dimitriov's K-mount Equipment Page
- K1000 alternatives for sad students
- PENTAX now has manuals for download! (PDF)


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In the midst of the many recalls that have made national news, you may wonder what a recall is, and why it's necessary.
The most notable recalls have been issued by general motors. This year alone, they have recalled millions of vehicles. They had issues with their ignition switch on 6 different GM models, which had caused accidents as well as fatalities. That recall alone had included over 6 million vehicles in the US. There was also 2 truck models, totaling to over 9,000 vehicles affected, that could cause smoke or fire due to an electrical overload under the hood. While not all of these vehicles have experienced a failure, they were recalled to prevent any future issues.
Hyundai has also had their share of recalls. The brake switch recall affected 7 different Hyundai models, and totaled to over 1 million vehicles affected. While this recall did not cause a safety concern, it did affect the vehicle starting, which caused an extreme inconvenience to those affected by it. The most notable recall by Hyundai was their MPG recall issued in 2012. This affected 10 different models, totaling to around 600,000 vehicles. They had given inaccurate fuel economy ratings, which had in turn upset their customers. To fix this issue, they give original owners money back on a prepaid card based on the miles that they drive.
While those recalls have taken over the news in the last few years, they are very minimal compared to the recall issued by Ford in 1980. Ford recalled 21 million vehicles due to some vehicles slipping from park into reverse. According to records, Ford's solution for this issue was sending owners a warning sticker to put on their dashboard. They also hold the second biggest recall, including over 7 million vehicles, in which the the ignition switches could short circuit and cause a fire in the steering column.
There is many more recalls that didn't make headlines, but auto manufacturers are issuing recalls fairly often to fix or prevent issues. If you are ever in doubt, or suspect that your vehicle may be involved in a recall, you can contact your local dealer to have your VIN number checked. Dealers are required to perform recalls, even if your vehicle is outside of the warranty terms.


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SEA URCHIN Age: 295
million years old
SEA URCHIN Size:
110 millimeters by 163 millimeters (4.3 in by 6.4 in)
SEA URCHIN Location:
Brown County, Texas
SEA URCHIN Formation:
Winchell Formation
SEA URCHIN Period:
SEA URCHIN Fossil: Pennsylvanian
sea urchins are echinoderms that can be found today in
all seas of the world. Sea urchin fossils dating back
300 million years reveal that these invertebrates with
their complex structures have existed for millions of
years. During all that time, no change have occurred in
their structure, and they have undergone no intermediate
Darwinists are desperate when confronted by these fossils,
for they prove that the evolution process has never existed.
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A good friend of mine informed me of fresh new way to experience the local art scene in Boston, The Art Bus. On the first Saturdays of the month, between 12-4 p.m., there is a new shuttle sponsored by The Boston Art Dealers Association(BADA) that will allow art goers to park in one area, and travel for free between contemporary art galleries on Newbury Street and the South End. Stops are located at:
Thayer Street & Harrison Avenue
Newbury& Berkeley Streets (in front of the Church of the Covenant)
Newbury & Dartmouth Streets ( in front of Fitz Inn parking lot)
Passes are available for pickup at any BADA member galleries.
The Boston Art Dealers Association, is a organization that fosters cooperation among Boston's contemporary art galleries as well as creates a unified voice of advocacy for contemporary art in Boston. Visit BADA's website for a full list of their member galleries.


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Men's Golf In Contention Heading Into Final Round
May 18, 2012
GREENSBORO, N.C. - Texas Tech will head into Saturday's third and final round of the 2012 NCAA Greensboro Men's Golf Regional in contention for a berth in the NCAA Championships as the Red Raiders stand in sixth place at 13-over.
Despite struggling to a 7-over, 295 in the second round today, the Red Raiders managed to fall only one spot in the team rankings and are just one stroke away from the cut. The top five teams from this regional will advance to the NCAA Championships May 29-June 3 at Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, Calif.
The Liberty Flames continue to hold the lead at even par while SMU is six strokes back (6-over) in second place. No. 17 Florida turned in the best round of the day and climbed from 10th to third place and stand at 10-over. No. 5 Auburn and Lamar are just ahead of the Red Raiders in a tie for fourth place at 12-over.
Should the Red Raiders make the cut tomorrow, it would mark the fifth time in the last seven years that the Red Raiders earned a spot in the coveted NCAA Championships.
Freshman Matias Dominguez regrouped after a disappointing round on Thursday and turned in the team's top score in round two. Dominguez shot 5-over in the first round but was able to shave four strokes off in today's second round to finish 1-over. Overall, he is tied with teammates Finley Ewing IV and Esteban Restrepo for 33rd at 6-over, 150.
Freshman Clement Sordet, Tech's top player, got off to a sluggish start as he bogeyed four of the first five holes and was at 4-over par through five holes. Like he has done all season, he regrouped and logged 11 par's and two birdies to complete the round at 2-over, 74.
Henry Todd, one of four freshmen on the Tech scorecard, also turned in a 2-over, 74 for the day and is tied with Sordet for 18th on the overall leaderboard.
Texas Tech's quest for the NCAA Championships will begin at 6:55 a.m. (CT) on Saturday morning with the start of the final round. The Red Raiders will be paired with Auburn and Lamar and will tee off on the No. 1 tee box. Live scoring can be found at golfstat.com


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New field hockey DVD featuring Jan Trapp (Messiah College Head Coach). In this DVD presentation Jan Trapp and the Messiah College staff take you through the techniques and drills for teaching and developing proper stick work. Coach Trapp has won over 500 games in her career at Messiah and her teams have been invited to the NCAA tournament over 20 times with 14 of those teams reaching the Final Four.
