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Berkshire Yid Berkshire Yid Jul 16, 2012 08:31 Flag
Dimitar Berbatov says it is better he leaves Manchester United
I cant help but smile about this one after the way he treated us to get his move to Man Utd.
But also im thinking if the reports are true about him having a 5 Mill price tag could all be forgiven and he be a bargain buy?.Sort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
For 5 mil and the right attitude (ok, he'll always look languid, but as long as he ain't whingeing), I'll take him back in a heartbeat. no he doesn't fit the coming youth movement, however a youth movement needs some steadying sages in their midst to keep them focused (oh and did you see that volley he did against that SA tema the other day...the man's still got it...great save by the keeper to match...in fact, that keeper was making great saves all game...someone might want to go check him out!).
Berbatov...come back, all his forgiven (as long as your goals to games ratio stays where it is or improves...wink).
Berbatov would be an awesome signing. He'd be a much more humble player at Spurs for a second time. Like AVB he too will have something to prove. It can only benefit us. COYS
I would have liked to have seen Berba/VdV/Modric in the same team, with Bale/Lennon.
Didn't the rumours that linked Modric to Utd suggest that Berba may be used going the other way as a make weight?
I'm not sure a 'Berba' figure is the way that the Levy-AVB will go. He seems to old (with no resale value) for the comments made so far re youth (from http://www.london24.com/sport/tottenham/spurs_chairman_daniel_levy_explains_reasons_for_hiring_andre_villas_boas_1_1430126):
'..."I am delighted that Andre has agreed to become our new Head Coach," Levy told the club's official site.
"He has an outstanding reputation for his technical knowledge of the game and for creating well-organised teams capable of playing football in an attractive and attacking style.
"Andre shares our long-term ambitions and ethos of developing players and nurturing young talent, and he will be able to do so now at a new world class Training Centre."
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no thanks. we dont need him now we have signed ade for good.
great to see him be treated badly at utd.
he is already sulking & got the hump with fergie!
Not for me, although if he ate humble pie and apologised to the fan's and took a pay cut from his reported £90k to £50k to show his eagerness to pay back ( got to be joking ) then there's no doubting his quality, and would prefer him to ADE, any day.


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ASPEN - Aspen's cost of living is among the highest in the nation, and one need only to look at local prices for free-market rental housing, gasoline, food, clothing and common household items for the evidence.
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Because it's hard to make it in the upper Roaring Fork Valley on a laborer's wage, some local businesses over the years have offered a locals discount in one form or another. This has ranged from a standard 10 percent (or greater) discount on food and drinks in a few local restaurants and bars to other types of specials designed to attract locals, such as the prix-fixe menus that several local dining establishments provide during the spring and fall shoulder seasons, when tourists are scarce and businesses need locals to fill in the gap.
However, one Aspen watering hole with a restaurant operation that has catered to locals over the past few years - the J-Bar in the Hotel Jerome - recently decided to do away with its generous locals discount. The decision might be temporary, said Tony DiLucia, general manager of the historic hotel, as he searches for some other way of offering locals a deal.
For many years, while under the management of RockResorts, a subsidiary of Vail Resorts, the J-Bar provided special identification cards for locals that guaranteed a 20 percent discount on a local patron's bill.
In late 2011, though, RockResorts was replaced by Auberge Resorts, and soon after, DiLucia returned to the Jerome, which he formerly managed. Sometime last summer, before the hotel was closed in mid-August to accommodate a four-month renovation project, the "official" locals discount was shelved.
The hotel reopened in mid-December with happy hour and daily specials on drinks and food for visitors and locals alike.
"The locals discount card was something that RockResorts started after they took over management in 2007," DiLucia explained. "I'm trying to re-evaluate it, to figure out how to balance it out. When I was here before (2007), we had a punch card for sandwiches - buy so many sandwiches, you get one free. Then after I left, RockResorts came up with the 20 percent discount."
DiLucia pointed out that the hotel and the J-Bar reopened a mere eight weeks ago. The massive remodeling effort in the fall was completed in mid-December.
"We've just had so much going on since we reopened," he said.
DiLucia said even though the locals discount was scrapped, he made adjustments to the J-Bar's menu and drink prices with area residents in mind.
"We tried to adjust the prices down," he said. "When I came back to the Jerome and saw the prices in the J-Bar, I lowered everything across the board. If you had loaded up a burger, it was $24. And now it's back on the menu at $12. I remember thinking through it and saying, 'I'd rather just get rid of these ridiculous prices.'"
DiLucia said there was never any intent to upset the spending habits of locals.
"Everyone knows how I am about locals," he said. "My idea was, lower the food and drink prices, get the burger right, and that's what I did. That was about a year ago. And we're still working on it."
He said only a few people have complained about the loss of the locals discount.
"I'm trying to come up with something else," DiLucia said. "But I have a whole new staff, and we're trying to figure it out and figure out what people want. Only a couple of regular customers have said anything about it, and they never said anything again."
Many local businesses offer some version of a locals discount. (This article does not purport to provide an all-inclusive list of businesses that supply discounts to locals.)
For example, some quick-lunch places like Taster's Pizza and the Grateful Deli supply customers with a punch card. Eat a certain number of sandwiches or pizza slices, and you get one free. This policy favors locals in that visitors aren't likely to rack up enough meals during their stays in order to win the freebie.
Pacifica restaurant has a "locals burger and a beer" special on its apres menu. Zane's Tavern has a similar daily deal.
For many years, Leonard "Boogie" Weinglass offered a 10 percent discount to locals who visited his diner. This year, the diner, which is upstairs in the same East Cooper Avenue building as the retail operation that carries his nickname, is being leased out to an outside operator.
Bo Weinglass, Boogie's son, said people sometimes ask for a locals discount in the downstairs retail area of the building, but he rarely approves it.
"We don't do it downstairs, really," he said. "We would have 100 people a day coming in and saying, 'Can I get a locals discount?' with like a Brazilian accent."
Erik Klanderud, director of member services for the Aspen Chamber Resort Association, said various retailers and restaurants around town might offer a locals discount of some sort.
But it's not organized in the way the Jerome used to offer it, such as in the form of a special card.
Many businesses don't exactly advertise the locals discount, Klanderud said. If a resident doesn't ask for one, it's highly likely he or she won't get it.
"The only two that come to my mind are the Conoco station in the Airport Business Center and the Locals Corner on Main Street," Klanderud said. "They offer some type of locals discount on gas. They actively promote it."
If it's a widespread practice in Aspen, Klanderud said he doesn't know about it.
"I don't ever look for it," he said. "I think it's mainly a word-of-mouth thing."


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Jamar Taylor's work about to pay off in NFL Draft
BOISE, Idaho Tim Socha is well known for his work with the Boise State football team, his methods and demands having helped propel one of the bluest-collared programs into a national power.
But on a recent Friday morning, the Broncos strength and conditioning coach had seen enough torture for one man.
Jamar Taylor was lying on his back at the feet of the Prowler, a 75-pound contraption of steel. Taylor had just finished a third turn with the Prowler, each turn consisting of pushing the Prowler 5 yards up and back, 10 yards up and back and then 15 yards up and back at full speed.
Taylor's chest was heaving, his words spit out in gasps of audible air.
"You're done," Socha said.
"No," Taylor replied, neither desperate nor defiant, simply matter-of-fact.
"You're done."
"You're done."
"I gotta do gashers."
"No, you're done."
Two minutes later, Taylor was on the sideline ready to sprint up-and-back across the end zone of Boise's indoor practice facility for a third time. Socha said nothing, just slightly shook his head side to side as Taylor took off.
This was not for the purpose of impressing a visitor. This is how Jamar Taylor does things, how he has arrived here, on the precipice of an NFL career.
The Helix High alumnus has a draft stock that has only been ascending. He's considered a lock to go no later than the second round in next month's NFL Draft because he can play a nifty cornerback and because he has been killing the audition process, which continues with Boise State's pro day on Thursday.
Taylor has been one of the stars of the draft's lead-up because scenes like the one described above are his norm.
An hour earlier, Socha was standing in the Boise State weight room watching a group of athletes warm up when, unprompted, he launched into a soliloquy on the unique challenge of coaching Taylor.
"We have to back him off," Socha said. "With the extent he's gone to, he's rare. He's a once-in-an-every-couple-years kind of guy. We have a ton of guys here who work hard, but Jamar, he can do too much.
"It's like, 'When we get back from working outside for two hours, you don't need to spend 30 to 45 minutes in here doing more work.' "
And so it is that when Taylor and a half-dozen of his former teammates return to the weight room after conditioning, the space is full of student-athletes from various sports.
The ensuing weight training is not easy, by any means. Let's just say that the workout is social, the mood light.
