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Make a pattern-powered Milli cake for your next party!
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Tint 3/4 cup of the vanilla frosting neon pink with the food coloring. Tint 3 tablespoons of the vanilla frosting a lighter neon pink and spoon into a plastic resealable bag. Tint 1/2 cup of the vanilla frosting pale peach by adding a dot of red and yellow food coloring to the vanilla frosting. Tint 1/4 cup of the vanilla frosting orange by combining red and yellow food coloring. Spoon the orange frosting into a plastic resealable bag. Spoon 1 teaspoon of vanilla frosting into a plastic resealable bag. Tint the remaining vanilla frosting bright yellow with the food coloring. Spoon the yellow frosting into a pastry bag fitted with a large plain round tip.
Trim 1/2 inch from the top and bottom of the cake to make it slightly oval-shaped. Transfer the cake to a serving platter. Spread the pale peach colored frosting in a 5 inch circle at the bottom edge of the cake to make Milli's face. Spread along the edge as well and make smooth. Spread the neon pink frosting smoothly on the remaining exposed cake to make the helmet. Snip a very small (1/8 inch) corner from the bag with the light pink frosting and pipe small flower shapes all over the pink helmet.
Unroll the red fruit leather strips. Lightly moisten the strips with some water. Fold each strip in half and press together to double its thickness.
Use black frosting to pipe Milli's eyes and the brown frosting for her mouth. Snip a small corner from the bag with the vanilla frosting and pipe a dot of white in her eyes. Snip a 1/8 inch from the bag with the orange frosting and pipe the bangs and eyebrows. Pipe a ring of the yellow frosting around the edge of the face frosting and add 2 dots to the top edge of cake. Press a pretzel stick into the center of each yellow dot of frosting and leave 1 inch exposed. Pinch one end of the fruit leather strip and insert into the yellow dot of frosting--use the pretzel as support. Repeat with the other strip. Arrange the red fruit leather to look like Milli's ponytails.
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Take time out on East Suffolk's Heritage Coast in one of our Aldeburgh cottages - perfect for a quiet, relaxing break by the sea.Picture an old-fashioned prom edged with pastel-painted houses. A pebble beach lined with fishermen's huts. A high street made for browsing and all sorts of places to eat and drink from posh nosh to fish 'n chips. Look out for the Lifeboat Station and also Moot Hall, an imposing timber-framed building housing an interesting local museum.
Stroll along the beach to see Maggi Hambling's controversial 'Scallop' sculpture. Continue on to Thorpeness, a former fantasy holiday village associated with Peter Pan, featuring mock Tudor and Jacobean architecture as well as a boating lake.
Aldeburgh cottages and fantastic festivals
Composer Benjamin Britten spent most of his life here and founded the renowned Aldeburgh Music Festival, an extravaganza of classical concerts performed every June in the splendid grand hall of Snape Maltings. (Should you stay at a different time, the Maltings is still a wonderful place to visit, with shops, eateries and lovely walks across reed beds.)
If culinary master-classes and sampling mouth-watering local produce are more up your street, time your stay in an Aldeburgh cottage around the Food and Drink Festival, highly popular and attracting a string of leading chefs.
Or opt for the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival and enjoy workshops with respected writers and rising talent.
What else? River trips, sailing, golf, cinema - entertainment to suit every mood. And as all our Aldeburgh cottages nestle amid an AONB, expect amazing scenery and outdoor activities all around.

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Street-Food Myths That Need Debunking
Some years ago I spent a week traveling across Sri Lanka in the back of a taxi. After five days of mediocre hotel meals I was eager to get back to street eating. I was in Kandy, the market was in full swing, and so I asked my taxi guy – who'd grown up in the city — to recommend a stall. "Oh no, Madame, you mustn't eat that food. It's dirty," he said, and wouldn't be convinced otherwise.
That Asia is overflowing with taxi drivers eager to share their wealth of obscure gourmet finds is one of the most enduring of street food myths. I've been putting it to the test for years and very occasionally I've struck gold, as when an elderly driver on Penang tested the limits of my stomach's capacity with an unsolicited three-hour tour of gold-star hawker stalls. But more often than not, I've been disappointed. That cab drivers in Asia may not be the best guide to stellar street eats is not so surprising. After all, when on duty, they're usually not seeking food that's fabulous, but whatever is quick and cheap and comes with convenient parking. More irritatingly, many accustomed to tourist fares can't go beyond their own notions of what foreigners "can" eat to direct us to anything truly local.
Another street food fallacy: a long line guarantees fine fare. Sometimes a 40-minute wait for plate of char koay teow or a bowl of banh can cua is rewarded with a transcendent gustatory experience. But hawker-food fame – whether gained through word of mouth, a slew of positive blog reviews or inclusion in a best-selling guidebook – tends to be self-perpetuating, and often celebrity persists long after the product dished up at that "famous" stall has ceased to merit it. Or a renowned vendor serving a mediocre version of a well-known local specialty might be trading solely on his or her prime geographical position, while the stalls of those serving superior versions of the same dish struggle to attract crowds to their out-of-the-way locations. In such cases that queue snaking from a stall is more a testament to the power of visibility than a marker of greatness.
And then there is the myth of the foreign face as the non-indicator of deliciousness. "Your best bet? Eat only where the locals eat," advises many a street food connoisseur. But in Asia, with its lengthy history of migration, how often can you accurately finger a foreigner based on appearance alone? That "local" sitting next to you in a wonton mien joint in Hong Kong might well be from Malaysia, Singapore, Bangkok or Beijing.
Of course, as a Westerner, I always stand out like a sore thumb. I can't count the number of times I've been relishing a favorite street dish in Penang when fellow non-Asians have approached, spied my non-Asian face and quickly moved away. Slaves to a street food fallacy, they never knew what they missed. And probably ended up at a stall crowded with Singaporeans.
My advice if you're looking to eat well on the street? Ask everyone, not just taxi drivers. Don't be put off by a short line or a few unoccupied tables. Use your nose, and your eyes. In the end they may be your best guide.
Readers, do you agree with our tips? What other street-food myths have you encountered? Leave your thoughts in the comments.
Robyn Eckhardt has grazed sidewalks from home bases in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Bangkok, Saigon and Kuala Lumpur, and now writes on food and travel from Malaysia's hawker-food capital Penang. Follow her on Twitter @EatingAsia


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"Can I get you anything else?" asked ten-year-old Angel Gutberlet as she wound her way through the crowded dining hall at Norwood United Methodist Church Thursday afternoon.
Gutberlet, along with her five siblings - Mayleigh Seagle, 10, Alexsandriah Gutberlet 8, Hayleigh Thompson, 6, Zach Gutberlet 5, and Myah Barickman, 3 - were part of an army of volunteers helping at one of many community Thanksgiving Day meals served across the Mid-Ohio Valley.
"It's good to dedicate your time," said Mayleigh, as she went around scooping up empty plates.
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Sisters Myah Barickman, left, and Angel Gutberlet, center, grabbed a drink for Duane Murray, 73, of Marietta Thursday afternoon at Norwood United Methodist Church's annual Thanksgiving Day community meal. Thanks to support from several area churches, the meal was able to serve over 400 individuals both at the church and through area deliveries.
Meanwhile in Lowell, another group of youthful helpers took orders and ran heaping plates of turkey, mashed potatoes, and ham back from the kitchen to appreciative community members at the Lowell United Methodist Church.
"It's kind of a whole church effort. We really like to involve our youth." said event organizer Cindy Worthington, of Lowell.