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Inherited IRA
An Inherited IRA is either a traditional IRA or a Roth IRA acquired by the non-spousal beneficiary of a deceased IRA owner.
Expanded Definition
Special rules apply to an inherited IRA. A tax deduction is not allowed for contributions to this IRA, a rollover to or from another IRA owned by the heir is not permitted, and the proceeds must be distributed and taxed within a specific period as established by the Internal Revenue Code.


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"Buy American" Issue Resurfaces
A two-paragraph passage in a nearly 1,600-page, $1-trillion-plus spending bill before the U.S. Congress this week has Canadian exporters and manufacturers crying foul.
Their concern (see page 847 of the bill) focuses on language regarding $2.35 billion in planned spending on U.S. water and sewage treatment infrastructure that proposes to limit the use of foreign-made iron, steel and potentially other manufactured goods on such projects. Canadian exporters fear this would mark a return of the Buy American provision used in the Obama Administration's $800 billion stimulus package back in 2009, which triggered a minor trade row between the U.S. and Canada.
The two countries — whose cross-border trade reaches nearly $700 billion a year — resolved the dispute in early 2010 after Washington granted Canada an exemption from the Buy American provision that expired in September 2011.
The new U.S. appropriation bill, which has received the White House's endorsement, emerged after a breakthrough bipartisan agreement late last year, and was approved handily in the House of Representatives Wednesday. The U.S. Senate will vote on it by the end of the week.
"What this really means is that Canadian companies are excluded from selling into the procurement market in the U.S.," said Jayson Myers, president of the Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters, an Ottawa-based lobby group. "And more than that, it sends a chill through the supply chain because distributors don't want to hold Canadian, or foreign, products if they can't be differentiated from U.S. products."
The contentious piece of the legislation that has Mr. Myers worried states that federal money tapped by municipalities to spend on water and sewage infrastructure projects requires the use of "iron and steel products" produced in the U.S. Those products range from pipes and fittings, to manhole covers, to reinforced precast concrete.
However, the bill contains a section suggesting the Buy American provision has to be applied in a "manner consistent" with Washington's international trade obligations, and would not apply if Washington granted waivers — as Canada received in 2010.
Mr. Myers said the fear is the Buy American provision dealing with water and sewage infrastructure will remain in place indefinitely, and expand in scope to incorporate spending in other sectors of the U.S. economy.
"This is not the direction we would like to see things go," added Ron Watkins, head of the Canadian Steel Producers Association.
A spokesman for Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird — in Washington this week for a series of meetings with senior U.S. officials and lawmakers — said in an email the Canadian government would oppose any re-introduction of Buy American restrictions "because of their negative impact on businesses on both sides of the border." He said Canadian officials would engage in a "meaningful manner" with their U.S. counterparts to ensure the freer flow of goods and services between the two countries.
A Congressional aide said committees in the House and Senate approved of the stipulations attached to the billions approved in water-infrastructure spending. A representative for the U.S. Trade Representative said it would be "premature" to comment on legislation that has yet to be enacted.


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Penlight, Apollo 11
This small flashlight was part of the astronaut equipment available to the Apollo 11 crew on their July 1969 mission to the Moon.
It is constructed with a brass case, and was operated by rotating the bulb end. It was powered by a small battery and had a small velcro tab to keep it secure in the weightless environment.
Michael Collins donated this to the National Air and Space Museum in 1985.
Transferred from NASA - Johnson Space Center
- Country of Origin
- United States of America
- Manufacturer
- ACR Electronics Corporation
- Location
- National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC
- Exhibition
- Apollo to the Moon
- Type
- PERSONAL EQUIPMENT-Miscellaneous
- Materials
- Overall: Brass, glass
- Dimensions
- 3-D: 12.7 × 2.5cm (5 × 1 in.)


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Charles Dharapak, Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is pressing for public support Monday to raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans, a day after he and House Speaker John Boehner met one-on-one for the first time to discuss ways to avert the "fiscal cliff."
Neither side provided details of the weekend meeting at the White House. But with just three weeks until a flurry of tax hikes and spending cuts start taking effect, the mere fact that the meeting happened was seen as progress.
Negotiations continue to center on whether to raise tax rates for the top 2 percent of income earners. Obama, in a campaign-style speech to auto workers in Michigan on Monday, is expected to stress that he won't sign a deal that doesn't include higher tax rates for the wealthiest Americans.
While Republicans have long opposed that approach, some GOP lawmakers are suggesting the party relent on taxes in order to win concessions from the president on changes to benefit programs such as Medicare. Still, Boehner's office indicated Monday that the speaker wasn't ready to take that step.
"The Republican offer made last week remains the Republican offer," said Brendan Buck, a Boehner spokesman. He was referring to a GOP plan that offered $800 billion in new revenue over the next decade through reducing or eliminating unspecified tax breaks on upper-income earners, but not by raising tax rates.
The White House also showed no new signs of flexibility following Obama and Boehner's one-on-one meeting. Spokesman Jay Carney, speaking to reporters traveling with Obama to Michigan, reiterated that there could be no deal without tax rate increases on the wealthiest Americans. But he said the president remains optimistic that both sides can reach an agreement.