Except for one solitary athlete, who does not participate in the loud conversations that surround him. No, Taylor stares straight ahead between most sets and in other rest periods moves to the center of the room to stretch or do resistance training.
He never stops.
More than 90 minutes later, only one football player remains in the weight room. In fact, there is just one athlete left among the group of at least 20 that was working out when Taylor first arrived.
"My bad it's taking so long," Taylor says to his visitor.
All around the Broncos football complex, the accounts are consistent.
Secondary coach Jimmy Lake, a former NFL assistant, recalls the first practice Lake was a part of after joining the staff last year. Following the post-practice secondary meeting, Taylor approached Lake asking if the two could meet further to watch every one of his practice reps again.
"I knew right away," Lake said. "… He's a perfectionist -- almost to a fault. To his credit, he's changed a little bit. We talked about how he can't analyze every play like he's building a bomb."
That doesn't mean Taylor abandoned his devotion to getting better, to breaking down the game.
NFL scouts who came through the Boise complex the morning after Thanksgiving found Taylor where he can often be found – in the film room. "He's a football junkie," said Broncos linebacker Tommy Smith, Taylor's closest friend. "… He studies so much. I don't know how he can watch that much film."
Smith marvels, too, at Taylor's competitiveness.
"The weight room, the field, he wants to be the best," Smith said. "If he sees someone in practice and he feels like they're doing better than him, you can see him, he starts working even harder."
Like every cornerback who ever bumped and ran, mixed zone with man and survived on that island, there is an underlying confidence to everything Taylor does and says.
When he talks about crossing the street, it is with the implication he absolutely killed the movement. When he judges a movie, his word is gospel.
It's not arrogance. It's survival. Being a cornerback is lonely, dangerous work.
The line between cocky and fearful is a border every cornerback straddles. The good ones find how to live with the best kind of confidence, an invincibility soaked in humility.
With Taylor, it is something of a paradox.
"Believe it or not," Taylor said, "I doubt myself a lot."
Taylor acknowledges he is trying to relax more, to not beat himself up or wear himself down.
However, deriving his inspiration from a pessimistic base has served Taylor well as he set about answering the questions that accompany a would-be NFL cornerback coming from outside the BCS.
The NFL types wanted to see if he could match up with the receivers from the big conferences during Senior Bowl week. Taylor did.
At the Combine, they needed him to demonstrate his speed. A 4.39-second 40 was fourth-fastest among all cornerbacks. His 22 reps in the bench press were tops at his position.
So how does a draft riser who thrives on bad juju rectify in his mind the positive momentum? He doesn't acknowledge it.
"Let's say everything does work out," Taylor said, "and I go to camp and show everyone I can play, and my rookie year I show I can ball. After that it will be, 'See what you can work on before your second year.' "
Be it that he was in high school motivated to "do the same thing" as fellow Helix alums Reggie Bush and Alex Smith had before him or that he was first-team All-Mountain West but often second fiddle to San Diego State's Leon McFadden when the conference's top corners were discussed, Taylor seemingly has no trouble finding motivation.
If he does, he simply manufactures it. It's him against the will to not fail.
"Every big opportunity, I always think mostly negative things," he said. "That makes me work harder."


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Sumat Lam's parents made sure he learned the alphabet when he was in preschool. Under their direction, he began addition, subtraction and multiplication while in kindergarten. He tackled his first "Harry Potter" novel early in his third-grade year.
At Pittsburg High School, he earned a 4.63 GPA and impressed teachers with his unquenchable thirst for learning. Yet even as his friends weighed their higher education options, Lam, son of Cambodian refugees, had a difficult time believing college was in his future.
"I knew my parents wanted me to go to college," said Lam, 20, a junior majoring in anthropology at Stanford University. "But at the same time, I didn't believe in my own capability. I didn't believe in the opportunities that I had."
Not until he was accepted by Students Rising Above, a San Francisco-based nonprofit that assists low-income high school students to overcome disadvantaged upbringings, did Lam dare to dream of a four-year degree.
With the organization providing financial support, plus academic and personal guidance, Lam arrived on the Stanford campus in fall 2010. In so doing, he signified the culmination of a journey that began in a Cambodian refugee camp in the late 1970s, during the final months of the genocidal reign of the Khmer Rouge. That camp, in Thailand, was where Lam's mother and father, Bunseny and Suvathana, met.
Lam's parents immigrated to the United States in search of a better life. They found it, relatively speaking, in Pittsburg. Despite Suvathana Lam owning his own landscaping company, the family had to rely on government assistance to make ends meet. That reliance grew when the family patriarch injured his back in a car accident in 2005 and was forced to significantly reduce his workload.
But the Lams were secure in the knowledge that their children, sons Sakora and Sumat and daughter Sarah, would be free from the nightmarish life they had experienced in Cambodia: hard labor, loss of land, and the death of family members in the infamous killing fields.
"Like many in the Cambodian-American population, they don't like to talk about that," Sumat Lam said of his parents. "Whatever I can piecemeal, I take it for what it is, and I appreciate my parents more for it."
Though he lived a sheltered life centered on home and family while growing up, Lam was undeterred when it came to his intellectual curiosity.
"When his first essays came in, I was stunned how good they were," said Ramsay Thomas, who taught Lam in two classes at Pittsburg High. "He was just one impressive kid. His interest in learning is above and beyond."
Still, the Stanford campus is a world away from the family-centric life Lam knew in Pittsburg. Brenda Walker, Lam's Students Rising Above adviser, recalls wondering if her quiet, young pupil was ready to take such a big step.
"He was in the academic decathlon as a senior," Walker said. "He was the only one in his group who answered all five questions. In his (Students Rising Above) interview, he was so sharp. But we were thinking, he's too reserved. He has to open up. It was a pleasure to see him jump out of his chair with joy when he got all five questions right."
Lam said he's making an effort to be more of an extrovert at Stanford, yet he wonders how well he fits in. Others see growth.
"At first he said, 'I've never left Pittsburg. I'm scared. What am I going to do?'" Walker said. "Sure enough, within his first quarter he was saying, 'I don't want to ever come home.'"
Lam, who spend the fall 2012 quarter studying in Chile, isn't putting limits on his postgraduate life. Travel? Working for a startup? Computer programming? He's leaving all options open, "because at 20 I doubt I know what I want to do in life."
He does know this much: He would like to return to his ancestral homeland to explore his roots, mimicking a trip his family made when he was a boy.
"They wanted us to realize what being Cambodian means," he said of his parents, "and what's different between being in the U.S. and being in Cambodia."
The experience made an impression.
"We had a conversation about that trip," Thomas said. "He said at night they only had electricity for about an hour from a generator. The whole village would gather to watch TV, and that's all the power they had. He said, 'I knew I grew up in poverty, but everything changed when I went to Cambodia.'"
It's a world view that continues to serve him well.
"I think I made the right decision coming to Stanford," he said. "There are so many opportunities. Right now my problem is, which one do I pick?"
Contact Gary Peterson at 925-952-5053. Follow him at Twitter.com/garyscribe.
Students rising above: where are they now?
Students Rising Above, a San Francisco nonprofit founded in 1988, provides financial and mentoring support, summer internships and medical and dental services to students with strong character and scholastic aptitude.
The program assists first-generation college students striving to overcome impoverished upbringings by shepherding them through their senior year of high school, the college application process and throughout their years in higher education. For more information, go to http://studentsrisingabove.org.
Profiles of former Students Rising Above selections will appear periodically.


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Definición de hitch en inglés:
1 [with object] Move (something) into a different position with a jerk: she hitched the blanket around him he hitched his pants up
Más ejemplos en oraciones
- It was hitched up to reveal an underskirt of a different color and with no hoops or panniers.
- As skirts were hitched up and ties loosened, out came the blue Rimmel eyeliners and the Body Shop blushers.
- Her skirt was hitched up way higher on one side than the other and the buttons on her shirt were all in the wrong holes.
pull, jerk, tug, hike, lift, raise, yank, shift
2 [no object] informal Travel by hitchhiking.
Oraciones de ejemplo
- Rural Ireland was recommended as a friendly place for hitching, as was Quebec - 'if you don't mind being berated for not speaking French'.
- I've seen a few people hitching with suitcases, but that's weird.
- There was the student hitching on a road outside Maynooth.
2.1 [with object] Obtain (a ride) by hitchhiking.
Oraciones de ejemplo
- The ride in an Audi 200 is akin to hitching a lift on the back of a horse drawn carriage.
- Jo Jo was hitching rides down to her home in Callan, Co Kilkenny, when she disappeared.
- Children are dicing with death hitching rides on the back of moving vehicles.
3 [with object] Fasten or tether with a rope: he returned to where he had hitched his horse
Más ejemplos en oraciones
- But is hitching your company to a star really the right move?