At NUMC in Marietta, around 200 community members gathered to enjoy the free traditional Thanksgiving Day meal, generously provided by the support of ten area churches and a few private donations, said event coordinator Tom Insley.
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Norwood United Methodist Church
328 pounds of turkey
100 pounds of ham
8 pounds of mashed potatoes
12 pounds of green beans
96 boxes of stuffing
46 dozen rolls
50 pumpkin pies
6 cans of whipped topping
60 serving sheet cake
Lowell United Methodist Church
50 pounds of turkey
15 pounds of ham
5 gallons of mashed potatoes
3 gallons of green beans
10 boxes of stuffing
6 dozen rolls
10 pumpkin pies
6 gallons of noodles
"This more of a community dinner. This is not just our church's dinner," added Insley's wife, Vicky.
The church also delivered another 234 meals to those who could not make it, said NUMC member Bonnie Rake, who oversaw the deliveries.
In putting together over 400 meals, the church purchased 328 pounds of turkey, 100 pounds of ham, 96 boxes of stuffing, 46 dozen rolls, 8 pounds of mashed potatoes, 12 pounds of green beans, and 50 pies.
The food, which is purchased at nearby Food 4 Less, cost around $1,000. Additional expenses, such as plates and napkins, made the total cost of the meal nearly $1,400, said Tom Insley.
"Area churches furnish this meal. We couldn't do it without their support," he added.
Thursday marked the church's fourteenth community Thanksgiving Day meal, and the event has become a Thanksgiving Day custom for many attendees.
"We've just kind of made it a tradition. We come every year," said Florence Schlotterbeck, 64, of Marietta.
The event is also the perfect excuse to meet up with friends and maybe meet some new ones in the process.
"I've seen a few familiar faces," said 43-year-old Dan Chociej, of Marietta.
Chociej's relatives live in Washington and the meal is a good opportunity to get out and socialize on Thanksgiving Day, he said.
In Lowell, around 30 people enjoyed the Thanksgiving bounty. Though the crowd was smaller, it was not lacking in that same spirit of good food and friends.
Gaerry Imes, 75, came to Lowell from Zanesville to visit his sister. He and sister Carolyn Imes, 73, came to the last year's meal and decided to make it a tradition.
"I just get down here three or four times a year, for special events and stuff," said Gaerry.
"Did you just say I'm special?" joked Carolyn.
Being surrounded by friends is what makes the meal so special, added 83-year-old Lowell resident Flo Parcell.
Plus Parcell added, "I don't have to cook!"
The community Thanksgiving meal, which is in its second year, is one of three ministries the church has in the works, said LUMC Pastor Pamela Lashley. The Ramp Up For Jesus program allows community members in need to borrow one of the church's aluminum wheelchair ramps for as long as needed and the Serving One Another Positively, or SOAP program, provides free health and beauty supplies, such as toothpaste, laundry detergent and shampoo to those in need, she said.
"We're lucky to have such a loving, caring group of people here," added Lashley.
A spirit of camaraderie is exactly what the church had in mind when they planned the first dinner last year, said Worthington.
"It's great to be able to feed someone who might not have a Thanksgiving, but the fellowship is more important than anything," she said.
Free Thanksgiving meals were also offered at other churches throughout the community Thursday.


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Published: Sunday, November 11, 2012 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, November 10, 2012 at 5:03 p.m.
Lillian Catherine Wertz, 83, of Tuxedo died Thursday Nov. 8, 2012 at Mission Hospital
Funeral Services will be held at 2:00 PM Monday, Nov.12, 2012,at Thos. Shepherd's Church Street Chapel, conducted by Rev. Sherman Waters. Burial will be at Forest Lawn Memorial Park.
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Hi everyone, from now until the rains all the classes given by Bhante Sujato at Santi will be uploaded to youtube. These will be both sutta classes (from the Majjhima Nikaya) and miscellaneous classes such as our Vinaya and Buddhist Philosophy classes. The video content is exactly what the class sees on the projector screen, while the voice content is like the normal sutta classes. Having the visual content should make the classes easier to follow.
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Moberly City Manager Andy Morris told the MMI on Thursday afternoon (Aug. 29) that Wednesday afternoon's (Aug. 28) special session of the Moberly city council at the Moberly City Hall yielded a closed executive session.
"No votes were taken," Morris said.
He did note that discussion was had during the closed session, though, and that the purpose said meeting was communications with attorneys in regards to pending litigation.
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Janaury 18, 2006
Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue makes a stop in the Garden City to get out his legislative agenda. But the governor's stepping into a heated political climate, with the Augusta commission divided on many issues. News 12 has more on the visit.
The political climate in Augusta has reached the governor's desk. But he's sticking with a message of better education during stops across Georgia.
With a rousing introduction from Representative Charlie Norwood, Governor Perdue took on the friendly crowd of supporters. In the front row alone were two mayors, a commission chairman and a member of congress. He's laying out his budget and legislative agenda.
"Our three priorities are pretty simple. They're education, education, education," Perdue said. "It's sure a whole lot easier to teach 23 students than 27, 25 rather than 29. The absolute max is going to be 28," Perdue said.
For Deke Copenhaver, it's his first face-to-face meeting with the governor since he was elected Augusta's mayor. And a topic of discussion, proposed changes to Augusta government to avoid endless meetings and fruitless votes.
"My stance on that is ultimately the people need to decide the issue and if we can come to resolution, let's ask the people," said Mayor Deke Copenhaver.
"The great thing about local politics is it's local. The citizens usually know what they want. I trust in that their representatives will listen to them. I'm aware of the change proposed. But as Governor of Georgia, that's a local issue and I don't have to get involved in every local issue," Governor Perdue said.
Governor Perdue clearly trying to stay far away from that issue.
After his town hall meeting at Enterprise Mill, Perdue hopped on a plane to Savannah to continue spreading his message.


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About the Book
Why settle down when you can hook up?
"Happily married people and perpetually single people are similar: We've both given up on dating and have merely chosen different exit strategies."
So begins Aaron Karo's hilarious exploration of bachelor life, from the alcohol-fueled pursuit of chicks in bars to sophisticated advances on defenseless bridesmaids. As his thirtieth birthday approaches, Karo observes the women around him growing increasingly desperate to tie the knot and finds himself equally determined—to remain uncommitted. What follows is an outrageous account of one man's quest to party like a rock star, get laid with abandon, and silence his critics in relationships with the rebuke "I'm having more fun than you." Irreverent, insightful, and relentlessly funny, Karo offers a unique glimpse into the world of guys who defy convention, morality, and their moms in order to preserve their independence.
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"Study the book I'm Having More Fun Than You by the hilarious Aaron Karo. He'll explain to you exactly how guys think." — E. Jean Carroll, Elle
"Comedian Aaron Karo's new book is a seriously funny ode to single life. He explores the mating dance between single men and women with hysterical insight and brutal honesty." — BettyConfidential.com
"A cock-sure celebration of being single, filled with Karo's ultra-male observations from being happily alone and tons of tips on how to stay unhitched." — Punchline
Karo discusses the perks of being single when everyone else you know is getting hitched. Whether your friends are getting married or just act like it with their long distance boyfriend of 4 years, you will relate, laugh, and maybe even pee a little." — CollegeCandy.com
"Aaron Karo never apologizes for being single; in fact, he encourages it." — AskMen.com
"An ode to the beer-drinking, chick-banging perennial bachelor." — TheFrisky.com
"A tribute to single guys in their late 20s and early 30s who can't stomach the idea of being in a serious relationship, and who ponder their next walk of shame more than a walk down the aisle." — A.M. New York
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"All about how great it is to be single and unattached." — Comedy Central Insider
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January 11, 2013
Pocket-sized credit card processor launched
Payatrader.com has introduced the UK's first pocket sized, standalone card processing terminal with electronic receipting – specifically aimed at small traders and SMEs. The PayMate terminal allows traders to take immediate card payment, avoiding worries about chasing payment at a later date. The terminal is a fully accredited, secure chip and pin device with immediate authorisation and cardholder authentication.
