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My name is Connie.� I am southern born and raised and have lived in the Macon area for six years with my husband, three children (who are not so little anymore!), three dogs, a cat, three cows, one of which is like a pet and named Bella and a woodpecker that has moved in and made his life�s mission to destroy our front porch.� My family will tell you that I always have something to say so I thought blogging would be fun, a place where I can ramble about our life in the country, this lovely town that we have fallen in love with and now call home and maybe I will throw in a recipe or two!� I believe that a day without laughter is a day wasted so �sit a spell� with me and hopefully I can put a smile on your face!
As most of you have come to realize if you read my blog, I am a southern girl, born and raised and along with that I have an accent, or so I have been told! I was at a wedding a couple of weeks ago and was talking to a group of people and someone stopped me and asked me where I was from. This does catch me off guard sometimes because it is hard for me to hear my accent and I guess I think I talk like everyone else, which obviously I don't! Over the years I have answered the phone or have spoken to someone and I get "you aren't from around here are you?" Well no, I answer and the person usually says "that is some accent you have". When I first moved here and people would comment on my accent I tried to not sound so "southern" when I talked, which was hard for me, but I soon realized that I am the way I am and I am proud of my heritage and where I grew up, so if I draw out my words for 12 syllables, or sound like I have stepped out of an episode of the Andy Griffith Show, well, it's just how I am! And I wonder sometimes if I write that way too. It's not that I don't know the English language, English was my best subject in school, but sometimes I think my "southern-ness" comes through in my writing and may make some of you scratch your head and wonder what in the world I am talking about! I do tend to word things different sometimes and I use the word ain't quite often, and I use to get in so much trouble in English class when I used that word, but it's habit and I still use it!
I think that the part of Missouri where we live is neutral and there isn't really an accent. There are certain things that Missourians say that's different from what I am used to. For example, here you say a stool and I say a toilet, the thing you use to water your garden you call a hose and I call a hose pipe. I say I am fixing to go to the grocery store, when you would just say, I am going to the grocery store, that one gets comments every time! A lot of people here say warsh instead of wash, I say ya'll and most people here say you all. I will say that the longer I live here the more I do hear the southern in some people back home. Not so much my family because I talk to them often but I do have a few friends with thicker accents (more so than myself) and I can hear it sometimes. And it never fails; when I talk to one of them or go home for a visit my accent gets thicker.
I guess the moral of my story here is to be proud of who you are and where you are from! I wouldn't trade where I grew up for anything and I am very proud of my southern heritage. But on the other hand, I do think it is important to also "bloom where you are planted" and be proud of where you live! I am proud to be a southern girl and I don't always sound like I am from around these parts but I am proud to call Missouri my home ya'll!


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Woodworth wants to remove Koster from new murder trial
Chillicothe man to be tried again for 1990 slaying
A Chillicothe man whose murder conviction in the 1990 slaying of a rural neighbor was recently overturned wants the state Supreme Court to remove the Attorney General's Office from the case.
Mark Woodworth is asking the high court to prevent Attorney General Chris Koster from putting Woodworth on trial for a third time. He's serving a life sentence in the fatal shooting of Cathy Robertson.
The court ruled in early January that former state prosecutor Kenny Hulshof failed to share evidence that could have benefited Woodworth's defense. The ruling followed a similar conclusion by a Boone County judge who also recommended review by an independent prosecutor.
Woodworth's lawyer filed a motion Tuesday seeking that independent review or allowing the Livingston County prosecutor to decide whether to file new charges.
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Ireland, 2012, 101 Minute Running Time
Genre/Subjects: Crime, Drama, Historical/Period, Political, Thriller
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It's the dying days of "The Troubles" in Northern Ireland. Colette, a young Irish mother, is about to plant a bomb in a London subway. She was radicalized at an early age after she sent her brother out to get cigarettes for her father, only to have the boy killed in a firefight between British and Irish forces.
In an almost wordless scene, Colette (Andrea Riseborough) plants the bomb and is promptly taken into custody, where she must choose either jail time or working for MI5, the latter allowing her to be with her son. The plan is for her to report to MI5 agent Mac (Clive Owen) on the activities of her two brothers, both high-ranking IRA officers. Mac promises that no one will die—a promise easily broken. Colette finds herself caught between betraying her people for her own sake and proving her loyalties by still participating in murderous acts. Mac tries to protect her, but his superiors find it expedient to out Colette in order to get at her brothers' hard-core terrorist crew. She's under siege on all fronts. Even a moment of joy, like her son's first bike ride, is overshadowed by dread. A twist in the story brings the relief of knowing the real traitor, but too much damage has already been done.
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ZeaChem Breaks Ground on a Cellulosic Ethanol Biorefinery in Oregon
ZeaChem, Inc. held a groundbreaking ceremony on June 2 for a new cellulosic ethanol biorefinery in Boardman, Oregon. Cellulosic ethanol is ethanol produced from non-edible biomass sources, such as agricultural residues, trees, or grasses. The demonstration-scale facility will produce 250,000 gallons per year of ethanol from hybrid poplar trees grown at a nearby tree farm, but it will also test the production of ethanol from other biomass sources, such as agricultural residues and herbaceous crops. The ZeaChem technology uses a chemical process to separate the sugars (xylose and glucose) from the biomass, then uses a bacteria to ferment the sugars, forming acetic acid. The acetic acid is then concentrated and chemically converted into ethyl acetate. While ethyl acetate is itself a marketable chemical product, ZeaChem intends to use a $25 million grant, awarded by DOE through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, to add the capability of converting the ethyl acetate into ethanol.
To accomplish that trick requires several additional steps. First, the residues left over after the sugars are separated from the biomass will be fed into a high-temperature gasifier, forming a hydrogen-rich synthetic gas, or "syngas." The hydrogen will be separated from the syngas and reacted with the ethyl acetate to form ethanol. Meanwhile, the remaining syngas will be burned to create steam and power for the biorefinery. As a result, the facility will have the capability to produce multiple products: a marketable biobased chemical, cellulosic ethanol, and electrical power. ZeaChem expects the steam and power produced to be essentially equal to the energy demands of the biorefinery. The company also claims that the facility could be modified to produce a variety of biobased organic chemicals, allowing the company to change its product to best respond to market conditions.
ZeaChem expects the facility to begin operating this year using its core technology for ethyl acetate production, with cellulosic ethanol production starting in 2011. The company has tested its fermentation technology at a research facility in Colorado, and it claims that numerous industry vendors have validated the additional process steps, include acetic acid concentration and ethyl acetate production. The Oregon Employment Department calculates that construction and operation of the Boardman facility will create 292 direct and indirect jobs in Oregon. See the ZeaChem press release and the technology description on the ZeaChem Web site.


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I don't see a board on here just for caregivers. I would love a forum where I can vent / ask questions w/o worrying that I would offend the person with CC. I care for my mother in law and it is at times very overwhelming.
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TRUCKEE, Calif. — When four long-time friends decided to purchase a local hardware store back in 1977, they never imagined they would still be involved in the business and that it would be vibrant and thriving 35 years later.
Howard Jones, John Feighery, Dane Skutt and Greg Hovorka joined forces 35 years ago to purchase the hardware store then known as Russell's True Value at a time when the business wasn't doing well.