"He's eager to get a deal and he believes a deal is possible," Carney said.
Meanwhile business leaders, tired of Washington's partisan bickering creating uncertainty in the marketplace, are emphasizing the need to hammer out a deal before year's end.
"The millions of people that work for us, their lives are in flux. And this is incredibly critical we get this done now," said Jeffrey Immelt, GE's chief executive and head of the presidential advisory council on competitiveness.
Immelt, in remarks aired Monday on "CBS This Morning," added: "Everyone knows we need revenue," because spending cuts alone won't solve the problem.
GOP mavericks are putting increased pressure on their party's leaders to rethink how they approach negotiations with Obama in the wake of a bruising national election that left Democrats in charge of the White House and Senate.
"There is a growing group of folks looking at this and realizing that we don't have a lot of cards as it relates to the tax issue before year end," Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., told "Fox News Sunday."
If Republicans agree to Obama's plan to increase rates on the top 2 percent of Americans, Corker added, "the focus then shifts to entitlements, and maybe it puts us in a place where we actually can do something that really saves the nation."
Conservative stalwart Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma had already floated a similar idea. Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., has said Obama and Boehner could at least agree not to raise tax rates on the majority of Americans and negotiate the rates of top earners later.
"It's not waving a white flag to recognize political reality," Cole said on CNN's "State of the Union."
But such ideas face an uphill battle. Many House Republicans say they wouldn't vote for tax rate hikes under any circumstances. And GOP leadership could lose leverage in the negotiations if it raises the rate on upper-income earners without getting anything substantial in return like entitlement reform.
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Crowdfunding is a relatively new online development that allows a large group of unknown individuals to each contribute a small amount of money to help a cause reach its funding goal. Kickstarter --- a micro-funding website that TIME magazine called one of the 50 best inventions of 2010 --- has become a top source for funding creative projects. Inventors, artists, writers, filmmakers and musicians have received funding on the site. Now many teachers have discovered that they can fund education projects on Kickstarter.
Anyone can post a project on Kickstarter. Projects can be any size, serious or silly, innovative or traditional. What compels donors to support projects on Kickstarter? They are drawn in by an effective project profile that personalizes the project and shows the passion and sincerity of the project owner. According to Kickstarter, over 20,000 projects have been successfully funded in the past two years, representing nearly half of all projects posted.
Kickstarter uses an "all-or-nothing" model for project funding. This means that a project must meet its goal by its funding deadline in order to receive any funding. Donors do not have to honor their pledges until the funding goal is met, so even if a project has received pledges for a large portion of its funding, the project owner gets nothing unless the project is 100 percent funded. Project creators need to carefully plan their funding amount to make sure they get enough to fund their budget but don't ask for more than they think they can raise.
No maximum limit is set on project funding. According to Kickstarter, more than 90 percent of successful projects exceed their funding goal. One of the top projects to date, the Pebble Smart Watch, had a funding goal of $100,000 and raised over $10 million (a pledge of $99 came with a watch). Once a project is fully funded, Kickstarter charges a 5 percent fee and the owner of the project retains 100 percent of all proceeds that it may generate.
Kickstarter can't be used for general funding for classroom supplies (sites like DonorChoose.org are better for general nonprofit fundraising), so a teacher creating a project must have a specific creative goal in mind. Kickstarter is perfect for teachers who are education entrepreneurs.
Here are some examples of successful funding for teachers on Kickstarter:
Just Add Water: Making the City of Chicago
The project was created by teacher Renee Kreczmer to fund publication of a book on Chicago history written for younger elementary school students. The book uses a unique investigative format that encourages students to learn through discovery. The project funding goal was $10,000 and $10,261 was raised.
Teaching Teachers to Teach Vonnegut
The project, which was created by the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library, will develop a free five-day workshop that will help high school teachers incorporate the work of Kurt Vonnegut into their curriculum. The funding goal of the project was $2,000 and $2,205 was raised.
My Best Teacher: The Educational Legacy of Frances and David Hawkins
Former professor Cynthia Gray created this project to complete a documentary about two outstanding educators. The documentary will also examine how students describe their best teachers and best learning experiences. The project goal was $2,500 and $2,580 was raised.
Music teacher and performer Mary Ellen Grace created this project to cover initial publishing costs for a set of instructional books and CDs for wind instruments. The funding goal was $1,600 and $1,625 was raised.


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Mamas Minerals in Albuquerque is having a huge sidewalk sale where everything is on sale due to their upcoming move. On October 1 they will be moving to Old Town and be called 'The Store of a Million Treasures'. The three-day sidewalk sale is Friday August 22- Sunday August 24 with savings of up to 60% off. You can even make an offer to pay less and they may accept it. Savings and sales are to continue until closing of this location, so be sure to stop by even after the sidewalk sale for reduced prices on their many items including beads, stones, wire, jewelry, fossils, crystals, tools, books and much more.
They are located at 1100 San Mateo Blvd NE, Ste 15 near Lomas Blvd. Now is the to stock up on jewelry and stone items because once they move, they're not likely to have as low of prices, especially being in the Old Town neighborhood. The moving sale can also be found online.