New adjudicator to help struggling pub landlords
A new independent Pubs Adjudicator will be set up by the coalition Government to help landlords suffering from unfair practices. It will enforce a new statutory code that will oversee the relationship between publicans and large pub companies to ensure publicans get a fair deal on rent and the prices they pay for beer. Business secretary, Vince Cable said: "Some pubcos are exploiting and squeezing their tenants by unfair practices and a focus on short-term profits. This has led real hardship for some publicans, who are going to the wall as they struggle to survive on tiny margins."
The verdict is in – Christmas sales were up, but not by much
"A flat end to a flat year," is how David McCorquodale, head of retail at KPMG, has described Christmas trading in 2012. Together KPMG and the British Retail Consortium (BRC) have revealed that UK retail sales values were up 0.3% on a like-for-like basis from December 2011, when they were up 2.2% on the preceding year. Online sales were up 17.8%, the fastest growth since December 2011, when they had risen by 18.5%. Helen Dickinson, BRC director general, said: "Against the relentlessly tough economic backdrop and low expectations, these results are not a cause for celebration, but not a disaster either. Online was the stand-out performer, showing its highest rate of growth this year."
Unusual items used as loan collateral by small firms
A collection of French porcelain, vintage wine, an £81,000 stamp collection and a couple of gold bars were just some of the items people have used as collateral in order to get funds for their business, according to borro, the personal asset lender. The average loan value to SMEs (who make up the majority of borro's loan book) has risen 41%, from £17,000 to £24,000, since last year. Borro CEO, Paul Aitken, said: "An increasing number of people recognise they have accumulated a wealth of personal assets that can temporarily be turned back into cash, quickly and easily. For small business owners and SMEs this is especially important when needing to realise a business opportunity that would not have otherwise been possible."


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Friday Feb 13
Food from the Heart 2015
Food From The Heart at the Ferry Building Marketplace kicks off on Friday, February 13 with a benefit for Slow Food San Francisco from 5:00 - 7:30 p.m.. The public is invited to stroll the candlelit Grand Nave where the merchants and restaurateurs of the Marketplace will offer seasonal hors d'oeuvres and Slow Food will pour wine from several wine bars. Food and wine tickets will be sold in $2 denominations - 2$ and 4$ for food tastes and $6 for tastes of wine. There will be tango dancing and music throughout the Nave. Proceeds from wine bar and hors d'oeuvres purchases benefit Slow Food San Francisco. The entire Marketplace will be open until 8:00 p.m. for Valentine shopping.


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Definición de discharge en inglés:
verbo[with object]
1Tell (someone) officially that they can or must leave, in particular.
Oraciones de ejemplo
- They stressed that staff would not be actively discharging anyone and no programme was in place to reduce the number of users by a set target.
- Most of these discharged students are in fact believed to have been forced out, which would make the true drop-out rate 25 to 30 percent.
- They discharged their legal team over a year ago after spiralling costs threatened to ruin their business.
1.1Send (a patient) out of the hospital because they are judged fit to go home.
Oraciones de ejemplo
- The patient was discharged to his local hospital with plans for treatment with chemotherapy.
- The patients were discharged from the hospital within 48 hours of surgery.
- We made baseline assessments in the 24 hours before patients were discharged from hospital and assigned to the intervention.
1.2Dismiss or release (someone) from a job, especially from service in the armed forces or police.
Oraciones de ejemplo
- A group of former members of the armed forces who were discharged from the military for being gay have filed suit asking to be reinstated.
- On 19th October 1994 he was discharged from the police on the grounds of permanent ill health.
- The four applicants, three men and one woman, had been administratively discharged from the armed forces under this policy.
dismiss, eject, expel, throw out, give someone notice;
release, let go, fire, terminate;
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informal sack, give someone the sack, boot out, give someone the boot, turf out, give someone their marching orders, show someone the door, send packing, pink-slip, give someone the (old) heave-ho
1.3Release (someone) from the custody or restraint of the law: he ordered that 1,671 prisoners of war be discharged from prison
Más ejemplos en oraciones
- This is because they have been discharged from detention under the Act, not because they have been placed under supervision.
- I reject the submission that this duty only comes into existence when the applicant is discharged from Broadmoor.
- We remain instructed in relation to his application to be discharged from prison but emphasise that apart from the request contained herein we have had no role in his appeal against sentence.
release, free, set free, let go, liberate, let out
1.4Relieve (a juror or jury) from serving in a case.
Oraciones de ejemplo
- We have no hesitation in finding that the judge was not only entitled under common law to refuse to discharge these jurors, but would have been wrong had he done so.
- In any event, even if that discretion could be attacked it was in no way the fault of the prosecution that the jury was discharged on that occasion.
- But I would add to the fact that his Honour does appear to have applied the correct test concerning the need to discharge the jury.
1.5 Law Relieve (a bankrupt) of liability.
Oraciones de ejemplo
- In part it can probably be attributed to the fact that the Enterprise Act has resulted in most bankrupts being automatically discharged after just one year.
- Currently every first-time bankrupt is discharged automatically either two or three years after the date of the bankruptcy order depending on how much was originally owed.
- From now on, most bankrupts will be automatically discharged after just one year instead of two to three years and, in some cases, discharge could come even earlier.
1.6Release (a party) from a contract or obligation: the insurer is discharged from liability from the day of breach
Más ejemplos en oraciones
- If you have already studied the law of contract, you may remember that there are a number of ways in which contracts may be discharged so that parties no longer have any obligations under them.
- Generally the parties are discharged from the performance of any future obligations.
- In the end, that was what this arrangement depended upon, that the putative trustee should acquire the property beneficially and be discharged of its obligations.
2Allow (a liquid, gas, or other substance) to flow out from where it has been confined: industrial plants discharge highly toxic materials into rivers [no object]: the overflow should discharge in an obvious place
Más ejemplos en oraciones
- In the Baltic Sea, similar dumps have started to discharge mustard gas, forming a jelly on contact with water.
- It would tackle the amount of raw sewage being discharged into local water courses and remove the need for householders to have septic tanks maintained and emptied.
- The station was allowed to discharge sewage into the river during an emergency and was supposed to have alarms fitted to act as a warning when there had been a pump failure, but none of them worked.
send out, release, eject, let out, pour out, void, give off
2.1(Of an orifice or diseased tissue) emit (pus, mucus, or other liquid): the swelling will eventually break down and discharge pus [no object]: the eyes and nose began to discharge
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- A 23 year old woman was referred by her general practitioner with multiple, unsightly lesions on her right pinna, which occasionally discharged pus.
- He said that his ears were swollen and bleeding and discharging pus.
- Maybe you should also disqualify those golfers who discharge phlegm from their mouths while playing.
emit, exude, ooze, leak
2.2 Physics Release or neutralize the electric charge of (an electric field, battery, or other object): the electrostatic field that builds up on a monitor screen can be discharged [no object]: batteries have a tendency to discharge slowly
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- It is recommended that you fully charge and discharge the new battery two to four times to allow it to reach its maximum rated capacity.