"Randy (Russell) owned the business for a couple of years," Jones explained. "There was two drought years before we took over and business was pretty bad. One day he (Russell) was talking and saying he was thinking of selling the business."
And Jones and Feighery were interested in buying, while Skutt and Hovorka were looking for a new opportunity.
"We didn't have two nickels to rub together, but it didn't sound like much money back then, and thought, what the heck, let's buy a hardware store," Jones said.
The day the four friends officially took over the store that eventually became Mountain Hardware and Sports was Sept. 15, 1977.
"It was exciting," Hovorka said. "Owning a business had been a goal of mine since being in college. I never thought too much about failure. I guess we were young and stupid in a way."
Skutt, however, felt a bit differently.
"Not having a hardware or retail background gave me a little trepidation to begin with," he said.
Before taking over the store, Skutt, a Los Angeles native, was manager of the formerly downtown restaurant Grey's Toll Station; Jones and Feighery, who moved to North Tahoe from Los Angeles, had worked together as paint contractors for Sierra Paint and Chemical; and Hovorka, originally from Pocatello, Idaho, worked as an accountant for Tahoe Donner.
Through the help of friends, Skutt said, the four of them were able to navigate their way in the business world.
One of the first things the friends did was change the name of the business from Russell's True Value to Mountain Hardware and Sports.
"Part of the deal was that Randy, the former owner, was a big sportsman, so he had a lot of fishing stuff, which we continued and we've grown on," Jones said.
Looking around the store today, customers can find a variety of sporting goods such as — but not limited to — fishing rods and nets, tackle, waders and camouflage hunting jackets, along with kitchenware, furniture, clothing, shoes and outdoor gear.
"What I love is trying to meet and exceed expectations," said Heather Svahn, who's been a buyer for the hardware store since 2005. "When an obscure part or hardware item that you need breaks, more often than not a customer can come in and describe it, and we have it. So we don't just have the basics for which you need with hardware and paint, we go deeper into being an all-needs hardware store.
"Complimenting that is a sporting goods department, a fishing department, home decor and clothing. All of those departments add to the sum, offering just about everything you could need except for food."
The sheer amount of product selection impressed first-time customers Tonie Denning and K.C. Thornley, who own a second home in Loyalton.
"The extent of their inventory is quite amazing," Denning said, while shopping Monday morning in the store. "It has everything. Sometimes it's a challenge to see everything because there's so much to look at."
Guided by customers' requests over the years, the store has been able build up its inventory selection, Jones said.
"We always had a Want List at the register, and when a customer asked for something that we didn't have, we would write it down," he said. "While we didn't have a lot of capital (starting off), we would review those lists monthly, and say, 'Oh, here's something that keeps showing up on the list and local people would like us to carry.'"
Once the store became more profitable, the four owners were able to purchase products the customers were requesting, thereby expanding the store's inventory.
"We just try to gear the business to what our customer is looking for," Jones said. "We're not trying to sell the customer what we have, but have products our customer wants to come in here and purchase."
From the very start, providing great customer service has been high priority for the business, and it still is today.
"We don't do a lot of pointing when people ask where things are — we take people there," said Doug Wright, general manager of the store since 1999. "If you come into our store and there are lines, we're calling for cashiers and we will (continue) until every register is open, and there's not a minute where we can't open every one (of them) anytime we're open."
Adding to the customer's experience is the store's knowledgeable staff, who can direct customers to the right products and explain how they should be used, Wright said.
"I think it's a pleasure to come in here, and I'll be back," Denning said.
This year, Mountain Hardware and Sports was selected out of more than 4,000 Ace Hardware stores in the nation to be named "Coolest Hardware Store on the Planet," a distinction only three stores were given in 2012.
The three winners were chosen by Ace based on their diverse product selection and the ability to localize their stores.
"I'm very proud of that honor because that means somebody looks at our store and feels that it is a unique store and it's done right," Jones said.
Svahn echoed that sentiment.
"It's an exciting award, and we're certainly proud to have won it," she said. "It's what we do day in and day out, and what we enjoy doing. But it hasn't changed our thought process for what we do and our store values."
While the store's values haven't changed during the past 35 years, the business itself has evolved and grown.
In 1991, the hardware store moved from its original Gateway Center location into its current spot at the intersection of Donner Pass Road and Highway 89, causing it to expand nearly 17,000 square feet in a single day.
"It was literally one day," Hovorka said in a press release. "We closed the store down for one day and enlisted the Truckee football team and a few churches to help us move into the new building in exchange for donations we provided to their organizations."
There were several reasons for the move, Skutt said.
"We were definitely bulging at the seams," he said. "Plus, the opportunity to move into what I considered to be one of the best retail locations in the state was something we had to go for."
Another big change for the business happened a decade later — in 2001 — when an employee stock ownership plan was put into place, making the business employee-owned.
"We realized that since none of us had kids who would be interested in running the business, we needed an exit strategy," Hovorka said. "We knew we had to develop people who would take our place when we decided to leave."
And that day is soon approaching.
Come this spring, three of the four original founders — Skutt, Jones and Hovorka — will retire, meaning 100 percent of the business will be employee owned. Feighery, the fourth founder, left the business in the 1980s.
As for why they are retiring now, all three founders cited, in part, their age.
"For me it was my age and wanting to enjoy my golden years not working," Jones said.
Skutt echoed that: "Partly because of age and the ability to retire, and I think it's just a time when the employees are ready to push the business into a new future," he said.
A future, Hovorka said, that he wishes continues upon the success the trio helped build over the last 35 years.
"(I hope) that it continues to grow and possibly even multiply, and that the business maintains the high level of service that we've always offered," he said.


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In my opinion piezoelectric is not a good choice for capturing and amplification the acoustic violin sound, if that's what you want. The best way is a combination of contact microphone and small unidirectional microphone, like a Schertler STAT-V.
A guitar has a lot more wood surface so a hole drilled for a jack isn't going to hurt the sound. Obviously a fiddle has less wood to work with and is more delicate, therefore it will be more susceptible to changes. Anything that hampers or interferes with the vibration will affect or mute the tone. I'm no luthier though. And there a plenty of companies out there making pickups that work very well on violins, some more permanently installed and some not.
I made an experiment to see what happens when adding some extra mass to the ribs. I took a table knife and wedged it in behind the chinrest holder. When I played a string with the bow, the knife vibrated, which indicates that the ribs do have some sound. I wedged it in a little harder until it appeared to be mute, and I experienced that I had a slight loss of tone. The volume became a bit weaker and the tone a slight bit shorter.
However: I did the same thing with a teaspoon and got the opposite result! Still the difference was barely noticeable, but to me it sounded as if I got some more sound. Longer tone and louder output.
Volume, if that's all your after is easy without drilling into the violin. I have used both custom bridges with integral rare earth pickups and the wedge style where a small wedge pickup is attached to the bridge. Both are more than loud enough. What happens to that vibration after you have captured it is the most important i.e. preamps,EQs and amplifiers. I live by the standard that I only am custodian of the instrument for the time I own it. I do not ever want to do something to alter the original structure of the maker. Even cheap violins are really incredible feats of engineering.