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by Budi Kurniawan
Originally published on BEA Dev2Dev May 2005
The Decorator pattern is one of the original design patterns presented in the book "Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software," by Erich Gamma et al. Traditionally, this pattern was popular among Swing programmers who applied it to improve their software. Today, even though many applications are web-based, the Decorator pattern is still applicable and can be used rewardingly in a J2EE setting.
This article shows how to apply the Decorator pattern to servlet request objects. It begins with an introduction to a problem involving servlet filters and explains the Decorator pattern for the uninitiated. It then discusses how to use the pattern in servlets and lists popular servlet-related projects that use it. Finally, this article concludes with a trimming filter that showcases the use of the Decorator pattern in servlets.
The introduction of filters in the servlet specification was very exciting as it introduced a powerful intercept model. A filter is a Java object that can intercept the
HttpServletRequest object before the request reaches the servlet's service method and the
HttpServletResponse object after the control leaves the service method. You can do useful things with filters, such as verifying user input and compressing web content. But the creative use of filters is hindered by the fact that you cannot change the request parameters of an
HttpServletRequest object, because the java.util.Map that contains the parameters in an
HttpServletRequest object is immutable. This greatly reduces the usefulness of filters. At least half the time, you wish you could change the object you are applying your filter to. Wouldn't it be great if you could, for example, write a filter that trims users' input before the
HttpServletRequest object reaches the Struts action servlet? Then you would not need to trim them in your Struts action form's validate methods.
Fortunately, you can use the Decorator design pattern to change the behavior of immutable objects even though you cannot change the objects themselves.
With inheritance, you can change the behavior of an object by extending the object's class and therefore override the methods whose behaviors you want to modify. However, inheritance is powerless if the object in question is constructed by another subsystem in your application, such as an object factory or a servlet container.
The Decorator pattern can also be used to add functionality to an existing object or to change the behavior of an object. Rather than extending the class using inheritance, this pattern wraps an object in another object. Figure 1 shows the UML class diagram of the Decorator pattern.
Figure 1: The Decorator pattern
In Figure 1, the
Component interface defines a component whose implementation is
ConcreteComponent. To change the behavior of
Component, you can modify
ConcreteComponent or extend it. However, if
ConcreteComponent comes from a factory, you cannot do this. What you can do is create a decorator that also implements
Component. In Figure 1, the decorator is represented by
Decorator, which is usually coded as an interface or abstract class. One of the features of the Decorator type is a constructor that accepts a
Component object. You pass the object to be decorated to this constructor; in this case, this object is the
ConcreteComponent object you obtain from the factory. By assigning the decorated object to a class variable in
Decorator, you have access to it from any method in
Decorator. This will then enable you to add behavior to the object.
The Decorator type in Figure 1 does not have to be an interface or an abstract class. If your application is not very complex, you can write the implementation as a concrete
Decorator class.
As an example, consider a simple messaging application that centers on the
Messenger interface and its implementation
MessengerImpl. Let's assume that
MessengerImpl objects come from a factory, so you cannot modify their behavior. If you need to add or change the functionality of
Messenger objects, you can create a
MessengerDecorator class. Figure 2 shows the class diagram for this example.
Figure 2: The
Messenger Decorator
Let's look at the implementation of this application. The
Messenger interface is given in Listing 1 and
MessengerImpl is given in Listing 2.
Messenger interface
public interface Messenger { public String getMessage(); }Listing 2: The
MessengerImpl class
public class MessengerImpl implements Messenger { private String message; public MessengerImpl(String message) { this.message = message; } public String getMessage() { return message; } }
Messenger objects are created by a factory called
MessengerFactory, presented in Listing 3.
MessengerFactory class
public class MessengerFactory { public static Messenger getMessenger() { return new MessengerImpl("secrets"); } }
This factory sets the initial state, that is, the String returned by
getMessage(), of every
Messenger object it creates based on some unknown formula. In other words, you cannot create the
Messenger object yourself.
In your application, the purpose of having a
Messenger object is to pass it to the
broadcast() static method of a utility class called
Util. Listing 4 presents the
Util class.
Util class
public class Util { public static void broadcast(Messenger messenger) { System.out.print(messenger.getMessage()); } // other methods here }
In your own class, you may have the following code:
Messenger messenger = MessengerFactory.getMessenger(); Util.broadcast(messenger);
Suppose, you want to modify slightly the message printed by the
broadcast() method. You want it to be printed in upper case letters. What can you do? Technically, you could subclass
Messenger, instantiate the subclass, and feed the returned object to
Util.broadcast(). However, that would be pointless because only the factory object knows how to initialize a
Messenger object so that its
getMessage() method returns the correct value.
Using the
Decorator pattern, you can create a
MessengerDecorator class, given in Listing 5.
MessengerDecorator class
public class MessengerDecorator implements Messenger { private Messenger messenger; public MessengerDecorator(Messenger messenger) { this.messenger = messenger; } public String getMessage() { return messenger.getMessage().toUpperCase(); } }
MessengerDecorator implements
Util.broadcast() will accept an instance of
MessengerDecorator. However,
MessengerDecorator is not just an implementation; it is a decorator of a
MessengerImpl object. For this, there must be a constructor in
MessengerDecorator that accepts the
Messenger object to be decorated.
As Listing 5 shows, this constructor assigns the argument to a variable. You can now override the
getMessage() method in
MessengerDecorator so that it prints the message in upper case letters. Because you have the reference to the original
Messenger object, you can write your
getMessage() method like this:
public String getMessage() { return this.messenger.getMessage().toUpperCase(); }
getMessage() method in
MessengerDecorator returns the upper case version of the original message.