- He hitches a trailer to his bike to take the children to school or go shopping.
- They were now behind the church where people pulled up their buggies and carriages and hitched them to the posts that were set up.
harness, yoke, couple, fasten, connect, attach, tether, tie
3.1Harness (a draft animal or team): Thomas hitched the pony to his cart
Más ejemplos en oraciones
- Mitchell said the cable did not break, and detectives believe something went wrong when Hart's harness was being hitched to the cable.
- 'He's too fine a beast to be hitched to do this kind of work,' he protested.
- Red already had the team hitched for her, so she kissed Joey goodbye and climbed up in the tall seat.
1A temporary interruption or problem: everything went without a hitch
Más ejemplos en oraciones
- For all its water-tightness and lack of style, all the stuff I tried to read, passed through MSOffice grammar check without a hitch!
- It wasn't easy to do, but English class finally started without a hitch and my headache remained in the back corner of my mind.
- Luckily, the surgery was completed without a hitch and the patient was informed of the problem.
problem, difficulty, snag, catch, setback, hindrance, obstacle, obstruction, complication, impediment, stumbling block, barrier;
holdup, interruption, delay
informal headache, glitch, hiccup
2A knot used for fastening a rope to another rope or something else.
Oraciones de ejemplo
- Lash ropes and diamond hitches are untied, the horses unpacked and then hobbled or tethered in the meadow below camp.
- Also available is The Klutz Book of Knots, a step-by-step manual on how to tie the world's 24 most useful hitches, ties, warps and knots.
2.1North American A device for attaching one thing to another, especially the tow bar of a motor vehicle: a trailer hitch
Más ejemplos en oraciones
- These pieces of equipment can be easily attached to a trailer hitch and taken from a job site.
- Some rear bumpers may come with a built-in step or a trailer hitch that will add more functionality to your Chevrolet pickup or SUV.
- Headlights, brush guard and trailer hitch without ball are standard features.
4North American informal A period of service: his 12-year hitch in the navy
Más ejemplos en oraciones
- The Admiral recruited me after I had served a hitch in the Navy.
- Americans in uniform, whether they serve for one hitch or an entire career, are taught to view themselves as professionals.
- On the troop ship home were a bunch of criminals - American soldiers who had spent most of their hitch in the brig.
get hitched
- informal Marry.Oraciones de ejemplo
- The couple, who have both been married before, are getting hitched at St John's Church on Saturday.
- But she was married at the time and Gene had been married and divorced and in no big hurry to get hitched again.
- The soaring cost of getting married has inspired a council to help couples get hitched on the cheap.
hitch one's wagon to a star
- Try to succeed by forming a relationship with someone who is already successful.Oraciones de ejemplo
- Ginny had to learn a lesson - to hitch her wagon to a star, but not to lose sight of the job at hand.
- But much better things are coming, and I'd rather hitch my wagon to a star than to a toad.
- At an early age she decided to hitch her wagon to a star and become rich and famous.
Middle English (in the sense 'lift up with a jerk'): of unknown origin.
The earliest sense of hitch was 'to move or lift up with a jerk'. The meaning 'to fasten or tether' dates from the early 17th century, and is the one that features in such expressions as to get hitched for get married and to hitch your wagon to a star. The US philosopher and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson introduced this second phrase in 1870 in the sense 'to have high aspirations'. A hitch meaning 'an obstacle' is probably from the word's use to mean 'a knot in a rope'.
Palabras que riman con hitchbewitch, bitch, ditch, enrich, fitch, flitch, glitch, itch, kitsch, Mitch, pitch, quitch, rich, snitch, stitch, switch, titch, twitch, which, witch
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$14.8 million. Got your attention now? We'll probably have it even more after we explain some of those millions could be yours.
You see that amount is just a small portion of the money in Alabama's unclaimed property program, but it's what belongs to some people in the wiregrass.
Tessa Darlington traveled to the state capitol to figure out how to get that cash out of the program and into your bank account.
They're simple vault doors. Heavy, thick pieces of shiny steel; but what they guard is anything but simple.
"When you think of safety deposit boxes, you think what would someone put in a box, and that could range from a to z," Director of Alabama's Unclaimed Property Program Ralph Ainsworth said.
These valuables from safety deposit boxes are unique, precious, sometimes one-of-a-kind. Now they're inside this vault at the Alabama State Capitol for one reason.
"A business is required by law to attempt to locate the owner. If they can not after a certain period of time, usually three years, it gets sent to the state along with the last known address of the owner," Ainsworth said.
The Alabama Unclaimed Property Program goes far beyond diamond rings, antique guns and Elvis-clad pocketknives. There's the money you can't see; accounts holding hundreds, even thousands of dollars that belong to people throughout Alabama. In total the program is sitting on a $600 million pie, and the Wiregrass gets a $14.8 million serving.
"The responsibility that I have that is the most fun is unclaimed property because not often do you get the opportunity to reunite people with their own money," Alabama State Treasurer Young Boozer said.
You're probably wondering why someone would just let their money sit in a vault. Many people don't know about it.
"We do find where someone has passed away, family did not know about the safety deposit box, it comes to the state and just like any other claim the person would have to show that this is their box they are the rightful heir, and they are entitled to its contents," Ainsworth said.
This surprise money is often the answer to their prayers.
"Whether someone is trying to pay for college or just trying to pay their American Express bill," Ainsworth said.
But there are some items in the vault that are truly priceless.
"Not all the dollar value, a lot of times it is personal. The photographs, the personal letters, military items, sentimental value," Ainsworth said.
That's the case for one particular item that showed up on Ralph Ainsworth's desk.
"It was a gold medal from the 1984 Summer Olympics, and we looked at it and it was for the super heavyweight boxing champion, it's Tyrell Biggs," Treasurer Boozer said.
There are countless stories almost just like Tyrell Biggs'. When staff members research the accounts or open those safety deposit boxes it's like taking a stroll through someone's lives... their hopes and dreams.
A coin collection that could have been someone's back up plan for a down payment on a house.
An antique Alabama football book that most certainly didn't belong to an Auburn fan.
A Purple Heart that shows some young child just how much his grandfather did for his country.
"This is one of the state jobs that you really enjoy. You get to see a result whether it's getting an owner their $190,000 or getting an owner fifty dollars. You have a lot of happy folks," Ainsworth said.
Ainsworth, Treasurer Boozer and their staff want to put smiles on even more faces. Right now the Unclaimed Property division is reuniting nearly $2 million a month with owners. It's time to spread that joy to the Wiregrass.
The link on this page will take you to a listing of people who have money or valuables through Alabama's Unclaimed Property Program. Folks listed on that database are either living or have lived in the following Alabama counties: Barbour, Coffee, Covington, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston and Pike.
You can also go to www.moneyquestalabama.gov or call 888-844-8400 to speak with a representative.
Here is the contact information for Georgia's Unclaimed Property Program.
(404) 968-0490
Here is the contact information for Florida's Unclaimed Property Program.
(888) 258-2253 or (850)413-5555
On Tuesday, July 24th, 2012, Alabama State Treasurer Young Boozer will be joining us for News 4 at Five and Six to explain more about the unclaimed property program.
Also on that day, we will be having a two hour phone bank available at the state capitol in Montgomery.
You can call 888-844-8400 between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. to speak with a representative to see if you have any unclaimed property, and if you do, he or she will help you claim it.


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- Binding: Hardcover
- Era: 20th Century
- Number of Pages: 320
- Subject: Naval History
- Date Available: May 2013
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The launch in 1906 of HMS Dreadnought, the world's first all-big-gun battleship, rendered all existing battle fleets obsolete while at the same time wiping out the Royal Navy's numerical advantage. Britain urgently needed to build an entirely new battle fleet of these larger, more complex and more costly vessels. In this she succeeded spectacularly: in little over a decade fifty such ships were completed, almost exactly double what Germany achieved. This heroic achievement was made possible by the country's vast industrial nexus of shipbuilders, engine manufacturers, armament firms and specialist armor producers, whose contribution to the creation of the Grand Fleet is too often ignored.
Ian Johnston has had a lifelong interest in shipbuilding. His most recent book, Clydebank Battlecruisers, was published in 2011. Ian Buxton, a retired naval architect, is an acknowledged expert on shipbuilding, and is perhaps best known for his book Big Gun Monitors. Both authors live in the United Kingdom.
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"The Battleship Builders is a remarkable study of the entire spectrum of this industry and its parters, concentrating entirely on the production of battleships, the epitome of the process."
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There was actual mingling up and down Main Street in downtown Crookston Thursday evening, during the Chamber and Visitor Bureau's latest Summer Block Party, known as the Main Street Mingle. There was food, music, promotions and other specials at participating businesses and a fair amount of mingling.