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I'm still interested if such thing would affect the output volume. If it's possible to mount the jack in the ribs without ruining the sound, I'd definitly prefer that solution. I wonder because on acoustic guitars such things doesn't affect the sound, but I've never tried an electro acoustic fiddle, so I don't know what the acoustic output is like. They're generally piezo-amplified too, so I guess the presence of the pu itself kills some of the sound.
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Prescription Medicines Account for Only One-Tenth of Every Health Care Dollar
The use of prescription medicine is growing because they play an increasingly central role in treatment under clinical guidelines, and because earlier and preventive treatments are becoming more common. Nonetheless, while use of prescription medicines as the first, best therapy to prevent or treat a disease grows, prescription medicines continue to comprise only a small portion of health care spending in the United States.
In fact, according to annual data for 2006 compiled by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), just 10 cents of every dollar spent on health care went to medicines (both bran-named and generic, plus the cost of pharmacies and the remainder of the distribution chain).
At the same time, growth in overall prescription drug spending has decreased sharply in recent years. In 2006, it was at the second-lowest level in a decade – 8.5%. It fell to this level even though 2006 was the first year that millions of Medicare beneficiaries first gained comprehensive prescription drug insurance. At just 10% of overall health care spending, new medicines are a valuable part of the health care equation.


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For whatever reason, Bucs troubled on offense
Published: Thursday, December 19, 2013 at 11:21 p.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, December 19, 2013 at 11:21 p.m.
TAMPA - In the first year under offensive coordinator Mike Sullivan, the Tampa Bay offense put up record numbers.
This year, in year two of the offense, the numbers aren't quite as impressive. In fact, the offense is substantially worse.
Tampa Bay has dropped to last in the NFL in total offensive yards as well as passing yards this season. Tampa Bay is averaging 283.7 yards per game, including 178.1 passing.
Only 12 other Tampa Bay squads have had worst numbers passing. The NFL average is 351.5 yards per game and 238.9 passing yards per game.
There are numerous reasons why Tampa Bay has struggled offensively, according to coach Greg Schiano.
"I don't think it would be fair to say it's one thing – if it's personnel, if it's scheme, if it's coaching, if it's performance – there are a lot of things that go into it," Schiano said. "Personnel have certainly changed quite a bit but as I've said many times, a lot of teams have that issue where you have guys go down. Do we have more than most? Yeah, we do this year. That happens sometimes but our job as coaches is to take what we have and make sure that we can make that work. We're struggling right now there's no doubt and we're trying to bust through it."
Tampa Bay has 15 players on injured reserve, not including two kickers, who are on the non-football, injured reserve list. Of those 15 players, three are running backs, including Pro Bowl rusher Doug Martin; three are tight ends and two are receivers, including starter Mike Williams.
Also, Tampa Bay changed quarterbacks early in the season, going with rookie Mike Glennon and releasing veteran Josh Freeman.
Glennon's numbers have resembled a roller coaster, which could be expected from a rookie. While his completion percentage has only dipped below 50 percent once in 11 starts this year, his quarterback rating has yo-yoed from 55.7 percent in his first NFL start, to a high of 138.4 against Detroit and a low of 40.4 two weeks later against Buffalo.
Meanwhile, the offense in the last four games has had its four worst production days of the year, including a season low 183 yards in Sunday's loss against San Francisco.
"The problem is certainly out there and we can all see what it is and now it's just trying to find what the answers are and continue to keep adjusting," Sullivan said.
Compare that to 2012 when Tampa Bay averaged 363.8 yards and 248.9 passing yards. The Bucs set team records for most net passing yards (3,983), most passing touchdowns (27), most points scored (389), most total yards (5,820) and most touchdowns (44) in a season.
Tampa Bay entered this season thinking it would have comparable, if not, better numbers than last year with everyone being in the second year in the system.
But it has not happened. Not yet, Sullivan said.
"Thank goodness it's not the end of the season," he said. "We've got another opportunity and another one after that."
Notes: Kevin Gleason from the Times Heard-Record reported Sullivan will interview for the Army head coaching job today. Sullivan was a former player, assistant coach and graduate of Army….Defensive end Da'Quan Bowers did not practice Thursday because of a knee injury. Safety Mark Barron (hamstring) was limited.
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Doors open at 6 p.m. Tickets are $60 for singles, $75 for couples, $300 for sponsors and $25 for Jakes (youth). Bayley's Restaurant will cater the meal and menu items include fried oysters, fried shrimp, fried fish and more.
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Newell: Parkersburg government needs to change
Outlines policies Parkersburg should consider
January 29, 2013
PARKERSBURG — Mayor Bob Newell wants Parkersburg to consider changing its overall way of doing business....
lol - sorry last sentence - good one.
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boy its hard to even know where to start with this one, well here goes: the mayor said the office is geared toward "retired people" yet he isn't retired he has a position at WVU-P among others, the change involving a "city manager" smacks of procurring Newell's next position since he is term limited like Putin in Russia, i wonder what "puppet" he will pick to occupy the then weakened Mayoral spot? maybe theshield26101 also known as hindsight101 etc. that is if he actually knows the man in reality and not just in his fantasies and alchohol induced stupors. as far as the debate of the waste treatment plant i dont see an easy solution, i do know that no one complaining about its location would like it located next to their house so i propose we build a new one in hindsight101's back yard right next to his still and Mayor Newell shrine
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As for Public Debt,I know of no rumors of the closing,just what I have read in this paper.I would point out though that their buildings are leased,albeit long term,but this allows the agency to be "flexible"in its operations.
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..and me for Village Idiot!
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Pothole for King! Pothole for King! Pothole for King! Denver for Jester!
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Next Pothole Bob will want to be the King of Parkersburg.
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Correction: Should be 11 years of infliction on the citizens of Parkersburg, instead of 12. Sometimes I can be an idiot.
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When more businesses leave Parkersburg and head up to Vienna, the toll bridge will be the only money maker for the city has left. More future city investors use the toll bridge then the other bridge to nowhere. Again, they are headed somewhere else besides Parkersburg. Once Public Debt shuts down, so will downtown Parkersburg. All Parkersburg will have left is the smell of the poop plant!
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You know people, we have another bridge, whats wrong with going over it?
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GoldNBlue, yes I know the smell is the sewage treatment plant. That means it will be there forever and always welcome people to the state and city of Parkersburg with the smell of poop!! Just a small tatse of what to expect from the rest of the city and people!!
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The reason the mayor is pushing this is beacause he is in his last term as mayor...but he could run for the city manager spot and still keep his job...doesnt take a rocket scientist to see that...I think the city should impose a 1 percent sales tax then we can go to ohio and buy all of our goods...not just gas...
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This is upsetting. Why did the Mayor not propose this earlier or is he only interested in his on self interests? If he believed this he should have proposed and stepped aside. Under this proposal he would take care of his politcal buddies giving them life time appointments to their jobs. Having new faces and new ideas is often good. Now we will have a bunch of life time bureacrats running city hall with no accountability to the citizens. Maybe he plans to be appointed city manager?
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Danny is doing great,particularly in our affluent section of this once great capital city!!!
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Isn't Danny Jones YOUR man there,007? Only South Hills around here is a crummy flooded golf course.
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If Mayor Newell is "not doing anything right".to reiteratre what a commenter texted,why did the astute voters of Parkersburg re-elect this fine progressive oriented official?
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Matt4685,I was taking two business associates to lunch one day. When I rolled down the window to pay the toll, both said they would never open a branch here.