In your class, you can get a
Messenger object as usual and pass the
Decorator to
Messenger messenger = factory.getMessenger(); Util.broadcast(new MessengerDecorator(messenger));
Instead of passing the original object to the intended destination, you pass to it a decorator of the object.
The example with the
Messenger class above parallels the
ServletRequest objects constructed by servlet containers. Upon receiving an HTTP request, a servlet container creates
ServletRequest and
ServletResponse objects (an instance of
ServletRequestImpl and an instance of
ServletResponseImpl, respectively) and passes the two objects to the specified servlet's service method. Now if you can create a decorator for
ServletRequest and pass it to the servlet's service method , you will have implemented the Decorator pattern.
It is really easy to implement this pattern with
ServletRequest, because the servlet API provides a wrapper class for
ServletRequestWrapper. Figure 3 represents the UML class diagram of a servlet decorator.
Figure 3: The Decorator pattern in the Servlet API
The HTTP version of the class diagram in Figure 3 is shown in Figure 4. Don't get confused by the extra classes. Just focus on the three types (
HttpServletRequestWrapper) in the box.
Figure 4: The Decorator pattern for the Servlet API (HTTP)
This is a similar situation. You have an implementation of
ServletRequest, but it is created by the servlet container. You can decorate these
ServletRequest objects using the supplied
This pattern is easy and applicable in real-world applications. In fact, it has been applied to a number of high-profile applications, including the following.
org.apache.struts.upload.MultipartRequestWrapper class that functions as a
ServletRequest wrapper. Designed to handle file upload,
MultipartRequestWrapper overrides the
getParameterNames(), and
getParameterValues() methods.
PageFlowRequestWrapper class in the
org.apache.beehive.netui.pageflow.internal package functions as a
ServletRequest wrapper that helps in the page flow processing of any Apache Beehive applications.
Let's now study how you can write your own
HttpServletRequest decorator.
This section puts the theory into practice by showing an example trimmer servlet filter that illustrates the use of the
javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequestWrapper class as a decorator template for
HttpServletRequest objects. In this example, the trimmer filter will trim superfluous whitespace from incoming parameters.
This can be useful in many servlet/JSP applications, including Struts and JavaServer Faces applications. For example, Struts populates an action form by calling the
getParameterValues() method on the
HttpServletRequest object. By overriding this method in a decorator class, you change the behavior of the current
HttpServletRequest object.
To create a decorator for HttpServletRequest, you need to extend
HttpServletRequestWrapper and override the methods you want to change. Listing 5 presents the
MyRequestWrapper class that trims the return value of the
getParameterValues() method.
HttpServletRequest decorator
package trimmer.filter; import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest; import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequestWrapper; public final class MyRequestWrapper extends HttpServletRequestWrapper { public MyRequestWrapper(HttpServletRequest servletRequest) { super(servletRequest); } public String[] getParameterValues(String parameter) { String[] results = super.getParameterValues(parameter); if (results==null) return null; int count = results.length; String[] trimResults = new String[count]; for (int i=0; i<count; i++) { trimResults[i] = results[i].trim(); } return trimResults; } }
The trimmer filter that intercepts HTTP requests and decorates the
HttpServletRequest objects is presented in Listing 6.
package trimmer.filter; import java.io.IOException; import javax.servlet.Filter; import javax.servlet.FilterChain; import javax.servlet.FilterConfig; import javax.servlet.ServletException; import javax.servlet.ServletRequest; import javax.servlet.ServletResponse; import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest; public class MyFilter implements Filter { private FilterConfig filterConfig; public void init(FilterConfig filterConfig) throws ServletException { System.out.println("Filter initialized"); this.filterConfig = filterConfig; } public void destroy() { System.out.println("Filter destroyed"); this.filterConfig = null; } public void doFilter(ServletRequest request, ServletResponse response, FilterChain chain) throws IOException, ServletException { chain.doFilter( new MyRequestWrapper((HttpServletRequest) request), response); } }
The trimmer application uses the trimmer filter in Listing 6 to trim user input. To apply the filter you need the following filter and filter-mapping elements in the
web.xml file:
<filter> <filter-name>TrimmerFilter</filter-name> <filter-class>trimmer.filter.MyFilter</filter-class> </filter> <filter-mapping> <filter-name>TrimmerFilter</filter-name> <url-pattern>*.do</url-pattern> </filter-mapping>
To test the filter, invoke the trimmer application and type some values into the form, submit the form, and see how the filter trims the input values. This is a practical, and useful, application of the Decorator pattern.
Servlet filters can be used to pre-process and post-process HTTP requests after the invocation of a servlet's service method. This is very promising but the potential uses for filters are limited because you cannot change
HttpServletRequest objects.
The Decorator pattern can help. This article demonstrated how to apply the Decorator pattern to "modify"
HttpServletRequest objects, thereby making your servlet filters much more useful. In the example trimmer filter, the filter changes user input in the request parameters, something you would not be able to do without decorating the request objects.
Budi Kurniawan is a consultant at Brainy Software Corp. He has architected and developed large scale applications for organizations around the world, and has written several programming books, including Struts 2 Design and Programming: A Tutorial, How Tomcat Works, Java 6 New Features, and Java for the Web with Servlets, JSP, and EJB.