- If the concentration of such a species is high enough that it does not change much as the battery is discharged, then the voltage output remains nearly constant.
- If it is a battery that is shorted, the battery will be discharged very quickly and will heat up due to the high current flow.
2.3(Of a person) fire (a gun or missile): when you shoot you can discharge as many barrels as you wish
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- He had thought he was a sufficient distance away from the neighbour's boundary when he had discharged the firearm.
- The facts were that the lady discharged her firearm against two youngsters who were totally innocent of any misdemeanour.
- He has said he declined to report the incident at the time because he had illegally discharged a firearm in a national park.
fire, shoot, let off;
set off, trigger, explode, detonate
2.4 [no object] (Of a firearm) be fired: there was a dull thud as the gun discharged
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- When he attempted to fire again, his 9mm pistol would not discharge; looking down, he saw it was jammed.
- His gun discharged and the beam shot towards me.
- After the shotgun had discharged he placed it in a rubbish bin and crawled back to his home address.
2.5(Of a person) allow (an emotion) to be released: he discharged his resentment in the harmless form of memoirs
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- How could anyone who cannot discharge negative emotions over a long time not be depressed?
- He needed to discharge the emotion of the situation: to turn the focus of attention away from himself before he lost his composure entirely and sat down and wept.
- It can also be caused by unemployment as lack of jobs discharges frustration and in certain cases, depression.
2.6Unload (cargo or passengers) from a ship: the ferry was discharging passengers [no object]: ninety ships were waiting to discharge
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- It depicts a sloop leaving a dock after having discharged a group of passengers.
- At the port, a cargo ship docked and discharged heavy trucks of the kind used to carry tanks or other heavy armour.
- Since we were not going to hit the Floral Park station where we could stop at a platform, we would now need to return to Jamaica to discharge the passengers.
unload, offload, put off;
3Do all that is required to fulfill (a responsibility) or perform (a duty).
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- That was the only time that he was actually unable to perform or discharge the duties of the president.
- He said he was required to discharge his duty free from interference from any other authority.
- For success, all these people are required to discharge their duties.
carry out, perform, execute, conduct, do;
fulfill, accomplish, achieve, complete
3.1Pay off (a debt or other financial claim).
Oraciones de ejemplo
- He discharged that debt by helping them overcome the protests building against their movie.
- And lawmakers want to make it easier for victims to discharge storm-related debt.
- But if I can discharge its debts, it enables me to dispense with the popular code.
pay, pay off, settle, clear, honor, meet, liquidate, defray, make good
informal square
4 Law (Of a judge or court) cancel (an order of a court).
Oraciones de ejemplo
- It may well be that in the light of that report the authority will wish to apply to the High Court to discharge the consent order made last year.
- However, in an appropriate case the Court may and should discharge the order on its own initiative.
- Secondly, at least in Family Law Act and similar cases, a later court may vary or discharge the order to which the suspended committal is linked, thus setting a limit to the suspension.
4.1Cancel (a contract) because of completion or breach: an existing mortgage to be discharged on completion
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- The respondent's case was that the effect of that void variation was to discharge the contract of sale.
- This method of discharging a contract involves a breach by one party of an obligation under the contract which is so fundamental that its breach is tantamount to his repudiating or rejecting the contract as a whole.
- In its broad sense, the term further encompasses the settlement of the obligations, that is, the completion of payment discharging them.
1The action of discharging someone from a hospital or from a job: his discharge from the hospital offending policemen receive a dishonorable discharge
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- Data from community follow-ups were also collected and analyzed for a 24-month period following the subject's discharge from hospital.
- But they say that having MRSA will not delay anybody's discharge from the hospital and that there are no special precautions to follow once the patient is home.
- Also, those seriously injured will be brought to this camp on their discharge from the hospital.
dismissal, release, removal, ejection, expulsion;
Military cashiering
informal the sack, the boot, the ax, a/the pink slip
1.1British An act of releasing someone from the custody or restraint of the law: four days in jail and one year conditional discharge
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- It is clear that the trial judge focussed on the issue before me, and was aware of the Crown's position with respect to the granting of an absolute discharge.
- Nor does it make for efficiency as the courts would be cluttered with prosecutions of blameless individuals who would ultimately be dealt with by means of an absolute discharge.
- He concluded that in this case, given what occurred and who the appellant was, a discharge was not a sufficiently severe sentence and a fine was more appropriate.
release, liberation
1.2 Law The action of relieving a bankrupt from residual liability.
Oraciones de ejemplo
- He submits that assets which become the property of the Trustee do not revert to the Bankrupt upon the Bankrupt's discharge.
- All that it bears upon is the prospect of, and the time at which, discharge of the liability would occur.
- He further argues that if he is found personally liable, the liability was released by his discharge from bankruptcy.
2The action of discharging a liquid, gas, or other substance: those germs might lead to vaginal discharge
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- This article focuses on the causes and diagnosis of vaginal discharge and treatment of the most common infective causes.
- If high fever, excess bleeding or excess vaginal discharge occur, then medical advice should be sought.
- The 'greens' say the monitoring facility will be of immense help, as effluent discharge from factories at night cannot be detected.
leak, leakage, emission, release, flow
2.1A substance that has been discharged: large volumes of sewage discharge environmental damage from toxic chemical discharges
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- He said a full report had not been received on the development's impact on protected species in the woodland - including bats and badgers - and also on the discharge from the sewage treatment works.
- The discharge from the sewage treatment plant was irrigated down the middle of the street and would soon be sprayed on a golf course.
- The magnitude of the loads is dependent upon the discharge volumes.
emission, secretion, excretion, seepage, suppuration;
pus, matter;
Medicine exudate
2.2 Physics The release of electricity from a charged object: slow discharge of a condenser is fundamental to oscillatory circuits
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- In addition, full registration of the cartridge reduces track offsets and electrostatic discharge from the cartridge base plate.
- An electrostatic discharge protection device can protect a head gimbal assembly circuit from electrostatic discharge.
- Thus the amount of discharge from the pixel electrode is reduced by the capacitor.
2.3A flow of electricity through air or other gas, especially when accompanied by emission of light: a sizzling discharge between sky and turret
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- During discharge, electrons flow from the negative electrode to the positive via this 'external load', thereby doing electrical work.
- Lightning discharges also generate electromagnetic energy heard on radio receivers as spherics (crackles with very low frequencies), which may be used to locate distant thunderstorms.
- This discharge could also be accompanied by light and sound, explaining why witnesses report seeing flashing lights and hearing humming noises.
2.4The action of firing a gun or missile: a police permit for discharge of an air gun sounds like discharges of artillery
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- These pistols do not have magazine safeties, but they all incorporate internal firing pin blocks to prevent discharge if the pistol is dropped or suffers a similarly sharp blow.
- Sub-sonic ammunition is necessary for silenced or suppressed firearms to keep the sound of discharge really quiet.
- One also prohibited the discharge of projectiles and explosives from balloons.
shot, firing, blast;
explosion, detonation
3The action of doing all that is required to fulfill a responsibility or perform a duty: directors must use skill in the discharge of their duties
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- The Appointment I hold, he said, 'is in itself sufficient guarantee for the proper discharge of any duties I may have to perform'.
- His Honour then goes on to make plain that the discharge of that duty required the Council to undertake a sanitary survey and then consequential action upon that.