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Sounds good lets have an election next year let citizens vote on it. Make it so no one in office now like mayor and city council can not get job let council hire city manager.make city manager pay 60 thousand dollars let council vote on mayor from one of them at 10 thousand dollar a year part time.
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The city might do better if they would do something about the poop plant that welcomes you to the city. The welcome mat says," Welcome to Parkersburg,here smell this".
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Yeah I agree goldnblue there has to be some motive. I wonder what it could be. The Chicago line was great !
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There he goes with his home rule pitch again.Parkersburg's legendary corruption should make us all shudder at the thought there would be no checks and balances from the state. It would be the Good ol' boy's club on steroids! 1% sales tax would just make everyone buy all instead of most of their consumables in Vienna and surrounding cities.
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Mayor Newell once again making some good points. In his final term he is still looking to make things improve for the long run for Parkersburg.
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Mayor Newell, must be doing something right, he got elected three times!
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Some interesting ideas both good and bad. If Newell believes in these he should go ahead and make his pitch to city council, not the Rotary Club.
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If we got just 1/10th of what we have been told we would get under this administration, there would not be any inducement to go to heavan!
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The Johnson Collection was formed to celebrate the association of Dr Samuel Johnson with Birmingham and now numbers about 2000 volumes of works by Johnson and books and periodicals about him. It includes almost all the first editions, such as the Dictionary, 1755, as well as a good range of later editions and critical works from the 18th century to the present date.
Since the foundation of Birmingham Reference Library a particular interest has been taken in Samuel Johnson, who had close links with Birmingham during his early career. The collection of Johnsoniana has a history of steady growth from the 1860s to the present. In 1886 it was already large enough to have a separate heading in the library catalogue and it is now one of the most comprehensive Johnson collections in Europe, containing about 2,000 items.
Johnson's connection with Birmingham is of considerable interest. His mother was born in Kings Norton and married Martin Johnson, a bookseller in Lichfield where Samuel Johnson was born in 1709 and brought up. He often visited his godfather, Dr Swyfen, in Birmingham, and came to live here himself from 1732 to 1735 at the house of his friend the bookseller Thomas Warren in High Street. During this time he met his future wife, Elizabeth Porter, and his first original essays appeared, in Warren's Birmingham Journal.
During his stay in Birmingham, Johnson was working on his first book, a condensation and translation of Father Lobo's Voyage to Abyssinia. It was not published until he had left Birmingham for London, but was printed in Birmingham for his friend, Thomas Warren. The library is fortunate enough to possess a copy.
Johnson made a brief return to Lichfield in 1736 when he founded a school nearby. The future actor David Garrick was among his pupils, and remained a lifelong friend, but Johnson was not a successful schoolmaster, and, perhaps fortunately for his future literary career, the school failed. Although he continued to visit Birmingham at intervals, Johnson's life from then on was centred on London.
The Library of Birmingham has an almost complete collection of first editions of Johnson's works, including a copy of Irene, the tragedy with which he first attempted to make his name in London in 1737. This failed to interest the London theatre managers and was not published until 1749. Much of his early work appeared anonymously in the Gentleman's Magazine, of which the Library has a complete set and it was the proprietor, Edward Cave, who arranged publication of Johnson's first great success, the poem London. The Library has the second edition of this rare work, which was published anonymously and only earned the needy author £10 for the copyright. We have, however, a first edition of Johnson's next success, the life of his friend the poet Richard Savage, published in 1744.
Johnson's Dictionary, the work, which established his reputation, was first planned two years later. This monumental and scholarly task engaged him and his assistants until 1755. The Library has the first edition, 1755, in two large folio volumes, the scarce original Plan and numerous later editions, large and small including the Rev. H J Todd's revised edition of 1818, a version which remained popular throughout the nineteenth century.
While working on the Dictionary, Johnson produced The Vanity of Human Wishes, 1749, in imitation of the tenth satire of Juvenal, a work, which reflects in its despondency the considerable personal and financial difficulties under which Johnson was living at the time. This was the first work, which bore Johnson's name on the title page. Johnson's two collections of occasional essays, The Rambler (1750-52) and The Idler (1756-60) followed. The Library has not only the original issues in parts but also the first collected edition of The Rambler, and the first collected edition of The Idler.
Johnson next work was the very popular novel The Prince of Abissinia (sic) or Rasselas, written in a week, and published in 1759, allegedly to pay the expenses of his mother's funeral. The Library has all the first five editions of this work, and many others.
The work, which after the Dictionary consolidated Johnson reputation with his contemporaries, was his edition of Shakespeare. Johnson began work on this in 1756 but found it hard to sustain his interest. He worked on it intermittently until 1765 when his edition was finally published. Johnson's notes to the text are somewhat pedestrian, a sign of his flagging interest, but the preface is still considered an important piece of criticism. The Library has the rare Proposals for the project (1756) and the first and many later editions.
Perhaps the most interesting of Johnson's works to the modern reader is his Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, 1775, a vivid account of his remarkably intrepid journey, undertaken at the age of sixty-four and in poor health, over rough country, in indifferent weather. The Journey records a way of life that was vanishing from the Highlands with the repression of the clan system after the defeat of Bonnie Prince Charlie, and includes Johnson's account of his meeting with Flora Macdonald. Of equal interest is his companion James Boswell's account of the journey, told in his Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, in which he records in fascinating detail all his hero Dr. Johnson did and all his noteworthy remarks. The Library has the first and later editions of both these works.
The Library also has the first and many other editions of Boswell's much admired Life of Dr. Johnson, 1791, together with the accounts of Johnson by his rival biographer, Mrs Thrale, the wife of Henry Thrale of Streatham, at whose house Johnson largely lived between 1765 and 1783, when his friendship broke up over Mrs Thrale's re-marriage on her husband's death. Johnson himself died a year later.
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SANTA CLARA -- Aldon Smith remains in good standing with the 49ers despite pleading no contest to possessing assault weapons and driving under the influence, coach Jim Harbaugh said Friday.
"Yes, he's coming to work, showing up," Harbaugh said. "He's working hard, he's listening, he's doing what he says he's going to do. We give him that opportunity, yes."
The 49ers are in the midst of their offseason training program, and Friday marked the start of a three-day minicamp for rookies and others with no game experience.
Harbaugh would not speculate on Smith's availability for the start of training camp, which comes two days before his July 25 sentencing in Santa Clara County Superior Court.
Harbaugh also declined to say if Smith remains a starter at outside linebacker, where he's racked up 42 sacks in 43 regular-season games. "We're too early to tell who the starters are right now," Harbaugh said.
A year ago, Harbaugh said he wanted his team to be above reproach, and while he maintains that position, he acknowledged that some players have work to do. "No, we've got some things we've got to resolve," Harbaugh said. "But we are in a process -- and always are in process -- of striving to be above reproach? Yes."
Smith could be facing a suspension from the league or team as a result of his off-field issues, including an April arrest at Los Angeles International Airport for suspicion of making a false bomb threat.
Harbaugh, meanwhile, is impressed by what he's seen lately from Faulkner, whom he first saw at Northwestern's pro day in March. "He was seen taking drops in the hallway of the (team) hotel the last couple days," Harbaugh said with a laugh. "He's really diligent, he's really into it, he's very conscientious, and it shows up when he comes out here."