Check back next week for details on the next Block Party on June 20.
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CBU Homecoming 2013
Last year, thousands of students, alumni, family and friends converged at CBU for what was a spectacular Homecoming Weekend! Check out the 2012 Homecoming Recap video to enjoy the highlights.
Be sure to look through the schedule of events for this year's festivities, and register soon!
For more information, contact the Office of Alumni and Parent Relations at 951.343.4946 or email@example.com.
Homecoming Schedule
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Homecoming Awards Dinner
Young Alumni Pre-Game Event
Young Alumni event co-sponsored by Alumni Relations and the Career Center
Fortuna Bowl 2013
The Fortuna Bowl, CBU's intramural flag-football championship game, will begin at 6:30pm on the Front Lawn, with fireworks immediately following. A tailgating party for students will take place before the game, from 5:00-6:00.
Block Party
CBU's annual Homecoming Block Party is Saturday, November 2 on the front lawn. The party, from 11 am to 5 pm, features reunions, presentations, academic displays and booths, games, inflatables, petting zoo, CBU music performances, and the Alumni Tent. Last year more than 6,000 alumni, students, faculty, staff, parents and friends attended the Block Party... so come join the fun!!
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Please join us at CBU's Homecoming, scheduled for Nov 1 and 2, 2013. The School of Education will be hosting two special events for our alumni on Saturday, Nov. 2.
Class of 1983 Reunion
The class of 1983 will celebrate their 30th anniversary with a reunion at Homecoming. You can view the complete Homecoming schedule. In addition, the Class of '83 will plan to meet as a group at the following times/locations:
Les Chanteuses and Rhapsody Reunion!!
All members of the musical groups Les Chanteuses and Rhapsody (1957-1989) are invited to a memorial reunion in honor of their director, Mrs. Helen E. Walker, who passed away September 23, 2013.


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It is February already. Really, where did the time go?
Have you kept your New Year's Resolution? The most common statistic when it comes to resolutions is that we do not keep them. According to many different sources, only about 8 percent of Americans successfully achieve their New Year's Resolution.
If you have kept on track, great job keep up the hard work. If you have fallen off the wagon, get up brush yourself off and get back on. There are several different ways to get back up.
How many resolutions did you make this year?
One, two, five? Start with one resolution, make it specific and go with it. Saying, "I want to lose weight" is not a resolution; that is a statement. Committing to losing 10 pounds in three months is a resolution. Setting a measurable goal is the first step to making your resolution stick.
Have you kept your New Year's Resolution? The most common statistic when it comes to resolutions is that we do not keep them. According to many different sources, only about 8 percent of Americans successfully achieve their New Year's Resolution.
Part of making a new habit is creating new neural pathways.
Focus your thoughts on the new behavior to create new neural pathways and it will start to become second nature like the old habit. The more often you perform a task or thought process, the more ingrained the neural pathway becomes and the easier it is to perform the new task.
Do you allow minor setbacks to derail your whole resolution?
It took a while to get where you are today, so it is going to take a while to reset yourself. Even though instant gratification is the norm in our society, it is going to take a while to reset those neural pathways and see improvement in your situation.
Do you notice that you would rather fail than make a plan to avoid temptations?
Yes, it is easy to go through the drive-thru, grab the pack of smokes you still have sitting at your bed side, but think of how much better you will feel if you avoid those temptations and make a plan to change them.
Have you been keeping track of yourself?
Taking a few minutes each day to write down what you ate, when you exercised, and how you felt can be a great motivator. If you are not the pen and paper type there are many different apps out there to put on your phone that help you monitor what you eat, do and feel throughout the day.
Do not get discouraged; start over with a new plan. If you have been staying on track keep up the good work.
Page 2 of 2 - Candace Davidson is the wellness director for the McPherson Family YMCA. She has a bachelor's degree in exercise physiology and is an AFAA certified personal trainer and group fitness instructor.
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Click / tap on the photo to see present day view. (T&G Staff / PAUL KAPTEYN)
In 1962, a little more than eight acres of Burncoat Park (sometimes called North Park) was taken by the commonwealth of Massachusetts to build part of Interstate 290, and the view from the homes on Melrose Street was changed forever — and not for the better.
More acreage was whittled away from the original for Worcester School Department (including Wawecus Elementary School), a common use for the land so painstakingly acquired as the city grew and needed more schools.
The remaining 16 acres bordered by North Parkway, Millbrook Street and Davidson Road, with its pond and walking trail, still provides a pleasant green spot for the neighborhood, though the stone bridge fondly remembered by neighborhood children is long gone.
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As the Ryan Air plane brought the Irish team home today, Declan Kidney confirmed the IRFU were launching an appeal against Wales in a last chance bid to reignite their World Cup campaign. Speaking at Liverpool Airport, as he boarded a bus to a ferry destined for Dublin, the Irish coach SLAMMED Wales and accused them of blatant cheating.
"Uncle Barry lodged a complaint this morning with the IRB and we are looking to have Wales thrown out of the competition."
Reports emerged this morning that several unnamed Irish contacts in the Welsh regional set up had produced STRONG evidence to indicate Wales were planning on featuring a GIRAFFE and a FOX during the game.
"Clearly this is against IRB rules and ruined our game plan. How can you tackle a fox?" said Irish Prop Cian Healy "He just ran right past me."
"We knew about the lions" said Ronan O'Gara. "but we're sure the other animals are against the rules. We don't do dat tort o ting."
When questioned, Declan Kidney refused to drawn into a war of words with the animal rights group PETA over Ireland's alleged misuse of ponies from the entertainment industry. "Jamie had an off day, but will bounce back." said the Coach, before paying a 25 Euro charge for failing to check in online and a further 10 Euro charge for using Mastercard instead of Maestro.


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Already being actively followed by several industries, the overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) approach quantifies the percentage of time that equipment operates to produce an acceptable product. It measures how effectively machines are being used by examining productivity and performance diagnostics at the equipment level. 1,2 It also monitors actual performance relative to performance capabilities under optimal manufacturing conditions. 3 OEE breaks down non-operable time into shutdown losses (such as preventative maintenance, personnel breaks, and training), operational downtime, changeover downtime, equipment failure, process failure, and production adjustment losses, which then are measured to calculate availability, performance, and quality losses. 1
In many industries, a plant-wide view is needed to optimize factory effectiveness, especially for complex, resource-constrained processes that often have significant human and equipment interactions.7 A composite picture is developed for key attributes such as equipment effectiveness, cycle-time efficiency, on-time delivery, manufacturing costs, process yields, production volumes, inventory turn rates, and ramp up performance.8 The effectiveness of this approach was demonstrated by wafer fabricators, and it is readily applicable to biopharmaceutical manufacturing.4
OEE's goal is to develop systems interacting and interfacing with all process equipment to ensure "the right material is with the right tool at the right time."4 This approach avoids instituting locally beneficial controls and improvements that may unintentionally reduce overall efficiency.4 Activities and relationships among different equipment and processes are combined, integrating information, decisions, and actions across several independent systems.2,6,8,9 Such an approach is explicitly applicable to several aspects of biomanufacturing (such as water for injection and clean steam usage across processing suites, and product stream flow from cultivation to harvest to isolation suites). Computer integrated manufacturing (CIM) through automated manufacturing execution systems (MES) supports these integrated improvement goals by 1) managing complexity, traceability, and genealogy, 2) simplifying quality and yield management, 3) facilitating production planning and scheduling, and 4) managing data to support decisions.4
OEE Calculations
OEE is calculated based on the product of availability, performance, and quality, each expressed as a time-based ratio:2
OEE = Aeff*Peff*Qeff Eq. 1
in which the availability efficiency, (Aeff = Tu/Tt), is the operating or "up" time divided by the total time; performance efficiency, (Peff = Tth/Tact), is the theoretical processing time to achieve output goals divided by actual processing time, and the quality efficiency (Qeff = Pg/Pa), is the time spent producing good product output divided by total time spent making all product lots.
Simple OEE is calculated as the ratio of good to total (theoretical) output, each expressed as a count:
Simple OEE = Pg/Pth Eq. 2
in which Pg is the number of actual conforming (good) lots and Pth is the number of theoretical possible lots, assuming maximum levels of availability, performance, and quality.2,3,6,10


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STOCKTON - Authorities used a police dog to track down a man who jumped a fence and ran across Interstate 5 while trying to elude officers Monday afternoon, officials said.
The pursuit unfolded after Community Response Team officers attempted to make a traffic stop near West Benjamin Holt Drive and Grigsby Place about 3:50 p.m., authorities said. The driver dropped a loaded firearm magazine as he fled from the vehicle, climbed a chain-link fence and ran east across all lanes of Interstate 5, police said.