- The discharge of the above responsibilities is no less important than fulfilling our religious duties, and indeed is part of them.
carrying out, performance, performing, execution, conduct;
fulfillment, accomplishment, completion
3.1The payment of a debt or other financial claim: money paid in discharge of a claim
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- Creditors can also contact their county sheriff who can seize and sell on goods belonging to the debtor in discharge of a debt.
- The complaint is maintainable in respect of cheque which is issued in discharge of legally enforceable debt or liability.
- In breach of this agreement, a director of the company arranged for the collection of cheques, sent to the company in discharge of book debts due to it, for the credit of the company's current account.
payment, repayment, settlement, clearance, meeting, liquidation
4 Law The action of canceling an order of a court.
Oraciones de ejemplo
- A motion to consolidate that action with the applications for discharge now before this court was dismissed and the action is proceeding toward trial.
- In a suitable case an application for discharge of the care order is available.
- If I make no order, if I make an order, the parties can always come back and either seek further order or seek discharge of the order.
- Oraciones de ejemplo
- I know, I know - student loans aren't dischargeable in bankruptcy.
- For one thing, those loans aren't dischargeable in bankruptcy, meaning you'll have to pay them eventually - if nothing else, they'll garnish your social security benefits.
- By contrast, some unsecured debts are not dischargeable in bankruptcy, and secured debts, such as home and auto loans are minimally affected.
Middle English (in the sense 'relieve of an obligation'): from Old French descharger, from late Latin discarricare 'unload', from dis- (expressing reversal) + carricare 'to load' (see charge).
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Republicans tend to receive more attention than Democrats on the topic of their future....
I LOVE laughing at the stupid things liberals say. Every time they try to sound "intelligent" they say the funniest thing.
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Demon-rats have NO future. Five years of Obama and SOcialist democrats have guaranteed that!
Stupid democrats RUINED their own party. How wonderfully funny!!
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I guess that comment of what's just means he AGREES he's an embecile!!!! After all....it's the ONLY thing he disagreed with. Liberals; always fun to laugh at. TELLING!
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There IS "one" thing Obama and progressive socialist democrats have proven to us over the past 5 years. And that is that these embeciles have shown us there is NO FUTURE for anyone with them in control. Next election we will fire these most incompetent small-minded individuals and once again the "people" in America will "save our FREE nation" from enemies "domestic."
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Brown responded Monday to the 30-second advertisement touting Texas' low taxes, industry-friendly regulations and strict limits on lawsuits.
The Sacramento Bee reported that Brown told reporters outside an event in Los Angeles the commercials are unlikely to make a difference because people invest in places where "big things have occurred."
The governor says everyone "with half a brain" is coming to California, home of Apple, Google and Hollywood studios. He says that includes the British, French, Russians and Chinese.
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RANCHO CORDOVA, Calif. – June 30, 2009 – The San Francisco Bay area got a boost today with an $8.5 million grant to stimulate the economy while conserving critical wildlife habitat. The grant was awarded to Ducks Unlimited by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Ducks Unlimited will use the money to restore approximately 1,300 acres of former salt evaporation ponds to estuarine tidal marsh. The project is located at the California Department of Fish and Game Napa-Sonoma Wildlife Area.
"This is a great day, not only for citizens of the San Francisco Bay area, who will soon see $8.5 million pumped into their local economy, but also for millions of waterfowl and other wildlife, including endangered fish and shorebirds," said Rudy Rosen, director of DU's Western Regional Office. "This is one of the largest grants Ducks Unlimited has ever received, and the implications for conservation are huge."
Ducks Unlimited plans to begin work on the project immediately. It's part of a much larger complex of restored and soon-to-be restored salt ponds in the San Pablo Bay. The former salt ponds once produced road salt through a complex process of evaporation, but the high salinity prohibited aquatic species from thriving in the water. Once restored, the marshes will provide important habitat for multiple threatened and endangered fish and wildlife species, particularly Coho salmon, steelhead, green sturgeon, Delta smelt, and least tern and snowy plover.
"This project also lies in the San Francisco Estuary, which is one of the most important staging and wintering habitats for waterfowl in western North America," said Rosen. "More than 30 species of waterfowl occur here, including 50 percent of the entire flyway's diving ducks and one of the largest concentrations of wintering canvasbacks on the continent."
At the Napa-Sonoma Wildlife Area, the 1994 purchase by California Department of Fish and Game (DFG) of approximately 10,000 acres of former salt ponds jump-started the largest restoration effort in the estuary to date. Utilizing funds from the Wildlife Conservation Board, DU restored more than 5,100 acres into a habitat mosaic including shallow muted tidal and managed ponds for shorebirds and waterfowl, deep-water ponds for diving ducks and large-scale tidal marsh restoration.
"Originally estimated to cost nearly $15 million, DU was able to value-engineer the restoration of Ponds 1, 1a and 2 through 5 at the Napa-Sonoma Wildlife Area and save the State over $2 million. Given the current fiscal situation in California, this was a huge benefit to taxpayers in general and wildlife enthusiasts in particular," said Mark Biddlecomb, director of conservation programs for DU's Western Regional Office.
Ducks Unlimited, in partnership with the California DFG and the Wildlife Conservation Board, is currently managing a 380-acre project that will restore and enhance tidal wetlands and associated transitional habitats on former commercial salt ponds along the Napa River next to Fagan Slough Ecological Reserve, a high-quality remnant salt marsh. Where once stood a privately owned commercial salt production plant, there will be opportunities for public hiking and biking on the Bay Trail, hunting, fishing, bird watching and environmental education.
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"Ducks Unlimited is working diligently to ensure taxpayer dollars are spent in the most efficient and cost-effective way possible in restoring the former Salt Plant Site here at Napa-Sonoma Wildlife Area," said Biddlecomb. "DU has a lot of experience delivering tidal restoration projects, and we're able to make sure it's done properly and with an eye on cost savings wherever possible."
More than 10 years ago, DU and Viansa Wineries partnered to restore one of the largest privately owned freshwater wetlands in the Sonoma Baylands. While still very valuable for the wide variety of wildlife, some rejuvenation is now needed. Enhancement of the wetlands will increase the habitat diversity, thus increasing the wildlife-viewing opportunities. Seasonal wetlands are a particularly rare and important habitat type in the Sonoma Baylands, and Viansa provides an important one. The winery is planning to provide guided tours of the wetlands, and opportunities to see ducks, shorebirds and other wildlife will be abundant.
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Free software is definitely going strong in some areas, especially in the server market. However, there are other areas where free software and free protocols have failed. Internet based voice and video communication is one of those areas. The market is basically fully owned by Skype, a piece of proprietary software based on a proprietary (and abusive) protocol in the hands the same company that runs eBay. Free software advocates have been saying "what if Skype was discontinued?" for years. Then I read about eBay considering shutting Skype down. Pardon?
The Skype copyright issue
The problem is that when eBay bought Skype, they were in too much of a hurry to read the fine print. Skype's original owners retained the copyright for some crucial portion of Skype, specifically the peer-to-peer side of it -- the same code which is probably responsible of making sure that user A routes packets for user B without his or her knowledge of authorisation.
So, the 2.6 billion dollars eBay paid for it was obviously not quite enough -- Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis have been getting "licensing" money for that code since "selling" Skype to eBay.
To me, it sounds more like a rental agreement more than a sale: eBay paid 2.6 billion dollars for the right to rent Skype's core technology from Skype's owners. Let's call it a "bond" -- an expensive one. Especially when the landlord decides to throw you out.