For more on the 49ers, see Cam Inman's Hot Read blog at blogs.mercurynews.com/49ers. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/CamInman.


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Two more named in Frazier case
Published: Thursday, April 4, 2013 at 10:00 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, April 4, 2013 at 7:03 p.m.
MANATEE COUNTY - Manatee High School Assistant Principals Gregg Faller and Matthew Kane are among five school district employees that Bradenton Police are recommending be charged with crimes in connection with the investigation of an assistant football coach at the high school, the Herald-Tribune has learned.
Read the official documents related to the Rod Frazier case.
BIOGRAPHIES Rod Frazier Age: 35 Position: Manatee High parent liaison and running backs coach Salary: $27,033 Background: Frazier, a Manatee High graduate and brother of Nebraska great Tommie Frazier, played fullback for the University of Florida before graduating in 2001, the same year he became assistant football coach for Manatee High. He became a parent liaison in charge of discipline in 2006. In 2007, he was arrested on a charge of violating a restraining order enacted by his estranged wife.
Bob Gagnon Age: 46 Position: Assistant superintendent of teaching and learning Salary: $124,426 Background: The former principal of Manatee High School was named assis- tant superintendent in 2012 after the high school's grade jumped from a D to an A. Before that, he was briefly assistant principal at Palmetto High School as well as assistant principal at Lakewood Ranch High, from 2002-06. He was an assistant director from 2000-02 at the Police Athletic League Charter Schools of Manatee County, where Manatee High School football coach Joe Kinnan was once vice president.
Debra Horne Age: 49 Position: Former Office of Professional Standards specialist Salary: $80,399 Background: In 2005, Horne was named the lead investigator of the Office of Professional Standards, a newly created position at the time. She was first hired by the district in 1999 and had previously served as assistant principal at Jessie P. Miller and Samoset elementary schools. On Jan. 28, she was transferred to R.H. Prine Elementary as an assistant principal.
Matthew Kane Age: 42 Position: Assistant Principal Salary: $73,223 Background: A Southeast High School graduate, Kane coached soccer and baseball at Manatee schools after graduating from the University of Florida in 2000. He was hired as a gym teacher at Lakewood Ranch High School in 2003, where he worked until he became an assistant principal at Manatee High School.
Gregg Faller Age: 46 Position: Assistant Principal Salary: $71,106 Background: Faller graduated from Southern Connecticut University in New Haven, Connecticut in 1992, two years behind Bob Gagnon. He held multiple administrative positions at the Police Athletic League Charter Schools of Manatee County from 2000 to 2007. He became a parent liaison at Lakewood Ranch High School in 2009, before becoming an assistant principal at Manatee High School in 2010. His salary jumped from $16.77 an hour to an annual $71,000.
Police this week recommended that prosecutors charge assistant coach Rod Frazier with battery. Police are also recommending that Faller, Kane, Assistant Superintendent Bob Gagnon and former Manatee district investigator Debra Horne be charged with failing to report allegations of child abuse and providing false information to law enforcement, sources close to the investigation say.
Those sources also say the allegations against Frazier involve several girls.
Faller and Kane did not return calls seeking comment. Frazier and his attorney have declined to comment, as did Horne.
Superintendent Rick Mills said he would not suspend employees implicated by police unless more formal charges emerge, but expressed displeasure with the current investigation process.
"I am not pleased with what I'm seeing in terms of due process investigations and the process this organization takes to do that," Mills said, declining to go into specifics. "I am clearly seeing where we have significant shortfalls in this district."
In an interview Monday, Gagnon denied the allegations and said he would never "knowingly let someone hurt a kid."
"This is going to ruin a lot of lives," Gagnon said.
Battery and providing false information to law enforcement are misdemeanors, while failing to report allegations of child abuse is a felony.
Bradenton Police started its investigation Feb. 7 after the Herald-Tribune revealed that the district had examined allegations that Frazier groped a student and sent her inappropriate texts.
Police met with the State Attorney's Office on Monday and recommended that a total of 17 charges be filed against the five employees.
Principal Don Sauer, who succeeded Gagnon as Manatee High Principal in June 2012, is not implicated in the police investigation, according to sources.
Gagnon was principal at Manatee High for five years, from June 2007 until 2012, during which time Faller and Kane were hired and worked at the school.
The educators' working relationships precede Manatee High.
Gagnon and Faller both graduated from Southern Connecticut State University — Gagnon in 1990 and Faller in 1992.
Their careers followed similar trajectories, with Gagnon often supervising Faller as the two men followed similar career paths.
In 1992, Gagnon took a job as a teacher at the Lake County Boys Ranch Learning Center and in 1994 was named principal. Faller became a teacher there that year and in 1997 was appointed dean of students.
The two men worked at the Lake County facility until 2000, when they left to take jobs with the Police Athletic League and Charter Schools of Manatee County. Gagnon was hired as assistant director and Faller as dean of students.
Gagnon left that job in 2002. He held assistant principal jobs at Lakewood Ranch and Palmetto high schools before being named Manatee High principal in 2007.
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Faller and his wife, Susan Faller, worked at the Police Athletic League school until 2007, when the Sheriff's Office brought in new leadership. CEO Fred Spence would later turn the program into the Team Success School.
Faller was hired as a parent liaison at Lakewood Ranch High School, making $17 an hour, until 2010, when he joined Gagnon's staff as an assistant principal at Manatee High, earning an annual salary of $71,000.
Kane was hired as a physical education teacher at Lakewood Ranch in 2003, and in July 2007 joined Gagnon's staff at Manatee High as an assistant principal.
Gagnon supervised both Kane and Faller at Manatee High, giving both administrators high marks on staff evaluations.
When Gagnon was promoted to assistant superintendent in January 2012, Kane served as Manatee High's interim principal for six months, his salary increasing from $73,000 to $82,000.
Both Kane and Faller served as Frazier's supervisor at Manatee High and rated the employee well on staff evaluations.
"He truly cares for the students and his work has a great impact on our students and staff," Faller wrote.
Rod Frazier's wife, Janet, who said she has been separated from Frazier for four years, said she thought the allegations were lies.
"I've known the guy since I was 15 years old," Janet Frazier said. "I don't believe any of it.
"He always had guys and girls calling his phone trying to get his help with coaching and with recruiting."
Some of Frazier's alleged inappropriate behavior at Manatee High dates back several years and occurred when he was acting as a coach, said a former student who was on the girls' weightlifting team Frazier coached from 2006-10.
The girl did not want her name used, but spoke to the Herald-Tribune in February with both parents present.
The former Manatee student said she saw Frazier in the girls' locker room giving massages to girls without another coach present, rubbing the upper thighs of girls and touching them in an inappropriate manner before weightlifting meets.
She also said girls would often sit on Frazier's lap during bus rides home from weightlifting meets, and sometimes at night.
"He would try and massage me," she said. "He never grabbed my butt or anything like that, but he would massage me and then go down my arm.
"It wasn't an innocent thing. It was a very sexually charged motion."
Often, she said, girls would hug Frazier in the hallways or cafeteria and "he always had his phone out texting these girls." It was not uncommon, she said, for girls to be inside his office.
The girl attended Manatee High while Gagnon was principal and said Gagnon was among the administrators who took turns watching students in the cafeteria and should have seen Frazier interacting inappropriately with different girls.