When police got to the east side of the freeway, a witness waved down a patrol car to tell officers he had seen the driver put a gun into a trash can while running through a backyard, authorities said. A police dog named Thor was deployed and found the fugitive hiding under a tarp in the backyard of a home in the 6800 block of Plymouth Road, officers said.
Craig Meadows, 23, was arrested on suspicion of evading a peace officer, resisting arrest, possession of marijuana for sale, possession of a firearm during the commission of a narcotics felony and other crimes, police said. Meadows' passenger, 23-year-old Dwight McCoy, was arrested for a parole violation, officers said.
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Research conducted by NIJ grantees has uncovered several key findings:
Learn more about NIJ projects that address detecting, investigating, and prosecuting traffickers.
Next section: Reducing Demand.
[1] Farrell, A., J. McDevitt, R. Pfeffer, S. Fahy. "Identifying Challenges to Improve the Investigation and Prosecution of State and Local Human Trafficking Cases" (pdf, 323
pages). Final report to the National Institute of Justice, June 2012, NCJ 238795.
[2] [3] Bales, K., and S. Lize. "Trafficking in Persons in the United States." Final report to the National Institute of Justice, March 2005, NCJ 211980.


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'The Heat' Is Predictable But Ultimately Enoyable
Published: Wednesday, July 3, 2013 at 5:16 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, July 3, 2013 at 5:16 p.m.
I decided to check out "The Heat," starring Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy. While the movie is loaded with great one-liners, the story is a bit of a clich�.
"The Heat" is a stereotypical buddy-cop movie, with Bullock playing a strait-laced FBI agent, Special Agent Sarah Ashburn, who is forced to partner up with the local loose-cannon, Detective Shannon Mullins (McCarthy), to take down the bad-guy drug-lord. The story is so cookie-cutter, I'm beginning to wonder if there is a "How to Make a Buddy-Cop Movie for Dummies" book out there somewhere. Both are working on the same case from different angles, they are forced to be partners, they hate each other, they find common ground and, finally, they're best friends.
"The Heat" is set in Boston, and like a true Bostonian, it pulls no punches. It is full of obscenities and expletives, and one really great poke at the Boston accent (Ah you a nahk?).
Despite the cookie cutter plot, I enjoyed "The Heat." Although it's hard not to, when the 80-year-old woman beside you is guffawing at the off-color jokes just as hard as you are.
"The Heat" gets three stars out of five.
Mac McCormick, 35, Lakeland
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Xavier Rudd is a sight to behold onstage.
The Australian musician surrounds himself with a huge variety of instruments, ranging from banjo and bass to drums and didgeridoo.
Rudd can play all those instruments -- as well as basically anything else you put in front of him -- and the result is something that must be seen to be believed. The singer-songwriter is back out on the road and performs Saturday at the Fillmore in San Francisco.
Ash Grunwald opens the 9 p.m. show. Tickets are $25, www.livenation.com.
Kenny Loggins was once known as the "King of the Movie Soundtrack."
The singer-songwriter delivered so many memorable movie anthems during the '80s, including "I'm Alright" in "Caddyshack," the title track to "Footloose" and "Danger Zone" in "Top Gun."
Yet, that's only part of his story.
The Grammy-winning artist also achieved much fame as one half of Loggins and Messina, the '70s soft-rock duo responsible for such favorites as "Your Mama Don't Dance," "Danny's Song" and "House at Pooh Corner."
Loggins performs Wednesday at the Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga. Blue Sky Riders are also on the bill. Show time is 7:30 p.m. and tickets are $35-$125, www.ticketmaster.com.
Music lovers got a nice surprise in early 2013: a new New Order studio album.
"Lost Sirens" was the influential synth-pop band's ninth studio outing -- and its first since 2005's "Waiting for the Sirens' Call."
The band will likely perform a few cuts from "Lost Sirens," as well as plenty of the old fan favorites, during its highly anticipated concert on Friday at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco.
La Roux and DJ Whitney Fierce are also on the bill.
Show time is 8 p.m. and tickets are $55-$75, www.ticketmaster.com.
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This study focused on the identification, investigation and prosecution of trafficking cases at the state and local level.
The researcher's primary goal was to learn more about the obstacles that hinder law enforcement efforts to locate victims
of trafficking and prosecute their traffickers. Researchers examined trafficking cases in a diverse set of 12 U.S. counties
and interviewed officials in three counties that reported no trafficking cases. The findings cannot be assumed to apply to
the entire country.
Most trafficking cases begin with a tip from someone but rarely from trafficked people themselves. Researchers found that
69 percent of the cases went forward to prosecution, but most were not charged as trafficking cases per se. They were prosecuted
under older laws, such as those against promoting prostitution.
State prosecutors cited various reasons for using existing laws:
Read the full report, Identifying Challenges to Improve the Investigation and Prosecution of State and Local Human Trafficking Cases (pdf, 323 pages)
This work was NIJ 's first substantial effort to address Asian transnational crime (from multiple countries) and its U.S.
impacts. Interviews with U.S. and Asian law enforcement and other criminal justice officials revealed that transnational organized
crime networks operating in the region are highly specialized. It documents how several important issues of transnational
crime overlap: trafficking in women and children, human smuggling, and drug production and trafficking, and these are the
priority issues in the Asian region which directly impact the U.S. The report offers specific strategies for pursuing a research
agenda on U.S. impacts of Asian transnational crime.
Read the full report Asian Transnational Organized Crime and Its Impact on the United States .
Little is known about how law enforcement agencies are organizing their response to human trafficking, or the capabilities
of law enforcement to respond to the needs of trafficking victims. This exploratory project was designed to fill this gap
by providing a clear perspective on the current state of law enforcement's understanding of human trafficking. This project
Read the full report Law Enforcement Response to Human Trafficking and Its Implications for Victims: Current Practices and Lessons Learned (pdf,
101 pages).
A national sample of law enforcement agencies (n= ~3,000) will be surveyed to determine local definitions of trafficking,
the number and type of investigations conducted, the extent of reporting and coordination with other agencies, and good practices
for combating human trafficking. Second, selected jurisdictions with existing trafficking programs, and multi-agency partners
(e.g., law enforcement, U.S. Attorneys, District Attorneys, service providers) will be surveyed to help identify the benefits
and challenges of reporting, investigating, and prosecuting trafficking using multi-agency models. Third, intensive case studies
will also be conducted in Boston, Massachusetts; St. Louis, Missouri; and Phoenix, Arizona to provide qualitative data about
local efforts to investigate cases and provide services to trafficking victims.
This research examined human trafficking case studies in Southwest Florida, Chicago, and Washington, DC. The project evaluated:
Read the full report Trafficking in Persons in the U.S (pdf, 161 pages).
In this project, researchers will examine the effect of existing legislation on the successful prosecution of human trafficking
cases. Surveys of Federal and State attorneys, interviews with key stakeholders, and an analysis of legislation and legal
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Definición de cable en inglés:
1A thick rope of wire or hemp used for construction, mooring ships, and towing vehicles: steel cables held the convoy together
Más ejemplos en oraciones
- And they are tampering with the mooring ropes and cables of many of the craft to gain access to their decks.
- If you do, be sure you will be swarmed by alien looking thick dark cables, strange wires, strange boxes of all sizes and shapes, and a whole range of sharp needles.
- Consider cable or wire rope instead of chain, as it is harder to cut and requires special tools.
wire, chain;
Nautical hawser, stay, bridle, topping lift;
North American choker
1.1The chain of a ship's anchor.
Oraciones de ejemplo
- She still reached her convoy rendezvous in Loch Ewe on time, but while waiting for sailing orders lost her starboard anchor when the cable snapped.
- It was a good team effort with one man only missing out by metres before the second diver found the cable and eventually the anchor.
- Their task was to cut the cables anchoring a boom and antishipping net stretched across the river directly under the machine guns and cannons in a fort overlooking the river.
1.2 Nautical A length of 200 yards (182.9 m) or (in the US) 240 yards (219.4 m): he caught a glimpse of the mast, a cable or two downwind
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- 'Peningo' was put under tow attached to a line two cables long.
- Each of the three pieces was clearly three cables long.
- On both sides of these rocks there is a very good wide channel for ships to come in; that on the south side is three cables long and seven fathoms deep, and that on the north side two cables long.
1.3 short for cable stitch.
1.4 (also cable moulding) Architecture A moulding resembling twisted rope.
Oraciones de ejemplo
- The handsome edifice has such Federal style adornments as stone lintels over the windows and a cornice with mutules and cable molding.
- The cable molding is only a little more expensive than regular floor molding and it provides what seems like a very useful purpose.