Where was free software?
Free software and free protocols have been lagging behind in terms of user penetration. I very much doubt that the user base of every every single free voice client available now gets even close to the 480 million users Skype enjoys.
One simple answer: "fragmentation".
There is a protocol -- a free protocol -- which can be used for internet-based voice communication: it's called SIP. At the beginning, it had its problems -- it didn't work behind an ADSL router, which meant it didn't work for most people who might want to use it. A lot of those problems are now solved. But, some of them stayed. For example:
Voice quality tends to be low -- and definitely lower than Skype. SIP is a "container" protocol. Voice can be compressed and treated using several sub-protocols. This means that each SIP client needs to be able to deal with at least a few of them, and for each call SIP clients end up "negotiating" which one to use. The two clients also need to have a compatible implementation of that voice protocol, which is not always the case. Result: quite often the voice quality is really quite low.
Video doesn't always work, and it's poor quality. This is the same problem as the point above, except that it's worse. Video protocols are harder to implement, and incompatibilities are more frequent.
You can't find other SIP users. Whereas with Skype you can find pretty much anybody by typing their names in the Search box, with SIP you have a bunch of independent networks ad no ability to find other people. Creating a global "search" option would have fixed that, but creating something like that is anything but easy -- in fact, it takes tons of work, and (even more importantly) cooperation amongst SIP clients using a well defined, established protocol.
Configuring a generic SIP client is often confusing -- too confusing for the normal user. Configuring a "branded" SIP client is not confusing, but binds people to a specific SIP network. There should be a zero-configuration system where all the server information (STUN, forwarding, etc.) is gathered from the SIP server once you put the account name and password.
SIP is not the only protocol available to make voice calls. While developing its gTalk IM client, Google took the XMPP protocol (which allows federation and other neat features) and extended it so that it supported voice. Google did things right, and made sure that those extensions became part of the XMPP protocol. However, today it's 2009 and the only client that supports voice in XMPP is... gTalk, which is not available as free software and only exists for Windows (!). I had great hopes when gTalk came out. However, 2010 is approaching, and I very much doubt that gTalk has a sizeable user base that uses it for voice calls. I see this as a missed opportunity for Google. I wonder if federated user searches using XMPP and a multi-platform gTalk client would have helped. I guess so!
I could also mention that audio in GNU/Linux is very much messed up: using PulseAudio in Skype results in calls resembling a badly dubbed movie, OSS and ALSA proponents are still arguing (!), and so on. But that's a different story, and GNU/Linux only has a tiny percentage of the market anyway.
The solution?
I tend to offer solutions in my whining posts. In this case, I have to admit, I don't have one. Maybe when Skype collapses, there will be a federated network of functioning SIP or XMPP clients, which will implement a neat "finder" and will have reliable high quality cals (audio and video) amongst different platforms. But I don't know... it does sound like wishful thinking.
What I do know, is that we, the free software community, have failed in the video and voice communication arena and there is no path towards a real solution in sight, with SIP and XMPP competing and Skype winning any competition -- and then ironically, maybe, disappearing.
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Linux users can use google talk xmmp voip protocol via to options:
1. run google talk on WINE ! ugly but working fairly well.
2. Better option: install empathy gnome's voip client.
This is a great software and I find it better than pidgin !
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Psi can be a nice replacement for Skype
Last version of Psi (which works in all Windows, Mac OS and GNU/Linux) has XMPP voice calls support compatible with gtalk.
And perhaps next version will have video conference ^^
IAX beats SIP
How can you miss mentioning IAX? And Asterisk open source?
A while back I looked deep into VoIP. I went IAX over SIP over technical matters. It is a less popular choice for 'consumer grade' but some desk phone sets can do both. Teliax has good plans for IAX.
I use Skype too. The answer to beating Skype is free service. If someone invents an ad-based revenue model for video, implements open source, and throws in automatic open-source crypto for calls, that will be a Skype killer. What you're dealing with in Skype is the 'popularity effect' of 'everyone else uses it' so Skype's disappearance would help. But anyone who offers free service of equal or better quality will soon overtake them.
More on Psi
Further to Ferk's comment the following article about the Psi media plugin is enlightening
This is a very important question.
We must have GPL-licensed representation in this niche. Voice and video telephony over TCPIP is a killer app, just like a web browser.
It's so disruptive, the ISPs and telephone companies conspire to kill any technology of this kind.
We must have it, or else we'll always have $100/month cell phone bills. We'll always have slow "broadband" at high prices. We'll never get the boot of the content lobbyists off our data-pipes.
SIP can't be all that bad
Has anyone ever heard of Ekiga? Ekiga (http://www.ekiga.net) is open-source VoIP software that I use on my Debian (Lenny) system to great satisfaction. It works with SIP and H.323. While I've never used H.323, I have used SIP; I couldn't get video working only because Lenny didn't provide drivers for the webcam I was using and I don't think the IBM Thinkpad T41 I use it on has the throughput for video, anyhow. However, the audio performance has been crystal clear as if the person is in the other room (sans the delay).
I thought there would be some mention of Ekiga here; I'm somewhat surprised to see that there was none. An Ekiga account is free but it may be possible that you may have to pay for 'advanced' features. I don't use these, so I don't know. The Linux client is by far better on Linux than the Windows client is on Windows. I don't doubt that many users have had problems with VoIP; I wholeheartedly agree that there must be some kind of NON-proprietary standard set that everyone can conform to and that allows participants (users, providers, etc.) to use and extend VoIP w/o the limitations of proprietarism.


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RingTV.com conducted an exclusive Q&A with Washington, D.C. Boxing and Wrestling Commission Chairman Scottie Irving, who offered his thoughts on Lamont Peterson's upset split-decision victory over junior welterweight titleholder Amir Khan at the Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C., on Saturday.
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A volunteer with the commission who owns a construction company, Irving was ringside as Peterson (30-1-1, 15 knockouts) edged Khan (26-2, 18 KOs), winning 113-112 on the cards of judges George Hill of New Jersey and Valerie Dorsett of North Carolina, and losing 115-110 on that of Nelson Vazquez of Puerto Rico.
Khan was deducted one point each during the the seventh and 12th rounds by Virginia's Joe Cooper, who was chosen by the commission from a list of four judges provided by the IBF, according to the organization's Championships Chairman, Lindsay Tucker.
Khan was penalized for pushing Peterson's head down in the seventh, and for shoving Peterson away in the 12th. Others on the list of referees provided by the IBF included New Jersey's Eddie Cotton, Pennsylvania's Ernest Sharif and Michigan's Sam Williams.
The three judges were chosen from a list of eight names provided by the IBF.
Among the issues addressed by Irving in his first interview since the fight are the length of time it took for the scorecards to be delivered to the ring for the verdict to be announced by Michael Buffer, the notion that there was a scoring descrepancy on one of the official cards and the fouling calls against Khan.
RingTV.com: What are some of the things that you would like to clear up about Saturday night's Peterson-Khan fight?
Scottie Irving: One of the things that I would like to clarify is that, for me, the first round knockdown? There were two in the first round. I don't think that the second one should have been called a knockdown.
I think that it was more of a slip. From the commission's standpoint, that was a slip, and not a knockdown. At the final press conference on Wednesday, I said that we wanted to have a clean fight and a technically sound fight.
I said that I wanted them to listen to the referee. I stressed that point a lot. I just think that maybe Khan didn't really pay attention to that point that we were trying to stress at the commission about that.