"The guy's in there," the girl said. "He sees what's going on. He may not have seen some of the worst parts of it, but he saw what was going on."
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Libraries join in on Mardi Gras
Published: Saturday, February 2, 2013 at 6:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, February 2, 2013 at 12:53 a.m.
Lafourche Parish libraries are gearing up to provide some Mardi Gras excitement for the little ones.
The first of several parades this year, the Krewe of Bookworms starts at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the Warren J. Harang Jr. Municipal Auditorium in Thibodaux.
Children can dress in costume, decorate their wagon or stroller (no motorized vehicles are allowed) or just walk in the parade.
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Homeless camp swept away by Sarasota crews
Published: Tuesday, May 7, 2013 at 10:14 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, May 7, 2013 at 1:24 p.m.
SARASOTA - Within a half-hour Tuesday morning, a public works employees cleared the 900 block of Florida Avenue of any sign that it had once been a homeless camp.
Promptly at 8:30 a.m., a half-dozen city workers started on the south end of the sidewalk and worked their way north, throwing dirty bedding, old clothes, tarps, broken-down furniture and other debris into a city garbage truck.
Public works supervisor Mike Strehler, who has worked for the city for 26 years, said his crew usually does street repairs.
The few homeless who remained at the camp voiced no opposition. They had been warned the street would be cleared. Most were only concerned about where they would spend the night.
The police presence was minimal, consisting only of Lt. Corinne Stannish and Officer Jon Misiewitz.
Vallerie Guillory, executive director of the nonprofit Trinity Without Borders, spent the night on Florida Avenue. She hoped many of the displaced homeless could stay at a property donated to the nonprofit at 1003 N. Washington Blvd., where she hopes to establish a tent city. But her plan has not been approved by city officials.
"I've been driving people to our property and I don't give a damn," Guillory said. "I've been out here all night."
The Washington Boulevard property was mostly unoccupied for much of Tuesday, though Guillory was expecting people to begin filtering in late in the day.
Darrell Arlime said he has lived on Florida Avenue for three years. He was citing biblical verses as city workers approached earlier Tuesday.
"I'll go wherever Jesus sends me," Arlime said. "If they need a Moses, I'll be it."
Asked where he planned to spend the night, one man who identified himself only as David pointed west.
"I'll be sleeping in that field right there," he said.
Where to go
Sitting in Rosemary Cemetery, Johnny Morris and Anna Giandina watched as city workers made their way along Florida Avenue, tossing out anything left on the sidewalk. Morris and Giandina had moved their few bags of belongings with them.
"It's messed up," Morris said. "They're trying to run us off."
Morris, 60, said he had lived at the camp for the last two weeks. He said he had a bus ticket to Georgia, but still needs money to pay a fee to use it.
"I can get out of here," said Morris.
But Giandina, 53, has lived in Sarasota for 25 years — without a permanent home for 15 of those. She only lost a few wet blankets on Florida Avenue.
"We all knew it was going to happen," Giandina said. "I don't know where to go."
She took out a cellphone, snapping a few photos of the trucks, the street, and former neighbors wondering where to go next. She had heard about Trinity's proposed tent city.
"I guess people have been over there, and they've run them off, too," Giandina said.
Another homeless woman, Joy Kelley, had her bags packed before city workers showed up.
"I stay on properties," Kelley said.
"I ain't got caught yet. I got nowhere to go."
Deborah Hines said she does not blame anyone for forcing her to move off Florida Avenue.
"They waited as long as they could," Hines said. "We weren't supposed to be here. It was OK while it lasted.
"I don't know where I'm going, but I guess I'll figure it out."
No way to live
Bryan Pope, general manager of Sarasota's Salvation Army, was called to the scene by police as a precaution.
Each year, Pope said, he reads the names of those who die on Sarasota streets. During the last ceremony, Pope said he read dozens of names.
"They need to get off the streets," Pope said. "This is no way for anybody to live. They're not helping themselves."
Stannish, the police lieutenant, said she has received "a lot of support from the community. This is a public problem."
She and Officer Misiewitz encountered no difficulties — nor did the public works crew.
While not speaking about Trinity's tent city proposal, Stannish said she "supports finding a place for people to be able to lay their head, get their basic human needs met."
"It's not fair to take over a sidewalk, but they need a safe place," she said. "We're working with the ACLU on this. We share a common purpose."
She asked anyone with resources for the homeless to call her at (941) 364-7367.
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Reggie wrote: Hey, you know what I found out? Burn has a second ep, came out in the late 90's. Funny this thread should come up at the same time.
is madball still together?
sicboy wrote: kaytekay wrote: madball is my favorite hardcore band. >>
is madball still together?
they just got back together and did a slew of reunion shows last month, and i think they are working on a new CD....same with life of agony, but they only did 2 in NYC and arent doing anymore to my knowledge


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I just need to vent, I am over the top stressed out these days. Between the 2 weeks of thinking nursing was going down the tubes and all the screaming from Teagan making me think that, only to find out she has reflux. I am sick to my stomach over it. Now I know when she screams, it's because she is in pain. It breaks my heart, then I feel guilty b/c I also get frustrated. The only thing that calms her down is to nurse...she will not take a binky. I have been doing things I said I didn't want to do, like putting her down after she is asleep, nursing her to sleep, not following eat, play sleep. I feel like I am the only one who knows her and can soothe her and I don't trust DH will do it right especially with the reflux. She is always gagging on spit, foaming at the mouth, hiccuping, swallowing air, wet burps etc. She is on zantac now and I really hope it helps. I can't take seeing her in pain and not being able to do anything about it. Diaper changing is a nightmare b/c everything comes up on her. I try to keep her on n incline, but with the diaper changing it's a little difficult...nevermind clothes change. We have a wedge in her crib and the rock and play for her to nap in...I am cutting dairy out of my diet...I don't know what else to do and I pray she grows out of this sooner than later.
I feel like I am a crappy mom with Paityn now b/c I am always nursing Teagan to calm her down. I miss Paityn so much right now, and she is being so good. When she sees me crying she will come over and hug me and say "it's ok mommy" and will also do the same to Teagan. All I want to do is take her for a haircut just the two of us, and I still have yet to do it b/c I can't get out of the house.
My house is a mess, and I can't find time to exercise since I am nursing...grandmother came over yesterday who is 88 and doesn't mean anything when she says things..."she's got a lot of weight to lose"...my mom says "she's lost a lot already" Grandmother says "I bet she has, but she has a lot to go" soo I obviously look a lot worse than I thought I did. Just icing on the cake for me
I'm sorry I know this is all over the place, I feel like I'm going crazy these days and there is nothing I can do to fix it
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January 16, 2006
The questions continue to pour in to pharmacists about Medicare's new prescription drug program. As News 12 finds out, what is supposed to help cover drug costs is turning into a prescription for chaos.
"I'm just a broke down car, put it that way," said Clara Curry.
Without her walker, Clara Curry can't get around. She's a diabetic, has high blood pressure and a muscle disease. That's seven medicines a month.
"This one was $130-something and that new plan wasn't paying but $20 of it and I just couldn't get it, couldn't get it," Curry said.