- Stones were salvaged from a fireplace found on the land, materials matching originals were used, the cable molding that decorated the ceilings was restored and the formal gardens were reborn.
2An insulated wire or wires having a protective casing and used for transmitting electricity or telecommunication signals: an underground cable [mass noun]: transatlantic phone calls went by cable
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- We still await a decision on the sensitive issue of the on-site over-head high voltage electricity cables.
- Power bosses have agreed to replace underground electricity cables to help improve poor supply following a spate of power cuts in Westhoughton.
- Installation of underground electricity cables is 97 percent complete but a change of plans is causing a delay to the final completion of the project.
wire, lead, cord;
British flex
2.1A cablegram: this was an occasion for using the telephone, not cables, teletexes, or letters
Más ejemplos en oraciones
- No one with any sense ever supposed that telephone calls or telegrams or cables were private.
- Before leaving he sent a cable to Hawthorne.
- And after three or four days I sent a cable to Athens that I wouldn't be able to speak at the University of Athens.
2.2 short for cable television. I watch polo on cable
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- While some of the other season's soundtracks are like that, the Fourth Season sounds more like music to cook spaghetti to when friends are over to watch your cable.
- I've got an idea - let's cancel our cable, stop watching TV and go outside.
- We jumped onto the couch, flicking through the cable to watch cartoons.
verbo[with object]
1Send a message to (someone) by cablegram: he cabled her to cancel all arrangements
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- Patrick had slipped next door and got their groom to cable him with an urgent message to pick Master Adam up at the station as he was returning earlier than planned.
- When her father cabled her with a whole dollar to support this adventure, she returned to America to study psychology at Berkeley.
- But before the war was quite over Shell cabled me, 'Can you possibly get released?'
1.1Transmit (a message) by cablegram: the secretariat cabled a reply
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- I wish to cable an urgent telegram to the President.
- On October 22nd, the commissar for the western front cabled a message to him that said: 'There is nothing left but to give up.'
- However, he cabled a message to the Vice-Admiral inquiring his views of the possibility of rushing the Dardanelles.
1.2 [no object] Send a cablegram: have you got the drugs I cabled for?
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- He cabled to him that he was 'very sorry to learn that I appear to have got the Government in trouble'.
- His Australian government had cabled to back Britain on August 3.
- Some of the chaps cabled for money on the 11th of this month & haven't heard anything about it yet.
2Provide (an area) with power lines or with the equipment necessary for cable television: nearly all urban areas are cabled, so viewers can choose from up to 20 channels
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- The service is only available in cabled areas in Kilkenny, Clonmel, and Thurles.
- As an added benefit, he explained, the university is using wireless broadband technology to provide Internet access to areas that are not cabled for Ethernet.
- Here in Washington (near Sunderland) most of the town was cabled when it was being built in the 70-80's.
Middle English: from an Anglo-Norman French variant of Old French chable, from late Latin capulum 'halter'.
Palabras que riman con cableAbel, able, Babel, enable, fable, gable, label, Mabel, sable, stable, table
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By Brad Salzmann, PA-C
Portable generators can provide a temporary source of electric power when "grid" power is not available. Many of us have portable generators for back-up power when the electricity "goes out." While these generators can be very useful, there are safety considerations of which to be aware.
Carbon Monoxide: Most portable generators run on fossil fuels (gasoline, diesel, biodiesel, kerosene, propane, natural gas) and therefore emit carbon monoxide (CO) as one of the exhaust gases. Carbon monoxide is a colorless, odorless, deadly gas that causes hundreds of accidental poisoning deaths each year. These unintentional poisonings occur most often during the colder months and after disasters. Therefore, it is important to make sure the home or business has functioning CO detectors and to test them monthly.
Placement: Portable internal combustion engine generators must be placed and run outdoors where exhaust fumes cannot enter enclosed spaces. The current recommendation is to place them on a level, well-ventilated, dry area at least 25 feet from a building and away from windows, vents and doors (including the neighbor's). It is NOT OK to run them in an attached garage, porch, or in the basement. Because most generators are not weatherproof, they should be protected from direct exposure to rain and snow. Most generators are very noisy; try to place them in a location that minimizes disruption.
Connections: Generators must not be connected directly to a home's electrical circuit. The electricity can back feed into the power lines connected to the home. Utility transformers then can increase the voltage to thousands of volts and kill utility workers miles away. Nor should a generator be plugged into an outlet in the home or garage, for the same reason. A common, but improper practice is to plug the generator into the dryer outlet with a 220-volt cord. The best way to connect is to have an electrician install a box with a cut-off switch that prevents back feed into the grid. These are typically wired to several pre-determined essential circuits such as the furnace, water pump, refrigerator, etc. If using an extension cord, use one that is approved for outdoor use and heavy duty enough to carry the electrical load. Check the generator's operating manual for correct grounding instructions.
Power: Portable generators do not typically have enough power to run an entire household. The wattage of the generator should be at least 1.3 times the total wattage of the appliances used. Overloading the generator can make it run hot and catch fire, and/or damage the appliances and electronics. Try to avoid starting all appliances at once.
Fuel: This seems obvious, but make sure you know the type of fuel your generator uses, and the type of fuel you have to fill it. Keep fresh fuel on hand; gasoline and biodiesel have a shelf life of about 6 months, diesel about a year. Adding appropriate fuel stabilizers can extend the useful life of these fuels. Remember, if the power is out, gas stations may not be open. Fuel should be stored in approved containers, correctly labeled, and kept outside of living areas and away from the generator and other potential ignition sources. Turn off the generator and let it cool down before refilling; never refill a running generator. Wear gloves and safety glasses while refilling, and have a B class fire extinguisher nearby.
Generator use: Test your generator regularly; once a month is best, but at least once a season. Only a qualified service technician should perform repairs. Engine parts get very hot; serious burns may result if touched.
Having a portable generator during power outages can be very handy, and even life-saving for those dependent on electric life support systems. However, if appropriate safety measures are not adhered to, generator use can be dangerous and deadly.
Brad Salzmann is an orthopedics physician assistant at Gifford in Randolph. He also has a master's degree in disaster medicine and management, and serves as part of the national Disaster Medical Assistance Team based in Worcester, Mass.


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PDF OCR X Community Edition
PDF OCR is a simple drag-and-drop utility for Mac OS X, that converts your PDFs into text documents.
PDF OCR is a simple drag-and-drop utility for Mac OS X, that converts your PDFs and images into text documents. It uses advanced OCR (optical character recognition) technology to extract the text of the PDF or image even if that text is contained in an image. This is particularly useful for dealing with PDFs that were created via a Scan-to-PDF function in a scanner or photo copier.
The Community Edition supports images and single-page PDFs. For multi-page PDFs you should upgrade to the Enterprise Edition.
Required OS: 10.6
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Since the ocr engine is tesseract http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/ it has the same weakness and advantages as such and having worked with it in a couple of projects myself i like it, tesseract that is, not this program. But i could have forked over 30 dollar's on this if the author had at least taken the time to build a good gui around these opensource components. But he hasn't even bothered to do that. So honestly, save your money and spend it on something else instead.
This is not freeware! And the "download" link is really a link to the developers homepage. Please add it to iusethis properly!
same results with v. 1.4.1 . I've tried a few files now & get nothing but a blank text file.
same results with v. 1.4.1 . I've tried a few files now & get nothing but a blank text file.
This program builds on a lot of old but very good open source projects - Tesseract, ImageMagick primarily (hence the huge download size)- and wraps them in a droplet that looks to be created with Platypus. It's a great idea & I'd be happy to pay the dev. $29 for the work involved in packaging ... but the test file I tried just gave a blank text file as output.
This is not exactly freeware: the free "community version" is crippled, allowing only 1 page to be converted to text.
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text: What do you do when a truckload of bees and and honey overturns? It's a question you hope you never need to answer if you work in the road management business, but every now and then, things like this happen. In Macon, Georgia, workers this weekend had to move some understandably upset bees and honeycomb off the road to right their truck and get the highway open again. See full article.


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So, this is what American politics has come to. An unimaginably large and powerful storm lays waste to the most populous region in the country and Congress, ignoring its duty to act in the face of crisis, does nothing. Too bad, New York. Tough luck, New Jersey. Take care, Connecticut.
If the refusal of House Speaker John A. Boehner to call a vote on providing federal aid to the states devastated by Hurricane Sandy is not a modern low for Congress, then we shudder to think what is.
Let us be clear: This is the fault of the Republican-controlled House of Representatives. Even the filibuster-happy Republicans in the Senate went along with providing this critical assistance. But Boehner didn't, to the outrage of Republicans in the states affected.