I also had a conversation with Khan's trainer, Freddie Roach, about elbows and pushing. It was just a one-on-one conversation between us about that.
I had that conversation with Freddie when the guys went and they worked out on the Tuesday before the fight at the Kennedy Recreation Center.
I had that conversation after that workout because I had seen one or two things from Khan during that workout with some elbows from Khan.
After he throws his left hook, he likes to follow up with the elbow. So I had a conversation about that with Roach.
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Marc Sternberg leads the foundation's initiatives to improve K-12 education for all of our nation's children by empowering parents with quality options. Before joining the foundation, Marc served as the senior deputy chancellor at the New York City Department of Education, where he directed the citywide portfolio planning efforts including new school development and placement, the school phase-out process, and the enrollment process for students Pre-K-12. He also served as senior advisor to the chancellor and the mayor's office on K-12 policy and strategy.
Prior to his service as deputy chancellor, Marc served as founder and principal of the Bronx Lab School, an unscreened high school that quadrupled the graduation rate of Evander Childs High School, the school Bronx Lab replaced in 2004. After earning a B.A. from Princeton University in 1995, Marc served as a Teach For America corps member in the South Bronx. He then earned a joint MBA and Masters in Education from Harvard University.
Barry D. Gold, Environment Program Director
Barry Gold leads the foundation's freshwater and marine initiatives to find lasting solutions that benefit the environment and strengthen local economies. Before joining the foundation, Barry served as director of Marine Conservation at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, where he led efforts to keep the world's oceans healthy through approaches that take both environmental and community needs into account. This included work to shift fisheries management to an incentive-based system to help end overfishing, rebuild depleted stocks and sustain fishing communities, as well as efforts to advance comprehensive approaches to ocean planning.
Prior to joining Moore, Barry managed the David and Lucile Packard Foundation's work on ecosystem-based management and linking science to policy. Before Packard, he was chief of the Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center where he led an effort to restore the Colorado River ecosystem throughout the Grand Canyon. Barry has held senior positions with the U.S. Department of the Interior, the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Science, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has served as board president for the Consultative Group on Biological Diversity, the leading affinity group for environmental foundations, and was vice-chair of the California Ocean Science Trust Board. Barry received a B.S. from the University of Miami, an M.S. from the University of Connecticut, an M.A. from George Washington University and a D.Sc. from Washington University in St. Louis.
Karen Minkel, Home Region Program Director
Karen Minkel is responsible for work with grantees focused on quality of life initiatives in Northwest Arkansas and the Delta Region of Arkansas and Mississippi. Karen was previously a senior research officer in the Evaluation Unit at the foundation and provided analysis and evaluation of the Home Region Program's grants and strategies. Before coming to the Walton Family Foundation, Karen worked for the City of Fayetteville as director of strategic planning and internal consulting, administering and evaluating myriad programs, policies and processes. She has also worked in public sector consulting in London and served as a Teach For America corps member in Harlem. She holds a Master of Public Policy from the University of California at Berkeley and a B.S. in Communication Studies from Northwestern University.
Naccaman Williams, Ed.D., Special Interest Team Director
Naccaman Williams is director of the foundation's Special Interest team, which includes grants directed by individual members of the Walton family. A former junior and senior high school mathematics teacher, Naccaman has served in several higher education roles, including director of the P.K. Yonge Developmental Research School at the University of Florida, and assistant dean and director of minority education services in the College of Education at the University of Arkansas. He served seven years on the Arkansas State Board of Education, including two years as chairman. He also served a four-year term on the Southern Regional Education Board. Naccaman holds a bachelor's and master's degree from Ouachita Baptist University and a doctorate in education administration from the University of Arkansas.
Marc Holley, Ph.D., Evaluation Unit Director
Marc Holley is responsible for ensuring that the foundation staff and board of directors are provided with accurate, timely research and analysis to support strategic decision-making. He was previously a researcher at the University of Arkansas in the Office for Education Policy. In addition to publishing peer-reviewed research, conducting program evaluations, and authoring a book on teacher quality, he has worked with the What Works Clearinghouse. He was also a teacher, school administrator, and Peace Corps volunteer. Marc holds a Ph.D. in public policy from the University of Arkansas, a M.Ed. from the University of Georgia, and a B.A. from Harvard University.
Bob Smith, Accounting & Operations Director
Bob Smith provides accounting and finance support as well as the operational support required to assist the focus area teams with execution of the foundation's strategic plans and initiatives. Prior to joining the foundation, Bob served as CFO and director of accounting of the automotive division of a family-owned company and worked in both the Little Rock and St. Louis offices of PricewaterhouseCoopers. He is a CPA and holds a B.S.B.A. from Missouri State University.
Daphne Moore, Communications Director
Daphne Davis Moore oversees all internal and external communications for the foundation, including institutional foundation communications as well as working with the K-12 Education and Environment Program teams to support and advance foundation grant-making strategies. Prior to joining the foundation, Daphne spent 13 years working in the corporate affairs division of Walmart, holding positions in public affairs, government relations and corporate communications. Before Walmart, she spent five years as a newspaper reporter. Daphne holds a B.A. in English and mass communications from Ouachita Baptist University.


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ARLINGTON, Texas – The Texas A&M - Corpus Christi women's basketball team (6-11, 2-2) put together a 12-0 run with under five minutes left to clinch their first conference road game of the season, 61-51, over UT Arlington (2-13, 0-4), Wednesday night at Texas Hall in Arlington.
Sophomore Brandi Huff led all scorers with a career-high 14 points and tied a career-best six rebounds. Junior Alisa Roberts pulled down a career-high 12 rebounds, including 11 on the defensive end. She also went 7-of-8 from the line and tallied two assists and two steals to round out her stat line. Zoe Vega-Vega, Imani Dunn, Verne'qua Taylor, and Trish Amboree all chipped in eight points. Vega-Vega also pulled down eight rebounds and Taylor dished out eight assists and tallied five steals in 40 minutes of play.
In a game that featured eight score changes and seven lead changes, the Islanders shot 43.4 percent from the field (23-53) and scored 34 points in the paint, including 10 fast break points. The Islanders' bench outscored the Mavericks 34-20 and tied a season-best 15 steals.
UT Arlington was paced by three players in double-figure scoring, Michelle Rodriguez led the Mavericks with 11 points and Nwanguma Desherra and Bianca Sauls each added 10 points.
The Mavericks jumped out to a 6-0 lead to start the game before Taylor put the Islanders on the board with her first jumper of the game. The Mavericks scored three more before Amboree hit her first layup from a dish inside from Vega-Vega. The teams traded buckets before the Islanders went on a mini 4-0 run with baskets from Vega-Vega and Roberts collected a steal and layup to pull the Islanders within three.
The Mavericks pushed the lead back up to seven with back-to-back jumpers, before the Islanders gained momentum and answered with a 10-0 run. Huff hit a layup from Roberts and Amboree triggered her first three from Taylor to start the run. Junior Damequia Montgomery made a free throw and Dunn and Huff each added buckets from Taylor to give the Islanders their first lead of the game, 20-17, at the 6:50 mark.
UTA's Rodriguez added a bucket to cut the lead to one, before the Islanders built a nine-point cushion on an 8-0 run. Dunn, Taylor and Huff each added baskets and Huff and Roberts scored at the free throw line to extend the lead to 28-19.