Last year, Curry found out she was automatically assigned to a plan under Medicare's new prescription drug plan. She used to be covered by Medicare and Medicaid and paid $3 for each medicine. Her new plan is only Medicare and she can only afford one medicine at $40.
"I'm gonna have to give up my apartment if I have to buy all that medication. I'm gonna have to give up my apartment," Curry said.
Owner of Park's Pharmacy in North Augusta, Steve McElmurry, says there are 57 types of plans within the program.
"Each plan may cover a different type of drug. Each plan may cover, if they are on multiple drugs, all of the drugs may not be covered by the same plans," McElmurray said.
All of the options are confusing. Some states have ordered short-term emergency aid to help people get their medications, something yet to happen in South Carolina and Georgia.
And confusion about this plan is expected to stick around for the next several months. That's because people have until May 15th to sign up.
"I can't tell you what, but something needs to be done for the people that just have no clue what's going on and that's about 50% of the population," McElmurray said.
For now, Curry is forced to pick which medicine she needs the most. And she's hoping a switch to a new plan won't put her health on the line for much longer.
The Bush administration has ordered health insurers to provide a 30-day supply of prescription drugs to any beneficiary who previously received them.
If you have any questions about this new program or need to switch your plan, call 1-800-MEDICARE.


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Windows 7 Home Premium makes it easy to create a home network and share all of your favorite photos, videos, and music. And you can watch shows for free when and where you want with Internet TV on Windows Media Center. Get the best entertainment experience with Windows 7 Home Premium.
SP1 is a combined service pack for both operating systems encapsulated in a single installer. Based on business value, customers all over the world continue to deploy Windows 7. With the availability of SP1, there really is no better time for customers to migrate.
10 reasons to buy Windows 7
A better desktop.
Windows 7 gets you around your PC faster than ever. The taskbar has bigger buttons and full-sized previews--and you can pin programs to it for one-click access. Jump Lists provide shortcuts to files, folders, and websites. And Snap, Peek, and Shake give you easy (and fun) new ways to juggle all those open windows.
Smarter search.
Type in the Start menu search box, and you'll see results instantly, grouped by category--documents, pictures, music, e-mail, and programs. Search in a folder or library, and you can fine-tune your search with filters like date or file type--and use the preview pane to peek at the contents of your results.
Easy sharing with HomeGroup.
Sharing files and printers on your home network should be simple. With HomeGroup, it finally is. Connect two or more PCs running Windows 7, and with a minimum of fuss you can start sharing music, pictures, videos, and documents with other people in your home.
Built for speed.
Windows 7 has key performance improvements to take up less memory and run background services only when you need them. It's designed to run your programs faster and to sleep, resume, and reconnect to wireless networks quicker. And with 64-bit support, you can take full advantage of the latest in powerful 64-bit PCs.
Better wireless networking.
Connecting to wireless networks on your laptop--formerly a bit of a hassle--now takes just a couple of clicks. Choose from the list of available networks in the taskbar, click one, and then connect. Once you've connected to a network, Windows will remember it so you can connect again later automatically.
Windows Touch.
Use your fingers to browse the web, flip through photos, and open files and folders on a touchscreen PC--for the first time, Windows includes true multitouch technology. With gestures for zooming, rotating, and even right-clicking, it's a whole new way to work with your PC.
Plays well with devices.
Device Stage, a new feature in Windows 7, works like a home page for things like portable music players, smartphones, and printers. When you plug a compatible device into your PC, you'll see a menu with information and popular tasks like battery life, how many photos are ready to be downloaded, and printing options.
Media streaming.
With new features in Windows Media Player 12, you can enjoy your media library around the house--or around town. Play To lets you stream music, videos, and photos from your PC to your stereo or TV (you may need additional hardware). And with Remote Media Streaming, you can even stream media over the Internet from one computer running Windows 7 to another that's miles away.
Internet Explorer 9 and Windows Live.
Windows 7 unleashes the full power of Internet Explorer 9, from its stunning hardware-accelerated graphics to the ability to launch favorite websites right from your taskbar. You'll also get the many possibilities of Windows Live, free: create photo albums and movies, chat in HD, and share your stuff anytime, anywhere.
Nag-free notifications.
Action Center, new in Windows 7, puts you in control of maintenance and security messages. You can turn notifications on or off for things like Windows Defender or User Account Control. If Windows needs your attention, you'll see a notification on the far right of the taskbar. Click it, and you'll get suggested fixes for any problems.
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Version: CS4 || Release Date: 2007-11-06 || License: Commercial with demo ($199)
Developer: Adobe Systems Inc |
App Owner: mcgpp
Create and edit audio with ease
Adobe® Soundbooth® CS4 software gives web designers, video editors, and other creative professionals the tools to create and polish audio, customize music, add sound effects, and do much more.
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Current version as of 12-02-2009 is 2.0.1.
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Thinking about starting a business? Need the basics or learn where to go to for help? This workshop introduces you to the business planning process. If you want to turn your "$$'s and a dream" into reality, this seminar is critical:
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MIDDLETON — After 34 years of volunteer service with the Middleton Fire Department, 92-year-old June Brown is showing no signs of slowing down.
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Local football product featured in Sports Illustrated
Published: Monday, April 8, 2013 at 2:50 p.m.
Last Modified: Monday, April 8, 2013 at 2:50 p.m.
Former Assumption High football star and NFL draft prospect Jordan Mills was recently featured with a photograph in the April 8 issue of Sports Illustrated.
Mills, who just wrapped up his senior season at Louisiana Tech, attended the NFL Combine and was one of several offensive lineman prospects who volunteered to take pictures with just their shoulder pads and pants on.
The story was on the body composition of NFL offensive and defensive lineman, and Mills was featured on page 54 of the magazine. Mills (6-foot-5, 316 pounds) is projected to go any where between the second and fifth rounds of the draft, which is set for April 25-27 in New York.
Mills, a Napoleonville native, was a four-year starter at Louisiana Tech and was a first-team All-Western Athletic Conference player this past season at right tackle.
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Steaks are great, and salmon is grand, but sometimes what you really crave is a perfect taco, made by hand and with love -- and authentic expertise.
The tortillas have to be just so, preferably handmade and doubled-up to support the mound of flavorful chopped or shredded meat. We're talking authentic, delicious and slightly messy. And not one soul who asks if we want fries with that or attempts to apply sour cream with a caulking gun.
In short, a taco from a place like El Molino in Concord, Tacubaya in Berkeley or Tacos Uruapan Taqueria in Hayward. Yum.
Tortilleria El Molino
Address: 1500 Monument Blvd., Suite F1, Concord
Contact: 925-687-7066; tortillaselmolino.com
Hours: 7 a.m.-8 p.m. Mondays-Saturdays and until 7 p.m. Sundays
The taco tab: One taco costs $1.99, a combination plate is $5.
El Molino is one of half a dozen taquerias in this Concord Mexican shopping complex, but it's the only one that doubles as a tortilla factory. You can see them -- all six kinds, including flour, wheat, corn and taquito-style corn -- rolling warm and fresh out of the oven as chefs stuff them with all sorts of marinated meats and goodies, including our favorite, the grilled steak (the secret's a marinade of lime and orange juices).