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Who can beat nature, mothers or snails?
Every individual in a population of a species is more or less unique; even a pair of identical twins or clonal individuals may differ from each other in environmentally induced details. Natural selection acts on this variation among the members of a species, but only the genetically determined variation is relevant from one generation to the next.
Intuitively, one expects limits on the variability of a character. Fanciful legends and children's tales notwithstanding, giant men or thumb-sized boys cannot exist, because numerous morphological and physiological constraints would prevent such creatures from being viable. In natural populations what controls the limits of variability is stabilizing selection. For example, in a more or less stable environment, the medium-sized members of a population are usually more likely to survive than those that are either very small or very large. Therefore, it should not be too surprising that the relative standard deviation values for the dimensions of various anatomical characters, not only of mammals1, but probably of any animal species lie between 4 and 10%.
This means that under the watchful eyes of natural selection, mothers2 are not any better than tiny snails3 when it comes to going beyond the limits.
1. Simpson, G.G., Roe, A., Lewontin, R.C. 1960. Quantitative Zoology. Harcourt, Brace & World.
2. The data for the heights of 1052 British mothers are from Pearson, K. & Lee, A. 1903. On the Laws of Inheritance in Man: I. Inheritance of Physical Characters. Biometrika, 2:357-462.
3. The data for the diameters of 131 adult specimens of the tiny snail (mean diameter= 2.2 mm) Vallonia excentrica, collected in my backyard, are from an unpublished study of mine.
4. I acknowledge that a comparison of the variabilities of the heights of humans and snail shells was first presented, using different sets of data, by A. E. Boycott. 1928. Conchometry. Proceedings of the Malacological Society, London. 18:8-31.


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San Diego's Carnifex has been mining metal for nearly ten years now, casting spells with such sunshine-evoking albums as Dead in My Arms and The Diseased and The Poisoned. Fronted by prodigiously-tattooed vocalist Scott Lewis, the quintet—whose moniker comes from the Latin for "executioner" (or, more bluntly, "meat cutter")—opened for the likes of Emmure, Unearth, All That Remains, Born of Osiris, Black Dahlia Murder, and Warbringer.
People took notice. A trifecta of albums on the Victory label earned praise enough to win Carnifex coveted slots three years running at Bonecrusher Fest, during which they whipped audiences at Copenhagen, Munster, and Hamburg into frenzies.
The guys took a break in 2012 but came out of hibernation for the Never Say Die Tour with Impericon and began writing for what would become its fifth album, Die Without Hope. The lineup of Lewis (vocals), Shawn Cameron (drums), Cory Arford (guitar), and Fred Calderon (bass) was rounded out when guitarist Jordan Lockrey signed on. As if the fresh blood wasn't enough to get things pumping at Camp Carnifex, the band then scored a bodacious new record deal with those metal mavens at Nuclear Blast, who issued Die in January.
Produced by Mark Lewis (Whitechapel, Deicide) at Audio Hammer Studios in Sanford, Florida, the disc exploits the same in-your-face doom grooves, banshee wails, and guitar histrionics Carnifex have always promulgated. Cudgel-fashioned cuts like "Dark Days," "Rotten Souls," and new single "Dragged Into the Grave" catch Lewis raging—in full-on goblin voice—about vengeance, war, decay, and total petrifaction of the human heart over stuttering beats, galloping rhythms, and shark-tooth serrated guitar licks.
But the monstrous music is once more offset by lilting pianos and subtle orchestral flourishes whose plaintive interludes provide welcome ventilation amid the mayhem and chaos on "Reflection of the Forgetten," "Last Words," and "Where the Light Dies." Heck, you don't need us telling you about it. The band shot a video diary while making the album:
No strangers to the North Coast, Carnifex will return to Cleveland March 12th top-line a metal show at Agora Ballroom with a half-dozen other skull-crushers on the bill. Even if you're unfamiliar with Lewis and company (or their tour-mates Betraying the Martyrs, I Declare War, and Here Comes the Kraken), the budget-friendly ticket price ensures maximum metal for your concert dollar. That's over five hours of bands for less than twenty bucks.
Lewis' enthusiasm over the new album and road trip was palpable when he phoned last week. So we'll let Carnifex quarterback take it from here.
CLEVELAND MUSIC EXAMINER: Hello, Scott, and thanks for talking with us! Can you tell us a bit about making your new record? What—if anything—was different for Carnifex this time out, as opposed to previous records like Until I Feel Nothing or Hell Chose Me?
SCOTT LEWIS: Well, Die Without Hope is our fifth full-length record. It's coming up on just about ten years as band. Really, the biggest thing that I think was different about this album was that, with previous albums, we'd always been pressured into a schedule and had to divide our attention between touring and writing at the same time. A band like us, we tour in a band, we do our own driving, load all our own gear, and don't have a crew. So when you take all the responsibilities of a tour and try to also find time to write an album, it really doesn't create the best scenario for writing the album. In the past, we had to write albums under those circumstances, and we did the best we could. Never gave anything less than 100%. But that scenario is difficult. So, with this album we didn't have that. We didn't have to divide our time, and we could focus strictly on writing. We took some time—took a hiatus—and came off the road. We haven't done a U.S. tour in nearly two years. With all that out of the way, we could focus on writing an album and fine-tuning it. We could write and re-write until we were completely satisfied with the songs. To me, that's the biggest difference you'll hear with this album.