The two teams traded jumpers before UTA's Sauls made two free throws to bring the Mavericks within five. Dunn tallied her sixth point from Taylor as time expired at the half with the Islanders up 32-25. Huff led all scorers with nine points, Dunn added six and Amboree tallied five. Taylor dished out five assists and led the glass with four rebounds. The Islanders bench outscored the Mavericks 18-6 and scored 22 of their 32 first half points in the paint, including eight fast break points. Sauls led the Mavericks with six points and Takiyah Langford grabbed five rebounds. The Mavericks edged the Islanders 19-18 on the boards.
The Mavericks gained momentum out of the locker room, putting together a 10-2 run to take the 35-33 lead with 16:30 left. Amboree capped the Mavericks run at the 15:40 mark with a three-pointer from the right wing from Roberts to give the Islanders the 36-35 lead. Huff pushed the lead to three with a jumper underneath from Amboree.
The Mavericks cut it within one before Vega-Vega's jumper pushed the Islanders ahead by three. UT Arlington answered with a 5-0 run to take the 42-40 lead with 11:15 left. Montgomery's layup from Vega-Vega tied it at 42. The two teams traded buckets back-and-forth changing leads until Vega-Vega made back-to-back layups to start a 12-0 run to give the Islanders a 53-51 lead with four minutes remaining. During the run, the Islanders made eight free throws to seal the victory.
The Islanders will return home to the Coastal Bend on Saturday, Jan. 21 to host Sam Houston State at the Dugan Wellness Center. Tip-off is slated for 7 p.m.


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ALAMEDA -- The Raiders cut quarterback Matt Flynn on Monday after only five games.
Raiders coach Dennis Allen in his weekly news conference said, "I don't know exactly what the reason was, why it didn't work. It just didn't work.
"Terrelle (Pryor) came in and he took over the job. He's earned the position that he's in. So, we just felt like it's probably best to move on from that."
Raiders general manager Reggie McKenzie traded for Flynn in the offseason, on the same day that he traded away proven starting quarterback Carson Palmer to the Arizona Cardinals.
McKenzie acquired Flynn with the expectation that Flynn would be the unquestioned starter, even though Flynn started only two games during his first five NFL seasons.
That never materialized. Third-year player Pryor beat out Flynn by the end of training camp, and he solidified his standing with impressive play in his first three starts combined with a disastrous outing by Flynn in relief of an injured Pryor against the Washington Redskins.
"This kid's going to continue to improve," Allen said of Pryor. "He's probably leaps and bounds ahead of where we thought he would be at this point in time. The key for him is he continues to work and continues to strive to get better on the little things."
Undrafted free agent Matt McGloin is the only other quarterback on the Raiders 53-man roster. Allen said it's conceivable that the Raiders will promote Tyler Wilson from the practice squad.
Also, the Raiders worked out veteran David Carr on Monday, so it's possible that they will sign him for his veteran presence.
McKenzie restructured Flynn's contract soon after he consummated the trade with the Seattle Seahawks. The new deal called for Flynn to receive $6.5 million guaranteed this season.
The Raiders agreed to give the Seahawks a fifth-round draft pick in 2014 and an unconditional selection in the 2015 NFL draft. Overall, Flynn earned $14.5 million the past two seasons, even though he got beat out for starting jobs with the Seahawks and Raiders.
Flynn was unavailable for comment.
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There was no sign Wednesday of the man wanted in last week's triple shooting in North Augusta. It has been eight days since a gunman killed one man and wounded two other people. News 12 took a ride in the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division helicopter that was called to the scene last week.
The view from above may help catch the killer. The helicopter took off from Columbia to hunt down the North Augusta killer. Chief Pilot Bob Brickley's team of nine is on call if North Augusta Public Safety thinks the gunman is near. They'll be on the scene no matter what the dangers.
"Flying at night, bad weather, and wind could possibly be shot at anytime," Brickley said.
Tress from above is the scenery they had to navigate during last week's manhunt. They can fly as low as five hundred feet to the ground.
"They will just hover right over the person no matter where he tries to go," said SLED Chief Robert Stewart.
Then they rely on bloodhounds to lead searchers on the ground to the suspect.
It takes SLED about 30-45 minutes to get from Columbia to the North Augusta area.
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Body heat can be seen from above. They used this equipment to search for the killer right after the shooting.
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Asheville Aquaponics owner Cliff Jagger has no trouble selling people on the idea of aquaponics once he gets them into his store in Mills River.
"When they come in here and see it live, it's like, 'Wow, this is really cool!'" Jagger said.
Originally from New Jersey, Jagger moved to Western North Carolina from Florida nine years ago, worked in real estate, and then shifted his interest toward aquaponics after the economic collapse. He started out in Asheville, but moved his operation to Mills River and opened his store in June 2013.
Educating people on the subject has been Jagger's greatest difficulty, noting that for many, their first formal introduction to aquaponics comes from online videos.
"The mistake is they go on Youtube and they get totally turned off because they think this is a really expensive, crazy gadget, and it's not," Jagger said. "It was done 10,000 years ago."
The aquaponic process is simple, according to Jagger. At Asheville Aquaponics, he has tanks filled with water and fish, which are connected to upper beds filled with special gravel and plants. The water from the fish tank is pumped to the beds and the waste from the fish feeds the plants. The plants and gravel then purify the water, which drains back to the original tank, feeding and aerating the fish.
"You don't weed. You don't have to bend over to cultivate your soil," Jagger said. "You don't have to do anything. You just feed your fish."
Jagger noted that it is not as expensive as most people think. Home systems typically run around $450, plus energy costs of about $40 annually, Jagger estimated.
Having always loved farmers markets, Jagger's goal with Asheville Aquaponics is to create what he describes as a "self-sustainable, one-stop shopping store."
He already has a variety of soils for sale such as coco coir, along with tilapia, microgreens, various plants, starts and aquaponic supplies such as vertical stacking pots, with plans for more in the future.
"You can come in here and we're going to have solar panels for the tanks to purchase. We'll be having our own worms and we'll be doing our own soils," Jagger said.
Out back, though, may be where Jagger turns his goal of one-stop self-sustainability into reality. Here a small, covered garden where Jagger is growing greens like arugula and kale is dwarfed by the framing of a much larger, one-acre greenhouse in disrepair.
Getting the larger greenhouse into working order won't be easy or cheap, however. According to Jagger, it will cost between $35,000 and $40,000 to cover the greenhouse, not including the heaters and other equipment to get it up and running.
He's currently seeking funding via online crowdfunding site Indiegogo to cover the cost of covering the greenhouse in film. Though at present his online funding campaign isn't going as well as he hoped, Jagger doesn't seem discouraged. In his line of work, his business can only grow.
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DOE announced on September 13 that it had finalized a $1.2 billion loan guarantee to Mojave Solar LLC for the development of the Mojave Solar Project in California. When complete, the 250-megawatt solar generation project in San Bernardino County will increase the nation's currently installed concentrating solar power (CSP) capacity by about 50%. Abengoa Solar Inc., the project sponsor, estimates it will fund more than 900 construction and permanent operations jobs.
The project will be the first U.S. utility-scale deployment of Abengoa's latest solar collector assembly, a significant improvement over the prior generation of solar concentrating technology installed in the United States in the 1980s and 1990s. The collector, which was originally developed in connection with an award from the DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, has a number of advanced features, including a lighter, stronger frame designed to hold parabolic mirrors that are easier and less expensive to build and install. The new heat collection element increases thermal efficiency by up to 30% over first generation CSP plants. The Mojave Solar Project will avoid more than 350,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide annually and is anticipated to generate enough electricity to power more than 54,000 homes. See the DOE press release.