Perhaps the freshness is the reason the tortillas are so soft and tempting. If you like soft tacos, you also have to order the juicy chicken and the carnitas, or fried pork (they also offer fried pork skin, beef head and pork stomach). If you like them crunchy, the Tacos Dorados ($1.25 each) come generously filled with ground beef and potato and topped with lettuce, tomato, cheese, sour cream and red salsa. Yum.
Nothing at El Molino comes from a can, and the ratio of freshly diced white onions and salsa verde was, for us, spot-on. Wanna lose the carbs? Order your taco as a salad ($6.85) with your meat choice, rice, beans and all the fixings in a tostada. Wash it down with El Molino's famous horchata ($1.99) or a fresh medley from the juice bar (carrot, orange, beet and celery, $3). It doesn't get more authentic or affordable than that.
-- J. Yadegaran
Tacos Uruapan
Address: 29950 Huntwood Ave., Hayward
Contact: 510 581-1915; www.tacosuruapan.net
Hours: 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Mondays-Thursdays, until 11 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, and until 8 p.m. Sundays
The taco tab: One taco is $1.65; a combination plate is $6.99.
Tucked along a busy boulevard in the industrial section of Hayward, this little taqueria, you might think, would not get much foot traffic. And you would be wrong, because Tacos Uruapan -- which began as a food truck in 1984 -- boasts a loyal fan base. It's easy to see why. The tacos are ridiculously tasty, and the range of fillings so vast -- 11 different types of meat, from carnitas to lengua (beef tongue) -- you'll be tempted to just say, "Surprise me." Or perhaps, "Surprise me, but I'll take a pass on that beef head."
Tacos Uruapan does other Mexican fare, including a dizzying array of burritos, flautas, enchiladas, tamales and other dishes. But go for the tacos. Small, soft tortillas are doubled up to contain the savory juiciness of the carne asada, braised pollo and other meats. In their no-fuss "regular taco" iteration, they're served with salsa ranchera for $1.65, or amped into Super Taco splendor ($2.99) with the addition of cheese, beans and sour cream. The combination plate ($7.99) includes a couple of tacos, plus beans, rice and guacamole. And chips. And warm tortillas on the side.
It's a winner for both wallet and taste buds.
-- J. Burrell
Address: 1788 Fourth St., Berkeley
Contact: 510-525-5160; www.tacubaya.net
Hours: Open 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Mondays-Fridays, 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays
The taco tab: The menu is a la carte; a taco is $3.75.
Upscale taqueria may sound like an oxymoron, but that's exactly what one ought to call this outpost of Oakland's beloved Restaurante Doña Tomás. Wander down Berkeley's trendy Fourth Street and duck into the colorful Tacubaya, next to Cafe Rouge and Market Hall. Stand in the long line, order at the counter, and then wait at a small table indoors or out on the patio while someone makes the tortillas, then fills them with grilled Niman Ranch beef, salsa roja, onions and cilantro, for example, or battered and fried pollock, chile arbol aioli and shredded cabbage. The tacos are pricier than other taquerias, but sustainably raised meat and organic produce are pricier ingredients.
Tacubaya offers a variety of other dishes, including breakfast fare (chorizo and scrambled eggs, chilaquiles, Huevos Divorciados, all around $8.50) as well as tortas (Mexican sandwiches), tostadas and enchiladas. But those tacos are addictive, and they come with a choice of six fillings, including a vegetarian bean and mixto cheese version.
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The National Zoo's Antarctica Expedition is sponsored by the National Science Foundation's Office of Polar Programs.
All photographs depicting Weddell seals were taken under NMFS Permit No. 763-1485-00 issued under the authority of the Marine Mammal Protection Act.
About Seals and Sea Lions
Seals and sea lions belong to a group of mammals called pinnipeds, a Latin term meaning "wing-footed," a reference to their flippers. There are three groups of pinnipeds: the earless seals of the family Phocidae; the eared seals of the family Otariidae; and the walrus of the family Odobenidae. The limbs of all pinnipeds have evolved into flippers because all species are aquatic, that is, they spend virtually all of their lives in and around water whether it be oceans, seas, and in one case, lakes. The Weddell seal is a phocid seal.
Adapted for Water
Pinnipeds are not the only mammals adapted to an aquatic existence, they are not even the most aquatic. Whales, dolphins, manatees, and dugongs spend all their lives actually in the water—their young are even born in the water—whereas all pinnipeds spend part of their lives out of the water either on solid land or ice, where they give birth.
Pinnipeds are carnivores, but unlike many other carnivores pinnipeds get virtually all their food from an aquatic environment and the diet can be quite varied. Many species are generalists, feeding on a variety of fish, squid, and other large organisms while others are more specialized and eat smaller prey. Some, like the Antarctic fur seal, concentrate on shrimp-like crustaceans called krill, while walruses specialize on bottom-dwelling clams and cockles. Weddell seals eat a variety of fish, squid, and have even been reported eating penguins.
Pinnipeds range in size from the huge walrus (2,000 kg) to the relatively tiny ringed seal (about 50 kg). While they exhibit quite a range in size, pinnipeds' body shapes are quite similar—long, sleek, tapered bodies; not much of a neck; tiny external ears (if any at all); fore- and hind-limbs modified into flippers; short, dense fur; not very graceful on land, but very mobile in the water. These are adaptations for moving and hunting in water.
While phocids and otariids have generally similar adaptations for locomotion in the water, they go about it in somewhat different ways. Otariids (the sea lion group) primarily use their fore-limbs to generate propulsion, appearing to "fly" through the water in much the same way penguins do. On the other hand, phocids (true/earless seals) hold their fore-limbs next to the body when swimming and generate propulsion with a wavelike movement of the hind-body and flippers. This difference in locomotory styles is also reflected in the arrangement of muscle mass in the two groups: otariids have heavy muscle mass in the neck and shoulders (to power the fore-limbs), whereas phocids concentrate muscle in the hind end. Weddell seals are large, bulky seals (400-500 kg), with small flippers and a long barrel shape.
Built for Their Environment
Water is a challenging thermal environment to live in because it conducts heat from the body. Pinnipeds exhibit a number of adaptations to reduce heat loss, the most extreme of these occurring in species living in frigid arctic and Antarctic conditions. For starters, pinnipeds have short limbs and compact bodies that reduce the ratio of their surface area to their volume—this essentially reduces the amount of surface area from which body heat can "radiate". Dense, waterproof fur and a thick layer of fat, or blubber, also reduces heat transfer to the environment. Thick fur has the disadvantage of increasing buoyancy (because it traps air) which is fine for species, like fur seals, that usually forage near the surface, but not so good for species that must forage at greater depths. These latter species, like the Weddell seal, have essentially forsaken a fur coat in favor of a thick layer of blubber whose physical characteristics permit deeper diving. Blubber is not only used for insulation, it is also an energy store that can be drawn upon when food is less available or during times when seals must fast.
For an aquatic predator to be successful it must find prey in the water, and the sensory system of pinnipeds is well adapted to this purpose. Pinniped eyes are relatively large, and well adapted to low light, and they have excellent hearing and have even evolved modifications to the bones of the skull that permit them to localize sound underwater. The well-developed and sensitive whiskers so characteristic of many pinnipeds probably function to detect movement of prey underwater as well as during social encounters. Pinnipeds are very vocal animals and they can emit a variety of sounds in the air and underwater ranging from roars and barks (in the air) to chirps, clicks, trills, and squeaks (in the water).