EXAMINER: Your producer was Mark Lewis, who's done some commendable work with Whitechapel and Devildriver, among others.
SCOTT LEWIS: We have lots of friends who did records with Mark, and we've listened to the albums he's been working on lately with others, and they just sounded great. He did the most recent Whitechapel album, he did the most recent Devildriver and did some previous Black Dahlia records. And everyone had great things to say about him—and those records all sound fantastic—so we took him on. And with Nuclear Blast giving us support, we had a chance to work in some bigger studios. It was pretty much a no-brainer to go with him. I'm glad we did!
EXAMINER: Who are some of your influences? Particularly, who steered you toward metal?
SCOTT LEWIS: Yeah! I think it must've been when I was around 14 when I started listening to metal. Some of the first bands I heard were Cradle of Filth and Immortal. So I was kind of exposed to the European metal before I was exposed to, like, Cannibal Corpse or Dying Fetus. I'd heard more of Cradle and Dissection and In Flames, those bands. So I've always been drawn to melodic metal, melodic music. And I'd always been in bands in junior high school and high school, and never really gave up on it after high school—when I was just working. Because none of the bands had really gone anywhere. Our drummer, Shawn, he's the other founding member, and we started this band in 2005. We'd both been in a whole list of bands that never went anywhere previously. We just kind of went into this with no expectations, thinking it would just be fun to jam and write some songs. And that's how we started writing the first songs we wrote, and it just progressed from there. We never had any expectations or a plan, like "In six months we'll be here." We just did what we liked and tried to be the best band we could be. That's how we've gotten as far as we've gotten.
EXAMINER: Speaking of stamina and endurance, do you have some kind of regimen for keeping yourself in shape on the road and maintaining your voice? Must be rough after a while, roaring like that night after night.
SCOTT LEWIS: Yeah. I mean, I try to take care of myself as best I can. Get the workouts in whenever possible. I'm not a smoker or drinker—I think that helps, not taxing my voice with that. I just try taking care of my voice so I can give the best show I can to the fans. We rehearse quite a bit, and we've been doing this quite a while now, so it's definitely something I've built up endurance for. Like anything, the more you do it, the better you get at it. And we've been doing it a while, and we take it pretty seriously. We give it 100% when we're on the stage.
EXAMINER: I hear background vocals on the record. In the studio, that could be anyone. I mean, it could be you doing some multi-tracking—or it could be someone else in the band. So how do you replicate those layers on the road?
SCOTT LEWIS: Cory helps with that. In the studio it's not a problem. But live, yeah, anything that's layered like that, it's Cory helping me out. We really try to recreate as much of the album as possible—as accurately as we can—with the five-piece band.
Watch Carnifex sign-off on limited edition pre-orders of the new album: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS0TDNQROGNJbM_tcK9CR_w
EXAMINER: As with the catalog of any self-respecting metal band, Carnifex has a lot of tunes that center on—shall we say—darker subject matter. A lot of the songs on Die Without Hope focus on betrayal, anger, and revenge. Obviously, most metal singers aren't writing from experience and don't act out these violent fantasies. How do you approach your lyrics? Is there a bit of theatricality involved, such as couching personal anger into the words as a sort of sublimation, perhaps?
SCOTT LEWIS: Writing for me, lyrically, it's obviously not a complete representation of who I am, personally. It just takes from certain parts. I really try to focus on taking a very small moment in time, maybe taking a single emotion or experience that you have in your life, and I try to stretch that across a whole song and really explore it in as detailed a way as possible. So with the songs, these are all genuine feelings I've had at one point and things I've dealt with—for better or worse—at some point. But they don't necessarily represent me as a whole, you know? Each song is just one part, with a channel where you try and create something that fits the style we're doing.
EXAMINER: Makes sense. The guys in Slayer have always quite rightly pointed out that it just wouldn't make sense to have Tom Araya singing about flowers and candy, given the kind of music they play. So he writes about dark, ugly topics, and sometimes steps in the shoes of serial killers and whatnot. Which usually results in a lot of yelling or scream-singing, because again, it wouldn't make sense to sing softly. There's a need to project—loudly!
SCOTT LEWIS: Yeah, of course there is. With music, or in any type of artistic recreation of an emotion, you definitely try to make people feel something. And in order to do that, you have to go to extremes to make that happen. Especially these days, with so much distraction, so much added content coming at you. You have to make a big statement, or you'll kind of get lost in the mix. So, yes, there's definitely a theatrical thing to it, and there are boundaries between genuine feelings and those you experience and project as a performer.
Watch the official video for "Dark Days" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=By0LmL9aPG0
EXAMINER: Carnifex is a two-guitar band. Who determines which guitarist plays what riffs and solos? Do Cory (Arford) and Jordan (Lockrey) simply hash it out beforehand? Onstage, does it come down to whoever played it on record?
SCOTT LEWIS: Usually it's a whoever-wrote-it-plays-it sort of thing. You'd probably be surprised to know that Shawn, our drummer, is the main songwriter. They'll do their guitar parts, but Shawn and myself do a lot of the writing and arranging. And what's interesting and works in our favor is that Shawn is great with the drums, he's great with arrangements, great with rhythms and patterns—all those things. So what he'll do is, he'll basically write like, 75% of a track. Then Cory and Jordan will come in and add to it. Shawn's just really good at developing foundations for the songs. Then the other guys come in, because Shawn's not the guitar player. He plays guitar pretty good, but he's not the guitar player. They come in and add all the things guitar players are good at doing. They do all the leads and put the icing on the cake, all the solos and great harmonies and stuff like that. And we're thankful that we're pretty collaborative in the writing. It's not a one man show by any means. But as far as deciding which guy does what, it's usually just whoever writes it will play it. No one really has an ego in the band, so it's not something we usually have an issue over.