Rep. Peter King of Long Island called Boehner's action a "cruel knife in the back" and suggested that New Yorkers stop donating to Republicans who have "no problem finding New York when it comes to raising money." New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said members of Congress "use the citizens of this country like pawns on a chess board" and accused the House leadership of displaying "callous indifference to the suffering of the people of my state."
They are both correct. Even in the toxic political environment precipitated by the tea party right, Congress should be able to fulfill its duty to respond quickly to a natural disaster. It has been more than two months since Sandy raked the nation's East Coast, leaving tens of thousands of Americans homeless and affecting more than 300,000 businesses. And Congress has done nothing. It's a disgrace.
Boehner offered neither explanation nor defense of his decision to stick it to the East Coast, though we suspect things would have been different if his home state of Ohio had been damaged. The suspicion – likely correct – is that in the aftermath of the manufactured "fiscal cliff" crisis, there was fear that the tea partyers were too miffed to be counted on.
In the face of criticism he evidently didn't expect – where does this guy live? – Boehner reversed himself and scheduled a vote on Sandy relief for Jan. 15. Will it pass? Who can tell?
It is plain at this point that the national Republican Party is a dysfunctional mess that no one can rely on for leadership or even common sense. That's a difficult enough problem to deal with on matters of taxes and spending. It's intolerable when the issues are life and death.


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The annual Fine Arts Day will take place Friday, April 12, at The Centre, 1200 Holloway St., in Rolla from 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. There will be student-directed, hands-on art demonstrations throughout the day in the lounge area with a variety of Rolla High School student art on display. Everyone is invited to participate.
New this year is the Community Masterpiece, in which everyone is encouraged to stop by The Centre and add their touch to a four-foot by six-foot postcard. Paint brushes and guidance will be provided.
Local area businesses including Panera Bread, Subway and Pepsi are supporting this event by providing food and drinks for the students throughout the day.
During the day and evening in the activity room, there will be 12 pieces of student designed jewelry items up for auction with the winning bids being revealed at 6 p.m. Proceeds from this auction will benefit the United Way of South Central Missouri.
The staff of Kent Jewelry works with the students to design and manufacture the jewelry to be auctioned. The students see each phase of the production and learn how art can become a way to earn a living. They also learn the importance of using their talents to give back to the community.
To help celebrate this event, the Rolla Area Chamber of Commerce is hosting a Business After Hours from 5-6:30 p.m.
Sponsorship of the students is available. Contact Kent Bagnall at Kent Jewelry at 364-1030 or Carolyn Peplow at 364-3577 for more information.
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North Henderson makes 'Best High Schools' list
Published: Tuesday, May 7, 2013 at 4:44 p.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, May 7, 2013 at 4:44 p.m.
North Henderson High in Hendersonville has been included in "America's Best High Schools 2013," a study by Newsweek and The Daily Beast that ranks the best 2,000 high schools in the U.S.
To determine the top schools, authors of the report "stayed true to factors that have been proven to be the best indicators of college readiness," focusing on graduation rates, participation in college-level classes via Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate programs, and acceptance into two- or four-year college programs.
North Henderson was ranked No. 1,637 based on factors such as its 92 percent graduation rate, a college-bound rate of 85 percent, 1484 average SAT score, 21 average ACT score and 2.8 average AP score.
Five thousand schools were invited to participate in the survey, and nearly 2,500 responded.
A.C. Reynolds High in Asheville also made the rankings at No. 1,490. For more on the report, visit www.thedailybeast.com/.
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For the Corsa Evo SC, Vittoria builds the tire with its 320 tpi corespun cotton/poly casing. It's the highest thread count available on the market. This higher thread count makes for a more responsive tire since there is more structure and less matrix, not unlike optimizing the fabric/resin ratio in a high performance composite bike frame. This high density fabric is coated with natural latex rubber to ensure that it's as supple and resilient as possible to conform to irregularities in the road surface, offering the best possible grip through fast corners as well as the absolute minimum rolling resistance.
The tread received as much attention as the casing. Vittoria caps the Corsa Evo SC tires with its dual compound Twin Tread. As you might expect, it uses a harder durometer rubber in the center to decrease rolling resistance. The shoulders of the tread are made of a softer rubber to increase the grip on the road. Vittoria calls their rubber compound Isogrip SC. Overall, you'll get the best of both worlds — durability and great performance. Vittoria's PRB 2.0 puncture resistant belting situates a high density aramid layer underneath the tread. This is the same technology they use with the tires supplied to their sponsored teams for the cobbled brutality of Paris-Roubaix. So even though these tires are very light, you won't sacrifice one bit of road-worthiness.
The Vittoria Corsa Evo SC Tubular Tire has a Black tread with a natural latex sidewall. The file tread makes this an excellent all-weather racing tire, and it's at home on any road surface as well. The alloy Presta valve stem is 42mm long. It comes in sizes 700c x 23mm and 700c x 25mm.
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SAN JOSE -- In an announcement that cheered city leaders, the Mercury News said Thursday it is returning to downtown San Jose, bringing a signature business and another burst of economic activity to the city's revitalized core.
The Mercury News' offices will be at 4 N. Second St. -- a few blocks from the West Santa Clara Street building it left in 1967 when it moved to its current home several miles away.
"It's going to be great to have the Mercury News back downtown where it started," said Mayor Chuck Reed. "It was an anchor presence for a very long time, and it was a blow to downtown when they picked up and moved off Santa Clara Street to Brokaw Road. It's important to have one of the nation's best newspapers downtown."
Publisher Sharon Ryan said she and the staff are delighted that "we were able to figure out a way to move the company back downtown. I want to thank all of those who helped us make this possible. Everyone benefits."
The company will occupy 33,186 square feet on the seventh and eighth floors of the building, with news and executives on the eighth floor and advertising and all business functions on the seventh.
The company expects to move in September, Ryan said.
The newspaper's return comes as the city center enjoys a rebirth after decades of decline caused by the growth of the suburbs and malls that hollowed out the downtown's core of customers and businesses.
The recovery has brought 90 tech businesses downtown with more considering it, according to city economic development officials, and spurred construction of two high-rise apartment buildings, with two more in planning stages. The revival includes an architecturally significant new City Hall on West Santa Clara Street and a U.S. Patent Office soon to come.
"Fortunately, we have been able to come back from the dead," Reed said.
The newspaper's move is part of a trend in which papers are selling their buildings and moving to office parks or other less costly quarters. The Mercury News is moving downtown after selling its 36-acre campus at 750 Ridder Park Drive, near Brokaw and I-880, to Supermicro Computer.
Supermicro plans a complex of 1.6 million square feet with about 2,800 parking places, including a manufacturing facility on the campus it purchased for $30.5 million last fall.
For the Mercury News, the downtown location makes sense journalistically and economically, said Ken Doctor, a media analyst with Outsell.
"You want to be as physically accessible to your readers and sources in the community as you can be," Doctor said. "San Jose is a big city and has significant downtown population in government and business. You want reporters to be able to walk over and talk to somebody or for people to come into the building to talk to the editorial staff or just observe a story conference. The Merc had a big, iconic building on Brokaw but it wasn't accessible that way."
Economically, Doctor said, "half the value of newspapers these days is real estate. At a time of meager, tumbling profits, it's very common for newspapers to move out of their residences into cheaper space, sometimes urban, sometimes suburban, but always cheaper."
Matthew Mahood, president and chief executive officer of the San Jose Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce, called the move "one more building block" for a revitalized downtown. "More and more employers across the region are starting to look at downtown as a viable place to put their business," he said. "It's fantastic that the Mercury News is one of those businesses."
The deal-closer for the move was a downtown parking incentive for businesses that was spearheaded 31/2 years ago by Councilman Sam Liccardo, whose district includes the city center. Under the deal, the Mercury News will get 200 parking places in a city garage, 160 of them free of charge for four years and half price in the fifth year. Typically, a business would get fewer parking places, so the deal with the Mercury News required council approval.
"We've seen 159 businesses take advantage of this incentive, filling over half a million square feet of space with over 1,300 employees," Liccardo said. The City Council unanimously approved the arrangement on March 18. "We have a lot to celebrate," Liccardo said.
Praxis Commercial acted as national broker on the deal for the Mercury News, in conjunction with Rob Shannon of CBRE, the local broker.
Kim Walesh, San Jose's economic development director, said the return of the newspaper "is really a very important symbol for downtown" and is "a big fish for us. More and more companies want urban settings where people are able to walk to restaurants, where there's a more stimulating environment with cars and public transit, bikes and lots of options for getting around."
Ron James was mayor in 1967 when the Mercury News was last headquartered downtown.
"The nice thing about having the Mercury News downtown was if you had something you wanted to talk about with (publisher) Joe Ridder or the editorial staff, you could walk in and sit down, shoot the breeze, talk about annexation, talk about BART coming to town,'' he said. "You ran into them all over the place, at Rotary meetings, wherever."
But the valley was growing rapidly, and Mercury News circulation grew with it. The company had outgrown its 25-year-old headquarters at 211 W. Santa Clara St. and needed more room to expand its printing operation. Ten new press units were added to the 14 existing ones after the move, and ultimately the printing plant had around 40 units in 4 Goss presses. More than 1,000 employees moved into the new plant. The Mercury News, now part of the Bay Area News Group, has been printed in Concord and Hayward since June, easing the way for the move downtown.
As far as former Mercury News publisher Tony Ridder is concerned, moving the newsroom, advertising and administrative offices out of downtown was not necessary.
"Quite frankly, I think it was a mistake," Ridder said. "I don't see any reason why we couldn't have built the production facility out where you are now and had the newsroom and front office, advertising department and accounting department downtown."
The return 47 years later is good news, said Tom McEnery, a former San Jose mayor. "You can't change those kinds of significant mistakes, but it's something that warms your heart a little bit that you're getting a redress of an old mistake," he said.
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A third of Louisiana's coastal marsh is gone, and 50 more acres are lost each day. Can this crucial wintering ground be saved?
If North America is the land of plenty blessed with abundant natural resources, then Louisiana's coastal marsh is a strong candidate for capital. Shrimp and crabs grow there in greater abundance than anywhere else in North America.Fishermen from all over the continent travel to the Louisiana coast to pursue redfish, speckled trout, and flounder. And the marsh is a nursery for unfathomable numbers of less notable but equally important Gulf menhaden. These fish, along with shrimp and crabs, convert the rich supply of marsh plankton and detritus into animal tissue that becomes food for larger fish, birds, alligators, and humans. Indeed, Louisiana's coastal marsh is the source of 30 to 40 percent of the commercial seafood harvest in the United States.
But the marshes also provide habitat for tremendous populations of birds, including herons, egrets, ibises and the spectacular roseate spoonbill, whose bright pink plumage contrasts starkly with the subtle greens and browns of the marsh. As for waterfowl, it is hard to overstate the importance of Louisiana's coastal marsh to North America's ducks and geese.
The marsh provides crucial winter and migration habitat at the southern confluence of the Mississippi and Central flyways. Picture a continental funnel where the left half is the Central Flyway and the right half, the Mississippi Flyway. Waterfowl from Ontario to Alberta, from Michigan to Montana, migrate down the funnel and pour into Louisiana's coastal marshes, where they find a smorgasbord of submerged aquatic vegetation, seeds, tubers, and invertebrates on which to feed during winter.
The North American Waterfowl Management Plan's Gulf Coast Joint Venture recognizes the Louisiana coastal marsh as a top priority for conservation of waterfowl. Likewise, Ducks Unlimited's International Conservation Plan identifies the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Texas as one of five highest-priority regions. The goal of the Gulf Coast Joint Venture is to provide migration and winter habitat to support 13.7 million ducks. Some 9.2 million of those birds use Louisiana coastal habitats, including substantial proportions of the continental populations of gadwalls, blue-winged teal, green-winged teal, northern pintails, lesser scaup, and mottled ducks.
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A Winona Lakes woman is charged with getting more than $40,000 in Section 8 housing benefits she wasn't entitled to after allegedly lying about her husband not living with her and her son being unemployed, Monroe County detectives said.
Sabrina Garner, 50, was placed in Monroe County Correctional Facility in lieu of $10,000 bail and is awaiting a district court preliminary hearing on theft-by-deception and unsworn falsification charges.
The Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program helps low-income residents who qualify find decent housing and provides monetary public assistance benefits with their living expenses. This assistance is provided based on certain requirements, such as the number of people living in the household and how many of those people are employed, residents must meet in order to qualify.
Garner is accused of saying her husband, Kevin Wells, was not living with her and her three children when records show Wells in fact had been living with them ever since they moved into Section 8 housing in August 2009, detectives with the Monroe County District Attorney's Office said.
Garner allegedly said there was no extra income when it was later discovered Wells and her son were both employed.
Having learned Garner had possibly violated Section 8 rules, the county Housing Authority in September held an informal hearing, at which she admitted Wells had been living with her since August 2009, detectives said.
By saying Wells did not live with her and that both he and her son weren't employed, she got a total of $40,366 in public assistance benefits she otherwise wouldn't have received.
The September hearing was held after Detective Joseph Coddington met Aug. 31 with a Housing Authority official, who had learned from government agency resources that an unauthorized tenant had been living with Garner, according to detectives.
Section 8 residents must annually tell the Housing Authority who lives with them in order to continue getting benefits.
Garner told a case worker prior to the September hearing that Wells was living with her and that she wanted to add his name on the lease.
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"Two apparent cases of Rickettsia parkeri rickettsiosis transmitted by the Amblyomma triste tick, which is more commonly found in neotropical areas, have been found in a mountainous region of southern Arizona, indicating the disease "...
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AUGMENTIN is an oral antibacterial combination consisting of amoxicillin and the beta-lactamase inhibitor, clavulanate potassium (the potassium salt of clavulanic acid).
Amoxicillin is an analog of ampicillin, derived from the basic penicillin nucleus, 6-aminopenicillanic acid. The amoxicillin molecular formula is C16H19N3O5S•3H2O, and the molecular weight is 419.46. Chemically, amoxicillin is (2S,5R,6R)-6-[(R)-(-)-2-Amino-2-(phydroxyphenyl)acetamido]-3,3-dimethyl-7-oxo-4-thia-1-azabicyclo[3.2.0]heptane-2-carboxylic acid trihydrate and may be represented structurally as:
Clavulanic acid is produced by the fermentation of Streptomyces clavuligerus. It is a beta-lactam structurally related to the penicillins and possesses the ability to inactivate some beta-lactamases by blocking the active sites of these enzymes. The clavulanate potassium molecular formula is C8H8KNO5, and the molecular weight is 237.25. Chemically, clavulanate potassium is potassium (Z)(2R,5R)-3-(2-hydroxyethylidene)-7-oxo-4-oxa-1-azabicyclo[3.2.0]-heptane-2-carboxylate and may be represented structurally as:
Inactive Ingredients
- Tablets-Colloidal silicon dioxide, hypromellose, magnesium stearate, microcrystalline cellulose, polyethylene glycol, sodium starch glycolate, and titanium dioxide. Each tablet of amoxicillin/clavulanate potassium contains 0.63 mEq potassium.
- Powder for Oral Suspension-Colloidal silicon dioxide, flavorings, xanthan gum, and one or more of the following: hypromellose, mannitol, silica gel, silicon dioxide, succinic acid,
- Chewable Tablets-Colloidal silicon dioxide, flavorings,
magnesium stearate, mannitol, and one or more of the following: D&C Yellow
No. 10, FD&C Red No. 40, glycine, sodium saccharin, and aspartame. [see WARNINGS
- Each 125-mg chewable tablet and each 5 mL of reconstituted 125/5 mL oral suspension of AUGMENTIN contains 0.16 mEq potassium
- Each 250-mg chewable tablet and each 5 mL of reconstituted 250/5 mL oral suspension of AUGMENTIN contains 0.32 mEq potassium
- Each 200-mg chewable tablet and each 5 mL of reconstituted 200/5 mL oral suspension of AUGMENTIN contains 0.14 mEq potassium
- Each 400-mg chewable tablet and each 5 mL of reconstituted 400/5 mL oral suspension of AUGMENTIN contains 0.29 mEq potassium sodium saccharin, and aspartame. [see WARNINGS AND PRECAUTIONS]
What are the possible side effects of amoxicillin and clavulanate potassium (Augmentin, Augmentin ES-600, Augmentin XR)?
Get emergency medical help if you have any of these signs of an allergic reaction: hives; difficulty breathing; swelling of your face, lips, tongue, or throat.
Stop using this medicine and call your doctor at once if you have a serious side effect such as:
- diarrhea that is watery or has blood in it;
- pale or yellowed skin, dark colored urine, fever, confusion or weakness;
- easy bruising or bleeding;
- skin rash, bruising, severe tingling, numbness, pain, muscle weakness;
- agitation,...
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With the coming holiday season upon us, the North Lake Tahoe Bonanza's weekly Tuesday Morning Meeting will take a three-week hiatus.
The meetings, featuring robust discussion on a variety of community issues and events, take place every Tuesday from 9-10 a.m. at the Bonanza's office at 925 Tahoe Blvd., Ste. No. 206, in the office park across the street from Rookies.
The Bonanza will not host a meeting on Dec. 18, Dec. 25 or Jan. 1. The meeting will resume at its normal time on Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013. Anyone with questions can email Bonanza Managing Editor Kevin MacMillan at email@example.com.