EXAMINER: Die Without Hope has a lot of orchestration. Not running through the songs, necessarily, but during intros and breakdowns. "Dark Days" features some pretty piano bits and strings. So does the outro in the title track. "Reflection of the Forgotten" also has some nice, quiet piano parts, which I think work quite well.
SCOTT LEWIS: That's something we always wanted to do. I'm not sure if you're familiar with our previous albums, but on some of them—like To Let Go of Nothing—we had some of those elements, but to a lesser degree. The album before that was the same. They kind of just worked their way in over the years, but one thing we wanted to do with this record was bring those elements to the front. We really wanted to give them more attention and more space to be heard. So as far as deciding where those parts were going to be, and deciding which arrangements they were going to be in, again, that was Shawn. He wrote a lot of those parts. Then we had a pianist friend of Shawn's named Kathy come in, who actually plays piano. She would come in and perform the stuff. And I think what's great is, Shawn builds these foundations with scales and harmony for those instruments, then you have someone who is proficient at that instrument come in and take it to the next level. Same thing there. Shawn would build a nice foundation, and Kathy would come in and do the piano and realize, "I can add this layer or do this harmony thing." Stuff like that. We really wanted to have those showcased on the album, and I think—as you pointed out—we let the metal lay back a bit when those parts come to the fore. But yeah, that was definitely something we purposely wanted to do, something we were striving for. It's good to hear that other people besides us recognize that. Sometimes it's hard to tell, when you're that close to an album.
Listen to a sample of "Salvation is Dead" by Carnifex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=0nGba4wqK_Q
EXAMINER: You're starting the tour next week, yes?
SCOTT LEWIS: Yeah, the first show is here in San Diego on February 21st and it concludes on March 29th in Anaheim, which is just up the road from us in Orange County. You're gonna know the exact date of the Cleveland show—I can't think of it off the top of my head.
EXAMINER: March 12th at the Agora.
SCOTT LEWIS: Yeah. And I Declare War is also on the tour. We haven't played with Here Comes the Kraken before. But all the other guys, yeah. Got to know them over the years on the road. It's a great tour, and we try to keep the ticket price low. We play an hour-long set, and we bring the full production out. We're playing some of the new tracks, we'll have the album for sale, and we'll do some of the classics that everyone wants to hear. So it'll be good to get back on the road after so much time for us. Whenever we played Cleveland, it's always been at Peabody's—so I'm interested in seeing how that goes!
EXAMINER: Peabody's is gone. It closed, then they actually razed the building. It's torn down. The owner / promoter guy, Chris, moved his shows to the Agora Ballroom. So it's probably the same people.
SCOTT LEWIS: Okay, yeah. But it's not the same building, is it?
EXAMINER: Nah. Peabody's was on E. 21st, and the Agora is down the same street a few blocks on E. 55th.
SCOTT LEWIS: Yeah, every time we played Cleveland—and we've played it a lot since 2006—it's always been Peabody's. Without fail! Like, fifteen times, you know [laughs]!
Carnifex (with Die Without Hope, Betraying Martyrs, I Declare War, Here Comes the Kraken, Assassins, Bless the Child). Wednesday, March 12, 2014 at Agora Ballroom (5000 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland OH 44103). Doors at 6:00pm.
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The San Antonio Spurs Caravan Tour is slated to hit the road this summer to bring fans outside the San Antonio area an opportunity to take photos with the NBA championship trophy.
Interactive games will also be taking place at the events, giving fans a chance to win Spurs themed items.
San Antonio defeated the Miami Heat in a dominating 4-1 series victory, giving the Spurs the fifth title in the team's storied franchise history.
Following a massive celebration on the River Walk, where Spurs players and coaches were cheered and shown love and appreciation by the entire city, the championship trophy will now take a Texas tour.
According to NBA.com, the Silver Dancers and Team Energy will travel to Laredo, Corpus Christi, Boerne, and Austin.
The summer stops will take place at Academy Sports + Outdoors stores, along with other local events, to give Spurs fan throughout the state a chance to celebrate the team's title.
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Saturday, July 19 – Laredo, TX
11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.- Academy Sports + Outdoors (10820 International Blvd.)
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Friday, July 25 – Corpus Christi, TX
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Every year since 1901 the Nobel Prize has been awarded for achievements in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and for peace. The Nobel Prize is an international award administered by the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden. In 1968, Sveriges Riksbank established The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, founder of the Nobel Prize. Each prize consists of a medal, personal diploma, and a cash award.
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Hermann J. Muller* (Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology) - 1946 - Affiliation at the time of the award: Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
Ilya Prigogine* (Nobel Prize in Chemistry) - 1977 - Affiliation at the time of the award: Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA
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Mozilla's Firefox web browser just got its latest six-weekly update bumping the version number up to 17. The outfit included the usual batch of bug fixes, claimed performance improvements and has integrated a preview of Firefox's impending integration with Facebook that will allow Firefox users to check on pointless bits of gossip on Facebook without having to switch tabs.
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